smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1876

That perchance if ever needed I could borrow from my neighbor Use awhile and then return it As I oft had done before. Then thought me of the trouble I had had in days departed, Thought of Jones, and thought of

 Thompson, Jenkins, Smith, and various others Who had done mo many favors. And thought of Smith who snuhb-

 ed me

 Once because took hls paper Ere he'd had q chance to read it--- Here l stopped my meditatioms--- That's the very thing I wanted, Strange that I could not remember What my wife had said at parting Don't forget to see the printer Pay him up and take the paper" Then no longer hesitating Straight I marched nor stayed a

 moment Till found myself ascending To the room they call "the sanctum" Of the man that runs the paper, And when 1 had paid the money Left you doubtless wondering

 muchly Why 1t was 1 hadn't sooner Thought to do the same before. And that paper cometh weekly, And the news that it containeth, Makes amends for all the trouble That my guilty conscience gave me Whilst I was q non-subscriber. And l wish as 1 unfold it, That the man who takes no copy, Could experience my feelings At the present, and compare them With the ones l had before, And I know that surely, surely, He would Ego and sin no more."

 II.
Year: 1876

THE CITY EDIToR-THE COUNTRY

 EDITOR.

 The editor of a city and a coun- try journal are two different and distinct species of individuals. In the citythe editors identity is mcr- ged into the journal. Every de partment has its corps of editors. The men who write the leading editorials are trained to that par ticular branch of work. The city or local editor works up the local field, and hashes up painful sui cidcs and drunken rows or mobs so that the greedy public swallows the news with rapacious appe tite, and cry "more! morew

 The selected miscellany and compilation of news items are presided over by men who are adapted and trained to that par ticular department also. Then every city journal has it's corps of reporters, who arc really auxilia- ries to the city or local editor. These reporters are sent to at tend and report the proceedings of all public meetings, conven- tions, and are even despatched to report sermons of eminent divines at evening church meetings or Sabbath services. Then also the advertising department is presid- ed over by men who give their attention, exclusively, to working up patronage and preparing ad- yertisements for the paper.

 The finances of the city journal arc in charge of another separate head, and perplex not the editors, who, when they are writing for the public interests, are not at the same time distressed by other considerations. The publishing ef the paper is also independently managed. In fact each depart ment of city journal is entirely separate from the others, and none of the men employed are ever liable to get a flaming lead CT that is calculated to excite the public mind to concert pitch," mixed up with a delinquent sub scriber's faillre to pay his $l.50 in advance.

 The men in charge of a city paper are unknown personally, and are, therefore, not obliged to shoulder curses long and loud and impregnated with sulphur enough to start a second edition of the internal regions.

 Let us now pen picture of the country editor, to be seen in every country village ofany prctcnsions whatever.

 The country editor is obliged to prepare his own editorials on all the leading questions of the day. To do this he must tread up" constantly, and unless his editorial rakes into some one, or tears up some interest, he is not l able lo hlae under the cover oil his journal, but mnst take a show CT oioaihs for being stale. 1T he |
Year: 1876

MR. EDITOR:

 Once upon q pleasant evening, And the time has not been long since 1 was in your pleasant city; And when had done my trading, Bought my coffee and tobacco, Not forgetting still to purchase Something for my wife and children Yet fingered, deeply thinking, Wondering what 1t was wanted And must have before started For my home some ten miles distant Till at last in blank confusion 1 concluded 1t was something
Year: 1876

rakes into parties or measures he of course receives the shower all the same. He is expected to blow the horn of every aspirant for DO litical favor in his party, and at thc same time if he asks such aspirant to help him raise the i wird' with which to ''toot his horn,' he is told that some other l individual who has swung his hat, three or four times over his head, must be taken care of. and he must stand aside. The coun- try editor must take an interest in all local matters. He must advocate all public Improvements and thereby win the hate aEd lasting enmity of tax payers, who arc opposed to public improve ments. If he does not advocate improvements, then the masses call him the paid tool of rich tax payers. He must attend all meetipas and conventions, and if he fa;i to report inc same in full, he IS said to be behind all live journals. He must write up local spicy matter, and if he notices an important improvement made by Mr. A., he falls under the lash of Mir. B., bccause he did not happen to be aware that Mir. B. had made Improvements also, which were twice as great, on his property.

 If the country editor obtains advertising. he must go for it per sonally. Every time he turns around he must turn over a six pence, or the .ixpeuce will turn him over. He is personally held accountable for all typographical errors in his journal, and must oversee his make up'' and print ing of his paper, and if he has a job office attached to his establish ment, he must look after stock, drum up work, and personally at tend to the details of the jobbing. He must select all miscellany, compile all news items, write obit- uaries. and take hand at pro- viding nonsense for such of his readers as like it. Besides all this he is at the financial head of an institution that would perplex even a banker and his score of assistants. His subscription list must be worked up, and kept up too, and he must see to It, that all subscribers ''pay up" in course of time. He must collect pay for his advertisements. and job work, and unless he has a large stock of patience and forbearance, he will occasionally get mad, when told to ''go to the devil with his little picayune bill." He must have the soul of an angel, the vigor of a steam engine, the cheek of the evil one, the patience of Job, eyes as numerous as the stars of Heaven, a disposition as smooth as oil, be able to dispense with all tender feeling, and be impurturbable to blows from every jackass's heels in his jour nalistic diocese. Who can edit a country journal and be happy Whitehall N. Y.) Times.
Year: 1876

1t ia not at all creditable to Governor
Tilden that the uncommon anxiety of his
Presidential ambition is impelling him to
resort to very unworthy and disreputable
means to capture the one electoral vote
which he needs. We make no account of
his contest before the returning boards Of
Louisiana, Florida and South Carolina. If
he could prove that the vote of any of
these States was fairly his he was entitled
to it. But the eagerness with which he
grasps at an electoral vote in States when
he knows that the people are decidedly
against bim is very discreditable, for it
shows that he is willing to be made President
without respect to the clearly expressed
wish OF the voters. 1t is by his suggestion
that the Democratic Governor of Repub-
lican Oregon refuses to give Republican
eector his certificate Of election, al
though Oregon notoriously voted for
Hayes. l. is by his suggestion that an
effort is made to throw out the vote of the
Nebraeka electors, although that is an ad-
mitted Republican State. 1t is by his sug-
gestion that attempts have been made TO
throw out single Republican electoral votes
in several other States on some alleged in-
formallty or on technical grounds. In
every one of these cases Mr.. Tllden displays
his contempt for the popular voice of the
States, which for bids the hope that he would
be fair-roinded. bipartisan President if
chosen louisville Commercial.
Year: 1876

George W. Julian, Lyman Trumbull and
John NJ Palmer were once hOnOred with
office in the Republican party. The fact is,
they were Republican until that patty
ceased to hoI or them with Office. They did
not leave the party voluntarily, but lett it
because they could no longer hold office in
it. 1t was natural, therefore, that they
should appear at New Orleans on the Dem
ocratic side, to secure IAN honest count"
but it was not natural that they should lose
their manhood. Yet that is precisely what
they did. In the face of overwhelming
evidence of fraud and intimidation and viO-
lence, and in the presence of the bleeding
form of Eliza PinkstOn, they wrote an ad-
dress to the people of theUnited States set-
ting forth, as their opinion, that there was
no violence or intimidation to affect the
general result. There was much law
lessness, they say, but this was not con.
nected with politics. Eight hundred men
murdered in Louisiana, the laws trampled
upon, voting places surrounded by armed
men, voters deferred from visiting the
polls, vet in the face of overwhelming
evidence Of this character. Messrs. Palmer,
Trumbull and Julian say to the public
there was no political intimidation. 1t was
mere lawlessness. Well, such 'lawless-
prevented free election in Indiana, Ohio
or Illinois. IT the Louisiana practice should
prevail generally, that would be the end of
popular government; yet Julian & Co. JUS
tify that kind of lawlessness, because it
seems to promote the interests of the party
with which they have connected themselves.
They argue as criminal lawyer would be-
fore court in hopeless case. They were
sent to New Orleans to make out . case,
and they went at it without conscience or
without regard to justice or truth. The
most overw whelming evidence they utterly
ignored; they accepted lies because the
truth would crush their side OF the case;
and, with an effrontery that is without
parallel, they declare that the election In
Louisiana was fair one.


The covering that concealed their shame
is far more tlimsy than that which Adam
wora in the garden, and we wish the gentle
men nothing worse than that their state
ment shall stand as their record in the his
tory of the country. Whatever may here
after be said of the efforts of the White
Liners to carry the election, through blood
and violence, the cold bloodedness, the
hypocrisy and the shameless conduct of
such men as Palmer, Julian and Trumbull
will stand to confront them throughout
their lives. Even if Tilden should succeed
through fraud in reaching the presidential
chair, that w0ult not save those men from
the Condemnation of q just and discerning
public sentiment Cincinnati Gazette.
Year: 1876

The following description of Wash
ington's personal appearance, written in
l778, says an English newspaper, "by
a native of America" contains some
points not generally known


"Gen. Washington is now in the 47th
year of his age. He is tall, wen-made
man, rather large, and has tolerably
genteel address. His features are manly
and bold his eyes of blush cast and
lively his hair a deep brown his face
rather long, and marked with the small
pox his complexion sunburnt and with
out much color, and his 'countenance
sensible, composed and thoughtful.
There is a remarkable air of dignity
about him, with striking degree of
gracefulness he has an excellent under
standing, without much quickness /; is
strictly just, vigilant and generous an
affectionate husband, faithful friend,
q father to the deserving soldier, gen.
tleman in his manners, in temper rather
reserved total stranger to religious
preiudices which have so often excited
Christians of one denomination to cut
the throats of those of another, in his
morals irreproachable he was never
known to exceed the bounds Of the most
rigid temperance"
Year: 1876

/ have lived in Linn County, Iowa,
three miles southwest of Cedar Rapids,
on dry prairie farm, for eleven years.
My only method of watering stock was
by drawing or pumping water for them
all. Last August, during a dry spell,
my well in the pasture got very low, so
I had to contrive some plan to furni h
more water for the stock. My plan was
this: To 20 up to the head of a slough
above the pasture. The well is in the
meadow, six rods above the pasture. I
dug the well and ditch at the same time,
80 the water would run off and not OBJ
struct the digging. The right grade or
fall was easily found in this way. The
well is eight feet deep, ditch twelve rods
long, well one foot deeper than the upper
end of the ditch, ditch dug as narrow as
possible-so as to be able to work in it.
The we'll is curbed up with first quality
of pine fencing, the curbing reaching
one foot above the surface, so that dirt
cannot wash in. The pipe, or spouting,
leading from the well down the bottom
of the ditch into large trough in the
pasture, is made Of the same quality of
fencing, ripped up in strips, two and
four inches wide, which makes spout
two inches square on the inside. Pieces
of spouting sixteen feet long. The ends
are mitred together in white lead. A
small piece of board is imbedded in the
mud Under each joint.


After the spoutinR was all completed
and the water running steady stream
faster than one COW could drink-I filed
the ditch in with team and scraper
scattered on some grass seed, and put a
tight platform on the well. The work
was complete in about one week, all done
with my own hands. This was done in
August, 1875, and I have not pumped a
stroke for my stock in the pasture since; (;
but there has been a continuous stream
running in the trough all the time. The
trough is about one foot below the sur
face of the ground. Think this is better
on account of not freezing. The ground
on the east side Of the trough is scraped
out so the stock have easy access to the
Year: 1876

Preparing to Resume-The Amount of


Silver I'm the Treasury Vaults.


The Washington correspondent of the
New York Tribune telegraphs as follows:


The House Appropriations Committee
have devoted much time lately to con-
sidering the policy of recommending
the Secretary OF the Treasury to begin
silver substitution without delay. The
Secretary already has full power in the
premises conferred by the first section
of the Resumption act, but he hesitates
to follow his instincts without sharing
the responsibility. He said recently in
q committee meeting that he would like
to have some expression of opinion from
the members or some directions from
Congress before beginning to replace
fractional currency with silver coin,
for, said he, if it fails where will the
lightning strike2 The discussion this
morning indicated that the majority of
the committee favor the proposition.
The subject comes home to them, as
they are asked to pass special bill for
$500, 900 to enable the department to
resume printing greenback currency.
The Secretary then proposes to put out
silver in place of fractional currency,
and the committee are of opinion that
either one or the other is unnecessary.
It yearly costs nearly million dollars
to print, count, and reduce fractional
currency. If it is replaced by silver,
which is worth less according to the
market reports, it will cost nothing, for
the silver is already on hand and being
coined. There are, according to reports,
about $I4, 900, ,0O0 of silver coin in the
Treasury and Sub Treasures. This is
lying idle, and even the interest at 5 per
cent. would amount to $700.000. Thus
we have million and hall, which, at
per cent, would pay the interest on
$50, ,000,00


For several days the Treasury has
been busy sending silver coin to the
different sections of the country to the
Sub Treasures, Postofices, etc., ready
for orders to pay out for fractional cur
rency. Even the order on the proper
officials has been prepared at the depart
ment, and nothing now remains but for
the Secretary to affix his name, and
fourteen millions of dollars in silver coin
go jingling into the pockets of the peo-
pie. The Nevada mines, alone, will, in
two or three months, when the shafts
and mills are completed, produce ST.
600, 900 month of gold and silver. If
the people are disposed to fill their
with silver coin and lay them
away, there may be plenty more to take
their place.
Year: 1876

Some politicians, says the Washington
anxious to avoid the perplexities which
finance brings into national politics, have
suggested novel method for the re-
sumption of specie payments. They
propose to leave it to the decision of the
United States Supreme Court. That
court has determined that the issue of
the legal tender notes was lawful in time
of war to meet the exigencies of war, but
this original act provided that they shall
only be reissued while the exigency re-
mains in force. 1t was held that the ex-
igency was the necessity of collecting
forced loan, and that, when legal
tender note is returned tc the Treasury,
in liquidation of tax, it conveyed to
the Government title to the thing bor-
rowed; by its issue by the Treasury it is,
therefore, not money, but only evidence
of debt paid, as much as receipted
bill. II reissued, it works the collection
of new forced loan in time of peace,
when no exigency exists, and it is insist
Ell that such reissue is unlawful upon the
very reasoning by which the court Justi-
fed the original issue in time of war.
1t is not improbable that the question
may be brought before the Supreme
Court very soon, by the refusal Of citi-
zens to receive in payment of a debt
legal-tender notes recently issued from
the Treasury, and bearing date which
is itself sufficient evidence that they were
issued since the exigency for which they
were allowed has ceased.
Year: 1876

water. A shallow ditch carries the water
off from the lower end of the trough.


I consider this the best Improvement
I ever made on my farm. Doubtless
others will improve on this. This is my
first experiment, but the principle is q
good one.-W. b. Parkyn, in Prairie
F1ryper.
Year: 1876

HOW THE DISTRICT OFFICIALS CONCEAL FACTS THE


PUBLIC OUGHT TO KSOW-LIGHT WANTED AS TO


THE 1866 BONDS.


iBT TBLEoRAPK TO THE TRIBUNE.


WASHINGTON, FEB. 27.-The action Of the House
on Friday in postponiDg the consideration Of the
port of the Conference Committee OH the disagree
Ing votes Of the two Houses the bill to provide H
the payment Of the interest the 1858 bonds Of an
District Of Columbia shows disposition to take 10
sction in regard to District affairs without perfect
understanding of the effect which any law passed
may have upon the liability Of the United States
and without knowing just what the amount Of the
District debt at present is While there is doubt
that the report Of the Committee was a proper one
and ought to be cOncurred ill., in order that the in-
terest on these bonds, now nearly month past due
may be paid there was force in the objections
made by Mr. Holman and Others that il is impossible
for any one to d out just what the liabilities Of the
District are at any given time This arises from the
fat that the reports of the Commissioners of the
District, the Board of Audit, the Sinking Fund
Commissioners, and Of the Engineer have heretofore
been made at different dates. The Sinking Fund
Commissioncrs' report shows a gwen amount Of
bonds outstanding at certain time. Some days
later tho Board Of Audit makes a report Of the
amount Of claims audited, bat between the two re-
ports number OF suditOrS certificates may have
been converted into bonds that the one report
does not supplement the ether. Again. some days
later still. the sngineer makes . report on the
amount of claims examined and passed Ia his Office,
bat between the dates Of the report VI the Board Of
Audit and this report claims may have zone from the
ONCE of the latter TO the former Besides this the
Engineer may have upon his table claims not acted
upon, or there may be work which has been COM
pleted and not measured. account Of which would
therefore appear in his report 1t has been suggest
'hat In order to ascertain for just what the
financial standing of the District s, the Board Of
commissioners, Board Of Audit and Engineer Of the
uHtrict be required to make sworn statement Of
,ne amount Of 3.65 bonds issued upon certain
.4'sI also, the amount Of uncontroverted Board Of
euoi' certificates outstanding In the hands Of any
one the amount Involved In measurements for
Nnica no certificates have yet been issued the
amount Of work done and not measured, list Of


esAntsnents by engineers since the date Of the last
slAaai sspcrt. and she ay'ount involved In clsims
Year: 1876

ABOUT five years ago man left
this city for the United States to
seek work, his wife and three chill
dren remaining here. A year after
ward the wife heard that he was
sick in a New York hospital; and
subsequently that..he was dead. After
the lapse of two years she grew
tired of her supposed widowhood.
and gave her hand and heart to
another, by whom she has one or
two children. The persons reside
in the north end; this week q let
ter has been received by the wife
from her former husband, who is
aliveand we'll in Texas, and talks
about coming on. The family are
respectable, and these tidings fell
like a bombshell upon them. The
second husband is in great distress
over the unfortunate affair, and
wishes to leave the country. The
moral of these cases is that it will
become dangerous to marry a wild
ow on trust that her husband is
dead, unless the corpse is produced.
--Halifar Recorder.
Year: 1876

The most powerfully armored
ship afoat is the Thunderer, which
met with such terrible accident
recently, but two gunboats have
just been finished on the Tyne which
will be fitted up by the Armstrong
firm with hydraulic machinery
working a 38 ton gun. Compared
with the Thunderer, the gunboats,
built for foreign government, are
diminutive, yet each little vessel
will carry gun capable of piercing
the thickest armor now on the seas.
The smallness of these marine wasps
will be their greatest protection, and
the steam power will be so applied
that not only the gun, but also the
vessel, will be under the complete
control of the a-ti'lerist.
Year: 1876

A party Of ten English medical men
were dining not long ago. when one
inquired if all present were limited in
their practice to selection of six
pharmacop@lal remedies, which would
be chosen rs being the most useful,
compound drugs to be excepted. Each
of the party wrote the names of the six
drugs he would select, and handed
them to the doctor who asked the
question. On examining the ballots it
was found that a majority of the votes
were given in favor of opium, quinine
and iron; between mercury and iodide
of potassium they were equally divided,
Us they were also between chloroform
and ammonia.
Year: 1876

The Commissioner of Internal
Revenue is encouraged to believe
from reports of officials through out
the country, and from evidences
which reach the Department of in
creased activity among distillers and
tobacco dealers, manifested by the
demand for revenue stamps, that
there will be a very considerable
increase in the revenue during the
present year over last year. Other
returns to the internal revenue Of
flee arc very encouraging and indi-
cate, in the opinion of officials here,
a more cheerful condition Of busi-
ness affairs throughout the coun-
try.
Year: 1876

There never was campaign more dis
graceful than that of Servia against
Turkey, unless it be the campaign of
Turkey against Servia. We have been
told repeatedly that the subjects of
Prince Milan were in the habit of
wounding themselves to escape going
into battle, and now we are informed
that they shot their Russian officers for
compelling them to fight for their coun-
try. their race and their religion. The
butcheries of the Turks are atrocious,
but the abject cowardice Of the Servians
is inexplicable.
Year: 1876

During his recent stay at Ischl the
Emperor of Austria saved tie child of
a poor woman from violent death. As
he was passing through the Rettenbach
gorges child of four years old fell over
u precipice, and, his clothes having
caught on a projecting branch. was sus.
pended over torrent some fifty feet
below. The Emperor. whose prof.
cheney in all athletic sports is well
known, jumped across the precipice,
freed the boy from his perilous position
and took him back to his mother.