smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1876

The following letter was written by prom
inen; citizen of York county who at one time
was counted on to help the Democracy elect
Congressman in this district. He has consid-
cred the question and comes to the conclusion
that all roads leading Republicans away from
the regular nominee for Congress in this Dis.
trict lead to the Democratic camp:


BiDDEFoRD, Aug. IL, 1876
To the Editor of the Press.


/ am one who believed that the candidate for
representative to Congress should be taken
from York county, and felt aggrieved at the
course taken when the nomination was made;
and at that time thought could not conscien-
tiously support Mr.. Reed, but upon reflection
think such course would be detrimental to
the Republican party, for lin Union there Is
strength" and l am well aware that unless We
as a party are united we must inevitably have
a Democrat to represent this District In the
next Congress, therefore feel 1t my duty to
give INV influence and vote for the election of
MIR Reed. and would advise every true Re-
publican and every one who has the good
of the cause at heart to give up and s0an-
don all efforts to bring any other cand-
date before the people and use their utmost en-
deavors to secure the election of the regular
nominee. There is no use in trying to disguise
the fact that we must choose between Mr..
Reed and Democrat for our next representa-
tive to Congress, Now let me ask what other
course is there for one to take who wished the
Republican party to succeed, but TO enuorse the
nomination of Mr.. Reed, and use all honest
means to secure his election. l fer Que mean
to 'bury the hatcbet handle and dW and do the
best can to give Mr., Reed as large majority
as is possible at the Ginning election, and /
would say to every Republican voter ''go thou
and do likewise" YoRK.
Year: 1876

AS the canvass progresses it becomes more
and more evident that the paramount ques-
tion in the campaign is the old one, that the
people are called upon to decide whether they
will turn over to the South the control Of
the whole country after having sacrificed
thousands of lives and millions of dollars in
preventing the South from controlling even a
section. Disguise it as we may the election of
the Democratic candidate means the suprem-
acy of the South. Even were that candidate
a man of spotless and loyal record he would
be indebted to the Southern States for his
elevation and support. The Congress would
be controlled by them, they would be in a
majority I'm the cabinet and they would mon
opolize the civil service. The new President,
however good his intentions, could do moth
ing without their aid, for he would be depen-
dent upon Congress for the adoption of any
measure which he might propose, and could
carry out no policy which did not have its
hearty endorsement, The administration of
the Army and the Navy would be in South.
ern hands. And they would have absolute
control of the Treasury. Not cent could be
voted for governmental expenses without
their consent. They could cripple where
they chose. In fact the election of the DEM
ocratic candidate would be Southern restor-
alton. The government would be admins
tered on Southern methods and in the spirit
of Southern ideas. There would be a return
to the methods and ideas of twenty years
ago.


These dangers are aggravated, not lessened,
by the character of the Democratic candi-
date. He belongs to that despicable class,
Northern men with Southern principles.
During all the war he was in active sympa-
thy with the rebellion, and gave to the loyal
North neither material nor moral aid. He
favored dishonorable peace, an abject sur
render by the North. If elected he would at
once turn to Southern politicians for counsel
and support. Their views would be his
views, their measures his measures, and the
aim of his administration would be the res
toration of Southern supremacy. If the
people of the North desire this they will vote
for Tilden. If they wish to see the admins
tration continued in the hands OF the pre-
servers of the national unity, and the results
of the war made secure they will vote for
Hayes.
Year: 1876

We do not read anonymous letters and communi-
cations The name and address of the writer are in
all cases Indispensable not necessarily for publication
but as guaranty Ct good faith.


We cannot undertake to return or reserve commu-
nications that are not used.
Year: 1876

A country clergyman, who had been &C.
customed to minister to the spiritual
needs of a congregation in the back


woods, was called upon TO fill the pulpit
of AZ absent metropolitan brother. The
day being excessively hot and his sermon
exceedingly long, he made his prepara-
tions accordingly. HI first removed his
cravat, ana then his collar and cuffs, and
then his coat, and was proceeding to get
rid of his vest. when there was a stir
among the worshippers, and one of them.
rising, said, in deep, deliberate voice
IL don t know what may be the brothers
intention, but perhaps it may as well be
understood before lie goes any further,
that this ism IT bath house." He preach
ed with his vest on.-L Brooklyn Argus.
Year: 1876

Z. *
is ! bed that they have made themselves.
and if they must lieSupon lit it will only
whisper what they have caused others to
endure to their sentiment and honor. But
az citizens Of Delaware, we must say that
Grant has attempted burthen Of shame
upon Us, that the Senate will not find itself
as much ignorant Of honesty and right, as
to confirm. All should unite and denounce
it. Let the voice Of the people be heard as
supreme over the dictates of a political
Nero that depraves others to please himself.
Delaware should glow from its north to its
south and from its east to its west with the
fire ofindignation, and no better place could
be found to apply the torch than here in
Wilmington.
Year: 1876

We have not referred to the nomination
of Judge Fisher, by the President, as the
successor of Anthony Higgins, Esq, in the
office of District Attorney for this State
for the simple reason that we have had no
idea that the Senate would descend to
such an outrage upon the honor of the peo-
pie as to confirm the nomination.


To vilify, Judge Fisher in unmeas-
ured terms would do no good
His career is too we'll known
to every one to need any reminder
from u.s. and if he came to us in the capa-
city that the President would send him by
making the nomination, we could offer
no further resistance than smart under
such a deep and humiliating indignity
from the administration.


That it would be an outrage upon the
majesty Of the peoples rights, sense of
honor teaches US we'll that it would mock
law to make thief one Of its advocates,
enervates and destroys confd De in
jurisprudence. fhe appointment of Fish.
er would have both of these effects, and
place in high position one that even his
own party levels the finger Of scorn at, and
whose face is an excresence upon the body
of eur society.


But still there was reason to have ex-
pected it. Have we not had precedents
enough to show that the President does
not consult moral character or social
worth as. recommendations to office? DO
we not know to our national disgrace that
members of his cabinet were thieves, that
his confidential friends have plundered the
Offices in which they served of unknown
amounts. Has not his whole adminlstra-
ton been one Of corruption. Has he not
leveled the public veal to the private
gain?


Then in full knowledge of these things
should we not have been ready to accept
anything? But we will state for the in
formation of the people that it is the throat
which utters such insults as his to free
born people, that must be clutched, and
the life choked from it in the next election.
That throat is the Republican party.


This nomination must bring home to the
people of Delaware, the humiliations that
have been practicei upon the South in a
similar manner. But where it is proposed
to put one in office here who is blot upon
the political as we'll as the social life, the
whole South is overrun with just such a
damning abuse of high authority and priv
ilege. While the confirmation Of this
nomination would stigmatise the high
honor of Delaware, and the memories of
those bright legal lights which have passed
into the valley of death, but whose genius
is yet green and vigorous, we. cannot but
cast the imputation of blame upon those
heads who made the administration, that
now overwhelms them with shame deep
and almost unbearable. 1t is the curse of
the party upon its own head, the prostitu-
ton Of honor to aggrandizement, the burial
of decency in the grave Of unblushing ends
for political gain.


Yet those who Sc backs feel the blow
smart the most, have taste of what the
South has had in the appointment from
this same source Of thieves and corruption
lists in the highest Offices Of the States. 1t
Year: 1876

OF foN al luel, and the Introduction OF
horsesnnd cattle. BY these and similar
nicans he so endeared himselft to the peo-
pie, as'well us to their wise and henevo-
lent ruler, that when he left them they
erected statue to his memory in park
that he had laid out for their recreation.
The elector, in gratitude for his services,
had previously settled upon him pen
sion Of 10000 crowns year tor his life,
with remainder over of half that amount
to his daughter, (who still remained in
Massachusetts, for her life he also made
him count of the Roman Empire, with
the privilege of choosing his own title
To his eternal honor, be it said, that the
love for the home Of his youth triumph
ed over the memory OF the prosecutions
he had suffered, and he chose the title of
Rumford, from the little New England
village, where he had once taught school.
Thenceforth he was to be known to fame
as Count Rumford, a title truly honorable,
because it was acquired solely by dstin-
guished services to his fellow men.


His health failing from excessive Ia.
Dor, lie went back to England in 1893,
and bad serious thoughts Of returning
to the United States. Having received
from the American government formal
invitation to revisit his native land, he
wrote to an old friend to select "little
quiet retreat" for himself and daughter
in the vicinity of Boston. This inten-
tention however failed, as he shortly at
ter became involved in the enterprise of
founding the Royal Institution in Eng
land for the promotion of science.


Leaving England Rumtord took up
his residence in France, and the estima-
tion in which he was there held may be
judged of by tie fact that he was elected
one of the eight foreign associates of the
Academy Of Sciences.


Count RumGord bequeathed 10 uar-
ward University D. fund to endow a pro-
fessorship of the Application Of
Science to the art of Living, and insti-
tutcd IL prize to be awarded by the
Year: 1876

THE COMMISSIONER PROCEEDINGS


The Journal says that Auditor Bear
gave the Commissioner Proceedings to
that paper because they agreed to pub
]ish them for nothing. Now, this is
the very dodge we anticipated and we
said 50 to several persons before the
Joxrnal appeared. We are assured on
g,ol authority that Auditor Bear car
riet, the proceedings to them and they
agreed to publish them ut 80 cents a
folio, cents less than we had been
charging. Tie law allows IS cents a
folio for legal printing and we had been
printing the proceedings ut q cents
hess than half price. Tie Auditor did
not come to US to see whether or not
We would publish the proceedings for
less than 80 cents folio, but promptly
handed them over to his own Ring or
gan. Now, because we enter protest.
they say they will print them for moth.
ing.


We can publish for nothing as long
rs the Ring organ can, but we shall ask
hereafter, if the proceedings are to he
published gratis, that the Commission.
ers require their clerk, Auditor Bear.
to furnish copy to both papers on the
same week of the meeting Of the Board
Its unjust to the people to attempt tc
confino the county printing and the
Notices Of Contest to a paper Which
has no circulation worth mentioning
outside Of Wortllington, while the AD
VANCE is read by every man, woman
and child who takes any interest il
this county.
Year: 1876

The railroad extension question has
again assumed u most encouraging as.
lect, and we are quite confident that
we shall be able to furnish something
substantial and definite next week.
We will make no promises, however,
but events which are now transpiring,
seem likely to settle the question:
Martin County Sentinel.
Year: 1876

THE COUNTY CONVEN1ION


The proceedings of the Republican
County Convention will be scanned
with interest by those familiar with our
county politics. The People measured
swords with the Ring in a square con-
test and the People, of course, came out
victorious. securing the organic stion of
the Convention, and the delegates to
the Congressional Convention, the only
points which they cared to make. The
Ring managers were on hand with
printed tickets, and had left no stone
unturned in the way of management,
but the people were too many for them.


II the farmers of Mobiles County will
spare little time and give little at
tention to our primary meetings and
conventions. we can prevent this coun-
ty from falling into the hands of those
rings or cliques which form in every
new county and whose object is to
feather their own nests at the expense
of the People. Let us keep Mobiles
County as pure in politics as it is on
the temperance issue.
Year: 1876

JOE BUrrs was in a Cincinnati jail
accused of robbing bank in another
part of Ohio. He wore long, heavy
beard, and the sheriff, who daily ex-
pected ire arrival of one Of the bank
officers who could Identify the prison
er, gave a strict order that the whis-
kers must not be cut of. One morn,
ing, however, Butts face was found
clean shaven, and the alteration in his
appearance was SO great that the
bank officer could not recognize him
as the robber. An investigation is to
be made to find out who enabled him
to shave or to be shaved.
Year: 1876

They attempted to take one of Bar
NUNS new girafles across Rhode Is
land last week, according to the Bos-
ton Herald, but just as it was on the
Massachusetts line it reached over
and ate up about half of a haystack
in farmyard III Connecticut, and
when the farmer came out with a
club and attacked the Connecticut
end, the massachusetts end got mad
and kicked man in Boston and near.
ly killed him. 1t created good deal
of excitement at the time in Rhode Is
land, and most of the people stepped
out of the state until it was over.
Year: 1876

Says Rev. j. w. DulJec, colored pas
tor, of Richmond, Virginia:


"TEc fact is, that you men at the
North know but little about our real
condition down here; but say to you,
if the policy Of the carpet-bas party
of the South is kept up, the hegro
must go to the WALL Men at the
North seem to forget that the colored
men as class are without homes,
penniless and uneducated, and that
there are six millions of them who
sleep under the roofs of their former
owners with all the brain power on
one side of their old masters.
Year: 1876

Wuo can forget the disgrace tha,
srant has east upon the nation How
shameful vas his message to Congress
in which he dsseends to The most boor-
ish partisanship NJ the cost of truth, to
furnish q cheap certificate for carpet
bag ballot-thieves. by wholesale re.
hection upon the integrity Of the vote
of every Congressional district Of Vir-
sinia. Even ia these evil days of Grant
ism, degenerated beyond its average
degradation such groveiing PARTISAN
ship would sound !.arshly if from the
pen OF Chandler bu; when il come.
from the President OF the United States
in an official message to Congress, ii
filings the miasma of the pot-house about
he chair OF Washington. To appeal TO
such President would be a waste of
respect for authority. and the country
we'll understands that If our free gov
ernrnent shall escape from its present
peril without the sacrifice of some of it.
2randest attributes, il must be without
the aid. ii not in defiance of the efforts.
of the vicious and petuient purti.an
who has yet few days in which to vex
u faithful people for the generous trust
and honor they have accorded him.
Year: 1876

On March %, 1913, remarkable phe.


nomenon occurred. The preceding winter


had been intensely cold, and the ice formed


on Lake Erie was unusually thick. In the


warm days Of early srring this mass Of ice


was loosened around the shores of the lake


and detached from them. During the fore
noon Of the day named stiff easterly wind
moved it up the lake. A little before sun
set the wind chopped suddenly round and
blew gale from the West. This brought
the vast field of ice back again with sush
tremendous force that it filled in the neck
OF the lake and its outlet so as to form =
very effective dam, that caused 4 remarka-
bic diminution In the outflow of the water,
VI course il needed but little time for the
Falls to drain of the water below this dam.
ihe consequence was that on the morning
OF the following day the river was nearly
hall gone. The American channel had
dwindled 10 . deep and narrow creek. The
British channel seemed to have been snit-
ten with quick consumption, and TO be
last passing away. Far up from the head
OF Goat Island and out into the Canadian
rapids, and from the foot of Goat Island out
beyond the old Tower to the deep channel
OF the Horseshoe Fall, the water was gone.
The rocks were bare, black and forbidding.
The roar of Niagara had subsided into q
moan. This extraordinary syncope Of the
waten lasted all day, and night closed over
the strange scene. But during the night
the dam gave way, and the next morning
the river was restored in all its strength,
beauty, and maiesty.-S1ibneT.
Year: 1876

"Not one word. As to your fine friends,
and remember that yon sent your brother
to the scaffold."


As though these words did not express
enough of the hate that was raging in her
bosom. Jacques sprang toward his brother
and bent him like a reed over the wheel.


In another instant the poor cripple
would have received his death, as he had
his distorted limbs, at the hands Of his
only brother; but Pcard, ever watchful,
interrupted him, and like a wild beast
baffled of his prey, Jacques was led, cur
sing, away.


With hymn Of praise in her heart did
Louise leave the house that had been the
scene of SO much suffering to her. and fer
vent was the silent prayer that Henriette
uttered, as with her arm around her sis
ter, and her hand clasped in that OF the
chevalier, she went from that nolsome
place to reap the reward Of all her suffer
ings.


Gro pE coNTTNIIED.7
Year: 1876

The notion that the moon exerts an
influence on the weather is so deeply
rooted that, notwith standing all the at
tacks which have been made against 1t
since meteorolOgy has been seriously
studied, it continues to retain its hold
upon us. And yet there never was
popular superstition more utterly with
out basis than this one. If the moon
did possess any power over the weather,
that power could be exercised only in
one of the three ways-by reflection
of the SUMS rays, by attraction, or
by emanatiOn. No other form of ac-
tion is conceivable. Now, as the bright
est light of the full moon isnever equal
in intensity or quantity to that which


is reflected toward US by white cloud
on a summers day, it can scarcely be
pretended that weather is affected by
such cause. That the moon does exert
attraction on us is manifest-we see its
working in the tides; but though 1t can
move water, it is most unlikely that it
can do the same to air, for the specific
gravity of the atmosphere is so small
that there is nothing to be attracted.
Laplace calculated, indeed, that, the
joint attraction of the sun and moon to-
gether could not stir the atmosphere at
quicker rate than five miles day.


As for lunar emanatiOns, not sign of
them has ever been discovered. The
idea of an influence produced by the
phases of the moon is therefore based on
no recognizable cause whatever. Fur
thermore, it is now distinctly shown that
no variations at all really occur in
weather at the moment of the changes of
the quarter, any more than at other or
binary times. Since the establishment
of meteorological stations all over the
earth, it has been proved by millions of
observations that there is no simultan-
| eousness whatever between the sup
posed cause and the supposed effect.
The whole story is a fancy and
superstition which has been handed
down to us uncontrolled, and which


we have accepted as true because
our forefathers believed it. The moon
exercises no more influence on the
weather than herrings do on the gov
ernment of Switzerland.-BLdcklUoOd.
Year: 1876

1t is we'll to give credit to energy and
application, but when the wise people
arise every day or so, and quoting from
Emerson, from COnfucius, from Sir
William Eastlake, or Esop, assert that
industry is such a very good thing to
have, and that talent really counts for
little in the great race of life, we can
not help feeling sorry for talent. 1t is
very true that the hare was beaten by
the tortoise, and if hares always go to
sleep in Ordor to let the tortoise have
the chance of showing what application
can do, then it is all right, and very
kind in the fleet footed little creature,
but suppose he runs ?-Ne1O Century for
Woman
Year: 1876

1t is not generally known; but the ed
itor of this journal once took music les
sons on a piano. He finds a melan-
chOly pleasure to this day in going to
the cemetery and sitting on the graves
of the family who lived next door and
thinking of their yivacity.
NelUs.
Year: 1876

A gilt-edged and superfine young
man stepped into a barbers shop the
other day to get shaved. The knight OF
the razor eyed him quizzically for a
moment and then remarked: "You must
either take down that shirt collar, or
wait for shave till can borrow a
step-ladder.n
Year: 1876

PLAY WITH THE CHILDREN When


we were all children at hOme," said a


friend, "nothing delighted us so much


as a rOmp with my father; the hour of
his homecoming was the happiest in


all the twenty-fOur. / often. think If all


parents would play with their children,


home discipline might entirely lose its
severe aspect and become law of love"


Children are not made good 10y the rod
of power. How many parents are will
ing to devote an hour or so to play with


the child or children? 1t knows moth


ing else. As a little kitten will stop
tapping its milk to play with the string
you draw across the floor, so will the
child leave almost everything for a
romp with its father or mother. In
these romps and during these moments
of recreation, the great lesson of love is
learned by the child. This close COM
panionship makes the bond between
parent and child, which results in the
future acceptance of advice and guild
ance. Perhaps you are naturally a dig
nified person and unaccustomed to play;
so when your infant first came to you
were you unaccustOmed to its care; but
you did not for that reason allow it to 90
uncared for. If you are harassed by
worldly anxieties, the recreation will
| benefit you as much as it benefits the
child, and your sleep will be the sounder
| for it. The experiment is worth trying.
Year: 1876

THE OLD ADAM IN HIM.-"Mr. Will
liam w. Belknap is not likely to hold
office again anywhere. He goes into re-
tirement with stigma attached to his
character which nothing can ever efface
No verdict of court of impeachment
could effect any changein the circum-
stances of his case. He was disgraced
by the first exposure, and his conduct
since then has been such as to highten
his infamy. The brazen effrontery of his
appearance in the Senate Chamber, and
the contemplate meanness with which
he sought through his counsel to put off
upon his wife the responsibility for his
crimes, have served to disgust the pub
lie more and more, until at the close of
his trial he can hardly be said to have
the sympathy or respect of anybody.
His crime was despicable, and his be-
haviOr on the trial still more so. The
public rejoices to see an end of it and be
rid of him. .n-EE.


Mr.. Belknap only acted out his mas
culiue heredity-"The woman that thou
gavest to be with me, she did it," is as
old as Eden.