smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1875

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Gazette:


Some weeks ago, the state board
of finance sent 10 the collectors OF
a number OF the large counties y
request to send in the receipts on
the state interest tax rs earl AZ
possible, to assist tho board ia
meeting various obligations of the
state. soon to mature in New York.
1t is we'll to remind those officers
that the time in which their com.
pliance Sill be OF most practical
avail Is very short, and we there.
lore hope they will oil and several
ly send in their funds with the
least possible delay. Sheriff Rot.
taken, of this county, turned IN
ten thousand dollars in currency
some time since, and will deliver
the balance due from him to-day,
as nearly as the condition Of his
accounts, 40 soon after the close Of
tax paying will permit. Rottaken
deserves credit tor his promptness
and tor the example he has set ts
others, aud which, for various rea.
sons should be universally follow.
ed. Let us all give the sta.e board
a helping hand. We are poor, it
Is true; but not so poor to- day, that
with sach taxes collected NJ tho
law granting extension OF time
make it reasonable to expect, we
may not meet some portion OF our
just debt, and thereby prove our
faith inch for inch, in line with
our ability. The spirit shown in


paying any portion OF our debt, SO


soon after the devastation lately
; produced in our state by causes
, fresh in the mind of every one
will enti,le us TO, and will gain toI
US, a recognition such as would


hardly result from ten times larger


payments in more prosperous times'


We know we mean well-let VI


prove to the world we know how
! TO do well. BY all mepns the col


lect rs should send on their taxes
!. particularly for the fund mention
ed at once, 1ii
Year: 1875

VISITING FIREMEN.-This morning, a body OF
Philadelphia firemen who were on pleasure
excursion down the river came into the harbor
and made an informal visit to this city, calling
at several of the engine houses and inspecting
the apparatus. No formal reception was ex-
tended them, but all due courtesy was shown.
Year: 1875

request the prominent citizens of Smyrna
the undersigned Real Estate Agent of Easton Md will at
Branch Agency Smyrna Del provided the people will
the enterprise by promptly placing their m for list
Ny the sale of Real Estate is the best evidence c
selling have sold in Talbot within the thir
months, push
vigorously here as in Talbot.


While you may be greatly benefited you certainly lose moth
by allowing show your FARMS expense purchasers.
charge whatever if not instrumental
finding the buyer If sold coming through influence
Advertising charge commission of the first $4,000 and
on all over and above $4,000.


This than the chancy scale of commissions allowed
although they for advertising and showing
purchasers, while my expenses 5000 to $400 month
resulting from this outlay benefits
myself and all ask in for this risk
description farm in the County that could be bought,
be able to suit every who comes here to buy.
description of for circular,
be circulated thousands of land seekers free of charge
Call at the Delaware House, address


j. F. MANCHA,


Smyrna, Del.
Year: 1875

Two stock libraries are in their
embryo in this city. The enter
prises are both commendable, ana
great care ought to be taken at the
outset, in providing that the books
can never revert back to individuals
so that some can get the lions share,
but ought to become the property
OF the city, as a nucleus of q city
library, should ever the stock inter-
est be dissolved.
Year: 1875

The first entertainment in the
course Of lectures that has been in
augurated for the winter, took place
last Thursday night. The hall was
filled with an appreciative audience.
The exercises were opened by sing
idg, which was received with heart
felt applause by the whole audience.
n comic sermon.was then delivered
by Charles Evans, which contained
some witty points. Mr.. Evans has
seve raj times exhibited rare elo-
cutionary power, and in this effort.
the delivery was good, but the piece
was not perfectly adapted to the
occasion. 1t has doubtless been de-
livered with success, but this time
the author anticipated the taste of
his audience wrongly. Mr.. Evans
is capable of entertaining any audi
ence, and we trust he will render
the society valuable assistance.
An interesting and instructive adj
dress was then given by the Hon.
NJ. NJ. Strong, on the early Legisla-
ton of Wisconsin, in which he
localized with considerable effect on
the early history of Mineral Point,
which took the lead for a time in the
early history of the State. A portion
of the address will be found in
another column. The exercises were
a success both in point of interest
and benefit. The address alone, or
the singing alone, would have been
well worth the expense aud time
spent in listening. There seems to
be little misunderstanding regard
ing the origin of these entertain
ments. They were started not in
opposition to the old literary society.
but that there might be entertain
ments of some kind which would be
of benefit to the people. Some men
who were capable of taking an active
part, were not seen, which was an
oversight of those who canvas sed.
1t Is hoped now that the members of
both viii unite in harmony and assist
IN making the exercises what they
ought TO be.
Year: 1875

The citizens of Mineral Point are
notified by the city authorities, not
to leave hot ashes in the house or
standing in wooden vessels, or in
any place SO as to endanger build
ings. Those causing calamities in
this way, will be held responsible.
Year: 1875

The old Literary Society met on
Saturday evening, for the purpose
of starting library in the city.
Some prominent lecturer from
abroad, will be procured to lecture
for its benefit. The enterprise de-
serves the earnest patronage of the
people.
Year: 1875

THE Potato Bgj. This abominable
pest is devastating the young potato
vines every direction, One gentle
man tells US that he saved his entire
crop last year by sowing Paris Green
with ground plaster, and he hopes to
do so this year; but the bug has the
advantage this year because of the late
ness of the season and the smallness of
the shoots. No effort should he spared
to exterminatc this pest
Year: 1875

1t is questionable whether the general
and almost indiscriminate us, of lucifer
matches is not causing more destruction
to property than they are worth, and it
does seem that some legislative action
is required to stop the manufacture Of
matches that contain SO large an amount
of combustible material. 1t is no un-
common thing to see a lady or gentleman
startled by the loud report of a match
which they had tread on in the street.
The report sometimes is quite quail to
that of small pistol and the flash not
unfrequently fully as distinct.


These matches are carried by millions
OF people. The men carry them in their
vest pockets frequently without any pro-
lection, and they are often left in cast
of clothing to be exploded occasionally
in pile of ''duds' that is intended for
the wash or the rag man" Servants
carry them from the cellar to the garret,
and stable men are never without them,
although the lofts are slowed with hay
and the stalls strewed with light straw.
The inveterate smoker lighting his cigar
dashes aside match that fails to ignite
without regard to whether it may have
been fully exploded or not; and there
are hundreds of ways and means ly
which these dangerous things, the cause
doubtless Of thousands of fires, may be
exploded. Even the nibling of mouse
is said to have produced an explosion.
Matches are often found between floors,
where they had fallen through crevices
and never recovered. There can scarcely
be a.doubt that many of the confasfa-
tions that have ragged throughout the
country of recent years, destroying nil
lions OF dollars worth of property, had
their origin In the use Of matches. Even
the roads and the fields are fred by
them. 1t was only last week that one of
the most singula fires we ever heard OF
was caused by such carelessness. 1t was
at country church meeting on Sunday,
and the fire occurred in q stove where
the horses and carriages were hitched,
and number o: the poor animals per-
lshed before the flames could be extin-
g1ished, others had to be killed. Many
carriages were also burned, and a num-
Der of the male members of the con-
greSation were also burned in their ef.
forts to save their property. We hope
we have said enough to suggest to OIL
people, both in city and country, the
necessity of abandoning the use to such
nn unlimited extent. of these dangerous
matches. There is cheaper match that
may be used with much more safety. Tn
the country it would be well to 90 back
t. punk or to the "Aint and tin
der box"-in fact lucifer matches should
be prohibited on their farms by every
gentleman who values his barns and hi.
stock. They should never be allowed in
stable or where combustible littc- wa.
necessity.
Year: 1875

AAe1Ay 0s0PoSc0 u 014 ~ tU01MUDGNUkM
(for nothing has been sisted that rises
to the dignity Of an accusation) which
have been made a. to the treasury and
canal management BY democratic Off.
cials, and we feel confident that the in.
telligence and patriotism of the people
cannot be so clouded BY the partiiau
clamor Of those who have lost power BY
their own folly and reckless abuse Of it,
as to destroy the future prosperity oi
Maryland by committing the govern
ment to those who were, in 1852, driv.
en- from power BY the immense uprising
of the people of this State. fs


Citizens of Maryland, we have thus
briefly portrayed your present happy
financial condition, and sought calmly
and truthfully to warn you Of your dam
ger. We have stated only facts, and
recalled to you the plain teachings Of
the past. We have presented to you as
candidates for State Offices men whose
record for patriotism, intelligence and
purity of character cannot be surpassed,
and it remains for you, in your several
counties and the city Of Baltimore, to
aid them by the election of your best
men to the Legislature, that BY their
united efforts such reforms as expert
ence may show to be necessary shall be
secured under the administration of the
democratic-conservative party.


That its management in the past may
have been at times not as discreet as,
in the judgment of some of its adher-
ents, it might have been, is possible;
yet, judged by the general results of
the government of this State, it will
challenge the approval Of all fair and
impartial men.


By order of the State Central Committee,


JOSHUA VANsANT, Chairman.
JAMES A. L. MCCLURE, Secretary.
Year: 1875

An exchange, in referring to the Black
Hills and the excitement relative to gold
there, says: From what we learn bodies
of miners and adventrrers are gathering
at different points on our frontier, pre-
pared to push into this country and con-
quer their way in spite of our troops and
of the admonition of the government.
Theresult, we fear, will be this: A body
of adventurous miners will penetrate
into the Black Hills in spite of our mill
tary posts. The Indians, thus menaced,
will attack and slay them. There will be
contest ending in murder. Then the
whole Northwest will be afiame with re-
venge. We shall have "war feeling"
on the frontier which it will be difficult
for the government to control or resist.
Nothing but the firmest policy on the
part of the President can arrest these
contingencies. He has promised, wisely,
that the efforts OF the government will
be to extinguish the Indi MS title to the
Black Hills country. This is unavoida-
BILE. 1t is contrary to reason and common
sense that the Black Hills, if they are
what those who have seen them declare,
should be abandoned to tribes of wild,
wandering Sioux. No one for moment
supposes that it is the policy of this gov
ernment to permit any part of its terri
tory to be locked up permanently under
the control of thieving Indian agents
and poor, untutored savages. But let us
go about this work in the right way.
Let us extinguish the title of the Sioux
to the reservation by honorable means.
Let us recognize our treaty obligations,
and in opening the country to immigra-
ton and population let us not darken its
young life by deeds of atrocity and
perfdy. The Black Hills country, rich
as it is, would not be worth the occupa-
tion if the price we are to pay is dishonol
and shame.
Year: 1875

According to the Danbury Neps, as
long as a boy is boy he never loses the
desire to own dog, and when he gets
him, which he will do in some way, he
has him in tow pretty much all of the
time. When at the table, he is screw
ing around in his chair, to the irritation
of the parents, to exchange winks with
that dog. He teaches the dog the ex-
ceedingly bad habits of tearing over the
newly-planted ground, and coming into
the house. He and that dog are in
separable when he can be at home.
He really loves the animal. 1t is we'll
he does, for no one else does. To all
others of the family the dog is an object
of dread and dislike and distrust. The
father falls over him in the morning,
and the mother stumbles against him
when she moves about the stove or goes
out into the yard. The grandmother
rarely comes in contact with him, but
she knows it is ugly and treacherous,
and consequently entertains the most
gloomy forebodings. 1t is an unfortu-
nate dog. 1t tears up the garden and is
kicked it barks at well-disposed neigh
bors, and is kicked again; it gets in the
way and IS stepped upon and if it is
lying ON the stoop with its tail in the
doorway, and the door blows to, there
is never kind hand to stay the awful
shock. And it is a wise dog, too. Il
erects it's tail and flies with sickenine
ferocity at lame hen, or puts that ap
pendage between its hind legs and darts
madly for the nearest, opening in the
fence. In all these things it has the
hearty sympathy of the boy. He vii
hold that dog about the neck, after i
has been afflicted, and drop tears freely
upon its shaggy head, while his mothel
is carrying in wood. It is a sad day t.
the boy when his mother first conceive
the dreadful suspicion that that dog ha
feas. Tie supposition may be entirel,
groundless-likely it is-but once in he
mind, it takes eternal root there. AnC
the dog is not SO prudent as he shoulC
be. He will draw from the contempla
ton Of the grandest landscape to reacl
back near the foundation of his tail TO
something. Some day the dog sudden
ly disappears, and the boy never see
him again. But he will have another
When you see big fresh bone, gristl.
and nauseous, lying on clean stoop
with tracks about it, you may know tina
the boy who lives there has dog, ant
that the dog has no otherfrien than tn
bny
Year: 1875

Eight men were drawn out by lot to
be shot down in cold blood This oc-
Cured recently m Spain. Fighting is
going on there, although it does not dis
turb the rest of the world very much.
The eight men we're prisoners-prisoners
of war. They had done nothing-beyond
fighting and periling their lives for q
cause they believed in. But somebody
else had done something wrong. Eight
prisoners of war on the other side had
been brutally slaughtered after their
surrender. Some wretch of an officer
had outraged even the rules of bloody
war, and killed them after they had
laid down their arms. And so it was
ordered that lots should be drawn--that
eight should be taken by lot from six
hundred, and marched out and shot
Oh, miserable mockery of humanity
prayers were offered up for their souls
while their 1.-the and healthy bodies
were Just about to be riddled with bul.
lets


One poor fellow, almost at the last
moment, broke away and ran for the
river. A iJullet hit him in the back, bu
he kept ON and leaped in. Then a more
successful shot struck him in the head
and he sank, mingling his blood will
the water The other seven writheC
and fell in their tracks. The sad stor.
went home to parents, brothers, sisters
and sweethearts; shot, like bullock
knocked down in a slaughter house
Sad thing, this being selected by 10
to be shot I--Ledger.
Year: 1875

A Washington correspondent of the
Louisville COarier-J0u7ndL writes: Ad-
miral and Mrs. Porter should be very
lenient to young love, for their friends
say about them that Commodore Patter-
son, the father of Mrs. Porter, was given
much trouble by his young daughter and
Midshipman Porter. 1t was in the day
when commodores were permitted to
take their families to sea with them when
ordered on cruise. Once, when ordered
to the Mediterranean, Commodore Pat
terson took his two daughters with him.
The presence and flirtations of the
young ladies SO entirely subverted all
discipline among the officers that the
commodore had to enter port and send
the girls home. This was heart break
ing affair to Miss Patterson and Midship-
man Porter. The demoralizing effect
caused by the presence of these young
ladies' was of so serious nature as tc
cause the secretary of the navy to recon-


mend that Congress should prohibit
officers from taking their families OF


government vessels, or even transpor
families from one point to another.
Year: 1875

Henry N. Mygatt had good clerkship
in the Treasury department at Washing
ton, and many friends of too convivial
kind. He contracted such an appetite
for alcohol that, despairing of reform
in the midst of social temptation, he re-
signed his place and went to Greenville,
Mass There, among strangers, he took
a clerkship in clothing store, hoping
that hard work and isolation would help
him to resist his curse. In this he was
mistaken. A few days ago he killed
himself with laudanum, leaving writ
ten statement to the effect that he would
not live drunkard and could not live
anything else.
Year: 1875

The northampton (Mass.) Gazette
says: 1t would be decidedly difficult for
even the most expert meteorologist to
explain the disappearance of the water,
supposed to have been produced by the
melting of the snow, this spring. Every
body was pretty well assured that there
was big body of snow throughout New
England on the first of April. A month
later there was but very trife of it left.
During the month of April it disappear
ed; but the streams that while did not at
any time show even an ordinary spring
rise, the larger rivers especially never
once approaching any previous high
water mark, although all predicted an
awful season of spring freshets from the
melting of the snow. The fact is it never
melted at all, but dried up, wore out,
evaporated, philandered, disappeared,
without melting, without producing any
appreciable amount of water that found
its way into the streams. The dry, tur-
bulent winds of April took the moisture
off into the atmosphere about as fast as
it contrived to get out of the snow.
Year: 1875

THE TABIE.-In the recently pub
lished Memoirs of Odillon Barrett" it
is recounted that in the course of the
fight of Charles x. his party encounter
ed one tremendous difficulty. They
came to town in which there We're only
round tables-not square table in the
whole place. At round table all are
equal. Only square table permits a
king to sit alone. For little while il
was apprehended that they could not
dine, but they solved the great problem.
They cut round table and made il
square.
Year: 1875

LECTURE By HON. s. NJ. ANDREWS AT AssoCIA-


TIoN HALL.


Hon s NJ. Andrews delivered a lecture, entitled
tsWit and Humor" at Association Hall last evening
The house crowded and the lecture was a thor
oughly enjoyable Various extracts from Artemus
Ward Mark Twain and Bret Harte were ceverly
rected by Mr. Andrews.


The title Of my lecture this evening" he said, is
"Dialect Humor" and shall illustrate my subject by
humorous selections in various dialects Most of the
humorous writings Of this country have been written
In dialect, being best fitted to express the
humorous England is divided into sections
the inhabitants Of each speaking a dialect
peculiar TO themselves There several varieties of
Irish brogue In the North Of ireland IL Is slightly
Scotch The Dublin is refined and scarcely discern
ible and the Cork brogue is thick and cultural In
this country we have two varieties We find the
Yankee its purity In the uphill sections OF New Eng
land; the Southern Is strongly touched with the
negro dialect Humor is justly considered one
OF the moral forces With what power did Dickens
WELD this most potent weapon Humor is TO life what
salt is to food II gives piquancy and flavor and without
IL we should be fat and insipid. Laughter and evil
thoughts are no kin might speak OF grief It's kim
dred emotion, for grief s


ASrITHEsTs hrRrH


They the opposite extremes of the same emotion
Excess of laughter becomes Humor not only
adds TO- indeed 1t constitutes much OF genuine happi-
ness and 1t also improves morals for the reason
that 10 be good must be happy, AND be
happy we must laugh true humorist is 1 public
benefactor and America is especially fortunate in this
particular While young in music and art and IN both
mostly copyists, possess a humor that belongs to
ourselves In relation TO the and effect of humor
q singular contradiction exists in fact That which
most causes our mirth exists in the mis-
fortunes Of others; for both mirth and sorrow
caused by tho misfortunes or Others only
gauged by the degree OF the mishap How often we
laugh and cannot help IT though feel that we are
crueli Humorous and witty sayings usually more
forcible for being dry for then it though the
akpTh hpd M nd uQ uArn he fret
dangers OF wit when its powers are abused
Ii rs pleasant 10 observe how wit combined
with and softened by benevolence, penetrates
through the codness Of society like the combined
nuence OF wine and oil IL gives to each glow
ing heart Genuine and innocent wit is the flavor
Of the mind God has gwen wit and flavor and
laughter and humor enlivcn tho days OF weary
pilgrimage.
Year: 1875

Three hundred or more depositors OF the suspended
German Uptown Savings Bank met at Terrace Garden
East Ffty-eighth street. last evening to consult to-
gether with the view Of protecting their inter
ests, and, II practicable, obtaining their money
in full There but little concert OF action and
difficulty experienced from the first In properly
bringing any matter before the body. Alter much
discussion, which amounted to nothing, It was pro
posed to appoint committee Of nine depositors
to investigate the affairs OF the institution and report
at the next meeting. This forciby opposed by
Mr. A. p Fitch, who felt that the suggestion was
premature II such matter was deter
mined upon the committee should be men
that all acquainted with Men OF known
honor and integrity should alone be selected 70 fill the
position, and If other than those were charged with
the delicate and responsible duty he feared for
the result Mr. King advised that he had
recently and talked with Receiver Uhl
who said that full report Of the condition of the bank
would be published by Monday next, and consequently
he considered IL better 70 deter all action until
after that time. At last this agreed TO-
but a committee composed Of two attorneys
and one other, appointed to INQUIRE


by the appointment of the receiver charter Of tho
bank had been dissolved This committee will report
al the next meeting None Of the old directors were
present, although invited. Mr.. Rice presided and Mr.
A. N. Douglass acted as secretary.