smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1876

whole crop goes an<lsn Just 50 with the merchant who sells on a credit, more fail to pay than was expected, consequently he is fore ed into bankruptcy.

 Merchants buy your goods for cash and sell them for cash. The wholesale merchant expresses the honest merchant who buys for cash, because he sells to some. on time wkom lie thinks may never pay; and the retail merchant op- presses the honest man to make up for losses incurred by dishon- esty, and ih the end the bottom is knocked out of the mans pocket who pays for what he gets. We are tired of paying for goods bought by men who never expect to pay for them. We arc tired ot paying these drummers two and three thousand dollars a year to sell our merchants goods, and we are desperately sick of paying enormous profits to wholesale merchants to indemnify them against losses sustained by bank. rupt retail merchants.

 So down with the credit system and let us live who pay for our goods, and the dishonest man be driven to the blow for his daily support.

 CORRESPONDENT.
Year: 1876

For more reasons than we have space to mention in this article reasons which arc apparent to everybody who is old enough to cast a votc-we say send your best men to the next session of the legislature. Upon wholesome legislation depends our whole chances of progress and prosper ity. fyou want wise legislation you must send men to the legisla ture of sufficient attachments to enact correct laws, of sufficient sobcrness to be always at their post and in condition to work, of sufficient honesty and moral cour- ago to always cspouse the right and oppose the wrong, of ofsuflicient patriotism to rise above the par tisaE and act the patriot in every public act.

 The following very pertinent words from the Gazette should be carefully needed by every county in the state:

 We feel that we cannot dwell with too much emphasis upon the importance of this branch of the state government, especially for the period to be covered by the next administration, every de- partment of which will need clear heads and devoted purpose, to enable them to do THAT ONLY, which is for the best interests of the whole state. Questions will be sprung before the next legis- lature that will vex and puzzle the most experienced, and will be sprung, too, for that very pur- pose. Measures will be proposed which, while plausible on their face, will cover innumerable polit- ical quicksands. Fidelity, capac- ity and integrity arc the qualiti- cations needed for our coming legislators. The necessary work to be accomplished must be done within the limited periol of sixty days-the session is limited to that by the constitution. Almost any good man can spare that much time from his regular em- ployment. Choose your best men, and make them serve. Besides, it is the place for public men to make regulations, if-mark this, IF they are governed by a desire to compass the best interests of
Year: 1876

Editor DEMOCRAT: 1 hope your readers will fully appreciate the following ideas gathered from an article in the Spirit of Arkansas:

 Put up the fencing around your yards, and keep the pigs out of the house. Put those rusty blows and old hoes out of sight, or at least where they belong. Clear out the stumps and logs out of your front yard. Make good fences around your farms and clean out the fence corners. Drain the wet places in your fields and spend fifty cents to SOW them in grass. Get your farm in good condition ard take care of it like you would a good wife. Don't let your back doors look like a hog pen from flashing the dish water down on the steps. Open up ventilation about your houses and breathe a pure atmosphere. Don't let your chimncys lean back like they were trying to turn a sumersault backwards. Tear down and burn mp that old sorghum min that has been stand ing ln the front of your house for the last ten years. Convert the iron left on the three wheels of that old wagon with a fence rail for the fourth wheel, into blow shares. Take that wood pile out of the front yard, and don't let it annoy your wife sweeping the chips back from the door. Dress your yard and farm like mar riagc belle, and all the young men will come to see your daugh- ters. CORRESPONDENT.
Year: 1876

Editor DEMocRAT:-It's seldom that observation fails to accom- plish some good results; and a close and more concise scrutiny of the matter will unfold many em- barrassing 2 features attendant up on our fvture prosperity. Every day brings with it some strain upon an honest mans pocket. Observation teaches us that every man must live from the earnings of his vocation in life. The mer- chant must live from the profits of his goods--the druggist must live from the profits of his medicine, and the dishonest man must be supported by those who pay their honest debts. If you lose one dollar on Peter, you must make it

 back on Paul, because he is an

 honest man and pays his debts- or in other words you must make the fiat fry the lean." Who sup ports the merchant and the drug gist? Who supports the dishon- est man and the tender looking drummer? It is that class of men who pay their debts. The wholesale merchant says l must have such per cent. on these goods to live, and an additional per cent. to cover losses by broken

 merchants. This I must make the honest merchant pay. Very good. The retail merchant says, I must make a certain per cent. to support nay family, and a cer- tain per cent. to cover losses in-

 cured by dishonest men, and to do this l must guage the honest mans pocket. Now who supports the world? The man who pays what he owes. Why do you SOW ten times as much cotton seed as you eyer have for stand? Be cause you expect some never to come up. Just so with the mer- chant, some men he calculates, will never pay, consequently he must make a full crop out of the honest ones left. But sometimes out of all the seed sown, 2 stand sufficient to justify cultivation fails to como up and possibly tue
Year: 1876

EDlToR DEMOCRAT: In your issue of the 23d ult., you say you frequently see drunk men on the streets of your city, and ask why it is 80, when the law forbids the sale or giving sway of anything that will intoxicate, within three miles of your schools. You then ask the question, "What have we justices of the peace forF' It is sometimes, though but seldom, the case that we see drunk men on the streets of Atkins, and we have the same order in force here. Now, sir, will you be so kind as to refer me to the section of law making obligatory upon, or even the duty of, justices of the peace to takc cognizancc of these cases without complaint being made in writing. If you will. I pledge you my word that I will Ego for" every one of them at Atkins. I, for one, am determined to dis charge my whole duty In these cases regardless of consequences.

 Ispent at least n week in get ting up petition and obtaining an order from the court, and after having done so much l do not in tend my work to be lost. I assert

 and I consider it to the honor of Wilson township-that there were not ten adults living in the township who would have refused their signature to our petition. l saw more than two thirds of our people and but two refused. It is to the grand jury that these cases must go, think, and IS it not an evident fact that said grand jury will reach the most of them? Let the citizens of this (Wilson and your (Illinois) to xnship be prompt in the discharge of this important duty-give to the grand jury the necessary information and let us down with this evil.

 Respectfully,

 VIM. REYNOLDS.
Year: 1876

In another place we publish a letter from our friend Wm. Key holds, who is, we believe, justice, for Wilson township. The spirit brcathed in the letter is the prop CT one. A full and complete dis charge of each and every duty connected with the office should be chcerfully performed by not only this class Of officials, but by all others.

 We make no prctentions to le gal accumcn, but we venture to take the position, that whenever an official has knowledge ofa vio- lation of law it is not his duty to wait for some citizen to come for ward and make complaint. Or, to make our meaning rlaipcr, we will
Year: 1876

-THE ENFORCEMENT ACT.-The decision of the Supreme Court in the Grant Parish case, and the Kentucky election case, which was delivered Monday week ago, pretty well knocks the wind out of the enforcement act. We therefore will have no more feder- al police at our congressional elections.
Year: 1876



 A convention of the Democratic party of Pope county will be held at Dover, on Sat urday, the 10th day of May next, for tho purpose of selecting and instructing dele gates to the Democratic State Convention, which is to be held in the city of Little Rock Ark, on the i4th day of June next Also to select a county democratic central commit tee for the county, for the ensuing cam paign, with instructions as to their duty in organizing the party in the ensuing cam paign. It is requested by your committee, that township meetings be held in the sev- erai townships of the county. at as early a day as convenient, that full expression may be had.

 The basis of representation and voting In the organization of the convention, shall he as follows based upon the vote for the State constitution of lSTi.: Each township shall be entitled to one vote, without regard to it's voting population, and after the first a) votes, to an additional vote to each suceed- ing 50 votes or fraction of said 50 votes in ex- cess of 25 The number of persons compos- ing the dele yation front each township shall be left to the discretion of the township meetings. The representation on said basis will 10 follOws.
Year: 1876

The snow blockade on tho Pacific Railroad.


OMAHA, March ls.-Telegrams from
the west state that all trains on the Noun
tain Division CD to to-day were abandoned
on account Of the snow blockade between
Green River and Evanston. Several
freight trains are showed in on Cresson
Hill between Bitter Greek and Rawlins.
and everything has been blockaded all
day. A large force of men will start
for Bitter Greek in the morning. to try and
get through. 1t is still showing and drift
ing very badly.
Year: 1876

PARTISG.-Men seldom appear so
humane, or in position so advantageous
to their humanity, as when they part.
How few friends are there who endure a
protracted separation without some abate-
ment of warmth, or meet, by appointment,
without some accidental discontents; but
none in any degree entitled to that charac-
ter, ever part without much regret Even
the cheerful and social are not always
exempt from those momentary perturba-
tions with which selfishness chills the pulse,
or controyersary overheats it. The needle
will oscillate little from the just point oi
its affections, and though its popularity il
never lost, it is seldom steady. Yet even
the petulant, the irritable, and the more
generous of the resentful, lose all unfriend
illness as they pass away from each other
signing at conversation which, perhaps
they may have mutually desired. The las
shake of the hand is sufficient to dissipat'
hundred grievances. There are then M
reproaches which we can recall beside
those against ourselves.


Il
Year: 1876

Those who worship gold in a world SO
corrupt as this we live in, have at least one
thing to plead in defense of their idolatry
the power Of their idol. 1t is true that
like other idols, it can neither move, sec,
hear, feel, nor understand, but unlike
other idols, it has often communicated all
these powers to those who have them not,
and annihilated them in those who had.
This idol can boast of two pecuIiarities; it
is worshiped in all climates without 4
single temple, and by all classes without a
single hypocritc.-Colon.
Year: 1876

In visit, day or two since, to the
penitcntiary at Allegheny city, Miss d. L.
Dix, the American Florence Nightingale,
made an address to the prisoners in which
she related an incident in which she was
herself an actor. 1t occurred many years
ago, in the wilder portion Of the State of
Tennessee. She had, as she says, con-
siderable amount with her, and though
warned of the danger in travelling in GER
tain districts without an armed escort, she
utterly refused to allow her driver and
guide to retain his pistol, Notwithstanding
his remOnstrances and entreaties to the
of the road. True enough, as they came
to a small clearing i'll a swampy tract
where there was much fallen and burned
timber, man met them suddenly, pre-
senting his pistol and demanding her
money or her life. She Instantly came to
the front and asked if he was not ashamed
to attack n woman and in such circum-
stances. But he was resolute and said he
must have her money, as he was destitute
and in dire need. She was equally deter
mined, kept on talking to him of the
wrong, impropriety and unmanlness of his
course, when suddenly dropping his eyes
and his pistol, he cried out /" My God ]
have heard that voice before" and imme-
diately began to apologize for his conduct,
telling her that he had met her in the State
Prison at Trenton, or in the eastern peni.
tentiary Of Pennsylvania. He refused to
take a cent, but she finally insisted on his
taking some money, not as gift, but as a
sum she wanted to invest with him, to be
used, after he had found work and relief,
in helping others equally unfortunate.
Year: 1876

MARRIED IN SPITE OF THEM.-The parents
Of young man in Baltimore tried to pre-
vent him marrying young woman they
dislikcd, by hiding his clothes when he was
in bed, the night before the wedding was
to come off. But he got married in spite
Of them. They might have known, the
Hayre de Grace Republican thinks, that q
night shirt was all the clothes he needed.
Year: 1876

warranted not to cut in the eye--not head
ache in hhds. of tit Is no sooner in your
belly than its on your back in pound of beet
and it carries bead like a necklace; for
sale by


GEORGE AUSTIN.
Year: 1876

from Special to N. Y. Evening Postl


WASHINGTON, May 2.-The Grand Jury
Of the District of Columbia has been in
session for several weeks, and thus far no
evidence has been presented justifying an
indictment against ex-Secretary Belknap
Caleb Marsh was before them for some
time, and was examined very thoroughly,
but would not swear to anything positively,
except that be could not remember as to
certain alleged facts. His memory failed
him entirely, and the result is that no Grim
inal Indictment is likely to be found against
Belknap. The Grand Jury will remain in
session about two weeks longer, and will
probably be discharged before the Senate
enters actively on Belknap's trial, SO that
any new evidence that may be elected there,
If the case is not thrown out for want OF
Jurisdiction, will come too late to be used
before the present Grand Jury.
Year: 1876

By the American Press Association,


WASHINGTON, May 2.-The House Ap.
preparation Committee decided today
to pass the Post Office Appropriation
bill In the House to the exclusion of all
other measures. Considerable discussion
ensued as to whether the Geneva Award
bill and the Hawaiian Treaty should be
taken up to-day, but the CoWmittee finally
decided as above.
Year: 1876

For the lower lake region and the Middle
States, rising and stationary barometer,
variable winds, shifting to westerly, and in
the former possibly to soutberly; slightly
warmer partly cloudy weather and possibly
light coast rains.
Year: 1876

White Loon, an IrdIan nearly one
hundred years old, on the reservation
near Roanoke, Ind, is supposed to be
approaching his end. Formerly, when
under the influence of drink, he would
bring forth a string of scalps Of whites
killed in battle or massacred, and dance
around the room to their rattle.
Year: 1876

Leaving the hundred years past, let
us turn our thoughts to q hundred years
hence. What will be the features Of
our country when another century has
deparsed2 OF course this can only be i'm
Year: 1876

General Crook needs defence at our hands, but
the lying dispatches sent the wires by tho press
agent at Bismarck yesterday should not be allowed to
pass unquestioncd This despatch states that army
officers blame Crook for refusing to corporate with
Terry General Crook has done such thing. On
the contrary, his will be toward that CO.
operation. Further than this, army officers who have
any judgment common would not express
such sentiments. II is stated that any army officer
'tle inferior in rank, insists that Crook knows little
of the plans of the Indians any way, and lacks the
perence desirable IN one commanding an army operat-


ing against WHY and savage foe i" II General Crook
has had the experience and knowledge necessary


fight Indians successfully which one of the army officers
has? II he has not all the knowledge OF the plans
OF the "wily snvagcs'' that any one has will the
rascally press agent at Bismarck the lying special
correspondent tell who exceeds him in the posses
OF this knowledge? As to the number OF the
Indians General Crook has spoken in language that
cannot be misunderstood, and has said that they
numbered him three TO one AS to his management Of
admit that his handling OF the troops the battle on
the Rosebud excellent every respect, and that
his cool judgment on that occasion prevented another
Of troops similar to that the Little Big
Horn Crook will not be caught In traps, outwitted
by the Indians, IL his orders obeyed. As all
his rcinorcemcnts arrive he will move to meet and
JOIN Terry and If the opportunity can be found he will
fight and whip the Sioux. We have no doubt the
Indians have been largely reinforced and that of
The Indian agents ought to know this and take
to prevent their return, for il they Will
only remain with Sitting Bull they viii be taken
of in due time.
Year: 1876

upon the cmbers Of their camp hres still sfnok-
ing. At were twenty miles from the ovouac
ground of the previous night and looked down again
upon the camp OF the expedition, which even from the
top OF the foot ridge looked insignificant The day
was the perfection Of summer bandness and the lat
half OF the march through scenes OF exquisite
loneliness, which we had behed without que appreca
tion when pressing forward ardently TO reach the
highest crest The groves are dense ana
fragrant aud the turf luxuriant and thicky oe-
spangled with flowers OF every hue. lhere are
turcarpeted groves, 1T for the dominion OF Calypso
Pastoral Industry would prosper there II ever the Sioux
ban removed.


THE GOLD QUESTION.


So determining the question Of tho presence OF
gold bis side OF the snowy range OF the Big Horn
Mountains the expedition had only negative results
All the observations made tend to discourage oelici
the extravagapt tales which frontersmen are prone
invent about every region which has not been ex-
plored. Some person In the course OF time Will DOUBT
less find auriierous particles which have been washed
from the high veins OF quartz But these are few ana
scarcely Of them present decided signs of chemical
dsin tegration AS gold has already been obtained IN
the Wind River Valley the question OF It's presence
west OF the crest Of the Big Horn range is foreign TO
the conclusions which have expressed.


THE FLORA


The Cora OF the Big Horn Mountains, a.
though similar TO that ol the WIND River
Mountains, which was catalogued by Jones, must
possess some distinct CHARACTERISTICS as Few nowers
were seen which are not In his enumeration. geoog-
ica chapter also presented by this region which Is
comparatively unread. Rare birds and insects were
observed, the Identification OF which would be OF tho
greatest scientific interest The government has de-
voted much TO the detailed exploration OF other
portions OF the great central divide OF the continent
pedon should be sent TO tho Big Horn Mountains
whose altitude. even, has never been asceralncd with
exactitude. When is considered that they form ono
edge of the basin in which tho headwaters OF the
great Missouri and which adjons that OF the head
waters of the Colora O. the Importance Of the study of
this region may be estimated.
Year: 1876

The regiments forming the Second brigade Of the
First division sent detachmens to Creedmoor for rifle
practice yesterday. The weather exceedingly un-
pleasant rain falling from about a quarter before
eleven O'Clock until one p NJ, whom shooting dts
continued. There were in all 355 out for prac-
tcc. The Ninth regiment out 166 men. the
Seventy first 109 and the Eleventh regiment so men,
Colone Hitchcock, OF the Ninth regiment was officer
OF the day and Major Orvis inspector of rifle practice
Although strong wind prevailed there some good
shooting for third class marksmon Sixtys per
OF the Ninth regiment men qualified at the short
OF the 100 men from the Seventy first regi-
ment 4S qualified, and 81 OF the so of the Eleventh
regiment. The men returned the city early in the
afternoon not much fatigued by their exercises
Year: 1876

in storm and struggle, the other for the
present year in peace and prosperity, typi-
fed by an abundant outpouring of the
fruits of the earth, The destination of this
apotheosis of pottery is not stated. Another
pair of vases, not 80 gigantic, but very fine
and imposing, with life-colored classical
figures and water lilies in high relief, are
marked as purchased by the Penna. School
of Industrial Art. Their price, if anybody
is curious to know, is $3.50 each in gold.
Simple minded people like the present mar
rator 60 through the exhibition in chronic
state of wonder at the prices of things. AS
a rule the more utterly useless. the article
the higher the price.


The British ceramics are the most plain,
solid, and useful of all III the exhibition.
The application of art as the Landmaid of
necessity and convenience is their distiu
gushing characteristic, and terra Gotta the
favorite material.