smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1876

For the PUGET SOUND WEEKLY ARsUs.l


EDITOR ARGUS: Desiring to call
the attention of the settlers in this
vicinity to few facts in relation to
their future welfare and the prosper
ity of the country, 1 beg a little space
in the columns of your valuable
paper, hoping the subject will meet
with the favorable consideration and
support of all those who have or may
desire an interest in this locality.


The Skagit is the largest river that
empties its waters into Puget Sound
and is navigable for more than fifty
miles up its streams. 1t runs through
a rich loan bottom averaging about
four miles wide, timbered with alder,
vine-maple, cottonwood, and an oc'
casional belt of spruce and cedar.
In this large area Of tillable land are
only about hundred settlers, and
all, with the exception of four, To-
Gated within eight miles up from the
Mouth of the river; there all roads
stop; there immigration ceases; and
whyP 1t is, because, at the end Of
the eighth mile is met the great
BUGBEAR of the country-the jam.


Now, the suggestion the writer
would wish to offer is, that in case
our Delegate to Congress should fail
in his endeavors to procure an ap-
preparation for its removal (such we
expect, being only another repetition
of the failure of bills introduced for
similar purposes on former occasions)
and rather than wait till the Terri
tory becomes State when such an
apportionment might be made, l
speak the sentiment of others on the
river when 1 say, LET US DO IT OUR
SELVES. The time occupied in cut
ting channel sufficiently wide for
steamboats, would not, we estimate,
exceed over two weeks, each land
owner on the river contributing that
amount of labor. The mode adopted
should be, saving the logs up at low
water and when the freshets come
run them out, for the drift is always
floating and would loosen up at high
water making it much easier to han
die. For this small amount of labor
the inconvenience of mile portages
would be avoided; an excellent tract
of country opened out for navigation.
The coal mine could be workedA.te
good advantage and all improved
lands would be greatly enhanced in
value by the upper valley settling
up and a ready market for all pro-
duce raised by direct steamboat nav
igation. Taking into consideration
the above facts the writer aeitates
this matter trusting to hear from
others, who, with him, have a com
mon interest in the growth and pros
perity ofthis country.


SETTLER.


Ci<oo-sk Eah JQHR
Year: 1876

A PROMINENT Mississippi Republi-
can writes to the President, saying
that the result of the election in that
State was entirely due to the cor
ruption and misrule of Governor
Ames and his adherents. Similar
misrule and corruption revolution
lied the other Southern States. II
those Republicans who got into pow
er in the South had been decently
honest, they would not have gone
out so soon. They have been almost
uniformly a disgrace to humanity.
Year: 1876

The low prices at which Pacific
coast salmon were sold in England
during last year have had the effect
of almost entirely driving the pro-
duct of the Scotch fisheries out ofthe
market, and early in the fall 100000
cases Of this years packing on the
Columbia river were contracted for.
Year: 1876

The town of Winter, Vaca Valley,
CAL, is remarkable instance of the
rapid growth of some parts of that
State. Last year a crop of grain
was taken off the towns present site,
and settlement there was was not
dreamed of; now there are 1900 in
habitants on the spot, and town lots
are selling for 5000 each.
Year: 1876

The taxes this year, less the taxes
for school and debt requirements, are
eight hundred thousand dollars less
than they were under Governor Nor
gan in 1860. And this notwithstand-
ing the fact that in 1860 the business
Of the country was on a gold basis,
while now we are suffering all the evils
Of a redundant paper currency. Re.
duce the taxes ofto-day to gold, and the
savings will be seen TO have been about
one-half Make the computation per
capita, and the saving would be found
to be much greater.


That is what Samuel J. Tilden has
done for New York. that is what he
will do for the nation. His work in
this State will be continued by Lucius
Robinson, whose Democratic financial
doctrines and policy were odious to
Morgan when he was Governor, and
have been rejected by the Republican
party. They will now be made the
head Of the corner in both State and
Natiou.--[ Albany Argus.
Year: 1876

Here is a rule for computing inter.
est. 1t is so simple and so true that
every banker, merchant or clerk
should post it up for reference. BY
no other arithmetical process can the
desired information be obtained by SO
few figures


Six per cent.-Multiply any given
number of dollars by the number Of
days Of interest desired, separate the
right-hand figure and divide by SIX
the result is the true interest. on each
number of days, at six per. cent.


Eight per cent.-Multiply any Civ
en- amount by the number of days on
which il is desired 10 ascertain the in.
terest and divide by forty-fve, and
the result will be true interest for the
time required.


Ten per cent-Muliiply the same
as above and divide by thirty-six, aud
the result will show the interest at ten
per cent.
Year: 1876

has more TO do with forming the cha.-
acter than the father; but I am in-
clined to doubt this. Where will you
find q child, especially a boy, who
does not think whatever papa does is
all right. Then how important il is
that you sst a cool example before
your children.


Young ladies, you have very impor.
tan, part To perform toward rendering
home bright and pleasant. You can,
by being kind. in great measure, lift
from the shoulders Of your mothers
the burdens which they have borne
90 long and faithfully. Girls, you
must try to make yourselves useful at
home and in the grange. If under
stand our order Alright, its main prin-
ciple is to dignity labor. 1t is the
first time we ever had a chance to
show what we could do. / know we
cannot do a. well as the more expert
enced ones of the Grange, but ! know
we can do something if we will but
try.


In conclusion, let each and every
one strive to perform. faithfully and
cheerfully, whatever station, high or
low, we may fill. Thus will our
homes be rendered quiet, peaceful and
happy; q type Of that home in heav'
en- which we all. one day, hope to at.
tain.
Year: 1876

A MAN was saving wood yesterday
afternoon in back yard. He served
two sticks as thick as your wrist, and
then went into the house.


"Mary." said he to bis wife, "my
country needs me there's no use talk
ing, we just got TO slaughter all these
Injuns; no true patriot can be expec-
ted to hang around wood pile these
days"


"John," said his wife, "if you fight
Injuns as we'll as you saw wood and
support your family. il would take one
hundred and eighteen like you TO cap
ture one squaw, and then you'd have
to catch her when she had the ague
and throw pepper in her eyes,"


John went back TO the wood pile
wondering who told his wife all about
him.
Year: 1876

There will 60 to the ballot boxes on
the 9TH Of next month great body Of
young men who will cast their maiden
votes. II is a generation Of voters who
have reached maturity ten years after
the civil war. When in 1861 the shot
fired at Sumter was the signal for the
mastering Of the hos tile forces, these
now first voters were but six years old,
and when the contest ended, they were
only ten years old. Therefore the re-
membance Of the events, which 10 us
who passed through the period long
after our boards were grown, is fresh
and clear, to them is misty and almost
a thing of written history only. They
have learned at school Of the victories
and defeats which alternately checred
aud depressed us, and the war is to
them simply n childish memory OF
armed men marching away with BAN
ners and with music. They lost the
education Of that great conflict, which
is one of the treasures Of those who
lived through it and shared in it as
grown men. But perhaps better than
we, they can contemplate il in per-
spective, and view the war with no
other than The prejudices which the
opinions Of their elders may have crea-
ted in them.


These fresh voters can decide this
election. 1t becomes them, therefore.
TO thoughtfdlly consider how they shall
cast their ballots, snd TO earnestly and
studiously uform themselves as to the
issues Of the campaign. They will
ind many Of the current discussions
valuable as mental as well as general
political training. II they study these
carefully. We have little fear that their
votes will be given TO the wrong side.
Let them take heed 10 so cast their
ballots as to assist us in preserving The
republic, that when we shall have
passed away, they may receive intact
the inheritance which selfish partisan
zeal would impair or destroy, and
which corruption and proiigality have
already imperillcd. We commend
these thoughts to all those young men
who, on the 9TH Of next month, will
cast their FIRST ballots, most impor-
tant event in their lives New Yolx
Sun.
Year: 1876

The Greenup Independent tells a
story Of a man in that community
which would Indicate a species of bar
barity that should not be tolerated in
any place. Giving an account OF the
burial of an old man, a citizen Of the
county, the paper says; But hardly
had the crowd dispersed and left alone
the last resting place of old age, when
son of the deceased appeared on the
ground, armed with shovel and mat
took, and at once set to work opening
the grave. He got down to the eof
fn, opened it, and then stripped his
dead father OF his new clothes, again
shut the coffin, filled in the earth and
left, dressed in his fathers funeral
clothes. Though positively informed
of The trutbfulness of this feat. we
would hardly believe il, were il not
stated as fact. The son OF the deceased
still wears the same suit, and even
brags on doing so."
Year: 1876

On the 2sth of April, 1876, Dead
wood City was laid out and lots be-
came subject TO location. Since that
time, pbenix like, our city has sprung
into existence, and with degree OF
certainty can we look upon her as a
city to be proud Of today. and one
can rest assured of as being not only
today, but for years to come, the me-
tropolis of Lawrence county, organized
or unorgani1ed. To-day the value Of
the improvements already made in
our city will foot up not less than
$50, 900, not saying word regarding
the lots themselves, which cost in the
frst place the small sum OF 81 so
each. Taking the price paid for un-
improved lots sold in the past few
days. we are Of the opinion that the
actual cash value of the real estate Of
DeadwoOd City will exceed $780, 900,
and the city is yet an infant, being
just three moths Old Black Hill
Pioneer.
Year: 1876

A preacher is accredited with hav.
ing COTTON of something novel in a
Maryland county pulpit, lately, which
came near, however, involving him in
trouble. To draw full house he had
it rumOred far and wide, upon a Ger,
tain Sunday evening he would show
his congregation something they had
never seen before and would never see
again. Curiosity according led many
out who had not looked upon the inte.
rior of church for many days. AT
ter the large audience was seated. the
minister arose, and drawing a peanut
from his pocket, held it up so that all
could see it. That began he, "you
never saw before and then. breaking
the shell, he tossed the kernel into his
mouth, blandly remarking, "and you'll
never see ii again" The congrega-
ton was justly indignant, and it was
limited that if he did not shortly leave
town he would be treated to "pelt.
ing with stale hen fruit"
Year: 1876

Feed literally, work steadily, and
clean thoroughly, is my motto in the
management of horses. My great
motto is to have the horse rubbed dry
and clean before leaving him for the
night. Where horses are worked SIX
days in the week, thorough grooming
is absolutely essential to their health.
The more highly they are fed the more
important it is to clean them. Most
men use the curry-comb too much and
the whisk and brush too little. do
not myself insist upon it. but believe
It would pay always to take the whole
harness from the horse when put in
the stable at noon. and rub them dry,
washing the shoulders with cold water,
afterwards thoroughly drying them
with a cloth. | question if one farm
er in a hundred duly appreciates how
much he loses from having poor
horses. and in a condition to do a maxi
mum days work.
Year: 1876

THE senate has quite IS clear a right
10 investigate the Mississippi election d5
tHtitio, as il has TO look into the manner of
choosing senator from Alabama, matter
upon which one of its committees has been
engaged all winter and spring. Chattanooga
Times.


Not so. The senate may investigate
anything ard anybody within its juris.
diction. Spencer, being a member of
the senate, is within its Jurisdiction and
smensble to its ru'es. Not 80 with a
State election. To admit that the senate
or house can at will investigate State
elections, is to introduce confusion into
q system that is well ordered and well
balanced, and which carefully provides
for the preservation of the dig
nifty and rights of the States
as well as those of the United
States. The Times knows that these
State election Investigations are wrong
as we'll as we do; and it knows, too,
that the one ordered for Mississippi, for
which its pet, Senator Key, voted, is
part OF a scheme, Of which Motion and
Boutwell, are, the authors, to make it sp-
pear that the "south" is yet the leading
question in the Presidential contest.
The Times knows that this is the in
famous purpose, and Senator Key con-
fessed that he knew it was. Why then
seek to justify Radical malignity and
hate toward the south for the sake OF
trying to justify vote that Senator Key
himself cannot justify? Let us hear no
more OF such twaddle.
Year: 1876

which the following is an extract: sit
is well known about Washington that
General Grant, vexed and worried over
the late developments, has resorteG to
his old remedy for relief. In other
words, be has been so under the infiu-
ence Of intoxicating liquors as to be at
times incapable OF seeing visitors or
trsnf acting business. Upon last Sunday
we drove by the asylum for lunatics at
the moment when General Grant came
cut at the gate and started to walk to
the city. There was no mistakiDg the
flushed and bloated face and unsteady
GAIT -
Year: 1876

A few days ago tho HERALD called attention to the
case OF SIR. MeKet,rick honest and deserving piano
maker, who, on account OF lingering disease is un-
able support bis family. Itwas stated then that he
wanted TO go back Europe, where his relatives could
be Of use 10 him. and that benevolent persons would
do an act Of charity by aiding HIM In delrnyng tho
expenses Of the journey THIS appeal has met with
hui little response The case Is really very one
and rersons who are able anything 10 alleviate
the misery OF this unfortunate family bc assured
that they will not bcstow their charity upon unworthy
recIpcnts.
Year: 1876

TONNAGE DUTY ON STEAMERS.


suit was commenced yesterday In the United
Btates Circuit Court equity branch, by the Inman
Steamship Company against Edward G. Tinker, Acting
Captain OF the Port The company ask for an injunc-
lion restraining the defendant IRON collecting the duty
OF three per evcry OF measurement OF
tho steamers OF tho company, which the company
claims is at present unconstitutionally imposed
and collected. This tonnage duty is collected on
every steamer each time 1t enters the port
The present suit Is Instituted test of
the validity OF the action OF the port authorities
in imposing this special duty. The tonnage duty paid
by the company under the present rule amounts TO
81, COO year their steamers II is claimed that
the act OF the Legislature under which this duty Is
collected Invalid and in violation OF the constitution
o. the United States The power Of the Captain Of the
Port and Of the Harbor Master, 1t is alleged is of an
arbitrary character as vested in them by the OF the
Legislature, which empowers them to bring action
double the amount due by each vessel under the
law II the duty be not paid within forty eight hours
after the amount becomes due The company there
forc asks relief from the Court under the circum-
stances This opens an important question to tho
ConstitutioDaty oil the act of the Legislature The
snswcr Of the Port Captain has not yet been put in.
Year: 1876

Tho Common Council last evening hold q
special meeting for tho purpose Of revising
tho List of judges Of election previously up
pointed The recent demonstrations on tho
subject Of election frauds had led to closo
scrutiny Of tho names designated, and tho
revision OF last night was in tleference to tho
popular demand that none but trustworthy
men bo placed IN chargo Of the ballot-bo1cs
at tho municipal election Of Tuoslay next
Many Of the changes aro doubtless for tho
better, but tho necessity still remains for
great watchfu1noss and caro- on the div and
Dight Of the election, to prevent rascality in
the reception and custody Of tho ballots.
Year: 1876

Tho high appreciation in which the name and fame
Of General Custer Is held among all classes Of people
Ii demonstrated by the letters and subscriptions which
pouring in upon US, each day increasing num-
bers In response to suggestion for a monument to
his memory Below publish the latest received,
forming q very material addition to the fund.
Year: 1876

A WARNING TO WALTERS The follow
ing story is clipped from the New York
Sun:


In a popular downtown restaurant
there was waiter who had an unpleas.
ant habit of saying lone nome Mt"
Otherwise he was good natured, affa
BILE man, who did his work we'll, but he
was unable to break himself of his one
failing. If. while he was wiping knife
or a spoon. customer asked him for
the salt be would say lone moment"
finish the knife, and then hand the salt.


If he was polishing glass and gem
tlemen who had a cup of coffee beside
him asked for the sugar, the waiter
would not set the glass down. serve the
guest, and then resume his labor, but
lone moment" and the sugar after
ward. II the customer failed to see it
it in that light and repeated his request
the waiter would give his napkin de-
precatory flourish, and impart to his
reply slight accent of reproach, "O-one
moment, SIR"


Last week the wuiter went over to
Jersey to visit some friends, and after a
day of Innocent hilarity he returned to
the railroad station from which he was
to embark for home. While waiting
for the train he strolled out on the track
and stood looking down the long per-
spective Of the road. He did not OBJ
Year: 1876

The MANUFACTURES OF NITRo-GLYCER-
me- Professor Mowbray will put up a
two-story wooden building at North
Adams, Mass, one hundred feet by
eighteen, on the site of his late gycerine
works. 1t is intended to SO model the
new works that by supply of warm or
cold air, and warm and cold water. with
lesden floor, the risks from nitro-glycer-
inc, and from thawing out when it has
CONCEALED, will hereafter be entirely re-
moved. At the close of each days work
the last vestiges, whether of nitro-glyc-
crime, acid vapors. or water impregnated
with the same, will be entirely cleared
away. As originally constructed these
WORKS were not complete in this respect
and although frequent reconstruction
and additions have been made from time
to time. stiil the unwillingness to tear
down and use pick and crowbar over the
site of the old buildings prevented a
thorough Encouragement; this will now
be done. and it is believed that hereafter
an accident, SO far as eight years ex
perience can suggest or provide, will be
an impossibility. About two hours
work every day will be the limit of man
u'acturing. Only fifteen minutes of
this time will be used in handling the
explosive material; the remainder of
the time will be spent in clearing up
and preparing for the next days run.
Thus danger will at least be reduced TO
q Llinimum.
Year: 1876

serve an express train that was booming
down from the opposite direction. but
he heard the warning voice of man on
the platform shouting:


"Get off the track Get off the track. :"


"One moment, sir!' was the :nvol-
untayy reply, and he tarried for an
instant to straighten kink in his watch
chain; but the express train was in a
hurry, and in one moment he had gone
where moments are as years.
Year: 1876

A DETROIT widow owns and occupies
cottage under the shadow of church
steeple which is supposed to be in danger
of falling when high wind blows. At
midnight, a few days ago. when the
wind blew fercely, she got up and
dressed, called the children up and
dressed them, and then folded her arms
with the remark: Now then, if that
steeple falls and kills us. people will
know that we were a respectable family
any how. George brush up your hair a
little more, aud Sarah you take your
feet off the stove-hearth and pin your
collar more to the left"
Year: 1876

OUR childhood home, our dearest home!
How Joyous were the days,
When brothers, sisters, all would come
And join in youthful plays.
The pleasant scenes from hill SO fair,
From which we loved to look
Then chase the floating butterfly,
Or prattle in the brook.
Our childhood home, our happy homei
We never shall forget
The peaceful hours we then enjoyed
Ere time and vain regret
Had stole the flush from off our cheek,
And dimmed our cheerful eye,
Or cast shadow o'er the years


That passed SO quickly by.
But now no more We'll see the brook,
Or listen to the breeze
That gently whistled through the boughs,
Or sported 'mongst its leaves.
The birds that sweetly sang amid
The old trees shady bowers,
Will sing no more the songs to us,
As in those happy hours.
And when in future time our hearts
Shall be oppressed by care.
Well close our eyes to all around
And think again we're there,
Sitting beneath the lovely trees


Upon the bright hillside,
Where oft we sat ald ate the fruit
In all oua ssiiIdlsh pride
And when in death they lay us low
Upon the earth s cold breast,
We hope in that dear fairy land
Our forms may safely rest
Amid the quiet, pleasant scenes
Where once wG-loved to roam,
Beneath the trees so Gear to us,
Around our childhood home.
w h. Burr, in Christian STANDARD
Year: 1876

The pastor of the Church of the
Fourteen Holy Martyrs, Baltimore
refused to allow the body Of member
who had neglected communion 10 oe
buried in the cemetery, and a lawsuit
will nnSnP.
Year: 1876

BoB-TA1LED MIcE.-The Bangor Wing


has this report from the Orono, Me.
Some four years ago Mrs. B., living
on that part of Marsh Island known as
Webster, visited her neighbor, Mrs. p.
one afternoon for social chat, and was
ushered into the parlor by the attendant
to await the arrival of Mrs. 2. who
soon made her appearance. The ladies
conversed very pleasantly for few
minutes, when suddenly novel sight
attracted their attention, and on stepping


to the mantle they discovered that eleven
mice had, during the proceeding cold
day, coiled themselves up on the warm
chimney, and their tails stuck out upon


the mantel through crack in the finish
of the room. AS quick as thought,
Mrs. P. left the room, and returning
with a carving knife, deliberately cut
off the tails of ever one of them with
evident satisfaction, and kept them to
show to her husband as proof of the
truth of the story, when he should re-
turn home at night. The next day she
performed the same operation upon
four more. and our informant adds, that
for the next three years the cat would
bring in. occasionally, bob tailed mice
Year: 1876

There will be a meeting at the
Pavilion ON Wednesday evening
at 8 o'clock for the purpose
of organizing a company of mil
itia for the Centennial. Those
in favor of the enterprise are re
quested to be present.


By order Of the Committee.