smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1876

cent Oh the par value Of the issues


The human imagination seldom falls to exag-crate any
desired dreaded reality to which it looks forward, and
1t acts great part in those cycles Of ascending prices
and descending prices which happen in highly CONNER
cal countries The origin is in some event creating oil
anticipation Of rise In the market value Of
commodities. which extends by contdgiOn 10 others
in expectation OF general rise Of prices The up
ward movement sometimes continues for several years
The excitement begins with dealers for profit pecula
tion. The Instruments Of credit first brought into requ
sitiOn are those which are commonly used by these
classes. The small consumers the last reached
Then bank notes are expanded and they generally
tinue TO increase for time after the downward turn
Of the speculation


The reaction wonld take place by the exhaustion
Of the speculative impulse. Sometimes IL doee happen
without any other speculative movement when
1t TO upward can but fail But often some special
cause interyenes to precipitate the catastrophe.


CAUSES OF THE PRESENT REACTION.


In present the most important cause OF reac
ton Is the immense OF capital which has gone
on in all the modes described and especially by excessive
governmental consumption. An accessory cause is the
fs prices OF many OF staples which are now pro-
duced In OF the capacity Of private consumption
by an Impoverished people There also moral causes
acting on the public mind. popular erTor existed that
prices would not fall long m the volume OF legal ten
ders and bank notes continued undiminished. Many
made their business calculations on that theory and are
disappointed and their confidence In their own opinions
unsettled.


These special causes, In addition TO the natural ef
haustion OF fictitious excitement broke the public nlu
sons, which had generated by false systema md
false theos great change ensued In tho opinion ana
feeling Of the people In confidence and credit IN he vol
untary machinery OF business which expands and CON
tracts according tho nuctnatng temper aad purposes
OF individuals corresponding fall OF prices resulted
But the quantity OF legal tender and bank notes In bs
hands OF the public not beeu diminished That Quan
tity excluding those held by the treasury and DanEs
was larger AT the crisis IN September and October 1873
than at any previous time. Yet the continuance OF the
volume of the cuTencythe enlargement OF IL, hd not
initiate prices-dd not even stay the fall Of prices


MODERATE ISSUE FUTILE
In such state Of facts obvious how utterly futile
to arrest how than futile to reverse the operation
OF these potent causes would be new issue 0f any mod
crate quantity of legal tenders. sudden and uner-
pected deficiency OF currency sometimes happens ana
before business be adapted to the new condition. or
find substitute in some other Instrument OF ef
change, much temporary Inconvenience may DC i''l
Year: 1876

WATERED LARD AND How TO DETECT
IT.-There is considerable complaint in some
quarters about adulterated lard being crowded
upon consumers, and circulars have been is
sued recently by Chicago houses, charging
this fraud upon Eastern re6ners. There are
doubtless some of the small re6ners engaged
in the production of adulterated lard, but the
most Of this aort of wash that is put upon the
market, comes from the Southwestern reiners.
In order that dealers may know how to test
this spurious article, we subjoin directions for
making simple test for water. Take clear
glass bottle, ell it with the lard to be tested,
(leaving out the cork, } place this bottle about
six inches from the stove or fire, and let the
lard slowly melt, being very careful not to
get it up to the boiling point, as the water
would then evaporate; most of the water will
slowly fall to the bottom Of the bottle, and the
lard now melted will rise to the top. By
glancing at the amount Of water now deposi-
ted at the bottom Of the bottle, "a compared
with the amount Of oil (or lard) above it, you
can easily tell how much water there is in the
fraudulent article. Should the lard not settle
clear, nor precipitate much water, it is an ev.
dence that it is also adulterated with an alkali,
which serves to combine part Of the water
with the lard, making soap Of it. which does
mot precipitate readily. with the water. 5,
Year: 1876

BENEFIT OF BEING KNOCKED ABOUT
1t is good thing for young man to be
"knock about in the world" although his soft,
hearted parents may not think so. All youths,
or if not all, certainly nineteen.twentieths
of the sum total, enter life with surplusage
of self:conceit. The sooner they are relieved
the better. If, in measuring themselves with
wiser and older men than themselves, they
discover that it is unwarranted, and get rid
of it gracefully of their own accord, we'll and
good if not, it is desirable, for their own sake,
that it should be knocked out of them. i


A boy who is sent to large school soon
finds his level. His will may have been par
amount at home; but school.boys are demo.
cratic in their ideas, and if arrogant, he is
sure to be thrashed into recognition Of the
golden rule. The world is great public
school, and it soon teaches new pupil bis
proper place. If he has the attributes that
belong to leader, he will be installed into
the position of leader; if not, whatever bis
own opinion of bis abilities, he will be com
PEELED to fall back into the rank and file. II
not destined to greatness, the next best thing
to which be can aspire is respectability; but
no man can be truly great or truly respecta'
BILE who is vain, pompous. and overbearing


By the time the novice has found his legit'
innate social position, be the same high or low,
the probability is the same dissgreeable traits
of character will be softened down and worn
away. Most likely the process Of abrasion
will be rough, perhaps very rough, but when
it is all over, and he begins to see himself as
others see him, and not as reflected in the mir
or of self-conceit, he will be thankful that be
has run the gauntlet, and arrived through by
rough road of knowledge. .......a. 49,.


Upon the whole, whatever loving mothers
may think to the contrary, it is "a good thing
for youths to be knocked about in the world
It makes men of them.
Year: 1876

For several days the Spectator has
been laboring under financial difficulty,
growing principally out of transactions
not connected with its management, but
for which it was nevertheless liable, We
are happy to say that by the kind inter-
position of friends-and we did not know
how many friends we had until we need
ed them-our difficulties have been met
and overcome. We are again in smooth
water, without losing spar or starting
plank.


In these times the sale of property on
execution means ConfisCation. That dan
ger we have escaped; and we shall have
no ether disagreeable trial of the sort, if
those indebted to us will make prompt
payment. There could be no stronger
reminder to delinquents on our books
than our experience of the last few days.
We have faith that they will take it as
an incentive to perform their duty in or
der that we may hereafter perform ours.
Spectator, Franklin, Pa, Aug. II, 1876.


One of our very best Democratic ex-
changes is The Spectator, and we are ex-
ceedingly glad to learn, "that by the
kind interposition of friends" the diff
culties have been met and overcome"
and that its excellent editor and publish
er is "again in smooth water, without To-
sing spar or starting plank" Friends
in need are friends indeed.


The Spectator is not the only Democrat
ic establishment laboring and struggling
under financial difficulties, "growing
principally out of transactions not con-
nected with the management" but rather
caused by the effort to maintain and pro-
mote the Democratic cause,


Some Democratic newspaper establish
ments have encountered the blasts of po-
litiCal and financial fortune of late years
in way to try the stamina of the pro-
prietor. In such case commend us to
that man who braves the storm like a
man; who neither lodges nor "surren-
ders," nor yields to alarm or conspiring
clamor.


The truth is, and lCe well know it, that
the subscribers and patrons of an old es-
tablished Democratic newspaper, whose
editor has proven himself by years of de-
votion and true service, will continue to
stand by him in well doing, without
much regard to the butterflies that run
quickly their brief day.


Let the subscribing patrons of the
Spectator step up promptly, pay arreara-
ges and year or two in advance for the
paper, and thus relieve the publisher
from annoyance, if not from embarrass-
ment. For example, what would an av-
erage of two dollars piece be to thou
sand or so of his noble subscribers? And
then, what a God-send it would be to
him, or any publisher in such situation.
Year: 1876




St. Louis, August Colonel Con.
Mcguire, who is now serving a sentence
of six months in the county jail for con-
nection with whisky frauds, publishes a
card in the Evening Dispatch correcting
some statements recently made in the
public prints, as to when his sentence will
expire. He closes as follows: when
| again have the privilege of meeting
my fellow citizens, which will be before
the election. shall have little vindi-
eating to do, and may be able to show
that some of our would be Republican
leaders, engaged now in preaching moral
reform, ought to have striped suits on
and with their heads shaved be serving
out term in the Missouri Penitentiary
Year: 1876

AN exchange says: "An ambitious
Saurian rushes into the newspaper busi-
ness again. Before long he'll wish he
could rush out as easily with his deep
" invested dollars and thrice paid for
fraud"


zone by one each lovely lily


Comes to greet the morning sun


One by one the gOosey ducklings,


Seeks the mud hole on rum
Year: 1876

TROOPS are to be sent South on the
heels of the adjournment of Congress-
The pretext on the part of Grant and
Cameron is the resolution of Mr.. Lord
adopted by the House. But even Cam
eron and Grant will fail to find in it any
warrant for bayonets sent into the South,
not to protect the rights of the colored
voters but to intimidate the whites. The
very first act of the President was to vio-
late both the letter and spirit of the res
olution of the House.
Year: 1876

That Governor Tilden is an able praC.
tical fnancier there can be no question
In his letter of acceptance he shows the
people how the whole national debt can
be paid off in the comparatively short
period Of thirty eight years, simply by
the adoption of a financial policy which
should secure to the country the highest
credit By wisely availing ourselves Of
this, he estimates that reduction Of one
per cent on the interest of the loans could
be effected; and this saving invested at
the low rate of four-and-a-half per cent
interest, would cancel our entire nation
al debt in the course of thirty. eight
years.


This is no chimera. 1t is no wild, Wis
ionary scheme, tits the careful calCula-
ton of a practical business man, who
knows how to put it into operation, and
who will carry it into effect if an oppor-
tunity is afforded him.


We put it to the voters of the country,
the sensible men, whether this payment
of the national debt is not a consumma-
ton devoutly wished for? The heavy
burden of taxation which rests upon us
would at least be removed from the
shoulders of our children.


Tilden, Economy and the reduction of
the National debt, let this be the war
cry.-N. Y. Sun.
Year: 1876

IT is easy to tell why our national ex-
penses are so enormous, and why the
people are so heavily and cruelty taxed,
when one looks at the systematic plum
dering that has been going on for years
in the multiplication of offices alone
The following table shows how General
Grant has stood by his friends, retainers
and relatives, at the expense of the whole
people:
Year: 1876

Eliza Wooding residing in Bur-
Iington, Iowa, died after an ILL
ness that may properly be said to
have continued for two weeks, al
though no alarming indications
were noticeable during the early
part of that time. The child (she
was twelve years of age) was
playing with few printers types,
and putting some into her mouth
one accidentally slipped down her
throat until she was compelled to
swallow it. She was a bright,
healthy child, and in good flesh
at the time. In a day or two her
appetite failed and her flesh fell
off. Medical assistance was Sc.
cured, but the case did not seem to
mend. The child was reduced to
a skeleton and was failing every
day. She was deprived of her
strength entirely, and was utterly
helpless. At last the type pass
ed from the child's system, and
hopes were entertained that she
would recover, but they were in
vain. The poisonous metal had
been retained too long.
Year: 1876

From the Danielsonville (Conn Transcript.


Many remarkable anecdotes
have been told illustrating the
skill and seeming intelligence of
the subtle spider, and none more
worthy of note than a circum-
stance which occurred in our own
village the other day, which was
witness by a number OF curiosity
lovers. In the cellar of Mr.. Mel.
son Williams a spider had prepar
ed his web between a barrel and
tub, and there suspended from the
ground hung a small snake about
ten or eleven inches in length.
The thread of the web had been
ingeniously twisted or woven
around the tail of the unfortunate
reptile, and 1t was evident that he
had been drawn up from the
ground to a perilous position.
The spider seemed to be anxious
ly watching his squirming victim
from one corner of his web, prob
ably waiting for life TO become ex-
tinct, when he would probably
indulge in reptile repast rs re-
ward for his cunning. The snake
remained in this precarious atti-
tude for thirty-six hours after it
was first discovered, and then es,
capped, cheating the adroit spider
after all.
Year: 1876

A gentleman at Saratoga, after
waving his handkerchief for halt
an hour or more at an unknown
lady whom he discovered at dis
tant point on the shore, was en-
couraged by a warm response to
his signals to approach his charm
er. Imagine his feelings when.
on drawing nearer, he saw that it
was his own dear wife, whom he
had left at the hotel but a short
time before! "Why, how remark
able that we should have recog-
nized each other at such a great
distancel" exclaimed both in the
same breath; and they changed
the subject. I
Year: 1876

The New York Tribune says:
Federal interference at the South
appears now to be the order of


the day at Washington. If car
ried out in the spirit in which it
is begun, it must prove a serious
issue in the campaign. Arenew.
ed attempt to coerce the south is
most evidently toreshadowed; it
will be godsend to Democratic
orators and organs at the North.
Year: 1876

An agricultural admirer of Edwin
Booth, in San Francisco, lately brought
an enormous watermelon to the stage
door as a present to him, and was admit
ted. He stood at the upper wings wait
ing for Booth to come off, when he re-
collected that he had left his horse un-
tied. He laid down the melon and rush.
ed out. In the meantime the melon,
which was the size of a young barrel,
rolled to the center of the stage, and
then took straight line down to where
Booth and Mccullough were in very
earnest colloquy as Iago and Othello.
1t much astonished Iago by q blow on
the legs, and being kicked, rolled to the
side of the stage and fell of. The
orchestra made il q prisoner, and at the
close of the act discussed it.
Year: 1876

Rum DID Ira few days ago, says
the st. Paul Press, we met an old gem
tleman in an obscure corner of DakOta's
great pine forest who once was the
principal editor of one of the most
prominent daily journals then, as now,
published in one of the Middle States.
At his request we refrain from giving
publicity to his name or that Of the
newspaper with which he was connected.
In his own words, his fall wss ettributa-
BILE to "love Of strong DRINK"
Year: 1876

When the end comes, and we must say goodbye
And am going TO the quiet land
And sitting In somo loved place hand In


hand,


For the last tino together, you and !,
We watch tho winds blow, and tho sunlight Ito
About tho spaces Of our garden homo
Soft by the washing Of the western foam,
Where wo have lived and loved in days passed


by
We must not weep, my darling, or upbraid
The quiet death who comes to part us twain;
But know that parting would not be such


pain


Had not our love perfoct flower been made.
And We shall find II In Gods garden laid
On that sweet day wherein We meet again
Year: 1876

LONDON, March 3l.-The Times this
morning hopes that the ministry may
yet be better advised than to persist in
recon- mending to the queen the as
sumption of empress Of India. It de-
clarss that it hes been unfeignedly
alarmed by the rapid decline in the au-
thority and reputation of the govern
ment since the beginning OF the present
session. 1t does not pretend to any spe-
cial affection for the ministry, but it
cannot help seeing that the opposition
is thoroughly disorganized, and that the
energies of its older members are ex.
hausted, while the younger men are
chiefly remarkable for an immaturity Of
mind which threatens never to ripen,
and the attempt to form government
out of such materials would threaten
mischief to the country. Even thCss
who think its fears fanciiul and over
strained must hesitate to push this new
title forward when they understand that
it does in fact provoke discomfort.


The Times, in its financial article,
SAYS: The best private information we
can obtain says financial circles on the
continent have no belief in, or appre-
hension OF, immediate troubles in
eastern Europe. The Times also calls
attention to the fact that while, on
Thursday, there was an apparent col
lapse in small loans of the Argentine
provinces of Santa Fe and Sutre Rios,
which had both been quoted at above
par during March, and on Monday were
ninety and eighty-five, but on Thurs
day both closed at fifty: the official
stock exchange sheet does not show q
single transaction. 1t thinks the stock
exchange owes the public some expla-
nation Of how the prices were sustained
above par, and why they have now
dropped without apparently a solitary
bargain being effected.
Year: 1876

Editors Dispatch: Yesterday evening
about O'Clock one of the city police, named
DePriest, had charge of a drunken man,
and called to his assistance q negro man,
who handled the GrunIcers aotite man Uery
rouqhlY. The man was so drunk that he
could not walk, and fell down on the corner
of Eighth and Grace streets. While down
the policeman struck him with his heavy
club on the top Of the head, causing the
blood to flow. The conduct Of the police
man was cruel. His club was used as il he
was knocking down an OK, and not afellow-
man. This case is reported bv one who saw
it, and called the policeman's attention to
the blood. -
Year: 1876

City Tax-BilIs for Is76--NOte from the


City Attorney.
Editors Of the Dispatch:


The recent corrections Of city assessment
made by the Hastings Court do not affect
the levy for the present year. The act OF AS
sembly is, indeed, silent on this subject, but
the character of the proceedings makes this
plain. The Court does not inquire whether
the assessment was just when made, Or at
any time antecedent to the inquiry the
question invariably is, What is the present
value of the property? As.the Court does
not decide that there was error when the
tax-bllls for this year were made out, those
bills are not impeached. Moreover, the
taxes for the current year have been for
the most part collected and expended; and
the Court is without power to order re-
turn of the same, or any part thereof, to the
TAXPAYER. A. NJ. KELLEY,


City Attorney.
Year: 1876

REPLY OF THE SECOND AUDITOR TO THE
House REsoLUTIoN.-General Asa Rogers,
Second Auditor Of the State, has responded
to the resolution of the House OF Delegates
for ga statement of the condition Of the
Second Auditors office, its history and ope-
rations, with q view to q proper under
standing OF the subject" In closing his
statement, which seems to afford all the in,
formation asked for, he says: .-...


The Governor tells you that s'as the re-
suit OF nearly three years of daily and close
observation he is of opinion that several
of these offices can be abolished" &C., and
among them that Of Second Auditor.


My experience during public service
here running through a period OF more
than forty years OF "close observation"
though not 4" daily" except for the last ten
years, is exactly the reverse. have studied
carefully the system OF checks and balances
referred to, with the vast and varied con-
Germs Of this office, and it is my deliberate
Judgment that while your public debt exists,
and as long as the hali-million OF dollars a
year land steadily increasingly Of the free
school funds now passing through this office
shall be received and disbursed by some
safer agency, the office of Second Auditor
cannot be abolished without mischief to the
country.


For these reasons, and many more which
might be adduced, cannot doubt that the
General Assembly Of Virginia will decline
to abolish this ng-established department
OF the government, never more esSentlal 10
the public interest than now.


I will be pardoned, trust, for adding, i'm
respect to the duties and responsibilities OF
this department, that since my appointment
more than one hunded million dollars in
money, warrants, stocks, and bonds have
passed through my official hands, and under
my signature, without the loss OF one dollar
to the Commonwealth, so far as know.


I am aware that this statement may be at
tributed, more OF less, to my own personal
interest. can only appeal to those who
know me best to sustain me in the declara-
tion that would despise myself if, in the
evening OF long and active public life, l
should desire to cling to a position as pen
sioner upon my country, holding ''sine-
cure Office and not rendering adequate
service TO the Commonwealth.
Year: 1876

LAST YEARS EARTHoUAKE.-Last. night
year ago the slumber Of our people was
disturbed by two or three sharp and dis
tinct shocks of earthquake. The event is
very deeply impressed upon the minds OF
many, who thought that the time had come
Tor the squaring OF terrestrial accounts.
Year: 1876

H0MEwARD BoUND.-Most OF the members
OF the Legislature on yesterday drew their
pay and made preparations for leaving the
city in the evening or this morning. The
meeting OF the two houses to-day will be
but barren formality.


Legislative work will not be actually re-
sumed till sometime after New-Year's day,
though the day fixed for the reassembling is
somewhat earlier
Year: 1876

Not True The report that Steward, who
was refused marriaa license in the Hust-
ings Court Of this city because bis betrothed
had one fourth negro blood In her veins,
had eIoped with Bena Mop Pherson, seems to
be untrue. We understand that both were
in town yesterday.
Year: 1876

Bees are useful xs chickens, and
az easily raised. They afford us 4
luxurious food; healthy. and nigh
be cheap. Bees need little feeding
little expense and attention. Thel
want only a comfortable home, GOV
cred from the storm and sun, snC
protected from the rnarauding miller
They will make their own living, snG
do considerable towards the living o.
the farmer. Not many swarms car
be kept prosperously in one place
but every farmer may raise honey fol
home use and little to spare. Every
gardener, every yillsger might do it
A single swarm Of bees, well attend.
ed to, will soon produce as many
swarms as can be successfully KEEP,
in one place. All that bees make is
clear gain. They get their treasure
from the flowers. We should have
bees enough in the country to have
one always slipping at every fower.-
The flower is all the time producing
honey. The bee should be all the
time gathering it. Ii we had bee
all the time at every flower, horey
enough would be procured to supply
the world. 1t is a means Of health,
wealth and pleasure. Let bees be
cultivated, let every farmer have
them. They are as useful as cows
and far less troublesome. A little at
tention will teach one to manage
them.-Rurdk Sun.