smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1876

PEOPORII0N OF TIE RACEs.


Q. State the proportion of the black
population compared 10 the white in your
county.


A. Our population is 10000, l think,
by the recent census. There are fully 3
to 1, If not little more. think there
are about one thousand white voters
eight or nine hundred white yotefs-and
about four hundred who have not been
in the habit Of voting until the last cleo
tion.


That was the first event, disconnected
With politics, but which brought about
a very excited stated Of feelings in our
midst. That was the occasion Of our
tcOntinEed On Fourth Page.l.
Year: 1876

When wheat is ripening there is
cause to fear, and this season more
than usual, that it may be destroyed
by rust, which comes when the grain
is in the dough and nearly ripe, and is
caused by water lodging on the heads
of the wheat, either by rain or heavy
dew. followed by great heat which
causef the dough to sour, ferment, and
mold before the excess of moisture
has been driven off, as it sometimes is
by wind, or evaporated as it usually is
in cool days or nights.


The quantity of dough in kernel of
wheat is so small that q few hours
completes the process that in loaf of
bread takes days or weeks. The flow
of sap being arrested, the rust shows
first on the stalk, the head looking
about as usual although inwardly rot
ten. This damage by rust may be
ly averted by few hours hard work.
Let the farmer with all hands turn out
at earliest dawn so as to finish before
sunrise, Or, as soon as rain ceases if
during the day, hitch horse or man
to each end Of a long rope and, start.
ling as far apart as length of rope will
permit, drag it across the wheat 50 a.
Year: 1876

It was expected that the present
session of the Legislature would be
devoted to the interests of the Ter
ritory, but if we may judge from
the amount Of beneficial Legislation
that has been accomplished up to
last reports, Montana will profit
little by the expensive and useless
work Of her lawmakers. Both
Houses have been in session four
teen days" correspondent writes
as, and only two bills have become
laws. The repeal Of the Roundup
Law, and the reduction Of County
Commissioners fees to six dollars
per day, out Of the contingent fund,
and ten cents per mile, have been
concurred in by both Houses. At
this rate there will be but little
done this session.
Year: 1876

The greatest trouble that our brethren
of the Hayes organs have, just now, is
their inability to find words adequate to
the indication of their wrath upon learning
that through the action of Gov. Grover of
Oregon they are themselves in the pit
which the leaders of their party digged
for the Democrats. They are like the
schoolmaster in Maine who knew as we'll
as anybody what state Boston was in, but
had not the fiow Of language to express it.
To say that the act Of Gov. Grover is the
darkest political crime in history" is but
a faint utward manifestation of their in-
ward feelings upon the subject,
Year: 1876

Now is the time to collect your maya
zines for the year, while yet in good or.
der. and have them made into a hand
some volume, handy for winter reading.
THE ARGUS BINDERY has excellent
facilities for this kind of work, and for neat
and serviceable binding has no superior.
Prices to suit the times. IF.
Year: 1876

Senator Coukling, of New York, is
indignant at military interference in South
Carolina He remarked to brother sen
ator the other day: The logical result of
such conduct is that before long regular
soldiers will punch our own tickets before
we can get into the senate chamber. -
WdshinGton Union.
Year: 1876

Louisiana alone msdo any progress yesterday in
solving the question OF who 10 be President
The Returning Board met and counted three arishes
bat without aing up their number to the constitutional
nrmbsr II stated that they prefer taking the risk
Of the whole count being declared to
appointing hth member OF the Board who should be
. democrat Hopes are, Notwithstanding, entertained
OF fair counk In Florida both democrats and
republicans still claim the victory The former have
applied for Injunction restraining Governor Stearns
from his stated purpose Of counting the electoral vcte
and also for mandamus compelling the Board OF
Canvassers TO perform that work In South Carolina
the Returning Board did not bring tho returns before
the Court, but will do so to-day.
Year: 1876

WHEN the diamond is rabbed it be-
comes positively electrical, even before
being cut, in which it differs from all
other gems. When, after exposure to
direct sunlight, it is suddenly placed
in darkness, it shows plosphorescence,
and the evolution of light continues
for some time. 1t is not acted upon
by any acid or alkali. But it may be
consumed and completely oXidiZed by
carbonic acid at high heat in the at
mosphere. 1t is so difficult to burn
that the ordinary blow-pipe flame has
no effect upon 1T. 1t may be heated to
whiteness in a closed crucible without
change, but it begins to burn in a muf-
fle at the melting point of silver. AT
a high heat with nitrate of potash it is
rapidly decomposed.


Miners are generally not familiar
with the appearance Of diamonds III
the rough state, and would most likely
mistake them, if found, for chalcedony
or some similar mineral. If in crystal
form it would be to them a crystal
nly-interesting for the moment, t.
be soon thrown aside as useless.
1 have heard of case where
beautiful crystal, supposed te
be a diamond, being found
in some placer mine in Califor


MIA, was put to the following test: II
was placed on an anvil and struck Z
heavy blow with q sledge-hammer, il


being assumed that the diamond, be-
ing the hardest of known substances


could not be broken, This idea j!
Year: 1876

direction, then give yourself up to the
study of philosophy.


Haveyou a taste for book keeping
or clerking? Then give your evenings
to penmanship and the theory and
practice of keeping books.


Have you desire to be a speaker?
If so, devote your winter evenings to
the study of the art of speech. and
you will be surprised at the gain you
make.


Have you a taste for drawing that
has never been developed, and do you
wish to train your hand and eye to be
equal to skilled workmanship? If 50,
devote yourself to that branch of the
art for which you have a taste.


Whatever you do, you need the skill
to write a letter in correct, easy,
business-like style, and in order to do
this, you need to know the rules and
use of language.


Now, young men, will you use these
winter evenings III way winch snail
fit you to be better men of business?
You can easily get two hours each
evening, or four hundred hours, for
study, and that is time enough to edu-
cate yourselves in the rudiments of
any science, or in the laws of language,
or the art of penmanship, or the
science of bookkeeping, or the art of
drawing.
Year: 1876

more ancient than is generally sup
posed. The statement has been made
by Pllny, but it is doubtful if he ever
made the experiment himself. In
speaking of diamond, he says it can
not be q ushed, but would split ham.
merS and anvils in the attempt 1t is
certain that this is mistake. The
diamond can be split on the edge of a
knife, and even light blow with a
hammer might destroy the most costly
gem.


The diamond is supposed to be of
vegetable origin, and is believed, by
those who have studied it carefully, to
be produced by slow decomposition of
vegetable or bituminOuS matters. Zone
large diamond having a black spot
in it was cut in two, and the de-
feet was found to be vegetable mud
inclosed in the crystal.)


1t requires practice to Judge of the
diamond in its rough state. A rough
diamond of the first water would be
hardly recognized by the uneducated
eye as valuable gem. In describing
the diamond many of it's characteris-
tics are visible only in its cut state.
Half the stone is sometimes cut away
before perfect gem can be produced.
The diamond washers Of Brazil rub
the stones together and produce a
peculiar grating sound, from which
they assume to judge of their value.


There is peculiar appearance about
rough diamond which can hardly be
described. | question if any written
description would convey to the reader
a correct idea of what they are exactly
like. 1t is easy to say that they pos
seSs a peculiar luster, like spermaceti,
but who would feel certain of the iden-
tity of a diamond from such descrip-
ton? Once seen this peculiar luster
becomes impressed OH the mind To
educate the eye, models of rough dia-
mOnds are made at Amsterdam for the
use of prospectOrs, and they are found
extremely useful.


Newton first suggested the proba-
bility of the diamond being combusti
bic. He was led to this opinion by
observing its power of refracting light
so strongly. 1t was in 1915 that he ad
vanced this theory. In 1904 the men,
bers of the Academy of Florence sue
ceeded by means of powerful lenses in
consuming diamonds. LavoiSier and
others proved that the diamond was
not evaporated, as supposed by the
Academicians, but was actually
burned. Lavoisier found by his eX-
pertinent that if air was excluded no
decomposition took place. He burned
diamonds in close vessels with power
full burning glasses, and found that
carbonic acid WAS produced, and dis
covered and announced the striking
similarity between their nature and
that of charcoal. ~. Y. School Jour-
jJDI
Year: 1876

Boys, what are you going to do with
the long winter evenings? A writer,
addressing young men, says:


There is world of possibility in the
GOOD use of them. If you use your
evenings well for the next six months,
YOU will be worth more to your em-
ployer, and find more Joy in your work.


Have you taste for science and
would you like to know the reasons
why certain things occur as they do?
If you have an inquiring mind in this
Year: 1876

THERE are many people in this
world who are afraid to be happy, who
go moring about with the accumulated
mold of sOurneSS clinging to them 50
closely that nothing short of an earth
quake or resurrection could shake 1t
off, thereby denying themselves the
pleasure of seeing the laugh-slde OF
nature that trills and ripples all over,
just like the sunshine. Surely there is
Joy enough in Gods workshop to
sweep out all the sadness if we would
but seek it. Shall l tell you when
you may hope to find this antidote for
sorrow? When the angels have en-
larged and purified your own heart.
When pain, fear, woe, anguish,
hunger, thirst, have penetrated
through every corner. When you
have WINGED under the necessity of a
lifetime.


When you have lived long enough
to detect the mockery in the keynote
OF 1VlnS.


When you depend less upon the dis
position and acts of others than on
your own. When the rooms in your
head and heart are all rented to re-
spectacle tenants, whose articles OF
agreement will be to keep the furniture
and drapery in repair, and whose lease
will only expire with life. When for
getfulness, selfshness, envy, malice,
hatred and all the catalogue of deadly
sins will be rare visitors instead OF
fixtures. When love, JOY, hope, care,
| thoughtfulness and above all charity,
have taken possession and will thus
secure to you the full and unabridged
edition of happiness in this world, as


well as in world No. 2, and will oper


I'D thousand avenues-a Thousand


outlets toward Gods suffering child


rem, and the poor whom ye have al


ways with e-Ercha,age.
Year: 1876

Why is it that two young people
never do get so divinely spooney and
sentimental over a hot oyster stew, as
they do at the same table. in the same
restaurant. over plates Of ice cream :?
Year: 1876

He MADE UP HIS MIND.-A story
told by Captain Malet, of the British
army, in aspeech recently delivered
by him at Stoke, is worth preserving.
He said: "A recruit on being asked by
his commanding officer what religion
he professeG, in order that he mi ght
go to his proper place Of worship,
said: "Pleasc, sir, have not made up
my mind He probably thought he
would get off the church parade, but
the officer was equal to the occasion.
Turning to the sergeant ct the COM
pany he said: Sergeant, here is
man who has not made up his mind
as to what religion he is. We will
give him every opportunity. Let him
be marchrl to the Romanist service at
7:45, to the Church of England pa
rade at 9:15, and to the Presbyterian
service at II until further notice. The
man soon made up his mind that he
was a devout churchman, probably
(said Captain MaleO because the ser
vice was the shortest; and if, indeed,
convection may he dispensed with in
the matter, it would be quite difficult
to find better ground for final de.
csion.
Year: 1876

There are some men whose failure
to succeed in life is problem to 9th
ers, as well as to themselves. They
are industrious, prudent and economi-
cal yet, after long lite Of striving,
old age finds them still poor. They
complain Of illluck. They say fate is
always against them. But the fact is
that they miscarry because they have
mistaken mere activity for energy.
Confounding two things essentially
different, they have supposed that, if
they were always busy, they would be
certain to be advancing their fortunes.
They have forgotten that misdirected
labor is but waste of activity. The
person who would succeed in life is
like marksman firing at target if
his shots miss the mark they are a
waste Of powder. So in the great
game of life, what man does must be
made to count, Or it might almost as
we'll have been left undone. Every.
body knows some one in his circle of
friends who, though always active,
has this want Of energy. This dis
temper, if we may call it such, exhib-
its itselfin various ways, In some
cases the man has merely an executive
faculty, when he should have a direc.
tive one ; in other language, he
makes a capital clerk for himself,
when he ought to do the thinking Of
the business. In other cases what is
done is not done either at the right
time or in the right way. Energy,
correctly understood is activity pro-
portioned to the end. Scientific
American
Year: 1876

...... He was of that stubborn crew
OF errant saints, whom all men grant
To be the true church militant
Such as do build their faith upon
The holy text of pike and gum
Decide all controversies by
Infalliable artillery,
And prove their doctrine orthodox
BY apostolic blows and knocks
Call fire, and sword, and desolation
A godly, thorough Reformation,
Which always must be carried on
And still be doing, never done
As if religion were intended
For nothing else but to be mended.
A sect whose chief devotion lies
In odd perverse antipathies
In falling out with that or this,
And finding somewhat still amiss
More peevish, cross, and splenetic,
Than dog distract, or monkey sick
That with more care keep holiday
The wrong, than others the right way;
Compound for sins they are inclined to,
By damning those they have no mind to
Still so perverse and opposite,
AS if they worshipped God for spite;
The self-same thing they will abhor
One way, and long another for.


DR.. Samuel Butler,
Year: 1876

Your Regulator is one Of the best family ned
icines ever used l have not spent one dollar
for my family for medicine in five years only
for your Regulator, and must say it does all it
says it will You can also recommend It IN
Colic for Stock, it having cured fns mule OF
mine worth five hundred dollars. ID a Nelson,
Year: 1876

Ever since the world began this has
been a disputed question; and ever
since the world began the majority of the
people have generally misudged. Thor
oughly dissatisfied with any present
time, the people east about for a golden
age. We cannot find it in the future, as
the cloud of uncertainty hangs on The
horizon in that direction. We are com.
PEELED therefore to explore the past.


The immediate past, with its facts and
disappointments, is too fresh in our mem.
ory to allow us TO throw the required
halo about it, and so we continue our
Journey until we get to the point where
memory grows dim and the Imagination
works actively, and we call that the hale
halcyon period of life The distant fu-
ture and distant past are both creations
of the fancy.


To say that childhood is the happiest
period of life is TO offer insult to proyi-
dence. The child is at best but a bun
die of possibilities. He is a creature of
unframed impulses, of undeveloped af
fections. His mind is like a CRATE in a
well-oroered house. The coal is there,
the wood is there, and the whole thing
will break into blaze when touched
with match. Now, after the match has
touched it, what is pleasanter and
more profitable sight than half a dozen
Jumps Of coal enveloped in a royal blaze,
and filling the room 30 full of light and
heat that one forgets the wintry sleet
without? SO childhood. with its sugar
plums and its toys, will be inferior to
manhood with its burning enthusiasm
and its lofty ambition.
Year: 1876

Our neighbours of the Water Witch Fire
Company have In addition to the repairs
made to their Hose Carriage, purchased
from the Archibald Wheel Company of
Lawrence, Mass, a new set of wheels for
heir steamer, at cost of s175 which will
place the steamer in a good condition, and
will in the future as 10 the past he ready
at all times to respond when danger threat.
ems and duty calls.
Year: 1876

There will have to be a light house keepel
appointed for the district for the new light
house established in the bay recently. 1t ID
said that one of the letter carries will re-
ceiYe the situation.
Year: 1876

1t is a great pleasure t, get thorough
ly tired. The only way to fully enjoy
rest and sleep is to get tired first. Many
persons have an idea that idleness is
pleasure. There cannot be a more er-
roneous notion. Idle persons enjoy
nothing. A sense of langour haunts
them through the day, and of restless
ness through the night. Nor, on the
other hand, does mere physical exercise
qualify one for the highest enjoyment
for repose. 1t is the happy combina-
tion of mental and bodily'labor, requir-
ing recreation for both body and mind.
which alone qualities one for the com
plete realization Of the luxury of the
change to rest and sleep. And it is
only from such sleep that we awaken
greatly strengthened and refreshed.
Year: 1876

Almost every person who feels com.
petent to assign areason for the Sleepy
taste in mutton, will attribute this pecu:
liarity to different cause from any that
has been given by others Thomas p.
James writes that THE impression is
prevalent, even among experienced
sheep raisers, that the peculiar sleepy
taste sometimes found in mutton is due
to the contact of the wool with the meat
This is mistake which has occasioned
much prejudice against mutton as. food


The true cause of this taste or oder is
to be found in delay in disemboweling
the carcass The intestines should be
removed at the earliest possible moment
after life is extinct, and before the reno
val of the pelt. If the intestines are
allowed to remain until the pelt is taken
off, the gases emitted from them will be
disseminated through the flesh and pro.
duce the Objectionable taste and odor.
II proper attention is paid to butchering


well-fatted sheep, there will be nothing,
either in the odor or taste, to offend the
most fastidious. Properly served lamb
or mutton ON the table furnishes a most


wholesome delicate, delicious, and nu


tritious food which should largely sup.


plant the gross hog meat usually con


sumed in Georgia.-Prairie Farmer.
Year: 1876

EVILS OF EARLY RISING. The attcn-
ton of medical men in this great Re.
public is called to the injunctions and
absolutely hateful habit much in vogue
in the rural districts and among early
risers in the city, Of getting up in the
night to cat This nocturnal meal is
family disguised under the name of
breakfast, and there is no doubt that it
has much to do with creating, spreading
and sustaining the national disease Il VS.
pcpsa. The custom is sometimes Wis.
tied by severe judgments, but nothing
seems able to deter its votaries from con.
tinung its practice. We once took
summer boarding ith man who used
to eat in the nj mt and reused up all
the neighbor lool to share the nocturnal
meal. One night he stirred us all up at
4 (; 30 o'clock to eat We rose and ate.
That very day his best COW inundated
herself ON wire fence, one Of his horses
bit himself with n Wttlesnakc, u reaping
machine ate up his best farm hand, dis
tant relative sent his youngest boy
drum, his wife took to writing poetry,
and one of his most popular, tainted
and handsomest boardcrs fitted, leaving
an unpaid summers board bill to remem-
bcr him by. The latter circumstance is
indeIibly impressed upon our memory,
and VIC often think Of it in connection
with the somewhat striking coincidence
that we have never been in that county
since.-Buriiagton Hackeye.
Year: 1876

his natural element almost every day OF
his life. He uses the conditions he was
born into, and he perfects himself in
natural field. So the fresh water COL
leges have nothing to complain OF after
Year: 1876

The rinemen Of the Crescent City Rifle
Club will put out their best efforts
this Sunday morning at their shooting
grounds. The practice will be at one
thousand yards, and the contest for a
position on the representative team
which is to compete with the California
and American rifle teams


The marksmen will shoot during three
consecutive days, and the eight best
scorers in the friendly contest will be
singled out to sustain the glory of the
club. We have no doubt but some
"fancy shots" will be fired.
Year: 1876

To-day and tomorrow merry laugh
ter and innocent revelry will be
the order of the day at the Oakland
Riding Park, where the grand May fes-
tival is to be given for the benefit of the
German-American schools Admission
only fifty cents. children free. Only
think of it; paltry consideration-any
amount Of fun, and at the same time
furthering the grand philosophical idea
Of educationl Who can resist the
temptation.
Year: 1876

During the recent drought in Jamaica
water Was so scarce that it fetched 1s
ahillings puncheon.


The man who has got nothing but the
truth to tell always uses the first words
he can lay his hands on.


A North Carolina editor, who had
been raced down the street by woman
and cowhide, found himself alluded to
in a rival paper as "our racy contempo-
Hry"
Year: 1876

Mr.. Riddle, Democratic Congressman
from Tennessee, proposed to fill the
pockets of his rebel friends by passing
the following bill, introduced by him dur
ing the session of Congress:


Be it enacted by the Senate and House
of Representatives of the United States of
America IN Congress assembled that the
Secretary of War be, and he is hereby auth
OrZed TO allow reasonable compensation to
all citizens of the United States for the
use and occupation of their property by
the United States army, or any part there
of during the late Civil War, in the same
manner and under the same regulations
as compensation is now allowed for quar-
termaster stores used by said army; pro-
vided, however, that the GtfddCt Of tie
claimant, supported by the competent tes-
timony of any reputable citizen shall be
sufficient proof to establish the fact of
the use and occupation of such property
by said army. But it is not the intention
of this act to limit the parties to the
amount of proof herein specified; but 9th
er and additional testimony may be taken
to establish the fact of the use and occu-
patton and the rental value of the proper
ty occupied


By this it will be seen that any John,
ny reb may receive pay for the occupa-
ton of his old field as camping ground,
and use of his Old trees for wood, the
time of his slaves for labor done for the
army, or the thousand and one other items
a needy rebels brain would cunjure up.
And the owners of Andersonville
prison hell, can claim rent for the oc-
cupancy of that terrible place, by
the Union soldiers confined there
That is a sample of Democratic legisla-
ton for the benefit of the country. Just
think where that would take them, and
the millions that would be necessary to
pay such claims.
Year: 1876

One cause of hard times just now, is
the fears of the people for the result of
the election. Ii Tilden is elected, we
will have financial crash and smashup
such as the country never saw, for all will
regard the election as virtual reputation
but if Hayes is elected, and settled
financial policy thus insured, and no rebel
claims to be paid, prosperity will at once
follow, and confidence will be perfectly
restored.