smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1875

The Grenada Scntine. says:


1t is with dispieasure we
notice some Of onr Deocfntic
friends deviating from the
principles adopted at our late
convention in jackson. Why
endeavor to force upon their
colleagues a policy which
the majority have proclaim
ed to beruinous to the success
of their partyg Do these mis-
chieyous men intend to have
their opinions prevail wheth-
er they bring good or evil!
Do they propose to act regard
less of what our most expe-
rienced statesmen have done
said? 1T is impossible to have
everything accomplished to
suit our own ideas and men



who go into a convention
know that they are honor
bound to abide by what the
majority may decide. Per-
sons whose disposition will
not permit them to act accor-
dinghy should not participate
in the doings of such politl-
cal gatherings. We all know
full we'll that la order to over
throw the malefactors who
are now plundering our own
homes, we must unite. We
must come together in a friend
ly spirit, interchange our
thoughts, and work incessant
ly and harmoniously toattaln
our end. Our political situ-
alton requires that we should
obey the voice OF thecOnven-
ton. No other way is left
to obtain victory. Our chan
ces for success are very prom


ising. The colored people
are tired of Radical mlsrule
and slavery and they will


come to the side of Democra-
cy, provided we follow the
policy that tends to draw
them thither. We want no
color-line. 1t is wrong. 1t
is foolish. We are now con-
tending for the rights which
belong to every good citizen


and for the expulsion of a


gang Of marauders that have
spread gloom and desolation
over our entire common
wealth. We can accomplish
this only through unity, har-
mony and steady work.
Year: 1875

in ,judgmens as well as prac-
tice. The fruits Of such i
system will DO tho manifold
increase Of all the products
Of the farm ard the eleya-
tion of the Galling of the far
lner to itsX legitimate rank
and dignitY


For tlieaIl ripening If
these fruits, we must needs
dependon tiheand the young
men. The best of the old
farmers cam but indifferently
and with difficulty adapt
themselves Ito new ways !;
while the majority of those
who have passed the meridi-
an Of life ;aust, of necessity,
continue as they have begun.
but lii the Young men OF the
farm we have full faith. -
They will catch the spirit of
the age. ara with the force
of young blood, will develop
the ground wealth of this
goooly land beyontfsHc most.
sanguine dream of any mus
Gle farmer that ever lived.
This is the work set for think
ing farmelgAE Ex.
Year: 1875

The opinion still fingers in
the minds of many ofthe ig.
I norant that any fool can be
a farmer. Once the notion
was universal. Any fool can
follow a plow by holding on
to the tail, and any fool can
plant whatever and wbenev-
er he sees his neighhor plant
ing. But to call this farm
ing, or such an unthinking
animal a favmer, is to libel
the first and noblest calling
of man. The truth is, as
the world is beginning to un-
derstand it, it takes as much
brains, and brains of as fine
quality. to make a first-rate
farmer as it does to make a
first-rate specimen of any
other business learned or un-
learned. Now we know that
none but a man with Il good
share of live brains can make
a frst-rate farmer.


a new era has been inau-
gurated in the farming world
the era of thinking farm


ers. The time has gone by
when farmers live by main
strength and ignorance. The
strength is still needed but it
must be directed by thought.
Honceforth farmers will have
to use their heads as well as
their hands. The old dig and
drudge, hap-hazard mode
must Give place to labor saw
ing machinery and All intel
ligent application of the laws
of l,atureo the wants Of the
farm.


The firststcp, and the har1-
est is for farmers to learn to
think. 1t is always much
easier to WORK than tO think


Indeed, it is astonishing how
little real thinking is done
in this world, in the ordina-
~ course of working life.


! We are not disposed to
quarrel with the general re-
suits of the system that pre-
vailed under the old regime.
Perhaps it was the best that
the labor of that time was
: capable of working. I'm
doubtedly an immense deal
of work was done, as tho
wealth accumulated was am
pie proof. But the work was
almost exclusively that OF
man and mule muscles, and
not the work of brains. But
the day of exclusive muscle
farming is passed. Hence
forth there. must be brain
work as we'll. Machinery of
all kinds must be called in to
save labor. AS a consequence
the labor that is used must
be more intelligent, better
skilled. But neither machi-
merry nor improved labor can
be introduced or used profit
ably, or with satisfaction, by
unthinking farmers. Hence
forth q farmer must not only
know how to work himself,
but how to direct others. He
must be a man of thought as
we'll as of action. He :nust
study closely the climate and
soil he has to work in, and
the markets he has to depend
on. He mast have the rel
atiye values and adaptable
ties Of the various crops and
stocks to his farm, and farm
with some definite purpose,
| He must study out and ar
range for himself a rotation
of crops adapted at once to
the steady improvement OF
his farm and remuneration OF
himself and laborers. And
when this rotation is decided
upon, he must needs keep his
thoughts busy abont the num
berless little details that make
up the current work on q
farm. He must plan work
ahead for all kinds Of wealth
er, SO that no crop shall suf
I fer for waiting on other work,
that there shall be no con.
ficting crops; and all the
time the farmer must be
steadily advancing III knowl
edge as well as in experience
Year: 1875

In olden times it was not
degrading to work with the
hands. The child Of the man
Of wealth was compelled to
do a moderate amount Of ply
sical labor, in consequence of
which, when he arrived at
manhood's estate he was a
man physically as well as in
tellectnally; for the idea ola
well developed. brain in a fec
BILE and effeininate corporeal
organization is a kind of par
adox-a sound mind requires
also a sound body. Tn early
days boys were taught trades;
now they aspireto pjJessions
simply because they arc re-
garded as nonreputable, and
poor brain work is a better
passport to good society than
skilled mechanical labor.


We are peculiarly a peo-
rle of theories. Theoretical
ly we honor the sens of toll;
we speak in glowing tones of
the sunburnt brown and the
hard hand Of the laborer; we
become eloquent when we.
tell of the mountains being
reduced, the valleys elevated,
the torrents spanned, the for
ests leyelled and the wilder
ness made musical with an
thems of labor. But practi-
cally we ignore the laborer's
right to recognition-and we
receive into our social circle
the doctor without patients,
the lawyer without clients,
and the dead beat with moth
ing to recommend him except
his ntter aversion to every
thing like honest labor. We
venture the assertion that in
all communities, with rare
exception, if ID man should re
quire the services of twenty
professional men he could
Fget them in twenty minutes,
if he need that many skilled
mechanics he would be at
some trouble to find them.


The ayarage young man,to
day, detests labor; he believes
in fast horses and gold watch
es, but is not willing to put
forth any effort To attain
them. He's waiting for some
thing % 'turn4np' instead of
turning up something, and
t::ae man of to- day is as much
like the man of forty years
ago as "a pigmy is to q giant.
1t is no pleasant thing to wit
ness the decay of men, in all
the attributes of manhood, but
the fact stares us in the face
that we, as a people, are de-
teriorating, that our skilled
workmen are foreigners, while
our corner }oafers are natives
born; That in our senate
chamber we have no Clay,
nor Webster, nor Cass, no
Calhoun, nor Benton, but in
their stead Il class of men
Who are wonderfully dwarfed
by the contrast they present
with such intellectual giants.


We suggest no remedy
we knew Of none-but with
the tact existing that Jackson
and Clay, and Casa and Fill
more and Lincoln and john
son, were children of poverty
brought up to labor almost
from the earliest childhood
suffering all the privations of
the poor, it becomes US as a
people so to regulate the phys
ical occupations of the young
that we may be able to raise
a class of men who are fit to
rule the State and perpetnate
its liberties. 1t is high time
that we should get rid OF
some Of our theories, aud be
more practical; that we so
mould society that labor will
be regarded honorable, prac-
ticallv, not Theoretically, and
and they who give tone to
society shall honor the labor
er and discountenance the
drone; but a mans best pass
port will be his moral worth
and willingness to labor, and
that he who will not labor
shall not eat Gazette and
Bulletin.
Year: 1875




RUNNING FOR OFFICE.-I never ran
for Office but once. At the earnest So
licitations of some Of my friends, in an
unguarded moment / allowed myself to
be announced as candidate of Justice of
the Peace. Pevious to this fool move [
had been considered a decent kind of a
man, but the next day when the Bugle
came out it was filled with accounts of
my previous history that would have
curdled the blood of a Digger Indian.
A susceptible public was gravely in
formed that l was not fit for the office,
that was almost fool, besides had
come West under very suspicious cir
cumstances. / had starved my deaf
aunt and sold the remains TO soap-fae-
tory. l had stolen hand organ from
poor blind cripple and run away with
the proceeds. / had sold my grand
fathers coffin for fourteen dollars, and
buried the old gent in boot box. In
utter dispair rushed around to head
quarters, withdrew my name and swore
a solemn swear that / would never in
dulge in politics again. And / never
will.-John Quill.
Year: 1875

A West Hill minister picked up a
frozen wasp on the sidewalk recently,
and with view to advancing the sci
ence, he carried it into the house and
held it by the tail while he warmed its
ears over the lamp chimney. His OBJ
jeet was to see if wasps froze to death
or merely lie dormant during the win
ter. He is of the opinion that they
merely lie dormant and the dormanest
kink at that, and when they revive, he
says, the tail thaws out first, for while
this ones head, right over the lamp,
was so stiff and cold that it could not
wink its probe worked with such incoD-
ceivable rapidity that the minister
could not gasp fast enough to keep
with it He threw the vicious thing
down the lamp chimney, and said he
did not want anything more to do with
a dormant wasp, at which his wife
burst into tears and asked how be, q
minister of the gosple. could use such
language, right before the children too.
Year: 1875

YUyHE MAGNOLIA HAS BEEN FITTED


up in the most attractive style possible,
with q view to the convenience and comfort
Of patrons. The proprietor desires to call the
attention of customers, friends and the public
to his superior stock OF
Year: 1875

The reports that reach us from all
parts OF the State indicate the great pop
ularity of this gentleman. 1t is evident
that he will run ahead of his ticket
wherever he is known. On the St.
Croix he will poll an immense vote.


An attempt has been made in some
quarters, by republican newspapers, to
represent Mr.. Durant as frivolous
character. His splendid business sue.
cess is the best answer to anv such
charges. Underneath his jocularity
there is a strong substratum of goot
sense and sagacity. He will if elected
and of that we have little doubt, fill the
office of Lieut.. Governor to the satisfae
ton OF the people of the State.
Year: 1875

During the past week we have been
publishing daily edition of the ANTI
MoNoPoL1sT, for distribution at the Fair,
and hence have not been able to pre-
serve our usual order and arrangement
in the inside pages of our paper. Next
week we will resume our accustomed
shape in this respect, and give our read
ers the Literary, Farm and Grange, Irish
and other Departments as heretofore.
Year: 1875

grasshopper men, and oy our deeds
convince the giants of free whisky
that we are not so diminutive. /
know it requires considerable
amount of neral courage in this cor
rupt and licentious age to always
dare to do right; but the result will
amply repay the sa,rifice. Look at
it. Is not the twelfth plank in the
Democratic platform simply an ap-
peal to the vitiated appetites of the
lowest grades of society? Even
Democrats themselves admit that it
is but the work of hungry politi.
clans who hope by such an appeal to
ride into place and power Unactu-
ated by such n hope the timber had
not grown out of which to construct
such n plank a CITIZEN.


PLEAsANTvTI.E, Sept. -, 10.
Year: 1875

An intelligent and fair minded
young lady writing to the HERALD
from Aurora, Illinois, says there are
disputes in the locality in which she
lives, many claiming that all accounts
of California are too fiattering and
overdrawn. Los Angeles having
come up in the dispute, she desires
correct information and therefore
writes to the HERALD. We answer
the young lady that statements con-
cerning California which she finds in
the papers of our State are not over
drawn pictures. The HERALD has
within the past year devoted great
deal of time and space to the dissem-
ination of information concerning
Southern California, and in no one in
stance have we given publicity to a
single item which we had not reason
for believing true. We have publish
ed a great many facts which seem in
credible to people in the East, but
they are nevertheless facts which do
not need substantiation here. For
instance, there are few people in Illi-
nois who would accept without proof
the statement that ton and half Of
hay per acre may be cut each month
in the year in Los Angeles valley; yet
this is done here and people do not
wonder at it. No one in Illinois
would expect much of crop if they
sowed their corn broadcast over the
ground and after narrowing it in,
never touched it with plow or hoe;
yet it is done in this valley, and sew
enty-five bushels of corn per acre is
gathered. The people about Aurora
would think man demented who
harvested his wheat or barley and
Immediately planted his field in corn;


yet they do it here, and gather good


crops of both small grain and corn.
No Illinois farmer will accept without
Year: 1875

The London Times of May Sd says:
The loss Of life occasioned by the eX-
plosion at Bunker's Hill Colliery,
Take, turns out to be even more seri-
Gus than was at first estimated. In
stead Of 35, as stated on Saturday, AZ
men were killed. The search for dead
bodies was carried on without inter-
mission until 5 o'clock on Saturday
morning, by which time Al had been
brought out of the pits, and as these
appeared by the pit register to repre-
sent the whole of the men and boys
who had descended on Friday morn
ing, operations were suspended. In
the course of the day, however, inqui-
ries were made for another man who
was missing and his remains were
found in the further end of the dip"
in which the accident had occurred.


The process of Identification was
going on all the morning, some Of the
corpses being so frightfully mutilated
by burns as to be utterly beyond iden-
tification, except by certain articles of
dress or by some personal popularity
apart from the face. Twenty one
bodies were placed in large room Of
the Swan Inn, and presented ghastly
spectacle. Most of them appear to
have been killed instantane0usly by
burning, or by the after damp. Others
bore the look of men who had had time
to struggle Intellectually with death.
Some had, from the places and posi-
tions in which they were found, tried
hard to escape, but had lost their way,
and, falling over distractions they
could not see in the dark, had been
overcome before they could make
another effort, by the after-damp. The
managers son, Nehemiah Sumner,
who had been but a fortnight married,
was at the engine at the top of the
"dip'' at the time of the explosion.
He was blown up with great force
among some timbers, and in addition
to being fearfully scorched, was so Sc
riously injured by the collision that
his life is despaired of.


AS already stated, not one of all
those in the "dip' is alive, and the
cause of the accident must be left to be
revealed as far as it can be, by scien-
tific investigation.
Year: 1875

AND now comes the Memphis DIP
peal with an editorial denunciatory of
California and repetition of the
Kansas and n Nebraska stories that moth
ing will be produced in those States
the present season, and that thousands
of people here are reduced so nearly
to starvation that they are compelled
to work for their board and poor board
at that. Truly, California must have
become great bug-bear to the real
estate owners of certain localities in
the East, when they find it necessary
to invent and circulate such reports
as these about her. You are mistaken,
gentlemen. This is not the God-for-
saken country you would have your
people believe. Everybody who would
do well in any country seems to be
doing well here. There are no starv-
ing people in San Francisco; nor, if
we except the Eastern papers, have
we heard or read anywhere of a man
in this State working for his
board. The fact is, men and women
who are worth more than their board
are never required to work for their
board here or elsewhere. Neither the
frost nor the drouth has destroyed the
crops, and we are both happy and con-
tent, vet we do not desire to draw all
the population from Kansas and Ten
nessee. Go on with your stories, gen.
tlemen; if you can risk your future,
we will chance the present.
Year: 1875

proof the statement that the common
beet will grow the year round Ia this
valley, and sometimes single one
weigh one hundred and fifty pounds;
yet no one here regards these things
as at all unusual. In Miss HELEN's
home they would look incredulous If
told that the earnings of an orange
grove of fifteen-year-old trees aver
aged fifteen hundred dollars per acre
per annum; yet such is the case.
Farm land in Illinois wears out, and
must have rest or renewal; but on one
farm in this valley, corn has been
grown every year for one hundred
years and produces as we'll now as the
first season it was cultivated. No one
ever saw the ground frozen, though
ever so slightly in Los Angeles valley;
the thinnest wafer of ice is d rare
thing, and frost comes so seldom that
its slightest touch is magnified to the
proportions of an iceberg. Roses, ver-

benas, hcliotropes, and the most deli
cate of flowers grow the year round,
and if Miss HELEN visits us in Janu-
ary, we promise her a bouquet OF
beautiful flowers, gathered from any
of the hundreds of open gardens of
this city or its suburbs. She may
walk in the orange groves on Christ
mas day and find the trees loaded
with ripe, yellow fruit. We might
fill column with facts of this charc-
ter, not one of which will seem true
to the people of Illinois, but we have
given sufficient to prove to our fair
correspondent that Los Angeles valley,
which is capable of supporting mil
lion people, is not the desert her
friends would have her believe.
Year: 1875

1t is a wise conclusion on the part
of the temperance people of this State
not to nominate ticket of their own.
In this we think our temperance or
ganizations evince wisdom superior
to those OF Massachusetts, Connecti-
cut and other Eastern States. To
place in the field an exclusively tenn
perance ticket is simply to sacrifice
the candidates and deter others from
occupying similar positions. It must
be evident to all that such procedure
adds nothing to the strength of the
cause. On the contrary the effect is
to subject both the principle and its
advocates to the sneers and ridicule of
opposing parties and of those who are
not admirers of the temperance move
ment. In some of the Eastern States
the temperance leaders are content
with nothing short of ticket of their
own at each election, and as regularly
as it is put up it is as regularly defeat
ed. The cause would not materially
suffer by these defeats were not the
vote so infinitesimally small and the
rout so disastrous and complete. But
the returns show that while other
parties poll their 10, 600 or 10000 votes,
the ballots of the temperance ticket
may be counted with three or four
figures. This vote must not be taken
as the aggregate of those who desire
that the offices shall be filled by men
of temperate habits. Such a conclu-
sion would be as erroneous as unjust.
Against such odds the cause loses a
heavy percentage of its strength, for
thousands of temperance men in prin-
ciple recognize the hopelessness of the
ticket, and rather than lose their
votes, support the nominees of one of
the other parties. The California
temperance people do not propose to
throw away their powder in this way.
They realize that they can make their
power more effectually felt by voting
for the temperate and against the
anti-temperance candidates of other
parties than by nominating straight
ticket of their own. In this way they
will cast vote that will be felt and
have its influence toward keeping old
tipplers out of office and electing sober
men to offices of trust and responsible
ity. Let them follow this plan few
years and they will SO increase in
strength that the spectacle of drunk
en- official will be sight SO rare as to
excite the contempt of all by whom it
is seen.
Year: 1875

1t is to be hoped that every General,
Colonel and Major who participated on
either side in the war of the Rebellion
will write his memoirs" of that
somewhat exciting period. AS lights
to guide the feet of posterity in the
search for truth they would be invalu-
BILE. So long as the historians OF the
war were men who wrote of others and
made General GRANT the military sun
around whom all other characters in
the play revolved as stars, comets and
nebul@, the current of events ran
smoothly enough and truth was seldom
met with and never inquired after.
But this sort of thing was not to go on
forever. We now have book from
one who can write on his title page,
"All of which saw and part of which
Iwas." General SHERMAN has given
the world his Memoirs y of the Re-
bellion, and, as might have been an
ticipated, its pages contain statements
antagonistic to many published in his
tories that light their record with the
GRANT sun. General SHERMAN ham
dies many of his brothers officers in a
rough, soldierly manner, which has
already called forth, and we may ex-
pect will call forth, many more eX-
plantations, corrections and denials, all
of which will, we trust, prove little
lamps to aid the future historian in
the search for that jewel which we are
taught lies at the bottom of the well.
But the great question which these
memoirs" calls up for settlement
is who conceived the march from At
lanta to the sea. The GRANT sun his
torians all concur that General GRANT
planned and General SHERMAN exc
cuted. The author of the "Memoirs
claims that to him belongs both the
conception and the execution. Who is
wrong and who right, is the issue to
be decided, and if the eight or ten
thousand other officers who know
something about the Rebellion will
kindly write up their memoirs" the
world will have so many little lights
to assist in dispelling the gloom and
uncertainty which now envelOps the
truth.
Year: 1875

One of the finest improvements in
the city will be the rebuilding of the
Lafayette Hotel. The whole of the
back of the house is already being
torn down, and the front will shortly
be built up. The stores will be just
half as large as they are now, and, as
the Important has very large stock
on hand, they will not have half room
enough for their goods and in order to
prevent them from being damaged by
dirt and dust, they have decided to
sell all their Spring goods at less than
cost, and others. such as cottons, table,
linen, ETC., at exact cost. We advise
all TO call at the Important and con-
vince themselves Of the great bar
gains. Such bargains they can never
get again, and in order to prevent a
great rush, we advise all to call early
and take advantage of the building of
the Lafayette Hotel. al6