smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1875

rendered to the State authorities the arms be-
longing to the State, or that they have in any
sense disarmed. On the contrary, it is known
that the armed organization that existed on the
14th of September 1874, in opposition to the rec
ogniZed State Government still retain their or
ganization, equipments, and commanders and
can be called out at any hour to resist the State
Government. Under these circumstances the
same military force has been continued in Lou
iSiana as was sent under the first call and under
the same general instructions.


1 repeat that the task assumed by the troops
is not pleasant one to them that the army is
not composed of lawyers capable of judging at
a moments notice of just how far they can go
in the maintenance of law and order, and that
it was impossible to give specific instructions
providing for all possible contingencies that
might arise. The troops were bound to act
upon the judgment of the commanding officer,
upon each sudden contingency that arose, or
wait instructions which could only reach hem
after the threatened wrongs had been commit
ted, and which they were called out to prevent.


1t will be recollected, too, that upon my rec
ognition of the Kellogg Government, reported
the fact, with the grounds of the recognition, to
Congress, and asked that body to take action in
the matter, otherwise 1 should regard their si-
lence as acquiescing in my course. No action
has been taken by that body, and have main
tanned the position marked out.


If error has been committed by the army in
these matters, it has always been on the side of
the preservation of good order, the mainten-
ance of law, and the protection of life. Their
bearing reflects credit upon the soldiers, and If
wrong has resulted the blame rests with the
turbulent elements surrounding them.


I now earnestly ask that such action be taken
by Congress to leave my duties perfectly
clear in dealing with the affairs of Louisiana,
giving assurance, at the same time, that what
ever may be done by that body, in the premises
will be executed according to the spirit and let
ter of law, without fear or favor. herewith
transmit copies of documents containing more
specific information as to the subject matter of
the resolution.


ISigned1 U. S. GRANT.


ExECUTIYE MANSION, Jan. l3, 1875.
Year: 1875

A very good old book teaches us by
parable, that the man, who hid his talent
in napkin, did not do we'll. How will
those merchants succeed who hide their
capital, their business, and themselves
from all who do not by mere chance,
enter their stores2 1t is easy for bust
ness man to speak for himself in the
newspaper; and by means of it he can
speak regularly, often, and to the point.
Why do so many of us hide our talents
away instead OF increasing them to the
ten talents, which we are taught to look
upon as the increase we should receive
from our good gifts, if we pay the suE
ficient respect and treat them properly
Year: 1875

If man tells you that he does not
want to advertise; that he is doing as
much business as he wants to, cease So
liciting him. Those men sometimes come
to doing less business than they want to
do, and your bill for advertising may
turn out bad 1t is only those who press
up" business while it is really good, who
gain that impetus which sends them over
the hard places 1t is the large adver-
tisers who know how to bridge over"
panics, wars, hard times, etc. Their ex-
perience in advertising has shown them
how they may get rid of a heavy stock in
time and get their money for it.
Year: 1875

Reading the great Surgeons declara-
tion, "A cigar is thing to thank God
for" Navy Yard school boy bought a
cigar He was afterwards seen hanging
over fence. but he was not giving
thanks.
Year: 1875

A minister who came into church dur
ing sudden shower requested another
to preach for him. as he was very wet.
mo" said the other, preach yourself;
you will be dry enough in the pulpit"
Year: 1875

A Winnemucca (Nev.) paper says: those Indians who are industriously in clined, as the pine nuts are ripe and must be gathered before the burrs open and the nuts fall to the ground. The great harvest fields are in the southern part of the county, in Table mountain and the East range, where the pine for ests have been undisturbed by the pale faces, being too remote from the quartz mills and the railroad to make the wood available for fuel. Once i'll two years the nut crop is abundant, and ill early days it was the main reliance of the In dians for winter supplies. The work of gathering them is quite tedious but the patient squaws put in full time during the harvest, and accumulate many sack fuls. The cone or burr which contains the nuts is pulled from the tree and roasted, the oil or turpentine in the cones being sufficient to partially burn them. This opens the layers under heath which the nuts lie concealed, and from which the nuts are shaken after the roasting process is completed. A white man could not gather a sackful in @ month by working ten hours in day {; but the Indians are skilled in the art, and an industrious squaw can gather several hundred pounds in few weeks. A few years ago nuts were readily ex- changed by the Indians for their bulk in flour, but recently the price has been raised in consequence of the demand created by the whites for the article.
Year: 1875

All the day and all the night is full of peace. The fever of the earth is gone, and we are no longer driven to dreamy indolence as the only resource from com bustion or hquefaction. We may shut the windows now, with no hum of the industry outside to irritate or distract us. The evening of comfortable study has come back, with no self-immolated moths to tease us, or to fry themselves in the lamp or to be pressed out of all shape and comeliness in the shut folio, the fair pages of which they disfgure. Only little while ago we had no even ings nov there are three or four hours for the books and the stars before bed time. There are even now signs of Q general housing; the wasp crawls feebly up and down the pane with ali his fiery pluck gone out of him; the cricket sings in the new quarters which he has found somewhere in the room; the g reat, ugly, moribund insects cling to the wall, and the beetles and the butterflies have passed into the reasonable stage of their metempsychosis.

 We, too, who are insects of @ larger growth, find it comfortable to sit in the sun and to moralize. Winter is at hand. For us the springtime of life with it's budding fancies may have gone; for us, the summer of passion and the fruition of autumn; the hard season may be so near that already we feel its frozen breath. Pleasant and profitable before we go may be these calm enjoyments of autumn-quiet days, nights of unbroken slumber, goodbye glances at the glories of the earth, 8 few days of undisturbed receptivity. We may dream over again the old dreams: smile at our large promise and little performance; and wonder why nature should plant so much more wisely and harvest so much more plentifully than we. Only little while and all this life of the year will be gone; the forests will be naked; the streams frozen; the skies leaden; the air full of sleet and fog. Only a few days and this bounding and rejoicing existence of ours will change to inertia and the immobility of the tomb. Well is it for us if our autumn can be one of wise husbandry 1! -a harvest festival of the affections, brilliant with the fruits of 8 generous life, and freshened by the flowers of good deeds which will last our time at least. So we may pass gracefully through the inevitable. So with no very deep sigh we may join "the innumerabls cara van," and bid the earth which has been so good to us, 8 cheery farewell.- Trib1I71e
Year: 1875

The fact that girls or young ladies after leaving school paid little if any at tention to studies suggested to certain ladies in London, and by their example to others in Boston, to establish what goes under the name of Society to Encourage Studies at Home, and that in about twenty months. Its purpose IS the very simple and direct one of induc- ing girls to form the habit of devoting some part of every day to study of a systematic and thorough kind ; its mode of action is through the exercise of an oversight by experienced and educated ladies over the home work of younger ladies, and this of course mainly by correspondence. For example, if 8 girl of seventeen or over desires to join the society, she gives her name to the secre- tary, pays small initiation fee to cover expenses of postage, printing, etc., and receives in return a programme of the several courses open, in history, htera- ture, art, science, German, and French ;; she selects the department of study which she desires to pursue, and is put in communication with the member of the committee who has charge of the de- partment. She is expected to devote some portion of every day of every week to careful reading and study, order and system being substantial clements in the plan, and at least once month to report progress to her officer, who, in return, gives advice, makes suggestions, and encourages or stimulates the student. Once year @ meeting is held of such as can come together, and a general report is made, with special essays by students, and diplomas are given.
Year: 1875

The author of "John Halifax, Gentle man," in her recently published volume, says: If we want really good servants, we must make them such. We must bring them up, even as we bring up our children, with the same care and pa tience, making allowance for the nice distinctions of character in every human being, and, above all, having the same sense of responsibility, though in less CT degree, that we have concerning our own family. To this end, it is advisable to take young servants, which most people object to. They prefer domes- tics ready made-that is, made by other people, who have had all the trouble of training them. But these can never suit us so well, or have the same person al attachment for us, as those we have trained ourselves. For I, hold-strange doctrine nowadays-that personal at tachment is the real pivot upon which all domestic service turns. tmay sound very ridiculous that lady should try to win the hearts of her cooks and house. maids, and gentleman trouble himself as to whether his coachman or gardener had respectful regard for master. Yet otherwise little real good is effected on either side.
Year: 1875

The people on the coast of Cornwall, off which the Schiller was wrecked, have long had bad reputation as wreckers. When ship was seen off the rocks, on a Sunday, the minister would give them a holiday. One of their principal men several years ago was charged with hav- ing tied up the leg of an ass, hung Ian tern round it's neck, and driven it by night along the cliffs, so that its balting motion would initiate the plunging of a vessel under sail, and thus tempt ships to run in where they would suppose was sea room, and drive them to destruction. The inhabitants are as inhospitable as their rocks.
Year: 1875

A most singular instance of "natural surgery is reported in a Manchester (New Hampshire) newspaper. Two or three years ago gentleman sustained an injury in his back, which was called partial dislocation of the spinal column. The lower limbs were paralyzed, and the case pronounced incurable by the physi- clans. A few weeks since the gentle man had very severe fall, which nearly proved fatal but when he recovered from the shock he found he could use his limbs, and now he can walk mile and work as other people do. Probably the fall replaced the dislodged part with out injuring the spinal marrow.
Year: 1875

A recent decision of Judge DAILY, of New
York, that the landlord of hotel or the
proprietor of a licensed boarding house, can
legally seize piano or an organ that has
been hired to person who owes the land-
lord, led to meeting of the pianoforte
dealers of that city on Tuesday, at which
thirty nine musical firms were represented.
A protective union was organized and a
committee was appointed to look up exist
ing laws. The World expresses the opinion
that Judge Daly's judgment will produce q
stir in:the musical world greater than would
the advent of Patti.
Year: 1875

The marriage of couple in Highland
Scotch costume this afternoon, at esFirst
Presbyterian Church, is an event to which
our young people are looking forward with
some anxiety and curiosity. Three O'Clock
D. no. Is the hour named for the ceremony,
and as both bride and groom are to appear
in the ''garb of Old Gaul," their nuptials
will doubtless be witnessed by q goodly
number OF spectators. We have not heard


whether there is to be piper on hand to
supply the music. ,.r.H., ID.
Year: 1875

When he entered toy store on Market
street yesterday and wished to purchase q
pistol, IN old lady took him in the corner
and talked to him fully an hour upon the
great sin q man committed in taking his
own life. "Ah, sir" she said, "do not take
such q rash step, remember that the Lord
chasteneth those whom he loveth." But
when the man received the pop-pistol
from the proprietor and shot the cork out
at his head, the old lady turned red In the
face and said something about these licked
men.
Year: 1875

On Wednesday evening fair for the bone
lit Of the Sabbath school connected with the
Unitarian Church was opened in that BNild-
ing and was largely attended. Last even-
ing there was also q large number of ladies
and gentlemen present. The church had
been tastefully trimmed with flowers and
cedars. Tables for refreshments and fancy
articles have been introduced so that the
rooms Of the building look attractive and
inviting. The fancy articles offered for
sale have been selected with much care and
taste, and reflect much credit on the ladies
who have given their assistance in the work.
To night the fair will continues and will
probably close at an early hour to morrow
evening.
Year: 1875

A CORRESPONDENT of the Inter-


Ocean from the Panhandle region
of Texas describes q hunters para
disc where the United States have
lately established a military post.
A town called Newton has been laid
off adjacent to the post, whore any
body, who will build, is given q lot.
The new post is situated on the
Sweet Water, tributary to Red
river, and not far from the Stakod
plains. The now post is 1SO miles
south of Dodge City, Kansas, which
is its nearest railroad point. The
writer represents the country as
beautiful and every way attractive.
Year: 1875

Mark Twain, in letter to the inventor of mosquito net, talks in this way about the only thing worth talking about, now that the third term is gone: There Is noth- ing that a just and right feeling man reioices in more than to see a mosquito imposed on and put down and brow beaten and ag- gravated, and this ingenius con- trivance will do it. And it is a rare thing to worry fly with, too. A fly will stand off and curse this invention till language utterly fails him. IhaVe seen them do it hundreds of times. like to dine in the air on the back porch in summer, and so I would not be without this portable net for any thing. When you get it hOisted the flies have to wait for the se- cOnd table. We shall see the summer day come when we shall sit under our nets in church and sIumber peacefully. While the discomgted flies club together and take it out of the minister. There are heaps of ways of getting pre- cious enjoyment out of these charming things, if 1 had time to point them out and dilate on them little,"
Year: 1875

Appropos of the recent death of John Harper, senior member of the firm of Harper Brothers, a singular story is told, that one day. a short time ago, MT. Har- neT returned from a drive and go- ing into bis parlOr seated himself before his own portrait and gazed at it long and earnestly. Well old John Harper" said he at length, "your time has almost comer' A day or two afterWard he has taken sick and he never left his bed again.
Year: 1875

Scientists are now of the opinion that the only way to cure sleep lessness is for the sufferer to think of some large object, such as the Egyptian Pyramids, the Ken lucky Mammoth Cave, or the foot of Chicago woman.
Year: 1875

The discovery of method by which glass is made elastic and wonderfully strong, is entitled to rank among the most important inventions of the century. Glass can henceforth be used for cook ing utensils, and will take the place of metal and wood in vast variety of manufactures. The discovery of a revival of a ''lOst art" for that a Roman artiticer mastered the secret of making elastic glass, and was therefore put to death in order that the value of the brittle glass then in existence might not be impaired by the discovery of a method oi making a vastly better article, has always been believed, altho' no one until now has succeeded in hitting upon the process which perished with the unfortunate 1 Roman.
Year: 1875

the stage. The stage husband is II
necessity of the profession, like the
stage mother. believe that the
minor theaters now and then furnish
them to the actresses, like their
wardrobe, or like the Third Avenue
railroad is said to furnish dolls
lilc-size to those ladies who desire
to get q seat in the Harlem car.
Year: 1875

A leading Paris authority In FASH
ionab}e matters says there Is nothing
more difficult for woman to do than
to sit gracefully in q carriage. The To-
rette lies down at full length the
strong minded woman crosses her
legs the bourgeoise sticks up her knee;
the Whiting maid leans over the side,


and the high bred lady only holds her
self as she ought to do without either
carelessness or stiffness, and looking
as though she had been born In q car
yiage, ar5t 81 -
Year: 1875

PINcHBAcK, the mulatto, would-be-
United States senator from Louisiana,
modestly offers to withdraw his claims
to seat in the senate, provided he Is
seated, and allowed to draw the paltry
sum of thirteen thousand dollars as
salary and mileage. Considering he
does not stand ghost of a chance,
this is refreshingly cool in Pinch.
Year: 1875

THERE is general scutlie and snarl
going on in New Orleans among the
members of the press and some out
siders for the proprietorships of the
Picayune and Bulletin. Warmoth has
shillelah in the fight as creditor of
the Picayune.
Year: 1875

DISPATCHES from Louisville assert
that the vote to call a constitutional
convention is very largely in favor in
THIS city. Dispatches from other points
make it somewhat doubtful whether
the question is carried. The specials to
the COWier-JOWHdt show that the ma
jority for M'Crealy is a gain of nearly
five bnDdred over the Leslie vote. So
fSr as yet heard from, the Democratic
majority in the lower house Legislature
will be about the same as last year. The
returns are coming in very slowly, and
no defaite statement can be made a to
M'Creagy s majority.
Year: 1875




When Wednesdays storm COM
menced many predicted, and all hoped,
that it would be confined to this vicini-
ty. But it was not 10 be. Indeed it
seems that it had spread over consider
able belt before it embraced Evansville
in its course, and during the most Of the
day and nearly all of last night the
Watera came down in thousands of
drOwned-out fields in this and adjoining
States, sweeping away in many places
all that had been able to survive the
early rains. For days the prospect has
been going from bad to worse, and now,
with threatening weather, still, our
flooded lOW-lands, anu q gradually
swelling river, it is impossible to fore
tell with any Intelligence or reliability
what will be the end. We may be sure
that it will be bad enough. Many will
escape with slight loss perhaps, Dut with
the msj0rity it viii come in all the pro-
portions of an awful disaster. 1t is no
longer a question of which crop will
produce most in the face OF such dis.
cOuragiDg conditions, but which will es-
cape utter destruction. The wheat, over
q considerable belt, badly damaged be-
fore, is utterly ruined now. The tobacco
fares no better, and day before yester-
days storm has left the corn broken
and damaged-in some places utterly
ruined. The meadows in all the low
lands are simply washed out beyond the
possibility of restoration. The river is
rising rapidly at all points from Pitts
burg 10 Cairo, and the flood III the
smaller streams-Wabash, White river,
etc.-is backing up and getting beyond
control. Oar PstOka correspondent tells
US that if White river continues much
longer to swell at its present rate it will
burst through its banks and lay waste
one of the finest corn and wheat areas
in the State. The same is true of many
other points in our immediate vicinity.
Our reporters elsewhere give very fully
and accurately the result OF careful in
vestigations along both sides Of the Ohio
river above and below, from which it
will be seen that what the people along
the White and WABASH rivers anticipate
has already become 2 reality in the low
lands along the larger stream. Not only
are hundreds of farmers refiding along
the rivers compelled to look on while
everything produced by a whole years
labor is being snstched from them, but
dozens have been compelled to fly from
their threatened homes. This is the
story OF the flood in its present attitude
and dimensions, and it is plain that the
next few days will add much to it. II
the rains cease there is q chance that
the damage will not % much beyond
what has already been sustained, but no
one can feel sure that there is a promise
even Of this.
Year: 1875

Treat your motaer-in-law as you would
your own mother; don't let her feel
that she is a stranger in her sons
house. You ought to love her for tn,
good husband she has given you.
Don't be jealous of the afiectionatc at
tention he shows her; remember how
well she has earned it. Your hus
bands heart would be a poor, con
tracted one, if it could not find room
for wife and mother. Help him love
and cherish her. Think of the vacant
chairs around her hcarthstone-of the
voices she misses that used to make
melody in her heart. 1t will be but
for a little while; and when her work
is accomplished, when her work i,
over, and the shrivcled hands are foldec
meekly upon that bosom on which you
husband has wept out his childish sor
rows, comforted by those now silen
lips, it will be the sweetest joy to you
heart if you can say, She was to M
as Naomi was to her as Ruth
Year: 1875

There is good reason to believe that
contagious diseases are often commu-
nicatcd by dogs, eats and other house
hold pets. A case of scarlet fever re-
Gently occurred in England in which
a dog conveyed the disease. He had
been the constant companion of fever
patient, and his hair doubtless became
impregnated with the malaria.
Year: 1875

Every one OF the nearly aG0,GO CHARTER
OAK STOVES now in the hands OF as many
housekeepers have proved emnently practi-
cable, easily kept in order, doing all kind OF
cooking quickly, cleanly, and with great
economy Of fuel and labor.
Year: 1875

MY dear boy said a fond aunt to
a very fast living nenhew, "don't You
know that in leading this irregular life
you are shortening your days" ats
quite possible was the cool reply.
that l may be shortening my days,
hut then look how | lcngthen my
nights