smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1868

fellow, in an oblivous state, took up his lodgings
on the sidewalk. He woke next morning and straight
ened himself up, looked on the ground on which he
had made his couch, and said 'We, if had pick
ak would make up my bed I"
Year: 1868

The New York Post, of the l6th in speaking of the
fall in New York Central Railroad stock, says3 sThc
fact that the wife of Commodore Vanderbilt died last
night was made use Of to depress the stock It seems
that nothing Is sacred from the gamblers of the stock
exchange. mans domestic bereaven1eats are looked
at only as they put prices up or down. When the
Commodore himself dies, as be must naturally some
day, We may expect general hurrah from the bears
Year: 1868




A CATHOLIC PRIEST ARRESrED-We cpny as foI1owa
IRON the W arrenbuTg MOI journal of the 9th


On Thursday week Father Murray the Catholic priest
IN chage OF the church at this place. called picnic at
MIS- droFners PASTURE near town, for the purpose of
raising money 10 complete the Catholic church here
Everybody was invited considerable number of eli,
lzens We're in attendance and things were progressing
hnely when some Very loyal chaps discovered the
names OF Seymour and Blair on the large flag which
mad been loaned Tor the occasion by this office These
names were more than they could behold and feel
easy, SO they proposed that the names be cut off the
tag, or the flag taken down. At this iuncure Father
Murray informed the crowd that he had nothing to do
with politics. that this not political meeting that
the tag had been loaned the occasion with those
names on it. and it his friends had borrowed it with
those names, it their bounden duty to return It in
the same condition, and that not single letter sboul
come OIL Or the flag come down


The priest stated that he, like other men had no.
ntica views OF his own, and while he did not obtrrde
them, ne was not ashame to say that be was Demo-
efat, and that he looked upon the men whose names
were upon that flag, like the Catholic Church as the
friends OF civil and religious liberty EVERYWHERE He
pointed to the prosecutions of his church in this State
at Radical hands, to the imprisonment Of priests and
sisters OF charity to the taxing of Catholic churches
anc Catholic graVeyards and asked if it were possible
ised''


The rabbe falling to accomplish their desire several
knock-do"ns ensued and in tie disturbance Father
Murray pushed man out Of his way for rude Ian.
guage used to him and next morning was arrested on
a warrant charging him with assault and battery. He
brought before Justice and prosecuted as thouoh
ne mad been the worst desperate in the State by two
kadlcai lawyers, who found it an admirable opportu
nlfy to vent portion of that peu up fury that the
hadlcal party has ever harbored for the Catholic
church. The priest Was denounced in the most nm
feeling manner, and his church yilfed aud abused


lie was lined i've dollars and COSTS but refused to paw
II, anu has taken ali appeal TO the Circuit Court
Year: 1868

Gov SEYMOUR CONFIDENT. The following is from
the the New York Aug. l5th) correspondence of the
Charleston Courier


can communicate to your readers the gratifying in
tellgence that on Wednesday last Gov Seymour in
conversation held at Utica with member of the
State Committee, expressed his entire confidence in
the coming success ofthe Democratic ticket The Gov
ernor feels assured that he is to be the next President
OF the United Satesa the evidence in regard to the
progress OF the canvass throughout the whole COUNTRY
now pointing IN that direction. He acknowledged
that at fst there we're not visible these evidences OF
success. 1t took some weeks after the nominations
bad been made for sections of the country 10 re-
eoncie themselves to his (seymours) position on the
finances, but now all is working admirably and day
BY day the strensth of the ticket increasing In
one word, hr Seymour is convinced that the De.
mocracT will succeed. He does not attribute this to
ms own personal popularity, but to the almost uuver-
sal desire fora change OF party administer the af
tars OF Government l am personally acquainted with
the gentleman who had the above conversation with
Gov. Seymour, and he informs me that he has known
the Governor ior the last thirty years and always
found him correct in his prophecies in regard to cleo
ton matters, not olg where they related to his Sey
mear own chances IN this State but also to national
elections. ..-
Year: 1868

ABOUT CRABs. gentleman Of Annapolis
fenced in cove near the mouth of the Severn
river and commenced the cultivation of crabs
on large scale. He has put in about 4 1000,
and feeds them on coarse fish and any kind of
refuse meat. A squad of them will attack a
catfish, devour it in one night, and pick the
bones as clean as pack of wolves would pick a
deer The soft crab is only the hard crab with
bis coat or shell of. Before shedding his shell
he worth only half cent in market; with,
outit heis worth dime. He sheds his shell
but once year, and then remains a soft crab
but q few hours, when a new shell is again
formed. But few soft crabs are seen, owing to
the difficulty Of finding and capturing them in
the nick OF time This difficulty it is pro-
posed to obviate by the heerding process,
where the stock can be examined every day,
and as fast as a crab is found with his coat off,
be is csptured as soft crab and marketed ac-
cordingly. The location Of the crab pasture is
ata point where the tide regularly ebbs and
flows, giving the crab a plentiful supply of
their natural clement Wash. Rep.
Year: 1868

SUSPENDED. 1T is known that several Of the
Aldermen of our town were short time ago
removed from Office by the military, without
any cause whatever. No one being found to
take their places, the Offices continue vacant.


Last week another was added to the list of
removals. Aldermand Boisseau was called
on to try a case of fighting between white
man and negro; he did so and disposed of it
upon its merits, according to the evidence be-
fore him, fning the white man ten and the
negro five dollars. The decision, however, did
not please the military officer in command here
and he ordered Mr.. Boisseau to give the par
Ties a new trial This order, of course, he re.
fused to comply with, having no right to try
them again under the law. Healso required him
to deliver up some notes of evidence, which
he declined to do Thereupon Col Mahoney
notified Mr.. B. that he was suspended from
Office ..t.


The Alderman having refused to try the
aee a second time, the military commander
took it in hand himself; went through hearing;
required the white man to give bail in the sum
Of 5000, and turned the negro loose.-DanulAe
Re1tsier.
Year: 1868

The rumor that erinOliue is about To-
be discarded is untrue. The manu-
facturers are kept busy at work in fill
ing the large orders of the dealers,
thus proving that they at least are
convinced that the reign Of crinOline
will be a long one as. for the health
and comfort Of women we hope may.
A return to the old fashion of wearing
several heavy skirts instead of light,
flexible, supporting hoop, would be a.
most intOlerable.


The new open fronts, or "wiBged'
skirts are the novelty of the season.
They give complete freedom for every
motion, walking, sitting, dancing, or
stepping in and out of a carriage. The
upper part of the skirt is laced togeth-
er, then come a few hoops, and below
there is the open winged front. It
is impossible for the feet to become en-
tangled in this skirt, as the limbs are
free from hoops in front from the knee
down. A spiral spring has been in
vented to hold the steels securely
around the curved opening. This


Open. front may be applied to any
hoop. The tournure is graceful. The
skirt slopes toward the bottom, meas
luring eighty-five inches in circumfer-
/ ence. This skirt may be put In the


Tub and washed thoroughly,
Year: 1868

Encourage Home Industry. /


We notice a good deal Of complaint
In our country exchanges about BUSH
ness men sending their work off to
the cities, when they want printing
done. We have no reason to COM
plain in this respect. Our business
men find that it pays THEM better
than it does US, to patronize home en-.
terprise. We help those who help US,
both private individuals and firms, as
well as county oficers.-[J Jackson
Standard.


We, commend the above to q few of
Of the business men Of Hillsboro, who
imagine that they can save money by
sending their printing to Cincinnati.
1t is true they may sometimes (nOt
always get it done a little cheaper,
but then, on the other hand, they lose
the good will and influence Of their
home press, which cannot be expected
to say a good word for those who re-
fuse to patronize it.. So, in the long
run, people who send their money
away from home, to the injury of home
mechanics and merchants, lose more
than they gain by Incorporation. The
true system is, to patrOnize HOME in
dustry-build up your Os0n town, and
thereby you build up your own inter-
ests most efectuaIIy.
Year: 1868

The Chinese bid fair to be the objects
of Democratic vengeance now the ne
gro is playing out. A recent convention
of the Nebraska Democracy passed
the following resolution


eThat we are opposed to comforting
the right of suffrage upon Asiatics as
well as negroes, and we believe that the
treaty recently cOnsummated by the
Republican party between the United
States and the Empire Of China, cal
culated as it is, to bring to our shores
hordes of fhalf-civilized MOngOlians, is
an insult alike to this nation and its
white laboring population.


Such is modern Democracy. 1t
must have something to kick, although
it can quote folios of platitudes about
the rights Of man, and prate long and
loud about equal and exact Justice
TSt. 10. Herald.
Year: 1868

A. gentleman of Now Haven order
ed a wedding suit, among which was
a white satin vest. On the bridal
evening, as the clergyman was leav-
ing the door, the gentleman took from
a pocket of his vest, and slipped
gracefully into the parsons hand what
he supposed to be a $40 bill that he
had put there for that purpose. Pho
honeymoon had long passed, when
the bridegroom had occasion to don
again, for a party, his bridal vest
and putting his fingers into a pocket
pulled out, to his great horror, the
identical bank note which he suppos-
ed had months before gladdened the
heart ofthe worthy curate Great
was the CONSERVATION Of the parties!
What could be have given the par
son on that occasion? He ascertain
ed, the next day, that he had given
him a strip of satin two or three inch-
es long, which the tailor had left in
the pocket of the vest. Explanations
and hearty laugh followed.
Year: 1868




NEVER beton the-man who is al
ways telling what he would have done
if he had been there; I have noticed
that this kind never get there.


The fear of the law here, and the
law hereafter, has furnished US s0ne
very clever specimens Of Christianity,


Fools don't know their strength; il
they did, they would keep still.


True happiness seems to consist in
wanting all we can enjoy, and then
getting all we want.


Beauty never dies; it is like truth.
they both have an immortality some
where. .,sssI


If you would make yourself agree
able, wherever you 60, listen to the
grievances Of Others, but never relate
your own.


Men never seem to get tired Of talk
ing of themselves, but have heard
them when 1 thought they showed
signs Of weakness,


Common sense is most generally des-
pised by those who haven't gotit.


Although mankind worship wealth,
I viii give them credit for one thing
they seldom mistake it for brains.
Monuments are poor investments.
- the bad don't deserve them, and the
good don't need them.


The best way to keep a secret is to
forget it.


It isn't so much trouble to get
rich as it is to tell when we have got
rich:


Ifa man wants to get at his actual
dimensions let him visit a graveyard.


It is a good plan to know many
people, but to let only few know you.
Year: 1868

g Base bali has not made half the sen
satiOnthis year that it did last, and
probably next year will have fallen
still more into the background. The
same can be said of croquet and erick-
ct, and a new sensational outdoor
game is needed to stir up the energies
of small amateur athlethics. The
thing which killed cricket was base
ball, and base ball is being killed by
the growing custom Of employing pro-
fessionals to do the hard work and
play the matches. Safety is the
trouble with croquet. So says an ex-
change.
Year: 1868

A grief-stricken father In Iowa had
the body Of his little daughter, who
had died and been buried in his alb
sence, exhumed that he might take a
last look at her loved face. The body
was found turned upon its face in the
coffin, with both little hands clutched
in the hair-evidently buried alive.
Year: 1868

One of the pleasant ways they have
in Texas is to publish notices of polit-
cal ,barbecues, warning persons Of the
opposite party that if they appear on the
ground they will be instantly shot.
Year: 1868

A terrible tragedy is reported from the
island of Feejee, South Sea. The Rev.
Thomas Baker, with an assistant mis-
siouary and six native teachers, went to
visit some inland tribes, and he and his
party were brutally murdered by one of
the tribes, who are described as the most
confirmed cannibals. The writer says ::
"In this town (Longtown) there lives a
notorious cannibal, with whom / had a
little conversation. He pointed me to a
pile of human bones in the fork of an
orange tree under which we were sitting,
and assured me that he had eaten the
men of which each bone there was a rep
resentative, and that be had kept those
bones as a memento of his cannibalism.
Many other things did this inhuman
wretch make known to me; and his
countenance and more than ordinary
worn teeth only helped to convince me
that he had literally beer a bone-crusher
To have listened to this man statements,
and told, too, in the presence ofthose who
could have contradicted them if false,
weuld have removed forever from the
minds of some the idea that Feejeeans
are not lovers of human flesh. This vile
cannibal confirmed that, as for eating,
nothing was comparable to human flesh,
not even fowls or pork.
Year: 1868

s6s" The English haberdashers report
the trade in green articles of wearing
apparel to be very lively, owing to the
desire of Fenians to clothe themselves
in that color. They thus contribute to
the material wealth of the British, who
are always ready to drive trade.
Year: 1868

D6- A Paris newspaper states that
suicide by charcoal fires in close room
is purely literary invention, first used
in a drama produced in 1925. Since
then it has been the fashion for senti.
mental people bent on self-destruction
to accomplish their end in this way.
Year: 1868

t~ In Greenville, Alabama, q few
days since, a negro shot q mulatto woman
because she refused to marry him.
Several of his own color endeavorins to
arrest him met with resistance, when one
Of them was fatally wounded.
Year: 1868

Commissioner Wilson, of the General Land
Office. has addressed circular TO all land Off
GERS setting forth that extensive tracts once
designated on the maps as deserts are now
found to be fertile and filled with thriving
agricultural populations, and that vast mineral
wealth has been wasted owing to the ignorance
of miners of the value of the refuse they were
throwing away. AS an instance of this. the
great COmstock lode was at first worked for
its small proportion Of gold, until scientific
miner examining its refuse found it to contain
$4,000 in silver to the tun. He suggests the
necessity of forwarding to Washington, for q
national cabinet, every attainable specimen Of
the minerals and products of the new Terri
tories, so that they may come under tho eye
of scientific and practical men.
Year: 1868

caution and Western courage, or Eastern sa-
gacity and Western recklessness. The West
ern Democracy would not accept the nOmina-
ton of Chase, nor would they vote for him II
nominated. If Chase had more strength, they
might be induced to compromise on Seymour;
but as it is, they will doubtless enter the Con-
vention with strong determination to nOml-
nate Pendleton. 1t is q consolation to know
that their nomination is of no National cOnse-
quence, as it carries with it no reasonable hope
of success But as Indicative Of the shifting
phases of opinion and of the process of re-
union and determination between the Northern
Democrats and their old allies the Rebels, it
will be of interest to all. This is the first
Democratic National Convention held since
jeff. Davis and his cohorts split the party at
Charleston, in 1860, in which the Southern
slave-driving Democracy of old are repre-
sented. In this Convention will meet
the fiery Wade Hampton of the Black
Horse Cavalry, and Peter B. Sweeney,
Grand Sachem of Tammany, Gen. N. b. Forrest
the hero of the Massacre Of Fort Pillow, and e..
Chauncey Burr one of the heroes of the New
York riots The Conservative Generals whose
names have been paraded as those of men who
won distinction in the war for the Union, are
expected to sit down beside Gen. Beauregard
of Louisiana, Gen. Bonham, Gen. Ransom, Gen.
Hoke of North Carolina, Garland of Arkansas,
Buckner of Kentucky, and Hill of Georgia,
whose only distinction was won in the Rebel
lion, and both are desired to vote for candl-
date whose chief recommendation is that he
never voted dollar for one side or dared to
say word for the other, but, living amid the
greatest events of history, proved himself void
of either courage or capacity to take part in
them 1t is not for us to solve the Democratic
dilemma. We would be glad to see that party
take an advanced position, and nominate as a
candidate some man who is both patriot and
a statesman, even though they should thereby
give the Republican ticket a closer and warmer
contest. But If they prefer the opposite course,
so much the lighter must be our labors and the
larger our majority.
Year: 1868

their conclaves We are fully aware that the
Impeachment Committee cannot impeach their
own witnesses. Whether they have sworn
truly or falsely is scarcely for judicial pur-
poses matter of argument. But the result
merely shows that it is impossible, by the ex-
animation of any number of professed corrup-
tiOnists, to prove a case of corruption where
they may choose to conceal it. This is
nrOyed--and this is all.
Year: 1868

The most ungrateful thing Tammany has yet
done was to defeat Felix McCloskey for the
Office of Sergeant of the Democratic
Convention. The indignation raised by this act
has not been confined to New-York. Our Wash
ington correspondent states that the Demo-
Gratis of that city are terribly put out about it.
They consider it blow at Mr.. johnson, and
are anxious that the latter should reward Felix
Year: 1868

The rebels in Northern China are again re-
ported to have obtained of late several sue
cesses and to menace once more the capital,
Pekin. While there can be no doubt that the
rebellion in Northern China is still unsubdued,
the reports which have been received during
the past two years about the appearance OF
rebel armies in the neighborhood of Pekin have
always been exaggeratiOns, and are likely to
prove so again.
Year: 1868

Three accidents, by which as many persons
have lost their lives, and one more has been
seriously if not fatally injured, have occurred
at Jones's Wood within week. BY this time
the arrangements of the Schutzenfest should
have been so perfect that citizens might pass
through that portion of the city without being
shot
Year: 1868




These are but specimens of hundred who
might be named from among whom list of
thirty three might be chosen for Electors, most
of whom would be stronger and more widely
known than a majority of those likely to be
named by district delegations And, if selec-
ton be made by general ballot, a good ticket
is morally certain.
Year: 1868

The Republicans of this State meet by dele
gates at Syracuse on Wednesday next to
nominate Presidential Electors and q State
Ticket for the canvass now opening. So far
as we have heard there is no concentration
of sentiment on candidates for State officers;
but the delegates will meet entirely uncom-
mitted and confer freely and fully before de-
Gliding Oh any name. And this, we judge, is
best. Let us have the very strongest man in
the State for Governor and the next best for
Lieutenant Governor.


As to Presidential Electors, we venture to
suggest departure from the old routine of
referring the choice of one Elector to the
delegates from each Congress district. The
Electors represent no local interest and per-
form no local duties Each of them is chosen
by and acts for the whole people of our State
then why not nominate as well as choose them
by General Tickets We could hardly fail to
have men better known to and esteemed by
the Republicans of the whole State if our
ticket were nominated as a whole, without ref
erence to the "shrieks of locality" Here are
few of the many good names from which
thirty-three Electors nominated by General
Ticket would naturally be selected:
Year: 1868

MAJOR JACK STRArMAx, who was dele
gate to the National Convention at Chicago,
returned on Tuesday last. The Major met
with most enthusiastic reception, and ad-
dressed the Eighth Ward Union Club. in
San Francisco, in his usual felicitous style.
There is no trner friend of the cause in the
State than Jack Stratman.
Year: 1868

IMrERFEcr G1RLs.-Jessie Grant is bitter
on imperfect girls and after describing an
imperfect female wretch capable neither of
domestic duties nor entertaining company,
says:


i'll were a man I'd be bachelor long time be-
fore would say "Wilt thou 20 to a girl SO adIy
trained.


Opinion in this matter might be materially
altered by being man for few weeks.
Circumstances "over which we have no con-
troll" often render it impossible for man to
wait for the perfect woman or woman to wait
for the perfect man, dear Jesse.-Ffgaro.l