smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1869

mOcratic Lc0lslutlOns


The curious and interesting description
which we published yesterday Of the Pagan
population Of New York was confined to the
few Chinese within our gates. But it might
well have also embraced the vast number of
practical pagans, who worship not God bat
only mammon; who are always ready to seize
the opportunities which Wall street offers for
swindling honest stockholders; who can forge
and counterfeit, and pick pockets and commit
burglary, and even murder; who skulk from
detection In overcrowded tenement houses
those nests of crime as well as poverty and
disease and death; who glory in their shame
as patrons of pugilism, dog fighting, cock fight
ing and all kinds Of brutal sports; who are
known and feared by policemen and private
citizens as selection roughs," that actually
rule the city and live on public spoils who,
in fine, include all the vagabonds of all races
and complexions and of both sexes that make
up the rotten, fostering, pestiferous mass
which we call 'the dangerous classes" New
York had a taste of their quality during the
terrible riots of 1868.


AT the next meeting Of our State Legislature
we may expect pretty general overhauling of
the existing commissions, which now act inde-
pendently Of the Mayor and Common Council
II is.posslble and probable that all these com
missions may be fused together and put under
the supervision OF the Mayor and Common
Council. We shall, then, ere long discover
whether the promised reconstruction of our
city government will diminish or enlarge the
privileges claimed and enjoyed by ''the dan
gerous classes" in our community. The first
object of the democrats will be to strengthen
their hold upon the State. But they will not
neglect their interests or the claims of their
faithful tools in this city. We shall watch
with special interest the action OF the next
democratic Legislature. Whatever may be its
result, twill, unquestionably, be more interest
ing and important to the citizens of our me-
tropoltan district than any subject which has
agitated New York for the last fifty years
Year: 1869

WALL STREET. The present will be dull
week among the bulls and bears of Wall street.
No stringency in the money market no cor
ncrs, no rushing UP OF gold, no depression Of
stocks, and no excitement Of any kind or de-
scription will be likely to take place in the
quarters of the money changers this week.
Time will hang heavily upon the brokers, stock
jobbers and gold gamblers until after New
Yaaxn
Year: 1869

In the HERALD of yesterday we published the
result Of an interview which our correspondent
had with the 'Ecumenical Patriarch" the
Bishop OF Constantinope. 1t is the first time
we believe in the history Of journalism that any
representative of the press has been so highly
favored and so frankly dealt with. We are
proud of this honor for our own sake, for the
sake of American journalism, and for the sake
Of this great country, of which the Patriarch
spoke 80 handsomely as the Country Of the
future" The PATRIARCH remarks were charac-
terized by great common sense. He did not
think much Of the Ecumenical Council. It
was based falsa principle. AN the divi-
sions of Christendom were the result, directly
or indirectly, Of the pretension, arrogance
and usurpation of Rome. In the olden time
the Pope was only "P,amus inter parcs, the
first among equals. sThe early Christian
Churches, and the Churches of Russia,
Greece and other countries in communion
with them, may be looked upon as forming
in certain sense Christian confederation-a
kind Of United States" Such was the Lam
guage of our correspondent. Precisely, said
the Patriarch; ''that gives the idea to great
degree. Each Church had during the first
centuries autonomy in administration and in
affairs of local character each country was
allowed to use its own language in the ritual
as well as to have all sacred books in the
vernacular tongue. In everything relating to
the doctrine and discipline Of the whole
Church council of the whole Church alone
had authority" In the opinion of the Patri-
arch ''for any man to claim that he is the
| Vicegerent of God and infallible is nothing
less than blasphemy." This interview will
command attention far and wide; and wher-
| ever it commands attention it will furnish
proof that the race Of Ulysses and Of Themis-
tocles has not quite forgotten its cunning, and


that the Church, which in the days of Chrysos-
tom stood at the head of Christendom, has not
after long ages of oppression entirely lost Its


spirit. In the principles laid down by the


Patriarch Of Constantinople we can see basis


for the Church of the future.
Year: 1869

Tt is easier to be a good business
man than a poor one. Half the en-
sergy that is. displayed in keeping
ahead that is required to catch up
when behind will save credit, give
more time to business, and add 10
the profit and reputation of your
word. Honor your engagement. If
you promise to meet man, or; do, a
certain thing at certain moment,
be ready at the appointed time. If
you have work to do, do it at once.
cheerfully, and therefore more speed
lily and correctly. If you so out on
business, attend promptly to the
matter on hand. and then as prompt
ly go about your own business hours.


If you have place of business, lie
found there when wanted. No man
can get rich by sitting around stores
and saloons. Never fool on business
matters. If you have to labor tor a
living, remember. that one hoT in
the morning is two at night. II sou
employ others, be on hand to see that
they attend to their duties, and to
direct with regularity, prOmptness
and liberality. Do not meddle with
any business yon know nothing of.
Never buy thing simply because
the man that sells it will take it Ou,
in trade. Trade is money. A good
business habit and reputation is al,
ways money. Make Your place of
business pleasant and attractiyS;
then stay there to wait on custom
els.


Never use quick words OF allow
yourself to make hasty ungentleman-
ly remarks to those in Your employ,
for to do SO lessons their respect tol
you and your influence oyer; them.


Help yourself and others will help
YOU: Be faithful over the interest
confided to your keeping, and i'll all
good time your responsibilities will


be increased. Do not be in too great


haste to get rich. Do not build un


til you have arranged and laid 4
good foundation. Do not-as YOU
hope to work for success-spend
your time in idleness. If your time
is your own, business will snffer i
you do. II it is given to another fol


pay it belongs to him, and you have
r no more right to steal it than to
steal money. Be obiiging. Strive


to avoid harsh words and PERSONAL
, ties. Do not kick every stone il
! your path more miles Can he mad'


in day by going steadily on thar


by stopping to kick. Pay as you &c
!, A man of honor respects his wor,
a as he does his bond. Ask but neve
r beg. Help. others when you can
n but never give when you cannot al


ford to, simply because it is fashion
able. Learn to say No. No necess
! ty Of Swapping it out dog fashion, ,bu
q but say it firmly and respectfully


Have but few confidants, and tn
: fewer the better. Use your ,ow
e braiLs rather than those of other.
d Learn to think and act for youl
9 self. Be vigilant. Keep ahea


rather than behind time. Cut thi


out, young men, and il, there is foil
e i'll the argument, let us know.-E.
Year: 1869

The custom which our fashionable
Englishmen have of flying to the
coast of France, when debts and the
like mishaps render their own coun-
try somewhat too hot to hold them
comfortably, causes Boulogne and
other towns forming the chief places
of rendezvous on such occasions to
present for the most part a strangely
assorted society, and to witness al
times very curious scenes.


Sir George Tindal was a young
baronet Of good English family, who
came to Boulogne some Years ago
under rather peculiar circumstances.
He had been left very young with
the command Of a good patrimonial
estate, but had given way so far to
the fashionable follies of the young
in high life as to allow nearly the
whole Of 1t to fly away on the turf as
fast as a race-horse could carry it.


He had still good expectations,
however. A maternal relative-a
merchant, and one of the richest i'll
the metropolis-was likely, in the
due course of things, to leave Sir
George his fortune, as his nearest
heir He was fond of the young
man, but had been greatly and peril
ously alienated by the conduct and
reverses of the latter. 1t was while
meditating ON this subject that an
idea struck thenearly ruined baronet


How successful thought he
"my uncle has been by his specula
ton in the funds! Might not l have
IA chance that way also? Might not
| cast my. poor remnant Of means
into the great lottery, and pull out
prize? l may as well try it; al
that have now is scarcely wortl
thinking twice about! l shall try
at lpastm


Poor Sir George! He forgot tha
though some seas may be deep, ther,
are others which cannot be sounded
at all that however deep one ma,
be in the mire, there is Il chance o
getting deeper. He did venture hi
all in the stocks. He was succesfu
once, and even twice.


Getting inspirited by his good for

tune, he thought he had but to ven
ture further and win more Alas
he was Il novice merely in the hand
of veteran gamblers Some of tn
very worst members of the body VIII
speculate i'll these matters got hii
into their hands, and knowing we
what his expectations were, an
where they lay, they led him OH by
nibble or two, until, by series
ruses, considered not unfair only G
such field of transactions, they {
last got him placed under a load I
debt which even all his unclp's meal
would with difficulty Tighten.


Holding him bound by signature
aud bonds, they then waited cool


for his accession to his prospectiN
inheritance, knowing well that Il
same prospect would keep tllier Vi
tim also within reach of their gras
%. at any time.


Sir George wandered about tov
Year: 1869

The great want of this age is men.
Men who are not for sale, Men who
are honest, sound from centre TO cir.
cumference, true TO the hearts core.
Men who will condemn wrong in
friend or foe, I'm themselves as well as
others. Men whose consciences are
as steady as the needle to the pole.
Men who will stand for the right If
the heavens totter and the earth rolls.


Men who can tell the truth and
look the world and the devil right in
the eyes. Men that neither bray nor
run. Men that neither flag nor
finch. Men who can have courage
without shouting to it. Men In
whom the courage of everlasting life
runs still, deep. and strong. Men
who do not cry nor cause their voices
To be heard on the streets, but who
will not fail nor be discouraged till
judgment be set i'm the earth.


Men who know their message and
tell It. Men who know their places
and fill them. Men who know their
own business. Men who will not
lie. Men who are not too lazy to
work, nor too proud to be poor.
Men who are willing to eat what they
have earned, and wear what they
have paid for.
Year: 1869

The Republican Gazette, Green's


boro, N. c., Is dead. The editor


writes his own orbituary ip Its last
issue, from which the following Ia an
extract The prosperity of place,
and Its Press are so intimately rela-
tel, that no citizen who has enter~
prise enough to keep himself and
family out of the poor house, can
witness the decease of his local pa
per, without regret and sadness, feel
ing that perhaps his own neglect and
want of proper appreciation of its
usefulness, are the principal causes
OF Its untimely end. Besides de-
gree of life and prosperity in the
place are indicated by the healthy
condition of Its local papers.


/" Being about to die. ard suppos-
ing no one but ourselves can do JUS
tice to our memory, we propose to
preach our own funeral sermon,
which we cannot very well do after
our demise. We desire to shuttle
off this mortal coil with decency,
while we have assets enough to de-
fray our funeral expenses. We there
fore announce to those who have
paid their subscriptions In advance
that their money will lie returned
TO those who reside abroad, Ivy mail;
while the residents of Greensboro,
are Invited to visit us Mt our sane
tum /; where we can be found for sew
eral days subsequent to expiring,
laid out In state, for the purposes OF
administration. On this solemn oc-
casion, oil our friends, whether we
owe them anything or not, are re-
gnested TO pass In review around our
corpse, and II they have tears TO shed,
let them prepare to shed them then,
for causing, regardless of their cun-
sciences, our premature dissolution"
Year: 1869

Some wag records the following
"decisions' under the Internal Rev.
enue Law: The latest decisions OF
the Commissioners of Internal Rev
enue cover the following points -
Parties using the paper collars must
use them from their original pack
age that is from the box in which
they have been purchased; and a
three cent revenue stamp must be
attached to every one when put on.
When the collar becomes soiled, and
is turned with the inside out, 1t must
receive another three cent stamp,
and must also be conspicuously
stamped with the word turned. -
Boxes when emptied cannot be used
a second time, but must he destroyed
In tine room where emptied, and the
assessor furnished with certificate
of the fact. If thrown out of the
window or carried out on coal scut-
tie or washtub, such boxes will be
subject to export duty. Boot blacks
are requested to use their blacking
just as they find 1t when the box ID
opened, adding nothing to IL whatev-
er. The act Of splitting in the box
and smearing the contents with the
brush constitutes the boot black a
mixer, rectiher, manufactures OF
backing, and he must pay the ordi-
nary manufacturer license. Each
boot BACKED, for which the sum oi
five cents is paid by the wearer.
must receive at the expense of the
boot black, a four and tLree-quarter
cent stamp.
Year: 1869

ASSISTANT STREET COMMISSIONER LEWIS is, it
seems, soon to be displaced by ordinance.
Council has suddenly made the discovery that
they can have the work he is doing performed
at about fifty per cent. less than they pay him.
Why did they not tell Mr.. Lewis so, before he
resigned his Office as a member of Councili
Year: 1869

A Southern View ON Their Proper Relations


From the Memphis Avalanche, March 1871


Grant, q democrat, would cease to be
President other than in name. His moral power
would be gone. So far the South Ii concerned his
administration would be the past four years over
again. We should have the President one way and
Congress another. We view the President and Cabi-
net from home standpoint The question Of party
triumph sinks In the balance when weighed against
that OF Southern reconstruction. 1t rests with Gen.
eral Grant to say whether wc shall have return OF
prosperity peace and fraernal feeling in the South,
continuation OF rule OF bay 0nets carpet baggeTs
years has changed matters from bad TO worse. Its
forcement four years longer would render The South
Grant has the power to temper Congress to his win
In matters Of public policy. He Is thoroughly sus-
tained by the party which elected him, and which
controls the North. To break with 1t would be to
tie his own hands and to render his administration
n IA
Year: 1869

BosroY, May THE Senate has re-
fused the prohibitory liquor bill a third
reading by thirteen to twenty. The op-
position was composed of those who
favored a stringent license Law, and the
ultra prohibitionists who object to the
concessions made in the defeated bill.
Year: 1869

With the " clash of"-words, which
ceased after the close Of the democratic pri.
maries on Saturday. aud which latter has
probably determined who the democratic
nominees for. county Offices will be, all per-
sonal preferences for men were set aside, and
now a determination to meet the enemy in the
coming election with an unbrokeu front aud
roll up full democratic majority seems to
be the united sentiment of the party. Al
though the means resorted to to defeat some
of the candidates may have been unpleasant
to them and their friends, it can not be de-
MED that such +" tactics" are usual. In such
cases it must be conceded that the opposing
parties are sincere 10 their desire to promote
the interests of their friends, aud when the
battle is begun genuine zeal in working
to promote such interests is more to be COM
mended than deprecated. For those who,
in such cases, allow their zeal to get the
better of their Judgment the wise can fad
ready excuse If the defeated candidates
are satisfied to accept the situation, certainly
their friends should be; and we have the
assurance of most of the former that they
are now ready to equip for the fight against
the common enemy to help to elect full
democratic county ticket, and to give ou r
democratic candidate for the delegateship a
larger majority Than any other three counties
in the Territory. We are more than glad
to see this spirit m,nifest for, aside from
the important national issues connected with
the Delegate question, we regard the next
election, for various reasons, as the most i'm
portaut to the democratic party ever held in
the county.


The radicals have boasted that there
has been material change in the political
sentiment in this county during the past two
years, in their favor, and upon this slender
thread they have suspended hope of elect
ing radical county ticket. 1t, therefore,
becomes our duty not only to prove that
there has been no such g material change, :"
but, by polling our full party vote, to es>
tablsh the fact, as We know it to exist, that
Walla Walla county is to-day more demo-
cratic than ever before.


Another boast of the radicals is that since
the establishment of their " orgon" here
they have greater incentive to work than
ever before, and that they can now confident
ly rely upon keeping their party together
and depend upon their voting iu mass for
their own party ticket. With this avOwed
purpose oil the radicals to " hang together, .
democrats certainly have greater reason to
be united and to yield no quarter to an ene'
my from which they can expect none.
Year: 1869

THE Salt Lake Reporter is informed that
Bigham Young is fitting up private resi-
dencc for the accommodation of Grant and
Colfax during their sojourn at the Mormon
Capital, il their expected trip across the
continenf
Year: 1869

GARFEELDE in his harangues has much to
say about being in favor with the President,
and on the strength of this favor boasts of
fhe great things he will do for the Territory.
A sufficient answer to all this humbug is the
fact that President Grant has just removed
GsrGelde from the Office of Surveyor General
and appointed regular carpet ia gger in his
place. The man who hasn't sufficient influ-
enee to save his own head is scarcely the
person to secure justice much less favors for
the Territory
Year: 1869

THERE may often be seen, of late, in
size, sometimes white-and-black but
oftener a mouse color or yellow tan.
These are Siberian bloodhOunds, the
original stock of which, we believe,


was brought from the Ural Mountains,


where they are employed for hunting


wolves and other fierce beasts of the
chase. In the city, of course, they are
kept merely rs curiosites, and are not
half so useful as smart Scotch terrier,
who will kill rats i'm the cellar and give
warning should any strange footstep
come prowling about the house in the
night. A more useful kind of Siberian
| dog than the majestic one referred to is
the breed much priced by the Samoye-
des, Tungusians, and other northern


tribes, as beasts of burthen. Those OF
| Kamtschatka are said to be the best.
Four of these animals, yoked to sledge,
will easily draw man with two hun
dred pounds of baggage, and will run
from thirty to sixty miles day, accord
| ing to the condition of the snow anu the
character of country traversed by them.
During the winter these dogs are fed
upon dried fish. In summer they are
expected to provide for themselves, and
the facility with which they catch fish
is very remarkable. They remain out
of doors throughout the fine season,
living like otters or seals, but as soon ~
the hard weather sets in they leave the
shore and betake themselves to the
huts of their respective owners. These
dogs are endowed with an instinct for
locality 30 wonderful that their masters,
when driving them, leave the selection
of route entirely to their judgment.
When heavy storm obliges the team
to stop they crouch in the snow, close
to their m lster, 80 as to keep him warm


In return for all this, when one of these
dogs grows old and is past work, the
unberg-like iceberger that owns hin


kills him for his skin, out of which he
makes clothes for his own less-worthy
carcass World, .
Year: 1869

A Toad UNDREssISG.-Onl last Mon
day afternoon we witnessed toad un-
dressing himself. He commenced by
pressing his elbows hard against his
side and rubbing downward. After u
few smart rubs his hide began to burst
along his back. He kept on rubbing
until he worked all his skin into folds
on his sides and hips; then grasping
one hind leg with his hands, he hauled
off one leg OF his pants the same rs
anybody would; then stripped Off the
other hind leg in the same way. He
then took his cast Off skin forward be-
tween his fore-legs into his mouth and
swallowed it;-then, by raising and
lowering his head, swallowing as his
head came down, he stripped off his
drawers underneath until he came to
his fore-legs, then grasping one of these
with the opposite hand, by single
motion of the head he drew 1t from his
neck and swallowed the whole of his
clothes. - Gainesuiie Fia.) Era.
Year: 1869

Very small hoops are worn both for
the house and street. The tournure is
large, but there is no increase of size
from the hoops downward. A twin
spring skirt, two springs in each hoop,
the hoop placed far apart on broad tapes
is very popular. 1t is light and flexi-
BILE and does not get out of order easily.
Another style has tournure that may
be worn or not, at the pleasure of the
wearer. Skirts of crinoline or hair.cloth
are also worn, but hoops are preferred
for warmer weather.
Year: 1869

Observe your mother when she Is packing
a trunk, and you will see that whatever she
is most afraid will be spoiled she is most
careful to put in the middle, that it may be
least exposed to accidents. And this is
what kind Providence has done with the
arteries, which have the utmost cause to
dread accidents, while the veins, which are
much better able to bear rough usage, are
allowed to wander about freely just under
the skin. But whom the bones happen to
take up a great deal of room, and come near
the skin themselves, as is the case In the
wrist, the artery is forced whether he likes
it or not, to venture to the surface, and then
we are able to put our finger upon him.
And there are others in the same sort Of
situation; the artery of the foot for in
stance,


You feel quite sure blood is red, do you
not2 Well, 1t is no more red than the wa
ter Of stream would be if you were to fill
it with little red fishes. Suppose the fishes
to be very, very small-as small as grain
of sand-and closely crowded together
through the whole depth of the stream; the
water would look quito red, would it not z
And this is the way in which blood looks
red only observe one thing a grain of sand
is a mountain in comparison with the little
red fishes in the blood. If | were to tell
you they measured about the three thousand
two hundredth of an inch in diameter, you
would not be much wiser, so prefer saying
(by way of giving you more perfect idea
of their minuteness) that there would be
about million in such drop of blood as
would hang on the point of needle. say
so on the authority of scientific French
MANN. Boillet. Not that he has ever
counted them, as you may suppose, any more
than have done but this is as near an ap-
proach as can be made by calculation to the
size of those fabulous blood fishes, which are
the three thousand two hundredth part
of an inch in diameter. Mdee.