smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1869

The grand jury at Washington are look.
into the negro riots that occurred at the
charter election, six weeks ago. They have
already found indictments against eight or
ten persons, and will probably find several
more. Our colored brethren are thus to be
made our equals before the law.
Year: 1869

A private letter from well informed
sources in Cuba reiterates ths statement
that hostilities are practically at an end for
the present, owing to the prevalence of
cholera and yellow fever.
Year: 1869

the day. He was taking the measure OF the men
who were talking with him, and Weighing the
suggestions which they had to make.


BY the middle of the afternoon his work for
the day was over. and he went TO his home,
where he never allowed business to follow him.
Without ostentation, he lived in manner be-
fitting his large means. 1t would be hard to
find house where one would any evening
meet more genial people than that of James
Harper. These gatherings were quite by
chance, for we doubt if he ever gave set party
or Issued formal invitation.


He kept alOof from political life, though he
took a warm interest in public affairs. Once,
indeed, he consented to run AS Mayor of the
city, and was eleCted; but be never after cared
to repeat the trial. His business, benevolent
and reformatory moN ements, andImore than all,
bis home filled up the measure of his days. In
boyhood he became a member of the Methodist
Church, as his father aud grandfather had been; ;
aud for tbree-score years no man ever breathed
that he had done any act un worthy of his
Christian profession. While he had a rare sense
of humor-not unlike that of Abraham Lincoln,
whom he slightly resepbled IN teatures-down-
right eaInestness and integrity we're the foun-
dations of his being.


His death came like shock. On Wednesday
morning he seemed in rather more than usual
spirits. The day was unusually balmy, and
after dinner, accompanied by his daughter. he
took his wonted drive through the Central Park.
Returning, his horses took fright; he was
thrown from his carriage, struck heavily upon
his head; was taken up unconscious, and never
aToke upon earth. On Easter Eve, Saturday,
March n. he passed to the immortas. Few
men have lived a more honorable no one more
blameless, lite than James Harper.
Year: 1869

The Civil Tenure of Office law will come up
again in the Senate today. 1t is difficult to
anticipate the result. The opinion prevails that
the Senate will not recede and that the House
Will be compelled 10 retire from its present
position: The friends of absolute repeal do not
seem to have gained additional strength since
voted Tor the modified bill. A wrong i'm
preston prevails, too. with respect to the
views of the President in the matter. General
Butler Is understood 10 have intlmated in his
with anything sholt OF repeal. This is erroneous.
Members OF Congress who have conyersed with
General Grant on the subject say that he ex-
pressed himself as tired of the controversy, aud
the Senate, should take the place of the present
law. Many of those Republicans who voted
with Butler IN the House take ground with
Jadgc Davis IL 0ppositIon TO the third sec.iou
Year: 1869

oil the law, and say that IL the Senate will strike
that out also they will be satisfied and will then
v te with their party. This the Senate may do
In conversation, several Senators who are
opposed to repeal intimated their willingness
to drop this section. 1t is the section which
allows the President to make appointments to
nll vacancies during the recess OF the Senate
but requires that such appointments shall
expire with the end of the next session of the
Senate. If 1t refuse to confirm them, and that
the offices shall remain vacant, the duties
thereof to be performed by such persons as are
PROVIDED oy law for such exlgencies. 1t is ex.
pected that the first vote to day will be on a
square motion to repeal Wash cor. N. Y
Tribune.
Year: 1869

The counsel of Yerger 1t is said do not
raise the question of the right Of congress to
establish civil state governments in the
south through military power, and do not
ask that the court shall decide such ques-
ton. The point they made is that this
cour. has jurisdiction in the matter Of ha-
beas corpus over any citizen who has been
tried for crime by military court in viola
ton of that section of the constitution which
guarantees him q trial by jury, and that If
this court enters into the details Of the law
it cannot go further than to pronounce that
section of the reconstruction law unconstitu.
tonal which provides for military trial, and
that it need not 20 farther and discuss the
power of congress to provide for state gov
ernmsnts in the southern states. 1t is with
this kind of reasoning that the counsel be-
lieve that the writ will be granted in Yer.
gers case. Parties, who are also lawyers,
say that the whole question OF the recon-
structon laws must necessarily come up for
decision by the court, and that any other
view is mere legal quibbling.
Year: 1869

A young lady who was sebuked by her
mother for kissing her intended, justified
the act by quoting the passage, "Whatso.
ever ye would that men should do unto you,
do ye even 80 unto them"
Year: 1869

two miles from the latter station. At
that time the No. s down goods train was
approaching a mangoe tope, in which
seventy elephants were stationed. The
red lights glaring in the distance, and the
noise and smoke of the engine, would
seem 10 have caused an awful consterna-
tion among the poor brutes, all of whom,
more or less, tried to break away from
their fastenings. One large male, how
ever, the strongest and most courageous
of the lot, became so infuriated that he
broke his chain and rushed forward to
intercept and encounter the supposed
enemy. He had scarcely placed himself
on the line when the train was down upon
him.. He encountered it with head and
tusks; but animal strength proved no
match for steam and machinery. The
poor brute was knocked down and killed
on the spot, and the engine, rebounding,
ran off the line, and it and eleven car.
riages were capsized into ditch. The
fireman luckily managed to jump off in
time, and the guard did the same, but the
poor driver, named Smith, remained in
his place. and received injuries from
which it is not expected he will recover.
Year: 1869

The extraordinary action of President
Grant in ordering that certain pardons
issued by President johnson near the
close of his term of Office should be
withheld is said to excite much surprise
at Washington. 1t is an act as ungra-
cious as it is unprecedented. 1t looks a
great deal more like the manifestation of
q spirit of hate and maignity toward the
retiring President than a desire to do
Justice and to guard the public interests.
Year: 1869

The London papers have elaborate ed
itorial comments upon the rejection OF
the Alabama claims treaty by the Senate
Committee. The Times believes the real
ground for the rejection is the charge OF
British bad faith made in the Boston Pc
tition signed by George B. Upton and
others. The Neios says:


"The English people will be unani-
nous in feeling that their concessions put
them in the right in this matter before
the moral judgment of the world. We
have satisfied the government which first
advanced the claims upon us, have con.
ceded everything which American diplo-
macy felt it could fairly insist upon, and
it is not now for us to take any further
step in the matter. II is quite impossi-
BILE for Englishmen to understand what
their American cousins want, and we can
now do nothing but wait for some intelli-
gible exposition Of their requirements.
But it must be distinctly understood that
we wait in the full conviction that we
have granted all that could be granted
have satisfied to the fullest extent all the
demands made upon us; and have thus
completely cleared ourselves from all
responsibility for the failure of those long
and troublesome negotiations. We, at
least, went into those negotiations with
a desire to settle them, and that desire
has prevailed over every other sentiment.
We were anxious to close up an open
wound to remove cause of offense; to
give q costly proof of our desire for peace,
union and brotherhood between kindred
nations. Henceforth no responsibility
belongs to us. We shall regret that a
perpetual danger to our friendly relations
should exist; bat if these Alabama
claims remain forever unsettled, the
blame will not rest on England. 1t must
be clearly understood that, though We
may stand upon our concessions, and
grant them as readily to the government
of General Grant as we have done to that
of Mr.. johnson, new proposals for set
Element must now come from the other
side if they are ever to be made at all. /"
Year: 1869

BI3 FrcuREs.-Tt il astonishing, the fond
ness that Americana are learning 10 have for
great figures. We seq it stated that on one
day Of the great battle between the bulls and
the bears in New York, last week. the sales
of gold amounted to the enormous sum of
81. 100 COO .000-eleven hundred million dol
lars-about sig times as much as there is
known to be in the country, md nearly as
much rs there is in the whole world OF
course this gold was not delivered from hand
to han0 Mt each sale; the business was merely
one Of margins-each one paying the differ
pnce in the price of SO much gold when he
bought. and the price when he sold. Ii gold
was delivered every time it was sold, the pur-
chase Of it in New York would lie very
modest business. The margin business grows
out Of the American penchant fnr big figures.
even when they mean little. Chica gn's devo-
ton to big figures is one OF the distinguishing
traits of that town. The transactions on ex-
change do not satisfy her merchants. and the
margin system has been introduced into the
homely commodity of wheat. that they may
read in their morning papers that so many
hundred thousand bushels of grain were
bought and sold the day hefprp. A few years
ago man worth hundred thousand dollars
was esteemed as rich as he need be. and oil
the men in the lard who were worth mill
ion might almost be counted on your fingers.
But there are host of millionares in New
York, alone, now: there are few said to be
worth ten or twenty each a hundred thou
sand dollar merchant is only man in mod
crate circumstances: and failure that does
not invole half million ia not thought worth
talking about


Our national debt is the fountain of all this
magnifcent cip6ering. The vast millions
which Secretaries uf the Treasury write down
and add up in the handling "f that debt have
given us contempt fnr modest numerals that
once satisfied ns. and we strive to approx
mate the Treasury figures in all our compu-
tations. = Missouri Repnliicdn.
Year: 1869

RENARKABLE PHENOMENON But singu-
lar change seems to be creeping over all our
Western regions under settlement, in this
matter Of climate and Of rain. Summer rains
are very palpably on the Increase, and the
necessity of irrigation is lessening, especially
for the grains and slow-grcwing vegetables.
When the Mormons first came here, there
was no rain from April to November; but
now Summer showers are cf frequent occur
rance. /. is so in Colorado and California
there is growth in the moisture of the Sum-
mer and a lessening need of artificial water
ing for the main crops. The Phenomena is
peculiar, and has vet received no satisfactory
explanation. Connected with this change, it
is observed here that Salt Lake is growing in
size and freshness, ard the Jordan increasing
in width and sluggsbness Of movement. In
broader phrase, the whole basin, once evil
IDENTIFY filled with water, IS slowly returning
to i,s old condition. The Lake is rising Mt
the rate of a.foOt year. General C0nner's
little steamboat that has been carrying tics
for the railroad across the Lake for the last
year, certainly rode for mile over what was
good grazing ground FIVE years before. Does
Providence propose to drown the Mormons
out. and with water solve the problem that is
puzzling our moral philosophers and states
men?


The country drained by the Great Salt
Lake is about one hundred and fifty miles
east and west, and two hundred and fifty
north and south. Four or FIVE large streams
of fresh water pour into it, and the facts a.
ready stated. that it las no visible outlet, and
that its waters are one-faurts salt. mock SCI
encc and make imagination ridiculous.


Other salt il found in the country; there is
a mountain of rocE salt few miles away;
and below in Arizona is similar mountain.
whose salt is as finest glass. and beautiful
specimen Of whien Brigham showed to U.S.
Sam Bowles
Year: 1869

A gentleman made sad mistake the other
day. in mentally deciding that grass widow
must necessarily be verdant. lie acted upoi
that bias. and faurd that the emerald hue
Was all on his side of the house,
Year: 1869

To cure caracha, take a bit of cot
ton batting, put upon it bit of
black pepper; gather it up and tie
It and dip it in sweet oil, and insert
in the ear. Pit a flannel bandage
over the head 10 keep it warm. 1t
xiR give immediate relief
Year: 1869

I have seen a young farmer who
knew little of the arts of the school
tame the Wildness of nature, and
write the poetry of his heart upon
the soil. He chose a hillside over
looking a lake. Elms which time
had tOstered, he preserved. He
graded the hill to picturesque de-
cliVity. He set out orchards, and
planted a garden. out of a flowing
spring and pearling stream he fash
ioned q pond, and its waters leaped
up from a graceful fountain. Sheer
and cattle r0amed about his fields.
In autumn, grain and mellow fruits
brought him profit, while they gave
new color and variety to the scene.
His barns were neat and comely.


His walks were graded and graveled
and led by pleasant paths to his
modest home, overlooking the whole
and halt hidden in leafy wealth.


Industry and taste have made the
most of nature there, and that hills
side in this rich autumn sun is
| brighter than the colors of Claude
Lorraine.


Of the humdrum of life we all


have full enough. By the sweat OF
or brow we must all earn our daily
bread. Most OF our time must go in
| caring for crops and the dairy, in
providing for daily necessities. If l
| have not spoken of such topics, 1t Is


because a more practical matter has
| arisen before me. 1t Is grave evil


that our young men drift away from
production, and that people OF al
ages desert the country for the town
| Youth has a reason for 1t. Business
and professions, and science, and art


are paiuted in glowing colOrs. Bui


has not science its first sphere where


soil is made and vegetation COM


mences? Does not art begin in


transforming barrenness to beauty,


and decorating earth with fOliagt


and flowers and fruitP Well as i


may be to an artist, Is it not better


TO be both producer and artist?


BY such tone and temper o
thought, mingled with the practica
toll of everyday life, it seems to MT
the largest profits may be made gu
of agriculture. New value will b.
given to the farm, and a higher IN
; terest thrown about our rural life
Fields will be better titled; and tn
harvest more plentiful. Better yet
l the crop of men and women on tn
: soil will be improved. Our bes


youth will be kept at home; ou
9 prosperous families will vie wit
: each other in beautifying the oil


homestead. Pardon me, then, II
have used this hour in suggestln
: how agriculture may cOnduce mos
j to the culture of men; how worth


youth may become interested
i raising good crops; how souls a


well as fruit may grow ripe an
: mellow. This is the true search II
s the golden fleece.
Year: 1869

The laborers engaged in removing bod
les from the old city cemetery, on digging
into full sized grave, struck iV0 inch
plank box in an excellent state of pTeser-
walton. The singular circumstances OF
burying person in such coffin ct once
engaged the attention of by ISLANDERS, and
their curiosity was heightened to pain
when, on removing the cover, the remains
of a human body was found, with the
skull resting upon its face, showing be-
yond question that it had been buried ahYe.


On further examination there appeared
the remains of what was evidently at one
time clothes, and this indication was made
almost a certainty when the cover OF the
| box was entirely removed 50 as to expose
the opposite end of his remains, when a
pair of shoes, perfect in form, but SO de-
eayed as to crumble at the touch, were ex-
posed to view. They were low cut lace
shoes, apparently of a superior quality,
and fashionable make, indicating that the
wearer, who from their size and cut, must
have been q female, was not of the poorer
classes of society.


| The feet that this body was buried IN
plank box, without coffin or case, In the
clothing worn while living, leads ineVita
bly, to the conclusion that it was cholert
patient of the terrible year 1888, wheI


people died as the leaves fall in Autumn
and were buried almost before life had let


their bodies, in order to stay the progres


of that fearful pestilence, the cholera


Detroit Union.
Year: 1869

Paris papers tell detective story.
A legacy of SOC, 900 francs was recent
ly left to a lady who had long lived
with her daughter in extreme power
ty. Unfortunately this sudden en-
riched couple were nowhere TO be
found, and the affair was put into
the hands of young detective. He
asked for fourteen days TO prosecute
the search. At the end of that time
he had been unsuccessful. and he
begged for fourteen days more. Still
he was apparently no nearer his OBJ
ject. and he requested that the time
might be extended to a month.
| When this period had elapsed, and
he presented himself, unaccOmpanied
by any one, before his superior, the
latter upbraided him with his in
efficiency. It was obvious, the in
dignant official remarked, that he
did not sufficiently know his Dusi-
ness. every well, my dear SIR
was the calm reply, "but I have
now to inform you that I have been
eight DAYS married to the daughter
of the lady have been searching fol
land 1 shall thank you to hand Ovel
the SOC, 900 francs, which are the
property of my mother-in-law."
Year: 1869

What's the use of always fretting


AT the trials we shall find
Ever strewn along our pathway


Travel on and never mind.
Travel onward-working, hoping
Cast no lingering look behind
At the trials once encountered


Look ahead and never mind.
And if those who might befriend you,
Whom the ties of nature bind,
Should refuse to do their duty,


Look to Heaven and never mind.
Friendly words are often spoken


When the feelings are unkind;
Take them for their real value,


Pass them on and never mind.
Fate may threaten, clouds may lower,
Enemies may be combined;
If your trust in God is steadfast,


He will hold you, never mind.
Year: 1869

LITTLE things sometimes produce
great result. A drcp Of water, a lit
tie frosted, will explode the NOM
moth rock in twain, a match will
fire whole city, and little busy
dody gossip of woman, with lit
tie tOngne and no brains, will set a
whole neighborhood by the ears.
Year: 1869

HON. LOT NJ. MORRILL, has been
appointed United States Senator
from Main in place Of the late sena-
tor Fessenden. The morals OF the
Senate have been getting rather low
of late, and it Is pleasant to know
that there is to be a new lot OF them
coming in from away down East.
Year: 1869

Richard Marley, Esq, one of the oldest Odd
Fellows IN the United States, died yesterday
morning al his residence, IN Baltimore, in the
18th year Of his age. The deceased was a con =
temporary of the late Grand Sire Thos Wildey,
and did much towards the ad dyancement of the
Order be was Past Grand Master. and for
n long period up 70 the day of his death filled
the responsible position of Treasurer of the
Grand Lodge of Mary land and was one of the
Representatives from Maryland TO the Grand
Lodge of the United States; also a prominent
rsember OF the Encampment or Patriarchal
branch OF the Order. The deceased was es-
teemed by all who knew him, as an honest and
upright man. The members of the Order are
making extensive arrangements for the funeral.
which Is 10 take place from the hall in Cav
street, Baltimore, tomorrow afternoon The
Grand Lodge and Grand Encampment of tn.
District Of Columbia, where the deceased was
fsvorably known for his devotion TO Odd Eel
lowship, hold meeting tonight, and will
send delegation 10 Baltimore Tomorrow
morning, IN the O'Clock train, TO attend the
funeral
Year: 1869

The New York Democrat Brick Pomerov-s
paper, Is 10 be issued as an afternoon journal
on and after Monday next. Brick also an
nounces that as soon as his arrangements now
In progress are perfected he will commence the
publication OF new eight page morning paper
equalin size TO the Tribune. "Insatiate monster
would not one SUFFICE
Year: 1869

An lNsPorrED CHARAcrrR-M Money
Is good thing, especially in those hard
times, but there Is something thousand
times more valuable It is a character
the consciousness of pure and hon
orab'e life This should be a mau's first
aim to pres at any cost In times of
Of commercial distress. while some are
proved and found wanting, others como
forth tried as BY fire. Here onc comes
out Of the furnace far more Of man
than before. Amid the wreck of mis-
fortune he stands erect-a noble spcci-
men Of true manhood We have occa-
sionalIy witnessed an example Of courage
il such = crisis, Of moral iut.epdity that
deserved all honor.


Let it be the aim of every business
man, above al things else, to keep thi,
purity u1stainel. This is The best pos
scssion-tLis IS the capital which can
ncy-r h taken from him this is tho in
hclitaace which lie can leave his chill
dren.
Year: 1869

A young minister was discoursing on the
expansive character Of the human mind, and
said: Yes. my friend, the mind of man is
so expansive that it can soar from star to
star, and from satchelte 10 satchelite, and
from seraphene to sersphene, and from cher
rybeam to cherrybeam. and from thence to
the crater of the dome of heaven
Year: 1869

SUM MMONS.-STATE OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY
- Of Tuoumne.-In the District Court of the Fifth Ju
dcial Dstrict.-W Daegener, Plaintiff, Henry P.
Could Henry Pey Decentralization brought in the
District Court the Fifth Judicial District and the
Clerk of the said District Court The people of the
State of California, send greeting TO Henry Gould and
Henry Piey.


You hereby required to appear in action brought
against by the above named Plaintiff in the District
Court the Fifth Judicial District in and for the County
Tuoumne and to the complaint filed therein "a
copy which accompanies this summons within ten days
exclusive of day of serve) after the service on you
summonsf served within this county; or If served
out of this county, but within this Judicial District with
In twenty days; If served out of said District then
within forty days-or Judgment by default will be taken
against you.


The said action is brought TO obtain Judgment against
Won the Of Fourteen Hundred and thirtythree
dollars with interest thereon at ten per cent per
annual from August 11th, 1862 said amount is al
legged by this Plaintiff to be due him from certain
executed and delivered for value received
by Henry F. Could Defendant herein TO Henry Pley De-
eudan hereu and by said Pey assigned to this Plain
n for valuable consideration, also for costs of suit.
Aud fail appear and answer the said Complaint
as above required the Plaintiff will take Judgment by
default against you for the amount prayed for in Com
plant ile


Given under my hand and the Seal Of the District


Court of the Fifth Judicial District, this 9TH


day Of July, in the year Of our Lord one
IL. 81 thousand eight hundred and sixty nine.


r. L. GARDINER, Clerk


Rv porrER DaDntv