smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1869

A nne opportunity Is thus Afforded the stock
gambling banks-and there are more than few such
in the cityto expand In the interest Of their officers
and friends who are long Of Erie, Central and the
naming speculative stocks II the institution which
locked up greenbacks for the Erie clique win now
change its policy and dispense currency freely "a
its reserve permits there will be gala times In Wall
street, ana Erie and Central, which are 80 heavy
win 20 or like hot cakes.


There was a sharp advance in gold on the nrst
business day Of the year-the result OF the more
warlikc news from Europe and OF extensive "cover-
ingn by the shorts" who had sold In the declining
market OF the beginning OF the week. The price
went as high as l35H-an advance Of X from the
lowest figure Of the day. The rise is all the more re
markable as the payment OF the government coupons
contributed about s6,ooo,oo0 to the market,
42,00o.0o0 Of which, win have been seen by the
statement found It's ~ into the banks. The price
subsequently receded to 135h. The highest and
lowest prices OF gold during the week were as
fnllows-
Year: 1869

The following named gentlemen compose the State
government for the year 1889, and by o-morrow all
Of them will have entered upon the exercise OF their
respective o1cial duties and functions. The Cover
nor and State ocers were formally installed the
1st instant, and the State Legislature with assemble
ana proceed to organize In the Capitol at Albany at
noon tomorrow, the swearing In of members the


cctton Of Speaker OF the Assembly, Clerk and other
ofncerA and the appointment OF committees being
the first business to be disposed or
Year: 1869

SICK JAcoBINs. despatch from Washing
ton informs MS that Vienna Schenck and sun
dry other Of the forty-seven Jacobins In Con-
gress are out with statement that they have
been misrepresented in regard to their views
on the Tenure of ONCE act. They say their In
tention was to have the act SO amended as TO
be shorn Of It's obnoxious features, but the
previous question was so suddenly sprung
upon them on the bill to repeal the act alto
gether that they had no alternative but to vote
against It, This Is q mere subterfuge to get
rid Of the odium that attaches to the whole
forty-scven Jacobins for their action In the
premises. They want to apologize for their
folly, cover up their shabbiness and put in an
appearance that they are not hostile to the in
coming administration OF General Grant. But
II is too late. They are sick men. They are
marked as black sheep, and all the apologies
they can make will not restore them to the
favor OF the powers that are soon to be. Sic
transit the glory OF Schenck and his forty
six sick Jacobins.
Year: 1869

for one dollar month.


The postage being only thirty-fve cents a
quarter, country subscribers by this arrangement
can receive the HERALD at the same price it is
furnished in the city.
Year: 1869




Negseiaesoa.


The cable despatch tells US that the treaty
between the United States and England for the
settlement Of the Alabama claims has been
signed. This b the end Of the dining and
wining that have been going on for some time
in England between Reverdy johnson, in the
character Of Brother Jonathan, and John Bull
in his most complacent mood. John buu
Is willing to pay the Alabama claims on
condition that we let him Off from the
acknowledgment that he was wrong In con-
ceding belligerent rights to the rebels.
He il willing to give up the spoil, but the
principle sticks in his crop. He is somewhat
in the predicament of Falstaff when pressed
by Prince Hal on the robbery question
though reasons were as plenty as blackber-
ries' he would not give one upon compulsion.
We are not sure but this Is the best plan
to settle the question on, for the simple reason
that 1t gives us our due and leaves the princi-
pie in the exact position that will enable us to
take satisfaction in kind whenever an oppor-
tunity may occur.


The treaty has yet to pass its final ordeal
before tho Senate Of the United States, to
which body it was yesterday transmitted by
the President, and we do not feel at all
assured that it will be permitted to pass
without question. We have held to the
position that it was for the highest interest
of Great Britain to settle the belligerent
rights question in q sense opposed to
the granting Of these to minor combatants.
In that way the great commerce which
the British flag now covers on every
ocean would have received new guarantee
and sailed in greater safety. Now we have
only to grant belligerent rights to any petty
community that chooses to resist Englands
power, and the sea may swarm with cruisers
like the Alabama and rovers like Semmes.
They will find British ship almost upon
every wave and may gorge themselves with
prey. This will be the shortest and cheapest
way to restore the carrying trade to our flag
and our seamen, and John Bull may find that
he has made as great mistake with Dandy
Johnson in England as the radicals found they
had made with Andy Johnson in the White
House.
Year: 1869

The BACKBONE OF THE INDIAN REBELLION
BROKEN. General She ridan reports the cap
ture Of Comanche village on Christmas day,
and announces that this success gives ''the
final blow to the backbone Of the Indian re-
bellion." We hope this declaration may prove
more correct than those which were made
during the late Southern rebellion, the back
bone Of which was broken so often that people
despaired Of ever seeing II again properly re-
constructed-a difficulty that remains even to
the present day.
Year: 1869

HERALD has forced us to bring into use all our
press facilities which now enable us to throw off
eighty-fve thousand copies of the HERALD per
hour. Newsmen and carriers who have hereto
fore found delay in receiving their papers will in
future have their orders executed at much
earlier hour.
Year: 1869

At the close of the war, the friends
of General GEO. H. THOMAS made up
purse of a Hundred thousand dollars to
buy him house. Learning what they had
done, be thanked them, bat shrank from
the transaction. Some believe that this
was the reason why President GRANT
promoted General SHERIDAN over him.
GRANT doesn't think much ofany mans
sense who wouldn't take hop, skip and
a jump Mt the offer OF a house and lot.
Is it possible that the President faneies
that he sees rebuke of himself lurking
and coiing in THOMAS rejection of the
liberal proposal of his friends I
Year: 1869

GENERAL BUTLER wants to make
haste slowly in regard to admitting the
Southern States to all their rights, be-
cause men have been taken out Of Jail
and hanged and shot in that section of
the Union. Has not the same thing
been done in Indiana; and if one State
should be kept out of the Union for
such occurrences, should not sister
Commonwealth be banished from the
national family for kindred offences
At least, let General BUTLER and his
friends be consistent in their inconsist
enciesr
Year: 1869




Massachusetts Radicals are so elated
at securing two Cabinet officers, with
the probability Of a foreign mission or
two, that they are fairly facetious over
their good luck. The Boston Trareller
says that New England is getting a
good share of roast beef aud plum
padding, while New York has to put up
with Fish"


When person dies in the villages of
the Balkan, only the women wear
mourning, and they express their sor-
row for the space Of year, or less. ac-
cOrding TO the degree of consanguinity,
by wearing every article of clothing in
side out.


There is man in Illinois who has
moved 50 often that whenever a cover
cd wagon comes near the house, his
chickens fall on their backs aud cross
their legs, ready to be tied and carried
to the next stopping place,
Year: 1869

1t is a we'll established fact that fully one
half of the female portion of our population are
seldom in the enjoyment Of good health, or to
use their own expression, never feel we'll"
They are languid, devoid of all energy, extreme.
ly nervous and have no appetite


To this class of persons the BITTERS, or the
TONIC, is especially recommended.


WEAK AND DELICATE CHILDREN


Are made strong by the use Of either of these
remedies. They will cure every case of MA.
RASMUS, without fail


Thousands of certificates have accumulated
in the hands of the proprietor, but space will
allow of the publication of but n few. Those
it will be observed, are men of note, and of such
standing that they must be believed
Year: 1869

private soldier in California has in
vented a new method of skimming milk
He fts fine gauze sieve to hoop Of the
size Of the pan. The milk is then poured
into the pan so as to "A httla more than GOV.
er the sieve When the cream has risen
the hoop is lifted and the cream is thus
com pletelv removed
Year: 1869

A Saratoga dispatch saws that the FIVE
mile trot on the Fair Ground course, on
Saturday last, between Lady Palmer and
Bismarck, was won by Lady Palmer with.
out single break in sixteen minutes and
fourteen seconds
Year: 1869

Dogs are very destructive to the sheep ia
Virginia, and It is estimated that one negro
is equal to three dogs. Tue oarpetbaggef's
value is not given iE the scale, but it must
be considerable
Year: 1869

The Boston Post says the paragraph in
the New Orleans Ptcayuae announcing that
jeff Davis family carriage had been taken
to the Hub for exhibition at the Peace Ju,
bilee is hoax. The carriage wasn't there,
any more than the Jubilee was peace.
Year: 1869

Ten months of detective labor have re
suited in the arrest and confession of one o
the scounlrels who planned and executed
the wholesale slaughter on the Erie railroad
near Port Jervis.
Year: 1869

A DONKEY ON A LocoMcTivE.-The other night as
passenger train on the M & G. R r. passing Ste
phens Gap. jackson county, donkey was standing
on the track with his rear to the locomotive. The
COW catcher struck him and he suddenly disappeared


kean apparition from the engineers view. The en-
gneer and CONDUCTOR curious to know what had be-
come Of tile brute, stopped the train, and found him
seated on his launches between the bumper and the
engine under the head light with his head and
erect in all the solemn majesty of bis nature. With
considerable difficulty he was detbroned and turned
on the commons lie moved off sereney, and, appa-
: renay anlsnrt Huntsville Democrat.
Year: 1869

Alcohol dissolves chloroform, so that when a mix-
upe of alcohol and water is shaken up with chloro-
form, the alcohol and chloroform unite leaving the
water separate. An instrument to test the adutera-
ton Of alcohol based upon the above results, has
Gently been invented. 1t consists of graduated glass
tube into which measured quantity of chleroforus,
is poured and to this is added given quantity of the
liquid to be tested these well mixed together,
and then left to subsde the choroorm takes up the
alcohol and leaves the water, which bsng lighter than
of that has been mixed with the spirit will hsz
at once SEEN
Year: 1869

The Jewish Sentinel very justly and aptly says
"Wh the last fash of the sword above the ramparts
of Richmond an end was brought to the most gigantic
civil struggle that has harassed nation, but the
sad effects of the struggle have remained long after the
contest is Though neither doubling drum nor
throbbing sounds the fierce mandates of bat
te-though no fair field be srewn with dead, yet the
echoes of the one remain-the ghastly sight of the
other cndures in the consequences which they induced
The South to day. asi has always been the Eden of
DID, when sin had entered its happy precincts. War,
like the serpent has visited this eden, and stripped it
of all its external beauty Yet, the fertile soil, the
tall green trees and the balmy air remain there is
the same power in them of old, if it be only
tectnd y
Year: 1869

HEADS OFF,-The Cincinnati Enquirer says: Post
master General Creswe declares that lie will rot
leave Democrat in Office if he can fnd Republi-
can to fill it," Very we'll The Democrats of the
country outnumber the Republicans by not less than
million men-leaving out of the count the negroes.
By fraud and system of military coercion, the Radicals
are in power Their hold upon it not be pro-
longed, and we merely put Mr.. Creswe on record for
future reference The press of his party quote
bis determination with approval and it is to be hoped
We shall hear complaints from them, if Democrats
hereafter adopt the same rule.
Year: 1869

PEARLS. Measure not men by Sundays,
without regarding what they do all the week
after.


Moderation is the silken string running
through the pearl-chain ofall virtues


How can we expect another to keep cur
secret if We cannot keep 1t ourselves
The generous heart should scorn a pleasure
which gives others pain.


There are few, very few, that win own
themselves in a mistake
The best government is that which teaches
US to govern ourselves.


The memory of good actions is the star
light Of the soul


There is not a waksful moment without
some duty.


There is beggary in the love that can be
reckoned.


No man can tel whether he is rich or
poor by turning to his ledger. 1t is the
heart that makes man rich. lie Is rich
or poor according to what be is, and not sc-
eoriing to what he has,
Year: 1869

EXERcIsE Through all nature, want Of
motion indicates weakness, corruption, in
animation and death. Trenck, in his damp
prison, leaped about ike lion, in fetters of
seventy pounds weight, in order to preserve
bis health; and an illus;rious physician OBJ
serves:


I know not which Is the most necessa-
ry to the support Of the human frame
food Or notion Were the exercises Of
the body attended to in a corresponding
degree with that of the mind, men Of
great learning would he more healthy and
vigo1ous-of mere general taeuts-of more
ample practical knowledge; more happy in
their domestic lives; more enterprising and
attached to their duties as men. In fine, it
may with propriety be said, that the highest
refinement Of the mind, without improve
ment Of the body can never present anything
more than half a human being
Year: 1869

BIZ HORACE GREELEY


The monopoly of the soil Is the great fun


damental error Of our political and social


policy. Had the truth but been understood
and acted on, in the settlement Of this con


tineut, that no man can rightfuIlY have an
exclusive property in any more soil than be


and bis family can cultivate-had moder-
ate and reasonable maximum for nd-owning
/ been established at the outset, aud no man
permitted to hold more, save on sufferance,
to be resumed by the State so soon as the
increase Of its population shall have created
a demand for it-then the spectacle of gen
eral thrift, industry, plenty and content
ment. presented by our country, would suf-
fee to banish aristoeracy and despotism from
Europe without a struggle, and ensure a
general imitation of our benefcient, iuspir
ing example But we began under royal
auspices aud with royal grants of land in ex-
orbitant quantities to favorites; and We have
very naturally progressed to poor houses,
orphan asylums and soup societies, until al
ready our great cities differ little in their
social aspects from the capitals Of Europe,
with their sumptuous thousands and squal-
id hundreds of thousands Of inhabitants.
Land monopoly, wherever it may be tolera-
ted, compels the many to toll and suffer that
the few may riot aad squander I.must be
abolished before republican principles can
have full course and achieve their noblest
results.


A Republic wherein one man may truly
say Of those who hold the balance Of power
in State, IF they do not vote as l say,
viii deprive them Of their means Of subsist-
enee, IS but disguised and decorated oil
garehy.


A Republic in which a large proportion
of the voters are ignorant, enslaTed to appe-
tite, and in desperate want Of the necessa-
ries Of life, Is very insecure guardian Of
Liberty, Property and Prosperity. Every
elecfor should have direct and palpable
interest in the welfare Of the community
whose policy may be radically changed by
bis ballot; aud il is the pressing dictate Of
public safety that such interest be extended
and secured to him. A constitutional pro.
Year: 1869

IN a recent sermon Mr.. Beeeher pitied
the devil after the following fashion: Il
am informed that, before the commutation
system was abandoned By the ferry eompa-
ny, men Of property and good standing in
society would boldly declare that they had
a commutation ticket in their pocket when
they had none, for the sake Of going through
without paying They did this when the
ferTyage was one ceat! / pity the devil
1t is awful 10 be chief magistrate for par
eel Of men ike them | cannot understand
how these exiguous, thrice squeezed men
can be managed ="
Year: 1869

LARIATTNG A LOCOMOTIVE The Sacra-
mento Reporter says 1t is currently re-
ported that a new tribe of Indians have been
discovered near Independence, on the line
Of the Central Pacific, who would seem to
be as well posted in regard to railroad mat
ters as their red-skin brethren of the plains
The other day locomotive having passed
by to their bewildcrment, they resolved to
lie in wait OF pursue and lsriate The mon
ster.


Accordingly they made a very strong
lariate, and perceiving the mystery approach
ing, stretched it across the track, either end
being held firmly by 20 or so of the would
be captors, The engine came laundering
along, the lariat was struck just below the
head light, and it is said that the Indians
exhibited greater fsats of ground and lofty
tumbling than was ever seen in frst-elass
circus.
Year: 1869


EDuING. An exchange has the follow
ing, which viii strike all who read it as be-
ing true


Edi'ing q paper Is a pleasant business.


Il 1t contains TOO much reading matter
people won take IT,


Ifthe type Is too large, it don't contain
enough reading matter.


Ifthe type IS too small people won read
it.


If we publish telegraph reports, people
say they are all lies


If We omit them, they say We are fossils.


five publish original matter, they con
denim Us for not giving selections.


five publish selections, they say We are
lazy for not writing more, and give them
what they have not read in some other pa
rors.


FIVE give a man 4 complimentary notice,
then we ere censured as being partial.


If we remain in the Office aud attend to
business. folks say We are too proud to mia
gle with other fellows


five do not, they say we never attend to
business.


five publish poetry, We effect sentiment
alism.


If we DO not, We have no literary polish
or taste.


five do not pay bills promptly, folks say
we are not to be trusted,
Ifwepay promptly, they Say we stole The
money.


Coon MAHlIs. An action cannot be
perfectly good. unless it is pure in It's mo
riyes; that is, unless the motives are vir.
tuous and free from any mixture of vice.


If We commit small faults without regret
to Cay We shall commit greater ones TO
morrow.


Pride is the most ridiculous ana the most
foolish Of all vices.


Ia everything We do, however trifing,
We ought to reflect and reason, otherwise
we shall never do anything we'll


Idleness renders Us unfit for everything
Flattery is more preiudieial than rude
ness or anger.


We owe the greatest gratitude to those
who tell US the truth


Calumny is the voice Of those who have
neither a good heart nor a good under
standing.


We ought never to believe i'll Of any one
till we arc certain oft, We ought not to
say anything that is rude and displeasing in
Joke, and even then We ought not to carry
the joke too far


The longer the saw Of contention Is drawn,
the hotter it grows.


In matters Of conscience, first thoughts
are best. In matters of prudence, last
thoughts are best


Lying is vice so very infamous, that
the greatest liar cannot bear it in other
men.


LARIATING A LOCOMOTIVE Sacra-
r,anfo Pano~tar savS- II is o1rrentlv re-
Year: 1869

How TO GET RID OF THE NATIONAL
DEBT.-"There are twenty millions Of
people in the North. Ifeach one of
these would destroy o five cent cur
rency note daily, it would amount to
million of dollars in a day toward
the removal of the National debt. If
this were done every day for year,
it would diminish the debt by three
hundred and sixty-fve millions of dol
lars yearly, which is more than the
whole internal revenue produces. -
". y Erening Post, (Rdd.)


Thereupon the Rochester (N W
Union (Dem.,) discourses


"There are twenty millions Of hairs
on one or more yellow dogs. If each
Of these hairs could be made 10 Weld
dollar a day, every day for a year..
there would be enough realized by
this time twelvemonth to pay off the
entire debt and leave several thousand
miIlionsin the treasury. Wepresume
it will require no very elaborate argu-
ment to prove that this plan of getting
rid of tho National debt beats that of
the Post all TO pieces. Any one can
see at a glance that it yields and pays
of more rapidly, and, what is best Of
all, leaves handsome surplus for
somebody to steal"
Year: 1869

In Decatur, Illinois, the other day,
a man thought he bad found a long
piece Of dress goods upon the pave.
ment He picked up one end of it
and commenced wrapping it around
his arm, when, on looking around the
corner, he discovered a lady at the
other end quietly talking TO friend.
he concluded to abandon his prize.
Year: 1869

BRAD-AwLs INEFFECTUAL-rhe buf
faIoes found in the telegraph poles of the
overland line new source OF delight on
the treeless prairie---the novelty of hav-
ing something to scratch against. But
it was expensive scratching for the tele-
graph company and there, indeed, was
the rub, for the blsons shook down miles
of wire daily. n bright idea struck
somebody to send to St. Louis and Chi
cago for all the brad-awls that could be
purchased, and these were driven into
the poles with view to wound the ami
mails and check their rubbing propensity.
Never was a greater mistake, The but-
faloes were delighted. For the first time
they came to the scratch they We're sure
of sensation in their thick black hides
that thrilled them from horn to tail
They would go fifteen miles to find {
brad-awl. They fought huge battles
around the poles containing them, ant
the victor would proudly climb the noun
famous heap of rump and hump of th'
fallen, and scratch himself into bliss un
I'll the brad-awl broke or pole came down
There has been no demand for brad-awl'
from the Kansas region since the first
invoice.
Year: 1869





Not TO the man of dollars,
Not to the man of deeds,
Not to the man of cunning,
De. Not to the man of creeds
Not to the one whose passion
Is for the worlds renown,
Not in the form of fashion
COmeth blessing down.
Not unto lands expansion,
Not TO the miscrs chest,
Not to the princely mansion,
Not to the blaZoned crest
Not to the sordid worldling,
Not 10 the knavish clown,
Not TO the naughty tyrant
Comcth blessing down.
Not to the folly blinded,
Not to the stepped in shame,
Not TO the carnal-minded,
Not TO unholy fame;
Not in neglect of duty, wr 7.
Not In THE monarch's crown,
Not mt the smile of beauty
COmeth blessing down.
But to one whose spirit
Yearns for the great and good
Unto the one Whole storchousc
Yielded the hungry food;
Unto the one who laboTS
Fearless OF foe or iruwn;
Unto the kindly hearted
Cometh blessing down.