smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1869

MARvELs or MINUTE VEGETA~
TIoN. Some spores Of fungi are so
inconceivably minute that it would
require more than 200, 000. 900 placed
side BY side to cover a square inch,
yet these atoms, insignificant as they
appear, keep constant to particular
patterns, both in shape, sizes aud
colour. More than this, each atom
is possessed Of q spark of life. which
under favorable circumstances, will
cause the minute spore to swell and
burst and reproduce the parent plant
from which it sprang. It is difficult
if not totally impossible. to conceive
the infinite minuteness of these liv>
ing bodies, but for comparison, we
may say that one spore bears the
same relation to a foot linear as
yard does to more than l00 miles ; a
space fur inches square is sufficient
to contain q number Of spores, side
By, side, equal to all the inhabitants
Of the world 1000 600 would 6ud
ample space on the head Ofa piu yet
the life contained 10 these objects is
SO tenacious that neither the burning
sun Of summer nor the severest cold
Of winter causes them to lose their
vital power When they have freshly
fallen from the parent plant they are
highly sensitive, and if they are al.
lowed to fall upon glass and are
watched under the higher powers of
the microscope, breath will show
in a remarkable manner how they are
Influenced BY warmth ard moisture.
The World Of Wonders.
Year: 1869

1t is due the delegation from Walla
Walla county to say that they are
constantly in their seats, and giving
close attention to business. By
common consent, Judge Mix is re-
garded as the head of the delegation,
and on the floor of the House is the
acknowledged democratic leader. The
only fault l have to find with the
Judge is his excessive liberality, and
this libefality leads him to favor
measures that will entail q serious
tax upon the people. The other
members Of the delegation, being Of
difrreut temperament, possibly
may bold him in che. k.
Year: 1869

Owing to the great increase OF bus.
ness consequent on the popularity OF
their Cartoon and general issue, the
proprietors OF


THE EVENING TELEGRAM
would impress upon advertisers the
necessity of presenting their afvor-
itisements for the Cartoon papers three |
DAYS In advance, to secure Insertion.
In the general issue u Is also neces'
sarv to present advertisements on the 1
afternoon preceding the issue OF the
edition for which they are intended.
THE EVENING TELEGRAM
will be sent by mail to subscribers for |
sir dollars per year. Address 81 Mas |
sau street.
Year: 1869

The ill-fated ship James Foster, Jr., now
lies on the New York side, close to Fulton
ferry, so close that thousands who, during the
last few days, have had occasion to cross have
seen the hated name. The James Foster, Jr.,
cannot too soon cease to exist. The name can
never again be mentioned with respect. The
atrocities with which her name must be last
ingly associated can never be either forgotten
or forgiven When no public press existed,
when the tyranny which pirates took pleasure
in exercising was common, the James Foster,
Jr., might have got along well enough; but we
are now too far advanced in the nineteenth
century to have any patience with tyranny
and brutality and murder, even on board ship,
where captain is supposed to be above all
law. We are sorry to learn that Captain Arm
strong is no more. We never take any
pleasure in pursuing the dead. 1t is always
our wish to say of the dead, ''Let them rest in
peace" Sometimes, however, public interests
are so strong that individual interests must be
held subordinate. The case of the James
Foster, Jr., is just such case. Mr.. Charles





uses the old argument that because man is
gone and therefore unable to speak for him
self we ought to be silent. We are willing to
be reasonable. We shall pronounce no more
harsh judgments until we have further evil
dence But further evidence we must have.
The captains death must not be allowed to
affect the course of justice. The investigation
must 60 on as if nothing Of the kind had hap
pened. If the officers are found guiltless, by
all means let them be acquitted. Let them
have the full benefit. II, however, they are
found to have been guilty, let no maudlin senti-
mentality be allowed to come in the way. On
Wednesday next we shall expect to learn that
the investigation has gone on, nothing affected
by the death Of Captain Armstrong.
Year: 1869

to the United States the productive wealth
and our trade with that island would De
immense. Then we ought to save that
beautiful and rich country from the horrors
and devastation which now threaten it. 10
permit the scenes and fate of another st.
Domingo on our border would be an eternal
disgrace to the United States. In every point
of view, then-on high political grounds, for the
interest of our commerce, and for the sake OF
humanity, the government and people Of this
republic should favor by every means the
independence of Cuba, and we are glad to
learn that by the arrival Of an ambassador
preliminary from the Cuban provisional gov
ernment the objects above expressed are
likely to be realized.
Year: 1869




There seems to be decided movement in
the Legislature at Albany to amend the rail-
road law Of the State, with a view to prevent
the improper issue Of stock and scrip by rail-
road companies, to protect bona tids stock
holders and to secure better and more honest
management of railroads. The committee to
which was referred this matter has presented
report, and several members have proposed
amendments to the law These amendments
differ in some respects, but all aim at the same
object. One, offered by Mr.. Parker, prohibits
the issue Of any stock with the intent, directly
or indirectly, to affect the market price Of the
bonds or stock of company for speculative
purposes. Another, proposed by Messrs Gra-
ham and Genet, forbids the issue Of scrip or
stock without the consent of the Legislature.
gan, proposes to limit the power of the
presidents and directors of railroad COM
panies, to prevent the issue of stock
beyond the amount authorized by the charter
and to make the action of the stockholders
necessary in all cases where the stock is in
CAOoocu. AuCIC ID uO 5upJcCt Ou WAlCA thU
Legislature can be better employed, and we
hope it will be well considered and such
amendments made to the railroad law as to
prevent stockholders and the public being
swindled in the way they have been by un-
scrupulous directors and stock gamblers. AT
present the managers and directors Of rail-
roads can initiate their stock with impunity
and thus tax the public by high rates for pas
sage and freight to pay dividends on ficti-
tious capital. It is tax on the whole COM
munity. The people are made to pay rates
corresponding to capital Of sixty millions
when the actual cost of railroad has not
been more than twenty millions. Besides, the
majority of the stockholders or the purchasers
of the stock are often swindled to enrich few
of the directors or the managers. We have
had recent examples Of this Every man,
woman and child in the community is affected
directly or indirectly by such railroad tax.
No tax is more general. The time has come
when the public must be protected against un-
scrupulous railroad managers and stock
gamblers. The Legislature should pass al
once stringent and comprehensive law on
the subject
Year: 1869

The Senate of the United States has now
under consideration the treaty recently nego-
tiated by Mr.. Cushing, in Bogota with the
republic Of Colombia for the protection of any
company that may undertake the construction
of ship canal across the Isthmus of Darien.
The subject is one Of immediate and permanent
interest to the commerce Of the world, and
particularly SO to that Of the United States.
With the immense empire and trade which we
are rapidly building up on the Pacific shore
and ocean we require shorter water route
from the Atlantic than that offered by Cape
Horn, and this is to be obtained only by cut
ting the isthmus. Unfortunately this bar to
the marriage Of the coasting trade between our
Atlantic and Pacific ports lies within the terri
tory Of foreign Power, and hence the neoes-
sity of a treaty which shall offer protection to
the great sums which are requisite for the con-
struction of the work and the vast commerce
which will seek its facilities when completed.


Inasmuch as fully nine-tenths of the trade
which will seek this line of water transit
between the two oceans will be the domestic
trade of the United States it behooves the
Senate to guard against the concession to
foreign Power of permanent and irredeema-
BILE tax upon our commerce for all time to
come. There is no claim SO repugnant to the
common sense of justice which pervades man.
kind as the old feudal claim Of the right
to exact pa yment for transit on the
ground of territorial sovereignty. This claim
should be and has been rejected by the great
mass of modern publicists, though 1t was un-
fortunately recognized by ourselves, In the
case of the concession by the New Granadan
government for the construction Of the
Panama Railroad. No wise jurist will advo-
cate such q claim, and no true statesman will
concede it.


This principle has been conceded In ths
recent treaty with Colombia, and permanent
tax consented to in behalf of that government
equal to an increase Of one-third Of the tolls
which the capitalists constructing the canal
may find 1t necessary to exact to reimburse
them for their outlay. In return for this gra-
tuity the government Of Colombia neither ex-
pends one dollar towards the work nor offers
it the slightest protection when constructed II
does not even give q map or survey Of any
kind Of that portion Of Its territory which the
canal is to cover. The survey is to be under
taken at our cost; we are to fight the native
savages whom the Colombian government has
not been able to subdue; our citizens are to
6nd the money to construct the canal, and our
government Is to provide troops and ships to
protect 1t while building and ever afterwards.
In view Of these facts we claim that, in COM
mon justice to ourselves, the Senate should
strike out Of the Darien Canal treaty every
clause which gives to the Colombian govern
ment any interest in the benefits Of the work
except such as may accrue to II from the
alternate sections Of land along the line Of the
canal
Year: 1869

The DANGER OF THE STREETS. one even
ing three persons were run over and killed by
the street cars in this city and in Brooklyn.
Two were killed by horse cars and one by a
dummy. So that steam in the streets is clearly
not worse than horses. In Brooklyn the car
ran over boy, cut him in two and went on
The body was found some time after, and the
number of the car is not known. Some pas
senger must remember that peculiar jolt and
the scream of that boy.
Year: 1869

Butler is the most useful man In Congress.


He rips up queer topics every now and then,
and his utter indifference as to whether there
is row or not prevents his holding his tongue
for fear of the consequences. He ehasjust let the
light in on little known phase Of legislation.


It would appear that when bill has gone
through the hands Of Senate and House 1t is q
rather defaced document, with interlneations,


and blots and what not. In this somewhat
illegible condition it goes to an engrossing
clerk, who copies it out to the best Of his
ability, ''making sense" as he can, poor fellow!
Some clauses it would appear he may possibly
drop, and there seems certain likelihood that
II it were to the interest of the whiskey ring
about hundred thousand dollars-that he
should not see certain clause, he might be
blind as to that clause-yea, though it were
underlined to make 1t conspicuous. OF course
the senses are fallible. BY this process II ap-
pears that there has been dropped somewhere
clause that modifcs certain law 30 as TO
rob the government Of one million and half
dollars and give II to the whiskcy men. II Is
startling fact that when Butler opened this
subject not mentioned before in public, the
chairman Of the Ways and Means Committee
seemed to be in possession Of all the points Of
argument against him. He knew all about IL.
Year: 1869

EXPENSIVE Recommendations Sher
man wants to get the officers out Of Washing
ton, which is admirable but when 1t is found
that few days longer stay Of one is neces-
sary to dispose of government property TO the
value Of two hundred thousand dollars he
says that the officer must go and the property
"burn." But is not this a kind Of reform
worse than no reformp What do we want Of
reform in the army but for economy, and
what kind Of economy is II to spend two hun
dred thousand dollars TO get an officer out Of
Washington Go ahead, General keep your
earnestness fresh against abuses; but IL you
cannot enforce your will more cheaply than
this, and with judcious reserves, you are not
the strong man we thou0ht YOU
Year: 1869

THE DIFFERENCE city paper criticises
the wearers Of the green on their taste, say
ing 1.-THE highest notion Of decoration that
our Irish fellow citizens have attained TO thus
far would seem to be green velvet shoulder
belt, with gold fringe, over black broadcloth
coat, both coat and shoulder belt considerably
the worse for wear" Just so. But when
afty thousand men at length find themselves
at home In city where they can geA broad
cloth coats and wear green belts whaA IL more
natural than that they should indulge long
represscd fancy for such attire, and even deem
1t the most beautiful ever seen. 'Sure, q
gintleman Is known by his cloth !"
Year: 1869

.


The NobIo County Hepubiican, in
the last issue, thus expresses itself
in relation to the Fifteenth Amend
meBt:


In The campaign Just opening
one of tho main issues 10 bo fought
for is the ratification, by Ohio, Of
the Fifteenth Amendment 10 the
Constitution of the United Statos.--
IL is the keystone Of the Republican
fabric IT IS the princIple Tor which
we have struggled in all the years
Of our existence as party. Until
this government shall be in fact
what II Is in theory-a government
founded upon tho consent of all the
governed, irrespective OF race, coI~
or, class or religion; with protcc-
ton TO tho weak, and the right OF
life, liberty and happiness to all
the MISSION Of the Republican
party Is not finished; the object OF
ITS organization Is not accomplished.


Nothing but tho weak kneed con-
servatisn: Of portion of the party
prevented this Issue from arriving
at q successful solution in 1867. In
this campaign we will have the un4
finished work ofthat year TO finish up.
Let us have no milk and water IFS
and and's, no dodgIng the main IS
sue, but stand up squarely To the
Issue so that the October election
may, by a large majority, reduce
this great principle to finality-by
boing engrafted IN the Constitution
of our common country"
Year: 1869

Tho PARIS shop-keopers know
how TO deal with kleptomaniacs.--
Not long since nm elegantly-dressed
lady entered n fashionable lace
store, and asked to look at Valen-
ciennes laces. The patterns shown
appeared TO her too coarse and
heavy, and she loft without purcha,
sing, but not without carrying any
thing away. Tho vigilant eye of
the clerk detected her slipping a
pieoe under her cloak. She had
scarcely returned home when a mes
scngor arrived with n little package
and the following note:


Madam: We arc afraid that
the twelve yards of lace you selec-
ted to-day, in our store will not DO
enough TO trim your dress, and
therefore take the liberty of sending
you another piece OF the same pat
tern with the bill Cor both. Please
send word by the bearer whether
you will take 1t "


IL ia needless to add that tho lady
took the lace and paid the bill, only
too happy at having to deal with
man of sense.
Year: 1869

B6- Great efforts are made to So
cure Northern immigration INTO
North Carolina. An agency has
been established by u Northern
house, of which every member OF
the Legislature is SAID to bo a mem
Der, and several men already have
come from the North ami purchased
farms near Raleigb, at about ten
dollars per acre.
Year: 1869




In a TIGHT PLAcE.-Every body,
of course, remembers tho old story
of the interIopihg gentleman who,
was found by an unexpected hus.
band shut up in the clock. case, and
who replied, when tho indignant
lord oC the manor aalxed him what
he was dong there: "I am taking
a walk A pendant TO this story
comes to us from London. A per-
son there was found The other day
concealed in chimney. When ho
was angrily required to account for
his presence in another mans fluc,
he promptly responded: at was
looking for my camel" What hap.
pened to tho promenader in tho
clock-casO, history tell us not. Tho
man who was seeking bis cane IN
a chimney was remorsely hauled Off
10 jail as thief
Year: 1869

An old man name Brown, living in
Faribault county; went to hunt some
stock recently, and never has been seen
since. He is thought to be lying dead
somewhere in the tall grass.


The St. Cloud Journal records as
one of the freaks of the recent Grove
Lake tornado the picking up Of a mare
standing in field, and carrying her
thirty yards, dropping her in a marsh
breaking her neck and leg. Her colt
standing beside her was uninjurod.


The Hastings Gazette says that
the body of a male infant was
found in che river at Pine Bend, 10th
inst, supposed from appearances to
have been an illegitimate child. Coro.
ner FELTON, held an inquest on Saturday
but no further facts were elected.
Year: 1869

EDITORS TRANSCRIPT:


As you have frequently solicited con-
tributions from your patrons, I venture
to address you, and your readers, on a
subject I consider Of much Importance
to us all; more for the purpose of elici-
ting your and their opinion, and dis
cussion, both pro and con, than from ex-
pectation Of edifying, or interes-
ting either you or them.


The subject I desire to have brought
before thepeople Of thisC County and State
is, our present tax law; its inconvenience,
in efficiency and tho evils attending the
present method of collecting and dis.
bursting taxes.


However it may be in other sections
Of the State, with us, taxes are not
collected, at least so as to yield an
available fund, and Is a consequence
We have no money for public improve
ments, our debts are not paid, and our
credit Is ruined.


A few pay their taxes, but with this
result;after paying their just proportion
Of . certain levy, perhaps half the ro-
quircd amount is raised, but the whole
must be had sometime,so the next year
they are obliged to pay their proportion
Of what remains, and still again for
another year, and SO on. for an indefi-
nate series of years.


I speak from knowledge when I say
that in our town some have paid their
proportion Of money or quite twice the
required amount, necessary 10 pay a
debt for which a special tax has been
levied, and if the debt is half paid by
the expiration of the year it will exceed
my expectations.


At this rate those who pay at all
must pay four times their just proper
tion, and possibly more, if our justly
'incensed creditors gee fit to make US
some extra cost to which we are liable.


probably this may be an exception
able case and the law not entirely in the
blame but it rests on the law and the
manipulators of the county funds.)


Take tax on real estate for instance.
The owner either from neglect or policy
fails to pay the tax; it is advertised for
sale but the faith of capitalists in the
value of tax titles is small and money
commands as good rates where it is less
trouble to attend to it and can be called
in more readily, therefore, for the pres
ent this avails nothing so far as helping
the towns or the tax payers.


But say you, it is not lost but will
eventually come into the treasury With
interest. Granted, bnt when? In all
probability not until the heavy debt
contracted in building roads, bridges,
school houses, &c., in so new country
have obliged the present occupant to
cucumber his homestead to pay the
enormous taxes and eventually re.
Year: 1869

soon as scholars can form letters, say at
seven or eight years, they should also
be required to express their thoughts
on paper. This they can not only learn
to do, but with proper care and atten-
ton, can learn to love to do; and with
proper oral training connected with
the written exercises, they can in few
years learn to express their thoughts
accurately, promptly and gracefully up
on any subject upon which they may
have ideas to communicate.
Year: 1869

The COMING ECL,PsE.-The follow
ing is from the Upper Des Moines,
Iowa, ,):-The Smithsonian Institute
has a map, showing the course Of the
eclipse a cross this continent, from
which it appears that our village is
near the central line Of total darkness.
The line of total darkness will cover
nearly one hundred and fifty geographic
miles in width. A total eclipse Of the
sun is something that very few people
ever witness twice. Consequently it
will be an event of great interest to all
within the belt Of total darkness.
Year: 1869

New PRoFEssoR-A CHANCE FOR A CANDI-
DArE.-Apropos of the proposition to create a
professor of journalism at General Lees college,
the Cincinnati Times proposes a special depart
ment of local editing, and sums up very pleas
antly the kind of instruction required. We
quote


The student in the local business should have
great deal of exercise on his legs each day
taught that it isn't brains so much as leg talent
that is required to make an efficient local re-
porter. He must learn to smell an item at dis
tance, as the model war-horse ''snufeth the bat
tie afar, and spare exertion in finding it.
His fancy and imagination need to be cultivated
somewhat, and his invention quickened and en-
couraged, in order that he may have something
to fall back on in case things persistenly refuse
to happen, for the public demands local news
every day, remember, whether there be any or
not. Deprive them of able /" leaders" and they
may stand it for day two, but they won't
give up their local news for a single issue. The
student should be taught to miss his meals often,
sit up late nights, eat all sorts of festival sup
pers, and sit patiently to hear long and dull
speeches from after dinner orators, He must
learn not to be alarmed by threats of horse
whipping, and must be licked occasionly by the
Professor to accustom him to any incidents of
the kind that are not improbable to occur.
Finally the candidate for the " local " chair
should learn to live q moderate income,
sternly subdue all inclinations Or more than
the necessaries of life, and be willing to give
poverty smiling welcome, until fate, or his
own exertions, hoists him to higher place
Who'll take the professorship Of local editing
Year: 1869

MARR1AGE.-M is a woman's career, let
women rebel against the edict as they may; and
though there may be word-rebellion here and
there, women learn the truth early in their lives.
And women Lnow it later in life when they
think of their girls; and men know it, too,
when they have to deal with their daughters.
Girls, too, now acknowledge aloud that they
have learned the lesson and Saturday Reuiewers
and others blame them for their lack of modesty
in doing so most unreasonably, most uselessly,
and, far as the influence of such censors may
go, most pernicously. Nature prompts the de-
sire, the world acknowledges its ubiquity, cir
cumstances show that it is reasonable, the whole
theory of creation requires it but it is required
that the person most concerned should falsely
repudiate it, in order that mock modesty may
oe maintained in which no human being can be-
leve Such is the theory of the censors who
deal heavily with our English women of the
present day. Our daughter should be educated
to be wives, but, forsooth they should never
wish to be wooed The very idea is but rem
nant of the tawdry sentmentalty of age in
which the mawkish insipidity of the women was
the reaction from the vice of that preceding it.
That our girls are in quest of husbands, and
know we'll in what way their lines in life should
be laid, is fact which none dispute. Let
men be taught to recognize the same truth as re-
CARDS themselves, and we shall cease to hear of
the necessity of new career for women.-He
Vicar of Bulhdmpion.