smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1869

A correspondent of Leisure Hours" in
ailuding to the MANY poisonous reptiles and
insects he met with in India, thus refers to
some of them with which he was familiar


There IS another most disagreeable nuis-
ance, experienced only by those who go out
in tents or sleep under trees 1t is the black,
hairy caterpillar, called by the natives Kam-
la. >" This is so very poisonous that if it
only falls on any one, or even if single
hair touches the body in any part, it pro-
duces most irritating rash, which spreads
rapidly over the whole body. | did not be-
heve this latter fact, about a single hair, till
l had myself experienced it in the following
way One day I saw small insect of this
kind creeping across my verandah. Know
ing well, how they ought to be avoided,
got bit of a stick TO push it away. |
had killed IT aud got it to the edge when
the stick broke, so | gave it one uch
with my slipper. Immediately after Iwiped
the slipper carefully on mat aud examined
it, to see If there were none Of the haIrs
sticking to it. | could see nothing of the
kind but one at least must have remained
though perhaps invisible, for few days al
terward, having occasion hastily to change
my clothes, some part of them touched the
s'iprers and then was drawn along my leg,
as 1t touched, the poisonous rash arose on
my skin, and for several days [ was almost
helpless, finding relief only from constant
application of butter. How this homeo-
pathic dose of poison acts on the system |
leave for c!everer heads to find out.


The centipede is another most annoying
insect. 1t sometimes creeps over the face
| and hanis of person lying asleep, who
wakes up in the morning with a most pain
| ful itching, which gradually rises into a
dangerous rash. Should the sleeper awake
at the time and attempt to pull the insect
off, it fixes its poisonous claws all the more
tightly into the skin, and will scarce let go
when touched with red hot iron. | have
myself escaped this torture, but have often
witnessed the sufferings of my friends.


! There is another very small prosecutor,
which gives annoyance chiefly to ladies'
| the flying bug This little insect, some
thing like a diminutire beetle, comes flying
into our rooms, during the rains, as sson q
the lamps are lit, and drops on our plates
and dishes, and even into our tumblers
leaving behind very strong and disagree
able odor 1t is sometimes almost anus
ing to observe the confusion caused by few
such little torturers at dinner party.


| was going to speak Of mosquitoes an,
other minor geological annoyances, but


have already SAID enough about what | ma


call the too familiar natural history of India
Year: 1869

Once on time little leaf was heard to
sigh and cry, as leaves often do when gen
tie wind is about And the twig said;


What is the matter, little leaf?''


''The wind, said the leaf, '.iust told me
that one day it would pull me off, and throw
me down to die on the ground


The twig told it to the branch on which it
grew, land the branch toldit to the tree. And
when the tree heard it, it rustled all over,
and sent word back to the leaf.


DO net be afraid, hold on tightly, and
you shall not go Until you want to. And so
the the leaf stopped signing, bot went on
nesting and singing. And so it grew all
summer long until October And when the
bright days of Autumn came, the little leaf
saw all the leaves around becoming very
beautiful. Some were yellow and some scar
let, and some striped with both colors. Then
it asked the tree what it meant And the
tree said


''All these leaves are getting ready to hy
away, and they have put on these besutitul
colors because of joy"


Then the little leaf began to want to go,
and grew very beautiful in thinking of it,
and when it was very gay in coior,-it saw
that the branches of the tree had no color
in them, and so the leaf said


''Oh branch, why are you lead color and
we golden p


I'VE must keep on our work clothes, y
said the tree, for our life is not done yet /;
but your clothes are for holiday because your
task is over"


Just then little puff of wind came, and
the leaf let go without thinking of it, and
the wind took it up and turned it over and
over, and then whirled it like spark of fire
in the air, and let it fall gently down under
the edge of the fence among hundreds Of
leaves, and it fell into dream and never
walked up to tell what it dreamed about
Year: 1869

A fine article of cheese is said to be made
of boiled peas and plaster of Paris. 1t can
be distinguished from the original skim milk
or white oak cheese, only it will hang to
one 5 in ards till the day of 'penticostive-
ness" California uses it.
Year: 1869

An Irishman who was engaged at drain
and had his pick axe raised in the air Just
as the clock struck twelve, determined to
work no more till after dinner, let go the pick
and left it hanging there.
Year: 1869

The Note Plate Printers strike in New York
sui continues. dispatch from that city says
The men are muCh encouraged by the ac-
counts from the Washington plate printers,
who say they Will hold out till the Nation al
Bank Note Printing Company will be forced to
yield The company is now engaged in print.
lIg the new fraetonai currency, and cannot
set hands 20 finish th- work within the stated
re. The strikers are. therefore, very conf
dent OF success The best way to put an end
TO the strike.snd to prevent Die In the future
= 10 have the printing done in this city by the
Government. The scarcity OF fractional cur.
rerey Is already getting TO be a serious busi
Eess, and demands the application of some
e:hcIent remedy.
Year: 1869

Ii is stated in the RieAm ond STATE Journal
tnat the elected Conservative members or the
virginia Legislature have not yet responded 70
the inquiry Of General Candy as to whether
they can or will take the iron clad oath-aud
that they have been ad vised not to an. wer by
the Conservative State Central Committee.
Year: 1869

The Common Council Of Newark, New
jrTsey, have adopted a resolution TO commence
an action against the Newark and New York
Railroad Company for violation Of the pro-
visions OF the city ordinance by crossing Ham
llton street at such an angle as to practically
destroy its value for public travel.
Year: 1869

Gen. Magruder is lecturing in the South
west on Maximiliau in Mexico, lie says
that he urged the unfortunate Emperor to
leave the country in frigato that was ready
to receive him, and that Macmillan prom
ised to do SO. But just as he WAS starting
news came that bridge on the railroad
was down, which compelled delay of four
days. Within that time MaXimilian was
drawn into nogotiatioDs which caused him tc
change his determination in the manner
which worked his ruin
Year: 1869

Alexander Clark, q colored delegate to
the Iowa Republican Convention, was made
a Vice President, and returned the thanks
Of four millions Of his dusky race for the
compliment There was nothing said about
giving those millions a representative on
the ticket
Year: 1869

One of the newspapers whose proprietors
are interested financially in the old telegraph
trash that the government is urged to buy
puts forth some quaint reasons against the
propositions we have lately made In regard to
the telegraph. II argues that the telegraph
in the hands OF the government would become
party machinery. Is carrying the letters
party machinery? Is the national currency
party machinery If one party Is favored
more than another in the personnel Of these
administrations, is that q reason against these
things being done by the government? That
cannot be maintained. Corruption was never
so great and oppression never 80 terrible as
In those cases where governments delegated
empowers, as where they farmcd the revenue.
Neither, then, can this argument be held
against the telegraph II II Is not good In the
case Of the currency.


But the same organ argues that IL the gov
ernment does take the telegraph IL must pay
forty million dollars TO the Western Union Com
pany for its old trash. How, then, Is the thing
wrong in one light and right In another ?
Is IL right for the government TO take the
telegraph for forty millions and wrong II
II takes Il at anv other n0ure2 Truly
Year: 1869

this is an argument worthy stockholder
and jobber. As to this fixed price, we
win guarantee to build for twelve millions
all that the Western Union Company proposes
to sell for forty millions. We would take
contract even to supply at the former sum
more miles of wire and better wire. and better
working machinery altogether, than that on
which the jobbers have fixed their corrupt
price. The history OF the wire now on the
ship Egmont is an illustration Of what sort Of
material the government would buy from the
jobbers. 4 $50 Tfss.sss'
Year: 1869

There are six weeks yet remaining 10 the
Fortieth Congress. There Is heavy calendar
OF bills and resolutions awaiting the action or
the two houses within this interval to the 4th
Of March; but from present indications little
viii be done beyond the passage Of the annual
appropriations. There is one measure, how
ever, depending upon the action Of the Senate
which the conservative supporters Of the Pres
ient elect should insist upon bringing TO a
definite and decisive vote--yea or fay. We
refer TO the bill OF General Butler from the
House for the repeal Of the Tenure Of Office
law, and as simple matter Of fair dealing
with General Grant.


The question in the Senate has been re-
ferred to the Joint Committee on Retrench-
ment, with proposition from Mr.. Wilson to
amend the Tenure Of Oflce law 80 far as to ex-
empt President Grant from the shackles which
have tied up President Johnson In reference
to his Cabinet aud to relieve Grant of the rea-
sons exacted Of Johnson In the matter of sus-
pensions from Office But II is still proposed
BY Wilson's bin TO hold any suspensions from
Office which may be made by Grant in the
absence of the Senate subject TO the approval
Of that body at Its next session. What docs
this signify? Plainly that the radical faction
in Congress distrust Grant and intend TO hold
him. II they can. In the distribution Of his
Year: 1869

THE KING OF ITALY AND THE POPE OF
RoME.-If the unfortunate prisoners Ajani
and Luzzi, who are now under sentence Of
death by the Pontifcal government expected
any good to result from the intercession of
King Victor Emanuel with his Holiness they
we're doomed to disappointment. Pic Mono is
very amiable old gentleman and, no doubt,
disposed to temper justice with mercy; but he
does not like unfriendly neishbors to meddle
with his business. From present indications
the prisoners will not be executed; but this
clemency will in no way be due to the inter-
ference of the King Of Italy.
Year: 1869

Ous PRoeREss. AS things go on we may In
from ten to fifty years reach the proud emf
nence Of being the most corrupt people on
earth. We may even outdo the ancient models.
Jugurtha and others found in Rome that
every senator had his fixed price, and we are
up to that already. Seeing everywhere how
Senators buy their places, can we doubt that
they will reimburse themselves? What a man
buys he will not regard in any light that will
prevent bis selling II. 1t is thought that there
was spasmodic virtue in Albany in throwing
over Morgan, who would pay, and choosing
Fenton, who could not; but this Ia because
people do not exactly understand all the ways
In which payment % mada.
Year: 1869

The resolution passed in the House
of Representatives on Monday, by vote
Of 80 yeas to 67 nays, against any fur
ther subsidies being given by Congress to
railroad or other corporations, or to promote
local enterprises, under the present condition.
of the national finances, is very good one.


Congress and the country have become since
the war fearfully demoralized with regard to
the reckless manner in which government
money and lands have been lavished on alt
sorts of jobs. We have cut loose from the old
system Of economy and limited expenditures,
and ought to return to 1t again forthwith. The
number of railroad, telegraph and other
schemes to increase the burdens of the gov
ernment are frightful to contemplate. Let us
hope this resolution of the House will noe
prove merely an unnecessary declaration.
1t Is easy enough to pass such general and
glittering resolutions and to make fine
promises; but will these very members who
voted against any further subsidies or jobs
cease TO press as exceptional cases the various
schemes they may have in hand There win
be the practical test Of their sincerity. People
should keep the names Of the patriotic ninety
by them for reference whenever any jobs come
up or are voted on in Congress. II is good
beginning. We shall see what the end will be.
Year: 1869

VERY CHEAP.-Tt appeared pn the trial Of
the conspirators against Collector Bailey that
the men who swore to the afidavits Of the Col
lector's corrupt practices were psid only fifteen
dollars an oath. If perjury is as cheap al
that how can any collector hold up against the
whiskey ring9 Perhaps good sentence just
here will help the country very much ih the
whlskey troubl..
Year: 1869

The DAILY HERALD will be sent to subscribers
for one dollar month.


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

1H1FUHcVu1tIlsS


The steady increase in the circulation Of the
HERALD has forced Us to bring into use all our
press facilities, which now enable us to throw off
eighty-ive thousand copies of the HERALD per
hour. Newsmen' and carriers who have hereto
fore found delay in receiving their papers win in
future have their orders executed al a much
earlier hour.
Year: 1869

THs wrArHix.-The weather this week has
been alternately storm and sunshine, but enough
rain has fallen to keep the bitches tolerably well
filed. The mining season has been unfavorable
so far, but two months and a-half steady work
at this time of the year would make business
matters quite easy all round. 1t is possible that
we may get it.
Year: 1869

Az American writer says woman will
cling To the chosen object of her heart like a
possum to II gum tree, and you can't seperate her
without swapping strings no art can mend, and
leaving portion of her soul the upper
leather of your affections. She will sometimes
see something to love where others see nothing
to admire aud when fondness is once fas'-
ened on fellow, it sticks like glue and treace
in bushy head of hair.
Year: 1869

FRon LEWISTON. A correspondent, writing
from lewiston under date of March 22d, says
!" News is scarce, in fact do not know of any
thing that would interest the readers of the
'JouRNAL. believe everybody is we'll in this
part Of the world. We have been rather scared
about the small po1, and all, or most all, have
been vaccinated. The late rains have made the
boys look smiling again they bad about given
up the ghost for this season, as the most of them
were not going to take out enough to settle their
sixty games, much less their grub bills.
Messrs. Frey Taylor giving their ditch a
thorough cleaning out for the summer. George
Taylor is talking of building ditch from the
saw mill up the river to the bars above s.
Lowdens field to supply the miners, as the ditch
OF Noyes Sutton does not supply the demand
Lowden Benjamin have been running u tunnel
into the fiat in the upper end of the ranch. They
have found some good prospects in the way Of
anguintum, and intend to incorporate large
company for making White Pine for Pinnes or
piutes ~
Year: 1869

immigration into Virginia is said to
be getting quite lively. We don't want
any new population in our State. We
are determined that we will not have
gang of spectators coming among us'
building railroads, and opening mines,
and sinking oil wells, and erecting man.
ufactories and sending off timber and
opening sp new lands for tho plough,
covering our waste hills with sheep
and cattle, flooding the State with
money and demorslizing the people By
making them rich. We want no such
nonsense, at least for the present. When
We change our minds we will proclaim
it to the world by repealing our regis
tration Law ana abolishipg our Test
0aths.
Year: 1869

The Democratic Central ComRittet


for the State Of Ohio, met in Columbus


yesterday. The object of their assem-


bling was to take action upon the de-


clination of General RosECRANs. The


Committee determined to name his sue


cessor upon the ticket. They unani


mously agreed to name for the first po
sition in the gift of the people of Ohio
the most popular man, not only in that
State, but in the Union, GEORGE IL
PENDLEToN, of Cincinnati. He has &C.
cepted the nominations, and will enter
upon the canvass at once.


Had the Committee been inspired a
better selection could not have been
made. The nominee is able, pure, and
patriotic; he possesses personal pres
tige which no other man in our country
can boast. For several years he has
commanded attention as the coming
man of our future Political history
There is no stain upon his name; there
is no question of his craftsmanship;
there is not bis superior in the land as
respects intellect, culture, honesty or
any of the elements of true greatness.
His nomination will arouse the Demo
cratic masses of Ohio to a pitch of en-
thusiasm never before witnessed in that
State. His canvass will be one grand
ovation. Its end will be magnificent
success.


Were we to name the reason for
which, more than any other, his selec-
tion will be hailed with a universal
shout of approval, We should say that
his discovery and mastery calculation
of the best possible solution of our
financial problem furnishes that reason.
His recognized sympathy with the
wrongs and his personal championship
of the cause of sx-paying labor as
against the plundering iniquities of
the bond-holding system, will rally to
his banner every thinking labor
ing man who desires no longer
to mortgage his toll and his
sweat to pay tithes for the support
of non-producing money mongers. More
than any other State in this Union Ohio
feels that the msrciless bondage in
which industry is held by capital should
end. She is borne down by the oppres-
sion of our financial system. She
longs for relief PENDLEToN is the
exponent OF the only idea yet
offered through which that relief can
be obtained. The toiling thousands of
the Buckeye State will make their
voices heard in his triumphant elec-
tion. '69 will lead to ~; the success
ful Democratic candidate for Governor
in Ohio will follow the pathway of
destiny to the next Presidency of the
United States.
Year: 1869

THE Empress EUGENE is coming and
the Naval Department is to beplaced at
her service. This is cheerful. WELLEs
and one or two other old women having
had control of the Department until it
has been brought into disrepute, it may
be well for woman "as is woman"
and not an old one at that, to take it in
charge for time, and give it the re-
spectability of creditable female man
sgement.
Year: 1869

GRANT administered the Government
on Tuesday, successfully withstood the
intellectual and physical wear and tear
incident to the performance, and then
went back in triumph to his horses,
dogs, bottle and weed, con the beach at
Long Branch" He is doing his best to
convince the country that q President
can be dispensed with, and If GRANT
were the only President possible, the
country would soep be convinced,
Year: 1869

HARTMAN of the "Old Granite
State" is to howl for HAYES during the
latter part of the canvass in Ohio. The
Radical Executive Committee would
like to have purchased FREMoNTS
"wooly horse" but that famous equine
being defunct, they are forced to take
the next best animal, and so they fall
back upon New Hsmpshire's Harry man
Year: 1869

JOHN BELL, an anti-diluvian cand;.
date for President of the United States,
has been brought to light by the recent
political upheaval in Tennessee. The
state of his health is not such as to war
rant any alarm lest he may bring his
fossilized presence and principles into
public life again.
Year: 1869

THERE is law upon our statute bockG
providing that any person who "shsll
profanely curse or swear, or get drunk"
shall be fined one dollar for each Of
fence. This is moral city, but if that
law were enforced, Wheeling would
furnish in twelve months the where
withal to build the Capitol.
Year: 1869

GRANTS discretion is set forth in his
appointment Of JAMES HAGGERTY as
Consul at Glasgow, Scotland. HAG.
GERTY was at one time an active agent
of the New York Fenians. The
natural sequence to the appointment is
the refusal of the British Government
to recognize the appointee. Had any
other Administration made such Sc
lection, it would have been regarded by
the surly Britishers as direct affront.
In this case, the utter responsibility
of the appointing power is taken into
consideration and the blunder good
naturedly overlooked.
Year: 1869

SOME envious souls are organizing to
defeat the confirmation of that model
ofpurity and virtue, DANIEL E. SICKLEs,
Minister to Spain. II the mission of
GRANTS Administration were to repre-
sent the decency of the nation, nobody
could object to the rejection of SICKLEs
but as the rule of ULYSSES is devoted to
the illustration of the general eussedness
of the country, this antiSckles move
may thwart its most prominent purpose.
SICKLEs is the natural consequence Of
GRANT. The separation of the two will
be the destruction of the unities.
Year: 1869

duties, or induce through agitation such an
instability In legislation as Will in itself prove
most Injurious and destructive.


The Com missioner does not believe IL expe-
dent in this, a general report to enter upon
the specific details OF tariff revision, but the
precise changes required in his judgment 10 be
made will. II called for, be made in the form
OF q supplementary report, or be submitted
orr
Year: 1869

Eou short and dark these winter days,


That come with fall of snow and rain,
With winds that roam the untrodden ways


And sob at dusk outside the pane.
How bleak and lone the bare fields lie,


That in the purple distance merge;
How cherries looms the leaden sky


Along the duh horizon verge.
The barren woods no longer ring


With summer carols Of the jay;
The robin pIumed his russet wing,


And with the Autumn passed away.
Down in the hollow next the glade


The scarlet winter-berries CLEAN,
Where, stern and chill, the frost has laid
His icy fstters on the stream.
Outside the window where the vine


Hangs shivering, stripped of al its leave:
The icieles like daggers shine


Down pointing from the jagged caves.
Tie gray dawn lOiters on its way


To touch the sombre east with light;
And like timid fawn, the day


Flies startled al the step of night.
In feathery fakes the silent snow
Falls earthward from the chilly cloud,
And wraps the frozen earth below
In wintry whiteness like cloud.
But what care We for winters cold,
For rain or snow outside the door,
Who in our hearts, like treasure, hold
Loves deathless summer warmth in store.
Year: 1869

4 GENTLE REBUKE-A lady, riding in a
car on the New York Central Railroad, was
disturbed in her reading by the converse
ton Of two gentlemen occupying the seat be
fore her. One of them seemed TO be stu
dent of some college, on his way home for
vacation. He used so much profane Ian
guage, greatly to the annoyance of the lady
She thought she would rebuke him, and on
begging pardon for interrup,ing them. asked
the young student if he had studied the Ian
guages.


Yes, madam, have mastered the Ian
guages quite WE'LL


do you read and speak Hebrew


Quite huently."


"Will you be so kind as to do me small
favor


With the greatest pleasure, madam. l
am at your service.


"WilI you be so kind as to do your swear
ing in Hebrew


We may suppose the lady was not annoy
ed any more oy the ungentlemanly language
of this would be gentleman.