smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1869

soUrH CAROLINA cRoPs.-since our last issue wo
have had an opportunity, In passing through the
country TO see and hear reports OF the coming
crops: Wheat Is universally admitted TO be better
less than usual but the yield s calculated 10 prove
larger and the quality better than heretofore Some
persons are now harvesting, and even the latest
grade OF wheat V beyond danger from the usual de-
preciating cause. Rye Is also good, put oats is
hardly common, beng low and generally thin and
from bad seed. No one but an eye witness could
realize the great Improvement In corn and cotton
during the past few weeks Qf warm ana ee9eonapIe
weather. 7he farmers are well up with their work,
and everything Indicates an unprecedented yield IN
every character OF agricultural productst-Waihdihd
rs. d. Courier. Tune II
Year: 1869

THE trial of Robert Dedman for
the murder of Albert Springer was
to commence yesterday before Judge
Rising at Virginia city. The Enter
prise Of the 25th says it is very
doubtful if jury of twelve men
can be found in Storey county that
have not made up their minds about
the case. 1t appears that the only
nrovocation he had for beating him
over the head with pistol was that
Dedman was about to beat woman
over the head and was prevented by
Springer from doing so.
Year: 1869

years this State will be a network
OF iron roads like those of the Miss
issippi valley. Then think what
prices good grain, vineyard, stock,
timber, or indeed all sorts of lands
will command. Swamp and tule
lands are being purchased and re-
claimed in view Of the certain rise.
A farmer can't make a mistake In
buying lands now with clear titles.
The large land owners will sell on
long credits at low rates of interest,
and small ranches partly improved
are in market at very low figures in
all parts of the interior. The mass
of the small land owners don't real
ize how soon the railroad system
will revolutionize land values.
transportation is becoming cheaper
each year, and competition is sure
to make greater reductions. Short
lines of railway will soon penetrate
all the valleys into the foothills.
Over 200 miles of railroad will be
built in this State in 1870-and near
ly that amount will be this year.


Politics is mixed. A ring Of
thieving Republicans have Joined
more powerful thieving Democratic
ring, and they hope to win the cleo
ton one week from tomorrow. The
Examiner is the only paper in the
city in the interest of the public
plunderers, but there are many men
and much money at work. j. W.
Year: 1869

The cable undertakes to explain for us the
fantastic course of the London money market.
It's advices correspond with the previous judg-
ment of our business community. The Lon
doners were first alarmed by Senator Summers
speech. While their market was consequently
in a sensitive condition, there came an eff
fort to place Spanish lOan-to say nothing
of one or two other National stock job
bing ventures-and the Bank of En-
gland made resistance by raising its
rate of discount, and threatening a still further
advance. Trade had already been somewhat
depressed; and these succeeding circumstances
served to produce something which was very
near panic in London, and near enough the
same thing to be uncomfortable in New York.
The effect must, however, be only tranSitory,
since it originated partly in misapprehenson
was stimulated by temporary expedients, and
has been counteracted by the entrance of the
United States into the market for its own bonds
at the rate of a million per week.
Year: 1869

The Republican Senators are making good
fight on the tax levies Beaten by the Iecreant
MattOOn in an endeavOr to have the right,
which all usage gives them, of selecting their
own Conference Committee, they have thrown
the responsibility on the Democrats by refus-
ing to serve on the Conference Committee.
The Democrats tried till long into Sunday to
pass the Assembly bills, bat the quiet points
of order raised by Senator Crowley. backed by
all the other Republican Senators, defeated
them, and finally at o'clock an adjournment
was obtained till to-day.


To pass these levies the Democrats must get
one moro Republican voice, as the Lieutenant
Governor has no vote on the final passage.
They are hard at work to get this, and rumor
says are offering what is literally fortune Tor
one vote. The range of selection is small.
No one suppOses that they will dare to approach
such men as Folger,' 'O'Donnell, Crowley, Palmer,
Morgan, Hogan, Thayer, Hale, Chapman, Nicks,
or others whose names do not now occur to US.
In fact, in common belief, there are but two
or three that they can even hope to corrupt
We do not yet mean to believe that they can
get any one of them, because we know that no
man who seeks for any political future, who
wants to be admitted to decent company
who does not want to go through
life with the brand Of corruption
and the mark of Cain upon him, can afford or
will dare to vote with the Democrats on this
subject. No quibbles, no excuses, no arith-
metical calculations as to items, can apologize
for such a vote. The Republican who gives 1t
should, before the Senate adjourns, be formally
cf ha Rpnuhll-
can Senators, and be compelled hereafter to
find his political home with the party that has
bought his services for price We shall do
our best to see that his constituents know his
course. A thousand times better that the
levies should fail than that the Assembly bills
or any resembling them should pass.
Year: 1869

overture whether from the Association itself
or from its City organs. We now respectfully,
but most earnestly, call on Mr.. Bryant to take
a duly certified list of the contributors to the
funds of his Association to the meeting to-
night and give copies thereof to all the re-
porters present. If he declines or neglects to
do this, an attentive public will draw the in
evitable inference. We ask The Springfield Re-
publican and other journals that have gone
into disgustful Mysteries at the suggestion that
British Gold" bore any part in our Tariff
controversy to note this request and the re-
sponse which it shall elicit.
Year: 1869

The very remarkable pastoral letter of Arch
bishop Spalding will attract general attention.
The attention to the colored race which


il enjons is in the well-known line
of action adopted by the Church. The de-
nunciation of infanticide, and the effort
to trace it to secular education, will receive
less general approval, and will provoke curl
Gus contrasts with the other views expressed
on the same subject by the lady lecturer whose
remarks are elsewhere presented.
Year: 1869

There is still bare chance for the passage
of the Two-Tier Railroad bill. 1t does not
seem that any corrupt organization is opposing
it, The delay and danger of defeat appear to
arise solely from the inability of the project to
pay its way through. Cannot those Repub-
licans who have sold out to Tammany
be persuaded to make some slight atonement
for the wrong they have wrought, by simply
getting out of the way of this measure
Have MT they made money enough There
isn't any in this, one way or the other why
not show freak of generosity and let it pass
Year: 1869

the price of our bonds. His power is grn"...t
his opportunity such as no man has enjoyed
since Hamilton; we trust he viii prove every
way equal to his position and its large re-
Guirements, and that his c5untrymen viii bless
him as the man who reduced the interest of
their Debt from 0De Hundred and Thirty to
less than One Hundred Millions per annum,
and thus created the means of paying off the
principal in less than a half-century.
Year: 1869

Tonight Miss Kate Field, whose performance
as a public lecturer in Boston and Brooklyn
has received such wide commendation, is to
make her debut before New-YOrk audience
at the Theater of the Union League. She is
sure of crowded house and cordial reception.
Year: 1869

A FEW weeks ago the statement
was made in neighboring school house,
that 70 per cent of the persons who made
profession of religion last winter in this
city, had gone lack into the world. The
person making the assertion did it without
a knowledge Of the facts, and with no foan.
datlon oI truth. 1t must have been done
for purpose un.Christian. wish to say
to the glory of God and to the power of his
grace, and to the honor of the persons ma.
king such profession that rs per cent and
more are still faithful. D. w. Coucu.
Year: 1869

TIE Good Templar's festival at the
City Hall tomorrow evening promises to be
a very pleasant affair. Extensive prepara.
tions are being made for it and it is ex.
pected every member of Emery Lodge will
be on hand Templars from other lodges
will receive a hearty welcome and il is
hoped many viii come.
Year: 1869

N Dodd's Nervine and Invigorator dives agreeable and almost instant relief in the spasms of whooping cough. Bhis is com. plaint that all children are expected to have and when 1t comes, strange to say.t they are left to fight it through as best they can, little or nothing being done to break its intensity, or help the sufferers along. And when It is reflected that very many of the diseases of old CT and adult years have their origin in the tear and strain of whooping cough, this neg lect would be utterly unaccountable but for the fact that chiidren's diseases, like many of the weaknesses of women, are considered % much a matter of course that people have become stotcally unconcerned about them. Let them cough it through, as we did, seems generally To be the unfeeling word Whoopiug cough is a nervous disease, and Dodd's Nervine and Invigorator treats it with complete sucoess. Mothers try it. and save your little ones the worst agony of this distressing affection. A sure, and benifeent menicine.
Year: 1869

The Alabama Claims Question and the Fall
ElectiOns-New Developments from Radi.
cal Source.


Washington June 81 correspondence OF Evening


POST


Leading republican polticians seem determined not
to allow the Alabama clGlms question 10 remain at
rest but TO make as much capital possible out Of
the attitude assumed by Great Britain. movement
has been agreed upon to have this question become
OF the leading issues in the next fall elections
forcing the democratic party to follow in the wake
OF the republicans and approve their course or to
take sides at once with the English This plan has
been discussed pretty freely among prominent poll
tcians here, and initial steps are TO be taken In
pennsylvania. Politicians from that State, incud-
ing Colonel Forney and Minister Curtin, are among
Its strongest advocates, and Will endeavor 70
make this question one OF the leading planks
Ia the republican platform for their State


Those who are directing the movement feel posi-
tive that 1t will prove successful IN materially
strengthening the republican party and produce
good moral effect. Mr.. Curtin 1t Is understood will
take occasion at the banquet which Is TO be given
him by the Union League OF Philadelphia previous
to his departure for Russia 10 assume decided po-
sition this question and discuss very fully our re-
lations with England


There is good reason to believe that Senator Sum
Is heartily In sympathy with the movement, and
approves the policy Of making the Alabama question
leading issue at the coming elections In the various
States. While here Mr.. Curtin had frequent inter
views with Mr. sumner, and the views OF both as TO
the proper policy for our government to pursue are
almost Identical.
Year: 1869

j
An Act establishing the term Of Office


of the House Of Representatives,
and providing for biennial sessions


of the Legislative Assembly of the
Territory of Montana.


Be it enacted by the Senate and
House of Representative of the
United States of America in Con-
gress assembled, That hereafter the
members of the house of representa-
tives Of the Territory of Montana
shall be elected for the term of two
years, and the stated sessions of the
legislative assembly shall be biennial.
And the said legislative assembly, at
its first session after the passage of
this act. shall provide by law for car
rying this act into effect.


Approved March /, 1869.
Year: 1869

iiEREAFrER no public measure can
me up in our State Legislature for
scassioR if q minority of the mem
rs object to the discussion or dis
&c the measure. Such is the posi-
on Of the Democracy. 1t is a sub
antial reversion of the old Demo-
attic rule thai majorities must gov
q and minorities submit.
Year: 1869

A singular case of superstition,


cruelty, and attempted crime was re-


vealed in Hoboken yesterday morning.


As one of the Hoboken policemen was


patrolIing the Elysian Fields, he noticed
man and boy walking near the waters
edge, and the singularity Of the mans
actions attracted his attention, and he
determined to watch him. He followed


him for short distance, concealing him
self behind the trees, and when the man
thought he was unobserved, he suddenly
seized the Lad in his arms, and waded
into the river with him. When he had
arrived at a point where the water was
deep enough for his purpose, he sud
denly plunged the child into the river,
and attempted, despite his screams and
struggles, to drown him. The officer at
once rushed into the water, and rescued
the boy from his would -be-murderer,
whom he arrested and conveyed to the
station-house. On being arraigned be-
fore Recorder Pope, the prisoner made
a singular statement, of which the fol-
lowing is an epitome: He said that his
name was Henry sFriedman that be
was Swede by birth, and member of
a sect called the Seconeiz," whose be-
lief it is that any child murdered before
it reaches the age of six years will go
directly to Heaven, while its murderer
was also entitled to special honors in the
spiritual world for his achievement.
His wife, he said, was also believer in
this inhumam doctrine, nd has given
her full consent to the perpetration of
the crime, which had it not been for the
fortunate presence of Officer Burke,
would certainly have been accomplished
The lad BEINGS sstioned, said that his
mother lived at No. Prospect street,
Jersey City, and on being sent for stated
that her husband left home in the morn
ing to visit her sister, who resided In
New York-that she knew nothing of
the - Seconeiz" doctrine which her hus-
band spoke of, or of the attempted
murder of the boy whom she loved with
all the affection of mother. She fur
ther stated that her husband was a
confirmed spirituahst and was subject to
temporary fits of insanity, and she had
no doubt that he was crazy, and re-
quested the Recorder to have him sent
to the lunatic asylum. Recorder Pope,
taking the same view of the case, and
believing that Friedman was in such
state of mind as not to be responsible
for his actions, he directed him to be
sent to Jersey city, where he is now
locked up until such time as the author
titles can take the necessary steps to
secure his admission to the State asylum
at Irenton.-Nelo York Democrat, 1871.
Year: 1869

The New York Journal Of Commerce,
in carefully considered article, as if
from some scientific pen, submits the
following theory (original as far as it
knows to explain the phenomena of the
aurora borealis, as displayed a the
magnificent exhibition of last Thursday
night " The aurora borealis is the silent
discharge of accumulated electricity in
the atmosphere, furnishing the same
relief to nature as flashes Of lighting
under other conditions. The phenomena
of the northern lights are in all respects
electrical. But the electric nature
Of Thursdays aurora borealis
was demonstrated eonclusiyely by its
effect on telegraph wires. When a
thunderstorm occurs the wires become
charged with electricity, which some
times affects them so perversely that they
cannot be worked, and at other times
furnishes an efficient substitute for the
galvanie battery. Precisely these effects
were observed on Thursday night At
New York, Boston and Philadelphia,
and some other places, the auroral elec-
tricity charged the wires and enabled
operators to work them without recourse
to batteries At St. Johns, Newfound-
land, the most northern point from
which we have any report, the aurora
seriously interrupted the operation of
the telegraph-possibly because the
current supplied from the air was too
strong for the work to be done. No
doubt remains, after the testimony
given by many intelligent observers in
various parts of the country, that the
aurora is attended by the release of
enormous quantities of electricity.
The theory which we propose is the only
one which explains why the aurora
borealis is seen only in the arctic Cor
antarctie) and temperate zonas-never,
or ra9ly, in the torIid zone--and also
why it is visible here only (or chiefly
in the fall, winter or spring months
not in the summer. In the tropic zone,
and in the warm months, the accumu-
lated electricity in the atmosphere is
discharged under entirely different con-
ditions, as lightning, with thunder, dur
ing heavy showers OF rain.
Year: 1869

Men as well as women" says the
Pail Mall Gazette, in an article on the
dress Of English women, sometimes
dress in an eccentric manner from mere
caprice, or from an idea that it is un-
worthy of sensible person to take any
trouble whatever about dress. They
think it is creditable to them to say, I
do not care how l dress. In reality, it
only shows that they are untidy by
nature. No man pays his brains com
pliment by going about the streets a
sloven. Men of talent, great writer's
and great orators, must cherish the be-
lief that they are superior to dress, or
the shabbiest men in the community
would not be found so often in their
ranks. Clever women usually show the
same contempt Of dress. If untidiness
were confined to them, it would not be
Of very much consequence, but it is
more general with their sex, strange to
say, than with ours. And yet very few
women can prudentIy disregard the at
fractions which they might derive from
dresses of grateful tints and perfect
shape. The draggle-taiIed appearance
Of married women of the poorer class is,
we do not doubt, one cause Of the pre-
ference which their husbands show for
the public house. It must be miser-
able thing to live in the same house with
a woman who is, fguratively speaking,
down at heel all over"
Year: 1869

the right of secession, and threatened to
exercise it; that Mr.. Lincoln himself
asserted, in general terms, the right of
any people or portion of a people, locally
distinct, to choose its own government; {;
and that Horace Greeley, up to the very
last, insisted that, if the South chose,
she had a right TO go iRpeaee. He
himself disapproved the policy of seces-
sion. but asserted to the fullest degree the
absolute nature of the right, and the
suficiency of the provocation andIhe
calls Webster to testify, in very distinct
terms, that the systematic violation of
the Constitution in the case of fugitive
slaves was alone sufficient vindication
of the total reputation, by the South,
of compact with the North observed
only as far as she pleased.


1t is impossible, within our limits, to
give fair idea even of the outlines of
such an argument; much more to con-
vey just impression of lucidity, power
of thought, vast and appropriate readiI g.
and vigorous reasoning by which it is
sustained. 1t would be difficult to
name a more perfect masterpiece of
constitutional reasoning and political
disquisition; a work which might with
greater advantage be placed in the hands
of the young lawyer who desired to see
how those high questions which are the
common ground of the lawyer, the his
torian, and the statesman, can be treated
by one who combines the qualifications
of all three. The book is perhaps
hardly suited to the general reader, but
it may be confidently recommended as
to every one who wishes
really to understand either the Federal
Constitution or the Civil war; and it
will be ranked among the most valuable
of those materials which the writer's of
this age are accumulating for the future
historian of America.
Year: 1869

Color blindness is much more frequent
than is generally supposed, for those who
are afflicted with it are mostly ignorant
of the defect, and frequently practice
trades or professions in which perfect
sensibility to the different hues of color
is quite indispensable. An instance Of
this occurred some time since in the
case of an engine-driver, who allowed
his engine to run into a luggage train,
through not noticing the red danger
signal. At his examination it was
proved that he was eolor-blind, and
could not distinguish red from green.
Partial color-b blindness is, no doubt, the
cause of the frequent disputes that We
hear about the tints Of certain objects /;
to say nothing Of the glaring instances
of bad taste in the arrangement of color
that are nowadays so common. Out
of forty boys at school at Berlin, who
were examined by Leebeeh, he found
FIVE who we're quite confused IN their
notions of coiog, and could not distin-
guish between ordinary shades Of the
same hue. This affection Is in many
cases hereditary, descending from father
to son. 1t is singular that instances Of
color blindness are much more common
amongst men than amongst women. for
out of over five hundred cases there
were enly four in which females were
the sufferers It seems also that persons
with gray eyes are more frequently color
blind than those whose eyes are blue or
brown.


Here is an explanation of one OF the
most impressive tricks exhibited in New
York by Heller and others, which
may be Ineligible enough without the
c0ntext:
Year: 1869

EXTRAORDINARY PIsToL Practice. In
Chicago, December 9th, Captain John Ira
Wis gave another exhibition of pistol shooting
at his gallery. in which he exceled any of
his previous astonishing performances in this
city, by series of hazardous. feats requiring
the most consummate skill on his part, and
extraordinary daring on that of the gentleman
who assisted in them Mr. John Rover, of
Texas, held a cap on his head, and Travis
fired pistol bullet through it from the dis
tance of twelve PAGES. The feat was repeated
twice, the ball going each time within an
inch of the Uranium of the venturesome hold
er. The same gentleman also held between
his fingers small lemon, and afterwards
business card about an inch and half
square, aud through each Captain Travis put
bullet, at the same distance, with one of
the regular gallery pistols. Few people
would care to run such risks as Mr..
Rover did, and fewer still could successfully
initiate Captain Travis wonderful skill.