smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1869

that he is entitled 10 the seat, and
that Mr.. Covode is not entitled to It,


But with all the evidence now be-
fore rs, with the light before rs,
small as it is, enough is shown TO
disclose the frauds practiced in this
election. We have enough light TO
enable majority of the committee
to say that Mr.. Covode is elected,
a man who stood by his country in
its hour of need, who stands by it
to-day, the question of whose elec-
tion was of interest to the whole
State. The light is sufficient to en-
atle the Committee of Elections, the
majority of them, to say to the House
of Representatives that John COvode
has the prima facjs right to a seat
in the Eorty-First Congress as the
Representative from the twenty frat
Congressional District Of Pennsyl-
yania.


Now, gentlemen of the House of
Representatives, so far as | am con-
cerned, as a member Of the Committee
of Elections, 1 will leave the case with
you. If John Oovode is elected and
permitted to take his seat here, the sun
will continue to rise and set, there will
still be ssed.time and harvest, and the
Republican party will have done no
BILE and just act to the people, and TO
an old patriot who stood by his coun-
try, and who is standing by it still.
Year: 1869

SIAMEsE TwINs.-We find the following in
teres ing particulars in regard to them in the
Bristol Ne,US:


"Ther surname is Bunker, and their given
names Chang and Eng. They reside alternate
ly at two residences, one at Mount Airy, n. O.,
and the other three miles distant in the coun-
try, one of the wives taking charge OF each
establishment They married twin sisters near
that point many years since, and each has a
family of beautiful black eyed children OF bru-
nette complexion. They are aged 81, are quite
gray-haired, and while they are in independent
circumstances they are not wealthy. Their
wives are large, healthy-loOking women, and
their country house, the only one we have seen,
is built of logs, with puncheon floor, and with
out finish or decoration. They use a Windsor
chair of double width, and bed not less than
eight feet wide. A rustic flight of steps OF
double width leads to the attic, and they pass
up and down them without difficulty. On the
occasion of our visit there was four-inch snow
on the ground, and as they were out cunning
we had to await their return. When they
made their appearance they were walking very
briskly, and soon they were engaged in spirit
ed run. On one of their inside shoulders they
carried a double barreled shot gun, and were
in fine humor. They were exceedingly pleas
ant and hospitable in their manner, and insist
ed upon second visit from us.
Year: 1869

A PRINCE AMONG Fools IN CANADA The
eagerness with which certain class of people
seek after anything in any way pertaining to
any celebrated individual has been especially
noticeable throughout the whole tour of Prince
Arthur in Canada. Where he has stopped to
dine, the remnants of wine and water have
been eagerly drunk up, and in some cases the
glasses themselves have even been taken away.
One servant gave satisfaction to a much larger
number than could otherwise have had sip,
at one railway eating saloon, by changing the
glass and then reflhng it as often as the credu-
lous maidens drainedi it, When the prince had
turned the sod of the new railway all the la
dies in the vicinity of the new earth rushed for
it and triumphantly exhibited small bits of the
same wrapped in handkerchiefs. Colonel Elph-
instone very considerably wears nice new gloves
when he travels, and the prince usually wears
pair of soiled lavenders. The two gentlemen
also wear hats exactly alike on all occasions.
| When they take off their hats and leave theiI
gloves every one thinks that the best gloves be-
| long to the prince, and the consequence is that
Colonel Elphinstone has lost seven right hant
gloves The Princes pocket handkerchief was
snatched from his hand at London, and every


effort to recover it proved Intellectual, but abou


a week afterward it was sent to him through


some unknown source. The gOvernor-g general


TOO, is sufferer at the hands of the relict plum


derers. He is accustomed to wear white ker


sey hat, and during his trip through Ontari'


he has lost no less than six.-LoadOn Canada
| Journal
Year: 1869

Doc STORY, WITH MoRAL-The New
York Post, with reference to the watering
of the Central and Hudson River railroad
stock, tells us:


"There is an old story of man whose wife
had horror of dogs, and teased him long to
kill or dispose of his mastiff One day he as
tonished and delighted her by announcing that
he had sold his dog for fifty dollars. But she
scarcely had time to enjoy the surprise before
twenty, five dollars apiece. Some people may
think that he would have been no better off
had he valued his dog at hundred dollars, and
called his pups each fifty; but certainly his
credit would have been higher in Wall street,
and stock in the Grand Canine Consolidation
Company would have gone up immensely on
the announcement of such a contract"
Year: 1869

A WOMAN WILL NOT CONFESS that she la
ces tight that her shoes are to small for her
that she is ever tired at ball; that she paints
that she is as old as she looks; that she has
been more than five minutes dressing that she
has kept you waiting that she blush d when a
certain persons name was mentioned that she
ever says thing she dose mt mean that she j:
fond of scandal that she-She of all persons in
the worlds in love that she can't keep Sc
cret; that she dosent want new bonnet
that she can do with one single thing. less when
position of an angel, or the temper of saint
or else how could she go through one halt o.
what she does; that she dosen't know better
than any one else what is best for her that she
is firt, or coquette; that she is eyer in th'
wrong,
Year: 1869

A gentleman absent from Nashville on q
business Journey received dispatch from home
to this effect: "Your wife had child last
night, but is doing we'll o-day." He hurried
home, with various emotions, to find there was
a mistakes The nurse who signed the dispatch
had written chill and the operator, knowing
that there was a letter missing from the word.
guessed it should end with d.
Year: 1869

VIM Cullen Bryant recently advised young
newspaper contributor: My young friend,
| observe that you have used several FreHch
expressions in your article. think if you will
study the English language, that you will find
it capable Of expressing all the ideas you may
have. have always found it so, and in all
that have written do not recall an instance
where | was tempted to use foreign word,
but that, on searching, found better one in
nv own language"
Year: 1869

Call me when breakfast is ready
Oh mother don't call me before;
Do not deny me the pleasure
OF moderate rest, iInplore.
Eight hours OF sleep are too little
For delicate maidens like me;
Dearer, by far, Is my pillow


Than a cup of the daintiest tea,
Mother cannot endure it,


This getting up early S bore
Call me when breakfast is ready,
., please don't call me before.
Call me when breakfast is ready
mother, don't call me too soon,
Shopping of course needs attention,
But that can be done before noon.
Talk of the folly of fashion,


l do not consider 1t so;
Parties must not be neglected,
And style is important you know.
Mother it makes ma SO nervous
To think of your steps at the door;
Call me when breakfast is ready,
D! please do not call me before.
Call me when breakfast is ready
o! don't call mo early, pray,
Doctors advise to be quiet,


My spine is affected they say.
Sleep is potent elixir,


And better than drugs or the knife;
Why, then so much in a hurry.


Since rest is the solace OF life?
Mother, do have some compassion,
And chide my late rising no more;
Call me when breakfast is ready.


o! please do not call me before.
Call me when breakfast is ready


OmOther! think I've been told.
Multitudei struggle for riches,


And barter their comfort for gold.
HypOcrites often rise early


Their motives are perfectly plain;
Sundays they always sleep later,


Because they have nothing to gain.
Mother 1 cannot endure It;


This getting up early s a bore
Call ME when breakfast is ready,


But please do not call me before.
Year: 1869

A lady, whose deceased husband had not en-
joyed a continuous flow of felicity during life.r
was asked at a Seance one night if she would
like communication from his spirit. be-
lieve not" she said if he IS got no more spirit
in the other world than he had in this, it's not
worth bothering about"
Year: 1869

The facts derived from official sources, do
not justify the sentiment The drawbridge
was off to allow the passage of vessel
Drecker and his wife were on it, working it
back into place A train from New York, at
full stop, one thousand feet from, the draao, as
required by law, was waiting for the draw to
get into position. The boy was not on the
draw at all, but, in crossing plank-walk from
the railroad to the house, he fell into ditch,
and the outgoing tide swept him into the river,
where he sank midway between the shore and
the draw. The father did not offer to aid him
for two satisfactory reasons: First, he could
not swim: second, he was too far away.


Mr.. Drecker is no doubt worthy man, who
deserves and has the public sympathy in his
bereavement. He probably wants no more
than his due, and must therefore keenly fee
the absurdity of the tall writing the unfortu
nate accident provoked. -.
Year: 1869

UNEARNED LAURELs.-A sensation story
has got on foot to the effect that the watchman
of the Passaic River drawbridge on the New
ork and Newark Railroad saw his little child
fall into the deep water just as he was closing
the draw to permit the passage of train COM
ing at full speed, and that he permitted his
child to drown while he saved the train.


A weekly contemporary thinks that Sir
Philip Sidney, giving the cup of cold water to
the dying soldier, is not nobler figure than
that of Albert G. Drecker keeping the Passaic
bridge" And a poet repeats the story in
heavy verse, and says of the bridge tender:
Year: 1869

The receipts OF treasure AZ san FRANCISCO
for the first nine months of this year have
been about thirty.seven and half million
dollars. slightly in excess of the same
months of 1868, and some two millions less
than those of 1857. But this sum must be
decreased by the subtraction of over ten
millions received in coin, and more than
offset by the shipment of fifteen millions to
the interior from San Francisco. The sim.
liar movement of coin during the first nine
months of 1868 was but slightly over i've
millions received and nine millions returned.
Making the necessary corrections, We have
. receipt Of uncoined treasure through the
express companies Of twenty seven millions
this year against thirty.two millions the
year before.


There is no doubt that this indicates di.
minished production Of bullion for the CAL
endar year 1859; but we do not anticipate
that the decrease will be very large; and,
on the other hand, the well-known causes
of it are such as not to discourage us in
view of the future. Tie San Francisco
Commercial Herald judiclously remarks that
the falling off in bullion product is attrib'
utable to the diminished yield of the Washoe
mines, largely due to tho great fire In
the Crown Point, Kentuck, and Yellow
Jacket; to the unusual lack of water In the
placer camps; and to the numerous miners
strikes in various quartz districts.


At present, however, the prospects of tho
Comstock mines ore improved; the produc.
tion of White Pine is large and regular;
the dry weather has delayed, but not de-
stroyed, placer and hydraulic operations,
and what We do not receive this year from
those sources will come when the water
comes. Az for troubles arising from the
high wages and exhorbitant demands Of
laborers, all delay from that cause is . loss
Of interest on capital, and little more. When
the labor question shall have been settled on
. fair basis, the activity and productiveuess
of the gold and silver mi,ing industry will
be multiplied, and the dividends Of profit
will be more likely to find their way into
the hands of owners and capitalists than into
those of their employers.


We do not feel alarmed, therefore, st tho
temporary decrease of production. Part Of
it will be made up by the end of the year;
and In any event, the treasure that We do
not extract from the earth is not therefore
lost 1t 10 waste, not diminished aggregate
of yield, that should alarm ~. Waste BY
litigation, by reckless mining and imperfect
extraction, by swindling speculation and
premature Development should receive
constant attention and remedy. In no other
way can We secure permanent and healthy
increase of our bullion product ct-Minina
Journal, October 26.
Year: 1869

THE NEW-YORK TRIBUNE will commence, ON
or about June Ist the publication in weekly chap
tiers of treaties by its Editor on POLITICAL EcoNo-
MY, designed more especially to elucidate and de-
fend the policy OF PROTECTION TO HOME INDUS
pass Of twenty to twenty-five chapters Of three Gr
four columns each and to treat the subject with such
simplicity and drectness that few can read these es-
says without at least realizing that the Protective
policy is either grossly misunderstood OF deliber-
ately misrepre ented by the champions OF Free
Trade. The public shall, at all events, realize that
we. who stand for Protection, habitually read and
try to comprehend our adversaries while they ignore
our writings and grossly caricature arguments.
but, in view Of the desperate efforts of the Free
Traders to foreslall opinion and try to wrest ver
dict from public which has not heard the case ar
gned, ask the friends OF Protection to aid us in
giving these essays, as they originally fall from the
press, general diffusion.


The Free Trade League, organized in this city, by
and in the interests OF foreign is labor
ing assiduously through newspapers which it con-
tros and by the distribution of tracts and pamphlets
IN t,a Tor;f
the importers of foreign manufactured goods. Their
efforts can best be counteracted by the dssemna-
ton Of journals intelligentiy and continuously de-
voted to the protection OF American labor aud the
fostering of American interests.


We shall print more than Two Hundred Thous-
and copies ot each in regular editions; but we
hope they will receive still wider dissemination
through the formation of new clubs (which we sup
ply at fraction the cost OF white paper) for
THE WEEKLY TRIBUNE.


We believe that it will be for the interest CT every
establishment in the country, whatever nature to
see to it that each workman is supplied with THE
TRIBUNE during the coming year. The question OF
Protection to Home Industry is soon to be all ab-
sorbng, and it is of the utmost Importance that
every voter shall be well informed on the subject.
Whoever would have these essays from the outset
must transmit their orders by the LIST of June.


The WEEKLY TRIBUNE OF June will contain
the first chapter.
Year: 1869

they affiliate with Democrats any time
to secure Office.


This talk Of clecting outside men has
commenced again this fall. What docs
it mean ? If tho past is any evidence
it means this Elect such men as the
ringleadcrs may name. Whom will they
name? None but those who will en-
ter into solemn compact to do the busi-
ness as they dictate, to conceal all their
past delinquencies and frauds, to con-
tinue the old order of things in every
particular, to appoint them and their
sonsa as deputies, and more than all, to
dipttfc the Yoi2s wtth them.


Now, at this early day, VIC warn the
citizens Of the county to beware Of any
and all men outside Of Austin or inside,
who are taken up and supported by this
money stealing dynasty. There is but
one way to redeem tho county from the
thraldom Of these wicked despoilers and
that is to elect men to fiji their places
who are known and pledged to oppose
their unlawful and ruinous practices.-
Every time an Office is vacated, put
man into it who has ability and stam-
ina, one who will not succumb to whis-
Ky, threats nor bribes, and one who
will not be afraid to let the people
know where their money goes.


All that Sylvester Smith and SOL
omon Snow want this fall il to get
Treasurer who will receipt to them for
all the illegally purchased bonds and
orders they may have on hand, who will
not investigate past transactions and
will give tho use Of the County funds
to Smith / Co. Of course they
would like to manage these little
affairs themselves, but there are several
aspiring "outside" men who wonld not
hesitate to do it for them. Look out
for them.
Year: 1869

these peoples movements are bitterly
opposed by certain newspapers. Those
who engage in them arc branded as"bol-
ters," heterogeneous" ''sore heads" !"
and so on through the whole vocabulary
Of anathcmas. But the reason Of this
opposition is obvious. Every such
newspaper is either owned and control
ed by some ring, or is supported by the
patronage ofa ring.


The St. Paul Press. for instance, is
the organ Of the Head Center Ring Of
tho State, and it loses no opportunity
to hurl its fury at any movement in any
county, that looks towards REFORM
That paper can see no virtue in the peo-
pie, but any existing order Of things,
however corrupt, is, in its estimation,
entitled to profound regard, and is law
supreme. The little crumb. picking
Register of this place in a small way
takes the same course since it first star
ted. The only thing that has kept the
breath oflife in it, is what money the
old ring have stolen from the people
and given it. For FIVE years this sense
less paper has cost the county at least
one thousand dollars per annum, and
all this time it has done nothing but go
through the pantomine Of opening and
shutting its mouth whenever certain
ring men nodded. No wonder that al
such hireling sheets should oppose each
and every movement Of the people that
would have tendency to dry up the
source Of their sustenance. But the
shallow devices of such selfish men can
never prevent tho onward movement Of
tho car ofrsform. Those who publish
newspapers to uphold iniquity, and en-
deavor to blind the eyes Of tho people,
and dupe them to support fraud, are
digging their own graves deeper and
deeper every day. Sooner or later the
virtue, integrity and independence, Of
the people will be made manifest, and
all wicked usurpers viii be hurled
from power. Yes, let the people move
when ever they will to the overthrow
ofwickedness, and let small dogs bark
at them if in 10 doing they find conso-
lation, during their brief day.
Year: 1869

The temperance people Of Minnesota
are jus< now engaged in misguided
movement. Being mostly Republicans
they are likely to make trouble in the
Republican Party. They have planted
themselves upon certain ground and say
to either Of the great parties "Come to
Us and We will be with you" Their
doctrine is prohibition as . political
creed. The Democratic Convention
will repudi.te them At once. So very
likely will the Republican. This
leaves to them their threatened alterna-
tive Of nominating third State Ticket.
Nothing is moro to be desired than
temperance rulers. Drunkenness il the
bane and disgrace Of our national coun-
ellis. But these temperance reformers
have taken q wrong way to accomplish
= very good result. The right way is
to 60 to work in republican style among
the people and see that none but tem-
perance men are nominated for Office.
We venture the prediction that if the
Good Templars and their co-workers in
the good cause nominate third ticket
this fall, there will be on it the usual
proportion Of whisky-drinking men, be-
sides an unusual number Of imbeciles.
This movement will furnish q last op-
portunity for broken down Politicians
who will don tho robes Of templars As
= temporary ezpedient to gain power
No man is 6t for Office unless he is temr
perate in all things,-but the simple
fact chat = person does not drink whisky
is no'evidence that he would govern
State, County or City with ability: Our
temperance friends forget Gas they did
here last spring. that there are OF her
qualifications beside total abstinance,
necessary to fit men to discharge public
duties successfully.
Year: 1869

The only safety of Republican govern
ment is the integrity, ability and vigi-
lance Of the people. No truer saying
was ever uttered than that "etcrnal
vigilance is the price Of liberty
The people can never slumberS over
their rights, nor entrust their interest
to the keeping Of hired servants if they
would be prosperous and happy
Every citizen has a political duty to
perform, which no one can do for him.
He is a unit ofthe government and as
such is responsible for the right or
wrong that exists. Men act wisely
when they unite their energies in a
good cause. Every evil that creeps
into our political system should be
rooted out. The people should act
together in doing it. Hence a peo-
ples' movement to break up the corrup-
tion Of party or a clan who have
usurped the powers of a party, is always
honorable and right, such movements
are our only safeguard. They arc al
most necessity Of our political system
and they are becoming more common
every day. In large number Of the
counties Of this State: where few men
have combined for many years to con-
troll Offices and patronage for selfish
ends, until the burdens of taxation have
become too heavy to be borne in silence,
the people arc waking up to their own
interests, and uniting with a determin-
ed purpose to hurl the usurrcrs from
power. This is not only being done in
this but in other States. In the city
Of Chicago a revolution in local matters
is going on and tho fight is very bitter.
On a large scale they have there the
exact counterpart of what exists in Now
er County. They have ring that has
farmed out the county Offices for many
years. But the people without regard
to party or sect, have now taken hold of
the matter. They have but one plank
in their platform and that is to drive


out the old ring.


As might have been anticipated all
Year: 1869

1t is an easy thing to make wholesale
assertions that our neighbors tell lies,
but it is quite another thing to prope
that they tell them. 1fone half the
allegations Of the Mower County Reg.
ister for the last year were true, Gan
hypothesis which no christian would
be wicked enough to make,) the Fa-
ther Of Lies would justly assign the
TRANSCRIPT a position in his house
hold not much below the Register.
But it may never have occurred to the
added brain Of the selfrigteous crumb-
picker who is preparing himself for SO
high position in the above mentioned
household that he has never proved
that during all this time We have utter
ed one /alsehood: Does tho silly
youth suppose that the idiotic claek of
his lounge as it goes through the old
mechanical performance Of saying "you
lie "you He'' "1ou LIE" "you lie" "yo,'
lie" ''You LIE, is taking by the public q
any evidence of truth =


Does "Charley" remember ono day
when he held up his little hand and
swore E'that the TRANSCRIPT supple
ment contained hundred lies r And
does he remember that after he had
taken the oath he couldn't point out
one! 1t is said that there is no ami
mial Of so low a grade of instinct but
that it can cry for food, aud it is we'll
known that the best evidence Of va
cant mind is the constant repetition of
the same thing. The poor Register
boy does both, every day he cries to
the county for food, and fills up the in
tervals with his senselcss mumbling
monotone *you lie" you lie" "you lie''
The State has provided an asylum for
this class of unfortunates and there the
County or his parents ought 10 have
mercy enough to send him.
Year: 1869

which It takcs any other from three to seven,
and which saves lr0 per cent. on the wear OF
the Pump. 1t is made of tho best hard maple
and Warranted; the top is also warranted not
~ burst by frost in winter.


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