smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1868

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Whom Gen. Grant loft Washington


to come West, herwas followed By :
sn''eaking spy il the employ. Of the New


York World, Who wrote dirty Letters Of
personal abuse 70 that paper about the
Generals trip.. The only fact which


this hired sneak really discovered dur
ing bis journey was ! that three glasses
Of beer were actually taken into the car


which General Grant acd the party ac-
oompanying occupied, but whether the
said beer was consumed by the General
or by others Of the party the smeller
could not positively state. The same
contemplate spy, after trailing around
after the General, when he went to Wis.
it relations in Ohio, and finding moth.
ing bad to report, was finally observed
and accosted by friend Of the Geucr-
al, and the fellow admitted that he was
sent by the World to find out what be
could to the discredit Of the General,
but that he had order. to report MOTH
ing IN his tauor! @~ .@ "


During the war, this same World
made a great fuss because the govern
,ment employed detectives to track men
who were engaged in plotting treason,
and called it mean and dirty, and con-
temptible business. And yet this same
paper sends a hired spy after man,
not engaged in plotting treason, not
dangerous to the very life Of the nation,
but honored by the whole world as it's
foremost defender and champions
man hired to drag the cutters for mis-
cradle slanders against the fair name Of
the faithful soldier, and under order. to
report nothing in HI. favor.


Is this the dignity and deoency of
Metropolitan journalism No con-
tcmptible sneak-thief on the continent
was ever guilty Of 4 dirtier and meaner
thing than this paper, the representa-
tive Of the Democracy Of the chief city
Of the nation. The meanest and small
est country paper IN the United States,
however familiar with filthy scandal and
blackguardism, would hardly stoop to
so dirty thing as this performance Of
the World. To send a man to collect
facts would be Objectionable only on
the score Of decency and courtesy
things Of which metropolitan journal
ism boasts great deal, but which the


World at least seems to know nothing
about-but to send a man to report
nothing but scandal and slander, in.
structed not to tell the truth when the
truth is favorable to the foremost SOL
dier Of the nation, this is indeed thing
which We cannot characterize too &C.
verely.
Year: 1868

PHILADELPHIA, June A-Daniel
W. Fox was nominated for Mayor to-
day by the Democratic Convention.


The ceremonies at the laying of the
cornerstone of the Masonic Temple
we're very impressive. The grafton
was delivered by Grand Master Rich
ard Voux. Over one thousand Ma
sons partooK of a banquet at the
Academy of Music.
Year: 1868

1 OTTAWA, June PA dispatch has
beer received from the Colonial
Office in reply to the Nova Scotia APP
peal memorial Itrepresents the union
as an imperial as we'll as provincial
policy, and relies on the loyalty pi
Nova Scotia to support It.
Year: 1868

The Bi.Centenuial Celebration Yesterday.


The bi.centennal celebration of the settlement Of
Glen Cove, which was to have taken place on satur-
day last was postponed until yesterday, owing to
the inclement condition Of the weather on the
original day appointed. Among the many and beau
tfu villages Of which Long Island characteristicay
boasts, Glen Cove Is in no degree secondary
specimen for beauty OF location, pcturesqueness and
design. The manner in which the village is modelled
Is at once sufficient to convince visitor Of the fact
and enhance the pleasure of strangers visit The
village is bountfully provided with fresh aud salt
waters the former being kept In the best and neatest
manner and supplying at the proper seasons OF the
ton to the feasting table, The river is damned
at points, and the tidal waters supply the place
which the "6ove" is noticeable and which give
abundance Of employ to laboring people, The viii
lage s accessible by boat from New York and by the
Long Island Railroad at various hours OF the day,
and the peope seemingly availed themselves OF the
opportunity by either mode of transit be present;
for at an early hour the streets lined by those
who were not particularly interested in the formali-
ties to be observed and also by those who were to
take active part in the exercises and which occa-
sion was to mark an event in the period of their
lives.


On the oath of May 1853 the chiefs of the MattIne-
cock tribe, SureanemOn and Werch, decided to
Joseph Carpenter Glands lying on both sides OF Mu-
sce!a Couie" for the purpose OF erecting sawmll
and dwelling house thereon. Upon this same strip
Of land now stand the ancient structures which Mr.
Carpenter erected two hundred years ago. and which
were looked upon at that time by the few white set
improvement to the then thinly populated locality
One hundred years ago the centennial celebration
was held; but since that time many human frame
has returned to DUST and the children Of those who
were then oficious In the grand celebration now
assume the roe OF their fathers to celebrate the ami
versary in the same manner


Accordingly at ten O'Clock yesterday morning they
paraded through the principal streets ana then to
the grove where Henry j. Scudder delivered an ora
tion when the assembled group sat down to the
tables well laden with food, which had been prepared
for the OCCASION After dinner tOasts were offered
and responded to for upwards of five hours, when
the party began to gradually disperse, and about
seven the grove, which but few hours previous
ly so busy and ifeke was left alone in the company
of the birds which there abound.
Year: 1868

WATERING PLAoEs-As every body that has a
spare dollar Is going over the lake TO see MS
family or to spend few days on his own hook II
behooyes him TO look around and see what boat
he can find most comfort on during the trip. The
Creole has been made better than new, she IS
safe, staunch, swift and comfortable. Captain
Baker, we don't know personally, but we have
heard be is the duplicate Of his brother Page and
sure, better or truer fellow never uoi the earth
or a ouarter.deck.
Year: 1868

this morning early, and by IL o'clock fifty build
ings had burned aud the fire was still raging.


SHANGHAI, July 4-Advces from Japan indi-
cate that the civil war is drawing TO q close. A
compromise has been effected between the Dlmds
nor and south which will lead to a reconciliation
between the mikado and the tycoon.
Year: 1868

The House received the report OF the eommittee
Of the whole, reporting progress and asking fur
ther time. Report received and bill made the
special order Of the day for tomorrow at one
o'clock In committee of the whole.


House adjourned till neon tomorrow
Year: 1868

1t is faverite theory Of the Radical
party that the poor man pays no taxes
that because he does not, at annual pc


riods, draw check for so much money
due the government for income tax, or


tex on real estate, that therefore he is
free from all burdens OF this character.
This view is proclaimed by Radical ora
tors from the stump, and repeated in
the journals of that party. But there


was never a more erroneous position as


sumed or stated. In point of fact, the
poor laboring man pays as much, ii not
more tax, in proportion, than the rich
man. To be sure the tax is not direct,
but it is none the less certain and bur.
deRsome. AS taxation is imposed upon
land and money, the price OF all kinds
of goods advances. The laborer buying
them ut the retail store, has to pay not
only the original value of the thing,
but all the tax on it that has been paid
at each stage by the manufacturer or
importer, the Wholesale dealer and the
retail stOrekeeper. The tax is shifted
from one to the other, with additions
at each stage, until it comes to the Gus
tOmer-the one who buys the goods to
use and not to sell. And here the bur-
den rests; he must pay the whole accu-
mulated amount of taxation, and get
none of it back. As long as the goods
are being sold and transferred from
hand to hand, so long the tax is kept
shifting from one man to another; but
when the article ceases to be turned
over and becomes applied to the use for
which it was designed, then the tax can
be no further shifted. The man who
wears the shirt pays the tax of
the storekeeper who sold it, of the
wholesale dealer who supplied it to the
store, and of every man who has han
died it, back to the cotton factory mil
lionaire in whose mills it was woven.
AS jefferson says: Taxation is like
ball rolling down stairs; it bumps on
each step, but finally rests on the low
est" That is the workingman, and he
therefore is the most deeply interested
in having an honest, economical gov
ernment in order that taxation may
not enhance the volume of all he uses
and supplies to his family. The Radi-
Gals are wasteful, extravagant and cor
rupt. They have increased debt and
taxation, and will continne to do so.
Is such a party entitled to the support
of workingmen
Year: 1868




Our foreign-born citizens can arrive
at correct understanding of the senti-
ments entertained toward them on the
part of tho Radical leaders by consider.
ing the discrimination made in favor OF
negroes over them by Congressional
legislation.


Under the provisions of the naturali-
zation laws the German or the Irishman
who wishes to become q citizen of the
United States is required, after three
years. residence in the country, and one
in the State, to file his declaration OF
intention, taking an oath that during
the three years il has been his purpose
to become a citizen, and adducing sat
isfactory evidence of his good moral
character before the court having Jurls-
diction I; and then, two years after his
remuneration of allegiance to all foreign
potentates and powers, he may, on ap-
plication, receive his certificate of citi-
zenship. Saeh is the probation, and
such the process, to which every white
man who happens to have been born in
foreign country is subjected before he
can vote, or exercise any of the rights





How stands the regulation with re-
gard to the negroes exercising the rig ghts
of citizenship The reconstruction
laws have conferred citizenship upon
the negroes of the South who were but
the other day slaves, without any pre-
liminaries whatever. Though of an in
terior race, and profoundly ignorant of
all political and State affairs, the Rad
ical party has taken the debased and
brutal negroes at once from condition
of bondage, and made American citi-
zens of them. Nothing can be more
palpable than the fact that the negroes
were not citizens when they were slaves,
and yet they have already had those
privileges conferred upon them that it
takes the white foreigner so long to at
tain to.


But this is not all. Many of the ne
groes in the South upon whom citizen
ship has been thus instantaneously
conferred are foreigners by birth. We
have no means of arriving at the nun
ber of negroes of African and Cuban
birth who under the reconstruction
acts have had American citizenship
conferred on them, but there are GER
tainly good many. Many of our
readers will remember the excitement
that was created just before the war BY
the importation of negro slaves into
Southern ports, direct from Africa; and
it is unquestionable that a large num-
Der of negroes now in the South were
born in Cuba and the West India
Islands.


1t is not thing of no Significance
that the Radical candidate for the Vice
Presidency was Know Nothing of the
most intsleraHt and proscriptive sort.
Not only is the Radical party composed
in large part OF the old Know Nothing
material, but it prefers native negroes
to native whites, aud il infinitely pre-
ters negroes to white men of foreign
bir:h. Can any white map of foreign
birth be so lost to self-respect as to CO.
operate with SO Infamous an organize
tion


Most aptly did General Blair remark
in his speech accepting the Democratic
for the Vice Presidency: I'm
this contest We shall have the sympa-
thy of every one who is worthy to belong
to the white race"
Year: 1868

TAXPAYERS, don't complain Of high
taxes aud hard times 80 long as you vote
To perpetuate in power the party that
levies the first upon you and sustain the
party policy that causes the other
Year: 1868

FIFTEEN hundred millions of Federal
revenue collected in three years, and
the National debt increased. This is
the record of Radicalism. Every man
who wants economy in the Federal Ad-
ministration should vote the Demo-
cratic ticket tomorrow.
Year: 1868

The authorized expenses of the Fed
eral government for the fiscal year, in
cluding remains of appropriations
which have not lapsed, exceed five
hundred and fifty millions. How is it
to be met ! How but by direct taxes
upon onr peoplei Are our people pre-
pared to meet it Can they do sol
Year: 1868

There are two little arteries which sup.
ply the whole face with blood, one on each
side these branch off from the main arte-
ries on each side of the windpipe and
running upward toward the eyes, pass
over the outside of the jaw-bone, about
thirds of the way back from the chin
to the angle of the jaw, under the ear.
Each of the arteries, of course, supplies
Just one-half Of the face, the nose being
the dividing line, the left nostril is sup
piled with blood by the left artery and the
right nostril by the right artery. Now
suppose your nose bleeds from the right
nostril with the end of the right fore
finger feel along the outer edge of the
right jaw until you feel the beating of the
artery directly under your finger, the same
as the pulse in your wrist, then press the
finger hard upon it, thus getting the little
fellow il tight place between your finger
and the jaw bone; the result will be that
not drop of blood goes into that side Of
your face while tho pressure continues
hence the nose instantly stops bleeding
for want of blood to flow; continue the
pressure for five or ten minutes and the
rupturcd vessel in the nose will be by that
time probably contracted so that when you
let the blood into them they will not leak
Bleeding from cut or wound anywhere
about the face may be stopped in =.
same way The Creator probably placed
these arteries as they are that they might
be controlled. Those to the back Of tho
head, arms, and legs are all arranged very
conveniently for being controlled in like
manner.
Year: 1868

perior to the the shallow critiques of peo-
pie who think they are wise, | see the
true recognition of your merit by the
Eastern peddle who cries you fer sale !:
"In the ramc of the Prophet l--Figsl"


Would it be possible for any cunning
magiciau-in- words to convey sense of the
flavor of various fruits? | think not
When I try, the difficulty is radical and
specific ;itl does not lie in my impotence Of
language 1t is net merely strong and
faint effort to describe the currant as
sharp; tie nectarine, clean, quick, and
juicy; the peach, melting, and high-bred;
the apple, sound and masculine; the
strawberry, tender. yet distinct and fra
grant; the gooseberry, vulgar, yet pleas
ant; the raspberry, sweet; the cherry,
heeting and pulpy. 1t is of no nse try
lug. 1t is not my fault; the fault lies in
the inadequacy of language to define the
sensation which shall generically convey
the peculiar property of the several sorts
1 will not attempt definition of them


But | protest against the coarscness of the
intellect which does not perceive in eat.
ing that it is brought into contact with the
subtleSt and yet most distinct difference
which can characterize anything which,
like fruit, is known under one name.
Year: 1868

Few persors are aware of the fact that
the principal morning journals of the east
are not printed directly from the type, but
from stereotypes taken from the regular
form The whole time consumed in ma
king the four pages is about twenty min
utes.


1t is accomplished thus Each page is
made up in a separate form on table in
size and height expressly adapted for the
purpose the legs of this table are furnish
ed with castors, and as soon as the form
is locked, the table is rolled into the stere-
otype room. The form is then removed
to the moulding table; the latter has a
hollow iron bed, the cavity cf which is
filed with steam, as heat is one Of the re-
quirements in facilitating the operation
After the right temperature is attained
the form is removed again to the imposing
table, and two or three sheets of kind OF
paper are laid over the surface of the type
and they are ther beaten down with a
brush in the same manner that printers
proceed with brush proof.


The form is then again carefully slid
up to the moulding table, another and
heavier sheet of paper is placed over the
first this is covered with a wet blanket
the whole slipped under the press attached
to the moulding table, and the power ap
piled. This is done almost instantly
when the form il again run out, and th'
paper peeled of is q complete matrix o
the whole form.


A preparation of French chalk is nov
applied to the surface of this paper, whel
it is placed into the mould, and the no
metal poured against it, and the plate al
most instantly formed. 1t is now removed
10 the planer, cut, routed, and justified
and in few minutes is On its way to tn
press room. These plates are cast in tn,
exact Eorm required for cylinder press
and are about half an inch in thickness.
Year: 1868

Ga RAT1TuDE.-Be careful to teach your
children gratitude. Lead them to ac-
knowledge every favor that they receive,
to speak often of their benefactors, and to
ask blessings for them. Accustom them
to treat with marked attention their in,
structors, and those who have aided them
in the attainment of knowledge or piety
Gratitude is one of our first duties to God
and should not be forgotten when due tc
man.
Year: 1868

A short time ago we gave brief de-
scription of two unfortunate and deformed
children belonging to Mr.. David Morris,
a resident of Beech Greek, in this county.
At that time our knowledge of these chill
dren was very limited, and some inaccura-
ces occurred in our statement. Since
then we have visited the residence OF Mr..
Morris, aud find that the children are a
much greater wonder than we at first sup
posed them to be. AS before stated, there
is one of each sex. The male is twenty
two years old, thirty-seyen inches high,
and weighs forty-one pounds. He has
but little forehead, the hair coming al
most to his eyebrows. His eyes are deep
ly sunken into his head, and have the ap-
pearance of being almost closed. His
jaws protru1e forward to great extent
while his teeth incline so mucn to the
front that when his mouth is closed the
teeth come almost fatty together. He
cannot speak word. His tongue is shOr,
ard thick, and seems to fill his mouth
when shut. His body is large for being
of his stature. He seems to have mind
like child of year old, and makes signs
and seems to try to talk like child oi
that age. His hearing is very acute, and
he can understand what is said to him in
relation to things that he is accustomed
to. Hi, flesh has a bloated appearance
and there seems to be kind of scaly sub.
stance on his hands and face. He leg:
are small and seem to be unable to sup
port his body for any great length of time
The feet are also small, and the toes in
cline inward. Altogether he is the great
est curiosity of the human species that We
ever behed.


The female is twenty-one years of age
weighs forty pounds, and is thirty eight
inches high! She strongly resembles the
boy in most particulars, although she ii
not quite so much deformed. These
children have very peculiar habits. They
sit around all day, not appearing to pay
much attention to what is going on
They have to inc icate their wants by
signs, and no one can administer to then
unless they are accustomed to their habits
The female can speak few words in ref
erence to the most ordinary matters, bu
scarcely enough to be of any service
They eat but little. except in the middl
of the day. They have to have certain
kind Of diet, or they will not eat at all
and in no case will they eat before stran
gers. They enjoy as good health as tn
most of people usually do. The boy has
very violent temper, and cannot be drive
or scared into anything. Moral suasio,
is the only means by which he can be con
trollcd


Taking them all in all, their physica
construction, their mental faculties, thei
habits and dispositions, they are the great
est and strangest wonders we ever beheld
although we have visited many place
where sights Of wonder and curiosity wer
exhibited.


MIR. Morris IS quiet, respectable an
unassuming farmer, and has resided wher
he now lives for great number of years
and the existence of his unfortunate ah
, curious children is scarcely known outsid
at his immediate neighborhood, Bloom
6c'd Democrat
Year: 1868

This gentleman has strong influence in


the delegation from Connecticut. He is
advanced in years, and his white hairs and
venerable appearance command attention
when he rises on the floor of the conven
tion. lie is of medium height, Of strong
Year: 1868

At 41o'clock in the afternoon of the


18th, the cashier and clerk of the First


National Bank, at Independence, Mo-,


were sitting by the stove near the back


door of the bank building, conversing,


having just closed the front door and win


dows preparatory to closing up for the
evening. Suddenly the latch of this door
was turned and two men entered side by
side with pistols in hand. One of them
said, as they entered, in low but very
firm voice. .'Not word, men, or you
viii never see your families again" The
larger man Of the two held.a pistol in each
hand, nearly touching the herds of the
two officers, while the other proceeded to
close the side windows and pocket the cash.
BE did this very deliberately, and, after
cleaning the vault, as he thought, turned
and ordered the officers to ente the vault,
which orber they Of course obeyed, The
scoundrels then. closed the door Of. the
vault and left, locking the back doore aztec
them, taking both the vault and door keys
with them. The house and vault both being
closed, it was some time before the prison
ers could make themselves heard. The
clerks wife, who was up stairs in the bank
building, becoming inpatient about her
husbands delay, went to the back door
two or three times. She at last prevailed
on gentleman to go with her, and on
reaching the door they heard a noise inside,
which proved to be the two prisoners strik-
ing the door with the bank seal that hap
pend to be in the vault. The alarm was
then given, the door of the building forced
open, and the situation of the cashier and
clerk made known. The cashier had a key
at his residence belonging to the vault,
which was quickley brought and the door
opened, to the relief of the pent-up prison
ers. who were suffering from sufFocation =
The loss to the bank is about S11, 600,
and with private funds and special deposits,
it is supposed that the robbers got about
SIT 900 altogether. about So, 900 of which
was in gold.
Year: 1868

The Home Journal, good authority in
such matters, :-Curls have nearly
altogether replaced plaits and bandeaur,
for evening wear, especially at the Opera.
To look effective, the curls should COM
mence at the very top of the head, and the
last ringlet should reach very low down
the back What is called the Marguerite
style of arranging the hair is adopted by a
few, and the plaits in these cases are Of won
derful length. So much false hair is worn
that but little space is left on the head for
flowers and wreaths in fact, the very mar
rowest bGnderu1, and the slimmest gar
lands possible to arrange, are the only
head-dresses to be seen at the present time


Small leaves, beaded all over, and made up
into bandeau, are fashionable, likewise a
trellis of lilies of the valley and lilac mixed,
as well as plaits of velvet with a gold tas-
sci at one end and a bouquet of gold fow-
erets at the other these encircle the head
and are fastened at the side, sometimes
with the addition of very fancifully made
ornaments. The rage for wearing false
hair is increasing rather than diminishing.
Formerly rigidly scrupulous people de-
INJURED at single plait, and added it to
the natural growth, when that was scanty,


in sly surreptitious manner; but now no
such scruples exist-false chtgnofs, false
curls, and false plaits are to be found on
one head at the same time, and neither
blushes nor hesitation are thought of when
confessing 10 these artificial additions.