smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1868

Scarcely day passes that we do not
receive communications unaccompanied
with the name of the writer. OF course
these are never read by us but tossed
into the waste basket. Until CORES
pomdcnts learn that they must entrust
their real names to tho editor, not for
publication but rs a guarantee Of good
faith, they must not expect to see their
favOrs in print.
Year: 1868

We learn from gentleman just
from the city of New York, that large
Grant and Colfax Club in that city, last
week, renounced the Radical candidates,
and declared for Seymour and Blair.
The whole country is moving in that
direction. Clear the track. All aboard,
while there is room.
Year: 1868

AN exchange says with great truth
that in good old Democratic times the
poor man might go to market with his
money in his pocket and bring back
his purchase in basket. New the or
der of things is reversed. He may take
money to market in basket and bring
back tho purchase in his pocket.
Year: 1868

A New York paper says: The emigra-
tion of European Mormons to Utah has
been very large of late. A week or
two since we announced the landing at
Castle Garden of nearly one thousand
of these people, en- route to Salt Lake,
and on Tuesday a ship arrived, bringing
not Tar from nine hundred more Of them.
bound to the same destination. We
are informed that one of the European
steamship lines is now under contract
to bring ten thousand Mormon passen-
gers-mostly Welsh and Scandinavian
in addition to those already here.
Year: 1868

COLONEL WooDFoRD, Radical, in a
recent speech, said: 81 make no at
tack on Governor Seymour as man.
Most courteous and gentle in his man
ners, cultured in mind, and persuasive
in eloquence, his private character is
without spot or Dlcmish.-Erchdnge.


If the aiiable Colonel could say rs
much of the butcher and tanner he
might more benefit his cause.
Year: 1868

GRANT, in starting on his Western
tour expressed wish not to have any
public demonstrations. The people OF
Kentucky took him at his word, and nc
doubt gratified him intensely by their
recent failure to demonstrate" in his
favor ut the polls.
Year: 1868

OVER seven millions of dollars have
been paid by the Taxpayers of this ma
tion for converting various classes of
securities into each other. Verify a
Irrational debt is o national blessing"
Year: 1868

We expect great change next month
not enough, perhaps, to give the
Democracy o majority at the first elec.
tion, but enough to show that in No
vember the electoral vote will be cast
for SEYMOUR and BLAIR.
Year: 1868

"A contemporary records d "me1-
ancholy event" at q time when his
head was rather heavy, after the
following manner: Yesterday
morning, at 4 o'clock, b. M, d man
with d heel In the hole Of his stock
ing, committed arsenic, by swallow
ing a, dose of suicide. The inquest
Of the verdict returned by the jury
was that the deceased came to the
facts in accordance with his death.
He leaves child with six small
wives to lament to the end his un-
timely loss. I'm death we are in
the midst of life.
Year: 1868

lrEoln tue OSWe8O( j


Yesterday, a rural looking lady and
gentleman Of Sterling, Cayuga county,
called upon one of the Justices of the
Peace and expressed wish to be mar
ried. The pair were made man and wife.
This morning they re-appeared and each
in turn desired that the proceedings
might be annulled. She charged that
she had been entrapped into marry
ing the man who stood beside her by a
piece of unparalleled deception. She
had been corresponding with her cousin
in Iowa whom she had not seen since she
was a child, and during the correspon-
dence her relative had woed and won her
affections. He wrote that he was coming
on here in December to claim her hand
and take her to his home in the West.
On Monday last the swain to whom
she was married made his appearance,
claimed to be her cousin, &c. On the
strength of these representations she had
reluctantly consented to wed. She
had since learned that the man whom
she had married was not cousin, but a
wretch who had secured wife by base
deception. The man acknowledged his
culpability but pleaded in extenuation
that the Iowa cousin had read the letter
of his intended; that these had infu-
enced him to do as he had done. His
conscience smote him so grievously since
the accomplishment of his treachery.
that he made full confession to the
lady he had so sbamefully wronged. He
had hoped to reconcile her to the
fraud but she would not He was will
| ing to make the only amends he knew
of viz: have the marriage contract an
nulled. s


The magistrate suggested he had not
the power to unmarry them. He advised
that, as matters had progressed thus far,
it would be better for the lady to make
the best of bad bargain, and accept the
situation. After good deal of persua-
sion ON the part of the bridegroom, the
lady finally decided to accept the advice
of the magistrate, on the assurance that
the said bridegroom would ''make it all
right with the genuine cousin away off
in Iowa." Upon this happy settlement
the lady dried her eyes, and the happy
pair departed.
Year: 1868

THE New York Chamber of Com
merce have invited Senator MORTON
to deliver an address on the finance
question before that body, at an early
day, but he has not decided to accept
the invitation. He will write reply
to the long letter Of GREELEY, in
Tuesdays Tribune. directed to him.
Year: 1868

you, daughter, thousand times" +"
took away all sense of weariness.


"It's rather looking up, when man
can have an amanuensis," said the
father. at is not every farmer that
can afford it."


"Nor every farmers drughter that
is capable of making one," said
mother, with little pardonable ma
ternal pride.


"Nor every one that would be will
ling, if they were able," said Mr.. Will
ber-which last was a sad truth. How
many daughters might be ofuse to
their fathers in this and many other
ways, who never think of tightening a
care or labor. If asked to perform
some little service, it is done at best
with a reluctant stay and an unwilling
air which robs it of all sunshine or
claim to gratitude.


Girls, help your father: give him a
cheerful home to rest in when even
ing comes, and do not worry his life
away by fretting because he cannot
afford you all the luxuries you covet.
Children exert as great an influence
on their parents as the parents do on
their children Country Gentleman.
Year: 1868

1t is good sign to see man do an
act of charity-bad to hear him boast
of it. ,t


is a bad sign to see an honest
man wearing his old clothcs--bad to
see them filling holes in the window.


1t is good sign to see 8 man wipe
the perspiration from his brow-bad
to see him wipe bis lips as he comes out
Of cellar.


1t is good sign to see a woman
dressed with taste and ncatnss--bad.to
see the husband sued for fnery. /. n


1t is q good sign to see a man adj
vertise in the papers-bad to see the
sheriff advertise for him.


1t is a good sign to see q man send
ing his children to school--bad to see
them educated ct the night school in
the street.
Year: 1868

"My hands are so stiff can hardly
hold a pen," said Farmer WILDER, a:
he sat down to "figure out" some ac-
counts that were getting behindhand.


"Could l help you, father?" said
Lucy, laying down her bright crotchet
work. 81 should be glad to, if only
knew what you wished written"


"Well, shouldn't wonder if you
could, Lucy" he said, rehectively
"Pretty good at figures, are you ?"


at would be fine story if 1 did
not know something of them after
going twice through the arithmetic, y
said Lucy, laughing.


"Well, can show you in five
minutes what have to do, and it will
be a powerful help ifyou can do it for
me-. | never was master hand at
accounts in my best days, and IT does
not grow any easier, as | can see, since
| put on specs"


Very patiently did the helpful
daughter plod through the long dull
lines offgures, leaving the gay worst
ed work to lie idle all the evening,
though she was in such haste to finish
her scarf. 1t was reward enough to
see her tired father, who had been toll
ing the whole day for herself and the
other dear ones, sitting So costly in
his great easy chair, enjoying his
weekly paper, as it can only be enjoy
ed in a country house, where news
from the great world beyond GENES
seldom, and is eagerly sought for.


The clock struck nine before her
task was over, but the hearty "Thank
Year: 1868

A. crazy fellow in a Missouri town
declared that he was sent on earth to
redeem all things, but one Of the
audience carried Confederate note to
him and made him confess his inability
to go as far as that.
Year: 1868

the people of a State in the sense Of governing
They broke the laws, incurred penalties of death
and confiscation. The Government says: In
our gracious mercy we withhold these penal
ties, provided you behave yourselves, just as
in England person condemned for crime is
allowed ticket-of-leave if he shows con-
triton, to be revoked if he behaves badly
The Rebels of the South are III the position OF
ticket-of- leave men. We do not desire to
molest them. But when they try Rebellion
pranks again, and prevent loyal men from
voting and keep States out of the Union it is
quite another matter. Then we are in favor
of the iron hand.
Year: 1868

when Congress prepared to substitute genuine re-
vance, lCopperhead exchange


What is genuine reconstructiOnW We
contend that it is that form OF ~"iVn in which
all men are free and equal-the sins of the
Rebel forgotten, and the rights of the Freed
man assured We could have wished this
through the operation of Impartial Suffrage
and Universal Amnesty. We cannot now reach
it that way, thanks to Andrew Johnson and the
Rebel spirit which he has famed into new life.
We must try another. First, we must secure
the rights of the loyal. We must give them the
ballot, and the State Governments. We must
make them strong enough TO protect them
selves. We must oyerride-sweep away, If
necessary crush every impediment in the way.
This is the demand Justice makes upon us, and
that demand we are now answering to the best
of our power. That being over, we are willing
to think of Mercy, and we shall insist upon the
largest remission of sins aud the fullest COM
munion of citizenship This will make genuine
reconstruction" We are hard at work at one
branch of it, and just now propose only to do
one thing at a time. Justice now, Mercy when
the time comes
Year: 1868

Here is the way Charleston paper speaks
Of one of the delegates to the South Carolina
Convention:


"He has good figure short black hair black eyes and
black shaggy oyerhanging eyebrows. He sports thick
black mustache, and when sober would make good
looking bandit His great fault however is drunkenness
and when under the Influence OF liquor he is most dis
gsting beast indulgng In shockngly obscene language
gestures He heartily detested by the respectable
white people of Kngstree In which place he resides and


treated to ride upon rail. dressed IN bran aeU sud Of
tar aud feathers"


How many white men would submit to q
libel like thisf We presume if the writer of
the above were fogged by the person he thus
describes, it would be considered q hideous,
radical miscegenation, negro outrage. We GER
tainly do not advise the flogging, but VIC could
we'll understand the provocation.
Year: 1868

most earnest and thorough canvass is
going on in New Hampshire. Both parties are
hard at work, and both claim to be confident
of victory. In any Middle or Western State
the change Of two or three thousand votes
would not excite surprise; but the people of
the Granite State are tolerably firm in their
political convictions and there is little doubt
that the relative proportions of former years
will be very nearly maintained. To doubt a
Republican victory would be to reject the most
manifest signs of the times.
Year: 1868

nal Revenue service is TO be a rich man, and
yet the pay is no larger than in other branches
Of the Government. If the law were executed
this scandal would cease. The President is
anxious to execute the law.n Let him make
the experiment with whisky.
Year: 1868

The Democratic State Convention is to be
held at Albany, March II. A committee of
influential New-York Democrats is to go to
Washington to urge the holding of the National
Convention in this city.
Year: 1868

The Greenback Democracy are aDNously
looking for the " great reaction" in New-Hamp-
shire. The Boston Post NeW- York World and
some other journals keep up vigorous
whistling, but it is as hollow and heartless as
the so-called principles of the party.
Year: 1868

The leaven begins to work Andrew john
sons friends are moving in his behalf for the
Presidential nomination. Well, it is no quarrel
of ours-but the Democracy could go farther
and fare worse
Year: 1868

After a man finds himself " doing well" in
the world, his first care is to make his family
comfortable. Especially is this 20 when there
are children coming to him. or he has sisters
and parents dependent upon his labor IL he
were sure of life, there would be little anxiety


The mere doing well would be enough But this
is world of chance, and peril, and bodily
harm, and sudden death No thrift and pru-
dence no patient industry, can control destiny;
and his yrarnng is for the little store to make
the roof tight Oh rainy days, and the hearth
cheerful when Goals are scarce and dear. Riches
have wings. There is nothing more uncertain
than the basis of fortunes The most successful
of our merchants build their estates upon sand


A war in Europe, bad harvests, q successful
revolution in China, tempest quarrel be-
tween two diplomatists, the death of the Pope,
or of the Emperor Napoleon, would overthrow
many of our prOudest commercial houses. Tie
care which possesses Robin the blacksmith is
precisely that which should possess Dives the
merchant, and no man can be said to be
doing welln unless he has the means of living
secure from tile ordinary chances Of business.


1t is said that the lesson of doing
"welln was taught us by bankers and
traders in the soft and sunny countries of
Upper Italy. colony of Lombard merchants
settled in London six hundred years ago, and
taught our thriftless ancestors (mOre concerned,
we fear, about falconry and shooting the bow
than with death, or want, or disaster) the les
son Of insurance. These Lombards, being
traders confined their insurance to ships. But
great fire came, and London was laid in
ashes, and amid the ruins of the smoking city
its unhappy people, learning the sad lesson. ap-
piled the same principle to their homes. 1t
Year: 1868

We attach no credit whatever to the
report that "Liberal" changes are cOntem-
plated in the policy and in the Cabinet of the
Emperor Such announcements have fire.
quently been made by the French Government
but never been verified. Occasionally, it is
true, some changes have been made in the
administration, and the subsidized press has
been loud in extolling these liberal reforms
But none OF those satisfied che Liberal party
in France. The fact is, that the Emperor has
a view of Liberalism widely differing from that
held by the Liberal party of Europe, and that
therefore, all his sO-called Liberal reforms are,
in the opinion Of the real Liberals, nothing
but artful deceptons. AS to Liberal change
in the Cabinet the whole account Is probably
a fabrication if there is any real foundation
in the news, it means that one or two of the
leading members of the Liberal NapoeOnists
may be called to the Cabinet, which would, OF
course not change in the least the anti
Liberal tendencies of the entire Cabinet.
Year: 1868

The New-Jersey Democracy is going back to
the good old time with reasonable speed. But
some of the leaders are growing polite, and
call for reasons" for this and that-as if
reason had anything to do with Democratic
policy. Yesterday they refused to swallow the
naked resolution to revoke Jerseys consent to
the XIVth Amendment, and sugar-coated
resolution was substituted, exactly the same in
effect, but to some extent glozing over the
enormity of the thing. How hard it is to look
honest and brave when doing mean and
eOWardly act!
Year: 1868

The Cable reports Count Bismarck to be
seriously i'll. The withdrawal of Bismarck from


the administration of the North German Con-
federation would be a national loss to Ger
many. No statesman has as yet raised the
hope that he can as successfully as Bismarck
carry forward the great work of German unity.
Year: 1868

Miss Olive Logan, we'll known in New-York as an
actress and an authoress will deliver lecture this
evening at Dodworth Hall. This is her first appear
ance. we believe in that capacity. We are glad to
find this lady taking step Of tho kind, because we
want to see spheres of usefulness opon TO women,
We hope Miss Logan win meet with great success.
The good work sheh heretofore done literature
assures us that her lecture viii be entertaining aud
useful.
Year: 1868

The Herald is urging the appointment of Gen.
Mcclellan as Minister to England. The Cop.
perhead journals ought to remember that he
received the same education as Gen. Grant,
and must therefore, if there is any method IN
their opinions be prodigy of ignorance.
Year: 1868

The Corporation Manual Swindle is through
both branches of the Common Council. The
compiler will have full swing at tho city
treasury, unless Mayor Hoffman interposes a
veto Will he dare do itf
Year: 1868

New-York was yesterday shaken to its fOun-
dation by the rumOr that Judge Whiting was
about to take advantage of the present lull in
the weather to clean the streets. Such sen
sation has not been known here for q long
time
Year: 1868

ofthe strongest frieze as it was we were
nearly going over together. laid him
| on his back, where he remained without
strength or motion. Frank glarpd at
him FIR a few seconds in silence and then
took my hand aud >aid slowly:


You are good fellow, Harry, AMI
have nay thanks. | knew not what l was
doing.'


He turned away with shudder, while
poured out some brandy from my flask
and threw it in the murderer's face. He
recovered after time and sat up staring
wildly around and trembling all over.
The wretch was completely subdued
He clung to me for projection, and became
as abj-ct and crilrging as he had been
insolpnt before We waited until dusk
and then brought him to the police bar
racks. Before sunrise he was twenty
miles on his way back from whence he
came.


At the next assizes he was tried and
convicted. The judge was mercitul and
gave him a " long day"


Fever in the meantime, broke out in
Jail, and he was one of the first victims
The last words he uttered We're, "Don't
throw me overt" Let US hope his pray
er was granted.
Year: 1868

nevoted to Literature and General News
~ The Discussion OF State and National
Topics-The Welfare Of the Planting Interest
-Tle Progress of Southern Commerce, and
the degeneration of Prosperity i'll the South
ern States.
Year: 1868

Franks voice rang out 1oal = Il


"Your time has come-look upe!<


Involuntarily be did So and eau ghe
his eye; spasm of mortal fear spread
over his features. He made an effort to
raise his pistol, but wire cartridge from
Frank gun on the cliff passed within
an inch of his head.


The weapon fell from his hand in
three bounds my friend had him in his
clutch, dragged him over the rock and
the struggle began.


It Was short, but from the nature of
the ground a fearful one. A careless
step would have sent the two over the
precipice Of the shelf below, and from
there a hundred feet into the Atlantic
ocean. Both We're strong, powerful men;
in weight the murderer was greatly su-
perior. but in science and activity there
were few able to cope with Frank. The
Year: 1868

but by the consciousness that he has only
his own vanity to blame for the failure
Generally l have noticed the causes Of a
mans failure are distinctly visible to every
one but himself. have known men with
capital business heads, and with all the
inclination to work, the mystery of whose
| lives -inscrutable to. and undreamt of by
themselves-lay in their manner; shy, re-
tiring fellows, who never make acquain'
tances, but allow any man to cultivate
them hence their tendency is inevitably
downward in the social scale. A shy
man, whose mental cuticle is SO tender
that the blood comes at every scratch,
may, perhaps, succeed as clergy man, OF
doctor, or chance may put him in a safe
business position, but to push his way
through the rough and thorny brushwood
which besets the outset of a business ca
reer, is what he need never try.


Know your business, scrupulously re-
spect the worlds conventionalities, face ii
boldly, receive its kicks and its cuffs-o1
which you will have good allowance al
starting g-with invincible patience and
good humor, and it will come round tc
you in time. But it is coy mistress,
and one with many lovers. Unless you
WOO with perfect self-mastery, and with
knowledge Of its ways, your suit will mol
nrOsner
Year: 1868

Perhaps there is not. after chastity, ii
quality which men more highly appre-
ciate in the women with whom they
undertake to live, than this negative
virtue of not being bores. And this
may be easily accounted for, especially
In the cases OF men who have led home
lives previous 10 their marriage; who
have not through much tribulation,
such az hardships abroad aud lack of
sympathy from strangers, learnt TO
yearn for the loving kindness thnt WAS
tedious when experienced daily.


The lives of women whose interests
are narrowed to the domestic circle,
whose routine is u portion, religiously
guarded, of their respectability. whose
YerY industry, being chiefly needle
work OF a more or less useful nature,
fosters the habit of thinking, which be-
comes perniCious when thought dwells
solely on themselves and their own
tho lives of such women, however,
harmless and pure they may be, must
of strong necessity tend TO their be-
coming bores to all such as have had n
broader mental outlook. The
habit OF dwelling ON trihes, of
becoming prolix abont details,
and garrulous about the most painful
topic the immediate neighborhood sup.
plies, is not speciality perhaps OF the
country lady who has run in the same
grooves all her life; but II is undoubted-
ly well marked attribute of hers. Her
more cosmopolitan sisters may possess
1t but not in the same degree. She has
learned to think too deeply, and to
speak too much about what is purely
local. So she bores those who are be-
yond the local mind, as her brother or
them into the mistaken belief that her
mind is narrower than theirs, simply
because hers has never beer given the
space to expand in.-Ihe DOiCeT House
Year: 1868

Among the gifts to newly married pair
ut town in New Jersey the other eve
ming, was a broom sent to the lady with
the following sentiment:


''This trfing gift accept from me,


Its use | would commend;
In sunshine use the brushy part


In storms the other end
Year: 1868

VssY SATisyAcroRY.-The rope walking
plete success. Prof Denier did all that
the bills called for, aud had a large audi
snce to witness the performance. lie will
perform each evening Of this week at the
same time and place, provided the weather
is favorable
Year: 1868

Yorye MEN WASrEp.-Nsw is the time
for young men to enter the Commercial
College Tor = thorough business course this
winter. Save your money and purchase a
scholarship; it cannot be better invested.
Persons in the city from distancc should
call and ses them this week.
Year: 1868

J. j. Peck formerly bar keeper q. the
Burtis House, can now be found at Win.
Humphreys Metropolitan Exchange, where
he is prepared to serve all who may favor
him with q call, in the best style.