smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1869

Says the New York JourRai Of Com
meroe' Many of those clcrgymen who
deeply grieve over the Increasing disre-
gard for the sacredness of the first day
of the week have themselves chiefly 10
blame for it. Let them look into their
own hearts and they will see the reason
why so many of their pews are empty.
and the former occupants lolling on
sofas at home reading Sunday papers,
riding in the Park, or joining in martial
commemorative professions like those of
Sunday last. 1t is nonsense for clergy
men who have been preaching and
praying politics once or twice every
Sunday to expeat that Ly meeting in
convention annually, in some city like
New York, and adopting resolutions
deploring the desecration of the Sabbath,
they can nsutralize the legitimate effect
of their own teachings all the rest ofthe
year. The hold of the pulpit upon the
pews has been so n Rch weakened of late
that nothing bat the most complete
abandonment OF the whole policy OF
secular, partisan preaching can keep it
from becoming altogether detached.
We do not mean that all, or a great
part, of even such churches will cease to
be filled. Eloquent preaching on top
les of the day, great organs, fine music
and the pomp and show Of ceremonies,
may make seats in churches bring a
higher price per year than box at the
opera. This may be the case for years
to come, and long after the pastors Of
such churches have ceased to have
particle of spiritual influence upon their
congregations.
Year: 1869

We were evidently more scared thar
hurt by the sheep panic of last year
This at least is the inference to be drawn
from the talk of our farmers as they
discuss the sheep question now. The
number of sheep in the State or in any
particular county may be less than re-
ported last year, but the ratio of good
sheep is larger, because our cool-headed
stock men have taken occasion to i'm


prove their flocks by selling off the bad
and purchasing the better grades, and
if we have not as many sheep we AaVe
more flocks, and better ones, too. This
is one good result of the panic. 1t is
quite probable that the assessors re-
turns will show as many sheep in the
State at this time as at this date last
year. There were reported last year
7 .6S8, ,845 sheep in the State, valued at
SASS, 1853. columbus 90. } Journal
Year: 1869

An order was recently given by Secre-
tary BOrie to the effect that the sigma
ture of Admiral Porter to any Official
paper of the Navy Department should
be considered and regarded as of equal
authority with his own name. The
NaGonnl IatelHgeHccr then said that sHch
a signature to a paper would not, in law,
be worth the paper on which it was
written, and, therefore, we are not sur
prtsed to hear that the Treasury De-
partment has ignored q requisition
which had the signature of Admiral
Porter, not as Acting Secretary of the
Navy under appointment by the Presi-
dent, but as executed under the order
in question of Mr.. Bore.


! There seems TO be little like unity in
the Cabinet. 1t was but a day since
that the President, by the extraordinary
step of proclamation, censured before
the country and the world the action OF
both Mr., Borie and Mr.. Hoar, the Attor.
ney General.
Year: 1869

A bee master in Indiana has success
fully protected his bees from the disease
which has swept the hives throughout
the country, by feeding them with salt,
rye flour and sugar, boiled to the con-
sistency of honey.
Year: 1869

1t is q GsI established fact that fully one.
hall OF the female portion of our population are
seldom in the enjoyment Of good health or, 10
use their own expression, never feel well. "
They are languid, devoid of all energy extreme.
ly nervous, and have no appetite


To this class Of persons the BIrTERS. or the
TONIC, is especially recommended
Year: 1869

And feeling the hand of time weighing heavily
upon them, with all its attendant ills will find
in the use of this BITTERS or the TONIC, an
elixir that will instil new life into their veins,
restore in a measure the energy and ardOT OF
more youthful days build up their shrunken
forms, and give health and happiness in their
remaining ypars
Year: 1869

PERsoNAL.-Major George @. White, who
has been for several years past on duty ut
this post, has been ordered to Philadelphia
on recruiting service. During several years
of acquaintance we have been thrown in
contact with the Major almost daily, and Il
more pleasant or courteous gentleman we
seldom meet with. We wish him success
in his new sphere.
Year: 1869

SHARP ROBBERY. Yesterday the express
moncy-ncSscnge went into Walker " Tay-
lor's store to deliver Il package of money
containing scvcnty-fvc dollars. The money
was received. and left lying upon the colln-
ter. A little boy came in shortly attcrwards
clerk turned to get the change for him.
When he returned to give the change he
found that the little rascal had decampcd
and carried the money with him.
Year: 1869

4 LUSCIOUS TREAT.-Yestcrday noon-
heated and tagged already with the few
hours of morning labor-we were greeted
within the precincts Of our sanctum by the
youthful carrier of waiter containing some
"ni-i-i-cc coo-oo-ool strorberries " and some
ice-crcam equally If not more so. Besides,
there were various and suudry other cscl-
lents which, in this warm weather, serve to
dispel heat and make Christian of man.
An inspection of the waiter told us that the
contents were the gracious present of the
ladies of Centenary Church Fair. Upon
further inquiry we learned that while what
the ladies had so kindly sent us was as clc-
CANT and desirable Us could be, those things
which they will offer to-day, and during the
remainder of the feast, will DC elegantcrand
desirabler still-which they certainly will be.
This being the case, we advise everybody to
do as we shall do-visit and spend all the
money you have with the ladies of the Cen
tcnary Church Fair, and you will yet be
happy.
Year: 1869

ION all public or private sales of real estate made
between the first day Of January and the first day
sent year. but on all sales between the first day OF
July and the thirty-ar day OF December the
seller Day5 them.
Year: 1869

Protestants at least, when we say that
the reunion at this time of the two
great segments of the old Presbyterian Church
would be hailed with general enthusiasm and
gratitude to God, as certain to increase the in
auence and power of the Church-infuence
and power almost uniformly exercised in be-
half of Justice and Liberty, Education and
Morality-and would be jOyfully regarded as
the forerunner, first, of an absorption of nearly
or quite all the minor Presbyterian sects into
the main body, and ultimately of the gradual
fusion at least of all Orthodox Protestants into
single organization or chnrch, with at least
four-fold the ability for missionary work,
whether at home or abroad, that inheres in
our present two or three hundred warning
sects, which persist in maintaining four or five
beligerent churches in a rural township barely
able to support one, at once overtaxing the
ability of the people and booming the minis
ters to semi-starvatiOn. Let us trust that 1869
will be honored as the year wherein long
stride was taken toward substantial and general
Christian Union.
Year: 1869

The effort of the new Minister to China to
have the grade Of his mission raised to CORE
spond with those to England and France, will
hardly succeed, though the growing Importance
of our relations with the Chinese is sure to be
recognized. But the proposal Of the Minister
to visit this city and consult with the Presby-
terian General Assemblies on the relations of
their missionaries to the Chinese is wise and
tiemly. Half the British troubles there
seem to be attributed to Quarels grow
ing out of the action of the English mis-
siOnaries They too often go to carry not the
gospel of peace, but sword. We must main
tain our own superior footing with the Chinese
Government and people; and no class of men
can render more efficient aid to that end than
our Presbyterian missionaries.
Year: 1869

THE REVOL UTION IN TIE ACADEMY.


'Tis long lane that has no turning, and,
at last after jogging on at a snairs pace for
close upon half a century, the Academy of
Design has begun TO talk about putting spurs
to the sides of its dull-paced nag, and making
an effort to catch up with the age. We confess
we think it is about time that this Institution
for which the public has done so much, should
do something for the public; and that Art and
Artists should reap some little benefit from an
Academy created expressly to care for their
interests To our minds, the way in which the
Academy of Design has been conducted during
all these years has been not only discreditabe
TO those who have been at its head, but to the
whole body of artists for, if these had been in
earnest, they might at any time have controlled
the management. Everybody who knows any
thing about the matter knows very well, that
the only men who have shown any earnestness
have been the men who are in office, and there
is no denying they have displayed wonderful
deal Of shrewdness and energy i'll holding on to
their perches They could not be cOaxed of,
nor scared off, norE shamed off; and whenever
there was any attempt to pull them off by main
force they either burst into tears-there is a





somerset over the perch and came up, smiling,
in another quarter. AS for the great body of
artists, they contented themselves with talking
about this conduct in mild, gentlemanly way,
or getting together little caucuses in
one another's studios, and under great
clouds of smoke, over little nOggins of
whisky, determining that, some time "a
other, something ought to be done by some
body. Once or twice, things have gone so far
that a comfortable train of powder has been
laid directly under the COuncil-table, terminal
ing beneath the chairs of the three principal oii-
GERS! 1t has been set off, and the result awaited
with a joy the young conspirators were not
careful to hide. But the intended victims
would seem to have been copper-bottomed,
for, after having been blown up, they invaria-
bly, came down into their chairs again, without
even the smell of fire upon their garments.
A conviction of the uselessness of resistance
began to grow into superstition in tue minds
Year: 1869

The tool of the Whisky Ring now on trial
for perjury against Collector Bailey was OF
course quite equal to the feat of lying. He
PLAYED all manner of pranks the other day in
the Courtroom, and finished in dramatic style
by swallowing poison and trying to trlghten
his keepers into momentary expectation
of his demise Yesterday, however, he turned
up, as much alive as ever, though not quite so
lively, and had the pleasure of hearing some
damaging testimony against himself. We hope
to see these whisky cases vigorously prose-
cnted. and honest officers sustained.
Year: 1869

One telegram brings us the news of a pro-
nunciamonto in Mexco-another tells us that
it is put down. This is the old Mexican story,
which seldom varies, except as to the number
of the pronunciamentos. We were of late told
that the revolutions in Sinaloa and Guerrero
were serious next day we heard that both
were at an end. Our impression is that they
were no revolutions at ALL or but passing
phases by no means extraordinary, of the
banditism which besets certain portions OF
those States. That an insurrectiOn has broken
out in Queretaro, with Gen. Alvarez at its
head, is in all probability fabrication, since
Alvarez has hitherto confined his operations to
the State of Guerrero, of which he was
Governor, and which is now reported at peace.
The charges of corruption made against the
Judges of tho Supreme Court of Mexico have
not yet settled authenticity in our news; but
we conceive it probable that portion of that
body is quite worthless, and that the Mexican
Congress have done creditable thing IN
indcting them before grand jury OF the
republic.
Year: 1869

THE ALLEGED MoMENToUs MEDICAL DlscOy-
ERY on THE BATTLEFIELD OF GETTYSBURG
We publish in another column a letter setting
forth the claims of the Gettysburg Katalysine
Spring and Waters. This letter claims that thi;
water is the solvent of Calcul, so long and
vainIy sought among the mineral springs OF
the Old World.


Aside from the scientific and historic interest
which attaches to this Spring, it claims to sup
ply a new medical agent of great and varied
power, and is well worthy the attention Of
scientific men and invalds.
Year: 1869

what the exact charter Of our Underground
Railway Company now is, is shown elsewhere.
AS apparently our chief hope for effective
relief from the present difficulties of getting
from one end of this over-crowded island TO
tho other, every citizen will hope that the
Company will promptly organize and go to
work
Year: 1869

We note one or two more acts of our new
Board of Education looking to retrenchment,
in their proceedings yesterday. We have not
been disposed to praise very highly the COM
position of this Board, but we shall not be
slow to recognize their good deeds, if they will
only make them apparent.
Year: 1869

The Board of Police Commissioners was
yesterday organized, by the election of Judge
Bosworth as President and Henry Smith as
Treasurer. The Democrats thus practically
have the organization. Now let us see no"
rapidly murders will be stopped and the fohce
made perfect. The Democratic journals nave nave
long shown just how it could be done-no"
Il
Year: 1869

Whoever wants to appreciate the beauties of
our City Tax Levy should take another good
look at them, as elsewhere presented, in the
form in which our Aldermen and Supervisors
have made haste to crowd them through.
Year: 1869

One side Of the Spanish argument is accused
of being stupid, the other Of being mad. We


suppose there is shade of truth in both state.
ments, while it is fair to say that the Span
iards have done bravely in asserting religious
freedom. They are not, however, a people
who can afford to lose all religion and subsist
upon what the French understood TO be reason.
Year: 1869

The Spaniards, in their debate over the Church,
tend to extremes. This may be all, however,
that we have reason to expect from q nation
well spoken of as people of vice-versas, and
unused TO the confluence Of self-government.
Year: 1869

Do you feel weak, debnitated, easily tred7
Does q little extra exerton produce palpita-
ton OF the heart? Does your liver, or your kid
neys, frequently get out Of order? Do you have
spells Of short breathing, or dyspepsia7 Are your
bowels constpated? Do you have spells Of fainting,
or rushes Of blood to the head? Is your memory i'm
paired? Is your mind constantly dwelling upon this
subject? Do you feel dull stless, moping, tired OF
company, Of life? Do you wish to be left alone, to
get away from everybody? Does any little thing
make you start or jump Is your sleep broken or
restess2 Is the lustre of your eye brilliant? The
bloom on your cheek as bright2 Do you enjoy your
self in society as wel2 Do you pursue your business
with the same energy? Do you feel as much con-
ndence in yourself2 Are your spirits dull and flag
ging, given to fits Of melancholy? If so, do not lay
to your liver or dyspepsia Have you restless
nights? Your back weak your knees weak, and
have but little appetite, and you attribute this to
dyspepsia or liver compaintP


Did you ever think that those bold, def
ant, energetic, persevering, successful business
men are always those who are in per-
feet health ? You never hear such men COM
plain of being melancholy, of nervousness, of pal
pitation of the heart. They are never afraid they
cannot succeed in business; they don't become sad
and discouraged they are always polite and plea
SAINT in the company of ladies' and look you and
them right in the face-none of your downcast looks
or any other meanness about them.


How many men, from badly cured diseases, have
brought about that state of weakness that has re-
duced the general system so much as to induce al
most every other disease-idiocy, lunacy paralysis
spinal affections suicide and almost every otherform
of disease which humanity is heir to, and the real
cause of the trouble scarcely ever suspected, and
have doctored for all but the right one.


These diseases require the use of Duretic.
Year: 1869

From the Chicago Tribune May 3ll


The sad death Of the young grl Nellie Z. Dorsett,
by suicde-of which there is little doubt-created
intense excitement In the city yesterday and was
the universal theme OF conversation. Since the
rative Of yesterday some further particulars have
been developed.


II appears that the supposed suicide Is the daugh
ter OF NJ NJ Dorsett doing business al No. 203 Broad
way, New York. The wretch George II. Burr with
whom she eloped to this city. and who cruelty
deserted her after he had wrought her ruin, is a
travelling agent for q New York wholesale drug
house. The elopement took place about tive weeks
ago and about a week since superintendent Of
Police Kennedy received letter from the father OF
the young girl, informing him OF the hight and, as
he had reason TO believe they had come TO Chicago,
requesting him TO look after the young couple.


Accompanying the letter OF the father TO superin-
tendent Kennedy Is q photograph OF his daughter.
IL represents q beautiful young girl, eighteen or
nineteen years Of age dressed IN the height OF fash
ion.


The river squad OF our police were ENGAGED during
Yesterday IN searching for the body Of man who
was drowned day or two since at the foot Of JACK
son street. To-day they Will Institute search for
the body Of the young girl.
Year: 1869

Large Vote in Favor OF the Measure.


The special election held in Newark yesterday on
the question as whether the horse should run
on Sundays in that city or not was decided by a
majority in favor Of the measure. There was little
excitement manifested OF the various poll
ing places, and no row or disturbance OF
any serious character. A meeting was held
in Irvington night before last al which
resolutions were adopted declaring that the cars
should not run on Sundays through their town. The
vote was by no means as large as had been anticl-
pated The politicians could not refrain from med.
ding with the measure but for once the people had
their own way The following Is the entire vote OF
the city pro and con. on the issue:-
Year: 1869

Somebody is uneasy lest Grant shall send
Bross Of the Chicago Tribune to England,
and he will thus be lost to that paper. Since
Grant appears not to be a desPiser Of small.
men, there may be some danger of it, If
we had for President, statesman, Bross
would more probably be struck by lightning
in the middle of January, than he would be
giYen the English mission.
Year: 1869

A Radical contemporary assures the pub
lie that hereafter whiskey must pay tribute
or cease to be manufactured-that under
Grant there will be no corrupt combinations
against honest officials. This sort of gas.
conade may be relief to those who in.
dulge in it. and satisfaction to others who
have only malice toward johnson and ohse
uuiousness 10 Grant, but thinking men will
wonder what magic power there is in Grant
to eradicate from the hearts of men their
cupidity. 1t would probably detract con.
siderably from the reputation Of Mr.. John.
son, and add something to the character of
those who villify him, if they would conde
scend to state some facts in connection with
Mr.. Johnsons personal responsibility for
revenue frauds, instead of indulging in such
Wholesale and meaningless praise of Grant,
and such silly and yapid denunciation Of
johnson. If history shall ascrlbe to Grant
as much honesty of purpose as to Mr..
Johnson, and half as much ability, his mil
itary record will shed very dim halo Of
glory around his memory in comparison. 49,
We are willing, as is the whole country, to
concede to Gems Grant desire to suppress
frauds, but when they form the woof of our
revenue laws, and enter largely into all
the ramifcations OF government service,
nobody who pretends to use brains in
weighing his merits as a man, or bis eapa'
biities as an executive, will undertake to
say he will change the natural course Of
things. During the time that the tax on
whiskey was 50 per gallon, the law itself
was the parent of much corruption, which
should be put at the door Of Radical Con,
pTpgg
Year: 1869

TEA SwlSDLERs.-Appleton's Jour
nal makes the following charges against
certain New York tea houses:


Within few years a large number
OF tea companies have sprung up in the
city, which claim to import direct
from China, to furnish a superior art,-
Gle at reduced rates, and which adver-
tise largely all over the country. One
street is fairly lined for a considerable
distance with them. We are assured
by those claiming to know, that sever
al OF these tea establishments are or
ganizcd frauds upon the people, that
they use the leaves of the Camelia,
which SO closely resemble genuine tea
that they are frequently mistaken for
them by botanists; that they largely
import and palm Off upon purchasers,
Chinese "lie tea;N that they use the
leaves of ash, plum and other trees
and mingle them with good tea; and,
furthermore, that they redry and color
genuine tea leaves that have once been
used, or have been damaged by water,
etc. There is one OF these companies
which, we are told, does nothing else
but purchase damaged cargoes or
chests of tea, and then dries it on the
roots of certain building not thous-
and miles from where we are now sit
ting. The drying process having been
completed, small quantity of supe-
rior article is added to the damaged in
order to give flavor; and it is then done
up in packages tor distribution all over
the country. Those who are accus-
toned to patronize these tea establish
ments would certainly do well to ana
lyze and test the quality Of the article
which is dispensed to them.


Order is Heavens first law.-Pope.
Year: 1869

with and capture of the British frigate
Macedonian. He was also or the Pres
dent when that ship was captured by
the Endymion and other British yes
sells, and was carried prisoner to
London where he cowhided British
officer for using contemptuous Ian
guage concerning America. A broth
er Of his went down with the Wasp,
which sunk at sea after fight with a
line Of battle ship, the name of
which escapes me. He was less than
five feet ten IN hight, rather slim, had
hair OF light color in youth, as shown
by miniature taken in New London
after the capture Of the Macedonian;
his nose was slightly Roman, and he
had eyes like an eagle in clearness and
power Of expression. In lis eyes and
nose alone were perceptibe traces of
his Indian origin. He leaves a wife
and four children, one son.
Year: 1869

Enough rails and spikes to lay five miles
of track for the Illinois Southeastern Rail-
road, arrived at Shawneetown few days
since, and will be Immediately laid. This
will be the first track put down on that end
Of the road.