smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1869

Jugglery is q science and an art in the
East, and their wondrous sleight of hand
and that irresistible diversion of the eye
OF the spectator are the principal points on
which they rely. Tney scorn the paiaphe-
MALTA used by our jueglers He has no help.
He depends solely on his own hands and
his command of your eye In open day
light he sits stripped to the waist cross
legged. and allows you to come as close to
him as possible.


Here he swallows pebbles as big as hens
eggs, producing one from the corner of his
eye, his nostril and his throat.


A missionary in the north of India tells
the following: A juggler put half rupee
into missionary's hand. and directed him
to look at it closely and close his hand
He does So 'Open it, He did not be-
lieve that, as the missionary said, the devil
helped him.


Another performance ont of doors: On
an open plain were the jugglers Among
them was little girl, who rolled herself
up and allowed "a basket to be put over
her. One man tbrusts sword into the
basket The girl screams, the blood flows,
and all are horri6ed. A blanket is placed
over il, and the basket raised-there is no
thing there. A laugh calls the attention
of the girl outside the ring, at . distance.
Year: 1869

les. and in some of them, can certainly
say, are to be found pleasant tables and
home comforts rarely possessed by their
brethren of the notebook and pencil in
America. There are, to be sure, many i'm
provident ones in London, as elsewhere,
and here Bohemianism has lower depth
than ever was known in America. for it is
here that the really depraved and abandon
ed Bohemian confines himself exclusively
to the consumption of gin. raw and simple
gin. A London Bohemian is a mere brutal
animal. and will beg copper from you in
the same breath that he processes his
willingness to translate Greek tragedy to
oblige the giver of the copper, or else he
will favor you with an account of his days
at Oxford or Trinity, when he was First
honor" man or b. A. But one thing have
not found as yet in London on the press,
and that is an illiterate or badly taught
man, such as can be met with by the score
on the American press.
Year: 1869

"lWILL IN 4 MINUTE. ."-Hereis what
some good man says about the way boys
and girls ought to mind when spoken to
by their parents:


The other day heard mother ask
her little son to do something, "In a
minute" he said. She spoke again.
But it was one, two, three, four, five
minutes before he minded her.


1t makes me think of the switch
er's boy. What if HE had waited a
minute before minding his father! A
switch-tender in Prussia was Just going
to move the rail, in order to put com
ing train of cars on side track, when
he caught sight of his little son playing
ON the track. The engine was in sight.
and he had not moment to spare. He
might jump and save his child but he
could not do that and turn the switch in
time; and if it were not done the in
coming train would meet another train.
and terrible crash and smash take
place.


The safety of hundreds of lives de-
pended upon his fidelity. What could
he do what did he do? "Lie down. lie
down. he called, with loud, quick
voice to the child; and seizing the switch
the train passed safely on its proper
track.


Did the heavy train run over the lit
tie boy? Was he crushed No, he did
just as his father told him, and did it in
stantly. He fell fiat between the rails.
and the cars went high over his head
and when the anxious father sprang to
the spot, there he was, alive and well;
not a hair was touched. 1t was his
quick obedience, you see, that saved his
life. He did not stop minute. Even
a moments hesitation would have been
too late.
Year: 1869

Any amount and every class Of Insurance REQUIRED
can De placed at this Office in the best Companies
anu al as low rates as at any agency in the country.
Expiration Notices Promptly Given.
Year: 1869

Tie Herald Of Health, for March, will attract
attention by Professor Eyans interesting description OF
the Grape Cure" which Is continued from previous
numbers forming an agreeable chapter OF Swiss rural
life as well as valuable contribution to the science OF
hygiene Mr. Charles Brghams answer to the question
what shall We Sat" is q bafhumorous, hall -didacto
exposition OF the difficulties to be encountered by those
who attempt to eat their dinners strictly chemical ana
physiological principles Among the shorter articles IN
the number which contain good hints on the preservation
Of hoath are tho Caro- of the Lungs" Prevention OF
Iisna.ep HConsumption" and others which reiterate
well.kpoyn facts with considerable emphasis.
Year: 1869

A widow in Onondaga county New
York, recently cut out hor own daugh-
ter in the good graccs of her lover,
and married him herself. To obtain
revenge for this unmotherly trick, the
daughter set her cap at the young
mans rich father, of whom be was
the only heir, to the infinite annoy
ancc OF her step-children.
Year: 1869

A Boston paper says they drive
their velocipedes so fast in the streets
OF that city that ever collision results
in the total disappcaranoe Of both
riders and machines. No fragments
are ever found.
Year: 1869

letter from William Bradford, the artist of the expedition, dated Iviptut, Greenland, July 27th, describes the Els sJhnken. one of the largest of the glaciers, which is constantly discharging immense icebergs into the sea, the whole shore of which Is lined with them. He says: The sea IS dotted Tith these great white fsaling islands, which are often from one to three hundred feet high. In single view l have seen many hundreds We were fortunate enough to witness seven bergs discharge in tLe manner first described, l believe, by Dr. Hayes; and although we were at one time exposed to some danger, and lost part of oar photo graphic materials by the wave winch rolled thlty feet high upon the rocks yet all of the party escaped without personal accident The photographic parry heard the crash and say the wave coming in time to climb the rocks, and thus escape being washed into the sea meeting with no further mishap than a good ducking from the crest of the sea. It was narrow and prOvideatial escape was on the vessel at the time, making a study in oil of the glacier front, wLioh Is two hundred feet high, ;al had we been nearer to the shore, We should have been in all probability dashed to pie s.e>
Year: 1869

class, the pedigree of the animal, and
correct copy OF the same must be
filed with the Secretary; at the close of
the Fair the original will be returned
II called for. An animal to he classed
as a thoroughbred, must show at least
five pure crosses or their equivalent.


The Secretary will no longe- take
the responsibility OF examining pedi-
grees at the time entries are being
made. Every man must take his own
choice as to where he will show his
horse, and abide by 1t. If an animal
is entered on this class, and does not
come up to the requisite standard of
blood, he will be ruled out by the
committee,
Year: 1869

Exhibitors in this Glass are earnest
ly requested TO furnish the Secretary,
at the time of entry, the particular
merits of the implement presented, the
name of the manufacturer price, and


where it can be had The object is
Year: 1869

Every one knows that our neighbor of the
Sentinel has speech, because he has deliver
ed himself of it at every city, town, village,
hamlet, school-house, and crossroads in the
State. Also, two or three times in favored
localities. Owing to cruel fate which we
shall ever lament. we have never had the
pleasure of hearing our esteemed neighbor-
in-law speak his little piece. We know,
however, that it must be all wool and yard
wide, or it would never have stood the hard
work it has done. Most speeches would have
been worn out in being delivered one or two
hundred times, but this has stood it on more
than a thousand 1--WE reckon) different occa-
sions, and is no worse for it. [ A friend who
has heard it, says it couldn't get any worse;
but, as he was Democrat, we believe'him to
be prejudiced against TURNER on account
of that bill of Indictment he drew up against
the Democratic party.l ...


Now we heard that TURNER'S speech was
pronounced by Judge SETTLE to advise his
and Judge ToUReEE's assassination. We
learn that from the Sentinel ITSELF If the
statement was a lie, then TURNER told it and
should hold himself responsible for it. We
acknowledge that we were to blame for be-
lieving anything we saw in the Sentinel, but
We did so under the impression that it was
trying to tell the truth that once just to see
if it could do it. We are still in the dark
as to whether the Sentinel was lying or tell
ing the truth, for it drops the subject with
out giving any clue to the problem, and
wanders off into the editorial it used to
have last winter. 1t seems not to know
which one of its three editorials it is to use
until next month. The rest of the iSentiners
article wanders fecbly from subject to SUBJ
ject in manner that plainly evinces dsor-
dered mind. The principle part, we presume,
is about the line of march pursued by the
writer as it refers to hogpath. BUTT goes
off in such dreamy way that it is evi-
dent the writer is asleep.


We would feel obliged if some of the ju-
niors of the Sentinel would awake our neigh
bor-in law as we want to hear what Judge
Settle did 'aver," and what somebody in
formed him." Or is the story to be contin-
ued in the next Ledger ? ---------- '-.---.-s-..-
Year: 1869

"Self preservation made in necessary to in
augurate something that would counteract
the influence of the Leagues, and the organ.
ization known as the Ku Klux was the re-
suit; and it is fact, evident to the most
common observer, that since this organiza-
tion has become common throughout the
country theft and outrages by the Leagues
and their friends have become less frequent.
and that better state of affairs exist than
heretofore, and the Ku Klux have proved a
blessing to the country"


- We take the above from the Winston
Sentinel, published in this State, which is
not only defence but an approval of the
Ku Klux. There have been no "outragesr
committed by the League, although there
may have been crimes committed by men
who belong to it, a thing for which the
League cannot be held responsible But
the Ku Klux is an organization for tn,
avowed purpose of intimidating or murder
ing those who oppose it, and its many mur
ders and crimes have put the State into
fearful condition. The sentence "thei
friends have become less frequent


is the key to the intentions of the Ku Klu1
to drive away all men who are true to tn


Government. This announcement sustain


the article of the Tribune, and gives the Ii


to that of the World. Let the people of til


North read this, and let them understan,


that every Democratic vote cast in Norther


State is a vote to aid in crushing out loyalt
| in the South
Year: 1869

The action of the Spanish government
upon the note of Minister SIoKLEs still con-
tinues to excite the comments of the press of
this country and also of Europe. The true
facts of the case seem somewhat difficult to
ascertain, yet it is seen that the government
sustains the action of SIcKLEs, and does
not charge him with having exceeded his
instructions. On the contrary it is reported,
and upon good authority, that the govern
ment will sustain him in his recent course.


Although Minister s1cKLEs has not had a
diplomatic education, it does not necessarily
follow that he has made blunder, although
such seems to be the general impression. In
the absence of authentic information upon
this point it is almost impossible to judge
correctly in the premises, and the refusal of
Secretary FISH to make public Minister
SIcKLEs note renders it impossible to obtain
data upon which to predicate fixed opin-
ion. Thus an opinion that appears correct
now might, in the full knowledge of all the
facts, be proved erroneous Hence all news
paper opinions upon the subject must be
taken cum grano sails, for they are, in fact,
not opinions but conjectures.


The Washington Chronicle, however,
which is presumed to present the views of
the President. says, concerning the attitude
of the government:


"There has not been manifested on the part
of the government the slightest disposition
to disavow the position taken by General
Sickles in his note to the Spanish govern
ment, nor has any intention of censuring
our Minister been expressed.


''Those officers of the Cabinet who have
uttered an opinion on the question, say that
there is nothing in the communication from
Minister Sickles to the Spanish government
to justify the alarm that imperfect disclo-
sures of its contents have created.


''Tnere can be no doubt that the action
which will be taken by the Cabinet at its
next session will be emphatically in support
of our diplomatic representatives at the
Spanish court


"Secretary Fish declines to make the
note of Minister Sickles public, for pruden-
tial reasons but it is regarded as safe to say
that there will be no such thing done as
backing down"
Year: 1869




Our news from Spain, says the New York
Herald: has really become alarming. The
outbreak in Catalonia in two different pro-
vinees convinces us of two things-frst,
that the people are not with the government
and, second, that in the south of Spain at
least the popular sentiment is republican. If
anything were needed to convince us that
the situation is critical, we should find that
one thing in the jealousy which now exists
between the government and the volunteers.
The volunteers were coaxed and made much
of so long as they were on the government
side Now, however, that they are known
to be opposed to the government they are
being disarmed The volunteers belong to
the people. So long as the people were with
the government the government could count
upon the volunteers 1t is safe to conclude
that the present movement is at once popu-
lar and republican. A grand republican
demonstration is arranged for to morrow in
Madrid: The news of that day will be anx--
iously awaited. Meanwhile the great
trouble is that Spain is not united on any
policy. 1t is hotbed of division and strife.
The south is generally republican The
great cities are liberal, but go in for strong
government. A large portion of the rural
districts, including the Basque Provinces
and a majority of the clergy, is Carlist. Nor
can we deny that in parts of Spain Isabella
has her partisans. Ifrevolution breaks out
| the immediate result will be scramble, and
the presumption is that Spain will become
pray to consuming anarchy.
Year: 1869

1t is well known that the people of Nova
Scotia do not like the Dominion and desire
annexation to the United States How bitter
they are against England and the Dominion
may be inferred by the following which we
take from the New York Tribune:


at is clear that the newspapers of Nova
Scotia mean mischief, however disposed the
mass of the inhabitants may be. Here is The
Acadian Recorder, of Halifax, in state of
temper alarmingly incongruous with its pas
toral and primitive title. 1t will neither tol


crate political association with the Canadians
whom it opprobriously stigmatizes as Ka-
nucks," nor will it entertain for moment
the idea of annexation with the United States
If the Recorder speaks with any degree of
authority, it is the hope and purpose of
Nova Scotia, at no distant poriod, to discard
territorial partnerships, and thenceforward
to go it alone We should like cries this
energetic exponent of provincial wrath, to
see Canada hold us in bondage for, one short
month after ourindcpendencei is proclaimed.
As soon as the red-coats and kits are with
drawn, the people Of Nova Scotia will take
the liberty of walking out-of the Confedera.
ton, or the infant independence of British
America will be baptized with blood' This
is as pretty defiance as ever was delivered,
and we await with interest the Canadian
response" ig .,, ,.a. fH..,l ftl.
Year: 1869

We find the following in the Salisbury
Examiner: "a big army is kept up in time
of peacen This is not true, and the statis-
tics of the Examiner must be very faulty if
this statement is a fair sample.


For the benefit of our contemporary we
will inform it that at the present time there
are not twenty-five thousand men in the
army, and this small number is rapidly de-
creasing There is no important nation in
the world which keeps so small a standing
army as the United States. The greater
part of the European nations have standing
armies of over two hundred thousand soldiers
each, while Russia, whose population is not
double that of this country, keeps a stand
ing army of oUer million! In fact, our
rmyis not large enough, and should never
be allowed to number less than fifty thousand
effective soldiers.


The immense extent of this country, the
numerous hostile Indian tribes, the impor.
tance of keeping sufficient force of we'll
trained soldiers to form a nucleus for large
army in case of sudden war, all render it
imperative to at least double the present
strength of our army. Add to this the un-
settled condition of certain portions of the
country, and the government, if wise, will
increase the strength of its army by at least
filling up the regiments already in service.
The present army is so small, so poorly uni
formed, as to make it disgraceful to the gov
ernment which in time of peace neglects to
prepare for war. History proves that war is
not only possible but probable to all nations.
America has had, in less than century, no
less than four different wars and in al! felt
severely the bad effects of her niggardly
army system. And now when foreign war
is but question of time, we should at least
have sufficient number of trained soldiers
to act as instructors to new levies. We hope
that Congress will see the wisdom of in
creasing the strength of our army, and adopt
such measures as will most speedily increase
its strength and efficiency. r.l...
Year: 1869

4


If an Egyptian mummy could blush then
the editor of the Sentinel certainly must
have blushed too when his eye rested
on the. second page of his paper, the
other day, and read the short article
copied from the Ohio Statesman. That
article was in praise of Democracy-a
sigh over the past glory of that defunct
party-a prayer for its restoration to as
cendancy over this great country. That
article must have been inserted with the
appreciation of the editor 1t was made
to fill space that usually is editorial 1t
could not appear there and as it does with
carrying with it the force of editorial ap-
probation of the editor. That editor is Jo-
siah Turner, hackneyed politician-a man
who has for one quarter of century given
himself soul and body to the vilifcation of
the Democracy-a man who has publicly,
year after year, during all this time, made
it his business to charge the party with all
conceivable crimes against honesty and lib
erty--a man that has bent all his energies
and devoted all his labor to overthrow
and destroy the Democratic party, and who
deemed no means improper to use tor this
end and no epithets too vile to apply to it
that he might characterize and disgrace it.


1t cannot be pleaded in excuse that this
party has mended its ways-that having
been brought low by adversity it has re-
pented, reformed and become correct in its
morals and patriotic in its aims, for it is not
the Democracy of to-day that it praises, not
that choice, that exquisite medley OF old
Whig and ''secesh" Democrat that now wars
on the peace, quiet and stability of our gov
ernment but it is Mandatory of that
old-the ante bellum Democratic rule the
very same party he waged such bitter and
cruelty abusive upon-tho identical
party of the day when he had pastime of
cursing and blaspheming it. What can be
said of the political honesty of such man


We call the attention of his old Whi. as
sociates to this beautiful consistency oftheir
former associate He now places laurels on
the brow of the party of Holden, Rodman,
Settle and Dick--a party now, dead-that
was murdered by the secessionists at Char
leston, but that was slandered and DETAINED
by Josiah Turner while it lived. Has the
editor of the Sentinel become disciple of
Jefferson Has he ceased to revile and
curse him The shanl-the bastard party
that now bears til G honored name of Demo-
crat has no no part in that great mans favor.
Can such q man have principles Is it
not for brcad-for bread from Democratic
hands that he now begs. But can Demo-
crats-Democrats of the old ante -bellura pc
Rod accept praises from their old villifer.
Can the old Wings join IN the peans that
are sung to Democracy the Democracy
of Holden, Rodman, Settle and Dick-those
grand old days of the supremacy of their


political enemies If they can then truly
the black mans expression "dat de white
man is berry unsartin" surely Is realized,
Year: 1869

We have time and time again urged mod
Grafton in political matters. And, which is
more, we have practiced what we have
preached. We have endeavored to discuss
political questions without bitterness, and
to be just. Almost all the State papers
have met us half way, and all will acknowl-
edge that the change has been for the better,
both politically and commercially.


The Seminal and Examiner regard the
STANDARDS article concerning the Ku Klux
as bitter. They are right. $780,


We are bitter against men who are bring
ing North Carolina into disrepute by their
infamous crimes.


We are bitter against men who are willing
to murder their fellow men because of diff
ferences of political opinion.


We are bitter against them because they
outrage tho laws of GoD and man.


We are bitter against them because they
are injuring the interests of the State.


And we wish to see them punished and
pursued until political murders will be a
thing unknown in North Carolina.


But against men who differ with us po-
litically and do so like men, We have not
one unkind feeling. We respect their right
to think as they choose, and respect them
personally, while we do not like their
politics.


We are partizan-a Republican-and do
battle for the principles of the Republican
party, for we believe them right, but we are
no bigot to hate those who happen to think
differently from ourseIf


We shall never yield in our maintenance
of Republican principles, and shall fight those
who oppose them, but we shall do so with
out malice and without bitterness


We deprecate bitterness, because we, as
does every business man, know that it in
jures every interest of the State and of the
people. People can differ politically with
out hating each other, and without injuring
the State by the angry strife of party.


This is what we believe to be moderation,
and what we have always gone by. Know
ing we are right, we shall continue to do as
we have done.
Year: 1869

The Memphis Acalanche has always been
considered one of the most intensely Demo-
cratic papers in the South. Latterly, how
ever, it has seen the error of its way and
has adopted the Republican platform, as will
be seen in the extract we give below. Thus,
one by one, the Democratic papers of the
South are acknowledging that the real
Democratic party is dead and the so-called
Democracy of to-day is but libel upon
the once honored name. That the princi-
plies of the old party and the present con-
cern are entirely and radically different no
one can deny, and the people are finding
out that the present concern is a base fraud.
The Aralanche owns that it has found out
the worthlessness of the Sham-Democracy
by the following declaration which appears
in its issue of the 9th; it says;


I'VE expect calumniation and the enmity
and opposition of fogics and fanatics; but
We feel assured that we shall receive the an
proval OF the honest masses of the country.
whose views of moral and political obliga-
tions are of asteady and unyielding growth.
We shall strenuously advocate peace, univer-
sal suffrage, and everything having for its
object the prosperity and happiness of the
people, andif these constitute Republican
ism, or apostacy to party, we can only say, as
did the patriot Henry to the charge of trea-
son, Make the most of it. So soon as the
organic law shall have established universal
suffrage in Virginia, Tennessee, Mississippi
Texas and Arkansas, we shall devote our en-.
tire space to the material interests of the
| South.