smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1868

tenth of this sum. You are mistaken.


CoNsERvATIvE-I do not give you my
word for it. l give you the figures. There
cannot be any mistake, for Figures do not
lie."


RADIcAL-Why, sir, our people could not
raise this amount of money, if their indi-
vidual lives depended upon it.


CoNsERvATIvE-That may be true,--and
that fact only makes the necessity to defeat
the constitution the more urgent and obli-
gatory upon the people. The truth is, this
proposed constitution, in financial point
of view, is an absurdity for it requires that
to be done which is impossible to be done.
Four millions of taxes could not be collec-
ted out of the people of North Carolina,
without forcing three-fourths of the landed
property of the people under the auction
eers hammer. The legislators who framed
such requirement were either idiots or
knaves, and the people will SO find out
when they shall have ratified it.
RADICAL confess, these figures rather
surprise me. You said awhile ago that you
had as much objection to what was not IN
the proposed constitution as you had to
that which was IN II. What is there ont Of
IL, which ought to be i,s it
CoNsERvATIvE-In the first place, would
have placed in the constitution clause
compelling the Legislature to provide sepa-
rate schools for the education of white and
negro children, to prevent my children
from being placed upon an equal footing
| with negroes


RAD1cA1-The constitution does not re-
Year: 1868

the armies specially represented here
will address you, and tell you Of the
deeds you have done. Give them a


willing ear, and when you 20 back to
your homes tell them all that these ar


mics, though dispersed in the flesh, yet
live in the spirit as strong and enthusi-
astic as they were four years ago, when


in the very death grapple with the enc
mics of our country and Of civiliza-
tion.


And now, in the name of the commit
tee that has made these preparations, I
extend to all cordial greeting; to the
veteran of 1861, to the recruit of 1865,
yea, to the convert of the very last
hour of grace. In the name of the peo-
pie of Chicago, who have provided the
means, bid you welcome, and assure
you that seat awaits you at every fire.
side; and in the name of every patriot
of the land, give you welcome, and
tell you that the lightning's flash is not
swift enough to satisfy their yearning
hearts to know what is done here this
night. The presence of the men about
me, their high of1ice,and the duties they
have left to be with you here, all attest
the interest and grandeur of the occa-
sion, and in their names too, comrades
all, bid you thrice welcome. Tire
mendous appTause.l ..--sse
Year: 1868

Halls Journal Of Health says: III
is better to go to sleep on the right
side, for then the stomach is very
much in the position of "a bottle


turned upside down. and the con-


tents of it are aided in passing out


by gravitation. Ifone goes to sleep
on the left side. the operation of
.emptying the stomach OF its contents
is more like drawing water from
well. After going to sleep, let the
body take its own position. If you
sleep on your back, especially after
hearty meal, the weight of the di-
gestive organs and that ofthe food,
resting on the great vein of the
body, near its backbone, congresses
it, and arrests the flow of the blood.
more or less. If the arrest is par
tial, the sleep is disturbed and there
are unpleasant dreams If the meal
has been recent and hearty, the


arrest is more decided; and the var


ious sensations, such as falling over
a precipice, OR the pursuit of wild


beast, or impending dangers, and
the desperate effort to get rid of
them, arouses US and sends on the
stagnating blood; and we wake in
fright, or trembling or feeling ex-
hansted, or in a perspiration, accor-
ding to the degree of stagnation,
and the length and strength of the
efforts made to escape the danger
when we do fall over the precipice,


when the trembling building crushes
US, what then That is death That
is the death of those of whom it is
said, when found lifeless in the
morning. "They were as we'll as
ever they were the day befoEe :"


and often it is added, cate heartier
than commonr' This last, is fre=
queut cause of death to those who
have gone to bed to wake no more,
we merely give as private opinion.
TIE possibility of its truth is enough
to deter any rational man from a
hearty meal. This we do know
with certainty, that waking up in
the night with painful diarrhoea, or
bilious collie, ending in death in a
very short time, is probably tracea-
BILE to late meal. The truly wise


will take the safe side. For persons


who eat three times day, it is am
ply sufficient to make the last meal


of cold bread and butter, and cup


of some warm drink. No one can
starve on it; while perseverance
soon begets a vigorous appetite for


breakfast, so promising Of a day of
comfort - e.
Year: 1868




The VELoCIPEDE.--This recent
French invention is attracting much
attention and bids fair to become in
general use. The Scientific Ameri
can gives the following description
Of one manufactured by T. r. Pick
ering of New York: The reach or
frame is made of hydraulic tubing.
Pickering's is made by gage, just as
sewing machines, Waltham watches,
and Springfield muskets are made,
so that when any part wears out or
is broken, it may be replaced at an
hours notice. Its bearings are OF
composition or gun metal, and the
reach or frame is tubular, giving
both lightness and strength. The
hub Of the hind wheel is bushed
with metal, and the axle constitutes
its own oil box. =.


1t differs from the French veloce in
the arrangement of the tiller, which
is brought we'll back, and is suffi
ciently high to allow perfectly up
right position in riding. The stir
rups or crank pedals are three sided
with circular fanges at each enc.
and as they are fitted to turn on the
crank pins, the pressure Of the foot
will always bring one. Of the three
sides into proper position. They
are SO shaped as to allow Of the use
of the fore part of the foot, bringing
the ankle joint in play, relieving the
knee, and rendering propulsion
much easier than when the shank OF
the foot alone is used as in propel-
ling the French vehicle. The con
Meeting apparatus differs from that
of the French bycycle in that the
saddle bar serves only as a seat and
brake, and is not attached to the
rear wheel. BY simple pressure
forward against the tiller, and a back
pressure against the tail of the sad
die, the saddle spring is compressed
and the brake attached to it brought
firmly down upon the wheel.
Year: 1868

Any body can tell where light
ming struck last; but it takes smart
man to find out where it is going to


strike next time-this is one of the


differences between learning and


wisdom. .-sn1
Year: 1868

One of the best methods for preserv-


ing the health and promoting the vigor
and fruitfulness of fruit trees, is to
wash them frequently with some liquid


capable of destroying the parisitical


plants and insects which adhere to the
surface of the bark, and sap the vital
energies by . constant drain Of the cir
culating current. A liquor formed of
one pound of whale oil soap to O bucket
of water, is now generally used for this
purpose. A ley of wood ashes, rather
diluted, is also excellent. Tas liquid
should be applied with coarse rug,
which will remove the moss, and dis
lodge the insects which may have OBJ
tanned . Judgement on the bark.
By giving the trees in your or
chards and gardens, two or three
good washings during the season,
care being had to wet every part of the
surface of the trunks, the insects as
we'll as the MOSES, will be effectually
removed, and the bark LETT in a beauti-
ful and healthy condition. April, June
and August are the months in which
washing may be practiced with the
best results, though where one can af-
ford time, q good thorough scrubbing
every month during the growing season,
would be still better. If 1.-The trees are
old, and thickly inerusted with moss, 1t
should be scraped off carefully before
applying the wash. A coarse piece oi
coffee or cotton bag may be used for
scrubbing, and the coarser it is the bet
Year: 1868




From the New York Times Grant paperll


The Tribune announced yesterday, in
the NEST conspicuous style its type could
furnish, that General Grant had "an-
nounced it as his opinion that the only
hope for the peace of the country is the
success of the pending impeachment
trial" And that journal adds;


ale feels that national SECURITY de-
mands the removal of the President. Ii
the trial should fail, the people can
only expect more assumptions OfpOwer,
and moro determined resistance of
law. When the General of our armies
eutertains this conviction there is no
room for doubt as TO the duty of the
Senate. The loyal nation demands the
Presidents removal"


This strikes US Us in every respect u
very extraordinary paragraph. Its OBJ
iect on the face OF it is TO overawe the
Senate, sitting as Court of lmpeach-
ment, and to coerce that body into con-
victiug aud removing the President,
whatever may be the opinion of its in
dlvidual members on the question of
his guilt The "opinion" of the General
of the Armies, protesting to be ''an-
nounced" on his authority, is brandish-
ed over the Senate, and is declared to be
decisive as to what the action of that
| body should be. When did the voice of
"the General of our Armies" become thus
potential 7 When did the Tribune first
begin to accept Gen. Grants declaration
of opinion, on this subject, as equiva-
lent to tho voice of the nation, and as
closing the door to all doubt and debate
as to the duty of the Senate'


The Senate in this trial have q very
plain duty to perform: They are to
Judge, acting under oath, whether the
President has or has not been guilty of
the acts charged upon him in the articles
| of mpeachment-and whether if he has,
those acts constitute "high crimes and
misdemeaners' for winch they may
rightfully remove him from office. 1t
is quite possible they may err In their
judgment on those points, and that they
may be swayed in their verdict by the
belief that the public welfare Will be
promoted by the Presidents removal
from office. But it betrays u premature
distrust of the verdict of the Senate, to
brandish over their heads the opinion
of the General of the armies; and We are
confident that nothing but very gross
over estimate Of the Senate's readiness
to obey such behests, conld have
prompted the Tribune TO resort to this
menace, at this early stage of the i'm
peachmenJ trial.
Year: 1868

Especial DIspatch to the Evening Star.J


NEW YORK, May s.-A special Washington
dispatch to the Times says Senator Fessenden
authorizes a direct and explicit contradiction
of the statements published in the New York
Herald and Philadelphia Inquirer that he has
Written an opinion regarding the merits of the
Impeachment case.
Year: 1868

are made from Fresh Fruits. Each


bottle holds twice as much as any other
brand in the MARKET consequently they
are the cheapest and the best
E9 Use no other.
REDINGTON & co. Ag'ts
for the Pacific coast
Year: 1868

A NuNBIR OF CoNeREssMEN left for their
homes yesterday, and in the House there Will
scarcely be a quorum on Monday next, as no
business is to te transacted on that day except
reading the journal and adjournment to JAN
uary 5th.
Year: 1868

Wearing thin shoes on damp nights in rainy weather.

 Leading life of enfeebling, stupid laziness, and keeping the mind in a round of unnatural excitement by reading trashy novels.

 Going to balls in all sorts of weather in the thinnest possible dress. Dancing till in complete precipitation, then going home through the damp air.

 Sleeping on feather beds in seven-by- nine bedrooms.

 Surfeiting on hot and very highly stimulating suppers.

 Marrying in haste, getting an uncon- genial companion, and living the rest of life in mutual dissatisfaction.

 Eating without time to masticate the food.

 Allowing love of gain to so absorb our minds as to leave no time to attend to our health. Following an unhealthy occupation because money can be made by it. Tempting the appetite with niceties when the stomach says no. Contriving to keep in continual worry about something or nothing.

 Retiring in the small hours and ris. ing at noon.

 Neglecting to take proper care oi ourselves when simple disease first appears.
Year: 1868

In recent speech at Brooklyn, New York, Gov. Seymour made the follow ing capital hit at the Radical policy of regulating all the thoughts and actions of men by law:

 "Our Republican friends believe in the power of government to do that which we believe is best done by every mans own honest convictions of right. But assert in the language of Milton, who was not only great poet, but q great statesman, that you have no great civilization in any land where men are coerced in all actions of their life. l once asked gentleman if he believed in the system of coercion so completely that if a man would not drink for ten years because the law would not let him, he would be temperance man thereafter. He said he did. l said, suppose you make law so perfect that he would not be guilty of any misdemeanor whatever, would you not consider that better still?" He said he would. suppose you make law so perfect that he shall rise, retire, labor regularly, read his Bible every day in his bedroom, and go to church twice a day every Sunday, engage in no inn moral conversation, and be subjected to no temptations-would not he be the perfection of your systemY He admitted that it would. "Weli, my friend" said I, ''if you go down to Sing Sing Penitentiary you will find thou- sand men there living under you system, and if one of them escaped to- morrow and your house was burned, he would bo the first man you would arrest.
Year: 1868

THE AR.-The quality of the air we breathe, and it's influence upon health, are the first in importance of all the sanitary considerations to which the attention of mankind can be given. This will not be disputed, when it is remembered that no man can live more than three minutes if wholly deprived of air, and that to maintain the blood in perfect purity, every person requires an average of eighteen pints every minute, which is equal to about sixty hogsheads full every twenty -four hours. If the air inhaled contains any impurity, or is in a degree deprayed of its natural properties an Immediate evil effect is produced; and to no sim gle circumstance is the great number of diseases by which mankind is affiic. ted, or the brevity of human lifc. especially of infants, more directly attributable than 10 impurity of air
Year: 1868

An editor once said to young man who was about to wed the scissors and paste:

 "My young friend, you are about to become I learn, an editor of news paper. Permit an old man to give this piece of advice. If you desire success in that capacity, you should, in each paper, publish one column for a sensible man, and two for fool"

 It has been truthfully remarked, that the old man had measured we'll the public. He had calculated the capacity of the lines he had to fill, and he knew what each one would hold. The pub- lie have not changed much. While one man reads moral essay, dozen will drown his voice with laughter over an absurdity. A majority of the people don't take the papers to learn they take them to laugh, to enjoy the music and mirth of hearty guffaw they want something to provoke it, and that something they must have or they won't take the paper.
Year: 1868

seems to uO to you. "Oh," said Harry, "they had him up for stealing at the lower fort, and were going to fog him, but Rosey and the old gentleman begged him off. The officer in command was an old friend of ours."

 "Why, Lipan Joe is no thief" said Lanman; "he's one of the few honest Indians ever did know-except in a horse trade"

 s'It turned out afterward, that he wasn't guilty, but he is grateful to his friends just the same. He may make himself of some use to us yet"

 'Indeea he may r said Lanman.

 Just then the summons came to din- ner, and Harry invited his strange friend to join the little family party.

 It was quite a matter of curiosity, though unexpressed in his presence, to all of them, how such man as Lan- man came to be a wanderer on that frontier. Had they known more of such things, they would have been aware that many a refined and educa- ted gentleman and scholar" clings to the wild life of the plains for the sheer love of the thing, and many another has sufficient reasons in some dark pa- ges of his previous history.

 Laninan might have belonged to either of these classes-or to neither but at all events, he was entirely at home among them, and his manly, tho somewhat gloomy beauty of form and face, did not render his frank courtesy of manner the less attractive.
Year: 1868

This we regard as our main dependence, and will
give it our esPecialand careful attention and would
say that the better the watch or clock, the easier
and more thoroughly repaired when in the hands Of
an experienced workman. We have constantly ap
piled ourselves to this business for more than twenty
years We are thankful that while yet scarce y
open our record Of watches, which we carefully y
keep, shows that the shop in the right place. All
work warranted.


We came here because have long desired to
live in Smyrna, and in compliance with the wishes
Of our friends


Jan. 29th, '6S. JV. SMITH.
Year: 1868

BooUErs.-The Belgian florists are said
to practice plan by which they have bo-
quets in fair condition even in damp or
cold weather, for q week or ten days.
They change the water in which they are
kept every other day, cut of with. skarp
scissors quarter of an inch of the stems,
and put pinch of salt and grain of salt
petre into the water. If very much faded,
the stems may be put into hot water for a
minute or two, or into high wines, eau
de-cologne or ammonia.
Year: 1868

Professor Simpson, of Edinburg, who has
had large and long experience in the med
ical treatment of mothers and children,
gave public address lately on matters of
hygiene. lie spoke most plainly to mothers
who send their children to the grave by
exposing arms and legs, while other parts
of the body are warmly dressed. Mothers,
he continued, committed child-murder,
and then wonder how God could be SO un-
kind as to take away their darlings. They
not only murder their children, but, in his
opinion, commit suicide themselves by ex-
posing their necks to the cold air. 1t was
puzzle which he could not understand,
that women should cut off the top of their
dresses and appear with bare blossoms in re-
fined society, while that part of the dress
which should protect the heart and lungs,
and other vital organs, is trailing in the mud


Not to speak Of health at the present
moment, we would remark that the exhibi-
ton of semi-nude bust seldom approaches
to the classical standard of harmonius pro-
portions of parts and fullness of outline,
and is rarely suggestive of beauty and love-
illness. The inquisitive observer feels him.
self quite at loss to know the precise line
of division between which fashion claims
for exposure and the rest which modesty
would conceal. The boundary is too
changeable. More ought to be left to the
Imagination, and less to be condemned by
good taste. But ifmothers and full grown
daughters insist on being the victims Of
fashion, children ought to be exempt from
its insane and cruel requirements.
Year: 1868

The following toast was recently pro-
nounced at freman's dinner, and was
received with great applause; g The Ladies
their eyes can kindle the only fame against
which there is no insurance"
Year: 1868

A clergyman of a country village church
desired to give notice that there would be
no service in the afternoon, as he was
going to officiate for another clergyman,
The clerk, as soon as the sermon was fin
ished, roso up with all due solemnity and
called out; +" am requested to give no.
tiee that there will be no service this after
noon, as Mr.. L. is going fishing with
another clergyman"
Year: 1868

An electric organ is now being built
in London for Christ Church, Gambler
we'll The organ is TO be placed in a
chamber on the south side of the cham
cel, above the vestiy, but the organist
will sit on the opposite side auiong the
choir, some fifty feet distant from the
organ
Year: 1868

ToUGH YARN-The Berkshire Eagle saws :
\ man in Beckett, while in the woods for
timber, had the misfortune TO lodge a
tree, and in order to get it down hitched bis
oxen to the butt and made them pull The
tree fell into the fork Of another near by,
when the top overwhelming, the other end
was jcrked twenty feet high in the air carry
ing the oxen with it, where they remained
suspended in imminent danger of being chok-
ed to death. Perceiving the tree to be very
nearly poised, the man attempted to drag
them down by 'he tails, but one Of these
failing, be had recourse to a fifteen foot pole,
with which by reaching up to the top he
could SO raise it that the oxen's hind feet
could touch the ground, thus enabling them
to catch breath. Being unable TO sustain
the top for any length of time, he adopted
the see-saw motion, causing the tree TO VI
brate up and down often enough to give his
cattle a chance for air. He continued this
operation four hours before aid arrived. He
then climbed up and out on the tree, cut of
a twelve foot log, which falling released the
oxen, and he % snaked it home without even
unhitching."
Year: 1868

misfortune eventually came upon this happy
family. Eve unfortunately became involved
in transaction in fruit apples, principally
In which Adam was involved. and their
property including the 4" homestead" pass
cd out of their possession, and they were
obliged to seek a residence elsewhere.
From this time We know little about them
except that Adam, by careful attention to
his diet, managed to live to reach the age Of
$50, and died in the prime Of manhood, his
life being shortened, doubtless, materially by
the loss of his property. Whether Eve sur
vived him or deceased first we cannot say.
but presume she did
Year: 1868

CANADIAN CURRENCY.-The Canadian Par
Lament has recently passed an important act
fixing the value Of coin. With view to
carry out the recommendations of the none
tary conference held at Paris last year it pro-
vides that if the bill now before the Congress
Of the United States shall become a law dur
ing the present session, then a proclamation
shall be issued declaring at what rates the
coin of the States shall pass and be a legal
tender in the Dominion. In regard to the
present American coin, the bill enacts that
the American gold eagle coined before the LIST
of July, 1884, shall pass current and be lc
gal tender in Canada for ten dollars and six
ty-six and twO-thirds cents and the half
eagle Of like date for one-half the sum. The
American gold eagle coined after the day last
mentioned and before the lst Of January
1852, shall be legal tender in Canada for
ten dollars and the gold coins, multiples or
halves OF that eagle and of like date, shall
also be a legal tender in Canada in the pro-
portion of their assigned value.


On silver coin the act says 1.-The Cover
nor may ut any time after the day to be ap-
pointed by proclamation declare by proc
iamation that all or any silver
coins of the United States shall pass cur
rent and be a legal tender" For some time
American silver has been a drug in Canada,
and has been selling recently at discount Of
four per cent. When American silver is pro-
Year: 1868

to the court. The Presidents friends evi-
IDENTIFY took the result as triumph for their
side But it is to be considered that unless
the Chief Justice has really gone over to the
President, bodily, which can hardly be, Mr.
Johnson's counsel would be sure to gain by a
rule which would require every question to he
put to the Senate, and enable them thus to
secure frequent delays. The prevailing mo-
tive with the republican Senators, however,
probably was desire to avoid an open
breach with the Chief Justice.