smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1879

,ci& the gloss and freshness of youth.
Thin hair is thickened, falling hair
checked, and badness often, though
not always, cured by its use. Moth
ing can restore the hair where the
follicles are destroyed, or the glands
atrophied and decayed. But such as
remain can be saved for usefulness
by this application. Instead of foul
ing the hair with a pasty sediment, it
will keep it clean and vigorous. Its
occasional use viii prevent the hair
from turning gray or falling of, and
consequently prevent badness. Free
from those deleterious substances
which make some preparations dan
gerous, and injurious to the hair, the
Nigor can only benefit but not harm
il. If wanted merely for 4
Year: 1879

Periodically somebody starts a vague rumor
that corset wearing is not wholly confined to
women. In England it is said that many Of
the men habitually wear corsets, while in
France and Germany corsets as a part of the
male attire are quite common. 10 America.
while the custom is not SO general as in the
countries mentioned, still knowing ones say
that thers are more strange things in soma
mems apparel than the average citizen dreams
of. But for the first time a man, "and he is an
Englishmap," has had the boldness to step for
ward and openly advocate the wearing of cor
sets by his sex. Lift up yoar heads. oh ye
brethren, and listen to his blush-bringing
words: IT strongly advise to have the cor.
set made to open up the back only, as
lind 1t much more comfortable to wear and
lighter than when made TO open in
front in the now common mode. / can truly
affirm, from my own experience, that mod
erately tight lacing (ssy three or four inches
less waist measure than the natural rizal iS
not only not preJodicial, but, on the contrary,
is very beneficial to the health. My occupa-
tion is mostly of o sedentary nature, and
used to suffer much from pains in my side and
back and from indigestion; but about a year
and half ago my sister persuaded me to try
and wear corset, and she altered one Of her
OWE to suit me. found it rather irksome for
the first few days, but that feeling soon passed,
and on my next visit to London / had corset
properly made to my own measurement Since
then have had another one made. smaller at
the waist and wider at the chest, which L am
now wearing The pains have quite left me,
and my health is generally much better than it
used to be. Besides this, the feeling of being
tolerably well laced is very comfortable. From
my own observation and inquiries L find the
practice of corset-wearing by young gentlemen
is much more usual, but we don't make any
display of the fact" We await impatiently fer
some Of the physicians or women, who know
whereof they speak, to explode this impudent
heresy,-Louisville Courier. Journal.
Year: 1879

The Washington correspondent of the Phil
ade'phia Press says: "The effect of Gen.
Gar6ed's speech has been TO give rise to a
rumor here tonight that movement is on
foot looking compromise on the pending
political issue in Congress. 1t is intimated
that many Southern members of Congress
are not pleased with the attitude they have
been assigned in this controversy. A leading
Southern Senator says, that in the prelim-
mary steps on these political riders, his Sec
tion only asked for the repeal of the jury test
oath and the prohibiting Of the use of the
army for election purposes; that the propo-
sltion to repeal the laws relating to deputy
marshals and supervisors OF elections was
forward by Northern Democrats, and is a
question which does not effect the South at
all; and that grave mistake has been made
by every Republican who has discussed this
question in assigning the responsibility for its
inception to the South"
Year: 1879

The Washington correspondent of the
Tribune says that "a Southern Democratic
Senator admitted this evening, while discus
sing the present situation in the Senate, that
the more discreet members of his party are
somewhat troubled at the attitude in which
the party has been placed by Gen. Garfield's
speech. He said: "The Northern Demo
Gratis have put us in this hole. We did not
seek it. We only cared really for the repeal
of the test oath, but the Northern Democrats
said in caucus that they could not carry Ohio
and New York unless the election law was
repealed, and we were forced into this busi-
nnssO
Year: 1879

THE Washington correspondent of the
Boston Advertiser reports the President as
saying in informal conversation that the
present political struggle seemed to him to be
only new form of the longstanding contest
between the people who believe that the
United States are the patton on the one
hand, and those who hold to the doctrines of
State rights on the other. The Democratic
party is opposed to all supervision of elec-
tions for representatives in Congress by fed
eral authority, and to all legislation which in
any way interferes with the sole manage
ment of those elections by local officers.
They therefore intend, if they are able to do
SO, to sweep from the statute book every law
that has been enacted for the purpose of pre-
venting frauds in elections. This the Repub-
licans are determined they shall not do, if it
can be prevented. The President says he
has no doubt that ample power was conferred
on Congress by the Constitution to enact
these laws, nor does he for minute question
the necessity of maintaining them. The
question at issue, he remarked, is not Sec
tlOuai O11Os AhO lows W kASNSao i2ouuo dt
elections for representatives are becoming
every year more indi spensable to fair cleo
tions, and especially in many of our large
cities of the North. The question is funda-
mental, and is the same which was in con-
troversy between the two great parties be-
fore the war, and which was involved in the
war ITSELF In answer to the question wheth-
er the army bill, as it now stands before the
house and country, did not, in his opinion,
involve the same question that would be
raised when the legislative bill, with the sec
tions repeating the election laws, was brought
up for discussion, and whether it would be
proper to consider any one portion of this
political legislation Independently on its OWL
merits, he replied that he had taken very lit
tie interest in the details of the Democratic
plan. The first. and one of the chief objec.
tions TO the proposed legislation, was the


method in which it was proposed to accomp


lish it. That had been excellently described


by General Garfield, in his speech last Satur
| day, as revolutionary.
Year: 1879

We do not read anonymous letters and communi-
cations. The name and address Of the writer are in
all cases Indispensable not necessarily for publication
but as q guaranty Of good faith.


We cannot undertake to return or preserve COM
municatious that are not used.
Year: 1879

TIME frst-class brick dwelling house No 81 Spring
Il St, with about eleven thousand feet of land
The house is most thoroughly built from foundation
up, good cellar with large Brick Cistern good Brick
Stable. Carriage House and Wood House, with new
falling well Of water in the yard. Good Yard and
Garden.


This property is pleasantly located on one of the
best streets in the city, and very central with excel
lent neghborhood, and is very desirable for good
quiet home It will be sold at a fair price and on
reasonable terms of payment to close an estate.
If not sold within reasonable time it will be Of
fered for Rent if desired.


For further particulars to terms &c., inquire Of


s. B. HASKELL,


Administrator of Estate of John Dow,
No. 80 Brambal St. or No. 81 Exchange st.
Portland, March a. 1872 mh24tf
Year: 1879

Solon Chase said he heard that the
Governor was to speak here tonight, SO
he harnessed up the black colt and came
down. After hearing our good Governor,
it has popped into my mead that the
Governor obeyed the law rs he under
stood it. The only trouble with the Re
pubEcans is, they don't like to have the
Observation-Disclosures their own medicine
10 them. The trouble is not with the
man who eniorces the law, but with the
law. I don't blame Republicans for
feeling bad. Ii the misfortune had
come on our side Of the house wouldn't
we have howled? Counting out is no
novelty TO either party. This time the
Democratic bull has gored the Repubi-
can OK. The Greenback Legislature
Year: 1879

Cable dispatches from Rome an
nounce the final decision in the suit
of Countess Lamber;ini, who has been
claiming share in the estate of the
late Cardinal Antonelli, the WELL
known Secretary and Prime Minister
of Plus IN. The suit has been pend
ing for several years. The final deci-
sion is against the Countess, and is
based on the ground that there is no
written evidence that she is the
daughter of the Cardinal that if a
daughter, she is what the Roman
lawyers call ''sacriligeous child, as
according to canon lsr children of
priests have not even the right to
claim parentage; and that it would
be immoral for her 70 abandon her
Legitimate social position to become
illegitimate for mercenaFv purposes.
Before the civil tribunal the Coun-
tess won her case, bnl in the higher
courts she loses. not only her chances
of fortune, bet the costs of the suit,
some S25, 600 The amount she
wouid have received had she been
entirely Successful is said to be over
$4,000, 600 The trial has been
going on in one court or another
for more than two years, and has
produced plentiful crop Of scandal.
Although in priestly orders and be-
iIg Pope Plus intimate friend and
con6dant for thirty years, there was
little of the cleric about Antonelli,
except mis- robes and his titles. Dur
ing his life time his numerous amours
were the subject of common talk. and
in some mysterious way be accumu-
lated an immense amount of money,
which his two brothers now secure at
the expense Of bis reputation. The
court Of last resort does not say that
he was not the Couptess' father, she
was nousuited on demurrer and
consequently the result will not
change popular opinion.
Year: 1879

A philosopher says that women
do not like TO remember He is quite
mistaken. They take exquisite de.
light in remembering where their
husbands leave theirs slippers. and in
haunting the poor creatures as they
90 roofing under the bed after the
truant foot covering.
Year: 1879

tion was GRANT reverse. Let no one be
misled by any such absurd statements, for
our odvices from Ohio, and they are from
high sources, are TO the effect that the can
vnss between AIessrs. FOSTER and TAFT
was purely one Of personal strength i'll
the convention Neither CIndidate was
supported or opposed in convention because
he was in favor of or opposed to any of the
distinguished names that have born men-
toned in connection with the Presidency in
the canvass of ls~O Bolh OF the gentle.
men had their friends and supporters from
every part ofthc Stutcond from every shade
in party relation, and hence the attempt to
stamp the action of the convention with
Actiunol lines is simply absurd.


Tire contest IN convention was exceedingly
close. If Judge TAFT had received g l-6
vote, more than he did he would have been
nominated on the inst ballot; but falling in
that hi, i,c2mpctitorb5rco on the prize. though
mot by an overwhelming majority The
contest between these candidates was con-
tended iairly and without the slightest ac-
r.mouy. and Nh FosrEE is assured of the
cordial and hearty support in the election
oi all those who preferred Judge, TAFT in
the convention. There is no iactional feel.
ing % intcrpose to weaken the Republican
chances in the State. Every Republican in
the State is now heartily and dcvotedly for
FosrCE The SIBERIAN men, the GRANT
men, and the BLAINE men are, without an
exception for the success Of the standard
bearer who was selected by the convention
to lead the Republican hosts on to victory.
Tho speculations Of the Democrats as to
schsmS and divisions in the Republican
party of Ohio are mere chimeras Of q dis
ordered Imagination that are put alloat for
miSchevious purposes but which will avail
them no more than their other multitudious
fOllirs
Year: 1879

If the pending Bourbon caucus PROPOSE
tion is enacted into law the President win
b. placed in a very embarrassing position.
The national election lawsuit remain upon
the statute book, and he will be required
under his oath Of Office to faithfully execute
them; and under the caucus proposition he
will be prohibited from executing them
This is Democratic statesmanship, sort Of
be id you do, and be id if you don It
arrangement.
Year: 1879

SENATOR BLAISE's lgures regarding the
average vote for Congressman North and


South have been repeatedly put forward in
these columns to show the disparity Of The
ratio Of representation between the two Sec
tious in the House. They are not based al
together upon thestatistics furnished by the
Congressional Directory, but if they were
they would present food for serious thought,
Year: 1879

Now the letter-Carriers are suffering from
the effects of the blunderiug and selfish
parsimony of the Democratic Congress. And
bourbons howl that they are the friends of
the poor man.
Year: 1879

for the comparison would be just aud rs
fair for one side as the other As sit is, Mr.
BLAINE's speech will serve to open the eyes
of the North still wider to the fact that the
Confederate majority in Congress is based
upon the hollow pretcnse of free govern
ment and equal citizenship in the South.
Year: 1879

THE heated term is upon us--that Is TO
say the vanguard ofthe summer solstice has
reached us. But it finds the Democracy
already in q melting mood. The elemental
heat does not disturb them, for they are
1ounderiug about in the hottest kiud OF
political hot water.
Year: 1879

SENATOR WALLACE's declaration that
there is no such person as a national voter
is bit OF Bourbon sophistry, the acceptance
Of which as n legal fact would beequiyalcnt
to practical qualification Of the fourteenth
aud the fifteenth amendments Under
these amendments large class of voters were
added to the sutiingers ',of the county by
virtue of national authority. The States
certainly did not confer the right of suffrage
upon this class, for they simply ratified the
act of the General Government From
where, then, if not from national authority,
do these voters derive their right of suffrage .
But this is a question regarding which
the best of men may differ, and the only
trouble is that in the hands of such sophsts
rs Mr.. WALLACE its discussion is often
times made use of to befog the public mind
regarding the rights OF the General Govern.
mcnt to enforce its own laws and protect lis
own citizens especially that class of citizens
who were made voters rs Il logical result ol
the nations endeayor to preserve its own
existence.
Year: 1879

ABOUT this time look out for funny para.
graphs about the Cant t-Get-Away Club"
it is o pity our doarly beloved Bourbon
Congress don't belong to it. If they couldn't
get away from Washington lor year the
Republican party would have no reason to
regret it.
Year: 1879




The following letter by Governor
Marks was written in answer to an
enquiry by the Hon. John A. Gard
iner as to the probability of the
assent of a sufficient number of the
States creditors to justify the COM
mission of the bill to a popular vote.
When men are agreed upon the
practical course to be recommended
it is best to abstain from arguing
theoretical questions on which
they are not agreed. Consequently
although we dissent from almost
every proposition he lays down in
reference to the ethics of the debt
question, we abstain from discussing
these differences and unite with
him in urging upon voters the one
practical purpose on which we are
agreed-that of settling the debt on
the basis proposed and abiding
by the terms Of settlement.


HON. JOHN "A. 0AiStjN Ei1--lJedf
Sir: Within the past few days /
have received several letters pro-
pounding to me the same questions
embraced in your letter of the 18th
inst, and while l deem it my duty,
as the Executive officer of the State,
to abstain from any general discus
sion Of the subject of the settlement
of the State debt, yet / am willing,
upon all proper occasions, to give
the reasons for my official action
and to declare my views upon all
questions affecting public interests.


In responding to your first inqui-
ry, take leave to cali your atten-
tion to the fact that there was a
serious division in both Houses of
the General Assembly as to whether
the bondholderss should be consulted
at all in relation to the proposed adj
iustment. BY the provisions OF the
act proposing an adjustment of the
debt, / was charged with the deli
cate duty of determining the ques-
ton Of fact of acceptance or nom
acceptance on the part of bondhold-
ers. In order to determine this
question Of fact under the provisions
of the act it became necessary for
me to ascertain the amount en-
braced in the proposition of sixty
cents, and whether there were bond
Year: 1879

CONCERNING Senator Carpenters feal
that if the Republicans elect the next
President, the House will throw out
the vote of some one or more States on
the ground of intimidation of troops al
the polls, and so try to inaugurate the
Democratic candidate, Senator Dawes
says the contingency has long been
thought Of. snd he farther says that
the safety OF the Republic against the
whole scheme lies in the election of 9
Republican President next year by 81
large q majority that no ono will dar'
make the attempt.
Year: 1879

Toombs Of Georgia is an honest DEM
ocrat. and generally speaks out his
mind in a way not easily to be misun-
dsrstood. Among the greetings sent to
General Grant from representative
southern men is the following from
General Robert c. Toombs:


ATLANTA, GA.


20 m. Z. STONE, Editor Your tele'
gram received. decline to answer
except to say, present my personal con-
orat,,,atiops to General Grant on his
safe arrival to his country. He fought
for his country honorably, and won; l
fought for mine and lost. am ready
to try it over again. Death to the
Union! L. looAD''


Mr., Toombs' telegram is characteris-
tic Of the man, and too frank and truth
full to excite any resentment against
him. there is no sugar coating about
his remarks, and he must be awarded
the courage OF not only having opinions
of his own, but Of having the courage
to express them. Mr.. Toombs is no
more a rebel now than he was before
the war, when he predicted that the
time would soon come when he could
call the roll Of mis- slaves from
Bunker Hill. He was deep dyed rebel
then, and he is one yet. Reconstruction
has made ne change in his sentiments.
We are finding no fault with him for
this but we must accord to him what
We must withhold from other Southern
representative nen--the merit OF teing
an honest out-spoken man, death to
the Union" is no new sentiment with
him. for it has been the motto OF his
whole lify. But it is not from such men
as Toomhs that the greatest danger to
the Upion is to be expected. The men
who did the mischief then were loud
Union saving shrlekers, the same kino
of men who are now preaching concil-
iation and love for the South, when
their real sentiment is the same that
Mr.. Toombs enunciates-Death to the
Union. From such expressions and
such sentiments, the North has nothing
to fear. The present danger is no more
subtle and lies in the possibility of the
alliance between the solid South and
the Northern Democracy becoming
strong enough not to destroy but to
possess the Union. The conspiracy OF
1861 was to siese only one-half of the
Union, but the present one is to take
the whole. Such out,spoken foes to the
Union as Toombs, are not to be so much
feared as men like Lamar, Hill, Bayard
and Hampton, who have as much ami
mostly in their hearts against the Union,
but unlike Toonbs, they have not the
courage to express their real true feel
ings.
Year: 1879

THE DEMOCRATS in making their cal
culations for the election of a Democra-
tic President next year, commenced by
saying: "Well there's 1873 electoral
votes from the Solid South to commence
WITH" but when they go to cross over
to the north, they begin to count in
their favor such States as New York,
New Jersey and Connecticut which have
just gained great Republican victories
The Democrats had better leave Of
making calculations for electing Presi-
dent by an honest vote, and grease the
fraud wheels, as they are doing now in
Maine to cheat the Republicans out Of
their victory.
Year: 1879

INCREASING Democratic hopelessness re-
ceives striking illustration in the following
extract from letter written by promi-
nent Southern member of the last House
and made public by the Washington cor
respondent of the Boston Herald:


Will there ever be an end to Democratic
laundering and mistakes, which are equal to
crimes? We of the South are becoming, Or
have become, thoroughly disgusted with the
Democratic party. The mistakes and idiotic
management of its leaders make success Tor
the party an impossibility. 1t is q party that
can do us no good, and to follow its fortunes
will result in our sinking still farther into the
mire of dismal failure. If party leaders could
be wise enough to take such man as Rayard
there might be some hope for us, but there is
no prospect of that. I, for one, would be glad
to see the Democratic party disband and unite
with the Republican party in the unanimous
selection of some man who would give to the
country rest from the howls of factions, and
would be even glad if the two parties would
throw up all their quarrels and unite upon
Grant. With his wide experience, am sure
that he would be more conservative, and, being
elected by votes of both parties, would make a
strong and impartial Executive.
Year: 1879

The difference between preaching and
practices receives striking illustration in
the letter written by Postmaster General
Key to Postmaster James of New York.
The letter in explaDation and defense of
the unpopular and impractical order in rela-
ton to the addresses of mail matter was di-
directed to ''Hon. T. L. James, New York
City," No such post Office is known to the
Department. The missive should have
zone to the Dead-Letter Office.
Year: 1879

We do not read anonymous letters and commune
cations. The and address of the writer are in
all indispensable, not necessarily for publica
ton but as guaranty of good faith


We cannot undertake to return or preserve COM
munlcatlons that are not used.
Year: 1879

New York Commercial Advertiser: Seven
thousand five hundred dollars in bills were
found the other day in a Baltimore chicken
coop. Supposed to have been left there by
some old Democratic rooster with barrel.