smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1867

be designated in such permit such permission shall De
granted by said Board for such causes and reasons ana
such occasions TO the Board may seem JUST ane
reasonable and such and reasons sDa De eereu
the minutes Of the Board Nothngn this section con-
tanned shall be construed compulsory upon said Board
OF Excise to grant such permits and person or persons
place open shall be in such permission designated ana
provided but otherwise and during snch time may
sell and dispose Of liquors and wines or ale and beer ae
in this act Notwithstanding Such permission permit
shall not be transferable and in any such permission
shall be transferred the shall be void and the
provided for in this act.


THIS act shall take effect Immediately


The minority OF the Committee, Messrs White, Button,
and Candee, dissented, and will present report against
all amendmentsat least until the bill is oder-On the
ground that the opponents OF the law have thrown so


The Assembly Committee Cities tonight reported
favoraby the bill Incorporating the Metropolitan
Bathing Company that extending tho Of the pres
creating Metropolitan Water District The Assembly
Committee Oh Railroads reported tavOrably the bill OF
the Metropolitan Tunnel Road which has already passed
the Senate. James T. Brady aud Judge Bonnty were
position to tire Metropolitan Transit Road:


Both Houses in session tonight The senate was
engaged all evening in discussing the Citizens Association
Wharves and Piers Commission DILL and ait MAKING
few slight amendments ii ordered 10 tnd reading
by n unanimous vote. TherepOrts OF number OF Com
mtees presented in the Assembly, after when inc
balance of the evening occupied by Committees OF ho
Whole Before the House went into that order OF Dnsl
ness an effort made to consider the Broadway sur
face bin in the first Committee, but II failed by so,e OK
~ Yeas TO A Nays. In Committee the Newfork
and Brooklyn Bridge bill for bridge from the upper part
Of New-York 10 Astoria Rayensw0od with q PIER Oh
Blackwelrs Island ordered TO third featnng. Al
structure within year and finish II In three was lost
The only amendment adopted was one requiring the
bridge TO be finished In i've years The Dill ncoipoh3


the Montague Theater Company Of Brooklyn was ordered
a third reading.
Year: 1867

UYOULD respectfully call the attention Of
w the public to his stock OF MATTRESS Is
at no ~ Monroe street, where he keeps and
manufactures everything In his line, from a
Chair Seat 70 q Mattress, oc4 In
Year: 1867

Two negroes in Richmond, Va, were
so delighted at the idea of being able to
ride in the street cars, that they carried
their breakfast and dinner with them and
remained in the cars until night.
Year: 1867

In the esrly part Of the Winter the prospect for
full gathering Of the ice crop along the Hudson was IA
vOrable 6ut the snowstOrm in the early part OF
January ntefered with the labor Of gathering it, and
the several companies have thus far been unable to Sc
sure their supply 1t hardly be expected that any
neary wasted away and the Winter Is too far gone for
70 recover It's thickness and sodity Below is state
men from the actual measurement OF the quantities laid
~ in several establishments at different points along the
Year: 1867

The graduates of Yale College have queer
custom of coming back, after graduation, and
presenting silver cup to the first married grad
uate who can produce his wife and baby in sup
port of his pretensions to being the leader in the
domestic line. The New Haven correspondent
of the New York Tribune gives the following ac-
count of the presentation by the class of ga to
class-mate who was the first to win the honors
of edlock and paternity:


If this odd notion is not yet peculiar to Yale,
it must be at least should think, peculiar to
America. 1t certainly has an air of originality
that gives it decided relish. We slowly
pushed up into the upper room, where we found
the class of GA seated about the tables ranged
along two sides and across the upper end of the
room, while the company found seats in plenty
ON settees ranged between these tables and the
wall. Then the gallery at the opposite end was
filed, and the benches were then brought and
placed across the open square, and when all were
seated, it would have been hard to find anywhere
a brighter or more cheerful audience than this,
made up almost entirely of young men and
young women, with younger boys and girls. All
at once there clapping of hands, and light
bursts of laughter, and the audience rose to its
feet as the young husband and his wife, and the
nurse carrying the baby, and the escort OF TRENDS
came in and passed to the seats at Ine upper Gnu
of the hall. The husband and father, Rev. wal
ter W Pattershall, has reason to be proud OF the
baby and its mother; it was pretty to see the Ia
VS. graceful, unaffected way of taking her hon
ors, and pretty to watch the little baby of ten
months acting before these two or three hundred
people as unconsciously as if he was in his own
nursery. To see him take the cup, which was
almost as big himself into his hand aud put
it right away to his mouth, and then look up
and crow out the most unintelligible thanks to
the gentlemen that gave it to him, and then take
another drink, and then flourish it in the air to
the extent that it looked every minute as if he
were going to throw it over his head and then
to the stolid way in which he took the three
cheers for the baby, and the three cheers for the
father, and the three for the family, never once
winking, but throwing in tiger in the shape
of usty crow at the end of every battery, and
then getting ready for the next by taking q long
pull at his cup all this was wonder to behold.
If he understood the speaking he must have
found it very good indeed. He listened as ie he
understood it, and sat straight up in his nurses
lap, while Mr.. Whitney poured out, with the
gravest face in the world, his excellent jokes and
puns when Mr.. Ankel, with admirable tact and
delicacy sent ell of US outsiders home begging
us to escort the baby, who, the class thought,
ought by this time, it being then one O'Clock, to
be in bed. Master Fred. submitted to be carried
off with the best grace in the world, and bade us
all good night with another flourish of the cup
and the merrest succession of crows that ever
baby gave.
Year: 1867

A PLAIN STATEMEYT.-Did any of our delin-
quent subscribers-for we have some-ever think
of this Pc What would you think of farmer
who had raised thousand bushels of wheat,
and who should sell it to thousand different
persons scattered all over the State and agree
to wait year for his pay from each of them,
and if one half of them did not pay at the end
of the year, he should give them another bushel
and agree to wait another year for his pay, and
thus 90 on year after year? How long would
such farmer escape bankruptcy? Probably
not very much longer than publishers of news
papers who follow such practices. 1t costs the
editor of a weekly newspaper as much to supply
thousand subscribers for year, as it costs
a farmer to raise thousand bushels of wheat
The farmer sells his grain in bulk. Newspapers
are sold to a thousand different persons living in
different towns in the county, and different
counties in the State, and he must wait until
the end of the year before he can get payment,
and then he depends wholly upon the honesty
and responsibility of the subscribers. 1t will
not pay him to go or send around the county or
State to collect his dues, as the amount owing
by each man is small, yet it makes large sum


in the aggregate"
Year: 1867

How THE "FAsT You've MAN " GOES TO Bed
Our readers have been told how young lady goes
to bed, and it is well enough that they should
know the procedure on the part of the " fast
young man." Here it is as told by one who
watched the operation


Dismissing his fudded companion of the eve
ming at the street door, Master George performed
the task of ascending the two flights OF stairs
leading to his own room and noselessly as the
weakness of his knees would admit, and without
other assistance than that of his own unsteady
fingers grasping along the walls. Upon reach
ing the room, the coat was removed and flung At
the back of the nearest chair the vest was
handled more carefully, as the pockets contained
his watch, but the pantaloons came Off with n
jerk.


After filling and lighting his pipe he proceed
ed with the preliminaries. Some recent pur-
chases were taken from coat pocket and part
placed upon the mantel, and the balance slowed
away in a trunk, to be used as circumstances
might require. With much tugging, growing
and swearing the boots were removed, and the
last one being unusually troublesome, received
an impetus from the foot that sent it flying to
the furthermost corner. Removing pair Of
| socks (that should have been in the washwo-
mans tub) an earnest and protracted inspec-
ton of the feet ensued, the young man in
dulging in speculations as to whether those
@ blasted corns would prevent his appearing IN
% them new boots at that " little gathering to-
morrow night" The delicate little paper collar
| (size imnaterial) was hastily torn off, and being
soiled on both sides from being turned was dis
dainfully tossed towards the fireplace, and the
neck-tie flung to the foot of the bed


The usual slow progress of removing the shirt
was ignored on this occasion: several impatient
jerks, and then with sudden stretch upward
with the bony arms, off went buttons, rip went
muslin, and the angular shoulders of the wearer
" rose in unrestricted freedom" The 90 snowy"
night shirt was then drawn over the head, and
the delicate cotton tape binding and
graceful folds of brown canton flannel left to
accommodate themselves to circumstances.


"a puff of fragrant breath, redolent of bad
gin and lemon from pair of tobacco stained
lips, and out went the light and down went the
pipe on the table. Not being so fortunate as to
have any Mandy" for a roommate, and the
household domestic being aged and discreet, he
did not leave the door unbolted, but with growl
at the bachelorc solitude of his couch, jcrked
down the q kiyer," plunged within, pressed his
I" innocent head on the pillow, and after several
moments of twitching, turning and grumbling,
settled on his back, and fierce attack of snor-
ing ensued, which closes the scene


Imagine such a domestic existence as this
linked to the ETHEREAL, dainty and refined Miss
Preston" Enjoy your little maidenly privileges
and arrangements while you can, q Miss Char
lie," for we fear variety of circumstances in
welded life would ruthlessly interfere with the
systematic course ascribed to you in preparing
for a nights rest.
Year: 1867

PRAcTICAL JoKNG IN HIGH LIFE-The Paris
correspondent of the London Globe writes =
Practical joking I had thought died out long
ago in all decent society but, if newspapers are
to be bclieved-a thing of which am not at all
certain-Q speak, of course, only of those of
France and the rest of the Continent) lit still
fourishes in the highest society of this country.
Here, for example, greatly condensed, is a story
find in one of the journals of Paris: dis
tinguished party were fortnight ago the guests
of the Marquis de C, in the Chateau of -,
in the neighborhood of Trouville. The ladies
of the party being bored, resolved somewhat un-
gratefully, in order to amuse themselves to play
off a joke on their host. So one night they
placed quantity of flour between the sheets of
his bed. At his customary hour the Marquis
retired to rest, but the strange substance aston
ished him, and he jumped up. He found himself
as white as a miller from head to foot. A few
moments of reflection convinced him that he
was the victim of trick. He coolly rang for
his valet, made the man scrape him and wast
him and then change the sheets, after which he
returned to bed.


The next morning he said not a word of what
had happened. Three evenings after he proposed
drive to a small shooting lodge in the neigh
borhood, where there was q splendid view, and
when he got there he offered the ladies tea The
cake served with the liquid was extraordinarily
good. and the fair danes did ample Justice to it.
They declared that they had never seen any
thing like it in Paris. I" Yet nothing would be
more simple than to make such cake, said the
Marauis /" First, take your -four" continued
he. with all the solemnity of cookery book.
uand then roll man in it." The ladies' looked
aehast" ayes, mesdames, the cake is made of
the -four in which it was your pleasure should
he whitened the other night ~ s Horreur j,
OueUe horreur" screamed they.
Year: 1867

The Providence Journal has inst been
tried for publishing an item OF police intelli-
gence. In frank, good tempered and manly
editorialarticle on the case occur these sensi-
bic remarks:


-, iet In defence OF tho liberty of
se PLess, without which free institutions
aio inipossiole, we ought to say that ii we can
not print newspaper in the modern accent
ahce Oh the term. 1t is not an answer to saw
that the damages Were Nominal: it u the labor
and vexation and expense of the trial that
cohs.ltuoe the INJURY. Libel suits against
newspapers generally end in disagreemen of
the jury, or IN verdiets of nominal damo@e. .
Tor IN the heated contests in which nolit7ca}
papers engage, there will generally be Eainnr1,
twelve men, at least one who is pretty sure to
ind tor the plaintiff, and at least one who viii
be as sure to find tor the defendant. But the
cost of the trial is the same. And if the pro-
prietors Of paper are to be dragged into
court, on every item OF police inte elligence, the
full authenticity of which they are not able to
verify, they must Cease to print that descrip-
ton OF news; and IL tue same rule is applied to
other descriptions OF news, they must cease to
publish altogether.


we have been engaged in that employment
for almost the time that is generally allotted to
human generation. That in all that time
we nave Deen misled by false information into
many statements that were not correct, is uu:
doubtedIy true. No possible pracaution no
human sagacity could prevent this. Ii we
waited for the legal verifcation of every item,
before we printed it, it would cease to be news,
long before it appeared in our columns. But
IL Is equally true tnat We have never knowing
~ paDhshed what was untrue, and that no
man has ever been injured in our columns but
we We're more anxious TO render him justice
than he could be to demand it, The Ieputa-
ton OF our paper its value as property, no
less than sense OF right, require this al our
hanos. And that such has been our uniform
practice We appeal to our whole record to
shnw ~~~S-N w
Year: 1867

The following is recipe for making com
position thai will render wood on roofs and
elsewhere entirely incombnstible. 1t is yery
simply prepared and quite easy of ofapplication,
being used the same as paint with an ordina-
ry brush A good coat of 1t applied to fire.
boards, or to the floors under stoves, might
save many house from eonAagration.


Take quantity of water proportioued to
the surface you wish to cover and add to it as
much potash as can be dissolved therein
When the water will dissolve no more potasb
sur INTO the solution, first, quantity OF flour
paste OF the consistency of common painters
sizing; second, a sufficient quantity of pure
clay to render it of the consistency of cream.


When the clay is well mixed, apply the
preparation as before directed to the wood. it
will secure it from the action of both fire and
rain In a mass violent fire, wooa thus satu.
rated may be carbonated, that is, charred to
coal, but 1t win never blaze.


If desirable, most agreeable color can be
given TO the preparation by adding a small
quantity of red or yellow ochre


Another thing You should know that e
handful OF sulphur thrown on to the fire when
the chimney is burning out, win almost in
simultaneously extinguish the flames.
a TRAxI
Year: 1867

The New York Erenh,g Gazette an-
nouncss that the wedding card system
appears to be in thesthroes Of revolu-
tiou. There is an obvious yearning after
the definite on the part Of those engaged
in their manufacture, and the efforts to
produce something novel not unfrequent-
ly results in the grotesque. The egg.
she'll style of cards and the 'crystalized


are among the latest phases of develop
ment. Several new styles have also
been introduced and each succeeding
wedding of prominence produces a pleas.
ant surprise in this line. The only real
trouble with wedding cards is that some
friends Of the happy pair are sure to be
accidentally overlooked in the distribu-
ton, thus entailing much needless heart
burning and discomfort"
Year: 1867

and adduces testimony in support Of
them, until he seems to have cut through
the Governors outer defenses and stung
him to the quick, and in the Governor s
fit of desperation be exclaims, "if he
wants satisfaction the Governor will
waive age, i'll health and position. Let
him demand it. 4.


Now, this is so very kind, and exhibits
o degree of magnanimity that will put
all former Governors to shame Why,
Just think of il. He is the Governor OF
the State, with an annual revenue TO
disburse of $l,600,000, and unlimited
resources in making further exactions.
He is at the head of standing army OF
eigh, regiments of State Guards, now in
progress of organization. He is sup
ported by legislature and Judiciary OF
his own choosing, and dependent on his
will can command mob whenever his
exigencies or personal malice requires
one, with blank pardons for all those
who may commit crimes in his interest,
and at a time when he is confined to his
room by physical prostration, he is
magnanimous enough to waive all-aye,
''ill health and position, his parsonship
included, in order to afford his adyersa-
~ u chance for "fsticuff" or "pistols
and coffee for two" or some other SINH
lar or rational mode Of settling the issues
between.them. Now, we are persuaded
that the Governor had no intention of
clustering, of acting the bully, of trying
to make little capital for courage, for
in his present elevation he needs no such
fictitious aid. 1t is pure and wonder
ful exhibition of generous magndaimity
and guberndtoridL cOadescsBSio1 which
will draw troops of friends around him,
and which presents an example of Dig
nifty and good sense worthy of imitation
on the part of other Governors, and
which must shed imperishable honor
upon the office which he so tntoorrhily
fills. KnorUille Commercial.
Year: 1867

would have returned Asit is, he comes
back in the position of one who thought
to move the universe, and finds that he
has not made so stir as gadfiy in sum.
mer. Tho Southern people soon found
out that it was not an earthquake or a
whirlwind which had come among them,
but only a reed shaken by the wind


And We say that this is very discouraginq
for poor Mr.. Wilson, and we hope he will
bear up bravely under his adversities.
Year: 1867

Which is the basis of the BITTERS now of fered 10 the public. That honor belongs to the native inhabitants of CENTRAL AMERI- CA, to whom its virtues have been known for more than two hundred years Armed with it the Indian bids
Year: 1867

Is potent to cure, no matter what the disease may be- While DR. BULL is not prepared to endorse this extravagant pretension, he is nevertheless satisfied from thorough exam ination of the evidence relating to its virtues, that as remedy and preventive for all dis eases arising from exposure, either to changes of weather and climate or to tho miasmatic influence, it
Year: 1867

HELMBOLD'S EXTRACT BUCHU and In.
PROVED Rose WASH cures secret and delicate s.
orders in all their stages, at little expense little OF
no change in diet, no Inconvenience and no expos
ure. Ii is pleasant in taste and odor immediate in
its action and free from all Injurious properties


feh2l-dI
Year: 1867

The address of the Louisiana Legis-
lature to the people of that State, ad-
vising acquiescence in the Congression-
al plan of Reconstruction, passed both
Houses unanimously. This is sig
nifcant vote, when it is remembered
that when intelligence first reached
that body of the passage of the Militia
ry Bill, it passed resolution protest
ing against the measure, and appro-
priating thirty thousand dollars to
test its validity before the Supreme
Court. There could be no objection
to resort to the Court, but the Leg
islature on "sober, second thought"
evidently came to the conclusion that
while they were hoping for the best,
it would be the part of wisdom to pre-
pare for the worst. Hence the forci-
Bile address which at the close of the
session was sent forth to the people.


In this connection, we will mention
that following up the plan submitted
in the address, the members of the
Legislature after adjournment, held a
meeting and organized what they
have appropriately termed, "the Ma
tional Reconstruction Party of the
State of Louisiana"
Year: 1867

hands, doing nothing and consenting to be


fioated along with the tide Of events are


very much mistaken. When the Autter of
excitement caused by the first news of the


passage of the military bill was upon the
public we advised against hasty conclusions
and calm and deliberate survey of the


field, after it was all before us, and then uni


ted action for the public good, We can now
see our way with perfect clearness up to the
election and organization of Convention.


When we reach that point it will be time
enough tocount the cost of the next step
In the organization Of this important Con-
yention the first thought should be to have
1t made up Of honest men, friendly to the
State and its true welfare, not Of imported
Radical adventurers and ambitious self-seek-
ers of our own State, who are after nothing
better than the making of their own politi-
cal fortunes by an alliance with Radicalism.
To accomplish this union among all true
Southern men is the first essental-union to
prevent the Convention which will carry in
its bosom our future destiny as a State from
becoming powerful engine in the hands of
our enemies. There is nothing in the Mil
tary Bill or its supplement to forbid this
course. 1t will be necessary to send the
purest and most intelligent of our citizens,
to be selected out of the class that is not
disfranchised by the bill, and in their cleo
tion to make every fair and honorable effort
to prove to the voters of both colors that
their joint and best interests will be sub
served"


$50 soon as Gen. Pope, the Commandant
of this District, reaches his post, we suppose
he will issue orders for the choice Of a Con-
vention. When he does every man will have
work to do and duty to perform. Those
who are forbidden to vote can still exert
their influence in the right direction, The
great object is to elect an Alabama Conven-
tion, and not Convention of Radical politi-
clans"


Well has the Louisville Journal ex-
claimed that thousand indications
show that the people of the excluded
States intend as choice of evils, to
accept the terms of adjustment en-
braced in the Congressional plan.
Year: 1867

ened and Just public opinion, and
sooner or later unconstitutional legis-
lation will be efiaced from our statute
books. When this shall have been
consummated pray God that the er-
rors of the past be forgotten, and that
once more we shall be happy, united
and prosperous people, and that at
last, after the bitter and eventful ex-
perience through which the nation has
passed, we shall all come to know that
our only safety is in the preservation
of our federal Constitution and in ac-
cordance to every American citizen
and to every State the rights which
that Constitution secures.


ANDREW JOHNSON.
Year: 1867

WORKING PEoPLE.-It is very common
error, says the New York Sun, to reg ard a
mechanic or other working man as well of
or the reverse, according to the amount OF
his salary or wages, without giving due i'm.
portance to his necessary expenditures. A
man may receive very large salary and yet
be actually poorer than one who receives
only half as much for his services. Many
men have attained immense wealth on the
principle, not of making more money than
their fellow.men, but of spending less.