smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1874

be reduced in the proportion which the
number of such male citizens shall bear
to the whole number of male citizens
twenty-one years of age in such State


No person shall be a Senator or Repre-
sentative in Congress, or elector of Pres
ident and Vice President. or hold any
office, civil or military, under the Uni
ted States, or under any State, who hav-
ing previously taken an oath as mem
Der of Congress, or as an officer OF the
United States, or as member of any
State Legislature. or as an executive or
judicial officer of any State, to support
the constitution of the United States,
shall have engaged in insurrection or re-
bellion against the same, or given aid
or comfort IN tho enemies thereof hnt
Congress may, by vote of two-thirds
of each house, remove such disability.
The validity of the public debt of the
United States, authorized by law, inclu-
ding debts incurred for payment of pen
sions and bounties for service in sup
pressing insurrection or rebellion, shall
not be questioned But neither the
United States nor any State shall as
sumo or pay any debt or obligation in
CURED in aid of insurrection or rebellion
against the United States, or any claim
for the loss or emancipation of any slave;
but all such debt, obligations and claims
shall be held illegal and void. Fifteenth
Amendment-The right of citizens of
the United States to vote shall not be
denied or abridged by the United States
or by any State on account of race, col
or, or previous condition of servitude.
Year: 1874

ATTRAcTIvEsEss.-It is not your neat
dress, your expensive shawl, or your
golden fingers that attract the attention
of men of sense. They look beyond
these, 1t is your character they study.
If you are trrfing aud loose in your con-
versation, no matter if you are as beau
tiful as an angel-you have no attrae-
tion for them. 1t is the true loveliness
of your natures that win and continue
to retain the affections of the heart.
Young ladies miss it, who labor to i'm
prove their outward look, while they be-
stow not thought on their minds. Fools
may be won by gewgaws and fashiona-
bic, snowy dresses but the wise and
substantial are never caught by such
traps. Let modesty be your dress. Use
pleasant language. and though you may
not be courted by The fop and the sap,
the good and truly great will love to
linger.
Year: 1874

The results of the Democratic vic
tories begin to show in Georgia, as
well as in Texas and Arkansas, by
schemes for the enactment of laws by
the Legislatures to replace the yoke
of slavery in a slightly modified
form upon the black race, or at least
so many as will not bow in submis-
sives obedience and do the bidding
of the Kuklux and the White
Leaguers. Offenders are to be con-
signed to chain gangs and hired out
to the highest bidder for the most
trivial offenses. Such as refuse to vote
the Democratic ticket will be charged


with some petty theft or other offense
and remanded to Jail, thence to the
service of some man who will only
care to get rs much labor as possible
out Of the convict, and will not have
even the old incentive of ownership
to induce good treatment of his slave.
Year: 1874

Would IL not be better for the coun-
try at large and for our own State for
the free press to stop tinkering up
parties so much and pay greater at
tention to the discussion ofprinciples"
Is it not of more consequence to have
the nations policy so shaped by IA
public opinion which finds express
sion through the press than to spec
ulate upon the building up of thi. or
the overthrow Of that party? The
great questions Of finance, OF free
trade, Of the rights Of the State, and
more than all these, of transportation
and tho rights Of labor, are far higher
and grander themes Of discussion
than the mere schemes Of party or
ganization and party uccess.-Hitts
Go Journal.
Year: 1874

There can be but two parties here
after, and they will be the Democratic
and Republican. 1t is idle to talk Of
Independents, Liberals or Anti-Mo-
nopolists. Each voter must take his
stand either for one party or the
other, and it is better for the voter
that he decide quickly or he will ba
regarded With suspicion by both sides.



We want honest men Of all parties TO
join with the Democracy in renova-
ting the government and restoring Il
righteous administration. All men
who are in earnest for such work
really belong with us and are regard
ed rs Democrats no matter what they
may have called themselves hereto-
fore. - Ott,tDaard Democrat.


Pretty 0ood as joke, but decidedly
brassy, Capt. Evans. You will re-
gard all honest men as Democrats no
matter what they call themselves.
In other wordsyou will slanderevery
honest man and pull him into bad
company and fasten the Democratic
odium upon him whether he will or
not. In ether words, If a man Is
white yoNwill regard him as black
and make him black, noiens pole,s.
Year: 1874

A discussion is being INDUCED I'm
by the Iowa press as to the advi5a.
bility of any further State apppropri-
ations for the Anamossa peDitentiary
building. The prevailing opinion is
that the work should be discontinued
and that the convicts now there at
An expense 10 the State should be re-
turned to Fort Madison where they
can earn for the State the cost Of their
keeping. If the commencement OF
the new prison is found to have been
a mistake let the correction come be-
fore the sinking Of any further funds
upon it.
Year: 1874

10 Is gratifying to learn that the
subject of outrages in the South is to
receive early attention and investiga-
ton during the present session of
Congress, and that steps will be taken
to secure the publication in official
form of the facts In possession Of the
government, that the people may
have some basis more substantial
than newspaper reports for Judgment
as to the extent of the Southern
troubles, and where the blame rests.
There is terrible and criminal friction
somewhere, and it should be sought
out and removed with the least pos
sible delay. Among the documen-
airy evidence to be published will ap-
pear the official reports Of the reve-
nue. officials, marshals, commission
ers and special agepts who were en-
duty in the South previous to the late
elections, and since, during the reign
of terror, and who are able to verify
or disprove the narrowing newspaper
stories of murder and intimidation
which have thrilled the country for
months, and have been so persistently
denied and belittled by the Demo-
cratic press. The country should have


the truth in incontrovertible form.
Year: 1874

Parker, of the Indianola Tribune,
goes over to the Democracy, and the
Herald says of him: ave can't
vouch for his sticking fast, for his
politics is like a railroad ticket
"good for this day only"
Year: 1874




Tuesday evening, when our paper
is nearly ready for press we receive
the news from Des Moines, through
late edition of the Register, that
Howard, the murderer Of johnson
was hung by a masked mob at about
o'clock Tuesday morning. Wehave
space now for only a condensed ac-
count of the horrid affair, which has
disgraced the fair city Of Des Moines
and the State:


On Monday, after protracted trial,
before Judge Maxwell, Howard was
sentenced to Imprisonment for life.
The long line of halfdozen murders
unpunished had worked up the peo-
pie of Des Moines to high measure
of excitement, and this was intensi-
fed by the trial until the mob spirit
was felt by the best citizens, and dan
ger of an outbreak was realized be-
fore the trial had ended. The priso-
ner went to Jail under strong guard,
to await the morning, when he was
to be taken to Fort Madison. Five
or six men who had been employed
to guard the Jail for week or more,
in anticipation of trouble, were re-
tanned. The Sheriff patroled the city
at one p. M, and discovered no sign
Of attack but at q p. III. knock at
the door Of the jailer's room which
awakened him. He opened the door
and was met by a man armed with
hatchet and backed by hundred
others, all in mask. lie was imme-
dately tied hand and foot, and man
left to guard him with revolver,
while the others took the keys and
went to secure the guards In a similar
manner. All this having been done
successfully, the mob unlocked How
ards cell, placed a rope about his
neck, and dragged him from his bed
while his wife clung to him pitifnlly
screaming and begging for his life
until he pushed her from him saying:
"Let me loose, and / will go with
shensif Is4iust. -


A half dozen men held the rope
and he followed rs they led him
hastily to the head Of the stairs,
where others took hold Of the rope
and he was jerked down. Not giving
him time to rise they dragged him
through the hall, down the steps,
along the walks, through the gate to
lamp post at the northeast eornerof
the court house yard, and there hung
him.


He was clad only in short under
shirt, and was lacerated, bleedingand
begrimrned from being dragged so
rapidly such a distance. Six or eight
pistol balls had SCARED his feet and
legs. A ghastly, frightful, sickening
corpse, terrible warning-sign to
evil-doers, he was left there by john
sons avengers, who by crime had
punished crime.


Howard doubtless deserved all he
received, and the demons who seem
to have congregated in Des Moines to
revel in blood by the hatched needed
this lesson. But who dare affirm that
saIutary lesson to bad men should be
given in defiance Of law, and that the
precedent thus established will not
do more injury than good to tha COM
munity that has allowed il.
Year: 1874

The Bureau OF Charities reports that one Horace
q. Smith, representing himself as agent or the
New York Provident Society, with an once ct
No. Seventy-fourth street, is at work again col
lcctng subscriptions In this city. Being q man Of
PLAUSIBLE address and the professed objects OF tho
society being good in themselves, several clergy
men and few well known citizens have been In.
duced to write letters. favorably noticing its work
without due investigation OF its character. The
case was thoroughly examined by the Bureau OF
Charities In March last and report published on
he goth OF that month. During the summer
Smith transferred bis operations to Worcester,
Mass, where ne was arrested in July last. Part
OF the money collected by him for charitable pur-
poses was dsgorged on It's being discovered tnat
the society had no status In New York.


The Bureau OF Charities now wish to warn the
public against giving money to this Smith. There
Is no such number as mo. Seventy.fOurth
srect;'' the lowest number In East Seventy-fourth
street Is No. II on the north side and No. on the
south side. West Seventy-fourth street Is not yet
opened.


Many Of the clergymen, whose letters appear in
the printed report repudate all connection with
the society, ana state that II they wrote them IL
was unuer false impression as TO the sOcietys
position. The report Is so cleverly worded as to
appeal to the tendercst feelings Of the charitable
and benevolent, ana suggests that large amount
OF good peing done by the agency OF this society


certined copy OF the conviction OF this smith
IL on 6le. The police OF the Nineteenth precinct
vAschsd tne former depot OF the society az No.
Year: 1874

superintendent Waling, at the instance OF the
Commissioners yesterday morning called the at
tention OF the captains OF the various precincts
the law which prohibits every secular pubic
amusement on that evening. He read to them
the part or Chapter SOL OF the Laws OF 1850, which
CONVEYS the prohibition OF amuscmcnts on Sun
day, and instructed them as TO the cases OF VIOLA
tion OF the law which they are restrained BY in
Junction from interfering with All other cases he
ordered them to suppress promptly and to arrest
the parties VINO instigate and encourage them.
Year: 1874

The Salut Public, of Lyons, says DR..
Buisson claims to have discovered
for this terrible disease, and to
have applied 1t with complete success in
many cases. In attending a female pa
tient in the last stage of canine madness
the doctor imprudently wiped his hands
with a handkerchief impregnated with
her saliva. There happened to be a slight
abrasion on the index finger of the left
hand, and, confident in his own curative
system, the doctor merely washed the
part with water. He was fully aware,
however, of the imprudence he had CON-
mitted, and gives the following account
of the matter afterward: Believing that
the malady would not declare itself until
the fortieth day, and having various pa
tients to visit, I put off from day to day
the application Of my remedy-that is to
say, vapor baths. The ninth day, being
in my cabinet, felt all at once q pain in
my eyes. My body felt so light that I
felt as if could jump to pr0digious
height, or if thrown out of window l
could sustain myself in the air. My hair
was so sensitive that I appeared to be
able to count each separately without
looking at it. Saliva kept continually
forming in my mouth. Any movement
of sir caused great pain to me, and was
obliged to avoid the sight of brilliant OBJ
jects I had continual desire to run
and bite not human beings, but animals
and all that was near me. 1 drank
with difficulty, and l remarked
that the sight of water distressed me more
than the pain in my throat. / believe
that by shutting the eyes anyone suffering
from hydrophobia Can always drink. The
fits came on every five minutes, and l
then felt the pain start from the index
finger and run up the nerves to the
shoulder. In this state, thinking that my
course was preservative, not curative,
took vapor bath, not with the intention
of cure, but of sufocating myself. When
the bathwas at the heat of 52. centrigrade
1885 Fahrenheit) all the symptoms dis
appeared as if by magic, and since then l
have never felt anything more of them. l
have attended more than eighty persons
bitten by mad animals, and have not lost
a single one." When person is bitten
by mad dog he must for seven successive
days take vapor BATH II Russe," as
it Is called-of5 81 to 63 degrees. This is
may be quickly made by putting three or
four red.hot bricks in a'bucket or tub of
water, and let the patient sit over it on a
cane -bottomed or willow chair, enveloped
in large blanket, for fifteen or twenty
minutes. When the disease is declared
it only requires one vapor bath, rapidly
increased 10 81 centrlgrade, then slowly
to So, and the patient must strictly confine
himself. to his chamber until the cure is
complete,
Year: 1874

door, after which she enters to glance
hastily at the valuables her marriage
gives her an interest in. From there she
is driven to the house, where, after spring
ing out of the wagon as quickly as she
can, she loosens certain portion of the
horses harness. The more quickly she
does this, the more happiness she is like
ly to have in her married life.-Apple-
t0ns' Journal
Year: 1874

VERY few persons understand how
greatly health and happiness in this world
depend upon the regularity of daily
habits-the cons tant recurrence of those
events which we are apt to refer to as tire
some and monotonous. During the early
and later periods of life this seven tenor"
is essential to our well-being; and though
we may feel like kicking the traces when
at the summit of power and activity, and
sometimes fly off at tangents, or get rid of
our superfuous energies in odd and eccen-
trio ways, yet we usually come back, or
at least try to come back, to our moorings,
and gladly accept the treadmill path of
daily duty, which, if it brings no ecstatic
pleasure, leaves no remorse.


To infancy, absolute regularity in habits
Of food, sleep, clothing and cleanliness
cure many ills and lay the foundation of
useful and honored life. This is the
task of the intelligent mother, and to no
gated. Feed q child with healthful food,
actly recurring intervals; put it to sleep
with faithful minuteness in regard to
time; have its clothes uniformly protective
haustive from warmth; give it fresh air,
CltuCA III "C4A-EVAGA40ICN AOOH0 VI OuV
doors every day; bathe it at night in tepid,
child will grow thriving and healthy and
happy.


But there must be no cessation by even
so much as the failure to scald cup. or
saucepan in the routine; there must be no
careless use sometimes of warm, some.
times of cold water, or, again, the omis-
sion of the bath altogether. The food
must be prepared in the same way, with
the same nicely of proportion, or evil re-
suits will, as they do, most surely follow.
Only faithful intelligence can work itself
out by such exact processes, though we all
enjoy more than we think, being subjected
to them.


Everyone can understand how disagree
able it would be not to be able to make
sure of ones dinner; to be deprived of
bed and sleep; to lose the enjoyment of
abundance of good water, daily bath
and daily paper; but upon the recur-
smaller n.int,tio do we depend for our
daily comfort! We like certain kinds of
bread at every meal, we want meat always
cooked in certain favorite ways, and We
expect to find it so as naturally as we ex-
pect the sun to shine. We get used to
seeing certain things in certain places,
and we would not miss them upon any
account A tree, a bush, picture or a
chair which occupies the same place for
years acquires . value to our conscious.
ness which only the habit of seeing it can
give it. The world seems very large in
growth and full of many and varied in
terests, but it contracts as we grow older
and the objects of value to us narrow
themselves down to those which we know
to be real and which form our lives. Nat
urally, as these grow fewer in number
they grow dearer, and the more we dis
like to miss them from sight and sense.
No lives are so happy as those that are so
we'll ordered that there is little to resign,
and to which, therefore, every year brings
added interest and added enjoyment In
the regular discharge Of individual and
social duty.-N: ?. Graphic
Year: 1874

SALT LAKE, June 1.-THE police ar
rested g soldier this evening from camp
Douglas for dlsOrderly conduct this
morning. General Morrow demanded
the surrender Of the soldier to be tried
by the military authorities. The sur
render was refused, and General Nor
row ordered Captain Gordon with q de.
teshment of cavalry to the city with
an order to ask for the surrender Of the
soldier, and 10 case Of refusal TO release
him by force. The surrender was re-
fused aud the captain proceeded to break
open the Jail, and released the man,
who Is now in confinement at the mill
tary post. General Morrow some time
since presented the subject Of arrest by
the civil auth lrities of soldiers to the
war department, claiming that under
the articles OF war soldiers are 10 be
tried by the military "a not by the
civil authorities. TIE Judge advocate
general of the army approved OF this
view, and the secretary OF war directed
General Morrow 10 act accordingly. No
resistance was made by the city au-
thorities.
Year: 1874

A new process of sweating or Initiating
the currency Is in vogue. The notes are
slit lengthwise, IN such u way that out OF
ak bills seven are constructed, slightly
narrower than the genuine,
Year: 1874

II is possible that the report OF gold
discoveries by Gen. Clusters command
may presently stimulate new gold fe-
yer among the adventurous classes of
the west. They need to bear in mind
two or three things. First of all, as
Mr.. Greeley used to put it, statistics
demonstrate that, on the average, more
money has been made in proportion to
those engaged in the work by men dig
ging potatoes than by men digging
gold. Then the country is covered by
Indian claims, and although these are
not likely to stand against determined
invasion of gold diggers, they are pref
ty certain to be wiped out only in q
good deal of blood. Old gold miners
have less faith now in surface diggings,
and it must be remembered that only
surface diggings will be possible in the
new region for some time to come.
And, finally, it is fortunate that the
new Eldorado appears to be attractive
for other reasons than because of its
gold. If the emigrants will only take
plows as we'll as picks, the country will
be the better off for their movement. -
NeW York Tribune.
Year: 1874

tanned but the completion Of these continental nse OF
manner ccnsstenr with our eivsation and the duties It
devOlves upon u.s. and thus save mIioos an1iu1ny ~
the Government IN military supplies ana 'rs"Sp'~
ton. .


Resolved That the permanent prosperity Of the indas
speedy adopuon by Congress of financial policy which
shall produce general revival OF conndence sua " so
foreign at the expense Of our own capital
and labor.
the passage OF the Finance bill pending before tne
House of Representatives. providing for free oananns
believing that either that or some relief from CONGRESS
Is now made necessary by the great uepression III III
branches Of manufactures. . . AL.
country through their organizations and otherwise to
call mass-meetinRs immediately, and urge upon tns
the financial questions before M az well as upon other
the adoption OF which will tend TO
ests OF the country thereby sverting aud suffering
during the coming Fall aud Winter


best Of ability in all honorable means 10 Dave
proper action taken by this Congress or the next 10
avert the threatened nnux OF toregn roI - If h nro
ducton OF such iron az the country needs WIN De
to people, to whom OF right 1t Justly belongs


Res0lred That IL s fatal 10 interests 10 longer
attempt keeping furnaces In blast, AZ al tne present
prices paid labor the loss In the manufacture OF Pig
iron Is large and II stocks accumulate much beyond the
wants OF the this loss Will be Increased anu
bankruptcy will be inevitably reached as measure OF


OF pig iron in this country TO curtal pro-
duction Dy stopping the mining OF coal and ore ana
such other work Ii necessary IN the preparation Oh
stock, and by putting out their fires, as demand Will
justify change OF policy.


the American Iron and Steel Association At It's meeting
the 10th Of November last as follows That We regard
bankrupt law TO force debtor into bankruptcy
against the will and 10 the injury OF all others nav
trous practice. and in the opinion of this association
the law should be amended so as 10 give TO three
fourths OF the creditors the right to control the settle
OF the affairs insolvent, and to prevent them
from being subjected TO proceedings in bankruptcy.
Year: 1874

BosTON, May %. - james Henry Costley,
accused OF numbering Julia Hawkes. and sinking her
body in the Fore River, at Weymouth was taken from
Plymouth Jail before justice in that town, at
ae hour yesterday afternoon brief examination was
had and the case continued TIL tomorrow. Later
Developments establish the fact that Costley Is


the murderer The officers who searched the hotel found
a bloody towel. and blood spattered on the wall paper
The latch OF the bloody, were also the sides
of the entrance OF the where the murder is sup
posed TO have been accomplished large spot on the
noor had evidently been mOpped over Upon searching
for the mates TO the ailors gO0se found attached to
the body OF the murdered the officers found one
on shelf the surface Of which was covered with dust
except portion upon which the fatal iron had stood.
tue imprint OF which WAS surrounded by dust A gunny
bag corresponding in size and appearance 10 the one Ia
which the murderer incosed the also found.


nae kage OF money containing t2jS was found on the
COstey secured by paper band, which Is be-
iieyed from the bank IL has been
tanned the day before the disappearance OF Mrs
Hawkes., Costey engaged room for her accommoda-
zion I'm CamdeI-st, at the South End. The deceased
went there carrying two bundles She left the house
on May 49, and the folio wing day C0sey called the
house in Camdenst and took away her clothing.
Costley went New York. from which place he
to afaneed in Hanover telling her story while
told the officers another III reference 10 the object OF
nis visit ~ that city.