smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1874

THE SOUTH CAROLINA REPUBLICAN CON-
CONTINUATION OF THE DEAD LocK-DELEGATEs IN


pIGSANT BECAUSE MONEY is NOT FORTHCOMING


FOR THEIR voTEs-sERIoUs TALK OF CALLING


NEW coNvENTIoN-MAss MEETING OF THE DEL


pa.TEs-pREsrpENT GRANT SAID TO BE IN FAVOR


OF CHAMBERLAIN


Ipr TELEGRAPH TO THE TRBuSR,l


COLUMBIA, Sept. 10.-Another day has passed
without permanent organization of the State Re
publican Convention. The hitch is still with the
Committee on Credentials, some of the members OF
which cannot be made to believe that they cannot
make money by their action. although the friends
of the candidates soemnly them that there Is
no money in the city. A Committee man said to-
day to prominent Republican that he thought IL a
shame that men should be expected TO work all
Summer to get elected to the Convention, and theh
come here and get nothing for their trouble IL IS
not certain however, that no money has been spent
although this indignant delegate may not have re-
ceiyed his share. To-day the Committee, after
session of three days, agreed to admit the
Bowen delegation from Charleston, which
is called the Carpet-bag crowd" and which is In
favor of Chamberlain for GovSznor rejecting the
anti-Carpet-bag delegation, headed by L. w. Mackey
and in part, at least, favorable to Moses. There
upon, the Mackey men made an alliance
with rejected delegations from Beaufort and
CoIleton and threatened, unless the decision was
Teconsidered, TO withdraw a body, together with
other disafected delegates, and organize new con-
vention and nominate a new candidate against any
body the present one might name. This alarmed
the Committee, and they asked time to reopen the
question, which they have now done. The muddle
is so great that in the Executive Committee there is
serious talk of calling convention. but COM
promise may be reached in the Committee on Gre
dentials before the time fixed for the session of to-
morrow. few thousand dollars will doubtless set
tie the matter.


Tonight the Convention met In mass meeting
and was addressed by Mr.. Chamberlain and Judge
Melton, his law partner, who is the present Attor
ney-General of the State. Chamberlain advocated
reform in the State Government and announced his
opposition to the payment Of any illegal, fraudu-
lent. OF doubtful claims against the State.
After he had concluded loud calls were
made for Gov. Noses and a Committee
was appointed to wait upon him and request him to
address the Convention but the Governor, not
anticipating the call, was not in the house An
attempt is making to secure support for Chamber
lain by declaration ascTibed to Senator Patterson
that he is the choice of President Grant and that if
he is not nominated the troops likely to be with
drawn from the State.
Year: 1874

About daylight one morningrecently,
says the Denver News, the machinery
in the Pueblo Mills began gradually to
slacken, until at length it almost stop
ped: The miller, rightly supposine
that something had become entangled
in the turbine water wheel, which fur.
nishes the power for the mill, shut of
the water and proceeded to inspect the
wheel; On examination, he found that
piece of machinery filed to it's utmost
capacity with catfish. The wheel was
opened, and about one hundred pounds
of fish, varying from two to fifteen
pounds, were taken out. The orifices
in the wheel are sufficiently large to
allow fish under two pounds in weight
to pass through, and how many more
members there were in this piscatoria]
exploring expedition it is impossible to
tell. The fish seem to have come down
the mill ditch in a school, and their
voyage of discovery was brought to a
sudden termination by the turbine,
which seems to make an excellent trap
for large sized members of the finny
tribe. As soon as the news was spread
abroad in the neighborhood, Alderman
Baxter had numerous visitors, and q
fish feast was indulged in by a good
many OF his friends. Catfish are a
luxury there, Us it il, almost impossible
to catch them with hook and line in
the Arkansas. This is the second time
that these mills have been stopped by
fish, a similar occurrence having taken
place last summer.
Year: 1874

A lady in San Francisco, the Chroni-
Gle of that city says, has invented q new
needle, tho improvement consisting in
making needle of any size without an
eye for the thread, but with. instead.
II hole bored longitudinally into the
head or larger end thereof to the depth
of quarter of nm inch or thereabouts.
which hole is arranged with a screw.
thread. The needle, it is claimed. will
carry any kind of thread, and can he
used for every purpose. It is thought
it will be valuable, also, rs a surgical
needle, as it will require but ono thread.
the advantage of which will be that q
smaller hole will be made in passing a
needle through any substance tilan
would have to be made by the partially
doubled thread of the ordinary eyed
needle.
Year: 1874

The Vallejo (Cal.) Independent de-
scribes the following singular search
tor Z gold mine: "a short time aro
Smith & Barr sold chicken to a CHS
toner. A day or two ago the customer
returned and was anxious to learn from
whom Smith & Barr had purchased
that chicken. At first he declined to
ten why he wished to know, but finally
told that he had found pieces of course
gold in the chickens crop. and was snt-
isfied that there must DO plenty Of il
where the cllichen came from. The
chicken was traced to a man and his
wife who brought down a lot from Lake
County, and the gold-hunter started of
in quest of the chicken-raisers. He is
going to scour the country until he
finds them, and then he expects to see
gold lying around on the ground loose
and in great abundance"
Year: 1874

A YOUNG man was carving goose at
a dinner-table one day, when by an
awkward move he knocked it into the
lap of a lady who was sitting opposite,
in all the glory of a green satin dress.
Instead Of showing his verdancy by
profuse apologies, and a confused man
her, he simply said !: "I'll trouble
you for that Goose, Miss" Can the
annals of society furnish an example
of self-possession more sublime?
Year: 1874

MAN9UvERING.- radical leaders
of this county are busily at work. Most
of the present offices holders feel that their
tenure is slight, and outsiders feel like
wise, and hence the manGuvering. Some
working to stay in and others working to
get in. Little knots can be seen earnestly
whispering on the streets, and every now
and then leader may be seen riding out
in the country on mischief bent. Push mp
Messrs. Sheriff and Register, or some other
oman and brother " may get your places.
Two to one bet on the outsiders.
Year: 1874

An ITEM.-Our streets were dull on
Wednesday evening. Merchants were anx-
iously awaiting commercial nibble and
were all aglow at the slightest symptom OF
selling yard or two of Calico Clerks
kept their heads at work in the vain at
tempt to look busy, and everything was on
the rapid road to ennui when, thank the
stars rumble was heard on Main street,
and it was soon ascertained that a negro
and couple of mules had taken compass
sion on the public and gotten up small
size runaway. All was joyful excitement
for moment, but it was soon dispelled,
for IN q most incredibly short time cuffee
was seen calmly driving his team sans
nothing but his hat And quiet reigned in
Warsaw
Year: 1874

SLIGHTED. recent number of the New
York South was devoted entirely to a
sketch of North Carolina and it's material
resources and advantages, but failed to
mention that there was such a place as
Tarboro and such fine farming lands as are
to be found in Edgecombe county.


We would remind that journal that no
section of our State can boast of more
scientific or practical farming than our
county, and that history of North Caro-
lima is incomplete, that has no mention of
one of the Oldest, most thrifty and most
beautiful towns within it's borders. The
South ought to edo up" North Carolina
agan. 1t might devote chapter to this
section proftably.
Year: 1874

Hygiene Our Constable seems to be
really in earnest about keeping the street
cutters open, and we hear has done so
with but little expense, but there are other
duties that require his peculiar attention
at this season of the year. He should see
that not only the streets were kept clear
of trash and filth, but that private lots
were not permitted to effect the health of
the public. If the hygenic ordinances of
the town were always vigorously inforced
a large proportion of sickness might be
prevented. Citizens should not object to
an inspection of their premies, but do all
in their power towards the furtherance OF
the health regulations. Clean up all the
rubbish accumulated during the winter and
use lime freely. Remember an ounce Of
preventive is worth a pound of cure
Year: 1874

FIsH.-By reference to our advertising
columns our readers will see that fish from
the sound can be obtained at any of the
Landings on the Roanoke, it is not
necessary to remind thqss fond ..of fiah
that, the nearer the fish are to salt water
the firmer and more palatable they are.
Many will avail themselves of the chance
to get fish from the famous fisheries of
Capehart & Wood on the Sound,
Year: 1874

READ THIs.-How delightful it is to buy
at ten cents what you had been accustomed
to pay fifteen for; Mr.. Gatlin, who has
just returned from the North with his
Spring stock, for particulars of which see
his advertisement, says that he bought on
a settled market and hence is able to sell
cheaply. Test the verify of his assertion
by giving him a call and examining his
stock in person.
Year: 1874

On motion it was ordered that these res
olutions be spread upon the minutes of Pa
nola Grange, that copy thereof be sent to
the family of the deceased and to the En-
quirer-Southerner for publication
Year: 1874

Thousands of Promising Youths, of both
sexes go down to untimely graves, from
general debility and weakness, who might be
saved by fortifying their systems with Iron.
The Peruvian Syrup is an Iron Tonic pre-
pared expressly to supply this vitalizing
element, and is the only preparation of iron
that will assimilate at once with the blood.
Year: 1874

The recent wonderful performances Of
Goldsmith Maid, who. within week. cut
down the figures of the fastest trotting on
record 10 2:l5 l-2 and then to 2:l4 81,
have attracted so much attention, even
among those who 90 not make horse
flesh the chief topic of their conversation
and thoughts. that 1t may not be out oil
place to review the notable points Of her
career. And the biography of Goldsmith
Maid is neither an uneventful one, nor
without its morals-if four legged beasts
can be said to have morals. 1t teaches US
the old lesson that merit may 60 long
time unrecognized, that the market value
may be far beneath the real worth, and
that capricious and wayward youth
is often the prelude to steady and illus.
trious maturity.


This mare first saw the light in New
Jersey, seventeen years ago. From her
birth, in 1857, until 1868, she was the
property Of an agriculturist named Deck
er, who attempted to make his colt useful
in the line of the harrow, the plow and
the stone-drag. But the Maid never
shone as farmers maid, and she used
to rear and plunge and trolic, and once
she tangled her hind legs in whifietree
and injured them so badly that sho is still
said 10 be occasionally lame in conse.
ouence of the accident. For lame horse
it must be admitted that she trots re-
markably well.


Before arriving at the interesting age
of six, the colt used to participate in
occasional midnight races unbeknown to
her owner. After the "old man" had
Year: 1874

Going to that dreadful factory again "
said Mrs. Somerville, looking up as her
daughter entered the sitting-room, dressed
for walking. i declare, Nellie, YOU might
as well be a boy as a girl. for any pleas
ure l have in your society. Every day
you are to the factory, leaving me alone.


Il will come back soon if you want
me, mother; but l promised father to
come down and give him my opinion of
some patterns for mOnlding that are to be
sent in to-day


AS if the opinion of girl of your age
was of any valne. You need not hurry
back on my account / do not want to
force you to remain at home. can bear
the sorrow Of having masculine tom-boy
Of a gill, instead of a gentle, refined CON-
panion- Co.


Nellie Somerville pressed kiss upon
the fretful face pettishly turned away TO
evade the caress, and then went out very
gravely. Her step, strong and elastic,
was unusually slow, as she walked toward
the factory where her father waited for
her, and for the hundredth time her face
was elouded as she debated in her own
mind the yexed question of her duty. Not
her inelination-that pointed steadily one
way-but her duty.


From the time when, grasping her
fathers strong finger, the little girl toddled
by his side, Nellie Somerville had been
that fathers pride, and the cross of her
mother. Child after child had been taken
from the home of John Somerville to fll
a little grave in the churchyard-the VIC
tins of an over anxiety 10 guard them
from every breath of air; to fortify their
constitutions by incessant dosing; to force
health by combating imaginary weakness,


When Nellie was born, the father as
serted his authority, and the babe was
brought up almost in the open air, and
found perfect health and strength in con-
slant exercise, good food, and total de-
nr;va,ion of all cordials and narcotics. If
she cried she was not dOsed on suppOsition
of pain, but comforted by a ride on papa's
shoulder, or 4 race in the garden.


When childhood was passed, school
days over, the girl came home from a
seminary in distant city, and shocked her
mother anew. A good scholar, a fine
pianist and promising linguist, she was
averse to embroidery or wofsted-work,
Year: 1874

BY y. T. TRoWBRlDGE-
In the autumn, when the hollows
All are filed with flying leaves,
And the colonies Of swallows
Quit the quantity succeed caves,
Aud silver mantle glistens
over all the misty vale,
Sis the little wife and listens
To the beating of the fail,
To the pounding Of the fail
BY her cradle sits and listens
To the Mapping OF the fail.
The bright summer days are over,
And her eye no longer secs
The red bloom upon the clover,
The deep green upon the trees;
Hushed the song OF finch and robin,
With the whistle of the quail;
Dni she hears the mellow ,nrobbing
OF the thunder Of the fail,
The low thunder OF the fall
Through the amber air, the throbbing
And reverberaung fail.
In the barn the stout young thrcshcr
STOPPING stands with rOlled-up sleeves.
Beating out his golden treasure
From the ripped and rustiing sheayes:
oh, was ever knight in nlnor-
Warrior all in shining mail
Half so handsome a. her tanner,
As he plies the flying aail,
As he wields the flashing hail?-
The bare-throated, brown young farmer.
As he swings the sounding fail
Al the hopes that saw the sowing,
All the sweet desire Of gain,
All the JOY that watched the growing
And the yellowing Of the grain,
Aud the love that went 10 WOO her,
And the faith that shall not fail
All are speaking sOnly to her
In the pulses OF the nau,
Or the pslpltating fail
Past and Future whisper 10 her
In the music Of the Hail.
In IT, crib their babe Is sleeping,
Aud the sunshine from the door
All the afterno oon Is creeping
slowly round upon the noor;
And the shadows soon viii darken,
And the daylight soon must pale.
When the wife 40 more shall hzrken
10 the tramping Of the nal
To the dancing OF the fail
When her heart no more shall hearken
To the football Of the fail
And the babe shall grow and strengthen,
Be maiden, be wife,
While the moving shadows lcnsthen
Round the dial Of their life:
Theirs the trust OF friend and neighbor.
And an age serene and hale,
when machine shall DO tho labor
or the strong arm and the fail
or the stout heart and the fail
Great machines perform the labor
OF the good old.fashiOned ,An.
But when, blessed among women,
And when. honorcd among men,
They look round them, can the brimnling
Of their utmost wishes then
Give them happiness oomp!eter:
And can ease and wealth avail
To make any music sweeter
Than the sounding Of the fails
Oh. the sounding OF the nail
Never music can be sweeter
Than the beating OF the 1ail


-RGrPer's for September.
Year: 1874

tho average character of public officers ia as
low as it is now, the confidence of tho people
under Government telegraph system would
be Systematically violated. In times of polit-
ical excitement, opponents of the party in
power would be practically debarred from tho
use of the wires for political purposes, because
they could never trust them. Opposition news
papers could not communicate freely with
their correspondents, and the press generally
would get no intelligence which the authori-
tics saw fit to suppress. And then imagine
what the result would be when the Govern
ment began to watch the telegraph Office Z" for
the better protection of the revenue" and
every importer became subject to perpetual
inspection of his private correspondence.


IL is one Of the rarest of incidents nOw-a-
days for the secrecy Of the telegraph office to
be violated. There are two reasons for this.
In the first place the business in the United
States is very well managed-much more
efficiently than any Government business could
be-and in tho second place the companies are
liable in damages for any wrong to their GUS
toners. But if the post-ofice loses letter.
or sends it to wrong address, or detains it,
the sufferer has no redress whatever; and
there would be none for blunders aud dis
honesty in postal telegraphy.
Year: 1874

Ia the trial of an English election petition
the other day the post-offce authorities were
required to produce the kilograms which had
passed between certain persons during the
election. clerk accordingly attended with
"a sackful " of tho desired documents, but
refused to give them up without an order of
the court The Judge took three days for
consultation and reflection, and then declined
to interfere. " His l0rdship said he did not
intend to go into the reason for this decision,
because he had no wish to say that cases
might not arise where strong specific grounds
might justify the interpOsitiOn of the election
Judge" The demand was not pressed, and
the kilograms were not read The inquiry ia
now raised why kilograms should not be held
IA sacred as letters, and protected absolutely
against the espionage which they seem to
have narrowly escaped on this occasion.


The increasing use of the telegraph az q
substitute for the post gives this question
considerable importance in this country as
well as in England. There Is no good reason
why the correspondence which IS sent by
wire should be any less sacred than the cOrre-
spondence which is sent by rail but the law
on the subject is in very unsatisfactory
state, and nothing but the fear OF public
odium protects the telegraph office now from
legal nquistions. We have proof that the
mails have occasionally been tampered with
by Custom house officers, and newspaper
holding intimate relations with the Admins
tration calmly told us the other day that the
Government had under consideration more
complete system of post-ofiice espionage for
the protection of the revenue. What would
happen if Government officials had the hand
ling of all our telegraphic messagesf letter
is sealed and to read it involves delay, trouble.
and the risk of detection. But dispatches are
open Copies are taken OF them. They are
read always by two and generally by three OF
moro persons before they reach their destins-
tion There can hasdly w doubt thai While
Year: 1874

When the yellow fever was at its hight in Shreve-
port two telegraph operators were among the vic
tins of the disease Ii was Of matter Of the
graves consequence to the afflicted city to keep open
its communication with the rest of the world, and
fortunately among the employees Of the Western
Union Company there was abundant gallantry and
self-sacriice to meet the emergency -Four men vol
unteered to fill the places of their fallen comrades
No pecunary reward was offered for the dangerous
service but something of the same heroism which
anmates forlorn hope must have filled the breasts
of these courageous men as they fastened to the
post of peril. Such incidents, perhaps, are not un
common in this country where bravery is one Of the
national virtues but nevertheless we are always
quick to honor them. Of two of the volunteers,
Davis and Buchanan. we know nothing. A third,
Savie, died at his duty. fourth met still more
melancholy fate, for, while he was Drawing death
for the sake Of the distressed, he robbing the
Company and squandering the money in barrooms
and gambling hells The history of such man
reads like tissue of contradictions. But the truth
probably is that he hoped to conquer bad habits and
strong temptations by one act of heroism. and his
strength failed him.
Year: 1874

How far has our street cleaning force de-
teriorated from the Indifferent standard OF last
yeari The late snoW-storm makes TIE ques-
ton practical one. After some kind OF
fashion, the frequent snow-falls of last winter
were removed from our main thoroughfares'
This year a single snow seems to paralySe the
force. Even Broadway was yesterday In an
almost impossible state, and the warfare De-
tween the street railroad and the private
citizens who absurdly imagine that they also
have some rights in the streets, was every
where else free and promiscuOus.


Mr.. Dawes Is quite right in supposing that
there is q general desire for short SESSIONS
1t is no compliment to our National states
men, but there Is no doubt that people
breathe easier when Congress Is out OF the
way. Nevertheless Mr. Beck had reason
in his protest against premature declarations,
that on an early fixed day Congress will ad-
iourn. And there is certain force in the
additional suggestion that, when Con-
gressmen are literally paid by the
year, they ought at least to take time
to make their work consistent and intelli-
gent, Inc mass OF antique inconsloIohCioo
and recent crudties of special legislation on
the whole question, for instance, lof imported
goods, as elucidated elsewhere this morning,
is an illustration of the slipshod sort OF work
we generally get.


Our dispatches show that the Temperance
Crusade in Ohio is gaining IN intensity and
force. The women who have been sweeping
the whisky shops of the smaller towns
with their bosom of destruction are
turning their attention to the moro popuous
centers The cities, 1T is thought, will try the
faith and nerve of these ardent apostles of
the new dispensaton. But their success so
far has been unexampled. Some such
movement was begun in this State tif-
teen or twenty years ago, and 1T
was reasonably successful. In Illinois
also few towns, inspired by that
example, were moved in the same manner to
pray down the rumsellers. But no such wide
spread and fervent revival of religion and
temperance as this has been witnessed of late
in any part of the United States. The cause
commands the sympathy of vast multitudes; !;
if the effects of the crusade are permanent, 1t
may well take its place among the notable
reforms of modern times
Year: 1874

by the report Tho vote yesterday Expresses
the opinion of the House that Congress has
power to legslate as contemplated in the BID:
This, we may conclude. prepares tie way for
the ultimate passage of the bill; the question
of the consttutionality of, the proposed law
cannot, of course, be settled in this way.
Year: 1874

nofcence. and bs latter wears have becs crowned
with the respect aud esteem Of tho whole comm
nifty which he has enriched by his generosity and
educated by his example. IL is certainly fitting that
tho birthday of such a man should he kept IN
the same spirit Of respect and affection wbsh
prompts the observance Of family anniversary.