smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1875

sight Of the whole world. It will not re-
main a matter Of doubt whether the life Of
Henry Ward Beecher has been rotten to
the core or grounded in sincerity. Men
may hereafter question how far he was
wise, bow far he fell short in prudence or
insight or in rightly fitting his acts 10 the
requirements of circumstances. But it will
not always remain an open question
whether his whole work was a fraud;
whether life prOfessedly devoted TO the
hOliest ends was at heart inspired by the
basest selfshness; whether, while seeming
TO live for the service Of mankind, he de-
liberately wrought utter ruin to the help
less, the innocent, the cOnfding. There
will be an answer to that, and an answer
that all will accept.


Men want justice done instantly. They
long for a revelation Of the truth before
which falsehood shall fall dead, and inno-
cence shine clear as the MONDAY. But
Gods justice for the most part works more
slowly. The Eternal One is patient, and
teaches something of his patience to our
eager hearts. await on the Lord" says
the Psalmist, "Wait, say, ON the Lord"
And as surely as God is God, He will in
His own time render Justiee-perfect, salts
tying, all-cOmpensating.


Whatever tie immediate issue Of this
case may be, one thing is certain. The de-
fendant will 90 straight on with that work
to which he has given bis life, and from
which he has not turned aside under the
pressure Of these last months.


New York Sun.


Beecher's editorial associates" in the
e,
come out in an article declaring that the
Plymouth pastor will go on with his preach
ing, editing, and writing his Life of Christ,
whatever the verdict of the jury in his case.
They make the announcement in cantiDg
style that must be positively sickening TO
Beecher, if ne has a particle Of selt-respect
left.


Now, the principal one of these canting
associates is Oliver johnson, the man who
told Carpenter, the painter, that Beecher
had been an awful sinner among women.
Nor is Carpenter the only one to whom
this johnson has talked in like manner.
However, as he has a good salary under
Beecher, he sings a diliererent tune just
now, and talks about the love men owe to
his patron, speaks Of bis acts as only sins
against prudence, and indulges in apanegy-
ric Of Of him as a martyr suffering for
truths sake.


The article Of the Christian Union is an
insult to the moral and religious sense Of
the community, and should re-
ceiye formal rebuke not only from
the secular journals, but also
from the whnle religious press and from the
ecclesiastical organizations of the COngre-
gstiOnal body. We believe that it viii be
so rebuked.
Year: 1875

NEW wheat has made it's appearance
in this market. One car load of choice
white was sold yesterday at Sl.10. The
tendency Of the New York market is
downward, and has been for near a
month, despite the fact that more than
100000 bushels are locked up in
Chicago and Milwaukee in hopeless
effort to corner the market and bull the
price.-CkattanOoga Commercial, June
81
Year: 1875

the case, while the officials, whose bus
mess it was to work up the evidence
appear also to have been grossly neg
hgent. All the important cases that
the government las preterded to pros
ecute in the District Of late years, have
proved lamentable failures. Probably
there is no place in the country where
money and influence interfere more
with the proceedings in courts of JUS
Year: 1875

HERE is an extract trom q letter written
to her lover by a Montgomery, Ala, girl:
GFor your sake, darling, have quit
using chewing gum, would you have quit
gum for M? l would not have quit gum
for any other person in the whole world"
Year: 1875

CONCERNING the probable. effect Of
the English failures OF the cotton mal-
ket. the Near Yerk Bulletin says: "This
break down in English credit argues
an unsound state Of trade In that
country, which can be remedied only at
the expense Of an inevitable collapse of
general business, resulting in the return
to a generally lower scale Of values; and
with such a break the great cotton
trade Of Lancashire must sympathize
very directly. This Is matter which,
to our view, bears more inhuentially on
the future Of cotton than
even the considerations Of supply;
for England is clearly destined to ez-
perience an immediate reaction from a
variety Of influences that have sustain
ed an initiation of prices IN the face Of
movements which have naturally called
for lower values not only in cOttorI
but in most other raw materials.
Year: 1875

Boss TWEED is sUll on Blackwells
Island, nor does it seem to bedefnitely
settled when he Will leave there. The
delay comes, not from any of the au-
tborities, but from the prisoners own
counsel, who are not yet ready to have
him liberated. His counsel wish
their client to be prepared
when be leaves the island for
any emergencies that may arise-any
trap that may be sprung in the shape
OF new indictments or orders Of arrest.
The bail in the case amounts TO S.
O25. .OOO-:hat is, 100000 on the
civil process and the remainder on the
indictment for forgery, on which he
viii first be arrested. II is not every
man who can give good bonds for that
amount, and the authorities viii be
satisfied with nothing less.
Year: 1875

SAN FRANCISCO, June 19th.-Quite
a large audience assembled at Union
Hall last night to hear George G. Cor
ham speak on the issues of the cam
paign. A. G. Abel, Chairman Of the
Republican State Central Committee,
introduced the speaker. Gorham's
address was mainly a defense of his
own political record and of the plat
form adopted at the late Convention
at Sacramento. He scored the Central
Pacific and enlarged upon the right
and duty of the Legislature and Con-
gress to regulate fares and freights.
He attacked the Chronicle and other
newspapers supporting the railroad on
the one hand and the Call and Buite-
tin on the other, and waged a sort of
general warfare on every one but
himself aud followers. His speech
was we'll received by the audience,
who were evidently in accord with the
sneaker
Year: 1875

A private note from Bodega supplies
the Bulletin with the following infor-
nation: Our nay Is nearly all cut
not over half a crop. A considerable
quantity of the grain crop has been
cut for nay. The grain crop will be
light. Potatoes will be short this sea-
son on account of no late rain.
Year: 1875

Our School Board does rat furnish as
complete reports as when they verc writ.
ten by Judge Hall. Then we were not
only given the entire cost Of the schools,
but the cost per carita Of the seaclArs.
Year: 1875

THE poem by "Atlanta" on our fourth
page will command attention by its beauty of
thought and diction. 1t is fitting tibute
to the first of American singers and would
have been an appropriate offering at the re-
cent celebration of his birthday.
Year: 1875

The following extract from private letter
from Boston, written by prominent mer-
chant to gentleman in this city, recalls the
onte-bellam time when considerations of
Southern trade controlled the leading men
and papers of the great commercial centres
and shows that the spirit OF "shop'' is not
yet dead:


You will notice cali for a meeting in Fan
eull Hall on the 10Th inst. to make a big splurge
for the benefit of the Democratic party. This
all means shop, shop. and nothing but shop.
The fact is that the Post and some other New
York papers, iD order to make capital for New
York business, came out against Sheridan, and
the Boston AdUertiser, not to be outdone by
New York. rushed into the fight to save Massa
chusetts sheeting and ticking and that is all
there is to it. What a sorry sight to see those
two good old men, William Cullen Bryant and
Peter Cooper, both heavily stricken with years,
standing up in a meeting of the rowdies OF
New York, when the both should have been at
home wrapped up in warm blankets. If you
look over the list of slgners for the meeting,
you will see that they are uery respectable, too
much so to drop into the trap set by the Demo-
Gratis
Year: 1875




The Presidents message on Louisiana seems
to be genercly satisfactory to the Republicans
at the capitol, for it was hardly expected that
it would throw any new light upon the events
os which it treats. Some there are, however,
oe both sides, who go so far as to pronounce il
the ablest document which has issued from the
White House during the present adm:nistra-
tion. There is little If any reason to doubt.
however, that the message as read to the senate
and given to the country is not the message
submitted to the Cabinet and special council OF
senators. 1t is asserted observation-disclosures
without authority that the President
was confronted with the alternative OF
changes in the message or in the
Cabinent; but it may be said on the
the authority of Cabinet officer that no such
state of affairs existed. President Grant ex-
hibited perfect willn5 ness from the first to
accept and act upon the advice of his counsel
lors, and that the message as it appears is the
result of careful comparison and earnest but
amicabe discussion of the different views
which would naturally arise on so important
matter. The Democrats do not conceal their
disappointment at the position assumed by the
administration, many having fully believed il
would take an aggressive attitude in support OF
federal interference Their comment is that
the, message is a very shrewd political ma
euvre, and by it they acknowledge the ad-
ministration has taken most of the wind out OF
their sails.
Year: 1875

We do not read anonymous letters and commune
cations. The name and address of the writer are in
all cases Indispensable not necessarily for publication
b1t as guaranty OF good faith.


We cannot undertake to return or reserve COM
nunications that are not used.
Year: 1875

THE Mississippi Pilot suggests that ''the
members of all the Southern Legislatures
now in session should unite in solemn pro-
test, directed to the people of the United
States, against credting the Associated
Press dispatches in which news capable of
being given political bias is forwarded to the
Northern, Western and Eastern newspapers"


Think how Speaker" Wiltz of Louisiana
must feel as he reads the tremendous pro-
tests of the Northern Democracy against his
course in calling in "military interferencew


The subject is one of the gravest character.
1t is lfe-and-death matter with the loyal
men of the south. 1t involves the stake of
national safety tself. The White League
Democracy have set out to capture every
southern state, peaceaby if they can, forciby
if they must 1t is the first, and the vital
step in their struggle for the control of the
General Government. Succeeding in that, the
last state OF the loyal white and blacks of the
south will be worse than the first, and every
southern demand upon the nation will be re-
newed. Are the people ready to support this
White League campaign ALBANY Journal
Year: 1875

/ can conceive no reason why any man
should swear, but many reasons why he
should not.


First.-It is mean. A man of high moral
character would almost as lief steal sheep
as swear.


Second.-It is too vulgar; altogether too
low for a decent man.


Third.-It is cowardly; implying a fear
of not being believed or obeyed.


Fourth.-It is ungentlemanly. A gentle
man is we'll bred, refined. Such one will
no more swear than throw mud with q clod,
hopper


Fifth.-It is indecent, offensive to delicacy,
and extremely unfit for any human ear.


SiXth.--It is foolish want of decency is
a want of sense.


Seyenth.-It is abusive; to the mind
which cOnceives the oath, to the tongue
which utters it, and the person at whom it
is aimed.


Eighth.-It is venomous showing mans
heart to be nest of yipers, and every time
he swears one of them sticks his head out.
Ninth.-It is contemplate; forfeiting the
respect of all the wise and good.


Tenth.-It is wicked violating the divine
law and provoking the displeasure of Him
who will not hold him guiltless who taketh
| His name in vain.
Year: 1875

Every person should know how to ascer-
tain the state of the pulse in health, then by
comparing it with what it is when he is all
ing, he may have some idea of the urgency
of his case. Parents should know the healthy
pulse of each child-as now and then
person is born with peculiarly slow or fast
pulse, AID the very case in hand may be that
popularity. An infants pulse is one hun
dred and forty; child of seven about egh-
ty; and from twenty to sixty years it is sew
enty beats Il minute, declining to sixty at
four score. A healthful grown persons pulse
beats seventy times a minute; there may be
good health down to sixty; but if pulse
always exceeds seventy there is disease; the
machine is working itself out; there is fever
or inflammation somewhere, and the body is
feeding on itself, as in consumption, when
the pulse is quick-that is, over seventy,
gradually increasing, with decreased chances
to cure, until it reaches one hundred and
twenty, when death comes before many days.
When the pulse is over seventy for months
and there is slight cough the lungs are af-
fected. The pulse decreases when recum-
bent position is assumed for any length OF
time and is increased by exercise, stimulants
and the presence of food in the stomach
Year: 1875

The statutes copied below are taken from
an ancient volume, relating to. the history of
the American colonies, and were enacted
by the people of the dominion of New
Haven.
STATUTES.
The Governor and Magistrates, convened
in General Assembly, are the Supreme pow
er, under God of this Independent domin-
| ion. From the determination of the Assem-
| bly, no appeal shall be made. Conspiracy
against the dominion shall be punished with
DEATH Whosoever says there is power
and jurisdiction above this dominion shall
suffer death and loss Of his property.
Whoever attempts to change or overthrow
this dominion shall suffer death for the at
tempt.


No one shall be a freeman or give vote
unless he be converted, and member in
full communion of one of the churches, all
lowed in this dominion.
Each freeman shall swear by the blessed
God to bear true allegiance to this dominion,
and that Jesus is the only King.
No Quaker or.dissenter from the estab-
lshed worship of this dominion shall be al
lowed to give vote tor the election of mag
istrate, or any Office whatsoever.


No food or lodging shall be offered to
Quaker, Adamite or other hereto whatso-
| ever.


If any person turns Quaker he shall be
banished and not be suffered to return on
| pain of death.
No priest shall abide in this dominion;
| he shall be banished and suffer death on his
return.


Priests may be seized by any one without
warrant.
| No one shall travel, or cook victuals make
beds, sweep house, cut hair or shave on the
Sabbath day.
| No one shall run on the Sabbath day, or
walk in his garden or elsewhere, except rev.
erently to and from meeting.


No woman shall kiss her children on the
Sabbath or fasting day.


The Sabbath shall begin at sunset on Sat
urday.


| To pick an ear of corn growing in a neigh
boris garden shall be deemed theft.
| A person accused of tresspass in the night
shall be judged guilty unless he can clear
himself by his oath.


When it appears that an accused has con-
federates and he refuse to discover them, he
may be rackcd for punishment.
| No one shall buy or sell land without per.
mission from the selectmen.


A drunkard shall have master appointed
by the selectmen who are to debar him from
buying or selling.


Whosoever publishes lie to the prejudice
of his neighbor shall be set in the stocks or
whipped ten stripes well laid on.
| No minister shall keep school.


Men stealers shall suffer death.
| Whosoever wears cloth trimmed with gold,
silver or bone lace, above two shillings per
yard, shall be presented by the grand jurors
and the selectmen shall tax the offenders es-
tate 800 pounds.


A debtor in prison, swearing he has no
estate shall be let out and sold to make sat-
isfaction.
| Whosoever set fire in the woods and it
burns a house shall suffer death for the
same.


Any person suspected of this crime shall
be imprisoned without benefit of bail.
Whosoever brings cards or dice into this
dominion shall pay fine of s pounds.


No one shall read a common prayer book,
keep Christmas or set days, eat minced pies,
dance, play cards or play on any instrument
of music, except the drum, trumpet or jews
harp under penalty of a fine.
Year: 1875

Silver spoons are used to scrape kettles.
Coffee, tea, pepper and spices are left to
stand open and lose their strength.


Potatoes in the cellar grow, and the
sprouts are not removed until the potatoes
become worthless.


Brooms are never hung up and are soon
spoiled.


Nice handled knives are thrown into hot
water.


The flour is silted in wasteful manner
and the bread pan is left with the dough
sticking to it.


Clothes are left on the line to whip to
pieces in the wind.


Tubs and barrels are left in the sun to
dry and fall to pieces.


Dried fruits are not taken care of in sea-
son aud become wormy.


Rags, string and paper are thrown in the
| fire.


Pork spoils for want of salt, and beef be-
cause the brine wants scalding.


Bits Of meat, vegetables, bread and cold
puddings are thrown away, when they might
be warmed, steamed and served as good as
new Cottage Health.
Year: 1875

We clip an item from an exchange, which
it will be well for farmers and others liable
to be swindled by patent-rights men, venders
of wonderful secrets, travelling agents, ETC.,
to carefully read and duly heed. To avoid
being swindled, our contemporary suggests
action upon these general principles: Never
listen to any proposition which is commend
ed to you as giving opportunities to make
money dishonesty, or by selling an article
for more than its worth. The man who pro-
poses to have you defraud others, will cheat
you if he has a good opportunity. AS a rule
when stranger proposes to sell you any ar
ticle at very much less than its value, it is
safe to decline buying, unless you are a good
judge of the article. Never make purchase
or contract with a stranger when his assur-
ance is the only evidence you have of value
Never sign paper presented by a stranger
without reading it and being sure you under,
stand its character. As rule, avoid engag-
ing in any enterprise, however attractive ii
may appear, if outside your usual business
Buy of and sell to whom you know personal
ly, or who are engaged in regular, perma-
nent business, whenever this can be done
Other things being equal, buy and sell in the
market nearest home.
Year: 1875

Not with reproof of any of that days sins
of omission or commission. Take any other
time than bedtime for that. If you ever
hear little creature signing or sobbing in
its sleep. you could never do that. Seal
their closed eyelids with a kiss and bless
ing. The time will come all too soon when
they will lay their heads upon their pillows,
lacking both. Let them, then, at least, have
this sweet memory of happy childhood, OF
which no future sorrow or trouble can rob
them. Give them their rosy youth. Nor
need this involve wild lcence. The judi
cious parent will not so mistake my mean.
ing. If you have ever met the man or the
woman whose eyes have suddenly filled wher
little child has crept trustingly to its moth
er's breast, you may have seen one in whose
childhood's home dignity and severity stood
where love and pity should have been, Toe
much indulgence has ruined thousands o
children, too much love, not one.
Year: 1875

American sooiety is once more scandali2ed
through the New York Tammsny robber, Wm.
II. Tweed In sll the records Of law and Court
the parallel Of this strange case is hardly to be
found. The disgrace attendant on it seems to
bs never ending. beginning in the low state of
social morality which renders such crime possi-
bls, the public was afterwsrd brought to face the
humiliating fact that the law itself, with all its
supposed safeguards, has not been
able to withstand the influence OF
plunder yet held in reserve. No one believes
If Tweed were the poor man he is represented
to be that these unprecedented efforts to free
him from the punishment for his crimes would
be taken, and there ia no sensible person but
who feels sure that much Of the plumber is yet
virtually under his control.


It has only been few days since the New
York papers we're reading us instructive
homilies the uselessness Of sin, as illustrated
by the fate of the Tammany Ring. Most i'm
pressive these lectures were, and it is we'll they
were published in good season printed to-day
they might read rather swkwardly. One Of the
thieves pardoned barely week since, the
price Of his revelations of the working of the
gang his statement riyeting the chains of guilt
yet more closely about the chief criminal and
the sheets containing the monstrous story hardly
dry from the press before the man who wanted
contemptuousy to know Of the defrauded tax
payers "what they were going to do about tits
set free . 1t is almost enough to destroy every
confidence in Bench and Bar.


The famous query of the Boss attains a
wider meaning than the robber gave it. What
are the American people going to do about 1t
when it is proven that the law can be wrenched
this way and that under the influence Of con-
sderations sordid aud debasing in any view, but
which become in the highest degree offensive to
morality when they seek to sway the arm of JUS
tice Nor will it at all satisfy tho popular
sense OF right in thiscase to be told Of technical
errors in the legal measures taken to convict
Tweed. That conviction WAS successfully fought


- -" aa.-'r '"".'H" rNr vv,m, i,unur ,,,r
guilt? Not even the lawyers who have efrectet
his rolease. II justice cannot be dealt 30 shame
less an offender what hope is there in an Ameri
can Court? The secret Of it all we have N:
question will one day be found in the
fact that the robber managed to so dispose OF q
portion Of his booty that tho authorities could
not seize it, and that the money has since been
devoted to perverting the law, through agencies
which are unhappily always open to such ap-
proaches. However regarded, and whether
Tweed ia yet brought to satisfactory punishment
or not, the case must remain lasting shame to
New York and to the country.
Year: 1875

From the Boston Evening Transcript


Star-gazing is in order now. At s
p m, in the south, little to the west
and at an elevation of about forty
degrees, may be seen the constellation
OF Orion, easily recognized by the four
very brilliant stars in the form Of long
quadrangle intersected by three lesser
stars, arranged at equal distances and
in straight line, parallel with the
horizon, pointing OIL the one side to
Sirius--the brightest fixed star in the
heavens--and on the other to the
Pleiades, thirty degrees to the west
Between the Pleiades and the bands Of
0rion" is an upright letter V, known as
the V Of Taurus, consisting Of one very
bright star at the left upper end, in the
eye of Taurus, and FIVE lesser stars. In
the north, little west and Just above
the mist of the horizon is Cassiopea
chair in an upright position, consisting
Of five stars Of the third magnitude and
one or two smaller ones, Almost directly
overhead, but still slightly South, is the
sickle Of Leo, complete in outline, with
the curve of the blade toward the north.
east, and Regulus, star of the first
magnitude, in the extremity of the
handle. But the brightest object in the
armament these evenings is the planet
Jupiter, which becomes clearly visible
in the East shortly after 8 o'clock, and
those who rise as early as haifpast four
in the morning may see Venus in nearly
the same position.