smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1870

The DRY GooDs MAIKET.-The New Yo-x


Independent of this week saws: There has been
quite as active a market for domestic and
foreign fabrics during the past week as could
have been expected at this season, and the in
dications Of good healthy spring business are
very encouraging. The only discouragng
element is the low price of grain and ffs


which may prevent the Western farmer from
selling, and, to certain extent, curtail the
means for purchasing by the merchants. But,
WITH a supeIabundance OF grain on hand, the
West is not likely TO deprive itself q ANYTHING
in the shape Of dry goods, or anything else
necessary TO It's personal comfort. The market
is very abundantly supplied with every descrip-
non OF goods, though not oyerstocked, except in
certain styles of unbleached cottons Of which
holders do not feel any anxiety TO make special
sales. There is a constant shrnkage in tn,
price OF the raw material, which will necessarily
prevent any increase i'm the values of domestic
cottons. The crop OF 1899 is now conceded 10 be
fully up 10 100000 bales, aud the price is
tending toward lower rates. IL is not unlikely
that good buyers may be able to Law i'm their
supplies of standard goods at something less
than the price quoted as ruling TO the trade. .
Year: 1870

SURVEY OF TOWNSHIPS ON THE LINE OF THE
PACIFIC NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Wilson, OF
the General Land Office, Is in receipt of advices
from the Surveyor General at Plattsmouth, Ne
braska, showing the completion of the survey
OF the exterior limits of twcnty-six townships
along the line of the Union Pacific railroad, in
the Valley of Lodge Pole Creek, and approach
ing the western and southern boundaries OF the
State, and embracing an aggregate area OF
t@i 90 acres This tract is generally rolling
prairies, with first and second rate soil.
Year: 1870

The PRINCE OF WALES AND LADY
MoRDAUNT-A CNrious Agdir.-The Prince of
W ales was called 10 the stand yesterday in the
Mordaunt divorce case in London. Some of his
letters to Lady Mordaunt having been published.
Lord Pensonel pointed out that no witness was
bound 10 make answer TO any question which
would admit that he had been guilty of
adultery. The Prince testified that he was
acquainted with Lady Mordaunt previous to
her marriage, and made her wedding presents
before her marriage. She visited the Princess
at marlborough House. She visited the theatre
in company with the Prince and Princess. He
saw her often in 1866 and 1861. He had frequent
ly met Sir Charles i'm company with Lady
Mordaunt. In June, 1861 he met Sir Charles nj
pigeon match, on which occasion Lady Nor
daunt scored Tor both sides, and he spoke 90 her
In the course of the match The Prince admit
ted that he occasionally used Hanson cabs. He
solemnly asserted there had never been any inn
proper or criminal intimacy between himself and
Lady Mordaunt. This declaration was received
by the great crowd Of spectators with cheers,
which the court endeavored TO repress but
which were renewed. The bench EXPRESSED
much royal indignation at the publication by
Lady Mordaunt
Year: 1870

THE NAVAL WRANGLE.-The House Commit
tee on Naval Affairs this morning resumed the
consideration of the line and staff question, and
talked over various provisions of the bill. The
committee so far have determined to give posi-
tive rank to all stafl Ulcers, though such rank
is not to carry command with it in any instance.
but will be precisely similar to the staff and line
rank in the army. The committee is now en-
gagged in revising the pay table of the Navy and
will cut off all combinations for rations, fuel,
&c, and fix definite salary for all officers, of
both line and staff, dropping Off all per centage,
combinations, &c.
Year: 1870

The WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT of the
London NeUs was pleased with the treatment
accorded to Prince Arthur in Washington Re
ferring to the reception at General Sherman's
the writer says:-''I was particularly struck
with the well-bred air displayed by those pres
ent in regard to the distinguished visitor. While
the curiosity to see him was not disguised, there
was total absence of any OF that pushing and
scrambling which, am sorry to say, may often
be seen in Europe among persons who ought to
know great deal better. Nothing could be
nicer than the Princes carriage and bearing.
His manner was courteous, dignified, and grace
full"
Year: 1870

INFLATIoN GETS A BLACK EYE IN THE SEN
ATE.-NIr. Williams to-day offered the following
resolution in the Senate, which was agreed to:


Resolred, That to add to to the present ire
deemable paper currency of the country would
be to render more difficult and remote the re-
sumption OF specie payments; to encourage and
foster the spirit of speculation; to aggravate the
evils produced by frequent and sudden fluctua-
tons Of values; to depreciate the credit of the
nation, and to check the healthful tendency of
legitimate business to settle down on a safe and
permanent basis, and therefore, in the opinion
of the Senate the existing volume OF such cur
rency ought not to be H. creased.
Year: 1870

The English planters at Singapore are
said to be much annoyed by wild hogs,
which destroy the crops of rice and
corn, and which have been hitherto
kept down by the tigers. The tigers
ale fond of wild,hogs, and also of China
men and Malays. Their relish for these
last has been carried to such an extent
that they have long been in the habit
of swimming acrO.s to the Island and
helping themselves to Malay or n
Chinaman every night in the year
Lately the natives have taken to shoot
ing them, and the result has been 4 de.
crease of the tigers and an increase of
the wild hogs, much TO the disSatisfac-
tion of the English planters, who pre-
fer the safety of their crops TO that of
redundant population, and seem to have
as low an estimate OF human life as the
famous exquisite, Brummell, who is re-
ported to have been driving rapidly
through the streets one day, when an in
terruption occurred, and the dOOtman
opened the carriage door and informed
his master that they had Just run over a
man and killed him. "Ahw said he,
"likely enough to happen, there are so
many of them"
Year: 1870

1t has been the law in the State OF
New York for some years that comb.
nation of workmen to obtain higher
prices for their labor was a criminal
offense, and those engaged in it have
been treated as conspirators. Said law
is now sbrogated, the Legislature Of
that State having enacted that the Ia
Dor laws "shall not be construed in
any court of this State to restrict or
prohibit the orderly or peaceable as
sembling or cooperation of persons
employed in any profession, trade or
handicraft for the purpose of securing &
an advance in the rate of wages or COM
pensation, or for the maintenance OF
such rate.'
Year: 1870

BOTH this government and that Of
England seem disposed to look after the
Red river country. The Imperial Gov
eminent is fitting out an expedition to
that region, in order to establish Brit
ish rule there, and at the same time we
learn that instructions have been given
by our War Department to establish a
military post at Pembina. One thing
will result from all this stir, and that is
the opening Of that vast country to the
uses of civilization.
Year: 1870

A new parasol has been invented. II
is so contrived as to answer alternately
the purpose of parasol and a screen
The rod is not, as in ordinary parssols
inserted in the middle Of the 'circle
which forms the shade, but near the cir
cumference, so as TO give the person
carrying it the whole benefit of the
shadow it casts. Touch n spring, and
the little instrument is parasol; touch
the same spring with another motion,
and it is an upright screen.
Year: 1870

We were lately consulted by lady on
account of discolorstion of her teeth,
which she supposed might be owing TO
some pills that we had prescribed for
her. On investigation, the effect was
traced to the tea used at the boarding
house, which was kept from day TO day
in timed vessel and heated up at meal
times with the addition of fresh sup.
ply of the material. The tin having
worn off, left ssurface of iron, and the
infusion in cooling acted chemically on
the iron, making tannate or gallate OF
iron. The boarders had been regaliug
themselves on ink.-Pdc. Mech. and Sur
qicdl Journal.
Year: 1870

THE New Orleans Times proposes q
national subscription to the members of
Copgress-a cart load or two of ten cent
postage stamps-to induce them to yield
to the universal demand of the people
for the abolition of the franking privi-
1aco
Year: 1870

Western papers state that arrange
nents are being made 10 give the clergy
Q grand jollifcation next summer by q
trip from Chicsgo to San Francisco and
back. If a few Of them conld be
dropped on the way, and try their hand
at evspgelizing the sayages, they would
be doing good thing.
Year: 1870

LIoUoR DEALERS LICENSES. Dealers who


have not yet obtained permission of the
Hastings Court to sell liquor had better
do SO at once, as this is the last day of the


session, and the court will not meet again


until September. Those who fail to attend
to the matter to-day will not be allowed to


sell liquor until after the court meets again.
Year: 1870

The other day when the bill was be-
fore the Senate to admit the State of
Mississippi to representation in congress,
a wayward son of New England under
took to lecture the New England sena-
tors for insisting on the fundamental pro-
visions in the bill, one of which was to
secure equal rights and privileges of
schools to all of its citizens.


Senator Edmunds of Vermont arose
in his seat and paid the following just
tribute to New England and the sons of
New England.


Mr.. President Il wish to say few
words and few only in reply to a re-
mark that fell from the Senator from
Wisconsin, [Mr. Carpenter, and another
that fell from the Senator from Ken
lucky, Mr.. Davis, touching New Eng
land. / do not know what it had to do
with this debate. I remember that the
Senator from Wisconsin admonished-I
think that was the language admon-
ished New England that she had better
beware of her steps upon this question !;
and the Senator from Kentucky pointed
out to us that we by and by should run
upon rock and meet the storm and the
whirlwind that we were raising for our
future destruction by our course upon
this bill. What does this mean? What
have we done? Have the New England
Senators undertaken to force this policy
upon everybody? Have we been voting
against Republicans of other States p
Have we made any sectional question of
this? Not at all, sir. Some of us have
voted one way and some of us have vot-
ed the other.


What then am / to understand when
New England is admonished to be care
ful about this? May we not vote with
majority of Western Senators without
sin? What is to happen to us? Do We
feel too strongly the value of equal rights
and of general education? Is New Eng
land too advanced for the age? She has
been in advance sometimes, it is true
l have been taught by history that New
England began the Revolution. She is
not ashamed of it. There is Lexington,
there is Bunker Hill, there is Faneuil
Hall there are Adams and Allen and
Warren and Greene. We are not ash
amed of them. Whatever reproach
Senators may think they bring to us we
will bear proudly. And ever since then
she has not been backward. l do not
boast of it; only repel this admonition
that is given us and this tempest that is
threatened. Ever since then we have
not been backward in social and political
progress. We have taught our children
the honor of labor, the equality of men,
Year: 1870

and at the surface appeared only about
three feet wide. Upon digging down,
the solid soda was discovered in defined
mass like quartz ledge. A shaft has
been sunk beside it to the depth of fifty
feet, from the bottom of which drift
has been made twenty-five feet into the
deposit Of soda, without getting through
it. In fact, very little is known OF the
depth or extent of this huge deposit of
soda, except that there is apparently a
million tons or more of it in sight.
Year: 1870

A VAST MINE OF SOLID SoDA.-The
Gold Hill (Nevada) News states that
about fifty miles east of that place and
Virginia City is an immense and appar-
emily inexhaustible deposit of almost
pure soda. 1t is owned by parties in
Carson and Virginia, who use it in the
manufacture of soap, and also supply
quartz mills with it as chemical agent
in the reduction of ores. They also sup
ply it to drug and grocery stores, where
it is sold for washing and other purposes
for which common soda is ordinarily
used. 1t is free from all earthly matter,
and consists of eighty per cent soda, the
balance being salt or something of the
sort. The deposit is in the midst of an
alkaline fiat seventeen acres in extent,
Year: 1870

SPIDERS KILLING TRoUT.-Seth Green
the noted pisciculturist, has been for
long time puzzled by the terrible destruc-
tion of very small trout, and his investi-
cations haveat length resulted as follows:
There is small worm which is a fa-
vorite food of trout and many other
kinds of fish. This worm is one of the
greatest enemies which the young fry
have. 1t spins web in the water to
catch young fish, just as aspider does on
land to catch flies. l have seen them
make the web and take the fish. The
web is as perfect as that of the spider,
and as much mechanical ingenuity is
displayed in its construction. 1t is made
as quickly and in the same way as spi-
der's, by fastening the threads at differ
ent points, and going back and forth un-
til the web is finished. The threads are
not strong enough to hold the young
trout after the umbilical sac is absorbed,
but the web will stick to the fins and get
around the head and gills, and soon kills
the fish. / have often seen it on the
young trout, and it has been great mys-
terry and caused me many hours, days
and weeks of wonder to find out what
was wound around the heads and fins of
my young trout and killed them. l did
not find out until lately, while watching
recently Matched whiteish. These are
much smaller than the trout when they
begin to swim, and they were caught and
held by the web. l found ten small
whitefish caught and held by the web in
one night. The web was spun in little
whitefsh preserve, into which had put
one hundred young fish. The threads
spun by this worm seem to be much finer
than the common spiders web, and they
are not visible in the water until the sed-
iment collects upon them. They can
then be seen very plainly. These webs
cannot be spun where there is much cur.
rent, and can be easily seen in still water
by q close observer"
Year: 1870

Any amount and every class Of Insurance required
can be placed at this Office in the best Companies.
and at as low rates as at any agency in the country
Expiration Notices Promptly Given.
Year: 1870

Can be had as a plain sewing machine without
the buttonhole and overseaming, at SIS less than
the given prices.


We want few reliable agents everywhere, to
whom we will make 1t an object to sell these
popular machines.
Machines will be sent to any address on receipt
of price. Every machine has full outfit for
plain sewing, hemming, &c.


We simply ask an examination to verify all we
state,
Year: 1870

GA little girl, worn out by q long
sermon, observing the preacher gather
ing himself for the introduction of an
other point, exclaimed: Oh mother! he
is not going to quit at ALL he is swell
ling up again. T aEaf
Year: 1870

THE CHARMS OF LIFE-There are a thou
sand things in this wide world to atfiict and
sadden, butt oh how many that are beautiful


and good The world teens with beauty
with objects that gladden. the eye and warm
the heart We might be happy if we would.
There are ills we cannot escape-the approach
of disease and death of misfortune; the sund-
ering Of early ties, and the canker-worm of
grief; but vast majority of evils that besct us
might be avoided. The curse of intemperance,
interviewer as it is with all the ligaments of So
ciety, is one which never strikes lis but to des-
troy. There is not one bright page upon the
record of its progress; nothing to shield it from
the heartiest execratiOn of the human race. 1t
should not exist it must not. DO away with
all this; ; let wars come to an end and let
friendship, love, truth, charity and kindness,
mark the intercourse between man and man.
We are too selfish, as il the world was made
for us alone. How much happier would we be
were we to labor more earnestly to promote
each others good God has blessed us with a
home that is not all dark There is sunshine
everywhcre-there would be in most hearts If
we would look around us. The storms die
away, and bright sun shines out God reigns
in heaven. Murmer not at Being so bounti-
full, and we can live happier than we do.
Year: 1870

A novel reformatOry enterprise is in progress
in the Idaho Territorial Prison. The prisoners
have formed BDle-class, and spend part of
each day in reading and commenting on the
Scriptures, and in the performance of religious
services Two prisoners, who were pardOned
in the latter part of last month, left the insti-
tute with great reluctance, as they regard its
moral atmosphere as lar higher tone than
that of the rest of the Territory. One Of the
inmates, who attempted to rob an express
wagon train, is now studying for the ministry,
expecting to preach the gospel when he is set
at liberty On the occasion of breaking ground
and beginning the foundation for the Idaho
Penitentiary, on the I'd inst, the citizens OF
Boise City were invited to be present at the
ceremonies; and the views of the inhabitants of
that city upon such subjects may be inferred
from the terms of the notice, which says:
A general attendance Of every age and sex is
requested, in order that all may view the COM
mencement OF an edifce that may some day
be their home. Such possibility is delight
full to contemplate, where life and society in
suoh institution is so far superior to their out,
side surroundings.
Year: 1870

ID ALEMBERT was the son of a lady Of high
rank, who, in order to conceal her indiscretion,
caused him to be exposed on the steps of the
Church Of st. Roche. He was found by a
poor woman who earned her livelihood by her
needle. She adopted the little fOrsaken one,
maintained him by the produce Of her labor,
and, in due time, placed him in the College of
Montaigne. The young man profited by the
instruction that he received, so that like Pas
cal, he made new discoveries in geometry in
his fifteenth year His name soon became
known oil over Europe, and the learned court
ed the society of the youthful student. Such
were his talents that the lady came to be proud
OF the son to whom she had given birth His
toster-mOther had been watched, and, conse-
quently, the real mother became aware of the
fate of the son, but without giving any recog
milton or aiding In any way toward hlSsupport.
Vanity at last brought about that which the
voice OF Nature failed to prompt in her mater
nal bosom. One day she repaired to the col
lege, and requested the privilege Of an audi
ence with her child lie came. She imme
diately began a lengthy harangue upon tho
cruel tyranny of prejudice, on the pain it gave
her to be obliged to torSake him, and 50 forth


" am your mother!" she said.
You are my mother, madame? You are
mistaken"


But [ ami"


I" Indeed, madame, it is mistake, said he
:" have no mother but her who took care o
me in my infancy"


lie turned Lis back on her, and, leaving tn
room, he never saw her more But he cor
timed to act as an obcdient and devoted son t
the scamstress, and he paid her in her old age
with double interest, for the care she had bt
slowed Oh him in his childhood.
Year: 1870

1t seems to MS that before Woman Suffrage
is legally established it would be well to find
out how many women really desire the privi-
lege and in all discussions the extremely i'm
portant fact cannot be ignored that very con-
siderable body of women do not want the bal
lot, and especially do not want it forced upon
them against their will and in opposition to
their well-expresscd opinions. Thus, there is
a regular and respectable society of women in
so-caIIci refom. Then we hear from Peoria,
H., that thirteen hundred and eighty women
Of that city have signed protest against being
made voters against their wishes. The best
possible proof Of unftncss for the franchise is
a dsinclination to accept it, and we question
the right of any body polite to force it upon
reluctant membcrs.-N. T. Tribune.
Year: 1870

There call the hOusetop, from the plain
There's warble in the sunshine. wtter in the rain
And through my heart. at sound of these,
There comes udmelesS thrill,
AS sweet as odOr of the rose,


Or veriure to the hill
And all these joyous mornings


My heart pours forth this strain
God bless the dear old robins,


Who have back again r.
For they bring thought of of dreamy luscious
OF kngcuDs in the meadow, making golden haze;
longing for the clover blooms,


For all aglow,
For fragrant blossoms, where the bees


With drOuing murmurs go
dream of all the beauties


OF summers golden reign,
And sing :" God keep the robins


Who have come back again
Year: 1870

The curiosity of John Tomlinson, of Column
ba, induced HIM, on Friday, to crack a torpedo
with his teeth to see what was inside. The
ordinary price OF a set of false teeth in Column
bia is fifty dollars; but, as Mr.. TomlinSon's
mouth is now about six times the usual size,
and perfect wreck at that, it is thought he
will have to pay more.
Year: 1870

A Baltimore correspondent writes: "Thun-
der sours milk and kills oysters. You may
Load a vessel to its utmost capacity start for
market, and one good round clap of thunder
will Kill every oyster in the vessel immediately.
Pounding with an axe upon the deck Of a YES
sci. when oysters are thereon, or pounding
upon the sides Of a vessel with heavy weight,
will XIII every OYSTER that feels the jar"
Year: 1870

Up in Danvie mans house is haunted by
the ghost of his first wife, which comes prowl-
ing around at nights tucking the children in
bed The second wife is tearing mad about it,
and she has got to watching up in the bed room
of evenings for that perturbed spirit. She
says she will lay it if she once gets her grip on
Year: 1870

A sign on an eating house on New Jersey
railroad says, Coffee and fresh laid eggs by
Mrs Jones This is the kind of foolshness
that comes Of this Woman Rights excitement
We expected this would be the next thing.
Women are continually striking ont in new di-
rectonS. Now what is to become of the chick
ems
Year: 1870

Touching and irresistible was that invitation
Of the rustic maiden to her swain: Come
over and see me we have a new lamp at our
house, that we can turn down, down, down,
until there ism scarcely bit of light in the
-