smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1870

something like apoplexy. The cross
ing of distinct breeds. making what
the farmers value as the baruyGrd
fowl, more hardy and better layers
than some of the pure breeds. may
operate in this way. 1t is a common
remark with those who sell eggs and
get their profits from them more than
selling chickens, that they get more
eggs from mixture of breeds. It may
be well for poultry breeders TO attend
to this more than they do.-FTacical
Farmer.
Year: 1870

IL. That we endorse the administration
of General Grant as President 1.T the UNI
ted States; accept the Increased collections
of revenue, the red uction of expenditures,
and payment of a large portion of the pub
lie debt fulfillment OF his promises of
economy, and rejoice that the victorious
General OF the UDion armies should, as a
civil officer, receive the last of the rebel
States In its return TO the national family.
Year: 1870

10. That we approve the general course
of our Senator and Republican RepYesen-
tatives in Congress, and express our full
and entire confidence that they will act
with wisdom and integrity in ali that con-
Germs the welfare of the people; and that
we tender thanks to Senator Morton for
his exertions In so shaping the legislation
of Congress on the reconstruction of the
late rebel States, as to secure the passage
of the Fifteenth Amendment.
Year: 1870

I3. That taxation for county and other
local purpo es has become so great as to be
oppressive to the people; that our system
OF county administration needs reform.
and We demBnd of our representatives in
the Legislature such changes in the stat
from extravagant tax levies by local au-
thorities; and as an aid to this needed re-
form, we favor a reduction of the fees of
county officers TO a standard which will
furnish fair and reasonable compensa-
tion for the services rendered, and that no
officer should be favored with salary, fees
or perquisites beyond such fair and reason
able CONDENSATION.
Year: 1870

Is. That we heartily endorse the admin
istratfcn of our State affairs by Governor
Baker and bis associate officers, and espe-
cfally congratulate the people that the
time is so near when the State debt will be
entirely Hquidated.
Year: 1870

6. That a reduction of taxation is de.


both of tariff and internal taxes,
until it reaches the lowest amount consist.
ent with the credit and necessities of the
Cover nment, and that we are in favor of a
tariff for revenue, believing that proper
of duties must necessarily af-
ford all the incidental protection to which
any interest is entitled.
Year: 1870

The STATEMENT NOW GOING THE ROUNDS
that ConTi-sioner Delaro is likely to lose his
right hand on account of the fracture of his
wrist, which occurred some weeks ago, is, we
are glad to be informed, unfounded. He has
already SO far recovered the use of it as to be
able to write little, and will resume his rsgu-
lar official duties in few days.
Year: 1870

We are surprised more than little to find the
New York Times indulging in a queruIous tone
Of comment on the action of the Postmaster
General in making a contract with the Bremen
and Great Western lines OF steamships for carry
ing the mails between this country and Europe
The facts that the steamers of the line to which
the contract has been awarded are not quite so
fast as those which heretofore held it, and that
the mails do not 60 quite so often as formerly,
will undoubtedly prove unsatisfactory to a few
merchants who have been accustomed to more
rapid and frequent communication. But these
drawbacks are nothing when weighed against
what has been accomplished i'm securing lower
rates of postage between the new and old
worlds, and particularly when the free use of
the submarine cable in pressing business trans
actions is taken into account.


The contest between the old subsidized lines
and Postmaster General Cresswell, which ended
In SO complete triumph for the latter, was
really battle for cheap postage; and for carry
ing his point against the combination of
wealthy ship-Owners who thought they had the
Government completely in their power, Mr.
Cresswell deserves the thanks, rather than the
unfriendly criticism, Of the press. But, what
ever their judgment may be, his course will be
sustained and applauded by the American
people, who are interested in cheap postal COM
munication, not only in this country, but
throughout the world.
Year: 1870

The demand for reduced taxation is increasing
every day,-some of the Oldest and most infiu-
ential Republican journals now being among its
supporters. THE STAR announced itself in
favor OF this measure early in October last and
since that time it has seen no good cause for
changing the view it then took of the subject.
On the other hand, reasons in its favor are con-
stantly increasing. The people without respect
TO party predictions are rapidly coming to the
conclusion that while the national debt should
be steadily reduced and the intention of the
country to pay it off, dollar for dollar, estab-
lished beyond a question, yet that portion of it
may well be discharged by those who come alter
us,-fOr whose benefit the burden was largely
incurred,-and that the present generation,
which poured out its blood and treasure like
water, should have its heavy load of taxation
hghtened somewhat. This sentiment is gaining
ground with wonderful rapidity, and we believe
1t is now entertained by large and active ma
jority of the voters of tho country. The partv
i'll power would do well to recognize this fact and
shape its course accordingly. Unless it does.
and that speedily, it will find that the vantage
ground it has held so long is fast and irretriey
able slipping from beneath its feet. They are
wisest who are wise in time.
Year: 1870

the acts Of Maryland above referred to, Of 1882,
leA, and 1852, a. far as they impose the tax In
question, are unconstitutional and void.'


1t is worthy of note that Mr.. johnson in
quoting the clause of the Constitution empow-
ering Congress 20 regulate commerce among
the several States" refers indirectly to the fact
that the right Of charteriug railroads to the
National Capital through unwilling States has
been asserted under that clause. We dare say
if his legal opinion could be reached on tha,
point he would be compelled to concede thsi
right. His reasoning to show the fllegality OF
the capitation tax is quite as conclusive to show
the illegality Of the attempt by State to hin.
der the citizens Of the United States from free
access to the capital of the nation, or from pass
ing freely from enc part Of the Union to another
by refusing to permit the construction of road:
through her territory.
Year: 1870

President Grant by his cordial support of the
proposed International Industrial Exhibition
through his subscription of 5000, and by the
cOuntenance given by his promised presence at
the meeting tonight shows that he takes the
same intelligent and appreciative view of the
national Importance of such exhibitions as has
been shown by heads of Governments in Europe
Now let our citizens come forward 10 sustain
the enterprise in the same large minded, far
seeing spirit and its success is assured. The
meeting tonight at Lincoln Hall will be one of
exceeding interest and importance, and every
public spirited citizen should make it point to
lie present.
Year: 1870

What is the rational mode of procedure in cases of
general debility and nervous prostratons Does not
reason tell us that udiciOus stimulation is required


Toresort to violent purgation in such a case is as
absurd as il would be to bleed starving man. Yet
II is done every day Yes this stupid and unphios-
optical practice is continued in the teeth of the grsnt
Jdo that physical weakness, with all the nervous dis
turbances that accompany it, is more certainly and
rapidly relieved by Hosetter's Stomach Bitters than
10y any other medicine at present known. 1t is true


that general debility is often attended with torpdtv
or rregularity of the bowels and that this symptom
must not be overlooked. But while the dis
Charge OF the waste matter OF the system is expe-
dited or regulated, its rigOr must BE- recruited
The Btters do both. They combine aperient and an
ubilious properties. with extraordinary tonic DOW
"r Even while removing obstructions from the
bowels, they tone and invigorate those organs
Through the stomach, upon which the great yeyeta-
Die specifc acts directly it gives a healthy and per-
manent impetus to every enfeebled function Diges


ion Is facilitated, the falterng circulation regua
ted, the blood reinforced with new accession of the
alimentary principle the nerves braced and all the
dormant powers of the system reused into healthy
action; not spasmodcally, as would be the case if
mere stimuant were administered, but for a contn-
uance 1t is in this way that such extraordinary
changes are wrought in the condition of the feeble
emaciated and nervous inralids by the use of this
wonderful corrective, Alternative and tonic Let
common sense decide between such a preparation and
aprostrating cathartc supplemented by a poisonous
astringent like strychnine quinia. ia 6-eo3tSW
Year: 1870

By the extract elsewhere from the St Louis
Republican it will be seen that the projectors of
the Worlds Fair for that city are still peggng
away, and only want a charter and plenty of
money to " make it a most brilliant success" !"
Just so. Money makes the Fair, as well as the
mare, 90.
Year: 1870

No less than 723 divorce suits were brought in
Chicago during the last year, of which number
SOC decrees were granted. This is doing pretty
well for single county, and that in a compar-
atively new State. What may we not expect
when the place gets little older, and men, get
ting through the rush of business little, find
time to give more attention to domestic affairs?
Year: 1870

Closing Day Of the Prospect Park Tournament
A Pleasant and Brilliant Gathering
the Sir Knights Acquitted Themselves


and Who Won the Prlzcs-Crowning


the Queen Of Love and Beauty.
Year: 1870

PUTNAM, late "loyap candidate for
Speaker of the Hosse of Delegates, the
man who was ousted to make way fol-
RAIDER whom the people of Clay aud
Nicholas had chosen to represent them,
was careful in his exit to save all the Off
cial perquisites he could lay his hands
on. The share of the stationery allowed
to members of the House, which he drew
under his bogus membership, he was
careful to remove from his desk on the
day he was unseated. He was too
thoroughly Radical to let go a cents
worth of plunder which he could grab.
He also appropriated the copy OF
the Code, which belonged to
the member from Clay aud Nicholas, not
to himself. With these ard possibly as
many other small pickiugs as he could
reach, and with the mileage and pay
which the House charitably awarded
him, he took his departure, but not to
his recent home. The people of Nicho'
las are inquiring as to his whereabouts.
They are anxious over his non.appear-
anee and will not be comforted because
he is not. Doubtless his wandering
footsteps have carried him to some
more congenial cline where there is
credulity to impose upon and where
carpet bagging as paying vocation is
not "played out"
Year: 1870

Speaking of the Oueida disaster, the
New York Herald. says: "The conduct o.
the captain of the steamer Bombay
which ran down the Oneida, looks al
the worEe the more we see of it. He
must be q very careful and attentive
captain who knows so little of what
happens to his ship that he can collide
with another with such force as to drive
a timber completely through the side oI
his own ship at the water line, and
hardly be aware of the circumstance
But we believe this captains ignorance
of the collision and his haste to leave
the scene of the occurrence has another
explanation. In case of such a collision
at sea the owners Of his ship might be
come liable for damage done to the
other ship, and the captain ras away
from the accident in the hope to escape
ideutifcation-perhaps, let us hope, not
thinking that such fearful loss of life
might eRsue. This explanation does
not say much for the captains manly
spirit, but it is the only one consistent
with his sobriety."
Year: 1870

THREE THOUSAND people have been
thrown out of employment in the city
of New York alone, in consequences OF
the high tariff duties on materials used
in ship. building. That is protecting
American industry with vengeance
That is fostering skilled labor as the
wolf fosters the lamb.
Year: 1870

A drunken fiend poured boiling water on
to the face and bosom of his seven months
old babe at Cincinnati, yesterday, because
his wife asked for money to buy bread. In
some communities it wouldn't cost anything
for legal proceedings in such case. The
child only lived twelve hours.
Year: 1870

George Peabody is the most thoroughly
buried man on this continent, and consider
ing the disgraceful drum ken orgeries at his
faneral it is time the public press dismissed
the subject
Year: 1870

A Buffalo man smootAe-ed his child BY
rolling upon it in bod while drunk, and the
coroner's iury, after due deHberation, have
decided that no b!ams can be attached to
him because be WAS DRINK
Year: 1870

Republican politicians ask
soldiers who fought in the Fed
eral army against the Confeder
ate army, "Did you not fight tc
maintain the Union?' and with
this question they couple the
intimation, that in doing so,
they put themselves under OBJ
legations to vote the Republi.
can ticket.


True, they fought to main
tain the U Mon but they did
not fight to build up a party
that takes the public lands,
which belong to the people,
and give them to railrord mo-
nopolies. They did not fight
that the mass Of the people
should be outrageously taxed
through Tariffs to make rich
New England manufacturers,
They did not fight to lift the
Negroes out of Slavery and to
invest them with equal polite
al privileges with themselves
before they gave evidence Of
some qualification for the exer-
else of those privileges. They
did not fight that the money
loaned the Government, on big
interest, the payment of which
they made good by fighting
the War to a successful conclu-
sion, should go free of taxation,
while they are compelled to
pay taxes on their accumula-
tions.
Year: 1870

|


the Prussian Campaign.


The following story is tolc


by a correspondent of the Dai
ly News "a young and thri


wing merchant ofSaarlouis was
to have been married at Saar
louis to n young lady from
Schleiz, on the 10th Of July
On that morning came the tel
egraphic order of mobilization.
The train carried off the bride
groom a quarter of an houl
before that fixed for the mar
riage. lie, like thousands OF
other men Of an equally good
position in life, took his place
as a privatein in his regiment
the Fortieth Hohenzollerns-
and cheerfully arranged with
his bride that the marriage
should take place as soon as
his battalion reached Saar-
brucken. He would then 90
off to the war and she would
return, as his wife, to her home.
The bride came on the day
named with her brother to
Saarbrucken. l had the pleas
ure Of walking up with them
in the afternoon to watch the
battalion in which the bride
groom was to appear pass from
the highroad into the bivouac
field.


"The bridegroom, who was
there in the thick of the helm,
eted stream, ran from the ranks
and kissed his bride with Ger
man fervor. The men march
ing past looked at them with
sympathetic admiration, but
with no sign of wonder, much
less Of coarse derision. Then
the bride ran on to the place
he had left, and then went to
an officer and begged few
hours leave for her bridegroom,
that they might be married.
The officer, Of course, was only
too glad to listen to such a re-
quest from the lips of such an
applicant, and escorted the
bride to the Colonel of the
regiment, from whom leave had
to be obtained. We saw the
bride, with dark eyes more
expressive than ever, and a
shadow of apprehension oveI
her broad forehead-not toe
German for perfect beauty
repeating her request to the
Colonel and winning from his
lips .of discipline the gentlest
answer. The bridegroom was
sent off on leave, and the mar
riage was fixed to take place
on the following day"
Year: 1870

The young women of our country are to
decide ihe great controversy now arising be-
tween the Christian and Pagan ideas Of
marriage Iwould not seem insensible to
all the sweet and pure and lofty family life
in our country. But cannot shut my eyes
to the cloud that seems rising to eclipse our
home. five can believe bali we hear, and
see aud read, we must be wilfully blind not
to see that the American home is threatened
with destruction. 4 growing multitude of
people all over our land, especially in the
Western American States, now insist on try
ing series Of new experiments in marriage


They have decided thar marriage is not
Christian sacrament Of love between one
man and one woman, only to be entered in-
to with holy fear and unselfish conservation
and only to be dissolved By that sin which
strikes at the heart of family. They are
giging the old Psgau systems new trial.


Ia savage countries woman refuses to be
marriedat the peril Of her life, and they treat
a woman who cannot satisfy her noblest


womanhood in marriage, more Ike barba-
rous than a Christian community. They
prepare their daughters for the best market
and buy and sell at the altar as basely a.
women are sold in the slave markets Of the
Orient They FIJI the souls Of cur girls with
falsehood aud folly on this most sacred theme
and behold them enter the most difficult and
Solemn relation Of life as giddy and thought
less as a flock Of buufies are drifted before
a summer wind They make young lady
such an expensive luxury, that the yonng
man she could love and honor, runs from
ber in alright, seeing the bankrupt act and
the sheriG in the very lines of her face. They
offer a premium on sensuality, by making
marriage almost . game ofchance, and build
up the house of perdition on the ruins of
tue home And we have permitted them to
go to The Legislature and make laws Of d.
yoree that are the scandal ola Christian sge
and unless repealed, viii resolve western So
ciety into a house Of uncleanness and social
anarchy. Under the reckless administration
Of these laws We virtually abolish Christian
marriage and permit men and women to dis
port themselves through succession Of


Mons scarcely more lasting than the leagues
Of iufamy itself The land is sEarming with
male and female philosophers who teach
Year: 1870

There is a good deal of truth 10 the re-


mark that essay writing is very hard


reading Grace, hghtness and viyaeity are not
unfrequently the result Of exceedingly hard


and pains taking labor We have an Illus


tration of this 10 the writings of the late


\. P. Willis, which owed their popularity


to these very qualities A writer In The late


number Of the Home journal. in giving an
estimate Of the literary character Of Mr..
Willis, says: Although all of WilIiss


writings, judging from their easy elegance,
seem 10 have flowed from mis- pen without
the least effort, those Of his friends who
knew him most intimately assure Us that be
vas far from being ready writer -Four
or Eve pages Of foolscap we're with him a
good morning 5 work, and it sometimes hap
pened that these pages contained 20 many
er4sures that they would not make half q
column in his paper He was always most
pains. taking and conscientious Parton.
who was junior editor with him for several
years, says he knew him one evening to
write and re write a sentence for two hours
hefaro he was satisfied with it. He did
the very best he could every time be put
the zen TO the paper This statement
viii doubtless apply TO great many other
writer's celebrated for the graeefulness Of
their style. Like Sheridan ''impromp-
tus, their airy nothings" are the product
Of hard labor in the literary workshops.
Writing that seems to be ''as easy as roll
ing off log is sometimes the result Of
labor as hard as that required to roll the
up a steep bin.
Year: 1870

our boys and girls that love is as free as air,
and that our passionate caprices are the
rigbtful law of our life


There is but one power in American civil
ization that can save US from plupging into
slough Of such all prevailing sensuality as
this world has never seen and that i the
power Of Christian womanhood If the
conseerated mothers and daughters ofthis
land win rise up in holy indignation and re-
buke this whole abominable leidea Of marriage.
viii resolve that with them at least matri
mony shall be sacrament Of the soul. en-
tered upon only from high and holy seDti-
ments, used for the uplifting OF society, sd
hered to for better or for worse; if they
viii brand this infamous Iooseness that is
preached as a reform. with the foul name il
deserves, and try 10 keep our young women
out o. proniscuous society where female
delicacy is trampled into a common mire of
vulgar familiarity; if they viii demand
thorough revision Of cur laws Of divorce and
command our law makers to shut these open
gates Of perdition through which multitudes
of deluded people are pouring down TO soei-
al DEATH they may, through the blessing Of
God inaugurate new era of purity aud gen
uine family life.-IStar n he Hest
Year: 1870

Yesterday afternoon a two cent dog
spraug from an alley on High street, closely
followed by FIVE cent brick Rounding the
corner at right angles he came in contact
with the feet Of Dutch woman who was
carrying jug of molasses in one hand and
a basket of eggs in the other. The sudden
collision of the dog with her extremities
threw her from her feet, and she sat down
upon the basket of eggs, at the same time
breaking the jug of molasses upon the side
walk. a young gentleman, carpet bag IN
hand, anxious to catch the train, was run
ming close behind and stepping upon the
fragments Of the jug and Its contents, sat
down upon the chest of the Dutch woman,
who said 'Alein Gott The young man
said something about mad dog, but in the
excitement of the moment said it back
wards In the meantime the dog had run
against the feet of team Of horses, attached
to load of potatoes, and they taking fright,
started for home. The end board being
out, they unloaded the potatoes along the
road as they went Crossing the railroad
track about mile from this place, the wag-
on caught in the rail and tore one of them
from its place A freight train coming
along few minutes later, was thrown from
the track, smashing up dozen cars, aud
killing thirty or forty hogs. The horses on
reaching home ran through the barn yard
aud overturned milk pail, the contents of
which another two cent dog licked up. One
Of the horses having broken his leg was
killed this morning and the other crippled
for life 1t is now mooted question Wheth-
er the man who threw the brick at the two
ceat dog, or the man who owns it is rcspon-
sible for the chapter Of accidents when fol-
lowed. Some think they dO.-E1chaage.


DURING a recitation on Natural History,
in one of our weltknoEn colleges, stu
dent in pursuit Of knowledge concerning the
habits of animals, said


Professor, why does cat while eating,
turn her head FIRST one way, and then the
oFaer?'


For the reason, replied the Professor,
that she can turn il both ways at once.


A YOUNG lady in Newark, when her ieal-
GUS admirer sent back her letters With re-
quest that she would return bis, answered
that she regretted that she could not comply
Immediately, ss she had lent them to a
young gentleman to read.


WHEN is a lawyer rssrongest2 When he is
Zee. .hlasf
Year: 1870

FRIENDSHIP OF WOMEN. 1t is a Eoud-
Ious advantage to man, ip every pursuit or
vocation, TO secure an adviser ia sensible
woman In a woman there is at once
subtle delicacy of tact and plain soundaess
of Judgment which arc rarely combined to
an equal degree in man. A woman, If she
be really your friend, viii have sensitive
reguard for your character, honor, and rr-
puse She viii seldom counsel you TO do
shabby things for woman friend always
desires TO be proud of you At the same
time her constitutional timflity makes her
more cautious than your male friend. She
therefore seldom counsels you to do animpra
dent thing 4 man S best female friend is
8 wife Of good sense and heart, whom he
loves, and who loves him But supPosiDg
the man TO be without such a helpmate,
female friendship he must have, or his Iute,-
lecs will be without a garden, and there viii
be many an UNDECIDED gap even in its stron,
Eest fence.