smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1872

This delightful bit of satire is from
Warmers Backlog Studies, which
appears in Scrt5aer'y for April -


MANDEvILLE.-I attended a protracted
convention of rcfOrmtrs of d certain evil
once, and had the pleasure of taking
dinner with a table full of them, It
was one of those country dinners accom-
panied with green tea. Every one dis
agreed with every one else, and You
wouldn't wonder at it if YOU had seen
them. They were people with whom
good food wouldn't agree. George
Thompson was expected at the conyen-
ton, and | remember that there was al
most a Cordiality in the talk about him.
until one salloW brother casually men
toned that George took snuff, when a
chorus of deprCCatory groans went up
from the table. One long faced maiden
in spoctaCles, with purple ribbons in her
hair, who drank five cups OF tea by my
count, declared that she Was perfectly
disgustcd, and didn't want to hear him
speak. In the course of the meal the
talk ran upon the discipline of children,
and how to administer punishment ]
was quite taken by the remark of thin,
dyspcptiC man, who summed mp the
matter by growing out i'll harsh, deep
bass voice, Punish EN- in love, 1t
sounded aa if he had said, "Shoot 'cm
on the spot.
Year: 1872

SERIOUS ACCIDENT Horton, sta
ton agent at Clarendon, while riding
from Rutland on Conductor Paris
train, Thursday, was seriously injured,
by his head striking against a bridge
while trying to properly arrange the bell
cord The brakeman..was aware of his
going on top of the car for that purpose
and, on his not returning promptly, went
up and found Mr. Horton laying on top
of the car with his scalp partly torn off
and on the point of falling off the car.
In few seconds more he would have
fallen off and no doubt have been killed
outright
Year: 1872

CIvrr SERVICE. Fish is
preparing an order, which the cabinet
will approve, for the purpose of carry
ing the new civil service rules into opera
ton in the department, The order will
take effect Immediately On It's ratifica-
tloa by the cabinet,
Year: 1872

A TEST Casa test case brought by
the indorser against the maker of a note
was decided at the Hartford, Conn,
Court of Common Pleas, Monday, in
favor of the plaintiff. The note was
given for the right to sell a patent gate,
and was purchased by the plaintiff,
while the defendant claimed that the
note was obtained by the payee from
the maker by fraud as he supposed he
was signing a receipt instead of note.
The decision in the Rutland County
Court, the present term, in a similar
class of cases has been the reverse of
this, the verdicts being for the defen-
dants
Year: 1872

S YELLOW STONE LAxE.-The wonders
Of the Yellow Stone region are just be-
ginning to be discovered. Its noun


tains Of sulphur, its hot springs fiinging


their spray and vapor far and wide, its
singular lakes. and scores Of other mar
vels, all combine to mike IL very land
# miracles. Probably there is not in
he globe, anywhere, q more wonderful
pody of water of any magnitude than
Yellow Stone Lake. Its. surprising
elevation is eight thousand feet above
the level of the sea, and yet much of its
surface is never bound in icy fetters,
on account of the many hot springs by
which it is fed. Its altitude is two thou
sand feet greater than Lake Tahoe, and
its average depth three times that Of
Lake Michigan. As shown by abund-
ant indications. its depth at a former
period was five times greater than at
present. In length it is about thirty
miles, with shore line, from the num-
erous indications, of more than one hum
dred and fifty miles.
Year: 1872

CHANGING CLoTHING-PNEUMoNI
The following from Halls Journal Of
Health for March is timely and worthy
of consideration by all:


In the latitIdes of New England and
New York, going westward, the month
of March is the most disagreeable of the
whole year, while its changing tempera-
ture, its sloth and mud. its cold, raw,
piercing, damp winds; and although not
as cold as January and February, it is
more prolific of dangerous diseases,
promoted by the hurry of the people of
lighter clothing: but it would be great
deal better to wear the entire winter
suits through March and even to the
middle of April; and even then, until
the first week in May, to make no
change in the outer clothing, nor any
in the inner garments. except to less
heavy wooden next the skin; for it is
only for the three hours embracing one
o'clock in the afternoon that winter
clothing is at all oppressive; while the
very warmth of MONDAY makes the raw
dampness of the morning and late after
moons specially felt.


ALI changes to lighter or cooler gar
ment should be made at dressing in the
morning; and if in any case the change
leaves the body chilly, or if soon after
it is made the weather changes to be
much cooler, by all means promptly,
without half IN hours delay, resume
the full winter dress. The old, the
young, the invalid, in short all persons
of feeble constitutions of small vitality,
should be especially careful to heed
these suggestions; inattention to which
gives rise to the very frequent announce
ments in the morning papers. in the
early spring: "Died suddenly, yester-
day, of pneumonia. often,
the very friend whom We had met in the
street, or at church, within week. ap
parently as well and as hearty as ever
before. 81
Year: 1872

EFFECTS OF TEA ON THE SYsTEM.-The
Boston Journal Of Chemistry publishes
lengthy article on the properties of
tea, in the course of which the writer
says that it is no matter of wonder with
linn that the brain-worlers, in all the
years since tea was introduced, have re-
garded it with the highest favor. 1: has
power to subdue irritability, refresh the
spirits and renew the energies, such as
is possessed in no other agent. When
the system of man is exhausted by labor
or study, a cup of tea reinvigorates and
restores as no other form offood or bev-
erage can. He thinks it productive Of
longevity, and adds: "Tea saves food
by lessening the waste of the body,
soothes the vascula system, and affords
stimulus to the brain. The young do
not need it. and it is worthy of note
that they do not crave or like it. Chill.
dren will frequently ask for coffee, but
seldom for tea. To aged people, whose
powers of digestion and whose bodily
substance have to fail together, it is al
most necessity"
Year: 1872

NEATNEss.-In its essence and purely


for its own sake, neatness is found in


few. Many q man lis neat for appear
ance sake; there is an instructive feeling
that there is power in it. When a man
eonsults physician or lawyer for the
first time, or comes to rent house, or
borrow money. he will come in his
best dress; a lady will call in her car
riage. A man who means business and
honesty comes as he is, just as you will
find him in his store, his shop his count
ing-house. The most accomplished
gamblers dress well; the most enterpr1s-
ing swindlefs- are faultlessly clothed;
but countless multitudes are but white
washed sepulchres. Too7many don't
care, as long asst will not be seen. T"
Year: 1872

Washington Allston, the great artist,
and accomplished gentleman, suddenly
left his friend standing at the door Of a
splendid Boston mansion as they were
about entering for party. because he
had just remembered that he had a hole
in his stocking. It could not be seen
or known, but the very knowledge OF
its existence made him feel that he was
less man than he ought to be; gave
him feeling of -inferiority.


Aspersons are less careless Of personal
cleanliness and tidy apparel, they are
infaliibly and necessarily less of the
angel, more of the animal; more under
the dominion of passion. less under the
influence of principle. Said poor
servant girl: 81 can't explain what
change religion has made in me. but I
look more closely under the door-mat,
when ! sweep than I used to. Intel
ligence, culture, elevation, give purity
of body as purity of sense and senti-
ment.


Where you see neat, cleanly, cheerful
dwelling, there you will find joyous.
loving. happy family. But if filth and
squallor, and a disregard for the refining
delicacies of life prevail in any house
hold, there will be found in the moral
character of the inmates much that is
low, degrading, unprincipled, vicious
and disgusting. Therefore, as we grow
in years, we ought to watch eagerly
against neglect of cleanliness in person,
and tidiness in dress. E
Year: 1872

Referring to the Liberal Republican movement
the World says sditorislly:


$50 far as We have any prepossess,ons tn sy are
IN favor OF this movement; but we must decline
to commit ourselves either to it or against it until
It reaches further stage Of development and we
have better data for estimating the boldness,
strength and vigor with which it is to be prose-
cuted. From the beginning we have had no doubt
Of it, complete success, if Its leaders should show
no infirnity OF purpose and no lack Of political
courage.
Year: 1872

The misanthrope of the ST. Louis Times says
"Thev actually propose to hang two men at Louis
vile Who were too poor to pay for being acquit-
ted of their crimes"


The stock Of the Reading Railroad Company
having been struck from the New York list the
price has advanced 4 per cent, with increased
sales.


The President yesterday signed the bill grant
ing the tight Of way through the public lands for
q railroad from Great Salt Lake to Portland. Ore
gon.
Year: 1872

THEIRS PROHIBITED FROM DEBATING IN ASSEMBLY


THE TERM OF THE PRECEDENT.


PARIS, Nov. %.
The committee Of Assembly will demand of
President Theirs that he shall not participate in
the debates in Assembly, and only oommunite
with that body by message. All reports agree
that there will be no opposition to the prolonga-
ton Of the Presidents term to four years.
Year: 1872

THE CHURCH SUPPER AT WEST.


The supper given by the ladies' of West Pres
byterian church, in the basement Of that edifice
last evening, was we'll attended and was a mod
erately successful affair, throughout The sun
per, in itself, was arranged in a most tasteful
and tempting manner, to which ample Just CO
was done
Year: 1872

The President of the United States, hand
and glove with the chief Of corruptonsts, Simon Cam
eron sight well calculated TO thrill the "loyaP heart
OF Pennsylvania Republicans.


Among the supporters Of Greeley and Brown
in Eastern Massachusetts, is the venerable Palmer
Waters. lifelong friend OF John G. Whittier and an
older AbOtiouist than Garrison. He was one OF tho
sets In the Peace Congress of 1861 In which body he
served with credit TO himself resisting attempt TO
coerce the North into concessions TO slavery lie was
prominent as Grant Republican in lsGs ana supper ted
Dana in opposition to Butler


Friends at the South send THE TRIBUNE
copies OF pretended letter from Mr. Greeley purpor
ing TO be extracted from The chicago Post One Of the
interesting sentences of this cool forgery is the follow
ing Nobody knows better than you and myself that
the time come to clasp hands across the bloody
chasm. How this achievement be effected II the
United States Treasury Department is going TO di9crim-
mate against the sincere and conscientious though per-
baps misguided, gentlemen who fought against central
izaon and for the enforcement Of the Kentucky reso


inquire what mau believed in 1864 or under what cir
cumstances he shouldered arms Is 1t wise 10 Keep
moi "a line In the letter which is not forgery.


Wendell Phillips ought to be supremely
happy II is seldom that any mans counsel has been so
quickly obeyed his to the colored men, This was adj
mirably illustrated in Philadelphia recently. The Rev.
James Underline, pastor of a coored Baptist Church IN
that city, addressed the Young Mems Republican Asso-
ciaon and amcng other notable things gave utterance
TO the following, which, informed by the report


was greeted with long continued applause II have
searched this city through to find single Godforsasen
negro willing TO forget his obligations to party mat mas
done 40 much his found One and he recent
Importation and minister OF the Gospel lie was Dolu
man. and spoke boldly He said If there is not another
black in Pennsylvania TO vote for Horace Greeley
WILL said TO him then, If there is not another black
man in Pennsylvania to shoot You at the polls, Will
Year: 1872

immediate beginning. The San Francisco Chronicle says: "Now, will Horton and Tom Scott he kind enough to begin the work One spadeful of dirt, one tie, one spike, any thing will suit us 50 long as the thing is once begun"

 The feeling expressed is very natural, and we join in it and shall be glad to hear that a force of laborers is placed at work on the San Diego end.

 The San Diego Union, with its chronic jealousy of San Francisco, does not wish to see the Atlantic and Pacific road built, makes fun of the efforts making to unite with St. Louis in building the road, advises the abandonment of the project and the con struction of coast road from San Francisco to San Diego, and declares that the present end of the Atlantic and Pacific road at Vlnita, is likely to be the permanent terminus, for the reason that the Indians will not consent that the road shall be built across Indian Territory.

 The report of Col. Tom Scott, President of tbe Texas and Pacific Company, made May 20, is an interesting document and gives a very encouraging statement of the prospects of the company for money making, and closes by declaring the intention of the Board of Directors to press the work as rapidly as can be done. We hope to live long enough to sec the road completed and to ride over it, but expect to see the Atlantic and Pacific finished at least five years before that time, and to see the winter travel across the con- tinent, rushing along fifty miles north of Prescott, on the track of the Atlantic and Pacific, five years before the Texas and Pa cific reaches the Colorado river. Yet, we are not prejudiced, and do not intend that these remarks shall be considered as reflect ing on the merits of the harbOr at San Diego.
Year: 1872

The executive message Of President
Thiers was received in the French Leg
islative Assembly and read to the men,
bers yesterday. The main points Of the
important paper Of State reached US by
telegram from Paris last night, and
are reported in the HERALD to-day.


The venerable chief Of the national gov
ernment paints the situation Of the French
Republic, Its depression and exhaustion,


its power and means Of recuperation, its diff


culties and dangers and the necessity which
exists for conservative course of policy as q
means of regeneration and cure. Speaking
generally, France is prosperous. Th" ex-
istence Of an extremely heavy deficit in the
Treasury budget balance indicates, however,


that her material and financial interests are
being depleted from some particular cause
or other, despite the consolation which is
contained in the expression of pious, faithful
hope of q speedy recovery. War has produced
territorial dismemberment, but it established
the republic. The slightest fault may
wreck this system of rule Reaction is to be
Year: 1872

and determined to pay tho national debt as
England is to pay hers2 Indeed, If We look
at our wonderful resources and great future,
our national securities ought to stand higher
than those of almost any other country. The
only reason they do not is in our defective
financial system and the bad management Of
our national finances. France, with all her
recent war disasters with Germany and at
home, with all the stupendous cost and in
demnity she has had TO meet, stands far bet
ter financially than the United States, although
our war ended over seven years ago, and not
withstanding the enormous production and re-
sources of this country We need better
and sounder financial system, and the first
step to attain that is to have thoroughly
competent Secretary Of the Treasury.
Year: 1872

feared counter revolution dreaded, EHhorred
and avoided France needs absolute repose
Her present situation inspires conf !,
dence in the surrounding nations her
Parliament can initiate and perfect measures {
constitutional reform but if the nation is NOT
patriotic, and prudent as patriotic II may
experience the horror of "a most terrible revo-
luton" President Theirs presents, no doubt,
fine official pen picture Of France as it il,
and may be to very considerable extent
prophetic Of what she would become under
the excitement Of sudden, unnecessary or
violent change The situation is certainly an
anxious one-anxious for the head of the
French government, anxious for the French
people and unequivocally anxious for ths
great national interests which exist under the
Crowns which neighbor the republic.
Year: 1872

George Grant, one of the most desperate
and unrelenting criminals of the present de-
cade, yesterday suffered the last penalty of the
law at West Chester, Pa. 1t is seldom that
negroes prove as untractable in the hands
of the authorities as this man Grant. After
long life of degradation and crime he
finally planned the destruction of his aunt


Amanda Spence, on the imaginary wrong that
she had informed his wife Of some of his
doings when away from home. The cowardly
and cold-blooded manner in which he dis
posed Of this aged and probably unoffending
female is related elsewhere in the HERALD
to-day. Having been sentenced to death and
confined in the county prison, under the sur
veillance of the Sheriff, he became savage, i'm
patient and revengeful, and his conduct was
more that of demon than human being.
Failing to escape after repeated attempts, he
at length hit upon plan of numbering the
keepers, in conjunction with another prisoner,
and thus gaining again the liberty he had
shown himself unworthy to possess. Selling
a favorable opportunity he struck down the
warden while on a visit to his ceil, and being
almost secure against bullets by reason Of
blankets with which he had padded himself,
well nigh succeeded in regaining his freedom.
He was overpowered only after a desperate
struggle, and on returning to his cell swore
that he would sell his life at the gallows as
dearly as possible II required four persons
to put the manaclcs on him, so determined
had the culprit become to resist the authors
ties. Like most of his race when placed
under complete subiection he subsequently,
Year: 1872

nature and trade, aided by such prudent leg
islation as Congress may adopt, shall bring
about that state of things. But they will not
consent to have specie payments deferred by
the arbitrary action Of the Secretary of the
Treasury.


1t will be necessary, therefore, for Congress
when it reassembles to place restrictions upon
the Secretary-to limit his power over the cur
rency and business of the country-and to
confine the Treasury Department to its proper
functions of collecting and disbursing the
government income. Then, in order to in
spire confidence in the management of the
national finances, the President should ap-
point another and an abler man as Secretary
of the Treasury. In our finances, as in our
politics, we have remained too long under the
ideas and influences Of the war. II is time
that we returned to peace basis in both.
Mr.. McCulloch inherited the war views of Mr..
Chase and Mr.. Cameron, and Mr.. Boutwell,
hold to them still. Everything is on too ex-
travagant scale. The government raises
too much reverue and spends too much
money. We want q Secretary Of the
Treasury who will manage the national
finances purely with q view to peace estab-
lishment and to what is required in this time
of peace. The credit Of the government ought
to be improved so that our national securities
shall stand as well as those Of any other
country in the world. Our six per cents are
worth little more in the markets abroad than
the British three per cents. Yet who doubts
that this Republic is as stable as the govern
ment Of England. or that it is both as able
Year: 1872

The calamities that have visited the cities Of
Chicago and Boston very properly direct the
attention Of our citizens to the danger to
which we are ourselves exposed, and to tho
position we are in to resist the spread of fro
in New York under circumstances similar to
those which have attended tle confagrations in
Year: 1872

Nothing so strongly indicates the man
of pure and wholesome thought as hab-
itual purity of speech. By his conver-
sation among his own kind, you may al
ways pretty accurately form an opinion
a. to the moral worth of man. 1t is
there where no restraint is supposed to
be placed upon his words, that you dis
cover his true nature. If he be given to
looseness of discourse or his mind wan
ders to the discussion of subjects proscrib-
ed in mixed company or respectable So
ciety, you may justly mark him as one
with whom association is unbearable.
Year: 1872




her present residence. The stranger had
at once started in that direction, and his
informant, though itl.was then almost
dark, fully believed it to be P him.
self, though it had then been fifteen
years since he had been seen in that vi
cinity. His former wife was greatly ag-
itated when this story was told her, but
her husband. though troubled, tried to
satisfy himself that his neighbor was
mistaken.


Three years rolled by, and nothing
was heard of P, till on one dismal
April morning his former wife received
a telegram, brought by special messen-
ger from the nearest station, urging her
to come at once to Newcastle, Penn, if
she would see her rightful husband
alive. Greatly shocked and startled by
this message from one who seemed to
her to be long dead, she and her second
husband started at once. They found
P without difficulty, but stretched
upon bed of sickness, and sadly wasted
by the cravings of disease.


In feeble and broken voice, and lit
tie by little, as his strength would per-
NIT him, he told them his story. On ar
irving in Philadelphia he found that his
most promising enterprise was a failure
and all he had was lost. An offer to
join company Just fitting out ship
for the West Indies, came opportunely,
as he thought, and, in the hope of re-
covering his fortunes, he embarked in
the project with what little money he
had in his possession, and went out to
recover his loss. He had written to his
wife before sailing, but the letter never
reached its destination. The adventure
proved disastrous, the vessel was wreck
ed, and our adventurer barely escaped
with his life.


AT this stage he determined not to re-
turn home till he had accumulated for
tune, and, half crazed with his Affections,
shipped as common sailor to England.
From that country he went to Brazil,
and in the course of his succeeding wan
derings visited nearly every country on
the face of the globe, and at the end of
fifteen years he had accumulated rea-
sonable competence, and determined to
return home. He had resolved never to
make himself known to his wife, if he
could discover that she was well cared
for. He found that his wife had long
mourned him as dead, but that she had
formed new ties and attachments, which
he firmly resolved never to break. Sc
we're and painful as was the sacrifice, ht
could not turn himself away without 9
last look upon the face he had loved sc
long. He had fingered about the house
on the night of his return, as affirmed
by his own son, and having gained hi'
object, he departed, never to return
Broken-hearted, he had sought home
in Newcastle, under an assumed name
and here he had lived, till, convinced hi
had not long to live, he sent for his wife
that he might make his peace with he
before he died. The next day he dice
peacefully in the arms of his long los
wife.
Year: 1872

An Iowa man had to have an eve
brow amputated recently to make
room for new one that was growing
under the skin. The medical frater-
nifty say it is the first instance of the
kind in their experience, and that
this fellow can "browbeat' any man
they ever knew.