smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1871

hyou are q member Of that myste-
rious circle called Society" there
will be some painful evenings spent
in doing your duty, standing in a
crowd with white kid gloves on your
hands and weariness in your heart.
We call this enjoying ourselves.
You know all about it. Your shoe
pinches you, but you cannot sit
down. Your companions bore YOU,
but you must listen and smile,
and smile and listen. If you
try to move abut, you tread on thir-
teen hideous dress-trains that drag
themselves like half-dead beacon


strictors at the heels OF their fair
possessors. You eat cake end drink
coffee, though you know it viii give
you a headache In the morning.
You tell your hostess that you had
s splendid time" though you are
conscious that you are telling a lie,
for which your conscience, if you
have any, viii reproach you severely.
This Sinking and smiling, and "
ing ourselves into the belief that the
torture of a dress party is pleasure,
is civilizations greatest triumph.
Year: 1871

We like to see young ladies who
ere bitter enemies, kiss each other
very afectionately when they meet;
it reminds US of a msn named Judas
who lived several years ago! We
like to see a fashionably dressed la
dy promenading the streets wearing
blue silk dress, trailing a yard long
behind her in the mud-it cleans the
streets so nicely?-We like to see a
young man very polite and obligiDg
other young ladies, who is scarcely
civil to his sisters at home--it proves
that the lords of creation are void of
deception. We like to see little
boys come to church in the evening,
and aInuse themselves by sticking
pins in their sleepy neighbors-it
shows that they are not burying
their talents in earth! We like to
see a man invariably throw his hat
and boots in the middle of the floor,
for his tired wife to pick up-it is ev-
idence that he remembers his prom
ise to "cherish her" We like to see
the choir spend the time during di-
vine service in whispering. and tel
ling stories-it helps US appreciate
the sermon, and convinces US that
they are capable of singing "with
the spirit and the understanding al
sor' We like 10 see young ladies
keep their jaws in constant motion
endeavoring to masticate huge ball
of chewing gum-it looks so lady
like! We like to see a man sport
ing fast horses, while he owes the
printer, and gives nothing to the
preaeher-it looks so ''honoraher' -
There are other things We ike to see
but we forbear.
Year: 1871

Henry Welcome, the boy murder
er, the day before his execution, at
the age of 19, at Windsor, VT, wrote
the fonowing:-


ADDRESS TO YOUNG MEN.


To My You've FR1ENDs-W
respect Henry Welcome takes this
as a gift from God that I should
give you some incidents Of my life,
hoping they viii instruct you. Al
low me to thank all for the kind
ness you have manifested toward
me, unhappy prisoner, and it is out
Of my respect toyou that I think it
my duty to write this sketch. I
have six sisters and four brothers,
and I am the only bad sinner among
them. always attended Sabbath
school, and my father and mother
are members of the Methodist
Church at Hinesburg. When was
sixteen years of age I left my hap





py home and went to visit sister
in Stowe. When [ returned I was
bound to leave home, but my pa
rents wished me to stay at home
and 60 to school. Iwould not mind
them, but went to Boston. I got
good situation, but fell into bad
company, going to a billiard hall,
and learning also the use of liquor,
which I used to excess. When in
liquor I was induced to try my hand
at 'seven up, At first I refused,
but being unchecked by home in
fuences, and exposed to all the de
sires ofmy corrupt heart, I gambled
and plunged into all sorts of wick
edness. The story of my trangres-
sions and sins would fill a large vol
ume. Finally, after one Of my
times I went to Hinesburg the 1st
of October, 1868; but, my friends,
if I had listened to my mother S
pleading voice, what a happy young
man I should have been to-day;
and oh! my friends, how many
heart-rending, earnest prayers has
my kind mother offered to the
Throne of Grace and Mercy for me.
She never upbraided me, but strove
to reclaim me by kindness, urging
me to abstain from the sins 1 was
committing daily. This was Thurs
day my mother gave this advice,
and I went from her arms with a
kiss on my lips, plunging into all
sorts of crimes and sins, and on Sat
urday of the same week I commit
ted the crime, so great that it viii
leave a stain upon the land forever,
and when committed broke the heart
of my mother and hung mill-stones
to the hearts of my friends, and
robbed them of all Joy and comfort
on earth. And only think, I, Hen
ry Welcome, at the age of nineteen
years, placed in this horrible situa-
ton! Tomorrow I must suffer the
sentence of death. I think, my
friends this is a hard lot for a young
man to be sent into the presence of
his Maker on the gallows, but am
to give my life for the life have ia
ken. Pardon me, my friends, for
saying so much TO you. Ny heart
is full, and my words are for you
a warning that you may never come
to my sad end. But tears viii avail
nothing for me now. May the blood
Of Christ wash away my hope.
crime! This is my last and only


HENRY WELCOME.
Year: 1871

If a man wipes his feet on the
door-mat before coming into the
house, you may be sure he will make
a good domestic husband. Ifa man,
in snuffing the candle, puts it out,
you may be sure he will make a stu
pid husband. Ifa man puts hand
kerchief on his knees while taking
tea, you may be sure he will make a
prudent husband. In the same way
always mistrust the man who will
not take the last piece Of toast but
prefers waiting for the next warm
batch it is very likely that he will
make a greedy and very selfish hus-
band, with whom you viii enjoy no


'broEFn" at dinner, no crust at tea,
no peace whatever at home. The
man my dears, who wears goloshes,
and is careful about wrapping him
self up before venturing into the
night air, not uufrequently makes a
good invalid husband, that mostly
stops at home and is easily comfort
ed with slops. The man who wat
ches the kettle and prevents it boil
ing over, viii not fail, my dears, in
his married state, to exercise the
same care in always keeping the pot
boiling. The man who does not
take tea, maltreats cats, takes snuff,
stands with his back to the fire, is q
brute whom I would not advise you
my dears, to marry for any consid-
Grafton, either for love or money;
but most decidedly not for love.
But the man who, when tea is over
is discovered to have had none, is
sure to make a good husband. My
dears, when you meet such a man,
do your utmost to marry him. in
the severest winter he would not
mind going to bed first.
Year: 1871

The papers are telling about a
boy in New England, now fourteen
years of age, who is supposed to be
the richest boy in the United States
because he has 3 great deal of mon
ev. To our mind the richest boy in
America is the one who is good
hearted, honest, intelligent, ambi-
tious willing to do right. He is the
one who loves his mother, and al
ways has a kind word for her; who
loves his sister and tries to help her
with true affection. He is the boy
who does not call his father "the old
man" but who loves him, speaks
kindly TO and of him, and tries to
help him as the signs of old age
gather fast upon his brow. This
boy we like, we would be glad to
see, would like to take him by the
hand and wish him success.


We are likely to hear that peace
has baen declared In Eur0na soon.
Year: 1871

We claim for the DUFFIELD BAN superior
quality, from he fact that it is cured in pickle
some of which is over thirty years old which i'm.
parts the flavor of an old ham much earlier than
other cures, and is so popular with epicures.
This pickle, from the manipulatious il is sub
jected to yearly improves, like long kept liquors.
IN bouquet and mildness although il full strength


Another virtue we claim for this old pickle from
its strength and peculiar character the hams cured
in il are found 10 keep better in hot climates al
though for this same the color does not ap-
pear so early. They require u warm temperature
70 rpen, fully develop and bring out the color and
tine favor
hams is by the Use of new, weak pickle, and al
though they show color sooner they lack favor
and viii not keep we'll


All Of this brand of SMOKED MEATS, viz: Bone
less breakfast bacon. joles shoulders dried beef
aud tongues, are cured with the above Old pickle
and are OF superior flavor in consequence.
Year: 1871

LATEST NEWS FROM ALL POINTS


UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT CASES


Over Six Millions Debt Decrease
Funeral Honors to Admiral Tegethof
THE FUNERAL OF A GAMBLER
EXCITING SCENE IN CHURCH
RICHINGs-BERNARD TROUPE BANKRUPT
DISCUSSION IN PARLIAMENT
LATEST NEWS FROM FRANCE
FEARFUL AND RECKLESS FIRING
PARIS EXCITED AND ALARMED
MODERATE EDITORS LEAVING
PRIVATE TELeGRAPHlNG SUSPENDED
MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS CONSERVATIVE
Year: 1871

Dry Ash and Mixed Wood.
Also, large stock of ship TIMBER, of square
oak, cypress and pine, and cypress mast sticks
All sizes and lengths sawed to order with dis
patch, as usual.


Apply to OCEAN SAWMILL
ap30 St+ Foot of Bordeaux street Sixth District
Year: 1871

II you are suffering or have suffered, from invoi-
untary discharges, what effect does it produce upon
your general hoalth? Do you feel week, debili-
tated, easily tired? Does little extra e1ertien
produce palpitation of the heart Does your liver
or urinary organs, your kidneys frequently get
ont ..of order? Is your urine sometimes thick,
milky OF iocky OF is it ropy settling? Or does
a thick scum rise the top? Or is a sediment at
the bottom after it has stood awhile? Do you have
spells of short breathing or dyspepsia? Are your
bowels constipated2 Do you have spells of faint
ing, or rushes of blood to the head? Is your mem
ory..impared? Is your mind constantly dwelling
on this subject? Do you feel dull, listess, moping
tired of companp, of Life Do you wish to be left
alone, to get away from everybody? Does any
little thing make you start or jump? syour sleep
broken or restless? Is the lustre Of your eye as
brilliant? The bloom your cheek as bright
Do you enjoy yourself in society as well! Do
you pursue your business with the same energy :!
Do you feel as much confidence in yourself! Are
your spirits dull and tagging, given to FITS OF
melancholy If so do not lay it to your liver or
dyspepsia. Have you restless nights? Your baak
weak, your knees weak, and have but little ape
tite, and you attribute this to dyspepsia, or liver
complaint?
Year: 1871

q spinal affections, suicide, and almost every other
form of disease which humanity is heir to, and
the real of the trouble scarcely suspect
cd and have doctored for all but the right one.


Disease Of these organs require the use Of 9
Diuretic.
Year: 1871

but also thoee they do business with OF for.
How many men, from badly cured diseases,
from tha effects of self abuse and excesses, have
brought about that state of weakness in those
organs that has reduced the general system
much to induce almost every other disease
Year: 1871

VVHE IMPRESSION OBTAINS AMONG many
i persons that the value of Accident Insurance
can be appreciated .only by travellers, or those
whose avocations are necessarily of hazardous
nature. Still statistics show that one in every
tel of the entire population meets with an
Accident every year. Every prudent and careful
man will act with reference to future contingencies.
Bodily injury by accident is Of the most fire.
quent of distress of distress to mans family
if fatal to him and to himself also, if only dis
abling him from business,


In either case this mode of insurance comes to
you with a certain relief


Erer,y is liable to accident, b" Good Luck
cannot always be depended upon.


The question to be settled are precisely the same
as in fire insurance. Is it not cheaper to let a
responsible company take the risk than it is to
carry it yourself Is not the protection offered
toorth more than It costs.


What Accidents Have to be Paid For.
Year: 1871

of the thigh, and it was presumed
that the injury came from a spent
round shot, lie died in about SIX
weeks, and the thigh-bone was found
broked and splintered in the middle
with a conoidal bullet, itself partly
split, lodged. A small wound that
had long been closed was found near
the knee; and the course of the ball
had been so tortuous that it had col
lapSed upon itself, and no discharge
had indicated the track of entrance.
Year: 1871

Al ~


A Physician says: "It is re-
markable fact that ministers OF
the Gospel are not able to live on
much less than other people
They cannot make a shilling so
so far as other people can make a
sovereign. Some of them try
very hard, but they DO not sue
ceed. A member once said to a
minister, who wanted little more
salary as his family increased !:
Il did not know that you preached
for money No, | don't, said the
minister, i thought you preached
Tor souls so do; but | could
not live on souls-and il / could
it would take good many the
size Of yours to make a meal. ."
Year: 1871

We ask you to vote for HORATIo SEYMOUR
DANIEL F. TIEMANN, SAMUEL j. TnDEN, and
other eminent Democrats, in case you are
electors of tho districts wherein they respec-
lively are candidates. We ask you to vote for
them with distinct and perfect understand
ing that they will be your political adversa-
ries in the future, as they have been in the
past We ask you to vote for them for the
one simple reason that they win legislate on all
questions not of 0 party character as states
men should, and that they will not vote to rob
you for their own benefit or that of others.
We ask you to vote for them, because only
by 80 doing can you keep out of our next
Legislature such men as passed the Tweed
Charter, the atrocious Tax-Levies of the last
four years, and all the kindred vilainies
whereby our City has been 30 shamefully
plundered.


We do not even pretend that the election Of
Seymour and such will conduce to our advan-
tage as a party. On the contrary, we admit
the shrewdness of the suggestion that a. it is
neither the business nor the interest of the
Republicans to make the Democratic party
respectable )" and we see clearly that,
should the Democratic see fit to elect Tom
Fields g. Co. instead, while you support the
better class of Democrats, that result will be
immensely advantageous to our party. We
know that, 30 long as you sternly oppose
him, there is no other man in the State whose
election will benefit the Republican party so
much az will that of w. NJ. Tweed.


But the war now in progress between the
utterly corrupt and the better elements of the
Democratic party is one in which you cannot
afford to stand neutral, nor have You moral
right to do so. You are on trial as well as
Tweed g. Co.,, and the eyes Of your Demo-
cratic neighbors and fellow citizens are fixed
upon you. Should you tomorrow fail to vote
as we now urge you to do, those Democratic
neighbors would say to each other, These
Republicans care nothing for the Rings rob-
"beries, except in 60 far as they can make party
capital out of them.n And this inference,
though prejudiced, would be plausible. But II.
on the other hand, yon vote for men whom
you are known intensely to disllke a. politi-
clans, simply because you believe they will
legislate honestly, while their only formidable
competitors are rogues, those Democratic neigh
bors cannot fail to see that you are not mainly
intent on partisan advantage, but are willing
to forget party in the interest of legislative hon
esty and IN Opposition to manifest robbery.


Here Is the gist of the matter. We have
not room to elaborate and enforce. Not hav-
ing it, we entreat you to consider and reflect.
II tho Democrats see ft to elect Tweed and
his satellites in spite Of your best efforts, so
much the better for the'Republican cause and
it's future. But let no man have q right To
say that. in crids like Ehfs, you allowed
knaves to riot nttheir ill-gotten aud fright
fully abused power because voa wero too
hide-bound to vote for eminently capable
Year: 1871

The Registration of the Legal Voters in our
City was closed at 10 o'clock of Saturday even
ing with 500 names on the books of the
several Wards nearly 10000 more than the
142, ,666 registered last year. The local aspects
of this registration are most cheering. There
is no considerable change In the lower Wards
which are the Democratic strongholds, with a
falling off in the With and XIVth, which
are the worst of all. On the other hand,
there is decided increase in the XVIII.
XVIth. and in that part (western) Of
the XVIIIth where the Republicans are
strongest. In our Judgment, founded on
information from various sources, there are
fully Ten Thousand moro Republicans regis
tered than were last year, to say nothing Of
that large number of Democrats who say they
will this year vote the Republican ticket. We
shall be sorely disappointed if the Republican
State Ticket does not poll more than Forty
Thousand votes We believe Gen. BarlOw's
vote Will be considerably higher
Year: 1871

citizens. There are many thousands Of men
in this city, who, IL they voted at all, would
vote in favor Of honesty and morality, who
talk with some energy In favor Of good gov
ernment and against thieves, who never seem
to think Of the immediate, burning re-
sponsibility which rests upon them for the
employment of their one ballot But this
10 an hour when no man can take refuge In
cyhicism or selfish apathy. The line Is sharply
drawn. No honest man can say that this Is
fight between two factions for the spoils. The
shock Of this great moral conflict has crystal
lized the opposing forces, and the one side
means Robbery and the other Reform. Every
man who negleets to vote tomorrow, makes
himself the accomplice of the thieves, rivets
the collar on his own neck, sinks voluntarily
into the mire of his servitude.


No true man can criticise the means
now offered for the redress Of our wrongs
There is no other way. We can only emanci-
pate ourselves by the ballot The courts may
do what they like, but IL the people lose this
election the rogues will make the laws to suit
themselves. This election must be carried,
and that will put an end to much wild whis-
pering of lawless and violent redress. 1t is
not in our habits of thought and of action to
rise in riot. The English tendency
Ia to 90 to law when injured, and if the law Is
inadequate, to see about amending 1t.
We cannot even in great emer-
eency forsake these old and wholesome
traditions. A mob tomorrow would put us
fatally back for many years. We must keep
our records unstained that we may always,
without reproach, crush every attempt at riot.
The simplest and the easiest TASK resting on
every citizen is to walk in the way marked
out for him, and give his vote against the in
famies of the harpies who have torn Us in
pieces There arc men who would face bat
terry, if necessary, but who never VOTE They
should feel to-day that there is fight going
ON more important than any battle of our war,
involving the very existence of the Republic
No one Gun skulk tor hide from his
place without disgrace. The people who
mean well are superior In numbers to
those who mean ill. If they all vote, the vic
tory is gained and confirmed. If they throw
away this opportunity by their neglect, they
deserve to wear the livery of Tweed the rest
Of their days. The moment is solemn and
decisive. The decent citizens hold in their
hands the very life of municipal government.
What arc they going to do about IT.
Year: 1871

dates they rejected, though Gen. John Coch-
rane was ono Of them. They cay that
they offered to take two other men
from our side; but Gen. Cochrane tes-
titles that our Executive Committee never
received any such offer. And we are as
sured that both the Republican and Re-
form Democratic Committees will stand By
the ticket as they agreed upon It, and not as
it was upset by the Committee of Seventy.


Under the circumstances, each voter will
exercise his preference; but we stand by the
ticket as it was originally made up by the
three political Committees-not as the Com
mittee of Seventy would have it. Whoever
may be elected, we shall have strong anti
Ring majority in the Board, even though all
the candidates as to which wo differ should
be defeated.
Year: 1871

The blacklegs who make these bets are all
Democrats, and, though they bet to win. they
obtain their advices mainly from Democratic
sources. 1t is plain, therefore, that they con-
slider the chances Of the rival State Tickets
very nearly even. And, 80 far, they are right,
though we hope to see the Republican ticket
come out ahead.


The vote of our moro intelligent and thrifty
citizens tomorrow win be fuller than at any
former election when no President was chosen.
The rougher element will also BIO out en- rnqssej
but that always is. We lose by the absence of
ten or twelve thousand business men, who
usually ara at home to vote for President, but
who are now travelling all over the country.
Were they here, the Republican vote of this
City would be larger than ever before.
Year: 1871

Accounts from Arizona are rather unfavor-
able for the prospects of any lasting peace
with the Apaohes The harassed Territory is
in q turmoil. and the soothing presence Of hr.
Vincent Collyer will probably be demanded by
AriSouians-that is, of course, If they believe
that the only remedy for the disorders which
af1 let them. It must be acknowledged, however,
that the only man there who has shown correct
appreciation of all the bearings of the much
vexed Indian question is Gen. Crook, who,
with his great sagacity and shrewdness, has
never combined that harshness which is too
often Characteristic of military men.
Year: 1871

EHAT ARE you GOING TO DO ABOUT IT.


This is a question which our robbers and
spoilers have ceased to ask. The brutal con-
tempt with which they have hitherto regarded
every effort for the publication Of the city
and its rescue from their clutches has in great
measure died away. For the first time, they
exhibit serious concern about what the citizens
of New-York are going to do. There is no
longer even the defiant swagger Of brazen
guilt. There is a genuine and unconcealed
anxiety among them as to the issue of the
fight. They are making superhuman efforts
to carry the elections. They are hiding their
property away in safe places. They are cram
ming their plunder into the sheltering pockets
of relatives. They would be gratiAed to hear
a categoric answer to the insolent question
which they were putting with such rowdy
bravado not many weeks ago.


This question, which has lost its usefulness
as an insult and a taunt, Is now taken up by
good citizens, and asked with an earnestness
like that of the jailer of Herod. For the last
few weeks there has been occasion for many
answers in many different senses. There has
been room for good citizens to differ as to
the course to be pursued; the best measures
were, in fact, the result of earnest and ener-
getic discussion. But the time is now come
when there Is bat one thing to do-when the
duty of the hour can be summed up in one
single word: VoTE.


The crisis of our long battle is now upon
us. The result of to-morrow's elections will
60 far to decide the fate of free government
In this city. The legal measures adopted
against the Tammany felons will Of course not
be allowed to fall or to sleep. The movement
of the press and the powerful influence of
public opinion must still be used vigorously
against this gigantic and poisonous wrong
But for q moment there is truce In these
battles. The State and nation waits for the
word Of plundered and outraged people. 1t
must now be seen whether New-York IL worth.
saving. For it is sure that little heart will be
left among our neighbors aud brethren to
assist US In the State and National Legisla-
lures in measures Of reform II 1t shall appear
that the citizens Of NewoYork care nothing for
their own honor and interests.


There 10 but one way given under heaven
for the political salvation Of a free people, and
that is through the ballot-box. There have
been many good speeches and some fine verses
written Oh this subject-but without sufficient
effect upon the minds of the better class of