smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1872

Only 100000 AS viii be seen by
the Board Proceedings, the tax levy


made is only about half q million dollars


With wheat at 90 cents and potatoes
only 20 this may seen. heavy tax FOR u
little county like Iowa, but those who
know her boundless mineral resources
her exhaustless sand stone qunrries her
gushing oil wells her thriving paint
works and other manufactures her end
less forests of einsane, and her limit ess
cranberry marshes will not doubt her
ability to pay this little tax Most Of
the people already have the money in
hand impatiently waiting for the tax
gathcrer to call and take it, and declare
that unless he calls soon they viii send
i, to the Boston sufferers. and make bin
take his pay in checks on the Bank of
England.
Year: 1872




The st. Francis Xavier's Alumni Sodalty held a
meeting yesterday afternoon the hall OF the col
lege in West Fifteenth street, between Fifth and
Sixth avenues. The Director-the Rev. Father
Dealy-was present, and delivered short address
on the Importance OF young Christian men of the
present day leading pure lives. and so fulfilling
their various stations in the world as to
make the good better and the bad good.n
He eloquently portrayed the dangers to
which young men are exposed, and how necessary
1t was for societies like the Alumni to be In the
front rank OF tnost who were determined, by every
immortality. Every young man in the land was in
duty bound to work for the good name OF the
country, and the best way to work for
this end was for each to be himself good Chris
tian, so that his influence over Others might be
salutary. This country was yet in its youth, and
upon the young men Of to-day what that future
would be. Young Catholics should act out their
part In life 50 that as far as they were concerned
the religion they professed would be extended
There was plenty OF work abroad.


Satan finds some mischief still


For idle hands to do


even among what are commonly called Christians.
There was great deal OF evil in the world TO be
combatted. We should be up and doing and though
light OF faith was being extingulshed, Christianity
would still march on in its triumph and new sol
diers be enrolled under her banners at every STEP
drawn to her by the courage, virtue and devotion
to principle OF the warriors OF the Cross.


Mr.. LOomis, the President OF the society, after
the religious services were at an end delivered an
address concerning the expulsion OF the Jesuits
from GERMANY,
Year: 1872

Robert Mccormack, an employe OF the Grand
street railroad Williamsburg, was run over by
one of the company's CATS yesterday afternoon in
smith street, near Meeker avenue, and sustained
fracture OF the right leg. He was sent to the City
Hospital by the police. Francis Howell conductor,
and James Roy, driver of the car, surrendered
themselves at the Sixth precinct statonhouse and
were held. Neither could give any Information as
TO how the accident occurred saying that theysdid
not see Mccormack either attempt to get on or off
the car The first they knew OF the accident was
experiencing jolt OF one OF the hind wheels and
then noticing the victim lying on the track.
Year: 1872

where the country is more thckly populated and
the whskey is higher above proof


Tonight there is q grand amateur performanc, :
OF civilian Tell," to mark the opening OF rio
new Opera House, and oil the aristocracy OF Enox
vile are getting ready to attend
Year: 1872

letter from the Republican Central Committee
OF Ohio declares that the republicans are sure TO
carry the State. careful, detailed canvass OF
each of the counties, made more thoroughly prob
ably than was ever done before, and corrected by
the best informed republicans In each puts the poll
m Tuna IN
Year: 1872

Among the names registered at the
Tombs the other night was that Of a youth,
about fifteen years of age, who had been
arrested for drunkenness But he was
not drunk, nor had he been drinking
He was, moreover, in good, sound health.
but gave all the external indications of
being intoxicated when arrested bya
police officer. Upon protesting to the
keeper Of the Tombs that he was not iu-
toxicated, it was revealed that the unfor-
tuuate youth had been born natural
drunkard or rather that he had always
acted like such thing. He said that al
though in good health, he had never been
able to walk without staggering. His
speech was not unlike that of persons in
Il decided state of intoxication, and when
excited he would mutter and reel. The
unfortunate youth was detained until the
next day, and was sent to the courts to
be gazed at through judicial spectacles.
y subsequent investigation of the case
proved that the lad hal been telling the
truth about himself; but his condition re-
vealed demonstration of the natural law
that the child is fair copy Of his par
ents. 1t appears that prior to marriage,
the father had been a secret but confirm
ed inebriate, and when the facts became
known to the woman thus suddenly and
unexpectedly, she wept in the most terri
BILE manner Almost broken hearted, she
contemplated the future misery in store
for her, Months passed away, when il
was discovered that the child at three
years Of age acted strangely, and at the
end of six months the unhappy woman
fully realized all her forcbodings. The
effect produced upon the mother was not
without It's influence upon the father,
however. Realizing, in the midst of
tears Of bitter anguish, the sin that had
been visited upon the child, the man re-
formed lie has now several bright child
ren, and most exemplary ones, too, they
are. But the boy that was brought into
the Tombs was not drunk, but had en-
tailed upon him a life of misery, as it
was blasted destiny-N Y. TriJane.
Year: 1872

A great disaster occurred on Long Is
land Sound on Friday morning last. The
steam propellor Metis, carrying passen-
gers between New York and Providence,
during the heavy storm which prevailed
at the time, collided with a schooner,
knocking hole through the bottom OF
the steamer The boat at once commenc,
ed sinking There were one hundred
and fifty persons on board, about half of
whom perished. Most of those who es
capped saved themselves by climbing on
the upper deck, which separated from
the hull and was carried to the shore by
the gale.
Year: 1872

President Grant has taken $4,000 from the
national treasury to buy certain documents
from the Confederate archives. His apOlOgists
said that the papers were necessary to prevent
fraudulent claims upon the United States by
pretended loyalists, although it does not ap-
near that the Government has been much en-
barrassed by claims of that nature, or is likely
to be. But the use which the President is
making of his very dear purchase has already
given the lie to the statements OF his apollo
gists. He has selected the only document
which seems to be of particular interest, and
has given it to the world. 1t has no reference
whatever to any possible claims, nor even any
historical importance, since the story it tells
WAS known before and happily almost forgot
ten. Its publication can have but one effect
TO revive bitterness in the Northern mind, and
postpone that hearty reconciliation between
the two sections of our country which every
patriot ought TO strive to promote. And no
man can doubt that such precisely was the
Presidents purpose in causing the report OF
Jacob Thomson to be reprinted at this june
ture.


President Grant confesses then that his
policy is one of hatred and discord. The best
way 10 secure his election is to widen the
breach between North and South, to awaken
the slumberiDg animosities of the war, to call
up the black spirit of revenge, to remind us
of all that we suffered ten years ago, to
1epeat all the hard language and insults that
were banded from side to side in those
miserable DAYS to count over the foJses that
were long ago repaired, and tear open the
wounds that are healed If he had his way
the blackened ruin should stand forever, the
fields of the Potomac and the James should
go untitled, the desolation of the battle
ground should stare US constantly in tho
face, and remind us to hold the South as
an enemy, and to vote for Grant. The plots
of Thompson and his incendiarics should be
retOld at every election. The orators and
journalists Of the Administration should 10
Year: 1872

about with extracts from the Confederate
archives and tales of Rebel wickedness 10 hre
the Northern heart. There should DC no iUr-
giyeness. no oblivion, no reconciliation we
NAV be certain that the Pickett documents
will will be searched for horrible disclosures of
Confederate plots, and if anything more can
be extracted from them to fan into hame the
dvinr embers of sectional hate the Admins
tration will make the most of it. The papers
were bought for this purpose.


What else has President Grant to depend
unops with reunion of the separated States,
and the final establishment of general am
nesty and equal rights, the military Dictator
sbin must inevitably fall. He has no hope of
retaining power unless he can keep open the
bloody chasm which has 80 long divided us.
For him perpetuation of the era of animosity
is a political necessity. But the American peo-
pie yearn for peace and good will, and they
welcome the movement for reconciliation with
an earnestness at which the Administration
cannot disguise its alarm.
Year: 1872

One of the puerilc arguments brought against Mr.
Greeley is that the people Of the South cannot posi
bly, vote for him because they are so angry with him
for his socalled ION to Richmond course IN THE
TRIBUNE. Another is that Northern people cannot
vote for him because he sympathized with the Reb-
els all through the war. Would MT It be Just as
we'll w select of these lies aud stick TO Ihey
will not hang together,
Year: 1872

We have known Stanley Matthews of Cincinnati
as an able lawyer, conscientious public man, and
gallant soldier. His conduct with reference to the
Reform movement has been curious combination
of perversty and folly, but we have been unwilling
TO attribute it to anything else than his
terrible disappointment and his equally terri
BILE confusion at discovering that he had publicly
refused to do what he bad previously pledged him.
self in writing to do. Mr.. Matthews should rise to
explain one thing He had declared in writing, as
well as verbally, and over that he would sup
port Horace Greeley if he were nominated by the
Cincinnati Convention When Horace Greeley be-
came that nominee he threatened to bolt, and a
few days afterward did bolt. In the mean
time, as Cincinnati papers hint, a dispatch
had been sent from Cincinnati to Gen.
Grant, and in response Judge Matthews had been
engaged OF continued as counsel for the United
States in great whisky case then pending for fee
of 5000. The unregenerate mind puts the violation
of the pledge and the acceptance of the fee in con-
nection and prettier opportunity for an explana-
nation was never afforded an able lawyer with line
gifts of utterance
Year: 1872

In the Carolinas it is literal fact that any man,
white or coored, can vote for Grant without let or
hinderance and without any fear personal violence
abuse from any quarter But in very many places,
where there is q large negro population under un-
serupulous white leaders, no man can speak or vote
for Greeley without and insults, and no col
ored man can do so without danger to life or limb
The bayonet backs up the semi-sayage mob who ter
rorze the whole community and if a man, especially
a colored man. is not willing to vote for Grant as
against Greeley he must either stay away from the
polls or take the consequences. And all the elections
are managed and returned bytoos of the robber King


II the American people wish to save the country let
them do it by such overwhelming majorities In
those States where the people are free, that the
two Carolinas, and especially South Carolina will be
made to count but as a drop for oppression against
an ocean for freedom
Year: 1872

He is a wise man who thoroughly cOmprc-
bends all the ramifcatiOns of Louisiana politics.
In the maze of conflicting statement, however,
one thing is clear enough-that the opposition
to Grant is almost solid. Why it is at all
divided is explained minutely by a correspond
ent of THE TRIBUNE, whose letter we print
on another page. This exposition is somewhat
clarifying and seems fair.
Year: 1872

All public men are liable to grave and rail-
ing accusations and Senator Wilson is not
exempt from this common aflliction. Some
body has been making charges against him in
the newspapers, and some other body writes
TO ask him if these are true. Without speci
flying any count in this vague Indictment Mr.
Wilson gives them all general denial. The
case may be considered closed.
Year: 1872

A TERRIBLE PENMAN.-We do not
vouch for the truth of the following,
which we clip from an exchange: There
is banker in Philadelphia by the side
of whose handwriting even the penman-
ship of Horace Greeley seems symmetri-
cal and beautiful. Well, this banker
was prosecuted by life insurance agent
who wanted him to take out a policy.
The victim stood it for while, but final
ly, one day, he kicked the agent out of
his Office. Then the tormentor began to
send notes to the unhappy wretch. ex-
planning the endowment system, and
asking If any of his aunts ever suffered
from torpidity OF the liver. At last the
banker wrote to the heartless friend as
follows:


''You diabolical scoundrel, if you send
another line to me, | will come down to
your office and blow out what little
brains you have.''


When the life insurance man received
this he turned it up and down, and held
t5d It sdeMaFs sEi and stood before iFFsE
but after all he couldn't determine with
any degree of certainty what it meant.
To ascertain he presented it at the pay
ing teller's desk in the bank, and that
worthy, without moments hesitation,
paid $4,000 on it, believing it to be
check for that amount. There is one
agent less in this city than there was
week OF two ago, and one more banker
who betrays symptoms of insanity when
the subject of life insurance is mentioned
in his presence.
Year: 1872

THE BOTTOM OF THE ATLANTIC.-The
soundinos which were made between Ire
land and Newfoundland before laying the
Atlantic cable have made the bottom of
the Atlantic almost as well known as the
surface of Europe or America. 1t Is
covered with fine mud, the remains of
microscopic insects, which will one day
doubtless harden into chalk. Of the in
equalities of this ocean bottom, Prof.
Huxley says:


at is a prodigious plain, one of the
widest and most even plains in the world.
If the sea were drained off, you might
drive wagon all the way from Yalentia
on the west coast of Ireland, to Trinity
Bay in Newfoundland. And. except up
Oh one sharp incline, about 200 miles
from Valentia, am not quite sure that
it would ever be necessary to put the
skid on, so gentle are the ascents and de-
scents upon that long route. From Va
lentia the road would lie down hill for
about two hundred miles. to the point at
which the bottom is now covered by
seventeen hundred fathoms of sea water.
Then would come the central plain, more
than one thousand miles wide, the in
equalities of the surface of which would
be hardly perceptible, though the depth
of the water upon it varies from ten to
fifteen thousand feet; and there are places
in which Mont Blanc might be sunk
without showing its peak above water.
Beyond this, the ascent on the American
side commences, and gradually leads for
about three hundred miles, to the New
foundland shore.
Year: 1872

for sale, their ribbons futtering in the
breeze, and sweethearts enough in their
train. Harry was delighted, and would
have stopped to gaze, but his now really
alarmed father dragged him along out of
harms way.


1t was the custom at that day to be-
stow ''fairings," that is something
bought at the fair, on friends and sweet
hearts as a keepsake: so when the tour
OF the fair had been completed, the
squire observed to Harry:


"My dear boy, to-day new era in
your life has commenced. The plans [
have adopted in your education may seem
strange but you have never given me
cause to regret them. You possess a
sensible and well ordered mind and
now. in remembrance of this, choose
what present shall make you as a
proof of my care and affection. .
-. May choose. whatever l like.
father q asked the young man, with
sparkling eye


Certainly, Harry


Thank you, dear father; then give
me goose =


And that annual gathering is known
as Goose Fair to this day.
Year: 1872

How TO HAVE LOVING WIFE.-A
correspondent sends the following to the
chronological Journal


If you would have loving wife, be
as gentle in your words after as before
marriage treat her as tenderly when a
matron as when miss; don't quite
make her the maid of all work and ask
her why she looks less tidy and neat
than when ..you first knew her. don't
buy cheap, tough beef, and scold her be.
cause it does not come on the table "por-
ter-house )" don't grumble about squal-
ling babies if you cannot keep up 'nur-
sery," and remember that ''baby may
take after papa in his disposition ;
don't smoke and chew tobacco, and thus
shatter your nerves, and spoil your tenn
per, and make your breath u nuisance,
and then complain that your wife de
clines to kiss you; go home joyous and
cheerful to your wife and tell her the
good news you have heard, and not 81
lently put on your hat and go out to the
club or ..lodge," and let her after
wards learn that you spent the evening
at the opera or at fancy ball with Mrs
Dash. Love your wife; be patient; let
whiskey, tobacco, and vulgar compan.
alone; spend your evenings with you
wife. and live a decent. Christian life
and your wife will be loving and true
If you did not marry heartless beauty
without sense or worth if you did, VIII
is to blame if you suffer the consequen
ces2
Year: 1872

II. G. AFTER Mrs. W.-The New
York Tribune does not take kindly to
the gentle lecturess. With reference to
her recent threat to send out five hun
dred female orators. to make shrill and
incoherent the coming Presidential cam
paign, the editor ungallantly says:


Perhaps she can do it. Who knows :?
If so, it will add petticoats and pictur-
esqueness to crusade which has hitherto
been somewhat bleak from the lack of
those alluring and attractive elements.
The twinkle Of No. 2 gaiter with a
high heel upon the rostrum would doubt
less tickle the great mass meeting imag-
ination, stupefed by long contemplation
of No II brogans double soled but we
don't think the discourses of the wearers
of these bewildering boots would amount
to much. 1t is seriously to be hoped
that Mrs. W. will reconsider her alarm
ing resolution, and not wantonly flood
the land with another deluge of talking
virgins. There are surely enough now.
With babble of them is the world filed,
and of most of them the emptiness is as
the emptiness of innumerable drums
OF the other sort, so far heard from, it
would appear that they desire to have as
little to do with Mrs. Woodruff as pos.
sible.
Year: 1872

A RICH PoEM.-It is impossible to
choke off the poets. We say disagreeable
things about them every week, and yet
they continue to send in their effusions
with the same calm confidence Of old
that we have silver mine which is kept
in perpetual operation for the solitary
purpose of purchasing rhymes at stupen-
dous prices. This week we have one
from being who has for his theme "The
Watching Mother - This vigilant par
ent, if we understand the thing, is sit
ting by her infant child in the middle of
the night, ready to respond when it in
quires for paregoric The poet says:
beside the couch she sat, whereon her
infant slept, and as she looked upon his
face, she bowed her head and wept He
was her only one, into her heart he'd
slept, and as her mothers love welled up,
she bowed her head and wept. He was
but one year old, and hardly yet he crept.
Perhaps he'd die All dreadful thought !!
She bowed her head and wept. Thus
far an angel form, her boy from harm
had kept; with thankful, grateful heart,
she bowed her head and wept Perhaps
this will be enough for once. There are
sixty-two verses, and in every one that
singular parent bowed her head and wept
1t made no difference to her whether her
offspring crept or walked, accepted its
food regularly or screamed. took notice,
had guardian angels, measles, or any
thing, that infatuated mother bowed her
head and wept all the same. 1t is ex-
tremely affecting, but unquestionably
monotonous. We slall give the rest Of
the poem at intervals, one at time, du-
ring the year. Perhaps it may run over
into the next year. Persons who tire Of
it can have the address of the poet by
applying at this office. If he must be
shot, let the murderous deed be commit
ted by some other frenzied sufferer thar
us.-Eachange.
Year: 1872

A good old Hebrew proverb says,
When boys get off the track.
The switch must be discreetly used
To bring the rebels back.
But later wisdom, to correct


The follies of the young,
Applies homeopathic dose


Directly to the tongue.
In Bible days the parents fixed
A penalty to sin
And purged the evil from the heart
With stripes upon the skin;
They little thought that kind papas
Would live in time to come,
Who would reject the virtuous rod,
And try a sugar-plum.
When willful sons in anger rose
Against indulgent sires,
How powerful was this Jewish art
70 cool their raging fires.
And so the Jealous Puritan,


With Scripture for his guide,
To conquer youthful waywardness
Its potent magic tried.
But modern heads of families
Contend for moral suasion;
They think it dreadful to abide
The scourge's sharp abrasion;
They call it cruel to afflict


With blows the erring son,
And say there is milder way


In which it may be done.
And yet parental dignity


Was held in reverence then,
And all Obeyed their fathers voice,
From children up to men.
They did not smoke and strut about
Like our precocious lads,
Or swear, and brag in vulgar Jest
How they could rule their dads.
Now if results decide the test,
| know we surely should
Agree to say that ancient plan
Accomplished lots of good;
And wise old S9elQmI4nE!..sss Sc 4GnE!.ss ADVICE
Is better far to keep the peace
Than flattery and candy.
Year: 1872

A good story is told of fellow at a
cattle show, who was making himself ri
diculously conspicuous by an evident IN
tention of finding fault with everything
At last he burst forth with Call these
here prize cattle? Why, they amt
nothing to what our folks raised. My
father raised the biggest calf of any man
round our parts .' Il don't doubt it, :
was the timely remark of a bystander
..and the noisiest." The forward youth,
as may we'll be imagined, incontinently
subsided.
Year: 1872

\ GRAVE JOKE Many good stories
are told of cid Ethan Allen, of revolu-
tionary memory. The following is not
bad one: He was one evening at par
ty where his we'll known courage was the
theme of conversation. ..He fears moth
ing" said one land [ would wager any
amount that he would not hesitate to 90
into the churchyard across the way, and
bring a skull from one of the open tombs
there, " added another. The wager was
agreed upon, and one of the party sud-
denly left the room as Allen entered it.
The absent bon cirant procured a sheet.
whitened his face, and repaired to one of
the vaults in question with the view of
frightening the old veteran, should he
have the temerity to further the wishes
of the company. Allen was made ac-
quainted with the nature of the wager,
and without moments hesitation, said
he would bring the required skull and
lay it on the table He went to the
vault and laid his hand upon one. when
his concealed acquaintance cried out in
a sepulchral tone 'that's mine y ''Very
well, replied he, and picked up another,
when the same voice repeated, that's
mine too That can't be true" re-
turned the imperturbable hero, for no
man can have two skulls y Upon this
he quickly left the vault with the
memento morji in his hand; his friend
following in hot haste. Allen, however,
soonest reached the room where he had
left his companions, and placing the skull
upon the table. exclaimed. There gentle
men you have it but look at it quickly,
for the fellow is close behind me that
owns it y The man in the sheet i'm
mediately came in, and the laugh wa;


universally against him.