smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1871

The cane in this parish still retains it's
promising appearance. The weather is
propitiOus, and to the weather its fortunes
are now wholly committed. If that remains
favorable until the cutting is finished, we
are confident that the sugar planters of
Plaquemines parish will have no reason to
complain. At present, all necessary prepa-
rations for taking off the crop and getting
machinery in order are being actively
pushed forward. The first stalk of cane
cut will find the mills ready to squeeze the
sweet life out of it.
Year: 1871

The following is special to the New
York Tribune:


The commissioner Of pensions has decided
to accept proposition of the Treasury De-
partment to furnish checks to be used N
the payment Of pensions. These checks
will be furnished at cost, and they are to lie
printed on chameleon paper, which it is
claimed can not be counterfeited or altered.
therefore insuring greater security to the
government, as well as to the pensioners.
They are to be engraved on steel, and will
be similar to the ordinary treasury checks.
Year: 1871

We are officially advised from Washing
ton that after the first of October next a
second through mail will be sent daily
from Washington to New Orleans. leaving
through mail at such prominent points as
Lynchburg, Knoxville. Chattanooga, ETC.
The second mail, passing through here at
night, will be in charge of the baggage
or route agents will for the present be ap-
pointed
Year: 1871

A TESTIMONIAL


NEW ORLEANS June 23 1871.
J. H. GARDNER, Agent Grover Baker Sewing


Machine Company, No. 1872 Canal street, New


Orleans:


SIR-We are much in want of two of your FAMILY
SEWING MACHINES and propose to give you in
exchange for them, one EACH Singer and Wheeler
i Wilson. If you accept our offer it will take from
lis the last Of five Of the other patterns of
machines that we have disposed of to give place
to yours


We have had much experience with several of
the leading Sewing Machines. and feel that we can
say, without injustice to any one, that the


ELASTIC STITCH MACHINE


OF your Company's make is far superior to
any that we have used. Its simplicity
small effort required to operate, and the great
strength and elasticity of its seam are qualities
We have never found equaed in any other Since
the introduction of your Sewing Machine into our
Asylum, it has always been the favorite with our
children and often source of much contention
among them, as to who should have the privilege
of it's use.


During the past two years We have had five of
your Sewing Machines in constant use, and large
quantities of work of every description for fami.
lies has been done on them. We have never had
any complaint from those for whom the work has
been done out, the contrary, much praise for
<I,e of% %J,o
We most earnestly hope that you will accept our
proposition to exchange, and favor us by sending
your machines at the earliest opportunity Il
DIRECTRESS ST. ELIZABETH ORPHAN ASYLUM.
au23 3m 1t %
Year: 1871




b. The political campaign will soon open,
and it becomes the duty of all intelligent
citizens to examine, dispassionately and un-
selfishly, the platform or principles of the
two opposing parties then to labor fol
that party which commands their respect
How is this labor to be performed -? The
duties are various, and each day will dc.
velOp them.


The broad platform of Republicanism
as We understand it, is part of our religion
for it is noble and godlike. '.


TO accord to others equal political and
Judicial rights need cause no fear in any
true man. The question of social equality
has nothing to. do with this that will ever
regulate itself.


IT you are Republican it is your duty
to set an example of uprightness and in
tegrlty, acting out your principles. One
upright, honest and incorruptible does
more to forward, to commend his party
than any thing else. If an office holder,
this is doubly becoming, because every
office holder is the representative of an adj
mlnistratlon, which desires integrity every
where. Let us have no tricky and selfish
combinations and arrangements there can
be union, and union will give strength
The true Republican is as the Chris
tiah, careful to give no cause of
offence, but jealous and watchful for
the rights and privileges of others,
will look for the poor and humble, suffering
for their principles, because it is q well
known fact that, for being Republicans,
many suffer; will visit the prisons, and see
how many are lying in them for political
opinions, and being of a helpless color. 1t
is easy to send a negro to the gallows or to
the penitentiary. Does not your con-
science, reader, solemnly assent to this i?


The Republican will commend himself
for his Spartan love of justice-for his fear
less showing that his fellow-man is his
brother. 81 know net what record for sin
awaits me in another world, but | know
that L have never despised man because
he was poor, or ignorant, or black" were
the noble words of patriot who has gone
to his rest. The Republican will be firm
in everything involving principle, but ever
courteous and considerate. Misrepresenta-
ton and hate may bring temporary success,
but can never bring good to any party or
to any person. .......4. ..


Desiring the welfare of his fellow-citi-
zens, the progress of this great country,
he cannot descend to selfish personalities
unless there is need be-then he can and
will be fearless for truth.


Let us show what noble type of man
Republican should be.


'..i.- -3 JAP t- II. l.. VAN LEW,
Year: 1871

The Rockingham Register democratic
tells us of the sentiment OF its people as
follows:


We can speak for the people of Rockingham
ana this portion OF the Valley, and we do not
hesitate to say that the uups ton apiU be sIlitl
You Vote tor the. tnnding bill ?" and good many
other questions y i'll regard to Virginia iegisla-
ton 'I37T'


Nor do we desire that these questions of State
policy shall be brought before the Conservative
convention. Not at all. The people will discuss
and decide them for themselves. ~ isiAe IliH


We do not suppose there will be any difficulty
in finding plenty of men who are entirely sound
upon the great questions OF national politics, and
who at the same time, will be found equally SO
upon the no less important issues involved I'M the
legislation of our State


WHAT We NEED-We need Il repeal of the
twelve per cent. law.


We need an entire change in the registration
system. 80, -


We need a thorough modification of the free
school law.


We need a repeal of the funding law.


we need curtailment of the expenses of the
Legislature. .I.'.',-+


We want an abolition of one-half at least of
the county officers.


We want the system of giving away the pro-
perty of the State, in the form OF railroad stock
&c. stopped.


We agree in the main with the Registers
estimate of "phat ace need" We believe,
however, that all laws fixing the rate of
interest ON money are useless, and against
the people who have to borrow. That has
been our experience in the West, and the
South is in similar position now. %


Give US free banking and sound policy
as to all branches of industry, and money
will flow to- us from the greatcentres where
it is now accumulated. AS to questions of
State policy, we are in favor of making
them the supreme tests in local elections.
Our finances are in such a desperate condi-
ton that we cannot afford to neglect them
to thrash the empty straw of party politics.
The cry of children for bread, and clothes,
and education, is louder to us than that of
greedy cor1norants who clamor for place.


Let the people themselves read all sides
and discuss these questions and demand of
their newspapers and representatives to
take positive ground upon living issues, in
stead of exciting bitterness and hatred up
on issues which all sane men acknowledge
to be dead. III eLu g. itH.r4,


We want the farmers and manufacturers
and mechanics recognized as a part of the
people of this State. They are quite as
much entitled to recognition as the stock
jobbers and money lenders of New York.
Year: 1871

Hcping Without Hope.-The Enquire,.
hopes for much from the present Board of
Health. 'Tis well to hope, for without it
life would not be worth the possession.
Why our cotemporary should hope for
any good from tins institution we are at a
loss to know. Its columns, ours, and we
believe, those of every paper in the city,
are almost daily complaining of the misera-
bly, filthy condition of our streets. five
speak truly, and we think we do, we deny
the recent report of this body, made to the
City Council, in which the sanitary condi-
ton of Richmond was pronounced to be
better than it has been for years. The DE-
ference in statements may be explained in
that the sanitary condition of the city for
many years previous to the present one,
was horrible in the extreme. Yet we can
not believe that people would content them
selves with worse condition of the streets
and alleys, than they are now. The Board
of Health is mistaken, or we are, and while
not admitting the latter as possible, we
see nothing to hope from that body until its
mind undergoes change as to the wretch
ed condition of our streets, &c.
Year: 1871

As will be seen by the latest dispatches,
the people of North Carolina, by from ten
to fifteen thousand majority, have planted
their foot upon the neck of the traitors of
the State, and declared against a conven-
ton, intended only to satisfy the treasona-
BILE ambitions of political tricksters. .r...


Well done, say we; and may her people
now go to work and in good faith carry out
the provisions of constitution broad
enough for every American citizen to stand
upon.
Year: 1871

RA Jonven's Inodorous Kid Glove Cleaner
BY its aid gloves can be quickly and repeatedly
cleaned and made equal to new even when bad
ly soiled they can be readily restored 1t is easy
OF application and is perferfectly free from any
dor. For sale by druggists and fancy goods
dealers. Price, % cents n bottle
Year: 1871

Sun 'Stroke.--Lewis Robinson, colored.
was overcome by the heat to-day near the
corner of Twelfth and Franklin streets,
Medical aid was had, and Robinson was
soon so much relieved as to be able to be
conveyed to his home in Henrico.
Year: 1871

Silver Spring, Florida, is one OF the
greatest curiosities in the South. 1t
bursts forth in the midst of the most
fertile country in the State. 1t 6ub-
bles up in basin near one hundred
feet deep and about an acre in extent,
and sending from it q deep stream
sixty to one hundred feet wide, and
extending six to eight miles 10 the
Oeklaw@ha River. In the spring
itself fifty boats may lie at anchor
quite fleet. The spring thus forms
a natural inland Qort, to which three
steamers now run regularly from the
st. Johns, making close connections
with the ocean steamers at Pilatka--
| The elearness of the water is truly
wonderful. 1t seems even more trans
parent than air; you see the bottom
eighty feet below the bottom Of your
boat, the exact form of the smallest
pebble, the outline and color Of the
leaf that has sunk, and all the prismat-
| ic colors of the rainbow are reflected.
Large fish swim in it, every scale visi-
BILE, and every movement distinctly
seen. If you go over the spring in a
boat you will see the assures in the
rocks, from which the river pOurs up
ward like an inverted cataract.


Another wonder is, that "Stone
Mountain" of Georgia, which was
rendered famous during the late war,
has not been more written about, talk
ed about, and travelled about is unac-
countable, and indicates want Of
admiration for the wonders of the
Southland. Were it across the waters
it would be in song, in sermon, and
in lecture, and travels by scores would
go as they now go to the Pyramids


These the work OF man,


That the work Of an Almighty hand"


Imagine a mountain of solid gran
ite, towering two thousand feet, with
scarcely a shrub on its defiant bald
face. In its solitude it is alone; no
kindred night Not even the faint
outline of a mountain is discernable
in the distance and as we turn our
gaze upward to its perpendicular
height, the classic Palisades seem
tame, and we can but wonder if it be
a boulder from some distan sphere,
suddenly, by some freak of nature,
elected to our planet; or may it not
have been that during the great pri-
meval ocean, which once overspread
the earth, matter attracted matter,
until the mighty pile arose, and will
stand until the final consummation Of
all things here?
Year: 1871

The question Of the legality of Sun
day marriages is exciting considerable
attention in legal as well as clerical
minds. There seems to be about an
equal division of both parties in this
important matter. 1t is held that as
marriage is legal civil contract, and
that legal civil contracts are illegal if
made on the Sabbath, it is void if per-
formed on this day. An interesting
test case is now pending IN Rochester.
A millionaire died there recently, and
willed all his property to the children
of his second wife, disinheriting two
of his own children. The marriage
was performed on Sunday. tits not


clear how this invalidates the will
should the decision be against Sunday
marriages, but some lawyers believe
that in such case the viii could and
should be. broken. If the court de-
eides that marriages are invalid If
performed on that day, no doubt
many more interesting and pointed
cases win arise. Lawyers viii grow


fat on contested rights Of property,


while in ordinary divorce they would
not pay their rent. But no decent
court VIII decide against the legality
Of pure marriages.-[N. Y. Express.
Year: 1871

CoNsTANINOPLE, July, 25, 1871.


Accounts of the most narrowing
and alarming nature have reached the
Sanitary Council from the Persian
frontier. The famine is committing
frightful ravages in Khorassan, where
the deaths from absolute starvation
amount to 800 "a day. The wretched
population are driven to feed upon
the most filthy ofal and garbage. and,
even this disgusting sustenanee fail
ing them, are compelled by the pres
sure of famine to devour the dead
bodies Of those who have perished.
The aspect ofthe people thus forced to
feed upon carrion and human flesh is
pitIable wan, emaciated, the glare Of
famine in their eyes, their forms
shrunken and bent, the expression Of
the features savage, the abdomen
swelled hideously. But what is worse
than all is that a bubonic disease
closely RESEMBLING the old plague, in
deed scarcely distinguishable from it,
has broken out, and seems to be ex-
tending rapidly towards the frontier,
where a strict sanitary Gordon has
been established by the Turkish au-
thOrities. Even in Teheran itself the
scarcity is fast approaching to famine
point, and crowds of famished wretch
es throng the cutters and fight over
the refuse thrown into them from the
adjoining houses.


The Levant Herald cites an in
stance where member ofthe English
Legation having killed wild boar at
some distance froIA the capital
had the carcass taken to a neighbor-
ing village, where his servants pro-
eeeded to cut it up. The eatable parts
having been selected for his own and
his servants use, theskin and unelean-
ed offal were thrown into the street,
where a crowd Ofstarving villagers al
ready waited the disgusting!prize and
as soon as it was within their reach
fell upon it and fought over it, and
swallowed in the filthy refuse-the
unwashed entrails-with the ayidity
of famished wolves. What the end is
to be of this terrible state of affairs it
is difficult to foretell. The seed corn
has all been devoured, and there is no
prospect of any better harvest this
year than last, especially in the neigh
borhood of Teheran. DepopulatiOn
threatens the country, and once more
at the gates of Europe we have that
terrible foe which for upward Of a
quarter of a century has lain dormant,
until we had laid the. flattering unc-
ton to our souls that his day had gone
forever. Whatever the Sanitary
Board may institute it will scarcely
be possible to prevent the transport Of
some medium of eontagion across the
frontier, and when we remember that
one infected rag may snffiee to estab-
lish once more the dominion of the
plague in Turkey, the prospect is by
no means an agreeable one.
Year: 1871

The protracted spell Of an easy money
market which has prevailed for months
past, in which there has been such a
light demand for money in legitimate
trade, has caused a good deal OF specu-
lative remark. The Philadelphia Ledger
says:


While the cause of cheap money is
made plain enough by the fact of its
great abundance, the anxious inquiry in
many quarters as to why it is so abun-
dant still remains unanswered. It
is abundant because il Is not used,
and is not used because there is little
promise of profit in its use, and great
danger of positive loss by investing It in
any Of the ordinary pursuits of the time.
AL business is depressed, and prices. for
a year past have been tending to lower
figures. While this state Of things con-
tinues enterprise will be dormant and
production will be confined to the mar
rowest limits that will meet current de-
mands. Nobody will produce for future
market for fear that when that time
comes round there may be cheaper pro-
duetiOn and lower prices. TRUs is all
enterprise held in check. When it shall
become generally apparent tbatwe have
touched lowest prices, and next week
and next month shall show them to be
steadily higher, then will everybody be
ready TO produce to-day TO sell at a
future day, and then will there be a de-
mand for money, and that demand, by
making it scarce, Will quietly putup the
rate Of interest.
Year: 1871

An English writer, speaking on this
entertaining subject, says: The ques-
ton is naturally suggested whether
our own moon, which is but quarter
of a million of miles from US, ought
not first to be examined for signs of
life, or, at least, OF being fitted for the
support Of life. When the telescope
was first invented, it is certain that
astronomers were more hopeful Of
recognizing such signs in the moon
than IN any other celestial body. As
telescopes of greater power were con-
structed, our satellite was searched
with a more and more eager scrutiny.


And many long year elapsed be-
fore astronomers would accept the
conclusion that the moons surface is
wholly untitled for the support of any
Of those forms of life with which we
are familiar upon the earth. That
the belief in lunar men prevailed in
the popular mind long after astrono-
mers had abandoned it, is shown by
the eager eredulity with which the
story of Sir John Herschel's supposed
observations of the customs and man.
ners of the lunarians was accepted
6N6u hLuOuB WcI-cuuChlSU uCus


Yet astronomers have long known
full certainly that no forms Of life,
such as we are familiar with, can ex-
ist upon the moon. They know that,
if satellite has an atmosphere at all
that atmosphere must be so limited
in extent that no creatures we are ae-
quainted with could live in it. They
know that she has no oceans, seas or
lakes, neither clouds nor rains, and
that if she had, there would be no
winds to watt atmosphere from place
to place, or to cause the clouds to drop
fiatness upon the lunar fields,


They know also, that the moons
suaface is subjected alternately to a
cold far more intense that which
binds cur arctic regions in everlasting
frost, and to a heet compared with
which the fierce noon Of q tropical
day is as the freshness of a spring
morning. They search only over the
lunar disc for the signs of volcanic
action, feeling well assured that no
traces of the existanees will ever be
dafaofad in that daSOlafa orb
Year: 1871

In nine cases out of ten it pays to sell
farm products as soon as they are ready
for the market. The aggregate loss
by holding is at least ten times the
aggregate gain, taking the experience
of any hundred farmers together.


Take'grain. In the natural order
of things, the supply is equal for
the demand. The exceptions are
when war takes from the producing
class, and adds to the consuming
class, which, in addition to the waste
and expense of transportation, inev-
itably augments the demand while
decreasing the production, and of
course increasing the price +; or when
failure of some crop in some section
places the supply below the needs Of
that section, and other and less remote
districts are under the necessity OF
making up the deficiency. But both
of these causes are exceptional. And
as to the failure Of the grain crop in
any section. il has almost become an
axiom that when corn or wheat is
below the average, something else
that can take the place Of one or both
is above, and thus the general average,
except in rare cases, is preserved.


Then as to potatoes. They are gen.
orally less in the Fall than in the
Spring but the larger price in May
rarely if ever nets as much as the
smaller price Of October. The shrink
age in the six months is never less
than % per cent. under the most favor
able circumstances, and is likely to be
much greater.


Take wool. Generally the clip Is
bought up in July and August. II
not sold then, it must be held till the
next year, and, although there is no
shrinking, if properly kept, yet there
is some trouble, the interest of the
money, and the possibility OF even a
less price, which the possible advance
in a very majority of cases never
covers ard thus in every department
of the farm the principle that should
underlie each department of farm
operations is raise the best when the
crop is ready for market, If offered a
fair price let it go.
Year: 1871

At Lawrence. Kansas, on Sunday,
while a minister was holding forth in
the church, a crowd got up cock
fight in the yard. The people who
had congregated in the church went
out to stop the fight, but waited until
the battle was over before objecting.-
The minister looked out of the win
dow at the crowd and said: I'VE are
all miserable sinners-whieh whip
ped ?n
Year: 1871

The Lynchburg Va.) Ne10s says :
What Radicalism wauls us to do is TO
vote the Radical ticket. If we will do
that, and re elect the Grant administra
ton, we might drive the whole negro
race into the Atlsniic, without incurring
the displeaure of the party in power.
We rather think that in that event they
would like to see us do it. If we choose
to have peace We can have it by sur
rendering the power OF the general gov
eminent to Radicslism without resis.
tance. Ii the Southern States will go for
Grant they will be left TO manage their
local affairs as they please. Whether
that on the whole, would be the wisest
policy is question which those who see
fl, to entertain it, may ponder at their
leisure. But nothing short of that viii
be satisfactory.