smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1875

1t is admitted that few churches, except the
Roman Catholic, have been recently construc-
TED IN Boston without mourning liabilities far
from Justitable; and that these have proved To
De enormous burdens upon the congregations.
restricting all holy influences, and too often
causing ill-feeling between pastor and people.
w nen these vast and elegant structures are
6ullt and the debt incurred the necessity fol-
lows that they must be crowded with rich peo-
pie, who can buy pews at great prices, nav
nign taxes, and give largely towards the liaui.
datlon OF the debt. Hence the necessity for a
pastor who can draw! The pulpit is put upon
the same standing as the stage of theatre.
ana whether or or preacher, he is the best
man who can in the quickest time and the more
continuously draw his house! This wretcbed
naDlt (for 1t seems to have become such in large
clties) OF getting into debt seems to stand by
ITSELF among Che uprighteous things of the
World, winch IS permitted to increase without
suitable apprehension A merchant a bank or
any public institution gets into debt and must
immediaiely fa'l. A poor man or woman goes
beyond his or her means an meets the conse-
quences in public dsdain or odium, But
churches are permitted to be built and to lin
ger on under a load of debt and uptulflled
promises to pay. We do not see apy Needed
warning taken from previous precedent. In
fact, incumbents of parishes even, allew them
SO to be built, knowing all the true how far the
excess OF expenditure will exceed the means of
payment. Where is the clergyman who will
nave the courage to say to any building COM
mittee, Gentlemen, will preach to YOU if Won
Will build the church without debt. If Won
go one cent beyond your means | shall NOT he
your pastor. boston Transcript.
Year: 1875

We trust that our readers will not fall to be
present at City Hall tonight to listen to the
first speeches of the campaign which may be
considered the skirmish preceding the gen
eral contest of the Presidential year.


GEN. STEWART T.. WooDFoRD of New
York has, in che past, delivered several of the
best political speeches ever made in this city.
He is an effective, earnest and eloquent speak
er, and represents the progressive element of
the party. He is not in Maine to participate
in the campaign, but being in this region he
consents to speak in this city. We trust he
may be induced to favor our Maine people
with several of his effective and earnest
speeches.


SENATOR MORTON is one of the most COM
pact and logical speakers in the country. The
Boston Journal says of Mr.. Morton:


Unlike so many others, even able men who
have formed the habit of constant talking
before audiences, whether they happen to be
III buC uiOOu iOl IL VI uOt, uc wastes no Llm6
in useless verbiage, but always speaks with a
Webster-like directness and compactness. He
has no stories TO tell and INDUCES in no per-
sonalities, but grasps the main points and
argues them out with lucidity which makes
him comprehended by all, and with depth
ana freshness which never fail to enchain the
interest OF the best-informed.


GEN. CoNNoR, our gallant standard-bearer,
will receive an enthusiastic greeting from the
people of this city who appreciate his brilliant
military record and claim it as part cf the
history of Maine. Faithful and illustrious in
the hour of peril, those who hear his thought
ful and manly:utterances will have no doubt
but that he. will bring to the office of Chief
Magistrate of the State that patriotic pur-
pose, well balanced mind, strict integrity, and
constant devotion to public affairs, which
will make him as illustrious in civil life as
the same qualities have made him conspicu-
GUS in time of war. LET US HAVE A GRAND
RALLY!
Year: 1875

The burden of the cry of the rag money
demagogues-the Aliens, Carys and Kelleys-
is that further imitation of the currency will
be most beneficial to laboring men, and that
any approach to specie payments would be a
wrong to that class little short of an outrage.
The statistics of farm wages, as published by
the Department of Agriculture, show that in
the period of the war, when imitation was at
its greatest point, the advance in wages was
not at all in proportion to the general rise in
the prices of all the articles of food and
rament required by the laborer; and this,
too, in spite of the fact that the supply of
labor had been greatly reduced by the de-
mand for men for the army. 1t should be
remembered by every man who depends upon.
his day labor for support, whether he is
clerk in the counting room or at work for
farm wages, that the last thing which would
leel the temporary and illusive benefit
OF an Imitation Of the currency would
be the price of labor. The fictitious stim-
ulus which more paper money would
give to business, would send up the prices of
house-rent, food and raiment, while salaries
and days wages would remain the same for
a long time, or advance so slowly as to be
almost imperceptible. The purchasing power
of the dollar he receives will be diminished,
while the number Of dollars he gets would
not be increased.


On the other hand, in the business de-
preston of the past few years and the reac-
tion of prices, labor has not suffered so keenly
as capital. Wages have declined, but iu no
proportion to the general fall of prices. In
fact, the following table of farm wages per
month, without board, shows how slightly
wages have been affected compared with the
common decline in most of the commo moditins
Year: 1875

These hgures show that the man who
depends upon his day labor for his support
has everything TO lose and nothing to gain by
an imitation of the currency. Demagogues
may argue otherwise, but their theories are
overturned by few common sense facts
which are selfevident. 1t is selfevident
TACT that when a man contracts to give so
many days work for so many dollars, and
those dollars are of a paper currency which
is deprecated by over-issue, he is robbed in
just the proportion that money has been
cheapened.
Year: 1875

We do not read anonymous letters and cemmuni-
cations The name and address of the writer are in
all cases Indispensable not necessarily for publication
but as a guaranty OF good faith.


We cannot undertake to return or reserve commu-
Eications that are not used.
Year: 1875

rection to the policy OF Maine. We call at


tention to the following comments on Mr.


Pillsbury's uncxampled piece of malice:
If the Maine Standard expects to make
| political capital by caricaturing soldiers Grip
ped in the defence of their country, it is


sadly in error. The people OF this state are


not yet prepared to look upon such an ex-


hloliion with any degree of pleasure and will
surely resent it at the po!s.-Lincola County
a mistaken joke is that of the Standard in
sending out its extras with caricature of
zen. Connor on crutches! When the hon.
oraDle wounds OF a soldier are made an OBJ
ject OF rdicule, and offered as such by a
party organ, the joke goes wrong end fore
most. No Democrat will laugh at it or give
it countenance. 1t is an unucky Joke. and
will tell very pungen.ly the other way.-
WdteruiLle Mail.


We have before us an extra of the Maine


Standard, Pillsbury's sheet, which the Dem
ocratic party are so unfortunate as to have to
own as their organ in Kennebec county. One
OF the leading devices in it is a caricature of
Gen. Connor on crutches. The base man
VINO could send forth from his office carica-
lure OF the misfortune which befe another
while hghting to save his country from its in
ternal toes, with whom history shows that
man to have been in sympathy, is capable of
any crime forbidden by the laws of our coun-
Try. All honest Democrats land we trust
There are some) will scoIn such baseness. and
turn from the party which sanctions it. The
document will cut severely in a way its au-
tnor does not desire or hope.-Machias Re.
publican.
Year: 1875

Many business men of intelligence
and experience look for a decided i'm
provement in commercial affairs with
thespproaeh of the fall months. Values
of industrial products have now about
reached the bottom, and many articles
of staple consumption can be bought at
lower rates than those which prevailed
before the war. The heincreasing demand
for American products, AT higher rates,
beyond the Atlantic, will give the masses
of our people the money to buy with.
While crops of many kinds have not
been large this season, there has re-
manned on hand a great quantity of last
years productions unsold, because the
markets were unsatisfactory. The re-
cent rise in the prices of grain has added
stock, and it is going off at a rate whose
effects must soon be felt in the current
of trade. of course it is only by pro-
dueing and selling something of value
that we can honestly etmoney- There
can be no such thing as making times
easy by putting the government stamp
on great quantities of paper unless the
people have a corresponding amount of
property to exchange for it. Here is the
weak point of those political schemes
which propose to provide everybody
with plenty of money in defiance of the
laws of financial economy. No matter
how many convertible bonds and circu-
lating notes the Government might pre-
pare, nobody could get the notes unless
he had the bonds to exchange for them,
and nobody could get the bonds unless
they were bought with something else Of
equivalent value. And no one has yet
gone so far as to propose that the cur
rency thus provided shall be given away
for nothing to those of US who would
like to have more of it. No, we may as
well recognize the truth that there can
be no actual wealth that is not earned
in some way-for which value of some
kind is not rendered, And now we as a
nation are getting into more favorable
condition; our grain and flour, our cot
ton, and our products of iron and coal
are growing in value in our hands, and
are more readily convertible into other
forms of property; and our commercial
relations with other nations have AS
sumed much better aspect. With this
foundation we may reasonably look for
a general business revival-not a stimu-
lated and unwholesome spurt of trade,
but n movement that will be in all its
parts healthful and permanent.-DOyles-
torn (Pa.) IHtelligenceT.
Year: 1875

THE knowledge Of God is gained a. a
knowledge of man is gained, By living
much with him. II we only come across
man occasionally and in public, and
see nothing Of him in his private and
domestic life, we cannot be said 10 know
him.
Year: 1875

LECTURE BY RALPH WALDO EMEhSoN'
HIS ONLY APPEARANCE ON THE PLATFORM THIS


sEAsoN-A LECTURE IN THE REGULAR COURSE


AT CONCORD.


frRox A REGULAR CORRESPONDENT OF THE TRiBuNEI


BosroN. Feb. 11-Mr. Emerson has been proof
against the many urgent invitations to lecture
which come TO him from oil quarters and had not
spoken in public once this season until last even
ipc. when he delivered q lecture in the regu-
lar Lyceum course at his own homo. He
has remained even more closely confined at home
this Winter than usual. and the Radical Club
where he was won't to be regular visitor has seen
less Of him than usual. The audience last evening
was large but it comprised very few strangers
Doubtless there would have been many present
from the city. as there was a late train by which
they might have returned but no public notice was
given and it is doubtful if a tenth part of Mr. En-
erson's friends knew that he was to speak lie was
introduced in the usual form by the Chairman oil
the Lecture Committee, and was received with ap-
plause.
Year: 1875

possible, Mr. Wilson Of Indiana wintroduce OIL heA'
Monday ordering their cancellation and destruction.


Ibaye IN this letter given few reasons why no new
Government should be set up in this District during
the present session Of Congress- and have indicated
some Of the that should be passed Congress
can do no than to leave the present Commission
ers u charge until next Winter comforting upon the IN
such powers as they may deem necessary to enable
them to carry the Government here successfully
Year: 1875

The Executive Committee of the Western
Union Telegraph Company held meeting on Saturday
and resolved TO reduce their rates to mako them
correspond with those OF the Atlantic and Pacific Com
pany II h understood that the latter will resolve TO
uoubo the number ot words transmitted AZ the samo
Year: 1875

The following important notice is sent to the
COMMERCIAL, requesting us to make mention Of
its facts for the benefit of those Of our readers
who may be interested in the bonds Of the
Northern Pacific Railroad Co. We suggest that
it might be judcious for them to hold meeting
or otherwise secure concert OF action, in order
to put themselves III the most favorable posi-
tion The notice Ia as follows -
Year: 1875

In the short period of six months
the increase of interest in South
ern affairs and Southern oppOrtu-
mites amounts to an enthusiasm,
even as compared with the great
interest before manifest upon the
same subject. Neither gentlemen
of the press who have a treadmiil
of their own, which is the legiti-
mate and laudable ambition of all
Journalists, nor the more fortunate
of the same fraternity whose mill
Is not only their daily walk but
their daily choice, their pride, their
hope and their proved and approv-
ed prosperity in the share of a
bank account or more substantial
possessions, are likely to. have so
clear q conception of this advance
as one who has stood .si le from
the channels of communication
with it, even for so short u period.
without abating any interest of his
own. The change is well-nigh as
tonishing, both in the press and
among the people of all sections.
Any intelligent journalist may
verify this fact by reference to his
own files, his exchanges--if he has
them-and his correspondence of
last spring, or any previous period.
The wave has advanced since that
time to the irresistible tide. As
compared with the present, the
press OF last winter is tame, insipid
and casual in its treatment of this
subject. And IN this, as in every
other honest thing, the honest press
and the honest people are one.
Capitalists of all sections and of
other lands are looking to the South
as to the promised land. which in
every worldly sense, if not in every
other, it is. Labor looks in the
same direction. with the same hope.
as if unconsciously rebuking the
ignorant malcontents, sophists and
demagogues who affect to ignore
the fact that the interests of capt.
tai and labor are one. The best OF
our Northern people, iudulging in
the delusions of hope and comfort
ably busy during the summer,
have aroused from the compara-
tive indifference incident to present
ease, to a new and earnest inquiry
and provision tor the future.
Within the last twenty-four hours
the inquiries in this Office regard
ing Southern affairs with O view to
Southern emigration, concerns the
personal hopes and interests Of a
score or two of worthy families, be-
sides numerous worthy individuals
of all classes, outside of them.
There was never before such q per-
petual and persistent "desire to
know" everything concerning the
South. Southern colonists, asso-
Citations; landowners and people
of every class should join with us
and the whole Southern press in
meeting this desire. Maps, facts
and correspondence must be multi
piled and increased indefinitely.
TIE interests of the Soath, the
truest patriotism and the broadest
philanthrophy, are one in this mat
ter. The Southern jubilee is COM
menced. Let it not be retarded by
the indifference of Southern. Mi.
cawbers. More faith, more work,
more individual endeayor for the
general good,
Year: 1875

Othou tomorrow Mystery
o day that ever runs before
- What has thy hidden hand in store
For min-. to morrow. ard for met
D thou To morrow What hast thou
In store To make me bear thee nowS
o day in which we shall forget
The tangled trouble 30 to day!
q day that laughs at duDs at debts
o day Of promises to payi
o shelter from all present storm
o day 10 which We shall reform!
o day Of all days for reform
Convenientd day Of promises
Hold back the shadow Of the storm,
U Siessd tomorrow Chiefest friend,
Let not thy mystery be less.
But lead Us blindfold to the end.


Joaquin Ailrr.
Year: 1875

Nice butter they make in the
Quaker City. There are at least
two dairymen and butter-RakeFs in
the neighborhood of Philadelphia
who always sell their butter at one
dollar pound, and cannot supply
all who desire to be their customers.
One of these attributes his success
to three points-Good food for his
cows, uniform temperature of So
degrees in the milk room, and neat
ness, cleanliness and dainty nicely
at every step, from the moment the
milk is obtained until the dollar is
paid for the pound of butter.
Year: 1875

y
streets, holding. perhaps . noble
old cathedral or bridge. make de-
islands Of color On the wall. But
even these should be taken in
moderation; one is usually enough
to brighten q room. III IL is a very
good one-and it ought to be--it
may be placed over the mantel-the
place where the most warmly col
ored and consequently cheerful
picture should always be hung.
Valuable engrayings are to be ac-
cumulated slowly. and those who
do not know how to select them
judiciously should ask some more
cultivated friend to do it for them.
1t is always better to buy the print
unframed and have the framing
done in accordance with ones
means. Joan should remember
that one of the best points Of a
well-framed engraving is an appro-
pirate s4mat"-the inner frame of
pasteboard which immediately sur
rounds the picture. With deep
and handsome "mat" less eiaBc.
ratesframe is required, and in some
cases when the print has n clear,
broad margin, and the impression
is very dark, an inch-wide frame OF
ungrooved, oiled walnut is sufficient
without a "mat." 1t is well, al
ways, to speud most money on the
print and least on the framing,
which can easily be simple without
having vulgarly cheap look.


Plaster casts, when they are
good copies of fine antiquities, are
handsome and not expensive. The
dead white of plaster is somewhat
trying to the eye, and it is there
fore better to have it colored a deli
cate pale gray. A piece Of warm
ly tinted velvet or broadclOth
thrown carelessiy over and hiding
a wooden framework makes n very
effective background for an artistic
cast. Excellent diminished copies
of some OF the more famous an
tiqucs may be bought for from S.
to $l8. These casts are sometimes
bronzed, but it is hardly advisable
to indulge in this very cheap imi
tation.


There are countless small things
which are not costly, but which
help to make a room delightful
and home-like. The nearest car
penter will make for little money
water-tight wooden box, which
painted green and filed with grow
ing plants, will, with little care,
keep Summer in a sunny window
all Winter. A pot or two of Eng
lish ivy placed On brackets, the
vines being trained around pic
lures or doorways, give beauty
and cheeriness at very small cost.
A tall vase filled with dried grass
es, oats, and autumn leaves, with
wireIengthened stems inserted in
sand, will make a dim corner
lovely; graceful little training
bunch of pressed ferns. leaves, and
bitter-sweet berries. fastened light
ly on a picture cord, will brighten
the faded engraving under it. A
quaint bit of cid china, photographs
of famous places and people, scat
tered carelessly about ones tables
all these tribes and more help to
make, without much expense,
very cozy and charming roOm.-
The last requisite is of course that
it be lived in; any room which is
left to silence and darkness more
than half the time the fate of too
many parlors-can never be really
cheerful.
Year: 1875

RecolIeesSOns OF ahe Impeachment


Trial.


From "Reminiscences by J. Z. McCuuash. in
the st. Louis GlobeaDemocrst.


That night Mr. johnson spoke very
freely about the impending trial.
gathered from his manner and tone
that 30 far from being afrad Of conv1c-
ton, he rather eourted the martyrdom
of 1t. He said that If they convicted
him he would start out through the
country with view of convicting them
before the people. In his most tronb-
lous hours he never lost faith In bis
ability to show the people th ut he was
the sole defender of the Con stitutiou.
I have always thought that nothing
would have suited him better than to
have walked out of the White House
on a warrant of conviction and entered
upsn another swing of the circle, one
more elaborate than the first am
borne out In this assertion by the well
known fact that he allowed Jere. Black
to withdraw from his defense rather
than give his official sanction TO cor
rupt land trade in which Blaok was In.
terested, He told Black that ne would
rather be convicted ten times over than
purchase not oily defense but hcquittal
at such a price. Undoubtedly money
wasused In variety of ways % defeat
the scheme Of conviction, and, what Ia
more, there was a good deal more mon
ey ready to be used In case of neGessi-
ty, There were votes cast for convic.
tion that could have been persuaded
In the other direction in case OF an
emergency. The great consideration
with anti-impeachers was to make
sure of 10 votes. I believe there were
ffty-four men In the Senate then, and
they were cautious enough to get q
few alternates as they do In cnven-
tions. The asseveration may be re-
ceived with incredulity, and yet make
1t from we'll grounded knowledge,
that johnson got some of his most eff.
Client help from the society ladies OF
Washington; not tho resident Rebels
or Democrats of the Capital, but the
wives and daughters of some of the
most ardent impeachers in Congress.
There was womanly sympathy for
johnson from the beginning of his
troubles.
Year: 1875

/ With regard to these aforesaid individuals
! the District Attorney and the ret red
| County Clerk-we shall take very good care
they shall have "a back seat" as for any fur
ther favors we have TO deal out here, and the
sooner they abandon their present notions,
and devote their attention to their legitimate
individual pursuits, tie b tier f., them
selves.


Proficiency in the knitting business" is
apparently the most important thing for
them now and they should be made aware
that if they cannot save money during the
present short time they are in offce-euough
To provide themselves each one with knit
ting machine"--most assurcdlv they never
can get one from the county, for no claim,
entresty, or begging device, whether pred
Gated upon a sick head, broken back, or
lame leg, can have any further influence he g
now. This kind of thing having abused ou r
patience long enough. has died OF its own
effects-a natural death-all played ont now
For their instruction and comfort, they are
hereby informed that il is already settled as
for the forthcoming administration of our
town affairs for the next ensuing wear of
1878, resultant upon the next election, Tu -
day, April 6, 1873; and the names of our
officers will be as follows