smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1871

The most sensible remarks yet ut
tered by the courts concerning the
plea of insanity, so freely and loosely
advanced in murder trials now -a-days,
are these, made by Judge Walton OF
the Main Sxpreme Court at the recent
trial of the Hoswell case at Augusta !:


The medical profession have in their
vocabulary several species of insanity
which are so like dcpravity that there
are no reliable testimony by which
the one can be distinguished from the
other. They have homicidal mania,
used to screen neutrality-suspicious.,
used to screen pilferels such as have
an uncomfortable impulse to appro
pirate to themselves the property OF
Others. = =. But of all modern inventions
that which is best calculated to shel,
ter all classes of criminals, is the man
ia transitoria, or, as it is commonly
called, instantaneous insanity. 1t re-
quires no previous preparation. A
man can arm himself, seek his enemy,
level his loaded pistol at him, and at
the moment of pulling the trigger be
seized with sudden fit Of insanity,
become for q moment utterly ire
sponsible for his act, and during that
moment of insanity shoot his enemy
through the heart, and become in
stantly sane again. If called on to an
swer as q criminal, he pleads his in
sanity, and if they attempt to put him
into the insane asylum, he tells you
that this kind Of insanity, like the
measles and smallpox, never attacks
a man but once, and there will be no
danger oe his killing another man in
such C state Of unconsciousness. He
thus escapes both the penitentiary and
the insane asylum.


To allow all these species of insani-
ty to constitute a valid excuse for
crime would paralyze the arm ofjus-
stice. The law against crime would
still exist. but there would be no per-
son against whom it could be enforc-
ed. Under such q state of things
those now known as criminals would
be regarded as lunatics. The dis
tinction between insanity and crime
would be obliterated, for between
these species of insanity and crime
there are no reliable tests. The law
does not take notice of such insanity
There must be a disease of the mind,
defect Of reason resulting from a dis.
eased mind, so that the person does
not know the nature and quality OF
his act, or if he does, does not know it
is wrong. Partial insanity, passion, re-
sentiment, anger, are not insanity
within the meaning Of the law. 1t
may be the insanity of the medical
profession but it is not the insanity as
will excuse men for their criminal
oofr
Year: 1871

for young ladies in one of our late cX'
changes:


Never trihe with the affections OF a
man who loves you; nor admit Of
marked attentions from one whose
affections you cannot return. Some
young ladies pride themselves upon the
conquests which they make, and would
not scruple to sacrifice the happiness
of an estimable person to their repre-
hensible vanity. Let this be far from
you. If you see clearly that you have
become an object of especial regard to
a gentleman, and do not wish TO en-
courage his addresses, treat him hon
orahly and humanity, as you hope to
be used with generosity by the person
who may engage your own heart, Do
not let him luger in suspense, but take
the earliest opportunity of carefully
making known your feelings on the
subject. This may be done in vari
ETY. Of ways. A refined ease Of man
ner will satisfy him, if he has any dis.
cernment, that his addresses will not
be acceptable Should your natural
disposition render this difficult, show
that you wish to avoid his company,
and he will presently withdraw; but if
even this is dilllcult-and who can lay
down rules for another ?-allow an op
portunity for explanation to occur,
You can then give him polite and de.
cisive answer; and be assured that, in
whatever manner you convey your SEN
timents to him, il he be q man Of del
icacy and right feeling, he will trouble
you 10 further. Let it never be said
of you that you permit the attentions
of an honorable man wien you have
no heart to give him, or that you have
trihed with the affections of one whom
you perhaps esteem, although you re
solve never to marry him. 1t MAY be
that his preference gratities, and his
conversation interests you; that you
are tlattered by the attentions Of man
whom some Of your companions ad-
mire; and that, in truth, You hardly
know your own mind on the subject.
This will not excuse you,


Every young woman ought to know
the state of her own hcait; and yet
the happiness and future prospects OF
many an excellent man, have been sac
rifced by such unprncipled conduct


Remember that if a gentleman makes
you an offer, you have no right to
speak Of it. If you possess either gen
erosity or gratitude for offered afiec
ton, you will rot betray a secret which
does not belong to you. 1t is sulIi-
ciently painful to be refused, without
incurring the additional modification
of being pointed out as rejected lover.


If, on the contrary, you encourage
the addresses Of deserving man, be.
have honorably and sensibly. Do not
lead him about as if in triumph, nor
take advantage Of the ascendancy you
have gained by playing with his feel
ings. Do not seek for occasions to
tease him that you may try hisstemper
neither affect indifference, nor provoke
lovers quarrels for the foolish pleasure
of reconciliation. On your conduct
during courship will very much depend
the estimation in which you will be
held by your husband in after life.
Year: 1871

The lesson of planting tall cotton"
taught by the low prices of the staple
has been a severe but wholesome one
to our planters. Now, let them put
in more corn, fatten more hogs, and
plant less cotton, if they want to get
out of the woods.
Year: 1871

+ The symptoms of Liver
Complaint are uneasiness
and pain in the side. Some
times the pain is in the
shoulder, and is mistaken


for rheumatism. The stom-
ach is effected with loss OF
appetite and sickness, bowels
in general costlve, some
times alternating with lax
/ with pain, and dull, heavy
sensation, considerable loss


of memory, accompanied


with painful sensation of hav-
ing left undone something


which ought to have been


done. Often complaining or


weakness, debility and low
Spirits. Sometimes MANY OF
Year: 1871

Reflect that sound mind and body are the
most necessary requisites to promote connubial
bupvncss, Indeed without these the journey
through life becomes weary pilgrimage the
prospect hourly darkens to the view, the mind
becomes shudowcd with despair, and filled with
the me 4nchvly reflection that the happiness OF
aioIh. IS bighted with our own.
Year: 1871

NEARLY two thousand young ladies of Ber-
lin applied for the honorable position Of pre-
senting the laurel-wreath and delivering the
ode of welcome to the Emperor William upon
his entrance into his capital. The young lady
who was finally intrusted.with this task, Miss
Blazer, was selected not only on account Of
her great beauty, but also because she had dis
tinguished herself during the war as nurse in
the hospitals. In accordance with an old-es
tablished custom, the Emperor will hereafter
take care of the young lady, and, in case she
should marry, give her dover of $4,000.
Year: 1871

IT has been ascertained from the statistics
of the General Life Insurance Company of
London, that If 100000 Incorporate persons
be taken from fifteen to seventy years of age,
and an equal number of corresponding ages
who are not incorporate, thirty two of the
former will die rs often as ten of the latter.
Out of 100, 1000 Of each, 16907 of the intem-
perate will be dead before fifty years of age,
but of those who are not Incorporate 4,266
only will be dead.
Year: 1871

The Chicago Tribune explodes
the story that that city was built
of stone heavily charged with
petroleum. 1t says the only build
ing in the city of any size built
of the supposed oil stone was the
Second Presbyterian Church, and
the walls of that building were
not reduced to ashes, but stands
conspicuously erect among the
ruins of a numbered other build
ings utterly destroyed.
Year: 1871

If your child loves flowers do
not hesitate to cultivate and en-
courage the love. Flowers are
eminently refining, and the child
will grow thoughtful, docile and
beautiful under their influence.
Year: 1871

Curiosities OF Memory.


John Kemble used to say that


he could learn q whole number


of tho Morning Post in four days;
and General Christie made a
similar assertion but it is not
known how far either of them
verified this statement. Robert


Dillon could repeat in the morn
ing six columns of q newspaper
he had read over night. During
the Repeal debates in the House
of Commons thirty-seven years
ago, one of the members wrote
out his speech, sent it to the
newspapers, and repeated it to
the House in the evening. 1t
was found to be the same cerba-
tins as that which he had written
out. John Fuller, land agent
in Norfolk, could remember every
word of q sermon, and write it
out correctly after going home.-
This was tested by comparing
his written account with the
clergyman's manuscript. Scali-
ger could repeat a hundred verses
or more after having read them a
single time. Seneca could re-
peat two thousand words on
hearing them once. Magliabecchi,
who had prodigious memory,
was once put to q severe test. A
gentleman lent him u manuscript,
which. !, was read and returned.
The owner, some time afterward,
pretending he had lost it, begged
Magliabecchi to write out as
much as he could remember;
whereupon the latter, appealing
to his memory, wrote out the
whole essay: Cyrus, if some of
the old historians are to be-cred-
tied, could remember the name
of every soldier in his immense
army. There was q Corsican boy
who could rehearse forty thous-
and words, whether sense or nom
sense, as they were dictated, and
then repeat them on the reversed
order, without making single
mistake. A physician of Massa-
chusetts, about half century
ago, could repeat the whole of
paradise LOST without mistake,
although he had not read it for
twenty years. Euler, the great
when he became
blind, could repeat the whole of
Virgil's "Rneid," and could re-
member the first line and the
last line ON every page of the
particular addition which he had
been, accustomed to read before
he became blind.


One kind of retentive memory
may be considered as the result
of sheer hard work, determine
ton toward one particulars achieve
ment, without reference either to
or to memory on
other subjects. This is frequent
ly shown by persons in humble
life in regard to the Bible. An
old beggarman at Stirling, known
some forty years ago as Blind
afforded an Instance of
this. He knew the whole of the
Bible by heart; insomuch that,
if sentence were read to him,
he could name book, chapter,
and verse or, if the book, chap
ter and verse were named, he
could give the exact words. A
to test him, repeated
a verse, purposely making one
verbal inaccuracy Aleck hesi-
tated, named the place where the
passage is to be found, but at
the same time pointed out the
verbal error. The same gentle
man asked him to repeat the
ninetieth verse of the seventh
chapter of the book of Numbers.
almost instantly replied,
'sThere is no such verse; that
chapter has only eighty-nine
Year: 1871

Arctic seas, whereby so many
vessels and their cargOes had to
he abandoned in the ice, and the
Officers and crews brought to
American ports.


The New Bedford Mercury


The news from the Arctic fleet
orle4c most disastrous ever re-
;.oogElkAed by our ship-ownefs worse
Than the tidings Of the depreda-
tions by the, Shenandoah. The
loss lis at least a million of dol
lars; for though most of the
vessels were we'll insured, the
insurance is nearly all in our own
mutual offices. 1t is a blow too,
to the whaling business here,
from which it cannot expect to
recover. Four only Of the ships
in the Arctic belonging here are
saved, and those lost comprised
the best of the fleet. OF course,
in addition to the immediate loss,
is that which must follow the
prostratien of the main business
Of our port. This will not be
abandoned, it is true; but we
have no expectation of ever see
ing the places of the lost ships
supplied. The Union Mutual
Marine Insurance Office has upon
the ships about S5OO,OOO; the
Ocean Office about 415O,OOO.
The amount in the Commercial
we did not learn, but it is proba-
bly, little more than that of the
Ocean.


The Boston Journal says: y


The disaster to the Arctic fleet
is owing to the fact that the
vessels have remained later in
the season in those high latitudes
than prudence would warrant,
and this season they probably
had worked far up the north.
Year: 1871

TIE Senate opened yesterday with
only twelve Senators at their desks for
the consideration of the pending treaty
with England. The correspondents of
the New York Tribune refuse to divulge
the,name of the party they bribed for a
copy of the treaty. 1t remains to be
seen whether the Senate has enough
sense of dignity left to enforce its au-
thority against the BOhemians of the
! eading Radical organ in the country.
Year: 1871

New YORK, May 15.-Dispstches da-
ted Berlin Sunday night says, on the
the 2Sih the Archbishops and Bishops
of the Catholic Church petitioncd the
Emperor of Austria to inform the King
of Italy that the independence of the
Pope is necessary to the Catholic Church,
and to demand that Rome and suitable
territories be Immediately returned to the
Pope. The petitioners also to say that it
is the duty of all other Catholic powers
and Protestant powers also to make the
demand.
Year: 1871

The last spike in the Alabama and
Chattanooga Railroad was driven yester-
day, and the first through train for New
Orleans left Chattanooga last night. Our
sister city at the mountain gate is thus
placed almost on an air line from New
Orleans to Washington and Baltimore.
Year: 1871




WE have recently been shown let
ter written by General Stoneman. It
evinces determined purpose to use
the means at his command TO the best
advantage of the citizens generally.
He says q shall as far as my NELL
tai and physical capabilities will al
low, do ali iii my power to protect and
develope one of the most valuable por-
tions of the American continent re
fsrring to Arizona.


A New York World dispatch, from
Washington, purporting to give ex-
tracts from and al abridgement of the
Generals report, has occasioned much
acrimonious criticism on the whole
document. The telegraph has carried
abroad throughout the country that
Governor Stafford, in his annual mes
sage, recommended an determination
of the Apaches, the very thing he did
not do; now it may be that correct
reading of Gen. Stoneman's whole re-
port will show The Worlds dispatch
to be as greatly at fault. To get at
the exact truth of the matter, we have
sent for copy of the report and, if
received, as we believe it will be, it
shall appear in full in THE CITIZEN.
Until we receive or are refused the re-
port, we shall refrain from criticising
it.
Year: 1871

Us After All.


A T-omhn in a neighborhood is
only exceeded by another woman.
She can love truer or hate worse
than the men of ordinary calibre.


She can make q home a little
Heaven or little hell, and less cap
ital than any other busiress cen be
carried on with.


She can make a ten or a hundred
dollar bill go up, o! so quick?


She can drive a man out Of a
house, if her tongue be working all
right, quicker than Beast Butler
could get away with a set Of spoons.


She is better than pine or stone
coal to keep neighborhood boiling
hot and home more unendurable
than a burn on your thumb joint,
all the time making you think she
is a package of refined innocence, a
saint, a favorite angelic advertising
agent for Gabriel.


She can kiss another woman
sweeter and then talk about her
worse than one of those Reform
Republicans can talk about the
President.


She knows more by intuition of
all the'affairs of the neighborhood
than Grant knows about his rela-
tions or the post-office presents he
receives, or is willing to.


She can be nice to a woman she
hates than a carpet-bag politician is
to a negro before he has voted.


She can walk further to display a
new dress than a loyal or disloyal
contraband could travel for chick
ems in the night.


And God love her, If she loves a
man she will stick to him longer
than the Dent family to the immor-
tai speech-maker, Ulysses.


Like dollars, good womea are
hard to get, hard to keep, bother
some to look after; but here is a
conundrum: How can we get along
without them.
Year: 1871

a cERTAIS amount Of opposition
is a great help to man. Kites rise
against the wind. No man ever
worked his passage anywhere in q
dead calm. Let no man wax pale,
therefore, because opposition; il is
what he he must have to be good
for anything. He who cannot abide
the storm without iinching lies
down by the wayside to be over
looked or forgotten.
Year: 1871

The recent freshet has rendered
the ford on Sugar Creek at Lam
beth's ferry very unsafe. The citi-
zens in that neighborhood want
bridge and they have already taken
steps towards building one.
Year: 1871

The Festival Committee requests all Ger
Of NewYork and its enyirOns TO suspend business
Monday and invites the public at large to unite in
The celebration 1t is stated that the Mayor will order
the streets along line OF Mondays procession to be
cleaned on Sunday night.


The New-YOrk Turnveren, which will not participate
n the Grand Peace Celebration account of religious
feature has arranged separate celebration, consisting
Of a Vorfeier at the Turn Hall, on Sunday, when Dr.
Won Hoist will deliver OratiOn and decoration Of the
busts of Schiller and Humboldt in Central Park Mon
lay by the ladies OF the organization.
Year: 1871

by amendment to the bill FOR the consolidation Of
the debt the above sum is included in the amount to be
consolidated.


The Governor has signed the bills for the consolidation
OF debt OF NewYOTk City and County and for aid to
fhe viaduct Railway. The latter bill was amended by
dy-oertainy not by either the Senate or Assem-
lily Of the State Of NewYork-by the insertion of a
clause stating that nothing contained in the bill should
be construed authorize the construction of surface
railroad in any of the streets Of New-YOrk City.


The last clause of the amendment to the Tax Levy bill
added in the Senate yesterday, to modify consid
eraby force of what precede in relation TO sectaran
schools II provides that the excise moneys derived
frOm licenses for the sale OF intoxicating liquors since The
organization Of the present Board Of Eretse ConmisSion
era and the hereafter received for such licenses
may be appropriated for charitable purposes by the
Board OF AppOriOnment they determine from
fine 10 time What is this but the conversion OF the
excise moneys into special fund for the assistance OF
sectariau schOOlsi


The senate has adjourned from p M to-day un-
IN Monday evening The Assembly has voted 10 adjourn
srom tomorrow az until Monday evening Bnsi-
,es has rushed throughout the week at reakneck
fecd i'm order that final adjournment may be reached
on Friday or Saturday next yet L Is some nat dOnDlui
whether that end can be accomplished. The period OF
800 days expires Wednesday next after which the s5
per diem 70 molnbeTs Of the Legislature ceases
Year: 1871

"Who are your / never met youl You
owe me nothing" HHs


Will you remain here2" Hh


Yes, if you need us. "


After time the noble-looking woman
sat in comfortable chair near the crate,
her lovely daughter at her feet, and Ralph
Bertram brought forth the sketch and
told the story. Mga


And are you the great painter, Ralph
Bertram2" asked Agnes.


" | am Ralph Bertram," he answered,
smilingly. ti


And the great picture Of which we
have read was only poor mamma and
sitting upon the bank of that beautiful
river in the country where we visited
last summer2 How strangei'


Agnes La Grange was happy and con-
tented in the splendid room, and with
her head resting upon her mothers lap,
heard her tell the story of her father S
death, their flight across the sea from
France, Of their struggles and hardships,
and their utter loneliness, and smiled
when Ralph Bertram gave his hand and
begged them to accept his friendship.


The art gallery was crowded, and all
the fashion of the city was out and prom
enading up and down the grand saloon,
and passing before Bertram's picture, to
admire and compliment. All at once
there was buzz, and the crowd parted
on either side. Down the opening came
Bertram, with lady leaning on either
arm, and as he passed murmur went
around. fttA


THE face is his picture How beau
tifull How perfectW


Ralph was never happier nor prouder
than when he stood with his fair com
panions and heard their words of praise
and when Agnes whispered n


" 1t is grand, Ralph, and | am proud
of you.


My darling, your praise is worth
more than all else to me" he answered;
and he pressed her hand tenderly and
looked into the dark eyes, worshiping
her glorious beauty with all his heart.


Once more the world gathered to envy
and admire, when Agnes and the hand
some artist stood before the altar in the
church and were made one.


The great picture brought him for
tune, and the original brought comfort
and peace.
Year: 1871

Many a wife might read the following
paragraph from Emerson, and be wiser
theretor


o excellent wifel incumber not your
self and me to get curiously rich din
ner for this man or woman who has
alighted at our gate, nor bedchamber
made at too great a cost These things,
If they are curious in them, they can get
for few shillings in any Villa5si pat
rather lst the stranger See, II be vii, In
your looks, accent and behavior your
heart and earnestness, your thought and
will, that which he cannot buy at any
price in the city, and for which be may
well travel twenty miles, and dine spar
iugly and sleep lit;ls, "A osheld Let
not the emphasis of hospitality lie in
bed and board; but let trhth and love,
and honor and courtesy, How in all thy
deeds,
Year: 1871

[Alice Carey spent her last weary summer in
New England, and there she wrote the follow
ing beautiful lines. While they serve TO re-
mind us ofhow much genius must henceforth
be hidden in the grave, they disclose with a
plaintiveness and pathos most touching that
in Alice Carey nature there was such a wealth
of beautiful thought that her anguish was
often forgotten even when death was gathering
its deeper shadows around j
0 Summerl my beautiful, beautiful Summer! |!
look in thy face, and long so to- live;
But, ah hast thou room for an idle new


conner, =


kindness,


The wine fthy sunshine. the dew of thy air; /;
And with nothing to give but the deafness and
Begot in the depths of an utter despair?
Asif the gay harvester meant but to screen her,
The black spider sits in her low loom and
A lesson of trust to the tender-eyed cleaner
That bears in her brown arms the gold of the


sheaves.


The biue-bird that trills her low lay in the


bushes


The rose pays the sun for his kiss with her


blushes,


And all things pay tithes to thee-all things


but me!
At even, the fire flies trim with their glimmers
The wild, weedy skirts of the field and the


wood;
At morning, those dear little yellow-winged


swimmers,


The butterflies, hasten to make their places


good.


The violet, always so white and so saintly;
The cardinal. warming the frost with her


blaze;
The ant, keeping house at her sand-hearth so


quantity,


Reproaches my idle and indolent ways.
When o 'er the high east the red morning is


breaking,


And driving the amber of starlight behind,
The land of enchantment leave, on awaking,
Is not so enchanted as that which | find.
And when the low west by the sunset is nat
And Locust and catydid sing up their best.
Peace comes to my thoughts, that were used TO
Like doves when an eagles wing darkens


their nest.
The green little grasshopper, weak as we deem
Chirps. day in and out. for the sweet right


to live;


And canst thou, summer make room for


dreamer,


With all things to take. and with nothing to


giveY
Room only to wrap her hot cheeks in thy


shadows,


And on thy daisy-fringed pillows to lie,.
And dream of the gates of the glorious
Where never a rose of the roses shall die!