smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1875

At 10 o'clock A. NJ, TO nominate candidates for
the Assembly and for county offces, TO be
supported by the Independent voters of said
county at the coming election.


The apportionment of delegates is based on
the vote OF 1873. Delegates will be elected by
ballot, and all residents OF the county are
qualified TO vote at the elections hereinafter
called who are in hearty sympathy with the
reform movement and who will pledge them
selves TO support the Peoples Independent
Party in the approaching county election.


Elections for Delegates to said Convention
will be held in the several voting places on
Year: 1875

"


A MATRIMONIAL AGREEMENT. = The
following copy of an agreement, pres
pared ir ls4e. by a woman who wanted
to live happily with her Troublesome
husband. is published in the Knoxville
Press and Herald:


You do solemnly swear that you never
will beat nor ems orAbuse me without
CRATER pfoyication than + have given
voa; that yoa win not dehar me from
going to see my connection and neigh-
bors when oper.unity permits nor them
from coaing 10 my amusement or assist
ance in sickness nor health; that you
will not be against going with me to
meeting or forme to go on the same
terms; that you will never throw up
what has beens passed in angoir; that
you will provide house room handy to
water, and stay thares that you will not
move me out of the settlement without
l am willirg to go; that you will pro
vide things to work ON an with; that
vou will not treat me with the hard hip,
fiout or wound my feelings as you have
done, but perform the duties Of husband
and try for living in peace on all sids.
l do most solemnly swear l Will not
throw up what has been passed IN
angior; that will not fiout nor wound
your feelings without cause. that VIII
perform the duty of a wife asafar ms
health an reason will admit. will
treat YOU with kindness While you do
ME. and try for a living in peace on all
sids. -
Year: 1875

ty4 1t Is said that kerosene and rats
nave no affection for each o.her.1 The
Kerosene is not particularly sensitive,
but rats are, and refuse to live, 50 it is
SAID, In the same cellar or shed where
kerosene is kept. A great quantity of
kerosene is not necessary, as they only
require steady odor of it for brief
season 10 be looking up another board
ing house.
Year: 1875

REPORT OF THE COMMISSION EXPECTED by SEPT G.


New YORK. Aug. 25.
The commission on Rapid Transit, now en-
gagged in discussion in relation to the route to
be selected, express the opinion that they
will decide upon route by September 9th
two days in advance of the time
fixed by law. They believe the fare will be fixed
at five or three cents, which they think will en-
able the poor class to live in the suburb and
help to empty the overcrowded tenement houses
in the city
Year: 1875

TIE CITY INsasE.-The joint Committee
on Public Grounds and Buildings Of the City
Council met yesterday morning in the Coun-
Gil Chamber, and had conference with
Judge Guigon, of the Hastings Court, on the
subject of the insane OF the city, now con-
fined in the city Jail. 1t will be remem bered
that some time ago a resolution was adopted
hy the Council looking 10 the better care Of
this unfortunate class Of people. The COM
mittce discussed three propositions-yiz.,o Of
building an addition to the jail; of accom-
rodatiny the unalics at the city almshouSe;
or Of contracting with the Church Institute
b! tic year for their temporary care until
more suitable quarters can be provided. 1t
Is probable that the latter plan will be
auOptcd.
Year: 1875

1t is astonishing that men who
have good sense about trading and
making money, manifest such ut
ter want of judgment in the MAJ
ter of advertising. For instance:
A has land, stock, grain, furni.
ture, &C., for sale. He writes a
few notices and sticks them up,
saying he will offer for sale on
certain day. Ten to one the or
biography and wording of the ad-
vertisement is eXecrable, and
many can not read it who could
read a printed hand bill. Besides,
many will not stop to read what
is written as readily as they would
stop to read what is printed
But, suppose the advertisement
were to be published in the coun-
ty newspaper. 1t would cost a
few dollars, of course, to do this,
but 1t would be read forthwith by
the public at largely monied
and trading men, for as a general
rule, these are the men who take
the newspapers. And if the adver-
tisement IN the paper should only
cause one man more to attend the
sale, this man might bid on vari-
Gus articles, and whether they be
"knocked down" to him or not,
his bid causes them to bring in
the aggregate a great deal more
than the publisher would get
for advertising. Verify, it is
strange that men should allow a
nickle to shut out the size of
dollar. They hold the nickel too
close to their eyes.
Year: 1875

1t is admitted that there is
not near enough gold in the u
nited States to give Us an ex-
elusive metal currency. But
the gold-resumption advocates
tell us that there is enough for a
gold basis. BY basis they mean
promises to pay in specie from
banks and corporations. How
can there be a basis which is no
basis? IF there is not gold e.
nough to meet the wants of the
people as a currency, how can
any basis it represents then be
enough? Is the created gr.ater
than the creator? Can there be
a large pyramid erected upon a
small base?
Year: 1875

y new and amusing cure for


love has lately been found efec-
tive in a fashionable Partisan


laubourg. The son Of a veal
thy nobIeman became enamored
OF his fathers concierge, (door
porter, and determined to mar
~ her. The aristocratic papa
opposed, but moved at last by
the despair of his son, gave his
consent with the proviso that
the smitten youth go to sea


for twelve months before the
marriage. Shortly after his de-


parture, the father,who had pre-


viously noticed an embonpoint
in the young intended, took her
under his especial charge. gave
her the most nourishing and sue
ouIcnt food and wines, forbade
her to take exercise as unbe-
coming III his future daughter,
and in fact, stall-fed her to such


an extent that when the engaged
swain returned from his years
voyage, he was mortified to find
instead Of the slender, elegant
girl he had left, an immensely
fat woman, as big as two Abb
ons rolled into one. OF course
the rusc was successful, and the
victim of good
cheer has been pensioned off.
Year: 1875

A "charm doctor recently re-
stored the speech of a Tennessee
woman who had been dumb for
seven years, and the last seen of
him be was sitting on a rail fence
picking the buck shot out Of his
head, while the infuriated hus-
band was hustling toward home
to reload his gun.
Year: 1875

A Maryland doctor agreed to
cure cripple by the ''laying on
of hands," and failed to do so,
which so grieved him that he
laid hands on the cripple's mule
and went off with him at mid
night.
Year: 1875

The Chicago Tribune says
that first class carpenters in
that city, who a year ago got
So a day, are now glad to
get $1.50 per day, and that this
decline in the cost of labor runs
through the whole list of en-
ployments.
Year: 1875

A Georgia man who rode on to
see the coroner the other day, con-
fidenlly remarked to the iLdivid-
ual that it was astonishing to see
how high niger in a watermel-
on patch can jump when you fire
at him from behind. The coroner
smiled slowly and then proceeded
to hunt up ajury.
Year: 1875

A BALTIMORE lady Of wealth and pi'
ETY. is said to have remained single un.
til the age Of forty years, refusing
many offers, because she had resolved
to marry no man except clergyman.
A while ago she was welded to pen.
nilcss but dcvout pastor of a little
church. and the honeymoon was hard
ly over before he resigned his charge
and set up as a broker with her money.
Sich is life.
Year: 1875

RACE.-At the Seattle race
track, tomorrow at l o'clock, P.
M, there will be a race between
Confidence and Tom Merry mile
and repeat. The race is not for
money but IS simply a square
race to see which is the best
horse. Both horses are in fine
condition, will be ridden by their
jocks, and will run to make time.
Everybody is invited out to see
them, as it will be their last race
on a track before going over to
Oregon.
Year: 1875

CHINESE Row.-There was "a
lively row among the Chinese
in a wash house in the south
end of town last night. It was
quieted by the arrest Of Uh Lee,
the principal disturber, who was
brought before Justice Scott and
required to pay fine Of S. and
costs for assault and battery.
Year: 1875

GONG BELOW. Jameson
leaves for below on the first OF
October, to purchase stock and
fixtures for his new brick store,
till which time he offers his en-
tire present stock and fixtures
at cost. This is an opportunity
to buy jewelry cheaper than ey-
Year: 1875

CENsUs.-The census of the
city and county for the year has
been filed in the Auditors Office.
There are so many and gross
blunders and the returns are so
palpably incorrect that that we
have decided not to publish
them.
Year: 1875

We are indebted to the Board of Assessors
Of the State and city for the following inter
esting data. The first table gives the as
sessed value OF real estate and personal
property in the city of New Orleans, sub
ject to taxation by the State Of Louisiana
for the year 1875, exigible in 1876. and
showing the difference of assessed value for
the year 1874, exigible in 1875. aud Of 1875.
extgible in 1876:
Year: 1875

As bit of foreign gossip it is reported
that "a eouse recently died in Paris at the
age OF go years" This after being tough
enough to live through the German seise
What goose to die
Year: 1875

A century ago what man discovered
in the arts ne concealed. Workmen we're
put upon oath never to reveal the pro-
cess used by their employers. Doors
were kept closed, visitors vigorously ex-
cluded from admission, and false opera
tions blinded workmen themselves. The
mysteries Of every craft we're hedged in
BY the set fences Of empirical preten-
tions and judicial affirmation. The royal
manufactures Of porcelain, for example,
were carried on in Europe with spirit
Of jealous exclusiveness. His majesty
of Ssxony was especially circumspect.
Not content with the oath Of secrecy i'm
posed upon his people, he would not
abate his kingly suspicion in favor of a
brother monarch. Neither king nor
kings delegate might enter the tabooed
walls of Nielsen. What is enormously
called the Dresden porcelain, that ex-
quisite pottery of which the world has
never seen the equal, was manufactured
for 200 years by process so secret that
neither the bribery of princes nor the
garrulity Of the operatives ever re-
veale1 it.


Other discoveries have been less sue
cessfully guarded, fortunately for the
world. The manufacture of tinWare in
Europe originated in stolen secret.
Few readers need to be informed that
tinware is simply thin iron plated with
tin by being dipped into the molten
metal In theory it is an easy matter to
clean the surface of iron; dip it into a
bath Of the boiling tin aud remove it
enveloped with the silvery metal to a
place Of cooling. In practice, however,
the process is one of the most difficult in
the arts. 1t was discovered in Holland
and guarded from publicity with the ut
most vigilance for nearly half century.
England tried in vain to discover the
secret until James Sherman, a Cornish
miner, crossed the channel, insinuated
himself master of the secret and brought
it home. The secret of manufacturing
cast steel was also steslthily obtained,
and is now within the reach of all arti-
cana
Year: 1875

A Tenth, which costs only s5 can draw any
of the following, and will be received by the
Company at any time in six month, as s. in
tho purchase of TO Bond


This is a chance for gain and no chance for
Year: 1875

The Dakota end OF Jay Cookies
Northern Pacific railroad, some two
hundred miles, is no. i'll use, and
one day last week, as the story is
told by an exchange a party OF
gentlemen who wished to so east from
Bismarck would have been detained
several days for the departure of the
next stage had they not thought OF
pulling themselves through on a hand
car, They started, but in a few hours
got tired of propulsion by muscular
power, when hey "made sail" on the
hand car, and gave themselves up to 3
leisurely view of the objects OF inter
est along the route. Old Boreas proved
to have better supply OF wind than
they did themselves, and they BOWED
along at o speed that sometimes made
their hair stand on end, making
the distance from Bismarck to Fargo
in seventeen and half hours, an
average of nearly twelve milesan hour.
The quick trip excited general aston.
ishment among those who are posted
on the hardships of hand car travelling
generally.
Year: 1875

of taxation, should be the aim now OF
all hoaest men, whether in or out Of
office. Especially should they be
studied by all our legislators, whether
federal, State or municipal-at Wash
ington, at Annapolis or in the city
hall. How much depends upon 1t
only those who realize the PROSTATE
and depressed condition of trade aud
industry throughout the country can
begin to appreciate or feel.
Year: 1875

In enc Of his addresses at Brooklyn, IN
Sunday last, Mr. Moody told the follow.
ing anec,lote: "There was rice Christian
in my Chicago church-one Of those men
who made you feel good if you locked at
him, and made you feel better if van
spoke to him. lie was the most grateful
man ever knew. He always had some
thing that he wanted to thank God for mar.
;icularly. Well, one lAornins he cut hi,
fnger-ca. it pretty bad and l knew
that he would manage in some way to re.
turn praise for it, tut 1 did not see how he
was to do it. Well, the prayer meeting
came, and he was there, and one Of the
FIRST to GET on his feet. You know. O
God he cried, that this morning CIT NV
finger; and l thank Thee Heavenly Father
that I did not cut it off,"
Year: 1875

Last night the regular sociable Of the
Liberal Religious Association took place
at their hall on Washington avenue. The
hail al an early hour was well filled with
ladies and gentlemen of all ages. who
whiled away the hours either in pleasant
conversation, or in tripping over the floor
with flying feet To the time of the
sweet music discourSed by Eisenburg's 5
string band. When once the young of
this city have tasted of the enjoyment
which i afforded them by the managers
of these pleasant events, they look for
ward anXiously for the time to arrive
when they will again be allowed to as
scmbe under their auspices. Through
endeavors Of these gentlemen to furnish
their friends Il suitable place where they
can gather and forget for few hours at
least the cares of life, they have incurred
an expense which tie proceeds Of the So
ciables seldom cover. but still they keep
them going. their only recompense being
the knowledge that by so doing they are
affording others good time.
Year: 1875

From letter received in this city yes
tlcman Of Joncsboro, we learn that the
Cairo and ~. Louis narrow gauge rail
road was not completed at the time the
letter was written, but that one of the
head men who have the work of track
laying IN hand. expressed it a, his opiu-
ion that they would be able to make the
connection yesterday. there being only
one-half mile of track TO De put down.


LATER.


Since writing the above. we learn that
the lat rail has been laid. and that the
Cairo & 81. Louis narrow gauge railroad
is now completed.
Year: 1875

lieve there is "nigger in the wood


pile" You can shape your questions S


so that your readers will believe they


can be answered only in certain way.
L would not try to prove anything. I
would let facts alone. Tell your read
ers who wrote the article in the
CHRONICLE, and perhaps that will do.
1t makes SO much difference, you know
who it is that writes what is true.
Year: 1875

zone of the most useless, vulgar, and
pernicious customs of American society is
that of treating" Many a genial, gener-
ous-hearted young man acquires the habit
of drinking under bondage to this custom,
from fear of being considered 'mean " if
he should decline to receive or give
"treat. y Chicago Standard.
Year: 1875

THE New York Tribune says it is cred
liable TO American journalism that out
side Of Washington only one or two
journals have been so blinded by parti-
sanship as to support the nefarious force
bill. The Boston AdUertiser says it is
glad the louisiana committee submitted
no resolution on the subject, and adds:
"To employ the power OF the govern
ment in the way suggested, merely to
threaten SO to employ it, is TO undo
whatever work Of conciliation the poll
cy suggested by the report as to the gov
ernorand legislature might accomplish.
With our mouths We should say, let
us have peace; with our right arm we
should flourish a firebrand."
Year: 1875

out doubt be earnestly fought by the
Democratic senators, who will resort to
every available means to defeat its pass
age. The amount of idemnity promised
by Spain to the Cnited States in the set
tlement of the Virginius affair is eighty
thousand dollars, not eighteen thousand.


ARCTIC EXPEDITION.


1t is proposed to provide small sum
in sundry civil appropriation bill for
an arctic expedition. The secretary OF
the navy favors it, also a number Of
senator's and members. The navy de
partmen: will be authorized by the bill
to provide and to fit proper ship, and
to man il with officers and men already
under pay and awaiting sea duty. The
extra expense will not be more than
fifty thousand dollars, but it is proposed
to make the action by the government
contingent on private Subscriptions to
the amount of twenty-five thousand dol
lars. The president of the geographical
society says it will heartily cooperate
in any expedition, whether undertaken
by the government or private enter
prisp
Year: 1875

We hope there is not a negro in Mem
phis who viii permit him or herself to
be used to make test Of the civil rights
bill. Any attempt, in that direction,
will be resisted by the managers OF the
hotels and places Of amusement, and
the result will be the excitement OF a
race feeling that has happily not been
felt in Memphis for many months. The
blacks and whites Of the south must live
in peace, and they can do SO without
the aid or intervention of acts OF con-
gress manifestlypassei to create trouble.
1t now depends upon the blacks.
Year: 1875

The Mississippi legislature has passed
= bill giving the governor power 10 sp-
point taE-collectors by and with the adj
vice and consent Of the senate. 1t is a
party measure in the interest Of Ames,
just as the force bill and the civil rights
bill are party measures in the interest
n Grant
Year: 1875

During the evening session of the
house an appropriation ofthree hundred
anC eighty-five thousand dollars was
made for the support of the signal serv-
ice bureau. During its discussion it was
urged as argument that General Myers
enthusiasm in the signal service was
dangerous feature.
Year: 1875

II is now believed that the French
republic is established on firm basis.
The new constitution, which received
the support Of sll the republicans in the
assembly, IS accepted as an earnest Of
fha fact
Year: 1875

The protesting party constitute the
minority in numbers and interest, and
having made the best showing they can,
and clearly failed to change the current
OF sentiment, or to convince the msjOr-
ity that they are in the wrong, it strikes
US that any further attempt to turn the
majority from the policy adopted is IN
warranted.
Year: 1875

We repeat, the case has been fully sub


mitted to the country already, and addi-


tional self-impOsed penalties will not
add vote to its strength. The people
at large cannot pass upon the question
within two years, and in the meantime,
il we continue at the present rate, there
will be very little left to save. The res
OlutiOns adopted seem to us to be
open to criticism in many partic-
u.ars, notably in the assumption,
gratuitOus and little short of insulting,
that the members from the parishes
favOriDg the adjustment had misrepre
sented their constituents, and calling
upon the latter to repudiate their action.
The meeting had no shadow of right to
assume such dictatorial powers. Letthe
parishes speak for themselves. Bot the
argument Of the whole case has been
sufficiently prolix, minute and ex-
haustive. All parties have been fully
heard and we believe the general con-
viction to be unchanged and in favor Of
the majority of the caucus, and un.
pleasant as it may be, we do not see
how they can choose but go forward
boldly in the course they have marked
ont
Year: 1875

VERBAL Vrcrs.-Indulgence in YER
bal vice soon encourages corresponding
vices in conduct. Let any one of you
come to talk about any mean or vile
practice with a familiar tone, and do
you suppose, when the opportunity oc-
ours for committing the mean or vile
act, he will be rs strong against it a.
before? 1t is by no means an unknown
thing that men of correct lives talk
themselves into sensuality, crime and
perdition. Bad language easily runs
into bad deeds. Select any iniquity you
please; suffer yourself TO converse in its
dialect, to use its slang, to speak in the
character Of one who relishes it, and
need not tell how soon your moral sense
will lower down to its level. Becoming
intimate with it, yoa lose your hor-
ror Of it. To be too much with had
men and in bad places, is not only un-
wholesome to man's morality, but un-
favorable to his faith and trust in God.
ft is not every man who could live as
Lot did in Sodom, and then be fit to
go out Of it under Gods convoy. This
obvious principle Of itself, furnishes a
reason not only for watching the tongue,


but for keeping ourselves a much a
possible out Of the company Of bod o.


s0ciates.-lsdias Ascasa.
Year: 1875

spoken of as those "who changed the truth


of God into lie." AS by that covenant


God at first reclaimed people from heath


enism, so by it a people is preserved tor him
and for the spread of His truth. For the
doctrine preached once in infant-clrcumcls-
ion, but now in infant baptism IS the. toanda-
ton dOctrine on which the whole plan OF sal
vation stands. Hush this testimony; put
this witness out of the world, and 1t wlH soon
be forgotten, that man IS born sinner and
needs Saviour Man will forget mis- de-
pendence upon GOd,-yea forget bis helpful
ness and his corruption both! But now,
from generation to generation God is, by
His covenant, calling the children through
their parents And while parents keep the
covenant, it is not possible for their children
to grow up ignorant of God and of His truth.
Let no one object to giving the token to an
"unbeieving infant" 1t is an act of faith
on the part of the parent, done before God!
And 80 this parent not only VOWS in his own
duty to train that infant for the Lord, but he
also sets his accepting seal to the offer which
God makes "I will be God unto thee and
to thy seed after thee" If this we're all, who
could say, cit is nought?'
Year: 1875

When Agassz wished to trace the pro-
gress of the glacier, he found it impossible
to do 50 except by method which enabled
him to compare its condition in successive
seasons. For this purpose he placed row
of stakes in glacier extending in straig ht
line from stakes firmly fixed among the rocks
on either bank. Then, by returning from
year to year and comparing the relative po-
sition Of his stakes. he could determine the
rate and the nature of the progress which
had been meantime made. 1t is by an anal
ogous method that we must trace the pro-
gress which has been made in the world by
and through the instrumentality of Christian
missions. He who looks upon the stream
can hardly persuade himself that anything
is in progress of accomplishment. But he
who is content to compare the state of the
world where Christian missions have been at
work with its condition where the gospel is
still unknown, or the present resources and
activity of Christian missions with their con-
dition century ago, will readily perceive
that the glacier is moving with real and
very vigorous progress, none the less that it
is almost imperceptible to the casual and
careless observer.-Rev. Lyman Abbott,