smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1871

AN Immediately married couple went from
the bridal altar to dry goods shop in Keo-
kuk, the other day After sundry purchases
had been made, the ignorant clerk asked the
lady to buy hat for her boy. With queen
like dignity she responded: No; l have only
been married about twenty minutes. have
no boys yet.
Year: 1871

AMAG1cIAN says che can cause brand y to dis
appear from n tumbler.' We know lots Of fell
lows who could do that trick as easy as swol-
ering. Guess the only difficulty in the way of
accomplishing it is in finding the fluid.
Year: 1871

The Commissioner of Internal Rev
enus has decided that manufacturers
NAV sell their tobacco in original
packages in any part Of the country
without paving special tax, but that
they cannot retail it. Pedilers in their
employ may also sell in the same man
ner as their employers. 4 peidler not
employed BY a manufacturer, aud who
Is liable to pay a special tax as dealer
aud has paid it, may retail tobacco.
Year: 1871

will not waste time upon the details
which your witnesses have given of his


treachery. It appers to have been fare
well Offering of his own, induced by no
solicitation of yours, but rendered by him
self ez atte9o aOtt Tha moment he was


indaeted into Office he looked about to as


certain who were the bitterest and most


malignant enemies of the men to whom


he owed all bis public importance and


much of his private prosperity. he found
them Quickly. and though they were en-


tire strangers TO him, he pnt himself Inn
mediatelF into secret communication. with
them, took service under them as their
regular spy, and exercised himself dill


gently IN that base vocation, making re-
| ports TO them daily, and sometimes twice


a day, until the close of his Official term,
| when his occupation Necessarily ceased.
| This mean employment must have taken
ap most of the time which should have
| been devoted to the :dnties of an office on
/ which the public business, always heavy,


was then pressing with unusual weight.


He did not communicate any knowl-
| edge which was necessary to guide you IN
the discharges Of your duties, for every fact
| of that kind was as accessible TO- you as To
| him; the administration kept nothing
back the President volunteered 10 give
1 all he knew concerning the state of the


Union; no department was closed against


YOUR investigations, every call for inform


alton was promptly and fully answered.
| If that had not been enough every mem,
Der in the cabinet would have been per-
fectly free to speak with any member of
I Congress, or to go in person before any
COMMITTEES. Mr.. Seward did confer with


me fully at the state department, in open
daylight without any dodging about 1T


and he was always welcome, as he Is now,


to tell everything that passed. for he
neither asked nor could have asked any
question, if the country had an interest


in it, which I was not willing to answer


With ali the channels Of truthful inform.
Year: 1871

! do not assert that your last paper


proves nothing. will give you the full
deneft of every fact you have established.


So far as You have shown Mr.. Stanton to
be guilty ofqthe baseness you impute to
him, I will make no contest aboutit But
l will notyIeld one inch to any allegation
of yours Unsupported by evidence. Twin
try to save out Of your hands as much Of
his character az you have not already
destroyed by credible evidence. My eff
fort was TO take him down from the pill
ior9 to WhiOh You had nailed him by the
ears as "a tix'd figure for scorn to pointits
finger at. You have done your stron-
gest to oppose my rescue Of him, and any
partial success which may have rewarded
your Struggle must be great comfort q
Year: 1871

Henry Ward Beecher says of the marriage
of Cain:


" If Adam and Eve were the sole progeni
tors of the race, then Cain and Abel. it is in
terred, must have married their own sisters.
But many of the Fathers of the Church denied
that Adam and Eve, and their children were
the only people on the globe. They affirmed
that the text in Genesis very plainly implies
that there were other inhabitants besides
Adam s family. They allege that the four
teenth verse of the fourth chapter of Genesis
plainly implies that the earth was already
widely populated. For, when God declared
that Cain should be driven out from his tami-
y and made a vagabond on the earth, Cain de-
precatcd the sentence and plead that every
one that fndeth me shall slay me. 1t was
plainly not his family connections that he fear
ed, tor he desired not to be driven forth from
them. 1t was the people whom he should
meet when wanderer in the earth. Who
then, were these people who Cam so feared to
meet when he should have gone forth into the
earth


= Il is also reasoned by scholars that the
most natural method Of soothing his fears
would have been to say: There are no other
people on earth except your father children ,
Instead OF that the Lord is represented as fall
Ing III with Gains impression respecting the
population Of the world, and that He sat a
mark upon Cain, lest any finding him should
kill him, (Gen. 4 lj.l Still further, it is said
that Cain separating himself from his kindred,
went to the land of Nod east of Edom. and
he buided a city and called the name of the
city after the name Of his son Enoch.' The
Fathers very pertinently asked: w here did
the people come from that lived in this city 2
That would be an extraordinary state of things
which should have enabled Cain to fill up a
city. however small, with his own children
Aud it is inferred, therefore, that there were
other people in the la nd besides the immediate
poSterity Of Adam. If Adam was the only
progcritor, Cain must have married his sister.
If there were other peOpe-other Adams, as
IT were-then Cain might have married into
another stock"
Year: 1871

MAKING SURE OF TENoR.-A French i'm
presSariO was taking ont to New Orleans an
opera company, which by special agreement
was only to include one tenor. Foreigners are
usually bad sailors, and for the first few days
all the members OF the company were sea-sick,
one OF the effects OF which malady is that it
weakcns the voice SO much that people are
frequently hOarSe for several days after their
recovery. Accordingly, as soon as the singers
could crawl on deck, they commenced to try
their voices, and among them the tenor, who,
always anxious to occupy distinguished posi-
tiOn, went on the bridge Of the steamer for the
purpose. What was his surprise on hearing
an echo OF his own voice-another tenor His
amazement became disgust when he heard a
third tenor running up the scale then fourth
and fifth He looked forward and saw two
men cycling him and each other with intense
hatred he looked att and saw two more men
similarly occupied. the five tenOrs simulta.
neOus Y made IA rush below to the managers
cabin, and demanded whether he had no; ex-
press!y stipulated to each of them that he was
to be his only tenor.


" know, know" replied the manager:
|" and will keep my word You see, none of
you have been in New Orleans before, or you
would understand. When We arrive there,
the yellow fever is sure to be raging, and as you
are fresh from Europe, two of you will proba-
bly, be carried off before you land, and two
more during the rehearSaiS. One will probably
survive he will be my first and only tenor"
Year: 1871

CORNs.-Hard cOrns are caused by too much
pressure of the shoe, or by its being SO loose as
to slide back and forth on the spot where a
corn afterwards shows itself Medical books
record several cases where hard corn has
caused a bleeding which 10 means could ar
rest, and death ensued Nothing harder than
the finger nail ought ever to be allowed to
touch corn. which can always be cured or
kept from causing Inconvenience by simply
bathing the part iii warm water Tor half an
hour for several days in succession; often a
single bathing will so soften the parts ad-
jacent the actual corn that it can be picked
out with the finger nail, and the shoe can be
instantly worn without discomfort, which an
hour before gave pain; it may return in a
week, or a month, or a year, but the same
treatment will always avail. PAIRING causes
them to spread and take deeper ROOT. Soft
cOrns are very troublesome, but are sometimes
removed by patiently bathing or soaking them


in strong alum water night and morning. 1t
is Sc much better to know safe and inexpcn-
Sive way of doing things, that it is really worth
while to teach these methods 20 every child in
the uschold.-HaWs Journal Of HeGlth
Year: 1871

A young lady observes of young man that
his face has a strange fascination for her be-
cause it looks so well at funeral This re-
calls an original recommendation of young
physician who was supposed to be "keepin'
company with young lady. The matronly
friend of the latter, having praised the young
man from all points OF view, returned one day
from the death bed of friend at which the
physician had been present She eulogized
the living fully as much as the dead man, and
finally, turning to the girl as if she had reach
ed the ne plus ultra of enthusiasm, she said


Z" Jane, he's the handiest man | ever seen
fixin' round corpse T. "..t
Year: 1871

This thing of wealthy gentlemen educating
young girls, designing to marry them some
time, ought to be stopped. A rich man in
Oshkosh, Wis, educated a young lady with
the intention of making her his wife. The
wedding day was near at hand, when a young
lover took her from the church, where she was
attending service last Sabbath, and they were
speedily made one, and set off to an Eastern
home, leaving the elderly ylovCr to console him
self as best he might.
Year: 1871

A visitor to New York said he stopped at
house kept upon the European plan, which,
according to his experience, is to charge SO
much for the use of 4 ro)m that you have ne
money in the morning to invest in breakfast.
Year: 1871

A physician being asked by patient il he
thought little spirits now and then would
hurt him much, replied, " I DO not know that
a little occasionally would hurt you much but
II, you don't take any, it won't hurt you at
Year: 1871

lfyOu have a screw rustcd into wood, or a
nut or bolt, that will not readily turn, pour on
it little kerosene and let it remain in short
time it will penetrate the interstices, so that the
screw may be ca silv moved.
Year: 1871

change. Who caunot see how nobly Brother
Wood could perform that scene at the Old
Bowery or the Old National where Tartufe
gives his handkerchief to Dorine lest his eyes
should gaze upon her shapely shoulders-with
what holy JUNCTION he could speak the lines,


For such are the objects which wound mans soul
ana cupable thoughts to his bosom uproilS


But enough of this reformed Bowery ''b'hoy."
Let us get, if possible, at the inner thought of
this canting asceticism. They may quote inap-
plica lie texts from st. Paul till their vocal
chords are relaxed beyond redemption, but
what does it all amount to? Simply that
church members are lax when sermons are in
sufferaby dull. They will not see it in this
light, and we may expect to hear the long line
from Tartuffe to Chadband thunder at them
selves and hurl hell, without limit, on their
congregations for few weeks to come, while
a pensive world will murmur, in the phrase of
the day, "We know how it is ourselves"
Year: 1871

avenues or in South Brooklyn, to get to which
car travel is necessity. Now, as car travel
in New York, with all its embarrassments, is
much pleasanter than car travel in Brooklyn
which, by the way, stops virtually in the latter
city at half-past eleventh is more cheerful
in many respects to live up town in New York
than in the back parts of Brooklyn. The con-
venient houses in our dormitory sister are for
the most part old and dilapidated, and no
landlord with any consciousness of glaring
facts could ask the same rent for these houses
this year as last.


The moral of all this will be readily drawn
that property in New York and Brooklyn has
gone down. So it has, as current quality of
value. The bridge for time galvanized
Brooklyn property into certain sort of activ-
ity, but assessments and taxes and the Dutch
Mayors messages soon killed that +; and as the
bridge is now, upon later knowledge, generally
regarded as doubtful experiment, it helps
but little to sustain values which are equally
uncertain and unreliable. In spite of all,
however, we hold to this position, that to a
strong capitalist real estate in New York or
its environs is unrivalled as a safe, permanent
investment.


In conclusion, we may remark that there is
general disposition ON the part of landlords
to make all reasonable concessions to present
tenants to induce them to remain. This is
significant.
Year: 1871

Young man, if you wish to render
vourself amiable in the eyes of wo-
man, don go to work like a bauiky
mule before a heavy load Of cotton
first jerk, then plunge, and hro'
ken trace and fall; but be asslduous'
delicate, attention and resouluteiy lay
siege TO the heart you would win, as a
squirrel nibbliug thro' the shell OF q
hickory nut! Don't goto pining and
worrying ifyou think rival is some
what favored; for these dear creatures
haye many ways of trying man
constancy; but patiently hoe away al
yonr own row, and the probability is
that ere a little while your devotion
will be fully appreciated, and you'll
be as. happy in possession of your
nrize as a tame fox in a nest of new
laid hens eggs. "Faint heart never
won fair lady" That's as certain as
death. and inevitable as taxation
Woman, though the most delicate ant
beautiful flower in creation, hate.
cowardice as scalded monkey hates
the sight ola tea kettle.
Year: 1871

The Murlreesboro News receives the
most discouraging accounts in relation
TO the crops from every portion OF
Rutherford county. The continual
cold weather is proving disastrous to
crops, and the wheat it is thought will
be an entire failure. great many moi
realizing enough to pay for the seed
sOwn.
Year: 1871

THE CAPITAL MOVERS AGAIN-There has
been IA thinly attended meeting at St Louis of
those who would remove the federal capital to
that city. Two speeches were made, two let
ters were read, and the usual resolutions were
adopted the New York Commercial AdrertiSer
thinks the geographical centre" men are en-
gagged in an uphill work The day has gone
by when centrality of position is of importance
Accessibility is of more moment, and added to
this is the fact that the millions of dollars in
vested in government buildings in Washington
appeal trumpet tongucd against disturbance
The fight over a new location is sure to be a
contest of years. ST. Louis will find when the
struggle comes that she is not without rivals.
Forty centuries will look down on the federal
capital before its dome will lit itself above the
prairies.
Year: 1871

THF PENINsULAR FRUIT GROWERS Asso-
CITATION meets in Dover next Tuesday, and it
is hoped that the frrit growers will attend it
more largely or abide by its transactions with
better grace than they have in the future.
This Association is Peninsular only in name,
as those who attend it are mainly from this
county. Instead of being the imposing body
its name would indicate, and the peach inter
est demands, it is composed Of the merest frac
ton Of fruit men, who inaugurate such meas
ures as they deem expedient, only to be
ridiculed by those who stay at home. During
the recent shipping season, when there was so
much of dissatisfaction and disappointment,
this Association came in for it's full share of
censure, and both tongue and pen selected it
out with much vindictiveness, if not clear per
ception, and one was led to infer that the
faul finders know just what should be done
Let such as have pointed out the failures Of the
past attend the meetings in the future and give
their ideas and help make the Association the
benefit it is designed to be, or else cease thei
complaining. There must be larger repre-
sentation of the growers if they would secur,
better plans of action for the future. The few
who do attend show good Intention, if the.
have not matured good plans Of action, bu
those who stay away and find fault show onl


a captious disposition.
Year: 1871

AN EARTHQUAKE IN WILMINGTON The
city Of Wilmington was terribly startled
yesterday Tuesday morning about half past
nine o clock by rumhling noise and shaking
OF the earth, which produced the utmost con-
sternati IN among the people. The vibrations
were so strong that two climneys in East
Fourth street were shaken down, and some
window panes in Shiplay street were broken
out A man named West, c0nversng along
the street, was thrown fat Of his back The
chil1ren in the public schools were so badly


frightened that they had to be sent home
Women were terror stricken and wrung their
hands in anguish, while the sterner sex were
momentarily convulSed with fear Many
rushed impetuousy into tn. streets, and tor a
while the excitement was intense. Business
received temporary check. At first it was
supposed that the Du Pont powder mills had
| exploded, or some large boiler in the city,
but on learning that such was not the case the
CONSERVATION was only increased. The shock
was also very perceptable at Chester, Salem,
New Castle, Delaware City aud even as low
down as Middletown, but was not observed
here, or to a very limited extent.


Later information states that another shock
was felt about midnight last night but not SC
severe as the morning shock.
Year: 1871

After the announcement of Mr.. Washburue's
nomination for Governor in the Massachusetts
Convention last week General Butler made
speech, stating that " as n man of honor " he
felt himself bound by the decision of the Con
vention, and declaring his intention to continue
his fight 'inside of the Republican party"
Year: 1871

whose means Of living have been cut fl.
and whose sufiorings are increased by
the approach of water. Nor is this ali.
How many are they who have Il decent
coat on their back who ill some public
situation with fair salary, or live upon
small income secured by past labor
and thrift but who are precluded by
the locus of Paris from receiving
their annuity or their salary All these
suilerings the authorities of Versailles
have undertaken to relieve as much as
possible they find n home for the inn
migrants, support The starving func-
tionary, give bread and work to the
poor, and therefore it is that the door
to the right hanl within the town hall
is besieged by some people, with sad
looks, who wear smock frocks most of
them and jabber French, while on the
left congregate large crowd still but
dressed with uniform, n cigar between
their teeth. an unknown language on
their lips, and come, not to ask for the
free gifts of charity, but to claim the
spoils due to the conqueror.
Year: 1871

RAIN AND EVAPORATION cause the
saltness of the superficial waters of the
sea to vary considerable. If it rains FIRE
quently in certain regions, the saltness
is slight III comparison with that of
places where the clearness of the atmos-
phere favors evaporation. In the polar
regions the saltness of the sea is moh-
fed by another cause not less active than
the above. namely the melting of the ice
accumulated like vast cowls over the
extremities of the earth. Every year
during the summer of each hemisphere.
torrents of fresh water are poured out
towards the temperate regions. These
torrents gradually mingle with the salt
water of the ocean, upon which they
first flow along as river on its bed !;
and RS II consequence of this, and the
other active cause to which we have al
luded, the saltness of the sea grows less
at the surface i'll proportion as We ap-
proach the poles
Year: 1871

DROWNED WHILE BEING BAPTIZED. At
Sand Hill, Ky, sad accident occurred.
A few weeks since DR. A, p. Pownall
united with the Christian Church, and
Sunday was appointed the day of his
baptism. He requested his pastor, the
Rev j. b. Hough, to perform the rite.
At the appointed hour large number Of
persons assembled on the banks of
Crooked Creek. the place chosen for the
immersion. After singing and prayer
Mr. Hough entered the water, leading
the doctor, and the descent being very
gradual they were obliged to proceed
some distance from the shore in order to
reach n sufficient depth, but suddenly
both were seen to go down, having
stepped over bank concealed by the
water both soon arose to the surface,
and Mr.. Hough regained the bank, but
the doctor being unable to swim was
swept by the current under tloodgate
only a short distance below every ex
crtion was made to save him, but in vain,
The body was soon after found and
brought ashore amid the most heart
rending screams from his young wife
and friends.
Year: 1871

A MAD HoRsE.-A case of madness in
horse is reported from Hudderfield
The animal was first noticed to be I'M
well, and the following morning was
pronounced rabid. The horse with his
teeth tore out the manger, and shook it
as dog would rat. Upon the recon-
mendation of veterinary surgeon the
horse was shot.
Year: 1871

NICE POINT OF LAw.-Last summer a
poor old clergymen and his housekeeper
to whom he had bequeathed quite a large
legacy, were murdered at Chelsea,
near London. A "nice point" has
arisen in administering his estate. The
question is, which was murdered first
In the case of the servant dying before
the testator her legacy would have
lapsed, while in the other event it would
fall to her legal representatives.
Year: 1871

EeLIpsEs. There will be four ecEpses
in the wear 1S7l-two of the sun and
two of the moon. The FIRST Will oe par
tial eclipse of the moon, January otn'
partially visible here the second an an
nualar eclipse Of the sun, June l7th, IN
visible here the third partial eclipse
of the moon, invisible the fourth to-
tal eclipse of the sun, invisible.
Year: 1871

GERMAN METHOD OF REFINING PARAF-
F1NE.-A German method of refining
parafiine consists i'll pouring the crude
material into an ordinary mixing appa-
ratus provided with steam jacket, to
which the steam is supplied to keep the
contents warm. The cover of this mix
ing apparatus is made to close securely,
to prevent any possible loss OF alcohol
and it is connected with condenser so
arranged as to condense alcohol as 1T
eyaporates. and return it to the mixing
apparatus, after the manner of an IN
verted Liebig condenser. This appa-
ratus is provided at the bottom with
cock for running off fluid substances
The mixing is best accomplished by means
of stirrer in the form of a screen or
sieve. The alcoholic lye should be
freshly prepared before each operation.
Year: 1871

The lives of hundred unconscious pas
sengers hung on the issue of the next min
ute. The ground trembled at the old wo-
mans feet. The great, red eye of the
engine burst upon her as it came around
curve. Like a huge, sharp-sight-
ed lion coming suddenly upon a FIRE, it
sent forth thrilling roar, that filed ali
the wild heights and ravines around The
train was at full speed but the breakman
wrestled at their leverage with all the
strength of desperation. The wheels
ground along on the heated rails slower
and slower, until the engine stopped at
the decaying fire. 1t still blazed enough
to show them the beetling ed ge of the
black abyss into which the train and all
of its passengers would have plunged, and
into a death and destruction too horrible
to think of, had it not been for the old wo-
mans signal. They did not stop to thank
her first for the deliverance. The conduc-
tor knelt down by the side of the engine
the engineer and the brakemen came and
knelt down by him all the passengers
came and knelt down by them and there
in the inspiring light of the burnt out pile.
in the rain and wind, they thanked God
for the salvation of their lives All in a
line the kneelers sent up prayers into the
dark heavens such a midnight voice of
thanksgiving as seldom, if ever, assembled
from the earth to him who seeth in dark
ness as well as in secret.


Kindness is the music of good will to
men and on this harp the smallest fin
gers may play heaven S sweetest tunes on
earth.-ElihI Burrett.