smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1875

WHY Is ITf-Why is it that JEFF Davis is be-
ing invited to address agricultural fairs at points
all over the Northi 1t is not that he knows a
great deal about farming, or can teach the farm
ers of the North anything, who have always done
their own farming and have not depended upon
slaves to do it. 1t is not that the people have
expressed desire to see and hear him. There
is a deeper reason at the bottom of it. The De-
mocracy, having met with large success within
the past year, now propose to take another step
toward the great end which they have in view,
to re-establish the power of the Southern rebels


to do this, they wish to make the people of the
North familiar with the great chief of the rebel


lion; then they will labor to make them admire
and respect him; and finally, to look up to and
follow him. The surest way, is to foist him upon
the farmers, aud ingratiate him in their favor.
We shall see how far they can succeed. While
banded together for their mutual interest and
Improvement, will they allow themselves to be-
come the tools in working out the designs of
those enemies to free labor and free Government
Year: 1875

KENo!-W. H, smallwOod, of the waterville
Telegraph, who spent the past week at the St.
Joseph Exposition, gambling, found time, before
leaving home, TO leave an article on the copy
hook abusing us personally, for defending ourself
from an attack by him, upon question which
did not concern him. He now saddles upon his
partner the articles by which he provoked us to
reply. 1t is mighty convenient to have a part
ner upon whom to saddle such little things,
when he finds it desirable to creep out of the re-
sponsibility. This man Smallwood would have
spoken truly, had he said that we were his friend
for years. We have repeatedly helped him to
Office, and never asked him for any help in re-
turn; but having, by his own conduct, played
himself ont politically, and because we happen
ed to think that other men beside himself were
occasionally entitled to support, he has tortured
every little squib into personal slur upon him,
and gone off the handle accordingly Let him
run his billiards and his W heel of fortune-we
will attend to our business in our own way.
Year: 1875

MRS. BENJAMIN, having purchased Miss Strahan s
ANk Millinery Store, wonld respectfully announce to the
ladies of Troy and vicinity that she will keep constantly
hand all the latest styles of Millinery and Fancy Goods
for Ladies' and Children.


Also Dress and Cloak Making done in the best
New goods received every few days. septl6m3.
Year: 1875

~ The Democratic Convention of Pennsylva-
MIA met last week. 1t adopted greenback plat
form, and quarreled over it most shamefully.
The candidate for Governor says he is a hard
money man, but in order TO be in harmony with
his party, he endorses the platform Those DEM
ocrats are tremendous fellows for principle.
They don't care what is in a platform or what a
candidate believes in-call anything Democratic,
and rive them an office and they are all right
Year: 1875

WART.-I have a seed wart my finger, which snnoys
very much. Will some please give a remedy and
oblige. ABIGAIL ELDRIDGE.


There is but one easy and safe way, that we
know of, to accomplish what Abigail desires. 1t
is to drill a small hole at the root of the wart,
fill it with powder, set slow match to it, and
ruu
Year: 1875

The Philadelphia Day is not only un-
caasse but positively disgusting when i,
ialludss to Bastard Democrats" Do moi
lose your dignity and refinement in tho
heat Of temper, is what We should advise
that paper.
Year: 1875

Bow PROHIBITION WoRKs.-The Bos-
ton Shipping List OF January Sd, in the
Trade Review of the past year, says:


"TLe liquor trade has been carried
on under unfavorable circumstances the
past year. Our Wholesale houses have
L ot been directly interfered with by the
operation of the Prohibitory law. but
the distribution of liquors in several
sections of the State has been restricted
and dealers generally have carried very
small stocks in order to avoid heavy
losses by seizures. The main effect of
the law has been to lessen the sale of
fine goods and increase the demand for
low grade domestic Liquors. and altho'
the quantity handled by our Wholesale
houses has been about as much as in
former years, the amount of money
made is considerably less. Another
disagreeablo feature of the law is, that
it makes debts contracted for liquors
illegal, SO that the seller has no protec-
ton except the honor of the buyer. To
the credit of the latter, very few of them
have repudiated their bills, but sellers
are compelled to be very cautious. ard
are otherwise hampered in their opera
tions. So far as decreasing Intemper-
ance. the Prohibitory law has proved to
be decided failure, and the sense of
the business community is strongly
against it. The new Legislature will
no doubt modify or repeal it, and give
the State an acceptable law in its stead.
With the removal of the annoying re-
strain that have been on the business
for some years past the fine goods will
be more sought after, and the trade gen.
orally will be placed on satisfactory
footing"
Year: 1875

r. Tall and bulky people require
more sleep than thin people. In state
of health, the amount of sleep required
to restore nervous energy averages from
six to eight hours. Sleep on the right
side. and eat nothing heavy before re-
firing. ,v
Year: 1875

OYSTER OMEIEr.-Whisk four eggs to
q thick cream; then add by degrees one
gill of cream; beat them well together;
season the eggs with pepper and salt to
taste. Have ready one dozen fine oys-
ters, cut them in half. pour the egg into
a pan of hot butter, and drop the oysters
over it. Fry light brown and serve
Year: 1875

THE conduct of David Dudley Field in
the defence of Tweed is made the basis of an
attack by the New York Post on what it sar-
castically calls the honor of the New York
bar. Men who would spurn the acceptance
of a portion of the plunder of petty thief as
the price of his defence are looking on in in
difference while David Dudley Field pockets
thousands of the money which Tweed filched
from the treasury of New York city, in pay
ment for his ingenuity in manufacturing
technical defenses to keep Americas most
brazen scoundrel out of the penitentiary, and
uttering not word of reproof. The Post
is unable to perceive the difference between
the assumed and the existing case-an in
ability which arises doubtless from the fact
that there isn't any.
Year: 1875

IT is thought that the meeting of the Dem
ocratic State Committee at the Preble Tues
day evening indicates that another General
Order is to be issued. The absence of ''Cor-
poraP' Emery rendered it impossible to
clothe the document in military language at
that meeting, so there will be little delay.
Year: 1875

WHILE Mr.. Thurman and the Democratic
journals who take their cue from his speech
are attempting to beguile the people into the
belief that our financial policy is not press
ing question in politics the Richmond Whig
openly proclaims that the success of the rag
money party in Ohio will force an initiation
platform on the Democratic national conven-
ton in 1876. The traditions of the party
may be against 1t, but the Democracy will
not hesitate long to sacrifice all their tradi-
tions and all their principles if the sacrifice
will bring success. The party which so far
stultified itself in 1872 as to nominate Horace
Greeley will not suffer in its self respect by
adopting rag money platform in 1876.
Year: 1875




The ArguS is evidently weary of the hard
money business. 1t wants to know why
Republican papers are giving so much atten-
ton TO that issue. Simply because it is the
most important topic of the times. Simply
because much of the present business stagna-
tion is due to the uncertainty which a fuctu-
ating currency creates. An importer of raw
material upon which there is no duty, inform
ed us few days since that the changes in
the price of gold in one week made differ
ence to the house he represented of several
thousand dollars on obligations falling due in
foreign countries. No man can tell whether
gold will decline or advance, within the
next week. II is not within the power of
human experience to make any sort of predic-
ton whether greenback dollar will be worth
eighty or ninety cents in thirty or sixty days.
With this uncertainty, no reasoning being
can really expect a permanent revival of busi-
ness until we reach gold basis and dollar
means a dollar in gold. The infationtists
insist that further issue of paper money
will give start to business. This is quite
possible, but it is on the same principle that
the application of powerful stimulant re-
wives the man who has been brought to
to deaths door by the excessive use of stim-
ulants of the same kind. The stimulant will
furnish momentary relief but in the end adds
fresh fuel to the fires which are burning out
his life and makes the catastrophe more GER
tain and violent. More paper money, which
the Ohio and Iowa Democracy declare for,
would only result in greater disasters than
these we have already witnessed.


The reason why we make the financial
question the most prominent is because we
realize that nominaly the Democratic party
is very evenly divided on this important ques-
ton ;and there are indications thatiif the Dem
ocrats carry Ohio this fall that the Democrat
ic party will go into the next campaign on
the present Ohio platform which the argus
has not presented to its readers but which it
will be obliged to do at that time. Moreover,
in case the Democratic party goes before the
country next year on the Ohio platform, we
propose to warn our readers of the danger
which that policy surely involves. The dr.
gus evidently thinks that initiation is "a good
enough Morgan" for the Democrats of Ohio
this year-does any one believe that it would
raise the feeblest objection to the same plat
form next year for the nation, if the National
Democratic Convention declares it to be
Democratic doctrine2
Year: 1875

IT may be matter Of taste, but then it
seems very bad taste to prefer to be pitted all
over when slight depression on the arm
would answer all the purposes. But the
French Canadians in Montreal are raving be-
cause the city government prefer that they
be vaccinated rather than have small pox.
The other evening they smashed in the win
dows of the city council room while that
body was discussing the propriety of COM
pelling them to be vaccinated, aud broke up
the meeting. Enlightening French Cana
dian seems to be very tedious process.
Year: 1875

An earnest desire to justify your generous cont
dence, and strong regard for the honor and a1et-
fare of State, inspire ,cith the firm resotue TO
spare effort and to consider other consequences
in the endeavor to faithfully discharge the duties that
aciIt be incumbent on me If your choice shall prore
to be the choice of the people also. pledge you and
thousands for chom you act in that event, an honest
purpose and red determination to make the public
good my single aim and constant care.


Gen. Connor's Acceptance.
Year: 1875

A little boy eighteen months old, while play
ing in his fathers yard at Stratford, G. last
week. was knocked down by cock AMI spur
red several times about the face and head be-
fore his mother could rescue him. One stroke
of the spur penetrated his brain, and he died
few hours afterwards.
Year: 1875

Gov. TILDEN is making more promises of
reform. In a speech at Buffalo Tuesday he
promised that if the state will send to the
next legislature honest representatives he
will reduce the taxes S2.OOOOOO. 1t would
be well for the governor to finish the canal
job before he begins ON another, but as long
as the latter is made conditional upon the
election of honest men to the New York
legislature he isn't in danger of being COM
PEELED to fulfill his promise very speedily.
Year: 1875

It's getting near the lecture season and so
Ann Eliza Webb Young issues card calling
upon all the men and women in the land to
rise up and extirpate polygamy. Ann Eliza
is doubtless willing to help at the moderate
sum of S100 or perhaps $50 per lecture.
Year: 1875

THE argus is at loss to know why Re-
publican journals devote SO much space to
the Ohio campaign. No one who has read
the Democratic platform is at a loss to
know why the Argus devotes SO little.
Year: 1875

pS-NoTICR TO CAPTAINS or VESSELS ENTERING
THE PORT OF NEW YORK AT NIGHT.-The NEW YoRk
has adopted distinguishing Coston night sgnafor
board the HERALD yacht showing while burn
ing red green rod changing from TO the other
in succession and can miles distant Cap
vessels seeing this signal will obge shy
pairing any marine news they may have for the Ship News
Department OF the HERALD.


nPerson desrous OF communicating with vessels arriv
ing New York addressing such vessels
OF HERALD yacht pier No East River, New York
Letters from all parts Of the world and promptly
ivered Duplicates required
Year: 1875

The sportsmen or New York city and vicinity viii
hold a meeting at the Astor House, Monday 18Th
inst, al two p NJ, FOR the purpose or nstituting
'Herbert Memorial Fund" The late Mr.. Herbert was
an eminent sportsman and known 10 all the shooting
and fishing fraternity as an accomplished writer under
the nam de plume OF Frank Forester HIS unhappy
death subject Of much comment a few years
Year: 1875

Professor William Fake Will read paper 70 morrow
evening before the New York Academy Of Science a
new phosphide OF silver. Mr. Henry Newton will do
Lal INC direct process Of manufacturing IRON Japan.
Year: 1875

THE WEATHER YESTERDAY.
The following record will show the changes in the
temperature for the past twenty four hours, In
parison with the corresponding date OF last year,
Indicated by the thermometer at Hudnut's pharmacy,
HERALD Building
Year: 1875

CHEAP as the railroad war has made
freights from Chicago to the seaboard,
the opening Of lake navigation has
made them still cheaper, and those
who take life easy are reaping the ad-
vantage. In the present condition Of
the markets time is no object, and the
slow water transportation suits shippers
about as well as railroad speed.
Year: 1875

MORAL Boston has been doing these
things for years, but only now are her
iniquities being found out. Mr.. Weld,
the postal clerk VINO was arrested last
week for robbing the nail, is the eighth
clerk arrested in that Office during the
present year against all Of whom there
was abundant proof Of guilt
Year: 1875

THERE may be more truth than poe
try in the following result Of a recent
inquest, In Pennsylvania 'dThe YER
dict of the jury is that the coroner is
either incompetent or indisposed TO
look up the particulars of the case;
therefore, the Jurors decline rendering
a verdict"
Year: 1875

A foundry man in Philadelphia was
caught in piece of machinery and had
his arm torn from the socket. He was
taken home in wagon, and while the
vehicle was standing in front of his
house, his two children climbed in. The
horse became frightened and ran away,
cutting one of the children in the face
and mashing his jaw. The other ones
hand was mashed so badly as to necessi-
tate amputation. About six o'clock the
same evening another son was brought
home with his head badly cut by piece
of brass flying from the lathe at which
he had been working.
Year: 1875

In Lumpl1in, Ga., in 1885,. a man took
to himself young wife to adorn bis
household. After living happily together
for four months, the young bride, with
out any apparent cause, took notion
that "she wanted to see her mamma, +"
and left the husband solitary and alone


Time rolled on, but the recreant wife
did not return to cheer his desolate
home until late Sunday morning.
Thus, after an absence of nine years,
though husband and wife were living
within five or six miles of each other,
the wife voluntarily returns. 1t may be
possible that she learned of arecent visit
Of her spouse to an attorney whose SER
vices were secured to file bill of di-
vorce on the ground of desertion. Our
legal friend was seated at his desk one
morning, drawing up the bill in ques
ton, when note was handed him mott
flying him that his services would not be
required, as the wife had returned,
Year: 1875

In a recent address before the Smith
sonian Institute DR.. Lincecune gives the
following interesting report of the curl
GUS little balloon spider and it's work,
and the account will be received by our
readers, we trust, with special interest in
view of recent illustrated account of
certain "insect wonders" I once OBJ
served, says the writer, one of those
spiders at work in the upper corner of
an open outside door shutter. She was
spinning gossamer, of which she was
forming balloon, and clinging to her
thorax was o cluster of minute young
spiders. She finished up the body of
the balloon, and threw out the long bow
lines, which were Tapping aud futtering
in the now gently increasing breeze.
Several minutes before she got ready for
the ascension she seemed to be fixing
the bottom and winding her hammock
shaped balloon and now, the breeze
being suitable, she moved to the cable
in the stern, severed it, and her craft
bounded upward, and soaring north.
ward was soon beyond the scope of
observation.
Year: 1875

The following anecdote is told of
Sheridan: After he had fought his ia
nous duel with Colonel Matthews on
Mrs. Sheridan account an article of the
most venomous kind was sent from Bath
to Mr.. William Woodfall, the editor of
the Public Advertiser in London, to in
sert in that paper. The article was so
terribly bitter against Sheridan that
Woodfall took it to him. After reading
it he said to Woodfall "My good
friend, the writer of this article has done
his best to vilify me in all ways, but he
has done it badly and clumsily. I will
write character of myself, as coming
from an anonymous writer, which you
will insert in your paper. In day or
two after I will send you another article,
as coming from another anonymous cor
respondent, vindicating me and refuting
most satisfactorily. point by point,
every particle of what has been written
in the previous one." Sheridan accord
ingly wrote one of the most vituperative
articles against himself that mortal ever
penned, which he sent to Woodfall. who
Immediately inserted it in his newspaper
as agreed upon. The calumnies which
Sheridan had invented against himself
got circulation, but, strange to say,
Sheridan never could prevail upon him
self to write one line in his own vindica-
ton, and the ibels which he invented
against himself yet remain wholly un-
contradicted.
Year: 1875

In choosing a horse the Arabs never
take one that has narrow chest andper-
pendicular shoulders, or the withers fat
and protruding, or the curb prominent,
or the vessicous small, or if he has q
SPAWN, above all when it is in the neigh
borhood of the lower veins or an exos-
tosis, when it is near the tendons or
when he has his pasterns drawn or bent,
or wind-gall on the tendons. Or when
his back is long and concave or when
he cannot see in the night Never buy
horse with small shoulders, narrow
nostrils, long ears, or short, stiff neck.
Esteem little horse who switches his
tail while running, rests on his toes, or
strikes his front feet with his hind ones.
An amber will never do for chief and
leave for the pack deaf horse; for by
the sight, learning, and smell, horse
can save his masters life. The Arabs
have habit of cutting the horses tail
and name. At the age of one year they
cut off all the hair, with the exception
of a small tuft on the forelock and tail.
At two years they do the same thing.
At three years, the same. After five
years they never cut the hair, and wet it
with COW manure and milk, or Prussian
blue and warm butter. This makes the
hair thick, smooth, and long. The lion
and horse were once disputing in Arabia
which of them could see the best. The
lion said: During dark night saw
white hair in some milk" The horse
said: 81 saw black hair in some tar. y
The judges pronounced in favor of the
horse.
Year: 1875

Softly the stars steal up from the sea,
And pitch the tent of the awful dark
Star after star, till the wondrous thing
Suddenly flames on its ancient mark.
Skyey sentinels far and near,
No one fails with his lifted lamp,
While sacred silences everywhere
Fold the field OF the heavenly camp.
Ah, softly Phosphor up from the sea
Steals with the point Of his cold white spear,
And the hosts of the awful dark are slain
As the rosy gush Of the day draws near.
Forever the mighty drama moves
Day after day and night after night,
And darkness reels from its sceptere place,
When the great voice cries, Let there be


light!


Harriet Prescott Spoford.
Year: 1875

The Wheeling ISTELLIGESCER Of this
morning, in its plea for the National Bank
monopoly, ought TO have told why the
National Banks in that city did not re-
turn their surplus fund for local taxa
ton. According to its own figures, the


National Banks OF Wheeling only re-
turned the amount Of their capital stock
paid in for taxation, and omitted to re-


turn their large surplus fund for that


purpose. Should not the surplus fund be


returned for local taxation? That is


what the Gd=etie commended for in the arti-
Gle to which the lETELLIGESCER attempts
to reply. We say again, the surplus


fund kept on hands by the National


Banks should be subject to the same local
taxation that other property is. Will
the lSTELLIGESCER say that It should
not,-!ScubcnriRe GdEetie ot yesterday ereR'


Rg


rThe question asked by the GaEettC is rath-
er incidental than otherwise to the subject
matter OF the comments made by ii
Wednesday on the National Banks. The
animus was more particularly to show
up the banks as Odious monOpolies. The
point made in regard to their surplus Is
one that applies to all banks, and is not
specially applicable to National ins1ilu'
tiOns. The custom in this city, on the
part Of assessors, has been TO assess the
shares of the National Banks at par in
the hands Of their holders. In other
places the custom may have been 10 assess
them at their market price, which price
is generally in proportion to their
surplus. There is no reason for assessing
the shares Of banks Of any kind in q
manner different from other property, rs,
for instance, the stocks Of railroads or
the bonds Of corporations. Generally
speaking, and perhaps universally in this
community, stocks and bonds Of all kinds
are not assessed above par. The bonds
Of the city Of Wheeling are worth
premium, but We imagine that the State
assessors do not rate them above par.
The Constitution Of West Virginia pro.
vides that all taxation shall be equal
and uniform throughout the State,
and "no one species Of property
"shall be taxed higher than any other
Species Of property Of equal value"
This regulation therefore puts all prop
crty on the same footing, and makes II
the duty Of assessors to perform their dn'
ties impartially. they are in the habit
Of ignoring premiums on any one species
Of property they cannot assess them on
any other kind Of property. National
banks have no privileges as such, and re-
ceive no iayors under the law in the mat.
ter Of taxation.
Year: 1875

THERE was marked rise yesterday in
the shares Of the Western Union Tele-
graph Company, in consequence oiFumors
aaoat In New York that the Atlantic &
Pacific lines are 10 be leased to II, which
would practically give it monopoly Of
he telegraph business In this country.