smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1871

"A commander in theroyal mail service
found his steamer some thirty miles out
of his course. He was sofely troubled
and could not account for the local at
traction that had sent him so far out Of
the way. instruments and calculations
appeared equally faultless. Sorely
troubled from having passed o sleepless,
watchful night, the captain went on deck
after breakfast. Seeing a lady sitting
(as was her custom) and working near
the pinnacle, it occurred to him that
probably the scissors were resting on the
ledge of it. Detecting nothing of the
sort, and bent on closer investigation,
he discovered that her chair had an iron
frame. 1t also quite reasonably flashed
across his mind that the ladys ample
crinoline was extended by steel hoops.
SO, mastering all his faculties, he ex-
claimed, with as much forgiveness and
as little reproach in his eye as possible,
Madam, you have, by your local attrac-
ton, drawn my ship some forty miles
from her course. r.uIfLI
Year: 1871

.HM F a fhrmers M tA M
From the Macon (Ga.l telegraph


The other dayaa Northern man, in the
hearing of the writer, let himself loose
upon US after this fashion:


ut seems tome that your people in
the cotton.growing States manage some
what strangely You spend half Of the
spring and all summer in fighting and
destroying grass, and when you have
succeeded in destroying ii all, you send
clear away down to the State Of Maine
and buy dry grass at q cost of two. cents
per pound to subsist your stock. Now,
so nearly as | can judge, your planters
do not make two cents a pound net on
cotton at thirteen cents in your market;
and thus bale Of Eastern hay on your
plantation will about offseta bale Of cot
ton in the pocket Of the farmer.


Z" From what / know Of Middle Geor-
gia, I should say that you can beat
Maine out Of sight making hay. Grass
don't take a start In Maine till from the
first to the Middle of June, and thus be-
fore grass begins to grow in Maine, you
Georgians could stuff your barns so full
Of hay and clover, at a cost not exceed
ing an eighth Of cent per pound, that
you might afford to ship hay to Maine if
Maine would only consent TO pay the
price for it which you pay.


" But if you will not raise hay, which
to the extent at least Of your own ne
cessities you can raise more proftably
than cotton, tell me, in the name of all
good sense, why you refuse TO gather
that grass which comes in your corn
fields indigenously after the crop is laid
by, and which is much better for stock
than the .nusty and falsely packed stuff
which ordinarily comes TO your market2p


We have not yet framed our reply TO
that Yankee. VIII some Of our readers
help us2 1t is case Of difficulty.
Year: 1871

The latest news from England an
nonnces that the Prince of Ways is
rapidly recovering from his illIess,
and that there is consequently great
rejoicing in the royal household. 1t
was feared that in case of the death of
the Prince a revolution would have
soon followed, inaugurated by the Re-
publicans for the overthrow of; the
.monarchial system of government.
Year: 1871

BOTTLED SUNLIGnT.-A professor in a
French college is said to have discovered Il
method whereby the heat and light Of the
suns rays may be bottled up, by means of
vase made for that purpose, which is OK
posed to the sun for several hours and then
sealed air-tiGht. Through small cork
inserted in the vase is perforation. If,
after the vase is charged, this hole is opened
and lens is held before it, heat sufficient
to light a candle or inaame a paper is
evolved. The professor believes that he
can thus collect and preserve light enough
to illuminate rooms with daylight for sew
cral hours Of the night.


Such an invention would have great
value, but it can not be compared with that
Of aprocess by which the power exercised by
the heat Of the sun can DO gathered up,
held in reserve, rendered portable and
made applicable as a motor for machinery
The sun at 800, shining upon an area Of
one acre of ground, excrts an expansive
power every day which, if transported in.
to lifting power, would raise ton of iron
several inches from the ground. The at.
mosphere is at all times full of such dynas.
tic elements. Itremainsi for tho inveu.
tive philosopher to turn them to useful &C.
count.
Year: 1871

e A contract for making new teles-
cope for the National Observatory is now
being carried out BY 6rm in the city Of
Boston. 1t must be ready, according to
the terms of contract, in about two years.
Ii will be 90 inches in diameter, and the
plan furnished to the contractor Is pro-
nouuced by scientific gentlemen to be an
excellent one, and it is expected that the
telescope when finished will be the finest
one in the world.
Year: 1871

hate To permit them to be thus misled is 70
surrender the State, at no distant day, to un-
challenged Democratic dominion. Shall this
be avoided or not Do not delay the answer!


Meantime, the Republicans can carry this
Springs election if they VIII. lhey havo The
Fifty Thousand voters who gave the State to
Grant and Colfax; they have Fifteen Hundred
more who have never yet voted; let them poll
nineteen of every twenty votes that belong to
them. keeping vigilant watch against Demo-
cratic frauds and their triumph is sure. Their
ticket is strong and popular; they are freshly
warned against feud and faction by the result
in New Hampshire; their townships are small,
SO that no one lives far from the polls; and
they can SO organize and canvass as to bring
to the polls all voters but those absent from the
State. Let them untedly and heartily resolve
that this shall be done, and we shall be able
to announce, ten days hence, that MARSHALL
JEWELL Is again their Governor.
Year: 1871

We are afraid that Boston is going to the
bad. The Massachusetts State Board of Health
has lust presented report to the Legislature
from which it appears that the Hub of the
Universe is undergoing "a progressive dete-
"rioration in moral and physical cleanliness.
The streets are every dirty" The alleys and
back-ways are soften filthy" The atmos-
phere reeks with the foul OdOrs Of OverflOwing
vaults, fostering offal, putrid household refuse,
simmering fat, and bubbling cauldrons of
nasty bones Unsound provisions are freely
sold. The poor are crowded into the worst
description of tenement houses and cellars. On
one side of Beacon Hill the mortality among
children is more than a third of the whole
number while in the aristocratic district on
the other side it il only one-tenth. Drunken
ness is decreasing in the rural districts, but in
Boston it is more rampant than ever


This il very sad. There never was a place
where legislation fought original sin so hard
as in Boston. There never was place where
the agencies of moral reform had better
chance to work. or social science and all that
sort of thing commanded more respectful con-
sderation. Boston has the Common, and the
Big Elm, and the Radical Club, and the dear
old Epening Transcript and the Handel and
Haydn Society, and yet she will get drunk.
She has a bewildering alluence of sanitary
laws, and yet she gets fouler and fouler every
year She has elaborate enactments for the
regulation of tenement houses, and yet mo
"where can the slightest evidence be seen" of
an attempt to put them into execution. She
threatens awful penalties, we believe, for the
sale of spoiled provisions, and yet high-ilavored
fish, and bob veal, and diseased beef, and milk
that has the foot and mouth disease in it, are
openly dispensed by her cheerful and high
toned market-men, under the very noses OF
the municipal board of health. Boston is a
whted sepulcher-just as nasty as New YORK,
for all its aesthetic pretensiOns.
Year: 1871

The rcsident has issued a proclamation
warning the South Carolina Ku-Klux to desist
from their outrages and return to their homes
within twenty days. The proclamation is the
usual preliminary to the sending of an army
to the rebelliOus district, aud conveys informa-
ton to that effect. Prompt action will GER
tainly follow at the end of the specified time
if Gov. Scott does not then report the State
as tranquilized. 1t is well known that troops
are already on their way to South Carolina,
and more will be sent if those en- route seem
unable to disperse the Ku-Klux. The great
difficulty, of course, will be to find this guer-
rilla-like enemy, the secrecy of the organiza-
ton being the chief security Of its members ;
and for this very reason Congress should lose no
time in giving to the United States Courts the
power which will enable them to reach where
the army cannot.
Year: 1871

The subject of limiting labor in manufactures
to ten hours daily is still under consideration in the
Massachusetts, Legislature. An eleyen-hours system
now prevails in most establishments, and manufac-
turers claim that il is only the last hour which gives
them q margin Of profit Per contra, Mr. Cowley
argued before the Committee that the production Of
mill does not depend upon the number of hours
run, but partly on the condition of the operatives
Eleven hours labor, he claimed, mpeded the natural
growth of children and prematurely debilitated
women He stated also that the Atlantic Mills at
Lawrence now running on the ten-hours' plan, actu-
ally produced more than formerly under the twelve
II this be So it seems TO to settle the question for
it would be the hight Of absurdty to do actually less
by sticking to the longer period of time than could
be accomplished in the shorter.
Year: 1871

Now and then, we meet with an incident which
shows that religious feeling is not 30 hopelessly
intolerant as we might suppose it from reading the
so-caled religious newspapers. Thus, the Meth
odst Society in Leomnster Mass has sold its place
of worship and parsonage for the sum of $4,000 to
the Roman Catholics. Yet we dare say that, with
out much search. could find in some Methodist
journal denunciatons of the Roman Church as the
disreputable and scarlet old lady of Babylon. But
business is business and when it comes to the sale
of meeting the vendors act upon the broad
est principles of charity and liberation. We accept
with pleasure this evidence that men and women are
not SO answering in their religious prejudices as
they profess to be.
Year: 1871

Among the evils which, it was arrogantly pre-
dcted. would result from emancipation was an
embarrassing migration of colored paupers to the
North but the prophecy has hardly been fulfilled;
for in Boston, point to which the access would
naturally tend, find that there were 2,26l persons
of color in 1861 in 1866 there were 243 inhabitants
of this description in Boston, Dorchester and Rox-
bury united and the late census gives only 1896.
The greater portion of the emancipated have re-
NAMED as we supposed it would in the locality to
which it was attached in the climate which 1t liked
the best, and engaged in the kind of labor with
which it had become familiarand this too, in spite
of the damnable outrages to which it has been sub
jected.
Year: 1871

The farmers of HillsborOugh County, N. H., held
their last meeting for the the 22d nst at
Milford, and discussed the important question:
How can we make our farms attractive as to re-
tain our young men and women at hOmep 1t was
generally and sensibly agreed upon that the farm
residence should be made pleasanter; and much was
said of the probable good influence of local Libraries,
the cultivation of music with a fair allowance OF
time for recreation. and for escape from daily
drudgery Unquestionably, the New-England farms
require hard and pretty constant work at certain
seasons but there are several months of comparative
leisure, a rational Improvement of which would rem
der rural life q good deal more tolerable to the
young. If "the occupation of a farmer be the
noblest of all labor" it would be great pity If 1t
were necessarily dull.
Year: 1871

Some Of the State Police of Boston and its vicinity
are in trouble Before Legislative Committee,
Mary Dow testified that she paid Constable Clapp
$50 for the privilege of selling whisky K. H. Yeaton
that he paid $40 to Constable DAILY to save himself
from arrest and C. W. Carter that he paid $40 two
or three times to Constable Mute to prevent COM
plant and seizure, when finding this sort OF bribery
too expensive he wisely concluded to give up the
business This testimony. if it is to be credited de-
yelops rather melancholy state of morals in the
Massachusetts, constabulary, which was organized
mainly to put down the traffic in sprituous fluids.
II there were but one case might suspect perjury
but here are three to corroborate each other.
Year: 1871

rights In the party than have those they stig-
matize as monopolists and asperse rs seeking
to tax the whole people "for the benefit of
"priyate individuals and corporations" If
they see fit to leave US because we are not
Free Traders, we shall hope to supply their
places with as good men as themselves, who
stand ready to unite. with us whenever Pro-
lection against Free Trade shall have become
the absorbing ISSUE They are welcome to de
"mandn what they please; but, If they mean
that they will bolt if their demand is not ac-
ceded TO, they cannot go too soon.
Year: 1871

Mace and Coburn, both notorious bruisers, are
now without concealment training in this city for
their coming fght-the one in Twenty iifth-st. and
the other in Ninetieh-st We believe it to DO quite
within the province of the police authorities to bind
both these persons to keep the peace, and not to
leave tho city for the purpose of engaging in the
ring, either in Canada or elsewhere. Wherever they
may contend, this city gets the worst of IT, for here
are the BETS the bar-room meetings, the preliminary
ugh-and-tumbles, tho pistol-shooting, the head
breaking and all the ante and post-iniquities and
scrmmsges. If there now be Eo statute which VIII
reach this pugnacious pair, the sooner We have one
provided for such cases the better.
Year: 1871

Mr.. Disraeli's fond anticipations Of an early
change in the English Ministry must have
been disappointed by the result Of the divls-
ion in the Commons yesterday, wherein the
Premier was sustained by positive majority
of 2O4. While the Liberals have unquesuona-
bly, disagreed with their leader on MINOR
points it is evident from this vote that they
are resolved to sustain him on party issues
The vote of confidence was followed by an
other which showed conclusively that his pro-
posed Army Reform and Army Increase are
not questions upon which the party disagrees
with the Premier. Following close upon the
Irish debate, these votes are significant as In
dicating that the crisis in English politics Is
not as serious for the Liberal party and for
the Gladstone Ministry as many have been
led TO infer.
Year: 1871

LATEST NEWS FROM ALL POINTS
READING OUT REPUBLICANS
Trumbulrs Retrenchment Proposition
SPEECH OF SENATOR LOGAN
INSURANCE CASE IN SUPREME COURT
PAYMASTER GENERAL RETIRED
Bank Statements Called For
REDUCTION Of SALT DUTY OPPOSED
MATCH GAME OF BILLIARDS
CONNOLLY VERY SICK
IMPORTANT EOREIGN NEWS
SOUTH CAROLINA HOUSE
GOVERNOR SCOTT AND THE STATE BONDS
Impeachment Resolution Introduced
Year: 1871

There is a sacred duty devOlving
upon every man who has shOuldered
the responsibility of a family-it is TO
provide them with a home. And
even those who hold this respOnsibili-
ty in anticipation should take initi-
atOry steps towards the performance
of this duty.


A home Of our own, this is the CEN
tiuual aspiration, and q most worthy
onef Is. OF hundreds Of good wives,
who. yearly and half yearly, have TO
bundle and 20 from one uncOmforta-
HE house to another. A home Of our
own. with this hope in their hearts,
how bravely they buffet the waves OF
care, that moving here and there
heaps upon them. How fondly lney
look 10 the day, when once establish
ed within that home, they can say
goodbye to that bugbear, rent day
and arrange permanently within their
own door all the useful and tasteful
appIiances of home life, and train
around its exterior the graceful, cling


Every man of family should lay
aside monthly from his income, be II
large or small, q sum, no matter how
little, 10 form q nucleus Of the home
fund and 10 be invested in a piece OF
land, it may be a fraction Ofa lot with
limited improvements, or il may be
vacant ground, and il he il a good
mechanic, q skillful economist, q clev-
or fipancier, he will soon have a house
upon It, and his family will realize
from a blessed experience that OF oil
the pleasant spots on earth not one i
half so pleasant as hOmeOfonr oWh'
Year: 1871

Mr.. Hitchcock-The Lord does not
punish people hereafter for deeds done
in the body. Sufficient unto the day
Is the evil thereof" In the lords
dealings with his creatures, there is
no such thing as punishment in the
sense in which that word Is generally
used, but only philosophical conse-
uuences. If YOU take hold of hot iron
it burns you. The burning is not
Year: 1871

Mr.. Hitcheock-He goes there OF
his own accord, and because he likes
4 better than he likes any other


Reporter-That's q sumner. Ifyou
will enable me to comprehend that,
and to see that it is tue, you will
contribute much to my peace Of mind:


Mr.. Hitehcock-HOw so? Would
It contribute to your peace Of mind to
see that il you should ever become an
Inmate ofone of those loathsOme hells,
OF the Fourth or Sixth Ward-say a
negro dance-hOuse-it would be be-
cause you had become so degraded
that YOU would go there, and live
there, and make your living by living
there, from pure love for such life
Year: 1871

1t is as easy to be good man as
a poor one. Half the energy dis
played in keeping ahead that is re-
quired to catch up when behind,


would have credit, give more time
to attend to business, and add to
the profit and reputation of those
who work for gain. BE prompt ;
honor your engagements. If you
promise to meet a man, or do a
certain thing at q certain moment,


be ready at the appointed time If
you 60 out on business, attend


promptly to the matter on hand,


then as promptly attend to your
own business. Do not stop to tell
stories during business hours. If
you want a place of business, be
there when wanted. No man can


get rich by sitting around stores
aud saloons. Never "fOol" on


business matters. Have order,


system, regularity, and promptness.


Do not meddle with business you
know nothing of. Never buy any
article you do not need, simply be-
cause it is cheap, and the man who
sells will take it out in trade.


Trade is money. Strive to avoid


harsh words and personalities. Do
not kick every stone in the path,
more miles can be made in a day
by going steadily on, than stopping
to kick. Pay as you 60. A-.Aan
of'honor respects his word as he
does his bond. Aid, but never beg.
Relieve others when you can, but
never give what you cannot afford
to, simply because it is fashionable.
Learn to say NO. No necessity for
swapping it out dog fashion /; but
say it firmly and respectfully. Have
but few con6dants Use your
brains rather than those of others.
Learn to think and act for your
self. Be vigilant. Keep ahead
rather than behind the times.
Young men. cut this. and place it,
by careful perusal, in the golden
storehouse of your brain, and il
you find that there is folly n the
argument, let us know-Peninsul
Herald. m tslssalf4g5.f (
Year: 1871

Nothing now seems to stand in
the way of the most complete vic
tory in November of the Republi-
can party in Mississippi. The har-
monius action of the State Conven-
ton of the 30th ult gives assurance
to Republican hopes, and strikes
with paralysis the spasmodio mus
cles of the Objective Pointers.


The patriotic sacrifice of feeling
which had been exhibited in pas
sionatc outbursts, before the meet
ing of the Convention, by those
who felt that they had ample cause
for private chagrin, is held up to
future conventions as a most COM
mendable example. Each and
every one seemed to realize the i'm
portance of unity and harmony.
Each one placed the welfare of the
party high above his own private
grief, and the result is well express
ed by our contemporary of the Pi-
lot when he says;


We are persuaded from all that We have



seen and heard during tho past few days
that the Republican party of the State of
Mississippi is to-day stronger than ever
before, more compact, more determined,
and better organized, and that its success
in the coming campaign is certain beyond
all contingency.


The artificial and fictitious class
ification of Republicans, as indulged
in and encouraged by Democrats,
and all those who desire to witness
a disruption of the party, wo trust
will be disregarded in the future.
The jealousy engendered by the
constant encouragement of this idea
by those who from selfish motives
inside the party, or from destruc-
tive desire outside the party, has
more than once assumed the shape
of a rock upon which the party
would one day split.


We have seen busy-bodies time
and again within the last eighteen
months, like so many Ranzy Smiles
running from the Northern to the
Southern white Republican, and
then to the colored Republican,
earnest in the work of disintegra-
ton, encouraging the idea that there
are wings to the Republican party
and that they are hostile to each
other. Up to this time they have
not succeeded in accomplishing
anything, and now that we have
passed another one of these epochs
in the history Of party Organiza-
tions which are often dangerous,
as making a probable turning point
in party career, we would do well
to stop and examine the question,
and analyze it thoroughly under
the light of unimpassioned reason.
The feeling, if it exists now at all,
has been smothered by the unani-
nous action of the Convention and
we trust that before the coming of
another era in which it may be
called into life it will be found to
be completely asphyxiated. There
is no earthly reason why it should
exist. There is no foundation for
it in patriotism nor in policy. And
that Republican who would recog-
nize q distinction between the Nor
thern man, Southern man and col
ored man, in his claims for political
preferment, is unworthy Of a place
in the party, and should be scourg-
ed from its ranks.


Men are naturally clannish. They
are SO by nature and by education.
They are gregarious animals, and
are inclined to form associations
upon the same principle that causes
s.birds of a feather flock together
Year: 1871

Is there any position mother can covet
for her daughter more glorious than to be
the wife of an honest farmer, in country
like this? To be the wife of one who is
looked upon by the neighbors as one whose
example may be safely followed--one
whose farm is noted far and near as
model of neatness and perfection of culti-
vation? To be mistress of mansion of
her own, that may be the envy of every
passer by, because it is neat and comfor-
table-a sweet and lovely cottage home.
To be the angel that fits through the gar
den, bidding the flowers bloom, and twin.
ing roses and honey suckles around the
bedroom, or sweetening their fragrance
with her sweetest smile or spreading the
snowy cloth beneath the old oak at the
door to welcome her husband as he re-
turns from his toll or ever tipping the
cradle with her hand, or busily moves the
needle, at the same time humming joy
Gus song of praise that she is the happy
and fondly beloved wife of an American
of the true noblemen of this
free country-one that should, by right,
rank as the pride and glory of America.