smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1871

White crush hats are much worn on
the streets.


Broad hats are fast superceding jockey
and gypsy bonnets.


Ladies' cover their silk neck-ties with
black or white lace.


Charms ON watch-guards are again be-
coming fashionable.


Cretonne suits can only be worn with
effect by n very few.


A good many girls powder their arms,
which is outrageous.


Wild flowers are coming into general
favor for hat trimmings.


Ladies fans are carried slung to the
belt by n cord or tassel.


Lace has never before been so much
worn as during this season.


The very latest fashion in sleeves was
worn by our great grandmothers.


Large coral and amber beads are worn
for necklaces, with earrings to match.


"Pos 81 mar is the French way of
saying that person is very good-looking
or handsome.


A fashionable young lady in New York
receives over two hundred calls from
gentleman per month.
A few ladies' are wearing The hair
braided in thick strands and hanging
down the back, tied with colored rib
bons.


+ An old bachelor says he asks nothing
better in the summer than moonlight, II
good cigar, and a nice girl to talk to,
with no nonsense about her.


Some one. describing bad dinner to
which he had been invited, said that
''the meat was cod, the wine was hot,
and everything was sour but the vim
egar.


A place has been discovered on the top
of the Catskill Mountains where boarders
are taken and provided with good rooms,
good beds and good fare for the sum o.
S6 week.


In one of the palatial residences on
Fifth avenue the parlor furniture is COW
cred with rich camels hair embroidery
and the curtains and chair tides are of
point lace.


A gentleman, seeing young girl at
party recently, very mncn OVerdreSseu
and loaded with jewely, said she did
not believe she had left ribbon or n
trinket at home"


An eccentric man, who recently fur
nished an elegant residence in New York,
bought handsome camphor-wood coffin
and placed it ON pedestal in his study
as reminder to him in the midst of the
wealth that he was but mortal.


Some of the proprietors of the large
hotels Mt the watering places begin to
feel quite blue on account of the i'm
mcnse exodus of people to Europe. If
the prices were put down, however, they
might still have weli-tilled houses.


A new style of powder for the hair is a
bluish-gray color, which gives the hair a
beautiful gray, and is much more becom
ing than the pure white, which was so
try ipg to all compilations, without the
assistance of large quantities OF rouge.


Some very pretty new Leghorn flats
are cut i'll points around the edge, bound |
with black or dark blue velvet, under
which is black lace, aud crepe de chine
scarf, with long ends trimmed with
fringe, is loosely fastened at one side.
Year: 1871

The mosquito has proboscis like m
elephant, only not SO large. II will
however look nearly rs large under d
good microscope. H. cannot do u,
many handy things with il as iha ele,
phant can with his, but he can cause q
good deal OF annoyance in small way
with il. II is hardly the thing to say
that the mosquito bites us, for il has nc
teeth. The microscope reveals the fact
that he carries Il pair of scissors inside
of his probosci. the noatest and
sharpest little cutting tools you ever saw.
He geti his living by these. They are
two delicate little blades, and are placed
alongside OF each other. When he is
ready to make meal of us, he first
buzzes around with those beautiful wings
and sings n pleasant little scng. Ii we
quietly let him settle down, he picks on,
a place on our skin which is lust To his
liking. He is very delicate about it.
When he gets ready, he puts his probes
els down and pushes the little scissors
out and makes neat cut, so that he can
suck the blood out. Then he drinks as
much blood as he wants and is done his
dinner, But he does not leave yet. He
is going to pay his bill. He has taken
our blood, and he will leave us some
thing in exchange for it. With all his
faults he is an honest little fellow--aitel
his fashion. He has the pay in his
pocket, ready to squeeze out before he
goes. II is the best le has to give us.
His poison-pocket is at the head of his
proboscis, and at the lower end of his
proboscis he has another little pocket,
into which he puts poison enough for
one dose This poison isvery powerful.
\ very little of it makes the place where
the mosquito puts it very sore. After he
has sucked our blood, lie puts the drop
Of po son into the place he took the
blood from. IT is not the ''bite" OF the cut
that the mosquito makes that hurts, but
the dropping of this powerful poison into
our flesh. II this mosquito were large
enough to give powerful dose of this
poison, it would be bad for us. Ii he
were as big as Il kitten, and his poison
as strong in proportion, "bite from
him would kill us
Year: 1871

are not of this class. The amount Of
editorial wol'' spoiled by those men,
who stop you in the middle of your pet
article to prove to you that your pocket
and the public health will suffer unless
you will agree to do for three dollars or
five work worth twenty-five, is beyond
computation and the name of other.
wise conscientious publishers, who are
whecded by these specious and plausi Die
chaps into nm acceptance of the wretch
ed pittance they offer. isl grieve for
weak human nature when ! say it--le.
pion.
Year: 1871

The Portland tMe, } Press says sThe
following story, strange ~ it may appear,
is youched by several witnesses wh' Sc
/ testimony is unimpeachable. A short
/ time ago a female Newfoundland dog
was in the habit of coming to the house
of lady in this city who would throw to
it pieces Of cold meat, which the dog
. would eat. and having satisfied its hun
ger. go away. So confirmed did this
habit become that at q certain hour lailv
the lady would expect the dog and the
animal would put in an appearance. A
few days ago, before feeding her, the
lady said to her, Why don't you bring
me one of your puppies ? repeating the
question several times rs she stood at the
window, the dog looking at her i'll the
face with an expression of intelligence,
as if il understood every word the lady
said. The next day, to the ladys aston
ishment, at the usual hour, the dog re-
turned and, 10 and behold was accom-
panied by little puppy. The lady fed
both dogs, and then took mp the puppy
into the window, when the Old dog scam
pered off and did not return for three
days. At the end Of that time the dog
again appeared. when. after feeding it,
the lady said, Next time bring all your
puppies, / want to see to them : and
sure enough, the dog returned accom-
panied by three Newfoundland pups.
Several of the neiPhbors saw the whole
transaction, and declared that they con-
sidered this one of the most wonderful
proofs of the sagacity Oh the dog they
have ever known. Where he dog came
from and to whom it belongs is not
known, but we have the name OF the
lady and also OF those who were eye-wit-
nesses to the occurrence as narrated by
us"
Year: 1871

WHAT WEARE WORTH. According to a
document Just issued by the Census Bu-
reau, the property held by Americans in
1870 is in value about $500 per head, Civ
ing, of course, thirty one thousand mil
lions rs the total amount exhibiting an
increase of PROBABLY seventeen thousand
millions in decade, during nearly one
half Of which we were engaged in war.
accompanied by waste of life and pro-
perty, such as has been rarely ever
equalled The marvelousness Of this re-
suit appears when we are told by the
same statistician that the previous decade
that of lS5O-G0-added but six thou
sand millions of dollars to the national
wealth. In that decide eight millions of
people were added TO the national pop
ulation, while but seven millions were
added in the last decade-the percentage
of increase, OF course, being much less;
so that the increase OF wealth in the last
decade was at the rate of $4,000 for each
added person, against $3.50 to such pei
son in the former decade.
Year: 1871

Mr.. Emerson is often quoted in Eng
land for a statement which he is said to
have made there in many distinguished
circles, atht in America the people Of
character and cultivation keep ont of
politics, and turn all that business over
to adventures, nobodics, and rouchs.
If that were correct description of the
present state ofthingsamong us it would
be the sadlost symptom Of national
doom. How far is the description true
to the life that now is? As dcscrip-
ton ola tendency that does not exist in
this country it is too true. OF course it
IS an exaceration Of the case; for there
are multitudcs Of honest and cultivated
people in every state who do interest
themselves activelyin politics. And yet
it remains true that many pcople-thc
majority, we uspect-take sweet and
secret credit 90 themselves whenever
they say-"O, we are not politicians y
But iftherc is any one thing that every
decent American ought to be, it is a
politician. We are all partners in n
great commonwealth, and we cannot
avoid politics without Sinking our high
est duty in the most dastarlly fasion.
We greet every sign Of a better and a
more patriotic spirit. And for this rca-
on we are glad to see that the Hon.
Tho. Russell is next season to have 4
lecture on "The Duty Of Every Hons
est Maa to be 4 Politician. Golden
Ago
Year: 1871

We ask the particular attention Of
the conservative people of Hampstead
and the adjoining counties to the fol-
lowing resolution Of the joint conyen,
ton Of the different conservative demo
cratic committees of the state.


''Resolcei, that the people of the state
be, and are hereby earnestly requested
to give the most liberal support
to the different democratic and
conservative organs in the state, to the
end that the freest information may
be dilIused among the people: and our
party papers, Notwithstanding the pre-.
scriptive legislation which debars them
from all official patronage, be enabled
TO continue vigorous warfare against
radicalism."


We have no idea of, or disposition
TO, beg for our support, but as the
representatives of the people have
made this recommendation, we feel
that we are entitled to the benefit of it,
and that we have right to lay it be-
lore our friends in this prominent
manner, for their consideration. We
want subscribers and patrons, and do
think that the earnest support and en-
couragement of the people are due us,


but we intend to give value received
for every dollar we get.
Year: 1871

WE publish this week on our first
page, the address of the central cxccu-
tive committee to the conservative
people of the State, to which we ask
careful and thoughtful attention. II
is time to prepare for the coming cam
paign. 1t is time that the people were
beginning to organize for the great
battle to be fought next year. Organ,
ization and harmony are the two prin.
ci!al requisites to success in the coming
conflict. Our opponents are thor
oughly organized and drilled. We
must be prepared to meet them.


As we said last week we will soon
probably next week. publish a call
for a county convention. in that
convention we want to see the people
represented. We want to see the
bone and new OF the county interest
themselves in this campaign, and we
want to see the gray-haircd citizens of
the county coming out and sounding
their voices across our hills and hol-
lows, speaking earnest and cheering
words to each other and to the youth
of our county, their sons and sons-in-
law, their nephcws and grand>sons,
urging them on to the patriotic strug-
gle, and 10 manly and honorable VIC
tory. Good friends, arouse yourselves,
and the day ofour dolivemnco draws
nigh.
Year: 1871

In order to be certain to be in time
for redemption of any forfeited lands'
al parties applying should do so as
soon rs practicable in order that their
may be attended to before
the time cxpires-othcrwisc the land
will be sold by the State.
Year: 1871

Gxy Nothing heard from the missing


ship Tennessee, up to our going to press


that took out the St. Domingo Commits


sioners. She was rated at 2,l35 tons bur


den. The St Louis Rcpajljcdn saws she


sailed from New York January lG, and il


was confidently expected would arrive Il,


Samana in seven or eight days, We now


learn that steamer was in waiting at this


point with instructions to start immedi.
ately for Havana and telegraph from
thence TO Washington and had the Ten.
nessee made the passage in the ordinary
time, news Of her arrival at Samana
should have been at the navy department
by the 10Th or seth ultimo at farthest.
She has now been out twenty-nine days
or, calculating for the time necessary for
the dispatch boat to run over to Cuba, at
the very least, twenty six days-long
enough to so to Domingo and return
easily. What has become ofhcr? TAX.
ing the most favorable view of the case
now left us, she has been disabled and
driven far out Of her course by stress Of
weather; yet, supposing her machinery
had been rendered useless, she ought, be
Ing ful.riggcd ship, to have made the
trip under sail in half the time already
gone. IL the disaster which has befalen
the vessel went beyond temporary dis.
ablement and delay, the probabilities are
that she met the storm which prevailed
along the coast soon after her departure,
broke her machinery, and before she
could be brought up head to the wind
and preparations made to ride out the
gale under canvas, was caught in the
trough Of the sea, knocked over on her
beam ends, and, rendered top heavy by
the immense armament, went down at
once like the Captain in the Bay of Bis
cay. a very few days must end the sus
pense, for unless intelligence Of her safe.
ty is received by the end o: the week, the
fate of the Tennessee is settled beyond
Year: 1871

Is'- If anybody had met Christopher
Columbus in the middle of the Atlantic,
and told him that he was in the act of dis.
covering country that would ultimately
fall into the hands of such an administra.
ton as the present, he would have gone
back home and stayed there Louisville
jour nal
Year: 1871

A Washington dispatch to paper
that is a champion Of Sumner, says
that those Senators who decided, after
the Senator's speech on the San
Domingo resolutions, and the debate
which followed it, to attempt to
remove the Massachusetts, Senator
from the Chairmanship of the Com
mittee on Foreign Relations, have
nearlyal come to- the. .conclusionoto to
abandon the undertaking first, be-
cause 1t is impracticable Of accom-
plishment, and second, because they
are satisfied that Mr.. Sumner is the
most capable man in the Senate for
the position. Hereafter, the majority
can so arrange matters as TO bring
treaties and other like subjects before
the legislative session, and thus
prevent them, or such of them as Mr..
Sumner opposes, from going to the
Foreign Committee. Many of the
most radical Administration Senators
are satisfied, from words of Mr..
Sumner which have been repeated
to them, that he is not opposed to
the general foreign policy Of the
President, and that he said much In
the excitement Of debate which he
did not intend to say, and which he
regrets. He does not express any
animosity toward the President, and
he intends TO give all Administration
measures fair and cordial support.


TIE President, although somewhat
panied at what had occurred III the
heat of the San Domingo debate, has
never spoken Of Mr.. Sumner except
in the most respectful language, and
shows he has u thorough knowledge
and appreciation Of the Senator's
abilities. It is not thought that there
will be any future scenes OF the
character of that Of last week, and
all believe that If the question Of San
Domingo again comes up in the
Senate, it will be treated upon its
merit., and not upon the manner i'm
which the treaty or protocol Was
negotiated or signed. Register.
Year: 1871

i'm that barber's hands.


= IF it be once admitted that the ac-
QUESTION of San Domingo on any rea-
sonable terms is at present desirable,
considering the state of our national
finances and the character of the peo-
pie who would thus come under our
Government, then it must also be
admitted, we think, that Senator
Morton's Resolutions providing for
Commissioners to visit the island and
make investigations are at least
very mild and cautious way Of get
ting at the matter. The Commis
sioners are to serve without pay.
Their expenses are to be paid by the
Government; but these cannot
amount to any very large sum if
things are honestly managed. The
Resolutions specify a very full and
complete series of Investigations for
the Commissioners to pursue, and
the report thereon isto be laid before
Congress. For ourselves we have
never been able to see sufficient rca-
sons for purchasing the island now;
but when the President and others
deem the subject Of such immediate
and pressing importance His but fair
to suppose they must have some
grounds therefor. And'the Senate,
by adopting the Morton Resolutions
by vote Of 81 to 0, gave a rather
emphatic endorsement of them.
Senator Summers course In this con-
nection is condemned by numerous
Journals in whose ability and fairness
Of Judgment We have much. conf
dence. When man in his position
attacks the President as he did, there
ought to be more reason for t.than
he seems to have bad The effect o:
Year: 1871




The Hasckeye thinks that if Vance
of North Carolina is admitted to the
L. S. Senate there is no reason why
its doors should be closed against
Davis, Breckenridge, Semmes or any
other rebel. That's about the way it
seems to US. Magnanimity is noble
virtue; but there may easily be an
excess in a sort Of mistaken magma
nimity. The barber who, in a fit of
rage should undertake to cut a mans
throat while shaving him, might
possibly be forgiven, but his victim
would prove himself confounded
fool if he should again trust his throat
i'm that barber's hands.
Year: 1871

CONTINUED from FOURTH PAGE.


tion for your cousin which her position
and your own dignity demand. You are
both so changed in the many years that
have elapsed since your one brief intar.
view, that think an Introduction will be
necessary. Ny son, allow me to present
to you your wife, and my beloved daugh-
ter" "A
There was light step and the rustic
of silk behind us, and with mighty
effort Harry Fame turned and bowed.
At the same moment turned my eyes,
and, resplendent in full evening dress,
with jewels in her hair and on her lovely
bosom, l beheld-the SignoriDa Angela.


Dinner was announced almost imme-
diatcly, and in state Of bewilderment
that bordercd closely upon insanity,
Harry and followed Mr.. Fame and his
niece into the dining room. The pres
eDce-Uf the servants prevented I'll cons
versation Of confdcnsai character dur.
ing dinner, but heard enough to. con-
vince me that by some miraculous con-
vulsion of nature, or special interposition
of Providence, Harry Fame had. found
his '.Gorgon of a wife" in the woman he
SO passionately adored.


before the desert Mr. Fane's carriage
was announced, and gladly accepted
his invitation to go with him to the
opera, thus leaving the husband and wife
to an hour or two of quite enjoyment and
explanation.


It was talked over in Lady LIS box
that night, and learned that she had
been the originator Of the whole scheme,
and that to her womanly tact its success
was mainly owing. During tour that
she had made the previous year through
Spain, she had looked up her old friend
Mr.. Fame, and spent several days with
him at his villa near Cadiz. There she
had seen Angela, and had heard the
whole story of her marriage and of her
husbands persistent determination not
to see her or recognize her as his wife.
Convinced from the wonderful beauty
| and attractiveness of the girl that Harry
Fame could have no correct knowledge
or reccollection..of her, she conceived and
| insisted upon carrying out the plot which
in its denouement had been productive
of such happy results. To completely
disarm suspicion, should any arise in
Harry's mind, the Italian name and
| origin of the Signorina had been substi-
tuted for the Spanish; but his recollec-
tion of his wife was SO imperfect, and
his prejudice against her SO violent and
deep rooted, that to associate her for a
moment with the bright dream Of lowell
ness who had wound herself so tightly
round his Eeart had never for moment
occurred to him.


II can scarcely believe that am
breathing in the nineteenth century,"
said, when Lady l.. aud Mr. Fame had
finished their tale; !; "the story is altogeth-
er too romantic for the age VIC live in.
Fifty years hence shall be telling it to
my grandchildren in my far-off Western
home, and they will never believe that
knew all the actors personally and saw
the whole drama performed under my
very eyes"
Year: 1871

ton, not only with Lexington, but with
Louisville. Thence, railroads already ex-
tend throughout the West and Northwest.
Nor is this all. Ohio is moving to effect a
connection between her system of railways
and the western terminus of the Cheasa-
peake and Ohio line. Chicago, too, is earn
estly agitating the question of constructing
an airline railroad from that city to Hunt
ingdon, SO as to secure for herself an un-
broken line of railroad communication with
navgable water at Richmond, which will
be 200 miles shorter than the route to New
York, and possesses great advantages over
other existing lines in regard to grades,
curves and liability to interruption by snow
and ice.


Richmond should, therefore, spare no
effort to secure the removal of the obstacles
to navigation which now obstruct the
channel of the lower James. Full and
authentic statements of the facts should
promptly be prepared and laid before
Congress, and that body should be earnest
ly invoked to give its aid in alfording the
proper facilities to commerce. Very little
has heretofoae been done by the Federal
government to promote the commercial
interests of Virginia, and she therefore has
double claim on the justice and liberality
of Congress. Heretofore it has been, to
some extent, the fault of Virginia states
men that little or nothing has been done
for her. Their extreme jealousy of the
Federal power caused them not only to
decline asking aid from Congress, but Oh
one occasion, under the lead of Mr.. Taze-
well, to refuse it when proffered.


That day, however, has passed. The
power of the general government to i'm
prove the channels of navigable streams is
now almost universally conceded. At any
rate it is the firmly established policy of
the government, and it would be folly on
the part of Virginia who bears SO large
portion of the burdens of the government,
not to seek to get her share of the ben
efits.


10 view of the above facts, we cherish
lively hope that Richmond will before long
become city of commercial Importance
And if she should exert herself to improve
her manufacturing capacities, we can see
no reason why she should not double her
population and taxable values within the
next decade.
Year: 1871

WE have just received the full copy of a
bill, before alluded to in our columns, intro
duced by the Hon. Charles H. Porter, our
worthy representative in Congress, de-
signed to secure fuller protection of the
rights of all by opening the United States
courts to all civil and criminal causes
Without discussing details, we esteem this
bill one of the most important in its aim
and scope yet submitted to Congress since
the war. IF we are ever to have more than
mere confederacy, the supremacy of the
nation over its subordinate divisions must
be resolutely asserted.


The poorest, humblest citizen, black or
white-negro, Asiatic or Indian be
able successfully to invoke the whole
power of the nation for his protection
That is what the war of the rebellion was
about, and if that end is not attained, all
its spent treasure aud blood were wasted.
Partisans and demagogues may talk Of
centralized despotism and all that nonsense;
but the people want a government strong
enough to secure life and property every
where-which stretches out its paternal
arms to shield the humble and the weak
from aggression, and is able to bring its
whole force to preserve, in their entirety,
the sacred rights of its citizens, wherever
they may choose to live.


Mr.. Porter is entitled to the thanks of
the pie of his district and of the State
for his vigilance and care in protecting
their rights and interest by Law whose
provisions are SO manifcstly just and APP
propriate.