smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1873

On Friday evening last young lady
of this village, snys the ,Saratogian, re-
ceivcd letter out of the postoflice.
Hastily opening it, she attempted to
read its contents, but it was puzzle,
as she found it an impossibility to de-
cipher many of the words and sentences;
and those that she did, seemed to
convey no intelligence or to have the
slightest particle of sense in them. She
asked a young gentleman friend to as
sist her in readin, it. He looked at the
mysterious missive and smiled. Her
curiosity was aroused she snatched
the letter from his hands and attempted
to read it and smile, but it was of no
use. She handed 1t back to him. He
gazed at 1T and smiled little broader, but
said nothing. Now she was vexed, and
thought it real mean in him to laugh
and not tell her what about. After
laughing till he grew red in the face
and his sides shook and ached, he
handed it back to her, saying: "Why,
that's your own letter returned from the
dead letter Office "
Year: 1873

The Piutes have been to Mono Lake,
having pow-wow and one of their ma
tive dances. The water of the lake is
very peculiar. BARRIERS have brought it
here for shampooing, saying it was
much better than anything they could
prepare. If persons going in the lake
for bath stay in the water few min
utes, they have such pricking and
itching sensation of the skin that they
have to go to spring of fresh water
and wash their bodies for relief At
this season of the year the water is
thick with small worm, about half an
inch long, that changes to species of
fly, and light breeze of wind will
drive windrows of them on the shore.
The Indians rub off the outer shell or
skin, winnow them, anu gather bushels
of the bodies for winter food. Another
of their customs is scraping the ground
clean under pine tree, and making a
fire under the tree, the smoke causing
worms about the size and as long as n
finger to fall from the tree, which they
gather for winter food. They have no
idea of cultivation, and only depend
upon what Nature has provided, except
what they get from the whites for work
done. When they have money they
will buy refuse beef, but no pork.
When the butcher kills, they help him,
and take the head, legs, and entrails to
their camp.--Ncrada Letter.
Year: 1873


A Violet lay in the grass,
A tear in its golden eye;
And it said Alas and alas
The night is over and gone,
Another day is anigh,
And am alone, alone
There is none to care if die,
There is none to be glad that live;
The lovers they pass me by
And never glance they give.
And | could love so well. so we'll,
If one could but tarry and tell
A tale that was told to me only:
My lover might go his ways,
But through all the nights ani The days
should never again be lonely!
Then sudden there fell look
Into that yiolets heart
1t lifted its face with start;
1t arose; it trcmbled and shook.
At last, at last !. it cried;
Down drooped its head, and it died.
Is God in Heaven? Is the light
OF the moons, and the stars, and the suns
Hs-or the Evil Ones!
Is lie cIuel, or mad, or right
The Pansy that grew by the wall,
Its heart was heavy with bliss.
In the night it had heard call
1t listened, it felt kiss
Then loving wind did fall
On lis breast, mud shivcr with gadncss;
The morning brough; loves madness
To light-and the lover fled.
But the eyes that burned in his head
Shot love through each and all,
For the Pansy that bloomed by the wall
Shonc swee; in every place
In the sky, the earth, and the air
And that lover saw never the face
Of my dead violet there.
Hush! Hush Let no sorrow he SPOKEN!
Though it perish, no pity shall hout it,
Better to die heart-hrokcn
Of love than to live without it!


-.Scribner's
Year: 1873

The gentlemen Of the City Council seem to be
very much in doubt as 10 what the debt OF our
city is at this time, At the meeting of council
on the evening Of the ID inst, resolutions were
passed requiring the appointment of a special
committee 10 examine the books and make a
detailed statement Of the whole debt On last
evening Mr.. Hayes called up the, resolutions "neh
after some discussion, the vote by when iney
were adopted was recOnsidered and the resolu'lon'
referred 20 the Finance Committee In the dh.
cussiOn no approximate statement was made oi
how much the city was liable for, and We there
fore infer that no one was familiar enough whn
the finances 10 furnish the information AS the
committee is 10 report at the next meeting We
presume our citizens may look for n clear ana
fair exhibit that will be so explicit that cannot
be misunderstood.
Year: 1873

Fhs city Is about to issue bonds for 100000
Ter paying OF and funding the floating debt
Thh Il done in conformity with an act Of the
Legislature passed few days since authorizing
tie city 70 fund the floating debt 1t viii not,
hOWeEeE, it is supposed, require the whole OF
thls money for this purpose and portion Of the
amount is TO be used for opening Eighteenth
street
Year: 1873

Yon say you went to party last night,
and you saw Mrs. Smith, an old friend, whom
you had not seen since she and your sister
were at school together. You had very
pleasant talk until supper, then yon gave her
your arm and took her to supper When
some one came along with few glasses of
wine on waiter and offered her glass, you
saw her shudder as she said ''Nor' and you
wondered why Mrs. Smith, who didn't use to
be particular about such things, not only re-
fused, but shuddered when she said 'Nop'
You cannot tell whyl can tell you why
You went on with your talk, and had lit y
renewed Irritation, did you? won't say you
didn't. She was gay, and seemed glad to for
get herself, did she? Very WE'LL l am glad
you gave her the honor OF the evening. /
can tell you where she went after the party
was over, She was glad it was late, for her
husband had not come home. She sat and
read an hour, and her husband did not come.
She wrote for an hour, and he did not come.
She sat at the piano for an hour, but he die
not come, At length, between three and
four o'clock, there was a noise at the door,
and two policemen held him In their arms.
She knew them both well by this time. 1t
happens so often that she knows every po-
lceman on the beat. They bade her good
night. She brought him in. She locked her
child's room that he might not abuse him.
She took the abuse as he flung himself upon
the bed. She took off his neckcloth eaa-
coat, and sat there until he should fall into
his stupid sleep. She was the woman who
had refused the glass of wine with shudder.
You did not know tie story. You thought
she was gay and bright. know her story,
because am her minister. They have
sort of skeleton in the closet which we are
permitted to see and you are not. And when
we see that skeleton, do you wonder that we
sametimes say pretty sharp things about mod
crate drinking and the temptations offered at
parties ?-Reu. T.. E. Hale.
Year: 1873

The north-wind is full of courage, and puts
the stamina of endurance into man, and it
probably would into woman too if there
were series of resolutions passed to that eff
fect.-Warner
Year: 1873

A GENTLEMAN and Lady wishing quiet home
"A find pleasant rooms with board at No. 4
Cotton street. second door from Free street. One or
two single gentlemen can be accommodated also.
Year: 1873

No efforts will be spared to make the MAINE
STATE PRESS moro acceptable to its patrens Indeed
the Publishers will not relax their efforts to make
the paper necessity to those who have been accus-
TONED to read It, We pledge that during the year
1873 the Weekly PRESS shall be more NEWSPA-
PER than ever, so that tho famil. that thoroughly
reads the paper will have all the current erents ofthe
day.
Year: 1873

The publication Of Tyndalrs lectures will
be somewhat later than was intended, since
it has been decided to print in an appendix
the brilliant addresses at the farewell dinner
in New York, and thus make it complete
memorial of the great scientists visit to this
country. The book may be expected early
in March. r tt
Year: 1873

BAD FoR THE PAoIFIc MAIL.-Tbs New York
Times publishes what it calls u rumOr IN circula-
tiOn that stakeholder in the Pacific Nail Com
pany is about to make application for the appoint
ment of q receiver, on the ground that the funds
OF the company are be EecklessiY squandersd In
stock operations, and the only way 10 stop these
operations is to throw tho company into bank
rnptny.
Year: 1873

r,culture is the basis of all


wealth in the State, and those
engaged in labor on the plan
tatlons are not yet able to sus
tain themselves independent
of the liberal credit system
which has prevailed so gener-
ally heretofore. Capital and
labor alike are affected by the
provisions of the law; and tits
therefore earnestly to be hoped
that it will be promptly vetoed
by Mr.. Kellogg, in order to set
all uncertainties at rest.
Year: 1873

SILENCE.-They who talk
much generally think little.
and they who think much gen
orally talk little; hence, if it
Were only for the sake of ap-
pearanee persons ought not to
talk unless they have some
think to say. Ifthis important
truth were more generally ap-
preciated, mankind would be
much the better for it. Silence
itselfis productive ofrefection,
as loquacity is of levity. .
Year: 1873

Feeling is a much slower
sense than sight. If a man
had an arm long enough to
reach the sun, and were to
touch that body with the tip of
his finger, he would never lind
out whether it were hot or cold,
as he would be dead before the
sensation arrived at head
quarters; which would require
one hundred years. Ex. .-
Year: 1873

Mr.. I. n. Marks entered into the unif-
cation movement with great deal Of
energy and determination. He is one of
those positive characters who infuse
vigor into every cause they espouse; and
this same determination of character.
which is his ruling trait, makes him rest
i've and fretful because others in the COM
munity do not view events from his own
high standpoint. Very keen in his own
perceptions, he is too apt to blame and
denounce blindness in others. This i'm
pulsiveness led him the other day into
the use. in letter which he published in
the columns of contemporary. Of re-
marks indicating altogether too petulant
spirit. He seems to forget how
slowly public sentiment in this
community works itself up to new
departures in behalf Of any cause. no
matter how righteous. While be realizes.
and justly. that the principles of unifca-
tion--or Republicanism. for it is one and
the same thing-must il the end be &C.
cepted, and that refusal to accept them
only interrupts and defers the political
and material prosperity Of our people, he
should recollect that the work Of the re-
former is a slow and tedious one. While
it is clear to him that those who refuse to
adopt the cardinal principles set forth in
the unifcation manifesto are committing
a grievous wrong upon themselves, he
should understand that it does not be-
hoove him to try to lash them into sub
mission. Absolute and untrammeled
freedom of opinion is the right we all
claim and will fight for, for others as well
as ourselves. as long as that right is held
within such bounds as to wrong 10 other


We welcome Mr.. Marks as worthy
auxiliary in the cause Of true Republican
ism. He is a sturdy laborer in some
what forbidding field. Let Him be pa
tient, therefore. and FIRM. Grand vel
comes and enthusiastic receptions are not
often accorded to pioneers. He must ex-
pect contume!y at times, and nisconst-uc-
ton from those too narrow-minded to
apprehend the greatness Of the work or
too short-sighted to see that the general
application of the principles Of equality
is only question Of time.


Happy he whose inward ear


Angel whisperipgs NAV hear


Ger the rabies laughter.


And though harreds fagots bum


Glimpses through the smoke cisce-.


OF the good hereafter
Year: 1873

lence. An appeal to sectionalism by So
cial ostracism of those who come from
abroad.


3. A refusal to acknowledge those as
citizens who have been made so by the
letter of the constitution.


4. To make New Orleans, like the low
countries of Europe. the ground where
all the conflicts of party are to be fought
out.


5. A systematic abuse Of cur repub-
lican government. an appeal for the in
tervention and protectorate Of foreign
power not able to take care of itself, and
an lawful squirting toward monarchy
which one grand old republican believer
in the majesty Of the people held in
such dread and suspicion.


These are succinct allegations Of the
political insanity Of which the Southern
people complain. The effect of this in
sane ambition. or ambitious insanity, has
been to keep the South separated from
the other and governing portion Of the
Union. 1t deprives the South of just
share of the government aid. 1t divides
the people Of the South itself, and. as
alleged by many Southern men. to throw
the guidance of public affairs into the
hands Of voters not yet qualified for their
trust. or Of representatives without
adequate interest in the public welfare.
The strategy Of the clique involves a
degree Of violence. In cleaning out
the carpet-baggers in twenty-four hours.
immigrants who do not speak the Ian
guage fear they might be hung OF shot
without the capacity to explain.
In counseling an agitation after
which three hundred and fifty abie-oodied
laborers are missing from the cotton
fields. and the whole State put under
federal proclamation, capitalists remeu,-
ber the immense demand for their money
at home and in other countries, and with
draw or withhold investment IL Louisi-
ana commerce or public securities at ten
to twenty per cent, to purchase tie solid
obligations Of Holland at three per cent.


We need not recapitulate these evil
dences Of insanity to prove that those who
claim 1.-THE right divine to govern the
South are politically non compos mentis.
We refer to the same record to show that
these men are Of dangerous and desperate
purposes. Of the clique it should be said,
as Juvenal tells US was the rule with
bad bull in his day, habe! tnnuna in cornu.
It should be marked, known and avoided.
1t has been and is now doing more mis-
chief than the war. for it renders the sav.
ages of the war irreparable.


Let. then. the people Of the South. who
have the power and jurisdiction. and to
whom alone it is given to bind and loose
its own men for political merit OF defec-
ton, repudiate and dethrone this insane
and impotent pretension to govern them.
Let them order writ Of inquiry into the
ability of the Democracy to take care Of
itself or others. Let the clique be ordered
into the close confinement Of exclusion
from politics. the exciting cause Of its
malady and its mischief ; and above all.
let it be put on the extreme low diet of
total abstinence from all Office. When it
shall renounce its pretensions TO command
people who will no longer bear its pre-
posterous hallucinations. its members can
resume that position in public affairs to
which whatsoever merit they may ;ndiy;d-
ually possess may entitle them.
Year: 1873

Travellers going North will please take
notice that the only way to secure COM
Portable berth in a palace sleeping car
which goes through to ST. Louis without
change is to obtain ticket in advance
from A. D. Sheldon, agent, No. % Camp
Year: 1873

Evidently, the coroner OF Bossier parish
does not properly realize the dignity OF his
office. The Shreveport papers have been
complaining for some days that the body
of a drowned man is lying in the water
opposite that thriving city, on the Bossier
aide of the river, and that none OF the Bos.
sier officials pay any attention to it.
Year: 1873

Mr.. L n. Marks. in second letter vim
dicatirg his course on unifcation. says:


Upon the change of the form Of the oath
in the State constitution, and Cn the pas
sage of the general amnesty bill by Con
gress, l promptly renewed my citizenship.
registered as vO-er. took the oath to sup
port the constitution of the State. and in
tend to keep that oath. And if every other
man in Louisiana, who took that oath. will
do the same. we shall soon have peace,
prosperity and good government IN the
State.


The government of the United States
has twice granted amnesty-the first to
those of its own citizens who resisted the
war of independence. the second to those
who attempted to secede from the Union.
It may be said that this was its duty.
Very true; bu: no other government has
ever, so far as We know. done the same
thing. But is there no correlative obliga-
ton on the part Of the amnestied per
sons: Undoubtedly. It would be to
maintain the government as established.
and show sense Of the obligation i'm
posed by the &C. of beneyolence or duty,
just as it may be esteemed. Some of
those involved in the unifcation move
ment do not present very graceful fig
ure. They have almost avowed their pur-
pose to employ this means when all others
had failed to divide the colored peo-
pie. Now it is proposed to persuade
the people of mixed blood to
abandon tho negroes. resign the posts
they have received at the hands Of the
Republican party snd rely on the men Of
the meal tub to do better by them. These
tricks are utterly vain. They have served
to convince the coored people that right
and safety can alone be found in tho Re-
publican party. From notification to
unifcation was an immense stride. It
has been taken. and seems now to have
been taken in vain. Mr.. Marks properly
reminds all who have taken an oath to
support the constitution OF the State that
this oath implies an obligation to obey
the laws. This will have its effect
upon the numerous class which
has assumed this obligation. There is
however, quite a number who have taken
no such incumbrance of citizenship, and
yet are among the most active in opposing
the law. There was one subject Of her
most maternal majesty who. being called
OF to pay some sort of license tax, de-
nounced the government of Louisiana as
wholly insupportable. We have good
many temporarily resident in New Or
leans who follow this alien example.
Americans, however, who take IN oath to
supper: government are understood to
comprehend its obligations and comply
with them. SO thinks Mr.. l. n. Marks,
and we think he is correct in his opinion.
Year: 1873

"Give me your sweet music, said the rose
to the nightingale, "that [ may enliven the
garden with melody"


"Give me your soft light" said the night
ingale to the evening star, that l may food
the woodlands with brightness"


"Give me.your strength and motion" said
the evening star to the sea, that 1 may ex-
ert real power over the world"


"Give me your brilliant colors," said the
ocean to the rainbow, "that | may gladden.
the hearts of men, instead of affrighting them
with my wrath of storm"


"Give me your ruddy warmth" said the
rainbow to the fire, "that may assist in
ripening the harvest field"


Each one replied that it was impossible; as
it was created, so it must continue. The rose
is censer of summer perfumes; but it can
not pour forth food of music. The night
ingaIe is a fountain of melody; but it has
not even the brightness of the FREELY. The
star is an unquenchable lamp of splendor;
but it cannot alright the heart of man with
the terror of storm. The ocean is one of
the sublimest objects of the world; but it has
not the mild beauty of the bow Of eamise.
And why should man be ever striving for
something he does not possess? On one is
bestowed the power of intellect, on another
the attraction of loving heart. One can
thrill the world with burst of eloquence;
another can influence the life with quiet
earnestness. The poet can charm it with
song, the merchant enrich it with commerce,
the historian enlighten it with the story of
bygone times. And each one is its benefac.
tor SO long as he remembers that the Great
Master has given him his work to do, and
strives to do it as ever in his sight
Year: 1873

The sHARpEsT sting of death is the sense
of unpardoned sin.


Men imagine that they can hnd far
higher throne for God than throne OF grace.


LET us settle it in our minds that saints
on earth are not perfect angels, but only
converted sinners.


The SLIGHTEST sorrow for sin is sufficient,
if it produces amendment--the greatest is
insufficient if it does not.


THE WORKS OF GoD need no miraculous
atte8tation. They shine so brightly upon
the eye, that God and his divine glory may
be sufficiently recognized in them.
/ THAT the Saviour has power over all flesh
constitutes the warrant of the Church in the
great enterprise of the worlds evangelical
tion. Without an adequate faith in this
great truth there will be little heart to pro-
secute this enterprise.


THERE are some theologians, men even in





the gqinistEB who for score of years have
weekly investigated the sacred record, faith
oming its depths, and who know not God so
well as the crucifed thief who said, " Re-
member me when thou contest into thy King
DOM


SOME MEN are very learned in the litera-
ture of prayer, but Christ receives with cor
diality the prayer from which they would
turn away in disgust Some prayers, as
they ascend, are shot at by many an angry
arrow of criticism, but they wing their way
upward, and are cheerfully presented by
Him whom the Father heareth always.


A LITTLE general knowledge Of Christ as
the only Saviour is often all that we possess.
But of the fullness that dwells in him, of
his resurrection, his priesthood, his interces-
sion, his unfailing compassion, we have
tasted little or nothing at all. They are
things of which our Lord might well say to
many, as he did to Martha, "Believest thou
this ?"
Year: 1873

WHERE WE have to deal with false, mali
cious men, we are not called upon to make
the truth SO clear and bright that they are
compelled to understand it; dark words for
dark men. So it was with the parallels of
Christ
Year: 1873

SUSAN b. ANTHONY, he appointed this un-
feeling WARD HUNT an Associate Justice
Of the United States Supreme Court, In
direct defiance of his pledge to treat the
demands Of the loyal women Of America
with respectful consideration" And he
well knew at the time that there were
many friends Of female suffrage not only
ready and willing, but even anxious to ac-
ccpt the position.


We tell you, o loyal women of America,
this man GRANT will not do. He has kept
Int one promise in connection with his
last election. and that was To show "tho
same zeal and devotion to his official du-
ties in the future that he had displayed in
the INST
Year: 1873

NEW YORK, Dec. 2.-The General Trans-At-
lantic Steamship officials in this city, state that
many more of the passengers of the Vile du
Havre that have been reported lost, NAV have
possibly been saved from the fact that -~here
the ship sank was directly in the line of travel,
and in the vicinity of numerous small craft,
who may have picked number up. Up to
noon no despatch or other news about the dis
aster has been received
Year: 1873

ANNExATIoN-At the last meeting of the
Annexation Committee, the Mayor, Alderman
Clement and President Small of the Common
Council were made subcommittee to confer
with the City Solicitor u reference to the draft
ing of a bill to be presented to the Legislature.
There is some difference Of opinion as to de-
tails of the bill
Year: 1873

INFANTRY AssEMBLY.-We would call the
attention of the numerous friends of the Port
land Light Infantry to the assembly given
under the auspices of the company at Lancas-
ter Hall this evening.
Year: 1873

ARMY AND NAVY CoURsE.-The third enter
tainment of the Army and Navy course will be
given at City Hall tomorrow evening, and
will consist of a grand vocal concert. The
talent engaged is of very high order, and the
programme has been arranged with view to
the conspicuous exhibition of the peculiar ex


cellences of each artist Miss Claria Doria
comes to us preceded by enthusiastic praise
from the press and from musical critics. The
people of Portland are not inclined to be guided
in their judgments by the opinions of others,
but will be governed in their expressions of like
or dislike of the stranger singer by their own
tastes. Mrs. Flora Barry is an accomplished
favorite in this city, aud is always received
with a warm welcome. Mr.. Fessenden we are
always delighted to hear. The acquaintance of
Mr.. J. F. Rudolphsen was made by many peo-
pie at the rendition of st. Peter, and they will
be anxious to hear him again. Mr.. Kotzschmar
is too well known to need any comment, and
Prof Wallack adds pleasing feature to the
entertainment We append the programme.