smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1871

Was compounded for those not inciined to ex
treme hitters, and is intended for use in cases
when some alcoholic stimulant Is required in
connection with the Tonic properties of the Bit
ters, Each bOttls of the Tonic contains one bot
tie of the Bitters, combined with pure SANTA CRUZ
RUN. and favored in such manner that the ex-
tremS bitterness of the Bitters is overcome,
forming a preparation highly agreeable and
pleasant to the pala, and containing the mediei-
nal virtues Of the Bitters The price of the Tonic
s1.5O per bottle, which many persons think too
high They must take into consideration that the
stimulant used is guaranteed to be of pure
quality. pure article could be furnished at a
cheaper price, but is it not better to pay little
more and have good articler A medicinal prep
aratiOn should contain none but the best ingredi-
ents, and they who expect to obtain cheap COM
pound will most certainly be cheated.
Year: 1871

To the Editors of the Union and American:


You are ventilating the fees of the At
Sorneys of the State in the delinquent rail-
road cases. This is just and proper. But /
beg to call your attention to another sub
ject, to which the vigilance of the Union
AND AMERICAN has called my attention.
1t is:


A few days ago the House of Representa-
tives passed bill to ratify and confirm all
the sales of the several railroads made by
the commissioners and to guaranty to the
purchasers the quiet possession and oceu-
patton thereof, and directing the commits
sioners to put purchasers in possession of
the roads, etc. The vote in the House on
this bill, strange to say, was nearly unani-
nous. Does this confirming of these sales
not preclude the State from ever investi-
eating the claim of the Nashville and Chat
tanOOga Company against the State for run
ming and Operatingthe Nashville and North
western road from Jan. /, 1870, to the date
of the sale? This sum is $4,000. Is
there any member of the Legislature who
has investigated this account and can say
it is correct and is properly chargeable
either to the State or to the Nashville and
Northwestern Railroad? If there be one,
let him speak. Yet the bill passed the
House, and is pending in the Senate on its
third reading, if my information is correct.


l assert, and am able to make good the
assertion, that this claim against the State
Of S537, 900 is not correct. If it is allowed
and paid, the Legislature will allow and paw
a claim that cannot be established in any
court.


Before it passes the Senate, desire to
say that if a committee is appointed to in
vestigate this claim, the chairman of the
committee shall have the necessary proof to
show that this claim is unjust, and is not
chargeable to the State. VIII the commit
tee be appointed and an investigation be
had?


ave will see what we shall see."


INVFSTTG ATE
Year: 1871

The Richfeld Springs correspondent of
the Utica Herald tells the following as
having occurred last week:


Four freight cars, heavily laden with
lumber and merchandise, had been brought
up to the junction near Cassville by a coal
train. They were carelessly uncoupled on
a grade of eighty-five feet to the mile, and
Immediately began backing toward Utica.
They gained momentum at a fearful rate,
and all efforts to stop them by throwing
rails and other ObstruCtiOns upon the track
were ineffective. A train had left for Utica
but eight minutes befole, and every one
was well aware that the heavy freight cars,
would, in a few moments, go crashing into
its rear Fortunately the engine of the coal
train stOed on a switch, and Engineer Fer
rill at once determined to give the flying
cars a chase. All hands mount to the post
of duty, the signal is given, and a fearful
race is begun. There is awful danger ahead,
for if the wOrF1nen should have the rails up,
or the flying cars themselves should leave
the track, every man would be in eternity
in an instant. Mile after mile the chase is
kept up, and the locomotive gains inch by
inch.


At last the fugitives are overtaken: the
critical moment has come. A mistake and
all is over; the flying cars will only be
FASTENED in their flight by the collision.
But the fireman and brakeman are reaching
down from the rear of the tender, one with
the draw-bar and one with the coupling
pin. The cars touch; the draw-bar, skill
fully guided, enters the socket, and the pin
drops to its place! The danger is
over, the speed gradually checked, and in
a few minutes the engine and the rescued
cars are again climbing the grade TO Cass-
vile. The deed Of the engineer and his
and will long be remembered by those in
the crowded passenger train which was but
a few hundred feet in advance of them, and
whose lives they saved at the imminent
risk of their own.
Year: 1871

MORE than fifteen years ago a Chinaman
graduated at Yale College. Now we are
told that he is about to return, bringing
with him thirty other Cinnamon, who will
enter the same college. This is new form
of Chinese immigration. The solitary Chi
naman who has at rare intervals entered
an American college has been welcomed
by his fellow-students as an interesting
novelty. Thirty Cinnamon, however,
who will form little colony of their own,
and will keep up the national customs of
dining and dress, viii be a new element
in collegiate life. The Chinese freshman
flying his leisure kite upon the college
grounds, instead of carrying off midnight
gates and Enailing up obnoxious tutors;
the Chinese sophomore feasting upon the
frugal rat, instead of lavishing his money
on bad champagne; the Chinese Junior
making his own clothing, instead of max
ing the fortunes of designing tailors, and
the Chinese senior preferring to translate
Confucius into English rather than to firt
with the traditional belle of New Haven,
will utterly confound the traditions of Yale
and provoke undergraduate hostility to
cheap Chinese study.
Year: 1871

We copy below an extract from an able
and well considered letter written by Hon.
j. NJ. Coulter, the distinguished Senator
from the Etheridge district, TO the Trenton
Gazette OF last week, on the much vexed
subject of taxation. 1t covers the ground
so fully, and meets the issue so squarely,
that we deem comment unnecessary. The
Senator says:


The universal cry for a decrease of taxa
ton which comes up from one end of the
State TO the other, may so operate to pre-
vent the present Legislature from fixing the
rate Of taxation high enough to defray even
the ordinary expenses. The State Legisla-
ture is composed of men, properly very SEN
sitive to the wishes of their constituents
and timiG in breathing the censure of an
over taxed people, which may possibly lead
] to rate Of taxation wholly inadequate TO
meet the demands urgently pressing upon a
depleted treasury.


The masses Of the people need inforIna-
tiOn touching the financial embarrassments
of the State, that they may properly realize
the peTpleXities which surround their Rep
resentives in endeavoring to satisfy the pop
lar ClamOr for lower taxes upon the one
hand, and in keeping the machinery Of the
State in successful operation on the other.
No men would rejoice more sincerely than
your immediate Representatives, in being
able to proclaim to our people that their
taxes are greatly reduced. Our sympathies
are heartily with the people, and our best
efforts. shall be directed perSistently to the
accomplishment of this end. We shall en-
deaver to secure the greatest permanent
good 10 the greatest number, prompted by
the laudable ambition Of meeting the intel
ligent approval of our constituency. But
this desire shall never induce us to disre-
gard the future good of our country, for the
ephemeral praise Of the hour. The wisest
legislation looks, not short-sightedly to the
cornoraut present, but to ulterior good, at
tended with rs little present pain as possible.
Year: 1871

IT is sad to learn from French CORE
spOndence that the tax of three francs per
head upon all cats is rapidly driving the
purring pets to that bourne from which
no kitten ever returns. Aside from the
depreciating effect it has upon the meat
market by oyerstOcking the rabbit and sau-
sage supply, there is a sort of divinity at
taching to the subject itself, so that it is not
without a shudder that we see violent
hands laid upon Miss Tabitha. Time out
of mind pussy has been an object of rev.
erence, and even of fear.
Year: 1871

THE Princess de BeaumemOnt has re-
newed her suit in French Court for sep
aration from her husband, to whom she
brought a large dowry, on the ground of
neglect and cruelty. As an instance of
neglect, it was brought forward at the first
trial that the Prince who served through
the Mexican campaign, never wrote to his
wife during his absence from France, and
on arriving in Paris he contented himself
with sending the following telegram to his
wife, who was in the country: 81 can't find
my shirts" During the recent war he was
taken prisoner, and not only neglected TO
write to his wife, but on his return declared
he did not wish to see her again.
Year: 1871

THERE is a vast difference between the
two parties in our country. The Hartford
Comm Times says: "a hundred Repub-
licans may be defaulters and prove to be
such, and half of them escape by pardon
or otherwise, and the Republican party
ta&e the wickedness as a matter of
course and stand by their organiza-
ton just the same as if all its office
holders were honest. The President
may shield those who have defrauded the
government in heavy amounts, and it is all
the same. The Republicans are quite as
well satisfied. But the Democratic party
isthrown into confusion when four of its
members are charged with fraud, with the
publication of evidence that fraud has been
committed, though there is no trial and
conviction These facts show the indifier-
ence Of the one party, and the sensitive
ness of the other in cases of fraud within
their ranks"
Year: 1871

A SoUTH CAROLINA paper thinks Union
county owed its exemption from martial
law to its name, Grant supposing that all
the people Of Union must be loyal. He had
probably heard somewhere that ''Marion"
was the name of 'Rebel" General; there
fore, be included Marion county in the
proclamation, and if he had known that
Sumter county was also named after a
F'Rebel' General, no doubt that county
would also have been included.
Year: 1871

Very pretty tablets for ladies' memoranda
are made of thin sheets of prepared ivory
beautifully bound in Russia leather. They
are Of English origin, and very sristocratical-
ly expensive.
Year: 1871




1t has been lately reported that Grant
has written letter to the President of the
Seneca Stone Company, advising that his
S24, 900 worth of this stock be disposed of.
This is not so. The true version of this af-
fair is about as follows: A cautious local
financier had an interview with Grant, and
the President was urged that his
owning stock in this Compa-
ny was not only doing him great
political injury, but it was likely
to indirectly affect the sale Of the stone.
The President was told that he must not
actually dispose of his stock, but only to
put it out Of his hands in formal way, and
the result would be all the same. Grant
assented to some such arrangement, and
the public have been given to understand
that the Presidential stock is for sale. On
last Friday Grant was joked about his con-
nectiOn with Seneca in Cabinet meeting,
and it is asserted that he did not take the
badgering at all quietly.
Year: 1871

M. Theirs Presidential Message was read
to the members of the French Assembly in
Versailles yesterday. Judging from our cable
report Of the chief points Of the paper, we
are of the opinion that the aged statesman was
comprehensive in his recapitulation of the
great events which have just transpired In
France, hopeful Of the future of the country,
exact in his exhibit Of the existing
condition of the foreign relations, but
not very definite in his projects for the
ameloraton of the present state Of the repub-
lie. The commercial treaty with England will
be rearranged most probably, at the time OF
its expiration next year. Napoleon and his
empire are blamed for the swretchedness" OF
France. Complete organization must cure it.
"God and time" will effect this. France will
maintain q dignifed peace, and if war
ensue il will not be her deed. She
must resume her proper position among
the nations. She will support the Pope,
display cordiality towards Austria and
maintain the relation of reciprocal interest
with Russia. The military and naval services
will be maintained in state of efficiency, and
the executive lean for support on the patriot
| ism of the Legislature. Such are the main
features Of President Thers' Offset against
The cause of returning royalism in France, o.


the approach of which we are specially In
formed in the HERALD telegram from Paris


NJ. Thiers places his trust In God and relies .


good deal on the Pope but it is equally ap
parent from our report of the naval prepara


tons which are being made at Cherbourg ant


Brest that he has also considerable share 0


confidence In The British warrior adjunct 0


.'Keep your powder dry
Year: 1871

THE TRIAL OF JAMES IRVINE The trial of
James Irving, ex-Assemblyman and at present
Alderman, for an alleged violent assault upon
Deputy Marshal Dowley was continued yester-
day in the United States Circuit Court, before
Judge Benedict, in the presence Of crowded
auditory. The prosecution is being very ably
and energetically pressed by counsel for the
government, while the lawyers upon the other
side are leaving nothing undone to serve the
interest of their client. The case will hardly
CLOSE to-day. Should 1t do so it will be at 0
late hour this evening. The result is looked
forward TO with much interest.
Year: 1871

Two MORE DEFAULTERs have been dis
covered in the Treasury Department. The
defalcati9ns Of one amount to about twelve
thousand or fifteen thousand dollars, and those
of the other to about fifty thousand dollars.
The discovery Of defalcations in the Treasury
Is the more distressing because of the conf
dence which General Spinner placed In
hhe rigid security Of his department from
robbers from within or without, he hav-
Ing piously and fervently accredited the re-
markable freedoms from embezzlement for
which the Treasury has heretofore been noted
10 special Providence. II, therefore, the
Treasury is invaded BY these harpies, wherein
nre we safe
Year: 1871

HONE AND ITS QUEEN.-Ihere Is prob
ably not an unperverted man or woman
living, who does not tell that the sweetest
consultations and best rewards of life are
found in the loves and delights of home.
There are very few who do not feel them
selves ndebted to the influences that clus-
tered around their cradles for whatever
good there may be in their characters and
conditions. Home based upon Christian
marriage, is so evidently an institution Of
God, that man must become profane be-
fore he can deny it. Wherever it Is plant
ed, there stands a bulwark of the state.
Wherever it is pure, and true to the Chris
tan idea, there lives an institution con-
servative of all the nobler interests of So
ciety. Of this realm woman is the queen.
1t takes its cue and hue from her. If she
is in the best sense womanly-if she is
true and tender, loving and heroic, patient
and self devoted-she consciously or IN
consciously organizes and puts in opera


ton a set of Influences that do more to
mould the destiny of the nation than any
man, uncrowned by power or eloquence,
can possibly effect. The men of the ma
ton are what mothers make them, as a
rule and the voice which those men speak
in the expression of their power is the
voice Of the woman who bore and bred
them. There can be no substitute for this.
There is no possible way in which the wo-
men of the nation can organize their inlu-
ence and power that will tell so benef-
Gently upon society and the state. Neither
woman nor the nation can afford TO have
home demoralized or in any way deteri-
orized by the loss of influence there. As
a nation we rise or fall as the character of
our homes, presided over by woman, rises
or falls aud the best gauge of our best
prosperity is to be found in the measure
by which these homes find multiplication
in the land In true marriage. and the
struggle after the highest ideal of home
life, is TO be found the solution of more of
the ugly problems that confront the pres
ent generation-moral,so social, and political
than we have space to enumerate.-
ScriJner'S Monthly.
Year: 1871

TRIAL BY JURY.-Grave objections have
been urged against our present system of
trial by jury, on account of the frequent
incompetence of jurors. A late decision
in the State of Iowa appears to indicate a
movement towards reform, on which the
Press, of Philadelphia, has the following
remarks:


The Supreme Court of that State, it is
said, recently decided that if juror drinks
intoxicating liquor, during the time he
is engaged on trial, whatever the amount
may be, and though no visible effect is
produced, the verdict is null and void, and
must be set aside. This decision is step
in the right direction, and practically pre-
scribes certain qualifications for a juror,
viz: He must be temperate, clear-sighted
and in possession of all of his reasoning
faculties. The next step will be to pre-
scribe that, in addition, he must be intelli-
gent and educated. 1t also naturally fol-
lows that if juror must be all these
temp crate, clear-sighted, in possession of
all his faculties, and intelligent and educa-
ted-so must also a judge. 1t is a poor
rule in law, as well as in everyday life,
which does not work both ways"
Year: 1871

There is a hollow above Eliau Bentleys
of Sandgate which the wind in Winter
generally blows full of snow. During the
late FEBRUARY thaw the drift became COM
petely saturated with water and Lihu." "
apprenhensive of slide, sent boy to
open a channel and thus give vent to the
water. Before the task was completed
the boy heard rumbling sound and look
ing up saw the whole mass of snow NOV
ing down upon him. He had Just time to
run aside and place himself behind the
body of large tree when the avalanche
swiftly passed in the direction of the house.
What might have been the result had it
struck the house is uncertain; as it was,
owing to the lay ofthe land, it inst missoi
but struck the garden wall fair and square,
About one hundred loads of stones large
and small were scattered over the garden.
Damage $50.
Year: 1871

HEARTY SUPPERS- 1t requires about
five hours for the stomach to work on an
ordinary meal and pass it out of itself,
when it falls into stage of repose.
Hence, if a man eats three times a day
his stomach must work fifteen hours out of
the twenty-four. But the multitude of
mechanics who are wildly clamorous for
" only eight hours a day." are the very
ones who, while they are angered at being
required by others to work more than
eight hours a day, do not hesitate to i'm
pose on their stomachs fifteen hours work
nearly double. After nights sleep, we
wake up with ceatain amount of bodily
vigor, which is faithfully portioned out to
every set of muscles, each its rightful
share the stomach among others. When
the external body gets weary after long
days work, the stomach bears its share Of
the fatigue but if when the body Is weary
with the days toll, we put it to bed,
giving the stomach meanwhile a FIVE
hours task, which must be performed, we
impose upon the very best friend We have
the one that gives US the largest amount
of earthly enjoyments and if this over
taxing is continued, it must as certainly
wear out prematurely as the body itself
will, if it is overworked every day. And if
persons cat between meals, then the stom-
ach has no rest from breakfast in the
morning, until one, two, three, or four
O'Clock next day +; hence it is that so many
persons have dyspepsia, the stomach is
worked so much and so constantly, that it
becomes too weak to work at all, 1t is to
be hoped that every intelligent parent will
press these things on the attention of their
children as a matter of conscience, because
dyspepsia, like consumption, has it foun-
dations laid in large majority of cases
during the d" teens of life.-HalL's Jo1tr-
nal of Health
Year: 1871

BAYARD TAYLOR on QUACKs. / am
not bloodthirsty. but [ should feel little
grief if the Indians were to pounce upon
and carry off, beyond the reach of rescue,
every agent of quackery who defaces the
finest scenery of the road. Cannot the
two great railroad companies prevent this
outrage? At the Sherman Summit, along
Green River, in the Humbolt Palisades
wherever there are noble masses of rock
you find them painted with the unclean
shibboleth of the quack. Heaven forbid
that l should mention WHOSE bitters, To-
ton, dentrifces, thus proclaim the vulgar
ity of its advertiser; but have vowed
never to use any such lotion, dentri6ces,
and l advise all overland travellers to do
the same. The sight of this vile deface-
ment-which no other country in the world
would tolerate for day-was the only
disagreeable circumstance of my journey
to and fro
Year: 1871

home in those happy hunting grounds,
prepared by the Great Spirit, for all


those Indians who are faithful to their
friend and avenge themselves upon their
foes


A few years ago L told this story to
another Little Six Old Shakopec as he
lay with gives upon his legs, in our guard
house at Fort Smelling, awaiting execution
for the most numberless cold-blooded muir
ders during the massacre of 1862. He
remembered it all, and his wicked face
lighted up with JOY as he told me that he
was the son of that Little Six, who made
so brave run for his life and he showed
as much pride and pleasure in listening
to the recital of his ? hers treacherous
conduct as the children of our great gen.
eral will do some day as they read or
hear of deeds of bravery or daring that
their fathers have done. e.'-MrS. Van
(Hore
Year: 1871

He got tin pipe of the desired length
made by timer, and in each end of 1t
placed, for want of a better mouthpiece, a
funnel,


Delicious conversation went on, he sit
ting on the top of a water barrel and she
leaning from her window above. They
would converse for hours, and exchange all
the soft nonsense In the world, and then he
would unship his apparatus, put the fun
nels in his pocket, wrap the piece up IN
newspaper, and 90 home in condition of
ETHEREAL bliss. The course of true love
never did run smooth, and one evening the
old gentleman, smoking in the back garden
at an unusual hour, saw the young gentle
man arrive, fix up h pparatus and COM
mence his soul-communing operations.


He made up his mind in minute. He
went into the kitchen and asked for a
pitcher of boiling water; it was handed to
him and off he posted up stairs. just as
he reached his daughters door he COM
menced calling to her. So telling her
lover to wait moment she came to the
door


Nellie, my dear, run up to my room
anu get my spectacIes' IL wait heFe tliI
you come down


She disappeared up stairs, and he stole
cautiously to the window The minute he
touched the funnel the amorous and IN
suspecting youth clapped his mouth to it to
resume where he had broken off nay
darling, you cannot imagine how
Just then the old gentleman commenced
assiduouslv filling that funnel with the hot
water, and the rest of that miserable
youths sentence was never heard. He
wore -four on his face for fortnight after,
and declines to 60 into society just at pres
ent
Year: 1871

Counting CLAMs-There Is an island
on the coast of Virginia where the peo-
pie in times past have not been righteous
overmuch." During the past year mis-
siOnary has labored among them with con-
siderable success. Not long ago, as this
good man was busy working in his shirt
sleeves on a new church which was in pro-
gress of erection, stout sea-captain hall
ed him Are you the minister ? Yes,
sir Well, I've got ten dollars for you.
For the church p No, for yourself. l
like your way of doing things here. I've
come to this island for CLANS good many
years, and have always found them thou
sand or fifteen hundred short when | got
home. 1t will pay me to have you keep
on preaching doctrines which make the
people count their clans honestly