smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1873

WASHINGTON, JAM %. In the House
yesterday, Gen. Farnsworth of Illinois,
in pursuance of permission granted by
the Postal Committee, reported the fol-
low ing bill:


Section |. That on and after the
first day of July next, on all mail mat
ter wholly or partly in writing, except
book manuscripts and corrected proofs
passing between authors and publishers,
and excepting also correspondence or
postal cards on all printed matter which
is so marked as to convey any other or
further information than is conveyed by
the original print, except the correction
of mere typographical errors on all mat
ter which is sent in violation of law or
the regulations of the department re-
specting enclosures. and on all matter
to which no specific rate of postage shall
| be charged at the rate of two cents for
each half ounce or fraction thereof, and
this provision shall include all letters
commonly known as drop and local let
ters delivered through the Post Office or
their carriers.


Sec 2. That from and after the first
day of January next under such regula-
tions, and in such manner as the Post
master General shall prescribe, the post
age provided by law to be paid On print
ed matter or mailable matter of second
class shall in all cases be prepaid and
collected at the offices respectively where
such matter shall be mailed provided,
that weekly newspapers within the re-
spective counties where the same are act
ually and wholly printed and published,
and none other, may pass through the
mails free of postage, as provided in the
eighth clause of section l01 of the act
to revise, consolidate and amend the
statutes relating to the Post Office De-
partment.


Sec. 3. That any person who shall
take any letter, postal card or packet out
of a post office or branch post office, OIL
from letter or mail carrier, or which
has been in the post office or branch
post Office, or is IN custody of any letter
or mail carrier before it shall have beer
delivered 10 the person to whom it was
directed, with design to obstruct The
correspondence or pry into business ol
secrets of another, or shall secrete, EN-
bezzle or destroy the same shall, on con
viction thereof, for every offence forfei
and pay penalty not exceeding 500
or be imprisoned at hard labor not ex
ceeding one year, or both, at the discre
tion of the court
Year: 1873

The Italian emigrants, of whom we
have heard so much, and whose suffer-
ings have been told by every paper in
the country, are not, according to the
testimony Of the Italian consul, the de-
graded class we have been led to believe
them. He says that they are the vic
Tins of shipping agents, and that the
Italian Governor would be glad to keep
them at home if possible; and did not
ship these to US for the purpose of rid
ding themselves of @ nuisance.
Year: 1873

THE sAILOR-BOY's FAREWELL.
We know not to whom belongs the
authorship Of the following lines-but
all will agree with us in saying that
nautical phrase never was more beauti-
fully interviewer in sentiment of the
hearts best love for those we cherish
with the highest, holiest and purest af-
fection.


Farewell to father-blessed hulk
In spite of metal, spite of bulk,


His cable soon may slip;
Yet while the parting tear is moist,
The flag of gratitude III hoist


In duty to the ship.
Farewell to mother-frst-class She
Who launched me on life's stormy sea-
And rigged me fore and aft;
May providence her timbers spare.
And keep her hulk in good repair.


To tow the smaller craft.
Farewell to sister-lovely yacht;
but whether she III be manned or not,


| cannot now foresee


May some good ship a tender prove.
Well found in. stores of truth and love.


To take her under lee.
Farewell to George-the jolly boat
Aud all the little crafts afoat


In homes delightful bay:
When they arrive at sailing age
May wisdom prove the weather-g gauge


And guide them on their way.
Farewell to all on life's rude main
And though we ne'er may meet again


l through stress of stormy weather.
Yet summoned by the board above,
Well anchor IN the port of love,


And all be moored together
Year: 1873

THE AGE We LIVE IN.-This is
glorious age we live in. Never were the
times more auspicious of good never Ill
all times were the people so we'll prepar-
ed for an advanced theory of government,
and broad and deep propositions of hu-
manity; never was the moral sky so free
from the clouds of superstition and big
otry never shown the sun of science so
clear; never were the nations so fratern-
al in their philosophy and political econ
omy never beat the pulses of thought
quicker; and never so grand, so cosmo-
polite, SO glorious the sentiments, the
posics of the great people and of individ-
uals = Kate Stanton.


Many are the glowing statements pub
lished by the Northern Pacific Railroad
to induce settlers to locate upon their
lands. This is perhaps well enough so
long as they confne themselves to the
truth. But many times poor people are
nearly ruined by removing to these
countries which their imaginations, aid
ed by these pamphlets have glorifed.-
On the line of this road which has teen
represented as being troubled with but
little snow and desirable location to
settlers, must ensue from the recent
cold snap. This railroad misrepresent-
alton is becoming little too common.
Year: 1873

1t is dismal thing to be getting old
without the rejuvenating influence of re-
ligion. When we stop on the down grade
of life, and see that it dips to the verge
of the cold river, We want some one
near who will help US across it. When
the sight loses its power to glance and
gather up, we need the faith that can
'illumine. When we feel the failure of
the ear, we need the clear tones Of that
voice, which in olden times broke up
the silence Of the deep with cadence of
mercy. When the axemen Of death hew
down the whole forests of strength and
beauty around us, aud we are left in sol
itude, we need the dove of divine mercy
to sing in our branches. When the
shadows begin to fall, and we feel that
the day is far spent, we need most of all
to supplicate the strong and benefcent
Father in the prayer of the villagers
abide with us, for it is toward even
ing.-Ialmddge.
Year: 1873

The Work OF RELIEF-A LITTLE
STORY ABOUT A s.GooD SAMARITAN" If
the little incident we are about to relate
is based upon facts, as we have every
reason to believe is the case, there is a
man up in Chestes, n. H who is un-
doubtedly laying up for himself treas
ures in heaven" by his kind and chari-
table treatment of the poor and needy.
A few weeks since the said Chesterite
wrote letter to the relief committee of
this city, stating that he desired labor
er and would pay him good salary, etc,
probably thinking that he would be per-
forming noble deed by extending a
helping hand to the unfortunate suffer-
ers of Boston's great calamity. Be this
as it may, we will follow the laborer to
the New Hampshire hills and see how he
Jared at the hands of the would be y
good Samaritan. The laborer was a
man about forty or forty-fve years of
age a willing worker, ready for any,
thing which would yield him reasona-
BILE compensation, and more than all,


known to be honorable and upright.


Having reached Chester he was furnish
ed by his imployer with very common
| tool. known as an axe, and set to work
chopping. The work was entirely ac-
ceptable, and matters went on smoothly
for couple of weeks, when the laborer
thought to inquire about his probable


wages. The answer was that all the


imployer expected to pay was board and


lodging, which the laborer naturally


considered was not very renunerative


price for ten hours labor each day and


especially SO since the board was very or


dinary, the chopper having not even seen


morsel of meat during the whole fort


night. As might be supposed, the lador-


er did not chop FOR the Chesterite any


longer, but concluded to return to Boston.
Now the railroad was some eight miles


distant and the wood-chOpper, who may
have had a trunk to carry, induced his
imployer to convey him to the station,
for which Christian deed the imployer
asked of the needy man the last shilling
he had on earth.


The man returned to Boston fully per-
suaded that the next time he goes out
chopping for his board, he should pre-
fer good board. The above statements
as to the experience in Chester are from
. the lips of the wood-chopper himself,
and are undoubtedly true, although they
seem incredible.
Year: 1873

he great increase Of the pattern business since the
4 PRODUCTION OF TRIMMED PATTERS has led to the


establishment Of local agencies in every part of the
hlted slaes which enables the ladies in the country
wen a. the city To make their selections Each
attern Is enclosed IN an envelope stamped with plate
OF the garment when completed
Year: 1873

Al Spring Msdioine.-As . remedy in
the spring Of the year, to carry off the ac-
oumulation Of thick bile from the Liver,
and viseid secretions from the other slsnds
OF fthe system, the King Of tho Blood is In
valuable. One or two bottles will arouse
oil the functions Of the body to healthy
action, restore the appetite, clear the brain,
and carry off those symptoms of languor
and heaviness everybody feels, moro or
less, Is warm weather approaches.


See advertisement in another column.
Year: 1873

THE PLEASURES or NEW BOOTS.


1t is little singular how well pair
of boots can be made to fit at the store


You may be able to get your foot
only pant way down the leg at the first
trial, but that is because your stocking
is sweaty, or you haven't started right,
and the shoemaker suggests that you
start again and stand up to it, and he
throws in a little powder from a pepper
box to aid you. And so you stand up,
and pound down your foot, and partly
trip yourself up, and your eyes stick out
in an unpleasant manner, and every vein
in your body Appeals to be on the point
of bursting, all the while that dealer
stands around and eyes the operation as
intently as if the whole affair was per-
fectly new and novel to him. When
your foot has finally struck bottom there
IS faint impression on your mind that
you have stepped into an open stove, but
he removes it by solemnly observing
that he never saw boot fit as good as
that. You may suggest that your toe
presses too hard against the front, or
that some of the bones in the side of the
foot are too much smashed, but he says
that is always the way with new boot,
and that the trouble will entirely disap-
pear in few days. Then youtakc the old
pair under your arm and start for home
rs animated as relic of 1872, all the
while feeling that the world will not
look as bright and happy to you again
until you have Drained that shoemaker.
You limp down town the next day, and
smile all the while with your mouth
while your eyes look as if you were
walking over an oyster-bed barefooted
When no one is looking you kick against
post or some other obstruction, and
show fondness for stopping and resting
against something that will sustain your
weight. When you get home at night
you go for those old boots with an eager
ness that cannot be described, and the
remarks you make upon learning that
your wife has disposed of them to a
widow woman in the suburbs, are cal
culated to Immediately depopulate the
earth of women and shocmakers gen
orally. NcUs.
Year: 1873

THERE was an elderly gentleman wend-
ing his way to the barber shop Saturday
afternoon. Coming from an opposite
direction was an unshaven man. The
shop lay between them. The unshaven
man quickened his step; the elderly
man struck into trot. Then the I'M
shaven stopped to look into a window,
and the elderly man came back to a
walk. Up started the unshaven man
again, and the elderly man resumed his
trot The unshaven man once more
slackened up; so did the elderly man.
Then the unshaven man quickened his
gait, and the elderly man once more
struck into trot, and reached the door
painting and putting as the unshaven
man went by. And yet women are dis
satisfied with their sphere. -Danbury
Ne,CS
Year: 1873

The SHAH OF PERSIA. Shah of
Persia, who is to be the guest of En-
gland, in the course of the summer, is,
it is said, to have Buckingham Palace
all to himself He is said to have taken
a trifie of three millions sterling or so
out of the Imperial Treasury for travel
ing expenses, and there is a strong i'm
preston abroad that fair proportion of
that amount will be absorbed. Mr..
Grant Duff, who, it is said, speaks Per-
sian with a purer accent than he does
English, will be detailed for court duty
His Highness is to be treated with the
most demonstrative hospitality, and that
means that great deal of vivacious
London life is in perspective.
Year: 1873

The demand for brevity is universal
sign of these hasty tines. People want
the profoundest questions discussed and
settled in a paragraph; decades of his
tory crowded into one newspaper col
umn and all disquisitions on science
ana art remanded to short essays in the
monthlies. Nobody has any leisure for
reading or doing anything lclsurcly
Thinking and meditation have gone out
of fashion. "Items' are ut premium
The cry is for breakneck pace i'll travel
ing on sea or land. Cramming invites
Indigestion ; and dining is snatching n
bite as if not n moment to spare. Hur-
ried are the horrible rushings for the
railways. The lightning itself is not
quick enough for impatient correspond
ence and the transmission OF news. The
effort in all directions is to risk all for
speed; and health, property, mind,
body and life are sacrificed in the strug-
gle to go ahead. All right; but then
how many pause to consider where this
impotence of thoroughness, this swift,
eager, reckless progress ends-only in
bringing nearer the grave, and robbing
existence of not few of it's choicest
blessings-while squandering it so
prodigally? Might it not occasionally
check the use Of the high pressure style
to remember that the goal of all the
whipping and squirting in tombstone,
and the result of successful endcavors
to kill time and annihilatc space simply
reaching that goal all the oner?-
Boston Transcript.
Year: 1873

THAT Danubury dyspepsia-curer says
in his last batch of items "Another
match broken up. This was between a
clerk in well-known dry goods store
and young lady on Essex street. 1t
was SO warm on Friday evening that she
had the parlor window up, and he stood
on the lawn, and they were cooling to
each other, and he was just reaching up
for another kiss when the sash came
down like flash, and knocked off the
peak of his nose and scalped his chin,
and he hoped around so madly and
howled so dreadfully that the old gen.
tleman thought he was drunk, and had
him kicked out of the yard with great
deal of ostentation. Monday morning
he went West"
Year: 1873

THE Saturday RcuieW says that dur
ing the reign Of Isabella H., in spite of
perpetual violations of constitutional
right, Spain increased more rapidly in
material prosperity than any other part
of Europe, and that the country is far
richer and more populous than at the
close of the old Carlist war, and conse-
quently it may be expected that any SER
ious interruption of national progress
now will SO disturb the general compla-
cency as to make the mass of the public
acquiesence in the only mode yet known
to it of saving society-the rule of a
monarch.
Year: 1873

HIS LAST JOKE. "A brilliant instance
of joking under difficulties lately occur
red at Red Bluff, California. The joker
was M. j. Donohue, whose span of life
had been limited by due process of law.
He came to the scaffold in buoyant spir-
its, and seemed to be delighted at the
prospect of getting out of the world so
soon. His remarkable gayety complete
ly unnerved the Sheriff and other execu-
TONERS, and twenty or thirty friends who
were to see him off When the Sheriff
put the moose over Donohue's head, he
turned to the officer with bland smile.
and said: 81 say, Sleeth, can't you put
that under my arms? L was always
ticklish around the neck" These were
the humorist's last words.
Year: 1873

HERE is curious story of the old Sla-
very times, which we pick up from a
Western Carolina newspaper. In the
gold mining regions of Burke County
lived an industrious, well to do free color
ed woman, named Nancy Boyce. She
was engaged TO marry Jack, a slave, and
in older TO have every thing pleasant,
she put Ler hand in her pocket and
bought him of his master. But she was
shrewd enough to take bill of sale OF
him, fortunately as it happened, Tor Jack
turned out to be utterly worthless, and a
perfect sot. But little need was there for
Nancy to go TO the Courts for relief by
divorce, she knew better way than that


She owned her man, and she simply sold
him to a slave dealer, who carried him
off to the far South-West, so that the
shary Nancy was never bothered by him
again. Husbands have been badly sold
before, though not in this particular way.
Year: 1873

A SATIRICAL JUDGE.-There is some
thing so caustiC in the following anec-
dote that we borrow it from the racy
London correspOnden of the Cincin-
natl Commercial: 'f''


The late Chief Justice Maule had
brought before him poor sailor, cllarg-
ed with bigamy. The sailor pleaded
guilty, and on being asked if he had
anything to say why the usual sentence
should not passed, said: May it please
your lOrdship, my wife ran away with


another man and left nae with family
of children whom my duties as O British
sailor hardly enabled me to take care OF
without another, r,Wife!o What ought I to
have done ?" s.Prisoner," said his lord
ship, sternly, 81 will tell you what you
ought to have done; You ought to
have employed a posse Of police to pur-
sue thateloping wife and to have estab-
lished q case OF Grim. con. against her
you ought then to have gone up to the
House Of Lords and secured from their
lordships a divorce, and then married
again. You may say such a procedure
would have cost you five Or six hundred
pounds, whereas you have nOtso many
pence. But, sir, that makes no difernce,
It is my business, sitting here as an Eng
lish judge, to inform you that this il
not q country where there is one laWfol
the rich and another for the poor
The story represents q bit of irony un.
der the costly machinery of the lords
court in such cases makes way for the
divorce court. ..sr-.e s.s..r +
Year: 1873

A FAGT.-Evely publisher, no matter
what his politics may be, will agree
will, Horace Greely in the following
sensible remark: -''' ~


It is strange how closely men read the
papers. We never say anything that
anybody don't ike but we soon hear of
it, and everybody tells us about it. lie
we once and a while happen to say a
good thing, we never hear of that, no
one seems to. notice that. We may pay
some man hundred compliments and
give him dozen puffs, and he takes it
as tribute to his greatness, and never
thinks Of it, never thinks it does him
any good. But if we happen tosay any
thing this man don't like, or something
he imagines reflection on him or his
character, see how quick he fires up and
gets mad about it.
Year: 1873

An exchange says: A white man in
one of the bar rooms in Alabama, the
other day, offered to pay for quart of
liquor, if a negro present would drink it
at one pull. The offer was taken up and
the darkey is now colOred angel.
Year: 1873

GRASS AND PORK.-Feed more grass
These three words contain and explain
the entire theory of that practice by
which any one can make hog-raising-
barring the cholera-as profitable as
the raising of any kind of stock, if not
more so, on account of their ready sale
in any market every year. When say
feed more grass, dc. not mean to advise
you to turn your sOws and pigs, shoats
and stOck-hOgs upon short crop of any
kind of grass, or upon an old field in
which. the noxious weeds and briars
luxuriate, or from which the best and
richest herbage has been cropped by
your bunch of mules, cattle or horses,
and then expect your hogs to flourish
grow and fatteh for the market, with
out feeding the corn at all. By No
| means; for hogs kept on such pasture
must have corn, and that in ample quan,
titles every day, if yon would realize
anything from their growth,


A small, but excellent, hog raiser fol


lowed these rules' He fed about sixty,
five acres in clover and rye. While the
clover was growing rapidly, he turned
| in the smaller ones, and when it bios
somed, he turned them all in until the
rye was ripe enough, then turned then
all on the rye to eat it down, and IN thit
way the clover and the rye reseed The
field for years. The first of October
they were put up and finished on corn
| On this plan his hogs were always heal


thy, and his pork cheaply made.-[ Farm


er's Advocate.
Year: 1873

Republican success at the election next Tues
day is not only important to our municipal inter
ests but very essential in its relation to State
affairs. We cannot say of Wilmington that we
are at liberty to disregard political considerations
in The choice of local officers, for much of
future progress and prosperity is dependent upon
State Reform that welare bonnd to omit nothing
which will contribute to secure 1t, and expert
euce has most thoroughly demonstrated to MS
that that will not come 30 long the present
Democratic organization retains control of Del
aware.


We do not say this in any spirit of party
warmth. but as the deliberate utterance Of a
well-established fact. 1t was cOnclusively shown
US at the last session OF the Legislature. That
hody was not merely invited but urged and dehed
to pass such measures Of Reform as were de-
m .nded by the interests of the whole people but
1t did substantially nothing 1t refused to make
such reasonable reduction of taxation as the
condition of the revenues amply warranted, and
ths depret sion of agricultural interests loudly
called for it refused to take any step whatever
toward an equalizng Of representation in the
Legislature it did nothing to improve the sys
tenor lack of system-of public education ::
and in nearly every other particular, it omitted
to discharge tho duty demanded of it by the con-
dition of public affairs 10 Delaware, including
such acts ss its refusal to repeal the Attachment
Law. in the face of petitions from hundreds Of
our workingmen.


We cannot afford, either in this or any other
city election, to disregard our relationship to
State politics. With over one-fourth the popula
ton Of the State, we are bound 10 consider what
influence its vote will have upon the general re-
eult, and any tyro in politics knows that the in
fiuence and prestige OF success iu Wilmington
are most valuable to either party in it's canvass
of the State. In all sections, the people look
with deep interest toward Wilmington to see
whether our people are awake and whether they
manifest real and political interest in the po-
ltice welfare OF the State. The Republ-
cans of Delaware all regard Whining
TONS action al most important, and they
are encouraged or depressed in correspondence
with our energy and our success, and our apathy
and failure.


To every citizen Of Wilmington who desires
practical measures of State Reform it is to be
be said with candor and truth that HE vote is de-
mant ed ON Tuesday next, for the Republican
candidates.
Year: 1873

The cloudy weather delays the ripening of to-
matoes.


Buy your canning peaches before they go up
in price.


A free press is the palladium of the peoples
liberties.


Many Market street business men want the
market returned to Market street.