smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1871

WOMAN AND HER CHARMS.-Does your wife OF
daughter ever call on you for money to buy new
dress or bonnet? You supply their wants with
pleasure, OF course. But now they sickly--fee.
bic and emaciated, and always grunting and com
planning when You go home. Now gladden. their
hearts by sending to the drug store and procuring
bottle of English Female Blttors, which will soon
restore them to health
Year: 1871

A ONE and half story house, centrally located,
II and in good repair. Hard and soft water on the
premises This property will be sold at bargain if
applied for soon. Enquire at % Cedar st. jyl4u
Year: 1871

EXPLOSION IN THE THIRD WARD-A Wo-
mANBADLY BuRHED.-On Wednesday morn
ing servant woman in the employ Of Mr..
Robert Harvie came near being killed from
an explosion of powder. In an clubhouse
there was a keg in which MIR. Harvie had
had a quantity of powder. The kcg was
covered over with straw, and the woman
supposine it to be empty, and needing just
such q vessel, took it into the kitchen and
set it by the stove. Hardly had her back
been turned than the powder was ignited
and went off with great noise, severely
burning the woman about the face. shoul-
ders, and on one of her arms. Medical aid
was summoned to her relief, and at last ac-
counts she was doing as we'll as could be
expected.
Year: 1871

THE WEATHER. Yesterday morning the
thermometer stood 27o Fahrenheit. Ice
was formed from one-third to half an men
in thickness, and the ground was frozen 10
the depth of an inch or more.
Year: 1871

ground on which said depot is
to be erected The only ohjector
will withdraw his opposition on condition
that the railway companies will build q
bridge across the mouth OF the Chicago
river at a cost of seventy-five thousand
dollars, This will probably be
done, and the injunction which re-
strained the sale to the company,
will be withdrawn when this is accom-
plished. There will be no legal obstacle
to the occupation Of the grounds, and the
railway companies will at once procesd to
erect the building.
Year: 1871

the Ward schools to study more diligently
and faithfully in order that they may be
admitted. ApraiseworthY emulation will
be far more general than it is now. Many
poor parents at present, perhaps, uncon'
conscious of the benefits resulting from a
thorough education, will grant their chill
dren's request and allow them to visit the
High School. Small in its beginning 1t
will, with the help Of God, achieve in It's
continuation the most blessed results.


Also A FRIEND OF THE PEOPLE.
Year: 1871

An old man of seventy, living near
Newport, Ind, quarrelled with his wife,
and taking down his shot gun, announc-
ed that he would commit suicide forth
oI,n. ii went ....V ,uc yard,iay down
on the GROUND where he could be seen
rom front window, fired the gun of
in the air, and remainded motionless
Tor and hour, during which time he
slyly watched the door and window for
tne appearance of his grief-stricken
wife ''But be was sadly mistaken,


,ays-the old gentleman's home paper.
They did not come out to see wheth-
er he had blown the top Of his head of
or not. This was more than the old
man could stand; he rose up went into
the house, and made things hot for the
the old woman and children for a while,
He'd show them whether they wouldn't
come out when he had killed himself
Year: 1871

Between twelve and one O'Clock yesterday morn.
ing the attention OF the police OF the Second pre-
cinct was attracted by some screams proceeding
from the upper part OF the house No. 100
York street. On reaching the apartments
they found woman about TO spring
child in her arms. They seized her and were com.
PEELED to hold her securely Tor they found that
was raving maniac and had no Idea of what she
was doing. The officers found two httle children
upon the floor, with pale, emaclated faces, and
nearly frozen and starved. One OF these was
cripple, and seemed TO have very little life in ii.


Destitution and trouble had caused the unrortu-
nate woman to lose her reason. Her name was
ascertained to be Mrs. Jane Richmond, and her
husband was killed by an accident at lumber yard
where he was employed, at the corner of Bridge and
Plymouth streets. The poor being and her little ones
were taken 10 the Second precinct station house,
and yesterday they were removed to tho Kings
County Lunatic Asylum.
Year: 1871

Assessors Assuulted.


Two OF the Assistant Assessors, Thorne and Slote,
fell into the hands OF some Of the Fifth ward boys,
at early hour yesterday morning at the Catharine
ferry and were very roughly handled One OF the
officers was standing within the ferry house
and the other was in the waiting r0om Two
rough looking fellows came down pretending to
want to know what time 10 was. They watched the
officers closely, ana retired after some conversation
with the man mt the ticket Office. These two men
shortly afterwards returned with twelve or fifteen
others, who crowded into the ferry house without
paying any fare and crowded around the assistant
assessor who warned them away, but to no pur.
pose. One OF them first attempted to bribc this oi1l
cial. I'VE know what you are here for; you dent
want TO interfere with men who want to make u
living. Now see here?


CAN'T WE FIX THIS THING uP9


Would fifty dollars be any considerations On
being assured that fifty dollars nor any other sum
would be consideration, ana that 1t was unneces-
sary for them To make such offers, they crowded
around the olcer again and seized him from behind
and dared hlm TO draw his weapons They then
released him and almost Immediately seized HIM
again, and one OF them struck him severe blow on
the head with the butt OF pistol, cutting the scalp
through to the bone and making severe II not dan
gerous wound An assault was made on the asses
sor on the outside OF the gate and both were severely
beaten before they could manage to make their
escape. NO arrests were made.


Daniel Ryan was arrested with five barrels OF
Illicit whlskey IN Fourth street. Il. d., yesterday
morning. He endeavored To get away, but was
Dabbed by the police.
Year: 1871

At meeting of the Workngmen's Union, held on
Friday evening last committee was appointed to
wait upon the Mayor and Comptroller with instruc-
lions TO negotiate for suitable piece or ground on
which TO erect building lor the society.
Year: 1871

CATION into the circumstances attending the death Of
Louis Daub who dea at Bellevue Hospital on Fri
day, alleged. from juries by having
been run over by a car of the Second
Avenue Railroad Company William Greve
testified that he with the deceased on the
evening Of the 25th January last and that he was
perfectly sober when he LEFT hlIl. The next
morning he sent for Witness whe found
him lying on couch, and ne then told
HIM tnat he had been run by Second
avenue car the night before, at corner Of Fourth
street and First avenue, that he was crossing the
avenue and Tell on the track, and MS right leg
was caught by the front wheel and seriously injured.
He 1urther stated that there ample time to stop
the car before II reached him, but that attempt
was made to do so. lie was subsequently taken to
Bellevue Hospital and died on Friday. The further
investigation has been postponed, with the View, II
possible, OF obta ining more testimony.
Year: 1871


Over and over again,


No matter which way [ turn,
| always find in the Book of Life,
Some lessons | have to learn
| must take my turn at the mill
must grind out the golden grain.
| must work at my task with resolute will
Over and over again.
We cannot measure the need
OF even the tiniest flower,
Nor check the flow of the golden sands
That run through a single hour
But the morning dew must fall:
And the sun and the summer rain
Must do their part and perform it
Over and over again.
Over and over again
The brook through the meadow flows,
And over and over again
The pond rcus mil>wheel goes.
Once doing viii not suffice,
Though doing be not in vain;
And blessing. failing us once or twice,
May come If we try again.
The path that has once been trol
Is never so rough to feet;
And the lesson We once have learned
Is never 50 hard to repeat
Though sorrowful tears may fall.
Aud the heart to its depth be driven
With storm and tempest, we need them all
To render Us fit for heaven.
Year: 1871

An old oysterman can tell the age OF
his bivalyes with great precision. Those
who are familiar with an oyster shell
must have observed that it seemed com
posed of successive layers or plates
overlapping each other. These are
technically termed shoots" and each
Of them marks years growth, so that
by counting them he can determine at q
glance the year when the creature came
into the world. Up to the epoch Of its
maturity, from five to seven years old,
when they are in perfection, the shoots
are regular and successive; but after
that time they become irregular, and are
piled one over the other, so that the
she'll becomes more and more thickened
and bulky Among fossil oysters, speci-
mems are found occasionally Of enor-
nous thickness; and the amount of time
that has passed between the deposition
of the bed of rock in which such an ex-
ample occurs, and that which overlies
it, might be calculated from close obser-
vation of the shape and number of layers
OF calcareous matter composing an ex-
tinct oyster shell. In some ancient for
nation, stratum above stratum Of ex-
tinguished oysters may be seen, each
bed consisting of full-grown and aged
individuals. Judging from the greatness
to which some oyster shells have at
tanned, this mollusk is capable, il left to
its natural changes and unmolested, Of
attaining patriarchal longevity.
Year: 1871

John Kemble used TO say that he
could learn q whole number of the
Morning Post in four days; and General


Christie made a similar assertion; but it
is not known how far either Of them YER
iied this statement. Robert Dillon


could repeat in the morning six columns
of a newspaper he had read over night.
During the Repeal debates in the House
of Commons, thirty-seven years ago,
one of the members wrote out his speech,
sent il 10 the newspapers, and repeated
il TO the House in the evening. 1t was
found to be the same verbatim as that
which he had written out. John Fuller,
a land agent in Norfolk, could remem-
Der every word of sermon, and write it
out correctly after going home. This
was tested BY comparing his written &C
count with the clergymans manuscript


Scaliger could repeat hundred verses
or more after having read them a single
time. Seneca could repeat two thousand
words on hearing them once. Maglia-
becchi, who had a prodigious memory,
was once put to severe test A
gentleman lent him a manuscript,
which was read and returned. The
owner, some time afterward, pretending
he had lost il, begged Magliabecchi 10
write out as much aa he could remem-
Der; whereupon the latter, appealing to
his memory, wrote out the whole essay,
Cyrus, if some Of the old historians are
to be credited, could remember the name
Of every soldier in his immense army.
There was a Corsican boy who could re


hearse forty thousand words, whether
sense or nonsense, as they were dictated,
and then repeat them on the reversed
order, without making single mistake
Year: 1871

The following from the New York
Express commends itself to the readers
attention.:


There are good many things in the
world which we don't like, but which
we can't help; and, upon the whole.
think it the wisest thing under
the circumstances to make the best
Of them. We cannot persuade every-
body to think that our own church or
party, creed or profession, is the very
best Under the sun; but then we have
lived long enough not to quarrel with
our neighbors or strangers because of
the difference, and in Cur church and
party we have learned to respect an
honest difference of opinion in regard
to men, sermons, political thoughts, or
anything relating to eitheyes AYE came
to the conclusion that tl!eges, wild will
live ard move when was much hid the
festpi the living geneNO or s2oks from
the stage. WhereioHoh. Jay to
our fellow-men: 1t is we1 Dust to
to be a little charitable as those
who take the New Departure, and to-
wards those who do not. We choose
to travel that way, because we have no
power to remove mountains, nor to
overcome what seems to US the incvita-
Bile. There is enough to make the
strongest bond of political union with
out breaking our forces in fighting the
inevitable. For a long course of years
the United States Senate is hopelessly
radical, unless, as is probable, men fol
low in the footsteps of men like Schurz
and Tipton, and others, and take their
departure from those who have faith
only in centralized, consolidated and
military government. There is hope
that they will so depart; but if they
should not, then room is left us to hope
for amendment in Conservative House
of Representatives, in n Conservative
President, and in more Conservative
Senate than we have had for ten years
past. Let the Bourbons, therefore,
while they 60 their own way, allow a
little room and indulge in little chari-
ty for those who while yielding moth
ing to mere innovation and destruction,
are ready to stand by the Constitution
even 9s it is. u
Year: 1871

The Nashville Banner has this para
graph about Tennessee Bank Notes
new issue: Ha. -..


There is about one million dollars OF
new issue outstanding, and the out
standing post notes are supposed to
amount to about two million dollars.
This money has speculative value from
two causes. First, The legal profession
seem TO be generally of the opinion that
the courts will declare it receivable for
taxes whenever the subject is brought
before them. Second, The holders Of il
seem to be confident that the next Leg.
islature will fund it without going ia
the expense of law suit. This would
place it on par with State bonds.
Year: 1871

Advice from Athens announce terri
BILE disaster on board Greek man-of-
war. The magazine of the steamer
Ennomia exploded on the Bird inst. in
Archipelago. Forty o her crew were kill
led and nearly all the rest more or less
injured, while the vessel itself was al
most entirely destroyed.
Year: 1871

Don't you see the philosophy Of its
What would the Government be with
out revenue


GOOD evening, sir" He left and 90
did /. Up to to this time have failed
to see the philosophy Of it."
Year: 1871

INDIANAPOLIS, September 5'-Hop'
kins, Livingston and Post, Of New \ ork'
have just filed an application for claims
in the bankruptcy case Of which the
indianapolis Central and Lafayette rail
road company has brought out card
from that firm which will be published
here tomorrow and which states that
the dispatch is based on q mlsconcep-
tion of the case. Their publication was
forwarded to the attorney early in July
who neglected to file it until to-day,
The proposition Of the company TO give
preferred stock for the debt without
mortgage being declined by Hopkins,
Livingston and Post. The road offered
income bonds secured by mortgage
upon the road which is the proposition
for settlement now before the creditors
and which the card states is perfectly
satisfactory to that firm and acting
upon the advice of counsel as well as
their own judgment they urge upon
creditors to accept settlement upon the
terms proposed and ask that two.thlrds
OF the creditors join them in signing an
agreement within ten days. The card
further saws the largest creditors, IN
cluding the various banks, have already
come into the arrangements.
Year: 1871

We have often heard ladies express 8
desire to know by what process the
fine gloss, observed on new linens
shirt bosoms, ETC., is produced; and in
order that they may possess the secret,
and thereby please their husbands twice
a week with a white and glossy bosom
front, we give the recipe. Make a gum
arabic powder-put ltinto pitcher, and
pour on it a pint OF boiling water (accord'
ing to the degree of strength you re-
quire, and then having covered II let it
stand all night. In the morning pour
it carefully from the dregs into clean
bottle, cork it and keep it for use. A
tablespoonful OF gum water stirred into
a pint os starch that has been made in
the usual manner will give to lawns
(either white or printed) look Of new
ness when nothing else can restore them
after washing. 1t is also good (much
diluted) for thin white muslin and
bobinet.
Year: 1871

There is a well authenticated report
ahoat, says the McKeesport Times, to
the effect that the Baltimore and Ohio
railroad company intend, in the near
future, to build a branch road from
Washington, Pa. to McKeesport, COM
ing down this side Of the Ioughiogheny,
and forming a connection at this point
with its ally, the Pittsburgh and Con
nellsville railroad. This is "a consum-
nation devoutly to be wished
for" and we have no doubt but
that the work will be accomplished
There is a necessity for such a road !;
the country it is proposed to traverse is
rich both in cereals and minerals, and
with judicious management the branch
would not only be profitable in itself,
but would become-and this is the most
important considerations valuable
feeder to the two roads mentioned.
With this new outlet completed, Nc
Keesport would receive an impetus that
would send it far ahead OF its present
enviable stand, and property on this
side of the Monongahela would be
greatly enhanced in value.
Year: 1871

emf on soutI' cnroIina's Negro


supreme Judge.


II. V. Redfeld's Columbia letter in Cincin-


natl Commercial.I


Now, | have no prejudice whatever
against negro simply because he ID a
negro. They cannot help their color
any more than we can help ours, or Adam
could help his, whatever it was. But |
do say that it is utterly impossible for q
man to read law two or three years, prac-
tice two or three years, and then be fit
for the position of Supreme Judge. l
don't care what his color is or howsmart
he may be. As for Wright, he is not
overly smart. IL he were white and lived
in Ohio he might stand some chance OF
being justice of the peace. 1t is said,
but don't know how true 1t is, that he
has never delivered but one opinion, and
that was written for him by Attorney
General Chamberlain. i give the report
as heard it, though hope he mas de-
livered a dozen and written them himself.
| / confess to feeling sense of some
thing wrong when i 90 into the Supreme
Court-room and see this young and mex
perienced negro presiding over some of
the first legal minds Of the South. In
front of him see n row OF white-headed
veterans, some of whom were giants be-
fore he was born. Men who had occu-
pied high positions on the bench and
rendered decisions honorable to them
selves and beacon-hghts in jurispru7
dence, look out of place standing below
this young negro aud addressing argu-
ments to him which in many instances
it is clear, in the nature of things, he
does not understand. He lacks age and
experience, two essential qualifications
to position on the bench, no matter
how brilliant he may be by nature. Bril-
liancy is not learning, and keenness is
not depth. There is but one way that
it can be obtained, end that is by
plodding, and to plod takes time.
Take the case home-to the State of
Ohio. What young man is there in that
State who was admitted to the bar in
in 1865, and who has been mixed up in
politics to such an extent since that he
has had little experience in active prac-
tice, who is now fit for the position of
Supreme Judge2 / think an attempt to
hoist such man upon the bench there
would meet with breeze of rebuke not
easily gotten over If he was negro,
| am certain it would. Now, the lawyers
and property holders OF South Carolina
Year: 1871




tits no exaggeration to say that health
is large ingredient in what the world
calls talent A man without it may be
giant in intellect, but his deeds may
be the deeds of dwarf. On the con.
trary, let him have a quick circulation,
a good digestion, the back, thews and
sinews of man, and the alacrity, the
unthinking confidence inspired by these,
and though having but thimbleful OF
brains, he will either blunder upon sue
cess or set failure at defiance. 1t is
true, especially in this country, that the
number of centaurs in every commu-
nity-of men in whom heroic intellects
are allied with bodily constitutions as
tough as horses-is small; that, in
general man has reason to think
himself well off in the lottery of life
if he draws the prize of a healthy
stomach without a mind, or the prize
of fine intellect with crazy
stomach. But, of the two, a weak mind
in herculean frame is better than q
giant mind in crazy constitution. A
pound of energy with an ounce of talent
will achieve greater results than pound
of talent with announce of energy. The
first requisite to success in life is to be a
good animal. In any of the learned pro-
fessions vigorous constitution is equal
to at least fifty more brains. Wit judg-
ment, imagination, eloquence, all the
qualities OF the mind attain thereby a
force and splendor to which they could
never approach without it. But intellect
in weakly body is like gold in a spent
swimmers pocket" " A mechanic may
have tools of the sharpest edge and high
est polish; but what are these, without a
vigorous arm and hand2 0fwhat use is
it that your mind has become vast
granary of knowledge, if You have not
the strength to turn the key?
Year: 1871




How Some Women XIII Them
selves.


From the Detroit Free Press.l


While a very stylish looking young
lady was passing down Michigan Grand
avenue, on the north side of the market,
she suddenly fell to the walk in dead
faint. Several ladies gathered around
and had her removed inside the market,
where sprinkles Of camphor and water
brought her to, but only to faint again.
One of the ladies then unlocked the
dress of the unconscious victim, and
found that her corset strings had been
drawn so tightly that the ribs had been
well nigh crushed in. A knife was
brought into requisition to cut the laces,
and within a moment thereafter the
lady was able to stand up, and soon got
into carriage and proceeded home
ward. Fashion has decreed that
women's waists must be reduced to gun
barrel size, if possible, and this was a
fashionable lady, determined to reduce
her waist to the standard size, even if
she laced the life out of her body. What
induced her, or what induces any lady,
to imagine that they look more genteel
or more refined, ,lor more lovely, with a
waist like a broom-stick, instead of the
one nature gave them is more than can
be explained. The strongest man in
Detroit could not live a day with his
body imprisoned between the jaws of a
corset, even if it were but half laced /;
and how woman stands the squeezing
is mystery that is only explained by
the statement of one Of the best physi-
clans in the city that half his practice
comes from the victims of tight lacing,
who have rush of blood to the head, cold
feet and hands, fever, palpitation Of the
heart. dyspepsia and indigestion.
Year: 1871

What woman in civilized countries
mostly want is magnanimity. Men of
high minds are constantly disappointed
when they find this lack of the mag
unanimous revealing itself in the char
acter of some woman who otherwise
seems so admirable. But men them
selves have hitherto, in Europe espe-
cially, SO shaped and limited the moral
training of women as to render magma
nimity virtue Of almost impossible
attainment. The errors of women are
in their degree always the common err
rors of servitude. But there is some
thing more than that. The whole train
ing of womanhood is directed to the
culture merely of one virtue. 1t is not
Indispensable or even necessary to q
woman's honor and repute that she
should be truthful, or generous, or mu-
nifcent or brave. She has no need or
inducement to culture the magnanimous
qualities. Society only asks her to be
chaste. IL you will cultivate but one
flower, you cannot have parterre. In
days not far removed from our own, a
man was only called ON to be brave and
truthful-he might be as ferocious and
voluptuous as he chose; therefore his
common vices were ferocity and profit
eaoy. Women are commonly trained
even now to believe that so long as they
are "virtuous" it is not requisite that
they should be sincere and magnani-
nous; therefore, their common defects
are insincerity and meanness. -Nc Car
thvs Lady Judith" "