smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1870

spell. She says to Anty, good morning
Mrs Elail; how do you find yourself after
setting on the jury 2" She said she had
Just come from Mrs. Go.sLow 5: that she
and the baby were both sick that she lett
q quilt half of when she went to serve her
country by setting on that jury; and now
that Providence had seen &c TO aftlict them
with sickness, she did not know when 1t
would come off, with nobody but twelve
year-old daughter to do everything. Then
| called at Mrs knockabOut :, and she had
the rheumatic pretty bad Her husband
had got the children off to school, and the
breakfast dishes washed. lie said he was
willing TO work his finger nails off, for he
considered 1t great honor to have wife
smart enough to set OF the jury of wimmln
IN America. They would have agreed
sooner, if it hadn't been ior that Poodle Of
man, that they did not calculate from the
first to let that murderer go, and have FOLKS
say they were chikeli hearted, aud darscnt
convict him.


Ruth told Anty that it would be good
idea to stop some Of the Mormon sisters on
their way to Utah, and impress them into
the service, and SO keep every husband
we'll supplied with nurses-thcn they might
serve their country, and still have things
going on as smooth at home as well grcas-
ed engine.


Anty says l must go to school, and as
am pretty good in grammar an spelling
she wants me to studyslatin. She says she
has heard the doctors and lawyers are chuck
full of latin, and she thinks they arc, for
she could not make out good many of the
words, an knows they must been latin
She says most likely Ill have to set on the
jury sometime, aud she don't want me to
be as ignorant as she IS You had better
sell the COW and let NE have the money to
go to school.


Your aGectionato daughter


SATITE Sp2Or-T
Year: 1870

TIE DEACON's PROPosAL.-In Uopkin-
town, Mass, lived one Deacon Small In
his advanced age he had the misfortune TO
lose the rib of his youth After doing pen
auco by wearing weed on his hat full
year, lie was recommended to a certain
widow Hooper, living in an adjoining town.
The Deacon was soon astride Of his Old
brown mare with a sorrel name, and on ar
r;ving at the widows door he discovered
her IN the act of turning the suds from the
wash~tuh. Said the Deacon


Is this Widow Hooker?'


Yes, sir, was the reply.


''Well, continued the deacon, Il am
that little bit OF an old dried up Deacon
Small, and have only one question to pro-
pose 10 yeG.


PLEASE propose, sic.


"Well, MADAM said the deacon, "havc
you any objection to going to HeGrca by
,cay Of HopkiHtg5cR p


None at all, Deacon was the reply.
Come in, deacon.


Suffice it TO say ihey were married the
AcZ: week.
Year: 1870

A Coon YARN.-Once upon a time there
lived among the hills of an adjoining coun-
ty ali old gentleman, whose entire personal
and real estate consists of wife, well>
ventilated log cabin, half an acre of not
very productive land and violent fond
ness fer what is sometimes called ''tanglc~
leg whisky. One spring morning the
owner Of this property was struck with the
conviction that his land must be plowci.
But he had no horse, and found it impos-
sible to borrow one Nevertheless, the
ground must "be broke up" horse or 20
horse, and it was finally determined that
the 'old woman should hitch up the old
man, and hold the handles and drive, while
he drew the piow. This was accordingly
done, aud the plow went bravely OH, until
the plowshare ran under root, and the
team was brought to dead halt. But the
''critter" had become warmed up by this
time, and as the old lady gave him rap
with the reins and cried git up there -
he threw his weight uron the harness with
heavy jerk, which snapped the traces
short off, and be shot forward against the
fence, his head striking the end of rail
rith the force of maui, "Thunderation,
OH woman!" he exclaimed, as he wiped
the blood and dirt from Lis eyes, why
didn't you say " b o a?
Year: 1870

THE MEETING of the committee of one hun
cred upon District consolidation, at Lincoln
Hall tonight, will be held in the small hall
over She main hall. 1t is a business meeting of
the committee, and not public meeting
Year: 1870

The LATEST SENSATION in Boston art circles
is a nearly full length portrait just finished by
Ames, of that city, of Miss Blanche Butler. 1t
is described by the artist as ga society picture,
representing the beauty and the bellehood of
the subject in all the splendor of the dress i'm
which she appeared at the great party given on
the occasion of her coming out''
Year: 1870

A FULL LENGTH PORTRAIT Of Chief Justice
Chase has just been added to the gallery of por-
traits Of Governors of Ohio in the State House
at columbus. 1t was painted by COggswell. of
Chicago, who is pretty well known in Washing
ton, and the likeness is pronounced an excellent
one by the many old and fast friends of Mr..
Chase in that section who have had an oppor-
tunity of examining it,
Year: 1870

TIE FORFEITED BOUNTY FUND.-General
Butler, as Chairman of ihe Board of Directors
of the National Asylum for Disabled Soldiers
AMI Sailors, some time since claimed for that
institution the bounty due to soldiers who had
deserted during the war and forfeited the same,
amounting to about four millions Of dollars.
The Treasury officials defined to turn over the
money to the asylum, on the ground that the
bounty was not due to the soldier until his term
of service had expired. General Butler held
that it was due upon entering the service. The
matter was referred to the Attorney General,
who has decided that the bounty is not due
until the expiration of the term of service;
hence it cannot be turned over to the asylum.
Year: 1870

Yesterday, as soon as the decision of
Judge Emerson, sitting in the Eighth Dis
trict Court, was read, the work of laying
the rails along st. Joseph street for the ex-
tension of the jackson Railroad was re-
sumed, and will be pushed forward as fast
as possible. The decision of Judge Emer-
son was, Of course. adverse to the attempt
made by the plaintiff in the case to inter
rupt the extension of the road.


In as short time, therefore, as energetic
exertion can accomplish the work, the New
Orleans, jackson and Great Northern Rail-
way will have its starting point and freight
depot on the levee instead Of its present To-
cation. So one more great Improvement
for New Orleans is assured.
Year: 1870

William A. Freeman, messenger in the
third auditors office, at Washington, has
been designated to a clerkship in that office.
chosen at the last election to represent the
first ward in the city council OF that city
His clerical abilities are good, and he will,
doubtless, render efficient service to the
Government in his new position.
Year: 1870

LATEST NEWS FROM ALL POINTS
American Mails by Inman Line
NO NEW WAR DEVELOPMENTS
No Fighting at Last Reports
FAINT HOPES OF PEACE VANISHED
FRENCH TROOPS ON A Reconnaissance


TWO HUNDRED OF THEM CAPTURED
Proclamation of Napoleon to the People
ADDRESS OF THE CORPS LEGIELATIF
THE RESPONSE OF THE EMPEROR
Domestic and Foreign Markets
Year: 1870

Attempts to corrupt revenue
officers are becoming danger
Gus. In fact, it is the fashion
just now to be honest in the
revenue department, as ayear
ago it was alarmingly the fash.
ion to be the other way. The
lawyer just arrested in New
jersey for attempting to have
his client set at liberty by stat
ing the case to the revenue Of
licer, instead of statingit to The
judge, has found the charge to
his cost. lfa few more lawyers
are caught i'll that trap whisky
may be dearer, but the people
will be richer and better able
to pay the higher pri1es.-N
Y. Herald.
Year: 1870




In the Alabama Legislature,
one day recently it became
necessary to elect a President
of the Senate pro tem.-The on
ly negro in the Senate, a man
named Royal, a Radical, court
eousiy nominated the only
white Democrat, whose name
was Worthy. Worthy declined
the nomination and voted for
his dark complexioned friend
Royal. The New York Herald
thinks this was certainly a
Royal and Worthy compromise
as we'll as very interesting
affair in the Alabama of to, day.
Year: 1870

A dispatch from Cincinnati gives particulars
of terrible panic in crowded church in that
city in consequence Of false alarm. This is
but one of a series of such occurrences which
we have recorded within few weeks; and
although in this case happily no lives were lost,
q large number Of people are seriously injured.
A panic only commences when somebody gives
the alarm Nero fright is not likely to impcl a
man to shout to other people that they may
escape: he might hurry out himself, but would
keep his mouth shut for his own sake, until
away from danger. In the case before us, some
one exclaimed that the galleries were giving
way. 1t was not true, and, whether true or
false, such alarms usually originate with pick
pockets who hope TO profit 10y the confusion.


1t is necessary that every facility should bo
afforded for the cgress of largo assemblies.
Frequent official inspection, public opinion
that will not patronizc an unsafe building, and
the rigid enforcement of law in these matters,
arc indispensable, But no appeals Of the pull
Year: 1870

One of the leaders of the Cuban Junta re-
Gently remarked that the Cuban Republicans
intended to carry on guerrilla warfare 10 the
end that guerrilla warfare had in other times
been most fatal to Spanish power, and that it
was by guerrilla fighting and skirmishing that
Spain had been driven out of San Domingo
and other of her American possessions. Those
people who are always telling us that the Gu
bans have no chance of success because they
do not fight great battles with the Spanish
troops. may find food for thought in these re-
marks
Year: 1870

The ~ Y Times over and again asserts that
we propose the abolition of the Income Tax.
We have already corrected this misstatement.
We propose the abolition of no tax-none,
whatever BY the law, as it stands, the Income
Tax is to be assessed and collected once more,
and that is the end of it. We think it right that
it DC not rcimposed, because it never has been
and never can be collected with any approach
TO equality. 1t is the heaviest tax on honesty
ever imposed in this or 1--WE presume) in any
country. If it could be honestly collected, 1t
would be most unequal, as The Times admits
an income of 5000 in this City being less than
an income of $4,000 in Vermont Iowa or Kansas J;
yet the possessOr of the former is required to
pay 5000 of it into the Treasury, while only
$50 is exaCted of the latter widow,
who has an income of barely $1,000 per
annum from railroad or any similar stock,
must pay $50 of it into the Treasury !;
while her sister who has like income from
a farm or grist-mlll, pays nothing. Then we
all know rich men who pay nothing, while poor
men are made to hand over sums that they
can i'll spare The perjury melted by this act
is frightfuly common, and its prevention or
defeat very difficult Assessors can view a
mans farm or i've STOCK, houSeS' ot sVoIo''
but who knows or can know the precise amount
of anothers income7 If he chooses to call it
$1,000, when it is really 5000, or 100000 when
it is $4,000 how is his falsehood to be exposed
and defeated


The Times proposes a tax of three per cent
on incomes from realized property and OF two
per cent. on incomes from current earnings.
If 1t would show how every one may be made
TO render true return and pay accordingly,
we could acquesce in this for peace sake
though we must still consider an Income Tax
tho most Objectionable ofany But if we are
to have fresh Income Tax, let there be no
exemptions but compel every one to render
on oath return Of his entire income for the
past year, and pay his tax thereon. That
would bring all to their bearings
Year: 1870

ESSAYS designed to elucidate the Science of
POLITICAL ECONoMY while serving TO explain defend
the Policy OF PROTECTION TO HOME INDUSTRY, as a sys-
Of National Cooperation the Elevation OF Labor
BY HORACE GREELEY" have just been issued In a neat
l2mO volume Of 3s4 pages by Fields, Osgood Co.. Bos-
ton This work comprises the twenty.four papers on
Political Economy published weekly in THE TRIBUNE
last Summer and Autumn, with such additions and
cmendatiOns suggested the author in revs-
ing them for this issue and most copou and thorough
Analytical Index. 1t is dedicated to the Memory Of
Henry Clay, and is intended to meet fairly and candldy
the assumptions and arguments OF the champions of
Free Trade in their latest and most specous aspects


The author claims for this work the merit Of graphing
with the FreeTraders on their own ground and meet
ing their points they have chosen present them
Others will say how far he has succeeded he
psusiby insist that he has evaded the positions
which they choose to rest their case.


This is not large book 1t does not aspire to embody
all that known believed with regard its subject
Though not exclusively devoted to the argument for Pro-
tccton regards the maintenance and symmetrical de-
velopmcnt Of Home Industry by adjustment to this
end OF the Duties levied on Imports as the
cornerstone of that science - the central and
yivifyng Of the Economic armament, Adler works
the subject have doubtless been written; the aim OF
this has been to simplify great truths and commend
them by array Of pertinent facts and multiplicity of
homely Illustrations to the general mind.


For sale at this Office. Price si; for which sum 1t will
lie seut by mail postpaid, to any who forwards the
money with his address to THE TRIBUNE, NeV-YoTk.
Year: 1870

Mr.. Sherman, from the Finance Committee
of the Senate, has declared In favor OF an ex-
mansion of the currency TO the extent OF forty
millions of dollars. The bill for this purpose
IS reported in full elsewhere. We regret Its
Introduction, feel sure of its lack of wisdom,
and hope for its defeat.
Year: 1870

Mr.. Collector Bailey made an energetic rad
upon the whisky thieves of the HAAlld DIS
trict Yesterday, an interesting account OF when
viii be found in another column. The Fol-
lector has not hitherto been beaten in his on
tests with the Whisky Ring; he is not likely
lo ho uOyg
Year: 1870

An Englishman would substitute
metals for coal as fuel for ocean steam
1ers, and has patented his method, claim
ing that by it larger amount of steam
can be obtained from given quantity
lof fuel. The theory is as follows: In
combustion n large amount of the coal
is turned into gas, much heat becomes
When zinc, iron, or manganese is burn
led, the resulting oxide is n dense solid,
and but little heat is wasted as vapor
lis not produced. The result of obtain


ing the cosmical heat latent. in the at


mosphere is that one pound of zinc will
.vaporize more than quadruple the steam
and the oxide of the metal may subse-


quently be readily reduced. 1t is we'll


known how small proportion of coal


compared with iron is used in the fur


naces of iron founderies, where the


partial combustion of the iron itself in


creases the heat produced by the COM


bustion of the coal. The invention


apparently. rests on strict scientific
grounds.
Year: 1870

Henry Clay used to say that there
were three classes of people with whom
lit was never safe to quarrel. First,


ministers for the reason that they
could denounce me from the pulpit,


and had none through which to re-
lply. Second, editors; for they had


the most powerful engines from which
they could every day hurl wrath and
fury upon me, and / had none through


which to reply: And. And finally, final with Il
WORD ANYHOW.
Year: 1870

That was considcrate guest ut a
country tavern, who told the landlord
that his chicken soup was rather weak,
and that he would thank him to allow


"a chicken to wade through it once or
twice more.
Year: 1870

THE German element or our population has
been greatly excited for the last sixty hours
over the reports Of continuous Prussian successes
in the war with the French. The feeling has
rot shown itself in any noisy demonstration Of
Joy, but it has been tOlerably easy to single out
a citizen of German descent by his radiant as
pect: ard when two OF three OF them have been
gathered together and in the full tide of Joyous
comment it has not been at all difficult to guess
their nationality. 1t ia likely that the gratifi-
cation Of our German citizens over the proud
position of Fatheriand under the recent VIC
tories will be set forth soon in a public demon
StratIOn.
Year: 1870

When the Hon. James Brooks turned his
mind to corsets and hair-pns, we hoped we
should hear no more shin-bOne speeches in
Washington. But the eminent advocate of
the Caucasian race who represents the With
District OF New-YOrk seems to have left his
mantle to the American Medical Association,
and that eminent body has been bearing tes-
timony against cutaneOus pigments and prog
nathous jaws with fury which would do
credit to whole temple full of raving Sybis.
The question seems to be whether local socie-
ties which admit cOlored physicians to men,
bership are fit to affiliate with tho American
Medical Association. Judging from the pro-
ceedings of the last few days, we should say
the question ought to be whether the Amer-
can Medical Association is worthy to affiliate
with them, and our impulse would be to an
swer, No.


The gentlemen who have made such q ridic-
ulous pothcr in this highly aristOcratic and
exclusive society have such horror of dark
skin that they won't even sit in the same
room with white man who has been sitting
in the same room with black mainland how
much further back they extend the ban we
really don't know. Whether they fear that
color is contagious, like smallpox, or believe
that the innate infamy of the African race il
so awful that it degrades every man who
comes for "a moment in contact with a negro,
is point upon which they have not yet en-
lightened us. They have given no reason why
physician who is qualified by education and
character to practice his profession should be
disqualified merely by a dark skin to attend
Year: 1870

Now and then, when the Editor of country
newspaper has fit of indigestion, he seeks
relief in growl at the character of the news
furnished him. We make no ObjectiOns;-
tradesmen who decry their own wares are not
generally so lOng-lived as to be very trouble
some. But we should prefer that they would
direct their grOwls to the right quarter Just
now one or two New-England editors are
making complaints against the n. Y.
Associated Press for some recent dispatches
from this city which did not seem to them of
absorbing importance. Before they talk about
such matters in public, they should know enough
not to expose their own Ignorance of their own
business. The N. Y. Associated Press had
nothing to do with those dispatches. 1t is un-
der contract to furnish its news to the agents
of the Eastern, Western, Southern, and N.
Y. State Associations in this city. These
agents send what they please, reject
what they please, are the sole judges of
what shall be sent, and are response
BILE for their judgment to their employers
When these papers are not satisfied that some
thing is sent, or that some other thing is not
sent, their complaint lies against their own
men, under their own orders. Perhaps if the
few dissatisfied ones took the pains to under
stand their business, they might get it con-
Quoted to their better satisfaction.
Year: 1870

People in these days, at least in this coun-
try, are rather disposed to laugh at duels
and in truth they are most Of them, rather
ridiculous. A funny account Of one we find
in The LOgansport Und.) Journal. The princi-
pals were so frightened that it was only by
the most ardu0us exertiOns that the seconds
could get them to the ground. They appeared
at last, "looking detected" But then came
the doctor also. He opened his case of surgi-
cal instruments. There were the saws and
knives and tOurniquets and lint-all things
necessary for amputatiOn. This looked like
business and one of the cOmbatants sank
limp and trembling to the ground. He said that
he felt quite ill-he had a kind of faintness
or call ll-goneness," or some variety Of syncope,
we suppose. Upon this his antagonist
he would have been bis antagonist if
there had been any fghting-cried ont that he
"would mt shoot sick manw and all was
bloodlessly over. 1t might not be much to
the credit of human courage, but we wish that
every man who goes on the field to fight a
duel might be taken with the same kind of
falling sickness. There is MT much dueling
to put down; what there is left of the system
may be most effectually suppressed by simply
making it ridiculous.
Year: 1870

and true, and there will be q satisfaction IN
voting against the means by which our City
has been ensnared and bound which those who
love fair, manly dealing will prize, whatever
may be the event.


We are not unconscious of the immense
odds on the side of the Ring. The Twen'y
Thousand benefciaries of our City Govern
ment will do their utmost for their masters
The money of tho taxpayers will now Ike
water to secure the privilege OF pluhderlhe
them further, and with greater impunity: Du'
no matter for the Odds-let party commit'ees'
and regular organizations, and all sorts OF ma
chimes, get out of the way, ana let an
abused, insultcd, outraged People have one
fair chance at the Tammany Ring!
Year: 1870

The People of our State, on Tuesday the nth
inst. are 10 choose the Chief Justice and AS
sociate Judges of their highest Court for a
full term of fourteen years ensuing. We ex-
hort every legal voter TO consider the import
ance of this election and be sure to cast his
ballot.


We make no appeals to party spirit. We
believe the Republican candidates able and fit
men, and shall vote for them most heartily
But if you know any reason to vote for one
or all of the rival candidates, fail not to act
accordingly. We would have the best men
chosen, though none of them should be our
choice. Electors of New-York! vote as your
judgments and cOnsciences shall dictate, but
fail not to vote
Year: 1870

The French conspiracy grows more con-
temptbe daily. Fresh acts of the Govern
ment still further betray the purpose
for which the story was invented and
so assiduously published. Having BAN
ished or arrested the men most deter
mined and most able to defeat their plans
the authorities yesterday devoted their atten-
ton to the Liberal newspapers, three of which
were suppressed. Tomorrow the election Is
to take place. 1t is not difficult to see before
hand the result. Napoleon will declare himself
sustained by the vote of the people, and then
we shall have display of magnanimity and
the abandonment of the prosecution of the
alleged cOnspiratOrs.