smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1870

A man in Michigan swapped his
horse for wife. An old bachelor
acquaintance said he'd bet there was
something wrong with the horse, or
its owner never would have fooled it
away in that manner.
Year: 1870

pie have sometimes taken the place o
ourts and juries, and Of governments


We do not advocate or justify riots, OF
unlawful acts of any kind, but as they
have occurred we may expect them
again. As dark clouds rise above the
horizon we look for storm and seek
shelter So when the public mind is
greatly disturbed by any great wrong it
is well for the object of their dislike to
keep out of the way. srr.f


We only advise your Government and
people to course of prudence, knowing
well every vessel that brings Chinese to
this coast will only serve to fan the
flames of dissatisfaction, until at last it
may reach point beyond Government
control.


A. What will be the result of our fail
ing to heed this warning, coming as it
does from such small portion Of the
people of the United States?


We answer, your people have nothing
to fear from the Government, it is slow
in its movements and uncertain in its
conclusions, while the people act from
impulse in resisting wrong, and often in
fiict punishment before the Government
can prevent it. II is true, the whole of
the city of San Francisco is but a small
portion of the United States, but it is
the frontier of public opinion on this
question, question now being agitated
all over the country We counsel mod
Grafton, but our voice for peace will
scarcely be heard in the shouts of an ex-
cited populace The feeling of opposi-
ton to the Chinese is increasing every
day, and we hope you will take our ad-
vice and notify the people of your coun-
try that it is unsafe for them to come to
the United States or its Territories.


Very respectfully, yours, etc.,


A. NJ. WINN, Temporary President


Anti-Chinese Convention.


M. V. CAREY, Temporary Secretary.
Year: 1870




The imperfect ripening of corn
last year made it rather difficult to
procure good seek, and it is proba-
BILE that many partial failures of the
first planting will take place. The
fields should be closely watched,
and as soon as failures are detected,
the gaps should be made good by
replanting. The present season has
been very favorable for preparing
the soil for corn and all other Spring
crops, and for getting the seed into
the ground. The prospects for an
abundant crop of corn are good, if
other favorable circumstances are
not neutralized by depending on bad
seed, or neglecting the agriculture
of the crop. In replanting corn, an
early ripening variety, such as the
King Phillip, should be selected, in
order that it may be matured before
frost. The experience OF last year
ought to be sufficient to warn farm
ers against allowing grass and weeds
to grow up among corn. Deep work
ing between the rows should be done
early, before the roots extend far.
Superficial culture such as cultiva
and hoeing, may be done even until
the stalks intefere with the work. If
weeds are not entirely banished and
the soil made mellow and friable.
and kept SO BY careful after culture,
a full crop need not be expected.


HOEING.


Tho success of drilled crop Do
Year: 1870

At the beginning of the war now raging in
Europe apprehensions were entertained by our
financial community of the return to this
country from Germany of large quantities of
our bonds, which are held by the German
people to the extent of seven or eight hun
dred million dollars. These apprehensions
have continued to exist, more or less, during
the last two months. They have not, how


ever been justified thus far. A few million
dollars worth were sent from Frankfort, but
only very small proportion of these came to
this market A sudden rise of gold here, to
the extent of ten or twelve per cent, rem
dered their return losing business,
and most Of them were disposed of in Lon
don. Their price in London and Frankfort
fell ten points in a short time; but latterly
they have recovered, and for some days past
have been quoted but one OF two points be-
low the price they had reached just before the
opening Of the war. While the amount of our
bonds returned here has been very small, our
export of gold TO Europe has been very large.
From the beginning of July, when the war
cloud arose on the Rhine, to the close of last
week Qess than three mOnths) our gold ex-
ports amounted to thity-two millions of dol
lars, or nearly double the total amount ex-
ported during the first half Of the year, and
not far from three times as much IA during
the corresponding three months of last year


These facts are somewhat different from the
anticipations of most of our fnanciers and
operators ninety days ago. Few Of them
looked for such a heavy export of gold to
London, while many of them expected TO see
a great amount Of our Government bonds re-
Year: 1870

Our esteemed friend The World il at some
pains to inform us that the general impression
that until recently it was deficient in c0rre-
spondents at the European centers of informa-
ton and the fronts of the French and Prus-
sian armies is quite erroneous; it has al,cays
had correspondents everywhere, and if they
have failed to correspond it has been for good
and sufficient reasons, and not because they
had no existence. We are not prepared to
deny this remarkable statements but our es-
teemed friend must not blame us so severely
for falling, with the rest of mankind, into
mistake which we humbly submit was perfectly
natural. If we found no dispatches in the
columns of our esteemed friend, except those
which were borrowed from THE TRIBUNE or
written on this side Of the water, We could not
suspect that hundreds Of World correspond
ents were actually roaming over Alsace and
Lorraine, but (sly dogs that they areD preserving
discreet silence, just to humbug us;-nrw,
could WEI Then, when the foreign newspaper
mails brought us on Saturday a long document
which our esteemed friend printed as a special
Cable dispatch on the following Monday, it was
natural to suppose that something must be
wrong somewhere, and really we must be par
doned for saying that it is not complete ex-
planation of the mystery to say that special
dispatch was forged because it was of the first
moment to the full understanding and appre-
citation of the very grave and important"
etc, ETC., etc. Again, when The World pub
lished last Sunday a very minute and affecting
narrative, by its Especial correspondent" of
the escape of the Empress Bugenie to England,
accompanied by NJ. de Lesseps, and when we
found the same narrative, only without the
ornaments of an exuberant dramatic fancy, In
The London Times received the day before, and
when we find in the Paris Temps note from
NJ. de Lesseps stating that the story of The
Times, so far as it touches him, is a complete
fabricatOn-why, what on earth are we to
think
Year: 1870

"Cursed be Canaan" must hereafter be re-
ceived with several grains of allowance, potent
as these three little words have heretofore
been both in the religion and politics of the
land. For here we read that Canaan" in
the shape of an African congregation in Gin
cinnati, has actually bought an old Jewish
synagogue in that city, and will hereafter
worship therein. Now the Jews, above all
Others, may be supposed to understand their
own sacred history; and can we suppose that
they would sell even q second hand synagogue,
having still an aroma of sanctity about it, for
people accursed of God to worship inf Here
is a practical disclaimer of great deal of
bigoted nonsense which Christians, to palliate
their own misdeeds, have heretofore attributed
to the Hebrews.
Year: 1870




half century ago Gen. Uhrch, the Com
mander of Strasbourg, would have been
thought a hero, for his defense has been long
and well sustained But history will give him
no higher commendation than that of making
a stubborn resistance in a hopeless case.
There were no gallant sorties, for the vigilant
German Commander gave no opportunities for
any. There were no displays of great engi
neering on the part of the defenders; they sat
sullenly down and saw the enemy draw his
lines closer about them preparatory to crush
ing them This generation has come to know that
stubbornness is not the highest military quality,
TO recognize that a commander has not the
moral right to continue struggle after he
mas recognized that resistance is hopeless. 1t
Is not greatness in a garrison to suffer and
resist when the suffering is that of the people
and not OF the soldiers. Gen. Uhrich must
have known for nearly month past that no
army could come to his relief; that his stores
could not last much longer; that the final can
ture of the place was reduced by the German
engineers to a mathematical certainty. and
history will condemn him for not excercisino
his Judgment and discretion as well "A his
yalor. For the present, in the absence of other
objects of admiration, the French people will
eyalt him 10 front ranl. among their heroes.
for his stubborn spirit IS conSonant with their
Year: 1870

that is, may lose Mr. p. a great many votes
which ho win sorely need, if he is to be
elected. For the Labor Reformers" want
Mr.. p. all to themselves. They already grudge
the use of his name by the Prohibtionists, and
now their wrath is excited at the very idea of
admitting the Woman's Suffrage party to
share in this much divided man. The sly dodge
would be for the Women's men to vote for
Mr.. p. without saying anything about it before
hand but the gentleman himself it is well
known, has an insuperable objection TO sly
lodges of any kind, or of doing anything with
ont talk
Year: 1870

Our opinion is that portion of the remains
of the Democratic Party" must recently
have been exhumed at Yerba Buena, in Cali
fornia. When the coffin was opened there was
discovered, instead of the regular and expected
skeleton, only knee-pan, with some dust
and ashes" pair of boots, and bottle of
whisky. How the rest Of the body got out of
the sarcOphagus and is now running here
and there for Congress in detached portions,
is as difficult to explain as why it left the
useful Bourbon behind it, Moreover, at the
South the patella will be seriously missed for
the chief business of " the party now (es-
pecially in Louisiam) is to I" crook the preg-
nant hinges of the knees" mainly before the
negro population. Knees-that is, if it means
to ask forgiveness for its sins-are what " the
Democracy will have a great use for.
Year: 1870

Desperate efforts are made in Salt Lake City
to keep up the waning faith in Mormonism.
The leaders, who find their power slipping
away from them, have brought on from Ohio
one Martin Harris, an old man of eighty-eight
years, who processes to have been witness
when Joe Smith received the Book of Mormon,
"to have seen the angel and to have handled
"thc golden plates" The Salt Lake Ne1rs is
jubilant over the arrival of this Octogenarian
witness, who has seen Git says) :" that which
"few in the flesh are favored to behold" and
whose testimony in favor of the Book of Nor
mon sit is utterly impossible to destroy" 1t
is noteworthy fact that for the most of his
life this witness has kept aloOf from the Nor
mons altogether; it is only when he is nearly
ninety years old that his faith in the Church
is so suddenly quickened.
Year: 1870

The Romans are not to be contented, it seems,
with the destruction of the temporal power of
the Pope, but insist that nothing in the pie
biscitam of next Sunday shall be understood to
recognize his spiritual authority. The Junta
which is to conduct the election has resolved
70 resign if liberty of the Press and of the
conscience is not fully recognized. This is a
question which of necessity had to come up at
some time. 1t is all the better that it should
he apitated and decided now.
Year: 1870

1t really gives us a great deal of satisfaction
TO learn that, under the able management of
Mr.. Creswell, the p. o. Department sis rap
"idly becoming self-sustaining institution
We venture to hope that when it shall be en-
tirely so, it may dawn upon the minds of
Deputy Postmasters and Clerks that newspa-
pcrs may, under certain circumstances, be
quite as important as letters to the person to
whom they are directed; and that when a
newspaper bag is sent one or two hundred
miles in the wrong direction, the blunder may
occasion serious inconvenience to many per-
sons. Complaint, we know, is useless, and
wrath unavailing; but perhaps humble entreaty
may not utterly fail to touch the official heart
Year: 1870

MIR. Wendell Phillips promise, to be the
most thorough ly nominated man ever put upon
the course orthe Govemorship of Massachusetts


lie is the ProhibitOry candidate; he is the Labor
Reform candidate and now the friends
OF FEMININE Suffrage propose to nominate
him. These last mentioned. however incapable
they may be of giving Mr.. Phillips many votes


in the present awful and despotic state of the
statute book. may do the other thing nobly /:
Year: 1870

There seems to prevail at Tours an idea that
it is necessary daily to assure the rest OF the
world that Paris is quiet and free from inter-
nal dissensions. Our own direct advices from
the interior of the city explain this quiet by
the statement that the people are on the walls
and in the forts hourly expecting the attack
which they so much dread.
Year: 1870

Are the election laws to be enforced7 On
that question turns the decision as to the
Governorship of New-York. On that question,
indeed, turns q more important decision
shall Republican institutions break down in
the Empire City, because there is no security
that the vote cast by the honest citizen will
be counted, or that the man honestly elected
will get the ofiice3
Year: 1870

The public debt has been its especial by careful
husbandng the of the people by exactnga
rigid accountability from persons employed in the Rev.
enue Department. by closer collection Of the taxes on
whisky and tobacco by prosecution Of deauters and
vioatOrs OF the Revenue laws has managed TO secure
10 the Treasury millions OF money that under the pr01l-
gate Democratic Administration, were allowed To go into
the hands Of dishonest Office holders. BY this economy
and vigilance the revenues have been greatly aug
mented and the results be seen In the extinction Of
$6OOO00 of the public debt since the present Admins-
tration came into power. This reduction may he still
further increased when prosperous state OF the money
market, now disturbed by European wars may enabls
OF the Treasury tn fund the public debt AZ


lower rate OF interest, is provided by law OF the
last session.
Year: 1870

We have received copy of the
first number of the "Star' a new
Radical paper, published at Holly
Springs. 1t is edited by DR.. W. NJ.
Compton, who is known 10 be one
of the most talented men in the
State, of which the copy of his pa
per before ms gives full evidence.
We regret exceedingly to know
that he has gone over to that party
but we know him to be nevertheless
a warm hearted, honorable gentle.
man, and tor those reasons live
in anticipation of his early return
to his first political love.
Year: 1870

passage way was long ard dark, and
as he CROPPED HE way on, his knees
threatened to give way under him
his breath was choked, at1d his
flesh seemed suddenly to become
dry and parcheG, as if he already
felt the suffocating blast of death.
AT the extremity of the passage, in
the front teiiif, iihder the very
room where his children and friends
were reveling in felicity, he dis
cerned the open powder barrel, full
almost to the top, the candle stuck
lightly in the loose grains, with a
long red snuff or burnt out wick
topping the small and gloomy
flame. The sight seemed as if
to withcr all his powers, and the merry
laugh of the youngsters above struck
upon his heart like the knell of death:


He stood for some moments gazing up
on the light. unable to advance. The
fidcler commenced lively jig. snu the
feet of dancers responded with increas-
ed vivacity the floor shook with their
exertiOns. and loose bottles i'll the eel
lar jinaled with the motion lie fahcled
the candle was falling! was moving!
With desperate energy he dashed for
ward but how was he to remove it?
The lightous touch would cause the live
coal of wick to fall into the lose powder.
With unequaled presei1ce of mind he
placed a hand each side Of the candle,


with the open palms upward, and the
d:stended fingers pointing toward the
object of his care which as his hands
gradually MET, Mas seEtirtd in the
clasping or locking OF his fingers,
and safely removed from the head
Of the barrel. When he reached the
head of the stairs the excitement
was over; he smiled at the danger
he had conquered; but the reaction
was too strong, and lie fell into fits
of most violent and dreadful laugh
ter. He was conveyed senseless to
bed, and many weeks elapsed ere his
nerves recovered sufficient to allow
him to resume his habits of life.
Year: 1870

Does she? What of it2 Is it a
disgrace to her? Is SHE less true
woman, less worthy Of respect than
she who sits in silk ind satin, and
is vain of fingers which never Ia
Dor? We heard this snecf few
days ago, and the tone in which it
was uttered betokened narrow,
selfish, ignoble mind; better fitted
for any place than, q Democratic
country. whose institutions rest on
honorable labor as one of the chief
corner-stdhes. It evihced d false
idea of the title basis of society, OF
erue woman-hood, genuine nobility.
1t showed the detestable spirit OF
caste, of ranh, which a certain class
among US are trying to establish O
caste whose sole foundation is mon
ey, and SO the meansst kind of fank
known to civilization. Mind, man
nersi morals, all that enter into O
grand character, are of no account
with these social snobs position in
their stilted ranks is bought with
gold, and each additional dollar is
another round in the ladder by
which elevation is gained. agraf
In matter of fact is it more dis.
honorable for the merchants wife
to do her own work than for the
merchants wife to do her own
work than for the merchants to dc
his? for her to look after her house
than for him to look after his store
or is for nothing only to be tiekled
with feather and pleased with 6
straw. It seems to be the hight Of
ambition in some circles to be, OF
profess to be; not only "aboft
work." but even igiioraDt Of how to
work is to be done; and if the table
is poorly spread, if the housekeep
ing is at skies and setens, the 'he1p'
receives inalcdictions without stint
but the "lady" takes none of the
responsibility tipon herself. She
looked into the kitchen2 she
knows how bread ought to be made
or steak brdiled? Absurd ':fieip'
may be bad, but what interest car
the girl in the kitchen feel to house
hold economy; IL tile lady his none
Will the husbands business go OF
we'll, if he ncglects it7 And Why
should that Of the wife prosper un.
der her lack of responsibility !?


An arristocracy of wealth is the
most ihe&ciisable. the silliest of any
social distinction and yet it is that
which many of our citizens, many
of OUR otherwise sensible young peo-
pie, are fostering and trying to es-
tablish.-TW TWatchman and Reflector.





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Year: 1870

For THE THREE DAYS of the Registration
the corporation employees have been massed
at the City Hall to the number OF two
or three thorssnd for the purpose of in
timidatiDg Emery voters and to manufacture
Bowen enthusiasm by hurrahing for the Great
Bogus, Their pay has been going on as usual,
though they have not been doing a stoke of
work for these three days. The corporation
will, therefore, have to pay about $50 900 for the
services Of these laborers in ''legglng" for
Bowen at the City Hall.
Year: 1870

IIosetters California Almanac for 1871 for distribution
gratis throughout California Oregon other States and
Territories of the Pacific SLOPE will published about tho
first of January and all who wish understand the
philosophy of health should and ponder the
suggestions it contains. In addition an admirable medical
treatise on the prevention and cure of great vo
ETY. OF Diseases embraces large amount of information
interesting to the merchant the mechanic the miner he
farmer the planter and the professional man. and the cal
culaon have been made for merdians and latudes
as are most suitable for and comprehensive CEN-



The nature uses and extraordinary sanitary effects
llOSTETTERS STOMACH BITTERS, the staple tonic and
Alternative of than half the Christian world are fully
set forth in its pages which also ntespersed with pic
toral Illustrations valuable recipes household and


farm humorous anecdotes and other instructive and anus
ing reading natter original and selected Among the An
nuas to appear with the opening Of the year. this will be
Of the most useful and may be had far the asnq Send
for copies to the nearest dealer in IOSTETTERS STOMACH
BTrTERs The BlTTERs sold in every city town and
village and extensively used throughout the entire civ
ilized world, dec 10-lm
Year: 1870

A New CANSoN.-From the call we learn that
number of boys in San Francisco, having stolen
quantity of powder, concluded to Ere a salute.
Accordingly, they procured a soda bottle and
filing it with the powder, touched it off with a
match. 1t was complete success. There was
a loud report, the bottle was blown into thous-
and fragments and two boys severely injured by
the pieces of glass. One of the boys is credited
with saying that be did not think thick soda
bottle would bust SO easy !'
Year: 1870

AN outbreak occurred at the Nevada State
Prison, few days since, in which the prison
guard killed one prisoner on the spot and NOR
tally wounded three others who were attempting
to escape.
Year: 1870

THERE ia said to be large accumulation of
copper and nickel cents in the Post Offices in this
country. In Louisville, for instance, the Post
Master reports lOO 900 of them. The whole
number of such coin now held by the Post
Offices will probably reach forty million cents
Year: 1870

The counting Of the votes is still labo-
riOusly progressing, and with the exception
Of the Third Ward, there is d strong prob
ability that the counting Will be finished
late this evening. If the Third Ward fin
ishes tomorrow, the full, and certain result
will be known before the close of the week
The various officials, commissioners of
elections, have had hard weeks work
and notwithstanding the complaints about
delay, the work seems to have been prose
cuted with as much speed as circumstances
would allow.


The State Registrar, Mr. Blanchard, has
Kept with untiagSing energy at his post,
and seems never to be absent for one mo-
nent from the hall where the counting is
going on He seems to be wanted every
where at once, and he is every where st The
same time, as nearly as q man not gifted
with ubiquity can be. Amid all the labor
and the causes OF vexation, he preserves his
serenity of temper, and = IS courteous TO
all as If presiding at tho genial board in
stead OF laboriously asccrtaining the results
of a hard fought election. This courtesy has
ceen particularly exercised toward the sew
eral members Of the press who have haunted
the hall OF tho Institute since Monday eye
ming last.


We can not refrain from the expression OF
our sense of Mr.. BiancLard's administrative
ability and gentlemanly department in the
responsible and delicate position which ne
/, at present filling.
Year: 1870

On motion of c. B. Knox 1t was ordered
that the Special Finance Committee be and
the some are hereby discharged, and the
standing Finance Committee auO orized to
transact the business pertaining TO the du
ties of said Special Committee.


Supervisor Wilson moved that the Special
Committee TO build house for the insane poor
OF the county be discharged and their duties
turned over TO the Committee on Poor and
Poor House.


Motion lost.


Board adjourned until to morrow morn
ing at o clock.