smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1873

dust for tnem-they rose ana are with GOO, ana
my thoughts will not follow them through tho
ground. Whatever your views OF manhood, rise
always


Have you ever noticed the dandenon Nothing
but bunch OF h0mely leaves at first, close to the
ground. In few days it Tits up its head and
blossoms. Wait few days and 1t is gone. There
are our children. Wait again. and 1t comes once
more lit comes an airy globe more symmetrical than
human hands could fashion; so light that breeze
will blow 1t away. They are our children, sons OF
God. This view OF death ought TO inspire that
sense OF our worth which pride ought TO do; and,
if we are OF the household OF fatth, H. through
Christ we are children OF God, no man llves ous
may develop personal sense OF his wOrth-s0
that OF loneliness which Is apt to fall on per-
sons, feeling OF useessness, dread or being Old
reserve as those in the 'front.' Of the battle We are
not useless because just now we are not called
on to work r on on na anroing an EgyRiSRR
the Egyptians were so handsome as that they
should preserve themselves for the inspection OF
you will find some wheat, which has kept company
for 900 years with hldeous mummy; you put 1t
in the ground and IL Will shoot upwards and down
wards, as though it had not been laid away for so
long. II wheat win keep 5000 years, am sure
men will. LOOK larger, don't look with the compass
had the


DIVINE FAVOR


once tasting OF the grace OF God; and IL matters
very little whether We wait year or two. In the
convusions which are taking place, the failures OF
banks and companies, the glory and chief treasure
tSsss what iAn the Use s Of being Apas rsS
mans son II you can't have money to
ruin yourself with Is there no cure for
heartaches since the heart OF Jesus was pierced
Other mems treasures make to themselves wings
and ny away, but a Christians treasures should
make themselves wings and fly homeward. When
the earthquake comes and you cry II am ruinedl
am ruinedr" are you ruined because the dust Ia
shaken or your Are you ruined, you that Christ
thought OF in Getnsemanes You whose name IL
up the crown and spectre Oh, the loss OF things
In this world is often gain. When autumn comes
we dread to see the leaves al, but when they iall
we see q house that they hid before. Many mans
vision is closed with foliage, so that he cannot see
his Fathers house. In this consciousness OF God,
as Clrst ruled It, Christian brethren, take hold OF
this pillar. We know not yet what we shah be,
but take hold OF these things and they shall crown
you with eternal rejoicing
Year: 1873

show that not to one fold or to one particua;a, l;a
this love OF mankind be confined IL
should be just as broad as was
that earth whereOn these people lived and moved
VINO believed in Jesus. In Christ was this great
love for humanity and from IL followed our hope
for salvation: in Him we rested. and Just as we
loved Him so should we love all that concerned
Him; ana the concerns OF Christ were universal
wherever there was q Christian heart. In speak
Ing, merely In passing OF the Evangelical Alliance
the preacher said 1t would be useless labor were
its work not to be founded sincerely upon the solid
rock OF love for all those who believed in Christ
the world over.


The service was interesting and agreeaby varied
by the singing OF hymns The kev. DR.. Smyth has
an exquisite touch OF the brogue Of his native
land, and is most effective speaker.
Year: 1873

The Rev. Narayan Shcshadri, OF Bonn


bay, on the Regeneration OF Man.


The pulpit OF the University place Presbyterian
church was occupied yesterday by the Rev. Mar
ayan Sheshadri, OF Bombay, India, minister OF
the Free Church of Scotland who is now
present in this city attending the meeting
OF the Evangelical Alliance, lie was clothed In
gray robe and wore white turban on his head.
He is a converted Brahmln, and, since his CONVEX
sion to Christianity, has been preaching his new
faith among the people OF his native
land. In stature the Rev. Sheshadri Is
short and thick; his complexion is dark.
his command or the English language Is remark
ably good for Hindoo. Choosing for his text the
truths contained the first ten verses OF the Sec
ond chapter Of Paul's Episte TO the Ephesans, he
sketched out the transition period IN the
lie OF converted man. The state OF
man by nature is not only dying,
but absolutely dead. The Christian heart OF the
man has never begun to beat; dissolution mas be-
gun to take place. From this torpor Cnrist's power
or salvation can release US. The lives that we lead
after this regeneration absolutely resurrection
lives. There are so many things that are new and
beautiful to us tnat we discover new world The
very beau ideal OF humanity is truly converted
man.
Year: 1873

Va are bound TO cor tinuc 90 long We bonored ny


the confidence which has placed US In the position we


now hold In the public service OF the country.


After the speech there appeared TO be settled con


viotion I'm the press and IN the House Of Commons r-
respective OF party that tho bill should not be passed


without very material amendments. The withdrawal Of
the gaRging" clause, the inclusion Of modern history
and mental philosophy within the university course.
the abolition OF the principle of election By sectarian
colleges 10 the Council and provision against the
abuse OF nomination by the Crown TO the same body.
we're concessions which Liberals Themselves asserted
were required by and public opinion. The Times
had in the beginning expressed tsef in terms OF almost
unqualified favor with the bill Of the Government,
probably because it embodied plan very similar to one
which had been proposed by that Journal before the Gov
ernment bill made public The current OF opinion
having set in strong against the Government The Times


in editorial the morning Of the 9th Of March the
day when the debate the motion for second reading
to be resumed, rave expression to the most ad-
vanced opinions against the bill 1.-THE bill now before
Parliament is failure" said The Times and what Is
worse failure which will leave Ireland excited by the
agitation 1t has provoked" IL concluded thata Uni
versitY bill might still be settled by the cooperation or
the Government and Parliament; but II the Efforts TO
settle 1t to be continued the country must be con-
tent TO do what believed to be right and just and be
unDioved by any declaration OF Cardinals and Bishops
that the measure was insufficient.
Year: 1873

Two speeches only made on the Caldwell resolu-
ton to-day both by Democrats and both in its support
Mr. Tburman last speaker is one Of the best const
tutional lawyers either side OF the Senate and, hav-
ing read every word Of the testimony and carefully
weighed it as well power OF the Senate to the
resolution his opinions which In some respects supple
mented those OF Mr. schurz the other day have great
weight especially with OF the opposition Mr..
C0nkIng has the floor for tomorrow. and great speech
against the resolution may be expected
Year: 1873




WASHINGTON. Tuesday, March 49, 1873.
The President il said to have remarked few days
ago. that he proposed to have influence enough with
this Administration TO secure a few appointments him
self Two at least of these appointments of President
Grant were to the Senate to-day. They were ex
Senator Sawyer be Assistant Secretary Of the Treas
ury j. b. Webster. to be Assistant United States
Treasurer Chicago Senator Sawyer is of the most
respectable of the Republican Senators sent to Washing
ton from the South after the reconstruction and made
for himself good record during the four and half
wears that he was in the Senate native OF Massachu
sets he went to South Carolina teacher two years
before the war; aud renamed in Charleston until 1861
He was sent through the lines for his loyalty He
was ono OF the frat Internal Revenue Collectors ap-
pointed after the close OF the war, and member OF
the state Constitutional Convention. He has never
been identified with any of the corrupt rings that have
ruled and nearly ruined his State during the past few
years but was one Of the leaders OF bolt In the Re
publican party against the thieves who had robbed the
State As Senator he has been popular and respected
both for his high character and his ability, and in the
Treasury Department, will probably command great
cOuhdeuCe
Year: 1873

tho Committee transportation be authorized TO sit
during the and report to the Senate the sub
ject OF transportation between tho interior and
board. with power to send for persons and papers, &c


The Senate went into Executive Session aud after.
ward adjourned.
Year: 1873

WORKING THE TREASURY DEPARTMENT.


WASHINGTON, March 1S.-The general dissatisfac-
ton and disappointment at the selection of Mr..
Richardson to be Secretary of the Treasury will
probably not be alayed when it becomes known that
the appointment is not serious one at all. The
gross improperly of making Mr.. Washburne Secre-
tary of State for few days so as to give him pres
tige at Paris was widely commented upon four years
ago but the act was generally attributed to the
Presidents inexperience in political life and conse-
quent ignorance Of the Importance and significance
Of such appointments. But it seems as if
be had learned nothing in the last
four years. 1t is rumOred in the most
intimate Administration circles that Mr.. Richardson
takes the Treasury Department only for short
time. to give himself a standing in European fnan-
oal circles which he could not otherwise obtain.
He is said to be already member of the Paris bank
ing house of MunrOe and Company, and will soon
resign his present position to assume an active share
in the business of that firm. His resignation will
throw the Treasury Department again into the
political market-and the successor already lndi-
Gated for this most arduOus and responsible position
is the Hon. Columbus Deano of Ohio! 1t would be
difficult to characterize this scheme as it deserves
1t is regarded among thinking men in Washington
as the performance, far, of an Administra-
tOn which has pledged itself most strongly to re-
form the Civil Service and which every day does its
best to degrade it,
Year: 1873

We hardly ever pick up paper
without finding something IN II IN re-
ference to the want of skilled labor
at the South-in East Tennessee as
well as in other portions. Now,
lust look into any town, village,
hamlet or way-sidc station-from
the old traditional slave-line down
to the blue waters of the gulf-and
see the number of boys and young
men who are growing up in idleness
and wasting the morning OF exist
ence in inactivity, living without
the least reference, to a future Of use
fulncss to themselves, TO society, or
to their country. They ought TO be
on the farm or in the workshop
preparing to supply the demand;
vet fOur-fifths of these droneg would
die before they would guide the
plow, WELD the hammer, pound the
anvil, or shove the jack-plane.-
Without any definite purpose, with
out thought of the morrow, without
ambition except OF the baser sort,
they don't appear to have anything
in view but dreamy notion that
some day or other, after the old folks
have been planted, il may be neces-
sary for them to do something, per-
haps run for the legislature, open
law Office, set up a doctor shop,
preach the four gospels of Mathew,
Mark, Luke, and John; or, possibly,
what is better than all keep store
In the mean time there is q constant
demand for skilled labor, good me
chanics are scarce in every locality,
and we buy and import from other
sections almost everything we use,
from an ax-helve and hoe-handle to
patent reaper and thresher. La
Dor is the capital of nation, indus
try the enduring rock upon which
its prosperity must rest, and no one
endowed with physical ami mental
capacity has legal or moral right to
sit down by the wayside and rust
out in idleness. Young men so TO
work, or you will 80 somewhere else.
and not be very long in getting
there. Idleness Is the parent of
bad associations and dissolute hab-
its, the destroyer OF self-respect, the
precursor of poverty indigence and


want, the finger-bOard pointing to
the poOr-house and the graveyard Of
the pauper; while thrift competence,
respectability and all that make this
life worth living for may be achiev-
ed by honest labor and industry.
Go 10 work i-AtheRS Post.
Year: 1873

Hal appearing at that instant in the
doorway, he called to him: ''This
little woman has pleaded your case
so well that all that is left for me to
say is as they do on the stage and in
the story bOOks-take her and be
happyp'
Year: 1873

"A WOMAN in Columbia, Pa,
lately dislocated her jaw while
scolding her husband, and could
neither speak nor close her
mouth. Her husband has not
walked so slowly for ten years
as he did while going after the
doctor.
Year: 1873

IT is little singular how we'll
pair Of boots can DO made to fit
at the store. You may be
able to get your foot only part
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 q little pow.
der from pepper-box to aid you.
And so you stand mp, and pound
down your foot, and partly trip
yourself up, and your eyes etick
out in an unpleasant manner, and
every vein in your body appears
to be on the point of bursting,
and all the while that dealer
standing around and eyes the OPP
GRAFTON as intently as if the whole
affair was perfectly new and novel
to him. Whe1 your foot has
finally struck the bottom there is
faint impression on your mind
that you have stepped into az open
stove, but he rethoves it by SOL
emnly observing that he never
saw a boot fit quite as good as
that. You may suggest that
your toe presses too hard in front
or that some of the bones in the
side Of the foot are to much smash.
ed he says that is always the way
with a new boot, and that the
trouble will entirely disappear in
few days. Then you take the
old pair under your arm and start
for homo as animated as a relic
of 1912, all the while fee'lg that
tie world will not look bright and
happy again until you have brain.
cd that shoemaker. You limp
down town the next day, and smile
all the while with your mouth
if you were walking over an oys-
ter bed barefoot. When no one
is looking you kick against a post
or somc obstruction, and show a
fondness for stopping and resting
against whatever will sustain
your weight. When you get home
at night you 60 for those old boots
with an eagerness that cannot be
described, aud the remarks You
make upon learning that your
wife has disposed Of them to a
widow woman in the suburbs, are
calculated to immediately de-
populate the earth of women and
slIoemakers generally.-Dan6ury
Ne,os.
Year: 1873

AN Indiana woman is mad be-
because her husband took her
very best sheet to hang himself,
when there was an old clothes
line IN the cellar which was good
enough for tho purpose. She
says he always was extravagant,
and too lazy to 60 into the cellar
for anything.
Year: 1873

A crust of bread, pitcher of water, a
thatched roof, and love there is happiness
for you, whether the day be rainy or sunny.
1t is the heart that makes the home.
whether the eye rests on potato patch or
flower garden. Heart makes home pre-
cious, and it is the only thing that can.


Vice and laziness have everywhere their
votaries and the vestiges of the " shabby
footstep" are TO be met with in all places
No human beings ever congregated into
community without including among
themselves the just and the unjust. the
wise and the ignorant the evil and the
good.


A good word is an easy obligation; but
not TO speak i'll requires our silence, which
costs us nothing.


onversation.-While the gift of con-
versation proves clever man, the want
of it Is no proof Of dull one


He who betrays anothers secret, be
cause lie has quarrelled with him, was new.
er worthy of the sacred name of friend a



justify a breach of trust on the other.


Profanity never did any man the least
good. No man is richer, or happier, or
wiser for it. 1t commends no one to soci.
ETY. it is disgusting TO the refined, and
abominable to the good.


Virtuous Society.-Much of the comfort
of this life consists in acquaintance, friend
ship and correspondence with those that
are pious, prudent, and virtuous.


1t is much better to decide difference
between enemies than friends for one OF
our friends will certainly become an en-
emy, and one Of our enemies a friend


Interest and Friendship frosts tc
the bud and blight to the blossom, even
such is self-interest 20 friendship and
confidence cannot dwell where selfshness
is porter at the gate


Charity.-The best charity is not that
which giveth aims, whether secretly or
with ostentation. The best charity--that
which worketh no evil, lis the charity
that prompts US to think and speak well
OF our neighbors.


II is not enough that we wish well to
others Our feelings should clothe them
selves with corresponding actions. The
spring which has no outlet becomes a
stagnant pool while that which pours
itself off in the running stream is pure and
living and is the cause of life and beauty
wherever il flows.
Year: 1873

Mr.. BEEcHER AND THE Woodruff AND CLAF-
LIN SroRrEs.-It was hard to say what course
Beecher should take about the matter. 1t did not
seem as though be could ignore it, for names were
mentioned and details described which gave the
stories air of credibiliy at least to people who
read carelessly or are unaccustomed to investi-
eating evidence; and the paper containing the
scandal was sold around the streets by the ten
thousand. But Beecher had such a consciousness
Of his own innocence, such an assurance that
none of these falsehoojs could shake the faith
of those who knew him in his homer and virtue,
such feeling of certainty that no evidence could
be produced in support of the SANDER, that be de-
termined 20 take no steps to punish the female
slanderers. The publication did not seem even
to trouble him. He met his people on the night
Of the day in which it was made, and he was as
hearty, as lively, as jocund and as strong as be
ever was. He preached twice last Sunday in his
noblest vein. He has been carrying on his vari-
Gus works day by day as ardently as ever His
face shines and his voice rings in the old familiar
way. He seems to feel that his house is built





thousands who know Beecher, and have known
him for thirty years, the stories we're simply pre-
posterOus. Tney were not only too gross and
foul in themselves, but they were un-Beecher
like. They were not true to the Beecher nature
or character. They we're false TO Beecher's every
day ways. Suppose he had carried on for twenty
years such a carnival of obscene revelry, he GER
tainy could not have played as they describe the
part of a coward, a sneak, and fool. He is not
that kind of a man. at least. There could be no
more magnificent tribute to Beecher's character
than the way in which these ISLANDERS we're re-
ceiyed by his friends, by his church, and by the
public at large. Among all classes of honest and
intelligent people, there was intense Indignation
against the Woodruff Clahin gang, and there
was, so far as l saw or heard, or knew, univer-
sal disbelief in their ISLANDERS. Men grew liEid
with rage at the thought that such ISLANDERS were
possible, and found not soul who did not
scorn them as utterly false in all their parts and
particulars. Mr.. Beecher himself could not desire
a more honorable testimony from his fellow citi-
zens, of both sexes, than this.-Ne,c York Letter
10 Cincinnati Commercial
Year: 1873

The BABY HIPPoPoTANUs.-Frauk Buckand,
baby hippopotamus whose birth on the 9th of
November was announced, says: Il have just
been up TO the Gardens (the ZoOlcgicaD to get
the latest news, aud am happy to be able to issue
a most favorable bulletin. Little Guy Fnrbes
and its mother are both doing exceedingly well.
This morning at they were both asleep and
slept till eleven, at which hour they went into the
water. When they came out the mother stood
up while the young one sucked freely for some
time. 1t jerks its head against the udder like a
kid or a lamb. When it had sucked enough it
got up with milk all over its face aud began jump
ing and skipping with awkward gambOis around
its mother, aud every now and then it pitched up
the hay and played with it, showing it was lively
and well. When it goes into the water with its
mother it swims as well as q fish. When in deep
water the little hippo rests its nose the moth
ers great, broad, lower jaw, and sinks its head so
low in the water that only its nostrils are visible


This is evidently wondrous arrangement for the
safety Of the young from its natural enemies. 1t
has not yet been seen standing on its mothers
back in the water as represented in the plate of
DR.. Livingstone's book. On Tuesday the keeper
carefully tossed in fresh hay and straw and two
days food but this disturbed the mother consid-
erably. She is terribly savage, shows her great
strength and roars and bellows tremendously if
she is the least put out. She has not only great
powers of observation-knowing one keeper from
another-but also of memory for Mr.. Bartlett
thinks she recollects her two last babies were
taken from her, and therefore seems always in a
state Of alarm lest the third young one should
also be surreptitiously wrested from her maternal
care. Hence the necessity of the most perfect
quiet. The sparrows alone are admitted, and
must say they chirp unwarrantably loud. The
mother however, seems, though watchful to
be in excellent spirits, and the baby sucks
continuously, and the authorities have the great
est hope that it will live and thrive, now that it
has taken to its natural food. The period of ges-
tation is seven months and from 25 to % days"
Year: 1873

trroni the virginia Chronicle.l


Asassiz and all the great physicists of
the Old world and the new would have
been thrown into state of feverish ex.
citement had they heard the rumor that
was current on our streets this morning
Ihe report was that human skull had
been found imbedded in body of rich
siiver-bearing quartz in one of the Com.
stock mines. Such phenomenon would
have upset all the accepted theories and
overturned all the well-established facts
demonstrated by the researches of mod.
ern science, and, hearing that the skull
was In the fine cabinet of Tinker e. Shep.
ard at the Palace Saloon, we repaired
thither to ascertain the facts in the prem
ises. There we found a large human
skull, thickly coated on one side with
rich sulphurets of silver, and upon in
auiry ascertained that the curiosity was
found in an old drift Of the Ophir mine,
some years ago, by the late Judge Bald
win. The skull was found at point
where the drift had cut through a rich
vein of sulphurets, and hence its coating.
How it got there is still mystery and
will perhaps remain so forever.
Year: 1873

1t will be seen that the largest number Of
fatal cases were in the week ending about
the middle of September. and that since
that time they have constantly diminished.


There have tean moro deaths this year
than occurred in .,he two preceding
years, and this has been the only stock in
trade the croakers have had to deal in but
glance at the following table will show
the vast difference in favor of this season
*hen compared with that of 1870. when the
disease did not become epidemic. and the
last epidemic season we had--lS67. There
appears to have been no record kept during
the war. but the following table shows the
number of deaths of yellow fever by
months since the reorganization of the Board
of Health. at the close of the war:


Yrpa I,,1x, ay,, S,.pf Oot Nov Naa srotos