smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1873

PURITY OF CHARACTER. = Over


the beauty of the plumb and the
apricot there grows a beauty more
exquisite than the fruit itself a
soft, delicate plush, that overspreads
it's blushing cheek. Now, you
strike your hand over that, and it
is once gone, it is gone forever, for
it never grows but once. Take
the flower that hangs in the morn
ing, impearled with dew, arrayed
as no queenly woman ever was,
arrayed with jewels. Once, shake
it, so that the drops.roll off, and
you may sprinkle water over it as
carefully as you please, yet it can
never. be made again what it was
when the dew fell silently upon it
from heaven. On a frosty morning,
you may see the panes Of glass
covered with landscapes-moun-
tains, lakes, trees, blended into q
beautiful, fantastic picture. Now
lay your hand upon the grass, and
by the scratch Of your fngor, or
by the warmth of your palm, all
the delicate tracery will be obliter-
ated. So there sin youth a beau
ty and purity of character which,
when once touched and defled,
can never be restored; fringe
more delicate than frcstwork, and
which, when torn and broken, will
never be embroidered. A man
VINO has soiled and spotted his NOR
al garments in youth, though he
may seek to make them white
again, can never wholly do it, even
were he to wash them with his
tears. When a young man leaves
hir fathers house, with the bless
ing of his mothers tears still wet
npon his forehead, if he once loses
that early purity of character, it is
a loss he can never make whole
again..
Year: 1873

In the Court Of General Sessions
Yesterday Mr.. B. G. Presley an
nounced the death. of ex-Judge
Wardlaw. He said that the mem:
hers of the Charleston Bar had
heard with deep regret Of the death
of this distinguished son of the
State, and some of them had. re.
Fquested him to NAL ke the announce.
ment to the court. He would defer
any remarks that he would have to
make showing his deep affection
and respect for this honored judge,
and only say what the court must
itself know from it's long .connec-
tion with Judge Wardlaw, that be
was deeply respected and beloved
by the members Of the bar and by
the people of the entire State. He,
therefore, simply brought the sad
occurrence to the attention Of the
court, and moved an adjournment
as a mark of respect and attention
to the memory Of the. late Judge
Wardlaw.


Judge Graham stated that in,
granting the motion he desired to
bear testimony to the high charac-
fer of Judge Wardlaw. 1t was in
his court that he first entered upon
the practice of his profession, and
he would always cherish the cour-
tesy and kindness that the deceased
had always extended to the young
members Of the bar.
Year: 1873

It is bad enough, says the Dan
! ury Ne,0s, to see o bachelor sew


on a button, but he is the embodi-
ment of grace alongside of a a.mar:
ried man. Necessity has compelled
experience in. the case Of the for
mer, but the latter has always
depended upon some one else toa
this service, and fortunately for the
sake of society, it is rarely he is
Obliged to resort to the needle him


self. Sometimes the patient wife
scalds her right hand, or runs
silver under the nail Of the index
Year: 1873

THE PREsBYTERIANs.-The unan-
imous vote by which the Presbyte-
rian Assembly at, Baltimore -adop-
ted the recommendation that two
committees be appointed to confer
with the Old School Synod of Mis-
souri, and the Southern General
Assembly, for the purpose of re-
union with those branches Of the
church, probably marks the begin
ming of the end of the political
schism which has divided the Pres
byterian Church Of America since
1851. The Presbyterian Church
North and South divided in that
year on account of the action OF
the General Assembly at Pittsburgh
which declared that the allegiance
of citizens was due to the United
States, thereby denying the doc
trine Of State allegiance and State
rights. The Missouri Synod has
not been associated with either
branch since 1866. Its separation
was the result of the adoption of a
resolution by the General Assem-
bly,, in 1865, that every church
session and every Presbytery in
connection with the Presbyterian
Church North should examine
every person who came from a
Southern State asking for admis-
sion into any of their churches or
Presbyteries touching his relation
to the Federal Government and
touching his views on the slavery
question; and insisting upon a
"confession of SIM if the applicast
had been guilty of disloyalty.
Year: 1873

| Il
finger of that hand, and tits then
! that the man clutches the needle


around the neck, and forgetting to
| tie a knot in the thread eslnmences


to put on the button. ft is always
lin the morning, and from. five to
twenty minutes after he is expected


to be down street. He lays the


button exactly on the site. Of its


predecessor, and pushes the needle
through the eye, and carefully


draws the thread after, leaving


about three inches Of king up


for lee way. He says to. himself,


ssWell, ifswomen don't have the
easiest. time I ever see.1 Then he;


comes back the other way, and gets
he.needle through the cloth well


enough, and lays himself out to
find the eye, but in spite of a great
deal of patientjabbing, the needle
point persists in bucking against


the solid parts of that button, and
finally when he loses patience, his
finger catches the thread, and that
three inches he had left to hold the
button slips through the eye in q
twinklmg, and the button rolls


leisurely across the floor. He picks
it up without "a single remark, out


of respect for hhis children, and
makes another attempt to fasten it.
This time when coming back with


the needle he keeps both the thread
and the button from slipping by
covering them with his thumb, and
it is out Of regard for that part Of
him that he feels around for the
eye in very careful and judicious
manner, but. eventually losing his
philosophy as the search becomes
more and more hopeless, he falls to
jabbing aboutin a loose and savage


manner, and it is just then the nee
die finds the opening, and comes
up through the button and part
way through his thumb with a ce-
lerity that no human ingenuity
can guard against. Then he lays
down the things, with a few famil-
lar quotations, and presses the in
jured hand between his knees, and
then holds it uader the other arm,
and finally jams it into his mouth,
and all the while he prances about
the floor and calls upon heaven and
earth to witness that there has
never been anything like it since
the world was created, and hoWls,
and whistles, and moans, and sobs.
After awhile he calms down, and
puts on his pants, and fastens them
with stick, and goes to
his business a changed man..
Year: 1873

The young ladies Cfa New York
seminary are puzzled over the
exact meaning of the following in
scription recently discovered ON the
wall of the building: Young
ladies should set good examples,
for young men will follow them."
Year: 1873

The uncOnstitutionality of the
act, by which Congress decreed
that S1,5OO,O0O of the public
money should he appropriated for
the individual benefit of its mem
berS, is apparent, but it is folly to
talk of constitutional acts to a
Congress which never manifested
any regard for the Constitution.
Year: 1873

they must be Of the kind that knoweth
pandemonium, and wanted resting spell
where the bowling was little less horri-


BILE. In the meantime the spirits had


assembled and united the Professor" and


tied him in another position, and we heard


some thrumning on the fiddle, which pres


emily came over the top of the shawl and


hung there, we thought, by a string.


After this undoubted manifestation of the


presence of the spirits-caused by our


operatic performance, no doubt-the


Professor" announced that he would do


the "ring tricko with mortal in the


closet with him, and said he would prefer


that that bold and daring individual
should be o representative of the press.


We felt that we were the centre of attrac-
ton, but we felt also that an invitation to
go into that darksome hole was an insult to
our manhood, detraction from our dig
nifty; moreover, not being 'fraid-we
never are-we felt that If we should .'go
inn we would be moved TO snatch that


professor" baldheaded. He was hu-


mored, however, by gentleman more


curious than ourselves. After tieing a
knot or two in handkerchiefs TOR some
of his auditors, the Professor" announced
that he was too much exhausted by his
wrestle with the spirits to give US any of
the "material" demonstrations the show
ing of faces and hands of departed friends
or relatives), and closed his ''seeyonce"
by declaiming about eighteen inchese
oftragedy through the spirit OF Ned Forest.


We have tried faithfully to give in
the foregoing the impressions left upon our
mind BY an exhibition in "spiritual
circle" held in this city one night last
week. It may appear to the reader that
we have exaggerated, and if it be SO in
some particulars yet we have failed to give
of others the hideous portraying they
should have. To say the least of it, it is
sacrilege, and calculated to counteract, to
some extent, the blessed influences of the
Christian religion, as was evidenced by the
actions and conversation of three converts
to this damnable tomfoolery on the night
in question. We condemn utterly this IN
novation upon all that is sacred and
and protest that this youthful
fraud, the Professor" be let severely
alone by the sensible portion Of our COM
munity. sci
Year: 1873

THE DISTRICT COURT CLERKsHIP.-
Colonel J. R. Popham, Of this city, whose
name has been prominently mentioned in
connection with this position, has made, as
we are reliably informed such arrange
ments with regard to the practice of his
profession as will keep him fully one-halt
Of his time in Washington, D. @. 1t is
therefore likely he would not accept the
place in question, even though appointed
to it by his friend Judge Hughes. The
office or business Of clerk is not, we sus-
pect, in yefy great harmony with the taste
and ambition Of Colonel p. A law
yer of his ability would no doubt find his
profession more profitable as well as more
congenial.
Year: 1873

THERE Il just now mania among
the ladies' for raised embroidery. and
even white silk and satin bridal robes
are covered on the skirt with 1t. It Is
q very elegant aud stylish mode OF
trimming, and It's present popularity
will be productive OF new desigus.
Year: 1873

The New York papers are complaining
bitterly of the thorough spread demorali
zation Of the police force in that city. The
Times has this to cay Of it


There is little doubt that much OF the
present Decentralization in the police force
of this city is due to the reckless way in
which men have been appointed to fill
vacancies. The inquiries respecting the
character of applicants are made in such a
manner that thieves and brothers of thieves
Two policemen, thus appointed, have
already been sent to the State prison for
burglary, and from the number of sum
mary dismssals. there is good reason to
believe that many more are deserving of a
similar fate
Year: 1873

There seems to be almost general distress
in the country parishes. The poor farmers
are refused advances by the merchants,
money is very scarce, and, as a natural con
sequence, there is much suffering. Meat
can not be had, and people are tain to sub
sist on bread alone, and in many localities
even this staff of life is scanty This is
undoubtedly attributable to the unsettled
state of political affairs.


The Red River NerS approves the ap-
pointment by Governor Kellogg of j.
Ernest Breds as district attorney for the
Ninth Judicial District
Year: 1873

A party of workmen on the Bay City rail
road, Michigan, recently found the follow
ing notice in a cleft stick at a curve in the
road: IF you don't leave $500 on This spot
in less than week, the passenger train will
be thrown from the track John" The
railroad company scattered $500 bills on
every spot within half mile of the
curve. and thus saved the lives of many
passengers. Such public spirited acts as
these should be remembered by the people
who travel on passes and induce them to
try the Bay City line.
Year: 1873

In accordance with the authority intrust-
ed to them, the Committee on Printing had
entered into contract with Mr.. Dennis
Murphy, the chief of the reportorial staff in
the Senate, to continue the reporting of the
debates. He then had read the resolution
adopted by the committee designating Den
mis- Murphy as the official reporter of the
Senate, and allowing to him and his staff
at this session the rate of 81 Oh per thou
sand ems, printers measure, with twenty
per cent additional. He also said the com.
mittee had given instructions to the Con
gressional printer to print the same number
of the Congressional Record as of the Con.
grcssional Globe at the past session, and
that the Record be distributed as the Globe
was distributed.
Year: 1873

We shall positively close our Re-
tail Department, including our en-
tire stock Of Fine Goods, March l,
end offer one Of the finest stocks Of
JEWELRY and STERLING SILL
YER WARE, especially for Bridal
and other presents, ever sold in this
city. This is the only establishment
Of the kind in the city offering goods
at the ACTUAL, COST. Call at our
Store if you wish great bargains for
the next 80 days.
Year: 1873

start and her heart throb quick; and
when the door opens she will almost
unconsciously look for Willie to
come in.


Oh! how many other mothers are
watching, hoping and praying for
their boys to come back-boys who
are wrecked almost as hopelessly and
fearfully as were the passengers of
the AtIantic-wrecked on land in the
fearful dramshops that destroy more
bodies and souls than the most cruel
reefs on our coast! But mother
never forgets them. Said an aged
mother to me of her Incorporate son,
now gray-haired man: "There isn't
an hour of the day that my poor boy
is out of my mind" And the bitter
tears coursed down her furrowed
cheeks.
Year: 1873

A MATCH FOR THE Town CLoCK.-
yesterday was a hot day, an uncom-
monty hot day even for July, and an
outrageously hot day for the cool
end of September. Everybody knew
it and said so. You knew they told
the truth by the way they sidled
along in the shady strips on Main
street about noon time But there
was no use Of getting up a panic
about it. The only thing to do was
to keep as cool as possible and tide
the thing over until a turn came.
But it was just this critical time that
the red-nOsed thermometer in front
Of Barnes 4 Bancroft's chose to try
and stir up an excitement. In spite
Of its being the Lords Day, and in
spite of the commandment against
bearing false witness. this wicked
old instrument hung up there and
kept its fluid up "a degrees in the
shade, and cool breeze blowing at
the time. All the other thcrmome-
ters said so degrees, and thought it
was uncommonly hard lines at that.
Now what is to be said about such
an incendiary concern? The very
least that can be done is to put it on
the retired list along with our blessed
old town-clock and let it 90 ahead.
1t will then amuse the children per-
haps, and certainly won't hurt any
body.-BgfalO ErpreSs, Sept. 80.
Year: 1873

Men often speak of good manners
as an accomplishment. l speak of
them as a duty. What, then, are
good manners2 Such manners as
the usages of society have recog-
nized as being agreeable to men.
Such manners as take away rudeness
and remit to the brute creation all
coarseness. There are a great many
who feel that good manners are eff
Terminate. They have a feeling that
rude bluntness is a great deal more
manly than good manners. 1t is a
great deal more beastly. But when
men are crowded into communities.
the art Of living together is no small
art. How to diminish friction; how
to promote ease of intercourse; how
to make every part of a mans life
contribute to the welfare and salts
faction Of those around him; how to
keep down offensive pride; how to
Danish the raspings of selishness
from the intercourse Of men; how to
move among men inspired by various
and conhictive motives, and yet not
have collisions; this is the function
of good manners.


1t is not effeminate to be refined.
And in this land no man should
plead inability. There may be a
peasantry in other countries;' there
may be a class in foreign lands who
have no opportunities; there may be
those whose toll is so continuous,
opportunities for knowing what con-
stitutes good manners are so few.
and whose ignorance is so gross
that they are excusable; but this is
not the case with any within the sound
Of my voice.


| affirm for every American citi-
zen the right to be mot simply man,
but a good-mannered man.


Not only is the violation of good
manners inexcusable on ordinary
grounds, but it is sinful. When,
therefore, parents and guardians and
teachers would inspire the young
with a desire for the manners of good
society, it is not to be taught that
they are accomplishments which may
be accepted or rejected. Every man
is bound to observe the laws Of po-
iteness. 1t is the expression Of
goodwill and kindness. 1t promotes
both beauty in the man who posses
ses it and happiness in those who
are about him. 1t is a religious du-
ty and should be part of religious
training.-Henry Ward Beecher.
Year: 1873

A correspondent of the Chicago
Tribune. writing from Seattle, Wash
ington Territory, speaks as follows
about the agricultural productions of
that locality:


''Our fir timber grows to height
of from $50 to $50 feet, and is of a
peculiar character. being harder than
Eastern pine; readily worked while
green. but, when seasoned, it becomes
almost like flint. while its durability
and strength are nearly equal to oak.
Many of the buildings in this country
are put up without any studding
whatever. The fir boards. one inch
thick, being placed upright and bat
tened on the outside, are of sufficient
strength to hold up the roof, the up
per floor, with all its ordinary weight
of furniture, etc, and, when covered
with cloth and paper on the inside,
are considered sufficiently comfort
able for winter


1.-The valleys are covered with a
growth of vine, maple, alder, ash
and cottonwood, with some cedar,
spruce and hemlock intermixed; but,
as the timber is not usually heavy
and roots follow near the surface, the
land is not very hard to clear-the
work of which is usually done by In
dians at from $l2 to SIS per acre.
The soil, being either Of clayey
loan or sandy deposit largely mixed
with decayed vegetation, is extreme
ly rich. The bluffs are all covered
with heavy timber, chiefly frs and
cedar. and are hard to clear-the
soil being of a light brown or yellow
ish clay and quite stony, presenting
Year: 1873

practice.) | determined to visit these
manufactures, and | assure you that
there is not one inch of lace, nor
fish-hook nor glove made in this or
any other place in Ireland, nor has
there been for the last 20 years. |
sifted this to the bottom. and vet an
American lady boarding at the same
hotel we did, namely, Cruize Hotel.
(not a good one. although | believe
the best in Limerick) spent the dav


before our visit twenty-seven pounds
sterling for Limerick lace and then
left for Brussels the next dav where
she would have to pay duty on it
in the place where it was manufac-
tured. If we were disappointed in
this, for my wife wished to buy some,
we were more than repaid by drive
out to Castle O'DOnnel and other
places Of note and beauty, in the sub
urbs, among others the beautiful
mansion of the Countess of Clare.
My good fortune. with little assist
ance of the tongue and perhaps some
boldness. got me a note of introduce
ton, and we We're shown through all
the principal rooms of the residence,
and the garden, all Of which are per-
fectly beautiful and equally wonder
full for their state of preservation.
Year: 1873

They sat in the sun together.


Til the day was almost done,
And then. at its close, an angel


Stepped DER the threshold stone.
He folded their hands together,


He touched their eyelids with balm,
And their last breath tioated upward
Like the close of solemn psalm.
Like bridal pair they trayersed


The unseen, mystical road,
That leads TO the beautiful city


Whose builder and maker is God.
Perhaps in that miracle country.


They viii give her lost youth back,
And the flowers ola yanquished spring time
Shall boom in the spirits track.
One draught Of the living waters


Shall restore his manhood's prime.
And eternal years shah measure


The love that outlives time.
But the shapes they left behind them
The wrinkles and silver hair
Made sacred to us by the kisses


The angel imprinted there.
Wen hide them away in the meadow,
When the sun is low in the west,
Where the moon5eams cannot find them.
Nor the wind disturb their rest.
But Wen let no ten-tale tombstone.
With its age and date arise
over the two who are old no longer
In their Fathers house in the skies.
Year: 1873

OF the terrible disaster which hap
pened on the first of April. 1878,
suppose you have all read; how a
great steamer struck at night on the
rocks off Halifax, and carried down
to watery burial some six hundred
people. Many bodies have been
found and identified, but many more
Will never be seen again until the sea
gives up its dead.


Among the number marked as ''miss-
ing" is one widows son, who lived
in Detroit. She still clings fondly
to the hope that her Willie will yet
come back to her. The papers have
never told her that he is ''lost," and
she feels that by some means he was
saved. Every day she sets his plate
on her table, that all may be in readi-
ness if he arrive; and every week
she searches the papers for tidings
from the sea.


Il haven't heard from Willie yet, :"
she says, in answer to the neighbors'
queries, ''but / hope | shall this
week" How long her faith will
hold out we cannot tell, but doubt
less for years to come she will be
still an anxious watcher. A sudden
knock at her door will make her
Year: 1873

THE New York Tribune, in refer
ring to the Liberals of New York
who are surrounding John Cochrane,
SAYS: "We do not share the belief
some of them express, that they are
about to form the coming new party.
New parties are not made in that
way; in fact. they are not made at
all---they grow"
Year: 1873

reY" A Washington dispatch says:
General discussion of the question of
the resumption of specie payments,
accompanied as it is by STEADY drain
on the premium on gold, has attracted
its due share of attention in official
quarters. The Secretary of the Treas
ury has expressed an opinion that while
Il return to coin basis as result of the
late financial panic would be quite nn-
expected, it was by no means impossible
nor improbable. 1t is admitted that
twice before the premium on gold has
been down to eight per cent, but not
under circumstances, it is maintained,
quite so favorable for resumption. The
President in conversation informed
several gentlemen who discussed it with
him, that he should earnestly commend
the subject to Congress III his annual
message. The President, in connection
with the Secretary of the Treasury and
Comptroller Of Currency, will also rec
ommend to Congress legislation looking
to stringent restrictions on National
Banks by which the legal tender reserve
can be preserved intact.