smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1872

COrd from Monroe County.


The following card from prominent citizens
Of Monroe county speaks for itself:


Every one of the signers is Democrat and
ex-Confederate. Their high personal charac-
ter and standing in the community needs no
comment, and it is an encouraging sign that
good citizens can lay aside party prejadices to dc
justice to a worthy and efficient public officer.
This is one of the many signs of the great
popular strength of Col, Thornburgh, who
needs only to be known to be appreciated and
endorsed by the people: .rFfsggr.
Year: 1872

The opposition TO General Grant is
seemingly based upon objections as null
tifarious as the arms of Brareus, and as
easily reconciled as darkness and night.
Heretofore Horace Greeley has ranked
among the chief anti-Grant Republican
malcontents, more particularly described
as Liberal Republicans. Now, is there
one in these United States whose opinion
upon certain political questions is better
known than those of Horace Greeley
His whole life has been devoted to the
advocacy of Protective Tariff. Every
body knows that with him this has always
been cardinal principle by which his
political faith was squared. Yet we find
his name attached to the New York call
for a Liberal Republican Convention at
Cincinnati, containing among other state
ments of the objects sought to be obtain
posed for revenue" Looking at the Gin
cinnati Call, TO which the above was
responsive, we find the very first plank to
be this "The only legitimate purpose
of a tariffs to provide necessary revenue"
Looking ION this picture and then on
that" we are profoundly impressed with
the conviction that Mr.. Greeley eat more
than his "peck of DIRT" when he attached
his name TO the New York pronuncia-
mento referred to. Now that New Hamp-
shire and Connecticut have been heard
from, and dozen or two Republican
State Conventions have spoken, weexpect
that Philosopher Greeley will no longer
devote his entire energies to farming, but
for brief period at least will direct
some of his attention to scanning the
political skies and eating some more dirt.
Caricature could 60 no further than to
represent Horace Greeley as Revenue
! Tariff advocate. Yet this is the position
his signature to the New York Call ac-
cepts. Horace never drinks and couldn't
have been drunk. Although pretty old,
he is not judicialy known to be in his
dotage. No committee has been appointed
or deemed necessary to look after him
because Of mental infrmity, there is but
one other mode of accounting for his last


vagary: Greeley and Shakespeare's wise


fool must alike have arrived at the same


conclusion that "motley's the only wear"
Year: 1872

HAD 'EM.-The good people of Susan
vile, says the Chronicle, have been sore
ly troubled for many years over the fact
that hogs have been permitted to run at
large. Just think of it and no redress.
But statesman Barnes saw the distress of
his constituents and determined to re-
lieve them. So he introduced a bill to
prevent the running of hogs in Susanville
and providing for penalty on each hog,
to be paid into the School Fund of Las
sen county. Several statesmen had con-
stituents similarly afflicted with hogs and
when the Susanville bill came up they
all included their own towns. Barnes
made no objection. But after the bill
was passed he quietly informed his fell
low-members that all the hog fines must
be paid into the Lassen County School
Fund. They couldn't stand that, and
the bill had to be reconsidered, and Su-
sanville and her hogs were left alone in
their glory.
Year: 1872

A Rising MAN.-Hon. John NJ. Cogh-
Ian is destined to win an enviable position
in the Councils of the Nation. Since he
has been in Washington he has labored
for his constituents and in accordance
with the pledges he made them. He has
already made his mark and is influential
among his fellow members. His speeches
concerning the Public Lands and the
Coolie question attracted the attention of
the House, and if generally read by the
people of the Pacific Coast would satisfy
them that there is statesman among us.
Congressional speeches are generally too
long for publication in paper like the
JOURNAL, and besides in majority of
instances do not interest the readers. We
shall take occasion hereafter to publish
extracts from Mr.. Coghlan's remarks to
which we have referred in order that our
readers may have a chance to agree or
disagree with us. We are not putting
Coghlan, but say what we think and mean
what we say.
Year: 1872

would sum up the policy of the Ad-
ministration to be thorough enforcement
Of every law faithful collection of the
tax provided for +; economy in the dis
bursement Of the same, and prompt
payment of the debt of the nation a re-
duction of taxes as rapidly as the require
ments Of the country will admit; reduc-
ton of taxation and tariff to be so ar
ranged as to afford :he greatest relief to
the greatest number; honest and fair
dealing with all other people, to the end


that war, with all its blighting conse-
quences may be avoided, but without
surrendering any right or obligation due
to the United States ; reform in the
treatment Of the Indians, and the whole
civil service of the country; and, finally,
in securing pure, untrammelled ballot,
where every man entitled to cast vote
may do SO just once mt each election,
without fear Of molestation or prescription
on account of his political faith, nativity
or color. U. S. GRANT.
Year: 1872

A SOAP MINE.-Some time since. if
we may credit Colorado paper, a man
from Pueblo, while riding along the bank
Off stream, discovered some rocks of a
peculiar color. Stimulated by curiosity
he broke off a piece, and taking it to the
creek commenced washing it for the pur-
pose OF ascertaining the consistency and
grain. To his surprise it formed lather
equal to ordinary soap, leaving pleasant
odor. Samples of the rock have been
submitted for chemical analysis. The
stone is of dun color, of the hardness of
chalk, and effectually removes stains and
grease spots from clothing. What next ?
Year: 1872

THE New York Democratic Central
Committee held meeting at Albany re-
Gently, and the feeling of those present
was decidedly in favor of the passive
policy and of looking to the Cincinnati
Convention to initiate programme for
the party in the Presidential campaign.
Year: 1872

THE Committee on Foreign Affairs to-
day agreed to report to the House reso-
luton that it is the opinion of this House
that the President should demand the
unconditional release of Doctor Howard,
and the restoration of his property, which
has been confscated by the Spanish Gov
ernment.
Year: 1872

Wool ScARcE.-At the present time
there is a great scarcity Of wool all over
the world. While the article is very high
it is generally believed that wool has not
touched its highest point. The cause is
explained by the simple fact that the
supply is not equal to the demand.
Year: 1872

MAJOR STRONG and four other gentle
men have completed arrangements for
planting one hundred acres in cotton upon
the Hazlctine farm, on Mariposa creek
in San Joaquin county, the present sea-
son, the planting to commence in a few
days. The object is to test the feasibility
of profitable culture of the plant by
farmers Of small means.
Year: 1872

A SIMPLE mode of preventing the
spread of smallpox has been discovered
IN Alabama. They let the patient die
safely by himself hire a negro to bury
HIM and shoot the negro as soon as the
lnterment is finished,
Year: 1872

Secretary Boutwell, has requested the
Ways and Means Committee that au-
thority be given him to negotiate bonds
to be registered in London and the inter
est on the same to be paid in that city.
Also that national banks be required to
use other than the six per cent. bonds as
a legal deposit for securing circulation.
With these stipulations he declares he
will be able to refund the bonded debt
into bonds bearing lower rate of inter-
est. 1t will be difficult to find any sub
stantial reason why both these PROPOSE
tions should not be maintained by the
action of Congress. The national bank
ers will doubtless oppose that which cur
tails their profits but these are quite suffi-
cient in the estimation of the people, and
they will find little if any disinterested
sympathy in opposing the proposition.
| have long thought that two or three
per cent. interest on these deposited bonds
would be all that the banks have an equt.
able claim to collect, when the value of
their franchise given them by the Gov
ernment is taken into account.
Year: 1872

ENTERPRISE IN ASHINGTON.


The subject of the Piedmont and Po-
tomac Railroad has just been discussed in
the Senate. The voters of Washington by
a large majority decided last year that the
city should subscribe to 100000 Of the
stock of the company, and the consent Of
Congress thereto is now asked. Some of
the Senators think that they should exer-
else fatherly care in preventing the cit
liens of Washington from too much en-
terprise. They admit that road in this
direction would be important not only to
Washington but to the general public,
but some of them think that it is the duty
Of the public generally to take stock
which is intended for the general benefit
of the public at large and that the city of
Washington should not be permitted TO
do so. Others admit that it is the duty of
Congress to appropriate money to secure
access by railroad TO the Capitol of the
nation for its own convenience, growth
and future prosperity. They express
fear that with too much enterprise the
city of Washington will be bankrupt and
that Congress will ultimately be called
on to appropriate money to pay its liabil-
tiles for such Improvements. This it ap-
pears would be no great detriment, if it is
the duty Of Congress to appropriate di-
rectly for the purpose. Some Senators
who oppose the sanction admit that the
wide streets and avenues OF the Capitol
are made for the nation and the nation
should pay all expenses concerning them
and not allow the city to be bankrupted
by raising money to improve them, as
they declare would soon be the case if it
were not for the financial ability of our
present Governor Cooke. From all this


it may be fairly deduced that at last we
have in our city an enterprising people
who are straining every nerve and using
all their money and talent that can be
spared for the improvement and orna-
mentation of the Capitol. Why then
should not Congress hold up their hands
in the good work, and not only encour-
age them in all valuable enterprise but
second them in their laudable efforts by
appropriating money for national park
to conform to the city Improvements
along the canal and Government grounds
from the Botanic Gardens to the Poto-
mac. This would be an improvement
worthy Of the American Capitol.


RHODE ISLAND STATE ELECTION.


The Rhode Island State election yes
terday has resulted in the election of the
entire Republican State ticket, except
perhaps, Lieutenant Governor Pardon
w. Stevens against whom there was a
special issue made because of his alleged
connection with trap fishing. He is prob
ably defeated by Chas. r. Cutler, Dem
ocrat. About three thousand Democrats
had their poll taxes paid for the first
time in two or three years for the special
purpose Of defeating the unpopular can
didate of the Republicans for Lieutenant
Governor. 1t is supposed here that most
of the poll tax of the Democrats was paid
by Republicans who did not ask the nom
ination of Stevens. At last, therefore,
there is a chance for the Democracy to
trot out their growing cock and to claim
small victory in the smallest of all the
Gtafao
Year: 1872

Instructions have to-day been given by the Acting
Secretary of the Treasury to the Collector Of Customs
at New York, in resumption Of practice which formerly
existed at that port, TO permit entry upon duplicate
invoice in where the goods arrive in advance Of
the invoice properly certified TO by the Consul In many
the goods shipped in advance OF the certified
invoice, and, II the entry by pro Ord invoice not
allowed the effect to the goods 10 be sent to
the General Order store 10 await the receipt OF the
tfed invoice else TO have them all sent TO the public
store for examination and appraisement.


The official gazette OF the Patent Office, January
June 1872 inclusive sent out without the ustra-
tons. BY clause the Deficiency BILL Congress pro-
vded for the publication Of phootbographc copies Of
the drawings OF each patent issued subsequent Jan
uary l. 1874 and the Patent Office has engaged In
bringing up illustrations for the back numbers. Yes
terday the first eleven numbers TO accompany the
responding numbers, were sent out, leaving sixteen
be issued to complete the set 10 the close Of the
past fiscal year. The illustrations for the year
will 90 out with the etterpress portion OF the work.
which they belong about two weeks after the date
of the issue of the patent the interval being occupied
the reproduction OF the drawings. The edition
Nine copies furnished 10 each member OF Congress,
and mailed from the office 10 such persons within their
district as they may designate. Patent agents and
Others furnished copies at the regular subscription
price OF S. IL expected that by the 1st OF September
oil the back work Will be up, and the publication go
regularly.
Year: 1872

The GRAET HAIR PRoDUcER.-Hair Oils,
Pomatums and Pomades have had their day
They belong to the musty past. Nobody that
understands the chemistry of the hair and the
philosophy of its growth thinks of using them.
Instead of cloggiDg the pores of the scalp with
thick onguents, and thus obstructing the in
sensible perspiration which is essential to the
health of the fibers, we now tone the surface of
the head with an invigorating application
which peneuates to the roots of the hair and
stimulates them in the same way that the fer
tlizing agents spread over the meadows slim
ulate the grass roots and cause the blades to
spring up in myriads, coating the earth with
verdure. The invigorant best adapted to this
purpose is LYoN's KATHAIRoN. 1t may well be
called the fertilizer Of the head. To the barren
scalp it communicates vegetative power. If
the hair is dropping out or becoming dry and
withered, it arrests the process of dilapidaton
blight. The hair thickens and becomes glossy
and flexible under its genial operation, and as
dressing it is unapproached by any prepara-
ton that has yet been laid on the toilet of
Fashion. oct13eodlw&w1t
Year: 1872

Here is a specimen of Georgian personal
Journalism: "Gorman of the Talbotton Stand
ard, has returned from his European tour.
The current report is that he has bought the
Cathedral at Milan for printing Office, and
will have it at once removed to this country.
He says he has been all through Norweeia
and those foreign countries, and likes them
John talks French with great freedom and
vigor, and it is probable that the Standard
will hereafter be published in that language ,,


The Chicago Post thus frees its mind
about the Cincinnati Exposition: ''There is
to be Cincinnati Exposition in 1873. A
Cincinnati exposition is a big show, in which
he shopkeepers and manufacturCr' remove
their stocks to barn, and invite all the pee
pie of the region round about to come in and
pay 70 the privilege Of looking at what they
can see for nothing at any other time. The
arrangement works so well that the wonder is
they don't run it all the time. They have a
building that accommodates all the business
men of the town, and by keeping it open the
year through they could save rent on sepaI-
ate stores
Year: 1872

The first chapter in a Western novel has
the following: GAN of a sudden the girl con-
tinued to sit on the sand gazing on the briny
deep, on whose heaving bosom the tall ships
went merrily by freighted-ah! who can tell
with how much of joy and sorrow, and pine
and lumber and emigrants and hopes and
salt fish,
Year: 1872

There are several ways of conducting now
a-days when one is rejected by sweetheart.
1t is tolerably fashionable to shoot her first
and then commit suicide. In these circum-
stances, however, there is always doubt as
to the effect of the shot; and it is mortifying
to have the mortality one-sided. Another
way is simply to shoot the lady, but this is
selfish and likely to be followed by unpleasant
consequences. Perhaps as good way as any
is that adopted by Henry Quackenbush, a
Hackensach youth of seventeen, who last
Friday visited his sweetheart, of about the
same age, exclaimed tragically, "Dost yet re-
cant"' and being answered no, shot himself
in her presence. He accomplished the thing
sojudiciously as to produce no fatal result
and he is now the rising star OF hackeh-
sack.
Year: 1872

Those resolute women who go out on the
frontiers to live are not to be trifled with
when they get there. A married man in
Idaho tried the little experiment OF eloping
with fascinating young girl, and his indig-
nant wife pursued and overlook him, and hav-
ing administered a severe castigation bore
him home in triumph.
Year: 1872

A contemporary tells of the discovery of
set of burglars tools concealed under apples
which were evidently intended to be used in
a bank robbery. Of whatuse would apples
be in bank robbery?
Year: 1872

There are many people, now growing old,
who are more deeply touched by some simple
hymn tune which they heard in their youth,
than by all the operatic selections which
could be offered them.
Year: 1872

1t is understood that Mrs. Laura Fair will
lecture during the coming winter upon sob
stacles to Conjugal Fidelity" Mrs. Fair is
lady whose theories derive great authority
from the force of her example.
Year: 1872

A man living at Franklin Cross Roads, KY,
has been tobacco chewer for fifty years, and
still all his teeth are sound and firm. He
wants to know what the anti-tobacco chew
ers are going to do about it.
Year: 1872

We are not very bright after all. Think of
the years elapsed and the fingers jammed and
the knuckles excoriated and the toes excruci-
ated and luggage crushed by the banging and
tossing of trunks before the man was born
who was to hit upon the simple expedient of
mounting them on wheels or casters.
Year: 1872

A Baltimore girl stole watch the other
day for fun and tried to sell it for cash. The
man from whom she took it was thick
headed fellow, who couldn't appreciate the
joke any more than the frogs in the fable, and
had her arrested.
Year: 1872

GRAVES ~ THE DE>ERr.-N llllam -
Bryant's book of travels in the Orient has
recently been published. The following Is
an account Of an Arab burial-place in the
desert, on the way fnom Alexandria to
Jerusalem


E. Even in this desert i felt the instinct
which prompts Us to beautify the resting
places OF the dead Tne region produces
a liliaceous plant with large bulb, aud
large. thick leaves, Of a deep green color
Bunches of these were planted at the head
and foot Of many Of the graves. \ slngu-
lar custom, I perceive prevails here OF
laving the garment. Of the dead on the
ground above them. At the head of one
of the graves lay wOman's blue cotton
dress, as fresh, almost IN appearance, as if
1t had iuSt come from the loom | remark
ed several articles of male attire, some OF
them much decayed By the length of time
they had remained on the ground. On one
poor fellow grave lay only his thrump
cap. probably the sole part OF his raiment
which was thought in fl condition 10 serve
as his monument. The grave Of a child
fixed nv attention, at each end Of which
tutt Of the plant | have already mentioned
was growing freshly, and between them lay
little garment Of blue cotton, and another
Of white with crimson stripe running
through il. Near by. aud probably drag
ged away by the iacSals, was the skin Of
a lamb, with soft, silky fleece, which had
formed the child's outer garment in winter.
Ireplaeed I II on the grave, and could not
help thinking how tenderly, to Judge by
these tokens, that child must have been
cherished. and that, when it was carried
out dead from the humble abode of It's
parents. their low brown tent pitched on
the green >ward. the heart Of its mother
must have been pierced 10y a sorrow as
sharp as Is felt at such los. in the most
civilized country
Year: 1872

In tine recent raid Of the county grand
Jurors, at Woodstock, upon those persons
suspected OF violating the liquor law in
Windsor county--Inuch sickness was found
70 exist among the witnesses summoned TO
ride in the cold, windy weather u that beau
tifuI place so far inland and cut off from rail-
road communication with tie rest of the
world Some were sick and did Dot 70, 9TH
ers were more i'll alter they got there. The
States Attorney mildly remarked that there
were many Of the most obstinate evidences of
want of memory in individuals taking the
oath. 70 tell the truth and the whole truth.
than ever before came to his knowledge and
did not the personal appearance of the wit
nesses, in some cases, prove TO the contrary, ne
should be led 10 believe that the entire peo-
ple cf Windsor county were all consistent
sons OF Temperance, good templar- or tee
totalcrs
Year: 1872

True to the prognostics of the buffalo, whose
migration we recently noticed, Winter has
made it's boisterous debut. We can now no
longer speak Of


The pale, descending year. yet pleasing still,
and must resign ourselves to his ''stern, icy
breath, intensely keen" Old and hoary-
headed as he is, his arrival is always subject
of interest and speculation is ever rife as to
the probable severity and length Of his vista
tion In the grand climatic cycles Of the
worlds history the variations of these condi-
tions have played no unimportant part in
determining the destiny Of men and nations.
In 1858 the great frost king, by bridging the
Baltic Sea with solid ice, enabled Charles K,
with his whole army, to make safe and deci-
sive march across it for his invasion Of Den
mark. In December 1895, by sealing up the
seas which wash the shores of Holland base
of operations and an encampment on the ice
was furnished the French army, and thereby
the fate of the nation sealed. It has also often
been well remarked that the Russian Winter
of 1912 was the first death-blow to Napoleon's s
fortunes.


Without wishing to divine the Winter now
impending, it may be instructive to note that
the computations Of the greatest living scien-
fists give us some general idea of its probable
character The severest and most intense
frost seasons have long since been demon
strated to recur in supra-annual cycles of
eleven years. Responsive to the mysterious
vertical spots which freckle the face of the
sun and have been compared to terrestrial
cyclones, the temperature Of our planet is ex-
posed to the passage of vast cosmical heat
wave, followed closely by cold wave, coin
cident respectively, with the increase and
decrease of the sun-spot cycle. Depending
upon the results of the most carefully OBJ
served eleven year periods the conclusion now
reached by physicists is that we passed through
the centre of cold wave of minimum tenn
perature last Winter and are now just emerg-
ing from it. The inference would in this case
be that we may anticipate severe, early Win
ter, but one of moderate duration and declin-
ing rigor 1t should be added, however, that
there has been noticed one variation from
the rule, which was very marked, and
occurred in 1885, which occu-
pied a relation to the cold wave precisely
similar to that occupied by 1928 to the
cosmical phenomenon Of last year. In the
Winter of 1856 the Hudson River was
closed to navigation one hundred and twenty
five days-the longest ice-blockade which oc-
Cured in period Of fifty years. If the law
of climatic cycles now announced by meteor
ologists holds good we shall have another
severe and protracted Winter about 1879, but,
by parity of reasoning, it is possible and
probable we may expect in the latter part Of
the Winter great precipitation of snow and un-
usually severe storms. At any rate every
endeavor should be made to supply the poorer
classes of the country with abundance of oc-
cupation, that they may have it in their
power to avert the calamities Of the season.
While with reason hoping for the best, let
every one prepare for the worst.