smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1871

An omnibus will be in waiting till half past
seven o'clock tomorrow morning in front of the
NJ. Z. Church South to carry all persons to
fountain Head who wish TO go out and pre-
pare their camps and the grounds for the camp
meeting which commences next week,
Year: 1871

VIII, in from one to twenty minutes afford ease and
comfort, and this medicine, rapid in stopping pain
can be purchased for fifty cents per bottle at almost
every druggists and country merchants store on this
continent and within one hours distance of almost
every habitatiOn in the United States
Year: 1871

A eon,cmplativc genius estimates that If
Bringham Young wore an additional weed
on his hat every time he lost a wife or a
mothcr-in law, he would be now wearing
a haf just twenty seven miles high.
Year: 1871

Gp"A a CHILD WAS BORN on the
steamer Fort Gibson on the last trip out
from Little Rock. The parents were i'm
migrants and got off at Roseville. Eve
ry attention, possible, for the comfort OF
the mother was shown by the officers OF
the boat, who insisted that this "lord
and MASTER should go on up and re-
turn without expensc) before getting
off in the night in such a storm-but per-
suasion was Of no avail, time was OF
more importance to him. than the life OF
wife and child. And when we reflect
that it was in terrible cold snow storm
the landing was made at Roseville and
that the only shelter for them was cold
cotton shed, without warmth or fire, we
cannot but think him q monster in hui
man form. The State is cursed enough
without the immigration Of any such
men. The nurse not decming it prudent
to launch the little stranger out without
name, called it "FoRr GIBSON"
Year: 1871

rT Large transfers of real estate have
been made in this city, during the last
week. One block, containing twelve lots
sold at two hundred dollars per lot; and
one block, containing sixteen lots, solo
at one hundred and fifty dollars per lot
The certainty Of the early completion
of the Railroad, is creating demand fol
city lots.
Year: 1871

eyes, certainly did not feud to raise my
spirits.


BY this time was nearly paralyzed
through sheer exhaustion, and felt but too
surely that endurance had reached Its
limits. One more terrible struggle, and
alas! my plight was worse than ever
Noises as of thousand cannon were ring
ing in my ears, and | fancied that blood
was starting from my mouth and nostrils.
Will you believe me when | say that !
was literally in cold sweat?


At this crisis, when | had made up my
mind for the worst, it occurred to me that,
lit | could not rise, | might be able to
walk or creep below water, and thus man.
age to reach the brink which was no great
distance.


1t was a heaven-sent inspiration and
acted on without a moments delay.
found to my Joy that there was no hind
rance whatever to this mode of progress
sion, and crawling along the bottom like a
crab, IN less than twenty seconds my drip
ping head emerged from the treacherous
bath, and was once more respiring the
warm summer air | was saved


Throwing myself on the grass with
unutterable thank kfulness, / rested for a
few minutes, aud then deliberately waded
IN again to recover the shoes and stockings
had left behind, which was easily accom-
pllshed 50 you see, my friends, that with
perseverance, some things may be done as
well as others"


Now gentlemen, why was it that
could not rise or swim in that water


The dashing of the torrent had raised
% many foam bells, and so iniItrated a
denser element with air, that the specific
gravity of the water was totally changed.
and [ might as soon have attempted to
float on oil or champagne, as on that
sparkling current.


The strongest fish that ever swan the
ocean would be powerless to rise from the
abyss of Niagara,
Year: 1871

SAIr-ITS EFFECT oN THE BLooD.-Dr.
Stevens, a French physician and surgeon.
saw butcher killing pig. He observed
that he stirred the bio OF the animal
aud added handful of common salt to it
while stirring, which Immediately made it
crimson, and if stirring be discontinued,
the blood remained fluid. The change of
the color Of the blood awakened his curios-
ity. The butcher could give no explana-
ton of the phenomenon except that it
kept it from jellying and spelling Dr.
Stevens seized a vessel, caught some blood,
and made several experiments by putting
salt in it, and found that the blackest blood
was instantly changed to a bright vermil-
lion by salt Oh, said he, here is a
fact which may lead to a practical rule


He had observed in cases of yellow fe-
yer IN the army, that the blood drawn
was very black and fluid, and on adding
salt it became vermillion and retained its
freshness, whereas putridity Of the blood
is one OF the characteristics of the yellow
fever He therefore abandoned the usual
mode of treating 1t, and gave his patients
mixture of various salts, and in a very
short time reduced the mortality of fever
in the West Indies from one in FIVE to one
in fifty.
Year: 1871

How UGLINEss BECOMES BEAUTIFUL
4 beautiful face is one Of Gods beautifnl
works but He has made more beautiful
things. We shall see, may be, in our
travel OF to-morrow-you or I-some an
gular-taced woman of youthful but uncer-
tain age, in gold-bowed glasses perhaps,
and shall say at the first cruel glance (you
or /. } Good gracious. what woman to
live with = An old gentleman her atten-
dant goes haItingy TO the place beside
her-and there i such touching and deli
cate attention on her part to every want of
his-such grace of action-such tender,
eager, yet not ofiicious or presuming watch
fulness-tbat you cannot keep your eyes
from her, ugly though she be and the face
of the old gentleman grows radiant as it
turns towards her. and you perceive him
to be under such abiding charm as her low
musical voice falls on his that. little
by little, even as you look, the angularities
melt away into the fine flowing lines and
the h0melv text of her face, hour BY hour,
aud feature by feature, grows luminous
with a sweet deep meaning, that is subtle
and penetrating in its influence as beauty
itself And if an hour of on-look can
work such TRANSPORTATION and make one
blind to any possible crabbedness of text
by reason of the sweet meaning it carries.
how shall it be with the reading of a
month or a wear, or q life ?-Do7lald G.
/ MITCHELL
Year: 1871

LOVE- AND RELIGION N CoSFuCT.-A
very curious case of the conflict of love
with religion is just now before the New


York courts 4 pretty Jcwess loved a
Christian, too well certainly, and then in


sisted on his turning Jew and marrying
her He was ready to marry, indeed
eager, but he would not change his relig-
ion. There did bot appear to be very
much of his Christianity, but what there
was he insisted upon keeping Thereupon
she turned about, sued him for seduction,
and had him in the Ludlow street jail,
and now insists either on his money or his
faith He still holds on these points,
though ready to forgive her for her per-
secution, and marry her at sight. if she
viii have him as he is 1t would seem as
if her religious scruples should have com
menced a little earlier; yet she is not the
first person in this world who has put his
or her religion above his or her character
Year: 1871

How TO SpELL.-Often, in writing, a
simple word is required. of the orthography
of which the writer IS not sure The die
tionary may be referred to, but it is not
always convenient. An easy mode is to
write the word on piece of waste paper
in two or three ways OF which you
are in doubt. Nine times in ten, the
mode which looks right is right Spell
lag, particularly English spelling, is so
completely a work of the eye, that the eye
alone should be trusted. There is no rea-
son why receive and believe should be
spelled differently, yet sounded alike in
their second syllables Yet write them
receive and believe and the eve shows
you the mistake at once. The best way
for young people, and, indeed, people of
any age, TO learn to spell is to practice
writing. Cobbett taught his children
grammar by requiring that they should
copy their lessons two or three times.
These lessons he himself gave them in the
form of letters and his French and En-
glish grammars are two of the most anus
ing books in the English language. Of
course learning to spell came in inciden-
tally.
Year: 1871

EPIDBMIcs AND Misunderstanding
to DIR. Ransome, bronchitis and catarrh
are most common in winter, and diarrhea
in summer. rheumatic fever, although
rather more frequent in winter than in
summer, may come on at any time, but is
commonest in autumn. That scarlrtina is
never entirely absent, aud usually is most
prevalent in autumn, and least so in dry
summer months. Measles is essentially a
disease of winter and spring. Whooping-
cough, too, is, on the whole, more prevail
ent in cold than in warm weather Ty-
phus fever is rare during the frost of win
Ter, and the number of cases is low in ear
ly summer.
Year: 1871

EXTRAORDINARY WAGER.-A London
paper says wager once came off, the
terms Of which were as follows 8 [ will
bet any man el00 that lie cannot make
million strokes with pen and ink within a
month They we're not to be mere dots
or scratches. but fair d0wnstrokes, such as
form the child frs lesson in writing. A
gentleman accepted the challenge. The
month allowed was the lunar month. of
only twenty-eight days-so that Tor the
completion OF the undertaking, an average
of $4,000 strokes per diem was required. 1.
This, at sixty per minute, or $500 per
hour-and neither the human intellect nor
the human hand can be expected t. do
more-woud call for ten hours labour in
every twenty-four. With a proper feeling
of the respect due to the observance ofthe
Sabbath, he determined to abstain from
his work on Sundays; and by this deter
mination he diminished by four days the
period allowed him-at the same time, by
80 doing, he increased the daily average
Of his strokes to upwards otforty one thou
sand. On the first day he executed about
fifty thousand str0kes-on the second
nearly as many But at length, after
many days. his hand became stiff and
weary, the wrist swollen. and without in
terrupting It's progress over the paper, it
required the almost constant attendance
OF some as-iduous relative or friend to be-
sprinkle It, with 4 lotion calculated to re-
lieve and invigorate it. On the twenty
third day the million strokes. exceeded by
some few thousands to make assurance
doubly sure were accomplished-and the
piles of paper that exhibit them testify
that to the courageous heart, the willing
hand, and the energetic mind nothing is
impossible. These interesting papers are
not placed in the archives of the Royal
Society, OF which their author is a fellow,
but were claimed and received by the
person who paid the wager
Year: 1871

Rainbows ia the morning, seen in the
west, toreshadow the approach of cloud
Of rain from the west, and when seen in
the evening show clearing up in the
west. They have given rise to the popu-
lar prognostic
Year: 1871

Premier Gladstone informed the British
House of Commons yesterday, in reply to
parliamentary question, that during the
sittings Of the Joint High Commission in
Washington ''any difficulties arising are to
be referred by the English officials to the home
government by cable telegram report for
treatment, and that the Cabinet in
structions will be g returned the same
way" This executive announcement by the
Prime Minister of England constitutes in
itself one of the most splendid attestations Of
the power of science in promoting friendly
international communion among the peoples Of
the Earth. The intelligence comes in pleasing
verifcation of the HERALDs anticipations Of
such result anticpations which we put
forward the very day after the first success Of
the cable and since. Mr.. Gladstone assures
us, in other words, that ''red tape" viii be
formally consumed by electricity; a consum-
nation which will have the most civilizing
efects-a fitting tribute to the genius Of
Franklin.
Year: 1871

vestlgation advised by General Grant and
proposed by Senator Morton and ordered by
the Senate-the investigation which Mortons
committee Is now prosecuting into the alleged
political atrocities of the Southern Ku Klux
Klans. Morton is gathering the materials
from which budget of Ku Klux outrages
will be compiled of frightful character, in
tended to show that the spirit of the rebellion
is still burning in the South and that the
Northern democracy are still in sympathy
with it, and that the common object of the
democratic party, North and South, is to
upset and abolish the whole reconstruction
policy of Congress and to repudiate the ma
tional debt and to restore the ''constitutien as
il was and as 1t was construed under Bu-
chanan.


And what course will the democratic party
pursue against this attack along the whole
line? If they act wisely they will follow the
example Of Tammany Hail. and with a stronger
accent, in frankly recognizing fixed facts, and
In dropping these dead issues of the war-or
which, if not dead, only need the consent of
the democratic party to make them so. But
there are still some powerful copperhead influ-
ences over the party, here and there and every
where, ready to resume their worse than use
less fight Of 1868 and 1864 on reconstruction,
the everlasting nigger and State sovereignty.
Nor have we, except from General Blair,
had any iat-footed, honest recognition, SO far,
from any democratic Legislature, convention,
conventicle, leader, orator or newspaper organ
Of the validity Of this fifteenth amendment.
General Grant and Senator Morton, then, have
fine opening before them for the arraignment
Of the democratic party before the people as
revolutionary party, which, in its elevation to
power, will restore the constitution of the
Dred Scott decision, repudiate the national
debt, as an act Of justice to the South-the
Southern war debt being already repudiated-
and leave the Southern States each to regulate
their niggers as they may think fit. This ar
raignment Of the democratic party, we believe,
is in preparation by and with the advice and
consent Of General Grant, and the safest way
for the democracy is to meet it at once by fol-
lowing the lead of General Blair on the fifteenth
amendment, and by going little further in
recognizing reconstruction, constitutional
amendments, negro civil equality and negro
suffrage as the logical and fixed results of the
war.
Year: 1871

The Proposed Grand Parade GrOuuds


A bill has been presented in the Legislature
to authorize the establishing Of grand mill
tary parade ground, Champ de Mars, in the
city Of New York. The idea is a good one,
and will meet necessity that has long ex-
isted The First division Of the New York
State militia require some ample field upon
which to exercise their evolutiens without
being obliged to cross the river and entering
the corporate limits of our little cousin Brook
lyn for the purpose. But while we ac-
knowledge the propriety Of the undertaking
we cannot help warning the Legislature against
allowing any corrupt jobbery to creep into the
business. No doubt property in the vicinity
of the proposed parade ground will be en-
hanced in value, no matter where 1t may be
created but the Legislature should sur
round the law with such safeguards as will
prevent spectators from having full swing in
the premises. The purchase and preparation
Of the ground for the object contemplated will
probably be entrusted to the charge Of the
Department of Public Parks-a board COM
posed of gentlemen in whose integrity the pub
lie can repose reasonable amount OF conf
deuce. But even let this board beware of
temptation, and do the work In manner that
will reflect credit upon themselves and prove
lasting honor and attraction Of the metropo-
lis Of the nation The sum Of three millions
is amply sufficient to be appropriated for the
purpose, and that amount we believe the
people Of the State as well as Of the city will
be willing to have appropriated when they
realize the grandeur Of the design as well as the
practical benefit to be derived from the object
in view.
Year: 1871

The CONGRESSIONAL BIGAMtsr. The jury in
the case Of Congressman Bowen, charged with
bigamy before the Criminal Court in Washing
ton, failed to agree upon verdict, and were
discharged. They stoed eleven for conviction
and one for acquittal. A very tight squeeze
for Bowen. Yet, on reviewing the testimony
and reaectiag upon The amount Of wiful per-
jury put in as evidence for the defence, ii is
strange that the jury did not promptly and
unanimously agree upon verdict OF guilty.
A clearer case Of bigamy was never made out,
and Bowen will, it is reported he again tried
for the offence charged.
Year: 1871

Republic.


The result of the voting yesterday in Bor-
deaux among the representatives for President
of the National Assembly was nearly unani-
mously in favor of the election of NJ. Grevy to
that position. NJ Grevy, as the sketch published
in another part Of the HERALD this morning
will show, has all his lifetime been republi-
cannot one of those rabid democrats of
which Flourens, Gambetta and Rochefort are
types He was nevertheless bold and de-
termined opponent of kingly rule and imperial
despotism, and firm believer in the rights of
the people and the right of fthe people to choose
the form of government under which they
desired to be governed. These were his views
long years ago, his openly avowed principles
Immediately before the fall of the empire, and
it is scarcely probable that in the period which
has elapsed between those times and the present
that his sentiments have undergone change.
AT all events he has been and is known as a
republcan-and bold one-throughout
France, and his election as President of the
National Assembly by vote OF five hundred
and nineteen out Of five hundred and thirty
eight votes indicates that strong republican
feeling pervades the whole body. When the
returns were first received il looked as though
the Orleanists possessed a strength which
was not expected. The Orleanist candidates
made a respectable show, but the news from
Bordeaux, which we publish this morning,
alters the aspect OF affairs. In con-
nection with this news we also learn that NJ


Thiers is universally regarded throughous
France as the coming man for President of
the Freach republic, and jules Favre as
the probable Premier. The names of other
distinguished men besides NJ. Favre are men
toned for members of the republican Cabinet.
Among them we fail to notice the names of
any of the radicals of the Gambetta stripe of
republicanism. This is hopeful sign, and
shows conclusively that the sober thought of
the people is not influenced by the glitter of
the empty boastiDgs of men, who, unable to
control themselves, sought TO rule the destnes
ofa great nation. 1t would not, after ALL be sur
rrising to see France rise from her prostration
and assume her position among the nations of
the Earth, not as an empire nor as monarchy,
but as a great and powerful republic If so,
the many sacrifices, the noble struggles, the
grand heroism which throughout the war
France made. with fortune against her, will
not have been altogether in vain. German
SUCCESSES made Germany an empire will
French humiliation prove but the precursor Of
the establishment of republic in France?
Year: 1871

THE SPUYTEN DUYvIL DISASTER.
ever mystery there may be clouding the
story Of the New Hamburg slaughter-and
there seems to be good deal of doubt as to
who was responsible, or whether any one was
responsible for the horrible catastrophe-the
recent accident on the Hudson River Railroad
at Spuyten Duyvil is not open to any doubt
concerning the party who is directly charge
able with gross neglect aud indifference.
If the facts as alleged be true the conductor
Of the passenger train permitted the cars to
stand upon the trestle bridge without taking
any precaution to signal the train coming to
Yonkers-which he must have known was fol-
lowing him--that his cars were disabled and
standing on the track in this most precarisus
position. We say if this fact can be proven
upon investigation there will be no difficulty
in fixing the blame where it belongs. A man
who could be so entirely Indifferent to his
duty and so reckless of the lives entrusted to
his charge should not be placed in position
of responsibility. What, therefore, shall we
say Of the company which employs such men?
Certainly the prior responsibility rests with
them
Year: 1871

The WATER SUPPLY BILL passed in the
Assembly yesterday, and the mighty hunter
Tweed rejoiced much thereat in his parlors at
the hotel. fit be true, as stated, that he has
no job in this Lake Gilead measure whatever.
but that be sells the much needed additional
pure water to the city at dead sacrifice OF
something less than it cost him, he enjoys
philanthropy more heartily than anybody we
know Of
Year: 1871

Light is a necessity. The invention of
gas marked an era in the history OF the
world. But the discovery of the gas
whereof w. B. Bowman, No. 50 Camp street,
is agent, causes this light to be almost as
universal and as cheap as the sun itself
The operation is perfect, and can be seen
nightly at the office. 1t is managed with
little trouble, costs trife, is cheaper than
a rush light, brilliant as sunlight, is at
tended with but little or no smoke, and in
the race between the coal gas and this for
popularity it is ere long destined to win.
Year: 1871

A North Carolina editor thus congratu-
lates newly married couple: Beautiful
and bright as summer morn dream be
their pathway through life! Glad as the
throbbing of angel music in empyrean
space be the lives of these choice spirits"
Corn juice nusthave been plenty at that
weddinO
Year: 1871

Hon. Newton Booth said in q recent
speech that if he is elected Governor of
California he shall regard it as contract
with the people in which his faith is
pledged to serve for the full term, and that
nothing shall tempt him to accept the
United States senatorship or any other of
fee If offered him.
Year: 1871

Mrs. Swisshelm says that no woman is fit
to be wife and mother until she knows
more of the laws of life, of health and dis
ease, than one in five of our practicing
who band together to hide and
defend their own ignorance by preventing
the education of. those most interested in
discovering it.
Year: 1871

The Nes0 England Medical Gazette says:
@Aa old lady followed up an Episcopal
bishop, SIS he travelled through his diocese,
and was confirmed several times before she
was deteeted. She wished the ordinance
repeated because she had understood it was
good for the rheumatism
Year: 1871

The Richmond Enquirer is tie organ of
Democracy IN Virginia, and to it we put
these questions direct, and respectfully ask
Oft reply without any evasion whatever: !:
Is THERE NOT IN THIS CITY SECRET
POLITICAL ORGANIZATIONS OF THE
CONSERVATIVE PARTY WHICH FIX
CLUDES ALL CATHOLICS FROM MEM
BERSHIP? Do not these organizations
control all party action IN SECRET and
do they not SO manipulate party matters as
to render outside and independent action
utterly worthless and of no effect?


Are not these councils, clubs, societies,
or by whatever name known, endorsed,
and their action concur, lied in or counte-
nanced, by the City Central Committee, or
such a majority thereof, as controls The ac-
ton of the party in this city?


If these societies do exist, VIII the En-
quaer tell us the difference between the
Conservative party of to-day and the
Know-Nothing party of the past?


We pause for a reply. We make the
charge, and ask the Enquirer if it can
deny it?
Year: 1871

For the information of the Alexandria
Standard and Sentinel, we will state that
sickness in the family of Colonel Edward
Daniels has prevented him from giving his
personal attention to the editorial columns
of this paper for several weeks, and that
he is NOT the author of the article headed
Confession From the Galows,' and that
the author is NOT "a man who comes
down here from the North" but, ON the
contrary, a lifelong Virginian, of no little
reputation, both as writer and defender
of Republican principles. The best of all
is, that he generally defends what he says
in speech or print.


We say this much in order that justice
may be done Colonel Daniels in the district
in which he resides.