smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1871

Senator Buckingham presented in
the Senate, on Thursday, memorial
against woman suffrage, and said more
than ten thousand of the most refined
and respectable women in the country
have signified to Congress their unwil-
hngness to have the responsibilities of
suffrage forced upon them. This pro-
test contains the names of many of the
most respected, talented and influential
women of the country. Unlocking over
the list, find that [ know many of
them. They are not manly women, but
women of good sense, and their iudg-
ment is entitled to consideration. They
don't say anything about the abstract
rights of suffrage, but they say that
having already their full share of the
burdens and responsibilities of life,


they fear that others more bold than
they may succeed in having imposed
upon them other burdens and respon-
sibilities unsuited to them, and there
fore they ask Congress to protect them
from these dangers. They say that
the extension of suffrage to them will
be adverse to the interests of working
women; that it viii introduce fruitful
element of discord into the existing
marriage relation, and that it will be
fraught with danger to the general good
order of the country. I sympathize
with them. see no possible good that
can arise by the extension of suffrage
to women-beneftt to them or the coun-
Year: 1871

SIR EDWARD SABINE has been engag-
ed for quarter of century in work
ing up tables and charts which will be
reduction of all that has heen observ-
ed of terrestrial magnetism with a pre-
else system. Alone with his wife, who
is his constant assistant, in quiet re-
treat, he is patiently doing work of
formidable proportions which attracts
no public attention but which will be
of exceeding value to science when
complete and two years yet of this Sc
we're toll viii be required before it will
be finished.
Year: 1871

As the mail stage from Rockland TO
Belfast, Maine, was passing Rockport,
recently, large hog that was in the
road rushed at the team, caught the
leaders hind leg in his mouth and bit
it severely, tearing the flesh and ten
dons in such manner as to ruin the
horse. The stage people intend to
make claim upon the owner of the
hog for the value of the horse.
Year: 1871

The following poem, written by sIrs. Sophia P
Snow, is of the most exquisitely touching and
beautiful that have read. 1t cannot fail to
reach the hearts of all who peruse it, besides being
peculiarly appropriate to the holidays:
Year: 1871

By remarkable coincidence, some
where about the very time that the
count, whose real name, as you may
see, was Accountant, died and left a
daughter, count who a0as a noble
man, born and bred, died and left a
son. This took place in neighboring
country, but not far off, as we shall
soon see. This count had also reduced
himself to poverty; and when he came
TO die, he called his soon to his bed
side and said:


"My dear boy, my great fault has
been want of thriftiness. [ grieve to
say that [ have nothing in the world
to leave you but silver penny, which
7 coniure you to put in a savings bank,
so that it may grow more and more"
Year: 1871

Few hOuskeepers are aware of the
many uses to which waste paper
may be put. After stove has been
blacked it can be kept looking very
well for long time by rubbing with
paper every morning. Rubbing
with paper is n much nicerway of
keeping the outside of tea-kettle,
cofee-pot, teapot bright ard clean
than the old way Of washing them
in suds. Rubbing with paper is al
so the best way of polishing knives
and tin-ware and spoons; they shine
like new silver. For polishing mir
rors, windows, lamp chimneys, etc,
paper is better than dry cloth. Pre-
serve and pickles keep much bet,
ter if brown paper instead Of cloth
is tied over the jar. Canned fruit
is not so apt to mould If a piece of
writing paper, cut to fit the can, is
laid directly on the fruit. Paper is
much better to put under a carpet
than straw. It is warmer, thinner,
and makes less noise whenone walks
over it. Two thicknesses of paper
placed between other coverings on
q bed are as warm as a quilt. If it
is necessary to step upon a chair,
always lay a paper upon it, and
thus save the paint or wood work
from damage.
Year: 1871

Avoid reading by candle or other
artificial light.


Reading by twilight ought never
to be INDUCED in. A safe rule is
never to read after sundown or be-
fore sunrise.


Do not allow yourself to read
moment in a reclining position,
whether in a bed or on a sofa.


The practice of reading while on
horseback, or in any vehicle in no
tion by wheels, is most pernicious.


Reading on steam or sailing YES
sells should not be largely INDUCED
in, because the slightest motion of
the page or your body alters the fo-
cal point and requires a painful
straining effort to re-adiust it.


The glare Of the sun on water is
very injurious to the sight.


A sudden change between bright
light and darkness is always perni-
ciOus.


In looking at minute objects re
lieve the eye frequently by turning
them to something in the distance.


Let the light, whether artificial
or natural, fall on the page from be
hindor a little to one side.


Every parent should peremptori-
ly forbid all sewing by candle light
especially On dark material.


Ifthe eyes are matted together af-
ter sleeping, the most instantaneous
and agreeable solvent in nature is
the application Of the saliva with
the fingers before opening the eye.
Never pick it Off with the fager nail,
but wash it Off with the ball Of the /
finger in quite warm water.


Never battle or open the eyes /
with cold water. 1t always is the +
safest, best and most agreeable to /
use warm water far that purpose
over seventy degrees.
Year: 1871




Young folks should be mannerly.
How to be so is the question. Many
a good girl and boy feel that they
can't behave to suit themselves in
the presence of company. They
feel timid, bashful and self-listrust-
ful the moment they are addressed
by stranger or appear in company.
There is but one way to get over
this feeling, and acquire easy and
graceful manners; that is, to do the
best they can all the time at home,
as well as abroad. Good manners
are not learned by arbitrary teach
ing so much as acquired by habit.
They grow upon us by use. We
must be courteous, agreeable, civil,
kind, gentlcmanly and womanly at
home, and then it will become a kind
of second nature to be so every
where. A coarse, rough manner at
nome Degets roughnoss which
we cannot lay off if we try when we
go among strangers. The most a
greeable people we have ever known
in company are those who arc per-
fectly agreeable at home. Home is
the school for all good things cs-
pecially fer good manners.
Year: 1871

Money can buy many things,
good and evil. All the wealth Of
the world cannot buy you a friend,
nor pay you for the loss Of one. Il
have wanted only one thing to make
me happy, but wanting that, have
wanted everything" writes Hazlitt.
We are the weakest Of spendthrifts
if we let one friend drop of through
inattention, or let one push away
another; or if we hold aloof from
one for petty jealousy or needless
slight or roughRess. Would you
throw away a diamond because it
pricked your One good friend is
not to be weighed against the jew
els Of all the earth. Ifthere is cool
ness or unkindne.s between us, let
US come face to face and have it out.
Quick, before love grows coldl-
Life is too short to quarrel in, or to
carry black thoughts Of friends
Year: 1871

sat alone with my conscience,


In place where time had ceased,
And We talked Of my former living


In the land where the years increased,
And felt I should have to answer


The question Il put so me,
And to face the answer and question
Throughout an eternity.
The ghost of forgotten actions


Came floating before my sight,
And things thought were dead things
Were alive with terrible might,
And the vision of all my past life


Was an awful thing to face
Along With my conscience sitting


In that solemnly silent place
And thought of a far away warming
Ola a sorrow that was 60 be mine,
In land that then was the future,


But now il the present time.
And thought Of my present thinking
OF the Judgment day to be.
But sitting aiOne with my conscience
Seemed judgment enough for me.
And wondered if there was future


To tins land beyond the grave,
But no one gave me an answer,


And no Gle came to save.
Then felt that the future was present,
And she present would never 60 by,
For it was but the thought of my past life
Grown into eternity.
Then woke from my timely dreaming,
And the vision PASSED away,
And knew the far away warning,


Was warning of yesterday
And pray that may not forget it,


In this land before tFe grave,
That may not cry in the future,


And no one come to save.
And SO I have learnt a lesson


Which I ought to have known before,
And which though learnt it dreaming,
hope to forget no more.
So sit alone with my conscience


In the place where the years increase,
And TRY to remember the future


In the land where time viii cease;
And I know of the future Judgment,
How dreadful soccer it be,
That to sit alone with my conscience
viii be judgment enough for me.
Year: 1871

If was wrong, then I'm sorry; il
you, then I'm sorrier yet, for should
1 not grieve for my friends misfor-
tune? and the mending Of your fate
does not lie with me. But the for
giving it does, and that is the hap
pier Office. Give me your hand and
call it even. There! it is gone, and
thank kind Heaven keep my dear
friends still! A friend is too pre-
cious a thing to be lightly held, but
it must be a little heart that cannot
find room for more than one or two.
It is easy to lose a friend, but new
one will not always come for calling,
nor make mp for an old one, tried
and true, when he comes.
Year: 1871

A very pretty adjunct to a ladys shop
ping costume Is little Russia leather bag
hung on the hip and slung by belt Of the
same material, 1t Is very convenient for
carrying small parcels, besides being
DTelty
Year: 1871

The meeting in the hall of the House
of Representatives last evening, for the
purpose of giving public reception and
an earnest welcome to Senator Kellogg,
was striking manifestation of the unity
and power of the great Republican party
in this community. TWAS pre-eminently
a meeting of the people, of the represent
ative men and of the rank and file of Re,
publicanism-the republicanism that
knows no difference of race. 1t was a
meeting of both white and colored Re-
publicans, and they assembled with the
common object of manifesting their ap-
probation of the official course of an ap-
proved public servant. The large hall
wherein the meeting took place was
crowded to the utmost, and the enthusi-
asm was intense. The whole course of
the meeting was such as must have
convinced every one present that there
exists strong bond of union in the Re-
publican party that for generations to
come must shape the destinies of the
State of Louisiana in the interests of
peace, of prosperity and of universal
progress,
Year: 1871

General Forrest is the next witness in
favor of the Ku-Klux, and he corroborates
the statements of his confederates that
such an organization never had an exist
ence to his knowledge. The reason of
this is obvious. General Forrest with
drew his spies, couriers and even his
picket guard from the field in order TO
avoid all knowledge of the movements of
the Ku-Klux. There are men who never
know anything on the witness stand be-
cause they refuse to be informed. Gen
eral Forrest thinks that some men have
been killed for the offense of being too
intimate with and too instructive to the
merited death, and the country should
not take any notice of them. Strangers
must not talk to the negroes about wages
and work, although they may. talk to
white men on those subjects day in and
day out. Interlopers must not stir up
discomfort between the employer and his
men on political subjects under penalty
of being considered disturber of the
peace, and worthy of destruction. That
there have been some killings under these
peculiar circumstances General Forrest
admits, but human nature must be held
responsible for their occurrance, and
they ought to be overlooked by the State.
But as to Ku-Klux, the great raider knows
nothing about them, and is sure they have
no existence. 1t is sad to see great man
so very ignorant
Year: 1871

Mr.. Stephens is taking the back track,
having discovered that he put his
foot in trap when he concluded to imi-
tate the grumbling outburst of JEFF Davis.
He apologies to the country by saying
that he did not mean to be violent when
he denounced the constitutional amend
ments as frauds and nullities, but simply
desired to protest that they were liable to
overthrow by legal means. This does not
mend the matter in any perceptible de-
gree, for the explanation merely shifts
the means without altering the intention.
His design is to use a political majority
in the future to overthrow what political
majority has done to-day. When the De-
mocracy has obtained the power it will
exert that power to influence the courts
to undo what is at present accepted as ac-
complished. The Judiciary is to be in
timidated into declaring that to be un-
constitutional which is now accepted as
constitutional. A revolution is to be
wrought by using political forces against
the courts of law. This is what Mr.
Stephens explains to have been his mean
ing, and this is what JEFF Davis said he
meant. Now what does Toombs say?
He went the furthest; will he retreat in
the same degree? Let the reverse oscil-
lation commence.
Year: 1871

If saying shat has come down to us
from antiquity, and which has been hon
ored by the observance of statesmen and
soldiers, is worth anything, let the Re-
publican party learn its golden lesson.
"Observe your enemy and refuse to do
that which he evidently desires that you
shall do" 1t is not necessary to apply
the wisdom of this saying to current poll
tics, for it applies itself. What the Demo-
Gratis are demanding, that we must not
do
Year: 1871

An Alabama paper says that 'any hon
est man may live in that State without
molestation, no matter what his opinions
may be-" This is an argument against
the existence of the Ku-Klux, and we are
perfectly willing to accept it if the author
of the assertion will allow us to put tail
upon his declaration to this effect-"i if
he keeps his opinions to himself"
Year: 1871

The small but treacheraus fire-cracker
begins to gather in its juvenile victims.
Holding burning one between his teeth
fixed Bay City cherub so that it will be
immaterial to him whether the Fourth of
July comes or not
Year: 1871

A Texas paper says: We are looking
for the Democrats to come out for negro So
cial equality now that they have come out
for negro political equality, for they have
always said that the two were inseparably
connected
Year: 1871

rather than have it squandered after they
die.


With all that is said and done in regard
to the more equal distribution of property
among the masses of honest and indus
trious of all lands, SO is the happiness and
prosperity of that people increased and
civilization advanced.
Year: 1871

lature, has heen agreed upon by the Commit
tee on Ways and Means"


Wilmington, too has to he enIire'y recon-
structcd, the Nine Ward Bill passed Two
years ago, proving abortve. A petition has
already been introduced into the Senate to
divide The First Ward of that City into two
Wards


1t being a strong Democratic Ward, it is
supposed it will make twuot the same political
character, aud thereby insure Democratic as
tendency in the City Council But those
phllanthropic petitioners who urge this scheme
under the plea of large vnre, say nothing
about division of the Sixth Ward which polls
more votes than the First oh no, the Sixth is
as strong Republican AS the First is Democrat
ic. hence the difference.


The Hall Of the House Of Representatives.
was rendered yesterday tothe Governor which
was used last night fnr the recention OF the
members OF the Legislature, and the people in
general who We're in the town


The hall tC a late hour last night, was
crowded with the beauty and elite Of Dover.
where all went merry as marriage bell. "
To day the two houses will meet in joint con-
vcnti"n again to go through with the formality
OF the final balloting for United States Srna-
tor. H.
Year: 1871

assurance doubly sure" That the institu.
tlon will be established somewhere on the Pc
ninsula at no dstaLt day is all but fixed fact.
90 large and energetic body of Christians as
the WI mington Conference will not let an en-
terprlse tail that they have declared necessary
aud expedent. But its location will BE- at such
place as will make the most liberal offer to it.
Shall We show the proper degree of lIberality,
public spirit and business foresight and have
our town hOnored and benefited by the errc
ton OF such an institution in our midst or sha!
we be found wanting in these requisites Of an
enterpri>lrg community and allow some other
town TO secure the prize? Can we afford to
loose our reputation for go-ahcadativeness nd
lberality, to say nothing of the institution ?


Dover, We understand, Is making liberal of,
terS, as is also other towns. This but shows
the lmpoi tance of the enterprise, and foresight
OF our aspiring neishbors. In proportion as
other towns strive it, SO in proportion ought
our exertlons to be increased. The advanta-
yes arising from it will be as important TO us
as to any other town, and we can afford to make
just as liberal offers any Of our neighbois.


We understand, also, that some of our cli-
zenS OF the other denominations, approaching
the Importance of the enterprise, simply in a
business view, and actuated by a proper spirit
OF town pride, have expressed mucn interest
IN the movement; such interest as will have
a practical result when the time comes. The
institution would be just as beautiful and just
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tiOn as another, and should receive practica
encouragement from every citizen, therefore
who has the prosperity of the town at heart.
Year: 1871

paper! Wonderful product of brain


and toll! One would think it should


be dearly bought and highly priced,
and yet it is the cheapest thing in
the world. Five or ten cents will
buy it. One or two dollars will
bring it to your home every week
in the year. And yet, strange to
say, there are men ''too poor to take
a newspaper" They can pay five
cents for glass of beer, or fifteen
cents for beverage of unknown
composition called a "cocktail;"
they can pay fifty cents for circus
ticket, or dollar for the theatre,
yet they are too poor to buy a news
paper! a newspaper, which is
ticket of admission to that great
Globe Theatre, whose dramas are
written by God himself, "whosc
scenc-Shifter is Time, and wll"sc
curtains are rung down by death"


There is Il class Of newspaper
publishers whom the rapid growth
and ambitious spirit Of the west
have done much to encourage, but
who are now, happily, growing
"bcautitully less" | mean those
who look upon a newspaper as
money making power, and care more
for tax lists than they do for truth.
A paper, like any other business,
requires good business management;
but the led ger must not lie on the
editors table, nor his opinions be
controlled by the condition Of his
cash book.


But it is fortunately becoming
more true every day that Journal
can obtain desirable influence only
by deserving it. Partisan appeals
and personal vi,uperation will no
longer be accepted in the place of
discussion and legitimate
The people realize, in 4
good degree, that the Press Of
America is its hope, its prophet and
its guardian; and they demand that
its conductors shall realize the same
fact.
Year: 1871

because thought you would feel a
peculiar interest in them when you
know the hymn Was written eighteen
years ago ls42) in your house. l
composed it in the little back third
story bedroors, one Sunday morn
ing, after coming from church; and
it makes me very happy to think
that any word ] could say has done
a little good i'll the world" ."-New


York. Tribune.
Year: 1871

Shall march at the front Of the column, each one


In his God given place
As they pass through the gates of The City, with


proud and victorious tread
The Editor. Printer and "Devil" will travel not


far from the head.
Year: 1871

The Committee on Military affairs in the House have agreed to report bill to provide that every soldier who served in the United States Army during the war for term of ninety days or upwards, shall be entitled to one hundred and sixty acres ofthe public lands along the lines of railroads, tp which grants have been made or may hereafter be made; such public lands to include the alternate reserved sections and such other lands as may be Rnoccuped by pre-emption ot homestead claims at the expiration of five years from the date of selection patents to be given for such lands, without requiring actual residence on the same
Year: 1871

The train of Messrs. Fully, 0choa < DsLong, was attacked by Indians, near the San Pedro, short time since, and in the struggle that ensued between the teamsters and the Indians, two of the former were wounded. The particulars of the affair and the result we published at the time of the occurrence; but the sequel which goes to prove the particular band by which the depreda- ton was committed, should likewise claim atten- ton, Were they the government pets at Camp Thomas Impossible Those good Indians and "never go of their reservation" and yet evidence of their guilt, amounting almost to proof can be brought forth. Two days after the occur renee, and two days before the arrival of a detach ment of the train at Camp Goodwin, Camp Thom- as yet fifty miles farther on, and in tho heart of the wilderness, had full particulars regarding the attack at San Pedro and the result; and be it known, this news was brought to Camp Thomas by it's "gcOd Indians who are always to be found their reservation"
Year: 1871

It is now plainly evident that Georgia will never be admitted to representation in Congress while it continues 10 elect democrats, and the republican party in power at Wash ington. It has been alleged that systematic course of intimidation was carried on at the recent election" Perjury will doubtless esta- blish this charge and have the results set aside.
Year: 1871

, "A man who has good health is rich.


So is the man with a good clear con-
science.


So is the parent Of vigorous, happy
children.


So is the clergymen whose coat the
children pluclsed as he passed them on the
way.au "a FL ol q 9s


So is the husband who has good wife.
I So IS the wife who has good husband.


50 is the maiden whose horizon is not
bounded BY the coming man, but who
has purpose in life, whether she ever
met him or not.


So is the young man who, laying his
hand on his breast, can say, i have treat
ed every woman | ever saw, as should
wish my sister to bc treated by other men.
So is the little child who goes to sleep
with kiss on its lips, and for whose wax
ing blessing waits.