smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1871

A GENTLEMAN addicted to scientific in
quiry has discovered that 50 days complete
the cycle of the potato bug generation; !;
that seven hundred of the critters are the
average product of one female, from which
the family grows in the second generation
to 245, 600, and in the third to 85,700,000
There are not ciphers enough in any exist
ing type foundry to express the number in
the tenth generation
Year: 1871

The trade are invited to call and examine stock when
in New Yo.k.


Orders by mail will receive prompt attention. and prices
as lo'c as can be found In the Eastern market.
Our Stock is especially adapted to the West
ern and Southwestern Trade,
Year: 1871

tice In crimson satin elaborately trimmed with
white point cluster OF diamonds nash In the lace
at her throat. and white Japonica trembed among
the braids and curs OF her hair. These are among
an immense number OF toilets, many OF which were
scarcely less elegant ana magnificent than those
designated.
Year: 1871

Hon. JOEL PARKER was waited upon
Thursday evening by the committee
appointed by the Trenton Convention
to inform him OF his nomination as
Democratic candidate for Governor Of
New Jersey. Governer Parker re-
sponded to the address Of the chairman
of the committee in a brief speech,
which he closed az follows


Gentlemen i have not sought this
nomination. | did what ! could TO
prevent it, would at This moment
prefer TO advocate the election Of any
one OF the distinguished gentlemen who
were candidates before the Convention,
ali my friends, who SO magnaDlmously
declined. With my record fully IN
view the people have nominated me:
The people must now 60 TO work and
elect me. Although 1t would involve a
great personal sacrifice to hold the office
again, yet, under the circumstances OF
the nomination, ! have no option but to
obey the popular will and accept the
nomination. | deem it my duty to use
all legitimate and honorable means TO
secure my election. II ! cannot be
elected without the corrupt use OF money
let me be defeated. 1t is time the use
Of money in elections was stopped. II
suffered to continue it will destroy our
Government. | would not regard it as
an honor to be elected by such means,
for after all the honor conferred on a
man by office consists not in the mere
holding OF the position, but in the man
ner in which its duties are performed.
7 thank you, gentlemen, and, through
you. all the members OF the Convention
you represent, for the great honor be-
slowed upon me.
Year: 1871

A MAN in Kansas was present at the
mineral Of a neighbor, of whom no good
could be honestly said. But everybody
was saying something. and this man,
not wishing to appear singular. but
being incapable Of giving eulogy, re-
marked that it was "a nice, quiet
corpse"
Year: 1871

How gladly we echo the voice Of the
Baltimore Sun this morning. when it
cries for investigation Of frauds from all
quarters, and especially from the down.
trodden, pilfered South. This has been
our cry from the beginning, 1t is the
bugle note that should ring in the ears
Of the enemy from ten thousand quar-
tiers. II honest investigation is resortcd
to, we feel safe in predicting that not
one in thousand Of the official thieves
who have infested the South will be
found with clean skirt.-Bdltimore
Journal
Year: 1871

Money remains plenty at three per
cent. in New York Gold was strong
and was being bulled by clique at ll4t.


The Augusta, Georgia, Chronicle and
Sentinel says the heavy rains of the
past ten days have been very disaster
Gus to the cotton crop. All the South
ern States complain Of the uniavorabIe
cotton weather and Of the heavy rains
which have fallen within the last few
,loyo
Year: 1871

A lady near Ballville, sandusky
county, Ohio, recently gave birth to a
child which weighed but one pound. It
is now nearly four weeks old and weighs
less than two pouads. At the time OF
its birth lady's finger ring was slipped
over its hand and arm to the shoulder.
Year: 1871

This forenoon a lighter passed from
East river into Newtown creek with a
little skiff, containing three men and a
boy, in tow, and when about cne hund-
red yards from Greenpoint bridge the
skiff upset and sunk. Two of the men
and the little boy were drowned, but
the third saved himself by swimming
ashore. The names could not be ascer-
tanned, but it is believed that they be-
longed to East New York.


The Murderer of DOrain.


The police thus far have been unable
to secure the murderer Of Dorain at the
recent Caledonia festival att Jones Wood.
Nobody can be found who would be
able to identify the murderer.
Year: 1871

There has been percepbc relaxation In the monetory
situation today The highest rates paid were sixteenth
and interest while to responsible borrowers money
accessible at per cent gold TO thirty The dis
count market is inactive and still quote prime
indorsed merchant paper ut 10 to IL per cent.


The higher nominal price of gold was calculated to
stinen prices OF Government bonds aside from The ad
vanted price, consequent upon the vigorou' demand
from home and foreign investors. All the issues
inquiry and the market left of strong with thr
Per cents Old per CENTS and currency I'm particularly
active request. Fisk Hatch report Governments as
follows ut p Ill.
Year: 1871

A very curious incident, illustrative
of the power which can be exercised
over the animal creation by kindness
and careful training, occurred but few
days ago at Scottsville, KY. The sister
of Officer Harry Mansfield, of this city,
had raised mocking bird which she
taught to go and come at her call, and,
in return for all the kindness bestowed
upon it, exhibited peculiar fondness
for her. Last Monday week Miss
Mansfield was taken i'll, and, to while
had her little pet brought to her bed
side, and day and night it cheered her
with it's sweet carols, bringing to mind
many happy thoughts of field and
meadow, sunshine and song. AS ner
illness grew more alarming, and day
after day brought no relief from suffer
ing, the warblings of the little songster
rather served to annoy than to please
her, and SO turning YEARLY on her pill
low she said to him, Birdie, hush, you
worry me-" Strange to say, the words
seemed to be understood, for imme-
diately the song was hushed, and the
bird retired within itself, as it were. On
the next day the lady died, leaving, it
would seem, command of silence upon
the bird, which will never be broken,
for, although several days have elapsed
since, and every effort has been made
to induce him to sing, he refuses to re-
spond with song to any lips but those OF
his once loved mistress.
Year: 1871

Projection OF LIFE ON THE WATER
The Treasury Department is really in
earnest in enforcing the new law and
regulation for the better protectien of
life and property on board of vessels
propelled by steam, and, on the 22d
inst, fined two vessels on the southern
coast 5000 apiece for neglecting to dis
play the proper signal lights. If they
refuse to pay the fines, the collector of
the district where the vessels were sta
toned was directed to secure and hold
them till the fines were paid Steam
boat inspectors are directed to enforce
the regulations in their respective dis
tricts most vigorously.
Year: 1871

sunk her instantly, with eight men, in
several fathoms of water. Lieut.. Payne
sprang out Of the hatchway rs the boat
sunk from under. him, and he alone was
left alive. =.


In the course Of few days she was
raised and again made ready for service.
Again Payne volunteered, and eight men
with him.


The embarkation for their second at
tempt was made from Fort Sumpter, and
as before ell having been made ready,
Payne standing at his pos, in the hatch
way, ordered the hawser 20 be east of,
when the boat careened aud sunk Instant
lly. Payne sprang ont, two Of the men
followed him the other six went down in
the boat and perished.


Again the boat was raised and made
ready for action. and her owner, Captain
! llundley, took her for experimental trip
into Stone River, where, after going
through her usual evolutions, she dived
I in deep water, and for hours, and for
days, the return of poor Hundlev and
I his crew was watched for and looked for
in vain. After near a weeks search she
was found inclining at an angle of forty
degrees; her nozzle was driven deep into
the soft mud Of the bottom Her crew of
uinc dead men were standing, sitting, "
ing about in her hold, axphixiatcd Humid
ley was standing dead at his post. a can
die in his hand, while the other had
grown stiff with death, in his vain efforts
to unfasten the hatch. Others had been
working at they keys Of the ballast, but
the inclination ut which the boat stood
had jammcd the keys so that the men
could not cast off the heavy weights which
held them down Their deaths had been
hard and lingering.


Again this fateful vessel was made ready
for action, and volunteers being called for,
Lieutenant Dixon. twenty first Alabama
volunteers, a native of Mobile, and eight
men volunteered to take her against the
enemy.


The new and powerful war ship. lIou-
satonic, was selected for attack and on
u quiet night the bravest crew set out
from Charleston, in this terrible. namelcss
torpedo boat, that ever manned craft be-
fore.


We all know the fate of the Housatonic.
Brave Dixon guided the torpedo fairly
against her. the explosion tore open the
great war ships sides. So that She went
down with nearly all her crew within two
minutes


The torpedo vessel also disappeared for
ever from mortal view, Whether she
went down with her enemy, & wieehcr
she driticd out to sea to bury b 6t
dead. was never known, and their tate was
left till tn" great day when the sea shall
give up its dead.


But within the week past, divers in sub
marine armor have visited the wreck of
the llousatonic. and they have found the
little torpedo vessel lying by her huge
victim, and within are the bones of the
most devoted and daring men who ever
went to war. No forlora hope or other
desperate enterprise of war can furnish the
parallel to the courage of Dixon aud his
comrades. Their names we have not ut
hand. but they are known aud recorded.
and we hope to see the honor which is due
paid TO the great virtue they illustrated.


Houston Telegraph.
Year: 1871

EF- \ gentleman. in his eagerness at
the table to answer call for some apple
pie, owing to the knife slipping on the
bottom of the dish, found his knucN :
buried in the crust. when a wag who sat
opposite him very gravely observed willis,
he held his plate. Sir, I'll trouble you
for l biz while your hand is in"
Year: 1871

Fs- n good story is told of a man
who havinSafter long struggle worked
himself into good society by means of the
aristocratic alliance of his daughter gave a
grand party TO his newly acquired circle.
lie didn't invite his own brother. for the
reason that society is getting so mixed
one must draw a line somewLere."
Year: 1871

F 1T is pleasing thing to rcfec:
upon. says Dickens. land furnishes a
complete answer to those who contend for
the gradual degeneration of the human
species, that every baby born into the
world is finer one than the last
Year: 1871

e. If a milk maid. four feet ten in
ches in height, while sitting on a three
legged stool, took four pints of milk from
every fifteen COWS; what was the size Of
the field in which the animals grazed. and
what was the girls age We give it up.
Year: 1871

y The symptoms of Liver


Complaint are uneasiness


and pain in the side. Some


times the pain is in the


shoulder, and is mistaken


for rheumatism. The stom-


ach is effected with loss OF


appetite and sickness, bowels


in general costive, some
@times alternating with lax
d with pain, and dull, heavy
sensation, considerable loss
of memory, accompanied


with painful sensation of hav-


ing left undone something


which ought to have been


done. Often complaining or
weakness, debility and low
x.,,;r;+. Sometimes many or
Year: 1871

The ways of GRANT are peculiar" in
matters of reform He does great deal of
reforming on paper, but when it is reduc-
ed TO practice it does not prove to be of
the very highest order. We were promis-
ed great deal in the reformatory line in
regard to the Indians, for instance, but it
does not seem to be the least bit profitable
to the Indians themselves, although the
paid officials of the government, who have
the disbursement Of the money, make q
very handsome thing of it.


General PARKER one of President
GRANTS protegeS. seems to be at the head
Of the Indian Ring and runs that depart
ment so as to fill his pockets. Something
more than a year ago, bill passed Con-
gress for the appointment of Ia sort OF an
advisory committee, who were to act with
out pay, and exercise joint control in
the disbursement of the Indian funds.
This had a show of reform and Radical
orators, and newspapers claimed great
deal of credit for this new departure in
the direction of an honest administration
of Indian affairs. The sequel proves how
ever that there was not one particle of re-
form introduced into the management of
affairs.


The unpaid commissioners found that
they could do nothing whatever toward
reforming the existing abuses, and the
ring had all their own Way-gobbling up
about three-fourths of all the Indian ap-
preparations for their own private use and
behalf. Their powers of interference were
limited, and their attempts at reformation
contempt uously ignored byGeneral PAR
KER and his subordinates in the Ring.


As for instance, the unpaid Commission
ers who We're in earnest in their attempts
fn TTatr 111na
in New York, without any cost whatever
to the government, in which store the
goods intended for distribution among the
Indian tribes where they could be exam
ined and thus prevent the customary
frauds of sending worthless and inferior
goods, for which the government was
charged full price, from being distributed.
There could have been no reasonable OBJ
lection to this mode of procedure which
would have insured honesty in the dis
tribution General PARKER, and the
Ring however, did have serious objections
to this way OF doing things, because it de-
prived them of all possibility OF making
money in the distribution. Consequently
he ignored the action of the unpaid Com
lnissioners and under specious plea of de-
lay, procured an order for the unpaid COM
missioners to examine the goods in the
stores of the sellers.


The effect of this orderm easily be i'm
agined II deprived the unpaid Commits
sloners from doing precisely what they
otensibly appointed to do namely, to pre-
sent frauds. To examining the goods in
the stores of the sellers was equivalent to
not examining them at all The sellers,
of course, were in the Ring, and after
their samples had been examined and ap-
Year: 1871

Take earnestly hold of life, as capacita-
ted for and destined to high and noble
purpose. Study closely the minds bent
for labor or profession. Adopt it early,
pursue it steadily, never looking back to
the turning furrow, but forward to the
ground that ever remains to be broken.
Means andways are abundant to every
mans success, if will and action are right
ly adapted to them. Our rich men and
our great men have carved their paths to
fortune, and by this internal principles
principle that cannot fail to reward him
who readily pursues it. To sigh or repine
over the lack of inheritance is unmanly.
Every man should strive to be creator in
stead of inheritor He should bequeath
instead of borrow. He should be con-
scious of the power in him, and fight his
own battles with his own lance. He should
feel that it is better to earn a crust than
to inherit Golfers of gold. When once this
spirit of self-rehance is learned, every man
will discover within. himself the elements
and capacities Of wealth. He will berich,
inestimably rich in self-resources, and can
lift his head proudly to meet the noblest
amo1g men. ION
Year: 1871




It is the fashion of the Radical papers
of the east to sneer at FRANK BLAIR.
Not so with those who know him best,
in his own State At the banquet in his
honor at st. Louis, on Saturday night
20ult, Governor GRATz BROWN, after de-
claring that he was Republican and
General BLAIR Democrat, said:


"I wish to bear this distinguished tes-
timony, that for perfect purity of char
acter, t0r perfect courage of character, he
has not an equal in the United States.
During long period of public life that
has tried both. of US, he on one side
and 1 on the other, l say that his integri-
ty has stood all the tests, all the machi-
nations of political appliance in the land.
| am, perhaps, seperate and distinct from
him tS-day on some points and questions
of political character, but this is neither
here nor there, and don't wish to raise
them. 1 merely wish to say, that SO far
as the great State of Missouri is concern
ed, so far as our common interests apart
from politics are concerned, so tar as
those matters of Western commerce,
Western industry and enterprise, 1 do not
believe that in all this broad land, if you
had elected man from the whole scope
of the Valley of the Mississippi, you
could have selected one who could more
truly, entirely and bravely represented
the West than General Blair"


[Cheers.


Ex-senator John B. Henderson was the
caucus candidate of the Radicals for the
Senate in opposition to General Blair. He
was present at the banquet and made a
speech, from which we quote single
paragraph:


General Blair is man of decided
| opinions. earnest, Jealous, with great in
telleet and purpose, and such men must
make enemies. ThOy are the men who
commit errors in the common language OF
the world, but atlast they are the only men
on earth"who achieve great and substan-
tial good for mankind. In social life he
possesses that magnetism which draws
around him friends and holds them as
with shocks of STEEL as was said of the
| good Antonio. "A kinder gentleman
| treads not the earth x x < x General
Blair's whole record is in some way allied
to the cause ofliberty. He was friend
of the oppressed black man when few
were bold enough to peril life In the
cause. His perseverance never tagged
his zeal never cooled till Jefferson's
| bright dream was realized in the freedom
of the negro. Extreme emergency after
the war forced the enactment of measures
of Acknowledgement General Blair's hab.
bits of thought had been such that his
whole moral nature revolted against what
he had been taught to be wrong. If he
expressed himself harshly at times, let Us
now attribute it to his earnestness and the
depth of his convictions. However thai
may be, we know that all men love liber
ty, and it Is that fixed principle in the
man which sweeps the cords of affection
in the hearts of his friends and drives III
all to do him honor.


| "What is life ..-.


Tis not to stalk about and draw fresh air


From time gaze upon the sun;


| 'Tis to be free. When liberty Is gone


Life grows inspid and has lost its relish
Year: 1871

GRANTS new scheme "to fire the north-
ern heartp is to send committee Of five
radicals down south to find and report all
. about the Ku2Klux clan, &c. Grant him
self was cent as commissioner to the
South, in the early part Of Jobnson's ad-
ministration, to ascertain the condition of
things there, and on his return. made a
report that everything was healthy, lovely
and loyal. This report Senator Sumner
stigmatized as while washing concern,
and now Grant proposes to remove the
white and substitute coat of tar.
Year: 1871

la GRANTS menagerie to San Domingo
may have to swim for it, as the approach


from the main land to Samana bay for a


league and half is over narrow, win
ding path, practicable only, for one man
at time and in many places over head in
mud and water on both sides. What a
pity if Ben Wade and Fred Douglass


should get in and have to swim or drown
Year: 1871

Springfield, Ill. Sep z 1870.


MAJoR You are right in assuming
that Grant is not -drinker;" that is to
say, if know what constitutes a 'drinker,'
and think do. 1 went 70 Galena TO
probe this matter TO the bottom. / am in-
terested II him as you know / gave him
his starter According to my notion to
constitute 'drinker' he must be able 10
dispose of at least four quarts of Western
whiskey q day. And there is this much
TO be said In favor of my assumptio that,
as the tax on that quantity is 81 if every
man, woman, and child in the United Sta
tes should attain to that capacity we could
soon pay the national debt But he is no
'drlnker r For have it from the grocery
man at Galena, where he used to pass the
most of his time in silent contemplation
that he could never carry of one quart q
day, which, as you know Major, would
hardly suffice us for a breakfast appetizer.


Ihave written for the post-of6ce.


Soberly yours. r. YATES.
Year: 1871

The negroes of Ohio. at their late State
Convention, adopted resolution demand
ing of their white republican brethren,
that all the schools of the State should at
once be thrown open and made equally
free to black and white children. On with
the dance
Year: 1871

The waning influence of the President
in his own party was never more forcibly
illustrated than it has been in the recent
senatorial elections, Every candidate for
whom he threw his influence was defeated.
Year: 1871

The Scientific American says
IF we would establish the habit OF
drinking water freely in the morn
ing, soon after rising, commencing
with small quantities, increasing
gradually as we learn to relish it,
until the chief portion taken du-
ring the day is before breakfast,
it will promote the health to much
greater extent than it ordinarily
does, eradicate disease from the
system. and become a most decided
luxury in time.
Year: 1871

A woman says what she chooses
without being Knocked down for
1t. She can take q snoaze after din
ner while her husband goes out TO
work She can 70 out in The street
without being asked to stand tire t
at the saloon. She can stay at
home in time Of war, and get mar
ricd again if her husband gets kill.
ed. She can wear a corset if too
thick, and other fxings if too thin.
She can get divorced from her has
band, if she sees one She likes bet
ter. She can get her husband in
debt all over until he warns the
pGbiic not to trust her on his ac-
count. But all these advantages
are balanced by the great fact that
she cannot sing bass, go sparkling,
or climb tree with any degree Of
propriety.
Year: 1871

A woman may be surrounded BY
all the Iuxurics that money can buy,
and have the fawning friendship Of
people whose smiles only 1.-Two in
prosperity; bnt if she feels herself
unloved and aIore to her heart, the
crown jewel in her diadem of hap
piness is lost, things lose their val
Ne, and life becomes insufferably
monotonous. The honest, tender
love of two brave hearts who have
started out, and are struggling to
get a home for their little ones,
and money enough to feed cIothe
and educate them, make life thous-
and times more attractive and in
spiring.