smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1872

As the public are permitted to recei We
fuller Information and clearer ideas con-
cerning the Alabama treaty and the claims
Of the United States under ii. the belief
becomes better established that John Bull
IS IL a serious dilemma He is willing
enough to pay the actual value of the
ships and property destroyed by the rebel
cruisers sent from England, and would
think that he got off cheaply-as indeed
he would. But behind it there looms up
another question of much greater magni
tade, and fuller OF portents to our friends
over the water. It is the very one which
England protests that the Geneva arbitra-
ton shall not pass uoon-viz Shall ma
ton be held accountable tor it's violation
Of national obligations III such cases, be-
yond the cash value of the property de-
stroyed? If it be decided in the aft rma-
tive, then we have al immense bill for
damages against England If in the neg
alive, then in any future wars in which
England may engage we are at liberty to
send ont armed cruisers under the flag of
her adversary, destroy her commerce,
and take our chances tor the damages
that many be proven. And yet again,
should England withdraw from the arbi-
tration, refusing to submit the question,
the advantage is still with us in the face
OF the world, as the party adhering to the
provisions Of a solemn treaty.


The furry which agitated England some
time ago, resulted from this state of things.
1t was the first clear view of the impend-
ing trap which our friends across the
water had set for themselves-the pit
digged for US, into which they have really
fallen. No wonder it caused CONSERVATION,
and an outcry that England must with
draw. But when the consequences of with
drawala are considered in all their extent, the
British public and government must see
that it leaves the fatal question unsettled,
and not only unsettled, but sustained BY
the weight of England's example in favor
OF sending our cruisers. To halt is as
dangerous as to go on. We will be equal
ly satisfied with verdict for or against
US, but we want decision of some kind.


A recent dispatch from Washington
gives an insight into this purpose of our
government. Speaking of the demand
for consequential damages, it says


| Our Government has no objection to the with
drawing of the demand if Great Britain will
agree that in case she shall war with any other
country no demand shall be made on the United
States for consequential damages tor any act
committed by Americans similar to the depre-
dations of the Alabama and other rebel cruisers.


This shows that there is an eye on the
possibilities of the future.
Year: 1872

A memorial signed by number Of
Estern ship-owners, ship and 9TH
ers interested in shipping. has been pre-
sented by Senator Sumner demonstrating
against the passage by Congress of Ship
ping Commissioners bill now pending 10
the Senate. Among the objections cited
is one to the effect that the law would be
direct interference in the private rights
OF the employer and employee, and an
additional onerous tax upon the already
overburdened tonnage of the country,
besides creating horde of needless office
holders over our vast sea-board.
Year: 1872

Some very curious inquirer into the
moral aspects of society occasionally
raises the query-Is the world growing 9
better or worsep However it may be
with regard to those acts which do vio-
lenc to the rights of property and kindred
matters, it must be confessed that regard
for the sanctity Of human life has lament
ably fallen off. This may be owing ia
some degree to the immunity which re-
cent verdicts justifying homicide have
have had on the public mind, and the
consequent belief on the part OF ignorant
and passionate persons that assassination
may be made to eXplate private wrongs
This has had its effect, but cannot be
made to stand sponsor for the terrible
prevalence of crime that the thoughtful
observer sees and laments, but cannot ac-
count for.


The time was when cool and deliber-
ate murder perpetrated anywhere in
Maine would throw the whole State into
Il ferment of excitement and wonder at
the magnitude of the crime Those who
can recall the Coolidge murder of twenty
five years ago, will remember the wild
excitement of the community over the
crime, the eager desire for the minutest
details, and the absorbing interest in the
trial But murder has now become SO
common that its occurrence scarce creates
a ripple on the surface of our daily life
Three murders in the vicinity of Bangor
in as many years, the killing OF Latin at
Ia, the horrible Auburn murders, the re-
cent Dix Island nurder-are but por-
ton of those that In our own State have
been each nine days wonder It was
only last week that man IN Biddeford
became 50 moved at the touching recit al
by his servant girl of a wrong alleged to
have been done TO her three wears before,
that he condemned aud sentenced the
criminal on the spot, and taking his pistol,



er. But 50 bad was his pistol practice,
that four shots failed to infict the intend
ed punishment, and the victim ran away
The times are highly chiyalrous when the
sensitive head of the family is called up-
on to Ylndicate, at the muzzle of the
pistol, not ouly the honor OF his wife and
daughters. but the wrongs which his
handmaid has preserved tor the occasion
through long Years


Not only are the murders by violence
rite. but much more so those stealthy and
-reacherous polsonings, which the trust
ing victim takes from the hand Of nurse
Or housekeeper, but which does its work
As surely as the bullet of the assassin
The Sherman trial, of which we publish /.
All account to-day, is the most notorious /.
ot the latter class. and one OF the most
wonderful records IN the history OF crime /


A review OF these facts will suggest TO
every mind the query whether the increase /!
u crime OF this class can 20 on as it has /
or few years past, without fairly up
,ooling society, and overturning the laws.
As against the knfe and pistol, men VIII /
sndeavor 10 give themselves protection
3y wearing arms, ready 10 shoot At Sight,
ind to protect themselves in every avail
lble way. But can the moralist. the
'ocial philosopher, the student Of human
nature and human laws suggest nothing
hat shall turn back this fearful current Of
'iolence and crime
Year: 1872

The following executive order was is
sued 81 Washington last week -


The Advisory Board of the Civil Service hay
ing completed the grouping contemplated by
the rules already adopted have recommended
CERTAIN provisions for carrying the rules into
effect. The recommendations AS herewith pub
h>hed are approved, and the provisions will ne
enforced rs rapidly rs the proper arrange ments
can De made, and the thirteenth of the rules
adopted on the l9.h day of December last IS
amended TO read as published herewith The
utmost fidelity and diligence will be expected
OF al! officers in every branch of the public
service. Political assessments. as thev are
called, have been forbidden within the various
departments; ana While the right Of all persons
in official position TO take part in politics is
acknowledge and the elective franchise is re-
cognized as high trust to be discharged bv MI
entitled to its exercise, whether in the employ
menl of the government or in private life, hon
esty and eftic ency, not political activity, will
determine the tenure of office


U. s. GRANT.


By the President--HAMILToS FIsH, secre-
tary of State.


This would be excellent if it were sin
cere. But there can be but small doubt
that it is one OF those party subteriuges
for effect just before election, which must
pass fer just what they are worth. The as
sessments levied on office holders for car
rying New Hampshire and Connecticut,
and the t1ocking to those states of clerks
and officials who were paid for doing
public work at the same time in Wash
ington, are evidence Of the hollow pretence
OF the foregoing document. The public
have not forgotten the sworn testimony of
Stewart, the eminent New York merchant.
the man whom Grant desired to make his
Secretary OF the Treasury Stewart testi-
fles that he personally saw the President
and laid before him the evidence of the
pltnderings that were going on in the
New York Custom House, and that no
notice was taken OF the matter. Who can
doubt that this solicitude for pure civil
service is an eiectioueering dodge
Year: 1872

They have cemetery in Louisville which
must be verv nice place to be buried in. Boys
ask the privilege of the sexton to go in and kill
snakes. Last Sunday small party of urchins
Of only average physical vigor slaughtered
thirty serpents there within two hours.
Year: 1872

James O'Neil after having served more
than eight years of life sentence in the
Rhode Island State Prison, was released
from that institution on Friday last, it hav-
ing been shown recently that he was in
nocent Of the crime for which he was in
carcerated. When informed that he was
al liberty to quit The prison he could hard
ly credit the welcome news. On reaching
the open street, the liberated man drew q
long, deep breath. with the heartfelt re-
mark, ''How sweet the air smells" After
he began to realize that he was really
released, ne said he suffered more when
told that he was free than when he heard
the sentence of imprisonment for life
passed against him. He was taken in
charge by a brsther-in-law who lives in
Philadelphia, and left with him on Satur-
day for his home in that city. His part
ing words to his counsel. as be was about
leaving in the cars were ''God bless you,
sir only for you I'd be in the prison now !;
I'll pray for you, and if you ever need
man to die for you send for me-
Year: 1872

BIDDEFoRD DAILY TINES. The Wat
son Brothers, rushing i'll where Mayor
Shaw failed to tread with any profit to
himself have established neat and
newsy daily, which shows evidences Of
prosperity. We hope they may build up
d large and profitable paper.
Year: 1872

EDITORS CHRONICLE: There has been great
deal of talk about the negros' ballot at the ap-
preaching election. l don't believe there will
be three negro votes cast for Greeley and Brown
in this city at the approaching election. learL-
cd this morning that Alexander the Great, and
his friend Bowles, has fled from the Democratic
camps to the Republican party, praying for re-
demption for the sin they committed in joining
the Democratic party. Now they say, ''To vote
for Messrs. Greeley and Brown would justly in
vite on our heads the contempt and scorn of
honest men. We should not only brand our
selves as political knaves, but as political fools
merely marching to occupy a position to which
we are invited by the Democratic party, which
party during the past forty years has existed al
most exclusively to make sure our slavery and
degradation as race"


It is good thing that they have taken hint
and come praying for redemption before the
election, else they would have been lost for
ever. We hope to see goodly number of our
full brethren rel that s they n may sin no more and 60
their way in peace. A NEGRO.
Year: 1872




The Memphis appeal is an organ. In
this "exigency" it is not on the fence. 1t
speaks out and we may say speaks as an
organ should. In its issue Of the Mth it
thunders ct Andy in this style:


What stormy career is this of Andrew
johnson! If he could win in the terrible
struggle upon which he is just entering,
result wholly impossible, he has only be-
gun new life of ceaseless intellectual COM
bats, and he becames immortal as the po-
litical prize-fghter of theage. He aohors
Ben. Butler, and the willy Massachusetts
Congressman will have for the first time
an antagonist as solid as the everlasting
rock-ribbed mountains whose rugged maj
esty first lent inspiration to Johnson's ge-
MUS But of what avail is all this? What
good can come of it? Would Tennessee
or the South gain aught by sending up to
Washington a keg of nitrO-glycerine?
Would the "bloody chasm " close its re-
voting jaws more rapidly if JOhnson's
fearful diatribes upon the government of
Grant and Grants hideous morals and
practices be opened up in the House of
Representative? What can the South or
the country gain of tranquility or peace
Will he secure the enactment of measures
of practical benificence? An adherent of
Grant would not vote Grant money or pups
if the proposition came from Andrew
Johnson. Cheatham will soon win the
same place and potency in Congress that
he holds among the people. He will be as
popular in Washington as he was in the
army, and is to-day among the people of
his own country. OF the two men, Cheat
ham is infinitely more capable of serving,
practically, his constituents. Andrew
Johnson exhausts his usefulness when he
imparts to the people philosophical views
Of American theories of government as
wise and statesmanlike as those of the
fathers of constitutional law, and, while
an audience, as Congressman he can
serve us in nothiug.
Year: 1872

The opening Of the Grand National Industrial
tember Sd, and during the exhibition, which
will continue thirty-fYe days, Louisville will
be thronged with visitors from every section of
the country. The reduced fares on railroads
and steamboats, and the grand and varied at
fractions presented by the Exposition will war
rant all who are in quest of pleasure or bent on
business to embrace this opportunity to see in
her bloom one of the most beautiful cities in the
South, and the most superb and comprehensive
exposition of art industry and home products
ever offered to the people of the West and
Southwest. We presume that nearly every one
IN this section will spend few days at the Ex
position this month
Year: 1872

The largest corner is in cheese, and
under the effects of the speculation that
article has been going up in the New York
markets at the rate of cent pound
daily. The ground for the rise is the
creased amount used in this country.
Year: 1872

We will send the WEEKLY CHRONICLE one year free,
the DAILY CHRONICLE for the campaign Free to every
person who sends club of twenty subscribers with
the money.


We will send the WEEKLY for one year, or the DAILY
CHRONICLE for the campaign ree every person who
sends US thirty campaign subscribers to the WEEKLY
with the money,


Terms Strictly Cash.
For further particulars address


RULE Il RICKS,


Publishers CHRONICLE,


Knoxville, Tenn.
Year: 1872

We present the CoURIER this week
to our patrons in an entirely new form
thirty six columns instead of thirty.
ty-two as heretofore new head. etc.
We have availed ourself Of the aid
of the Cooperative Newspaper Uuion,
as au experiment, aud shall giYe the
system fair trial. al will agree with
US that the present issue is a decided
improvement both as TO Typography and
quantity Of reading matter.
Year: 1872

The New York Committee Of Workinunen had
an interview with Secretary Boutwell, yesterday
in accordance with the wishes of the President


who had given them a card Of reference to the
Secretary. The latter informed them that or
ders should be Immediately issued for the en-
forcement OF the eight-hour law on the Post
Office and Custom House building in New York
The President has alao instructed the Attorney
General TO prepare an order for the enforcement
Of the eight-hour law on all Government works
Year: 1872

The New Jersey papers are generally disposed
to be quite indignant the arrest OF the fish
ermen Of that State, who were taking shad in
the Delaware waters. They all err as to the orr
gin of the jurisdiction of this State, within the
circle, the Newark Courier saying that it was
established by the grant to Lord De la Ware.


AS we have already explained, there will be
nothing gained to anybody by the resuscitation
of the legal question of Jurisdiction. This is
settled beyond reasonable impeachment. If the
New Jersey authorities choose to raise an issue
As to the constitutonality of the Delaware Ii
cense law, that, perhaps, would be something
more practicable


One facetious Jersey paper proposes, that in
view of the warlike achievements of Constable
Prichett, on board his tug, the Delaware author
tiles adopt as new motto for their State .
"What shadders we are, and what shadders we
pursue"


Since the above was in type, a telegram
from Trenton states that Governor Parker has
issued his proclamation denying Delaware 8
claim to the whole of the river, and warning all
persons from interfering with the Jersey fisher
men East of the middle line of the river
Year: 1872

GIRLS WHO WIN.-Tho time has
passed away when a woman must be pale
and delicate to be called interesting g
when she must be totally ignorant of all
practical knowledge to be called high
brcd-when she must know nothing Of
the current political news Of the day, or
be called masculine and strong.minded


1t is not a sign Of high birth to be
sickly or ignorant. Those who affect
anything Of the kind are behind the
times, and must shake up and air them
selves mentally and physically, or drop
under the firm strides Of common sense
ideas, and be crushed into utter lnsigni
6cance.


In these days, an active, rosy tacet
girl, with brain quick and clear, warm
light heart, a temper quickly heated q
intended insult or injury. and just a'
quick to forgive; whose feet can run a
fast as her tongue and not put her out o
breath who Is not afraid Of freckles o
to breathe the pure air Of heaven, unrs
strained by the drawn curtains Of clos
carriage and, above all, who can spea|
her mind aud give her opinion on import
ant topics which interest intelIigeu
people, is the true girl who will make
good woman.
Year: 1872

The long, narrow, arched eyebrow is
the prettiest, as we all know, but 1t is
rare. 1t would not be SO rare, however,
if little more care we're taken 10 its
cultivation during early youth. For
instance, if a child's eyebrows should
threaten to be thin, brush them softly
every night with little cocoanut oil, 10
order to give them a curve, press them
gently between the thumb and fore6nger
after every ablution Of the face or hands
Simple as this may seem, have known
the most wonderful effects result from it.
l havo seen girls with wide struggling
eyebrows, reduce them into an arch like
shape within year, solely BY thes'
meaus, and surely all will allow that they
are permissible.
Year: 1872

During . slight lull 10 business the
other day two little bootblacks, one white
and ono black, were standing on a corner
doing nothing, whom the white boot black
agreed to black the black bootblack' .
boots. The black bootblack was of course
willing to have bis boots blaoked by his
fellow bootblack, and the bootblack who
had agreed to black the black boot tblack' =
boots went to work. When the white
bootblack had blacked ono of the black
bootblack's boots till it shone in man
ner that would make any bootblack
proud, this bootblack who had agreed
to black the black bootblAck's boots rs-
fused to black the other boot Of the
black bootblack until the black bootblach
who had consented to have tho white boot
black back bis boots, should add five
cents to the amount the white bootblack
had made blacking other mems boots
This the bootblack whose boot had been
blacked refused to do, saying that It was
good enough for a black bootblack te
have one boot blaoksd, and he didn'
care whether the boot that the bootblacl
uuuu UiscAsu WSb OIuckcu OF uot. I'LL
made the bootblack who had bIacked tn.
black boothlack's boot as angry as boot
black often gets, and he vented his black
wrath BY splitting upon the blacked boot
of the black bootblack. This reused the
latent passions of the black bootblsck
and he proceeded to boot the whit
bootblack with the boot which the whit
bootblack had blscksd. A fight thel
cnsued, in which the white bootblack
who had refused to black the unblacke'
boot Of the black bootblack, blacked tn


black bootblack's visionary organ, and il
which the black bootblack wore all tn


blackipg of his blackod boot in bootin


the white bootblack. The fraternit


Of bootblacks afterwards convened an
denounced the action Of the white an


black beotblack % one of the blackcst i


the pages Of bootblack history.-Cleve
land Leader.
Year: 1872

BE- HAYpY Now.-How old ate you?
Twenty Thirty? Are you happy
to day2 Were you happy yesterday?
If so you have reason to judge that you
will be happy by and by. Are you so
busy that you have no tue to be happy?
And are you going to DO happy when
you are old, and you have not SO much
to do? No. you will not You have o
specimen Of What you will be when you
ere old. Look IN the face OF day.
That Is about the average. What you
are carrying along with you is what you
will have By and by. If you are SO con-
Quoting yourself that you have peace with
God, and with your fellowmen. and with
your faciliries if every day you insist
that duty shall make you happy, and you
take as much time as is needful for the
culture Of your social faculties, you will
not be exhaustihg life, ard it will be con-
tinually replenished. But # you nre
saving everything up till you get to be
an old man. habit will stand like q tyrant
and say "Ysu would not enjoy yourself
before, and you shall not how" How
many men there are who havo ground
and ground to make money, that they
might be happy by and by. but who,
when they get to be City or sixty years
old, had used up all the enjoyable nerve
that was 10 them? During their early
life thoy carried toll and economy and
frugality to the excess Of stinginsss, and
when the time came that they expected
joy, there was no joy for .hem.-H.W.B
Year: 1872

We have heard great deal Of highway
outrages of late, but did not deem that
we should be called upon to chronicle
one, but such is the case. A physician
living on Brooklyn Heights vas recently
hurrying homeward, quito late iu the
evening, when q man, apparently drunk,
staggered out of tavern and jos,led him.
The good doctor did not wish to mike a
disturbance, so he stepped aside and let
the drunken man pass on. The mans
condition, however, did not prevent him
from walking qui fast, and he soon left
the doctor behind. The latter suddenly
bethought himself to feel for his watch.
1t was gone!


But he was equal to the occasion.
Taking his pistol from his pocket, he ran
after tho man, overlook and collared
him.


"Now, you rascal" he cried in terri.
BILE voice, "hand out that watch, or
shall put ball into you !"


The man demurred at FIRST, but the
doctors voice and manner we're too much
for him. He saw there was nothing else
20 do. and so he handed out the watch.
When the doctor reached home he told
the adventure to his wife. but, my
dear" said she, you did not take your
. watch with you. There it is on the
table, where you left It'll!


There is no use Of going into further
particulars. The doctor had committed
highway robbery on an unknown man
and that was the best that could be SAID
Of it.
Year: 1872

10 kEsDER WATER SOFT Fos WAsHING.--
Stir pint of fresh, Stacked lime to gallon
OF water let it settle; pour it OF from the
sediment carefully, and Immediately bottle.
and cork it tight. Add a tumblsrful oil this
lime water to the hard water stira it well to-
gether; let the sediments settle then pour
of the water through canton flannel cloth.
Year: 1872

Er TEE Liver is more frequently the
scat OF disease than is generally sup
posed, for upon its regular action de-
pends, In great measure, the powers of
the Stomach, Bowels, Brain and the
Whole nervous system. Regulate that
important organ by taking SiDlinotIs'
Liver Regulator, and youpreycnt most
IF the diseases that flesh is heir t..