smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1872

advantage. We men should not compel
them to constantly face danger that we
shrink from ourselves. The use OF the side
saddle is long established The custom is
deep-rooted, and to abolish it Will require
both tact and nerve. Reform must commence
IN the highest ranks of society, and when q
woman first ventures to ride with each foot
10 strrup she must not advertise the fact
IN advance. To maxi such an announcement
1 as viii call out gaping crowds Is a sure way
TO overwhelm the movement with ridicule
Even the courtesan would not have the face
to rlde boldly ever the rude sarcasm of the
mob. How, then, can VIC expect refined
and shrinking woman to 90 forth and defy
the rabble? Central Park is not the placs
/ to inaugurate the movement against the
! slde-saddle. The first venture must lie made
IN q more secluded spot. 4 private domain
Ike Bloomington Grove Park is best slited
to the purpose. This park is owned by a
| club OF gentlemen who are fond Of field sports.
The members occupy leading positions in
| the ranks ofsCciety; therefore their wives
and daughters have the power to stamp a
new movement with the seal Of fashion. No
vulgar crowd stIaggle among the pines to
gather around and cast ridicule upon any





tempt. The grounds are being improved all
the while. The clubhouse, located On the
bill, which slopes gently down to the pebbly
beach Of lake Giles, is being built. Il viii
be finished by the lst Of April, and already
number Of gentlemen have made arrange
ments to spend the summer at the park
with their families. As the club member
ship is exclusive, the society at the Iark next
summer must necessarily be exclusive. The
very place is suggestive Of such heath-sig-
ing sports as rowing, archery, pistol shooting,
and horseback riding and, while the Gus
tom ofriding as Grace Greenwood rode in
the Yosemite valley, it may prove small
beginning, but then il viii be q beginning,
and this is an important point in all reform
movements. Mr.. Giles, the President Of
the Blooming Grove Park Association, flyors
the idea, and next Summer he will DO his
best to have ladies Of unqucstionabe social
position try the experiment Of riding a-stTad-
de up among the shady pines of Pennsyl-
vania. In fact, in joining the chase up
there, woman's safety imperatively demands
shat she shall ride with two feet in stirrups
We hope the experiment will prove success
fol. In the name Of humanity to woman
and the horse, we say, down with the side
saddle.
Year: 1872

The demand for Telegraph Operators
is constantly being increased by the mum.
Der Of new railroad and telegraph lines
which are being opened up in the West
and South, thus making Telcgraphy one
of the most profitable as we'll as most
pleasant employments in the country
To young persons of either sex we offer
superior advantages to learn this art, as we
have short line expressly for learning,
also the benefit Of practice on one of the
principle lines in the country. We shall
endeavor to procure stuat ons for our
pupils as soon as competent. Terms $40
per month in advance.


ABBIE G. VAUGHAN,


Pa A Telegraph Office, Troy, Mo.


auglm3
Year: 1872

NorIuSd ttKt A TRADE.-A return
to the old plan of apprenticipg boys to
trades is being advocated. The hosts
of young men in every large city who
apply for employment and fail 10 get il
for the reason that they can not truth
fully affirm that they are educated or
specially fitted for any particular bust
tioss, constitutes potent argument in
favor ofrcform Under theapprcntice
system VIC should have fewer ignorant
mechanics and incompetent business
men. A trade is half a mans for
tune.
Year: 1872

AT the Grant Republican National Executive
Committees headquarters few visitors called NO news
was received from North Carolina. The Hon. w. f.
Chandler the Secretary the Committee said that he
was very Sorry that Gen. Banks had published letter.
announcing himself advocate OF the Liberal ticket
not that he considered that Gen Bankss letter would
affect Gen Grants position at all, that II would have
auy influence either side in the campaign but because
It would kill Gen. Banks. The General had simply fead
himself Out OF the Republican party.
Year: 1872

The Supreme Court Of California,
in granting Mrs. Fair new trial, did
SO upon the ground that the court
below erred in refusing her the
opening and closing, under her plea
of insanity. The Court says this
was an Affirmative allegation on the
part Of the defense, and entitled her
to tho close in the case.
Year: 1872

ERRoR.-In our article Of yester-
day in reference to the complaint
made Of the administration about
selling arms 10 the French, we werc
made to say that Grant did not recall
Motley, when the contrary was in.
tended.
Year: 1872

Motion to Strike = Special Jury for the


Trial Of the Cause-Argument OF Coun-


sel-Decision Reserved.


The case OF George w. Bowen vs. Nelson Chase
came up again yesterday in the United States Cir
cult Court, before Judge Shipman. on q motion
made by the defendant that special jury be struck
to try the cause. Mr.. Charles O'Conor and Mr.
Garter appeared as counsel for the defendant and
Mr.. c. Shafrer and General Chatneld for the
plaintir.


Mr. OConor called the attention OF the Court to
the provisions OF the federal and State law in refer
ence to the manner OF striking special jury.
He argued that the law seemed to be
that 2 special Jury should s be struck from
district, and observed that the oiicer whose duty
It would be to make the list should return the
names OF such persons as In his judgment he
deemed fit and capable to act as fair and impartial
jurors This list would be reduced to forty-efght
Names and each OF the parties at proper time
TO and striking on twelve Names SO that the list
from which the jury was finally to be empanened
would be reduced to the names OF twenty-fOur In
divduals. He submitted to the Court Q form Of
order which he had prepared In the case. and gave
che Judge various references TO the statutes both


Mr. Sharer and General Chatneld took some ex-
cepton to the views advanced by Mr. O'Conor, and
referred Judge Shipman to the rule OF the Circuit
and District Courts as to the mode OF striking
special juries They would be willing to have this
special jury struck from the list OF COO ordinarily
summoned In this Court.


Judge Shipman having heard the argument
reserved his decision. In the course Of few days
His Honor will decide as to the manner OF selecting
this jury and by whom It shall be struck
Year: 1872

WEsTCHEsTER, Pa, Nov. IL, 1872.


George Grant, the negro murderer who Is to be
hung tomorrow at this place, was ironed this
afternoon. 1t was feared there would be great
deal OF trouble with him, as he had refused to let
any one come near him and had hung shawl over
his cell door. The Sherin, with posse OF special
onlcers thoroughly armed, went to the cell at one
were In and upon him before he knew 1t.
He had moved his bed to the door and broken the
to get the irons securely on him, and he was re.
moved to another cell on the lower floor. He
swears he win break all the irons they can put on
him, and, Judging from past experiences with him.
1t seems no Idle boast. Six men will watch him
night, and IL Is thought they are able to guard
them. The cell he formerly occupied was nearly
broken through In several places, and he had
sbilly" and steel saw secreted In his cell when
removed.
Year: 1872

paper. within fourteen days after its maturity.


me defendants deny the allegations OF the COM
plaint and state that they are not liable for the
payment Of the note. The case mas NOT conciuded.
Year: 1872

was very simple Each tribe elected Its own chief
tain, who was obeyed with singular fidelity. Before
the death OF chief his successor was elected as
the abest and best In the tribe, and the cleo
ton took place before the chicftaAs death.
Year: 1872

The present editor of the Plymouth
REPUBLICAN appears to be somewhat in
clined to continue the style of abuse
which his predecessor commenced on the
Aryus Now, if the editor will carefully
read the shameless and insulting attack,
which called forth our reply, and coolly
determine to keep up the fight, we will
take pleasure in making it lively for him.
Let him get on his war toggerv, cap, feath-
ers and all, and then nail the black flag to
his mast-for it will be a fight, wherein
no quarters will be given or taken. The
choice is lovely peace or relentless war.
Under which king" REPUBLICAN?


J. B. Stoll, one of the editors of the La
parte Argts is responsible for the above
laughable piece of bragadocio. We had
said all We intended to, and see no.
cause for war; but if he is determined on
a fight, and will appoint day, we will
be there to see him 60 through the mo-
tions-and as he has refused to take a
Quarter-if the performance is creditable,
we will give him fifty cents, and call it
Tcheap. Is that satisfactory?
Year: 1872




TIE RAIN FALL-A distinguished Eng
lish scientist recently, in public lecture,
said the whole of the rain had its origin
and fall eight hundred feet from the earth
Desiring to discover the influence of the
moon on the clements, he took observa-
tons, and discovered, after long series
OF observations, that on the ninth day OF
the moon there was the most rain, and
that on the first and last weeks of the
moon there was the least amount From
the careful observations he had made, he
had no doubt that the moon did exercise
an influence on the rain. Another inves-
tigation hat he made was as to the time OF
day that rain fell most, and he had found
that the lal gest quantity fell at about fou
clock in the afternoon.
Year: 1872

The Goshen Democrat has adopted the
pay in advance system, and is happy.


We have been trying work into that
way of doing business gradually, by re-
quiring new subscribers to pay in advance
and the old ones to pay for the papers
they have had. But it IS with us some
thing like it was with the chap who
undertood to quit drinking by tapering off
on half pint of whisky day-"the taper
eend got to be the biggest"


Rather think we will bring the thing
around right before long.
Year: 1872

The Chairman of the Republican Cen
tral Committee for Marshall County, pub
fishes in this paper, call for conven-
ton to be held at the Court House, in
this place, on Saturday the 10th day of
February next. The Importance of f III
meeting may not be apparent to all at
present The next election campaign
will probably he an exciting one, as all
the important offices, State and National,
are to be filled the coming Fall, and it is
all important that worthy and acceptable
candidates should be placed in nomina-
ton. Representative men of the party
should be selected as delegates to the
State Convention-men who have the in
terests Of the State and Republican party
in view, above all mere personal preferen-
ces, and local prejudices.


A desperate effort is now being made
by those who are interested in DESTROYING
the Republican party, to create di ssen-
sions in our ranks. All differences, if
any exists, should be settled by represen-
tative men, in convention in a way that
will be satisfactory to all-and the right
way to commence is in primary meetings
Year: 1872

OUR POLITICAL FAITH.-The follow
ing extract from our Fort Wayne name
sake, is so nearly what we have thought
and intended to say, that we adopt it and
thank Bro. Steele for furnishing the arti-
Gle prepared:


The REPUBLICAN, as its name indicates,
is designed to be an out-and- out genuine,
full blooded, close-communion Republi-
can paper. We believe the principles of
that party to be as near correct in every
way as possible, and as honest as any
party can be- We know from the general
makeup of human kind that it is utterly
impossible for any administration to place
a hundred thousand men in office with
out there being occasional discoveries of
fraud or defalcation. But we also know
that the present head of the Government
and those of his political faith who are in
authority, are using every effort to ferret
out all cases of crime, and are pursuing
criminals with remorseless vig,r, and
punishing those found guilty of pecula-
ton with the most relentless severity.
This much for our faith in the party.
Year: 1872

Several editors in this State, are in the
President making business. Perhaps
they have dull axes to grind. Aswe have
confidence in Gen Grant, and feel con-
vinced that the people desire his re-elec-
ton, we have no disposition to bring
about change in the administration.
The fact that a few Democrats have ex-
pressed SO much anxiety to dispose of
Grant and elect some other Republican
in his place, is no evidence to us that they
have any other design than to beat Grant
and the Republicans.
Year: 1872

COMPLIMENTARY We have two or
three times acknowledged that the Fort
Wayne Republican was one of the finest
appearing papers in lhe State; but the
Laporte Herald and the Whitley County
Commercial have both given our Fort
Wayne namesake the highest compliment
yet They copy articles from the Mar
shall County REPUBLICAN and give the
Ft. Wayne paper credit.
Year: 1872

The editor of Plymouth REPUBLICAN
closes up a fine editorial item with the
following significant allusion to himself:


When fellow talks sneeringly orvul-
carly of the Republican that open hand
closes and becomes fist. Do you mind ?"


We don't desire any closer relations to
that editor than we now enjoy Winamac
Democrat.


Don't be alarmed Bro. Dem, when that
- becomes a fist, we Immediately put
it in our pocket We only said that to
scare somebody. You know how it is
yourself
Year: 1872

We trust the Indadnidn will succeed in
securing the nomination of Grant, as the
Democrats will without doubt, come out
victorious, in that event, and thus save
the country from the ruin that would sure
ly follow his collection Wi'sanaac Dem
0cfGt.


The inference is that Grant viii be re-
elected if he Is not nominated Is that
what you mean?
Year: 1872

fulflls his pledges and deserves our cor
dial support And, therefore, we instruct
our delegates to the National Convention
to vote for the denomination of Grant and
Colfax as our candidates for President and
Vice President.
Year: 1872

HOMEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN, and


LII widow OF the late DR.. E. w Coop,
err calls the attention of the people the fact that
she intends continuing the practice of medicine
and dentistry in her late husbands place. and that
she will promptly attend TO all calls and treat all
diseases that afiict the human system. Once and
residence first door south OF Alleman's furniture
store. IS
Year: 1872

NEW YORK, June 5.-Governor HofI=
man, in reply t0 a communication from
the furniture employers, says he has no
control over the New York police, but 1t
Is his duty to do all in his power to pre-
serve the public peace and to see that all
the laws are fully and firmly enforced,
and that capital and labor have an equal
interest in the discharge Of that duty.
The Chairman of the Furniture
Manufacturers Society has since pro-
tested to the Governor against the
way in which the eight-hOur question
is precipitated on them by the
League, to the injury alike Of cap
ital and labor, employe and en-
plOyer, and it becomes US, as law
abiding citizens, to submit to the gov
ernment, whether d secret organization,
with no known responsibility, does not,
in organizing movements as recently,
transgres the law, and whether they
do not, In carrying out what they call
a philanthrOpic movement, In their
method of carrying it out, conspire
against the peace, good order and law of
the State.
Year: 1872

The following singular instance of
eccentricity, illustrating the close
connection of this condition of the
mind with insanity, is related by
Prof. Hammond in his work on dis
eases of the nervous system:


"a lady had since her childhood
shown a singularity of conduct as
regarded ner table furniture, which
she would have of no other material
than copper. She carried this fancy
to such an extent that even the
knives were made of copper. Peo-
pie laughed at her, and tried to rea-
son her out Of her whim, but in vain
In no other respect was there any
evidence of mental alteration. She
was intelligent, by no means excita.
bic, and in the enjoyment of excel
lent health. An uncle had, however
died insane. A tIifling circumstance
started in her a new train of thought
and excited emotions which she
could not control. She read in the
morning paper that Mr.. Hopper
man had arrived at one of the hotels,
and she announced her determine
tion to cali on him. Her friends en-
deavored to dissuade her but with
out avail. She went to the hotel and
was told that he had just left for
Chicago. Without returning to her
home, she bought a ticket for Chica-
90, actually started on the next
train for that city. The telegraph,
however, overlook her, and she was
brought back from Rochester, raw
inc Of her love for a man she had
never seen, and whose name alone
had been associated in her mind with
her fancy for copper table furniture.
She died of acute mania within a
month.-ScI56ner for august.
Year: 1872

A colored philosopher thus IN
burdened himself on one Of woman s
weaknesses 'Jim, de men don't
make such fools of demselEes
about women as de women do about
men. If dey look at de moon dey
see a man in it. If dey hear a mouse
milling, it's a man; and dey all look
under the bed last thing at night to
find a man. Why, 1 nebber look
under my bed to find a woman, does
you2"
Year: 1872

GENERAL INTELLI0ENCE.-Pe Persons at a
distance desiring information from this point, can
address me. IT the subject does not require much
investigation few postage stamps Will be sufi-
Year: 1872

Disasters, like crimes and in fact like most
classes of occurrences, arrange themselves in
groups and clusters, seeming to run in cycles.
Of late we have had a rapid succession Of ter
rible steamboat accidents, attended with fright
full loss of life. These have naturally caused
rejecting people to consider the propriety of
extra life insurance before starting on steam
that these accidents have apparently quick
ened to duty our governmental steamboat in
spection corps, and the public will be glad to
hear that such old and dangerous boats as the
Huguenot lately running to Coney Island,
and those of the He'll Gate ferry have been
condemned and are to be replaced by others
less liable to carry their passengers to Davy
Jones'. In the prevention Of wholesale
slaughter no official is charged with more
delicate and important trusts than the
steamboat inspector. If, through his lack of
practical skill, he should fail to detect flaw
in a boiler or weak spot in hull which sub
sequently causes loss of life, sensitive con-
science will upbraid him with alluring the
victim to his fate. How if, seeing radical and
dangerous defects, his sight should be OBJ
scured by bribe, and he sign q certificate
which he knows to be false? We do not
charge any such offence, but common remark
asserts that money will procure certificates for
the most worthless craft adoat Certainly no
inspec+isn can be too rigid for boats which
carry passengers by the hundred, and the pub
liz will f,1llv unhO1d INV inspactOr in IN nsstiru
that oil the legal requirements for safety be
fully complied with in every boat before grant
ing his certificate
Year: 1872

The city is now crowded with the best musi-
cal talent that Europe can boast of, and the
season opened last night with an Sclat that
spoke well for the desire of the public to en-
courage these artists. The concert hall was
crowded to its utmost capacity and the
audience were more good-natured than ever.
Next week we are promised o special treat in
the first appearance of the greatest of living
pianists, and the newly decorated Academy Of
Music will throw oren rena its doors on the week
following for the opera. The prospects of the
Lucca season are more brilliant than were ever
known before at the Opera House, and al-
though the box Office will be opened to-day for
the first time formally for subscriptions vet
oil the boxes in the house are already disposed
Of for the season, and also many seats in the
parquet The company is unusually strong,
possessing the merit of new members in every
department. and one surprising artist, the
idol of Covent Garden, Berlin and ST. Peters
burg. Madame Lucca's name in Europe
is sufficient guarantee for the sue
cess of any opera season, and the desire
of our public to hear her has already been
shown in unmistakable terms. Another sig
nifcant sign of the enthusiasm of the public
over the present season of music is shown in
the grand ovations accorded to the principal
artists after their arrival here. The once
great tenor, Mario, was the recipient of grand
serenade at his hotel; the Philharmonic
Society paid the same compliment to Rubin
stein; oil New York focked to hear the sere-
made given by the Liederkranz Society to
Lucca, and tonight brilliant reception will
be accorded TO Miss Clara Louise Kellogg by
the :rcadian Club. New York is destined to
become the rival of the great operatic centres
of Europe and the career OF no artist will be
complete without visit to the metropolis of
the West.
Year: 1872

The negro population of the sea coast dis
tricts is more fixed than that in the interior.
1t is very averse to removal The softer
atmosphere, the alluvial and teeming nature of
the soil, and the abundance of Ash, oysters,
wild fowl and game, greatly attract it. There,
too, the African race is far less liable to the
malarious diseases than the white and for that
reason can indulge their desire for the gre
garious seclusion and indolent quiet of their
kind. The negroes along the Atlantic shore
are more ignorant and primitive, less self
reliant and enterprising than those of the
interior. They will lose but little by emigra-
ton; but there the natural increase is less
than elsewhere Their character, habits and
food are not liked by the interior mass of their
race, and they gain little by immigration.


The negro population is in general stolidly
Indifferent to any system or means of improved
culture and to manuring or any mode of re-
storing land. This, with the slothfulness and
negligence of their work, renders their labor
unsuited to much of the comparatively ex-
hausted soil of parts of the older Southern
States, or to the naturally poor portions of any
or all of them, or to districts where climate
requires more strenuous and skilled tillage.
AS the newer States are more southerly and
westward. they add new attractions and force
Year: 1872

The increase in the negro population OF the
United States in the decade from 1850 to 1850
was nineteen per cent. and in the decade from
1860 to 1870 was twelve per cent. and but for
the war during the latter period would have
been at least fifteen per cent. Those States
whose per cent of gain has been less than these
average rates have comparatively decreased in
that population by emigration, and those
where the gain has been greater than the
natural increase have enlarged it by immigra-
ton. From the geographical positions of
these respective States it is evident that the
flow Of migration has been uniformly South
and partly West. If this continues, as it
probably will the negroes will monopolize
Florida and Southwestern Texas, and as the
white population presses on their heels, and to
their exclusion from their present field Of
labor, they will eventually pour into Mexico
and Central America. This pressure of the
white race, to the displacement of the black,
will probably ever and at least be in proper
ton to the preponderance OF the former over
the latter, and which in 1870 (by the census of
the above States and Territory, exclusive Of
Missouri and Delaware) was 7,760,988 whites
to 4, 398, OFT blacks. It will be increased by
white immigration.


South Carolina would promptly throw off
the preponderance of her negro population
but for the mass which clings to her sea shore
and rice district. She will eventually have
white predominancy. Mississippi and Louisiana
will attain to this result at an earlier period.





white supremacy.


The next table refers to the increase Of
negro population in those Northern States
which best illustrate a limited northerly move
meut: =