smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1872

Special to the Appeal


NASHVILLE, March 2S.-At meet
ing of the State Executive Commit
tee of the Democratic party to-day
the following was adopted:


Believing that the time has come
when the welfare not only OF our
State but of the nation, demands that
the Democracy should take counsel
together and prepare for harmonious
action, and in the intelligent and pa
triotie discharge OF their duty in the
approaching contest, both State and
national, the Democratic Executive
Committee for the State OF Tennessee
do, therefore,


RssOlre, That a Democratic State
Convention is hereby called to assem-.
bic at the capitol in Nashville, on
Thursday the ninth day of May next,
TO nominate candidate for Governor,
and 20 take such other steps in view
OF the approaching contest, both State
and National elections, and as the
condition of the country and circum-
stances then existing, may suggest,
and to this end we urge upon the peo
pie in different counties, to assemble
at as early q time as practicable in
primary meetings aud select suitable
delegates to represent them in said
convention; That, recognizing the
fact that the people of Tennessee have
a common interest in resisting the en-
crOachments of Capitalization and pre-
serving a republican government,
as well as correcting eOrruptiOns and
abuses, which has become 80 wide
spread and alarming, and believing
that upon these great questions,
there is little or no material
diversity of opinion among them,
we invite the cooperation Of all
conservative patriots, by whatever
party name they may have heretofore
been called. In accordance with the
foregoing resolution,


a convention Of the Democratic par
ty Of Tennessee is called to meet at
the capital on the Oh Of May.
Year: 1872

a special object in gathering together
all parties who favor these principles,
and state that arrangements have been
made with most of the railroads to re-
turn persons home free who have paid
full fare coming to iac Convention.
The Convention will make use o. nctn
Mozart hall and Exposition hall. The
Committee is using every effort to in
sure provision for the convenience
and comfort Of all who may come.
Year: 1872

Rumors are rife to the effect that impol
tant changes in railroad affairs as related
to Superior interests, have been determined
upon changes which may temporarily
transfer active operations, hitherto gong
on west of us upon the line of the State Line
road, to a field nearer the front Of the Bay.
Whatever new plans have been adopted,
we have assurances that they are such as
look to the accomplishment Of very desira-
bic results for Superior


We hope to be able to give our readers
fill information in our next issue, and to
satisfy all, that " things is workln'
Year: 1872

We are grieved to learn through the
Duluth Uerala, that the Secretary of W ar
is not likely to adopt the suggestions here
tofore made in our paper, with reference to
the scope and topics of the communication,
which he is called upon to make to the
Senate in relation to the canal and dyke at
Dnlnth. under Senator Windows resolution


This is really too bad. We OF course
took it for granted that the Secretary woald
be guided implicitly by our recommends
tions We certainly desired that 'e would,
and can but take it as very chnr!i>h IN the
HeyoM to intimate to that functonary that
he may properly do otherwise. Neverthe-
less, we hope his report will cover all the
points we referred to.
Year: 1872

The Board of Aldermen had sitting yesterday,
Alderman Cochrane in the chair The usual num-
ber of resolutions were introduced looking to the
paving of various streets, which were reported to
the Committee on Streets. 'Begian" and ''trap-
block" seemed to be all the rage, no other pave
ment being mentioned in the resolutions


resolution was adopted instructing the Com
missioner of Public Works to notify the Hudson
River Railroad Company to Immediately relay the
pavement between the railroad tracks In Eleventh
avenue between FOrty-eighth and Filty-second
streets, and falling to do so the Commissioner Is
requested to cause the work to be done and enter
an action against the company to recover the
amount expended In such repairs.


Alderman FALCONER offered resolution giving
the Grahamite Asphaltum Company permission to
put down as an experiment their pavement on
Fifth avenue, between Twenty-fourth and Twenty
fifth streets, without expense to the city or the
property owners.


Alderman MEHRBACn said that part of the avenue
was paved last year with the best pavement in the
city, and he was opposed to it for this reason.


The resolution was adopted by vote OF 10 to 2.


Alderman VANCE moved a reconsideration, but it
was lost, and the resolution was recorded as
adopted.


The Board adjourned until Monday next
Year: 1872

number OF Apollo Hall politicians Of the Fifth
ward met at the City Hall yesterday and held a
caucus, with Alderman Fitzgerald, as to the pro.
piety OF applying to the Police Commissioners for
the appointment OF Inspectors OF Election from the
ranks OF the Apollo Hall party communication
TO that effect was sent to the commissioners
Year: 1872

settled, and to controversies which
are closed.


The Liberal party turns from the
past to the future it seeks to heal
the wounds which years Of sectional
hate and angry conflict have inflicted
on the country it strives to release
the people from the CALLING fetters
Of party tyranny, and to combine in
one great movement all the opposi-
ton to the corrupt and despotic gov
ernment at Washington and to the
equally corrupt and -despotic faction
which represents the national admin
istration in this State.


Representing great popular
movement and great popular i'm
pulse, it yields to the diction Of no
cliques and is subservient to no indi-
vidual. It invites to its councils all
who sympathize with its effort to re-
deem the State and to cooperate in
the redemption of the nation. 1t is
essentially party Of principle and
toleration, and it's action will be in
Auenced solely by the intelligent
public opinion to which alone it con-
fdes. It appeals to the common
sense, the virtue and the judgement
Of the people; and to this appeal
the responses ore SO general and so
emphatic that it has no longer any
fears for the result.


By order Of the State Central
Committee.


D. B. PENN, President.


A. HERO, Jr., Secretary.
Year: 1872

General Williams, of Nevada, sta
ted to a reporter Of the New York
Tribune that if an honest expression
of opinion were allowed at the polls
the people Of Nevada would in No
vember next cast large majority
for the Cincinnati ticket.
Year: 1872

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I have in days gone by spoken Of
Grants magni6cently fought battles
of Mission Ridge and Lookout
Mountain, Of his unrivaled tactical
skill and indomitable will as display
ed in the bloody Wilderness. I have
even, to the satisfaction of his most
Jealous friends, praised and extolled
him as a soldier, and I ever shall !;
but to-day I am speaking of his po-
litical, and not of his military,
achievements. I want to hold up
before your faces Grant the politi-
clan, and not Grant the soldier. I
ask you to look upon him now as
the leader Of ring Of politicians
who claim that the Republican par
ty is all justice, all honor, all mercy,
and above honest criticism, and that
they, with Grant, constitute the Re-
publican party, and not upon Cen
eral Grant, the successful leader of
our great Union armies. And when
I tell you that this government has
been plundered under the present
| administration as no nation WAS ever
plundered before since the days when
republican Rome was ruled by a
Caesar and robbed by Mark An
tony, I don't want you to answer,
Yes, tits true, but then Grant cap
tured Vicksburg." When the whole
country is clamoring for civil service
reform, and reform in government
and judging from the past we can
not have it under Grant-we will
not be silenced by the cry, Yes,
but Grant whipped Bragg at Mis-
sion Ridge" And when we show
that Grant and his admirers have
disgraced and humiliated us ma
tion abroad that he arrogates to
himself powers delegated alone to
Congress that the whole tendency
of his administration is toward CEN
tralization and finally, that he at
tempted to force through Congress
the outrageous proposition to place
in his hands the power to suspend
law in the time Of profound peace,
that he might place creature Of his
own at the ballot-box, backed by
federal bayonets at every town and
hamlet, to re-elect himself to the
high Office he has SO shamefully dis
graced, it will not do to say, 6 Yes,
but Grant received the sword of
Lee at Appomattox Courthouse. -
Gentlemen, the partisans of Grant
are powerless to refute the charges
of wholesale frauds, Of executive
maladministration, Of dishonesty and
corruption in highest places, Of the
crimes and misdemeanors of their
chief himself. He and his partisans
are trampling upon the rights of the
State and the liberty of the people ;
they are binding us over to militia
ry despotism, and their cry comes
back, What are you going to do
about it didn't Grant capture Lee
at Appomattox Courthouse ?" They
shut their ears to the indignant mur-
muring of an awakening people,
They close their eyes to the OMNIBUS
strides already made to Grants in
ordinate ambition and lust for pow
er, and, deralding abroad with peans
of ecstatic praise his most insignif-
cant achievements, they tremble at
his nod and bend in humble submis-
sion to his slightest wish. Gentle
men, let us rather he dogs and bay
the moon" than be such Americans.
Speech Of General Kiloatr'ck.
Year: 1872

1t seems to me that the dead have
come to life; that the tenants of the last
ditch arc here in force. Even as ]
speak Col. McEncry is addressing acres
of them in the street. The people arc
here in their might, not under a now
flag, but beneath the -honorcd Dom
Year: 1872

IIIGH IIEELEp Doors There is no
torture lady will not submit to- for the
sake Of being fashionable; and there is
no fashion which is 50 injurious as the
immense heels which are considered just
at present so necessary to stylish "
boot But were the terrible results of
wearing such heels forcibly impressed
upon women we believe they surely
would refuse to run such risks. These
heels produce crooked feet and distorto
limbs, which are an outrage on ANATOMY
and humanity, and should render the au
thors Of them amenabe to law. They
throw the foot forward, causing all the
weight to rest on the toes, and twisting
the ankle out Of all shape. They also
are the principle source Of the corDs and
bunons which every foot seems to be
afflicted with at the present day. 1t is a
monstrous abuse Of the human limbs in
women, but when it comes to taking lit.
tie girls and putting their feet into high.
heeled boots, thus jamming their fee,
out Of shape. and throwing their plable
little legs out Of their natural ballast,
and bending them into sem. circles, il is
a cruel sacrifice to fashion.


Should this pernicious custom go on a
few years, there will not be found per
feet leg among the female portion Of our
people. Were it merely n question OF
looks, in might be passed by; but they
are but trines compared with the injury
done to the pcl,is, spine and chest, from
the constrained and stilted attitude which
the abnormal elevation Of the heels In.
duccs. Fashion is at best but cruel
and ignorant tyrant. and among all her
caprices not one is SO wantsn q violation
of the laws of hoalth as this sfashion OF
wearing high heeled shoes - Western
| Rural
Year: 1872

Fretting is both useless and unnecessary; it
does no good and a great deal Of harm; yet it
is almost universal sin. More Or less We
are all given to it. We fret over almost every


thing. In Summer because it is too hot, and
in Winter because it is too cold; we fret when
it rains because it is wet, and when it doesn't
rain because it is dry; when we are sick, or
when anybody else is sick. In short, il any.
thing or everything doesn't 60 just to suit our
particular whims and fancies, We have one
grand general refuge-tO fret over it. am
afraid tretting is much more common among
women than among men. We may as well
own the truth. my fair sisters. if it isn't alto
gether pleasant. Perhaps it 10 because the lit
tie worries and cares aud vexati0ns ut our
daily life harass our sensitive nerves more thaa
the most extended enterprises which generally
take the attention Of men. Great wants de-
v-lop great resources, but little wants aud
worries are hardly provided for, and like the
nail which strikes against the saw, they make
not much ot mark. but they turn the edges
terribly. think if We looked upon all the
little Worries of one day as great united
worry, selt.cOntrOl to meet it would be devel-
oped But as they generally come only one or
two little things ut a time, they seem SO very
little that we give way, aad the breach once
uhauc iH tuc wall sooH grows iaTkeE. No",
don't believe in the cant that woman must
always. under al and any circumstances, wear
Il smiling face when her husband comes home,
or that she needs Ia take her hands out Of the
dough. or drop the baby on the floor. to run
and meet him at the door. But do believe
nay. know, for | have seen it with my own
eyes among my fricnds-that many a woman
has driven kind husband away from her;
away from his home and Its sacred influences.
and caused him TO spend his time at Il billiard
table ar IN "A drinking saloon. amid their pro-
fame inhurncrs. simply by her ccaselrss fret
ting over irifes which were not worth word;
much less the peace and happiness OF q home.
know that mauy u mother has turned her
son against her own sex. and made him dread
aud dislike the society If women by her ex.
ample constantly set before him. know that
many u mother has brought up and developed
a daughter just like herself. who. in turn.
would wreck and ruin the comfort OF another
family circle. And knowing all this, my sis
i.rs.-and brothers. too. il they need it,
know that We ought 10 set our faces lk. a flint
asalns, this useless. sinful. peace destroying
aud home disturbing habit Of ireiting
Year: 1872

Why WE SHOULD WEAR BKARDs.-Therc
are more solid inducements for wearing the
beard than the mere improvement OF man 8
personal appearance and the cultivation OF
such an aid to the every day diplomacy Of life.
The hair of the moustache not only absorbs
the moisture and mias,na Of the fogs, but it
strains the air Of the dust and SCOT Of our
great, smoky cities 1t acts also in the most
scientific manner, by taking heat from the
warm breath as it leaves the chest, and sup
plying it to the cold mir taken in. 1t is not
only a respirator. but with beard entire we
are supplied with a comforter na well. and
these are never left at home like the umbrella
and all such appliances when they are wanted.
Moffnt and Livingstone. the explorers. and
many other travellers, say that at night no
wrapper can equal the beard. A remarkable
fact is, too. that the beard, like the hair OF
head. protects against the heat Of the sun; it
acts as the thatch does to the ice. house, but,
more than this, it becomes moist with perspi-
ration, and then, by evaporation. c"ols the
skin. A man who accepts this protection oi
nature may face The rudcst storms and the
hardest winter. He may 50 from the hottest
room into the coolest air without dread; nad
we verify believe he might sleep in morass
with impunity; ut least his chance Of escaping
the terrible fever would be better than his
beardlcss companions.
Year: 1872

The atom of charcoal which float
ed in the corrupt. atmosphere of the
old volcanic ages, absorbed into the
leaf of a fern when the valleys be-
came green and luxuriant; and there
in its proper place, il received
the sunlight and the dew, aiding to
fling back TO heaven a reelection of
heavens gold, and at the silme time
to build the tough fibre of the plant.
The atom was consigned to the tomb
when the waters submerged the Jun
gled valley. II had lain three thou
sand years, and a month since was
brought into the light again, imbed-
ded in block of coal. 1t shall be
consumed 10 warm our dwellings,
cook our food, and make more rud-
dy and cheerful the hearth whereOn
our children play; il shall combine
with portion of the invisible at
mosphere, ascend upward as curl
ing wreath to reVel in a may dance
high mp in the blue ether, shall reach
the earth again, and be entrappcd
into the embrace Of a flower, shall
live in velvet beauty on the cheek of
the apricot; shall pass into the hu-
man body, giving enjoyment to the
palate, the health to the blood, shall
circulate in the delicate brain and;
aid, by entering into some new COM
bination, in reducing the thoughts
which are now being uttered by the
pen. 1t is but an atom of charcoal;
IL may dwell one moment in a stag
nant ditch, and the next be flushing
on the lip of beauty; il may be a
component of limestone rock, and
next.an ingredient field of potatoes:
il may slumber for thousand years
without undergoing a single change,
and the next hour pass through a
thousand, and, after all, il is only
an atom Of charcoal, and occupies
only its place wherever it may be.
Year: 1872

Let it never come unto you. Live
so that the good angel will protect
you from that terrible eviI-the
winter of the heart. Let no chill
ing influence freeze up the foun-
tains of sympathy and happiness in
its very blasted hopes, like snow
on withered depths; no cold burden
settle over its flowers; no rude blasts
of observation-disclosures moan and
shrek through its desOlate cham
bers.


Your path way may lead you
among trials which, for a time,
seem utterly to impede your pro-
gress, and shut out the very light
of heaven from your anxious gaze.
Poverty may take the place Of ease
and plenty; your luxurious home
may be exchanged for a single room
the soft couch for pallet of straw
rich viands for the coarse food of
the poor. Summer friends may for
sake you, with scarcely a passing
word or look of compassion. You
may be forced to toll weariIy,
steadily on, TO earn a livelihood;
you may encounter fraud and the
base avarice which would extort
the last farthing, till you well-nigh
turn in disgust from your fellow
beings.


Death may sever the dear ties
that bind you to earth, and leave
you in fearful darkness. That no.
bic, manly boy, the sole hope OF
your declining years, may be taken
from you while your spirit clings
to him with a wild tenacity which
even the shadows of the tomb can
not wholly subdue. But still look
upward-put faith in Providence
aud the winter of the heart viii moi
come TO you.
Year: 1872

The most potent advocacy OF any
cause Is not TO be found in the spec
ches Of those who are put forward
as its teachers or prOclaimcrs.-
| While We would not IN the smallest
degree underrate the work perform
ed by our speakers and writers, vet
we believe there is more power for
good IN the open, undoubted, and
constant faithfulness of the individ-
ual members, than in the most elo-
| quent lecture ever delivered.
This IS true not only Of the tenn
perance cause, but even Of religion
itself, and in fact of any cause TvOr-
thy Of success. Eloquent preachers
may arouse the people and bring
members into the church, and yet
have accomplished no permanent
good, unless the converts by a patti
ent continuance in well doing seek
for glory and immortality. With
out an earnest faith developed in
act, the young disciple will soon
fall away, and his last state be
worse than the first The church
that lives nearest right will exert
the most powerful influence upon
the community. This principle is
equally true of the temperance
cause. Our popular lecturers may
enlist host of recruits, but If they
prove unfaithful 20 their obligations
the world will soon lose respect for
the order, and its power for good
VIII have been greatly impaired
Every one must know this TO be SO,
and yet we see many who have as
sumed the sacred vows Of good
Templers quickly forget them, or al
least violate them. Their Judgment
and conscieuces incline them TO total
abstinence, and yet they 90 back
again TO the deadly poison that un-
mans them, and this too often against
their wills. We can account for this
upon no other hypothesis than that
OF inability to resist the continual
temptation set before them by the
liquor dealer.


Surely men who in their sober
hours have coolly made up their
minds 70 abstain altogether from in
toxicating drinks, and have taken a
vow so TO do, would keep that vow
IL they could. Those who have
never felt the burning, gnawing,
craving uppetite for stimulants that
strong drink engenders, can hardly
appreciate the struggle the once ha-
bitual drinker has TO make in order
to gain the mastery over his weak
ness. Let US then pity the poor vic
tim, and censure those who tempt
him to his ruin.


To the Good Templars then we
will say, If we would enable the
weak 20 stand, let US labor to keep
them from temptation, and to this
end let US strive 20 Danish alcohol
in all its forms from our commerce,
so that 1t shall cease 10 allure men
to destruction.


Oh, co-laborersl in good cause,
il we would influence the commun-
ity in which we live, If we would
have success crown our banners, If
we would have an era Of peace and
prosperity, If we would have our
fellow mer, redeemed from an ac-
cursed thraldOm, let us not forget
the mighty power there is in pa
ttent continuance ia tCeU doing.
God speed the right
Year: 1872

The possession of a few dollars
often makes all the difference be-
tween happiness and misery, and
no man, especially with a family
dependent upon him, can be truly
independent unless he has few
dollars reserved for the time OF
need. While extreme carefulness
as to the expenditure Of money viii
make a rich man poor, a wise econ
Omy will almost as certainly make a
poor man rich, or Al least, make
him, to a considerable extent, indie
pendent OF the caprices of employers
and of the common vicissitudes OF
life. Nothing is more important to
the poor man than the habit of saw
ing something; but his little hoard
viii soon begin TO grow at a rate
which viii surprise and crafty him.
Every working man ought to have
an account IL some savings bank,
and should add to il every week
during which he has full employ
ment, even If the addition is but a
dollar at time. If he does this, he
will soon find the dollar growing
into tens, and these tens into hum
.dFeds, and in little time will be in
possession a sum which is constant
ly yielding an addition to his in
come, which secures him a reserve
fund whenever one is needed. and
which will enable him to do many
things, which, without a little mo-
ney, he would be pOwerless to do
piftSbuyg Post.
Year: 1872

Horace Glyndon says in the New
York Mail:


have already alluded to the fact
that there is but one thing which
you may be morally certain that an
American woman will do when she
sits down to table, in any cline, at
any hour and under any circum-
stances, and that is, If she be free
agent, she will order a cup of tea.
But before going any further wish
TO qualify this sweeping assertion.
She is almost equally as likely to kiss
baby on first sight. Now, kissing
a baby means, with most women,
almost devouring il bodily.
Strangely enough, such kisses
as men only give to women,
women always reserve for babies.
No lover and no husband in theWorld
can throw one OF them in so fine q
frenzy as the sight of a small, roly
poly mass of pink and white flesh,
done up in embroidered flannel,
tucked nainsook and pink ribbons.
But the charm gradually wears away
after the child is a year old, and I
am notable to certify whether its
first freshness lasts over that time IN
the mans case.
Year: 1872

HEARD OF HIoI.-A professional
gentleman, well known in this city,
had not seen his son for q long pc
rfod of time, owing to the fact that
the latter retired to bed ere the for
mer returned home, and in the
morning the father always left be
fore the son got out Of bod One
morning the lady of the house man
aged to get the father and son to-
gether at the breakfast table, and
by way of a joke remarked: "Son,
let me introduce you to YOUR faith
er." 'How 10 you do fatheI'?'' said
the hopeful. Il dOn'tremember ev-
or having met you before, but1 have
heard ma speak OF you"