smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1870

4AA G@8A4H = HA4AAs


There are not many weeks tC
elapse before the time Of holding
this Fair will be here.


The Importance Of these Fairs
to our mechanical, agricultural
and industrial interests prompts
US to ask il the necessary and
proper efforts are being made to
ensure a success this season.


The people must not think Of
these exhibitions as merely mat.
ters Of speculation and for indi-
vidual profit. They are not pri-
vate undertakings, but are under
taken by members Of a community
for public good and to develope
public resources, as well as to create
an interest in the several indus
trial occupations of the county
and State, and in this way lead to
results that, while they do de.
velope public resour Ces, will also
benefit the fortune Of each indi-
vidual composing the public.


Let the understanding be gen.
eral and definite that these Fairs
are for the common good Of all,
and that all, being thus interested,
it becomes each ones duty, as Il
should be a pleasure, to do some.
thing-to assist, by their contribu-
ton, to make a fine and large dis.
play at the time Of exhibition
The success Of q Fair depends
very much on the quantity and
variety ..of articles on exhibition
Competition in the various classes
is the very "cream' of the thing
"the more the merrier" is the
idea.


We hope and expect to see {
fine display this Fall. The dis
play last October, was highly
gratifying and creditable. Tha'
Fair was a success. Let us re
solve to surpass our efforts Of las
year, and let US do it. We cal
upon the farmers wives 10 pre-
pare for exhibition something
and rs much from their house
keeping, dairy, or other depart
ments as possible. And from tn,
ladies generally we shall expec
liberal displays of their handi
work. We shall expect our farm
ers and stock raisers, our mechan
les and artists, and from Others
evidences Of their thrift, labor
skill and taste.


The officers Of the society ar,
doing and will continue to dt
everything in their power to max
the occasion one of pleasure an,
profit.


Let one and all, then, lend
helping hand. We make this ar
peal on behalf Of the public gener
ally, and also on behalf of the Sc
ciety.


Let the coming gathering be sue
that it will not only make on
County Fair a grand success, bu
that it shall make these occasion
eagerly longed for and re
markable epoch in our public his
tory. Any information regarding
the Fair may be obtained of VIM
A. Fairchild, Esq, of this city
from whom programmes and pre-
MUM lists may be had.
Year: 1870

In 1864, before the National Democratic
Convention that nominated Gen. Mcclellan had
convened, but when it was evident that both a
peace man and peace platform would not do,
1t was urged by the New York World that the
Convention should make out no platform. II
contended that platforms do not bind that
party, Of individual members thereof, and cit
ed cases in proof 1t advised the nomination
OF Mcclellan without platform. Its advice
was not taken, ho rever and Mcclellan was
nominated on platform which he never en-
dorsed, and was defeated worse with ballots
than he was with bullets


And what binding force has the tenth nlank
OF the platform of the Democrats of this State.
recently adopted at Dover, in which they de-
clare that they do not want and will not seek
the negro vote, but will rely exclusively upon
the votes OF white men, hereby declaring that
the Democratic Party of the State of Delaware
is now, as it ever has been, exclusively White
Mans Party?"


What effect has such declaration when we
read IN Wilmington exchange that President
Bright, candidate for reelection as President
OF the council Of that city, visited the negroes
on Orange st. and solicited their votes; also
that one of the candidates nominated bv the
Democratic party in Christiana Hundred for
Road Commissioner, has been soliciting color
ed men to vote for him at the coming election.
1t is even stated that Mr.. Bright had RepubI
can tickets printed, with his name inserted in
place of Mr.. Adams, which he rendered to his
colored friends, whom he condescended to visit
for the fir, time.


What is the use of any such declaration.
when the general policy of the party-by which
they must be governed-is in opposition to
them, and the national Democratic organ ridi
cules them as hide-bound politicians?


The Democrats of Maryland are rejoicing
over the formation of a negro Democratic club
In BaltimOre-are they not orthodox? The
chairman OF the Democratic Central Committee
of Louisiana has invited the colored people of
that State to join them, and declares that the
party throughout the country needs their sup
port DO they hate the negroes worse than
the Democrats of Delaware?
Again we ask what does such declaration
amount to?
Year: 1870

The Democrats of this State head their plat
form by declaring their devotion now, as in
the past, to the Federal Union" If they had
been devoted to the Union in the past they
would not have had tc make any such declara-
ton. 1t would have had no relevancy.
Year: 1870

The Senate Political Disability Commit
tee, rather than wait for . general amnesty
bill, have decided to report special act,
relieving the disabilities of nearly 1000
Southerners. About one half of the names
On the bill are Virrinians
Year: 1870

The annual meeting Of the Supreme
Council of Grand Inspectors General of the
Thirty third and last Degree Ancient and
Accepted Scottish Rite Masonry is to be held
.hi. year in Cincinnati, commer cling at noon
on June 18th,
Year: 1870

An election will be held in Minnesota on
the 3lst instant on the question of paying
the old railroad bonds, and it is now
generally conceded by newspapers in that
state that the decision will be against the
proposition
Year: 1870

MADRID, June 2o.-Thn press protest against
the restoration OF the Bourbon Dynasty Id the
person Of the son Of Isabella.


The Law authorizing civil marriages goes into


operation on Sept l.
Year: 1870

There are undoubtedly seasons and
periods when il is wise to wait--whcn
it is not worth while TO commence
any undertaking, great or small
There are studies which il is not worth
n mans while TO take up. pursuits
which it is not worth his while 20 fol-
low, minutes and half hours which il
is not worth whiic to fll with an oc.
cupaton. No doubt we have all our
peculiar notions on this head 1t
does not seem to us worth while to
read at dinner time, or out of doors,
or to set ones self to learn a language
in recurring spare moments; these
acts come under the same category OF
virtue with the old housewives econo-
my Of time which makes her sit up in
bed TO knit stockings in the dark, or
rethrend her needle, ut infinite ex-
pense Of the time and eyesight, TO
save an inch of cotton. There are a
vast number of small industries that
are not worth the while OF a man with
one settled occupation which engages
a fair portion of his time. We have
not much faith in the achievements
done in odd minutes We believe
there is usually more loss than gain
by them, aud that manners and con.
versation both suffer whore there is
this trick of thinking il worth while
20 pull out some implement oflabor-
pen, pencil, or needle--at times when
other people are content to seem nm
employed, and arc only busy in being
agreeable and placing themselves at
the service of their company Moth
ing ministers so much 20 impotence
as these habits 1t is an evidence of
thorough selfmastery when a man
who knows how to use time has the
sense to recognize when time is not
worth using in any definite os,cnsible
way.
Year: 1870

the liie-iide rapidly ebbng from the
ghastly wounds, and the dim eye shonc
no moro with hate, but had an
almost human expression of agony
and despair lurking its iilmy and glar-
ing orbs The crocodile was we'll nigh
struggling in its death throes and the
mighty frame seemed contracted aud
convulsed with the near approach Of
the final spasm. The man was no.
where to be seen. Just then, painting,
worn, exhausted, but still unwounded,
Daoud, the dagger in his right band,
rose to the surface, but unhappily
within a yard of the almost vanquish-
ed monster The scaly thing saw
him, aud with mighty effort of ex-
piring energy, struck out wildly with
his powerful tail. 1t fell like a fail
on the head Of the Syrian, stretching
him senseless and powerlens beside
his enemy. The next moment the dy-
ing crocodile twisted his body round,
opened his mighty jaws with final
and convulsive ofiort--and, when they
closed again, within them was the
writhing body Of the Syrian, caught
as in some huge trap, which crushed
bone, muscle, sinew and flesh into one
undistinguishable mass, And locked
tight in the death spasm, those jaws
never Enclosed again But the scaly
bulk of the crocodile, bearing in its
dead jaws the corpse Of its destroyer,
foaied down the current of the Nile,
under the still moonlight, TO the open
sea, which was TO retain the relics of
both until the hour shall como when
that sea shall give up its dead -Egyp-
tan Sketches.
Year: 1870

U1HE ELLIPTIC SEWING MACHINES ARE


l manufactured and warranted by the Wheeler
n Wilson Sewing Machine Company. The late
and important improvements enable us to guar
antee to every purchaser that the Elliptic Ma.
chine will do more work, better work, anda
greater variety of work than any other Sewing
Machine now in use. The economy of the FL
liptic Machine in family is almost incredible;
with one, good operator can do the work Of
twelve hands. BY it the making of garments is
reduced from question of hours to one of mill
utes as the following table will show;


ct is not to he understood that the following table tic
time to make the garments but to do the stitching onlyJ
Year: 1870

ADVICE TO DEMOCRATS, Senator Hendricks told
the Democrats of New Orleans in late speech
that they had no cause to entertain preudices
against the negro-that the negro of his own
notion is not going to ask for social equality or
for social rights, and now that he is to become
voter, they must use their "personal influ-
cnce," to induce him to vote with them, who
had been such very kind and considerate friends
TO him in the days of his bondage
Year: 1870

SOLID GOLD Com FoUND.-The Kansas City
News of February 18th relates the following in
stance of good fortune. The finder of the gold
had a wonderful prospect in finding such an ex-
cellent color


Yesterday afternoon a gentleman named
William Pate, who recently purchased and is
now improving lot near the eastern terminus
of Twelfth street, discovered on his premises
treasure of no trihng import. He was digging
for the foundation Of house, near the roots of
an old tree that had long ago been cut down.
Pate was freely using his spade, when suddenly
it struck something solid and apparently i'm
movable. Digging around the object it was
soon brought TO light. 1t proved to be a small
iron chest, rusty, bu: heavy and solid. 1t was
at once removed from its bed under the earth,
and with some difficulty opened. Imagine the
surprise and delight of Pate on discovering
therein gold to the amount of So $40. With the
gold was also found a note, and in the note was
| legibly written:


Hidden from the soldiers in 1864 II return and
this is discovered the finder will please half the
amount to charitable and the balance he keep
for his am old man, with not relative in
Missouri. &c. WAITE
The money has been placed in bank. Pate,
we understand, intends fulfilling the written re-
quest of the old man to the letter, and especially
gladly, no doubt, will be appropriate /" that
balance " referred to in Waites note.
Year: 1870

A correspondent OF the San Francisco Bulletin,
10 reference te the hard times and the disposi-
ton to attribute the change to the Pacific rail
road says:


We cannot throw all our own shortcomings
on the railroad. For years past the whole couu-
try has been living and travelling at too rapid II
rate. spirit of speculation, engeudered by
the flush times of war when we are creating
the debt that we are now paying, took hold o!
everybody. A fortune must be made in day.
Small gains were despsed everybody followed
the nation and went in debt Business was dis
counted five years in advance. Pay dug has
come. " That's what the matter" Reuts must
come down. Labor must come down. Water,
and gas and clothing and fuel, aud provisions
must all come down to correspond with the
times. Dividends must be smaller. We must
be satisfied with smaller gains Labor aud cap
ital must not antagonze, but barmonize. Peo-
pie must work New enterprises must be
started, and capital employed, not TO pay two
per cent. per month, but ten per cent. year.
Labor must not demand FIVE dollars q day, but
be satisfied with three Let this be done, and
we will be astonished to see how prosperous we
will become. I" Hard times, instead of knock
at our DOORS" will seek more cOngenial cline.
We have been trading jack-knives long enough.
Let go to work now and make the knives. 1t
is well that the railroad was finished as soon as
it was if it has opened our eyes to the fact that
we have something else TO do, in building up a
State aud city besides speculating in real es-
tate and mineral stocks. a thousand dollars
in real value is worth mo-e TO the country than
$40, 900 or 500, 900 in inflated mining stocks, or
unmprOved city lots that will not be used in
this generation or the next.
Year: 1870

A MEETING OF THE LANDLORDS FROM FOURTH


and Fifth streets is to be held Monday evening at
count Of Rotfnson wood which should be laid In
both streets between Bowery and Lewis street ,
Year: 1870

1t is now freely stated in official circles,


in Washington, that proclamation of uni
versal amnesty will soon be issued by Pres
ident Grant, in accordance with the general
wish of the dominant party. The Demo-
Gratis have, for some considerable time,


favored this measure, but the Republicans


feared to risk it until the Fifteenth Amend
ment was beyond peradventure. That
once done, there was little peril to be appre-
hended for the colored race, and there ex-
lists now no plain reason why the general
sentiment of the nation should not be re-
garded. The disabilities inflicted upon the
South never were intended, as we under
stood them, to be simply penal in their
character, but simply to secure obedience to


law, and when once there was no danger in
this regard. the necessity for them was over.


We hope, ere long, to record as fact, that
the last yestige of punishment for the re-
bellion, has been removed, and the whole
people once more nation of free citizens.
Year: 1870

Scarcely had the Methodist Episcopal
Church of the United States, recovered
from the shock occasioned by the sudden


and unexpected demise of the gentle and
gifted Bishop Thompson, when the tele-
graph announces the deceaSe of another
more sudden still in the person of Bishop


Kingsley. According to the regulations of
their Board, Bishop Kingsley was deputed
to visit Episcopally, the mission stations of
India, China, and other foreign missionary
stations, and was on his way among these
far off lands, when he was attacked with


disease of the heart, and passed at once to
the realities of the world beyond us. The
Bishop was one of the most cultured men
of the church, and rapidly developing an
administrative ability which would soon
have forced his recognition as a power in
the land. He had been but about six years
in his present office, being elected at the
same time with DR.. Thompson whom he has
followed SO soon. His decease will leave
the Episcopacy of the Church with almost
an impossible amount of labor upon their
hands. Bishop Morris is by reason of his
great age, incapacitated from active work
and virtually exercises no supervision.


Bishop Baker is entirely paralyzed and
takes no part in the labor of his colleagues.


The entire supervision of 100000 mem
bers, with eight thousand regular clergy
men, their numerous mission stations in the


world together with presiding at over sew


enty annual conferences, in all parts Of the


Union, and overseeing all their affairs in


the intervals, devolves now upon Bishops


James, Scott, Ames, Simpson, and Clark.


No others can be elected until the next ses-


sion of the General Conference, which does


not meet for couple of years, and it will
easily be seen that an amount of work will
be required which will tax their powers to
the utmost. The particulars attendant


upon the decease of Bishop Kingsley are
not given, but there can be no doubt that
he died as he lived an eminent example of
the power of the christian religion.
Year: 1870

SINGING B1RDs.-How sweet and cheer
full is the voice of the robin, the blue-bird,
and other feathered songsters at this season
of the year, after a protracted storm, as
they warble at sunrise or the close Of day.
The invalid almost ready to cross the river,
and enter through the pearly gates of the
New Jerusalem, is reminded Of the angelic
music Of the heavenly sphere while listen
ing to the sweet singing Of birds, as the
pelden-orbed sun declines beneath the
western horizon. The sad and disconso-
late one bereft of friends and loved ones,
listens to the song of birds when no other
earthly comfort is near. The farmer boy
as he crosses the fields at sunrise whistles
with renewed energy and inspiration, when
the air is filed with the melody of the
early songsters. AS substitute for this
the pent up denizens of tho cities have their
Gagged canary birds and robins, but their
songs however sweet and melodious, have
not that charm of freedom which rings out
upon the morning air from tho birds which
fly from tree to tree and from grove to
grove.


Our attention was called to the above sub
ject by the many voices of canary birds as
we passed the Telegraph Office lately, where
Mr.. Richard Borden has room full of
sweet singers, which he is disposing of to
our citizens and others.
Year: 1870

The discussions in Congress upon the
perplexing subject of taxation has evolved
at least, one general public sentiment upon
the question, which is that the 'lncome
Tax as it is called is especially dlstasteiui
to the people. Taxation in excessive 1ornis
is not pleasant to anybody, but its present
need is recognized by the people, and
their is sort of reluctant willingness TO
pay it, but coupled with this is decided
unwillingness to pay it in forms when de-
mand a scrutiny into the affairs, which most
men desire to keep secret from their feiiow-
men. When they buy sugar there is no op-
lection to paying a specified tax upon 1t
or liquor so that the tax is felt only IN the
HIGHER price of the article, or indeed any
thing'else, so long as the. amount is as
sessed upon the article, and then the people
left to use it or not to use it at their dlscre-
ton. But. to many a man the inqulsinon
into how much money he made or lost du-
ring the last year, is a species OF mperti-
nence that the people never meant to con-
fide to the rulers, except under the most
positive necessity, if indeed they ever meant
to eontide it all. Certainly it was never in
tended to last longer than the necessity
which gave it birth, and no one pretenos
that anything like this is in existence now.
In numerous cases the publication OF the
facts involved in the profits or losses OF the
firm is disastrous to the last degree.
man with abundant property may from un-
forseen causes, owe money during the year
and vet have enough to pay all his debts,
and allow him to go on and retrieve ms
losses, yet if his property were sacrihceo a'
the time bankruptcy would be unavoioa-
BILE. Once let it be known that he is losing
money, and his creditors become clamorous
for their money and the man is ruined. In
a hundred ways which may be readily con-
ceived the operations of an inquisitoral
law like this. reyolts the sense and feeling
of the American people, and in all direc-
tions they are insisting upon its abrogation.
Whether the financial Solons of Washing
ton, will have the Judgment to see this is a
question: Out II Will DcSOiuC HCSSoS~AJ w
see it soon, for in number places the issue
is being made in the candidate nominated
for Congress. The people do not ask to be
relieved from raising all the money needed,
either for the carrying on the government,
or the interest upon their debt, or even for
the payment of a part of its principal if
that be deemed necessity-they are willing
to paw it all in other forms, but they insist
on being relieved from paying it in way
which is at once insulting and disastrous
We have not much hope that the present
Congress will do much in the matter, though
it may relieve some of the more odious fea-
lures of the law, but we feel sure that by
the time another Congress shall assemble,
that the public sentiment will be so unmis-
takably declared, that the men who form
that body will feel it positive necessity to
abrogate the law.
Year: 1870

The trial of Mr.. Mcfarland for murder
which has occupied nearly fortnight, in
the Courts of New York, has been one of
the most intensely exciting which has for
long time been known in that murder loving
city. The facts of the case are familiar to
most of our readers, and we need only
glance at them here. Mr.. Richardson one
of the most talented public writers of the
nation, but unfortunately tinctured with
'sFree Love- doctrines, became enamored
with the wife of Mcfarland, who returned
his guilty attachment. From all appear
ances the intimacy was criminal. At all
events the lady with the open assistance Of
Richardson, applied to the easy going west
ern courts for divorce from her husband,
after which both parties openly stated they
intended to marry each other. Mcfarland
who appears to be a passionate man became
possessed of some of the correspondence be-
tween the parties, which proved to him their
previous guilt, and after learning that the
divorce had been obtained, was so mad
dened by the circumstances that he sought
out Richardson, and shot him, from which
wound he died in a couple of days. Previ-
ously to his death however, he had Henry
Ward Beecher called and was married to
his paramour, who now bears his name.
On the trial the killing was not denied, but
the defence of insanity was set up, and it
was put in proof that some other members
of the defendants family had been in the
asylum, with mental alterations The man
ner of the husband was shown to have indi-
Gated insanity Immediately previously to
the murder, and it would be strange if the
circumstances did not temporarily destroy
the balance of his mind.