smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1870

had no conversation with any one in regard 10 MI. Ma
thans family or the nature of tho work he doing


At this point of the investigation the Court adjourned
to 10 O'Clock Monday next.
Year: 1870

THERE is no article Of merchandise
which it is so important to have genuine
as drugs and medicines Therefore it is al
ways the safest to purchase these article.
from dealers who know what is good, and
whose rep reservations can be relied upon
BY patronizing DR.. j. II. VIVIAN people
can be certain of getting just what they
want in this line, and that Of the very best
quality, The Doctor always keeps a sup.
ply of pure wines and liquors, which ho
sells only for medicinal purposes.
Year: 1870

z BUILDING - PRlEsTLEY & BoHAN,
the new livery stable men of this city, find
their present quarters insufficient for their
increasing business, and are digging foun
daton for new barn, which they are
about to erect on the vacant lot adjoining
the u. S. Hotel
Year: 1870

TuE Darlington Republiean Of last
week comes to us In new dress, printed
all at home, a full eight.coumn sheet
The Republican is now one Of the handsom-
est, ablest, and cheapest papers published
in the west, and il the people of Lafayette
County do not give it hearty support it
will be to their discredit. We hope ere
long to be able to follow the Republican in
its advance movements,
Year: 1870

THE following brilliant, moral and
forcible article appeared in the last issue
of that influential national party organ, We
Democrat Of this city:


We were by the other day. It was on the Fourth
oyerhearlng conversation between two OF our citi
zenS, one member uf the benevolent society, On
mutual aid association, chiefly designed ms an in
sursnce agans, sud en- disaster to those engaged in
hazardous Ceilings the other, for strange ren
son ininicable to that association.


Your club is not worth he l.room your claims
to being benevolent are a mockery," said the one
"Why ?" replied the other "because you are ex-
elusive and not world vide 10 the embrace which
your philanthropy makes. You shut out from your
Society aged applicants, and those who when apply
Ing are already sufferers from accidents; you do not
hold every man alike brother"


We asked at the time If the utterer Of these fault
ending words was in politics., Republican, and
were told that he was.


Now as Democrat we have fellow feeling with
the Benev lent society man We hold that 1t is jus
lihab 10 give limits, in certain way, to the range
Of our closer sympathes We should he just TO
everybody but as for the becoming cheek by jjwl,
or as for the jumping in on the same boat exactly with
everybody OF every sort. do't II to be duty
but on the other hand AS Quixoe--as simple beney-
olence run ia the ground.


The object Of this is plain. 1t is well
known that nine tcnths of the members of
the Benevolent Society are Republicans in
politics, and it is also well known that Ger.
tain political tricksters have long sought
to manipulate the Society for their own
personal ends. This is but one among
many small games pract'ced to accomplish
the ond-to persuade the members Of the
Benevolent Society that there is more
friendliness toward their organization in
the Democratic party than in the Rcpubli.
can party. Such demagoguery is contempt
ibIe; ; but is in keeping with the star writer
of the Democrat, who might as well sign his
name as to leave his ear-marks so plainly
visible, as in the above eifuson.
Year: 1870

No advertisement Of ELLINGEN
BRorHERs appears in the TRIBUNE this week,
yet they are doing good business in the
undertaking and furniture line, and next
week will appear in a new card to our
readers, which will contain much truth,
and nothing more.
Year: 1870

TIE Executive Committee Of the
Lafayette County Agricultural Society
have resolved to hold their annial ex.
hibition on the 18th, 10th and 18th of
September The following are among the
Year: 1870

A NEW and attractive advertise.
ment of the National Life Insurance Com.
pany, of Chicago, appears in this paper


We believe it good plan for every man.


and especially OF every young man, to se-
cure a life insurance policy. Every dollar
thus invested is so much laid up for a rainy
day; it is security against want for loved
ones in the event OF death, and SO much
saved while life lasts. On the endowment
plan, the money is sure to be returned at a
given time, with twice compounded inter
est on the natural life plan, a policy kept
paid up for fifteen or twenty years will,
at the expiration Of that time be worth
more than it has cost to the holder, and he
Can get his money back on it almost any
day thereafter. Taking policy in good
life insurance company is equivalent to de.
posting the amount in a savings bank each
year. Capt. LKESs, the agent for the 'Na-
tional Life" will be happy to explain fur.
tier the advantages Of life insurance in
general, and Of his company in particular.
Year: 1870

House inspectors.


Senator Fenton, according to Washington
telegram, has presented q memorial to Con-
grcss for increase of pay to the inspectors Of
the New York Custom House. As the Secre-
tary of the Treasury has the power to Increase
the pay the whole matter has been referred to
him. The compensation to these EN- ployes OF
the Custom House does not amount to the
wages of good mechanics, and yet no work.
ingmen have harder labor to perform. Four
dollars day is small pay for those who have
to be on duty from sunrise to sunset and often
during the night. They are exposed to the
most iuclement weather at times. The duty Of
clerks in the Custom House il much easier
and not 80 responsible, yet the clerks are
better paid. The faithful collection Of mil
lions upon millions of revenue depends upon
the inspectors, and 1t Is mistaken economy
to give them such poor salaries. Mon Of edu-
cation, probity and vigilance are required to
perform the duties properly, and 1t can hardly
be expected that many such can be found at
four dollars day. Mr.. Boutwell, Is no doubt
intent on economy, and we commend him
for it; but nothing is saved by poorly paying
those in responsible offices; besides, there are
other ways in which he could better practice
economy.
Year: 1870

The Proposed New Expedition to the North


Pole.


It appears from our Washington news that
the Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs,
which has charge Of the matter of new ex-
pedition to the North Pole, has sent for DR..
Hayes, the well known Arctic explorer, to con-
suit with him as to the propriety of such an
expedition and ON appropriation for the object.
This is deserved compliment to DR.. Hayes,
for no man living is better able to give the de-
sired information. The subject of another ex-
pedition to the Arctic, with view Of reach
ing the North Pole, has been urged upon
Congress by Captain Hall, that intrepid and
daring traveller, who spent long time about
the Arctic region and among the Esquimaux.
The credit 10 due to him, therefore, for re-
viving and urging this matter. There
seems to be . liberal disposition in Con-
gress, too, to favor and to make an
appropriation for another expedition. This is
right. The American government should be
first in exploring tho Arctic circle and in
developing the scientific facts which may result
from such an exploration. Our territory now
borders on that part Of the world, and at no
very distant day the whole Continent must
belong to us. But whatever the government
may do let 1t be done well. Let the expedi
ton be worthy Of this great country aDd o.
this age Of science. There are many ipportan,
facts in astronomy, geology, peteorology, the
Year: 1870

BY our Albany reports it will be seen that
Mr. Tweed yesterday offered in the Senate c
bill to abolish tho Board Of Supervisors for
this county as now constituted, and to organize
new board, to consist Of the Mayor, Recorder
and Aldermen, to be chosen under the new
Charter. This is good proposition. Much of
the clamor made against tho new Charter was
because it did not abolish board so univer-
sally supposed TO be corrupt. Aud we believe
that all the suggestions were to the effect that
the Aldermen should perform the duties of the
Supervisors. But board Of supervisors as
county officials is necessary part Of govern
ment machinery under the State constitution,
and therefore had to be treated in q sopa-
rate bill from one simply organizing city
government. The present bill merely gives q
double function to the same men, and thus
docs away with the cumbersome machinery of
separate county and city governments for the
same machinery. Should this bill pass, and
one part Of the county government Of the city
be thus simplifed. our legislators should reflect
whether the other strongholds Of County gov
ernment in the city-the Office Of Sheriff espe-
cially-may not be modified to public adyan-
tape
Year: 1870

magnetic forces and currents Of the globe,
botany, geography and other things, as well
as the nero fact OF reaching the North Pole,
to DO determined. The expedition should be,
consequently, In the hands Of the ablest men
and OF those who have had valuable expe-
rience. There should be corps Of tho most
competent gentlemen in every department Of
science In connection with hardy, experienced
and practical navigators. An expedition so
organized will rebound to tho honor of the
country, and the people viii never begrudge
hundred thousand or two hundred thousand
dollars for the purpose.
Year: 1870

JUEY DIFFIcuLTIEs.-Peo who follow the
proceedings in the Mcfarland case and count
the steps that seem necessary to precede the
choice Of jury, will be apt to wonder why
any man should sit on jury unless be abso-
Iutely wishes. None need sit on a jury but
those who wish to for some reason or another,
end these are dangerous either for the Com
monwealth or the prisoner. The present state
OF tho law with regard to jurors is such as to
exclude all but ignoramuses. People who
have not formed opinions on prominent topics
do not live in this town.
Year: 1870

TIE FIRST IN THE FIELD.-Senator Came
rons suggestion that the nation make some
memorial recognition Of the services Of those
Pennsylvania and Massachusetts, volunteers
that FIRST went to Washington, through Balti-
more" IN April, 1861, can have no other effect
than to open an Improbable and unpleasant
discussion as 70 who was first and beat in sup
port Of the government. The breeze of rivalry
that It started in the Senate was nothing COM
pared to the gale it would make before the
country.
Year: 1870

DooToRED TO DEAiH.-Recently doctor
up town gave his patient in the course of one
day fourteen grains Of the sulphate Of NOR
phine. This is equal to eighty-four grains Of
opium. 1t does not appear that the patient
was in the habit Of using opium, and If he was
not this was an overwhelming quantity. 1t
would kill man whose brain was In oil the
vigor of health unless he was stimulated by
active infammatory disease. But the man to
whom the medicine was given had q brain
weakened by the use of rum, and was then
sleepless merely because Of the loss Of cerebral
power. The practice was bad, therefore, and
jury Of doctors would perhaps use stronger
term in describing it. Added to this bad
practice was another on the part Of the same
doctor Of writing blind prescriptions, which
rendered 1t impossible for another doctor,
called in the emergency, to take any intelli-
gent steps to relieve the victim. The two
points of bad practice caused death, and the
Coroner lays on the doctor and the apothecary
the awful weight of its "censure."
Year: 1870

JonN RANDoLpn's ADvIcE.-When
John Randolph was in London he wrote to
a gentleman who married his favorite niece.
In it was the following advice:


Have no dealing that can possibly be
avoided with your noighbors. The disrc-
gard Of this caution will certainly lead to
squabbles and strife. 'H'


Take no receipt on loose pieces Of pa
per. Carry 4 receipt book in your pocket,
and take all receipts in it; if you are afraid
of losing it keep it in your desk. Always
have the receipts witnessed when practi-
cable.


Copy or have copied all bills IN your
book, so that you must at glance see the
cost of an article or branch of expense.
Without accurate accounts, you must fall
behind hand.


What voyage would ship make with
out observation or reckoning? You are
now embarked on voyage of life; with
out a good lookout you may be cast away


Form no intimacies with your neighbor.
under seven years. acquaintance. The
rigid observation or reckoning Of my own
maxims preserved me from strife and from
loss by those. With the rest 7 was on the
best of terms.


Economy-the adapting of your sup
plies judiciously to the intended end; thai
is the gift of God. 1t cannot DO taught, al
least. l have tried all my life, without
success. My mother had it to perfection
Frugality-it is in the power of every
honest man, who means to refrain from in
dulging in expenses which he cannot Of.
ford. a disregard of these maxims, the
result of the ignorant Incidence Of theil
own affairs, has ruined all my name and
race. They did not know what they could
afford and some, / fear, did not care.
Year: 1870

- A recently appointed post-mistress
at post-ofice on the plains, sends her
first quarterly report to the Department
with the following foot-note:


"For weeks past l have slept with six
shooter by my bed side and carving
knife under my pillow, expecting at break
o'day the Indians would come for my
scalp, but all this has not been half so
harrassing to my mind as the making out
of one quarterly report"
Year: 1870

EUROPEAN Pacific RAILwAY.-A
European Asiatic Pacific Railroad is talked
of, from point in Belgium or Northern
France through Europe into the heart of
India and China, and so on to the shores
of the Pacific. It is claimed that a rail-
road from the Atlantic to the Pacific
through Europe and Asia is just as prac-
ticable as railroad across the American
continent from the Atlantic to the Pacific
We have made the idea fact ON this con-
ti1Dht. The movement fairly illustrates
the force Of our example and its positive
influence on the rest of the world.
Year: 1870

WANT OF CouRAGE.-Sidncy Smith in
his work on moral philosophy, speaks in
this wise of what men lose for the want Of
little brass, as it is termed:


"A great deal of talent is lost to the
world for the want of little courage.
Every day sends to the grave number of
obscure men who have only remained in
obscurity because their timidity has pre-
vented them from making first effort,
and who, if they only had been induced to
begin, would in all probability have gone
great lengths in the career of fame. The
fact is that in order to do anything in this
world worth doing, we must not stand
shivering on the bank, thinking of the
cold and danger, but jump in aud scram-
bic through as well as we can. 1t will
not do to be perpetually calculating risks
and adjusting tho chances"
Year: 1870

in dust there, and I'll give it to you to let
ME kiss the child -


That anecdo.c is true.


But see how things change. Sitting at
that dinner table, listening to that anec-
dote, if / had offered double the money
for the privilege of kissing the same child
l would have been refused. Seventeen
added years had far more than doubled the
price.
Year: 1870

A GRACEFUL CoMpLIMENr.-The fol.
lowing neat and beautiful reply was made
by the late Daniel OF 'Connell, in response
to toast given in compliment Of his wife,
who was the object Of his long and afsecL
tionate attachment. 1t was given at no
litical meeting. The English languages
could furnish nothing more touchingly
tender and graceful. :" There are some
topics Of so sacred and sweet a nature,
that they may be compre6ended by those
who are happy, but they cannot possibly
be described by any human being, All
that shall do is to thank you in the
name of her who was the disintercsted
choice of my early youth who was The
ever cheerful companion Of my manly
years and who is the sweetest solace Of
that 'sere and yellow leaf age at which I
have arrived. In her name + thank YOU
and this you may readily believe for ex-
perience I think, will show to us all that
man cannot battle and struggle with ma
lignant enemies, unless his nest at home
is warm and comfortable-unless the HON
ey of human life is commended by q hand
that he loves" a'i'ip a if',hl ~ 80
Year: 1870

The Secretary Of the Industrial
Association has kindly furnished US with a
report Of premiums awarded at our recent
Fair but finding it impracticabIe to publish
the sane in full to-day, we concluded to
wecl another week, when we can insert it
entire and perfect.
Year: 1870

JcSEPa DELLER has returned from New
York, and brought with him as fine stock
OF Staple and Fancy Dry Goods as was ever
seen in Iowa county, embracing everything
needed by the peopie in the Dry Goods
line.
Year: 1870

TO THE EDITOR OF THE HEKALD:-


A correspondent In your paper OF Thursday is
very severe upon q race OF aDlnas for which l en-
terrain sincere regard Were he to have his way
he would deprive mankind OF one OF their most
faithful companions and friends. With all due
Difference to his feelings and oplnions, allow me to
say that for MANY years have mad upon my pre-.
misses always one and oitener Two three, OF these
animals whose wholesale and unqualified slaugnter
he so earnestly demands, and could cite number
less instances Of their watchful regard for my In
terest, ana sagaciIy under many peculiar circum-
stances. SO much faltn have ! IN their natural
genteness and affection that believe IN every In
stance where children have been bitten by them IL
could be proved that Ut some Tune they nave teaSed
and annoyed them until the attack was made III
Self. defence.


We ali know the morbid delight with which chill
dreh torture insects and dumb anima.s, and they
ia rcturn use the weapons OF defence which God has
bestowed upon them they DO but follow the example
OF their l0rdiy masters, and often with Tar more
reason. We could with rs much prOprlety suggest
q general slaughter Of men, because, iOrsoOth, we
read almost daily OF murders inflicted upon their
deienceless wives. We might submit 70 summary
disposal of portion OF both classes, II their actual
Worln IN the community were to he considered, but
q Wholesale slaughter OF either l fear would meet
with fierce opposition law TO prevent both men
and dogs from running at large anu committing
dcpredations upon un0ffendiny persons rigidiy
enforced, would certainly Denent all classes, but
another law that would take from US our household
pets, whose welcome s always warm and genial,
whose friendship KNOWS no change and whose
fidelity - unequAiled would am sure, meet with
hearty resistance.
Year: 1870

relative strength of the two parties, and
not occasions to confer calmly upon wag-
'es, whether the one party can advance
the rates, or the other is justified in
demanding it.


The late strike of the telegraph operat-
ors in the United States proved a failure,
as did also that of the printers of the
Bulletin Office of San Francisco, and yet,
both were planned and executed with all
the vigor and skill that could be brought
to the task So also the strikers in New
England have demonstrated that this
style of argument, will, in the end, drive
employers either to seek for Asiatic labor
ers, or to withdraw their capital entirely
from business. The workingmen by their
extreme demands do not benefit them
selves, and thAtendencies of their associa-
tions are to extreme measures and opinions.


The action of these associations then
will finally become narrowed down to the
simple question, will it pay? VIII it pay
to counteract the ordinary course of trade,
to impose individual desire upon the con-
duct of business, and to bring into unneces-
sary antagonism the elements of enter
terprize, labor and capital? Both are ne
cessary to production, both must derive
their compensation from the same
profit upon the articles made by them
and sold for mutual account Will it pay
for workingmen to tax themselves to
keep their organizations and submit to the
distress and losses consequent upon
strikes, in order to prevent fall of wages
viii it pay to use threats, force and out
RACES to compel men of their own trade
or class to submit to the restrictions or
requirements of their socities


Voluntary societies that depart very
mildly from their agreed line of action,
and engratt upon themselves other issues,
to prove that they can accomplish their
ends without greater loss to their mem-
bers than the benefits received, cannot be
held together so as to become formidable,
and certainly cannot disturb to any great
extent the operation Of the laws which in
clude the social and commercial relations
of communities.
Year: 1870

altogether, as the purchases are generally
made from the port of demand. This is
particularly the case with sugars bought
for refining purposes: they are generally
purchased on account Of the Refneries,
and are received at once by them without
the commissions, brokerage, and other
charges to which our sugars are subjected.
The planter at Manila, or Mauritius, dis
poses of his sugars at home as general
thing, by which he saves these extra
charges, making really a difference in his
favor over what we enjoy of something
like ten per cent. One ton of sugar,
which, at fair valuation here, would be
worth one hundred dollars, would prob
ably bring in San Francisco, duties paid,
from one hundred and eighty to two
hundred dollars. The planter on whose
account it is shipped, has to pay COM
mission in the first place to his agent
here of two and one-haf per cent. on the
one hundred dollars, and to the agent
who sells it, a commission Of five per cent.
on the one hundred and eighty or two
hundred dollars, amounting to from eleven
dollars and half to twelve dollars and
a half Now, if his agent here had sold
his sugar at home to the consumer in a
foreign country for what it was actually
worth, namely, five cents per pound, he
would have been charged commission
of FIVE per cent, thus making saving of
from six and half to seven and a half
dollars per ton, or over one quarter of
cent per pound on his sugar in the matter
of commissions alone, besides having re-
allied for his commodity Immediately, in
stead of being subjected to delay and the
paying of unnecessary interest. We be-
lieve that this is the only country in
the world in which there may be said TO
be no market for its principal production,
and where, in consequence, there can be no
quotations of current prices.
Year: 1870

THE 40th anniversary of the birthday
Of His Majesty the King, having fallen ON
Sunday last, Monday, the 18th inst, was
kept as 4 holiday The day was observed
by the public generally by the closing of
business places and the enjoying Of such
amusements as the lowery state of the
weather would permit. A salute was
fired from Punch Bowl at daylight at
twelve o'clock, simultaneously, from the
L. 5. Ship st. Mary's and from Punch
Bowl, and again at sundown from the
latter battery. His Majesty passed the
day at his seaside residence at Waikiki,
where he gave an Ahaaina to his house
hold.


Among the notable demonstrations of
the day was the dress parade of the
Honolulu Rifles. The Company marched
through the principal streets, after which
they repaired TO their Armory, where a
luncheon had been prepared for them.