smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1872

In retiring from the lste fl N of Burke & Hse-
nan, beg leave to return my most sincere thanks
to my numerous friends and customers for the
very liberal patronage bestowed upon me while
in trade here. After twenty years of active bus-
ness life feel that require little rest. Mean.
time I take this method to assure my friends
that ere many months elapss hope to have the
pleasure OF resnming my business relations with
them. Very Respectfully,


p. T. BURKE
Year: 1872

LOOK Our!-Abe Alschuler will soon open
his new clothing house at the corner OF
Main and L" Sale Streets in this city. He will
come with rousing stock in few days, and
promises to give the fashionable gentlemen Of
Ottawa the best stock Of yoods to select from
ever seen iu Ottawa.
Year: 1872

In his recent talk with Gambetta,
Senator sumner lamented as a great de-
feet Of France the want Of sincere and
rational religion, and expressed his opin-
ion that one Of the most harmful things
ever said by a great man in position to
influence his cotemporaries and pOsteri-
Is was the famous mot Henry ~, Paris
lOdgats bien messe; the free translation
Of which was that ID was well worth
while TO change our religion and be-
come a Catholic instead Of a Protestant
IN order 70 be dictator of Paris. The
profound immortality Of such skepticism
coming from a King repGted one Of the
best that ever reigned, had, in Mr.. Sum
per's opinion, struck deep root In France,
and produced immense evil by its ex.
ample,
Year: 1872

A PREPARATION OF ROOTS AND HERBS,
Warranted be strictly vegetable, and do no in
jury to any one.


It has been used by hundreds, and known for the
last thirty five years one OF the most reliable e-
cacous and harmless preparations ever offered TO
the suffering taken regularly and persstently, it
Is sIr O
Year: 1872

yesterday wyandotte man spueared
az the Detrois AMI Milwaukee depot with a
large mirror under bis arm, and while
waiting for the train he sat the mirror down
against seat. A big dog owned by sa-
loon keeper wandered in and soon caught
sight Of the ugliest and meanest dog be
ever saw, reflected in the mirror. He
arehed his back and rolled bis eyes, and the
other dog did the same. He showed his
teeth and lifted his back higher, and the
other dog followed suit. At length, an
gered beyond control, the dog gave howl
and a jump, intending to get the other dog
by the fore-paw. There was a smash and
a crash. time of cursing and kicking, and
the Wyandotter went to see the Chief of
Police about having some one shot.-Detroit
Free Press.
Year: 1872

The writer of the letter says nothing to
indicate his preference, but simply gives
these estimates without comment.


Another letter from Maury was shown
us from which we extract the following:


81 have been in all parts of the county,
and have put myself to some trouble to
ascertain the relative strength of the can
didates for Congress at large. IF there is
not an clement for johnson which is not
developed, ne cannot get more than one
fourth OF the Democratic Conservative vote, ,
and indeed l do not believe he viii get
that as he is losing ground daily. We
voc about $500 Democratic votes in this
county. My honest judgment is johnson
viii not get over 500, and you need not be
surprised by the election if he does not get
over 5Q0.'


The letters received by the Democratic
State Executive Committee are of tie most
encouraging character. They, as well as
ouG own letters, show clearly that the race
is GCtween Cbeatham and MAYNARD. The
game of brag which the johnson men are
pla! irg is On too weak hand. 1t will not
win.
Year: 1872

LOUISVILLE, KY, Oct. ga large
meeting of basiness men and properly
owners of the city was held in the Court
house tonight in favor of an additional
subscription of a million dollars to the
Eiza6ethtown and Paducah Railroad, to
build an extension from some convenient
point on the line to make an independent
entrance into the city, instead of as now
running over the Louisville and Nashville
Railroad from Elizabethtown, distance of
AZ miles. The meeting was very earnest
and enthusiastic and the probability is that
the subscription will be made. The friends
of the extension claim it will have the effect
of giving Louisville a new hne to the
South,
Year: 1872

A gentleman in this city showed us yes
terday private letter from Bolivar, in Har-
deman county, which gave the following es-
innate Of the vote for Congressman at
large in that portion Of the State:
Year: 1872

PSYCHOLOGISTS tell US that the brain
consumes great deal of phosphorus, and
the doctors say that brown bread is
healthier than that made from bolted
flour, because of the phosphorus that
the bran contains, which in fine -four
is in great part absent. Baking pow
ders were accordingly. invented, the prin-
cipal purpose of which is to supply bread
with the needful amount Of the phosphoric
quality. A candy has now been invented
and patented which is nothing else than
doses of phosphorus in disguise. The love
of candy has thus been utilized and made
TO repair the waste of nervous and brain
forces. 1t is a pleasant way Of taking
medicine, and even the children cry f1r it.
Year: 1872

WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEkx.-A special effort is
being made to persuade the colored people
that they ought to support GREELEY. And
whcrefores If GREELEY had had the power to
cary ont his policy, what would have been the
condition of the colored people to-dayf II the
south had been permitted to peacefully secede, as
GREELEY contendcd they had right to do; or if
his various eonnivipgs at sdiskonorable peace du-
ring the proGrrss Of the war had been successful,
slavery would have been fixed forever in this
country, and today thsre would have been q
powerful Government oeeapying oue-half the ter
ritoTy Of the United States, and perhaps all of
Mexico and Central America, whose very corner
stone would have been negro slavery.


As he would have deserted the negro, SO be
has deserted the cause of Protection to American
Industy, which he has advocated all his life, that
he may secure the Presidency. He says he is
willing to leave the question with Congress, and
will sign any bill on the subject that Congress
may pass At the same time, he knows very well,
that under cover Of an excitement which would
elect him to the Presidency, the Free Trade De-
mocraey would manage to elect majority of the
Congressman. Beware of the man who fails in
the time of neeti
Year: 1872

SPECIMEN Liberal RECRUIT.-We have seen


mention of JOSHUA WHEELER, of Atchison Coun-
ty, as of the monthly GREELEY converts, the


Republican party being too corrupt for him to
stand it any longer. This WHEELER bummed
around Topeka, last Winter, and succeeded in
getting himself summoned to testify before the
Senatorial Investigating Committee. In his tes-
timony, he swOre to certain statements relative
to SAM. KING; and KING knew nothing of it, until
he received printed copy Of the Investigation,
a short time since. We are informed that he re-
Gently met WHEELER, and told him he would
give him his choice either to go before Notary
Public and make affidavit that he wilfully and
knowingly lied in his testimony, to be prose-
cuted in the courts for perjury; that WHEELER
chose the former alternative, and actually did
make affidavit before Notary Public, that he
had sworn falsely in his testimony relative to
KING; and that KING now has that interesting
document in his possession, and proposes to send
it to Washington, as fair specimen of the black
mailing crusade now going on against Senator
CALDWELL


Bring your Liberal recruits and let their
sores be probed.
Year: 1872

A NOBLE MoNUMENT.-There are few who re-
alize the wealth of information contained in the
latter editions of Websters dictionary. Its cuts,
each worth page of description, its dictionary of
noted names of fiction, familiarity with which is
as indispensable to man of any pretensons to
cultivation as a knowledge of history, and IFS
numberless other advantages, conspire to mark it
to-day as the noblesf monument to patient literary
labor and enterprise of this age if not of any. To
possess and habitually use it, will alone almost
compensate for the want of liberal education.
Missouri Journal Of Education.
Year: 1872

AMusEMENTs.-various are the paths in which
people seek for pleasure or amusement. We have
heard of the woman who wanted to please the
children by taking them to see their father hang
ed; and of the man who promised his little son,
if he would forego the Circus, and be good boy
to take him to see his grandmother's grave; and
the mother who promised her child, if it would
quit crying for candies and playthings, it might
go and see its father have a tooth pulled; but
something equal to any of the above, and perhaps
more true, has just come to our knowledge.
young man had the luck to get into the Kansas
pententiary, but secured pardon before the ex-
piration of his year. He was recently married,
and last week took his bride on tour to the pen-
itenfary, and escorted her all through the insti-
tuition, to show her where and how he used to
live!
Year: 1872

~ Scientific men are remarking upon the ex-
traordinary superabuntlance of electricity in the
atmosphere, this season. But the supply is regu-
lated by the demand. The immense number of
persons who expected to be struck by lightning
at Cincinnati, were sufficient to consume all the
electricity that the atmosphere could contain.
Year: 1872

ee The GREELEY papers are suggesting new
subjects for NAsT's percil. They would like to
draw his attention from their outfit; but he is on
tack that snits him, and which will keep him
busy until after the election.
Year: 1872

horace GREELEY's retirement from the
Tribune is but temporary, and will not last longer
than next November. He is a man that cannot
bear 10 be idle. and be will have nothing to do,
after that date.
Year: 1872

JusT LIKE HER.-A prayer meeting
was held at Cornwall Bridge, Connee-
ticut, a short time since, to invoke spir-
it,lal mediation to turn to the right
way young sister who had resolved
to wed mar of sin who dyed his
moustache.2 As remarkable Instance
of the power OF prayer, It may be said
that during the service the sister arose,
much affected, retired to conceal hel
emotion, and married her fellow.
Year: 1872

Two days ago the State Lunati'
Asylum in Columbia, in which there
were two hundred and ninety-fiv'
patients at thcdate Of the last report
was absolutely without provisions
and the superintendent was indebted
to the charity Of a private citizen tol
the means Of feeding the afflicted
creatures under his charge. The
Legislature appropriated, ut its las,
session, sum of eighty thousand
dollars for the support Of the Asylum
and the taxes levied, last year, were
sutfi ,ent to pay every honest claim
against the State. A State tax o.
seven mills on the dollar, amounting
to over a million dollars, fell due or
he 18th of January last; and was
promptly paid, and since that time
a large sum has been obtained, under
the operation Of the license law. Yet
there is not O dollar in the State
Treasury for the public institution:
which have the strongest claims upor
ths people. The Lunatic Asylum i!
without credit and without supplies
The State Penitentiary is so hare
pressed that the superintendent has
applied for q writ of mandamus tt
compel the State Treasurer to pay
the drafts made upon him. The Dea
and Dumb Asylum is about to b.
closed Nearly all the free schools in
the State suspended operations or
May Day. Although three or fou
million dollars were wrung from th'
people in little more than twelve
months, and although millions have
been added to the capital of the pub
lie debt. the treasury is empty, anc
not cent can be extracted from it
however urgent the demand. 1t il
idle to attribute this to Democratic
Misrepresentation. The people know
in the North as we'll as the South
that the financial aspyhxia is the re
suit Of the extravaganza and corrup
ton Of the Scott administrations
Charleston News.
Year: 1872

Views OF THE ORGAN of the DEMO
cRRrs IN CONGRESS- The Republican
organization has already been shattered
to the GENRE by the Cincinnati move
ment, and this nomination will com.
plete the work of destruction. For O
long time editor Of the leading Repubi-
can Journal and editing it with power,
viyor and intreepidity such as none of
his party associates could pretend to
match, Mr.. Grceley's name has become
household word among the Republi-
cans. He built up in a great measure
the party of whom General Grants now
the beneficiary. His admitted integrity,
outspoken frankness, habits of indie
pendence, and moral courage, and even
his little personal peculiarities, however
curious have given him an individual
popularity such as General Grant never,
even in his palmy days, possessed. The
nomination BODIES no good, therefore to
the Ring candidate at the Philadelphia
Convention.


The Democratic National committee
will meet in New York on Wednesday
next to determine upon the time and
place of holding the National Demo
cratic Convention. This convention.
| Will DC composed OF the WlSeSt, aDiest
best and most patriotic men OF the party
from all States and sections of the coun
try, and will authoritatively speak the
wish of the great Democratic heart. it
first duty will be to present to the peo
pie such candidates as will command
the respect and secure the support of the
good and true men of the country, ant
rally to the standard they bear the grea
body of those who regard the promotion
of the best interests of the nation us ths
paramount duty of the patriotic citizen
-Yashington Patriot. -.
Year: 1872

FREE TEA AND CoFFEE.-The c bill ab6l-
isbing the duty on tea and coffee has


become law. It goes into effect July l,
and makes all tea and coffee in bond ct
that date all free. Though the reduction
in the cost of tea and coffee which must
follow taking off the duty will be ac-
ceptablc to the whole community, for
every uses these articles, 1t will not 20
far to cheaper living. This Is but a
short step in the way of necessary rev.
enue reform. There are many duties
and taxes that press more heavily upon
the people and the industry of the
country that ought to be removed. AS
tea and coffee are. foreign productions
entirely, there was no Protectionist
opposition to abolishing the duty. In
deed, the Protectionist favored the bill
because q reduction in tn, revenue nom
these articles, involving yearly loss
of $l9,00G,00 to the treasury, would
give them an argument for maintaining
high duties on others in order to raise
sufficient income for the government.
Year: 1872

country will be done cheerfully. They
will preserve their organization intact
and act as Il body. With the lights
before us we do not doubt that when in


National Convention assembled they
will take such action as will lead to the
defeat of Grant and the election of the
ticket presented at Cincinnati. AS
between Grant and wilson, of Massa-
chusetts, and Greeley and Brown, there
can be for the Democracy but one choice.
Year: 1872

IMPROVEMENT IN FARMERS. The
Mark Lane Erpress in an article on far
mers associations, says: "There is
nothing more noticeable when review
ing the progress of Agriculture during
the last quarter of a century than the
improvement which has, characterized
the conduct of our public meetings or
social gatherings. There was a time


when the long clay pipe, the somewhat
boisterous stave, and the "hot stopping"
were regarded as the chief inducements
for getting farmers together. But these
days have gradually passed away, and
with some experience of other large as
sembles, we are inclined to think that
nowhere will men as rule keep closer
to the point or carry themselves more
.becomingly than occupiers of land when
they draw into focus at a Society's
show or Clubs discussion; More in-
formation has been disseminated, more
intelligence developed by such means
than through any other cause which
could be spoken to. Blythe further aid
of good reliable report this system of
a mutual advantage comes to be almost
infinitely extended. Many man who
would fight shy of regular essay, al
though he found the pages ready, ,"cut"
to his hand, will eagerly turn to see
what his next door neighbor had to say,
or famous agriculturist to offer on the
merits of the principle under considers
ton, ....-. s..., ~ ...- ~.
Year: 1872

THE SrREET-CARs made spasmodic at
tempt to run yesterday. The huge snow
plough was run over the track several times,
followed by the cars Of the company, but 1t
was soon found impossible to run them,
and the attempt was abandoned.
Year: 1872

The Vallejo (Cal.) Recorder has the
following: " A certain husband living
in our neighborhood has habit of
walking in his sleep, and his wife got
SO tired of having him frisk around the
house during the silent watches of the
night that at last she determined to tie
him fast after he got to sleep. She fast
ened a,string to his ankle and tied the
other end to what happened to be the
most handy, which was her husbands
double e-barreled gun, behind the door
in the corner of the room. About one
o'clock the somnambulist arose for the
purpose of taking ramble around the
room. When he had taken about SIX
steps, the artillery came out of its seclu,
sion in the corner, with a jerk, the load
crashing through the panels of the
door. It soon brought both parties to
consciousness, and they begged for
Gods sake we would not mention their
names. Yesterday he was busy putting
new panel in the door, which is far
better than digging load OF buckshot
out of the baby.
Year: 1872

A very pleasant incident in connec-
ton with the visit of the Grand Duke
of Russia to the Massachusetts, Histori-
cal Society rooms is reported by the
Boston Traveller. just as the party
were leaving, Admiral Poisset took
from his pocket small envelope ana
handed it to Mr.. Winthrop, saying that
perhaps the contents would be OF sum
cient interest to entitle them to place
in the society's cabinet. On opening
the envelope, three oak leaves and a
little twig were found. There were ac-
companied by statement i'll Russian
that the leaves and twig were taken
from an oak tree in St. Petersburg,
which grew from an acorn planted by
the Emperor of Russia himself, received
from Mr.. George Sumner, of this city,
which he took from tree which shades
Washington's tomb at Mount Vernon.
Year: 1872

The Bolivar (Mo.) Free Press says A
legal case, somewhat novel in its char
acter, has occurred here. Postmaster
Bushnell had received notification to
pay the sum of $3.50 to citizen resid-
ing in the county On the presentation
by him of money orders to that amount.
An attorney of an inquiring turn of
mind happened to see the money order
registry lying open on the Postmasters
desk, and furthermore happened to OBJ
serve that the individual in whose favor
the money order was drawn was in
debted to a client of his, and imme-
diately bethought himself how he
might turn the information to account.
Accordingly, next morning he had a
notice of garnishment served on the
Postmaster, enjoining him from paying
the aforesaid $3.50 to the person for
whom it was intended. The Deputy
Sheriff had scarcely finished reading
the notice to the Postmaster, when the
person to whose order the money had
been sent, appeared on the scene, and
presenting his order, asked for the
money. The Postmaster was obliged to
confess that it was out of his power to
comply, and recited the circumstances
under which it was held. The disap-
pointed payee sought legal advice on
the subject. Attorney number two,
after hearing the case, ransacked the
Post Office Departments regulations
touching money orders, and thought he
discovered sufficient grounds for de-
manding that the money be paid to his
client. The Postmaster, however,
thought best to await instructions from
Washington on the subject before fork
ing over. AS the matter now stands,
the money is tied up in the hands of
the Postmaster, until the next meeting
of the Circuit Court in April, unless the
Post Office Department dissolves the in
junction sooner.


Ev0rrrN TSAprIJA of Snain IL Sl1ffes-
Year: 1872

Hence tho partiality of the Free TRADERS for
guerrilla warfarc-for repeating the dutics on
Salt, on Coal, on Iron, &C., by separate DIS
They count ON the fact that many do not see
bevond the tins of their nOses-that those
interested i'm Sugar, in Rice, in Wool respect
iyely. will vote to destroy each other and 80
involve themselves in common ruin. But,
since the net must be spread in plain sight OF
all the birds, only the slliest can be caught IN
it. Its real use is to enable those who are at
heart hostile to all Protection to achieve lts
overthrow while seeming anxious TO shield that
industry wherein their constituents arc specially
interested.


We are glad that an open breach has been
made, and that the fmsy vail OF Revenue
Reform" has been torn to tatters. Protection
is either right or wrong, and should be d)alt
with accordingly Mr.. Speaker Blaine saw lit
to give the Free Traders practical majority
in the Ways and Means Committee, and they
have resolved to assert their power. 1t Is
their clear right to do so, whether the Speaker
was right or wrong in giving them their OPP
portunity. Why should any man cherish
principle yet refuse to act upon it


All that we ask of Messrs. Burchard, Fink
~"
Trade bill! Let it embOdy your principle
without cOncealmcnt or compromise. Since
you are not likely to pass your measure at
this session, make it such AZ you can justify
on the stump-such as will challenge scrutiny
and endure discussion. We PrOtectiOnists have
this advantage over our adversaries We al
ways believe that our principle is not only
right in the abstract, but adapted to the pres
ent exigency. We never esteem the present
moment inauspicious for inaugurating Protec-
tion. We do make a Protective Tariff when
ever we can how is it with our adversariesf
Do they ever frame a bill which is consistent
with thorough Free Trade!


Mr.. Burchard we understood to declare him
self, in conversation last Fall, not Il Free
Trader. II seems clear from his action in the
Committee that no is not a PrOtectionist We
hope soon to be able to make out exactly
what he is. And, since we seem not to have
apprehended correctly the meaning of his
words, we shall henceforth regard and judge
him by his votes.


1t is too late now to make a clear Economic
issue in the approaching Presidential Election.
Both Free-Traders and ProtectiOnists are
already arrayed for and against the Phila-
delphia Convention and its fOregone conclu-
sion, and whichever party shall undertake to
interpOse q clear Economic issue must expect to
lose thereby more than it will gain. But this
will not prevent very general attention to
this point in the nomination and election OF
Members of Congress. The People will ponder
it, discuss it, decide it, and we suggest that
no action of moment be had until they be
concusively heard from. Let us have no
daubing with untcmpcred mortar, but let the
very next revision of the Tariff be based upon
a clear manifestation of an enlightened public
sentiment, and made to endure.
Year: 1872

Impatient expectation for the end of the
strife over the City Charter must be curted
somewhat The Conference Committee on the
disagreeing votes of the two Houses have just
organized; they have at least one hundred
amendments to act upon, and although they
will agree on the minor points in the Senate
amendments, there will be many and radical
changes probably. And even if the Commit
tee agree and the Senate and Assembly accept
their report (both of which contingencies are
remote), the bill cannot possibly be passed be-
fore the middle of next week.
Year: 1872

Very few of the people who live in the older
cities of the Republic know much of the vast
system of railways now ramifying through the
heart of the continent. The rapidly multiply
ing exigencies of trade which have followed
emigration and settlement in the West have
called into existence numberless railway
schemes-good, bad, and indifferent. A TRIB-
UNE correspondent, writing from Greeley, Col
orado, gives a pretty full summary of some
of the plans that now stir the people of that
region, from which one gains faint idea OF the
whole network that is growing there.