smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1873

A METAPHYSICAL VIEw.-An Ar
kansas local soliloquizes thus -
"jSome of our exchanges are pub
fishing as a curious item q state.
ment to tho effect that q horse in
Los Angeles pulled the plug out of
the bunghole of a water barrel in
order to slake his thirst. We do
not see anything extraordinary in
the occurrence. Now, if tho horse
had pulled the barrel out of tho
bunghole and slaked his thirst with
tho plug, or if the barrel had pull
ed the bunghole out ofthe plug and
slaked its thirst with the horse, or
if the plug had pulled the horse
out of the barrel and slaked its
thirst with the bungholo, or if tho
bunghole had pulled the thirst out
of the horse and slaked the plug
with the barrel, or if the barrel had
pulled tho horse out of tho bung-
hole and plugged its thirst with tho
slale, it might be worthwhile to
mako some fuss over it,"
Year: 1873

WE DESIRE TO CALL PUBLIC ATTENTION to the
100000 stock Of goods offered In another column
BY WIN. IRA SMITH, agent. Many OF The goods have
been recently bought, and all for cash, which he
now offers in order to close out the entire stock in
the next sixty days. at from ten 10 twenty per cent
reduction in former prices. This is an opportunity
seldom offered In this line Of business in this city
Call md see him
Year: 1873

s100,000.-It is estimated that LEVY BROTHERS
have saved the purchasers Of dry goods this sum
since the outbreak Of the panic by. reducing the
prices Of dry goods IN this city. They Intend Keep
ing prices down, knowing well that but few can
afford 10 purchase at such prices as they have been
paying since the war.
Year: 1873

grief or disappointment thrust aside his
good angel, and then lost honor, love, and
the better reward Of well doing, the con
sciousness of divine blessing


Whatever he had been or might have
been, he was now but daring defiant ad-
venturer, ready at the impulse, prompted
by love Of gold, to place himself as remote
from the mercy Of God as possible, and
under the very shadow Of the gallows, for
getful Of all reward or punishment, save
the attainment of his own selfish ends


TO BE CONTINUED
Year: 1873

Forced at last to meet the issue, Colonel
Hughes tells us In his Norfolk speech that he
is opposed to mixed schools. Knowing full well
that the negroes are too well drilled to deny
him their votes, let his utterances be what they
may, he can we'll afford to give such an assur-
ance to the white people fthe State. But adj
NIT that such are the views honestly entertain
ed by him, does any intelligent man believe he
could control the Radicals, if once in power P
Ii IS absurd to suppose so for moment. What
has been their action when they were free to
secure the accomplishment of their designs?-
In their convention at Jackson, Mississippi,
last week, they unanimously adopted platform
embodying the principles of mixed schools. The
second resolution was couched In the following
terms: That we recognize no distinctions as
now existing by law in the rights of all the
children of the State to equal privileges, and
to accept such in all public schools, colleges or
universities, and should any of said institutions
of learning deny to any child, on account of
race or color, its equal rights, we pledge our
selves to enforce the said rights by appropriate
legislation and We further pledge ourselves to
the support OF our present institutions of learn
ing and our present educational system, as a.
bove explained"


So, too. in New York, we ind in Brooklyn
the question, Shall colored children be allow
ed to sit in class with white scholars?" has
been submitted to their educational board for
Its decision in way that admits Of nothing
short of a plain. straightforward reply. The
petition, IN which this question is brought up,
deplores the exclusion of colored children from
the common enjoyment of the privilege of at
tending any of the public schools, designating
it as an act of great injustice and tending to
perpetuate the humiliation and degradation of
the race. A member of the board, in support
OF this petition, asserted that there was no long
er distinction between whites and blacks, and
that all the public schools should be conducted
with that principle in view. Already, in
Poughkeepsie, this vexed question has been set
at rest by the admission of two colored pupils
into the public schools, and their classification
the same as the white children.


Friends Of the free schools are you willing to
trust their management to the negroes? Are
you willing to confde this important trust to
the carpet-bag adventurers and such native
whites as are in alliance with them? II not,
see that every friend of the free school system
casts bis vote for Kemper Withers and Daniel.
Rich Whi0
Year: 1873

The Richmond Dispatch assigns as follows
some reasons why it does not desire Republican
rule: I'VE do not covet, itsays, ''to have the
J negro thrust upon US at every turn; given pre-
ference and precedence over US; filling every
petty neighborhood office sitting in judgment
on US and our concerns in every neighborly con-
test; putting US under arrest, and aping and
while dressed in brief authority.


We do not desire to have our laws made or
administered by him under Republican dicta-
ton, nor to be taxed by Legislature in which
we will have no effective representation.


We will not that the poper of taration be
put into the hands of the negro for the enrich
ment of his political owner and commander.
We will not that the whole influence of the
State Government, with background of Fed
! eral bayonets shall be so welded as to put him
in such positions as may best carry out the pur-
poses of the Republican party or crafty their
hatred by annoying the native whites.


We do not wish Virginia to be yelled in
black cancelled, two black lines
drawn around and across her-the slave of slaves
"a negro supremacy established here which no
New England State would bear for an instant,
were the party to dare to try it there


Let US not be understood as being an enemy
or contemner of the negro. Nowhere has he
more real friends and well-wishers, nor friends
who more fully appreciate the elements of worth
in him. We respect in their proper place his
,o1 a. -. Il
owes debt to him not only for his past services,
but especially for his conduct as class during
the way. Though he was told that the North
was fighting for his freedom, and the South to
keep him in slavery-that the Federal army
was his friend and the Confederate his enemy
yet, as general rule, the race remained on
the plantations and homes of their masters, the
sole and trusty guardians Of the females, the old,
or the feeble, while all the strong we're 10 the
army of the South. They cultivated the crops
and raised the food which supplied our armies
aud enabled them SO long to keep the field
The negro has behaved well, considering all
things. And as he is among and is to stay a.
mong US We wish him TO be identified with and
interested in the general weliare-to be a safe
citizen, useful member of the community, and
not fostering ulcer Of ignorance, bitterness.
crime, and bestial sensuality-a non producer,
an ever-present source of mischief and danger
in our midst. Naturally be is kind, docile,
grateful and affectionate. Set free from selfish,
unprincipled interference and false representa-
tions, he would confde in and be in accord with
the southern white race, whose prosperity he
would share-a happy, useful and respectable
peasant-rising high er as his natural aptitude
or special capacity enabled him to do So


But, for all his good qualities and real merits,
he is not yet fit, morally or Intellectually, to
rule or control State-to regulate its machin-
cry Of government-to deal with its delicate in
terests. This cannot be learned 10 day."
Year: 1873

Who In all this broad land, from its extreme
Northern limits to the borders Of Mexico-Re-
publican or Democrat-white or black, who
does not In his heart feel that the gallant SOL
ders of Lee and jackson and the noble people
for whom they fought would be lost to a sense
of shame were they to hesitate between him


kemper who stood shoulder to shoulder with
them in tue last ditch. and the other, Hughesl
who avoided the ills he contributed to produce,
sought refuge in The embrace and found service
at the hands of the Victor2


It cao never be The blood of our fallen he
roes and the shades of our departed braves
would cry, shame upon you; the very women
would rise up 10 the power of their contempt
and say. Shame upon you." Every heart in
the length and breadth of this mighty land
which has touch of the noble and the true
would join in the cry of ''Shame, shame up
on you.


The trembling coward, the impecunious seal
awag the ignorant negr3might be excused for
hastily leaving the sinking ship, but the brave
and skillful officer who Knowingly and wilfully
dared the hidden rocks of an unknown shore
and when the danger came abandoned both ship
and crew to the mercies of the winds and
waves" when most they needed the benefits
of his skill his experience and his courage,
stands without justification or palliation before
the country.


Virginians want 10 such captains to command
their ship of State.-Ricb. Whig.
Year: 1873

There is many rest in the road of life,


If we would only stop to take it,
And many a tone from the better land,


If the querelous heart would make it
To the sunny soul that is full of hope,


And whose beautiful trust ne'er faileth.
The grass is green and the flowers are bright
Though the winter storm prevalent.
Better to hope though the clouds hang low
And to keep the eyes still lifted;
For the sweet blue sky will soon peep thro'
When the ominous clouds are riftedl
There was never night without a day,
Or an evening without a morning;
And the darkest hour, as the proverb goes,
Is the hour before the dawning.
There is many gem in the path of life,


Which we pass in our idle pleasure,
That is richer than the jeweled crown


Or the miser's boarded treasure;
1t may be the love of a little child


Or mothers prayer to heaven,
Or only beggar's grateful thanks


For cup OF water given.
Better to weave in the web of life


A bright and golden filing,
And to do Gods will with ready heart,
And hands that are ready and willing,
Than to snap the delicate, minute threads
Of our curious lives asunder,
And then blame heaven for the tangled ends,
And sit, and grieve and wonder.
Year: 1873

From an article of the Philadelphia North
american, a Republican paper. We extract the
folloging:


'Virgioia contains jlst two hundred thou
sand more whites than blacks Ifthese whites
choose to unite together they are entitled to
rule by every principle of right aud justice, -
Aad that they should insist upon maintaining
the ascepdency of their race in the State gov
ernment is proper enough. 1t is quite sufficient
that they coucede equal political rights to all
races, and are not banded together for rebel
purposes.


As the Richmond Enquirer says, here is the
question in nutshell. We shall endeayor in
the future to rule through our white majority,
as we have in the past, and shall accord the
same impartial justice, and the same protection
to the colored minority that has distinguished
Conservative predominance during the past
four years. There is no disposition on the part
Of any white man or set of white men in Vir-
ginia to Cypress or wrong the black man. All
We aim at is to keep the government in the
hands of honesty, capacity, intelligence and true
worth. This will be done.
Year: 1873

beautiful, and Brigham would probably
visit her. but dare not. After he had
been absent several months from her
house he called to bid her good bye a.
he was about to go South last fall. She
refused to shake hands with him, and
told him that il he could afford to stay
away so long from her while he WAS liv
ing in the same city with her she could
afford to not shake hands.


Reporter: Why does he take young
wives and treat them in this manner?


Lady: II nstters his vanity to let
the world see that he eau get Young wo-
men to marry him.


Reporter Do you not think he takes
these wives because his religion requires
him to do so?


Lady: In former times ho had soma
other passion TO crafty -aa~it = w~Ns-
~. do not think that he believes IN
his own religion


Here thought / had probably asked
the lady everything that the public would
care TO hear. with her answers. They
give n truthful reflex Of the minds of
many women. | thanked the lady cour-
teously and babe her and her little son
adieu
Year: 1873

marked how youthful had grown since
l had got out OF my former troubles. As
l had much improved in every way ] did
not regard his observation as any intend
cd compliment or any indication of ~hat
afterwards | learned to be passing in his
mind.
Year: 1873

A Western engineer has invented a
hot water pump with which to squirt
hot water on to deaf persons who walk
on the track. Thus another source Of
interesting items Is ruthlessly cut of
by the inventive genius Of this coun-
try. Next they will invent non-ex-
plosive kerosene, and then what will
the newspaper itemizers do?
Year: 1873

and great many other things too numerous to meu-


all Of which he Will sell cheap for cash.


The = Head Centre" himself Is the most obliging
in the city, and to show goods Is his best hold
He will not mIsrepresent his goods either. nO251
Year: 1873

WILMINGTON, Del, Feb 5.-President Grant
with one two companions Will arrive here
10 spend the remainder Of the day In this city
The Governor aud members Of the State Legislature win
meet him here, with other distinguished guests Sho
afternoon will be spent visiting the industrial establish
ments and other places of interest after which the city
authorities will give banquet 10 u party of 500
Year: 1873

rH YES TERDAY we stated that the New York
mail to this city was carried by and returned
on the train from the east. 1t is due to the
postal clerks to say that the New York letter
mail unsorted was thrown upon them here
from the Boston express train just as tho
Bangor train was starting. Two of the most
active postal clerks set about the work of dis
tributlng it and were only able to get it done
when they met the eastern train from Bruns-
wick. 1t consequently was not the fault of
the postal officers between Boston and Ban
gor but must be attributed to that careless
ness so frequently exhibited at Boston by the
messenger not taking the mails from the Bos-
ton Office to the Eastern railroad in season
for the regular mail train. Query-why cat
not the mails for Maine be taken directly
from the New York train to the Eastern de-
pot in Boston? The management of the
Boston post Office seems to be careless and
obstructive as well as arrogant.
Year: 1873

The fifty-second Legislature adjourned
sine die last night at ten O'Clock, rapidly
closing up its business after session of forty
eight days. Had that honorable body given
us due notice we should have written some
thing handsome respecting it. But now
we have only time to say that while its record
presents nothing rovel or progressive in legis-
lation, it has beyond question, represented the
average sentiment of the State. The number
of acts passed is 377 and resolves 109-involv-
ing vas amount of statute tinkering Of
the results of the session we shall speak at
length hereafter,
Year: 1873

THE catastrophe yesterday, in Boston,
which resulted in the loss of several lives, dis
closed the fact that the six story building had
no means of escape for those SO unfortunate
as to be employed in the upper stories in case
of fire, and that the walls of the building
were but nero shams, only eight inches in
thickness, and liable 10 fall at any time from
a little overweight or the jar of machinery.
There can be no punishment too severe fer
the wretches that construct these man traps
and tinder boxes.
Year: 1873

Remember that the ward caueuses to night
are called at SEVEN oclock,a half hour earlier
than those of Monday night. We neel not
urge the Importance of a full attendance, and


the propriety and necessity of supplementing
the e. Ecellent nomination for Mayor by the
selection of such men as will secure wise


and prudent city government, as the intelli-
gent Republicans of the city fully appreciate
Year: 1873

g An Augusta special states that the election
offs. D. Leavitt Esq, of Eastport, as chair
man of the Democratic State Committee and
Col. A. W. Bradbury of this city as Secretary
is triumph of the Young Democracy over
the Bourbon leaders. If that is the fact and
the Young Democracy elsewf ere in the State
sympathize with the stirring element in this
city, we may expect that at the next Conven-
ton which is to be he'd in this city, this vig-
orous blood will declare the old organization
is dead-a fact that the younger element are
not backward in declaring.
Year: 1873




Perfect health is vouchssfed to few. Probably
ninety people out OF every hundred who call them
selves healthy have their 'turns'' of languor ex-
haustion depression of spirits and bodily pain. At
these times wineglssful of Hostetter's Stomach
Bitters is refreshing ''the shadow of rock in
weary land" 1t invigorates and rests the system
and cheers the mind. The effect of the Bitters in
cases ofnervous debility, produced either by undue
physical exertion, over-study, intense anxiety, or
any other cause is wonderfully revving and invigor
aing In fact, this healthful vegetable restorative
possesses medicinal properties which entitle it to
the rank of an article of PRIME necessity, and it
should be kept on hand in every dwelling and
promptly taken as remedy for all the minor all
ments as well as for more serious complaints.
Year: 1873

THE recent move of the Warmoth faction
in Louisiana to bring on collision with the
Kellogg government by attempting to enroll
the militia, has brought Congress te see the
necessity of some action to prevent anarchy
and blood-shed in that State
Year: 1873

The heart of a deacon who Off
ciated with the contribution box
at recent meeting for foreign
missions in Boston, was gladdened
by observing among its contents =
neatly-rolled package. On hastily
investigating his former belief in
the depravity Of human nature
was changed to a certainty by dis
covering one dollar and one cent,
and upon the paper the following.
"The cent is for the hcathen, and
the dollar to get it to them."
Year: 1873

proach. The widow was on her
way to the altar, with The elegant
dandy who had caused the sup.
preston Of her husbands statue,
there TO take upon herscIfa second
VOW of conjugaI fidelity.


Scandal adds that the bu t
would willingly have been return
ed that the newly-marricd cou-
pie considered the sculptor's de-
mand enormous; and that it was
only with considerable difficulty,
and with i threat Of further pro
cecdings, that he was at length re-
imburscd for the time and trouble
spent upon the widows whim.
Year: 1873

A Hartford subscriber writes
that be is just recovering from
smallpox, and will be on in a few
days to renew his subscriptions
We hope he won't mind a little
thing like that. We will send
the paper and wait for the money.
We will wait cheerfully. We
amt of that avaricious kind of
people who will grab for money as
iffor life. We despiso such things.
There's no earthly reason for his
coming on we will wait.-Danbury
Nevs.
Year: 1873

The wheat yield Of the State Of Ore
gon, the present season, is said to sur
pass that of any harvest ever gathered.
There are fears that there will not be
sufficient tonnage to carry of the mar
ket's surplus.
Year: 1873

A REJECTED LOVERS REVENGE
Taking a seat just behind the happy paiI
in church, he racked his brains for means
of revenge, and looked like seventeen
Othellos concentrated into one. Finally
ghastly smile crept over his face, he
raised up in his seat and nabbed large
black bug that was crawling on a pillar
hard by, and gently dropped it down be-
tween his unconscious rivals shirt collar
and then calmly leaned back with vir-
tuous and Christian air of satisfaction.
The bug soon made his presence felt, and
that other fellow began to twist and
scratch himself against the back Of the
seat and look uneasy and cast unhappy
glances at the minister and affectonate
ones at the fair being by his side. The
bug evidedtly, grew more and more i'm
patient at his Imprisonment, and turned
himself loose, graphing around with q
recklessness devilishly suggestive of big
black spiders and scorpions, and that
other fellow could stand it no longer, but
bolted upright, casting one wild startled
look at the congregation, cleared the
space between him and the door at two
bounds,
Year: 1873

SILVER LINING TO THE BLACK CLOUD.
"A woman of this city, who bears the
name among the police of being a verita-
BILE tigress and utterly lost to all sense Of
shame, few years ago had playing
around her house a pretty, flaxen-haircd
little girl. 1t was the only pleasant spot
in the woman's life, the only thing on
earth that she cared for but when the
child came to a thinking age she was put
away, and although the mother yearned
for her offspring, yet her love for her
was too great to allow personal pleasure
to get the better of anxiety for her child's
welfare. And so the little girl went away
from heI home of sin, and was placed in
a convent in Canada to be educated
There she grew up to be a beautiful and
accomplished young lady. She never
went home, as did her schoolmates, and
often, perhaps, wondered at the mystery
surrounding her mothers life. Under
the Christian teachings of the pious sisters
the girl became as good as she was beau
tiful but one day her mother was hastily
summoned to Canada, for her daughter
was taken ill, and in few days she died
One of the finest monuments in st. Agnes
cemetery rears itself over the grave of
this pure and honored daughter of the
famous courtesan. Nowhere do the fiow-
ers bloom sweeter than upon her grave
Albany Express.
Year: 1873

Do NOT DEsPIsE SMALL THINGs-The
possibility of great change being intro
duced by very slight beginnings, may be
illustrated by tale which Lockman
tells of vizier, who, having offended
his master, was condemned to perpetual
captivity in lofty tower. AT night his
wife came to weep under his window
Cease your grief" said the sage " go
home for the present, and return thither
when you have procured live beetle, to-
gether with little ghee, (or butialoe's IS
butter,) three clews-one of the finest
silk, one of stout packthrcad, one of whip
cord finally coil of stoutest rope. y
When she came again to the foot of the
tower, provided with these things, he in
structed her to touch the head of the in
sect with little of the ghee, to tie one
end of the silk thread around him, and
place the insect on the wall Of the tower.
Seduced by the smell of the butter which
he conceived to be in the store somewhat
above him, the beetle continued to ascend
until he reached the top and thus put the
vizer in possession of the end of the
thread and he drew up the packthread
by means of the silk the small cord by
means of the packthread and by means
of the cord stout rope, capable of sus-
tanning his own weight and so, at
last, escaped from his place of duress.
Year: 1873

A LADY residing at Lansingburg hail
ed the passing car with her little son, the
other morning, to see him safely on the
horsecar for trip to Troy. lie stepped
on board and scrambled for the front of
the car. As he was going his mother
said " Why, amt you going to kiss
your mother before you go ?" The little
fellow was so delighted at the prospect of
ride, and in such hurry, that he has
tily rejoined, looking back excitedly -
" Mr.. Conductor, won't you kiss mother
for me ?" And of course the passengers
couldn't help smiling.
Year: 1873

WHEN you receive bouquet, sprinkle
it lightly with cold water, then put it in
a vessel containing some soap suds, which
nourish the roots, and keep the flowers as
good as new. Take the bouquet out OF
the suds every morning, and lay it side
ways in fresh water, the stock entering
first into the water; keep it there min
ute or two, then take it out, and sprinkle
the flowers lightly by the hand with pure
water. Replace the flowers in the soap
suds, and they will bloom freshly.