smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1872

Ben Wade spoke at Grant meeting 10
J Jefferson County, Ohio on Saturday evening
He started with the proposition that there
never were but two great national political
parties in any free country, and, from the very
nature of things, there never could be. He
then traced the history of the Republican
and Democratic parties on the questions of
slavery, secession, and equal rights He
thought, Notwithstanding its platform, the
Democratic party of to-day was the old Dem
ocratic party. There was no evidence that
they had repented. 1t was more probable
that the few thousand Liberals had changed
than that 100000 Democrats had changed
If Greeley were elected it would be Demo-
cratic triumph and Democratic Administra.
ton. Democrats would elect him, and il would
be but just for them to control him. He had
been friend Of Mr.. Greeley for a great many
years. He had been subscriber to his excel


lent paper for about thirty years, and it gave
him no pleasure to speak against him. But
his conduct for the past few months had been
the most unaccountable Of any public man
he had ever known. In fact he could not nc.
count for it on any principle of honesty what
ever While being the leader of his party
he had attempted TO betray it into the hands
of its enemy for the sake Of a Democratic
nomination. He then spoke very highly ofGen.
Grant. His position during the rebellion as
chairman of the Committee on the Conduct of
the War, gave him an excellent opportunity to
become acquainted with Gen. Grant. He had
spent many nights in Grants camp, and he
knew him to be an honest, unassuming, hard
working man. There had been the most vii
lainous systematic attempts to break him
down of any public man that ever lived.
General charges had been made against him
in such manner as to deceive even the
very elect" but they were false. He thought
the nation owed Grant debt Of gratitude il
never could pay Ho explained the Sauto Do
mingo quarrel between Senator Sumner aud
Gen. Grant, claiming that the removal of Min
ister Motley was the cause Of Summers oppo-
siton to annexation. Sumner would have
nothing to do with the President or the State
Department, except to quarrel with them.
There were nine treaties in his hands that he
would not send to the Senate. For this reason,
when the committees were organized for the
next session he was not chosen as chairman Of
the Committee on Foreign Relations, but was
given the chairmanship Of another committee.
Although he highly esteemed Mr.. Sumner in
may respects, yet from personal knowledge
Of the whole affair, he knew Mr.. Sumner to
be in the wrong.
Year: 1872

Civility costs nothing and is often produc-
tive of good results Here is an instance


A local doctor of medicine at Bath Eng
land, has just had legacy of twenty thou
sand dollars, and comfortable house, left
him by lady who was only known to him
by his once offering her seat in his carriage.


A gentleman known to the writer once as
sisted very old and feeble man to cross from
the London Mansion House to the Bank Of
England. This crossing is very dangerous
one, especially at midday, when the city is
full Of cabs, omnibuses, drays, and other
ponderous vehicles. When the old gentleman
had got safely across, he exchanged cards
with his obligug young friend; and there
the matter rested. Some four or five years
after this incident occurred, a firm Of London
solicitors wrote to the young gentleman who
had taken pity on the old man, informing
him that legacy of Eve thousand dollars and
gold watch aud chain had been left TO him
by gentleman who took the opportunity
Of again thanking him in his will for an act
of unlocked for eiyility." 1t is not likely
that all will have gold watches and chains
left TO them, or neat little bundles Of crisp
notes but il is certain that acts Of civility
are productive Of sufficient results to our in
ner selves to make it worth our while to prac-
tise them whenever we find the oportunity.
Year: 1872

The man who has begun to live and work
by artificial stimulant never knows where he
stands, and can never count upon himself
with any certainty. He gets into his castle
a servant who becomes the most tyranical Of
masters. He may resolve to turn him out,
but will find himself reduced to the condition
in which he can neither do with nor without
him. The use Of stimulant to the brain pow
or brings on disease in whose paroxysms
man is no more his own master than in the
raving Of fever, disease that few have the
knowledge to understand, and for whose mrn-
ifestations the world has no pity.
Year: 1872

We have no particular war to make
upon the individual members OF the Roy
al (Ciayton) Blue or Loyal League. We
are not of that ultra type that would say
that all of its members are banded to-
gether for corrupt and sinister motives
we kno,c differently.


1 There are good men who have identi-
fed themselves with that organization
for the purpose of endeavoring to shape
matters little decently, and for the best
Interest of the Republican party in this
county. We are well satisfied however
that they are powerless for good, and
will in due time find it out, and will then
come boldly out and expose the " ring "
managers, who are attempting to run
things covertly in the interest Of their
master (Clayton). One Parson Strong
let the cat out the bag during the last
term of the circuit court, when he decar-
ed in the league that he had been a close
observer of the civil conduct Of the State
government under Clayton, and the same
was honest and right. That is sufli-
cient; the parson shall go to the next
(Clayton) legislature-he would make a
splendid member to vote on militia and
Lcveo bills, and would likely bring a
commission home with him should there
happen to be vacancy in the county,
or should there not, he might be Undue
ed to migrate to some other county and
serve the people.


We are anxiously awaiting the report
of the committee on the flag matter, and
ask said committee to thoroughly inves
tigate the matter and find If possible who
tore thai flag, as well as the leaky
members of the fraternity, and new hat
for it they were no briudles, conserva
tives, Democrats or rebels--but regular
straight out State administration "mn-
strels, with Clayton collars


EYE OPEN
Year: 1872

We wish to call special attention to the an
nouncement in our paper of Public Lecture
to given by Col. N. HOWARD, of this county


on Friday night next, at Eugenie Hall.


Col. Howard is young man of marked
ability, and although resident with us for
year, through his extreme modesty, is but
little known to our people. He has selected
for his theme on this occasion "The Signs OF
the Times" and from those that are more
Intimately acquainted with him than we, We
are assured that he will give Lecture well
worth listening ToPasThe admission is only %


cts, and If our people could know how much
full house would b6appreciated by the
Lecturer, we are confident there would
be a general turn out OH Friday night.
Year: 1872

SAVE Us FROM OUR FRIENDS. ell may
Col IoCKHART cry out. after reading the
vulgar personal of the Fort Smith Potriot
noticing the little incident happening in
his as in all well regulated families, "deliv-
er us from our friends" We should have
passed il by without notice, but for the fact
that the Little Rock Gazette copies and sends
it forth to its thousand readers. We wish our
friends of the Gazette to know that Mrs
Lockhart is Of good family, stands well in
our town--no matter what our people may
think. or say Of Mr.. l.. They have lived in
Van Buren, the past year and Mrs. l.. is II lady
of refinement and we have never yet heard
but the kindest mention of her from any one
and when the Patriot makes reference of the
delicate situation she was in, with such low
and vulgar language, it deserves the con
tempt Of all high minded citizens, and its no
credit to any paper to copy such stuff.
Year: 1872

ES To discover spurious greelbacks
or national bank notes divide the last
two figures Of the number of the bill by
four, and if one remains, the letter on
the genuine will be A; if two remains il
will be B; il three, G.; and should there
be no remainder, the letter will be d.
For example, q note is registered 2,46l
divide sixty one by four and you will
have one remaining According to the
rule, the letter on the note will be A. In
case the rule fails be certain that the bill
is counterfeit - Erchomge.
Year: 1872

81 We learn that Dr. L. G. WHITE will soon lay


she foundation for large three story brick iron front


huding, on the corner north Of his present store.
8The location is fine and will prove aH ornament to
Sthc Town. and venture to say that it will command
sTosdy tesants.
Year: 1872

Mrs. Fair has been granted new trial
BY the Supreme court on the ground that
the lower court erred in not permitting
the counsel for the defense the closing
argument, and in permitting the evidence
of the former bad character and unchas-
tity of the accused.
Year: 1872

I adopt this mode Of advertising my business
instead OF employing agents. My Object is, to
reduce the expense Of the business as much as
possible, so by purchasing of me you pay no
agent fees. You can also save the expense Of
delivering the work If you choose; besides you
can sescct the Marble yourself, and see the style
of It, as Il will be, so there is possible chance
for being deceived or being disappointed.


BY taking this course, there is saving Of
from twenty 60 thirty per cent.--aecording to
how far the purchaser comes
You can readily see that the money save by
not keeping agents goes to the purchaser instead
of the agent.


Agents claim that they can furnish work
cheaper. That canreNAe done. unless done by
Apprentices. furus 20 work of that class
as employ no Approaches.
| Ny work and material cannot be questioned.
TO Patronize home, if you can, and save
money by so dcing. Sl3
Year: 1872

Many persons who saw the corn bread az
hibited at the State Fair in New Orleans,
supposed it was pound cake, until correctly
informed, and that it was made from DR.
Prices Cream Baking Powder, for which Q
silver medal was there awarded.
Year: 1872

A REMARKABLE RUNAWAY YESTERDAY
Yesterday morning the horse attached to DR..
PowelPs buggy took fright at the corner of
Marshall and Gilmer streets Tor Elba Park and
ran down Marshall street on the sidewalk
at speed which was second only to fast
railroad time. Nearing the market-house at
the corner Of Sixth street, there was gene
raj CONSERVATION among the ducks, chickens,
and the hucksters. Three teams here took
fright, and after brief run were recaptured.
At Brook avenue the doctors horse ran the
buggy upon tree, but tarrying only Sc
cond he sped on down Marshall street to the
corner of the Medical College, where he
turned down Fourteenth street to Mayo's
bridge, and across the bridge, as fast as bis
feet could carry him, to the Manchester old
fields. Here he was captured and brought
back. The skin was hardly broken on the
horse, and the buggy scarcely sustained s.
worth of damages. The sidewalk for con-
siderable distance from where he started
was go narrow that there was barely room
for the vehicle to pass, and here and there
along the course he had taken, the trees were
slightly barked and the fences scraped by
the buggy hubs. But further down he took
to the middle of the street, and now it was
amusing to see the drivers of the various
teams on the street pulling carefully to one
side to get out of the way. Altogether it
was Il most remarkable runaway, and it is
hardly possible that another such could oc-
cur without doing deal of damage to life
or property. In this case nobody was hurt.
Year: 1872

PREPARING FOR THE LEGisLATURE.-Work-
men were engaged yesterday in putting
down the cocoa-matting in the Senate cham
ber and hall of the House of Delegates pre-
paratory to the assembling of the Legisla-
ture, which takes place on Wednesday next
the 4th instant. The new desks have not
yet been put in the House, but they will be
arranged in few days. Both houses now
present neat appearance, and will be much
more comfortable than heretofore. In few
days more the Capitol will be lively again.
Year: 1872

PRESIDENTIAL ELEcToRs.-The College Of
Electors will meet at the capitol next We'd
nesday to cast the vote OF the State for Presi-
dent and Fice-President of the United States
for the four years succeeding the 4th of
March next. The clerks in the Office of the
Secretary of the Commonwealth have been
busily engaged in the past few days in mail
ing certificates of election to the various pre-
Siiential electors.
Year: 1872

"Leather Worker" in the Canada
FarmerIgivts the following directions
for skinnfAg animals, which will be oi
value to farmers who may not be post.
ed upon the easiest way to conduct this
operation. He says {: We suppose the
animal dead and placed ON its back :;
the operator, by thrusting his lnife
point foremost and edge up, makes q
slit the Sehtire length of tho carcass
from the chin over the center of the
breast in the line of the naval to the
vent. Let him now stand by it's side.


with his face looking the way the head
lies, and taking the forefoot in his left
hand, run the point of his knife in the
line of the clcla a:of the foot and cap of
the knee, up Tie front of the leg and
into the central slit of it's bosom. For
tho hind leg, having reversed his posi-
tiOn, let the slit be made in the point
OF the heel, over the center of the cap
hook down the back of the ham in the
central slip. IN this wny the hide, when
spread out will have II square form
without long projections, and consc-
quent deep indcl4tations Of its outline.
Year: 1872

GoAT ISLAND. We regard the action OF
the lower House of Congress in giving Goat
Island to private corporation as high trea-
son to the Government and people of the
United States The idea Of n Government
deliberately abandoning one of the best nat
ural defences of great city and harbor to
private individuals, instead of making it bris-
tie with an armament that would defy the
nayies of the world, is suggestive of nothing
but treason to the Government and the peo-
pie, Corruption, treason Or ignorance was the
moving power that impelled Congress to this
shameless act, and probably all three of these
causes were at the bottom of this ncf,rious
act If ever people were cursed with an
imbecilc, villanous and corrupt Government,
it is the people of the United States. The
greascr Congress of Mexico would not have
committed so vile an act as this. San Fran
cisco's grievances are not drop in the bucket
compared with the national shame, outrage
and wrong done by this act of Congress.
The bill will doubtless pass the Senate, and
be signed by Grant, unless he is bribed to
veto it. Our Government has no power to
despoil the country of its defensive positions,
and the next Administration should seize
this Island, drive its occupants away and try
its donators for treason
Year: 1872

LAND MATTERS The Secretary OF the
Interior is preparing instructions authorizing
Testimony as to the mineral or agricultural
character of lands, to be taken before county
clerks of the counties where the lands are
situated. This arrangement will save land
li,iyants much time and expense III proving
the character of land in dispute. Claimants,
contestants, and their witnesses, instead OF
going long distances to the U. S. Land Office
can appear before the county clerk in their
own county and there give their testimony,
without red tape and at comparatively little
time and expense. We approve OF this plan
of Secretary Delano, and hope it will soon be
in force. The Secretary has also decided
that adverse claimants to mining Applications
for patent must file their adverse claims
within the ninety days required by the act
of 1866. This decision is in accordance with
the plain letter of the law, and is therefore
correct. These measures are good, but Cole E
bill TO create commissions to determine the
character of all lands, is better. This thing
of making claim owners and pre-emptors pay
more to find out whether they can buy the
land than the land itself afterwards costs, is
shame, and not good treatment of citizens
by our government.
Year: 1872

DoNNER CouNTY.-The bill creating the
new county of Donncr has been indefinitely
postponed in the Assembly. The great OBJ
lection to this bill was its effect on Sierra
county, which would have been nearly ruined
by it. AS to Placer and Nevada they made
no serious objections to the BILL and would
not have been much affected by it, one way
or the other.
Year: 1872

RED MEMS BALL.-The ball of Pocahontas
Tribe of Red Men at Virginia Hall last night
was not SO we'll attended US it would nave
been had the weather been less threatening,
but those who were present--and they Were
not few in npmber-spent most agreeable
evening in the mazes Of the dance.
Year: 1872

tee was given by practical men, who are con-
ducting business for themselves: and unless
there are some expenditures unrevealed in
the Engineers report which will explain the
discrepancy, your committee think it is
evident that the city pays g 900 or $4,000 per
annum for the work done by the city carts,
and they recommend that the Committee on
streets examine into the matter with view
70 correcting the management of this portion
Oh Their expenditures, ifpossible."


The report was adopted
Year: 1872

The New York Tribune and the New York
World are now laboring side by side and for
what To depreciate the Administration to
deplete the Republican Party to weaken what
ever nomination may be made at Philadelphia !
and to bring into the control Of national affairs
candidates elected by the Democratic Party. To
such work has Herace Greeley in his old days,
lent himself
Year: 1872

One of the very few Republicans Of anypoliti-
cal standing in Chester county, associated with
the Cincinnati call, is smedley Darlington, of
West Chester. He insists that he is a Republi-
can in principle, and will do nothing that will aid
in electing Democratic President. Should the
Democrats refuse to accept the nominees of the
Cincinnati Convention, there is reason to believe
that he will give his influence to the election OF
the nominee of the Philadelphia Convention.
Year: 1872

IT has been our desire to sec bro
ken down, the old prejudice between
Abingdon and Bristol, but we must
say. that about the most supremely
selfish thing we have seen undertaken,
is the present effort to defeat the
wish of the people of Goodson Town
ship. for a road from Goolson, to
Buffalo Pond. The road has already
been ordered, and an effort is now
made to have the order rcscinded, OF
course it will fail unless justice be a
farce. ..l.El l8LE B
Year: 1872

this infamous Unconstitutional Ku>
klux act. | have heardit stated that
there are 1000 defendants indicted
and to be tried at Raleigh, no doubt
before packed jury of Radicals, as
Others have been tried, no one of
whom is charged with taking lie or
for any other offense which would
amount to more in our State courts
than assault and battery or a forcible
trespass. / have seen five or six
hundred passing through Charlotte at
one time, ofmen, women and children.
going two hundred and fifty miles
from home TO attend court, some with
their rations tied up in rags, leaving
their farms to neglect and ruin, with
little or no money. and compelled for
want of means TO camp in crowds
without shelter oyer their heads,
for weeks at time How such a
sight does fill me with love and 'admi-
ration for the Government! The OBJ
jectof all this is apparent enough
One of their most distinguished men
had the impudence to tell me that
they intended to run enough of our
citizens away by the Kuklux prosecu-
tions to carry the State in the next
elections | told him, if you under
take to do that | viii issue a procls-
nation telling them all to come back.
Laughter and applause l only tell
you what | had from the mouths of
their own leaders, Still some men
pretend that they are no. satisfied
with the progress that the Democracy
are making to restore proper rule
to the country, and they make a
thousand objections to continuing in
the Conservative ranks.
Year: 1872

The poem, we to day publish on
Horace Greeley will not escape the
commendation of every cultivated
reader. 1t reads like it might have
come from Prentice or DIR. English


Its rhyme. its measure and its senti-
ment are beautiful, and if the author
should write nothing else it should
make his name the subject Of enquiry.
If he can write more of equal worth
with this one he can win distinction.
Year: 1872

In an entertaining article entitled


New York Dogs" Mr.. C. D. Shanly


records his observations of some curious


traits of canine life in the city. Every


New Yorker will recognize this descrp-
ton


Nearly all the barking done in New
York-and there is good deal of it's
done by the terriers that keep watch in
the bakers carts These fierce little ami
mails are generally of the rough Scotch or
common black -and-tau breeds. They are
very aggressive, barking furiously at
everybody and everything along the
route, and thus drawing the fire of the
town dogs, troops of which will some-
times follow bakers cart for n long dis
lance, in full yelp, as if demanding bread,
though their only object is to resent the
insulting and ribald language of the
pampered animal who barkH himself
hoarae at them from the cal. These
terriers are very vigilant whlle the baker
is absent for a short while from his cart,
engaged in delivering bread. If anybody
stops 10 look Of them they display the
widest fury, gnashing their teeth and
barking with a frenzy peculiar to dogs
having a mission to fulfil. The bakers
dog is an object of general scurrility.
Every street-boy makes faces and yells
at him as he hurries past in the bread
cart. Every carter cracks his whip at
him and if canine statistics were fully
made ont, they would doubtless show
that the bakers dog is short-Iived ami
nal, his health broken by continual ex-
and his death caused, in nine
cases out of ten, by apoplexy arising from
sudden ebullitions of temper"
Year: 1872

Do We not mistake, whom We consider
happiness, US We sometimes do, as that
emotion of joyousness, that presents IT,
self, as we move in the glitter, and glow,
of social pleasure 1t is that enjoyment
that We feel when any OF the gratifying
scenes OF life are passing Us by to-day,
that tomorrow shall ke known only in
the past. Nor is real happiness to be
found whore it is often sought, where
the only aim is our own selfish feelings,
the gratifying of the desire to destroy
tho thought of hereaft ar, in scenes Of
present hilarty and mirth. But IL We
would find happiness that is deep and
abiding that none OF the little storms Of
life can disturb, then let us arouse TO
some noble and pure work Of love, that
shall be q benefit to ourselves, to our
friends, or to the world at large. When
ever we yield our will to the wishes of
others, we become better, and when we
strive to be better, our happiness will
certainly increase. Whenever we make
q sacrifice, whenever we cultivate and
improve ourselves, whenever by constant
watching, or earnest effort, we rid our
selves Of fault, then we find that true
happiness that alone is worthy the name,
and that is pure and substantial Joy.


We are progressive beings, and live in
a world Of improvement, and only as
our Advancement is constant, shall we be
able to keep our position in society, and1
surely if we see those that have occu-
pied piece by our side, or in some
lower walk Of life passing by us to
sphere, from which they will look down
on us, it will be Obstructive to our peace
of mind, if we have any moral ambition
or pride. Then let US all, even at the
expense of the most laborious effort |
and exhausting toll, reach that highest
position attainable, and thus WELD our
greatest power for good. and receive the
richest recompense Of happiness.


v. II. II.