smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1875

A Public School building, to cost over 81 900
is now being erected and will be completed
before the second sale. The percentage OF the
last sale devoted to the erection Of this build
percentage Go per cent. on town property and
"a per cent. on farm property will be given
for the same purpose from the proceeds of the
next sale.
Year: 1875

Governor Cochran recommended economy and
the Legislature is talking about raising its pay.
He also advised that new offices should not be
created, and the Legislature yesterday passed
bill increasing the number of Justices OF the
Year: 1875

The income of the Girard Estate is growing 30
large that it attracts special attention in Phila-
delphia. This growth is nothing to be concern
ed about there are plenty of men in that city
quite ready and able to prevent it's becoming in
conveniently large.


At least three Of the New Castle delegation in
the House oppose the division of the county. SEN
sible men There is an easy, plain way to equal
or increase representation, without rending
the county in twain, and the proposition to do
evil that good may come of it is not only imprac-
ticable-for of course, three -fourths vote can-
not be had in the next Legislature it is total
ly unnecessary.
Year: 1875

Mr.. Williams seems disposed to sig
nalize his retirement from ths Attorn-
ey-G y-Generalship by definite closing up
of the business of the famous outrage
mill. To those who remember the re-
markably vigorous manner in which


this mill was worked not very many


months ago, and how particularly pos


tive Mr.. Williams was that 1t was


necessary that the Department OF JUS


tice should be run upon very cXten-


sive scale, if things were to be man
aged at all in proper style in the


South, the report that comes TO us


from Washington to the effect that the


Attorney General in consequence OF
the decisions of various United States


Judges against The constitutionality of
the enforcement act, and because sew
eral cases under the act have been
brought before the Supreme Court,
has resolved to suspend further action
| In Ku-Klu cases throughout the South
is certainly rather surprising, but also
| rather gratifying. This sudden shift
| ing of ground on the part OF MIR. Will
liams will have melancholy aspect
| it will deprive q number of special
agents of the Department of Justice OF


the privilege of being supported at the
public expense, and as these kind OF
people toll not except to promote the
ends of the political superior upon


whom they are dependent, the question
is now as to how they are to be provid-
ed with bread and butter AT the same
time the people of the country will
| feel certain amount of qualification
l l.. fI,at tho oarvinaa Df these
individuals are no longer regarded as


essential to the salvation OF the nation
and that the administration Is at last


impressed with the idea-held by most


other people for long time-that rig
orous repressive measuresare no Longer


required in the late Rebel States; in
deed, it really seems that there is fail
prospect that the blissful wishes in


voived in that famous utterancc from
certain high quarter of Let us hav'
: peace" are about to have practica
realization. AS for Mr.. Williams, lii
: has done a good deal of harm in hi
dav, but he appears to be disposed t.


at least partially redeem himself b,


making it easy for his successor to rui
d the Department of Justice on some
: what different basis from that upol


which it has been run for good Will
past. and this course is psrticularl
n pleasing, as it is tolerably well assure
n that Mr.. Pierrepont holds RADICAL
o different views for which Mr.. William
D is celebrated, and is supposed not I
g regard the late Confederacy as simpl
4 stamping ground for scampish pol
Il ticians who could not earn their So
= by plying their trade north of Maso
r and DixOn's line.
Year: 1875

Little Jenny was very indignant, but
she carried it OF well; and as soon as
Smith had got over the surprise he
knocked the bolster he had been address.
ing az Miss Grey off the chair. and tried
to seat Mrs. Jennings in it. But Jen-
nings was too quick, and popped the
little sister there, to her infinite confu-
sion.


We had refreshments and pleasant
chat, during which I said to Smith:


"Don't look like that, man, when ]
brought the real thing here"


saw it all plainly enough now-cynic-
al Smith had been most desperately gone
with Jenny, who liked him too; but,
after the fashion of some young ladies,
snubbed him and kept him At bay. After
the meeting, though, at his chamber, and
the discovery of his rehearsal, Jennings
was not long, aided by his wife, in ar
ranging for the proper acting of the
drama. So Smith declared, was ac-
cepted, the play came of, and I was one
of the acters-best man was my part
and could not help thinking how pleas,
ant it would be if some little Jenny
would take pity ON my forty-fve years
and gray hairs, and make me as happy
a man as was Smith upon his wedding
day.


The rehearsal, though, is standing
joke; and the sticking up Of sofa pill
low whenever we may meet is sure to
bring red flush into the cheeks of Mrs.
Smith and a declaration from her that it
is too bad for anything.


Poor Smith! how he ought to have
thanked us for bringing matters to a
climax.
Year: 1875

ARosND the fire, one wintry night,


The farmers rosy children sat;
The fagot lent its blazing light,


And mirth went round, and harmless cha
When bark! gentle hand they hear


Low tapping at the bolted door,
And thus to gain their willing ear


A feeble voice was heard implore:
"Cold blows the blast across the moor,


The sleet drives Kissing in the wind;
Yon toilsome mountain lies before,


A dreary, treeless waste behind.
My eyes are dim and weak with age;


No road, no path can descry;
And these poor rags i'll stand the rage


OF such keen, inclement sky.
$50 faint am, these tottering feet


No more my palsied frame can bear;
My freezing heart forgets to beat,


And drifting SHOWS my tomb prepare.
"Open your hospitable door,


And shield me from the biting blast;
Cold, cold it blows across the moor,


The weary moor that have passed"
With hasty steps the farmer ran,


And close beside the fire they place
The poor, half-frozen beggar-man,


With shaking limbs and pale blue face.
The little children focking came


And chafed his frozen hands in theirs;
And busily the good old dame


A substantial meal prepares.
Their kindness cheered his dropping soul,
And slowly down his wrinkled cheek
The big, round tear was seen to roll,


And told the thanks he could not speak.
The children then began to sigh,


And all their merry chat was DER;
And yet they felt, they know not why,


More glad than they had done before.
Year: 1875

BIT CHARLOTTE +. DALEY.
LITTLE Jack had deal Of trouble,
And this is the reason why:
His eyes would always see double
When they looked at pudding or pie.
And when there was chicken for dinner
His eyes saw enough for four,
And he cried when the meal was over
Because he could eat no more.
II you could have seen him at table,
You had thought without doubt
That his legs aud arms must be hollow,
And he ate to fill them out.
He had only one little stomach.
Not six, as he thought he had;
And one day when he dincd with grandpa
That one felt exceedingly bad.
For he filed it SO full Of goodies,
OF pie and pudding and cake,
That the Jack who went home to mamma
Was nothing but one big ache.
The doctor came with his physic,
His hubbard and oil di castor,
And they soaked his feet in hot water,
And they put on mustard plaster.
He lay in bed for fortnight,
With many groans and sighs,
And the next time he dimes with grandpa
hope he will be more wise.


Hearth and Home.
Year: 1875

In many localities at the North it
seems almost impracticable at certain
times during the winter to keep vegeta-
bles, fruit and many other articles in the
house cellar from being ruined by the
frost. Even when the doorway and the
walls of tie cellar are protected as thor
oughly as the job can be done, the cold
will enter the cellar and do a vast
amount of mischief.


For several years past our practice has
been to put small stove in the cellar,
in which little fire is made whenever
the apartment appears to be so cold that
anything is in danger Of being frozen.
The chimney extends to the bottom Of
the cellar, SO that the smoke-pipe from
the stove can be conveniently connected
with the fue. A small secondhand stove
was purchased for this purpose, at $1.50;
and it is used for nothing else but to
keep the cold out of the cellar. The
labor and other expenses incident to
banking the foundation walls Of the
house and removing the materials in
the spring Of the year would amount to
several dollars. But the expense for
wood and coal during the entire winter
of last year did not exceed fifty cents,
as there were only few days that fire
was required. If the chimney does not
extend to the bottom of the cellar the
smoke-pipe could pass up into the
kitchen and be connected with the pipe
Of the c0ok-stOve.


It is always desirable to keep the tenn
perature of the cellar as low as may be
practicable without injuring potatoes by
means Of too great q degree OF cold.
Potatoes are frequently injured by being
chilled, even when they are not frozen
In mild weather our cellar windows are
opened. With that small stove in the
cellar the apartment is always kept
thoroughly ventilated without any ap
prehensions that potatoes or fruit will
be injured by the frost during some cold
snap Chrsstian at Work.
Year: 1875

THE following is the full text of SEN
ator Morton's proposed amendment to
the Constitution providing for change
in the manner of electing the President
and Vice President of the United States !:


Resolved By the Senate and House Of Repre-
sentatiees, in Congress Assembled, Isco thirds Of
Each House Concurring Therein, That the fol-
lowing article is hereby proposed as an
amendment to the Constitution Of the
United States, and when ratified by the Legis-
latures Of thrce-fourths of the States shall be
valid to all intcnts and purposes as part of
the Constitution, to-wit:


ARTICLE L. The President and Vice. -Prcsi-
dent shall be elected by direct vote of the
people in the manner following: Each State
shall be divided into districts equal in num-
Der to the number of Representatives to
which the State may be entitled in Congress,
to be composed Of contiguous territory, and
to be as nearly equal in population as may
be; and the person having the highest num-
shall receive the vote of that district, which
shall be counted one Presidential vote.


2. The person having the highest number
of votes for President in the State shall re-
ceiye two Presidential votes from the State at
large.


3. The person having the highest number
of Presidential votes in the United States
shall be President.


4. If two persons have the same number OF
votes in any State, it being the highest num-
her, they shall receive each one Presidential
vote from the State at large, and il more than
two persons shall have each the same num-
Der Of votes in any State, it being the highest
number, no Presidential vote shall be counted
from the State at large. II more persone
than one shall have the same number Of votes,
it being the highest number In any district,
no Presidential vote shall be counted from
that district.


s. The foregoing provisions shall apply to
the election Of Vice. President.


6. The Congress shall have the power to
provide for holding and conducting the elec-
tions Of President and Vice President, and to
establish a tribunal for the decision Of such
elections as may be contested.


Z. The States shall be divided into districts
by the Legislatures thereof, but Congress may
at any time by law make or alter the same.


A GOoD-LOoKING house-girl employed
in family on Congress street received
present Of muff the other day, and
in day or two after the lady Of the
house discovered receipted bill in hel
husbands desk. reading: "For one mufl
800" She hadn't had new muff, and
when the man came home to supper that
night the old girl was gone and . new
one was wrestling the dishes about
Detroit Free Press.
Year: 1875

"A correspondent Of the New York
Tribune gives an exceedingly simple pre-
caution in the use of kerosene or any
other cheap oil. His plan is TO fill the
lamp lightly with jewelers. cotton before
pouring in the oil. The cotton ahsorbS a
great deal of the oil, and in case Of acci-
dent the latter does not fow about, and
can thus be cxtinguished. On one occa-
sion his kerosene lamp burst, and .
mass Of flame jumped out; but, being in
a compact body, lie covered il instantly
with 4 bucket, and with the help of a
waterpitcher and few wet towels cN-
tinguishcd it before the slightest damage
was done. Had it not been for the cot
ton the flaming oil would have flowed in
all directions
Year: 1875

The test Of time and experience Is the
only sure guide in selecting an inStru-
ment. Ii is of little consequence that a
man makes one or two fine pianos Or
organs for a fair and intrigues success
fully for prize 1t is The quality gferery-
day manufacture that concerns the buyer
not what exceptional and costly in
struments have been specially made
for exhibition. The SMITH AMERICAN
ORGANS are of high and uniform excel
lence, and are the best for actual use,
having been tried and proved ortwenty-
five years.
Year: 1875

1t was young woman with as many
white founces round ner as the planet
Saturn has rings. that did it. She
gave the music stool whirl or two,
and fuffed down oD it like a twirI of
soap suds in hand basin Then she
pushed up her cuffs as if she was GO
ing to fight for the champions belt.
Then she worked her wrists and hands
to timber 'em, [ suppose, and spread
cut her fingers till they looked as they
would pretty much cover the key
board. from the growing end down to
the little squeaky one.7 Then these
two hands of hers made a jump at the
keys as if they were couple Of tigers
coming down upon a flock of black
and white sheep. and the piano gave a
great howl as il its tail had been trod
on. Then another howl as if the
piano had two tails and you had trod
on both of EN- at once, and then a
grand clatter and scramble and string
of jumps, up and down, back and for
ward, one hand over the other, like a
stampede of rats and mice. more than
anything l call music.-Oliver Wen
dell Holmes.
Year: 1875

The loud -mouthed cannon proclaims
his coming. Municipal. authorities
fastened to greet him on his joulne
across continent and rendered to
him the hospitalities Of their cities.
State authorities rise up to do him
homage. The executive head of the
Nation admits him to the Presidential
Mansion, where the beauty and fash
ion OF the capital city crowd Tor the
honor of his hand. Grave Senators
leave their seats and with the menu
bers of this House stand in solemn
reverence, while You, sir, descend
from your high place to extend in be-
half of a free people nations wei
come to his BLACK MAJESTY. Will
it be said he was a king? Be this
my answer: That there is not black
man, however humble, though lazza-
roni, as the gentleman from New
York has been pleased to call him, if
clothed with citizenship, that does
not wear a crown of royalty that
makes him the peer of any sovereign
on earth.


Sir, a word in conclusion and / have
done. I had hoped that this perse-
cution against the black race was at
an end. Is it not enough, let me say
to you On the other side of the cham :.
ber-is it not enough that you have
held him in slavery from generation
to generation? Is it not enough that
you tracked him with bloodhounds in
his fight for freedom and dragged
him back to his thralldom? Is it not
enough that you dabbled in blood the
garments of our virgin territory in the
inhuman effort to drag her to the altar
of slavery, where the unholy prosti-
tuition might be consummated? Is it
not enough that you deluged the Re
public with blood and ridged it with
graves in the monstrous purpose to
tear down the fair fabric of free
government and erect upon its ruins
another, whose cornerstone should
be American slavery? Is it not
enough that you never gave a voice
for the emancipation of this race? Is
is not enough that You resisted the
amendment to the Constitution which
abolished slavery throughout the Re-
public and made serfdom impossible? :?
Is it not enough that you sought to
deny him the right of citizenhip and
the power of the ballot? Is it not
enough that in the sublime battle of
the last fifteen years you never struck
a blow or raised voice in the cham
pionship of human liberty? | i'm
plore you to pause in your mad career,
and at least gather and help to pre-
serve the fruits of the victory.
Year: 1875

MnITAEY.-The American Rife Asso-
oiation" have taken quarters in the large
and commodious hall, second. story Of
the Friendship Engine house, Tenth and
Shipley streets, and hold squad drill each
evening during tho week except Saturday
which is set apart for the business mect,
ings OF the Association. The company
now numbers about ninty men, and undel
the efficient military discipline OF Capt
Sam'l Wood, is making rapid progress in
the soldierly art. In a short time they
propose turning out ono hundred men
uniformed and equipped. and will repre-
sent our city at the Centennial next year
The boys propose holding q fair some
time during the fall, and we say, speed
the American Rifles"
Year: 1875

ALMOST A FORTY DAYS RAIN. 10.
day Is the fortleth day since the com
mencement Of the recent rains and
during this time there were only two
days-Friday andSatnrday last during
which no no rain fell. AT present
writing there is every indication that
more rain will fall before sundowu.
Such continuous rain fall Is we be-
lieve, almost unprecedented in the
history Of the world since the time OF
the food
Year: 1875

To ALL particularly invalids spring is q trying
season. Indications of sickness should at once be
attended to. Fatal diseases may be caused by al
lowing the bowels to become corstipated, and the
system to remain in disordered condition until
the disorder has time to develop itself. An ounce
Of preventive Is worth pound Of cure, is an old
and truthful saying. Therefore, We advise oil who
troubled with the complaints now very prevalent
headache, indigestion, disordered liver, want of
appetite, Nausea feverish skin, to take, without
delay, Schenck's Mandrake Pills. We know of no
remedy harmless and decisive It's action. 1t at
strikes at the reot of the disease and produces
healthy tone to the system. People never need
suffer from any disease arising from disordered
condition Of the liver II they would take this excel
lent medicine when they feel the first indications
of the malady. Families leaving home for the
summer months should take three or four boxes OF
these pills with them. They have almost in
st. ntaneous effect. They will relieve the patient o
headache in one or two hours, and will rapidly
cleanse the liver of surrounding bile and will effec
tually prevent bilious attack. They are sold BY
| all druggists.
Year: 1875

In styles of pipe have experimental largely,
have sounded the gamut of plain clay. gambler
meershaum land chip. charcoal, porcelain, and
brier The PLAIN clay-the cutty-is workman
like and democratic; 1 think would adopt it
if were running for high Office. Gambler is
rather fantastic but colors as easily as sweet
sixteen; to me it is objection that. being made
in moulds, L know not how many thousand
people may be putting at the twin brother or
sister of that between fingers. As for the char
Goals, they promised well, and were not with
out their season of popularity; there was some-
thing of classic elegance and simplicity in their
smooth black dress and silver trimming. But
they didn't wear WELL somehow; they broke,
and got incurable Group, and of course never al
tered their color for better or worse. And the
porcelain was hard and harsh, heating and un-
absorbent; so the question finally lay between
meerSchaum and brier


Now. than a fine piece of true meerschaum
nothing is more fascinating, sweeter hand
somer. Mark its tender. creamy tint, its soft,
fine lustre. its smooth texture Lift tit is
light as sponge; and you can almost indent it
by the pressure OF your fingers. You ii it
(rather, if you are wise. you fill false bowl set
on to it), and as you draw in the smoke you
can almost see the delicate brown flushing
deeper and deeper through the white By slow
degrees, lest you overhead II, with most jeal-
Gus care, lest you chip or scratch it, do you
prosecute the experiment, until after some
weeks or months, the point of perfection is
attained. There is nothing comparable to the
warm, intense brown. mottled and shaded, rich
and polished, which is now diffused around the
bowl. 1t is not like moss agates, nor oriental
marbles, nor precious woods, yet it brings all
these delicately to mind. The color lies in
clusters, as it were, yet shades off uniformly
forward the lip. which is burned white. Around
the neck it is deepest and thickest, and just
here you can hardly call it less than black.
There is similar difference betw cen the pipe
now and in its primitive purity, to that between
a sunlit cloud at midday, and the same gilded
and empurpled by the splendor of sunset Not
always however, nor indeed often. is such sue
cess in meerschaum colorng met with. In the
first place. instead of meerschaum, it turns out
to be ''chip," which is shavings of meerschaum
welded together. and so recut; the pipes look
well enough in the shop, but all the sponginess
and delcacy is lost; the oil cannot penetrate,
or comes out in blotches here and there; the
bowl becomes rusty and dirty, all the perique
in the world can produce nothing better on it
than dirty yellow TINT irregularly disturbed,
and the draft gets easily clogged Similar is
the result should the pipe prove-meerschaum
indeed. but-of hard, impenetrable variety.
Nothing can be done; you may boil it and
burn it, and make it all sorts of coloas, but Won
deceive neither yourself nor any one else into
thinking it comparable to the genuine, inimita-
BILE "sea-foam."


This is not the only trouble about meer-
schaum.-Gatdry for N0venaber.
Year: 1875

THE New York Hero d has made slate of
the Presidential vote whereby the Democrat
ic candidate is elected by five majority of the
electoral vote. That five majority is given to
the Democracy by putting New Hampshire
among the Democratic states. We claim
New Hampshire for the Republicans on the
ground that the Republicans carried it in the
last election, ga
Year: 1875

In the suit Of The People VS.. The Chicago,
Burlington and Quincy railroad brought un-
der the act passed by the Legislature of Illi-
nois regulatingand restricting freight and pas
senger tariffs, 10 recover penalties for violation
of said act, the Supreme Court of that state
has rendered decision reversing the judgment
OF the court below which was in favor of the
plaintiff. This action is based simply upon an
informalty in the declaration and the people
have won substantial victory inasmuch as the
court assumes the constitutionally of the law
which was the real point at issue.
Year: 1875

"Ar a meeting of the governors council a
pardon was granted to Moses S. Wheeler"
is the way the telegraph announces that a
man guilty Of no crime whatever has spent
eight years OF his life within the walls of the
state prison of Massachusetts,, sent thither
by the testimony of his perjured sister. The
crime of which he was accused was arson,
and his sister testified that she saw him com


NIT the deed. The evidence seemed COM
plete. and his protests of innocence were of
no avail. Two years elapsed and this sister
lay on her death bed, and with her diving
breath confessed thather testimony was per-
Jured. Efforts were at once made for his
rtlease, but for some unexplained reason the
pardon did not come until few days ago
when the doors Of his prison were opened
and the man was told simply that he might
go. Doubtless such cases are infrequent, but
until juries are infallible and witnesses are
incapable of perjury, the possibility of their
occurrence remains to warn legislators that
while punishment should be swift AID sure
it should not be such as to preclude all pos
sibility of restitution in case of mistake.