smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1875

industry through high tax upon imports.


Behold the contrast of to-dayl The Tri-
5nns, reduced to the level of stool-pigeen
and capper for o stock-gambler, and the
Esen!ng Post to eopying and indorsing the
flippant and unreliable statements Of
trade journal three or four score of years
its Junior In the ways and knowledge of
commerce. "How trade is taxed. indeed
How labor is taxed, SO that it prowls about
your streets between begging, starving and
stealing. The recent inflated prices ana
oyertrading were entirely due to the popu-
lar desire to get living by trade rather
than by labor = selling on time Tor the
sake of selling, and encouraging men to go
into trade without sufficient cash capital,
and putting enough on to prices to pay for
the average risks involved in these credits.
Small traders follow this example, and add
twenty-five or thirty per cent. to their
prices TO cover risks Of the credits they
give. Now, when these additional prices
are all combined together, those of the i'm
porter, the jobber, the wholesaler and the
retailer, the aggregate forms the imitation oil
which we hear SO much, and which has
resulted in the starvation of the laberer-
the consumer. He is the camel on whose
back the burden is placed-not the trader
at all
Year: 1875

The Republicans are quite Indifferent as
TO the course which the Confederate power
in the American Congress may elect to
take in the organization of the House. The
issue as Joined between the National Re-
publican party and the Confederate Democ-
racy is q simple and clear one. The Con-
federate power cannot maintain recog-
nized political foothold anywhere within
this Union. We refused to recognize the
power during the late war; we refuse to
recognize it now. Inside of the Union
as outside of the Union we have no COM
promises 10 make with it. We demand
unconditional surrender" and the North
viii yet make this demand as good on
the arena of national politics as she did
on the field of battle. Confederate repre-
sentation in the American Congress will
be wiped out. Confederate power in the
electoral college will be broken. Confed-
crate domination in the late slave States
of the Union will not be submitted to.
We trust that this explicit explanation
will lead to clear understanding between
those who fought to destroy the Union and
those who fought to preserve it. A Con-
federate South within the Union, resting
on negro serfdom as its cornerstone, is in
finitely more dangerous to the cause of Re-
publican institutions in the New World
than Confederate South out Of the Union,
resting on negro slavery as its cornerstone.
The Republicans are prepared for the
emergency and ready for the struggle
which is rapidly approaching.
Year: 1875

THE Chicago Tribune, paper that is
ever assiduous in demolishIng the private
character of public men, has raised the
dust of scandal about ex-senator Carpenter,
by charging him with completely in the
tanglefoot frauds of the West. Mr.. Car
penter has branded the statement as base
calumny, which places the burthen of
proof upon the Tribune. If that journal
would charge fewer crimes upon public
men and prove more of its statements,
more general feeling of security would exist
among those who fear the blighting effects
of neKsnaner SANDER.
Year: 1875

The Minnesota women look as smiling as a
boy with jumping jack. They can vote on
all the school questions and everything per-
tanning to the management Of the schools.
Professor Anybody and Trustee Somebody and
Officers Everybody dare not even pass an
opinion on the fall styles Tor fear of wounding
the feelings of their fair constituency.
Year: 1875

A lady of Richmond has written TO Professor
Tice, requesting him to pay her visit. She
has two pokers and a fiat iron in the front room
waiting for him. He prophesied pleasant
weather during the first half of December, and
the lady, taking him at his word, left her
choice plants out doors, and the Frost King
took charge of them.
Year: 1875

1t is said that in the main building every
man, woman and child in the great State of
Pennsylvania could be supplied with standing
room, and good-sized corner left for the en-
tire population of the State of Maryland.
Then person can walk over one hundred
miles in machinery hall, without going over
the same spot twice. Taking all the build
ings, visitor to the Exposition can walk over
five hundred miles and not 60 over the same
ground a second time. The girl out West
with four legs will have the advantage in get
ting about those buildings.
Year: 1875

The school season in the West has opened
with much briskness. A small boy poked an
other small boy in the eye with a paper pei
let, and the school ma'am in attempting to
walk him up to the ,rostrum by his ear was
suddenly Drained with poker by the little
tiend. School teachers after few more such
unfortunate occurrences will learn not to in
terfere with the paper-wad enterprises of their
pupils.
Year: 1875

The Portland Transcript tells of wo-
man Of Revolutionary times who, while
her husband was in the army, lived in a
log house on the banks of one of the riv-
ers of Maine, with only her baby, six
months old for company. The following
ing is given as a specimen Of the incl
dents OF her lonely life:


Near the house was stye, also made
of logs, and in it was fat hog. One
dark, rainy night she heard unmistaka-
BILE sounds of distress proceeding from the
hog stye. She was courageous woman,
as became soldiers wife, and, softly
laying her sleeping babe in its cradle,
she lit candle, and putting it in rude
tin lantern, wrapped herself in cloak
and went boldly out. She was miles
from neighbors. The solemn woods be-
hind, and the dark river before, not a
star to be seen nor sound to be heard
but the drip, drip of the rain and the
terrible cries of the fat porker, her win
tershope. "F


The pen was of logs without a roof,
and there was monstrous bear standing
on his hind legs, in the act of lifting the
frightened hog from his nest of straw.
She gave loud scream, and opening the
door of her lantern threw the burning
candle in his bearship's face. He let 60
of his prize and ran of in alright at this
singular mode of warfare, and she made
her way back In the darkness TO her log
cabin, there to await with fear his return.
But the morning sun shone on herself
and babe safe, and had 1t net been for
the deep wounds in the poor hogs fat
sides she would have thought it all a
| dream.
Year: 1875

Our fire record for 1874 shows a loss
during the year of about $60, 0,000, 900 by
fire. 1t is not claimed that this record is
a complete one, having been compiled
from the daily papers as they came to
hand, and of course missing more or less
of the smaller fires of which no record is
made anywhere unless it be in some
local newspaper. $70,000,0 900 would not
he an exaggerated estimate of the losses
by fire in the United States for the year
1874. AS the Journal has before called
attention to the extent of this yearly
waste, so it desires to again, not that in
surance officers and agents can do any
thing about it except to exercise care in
selecting risks and in keeping rates up to
a paying standard, bat that the p,j bic
shall understand, so far as that public
may read this paper, that something be-
sides insurance is needed to protect
property. We are thoroughly careless
people, and from the time we lay the
foundations of building until we burn
il down from careless cigar or pipe or
defective fue, or other cause, we place
implicit trust in Providence. hoping
against hope that our carelessness will
not be visited upon us as we can not
help knowing ii should be. We hear
merchants and business men talk of high
premiums, and the premiums are high
Do those who complain ever stop tc
think that they can better afford thest
high premiums than can the country tc
stand loss from their carelessness o
from fifty to one hundred millions O
dollars yearly in fires, and that the way
to lessen these burdens of premiums Is Il
take some effectual measures to preven
| fires ?-Insvunc Journal.
Year: 1875




Every night the lock-ups are full Of
tramps, sometimes more, sometimes less.
Their universal complaint is that they
can not get any work TO do. Usually
they have just come from some other
city and are ON their way to another.
where they hope to "get a job" but if
there was a job to be had how glad they
would be to get it, Captain Wilson, in
charge of the Allegheny lookup, felt
happy the other night when gentleman
came in and inquired if he could tell
him where he could get lot of able
bodied laborers.


"Just come this way" said the captain,
as he opened the door leading to the
tramp department.


81 want to get lot Of men to cut ice
for me, and / will pay good wages. If 1
can get some of these poor fellows who
have no place to go would sooner take
them. 1t will be benefit to them, and
l know they would like to have job"


"We have about fifty of them in here
tonight, all complaining that they could
get no work, and apparently greatly
Inundated because they had to beg
lodgings from us. Here they are"


Sure enough here were fifty stout,
hearty fellows, any of whom were able to
do good days work. Captain Wilson
announced to them that there was a
chance for all of them to 60 to work at
good wages the next day.


"Now, boys" said the ice man, 81
heard there were so many fellows out of
work and starving that / thought the
best thing could do would be to give
my work to such fellows as are really
needy. Now, how many will be on hand
tomorrow? Just step here and give me
your names. Good wages cash down
every night"


Imagine his surprise when not man
stirred.


"If you fellows don't take this job you
needn't come back here any MORE" said
the captain in his usually impressive way.


Chow much will yes givew lazily in
quired big, hearty Irishman.


"a dollar and half a day, cash every
night if you need it,"


"Och, what sort O wages is that fur
man till freeze hisself to death fur" re-
marked another fellow, tugging vehc-
mently at short stemmed clay pipe.


Another one never did work for less
than two dollars day, and he didn't
propose to allow any man to take advan-
tage of him. Another gave the ice men
a regular setting down for grinding the
poor. Thus it went, and after deal of
talking eight out of the fifty promised to
60 to work, the remaining forfy-two posi-
lively refusing to be ground down by the
heartless capitalists. Some of them
acted as though they were insultcd, while
others had bad colds, pains in the back,
subject to rheumatism, threatened with |
typhoid fever, or just getting over a
severe attack of neuralgia. Thus it
appears that the tramp won't work, but
prefers to take his chances at picking up
a precarious living and other little things
he may be fortunate enough to find lying
about loose. He is the coyote of civili-
zation, kind of jackal prowling around
in search of something that costs neither
money nor labor. What is to be done
with him 1t is a nice thing to know
how far the sun is from the earth, but
an answer to this conundrum would be
of infinitely more benefit to society.
Year: 1875

There are now seven steam canal boats
successfully plying in the coal trade on tho
Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, and IL is runored
that some gentlemen Of capital are about to
engage in the building of steam canal boats
on a large SCALE
Year: 1875

Orders have been received at the Brook.
lyn navy yard to place ten more monitors in
commission, aud the various naval rendezvous
throughout the country have been instructed
TO enlist available men Of all grades.
Year: 1875

FoR the information of some who are
ignorant of the construction and operation
of the four-cylinder printing machines,
such as are used in frst-class newspaper
offices of the present day, it may be stated
that the "rules" used in these machines are
fixtures, and cannot be turned wrong side
up, to represent mourning, as was the fash
ion in old times. The practice is still fol-
lowed by country papers and those of small
circulation, even in cities, but is impracti-
cable in large dailies, which count their
numbers by many thousands. These Re-
marks are made for the benefit of some few
who never saw our mammoth press (the
largest of its kind ever made by Hoe) in
operation, and who have expressed great
wonder at the fact that this journal did not
appear in heavy black lines, expressive of
mourning for the death of the Vice Presi-
dent That the failure was due to no lack
of respect for the man or the office, we
need hardly remind our readers, was fully
attested by the matter contained in our col
umns. To those who have attributed it to
such cause we would say, 'Look at the
great dailies of the Northern cities, and
see how many of them even placed turned
rules at the top and bottom of their edito-
rial comments upon the death of Mr.. VIII
son." We also extend cordial invitation
to the uninitiated to call at the Office of the
NATIONAL REPUBLIcAE whenever they
have leisure and examine the largest Hoe
four-cylinder printing machine in the
world.
Year: 1875

The recent disgraceful fracas between
Generals Bradley T. johnson and ]. D.
Imboden, Of Richmond, Is only another ex-
empliication of the evil so prevalent at the
South of taking the law into ones own
hand for administration. Perhaps we
should have more properly said the evil of
taking vengeance and the punishment of
wrongdoing into the hands of the individ-
ual, instead of leaving them to the minis
tiers of the law. Here are two gentlemen
who distinguished themselves as Confede-
rate officers, and who are both somewhat
ambitious to be thought well of politically.
One of them has just been elected to be
law.maker. Was it in order to show his
fitness and capacity as q law!maker that he
hastened to demonstrate his ability as a
law-breaker2 If he is amenable to the
charges which rumor alleges against him
he is liable to be prosecuted and disbarred.
If he is innocent of the practices of which
he is accused, his breach of the peace in
attacking his accuser neither establishes
that fact nor vindlcates his competency as a
proper legislator What can be the use of
making laws if they are to be broken at
The will and pleasure of the parties who
make them? Or what is the impression
made upon the minds of constituency by
these exhibitions of lawlessness On the part
of our legislators? 1t certainly cannot be
salutsry. 1t cannot be construed as rec
ommendaion of fitness to legislate for the
public peace and general welfare.
General johnson is under bonds to keep
the peace for twelve months. Hsmpered
by these bonds he must take his seat in
the Senate of Virginia as a law-maker for
the State. General Imboden is in attend
ance upon convention in St. Louis, Mo-,
TO devise means of cheap transportation,
and telegraphs thence asking suspension
of public opinion-not law :, he, too, evil
IDENTIFY thinks the laws are not made for
such as he; but of public opinIon-until
he shall return and justify himself by de-
monstrating that he should have gotten the
best of the fight and chastised his opponent
then and there if they had not been summa-
rily separated. And he appears to think
that would have been satisfactory ter
mination of the matter. The majesty and
supremacy of the law and its importance
seems to be entirely ignored by this brace
of Generals as of no consequence. ThisI Is
the humiliating feature of the case, This
is the feature of Southern character which
gives rise to most of the outbreaks against
the peace of that section.
Year: 1875

If THERE is sny truth in the report con-
tanned in q recent number of the London


Hour 10 the effect that an investigation of
the affairs of the Emma Mine shows Gen.


eral Schenck, our Minister to the Court of
St. James, to have received gratuity of
$4,000 in paid up stock of the company,


with written guarantee that it should
yield an annual cash dividend of eighteen
per centum, in consideration Of his indorse-
ment of the validity and genuineness of the
concern, he should be Immediately recalled.


We must say, however, that the statement
is incredible. 1t bears upon its face the
evidence of stock jobbery, envy and malice.
Nevertheless the charge is OF sufficient
gravity to demand the most rigid scrutiny
by the State Department and that promptly.
The charge referred TO embraces the firm
of Jay Cooke, McCulloch & Co., Baron
Albert Grant and others as being in the
same category with the American Minister
in this " Emma Mine" business, except
that the latter did not exact the eighteen
per cent. guarantee of dividend. It's be-
Year: 1875

To the Editor Of the National Reps6licdn:


SIR You will bear me out in the assertion
that did not write your article, "a Word
About Virginia Politics" in your paper of this
morning; but It is so nearly what / said and
repeated several times during yesterday that
am astonished at the similarity. 1 indorse in
toto the first paragraph. The second is almost
word for word as would put it, and the re-
mainder of the article, barring few words
that would soften somewhat, sounds like an
echo. Parties are not made. They come.
Men may propose, but circumstances will dis
pose. Until there is some more potential and
tangible bond of union between the Republi-
can purity of Virginia and those who acted in
opposition to the regular nominees of the Con-
servative party at the late election, than is
afforded in the call for conference" of Vir-
ginia Republicans in Washington, to which we
do not see the name of a single recalcitrant
Democrat or Conservative attached, or to
whose action not one of these gentlemen has
authorized any one to bind him, we must re-
gard all such moves as the smallest sort of
fudge. To say they were "delusions" and
"snares" would be to dignity them and give
them character beyond their deserts. But, as
nOu NOiACSbAy oas bhO AeSpuDuCaA 80 q
party, has no part or lot in this move. Who
got it up, and who were to have been bound by
its action? 1 assert, without fear of success
full contradiction, that not twenty men in the
whole State, outside of the small coterie who
got It up, would have given its recommenda-
tions any sort of consideration, or considered
themselves in any way bound by its action.
But am pleased TO believe that the poor
little iH-gotten bantling has been strangled in
fits birth, and you have the sincere thanks of
every true Virginia Republican for your agency
in the good work. Nevertheless, in conclu-
sion let me say that 1 think q conference of
the party of the State, properly gotten up, in
which the intelligence and worth of the party,
as well as its stamina, would be represented,
and to which all recalcitrant Democrats or
Conservatives might be invited, might be of
incalculable advantage to the party. Itwould
probably bring all kindred elements into har-
monious cooperation. 1 simply make the
suggestion. WIN you aid us in the movement


Respectfully, &C., G.K. GHMER.
Year: 1875

Congress opens this winter with Confede-
rate representatives in both branches, repre-
senting Confederate constituencies in each Of
the late slave States ofthe American Union.
IT these men stood upon their Southern
ism" we would not object to their presence
in Congress, much as we dislike all forms
of sectionalism, and especially Southern
sectionalism. If these men claimed to be
Americans first, Southerners second. and
Confederates last, we should feel that their
presence in Congress would not be incon-
sistent with the national honor and safety.
But these men do not occupy, nor do they
pretend to occupy, any such attitude. Their
pride is that they are Confederates, and
they claim to be recognized as such. There
is much to encourage them in thus putting
forward this claim. Certain people at the
North have already proposed to erect
monument in the State of New York to
the memory of the Confederate dead. Bos-
ton last summer extended the honors of the
city to Confederate military companies
from Maryland, Virginia and South Caro-
lima. These companies were not received as
State soldiers, or as Southern militia. They
were received in Boston as Contedsrates,
toasted as such, and lionized as such.


We do not RAISE this question in any
spirit of animosity or unfairness. We raise
it because the time has arrived when the
country must deal with the Confederate
element, established, as it is, inside of our
Union. 1t is now an organized political
power within the Union, controlling eleven
States of the Union, and able at will to
revolutionize four others. This power re-
fleets itself in 1913 votes in the Electoral
College, and is represented by its partisans
in the House Of Representatives and in the
Senate of the American Congress. Such
power as this will, if not checked, corrupt
the Government. If it is permitted to re-
construct the late slave States on the basis
of negro serfdom as the corner stone of the
new South, 1t will undo all that the Repub-
ican party has sought to accomplish
through emancipation.


We shall soon see this Confederate power
displaying its true animus and purpose in
the organization of the new House of Rep
resentatives. We shall see it in the selec.
ton of Speaker, in the choice of Clerk,
Doorkeeper, and the appointment of COM
mittees and the selection of minor officers.
In the meanwhile we would direct the at
tention of Republican members to this new
feature introduced Into Congress. Are we
to have Confederate America after all?
Year: 1875

yosd belief that men of such high charac-
ter as General Schenck and Hugh McCul-
loch, and holding such distinguished posi-
tons in the political and financial world as
are accorded to them, could lend themselves
to this questionable transaction. But for
the honor of the country and the credit OF
American diplomacy we hope the truth In
the matter may be at once made known
and such action taken in the premises as
the merits of the case NAV demand.
Year: 1875

A HusBAND S0LD.-Some years
since when all the world was mad
upon lotteries, the cook Of mid
die aged American single gentle
man drew from his hands her earn
incs Of several years. Her en-
plover was anxious TO know the
cause, and she told him That hav-
ing repeatedly dreamed thata GER
tain number was a great prize,
she had bought the whole ticket.
He called her a fool for her pains,
and never lost a chance to tease
her on the subject. She seemed
TO take his taunts in good humor,
saving it would turn out right by
and-by. One morning be opened
his paper at breakfast, and saw 1t
announced that the very number
that Bridget had dreamed and
bought had drawn the great prize
Of a hundred thousand dollarsl
Bridget was summoned, and the
willy gentleman proceeded toin-
form her that he had long valued
her as a friend, and being desirous
to settle himself for life, he would
be wiling to make her his wife, if
she bad no objections. Bridget
had always thought him a dear
good man, and would be glad to
do anything TO please him. So
he finished his breakfast, told
Bridget to put on her best things,
the parson was sent for, and made
them one that very morning. AT
ter it was all over, the cautious
husband said 70 his bride, " Well,
Bridget, yop have made two good
hits to-day; you have got good
husband, and now bring me the
lottery ticket you and / have
laughed 90 much about, and Jet us
see what the number q Il is,Y
" Please, said Bridget sedcnt
laugh any more about that; !
knew there was nothing in them
dreams, and I sold it to the butch
er a month agoln


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Year: 1875

When skillful and cautious medical men give
over their own signatures favorable opinion OF
the soothing and vitalzing effects OF preparation,
the public does not hesitate to believe them. The
voluminous and emphatic professional testimony
in favor of Hos letters Stomach Bitters, specific
for all disorders Of the stomach and bowels. for
liver complaint intermittent and remittent fevers,
ond lthe thousand ills that wait upon dyspepsia.
must convince the most skeptical. Aside, however
from the testimany of the faculty. there is large
mass of evidence from patients in every walk oi
life all showing that this great preventive and re
storave is of inestimable value to the sick and de
biitated The Bitters are suited to all climates
and are universally endorsed preventive of dis
orders caused by miasma and impure water.