smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1872

public pensioners) are looking to US for
relief; to US to stand by them in these
trying times. and by our wisdom,
patriotism, and self-sacrifice, to glide
the old ship of State smoothly down
the stream of time, and avoid, if posi-
BILE, the awful financial breakers Just
ahead. Will we do it by beginning
with ourselves? What Joy will 1t give
our people, and with what blessings
will they welcome us home, when we
have laid aside the mantle ofselfish-
ness, and, by our own example, said to
them, we recognize your wants and
feel your oppression, we yield to your
demands, we grant you all the relief
in our power, for your wants and OPP
pressions are ours, your prosperity is
ours, we are one and the same, insep-
cradle, we yield the more readily be-
cause the favor of your suffragevwe
have sought, and your preferments we
have received yea, leaping from The
hearts ola million of oppressed, tax
ridden, taX-exhaIsted people will go
forth humble thanks at the passage of
this bill, not on account Of its own in
trinsic merit, but as the habinger of
reform, the sure prelude to other and
more important reductions yea, even
their prayers will spontaneously burst
forth, and the same joy will be felt
then as when the child of the ocean,
after long and boisterous voyage, be-
holds, from the sinking vessel, the
land of his nativity within his reach
Do | not even now hear the plaintive
voices of Virginiaps crying to US,
"Sen&tors, for four long and weary
years, we, in common with you, served
our country, passed with you
through the perilous vicissitude OF
war, without compensation, can you
not afford, as we eare poor and oppressed
to serve us at least for while for
moderate or even low pay. Let me
for one, heaIken to that voice, and
never so long as my cOuntrymen
groan beneath high taxation, LET me
riot and revel on their earnings; no,
rather let me be newer of wood and
a drawer of water.


/ have now, sir, submitted as briefly
as / could, the views that / long have
entertained on this subject and / have
done so with much diffidence, arising
only from my inability to do full and
ample Justice to the subject; and have
only to regret that some one more able
and influential than myself had not
been the champion of this cause. But
/ feel that / cannot quit this floor
without again, in the name ofmy tax
ridden and oppressed constituents, ap-
peal to this grave and learned body to
pass this bill Pass it and in their
name / will thank you pass it and in
nv own nane, and from the main al
L, L
it and 1 honestly believe that all the


farming, laboring and industrial


classes of the whole State will thank
you.


/ return you, Mr.. President, anC
you, gentlemen of the Senate, my
grateful appreciation of the courtesy
extended towards me this hour. The
issue now abides with you.
Year: 1872

counsel did invert the order of the fa-
nous builders in the wales Shinar by
having their Babel first, we must not
therefore question a glorious result
'' for a. thatn


3rdly. Who like we can boast
old mortalitiCs to carve deeper the i'm
scription on the monuments of the
dead and who cireuIates about gene
rally in the adjoining counties 20 de-
tail our wonder working plans.


Be not startled if when rosy morn
begins to paint The east, you behold
towering structure towards the South
on the hill of civilized Albion. We
think each reader will repeat to HIM
self so natural a conclusion t0e are
some. Now in conclusion let us say
that if we generally are some in how
much higher sense are IUe particular
Ly some. More anon.


Very respectfully.


JEB.
Year: 1872

THE Abingdon Virginiam has been
shown a specimen of Tea grown near
that town and expresses confidence
in the capacity of Washington coun'
ty to produce the tea-plant. The on
ly kind of Tea we have known pro-
duced in Washington county is of the
Bourbon variety and we had INDUCED
the hope that since the close of the
late county canvass. the editors OF
that journal would cease to recon-
mend or encourage the use of it.
Year: 1872

IT is the general belief that Sum
ner's Amendment has had the effect
of destroying all prospect of the pas
sage of the general amnesty measure.
The strange spectacle is presented CT
all of the Presidents particular
friends in opposition to this measure
so lately and so unexpectatedly urged
BY him, and it has inspired general
belief that Grant was inSincere in the
recommendation.
Year: 1872

Il is said that Alcohol rubbed on window
glass will prevent its being whitened by the
frost. Try it.@CHATTkNOOGAT TINES.


We suggest to our contemporary
the propriety of trying little OF 1t
on the forms from which the Times is
printed.
Year: 1872

A writer for the Bellefontaine Repub-
blican has been treating of the cieada, or
locust. We extract a portion of his
article, which is instructive:


Another well-known peculiarly Of the
cicada is its song, or voice, and yet its
vocal apparatus is but imperfectly un-
derstood Its stridulous noise is made
neither by mouth nor its wings nor the
rasping Of its legs against its wing cases,
as many suppose. Its organs Of sound
are as perfect, for their purpose, as hu-
man vocal organs. Lift up the wings of
a male cicada, and near their, insertion
you will find two convex circular mem
branes, white, but crossed with narrow
brown stripes. Under the microscope
these will be seen to be wrinkled or fur
rowed. Here are the instruments which
produce the sound Press upon them
with the head of pin, and at once you
hear family the cicada's tones, even
though It may be dead. / fanincision
is made in the back of the cicada close
to the membranes, but so as not to in
jure them, each will be seen to be con-
nected with a strong muscle, by
the contraction of which the stiff
dry membrane is crumbled,a its
elasticity causing it to return to its
former shape when the contraction
is removed. Thus the quick alternate
contraction and relaxation of these
membranes by the muscles of the
insect cause the peculiar sound, just as
does the crumbling of stiff paper, or
parchment by hand The hollow abdo-
men acts as a sounding board, and the
two scales seen on the under part Of the
insect seem, by their opening and shut
ting, to perform the office of swell
The sound itself is loud enough to be
heard at the distance of half mile or
more, when made by numbers. The
noise made by one individual consists
Of but two tones, and may be repre-
sented by the syllables ahoo; the first
prolonged few seconds, sliding sud
denly into the second. q ssf.suslfB


The ovipositor is so peculiarly con-
structed that / cannot but briefly notice
it. 1t consists essentially of q long
tube enclosed and protected by sheath,
in the grooves OF which, on opposite
sides, move two files or saws with the
teeth standing outward. The operation
of piercing cavity in which toldeposit
eggs is simple and curious. By the al
ternate up and down motion of these
saws acting in their grooves, a puncture
is made through bark and wood into the
pith of the twig in which the eggs are
deposited. These curious saws or files
can readily be seen with a microscope
of ordinary powers at the end of the
oypostor, or "sting," as it is usually
called .r...r.
Year: 1872




Correspondence New York Express,l


After sunset the Grand Plaza is
crowded with galaxy of beauty. II is
at that particular place the youth and
beauty Of Havana resort and ladies of
the darkest hue TO the lightest blonde Of
the North are seated in their yolantes"
listening TO the beautiful music of the
Marine Band, which discourses sweet
music every evening, or chatting with
some young gent, or perhaps prone
nading on the plaza with some lady
friend, followed closely by her parents
or brother. Speaking Of this anti-Amer-
lean custom reminds me of the Circas-
sian mode of treatment of females, and /
fancy that if Susan B. Anthony and her
satellites of the Sorosis Club had a taste
of Cuban life, their tongues would be for
ever sealed as to the privileges in the
States. Ladies are absolutely prisoners
here. To appear on the street without
an escort, even in the daytime, is sure
to bring the Kisses Of crowd, and per
haps an insult; the ladies Of Havana,
| therefore, have to conform to Gus
tom--either stay indoors, or employ
| carriage to take them, if only few
! blocks distant, and when attending q
party, picnic or ball, always be accom-
panied by their mothers. This close
watching Of females is not productive of
good, and the result is that they are not
as healthy and robust as they might be,
and by close confinement their offspring
is puny and sickly, and in a moral point
Of view it is equally disastrous. If it
was not for the healthy robust Spanish
ladies that emigrate here, this race would
in century or two become extinct.
One may see here conglomeration of
nearly all races known The Chinese
and African, the African and Spanish,
the Cuban and African, and in fact every
conceivable form of marriage, is in
dulged in, as to the result Of which |
leave you to your own conclusion. Their
mode of living, is equally interesting.
A lady of this Island is never supposed
to be able to do anything except to eat
and sleep, with slaves and servants TO do
her bidding. In the morning it is first a
bath, soap not being used. but in
its stead a wash of aquadente,"
similar to our bay rum, made from
sugar cane. after which they take
their coffee, and at ten a. m. their break
fast, which is composed generally of
rolls of sour bread, made of -four and
yeast, together with omelet, jerkedsbee
and fruit They seldom indulge in the
luxury of butter, as that made on the
island is strong enough to knock you
down. The best butter from the States
brings one dollar per pound. A dish
very much rehshed by natives is made
of dry Goldfish, sweet oil, tomatoes and
Spanish peppers, with q sprinkling of
native fruits to flavor; this sometimes is
INDUCED in with coffee alone for break
fast. Dinner at four or five pm, is
made ON claret and peculiar soups, with
the same detestable rolls, jerked beef,
mutton, and kidney or liver stews; and
the only redeeming features of the
meal is the dessert, which generally con-
sists of Guava jellies or paste preserved
cocoa and peculiar creamy custard
made from native fruit; those who
like other desserts, such as pies, pud-
dings, ETC., cannot have them, as they
seem to be unknown to the inhabitants
Year: 1872

A private letter from London says:
Never did men dress so quietly The
elaborate shirtfronts Of a year or two
ago are things of the past. Plain shirts
and no studs are the order Of the day.
In fact, il you desire to be en- ragle, you
must initiate as nearly as possible the
costume Of the men servants. The at
tempt which was tried last year to make
male guests look a little more cheerful
than mutes az . funeral BY attiring them
in a coat with brass buttons and white
waistcoats has proved an entire failure.
When unadorned adorned the most is
the rule for men. Exactly the reverse
holds good for women. They have con.
trived 70 monopOlize % themselves ell
that Is pleasing IN eosts1e LAAa
Year: 1872

Did you ever see woman who was
possessed by the house-cleaning 6end?
Not periodically, but at all times. Who
would go about-drawing her fingers over
every lounge, and table, and chair, peer
ing into cracks and crannies for crooked
pins and lint; holding tumblers up to the
light for finger marks; in short, so utter
ly absorbed in the pursuit of dirt, that
every other pursuit was nothing in com
parison.


Now, being New England born, l know
what neatness is, and value it as only a
New ,Englander can; but when it takes
such shape as this and robs life Of all
its charms, i turn my back upon 1t with
righteous disgust Who thanks these
jealous juries for their selfimposed
labors2 Certainly not their husbands,
who flee into corners from dust-pans and
dust.brushes, and weary of their recitals
of their prowess day by day. Certainly
not their little children, who have no
place to stow away their little sacred
property in the shape of bright bits of
silk or paper, or broken cups which are
dear and precious to them, and should
always be held in respect within proper
innocent limits.


oh, We careful and troubled Marthas
of the household, stop and take breath
Place a flower on the mantle that you
and your household may, perhaps have
some in your lives. While you stop to
rest, read. So shall the cobwebs be
brushed from your neglected brain, and
you shall learn something else besides
cleanliness is necessary to make home
really home for the dependent on your
care. a MWn6REh 40


Throw your broom ont Of doors, take
your children by the hand, and let the
fresh wind touch your wrinkled forehead.
If your house is wound up to such an
immaculate pitch of cleanliness, it can
run on a few hours without your care.
Laugh and talk with them, or better
still, listen to their foolish-wise talk.
Bring home d bit of gingerbread for
each Of them, and play some simple
game with them. Put on the freshest
dress you have, and ask your husband,
when he comes home, if he recognizes
his wife.


II wish my mother looked as pretty
as you, said little girl once to her
neighbor. D q et. MNPOM


But your mamma is much prettier
than /, replied the neighbor. The truth
was the child's mother was always in a
wrapper, unless company was expected.
The rest of the time she was under the
dominion of the house-cleaning fend,
and the children fed from such joy
less, utilitarian home, where no flower
or beauty could ever get time to take
root and blossom.


There is little need to misinterpret my
meaning. Many a ruined life has come
of a joyless home. Your children take
to the sanslight as naturally as do the
flowers. .rAtfs wENN Nf.L.H
Shut it out Of your houses, and they
will 60 abroad in search of it, you may
be sure of that. Isn't this worth think
ing about, oh, ye mothers?


Careful and troubled about many
things, and yet so blind to your first and
greatest dntyl-Fdnny Fern.
Year: 1872

The performance Of Richard III by
the Shakespeare Club last night brought
out such an audience as included every one
we know in all districts of the city. The
Varieties Theatre was filed to the dome,
the ladies, occupying almost exclusively the
parquette and circles. The good style in
which the tragedy was put on and played
deserves an extended notice at future
time.
Year: 1872




While an unfair press and a deeply preiu-
diced grand jury have left no means untried
to iUjure lawful home institution the
Louisiana State Lottery-it has pursued the
even tenor of its way, giving the utmost
satisfaction to many persons who have had
the good fortune to draw prizes; and gen
tlemen Of the press and grand jury who
thus, upon pretended moral grounds, raise
their voices against home chartered insti-
tuition in the shape Of lottery willfully shut
their eyes that they may not see the unlaw-
ful acts of men who are daily Offering for
sale in our city tickets in the Havana lot
terry, an institution conducted for the bene-
fit Of the government ofSpain. The public
will have its own opinion Of these very
moral and just men, and the Louisiana
State Lottery viii continue to dispense it's
prizes as usual. The next grand single
number drawing takes place on the twenti-
eth instant, when over 400 prizes will be
drawn, the highest being $5O, ,OO0.' We men
ton this now to let every one have fair
chance for one or more of these grand
prizes, all of which viii be cashed as soon
as they are drawn at the Office of the com
pany, corner of st. Charles and Union
streets
Year: 1872

Some of the greatest faults of our
. present school system arc the ones most
| easily overlooked and unthought of;


while those of minor Importance and


less magnitude are the subject of much


anxiety and care. Having already
shown some of the difficulties under


which our students labor in the pursuit


OF knowledge, it is my object to show


how these obstacles may be surritounted


or entirely removed. Why is it the
graded schools Of our towns and villa
ges are 50 much superior to those in the
country? It is not to be found in the
excellence of their text books for coun-
try schools often adopt the same series.
Neither can we answer the question by
that they are more pleasantly situated
or convenient for no village school can
compare with some of those in the coun-
try for the variety and beauty of their
surroundings. But their superiority is
to be found in two things. First their
terms are so arranged that students can
attend school from the beginning of the
school year in September for ten months
without intermission-except, perhaps,
a short vacation at the close Of each
term. And it is this constant applica-
tion and continued attendance more
than anything else that enables scholars
attending such schools to make moro
rapid progress than those who do not.
Then again they hire teachers, men
and women, who are thoroughly quail
fed for their high calling and the same
teachers are often retained in the school
for years. Now if our sub-directors
would adopt some similar course Of in
struction (and 1 can see no reason for
not doing SOY, they would confer a
real blessing upon the rising genera
tion. Our directors have already taken
one step toward raising the grade
of teachers but this will do but very
little good unless followed by others, for
teachers cannot afford to spend eight
months in qualifying themselves for the
privilege of teaching four months.


Crosco April 9, 1872.
Year: 1872

Apropos Of the appearance of Greeley's
name attached to the manifesto of New
York liberals, Grant tells "leading
Republican Senator" that he is not
surprised at it, ''as he had been assured
some time ago that Greeley intended
joining the Cincinnati Convention" !"


Really now it is strange that Grant
isn't surprised at this. Here we have
had H. G.. daubed from head to foot
with war paint, for months, and doing
nothing from morning till night but
dance the war dance, and throw his
tomahawk at the image Of Grant, fol
practice, and we thought all the time
that Grant didn't know it. But he did
and he isn't surprised" Well, well
Year: 1872

The art of not hearing is fully as inn
portant to domestic happiness as cul-
tivated ear, for which so much time and
money are expended. There are SO
many things which are painful to hear,
many of which, if heard, will disturb the
temper and dctract from contentment
and happiness, that every one should be
educated to take in or shut out sounds
at will. IF man falls into a violent
passion, and calls me all manner of
names, the first word shuts my ears, and
! hear 20 more. If, in my quiet voy-
age Of life, I am caught in one of those
domestic whirlwinds of scolling, shut
up my ears, as a sailor would furl his
sail, and making all tight, scud before
the gale. IF a hot and restless man be-
gins to infame my feelings consider
what mischief these sparks might do in
the magazine below, where my temper
is kept, and Instantly close the door.
Does a gadding, misunderstanding fellow
begin to inform me what people are
saying about me, down drops the port
cullis of my ear, and he cannot get any
further. Some people feel so very
anxious to hear everything that will
vex and annoy them, they set about
finding it out. If all the pretty things
said of one by the needless or ill-natur-
ed idlers were to be brought home to
him, he would become mere walking
pin-cushion, stuck full of sharp remarks.
[ should as soon thank man for emp
tying on my head busbel of nettles, or
setting loose swarm of mosquitoes in
my chamber, or raising pungent in
my house generally, as to bring upon
me all the tattle Of spiteful people. If
you would be happy, when among good
men open your ears when among bad
shut them. 1t is not worth while to
hear what your servants say when they
have slammed tho door: what beggar
says whose petition you have rejected
what your neighbors say about your
business or dress. I have noticed that
a well-bred woman never hears an i'm
pertinent remark. \ kind of discreet
deafness saves one from not little APP
parent c6nnivance in dishonorable con-
versation. n.-Exchange.
Year: 1872

Some one, "whom God for some in
scrutablc reason permits to edit a
country paper,' says that Horace
Greeley is in his dotage and weak old
man. This is not true, and is moreover
an outrage upon the good old man.
MIR. Greeley has preserved his bodily
vigor through a long life by the most
thorough abstinence from all evils but
Radicalism and profanity. Unfortu-
nately he does swear, and his regular
Sunday maps at DR.. Chapin's church do
not seem to have moderated him at all
in this respect, nor does this vicious
habit appear to have interfered in any
manner with his robust condition. At
an age when most men think about
getting religion and gsing to heaven,
Mr.. Greeley still ambles along in the
old ways. Every day, rain or shine,
he may be seen at Chappaqua, plowing
the land Of his Edcn-like estate. His
daily dask is three and quarter acres,
and then he turns his attention to drain
ing and dredging for few years, after
which he weeds out dozen or so acres
Of turnips and onions, goes for the cows,
drives them home and milks every COW
himself, and they are nineteen in num-
ber. All this is his early recreation,
after indulging in which he goes down
to the Tribune Office; swears at all the
boys from the the press room to the
roof, writes eight or ten columns, answers
hundred or two letters OH politics and
agriculture, and is then taken to the
train under escort of that benevolent
old gentleman Jenny, and rides away a
hundred or two miles to fill a lecture
enga cement the same nj ght. He returns
to his farm early next morning and be-
gins anew the daily labor. Does any
body think this remarkable man is in
his dotage?
Year: 1872

If Mr.. Greeley had been the President
when the Shareholders first threatened re-
volt, he would have shown greater weak
ness than that which has rendered Mr..


Buchanan almost Infamous; for Buchanan
simply denied the right of the National
Government to coerce State, while Mr.


Greeley maintained that the secessionists
ought to be allowed to 60 in peace. This
wasno hasty and impatient outbreak of
sentiment, but fixed conviction, which
likened their revolt to that of our fathers
in the revolution. If Mr. Greeley had
been the President after the disaster of
Bull Run, that temporary success of the
insurgents would have brought about a
total surrender of the North. He was so
limp, flaccid, detected, broken down by
the event. that he lay supine and sprawl
ing upon the floor, with no more stiffness
in him than there is in an empty sack;
and in that spirit he wrote his pusillani


nous card of the next day, signed Ii. G.


AT moment when thenation was shroud


cd in gloom and every manly voice was
lifted to encourage it and quicken is
recovery, this one voice sounded base
Year: 1872

cessor The Senate amendments TO the House
bill relating to the Davenport q 81. Paul Railroad
right Of way over the Rock Island bridge were
passed BY the Senate, was read In full, and
a debate followed on the question as to
whether Il required the approval OF the PRESIDENT


ali other bills OF like character had been submit
ted TO him A resolution was adopted ordering
an investigation by the Secretary OF the treasury
against the Supervising Architect OF the Treasury


The sttndry Civil Service Appropriation bill was
considered In Committee OF the Whole' '''Ad-
Year: 1872

Ey-A Wa shington dispatch Of May nth
says Senator Ferry has written a letter de-
fning his position in respect to the present
political situation. 1t is reported that he
criticises somewhat freely the course of the
Administration in some respects, but an
announced his determination to sustain it in
preference to attaching himself to the Liber-
al movement, regarding the proposal to elect
Greeley President as political madness,
Year: 1872

Intelligent Democrats give up all hope
that any considerable part of the negro vote
of the South can be secured for Greeley,
The World says; Within the last few days
we have had opportunities of conversing
with intelligent Southern men and Northern
men who have recently returned from the
South, and they all concur in the opinion
that the blacks will go solid for Grant"