smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1872

We are permitted to take the following para
graph from private letter from Ironton, Ohio.


al must tell you a strange fact Abouta dodge"
a married lady took TO draw annuity aftOr the
death of her spouse. Her husbands father not
liking her, left it in his will that she should, or
might have certain sum for herself "individual- "
ly," while his son (her husband) was abocs
ground" The lady losing her husband by death,
did actually, yea really and truly, have huge
iron box made, in which she had all that was NOR
tai Of Mr. Ellison deposited above groundF-and
this matter so stood for twenty years; and It has
been six years since this very original lin idcas)
relict Of the aforesaid Ellison event after him."
and now, at last, they have both found rest a
"dead level"
Year: 1872

It would not be easy to fud place in this
glorious country Of ours in which the residents
do not know quite as much as is good for them
about chills, but we think it would DO particu-
larly hard to find : spot superior in this res
pect to the one described as follows to the edi-
tor of paper somewhere in Maryland, or
thereabout:
Year: 1872

A very significant result has just been OBJ
tanned in the Prussian Diet. On Thursday,
in the Lower House Of tho Prussian Diet, q
sion Of members of ecclesiastical orders rs
teachers in the public schools was rejected by
an overwhelming vote, the vote standing 242 to
SO. The motion was made by certain Herr
Mallinckrodt and the speech on the govern
ment side was made by Herr Falk Falk's
speech is said to have been brilliant. Its real
force, however, lay in the fact that, in speak
ing for the government, he could say that the
government was determined to wage war with
the influence of Rome We are not disposed
to lay too much stress upon this
vote, for all the world knows that
Prussia, since the Reformation, has been
a Protestant nation; and as the motion was
really intended to open the doors of the pub
lie schools to the Jesuits, no other result could
have been looked for. The real fight between
the Imperial government and Rome must be
fought in the Imperial Parliament when
South as we'll as North Germany is repre-
sented. South Germany has never abandoned
the ancient Church; and although Bismarck is
O determined man and bound to win if sue
cess lies within the region of the possible, it
is not at all improbable that his severe anti
Romish policy may yet undo much of the
work which was accomplished at Sedan. The
one living barrier to the accomplishment of
German unity and the consolidation Of the
Empire is the Catholicism of the South. It
is not impossible that patriotism may prove
stronger than religion; but we cannot help
thinking that Bismarck makes mistake in
bringing the Catholics to bay. The policy Of
Cancellation would have been wiser and per-
haps more successful.
Year: 1872

other things, on the side of the humble and
oppressed


His character as citizen, friend and neigh
Dor, is ''sans pe,~, sans reproche." AS his life
was admired. his death will be regretted by q
countless host of friends in both hemispheres,
and OF all creeds and races of men; and his
enemies will be disarmed in striking the bal
ance between his merits and his failings. In
that broad field of journalism which embraces
liberty to the slave relief to the sick and
unfortunate comfort to the poor, knowledge
to the ignorant, and the general elevation Of
the human family, we recognize in the loss of
Mr. Greeley the loss of powerful public bene-
factor. To sum up his merits in word-he
has, in the battle Of life, fought good fight
he leaves an honored name behind him, and
the high reward of an encouraging example as
an American journalist and self.made man.
Year: 1872

erto that retaining the present Republic means


the permanency Of republicanism in France.


AS the rural population feel that it means peace


and prosperity they will extend to it increas-


ing support, for the reason that all intelligent


people wish to be part of the living present


rather than cling to past not only dead, but,


on the careful opinion Of M. Theirs, impossi-


bic to resurrect Beyond this, too, they will
learn more quickly the direct results of self
government, and every stride they make in
this direction is one towards the grave, equally
deep as that of the monarchy, where Napo-
ieonism and absolutism will be buried
Government of the people by the
people is no Utopia, where mad
dreams can be realized. It requires the
careful and persistent scrutiny and unremit-
ting vigilance of whole nation In cultivat-
ing this, balancing needs against resources,
mental and material, the French people can
make their present Republic real and lasting.
In this task, those who have helped them on
the way will have the full sympathy of the
people.
Year: 1872

The ST.. LOUIS Republican independently,
after arguing the question of General Grant
and the republican party, arrives at the con-
clusion that the President will have no easy
task before him, and that if Congressional
leaders unite to thwart and battle him, as
they did last Winter, he will have to ap-
peal to the country for aid. He might
even be placed in position to need the
support which the feeble opposition in Con-
gress could give. If SO, the opposition in
Congress and the people would have no choice
but to uphold him in the righteous course he
proposes that IN regard to the civil service.
Year: 1872

THE SAVANNAH Advertiser states that Alex
ander H. Stephens, after visiting the capital,
has returned to Liberty Hall with the prom
Use that in few days he Will give to the peo-
pie of Georgia his views upon the present
political situation. If Mr.. Stephens will
strictly confine himself to the present polt-
ical situation, and cut adrift all the political
dead wood Of the last quarter of century, he
may command the attention of the country
and accomplish good thing. But if he at
tempts to exhume the issues long since dead
and buried his effort will fall as worthlcssly and
haymlcssly as IN Autumn leaf,
Year: 1872

THE STREET CLEANING DEPARTMENT.
the Winter comes on the work of the Street
Cleaning Department increases. Last week.
in two hundred and sixty miles of streets.
over thirteen thousand loads of ashes and
over eight thousand loads Of dirt were
carted away, or about twenty-five thousand
loads in all. When the new department COM
menced work the carting was even greater
than this, owing to the fact that the streets
had not been cleaned at all under the old con-
tract and were in terribly filthy condition.
The expenses then were about fourteen thou
sand dollars week. But in the Summer
months, after the streets had been we'll
cleaned, the loads decreased materially and
the weekly expense fell to eight thousand
dollars. We want clean streets this Winter
and quick clearance Of the snow and slush.


If we get these the people will not study the
cOst
Year: 1872

ACCIDENTS AT TARGET SHOOTING ore getting
to be Of Common occurrence. A party of lads
were engaged at practice with revolvers on
Thursday last, when one Of them was shot
through the body. ''This is sorry after
Moons work |" he exclaimed as he fell to the
earth, and Immediately afterward he expired.
No inexpert marksman should take part in
such amusement. AS general rule with our
target excursion crowds the target is about
the safest Of the company.
Year: 1872

The Moral OF THE NORTHWESTERN CORNER,
as Of oil Wall street corners, is, '.Never sell
what you do not possess. If man buys a
house for hundred thousand dollars and sells
it for fifty thousand, he knows his loss; but
when man sells at a certain price and agrees
to deliver railroad stock that he does not own,
he knows not how much he may be compelled
to sacrifice in order to make good his engage
ment. =,
Year: 1872

THE CONDITION OF AFFAIRS ON THE LINE OF
THE RIO GRANpE remains agitated and very
deeply excited as win be seen by our Matamo-
ros despatch in the HERALD this morning. A
row between soldiers and citizens ended fa-
tally to the lives of q number Of persons, and
the Customs Tariff question of the Free Zone is
still cause of anxiety to the mercantile com-
munity.
Year: 1872

QuAnTERMAsrER GENERAL ME1cs REpoRrs
that the examination and settlement of the
accounts of the war have OF length been COM
pleted and the business brought up to date.
The vastness of the labor may be inferred
from the fact that it has taken seven or eight
years to perform. 1t is matter of congratula-
ton that the books are balanced at last.
Year: 1872

RAPID TRANSIT IN BRooKLYN.-The Brook
lyn people are bestirring themselves in the
matter of rapid transit Subscription books
are open, and the committee on organization
have announced that board Of directors will
be elected and the work commenced as soon
as the subscriptions reach the amount Of half
o million dollars. The road will be partly
underground and partly viaduct and will run
from Fulton ferry to East New York. When
the East River bridge is completed, and the
two cities are united in q single corporation,
this will, probably, form portion of the
grand line from Westchester county to the
furthest limit Of the consolidated metropolis
on Long Island. 1t is to be hoped the Brook
lynites will push the work forward with vigor,
and, in view Of the future, New York capital
lists should be willing to lend them helping
hand.
Year: 1872

LUCKY RAscALs.-Two convicts were par
doned by the Governor Of Massachusetts, on
Thanksgiving Day, according to custom. The
fortunate JaliOirus wiiose cages were thus
thrown open had been imprisoned, the one
thirteen years and the other seven years.


The first was o life sentence for arson, the
other a twenty years term for burglary. It
must have come hard on the Boston people
just now to pardon an incendiary; but both
the lucky criminals are still young men, and
it is to be hoped that the lesson Of their long
release may serve to make them good citizens
and honest men for the balance of their lives.
Year: 1872

Iho state OF Spain is at this moment de-
plorable. The government of King Amadeus.
while endeavoring to preserve order and ex-
tend something like constitutional freedom
to the Spanish people, is beset on all sides
with enemies. It has become so much the
habit of parties in this distracted country to
appeal on all occasions to the arbitrament Of
the sword that they will not be content to use
the means furnished them by the constitution
to remedy the abuses of which they complain
It is unfortunate that it is not in the power of
any Minister, by even the most liberal policy,
to conciliate the disturbing elements. The
cause of this is that the grounds of difference
are radical, and the party out of power can
only be satisfied by the overthrow of the ex-
isting government Nothing that the govern
ment of King Amadeus can do will satisfy
either the Carlists or the Alfonsistas or the
extreme republicans. While differing upon
all other questions they are agreed that the ex-
istence of the Kings government Is an evil that
ought to be removed. This is the true solu-
ton of the constantly recurring troubles in
Spain, which no reform seems able to prevent.
OAlcoS tuAb btttC VI eAiu6o SoA 10 O1ouSAc w u
speedy termination Spain will degenerate to
the condition of Mexico and fall prey to mill
tary adventurers. The strange feature Of
Spanish political life is the tenacity with which
the nation asserts its right to govern Cuba at
the same moment that all the world is agreed
that it is incapable Of governing itself. With
out spark of national feeling in the conduct
of home affairs, Spain exhibits haughtiness
bordering on insolence in the assertion Of a
nationality that Spaniards trample upon at
home in the cause Of some vicious or
imbecile leader. Neither. the Carlist nor
republican party is of more impor-
tance than the good name or the
well-being of the common country, but the
moment foreign question is involved all par
ties unite in protesting an exaggerated patri-
otism that in the eyes Of the rest of the world
seems ridiculous and absurd in view of the
internal condition of SPAIN The only appar-
ent hope of the salvation Of the country is in
the triumph of the government of Amadeus;
and as the army seems to be really loyal the
King may in the end be more than match
for his numerous but derided enemies.
Year: 1872

quences.


Otherwise the history a.. and the enduring re-
wards Of Mr. Greeley's industrious and useful
career are full of encouragements to young
men who, without capital, personal influence
or powerful friends, have the battle of lite
before them. He is only one Of many ex-
amples of this character; but few against such
distractions have achieved SO much as he in
substantial and enduring honors. If he was
ambitious his was that lofty ambition of gen.
erous minds, whose highest aspirations are
the good Of their fellow men if he had his
eccentricities they were those Of the genuine
American republican and the ardent philan-
thropist; if his political course is marked by
some strange perturbations, they only bring
into bolder relief his general consistency,
strength, earnestness and intrepidity of char
acter As o teacher of the practical, domestic
economies he may well be called ''our later
Franklin" as champion Of equal rights he
was an advanced disciple of jefferson; as the
advocate of his American system he was an
advanced disciple of Henry Clay, while as a
teacher of the science of agriculture his name
has become household word in every farm
house il the country.


To the adopted citizen fresh from the tram
mels of less liberal governments across the
Atlantic his name has been as potent as his
wholesome advice and generosity were pro-
verbal. When a mistaken fanaticism preached
death or almost death TO the foreigner Mr.
Greeley was ever to be found ia this as in
Year: 1872

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The sage Of Chappaqpasba won
no laurels by his carefully pre-
pared oratorical efforts during his
recent peregrinations through his
native New Hampshire, and it
would have been far better for his
own reputation had he committed
to memory end repeated some of
bis editorials applicable to the
prominent topic Of the day For
instance. how truthfnliy he nigh,
have repeated the following IN
garbled extract from the editorial
columns of the New York Tribune
Of May %, 1868: ee5Ss


1t was not necessary to hold
convention 10 desienates the Re.
publican candidate for President
The people had alsesdy decided
that they would vote for Ulysses
s. Grant, and nobody else. We
tried for awhile to persuade them
that they could do better, but they
would would not hear us. The
nomination of Gen. Grant by eve
~ delegate from every State and
Territory comprised within the
boundaries of our Union Was a
simple proclamation OF what the
masses had already decided. The
wild enthusiasm wherewith his
name was hailed, will roll irrepres
sibly from the Bay OF Fundy to tho
Pacific. Apart from all politics
and all pasties, the people are icr
Grant; and his vote will far ex-
ceed that of the most popular car
didates for Governor, Congress,
DC, who may be run on the same
ticket. We predict that both his
electoral and his popular majori
ties will exceed those Of Lincoln
over Mcclellan. Gen. Grant viii.
receive more votes from recon
structed rebels than could be Oh
tanned for any other man who
fought gallantl'-, successfully for
the Union. Faithful to his country
and her flag, he was ever a mag
unanimous foe, and no man is more
ARK GUS than lie that the bloody.
hateful past should be speedily OBJ
scnred by genuine fraternity and
mutual good will. He fought, rot
to degrade and destroy, but to ex-
alt and to save. There is no other
American in whom all interests and
all sections cherish SO profound a
trust as in Ulysses S. Grant. Hence
the strength evinced by the Re
publicans in intermediate local
contests will be no measure. no
test, Of that which will be 6cvel
oped when the people come to
| vote consciously for him.
Year: 1872

Two bootblacks, one white and
one black, were standing at che
corner doing nothing, when tho
whiteboo:black agreed to black the
black bootblack's boots. The black
bootblack was of course willing to
lave his boots BACKED by his fcl-
low wbcotblack, and the bootblack
who had agreed to black the black
bootblack's boots went to backing.


When the bootblack had blacked
oae Of the black bootblack's boots.
till it shone in q manner that would
make any bootblack proud, this
bootblack who had agreed to black
the black bootblack's boot refused
to black the other boot of the black
bo0tblack until the black boot
black, who lad consented 10 have
the white boot-black black his boots
should add five cents to the am cunt
the white bootblack had made
blacking other mems boots. This
the b6otblack whose boot had been
blacked refused to do, saying it
was good enough for black boot
black to have one boot blacked and
he didn't care whether the boot
that the bootblack hadn't blackcd
was blacked or not.


This made the bootblack who
had backed the bootblack's boot
as angry as bootblack often gets,
and he vented his black wrath by
splitting upon the blacked boot of
the black bootblack. This reused
the latent passions OF the black
bootblack, and he proceeded to
boot the white bootblack with the
boot which the white bootblack
had BACKED. A fight then ensued
in which the white bootblack who
had refused to black the unblack-
ed boot Of the black bootblack
blacked boolblack's visionary or
gan, and in which the black boot
black wore ell the blacking of his
-


blacked boot in booting the white
bootblack.
Year: 1872

Grant takes a position at the risk Of his


popularity.


In like manner on the subject
Of the payment Of the National
Debt, on which, also, his party
had trimmed and prevaricated,
he did not hesitate to take the
responsibility of a clear state
ment Of his position, at the i'm
minent hazard Of his popularity.
Year: 1872

During one of the thunderstorms in the early part of last week, the lightning struck an evergreen tree in the door-yard of Albert Rowley in this town. Several persons were in the house. One of them, a ason of MT. Rowley. was proatrated by the shock, but did not loose his con sciousness. In about 35 minutes another bolt fell upon the house itself, doing con siderable damage to the building. The effect of the last shock was not by any means so stunning upon the members of the family as in the first instance.
Year: 1872

On Monday, the New York High Court of Impeachment found Judge George c. Barnard guilty on most of the articles preferred against him by the Assembly. His removal from office was unanimously voted, and his disqualification from hold ing any office of trust in the future was voted with only two dissenting voices The purifcation of the New York judiciary is grand work, presistently and coura- geously carried through, against one of the worst, boldest, most powerful crimi- nals ever brought to the bar of justice.
Year: 1872

The appearance of the Mikado in a R66AS3d btsSf Atlantic cable. It is to be hoped that in addition to the traditional costume of the stage Yankee he will not adopt also the horrible Down East vernac- ular that goes with it.
Year: 1872

The second meeting OF the Maine men resident In
New York was held yesterday in the Astor House.
The constitution and bylaws ordered at the former
meeting were drafted, ready for the acceptance Of
the association. They propose an annual reunion
and festival on March 10 each year. They are to
have rooms at which the members can meet In
daily intercourse.
Year: 1872

A beautiful vision oft comes to me-


When the work of the day is done,
When my heart throws off its weight of care
And sit in my room alone;
II dream of home where no shadows fall,
Nor language of strife is heard
Where anger and bitterness enter not,


But love breathes in thought and in word.
AS sit in that beautiful home


Watching the sunset glow,
hear a step on the graveled walk,


A step have learned to know.
One stands on the threshold, whose tender low


Makes the world all bright to me"
Whose heart keeps the VOW which his lips hay,


made,


Ny own, and mine only to be-
But waken, alasl it was only dream,


Like the fancies used to weave,
In those far off days Of the happy past,


Ere my heart had learned to grieve;
Well [ know the face, in dreams behold
Though 1 have not seen, it seems for years
have heard that voice and its cherished tones
Which are the sweetest of earth to my ears.
But I'm a sad and lonely woman now


No love words are breathed in my ears
Lifes lessons TO me have been sternly taught
In WEAKNESS, pain and in tears.
But love to sit in the twilight hour


While the shadows around me fall,
And dream of that beautiful sunny home
And the love that's dearer than ALL
Year: 1872

Occasionally some dyspeptc fellow gets dis
gusted with the course of newspaper that fails
to come up to the standard Of excellence he has
marked out for it, and straightWay the indignant
individual writes letter to the tabooed journal,
sternly demanding it's publisher Immediately to
"stop his paper" This action is intended as
a pointed rebuke to the publisher aforesaid, and
is usually accompanied with an air clearly in
dioating that the injured party has full and
complete satisfaction for the wrongs heaped up
on him as subscriber. The New York Tribune
has lately been compelled to peruse several
epistle of this character, but as yet We have not
discovered that they have made any percepti-
with which its editors @ are advocating @ the LIB, Lib
eral cause. The paper still looks healthy in a
business point Of view, and having received
20,233 mail subscribers in the months of June
and July, as against S467 in the same months
last year, there is every reason to believe that
the withdrawal Of three or four Radical broth
ers from the list will not materially damage the
receipts Of the concern, or force it into immedi-
ate liuuidation
Year: 1872

A happy young bridal party went down from
Peoria the other morning. The blushing young
bride thrust her head out Of the car window as
for a moment or two, suddenly jerked her head
back with quick exclamation, and buried her
face in her hands. Her loving, frightened hus-
band sought to learn the cause of her dismay,
and offered feeble consolation: "What was it,
darling? What frightened it, dear? Tell its
own hubby What makes it cry p There
wasn't much to Cry about, to be sure oh, no
Darling had only dropped set of glittering
front teeth out of the window, that was all
The sad affair has cast gloom over the entire
community
Year: 1872

DUTY.-There is no more sublime spectacle
than earnest work in discharge of duty. The
nomination of Horace Greeley was unquestion-
ably unacceptable to many of our best men but
the issue is between Greeley and Grant, not
between Greeley and Democrat. Duty is now
plain. Greeley is the representative leader of
a movement for good government, and the
head of tyranny and Southern oppression. The
issue is between these two. There is no room
for doubling duty here. The Baltimore Con
vention pointed out the duty now let US work
for it.-Lynchbwg Republican.