smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1870

IN view of the rapid approach OF the
time for taking the census, the follow
ing questions have been collected TO-
gether BY some studious individual in
such matters, as probably containing
the gist Of the inquiries that will be
made.


How old are you?


Where were you born, and were you
present OH the occasion Of your birth!


Were you ever a candidate for office,
and II so, how many times?


Aare you married person, and how
do YOU like the institution:


Have you any children, how many,
and what l. certain remedy for the
snuffles:
snuffles:


Do you grow any corn; If so, how
much do you consume In the form OF
whisky, and how much do you waste
in making bread:


What's your opinion Of lager beer
and pretzels?


How many glasses can you drink,
and with what effect?


What Is your opinion Of oats--a very
popular provender for man and beast?


What Is the cash value Of a one
dollar bill:
Were your father and mother both
white men?


Can you stand on your head, and
how long? If good while, how
much longer IL necessary?


II half an acre of ground will yield
one hundred bushels of ruta bagas,
how many glasses Of lager will 1t re-
Quire q man to draw bee line?


If your family eats a ham in three
days, how long will it take them to
eat a couple. Of hammers?


Lend me five dollars?


What Is your opinion of young pups
before they get their eyes open:


There are number Of other ques-
tions to be answered, which we omit
here, from the fact that they will at
once suggest themselves to the minds
of the marshals, just as soon rs they
think of them.


Dick Dey, Gus Ash and George |.
Lammon are "doing" Storey County
on the above statistics; and 1t Is to be
hoped the public will not be too toler-
ant with them, but take the broom
stick and 90 after them. Dick asked,
as a censlls-taker, q woman the other
day what sized shoes she wore, and
what was the price Of leather? He
claimed to be census-taker, etc. We
shall try and keep our eyes Oh these
census-takers.
Year: 1870

SHOorISG FOR JEALOUSY. - The
stockton Herald Of the 18th instant
says:


At about half past nine O'Clock last
evening. as a certain man was passing
down Main street. and had reached the
northeast corner of Main and Ameri-
can streets, he was shot at by some un-
known person standing on an opposite
corner. The fire was returned. Neither
party was hurt. The shooting Is the
result of one party paying too much
attention TO the "adored Of the other
individual. Things are getting lively
In Stockton.
Year: 1870

WEAvERvlL1E, August "a, 1870.
! EDITOR TRINITY JoURNAI-SIR: Men sometimes
find it necessary, in order to preserve their prin-
ciples, to change their party. The rapid changes
in the policy of what has been known as the
Union Republican Party-changes made solely
by its leaders, not by the rank and fle-have
driven and must continue to drive a large class
of voters from its ranks. The Union-loying citi-
zen who conceived himself forced into the Union
party by his patriotic feelings at the commence
ment 0! tue rebellion, may have, even up to the
present time, compelled himself to follow the
tortuous path Of the Republican leaders since
the rebellion was suppressed; but even the de-
sire to keep company with those with whom he
stood during the war; and his love for the good
that party has done heretofore, cannot always
blind him to the evil of its later days


Having been associated with that party in this
county for the past eight years, and having been
honored by it with public position, it seems to
me proper that / should make this brief public
announcement of my withdrawal from it.


The objects and principles which brought into
life the National Union party have been accom-
plished and established, and practically the or
ganzaton has been dissolved. In its stead, and
claiming the credit of its achievements, there is
the Republican party, which processes to-day
principles and ayows objects which would have
made the formation of the Union party simple
impossibility, if ayowed at the time that organi-
cation was projected.


New issues having come before the American
people for adjustment, claim the right to think
and act for myself, regardless of party names or
previously conceived prejudices, and to vote with
that political party which, in my judgment, will
carry out measures that will best conduce to the
interests of the whole people of the United States.
without retrograding from any principle ! ever
advocated as a Union man, am free to confess
that cannot follow the radical leaders of the
Republican party in their insane efforts to de-
grade American suffrage, evidenced in Congress
by the attempt to strike the word % white" from
cur naturalization laws, rs well as by the ratih-
cation Of the Fifteenth Amendment, which was
simply outrage upon the American people,
having been adopted by the Legislatures of many
Of the States in defiance of the well understood
sentiment of the people, and being made a cor
dition precedent to the admission to the Union
of some Of the Southern States


! acted in good faith with the Union party
from the time Of its formation until after the last
Presidential election, finding in the platform
then adopted at the National Convention nothing
that could not endorse but since the violation
Of the pledges Of that platform, | cannot act with
the party any longer, without doing violence to
my principles.


part from my late political friends with re-
erot but with no doubt as TO the course ! should
pursue as a lifelong independent Democrat.


Yours respectfully, A. j. FELrER.
Year: 1870

THE EFFEor of repeating the free mail car
rage of newspaper exchanges will be most
serious, rs we have already explained, on
country newspapers 1t will simply amount
to this, when put into practical operation I:
That the smaller and less important papers,
including great majority of the weeklies,
will have to pay, not only the postage on
the dailies of the large cities which they re-
ceive, but on their own issues sent in return.
Otherwise the city dailies will simply advise
them that they cannot afford to keep up the
exchange. The leading New York papers
all maintain immense exchange lists, giving
away their twelve dollar papers to many
whose terms only require from five dollars
down to two. II, to the present lop-sided-
ness of this arrangement, the postage on
their country exchange is also added, they
will naturally drop great part OF theii
present lists, to be only renewed on the
plan we have mentioned above.
Year: 1870

TIE New Police ORp1NANcE.-Owing to
the crowded condition of our columns yes
terday, we were compelled to omit notice
OF the changes which are embraced in the
new police ordinance. They ore as follows
The second section reduces tho number of
captains from seven to three, and the num-
ber of men from one hundred to eighty.
From the men ten sergeants are to be ap-
pointed-three for each captain and one for
court-r duty. One captain must reside
in each police district.


Section fifth provides for proper system
of relief, so that ut oil times during the
day one-fourth of the force shall be on
duty, and tbrec-fourths during the night.
One-fourth will be required to sleep at the
station-houses as reserve force. This
section differs from the old ordinance in
the addition of the aforementioned provi-
sion, and otherwise only insomuch as it be-
comes necessary to conform to the reduction
of the force.


Section twenty-eighth provides certain
height and age for the members of the
force. While we know that some of the
best members of the force ore beyond the
prescribed limits, and being already in the
force, cannot be affected by this ordinance,
we cordially commend this provision.
Large and imposing-looking men are much
more effective as policemen than small men.
Not SO much in reality, however, as in the
looks of the thing. And then, as the force
has been reduced in numbers, it is neces-
sary to increase it in corporal size.
Year: 1870

FUNERAL OF Mons. savanna large
number of persons assembled on yesterday
morning in the cathedral to pay the last
tribute Of respect to the memory of that
much lamcnted gentleman Mons. SauTan.
late French consul at this place. Among
those present were large number Of our
leading citizens with their families, and the
commanding General and staff.


Tile funeral services were conducted By
the Rev. Father Janson, who preached a
very beautiful and appropriate discourse
from the text at is holy and whole
some thought to pray for the dead, that they
may be looscd from their sins" (from the
second book of Maccabces). He said that
although the book from which he had
taken his theme was not acknowledged by
those who were outside of the Church, they
could not deny that the fact Of the brave
King Judas's sending $4,000 drachms of
silver to Jerusalem for the offering Of
PRAYERS for the dead was historical,
and proved that Gods people prayed
for their dead before the coming
of Christ. The Church sought to care for
its children in every relation of life, and
when dying she sought to give them cou-
rupC uuI uOpC lux VIC 1utulC W lhS SoA
temptation that the prayers of those they
would leave behind them would avail them
hereafter. Thus even after death she cared
for her children. She prayed for deceased
members, and he was now about to offer the
sublime sacrifice of the mass for the soul OF
our deceased friend, that God might take it
to him in Heaven. Our friend had been
beloved and respected by all who knew him.
| We would all mourn his loss, but especially
would those little children he had left be-
hind him feel the loss of so good father.
In conclusion, lie prayed that God would
look graciously upon the soul of the de-
ceased, and receive it into everlasting bliss
and happiness.


Father Janson then celebrated requiem
| mass, which was most imposing: The choir
chanted the service for the dead, under di-
rection of Professor Neuheiser. After mass,
the remains were removed to the express
office, followed by the funeral procession.
They were conveyed to Philadelphia last
evening, where they will be buried.
Year: 1870

DEATH OF AN OLD .CITIzEN.-Mr. John
E. Laughton died in this city yesterday
morning from lingering illness which had
confined him to his room for about two
years. He arose from bed just before day,
took seat in o chair near the fire, smoked
his pipe, and when his son, who was sleep
ing in the room with him, awoke, he found
that the old gentleman had gently fallen
asleep in the arms of death.


Mr.. Laughton was native OF New Jer-
sey. Forty-seven years ago, when about
twenty-one years old, lie removed to this
city, and for long time was one of our
principal carriage manufacturers, having o
large establishment at the northwest corner
of Main and Eighth streets. AS former
prominent member of the Baptist General
Association of Virginia, and superinten-
dent for many years of the Second Baptist
Sunday school of this city, he was we'll
known and highly esteemed in the denomi-
nation. His funeral will take place this
afternoon at 81 o'clock from the Second
Baptist church.
Year: 1870

THE BELL-HoUsE.-In consequence OF
the erection of the electric apparatus at the
Ninth Street Dollhouse, the services OF the
men who have been employed there to
strike the hours and ring the alarms ore
dispensed with. The hours will not here
after be tolled from the Dollhouse. This
is q saving of 81, 900 per annum to the city.
Year: 1870

We call attention to the sale OF housekeeping
goods advertised by COOK s. LAUGHToS In To-
days paper. Such rare opportunity for house
keepers to purchase their supplies ut auction Is
seldom offered. We are confident that all In want
of such articles will attend the sale. The goods
are ready for inspection today. The ladies par.
ticularly are invited to examine them.
Year: 1870

FAsHIoN.-Rev. Henry Wall will repeat
his lecture on Fashion at Temperance Hall
tonight. This lecture has been well re-
ceived at other points in the city, and we
have no doubt that he will be greeted with
O full house tonight.
Year: 1870

MISSOURI AND TENSEssEE.-Official in
formation is at hand that Missouri has
finally ratified the fifteenth amendment in
proper form. The ratification by this State
last winter was imperfect. FL


A plea for congressional interference in
Tennessee has been nearly perfected. One
feature Of it is the proposition for passing
o general law prohibiting all persons who
are disfranchised by the third section of
the fourteenth amendment from participa-
ting in State or Federal positions. It is
said that such low would break up the
Nashville Convention.


Political DIsABTLrTIEs.-0n the other
hand, however, it is stated that as soon as
the Reconstruction Committee dispose Of
the reconstruction measures before them
they intend to prepare bill removing 10
litical disabilities from all persons who are
disfranchiscd by the fourteenth amend
ment. The present understanding is that
the bill will be universal in its character.
A similar measure is already pending in
the Senate.


PLANS AND RUMoRs.-Scnator Sumner
will introduce a bill in a day or two pro-
yiding for free banking and the resumption
of specie payments. Among the rumors
anoat tonight is one that o plan is on foot
for the purchase Of Cuba, and that bill is
to be introduced in Congress for that pur-
pose. The price to be named is 100000
900 in coin.-Zcta, in Baltimore Sun.
Year: 1870

THE BLUE HENS CHICKENS. A cores
pondent asks us why the Delaware boys
are called the Blue Hens Chickens. :"
We have heretofore explained the origin
of the souJriquet, but transfer the follow
ing from our port folio, which, we think,
is from the Baltimore American:


In the revolutionary war, Delaware
was among the most densely populated
portions of our country, and it is said to
have furnished five thousand fighting men
to the revolutionary army. The Regiment
of Delaware Blues" was so called from
their blue uniforms. When they marched
from Wilmington in 1770, they were in
deed gallant sight. Eight hundred men
with such perfect discipline in their march,
that when advancing in line, it was said a
bullet could le passed from one end of the
ankles of every soldier without touching a
man-exhibited a spectacle such as was
not witnessed since that day.


They were exposed in every action
from Long Island to Charleston, and as
fast as they fell in battle their ranks were
recruited from Delaware alone. Jaquett,
who was one of their officers, used to say
that he could march all day with them
from sunrise to sunset, and when on
Green's retreat everybody else were tired
and asleep, his Sussex soldiers alone would
get fiddle and dance around their watch
fires They were engaged in thirty-two
pitched battles and were always the last to
retreat. 1t was natural that they should
have been then the pride and boast of the
State in which scarcely man was left who
had not relation or friend in the regi-
meut.


" Captain Caldwell had a company re-
cruited from Kent and Sussex called by
the rest "CaldUeWs game cocks," and the
regiment after a time in Carolina was nick
named from this The Blue Hens Chick
ems, as the fun and fancy of their COM
rades preferred the phrase.


" But after they had been distinguished
in the South, the name of the Blue Hen
was applied to the State, whenever after a
battle the recruiting officers were sent home
to get more chickens of her raising, and
those who came from Kent were chiefly
taken from her forests of white oak. The
poor fellows for the most part died in the
battles of the Revolution, and but a very
few of those who returned ever received
any reward for their services, being paid
off in continental money. But the Wings
of the Revolution never ceased to boast of
the Blue Hen and her chickens, and to
this day their descendants will often boast
in Kent, that they are the cocks of that
blood, and were taken from the stooping g
white oak"
Year: 1870

The dome of the Capitol at Washington
is one of the largest in the world, being
one hundred and thirty-seven feet in diam
eter at its base, and two hundred feet high.
The architect, Mr.. Walter, naturally
thought so large mass of iron would be
affected by the SUMS rays, SO that the ex-
pansion would be unequal, according as
the sun shone on one or the other side.


To ascertain the extent of the expansion,
he extended wire within the dome from
the top to the bottom, and connected with
it, by delicate mechanism, pencil which
would draw on paper the line of move
ment. He expected quite regular curve,
as the opposite sides of the dome were af-
fected by the daily passage of the sun but
he found that it is not the sun, but the
wind, that has the most effect. The Amer
lean Journal of Science contains copy of
the figure drawn one windy day, showing
all the changes and lulls of the storm, and
making very curious complicated figure.
Year: 1870

The wind of night is a lonely sprite,
And he roams DER land and sea;
He's mournful elf, and he sings 10 himself,
And weird, sad song sings he:


Oh, the lonely wind of night
Me thinks he sings to the ghostly things
That crowd nights gloomy halls,
When the stars glare down, or the dark clouds


frown.


And the rain it drearily falls:


Oh, the lonely wind of night
He sings of the Past that flew so fast,
Ofjoys that have gone for aye,
And of those that lie meath the hollow sky,
Deep deep in the graveyard clay:


Oh, the lonely wind of night
The Summer is dead, and a blight is shed
Over her leaves and flowers,
And the wind of night bemoans their plight,
In dirge for the vanished hours


Oh, the lonely wind of night
AS sit and hear that requiem drear
For the things that are no more,
To the ear of thought is the night-wind fraught
With sad, mysterious lore:


oh, the lonely wind of night
And dream of the time when his doleful rhyme
viii sound o'er the tomb where |
Must slumber deep, while he viii sleep,
AS now, all lonely by:


oh, the lonely wind of night
For still will have in the lowly grave,
Though forgotten by all mankind,
A mourner and friend till time shall end,
In the lonely, homeless wind:


Oh, the lonely wind of night
Year: 1870

The Baltimore American says it is pro-
posed to ascertain by actual experiment
the supposed magnetic character of the
aurora borealis. A telegrapAic wire be-
tween New York and Philadelphia has
been so prepared as to afford continuous
circuit without an earth connection at
either end. If the aurora charges it with
electricity the magnetic qualities of the
phenomenon will be proved; if it does
not, the common supposition will be shown
to be wrong.
Year: 1870

DURING the past week received from a
~ first class Music Publisher a selection of
nearly one hundred pieces of the latest and
best Music, comprising both Instrumental and
Vocal. l have also made arrangements with
the same publishers 10 furnish me with new
Music as soon as issued. After the eXertion
have made to afford you the convenience and
enjoyment of first class Music as well as
Book Store, hope generous public will give
me that patronage which will justify still
larger increase in both branches of my trade.
Call and examine my stock and hereafter you
Will buy your Music at


iune lS LAUCk'S BOOK STORE.
Year: 1870

From Halls journal OF Health.


Not by tumbling into the river
and dragging home wet as drowned
rat not 10y being pitched into the
mud or spilled ont into the snow in
sleighing time; not by walking for
hours, over sh0e-top in mud; not by
soaking i'm the rain without an um-
brella; not by scrubhing the floor un.
Til the unamables stick TO you like a
wet rag; not by hocing potatoes un>
Til you are i'm lather of sweat; these
are not the things which give people
colds, and yet they are all the time
saying how they Caught cold by en-
posure.


Tie time for taking cold Is after
you exercise; the place is I'm your
own house, or office, or counting
house. II Is not the act of exercise
which gives the cold, but the
getting cool too quick after exercis-
ing. For example, you walk very
last 10 get to the railway station, or
TO the Terry, or to catch the omnibus,
or 10 make time for an appointment;
your mind being ahead of you, the
oody makes an extra effort to keep
up with it, and when you get TO the
desired spot, you raise your hat and
find yourself in perspiration: YOU
take seat and feeling quite comfort
able IA 10 temperature, you begin to
talk with n friend, or If New York
er, to read n newspaper, and before
you are aware Of IL, you experience a
sensation of chilliness, and the thing
is done; you look around to see whore
the cold comes from, and find an
open window uear you or q door, or
that you have taken seat at the for.
ward part of the car, and its moving
against the wind, n strong draft il
made through the crevices.


After any kind of exercise. do not
stand moment mt n street corner for
any body or anything; nor ut al
open door or window. Whenever
you have been exercising I'm any
way whatever, winter or summer, go
home at once, or to some sheltered
place, and, hawever warm the room
may seem to be, do not Mt once pull
of your hat and cloak, but wait
awhile-some five minutes or more,
and lay aside one thing at time;
thus acting, n cold Is impossible.
Notice n moment: When you return
from brisk walk and you enter a
warm room, raise your hat and your
forehead will be moist, let the hat
remain few moments and feel the
forehead again aud il will be dry,
showing that the room Is actually
cooler than your body, ana that with
outdoor clothing on, you have really
cooled eff full soon enough. Many
of the severest colds / have ever
known men to take were the result
Of sitting down to a warm meal in q
cool room after a long walk; or being
engaged in writing, having let their
fire go out, and their first admonition
of IL vas that creeping chilliness
which is the ordinary forerunner of
a severe cold. Persons have often
lost their lives by writing or reading
I'm a room where there was no fire,
although tie weather outside was
rather comfortable. Sleeping in
rooms long unused has destroyed the
life of many visitor and friend.
Our splendid parlors and our "nice
rooms" help to enrich many q doc.
tor ..
Year: 1870

STEEL BRAISs.-Dr. Chaplin says
that New York uses up more people
In business than any city in the
world. If man becomes a mere cal
culating machine he should have
steel brains for Wall street and the
gold room. It has been ascertained
that more men have been driven to
lunacy in our financial business than
in that of any other balf dozen EN-.
ployments combined. In view of
these facts 1t il rumored that the bro
kers intend to subscribe In found.
ing an asylum for broken down
tinanciers who may retire to it at that
period of life in which they become
lame ducks. This institution will
have 10 be very large one.
Year: 1870




A CLERICAL principal of an Epis,
copal boarding school for boys called
his pupils together at the beginning of
Lent, and gave them a short lecture
upon self-denial and self.sacrifice,
and advised them to select some arti-
Gle of food with which they would
dispense during the season of Lent.
The boys were directed to go into a
room by them selves, and after decid-
ing what luxury they would give up,
TO return to the chapel and report
their decision. The boys retired, and
soon returned, and made the follow.
Ing report:


RESPECTED PRINCIPAL:-I have
the honor TO report that your pupils
have reiigiously considered the sub.
ject submitted to them by your rev.
erence. and have unanimously voted
to dispense with hash during lent. y
Year: 1870

A WORD OF WARNING.-The Iowa
Homestead warns farmers against
carelessness in leaving their stock ex-
posed during the unseasonably mild
days of the early spring. 1t says the
worst time for farm stock, between
the grass time of 1859, and the COM
ing Of the grass in 1870, will be dur
ing the next six weeks, and every
farmer who has shelter for bis stock,
will profit himself, and show mercy
to his beast, by putting every living
thing under shelter, with good lay
er of dry bedding beneath, upon the
first indications of a storm, and not
this attention till grass comes.
Year: 1870

An Arkansas sheriff, who couldn't
get carpenters to build gallows, to
execute crimiLal. had the cheek to
tell the criminal that if he was i'm a
hurry to have the show come off, he
would have to turn in and help build
it. The man declined, aud told the
sheriff not TO hurry on his account.