smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1873

To KILL WARTs.-The following Is
said never to fail If properly applied:
Make strong steep from red oak bark in
hot water. When cold apply as conven.
lent, the oftener the better. In a few days
the wart will disappear.
Year: 1873

The opportunity presented by the sale of the
Townsend property, on the South side Of the
Christlana, Is doubtless the best that has been
presented for a long time in our city


This property Is in what will doubtless some
day be the very heart Of the business part of the
town, and must become worth from one to two
ehhndred dollars a foot before the end OF the
century 1t has risen from one to fifteen and
twenty dollars, as to location, in the last three
years and is now held by some purchasers n
thirty dollars who paid but four or five three years
age, The lots to be sold on Saturday are In choice
locations and as there are a large number OF
them they will doubtless have to be struck of
rapidly and at some sacii ihce Those therefore. who
attend may expect to- and doubtless will secure
bargains.


The mansion house, which will he sold at the
same time, is one of the most prominent and
beautiful sites in that section OF the city. It /,
comparatively new, having been built in the best
nannF and of rthc best materials, only few
years ago. with all the conveniences of modern
houses The ground which is to he sold with \
is a fine lot 222H feet front on Buttonwoot
street aud 100 feet on Lobdsu street. It Is high
firm land, underlaid with deep strata of san,
aud gravel. The water is convenient to tn
Kitchen door and Of excellent quality. The Ian,
will no doubt in few years sell for more thai
the whole will cost the purchaser on Saturday
Any further information may be had fror
Aessrs Ogle & Miller the auctOneers.
Year: 1873

as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou
shalt not escape calumny. She too
felt its bitter sting, and the funeral
knell silenced the busy tongue. / sat
under the sound of the funeral sermon
and my heart grew bitter with the
very enumeration of her virtues, vir-
tues summed up-too late.


What does it matter to the "pale
sleepern whether the world condemns
or approves when "life's little day I"
is ended, its sweetness poisoned by
vituperous tongues and its sunshine
washed out with burning tears"
Does 1t matter that justice slumbered
and peace, frightened bird, found no
resting place till the " Heavenly gates
swung ajar!" God searches the heart.
Life may be rife with inconsistencies,
but that piercing eye tries the souls of
men, and he or she who filches the
fair name of the innocent. deserves q
death more cruel than any mode of
torture instituted by the ten I" or ex-
cited during the Spanish Inquisition
and yet l pray God will forgive the
past and sow in the hearts of His peo-
pie the seed of peace and concord for
the future.


JUINTTA WERTHBEY.
Year: 1873

SHALL WE say aught of the great
calamity which to-day has thrown
a shadow of sadness over all the
civilized globe? The loss of the
Atlantic with $40 souls is on every
tongue. There is nothing which
enlists more sympathy and excites
more anxiety than the fearful isso-
lation of q human freighted ocean
steamer. From the time it weighs
anchor offthe splendid shore of Eng
land until it drops its anchorin the
great harbor If New York it may
be regarded as a community
wholly cut off from the remainder
OF mankind. Those who left in
the Atlantic were in quest of the
new world, against whose stormy
coast they were IN an hour of dark
ness and tempest thrown and went
down to a sudden and terrible
death, and then went on the long
voyage to those worlds which ma
ny Columbus of other days has
discovered, but from which they
have never returned.


Capt. Williams of the lost steam
or had better have died with hero
ism than to have tempted the wrath
of public opinion which his disas-
ter seems to have excited. Over it
men and women have lost their
reason, and many, many a bereaved
heart will IN the delirium of a
wrecked and ruined love live to
mourn in tears this accident which,
while it will, for its magnitude,
tower in the history of the sad
things of this age be embittered by
the terrible conviction of mankind
that it could have been avoided.
Year: 1873

The public alarm at the move
ments of the Pennsylvania Central
Company is about to bear fruit
New Jersey has passed the general
railroad law. Within ten minutes
after the Governor had signed the
bill the National Railway Compa-
nv fled in the Office of Secretary
of State their articles Of organiza-
ton. Its not likely that this new
company will lack either the means
or purpose to meet Mr.. Scott with
trouble elsewhere. Railroad mo-
nopolies are becoming the subject
of the most serious apprehenslons,
and unless some check can be plac-
ed upon the consolidation of the
railway lines Of the country their
possessors will at no distant day
rule and oppress the country. Since
the days when despotic and abso-
lutte rulers rendered it impossible
for the people to rise and assert
their ultimate authority there has
been no power which has worn a
look half SO despotic and imperial
as that now exhibited by the rail
road rings. Under their corpora-
tions the legislatures of the states
have been purchased and the voice
Of the people set at naught. The
next great question whi:h, like that
of slavery in the past, will yet agi>
tate and shake to its center the
union OF these States will be that
of the people against Rail Road
Rings.
Year: 1873

to the place from the surrounding
country there were some who riaed
the bodies whenever they could get a
chance. The collector Of customs is
awaiting Instructions from hesdquar-
ters and probably commence an in
vestigation this evening or in the
morning. The captain can give no
explanation of the cause of the disas-
ter except miscalculation as to the
current and the vessels speed. Great
numbers OF people ere leaving in the
steamers going down to the wreck.
Year: 1873

On Saturday last gold reached
1I9 in New York, and fnanciers
predict that it will reach 130.-
Spectators claim to have made
"a corner" in gold and that the
Treasury cannot command coin
sufficient to bear the market.
Year: 1873

TO myself alone; but that was not enough
for the old man, who required to b. kept
higher out OF the water saw him still
holding on for soine time after he had
ceased from all attempts to keep his bead
up; then he disappeared altogether. l
nearly met the same fate; I was all but
unconscious when q shore boat came to
my rescue. A sailor twisted his hand 10
the handkerchief tie round my waist, and
sought to draw me into the boat by 1t. II
gave way, and dropped back again into
the water. He caught me again by the
arm, and dragged me back TO life. But
my diamonds, emeralds, and sapphires
had gone to the bottom Of the Soheldt.


For few hours, and up to my chin In
water all the time, / was a moderately
itch man; all the rest of my life hav,
been poor one. OH If that knot in my
handkerchief had held, or If the Dutch
man who rescued me had caught hold O.,
my leg, or hair, or ear But 1t is too
provoking; can't bear to think of it,
Chambers Journal.
Year: 1873

Soaking Seed in Dry Times. .-RurdI
Home says "This is practiced to con.
siderable extent, but we have observed
that it is risky opeI alton uSloss particu-
lar attention is paid TO putting the soil in
the drouth is prolonged. The dry earth
and The air in the erevices around the
grain extract the moisture before the
roots form and begin to absorb food from
the soil. But if the soil is we'll pulver.
lied, SO that its natural condition is some
what moist, and the seed is then covered
pretty deep, it will usually live. Those
ing the seed previous to planting, should
take care to use the roller and harrow
without stint.
Year: 1873

The martial Jaw party has vanished into
thin air. The advocates Of the assassina-
ton of the Governor held that the act
would SO horrify the North that martial
law would at once be proclaimed. A vague
idea seemed to pervade the ignorant fu-
sionists that they would be benefited, and
the Republicans in some way injured by
such declara ton. Martial law is what we
want was in their mouths, but no thought
OF what martial law ls ever troubled their
indolent brains. Their leaders, however,
have looked into the matter, and have in
formed them that martial law is precisely
what they don't want. 1t would. they say,
have no other effect upon the Kellogg
government than to convert the United
States army etfectually into Kellogg
militia for the enforcement of his orders
whether in conflict with the law or not.
For instance, a Democratic judge and grand
jury may now prevent the prosecution of
McEnerv for treason, but the declaration of
martial law would see that gentleman with
in the walls of Fort Jackson in less than
two days. In word, martial law would
only suspend such civil laws and the func-
tions of such civil officers as hindered the
speedy suppression of the McEnery rebel
lion. Its very object would be to sustain
and strengthen Governor Kellogg. The
idea that it would take away his power is
absurd. These facts have been discussed,
and have had a wonderfully quieting effect
on the rampants.
Year: 1873

All Republicans regret and reprobate the
attempt to bruise Mr.. Z. c. Hancock, of
the Herald, and hope the guilty parties will
be brought to justice; but they have at the
same time the profoundest contempt for the
sneaking and cowardly insinuations of that
journal that the act was instigated by its
political enemies. The Herald, by implica-
ton, appealed to the mob to assassinate
the Governor only few hours before the
shot was fired, and the next day it said
assassination, as means of getting rid of
obnoxious men, has been approved in all
countries and ages. Perhaps some wretch
to whom Mr.. Hancock is obnoxious has
been misled by such infamous teachings in
that gentleman paper to make the dast-
ardly attempt If this is true, it is one in
stance of curse returning to plague its
invent tor which we can all both regret and
profit by
Year: 1873


which is about to be issued from this Office.
Most Of them are acts incorporating small
towns, or permitting a police jury to extend
a road, or unimportant matters of that
kind. Three are of general interest. One
enables district judges to try and trot
through defaulting tax collectors at any
time during vacation. Another compels
persons redeeming lands that have been
sold for taxes to pay roundly for all in
provements the tax purchaser may see fit
to make any time after he bids in the land
at the collectors sale The other
does what was never done before.
1t Obliterates the prover5 that tax
title can never be made good and may
we'll arouse people who are III the habit
of allowing their property to go to tax sale,
relying upon technicalities to get it back
again. 1t proscribes after two years from
the date Of obtaining the tax title every
action on the part Of the original owner to
recover his property. Thus, if man re-
fuses to pay his taxes under the new
revenue law his property will be sold by
the collector, and if it is not redeemed
within six months tax title will issue,
which vests the property in the tax pur-
chaser, unless there was some irregularity.
But now, no matter how great the irregu-
la1ities of the transaction, suit must be
brought to remedy them within two years,
or it can never be brought. Two years and
a half, then,s from the day of sale, alto
gether, will make a tax title as good as
wheat. Let spectators on one hand and
taxpayers on the other, take note accord
ingly.
Year: 1873

We have long intended to speak Of a
proposition which is very radical in Its
features, and if it could be adopted in the
counties of our state it would result in .
saving of many thousands OF dollars to
our county treasures, and, at the same
time secure in the Offices OF the counties
as capable and efficient incumbents as we
are having under the present elective
system. Tha proposition, though it
closely resembles tho system formerly in
practice in the Roman Republic, is the
sprlng of a careful and deliberate re-
Asction of one of our practical Warren
county farmers, and is simply to have
only four elective Offices in the county,
which shall be the Representative aud
county court, and TO let out to the highest
bidders the other positions to men who
can give ample security for the perform


suce Of the official duties thereof. BY
this means the Offices would bring into
the county treasury . largo amount OF
money which is now squandered in cor
rupting electors and ordinary election


eeriug expenses. The county justices
might give notice of the day on which oil
the Offices would be sold, and invite com


petition by selling to the highest bidder
who could give sufficient security. For
example, il the Office Of Collector Of rev
euue in any couuty is worth IS 900 a
year. aud any man is willing to perform
The duties for $4,000; he might then
give $4,000 for the position, instead o'
Year: 1873

The belief in the moralizing effects
of intellectual culture, fatty contradict
ed by facts, is absurd a priori. What
imaginable connection is there between
the learning that certain clusters OF
marks on paper stand for certain words
and the getting higher sense of duty!
What possible effect can requirement
of facility in making written signs OF
sounds have in Strengthening the desire
to do right How does knowledge OF
the multiplication table, or quickness
in adding and dividing, so increase the
sympathies as to restrain the tendency
to trespass against tfellow-creaturess In
what way can the attainment of accu-
racy in spelling and parsing, ETC., make
the sentiment of justice more powerful
than it was; or why from stores of
geographical information, perseveringly
gained, is there likely to come increased
regard for truths The irrelation be-
tween such causes and such effects is
almost as great as that between exer-
else Of the fingers and the strengthen
ing of the legs. One who should by
lessons in Latin hope to give knowl-
edge of geometry, or one who should
expect practice in drawing to be fol-
lowed by expressive rendering of So
nata, would be thought fit for an asylum;
and yet he would be scarcely more IRA
tional than are those who, by discipline
of the intellectual faculties, expect to
produce better feeling.


This faith in lesson books and read
ings is one of the superstitions of the
age. Even as appliances to intellectual
culture, books are greatly overestimated.
Instead of secondhand knowledge be-
ing regarded as of less value than first
hand knowledge, and as a knowledge
to be sought only when frst-hand
knowledge can not be had, it is actually
regarded as of greater value. Some
thing gathered from printed pages is
supposed to enter into a course of edu-
cation; but, if gathered by observa-
ton of life and nature, it is supposed
not thus to enter. Reading is seeing
by proxy-is learning indirectly through
another mans faculties, instead of di-
rectly through ones own faculties; and
such is the prevailing bias that the in
direct learning is thought preferable to
the direct learning, and usurps the name
of cultivation! We smile when told
that savages consider writing as kind
of magic; and we laugh at the story of
the negro who hid letter under stone,
that it might not inform against him
when he devoured the fruit he was sent
with. Yet the current notions about
printed information betray a kindred
delusion; kind of magical efficacy is
ascribed to ideas gained through artif-
cial appliances, as compared with ideas
otherwise gained. And this delusion,
injurious in its effects even on intellect
ual culture, produces effects still more
injurious on our moral culture, by gen.
Grating the assumption that this, too,
can be got by reading and the repeating
of lessons.-Popular Science Monthly.
Year: 1873

THE DISADVANTAGES OF POPULAR
ITY.-Brown, young insurance friend
of ours, who lives in Cambridge, had the
fifth anniversary of his wedding occur
about week ago, and his friends deter
mined to celebrate his wooden wedding
by surprise party. Brown came in
yesterday and told us how they succeed
ed. They commenced by sending a
servant round with a team to take
Brown and his wife out to ride about
seven. They then began to come with
presents and material for supper.
There was little party of five came
first, all laden-hands full. They all
got nicely inside the garden gate, which
shuts with spring, when Browns big
mastiff, who is always left unclaimed in
his masters absence, came round the
corner and surprised them. One wo-
man stepped on her dress, and in her
fall so dcmoralized fragile black wal
nut bookcase she carried that it was
afterward done up in bundle and pres
ented as kindling wood. Another fell
low got safely out of the yard all but
part of his pants, while old Smithers,
who weighs two hundred and twenty
pounds, plunged, with the eight-gallon
pail of ice cream he carried, through
Browns glass hot-house in the corner
of the yard, and surprised some $50
worth of exotics. Finally they fixed
things up and got into the house, and
as it was about time for Browns return
they commenced laying the supper ia
BILE. They got down tea set of rare
china that friend of Browns in the
trade had loaned him a week before,
and broke two pieces, so that Brown
has since been obliged to mortgage his
house and buy the set; and the COM
ments of Mrs. Brown when she saw the
condition of the carpet were sarcastic
in the extreme. Finally, as a crowning
touch, they tried to hang out Chinese
lanterns with the letters welcome" on
them, on the porch over the front door,
They succeeded in hanging two Ian
terms, and when they had saved the
house from the fiery fiend there wasn't
enough porch left to pay for the trouble
of trying to hang out any more. Then
they sat down and waited for Brown
and his wife to come home, which they
did about two o'clock in the morning,
the driver having lost his way, and
some way or other turning up in Ded-
ham at about midnight. We draw the
veil over the scene that followed their
return. Some scenes are too joyous to
be described in cold words. Boston
Traveller.
Year: 1873

The Saturday Revieao remarks how
seldom in our experience the youth of
"great abilities and promise" develops
into the "great man" and adds: "There
is, indeed, the gratifying reflection that
our Judgment of what constitutes sue
cess is to the full as fallible as our judg-
ment of the talents by which it can be
commanded. Many of the men whom
we calmly set down as failures may
have been doing as much as those who
have made ten times as much noise in
the world. A great deal of the best
work in the world is anonymous, if we
do not confine the term to writing.
The rising genius who has sunk out of
sight may have profoundly influenced
his generation, though we cannot trace
the channels through which it has op-
Grated A man who might have been
a bishop, and has become a quiet cler-
gymanin a retired parish, is popuiarly
said to have failed; but even quiet cler-
gymen may frequently SOW the seeds
of thoughts and works of which they
will never reap any conspicuous harvest
in this life. And, fortunately, the
power of doing good service unobtru-
sively is not confined to the clergy"
Year: 1873

Out of forty girls at boarding school,
none of them could tell how many
years George Washington was Presi-
dent, but they knew to a cent the cost
of any kind of bustles in the market.
Year: 1873

FLY DESTROYER. The following
simple preparation has proved very eff
fective: Beat up the yolk of an egg with
tablespoonful of molasses and finely
ground black pepper; set about in shall
low plates every two or three days for
a week, and the flies will be rapidly
destroyed, and may be swept up in
handfuls.
Year: 1873

At Providence, Rhode Island, an ap-
plicant for the benefit of the State in
solvent law was examined by Judge
Staples, who questioned, with incon-
venient cioseness, if he had lost any
thing by gambling. 81 knew that was
coming" he whispered to his counsel;
''the Judge is down on that sort OF
thing; I've been through it twice; but
I've got him." And then replying to
the question, he said that he had in
deed INDUCED in card playing, and
sometimes for money, but not to an ex-
tent or in manner to the waste of his
time, or to the injury of his ordinary
avocation-he had never played except
on Sundays.


Perhaps it is not generally knows
that very fine white vinegar can be
made from the juice of watermelons.
We had very great quantity of mel
ons last season, and after we had cut
their crimson cores for eating, scraped
the shells, from which we gained large
amount of juice. This we carefully
strained and put into jugs with small
glass bottles in their mouths. We set
the jugs in the sun, and in time had q
fine favored, clear, strong, white vine
gar. The vinegar at a certain stage
will be very bitter, but when perfected,
loses this and acquires true vinegar
taste.
Year: 1873

SHORT OF WATER.-The residents of the
northwestern section Of the city were short of
water, for awhile on Saturday night and Sun
day morning, owing to the breaking Of the
stop cock In the connection of mains, at Tenth
and Jefferson streets. Chief Engineer Gala
CHER promptly set force Of men to work, re-
moving the old stop cock, which was worn
and rusty, and placing a new one in.


This morning the accident was entirely re-
paired. The water In the Market street ieser-
VOirs was rather low on Thursday and Friday
owing 70 the breaking Of the water-wheel In the
city mll. The bTsakage was promptly repaired
and the reservoirs are nowt full 10 overhowing
Notwithstanding the recent protracted drought il
this neighborhoOd, the water in the Brandywin,
has not been unusually low.
Year: 1873

STRAwBERRIE.-Tbo strawberry crop OF
this season is over, the shipments will not ex~
coed those Of last year, although the acreage is
double. To judge from the talk Of some OF the
large shippers, thecrOp has been an unproft-
able one, and we think there would be more
money in the business iftherS was not a third az
many raised. Although the Railroad was the
cause of the breakdown Of the New York mar
ket BY not having the trains in at due time. II
the shippers would combine and sue them We
have no doubt that they would recover suci
damages as would make the Railroads more
careful about fulfilling their duties towards
them.-SALIsBuRY PAPER.
Year: 1873

on Monday she grew worse. and her mother
was telep,raphod for at Cambridge, Mass. When
the mother arrived here she found the daughter
so sick that she could not be removed. On the
same day OF the mothers arrival the doctor who
was In attendance on diss hing pronounced her
illness
Year: 1873

The Valparaiso Vidette says "A local
editor of many years experience has de-
clared that the man is yet unborn who
could write local item and be perfectly
sure that nobody would be offended"


If we speak#ell of our neighbor, his
enemy will be offended. If we speak
disrespectfully of him his friend will
threaten to stop his paper. If we write
in favor of a city organization we offend
those who oppose it. &c, but who cares.
1t will be dull world if nobody moves
in it.
Year: 1873

Some of the arguments used against
making city of Plymouth, were that it
would increase our taxes,-It would en-
able saloon keepers to procure license
that city government would be no better
than town government. Some were in
favor of city charter, because it would
enable officers to enforce an observance
of ordinances, and because streets and
alleys could be kept in better condition.
Year: 1873

A shivering gentleman asked wood
haqler the price of the half cord of wood
on his wagon When he was told that
the price was three dollars, he broke out
with perspiration and didn't feel bit
cold. He did not buy. Wood is scarce.
We want some now.
Year: 1873

A man in Red Rock Township, Marion
County, Iowa, who had previously lost
his wife, recently concluded that he had
more children than he wanted, and traded
a let of five of them to a cfiMsess neigh
Dor for half interest in saw mill