smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1868




MEssRs. EDIroRs: The great political
campaign of 1868 is now upon us. and
judging from the deplorablc condition Of
the country, bids fair to be the most I'M
portant campaign we have ever passed
through the life or death of the nation is
at stake. In time of the rebellion the stake
was, should there be two nations, or one ;
both, however, proposing to be white.
Now the stake is--shall the white race
rule the whole country under the banner
of Democracy, or shall niger and white
equality rule under the Radical Republican
banner. There is no use trying to dodge
the issue, for tho self-styled majority in
Congress, by their acts and resolutions,
have placed their party plainly before the
people. No honest man can regard any
platform that this party may adopt, at
their National Convention, or candidate
put on it, but as secondary, and intending
to be ruled, and carry out said Congress
sional Niger Equality Doctrine. There
fore, no soldier, sailor, or other white man
whois opposed to Niger Equality, should
be deceived into the support of any Gen
eral or Civilian taken up by this Nigger
Equality Congress or its satellites for such
candidates are more dangerous than an
outspoken white Niggerite. Now, as we
OF little Delaware will be called on to con-
tribute our mite to redeem the country
from the rule Of those Radicals whose sole
aim appears to be to degrade the white
race, 'trample on the Constitution, destroy
the prosperity and happiness of the nation,
beggar the white people to try to force
them to accept Niger Equality; it there
fore is the duty of the Democratic party,
as it has always been white mans party,
to stand by the white race, and against
the Niger Equality party in all its phases,
and against all its candidates, and to make
our voice as Delawarcans felt and heard.
1t is the duty of our friends in every hun
dred in the State, to see that every voter
is assessed, that his name is put on the
duplicate, and not lay back and depend on
assessors, particularly in this county. A
committee from each hundred in this coun-
ty should be. appointed to, attend on the
Levy Court and see to this matter of assess
ment. Also there ought to be State Con-
vention held and thorough organization
OF the Democratic party throughout the
State, and a resolution passed at said Con-
vention requesting our Senators and Rep
resentative in Congress to be present in
Congress when in session, at all times, ex.
cept when absent from severe sickness OF
death. For now is the time if ever their
votes and influence were needed. The
motto of the Democratic party in the pres
Il I


duty; and every officer, be at your post
or your resignation 1t is no time to trife
or dodge. Speak and record your names
against every act of usurpation and tyran.
ny, SO that the rising generation can point
to your names as to the names Of the Sign.
ers Of American Independence in 1776. a.
men worthy of the crisis, and deserving
of honorable recollection.
'a- = SAMUEL TOWNSEND.


Toensend, Jan. 9th, 1868. ~. n.
Year: 1868




ALEXANDER II. STEPHENS VIRw, OF Ar
FAIRS IN THE SouTM.--In conversation with
friend who saw him recently in Phila-
delphia-so a correspondent of the Herald
states Stephens took a very despon-
dent view of the affairs in the South. lie
pronounced the future before that section
of the country fraught with gloom and dis
aster, and could see nothing in the policy
of reconstruction but the operation ofia
fearful scheme, whose ultimate result will
be the destruction of either the white or
the black race. Every day, he says, it-be-
comes more painfully evident that the es-
arrangement between the races is widening
ON the part ofthe negroes from the effects
of such instructions as teaches them to dis
trust and oppose the whites, and on the
part of the latter from an adherence Of
negro leaders and an instructive aversion
to be ruled and legislated for, by Ignorance
and emi-barbarism. From what fell un-
der his own observation in Georgia he was
unable ia. detect anything like q spirit on
either side tending to mutual sympathy Of
sentiment and interest. - 'b
Year: 1868

\ great deal of ponderous nonsense is
going the rounds of the press continually
about the duty of women to disregard ex-
tcrnal beauty to cultivate only the graces
of the mind; to give their attention alone
to accomplishments of the mind and heart.
Their is class of morbid masculine NOR
alists who seem to think that if woman
wears pretty dress, or trims her hat with
gay flowers, or fails in any degree to re-
strain the natural exuberance Of light
heart in healthy body, that she has pass
ed the bounds of prudent and godly con-
duct; and they shake their finger at her,
and quote from proverbs, "a fair woman
without discretion is as jewel of gold in
swine's snout." It's true, as they say,
that the graces Of the mind and heart form
the first possessions of the true woman
but they know, too, that q tasteful arransel
ment of dress and pleasing exterior are
the best evidences she could give of refine
ment, education, and good sense. "What
the better" asks one of those morose NOR
alists, lis the apple for its rosy skin, if
the maggot has penetrated and devoured
its heart !" To answer the question liter
ally, We would suggest that even if an apr
pie be worm eaten, it may better have a
rosy skin than wrinkled and spotted one.
AS rule, however, the worm-eatcn apple
never has a rosy skin, and you can tell
healthy fruit as far as you can see it by
its fair outside. Mans highest physical
attribute is strength; woman's is beauty.
We live in a beautiful world, and only
emulate nature when We encourage all
manifestations of beauty in our daily asso-
cations. ases s- .tsr5-ria1 rs p
Year: 1868

hav finally cum tew the conclusion
that lager beer az beverage is not intoxi-
eating. .a


hav been told so by german who said
he had drunk it all mite long, Just to try
the experiment, and was obliged to go home
entirely sober in the morning. have seen
this same man drink eighteen glasses, and
if he was drunk he was drunk in german,
and nobody could understand it. 1t is pro-
per enuff to state that this man kept a
lager beer saloon, and could hav no object
in stating was not strictly thus.


1 Ibelieved him to the full extent of my
ability. Inever drunk but three glasses of
lager in my life, and that made mi he'd
ontwist as tho it was hung on the end of a
string, but l was told that it was OWN TO
my bile bein out ov place; and guess that
it was 30, for | never billed over wus than
l did when / got hum that mite My wife
thot l was going tew die, and l was afraid
that / shouldn't, for it seemed as though
everything | had ever eaten in my life
wuz cummin tew the surface; and
believe that if my wife hadn't pnlled off
my boots jest as she did they would have
cum laundering up too.


OF how sick i Wuz IA years ago, and
can taste il now.


i never had 30 much experience in 50
short time. . 4..


If emmy man shud tell me that larger
beer wuz not intoxicating shnd believe
him; but if he shud tell that Wusn't
drunk that mite, but that my stummick
was out of order, shud ask him to state
over a few words, jest how man felt and
acted when he was set up.


If want drunk that mite, / had some ov
the most material simtums that man ever
had and kept sober.


In the first place il was about 80 rods
from where dronk the lager beer TO mi
house, and i was over two hours on the
road, and had hole busted through each
one of my pantaloon neez, and didn't have
any hat, and tried to open the door by the
bell pull, and hiccupped awfully, and saw
everything in the room trying to get on the
back side Of me- and in setting down on q
chair, didn't wait long enough for il 10
get exactly under me, when it was going
round, and set down a little to soon and
missed the chair about IL inches, and
couldn't get up soon enough 10 take the
next one that come along; and that amt
awl; my wife sed wuz drunk as a beest,
and az i said before, / begaE to spin up
things freely.


Iflarger beer ia not intoxicating it used
me mean, that know.


Still hardly think that larger beer il
intoxicating, for have been told so and
am probably the only man living who
ever drank emmy when his liver was not
plump.


don't want to say enything agin q
harmless temperance bevridge, but if ever
drink any more, it will be with my hands
tied behind me, and mi mouth pried open.


don't think lager beer is intoxicating,
but il remember rite, think it tastes to
me like a glass of soap suds, that pickle
had haan nut tow aoak in
Year: 1868

OWE ME- A LIVING.-It is
among men who try to get a
living by some shift or trick of
laziness that we hear the famil-
lar words 'The world owes me
a living The loafer who new
er did a useful thing in his life;
who dresses at the expense of
the tailor, and drinks at the
cost of his friends, alwaysinsist
that the world owes him a liv-
ing,' and declares his intention
to secure the debt. I should
like to know how it is that a
man who owes the world for
every mouthful he ever ate,
and every garment he ever put
on; should be so heavy a credit
or in account with the world.
The loafer lies about it. The
world owes him nothing but a
very rough coffin and a retired
and otherwise useless place to
put him in.


The world owes a living to
those who are not able to earn
one, to children, to the sick, to
the disabled and the aged-to
all who, in the course of nature
or by force of circumstances
are dependant, and it was
mainly for the supply want for
of these that men were endow-
ed with power to produce more
than enough for themselves.
To a genuine shirk the world
owes nothing; and when he
tells me with a whine that the


world owes him a living, / am


assured that he has the dispo-


sition of a highway robber, and


lacks only his courage and en-


terprise.-[J. G. Holland.
Year: 1868

u 1t is an important element
of success in life to acquire the
habit of being beforehand with
whatever you undertake. ! can,
perhaps, better illustrate what /
mean by an example taken from
Another branch of the subject
There are two friends, gentlemen
of large means, whose estates and
whose annual incomes are about
equal. One of these is always
short of money, buys everything
on credit, and on the longest cred
it that he can command I; often
when travelling has to borrow
money to take him home, and
really has to make as many turns
and shifts to get along as if he
were poor. All simply because he
lives just twelve months on the
wrong side of his income.


The other man, whose annual
income and expenses are about


the same as those of his neighbOr,
never has an open account, buys
everything for cash, always has q
plenty of money in his pocket, and
a plenty more in bank, and is
apparently without care in the


world, so far as money is concern.


ed. All simply because he lives
Just twelve months on the right


side of his income. The two men
/ have equal resources. In the


course OF their lives they spend


about equal amounts. Yet the one


is always poor and harrassed, the


other is always rich and at his
ease.
Year: 1868

NEW MASONIC HALL.-We have re-
ceived Photographic view of the archi-
tect's design for the Masonic Hall, corner
of Third and Main streets, the chief cor
ner-s stone Of which was laid on the 10th of
December last. The building is Corin-
THAN in style, will cover an area of sixty
by sixty feet, and will contain on the first
floor two large stores, with commodious
easements. On the second floor will be a
large concert or exhibition hall, and on the
third floor rooms suitable for Lodge pur-
poses. Between the two stores, which
will front on Main street, will be the open
ing to the concert and lodge-rooms. The
foundation of the building, including the
basement story, has already been COM
pleted, and the work will be resumed as
soon as the weatherpermits. One feature
of the building in which the public as
well as the Fraternity will be interested,
the need of which has been much felt, is
the proposed hall for concerts, lectures, or
other public entertainments.


The Richmond Masonic Building Asso-
citation is joint stock company, chartered
under the State laws. The stock is SlOO
per share, payable in monthly instalments
of SIS each. The building will be great
convenience to the public and remunera-
tive to the stockholders.


Some of our public-spirited citizens
outside of the Fraternity have taken stock
in this enterprise, and it is hoped others
will unite in the work.
Year: 1868

MONUMENTAL CHURCH FAIR.-The ladies
of this church continue the fair to-day
and tomorrow. They have many beauti-
full fancy articles not yet disposed of, and
refreshments in endless variety. The fine
art gallery is still attracting crowds.
Those who have not visited it had better
call before it closes. a crowd of young
ladies and gentlemen is nightly in attend
Year: 1868

We shall constantly admonish the Southern
people TO be self-relant, aud shall do what we
may be able to induce the establishment of
manufactures in our midst for our home pro-
ducts. To this end We will pay special attention
TO the COST and STATISTICS Of manufacturing.
and exert ourselves 70 oncourage the di7efsih-
cation Of Southern industries and the develop
uent Of Southern resources.
Year: 1868


By A CONSOLIDATION OF THE ASH
WILLIE UNION AND AMERICAN and the
DISPATCH. and by the generous and united
support Of the USIox AND D1sPArcH by the
patrons Of both the former papers. the PrOprie-
tors are enabled to present Newspaper hiths.
to unsurpassed in this city or State.


IN FULLNESs AND ACCURACY
NEWS. our paper will compare favorably ith


best in the entire country; and in saying


we only repeat the expressions Of many


patrons, who are most capable OF Judging in


matters.
Year: 1868

Farmers are making great mistake
in slaughtering their sheep. But nothing
will stop them. 1t is pity that we
cannot have more stability and fixed
ness of purpose in our agriculture.
What we do we should do well-snd
stick to it. A farmer should think fer
himself and not be Influenced too much
by outside opinion. You cannot make
anything by raising common crops,
said friend year ago; "you should
set out a hop-yard." What would he
say newt There has been more money
lost in hops the last year than would
richly endow an agricultural college.
And if people were educated to think
they would have foreseen such result.
The fact is that common crops pay bet
ter now than anything else, provided
you can only raise enough of them per
acre. Stick to what you understand,
and let those who have fancy for nov
elites try them. There are enough
farmers, so called, who wish to make
money easily and rapidly, without you
and me adding to the number.
Year: 1868

Resulting from any Cause whatever;


PROSTRATION OF THE SYSTEM,


induced by Severe Labor, Hard


chip, Exposure, Fevers &c


There is no medicine extant equal to these
remedies in such cases. A tone and vigor is
impaired to the whole system, the appetite is
strengthened food is enjoyed, the stomach di.
gests properly, the blood Is purified, the COM
plexion becomes sound and healthy, the yellow
tinge is eradicated from the eyes, n bloom is
given to the cheeks, and the weak and nervous
Invalid becomes a strong and healthy being.


PERSONS ADVANCED IN LIFE,
And feeling the hand of time weighing heavily
upon them, with all its attendant ills, will find
elixir that will nstil new life into their veins,
restore in n measure the energy and ardor of
more youthful days build up their shrunken
forms and give health and happiness in their
remainiup years
Year: 1868

OLD AGE WIFHoUT RELIGIoN.-Alas! for
him who grows old without growing wise,
and to whom the future world does not set
open her gates, when he is excluded by the
present. The Lord deals so graciously with
us in the decline of life. that it is a shame
to turn deaf ear to the lessons which he
gives. The eye becomes dim, the tongue
falters, the feet totter, all the senses refuse
to do their office, and from every side re-
sounds the call, ''Set thy house in order,
for the term of thy pilgrimage is at hand. !"
The playmates of youth, the fellow labor
ers of manhood, die away. and take the road
before US. Old age is. like some quiet
chamber, in which, disconnected from the
visible world, we can prepare in silence
for the world that is unseen.
Year: 1868

Successive are often undone BY sue
cess, as King Pyrrhus was undOne by vic
tory. The victory of Bunker Hill was a
fatality to the Britisb--that of Bull Run 10
ths Confederate arms. 1t is an old trick Of
Satan's when be wants any On5 to fall the
lowest, to generally lift them The highest I;
and when be wants to fll us with the keen
est disappointments to awaken the highest
expectations. And the remedy be leaves
is that which Pyrrhus gave to his army :
Let thirst conquer thirst ;" a remedy, al
ways successful but not very safe, since it
is likely to quench the thirst, but does it
by killing the subject.
Year: 1868

A LADY writes US complaining that the
pudding she made according to recipe Civ
en- in our paper last week was not fit for a
dog to eat. If she will again refer to the
paper she will find that the recipe was for
making pouItce, not pudding Louis
s;yEo D,o9,,;or
Year: 1868

DUsr AND AsHEs.-Did you ever see a
lump of coal after it was more than half
burned on the FIRE See how all the life
the richness and fatness are burned out
Of it; and how little but course grey Gin
ders, and scraggy remnants Of worthless
dust and ashes are all that remains fit
for no use under heaven but to be cast IN
10 the street and carried away. So it is
with some men The fires Of sin have so
wrought into them, that little but dust and
ashes remain Of them. All the native rich
ness Of their nature is burned away, and
they are only ft to be cast into the great
dirtpile Of waste material of humanity, till
God shall regeuerats- aud renew them with
the washing Of regeneration and the re-
uewing Of the Holy Ghost.
Year: 1868

FooD FOR FATEErNo FowLs-Tho beet
food for fattening poultry is sweet fresh
oatmeal or barley meal mixed either with
scalding milk or water. Cooped fowls
should be supplied with fresh food three
times day--Damely, at aybreak, or as
soon after as possible, at midday, and
again at rOOsting tire as much as they
can eat should be given TO the fowls on
each occasion, bat no more than can be de-
youred by the next meal should any be
left, it should be removed ard given to the
the other fowls as, if kept, It IS apt to
become sour when the birds will pot ca: it
freely. The troughs for the soh meal
should be scalded out daily, which can be
done conveniently by having a supply Of
spare ones.


10 addition to soft food, supply Of fresh
clean water must be constantly present.
and little gravel must be given daily.
Year: 1868

There are twelve hundred democratic
papers in what are called the loyal states
In this great mass of journalism there are
only two or three eccentric sheets that ad.
vocate the repu6iation of the bonded debt
The articles from these prints are widely
copied in the radical journals as expires
sions of democratic sentiment. The peo-
pie are invited to look upon them as the
true exponents of the democratic creed.
Two or three out Of twelve hundred, that
is all ! Here is partisan dishonesty for
you! Can there be any thing more gross
and swindling? Is not the ball and little
Joker game honest in comparison None
of the republican papers which quote these
reputation journals think of mentioning
the little fact we have stated They de-
sire the exception TO be the rule. The
two journals speak for the democratic party
rather than the eleven hundred and nine
ty-eight papers which arc opposed to them,
1t is such tricks that render politics dis
gustirg to many people of fair and liberal
iudgmeut-that render them SO indisposed
to have any thing to do with that which is
opposed to the first principles of common
honesty-Cin. Enq.
Year: 1868

Almost any farmer crn split rails, but there
is considerable science in the work after all.
One man will give them out with apparent
ease. while another will :ug away and ex-
haust his strength in a few hours. The rea-
son OF this difference is owing to the weight
and shape of tools, and knowledge of their
usc One man makes constant outlay of
strength, while another will apply it only at
an essential point, and that is when the bee
tie is descending and near the wedge.


An experienced rail-splitter tells US that
the best maui is made of knot, and should
be of m medium weight. not so heavy but that
man can. swing it with ease. One iron
wedge, quite slim, should be kept and used
for starting the split it is not apt torebound,
and if it should, it may be easily prevented
by making few checks with an axe near
together, and starting the wedge between
them, or by rubbing the wedge in dirt.


1t is hard enough to split rails at the best
and we believe it to be sin for any man to-
attempt the work without proper requisites,
for he has no right to exhaust physical pow
ers and ruin his constitution by using poor
tools, when the best can be obtained at a
trifing expense. Great advantage is gained
when making rails, by opening large logs
with a charge of powder.-(Ohio Farmer.
Year: 1868

Having had little experience with
COWS, | could not help but think the soci-
ETY. for preventing cruelty to animals had
not yet been organized. IF it had it would
never allow the swabbing out of cows
throats with stick with knob on the
end.


When | find COW choked, I immediate.
ly strap up one fore leg in Rarcy style
and commence driving her at a quick gate
She will not make many hops before the
potatoe will be elected with considerable
force
Year: 1868

10 BEAUTIFUL TRIBUTE TO A WIFE-Sir James
Mcintosh was married to Miss Catharine Stu
art, young Scotch lady. After her death he
depicted her character, in letter to friend !


'sI was guided in my.choice only by the blind
affections of my youth. l found an intelligent
companion and tender friend, prudent moni-
tress, the most faithful of wives, and mother
as tender as children ever had the misfortue to
lose met woman who by tender manage
ment Of my weaknesses, gradually corrected
the most pernicious of them. She became
prudent from affection; and though OF the
most generous nature she was taught trugallty
and economy by her love for me. During the
most critical period of my life she relieved me.
She gently reclaimed me from dissipation ;~she
propped my weak and irresolute nature; she.
urged my,indolence to all the exertions that
have been useful and creditab!e to me, and shs
was perpetuay at hand to admonish my heed
lessness or improvidence. To her owe what
I shall ever be. In her solicitude for my in
terests she never forgot my feeling or character.
Even in her occasional resentment, for which L
too often gave her cause-Would to God could
recall those moments she had no sullenness
or acrimony. Her feelings were warm-nay,
impetuous but she was placable, tender and
constant Such was she whom have lost;
when her actual natural sense was i'm proving,
after eight years struggle and distress bound
US fast together and moulded our tempers to
each other; when a knowledge of her worth
had refined my youthful love into friendship,
and before age had deprived it of much Of it's
original ardor, L lost her-and alas ! the choice
of nv youth, the partner OF misfortunes at .
moment when had the prospect of her shar-
ing my better days y Z