smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1859

! Fret, fret. fret, scold, scold, from morn
i ing to night, in haste or leisurc-when it


rained or the sun shone; Mrs. Moore al


ways found something to find fault about,


something to fret her. She began it when
she was child. for her mother fretted be-


fore her, and taught her how. She practi-
ced her lessons well as she grew up. She
carried the habit with her into the home
of her married life, and scarcely kept it out


of sight during the honeymoon. After she


became mother, she found occasion to fret
every day and almost every hour of her life,


till shecame to be the most accomplished
fretter that We know. She was handsome,
at least she might have been;' for fair and
regular features will look ugly when the
scowl of peevishness mars them. She was
smart and efficient in the management of
her domestic affairs. Her house was a
model of order, and the ways of her house
hold were looked after well; but l have
seen more comfort where there was less sys-
ten and order. She was intelligent, and
when the demon that enthralled her slum-
bersd for little, and her fine features were
irradiated with the smile and glow of So
cial cheerfulness, she would seem to be 4
most engaging woman. She was sclf-sacri-
fcing. Herease and preferences she would
yield to the good of others, but the most
precious sacrifices she laid on the altar of
love, she would baptize with the unholy
waters of fretfulness and complaint. till tie
value of the benefaction was wholly lost,
or greatly marred to the recipient. She
was religious, and laborcd to advance the
kingdom of Christ on earth Alas there
was kingdom of quiet peace, and holy calm
and heavenly sunshine, that never came to
her own soul. She was a wife and mother.
She loved her family well, she thought she
toiled for them; she stroye to advance them
in life, but she never loved them well enough
to conquer her enemy for their sakes; nor
did she ever make their home or their daily
life what these should be to whom God
gives and continues wife and mother.


Her husband grew dwarfed in soul and
soured and hard in social character. Her
children-most to be pitied, who had the !
first delicate buildings of life's spring-time .
nipped by such biting frOsts-suffered in
their sensibilities, and exhibited such ex-
crescences of character, and such warpings
Year: 1859

A FRIESD.-0h! the blessing it is to
have friend to whom one can speak fear
lessly on any subject, with whom ones
deepest aswell as one most foolish thoughts
come out simply and safely. Oh, the COM
fort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling
safe with peson, having neither to weigh
thoughts nor measure words. but pouring
them all right out, just as they are, ehaff
and grain together. certain that faithful
hand will take and sift the1a. keep what is
worth keeping, and then with the breath
of kindness blow the rest away Life
tor a Life.
Year: 1859

Let no man say, when he thinks of a
drunkard, broken in health and spoiled
in intellect, 81 can never fall So" He
thought as little of falling in his earlier
years. The promise of his youth was as
bright as yours, and even after he began
his downward course, he was as unsuspi-
cious as the frmest around him, and
would repel as Indignantly the adomni-
ton to beware of intemperance. The
danger of this vice lies in its almost i'm
perceptible approach. Few who perish
by it have by its first access. Youth does
not suspect drukenness in the sparkling
beverag ge which quickens all its suscepti-
bilities of joy. The invalid does not see
it in the cordial which gives new tone to
his debilitated organs. The man OF
thoughts and genius detects no palsying
poison in the draught which seems a
spring of inspiration to intellect and i'm
Year: 1859

While the interesting discoveries re-
Gently made in the Arctic regions, by
Captain McClintock and the crew Of the
yacht Fox, set at rest forever all hopes
and fears as to the fate of Sir John Frank
lin and his brave comrades, they stamp
upon the records of Arctic investigation
melancholy tale of suffering, and an
instance of fortitude and devstion to duty
almost without parallel. Stimulated by
the undying love of woman, the hopeful
nature, the unyielding energy Of fond
wife, the little band of the Fox set out to
make the final search for the remains of
aa i nr,es. rafythe Ere]sxss ~ that
Year: 1859

Wanted 10 Hre,Nl4Gy, having pleas
ant home, no membranes but husband
ana child, wishes to place herself at
the disposal OF some servant who can
come well recommended from her last
place. She would prefer one who would
be willing to remain within doors at least
hive minutes after the work is finished
She would also stipulate for the privilege
OF going to church herself once each
Sunday, having been compelled to refuse
the last applicant, who was not willing
to allow her but half day once a fort
night. Wages satisfactory, if under ten
dollars week. .H.


She is deeply conscious of the utter in
ability OF ladies in general to comply with
the present demands of servants, but she
hopes by strict attention to please in all
respects. The best of reference can he
given; also, good recommend from one
who has now left her to the fate of MANY
housekeepers. Please apply before six
a. M. "-f -n.rH. .. ...-T


GEN FROM CALIFoRNIA.-The tongue
of childhood in its earnest and innocent
lispings not unfrequently gives utterance
to the most exquistely poetic express
sions, which seem to fall from their tiny
lips by inspiration. A few days ago a
bright-eyed little boy in this vicinity,
about six years old, retired up stairs to
bed leaving his mother below without
the customary good night kiss As he
kissed his father and bade him good night
he naively said, "tell mamma good night
for me; forgot to kiss, but tell her that
7 kiss her in my heart" , y. .......
Year: 1859

IT OUGnT TO PAss.-A correspondent of
the Camden Republic recommends that
the Legislature of Alabama pass an act
as follows: THAT the Probate Judge and
Circuit Clerk, in each county in the State,
both be required under suitable penalty
to keep file of the county paper in their
offices, and at the expiration of each year
to have the same well and substantially
bound, and kept in their offices as pub
lie records, for the use of the public"
Year: 1859

That portion of the Governors recent
Message which relates to Banking" is
not received with any favor by the press
of the State, if we except those few prints
which grind for the TOLL" and are ever
ready to commend any absurdity, or mon
strosity that eminates from "head quar-
ters." Among the journals disposed to
take issue with His Excellency upon the
Currency, is the NashviNes Gazette, from
which the article below is taken, and
which paper is strictly neutral in respect
to parties:


THE GovERSoR's MEssAGE.-We have
contents of. the Message. AS might have
Year: 1859

psy" Bricks that will float used to be
made years ago, but the art has been lost
until recently. A Monsieur Fabroni has,
it is said, discovered their composition,
which is said to be fifty-fve parts Of 81
liceous earth, fifteen of Magnesia, four
teen of water, twelve of alumina, three
of lime, and one of iron. They are in
fusible, and will float in water though


e6p Gehn nAtn tney f rssst Water Ss Unite
perfectly with lime and are subject to no
change from heat or cold. They are
nearly as strong as common brick though
only about one-sixth as heavy or consider.
ably lighter than water. They are such
poor conductors of heat that one end may
be heated red hot while the other end is
held in the hand.
Year: 1859

RN- The Scientific American speaks of
new invention for horse-shoeing, ie-
signed to obviate the continual driving of
nails in the hoof, by which great injury is
sometimes inflicted on valuable horses by
unskilful workmen. A groove is made
in the underside of the common shoe,
into which is fastened a piece of iron of
the same width and shape as the groove,
only thicker and slightly curved upward,
the junction forming complete dove
tail. The advantage of this inner shoe
is, that it is made to project beyond the
ordinary shoe, and when worn down can
easily be removed and replaced by anoth-
er without pulling off the shoe from the
horses hoof. ..
Year: 1859

A member of the Mississippi Legislas
ture. at one of its sessions, introduced q
bill to change the name of a certain coun-
ty in that State to Cass county. One Of
the Opposition moved, as an amendment
that the letter G be stricken out Of the
proposed name. This motion created
some laughter at the expense of the mem
ber offering. Nothing daunted, however,
he arose in reply and said: "This is the
first instance that has come to my knowl-
edge in which member has had the as
surance, upon the floor of any legislature,
to propose to name a county after HIM
SeB."
Year: 1859

Last week lady started from Alb any
for Geneva to make a visit. She took
with her favorite "cat" as a companion.
The animal becoming somewhat trouble
some, was elected from the cars at Fonda.
Some days after, pussy walked into the
house of the lady at Albany, to the utter
astonishment OF the family. The cat had
returned home distance Of over thirty
miles.
Year: 1859

A New York correspondent says that
ten millions of hooped skirts are manu-
factured in that city per year. Houses
there make more than three thousand
per day, and still cannot fill their orders.
In the name of lost pins, where can such
world of emptiness gol
Year: 1859

Don't forget to drain your wet lands this
fall. They will BE- more than doubled
IN value by thorough system OF draining.
Wet or swampy land is Of little value to
the farmer. but when dried 1t generally be-
comes the b,st part of the farm.
Year: 1859

The Republican Central Committee Of the
State Of Ohio, by whose order Tom Corwin
was making speeches throughout the State, pub
fishes German paper at Columbus. OF course
the Central Committee Of the Republican party
furnishing the money for the publication Of that
German paper, must be aware of its contents
and can reasonably be held responsible there.
for Now, in this mornings issue of that pa.
per, there is an allusion to "Ossawatomie
Brown" which a friend Of ours translates as
follows


Do you hear the sound Of muskets at
Charlestown A noble champion Of Freedom
has fallen. Old Brown lies there in his death
because he earnestly, truly, and worthily, in
writing, by word of mouth and in open CONS
bat, defended the poor people and their rights
His name be honored every where, and receive
the richest blessings Of free men p


And in the same article, that paper says fur
ther We believe, that with the rope on which
Old Brown was hanged, the cord that bound
North and South together. was rent in twain. "


We ask every candid reader, and especially
every Republican, whether he will subscribe 10
these tratorous doctrines published by the Res
publican State Central Committee In their Ger
man paper at Columbus2 Stand up and an.
aver
Year: 1859

CRAoKERs-An exeontricSlly arranged Ad
vertisement having a positive and negative
pole playing on crackers will be found in ans
other column. The Messrs. Wyatt were the
first bakers who went into the manufacture
extensively Dorlh Of Cincinnati, and they were
The first TO use steam as baking power
They now carry on the business on a very ex
tensive scale, which Is not surprising as they
have the facilities, and have established rep
utation throughout the country for promptness
and fair dealing We recommend the Wyatts
to those who deal in crackers. See their ad.
vertisement
Year: 1859

We had a most disastrous fire this morning.
A little before o'clock, T j s. Smith, Esq
who resides on the corner of Wilkinson and
lst st., was awakened by dense smoke in his
room, which made breathing difficult. He inn
mediately alarmed his family, when it was
that the FIRE was communicated to closet by
an imperfect flue, as il was not possible for it
to catch any other way and the flames passing
up to the board ceiling above the closet, and
burning through, passed out to the top of the
house, setting FIRE to the rooms above. I'm.
fortunately the pump was frozen, and the only
water to be obtained was from hogshead near
the house; and it was soon exhausted, while
the flames were making rapid headway.


In the mean time the alarm was given in
the neighborhood, and messenger was dis
patched to the Independent Engine House,
The intense cold had the effect Of stupfyine
the people, and it was some time before the
company got to the place. and soon afterwards
the "Hooks" were on the ground. The neight
bors and ilremen were actively engaged, in the
mean time, in saving the furniture, library, &c
but only a portion Of the parlor furniture, and
part of the library, Zone of the most cxten
sive private Libraries in the State) were secured
the latter badly damaged. The house is en-,
tirely ruined. The cold was SO intense that the
fremen were unable to get water in such quan
titles as was necessary, and the building was al
most totally destroyed.


1t is impossible to get correct statement OF
Mr. Smiths loss. 1t will reach from $40 ,OeC
to $l2, eco, it is believed. We regret to learn
that there was no insurance on the property
We learn that Mr.. and Mrs S. did not even Sc
cure change of clothing
Year: 1859

The Troy IN. ~ Wing is responsible for the
following cat story:


A lady residingin Lansingburgh, whose husband
does business in this city, had pet cat which
took violent fancy to her baby. The latter was
seized with violent attack Of hopping cough,
few weeks since, and the cat and her two kittens
caught the disease from the child. The baby died.
and the cat was for long time for the
loss Of her fayorite, until at last she pinod away
and died of grief.
Year: 1859

BThe Market this morning was a failure.
With the exception Of few half frozen huck-
sters-who resembled miniature, moving cbergs
and the butchers-whoss noses were as red
as their meat-there were few people coBgre-
gated about the Market House this morning
either to sell or buy. The only vehicles to be
seen on the street early this morning were coal
carts, and drays loaded with wood.
Year: 1859

The Overland Mail informs us that the
lower house of the Territorial Legislature
of New Mexico has passed very stringent
bill for the protection of property in slaves.
1t will probably pass the upper house also.


This news is somewhat important as show
ing the workings of squatter sovereignty in
a Territory hitherto unagitated by the ques-
ton of slavery. The action of the Legisla-
ture (or its lower body in thus passing
bill for the protection of slave property,
would seem to indicate that New Mexico
was destined to grow up into 4 slave State,
were it not that the amount of soil fit for
slave labor or indeed any kind of labor is so
exceedingly limited. The climate is temper
ate, and portion of the territory suitable
to the growth of cotton, but by far the lar
ger portion is a sterile region of extended ta-
ble land producing fine quality of grass, it
is true, but wholly unfit for anything but
grazing purposes. The best portion of New
Mexico is included in the limits Of the pro-
iected territorial organization of Arizona,
which region is much more likely to be cree
ted into q slave State, or indeed into any
State at all. The fact that slavery already
exits in New Mexico to such an extent as to
require legal protection is almost certainly
indicative of gradual spread of the institu-
tion over all the habtable country within
the limits of Arizona. We see no reason,
then, why the South should not be satisfied
with the workings of this squatter sover-
eighty doctrine outside of Kansas and Ne
braska. There is no earthly doubt that if
God and Nature ever designed any country
to be cultivated by slave labor, Arizona is
the country.
Year: 1859

The scales have dropped from the eyes Of
the LecOmptonites Their game of brag is
played out, and they wedkenl They have
literally left tine field. The street corners,
the saloons, end other public places about
town were yesterday the scenes of com
plete surrender of the enemy. The defend
ers of the President and the infamous Le-
compton swindle have no longer any hope of
successfully combating the PEOPLE, if their
own trembling tongues are to be believed.
Judge Singer will be elected by 800 majority,
if his friends, through over confidence, do
not neglect their duty at the polls The
whole ticket of the Douglas Democracy will
be elected, and the Lecompton fraud will not
be endorsed by single ward in Marysville
Our friends must not cease the good tcork
now so gloriously begun. Erery good citizen
must vote on election day Our immense
Douglas majority is of no avail unless every
voter is out on Monday. Every minion of
the Federalists will vote never doubt that
THE VOICE OF THE PEOPLE is omnipo
tent when at makes Itself heard! Now, if
ever, is the time. Our municipal election
may seem small affair to some, but the
hungry horde of Office seekers throughout
the State who perform the duty of worms
over the carcase Of Lecomptonism, Ore listen
ing for the report of the FIRST GUN OF
EIGHTEEN HUNDRED AND FIFTY
NINE, and it will be death knell to their
hopes, if the PEOPLES ANTLLECOMP-
TON DEMOCRATIC PARTY achieve the
triumph which energy will ensure.
Year: 1859

Our enemies will show US on election dav
that they are determined to 60 the whole
Lecompton ticket They will not be found
working for a single Douglas Democrat
Every nominee on our ticket is worthy of the
support of the PEOPLE. The opposition can
not deny it, and do not If the Democracy
would win, they must lend no "aid and com
fort to the enemy" by scratching single
name on our ticket, or voting for single man
on the other. Let the victory over Lecomp-
tonism be full and complete, and let those who
hare stood by 1t fall with il. We ara on the
eve of great triumph Let no few men,
through personal regard for either of our
enemies, break the high fall which the Le-
comptonites arc about to take. The offices
to be voted for are not 50 very exalted or
profitable; it is not a matter of life or death to
any nominee on either side, whether or not
he Is elected. 1t is important that the first
municipal election Of 1859, in California,
should not only result in triumph of the
rEoPLE over Federal power and influence,
but that triumph may can, must and shall
be an overwhelming one


Let every true Douglas man stand firmly
by those who are fighting under the trno
flag, and every Douglas candidate will dis
tance his adversary.


In batt'e no good soldier will spare sin.
rla in1;vi1uo1 In tba ran1-s of Al


LccomptOniem is not ~hipped if a single one
Of its supporters can receive honors and spoil,
at the hands Of the People.
Year: 1859

They DIE HARD.-It is easy to distinguish
q mans politics anywhere in town now.
by the humor he is in. The Lecomps are
long visaged, querulous and soured They
run about diving into shops, saloons, stores,
and offices, and after remaining minute or
two come out wiser and sadder than before.
The Popular Sovereignty Democracy look
cheerful, and congratulate each other, when
ever they meet at the sure victory which
Monday is TO bring them. The enemy should
keep cool, and be resigned They hare had
their day. and now their night approaches.
Who can doubt that the tremendous revul,
sion which has taken place in this vicinity, is
indicative Of future great triumphs through.
out the state2 Marysvllc never was LIE
compton, and never will be, but we want a
majority this time which will put quietus
upon the enemy here forever
Year: 1859

The popularity of the Democratic nominee
for City Recorder, Jesse o. Goodwin, Esq,
has been so well established, and for 50 long
a time in this city, that it is almost An act of
supererogation to speak of his merits at all.
Yet we may be allowed to say thus much
that in point of intellectual capacity he is in


ferior to but very few men in the country if
any, and his conduct has always been that of
m honest and lawabding citizen. 1t istrue
he has never been on foreign adventures
strange or won immortal renown in founding
imaginary republics on the great track of
Manifest Destiny. lie has been content to
remain at home and practice his profession
while others were giving liberty to the down
trodden and oppressed of other nations, by
kindly taking charge Of their affairs and in
doctrinating them in the great principles of
American Republicanism 10y shooting off the
top of their heads" Still, we think that the
man who stays at home. industIiously follows
his avocation, and trains himself in civil pur
suits, may be as well entrusted with the re-
sponsibilities of an office purely civil and ju-
dicial as any one Of the modern heroes who
bare their swords for conquest, and found
governments and empires "at the drop of a
hat" This giving liberty, in the spirit of IN
unbounded and disnterested benevolence, to
people who don't ask it, may be all very fine,
especially to the donors but we humbly con-
ceive that an American citizen may deserve
well of his country without embarkng at all
in any such patriotic expeditions. There


fore as an able civilian, in every capacity in


which he has served, We do not look upon
the Douglas candidate for Recorder as less
worthy, in the smallest degree, of the sup
port of the people, because he has failed to
redeem. regenerate and disenthral" Sonora
and Nicaragua or any of those countries
which are now basking in the glorious light
of liberty so generously bequeathed them by
the Grey-eyed Man Of Destiny and his illus
trious compeers and adherents.
Year: 1859

The intelligence received by the last mail
steamer will be found in another portion of
the paper. republished from oui Extra of yes
terday. We have not space for any extend
ed comment 1t will be seen that "our noble
President" is accused of being concerned and
implicated in certain infamous frauds on the
Treasury through the Navy Department of
the Government. The uDraveling of these
transactions will be looked for with intense
interest. What will the President of the
United States come to next?
Year: 1859

EDITOR NATIONAL DEMOCRAT The election
Monday is one of great importance to the
people of this city Elect the Lecompton
ticket and it will instantly be tortured into
an approval of the infamous Administration
of Buchanan Cobb & Co. Freemen of Ma
rysvile, are you prepared to do this? Elect
this bogus ticket and you approve the pres
ent Legislature of a thousand reconsidera~
tions." Are our foreign born citizens willing
to support party who declare that resi-
dence of twenty three years is not long
enough for citizenship If so, vote the bogus
Tompkins ticket. Will you, by your votes,
sustain party that admits Oregon in the
Union with ten thousand voters, because she
is Lecompton, and keeps Kansas, with
double tie number, out, because she is favor
able to Douglas? The leaders of the oppo.
sition knowing their party to be in a hope
less minority, are trying to bluff the Douglas
men into the support of their candidate for
Marshal. They seem to imagine that Jack
Barkley has n life lease of the office and
that no other man in Marysville is capable of
filling it. Their sole aim now is to elect this
officer, and to accomplish this they are will
ing to sacrifice the balance of their ticket,
but Douglas men, do not be cajoed by their
You have the power
and it become your duty. as freemen, TO al
minister stern rebuke to any man found
upon the opposition ticket. Personal friend
ship should be cast aside, and nothing but q
stern sense of duty should influence you in
casting your ballot NJ.