smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1859

FOR SALE.


A RARE CHANCE!
TNHE SUBSCRIBER offers for sale, the whole half of
the farm owned and cultivated by him situated
the North side of White Oak River ten miles from Poocks
vile. The tract contains 100 acres, less, and
under state of cultivation. 1t good Corn and Cotton
land be found in the county. The farm has good
dwelng kitchen and all necessary out houses. The
lot has upon it large handsome and well arranged growth
young and beautiful shade trees together with well of
excellent 1t is level and healthy country and
better neighborhood cannot be found in Eastern North
Carolina


The tract is situated but few miles from stream of


NAVIGABLE WATERS
making it convenient matter to Ship at almost time
season. products of the farm The soil adapted
the culture of almost any vegetable grown in this section of
country, and its fertility requires no Improvement.
The subscriber desrous to sell only upon account of
having concluded to change his business.


1t will be sold upon liberal terms


Those wishing to examine the tract of land ascertain
any further particulars do by applying on the
premises, to VIM. +. SILVER
May goth, 1859 38-3m
Year: 1859

hNoC u uHtS IcluOFP all
morbid or bad matter from
the system, supplying in
their place a healthy flow
Of bile, invigorating the
stomach, causing food to
digest well, purifying the
blood, giving tone an d
health to the whole ma
chinery, re m owing tn e
cause ofthe disease--effect-
ing a radical cure.


Bilious attacks are cured.
and, what is better, preven-
ted by the occasional use
of the Liver Invigorator.


One dose after eating is
sufficient to relieve t + Q
stomach and prevent the
food from rising and sour
ing.


Only one dose taken be-
fore retiring, prevent S
nightmare.


/ Only one dose taken at
night, lOosens the bowels
gently, and cures COStiUe-
/ ness.


One dose taken after each
meal will cure Dyspepsia.


One dose Of two teaspoon
fuls will always relieve Sick
Headache.


Only one dose immediate
ly relieves COLic. while
Year: 1859

TRIAL OF RIFLED CANNoN.-In accordance with an
order just issued by the Secretary of War; board Of
officers will assemble at Fort Monroe Va, on Tuesday,
the 18th instant or as soon thereafter practicable
for the trial of such red cannon as may be presented
by the ordnance department.
Year: 1859

The other day large Bald Eagle caught Wild
Duck in the river Susquehanna, opposite Duncan,
non, carried it to cake of ice which had lodged on
ration, it is supposed that being wet, his feet and
feathers, from the intense cod troze fast to the ice
and being unable to extricate himself, perished.-
He was seen Tapping his wings until dark. There
was a desire to capture the great "American," but
he could not be appro ached account of the grea
mass of floating ice between him and the shore
Harrisburg Tel.
Year: 1859

The wife of Mr.. Brooks, at Homer n. Y, the
other day threw knife violently at her husband
which put out one of his eyes, The amount of her
conjugal grief may be measured by the fact that
she said afterwards she would have given five dol
lars rather than have it happen.
Year: 1859

VIRGINIA HosPITALIrY.-Whilst the passenger
train on the Warrenton, Va, Branch Railroad was
stopping at way station its return to Warren
ton one day last week, a hosptable citizen of the
county living near by stepped into the cars, fol-
lowed by one or two servants who were carrying a
large bucket of egg nog, with waiter and glasses,
and treated all on board.
Year: 1859

The magnificent piece of plate, presented to the
Prince and Princess Frederick Wilhelm by the city
of Cologne, has been stolen out of the Throneroom
in the Schloss 1t is not even known when the rob
berry was effected, as the epergne was only missed
when it was wanted to be removed into the Palace
which the young Prince and Princess now occupy.
The police have offered 200 thalers reward but to
no purpose.
Year: 1859

GEoRGA.-We have authority to announce the
gratifying fact that all the tax collectors of this
State have made their settlements at the Treasury
on the day prescribed by law. The small amount
of 81 900 to 800, still due of the taxes will be
paid in few days, it resulted from wrong calcu-
latons of the collectors. This is surely an evidence
of the prosperity of the State and the promptness
of her citizens to pay the burdens of government
Columbus Times.
Year: 1859

How sweet the rest that labor yields


The humble and the poor,
Whore SITS the patriarch of the fields


Before his cottage door,
The lark is singing in the sky


The swallows OH the caves
And love is beaming in each eye


Beneath the sumner leaves
The air amid bis fragrant bowers


Supplies unpurcbascd health,
aud hearts are bounding mid the flowers
More dear to him tbaI wealth.
Peace, like the blessed sunlight, plays
Around bis humble cot,
And happy nights and cheerful days
Divide his lowly lot.
And when the village Sabbath bell


Rings out upon the gale,
The father bows bis head to tell


The music Of its tale
y lreshcr verdure seems to ill


The fair and dewy sod,
And every infant tongue is still


To hear tie word Of God.
Q, happy hearts! to Him who stills
The ravens when they cry,
And makes the lily meath the hills
So glorious to the eye
The trusting patriarch prays to bless
His labOrs with increase
Such ways are "ways Of pleasantness,"
And all such "paths are peace"
Year: 1859


Girls sunny days are over
With to day;
They, with all their wayward brightness
Pass away
Womau's earnest path before me
Lieth straight,
Who can tell what JOY and anguish
There await!
Guide me, Father God of Mercy.
On the way
Never from thy holy guidance
Let me stray
Give me that need of joy or sorrow
PIeaseth Thee,
Whatsoe'er Thy will ordaineth
Best for ne.
In the shadow and the darkness
Be my star,
In the light, lest radiance dazzle,
Go not far!
Make me patient, kind and gentle,
Day by day!
Teach me how to live more nearly
As pray.
That my heart 50 much dcsiret4
Grant me still,
IF that earnest hope accorgeth
With thy viii.
Should Thy mercy quite Withhold it,
BE thar near,
Let me feel hold its promise
All too dear.
Here, upon life's very threshold,
Take my heart
From thy holy guidance let it
Ne'er depart.
When life's stormy strife is over,
Take me home,
There 10 be more fully, truly
Thine aione.
Year: 1859

life had been short, but she knew that earth was
not paradise.


] 1t matters not why or how we came to be


riding the prairies of Illinois, by the side of
a little child, only; nor is it necessary that we
should tell that there are times in life, when a
sweet little one, with earnest eyes and speaking
! heart, is more agreeable than all the brilliant
danes that crowd the parlors Of the world.
! We have our fancies and you shall have yours.


We viii love the children and you may love
what you will


In the silence of the night, we remember this
child with sweet and holy pleasure, and we
turn away from pleasant books and scented
flowers and idle thoughts, to the sweet and pure
and blessed words she spoke. We remember
the garnet ring VIC put upon her little hand, and
the wish that Heaven would keep her life of
peace rs perfect as that circlct was, whose ends
were firmly fixed within the red and hcart-like
stone. We remember the sweet little kiss she
gave us in exchange. and the quIveTing of the
hands when we spoke to her of her future life
She was older than her years and felt how much
of sorrow there would be in her coming life.
Heaven grant that it has not been so!
Beneath the same moon and stars we came
back again. Our hearts we're filled with better
thoughts than come to those who live only in
the world Of fashion, and never go forth to look
upon the world of God She was still and 81.
lent, and we dreamed of Heaven. At the thresh.
hold Of her door we parted, and never since that
night have we looked upon her face or heard
her voice or felt the pressure of her hand She
may live or she may be-dead. Our homes lIaye
been for apart, and only in memory can we go
to her now. 1t may be that she has quite for
gotten us. BE it so, if need he it must be so.
Should this ever reach her eyes, she may re.
member our pleasant ride, and feel that he who
whispered of stars and flowers and heaven, has
not forgotten the sweet face of her who came
to him in purity and beauty, and with the soft
hand of her childish love, opened up the foun.
tainS of his faith, forever. j. D. NJ. Q.
WuEELINe, Va, May, 1859.
Year: 1859

In The case Of the convicted and sentenced
Oberlin slave reacuers, whom the AboIitlonists
hoped to have discharged from Imprisonment,
by The Supreme court of Ohio, on habeas cor
pas, Judge Swan thus nobly concludes the
opinion Of the Court


GAS a citizen | would not deliberately yio-
late the constitution or the law 5y interference
with fugilves from Justice But if weary.
frightened slave would appeal to me to protect
him from his rursuers, it is possible [ might
momentarlly forget my allegiance 10 the law
and constitution and give him covert from
those who were on his track-there are, no
doubt, many Shareholders who would thus fol-
low the instinct Of human sympathy.S And if
did 1t, and was prosecuted, condemned and
imprisoned, and brought by my counsel before
this tribunal on habeas corpus, and was then
permitted TO pronounce judgment in my own
case, / trust | should have the moral courage
TO say before God and my country, as am nov
compelled TO say, under the solemn duties ofa
Judge, bound by my official oath to sustain the
supremacy of the constitution and the law
EThe prisoner must be remanded.'''


Judge Swan was elected by the Republican
party, and few days after he delivered the
above sentiments his Farty met in State con-
vention 10 nominate Judge of The Supreme
Court, and selected another man 10 take his
Dlsce
Year: 1859

II would be well enough for all our readers
to bear .his fact in mind Those business men
who patronize the printers the most literally
are proverbial for being the fairest Dealers
They can afford TO be such, because they have
larger number of customers, and those nvaria-
bly, pay cash for what they buy. He who is
engaged IN business, and TO miserly to pay the
printer for keeping his name and business be-
fore the country, is generally too penurious to
merit patronage from any body, and when
they do get it they are compelled to charge tall
prices 10 make both ends meet. Look out for
such persons, and give your trade TO him who
shows you he has soul in him by patroniEing
the printer literally.
Year: 1859

BSy" The New York Herald has n way of
blowing for every available Presidential
candidate of any and every party. When
Governor Banks was at the Astor House, IL
came out and advertised his good points rs a
Republican racer, in the best terms of the
political turf. Just now Gen. Houston is its
favorite, and its attention is devoted 10 en-
couragng the Southern Opposition party to
make him their standard bearer. The Her
AID is ready to support three candidates for
three parties; and if it will only stick to its
neutrality, and show no partiality in its
course, no fault can be found, for, according
to precedent, all three must be defeated
Benefits candidates are always killed
Taunton Gazette.
Year: 1859

We have been permitted to make the follow
ing extract from private letter recently re-
ceived by gentlemen in this place, from Mr.
B. r. Brown, practical miner who has been at
work some months on the eastern slope Of the
mountains:


GoID HILL, U. T., Nov. 9th 1859.


have been running tunnel most OF the
time since my arrival but my partner and my.
self have suspended operations in the tunuel
for time, and we are now engaged in raising
quartz from a ledge which discovered about
two miles below Gold Hill, and three miles from
Carson river. The ledge prospects very well
and looks we'll. 1t is about six feet in width,
and considerably decomposed. We gave two
men half of it in consideration Of their furnish
ing animals to work it in arastras. We have
one arastra built, and have run it two days. II
it pays WE'LL we shall Immediately start two
more.


This in my opinion will be an extensive gold
country when fully prospected. There are rich
lodges running all through the country, many
of them not over one hundred feet apart. There
Is one near ours that pays over dollar to the
bucket. They make over q hundred dollars a
day to the rocker and pack the decomposed
rock in sacks to the ravne.


l am satisfied there will be ON immense rush
to this country in tho spring, and have no
doubt that many thousands can be proftably
employed. The greatest drawback to opera
tions at present is the great want of machinery
TO crush the quarts. Mills could get as high as
fifteen dollars per ton for crushing soft quartz
if they were here. expect the whole of Car
son river will he carried over wheels next sum-
mer. Hastings IL Woodwork have arastras
running there by water, and Thomas x Logan,
of San Juan, are running a stamp mill by horse
hart inf tn onlo md rtRn II hxy
water. Virginia City is very lively. They are
taking out immense quantities OF gold and sill
yer. No sluice mining will ever be done in
this part of the country; water in sufficient
quantities will be out of the question. Rock
ers, arastras, and mills, must do the work.
Year: 1859

NAPA FARMING LANDS AND VINEYARDs.-Al-
though the last has not been over profitable
10 our farmers, the few farms that have changed
hands, have been sold usual, prices ranging from
1925 per acre, for farms adjacent to the village, to
800 per acre for those to ten miles distant.
This firm faith Of our farmers in the constant pro-
ductyeness and security Of their business will create
an industrial population in our valley such as no
other ten-year old agricultural district can boast
Vineyard lands are now being looked after, and we
hope the coming spring to chronicle great increase
In this branch Of business. We doubt not Napa
will equal the most favored region in this respect.
And though later in the race than some Of her
neighbors, will yet come in length ahead, and
that Napa wines will yet have place in the mars
ket.--Ndpa Reporter
Year: 1859

To BE CLosED.-The San Francisco branch
mint is to be closed on the 9th of December
next, for the purpose Of making the annual set
tement. The Superintendent advertises that
silver bullion will not be purchased after the
Both inst
Year: 1859

THE WONDERS OF ARITHNETIC.-Some wag
says that woman is cipher in life, and man a
unit,-put them together and they make 10
This effect must be produced by the "Rule Of
multiplication"
Year: 1859

A NoBLE SENTmENT.-Daniel Webster penn
ed the sentiment,


eff we work upon marble, it will perish; IT
we work upon brass, time will efface it; if we
rear temples, they will crumble into dust; but
if we work upon our immortal minds-if we
Undue them with principles, with the just fear
of God and our fellow men, we engrave on
those tablets something which will brighten all
eternitY.V
Year: 1859

THE HOMICIDE AT FoRT ARBUCKLE.--The
St. Louis Republican learns from Fort
Smith, that Major Hurst, charged with the
murder of two young men by the name of
Rector, at Fort Arbuckle, was captured and
taken to Jail at Van Buren, Arkansas, where
he was IN custody. Very serious appree
tensions were entertained that the citizens
would take him out and lynch him forth
with. Only one of the Rectors was killed
at the time, but both may die. The first
man struck by Hurst was changing bis shirt
at the time, and all that saved him was that
the knife was struck against bone. The
blow was tremendous one, but did not
penetrate to any vital part. His brother
Immediately turned to assist him, and was
at once killed by the assassin. No cause is
assigned for the murder.
Year: 1859




How TO SHOOT A GAIA paper pub,
lished in Danbury, Conn.,, gives the follow
ing account of the means employed by an
Irishman, in that town, to destroy one of
the nine lives of cat


First, he put in charge Of shot, which
he covered by ramming home wad. Next,
a charge of powder. To make sure of his
victim, he wound up the loading with a
small handful Of corn in the kernel. Thus
prepared, be brought the instrument of
death to bear upon the cat, and snapped.
To his great chagrin the gun was not dis
charged. He snapped, and snapped, and
snapped again but it was no use--the gun
would not go. Irritated bey yond measure
at his failure, he drew the iron ramrod from
the gun, put the point in fire until it was
red rot, inserted it at the muzzlc, and then
wormed it down through the corn until it
reached the powder, when bang went the
charge down to the shot, sending the ramrod
through his hand between the thumb and
fore fnger, burying the corn in various parts
of his hand and badly singeng his face with
powder. The cat survived, and the Irish"
man is doing as well as could be expected.
Year: 1859

A DIVORCED WIFE A SERVANT IN HER
HUSBANDS FAMILY. "A gentleman living
in this city, and well.to,do, married about
ten years ago, and after living with his wife
some FIVE years, he concluded to get a
divorce, on account Of the t1nhappiness of
their domestic relations. The wife assented,
and he applied to the Courts and was sues
cessful A year passed, and he concluded
to venture once more in the matrimonial
market, and see if he could not find one
who would make his home happier than the
first. In this he was successful, and short
time after, his divorced wife applied to him
for work in his family in the capacity of a
servant girl. The situation was given her,
and she now does the work in the house Of
which she was once mistress, and beholds
the endearments lavished upon another,
which were once bestowed upon her.


The husband daily takes his evening ride
with his second wife, while the first takes
care of the children during their absence.
How the husband can endure to see his
former wife thus humiliated, and the wife
bear up under it, is to us an enigma.


Gin. Times
Year: 1859

AN EMOTION.


In crossing the street,


Each lady yeu meet,
or she follows the prevalent fashion
Lifts gently her dress


Say foot-more or less
And keeps it thus raised till you pass Oh.
Whilst downward your eye
Is turned to espy,
Her dear little "pins" in full motion,
And hear the feet patter,


'Tis no easy matter
To hold hard the escape pipe of your pa
thetic fancy, and resist the inclination t
throw yourself clean outside of you
exterior cuticle-least- wise, that's oul
notion.
Year: 1859

If you wish to make your neighbors
and you family happy-if you would see
calmuess aud evenDess of temper devel-
oped in your childreD--if you would light
en- the cares and smooth the path of the
companion of your bosom-do not irritate
or scold. or be in a passion when your
humor is crossed; but remember that 9th
ers have hearts as soft as yours, and let
the sunshine of Christian meekness and
gentleness always beam from your eye.
How happy will be the circle in such a
case! Ay, this Christian temper is about
the only requisite to make iresides happy
places which husbands and children
will regret to leave, and be glad to re-
turn to. Let the husband be iudulgent,
then, to the annoyance of his ever-work-
ing and overworking wife: and let the
wife always meet him with smiles when
he comes home perplexed with the cares
of business; and let both be forbearing
under their mutual imperfections, and
homes will be as God intended them.
Year: 1859

The other day large Bald Eagle
caught Wild Duck in the river Susque.
hanna, opposite Duncannon, carried it to
a cake of ice which had lodged on a rock,
and commenced bis feast. During the
operation, it is supposed that being wet,
his feet and feathers, from the intense
cold, froze fast to the ice; aud being un-
able to extricate himself, he perished.-
He was seen Tapping bis wings until dark.
There was desire to capture the great
"American," but he could not be ap-
preached on account of the great mass OF
floating ice between him and the shore
Harrisburg TEL
Year: 1859

On Friday last, three children of Louis
Bender, farmer, residing at Fostoria, in
Blair county, were burned to death by
the house taking fire. The father had
gone to work in the morning, and the
mother was absent milking the cows;
when, as is supposed, the children set FIRE
to box of shavings in the house. The
flames had cut off all Communication, be-
fore the FIRE was discovered, and the char
red remains of the children were not taken
out until the house was in ruins. The ell
dest was boy aged five years; the next
girl, aged three, and the third was a
babe bat three months old. The parents
are almost distracted, and the mother
had not tasted food for three days after
the terrible calamity.
Year: 1859

ed. His wife went up to him and placed
her hand upon bis shoulder


'John,' she said kindly, cannot you
buy some oxeni'


Yes, he returned, moodily.


And can you not buy them and still
have much of the money left which you
received for those you sold!'


Yes


Then 60 and buy oxen and hire your
men. and do that work yourself. I'll do
all | can towards taking care of your
hands. And I'm sure you'll make much
more than you would to have partner.
Como-we can do our duty without the
help Of any man who does not to as
sist you.'


John Boggs was dumb with grateful
emotion. He understood his wife per-
fectly. He knew how noble she was; and
be now realized that if he had only given
heed to her advice bofore be might have
been spared of his shame. But be soon
gazed up; and his only answer was to
draw the faithful woman down and kiss
her.


That very afternoon be commenced u
pom rule of life from which he resolved
not to deviate. He posted off at once,
and before night he was the owner of
eight yokes of oxen. They were not such
beauties as those be had sold, but they
were stout working oxen. Next he en-
gagged his men. And when the season
for work commenced he went at it with
will. The logs were all cut and depos-
tied in the river, and he was the clear net
gamer of one thousand dollars by the op-
Grafton.


But this was not ell he gained from
that fallen barn door. He gained the lit
tie lesson be SO much needed; and from
the rule it gave him he never deviated.-
He never again saw thing upon his
place that needed attention without be-
slowing that attention at once. And the
result was soon manifest. Everything
was in its place, and everything was safe.
His wife was happy, for she had no more
occasion to peform that most unpleasant
of all domestic duties to the true wife
the chidipg of husband. But there
was one more thing: He could put
friends horse into his stall without the
danger of the animals making
off during the night through hole that
should have been, but was not, stopped
by barn door.
Year: 1859

To prevent Turnips from sprouting in
warm Cellars in Winter, cut off all the
fibrous roots and a portion of the tap
root. The tops should also be cut close.
This will not prevent them from heating
and decaying, if placed in large piles. b.
Year: 1859

s@New York is certainly great city.
They have now Dog Boarding House, p"
and one is advertised at the corner of
Broadway and Forty ifth streets. The
keeper will board dogs at 81 per week,
and train for 81 go.
Year: 1859

John Boggs read this letter, and then
rushed from the house. Matilda picked
it up and read it. A cloud passed over
her face, and then ray Of sunshine
came. In few moments che looked
happy and contented.


But the dinner was getting cold, and
she sent one of the children after him.
He came in, looking sad and and defect.
Year: 1859

Rai!road Tfareltag has become common in
this country, that everybody looks upon tue
locomotive as his only propelIing power to
take him from point to point; yet all wonder
why it is that SO few improvements are made
in passenger cars. Ii some one could invent
= plan for getting rid OF the dust and smoke
in the coaches and at the same lime TO furnish
them with fresh air. he would become a pub
lie benefactor and receive the thanks OF the
travelling world