smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1867

We are glad to find that cur sugges-
,ions relative to the pronriety of some
action on the part OF our citizens in the
matter of aiding ths osuaering and
starving people of the South are finding
very general favor. All seem to recog-
ME the humanity and Christian char
acter OF The object, and to be disposed
To respond in liberal and substantial
manner to the call now made upon pop
uls, sympathy and charity. What is
now wanted is prompt action on the
part of leading citizens, in starting the
movement. A disposition to act
amounts TO nothing if no.
body does act. In Philadelphia
and other Northern cities the most prom
inent business men and the municipal
officers seem to have led OFF in the good
work, and to have found time in the
midst OF many pressing duties to aid a
cause SO noble. Will the samo course
he pursued here, or shall it be left to
the ladies', who are never backward IN
deeds of gentleness and charity, to lead
OF and give direction to the enterprise
for the relief of Southern misery and
lestitutions
Year: 1867

Aduchsss in Paris, whose infant had
when newly born been sent into the
country to nurse, recently sent for the
boy, when he was four years old. Walk
ing out with tho little fellow. she was
amazed to hear him exclaim: There,
mamma, is a good house." and running
into the courtyard, he took off his cap
aud began to sing. The unfortunate
little duke had been trained By his
nurse to beg as ballad singer.
Year: 1867

CORRECTIoN.-TheS Sacramento Un:0n
in noticing the election for Delegate in
New Mexico, says the total vote was
1929. which is large enough to entitle
the Territory to admission as a State,
being twice as many votes as Nevada or
Nebraska. This is mistake. The Ne
vada vote when admitted as a State in
1864, was 16.420, and at the election last
year, when Registry law requiring the
payment of four dollars poll tax was in
operation, the vote was 9,242. The
population of New Mexico is not enough
to demand admission as a State, and ii
is not of a character that would make il
desirable that the honor should be thrust
upon them.


The Democrat of Sept. %, in pub
fishing the vote of Montana, IL ,662, said
cit is the largest vote ever polled by any
Territory west of the Missouri river be-
fore a State organization" We knew
at the time it was incorrect, and that the
Majors desire to run Democratic State
into the Union warped his recollection a
little, but not having any statistics to
back contradiction. passed it by. We
commend the above from the Reese
River ReUeiUe to his notice.
Year: 1867

DR.. Johnson wisely said ale
who waits to do a great deal
Of good at once, will never do
anything" Life is made up OF
little things. 1t is but once in
an age that occasion is offered
for dolnga great deed. True
greatness consists in being
great in little things. How are
railroads built? BY one shov.
ell of dirt after Another; one
shovel at a time. Thus, drops
make the ocean. Hence, we
should be willing toldo a little
good at IA time, and never swat
to do a great deal Of good al
once" II we would do much
good in the world, we must be
willing to- do good in little
things, little acts one after an.
other; speaking a word here,
giving a tract there, and set
ting a good example all the
time !; we must do the first
thing we can, the next and then
the next, and SO keeping on
doing good. This is the way
to accomplish anything. Thus
only shall we do all the good
in our power. ..r ~.
Year: 1867

MAGNANIMTY.-When the Emperor
.Nespasian commanded a Roman sena-
for to give his voice against the inter
|est Of his country, and threatened him
with immediate death if he spoke on
thc other side, the Roman, conscious
that the attempt to serve q people was
in his power, though the event was
ever 50 uncertain, answered with a
smile: Did l ever tell you that l was
Immortal? My virtue is in nv own


disposal, my life in yours; do what


you will, shall do what ought; and
y ! fall in the service of my country,


| shall have more triumph in my death
tlan you in your IaurIS."
Year: 1867

we will remain under military
rule So says some Arkansas ed
itor, and some Louisianian echoes it.
Butyou cannot and will not remain
under military rule; you will have a
government made for you, if you do
not makeit for yourself under the mil
itary bills. If you vote down a con
vention, you who thus vote will be
disfranchised by supplemental bill.
and then none but black and white
Radicals win have any voice at all in
the Government Nothing can be
more wild than the idea that there is
ANY mode of action or posture OF in
Gctlon which can avoid the issue. Or
ganlze or emigrate! That is the only
alternatiye.-N. o. Picayune.
Year: 1867

One of the latest oddities in the
Nhims of fashion is a large beetle in
green enamel, to be worn by ladies !;
On pressing a spring, the wings fly
apart, revealing a tiny dial on which
the happy possessor may see the time
OF day.
Year: 1867

A DUEL AND IT'S CoNsEQUENCEs.-An
amusing duel took place recently
about five miles from Havana. 1t
originated in a remark made by
man to his friend on seeing lady
coming out of church. The lady was
unknown to the person making the
remark, but happened to be the 9th
er's wife. A slap in the face was the
consequence, and challenge came
soon after This was accepted, and
the seconds selected place. The
wife got wind Of the affair, and immc-
diately took steps to prevent the
dreadful catastrophe. Her first
thought was to notify the police, but
that might have given her husband
the reputation of coward, and she
took better method by going to the
house of the other party, where she
met his wife, and plan was soon
concocted between the feminines.-
On the morning appointed for the duel
both husbands got up early wives
ditto. Husbands took carriages, and
their wlves-one armed with live
children and the other with three
took other vehicles in waiting. When
the two duelists arrived at the spot,
they were somewhat astonished on
seeing the two other carriages drive
up with their passengers, who cooliy
informed the men that they also had
come to fight, SO as to make it com
plete family quarrel, each at the same
time produced an empty purse and a
package of baby linen as their arms
and munitions of war. The little
ones had popguns and fire crackers,
and soon some indulged in cry. 1t
is useless to add that the bloodthirsty
Benedieks made peace on the spot,
and returned to Havana in company
with their seconds to celebrate the
affair over a ,ampagne dinner
Year: 1867

HA- An editor in Illinois recently
saw a patent clothes washer. 1t was
in the shape of wheelbarrow. The
revolutions of the wheel put in motion
a crank that moved the plunger that
pounded the clothes. The body of
the box was mounted where the load
is in wheelbarrow. On the top Of
the box was a wringer. A lady can
put her clothes in the machine, pick
it up and go out calling the longer
her list of friends the further she will
have to wheel her burden and the
better her clothes will be washed
Calling will then be of some use, and
an eternal gadabout will become
first rate washerwoman.
Year: 1867

Bread in Boston and elsewhere in
the United States appears in the
forms of loaves but go into Paris
bake shop and you will see it stand
ing up around the room in rolls as
long as fence rails There goes a
woman now, past my window, with
her left arm full of sticks of bread
the sticks about four feet in length
as if it were an arm-full of fire wood.
In her right hand is stick of double
length, which she uses for cane
1t is fully seven feet long-literally
the staff of life
Year: 1867

THE CAMP GRANT MURDER-THE Sup
POSED MURDERER ARREsTED.-In the Dis
patch of Tuesday we published an account
of the finding of the body of Federal
soldier in well on the place of Major
Harvey, near Camp Grant. On Tuesday
evening" an inquest was held by Squire
Marsh. A colored woman named Ann,
living near the well, and white soldier, who
was in the house with her on Saturday
night, stated that they heard noise of a
scuffle and the cry of murder, and the
same voice call out Norton. On this evil
dence Thomas Norton, who was known to
have had difficulty with the deceased,
was arrested yesterday and locked up in
the county Jail. The deceased was from
New York, and at the time Of his death
was drummer of the Eleventh United
States regiment. The accused is native
of Ireland, and of rather unprepossessing
appearance. lie is a member of company
G of the Eleventh regiment, and states
that he is from Roxbury, Mass.
Year: 1867




Now, says Forney's Chronicle, is good
time for capitalists to invest money in
southern lands, but still better for earnest,
honest, industrious workingmen to secure
homes for themselves, which will of great
value to their children. The breaking up
Of the old labor monopoly by the rebellion
has not only thrown the labor Of the South
into the market, so that enterprise can have
fair chance, but it has also thrown large
amount Of land into the market, which
under the slave system was always cheap,
and which in the social transition is even
cheaper. There will always be alarmists
to prophesy ruin in the event Of any
change. They have contributed to reduce
the value of southern lands, while there are
others who must sell to live. We know
of no better method to help the
southern people than to induce the
settlement amongst them Of men of
industry, good habits, and enlarged ideas
like Forney Il Northern energy and capi-
tai, and northern respect for labor, will re-
volutionize the South and make its DESC
late places smile agDin with the products
of industry. We believe that the time Is
coming when peace will be real, and men
will feel safe to emigrate to the South and
live there. When this happens, lands will
begin to increase in value, and all the new
appliances to save labor will be brought
into play. The example Of those planters
of the Isle of Bourbon who had the cour-
age to invest in lands just after the eman-
cipation of 1s4S, and have since reaped
their reward in immense fortunes, should
incite our northern capitalists and farmers
to like action. A Mississippi plantation or
a Virginia or Maryland farm bought at the
prices of to-day, and improved as Penn
sylvania farmer would improve it, by close
working, would double in value in ten
years
Year: 1867

Several planters in Kinds and Madison
counties, Miss, believe that they have dis
covered this most desirable mod,Ls Ope-
randi and as it cannot fail to be interest
ing to our readers, we will briefly sketch
the system. They don't believe that work
ing large gangs Of hands, with one or two
to watch them, is the best way with free
blacks. They don't believe in having a
negro quarter. They don't pretend to un-
dertake the raising of meat for their hands.
They fence out their woodlands, and then
place the blacks in cabins several hundred
yards apart, and on the borders of the
woodland. To each family of blacks they
assign such amount of land as they can
cultivate well, and loan to each three la
borers two mules and other needful arti-
ces. The blacks grow corn, cotton, or
other things; and half the crops, after
deducting the cost of supplies fur
nished, is given to the black producers.
Living on the border of the woodland,
each family of blacks, without trouble,
raises its own pigs, which fatten on
the mast in the woods. When, owing
to the drought, there is partial failure of
the corn crop, the wood-buds on the trees
are certain to be checked, and thus throw
ing the strength of the trees in the fruit
buds, there is always most abundant crop
Of acorns and other mast. Where there is
gang of sixty hands, the supplying Of
meat has been great trouble. If the
meat was purchased from a commission
merchant, its cost reduced greatly planta-
ton profits, and if it was grown on the
plantation, it cost much trouble. Here
tofore one Of the greatest annoyances of
plantation life has bsen the difficulty Of
getting the blacks to take care OF the
plantation stock, but when each family of
blacks looks after its own stock and raises
its own meat, the difficulty is surmounted.
In every gang of hundred hands there is
certain to be at least fifteen lazy ones, and
in the field ordinarily the whole gang is
content with the pace Of the fifteen
most lazy ones. Where family has
its own allotment, and is to profit
by the amount of the crop, the head of the
family is pretty certain to keep the others
well up with the work. Each working
family, having its humble home at some
distance from others, that pilfering which
is so prevalent in and about quarters is
pretty much done away. The friends of
this system are sapguine that its general
adoption will give to the South such an
organization of labor as it needs-will tend
to stimulate production, will advance the
physical, social, and moral condition of the
negro, will harmonize the interests of en-
ployer and employe, and cause the south
ern States to blossom with prosperity. This
system of labor is not unlike the cottier
sy,stap, of Scotland It's advocates claim
that it is infinitely better than efforts to
import foreigners and to learn them to cul-
tivate cotton, and to harmonize their modes
of working with those only familiar with
slave labor.-ErChdnge.
Year: 1867

NJ GIVE NATURE A LIFT.-People sx-
pect too much of nature. They trine with their
health and their constitutions, and then are sur.
prised that they fall sick.
The pressure Of constant mental or bodily labor
upon the animal powers is tremendous. Very few
systems and constitutions can bear up against this
pressure unassisted. Add to this the unhealthy
Influences which lurk unseen in the air we
breathe, the water we drink, the lassitude pro-
duced at this season by the change from the rigor
OF winter to the warmth Of spring, and 1t would
seem to require almost superb uman vigor to keep
in perfect health without reinforcing the physical
energies.


But how reinforce them Certainly not with
adulterated stimulants. There is no poison In the
outer air. or in the atmosphere Of furnace heated
rooms, or workshops, or factories, 80 pernicious
as those deadly, burning fluids.


Why use them when


HosTETTER'S STOMACH BITTERs,
a vegetable tonic without alloy, are every where
obtainableY Nothing has ever been offered to
the feeble and debilitated so harmless In Its ma
ture so powerful in its invigorating effects, as this
celebrated


STOMACHIC AND ALTERATIVE.


In the army and the navy, in new settlements
and In crowded cities, by old and young, rich and
poor 1t is used as a PROTECTIVE and REST0RA-
TIVE MEDICINE with most gratifying results.


ap26-eod2w
Year: 1867

CHANGE OF ScuEDULE.-By reference to
another column it will be seen that the
times of arrival and departure of the trains
on the Richmond and Petersburg railroad
will be changed on and after Sunday the
5th instant. The early train from Rich
mond will leave an hour earlier, and the
night train from Petersburg will reach here
about an hour sooner than under the pre-
sent schedule.
Year: 1867

C0AT SToLEN.-A valuable coat was
stolen from hook in front Of Messrs.
William Ira Smith & Co.'s store on Tues
day. This was a very bold robbery, as
persons are constantly passing along this
portion Of the street during the day, and
the thief who stole it must have been very
adroit to have escaped detection.
Year: 1867

THE OPERETTA.-We are pleased to be
able to announce that the ladies of the
Richmond Memorial and Dramatic Asso-
citation will repeat their attractive enter
tainment on Friday evening.
Year: 1867

There was greater number of visitors
to the Bazaar last night than upon any
night since the opening. Commodore
Small and his sister visited the rooms
Yesterday, and patronized literally.
Year: 1867

We have hitherto neglected to make
mention of the liberality of Colonel R. f.
Morriss in regard to the building occu-
pied by the Bazaar. He volunteered the
use of it, and refused any compensation
e
Year: 1867

Everything in Holland is interesting
and almost everything is queer. There
is piquant oddity in the artificial ma.
ture of the whole country, the sandy soil
which is triumph of patient ingenuity
and creative skill; the wind pitted against
the water to keep the land from flooding;
the canals instead of roads; the bitches
instead of hedges, and the unvarying
level of the broad flats, there being no such
thing as a rising ground fifty feet high
from one end of Holland to the other
Perhaps nothing strikes the English
traveller in Holland so much as the want
of stones. You cannot find so much as a
pebble to throw at dog-if, indeed, the
Dutch dogs were not far too we'll be-
haved (Which they are) to suggest such
an outrage. You do, it is true, see in
their proper places vast masses of granite
and large blocks of basalt; but all these
come from Norway, and are brought at
great expense, and are economical as
elsewhere people economise porphyry
and marble. In fact stones in Holland
are as much an article of import of for
eign merchandise of purchase, as wine
in England. Countless vessels arrive,
or have arrived here, laden with no other
cargo.
Year: 1867




Observation-Disclosures COmi ng Ter


ribie Revolutions in the North
There is no longer a necessity for
theories in giving an analysis of the
political condition of the country. We
now have the clear mathematical facts
to prove that the one great card of the
social destructionists is the negro. 1t
matters not how fearful condition of
affairs may be inaugurated by the Rad.
icals; they have but one aim, and that
the preservation of their power at any
cost. They cry "Up with the negro!"
"Down with the white mani" "Long
live barbarism!" 'sDeath to civilization"
They open a war of caste-the blood
lest, most dreaded and unrelenting of all
wars. Already the whites at the South
are forced to opposition against the ne
gro in the contest that stares them in
the face Now their last hope is that
the intelligent conservative element of
the North will come to their rescue.
How much this is needed let the figures
show. The late election returns, show
ing the immense negro element in pow
er, are as follows: an1s'a 1
Year: 1867

The Sour LAKE IN TExAs.-About
sixty miles from Houston, in Texas, in
low, wet prairie country, but itself on
quite high and dry ground, and sur
rounded by fine little forest, is a little
lake, whose diameter may be counted by
rods. the waters of which are so sour that
it is almost impossible to drink them.
A number of wells have been dug in
the immediate vicinity, and the water
of these contains iron, alum, magnesia
and sulphuric acid.


Notwithstanding the difficulty of
reaching the place and the poor accom-
modations, large numbers of invalids 90
there from Southern States to drink the
water of the wells and bathe in the lake;
and they experience immediate and re-
markable benefit. The effect of the
baths is sedative, and persons who have
not slept comfortably for weeks, after
taking bath in the lake in the evening
enjoy a refreshing nights rest. The
water becomes more pleasant to the taste
after few glasses, and may be bottled or
put in wooden casks without losing its
strength. The soil is so strongly impreg-
mated with the same qualities as the
water, that if the mud be dissolved in
pure water and little soda or saleratus
put into it, it will foam and effervesce,
and will be as sour as lemonade.


Before the war a number of gentle
men were considering plans for building
large hotel at the place: but since
then the project has been postponed. A
number of gentlemen bought the prop
erty of man who died about twenty
five years ago; but according to the
laws of Texas, man cannot sell his
homestead without the consent of his
wife, and lady of Chicago, claiming to
be the former owners wife, has brought
a suit, to recover it under that law. The
matter ia still in litipatiop
Year: 1867

Not only has the increase been about
thirty per cent. over last year, but it is some
six thousand more than any year of the past
ten.


The amounts Of money loaned upon the
mortgages recorded in the State arc evidence
both of the numbers of transfers of capital
and real estate, and of confidence in the
stability OF business. After the beginning
OF the war and the depreciation of currency,
tue number of mortgages was worry much
diminished, but the great increase since
the peace will be seen by tho comparison
of three years taken as specimens:
Amount rccited in mortgages of 1859 $50 7o7 0S3
Year: 1867

A correspondent of the Rochelle (Illnois)
Register locates the following near that place.
Though the story is considerably older than the
correspondent, it is worth reading: ....... ,.


ga young lady heard that if she would 90 out
and pray three successive Dights she would learn
who she would marry. Now, it happened that
her father had young man 10 bis employ who
had considerable wit and good humor about
him. One evening he was out in an apple tree
after fruit, when he heard some one praying
something like this: 80, who will marry 2"
The idea popped into Doyles Chat being the
young mans name) mind that be would have
little sport at her expense. So be spoke in Q
changed voice, and said, "Doyle" "No, not
Doyle" cried the astouished young lady. "Yes,
Doyle, or no one" again sounded from the tree
top in sober, hollow voice. She arose and
entered the house, resolved to try again the next
evening. Of course Doyle did not wish to spoil
the fun, and 50 the next evening found him
seated in the tree top He did not have long
to wait before the young husband seeker eame,
and commenced praying in the same way that
she did the preceding evening, and received the
same answer. The next evening also found her
under the tree pleading to know Der future hus-
bands name, and again she heard the answer,
Doyle, or no one" She arose, feeling satisfied
that she must marry Doyle The next morning
she met him and asked him why he did not
dress up and put on better clothes. lie said he
was not able "Well," said she, "father is rich,
aud he will let you have money" lie took that
for pretty good hint and bought suit Of new
clothes. La short time he offered bis heart
and hand, and was accepted. After their mar
riage, he told her how her prayers were an.
swered. If any of the fair readers of this story
should think Of praying for husband, do not
60 under tree, or il you do, be sure and ex-
anime it closely and see if there is any one to
answer It," go
Year: 1867

A New York Journal very sensibly rcsom-
mends that every boy, whether rich or poor,
high or low, ought to learn a trade; not that he
should always work at it, but that he may have
it as reserve capital, together with its influence
10 forming ais character.
Year: 1867

The publication of the Clarksburg
telegraph has been resumed. General
NoIrHCoTr is still owner, editor and
manager. and presents - heretofore
handsome, readable and valuable paper.
During the past winter, the General
made i gallant fight in advocating the
claims of Clarksburg To the Capital,
and the people of that vicinity Will hnd
no more Jealous champion of their
rights a. involved in that question.
While we cannot very vigorously recon- =
mend the political tenets of the Tle-


Jraph. we can Yet bear testimony to the
fidelity with which it has upheld the
local interests of the Harrison county
reople. and To the general ability which
has marked its management. We take
pleasure in welcoming General NORTH
CoTT back to the walks of editorial life,
and in assuring him of our best wishes
for his continued and abundant success.