smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1869

frrom the New Haven Palladium August 2]l


The New YORK and New Haven Railroad seems to
have been Deset with mistortunes IN the way OF KILL
ing people during the past week. Five men were
killed on Friday night, ana another was added to
the number on Saturday afternoon. The last sad
affair occurred at Milford, while the afternoon ac-
the express tram from New York to pass. The ac
commodalion train was standing on the turnout
and the persons at The depot had been warned of the
approach OF the express. Just as II appeared CON-
ing around the curve man ran across the main
track to Jump on tue cars. The express was moving
man Us he was crossing the rails, knocking him upon
the track and severng his head from his body cut
ting II 20 pieces and brnising his body and er In
the most horrible manner. The discovered parts
were scattered along the track for some yards The
man was apparently la6orer, about thirty years
old, but was stranger TO every one at the depot.
lie had bought ticket for New Haven. The remains
were collected ana taken to the station.
Year: 1869

vresent warning was given 10 any OF the people;
the military charged on them unawares. TO morrow
we shall be better able TO form On opinion OF the
events which took place yesterday at the Sorbonne
and the Cirque Napoleon. We shall then know VINO
police exercised that moderation which is their rst
duty, especially at the present moment, when
citizens are naturally inclined to get excited over
political questions, relative to which few days
they will have 10 give judgment,
Year: 1869

10- friend who has Travelled in Germany,
reports the following incident, for which he
vouches: During the Summer, DR.. J. G. Aver
spent some weeks at Drcslen, in conference with
the chemists of Central Europe, where he was
heralded as the inventor of the world renowned
medicines tha bear his name. and considered as
one OF the American celebrities While riding,
one day, his open carriage fell in with he cor
tege OF the King of Saxony, on a drive from
the review. The Doctor soon became the chief
attraction and received the marked attention of
the people, who were even more demoustrative
in their courtesies to him than to the King him
self whom they see so constantly. King john
observing this, wrapped his military cloak around
him and reclined upon his seat, while our great
American medicine man did the honors for the
royal retinue, graciously bowing, hat in hand
on every sde until wearied by his excessive
condescension to this old monarch's people,
Year: 1869

SPORTING SEASON OrENED-The law for the
protection of game expired, for the season, on
Wednesday last. For several days prev ous,
BOWLING pieces. hunting dogs and game bags were
being prepared for the sport. Quail are said to
be abundant and quite tame and it was who should
get the first pop at them, before they become
aware of their danger.
Year: 1869

We read with great cdification the
discussion in the Convention Of Chris
tian Young Men at Portland upon the
question Of the Christianity Of Unitari-
ans; and we observed that, after set
sling that point, tho Convention an


pointed among tho chief officers of the
Association Mr. Frank w. Ballard, OF
New York. 1t was the next day. we
believe, that the sad and surprising an
nouncement of his defalcation was pub
lishcd; and then came the astonishing
statement that he had lost the s63, 900
in stock spcculations, but had appoint
ed nothing to his private use, and that
he was ''at his home in Connecticut.
and 1t is said, is deeply mortified at the
position in which he finds himself.n-
This is too melancholy for comedy;
but we presume the facts have already
suggested to the intelligent members
OF the Convention suspicion that it is
hardly worth while to pronounce up
on the religious character of strangers
when they may be so profoundly mis-
taken in that OF members of their own
household. For we shall not accuse
them Of trusting tho old plea that the
crimes OF the Pope were tho offensee
Of the man and not of the Holy Father.
They will not have forgotten the
trenchant reply Harpers Weekly.
Year: 1869

Whether hogs require sui
phur as an essential to their
health, or whether it is sought
by them as 4 condiment. may
not be known for certainly
But one thing is sure, they de-
YOUR it with greed whenever it
is to be found. 1t is for this
purpose, probably, that they cat
large quantities of soft coal,
which contains a large amount
Of sulphur. Perhaps this is
the most economical method of
supplying hogs with sulphur
during the winter; when they
require good deal Of carbon
But in the summer, it is better
to feed it to them in substance
which contain less carbon, on
account of their producing less
heat. Mustard is one of the
best things for this purpose, and
on that account some of it should
be sown in every pasture into
which hogs arc turned. If hogs
are kept UP, or are III small
yards, it is we'll to supply then
with the wild mustard that
grows in the fields or highways,
or to cultivate some Of the better
varieties for them. They will
eat its leaves, flowers, seeds and
stalks.
Year: 1869

According to an exchange, it
is easy enough to kill quack or
twitch glass if you only so to
work right. First dig it up with
spade, then rake it out care
fully with a succession Of tools,
beginning with a three legged
stoolandend with a tine-tooth
coamb-agitiating the soil to
the dept Of two feet. Take the
grass and roots and run them
through a straw-cutter, mix
them with meal and feed them
to your pig, and then immedia-
tely sell the pig out of the coun-
try. Seed down your garden to
clover, and your neighbor's cow
or william-goat to pasture, and
YOU will be troubled with quack
grass no more-that year.-
This is the only sure curc-all
other methods are quackier than
the grass.
Year: 1869

A Pennsylvania paper tells the story
OF a tirkin OF butter being placed on a
stone shelf At some distance down 4
deep well in the year 1888. The but
ter, some time afterwards, disappeared
and it was thought that it was stolen.
Thirty one years afterwards. on the
occasion of some men going down to
clear out the well, they found the
identical firkin and butter, the latter
in as good condition as when it was
packed,
Year: 1869

To KEEP MEAT FEEsH.-M.
Guignct says that butchers,
meat may be kept week or
ten days by placing it in ea,-
thenwarc jars filled with skim
milk The milk will sour and
the meat be kept sweet. A
clean stone will keep the meat
submerged, and the sour milk
can be fed to the pigs.
Year: 1869

The following is "synopsis Of the value
of foreign specie monies in the money terms
and gold Of the United States" prepared Of
fcially at the United States Mint and used
at the Treasury Department in Washington:
Year: 1869

Newspapers throughout tht
South have called attention repeat
edly to the painful fact that the
colored people are dying off rapid
ly. A great many more colored
people die in the large cities than
whites, according to population,
and the alarming discrepancy is
attributed mainly to the idleness,
dissipation, and careless and thrift
less propensities of the negro
Figures, which have the reputa-
ton of being our best truth-teller,


have been brought upon the rela-
tive longevity of peoples in the
respective stages of barbarism,
semi-barbarism and the present
age of civilization, with advantage
decidedly in favor of the latter.
More people attain their scriptural
allowance of years now than they
did centuries back, showing that
the progress of knowledge, and
especially of the medical science,
has a decided influence in prolon-
ging human life. And this may,
in measure, account for the
great disparity between the NOR
tality ofthe negroes aud the whites.
But in our locality, at least,
there is another and a more fatal
reason why the negroes die faster
than the whites, than the plausi


Bile and accepted theory Of differ
ence in civilization. An observing
intelligent physician of this coun-


try, who has noticed the gradual
depopulation of negroes, say that
they die for neglect and want of
medicine. A physician when
called in, finds the disease far
advanced and prescribes for the pa
tient, and in most cases the medi--
cine is not bought. They allow one
another, and themselves, to ge.
down to deaths door, before they
viii take any medicine. And this
is not because of poverty, but ev-
identity from want Of love for one
another. They are not so i'm
provident or imprudent, as neglect
full and unsympathetic. They do
not manifest the love of brother.
son and parent, which their hu-
manity and religions nature would
indicate.
Year: 1869

General Dent in his late speech
at Corinth, Miss, instructed the
negroes with regard to fact which
had not been placed before them
as frequently and clearly as It's
importance demands lie told
them emancipation was proclaimed
as military necessity, and rs a
matter of policy, and that the
Republican party, in dealing with
them, had been governed entirely
by selfish and partisan considera.
tIonS.


This is true. All Of the rant
and cant in the party about 1.-The
rights of man" aud the interests
OF God and humanity and the
eternal principles OF justice and
freedom" have Deen, SO tar as Con-
gress is concerned, pure and una
daulterated demagogism. Lin
coin said In bis letter to Greeley,
that what he did about slavery,
be did TO save the Union He said
his emancipation proclamation was
ga military necessity"


What nonsense is it to suppose
that Congress, acknowledged by
lis own party press to be one of
druukards and demagogues, and
noodles, would be controlled on
any question by regard for right ?
The politicians OF the ruling party
care nothing about the ''nigger"
but to make political capital out
of him. They would remand
him to slavery to perpetuate their
power.
Year: 1869

The corn crop, although fail
ure in some parts Of the country.
will be a heavy crop in other
parts. Kansas boasts that she
has raised more corn this aeason
than any other. In Texas, corn is
said TO be SO abundant that farm
ers can neither get rid of the old
crop nor contract the new one, at
twenty-five cents a bushel. In
one county in Iowa, the farmers
have still on hand of last years
crop, more than two hundred thou
sand bushels. All of which be-
ing true, there will be no scarcity
of corn this year.
Year: 1869

A Nashville negro, supposed to
be dead, as be had received sun
stroke and fallen apparently hte-
less, a few days ago, was placed in
an open coffin aud a jury sum-
moned. They held an inquest
and rendered verdict. They
really supposed the negro was
dead. So did everybody. Even
the doctors thought SO. And sure
enough. when they came to look,
he was dead. How true it is that
death cones at last to all.
Year: 1869

with singular inconsistency Radical
leaders insist that bondholdeTs shall be
paid in gold, because they say nations
like individuals, should pay TO the last
sent every dollar they owe.


The application Of this principle will
defeat the effect hoped for. While we nd
nit the nations, like individuals, ought 10
pay every dollar Of debt, we protest that
when the national obligation calls for the
payment of one dollar, it is unjust to re-
quire its payment in dollar and thirty
forty, or fifty cents.I


BY the federal law, endorsed upon The
back of the legal tender notes, il is provi.
ded that the note is legal tender for all
debts, public and private, except duties
on imports and interest on the public
debt, and as such is receivable in payment
of all loans made 10 the United States
With what face can man who holds the
national bonds, payable like other indebt-
ness ask the exchequer to pay forty cents
over The exact dollar 2 .A..


The impudence Of such proposition
says the Illinois STATE Register, Is shown
in all its effrontery, when it is remember
ed that the bonds we're purchased with
greenbacks worth only thirty or forty
cents in gold on the dollar. But be is a
public creditor. II he owes John Jones
an hundred dollars which he engaged To
pay in gold, and which he borrowed in
gold, the law says he may pay it in green
backs and be honest. Such conduct would
be unbeComing and dishonest on the part
Of the Government. The Radicals insist
that bOndhOliers are o privileged class,
and must have gold.
Year: 1869

A GENTLEMAN from the South says that
the Negro wenches in the section in which
no lives, destroy their progeny almost as
soon as they make their appearance in
this world, and assign as q reason for
such inhumanity, that they are not able
to support themselves, and therefore ore
unable to support their Ofspring.


This is the race Of people that the Rad
ical party Is putting forward as the equals
Of the assian- the race Of people
into whose hands the Radicals are willing
and endeAvOrug to put The balance Of
power in this boaSted Of enlightened gov.
ernment.


How about this, lovers Of free govern
ment, are yon willing that such state Of
affairs shall be fore ed upon you or are
you willing that we shall have the policy
that governed us under emocratic rule ?
II you desire TO return to the latter vote
the Democratic ticket, but II you desire
10 continue in your mad course vote the
Radical ticket.
Year: 1869




jackson, Mss cor. Cincinnati Commercial


The time of the Military Commission to-day was
wholly occupied in receiving the testimony of Mr..
John X YeTgeT uncle OF the prisoner, regarding the
family difficulties OF the accused. He was unTeasOn-
ably violent, sometimes blOodthirsty, and as the de-
past gone into, and an effort was made to show
that eccentricty, If not insanity, has marked the
conduct OF his family on the male side for some
generations. few months since he made lunge
with his knife at his brother George, and was only
defeated by being Knocked down with a chair;
for three or four years witness had believed,
and at times had said, that he was crazy; did
not think his conduct was due to liquor,
morning Of Colonel Cranes death accused returned
from Memphis at O'Clock A. M. sent for witness
at O'Clock; did not think he had slept at all he
seemed greatly excited at the indignty and insult
to which his wife and family had been subject in the
seizure of the piano during his absence; witness
did not anticipate any trouble or he would have en-
deaYored to prevent IT, Witness described the
counter between Yerger and Colonel Crane as mar
rated before by other witnesses, Endeavored to
separate the parties got his clothes all bloody;
covered with boOd took 1t to his oflce and locked
IL up 1t was until ii should be called for; saw
Colonel Crane strike Yerger, holding his light cane
horizontally breast high, and striking out at Yerger


On this point the testimony OF the witness differed
from all others who saw the scufe preceding the
stabbing.


on crossexaminaton the witness would not admit
that the conduct OF the accused resulted from drink
or that his insanity was due TO derium tremens
The accused has gone delegate TO the Memphis
Convention, but got up the meeting himself, and IL
was only attended by five or six persons; had once
been I'm the State Legislature, and was delegate at
large for the State at the Democratic Convention
He managed his own business, but managed it badly,
and gave constant evidence that his undue excite
ment and nngoverned passions were due 70 an un-
sound pjnd
Year: 1869

Do you feel weak, debiltated, easily tired?
lpoes "a. little extra exertion produce palpita-
eon Of the hearth Does your liver, or your KID
neys, frequently get out OF order9 Do you have
spells Of short breathing or dyspepsia7 Are your
bowels constlpated? Do you have spells Of fsintng,
or rushes Of blood to the head2 Is your memory i'm
paired? Is your mind constantly dwelling upon this
subject? Do you feel dull, lisess, moping, tired Of
company, of life9 Do you wish to be left alone to
get away from everybody? Does any little thing
/, make you start or jump? Is your sleep broken or
restess2 Is the ustre OF your eye as brilliant? The
bloom on your cheek as bright? Do you enjoy your
self insociety as well? Do you pursue your business
with the same energy? Do you feel as much con-
ndenee in yourself? Are your spirits dull and dag
ging given to fits OF melancholy? II So do not lay
1t to your liver or dyspepsia. Have you restless
nights7 Your back weak, your knees weak, and
have bat little appetite, and you attribute this to
dyspepsia or liver complaint


Did you ever think that those bold, def
ant, energetic, persevering, successful business
men are always those who are In per-
feet health? You never hear such men COM
.lain of being melancholy, OF nervousness, Of pal
pitation OF the heart. They are never afraid they
cannot succeed in business; they don't become sad
and discouraged; they are always polite and plea
SAINT in the company of ladies' and look you and
them right in the face-none Of your downcast looks
or any other meanness about them.


How many men, from badly cured diseases, have
brought about that state OF weakness that has re-
duced the general system so much as to induce al
most every other dsease-idlocy, lunacy, paralysis
spinal affections suicide and almost every otnerform
Of disease which humanity is heir to, and the real
cause Of the trouble scarcely ever suspected, and
have doctOred for all but the right one.


These diseases require the use OF Duretc.
Year: 1869

Were it not for the fact that the subjects of
several murders, lynching and other out
RACES and crimes too revolving to detail in
public journal, recently perpetrated in the
state of Indiana, were white people, that
state would be sadly in need of reconstruc-
ton. Had just one half these crimes been
perpetrated within the same time in any
southern state, the cauldron Of loyalty and
humanity it the north would be boiling over
with Indignation and congress would be in
perfect perspirstion over the great ques.
ton of guaranteeing a republican form of
government" to the offending state, or re-
manding it to territorial condition if it
had already been admitted to the dignity of
state in the Union.
Year: 1869

Somebody wants to know what the Repub.
lican party will do for ammunition when the
negroes are all dead. Why, they will throw
the country into revolution because they
have no monuments erected over their graves
and will not cease agitating the question Of
equal rights till the last ghost of them has
"a mausoleum built at public expense.
Year: 1869

Our readers must not be surprised at the
announcement that Gen. Grant has the roll
Of his cabinet called every morning to see
if they are all present and on duty. He is
so military and they are so resgniug.
Year: 1869

It is said that some men are like tea-their
real strength is not drawn out, until they
have been for a short time in hot water If
this be true, Gen. Grants strength must be
thoroughly exhausted by his cabinet stew.
Year: 1869

FIRST MONDAY In APRIL,
Enter upon the performance of his official duties
for the current year. He would call particular at
tention to the following section of the Revenue
Law


If any person shall wilfully make, OF give,
under oath affirmation, false list of his, her,
their taxable property, false list of taxable
proper under his her, their control, such per-
son shalfbe deemed gnilty of perjury, and upon
conviction thereof shall be punished therefor, as
is by law provided for the punishment of perjury
and any property wilfuly concealed, removed,
transferred, or misrepresented by the owner any
agent thereof, to evade taxation shall upon dis
covery be assessed at ten times the amount of tax
for that year, which would otherwise have been
assessed upon it and fifty per cent of the amount
sush additional tax, when solicited shall be paid
to the person persons who shall furnish the
information which reveals the property conceal
ed transferred, removed or misrepresented and the
remaining fifty per cent, after deductmg the usual
per centage for collection, shall be paid into the
Treasury, for the benefit of the Common School
Fund of the State


Attention is also directed to the following section
of the Act of 1866, relating to Shasta county:


The Assessor of said county is authorized and
it is hereby made his duty to collect all the poll or
per capita tax except the road poll tax, and the
taxes upon all movable personal property and upon
the entry of any assessment of movable personal
property, to any person, firm, corporation assoca-
ton, or company, who does not own real estate
sufficient in the opinion of the Assessor to insure
the payment of such tax within the county, to de-
mand the payment of the taxes upon the same /;
and if such person, firm, corporation, association,
or company shall refuse neglect to pay such
taxes, the Assessor shall, by virtue of the power
herein vested in him. proceed to collect such taxes
in the same manner prescribed by law for the Col
lector"


If Tax Payers were to have list of their pro-
perty prepared, ready to be sworn to, as the law
directs, by the time of my reaching them. they
would thereby perhaps save themselves much an
noyance, well as facilitate'my work.


A. p. LADD,
Assessor of Shasta County.


Shasta, April 3, 1869. ap3
Year: 1869

Established expressly to afford tho afflicted
sound and scientific Medical Aid, in the treatment
and cure Of all Private and Chronic Diseases Case.
of Secrecy and all Sexual Disorders.
Year: 1869

Most every paper wo take up have
wonderful tales to tell about the wonder
ful virtues of this and that Bittcrs. We
wish to say one word in regard to Uof-
hciuer's Bavarian Bitters. Having tried
them thoroughly we can safely rec
ommend them to all threatened with
chils or fevers, as almost sure prevent
i've, if not sure remedy, after the chlls
have once taken thoroughly hold. As a
tonic bitter they are not surpassed by
any Of our knowledge and are sure anti
dispeptic in their effect on the system.
Give them trial. KRONE d. DrToN of
Fort Smith, have them for sale, by case
or retail, and they ought to be in every
store in this city.


Z S.-Col. j. W. Wallace have the
Bitters for sale.
Year: 1869

Mr.. Harney, on retiring from the
Louisville Democrat. publishes a card
in which he says "The worst sin [
have on my conscience is helping to
make great men out Of very small
material" But Mr.. Harney's COM
plant is universal, and the worst Of il is
that If an editor don't take to IL kindly
every small man who thinks he ought
to be made great By the papers, be-
comes an enemy. The amount of in
Renrity and waste Of conscience in
volved in the business is frightful,


Thus truly writes Bro. Bickham OF
the Dayton journal, who speaks from
experience. Some years ago, he went
to Dayton at the earnest solicitation of
the leading men of the city and county
and bought the journal when il was
very little account as a paper. From
the start he has madc it one Of the
best papers in the country. Yet
about twice a year regularly a set Of
fools in and about Dayton, take il
into their heads that the Journal isn't
such a paper as they ought to have
there, and that it ought 10 be crushed
out, or it's proprietor compelled to sell
il TO them at their price. Of course,
they think that they could make q
model paper of it--one that would
command the admiration of the world
aud in a short time make MOntgOm-
cry county pretty nearly unanimously
Republican. IL would be a very valu-
able lesson to them to try tho expert
ment.-CToledo Blade.
Year: 1869

A little bird few my window by,


'TWiXt the level street and the level sky,
The level rows of houses tall,
The long low sun on the level wall,
And all that the little bird did say,
Was, "OVer the hills and far away"
A little bird sang behind my chair,
From the level line of cornfields fair,
The smooth green hedgerows's level bound
Not a furlong off,--the horizons bound,
And level lawn where the sun all day
Burns s-stOYsr the hills and far away.
A little bird sings above my bed,
And know If could but lift my head
I would see the sun set, round and grand,
Upon level sea and level sand,
While beyond the misty distance gray
Is cover the hills and far away"
I think that a little bird will sing
Over a grassy mound, next spring,
Where something that once was me yen


leave
In the level sunshine, morn and eve:
But shall be gone, past night, past day,
Over the hills and tar away