smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1868

To REMOVE CREASE FROM SILK.-If
powdered French chalk is applied quickly
after grease has fallen upon silk, the latter
will be speedily absorbed; the powder may
shortly afterwards be busted of, when the
spots will be found to be entirely obliterated.
Year: 1868

| a
a Narrow Escape.


The devious ways of thieves and
robbers are past comprehension. Such
tact and ingenuity and sharp practices
as they resort to are worthy of better
cause. One day last week, a gentleman
residing above Osborn, came to Dayton
and drew from bank $1,000. 1t is
not known whether or not he was
watched by any one, but the sequel
would indicate that there was spy on
the track. Returning home in the after
noon in his buggy, he overlook woman
just beyond the Mad river bridge, who
seemed weary. and asked permission to
ride short distance. This reasonable
request the gentleman of course COM
piled with, and she, he or it, got into
the buggy. She, he or it, was neatly
dressed, with hands thrust into muff


They had not proceeded far until the
woman Inadvertently let her, his OF its
heavy boots stick out from under the
lady's dress! The man was at once re-
minded of the ass which put on the lions
skin, and was at once detected by the
ears. He smelt mice. And now what
was to be done? How could he get rid
of his unwelcome companion? He saw
his danger. Time was precious All
at once he dropped his whip which fell
upon the ground. Stopping the horse,
he politely requested the woman-so-
called-to get out and pick up the whip,
as his horse was very wild, and it was
dangerous for him to alight, leaving her
in the buggy.


She, he. or it readily hoped out,
leaving the muf on the seat, when the
gentleman piled the reins vigorously and
ran off, leaving the woman to do the
best she, he, or it could with the whip.
On examination, the muff was found to
contain bowie-knife and revolver J.
The mystery was unfolded. The female
was a male highway robber. The gen.
tleman by presence of mind was safe
and SO was his money. He says he will
be slow to take in women hereafter
D0yt0n Ledger.
Year: 1868

The Radicals have made more history
since they have had charge of the Gov
ernment than any other party since the
old Revolutionary chaps who kicked uT
a row about tea tax.


They have had civil war, martyr,
piled up the biggest National debt ever
heard Of, and now they are prepared to
wind up with impeachment and revolu.
ton. ---.-.. 1


They are lively party now, say what
you will, and as long as the people will
stand the expense, they will give them
plenty OF excitement for their money.
Year: 1868

The Key West Dispatch of the 25ih ult., says ::
The Circuit Court of the State for this county mas
been in session in regular term for the past week
Judge Msgbee presiding. The transaction of
business before this court has been so far con.
Quoted with great facility TO the bar and court
well to ell parties before the court, saving the
absurdity which prompted the convention which
framed the constitution to require the taking
down in writing of the evidence of the witnesses
in each case by the clerk.


bszar was held al the Masonic r all on Wednes-
day evening. the l4th inst, and continued on
Thursday evening, for the purpose of raising funds
to put in order and furnish the parsonage of the
n. E. church with such articles of furniture, ETC..
as are necessary for the comfort of the pastor.
The net amount realized was s95 20 With this
sum and balance on hand of Sl9 95 from the
proceeds of the fair of July last making total of
sil9 so, the trustees think they will accomplish
their wishes.


The Tampa Southerner of the 26th ult. has the
following Since our last issue have been
visited by another cold snap slight frost was
visible or two mornings but did no damage Of
consequence.


Judge Alien has shown us lemon grown some
where in this section, which measures four cen
inches in circumference, eight inches in length
and weighs two and a half pounds. Who says
that with proper cultivation we cannot raise fine
fruit in South Florida


Work on the buildings at Fort Brooke, under the
efficient superinlendeDce Of Mr.. Leonard rapid
ly progressing; the hospital and officers quarters
will be completed sometime in December.


A colored man named johnson, revenue boat
man, was stabbed by soldier on the piazza of
tie court house during the progress of the meet
ing last Lieht.
Year: 1868

OPINIONS OF A PRUssIAN EXECU-
TIoNER.-Reindel, the Prussian heads
man, lives in very fine house in the
neighborhood of HavelbeTg, and is
well off; but his neighbors studiously
refrain from holding any intercourse
with him. He says he never yet met
with a criminal who was to be be-
headed but whose courage finally
gave way. He thinks hanging would
be better mode of execution, near
ly every criminal being afraid of the
pain which they think the axe, in cut
ting off their heads. would give them.
He says the most trying moment for
him is always that of confronting his
victim ior the purpose of looking at
his neck and cutting off his hair.


All the women whom he beheaded,
he says, tainted as soon as they caught
sight Of him, and learned who he was,
and what he wanted of them. He de-
nounces as wanton cruelty the prac-
tice of reading once more to the GRIM
inal the whole long sentence passed
upon him after he has reached the
scaffold. He thinks that there is still
Sensibility in the head for several min
utes after it has been severed from
the trunk. A woman beheaded In
Mecklenburg in 1866 had tainted on
the scaffold, and seemed perfectly
lifeless when she was tied to the block.
After her head was off he picked it
up, and saw to his horror that the
eyes opened slowly, with an express
sion of great agony.


He thinks the most humane way OF
executing criminals would be to kill
| them in an hour or an hour and
half after their sentence has been an
nounced to them, and not compel
them to walk or ride to a distant
place of execution, but to execute them
if possible in their own prison; for
n-IA. LA- -ea.1o is
always a dreadful torture for the GRIM
inal, few of the strongest men being
able to retain their composure, while
the women, without exception, have to
be carried to the block. Occasional
ly, be says, feeble women arouse them
selves at the last moments, and offer
the most desperate resistance, so that
he and his assistants once or twice
were hardly able to fasten them to the
block.
Year: 1868

woman wearing black bonnet and
faded black silk dress. She has a
long row OF figures, and is engaged
in mathematical calculation to find
out the ratio between gains and loss
es. Look at her face narrowly. 1t
is as cold and passionless as that of
yonder marble statue in the park.
She could see a man step upon the
fatal drop and swing into eternity
without raising her fan to shut out
even for second the horrid sight.
No scene of suffering can change for
an instant the rigidity of that CORFU
gated countenance-as hard as the
hardest steel! She has finished her
calculations, folds her paper slowly,
puts up her pencil deliberately, watch
es the table, lays double guilder on
number twelve and sees it swept
away; lays another-another- "a
fourth; all are gone, but the fifth
wins-the sixth loses, yet there is no
change of feature in that metallic
countenance.


Before we leave the hall let US take
one more look. There is one player
whom we must not pass by; it is an
old woman, with thin, gray hair, hol-
low cheeks, toothless gums, shrivelled
countenance, deep-set eyes dim with
age, and trembling hands. She wears
ill-ftting garments, an old straw bon
net trimmed with faded ribbons, a
shawl worn threadbare. She is an
old habitue of the place. Year after
year she has set at this table. Many
thousand francs she has won and lost
She is low down now and will be low
er Soon-in the grave. Her voice is
sepulchral; hollow, as if sounding
from the tomb. She has six dollars
in the corner of dirty handkerchief !;
she plays and every one is lost, then
leaves the table, walks around the
room, mumbling to herself, her bent
form and trembling limbs attracting
for moment the eyes of all around
her. She goes to the door, looks out
upon the starlit sky, but sees no beau
ty there-no hand divine beckoning
her upward to a purer sphere. There
has been a time in her life when heav,
en- was nearer than perdition. If
there are voices still calling her to a
better life, she does not hear them or
she is perverse towards them, for she
turns toward the table, raises her arm
over the shoulders of the crowd
around the table, toSses down a dol
lar and wins two.


Her bleared eyes gleam once more
For a moment there is hystericaI
movement of the toOthlesS Jaws and q
sepulchral laugh. at this unexpected
luck, and though it is near midnight
she sits down to the table to recover
VilS IVooCo " NV ~o4.-S.
Year: 1868

Hear the testimony of John Wesley
on this subject. He says;


Whatever it costs, flee spiritual
adultery! Have no friendship with
the world. However tempted by prof
it or pleasure, contract no intimacy
with worldly minded men. And if
thou hast contracted with any such
already, break it off without delay
Yes, if thy ungodIy friend De dear to
thee as right eye, or useful as a
right hand, yet confer not with flesh
and blood, but pluck out the right eye,
cut off the right hand, and cast them
from thee! 1t is not an indifferent
thing. Thy life is at stake-eternal
life or eternal death And is it not
better to 90 into the eternal lite hav-
ing one eye or one hand, than having
both to be cast into hell fire When
thou knewest no better, the times of
ignorance God winked at But now
their eyes are opened, now the light
is come walk in the light Touch not
pitch, least thou be deiled. At all
events keep thy self pure. But what
ever do, whether they will hear or
whether they will forbear, hear this
However importuned Or tempted
thereto, have no friendship with the
world. Look around and see the mel
ancholy effect it has produced. How
many have fallen by this very thing


They would take no warning; they
would converse and that intimately
with earthly-minded men, till they
measured back their steps to earth
again. 0 come out from among them
from all unholy men, however harm
less they may appear, and be ye sep
arate; at least so far as to have nc
intimacy with them. As your fellow
ship is with the Father and his SOL
Jesus Christ, so let it be with thost
and those only, who at least seek the
Lord Jesus in sincerity"


PaySOn was holy man and an EN-
inently useful minister of Christ. Ii
early life he renounced the world. Ht
says: "After long doubling the pro
priety, and even the lawfulness of
mixing at all in society, where dut!
does not call, and after suffering {


number of times for indulging myself


in it, | am at length taught to re


nounce it entirely; and it is not


needless scrupulosity. 1t does appea


a duty to shun all communication witt
the world, when there is no well


grounded reason to hope to do good
There are to be sure, many very plaus


IDLE reasons, but | doubt whether the,
, will bear the test of scripture


To one who urged him to go int


society and to frequent public amuse
ments he wrote: "Can a man tax
, GOALS of fire in his bosom and hi
clothes be not burned? +? If he can, b
, can mix freely with the world, an,


not be contaminated. But | am no
| the one that can do it. \ y When
go into company, if it is pleasant an
! agreeable: it has tendency only t


ix my thoughts on earth, from whic
: it is my duty and my desire to tur
l them-to give me distaste for ser
: GUS duties, especially prayer and med


tation, and to render desiroas of th
: applause and appreciation Of thos
Year: 1868

by them because / believed they were
the principles of humanity, and which
God will bless. | have adhered to
them because | believed they were
wisest and best for this country of
ours. If / ever forsake them, may my
tongue cleave to the roof Of my mouth
and my right arm forget its cunning.
AS in the past so in the future, shall
adhere to them, whether in public or
private life, and shall adhere to them
without variableness or the shadow of
turning, believing that the same God
who gave us victory in the darkest
hour of the war, and lifted our sold
iers to the sunlit crowns of victory
and hope, will carry out those princi-
Piles to their consummation, because
we stand upon a platform against
which L believe the gates of hol eon-
not prevail"
Year: 1868

have bought the Marble Works in Barton and
removed them to the basement of Kimball 6
Fierce's Store, where they eau do as neat work
as at any other shop in the County. They war.
rant their work to please all who may have it,
Those wishing anything In their line will do well
by calling upon them before purchasing else
where. Remember the place.


UNDER KIMBALL & PIERCE's STORE.


Barton, May 80, lS6S-22
Year: 1868

riveting the chains upon his comrades
in the Confederate enterprise.


The Radicals should be permitted In
no way to evade the popular demands
The general, if not unanimous, septi-
ment of tho people is in favor of the
repeal of all proscriptive measures
Should the party in power fail to yield
to the popular wish, it will be held to
strict accountability. Nothing should
be done from which it can extort a
sanction ofits course. All should stand
shoulder to shoulder in demanding, not
clenency, but justice-the immediate
aud entire repeal of the whole Test
Oath system. If the demand be respec-
ted, all will, as all should, share the
benefit. Ifit be rejected, the next Leg
islature will be of a kind to need no
suggestions as to duty.


Let there be no flinchlng, or cOmpro-
missing. Any man who can interpret
events, must see that the downfall OF
Radicalism is certain aud near. Under
such circumstances, to truckle or to
yield is worse than unwise: it is the
blindest folly.
Year: 1868

We expressed tho other day the be-
lief that the repeal Of the Attorneys
Test Oath would, in all likelihood, be
considered by the present Legislature.
Subsequent occurrences have strengthen
ed this view. One awkward fact appears
to stand in the way of the repeal. If
the Oath in question DO abolished, the
act will carry with it confession Of
wrong in the nature OF results of the
Oath itself


To get rid of this, efforts will dou bt-
less be made to induce lawyers that are
now excluded from practice in our State
Courts to apply for special exemption
and reliOf as regards the oath. All who
make such applications will be held to
admit, ipsO faOto, the general jsstice and
correctness of the prescription from
which they suffer. To ask for special
relief is to confess the propriety of the
law, from whose operations they would
be exempt. Its validity is recognized
by the very fact of such application.


New if prescribed lawyers can be pro-
cured to justify their own prescription,
the responsibility for that prescription
will be shifted from Radical shoulders.
The party in power can go before the
people with the testimony of its own
victims to show that its measures Of
ostracism have neither been unright-
eous nor inexpedient.


We trust that our law makers will be
allowed no such way of escape from
the consequences of their own wrongs.
We venture the hope that no gentle
man, now under the Radical ban, viii al
low himself to be made the scape-g goat
of Radical iniquity, or accept any
special mercy as q compromise for uni
versal justice. If any Southern lawyer
believes his exclusion from the Courts
to be the just penalty of his course, we
would lay no obstacle in the way
of his petition for individual re
lief. But if he believes that the pro
scrfption of all his class has no justifi
cation, then, we take it, that no partici
pant in the late rebellion will receive
from Radical sources any benefits thai
may be denied to his fellows, especially
when his acceptance of them will bs
hsld to excuse the powers that be il
Year: 1868

tains into the darkened room it had sunk to a
whisper.


Nor was this ALL The few hours preceding
the dawn had wrought great change in his
appearance. The pinched and drawn fea-
lures showed that the hour so long delayed
had arrived at last. The messenger was even
now upon the threshold, ready to bear away
the spirit that had struggled so fercely in its
tenement of clay.


The words that he now addressed to his
weeping friends were SO low and broken that
they could scarcely learn their meaning. But
they bent their heads down close to the chill
ling lips, to catch the flutter of the last sigh
and low-breathed aspiration. In this last
hour his brilliant eyes retained their ANNA
ton and spirit until the hfeless lids sunk
above them. On his sisters face they lin
gered longest forcing her eyes to meet his
own by that strange magnetic emotion which
the dying ever have over the living. o! what
world of passionate regret that last look
contained But the chilling waves of the in
visible were slowly rising around him-a
shudder crept through his frame-the eyes
suddenly lost their look of intelligence
scarce perceptible moan from the stifened
lips, and Warren Hayes was dead


OF the fathers grief, of the young sisters
despair, we may not tell! Let time. the great
medicine in affliction, mitigate their woe
man may not rend the vail which shadows the
grief-stricken heart, and exposeits misery!
Year: 1868

THF New York World insists that the
apparent nnanimity Of the nominstion Of
General Grant is OF no political significance.
Clay was nominated by acclamation and
with the same unaniinity by the Wing Con
vention in 1874, while the Democratic Con-
veptiop Of the same year came together
with a. much donbt as 10 a candidate as
may mark the opening proceedings OF the
Convention this year Yet when Polk was
nominated ihe party was thoroughly and
enthusiastically in accord, aud the candi-
date was triumphantly elected. For la
ser instance, it was hardly possible Cor any
convention to assemble with more must
candidates before il than the Democratic
Convention Of 1852 But when Pierce was
nominated against Scott the conqueror Of
Mexico there was "uusnimity' enough 10
enable him TO carry every State in abe
Union, excepting four.
Year: 1868

We shall constantly admonish the Southern
people 10 be ssll-reliAnt, aud shall do what we
may be able 20 induce the establishment Of
manufactures in our midst for cur home pro
ducts. To this end we win pay special attention
10 the COST and STATISTICS Of manufacturing.
and exert ourselves % encourage the divsrsih
cation Of Southern industries and the develop
neat OF Southern resources
Year: 1868

Who will be, elected Governor of New York by about 100000 majority, opened the State canvass at Buffalo the other day in & magnificent speech. He closed with the following powerful blow at Grant and the Radical party, and with the relation of striking in- cident which will be read with in terest:

 I go further than that. I will say in regard to General Grant, that the na- ton has placed three stars upon his shoulder, and would be the last man to say that they ought not to have been placed there. 1 would not take one of as he has earned them. But 1 would not, by my voice or vote, sustain the policy of the party which puts him in nomination, which, while it leaves the stars on his shoulders, takes them of the flag of the country. Tremendous cheering.) They stand emblazoned upon that glorious old flag, each star the representative of Q sovereign, inde- pendent, and equal State, and the man who would make one of them repre- sent anything else, would just as read fly take star from the shoulder of a general. But we want no military President, let his virtues and bravery be ever so great. The country wants statesman. (Great cheering.) The day of the word is past. Time is come to lay it aside. A little incident oc- cured at the national Convention as- sembled in the great city of New York, which was at once an omen and a warning. That grand hall where the Convention met was full of patriotic men. Upon it's walls were posted the shields of the whole thirty-seven States, and around every shield was the American flag. Upon the platform stood two bronze statues of noble sol diers, one leaning upon great bronze sword. The Convention had been in session for several days. Ballot after ballot had taken place. First one was up, then another, and presently a gal lant general, whose name has never anywhere been mentioned but with respect-I mean Hancock. Loud cheers.l No man knew whether on the next ballot he was or was not to be chosen. Everything was uncertain, when, suddenly, the great bronze sword in the statue's hand snapped asunder at the hilt. It was not touched by mortal hand. No human agency broke it. Some mysterious, invisible, and ir- resistible power snapped it at the hilt and the word went forth that the coun- try was to have hereafter statesman and not a soldier for its leader. Ire mendous chcering.] My friends, the people throughout the great State ol

 New York and Ohio and Pennsylva- mia, and throughout the nation, are

 being stirred, not by any human agen- cy, not by any word of public speakers in public assemblages, but there is a power as mysterious, as unseen, as ir. resistible as that which broke the sword, which is moving upon the masses of the people. and which will elevate 10 the chair of state that excel lent citizen, Christian gentleman, and noble statesman Horatio Seymour 1 Immense cheering.
Year: 1868

A brief dispatch which appears in our telegraphic columns this morning announces the death of this distinguish ed Confederate General, by assassina- ton, at his home in Helena, Arkansas, on the night of the 27th instant. The supposed assassin, man named Rob- bins, from Springfield, Mo-, said to have served under General Hindman during the late war, was arrested at Memphis yesterday. and though strong ly protesting his innocence, was sent back to Helena.

 General Hindman was native of Tennessee, and in the fiftieth year of his age. He began his military career, which from time to time was marked with no little brilliancy, in the Mexi- can war. serving as a Second Lieu tenant of Mississippi volunteers. Af- ter the close of that war, General Hind- man settled in Arkansas, where he sub sequently gained prominent position among the leading public men of that State. He was Representative from Arkansas in the Thirty Congress, and was reelected to the Thirty A the breaking out of the late war, he was among the first to buckle on his armor in the service of his adopted State, his military prestige and his position procuring for him at once the commission of Brigadier-G General. Subsequently he was commissioned as a Major which rank he held at the cessation of hostilities.

 General Hindman was dashing, fearless soldier, and, though fretting at times towards the close of the war at the control of those of his superiors whom he suspected of lack of military skill, was never found wanting when called upon to perform his part in the unequal struggle in which the army of Tennessee was so long engaged. It is impossible at the late hour at which we write to give anything more than this brief resume of the life and public ser vices of General Hindman. Nor have we the heart, were the data all at hand, to write more, so shocked are we now at the cruel telegram which lies before us, telling of the death, by the hand of a cowardly assassin, of this brave sol- dier, sitting quietly in his home with his wife near his side and his children all about him. It is hard to think that a man that has borne the brunt of a hum dred battles should be shot down when not dreaming of danger of any kind. But it is all too true, and this is the peace which Is vouchsafed to us