smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1869

The following receipt is worth five
dollars toa sheep farmer, and we have
never seen it in print. Ifthere is any
life in the lamb put it at once up to
the head in blood warm bath adding
more warm water as it cools. Keep
in this fifteen or twenty minutes, or
"until it makes the water fly with its
feet" Then wipe it dry and return it
at once to its mother.
Year: 1869




Feeble and Debilitated.


This is trying season for invalids indeed for all
who are not blessed with robust constitutions and
iron frames.


Cold has come upon US suddenly, sealing up the
open pores and sealing in as it were, any seeds Of
disease that may have been lurking in the system
but which rem aimed undeveloped 60 long as the
waste matter of the body and all acid and unwhoe-
some humors were freely discharged by evaporation
fiom the surface and through the bowels.


tonic. aperient and Alternative medicine Is now
needed to nvigorate the vital powers depressed by
low temperature; to stimulate and purify the secre-
tions, and to fit the body to endure, without incon-
vsnience, pain or danger, the sudden climatic change
which ushers in the winter.


The only preparation which will fully meet this
almost universal need, and will thoroughly and
safely perform the important work, is the leading
tonic and Alternative of the age, HOSTETTERS
STOMACH BITTERS.


This popular specific improves the appetite, in.
vigorates the digestive organs regulates the flow Of
bile, enriches the blood, cams the nerves. relieves
constipation, promotes superficial circulation and
evaporation, and being composed solely of whole
some vegetable elements, with pure stimulant as
their dusive vehicle, may be taken by the weakest
without fear. The flavor is agreeable for although
the BITTERS are potent medicine, they contain
no nauseating element.


dec6deodaw1wsN
Year: 1869

REORGANIZATION OF THE UNITED STATES


JUDIcIARf.-The law enacted by Congress in


April last, re-adjusting the Judiciary of the


Onited states, is now about to 60 into effect


by that law the Supreme Court is hereafter to
consist of the Chief Justice and eight associate
Justices, one more than are now on the bench.
These Justices are to be relieved, in a great de-
gree, from the duty of sitting as judges in the
several Circuit Courts of the country, and nine
new Circuit Judges have been nominated for
this purpose, who, with the District Judge of
each District, shall exercise the same authori-
ty' and possess the same jurisdiction as have
hitherto belonged to the Circuit Courts under
the late organization. The statute, however
does not contemplate the entire exemption of
the Justices of the Supreme Court from all
circuit duty. Each of them is assigned to a
circuit as before, but he is not required to at
tend at every term, as he has been under the


old law, and it is probable that he will make


his appearance in the several districts of his
circuit no more frequently than will be neces-
sary, in order to meet the requirements of the
new statute. To relieve these Justices of the
excessive duties devolved upon them was the
principal object of this statute, and in addition
to their duties at Washington, it REQUIRES them
70 sit at least once every two years in each of
the Districts of their respective Circuits. This
they may do either alone, in case the Circuit
Judge and District Judge should both be 9TH
erwise employed; or with either or both of
these Judges according as 1t may be arranged
BY their common agreement
Year: 1869

obtained Richard at length succeeded in
recovering his long-lost-sister, on the 2Sth
of January. in the house of peasant at
Ghrentliru.yge.


II all thi, were not prosaically in evil
dence before court Of Justice in criminal
trial. one would hesitate TO believe that
such fragment of the twelfth century
could be grated into the nineteenth.
Nor, however guilty they be before the
law, are the actors of this strange history
personally to blame. any more than
Hindoos who might be concerned in n
suttee, or in driving the car OF Juggernaut,
believing that thereby they were render
ing acceptable service to their Deity. IL
is the system which is accountable.
Priests and nuns, who had seen the alb
duction of the boy Mortara defiantly justi-
fed by the Vicegerent of Christ. might
well consider it their duty to labor for the
salvation of young Lutheran whom God
seemed to place in their hands for that
purpose. If deceit, dissimulation and
mendacity became necessary TO effect so
holy purpose, the fault was not with
them, but with the irrcligious laws which
had deprived them of the power enjoyed
OF old TO sunder all human ties in the
name of the blessed Savior.
Year: 1869

1t 10 announced from Washington that the
Yerger case will not be be brought to
judgment in the Supreme Court for the
reason that the decision Of the court would
be adverse to the eonsti,utionality of the
Reconstruction laws which the administra.
ton wishing to prevent, have agreed to
hand Yerger over to the civil authorities
when Mississippi is reconstructed. but
suppose Congress in the meantime legis'ales
for bis neck
Year: 1869

1t is announced that Ex-senator Grimes,
of Iowa, is not improved in health by his
summer sojourn in Europe. The second
paralytic stroke was not so severe as the
first, but it left him in feeble condition.
At last accounts he was getting ready for n
extended trip on the Mediterranean.
Year: 1869

The Capitol IL said to be in complete
readiness for the meeting Of Congress. Tho
finishing touches we're given to the Senate
and House halls on Monday, which have
been upholstered and painted throughout
for the first tune in Is years.
Year: 1869

Although determined effort will be made
at the coming session Of Congress to oust
Gorham from his position as Secretary of
Senate, it is not believed it can succeed, as
the greatest opposition to him comes
only from portion Of the delegation on
the Pacific coast. The movement is not
generally favored by eastern and southern
Year: 1869

MoSEY ORDER OFFIcE.-Tbe White
Cloud Post Office hes been made . mon.
~ order Office BY the Department. and is
sow prepared to accommodate the pub
lie in that line. This arrangement will
Be . great convenience to our citizens,
end they had for some time been striving
70 accomplish it.
Year: 1869

the European people, In whose Assembly she viii
have seat oOate que coate This very wish is her
chief error the source OF all her faults OF all her in
terror and foreign msg0yernment of which there H.
OF course good deal left, Notwithstanding all that
has been and Is being done, Unfortunately much Is
selves with Europe who will never give us our due
never accept US, never 1nd0rse our d0ings, never
forgive US our existence; for she hates u.s. not for
what We are and what We do but because we are.
Between us and her is the antagonsm between black
and white between pole and pole, between east and
our monthly magazines on this theme OF ''TEe
Cause OF Europe's Hostility to Russia" The first
part only has appeared TIL now. When shall have
read the second shall devote whole letter to re.
view II, and am sure your readers will thank me
for It, for they VIII find In 1t stirrngy novel and at
the same time correct views OF this all-imp0rtant
question.
Year: 1869

have won the patronage and support OF ths Queen,
not from their talent which IL mediocre but from the
llct That one OF the party bears marvellous resem
blance TO the late Prince COnsort when young The
likeness h really most striking IN feature complex
ion and expression.


managers In general respecting the very scant dra-
peries OF the ballet girls, some OF whom are clad
His lordship was doubtless urged into this show Of
vitality by the "press," and the iun OF it Is. the
press, with hardly an exception turn round upon
him and request him to 'eave the girls alone." One
spirited "gir OF the PERIOD" on the stage wrote
capital letter to the papers, 10 which she says she
thinks the girls on the stage undress up their
waists from the necessity OF their profession ana the
command OF their managers are less to blame than
the ladies In the halls and dress circle, Who I'M
dress down to their waists merely for tasnion's
sake fair hit.
Year: 1869

Lord Lytion sent a SUM Of money to
,he widow of Ernest Jones, with letter,
In which he said that he had no SYM
paihy with her husband politics, bat
honored him for his advocacy Of what he
believed to be right, in spite of private
and worldly inducements TO contrary
course.
Year: 1869

AT an interview on Thursday with the
President, one of the Military Committee
of the House said he thought Congress
would not be long in session. Grant re-
sponded /" sm glad to hear it. lthlnk
au early adjournment is the very best
thing Congress can do.
Year: 1869

able to do so for some days if at all during the pres


The Senate Military Committee decided not to
mort anv more nominations for army promotion by
tlis character before them all of which were laid
npon the table No action has yet been taken the
nominations before them for the two vacancies Of
paymasters in the regular army.
Year: 1869

THE RoTUNDA REFUSED FOR THE INAUGURATION BALL


After the discussion OF the concurrent resolution 10
give the Rotunda for the Inauguration ball, was re-
ectcd by the following vote.
Year: 1869

One of those earnest rural preachers, who
''stand no nonsense in the house of God,
was invited one hot Sunday last summer to
offciate in one of our fashionable city
churches, and was much annoyed by the
operate style of the singing. During the
prayer that followed he took occasion to re-
lieve mis- mind on the subject by saying:


so Lord, thou knowest, without doubt,
what is the meaning of the song which has
just been sung in Thy house; but Thou
knowest that we know nothing about it.
Nevertheless, We pray that it may, in some
way, be blessed to us all. -
Year: 1869

A woman recently entered store in Con
necticut, and sat down in front of an iron
safe to warm her feet. After sitting some
twenty or thirty minutes, she remarked that
she never did like them kind Of stoves
they didn't throw out scarcely any heat,
those gas burners didn't
Year: 1869

EXTRAvAGANcE IN DREss.-You wish 10
dress your wife better than your circumstan,
ces will allow. She wants to have you do
so. Sc is a woman of spirit, it is said,
aud does not mean to be drudge. why
should our neighbors, she says to her hus-
band, dress any better than we; They are
made Of the same flesh and blood that we
are. See how they come out. | don t think
any man of spirit would let his wife and
children go to church as you let Us 60 Look
at these children. \ Iou would think they
had just come out of some slop house, II
| had married as | might have married, we
should have had different times-I and my
children - How many meu are stung to
The quick by such remarks from their wives !
Ofttimes their moral sense revolts, at first,
and they feel Indignation; but continued
dropping wears a stone and by and by the
man is dressed little better than he can af-
ford, and his wife and children are dressed
better than he can afford and somebody must
pay for this extravaganza. | do not mean
tha: they are tempted to steal; but do say
that they grind. They somehow get it out
of the milliner, out of the dress maker, oil
out of the merchant They intend to make
! one hand wash the otker somehow, aud they
go into petty ri,eanness to bring it about.
! And this desire to dress better than they car
afford is taking of the very enamel of thei


virtue, and taking out the very stamina o


their life. Unimportant as it seems, osten


tatious vanity in dress has ruined many
| family and damned many a soul
Year: 1869

A raw Jonathan who had been gazing at
a garden in the vicinity of New York. IN
which were several marble statues, exclaim
ed sJust see what a waste Here's no
less than six scarccrows in this little ten
foot patch, and any one on EN- would keep
the crows from a ten acre lot.
Year: 1869

Dang me, if | don't believe the world :
a wheelbarrow. said a Jolly inebriate as he
rolled along the pavement, 'and | am the
wheel revolving on haxis-now am on
dry land as he crawled on the curbstone ;
his concluding remark, as his boots followed
his head down an open cellar way, was ::
now the wheel is broken, and the vehicle
Is out of fix
Year: 1869

The sounds that fall on mortal ear,
As dew drops pure at even,
That soothe the breast or start the tear,
Are mother, home and heaven.
A mother-sweetest name on earth,
We lisp it on the knee,
And idolize its sacred worth


In manhood's infancy.
home-that paradise below,


OF sunshine and Of flowers,
Where hallowed joys perennial now
BY calm, sequestered bowers
And heaven-that port of endless peace,
The haven of the soul,
When life's corroding cares shall cease,
Like sweeping waves to roll.
O weep not then, though cruel time
The chain of love has riven;
To every link, in yonder cline,
Reunion shall be given.
Oh. fall they not on mortal ear,
As dew drops pure at even,
To soothe the breast, or start the tear,
A mother, home and heaven
Year: 1869

EDITOR STAR: / have waited 10 hear some
person "for bid the bans" but do not peli.y We
there Is single person IN Washington or
Georgetown who can assign q valid reason
why the two cities should not be united uuter
one municipal government. Economy of ex-
peHditure demands IL, and the welfare of all
Is the proper one for movement in the matter.
THIS . the first opportunity the District of
Columbia has ever had for exertion In the pro.
melton OF ITS own welfaR Previous TO the
var 1t was at best only tuV neutral ground of
conflicting interests without the sympathy OF
either party. Now il is national ground, and
incapable aud unwilling to oppose the national
interests. II the people will move at once they
may be ready for effective action at the com.
nencement OF the next session of Congress- and
q new charter may be our next New Years
gift giving the people little further tins 70
prepare for their f1rst organization under the
new government. A. CrTrzrI
Year: 1869

A NEW UNITARIAN CONeRReArfoN ha.
been in this city to be known by the name of
'The Free National Church OF Christ II is
design that IT shall be in every sense free
Church. The Grst public services will De held
next Sunday, when an eloquent preacher from
BostOa Will discourse.
Year: 1869

The mystery surrounding the movements of the
Cuban patriots at present residing in this city
to nave awakened considerable excitement here
abouts yesterday, which no one has the curiosity to
unravel. At one time 1t was reported that secret
expeditionary force was on the eve Of sailing from
New York with the ostensible view Of directing the
attention OF the Spanish government in another
quarter perhaps as feint, which had the approval
Of the United States authorities. Another rumor
was anoat that certain parties having extensive
commercial relations with the Spanish residents Of
this city and Havana were ready to execute q coup
d'etat which for marvellous daring and strategcal
points would outflank an important counter move
ment OF o secret Spanish ruse de Otlerre.


1t may not be generally known that numbers Of
men are actively drilling daily In various parts OF
the city In tactics peculiar TO the habits OF the
Cubans and that experienced Southern onlcers
command them. Arms heretofore so much needed,
are now being supplied In large quantities and
stored in convenient localities, ready to be shipped
at q moments warning.


Expeditions are doubtless preparing to start from
every principal Southern seaport town. While the
Cubans who form the Revolutionary Junta and the
ladies OF the Relief Association remain reticent and
uncommunicative on the matter, the city is nlled
with wild vagaries as to what's In the wind, and
who are the leaders among us In such secret move
ments. In answer to all questions they reply with
that significant shrug OF the shoulders peculiar to
their race, Nothing Is ready here as yet In lew
days perhaps"
Year: 1869

The conductors and drivers on the Second Avenue
Railroad are still on the strike and remain masters
Of the field, having succeeded In totally closing
travel on that route, as not a car was running yes.
terday The strikers were jubant over this fact and
maintain that no compromise Will he made.


The Board OF Directors Of the road held meeting
yesterday-an account OF which appears In another
coDuinnln which they enter into defence and tusti.
hcauon OF their course and rcprehend the drivers for
their violent conduct and riotous proceedings during
the past three or four days The directors announce
that they viii not recede from the position they have
taken. Thus matters stand u present.
Year: 1869

TIE wEATHER.-The following record win show
the changes in the temperature for the past twenty
four hours in comparison with the corresponding
day Of the last year. as Indicated by the thermometer
at Hudnuts Pharmacy, HERALD Building, Broad
Way. corner OF Ann street,
Year: 1869

THAT we live in an age of progress,
none will have the temerity to deny. An
age which has produced the Atlantic
Cable, the Pacific Railways, several rev.
olutions, and other great events, in our
age, worthy of a glorious record in histO-
ry, and one which we were fortunate to
have been born in.


Progress and improvement are the
characteristics of the time. Civilization
is making rapid strides towards bring
ing about the grand cOnsumatiOn. Yet,
in the midst of this steady advancement,
there are sO-calIed reformers who deceive
themselves with the notion that what
ever is old is worn out and of no effect
in these latter days; that to keep pace
with the onward career of ideas and
things, the old notions of prOpriety must
be set aside, and something new-nOt
much matter what-intrOduced in their
places. Rather than bear the shadOwi-
est resemblance of Old fogyism? ? they
will submit to the fragrant breaches of
what well ordered people have been
trained to regard as Indispensable ad-
jUncts Of true refinement.


In some parts of the country this spir-
it of vandalism has obtained to a great
extent among writers and public speak
ers, and, we regret to say, even forced
its way in some instances behind the
sacred desk, where nothing but the Sc
verest order and decorum should be toI-
Grated.


Solomon said there is a time for all
things and while we are free to admit
that there is a time for amusement and
fun and both physical and mental recre-
alton, it is not in accordance with the
eternal fitness of things that q religious
service should be einterspersed with slang
phrases, vulgar anecdotes, and express
ions calculated to excite the mirth of an
audience. The house of God is sacred,
and if We are to foster such things as
veneration and dignity at all, surely
there is the place, above all other earth
ly tabernacles, where they should be ex-
ercised to the fullest extent. It is no
place for iesting, bufioonery or rude re-
marks.


The thunders of MountSinai were not
interspersed with such incOngruities, and
our idea of the preaching of Saint Paul
has nothing init to excite ought butlofty
and august reverence, 1t does well
enough for a political stump speaker to
introduce proper jokes to illustrate his.
argument, but when 1t comes to min
lister standing at the sacred desk indulge
ing in witty phrases, evidently with a
purpose, it is nothing short Of disgusting
to polite hearers. It is true, many peo-
pie will flock around q speaker of this
class, from the axiom that there are al
ways those ready to see another make
Year: 1869

ments for the summers jaunt or the
sewing machine. With MANY, every
little comfort or luxury, once a matter
of course, is now entirely cut off, or
measured out with the most anxious
scrutiny-the hesitating caution that
turns the pleasure almost to a positive
pain. Friends, in contemplating the
good fortune of neighbOr B., who has
$4,000 in bOnds,pays no taxes, and lives
high, whisper to each other that they
don't know how they can make both
ends meet the coming year. All these
things are the nOXiOus fruits of the
course they have taken by the Radical
party to fasten this mOnstrOus and most
ubiquitous debt upon the country. The
knaves and charlatans have built it up
for their own profit without the slight
est regard for the future Interests of
the country.


This debt was iniqUitOusly contract
ed, and by robbery, swindling and Grim
inal eXtTavaga in every department
had at the end of the war swollen to
nearly three thousand millions of dol
lars. The unwise and abOminably
wicked legislation by which Congress
created an aristOcracy of bOndhOIders,
by eXempting from taxation their in
vestments, and paying them an Usuri-
Gus rate of interest, amounting to more
than One-eighth of the entire capital of
of the country, has materially aided in
bringing about the present terrible i'm
povenshment of the masses. These
criminaIly unjust acts of Radical legis-
IatiOn have reduced this nation to the
condition of hopeless Indebtedness and
unjust and oppressive taxation.


The case of our hard times and power
ty is obvious. Is it not time for the
people to reflect seriously over the
alarming situation of the country ?-FT.


VO3HlC Democrat.
Year: 1869

Do you suppose Ned will ever go up
there among the angels? I sometimes
think that one-legged soldiers will have
no business in Heaven. At least having
turned me so many times in the last
three years, Ned will care nothing for
music. But he's got to march around with
me on his back, and his old hat there is
all the laurels he's ever received for the
loss of his leg.


You're getting tired My! how the
sun comes down? If Ned could only
step in after 4 glass Of soda once in 4
While how cool and refreshing it would
be. But five cents would often drain
the box, and besides, people don't want
One-legged soldiers hObbling around
among the gentry.


Was ! ut the Jubilee? No. Strange
enough, hand-Organs were not called
for, and the men who went down to the
front weren't wanted to sing of the
peace they helped tocOnquer. 1t would
have been Il grand thing to have opened
the programme with music from ten
thousand hand-organs being ground by
eX-sOldiers, but l am afraid the Jubilee
would have been failure. Must you
go? Well


"ThCn conquer we must.


For our cause it is Just.


a nd the hand-organ business will never more
rest.
Year: 1869

himself ridiculous 50 long as they them
selves are not compromised and others,
whOseIeveIitmeets because their iesthet-
fc culture is only equal to their venera-
ton; while to a refined ear, such irrev-
erence is sOrrOwfully repulsive.


The line cannot be too strictly drawn
between the decency and systematic or
der of house of worship and the free
and-easy manners of a concert saloon;
and the slightest innovation of the latter
upon the former should be reprobated
and guarded against with Jealous care,
even at the risk of the bar of formality
and old fOggism. r. r. ENGLE.
Year: 1869

Straw is subject to the process of croft
ing, or it is immersed in boiling sOlu-
ton of caustic soda, to dissolve the var
nish and refuse matter; afterward it is
bleached with sulphurOus acid, or chic
rine, as above.


Straw goods of every kind should be
thoroughly cleansed. Varnish and OBJ
jectiOnable tints are removed by several
immersiOns in dilute alkalies, alternat-
ing with others of chloride of lime, and
the vapOr of sUlphurOus acid.


Very strong dyes are only removed by
employing different chemical reagents,
as chronic acid or the combination of
this with pOtassa. PrOtOchlOride of tin
is also used