smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1869

Harper's Bazaar gives the follow
ing sensible reply to correspon-
dent: Your husbands salary of
$1,000 year, upon which he, you
and two children are obliged to
live, seems small sum, from
rich mans point Of view, but "a
very considerable amount in the
eyes Of the'poor, who are the great
majority of mankind. Most fami-
lies in the United States live COM
fortably upon less. and more might
do so were it not for the undue
proportion of their income spent
to keep up appearances We are
generally too anxious to pass for
being richer than we are, and
therefore sacrifice much Of our
substance to show. Wien con-
scious that we are laboring truly
to get our own living, and to do
our duty in that State of life in


which it hath pleased God to call
us, however small may be the re-
suit according to this worlds COM
putation in dollars and cents, We
have no reason to be ashamed Of
it. There is: however, false
shame, which often induces an ex-
penditure for worthless tinsel in
order to give specious glitter to
a moderate competence, which
thus becomes scanty, while, more
judiciously used, it might prove
abundant. Continue your cour-
ageous struggle with life, but do
not waste your resources upon any
false bravery of conduct or appa-
rel"
Year: 1869

The IMu1GRANrs OoMtNa. -Newberry
has certainly earned the right TO be re-
garded as the banner County of our
State, in. respect TO prompt, vigorous and
successful action in the matter Of securing
immigration. Only few days ago We
had occasion to, chronicle the substantial
results which have already crowned the
exertions of the immigration Society.
From the last Issue of the Ncwberry
Herald We now learn that twenty immi.
grants more have arrived in that town
and enne to work on farms in the
neigbborhootl, and that many more are
expected in tie course of the present
week. In the face of such accounts as
these, the other counties of the State
must beStir themselves and follow in the
path which Newberry has struck out,
unless they would be left far behind in
the race for prosperity and wealth. ss--


charleston News.
Year: 1869

The National Mtelligencer has
an eloquent article on the detestable
agitation of the day about giving
the ballot to women:


"They can be considered nothing
but invaders Of domestic peace, in
citers to social disorder. vio-
lence and discord, who seek
to draw woman from her appointed
and supremely exalted sphere of
home, as the guardian angel of
the worlds inner lite, and plunge
her with herimmeasurably fine and
feminine sensibilities, in the coarse
and jarring throng Of masculine
public life. The times on which
we have fallen are all unhinged.
The same fanaticism which has
overthrown, or is overtbrowing,


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the order and good government
Of the Stale, in its restlessness
under the wholesome restraints OF
everything conservative and set
tied, is striving also to overthrow
the order and good government of
the freside and as in the former
case the largerliberty ofman is plea
ded as the propelling motive, andin
justification, so in the latter case
the larger liberty Of woman is
pleaded, linked with a thousand
unnamed yet fancied benefits that
would accrue to her, and through
her to mankind. Any man with
a properly organized mind, ,and who
is capable ofcalm philosophical
reflection on the nature and pro-
vince of the two sexes, and how
they stand at the antipodes one Of
strength and the other Of tender
ness, cannot but condemn the ten
deney, as here indicated, of fam
aticaf and unbalanced natures
and every woman, endowed as
Heaven meant she should be, in
whose being beats a sense ofal-
most superhuman elevation, and
who feels, as she ought, that it is
her high and paramount prero-
gative to create the social realm,
and rule it by the power and the
purity Of the heart, must shrink:
with instructive and womanly
dread, at the bare thought of so
unsexing herself, and casting aside
all that makes her better than men,
as to enter the low public and
political arena Of men, and par
ticipate in its wranglcs, its low
ambitions, its corruptions, and its
debasing influences. She could not
but feel herself profaned. Once
there, she would feel herself an
outcast, and look back upon the
sweet dominion which she had
left, where she sat unsullied, lift
ed up and pure, as our first par
ents did when exiled. from the
Garden Of Eden for yielding to the
tempter, and never restored to
that peaceful Eden again"
Year: 1869

PREMoNITIoN-The San Jose Mercury
has the following in relation to the late
railroad disaster:


A young man from this county, relates
that he was in the car where the greatest
fatality occurred, few moments before
the collision. Ills seat was next to that
ofan elderly gentleman who was a stran-
ger to him Tie old gentleman arose
suddenly and said that there was great
peril in that car, and passed quick'yto the
rear. Tne young ulan spoken of could
see no reason for this step. but neverthe-
less thought there might be some cause
for it, and quietly followed, taking seat
in next to the last car. lie was barely
seated when the,craeh came Innumera-
BILE instances Of similar character are on
record. 1t is hardly an evidence OF wis
dom, ia this age Of narvels, to pronounce
as ''all bosh" whatever VIC can not under
stand, or that docs not accord with our
individual experience.
Year: 1869

In lumbago they act like charm. In a few
hours a violent cough 10 relieved by a Plaster
applied to the chest. Many persons believe a
Geld cannot be taken while u plaster is worn
there this we no know, they greatly assist In
the cure Of NEGLECTED cold, 30 often the intro
Queer Of Consumption


Cure Of Lesion Of the Liver.


A gentleman, after severe sickness, had le.
sion Of the liver. Every quick movement or
sudden jar gave him severe pain, often laying
him up for days Hence he was unable TO follow
any occupation with regularity.


In this condition, he applied over the part
Affected en- Allcook's Porous Plaster. At hrst,
il seemed to irritstc, so it was taken Of. But
the marked improvement he experienced after
ward gave him courage to try again, and he
therefore applied another plaster. In few
days something gave way-"slPped," b" to use the
gentleman's own words. There was some sore
ness for q few days after, then his health was
perfectly restored Upon being sounded by his
hysician, the adhesion or lesion was found to
be gone.


Principal Agency, Brandreth House, New
York. Sold by oil Druggists.


jSnl6dwlm.
Year: 1869

PHILADKLPHIA. August 3.-The money
stolen from the United States Arsenal last
week has been recovered. 1t was found
concealed in the Arsenal grounds. The safe
had been opened-It is not known by whom
with an old key. No arrest have vet been
made, but all the employees of the Arsenal are
under surveillance.
Year: 1869

DRESDEN, August "a dreadful accident
occurred yesterday in the coal mines in the
mountain districts, near this city Over three
hundred were killed outright. No particulars
have been received, but the accident is said to
have been attrlbutable to the stormy weather
Year: 1869

LEAVES OF ABsKNCR-The attention of the
Secretary Of the Treasury has been called to
the importance OF granting leaves Of absence to
clerks employed in that Department at such
times that all from the same State may be al
lowed TO participate in the State campaign.
The same recommendation, 1t is understood.
will be made to the heads OF the other Depart
ments.
Year: 1869

tried it. know that it cured them; those who have
not know that it cures their neghbors and friends
and all know that what it does once it does always
that it fails through any fault or neglect of
its composition. We have, and can show, thou
ble cures of the following complaints, but such
cures are known In every neighborhood, and why
should we publish them? Adapted to all ages and
conditions in all climates; containing neither calo
mel or any dele5erious drug, they may be taken
with safety by anybody. Their sugar coating pre-
serves them ever fresh and makes them pleasant to
take, while being purely vegetable no harm can
arise from their use in any quantity.


internal viscera to purify the blood and stimulate it
into healthy action remove the distractions of the
stomach, bowels, liver, and other organs of the
body restoring their irregular action to health and
by correcting, wherever they exist, such derange-
ments as are the first origin of disease.


Minute directions are given IN the wrapper on
the box, for the following complaints which these
Pills rapidly cure


ness, LanguOr and Loss of Appetite, they
should be taken moderately to stimulate the stom-
ach and restore its healthy tone and action.


For Liver Complaint and its various symp
toms, Bilious Headache, Sick Headache,
Jaundice or Green sickness, bilious
Collie and Bilious Eevers, they should be ju-
Cciously taken for each case to correct the diseased
action or remove the distractions which cause it..


For Dysenfery or DiarrhOesa, but one mild
dose is generally required.


For determination, Gout, Gravel, Palpi-
Back and Lcins, they should be continuously
taken, required to change the diseased action of
the system. With such change those complaints
disappear.


For DrOpsy and DrOpaical SWellings they
should be taken in large and frequent doses to pro-
duce the effect of drastic purge.


For Suppression a large dose should be taken
as it produces the desired effect by sympathy.


AS a Dinner PHI, take one or two Pills to pro-
mote digestion and relieve the stomach.


An occasional dose stimulates the stomach and
bowels into healthy action, restores the appetite,
and nvlgorates the system. Hence 1t is often adj
vantageOus where no serious arrangement exists.
One who feels tolerably well, often finds that dose
of these Pills makes him feel decidedly better from
their cleansing and renovating effect on the digeS
tive apparatus. There are numerous cases where
a purgatve is required, which we cannot enumer
ate here but they suggest themselves to everybody
and where the virtues of this Pill are knowIl, the
public no longer doubt what to employ.
Year: 1869

Some of the scenery on the route Of


the Pacific Railroad is very wild and
magnificent, and will no doubt lead


to great deal Of pleasure travel in
that atdireetiOn. An exeursiOnist writes


to the Chicago Tribune Il lively de-


scription of the approach to Salt Lake


through the Echo and Weber can


Ons, as follows:


But here we are at the head of Echo


canon, which is a great fissure torn


down through the mountain plateau,
by which we descended from the high


table lands into the valley of Salt


Lake. 1t has been created by the


Joint action of water and wind-rush-


ing, the one down the other up this


mOnstrous ravine, through conglOm-


crate material which is mainly soft in


substance. The declivity is half a


mile in a distance of forty or fifty
miles. Before reaching the head of
this ehasm we pass along parallel


with the Wahsatch mountain range
for q considerable distance, whose
north side tops are covered with snow
and whose altitude is three to four
thousand feet above the surrounding
plateau; but their great distance off
makes them look low to the eye. 1
shall attempt no description of Echo
and Weber canOns, as for sublimity
and grandeur they are beyond my
powers of delineation. Several of
our party who have travelled over
Europe declared that they saw moth
ing in the Alps or elsewhere which
those scenes; and it is
if there is any railroad
on the face of the globe that passes
through so wild, grand and terrific
scenery as this road from where it
enters at Echo until it emerges from
the DEVILS Gate into the Salt Lake
Valley. At the west altitude of the
rocks, which tower perpendieularly
thousands of feet overhead, on the
brows of the Overhanging cliffs, the
pine trees look like shrubs not a span
high. The substance Of these rocks
is of unequal hardness, ranging from
granite to conglOmerate and shale.-
The little Weber river rushing
through the gorge, and the streams
which tumble down its sides, and the
incessant air currents which blow
force through il, have worn the chasm
into ten thousand forms. Some places
where the rock is hard the stream has
barely room to force its passage be-
tween walls half a mile high; where
the rock is soft the wind and water
have torn out a wide gulf and the face
Of the rocks into fantastic shapes.


While our eyes were strained view
ing, and our heads were aching con-
those marvels of nature, !
all at once our train, with a startling |
shrek, shot out of the hOrrid gorge !
into broad and delightful plain. into !
full sunshine, while right behind |
stood black perpendicular rock wall |
at right angles with the track of the |
half a mile in altitude, and |
Just before was the pretty Mormon |
village of Deseret, and away to our
left the silvery glimmer of the Great !
Salt Lake greeted the vision.
Year: 1869




Late developments, brought out by
disinterested investigation, show the
Sing Sing prison, of New York, to be
about ss corrupt as is possible for any
concern of the sort to be. The Pris-
on Association of that State, made up
of volunteer. philanthropists, whose
investigations help us to the facts, in
dicate, through their report, that peni.
tentiaries throughout the country are
in like condition. This we are pre-
pared to believe. The depravity of
New York, Chicago and JeffersonYille
differs from that Of other places only
in its boldness. Our raseals are more
timid, or modest, if you will, but none
the less rascals. They do not openly
parade their vice, but they practice It
all the same. The report of this ex-
cellent association, although some
Whist yOluminous, it is valuable
Through it, we learn that. during an
existence of twenty-five years, il has
visited through accredited agents,
some eighty-nine thousand convicts,
aided over seventeen Thousand who
were discharged, and gave relief to
one hundred and forty-six thousand
prisoners. Complaints from convicts
have been carefully Investigated, end
in many Instances, pardons have been
procured for those considered worthy
OF executive cle1ency.


But, by far the more valuable part
of the report is to be found in the
speculatiOns which such q wide field
of experience has produced. All State
officials and every coed citizen can
study the volume with advantage
That which treats OF the process by
which a penitentiary may be made
is of most importance
to the tax payer. At least, it is of the
most interest. And il is astonishing
to find how few prisons can be count
ed under this head Contractors grow
rich, but the State suffers. With the
exception Of Massachusetts,, we be-
lieve every State has lost money thro'
its penitentiary,


This matter of saving, however, is
after all, of the smallest consideration.
If criminals are not bettered by the
punishment, the community upon
which they are turned loose suffer
more than can be told by the books of
the prison. At least, the convict
should not be liberated in a worse con-
ditiOn than when first imprisoned.-I
And we have TO learn that all process
ses which tend to degrade the subject,
destroy his manhood by lessening his
self-respect, hardens the convict and
graduates the scoundrel. When
man is deprived of his liberty and
forced to work, We have reached the
end of punishment. Anything be-
yOnd is cruelty, The physical we'll
being of the convict, together with a
cultivation of his mental and moral
nature, are considerations that prom
ise more outcome to society than the
abuse that treats the man as if he
were beast, and ends by making him
a devil.


OF course, every reform proposed of
this sort will be met by an unlimited
number of people with the cry that it
is necessary to make the Penitentiary
horrible, or it will cease to be a pun
ishment and a terror. They forget,
or never knew, that it is only the low
er sort of criminals that find their
way to the States prison, and to them
the narrow cells, gloomy corridors,
striped dress and shorn head are no
terror whatever. All they dread are
the loss of liberty and the enforced |
labor.
Year: 1869

AhOy at IN Gh6 AoANs


There was a time, when Queen Vic


toria was the most popular sovereign


in Europe. She is now as unpopular


and as much disliked as any crowned


head in the world. The reason for


this is that the Queen has offended


the nobility by her long continued


mourning and her determination


which seemingly will end only in


death-not to take any part in the


courtly duties of her station. To this


must be added the fact that since the


death of Prince Albert the Queen
does not spend half the money, half
the immense income she is allowed
by the nation, and that her majesty
has now saved half a million of mon
ey OF about two millions of dollars,
which ought to have been expended
in patroniZing art, promoting trade
and contributing to charities. She
does not mix with the people, is rare
ly or never seen, even by the highest
nobility in the land, and except the
public business she is Obliged to trans
act with ministers, she deputies all
duties to the Prince of Wales, who is,
except among the widest Of the wild
young men of the upper classes, most
unpopular in England.


The Prince of Wales is, in fact, but
type OF the young men OF the period.
He Smokes hard, drinks hard, lives
hard, plays, is deeply in debt, and
he's Il is said, many intimacies with
the fair sex which by no means re-
d0und to his credit. The Princess Of
J.ToIa, - ,,,r,ob Iox-ad T,o,rob odpoirad
much pitied. The consequence Of
this state of things Is that society in
England Is left without q leader, and,
unaccustomed to walk alone, it makes
q great mess of its attempts to get
along without a guide. Another
effect of the present condition of So
ciety in England is that numbers of
the best and most wealthy families
never come to London at all, but re-
main all the year round at their coun-
try seats, or perhaps tho head of the
family, If peer, runs up to town to
vote In his place in the House of
Lords, remains at a hotel so long
as any great party question is pend
ing, and then goes back again. 1t
follows, as q matter Of course, that
not nearly, not half the money
that was formerly spent in London
now finds its way among the trades
men of the metropolis, and the dis
deed. 1--WE have to pay for a court,
but receive nothing from it )" 1--WE
support the Queen, and she does moth
ing for trade" is what you hear ON
every side among the trading classes.
Year: 1869

Doctors require patients, and they,
are bully on approaching a bedside;
they excel in that respect; they beat
the silent treadOf 'muses" all hollow.
Some times it depends on the good
looks OF the doctor where the patient
says the disease is located. / have
known a doctor who was exceedingly
homeiy, being told the disease was in
the head when it was not. After a
doctor gets to the bedside it depends
upon circumstances what thew do.
generally they seize the snow-white
wrist, stick finger on it, and haul
out a'watch and make their lips 90.
then they make the pallid eounteI
nance open its pallid mouth. and
stick out its pallid tongue so far he
can see the warts growing on his
windpipe. Then he will make mi
mute investigation of the coating up-
on the tongue, that looks like il
might be growing white hair to make
a rabbit pin-cushion for ladies' fair.
Then the old euss will blow his nose
a professional blow, shake his head.
and say: ~


How long has this been thus?"


The doctor will then haul out his
book and charge the pallid e0unte-
nance four dollars, then look out of
the window, and seeing his horse has
gone to sleep, and likely to fall down,
he will sing out to his black embossed
householder


Jim that horse is so restive, you
had better drive him round a square,


Then he'll write something on a
piece of paper that you can't tell
whether it is an order for a glass of
soda water or for a putty blower. and
send it around to the apotheeary shop,
where he is a silent partner, and the
apOthecary man will stick number
l65, ,S65 Ito make you think he is do
ing big business) on it, and charge
you seventy-five cents for doing SCI.
Doctors never stop calling at four dol
lars a call until the PATIENTS able to
do business without his assistance.
Year: 1869

GREASE On CARPETS Cover the
grease spot with whiting, and let it
remain until it becomes saturated with
the grease; then scrape it off, and
cover 1t with another coat of whiting
and If this does not remove the grease
repeat the application. Three coats of
whiting will, in most cases, remove
the grease, when it should be brushed
off with a clothes brush.
Year: 1869

Always loosen the eheck-rein be-
fore giving the horse water. Even if
the pail is held so high that the reins
is not drawn tight, the position is not
anatural one in which to drink.
Year: 1869

CANNING SWEET CoRN.-Mrs. Zen
"a A. Lindsey writes to the New York
Farmers Club that corn can be canned
so that it will stay canned, in the fol-
lowing way. Boil the corn fifteen
minutes on the cob and then cut it off
and dry in the sun. The corn should
then be seasoned to the taste with q
little salt and put into the cans with
a very little water. The covers must
then be placed on the cans, leaving
only 4 very small aperture for the
escape of gas then place the cans in
a kettle of water and boil slowly three
quarteEs of an hour, when the can
may be sealed with n drop of solder or
even little putty. Corn preserved in
this way viii always keep as long as
it is necessary to keep it, and there is
no danger Of bruising the cans.
Year: 1869

The world is cruel, said again.


Her voice is harsh to my shrinking ear.
Aud the nights are dreary and fall Of pain
Out oftho darkness, sweet and clear,
There riPPleda tender strain;
Year: 1869

saloons. A number of properties were sold
during the day by executor. and trustees
at low prices; but these sales do not al
ways give the real market value OF prop
erty, for many Of the estates are bought in
for the widow or children, and it is not
customary, nor would it perhaps be alto
gether safe fol stranger to interfere with
the family arrangements, by bidding the
property up to its value.


Able e7iIle is pretty little village with a
population of some five or six hundred, and
hotel big enough for town Of ten times
its size. 1t lies nicely along the top OF n
ridge, and has in it some fine dwellings
with very handsome grounds attached. the
residences Of planters whose plantations
are in tue surrounding county, hut who,
on account Of its greater convenience, so.
ciability and heal,hfuIuess, prefer 10 live in
the village. This is a common custom in
the Soulh.
Year: 1869




WE trust that the resignation of
JOHN INaLE, JR, as President Of the
E., T. III. & d. Railroad, and the elec-
ton of JosEPHUs CoLLETT, JR., TO
the position, will restore the disturbed
equanimity of the Terre HAute people,
and that the Council will promptly
make the donation to the road which
has heretofore been withheld on the
plea that its officers were all from
Evansville. We can readily believe
that the change involves no uapleas-
ant feeling upon the part Of either
the retiring or the incoming Presi-
dent, or any member of the Directory,
and that no one of them has any
other purpose to serve in connection
with the road than 10 use his best en-
deaEors to insure, its completion at
the earliest possible date. For this
object they will all work in perfect
harmony, each eheerfully accepting
whatever position or duty may be
assigned him, and each willing to
sacrifice personal convenience for the
furtherance Of the great public enter
prize in which they are engaged.