smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1869

cling and carrying freight, as well as to
the system Of carrying freight in barges,
of which latter there were l6l arrivals
during the season.
srEA1eoAr1NG SEASON THROUGH THE LAKE


EoR TWENTY YEARS.


The following table shows the arrival
Of the first boat at this port, the departure
Of the last boat from this port, and the
length Of the season:
Year: 1869

A certain mar, n,who is very rich now was
poor when boy. When asked how he got
riches, he said ''My father taught me never
to play till my work was flushed, and
never to spend my money till [ had earned
it. If had but an hours work in the day
l must do that the frst thing, and in an
hour after this I was allowed to play; and
then 1 could play with much more pleasure
than if | had the thought of an unfinished
task before my mind. early formed the
habit of doing everything in time, and it
soon became easy to do SO 1t is to this |
owe my prosperity" Let every one who
reads this do likewise


A genius out west has just patented a
machine for making ohestnuts out of sweet
potatoes. He is brother to the old man
who put handles to prickly pears and sold
them for curry-combs.
Year: 1869

@I grant you this is little obscure
but in explaining to the unfortunate that
Sirius is the dog-star and blooms only at
night, l am afforded an opportunity to
air my orudition. lit is only lately ac-
0uired
Year: 1869

rock II feet above at line On the landward sde is


long, high pier capped with massive blocks Of stone
and here swinging from the derrcks rocking on the
tide, may be the small square sterned, wellworn
Government boat black without and white and green
within, in which Miss Lewis has learned to row so we'll
that the brawny boamen OF the harbor concede her
superior Skill and with which most OF her rescues have
been achieved.


A portrait OF the American Grace Darling and pic


ure Of OF her exploits were published two years
ago in an illustrated paper and many compliments and
requests for photographs ensued. More than


tic gentleman tried persuade her 10 change her name
for his, and found friend indeed but no wife. Two
brothers, seafarng men, from Black Rock, Connecticut
have pressed their suits at Lime Rock with
and 1t is quite probable that both tho sisters may be
married before another Spring.


1t worth noting perhaps that Miss Lewis is rghtiuy
entitled to theextraornary and unprecedented name OF


Idawaley zoradia" which she nherts from the quaint
fancy OF her maternal grandfather, estmable but
eccentric Block Island physician. This name however
she has wisely discarded and writes herself simply
"Ida."


In France or England such heroine would have long
since received many honorable and substantial testmo
nlas but scarcely any gifts made TO Miss Lewis I'M
til the two soldiers rescued the 29th of March, IN
sisted her accepting gold watch and chain OF swiss
sent a her last Week kd letter. and
half dozen choice pictures John Carter BroTn esq OF
each sent her check for SIS and Boston gentleman
transmitted to her last Friday tho sum Of 800 An ac
tive Newport citizen, OF long salt water experience, s
rapidly raising In that city and Providence
a subscription Of $1s5 for the building
OF cedar fe-boat, TO be finished In
the STYLE by Of the best Newport builders and
painted white with gilt stripe IL is almost certain that
within O few weeks. Another energetic citizen medi-
raising fund for her benefit this from the
Enterprises Of for her benet are also progress


an ssG than ida Ver ad
annals Of any humane society on either side Of tho
from those whose position wealth enabos them to
crown meTitoTious acts with suitable rewards.
Year: 1869

The death of few conspicuous men
In the country could call forth q more
general expression of kind feeling
than that of Henry ]. Raymond,
who was buried on midsnmmer-day
of this year. To the guild of the
press, aud to all political circles In
the city. he was personally well
known; while to the country his
position as editor of one of the great
morning journals Of the city of New
York had made his name familiar.
This Magazine, also, has a peculiar
interest in his honorable memory,
for he was Its first editor--always
prompt, trusty, and efficient, and
finding time amidst the most engross-
ing cares of politics and journalism,
to help give 1t the hold upon the
popular heart which we are glad to
know that IL has never lost.


Mr.. Raymond's biography has been
given with affectionate detail i'm all
the papers; nor Is there any differ
ence Of opinion as to his remarkable
ability and accomplishment. 1t
seemed at one time, not many years
ago, as If there were almost equal
consent Of opinion as to his want OF
earnest conviction and of high pur-
pose, But there were probably very
few who stood in the gloomy church
on the stormy summer evening OF
his funeral who had not at last per-
ceived the injustice Of this estimate,
and who were not willing to echo
Mr.. Beecher's wish" this were
trimming, would to God there were
more trimmers!


Indeed, there has been a curious
and most agreeable want Of mere
eulogy In all that has been said OF
him. The tone OF remark has been
most tender, whatever the estimate
of his character and career; but
every thing has been the result of q
real impression and Thoughtful con-
Year: 1869

sideration. The key Of his life. and
OF tho peculiar Impression that he
produced, is uuquestioiiably, aud by
common consent, the judicial mental
temperament wnich refuses to ac-
Knowledge that there are not two
sides To all questions. He lived at d
time when there was tile most en-
phatic necessity of sternly asserting
one side, aud OF not weakening the
assertion hy the cot,hter-decIaration
that the other was nearly as good.
n man who has doubts, with Proud
hon. whether after all property IL
not robbery, will have q very gentle
feeling for the thief.


But with Mr.. Raymond there was
no question Of the end, but of the
means. Here again he fell upon d
time when the means seemed often
to involve the end and To choose
one method rather than another was
necessarily TO work for different re-
suit. This position cost him the con-
fidence of the political party with
which he had always acted, aud
which had often houored him. But
this loss of confidence, which he was
perfectly aware, however painful to
him, however it may have batlled his
hopes and ambition, did not embitter
him and where il there the public
man who ever more generously
owned what he at last believed To DO
mistake, or who, by his treatment
of his own error, more raised him.
self in the general estimation


This is not the place, however, nor
is IL our purpose, TO do more than to
add one word of friendly and grate-
ful remembrance to the eloquent
praise that has been uttered. In this
working world and country Mr.. Ray
mond died of overwork--a man not
yet fifty years old. He never spared
himself; and he has not lived vainly
if among the other service of his lifs
1t teaches us TO do in that respect
what he did not. He has left no
book to keep his name fresh. His
service has been mainly that of the
great Journalist, and that fame IL
brief But in the history of the pro-
fession which he loved he will always
be bonorably mentioned; and with
his journal his best fame will be as
sociated. Easy Chair, HaIpers Mag
dziRe for dugust.
Year: 1869

Are we witnessing the beginning of
an English exodus? Some prophets
of evil have long foretold that some
day our laborers would find the way
the Irish peasantry found to prosperis
ty and independence. and that when
they did so an exodus would begin,
Whatever be the explanation of the
fact, the increasing emigration from
Liverpool Is becoming almost alarm
Ing. If in n week nearly $500 per-
sons can find means To set out OH d
journey to the Western World, it Is
at lea~t clear that movement Is i'm
progress which needs no special gov
ernment aid to keep IL going. But
1t is very doubtful whether this emil
grafton touches the classes who are
supposed to need it most. IL Is not
the agricultural lahorer or the heredi-
tary pauper of the town who Is hur-
rying 10 Liverpool with his face 10
the west. 1t is altogether another
class. Probably most of the persons
who crowded the ten steamers which
left Liverpool last week were from
the great cities and manufacturing
towns of England and Germany.
Their emigration is the late result Of
the commercial panic. "There Is
little to earn aud many to keep and
the more energetic earners are push
ing to other parkets with their la
bor. Probably so far as 1t has yet
gone the movement Is beneficial
one; but IL will be beneficial Just
In proportion as 1t Is spontaneous.
1t IL natural movement of the popu :
lation which may be anxiously
watched by patriotic statesmen, but
should neither be encouraged nor
checked. Many merchants and
manufacturers are already alarmed
by IL; and though we see little i'm it
to cause alarm, nothing which threat
ems us with exodus of labor, we can
well see that IL would be infinitely to
the advantage of the country to find
some means of giving these enterpris-
ing spirits career at home. London
NcWs
Year: 1869




To MAKE cows GIVE MILK. - A
writer who says his cow gives all the
milk that is wanted in family Of
eight persons, and from which two
hundred and sixty pounds OF butter
were made this year gives the follow
ing treatment He says if you desire
to get large yield Of rich milk, give
your COW, three times n day water
slightly warmed, slightly salted, I'M
which bran has been stirred ut the
rate of one quart to two gallons Of
water. You will find, If you have
not tried this daily practice, that
your COW will give twenty-five per
cent more milk Immediately under
the effect OF il. aud she will become
SO attached to the diet, IN TO refuse to
drink clear water. unless very thirsty;
but this mess she will drink almost
any time, and ask for more. The a
mount of this drink necessary. il All
ordinary pail full each time morning,
noon, and night.
Year: 1869

HOUSE, CARRIAGE AND
- sign Painter, has taken r.. Wildes place af
cedar Falls and will give entire satisfaction to nil
sho entrust him with work In his line of business


shop over Fosdick's wagon shop Paper hangjno
neatly done on short notice e's
Year: 1869

Though most farmers keep fowls,


and raise their own eggs, there are


many who have not learned the differ


ence there is in the richness and flavor
of eggs produced by welLfed hens
and those from birds that have been
halfstaryed through our Winters.
There will be some difference in the
size, but far more in the quality. The
yolk of one would be large, fine col
ored, and OF good subsistence, and the
albumen or white clear and pure while
the contents of the other will be wa
terry, as if the parent fowl had failed
to properly carry out and complete the
work nature had sketched. In order
therefore to have good eggs the fowls
should be well fed, and also provided
during the months they are unable to
come to the ground, with a box con-
tanning an abundanc of fine gravel,
that they may be able to grind and
prepare their food for digestion. OF
eggs, those from the domestic hen are
decidedly the best but those ofducks
and geese may be used for some of
the purposes of domestic cookery.
Year: 1869

SPRUCE uP-If you get a moment
to spare, spruce up; put that gate on
its hinges; put little paint on the
picket fence you built last year trim
W about your door yard-make it
cosy and inviting. Don't say you
can't find time TO attend TO these
things. The fact is, you have no.
right to be slovenly Your wife and
children will he happier, your farm
will sell for more money in the mar
ket and will be worth more to you
at home, if You devote an odd hour
now and then to sprucing up.
Year: 1869

= Having made large additions to our establish
ment In the shape of material of the latest
style, and having employed experienced and
orders for every variety OF PLAIN AND FANCY
JoB PRINTING with neatness and Dispatch
The addition of Steam Power 10 cur establish
ment affords us great advantages over most
country offices in the way of low prices and
fast work. Call with US, and be convinced
Year: 1869

Especial Dispatch by International Line]
AUGUSTA, March 1.-The session is drawing
to close, but not as rapidly as is desired by
those who have no axe to grind.


The House commences with to morrow to
hold two sessions day. The Senate will con-
tinue to hold but one.


The military bill will undoubtedly be killed
in the House. There seems to have been
strong reaction in the House in regard to ap-
preparations, and they will undoubtedly stife
many of those which passed the Senate.
1t seems to be settled that the Constabulary
bill is not to receive a passage this year. 1t
will either be reported and referred to the next
Legislature, or suppressed in the committee.


DIRIGO
Year: 1869

NEW YORK, March 1.-The Times Washing
ton dispatch says the last cabinet meeting of
the present administration will be held on
Thursday next, when the extent, if any, to
which the present cabinet will participate in
the Inaugural ceremonies will be decided 1t
is already understood that Secretaries Seward
McCulloch, Welles, and Browning and POST
master General Randall, will tender their res
ignation to President johnson, to take effect
with the close of his administration. Secreta-
~ Seward will leave at once for Auburn. Mr.
Frederick Seward, Assistant Secretary of
State, will remain short time to settle up
family affairs and turn over the Department
to the incoming Secretary.


THE SENATE COMMITTEES.


The Senate committees will have to be recon-
structed after the admission of the fifteen new
Senators on the 4th of March. OF the retiring
Senators three are chairmen of important
committees, namely; Van Wrinkle on PEN
sions, Conness on mines and Morgan on the
library. 1t will also be necessary to elect a
new President pro tenn of the Senate.


RECONSTRUCTION UNDER GRANT.


President Grant will issue on the 9th of
March military reconstruction order reliev-
ing General Buchanan from the command of
the department of Louisiana, and placing Gen
Sheridan in command; also relieving General
Capby in the department of Texas and send
ing Gen. Reynolds back to the command from
Which he has SO recently been relieved, but it
has not yet transpired who will succeed him,
The order will probably also include General
Slckles Tor the department of the South now
vacant by the absence of Gen. Meade. The
country will thus see that the very first act of
Gen. Grant is to put matters in the South on
basis which will insure safety for loyal men
and the execution of the laws.
Year: 1869

The Oxford Falcon says: For the in
formation of our friends in other Coun-
ties we would state that there is not a
break in any portion Of our line, but we
are fully prepared to meet the enemy. and
overwhelm him. Let it be distinctly un-
derstood that Radicalism has and can have
no foothold in Lafayette We made a
noble record last year, and we will sustain
At in the ensuing election.
Year: 1869

We hope the people of Amite county will
respond literally to the call in behalf of the
Orphans Home. One dollar given to the
support and education of the INDECENT
orphans of the, Confederate dead is better
than ten dollars contributed toward the
erection of monuments and mausoleums.-
Southern Herald.
Year: 1869

The greatest excitement III newspaper
circles ever known in this country Was
lately caused in New York and Philadel-
phia by the publication in the New York
San Of large batch of oriuate letters
written it is charged by John Russell
Young managing editor of the New York
TstLaae to Chas. McChntock. one of the
proprietors of the Philadelphia Post, a
paper 10 WHICH Young was also interested.
The correspondence is very lengthy and
of little account to the general reader fur
ther than to show how politicians manage
their affairs But this any one can learn
with a little observation The point to
be considered is how far the law will sus-
tain man in publishing private bust
ness correspondence that does net imme-
diately concern the world at large. 1t
seems this McCintock was trusted as
bosom friend. and Young, who is youag in
years as well as name, wrote to hiui with
such freedom that all his plans and desires
were fully revealed The letters show him
TO be a politician, no better and no worse
than others of his class. But let us ask
where is the man who would like to have
his private thoughts and aspirations as
portrayed to friend paraded before the
world. The gross injustice of such pro-
ceeding appears at glance. The world
cannot know the circumstances nor the
motives which would impela a man to write
what he then would. 1t can only Judge
of what is written. Now we contend the
publication of such correspondence is a
violation Of all rules Of decency aud good
behavior, it is unkind, unjust ana an out
rage which cannot be too loudly condemn
ed. MIR. Young has sued the editor Of
the Sun, and two Philadelphia editors
who republished the letters, for libel, and
we shall see what we shall see.
Year: 1869

We gave notice in an article published
last week that we should soon have some
thing more to say on the subject of State
officers. Well we do not wish to take
back anything we said then, but we wish
to add something to it.


In making upa State ticket care should
be taken, and generally is. to have every
class of our citizens who vote our ticket
represented. This is not only polite but
it is just. Every body of voters like to
cast their sufrages for men of their own
opinions. Thus the soldiers demanded
and had for years, candidates who had
served time in the army. And it was
all right, too, for the man who had been
in the army could sympathize with others
Of the same class. So our foreign born
citizens desire a candidate on the State
Ticket. and there are enough of them in
this locality, over 80, 600. to entitle them to
one from here. In past years this county
has been entirely ignored in the selection
of State officers, and to this perhaps may be
attributed the fact that it has been largely
democratic heretofore. We believe that
Offices of public trust and honor, should
be distributed among the people more
evenly than they have been in the past.
1t is essential to that perfect union which
makes party strong and great.


Major Baetz our efficient County
Treasurer, is the most popular man in
this section of the State among his coun-
trymen. Nor is he unknown to the State
at large, although quite young. His career
in this county has been one continued
triumph for many years. He came here
in 1858, and when the Republican PARTY
was first organized he joined it and has
been an active member of it ever since.
Twice before the war he was elected Reg
lister of Deeds by heavy majorities against
strong Democrats. He was elected Vii
lage Treasurer shortly after his return
from the army. and with such ability and
integrity did he discharge his duties that
his popularity, increased throughout the
whole county, and in 1866 he was nomi-
mated in the stronghold of Democracy for
County Treasurer. 1t was not thought
possible for him to be elected but what
was the result? 500 majority in his ia
vor! After two years of trial there was a
simultaneous cry from all parties, give us
Major Baetz for second term, and he
was reelected overwhelmingly. AS
we before remarked, Major B. is not a
stranger in political circles in the State at
large. In 1868 he was chosen as dele
gate to the Chicago convention which
nominated Gen. Grant; aud the leading
Germans OF the State pronounce him one
of the most promising young men OF their
acquaintance Personally the Major is a
man Of prepossessing appearance, he has
a superior education, his penmanship is
magnificent. and he is a man of auck per-
ceptions and remarkable judgement. In
sh1rt Major Henry Baetz is just the man
for STATE PRISON COMMISSIONER


In presenting his name for consdera-
ion we do it FIRST, because he is ;dst as
good man for the position as the State
affords. and second, because MaDitoyoc
County has never had a representative on
the Republican State ticket and thirdly
because We desire the best interests of
the Republican party.
Year: 1869

The Richmond Wing does not like the
course of the Northern Democracy toward
the South. It says:


They meanly appeal to crushed,
bleeding, and broken hearted people to
sacrifice the last feeble remnants of their
POLITICAL and social existedce, in order
that they (the Northern Democracy
may be saved from the operations of the
Fifteenth Amendment. Nothing mo re
shameful has occurred in these days Of
degeneracy and prodigacy.


There is large and influential segment
of the ex-rebels of Virginia who have
about made up their minds to act here
after with the great Republican party.
They are composed mainly of men who
belonged to the old Wing party and voted
against secession, but were engulfed by
the rebellion when it broke out, went
with their State from State pride and
fought fercely and desperately for the
''lost cause These men bitterly la
mented ard repensed their folly, and they
now wish to place themselves once more
in sympathy and cooperation with the
great Union party of the country. The
Richmond Wing is now as heretofore,
the organ Of this portion of the Virginia
people.


The Copperhead desire to defeat the
Fifteenth Amendment will receive no
assistance from these old Wings of former
days. They will throw their whole
weight into the scale in behalf of its
prompt ratification by their State; and
their votes, added to those of the white
and colored Radicals, will secure an over
whelmlng majority for it in the Old
Domluion
Year: 1869

The New York World thus speaks of
the pending contest in that State:


The political campaign in Virginia which
will come to vote July 6 is probably the
intensest and the strongest in its aspects
ever waged within the State. Our Rich
mond correspondent, quotes such extremes
as Hunnicut and Extra-Billy Smith, Col
onel Allen and John f. Baldwin, labor
ing in unity for the election of Colonel
Walker for Governor. At last accounts,
this latter gentleman was palpably ahead
A fair poll will only be needed to insure
his election. This depends entirely on
General Candy. His administration of
this election will be watched narrowly,
and no short-lived popularity which he
may win from partisan press will COM
pensate for the damage to his reputation
which an unjust course will infict An
unhappy feature of this election is the
fact that the whites will vote wholly on
one side and the blacks on another. Of
course, every one rejects this, for it is an
element of real danger. II, however, it
must be, it behooves the whites to vote
the inferior race down, as they can, being
in majority. This done now, subsequent
contests will be less unequally classified.
A single victory of the white men will
bring many of the more intelligent ne
groes to their side-where are their real
interests-and will lift from many more
the terrorism and fear which bind them to
their present irksome alliance with the
carpet-baggers. Asto the constitution,
that is likely to be adopted, eliminated of
its proscriptivc features, by largo ma
jority, which elimination is concession
that by so much have the Reconstruction
laws become failures, and by so much are
they likely of amendment in the other
States where they operate.
Year: 1869

and spectators. All we want is for Congress
to let the currency and finances alone, except
to provide the. ways and means to carry on
the government and to carry out General
Grants idea Of retrenchment, economy and
the faithful collection of the revenue. The
country win do the rest and restores itself
through the natural course Of things. The
rapid development Of our resources, the in
crease Of population, the industry and intense
activity Of the American people. under the
auspices Of peace and the new administration,
viii increase the wealth of the country i'm
mensely every year, and the demand for cur
rency with which to do the business. This
will gradually and healthfully bring US to q
specie basis, appreciate the public credit with
out special legislation and place the republic
on the high road to unexampled prosperity and
the debt in the way Of liquidation. The less
Congress attempts to do the better, and we
hope the next one will avoid the folly Of this
Congress; for the country, its finances and the
currency will come right through the operation
OF natural causes.