smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1860

PROPORTIONS OF THE HUMAN FIGURE.--
The proportion of the human figure are
strictly mathematical. The whole figure
is six times the length of the foot. Whether
the form be slender or plumb, this rule holds
good. Any deviation from it is departure
from the highest beauty of proportion. The
Greeks make all their statues according to
this rule. The face, from the highest point
of the forhead where the hair begins, to the
end of the chin, is one tenth of the whole
stature. The hand, from the wrist to the
end of the middle finger, is the same The
chest is fourth, and from the nipples to the
top of the head is the same. From the top
ofthe chest to the highest point of the for>
head is a seventh. If the length of the face,
from the roots of the hair to the chin, be di-
vided into three equal parts, the first divi-
sion determinates the point where the eye.
brows meet and the second, the place of the
nostrils. The navel is the central point of
she human body, and if man should lie On
his back with his arms extended, the peri
phery of the circle which might be described
around him, with the navel for its centre,
would touch the extremities of his hands and
feet. The height from the feet to the top of
the head, is the same as the distance from
the extremities of the other when the arms
are extended. These are the general mea-
sures of the species.
Year: 1860

letters pursuits, to which he has become at
tached ; and will have further opportunities
in the Senate of making himself familiar
with those great financial interests which
have already received so much aid through
his industry.
Year: 1860




MIR. POSTMASTER OF LYNCuBURG, VA.-Sir
l take leave to assure you that shall do
nothing of the sort. The subscribers to the
Tribune in Lynchburg have paid for their
papers; we have taken their money, and shall
fairly and fully earn it, according to contract
Ii Mey direct us to send their papers to some
other post office, we shall obey the request !;
otherwise, We shall send them as originally
ordered. If you or your masters choose to
steal and destroy them, that is your affair, at
all events, not ours and if there is no law in
Virginia to punish the larceny, so much the
worse for her, and our plundered subscribers
If the Federal Administration, whereof you
are the tool, after monopolzng the business
of mail carrying, sees fit to become the ac-
complice and patron of mail robbery. sup
pose the outrage must be borne until more
honest and less servile rulers can be put into
high places at Washington, or till the people
can recover their natural right TO carry each
others letters and printed matter, asking no
odds of the Government. Go ahead in your
own base way. | shall stand steadfast for
human liberty and the protection of all nat
ural rights Yours stiffiy,


HORACE GREELEY.


New York, Dec 8, 1859.
Year: 1860

TIE EXTREMES On the day Old Brown
was executed, his efiigy was hung up in St
Louis, to the gaze of the citizens. A large
and excited crowd, says the Herald of that
city, gathered about the scaffold, indulging
in exultation. The effigY hung there nearly
half the day. On the same day, in fremont
Temple, Boston, was a likeness OF John
Brown, copied from the last photograph
taken of him. 1t was surrounded by cross
and around the whole was wreath of ever
green and amaranth.
Year: 1860

NEBRAsKA.-A bill has been introduced in
the Legislature "abolishing slavery and in
voluntary servitude in the Territory of Ne
brasla." A bill has also been introduced
providing for the calling Of Constitutional
Convention, to be held some time during the
present month. The mass Of the people oi
the Territory are impatient to get out of
Territorial form of Government and "set up
for themselves"
Year: 1860

The Liverpool Mercury thinks thatj the
fairest way of settling the San Juan matter
would be to divide the group of islands of
which San Juan is one, between England and
the United States, or to run the boundary
line right through the middle of the strait,
without caring whether it ran through land
or water
Year: 1860

A WASHINGTON dispatch to the New York
Herald says: The declaration from Senator
Gwin today that the South will not permit
the Inauguration of a Republican President,
and have determined to go out of the Union
if Republican President is elected. is treat
ed with contempt by the Republicans, CON-
ing MS it does from the Senator of free
State
Year: 1860

TINS poor fling from the Richmond En-
quirer at the genius of Bryant shows to
what lengths passion and prejudice may
carry one;


TO write poetry without the inspiration,
to indite mean doggerel, is the vocation OF
poor Bryant, but TO edit a paper with delib-
crate and wiful ISLANDERS of a whole people
is degree of infamy from which we had
hoped the poetaster would be restrained"


If the author of this miserable sneer is
honest, he either never read the poetry of
Bryant or he hasn't mind enough to recog-
nize poetry when he sees it. If he isn't a
hypocrite or an ignoramus, he is an incorri-
gible ass-LouisUiHe Journal
Year: 1860

The Hartford Times says that watchma-
ker in that city has repaired and set in run
ming order a German clock more than two
centuries old. it was built by Haygmens,
somewhere about the year lS46, and though
1t has not run for more than half century.
Is now keeping good time, and may last an
other two centuries. 1t was found by the
artist Church, in the possession of a Dutch
family in Nova Scotia, while he was off on
his iceberg sketching expedition. In that
family it had been handed down from father
to son for generations. This is one of the
very first clocks ever made with pendulum.
Year: 1860

special train on Saturday afternoon last to visit
the coal and iron mines of Pennsylvania. He is
thoroughly at home in all that relates to these great
interests as he has need to be- since he is President
of one Of the largest railway companies in England.
Year: 1860

COMPLIMENT TO Ma. WooDs, THE SPECIAL CORES
PoNDENT OF THE LONDON TGMEs.-On Sunday even
ing large party, comprising several of the most
prominent members of the press and literary world,
entertained Mr.. Woods at dinner, mark of
inter national press respect, and a personal re-
cognition of those noble and manly qualities which
have endeared him to all whose opinion is worth
possessing since his arrival in this country Few
men who have visited US in delicate posi-
tien have managed to win such golden opinions, as
well from the public from his brotherhood of the
press, who take natural pride in that strict and
answering adherence to truth, and that brilliant
descriptive ability which have won him a reputa-
tion that reaches from the BOsphorus to Boston,
wherever is honored what is beautiful and just 1t
is almost unnecessary to say when we mention that
DemonicOs the of this pleasant festivity,
that the dinner perfection in every respect. IL
was presided over by Mr.. Wilkins, of the New York
Herald, and Mr. Stuart occupied the vice chair,
and the flow of peasantness and merriment and wit
carried this aesthetic gathering its sparkling tide
up to late hour at night. Few there who
were were, or who have known Mr.. W oods on his
journeys, in whose hearts his fresh, unaffected kind


ness, his brilliant ability and untiring enthusiasm,
have not built an enduring home that will survive
the pageants of the hour and most of the memories
| that surround them. Such men do honor to the
press and make it honored.-N Y. Tribune.
Year: 1860

PASSENGER RAILWAY IN LoNDoN.-The first tram
way, or street railway, in the metropolis, of a
similar kind to that successfully laid down at Birk-
enhead, was to be laid down in a short time by
way of experiment, along Victoria street, West
minister, extending from the Broad Sanctuary, near
the new Westminster Hotel, to the Vauxhall bridge
Year: 1860

CURIOUS WILL.-The following extraordinary
story Is in circulation. An aged gentleman plant
er in one of the Southern States has just died eav
ing fortune of 100000 which is to be disposed
of according to the provisions of his WILL and that
document is as follows:


81 bequeath all my effects to the children of nv
brother, on the following conditions: DESTROYS OF
marking my sense of the service which NV New
oundland dog rendered Inc in saving nv life one
day when was drowning, and wishing also to
provide for my housekeeper, | appoint my said
,mousekeeper nurse, tutor, and mother to my dog.
MY natural heirs shall, this account, paw to her
OUT Oh my entire fortune, a daily sum in the fol-
lowing manner: The daily payment shall continue
so long as the dog shall live, but not one second
longer During the first year after nv decease or
for so much of it as the dog shall live nv house
keeper shall receive So day; the second year she
shall receive $40 a day; the third year SIS; and so
on, until the death of the dog. In the course of
the month in which the dog shall die, there shall be
paid to my hQusekeeper for every day of the dogs
existence Sl25. On the day of his death she shall
be pai6'per hour of the dogs life, $3.50. In the
last hour of his life she shall receive for every min
ute that he lives $685. and for every second of the
last minute, $500. My notary is charged with su-
perlntendng the carrying out of my WILL"


rms eccentric gentleman appears to have enter
tanned for his dog sentiments similar to Bvron's
" hat the heirs will think or do we cannot say, but
we shall be much surprised if that dog lives many
and 50 seconds after O'Clock on the 30th day of
the month, the sum to be paid to the housekeeper
will be:


dave c10E
Year: 1860

Baron Renfrew, in speaking of the fremen s
torehlight procession in New York on Saturday
night, said that in no country had he witnessed an
exhibition of like character at all to be compared
with it.
Year: 1860

DESTRUCTION OF A RAILROAD TRAIN BY
Two MIsCREANTs.-A correspondent of the
Traveller writes from Springfield, Illinois.
under date Of May 10th, giving the following
description of a scene he witnessed near that
place


''Eighty-eight miles from Chicago is Spring
Greek. There we passed a wrecked engine
tender and three cars, tumbled down the EN-.
banKment and made into old iron and oven
wood. Those who do not believe in the de-
pravity of the human heart will please listen
to the story. "A conductor put two hard look
ing fellows from the train the week previous
They swore revenge, and on the night of the
18th stole crowbar from the company, re-
moved a rail, with the intention of precipi-
tating the train into the creek, and then lay
down in the woods to behold, with fiendish
delight the fatal plunge. On came the train
in the darkness, and in an instant all was
wreck. Strange to say, though there were
sixty persons on board-though the cars were
broken almost beyond the possibility of re-
pair, no one was injured. The miscreant
rushed out to obtain plunder, but were disap-
pointed, and subsequently found themselves
in the hands OF the officers of Justice"
Year: 1860

FATAL LACCIDRNT.-Harriet Long, a girl of
Is years, was fatally burned in Troy last Mon
day by the explosion of a fluid lamp, which
she undertook TO I'LL while lighted. The lamp
fell from her hand to the floor, where it ignit-
ed her dress, and before the flames were extin-
guished the poor girl was badly burned
about the lower part OF the body that she died
I b, JaE
Year: 1860

STAGNATION IN THE Boston BooT AND
SHOE MARKET.-The Boston Reporter says


1.-THE trade is perfectly stagnant in the city,
tacturers are working slowly to fill an occa-
sional order no improvement can be expect
ed before the 1st of July, when buyers from
the South and West will commence purchas.
ing stocks of fall goods. We do not anticipate
very large demand for the fall trade. and il
the prices OF material continue up to the pre-
sent figure, as they probably will, or large
number of tanners be ruined, the manuiac-
turers must make up their minds TO get better
prices for their goods or close up their shops.'
Year: 1860

CTATE OF MICHIGAN-County of Cass.-ss:
- At a session of the Probate Court for the
County of Cass, holden at the Probate Office in
Cassapolis, on Monday, the sixth day of August,
in the year one thousand eight hundred and sixty.
Present Clifford Shanahan Judge of Probate.
In the matter of the estate of Joseph Garwood,
deceased. On reading and filling the petition duly
verified, of Joseph E. Garwood praying for letters
of Administration, on the estate of said deceased.


Thereupon it is ordered, that Monday, the third
day of September next, at ten o'clock, in the fore
noon be assigned for the hearing of said petition
and that the heirs at law of said deceased, and all
other persons interested in said estate, are required
to appear at session of said court, then to be
holden at the Probate Office in Cassapolis, and
show cause if any there be, why the prayer of the
petitioner should not be granted.


And it is further ordered, that said petitioner
give notice to the persons interested in said estate
of the pendency of said petition and the hearing
thereof by causing copy of this order to be pub
lished in the Cass County Republican, newspaper
printed and circulating in said County of Cass for
three successive weeks previous to said day of
hearing. G. SHANAHAN,


A true copy.l Judge of Probate.


August G. 1850 au09-16w3
Year: 1860

Kitty Cutting was nice plump lit
tie maiden Of eighteen summers. Her
uncle was miller, and pretty well to
do in the world. AS Kitty was likely
to be his heiress, this consideration
alone would have attracted lovers, if
Kitty had been considerably less at
tractive than she really was.


1t so chanced that Kitty's affections
happened to centre on young man
whom her uncle by no means approved.
This was Harry Billings, a young farm
er in the neighborhood. The miller's
sole ground of disapproval was, that
the young man had not quite so large
share of worldly possessions as he
thought his niece had right to expect
in husband.


The consequence was that he forbid
young Billings the house, aud required
Kitty to give him up.


Her eyes snapped in very decided
manner, and though she said nothing,
it was very evident that she meant con-
siderable.


However she was obliged to dissem-
BILE, and Harry thought it most pru-
dent not to approach the house when
the miller was at home. BY way of
compensation, Kitty was in the habit
of letting him know when her uncle
was absent, and on such occasions they
would pass social evening together,
in the great square kitchen, Kitty
sitting on one side intent upon knitting
and her lover fully occupied in looking
at her. He succeeded in getting away
before the miller arrived, otherwise
there would have been scene.


Kitty" said her uncle one day,
have got to be away this evening and
probably shall not be back before ii OF
12 o'clock"


Kitty's eyes sparkled-I dare say
my readers can guess why.


:" have got to go over to town ten
miles distance to see Square Hayden.
He owes me some money. So you
will have to pass the evening by your
SELF"


|


"I don't think I shall feel lonely,
UNCLE" said Kitty, demurely, "I shall
be so busy"


6" / shall come home as soon as pos
sible," said the miller.


"Don't hurry on my account" said
Kitty, innocently


The miller went to his work and
Kitty hastily scratched the following
note:


DEAR HARRY Uncle is going away this even.
ing, and thinks he will not be back before eleven
o'clock. / thought you might like to know.


KITTY.


Folding this up and directing it to
her lover, she called little boy who
was passing.


do you want to earn three cents p
she asked.


"Don't l though was the reply Of
Young America


] "Then carry this over and give il
Year: 1860

CTATE OF MICHIGAN-County of Cass.-ss.
y At session of the Probate Court for the
County of Cass, holden at the Probate Office, in
Cassapolis, on Monday the sixth day of August, in
the year one thousand eight hundred and sixty.
Present, Clifford Shanahan, Judge of Probate.
In the matter of the estate of Hardy Wade de-
ceased. On reading and filing the petition duly
verified, Of Jefferson Osborn, praying for proof OF
will of said deceased.


Thereupon it is ordered that Saturday, the first
day of September next, at ten o'clock in the fore
noon be assigned for the hearing of said petition
and that the heirs at law of said deceased, and all
other persons interested in said estate required
to appear at session of said court, then to be
holden at the Probate Office in Cassapolis, and
show cause if any there be, why the prayer of the
petitioner should not be granted.


And it is further ordered, that said petitioner
give notice to the persons interested in said estate
of the pendency of said petition and the hearing
thereof by causing a copy of this order to be pub
lished in the Cass County Republican, newspaper
printed and circulating in said County of Cass for
three successive weeks previous to said day Of
hearing. G. SHANAHAN,


A true copy.] Judge of Probate.


August 6, 1860. aug9-16w3
Year: 1860

W. learn that one of the Black Republican
applicants for the Post Office in this place, who
is most faithful disciple of William H. Seward
says it will never do to appoint one of his COM
pettors to Gil the place, because he is an Abo-
ltionist


This is cutting it pretty fine. Daniel Web
ster, in his celebrated speech in the United
States Senate, on the tariff of $40, was much
amused that the bill, a, it came up to that body
amended by the lower House, provided a duty
OF twenty per cent. on tazseed, while it estab-
lished duty of only ten per cent on linseed.-
If the great Statesman of Marsh6eld made merry
over distinction between faxseed and lin
seed, were he alive to-day how he would laugh
and shake his sides at the idea of drawing a
distinction between Black Republican and an
Aboitionist
Year: 1860

hi We are unable to account for the absence
Of van River Inteliigence'' this morning. If it
was furnished, ii Is nowhere to be found. Most
probably misiaid-ccrtain it is, It never reached
lie composition room
Year: 1860

We notice the owners Of good dogs are
disposed to keep their animals at home during
the time the dog law 10 in force. The massacre
Of curs will commence this morning. and We
advise canine owners to keep their property
confined
Year: 1860

Rosebud under your shady leaf


Hid from the sunny day
Do you miss tho glance Of her eye 20 bright,
Whose blue was heaven in your timid sight
1t is beaming now in tho world Of light,


Over the starry way.
Year: 1860

OVER THE WAY. gs


Gone in her childish purity,


Out from her golden day:
Fading away in the light 30 sweet. (mest
Where the silver stars and the sunbeam.
Paving apath for her little feet.
Over the silent way.
Over her bosom tsodeely
The pearl white hands are pressed
The lashes lie on her cheeks 90 thin
Where the softest blush Of the rose hath been
Shutting the blue Of her eyes within
The pure lids closed in rest.


Over the sweet brow lovingly
Twineth her sunny hair; .r
She Was so fragile that love sent down
From his heavenly gems that soft bright
1870 crown,


TO shade her brow with its waves 30 brown


Light IS the dimpling sir.


Gone to sleep. with the tender smile,


Froze on her silent lips
By the farewell kiss Of her dewy breath,
Cold in the clasp Of the angel Death
Like the last fair bud Of fading wreath


Whose bloom the white frost nips.


Robin-hushed in your downy bed


Over the swinging bough
Do you miss her voice from your glad duet,
When the dew in the heart Of tho rose is ct
Till its velvet lips with the essence wet


In orient crimson glow?


Rosahnd unf1er vonp shadv laaf
Year: 1860




Figures are more convincing arguments
than words, and gentleman who is in
speak understandingly Of tho profits Of sheep
husbandry, has furnished US the data for
the following calculations:


He proves that man who can invest $3.50
in Aock Of sheep and who can and will
take cafe of his investment for ten years,
will find himself at tho end Of that time,
we'll satisfied with tho profits Of the enter
prise. The data we believe will be &C.
knowleged as just, by those experienced in
this branch Of farming and the figures Of
course may be tested by any ono. The
allowance to the farmer Of 75c per head for
his trouble and expense 10 keeping the flock
is believed to be ample for the first years,
Of the time, as = largs flock may be more
economically kept ttan small one.
Year: 1860

School HOUSES AND SCHOOL TEACH
ERs.-It is stated on good authority
Rhode Island surpasses all other States
in the Union for elegant and convenient
school buildings. The improvements
made in this department within . few
years are gratifying evidences of the in
terest felt in the cause of universal edu
cation. This little State is thus gaining
a wide and commanding influence in our
Union, not only for furnishing the mate,
rial helps of education, but also for the
care the managers of the public schools
exercise in providing excellent teachers
The greater number Of these instructors
are young ladies'.
Year: 1860

A quick glance of invest CATION at my
face, and one even more transient Of re-
proach to Pcrcival, proceeded her ac-
knowled -mcnt Of the introduction, the
high bred courteousness of which scarce
ly vailed the coldness of the welcome.


But the first step was taken. | had
formed her acquaintance and obtained
entrance to her house, and as often as
possible, without arousing any suspicion
on her part, for many succeeding weeks
did l seek her presence and study her as
one of the most difficul, pages Of the alb.
strusc book of nature.


Sometimes l found her almost gay and
joyous. as though the lghtness of heart
which probably originally characterized
her, from some unknown depth would
bubble up to life again sometimes in a
tender melancholy, as if her soul with
trailing pinlons mourncd its wasted treas
ures again in an apathy of Indifference,
benumbed, as it were, by the conscious
ness that unknown fate" could bring
nothing more than she already endured !;
aud then fierce, defent. comba,ivc, with
a flashing light in her splendid eye that
took the weird and wicked CLEAN of in
sanity. But in whatever phase | found
her, no word was ever spoken Of self,
and the most artful turn / could give
the conversation in that direction was
either foiled or met with friyid silence.


An a!l-sccing eye alone could know all
that she had to hear, but | as visitor
saw enough to understand that it was
every thing a coarse, tyrannical nature,
cmbruted by the constant use of strong
drink, had power to infict on a high
strung, refined and sensitive tcmpera.
ment.


Oft'ntimes, though, when the digni-
fed GOODNESS of her manner failed as a
check upon him, l saw the rough oath
vanish unuttered from his lips, the ma
licous ferociiy disappear from his ac.
tons, and his eye absolutely quail before
the steadfast look of naughty warnin.
she would fix upon him. Involuntarily
the thought would rise:


"God help you, man, should you ever
transgress the verge of her endurance.
Desperation could give that slender hand
grasp of steel upon da-ser's haft i,
conviction come that one blow nigh,
avenge the torture for years"


As the time progressed, Ross became
more and more addicted to habits Of in
temperance, and with each Bacchanaliar
or"iu he grew more and more ferocious
until he became the terror of the entire
community.


Even public curiosity, which, frou
her perseysring retirement had almos
forgotten her existence, commenced t.
wonder how Mrs. Ross endured his con
duct, and silent sympathy seemed t,
rise in her behalf.


Percival and | gradually became con
scious that she secluded herself from us
and under an exterior of calmness
knew he chafed to madness at his lack 0
power to rescue her from the horrors 0
her situation, and would, l thought. bu
for the restraining influence of q solem,
promise she had exacted from him, hav
sought with Ross deadly quarrel.


Finally, upon the occasion of publ
meeting one memorable night, Ros
drank as usual to intoxication, and rave
and ragged about the streets with NOR
than his usual frenzy of conduct insult
ing all, threatening all, hraudishing hi