smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1859

TRrTu.-Many years ago, I'm one ot the
counties OF East Virginia, suit tor large
amount was brought by merchant against
planter. The payment of the claim was re-
sisted on the ground that large portion Of it
WAS fraudulent The trial produced great
excitement throughout the country. Both
parties were well known, and wealthy
Both had extensive family connections, and
a large circle Of friends vino became warmly
interested in the result The only reliable
witness that the plaintiff could bring forward
to establish the claim, was young clerk, only
sixteen years Of age, who was not onl y depen-
dent upon the merchant for his support
but had been the frequent recipient OF his
kindness The defendant and his friends
feared that his youth, his dependence, and the
kindness for which he was indebted TO his
employer would induce him tn swear to the
account. Contrary to all expectation, how
ever, the youth gave his testimony in such u
clear, impartial and straight forward manner
as not only to establish the fraudulent nature
of the account, but to convict his employer Of
habitual villalny beyound the hope Of denial
or excuse. Judge John Minor, in his charge,
spoke in the most complimentary manner Of
the honesty, the firmness and ability Of the
young witness, and predicted for him un hon
nrable and distinguished future. The boy
lost his place, but gained reputation which
vet lives in the recollection of the people of
that county. That boy was Benz. Bolts, the
father of John Minor Bolts He ended "a
brief but most brilliant career as a lawyer,
at the burning Of the Richmond Theatre, in
1911 .-RichEl0ud Ne,cS
Year: 1859

At the Marshall County Democrat Job Office,
as neat and cheap work csn be done as at any
Printing establishment in Northern Indiana
Having good Card Press, such work can be
done ON very short notice and reasonable terms.
Call and see samples ofwork.
Year: 1859

ed TO the neighborS Occasionally a mis-
take would be made in the street number OF
the house, and expostulations Of an animated
kind woald ensue between the messenger
and the wrongly y-waked person, drowsily in.
quiriug from bis open chamber window, OF u
freezing wntry night, ~ TO the precise ob.
ject Of the visitation. Hence the expressive
proverb OF waking up the wrong passen-
ger. As the messengers had often an cx>
tensive circuit TO make round the town,
those who stood first on his list were some
times called an hour and half or two hours
before the time which gave them the I'D.
vantage of getting Thoroughly walked up


AT length the vehicle came rafting
along, four horse coach, containing three
seats inside and places for two beside the
driver, which fell TO the lot In cold weather
OF the last applicants; in summer they were
the places OF preference. Seats on the top
OF the carriage, like those in use ut the pre-
sent time, were not then known. Each OF
the three seats inside was supposed to ac.
commodate three persons Of whatever size
or weight. small children being thrown into



the adult passeDgers-a arrangement which
became superior test Of patience aud good
nature before the long and weary day was
over, especially if the child, not being your
own, was troubled with catarrhal affection
or the whooping cough. The middle seat
when ] first began 10 travel had no strap
or other support to the back. When that
improvement was first introduced il was re-
garded as one Of the great discoveries OF the
age. The baggage was not suspended with
the body OF the vehicle on springs, but it
was placed on a frame work extending
backward from the hindmost axle, where il
partook, without any mitigation, the con-
cussion of the carriage. The consequence
was that, unless your trunks were packed
with great skill, and their contents tightly
strapped together inside, your garments Of
every description were nearly ruined by q
journey OF two or three days"
Year: 1859

I saw him first at a social party He
took but single glass of wine, and that at
the request of young lady with whom he
conversed.


saw him next, when he supposed he
was unseen, taking glass to satisfy the
slight desire formed by his social indulgence.
He thought there was no danger.


! saw him again with those of his age,
meeting at night to spend short time in
convivial pleasure. He said it was only
innocent amusement.


I met him next, late in the evening in the
street, unable to reach home. took him
thither. He looked ashamed when we next
met.


I saw him next reeling in the street. a
confused stare was on his countenance, and
words of blasphemy were on his tongue
Shame was gone :
I saw him yet once more. He #as pale,
cold, motionless, and was carried by his
friends to his last resting place. In the
small procession that followed, every head
was cast down, and seemed to shake with
uncommon anguish. So


His fathers gray hairs were going to the
grave in sorrow. His mother wept to think
that she had ever given birth to such child.
Year: 1859

We often hear young men, who never did
any hard work in their lives, talk about GO
ing to Pixies Peak. We ask such, what
kind of work they think gold-digging is?
Let them turn out here, and get themselves
into practice by digging wells, cellars. coal,
quarrying rock, mauling rails, and rolling
saw:logs, and eat dry tread and wash if
down with water, and sleep on the ground
n fair weather and foul, and then form an
opinion about the work of digging gold
Digging gold is no ehild's play; and it is
only the strong, able bodied, hard-working
men that will suit for the busines. The
men who succeeded at the mines in Califor-
MIA, were strong of arm, stout of heart, and
only such men can succeed at gold mines.
A bull has just as much business in china
store, as glove-handed clerk or fair-faced
mechanic has at Pixies Peak.-ExehaHgs.
Year: 1859

In the last volume of tGray's Reports,
there is an excellent decision of the Su-
preme Court, which is sound morals as well
as good law. 1t seems that a. woman ut
tered a SANDER of another and, when sued
for it, her defence was that she only repeat
ed what was currently reported that she
had no malice, and therefore was not liable
to an action. Judge Thomas gave capital
opinion, whiehzwe should be glad to print
at length. The story, he says, uttered or re-
peated by the defendant, contains charge
against the plaintiff of a nature to destroy
her reputation. It was false charge. 1t
is no answer in any forum, to say that she
only reported the story as she heard it. If
the story was false and slanderous, she must
repeat it at her peril. There is safety in no
other rule. Often the origin of slander can
not be traced. He who gives it circulation
gives it its powero mischief. 1t is the sue
cessiye repetitions that do the work. A
falsehood often repeated gets to be believed.
A man cannot say there is story in cireu-
lation that A. poisoned his wife, or B. picked
C.'s pocket. and relate the story, and when
called upon to answer, say, ''There was
such report in circulation > I but repeated
what I heard, and had no desire to circulate
or confirm it; - for two very plain reasons
that the repetition of the story must, in
the nature of things, give it currency and
the repetition without the expression of
disbelief, viii confirm it. The danger is an
obvious one. and long since pointed out /;
and it is, that bad men may give currency
to slanderous reports, and then find in that
currency their own protection from the just
consequences of repetition. -
Year: 1859

GooD ADvIcE.-If-peop would take
the adviceoofy the venerable Bishop Soule
given to the preachers at a. late meeting
of the Alabama Conference, what a world
of vexation and trouble would be saved.
Brethren, said the good old man "my
rule is this, and Iadvise you to adopt it
Never owe any more than you are able tc
pay and allow no man to owe you more
than you are able to lose"
Year: 1859

It is to be remembered that the black re-
publ cans of Ohio have placed themselves
in active hostility to the fugitive slave law
and have, moreover commenced the work
OF prescribing judges who decide in ia
vor of It's constitutionaIily. 1t will not be
long before We see those in other States
following their example, and taking active
measures against the law first sanctioned
by George Washington, and pronounced
constitutional by John Jay and John Mar
shall, and again affirmed by Henry
Clay and Daniel Webster. The black re-
publicans demand the repeal or the nulli-
ication Of this law. Since the party now
occupy this position. the following extract
from a speech by VIM. Lloyd Garrison
will be of interest He is the most violent
of all the aboltionists, and yet he is not
only forced TO admit the constimtionality
of the law, but the right and duty Of Con-
gress to enact it, and these are the very
positions which the black republicans deny.
The extract is from a speech which he
made last winter before committee Of
the Massachusetts, Legislature.--Det. Fir.
Press.


Il cannot, gentlemen, place the same
construction upon the constitution, re-
specting the rendition of fugitive slaves.
which my respected friend, Mr.. Sewall.
has done cannot plead that it is not in
the bond to give up the fugitive slave. 1t
is for those who can to do so; for. myself
l cannot OUTAGE this nation. and sal that,
for seventy years. it has never understood
its own constitution in this particular.
believe that Massachusetts, consented, with
her eyes open. and for the sake of making
a union with the South possible, to allow
the slave hunter to come here and take
his prey; and would not spend one mo
ment in attempting to argue. on the words
of the constitution, that we have never
agreed to any such thing. | believe thai
the intent of bargain is the bargain. what
ever may be the language used. and |
would no. try to get rid of an obligation.
however unjust, by false interpretation Of
the instrument. @


What waste of time and effort it
would be to argue. from the phraseology
of that nefarious law, that it was never
designed by Congress to refer to fugitive
slaves Enough, that for seventy years,
all the courts, all the legislatures, all the
Congresses, and all the people, have un
derstood these compromises of the consti-
tuition in precisely the same way, and pro-
nounced them obligatory. II is too late,
therefore, TO get up new and unwarranta-
| BILE construction of the constitution, in or
der to justify us in doing right and obey
ing God. All have to say is, as one
holding loyalty to God to be paramount in
all cases, | care not though every word in
the constitution be for slavery. or every
sentence an agreement on our part to stand
by it. In that case it is all null and void.
and a crime of the deepest dye for US to
carry it out; and so l stand here on the
ground of eternal justice. and appeal to
the law of the living God, end ask you to
do likewise"
Year: 1859

A srlculture-as a profession
does not sparkle with glittering
of wealth and fame
and glory. We are glad it does
not. True, men become wealthy,
and are noted, who are farmers.
and their wealth is substantial and
their fame is lasting. But specu-
lative adventures do not belong
to the farmers Legitimate sphere;
neither is his prosperity due to
such ventures, or subject to be af-
fected by dis' sters which often
flow from them. We thank God
that all men do not dig for gold
do not wreck health and destroy
the best years of life in pursuit of
pelf-that this is not the result of
the farmers occupation. We be-
lieve the wealth of the agricultur
ist to be, and will consist, more in
the possession, within himself, of
the essential means of a comforta-
ble subsistence, than in the power
of accumulating fortunes such as
are often acquired BY men in other
pursuits, and We believe also that
as a consequence of this feature of
rural life, we shall ever hereafter
n


find more general intelligence and
a better distribution of it among
farmers than among any other
class.-Fdrnaes..
Year: 1859

Few crops suffer greater injury
from nismanagement, thnn clover
hay. In favorable weather, clover
may be cut and cured and render
ed as bright in color, and as pala-
table to any kind of stock as the
best of timothy hay; indeed, we
would prefer well cured clover to
timothy. 1t contains LIS per ct.
of good sugar when handled prop
erly. The percentage of sugar is
greatest just when fully in bios
som; but it is best to let it stand
until portion of the heads are al
most matured, as it contains less
moisture, a superabundance of
which delays the curing, and rem
ders the process more uncertain.
A clear sky and dry atmosphere
are important in making clover
hay. If the moving be commenc-
ed in the morning, that which is
first cut should be placed in small
cocks of fifty or seventyfve pounds
each before night, and that which
is cut in the afternoon should be
put up next day as soon as the
dew is off. Let it remain this way
a day or two, according to the
weather; and the day it is to be
hauled in, the cocks should be
turned over and opened, until all
the external moisture Is carried
away.


To make bright, sweet hay, the
mode of stacking is Important
Some means of ventilation must
be employed, whether in the barn
or stack. If excessive fermenta-
ton is allowed to take place, por-
tlons of the most nutritive proper
ties OF the hay will be lost. a
slight sprinkling of salt should be
added to each layer of hay as it
is hauled in, as it will tend to ar.
rest fermentation, and render the
hay more palatable.
Year: 1859

ADVICE TO You've MEx--In his vale
dictory address. the ex Lord Rector Of Glas-
Cow University, Sir E. Bulwer Lytton, late
lv offered the following excellent maxims to
the students:


Never affect he said to be other than
what you are. either rich or wise Never
be ashamed to say l do not know Men
will believe you when you say, i do know.
Never be ashamed to say, whether applied
to time or money. Il cannot afford 1t: / can
not afford to waste an hour In the idleness
TO which You invite me. | cannot afford
the guinea you ask me to throw away


Once established yourself and your
mode of life as what they really are. and
your foot is on solid ground. whether for
the gradual step onward or for the sudden
spring over tho precipice From the max
i'm let me deduce another.


'Lears to say No with decision. Yes
with caution No with decision whenev
er it meets temptation; Yes with eau
ZION whenever implies promise A prom
ise given is bond inviolahle A M is al
ready of consequence in The world when
it is known that we can implicitly rely on
him. have frequently seen such man
preferred to long list of applicants for
some important charge: he has been lifted
at once into station and fortune, merely be-
cause he had this reputation-that when
he says he knows thing. he knows; and
when he says he will do a thing, he will
do it.''
Year: 1859

A lively and lAdicrous combat took
place between female physician, Mrs.
Stillwell and regular trowsered doctor.
named McNeal. took place in the streets OF
Dewitt. Iowa. a few days ago. The affair
grew out of a professional rivalry. the i'm


mediate provacation being lengthy article
from the pen of the male disciple Of Escu-
paius. severely rejecting on the character
OF his pr fessional sister. The latter after
a careful diagnosis of the case, decided
that it WAS one calling for the vigorous ap.
pIicaien of stimulant in the shape of a
cowskin. Providing herself with this ar
tice. she hunted up:her tra1ucer, and piled
him SO assiduously with heavy doses of
the new therapeutical agent at remarkably
short intervals. that the patient. unable TO
bear such bold practice. clasped the fair
practitioner in his arms and held her SO
forcibly and afeclionately, that the efforts
of the Town Marshall were necessary to
release her. At the latest accounts both
doctor and patient were doing WELL q
Year: 1859

All animals working at the plow
or other farm work need extra
feed and care at this season. 1t is
much cheaper tofeed a little extra
and have the animal enabled to
work vigorously and steadily, than
to starve, and have tie animal
wincing and twisting and lageing
at lis work. 1t costs less to Keep
flesh when once on an animal than
to put it on again if worked and
starved otf.-Feed and carefully
attend your working animals, if
you choose to make money or re-
tain any credit for judiciouS man
agement.
Year: 1859

A lady correspondent of the
Country Gentleman, writes that
eggs can be kept good and fresh
for six months by placing in shall
low basket made loose and con-
tanning eight or ten dozen; hang
the basket on hook or a nail on
the joists in the cellar. The light
er and more airy the cellar, the
batter.
Year: 1859

A New FowL.--A traveller stopping
at one Of the hotels in Minnesota, recent
ly, saw the phrase "Fried Water Chick
ems" on the dioner bill of fare. Desiring
to know what this meant, he sent for
dish of water chickens. He tried them
found he N excellent nt-recommended them
to the rest OF the party, ladies and ALL
All who tried them liked them wonder
fully; and almost all of them became frog
e sters almost without knowing it.
Year: 1859

MA fellow was arrested for stealing
ducks, and after description of them,
the counsel for the prisoner said,


"Wby they can't be such rare breed.
for l have some of them in my own
yard"


"Very likely" said the complainant;
"I have lost a good many lately
Year: 1859

Owen I.ovejoy, Of Illinois, was re-
elected to Congress last fall in his dis
trict by = large majority, and no marvel.
He is one ofthe able men of the House,
as well as among the most indepen-
dent and fearless. He talks right out
in the presence and to the face of the
would-be masters, as the reader of the
following verbatim report of recent
discussion, taken from the COMPRESSION
al Globe will be ready to certify:
MIR. Lovejoy-I move to amend the
clause by striking out the words, land
for the safe keeping of prisoners;
understand that means for the safe
keeping of fugitive slaves.


Mr.. John Cochranc-Oh, no; there
are none in New York.


MIR. Lovejoy-This being my under
standing, move to strike out these
words. | will not dwell now upsn the
moral considerations pertinent to this
matter. | do not believe that the
Constitution conters upon this House
the power of taxing me and taxing my
constituents to feed and clothe and
keep these fugitive slaves till their trial
comes on. If there is anything in the
Constitution about it, it is that they are
simply allowed to be taken and carried
back. And, sir, it is a thing so utterly
odious to the people of the Free States,
SO utterly degrading, and so abhorrent
to the feelings of humanity, North and
South, that | 60 for adhering to the
letter of the bond, giving nothing more
than the pound Of flesh. That is all
we can give, and We give that reluo-
,antly. Iftherefore do not misappre-
hend the meaning of this clause.
trust it will be stricken out.


Mr.. Singleton-The gentleman talks
about giving ''the pound Of flesh"
would be very happy indeed, if the
gentleman would return the negro
whom he helped to steal away from
one of my cor stituents.


MI. Loveioy- thank the gentle,
man for calling the attention of the
Committee to that matter. I never
stole away any of the gentleman's me-
groes-he never rightfaliy owned a
negro. Every human being that God
made be!spgs to himself against the
universe. And, sir, if this committee
wish to knows my attention has
been several times called to this, and
as scurrilous letters have been read here
whether help fugitive slaves, l march
right up to the confessional and tell
them that do. There is no human
being, black or white, that ever comes
to my door and asks for food when
hungry, or shelter when houseless, but
receives it; and if the invisible Spirit
OF slavery expects 70 cross my thresh-
hold and forbid me to feed the hungry
or shelter the houseless, l bid that de-
mon defiance in the name of G3d.


Mr.. Singleton-I wonld like the
gentleman to define what he calls
''stealing" ifthas be not stealing


MIR. Lovejoy-Stealing is to take a
man and keep him slave. "He that
stealeth man and selleth him, or ii he
be found in his hands, he shall surely
be put to death"
Year: 1859

We find the following apostrophe to that di.
abolically sounding instrument, the gong, in ar
exchange, and print it. knowing that it will
prove pleasant reading to many who are daily
tortured by the one used at the empire" fol
things that people hate, they always love tc
hear arathatised:


They say, cid Thunderer, that away in China,
Some thousand miles the other side of earth,
Where tea is grown, beyond the ocean briny,
Near the big ancient wall, thou had thy birth
If true or not, the one who gave thee breath,
Ought to have lived until he starved to death
Perhaps that Chinantan once kept an inn,


And was Shylock and hardened sinner,
Who, for the sole and naked thirst for 'tin,n


Conspired to cheat his guests of half dinner
And so the DID, penurious, wicked sprite


Invented thee to kill the appetite.
Strange that the love of gold and power eferrer
Should propagate upon the human brain,
And proffer birth to such child of terror


progeny that fills the world with pain


An instrument of woe that only serves


To furnish torture for the feeble nerves.
fear there is hell, our Bibles teach it.


And reason, conscience, say the Bibles true.
And lettered priests in every nation preach it.
Except modern, theoFietic few.


Insurance agents, peddling out for hire,


Sham policies against eternal fire.
But in these dark, FOUL and burning regions.


Where direful noises echo loud and long,
There is no sound sent forth by hellish legions
One half so herrid as thy noise, oh gong.


For wild and fearful though their howlings be
They are to thine perfect symphony
Year: 1859

BG% The St. Louis Republican publishes a
letter from an officer in the army, at Camp
Floyd, Utah, from which we take the following
case of cruelty:


No longer ago than yesterday, while sitting
in the generals quarters, knock at his door
announced a poor unfortunate Young man.
about nineteen or twenty years old a handsome
Danish lad, who had been barbarously mutila-
ted, and fled for protection all the way from
San Pete Valley to our camp,-He shed tears
while telling his story.


The case of this handsome young lad excited
our sympathy much. He had, it seems, paid
his court to young Danish girl, who had emf
grated here with him, whom he had known
from childhood, with view to marriage The
attachment was mutual, but some hoary- y-headed
old scoundrel Of bishop, or other official,
wanted the girl for his harem, and, jealous of
the handsome youth, had him tied, and thus
mutiated him, first giving him chance between
that and DEATH
Year: 1859

MORE LETTERs.-Political letters crowd upon
u.s. One from Jackass Gulch TO Lecompton-
te at Windy Hollow, asks:


Seeing that negroes are chatteis, and are
like cattle, any other species of property, have
the people of the Territories a constitutional
right to kill and eat them as they do hogs and
sheep; and has Congress the right to intervene
and prescribe the mode Of cooking and the kind
of sauce necessary to make them palatable 2"


The gentleman of Windy Hollow hesitates
over his repiy.-S. r. Nsws.
Year: 1859

Louis NAPOLEON INvEYTs New CANNoN-The
Paris correspondent of the Phare, of San Fran
cisco, contains the following:


Notwithstanding the fact that the Emperor
is SO much engrossed with the important politi-
cal questions of the day, he appears as the in
yentor OF new species of caunon-of which
need to give you no other description than to say
that 1t is conducted almost entirely upon the
plan of the American revolver. This cannon
can be fired as many times in minute as the
smallest Colts reyolver-with the use of which
you IN California seem TO be too familiar. 1t is
a beautiful invention; and if it is really Napo-
leon S; as they say It is, shah end by believ-
ing that il was he and not Montholon, who con-
ceived in the prison of Ham some curious arti
cles upon improvement in the artillery service.
etc. Be this as it may, the invention is made,
and it is expected to do great service in the ex
pected cam paignn