smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1859

can the following:


'On the trial Of Dr. Daily, notwi.hstand-
ing tho direct testimony Of several Of our
best citizens. % to his drunkenness, he
summoned several persons by whom to prove
dat he was not drunk among whom was
Gov. Willard, who testified that he saw DR..
Daily on that day. and didn't think he was
drunk--didn't smell whisky in his breath.
The committee didn't think the Governor
good judge of tie matter, aud decided
against him. The idea Of Governor Viii
lard detecting whisky by the smell of a mans
breath, is bordering on the funny"


II We presume the committee went up
on the principle that man who ate garlic
himself couldn't be expected to detect the
scent OF it in tie breath Of another person.
Year: 1859

NEW YORK CATTLE MARKET, July 2O-Beef Cat


e-The supply is considerab below that of last week
but owing to continued limited demand prices are
again lower The extreme heat as well as the annie
supply of seasonabe vegetables low prices together
with the lrge number Of cattle Offering operate very
much to the disadvantage of drovers Spectators have
bee ana are severe sufferers many of the cattle now ar
rlvng were contracted for February last when it was
anticipated the supply in June and July would be unpre
cedentedy SMALL but appears this idea became so
prevalent that nearly every in the trade set about
taking advantage of it, and the consequence has already
Deen IN the oYer-suppy and the low prices The quality
OF the offerings this week, is barely medium and the
market closed even lower than had ruled earlier in the
week day not than 10c per h. was paid for the
best offering; 10Hc obtained yesterday The closing
out prices were extremely low.


Mich Cows-There is considerable offering of infe-
ror qualities which, it would appear should be wanted
but there is little demand


Veal CalvesThe market is very dull for Veal Calves
it is even more depressed than beef cattle The sales
were within the range of 3k @l6c. per lb.


Sheep and Lambs.-A large increase over the full re.
cepts of last week, although met by a good demand
caused much irreguarity and depression in market
There was more toward the close The sales were
principally within the range of S3d4 per head although
the entire range touched


Swine. The market was cleared early at steady
prices but the receipts less than half the average
number.
Year: 1859

ONE JOKE AND THREE CHURCHES AT ANNApoL1s.-
In the San of yesterday is the following elegraphie
despatch:


and his party arrived here this evening"


No doubt oft. His party is SO small that ample
accommodations for it can be found at Bedford


1t is expected that there win be divine service at
interior of the new edifce being nearly ready for
the accommodation of the congregation
The Workmen are progressing rapidly in build
ing the new Methodist and Roman Catholic church
es They will probably be ready for service in the
Year: 1859

A Partisan observer of the times declares
that the hording of money has become almost
an unknown thing. In lis place. he thinks the
mania is to keep carriage. The proportion
of equiPages to the number of men of fortune,
in Paris, at present, is five times what It was
ten years ago Among slock-brokers, capital
lists, merchants and literary men. the private
carriage is the sure first sign of prosperity.-
Bot it is curious that there is one class who
used to think an equlpage a necessity and who
now are leaving it successful actresses =
There were forty or fifty who had teams"
with coachmen in livery-there are now only
three! They, too, have their substitute pas
sion, however. They speculate IN stocks!
Year: 1859

How To TAKE LIFE.-Take it like a
man. Take it Just as though it was
as it is, an earnest, vital, essential
affair. Take it Just as though You
personally were born to the task of
performing a merry part in it, as
though the world had waited for your
coming. Take it as though it was a
grand opportunity to do and to
achieve, to Garry forward great and
good schemes, to help and cheer a
suffering, weary, it may be heart-bro,
ken brother. The fact is, life is un,
dervalued by great majority of man,
kind. 1t is not made half as much OF
as should be the case. Where is the
man or woman who accomplishes one
tithe of what might be done Who
cannot look back upon opportunities
lost, plans unachieved, thoughts
crushed, aspirations unfulfilled, and all
caused from the lack of the necessary
and possible effort If we knew bet
ter how to take and make the most of
life, it would be far greater than it is.
Now and then man stands aside
from the crowd. labors earnestly,
stcadiastly, confidently, and straight
way becomes famous for wisdom, in
tellcct, skill, greatness of some sort.
The world wonders, admires, idolizes;
and yet il only illustrates what each
may do if he only takes hold of life
with a purpose. If man but say he
tcIt, and follows it up, there Is moth.
ing in reason he may not expect to ac-
complish. There is no magic, no mir
acle, no secret to him who is brave in
heart, determined in spirit.
Year: 1859

Be PLEAsANr.-Do be pleasant-oh.
why can't YOU? Will you feel any
better for swapping, snarling or grow
ling? You know you won't, If YOUR
heart were really dirty dish, and ugly
emotions aud cross words were the
unclcanliness, it would be good
plan to get them all out as soon as
possible but unfortunately there can


be no such sudden cleansing Of


mans interior. The more ohiectiona.
bic stuff he throws out the more there
grows to replace it, 'ris only smoth.
ering and choking that suits this ease.
Speak pleasantly then, especially to
the people in any respect beneath
you whether they be inferior to you
in rank, learning, power or age, try to
be pleasant toward them whether you
really feel good natured OF not. If
you get your mouth open to throw out
spike or dagger, Shut it till you,
like the juggler, transform the wea-
pom into Il flower Oh, do be kind
and pleasant everybody to everybody,
and the millennium will come at once,
Year: 1859

Mrs. CUNNlNGHAM.-" Burleigh," the
New York correspondent of the Bos,
ton Journal. who is understood to be
the Rev. Matthew Hale Smith, Mrs.
Cunningham's council at one stage of
her case, corrccts a paragraph which
was copied from the Rochester Union.
He states that Mrs. Cunningham lives
in Forty-eighth street. She is not in
"easy circumstances but is reduced
and poor. The elegant mansion" is
house in q block on the new upper
street, for which she is indebted to
the kindness of the owner till spring.
Her house is not entirely furnished ;
the most of it not at all and what
is, is of the commonest style.


She has wasted all the property she
had, and is not able to take house
of comfort. All the ordinary avenues
of employment open to most women
are closed to her. The prejudice
against this woman was never strong
Or than now, and, having spent all
she had to defend herself in courts of
law, she is now very poor, and would
keep boarding house OF do any hon
orable thing to get living if she
could do so. Her daughter Augusta
has not been married to Southern
planter" but to a young man in this
city, who has not one dollar to rely
upon but what he earns from day to
day and the rumor about Helen is as
apocryphal as the rest of the story.
Year: 1859

We look forward with hope to the
time when teaching will be a distinct
profession, requiring the same course
OF studious preparation as law OF med
Iclne. The Importance of the tcach-
ers labors cannot be exaggerated.


lie wlelds the future success and


character Of the man. Tie work


which others perform may be seen and


calculated, but who can reach so far,


even IN imagination, as to touch the


completion of that structure which


has its foundation in the mind of tho


child !! 1t was the first impulse which


gave motion and shape and direction


to the universe, and sent the earth
and stars to wheel uninjured through
their orbits of eternal space. 1t is
the first influcnce-in the beginning it
may be only grain of sand hidden
in the bosom Of the earth, which i'm.
parts strength and beauty to the hun,
dred years of oak, or foredooms it to
distorted and feeble maturity. 1t ia
the first impulse, likewise, which
shapes and sentences the ever-durinm
mind. % hold that every man is a
debtor to his profession" said Web.
ster and surely no one has so much
power to dignity his Office as tho
teacher. If the next century wit
nesses as vast achievements in the
arts of imparting knowledge as the
last has--if textbooks, the RAILWAYS
and telegraphs Of mental communica-
ton and wealth, go on improving and
extending, perhaps the same amount
of knowledge may be accessible in
weeks which it now requires mouths
of labor to attain. This promise for
the future rests with the teacher.
Whatever is to be the hereafter of our
whatever the calamities which
party warfare may engender, we can
not fail to be secure in the homes Of
our principles and liberty, so long as
the common school, the peaceful glory
of New-England, is perpeteated, and
the work of the schoolmaster is hon,
orable and honored.-N A, Rsriev,
Year: 1859

SAID young person to Il lady, who


sat holding her child, "Now what


good will all your education do you


You have spent so much time in study


graduated with high honors, learned
music and painting, and only married


a farmer. Why do not you teach
school or do something to benefit the


world with your talents or, if You


choose to marry, why not take a teach


er, clergyman, or some professional


man But, assit is, you did not need
so much learning for rural life"


The lady replied, "You do not look


very far into the future. Do you see
this boy on my lap? need all the
study, all the discipline, both of mind
and body, that l could possibly get, in
order that | may train him Alright.
You see, | have the first impressions
to make on the fair blank of his pure
heart, and unless my mind was first
cultivated, my own heart first purified,
how could well perform the task now
placed before me? And, besides, do
you not suppose that farmers have
hearts like other men, tastes just as
pure, because they guide the plow and
till the soil for support? Do you not
suppose their minds are just as sus-
ceptible of cultivation and expansion
as other men? Have they no love for
the beautiful in their nature, of art p
cannot good paintings be Just as much
admired on their walls as others, or
does not the evening pass as pleas
antly with them, when they gather
around the piano after days labor is
finished |? All, my young friend, you
have made a sad mistake in your reck-
oning."


Of all the occupations, give me
that of the farmer. 1t is the most
beautiful ; his life is frcer from care,
his sleep is swectcr, his treasures
safer. n farmer need not be a slave
OF any, for he has none to please but
himself. Not so with almost any
tradesman, mechanic or professional
man. They have more or less to do
with the world at large, and have all
manner of persons to deal with. so
that they have need of the patience of
job to live. They, are well aware
tnat they must not freely speak their
minds at all times, that if they do
they will lose custom for they de-
pend upon the people for a living,
therefore, they are servants of all
Then what can be desired more, what
is more peaceful, prosperous, honest,
and happy than farmers
wife ?--Ho0re's Rural Ne,c Yorker.
Year: 1859

HUMAN Hazlitt observes in
his " table talk -


The length or agreeableness of a
journey does not depend on the few
last steps of it, nor is the size of a
building to be judged of by the last
stone that is added to it. 1t is neither
the first nor the last hour of our exist
ence, but the space that parts these
two-nOr our exit, nor our entrance
upon the stage, but what we do, feel
and think while there-that we are to
attend to in pronouncing sentence
upon it. Indeed, it would be easy to
show that it is the very extent of hu.
man life, the infinite number of things
contained in it, its contradictory and
fuctuating interests, the transition
from one situation to another, the
hours, months. years, spent in one
fond pursuit after another that it is,
in a word the length of our common
journey, and the quantity of events
which are crowded into it, that, baf-
fling the grasp of our actual percep-
ton, make it slide from our memory,
and dwindle into nothing in its own
perspective. 1t is too mighty for us,
and we say it is nothing 1t is Il
speck in our fancy, and yet what can
vas would be big enough to hold its
striking groups, its endless objects !
1t is light as vanity and yet, if all
its weary moments, if all its head and
Year: 1859

lSDusTRY.-Every young man should
remember that the world has and al.
ways willhonor industry. The vulgar
and useless idler, whose energies of
body and mind are rusting for want
OF eXercise-the mistaken being who
pursues amusement as q relief to his
enervated muscles, or engages in cx.
erclscs that produce no useful end
may look with scorn upon the smutty
laborer engaged in his toll. But his
scon is an honor. Honest industry
will secure the respect OF the wise
and good among men, and yield tho
rich lruit Of easy conscience and givo
the heart selfrespcct which is above
all price.
Year: 1859

KIND WoRps.-kind words are look
ed upon like jewels in the breast
never to be forgotten, perhaps to cheer
with thrir memory Il long, sad life
while words Of cruelty, OF Of careless.
ness, are like swords III the bosom.
wounding and leaving scars which
will be borne to the grave by their
victim. Do You think there is any
bruised heart which bears the mark of
such wound from youg If there is
living one which yon have wounded,
hasten to heal it for life IS s-l..
tomorrow may be too late.
Year: 1859

The st Paul Times says the bridge
over the river at that place is ap-
preaching completion as fast as such
a huge structure can approach any
thing, The huge stone piers. eight in
number, are nearly all completed
ready for the immense superstructure
of tressel work which is to reposs
upon them. About a hundred men
are regularly employed upon the
bridge. But, Notwithstanding every
effort of the engineer, it is doubtful if
it will be finished before May. 1t
will cost, when completed, $3.50, 900.
Year: 1859

Labor was the son of Necessity,
the nursing of Hope, and the pupil of
Art he had the strength of his moth
er, the spirit of his nurse, and the
dexterity of his govcrncss, and came
down upon earth to oppose the devas-
tations of famine.


1t does oppose them and that sue
cessfully. If every one was willing
to perform his share of labor-intel-
lcctual and Observation-Disclosures he is
best adapted for-there would be very
little real evil in the world.
Year: 1859

SuocKrNG DEArH-A Wom01 Droloned in
a Cistern. We learn by Mr. Carron that Mrs.
Joseph Boyd, of warrensvic, o., was drowned
yesterday in cistern, under the most heart
rending circumstances:


The cistern was under the kitchen, and ac-
cess was had to it through a trap-duOr, tho
bottom of the cistern being six feet faom the
floor, and only four feet of water i'll it. No
one was in the house but Mrs. b. and her little
child of three and half years, who of course
cannot explain the particulars of the mothers
DEATH Mr.. B. was at work on his farm, and
saw his wife out of doors about P. NJ. When
her two other children returned from school
and found their mother missing, they asked
their little sister where she was, who told them
s.she was in the citern" that her mother tod
her to bring her chair, and she did so, but
that her mother could not get out and wanted
her to give her another chair. which she did;
that her mother then wanted her to kiss her.


The little girl ran around the house, but not
finding her mother, ran for her father, who came
and found the body of the wife and mother at
bottom of the cistern, a corpse. The two chairs
were also found in the cistern, from which It IS
inferred that she slipped in but did not at first
drown, and calling upon her little child for
chair. tried with it to get out, but could not,
and called for n second chair with no better re-
sut. until becoming so chilled with the cold
water, and fully apprehensive that she could
not long survive, called her little child to her TO
impart a final kiss, and then the chill OF death
approaching her vitals, she sank from the chair
into the water and died. C4erstand Leader, Sth.
Year: 1859

We occasionally see some wealthy
well.dressed young man looking coldly
and sneeringly down upon a poor but
honest and industrious worker; and at
times find ourself wondering if that he
were suddenly reduced from his pres
ent lucky position, whathis energy and
acouirements would fetch in the labor
marketi The answer is "plain--just
about as much rs Paddy shot at"
Year: 1859

Not one man in five hundred


will make fortune. But compe-
tence and an independent position is
within the reach of most men. This
is obtained most surely by patient in
dustry and economy. If man has
ordinary talents and ability in any
profession, or business, or trade, he
can, by pursuing an. economical, per-
severing course, be pretty sure Of final
ly obtaining an independent position
in life. Let his expense fall below
his income. Let him live cheap, very
cheap, if necessary, but let him be
sure and make his income more than
cover his expense. 1t can be done in
almost all cases, Notwithstanding
the positive denial of ever so many
housekeepers. A man may not have
more than two or three hundred dol
lars year, and may have family as
large as that of John Rodgers, and he
can find way to live comfortably,
and lay up something besides There
is much. nay all, in knowing how the
thing is done. And that is the very
thing people who are going TO make
money have got to learn. 1t is Won
derlul how few real wants we have,
and how little it takes to give us gen.
uine happiness. If we could get rid
of our artificial, scnscless, and cxpcn-
sive way of living, we should find our
selves better off in purse, in prospect
and in heart. Let any one who has
any ambition to 90 ahead in life, try
the experiment this year, and see how
much virtue there is in economy
Make your expense less than your in
come, and see how much you will
have gained, not only in money but
in the feeling that you are in the con-
dition which the Yankee denominated
"lorehanded.' Try it this year.
Year: 1859

Bonner, of the Ledger is beginning
to feel so good that he is letting the
public into the secret of his great pc
cuniary success. In the last number
of his paper he states that his daily
receipts from his country subscription
list alone, has been as high as s37OO
per day. This is exclusive of the great
majority of copies sold by the whole
sale dealers to their retail agents.
Year: 1859

Ont of twenty young men in a


ouadriIle at an evening party, who


presented to be making love to their


mariners, ten are remarking that the
room is very warm. five are observing
that the polka is the grandest inven-
ton of the age, and five are asking
how the next figure commences.
Year: 1859

spoon says it is no such thing-nor
will he be convinced of the fact until
deep stroke Of poverty and misfor-
tune overtakes him, and with crowbar
lever forces open his eyelds. Give
thy son a trade--ay, and daughter,
tool
Year: 1859

FoRruNE.--Men complain Of fortune
when they ought to complain of them
selves. The germ of happiness is
planted in every human mind. If it
is cultivated as God designed it should
be, it may be made to animate our
whole being. despite the sorrows of
life, and may tleast secure to US a
calm contentment with our earthly
lot.
Year: 1859

Let us hear from you soon.
These propositions are only inten-
ded to aid our subscribers in doubling
our list for next year, and are so lib
eral that many will certainly avail
themselves of the chance to make


something. Should other works than


those we have mentioned be prefer.


red we will try and supply them. ai
Year: 1859

Feed your garden refuse to milch
cows, such as cabbage leaves, turnips,
and beet tops, and pumpkins that are
too small for keeping, with great
deal such other things that otherwise
would go to waste. These will help
TO increase the quantity of milk, and
assist in keeping the animals in a
good con lition.
Year: 1859

TRuE.-The New York Observer
says:-"lf the editor knows that he
is not only to work for nothing and
find himself but that he is also to find
the paper. fill it. and send it for moth.
ing to the subscriber, he may be ex.
cused for discouragment. Yet there
are many who have so little reflection,
so little conscience, and so much mean
ness, that they will take a newspaper
for a whole year, and sometimes more,
and not paya cent for it,
Year: 1859

AS this road will soon become famous a:
the route of the French army from France
into Italy, the following description, given
by correspondent of the New York Times
who recently passed over it, will be read
with interest:


"The road over Mont Cents is macada.
mized throughout its whole extent, and is
wide and in perfect order. consisting of easy
grades. On the top OF the mountain there
was much SHOW, but most of it was removed
from the road work of great labor, as the
cuts in some places were ten feet deep, and
the snow SO compact that its sides were per-
pendicuar.' The diligence was several
hours in passing through this region OF
snow, and it was showing at the time and
extremely cold. On Monday and Tuesday
of this week it raned hard on the West side
of the mountain, and it was feared that the
passage of troops was impeded by fresh
SHOWS. The journey over the pass is no
nice affair, even to one who occupied the
protected seats of comfortable diligence
such was my fortunate position. What
must il be to soldiers on foot, wet with Sc
we're rains, and encountered with knapsacks
and arms ?


"The pass is 6,s25 feet high-nearly 300
feet higher than the famous Simplon pass.
That of the great St. Bernard, over which
Napoleon conducted his army before any
road had been formed, is 5000 feet. The
east grades of the Mont Gents road, and the
protection furnished by granite posts on its
exterior, within seven or eight feet of each
other, firmly planted in the earth, and four
feet high, indicate that a principal object in
thus forming it was the easy and safe haul
ing of cannon and baggage over the line.


walked for miles over the road, in the
ascent from the Sandman side, and care
fully observed its construction. The engin-
eernG difficulties were immense, but they
have been overcome with such skill that
the ascent is uniform and easy in every part
Occasionally level place is left TO afford
relief to horses from the wearysomeness OF
a steady pull. noticed that the marks OF
the drill used in blasting were nearly oblit-
Grated, the effect of long continued exposure
10 severe storms and the character of the
rock, which is a soft limestone II may be
ii the history of the road shall ever be lost,
that future antiquarians may contend, from
the obiitera,ion of all signs of blasting, that
al least no great difficulties were encoun.
tered in its construction, even If they do
not insist that it was formed or natural
bed. One is struck with wonder that such
great work, over high mountains, should
have been formed and finished on line
exceeding fifty miles SO completely that ii
exceeds in excellence any road know Of
in the United States, whether public or pri.
vate and long 70 short. 1t is kept in high or.
der, and is descended ON brisk trot with
entire safety.


eft seemed most appropriate, as this great
road was the work of the elder Napoleon,
that the representative of his name should
distinguish himself by using it for the march
of great army aimed at the same Power
which Napoleon successfully encountered
soon alter crossing the Alps"
Year: 1859

placed therein, for conveyance TO the place
where such carrion Is usually deposited,
after which another batch of dogs under
went similar operation, till all had given
up the ghost, that is, supposing the met
empsychosis to be true, and that dogs have
ghosts TO give up.-Erpress.