smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1867

youth Of our land to irreyocablo ruin ?
Surely, It's Of Gods great mercy that We
are unconsumed. Now is the time for
deep humiliation and repentance; the
time for rivers of water to run down the
eyes of every Christian, every patriot
the time for earnest and unceasing sup.
plica,ion; the time for Gods ministers
to cry aloud and spare not-yea, to wee p
between the porch and the altar And
the wicked-let him forsake his ways,
and the unrighteous man his thoughts,
and let him return unto the Lord, who
will have mercy upon him, and to oiIr
God, who will abundantly pardon. Aud
all that "su6er" let them know that It
is according to the will of God" that
He may do them good in their lattor
days; and let them commit the keeping
Of their souls unto Him, IN ioeil doing,
as unto faithful Creator. EREAS.
Year: 1867

The PHOENIX of Hartford can reinsure at
the highest rates every risk now upon its bsoks,
discharge all obligations present or prospec-
tive-of whatsoever nature, pay back to stock
holders every dollar of its capital stock, and
retire from business with clear net CASH
SURPLUS OF
Year: 1867

the man and the party which speaks Of
marching across your now unhappy land
once again with the sword to kill, and the
torch to burn, and the Surveyors chain 10
divide cut the desert which shall remain.
He who votes to sustain the party in vour
midst which invites the rapacious and
cruel faction in the North to take posses
sion of your estates and confscate'the same
without the least regard to your lawful
rights and in violation of the plighted faith
OF the nation. And. fellow citizens. if
this scheme of confscation, so much de-
sired by those who think the late war end
ed too soon, should be put in force, We
can tell you now whose property will be
taken. 1t will be the property of those
who have it. This faction cares not for
loyalty or disloyalty. The man who has
whereof to take spoil, will be to them dis
loyal. You can badly escape by timid
subserviency to their arbitrary will. The
man who votes The Radical ticket at the
coming election, votes in favor of, or 10
give satisfaction and countenance to, these
acts Of tyranny and oppression. unequaled
IN the annals of civilization.


In reference to the appointment of Jude-
es of election, the address says: awe
advise moderation and obedience to the
mandate OF the oppressOr, that he may be
left without excuse before the nation when
he finds himself beaten on his own ground
by the indignant voice of people deter
mined to be rid of him. IF the disfran.
chised and oppressed masses will arouse
to the effort, though only the colored men
of the State were enfranchised, they will
not vote for him or his party. In counties
where the Courts have appointed Judges,
and where the commissioners have done
the same, let the eppointees of the latter
hold the election, but let the lawfully ap-
pointed Judges attend to watch the man
ner of its hOding. Let these, or if they
will not serve in that capacity, let others,
appointed for the purpose, sit by and see
that the ballot boxes are not stuffed, and
that the returns are made correctly. Let
the ballot-boz be everywhere protected
from unlawful violence and fraud. Com.
NIT no frauds yourselves, and permit none
to be committed by them. Brownlow
hopes to be kept in power only by the aid
of the General Government, through it's
Congressional majority. Give him no pre-
text to ask Congressional interference"
Year: 1867




a low nut rests in 7 ookout's shade.
As rots its moss-grown roof az ay,
w hile sundOwn's glories softly fade,
Closing another weary day
The battle's din is heard no more
No more the hunted stand at bay
The breezes through the lowly door
Swing mute coat of faded grey,


tatteTed relic of the fray


A threadbare coat of faded grey.
IT'S hanging on the rough log wall
Near TO the foot OF the Widows bed,
By . white plume and weIl-worn shawl
His gift the happy morn he we'd,
BY the wee ship their dead child wore
The one they gave the name Of May, -
By her rag doll and pinafore-
BY right its there, that coat of grey,


A red-heck's relic of the fray -.-=


An aTInless coat of faded grey.
Herall of life nov drapes that wall,
Poor and patient still she waits
On Gods good time to gently call
Her, too, within the jeWel'd rates
And all She Graves is here to die
To part from these, and pass away
To Join her loves eternally
That wore the slip-the coat Of grey,


The shell-torn relic of the fray


Her soldiers coat of faded grey.
Year: 1867

We commend the following from the
Radical paper, the Springfield Mass Re
publican, to our Radical neighbors:


at would Of course be pleasant TO have
a Republican delegation from Kentucky IN
Congress, but such delegation would not
represent the people of the State. and it
would be of no advantage to the Republi-
can party to accomplish this object by IL
legal and unfair means. Indeed, the soon
er the idea is exploded that the party can
be maintained by brute force the better for
the party and the country. The politicians
Who make this their reliance are too weak
and short-sighted to have influence with
any party"


This applies to Tennessee fully as well
as to Kentucky.
Year: 1867

The opening of works Of internal
Improvement in different sections Of
the Southern States, affording means
rapid and cheap, transportation of the
products of the soil to market, and
consequently enhancing the price,
which the producer realizes for his
investment in labor and capital,
Andrew Johnson, argued while Gov
ernor of Tennessee, were absolutely
necessary to place this section on the
high road to prosperity, and give the
out of the-way and isolated inhabitants
n place in the active commercial
world. We do not know of any
species of internal Improvement better
calculated to attain this end than rail
roads. They are the great vehicles of
commerce which sweep along over
hill and dale, with Tightening speed,
giving man the means of getting out
into the world and discharging the
fruits of his labor wherever the wants
ofthe continent demand them.


Mississippi we are pleased to see is
awake to the Importance Of these great
interests. A bill incorporating a rail
road in the northern part of the State,
to run from Memphis via Holly
Springs and Okalona to Selma, in Ala
bama, is already in the House;
q charter is also up for the New Or
leans, Mobile and Chattanooga rail


road and another is in the hands of
DR. Milton, of Yalobusha county, for
the Grenada and Meridian railroad
an enterprise that promises greater
results with less expenditure of money
than almost any scheme we have yet
seen submitted There is no public
Improvement better calculated to build
up the interior counties than this last
named, road and the friends of the en-
terprise have assurances that warrant
them in pushing it forward. If we
would become rich and populous, the
fields of industry and wealth that lie
almost untouched far in the interior
must be reached. The hungry and
idle must be given employment by the
establishing of all kinds of internal i'm
provements and manufactures. The
Grenada and Meridian road--about one
hundred and thirty miles in length
would give an outlet at Meridian, East,
West. North and South, AMI when the
Meridian and Eufaula road is con-
structed. furnish complete line of
road from Memphis to Savannah,
opening to rival markets the fertile and
productive farms of the cotton belt of
Alabama. Let the Legislature encour-
age these enterprises and thus come to
the relief of the State and her almost
helpless citizens.
Year: 1867

NoucE.-Members of the Legisla-
ture wishing extra copies of our daily
or weekly edition are requested to
send their orders direct to the counting
room. An account will be kept with
each one, and settlement for same may
be made at the close of the session.
Year: 1867

AT the request Of several gentlemen
it is asked that the members of the
Legislature from the Chickasaw coun-
ties meet in the Senate Chamber next
Saturday at o clock p. n. to ascer-
tain what action, if any is necessary to
take in reference to the Chickasaw
School Fund.
Year: 1867

The CoNsTITCTIoNAL AMENDMENT
was yesterday rejected in the Senate
by unanimous vote. Mississippi has
thus given a decided and fitting answer
10 proposition that she could in no
part accept and preserve her self-re
spect and honor. These insulting
terms Of restoration may be forced
upon her, but she will never invite or
willingly accept them.
Year: 1867

General WILLIAM l.. Burr has been ap-
pointed, by the President, postmaster of
Boston, and has been confirmed. There is
no doubt that this appointment will prove
to be popular with the people Of the Hub"
because General Burr is q gentleman Of
ability, honesty and capacity, and possesses
that peculiar business talent which fits
him for public position like that to which
he has been assigned. General Burt was
educated to the law, is prominent mem.
Der of the Suffolk bar, and served as Judge
Advocate General Of Massachusetts
through most Of the war, declining to re,
ceive for such service any compensation
whatever. Like the Hon. THOMAS RUSSELL
the new collector Of Boston, General Burt
is Republican. Judge RUSSELL and Gen
eral Burt have both been opposed to the
idea of impeachment from first to last.
Year: 1867

PLYMOUTH, Me-, April ls.-An unknown
coal laden schooner went ashore during the
gale yesterday.


A life boat, in attempting to save the
crew, was upset alongside and four Of her
crew were drowned. The boat drifted
ashore and was again manned and sue
ceoded in saving the crew Of the schooner.
Henry Hunt was washed of the bowsprit
of the schooner Willis Lincoln, and boat
containing q man named George Land
and another man was launched to save him
but it upset and both men were lost.
Year: 1867

them to an untimely end | heard ono
uttering wailing note this morning as he
perched upon the tall tree opposite, and
even the canary listened and looked anx-
iousIy out after the homeless wanderer.
The wind sweeps clouds of snow from The
ncighboring roofs and sighs down the
chimney, while we inStinctively gather
round the crate and gaze into the glowing
fire and while We give thanks for the
comforts of home, we pray for the home
less and the wandtIer in our own dear
but bleak New England. B.
Year: 1867

Gust went in and carried off another grain
OF corn


The king listened with mconquerable
patience for six months more, when he
again interrupted him with:


oh, friend am weary OF YOUR To-
Gusts. How soon do you think they will
have done -


To which the story teller made answer.


"Oh, king, who can tell AT the time
TO which my story has come, the locusts
have cleared 4 small place, it may be a
cubit. each WAY around the hole. and The
air Is still dark with locustS on all sides,
But let the king have patience. anl no
doubt we shall have come 10 the end oi
them I'm time


Thus encouraged the king listened ON
for another full year, the story teller goin.
on sill aS before:


.And another locust went in and car
ried off another Grain of corn. and then
another locust went,in and carried off an
other grain OF corn, and then another To-
cust went in and carried of another grain
cf corn. and then another locust went in
and carried off another grain of corn"


At last the poor king could stand it no
longer. and cried out


oh, man, thai Is enough 10 take my
daughter, take my kingdom take any
thing, everything; only let me hear no
more Of the abominable locust"


And ~ the story teller WAS married Ia
the kings daughter. and was declared heir
TO tlle throne, aud nobody ever expressed
a wish 10 hear the r,.st of the story. for lac
>;lld Ii waS impossible 10 cgme tn the 9th
er part of il till he had done with the To-
Gusts.
Year: 1867

Much has been written about woman's love, but W,
'ubt if that glory of woman WAS ever so foriby
pressed in : few words in the following
Cease from your long. long rowing


ON the sea wild and rough;
Come to me ;c.der Il, d loving,


AID shall be blessed enough
Where your sails have been unfurlng,


What winds have been blown your brow,
know not, and ask not, my darling,


So that yOu come to me now
Sorrowful, sinful and lonely,


Poor and despised though you be,
All are nothing, if only


Iou turn from the tempter TO me.
Of men though you be unforgiven,


ThOugh priest he unable to hrive,
I'll pray till weary all heaven,


If only you ONE back alive
Year: 1867

A WIDowER, something over fifty
years of age, three years after the loss
Of his wife, thought to assuage his griei
by taking to himself a new companion
a comely young woman of tWenty-four
But being a jealous member of a church,
he was anxious to secure the approval
of his brethren before taking the step.
For this purpose he called upon the sen
ior deacon, a man of experience and
la shrewd observer of mankind, to learn
his views of the matter.


Deacon" said he, l have come to
ask advice on a very important subject.
[ am contemplating marrying again
Do you think there would be anything
ont of the way in it2'
Why, it is not wrong to marry 3"
answered the good man, but it seems
to me that it would strike your acquain-
tances as rather hasty for you to enter
that state so soon after the loss of your
excellent wife.


"But," said the caller, " should do
it under 4 sense of duty"


THAT might alter the case, I admit,
replied the deacon; but what makes
you feel it your duty to get married ?"


q think l should be more useful
You see I have a paying business, and a
comfortable, we'll furnished house; and
therefore l can give some one a good
home, and it appears to me- ought to
do so.


May I inquire if you have any per-
son in view?"


Yes; Miss W"


But she has home now; has she
not?'


"Why, yes"


"And she is in easy circumstances ?"


"Yes-I suppose So"


"Well my brother" concluded the
deacon, with a merry twinkle of the eye,
so far as the marrying is concerned,
considering your motive 1 do not know
but it would be we'll for you to again
change your condition. The only fea-
ture Of the case that I can see to be
open to criticism, is the choice you have
made Of a bride. As you propose mar
rying simply to be useful by giving some
one a home, it would therefore be con-
sistent only for you to select one who
needs such a charity. Now, there is
Aunt L., for instance, a most
worthy woman, but poor and in6rm, and
not much older than yourself She needs
some one to take care of her aud her
dependent children. Make her the Of
fer of your hand, and, having thus done
your duty-as this is oil you aim At in !
Year: 1867

marriage-yOur own conscience will be
satisfied, and I don't think your breth-
rem will complain"


The usefully inclined WidoWer left in
a detected frame of mind, and it may
be the work of superogation to add that
be did not take the deacon's advice.
Year: 1867

he missed fire slipped his holt, and his
heels few up and be topped on his back
and shot off n that roof like dart went
a smashin' and a crashin' down thrO'
EN- old rusty vines and headed right in
the center Of all them com'ny people !
sot down like a yearth quake in them
two dozen sassers of red hot candy, and
let off a howl that was hark from the
tomb Them girls-well, they left, you
know. They see he warn't dressed for
company, and so they left. All done in
a second it was just one little war
whoOp. and a wish of their dresses,
aud blame the wench of 'em was in sight
anywhere


Jim he was in sight. He was gormed
with the bilin' hot mOlasses candy clean
down to his heels, and had more buste !
sassers hangin' to him than if he was a
Japan princess-and he came a pranc-
ing up stairs just a whoopin' and Gus
sin, aud every jump he made he shed
some china, and every squirm he fetch
ed be dripped som candy.


And blistered Why, bless your soul,
that poor creatur couldn't RELY sit down
comfortably for as much as four weeks.


-Ss$


ARRIVAL OF A LIVE GORILLA FROM


AFRICA.
Year: 1867

LOOKING AT THE BRIGHT S1DE.-Here is a
letter from wife in Massachusetts 10 her
husband in California. She don't intend
going through the world with the blues:


"IMy Dear Husband-As it is now some
tine since you left for California, I suppose
YOU would be glad to hear how we are get
ting along in your absence. [ am happy to
say we are enjoying very good health on the
whole. Just at present two of the boys have
got the small -pox Amanda Jane has got the
typhus fever; Samuel got hooked by COW
the other day, and little Peter has Just chop
ped off three of his fingers with a hatchet.-
it is mercy he didn't chop them all off, =
With these sri1ing exceptions, we are all we'll
and getting along nicely.


You needn't be at all anxious about us
| almost forgot to say that Sarah Matilda
eloped last week with tin pedlar. Poor
girl She's been waiting for chance, and
I'm glad she 8 married at last. She needn' t
have taken the trouble to elope though, for
I'm sure was glad enough to have her CO.
She was great eater and find baked beans
don't 90 off near SO fast as they did. The
way the girl could dip into pork and beans was
a caution to the rest OF the family. The cow
took it into her head recently to run away,
which was very fortunate, am sure, for the
barn caught fire last night and was consumed
| wasin hopes that the house would go, too,
for it's inconvenient; but the wind was the
wrong way, so it did not receive much injury.
Some boys broke into the orchard the other
dsy and stripped all the fruit trees. | am very
glad Of it, for if they hadn't presume the
children would have made themselves i'll. "
Year: 1867

SPEECH OF LOUIS NAPOLEON.


PARIS Aug 27-Evening-The Emperor Napoleon,
in a speech just made at Arras, significantly said:
Have faith in the future! Weak Governments
often seek to divert public attention from domestic
troubles by fomonting foreign QuarTes Onthe other
hand those Governments which rest on the national
WILL have strength and need only resort to whatever
shall tend to promote the permanent interests Of the
country, as a means of upholding the honor of the
national flag"
Year: 1867

We are laughing over an adventure in


to which an amorous shoemakeI fell. He
was not content with the one wife he had
taken, but be must needs go poaching on
his neighbor's grounds. His neighbor's
wife, annoyed by his declarations, told her
husband. The latter replied ave will
punish him." They put their heads to-
gether to devise some suitable punishment.
The evening after his family consultation,
the amorous shoemaker(who lived imme


diateIy opposite the house painter whose
wife he So lovei) seeing the husband alb
sent called on the wife. He was in higher
spirits than ever; he bought an enormous
rosegay, made entirely Of roses, and was as
full Of compliments as he could be. The
wife said to him, in reply to a question ::
MY husband has gone TO St. German to
recover a bebt of some 200f" The shoe
maker was delighted at the prospect Of
spending the whole evening with her Two
hours flew away in most delightful conver-
Sation. He pressed her to yield: she re


fused. At last she said MY greatest OBJ
lection to you is the horrible odor of eath-
er, which all shoemakers have. Take a
bath in my husbands bathing tub, and
perhaps, after yon smell like other people.
| will not be so obstinate as you saw | am.
The Shoemaker hesitated He dreaded
foul play, but faint heart never won tair
lady-he understood aud was soon in the
Year: 1867

A case that has double interest for one
class of travellers was tried in the Supreme
Court of New York city few days ago.
Il grew out of an action brought by Mrs.
Rawson against the Pennsylvania Railroad
Company, to recover the value of certain
baggage destroyed whilst in transit over
the road Of that company. The case had
been once tried in an inferior Court, where
the jury rendered verdict for S3,9J5 10
damages, and it was taken up to the Su-
preme Court on an appeal from that Judge


ment. There We're TWO trunks destroyed
in September, 1864, containing clothing,
iewelry and other articles, claimed to be
the full value Of the sum given by the
jury in their verdict. An interesting f-a-
ture of the case was that it not only invol-
we'd the rights of travellers on railroads in
this state, but it also involved the rights Of
married women. The defence seemed to
be based mainly on two points: first that
the ticket given to this lady had printed
on it a limitation which restricted the
passenger to so pounds of b ggage AMI of
a value not exceeding 500, unless upon
notice gv1n and an extra amount paid for
the luggage at double first class freights
and second, that the property in the trunks
was the gift of the husband anl remained
his property at common law; that he,
therefore. should be plaintiff, and that Mrs
Rawson, his wife, had no standing IN court
SO far as the first point is concerned, the
Supreme Court realIirmed what we have
frequently published in these columns as
the law on the subject, namely, that rail
way company account, by any notice placed
on ticket or elsewhere, even where such
notice is brorght to the knowledge Of those
whose persons or property it undertakes to
carry, avoid its responsibility as a common
carrier for the safe conveyance Of what is
entrusted to it for transportation, or limits
its responsibility by any such notice. Pas
scngers may waive their rights by positive
contracts for valuable consideration, but
these rights cannot be taken away by the
mere printing Of words upon tickets.
Year: 1867

re- Love is as necessary to womans
heart as a fashionable bonnet to her head.
Indeed, we think, rather more so; for moth
ing less than large measure of love will
content her;-whereas the recent fashion
has shown that she can be satisfied with a
very lite bouuet.
Year: 1867

THE IMPRESSION MADE UPON Ben.
WADE-The Memphis Bulletin, Of the
9th inst, SAYS


Senator Wade said 70 a Mississippi
Judge, resident of Oxford, We believe,
that he had wholly misconceived the spirit
and purposes of the South He had
deemed "a animated by fixed, irremediable
hostility 10 Northern people, and by This
apprehension Of Southern sentiment his
course in the Senate has been shaped He
had seen and heard enough during his So
iouru in these States to satisfy him that he
had been misled, and that his subsequent
conduct would show that he had the man
illness % confess an error Such is the sub
stance Of his remarks, as recited to US.
Year: 1867

lIoass STOLEN A bright bay horse and
single wagon, the property Of Mr. J. B
Hawley, were stolen from in front Of q
church in Rock Island, on last evening
The thief ia supposed to have struck off in
aortherly direction.
Year: 1867

such an erudite friend of cause to speak
so unconcernedly of threatened calamity?
"Only result in rupture of the Democtra-
ic party" Had we made the remark it
would have been understood as implying
that it was matter of the least possible
consequence, and if the erudite writer in
tended to convey any other idea he was
very unfortunate in the choice Of terms.
At all events he is entitled toa large sized
pewter medal. 1t need not be larger than
one of his ears.


The query at the head of this article:
'.Will they split?" we regard of much more
Importance than Our neighbor seems to at
tach to II? Like him we think the Democ-
racy hopeieSsty in the minority, except in a
few localities. but, still they are strong
enough, If thoroughly organized, TO BE-
dangerous, or at least troublesome, should
they determine TO reboi a second time
We would therefore hail q split in the
party rs one of the best things for the
country that could happen just now. In
that event all fears of another bloody in
surrection would be dispelled and the
times speedily improve. Prosperity would
again visit us and every interest thrive and
flourish. The Democratic partv removed
out Of the way in this State there would he
no other clog TO the wheels Of progress in
the right direction: we therefore trust that
the corrupt and dangerous organization
may not only be torn assnndcr by intestine
commotioDs, but that the members. like
the Kilkenny cats, will devour one anoth-
.er entirely. Such a cOnSummation would
extort thanksgiving and praise from every
Christian patriot in the land.
Year: 1867

"A woman was taken to the look-un in
Providence the other day for SrnnIronIPass
wearing shawl worthEs75-a strange comb,
nation Of good and bad habits.


Thirty new wells are going down in tbe
vicinity of FithOle at present. This does not
look as though the place was affected with the
dry rot"