smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1869

The subjoined item is given for the
benefit of such infants as are being
brought up on the bottle:


"There is microscopic fungus always
found in milk after being exposed for


fifteen or twenty hours 10 the air 10 sum
mer. even before it tastes the least sour.
Some German physicians think this fun
gus the cause Of disturbances Of digestion
in children fed on milk; and they say
that these often cease when precautions
are taken, such as to give the milk as
fresh as possible, and TO keep it in bot
lie completely flled and tightly eorked.
Il should also be kept at Temperature
as nearly as possible that Of the milk IS
il comes from the cew." p 1i
Year: 1869

Senator Brownlow, under date Of the
10th instant, writes as follows in reply to
q letter


/ am glad you approve the position /
have taken in reference to Tennessee
politics. In my Judgment the time bad
come when Suffrage should be extended,
alike from considerations OF the pnblie
safety and the peace and prosperity Of
the State. The canvass has thus far been
q very animated and sometimes very
bitter one. Senter, the universal suffrage
candidate, is gaining strength every day,
and the current, already broad aud
sweeping, seems likely to swell to great
volume and power by the day Of election,
the frat Thursday in August. twill not
surprise me If Senters majority will
reach to forty thousand. or even more.
Year: 1869

omakea REDUCTION
Dry Goods
will again the last week. wee
of than
TWO THREE marked
down will
ongas EVERY
each article The goods will all be
the SALE mind that II you need
BILL OF GOODS MONEY WILL YOU SAVE


aa o-aro8 WELLS & COLL, 267 Main Street.
Year: 1869

FoUNDATIoNLEss.- are informed that
the th;mble rigging ring of political sharps
who are trying to use the Democratic organ
ization of this County as private trading
and speculating medium, haze put story IN
circulation to the effect that if the Union
ticket is elected, an effort will be made to
raise the salaries of the County officials We
brand the report, and all Others Of a like i'm
port, originating from the same source, as
false and entirely foundationless. We have
conversed with the nominees on the ticket,
and they all say that if elected they expect
and intend to qualify for the offices and per.
form their duties at the salaries now fixed by
law. The reduction of salaries and fees was
a Union measure in the first place, and the
present law was framed and mainly advoca
ted by Hon. Chas Westmorland Let Union
men, throughout the County, from now on
to the election, be on guard and nip" all
such stories as the above.
Year: 1869

ment. discrimination and experience in order
to protect be County interests, and secure an
impartial valuation of assessable property
Ladd is the right man in the right place.


For Public Administrator and Coroner, we
have Dennis Fl. Dunn, also an old resident
of the County. He is an adopted citizen,
has remained faithful to the principles of
the Union party, and still sticks as close to
the organization as the Shamrock nestles to
the soil of his native Erin.


DR.. Silverthorn received the nomination
for Surveyor. He is an old resident of the
County. man of good education and fully
capable of discharging the duties of that
unremunerative office.


For the honorable office of Supt. of Public
Schools, the Convention named the writer of
this, and of course we will not indulge in self
praise. We will, however, say, that we
thank our friends for the good will volun-
tarily shown US, and assure. them that if
elected we will endeavor to discharge the
reall important duties of the Office in the
manner which we deem best calculated to
promote the interests of education and the
efficiency Of our schools, with the wants and
necessities of which we are now familiar
For one, we believe that the ''property of
the country should be taxed to educate the
children of the country" and that the sun
Drowned children of the toiling poor man
L L


education as the more favored children of
the rich and arstocratic and to this end
we are heartily in favor Of our present State
free School system presided over by o. p
Fitzgerald, with whom we differ politically,
but respect as Christian gentleman.
Year: 1869

DRIsrRIcr JuDoE.-By the proceedings
published in this issue it will be seen that
Hon. E. Garter has been renomnated for
Judge of the 9th Judicial District composed
of the counties of Shasta, Trinity and Siski-
you. The Judge is one of the pioneers ofthe
legal profession. and is recognized by MEM
bers of the bar as one of the best judges and
interpre ers of the law that ever sat upon the
bench in this State. One of the highest com
pliments that can lie paid him, is to o-mention
the fact that during his entire career as
Judge of this District, none of his decisions
have been reversed by the Supreme Court
As the Union vote of the district is in excess
OF the Democratic, and as the Judge will run
ahead of his ticket in some quarters, his
ection may be counted among the certain
tias
Year: 1869

Captain George W. Gift leaves here next
week for San francisco and China direct,
in the interest of the Arkansas Emigration
Company, by whom he is provided with funds.
His letter orders that if possible he will ar
range for laborers in California but he de-
signs visiting China at once.
Year: 1869

WEAKENING BEFORE THE FlGHT.-It is re-
ported that some of the parties nominated Oh
the opposition ticket have canvassed the
chances of success, become very sick at the
prospect, and mag animously decided to
put up somebody else to get defeated instead
of themselves! Such disinterestedness and
generosity is calculated to excite profound
admiration. Men who withdraw from tickets
always do so because they think the ticket
is likely to win-of course they do.-its
human nature to decline Office, you know
Year: 1869

MEDICAL men advise that IS II
should be taken with nuts, especially
when eaten at night. "One time, /"
says a writer, "while enjoying a visit
from an Englishmap, hickory nuts
were served in the evening, when my
English friend called for salt, stating
that he knew of the case OF woman
eating heartily OF nuts in the evening,
who was taken violently i'll. The
celebrated DIR. Abernethy was sent
for, but it was after he hsd become
too fond of his cups, and he was in
no condition to go. He muttered
salt, SALT to which no notice was
taken. Next morning he went to
the place and she was corpse. He
said that had they given her salt, it
would have relieved her; if they
would allow him 20 make an examin-
alton, he would convince them On
opening the stomach the nuts were
found in a mass. He sprinkled salt
on this and Immediately it dissolved
I have known of sudden death my
self which appeared to be from the
same cause. / generally eat salt
with mine, and consider that it i'm
Iproves them.
Year: 1869

Having made large additions TO our establish
ment in the shape of material of the latest
style, and having employed experienced and
careful workmen, we are prepared to execute
eriers for every variety of PLAIN AND FANCY
joB PRISTISG with neatness and Dispatch
The addition of Steam Power 10 our establish
M mt affords us great advantages over most
country offices in the way of low prices and
fas; work. Call with u.s. and be convinced.
Year: 1869

Have been in use 35 years, and are daily per.
forming wonderful cures. In many instances
where patients were unable to walk upright
or to rise without assistance, they have been
relieved by single dose.
Year: 1869

The President has learned Of so many
cases in which he has been imposed
upon and persuaded to make appoint
ments OF persons either unified for
the positions obtained or having no
claim TO them, that he has determined
to cause all such cases to be reviewed
and corrected.


We suppose there was no case In
which the President was more imposed
on than in that of Mr.. Carlile. Let US
hope this is one of those here referred TO.
Year: 1869

THE New buryport Herald comes out
In favor of General Butler for the next
Governor of Massachusetts, and says:
"We need just such mana man OF
great executive powers-to reconstruct
affairs at the State House." The Her
aid also intimates that Butler Will be
elected to the United States Senate at
an early day.
Year: 1869

Revenue agents have been authorized by the
Secretary Of the Treasury topass free Of duty
wagons, plows and all agricultural implements
belonging to Canadian emigrant, provided the
collector Is satisfied that the cmignnt VIM settle
In the United States, and make his permanent
Year: 1869

This morning the attention of the Court and jury
was engaged with the trial of the girl Anna j. Haw
kins, upon the charge OF poisoning the Hof family
last month There were seven bills OF indictment,
charging her with assault and battery with intent to
kill. The facts have appeared in our
local columns, and are briefly these:
The prisoner, who is but sixteen years OF
age, has been living in the family OF John Ho No.
404 N. Eleventh street, for two years and half,
being apprenticed as a servant Generally she ap-
peared contented with her position, but on some
occasions she was guilty OF misconduct, which
brought upon her chastisement and threats OF fur
ther punishment, and these latter had been made
against her just previously 70 this occurrence. On
the 21st OF June she purchased yeas
and sfted 1our, and with these bread was baked
The family ate 1t, and seven persons were made vo
lently sick. The physician attending them feared
that they had taken poison, and aroused suspicion
against the prisoner 1t thought that the trouble
arose from the hour, and the gentlemen from
whom 1t was bought were questioned, but declared
that it was free from poison, none OF the
other numerous customers who had used it being at
all affected. Finally, when Mrs. Hof recovered
she interrogated the prisoner who, in penitentia
manner confessed that she had put arsenic into the
bread, and was very sorry she had done So At first
she said she did not have any motive for the act hut
subsequently, that 1t was because punishment had
been threatened against her.


Beyond this confession, no direct proof OF the
actual presence OF poison in the bread was offered,
there being no witness who had made an eXamina-
uOn OF IT. and this circumstance, together with the
question OF INTENT was argued by the prisoners
counsel in favor OF her acquittal No testimony was
Olered by the defense. Jury out.
Year: 1869

The following extracts show the state Of tho Non,
YORK money market yesterday
From the Herald.


There was an uneasy, yet underlined feeling nor
VadlnR the street to-day and the markets were gene
rally heavy and sluggish. The almost intOlerabie
neat mad great deal to do i'm REFRESHING animation
ana the usually busy sidewalks on Broad street in
'front.' OF the Stock Exchange, were deserted as


midday sun It was not dificut to fancy them pos
sessed OF Saharan qualities Among stock Operators


there was reactionary feeling after the enthusIasm
that carried up the Vanderbilt shares 80 wonderfully
PUCK enough To sell were still rather Indifferent
about short transactions. The action OF the Grand
Jury anu the arrest OF many prominent bankers and
brokers' on the charge OF uSury added TO the droopinp
tendency OF the market, although ordinarily such n
guarantee against stringent money would have he'd
to a bull movement. In this instance however the
money lenders, or In other words the captaliSts seem
determined that they shall have control Of the market
despite the laws To punish the bulls who brought
about these legal proceedings there is a movement
to increase the margins in loans on stock cOateraIs
and so leau to great activity in money and decline
1here was great preference shown Yesterday
for Governments as cOlatcrals and money, with
their pledge as security, was freely loaned nj
active demand, even up TO three o'clock, at the fun
legal rate. Much OF the uneasiness late IN the day
was due to rumOr that the Secretary OF the


u easury intended selling ten millions of gold in ad-
dition to his semi-monthly sales The effect of this
report was quite direct upon the price OF gold which
lell TO 1863 about four O'Clock. Foreign exchange
was frm at the rates previously quoted, with mode
T8 tie amOrnt or business for to-morrOw's steamer.
Commercial paper was in better request, and rates
ranged from nine to twelve per cent with the ma
jOrity Of sales ataen and eleven.


cash gold was h fair demand and loans for car
rying were made at I, ~, and per cent, and 1-32
up TO Clearing House and as low as per cent in the
afternoon. The disbursements for coin interest to-
day amounted to ST06,440."
Year: 1869

The Troubles and Trials of a PhiladeIphian.
From the Hartford Colvant, July 10.


A Philadelphia married man, who has young and
pretty wife, OF whom he became considerably
Jealous started her OF last week with her only child
TO visit her grandparents, who reside in the eastern
part OF Connecticut. She has an aunt living in this
CITY, and stopped here to visit day or two before
repairing to the calm, secluded spot which her hus-
band had designed for her, On the day follow
ing her arrival she made the acquaintance
of q travelling merchant who had friends
living where the aunt resides, and
Intimate relations from some cause or other, sprung
up, which have led to the enactment Of scene
not set down in the original bills. On Friday she
started as her aunt supposed, for Norwich, the
p. NJ train; but at the same time that she was pre-
pairing TO take carriage to the depot the travelling
chap was paying his bill at the United States Hotel
In der to meet her elsewhere. II was subsequently
ascertained that they did go Off on the Eastern
train, but up to Saturday night there had been no
arrival at the dOmcile OF the grand parents I'm East
tern Connecticut and the suppos tion is that an
eOpement being pretty extensively carried out on
a short acquaintance. What the PHILADELPHIA nus
band will do about 1t isn't certain; at any rate he
may console himself with the reflection that II he
had kept his wife at home, she wouldn't have be-
haved any worse than she has now.
Year: 1869

Do you feel weak, deblitated, easily ttred2
Does a htte extra exertion produce palpita-
tion of the heart? Does your liver, or your kid
peys, frequently get out Of orderP Do you have


spells Of short breathing, or dyspepsia7 Are your


bowels constpated7 Do you have spells OF fainting,


or rushes of blood to the head2 Is your memory i'm


paired2 Is your mipd constantly dwelling upon this
subject? Do you feel dull lstless, moping, tired OF


company, OF life7 Do you wish to be left alone, to
get away from everybody Does any little thing


make you start or Jump Is your sleep broken or


restless2 Is the lusre OF your eye as brlant2 The
bloom on your cheek as bright? Do you enjoy your


self in society wel9 Do you pursue your business
, with the same energy2 Do you feel as much con-


ndence in yourself? Are your spirits dull and nag
gng, given to fits OF melancholy? II so do not lay
1t to your liver or dyspepsia Have you restless
nights? Your back weak, your knees weak, and


have but little appetite, and you attribute this to
dyspepsia or liver complaint2


/ Did you ever think that those bold, def
ant energetic, persevering, successful business
men are always those who are In per-
feet health? You never hear such men COM
plain Of being melancholy, OF nervousness, of pal
ptation OF the heart They are never afraid they
cannot succeed in business; they don't become sad
and discouraged; they are always polite and plea
SAINT in the company of ladies, and look you and


them right in the face-none Of your downcas looks
or any other meanness about them.


How many men, from badly cured diseases, have


brought about that state of weakness that has re-


duced the general system SO much as to induce al


most every other disease-docy, lunacy, paralysis,


spinal affections suicide and almost every other form
! Of disease which humanity is heir to, and the real
cause of the trouble scarcely ever suspected, and
! have doctored for all but the right one.


These diseases require the use of a Diuretic,
Year: 1869

EAhutNGs


Every pursuit or calling that ministers to
the sustenance, comfort, or enlightenment
of mankind is honorable aud laudable. That
is a narrow and essentially false conception
which regards the farmer as more a bene-
factor than a beneficiary, and stigmatizes as
drones and cormorants all who do not
directly contribute to the production and in
crease Of material wealth. The upright,
able lawyer, the studious, skilful physician,
the pious, loving clergyman, are working
men as truly and quite as nobly as though
they were woodchoppers or bricklayers. He
who by whatever means helps to diminish
the fearful aggregate Of ignorance, sin and
suffering in the world, and difuses instead
knowledge, virtue and happiness, is worthy
of all honor, aud far from me be the wish
to discourage and degrade him. And yet
hold it to be the duty of every father to
look well to the physical and industrial train
ing of his sons and daughters-to see that
each of them is early Injured to some form
of manual labor, and thoroughly trained to
efficiency IN some pursuit which ministers
directly to the material or physical needs of
mankind. My reasons for this conviction
are summed up as follows:


l. The demand for intellectual labor or its
products, and even for mercantile capacity.
is exceedingly capricious. In season of
commercial prosperity great city affords
employment to thousands as clerks, book
keepers, teachers of music, languages, &c.,
who viii nearly all be left high and dry by
the cbb of the tide War, pestilence, a bad
harvest, a business revulsion throws them
suddenly out Of employment, and no merit
or excellence on their part can avert the
catastrophe. would have one so armed
and equipped for the battle Of life that, if
suddenly uuhorsed, he can fight on efficiently
and undismayedly on foot.


3 The professions are fearfully over.
crowded. A Western village is half peopled
by doctors, lawyers and clergymen who have
rushed in ahead Of the expected food of i'm
migration Like miners in the Sierra Ne.
vada or Rocky Mountains they have sew
orally staked out their claims, and are wal
ting for others to come in and help develop
and work them to mutual profit. But
while the grass grows the steed starves.
Whatever may be their fortune ten or
twenty years hence-and events are constantly
interposing to blast their sanguine hopes
doctor, lawyer, and minister, are often win
ming but meagre, precarioua support for
the present. Il cannot dig; to beg | am
ashamed, is the complaint which many
would utter if they could afford to be frank
and outspokeD. Thousands suffer and stag
ger on, oppressed by want and ever increas-
ing debt, who would gladly take refuge in
productive industry, ifthey had been train
Year: 1869

To be insensible to the charms Of piety,
and the beauty of holiness, is to be entirely
wanting in the best sense aud taste man
can have. Whatever is excellent and de-
sirabls in the universe Of God concentrates in
holiness Holiness is the ultimatum of
human hopes and happiness.
Year: 1869

A LADY asked minister whether a per-
son might not be fond of dress and ornaments
without being proud Madam said the
minister, when you see a fox's tail peeping
ut.of hole you may be sure the fox is
within"
Year: 1869

WHEN the good and the lovely die, the
memory of their good deeds, like the moon
beams on the stormy sea, lights up our
darkened hearts and lends to the surround
ing gloom beauty 50 sad and so sweet that
we would not, if we could, dispel the dark
ness that enYirons it.
Year: 1869

Tue prayer which Socrates taught his
disciple Alcibiades, deserves a place in the
devotions of every Christian: THAT he
should beseech the supreme God to give
him what was good for him, though he
should not ask it, and to withhold from him
whatever would be hurtful, though be
should be 50 foolish as to pray for it,
Year: 1869

RUsKIN says that peoples eyes are so in
tcnsely fixed on the immediate operation of
money as it changes hands that they hardly
ever reflect on its first origin or final disap-
pearance. They are always considering
how to get it from somebody else, but never
how to get it where that somebody else got
it. Whereas, the real national question is
sot who is losing or gaining money, but who
is making and who destroying it.
Year: 1869

WORLDLY WISE.


BY ALICE CARY.
It was the boatman Rousalee,
And be sailed through the mists so white;
And two little ladies sat at his knee,
With their two little heads so bright;
And so they sailed-and sailed-all three
On the golden coast O. the night.
Young Ronsalee had handsome face,
And his great beard made him brown;
And the two little ladies in girlish grace
They kept their eyelids down.
The one in her silken veil Of lace,
And the one in her woolsey gown.
For one little lady lived in the wood,
Like flower that hides from the day;
Her name was Jenny-they called her the


good.
And the name C the other was May;
And her palace windows looked on the food
Where they softly sailed away.
Long time the balance even stood
With our Ronsalee that day;
But what was little house in the wood
To palace grand aud gray?
So he gave his heart to Jenny, the good,
And his hand be gave to May


-Atlantic Monthly.
Year: 1869

rfrfr TIE COMING WAR. T


The cable telegram from London that
initial steps have been taken for an alli-
ance offensive and defensive against the
United States, caused profound sensa-
ton here to-day and while the informa-
ton had no official character, there seem
ed to be general impression that the
news was true The pretext alleged in
the cable telegram is not accepted gener-
ally as plausible The President was sup
piled with copy of the dispatch the mo-
nent it reached Washington; and it was
shown by him to the members of the
Cabinet, Some of the latter looked upon
it as little sensational and intended to
affect the stock market. while others
thought that an official inquiry should be
made. Nothing having been received
from tho Legation in London, dispatches
were sent to night inquiring into the
truth of the report of the triple alliance,


WASHINGTON, May 13


The triple alliance story is effectually
exploded. No representative of this or
any other government in Washington
credits the statement and if It has any
foundation, it is believed to exist simply
in proposition made by Spain to France
and England to form an alliance to resist
the so-called aggressions Of the United
States towards Cuba; proposition that
so far is known not to have been con-
sidered in London. ...
Year: 1869

"a yWe wish to call particular atten-
t;on to the new advertisement in our pa
per of Mr.. L. GRAFT. He is offering ior
the next 80 days his stock for cost. Ills
goods were bought low and first rate bar
gains may be obtained by giving him a
call at the Post office.
Year: 1869

The river is getting low and even the small
er class of boats meet with some troubiewhen
heavily loaded; navigation however viii be
better in a few days, when channel washes
out through the bers the last boats up found
only two feet on the bars. BY the Guage The
river at this place is four feet above low water