smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1868

| their search was frultleSs.


A couple of gentlemen, looking for land,
came to the house, and, being informed of the
circumstances, immediately set out to help find
the child. They had wandered about, and as
they were passing swampy spot, where the
underground was very thick, they either called
the child, Or else were talking loud, when one
Of them heard the child's voice. He then
called the child by name and told her to come
out of the bushes. She replied that the bear
would not let her. The men then crept through
the brush, and when near the spot where the
child and bear were, they heard splash in the
water, which the child said was the bear. On
going to her they found her standing upon
log, extending about half way across the river
The bear had undertaken to cross the. river on
the log, and, being closely pursued, left the
child and swan away; She had received some
scratches about her face, arms and legs, and
her clothes were almost torn from her, but the
bear had not bitten her, only the marks of his
teeth being found on her back, where, in taking
hold OF her clothes to carry her, he had taken
the flesh also. - jsAls2c s1gs3 y, 80 u 9y59.9Tg
/ lTheIlitt one3saysr the bear would put her
down occasionally to rest, and would put his
nose up to her face, when she would slap him,
and thenthe bear would hang his head by her
side and purr and rub against her like aocat.-'
The men asked her if she was cold in the night,
and she told them the old bear. lay down beside
her and put his 'arms" around her and kept
her warm, though she did not like his long
hair. She was taken home to her parents,
who could hardly express their joy at her
safety.


The bear has been seen lurking about in the
vicinity, it is supposed for the purpose of yet
carrying off the child. The supposition is that
1t IS female bear, and having lost her cubs,
came across the child and adopted it. Steps
are being taken to capture the bear.
Year: 1868

JULY 9CD, 1000.


Mr.. EDITOR "A few days ago, was con-
versing with an Intelligent negro, about the
present state of the Southern country when
he remarked that they (the Radicals) had been
telling the negroes that they must not buy land
now; that they must wait while and they
auould get at for nothing. ''The Constitution,
they said, will fix things so that the taxes will
eat up the land, and the whites will have to
gice 1t apay to the negroes. So, fellowciti
zens of the South, this is the plan fixed by de-
signing scoundrels to force you to leave your
beautiful homes-made dear to you by the
memory of peace, and by the strife you have
had in defence of them. This is the plan of
pious bloodhounds such as Butler, Stevens,
Logan and Co., to drive you from your time
hallowed possessions, into land where you
will feel like outcasts from your race-to drive
you from the soil where your foretathers lived
and died, and in defending which you and your
sons have poured out their hearts blood
Then RISE! Bring to your country's aid your
dormant energies Make one glorious effort
Sunny South is bound Be not discouraged in
your greatest effort Your sister State Of Mis-
sissippi lights the way-tollow in her steps, and
show that you still have that patriotism which
YOU have so bravely displayed in days of yore.
Make one more effort to bring to the bar OF
Justice, the enemies Of your country. Be not
afraid for at your head will go the God Of
Freedom and of Justice, who with his resistless
arm will aid you to strike to the ground your
oppressors And let it be, that as Mississippi
has sounded the signal gun, that the sound
shall be echoed through the whole OF the Sun
nv South. Gather together the brave sons of
Virginia, and let them determine whether they
will submit to the outrages of few designing
men from the darkest dens of fanaticism in the
North In the coming constitutional election,
do all in your power to make the work progress
favoraby Organize clubs, and convince the
lukewarm that it will not do to be idle. And
when you have won the victory over fanaticism
and tyranny, you can rest on your laures, and
look on the beautiful wales of Virginia as youa
homes and not the country of the negroes
Then you can lift up your heads, and be salts
fed that you have helped to save your beloved
country from ruin. 59L OCTO.
Year: 1868

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A Little Girl Three Years Of Age Carried of


6y -MarUelious Recoreyy OF the Child


after Searching SO Hours.


We have to record very singular deliver
ance of girl about three years old, to her pa
rents, after being carried off by black bear,
and search of 36 hours through the forest by
the excited parents. The facts, as near as we
can gather them, are substantially as follows


Mr.. Henry Flynn lives 40 miles east Of this
place, at or near the logging camps of MIR.
Ludington, and we believe has charge of one
of the camps He started one morning to take
a horse to pasture, about two miles distant
from the house, and as he was ready to start
his little girl appeared and seemed very anxious
to go with her father, who, in order to please
the child, put her upon the horses back and
let her ride a short distance, perhaps 40 rods
from the house, where he put her down and
told her to run home. He noticed that the
child was standing where he left her, and on
looking back after going little further saw her
playing in the sand. He soon passed out of
sight and was gone about an hour, expecting
of course that the child would return to the
house after playing few moments.


On returning home he made enquiry about
the child of her mother, who said she had not
seen the child, and supposed he had taken her
along with him. On going to the spot where
he left her, he saw huge bear tracks In the
sand, and at once came to the conclusion that
the child had been carried off by the bear. /.


The family Immediately gave search through
the forest which was grown up to almost a
Jungle, rendering their search very slow. All
day these ANXIOUS parents searched for some
trace of their child, nor did they stop when
darkness came on, but remained in the woods,
calling the child by her name, and with aching
hearts would listen with an almost ibreathles.
fear to catch some sound by which they could
Year: 1868

Chaplin talks thus beautifully about a day:
"It has risen upon US from the great deep of
eternity, grted round with wonder; new
creation of life and light, spoken by the world
of God. In itself one entire and perfect sphere
of the sun. Every pastgeneration is represents
ed In it; it is the Towering of all history, and
in so much it is richer and better than all other
days which have proceeded it. And it is for
faculties The sum of our being is concentrat-
ed here, and to-day is all the time we absolute
" have.
Year: 1868

A BEAUTIFUL INCIDENTAL gentleman re-
lates that many years ago he was on a visit to
the Isle of man, and during his walks he stroll
ed into the quiet churchyard, where repose the
bodies of many a faithful and humble christian.
Near grave in corner of the churchyard, he
noticed lady with a little girl (the latter about
twelve years of age,) to whom she was relating
the story of the dairymans daughter, whose
remains lay beneath their feet. As the lady
proceeded in the narrative, observed the little
girl lift up her eyes filled with tears, and heard
her say that she would try and be as good as ii e
dairyman daughter had been After planting
a beautiful lilly on the grave, they walked slow
ly away. The gentleman, upon making Inquiry,
found that the lady was the Duchess of Kent,
and the little girl her daughter. The latter is
now Queen of England 5000
Year: 1868

How stealthily the years Green upon Ms onn
by one, until some day we are startled to- find
ourselves grown DID, 1t is curious to see what
different estimates people put on old age at diff:
ferent periods of their own lives To the youth
IL his teens, the man of middle age, appears
quite antiquated, but when he himself arrives
at forty years, he can scarcely believe he is no
longer young, and is astonished to see so MANY
who were but infants the other day, now iosti.
ing him as full grown men in the race of life.
Said one gentleman to another ia our hearing


What has become of all the old men? When
you and | were boys there were many old men.
about, but they seem to be all gone. ''Ah,"
said his friend with smile, TASK these young
sters where the old men are! They'll tell you
and you will find yourself among them -
Year: 1868

OUR STOCK IS NOW CUMPIEIE! -


We are offering great inducements


Wepropose to sell goods at very short profits
for cash, making it to the interest of the pnrcha
ser as we'll as the seller. We are sure it would
be to the interest of all to give us call before
ing Goods, in part: .5e u seQ 5e.b at
Year: 1868

BEAUTIFUL. When the summerday youth
is slowly wasting away into the nghtfall of age,
and the shadows of the past years grow deeper
and as life nears to close it is pleasant to look
back through the vista of time upon the Joys
and sorrows of early years. If we have home
to shelter or rejoice with us, and friends who
are gathering around our freside, then the
soothed away in the twilight of life, whilst the
bright sunny spot we have passed through will


grow brighter and more beautiful Happy, in
deed, are those whose intercourse with the
world has not changed the course of their boiler
feelings or broken those musical chords of the
heart whose vibrations are so melodious so
tender and SO touching in the evening of age.
Year: 1868

The Second Adventists are now holding meeting
in Janesve Wis. and have concluded that the end
of all things earthly will take place the 1st of
next October. The other day the preacher was very
much annoyed by a Republican and Democrat on the
outskirts of the meeting, discussing as TO who would
be tho next President The preacher approached
them and said: MY dear friends, you are exciting
yourselves unnecessarily and wasting precious time
IN speculating as to the future President of the
United States for before earthly election takes
place, our blessed Lord will be President every
where.o "Ill bet you s95," said the Democrat. "he
can't carry kentucky


The Grant Guards of Newport turned out ITO
strong on Saturday night and visited the Eighth Ward
Year: 1868

The recent action of the Rebels In the Legislature
has thrown into the fioldtwenty-fve thorough going
Republican orators. They will sweep through the
State like whirlwind, and no black voter, after
listening to their burning words can be charmed by
any manner of Democratic sophistry. The Rebels
in tho State have announced their intention TO vote
If fair election is held and violent efforts are
made TO keep the blacks from the polls, the election
may pass off quietly. The Grant men can carry the
State on fair vote. But few Republican meetings
have been held thus far.
Year: 1868

Advices from Wisconsin Of the most cheering
character Gentlemen from various parts of the State
all agree that the Republican party was never 20
thoroughly aroused nor firmly united as at this
time. On the other hand. the Democracy are dis
heartened and demoralized. Doolittle has been
among them for some ten or twelve days but the
opinion is universal that his speeches do more harm
than good. The Republicans count upon 2OeoO ms
ioritv in the State. and it may be even more. We
would like TO see Seymour get vote out of the
glorious oh Fifth Wisconsin Regiment Shake 'em.
Badgers You can do IL.
Year: 1868

The Rebels are Mt their old game OF assassination
and Union men are butchered almost hourly. Re
publican meetings have been held at Helena, Des
Arc Little Rock and Fort Smith, at which the freed
men and native UniOnists were out in force. The
Rebels Will probably follow the example OF their
brethren in South Carolina and Georgia. and insist on
voting. The Unlonists however, seem confident of
carving the State
Year: 1868

The canvass in Maryland has thus far been asleepy
one The boys, however are showing signs oil spint'
but tho State seems hopeless IL the Republicans
had done their duty when they were IN power the
votes of the returned Rebels would have been coun-
tcrhalopced bv the votes Of the Union Blacks. We
baye homes Of retaining one Congress District If the
Renublicons will work earnestly and canvass the
State thoroughly they may increase their vote sew
eral thousands and tho day may not DO far distant
when they can reclaim the state
Year: 1868

the joint discussion is concerned amounted to little for
Democracy Major Englehord too wrathy and ner-
yous to elicit the falutest applause Gen. Rutherford,
cool sober and refined used up his opponents without
struggle and amid the loudest shouts and yociferous
cheers from an intelligent audience. At night the Tan
ners made grand parade through the streets much TO
the disanst and ANNOYANCE Of their Opponents
Year: 1868

Horatio will be buried in this State beyond
doubt though through the miserable split III the Id
District which it seems impossible TO avoid we may
lose Congressman. The Republicans of the STATE
are not yet fully organized, but the local and 81
Paul papers show a fair list of meetings.
Year: 1868

This State is sure for Grant and Cofax. though the
Rebels throughout the State are determined to vote.
The freedmen seem TO know their friends, and are
evidently up to Rebel snuff Our exchanges show
but few meetings, but private advices claim good
working organization throughout the State.
Year: 1868

George Tustine, member of the Colored
Democratic Club in Augusta Ca has resigned saying:
81 respectfully hand in this my Resignation member
OF your organizations believing as do that Is against
my race against myself against the Constitution and
Fundamental laws Of my country and against my God"
Year: 1868

In this State the Republicans are making on activs
canvass Glorious meetings are being held in every
section of the State. The Congress nominations are
complete and every one of them is clamed by the
Unonsts Carl Schurz is TO go through the State in
October. and will stir up the to a white heat
The county organizations complete. and clubs arc
formed in nearly every township. Missouri WA
talk right in November.
Year: 1868

Virginia will have no vote. The Rebels within her
borders are very bitter and seOm determined TO keep
the State out Of the Union The Republicans hold a
mass meeting occasionally to keep their hands in
Year: 1868

The Jersey Blues are swinging into line right gal
lantly Every hill in the State is lighted by Repub-
lican torches and the valleys resound with Union
cheers. The Copperheads appear TO be struck with
blindness and have not yet made decent show for
meeting. Every day increases tho probability that
the vote of the State will be given TO Grant and that
John |. BLAIR will be elected Governor. We stand
good chance of carrying four Congress distrcts
Cen Rushing is polishing of tho Rebels IN the lld
District with his army fervor and vigor, and Is de-
turniRed 10 win. Boys OF the old First ana second
JeFsy Bugades never yet faltered In the iAco OF
tho Phels Close up the ranks and once again sweep
she,n from every position. You can do it you Will
apd We know you Will
Year: 1868

Tennessee will do her work. Republican meetings
are being held in every county in the State and the
enthusiasm is hourly increasing The Rebels fume
and fret, and threaten 10 vote or fight but Gov
Brownow's preparations in the interests OF law and
order have taken the stening out of them and they
will be reasonably quiet The State give 10000
majority for Grant and Colfax The true Union
blues of East Tennessee are working with WILL and
promise to roll up large vote. An unfortunate Re
publican dissension endangers three Congress dis
trcts. but, with this exception, everything looks
well.
Year: 1868

The Republicans are thoroughly aroused, and are
tossing the Rebels in blankets. Senators Wiley and
Van Wrinkle are working in their shirt-sloeves for
Grant and Colfax The State election occurs on Oct
q. and the Republicans seem confident OF sweeping
everything.


The campaign in West Virginia is being fought
with the same intense ardor as were tho battles OF
the Border during the war. The Union people ore
ranged on the same side. the same enemy is before
them the same great perls threaten the nation now
as then and their devotion to Grant and Peace Is as
ardent and enthusiastic was their loyalty to the
Government and Union during the war. The parti-
sanship Of their opponents. the old Rebels Oh the
war. is as bitter and unscrupuous as ever ana the
campaign In Wost Virginia. therefore, partakes
strongly of the character of the fighting in the VAL
ley in tho days of Early and Sheridan. We must
rout the Rebel hosts again. and the country will
be saved. The State election occurs on the 22d OF
October.
Year: 1868

1t is terribly significant of the present
state of things when men are free to write as
they do of the women of their own nation
Every word Of censure flung against them is
two-edged, and wounds those who condemn as
those who are condemned for surely it need
hardly be said that men hold nothing so dear
as the honor of their women and that no one
living would willingly lower the repute of his
mother or sisters. 1t is only when these have
placed themselves beyond the pale of mascu-
line respect that such things could be written
as are written when they become again what
they were once they will gather round them
the love and homage and chiyalous devotion
which were then an Englishwoman's natural
inheritance. The marvel, in the present fash
ion of life among women, is how it holds its
ground in spite Of the disapprobation of men.
1t used to be AN old-time notion that the
sexes were made for each other. and that it
was only natural for them to please each other
and to set themselves out for that end. But
the girl of this period does not please men
She pleases them as little as she eleyates
them and how little she does that, the class
of women she has taken as her models of it.
self testities All men whose opinion is worth
having prefer the simple aud genuine girl of
the past, with her tender little ways and pret-
ty, bashiul modestes, to this loud and ram
pant modernization, with her false red hair
and painted skin, talking slang as glibly as a
man, and by preference leading the conyersa-
tion to doubtful subjects She thinks she is
piquaute and exciting when she thus makes
herself the bad copy of worse original; and
she will not see that though men laugh with
her they do not respect her, though they hirt
with her they do not marry her she will not
believe that she is not the kind of thing they
want, and that she is acting against nature
and her own interests when she disregards
their advice and ofiends their taste. We dc
not see how she makes out her account, view
ing her life from any side ) but all we can do
is to wait patiently until the national madness
has passed, aud our women have come back
again to the old English ideal, once the most
beautiful, the most modest, the most essen.
TALLY womanly in the world.-London Quar.
terly Repieo.
Year: 1868

A certain king would build cathedral,
and that the credit Of it might be all his own,
he forbade any from contributing to its erec-
ton in the least degree A tablet was placed
in the side of the building, and on il his name
was carved, as the builder. But that night
he saw in a dream an angel, who came down
and erased his name, and the name of poor
widow appeared in its stead. This was three
times repeated, when the enraged king sum-
moned the woman before him, and demanded,
"What have you been do;ngl and why have
you broken my commandment {" The trem-
bling woman replied, Il loved the Lord and
longed to do something for his cause, for the
building up Of his church. | was forbidden
to touch it in any way; so, in my poverty |
brought a wisp of hay for the horses that
drew the stones' And the king saw that he
had labored forh his own glory, but the widow
for the glory of God, and he commanded that
her name should be inscribed on the tablet.
Year: 1868

"A member of I bar in looking over the
court records of Norfolk County, Mass,
few days since, saw the following judgment
passed in March, 1901, ON one Andrew Bar.
tholomew for breaking into the house of Alb
igail Clay; 1t is therefore considered by the
court here that he be pablickly whipped on the
naked back thirty-nine stripes that he be set
on the gallows for the space of one hour with
rope about his neck and one end thereof
east over the gallows that he pay to Abigail
Gay, the party injured six hundred dollars
which, with the goods restored, is treble the
value of the goods stolen. And if he does
not pay the same within thirty days, then il
is ordered by the court that the said Abigail
may dispose of him in service to any person
whomsseyer for the term Of seven years to
make satisfaction therefor; that he pay cost OF
prosecution and stand committed until sen.
tenee be performed.
Year: 1868

We have probably all of us met with in
stances in which word heedessy spoken
against the reputation Of female has become
dark enough to overshadow her whole exist
enee. To those who are accustomed--no
necessarily from bad motive, but from
ghtlessness-to speak lightly Of females,
we recommend these hints as worthy of con
sideration Never use lady's name in an
improper time or in mixed company Never
make assertions about her that you think are
untrue, or illusions that you think She herself
would blush to hear. When you meet with
men who do not scrupe TO make use Of a
woman's name in reckless and unprincipled
manner, shun them, for they are the very
worst members of the commuuity-men lost
to every sense of honor, every feeling Of hu.
manty. Many good and worthy woman's
character has been forever ruined, and her
heart broken by a lie, manufactured by some
villain, and repeated where it should moi
have been and in the presence Of those whose
little Judgment could not deter them from cir,
cuating the foul and Dragging report A
SANDER is soon propagated, and the smallest
thing derogatory TO woman's character will
fly on the wings of the wind, and magnify as
it circuates, until its monstrous weight
crushes its poor unconscious yictim.-Respect
the name of woman for your mothers and
sisters are women and as you would have
their fair name untarnished and their liyei
unembittered by the slanderers biting tongue
heed the i'll that your own words may bring
upon the mother, sister or wife of some fell
low creature.
Year: 1868

A judiclous wife is always chipping off
from her husbands moral nature little twigs
that are growing in wrong directions She
keeps him in shape by continual pruning. If
you say anything silly she will afectionatey
tell you so. II you declare that you will do
some absurd thing, she will find means of
preventing your doing it. And by far the
chief part Of all the common sense there is
in this world belongs unquestionably to
woman. The wisest things a man commonly
does, are those which his wife counsels him
to do. A wife is the grand wieder of the
moral pruning-knife. If Johnson's wife had
lived, there would have been no boarding up
of orange peel--no touching all the posts in
walking along the streets---no eating and
drinking with disgusting yoracity If Oil
yer Goldsmith had been married, he would
never have worn that memorable and ridicu-
lous coat Whenever you find a man whom
you know little about, odly dressed, or talking
absurdly, or exhibiting any eccentricity OF
manner, you may be tolerably sure that he is
not married man; for the corners are round
ed of--the little shoots are pruned away, in
married men. Wives generally have much
more sense than their husbands-especally
when their husbands are clever men. The
wife's adyices are like the ballast that keeps
the ship steady. They are wholesome, though
painful shears, clipping off little growths OF
self-eonceit