smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1865

any oxen in the course of his travels, similar
to those which he had described himself to
Dick as being in search Of Why, to be
sure have, with the very same mark you
describe. grazing in Mr.. Murgrave's field
only yesterday. l was rather struck ly
their appearance, and learned on inquiry
from one of the servants. that Mr.. Musgrave
had purchased them only yesterday. Un-
dOubtedly the oxen are yours. | would ad-
wise you to go to Lanercost at once, and
claim them But | am knocked up with
walking and it is long way to Lanercost
| see you ride good beast. Will you sell
her?' After some hard bargaining, terms
were agreed upon, the purchase money was
paid down on the spot, and Dickey and the
farmer separated. the farmer to seek his
stolen oxen, actually from the very owner OF
the stolen mare he was himself riding; while
Dickey proceeded where he listed.


The next day the farmer reached Laner-
cost. and, of course. at once recognized MS
own oxen grazing in the field. lie forth
with rode up to the elderly man standing
near, whom he judged to be the owner OF
the field, and exclaimed: say, friend.
these are my oxen in the field! how may
you have come by them" And III be
ID, repileu the OtDtr lditei tdhihS Il
long, wondering look at the animal on which
his questioner was mounted), if that's not
my mare you are riding how may y u have
come by her, pray? Each, of course, de-
scribed the person from whom he had pur-
chased (; and when this was done, they dis
covered that they had indeed been sold, by
Il rogue of no common order.


So laughable. however, did the joke ap-
pear-even to those who had to pay the
piper in the affair-that neither party could
prevent breaking into a peal of merriment
when the particulars were disclosed. 1t was
clear that the only way to settle the affair
was for each party to take back his own
property. Mr.. Musgrave was, of course
overjoyed at the recovery Of his favorite
mare; and the Benton Burn farmer, being
equally delighted at the recovery of his
favorite oxen it fell out that. in the general
burst of rejoicing, Dckey was allowed to
quietly pocket the sale money both of mare
and oxen.


Whether Dickey ultimately came to an
untimely end, or whether he reformed his
ways and died duly shriveled' in his own
bed history telleth not Certain it is, how
ever, that his deeds are household words in
many parts of Northumberland, and his
name is considered among the peasants
synonymous with 'cuteness.'
Year: 1865

Be NEAT-Young ladies. if they only knew
how disgusting to men slovelness is, and
how attractive are displays of neatness and
taste would array themselves in the simplio-
ity and cleanliness of the lilies of the field or
if able to indulge in costly attire, they would
study the harmonious blending of oolors
which nature exhibits In all her works, A
girl of good taste, and habits of neatness. can
make more fascinating toilet with nine
penny calico dress, a few cheap ribbons and
laces and such ornaments as she can gather
from the garden, than a vulgar, tawdry orea
ture who is worth thousands. and has the
jewelry and wardrobe of a princess.
Year: 1865

A STORY is told of man who insured. in
London, one thousand cigars, valued at two
hundred pounds, against fire and water
After the lapse of six months be made his
appearance at the insurance office and de-
manded his money, as the cigars had all been
burned. @ But not on board the vessel, sir. +"
said the secretary, for she is in the dock
now" Yes. on board The vessel smoked
them, and therefore burnt them all myself,
and the insurance says against fire. The
secretary seemed taken aback, but told the
smoker to call again next day. He called at
the appointed time but was met by the solc-
itor of the company. who told him if he did
not relinquish his claim he would be prose
cuted as one who had knowingly and wilfully
set fire TO goods insured by the company.
Year: 1865

TO GRocsRs.-We take pleasure in direct
ing the attention Of the Grocery trade Of
this section to the advertisement Of Packard
l. James, who rank among the most staunch
and reliable jobbing concerns Of the Metro
polls Of the country. Their stock is extsn
sive and to prompt buyers they afford su.
perior inducements to trade. Iowa mer-
chants may rely upon finding everything
fair and square whether they purchase in
person, or order the goods by letter. We
recommend all who deal in goods in their
line to place their house first upon their list
when they 80 into this market. Cut out
their;card andlgive them fair trial and there
can not be . shadow Of doubt but you
win make money by the operation.
Year: 1865

send them back into thswoods very quick.
ly. Our loss during the day amounts to
about 600 and that of Sunday to about
ZOO making total loss of about 800 kill
ed, wounded and missing.


The loss of theenemy is notknown, but it
is believed to be fully as large as ours
We took altogether about one hundred and
eighty prisoners, among whom are a num-
Der Of officers.


Notwithstanding severe storm of ram,
which fell last night, and continuing all
day, freezing as it fell, the third division
Of the fifth corps advanced to the point it
reached yesterday, at Dabney's mills,
driving the rebels before them and into
their works beyond. The casualties in
this affair have rot been reported, but are
said to be very few. This was all the
fighting done to day.


Our permanent lines now extend from
what was formerly the extreme left at
Fort Cummings, on the squirrel level road
to and across Hstcher's run, at Armstrong;
mill, with the advance well out towards
Dsbney's mill, distance of about four
miles, all of which ground had been
wrested from the enemy in the past three
days, and makes the line much safer and
more formidable than before.


As soon as the weather permits, further
active movements will no doubt take place
in this vicinity, and one or two like the
last will bring US within easy striking dis
tAnce of the South Side road, which it is
hoped will soon be in our possession.
Year: 1865

The Supreme Court is now engaged on
several important prize cases, touching
the validity of the captures of vessels
on their way from one neutral port to
another, with cargoes evidently designed
for the rebels.
Year: 1865

The church, as a general thing has become
an immense machine for the pronunciation OF
The peculiar tencts of the Abolition party,
each particular parson doing the work which
was formerly done by The most despicable Of
all politicians, the pothouse pettifogger. In
othcr ages the church also lost its purity
aud became Stale machine and always
70 the detrment of the church, and the down.
fall Of the State political fabric, The worst
oncnies to their country, ever since the
world began have been the political priests,
and the rule holds as good in the present
ago AS in any which has gone before The
renowned commentator, Dr.. Clarke, was
doubtless imPressd with the truth of this
assertion when he wrote the following "Hp
who while he processes the religion of Christ
dIs;ngb5 society by his preaching or
writing, who excludes from the sa!vat.cn of
God hose who do not conform to his re,ig-
.ous or political creed, never knew the ma
ture of the Gospel and never knew its power
and influence" Ia
Year: 1865

G:es@ The business man who puts his sign
IN the newspaper does a much wiser thing
than man who Gastens it over his store :
and who would think of ne:ecung that p
Where one person reads sign in the street.
five thousand read it in the newspapers No
matter how well business man is known, he
can always pick up new customers if he viii
take the pains TO advertise for by neglcctjng
tie means of securing trade he looses the best
of his profits.
Year: 1865

ES Forget not to entertain Strangers
In Centreville, Ohio, the other day, three
men attempted break into the house of SOL
der's vile to rob her of sum she received
that evening. She was defended and one of
the house breakers killed by wounded SOL
der to whom the lady had Hospitality given
shelter.
Year: 1865

ES 1t is stated by New York papers
ttat the State would have gone from ten TO
twenty thousand majority for Mcclellan and.
Seymour had not so many soldier votes been
delayed in the mails and otherwise. In some
Counties as high as two hundred proxy sol
der ballots for the Democratic candidates
have come to hand through the mails since
the election.
Year: 1865

EG A young girl from Illinois went to
St. Louis few days ago and sold herself for
an army substitute, When taken before the
examining surgeon, he ordered her to strip,
but this not exactly agreeing with her sense
of propriaty, she ran cut Of the room and
concluded to give up soldering until they
would take her word for being an ablebodied
man.
Year: 1865

Shall we sink as party9 The answer is
easy and certain If despotism is to triumph
over free government, the Democracy is
forever dead. If self government triumph
over king y pretensions, we live as vclors.
The people can find in their responses, the
answer. AS party we never stood better.
AS to hopeful consequences, we never stood
so strong. A minority by only few thou.
sand will escape the responsibility of power
at the most critical time in national exist
ence. Scarcely below minority, we are too
strong to be subjuga,ed, while the logic Of
experience will surely bring us reinforce
ments, and our enemy must register conse,
quent deseltions.


Taxation, death and woe, are the luxuries
with which our opponents must load the
tables of those they invite to their feast,
perchance Of death. Their guests will be
numerous, their rejorcers will be few. Dis
cord and begerent Republics or brutal
anarchy, and extended and densely populated
graveyards, will be the patrimony bequeath.
ed, if they pursue fatal policy; while re>
morse and blighted recolectons will gnaw
their vitals il they are forced to yield to us.
1t will be ours to suffer in the former, to
counsel in the latter while the power covers
the responsibility.


Let no Democrat feel sad that his party
cannot press the bitter cup to the lip that is
ultimately to turn in scorn and anguish upon
those who preside at the Table of Death.


Let no Conservative mourn at the seeming
destruction that now blocks his path. Adj
versity will purify, experience will demon.
srate in the future as in the past, our advise
ments, our prophecies. Selfpreservaion will
show the necessity of completing our organ.
izafion, the cause of free government will
again summon us, reinforced, to the contest;
the medicine we are taking will deplete the
system, and if the constitution is not entirely
destroyed, it will outive quackers of the
present, TO be again restored by long tried
specifics. And so certain as free government
survives we shall be called to the bedside
10 administer the remedy-tbe "Tares and
Wheat" will again live in peace; the Higher
Law and its doctrines will be numbered
amid the scourges of the race, and the con-
sttu'ional Democracy will rescue, from the
wreck Of misguided government, the Tree of
Liberty which they planted and nurtured
for eighty years. and which shall again cast
its lovely shadow over them, while they n
turn SHALL as in the past, defend its roots.


Democrats! stand firmly by your princi'
piles; and if amid the general wreck the tree
shall retain its vitality, you shall be its
rescuers, its defenders. its preservers. Until
the last hope sinks in gloom mil desperandum
de 'epublica." Albany argus.
Year: 1865

New LIME KILN.-This portion Of Placer
and the country just opposite, on the El Do
RADIO side Of the American, contain a number
Of valuable lime quarries sufficient to supply
the demands of the State. The Cave Valley
and Auburn Kilns have been in operation
many years, supplying an article of lime that
has been unsurpassed in quality, and yet
there have remained undeveoped limestone
lodges that have but required the facilities Of
transportation for manufactured lime, to in,
crease the business 10 any present or future
demand that may be made. The opening of
the Pacific Railroad has therefore prompted
H.T. Holmes Il Co., of Sacramento, to open
= very extensive ledge near the line Of the
road, in the vicinity Of the California House,
Eve miles above Auburn, where they are
erecting new Kiln, and expect to have it
10 operation during the summer, or as soon
As the railroad is in operation to furnish
them speedy and cheap carriage to the Sac
ramenlo river.
Year: 1865

The force now moving into Arizona from
this State, is believed to be sufficiently great
to repress the desolating raids of the Apaches
and open up that remarkably rich region
TO civilized occupation. The Seventh and
Fourth Infantry, California Volunteers have
been ordered thither, together with several
companies Of the First Cavalry, California
Volunteers, and the First Native Battalion,
California Cavalry Volunteers, making alto
gether about two thousand seven hundred
men, independent of the Battalion Of Pimos,
Maricopas and Papagos now being raised
for the same service, and amounting to some
four hundred more. The advance guard is
already on the march, and must, ere this,
have progressed well into Arizona. Yester>
day, General Mason and staff left on the
steamer Senator for Drum Barracks, from
which point he will expedite the departure
of the main column. The Battalion of Native
Cavalry is en- route for Drum Barracks and
will proceed from that point without delay,
so soon as it is properly organized, and its
acquisitions filed. We learn that a portion
of the column will take the GiIa route direct,
for the frontier. and the other portion will
move toward Prescott, on another ROUTE
No portion of our country is probably more
rich in mineral wealth than Arizona; and
from what we know OF the officers and men
entrusted with the protection of that Terri,
tory and the subversion ef the Apaches who
have heretofore been its scourge, we feel
confident that, ere long, it will be rendered
as safe for occupation and the prosecution
of mining as any other portion Of our COM
mon country. s. r. Call.
Year: 1865

THE NATIONAL DEBr.-The Boston Her
aid, an Abolition paper, begins to realize the
financial situation. 1t says, January 25.


ut is not to be denied that the national
debt is rapidly increasing, and that it will
amount by July to nearly three thousand
million Of dollars. On the top of this, bills
come up for settlement of claims for proper
ty destroyed amounting to nearly as much
If one half Of these claims are allowed, il
will swell the Indebtedness of the nation to
four thousand five hundred millions of dol,
lars!-with an annual expenditure Of at leas,
two hundred millions to support the Govern
ment in time of peace, besides paying the
interst on the public debt. The figures are
startling, and should claim the attention OF
statesmen. as they will the attention of the
people when the tax gatherer comes knock.
ing at their doors.


If we add to the above an equally large
sum for State and town debts, and an enor
nous pension list we shall see abundant
cause to startls any one who expects to be a
party in the payment of these debts"
Year: 1865

At the recent session of Congress the fol,
lowing amendment was made TO the Inter
nal Revenue Act, by which persons who have
failed to comply with the law in putting
stamps upon legal instruments of writing,
can make the same valid in law by paying a
fine Of $50 and stamping such documents as
required:


That Section 1853 be amended by striking
out all after tho enacting clause, and insert
ing in lieu thereof the following, to witt
That any person or persons who shall make,
sign, or issue, or who shall cause to be made,
signed, or issued, any instrument, document,
or paper Of any kind or description whatso.
ever, or shall accept, negotiate, or pay or
bill of exchange, draft or order, or promis
sorry note, for the payment of money without
the same being duly stamped, or having
thereupon an adhesive stamp for denoting
the duty chargeable thereon, with intent to
evade the provisions of this act, shall for
every such offense forfeit the sum of $50,
and such instrument document, or paper,
BILL draft, order or note, shall be deemed in
valid and Of no effect; provided, that the
title of a purchaser of land, ty deed duly
stamped, shall not be defeated or affected by
the want Of proper stamp on any deed con
veying said land by any person from, through
or under whom the grantor claims or holds
title; and provided further, that hereafter,
to any instrument required by the 100 aud
5lst section section of the Act of June 80,
1864, or the schedule marked b. thereunto
affixed, at the time of making or issuing the
said instrument, and he, or they, or any par
ty having an interest therein shall be snbse-
quenly desirous of affixing such stamp TO
said instrument, he or they shall appear be-
fore the Collector of the revenue of the pro.
per district, who shall upon the payment of
the price of the proper stamp required by
law, and OF a penalty Of $50, and, where
the whole amount Of the duty denoted by
the stamp required shall exceed the sum of
$50, on payment also of interest, at the rate
Of 6 per cent on said duty from the day on
which said stamp ought TO have been affixed,
atfix the proper stamp TO such instrument,
and note upon the margin of said ins,ru
ment the date of his so doing, and the fact
that such penalty has been paid and such
instrument shall thereupon he deemed and
held to be as valid to all intents and purpo
ses, as if stamped when made or issued: And
provided further, That where it shall appear
to said Collector, upon oath or otherwise to
his satisfaction, that any such instrument has
not been duly stamped at the time of making
or issuing the same by reason of accident,
mistake, inadvertence. or urgent necessity,
and without any wllful design to defraud
the II nil ed States of he Stamn 1uty Or IN
evade or delay the payment thereof, then,
and in such case, if such instrument shall.
within twelve calendar months after the ma
king or issuing thereof, be brought to the
said Collector Of revenue to be stamped and
the stamp duty chargeable thereon shall be
paid, it shall be lawful for the said Collector
to remit the penalty aforesaid, and to cause
such instrument to be duly stamped"
Year: 1865

RoAp FROM e. DoRApo County TO Az.
BuRN.-In anticipation Of the speedy ope
ming Of the Pacific Railroad to Auburn, a
road has been in process Of construction f,r
some time from the EI Dorado county side
Of the American river, crossing just below
the junction Of the North and Middle Forks,
to Auburn. On the Placer side, it is propo.
sed to connect, about half way up the hill,
with the Auburn and Yankee Jim Turnpike,
and by this means save the cost Of consider
able grading. The point selected for the
crossing Of the American is where the river
cany yons between almost perpendicular walls
Of rock, and bridge can be built with not
more than eighty feet span, and at an eleva'
lion Of fifty feet above the high water mark
Of '6l and '62.


This enterprise, we understand, has been
undertaken by the proprietors of the Cave
Valley Lime KiIns, TO enable them to lessen
the distance for hauling their lime from the
Kins TO the Railroad, as we'll as to accom-
modate the trade Of the "George,owu Dir
vide," portion Of E Dorado county, which
contains q number of mining camps and
considerable population. For that region,
at present, the most convenient point Of rail.
road connection is Folsom, distance from
Georgetown Of about twenty-sight miles,
From Auburn to Georgetown, in an air line
the distance is but eleven, and taking the
rise and fall Of the road now being construct
ed, cannot exceed fifteen miles in distance


The road will probably be opened for bu
sness shortly after the railroad track is laid
to Auburn, as the grading is nearly compile
ted on the Ell Dorado side from the top Of
the divide" down to the river.
Year: 1865

Nor TO BE CALLED For We understand
says the Sacramento Union, that in view of
the late success of the Union arms and the
present condition Of affairs generally in the
East, Governor Low has concluded not to
call for the Ninth and Tenth Regiments Of
California troops, as recently contemplated
Year: 1865

Through the medium Of the Gazette | de
sire to address word Or two, to those, who
Ike myself, are new comers here. l, not long
since, came to this city, with hardly dime in
nv pocket [ started business, and the people
with generosity like that Of parent, gave
me employment [ have made some money by
their aid, and both myself and family are now
in fairway of being comfortable. Their IN
stitutions were theirs, and it was not for me
at once to commence to NEEDLE with them. /
knew they had them before [ settled among
them, and the change Of them was more their
business than mine [ made up my mind in
the beginning, that if those institutions did
not suit me, to move off. and leave them as
had found them. Being new here: | soon
found to my great profit, that modesty was
better than impertinence, and that prudence
was better than oAiciousness. / do not want
Office, and [ am content to receive the respect
Of the people ofthis place, which I am grateful
to say, they have always shown me and my
family. I do not believe myself qualified ex-
actly to rearrauge matters for the people Of
State in which I have pot resided more than
five years, out alu simply d new conner, and
one who is content to govern himself and family
according to the Bible, without wishing to fill
every petty place, and to be foremost In every
movement affecting the interests OF the comu-
nifty. NEW COMEk'


Alexandria. July g.
Year: 1865

We noticed little affair on Mont
gomery street yesterday, which caused
outsiders abundance of amusement, but
which looked like anything but clean
and clever joke to the victim Of canine
playfulness. An elegantly dressed gen
tleman was walking along the west side
Of the street, when three huge dogs,
each trihe larger than his predecessor,
came out at full chase down Merchant
street, bent on chewing each other into
smithereens, utterly regardless of conse-
quences to others, and, striking him
with about the force of an ordinary rail-
road locomotive when going at the rate
Of thirty-fve miles an hour, knocked
him eff his feet in an instant, giving
him fall on the muddy fagstone, which
made his head sing like conch shell.
AS he fell, a fine hunting cased gold
watch flew out Of his vest pocket like a
stone out Of sling, and, striking on
the sidewalk some ten feet away, few
open from the shock, the cases being
badly bent and the innards shaken up
in manner which will make consid-
cradle outlay for grease and repairing
matter Of absolute necessity, if it is ex-
pected to keep time ever again. The
man, who did not exactly Ego to the
dogs" but had the dogs come to him
with vengeance, picked himself up
with difficulty, and limped away without
word evidently satisfied that it was
useless to attempt, by swearing, to do
such case justice. A gentleman from
Pike, who witnessed the affair, exactly
expressed our opinion of the matter
when he exclaimed, "Bust my heart,
stranger, if that warnt the doggondest
operation ever seed in my life. .''-Aho
Crlifornian.