smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1859

ny HER MOTHER.
Our little ELLA, lovely pet,
Is cold ln Deaths embrace
As sweet a child as e'er you met
Among the human race.
For eighteen months the fresIdo
With Us she did surround,
But now her lovely form doth lie
Beneath the cold, damp ground.
For near six months among the rest
She ran about the yard,
Andmore than infant sense possessed,
To merit our regard.
Her speech was plain for one SO young,
Her looks and actions gay,
But now her ljtIe prattliug tongue
Lies silent in the clay.
But Heaven took the pledge Of love
Which once to us IL gavei--
Her soul has gone TO rest above
Her body's in tho grave.
Lord she was Thine, and not our own
Thou hast not done us wrong;
We thank Thee for the precious loan
Afforded us thus long.
Even so dear Lord, Ills not thy will
That infants e'er should perish,
But iuThine arms Thou takest them still
And ever wilt them cherish.
For though 10 silent dust consigned,
With all her pleasing charms,
The blessed Savior of mankind
Received her in his arms
She was lovely creature while
She drew the vital breath,
And on her face settled smile
Humid the shade of death.
Rest thou, sweet, lovely, happy soul,
Beyond the silent tomb,
And while eternal ages roll,


In brighter beauty bloom!
Oh, when the tolls of life are past,
And l am called to die,
May she and then meet at last,
To praise our Lord on high.
November, 1859. us.
Year: 1859




The experience Of our farmers In winter
wheat growing has already demonstrated,
NE think, the necessity of earely sowing. to
the perfection of a good crop. Judging from
other crops this might be expected. All of
them require to be got into the ground ear
lier, here. than they do at the East or North.
It is so with winter wheat. The greatest draw
back upon that crop, as far as our observa-
ton extends in this: Territory, is to be ap-
pretended from rust The hot showery
weather which we experience during the
month of June is peculiarly productive OF
that nalady. 6 And IL is in that month, that
late soWed winter wheat has just arrived at
that peculiar stage of its growth, when rust
is most destructive, while the early sowed
has so nearly approached maturity as TO es-
cape with impunity. 1t thus frequently hap
pens that an early sowed field viii present a
fine, full, plump berry, while one right by
the side of it, but two weeks later, will be
struck with the rust and the berry so shrun-
ken as to be almost worthless.


We believe that any piece ofwinter wheat,
well put in by the first day of September.
will almost invariably escape the rust
Those fields sowed from the lst to the 1 5th
of September run some risk,-may be first
rate or may be seriously injured, while
those got in after the 18th are more likely
to rust than not. The prominent position
which our winter wheat crop is fast coming
to occupy, renders this matter of the prop
er time to put it in, one of great importance.
Our farmers, therefore, should be looking
about them-preparing the ground, pro-
curing the seed, and making ready to have
this important crop put in in goon season.
Laurence Republican.
Year: 1859




NTITH THE COMMEN CEMENT OF THE
w New Year wish to return my hearty thanks
for the liberal suppor and couragement that has
been extended to me in my business for the past
two years. This office was opened here about two
years ago, not with the expectation of realizing
fortune, but with the hope of contributing some
thing towards the settlement and improvement of
this beautiful valley, by means of direct personal
effort, and by furnishing information to those at
the East who were seeking homes and occupation
at the West / have endeavored to keep steadily
in view the Future of this tolCR and country, and
by means of considerable labor and expense, re-
gardless of present profit, my business is now es-
fablished upon firm and reliable basis; and
can offer to all who entrust their business to my
care, intimate knowledge of the country, its in
habitants and their circumstances, derived from
extensive travel. and constant intercourse with
settlers, upon and since their arrival. claim to
be thoroughly eonyersant with the wants and
pabilities of this country, and shall never advise
correspondents emigrants aught they cannot
realize. My facilities for the transaction of busi
ness are unequalled by any Office in the Neosho
Valley shall attend all the
Year: 1859

a bachelor says:-''h woman viii cling
TO the chosen of her heart like fly to
.Catchem,aliye, and you can't separate her
without swapping strings no art can mend;
and leaving a portion of her soul on the
upper leather of your affections. She will
sometimes see something to love where 9TH
ers see nothing to admire; and when fond
ness is once fastened on a fellow, it sticks
like penny stamp to an envelope, or tax
gatherer to your house-door.'
Year: 1859

: A most excellent food for the GONZALES
cent, is made of half pound of lean beef,
cut in small pieces. and soaked half an
hour, or more, ina quart of cold water,
and afterwards boiled few minutes, stir
ring tia little as it begins to boil. Then
pour it into bowl upon piece of hot,
well Drowned toasted bread. Drink off the
liquid, or eat toast and all with spoon
The only seasoning allowed is trifle of
salt, or very slight flavor, from red pep
per-pod- If there is sense of chilliness
in the patient, whole pepper pod may be
used, making the tea very fiery. 1t will
then be good rudorifc.
Year: 1859

Speaking of shaving said pretty
girl to an obdurate old bachelor, 81 should
think that pair of handsome eyes would
be the best mirror to shave BY" Eyes;
many a poor fellow has been shared by
them" the wretch replied.
Year: 1859

A farmer sowing his ground, some dan
dies came riding along the way, when one
of them called to him in an insolent air


s.Wel, honest fellow" said be, sit is
your business to SOW, but we reap the fruits
of your labor


To which the .countryman replied. cit
is very likely you may, for am sowing
hemp"
Year: 1859

THosE OYSTERS Norwalk Gazette
learns from good authority that quarter of
million bushels of oysters had been taken from
the newly discovered oyster placer, up to Sat.
urday night. A gentleman, competent to Judge,
who has been upon The ground, gives it as his
opinion that the eutire bed cannot be exhausted
in years, and it is said to be low estimate to
put the average earnings of every man who has
worked upon the grounds, at $40 per day.
Year: 1859

GoURvILLE went to pay his respects to the
Duchess Sophia Of Brunswick, whose young
daughter he was speculating on as wife TOR
the Dauphin. When he was first permitted to
see the young lady, then in her 18th year, be
said: "Fhis Is fair and beautiful princess,
worthy of the highest destiny. May ask what
religion she has been brought up IN - She
has none at present." answered Sophia "wheu
we know what prince will be her husband she
will be instructed in his religion"
Year: 1859

CORREcrIoN.-It is due to the members
of the House, and Mr.. Dyer. the speaker Of
that body, to state that the error which oc-
Cured in not properly pre6Sing the note ad-
dressed to the speaker, by Gov Mason, ac-
cOmpanying the letter of Gen. Haney, was
altogether unintentional, and without design
We should gladly reprint the same, but for
the fact that no allowance is made by law
for such, and for the further reason that we
are not in circumstances to labor for Others
without just remuneration for our services.
Furthermore, AS the full number ordered
by the House have been distributed amongst
its members, and but few, if any, having re-
fused to acceptof them on account of the
above mentioned error, and its want Of
proper dedication" and as the letter Of
the General is not rendered in the least less
interesting thereby--we are Of opinion that
they have received all they are justly entitled
to
Year: 1859

FERE.-A lot of lumber in process Of dry
ing, took FIRE on Monday evening last. BY
the exertions Of our citizens, the FIRE was
extinguished without doing much injury
Had it taken place later in the evening,
the result might have been serious, as the
kiln is situated in the vicinity Of two Of tie
most extensive mercantile establishments
in the place. The cause Of the fire was
sheer carelessness.
Year: 1859

nE-At some future time, VIC shall very
likely have something to say in reply to the
Herald's criticisms upon our comments to
tho letter Of General Harney. Neither
time nor space will permit review of it
this week.
Year: 1859

GENIUS AND LABOR Alexander Ham.
ilten once said to an intimate friend {:
Men give me some genius. All the ge.
MUS that l have lies just in this When
l have subject in hand, I study it pro.
fouudly. Day and night it is before me-
l explore it in all its bearings. My mind
becomes pervaded with it. Then the eff.
fort which make is what the people are
pleased to call the fruits Of genius. 1t is
the fruit Of labor and thought"


Mr.. Webster once replied to gentle.
man who pressed him to speak on sub.
jcct of great Importance: The subjec'
interests me deeply, but 1 have no time
There, SIR pointing to huge pile Of
letters on the table, is a pile of unan.
swered letters, which must reply before
the close Of the session, (which was then
three days off, l have not tine to mas
ter the subject so as to do it justice"


but, MIR. Webster, few words from
you would do SO much to awaken public
attention TO it."


If there be SO much weight in my
words as you represent, it is because l do
not allow myself to speak on any subject
till l have imbued my mind with it,"


Domosthenes was once urged to speak
on great anu sudden emergency. al
am not prepared" said he, and obstinately y
refused


The law Of labor is equally binding on
genius and mediocrity,
Year: 1859

ting their sides With laughter. Some
tried to reprimand Joe for this result !;
but he was SO simple and honest on the
occasion that all blame fell where it be.
longed, upon the man that brought the
suit. 1t was very easily proved that Joe
never owned live hoss,' and he was sent
about his business.


1t was small affair, perhaps, but it
made great noise and so hot and heavy
were the various remarks that came
showering Down upon Daniel Lober, that
in less than u mouth he was glad to sell
out and move,


Alter this, Uncle Joe's hens and geese
wandered about without fear of being shot;
but his old hoss' never was known to go
away except when it was upon its masters
shoulders.
Year: 1859

"A down east girl being bantered one
day by some of her female friends in re.
gard to her lover, who had the misfortune
to have but one leg. she replied to them
very smartly, Pooh I wouldn't have Il
man with two legs; they're to common p
Year: 1859

-" Union is not always strength" as
the sailor said when he saw the purser
mixing his rum with water.


Why is sheet of postuge.stamps
like distant relations because they are
but slightly connected


AS far as we are concerned we are
opposed to hanging.-Nero Bedford
.Stunddya.


Individually, most people are -
B SION Post.


- What is that T. asked teacher Of
little girl, pointing to the letter x
~ by, that's papa's name I've seen him
write it ever so many times"
Year: 1859

The curtness of Gas Companies officials to com.
planning or ignorant consumers is well understood.
While paying my last quarters bill the following
colloquy met my ear:


Indignant Consumer-My bill is larger than ever
before, and there must be some mistake. Please ex-
anime it again.


than you expected but you do not understand the
meter, and we insist upon full payment.


Consumer-How do you sell your gas-by long or
by short meter?


Bystander (also indignant at the size of bis quart
er's bill why, they charge you by long meter. and
when you complain they answer you in short meter.
Year: 1859

From the Sparta (Bienville Parish) Jeffersonian
Of the 7th inst. we clip the following:


The Minden Monitor is down on the reopeniDg the
rreparably affect the great Southern interest" The
editor has right to his opinion but if we wish to
fight the devil (he enemies of slavery,) successfully
we must fight him them) with fire. We do not wish 10
see the Democratic party-as party-advocate and
make it test of their true principles but for Gods
sake let not denounce all those who are in favor of
reopening the trade. We can tell the Monitor that
the slave trade will have to be opened in time, to pre-
vent the slaves from getting into the hands of few,
thereby forming monopoly. That minute you put
it out of the power of common farmers to purchase
negro man or woman to help him in his farm or his
wife in the house. you make him an abolitonist at
once. So long the slaves attainable by all in
dustrious men, the South has no frmer friend than
the nonslaveholders living in the South but put it
out Of their power to them by high prices, and,
as we have said, you make them enemies to slavery
and from present Indications that period is not far
distant.


We have never advocated re.opening of the Afri.
slave trade and do not expect that we ever SHALL
although we think philanthropy and christianity
alike sanction it yet we must say there is much in
the foregoing that should arrest the profound atten-
tioD of the saveholding portion of the community.
The number of shareholders is constantly decreasing,
while the price of negroes has risen to such figure
as to substantially put it out of the power of the
to become pecunisry interested in the insi.
tuition proftaby. This isolation, which is growing
greater every year, is, we fear, fraught with gny.
thing but promises of prosperous character.
Year: 1859

SHASTA december ZItn, 1905.


The following sketch of the chief features of
the second annual message of President Bucl-
anan, is from the Sacramento Union of this
morning. The entire message will not reach
this place before Wednesday evening.


The Message of the President is as long, while
in point of ability it will take rank with those
which preceded it. A larger portion. of the Mes
sage is occupied with the Kansas question than,
in our view, is profitable to the country; but
perhaps not more than might have been ex-
pected from the President under the circum-
stances.


President Buchanan declares that he looks
back upon his course in the Kansas difficulty
with more satisfaction than to any public action
of his long life. He repeats his anxious desire
that the question of slavery, connected with
Kansas, shall be settled, and deprecates its in
PRODUCTION again into Congress. He recon-
mends that she remain Territory until her
population numbers 93, ,420.
general Law, requiring all Territories to
contain population which would entitle them,
under the apportionment rule, to one member Of
Congress, is recommended.
Upon the Pacific Railroad, the message is
favorable, but not as positively as to meet the
public expectation in California. The people
were in hopes that the President would take
high grounds upon the question and make it
the leading feature of his message In this
1 they are disappointed. He refers to his mess
age of last year, in which he recommended it
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generally, as a military road, necessary to
the protection of the country.


He is a little more specific this year, as he
suggests that the work be undertaken by COM
panies chartered by States, and then let the
! Government of the United States assist with
land or money in consideration of having the
mails carried and troops and munitions of war
transported. But the recommendation is not
| of hearty character.


On the Tariff Question the President is spe-
| cifc and positive. In view of the necessity of
providing revenue for the Government, he ur-
gcs modification of the Tariff law, so as to se-
cure revenue adequate to the wants of the
Government He recommends specific over ad
valorem duties upon such articles as are
weighed and measured.


Recommends an increase of postage of from
, to cents.


i The reason for the course pursued in the
Mormon rebellion asegissn are given at length.
r Mysterious difficulty is anticipated from the
Paraguay difficulty.


i A direct appropriation is asked to assist In
negotiating for the acquisition of Cuba.
recommendation is made that the United
States take the Northern Mexican States under
its protection.


The fllibuster question is ignored On Mic.
aragua affairs he says we ask privileges on the
lsthmus over other nations
Year: 1859

ATTENTION LADIEs.-A Sewing Machine Com
pany ofNew York is manufacturing a new kind
of sewing machine, so small that lady can
take it with her wherever she goes to spend an
afternoon, and can chat and sew with it at the
same time as easily as with needle, and it
does work, it is said, quite as well as the ma
chimes costing FIVE or six times the sum asked
for this. Price ouly five dollars.
Year: 1859

GELD By THE SPeoSFUL.-Not longer ago than
last week, a Sierra county miner thought he
would prospect little place near log; so he
took table spoon and went feeling about and
taking up spoonfuls of dirt, which felt heavy
he looked, knew he was in "gold field" and
kept on digging till, in less than two days, he
had spooned out two hundred ounces Of gold,
worth, in dollars, three thousand and six hun
dred.-Dornievlie Democrat 18Th inst.
Year: 1859

Coop on AsrRoxoMY.-At Pine Grove, in this
county, recently, an amateur lecturer on the
above subject was questioning lis class on what
he had just been teaching them He had con-
structed kind of orrery, the lmore easily to
explain the various phenomena, ,land had pinned
ring or circle around the ball representing
Saturn. Pointing to this one he said to one Of
the young ladies present. Miss D., which
star does this one look like ~ 1t looks like me,
when | have my hoops on" replied she The
lecturer gave her up as gible.-Amadoy
Ledqer
Year: 1859

EGy Ladies who are the happy possessors of
small feet and pretty ankles will be delighted to
learn that the Empress of France and some of
her ladies have determined to inaugurate new
style of dresses short enough to display the foot
and ankle.
Year: 1859

nI At Longdon, Indiana, a fierce bull run
into a locomotive, and butted it and the entire
train of cars off the track. No lives lost He
was evidently not the sort of bull that the man
butted off the bridge.
Year: 1859

This writer seems to entertain the same opin-
ion of the waltz that Washington irving and
Byron 1.-THE old fog;es) did at one time, and his
felicity of description certainly loses nothing by
comparison with the efforts of the distinguished
poet and the eminent novelist.
Year: 1859

4 AGRICULTURAL. SUPERIORITY OF THE NORTH.


The facts which come under this head are
set forth in tables. which would occupy more
space than is at our disposal, but which de-
serve careful examination. They prove that
the boasted agricultural superiority of the
Year: 1859

This is little word of familiar sound, but
full of meaning. It is most suggestive, and
at times most startling. Most generally it is a
call to halt to stand STILL to desist, signal for
rest. But it has "a greater, wider meaning
this, when it rings out warning rebuke,
checking some wild career, some evil practice,
some vicious purpose. But at other times it is
as welcome as the sound of the wedding bell,
when the lover calls it to the maiden. of his
heart. When the schoolboy hears it summon
ing him from his weary task to the play ground.
When the labouring man catches its message
from the horn and for an hour drops his spade
in the furrow and his hammer upon the anvil.
Little children stop to pluck flowers, to chase
the butterfly by the wayside, to hear the robin
sing its sweetest song. This is a delightful
pause. The youth stops to gaze upon the
maiden that trips through rosy paths by his
side, to look upon the beauties of nature, and
contemplate the goodness and power of the
Infinite Creator of all the sights which fill his
soul with wonder and admiration. Manhood
stops to contemplate the past, and make plans
for the future. Butthere is place and time
when and where we must all stop. We shall
all, stop before that same, awful shadow, we
shall stop from all our madness, all our deprav-
ity, all our strifes, our contention enmities,
our ,waywardness, from all of earth and its van
tiles, uddenly, in moment, "When the sill
yer cord is loosened, when the golden bowl is
broken and the pitcher broken at the foun-
TAIN we shall all stop. We shall all stop
before the words of the great 'I Am" when he
says thus far shalt thou come and no further


Then we shall lay ourselves down and rest
from all the scenes of vanity and vexation.
All mankind in whatsoever situation they may
be placed look, Forward with shudder to the
dreadful stop of death. Then in the midst of
life, its busy scenes, its frivolitos, let us for
moment stop and consider if all our ways be
right, if we walk honestly and uprightly before
all men. Stop thy disobedience, Q young
man, the hand, o Gambler, thy tongue, o Bias
phemer, thy thirst for gold, o..Miser. Incalcu-
liable the.amount of wretchedness brought upon.
mankind by not minding this little word
stop! Yours, 2.as5 2GlR.5ti
Year: 1859

~ ttL GOsbttG dtNU SeCtGOnNE CUfUt0OfeS


The friends Of WILLIAM H. SEWARD and
SALMON p. CHASE respectively urge their
claims for the republican Presidential nomina-
tion on the ground that their sectionalism
makes them available in the North GA z =


It is somewhat remarkable that the friends
of Judge DoUGLAs-among whom are many
good men-advocate has nomination because
he is strong in the Republican States.


IF the object is simply to select candidate
by reason of his sectional availability, why not
nominate an unadulterated Abolitionist, such
as GIDDINGs or GARRISON?


Upon this great question of conceding to
the Southern States their full Constitutional
rights as, members of the Union, there is no
halfway house The. issue must be decided
upon broad principles of equity, and upon a
strict construction of the Constitution
Whatever the Democracy of few Northern
Republican States may do,8the Charleston
Convention will select candidate and shape
a platform with reference to the interests of
the WHOLE UNION; and when their work is
completed, it will be cordially ratified by the
united Democracy of the WHOLE COUNTRY
which embraces all sections.
Year: 1859

This question is triumphantly asked by the
organs of TIE opposition. They say, "you
hear no threats of disunion from Republicans;
the talk about dissolution all comes from the
South


Well, admit the statement to be true. Do
not good reasons exist for the fact? The Re
publicans treat the South conquered sec
ton Every sort of fierce and foul-mouthed
inyective is showered upon the people of the
Southern States. Republican newspapers are
clad in mourning because of the execution of
JOHN Brown, and because of his failure to
desolate the Slave States with fire and blood.
Feelings and sentiments of hatred are syste-
matically cultivated by the Republicans against
the People of the South, which, were they ut
tered by any People of Europe united to an
other only by the bonds of an ordinary com
mercial treaty, would inevitably result in war.


Many honest and intelligent people of the
South, believing that this Republican Aboli-
ton sentiment of hatred of their section is
more generally participated in by the masses
of the North than it really is, have proposed
dissolutionas preferable to the unconstitutional
and degrading terms which Brown -Republi-
eanism seeks to impose upon their section.
After having themselves flooded Congress- du-
ring the last ten years, with petitions pray
ing for dissolution of the Union, it does
not now become the opposition leaders to jecr
the Southern people for proposing this dreadful
alternative.


The position of the two sections can be IL
Illustrated by the case of a husband and wife;
who, after having lived happily together
number of years, the husband becomes jealous
and drunken, and SO maltreats and degrades
the woman that he compels her to apply for a
divorce. Does it become the brutalized hus-
band to reproach the deeply wronged wife for
seeking, under such circumstances, the only
redress left her: The sober Judgment of man
kind will espouse. the cause of the aggrieved
party. s.7s
Year: 1859

ska- Right in one thing becomes prelimina-
ry towards right in everything the transition is
not distant from the feeling which tells US that
we should do harm to no man, to that which
tells us to do good 70 all men. ode 81 Z