smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1865

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Thirty-eight clerks In the Ordnance Bureau
Of the War Department were discharged yes
IsrdAy, on account Of the falling OF in the
business Of that bureau. A still further re-
duetion Of the clerical force Of that BursHu
will be made in few days.
Year: 1865

Major General AuouR has been directed.
BY tie Secretary Of War, to muster out and
discharge all volunteer soldiers whose tsrms
Of service expire on or before the Slst of the
present month.
Year: 1865

~ The Pella Blade says that per-
son who had laid down to sleep on the
railroad track near Ouumwa, the other
day, was suddenly awakened by being
run into by the train and thrown several
feet down an embankment. Train stop
ped and engineer went back. Found the
man who wasn't hurt much but was con-
cerned greatly about the back and skirt of
his coat which had entirely disappeared.
He will doubtless conclude henceforth to
find other resting places when he is sleepy.
Mapping on railroad track isn't bad in
itself, but to be walked up in tha, manner
is decidedly disagreeable.
Year: 1865

them When watch or purse is found on a
body for which reward has not been offered
they are, as rule, poclzeted and their late
owner put back into the river, that he may be
picked up by the police or some brother pro-
fessional. That the men following this loath-
some calling are callous, hard, and brutal is a
matter OF course that they should long for a
crop of well-dressed, richly appointed suicides
as eagerly as the sportsman does for a good
bag is not wonderful; and that they are as I'M
scrupulous in their dealings with the dead as
they are persevering in their efforts to capture
them may be taken as inevitable. The strange
and repugnant calling once known and real
lied, the character OF its professors may be
easily conceived. t.s9 sr1sst- ~ 81


= OF course, the Thames police take prompt
charge of all the bodies they see, but tile range
of their duties is wide, the number of boats
and men told off 10 prescribed number of
river comparatively small, and the result is a
not improbable opening for the lighterlnan,
who, half thief, half body-srateiier, turns his
attention and, ,devotes his nights to looking up
and down the river for corpses. A short time
back one of the best known Of these fellows
was seen about about 2 A. NJ, pulling stealth
ly in shore, with. what seemed in the dense
mist and darkness to be a passenger or fellow
laborer sitting in the stern. Something in the
uncOuth swinging to and fro of the latter ex-
cited the suspicion of the police-boat on duty,
land, fearing that a helpless drunkard had fall
EN- into evil hands, and would be robbed and
maltreated, the lighteman was hailed and. or
dered to pull to. 1twas then seen that the man
E supposed tobe drunk was dead The gear ordi-
narily used for towing the subjects from where
found to the nearest wharf in the same
parish was out OF order, and the lighterman
had in consequence colmly reared the corpse
up with its back to the rudder, and in such an


n


dead touched each time the former bent for
ward to his oar. Only astiff 'un, master, Pm


taking up to Rothcrhithe, was sulkily given in
reply to the question put; after the speaker
was permitted to pass on and deposit hts prey
and claim his reward in, due course"
Year: 1865

The twenty-five thousand militia of 1864 are
not included in this statement.


! call the attention of the Legislature to the
Report Of the Surveyor General, herewith pre-.
sented, and commend the suggestions made by
hat officer to your consideration.


This message is accompanied by full reports
of all the military departments. They exhibit
the large amount of service performed during
the past year, and contain full history of all
the military operations of the State. Many
valuable recommendations are made in them TO
promote the efficiency of volunteers, and the
comfort of the sick and wounded, which / COM
mend 10 your earnest and immediate attention.
II affords me great satisfaction to bear my tes-
timony to the ability, diligence and fidelity of
all the officers of these several departments


Before closing this message desire to advert
to the delay which has sometimes occurred IN
the passage of the general appropriation bill
1t is necessary that this bill should become law.
as otherwise the action of government would
be stopped. To delay ifs presentation to the
Executive as was done at the last regular session.,
till a late hour of the night before the morning
fixed for the 6nal adjournment, is to deprive the
people of their right to have all acts submitted
TO the revision of the Legislature before becom-
ING laws, in case the Executive should not ap-s
prove them. If there had been lime, should
probably have returned the appropriation bill
Of last year for such revision, as when 1 had
the opportunity of deliberately examining It,
I found provisions which / could not have ap-'
proved but that opportunity was denied me be-
fore the bill had become law, and, in fact, as
the Legislature was on the point of ediourn>
ment, the only question presented to me was
whether that bill should become a law without
| amedment or the necessities of the government
remain unprevided for, i gls
| The gailaniry of our soldiers in the feif stili
| sheds lustre on the Commonwealth, and that their
merit is appreciated by a generous people Is
shown by the continued and cheerful liberniity
with which the msn and women Of the State
contribute Of their msans for their comfort and


welfare. May the blessing of God be on those


brave men who have stood by the country


through the dark hours of her trial.
....-t. A.sG. CURTIN.
! Esecuars Caamsr. Harrisburg. Jan. 4. 1864,
Year: 1865

GEN. BvTLER.-Our readers Of 20 years aud
over in age, know that the Albany Journal ia
the Republican or Anti. Democratic State organ
Of New York. In referring to the General
whose uncalled.for brutality at the South has
Teen the theme Of almost universal execration,
the Journal says:


A word Of advice to those who have under.
taken the defense Of this fallen proclamation.
list and speech maker Gen. Butler. In an un.
measured advocacy Of his cause and abuse Of
those with whom he has come in contart. you
are subjecting yourselves to the probabli lity Of
very disagreeable reflections in future. The
history Of Buffers connection with the army is
yet to be written, and by some other hand than
that OF freed biographer. who will be willing
to confess that his materials were arranged in
the house and under the eye Of his subject
And when the true history does appear. an i'm
pregnable array Of facts viii coniute and dis
pose Of all your special pleading. You cannot
reanimate your overthrown demigod. He is
officially deceased Not only is he dead, but
like that Lazarus Of Bethany, Of whom the
Jews spoke. he is worse. At least, if you
cannot withhold eulogiums from him. no not
seek, ghou like and heartless 70 restore his
sunken fortunes by invading the sanctity Of the
murdered presidsntS tomb.
Year: 1865

ELoQuENcE.-S Somebody has been saying
or writing paragraph Of great beauty
From the raps the radicals are giving the
President about these days, it is not i'm.
probable that ANDY believes in the senti.
ments and policy here embodied


"There may be fascination in the gory
msgni6cence Of war. There may be crav.
ing for martial glories in the hearts Of men,,
and an instinct of contention which We
share in common with the brute creation.
But if ever thsre can be time when 3
more Christian impulse should possess our
souls. it is now; now, when triumph aud
consciousness Of strength give us the no.
BILE privilege Of extending the hand Of COZ.
citation without fear or degradation, or Of
self reproach for cowsrdice. If adversely
has been our excuse for sternness, let sue
cess be our plea for magnanimity. Pro-
vidence has placed within the reach Of the
North greater triumph than countless
legions could conquer; the triumph Of sub.
DUNG brave enemy with generous and
merciful Lolicy, that will disarm resent.
ment and rekindle the old brotherly fame
that perhaps is not yet totally extinct. For,
after all, they are our brothers, and some
softening Of the stern Roman rigor which
our rulers have assumed is due to that
brotherhood, which. by untimely severity,
may be cancelled now forever"
Year: 1865

In late No. of the Boscobel Broad Are we
fnd the following singular way Of getting
killed:


SAD AcclDENr.-Mr. Dean, one Of our old.
est citizens, an aged man, was enjoying ride
on hand car, last Thursday, sitting on tho
front Of the car with his feet hanging over,
when the Car passed over q large snake on the
track he drew up his feet in order to escape
from the snake, and in doing so, raised himself
up, when the lever struck him on the breast
and shoulder. infictins a severe injury, from
which he died on Saturday.
Year: 1865

The laws Of fashion are ineXorabe as the
laws of Moses. An exchange gives the fol-
lowing views of the matter


Fashion kills more women than toll and
| sorrow. Obedience to Fashion is a trans
| gression to the laws of woman's nature, and
greater injury to her physical and mental
constitution than the hardships of poverty
and glect. The slave woman will live and
grow old. and see two or three generations
of her mistress fade and pass away. The
kitchen maid is hearty and strong, when her
lady has to be nursed like sick baby. 1t is
melancholy truth that pampered women
are almost worthless fir all the general ends
human of life, They have but little force of
human character: they have still less of
moral will, and quite as little physical energy
they live for no great purpose through life /;
they accomplish no worthy ones. They dress
nobody they feed nobody they instruct no.
body; they bless nobody, and they save no
body. They write no books; they set no
rich example of virtue and woman life. If
they rear children, servants and nurses do
ell save to conceive and give them birth 4; and
when reared what are they? What do they
ever amount 20, but weaker scions Of the
stock Who eyer heard of fashionable
woman's child exhibiting any virtue of pow
er of mind for which it became eminent p
Read the biographies of our great and good
men and women Not one of them had a
fashionable mother. They nearly all sprung
from strong minded momen, who had about
as much to do with fashion as the changing
clouds.
Year: 1865


SINGULAR FAcTs.-The human eye a'ways
attempts to supply the complement of color
Thus, if the eye rests for any time on any.
one color, say green which is composed Of
blue and yel!ow-on shutting the eyes
faint repetition ef the object will be seen in
red which is the third of the primary colors
and complimentary to the other two.


The laws Of acoustics are hitherto but
little known, but it would seem that SINH
lar effect is produced, two notes of the major
triad when struck calling forth Ia faint i'm
preston on the ear Of other notes being sup
piled. 1t is a curious fact, and one which
quite upholds this law, that on striking any
chord on the piano forte, all the strings of
the same chord throughout the instrument
which are in unison with the notes struck,
are in vibration, while the other notes are not
agitated. This can be ocularly demonstrat-
ed by placing on these strings little saddles
of paper, which will be seen to vibrate vio-
lently, while when placed on other strings
which are foreign to the card they rest uudisi
turbed.
Year: 1865

never undertook but once, said Tim to
set at naught the authority Of my wife
You know her way-cool, quiet but deter
mined as eYer grew. just after we were
married, and all was nice and cosy she got me
into the habit of doing the chnrning. She
finished breakfast rather before before me
one morning and slipping away from the ia


BILE, she filled the churn with cream,


and set it down where I conldn't
help seeing what was wanted. So
[ took hold readily enough ard churncd till
the butter came. She didn't thank me but
looked so nice and sweet about it that I felt
well paid.


Well, when the next churnng day came
along she did the same thing, and 1 followed
suit, and fetched the butter. Again and
again it was done just SO, and was regularly
set for it every time. Not a word said, you
know of course. Well, by and by this began
to be rather iTksome ; l wanted her just to
ask me, but she never did, and 1 wouldn't
say anything abont it to save my life So on
we went. At last | made a resolve that I
would not Churn another time until she ask
ed me- Churning day came, and when my
breakfast she always got nice breakfasts
when that was swallowed, there stood the
churn. l got W and standing for few min,
uteS just to give her chance, put on my
hat and walked out Of doors. stopped in
the yard to give her time to call me, but ney-
er word said she, and SO with raIDitatiDg
heart moved on. Invent down town, aDd
my foot was as restless as Noah's dove,
felt as if had done wrong did not know
bat there was an indesccibabe scnsa ton of
guilt resting on me al the forenoon.


tseemed as ifdiaaer time would never
come, and as for going home ore minute be
fore dinner, | would IS soon cut my ears of.
So went fretting and moping around town
TIL dinner hour came. Home [ went, feeling
very much as criminal must when the jury
is out having in their hands his destiny-life
or death. ! could not make up ny mind
exactly how she would meet me, but some
kind of storm expected. VIII you believe
it-she even greeted me with smile-HcYer
had better dinner for me than on that day
but there stood the chuTn where I left it.
Not word was said; / felt confoundedIy
cut, and every mou.hfuI of that dinner fclt
as # it would choke me. She didn't pay any
regard to it, however. br:weni on just exact.
ly if nothing had happened. Before din
ner was over, had rgain resolved, and ahov-
ing, back my char,nI marched to the churn
and went at it, just in the old way. Splash.
Dip, rattle-I kept it up. As If in spite, the
butter was never SO longin coming, supscs.
ed the cream standing so long had got warm
and so redonbled M efforts.


Obstinate matter, the afternoon wore away
while was churnihg paused at last from
real eXertlon, when she spoke for the first
time. "Come, Tom, my dear, you have rat
tied that buttermiIz long enough--lf it is
for fun you are going it," | knew how it
was in flash. She had brought the butter
in the fore noon and had left the buttermilk
in for me to exercise with. I never set I'D
for myself in household matters after that.
Year: 1865

That is So.-Some music teacher once
wrote that the ''art of playing on the violin
requires the incest perception and the most
sensibility ofany art in the known world."-
Upon which an editor comments in the fol~
lowing manner "The art of publishing
newspaper and making it pay, and at the
same tlme have it please everybody, bssts
fiddling higher than kite
Year: 1865

The great trial of Opdyke, late Republican
Mayor of New York, against Thurlow Weed
for libel, was concluded last week-Weed
virtually gaining the suit, though the jury
were unable to agree, and were discharged,
the majority being for acquittal and the mi
nority willing to compromise on six cents
damages.
Year: 1865

III An Irish auctioneer, putting up
pair Of jet ear rings to a very respectable
company of ladies, said that they were ''just
the sort of article he himself would purchase
for his wife were she widow"
Year: 1865

INFORMATION WANTED An inquisitive
youth asked US for information in regard to
the process of healing the back bone of the
oon'ederacy, used by the rebels. We Of
course declined answering and referred him
to some practical surgeon.
Year: 1865

This woman wilt thou have,
And cherish her for life;
Wilt love and comfort her,
And seek no other wife,


HE,
This woman will take,
That stands beside me now;
I'll find her board and clothes,
And have no other frow.


MINISTER.
And for your husband will
You take this nice young man;
Obey his lightest wish
And love him all you CAM
I'll love him all / can,
Obey him all | choose;
IF when | ask for funds
He never does refuse.


MINISTER.
Then you are man and wife,
And happy may you be;
AS many be your years
AS dollars in my fee.
Year: 1865

In drinking cellar on Chestnut street,
above Twelfth, the other night a terrier
started rat The rat dashed out of the
door, up the steps to the street, and then
straight across. A lady was walking up
She was Just in front of the Chestnut street
theatre when the rat ran up the steps of the
cellar on the opposite side of the street. The
rat was running for his life; the dog lin pur-
suit of him was running for good dinner
The rat, when about a dozen lengths ahead,
sprang upon the lady's dress, ran up under
her cloak and nestled close under her
sleeve. The lady shrieked with horror and
dismay. So piercing was her cry that n
gentleman ran hurriedly to her relief She
pointed to her arm, said "a rat in my
sleeveP and again gave utterance to a
piercing shrek The gentleman boldly
grasped the protuberance, and made a vigor-
Gus squeeze. A better squeeze was never
yet made upon lemon by a first class bar
tender. The rat bit through the intervening
clothing into the gentleman's hand with a
painful bicuspidal incision. The grip upon
the beast however, was too vigorous. His
life was crushed out he dropped to the
ground, and the lady, sick, faint, unutterably,
Mortified, declining any further assistance,
wended her wBy Philadelphia
North American
Year: 1865

OIL splash that duck all overl I'll make
it as wet as a sponge in the water! I'll soon
take the out all the shine from its green and
glittering neckl"


So cried little Guy, as with both hands he
flung water at the beautiful bird But calm
Iy the duck swan on its rich plumage was
dry, not drop wouldrest upon it; and bright
as ever in the sunlight shone its green and
glittering neck.


'I shall pelt it with water from my squirt!
cried Guy; Tshall certainly wet it at last.
and make its feathers like those of the dead
pigeon which Itound yesterday in the brook. "


Yet calmly the duck swan on; its rich
plumage was dry, not drop would rest upon
it; and bright as ever in the sunlight, shone
its green and glittering neck.


Why was the duck never wet, though the
boy, in his malice, threw so much water upon
it? Because nature has given it oil on its
feathers that throws off the moisture at once.
Even when the bird dives in the stream, it
rises unwetted and unstainedl


When we are pelted with SCOTS and words
of unkindness let the oil Of patience keep our
temper unrufled, and then they have no
more real power to harm us than water TO
iniure a duck. There are those who laugh
and mock at others, for refusing to join them
in evil. Are not such acting the part Of
Guy? Let all who are laughed at for doing
good, good, 60 steadily on their way; shame
cannot rest on them, nor dim the brightness
Of character that viii shine but the more
clearly for such vain attempts to blot it
Year: 1865

Ioathsome head and saw its bright deadly
eye watching for the least sign of life in
its prey.


Now, then, the reptile lOosened its fold
on my arm hair breadth, and now a lit
tie more, until half an inch Ofspace sep
arated my arm and its mottled skin.
could have whipped out my hand, but
dared not to take the risk. Atoms of
time dragged themselves into ages, and a
minute seemed eternity itself. The sec
ond fold was removed entirely, and the
next one was easing. Should I dash
away now or wait a more favorable mo-
ment? I decided upon the former, and
with lightning speed I bounded away TO-
ward Grant, the crack of whose piece I
heard at the same instant. For the first
time in my life I was thoroughly over
come. and sinking down, remained in a
semi-conscious state for several minutes.


When I fully recovered, Grant and the
overioyed negroes held me up, and point
ed out the boa, who was still writhing in
his death agOnies. I shuddered as I
looked upon the effects of his tremendous
dying strength. For yards around where
he lay, grass, brushes and saplings, and
in fact everything except the more fully
grown trees, were cut clean of, as though
they had been trimmed with an immense
scythe. This monster, when measured,
was ffty-one feet, two inches and hall
in extreme length, while round the thick
est part Of the body its girth was nearly
three feet, thus proving, believe, to be
the largest serpent that was ever authen-
tically heard Of
Year: 1865

o, WHY SHOULD THE SPIRIT OF MORTAL


BE PROUD?
10, why should the spirit of mortal be proud
Like a swift, fleeing meteor, a fast-hying cloud,
fash of the lightning, break of the wave,
He passcth from life to his rest in the grave.
The leaves Of the oak and the willow shall fade,
Be scattered around aud together be laid,
And the young and the old, and the low and the


high


Shall moulder to dust and together shall lie.
The infant a mother attended and loved;
The mother hatinfant's affeation who proved;
The husband that mother and infant who blessed,
Each, all, are away to their dwellings Of Rest.
The hand of the king that the sceptre hath borne;
The brow of the priest that the mitre hath worn;
The eye ofthe sage and the heart Of the brave,
Are hidden and lost in the depths Of the grave.
The peasant, whose lot was to sow and to reap
The hcrdsman, who climbed with his goats up


the steep;


The beggar, who wandered in search Of his
bread,


Have faded away like the grass that We tread.
So the multitude goes, like the flower or the
weed
| That withers away to let others succeed;
| So the multitude comes, even those we behold
/ To repeat every tale that has often been told.
For we are the same our fathers have been;
We are the same sights our fathers have seen
We drink the same stream and view the same
sun,


And run the same course our fathers have run.
The thoughts we are thinking our fathers would


think;


From the death we are shrinking our father:


would shrink;
To the life we arc cIinging they also would cling
But it speeds for Us all, like bird on the wing
They loved, butthe story we cannot unfold;
They scorned, but the heart of the naughty f


cold,


They grieved, but no wall from their slumbel


will come;


ThcyjOyod, but the tongue of their gladness is


dumb.


They died, aye they died; We things that ar,
now,


That walk on the turf that lies over their brow
And make in their dwellings transient abode,
Meet the things that they met on their pilgrimag
| road.


Yes hope and despondency, pleasure and pain
We mingle together in sunshine and rain;
And the smile and the tear, the song and tn


dirge,
Still follow each other, like surge upon surge.
From the blossom Of health to the paleness G


e death 90
From the gilded saloon to the bier and tn


shrOud-


o, why should the spirit of mortal be proud?
Year: 1865

cess by which they are manufactured is some
thing ike this: take common hens egg and
lay the letters on in wax, then place the egg
in acid or some substance which eats the
shell away from the wax, after which the
wax is removed and very nice raised letter
remains. It appears that Mr.. Murphy him
self had never been initiated into the secret
of the matter, some one having placed the
egg the nest unknown to him--Fan Vert
(O) Bulletin.