smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1868

ciate with him. We~were now called to
dinner, and the General, in low tone,
requested that nothing on that subject
should be mentioned before the ladies.


The fact that so much pains had been
taken to secure preaching, by one who
after all professed to believe not one word
of the Bible, filled my mind with sad and
melancholy reflections. l never fully
understood the ground of the peculiar
respect he showed to me as minister OF
the Gospel, of which this was only one OF
many instances. l sometimes hoped that
notwithstanding his professed unbelef,
there might be some latent principle
which prompted him to these acts.


At length ageand disease confined him
to his bed A few days before his death
1 called at his residence. / found him in
extreme pain. As soon as he saw me he
extended his hand, saying, "My dear
parson, | am glad to see you. He al
ways addressed me by that unpleasant
but respectfully intended title. He went
on to state to me the intensity of his suf-
ferings, and his consciousness that his
days were about terminating. After re-
flecting a few moments upon his past life,
and his present opposition to all that
could afford consolation to soul on the
verge of eternity, I said to him, "Now,
my dear sir, no time is to be lost. You
are right in supposing that in few days
or hours you will leave the present world,
and then your soul will appear before the
God that gave it; and let me say to you
that you must have mercy through Jesus,
the Son of God, or you will be forever in
despair" 81 do not believe that Jesus
was the Son of God," said he. Here |
perceived that he had allusion to those in
situations, found in infdel writer's, which
cannot be named, respecting the nativity
of the Saviour. 81 will not argue with
you now," said 1. "I will only say to
you that the Bible IS true, and that you
must believe on the Lord Jesus or be for
ever lost. His blood alone cleanseth from
all sin. l entreat you to believe on him
without delay" Tears filled his eyes.
Il wish 1 could believe said he
"Shall l pray with your" "Do," said
he. 1 kneeled by his bedside. He held
firm hold of my hand. 1 tried to ask
for that mercy which saved the dying
thief. When l arose, and was leaving,
"How long, said he, "before you will
return?" "AbOut three days, said |.
"Then," said he, ''you will see me no
more" On my return l found he was
in his grave.


desire not my thoughts to dwell upon
the future of such persons. | have little
confidence in what is regarded as death
bed repentance. Sick. bed repentance
generally proves delusive if health returns
In the case now related, l cannot say
there was any sign of repentance. In
health and youth is the time to prepare
for the trying hour. x. y. =.
Year: 1868

Our sinful hearts cling to this world
consequently, for our eternal welfare,
God sends us trials to teach US to see the
vanity of earthly pleasures and folly, and
when our gourds are withered and blight
ed here, we are led by divine grace, to
fly to him for comfort and safety. When
all things appear to accord with our own
will and desires, we are apt to forget our
utter dependence upon God, to whom we
are indebted for all the blessings which
we are daily enjoying. In such situa-
tions we require often to be reminded by
trouble that this world is not our home.
Ifloving hearts were never lonely


If all they wish might always be;


Accepting what they look for only.


They might be glad, but not in Thee."
"We need as much the cross we bear,


AS air we breathe-as light We see;
1t draws us to Thy side in prayer,


1t binds us to our strength in Thee"
Year: 1868

Spotted Fawn got away with lead OF
two lengths, which was, however, reduced
by Clara before she reached the home
stretch, the fillies having been started at
tIse half mile pole. As they came up the
stretch Clara took the lead, but at the
stand they were head and head, The Spot
ted Fawn bursting her bellows in getting
there. Clara then left her and ran along
steadily under a pull to the end, winning
by couple of lengths in a canter in 2;462.
The following is the
Year: 1868

S Some Of the extremists who have
been SO industrious of late in anathe-
matizing the "rebels of Maryland" are
now preparing an indictment against
the State of Maryland, to be presented
as soon as Congress meets. They con-
tend thatithey will use this as another
argument why the State government of
Maryland should be examined into by
Congress, and they propose in this way


to revive the agitation Of this question.
Year: 1868

FREEZING THE BRAIN.-The diseoy-
cry that the brain of living animal
could be frozen and afterward could re-
cover was made by DR.. james Arnott,
who solidifed the brain Of a pigeon by
exposing it to q freezing mixture -
Here research stopped, because with an
ordinary freezing mixture it was not
possible to act on individual p; .rts of
the o-gan; but the Importance of the
discovery is not the less on that account
1t was marvellous revealing. Think
what it was Here was a living org: n
of mind, centre of power, of all guild
ing power, of all volition. It took in
every motion of the universe to which
it was exposed It took the light. and
form, and color BY the eye; it took in
sound by the ear; sensation and sub
stance by the touch odor by the nos
trils, and taste by the mouth it gave
out, in return or response, animal mo
ton, expression-all else that demon
strates a living animal without it the
animal was turned into mere vegeta-
BILE. And this organ, the very centre
and soul Of the organism, was, by mere
physical experiment., for a. time made
dead-all its powers ice bound And
this organ, again set free, received its
functions back again, and, as we know
now By further observation, its func-
lions unimpaired.a Surely this was the
discovery Of new world d.-Anaerican
Educational Monthly. sslJ5
Year: 1868

You desire peace and prosperity, so
that trade may be revived. our finan-
ces and currency become stable. and
commerce resume its natural chan
nels. Your Intelligence assures you
that these can best be attained by the
election of General GRANT He can
aud will command peace. The cleo
ton of SEYMOUR aud BLAIR will bo
the signal for civil war in the South,
and continuation of bitter party
strife in the North. Under the ad
ministration of GRANT, the South will
speedily resume its ante-war status
peace and prosperity, No class OF
men in tho whole, country are more
interested, in a business point of view,
in the election of GRANT than the
merchants of Evansville. Under his
peaceful administration the South will
pour into our city a trade, large aud
constantly increasing, safe and profit
able, because free from turmoil. un-
certainty and anarchy.
Year: 1868

tits clear to every Union man in
Vanderburgh County that the cleo
ton of GRANT will give peace TO the
country. But it vii do more. It
will secure protection to the perse-
cuted loyalists of the South. The
daily reports from that section of. tho
country show that there is now little
protection for those who were true 10
us during the war. Let us to-day
remove this disgrace from this boasted
land of Freedom Let US make every
section of the United States safe and
free to the humblest citizen. It can
souly be done through the election OF
GRANT and C0LFAx.
Year: 1868

The Statute of the State provides
the following punishment for oircu-
lating such fraudulent tickets as some
of the meaner class of the Democracy
propose to distribute to-day:


Sac. LYLE any. person shall
fraudulently cause or attempt to cause
any elector, at any election held per-
suant to law in this State. to vote for
n person different to the one he in
tended to vote for, such person shall
be fined not, less than ten nor more
than one hundred dollars.


Let Republicans be on the alert
to-day, and cause the arrest of the
FIRST person detected in circulating
fraudulent tickets.
Year: 1868

Republicans enter the contest TO-
day with the confidence OF victory
Turner Hall viii be open to night.
and the friends of GRANT and CoLPAx
are invited to assemble at that place
to hear the news from the city, the
county, and the nation. Arrange
ments will be made to have read from
the stage the election returns as fast
as they are received both from home
and from abroad by telegraph. 1t Is
ex peeted thai. the entire vote of the
city will be counted out by eight or
nine o'clock, and by ten o'clock we
ought to begin to hear something ol
the general result throughout the
country. - .hs
Year: 1868

The Republican Presidential Tick
cts for this County are printed with the
names of GRANT aad CoLFAx upon
them, but the persons TO be specially
voted for are the Electors. The Elec-
tors are thirtsen in number. two for the
State at large and eleven for the Dis
tricts. The whole number of thirteen
are to be voted for, go that there viii
be no scratching of tickets necessary.
Only be careful to see that the names
on your tickets correspond with those
printed in this mornings JOURNAL.
Year: 1868

For eight years past. Vanderburgh


County has. in the great national con-
tests, aspoken uniformly on the
side of truth, justice and loyalty.


Twice in that period did she give .
decided majority. for that noble patriot
and martyr, ABRAHAM LINCOLN. She
will not now turn back upon her
glorious record. Let every friend OF
Peace and Union work earnestly and
faithfully to day, and the majority for
GRANT win beseomplete and decided.
Year: 1868

Do you want Peace and Prosperity
at the South, so that you can have q
safe and profitable market in That re-
gion2 Go to the polls to-day and
vote for Ulysses s. GIANT. whose
administration alone can give it.
Year: 1868

How TO PREVENT WET FEET.
A writer in the Mechanics
Magazine, who says he has three
pairs of boots last him six years,
and thinks he will not require any
more for six years to come, tells
how he treats them: I put a
pound each of tallow and resin in a
pot on the fire; when melted and
mixed apply it hot on the boot
with a painters brush until neither
the sole nor the upper will soak
anv more. If it is desired that
the boots should Immediately take
polish, Dissolve on ounce Of wax
in a teaspoonful of turpentine and
lampblack. A day or two after
the boots have been treated with
the resin and tallow, rub over them
this wax and turpentine, but not
before the fire. Thus the exterior
will have a coat Of wax alone, and
shine like mirror:


TaIlow and grease become ran
cid and rot the stitching or leather;
but the resin gives it an autisep1ic
quality that preserves the whole" "
Year: 1868

he can knock up cabin on it, and
he is ready to stick the plow in
the ground, without going to the
great labor of building so much
fence, perhaps greater labor than
the building Of his cabin itself:
Let the people speak out for them
selves: nine out Of ten will favor
it, if it is once properly brought
before them. AS a general thing
they have never thought Of it, they
were born and grew up finding
fences around them, and have
never thought whether or not they
ought to continue to keep them.
Down with them now and forever.


S. Y. NJ.
Year: 1868

INFLUENCE OF HAPPY CHLDHooD.-
The memory of early happiness is a
treasure-house of sweet comforts and
consultations. It's pure, simple, earn
est Joys become wells to draw from
whenever we sit down in thirst and
weariness by the dusty highway of
life OF this one good the world can
never defraud us. The sunshine of
those days reaches across our little
stretch of life, and mingles its rays
with those that beam from the heaven
of our hope. The actual present OF
the adult life, and tho materials which
onter into 1t, are made up, more than
we generally suppose, ofreminiscence.
We ruminate like the kline. We Law
up in the receptacles of memory
abundance Of undigested material,
that we recall and appropriate to our
rcfreshmcnt and nourishment and
this process circumstance living
over again-grows upon us as we
grow into years, till at last it becomes
our all Exhausted power has no re,
source but TO dwell upon its old play
and its old achievements How sad
he is who can never go back to his
childhood without a shudder Who
can never recall a period when his
life was filled with sweet and simple
satisfaction
Year: 1868

WORDS TO WoMEN.-Gail Hamilton
gives the following motherly advice
"Be content to strive for nothing less
than all a woman may become. Cease
to think that pettiness, and frivolty,
and insipidity are feminine accom-.
plishments; cease TO think it a beau.
tiful, a graceful, womanly thing to
be a fool. Strengthen the mind by
study, and the body by exercise
Store your memory with facts, and
cultivate yourjudgment by reasoning.
Fit yourself for the place which you
select or accept. Be wife, mother,
teacher, nurse, what you will, but be
your best; and be always a woman
first; be always higher than your work.
Remember always that you must be
before you can DO. Scorn to contract
your powers to the narrow circle of
your personal contact, but compre.
bend with your interest, all that
touches welfare. Consider nothing
human as foreign you Makeh home
SO far as you have or can have power
IA centre ofcomiort indeed, but oflight,
of intelligence, of humanity as well,
and count the whole country your
home and the whole world your coun-
try. Disdain to affect or TO cherish
an ignorant innocence, but wear an
aggressive and all couquering purity.
Remember that the perfect is nobly
planned not only to warm and comfort
but to command. Learn to think
nobly, TO love noply, to live nobly,
and demand and enforce by your own
nobility, from all who seek your friend
ship or companionship, the same out
strcach for noble thought, and love
and life.
Year: 1868

The New Haven Register says the
"burying of the hatcheto by Gen.
Grant and Butler is denied. The re.
port arose merely from a casual re-
mark by the latter that he would like
to bury hatchet in the head of the
former, which is avery different thing
"when you come to look at it." or feel
il either.
Year: 1868

UCTIONEER. Will attend promptly to
n selling all kinds Of property mt Auction,
In any part of Cedar county. A list of his sales
will always be found Mt the TIProN ADvERTI-
can TX the day for their sale without seeing
Inn
Year: 1868

SAYDrowN, a village in the Isle OF
Wight, is an. instance of the results
which sanitary precautions can effect in
a sickly neighborhood. BY the enter
prise of an intelligent land proprietor,
in bringing about system Of thorough
drainage and pure water supply, it has
been transformed from a condition of
occasionally notorious unhealthfulness
to one in which ordinary spidemies are
unknown, and to death rate in the last
Eve years of only eleven in the thou
snnd.
Year: 1868

"This is a rough estimate. / made,
as l recollect, my estimate of $500 frem
a careful examination OF all data l had,
which are very considerable.


II do not believe that the Commercial
can produce Reports of Rebel Officers
that set Confederate force at 2l,000. /
have never seen them.


"These rough notes / make very
hastily, and fear illegibly-for ! am in
great haste.


Please look at my analysts of Sher-
man letter, cited by Commercial You
Will find it under the head of Commen.
taries on Battle of Shiloh.


respectfully, THOMAS JORDAN"


The Commercials articles in defense
of Gen. Grant were, almost from begin
ming to end, tissue of dishonest and
wriggling misrepresentation; but we
thought it of no importance to expose
them in detail. Whether that journal is
an honest controversialist is a question
not worth discussing at any length. We
selected an instance of gross and fagrant
Misrepresentation, confronting it with
decisive quotations from the documents
to which it appealed; and on the legal
maxim, fdlsus in uno, fdlsus in omnibus,
we felt that we we're dispensed from the
endless labor of further exposures. We
insert those suggested by Gen. Jordan,
because due to his credit as an author;
and in his own language, as best con-
sulting both brevity and authenticity.


If the Commercial wishes to earn
title to the gratitude and recognition of
General Grant, the expected President
it ought to be less industrious in pro-
ducing the impression that his reputa-
ton needs to have authorities garbled
and their contents misrepresented, to
maintain his fame at its present hight.
If the truth sufices to establish his
renown why do his psuegyrists have re-
course to its opposite


We suppose the Commercial will again
accuse us of appealing to rebel aathori-
ties. But Il would be difficult to find
any rebel writer less trustworthy than
itself. We believe, and have no doubt
all honest men believe, that the officers
who served on the Confederate side are
as truthful and have as high sense of
personal honor, as those who fought for
the Union. It was the Commercial
itself that frat appealed to rebel
authorities, and we Immediately con-
Victed it of an untruthful account
of what was contained in them. Their
credit for yeracity must therefore be at
least equal to its own. We made no
reference to Confederate documents
until the Commercial led the way but,
on the contrary, supported our criticisms,
step by step, 5y quotations from Mr..
Greeley's American Conflict" q book |
written long before General Grant was
thought of for President, and surely |
without any bias towards the rebel side.
Nothing could well be further from par
tisan depreciation than our first article.
Year: 1868

A CONTROVERSY has been going on
among practical as well as scientific men,
as to the transparency of molten metals,
since the announcement of the fact by
Professor Secchi. The manager of GER
tain steel works in England has, however,
recently stated that in pouring out molten
steel the edge of the crucible can be dis
tinctly seen through the flowing sheet of
steel
Year: 1868

A RESIDENT of Maine has invented and
applied for q patent for q continuance
which promises to do away with the
common buttonhole in collars, cuffs and
all articles of outside wear where the but
tonhole is used. 1t consists of small
and durable eye upon the stud or sleeve
button, and is secured by movable
swivel, which can be fastened or undone
instantly.
Year: 1868

st. Petersburg letter says "Much is said
about a visit to this city contemplated by the
Emperor of the French for the month of June.
The Duke de Leuchtenberg would go to meet
him at the frontier de Verjibolo. 1t has al
ready been settled that his Majesty should be
received at the Palace of Peterhof, and that
two days should be devoted to a visit to Mos
COW. There should be grand review of 1OO,-
900 men, and a sham naval fight before Cron
Year: 1868

THE SNEAK TATTLER.-The most
odious and disgusting mortal in human
form-when once you penetrate the hyp-
ocritical guise that covers the deformity
lis the sneak tattler. In this thing
which originates in the moral sweeping
of the universe, you will find inordinate
self esteem, meanest kind of jealousy
mine of vanity, malice enough to stock
regiment of Thugs, liliputian soul, and
a heart black as Erebus. In treachery q
Turk-in moral coarseness a cannibal in
humanity an Algerine; in selfishness
Shylock and in low cunningan Iago.-
The sneak tattler adroitly aad stealthily
commences his dirty work by first eau
tiously dropping here and there word of
inuendo in families he is allowed to visit,
and if he finds he is listened to, he then
proceeds step by step, more elaborately
and openly, to berate his victim, general
ly promising, by stating his deep regrets
that things are thus and so. and frequent
ly is loud in giving the assailed credit in
minor matters of little or no consequence
the more effectually to deceive aud
conceal his purpose-while he stabs him
in the most vital part, and always seeks to
cover his polluted tracks from betrayal un--
der the time-honored sanction OF private
confidence.
Year: 1868

betraying his Lord to help him and his CO.
disciples to little spending money!


They may be still more ready to believe
that with these Beechers money is the
"chief endo that the Rev. Henry breaches
to his Plymouth flock, and that the church
itself exists mainly for the splendid divi-
dends on its stock!" m D


Such filings at eminent divines and re-
spectacle churches in the North may do
little toward enlightening the public mind,
or leading it in the right direction; they
may do less still toward breaking down
the dividing wall Of prejudice between the
two sections, which is little harmful to the
North, but ineomparably a more serious
evil to the South than all the carpet-bag-
gers and negro voters on its soil. But as
ticklers on public sentiment, they may
pay-at least for time. 7"


The idea of the saintship of Judas is
scarcely original with the Rev. Charles,
the celebrated commentator, DR.. Adam
Clark (if we mistake not) having preceded
him in suggesting the possibility of the sal
vation of Judas, despite his Unprecedented
treason to his Master.


That scripture which says the Beechers
shall not attempt to make money, and the
one which denounces them, or other clergy
men, as "sinners above all others" if they
do make it, provided it is properly used),
have escaped our recollection. We can't
just now call them to mind. Those who
know the Beechers best will find it equally
difficult to cali to mind any fact to justify
the insinustion that they are worshipers Of
Mammon rather than worshipers of God,
while they may feel confidence, that if it
were proper to make public, what should
not generally be told to ones own left
hand, the Rev. Henry could easily show,
both for himself and his church, that his
and their aims and charities would not suf-
fer by comparison with those Of any chris
tian millionaire of the South.


Still, if it pays to hit the Beechers, pitch
in. They may survive it.
Year: 1868

Resolved. That ths Mayor be and he is hereby
1nthoEized 70 enter into contract before The city
principal and John Baker as security for the repair


Ing of the iron railing and sf the gates and pillars
Year: 1868

What arc the Radical Centra
Committee of Vinton county doing
with the thousand dollars said &c
have been sent them by the Bond.
holding Wilson,


Are they buying votes with the
thousand dollars.


Has any one the county Radical
ticket given any of the money tc
grocery keepers to get men drunk
and then induce them to vote for
them2


Where is the thousand dollars
any how r 'Ns'
Year: 1868

Consider.


Some mathematical genius has, by a
calculation, discovered that it would re-
quire FIVE thousand two hundred and eight
tons Of gold to pay the principal of the
Government bonds in coin. What do you
think OF this, laboring men, you who are
grosning under grinding taxation and
working like slaves to provide yOurselves g
and families with the nsoessaries Of life
This is the burthen which Is 10 bo laid
upon your CALLED shoulders in the event Of
continuance Of Radical rule. Think Of
the years Of privatiOn, toll and suffering
which Radical triumph this fall mus ct
cost youi Five thousand two hundcsd IN d
eight tons Of gold
Year: 1868

We are in favor Of paying the
National debt in just what it was
contracted in---greenbacks. The
bondholders have already drawn
gold enough out Of the poor people.
Go to the polls and vote TO mako
them swallow their own medicine.
Year: 1868

SRND Tax The PAPERa There Or,
many men who can not take tho papers,
and there ae thousands Of Democrat,
abie to take two three, four or Eve and
more. Let these Inter take The Demo.
cratic Enquirer, and direct ne who to send
it to. Nothing win do more gooL in this
campaign than the free and extensive cir
culAtion OF sound Democratic pewspspers


That will he worth more then all che
'peeches that all the stump speakers from
Naine to Texas get Of from now until the
election, II they kept at IL night and day,