smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1868

last, whilst Scott Jordan was addressing
some two Or three hundred colored persons
at Raceland, Radical Of the free speech
order, was seen drawing pistol to shoot the
orator, but upon being discovered. a little
mild persuasion caused him to change his
mind and put his pistol in bis pocket. We
are glad 70 see that little reason, accompa.
MED by the proper kind Of argument will
have salutary effect upon the G7erbearing
tyranny of these Radical club leaders. Last
year they scared all the colored men into
their ranks. but just now colored men are
not so easily Observation-Disclosures Sentinel.


All Of the disposition to shoot for opin-
ions sake, which we see exhibited in the
southern part of Louisiana is by Radicals.
Even where they are in the minority they
threaten, and attempt to bully. and teach the
negroes to do 50. Warmoth calls for arms
" Let US have peace"
Year: 1868

Watkins spoke with great earncstness and to
the point. His speech was full Of good advice
to the men Of his color. 1t will be like good
seed sown on good ground. MIR. Tucker
was particularly severe on the hungry and
hypocritical carpet-baggers, and showed up
the whole race of vermin who have come
South to eat out the substance Of the people.
The torchlights. fags and transpareaces
we're all right, the audience paid good atten'


ton, and a goodly number of both co'ors


were in Abundance.
Year: 1868

Tho London papers report that the mau.
ufacture of tho new Atlantic telegraph,
which is to be Submerged between Brest
and New York, is making satisfactory pro
gresS. 1t IS to be laid from the Great
Eastern, which arrived ut Shoerness,
whence she will proceed with the cable
probably III the end Of next June After
leaving She Medway she will go to Brost to
finish coaling, and will thence start on the
telegraphic expedition.
Year: 1868

The New York Sun (RadlcaIJ has the
following editorial confession


It begins to look as if the Democrats would
carry New Jersey. The Jersey Republicans III
their alarm have been to the National COMMITTEE
for money. They have told them that tn 7u pot''S
has been drained to saUe the three great centrd
States and that they must go home and bleed
their millionaire candidate for Governor.
Year: 1868

The Alexandria Commercial Advertiser
of Friday says g One of the most butch
eriy murders we have had to record Tor a
long time took place on Thursday night
about a quarter of mile from Mount Jack
son, on the Manassas Gap railroad. John


Conner, an employe of the railroad COM
pany, was found at the place mentioned


with his head beat in. bis brains knocked
out, dirk stab opposite the heart, and a
portion of his person horribly mutilated.-
This atrocious deed has caused the greatest
excitement and horror in the community
where it was perpetrated and popular
rumor connects it with q report which was
current some two years ago that the de-
ceased had seduced and debauched young
woman of that neighborhood. Vengeance
for that deed is the only motive for the
murder which receives popular credence. "
Year: 1868

The talk about Thad Stevens new Impeachment
articles seems to have created hitch in The adjourn.
ment question. After their disastrous rout In the
late impeachment trial 1t would be presumed that


the last hope of the radicals had departed but II does
not so appear In reality. Many OF the extreme rad.
Gals talk Of taking recess for few months instead
OF adjourning, upon the grounds that Johnson
cannot be trusted They say that me President
may undertake wholesale distribution Of patronage
among the conservatives II his hands were united oy
the adjournment OF Congress. and that he might
undertake TO secure this end by appointing officers
VINO would serve at least until after the elections.
This seems TO be the latest bugbear and the radicals


wish to avoid such a disastrous state OF things by
holding q rod over the head OF the Executive In the
shape of recess. The indications at this time, how


ever, DO not show that this movement Is more than
In its incipiency and is opposed particularly by
laxge numbse Who have some donbta ahone eaels re.
Year: 1868

pleasant to consult physician for the relief Of
ese various delicate affections, and only upon the most
gent necessity will far sacrifice her great
st charm as to do this The sex win then thank for
scsg In their hands simple specifics which will be found
cacious relieving curing almost every Of those
foublesome complaints peculiar 70 the
Year: 1868

was haunted, or that something was wrong.
One night, after all had retired. the parents
not only distinctly heard steps upon the
stairs, but voices and noises upon the land
ing place above. Armed with a hore. pistol
that had done good service in pioneer times
the father left his bed and quietly approached
the foot of the stairs, where he found. resting
upon the lower step, n pair of boots. At
once he set'up the cry of Thieves robbers /!
murdern p that in a twinkling brought every
member of the house to the scene-except
his daughter


All hands then proceeded cautiously to
the yonng lady's room, and not being able to
arouse her, they broke open the door, Just
in time to see bootless man dive through
the window. The old gentleman rushed to
the opening, discharged his pistol, and the
man dropped to the ground. "Great heav.
ems you have killed my husbandr' ex.
claimed the daughter falling back and faint
ing upon the bed g Your husband |" cried
all in breath, and then rush of domestics
was made for the yard below.


The young man was found upon the ground
beneath the window, carried into the house.
and the old people frantic with grief and
fear, promised to receive him to their hearts
If he could only live. The doctors soon
arrived, and having dressed slight flesh
wound upon the arm, pronounced him in
no danger. lie has now recovered, and is
one of the happiest men within fifty miles of
Springfield.
Year: 1868

For many months young gentleman.
well known to the citizens of Springfield.
ILL.,. paid his attentions to young lady who
several degrees more elevated, socially, than
his own. The yonth. being of good personal
appearance, and, withal, an excellent con
versationalist, succeeded in gaining the
affections of the young lady to the extent
that nothing could satisfy except matrimony.
The Post Office for some time done its duty,
as Post Offices always do in such matters,
and many were the long and doubles tender
messages that passed between the loving
two, protected by the efficient care of their
dear uncle from the prying eyes of those who
would have given : something nicev to have
known what was going on.


The lady knew that her papa and mamma
would never consent to the union of two Low.
ing hearts, with her parents mine of wealth
laying between them, and so she readily
consented to the young mans proposition to
have the thing done up ION the sly - and
all unknown to the folks, while she was on a
visit to some of her relatives at Columbus.
her charmer called and the thing was done,
After a brief honeymoon in the Capital city
of Ohio she returned to her home, but her
husband did not return with her.


From the time of the daughters return
home the old people fancied they could hear
strange noises in the house. Steps were
often heard upon the stairs in the lone, still
hours of the night. Various articles of fur.
niture moved mysteriously about in the
room above, and the old gentleman and lady
finally came to the conclusion that the house
Year: 1868

THERE resides in this city an old gentle
man, merchant, who has an only daughter,
possessed of the highest attractions-moral
personal, and pecuniary. She was engaged
to young man as well off in worldly goods
as herself. They were all in all to each
other, and the day was fixed for their union
Some two weeks previous to the time appoint
ed for the wedding, the espoused attended a
soiree, at which a quarrel occurred between
them, in consequence of his paying more at.
tention than she thought .justifable to a
young lady with sparkling eyes and inimita
bic rlnglets. The gentleman retorted, and
spoke slightingly of a certain cousin, whose
waistcoat was the admir- alton of the assembly.
and which, it was limited darkly, had been
embroidered by the fair hand of the heiress
in question. He added, in conclusion, that
it would be time enough for him to be
schooled when they were married and that
he thought she had adopted a certain portion
of male attire "a little too soon." After
supper, both the lovers had become more
cool iced champagne and cold chicken had
done their work and leave was taken by
the bridegroom IN poSsee, in kindly and
affectiOnate, if not in such enthusiastic terms,
as had previously terminated their meetings
On the next morning, the swain thought
with some remorse on the angry feeling he
had exhibited, and on the cutting sarcasm
with which he had given it vent and as
part of the amende honorable, packed up with
great care magnificent satin dress, which
he had previously bespoken for his beloved,
and which had been sent home to him in the
interval, and transmitted it to the lady, with
a note to the following effect: Dearest


-: | have been unable to close my
eyes all night, in consequence of thinking OF
our foolish misunderstanding last evening.
PRAY. pardon me and, in token of your
forgiveness. deign to accept the accompany
ing dress, and wear it for the sake of your
affectionate -." Having written the
note, he gave it to boy to deliver. But, as
a pair of unmentionables wanted repairing
he sent them to the tailor by the same mes
senger. The inevitable contrefemps the
reader will at once anticipate. Yes, the boy
made fatal blunder he left the satin dress
with the tailor, and the note, together with
the dilapidated habiliment. at the residence
of the lady. Her Indignation was neither to
be described nor appeased. So exasperated
was she at what she considered a determined
but deliberate affront, that, when her admirer
called, she ordered the door to be closed in
his face, refused to listen to any explanation
and resoutely broke off the match. Before
many weeks had elapsed, means were found
to make her acquainted with the history OF
the Objectionable present but she neverthe
less, adhered firmly to her resolve, deeply
lamentiDg the misadyenture, but determined
to let the burden of the ridicule rest upon her
unlucky lover.
Year: 1868

FROM Mr.. THoMAs.-We have used Henley s
Royal Balsam in my family this winter. There is
no talking Ii throws everything in the shape
of Cough medicine in the shade that l ever saw.
My wife troubled with asthma or smothering
spells for years. and could get nothing to have any
effect until | struck this Royal Balsam" She is
now about. well. 1t cured me of the worst cold
l ever had in my life in one night. Whenever our
children have anything like a cough, few drops
given going to bed-that is the last of the
cough. l never intend to be without it in the
house.


B. THOMAS, the paper man.
Year: 1868

Challenges the world to produce anything in the
shape of Medicines that will remove aud eradicate
a Cough soreness in the Chest, prompt. no
matter what form the disease might assume. Hen
ley Royal Balsam" is the best Medicine in the
world for Bronchial Pumonory affections. For
Group Hopping Cough. there is nothing on
earth that can equal it. All motherers and Nurses
ought to have a bottle close by them, it will give
child relief in two minutes. 1t is entirely veg
etable, and will prove a blessing to the human
family.
Year: 1868

The HOMESTEAD AcT.-The Alta gives the
following synopsis of the Homestead Act.


The General Homestead Act provides that
no property shall be deemed homestead,
or be exempt from forced sale under execu
tion, unless a declaration that the land is
claimed as a homestead has been filed for
record and the Probate Law provides that
after the death of man leaving widow or
child, the Probate Court, 81 if there is no law
exempting property from execution" shall
set apart for the use of the heirs certain per.
sonal property and homestead There is a
statute exempting property from execution.
and as the General Homestead Act REQUIRES
the record ofa claim, ii has generally been
supposed that the Probate Court could not
set apart honesteads to the prejudice of debt.
ors but the Supreme Court decides that it can.
liza married man is living on piece of land he
can not have an exempt homestead there
without filing claim, but his widow is enti.
tied to one. This claim is subject TO anv
prior mortgage or lien but is not, subject to
any personal debt Of either wife or husband
Year: 1868

A WORTHY ACT ON THE PART OF Coll
oRED MANA colored man in Richmond Va.
John Dabney by name. purchased his freedom,
from his mistress just before the war for $4,000
agreeing to pay the amount by installments
During the tendency of the struggle he paid
about one half of it in Confederate currency.
which was at last SO deprecated in value that
his late mistress requested him to discontinue
the payments until the close of the conflict,
When slavery was abolished the debt was of
course, no longer due but, Notwithstanding he
was advised against such course, Dabney
lately transmitted to his old mistress, now in
INDECENT circumstances, s690 in greenbacks. be-
ing the balance of the $1,000 he had contracted
to pay.
Year: 1868

Hsa5 we learn that on the 9Th inst, Mat.
II. Carpenter, attorney for the Iowa Co.
bond holders, made motion in the u. S.
District Court to have an attachment is,
sued against the members of the Board of
Supervisorsro of Iowa County forthwith, to
show cause if any, why they had not
obeyed the order of said Court, in levying
a tax to liquidate the Indebtedness of said
county, which motion was sustained by
The court. This looks like business, and
warns our people that the issues on these
accursed bonds must be met fairly and
squarely. The County board are still
staving off the payment, and the bond
holders are as persistently pressing their


claims. The people whose money and
property is being used and is at stake, are
laying back in almost blissful ignorance Of
the merits of the case on either side. If a
fair and impartial statement of the case
was published and sent to the people at
large, the board might act with less than
half the responsibility, and less than a
quarter ofthe blame-if their course should
be unsucccssful-than they can by tn, 8
rushing ahead without asking the advice
of the people. at ar aosg 4au5
Year: 1868

Our new job press has arrived and is in
running order. 1t is the most perfect
press made, and we are now printing zen
times as fast as we were able to do before


We wish our friends and patrons to re-
member this, and crowd in their work, for
an increase of ten times our former capsci-
ty is considerable, and as the press has
cost us about $4,000, we do not want il
to lay idle much Of the time. We extend
a cordial invitation to all our friends to call
in and see the press in motion, for it is
one of the handsomest and most perfect
pieces of mechanism in existence. si5 I
Year: 1868

THE last ten days or two weeks
have been about as cold as we ever have it
in this latitude, and the stretch of cold
weather has been much longer than we
usually have, the thermometer standing
below zero most Of the time; often as much
as fifteen degrees. We now have very
decent covering of snow, and the sleighing
is generally good, which has the effect Of
making business quite lively.
Year: 1868

BD~ We trust that the arrival of our new
press and the extra work consequent there.
on, in connection with the issue of the
governors message, will be a sufficient
excuse for the barren and uninteresting
state of our local columns this week. We
have not had time to watch for local items.
Year: 1868

The Colorado Tribune says: Wehave
the very best authority for saying that
the representatives of the Denver Pacific
Railway & Telegraph Company, who
have been in the East for some time past
negotiating for the construction of that
road, have succeeded in perfecting ar
rangements that are satisfactory to them
and that the contract is now en- route to
Denver and only lacks the approval OF
the Directors of the Denver Pacific Rail
way & Telegraph Company TO become
binding.
Year: 1868

We have closed the book and laid il by,


And ever thus must its pages liei


We can not uneiasp the lids again,


Nor write its record with brighter pen.
All many the lines we would retrace-
And many the stains we would erase
But the time has fed from us away,
We cannot recall a single day.
Our lives have no backward paths TO tread
The words we utter are ne'er unsaid;
We never can dream the self-same dream,
Nor reverse the onward flowing stream.
Oh then let us each in meekness now
Before our Maker in heaven bow,
And pardon ask for every sin,
Which the closed book doth hold within.
And as another again we opo.


With las pure white pages full of hope,
May we look tn him and humbly pray
For strenih to &esp il as pure each day.
Year: 1868

Rich Autumn, with her golden store,
May count her treasures oer and er,
And saysuch wealth did ne'er before


The land betide;
And fruits and flowers and yellow sheaVes
Are gathered in. and withered leaves
Are all the Traveller 5 eye pelceiyes


In prospect wide
But give to me the sheltered room.
Where neither minds nor seasons gloom,
Can blight our joyous mental bloom


By our freside
How sweet to ramble through some book,
Or chat with friends in social nook.
With children round. on HON to look


With honest pride
And then TO have the meeting crowned
With some old ditty cordial sound,
o. sit and hear the tale go round,


Or aught beside
Which may the passing hour engage
OF life we'll con the varied page,
And hope for happy, good old age


By our treside.
Year: 1868

1t has become sort of popular
almost national-faith that tits not pos
Isible to be truly happy unless you
drink. Among certain elasses--and
they are by no means exclusively the
Ilowest-drink is the beginning and end
of everything. The very name Of
liquor SHIELD to be synonymous with


enjoyment, and the. dearer the liquor


the more it is priced and coveted. Yet
every man who is not downright
Idrunkard is well aware that the pleas


ures of drinking are, beyond a certain


point, moekery, a delusion and 4
snare. l put it to any one who has
stood half the night at a bar, or sat


half the night in club room, drinking,


smoking and bandying reckless talk, if
the enjoyment of such an evening has
been like that of few quiet hours
spent at home with book or newspa-
Ipers The evil influence of tavern pleas
ures on the health is too obvious to be
denied by any one, and the illusory
nature of the pleasures themselves
would be undeniable also, if the per-
sons who indulge in them did not de-
|ceiye themselves and put the truth out
of sight. .us'sli'sss5f Ha Eaa %


No one ever brought any good out
of a drinking bout yet. 1t is a short,
feyerish spasm of animal enjoyment


which leaves nothing behind but mo-
roseness regret, bad temper, self-re-
proach and headache. l should like
to ask you, sir if You say your prayers
when you come home in that state 2
No-you don't. You are ashamed to
say them. You postpone them until
you have purged yourself, your mind
and your lips by more sober and ration
al behavior Next night when you
pass the hours quietly at home with
book or friend, you feel that you have
had real enjoyment, and that the time
has passed pleasantly; that you have
learned something and that you have
not injure your health. You are not
ashamed to say your prayers, and you
get up the next morning with clear
head, a good appetite, and an increased
faculty for work and enjoyment of life.
-AH the Year 1round.
Year: 1868

PHYSICAL NEED OF SADBArn.-Mr.
Greeley, the Editor of the New York
Tribune, has given his testimony to
the Importance of the Sabbath to the
workman; "Without picking a quar-
rel with any mans theology, we con-
slider the weekly day of rest a most ben
eGcent institution, one that all who pro-
fess to regard and uphold the rights Of
labor should cherish. We are conf
dent that the great mass of mankind
would be neither better clad, fed nor
housed, if every day alike was given to
labor, than they are with every seventh
day set apart for other uses than those
of secular toll and care" While in
Europe, this common-sense observer
thus gave his impressions of a Partisan
Sabbath: II supect that labor gets no
more pay in the long run for seven
days work per week than it would for
six; and that morality suffers and phil
anthrophy is more lsnguid than it
would be if one day in each week was
generally welcomed as day of rest
and worship"
Year: 1868

We ask our cultivators, why is it that
all who come under the denomination
farmers should take 50 little interest in
agriculture? ~ u9as ts


Why should the noblest profession
on earth have SO many of its profess
ional friends and co-operators those who
rarely open a book, or read paper,
or study line of truth in the science
from which they draw their daily
breadf


No lawyer that would make himself
eminent, but feels the necessity of g
good library, and secures the opinion o.
all distinguished jurists, courts etc.
and he reads these opinions, and find.
ideas to guide him in his advancin Q
way.


No physician but seeks from the
practical labors of his fellow craft, and
from their written and printed opinions,
light and knowledge to guide him on his
way. M r.


No clergyman but what will pursue
the writings and discussions of all his
own sect, and even those that widely
differ from him, in order that he may
select the true and the false. l|


No manufacturer or mechanic but
what stores his mind with information
from the best books, and the journals
that treat of the science appertaining to
his own business. Is 1ta


But the noblest science, alas! for the
farmer, he thinks too often that as he
has ploughed from his boyhood, he un-
derstands all about farming, and books
and papers are but little use TO him.


How fatal to his success is this folly.
A lifetime spent in practical farming
only shows to the intelligent man that
he has just entered upon the threshold
of the great Temple Of Nature, and
according as he desires true knowledge,
so certain will BE- his success; but the
man that folds his arms, believing he
knows all, Heaven will withdraw the
light oftruth from him, and success can
never rest on his labors.-C California
Farmer.
Year: 1868

A gentleman living near Bowling
Green, Kentucky, reports that he ha'
two apple trees whose apples have nc
core or seeds. He attributes the pecu-
liarity to the fact that when quite young
the scions were bent over and the tops
thrust into the ground where they took
root. They were then cut in the middle
and allowed to grow wrong end up.
Year: 1868

To TAKE Fresh PAINT our OF CoAr.
Immediately a piece of cloth,
and rub with the wrong side Of it on
the paint spot. If no other cloth is al
hand, part of the inside of the coat
skirt will do. This simple application
will generally remove the paint when
quite fresh. Otherwise rub some 9TH
er on the spot with your finger.
Year: 1868

RASPBERRY CREAM.-Rub quart
of raspberries through sieve to take
out the seeds, and then mix it we'll with
some cream, and sweeten with sugar to
your taste. Put it in i bowl and froth
with a syllabub churn, taking off the
froth as it rises. When you have as
much froth as you want, put the rest Of
the cream into adeep glass bowl OF
dish, aud put the frothed cream on it,
rs high as it will stand.