smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1859

oE DOLLAR per Square for first and Fifty CENTS for each
subsequent insertion.


Advertisements published In both the Daily and Weekly win
added.


Taas'eat Advertisements must be paid for at tie time Of
Year: 1859

THE CURsE OF Our Decentralization
Buchanan is not given to the utterauco o
much truth, but the following paragraph, part
of speech recently delivered to the students
of the College in Raleigh, n c., is gospel


"The great curse Of our country - that
curse which has involved so many Of the
most promising young men Of the land in
ruin, which has made mothers miserable, and
which has made fathers feel disgraced by the
spectacle of their own ofspring--is the crime
of drunkenness, more deadly by far than the
postilence, than the yellow fever, than the
plague, and than all other calamitios that has
visited man. We bring upon ourselves 4
greater calamity than Heaven has brought
upon us, in any form or shape of misery
Everywhere you see the wrecks of this dread.
full vice scattered over the land. in the destruc-
ton of the finest prospects that ever were
presented by the youth of any country


I.V' If folly were a pain, there would be
groaning in every house.
Year: 1859

A GIRL MAcHISIsT-In her speech before
the womer's rights convention, Mrs. Dali. of
Boston, gas-s an account of young woman
who had become successful machinist.-
Her father was machinist in Delaware. and
she was very desirous to learn his business.
On being allowed to enter the shop, she
showed great ability, and made so rapid ad-
vance as to enable her ION the occasion of
her fathers death not many years after,) to
take charge of the business. Her younger
sisters and brothers have learned the trade
from her, and she is now a prosperous ma
chinist; keeping the business of her father.
and teaching it to her younger and depen-
dent brothers, and presenting living wit
ness of the wisdom of allowing girl perfect
freedom in the choice of an arocation.
Year: 1859

THE FORCE OF GUNPowDER.-The estimated
force of gunpowder, when exploded, is at
least fourteen thousand seven hundred and
fifty pounds upon every square inch of the
surface which confines it. The force of gun
powder depends upon the fact that, when
brought in contact with any ignitcd sub
stance, it explodes with great violence; a
vast quantity of gas, or elastic fluid, is
emitted, the sudden production of which, at
high temperature, is the cause of the vio-
lent effects which are produced. The reason
that gunpowder is manufactured in little
grains is, that it may explode more quickly,
by facilitating the passage of the fame among
the particles; in the form Of dust the parti-
cles would be too compact. The velocity of
balls impelled by gunpowder from musket,
with common charge has been estimated
at about sixteen hundred and fifty feet in a
second of time when first discharged; the
utmost velocity that can be given to can
non ball is two thousand feet per second. and
this is only at the moment of leaving the gun
In order to increase the velocity from sixteen
hundred and fifty to two thousand feet
one-half more powder is required and even
then, at long shot, no advantage is gained
since, at the distance of FIVE hundred Yards
the greatest velocity that can be obtained is
only twelve hundred or thirteen hundred feet
per second. Great charges of powder are
therefore not only useless, but dangerous for
while they give but little additional force to
the ball, they hazard the lives of many by
their liability to burst the gun. The veloc-
lty is greater with long than with short guns,
because the influence of the powder upon
the ball is longer continued.
Year: 1859

A letter was lately received at the Chicago
post office, directed ''To an Honest Man.
The chief clerk sent it to the dead letter de-
partment, with the candid confession that
the man addressed did not live in Chicago.
Year: 1859

cont That I Could DIE ON CHRISTMAS ~
A Catholic lady died in Weaverville, on the Eve
of New Year, who had been long bed-ridden, and
who. looking from the sanctuary of her faith.
saw Death coming slowly, slowly, but with equal
and unfatering step. In the long night watches
and at the uprising Of days heavy with pain,
the sufferer prayed 40 blessed Mother Of Christ,
let me die on Christmas ~ But in Heavens un-
searchable wisdom, the prayer was denied, and
the poor woman lived on, to expire with the old
year.


Hear the echo of her prayer, ye who doubt the
revelation on which the Heaven-exporing struc-
ture of the Christians faith is based Stand,
like her, face to face, eye to eye with the h'ng
of Terrors, imploriug the embrace of bis skele-
ton arms which would wbirl you away, like
blind dancer, into the shrouds of that illimitabie
night which arcbangels tremble to explore
Grasp her hand and feel it shiver as the " Wheel
is breaking at the cistern," and mark when the
soul exultantly leaps from the crumbing citadel,
and then. with your hand unreleased from the
grasp of the clay, tell US if death be an eternal
sleep?


Stately, and immeasurably strong is that tenn
pie which Faith builds beyond the grave All
through this life dream, as in the pairarchs Wis
ion, the sleeper bebods angels descending gold
en- ladders which lean against its resplendent
walls. and on its summit Cross, blazing with the
boiest sacrifice that ever bore its perfume to the
rresence Of the Eternal, spreads lis shelterlng
arms to the universe and lights the humblest pill
grim bewildering among the shadows of death.


It is beautiful tradition that on Christmas
day there is jubilee in Heaven ST. Peter weary
at bis watch, puts up his key and leaves the gates
aiar, and goes in to join the anthem of saliva
ton, sung by the mighty throng of saints and
angels. A messenger is sent out to stand at the
road leading to probationary publication, and to
direct the traveller TO the open gates OF Paradise
which be may pass unquestioned, and where the
Porter will put goodly rament upon him, shoes
on his feet, and in bis hand a charter OF ever
lasting life written with the blood of the Lamb
All through Heaven, millions of leagues beyond
the Throne, golden harps are resounding, and
from every arch and battlement Celestial trium-
piers are waving palms of victory, and shouting
to the slumberng dust OF earth" Now is Christ
risen from the dead The Heavens and the
Earths are full of his Glory !"
Year: 1859

THE JEWISH ABDUCTION CAsE.-There is great
excitement among the Jews of Europe and the
chief Atlantic cities of the United States, because
of the retention OF Hebrew child by Papal
authority at Rome:


"The child had been baptized by stealth when
an infant by its Catholic nurse On The strength
Of its admission to the church by the admnstra-
ton Of this rite the ecclcsiastics at Rome claimed
the right to prevent it from being brought mp
according 10 the Jewish faith, and therefore took
it from its parents and committed it to the charge
Of instructors to be reared in the Catholic creed.
The Pope refuses to give up the child to its pa
rents. The Jews of London are endeavoring to
induce their brethren throughout the world TO
CO operate with them in a demonstration to secure
the return Of the child to its parents. With this
view the London Committee of Delegates of
British Jews have addressed circular to each
Jewish congregation in Europe and the United
States, making statement of the case and re-
questing action"
Year: 1859

A SAN JUAN correspondent of the Sierra Dem
ocrat states that the local paper the Press, some
times omits to mention important circumstance
He then proceeds to relate what the Press intel
lgently related three months ago There is
hardly communsty in California where, at least,
thirteen persons might not be found who could
edit newspaper better than the person whose
duty it $50 they think and thinking SO harms
nobody.
Year: 1859

STATELY MARCH OF WORD AND COLUNN.-The
San Andreas Independent utters this magnificent
sentence


"Westward marches the undaunted Saxon col
nmn. with court house, church and schooI-house,
shining through the forest, where the track OF
Pawnee or Sioux is still fresh in the sand"


The foregoing is an instance where the stature
of phrase and idea corresponds with magnitude
of subject The sentence contains nothing of
polvsvllabic magnifcence, but the great idea of
irresistible power strides through the words with
the heavy footballs of giant. There are not
many who know how to apportion loftness OF
style to sublimity Of occasion. Many pretentious
writer's would follow in the orbit of comet with
the lubberly fub-dub Of a fat goose, and would
equall and cackle at the sharper wing that cuts
the air more swiftly above them.
Year: 1859

THE Weaveryile Lyceum meets every Satur-
day night at Justice Murphy's office. The sub
iect Of discussion this evening is" Resolved
that Miners claims should be taxed" We sup
pose that vigorous negative will be pronounced
This is a rational manner of dsposing of long
winter nights most Creditable to members.
Year: 1859

THE weather here, this week, has been intensely
cold. In the mornings every tree and bush is
white and bending with load of frost, and ice
formed in the shade at mid day. During eight
years residence in the mountains we have never
felt colder weather.
Year: 1859

ONWARD, forever, is the decree of Jehovah, the
law of our being. Another year has rolled into
the shoreless sea, and we are rushing onward to
plunge the fathomless gulf of the great unknown
that lies beyond this {" ghostly realm of graves"
Pacific Methodist.
Year: 1859

A YOUNG lady just graduated from an Ohio
college observed: al cannot deceive how the
young gentlemen can drink to such recess,
when they know it is so conjurious to their insti
tutions -
Year: 1859

DR.. EDWARD TRAsK.-We beg permission to
briefly acknowledge the kindness Of DR.. Edward
Trask, who, during anliction in our house, was
Instant in skillful and successful medical atten-
dance, for which he has generously refused any
pecuniary compensation assigning the very eX-
traordinary reason that editors are exempt from
physicians fees "a new rule OF practice, we
apprehend. Certainly, generosity equal, at the
usual rates of professional fee, to $500, deserves
most grateful mention. We know of no member
of the Faculty in this State more esteemed for
professional Skill unceasng attention to the SICK
and success in practce-none more liberal when
patients are poor We trust that this sincere and
grateful mention Of extraordinary kindness may
in some degree, benefit a worthy practitioner and
a gentleman universally esteemed in community


THE Mountain Messenger declines attempting to
prove that we " rehashed the ideas of other men
and sent them forth as original" Our friend


little exasperated, proceeds with some remarks
which be doesn't believe, and which we don't
want to reply to in kind. He has observed that
no one is reader to acknowledge another's desert
than we, and that in almost every such instance
our remarks have been acknowledged by reprint.
How inconsistent for the Messenger to say that the
Journal ais one Of the best wecklies in the
State" and then add that its censure or praise
bas but little forcer Pshaw, man! Smooth
down those bristles and continue to make as
good paper as your last, and we will not fail to
properly recognize your journalistic merit
Year: 1859


Fair is she whom love so we'll
Fairer than the daisies
Oh, never, never can sing


Aly love for her in praises.
/ would that were but flower,
Entwined in her tresses,
TO droop adown upon her brow,
And load it with caresses.
Her form is beautiful and fair,


Her smiles alike the morning,
Which breaks 80 bright upon our gaze,
a light of sudden dawning.
Her mouth is roscate and ripe,


Her hair is dark and cleaning
Alike the dew upon the leaves,


A sheen of silver seeming.
My Mary has n jet-black eye,


With happy lu~ire beaning
My daily and my nightly dreams


Are ever round her weaving.
lo:c ny Mary's gentle voice.


Her ways so kind and winning
! lore her better than all earth,


am sure it is no shining.
But still love my Mary more


For mind so pure ana stainless;
Heaven alone eau grasp the theme,
For the love of soul is namcless.
Year: 1859

WELL AND SPRiNG CLEANING.-As
spring is approaching, we earnestly advise
all persons who use well water aud spring
water, TO have both wells and springs
thoroughly cleaned out, and then washed
out in early May and also during Octo-
Der, as there is strong reason to believe
that the settings which have accumuIa
ted, including decayed vegetation, impart
their disease engendering qualities to the
water, and thus originate some Of the
most dangerous forms of low or typhoid
fever, at time Of the year when the
weather is so cool as to preclude the idea
OF their arising from vegetable decompos
iion. The stencil Of the debris at the bot
tom Of wells should induce all cIeanly
persons to expurgate the,u thoroughly,
aside from considerations Of health
Halls Journal of Healh.
Year: 1859

An jrshman, having accidentally bro
Ken pane in window of house in
Chestnut street, attempted, as fast as he
could, to get out of the way, but he was
followed and seized by the proprietor, who
exclaimed


You broke my window, fellow did
you not 2


TO be sure ] did an didn't you see
me running home for the money to pay
you for it T.
Year: 1859

pATIENcE.-'l remember says the cell
ebrated Wesley, hearing my father saw
to my mother, How could YOU have the
patience to tell that blockhead the same
thing twenty times ovcrT Why said
she, If had told him but nineteen times
| would have lost all my labor.
Year: 1859

A modern writer says: 1T NAV seem
strange, but it is a fact, that men general
ly are much more afraid of women than
women are Of men, Brown remarks that
the fact is not strange at all; for in both
cases the fear is proportioned to the dan
ger. Candid, but ungallant.
Year: 1859

The St. Joseph Gazette relates the fol-
lowing bit of romance


Among the many passengers arriving
every day. by the way of the Hannible
and st. Joseph Railroad, to seek their
homes in the gold mines, a young man
came few days ago, who manifested
great impatience and restlessness and
melancholy. Hetook lodgings at a quiet
house up town, and said he was going to
Cherry Creek with the next Salt Lake
mail-stage. which starts this morning.
Evening before last a youn lady came by
the cars and stopped at a hotel in one OF
our greatest thoroughfares. She inquir-
ed for Mr.. j. H., but the landlord could
give her no information respecting him.


Yesterday morning she took her place
at font window to observe the passers
BY, and had not been there long before
she struck the window forcibIy and cried
our in 50 loud and distressed tone as to
siartle everybody in the room. She ran
to the door calling John, dear John and
there met the restless, melancholy young
man, around whose neck she threw her
arms, and whose astoniShed face she kiss
ed most fervently, to the no small aston
ishment of the lockers on.


II tseems that she was rather coquette,
and had rejected John after giving him
reason to hope for acceptance that John
bad the next day, in fit of desperation,
set off for the gold mines, and that she in
distraction, had fled her home and pursued
to bring him back. She found him here
rs stated, and this morning they returned
together in the cars.
Year: 1859

that the toy tinsword of their childhood
must be succeeded by that of true Da
mascus steel, in the Battle of Life, a.
inevitably as the Primer by the Lexicon


that the levity Of boyhood can no more
appropriately pen, trate the noble dignity
of manhood, than childish lispings bah
Bile out amid eloquent strains; and thi,
what may seem graceful and beautiful in
the iurnings and festoonings of the young
twig or tree, become ugly deformities in
in the gnarled and twisted oak.


Young men and little boys, education
is no mere brilliant thing, revealing it.
self in bright sciniilations and erratic
flashes, and decorating only the surtace
of him it proposes to educate, but it is,
and should ecer be made a central soul
and substance, the food of our spiritual
nature, the arlerica blood of the Mtel-
lectual system, in forming every limb,
and quickening every muscle with life,
beauty and strength.
Year: 1859

That's tie Question.-It would be
very interesting question to consider how
fashionable the art of dancing would re-
main if all the little personal familiarities
it authorises between strangers Of tho
opposite sex We're abstracted from its
characteristics. The country girl once
nairefy said Of the polka, that the dane
ing was not much, but the hugging 10
heavenly" Take the sum total Of what
she termed heavenly" from the waltz
of any kind, and how many would care
to fatigue themselves with its incessant
whirl, and its cloud of spiral crinoline
in violent motion ? In short, is it the
exercise or the light fantastic that is
esteemed 50 delightful, or is it the indes-
cribable ct ceteras? That's the ques-
tion for debate at the next meeting Of
the Abstruse Society.
Year: 1859

| more OF the Kentucky Tragedy
The Evansville Qnd) Journal, of the


9th, has long narrative of the events
! which happened reeehily In Hawesvlle


ky. which ended in the shooting Of Lowe


1t says:


He came to the place some five or six
years ago, and connected himself by mar.
riage with one of the most respectable
families of the neighborhood, and attain.
ed respectable position as a merchant


He is acknowledged to have been up
right and faithful in all his business af-
fairs, and although apparently amiable
and courteous in his general bearing, he
has, from the beginning of his residence
in the town, been engaged in series of
most violent and outrageous broils, till
he had become the terror of the country,
and the peace of the community seemed
to demand that he should be expelled from
1t. His first act of violence was shoot
ing and dangerously wounding Il team
sler for whipping his cattle. AT trial
soon after, before justice at Lewisport,
he drew his pistol in the courtroom and
shot his opponent. A large button, on
which the ball glanced, saved, however,
the life of his intended victim. The af-
fair led to a series of other acts which
disturbed the neighborhood for some time
On another occasion, when attending a
trial, III a tit of rage he drew revolver
and fired several shots at man standing
in densely crowded court house; but,
as if by a miracle, only young lad was
injured, and he was shot in the leg. He
has been for years in perpetual feuds and
brolls with parties around him who would
not submit t, his imperious will, often
threatening violence, and in many in
stances shooting persons in the most reck-
less and wanton manner.


The immediate cause Of the lyncbing
was Loves going into the courthouse to
shoot the prosecuting attorney, (MaxwelD
in consequence of IA political quarrel
He had prepared a whole arsenal for the
loaded muskets in lot fronting the pub
lie square, on which he appeared with
five or six pistols under his arms, as ma
ny more in belt, and with his coat
pockets apparently loaded with revolvers
and bowie knives. The Evansville Jour
nal says:


The public fury appeared to have ex-
hauSted itself, and the people seemed
melancholy and sad over the death of AL
dick, who had been killed for assisting
Lowe ON the previous day but about
ten o'clock number of shots, in rapid
succession, were heard within the pre-
cincts of the prison. On rushing to the
Jail the citizens found the keys had been
forced from the jailor by two men, who
proceeded to loves cell, and in the pres
ence of another inmate of the cell, had
ridded his head and chest with balls;
the unhappy man lay corpse in pool
of blood upon the floor. The terrible
deed, Notwithstanding the excitement and
scenes of the previous day. sent thrill
of horror through the community. If he
had been shot down in the fight, his fate
would rot have excited much sympathy
or regret; but the assassination of help
less prisoner in his cell, after night of
reflection, wore too much the aspect of
deliberate and premeditated murder to
iud any sanction in public sentiment, as
odious and dangerous as the victim had
made himself.
Year: 1859

inches from the page, and the same when
in the school room. Such children arc
obliged to lean forward during music lessons
in very unseemly manner to distinguish
the notes; to obviate this, sliding book
stand should be attached to the piano, and
should be drawn forward when the child is
practicing. As, however, some musical in
struments will not admit of such an arrange
ment, spectacles Of low power may be-
worn at that time, and then only. and the
lessons should not exceed half an hour with.
out pause Of some minutes for the eyes
to rest.


lnsufliciency Of light in rooms where
children receive instruction, or where they
are taught mechanical work, is cause Of
nenr-sight, and occasionally Of even more
serious mischief. Care should therefore be
taken that parochal and infant school
rooms (Which to my knowledge are fre-
quently on the basement floor) should be
properly and sufficiently lighted.
Year: 1859

Children three years old and under free those three and
twelve old halprice all twelve of
full fare.


who the city and have residence
shment the line of the road procure tickets in packages
of twenty-five for their personal reduced rate the
Office Cnmp street.


Through tickets all principal cities North and East, be
obtained at the Ticket office Of the Company adjoining the Tee
graph Office under the ST. Charles Hotel The Depot
This Company and all the Railroad Companies constituting
the Great Southwestern Line between New Orleans and New
Company regular daily through Express between the
cities the Express business heretofore carried by
Railroad Company for its account is discontinued and all
Express will be carried by the Adams Express Inform
alton obtained this subject Of j. j. MCkEEyER
sc Camp


of the Railroad Company permitted receive
receipt for bank Specie ewery other express
They will be received by the Adams Express 9 Camp


BENTLEY d. HASELI.


Chief Engineer and Gen'l Supt,


T. S. WILLIAMS,
ok Mas ofT
Year: 1859

Passenger trains leave the Depot Of tho Company Of
Calope and Magnolia thirty minutes past
O'Clock in the morning and o'clock evening
arrive New Orleans thirty minutes o'clock
morning evening daily SUNDAYS
cluded


Fregh received the Depot fos of Caiope
forwarded by the regular freight trims which
New Orleans Canton.


Freight received after 3ocock p N. will by
the Of but by that of the second day
ceipt AT the depot.


All freight intended for transportation distinctly
ked with initials Of consgnes and place destination
freight will be received consigned established
stations the line of the road or its connections.


Blank railroad receipts for freight obtained tho
Company's Office, Camp street Mcssrs. Corson
strong by those who wish them.


The Company holds itself responsible for the
ton shipped by the road which be lost by fre from the


1t Is receipted for the line
notice congnees its arrival the depot city
Year: 1859

CHEAP FUEIrWIIILE THE PRESENT building is
" going forward the Station the price of COKE will be
continued the very low price of THIRTYFIYE CENTS
barrel
clean and pleasant fuel for house and superior
either wood or coal for cooking


this price it full 25 cent cheaper than the best coal


N, o. ]. TISDAI.E Treasurer.
New Orleans Gas Light Company Oct TO- 1859. oil If
Year: 1859

Any person sending club of twenty, Or over,
will be entitled to an extra copy. For club of
fifty, we will send The Daily Tribune one year


The SEMI-WEEKLY TRIBUNE is sent to clergymen
at 50 per annum.