smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1869

A little domestic story comes from
Paris. Madame de BIS husband was
away on official duty in Algeria, when,
she, to consummate n liaison with a
youth of 80, proclaimed his death
mourned three weeks and then larried
the lover. But suddenly N. B--return-
ed, was kindly received by his wife, and
murdered on the staircase by a hired
ruffian. How to dispose of the body
Husband No. 3 would take 1t to the river
in sack; he did so, toppled it over the
bridge aud found himself dragged after
it into the water and drowned. Mad
am B had deftly sewn the sack to
his coat. He told no tales and she went
travelling the next day with another
friend.
Year: 1869


Editors Of the Register:


We the people of Wetzel county have
been organizing vigilant committees for
the purpose Of eradicating the robbers
who mfrSt our county. These villains
proved TO us satisiacto that they in
tend to continue numbering and robbing
the citizens Of this county. We have
determined, by the help of God, to put
an end to these outrageS. 1t appears
from all the circumstance and move
ments that they have become regularly
organized with the intention of murder
inc and robbing in general. We con-
tend that we act in self-defcnse when
We put down these scoundrels by some
means or otker. We have suffered this
thing to go too far already. The Sheriff
has refused collecting the taxes until
something is done with these rascals.
We have no doubt but what this has
been the cause of discouraging citizens
in the State of Ohio and elsewhere from
moving into this county. If 1t IS the
case, we invite them to come on aud
settle for we are resolved to put an end
to this robbery Immediately.


WETZEL.
Year: 1869

The following personal" advertise
appears in New York paper: Should
this notice meet the eye of any person
who has recently been bereayed by
stock speculations, and is tainted with
pugilistic ability, who feels that his life
is nothing to him and is willing to scalp
any one, in hopes ofretrieving his losses,
and if necessary enter the prize ring Gas
has been done as last resort to raise
the wind he will learn something to
his advantage by addressing j. Mace"
1t seems to mean Morrissey.
Year: 1869

Without any special complaint, except a grad.
ual declination of bodily strength and nervous
erergy, viii find in the TONIC \ FOUNTAIN
OF VITALITY ANDEYIG0R AS RE-
A POOL IN The DESERT TO TIE SAND
SCORCuED AND PAINTING TRAVELLER
Year: 1869

The Editors Thanksgiving editorial is almost as much of an institution as the Pastor's sermon, or the Governors procla- nation. The excellent examples of our Governor and President warn us, howev- CT, to be brief, even if the sovreign Ameri- can with good dinner before him could be long detained by anything we could say. Our National occasions for thanks giving are sufficiently plentiful. Restored peace and renewed plenty have returned to large portion of our country from which they were long strangers. The nec- essaries of life are again becoming so cheap and abundant that America is once more a Poor Mans Paradise. For few years past the animosities of war had been kept alive by social revolution and political heats. Now, at last, things seem to indicate Q season of repose, and public interest mainly centsrs in the re. form of corruptions, extravagances and abuses, which passed unnoticed as long as issues of vital and immediate importance were at stake. J5'

 But while we have so much for which to be thankful in the past, our present and future presses hard upon us. Progress, whether for the nation or the individual, is hard work; and it is usually slow work. Being in the van of the Worlds progress makes our work harder and slower still, for Example has cut no steps to assist our Y ascent; but such are our natural advanta ges, and such our national energy, that it requires no prophetic eye to see that what we have done is but tithe of what we are to do.
Year: 1869

THE BEST OF ALL SoHooLs.-The 6reside
is seminary of infinite importance, because
1t is universal, and because the education it
bestows, being woven in with the woof of
childhood, gives form and color to the whole
texture of life There are few who can res
ceive the honors of a college, but all are
graduates of the hearth. The learning Of
the university may fade from the recollection,
its classic lore may moulder in the halls of
memory, but the simple lessons of home
enameled upon the heart of childhood, defy
the rust of years and outlive the more mature
but less vivid picture Of after years. So deep,
SO lasting indeed, are the impressions of early
life, that you oftens see man in the imbecility
of age holding fresh in his recollection the
events of childhood, while all the wide space
between thatand the present hour is a blasted
and forgotten waste. You have perchsnces
seen an old obliterated portrait, and in the
attempt to have it cleaned and restored you
may have seen it fade away, while brighter
and more perfect picture painted beneath is
revealed to view. This portrait first drawn
on the canvass is no faint illustration of
youth, and though it may be concealed by
some after design, still the original traits will
ever shine through the outward picture,
giving it its tone while fresh and saving it
in decay. Such is the freside-the great
institution of Providence for the education
of man.
Year: 1869

BOYS should remember the following ex-
cellent maxims Liberty is the right to do
whatever you wish without interfering with
the rights of others. Save your money and
you will find it one of your most useful
friends. Never give trouble to your mother
or father. Take care of your pennies and
they will grow to be dollars. Intemperance
is the cause of nearly all trouble in this
world; beware Of strong drink. The poor
boy, if he be industrious, honest and saving,
may reach the highest honor in the land.
Never be cruel to dumb animal remember
it has no power to tell how much it suffers.
Honesty is always the best policy.
Year: 1869

The New York Sun imagines that the
nomination of Gen. Sherman at Louis
vile will not be adopted by either OF the
great parties, but that it will remain
without any substantial consequences.
When he came to Washington last spring
he was prevailed upon to accept pres
eut of hundred and two thousand dol
lars, raised at Gen. Grants special re-
quest. from various citizens of New York
and New England. His obligations
toward Gen. Grant will keep him in the
background for sometime to come. Gen.
Grant is understood by those who are 10
the way of seeing him intimately to cher
ish deep desire for reelection. This
feeling will naturally grow stronger as
the decisive year of 1872 approaches;
and the influences which tie President
can always bring to bear will doubtless
be exerted to secure for him the nomina-
ton of the Republican National Conven-
ton. As long as Gen. Grant is candi-
date, Gen. Sherman cannot and will not
enter the fsld; and when it is deter
mined that the Republicans will not have
Grant, it will be too late for Sherman to
Fl sh for their nomination; indeed, his re-
lation to Grant would make it difficult
for him to accept a nomination which
Grant had failed to secure, though it
should be unanimously rendered to them.


Besides, it is not now probable that in
1872 either party will adopt military
candidate. The experience of the Re-
publicans with Grant has been such as
to give them distrust of shoulder-strsps
in civil office; and even if be should now
forsske his folles and make seusible
and successful administration, hefcsn
hardly recover, either for himself or for
other statesmen of military education,
the confidence he has forfeited. And as
for the Democracy, while there is nothing
in General Sherman's antscedents, or in !
his political convictions, to forbid their
taking him up, it is almost certain that
they will be less inclined to run a mill
tary candidate in 1872 than they have
ever been before.
Year: 1869

frolicsome inclination, gave little snort
of approval, and, at the very same spot,
kicked up his heels in imitation, as colt
will do in meadow frolic, and went over
the edge of the rock, down into the rush
ing stream.


We were unfortunately situated. BY
no means could we afford to loccs the con-
tents of the packs, in addition to the
value ofthe animals, yet there was no way
of descending to the bed of the stream ex-
cept at the mouth of the canyon, several
miles ahead. And ir any case there was
little chance of our being able to recover
the property after the swift current had
swept it far away from the spot.


We continued on, in rather low spirits
it must be confessed, and camped toward
sundown in a beautiful valley at the end
of the pass. Two hours we're devoted to
q careful search for our lost animals, in
the hope of recovering their packs, but
without success, and the quest was aban-
doned entirely.


But to our great sstonishment and
equal joy, about nine clock in the even.
ing, one of the lost mules, the first that
went over, came slowly and feebly into
camp, bearing still its huge burden, now
completely saturated with water, and
heavy almost as lead. The poor brute
lay down, completely exhausted, the mo-
meut il rejoined its companions, and
seemed to feel once mere safe and happy.
The pack of this animal consisted almost
wholly of blankets and tent-cloth, and
was therefore so bulky and light that it
protected the little fellow from the sharp
rocks, in its fall, and buoyed it upon the
water until the rapid current bore it down
to spot where it could obtain foot
hold and struggle to the shore.


But poor " Blue-Devil " paid the price
of his folly, and went straight to the bot
tom, with all the dead weight of pots and
kettles on his back. Mont, the driver,
never grew tired of anathematizng the
ghost of the poor brutes memory.
Year: 1869

From the San Francisco Herald, 4th.l


Captain Nickerson, Of the ship Ma
tional Eagle, forty-four days from Hong
Kong, gives the following interesting ac-
count Of the formation Of an island in
the Pacific, near the Island of Niphon,
by volcanic eruption


On May 9Th, when seventeen days out,
with moderate north winds and fine
weather, at 4:30 am, made Smiths
Island, one of the islands south of Jeddo
Gulf, in latitude $50 Is minutes, longi-
tude 1899 so minutes east; made the
island and saw large column of smoke
rising out of the water, half point
north of Smiths Island. On approach
ing found it to be o volcanic eruption,
and an island just thrown up by the vol
canic action out of the water, with pile
of rocks fifty feet high, and reefs extend
ing to northeast and northwest for quar-
ter of mile, and a break of muddy
water surrounding-the whole extending
to the north about five miles The island
bears north by east, half east from Smiths
Island. We passed about midway be.
tween them, could hear q terrible roaring
and see column of smoke and steam
about thousand feet high. To all ap-
pearauces the rocks must have been
very hot, for when the surf rolled on them
they would send up vast columns of
steam. | could also see the smoke and
steam rising from the surf on the north
and northwest side at least a quarter of q
mile from the reef. If it had not been
90 near Smiths Island / would have sent
a boat and sounded round it; but the
position of Smiths Island on the chart is
correct Our position at noon to-day
was 80 29\ north, latitude l400 IN east.


1t is remarkable that the east coast Of
China is studded with small groups Of
islands, many of them supposed to have
sprung into existence in q very short
time, from the fact that mariners fire.
quentIy discover islands not marked in
the most approved charts. Some of them
are known to be coral islands, which
gradually rise above the waters, and are
considered exceedingly dangerous to
navigation. Others are formed suddenly,
and must doubtless have been caused by
the same agency which produced that
mentioned by Captain Nickerson. Taken
in connection with the late earthquake
reported by the observer at Fort Point,
the fact is not without its significance.
Year: 1869

There has been a new use found for old
newspapers. They are sow made over
into paper pettioosts. which are coming
into general use in London. The mind
shrinks from the contemplation Of what
would necessarily happen to the vearers
should they be accidentally caught in a
rainstorm.
Year: 1869

swarms of officers with which the
country is being unnecessarily de-
vastated not only to afford mate
rial TO keep 10 life the various
thieving Rings which arc contlnu.
ally begging Congress for this and
that Appropriation; not only for all
.hree things, but, also, TO sustain the
present administration IN its policy
of making q present of twenty-five
per cent. premium TO the fortunate
holders of bonds, who may present
thep for payment. Such squandOr.
ing Of the peoples money, in the


face Of their bankrupt condition,
should teach every one that the
Radical party IS fast driving the
country to Financial rum.
Year: 1869

MORE New GooDs.-We notice that
johnson & Rees are now daily receiving
new supplies of goods, and judging
from the crowd that may be daily seen
at their store, they are selling their
goods almost as rapidly as they receive
them. These gentlemen are already
building up good trade, aud bid fair
soon to become among the leading mer~
chants of the city. Gentlemanly aud
accommodating, they are sure to add
greatly to their already large circle Of
friends and patrons.
Year: 1869

DIFFICULT TAsK.-On Thursday af.
ternoon, the Clerk of the District
Court undertook to read the report of
the Grand Jury, but was unable to
accomplish the task, the difficulty be.
ing in bringing his mouth into the
proper position. Judge Kennedy finally
came to his relief and succeeded in
reading the paper.
Year: 1869

LIGHTNING AND THE TELEGRAPH wrREs.-During
the prevalence OF the thunder storm on Sunday
afternoon the lightning played some curious bfhnks
with the telegraph wires and apparatus In the city.
Al the Pacific and Atlantic ONCE, located under the
American the operator had taken the precaution the
night before to 'open the keys" and shut the 'cut
or" yet the electricity ran into the ONCE on the
metre, which Is Immediately underneath It, melted
the lead connection pipes and set several papers
that were the table on re. When II lett the wire
board II made report that sounded like the report
OF pistol. Several parties In the hotel ran to the
0flce and put out the fire, else another connaRra.
ton would undoubtedly have taken place. -CIeve-
land Herald, AprA 10.
Year: 1869

Corona, In Havana harbor, and remained prisoners
between two guns on her maindeck for about ten
days. We were then allowed 10 90 at large until
the evening OF the 18th OF April last when we were
set at liberty, and boat from the Corona landed us
IN the town OF Havana. Since we have been In
Havana we have each been examined once before q
Judge on board the Corona. And we hereby solemnly
declare that, both during that examination and also
during the previous one at Nuevitas the evidence
we gave went to prove that the Mary Lowell was
not taken further than one mile from the shore or
Ragged Island and concurs in every particular with
this declaration.


With respect to the Spanish decision on the case
OF the Mary Lowell, written in the Auditors report
In Spanish ana dated the 14th April, 1862 and ver-
bally translated to us by the English Consul, In
which we are represented to have said that at the
time OF seizure OF the Mary Lowell by the Anda-
luza:-"One said that she was mile and q half
from the coast but he could not affirm 1t; another
niaseen three and four miles, another at three
Island :, another at one mile and half from the


eo we hereby declare .hat this alleged report Of any
take on the part of the Spanish Judge er inter.
prefer, we don't know which, And we decialu th,s
solemnly, although we may have signed papefs
placed before us for signature by the Spanish OH
Gals after having had them hastily read to us either
IN Spanish or English or BOTH II anything said
TO us about three miles or four miles as being our
distance on shore We meant to reply to query re-
spectlng Great Ragged Island and not the distance
from the shore OF Little Ragged Island. Our remem.
brance OF this ts perfectly distinct and we do not
acknowledge as true the assertion In the Spanish
report respecting any discrepancy in several
tim0nieS.
Year: 1869

Just now there Is prevailing IN GER


tain insurance circles an active state


ol war against one of our home in
surance companies. Every man has


the right to his own quarrel, certainly


to his business quarrel. But if it can


be made TO appear from a study of
the assailants ard their tactics that


there is In this attack something be-


yond @ zeal for hightoned undeTwrit-


ing the quarrel becomes a general
one IN proportion as it Is shown that


it is really our local interests that are
assailed. If it can be found to be


true that there Is a banded conspiracy


of the Eastern insurance companies


The West has made rich and powerful,


with the intent that no new Western
company shall successfully enter the
field against them; if these companies
have taken a solemn oath not TO eat


nor drink. nor pay any of their prof
It's to stockholders until they have
slain Paul, simply because they de-


mand the entire field for themselves,


then manifestly such quarrel becomes
a public concern. 1t looks to US as
if this very nearly describes the mat


ter at issue between the National
/ Board ofJnderwriters and the Repub-
lie Insurance Co. of this city. 1t is
this that has opened upon community


d food Of handbills, circulars and ex-
tras of venal insurance sheets, order
ed by the hundred thousand, all
aiming to show that the Republic
is too worthless and untrustwortby to
survive, but all of them attestiug even


more strongly the fear that the Re-
/ public will survive, and with its
neighboring Western companies, that
/ do not ask the National Board Of I'm
derwTiters for permission to exist
/ will intercept and detain in the West
/ the profits that go TO make Insurance
dividends tits edifying to note that
4 these coDspiTat0rs disayow all care fo1
stockholders. The American Board
/ of Commissioners for Foreign Mis-
sions is a selfish, worldly concern in
/ comparison with these companies
who never thought of stockholders al
all, but only of the protection of the
public, IN the whole course of their
business. We repeat that it i


the evident animus of the


assailants that weakens their at.
| tack in the mind Of every


Western man, not an agent, or one OF


their whippers in. Our best locaI


companies share this feeling, and be-
lieve themselves assailed in this


quarrel. which can have but one re


suit. The Northwest Of to-day is noi


the region in which these Eastern


corporations first began their bust


ness hereaWay. It has reached


comfortable state of capital, and IN.


surance is recognized as a legitimate


direction for its employment. 1t vii
Year: 1869

The reader must also be made aware.
thar, however slight may be the attack.
10 Is sure 10 affect the bodily health and
mental powers, as our flesh and blood are
supported from these sources.
Year: 1869




mentioned in the account we gave of
the killing of Johnson in our Tues
days issue, conceiving some of the
article to be incorrect, hands us the
following for publication. We had
been told that Babb kicked Maize,
and so stated, which is the only ma
terial difference we can discover in
the two statements


SILVER Cry, Aug. 4th, 1869.


t)n the day of the killing of john
son, some one told me, before the
killing, that Charley Downey, a
friend of mine, was raising row
in Simon's restaurant and that | had
better go down and get him out. |
then went down and found Maize
and Downey in an alteration using
rough language toward each other.
| spoke to Downey and told him he
had better come out of there. I'm
mediately after speaking to Downey
Maize threw cup at him which hit
him on the head. Maize and Down
ey then clinched fighting, and then
put them both out of doors, telling
them to go ont and fight. They
then fought for some time when
Maize begged and said he did not
want to fight any more as they were
friends. They then stopped fighting
and | started to walk away, when
Maize remarked that | had none the
best Of him. j told him that | had
none the best of him, that he (Maize)
commenced the fight, and he then
replied. you are damned lying son
of a b-h. then knocked him
down with my fist, Maize then
picked up a rock aud came at me
and | knocked him down with my
fist again ; he then dropped the rock
and came at me again, when |
knocked him down the third time
with my fist. He then got up and
started up the bill towards his house.
| then walked off, believing that he
had gone to his house after pistol.
While was so walking off and with
my back towards him, but looking
over my shoulder all the time, | saw
him fire a pistol and Immediately af-
terwards saw a man fall who was
coming in an opposite direction to
where | was going. The man who
fell was afterwards proven to be
johnson, who was killed by that
shot. During the whole of the fight
between Downey and Maize and
Maize and myself | was unarmed.


FRANK r. BABB.
Year: 1869

Not long after I had resided in house of
my own, when seated late one dark, dreary
night in the midst of my small family circle,
and about to retire to rest, rap was heard
at the door which somewhat startled me at
that hour. On opening the door lad,
whom I knew not, addressed me by saying
that sick gentleman, at the public house
where he lived, thought he was dying, and
was anxious to see me.


l lost not moment, but told the boy to
guide me, as l was not much acquainted in
the part of the town where we were going
In the mean time l made such inquiries re-
specting the sick man as thought might be
of service in cOnversing with him, but could
learn nothing definite. The distance was
about half mile. We soon reached the
place, and the boy led me to the chamber
where he had left the sufferer a short time
before. quietly approached the bed on
which l beheld human form; but, alas /! l
soon perceived that it was only a form. The
spirit had just taken its flight to the God
who gave it. There was no person in the
room but another youth who had been wait
ing upon him. From him l learned that a
few moments before he breathed his last, he
had said to him, elias he Gomez" alluding
to myself. He then said to the boy, Grub
my feet, am so cold" These were his last
words. He soon ceased to breathe


In short time the landlady came in,
and 1 endeavored to learn of her what l
could of the deceased. She told me that he
was quite young man who had few weeks
before taken boarding there, but she had
never learned any particulars respecting him.
She did not know whence he had come, or
whether he had any living relatives. A
short time after he came he was taken very
i'll, and she had proposed to him to send for
me, but he made light of the suggestion,
and remarked, rather in boasting way
"That he was not afraid to de-" He had
nearly recovered when he had relapse
He then expressed desire that 1 should be
sent for. But it was too late, as he died be-
fore I could possibly see him. I could never
learn anything farther respecting him, or his
former residence, or relatives.
Year: 1869

THE MosT BEAUTIFUL HAND.-Two charm
ing women We're discussing one day what it
is that constitutes beauty in the hand. They
differed in opinion as much as in the shape
of the beautiful members whose merits they
were discussing. A gentleman friend pre-
sented himself, and by common consent the
question was referred to him. Glancing
from one to the other of the beautiful white
hands presented for his examination, he re-
piled at last-"I give it up; the question is
too hard for me; but ask the poor, and they
will tell you that the most beautiful in the
world is the hand that gives'