smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1869

PRINTERS CoMMASDMENTs.- Thou (os-
peciallv the ladies shalt love the printer,
for he loveth you muchly. Thou shalt sub
subscribe for his paper, fer it is an abomi-
nation in his sight to see those sponged
upon who takcth.


II thou art business man, thou sholdst
advertise, in order that thou mayst not on
ly be enabled to pay for thy paper, 'but
that you may put money in thy purse.


Thou shalt not visit him regardless of
his. Office rules--in deranging the paper


Thou shalt not touch anything that
would give hlm troubs--that he may not
hold thee guilty


Thou shalt not read the manuscript in
the compositoy's hands--for he will not
hold thee blameless.


Thou shalt not read the news before it
is printed for he will give it to you in due
time.


Thou shal! ask him few questions Of the
Office.


Thou shalt not at any time send abusive
and threatening etters..to the editor, neither
shalt thou cowhde him more than four
times year.


Thou shalt not write communications
on both sides of the paper, for the edito-
necdeth the other side to write his editor
rals upon.
Year: 1869




A short time since, just at dark, a
peddler carrying large pack, ap-
peared atthe door Of wealthy farm
er in the town of Green G,rden, in
this comfy, and requested the priv
ilege of remaining over night. The
farmer being away from home, he was
informed BY the hired man that he
could not stay. He then requested
the privilege Of leaving his pack until
morning, as he was very tired and
could not carry it further that
night. This was granted, and the
pack deposited in one corner Of the
sitting room. During the evening
some of the females o the household
had occasion to move it, and taking
hold of it discovered that there was
something suspicious about the con-
tents. The hired man was called
and taking bold of it, found,
that it contained a man. He quick
ly stepped into an adjoining room and
returning with a revolver, motioned
the family to stand aside, and at once
proceeded to fire three shots into it.
A piercing shrek issued from it, and
on ripping off the outside covering a
man with a large bowie knife and a
revolver clinched in his hands, was
found weltering in his blood. Two Of
the shots had proved fatal. The
.neighbOrs were alarmed, but no ira
ces of the peddler who left the pre-
cious pack could be found. Thus, by
mere accident, doubtless a shocking
case OfrObbery, and perhaps murder,
was prevented. 1t was doubtless a
plot TO rob the farmer, as it was known
that he had large sum of money in
in the house. An inquest was held
over the body on the following morn
ing, and the verdict was that the kill
ing was justifable homicide. No clew
leading to the discovery of the
victim, OF his aecomplice, has, as yet,
been ascertained.-[ Joliet Gll) Sig
nal.
Year: 1869

A prudent old gentleman offers the
following rules for selEgoveFnment:


Always sit next the carver, atdin-
ner. t


Ask no woman her age.


Be civil to all rich uncles and
aunts,
Never joke with a policeman.


Take no notes with you to a fancy
bazaar, nothing but ''pOstal" p"


Your oldest hat, Of course, for an
evening party.


Don't play at chess with widow.


Never contradict a man who slut
ters.


Pull down the blind qefore you put
on your wig.


Make friends with the steward
aboard a steamer; there's no knowing
how soon you may be placed in his
power


In every strange house it is well to
inquire where the brandy is kept on
ly think if you were taken i'll in the
middle Of the night!
Never answer a crossing sweeper.
Pay him, or pass quickly and silently
on. One word and you are lost.


Keep your own secrets. Tell no
human being you dye yOIr whiskcrs.
Write not one more letter than you
can help. The man who Keeps up
large correspondence is a martyr,
tied, not to the stake, but to the post.


Wind up your conduct like your
watch, once every day, examining
infinitely whether you are "fast' or
aslOw .
Year: 1869

Senator Wilson, in the United
States Senate, in replying to sone re-
marks BY Senator sprague, made the
following reference to times old and
new in New England


/ know something Of the stern trials
of men who seek Of their feIIOw-men
leave to toll for wages, but know,
and 1 am grateful to God for the
cheering fact, that the laboring men
Of the country have made immense
progress during in the past third Of q
century. I speak not now of the
mighty change in the condition Of
the toilng millions Of the South. 1
speak Of the Improvement in the con-
dition Of the great body Of the me-
chants and working men Of the
North, Of New England, Of Massachu-
sets, and Rhode Island, too. I hap
pened to be born in New Hampshire,
in farming community. I have
tOiled in the field in the cold Of winter
and in the heat Of summer, with as
good men as ever handled hoe or
swung ak or scythP, who received hfiy
cents per day for their labor, and re-
ceived their pay not in money, but in
corn at one dollar per busheI, OF purk
at seventeen cents Pcr pound. WOm-
en- 10 three days went out 10 labor, to
do hOusewOrk, to spin and weave fOF


fifty cents per week.


Sir, I venture to state a fact that u
lustrates the wonderful Improvement
in the condition Of working men. In
the winter of 1886, when I came Of
age, hired myself for one month to q
farmer Of my native town. I went
into the forests, drove teams, chopped
wood and timber, working at least
fourteen hours daily. For this work
1 received the enormous sum Of six
dollars in cash. I then thought was
quite fortunate to get six dollars in
money for that months hard toll,
The wages Of labor have increased in
that region in New England since
that day three or four fold. Hard as
is the lot, and perhaps ever will be,
Of laboring men, the furniture, the
means of improvement of their chill
dren, the accumulations in the savings
banks, all demonstrate and advanced
position Of working men during the
past thirty years. Better, far better,
inspire hope and courage, than to in
culcate hOpelessness and despair.
Year: 1869


Return TO Reason After Ferry


Years Of Insanity.


About forty years ago a young lady,
eighteen years of age, full of life and
beauty, and a resident of this county,
from some unknown, or at least, ungov-
.ernable cause, became suddenly insane
For some time she remained beneath the
roof Of her parents and received theunited
efforts and sympathy of relatives and
friends. But all to no avail. The mental
faculties were too surely broken. A short
time after she became an inmate of our
County Poor House at Dowitville, where
she remained until few days since, a Gu
riosity to strangers and wholly lost to her
self Well we remember, three years
since, while paying visit to the county
buildings at that place.. noting the very
strange appearance of "Crazy Ann
There was something peculiar about her
arrangement, so much so that we have
often called TO mind incidents Of her con-
versatiOn, and peculiarities of her manners
But few days since, "Crazy Ann" Teas-
sumed her proper cognomen and is again
sane. What sleepi Forty years of blank
existence and now a stranger to herself
She resumes life where she left it when
young and beautiful and the companion
of the gay and mirthful. Now she is old
feeble and gray, in the enjoyment only Of
the fact that-she is again rational and busi-
ly engaged in making her own acquaint-
ance.-L Exchange.
Year: 1869




We do not recall more beautiful or po-
eticaI anecdote, illustrating the effect Of
womanly grace and purity on the rough
est natures, than the following, related by
Lord shaftesbury at a ragged school in
Sheffield. The lady in Comus walking
unharmed amid the rabble rout of satyrs
is not more effective. His LOrdship said
that young ladies would be surprised to
find with what respect they would be
treated by the forlOrn classes if they would
20 amongst them with view to education.
''In one of the worst parts Of London, he
said, "there was an institution which he
visited. In one room he found about thir-
ty-fve men listening to the teachings OF
the daughter Of a small shopkeeper in the
neighborhood. She was one of the pret-
test women he ever saw in, his life. He
noticed that there was no one present but
the young woman with those rough men,
and he said to the superintendent, 1Are
you not afraid to leave my dear little
friend alone with all those men ? He re-
piled, i am Then why don't you go
to her % you mistake my fear. I am
not afraid of their doing her any harm
They love her so much that they would
lick the ground on which she walks but
1 am afraid some person may step in, and,
not being under authority, or knowing the
manners OF the place, may say something
impertinent to her, and ifhe did he would
not leave the place alive


It is, indeed, one of the most cheering
facts, to such as work for the elevation OF
the human race, that womsnly beauty,
where united to maiden mOdesty, COM
mands the homage Of the most degraded.
Year: 1869




A curious discovery has just been
made at Pompeii. In a house in
course of excavation, an oven was
found, closed with an iron door, on
opening which, a batch of Pighty-one
loaves, put in nearly eighteen hun
dred years ago, and now somewhat
over done, was discovered; and even
the large shovel with which they had
been neatly laid in rows. The loaves
were but slightly over baked by the
lava heat, having been protected by a
quantity of ashes covering the door
There is no bakers mark upon the
leaves they are circular, about nine
inches in diameter, rather fat and in
dented (evidently with the bakers ell
bOw) in the center, and are slightly
raised at the sides, and divided by
eight lines radiating from the center,
into eight segments They are now
of a deep brown color, and hard, but
very light. In the same shop, were
found 561 bronze and So silver coins.
A mill with a great quantity of corn,
in excellent preservation, has also
been discovered.
Year: 1869

RUNNING OUT OF CHURCH, min
ister down east, being very much an
nOyed with persons leaving the
Church before dismissal, got off the
follOming and wasa't uubled any
more: Some ofmy brethren have been
greatly afflicted that so many young
folks leave church before service is
through. But 1 tell them that they
ought not to feel so, for doubtless,
most of those that go out are young
women who who live at service, and
their mistress require them to be at
home at 9 o'clock, and the young men
have TO go out and wait upon them
home; so hereafter, when these young
leave church before service is over
you will understand who they are
and not feel badly agout it.
Year: 1869

The Rev. Mr.. Holland lately de-
lvered windy Grafton before the Lit
erary Societies Of Gen. Lees College
on the "Proper Aim Of Education," in
which he took the ground that the
"chief end Of man" on this earth was
to avoid labor as degradation and a
curse, and that the youth Of America
should be so educated as to instill into
their minds supreme and intense ha-
tired of all kinds Of work. The speaker
ridiculed the material enterprise of the
North, which be said had its origin in
a vulgar greed for money making-the
sole aim and end of a Yankees exis-
tence. These sentiments were received
with tumultuous applause by the young
scions of Southern hivaly, whose
ideas of the earnest work Of life they
precisely suited.
Year: 1869

Information from the principal
grain districts of California indicates
that the wheat crop, though large, is
below the average yield per acre. A
considerable portion of it either through
thinness or rust, will not pay to harvest.
In Oregon the crop is greatly in excess
of any previous year, except in the
Walla- Walla region.
Year: 1869

Beside a stream whose LIQUID beam


Was caroling and shining,
AS dewy blades and azure flowers


Harmoniously were twining;
An old man sat, and needed not


The bliss below-above him;
But sighed that in lovely spot


No heart was there to love him
From bower and tree the bird and bee
Flew happy over singing,
While from tower across the lea,


A marriage bell was ringing.
The old man wended to the place,


And met the people leaving;
He looked upon each sunny face,


And stayed awhile his dreaming
But as they left, again bereft


OF joy, he looked above him,
And sighed, though all the sky was blue,
That there was mono to love him.
Again he sought the wildwood stream,
And rested, sad and weary,
Upon its mossy bank, to dream


A vision bright and CHEEKY.
He seemed to rove land of love,


Where lute-toned bells were ringing,
And decked with jeweled light was one,
Whose speech was more than singing.
Oh, she was memory's morning light,
That beamed on earth above him;
He slumbered. woke, and found that high
God, Heaven, and her love to him.
Year: 1869

'How it rains | | think | will not go out with
nv tracts this afternoon, said gentleman to
himself one wet Sabbath. Then, retiring from
the window, he threw his bundle of tracts upon
the table, and yawning dropped into his easy
chair.


There he sat idly musing while the sacred
hours fed BY and by his little daughter came
in from Sunday school. Seeing his bundle OF
tracts on the table, she said


"Why pa, haven't you been with your
tracks?''


no. my dear"


care you going with them, pa?


''Not to-day, my dear. 1t is so rely wet.


80, pa, let me go with them I've got my
bonnet on, and can soon take them round"


mo, no It's too wet for any one to go out.
We must stop at home, my dear. "


Il won't get wet, pa. I'll take the big UNI
brea The people will want their tracts. DO
please let me go, pa,


These and similar pleas conquered the re-
luctant father. The little girl started. She
knew the district, and was soon at her blessed
work. A few steps led her to large old house
with big knocker. She raped again and "a
gain, but no one replied. The poor child s
patience was almost exhausted, when she heard
4 sound In the house. Another knock, and the
door was opened by a woman who were good
dress but whose face, the little girl thought,
looked very unhappy. The child smiled upon
her, gave her tract, finished her round, and
went home, little thinking BY her walk IN the
rain that afternoon she had snatched a soul
from the jaws OF death.


And yet it was even so for the woman at
whose door she had waited 50 long was in the
act of hanging herself when the child first lift
ed knocker. The rope was fastened to the
high post of an old fashioned bed-stead, the
moose was round her neck and she was about
to launch the guilty soul headlong into eternity.
The knock disturbed her. She waited no long
er. 1t came again and again, until to get rid
of the annoyance, she slipped the rope over her
head and went to see who might be the dis,
turber. The loving took of the child dlsarmed
her anger. She took the tract read It, was con
victed. led TO Christ and the next Sabbath
told her joyful story to the little girls father.


Thus did little girl s hand armed with a
tract, pluck brand from the burning, and save
a soul from everlasting DEATH
Year: 1869

AN AFFLICTED FAMILT.-We rarely have to
record so great an afhiction to one family as
has fallen to the lot of the family Of Mr. Jo-
seph Siler, of Kerr's Greek, in the last ten
days Within that time the father and two
children have been borne to the tomb Mr.
Siler and his little son died on the same day,
and were buried together in one grave Two
days afterward they were followed by another
member Of the family to the undiscovered
country" The disease of which they died was
a malignant type of Measles.-Lec. Gazette.
Year: 1869

The n Y. Times (RadicaD declares that the
noliticians who control the conduct of the coun-
try by filing its Offices have become utterly de-
moralized, and look upon government only as
an agent for plunderng the country for their
own benefit It AYERS that that there are not
half a dozen State Legislatures in the whole
Union which are not notoriously open to the
basest and most degrading influences by which
human action can be controlled And Congress
is rapidly falling into the same false and fatal
course. i"
Year: 1869

THE cook of Q French nobleman had q
monkey which was 80 intelligent that by
severe training it was taught to perform
certain useful services, such as plucklng
fowls, at which it was uncOmmonly expert.
One fine morning pair of partridges was
given it to pluck. The monkey took
Them to an open window of the kitchen,
and went to work with great diligence
He soon finished one, which he laid on the
outer ledge of the window, and then went
quietly on with the other. A hawk that
had been watching his proceedings from
neighboring tree darted down upon the
plucked partridge, and in q minute was
up In the tree again, greedily devouriDg
his prey. he hoped about in great
distress for some minutes, when suddenly
q bright thought struck him. Selling the
remaining partridge, he went to work
with great energy and stripped Of the
feathers He then laid 1t on the ledge,
Just where he had placed the other, and,
closing one of the shutters, concealed him
self behiud it. The hawk, who by this
time had finished his meal, very soon
swooped down upon the partridge, but
hardly had his claws touched the bird
when the monkey sprang upon him from
behind the shutter. The hawks neck wal
instantly wrung, and the monkey, with a
triumphant chuckle, proceeded to strip o.
the feathers. This done, he carried the
two plucked fowls to his master, with 8
confident and self satisfied air which
seemed to say Here are two birds, sil
Just what you gave me-" What th'
cook said on finding one of the partridge
converted into hawk is more than We
are able to tell.
Year: 1869

An observing "school-marm writes to
the Western RtrG:


I am boarding at the hotel this week,
and this Is Saturday and there is no school
have learned many things about kero-
sene that I had not before dfeatted Of
Our landlady is very particular to oil all
the lamps every morning. I asked why.
Because" she said, "as the oil burns
out, the space above fills with gas, which
when agitated, would be apt to explode"
Then she told fIie of friend of hers VINO
neglected to fill her lamp, and sitting up
late, burned the oil nearly out !; as she
took it I'D to go to her bed-rnom it ex-
ploded and burnt her badly, and frightened
her 80 she has been very nervous about
her lamps ever since. While the landlady
was telling me this, noticed that she only
cut off that part of the wick that was
burnt soft, and each piece Of wick was
rolled up In d little piece of paper. What
for, To kindle fires with, and If you try
it you will find they will burn long enough
to be great Help. 4 teaspoonful Of fine
salt to each lamp, once week. Mrs. Sam
thinks improves the light. Further In
ouiry resulted in the discovery that kero-
sene was Just the thing to take the paint OH
tnOSe uiC6 tiu pdlls you w! po'"s III, 49,
which are so hard to clean Take cloth,
dip it in the oil and rub the cans; let it
stand awhile; if it does not all come of,
oil it again and again. If you treat rusty
stoves or kettles in the same way, after.
wards washing well in weak I've, you will
find them as nice as new. Kerosene is
also good to clean furniture, but do not
let It remain Oh any time, as 1t will dim
the varnish. A few drops on d cloth will
go q great ways. and must be quickly
rubbed off with soft cloth. 1t will loosen
dirt quicker than water.


Afiother lady In the neighborhood who
uses the salt in lamps, says it takes away
the bad oaor, and she thin Is the oil lasts
longer. Kerosene is one of the best things
for a burn. Battle the burn in cold water,
then dry softly without rubbing or ex-
posing to the air, and apply the oil and
bandage. Another lady tells me, all her
mothers family once had the diptheria,
she being the worst They could get no
help. She was almost strangled with
canker. Her mother became desperate
and gave her teasp60nful OF kerosene
as last resort-and it saved her life.
Year: 1869

We have had several opportunities to
fully test the chloride of zinc, in solution,
In such cases. and, lso far a. we are asFare,
He Tere tie first to use this agent. 1t
may be said thas If the persons who has
been bitten by dogs and had been sub
jected to its use did not have hydro
phobia, the dogs were not mad" Under
circumstances It might be difficult to prove
this proposition, but we do not propose to
enter into an argument upon the subject
but to make q plain statement of facts.
In one case, where three men were bitten
by the sAue dog; at the SAME time we
subjected two to the use of the zinc. They
are both living at the present time, al
though this occurred several years since,
while the third man who was not treated
in this way, died, of hydrophobia on the
fourteenth day. In another case gen.
gentleman, as well as COW and horse,
were bitten at the same time by rabid
dog. We treated the man with the zinc |;
he still lives; while the COW and horse
both died within fifteen days. We might
give many other cases illustrative of the
efficacy of this treatment, but we consider
this sufficient The method we employ is
as follows; Make saturated solution OF
chloride of zinc, and as soon as,possible af-
ter the injury inject this into any or all the
wounds made by the teeth Of the animal ;
let it be done with q small syringe and
with sufficient force to bring the solution
in contact with every portion Of the
puretufed Or sbfaded tissue. This should
be repeated the second day, after which
apply the water dressing until all the
parts which hsve been subjected to the
zinc slough out. Then the wound should
be allowed to heal under the ordinary
dressing, which will be effected, if there has
not been much laceration of the parts, in
from ten to fifteen days. As an internal
remedy we use the carbonate of ammonia


ten grains to the half pint of water, thi:
quantity to be taken daily for twenty days
The longest time which had elapsed from
the time the person was bitten until the
above means were used was four hours
yet we are of the opinion that this would
antidote the poison even ten or ffteer
hours after the injury, for the reason tha


the zinc in any form when brought il
contact with an abraded tissue will &C


upon parts quite remote from the part in
jured, and will, if taken up by the ab
sorbents, antidote the poison which ma!


have permeated the whole. system man!
hours previous.-Fsgecsic KsdscG Journdl
Year: 1869

hand upon bis heart and say he had not
cause to love this faishful creature. over
whose unsentient form we drop these un-
availing tears-for no journalist among us
all can lay his hand upon his heart and
saw he ever lied with such pataos, such
JUNCTION, such exquisite symmetry. such
sublimity of conception and such felicity
of execution, as when he did it through
and by the inspiration Of this regal'y
gifted marvel Of mendacity, the lamented
Reliable Contrabsnd Peace to his ashes.
pn.E1rd, N,nfIv for ,TtxlU.
Year: 1869

Theodore Hook was once asked for a contrl-
bution to the treasury of the Society for the
Conversion of the Jews. He said he was quite
unable to give any money, but if the society
would send him a Jew, he would do his best TO
convert him.
Year: 1869

SYNOPSIS OF CHARTER.
The plan proposed by the Mutual Aid and Benevolent
Life insurance Association is as follows:
l. Each person upon enrolling himself or herself as
q member, shall pay into the Treasury membership
fee, if between the ages of