smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1868

The June Statement Compared with That of


the Corresponding Month of Last Year and


with the May Statement of 1868.


The following statement Of the public debt on the
lst Of June has just been issued from the Treasury
Department. We compare the figures with the
statement made at the corresponding time last
Year: 1868

To GET RID OF RATs.-The editor oil
the Rome Courier is assured by those who
have tried it, that rats may be etiectualiy
driven from any building by sprinkling
their places Of resort with yellow ochre, a
cheap paint TO be found in any drug store.
Year: 1868

what will be the result of the suit, but it IS
a case which has grease" in it, and for
that reason is highly interesting 10 the par
ties concerned, and also to the members OF
the bar, from the legal points raised.
Year: 1868

At about halfpast eleven O'Clock last night John
Sherman, OF No. 81 James street. accosted officer
Herman, OF the Fourth precinct and told him that
he thought his wife Mary was in dying condition
and that he did not know what was the matter with
her. The oficer went into the house and found the
woman lying on the floor dead and with very sus-
picious looking wound near the left eye.
The body of the woman was still warm,
showing thus that she was dead but short time.
The officer arrested Sherman and he was locked
up to await the result OF the Coroners inquest At
one O'Clock this morning the appearance OF the de-
ceased and the In which she lay was most mis-
cradle. The tenement portion OF the building Is
reached through an alieyway not more than three
feet wide and up flight Of wooden steps erected ae
the back of the house. The deceased was stretcned
on miserable looking bed on the oor In one corner
of scantily furnished room and surrounded by dele
cations from the females Of the neighbOrhOod These
latter were unanimous In their assertions that
Mrs. Sherman was woman OF exceed
ingly Incorporate habits and that her hns-
band was quiet. Industrious man. Some SAID thas
early in the evening Sherman was looking Tor MS
wife and complained that he could not get into me-
room, and others said that during the evening they
heard some quarrelng between the parties but none
OF them knew Of the death until informed by omcer
Herman. The face Of the deceased was somewnas
bloated, the left eye purple and swollen; ana the
wound above mentioned semi-circular In shape and
located lust between the temple and the eyeball.
No instrument Of any kind with which such q Wound
could be inflicted was discovered by the omcer whe
made strict search. The affair is to say the least,
mysterious, but an Intelligent jury may be able TO
clear Il mn. .r0
Year: 1868

The Fertinc.tton Question in the House Of
Commons.


OTTAWA, May 9, 1858.
motion for the House to 60 into Committee Of
the whole on the resolution to provide f1, 100000
sterling for the purpose Of building Notifications
made last night, and excited q debate which was
continued with great vigor TIL an early hour this
morning, when the reso luton was passed by large
majority.
Year: 1868

Catholic Cathedral. This Will not go
quietly much longer, depend upon it.
Mischief is brewing, and the Ritualists
will do we'll not to flourish their mum
meries in the face Of the public more
than they can help"


The Methodist holds his protracted
meeting, and gets his religion in as bois-
ferrous a manner as he chooses, and who
objects? The Baptist people swarm on
the river banks as thick as flies about a
soda fount, cpd one by one the preacher
leads his flock into the stream, and dips
them beneath the surface with as much
ceremony as be likes, and who shall say
to him, nsy2 The Romanist, enrobed in
silks and satins, surrounded by surpliced
choristers and lacolytes, and half smoth-
cred in the fragrant incense from swing
ing censers, chants his liturgy through
out the world, and no one but an utterly
bigoted Protestant can regard the per-
formance with anything but pleasure,
seeing that religion, even if not his re-
ligion or phase thereof, has such sway
over millions of his fellow creatures who
would otherwise be given up to intidelity.
But should the Episcopalian dare (even
in this free country, where every man is
by the Constitution permitted to worship
his God in the manner that pleases him, J
to change or beautify his mode OF ser
vice, to Danish his hired quartette of
singers from the choir gallery, or the
cover Of his communion table; use the
idolatrous sign of the cross; or, horror
of horrors, should he vainly imagine
that the Lord Of Hosts, when He delared
that, from the rising of the sun to the
going down of the same, in every place,
incense shall be offered unto His name,
really meant to permit him, the
said Episcopalian, to have swinging
censer. and to burn frankiucense in his
services, then let such innovator beware,
for the public. that is the word, the
public won't stand it much longer Now,
has the time come for this inquisatorial
bigotry2 Two hundred years ago, the
pious people of New England Went for
any clergyman of the Anglican Church
who was 80 ritualistic as to attempt to
officiate in their country, wearing that rag
of popery called the Snrplice, but it is
to be questioned if the American people,
befogged in their morals as they may be
by the events of the late war, are reduced
yet so low into barbarsm as to join
heartily in any crusade for religious pur-
poses, using force either to establish
favorite or to crush out Objectionable doc
trines or modes of worship; and long may
it be before the general enlightenment
of the people at large is degraded to the
ordinary level which new guages the
bigotry and intolerance of the Puritan or
Evangelical party in the Protestant
Episcopal Church in the United States of
America. JEROME.
Year: 1868

THEATRE-Manager Murray was greeted by
fine audience at his benefit on Saturday eve
ming, on which occasion his wife, native Of
this city, made her first appearance as Star
light Bess in the play of "The Flowers of the
Forest" Her personation of the character
was excellent and evinced that the lady pos
sessed histrionic talent to great degree. The
only fault to be found was in her voice, which
did not appear strong enough; but this will be
remedied by practice. At the conclusion OF
the first act magnificent boquet was thrown
to her upon the stage.


This evening the great play of "Grimaldi OF
The Trials of an. Actress" will be performed
cast to the full strength of the company.


Tomorrow evening. "Mazeppa" will be
brought out, Miss Kate Fisher and her splen.
did trained horse Aurora making their appear.
ance in the magnificent spectacle.
Year: 1868

THE MANUFACTURERS IN CoUNCIL.-The
manufacturers are not satisfied with the sue
cess which followed the presentation to Con-
gress of their claims for relief from taxation
by the committees sent to Washington from
the Cleveland and Worcester Conventions,
Indeed there are other things which in com
mon with all their fellow citizens it is incum-
bent upon them to demand The taxes upon
their products are removed but they must
still pay an income tax special or license taxes
and indirectly their proportion of the tariff.
Like all other citizens they are directly inter-
ested in the economical expenditure of the
money wfiofr tfreJ s--4- 4l.44 rrpaacI1ru Tho
call for meeting of the National Manufactu-
rers' Association at Cleveland, on the 9th
inst, which we published Saturday, does not
mention specifically a reform in the civil ser
vice as the principal object now sought to be
obtained by the Association, but it can hardly
be otherwise. The millions of money that
would be saved to taxpayers by the operation
OF reform in the method of bestowing ap-
pointments to Office would be greater relief
to the manufacturing and all other industries
OF the country than any revision of the tariff
that can be devised. @
Year: 1868

FLORAL CoNCERT.-A grand Floral Concert
is to be given in City Hall early in June by
some five or six hundred Sabbath School chill
dren, who are now preparing for it, under the
instruction of Mr.. Gardiner, one of our best
teachers of vocal music 1t is to be given in
aid of tho funds of the Young Mems Christian
Association, in whose rooms the children meet
twice week for practice.
Year: 1868

WE understand that the idea of repittion of
THE Spirit of TO- which proved SO successful
last week, as performed by the amateurs, is
entertained. If repeated. the occasion is to be
made one Of uncommon interest. We hope
t, be able to announce tomorrow that the
thing is to be done, with particulars.
Year: 1868

to keep it. Then, as soon as Claus
was gone, he took roll with fifty for
ins, put on his hat, and gave them to
the dog to bring back the stolen money
to his friend Van Groten.


"Now" thought Van Beeren, when
upon reaching the house he found the
window open, on account of the warm
weather, ''if I send Oppas in now by
the same way he got the money, we
will know right off if he can jump
that high"


Upon reaching the window sill. he
therefore said: "Oppas. hop. jump
up, quick!" With one Jump he was
there and waited for orders, waggiag
his tail.


Mynheer Van Beeren heard loud
cry of astonishment, but when the
dog turned to him, he beckoned to him
to jump into the Office. which he did,
upon which he himself went into the
office.


Van Groten-was not little aston
ished when he saw his friends dog
with a roll of money in his mouth
Van Beeren soon solved the problem
to him.


They laughed great deal about the
affair, but Mynheer never left the win
dow open after that when he left the
Office, until he had a little lattice af-
fixed to it. He did not trust Oppas,
for he thought he might again get
hungry for an extra meal and try to
place himself in possession of it by
similar means.
Year: 1868

WHAT AM / FIT FoR?-There is only
one method by which a young man
can discover what position in life he is
best fitted to occupy. He must try.
He may be qualified to plan, to lead. to
control, or his talent may be simply
executive, and of the kind that assist
in carrying out the ideas Of other men.
In either case his aid is needed on the
vast aid and diversified field Of labor
presented by a great and growing
country. The head and the hand are
equally requisite in every branch of
science and business, in all the pur-
suits of actual life. If the man who
is merely expert ofhands stands, or seems
to stand, on lower level than he who
plans largely and wisely, let him not
repine at that, for on the plane where
his capabilities have placed him, there
is less of responsibility and anxious
care than in the higher positions as
signed to more powerful and compre-
hensive intellects. Having found his
true place in the great commonwealth
of industry, let the young man cling
to it, and not allow himself to be tempt
ed by plausible stories and dreams of
sudden wealth into speculations for
which he is not fitted.
Year: 1868

Carleton, of the Boston journal,
has taken in the big trees of California
on his homeward route. He thus al
ludes to them:


1t is five miles to the grove of big
trees, though there are trees all around
us which would be called big in the
East. We climb a hill-our horses all
the way plunging their hoofs into gran
ulated granite-hardly enough decom-
posed to be classed as soil. A few
minutes ride down the southwestern
slope of the bill and we are among the
monarchs of the forest. They do not
seem to be at first sight very much
larger than the surrounding pines, and
it is only by measurement and compar-
ison that we can comprehend their mag
nitude. The great elm on Boston Com
mon is between six and seven feet in
diameter, but here are six hundred
trees, the smallest of which is twelve
feet in diameter, and the largest thirty
three! The measurements which give
these diameters are taken one yard
from the ground. Ten feet up they
have diminished about one-third, but
above that hold their dimensions to
great height. One which fell many
years ago, from which the bark has
crumbled, is now thirty-three feet in
diameter, and you can walk two hun
drcd and fifty feet along that portion
of the trunk which has not yet decayed.
One board from this tree would be suf-
tient to board up the side of meeting
house! We might hew from this sin
gle trunk the hull Of a ship of greater
tunnage than the Santa Maria, in
which Columbus crossed the ocean!
One larger even than the Mayfower
OF the Pilgrims! Sit down and look at
the monster called the "grizzly giant"
1t is ninety feet up to the first limb,
which is six feet and four inches in di-
ameter A limb one hundred and
thirty feet from the ground has been
broken off thirty feet from the body
of the tree, and the fallen portion lies
before us on the ground, eleven feet in
circumference, or nearly four feet in
diameter. There are thirteen of us in
our party and we all ride into the
burned cavity Of one tree still standing
and sit there upon our horses, with
room for six or eight more. We ride
through the hollow trunk of another
fallen tree thirty feet, as if it were
section of the Thames tunnel. or of
tubular railway bridge. Were 1 the
first to give such statements, your
readers would have reason for saying
that l was a lineal descendant Of Baron
Munchausen.


1t is wonderful but wonder becomes
amazement when we look upon the
cones produced by these trees, and
find them to be not larger than hens
egg, and the seeds a mere speck. 1t
would take a dozen of them to weigh
down an apple seed. Yet embodied in
this little feathery cell, which lies in
my hand, which my gentlest breathing
will send whirling through the air, is
another forest monarch as mighty as
these around me.
Year: 1868

man il his carriage was riding along.


A gaily dressed wife by his side;
In satin and lace she looked like queen,


And he like king in his pride
A wood-sawyer stood ON the street as he pass,d


The earriaGe-the couple he eyed,
And said. as he worked with his saw on a log


| wish | was rich, and could ride
The man in the carriage remarked to his wife.


One thing l would if could
I'd give az my wealth for the strength and the


of the man who is saving the wood
A pretty young maid with bundle of work,


Whose face as the morning was fair,
Went tripping along with a smile of delight


While humming love-breathing air
She looked in the carriage-the lady she saw,


Arrayed in apparel so fine,
And said, in whisper I wish in my heart


These satins and laces were mine.
The lady looked out on the maid with her work


So fair in her calico dress
nd said, I'd relilquish position and wealth.


Her beauty and youth to possess.
Thus it is in this worid-whatever your lot


Our mind and time we employ,
In longing and signing for what we hare not,


Ungrateful for what we enjoy.
Year: 1868

"Mine Cot, the sorrel wagon has run
away NIT de green horse, and proke de
axletree of de prick house, vat stand
by de corner lamp bost across the way
from de apple drees-run Yaupey and
stop de telegraph. Mine Cot, what a
beebles!
Year: 1868

A PHOTOGRAPH OF HoRATIo SEY-
MoUR-The New York Republican
State Committee in their address to
the Republicans of that State draw
the following true picture of their
opponent, on whom the rebels hopes
of retrieving their '"lost cause now
depend: r ~ ia siasHg ~


You know that his opponent is
that HoratiO Seymour who has been
your deadliest, most insidious, most
calumnious foe, from the day when
New York first, by the nearly unani-
nous vote of her Representatives in
Congress Of both parties, declared her
inflexible hostility to any further ex-
tension of slavery under our national
flag, down to this hour. He support
ed the Nebraska bill and the LecOmp-
ton infamy. He did his utmost, but
in vain, to put the vote of our State
against Fremont and Lincoln. Thrice
defeated by you as a candidate for
Governor, he was last elected through
absence of thousands of you in the


held where your country was saved;
and his success sent your gallant and
noble Wadsworth to his fate near the
spot where Stonewall jackson first
called on, his fe1low-rebels to cheer
the last election of Horatio Seymour
as their triumph. He is the man who
addressed the draft rioters. orphan
asylum burners, and negro killers of
the great emporium as his friends
and was exuItingly recognized By
them as their chief. There is not to-
day an impenitent, implaeable rebel
In the land who does not glory in
supporting him, and in his heart echo
Vance's boast that all they lost when
defeated by Grant they will regain
when they triumph with Seymour
Year: 1868

"a cct that q sound mind and body are The tGOst
necessary reauisites to promote cOnnubial hap.
piness. Indeed, without these the journey
through life becomes weary pilgrimage; the
prosp5 ct hourly darkens to the VieW, the mind
becomes shadowed with despair and filed win
the melancholy reflection that the happiness a.
another becomes blighted with your own.
Year: 1868




MY DEAR STR 1T gives me great
pleasure to know that you fully ap.
preciate the consequences to all bus.
mess men-indeed every one having
any interest i'm the prosperity of onr
country-that must result from the
election of General Grant.


The question Is presented TO the
people, whether they will aid In elec-
ting an administration bent upon
trampling loyalty into the dust and
elevating upon its ruins power con-
trolled by rebel chiefs, whose motto
will be, "The rebellion vindicated, -
with prostration to every branch OF
industry and business ut the North
or whether we should place In the
Executive Mansion one emphatically
of the people. who has never acted
bnt from o just sense of duty to his
country, and from whose administra.
tion we will have all the blessings
that can flow from peace in every
debartment Of our government, in
spring confidence that cannot but
lead TO prosperity and happiness as q
nation, and promising for us future
unequalled I'm the history of the past.
To secure this result accept your
generous contribution, and will ap-
ply 1t to such proper uses as may tend
10 bring about result so promising
with blessings to us all.


Sincerely your friend,


ALEX. Il. STEWART.
Year: 1868

KEEPING VEGErABI, Es.-Sink a
barrel two.thirds of its depth into
the ground Ia box or cask will answer
better pnrposel. heap the earth
around the part projecting out of the
ground, with a slope Oh all sides:
place the vegetables that you desire
To Keep In the vessel cover tie top
Win water.t tight cover; and when
winter sets In, throw an armful OF
straw. hay or something of that. on
the barrel. If the bottom Is out az
the cask or barrel, lt will be better.
Cabbages, celery and other vegetables
VIII keep this way as fresh as when
taken from the ground. The colery
should stand nearly perpendicular.
celery alternating. Freedom from
iros., case OF access, and especially
freshness and freedom from rot ara
the advantages claimed. Journal OF
horticulture.
Year: 1868

An agricultural exchange tells how
q farmer famous for raising fat hogs
did the thing by taking advantage OF
The hog nature. After the big hog
had eaten all II wanted, he would lei
a poor little hog into the pen, when
the fat one would fight 1T off, and
continue eating To prevent the other
getting any food.
Year: 1868

The EXCURSION to Chicago, last week, under
the auspices of the German Ev Lutheran
Church of this city, we are pleased to learn,
was fine success. There were about 400 tickets
sold, and a number were not able to go on &c.
count of not having purchased tickets in lime.


We are requested on behalf of those who had
tho matter in charge, to extend to their friends
here and elsewhere along the line of the road,
their grcatful thanks for the liberal patronage
the excursion received at their hands,
Year: 1868

SERIOUS AcCIDENT-On Sunday evening Mr..
George Fox, an old and respectable citizen of
Ottawa, well known, to most Of our people, met
with very serious accident, occasioning the loss
of his right hand. He had been on visit dur
ing the day to the country in company with his
son, taking common fowling piece along in the
buggy. The gun had been discharged during
the day, and not supposing it to be loaded, on
starting home, it was wrapped in buffalo skin
and thrown in the bottom of the buggy. On
reaching home Mr.. Fox drew it from the buggy
with muzzle towards him, when one barrel was
discharged, the load passing through his hand
and wrist, so frightfully lascerating both that
amputation had to be performed. Mr.. F., we
learn, is now out of danger.
Year: 1868

THE SoIREE MUSICALE, advertised to take
place at the residence Of Mrs Earl, on Tuesday
evening, We regret to state, had to be postponed
on account OF the sudden and severe indisposi-
ton Of one of the lsdie. to whom leading role
had been assigned The entertainment will be
given some evening during the ensuing week
due notice to be given as soon as the time can be
fixed
Year: 1868

WHAT A LITTLE MONEY WILL Do--A little
money will so great deal further now than it
used to; and you will be surprised to SEQ how
nicely yourself and your boys can be fitted out
in the latest styles Of clothing at M. Stiefers
Clothing Bazaar, 120 Main street, three doors
west Sf La Sale street.
Year: 1868

CHILD Il Bro. aver that they are selling boots
and shoes on an average Is per cent. below any
other house in the city. They not only say so
themselves, but their oustcmers-whose name is
legion-say so too How they can do it is easy
of explanation, as you will SEQ on asking them
the question,
Year: 1868

This long tried and popular Remedy is again called to the attention of the public. As often

 as the year rolls around, the proprietors make their bow an ually to the people, and remind them that amongst the many things required for the health, comfort and sustenance of the family through the long and tedious moaths Of winter. Goes Cough Balsam should not be forgotten. For years it has been household medicine-and mothers anxious for the safety oi their children. and all who suffer from any dlsease oi the throat, chest and lungs, cannot afford to be without it. In addition to the or dlnary four ounce so long in the market. we now furnish our mammoth family size bottles which will, in common with the other size. be found at all Drug Stores.
Year: 1868

Do not delay procuring and immediately taking Goes Cough Balsam, when troubled wl1h any Of the above named difficulties. They are all premonitory symptoms of Consumption and if not arrested, will sooner or later sweep you away into the valley of shadows from which none can ever return. h'
Year: 1868

The STATE CONvENTIoN.-The State Con-


vention to elect six Delegates to the National
Convention convenes in Dover tomorrow. It
is stated that passenger cars will be attached
to the freight train north in the evening to
enable delegates to return. The fare will be
two-thirds the regular rates. We give else
where the names of the delegates from this
county as far as we have been able to get them