smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1859

shoes, and all known commodities. Both the ex-
porting and distributing trade would be in Boston,
in spite of New York and all the world beside, at
least till Massachusetts is supplied with $50 900 00O
OF additional coin and as much more as she chooses
to obtain by producing commodities, in pro
portion to dollars, than any other State The eff
feet would be to turn the exchanges and the trade
OF the whole country in favor of Boston; for where
the dollar will buy the most, there the dollar will
go, and there goods must be sold in exchange for it.


New Orleans, since the passage of the restrictive
banking Law of Louisiana, has prospered beyond any
former period of ner history, and she almost entire
Y escaped the serious consequences of the revulsion
oil 1891. Her banks usually hold about half the
sum of their immediate liabilities in SPECIE This,
with the suppression of bank notes below the de-
nomination of five dollars, makes her currency
about two-thirds coin, which keeps the exchanges
almost constantly in her favor giving her greatly
the advantage in traffic, according to her resources


considering her unhealthy climate, over New York.
Yet prices are not apprecably lower in New Or
leans than elsewhere. They are low enough to Sc
cure the sale of the commodities instead of dollars


and that's all: the difference is scarcely perceptb!e


Now | propose to the merchants and manufac-
turers to take measures for the establishment of a
"Bullion Savings Bank in Boston, to borrow,
lend and circulate coin; or, if required by custom
ers and thought desirable by the propretors, GER
tlhcates of deposit for coin held in reserve to meet
the certificates dollar for dollar whether presented
or not; so as to avoid in anv case the addition of
heton OF money to the currency. If the certificate
cIrculates, the d Illar must not; that is we must
not attempt to lend and circulate the ownership of
the coin and the coin itself for the same sum at the
same time. We cannot eat our cake and haze 1t too


This bank with solid capital to protect
depostors, which the existing savings banks
have not, would yield more profit to its pro-
prietors, in my opinion, than the debtor banks
of our present system. 1t would be constantly the
creditor institution of the city; it would help to
make Boston the creditor city, and Massachusetts,
the creditor State of the Union. 1t would with
draw about ten dollars of debt for every dollar of
money it employed. Supposing it to employ $780,
oOO OF coin in the exchanges, it would reduce sir
mattons of debt in New England, somewhere, and
cause the circulation of the same sum of merchan-
disc with cash that is circulated on credit. In
the hands Of responsible and competent trustees,
with their own capital invested therein, this insi-
tuition would succeed; and commend the matter
to the consideration of those who would shorten
credits, and increase the sale of goods for cash.
Year: 1859

Having had considerable experience
with foundered horses. l will give
condensed account of one case through
your valuable paper. When but q
youngster, and inexperienced, ] drove a
horse rather hard, and perhaps gave
hin, water too soon, and fed rye bran at
night. Whether it was the water, the
hard driving, or the unaccustomed feed
that stltfencd the horse, | am unable to
say: but in the morning he fell in COM
inc out Of the stable, and was unable to
use his limbs. I called horse -farrier,
who said he could cure the horse, but
should keep secret what he did unless l
would give him ten dollars. | told him
if he cured the horse would give lin a
private receipt that was valued at fifty
dollars, that would be very beneficial in
his business. This he accepted, and
went to work. lie first gave the horse
all the salt he would eat, saying if he
did not eat freely he should dissolve
somc.and turn it down. He next bed
in the warts upon the forward legs, hay-
ing peeled them down thin and oiled
them. The bleeding was performed by
my holding up one foot, while he pinch
ed the wart upon the other leg with his
thumb and finger, saen running small,
sharp knife blade into the middle Of the
wart and up under the skin and upper
part Of the wart, about one inch and a
half, taking care not to touch the inside
skin over the bone. He did the same to
both legs. There was but little blood
came from either. We nextcommenecd
rubbing the legs and moving the horse
about, and as soon as he thought lie
would not fall, we put him before the
wagon and started off upon the road
As soon he began to warm up Lc I'M
proved rapidly, and BY the time he had
gone six or eight miles he went as well
as ever he did, and never after showed
any signs OF founder Correspondence
n. f. Farmer.
Year: 1859

Monday night loud talk was heard
principally the wife's voice, for some two
hours. Then some one was heard to go
out aud return in few moments, after
which a noise as Of blow and she was
heard to cry out "Ch don't Harry sey.
eral other blows followed quickly, and
all was still. About two hours before
day the child bright little boy three
or four years old, was heard crying and
calling for its mother, but nothing
strange was thought Of these things un-
til in the morning the little fellow came
to Mr.. Sims dooor crying with his blood
stained shirt in his hand. Search was
immediately made and the bodies soon
found as described above. A post NOR
TEN examination Of the body cf the wife
showed three severe blows on the skull
two Of which were sufficient Of them
selves to have caused instant death. Her
stomach was found to be opened by IN
cisons made at right angles to one ano
ther, and pair Of fine gators put with
in. one of which was almost torn to
pieces, though evidently new.


The deceased husband was a butcher
by trade. lie did his work of disse,t
ing with razor found in his pocket.
His object appears at first to have been
to destroy the body and other evidences
of his guilt, but finding it impossible,
put an end to his existence.
Year: 1859

The cost of mail transportation by the
overland route to San Francisco is sixty
five dollars for each letter. The propo
sition that the correspondence Of the
country on routes over which the mail
can be transported at the present post
age, shall be raised so as to make up
the enormous deficiency on the Califor-
MIA route, is rather cool. If it bo said
that this costly route is to be kept open
for other than post Office purposes, then
let other than post Office revenues sup
port it.
Year: 1859

Tuesday morning our community was
shocse ed at . ,cpert brougt into town
that one Of those tragic events which
tell Of the deep dcpravity into which hu
man nature can descend, or the intensi
ty Of the feelings that can rend the hu-
man soul, had taken place in our midst:
"a man had murdered and dissected
his wife and deliberately hung himself
about five miles west Of Newton, on the
farm Of Mr.. l.. D. Sims. Repairing at
once to the scene Of the murder we were
shown the room in which the murder
was committed-a very small, low room
in which were found the bloody axe and
blood stained bed on which probably the
deed was done. Thence, following the
clearly marked track around a small barn
to spot where the dead body Of the
wife evidently had been laid down, into
low straw thatched stable, which was
reached through low narrow passage,
We came upon such sight as God for
bid We should ever again witness. s.-Iln :
mcdiately in front Of US as we entered
lay the head Of the wife and mother,
partially wrapped in an old stocking
and laid up in the straw near by in a
rough log manger, lay the headless trunk
wrapped in blue figared silk dress aud
bloody sheet, the legs skillfully sever.
ed at the knee joint, and the stomach
opened just below the breast bone with
in few feet Of the head and mangled
body hung the lifcless body Of the hus-
band and father, his feet resting firmly
on the ground, his knees bent, and his
hands hanging carelcssly by his side
He had fastened strap to rail in the
low root, had then slipped his head
through moose, and in the most deter
mined and deliberate manner, had laun
ched himself into the presence of his God
He could have saved himself either BY
grasping the rail above him or by mere
ly strengthening himself as he rested
upon the ground. Surely he must have
welcomed death as relief from the tor
ments Of his poor tortured soul.


An inquest was held in the afternoon





which ELECTED the following facts: The
deceased, Harvey Copeland and Lucin-
da Copeland, were about 80 and 25 years
Of age respectfully.-Thcy came from
Henry county Indiana, where the de-
ceased has mother and other relatives
living. Their married life had been un-
happy. For while they lived near
Fort Dss Moines, but separating he
went to Missouri some nine months since
and she came into Jasper county to live
with her friends. A short time since he
came back and sought reconciliation
which she for some time refused. III
nally asserting, Monday they moved in.
to small building on the place Of Mr..
Sims, he saying to others that he had
determined to do better, and hoping she
would. The building was some FIVE or
six feet distant from Mr.. Sims dwelling
Year: 1859

Through the kindness of Mrs. Allen,
we have been permitted to publish the
following private letter, for the benefit
and information Of eur readers.


Mr.. Allen is well known all over this
State to be man Of truth and veracity


He has been member Of the House
of Representatives, and was an Al
derman of, and Post Master in this
city, which Offices he resigned when he
left last fall for the Nebraska Gold
Mines. The letter was written to his
wife and not intended for publication,
and hence, if he wero man who would
try to mislead others, it cannot be sup
posed that he would deceive his own
family. We will remark that the cords
are his, the italics and caps arc oars,
which We have used for the purpose Of
calling attention to that portion Of the
letter that is Of the most importance to
gold seeking emigrants. Here is the
letter:


AURoRA,..N. 7. Dec. l, '5s.


Dear Wife and Daughtcrs:-I am now
seated in my own Log Cabia, and if
only had you all here / would be truly
happy. hope BY next summer to have
Year: 1859

you here. There is but two white wo-
men in this country that I know Of
We have had large deputation Of Ara.
apho indians on w.aose lands We are
They are very friendly, aud appear to
be pleased that We are here.
have been about thirty miles south
Of here on Cherry Creek, prospecting
for gold, and panned out forty five cents
worth in one painful Of dirt. It is very
fine. think that with the right kind OF
tools a person can make from IS to $50
per day.


In this letter send you little gold
dust. It is worth about sevcnty-hv 9
cents. This l got out in two pans Of
dirt. Show it to DR.. Craig, he can tell
whether it is IS good as California gold.


know where there are diggings that
the gold is larger than this. | have
seen some about the size Of white beans,
but it is impossible to do anything like
work in the winter; but as soon as tho
spring opens we will be in certain. You
will no doubt see some who have return
ed dissatisfied with the country and ev-
rything out here but such persons
would not be satisfied with any place
This I can assure all my friends; that
any one will work, can make money fast;
but there is some here that will not do
we'll in any place. But here all that is
wanted is industry to insure fortune.
While I am writing to you, half
dozen Araphahoes are sitting beside mo
talking their language and calling me
chief. l have been elected Director OF
the Town Company and President OF the
Claim Company, and the Indians seeing
the whites come to me on business, think
I certainly must be 6 chief andasva
dubbed me chief accordingly. One
thing want you to be sure and tell all
our friends that come out in the spring,
that old Cal;forians have no advantage
over the rest Of US, from the fact that
the diggings beats them out-they arc
not confined to any particular location
but are scattered all over the country.
for distance Of over two undred miles.
The whole country seems to be impreS-
mated with gold.


We have organized claim laws for
farming and Mining which | think are
very good and liberal We have preach
ing every other Sunday BY Methodist
brother by the name Of Fisher--a very
clever and good man; thousha 'F'sher
for souls he is like the rest Of US fish
ing for the 'hlthy lucre." Those who.
come out should start early il the
spring.


There is about eight hundred persons
in this contry.


If the girls could only be here to Sc
the Rocky Mountains in tho morning or
evening: when the sun is shinipg--they
would see one Of the most beautiful
sights they ever baheld. /. is about
eight miles to the mountains. The first
tier is covered with pine timber, aud
looks as black as can BE-. The second
tier is covered with snow the year round:
and looking at both, with the peaks Of
snow, the craggy rocks, and upon the
pines below, forms the grandest sight |
ever saw.


It costs fifty cents to get letter from
here to Fort Laramie, and the same to get
one back from there. It used to cost
dollar.


We are going to have train come IN
July, and bring out our families.
I remain Yours Affectionately,
HENRY ALLEN.
Year: 1859

Will the subscribers Of the Transcript,
after reading this No. marx the follow
ing sensible paragraph, taken from the
American Farmers Magazine, and then
lend the paper to their neighbors, who
are not taking it. Wo claim we are not
particularly selfish in its publication !; for
il the advice therein given, would be
accepted and rracticed more generally,
BY the citizeLs Of our County. we could
give to all our subscribers, better equiv
alent for their money than they arc now
receiving. We shall enlarge and otherwise
improve our laper just as soon as it can
be afforded. With our present support
it would be a sinking business. Who
then is at fault?


"LocAL NEwspApERs.-How apt are
people to grumble about things that are
cheap and easy to obtain-that are rath-
er urged upon them. The county pa
per is an example. Oh, say the inhabi-
tants, it is a slim affair; it ccntains but
half as much as the city papers, in pro-
portion to its price; we co not think
much Of it.


You do not, dc you? Why, the county
paper is the greatest educator in the
land. No man can expend dollar or
two SO bcneGcially to his family as by
taking his own county paper. Take
that if you take no other. Take it till
you give the publisher enough to make
it better, if it is not as good as you
wish"
Year: 1859

The sun has very dense atmosphere.
What his body must be, it is impossible TO
conjecture, but he seems to be surrounded
by a motlIed ocean of fame, through which
h dark nucleus appears like black spots,
often OF enormous size. These spots are
almost always comprised within a zone OF
the suns surface, whose breadth, measured
on a solar meridian, does not extend beyond
thirty and one half degrees on each side of
his equator, though they have been seen at
the distance of thirty-nine and a half de-
grees. From their extensive and rapid
changes, there is every reason TO suppose
that the exterior and incandescent part OF
the sun is gaseons. The solar rays, proba-
bly, arising from chemical processes that
continually take place al his surface, or
from electricity, are transmitted through
space in all directions; but Notwithstanding
the suns magnitude, and the inconceivable
heat that must exist at his surface, as the
intensity both of his light and heat dimin-
ishes as the square of the distance increas-
es, his influence can hardly be felt at the
boundaries of our system, or, at all events,
it must be but feeble.


The direct light of the sun has been es-
timated to be equal to that of 1858 wax
candles of moderate size, supposed to be
placed at the distance of one foot from the
object That of the moon is, probably
only equal to the light of one candle at the
distance of twelve feet. Consequently, the
light Of the sun is more than three hundred
thousand times greater than that of the
moon. Hence the light OF the moon in
parts no heat. 1t is believed from recent
experiments, that the direct light Of the
moon is capable of raising thermometer
one three hundred thousand part of ven-
tigrade degree, at least in this climate.
The intensity of the suns light diminishes
from the centre to the circumference Of the
solar system.
Year: 1859

1t was formerly law in Germany that
female condemned to capital punishment
should be saved if any man would marry
her. A young girl of Vienna was on the
point Of being executed when her youth
and beauty made a great impression upon
the heart of one of the spectators, who was
Nepolian, middle-aged man, but excess
sively ugly. Struck with her charms, he
determined to save her, and running imme-
diately TO the place of execution, declared
his intention to marry the girl, and demand
ed her pardon, according to the custom Of
The country.


The pardon was granted on condition
that the girl was not averse to the match.
The Nepolitan then calamity told the fe-
male that he was a gentleman of some prop
erty, and that he wished he was Kirg
that he might offer her stronger proof Of
his attachment. "Alas SIR" replied the
girl, Il am fully sensible of your affection
and generosity, but | am not mistress over
my own heart, aud l cannot belle my sem
timents. Unfortunately they control my
fate; and prefer the death with which
am threatened to marrying such an ugly
fellow as you" The NepoIitan retired in
confusion, ard the woman directed the exe-
cutioner to do his office.
Year: 1859

" "Genteel it is to have soft hands, but
not genteel 10 work on lands; genteel it is
to lie abed, but not genteel TO earn your
bread grnteel it is to cringe and bow,
but not genteel 10 SOW and plough; gen.
teel it is to play the beau, but not genteel
to reap and NOV; genteel it is to keep
gig, but not genteel 10 hoe and dig; genteel
it is IN trade TO fail, but not genteel to swing
the fail genteeI it is to play the fool, but
not genteel to keep school; g'nteel 1t is
to cheat your tailor, but not genteel TO be
sailor; genteel it is to fight duel, but not
genteel to cut your fuel; genteelit is to eat
rich cake, but not genteel TO cook and bake /;
genteel it is TO have the blues, but not gen
teel to wear thick shoes genteel 1t is to
roll in wealth. but not genteel 10 have good
health genteel it is to cut friend, but not
genteel your clothes to mend genteel it is
TO make show, but not genIeel poor folks
TO know genteel il is TO run away, but not
genteel at home to stay; genteel Il is to
smirk and smile. but not genteel to shun
all guile; genteel it Is TO be knave, but
not gen,eel your cash to save; genteel it is
to make a bet, but not genteel 10 pay a
debt; genieel it is 10 play at dice, but not
genteel to take advice genteel it is TO
curse and swear, but not genteel plan
clothes to wear; genteel it is TO know a
lord, but not genteel to pay your board !;
genteel it is to skip ard hop, but not gen
teel to keep shop; gente.l it is to waste
your life, hut not gehteel to love your wife.
| cannot tell what | may do. or what bad
SC mes may yet pass through | may, per-
chance, turn deaf and blind, the pity OF all
human kind; ! may, perhaps, be doomed
to beg, or hop about upon one leg; or, even,
| may come TO steal, but may never be
g-ntetl Come joy OF sorrow, veal or woe,
oh, may / never get that low
Year: 1859

In the year l849, young man, who was
rich and engaged in lucrative business in
Cincinnati, became enanored of beauti-
ful and amiable girl--and, after a brief
courtship, married her. He loved her dear
ly. A future of happiness seemed in store
for them but evil days came, and the young
man became bankrupt. He was left with
out a doAar, but not without hope. The
gold mines of California were open to the
adventurous and the industrious. He would
leave his beautiful wife and seek its glitter.
ing shores, where he would remain until his
fallen fortunes were revived. The resolu-
ton once taken was soon executed. He
came to Calfornia--but the cloud still hung
over him. He was active, enterprising,
and perseyering; yet, while others around
him were gathering the golden harvest in
abundance his every project failed. For
eight years he continued thus. He became
sick, weary, and disheartened, but his pride
would not allow him to write home Tor as
sstance. de was at las reduced TO sell
newspapers on the street for living. A
few weeks ago he was at Folsom street
wharf, upon the arrival of mail steamer,
and among the passengers who came ashore
he caught glimpse OF richly dressed Ia
dy whom he thought he knew. He follow
ed her to hotel, and got fair view, and
recognized her as his wife, whom he had
not seen for eight years. He was poorly
dressed, but his affections conquered his
pride, and he Immediately made himself
known to her. The recognition was follow
ed by beautiful exhibition of undated
and unfaltering love. The lady's parents
had died, leaving her an heiress of great
wealth. She had not heard of her hus-
band for four years, and, fearing for his
safety, resolved to visit this State and make
enquiries for herself. The lady closed her
conversation with her husband by putting
her arm around his neck, and saying, Now
dear George, we can go home al d be hap
py, as we used to be- They did 60 home.
This story is strictly true.
Year: 1859

and to be well made for if flaw can be
picked in the workmanship, all the seam
stress work goes for nothing.


Do you believe it? 1t is fact We
saw the shirts to-day. We saw the care
worn and work-worn mother, and her child
ren. We have heard that such facts were
plenty. We know they are Would some
charitable ladies like to see the same? Let
them go to tie House Of Industry any day,
for one hour, and if they do not return to
their homes with the heart-ache, we are no
true prophet.-N Y. Tribune.
Year: 1859

Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton, in lecture re-
Gently delivered in England, gave the follow
ing history of his literary habits: Many per-
sons, seeing me so much engaged in active life,
and as much about the world as If had never
been student, have said to me, "When do ye u
get time to write all your books? How on earth
do you contrive to do SO much?" l shall sur
prise you by the answer l make The answer
is this contrive to do so much by never do
ing too much at timel A man, to get through
work WELL must not overwork himself; or, if
he do too much to-day, the reaction of fatigue


will come, and he will be obliged to do toolit-
tie tomorrow. Now, since began really and
earnestly to study, which was rot till i had left
college, and was actually in the world, I may
perhaps say that have gone through as large
course of general reading as most men of any
time have travelled much and have seen
much I have mixed much in politics, and the
various business of life and in addition to all
this, have published somewhere about sixty
volumes, some upon subjects requiring much
research. And what time, do you think, as q
general rule, have devoted to udy-to read
ing and writing? Not more than three hours
day; and when Parliament is sitting, not al
ways that. But then, during those hours, I
have given my attention to what I was about.
Year: 1859

RESIST THE BEGINNINGs.-TheA Arabs have
fable of a miller, who was one day startled
by camePs nose thrust in the windows of the
room where he was sleeping at is very cold
outside" said the camel; az only want to get
my nose in.' The nose was let in, then the
neck, and finally the whole body Presently
the miller began to be extremely inconve-
nienced at tie ungainly companion he had OBJ
tanned, in room certainly not large enough for
both. off you are inconyenienced, you may
leave" said the camel; Gas for myself, shall
stay where am" The moral of the fable
concerns all. When temptation comes, we
must not yield to it. We must not allow SO
much as its nose to come in. Everything like
sin is to be turned away from. He who yields
even the smallest degree will soon be entirely
overcome; and the last state of that man is
worse than the first.