smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1868

The following is floating around, taken from
some religious paper, originally, we suppose:


1t is a cause of modification to all persons
of good taste, and even middling breeding, to
observe the IndlScrlnlnate putfery which is
lavished upon the clergy by the religious
press. The uniformity in the application of
the adjective " able to the sermons and the
persons of our preachers, is drawing the mer-
riment of the unthnking and the grief of the
judlciOus 1t is very rarely that you find
publicly aIluded-t to sermon that is not publicly
described as liable" And when we consider
how few sermons nowadays 20 without being
publicly alluded to, the number of able SER
mons " will at once arrest attention. The
rouslng extemporaneous outburst which car
rleS the audience captive for the moment and
the elaborate and studied |" set sermon,' are
both pronounced able by the denominations
al organ. The cooling platitudes of ''the Rev.
Lavender Kidds, as well as the searching ap-
peal of a very John Knox both come out
able" discourses under the manipulation of
the newspaper reporter. Now, if you describe
the good, honest preacher at the crossroads
school-hOuse as - able, what will you say of
your genuinely able preacher when you get
round to him? We have known q sermon
which was received with modification on ac-
count of its feebleness by the audience who
heard 1t, to be heralded in the denominational
organ as able, not to say powerful, and
what not. Now, therefore, we take our pen in
hand to say in all good nature, Don't, to those
who are doing this thing. 1t is vulgar 1t is
tinselry. 1t is mortifying. 1t is damaging to
the good cause Of good taste, not to say the
better cause of candor and religion. OF course
these sermons are not all ''able," although all
of their authors may be persons whom we
would gladly patronize, or friends whom we
would delight to see make rapid ascent of the
ladder Of renoun. But this calling a man
''able" will not make him so, and aftera while
the discerning impenitent see through the
sham, retire in disgust from afhliation with the
religious, and take their places in the ranks of
those who see no difference in the matter of
meekness between the children of this world
and the children of light There really ought
to be little Of the let-up in the putting de-
partment of the religious press. We are aware
that this department is largely edited by gaudy
correspondents but there is no excuse in this
fact. The editor is as much responsible for the
tawdriness of his contributors as he is for his
own opinions. Putting is an American disease,
and it is raging with ruinous violence in the
American Church. 1t is time for every editor
who would save his Masters cause from disre-
pute, and the successors of his Master from
reproach, to do whatsoever in him lies to stay
the ravages of this destructive malady, re-
marks writer in an independent exchange.
Year: 1868

A GRAVEsTONE Widow Maria Spoor, Of
Belllngsville, has recently sent the following
eplstle to one Of our prominent EOrtuary
sculptors: You was pointed out to me the
other day as the man who makes gravestOnes.
| want stone for my late husband HeZckiah
SSpoor; l want large stone, as he was very
large man, say feet wide and high. His
age was GO years, 9 months, and II days, had
he lived till % clock in the morning, but as he
died at II think you better put it down lG
days. want you to be particular-git it right
Ills disease was bilious colick, and was sick
only = days and nights. ] want you to put
it In, especially the disease he was sick with
he was most awful sick. The first day he was
afraid he would die, and the next day he was
afraid he wouldn't, but he died. yes, he's
Dead but shall never forget the expression
that lit up his courtonancG in his latter mo-
ments [ understood that you sometimes carve
images on graycstOnes and hkenesscs. Now,
If you can do so, | wish you would chisel out
pictur of my Hezekiah (ate Hezekiah |
mean, for he did not look like another Heze-
klall that l met Yesterday | Will try to de-
scribe his looks. lie was really fne-looking
man, had whiskers which was red, short
neck and very large head and foot-but don't
SUPPOSE you could chisel out his foot in the
pictur, but you might get his hand in. lie had
a large mouth and two large gray eyes. His
eyes were very peculiar, and | want you to
catch this popularity on the gravestone. 1
will try to describe this pecu.iarity: One eye
you want looking right at you, and the other
you want turned as though it was looking up
the chimney all the time. Now ! want this
done by next week. as think Of marrying
another Hezakiah the week AFTER and | want
the gravestone up before, for fear this other


Iezakiah would think it was designed for Lin
| don suppose YOU could picture him hav-
ing the bilious cOck could YOU? | want TO
pay you part in some of the clothes he had on
when he died with the bilious colck, and the
rest | will pay you in money as soon as | get
married, which will be in about , weeks, [
think, though l only spoke to him for the first
time yesterday. Tell me by return OF post
what will be the price of the gravestone with
him having the bilious colick."
Year: 1868




As the period approaches for the an
= n1lal visit of the tax collector. we think
If becomes a matter of the first impor-
lance to the people Of the State that some
concert of action should be adopted, not
only in this parish, but indeed. through
out the entire State, relative to the pay
mept of taxes which have been levied by
the recent so-called State Legislature.
The question to be determined is, wheth
or these taxes shall be paid by the people
or not 1t would not only be unwlse, but
would also fail to produce the desired
effect. for one, two or dozen persons in
each parish to refuse to pay .taxes-all
should refuse to pay. For one, we say
let all refuse to pay and thereby force
the tax gatherer to resort to his remedies
provided by law. The reasons for this
are two-fold First, tits the means which
we have in our power to cut off the sup
plies of the army of plunderers, calling
themselves a State Government, which
now Illegally controls the State of Lou
isiana.> This so-called State government
has been repudiated by the taxpayers
of the State with a unanimity unprece-
dented in political elections. If these
men insist upon holding on to the State
government, notwithstanding tllisialmost
unanimous popular verdict against them.
there is but one course left for the people,
and that is to cut off the source OF their
supplies. The second reason why these
taxes should not be paid is, that they
have been made intolerably onerous by
the reckless character OF recent leglsla-
hn co an a
as to operate gradual, but certain pro
cess of eonfscation. The danger that
this result may follow is by no means i'm
probable, when we remember that taxa
ton is imposed in this State by men who
bear no portion of it's burdens. .-


There is nothing revolutionary in the
course we suggest. because, while the
people are without any legal remedy to
rid themselves Of an illegal and oppres-
siye State government. yet we do not
propose any resort TO force to resist the
collection of these taxes. The charae-
ter of the resistance which, we think,
should be adopted is legal and peacea-
BILE. and certain and effective. Ii the
people will agree among themselves,
there never can be sale ofany property
for taxes, because there will be no bid
deFs. IL the people will unite and act in
concert, a ulere song from each will pay
the expenses of legal obstacles thrown in
the way of the tax gatherer, which will
postpone collection until legal relief can
be had. In the meantime. the plunder-
ers and adventures who now control the
State government of Louisiana will be
compelled to seek other and more prom
Using fields for their adventures.


We think the press of the State should
agitate this subject. As far as this par
ish is concerned, we suggest that a mass
meeting of the people assemble in this
city on Saturday, the 9Th. of December
next. for the purpose of calmly and dis
passionately considering this question OF
the payment of taxes, so as at least to
secure entire uniformity of action among
the people of Caddo. ..-..s->


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Year: 1868

THE WEEKLY TIMES.


Journal devoted TO the interest and supremacy Of


the Ditae man.


Terms, in advance, only So. The cheapest
newspaper in the State of Mississippi.


Having larger daily circulation than any other
paper published in. Mississippi, the publishers of
the Vicksbwg Weekly Times are determined to
have larger circulation for their Weekly than
any other journal in tho State can boast. To Sc
cure this object and place the Weekly Times with
in the reach of the poorest in the land, We have
determined to reduce tho price of subscription to
tlDo dollars per annun, invariably in advance!
This will make the Times the cheapest weekly
paper ever published in Mississippi, while for the
quality of its contents, we shall not shrink from n
comparison with any other journal within the
| limits of the State.


We are satisfied that the friends of the Times
will appreciate the motives which prompt us to
furnish good ftaaily newspaper at price which
scrption and we therefore, take the liberty of
questing every friend of the Rights and Liberties
of the Southern people, to act as agent in OBJ
tanning subscriptions for and in sustaining manly
and Independent journal-a journal at all times
devoted to the best and most cherished interests of
the Southern people. a
In politics, the Times WILL as heretofore, be
democratic and dnti-1adiedl an oil things. In the
future, in the past, it will be the defiant and
| relentless foe of tyrants and tyranny. -
| The columns of the Times viii be replete with
general information, both foreign and domestic,
and the latest and most interesting State aud sec
tional news will be carefully compiled. Now is
the time to subscribe and secure large amount of
reading matter for the family circle. to patronize
acsitc mans paper and sustain home institution.
Year: 1868




Py virtue Of an order Of the Honorable Judge
-1) of the Ninth District Court In and for tie
parish of Natchitoches, will offer for sale at
public auction at Lissos Landing, near Coushatta
Chute in this parish, on


Monday, 24th day of August, 1868,
the following property belonging to tie minors
Samuel and Paul Lisso, situated in the parish of
Natchitoches viz: Five lots of ground each con-
tanning one acre front, with the depth OF an acre
and hall, situated on the upper portion of the
tract of one hundred and eleven acres of land be-
longing to said minors: Lot number one begin
ming in the northeastern or extreme upper corner
of the tract the river 'front.' next to the line of
land belonging to Robert Stothart, acquired from
w Guthrie, and running down the river front for
the quantity OF one acre front, and back from the
river for the quantity of one and a half acres in
depth; the second lot to join the first described lot
below with the same front on the river and depth
and the third; fourth and fft, lots to be situated
respectively. below the second lot, with the same
quantity of front and depth, according to survey
and pat to be made of the said lots and which
wiz be exhibited on the day of safe.


TERMS OF SALE:


The lots viii be offered for SALE separately, and
VIII be sold For Cash, subject to the full APP
praisement of each to be made.


SAMUEL PRISON,
July 2lst, 1868. Sheriff.
Year: 1868

In the primary stages of Syphilis and Gonorrhea
a cure is guaranteed in few days, and in the sec
on0sry and tertiary he gives assurance of
Radical cure in as short a time as possible.
Year: 1868

We G Ne below the substance of the
decree finally pronounced in the Court
of Chancery in the important case of
"Wiman VS.. Bradstreet." Plaintiff al
legged in his plea that the Defendants
had in their book called "Bradstreet's
Commercial Reports" made so servile a
copy of Dun, Wiman g. Cos Reference
Book" that even the verbal inaccu-
racies and typographical errors are re-
produced. DEPENDENTS denied the
charge upon oath, and stated that "their
work had been published bona 1fde with
out any knowledge or intention of pi-
rating plaintiffs book. -


1t was proved so conclusively, how
ever, at the last spring sittings at Co.
burg, that the defendants book was a
copy of the other, that defendants coun-
sci admitted the piracy, but said "you
have no copyright to protect you. The
work is ours as much as yours we have
a right to do as we have done, for yours
is virtually published book" Plaintiff
replied, "we print this book for our sub
scribers only, who sign an agreement to
keep its contents private. The public
have no right to see it, and defendants
could only have obtained possession of
it by theft, or else by breach of contract
on the part of some subscriber"


The result of the case finally decided
in this court, after argument upon its
merits, shows that the court upheld the
plaintiff in respect of the facts, as well
as of the law.


The perpetual injunction granted re-
strains the defendants or their agents
from publishing or distributing in this
province the book called " Bradstreet's
Commercial Report" or any hook being
copy of or substantially copied or de-
rived from the plaintiffs book, or con-
tanning any information, names or
ratings, copied or colorably altered from
the plaintiffs book, or derived from the
defendants knowledge of the plaintiffs
book. It was further ordered that de.
PENDANTS pay the cost of the suit To
romto Monetary Times and Insurance
Chronicle.


This is indeed case of infinite i'm
portance to all classes of the mercantile
"The Mercantile Agency"
is, we assume, the necessary outgrowth
of an extended credit system; its in
fluence for good or evil is very great. If
efficiently and honestly conducted it can
be made useful instrument in the con-
serving of credits, and for the safety of
business, but if unreliable and inefficient,
it becomes delusion and snare
Leaving altogether out of view the injury
Year: 1868

The Cincinnati Commercial publishes
the following letters as having been re-
ceived by its correspondent from Gen.
Forrest, to whom they were addressed.
They were handed over as specimens Of
many of like character, and the Com
mercial suggests as the inference that
there are Northern Ku-Kluxs:"


CHICAGO August 26, 1868


General Forrest leak out for you and
all the smart men in the south are goin
to be pisoned


Just before the election for i heard a
man say he works in drugstore say
that every preacher all over the south
has got lots of pison and are going for to
give it to the colored folks for to pison
all the rich and smart southern men just
before the election.
Year: 1868

We remember many years ago witness
ing play in which Henry Placide took
a part, and being very much impressed
with the fine old comedians emphatic
delivery of "Six weeks before / married
my wife, sir, 1 could have eaten her; six
weeks after / was sorry | didn't" We
take this to be about as true and typical
a Joke as was ever perpetrated on or of
the stage. We should say there are on
an average about ten men out of every
hundred to whom experience has not in;
parted the capacity to thoroughly en-


into and appreciate Iaordi7


significance of Ass


ten are happy,


enough to possess The < -


nubial craving suggestsSBby Placidz
lament. Some may object to this nur1
ber as being too liberal; and really Il
one were to deduct ten from every hun
dred men, there would be left larger
number of contented married men thar
the world could possibly show. So We
split the difference and call the number
Of happy men, in every hundred married
men, five.
The time between the first falling il
love with girl aud the marrying her i
not an Elyseum on earth to man, al
though Tom More, with the inconsisten
enthusiasm of a poetic thinker, calls it
"A ioy beyond all that the minstrel has told
Still. if it has its unpleasantness, 1t ha


also its pleasures. A man may live
hundred years without ever experiencin!
such a moment of delight as when, will
his arm encircling Serephina's waist


she timidly answers in reply to his equal,
timid question, whether she will MARI,
him. ssYes.n Of course we all kno,
that there are some men who propos
| without the least intention of being ac
cepted, and who, if they are accepted
leave the country. But thisis tribe wit
j which we have nothing to do Nor ca
they be properly be said to enter into


consideration of love making in its pur
est and most emotional form. There ar


some very happy hours passed during a
engagement and some very unhappy hour


too. But you would not have the law


compensation to suspend its operation
merely because you happen to be en-


gagedl A man when he is in love gen


orally feels very poetical. There are mo


ments when he is sensible of the capaci
Year: 1868

ate, cut with taxed knife, and
lastly, eaten by pretty heavily taxed
man.


If it were not for the taxes you could
buy bushel of meal for what that peck
cost you. Besides, it is not on that
alone that you are taxed, but on every
thing you have to buy. A pound of su-
gar costs only threel or four cents, but
you have to pay forty, and if it costs you
three hundred dollaSaA year to support
your family you may safely say one-half
of this is tax. Now, is it any wonder
that times are hard and that you find it
difficult to live?
Year: 1868

NEVER chase your hat when it blows
off in gale of wind; just stand still and
you will presently see half dozen peo-
pie in pursuit of it. When one has cap
tured it walk leisurely toward him, re-
ceive it with grateful acknowledgement,
and place it on your head. He will in
variably act as if you had done him ia
Yor. Try it.
Year: 1868

1CHfCAGO August 20.


General, Two years ago was in Jail
in cincinnati and l got acquainted with
a very hanson young white girl 18 years
old and / paid IL dollars and a half.
for that was the finde that she was inde.
me and her has ben liveing together ever
cince IN chicago but yesterday she went
of with 2 preachers went to the house
WHARF she had gone and she and the two
prechers and the lfiys, ladys and 6
prechers said she was going south to tech
school and she got RELIGION and was not
goin to live girl life any more.


And when knew that she was going
for to leave me wanted her to give me
back the goald watch and chain and all
the things that gave her. she would
not give them up so broke open the
trunk. it was fild chockful of pison, and
i am shoure by what i hear WHISPERED
among the colard folks that plenty pisor
is sent south to all the school teacher:
and prechers to give the colard folks SC
that they can murder all the southern
white folks Gen Forrest know il to b
so. Tare or burn this up when you
read it.
Year: 1868

lay Mrs. Vane in swoon, and on the
bed Mary, her hands clasped together
over her bosom, her brown hair falling
around her pillow, and her white face
upturned-upon it the cold, rigid white
ness of death.


Arthur had the cold form in his arms
in moment, and was calling upon her
frantically until the ministers.drew her
out of his arms, laid her back i pom the
pillow, and said, "Peace, my son. Your
voice can not pierce her ear, which is
filled with the music of the heavenly
hosts"


And he lead the stricken lover away


All day he sat erect and frozen in the
parlor, never moving until the doctor,
who had been summoned, came down
stairs, and put his hand upon his shoul-
der


81 can make nothing of it, Mr.. Rice.
Mrs. Vane assures me that no one of her
family has ever had heart disease. and
that Miss Brace was never in bettal
Year: 1868

! 7 The Springfield (Illinois) Journal has
the following account of a divorce suit
that has been commenced in that city:


The plaintiff in the case is a lady of
the highest respectability The brute,
her husband, who. resists her plaintive
petition, is gentleman :" not entirely
disconnected" as Mr.. Micawber would
say, with the most improved method Of
overland transportation. He was, when
he promised to love and cherish the
petitioner in the case, locomotive en-
gineer. Shortly after his marriage, he
removed with his bride to this city, and
his efforts were directed to securing a
home Tor his family. With this view,
he bought several acres of land located
at that time quite outside of the city,
and on portion he built snug dwell
ing house. This property, he, with pru-
dent foresight, the inspiration of conf
dence and affection, decided to his wife


Time passed on, and the engineer bought
with his savings, small lots of land, all
of which he placed in his wife's name, so
that they might be safe. The property
originally bought became valuable, and
portion was sold, and other lots were
leased. The profits arising from these
sources were carefully invested, and so
the engineer was thriving man, and
his wife was able to dress " like some
body" The sobriety and steadiness of
the engineer attracted the attention. of
men N high position, and he was induced
to accept charge of an important public
work in a far western State. The
Springfield property was too prom
was left behind to manage it,
After the engineer Che bears different
title now) had been gone year, the
wife found herself lonely, and took a
nice young man. to board with her.
The engineer, busy with the duties of
his position, remained away a long time,
and is now brought home by the news
that his vile has petitioned for a divorce,
on the ground of abandonment and fail
ure to support her. Her petition sets
forth that her husband has been absent
for the greater part of three years; and
that for the past eight years he has con-
tributed nothing to her support, and that
she has lived entirely upon the rents
and profits of her own property. s-ia


When her husband came to this city a
few weeks since, she refused to see him.
She said the sight of the villain who had
SO cruelty wronged her would kill her,
and her nice young man boarder says he
has known her to situp half the night
brooding over the story of her wrongs.


The case will be heard at the next
term of the Circuit Court, and the wife
expects to get divorce, keep the prop
erty and marry the boarder.
Year: 1868

Let me kiss you for your mother
For your sister--cousiu--
Or for somebody or other


Whom long to kiss or cant
could wish my love beside ms
As I've you beside me now;
But the pleasure is denied nc,
So III hiss you anyhow.
ador" the lady dearly


assure you that | doJ
Can you understand me clearly
That my kiss is not for you?
In your keeping l may leave it.
As another's, not yorr own;
So beg you'll not receive it


As a gift, but as u loan.
ion have silken. yellow tresses,
While my loves are black as night;
And your eycs-e'en Love confesses-
Are u dozen times as bright.
But | covrt from another


What another cannot grant:
So III kiss You for your mother
Or your sistvr-cousin--aunt.
Year: 1868

where they are fattened for final market.
And thus it will be found that the cars are
used both to and from the stock farms for the
transportation of cattle; and we say it is
most important inquiry to ascertain whether or
no these vehicles themselves have not at last
become the medium Of Infection.


Another subiect Of investigation is whether
the plan, often proposed, and, to limited eX-
tent, carried out with success, OF slaughterng
cattle near where they are fed, and transport
ing their flesh only in refrigerator cars, is not
likely to prevent disease in the future, and to
furnish us with much more healthful article
of food In these and in other directions Will
our researches extend but we may be certain
that our labOrs will be soonest brought to
close if we are guided by a spirit Of humanity
and Of mercy.
Year: 1868

Richmond has been visited with another at
tempt on the part of the degraded African to
uample the proud Caucasian in the dust
While Gen. Oud was speaking at a recent
Democratic mecting-and We presume the sub
iect of the gallant soldiers discourse was An
dersohvIle-he was interrupted by panic
According to the Democratic accounts, the
negroes made the attack and created all the
confusion. But somehow nobody was shot but
a negro, who, we are assured, twas not NOR
tally wounded; y and two or three white men
were arrested The popularity Of these negro
" instructions" is that the whites who are at
tackled never incur any harm, while the negroes
who make the attacks are either killed or
wounded.