smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1859

Dimpled white hands folded peacefully across
the still bosom, bright eyes closed in their last
siumber, the soft air stealing in at the half
open window, raising the silken hair from the
calm, pure brow, all lifelke, SO mockingIy life
like that you turn away and cry out bitterly
from the depths of yonr poor, anguish stricken
heart as you realize that those pale lips will
lisp your name no more, those soft eyes smile
not again upon you, and that those clingng
arms will never again be caSped around your
neck, nor the fair young head be pillowed up
on your bosom The little chair vacant, the
cradle, the crib little hat with wreaths Of
faded flowers, hanging against the wall, tiny
worn shoes just where the little one threw them
careIessly in its last play, all useless now, for
the darling, your darling, lies pale, still and
cold. The house is still now no sound of pat
tering footsteps, no innocent pratte, no singing
laughter. There is noise III the street, but to
your poor, suffering heart it seems insupporta-
bIe. The young and fair pass gay by your
window, and their light laugh rings out upon
the air, while you press your hands over your
tcardimmed eyes, and strive to forget, forget
OuIy to your hearthstone this great aiflicton
has brought sorrow-forget that while you are
weeping, the busy world will go on as usual,
and laugh, jest, and plan, buy and sell, lose
and gain as ever ; forget, aye, you strive to
forget all save the Que great crushing grief that
has trampled down upon your quiyering heart
strings


Forget ah yes, you do forget that the lit
tie waXen form before you is but the casket
that once enshrined jewel and that Jewel you
called your own was lent to you, and is now
set in the diadem OF CaIyary's meek and holy
sufferer Of the King Of kings you forget that
the tender lamb your fraiI hands could have
guarded but poorly is safe from life's wearying
tempests you forget in your blind grief that
your darling is an angel and instead Of toiliDg
and SHINING, perhaps, through many years, it
wears the robe and crown that only the blood
washed may ever wear Aye, you forget all
this as you look upon your sweet, withered
blossom, and cry out in your wild bitter anguish;
You gaze upon the dark clouds that enshroud
you, and forget the " silver lining" and the bow
of promise Say to the lone mother, Joy to
thee press last fond kiss upon the pale lips
and murmur thankfully, Blessed be the name
Of the Lord F.! " Housed from life's storms, free
from lies perls, no rugged steps, no path of
thOrns, no sin, no temptat ons safe and an
angel All, little darling, thou art not lost
only yohe first to the mansion of the blessed,
and We should not weep for thee. Thou hast
passed through deaths cold river before US and
art safe, while we are left to battle with self
and sin, to fight and conquer ere we wear a
robe and crown like thine. All, little darling,
joy to thee MARY A. kEABLEs.
Year: 1859

Though never shown by word or deed
Within us lies some germ OF power
As lies unguesscd, within the seed
The latent flower.
And under every common sense


That doth its daily use fulfill,
There lies another, more intense,
And beauteous still.
This dusty house, wherein is shrined
The soul is but the counterfeit
OF that which shall be, more refined.
And exquisite,
The light which to our sight belongs
Enfolds light more warm AID clear,
Music but intimates the songs


We do not hear.
The fond embrace, the tender kiss
Which love to its expression brings,
Are but the husk the chrysalis


Wears on its wings.
The vigor falling to decay,


Hopes, impulses, that fade and die,
Are but the layers peeled away


From life more high.
When death shall come and disallow
These rough and ugly masks we wear,
| think that we shall be rs now,


Only more fair.
And he who makes his love to be
Always around me, sure and calm,
Sees what is possible to me,


Not what am.
Year: 1859

To YoUNG LAnrEs.-I have found that the
men who are really the most fond of the society
Of the ladies, who cherish for them high re-
Spect, are seldom the most popular with the
sex. Men Of great assurance, whose tongues
are highly hung, who make words supply the
place of IDEAS and place compliment in the
room of sentiment, are the favor ties. A due
respect for woman leads to respectful action
toward them-and respectful is usually distant
action, and this great distance is mistaken by
them for neglect or want of interest-1d-
disOR.
Year: 1859

ga What the world calls ayarice is often
times no more than compulsory and penurious
ness is better than waSteful eXtravagance.-
\ Just man, being rcproached with parsmony,
said that he would rather enrich his enemies
after his DEATH than borrow of his friends in
his lifetime.
Year: 1859

surpasses probably any thing st present known, in the immense quantity of fine crystalizations of quartz. I think the analysis made of the waters of this region will explain satisfactorily its source and ori- gin.

 From this l go into Magnet Cove. Af. ter the completion, of my reconnaissance of Hot Spring county, I shall proceed through Saline and Jefferson counties.

 During the month of August and part of September, I shall suspend my opera tions in the field for office and laboratory duties, and at the same time, to recruit my teams, which neel rest badly, especially to restore their hoofs, which are very much worn down from the hard, rocky and crisp nature of the ground we have travelled over. My wagons too need repairs, and my chem Ical reagents are getting low and will be then exhausted as well as our stores. The collections have become so extensive that they require to be arranged and disposed of for analysis.

 In September shall organize corps No. Z, for field duty during this fall.

 Respectfully yours,

 D. D. OWEN.
Year: 1859

"The True Democrat says general reader sends us the following prescription: poison of any conceivable description and degree of potency, which has been intentionally or accidentally swal lowed may be rendered almost instantly harm less by simply swallowing two gills of sweet oil.

 We would like to know how the poison in de- mocrat, when he either intentionally or accident ally swallows the American party can be neutral ized. How much oil will it require to cleanse hm?''

 The prescription was copied from ano- ther paper and should have been credited. The question is difficult one to answer. Our observation has led us to conclude that know nottingham acts as an emetlc and the democrat soon throws it up. However, & full solution to the question can possibly be given shortly. An attempt Is being made to consolidate all that is left of the American party with the disaffected, tende- footed and bob-tail democrats in this State, under a new name. The only danger IS that instead of their swallowing the Ameri- can party, the aforesaid American party will swallow them. In either case, 1t will require great deal of oil to '" cleanse the foul bosom of the perilous stuff that will weigh thereon.

 The Batesville Balance says that some parts of that country has begun to suffer from the drouth. It is very dry here, though in some portions of this county they have had fine rains From other sources we learn that some localities are burning up. Are the married men of Independence county good to their wives or not? See the letter of our Tennessee correspondent.
Year: 1859

REPORTS OF DECISIONS OF THE SUPREME CoURT.-These reports are attracting a good deal of attention from the gentlemen of the bar in our State, several of whom have written letters to us complimentary of that feature in our paper. In our next issue, we shall be enabled to give another decision concerning railroads and stock holders. By referring to the decision re- ported Tn our paper of the 9th inst, it will be seen that the court decided that stock subscriber cannot successfully resist the payment ofhis subscription upon the ground that the company failed to comply with the provisions of the charter Although company may do or fail to do acts in vio latIon of its charter, that cannot be plead ed by defense in collateral suit. We are told that great many suits are threat ened, and we call the attention of our snh- scrlbers who may be stockholders in rail roads to the important points decided in the case of the NJ. 0. and R. R. railroad vs Edward Cross, reported in our paper of the 9th inst These decisions will be found to be true synopsis of the lead ing points in each case, and do great credit to Mr. Hoadley by whom they are prepared and who we take pleasure in recommending as . lawyer of energy and abililv.
Year: 1859

In health, no one ought to drink ice wa ter, for 1t has occasioned fatal infammations of the stomach and bowels, and sometimes sudden death. The temptation to drink it is very great in summer; to use it at all, with any safety, the person should take but a single swallow at time, take the glass from the lips for half minute, and then another swallow, and so on. It will be found that in this way 1t becomes dis agreeable after few mouthfnls

 On the other hand, ice itself may be ta- ken as freely as possible, not only without injury but with the most striking advan- tage in dangerous forms of disease. If broken in sizes of a pea or bean, and swal- lowed as freely as practicable, without much chewing or crashing between the teeth, it will often be efficient in checking various kinds of diorrhea, and has cured violent cases of Asiatic cholera.

 X kind of cushion of powdered ice kept to the entire scalp, has allayed violent in fammation of the brain, and arrested fearful convulsions induced by too much blood there. Water, as cqn as ice can make it, applied freely to the Aroat,. neck and chest with sponge or cloth, often affords an almost miraculous relief; and if this be followed by drinking. copiously of the same ice cold element, the wetted parts wiped dry and the child be wrapped up we'll in the bed clothes, 1t falls into delightful and life-giving slumber. All inAamma- tions, internal or external, are promptly> subdued by the applications of ice or ice water, because 1t is converted into steam and rapidly conveys away the extra heat, and also diminishes the quantity ot blood Tn the vessels of the part.

 A piece of ice laid on the wrist will of ten arrest violent bleeding of the nose.

 To drink any ice cold liquid at meals retards digestion, chills the body, and has been known to induce the most dangerous internal compositions.

 Ii ice is put in milk or in butter and these are not used at the time, they lose their freshness, and become sour and stale; for the essential nature of both is changed when once frozen and then thawed.- d.-HdWs Journal of HealM.
Year: 1859

kindred and friends must forthwith pro. ceed to kill each other to establish or sus- tain reputation for bravery. On the contrary it encourages bullying, bravado, boosting and strategy, all as far removed from true courage as one quality of mind can be from another.
Year: 1859

ERIAL NAvIGATIoN.-Mr Wise, the balloonist, has written letter wherein he asserts there is current of air above us steadily blowing from west to east. The lower part of the current runs a little north of east, at the rate of fifty miles an hour: the middle part, due east, at faster rate; and the upper part, south of east, at rate of at least eighty miles an hour. Mir. Wise says that the balloon from St. Louis could have been taken directly to New York, but the voyagers were not provided with warm clothing to enable them to withstand the cold Tn the upper current, and so sailed in the lower, warmer and more uncertain cur rents, nearer the earth He writes confi- dently of his ability to sail from any city in the United States to Great Britain, with safety and precision.

 The experiment of crossing the Atlantic in balloon will soon be tried, and if sue cesstul, will inaugurate new era. If the N'iANAi' VI aii ID dlh hdlS IOH west 10 east, 1t is obvious the balloonist must 90 entire ly round the world to come back to his starting point. As the currents of air are better understood and when Maury sue ceeds in mapping the @rial as he has the ocean tides, they may find currents or tracks in which to return. 1t is within the mem- ory of man when the only vessels on the Mississippi were the canoe and the broad horn; the latter floating down stream and broken up at theend of the voyage. From the fiat-boat. controlled by the current, to the splendid steamer moving up stream,

 " Like blind love, feeling his way with thunder'' what vast difference! A corresponding improvement in vessels to navigate the air, will give us those in few years. in which we can go from point to point with safety and celerity. Who knows but that in ten years we shall have hourly mails from New York to Little Rock; daily mails to the principal European cities and the day-sky be dotted with balloons as at night 1t IS studded with stars?
Year: 1859

MATRIMONIAL AND THERMoMETRIcAL.- About ten days ago our valued friend, Dr. Hill of Perry county, came down to the city and carried off one of our fair ones.- His example became contagious. There has been a marriage and sometimes two, in this city, on every day since then. This too, while the mercury in the thermometer. is ranging up in the nineties. The doctor is not the only ex-legisator who seems to have made his calling and election sure while here last winter. We are satisfied that we shall soon be called upon to chro- nicle another loss of a fair one Our ba- chelors and widowers may be found in con- sultation, grouped in shady places, asking one another what this means, and where this matrimonial fever is to end Mean while, they continue to marry and be given in marriage, and the quicksilver mounts up nearly to the line marked 100 degrees.
Year: 1859

Es- The following, being part of an ar ticle in the Fayetteville, (N. C,) Observer, of July 2d, shows the estimation in which the people of the old North State held the distnguishsd gentleman who is now Rector of the Episcopal church in this city, and pays an eloquent tribute to his wife:

 THE UNIvERsITY.-Since our last we have learned, from an undoubted source, that the Rev. pr. Wheat, has actually re- signed his professorship of logic and rheto- Tie in the University of North Carolina, and accepted a call to the rectorship of the Episcopal church in Little Rock, Arkan- sas We sincerely regret this second loss to the University.

 There is another particular in which the institution will be great loser We hardly know how to allude to the loss of lady from such place; but one who was in the habit of watching by the sick beds of young men who were far away from the | nursing care of their own mothers-one who thus became a mother to them, hav- ing no indurement thereto but a genuine womanly feeling, must not allow her deli cacy to be shocked by public alluson to her deeds of love Many such cases have we heard of, beginning soon after the Doe, tors coming to the University. First she took the i'll youths to her own house, and ministered to the necessities of their fever ed frames sometimes for many weeks at a time. Finally her example induced the 1 trustees to erect very neat inhrmary on one corner of the Doctors lot, within 100 feet of the dwelling, 10 which the sick have been removed from the noise and confusion of their dormitories in the college build inga, and where they could receive the same ! kind nursing as i'll the Doctors house. We can conceive of no more beautiful ex- hlbition of woman's nature than this A mother naturally cares for her own sick children, and often will bestow such cares upon the children of her friends; but sell dom indeed upon the utter stranger, per hapS the reckless boy, whose only claim is that he is somebody's son. and that some body Is not near to perform the parents duty. Let me kiss him for his mother sake said New Orleans lady of youth who lay dead before her, and whose mother was in his native New England, uncon- scious of her bereavement. Let me nurse him for bis mothers sake, has even more of wCman's S nature in it.
Year: 1859

We have mentioned the outbreak of the
Asiatic cholera in Hamburg and London, and
its rumored appearance at Paris. The Lon
don Medical Times says:


"The cholera is again here and it has ar,
rived by the old route, from Hamburg. One
case proved fatal last week on board one of
the Hamburger steamers Oh her passage an
other was sent to the Dreadnought, and died
there, also from a Hamburger vessel in the
Thames. Dr. McWiam, who is dong duty
temporarily for Sir William Pym, the Super
intendent General of Quarantine, has done all
that he is empowered to do, by having vessels
from Hamburg boarded at Gravesend, and
suspicious cases of disease removed to the
Dreadnought, or elsewhere; and similar in
structions have been sent to our eastern and
northeastern ports; but beyond this the
Privy Council will not act The mischief is
probably done by this time, and we are not
likely to escape an epidemic of cholera but
we have strong conviction that it would be
well to keep all vessels arriving from Hamburg
or from any other port infected with cholera,
under observation for at least three days, be-
fore admitting their passengers to land in
this country This could lead to no very
great Inconvenience or loss, and it would
surely be better to err on the side of excess
i've caution than to culpable neglect. In Ham
burgh, from the 25th to the 3lst of July,
there were 424 cases, of which 332 were
fatal"


1t will be seen that the proportion of deaths
to cases in Hamburg is very large Of every
five attacked during the last week in July,
nearly four dIed.-Bufdt0 Courier.
Year: 1859

agines whether she has a y ! market or not;
for she is sure of a foreign market. The West
has no such assurance. The custom Europe
accords to her is best contracted and preca-
rious. A home market is her only substan.
tial dependence. The time is not Tar distant
when she will realize this as she has never yet
done. The great body of her Representatives
and Senators have hitherto acted in opposition
to all measures calculated to protect and fos-
ter the arts and manufactures Of their own
section and Of the country at large. They
have been accustomed to regard free trade
in wheat as the summaun bonuma of their in
dustrial life, and have believed that the ba-
rometer of their prosperity and adversely
hung nowhere but in Mark Lane. Hard ex-
perience is, we trust, gradually curing the


w est Of this great mistake. She is learning
the lesson that without the advantages OF a
large mechanical and manufacturing popula-
ton in her own midst, or at least near at hand,
as consumers, the demand for her products
must be small in proportion to her supply,
and that she is constantly drained of her gold
by paying for manufactured goods which she


must have, and yet can pay for in no other


way. She is fast finding that she will thrive


best in and with the thrift of her own kith
and kin. ... .
Year: 1859

Let them alone. DR.. Beecher is said to be
the hero Of the following anecdote: While
residing on Long Island, he was returning
home one evening from visit to old Dr.
Woodwork. Seeing, as he thought, rabbit
by the roadside, a little ahead, he said: 'They
are rather tender animals if the fellow sits
still come up, think | could hit him with
these books" a goodly bundle of which he
in his handkerchief. Hit him he did only
he proved to be, not rabit, but a skunk
He returned to his family in anything but the
the odor Of sanctity. In after life, being ask
ed why he did not reply to scurrillous at
tack made on him, he answered: {" l dis
charged quarto once at skunk, and then
made up my mind not to try it again."
Year: 1859

From the Boston Courier.


Our Portland correspondent gives an in
teresting account of the final proceedings in
the United States Circuit Court in the case of
Captain John A. Holmes, master of the ship
Theresa, convicted Of the murder of Geo. w.
Chadwick, one of the crew. The circumstan-
stances of this painful case were fully stated
in the Courier at the time of the trial. The
defence was insanity, and don't appear to
have had any other foundation than was de-
rivable from the brutal ferocity of the beat
ing, which was continued until Chadwick
was dead. Itappears from the evidence that
Chadwick had twice given offence to the
prisoner-frst, that he, with others of the
crew, i'd not sing one night when hauling at
the lee brace second, that he did not use
the word "sir," in answering question. In
this case the prisoner struck Chadwick on
the head with Delaying pin, repeatedly, and
finally knocked him down with it. He YVES
next stripped and tied up to the main rigging
by the prisoners orders, and fogged with a
knotted sran-yarn, by one man after another
for twenty minutes. When the men did not
strike hard enough, or struck unskillfully
tbs prisoner would take the rope and beat
the deceased for the purpose Of showing them
how to do it. The deceased repeated cries
for mercy, and begged them to be allowed to
die in peace. These outcries the prisoner 81
fenced BY striking the deceased with a Delay
ing pin. While still alive he was taken down
and helped into the forecastle, but in ten min.
utes was taken back and tied up second
time, and the fogging was resumed, the pris.
oner telling the men to strike harder. Again
for the purpose of stopping the outcries of the
deceased not to kill him, the prisoner com
menced striking him again with the Delaying
pin, till blow on the neck killed him, and
when his corpse slowed around dead, the pris


oner ceased to strike. The Captain was con


victed of murder and sentenced to be hung
Year: 1859



 We have received lengthy communication from a gentleman in Messlla upon the propri- ety of the people of this portion of Arizona elec- ting a couple of delegates to the next Legsla- ture of New Mexico For this purpose he sug- gests that Tubac the Santa Cruz valley, and the Sonoita valley, form one district, and Tue son and vicinity the other; and he expresses the opinion that these representatives would be recognized at Santa Fe. '~

 We do not know that this step would in any manner delay the organization of a separate government for Arizona, while for the time be- ing it would give us many legal advantages. = At present all this territory is included in the county of Donna Anna and we are inclined to think that before we can elect delegates we must have something of an rganization-sti this may not be the case. We should be glad to hear from our citizens on this matter.