smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1868

Although the following circum-
stanceoccured some months ago, it
is still fresh in the minds of the
Bremeuites.


One day Il man in possession Of
some dental instruments and gold
leaf, arrived ut the hotel; and after
making the necessary arrange
ments, stuck bis shinglc on the
outside thereof. q.


Ofcourse he was dressed in his
best; no doubt knowing the weak,
ness Of the people in that way as
though a mans brains or character
were in his clothes.


He soon commenced fishing for
custom, and his bait was this
That he was one Of a large firm q
think fifteen were in that firm do
ing an extensive business in Chi
cago, or some other distant city.
He would draw teeth without
charge, take a cast of the mouth,
and send on 20 tho firm, when a
superior set of artificial teeth was
to be returned TO the victim, TO
supply the place of the lost old
ones, Not cent was to be paid
until tho teeth were received and
found satisfactory; and even then
the charge was TO be moderate.


Who could see any trick in the
bait Of this we'll dressed man?


Why they were even to hold the
almighty dollar until they had
tight hold of the arlifcials, plate
and all. '..4. f.. ... -...


The gulgcous began to bite, and
many a tooth left its home in the
socket. .. ..H


But it came to pass that this
man also flied teeth. And behold
how the gudgeons opened their
mouths and showed their teeth
while little bits of gold leaf were
stuck regardless of holes between
them. ..u


OF course Dentist charged fol
filing teeth, although he was no,
at all anxious about immediate
pay; but somehow or other ht
managed to get all that was owing
him, in about three days. .u


And it came TO pass on tho third
day, that Dentist pretended he had
to go through wood to a house
where he had to attend to some
ivory. .'. ..3 s...#


Aud 10 ! nothing more was seen
or heard of him. l.. .g.rt 4


Nothing but murder most foul
entered the imagination OF the dup
ed ones; but the knowing ones be
gan to wink and reckon up how
much Dentist had made, and found
he had made about thirty dollars
his board and lodging thrown in
as ho had forgotten to pay the lat
ter before be left. v3 o


The women wanted his body
searched for, IS they thought moth
ing but murder could account foI
his disappearance. . t.3.


But the men were contented tt
let matters rest as they were, anc
to this day there is wailing bu'
no gnashing of teeth in Bremen.
! TRAVELLER,
Year: 1868

THERE is scarcely any ache TO which
children are subject so hard TO hear and
so difficult TO cure as esrache. bat there
is a remedy never known to fail:
lake a bit Of cotton batting, put upon
it pinch Of black pepper, gather il up
and lie it Clip it H. sweet oil, and IN.
sert Il in the ear. Put flannel band.
age over the head to keep it warm, and
II viii give immediate rtlief.
Year: 1868




An EtFIc1ENt WtAtoN.-fhe great
advantage of the Winchester rife over
all others does not consist solely in be.
ing able to deliver eighteen shots ia
nine seconds, bu; in the moral effect it
has, (eilher Upon an srtny or an indi:
vidual,J for If there is anything that
will make party Of men, or one single
man stand up and fight to the last mo.
ment, it is The knowledge that he has q
gun in his hands that will not fail to do
its duty just at the time when 1t is
most wanted.


For those living in a country where
there is reason 10 expect an attack from
Indians. (and as it Is at times necessary
for all the men to be away from home;
consequently leaving their wives and
children to fight for themselves,) this
gun is what has long been wanted ; il
is 80 simple in its construction, that q
child ten years ola can with half an
hours inSttuclion, load aud FIRE it with
perfect safety, il being impossible to
get cartridge into il otherwise than
right.


Another great advantage that it has
over all other rifles is, that it can be
fired as a single breeclr loader az fast as
any other breech loading gun that is
built either in this country or Europe!
at the same time having in the msga-
zine in reserve sizteen shots that can be
used in an emergency as before stated ;
this last advantage places it far ahead
Of any other rifle y.t made. whether it
is repeating or sin gle loading. Will
regard TO penetration, it is fully equal
TO any other rife that is made, having
the same length Of barrel. charge q
powder and calibre or bore: ',s
Year: 1868

Money is again quite abundanti in New York.
There is q suspension Of the late active demand
for remittances from the interior, anC5lAe banks
are consequently more disposed to lend. The
harvest has not commenced in the Southwest
and the demand for moving the crops may be
meantime, however, the supply on call is like
ly to be quite abundant. Yesterday the rate on
call loans ranged At 3a4 per cent Discounts are
unchanged, prime paper being negotiable at
6a1 per cent, according to time. In the gold
market, the reactionary tendency developed
yesterday has been continued.
Year: 1868

the movement. But a difficulty
had sprung up in the meantime.


Frank Blair was an obstruction
in the way of treason. He refused to
withdraw, declared his belief that his
sentiments were the real sentiments
of the Democracy all over the coun-
try, and stated that he did not recog-
nize the right of committees or
candidates to change the action of the
Convention. Here was a dilemma.
But the World undertook to drive
Blair from the field if he would not
retire willingly, and SO cons pirators
opened fire simultaneous SLY at Wash
ington, in this city and in the West,
by a declaration that the present
Democratic ticket was hopelessly de-
feated, and nothing could save the
party but change of front.
Year: 1868

recollect returning rom school one evening
when child, and finding myself, as entered
the door-yard" at home, in the midst of q
group Of visitors, who were taking leave Of tho
family A very old lady. in a neat black
-" "scOop-shovel" bonnet, was leaning on the
arm of her daughter, who was also an aged
woman. Several others were standing about
my own dear grandmother among the res:
and all Of them seemed TO me old enough to
be the daughters of Mcthuselah.'


stood peering at them curiously, sun bon
net in hand, when the very old lady camo
slowly towards ne. t1


" How old are you. little girl ?" she asked.


"Sx years old"


"Arc your was six years old hundred
years ago. ,~.


How ! started and looked up wonderingly
under the deep black bonnet. She smiled as
she added, MY dear child, am hundred
years older than you are :" and as she kissed
my forehead, and laid her thin hand tenderly
on my bare head, felt even then that it was
O bencdiction.


How honored we all felt by her presence
No one else was spoken Of for a week and We
children all felt that it would be very pleasant
to live hundred years longer, and to be still
good-natured, and have everybody very proud
Of US. Let me live to an old ags. but let mo
not outlive the free use Of all my faculties.
should be the prayer and aspiration Of every
child. Let us point him 10 that goal, and bid
him seek to win the race Heaven often forces
US to answer our own prayers and we must
undoubtedly do so in this case, or they will ro-
main unanswered. We ought to live for old
age just in the spirit we are constantly exhorted
to live for heaven, that is to think Of it, take
measures to attain it, and make provision for
it. 80


l DO not mean merely the laying up Of
" much goods" for tho many years" An
honest old age has right to be independent,
and to be no moro numbered with much SER
wing, u os.en needs change. Let the old
man be free to leave his home occasionally.
and with his old wife, hand in hand, let him 90
travelling to soc the, world and enjoy it. They
may thus add years to their length Of days.
much to their stock of happiness, and moro
still to the vigor and restoration Of decsying
faculties. After three-score years and ten Of
robust work, either with brain or hands, So
ciety owes the veteran a competence, and every
rational enjoyment which it will procure; and
it is al wrong if he has not been able to obtain
this
Year: 1868

A short jaunt into the country on Friday
last, gave Us On opportunity for seeing many
fine fields Of wheat. The prospect at this time
for large crop is excellent in all sections Oh
the country Gasst,s. as -
Year: 1868

TARMERS intending TO fertilize their CORN
L Crops will find this Guano equally well adapt
cd e that as 20 other Crops 1t can be applied Ell
ther in the hill or broadcast. Applied in the hill
It gives the crop healthy and vigorous start. A
broadcast application sustains the crop better
through the season, and is TO be preferred except
where the soil is good.


General Agents:
Year: 1868

The idea is not given up yet DIR. Up
degraff of Reading, Penn, has elaborated
it into machine which will ego" at least
does go. The Reading Gazette says every
body who sees il is convinced. 1t des-
cribes the thing as machine constructed
on the principle of making one ball raise
another of equal weight, with the prepon-
derance of leverage in favor of the ascend.
ing ball, or, in other words, that a metal
ball weighing, say five or six ounces, will
raise another of twice its weight at an
equal distance from the fulcrum, with the
same velocity that the first descends.
Yet this is the principle upon which DR.
Updegraffs machine is constructed There
is No complication. All is as simple and
plain to the eye as the works Of a clock.
although there is no such works about H.
1t is simply matter of four balls, two ON
each side, weighing about six ounces each,
so manipulated by this principle of com.
bination leverage that while one on one
side is deceuding and moving the entire
machine il is raising the other in position
TO do the same work Thus dc-they alter
nate in their work, and keep up constant
and regular movement The inventor
has been offered one hundred thousand
dollars for his right in the invention "a h
stands, but has declined to negotiate. II
is estimated that with fifty pound halls
the motive power attained win equal that
of eight horses A large machine mas
been contracted for, and will be built All
an early day, with view. of ascertaining
its exact motive power,
Year: 1868

On account of the increasing pcrils in
which the white population of Charleston
are being involved by the riotous and
threatening attitude of the negroes under
Radical teachings, the most influential cit-
liens have united in an address, and dele
gated the Hon. J. b. Campbell to present
the same to the President. In the entire
absence of all protection, either from the
civil Or military authorities, they exhort
their fellow-citizens to the continued excr-
else of forbearance, but at the same time
admonish them to prepare to defend theiV
lives and families and homes. Emanating
as it docs from the most substantial and
conservative citizens of the place, it shows
beyond cavil to what a wretched condition
Radicalism is reducing the country, where
it has full control and where it has given
the negro license unchecked even by tho
laws Of the land.
Year: 1868

The following extract (says the New
York Express) from letter from one Of
the most prominent lawyers of our coun-
try, bearing date July, 1868, to friend
in Brooklyn, is worthy of being noted as
showing which way the substantial men of
the Republican party propose to vote:


81 cordially unite with you in the hope
that the nominations which have now been
made in New York city will meet the ap-
proval of the whole country, and be elec-
ted by an overwhelming majority, giving
us a government equally just to all Sec
tions. l have been an old whig of the
Clay and Webster school all my life, and
an earnest Union man, despising democ-
racy and its principles, but l cannot stand
radicalism, and will support democracy OF
any other party that promises to relieve
abe country of the infamous rule of the
party in power.'
Year: 1868


The frequency of these revolving oc-
currences is attracting public attention
everywhere. Scarcely week passes that
the press is not called on to chronicle
outrages of this character. Only few
weeks ago, negro man was hung in
Hartford county, Md. by the excited by
ISLANDERS, for an offence of this kind; yet,
only last week another attempt was made
by negro upon white lady in the same
county. The case is thus reported in the
Bel Air Kyis:


On Wednesday last, about 10 o'clock
in the morning. most brutal assault was
made by negro man upon = respectable
married lady, living about two miles from
Churchville, in this county. 1t appears
that the lady in question was alone in her
own house at the time, and while arrang-
ing her dress at the glass, the negro en-
tered the room through the kitchen, in
almost nude state, and seized her from
behind before she was aware of his pres
ence, and threw her violently on the floor
and greatly outraged her. Her cries for
aid attracted the attention of a little boy
who was near the house, who also joined
in the cry for help, and this together with
the fact that the house of neighbor was
not far distant, alarmed the brutal scoun-
drcl and he made his escape without ac-
complishing his diabolical purpose, but
not without greatly abusing and maltrea-
ting the lady. She Immediately went be-
fore Justice of the Peace and made the
proper oath and obtained a warrant for
his arrest, which was placed in the hands
of the Sheriff, who at once started in
search of the villain, but up to the time
of going to press he has not been arrested.
The negro was an entire stranger to the
lady, which may make it somewhat diff
cult to identify him.


Not long since we were called upon to
report a similar outrage upon an estimable
lady, and little thought at the time that
we should be SO soon called upon to re.
cord another; but lamentable as it is sucl
is the fact We understand that the peo.
pie of the neighborhood where this re-
voting and diabolical crime was attemp
ted are greatly incensed and excited abou
the affair. Besides this case, we have
heard it stated that but few days ago !
young lady was chased by negro mar
from a field in the vicinity of her father
residence, for the purpose, as is supposed
of committing an outrage upon her per
son. But about this latter case we know
nothing more than we have stated, anC
we give it as rumor conveyed it to us
without vouching for its accuracy.
Year: 1868

One of the best signs of approaching
victory for the democratic party, is the
course of the New York Herald. The
weather-vane points not more surely to
the current of the wind, nor the needle
more truly to the pole, than the Herald
does to the course of the popular current.
Bennett can always see how the cat is
about to jump, and never changes except
for the purpose of being on the popular
side. His late desertion of the Radical
cause is an indubitable sign that he sees
in the future the total overthrow OF Rad
icalism.
Year: 1868

The Delaware Journal and Statesman
pays the following we'll merited compliment
to Sheriff Herbert. Since the people of
New Castle county are so well pleased with
one democratic Sheriff let them try anoth-
er, and vote for Richardson


SHERIFF HERBERT.- The County of
New Castle will be fortunate indeed if its
next Sheriff should prove to be man of
such dash, daring and perseverance as the
present incumbent has shown himself du-
ring his term of Office. There has been
no legitimate duty imposed upon him that
he has not performed well and with alacri-
ty. There has been no responsibility in
cident to his position that he has failed to
meet or assume in the interests of the
County or the welfare of its citizens; and
we doubt if there ever has been an officer
of the County who has met with more
hearty concentrations from those with
whom he is brought into contact than
Sheriff Herbert has received from men OF
all parties, classes and professions. The
efficiency, integrity, manly generosity and
straight-forwardnes with which he has
| filed the measure Of his entire obligations
as an officer and gentleman, in all his
transactions, are matters of general favor.
able comment; and as the time draws neal
when he will be called upon to surrender
his post to his successor, we feel more anc
more 10th to part with him as an officer
so faithful, impartial and just have beer
in all his dealings with his fellow-citizens
Year: 1868

Croquet and Chess are among the most
popular amusements in Middletown. Base
ball has fallen into disfavor everywhere,
and very properly, for it is attended with
danger. A contest for the championship
at chess, has been going on for some time
between experts of Odessa and Middle
town. The contest is yet undecided.
Year: 1868

A large number of the friends and
neighbors of Major Biggs, from Middle
town and Odessa, called upon him at his
residence, yesterday evening, to tender to
him their congratulations upon his nomi-
nation for Congress. The party were vc-
ry cordially received and Hospitality enter
tanned by the Major, and after spending
an hour or two in social converse, they
left him, with their best wishes for his
triumphant election.
Year: 1868

HORSE SroLEN.-Mr. George Davis,
residing in the lower part of this county,
had horse stolen from him, some days
since. The thief was arrested and lodged
in New Castle Jail. He acknowledged
taking the horse, but said he did not in
tend to steal him; he merely took him for
a ride.
Year: 1868

nign system Of regulated liberty
left US by our fathers. arf


This must be allowed to take
its course. This is the only road
to peace. 1t will come with the
election of the Democratic candi
date, and not with the election of
that mailed warrior whose bayo-
nets are now at the throats of
eight millions of people in the
South, to compel them to support
him as q candidate for the Presi
dency, and to submit to the de
termination of an alien race of
semi-barbarous men. No per
version of truth or audacity of
Misrepresentation can exceed that
which halls this candidate in
arms as an angel of peace.


| am, very respectfully, your
Obedient servant,


t FRANK p. BLAIR.
Year: 1868

Representatives. will contain a
majority of Democrats from the
North, and they win admit the
Representatives elected by the
white people of the South, and
with the cooperation of the Pres
ident it will not be difficult to
compel the Senate to submit Oaice
more to the obligations of the
Constitution. 1t win nOtb able
to withstand the public Judgment,
if distinctly invoked and clearly
expressed, on this fundamental
issue, and it is the sure way to
avoid all future strife to put this
issue plainly to the country. y


I repeat that this is the real
and only question which we should
allow to control us: Shall we sub
NIT to the usurpations by which
the Government has been oyer
thrown, or shall we exert our
selves for its full and complete
restoration /? It is idle to talk of
bonds, greenbacks, gold, the pub
lie faith the, public credit, What
can a Democratic President do
in regard to any of these with
a Congress in both branches con
trolled by the carpet baggefs and
their allies 2 He will be power
less to stop the supplies by which
idle negroes are organized into
political clnbs--by which an army
is maintained to protect these
vagabonds in their otrages upon
the ballot; These, and things
like these, eat UP the revenues
and resources Of the Government,
and destroy its credit, make the
difference between gold and green
backs. We must restore the
finances, and to do this, we must
have a President who will execute
the will Of the people by tramp;
ling into dust the usurpations Of
Congress, knowA as the Recon.
struction acts. L wish to stand
before the Convention upon this
issue, but it is one which embraces
everything else that is Of value In
its large and comprehensive re-.
suits. 1t is the one thing that
includes all that is worth con.
test, and withoutit there is nothing
that gives dignity, honor or vsluo
to the struggle. '''


Your friend, 80


FRANK P. BhAIR.
Year: 1868




the oppression, the military pow
er of the nation has been placed
at their disposal, in order to make
this barbarism supreme, the mill
tary leader under whose prestige
this usurping Congress has taken
refuge since the condemnation of
their schemes by the free people
of the North in the elections of
the last year, and they have Sc
lected as their candidate, to shield
themselves from the result of
their wickedness and crime, has
announced his acceptance of the
nomination, and in his willing
ness to maintain their usurpations
over millions Of white people at
the South fixed to the earth with
his bayonets, he exclaims, "Let
us have peacew "Peace reigns in
Warsaw" was the announcement
which heralded the doom of the
liberties Of a nation.


''The Empire is peace ex-
claimed Bonaparte when freedom
and it's defenders expired under
the sharp edge Of the sword. The
peace to which Grant invites us
is the peace of despotism and
death.


Those who seek to restore the
Constitution by executing the
will of the people, condemning
the reconstruction acts, have al
ready pronounced the wish in the
elections Of last year, and will, !
am convinced, still more emphati-
cally express it by the election
of the Democratic candidate as
President of the United States,
are denounced as revoIutionists
by the partisans Of this vindictive
Congress.


Negro suffrage, WI ich the pop
ular vote of New York, New Jer-
sey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michi
gan, Connecticut and other States
had condemned as expressly
against the letter of the Constitu-
ton, must stand, because their
Senators and Representatives
have willed it. Ifthe people shall
again condemn these measures by
the election of the Democratic
candidate for President, they
must not be disturbed, although
decided to be unconstitutional by
| the supreme Court, and the Presi-
| dent is sworn to maintain and
support the Constitution, the will
of q fraction of a Congress, rein
forced with it's partisan emiseries
sent to the South and supported
there by the soldiery, must stand
against the will of the people,
and the decision of the Supreme
| Court, and the solemn oath of the
President to support the COnstitu-
tion. It is revolutionary to exc
cute the will of the people; it is
revolutionary in the President to
keep inviolate his oath to sustain
the Constitution.


This false construction of The
vital principles of our Govern
ment, is the last resort Of those
who would sway and supercede
our time-honored institutions.


The nation will say that the
Constitution must be restored ant
the will of the people again pre-
vail. The appeal to the peaceful
ballot to attain this end is no
revolution.


They alone make war and revo
luton, who attempt to arrest TIN
quiet mode of putting aside vii.
I despotism and the usurpations Q
+ a fragment ofa Congress assert
ing absolute power over that be