smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1865

The following are some Of the rules
by which fortune-tellers profess to
be guided in their practice Of astro-
logy: |


January.-He that is born in Jan
uary will be laborious and a lover of
good wine, be very subject to in
fidelity, yet he will be complacent,
and withal fine singer. The wo-
man born in this month will make a
good housewife, rather melancholy,
but yet good-natured.


February.--The man born in tho
month Of Februay will love money
much, but prodigal abroad. The
lady will be humane to her mother.


March.-The man born in March
will be rather handsome, but he will,
be honest and prudent. He will die
poor. The lady will be passionate,
Jealous and chatterbox.
April.-The man who has the
misfortune to be born in April will
be subject to maladies; he will travel
to his disadvantage, for he will marry
rich heiress, who will make him
much trouble, as you no doubt can
well suppose. The lady born this
month will be tall and stout, with
agreeable wit and great talk.


May.-The man born in the
month Of May will be handsome and
amiable he will he equally blest in
every respect. . .....u a..A
June.-The man born in tho
month Of June will be Of small sta:
ture and passionately fond Of chill
dren. The lady will be parsonage
fond Of coffee, and will marry
young: '.>,..- = ..- -' ....3
|, july The man born in the
month Of July will be fat, and suffer
death for the woman he loves. The
female Of this month will be passion
ately handsome, with a sharp nose
and a fine bust; she will be of rather
sulky temper. o-


August.-The man born in the
month of August will be ambitious
and courageous; he will have two
wives. The lady will be arniable
and twice married, but her second
husband will cause her to regret the
first. .esa@. r. ... -.ag .aa a@


September.-He who was born in
September will be strong and pru-
dent, but will be too easy with his
wife, who will give him great un-
easiness. The lady will be round
faced and fair-haired, witty, discreet
and loved by her friends. '.


October.-The man born in this
month will have a handsome face
and Aorid complexion. He will
promise one thing and do another,
and remain poor. The lady will be
pretty, little fond OF talking, WILL
have two or three husbands, who
will die with gref-she. will best
know why.


November.-The man born this
month will have a fine face, and be
a gay ,deceiver. The lady of this
month will be large, liberal and full
of novelty.


| December.-The man born in this
month will be a good sort Of person,
though passionate. He will devote
himself to politics, and be beloved
by his wife. The lady will be
amiable and handsome, with good
voice and well-proportioned body,
and very honest. . "'o
Year: 1865

LORD BACON says that the
friendships in this world are very
few. Acquaintances are made and
forgotten all the way through life,
and many go through life without
anything more, without ever know
ing the high and beautiful, and al.
post sacred meaning Of the word
friend. ,D g.. ...-.r..
Year: 1865

70 Beware of counterfeits, and look out for
that big advertise meut of L L. Alden 81 Co.,
in another column. There's the place to GO
and buy your goods; they keep every thing
Imaginable and you'll be certain to get the
worth Of your money. Do you know Captain
John Morgan7 Of course you do. Well. Johns
running the machine, and is always at his post
ready and willing to accommodate all who may
call upon hin. Try him.
Year: 1865

u Tho wife of Clement Clay and
the daughter of the rebel Secretary of
the Navy, Mallory, were at Washington
last week to secure the release of Messrs.
Clay and Mallory, now confined in pris-
on
Year: 1865

A very dangerous counterfeit of the oue
dollar treasure notes by the General Govern
ment. has made It's appearance. 1t is des-
crihed as nearly face simils of the bill.-
The general appearance is pronounced good.
The green ink is of lighter shade ihao
that used on the genuine. The figure on
The scroll work on the lower right hand cor
ner of The note are printed in Green, in the
genuine they are white. The face oil Chase
in the counter ieit is badly executed. Oar
readers cannot be to we'll on their guard in
dealing in The one dollar treasury notes.
Year: 1865

This war has scattered not few
inveterate prejudices. Not the least
stubborn of these was the almost uni
versal impression that the negro
would not fight. When the first in
stances were published of the bravery
of colored men who did good service
on the field, it was claimed they were
merely exceptional cases, and the gen
eral public were for long while ad-
verse to the arming of the blacks.
But by this time skepticism is pretty
eflectually silenced. The black man
has illustrated his valor in too many
stubbornly contested fights not to
have wiped ont the reproach of cow
ardice against his race. At Port Hud-
son, Fort Wagner, and Fort Pillow,
he gave the highest evidence of dar-
ing and determined courage. In the
recent great victory of General Thom-
as he gave another proud demonstra-
ton of his pluck and enthusiastic dar-
ing.
Year: 1865

The rebels, four years ago, set out
for Eutopia. They were going to
overthrow the Government, cut off
New England, conquer Cuba and
Mexico, extend slavery around the
Gulf, and rule the world


They find themselves instead, in a
dilemma. Out of Missouri, out of Ken
ltuoky, out Of Tennessee, out Of Ar
kansas, out Of elbows, out of friends,
out of food, and out of wind.


They supposed JEFF. Davis was a
hero, but they now declare him an ass.
They are sorry. They ought to reflect
that it is only because he was an ass
that he could lead them into rebe-
llion. In drove of asses nothing but
length of ears can distinguish the
leader from the followers. They are
indebted for his leadership to the very
quality they condemn. They are
sorry that in separating they didn't re-
cite their grievances. They cannot
think why it was, and propose now to
recite instead the grievances suffered
since the war Wen tell them why.
1t was for the same reason the school
boy failed to recite his lesson, because
he did not know it. He might Just as
well allege as his excuse the whip
ping he got in consequence, as for the
rebels to plead the despotic effects of
the war as justification for entering
into it. ST..


They got up the rebellion to sustain
slavery. Now they propose to abol-
ish slavery to sustain the rebellion.
This is like the Paddy who thought to
climb to the moon by planting one
ladder above another. "But what
would you do when you had no more
ladders ?" Borrow the under one,"
he rplied.


They began the fight for slavery,
free trade, State rights, and independ-
ence. Instead of free trade, they have
had blockade. JEFF. Davis has crush
ed out State rights. They are now
abolishing slavery, and are ready to
sacrifice their independence to Great
Britain and France for protection as
provincial dependencies. Having lost
about all they set out to fight for, they
are trying to work themselves into a
fury of "hatred to the Yankees and
keep up the fight on that. But the
game is impossible. To the extent
they are whipped they are compelled
to admire us. They may keep on max
ing mouths out of doors, but not when
under the eye of their schoolmaster.
In no single conflict have the chival-
ry" stood doggedly to be shot down
in their tracks when they had made
up their minds that the battle was de-
cidcd. That is now the situation "
of the entire rebellion.
Year: 1865

1t is stated by letter written at
Paris that the rebels have been fur
nished with two new formidable rams,
recently built in French waters, and
that they will sail ere long with the
design of forcing their way into New
York harbor. Rather a large under
taking, they will find.
Year: 1865

n6T From all parts Of the North, the
same complaint is heard-the negro will
not work-and why2- Vicksbarg Jour
nat


You mistake the quarter whence the
complaint comes Pick your ears, and
hear again.-Nash0ilze Union.


Net SO badly mistaken either, Union,
for we have numberless Copperhead
editors up North who continue to repeat
the silly falsehood
Year: 1865

A TERRIBLE ExPLosIoN.-On Satur-
day morning smoke was seen issuing
from box which had been left at the
Nvoming Hotel, in New York, as secu-
rit for bill. Two men carried it to
the sidewalk, when it exploded with ter
rible force, killing both the men handling
it and wounding nine others, and break
. ing nearly all the glass along the square.
An investigation is being had of the
mysterious affair.
Year: 1865

The Lansing correspondent Oft the Free
Press says that Hon. George Luther,


elected by tho soldiers vote to the Legis-


lature Of this State, from the second rep
resentative district, of this county, has sent
in bis letter of resignation TO that body
out Of respect and in obedience TO the late
decision of the Supreme Court. We do
not doubt that neteen-twcntieths Of the
people Of the county most heartily ap-
prove of his determination. The act was
manly, and the ouly occasion for regret
is that the honorable gentleman did not
reach the point little more promptly.
Year: 1865

A correspondent ofa Boston paper,
writing from the North Carolina Con-
vcntion, says:


Delegates talk of the Wing party
and Democrat party even during grave
and serious debates on the most inn
portant qucstions-it is the Demo
cratic party that made secession n
possible thing, and brought the State
20 the verge of ruin; it was the Wing
party that was half disloyal to the
State, and caused disaster by its su-
pineness and GOODNESS in behalf of the
war. These things are publicly spo-
ken on the floor of the Convention,
while in private conversation, halfthe
delegates have no measuring rule for
a man but the fact that he is either a
Wing or Democrat, and no judg-
ncnt for measure but that it origin
ates with one Of these parties con-
cludc that Wings and Democrats
flourish from one end of the State to
the other. Governor IIoldcn's claims
to the prospective Senatorship are
urged upon the people on the ground
that, though himself an old line
Democrat, he has given most of the
provisional Offices to old line Wings
and Granville delegate to whom
put the question, how will the Con,
vention stand upon the leading issue?'
had only for an answer, " Well, most
of the Delegates are old line Wings.
Year: 1865

The following words from sermon
of Laurin deserve to be committed to
memory as a guide to just and char
table Judgment Of the character Of
Others


In order to judge properly of
crime and criminal, we muse exam
inc the power of tho temptations to
which he is exposed the opportuni-
ties given him to avoid it the force
Of his natural constitution the mo-
tives which animated him the resis
tence he made the virtues he prac-
ticed the talents God gave him the
education he hadj whatknowlodge he
had acquired; what remorse he felt.
1t must be examined whether ho were
sedgced by ignorance or allured by
example; or yielded through weakness;
or dissipation or obstinacy-malice or
contempt Of God and His law, con-
hrmed him in sin.
Year: 1865

A NEW system Of whisky smtig-
Cling is In operation in New York.
AT Ogdensburg the other day, the
custom house officials overhapled
a coffin that was being transferred
from the boat to the hearse, and
found it filled with bottles Of gin.


WHEN mercenary Legislators
vote in favor of bill with a view
to put money into their own pock.
ets. il cannot be averred that sthere
is no speculation in their eyes!"


"How long did Adam remain
in Paradise before he sinned ."
said an amiable spouse to her hus-
band. 80 Till he got a wife, Z was
the calm reply. "a ssaqstf %


a conscript being told that il
was sweet to- die for his country.
tried to, excuse himself on the
ground that he never did like
sweet things.
Year: 1865

DIvIprSa THE SPoILs.-We have heard
that quite nice little disposition was
made of the paying County Offices, to
take effect s0hen the Convention ticket scas
elected. A certain individual in Troy,
who has been slmoft constantly employ
ed By the County officers. and repaid
them by acting the spy. and using every
flaw and mistake against them. wss to be
the acting Treasurer, and receive . good
proportion of the perquisites another
was to be Deputy Sheriff. and have the
great bulk Of the business; still another
was to have the butt end Of the Clerk g
business end fees; and 60 on-"all in Q
family way" Unfortunately. the hard.
hearted people spoilt the arrangement.
Had that ticket been successful, such q
prescription as would have followed. the
world has never yet seen. Not . poor
uigger would have been permitted to saw
an armful of wood for the Court House.
without first making affidavit that be was
in favor of the Convention ticket. We
are not in favor Of prescription in such
small affairs, nor of retaliation. as gen.
eral thing but there is one duty which
several of the reelected officers owe to
themselves. There are Q number of per-
sons who have been constantly employed
in the public Offices. as assistants or dep
uties, at handsome wsges. and have been
earning a living in this way. They have
taken advantage of their positions to pick
out errors in the recorde, some Of which
they probably made themselves. and in
other ways abusing the confidence Of their
employers. for the benefit OF the msn who
were sssailing the character OF these very
officers, and using almost superhuman ef-
forts to defeat them. Such men do not
deserve employment at the hands Of these
officers. and ought not to receive it, even
if necessary help has to be secured from
abroad.
Year: 1865

get on the old maids list, and see your place


filled in the homo of some man that is man
by woman who was not ashamed of useful
employment when she was girl. I can
tell you what, my dainty litale sister, there's
a reform at work, and men worth having are
beginning to choose between no marriage or
marriage with girls of palmer notions and
more useful accomplishments than are pos
sessed by the butterflies who lounge on So
fas all day knitting zephyr or reading novels
So make up your mind TO reform or old
maidism. Aud now, as in all probability
you understand that am in earnest about
marrying Harriet Parker, I hope you will
reconsider your hasty resolutions about not
speaking to your sister-in-law. The loss.
let me tell you, wiz be all on your own side"
Brother Tom understood bis own position
entirely. He was not a man to stoop below
himself in marrying. He could not unite
himself with one who was ignorant and In
refined-against that his generously culti-
vated soul would have revolted. But he
wanted real, not an artificial woman-one
who could take her place beside him, as he
said on the lowest round of fortunes ladder.
and keep step with him upward. Such
one he had found in Harriet Parker, and he
was independent enough to make her his
wife.


Lizzie soon discovered, after her brother
Tom actually got married ard commenced
housekeeping in two rooms, with his modest
cheerful, earnest-minded wife, that her new
sister had about her something that insensi-
bly, won the love, commanded the respect
and almost extorted the admiration of all
who were so fortunate as to make her ac-
quaintance.


Marriage, they say makes or mars
man." the brother overheard Lizzie once
saying, in an undertone to "a lady friend
"But it will not mar the fortune OF brother
Tom, He's got just the wife to help him
along in the world and one that will grace
any position to which they may rise"


"My own sentiments exactly, pretty"
spoke out brother Tom. 'She's a jewel,
and worth thousand of your paste ana tin.
sci women. | told you so. But you couldn't
believe me. Now, ifyoull go and appren-
tice yourself to dress-maker or a milliner,
or learn to do any useful woIk-useful not
simply ornamental, will recommend you to
the new pres ldent Of the society ] told you
about. | had to resign when got married
He's splendid specimen, and will make
husband worthy Of queen"
Year: 1865

LETTER FROM A DIsCAARGED SoIDIER.-A
young man who served faithfully three years in
the Oregon Cavalry, in a private letter to the
the editor of the Mountaineer, has the follow
ing


."As to the service on this coast, l do not like
it; there is not active service enough. l hon
estly think it was an arranged plan with our of
fcers last year to try and not molest the In
dians, as they wanted billets for life; and many
of them, have no doubt, are quaking in their
boots for fear of losing their commissions, and
are extremely sorry that the morning of peace is
about to dawn on our DEAR loved land that has
been deluged in blood"
Year: 1865

THE human pulse has in all ages been con-
suited as an index of health or disease. 1t is
kind of dial within us which gives us both the
measure Of time and health. The pulse Of a
person in health beats about seventy strokes a
minute, and the ordinary term of life is about
seventy years. In this seventy years, the pulse
of a temperate person beats two billion five hun
dred and seventy-four million four hundred and
forty thousand times. If no actual disorganiza-
ton should happen, drunken person might
live until his pulse beat this number of times;
but by the constant stimulus Of ardent spirits or
pulse-quickening food, the pulse becomes ac-
celerated, and the above number of pulsations
are performed in little more than half the ordi-
nary term of human life, and life goes out at
forty or forty-fve years instead Of seventy. This
application of numbers is given to show that
the acceleraton Of those forces diminish the
term of human life.
Year: 1865

NOBLE SENTIMENT no man, says
John Wesley for not thinking as you think. Let
every one enjoy the full and free liberty of think
ing for himself. Let every man use his own
judgement, since every man must give an ac-
count of himself to God. Abhorevery approach
in any kind of degree, to the spirit of persecu-
ton Ifyou cannot reason to persuade a man
into the truth, never attempt TO force him into
It, Iflove will not compel him to come, leave
bin to God, the Judge Of all.
Year: 1865

WE have it from good authority that young
Vaughn has made confessions, duplicating sew
eral persons we'll known in the upper country,
and can give their names but perhaps it would
not be well to do so, as justice might be cheat
ed by the escape of the guilty parties. Two Of
them are known to be cattle thieves, and an
other butchers the stock they steal. A fourth
one is engaged in the beautiful and profitable
business of making and passing bogus gold
dust, and Vaughn says he received $3.50 worth
of the stuff for SIG good money. These men
are well known and their antecedents would
not be any accommodation in their favor
U1satilEa AdUertiser.
Year: 1865

A MOTHER s LovE.-At steamboat dis
aster on the Mississippi, man saw woman
and a girl struggling together in the water,
and cried out " | can save one Of you ;
which2" Save my daughter" said the
mother. and then sunk.
Year: 1865

me an income of more than twenty thousand dol
lars year, and where my great personal ambi-
tion in my profession has such field for labor.


On the other hand, the South have never be-
slowed upon me one kind word; place now
where have no friends, except beneath the sod;
place where 1 must either become private
soldier or a beggar. To give up all the former
for the latter, besides my mother and sisters
whom love so dearly (although they SO widely
differ with me in opinion) seems insane; butGOd


is my judge love justice more than do
country that disowns it; more than fame and
wealth. NOR (Heaven pardon me, if wrong,
more than appy home. have never been up
on battle AZ Z; but OIL my countrymen, could
you all L4.a.e the reality or effect Of this horrd
war, as | have seen them (in every State, save
Virginia), know you would think like me, and
would pray the Almighty to create in the North
ern mind sense ofright and justice, (even should
it possess no seasoning of mercy, and He would
dry up this sea of blood between US, which is
daily growing wider. Alasl poor country, is she
to meet her threatened doom Four years ago
would have given thousand liyesto see her
remain (as I always knew her) powerful andun-
broken And even now I would hold my life as
naught to her what she was OIL my friends, if
the fearful scenes of the past four years had new
er been enacted or if what has been had been
but a frghtful dream, from which we could now
awake, with what overhowing hearts could we
bless our God and pray for his continued favor7
How loved the oldfag can never now be known.
A few years since and the entire world could
boast of none SO pure and spotess. But have
of late been seeing and hearing of the bloody deeds
of which she has been made the emblem, and would
shudder to think how changed she has grown.
Obi how I have longed to see break from the
mist of blood and death that circles round her
folds, spelling her beauty and furnishing her
honor. But no, day by day has she been dragged
deeper and deeper into cruelty and oppression,
till now Gn my eyes, her once bright red stripes
look like bloody gashes on the face of heaven.
look upon my early admiration of her glores as
dream. Ny love (as things stand to-day as
for the south alone. Nor do deem it dishon-
or in attempting to make for her prisoner of
this man. to whom she owes so much of misery.
Ifsuccess attend me 60 penniless to her side.
They say she has found that "last ditch" which
the North has SO long derided and been endeaY


oriNg to force her in forgetting they are our
brothers, and that it is impolitc to goad an en-
emy to madness. Should | reach her in safety
and find it true Iwould beg permission to tri-
umph or die in that same "ditch" by her side.


a Confederate doing his duty upon his oaon respon-
si5ility. J. WILKES BooTH.
Year: 1865

The Peoples Journal of Health has an arti-
Gle with this fearful title, which is attack on
double layers of wall paper The writer says:
"a good clean paper is certainly more pleasant
Ito the eye than fssured and smutty wall,
whose scales of lime are continually pealing off,
and soiling every garment that comes in contact
with it. And if proper selection of paper is
stuff beneath it, it is not only more pleasant to
the sense, but it is almost equal to the whitened
wall But here is the difficulty. As general
rule, one coat of paper is put on over another,
as the last gets too much soiled to look well,
until several layers cover the original surface,
thus often producing an actual cause of disease.
a few years ago we occupied house built
some twenty years before in the old English
style, strong and solid, SO that it seemed almost
as good as, or better even, than new. We were
gravely told that one room in it had seemed to
be fatal to its occupants, hence for several years
it had stood vacant. One of the first things
which received attention was this ill-reputed
apa: tment. It was a north room, so situated
that few slanting rays Of sunlight peered into
a corner of it short time oaly portion of the
year, entirely avoiding it for months together.
Well, here surely was one cause of its unhealth-
fulness, but not enough After the cobwebs
were duly brushed out, we searched further. A
good sized FIRE place and two large windows af-
fording entirely sufficient chance for ventila-
ton, so we could not look there for the evil
The walls next received attention. They were
covered with a heavy velvety green paper; but
not only this, for upon pealiug off section with
knife, another green layer was found beneath
it, and beneath this another, and yet another.
The mystery was solved The cause of the evil
was evident Nothing would have induced us
to sleep in that apartment. None could tell bow
much of the element of disease that thickly pa
pered wall had retained None knew how much
of death there was in that wall 1t seemed as
ifit gave out positively sickening odor, now,
and its entire removal speedily followed. There
after, though not so desirable as some others, it
ceased to have any hidden dangers or terrors,
lurking to poison the fountain of life.


1t is safe rule to choose patterns of wall pa
per without green colors, especially those heavy
greens which so please the eye; for they contain
an active poison, inimical 70 life and it is al
ways highly improper to place one paper over
another. Better submit to the dirt and annoy
ance of having the last and solid paper removed,
than to expose yourselves to the chances of dis
ease and death through its retention"