smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1868


Enter upon the performance of his official duties
for the current year. He would call particular at
tention to the following section of the Revenue
Law:


"If any person shall willfully make, or give,
under oath or affirmation, false list of his, or her,
or their taxable property or false list OF taxable
property under his, her, their control, such per-
SON shall be deemed gnilty of perjury, and upon
conviction thereof shall be punished therefor, as
il bv law provided for the punishment of perjury
and any property willfully concealed, removed,
transferred or misrepresented by the owner or any
agent thereof, to evade taxation, shall upon dis
covery be assessed at ten times the amount o! TAX
for that year. which would otherwise have been
assessed upon 1t and fifty per cent of the amount
OF such additional tax, when solicited shall be paid
TO the person or persons who shall furnish the
information which reveals the property so conceal
ed transferred removed or misreprcsented, and the
remaining fifty per cent. after deductlng the usual
per centare for collection shall be paid into the
Treasury for the benefit of the Common School
Fund of the State"


Attention is also directed to the following section
of the Act of lS65-6, relating to Shasta county:
The Assessor of said county is authorized and
it is hereby made his duty collect all the poll
per capita tax except the road poll tax, and the
taxes upon all movable personal property and upon
the entry of any assessment of movable personal
property, to any person, firm, corporation, associa-
ton, company. who does not own real estate
sufficient in the opinion of the Assessor to insure
the payment of such tax within the county, to de-
mand the payment of the taxes upon the same
and if such person, firm corporation, association,
or company shall refuse or neglect to pay such
taxes, the Assessor shall, by virtue of the power
herein vested in him. proceed to collect such taxes
in the same manner prescribed by law for the Col
lector."


If Tax Payers to have list of their pro-
perty prepared, ready to be sworn to, as the law
directs, by the time of my reaching them, they
would thereby perhaps save themselves much an
noyance, as well as facilitate my work.


A. p. LADD,


Assessor of Shasta County
Shasta, March 2, 1867. nj
Year: 1868

FIVE CHILDREN THROWN INTO A WELL BY
THE FATuER-A shocking occurrence took
place last month at Foxdale, in the Isle OF
Man. A miner named Killy, who was sub
ject to fits of depression and lowness OF
spirits, acting under the influence of a ground
less fear of the loss of employment, made up
his mind to destroy himself and f'mily.-
He accordingly walked out of his house into
a field where three of his children were play
ing, and threw them one by one in the well.
His wife, who heard their screams, ran out
of the house to the well, with baby in her
arms he wrenched the baby out of her
arms and threw it down the well, and tried
to throw his wife after the child, but she
escaped. The fifth child, who had been
sent for assistance, now came up, and he
threw her down the we'll and plunged in
after her. The bodies were soon recovered,
chiefly by the gallantry of man who de-
scended into the we'll at the risk of his own
life. Two of the children survived the rest,
with the father, were brought up dead.
Year: 1868

CRUEL DEsERTIoN.- day recently a
man named Simmons, moving with his family
toward California, camped near Bear creek,
and on starting refused to allow his wife to
accompany him any farther. He took three
of their children with him, leaving his wife
on the ground, sick, destitute and nearly
blind, with an infant in her arms, and an old
broken down horse. The woman was assist
ed to the house of Mr.. Thompson, and is now
in charge of the county. This inhuman
wretch is going into California, and we hope
the papers of that State wherever he may
come, will ventilate him according to the
above facts, and hold him rp to the scorn of
respectable society - Oregon Rereille.
Year: 1868

INCREASE OF CHILD MURDER IN LIVERPOOL.
The crime of child murder is on the increase
to such shocking intent in Liverpool that
the attention of the Government has been
directed to the subject, and the Home Secre
tary has authorized the borough Coroner to
offer rewards for the detection of the guilty
persons.
Year: 1868

ATTACKED BY WILD CAT.-The Marin
Journal says: few days since while Mr..
Bannister was chopping wood near his cabin
in the hills adjacent Bolinas, hugh wild cat
crept from the brush and sprang directly at
his face with full intent to commit bodily
injury but we'll aimed blow from the axe
met the beast and stunned it, and another
blow dispatched it.
Year: 1868

That clever and kindly Old Bach
elor who discusses social questions
with such genial wisdom IN the pages
of Uarper's Bo=dr, tells the follow.
ing story to illustrate the reason why
women do not usually prosper as
well as men in some of the profess
ions for which they would seem to
be quite as well adapted:


IL seemed to me that women might
Especially succeed as wood en-
grayers, so | went to one Of the most
experienced and successful engravers
in the city and consulted with him.


"Don't you see the d;lliculty?" he
asked, with great kindness and in
tcrest.


"No.' said | you must instruct
me-


"Well," answered he, 81 have en-
plOyed women here very often, and |
wish | could feel more encouraged,
but the truth is, that when n young
man comes to me and begins his
work, he feels that it his life bust
ness, how to cut his future out OF the
little BLOCKS before him. Wife, fam
lily, home, happiness. are all to be
carved Ivy his hand, and he settles
steadily and earnestly to his labor,
determined to master it and with
every Indictment squirting him On.-
He cannot marry until lie knows his
trade. 1t is exactly the other way
with the girl. She may be as poor
as the youth, and as wholly depend
cnt upon her labor for her living. But
she feels that she will probably be
married by and by, and then she
must give up wood engraving. So
she goes on listlessly; she has no
ambition to excel; she does not feel
that her happiness depends upon it
She will marry, and then her hus-
bands wages will support her. She
may not say So" said the engraver,
"but she thinks so, and it spoils her
work"


The same is true with regard to
many employments in which women
have been engaged. We know that
as clerks at Washington they are far
less useful than men. Their habits
of work are much less accurate, and
they do not give their minds to their
duties with the same conscientious.
ness and fidelity. The reason is the
same as that given by our old bach
elor. They do not feel that these
duties are the business of their lives,
and that their whole success or fail
ure depends upon the manner In
which they are performed. Whatev-
er they do, love, matrimOny, and the
care of house of their own, are al
ways at the bottom of their thoughts.
Year: 1868

There is nothing more unpleasant
to refined ceiling than lOoseness
of manners, or rather an indifference
to personal behavior, among the
members of family in their domes-
tic retirement. 1t shows that their
behavior in the presence of guests is
a mere Sunday suit put on for the
occasion. Good manners, politeness,
respectful attention to others, if they
be at all ingram, are not respecter
of persons and occasion. They
should be ever-pervading; and al
though they may be in their fullness
observed between parents and chill
dren, they should be relaxed in none
of their essential applications. What
is more charming than to behold a
gallant and affectionate consideration
between man and wife; or that ever
lpresent courtesy, and loving kind
ness between brothers and sisters
The respect due to parents on the
part of children, without regard to
the number of years that have passed
over the heads of the latter, should
never be forgotten; but it should be
held in remembrance not so much as
an exacting duty as an ever conscious
happiness.


While l love to see and often join
in the ligh.-hearted pleasures and
frivolties of the family circle, and
think that children should never be
checked in their innocent enjoyments,
I nevertheless abhor the behaviour
of boys and girls, and especially OF
parents, who forget practical good
manners at home. How many wives
and husbands are careless in their
dress, captious or rough in their con
versatiOn, unbecoming in their pos
lures, and the children following the
example set before them with so much
authority, grow up without the true
instincts of what is thoroughly be-
coming in society. II persons can
put on and put Off their manners as
they can dress or coat, they are
often liable to be discovered in dis
haJiHe. Saying, "You must put on
your best BEHAVIOR on such and
such an occasion, is an insult to a
gentleman or lady, and implies thai
the utterer himself or herself is lack
ing of qualities in which others arc
attempted to be taught. Good man
ners should be as inseperable IN wei
bred persons as their epidermis frou
their bodies, and such being the fact
they can never be betrayed into con
duct unbecoming proper regard fol
the feelings and opinions of all will
whom they may be thrown in con
tact.
Year: 1868

We have been waiting for some time
for some Of our Union contemporaries to
make some suggestions in regard to the
proper candidate for Governor. We
have no ambition to lake The lead in
this matter and would have preferred
that others should have broken the ice,
but as we think It's time something was
said concerning the matter, and os 9th
crs appear too modest TO broach tho
subject, we will endeavOr to sci the ball
in motion.


We do not intend to. say anything
particularly in favor Of anybody. but
merely give what we have heard fiOm
others, We have heard the names Of
two prominent gentlemen Of the Union
party mentioned in connection with the
gubernotorial election, either Of whom,
10 our estimation, would administer our
State government to the satisfaction Of
the loyal people. WO alude to Gen. B
F. Kelay and Gen. |. H. Duvol. Both
gentlemen are well known Both ore
eminentIy popular. aud either would
make a sale executive, and one thot
would do honor TO the Stale Of West
Virginia. Il would rejoice thousands of
the Union soldiers as well ar Union cit
izaus Of the State 10 vote for either Of
them. 1t matters not upon the sboul.
ders Of which the mantle may fall, (and
from what we hear, we confidently ex.
pcct it to fall upon those Of one or the
otber) he will wear it gracefully.


If either Of these gentlemen bO nomi.
mated we feel sure of his triumphant
election, We should like to heAr the
opinions Of our Republican cOtempOra-
RIGS on this subject The election next
Fall is Of The utmost importance, and al
though it is nearly eight months until
the election, yet We deem that II Is not
TOO early to commence cauvaSsiDg the
claims Of individuals whose names may
como before our State UOion ConVen-
ton. 1t is time the Union people Of the
State were directing their minds to q
standard bearer for tho approaching
campaign, We feel sure that the nom
Year: 1868

A late number Of tho N, Y. Cai=en
contains a Washington correspondence
over the familiar signituro of Miles
O'Riley,' in which allusion is made to
one Of the many calumnieS by means Of
which the enemies Of General Grant are
vainIy striving TO destroy bis popularity
and prevent his becoming a candidate
for the Presidency. The writer Of this
correspondence, General Halpine, is no
friend Of the Republican party, and
therefore may be considered as witness
whose political bias, il hO has any,
is against General Grant Ho says:


1T is altogether probable, so far as l
can now sec, that The Citizen may bo
obliged to oppose the election Of Gcnor-
Ol Grant 10 consequence Of the platform
upon which tho Radicals are endOavor.
ing TO place him bu. 1t Is no part Of the
Year: 1868

How many kiss has been given-how
many curse-how many a earess-how
many n look Of hate-how many q kind
word-hOw many promise has been broken
how many a heart has been wreched-how
many a soul lost-how many a loved one
lowehed IN the narrow chambeT-hOw many
a babe has gone forth from earth to heaven
how many a little crib or cradle stands
client now, which last Saturday night held
the rarest Of all treasures of the heart


A week is a life; week is a history;
week marks events of sorrow o. gladness
which people never heard. Go home to your
family, man Of business Go home you
heart erring wanderer! Go home to the
cheer that awaits you, wronged waif on life s
breakersl Go home to those You love, man
Of toll, and give one night to Joy and COM
forts fast ayihg bYl Leave your books with
complex fguTes-your dirty shop-your
busy store Rest with those you love for
God only knows what the next Saturday
night VIII bring you Forget the world Of
care and battles with life that have furrowed
the week. Draw close around the family
hearthl Saturday night has waited your
coming in sadness, IN tears, and in silence


90 home to those you love, and bask IN
the loved presence, and meet the return OF
the loved embrace of your hearts pets, strive
to be better man, and bless God for giving
his weary children SO dear a stepping stone
in the river, to the eternal as Saturday
night
Year: 1868

The defeat of negro suffrage constitution
in Michigan has caused more surprise and
comment in Washington, in Congressional
and political circles than the Democratic
triumph in Connecticut, for the reason that
the Congressional policy was the direct
issue.
Year: 1868

But if the Democratic Convention
must nominate soldler-ifit must have
a name identified with the glories of
the war-we will recommend candi-
date for its faver. Let it nominate
General Robert Z. Lee. Let it boldly
take at once the best of all its soldiers,
making no palaver or apology. He is q
better soldier than any of those they
have thought upon and greater man.
He is one in whom the military genius
of this nation finds it's fullest develop
ments. Hero the inequality will be in
favor of the Democrats; for this soldier,
with handful of men whom he bad
moulded into an army, baffied our
greater northern armies for four years;
and when opposed By Grant was only
worn down by that solid strategy OF
stupidity that accomplishes its object
by mere weight


With cue quarter the men Grant had
this soldier fought him magrificently
across the territory of his native State,
and fou ght his army down to stump
There never was such an army, such q
campaign, or such General for illus
trating the military genius and posi-.
bilities of our people; and that General
is the best of oil tor q Democratic can
disate. 1t is certain that with half as
many men as Grant had he wonld have
beaten him from the field in Virginia
aud he affords the best promise of any
soldier for beating him again.-Neu


York Herald.
Year: 1868

The Providence Press says that late
one evening recently, a lad aged about
seventeen years called upon Captain
Hazard, the Oversser of the Poor, OF
Newport, Rhode Island, and said that
he (the youngster) had just got mar.
ried in Massachusetts, and with his
bride, was on wedding tour, intend
ing to 60 to New York, where the latter
had some friends, but most unfortu.
nately the funds had run low, and be
had not sufficient to pay q nights lodg-
ing and the fare of both to New York
and would he render them little as
sistance about getting in at the Perry
Housei Captain II. told them it was a
case hardly coming within his province,
though he presumed they might get
lodgings at the station house. The bride,
groom thought his lady wouid hardly
be willingto sleep there, and failing to
get the assistance required, the young
man departed. The bride was about
fourteen years of age.
Year: 1868

An experiment, made last year in Ger
many in planting potatoes, showed that
where the "eyes" had first been remOv-
ed, the yield was four times as great
as where they were left in their place.
1t was found that where an old eye had
been rubbed of, three or four new
ones made their appearance.
Year: 1868

In pursuance of resolution passed
by the State Convention he'll in Wheel
ing, on the 9Th day of January last,
there will be a State Convention of the
Democratic and Conservative voters of
West Virginia, at
Year: 1868

The fruits Of Radicalism are ripening


Every paper that comes to us from the
manufacturing districts of the East, tells Of
the number Of persons who are out of employ
ment. In New York city alone more than
fifty thousand artizans, mechanics and labor
ers are without anything to do, the financial
policy of the Rump, if it can be said 70 have
one, having Utterly destroyed the foundation
of business.


At Troy, New York, the Rensselaer, Iron
Works have ceased operations, and three
hundred persons were thrown out of situa-
tons.


A New Haven paper says more men are
out of employment to-day than at any pre-.
vious time in the last ten years. The maI>
ufacturers arereducing, or have reduced their
forces, and it is difficult matter for a me-
chanic or workingman to obtain employment
of any kind. On the other hand the negroes
of the South are supported by the Freedmen's
Bureau, and the poor white men ofthe North
are taxed for their support.


The family of the white man is crying for
the bread he earns, while that bread is taken
by Radical officials to feed the niggers who
vote the Radical ticket in the South.


Thousands upon thousands of poor hard
working men thrown out of employment at
the most discouraging season of the year, with
the prices OF the necessaries of life greatly
enhanced by the destructive legislation of a
,Rump Congress.


A few months more of this kind of thing.
A few more turns of the screw in the torture
rack prepared by Radicalism for the people,
and either the country or the Radicals will
be. irretrievably ruined.
Year: 1868

FROM THE YAKIMA.-A gentleman direct
from the Yakima Valley states that snow
has fallen there to the depth of seven inches.
Cattle and horses were doing well, feeding
on a kind of sage weed, SO called. Ranch
men had not commenced feeding their stock
hay when our informant left.
Year: 1868

WHEN he gets here we shall be exceed
ingly happy to make his acquaintance.
In a series of elaborate AHd71tic M0aet1tly
essays he has informed us that this some
time to arrive individual will not smoke,
and will not drink wine. So far so good.
Already he is quite unlike vast majority
of mankind. What delightful thing it
will be to have his companionship and
friendship. A sober man, with clear in
tellect and sweet breath-a man who
does not make a beast of himself! Is it
possible the day is coming when this in
dividual will appear? What then will
become of all the liquor shops, and the
Board of Excise? How shall we be able
to drink toasts to the health of Mr. Dick
ems, or any other individual who may
honor us with their presences By the
way, speaking of that press dinner to Mr..
Dickens, reminds us that the "coming
man" was not present, unless it was Hor-
ace Greeley, for if memory serves us
right, he was the only man who neither
smoked nor drank wine. Mr.. Parton was
present.


About what time will this coming man
arrive? We see no signs of his appear
ance. Claret-punches are universally pop
ular at the watering places, and most of
our college students smoke The rising
generation is coming on as fast as possi-
BILE, but it smokes more, and drinks deeper
than that which preceded it. Undoubt-
edly Mr. Parton will tell us other things
about this coming man, as forthcoming
numbers of the atlantic make their ap-
pearance.


He will be an honest man.
If he is q merchant, he will not import
I.xy do of no aQ11f hQI vol Inc
and then cheat the people out of a colossal
fortune.


He will remember the deserving poor,
preferring to help them than to display
ing an equipage and living in marble
palace.


He will pay good wages to those whom
he employs.


He will love his own country before all
other lands


He will protect home industries.


He will let "politics," as it is now called,
alone.


He will respect his wife, and regard her
as at least his equal.


He will give to women the same privi-
leges and opportunities which he claims
for himself


He will not be seen driving on the Coney
Island road on Sunday


He will endeavor to practice as well as
to preach.


He will pay less attention to fashion
and more to common sense.


He will take particular interest in the
welfare Of the young men and women by
whom he is surrounded.


Hurry him up, Mr.. Parton, for he is
much needed, and we are all looking for
him, ,--Meao York Mail.
Year: 1868

ders of the battle. Neither Sherman, nor
Sheridan, nor Thomas, nor Candy ever
failed him, and had circumstances enabled
him to devote himself exclusively to the
command of the Army of the Potomac, he
would doubtless have displayed as much
skill in the tactics of battle as he did in
the strategy of campaigns.


The quick Judgment by which he dis
covered the enemy's plan to evacuate Fort
Donelson, and the sudden resolution which
he based thereupon, to attack at once, are
evidences of something more than aggres-
sive temper or mere brute courage. The
tactics of Lookout Mountain, Chattanooga
Valley and Mission Ridge have never been
surpassed The tactics, or, more properly,
the grand tactics displayed during the
overland campaign, are worthy of the
highest commentator, and had the eXecu-
tion of details been as faultless as the
conception of the movements, there would
have been nothing to regret. But it was
precisely in the details with which Grant
studiously avoided interfering, that the
greatest, and in fact the only failures took
place Grants conduct at Belmont, Fort
Donelson, Shiloh, Vicksburgh, and in the
Wilderness was all that could have been
wished, and shows beyond chance OF dis
pute, that he possesses ia the highest de-
gree that "two- clock-i in -the-mornipg cour-
age" which Napoleon declared to be the
rarest thing among generals, while his
conception and execution of the Vicks-
burgh campaign are complete proof that
his Judgment is in exact equilibrium with
his courage. His UNMARRIED course of sue
cess through four years of warfare, shows
that he is entitled to be ranked in the cat
egory of generals who never lost a cam
paign or battle, and the easy simplicity
with which he did the most extraordinary
things, points strongly to the possession of
a remarkable genius of war.
Year: 1868

"A SINGULAR Casa Nan Struck Dumb ON
tie fdIs-A gentleman who resides in Wilkes
county and was returning home from Augusta
ON Thursday last entirely lost the power of
speech soon after the train left Augusta We
ntaIG MN attempting TO talk soon after he got
on the irain, and in few moments he conId
not arucGlate word. He was in the poses
sion Of all other faculties, but his lips We're lit
eraly sealed. His distress WAS very touching
and he wrote replies TO questions addressed hi m
by the passengers and tried 10 bear up under
the terrible visitation. He said that he had
been on a spree. He hoped it was only a
species OF deli lum and would wear off with
rest and sleep. He said he had once been par
TALLY deprived of his speech before, for a short
time, in Virginia. His case attracted much at
tention among the passengers, several Of whom
Knew him and were sati-fie that he was not
using deception. His case were a most forcible
illustration OF the summary and terrible man
ner IN which nature sometimes punIshes yio.
Iatlon OF her laws.-AMens (Ga.l Banner
Year: 1868

SESATE.-The Chaplain prayed that in this
highest Council Of the nation justice TO all
should be done under God.


On motion of Mr.. Sherman n, the reading of the
Journal was dispensed with.


Mr.. Drake rose to present a memorial, when


Mr. Stewart made the point that il was not in
order.


The Chair said that under the order of the
Senate the Court Of Impeachment had ad-
lourned TO this time, aSd no legislative busi-
ness was now in order The chair would be
vacated for the Chief Justice of the United
States.