smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1868

UsEFUL INFoRMATioN.- An excellent bousso
keeper was overheard lamenting that n
crack had been made in her cooking stove.
For the benefit Of all such. We publish the
following ready mode Of mending cracks In
stoves and iron ovens, as practieed IN Ger
many:


when crack 10 discovered IN stove.
through which the fire or smoke pehetrates.
the aperture may be completely closed IN .
moment, with composition consisting Of
wood ashes and common salt, made np IN .
paste with a little water, and plastered over
the crack. The good effect is equally eer--
tain whether tho stove be hot or S,E.'
Year: 1868

One of our exchanges advises bottling
cider, and gives the following direc-
tiops:


For bottling let the pumace lie in the
trough over night. The first run of the
cider from the press is the best. Let
the cider work day or two, the casks
being full, so that the pumace may pass
off at the bung-hole. Then take an
empty cask, clean and sweet, put into
it ten or twelve gallons of the cider,
thrust into the cask through the bung
hole an ignited rag sulphur match, sus-
pended by a wire from the bung, to
which it is to be attached; and after
this another, and so on, till three or
four matches have been consumed.
Then shake the cask violently, until the
fumes of the sulphur are completely
incorporated with the cider. Pour the
cider thus prepared into the cask in
which you propose to keep 1t for the
winter. Repeat the same process until
the cask is full. Bung the cask tightly
and let it remain in the cellar, till
March, and then draw the cider off and
bottle it. Place the bottle upon the
bottom of the cellar, and cover with
sand. Some place the bottles up in
trench or between two bits of joists, as
in this way the corks will remain Sc
cure without twine or wire.


If YOU don't care to bottle it, you can
made excellent cider in this way: Take
pure cider, put it into clean casks; the
after the cider has worked so as to be
pleasant, add to each barrel pint of
mustard seed, and bung tight. The ci-
der will remain till spring of very pleas
ant taste and sparkling appearance,
when poured into tumbler.
Year: 1868

Saturday could doubt that the same
high courage and unbending determine
tion which he displayed while fighting
as a soldier in behalf of the Unisn, will
be manifested by him as a statesman,
standing up for the Constitution of the
Republic, when he shall have been ex-
allied to the second place in the gift of
the people.


While here General BLAIR was visited
by many of our leading citizens. He
received their calls in the MeLure
House parlors. Speaking of the great
political contest now going on, he
evincea the utmost confidence in the
triumph of the party which he so well
represents. He had travelled over q
great portion of the country in the last
four weeks, and found everywhere the
same unmistakeable evidences that
the people are sick of Radical rule,
and will, in November, ratify the Dem
ocratic national nominations.


General BLAIR left on the afternoon
train over the Central Ohio for Cincin-
natl, where he addresses the people to-
day.
Year: 1868

A session of the Board of Registration
for Ohio County, will be held to-day.
We call upon every qualified voter,
whose name has not yet been enrolled
to present himself at the Court House
fer registration. There are said to be
many such in this city, who through
absence or other causes, were unable to
be registered by the Township Regis
trars. All such can have their cases
heard by applying to the Board to-day.


A considerable number of voters were
registered for the first time, jast prior
to the last city election. Every such
voter must be re-registered, as the
township Registrars did not use or copy
the city books in making up their lists.
The Board have already decided, as we
learn, that every voter of this class,
whose name is not now enrolled, will
be promptly registered on application.


We presume that no effort will be
spared to secure to-day the registration
of every qualified and unregistered vot-
er in this county. The opposition have
been steadily at work, and for reasons
which it is not now necessary to name,
have probably taken advantages OF op-
portunities and facilities heretofore pre-
sented, and secured the registration of
about their entire strength. The Demo-
Gratis must not be behind in the matter of
diligent exertion. If we first enroll
our vote we can poll at the coming
election q, Democratic majority in this
county largely in advance of any past
success. To do this should be our aim,
and if we put forth the proper effort we
will certainly achieve the desired re-
suit.


The Radical talk of decreased Dem
ocratic majority is mere throwing Of
dust. If they can, by their policy of
boasting, cause our friends to abate
their exertioas, their purpose Will be
ACCOMPLISHED. We call upon our friends
not to be misled in this way. Let no
Radical prophecies cause you for one
moment to relax your efforts. For
three successive years, the Radicals
have proven by calculation" their
ability to carry this county. The re-
suit of each succeeding election has
shown an increased Democratic MAORI
ty. So it will be at the coming elec-
ton, if the Democrats so will.


We learn that number of persons
have been summoned to appear before
the Board to-day, and establish their
right to vote. We trust that no person
who has been selected for disfranchise-
ment will permit his name to be strick-
en- off by default, but that every one so
summoned will appear to-day prepared
to establish his right to the ballot
Present yourselves, and see to it that
fair trial is had in each case. Your
right to participate in one of the most
important elections orr country has
ever seen, may depend upon your pres
ence and earnest defence before the
Board to-day.
Year: 1868

Mary Hulburt, from whose body ply
sicians have extracted, during the past
ten years, at least one thousand needles
and pius. was found dead in her bed at
Susquehanna, n. Y, last week. She
woald never give any account of the
manner in which they were introduced,
whether she swallowed them or thrust
them directly into the flesh, nor did her
friends, by watching her, ever find out
They were found at different times
working on the surface of almost every
mart of her body, but chiefly on her
limbs. A lady who refused to believe
the stories about their removal states
that she went to satisfy herself, and
saw saR' a a. physician extract nearly fifty
from one arm. The girl seemed to be
very little affected by the operation
Year: 1868

IT is not so pleasant for the laborers
and taxpayers to witness the constant
growing of the public debt, and know
that with the increase of the debt must
come q higher tariff and additional rev.
enue burdens. Nor is their case allevi-
ated in the least by the reflection that
the increase of debt and taxation will
not be felt by the bondholder, whose
investment in bonds is privileged from
all taxation, and that the increase OF
both debt and taxation arises from the
persistent party effort to make the ne
groes of the Southern States participants
with the whites in the government of
the United States.
Year: 1868

In the rear of the store of Mr.. James
Lipscomb, on Franklin street, there Is
a tree, the growth of which is almost as
rapid as Jacks bean stock. 1t came up
a volunteer about three months ago,
and is now fifteen feet high. The cur
ious feature about it is it's leaves, which
are shaped like those of the palm, OF
which fans are made. They are two
feet broad and the same in length.
Their stems are as large as the ordinary
reed, and, like the reed are hollew. A
number of the curious have examined
it, but none have been able to tell what
manner of tree it is.
Year: 1868

Some days since, we copied from anex-
change a paragraph stating that the Mar
sharl Of the United States District Court
had levied on certain property Of the Vir-
giDia and Tennessee Road 10 satisfy a indg-
meut rendered by the said Court. We were
not then advised of the circumstances un-
der which this levy came to be made, and
inasmuch as an impression has gone forth
calculated 20 prejudice the public mind
against the credit Of this corporation, we
deem it proper that the real facts Of the
case, as they now come to Us from the Pres
ident of that Company, should be made
known. They are these:


1t seems that judgment had been obtain
ed upon suit for the payment of past cou-
pons to the extent of some twenty I've hun.
dred dollars, which the Company declined
to satisfy, not because Of any inability on
its part to discharge so small an obligation,
but because equitable Justice to other cred
itors of the like class, demanded that the
claim, on account of which this judgment
had been obtained, should remain 10 be dis
charged 10 the same lime and manner as
other claims Of the Ike class, for the reason
that il would be unjust to O.her bondhold-
ers, aud especially to those who have affOr-
ded the Company time TO recover from the
disasters of the war 10 pay this claim mere


y because judment mad been obtained
as to DO so would be to confer a favor upon
those least deserving of such treatment,
and further because 1t would be in violation
Of the Company's equitable obligation 10 its
various creditors of this denomination.


TIE Virginia aud Tennessee road was
found after the war physically much impair
ed, and ont Of its revenue, drawn from
devasted country has not yet been able to
complete the proper restoration Of its prop
erty, and yet find means sufficient to resume
payment upon its bonds. On this account
there has accumulated past-due interest
upon this msIner Of its Indebtedness, aud
all OF its bonded creditors are cordially
waiting the time when the company 81 q | be
fully aDle 10 resume the regular discharge
OF its obligations Ia this respect, except in
two or three cases, Of which the present is
one, where payment has been sought by
process Of law. In this state OF the case the
Company could not assent to the execu-
tion Of judgment without that resistance
which the law affords it. and this course
has been taken by the Company simply as a
means OF aiiording protection equitably 20
other bondholders. The levy therefore ia
execution Of the Judgment was allowed to
be made, and the right of the parties thus
10 iGsee payment will be tried before the
propef Tonrts Of the country. In the mean
time tiess cannot, nor will there be, any
res,raiiit o. distress of the property upon
which levy has been made.


We would ask the papers which have
given circulation to the Announcement TO
which We have REFERRED to give circulation
also TO this. Petersburg Ihder, Sep.l4
Year: 1868


The brightest crown that woman wears,
is not upon HER brow
The purity that ssnctifies
She cannot boast Of now
But tender traits of womanho0d
Which never can depart,
Are born in loving words and deeds,
Conceived within her heart.
Why should we then with vandal hands
Deface q ruined shrinel
Or strip from of the alter-stone
The tendrils Of the vine
Better permit the pitying leaves
To hide the sad decay
Perchance twill grow a beauteous thing
When time shall pass away.
But ah the world will never heed
The warning Of our Lord,
"Judge not, lest ye he judged" He said
Unto the wondering horde
No mercy will it show to those
OF innocence bereft;
But, Christ defying, stone to death
Whatever good is left.
Year: 1868

How thankful our swell-educatcd' young
ladies OF this day must feel that they do not
live among such a half.civilized people as
the HISTORIANS must be, from the following
account Of onc oftheir wedding customs:


After the marriage ceremony has been
performed, the wedding party is taken in
wagons from the church to the house of the
bridegroom's parents. When the second
wagon, in which the bride is seated alone,
reaches the gate opening into the yard in
which the house is situated, it is halted, and
the bridegroom's mother comes to meet it,
with baby and three suits of baby clothes
in her arms. She throws the child and the
clothes into the arms Of the bride, who is re-
quired to undress and dress the baby three
times in the presence Of her mother-in. la W,
who watches every movement as only a
mother-in-law can watch daughter-ln-la law.
If the newly-uade bride does not perform
the operation 10 the satisfaction other severe
Judge, she is considered unfit for her new
position, the wagon is turned around, and
she is ia ken back home for further instruc-
ton, and the poor bridegroom is compelled
to live in single blcsscdness until his wife,
is educated up to the proper standard.
Year: 1868

The following mixture is recommend
ed for house flies: Half spoonful of
black pepper in powder, one tcaspoonful
of cream, aud a teaspoonful of sugar ;
mix thcm well together, and place them
in n room where the flies arc troublesome
and they will soon disappear. 1t won'l
cost much to try it.
Year: 1868

The World says the resignation of
STANTON is the fit and necessary sequel
of the utter collapse of the impeach-
nent. If the resolution taken in the
Republican caucus Of Senators to post
pone the vote and keep the impeach-
ment alive had been carried out in the
Court, STANTON would have held on in
spite of the further injury which would
have been done to the public service.
One object of the postponement was
doubtless to spite the President by his
longer retention.


There is no result of the Presidents
complete aequittal which will give more
sincere JOY to honest men than the hu-
initiation and disgrace of this insolent
miscreant. He was not only the occa-
sion of the impeachment, but its chief
instigator. As soon as the President
caused the notice of his removal to be
served on him, he Immediately volun-
tsered to send a copy of it to the House
without waiting to have it called for, as
if he had made up his mind that i'm
peachment was the necessary conse
quence and he had right to dictate
it. His Office has been the focus of all
the impeachment intrigues. He has re-
garded the whole affair in the light
of personal contest between him
aud the President, and he expected
Congress to decide that his title to
power was better than that of the Pres
ident elected by the people. He was
willing to disorganize the Government,
to virtually destroy the War Depart
ment by severing it from all connection
with the President, and to keep the
military administration of the country
in state of confusion, to crafty his
ignoble inselence and his sordid avarice
of power, His humiliation is as signal
as his character is infamous. He will
stink away into obscurity despised by
the very Radicals who have abetted his
insolence to crafty a spirit of base
revenge,


Nor is STANTON the only person who
is humiliates by his extorted resigna.
tion. General GRANT, who first secretly
conpived at his eontqmacy and after,
wards gave it .his open oountenance;
General GRANT, who forfeited his word
to restore STANTON, and who was con-
victsd Of duplicity and misstatements
by the written testimony ofhalfa dozen
gentlemen of the highest standing; Gen.
eral GRANT, who, to serve STANTON,
cavilled at the order of the President
forbidding him to recognize the unin-
dorsed orders of STANTON and disobey-
cd his Commander-in-C Chief; General
GRANT, who permitted it to be given
out in the Republican newspapers that
he thought the conviction of the Pres
ident to be essential to the safety of the
country, shares the disgrace of the man
he tried by discreditable means to up
hold. 81
Year: 1868

for such conduct on the part of any
man, if you were the only other female
about the house. wouldn't kiss you
for the whole national debt"


"Or perhaps yon can remembet, the
night you came home intoxicated, and
i flew at'you this way with the broom
stick and beat your And the woman
actually hauled off with her parasol
aad aimedfa violent blow at, my head
I Jumped behind chair, and then
made dash for the door, and succeeded
in escaping. IL Va. -A-a ID,


But what does this preposterous fe-
male do but walk right down to an Al
derman and swear that was her hus-
band, and have me arrested A more
barefaced outrage was never perpetra-
ted upon q hnman being, and the worst
of it is, that everybody thinks she is
right, for there does seem to be an in
trinsic probability that every woman
knows her own husband when she sees
HIM.
Year: 1868

In recent discussion before the Bed
ford, n. H., Farmers Club, the question
of applying manHres to sod ground was
discussed, and at the close of the dis
cussion twenty to one voted that ma.
nure should be applied to the sod after
it had been turned over, and as near the
surface as it is possible to cover it, not
over three inches deep.
Year: 1868

There is duel on the carpet in Paris.
A well-known queen of the demi-mOnde
has ruined Russian Prince and an Eng
lish nobleman. The cause of their ruin
has just become mother, and when the
infant was brought to the Mayors Office
to be registered, the lord" and the
"bayard" met face to face, each demand
ing the child to be registered in his
name. Hence quarrel and prospect,
i've fight.
Year: 1868

Here is the New York Tribune's calcu.
lation on the result of the election next
November. Considering the fact that
we are certain to carry Pennsylvania,
Ohio and Indiana, the Tribune does not
make the prospect look i Jerry gloomy for
US:


owe hold it morally certain that the
States here subjoined will choose Grant
and Colfax Electors by decided major
Year: 1868

from the head Of tho Army, or from
the Supreme Bench of the United
states, he will in either case have been
a citlsen Uf Ohio.


Accustomed as VIC have boon to o.meet-
ing them on their vantage ground iE
State contests, We think that justice
and good policy demand that we
should be allowed to encounter them
on the broader National field, upon
which we would enter with a knowl-
edge of our adversaries that would be
most useful and instructive.


II Is n3edless for us to enlarge upon
tho merits, or speak of the high quail
ficatlons Of that native.born son of
Ohio and iavorite statesman, George
III. Pend Teton, who is our choice for
President. His political history IS
well known to the country, and there
is no Democrat who will not respond
warmly 80 his praise or speak other
wise than favor ably of his personal
character and his political career.
Wherever men read and think-where.
evor they take any interest in politi-
cal affairs-his magnificent addresses
in tho cause of civil liberty and in tho
interest of the Tar payers, have been
listened to with delight, or perused
with pleasure, and thor author has
long since acquired an elevated place
among the eminent stu tesmen OF the
Union. His popularity extends far
beyond the Democratic organization,
and we do not hesitateto promise our
Democratic brethren of the United
States that, under his leadership, a
zeal aud energy, and enthusiasamwould
oe impaired to the contest in Ohio
and through all the West that would
be The certain precursor Of victory.


That he possesses in a larger degree
than any other man who has been
mentioned, the elements both OF avail
ability and fitness for the Office we
fully believe, and as possessing such
qualifications, we strongly urge his
selection upon our brethren, the Do
mocracy Of the United States.
Year: 1868

"The Diary OF Millinor, q book
soon to be published, contains the fol-
lowing, which everybody will soc is
drawn entirely from the fancy:


She deliberately took Of her own
bonnet and commenced trying those
that were on the saloon table. One
after one she took them up; and put
them on her head, till she had seen
about thirty casting their differently
combined tints over her complexion.
She invited my comments and sugges-
tions upon each one. She viewed her.
self in each of tho mirrors of the
saloon, and in all the various lights
sh could command, and placed her
self in every conceivable at titude be-
fore them.


One thing or another was tho fault
in every one of them. She had ask
ed the price of all, and cheapenod each
to tho lowest possible fraction for
which they could be bought.


She then went TO the side-table, and
performed the same operation upon
herself with fifteen or twenty more.
There were none that exactly suited.


Haven't you put some away in
drawers?" she asked. l went the
same rounds with dozen drawers
containing ak or eight apiece. When
those wero exhausted she pointed to
the window, and asked me ifI would
be kind enough to bring her two
handsome bonnets that were hanging
their. eIEs.r


Something of the inner life, proba-
bly, it was that attribute of tho dual
dcnominatcd penetration, admonished
me that she didn't 'yish to purchase a
bonnet but was seeking an afternoon q
entertainments at our expense. An
other something-whether it was u
spirit tapping, or q tapping at the IL
er door, know not--admonished me
That there arc Zines when, to practice
tho forbcaring policy of the romarka-
bic patriarch, of whom l have been
speaking, is to cast pearls before
swine. Instead Of starting for the do
sired bonnets, l looked her sternly
IN the eye while modulated my voice
toa very respectful tone, and re-
piled:


off you really wish to buy bon
net, i will go down and get thom; but
l fear they will suit you no better
than the others have done"


She saw that her role was played TO
tho end, and successful actress che
had proved herself. She had confined
her audience in the closet attention for
about two hours. The other two bon
nets We're beyond her reach. With
tho most lninitable GOODNESS and un-
concern she looked me back, and re-
piled; II don't wish tv buy bonnet.
| bought nine last week"
Year: 1868

Mr.. Bright made one of his bold.
straightforward speeches of Roch dale
on the 23d of December, in which he
showed the wrongs from which the
Irish people are suffering, and cited the
past to show that only by threats, only
by creating an actual and lively fear
Of revolution, had either the Irish or
the English people ever obtained re.
forms from the British Parliament
He said


"The more l consider the question,
the moro | am impressed with it's in
describable seriousn ess. l think of it
many things, and which l am sure are
not without foundation, which can
not and which / dare not publicly dis.
cuss before this audience. think IL
has within it perils such as for long
time this country has not known. and
that itrequires great resolution and
wisdom, such as wo don't often find in
our governments, to meet 1t as il re-
quireH to be met. If Ireland is to be
made content, if her wounds are to be
healed, If thore is to be henceforth
what there never has yet been q uni
ted kingdom ofGreat Britain and Ire
land--if the scopter of tho Queen, rep.
resenting the majesty of the law, shall
ever be of equal authority east and
west Of the channel, it must be done
and it can only be done, by measures of
great craftsmanship and of JUSTICE
The morals of the turf, laid on the floor
of Parliament, or in the seoresy of the
Cabinet, will fail here. The disease
which we are discussing Is one of q
different character. But there are
remedies, unless it be that tho reno
dies are too late. Has the country fal-
len so low that it can produce no states
man equal to these thlngs2 / say the
man who, leading in the counsel of the
Queens Government, shall grasp tho
great question and end it-who shall
comprehend the remedies and shall
administer them and make them law
he would do that which IN future time
the pen of history will delight to
trace" ..


1t is plain that the Irish question
will not DO pat down, and that Fenian.
ism is useful. . o.
Year: 1868

BEAUTY OF OLD PkoPLs.-Men and
women make their own beauty or
their own uglincss, nord Lytton
speaks Of a man "who was uglier than
he had any business TO be, and, if no
could but read it, every human being
carries his life in face, and is good
looking or the reverse, as that life had
been good or evil. On our features
the fine chisel ofthought and emotion
are eternally at work, Beauty is not
the monopoly of blooming young men
and of pink and whito maids. There
is u slow growing beauty, which only
comes to perfection in old age. Grace
belongs to no period Of life, and inl-
proves the longer it-exlsts,