smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1869

TO THE TRADE.


Being desrous of accommodating the mer-
chant, the farmer. and the mechanic, | have
fitted up the commodious Warehouse, No. 40
King street, and l am now prepared to furnish
them with every variety of COOKING, FAX,
LOR, DINING ROOM and Oh a E 4
STOVES also, with all the varieties OF LIN,
JAPANNED, COPPER and SHEET lKON
WARE, of the latest improved patterns. |
can also furnish to order goods of any descrip-
ton that may be wanted in my line. Partlcu--
lar attention is given to the workmanship and
material used in filing all orders of my patrons,
and | pledge satisfaction az to styleand quality.
Nv work is equal to any done in Northern
cities. l also ask the favor of all who wish to
examine or purchase goods in my line to call
and see for themselves. Having an experience
of thirty years in this business, feel conhdent
| can suit them both in goods and prices.


[ also would call the attention of the public
TO the fact that have just received the agency
Of the celebrated ST u A RT COO Kl q
STOV e, which needs no recommendation, as
persons in our good Old Dominion can fully
testify to its economy and great saving OF fuel
and labor


will close by extending my most heartfelt
thanks for the liberal patronage extended 10
me in the old year just past, and truly hope
continuance Of the same, during the new year
just set IN. ENOCI GhlM No


No. 46 King ST.,


Opposite old stand.
2. S.-Roofng and Spouting in town and
country, promptly attended to, and all work
fully warranted to please. teD III
Year: 1869

Many invalid physician while visiting the
Island Of St. crx for their health experienced and witnessed surprising and
beneficial effects tho Rum there produced nvNd who ke
ourse seeking health and inquiry and investigation obtained full history
its medicinal virtues He was delighted and surprised and after his
which occurred determined possible procure manufacture
and sell it in the United States.


The result his abors himself humanity
the world
TATIoN sVTER being article Of merit upon principles
wholly vegetable world for its medicinal revou
history medicine and became
TlssoX tasrnaz health
PLANTATION BTERS far exceeded the " pes supply


Notwithstanding large importation Rum expressly
pounding these B the quantity inadequate therefore necessary
that extensive scale abroad
dispatched that purpose securing
leasing the largest and productive the
Island stills presses erected which utterly
hed the natives services experienced and natives the island
cured very rropos the PLANTATION BTERS position


supply their laboratory with all the perfectly st. c Rum needed in anuac-
turing
the natives crushing otherwise for tho stills and


anEie Intermittent and Mlaous and
BITERS the
history world Over million bottles disposed annually Thy
adapted old and young male and female They agreeable TASTE and always
produce an immediate beneficial result
Year: 1869

dustrial recupera.ion, is an indication
that that section will enter very readily
into the economical politics of the new
era; and its interests must plant it firm
~ on the Democratic side. The Re-
publ'cans in their revolutionary recon
structlon' will find that they "went
forth tor wool and came back shorn;"
that, instead of making the Southern
States allies OF their party, they have
made them more certainly it's enemies
Year: 1869

The New York journal of Commerce,


in an article on the subject of the res.


pons;bi ity for the sad accident at the


Avondale coal mine, says very Justly !:


1T fills the heart with anguish to


think OF 200 souls, full of life and hope.


suddenly confronted with the great


destroyer aud burned Or stifed to death,


far beyond the aid of human arm, and
dying with their miseries unsoothed by


the tender ministrations of families and


friends. For the sorrowing wives and


children Of the unhappy mea Of Avon


dale the keenest pity will be widely
felt, and sweet charity will do all it
can to relieve the distress in which they
are plunged. Commiseration will also
be felt for the owners of the mine, who,
BY this sudden blow, may have lost a
large part of their property. And yet
it 10 our plain duty, for the protection
Of other mines and other miners, to i'm
press upon the public the one obvious
moral of the dreadful story, and to
reafirm that the responsibility for such
occurrences chief rests upon employ
ers and employed together. Had the
men in tbs Avondale mine not been on
au idle strike for over three months,
resuming work only last Thursday; had
the mine not been neglected during that
long period; had the strikers devoted
quarter of the attention to the condition
Of the mine and the prevention of ac-
cidents that they did to forcing an in.
crease of wages had the mine owners
been anything like as solicitous for the
safety Of their property and the miners
as they were Of getting higher prices for
their coal, the Avondale horror might
never have affrighted the world, and the
poor miners would be today peacefully
pursuing their useful avocation in the
full enjoyment Of health. 1t is pain
ful duty to say, in the face of such
misery, that it was brought upon the
sufferers by their own thoughtlessness;
bat solemn concern for the interests of
The living eompels its utterance."
Year: 1869

During ths war, aud old woman wen
into village shop to buy half q pound
of candles. Being told the price. she
found it more than she had been used
to, and asked the reason. The shoR.
man said it was because Of tho war on
which the old woman exclainsd' Deary
me, sir, have they taken to fight BY can
dla-lipht."
Year: 1869

A boy, Eve years of age, having
stolen a can OF milk, bis mother took
him to task, with moral suasiop, and
wound up her discourse by exelai.uing :
What in the world were you going to
do with the milk, anyhow 7" II was
going to steal dog to drink twas the
Year: 1869

The Now York JournaI or Commerce
is calling upon Congress, to give prac-
tical effect to President Grants aspira-
ton that all things now may conducc
to the "cementing u happy Union."-
However, says the editor:


"It is Of no use for President Grant,
any more than for the rest of us, to
ycarn for the happy consummation of
a cemented Union so long as the Sem
ate and House overflow with malice
and all uncharitableness towards q ma
jority of Southern ex-rebels who wish
to be restored to their old relations
1t will be only a mockery to offer pray
ers to God for His aid in this respect so
long as the nation tolerates a majority
of men in Congress who are at war
with the first principles Of Christianity
in its application to this earthly life
the forgiveness of offences and the cx-
ercise of love towards our neighbors."
Year: 1869

A single handful of manure put in
to a hill of corn will often make the
difference between four or five little
and six or eight great plump
ears that will she'll their bulk of sound
corn. a thousand handfuls count up
heavily in the autumn crib. How many
handfuls Of manure are daily lost in
your stocky ard that might be saved in
nice order by a little care and .heaping
up, and covering from washing rain?
These handfuls of mannre are more val
liable TO the cultivator than The separa-
rate grains of gold that the MINER with
careful toll, gathers and washes from
the earth and sand banks. He hunts,
gathers and saves them all, and thus ac-
eumuTates his pile Philosophical, sue
cessiul cultivators can see the glitter of
gold even in the manure heap; they
only wait little longer than the miner
for the pure gold to be washed out by
the growing process instead of in the
wash-pan. A word to the wise'is suf-
ficient.' ...,.
Year: 1869

The Augusta Chronicle and Sentinel
has 9 paragraph in relation to q matter
witch should interest farmers: .''I


Few of, our farmers know the value
Of corn grown as fodder. One Of our
farrnersltells us that during the war
when provendor of all sorts became
scarce, being SHORT he resorted to- the
eXpedient of sowing thickly broadcast
a field of between four and five acres
in corn, which lie cut ana used as fod-
der. Sowing about the 10th of April,
he was able to realize two crops. cured
and fit for use before corn came in. and
that his stock. tlirived and did well up
on 1t, when he had nothing else to rive
them. Well cured sweet corn fodder
is one Of the best feeds for milch coWs
that can be given them. The. stalk, as
well as'the blade is eaten with avidity,
and is preferred,las any one may real
ize who will make the test, for the
simple reason that it contains more sac
charine matter than other forage


When fed as cut. green, it is excellent
food for niilch cows. and will produce
more. and richer. milkJand sweeter but
ter than any other green food, When
cut with the cutting knife, and soaked


iii boiling water, mixed with n small
quantity of pea meal, it makes the best


winter food that can be given cow.
Small farmers will find corn, sown as


fodder, to be the most profitable crop,


so far as domestic comfort and economy
goes, that can be raised. Let farmer
once try a corniodder patch and he will
apever be without it.oi!aYrHup aGags
Year: 1869

A great fuss is being made over the
fact that q Pacific Railroad train has
been blocked up for seven or eight
days in snow-bank. The same thing
happens every winter on some of the
Northern and Northwestern roads. The
difficulty on the Pacific road appears to
have been that the employees were too
lazy to shovel their way out.
Year: 1869

In our present state, the fall of man
is his fall from work into anNidler. Our
real happiness is always in activity.
Many labor vigorously looking for
ward to the time when they can be Loaf
ei's. not knowing that from the very
constitution and habits, such a life
would be devoid of allahappiness. Even
Heaven is conceived by some to be ~
place where they can enjoy themselves
in pious laZiness. .iHiY" n 'p.i'A N
Year: 1869

TERRIBLE AND FATAL ACCIDENT. -Erplo-
sion of q Codt OIL Lamp AMI Death Ofn Young
LadH-The Gazette says that Miss Carswell,
a teacher in one of the Wilmington public
an amiable and highly educated young
lady, was horribly burned on Wednesday night.
She had gone to her room about 10 O. clock,
had unrobbed herself and was about to get in
to bed, when she took the lamp in her hand,
and from some cause it cxploded-some say
she attempted to blow out the light through
the chimney but we have heard that she said
she did not. Her father who was lying upon
a lounge, heard a report like a pistol, her
screams followed, and when he reached her
was all in a blaze. He tore the clothes off of
her as best he could, but failing to put out the
flames threw her down and rolled her up in the
carpet. Her suffering was awful Doctors
Chaytor and Bush were called in, but they
could do nothing but apply lead water and oil
to the burns For two hours her suffering was
intense, and she repeatedly exclaimed, let me
die. Her pastor, Mr.. COokman, was sent for.
Toward midnight she sunk iuto doze. But
afterwards awakened and the mind wandered


and she raved about her school About lC


clock Thursday morning death put an end t.


her suffering She was the pride Of her faith


er's house, beloved by all who knew her anC


her sad and sudden death has thrown gloon


over the whole neighborhood. She was abou


twenty-four years of age and in excellent health


She was to have been married shortly.
Year: 1869

The advertiser having been restored to health in weeks
by simple remedy after having suffered several
with lung affection, and that dread disease
tons anxious to make known to his fellow sufferer the
OF


To all who desire it, he will send copy of the prescription
used Oee of charged with the directions preparing and
using the which they will find SURE CURE CON-
ASTHMA BRONCHITIS The object the adver
tser in sending the prescription to benefit the afflicted and
spread information which he conceives be invaluable and
he hopes every sufferer will try his remedy it will cost them
nothing, and may prove a blessing.


Parties Wishing the prescription will please address


REV. EDWARD A. WILSON,
mayl9-ly WILLIAMSBURG Kngs county. New York.
Year: 1869

Washington dispatches announce the dis
covery of stup ndous whiskey frauds in Balti-
more, in which all the Revenue officers, whose
duty it was to protect the Government, seem
TO be involved, Iti to be hoped that the Gov
enment will not stop at the mere forfeiture of
this enormous whiskey mandatory, and the
dismissal of the unfaithful and dishonest otfi-
cials; but that all the guilty parties will be
criminally prosecuted to the utmost extent of
the statute
Year: 1869

GOING South. Over three hundred colored
nersons have recently left Southwestern Vir-
ginia for the more Southern States. From al
most every other section of Virginia it is stat
g that they are taking up the line OF march
southwark. An exchange, in view OF these
ed people cease to be political power in Vir-
oinia
Year: 1869

Once more, it is intimated are we to have a
British Prince among us-the Prince to whom
is the name of Arthur. He is coming over to
take look at Canada and to permit Canada
to take look at him.
Year: 1869

The stock of the Albany and Susque'
hanna railroad, over which they are having
a jolly fight, could almost any time up to a
recent date be bought for twenty-five cents
on a dollar. Indeed, the stock within two
or three years has sold for almost nothing.
The struggle going on now for the control
of the road, between Mr.. Ramsey, President
Of the Susquehenna Company, and Jay
Gonld and the Erie railroad, has caused a
sharp demand for the stock, and it is said
that it has sold as high as one hundred and
twenty. FIVE per share.
Year: 1869

A Washington telegram Gays that the
White House having been deserted, and
there being no President in Washington, q
drunken man, on Tuesday, Clair ed posses
sion, and declared himself ready and willing
to perform the duties of the vacated position
Of the President of this great republic. lie
was arrested and marched to the nearest
station house but it would have been moth
ing more than fair to him and to the people
to have given him trial, for he might have
given an administration more satisfactory
than that Of Mr.. Grant
Year: 1869

The Western 2ailroad Gazette says that
representatives Of the Michigan Central,
the Great Western of Canada, the New York
Central and Hudson River railroads, have
made arrangements by which sleeping and
dining cars of the Pullman Palace Car
Company, will be run through from Chicago
to New York, over what is known as the
Great Central Route.
Year: 1869

1t Is due to Miss Susan Anthony to state
that the Labor Congress reconsidcred its
action in excluding her from seat in that
body, and that she was finally admitted to
oil its honors and privileges, one of which
she immediately svailed herself Of by de
fning her position which needs to be done
yery often.
Year: 1869

The Senate is moving very gingerly
toward the abolishment of the frank
ing privilege. That body will wait
on the House. The committee are
understood to be in favor Of adopting,
in lieu of the franking privilege, the
use by Senators and members of
stamps, to be apportiOned by act Of
Congress.
Year: 1869

The Washington correspondent Of
the Baltimore Gazette says Of Brown
lows personal explanation read
70 the Senate GA Wednesday, that the
grave and deeorous body " was evil
deutly ashamed of the exposition, not
a member paying the slightest atten-
ton, Even the Clerk, who usually
has the below of an OK, read it in so
low and rapid a manner as to render
it difficult to catch its precise tenor.
In the meantime, the old man sat
shaking with the palsy while his
ribaldry about "dying to please Andy
johnson - was being read to the as
sembled wisdom of the nation"
Year: 1869

Senators are grumbling about the
division of spoils by the President
and members of his cabinet. They
are especially severe upon Secretary
Fish, for his distribution Of Consul
ships, and upon ex-Attorney General
HOar, for his many refusals to con-
cede to their wishes in the matter of
the appointment of District Attor-
neys and other officers. On account
Of his conduct in this respect, it is
said that Senators viii refuse to
confirm his nomination to the Su-
preme bench.
Year: 1869

Buffers scheme of amnesty pro-
vides that all persons seeking relief
from disabilities shall file an applica-
ton with the Federal Judge of the
District where the party lives, that
notice shall be given for purposes of
contest, and that the Judge may then
issue a certificate restoring the party
to his rights.
Year: 1869

The Suu saw fit to assume, as the OASIS OF
&c ooooplt ON our present Excise Law, that
the Democratic majority IN our Cty w"9
likely "to grow and grow until IL inciuueu
something approaching the entire popuiatioh'
We took issue with this, and showed thaV ,no
Republican vote of our City had steadny
grown from the first organization OF the party,
and was never before so large traction Oh
tbe entire legal vote of our City as at the
Presidential Election last Fali' "h"' al
"swerp The Sun rejOins:


1t has been argued that because more Kepunnoan ~ can
votes were cast in this city last November ha a. no. h
previous Presidential election Inc aye npopted out"


Here premise and inference are alike MS
taken. We did not merely poll more votes last
Fall than previously we polled larger proper
tioa of the entire legal vote. The honest vote
last Fall was between 10000 and lSo'oOo; anu
we polled more than third OF IT,


But we have never doubted that the Repuo-
lican party has suffered by its support OF the
Excise Law, Just as it has suffered from the
apprehension of our blacklegs, policy sellers
and keepers of haunts of infamy, that we are
less friendly to their pursuits than our oppo-
nents, and would not favor them so much III
in mower. At least nine -tenths of those who
seek to live by pandering to moral and sensual
deprayity of any sort are therefore our I'M
placable enemies. If the chief end OF the
Republican patty were to swell its vote, Its
true policy would be to renounce dn It's con-
yictions and adopt the creed OF the Sham De-
mOcracy.


The Sun urges that, if we do not give up the
Excise Law, in so far at least as it prohlbits
liquor selling on Sunday, we must succumo 10
our adversares, and see them sweep away all
manner of legal restriction of the Liquor
Traffic. Very WELL if we are doomed to go
under, we trust they will, as that is just
what we should prefer. Nothing is final in this
world; and, if our present License
system is to fall, we trust the cham
pops of "the largest liberty will next take their
turn. If that is best, let experience prove 1t;
if it is not best, it must fall in its turn and be
replaced by something better. We are wiling
to be taught: we only object to trying hybrid
experiment which will satisfy nobody and
prove nothing. That is exactly what 1he Sun
seems driving at; and that will not be- III
Sunday is not to be observed rs now, let our
friends of the contrary part have full swing,
and we are confident that their rule will be
~
Year: 1869

People read the newspapers; they crlliciso
them with all the JUNCTION of superior virtue
they are sure that if they were the conductors
of tbe journals they could and would make
tbem lust the next door at least to perfectloh'
but still it is rather bewildering circumstance
flat they continue to read them, and are for-
ever deyising plans of turning them to private
advantage without paying any money for the
privilege. The census of those who are always
trying, generally in ludicrously transparent
manner, to advertise themselves or their wares
for nothing we cannot state with numericai
accuracy. but it is sufficient to say that the
name of them is Legion. Let that go, now
ever. since the newspapers can protect them-
selves tolerably well from that kind OF enter
prisel But not seldom reverend gentlemen
are considerate enough to denOunce the press
from the pulpit, because it publishes accounts
of crime as it publishes other intelligence; Dut
it never occurs to these gentle censors that the
press is perhaps the most efficient detective
agent in the country, and that publicity Is
also very strongly objected to by class OF
men who. to say the least of them, don't
preach


They have lately been trying, and also con-
victing one Mrs. Harper, swindleress OF great
fame, in Middletown, Conn. And when the
court had satisfactorily disposed OF the enter
prising dame, her own counsel remarked that
her conviction was due, not SO much 10 the
" officers of the law, rs to the information re-
specting her crimes and herself scattered
cover the country by the newspapers" For
this and for similar services the State pays no
reward to the newspapers aforesaid. but tho
critics of journalism do reward them muniil-
Gently by declaring that it is highly deleterous
70 society to print anything about confidence
"womeu,n and that it mutiplies that branch
of the fair sex to mention any member of the
felonious sisterhood in the newspapers at all
OF this we have nothing to say, except that
we should like to have Mrs. Harper's opinion
upon the subject.
Year: 1869

The House of Representatives, under the
lead of Gen. Schenck, did n noble work yes
terday, in enacting, 1. That the Public Debt OF
the United States is payable and will be paid
in Gold or its equivalent; and 2. That con-
tracts henceforth made payable in coin shall be
duly enforced by law. The vote against
striking ont the first proposition was very
strong-129 to G-and the bill passed by ll9
Yeas to 81 Nays-almost two to one. lhe
fncts that the bill asserts the policy OF an
early return to Specie Payments and paves
the way therefor add to our satisfaction at
this result.


We cannot doubt that the Senate will concur
by a vote at least equally strong and that tne
hideous monster Reputation will thus receive
a second staggering blow. In fact, the election
of Gen. Grant settled what this bill more pre-
cisely declares. We shall not repudlate-we
shall not founder forever in the slough OIL
Suspension-we shall pay our National Deo',
principal as well as interest, honestly anu
faithfully. Such being the truth, it is high time
that our Public Credit evinced the popular
faith in it,
Year: 1869

Tie Sun miseads It's readers, unless they may hap
pen to be wiser than its editor when it informs them
that they may safely wait till they receive notice
from the Assessor before rendering their income re-
turns The law requires the return to be made on or
before the first Monday of March. The Assessor
should serve notice oil persons liable to tax; but
the law distinctly requires such to make return,
whether notified not; and the penalty for failure
TO make return is an assessment based upon the best
information obtainable by the Assessor. with an
ted and assessed.
Year: 1869

ate and House differences are to be settled
by the report of an amendment practically
confning the measure to guarantee against
any restrictions on the suffrage on account OF
race. color or previous condition of seryltude.
On this much we already know that the
Senate and House are agreed; IL must
be evident to the Senate that at
this late day it cannot reasonably expect to get
more, and we entreat both branches, therefore,
on the reception of this report, to refrain from
further speech making or tinkerng, and put
it upon its passage.