smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1869

SECRETARY robson has decided that of.
flcers OF the Marine Corps serving on ship
board shall Eot be considered a in the enjoy
ment of the quarters to which they are entitled
oy law, and for the loss OF which they are enti-
tied 10 allowance.
Year: 1869

IL is Ieveled, Is supposed to owe the
State about half million of dollars,
which such a declared forfeiture OF
charter might absolve the Railroad
Company from paying finally. At any
rate. the matter will be thoroughly
investigated before final action is
taken.
A bill was also discussed in the
House to day for the relief of some
township trustee who had lost some
school funds by his safe being broken
open by burglars It seemed to be
very clear case, and ninety four votes
out of every hundred in the township
had petitioned for his relief, but the
feeling was very decided that it would
be a bad precedent, which, If once
adopted, would result in the apppll-
cation Of every defaulter in the State
1 for like relief. Mr.. Kercheval made
| a very handsome little speech against
the bill, which was heard with marked
attention. Mr.. Welborn, of your
county. is also a very faithful, diligent
worker. and, barring his political
heresy. with the proper amount OF
experience, will make No. / legis-


lator.
Year: 1869

IL respectfully notify their friends and the pub


ine m Cash Business. We are receiving a new and
E FRESH Stock of Goods from the Phade phia market,
ano We know that by selling exclusively for Cash
we can offer greater inducements than we ever did
oeIo.e' and all we ask is an examination of our
Year: 1869

HAxsoM CABs.-The Legislature of New
York has incorporated company for the in
PRODUCTION into the city, on grand scale, Of
the Hanson cabs which have become very
popular in London. With these light and
convenient vehicles it win be easy to traverse
New York in all directions swiftly and at mod
crate prices. We hope they will be introduce
ed into all our cities. Two horses and q costly
hack are rather more than one person needs,
besides the expense is necessarily too much.
A light cab and one horse would be just the
thing, but such q vehicle will carry four per-
sons. We speak Of one person because when
riding alone in a coach he looks as If he had
too much Of q good thing
Year: 1869

put the ballot. In the hand of every
man, answer, no. I am in favor OF
the plan stated in my letter to Messrs.
Thornburg, Singletary and Welsh.
When they, the DISTINGUISHED, show q
disposition to become good citizens
and return to peaceful pursuits and
make application, am in favor Of re-
leasing or removing disabilities by a
two-thirds vote of the Legislature.
Governor Senter and himself stood
upon substantially the same ground
in regard to extending the elective
franchise.


Governor Senter-Do you say that
| occupy the same position that you
do on the question of suffrage?


General Stokes-As l now under
stand it, You do. AT Nashville you
declared for universal suffrage, but you
have now placed yourself squareupon
the Republican platform with regard
to that subject.


Senter-I viii answer you on that
point tomorrow.


Stokes here gave historical sketch
of the Nashville convention, and
closed by appealing to the people to
elect him Governor and Legislature
that would stand with him, and they
would put a stop to the reckless ex-
trayagance of the State government,
and begin the work of economy, re-
trenchment and reform.


The crowd was not large, there be-.
ing no more than six or seven hun
dred people present. Very little en-
thusiasm was ELECTED by either
speaker.


Ex-President johnson is announced
to address the people here tomorrow.
He will probably give the people a
rehash of his Clarksville speech. o
Year: 1869

The most powerful. safe, and reliable remedial
agent discovered for the healing of man.. The
crto unknown or developed, have been brought
within the control of science, and is now taking
its stand principal among the blessings of medi
cine.


II acts directly upon the blood cleansing and puri
flying the vital current of all the humors and tants
which disease or malarious influences have planted
there, and eradicating and neutralizing the effects
taken into the system For this reason 1t is tnfal-
lible as a remedy for Scrofula, Eruptions of the
will cure the most yirul2nt and obstinate cases OF


RHEUMATISM AND GOUT.


1t is an unfailing preventive and cure for NEU-
RALGIA, SICK HEADACHE, and NERVOUS
AFFECTIONS, and in


DISEASES OF WOMEN
it has no equal. Its action upon the Liver and
Kidneys is prompt. salutary, and effective and II
is this proper y which renders 1t one Of the safest
and most reliable


DIURETIC REMEDIES
known In the practice of medicine. Its excellent
and skiful combination with other ingredients Inn


TONIC QUALITIES
of the highest ordcr-not temporarily stimulating,
but permanently invigorating the digestive or.
ganS, and rendering IL a most valuable curative
agent IN cases OF


DYSPEPSIA AND GENERAL DEBILITY.
By taking IRISIN the blood. which permeates
all the tissues and Is the life andnutrlton thereof
Is purified rendering the whole system perfectly
healthy.


REMEMBER.-This medicine Is no offshoot oil
uuackery butthe regular formula OF distinguished
practitioner now q resident of Baltimore city, anL
so high does il stand in the favor and esteem Of the
Intelligent and scientific that it has been adopted
by physicians In their practice and is daily being
prescribed and recommended by the most eminent
Of the profession throughout the country. Tho
letter ii becomes known the more highly is II
praised and the more extensively Is 1t used.
Year: 1869

HUGUENoT SPRINGs.-From q visitor OF
the Huguenot Springs we have a letter
speaking in the warmest terms OF the at
fractions of the place and the great kind
ness and popularity of Colonel Norvell
Cobb, the proprietor. There are at present
q good number of visitors there, and che
place is represented by them to be one OF
the most pleasant resorts in the country.
Year: 1869

HABgAs CoRPUs.-A negro man named
Robert Murphy, who was committed to jail
a few days since by Recorder Powers on
the charge of holding fellow-freedman in
q street fight while his son stabbed him
several times, was brought before Judge
Bramhall yesterday morning on writ OF
ha6eas corpus, and after full hearing OF
the case he was admitted TO bail in the sum
of $500 for his appearance at the next term
of the Judges court.
Year: 1869

Burns wrote a very witty poem upon a


louise which he saw wanderingsver a lady's


bonnet one fine Sunday in church. If he
could have had the experience of riding up
and down in urshorse-cars he would have
seen variety of vermin meandering about
On the clothes and hats of the unlucky pas
sengers in those yehioles.-Neso York Sun.
Year: 1869

The Press BALL.-We acknowledge the
receipt of IN invitation from the Messrs.
Pcyton to the grand press ball to be given
at the White Sulphur on Tuesday evening
next. The ball is the talk of the town.
Year: 1869

Many the writer and invalid physician while visiting the
Island Of St. crz for their health experienced and witnessed surprising and
beneficial effects the Rum there produced heinvii who Cke
ourssv seeking health and inquiry and investigation obtained full history
its medicinal He delighted and surprised and after his
which occurred determined possible the right manufacture
and sell it in the United


The result his ahor glorious himself and suffering humanity
for the celebrated BTTERs
TATIoN BITTEa being upon principles


relying wholly for its medicinal effects worked
Ecn in the history household all
world The cabasc Tls6o-X aEnan health
the PLANTATION sTTER exceeded the abilities the supply


Notwithstanding large importation Of st. crz expressly
pounding Of these Bter the quantity Inadequate therefore necessary
that should
was dispatched to st. Thomas for that He fortunate securing
leasing several plantations the largest and productive
island Houses stills and erected by magic which utterly
shea the natives The experienced natives hean
cured and the rrets the PLANTATION BITTERs position
osupp their laboratory with alt the perfectly St. needed


turing the GREAT DyPEPTTc represents
the natives crushing the and


As an anaao Fever and Au Intermittent and ious Dyspepsia and
other kindred diseases
history the world Over five million bottles annually
adapted old and male and female They agreeable
nro5uc immediate beneficial
Year: 1869




Journal of the 18th instant, says:


A female passenger in the southern stage
last Wednesday, an old resident on her way
to Yreka, got into an exceedingly tight place
at Hartstand's ranch in Scott Valley. 1t
appears the feminine went to the brewery at
that place to get glass of beer, during the
stay of the stage for dinner, and on taking
out her purse to paw for it dropped S. gold
piece through crack in the floor While
the brewer looked to discover the locality of
the coin, the loser rushed out to the side of
the building and crawled underneath. With
a determined perseverance she crowded into
the narrow space between the ground and
the floor where the coveted piece lay. but
being unable to reach it, endeavored to back
out, which was still harder work, though
successful, after steady half hours hard
tugging. The men procured pick to raise
board, when the money was restored, and
she proceeded Oh her way rejoicing.
Year: 1869




The suns atmosphere, say the sci.
entific men, is in q highly excited
condition. A column of magnetic
light is shooting out further and fur.
ther from the solar sphere, and it is
now stretching Out forty five millions
Of miles. In other words it has &C
compished half the distance between
us and the sun. The interesting
question, and one on which, perhaps,
we do not wish any more light of this
character, is, how long will it be be-
fore it finishes the rest of the distance
and bridges the gigantic chasm be-
tween the earth and the sun is it Il
messenger sent out to snatch us up as
food for the insatiate monster that
keeps himself warm by devouring
planets, and whose 6re-cating pro-
pensilies this whole earth would sat
isfy tor few days only? Ii so, how
long will this emissary be in reaching
us, and carrying the globe away as if
we were Il gigantic lump Of coal for
a roaring furnace? This column of
light ut intervals indicates its ap-
proach by flashing and corr uscatiug
with fresh brilIiaucy. So decided are
it's effects that two astronomers, one
at London, the other at Oxford, and
neither knowing the experience of the
other, supposed that the dark glass of
their telescopes had been broken or
put out of range, SO strong was the
flash Of golden light upon the vision.
1t is predicted that before the end OF
next year this magnetic light will
have got near enough to us to make
it's immediate and actual influence up
ON the earth distinctly felt. 1t is AN
nounccd that in consequence we may
expect to see phenomena that have
never been seen or known before by
the human race. If any of our read
crs are, therefore. yet disposed to com
plain of the weather and the earth
auakes. let them remember that, by
This tima next year, they may haze
an entire new line Of experiences to
explain and endure, in comparison
with which the flful winter and
rough, rude autumn of to-day may
seem like June morning in paradise
and the earthquakes shock and light
ning's storm, Il placid rocking in the
cradle, with pleasant lullaby OI
thunder Buffalo Express.
Year: 1869

SAACO OA AAaFpy CHILDHOOD


The memory Of early happiness Is a


treasure house of sweet comforts and
consultations. In pure, simple, earnest
joys become wells-to draw from when


ever we sit down in thirst and weari-


ness by the highway of life. OF this
one good the world can never defraud
US. The sunshine in those DAYS reaches
across our little stretch of life, and


mingles its rays with those that beam
from the heaven Of cur hope. The
actual present Of the adult life, and the


materials which enter into it. are made,
up, more than We generally suppose,
OF remlniscenCe.- We ruminate like
the kiue. We lay up in the recepta-
cles Of memory abundance of undigest-,
ed material, that we recall and abprO-
pirate to our refreshment and nOurish-
ment; and this process Of reniniseencs
of living over again--grOws upon
US as We grow into years, till at last il c
becomes our all. Exhausted power
has no resource but to dwell upon its
old play and its old achievements.
How sad is he who can never go hack
to his childhood without a shuddert I
who can never recall a period when
his life was filed with sweet and sim.
pie satisfaction!
Year: 1869

Mr.. B, did you say or did you
not say what I said you said? ? be-
cause c. said you said you never
did say what 1 said you said. Now
if you did say that you did not say
what said you said then what did
you say?
Year: 1869

To KEEP PLANTS IN THE WINTER. In
case Of very cold nights, have them SO
6xcd on a stand. that the stand can be
easily moved, plants and all, back from
the window, and so arranged that the
whole can be covered with some ma
terial that would protect them perfect
lv safe from frost.
Year: 1869

BACON AND CORN.-Ihe NeWDcrry
Herald says:


Cotton is royal article in the worlds
commerce; at present, it commands a
royal price We deem itproper to throw
out suggestion upon the next crop
From all we can learn, more than ever,
our planters have in view to plant cot
ton almost exclusively. 1t is a danger
Gus experiment. Every planter should,
at least, have in view to raise his own
breadstuffs. The scarcity of corn and
bacon enhances the price of labor. La
bor, for the last twelve months, has ad-
vanced at least twenty-five per cent. IN
value. The negro is disappearing, no.
body knows where, and white labor does
not, as yet, take his place. The white
man will pause before be comes, as
laborer, to country not well supplied
with beef and grain. Even at the pres
ent price of negro labor, the white Ia
borer would not be Willing to compete
If labor is to continue scarcej and the
price of labor to advance steadily by the
increase of the surface in cotton, it is
doubtful if the planter will be remune-
rated sufficiently by the probable ad-
vance iu the price of the great staple.
In all probability, the price Of the bulk
Of the presentcrop is the maximum that
the staple will attain. The single arti-
Gle of bacon now exhausts, to large
extent, the wages of the colored laborer
and the profits of the employer.


These matters should be we'll consid:
cred in connection with pitching anoth-
er crop. A failure of a cotton crop,
with no corn and bacon would entail
ruin and starvation upon the majority
of the population. Let US have bacon
and coin.
Year: 1869

THE SUPPLY OF MEAT-TtMELY
WARNING TO THE SoUTu.-A St. Lou
is pork packer issues the following cir
cular, which concerns the people of the
South


Evidence daily accumulates, going to
show that the present year the South
will demand and consume double the
quantity of provisions she did last year,
In view of this fact, what is the condl-
ton of the trade in the hog product of
The West at this time? The South is
consuming meat Of the new crop, while
the old stock was consumed long before
the new cure could be gnt forward. This
is Unusual for the season, and is of great
importance. In the face Of this fact,
we have the evidence that there is at
least an even chance for small crop Of
hogs to give us the meat for the coming
wants. Could We come up to the last
years crop, we should then be deficient,
rtr that only met the necessities, Which
were cramped by the lack of means to
pay. Now, with increased facilities
for payment, and consumption so far
of the new crop, astonishing and unsual
and yet Legitimate, as we have before
this remarked, the "hog product" is to
be short this year in any event that can
now occur. Some writers are descant-
ing upon the fact that the higher prices
are checking the expectations. To our
mind this is Of little concern, for, from
present appearances, the West will have
no provisions to send out Of the country.
The home consumption will be as much
rs we can meet, and we may not be able
to do even that, if the hogs do not come
forward in larger supply than they
have done thus far, and that q ma.
jority predict they will. Relative to
high prices, we state, without fear Of
contradiction, that he who buys hogs at
ct cents gross, and sells the product at
the present rates, loses money on every
hog SO Slaughtered. One thing is pal,
pable, either hogs must come down iu
price, or the product must 60 higher
than at any price we have yet seen. II
is estimated that at the present time the
stock of hogs is only about half and
that of pork only about one-quarter q
the stock of last year at Chicago, and
other points also short.
Year: 1869

STARVED TO DEATH BY LAZINEss.
An inquest was held on Monday last,
about ten miles from this city, on the
body Of a negro woman named Anna
Huff, who was found dead in the woods.
Two witnesses testified that they knew
her Zone white man and the other q
negro woman, and the substance Of
their evidence was that she would not
work for living; declaring she was free
and that she intended to stay so. She
was large, stout woman; abundantly
able to work, too.


Columbus (Ga.) Sun.
Year: 1869

The cotton crop the last year (says
the New York Erpress) will yield from
2,5OO,OOO to 100000 bales, which, at
the prices received, will exceed the in
come from the 100000 bales produced
before the war. Cotton, at "a and 25
cents a pound in 1869, is good deal
more king than cotton at 10 cents
pound before the war, and especially
when in 1868, the South produced in
food about all that the Southern people
-eesspmed. e0ttt0u also H0W,
as before the war, as whole, is the
best cotton produced in the world. Its
demand is unabated wherever cotton is
manufactured, and will be just as long
as it is produced. The income from it
is as certain as the demand. On belt
of 600 miles of land there are no such
cotton lands in the world. All that is
wanted is capital and labor, and it is
disgrace to the country, and especially
to its mock philanthropy, that twice as
much cotton was produced in a state of
slavery as in state of freedom, though
this We are sorry to say, is but rope
tition of the practical freedom establish
ed in Jamaicia and St. Domingo, where
the cotton and sugar plantations went
to ruin just as fast as the negroes OBJ:
tanned their freedom.


But We expect different results at the
South, and they would be at once appa-
rent if the Southern people were left to
regulate their own business, labor and
political relations, as the people of the
North and West are permitted to regu-
luate theirs, and this with much bet
ter coudition Of the moral, religious and
educational status of the negro than we
shall ever behold through Northern in
reference. Nobody, Of course, ever ex-
poets to see slavery established in the
United States, and now that the insti
tuition is clean gone, nobody even de-
sires it; but Congressional Reconstruc-
tion in tho form of military governments
at the South, the regulation of suffrage,
the interference with State and person
al rights and laws, the exclusion OF
white men from Office and the ballot, is
a positive bar to real freedom, indepeud-
ence and prosperity, and whenever Con-
eress consents to loosen its oppressive
hold upon the South, and to leave the
people there as they do here, not only the
South, but the whole people, will feel
the healthy influence of such freedom
If Congress will but consent to let all
the States regulate their own internal
affairs, so far as they do not interfere
with the United States Constitution.
the best results will eusue, and we no"
predict, if this is done, by the time f'o0
additional crops ofcotton are put upon
the market, the Government ,oiH be adl'
vah euen decent economy in the admin
sstration of public affairs, TO RESUME
SPECIE PAYMENTS.


augusta Chronicle & Sentinel
Year: 1869

A Northern machinist gives the fol-
lowing estimate Of the prime cost OF the
machinery needed for cotton factory
of one thousand spindles with the ne
cessary preparation and moving macbi'
merry to run by steam:
Year: 1869

The following shows the area in
square miles OF the several States
and Territories within the dis
trict brought into close commune
cation with us by the completion of
the Pacific Railroad, with the popu-
lation in 1860, and estimated popu-
lation at the present time:
Year: 1869

In the Office of the Corning, y. v,
flint glass works, single window


has been fitted with inside blinds,
the movable slate of which are
made of green glass. The effect is
beautiful, and the experiment NAV
mark new era in the history of in
side blinds, both of offices and dwell
Year: 1869

The Painesville Telegraph is opposed
to the nomination of Gov. Hayes for
on the ground ofhis action
while a member of Congress, against
the interests of the people of Ohio, in
Joining with the Massachusetts manu-
featuring in putting the duty on wool
so low as to prevent its growth in the


West, while the articles manufactured
from it are sold at a large profit in
consequence of the high rate of duties
imposed on the important article.


1t is no wonder the New England
manufacturers get enormously rich,
when by the inn osition oflow duties
on the raw material, they force the
wool growers to take the very lowest
price for their wool, and by the impo-
sitiun of high duties on the manufac-
tured article, they force the people to
pay the very highest price for it. 1t
is for this policy, voted for and advo-
Gated by Gov Hayes, that the people
of the sheep-raising and wool-growing
regions of the State are opposed to his
By this discrimination
against the West, on the part of a
Congress. hundreds upon hun
dreds of thousands of dollars have
been lost to the people of Ohio during
the last two years. In the counties OF
the Reserve tens of thousands of sheep
were slaughtered during the last Win
ter because the expense of keeping
them far exceeded the value of the
wool that could possibly be produced
from them. On many of the farms
might be seen huge piles of sheep car
cases thrown together to rot, fit only
to be used for manure. When Gov.
Hayes goes around this summer MAX
ing political speeches, and asking the
people to vote for him, he should be
shown these monuments of his folly
and inoratitude to his own State in
Year: 1869

have heard the old church bell, anC


it seemed to be tolling for the dead.


"By this time the vessel was within


usket-shot when a voice hailed us


ordering us to heave to, which wa.


obeyed and then, from the side of the
pirate craft, boat was lowered filled


with armed men and started toward us.
/ watched the boat with the feelings
that n doomed man watches the APP
preach to the fatal scafold, There
were no prayers now, no sobs. On
our brig all was still and silent, and
every eye was fixed on the approach
ing boat, when suddenly Captain Rob
erts, WHO was standing apart from the
men, gave shout, and burst into n
! hysterical laugh. thought, as did
the men, that his mind had left. him,
and there was q rush toward him.
But no Raising himself he spoke
with voice and look 1 shall never
forget:


1--WE are saved we are saved
That Captain in the boat is aMason ~


"And so it proved to be The boat
came alongside; only one man-the
pirate Captain--came on deck, and he
unarmed He shook hands with Cap
tain Roberts, spoke few words in
Spanish to him, and together they
went into the cabin. What passed
between those men I never knew, but
when they came on deck again both
were in tears.


The pirate Captain again shook
hands with our Captain, then sprang
over the side of the vessel into his |
boat, and was rowed back to his craft. |
L watched her as she bore steadily |
her until darkness
closed around her; but the last thing
| saw was the black flag floating at the
% ....s:-g


Il often think of that event in my
life, and wonder what power there is
in Masonry that will still keep a man
true TO it, when he has cast aside ey-
cry other private obligation, both hui
man and divine, and abandoned n vir-
tuous for sinful life. But whateveri it
is, there, on the silent sea, the infu-
ence of Masonry and the sacred mem
ories that cluster around it, once NOV
ed Ven the heart of pirate, and saw
ed NV life"