smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1859

The House Of Representatives yesterday devoted
the day mainly to considering the subject of re
trenchment. A proposal of Mr. Lovejoy to strike
out an appropriation for savecstching was debated
but not acted on. The principal achievement Of
the day was striking out an appropriation of
S67 900 for The Congressional GlOb, by the casting
vote Of the Speaker. This being successfully ac-
compli,hed, the House proceeded to restore the
same appropriation to the bill. This was carried by
a majority of nine, after which the exhausted
House proceeded to adjourn.


AT this rate how long will it take to reduce
the expenditures so that they will not exceed the
reyenue7
Year: 1859

Senator Bisler Of PeDnglvani, yesterday spoke
for the President on the Tariff question OF course
bis speech was decidedly in favor OF tariff for
protection as well as for revenue as the interests
of Pennsylvania imperatively demand.
Year: 1859

Last year, when the LecOmpton Constitution
was before Congress it was carried through,
though in a modified form, by the sheer
pressure Of Executive influence exerted upon
Northern men, Then the President was all
powerful, and every man who ventured to differ
from him was at once communicated from the
party. Under such circumstances some leading
Democrats were read out, who apparently Will not
be allowed to come back again, without debase-
mept which no sef.respectiDg man could ever
consent to.


Now, new question Of great importance is to
be decided. The Treasury is empty, and revenue
must be provided for the expenses Of the
Government. In this case, the President instead
Of being omnipOtent is utterly powerles'. Instead
of being rejected by half dozen or dozen Of the
representatives of his party in Congress, his
earliest recommendations are scOrned aud secuted
by the majority Of them. And yet anathemas are
tbundered against these recusaDts The Union
writes long ard passionate articles to prove that
they are no longer within the fold of the party.
They rebel, but are not punished for it.


The reason of this difference is that the
rebellion Of LAST year was, in fact against
the dictation and usurpation Of the few thou
sand owners of slaves; while the rebellion
of this year is against nothing but the interest
and prosperity of the millions Of free labor
ers in the North. The Democratic party will
do everything, and risk thing for the proprie-
tors of black chsttes, bu. will do nothing for the
benefit Of the white men of the Free States
Year: 1859

(No. Hal AN ACT
To authorize County Agricultural Socie


eties to sell Fair Grounds in certain ca


ses. 44I


Section 1. Be it enacted by the Gem
eral Assembly Of the State Of Ohio, That
when any county agricultural society in
this State shall desire to sell its site for
holding county fairs, for the purpose Of
purchasing another site, the society may
sell the same in such manner and on such
terms as it may deem proper, and the
money arising from the sale, when paid,
shall be paid by the purchaser to the
county treasurer, who shall not pay it out
only upon the certificate Of the president
and secretary of the society that the same
is to be used in the purchase or improve
ment Of another site, which site said GER
tifcate shall show to have been purcha-
sed, and in counties where the county has
paid any portion of the purchase money
for the site proposed to be sold. the writ.
ten consent Of the county commissioners
shall FIRST be given to the sale Of the
same, nor shall the money be paid out Of
the treasury without their consent.


Sec. Q. Conveyances OF ground sold
under this act, which are owned exclu-
sively by any society, may bs executed
Year: 1859

A singular attempt was lately made to poison
family in Milwaukee. policeman residing
!n that place found bottle of wine at his door
with an envelope attached, containing valen-
tine, and addressed in feminine handwriting,
de tried little of the wine, and shortly after
began to feel strange sensation in his stom-
ach. Ills suspicious becoming excited, he sent
the bottle to IA chemist, and found that it con-
tanned enough arsenic to kill fifty persons. Had
he shared the wine with his family, dreadful
catastrophe would probably have resulted from
the draught.
Year: 1859

TREMENDOUS GAS ExPLosIoN.-Last Saturday
evening, just as the lamp lighter was lighting
the lamp at the south end Of Rush street bridge,
most terrific explosion of gas took place.
scattering things about most promiscuously.-
The stone nagg:ng upon the approach to the
bridge was thrown into the air to height OF
several feet and crnmbled up as il it had been
egg-shell, aud the stone abutment Of the bridge
is forced out TO a distance OF near two feet
though not actually thrown down. The exca-
walton left is fully thirty feet in length by six
in width, and ten feet deep, which is cleared
out as perfectly as could have been done by
dozen OF laborers with shovels, in as many
DAYS. At the time Of the explosion, three men
were passing directly over the spot, who were
thrown into the air with a degree of CELEBRITY
only equaed by the speed with which they
came down again, one Of whom we are creditly
informed, 1--WE have it from his own lips) was
thrown nearly to the middle Of the bridge, and
yet, strangely enough, they all escaped with
their lives and whole bones, though severely
bruised. Two OF them we're James REYNOLDS,
a laborer, boarding on Rush street, and -
knotf, foreman in the car repairing shop or the
Illinois Central Railroad. The third we were
unable to learn. He was at first reported TO be
baggage driver for Parmaiee & Co., which
was however, false rumor, as We we're
informed at the omnibus office. The cause Of
tins singular accident is mystery, but probably
originated in the escape Of gas from leak in
the pipes, until the ground was completely


filed with the im6amma BILE substance, and when
the lamp was lIt il communicated below with
the rapidity Of powder train. it is the first
one We have had in this city this season, al
though during the extreme cold weather OF two
years ago this winter they we're Of common oc-
currence.


The iamp-lighter, after his involuntary though
entirely successful fireworks performance, look
ed very much as did the bull who bncked the
engine of the track-''slightly fatigued"


Chicago Democrat.
Year: 1859

AccIDESr.-The morning train from Chicago.
due here at eight o'clock yesterday, did not ar
rive until nearly noon, owing to an accident at
Monmouth. A switch had been misplaced at
that station, and the passenger train ran into a
freight train that stood upon the side track
nearly demolishing the two locomotives and
smashing some of the cars The engineer Of
the Passenger train, Mr.. Wilson, leaped from
his engine and broke his leg. Very fortunately,
no other person was injured,
Year: 1859

FRUIT IN OREGoN.--From a private letter
we learn that apples in Oregon are retailing
at fifty cents per bushel, and that all the
peaches and plums a person wants can be
had ii some localities for nothing. This
great abundance of fruit is, however, about
to be made profitable. The farmers are al
ready making a good deal of CIDER while
some are manufacturing peach brandy and
currant wine. The manufacture of whiskey
and gin is also about to be commenced the
Oregonians arguing that if those liquors
must be consumed, they should be had pure
and of home manufacture, in preference to
the stuff made at San Francisco
Year: 1859

MIsERIEs OF CITY WoMAN.-For the
amusement of our lady readers, we make
the following extract from letter written
by New York sister of theirs to the S. f.
Times. They cannot peruse it without feel
ing grateful for the balmy climate and free
dom from conventionality which especially
belong to California


There is an interval of time between sum-
mer and fall, hard to endure. 1t is the pre-
sent period-summer, traditionally fall, in
fact. Warm out of doors when one walks
fast in the sun, cold in the house when one
sits still. My case is melancholy, but do
not think it is an exception. | rise in the
morning from the delicious comfort of a
light blanket. My first unhappiness is de-
rived from the chilly Croton. My fingers be-
come icicles, my nose a torch. During
breakfast some warmth is impaired to me
by the hot coffee, but after that | am miser-
erable; l fix myself in a chair and feel the
cold stealing up from my feet, which are
small icebergs. / begin to understand
Agazzis theory of the effect of glaciers on
our climate. | have no fire except in the
kitchen. go down two pair Of stairs and
put my feet in the stove oven, providing
there is a pudding in it, and bake them till
they feel comfortable again. l have per-
petual cold in the head from wearing a thin
bonnet. The fall fashions are not decided
yet. The milliners do not open till the 25th,
and therefore my head must be stopped with
influenza until then. l must wear my bar.
eges few days longer-the new patterns
have not come for dressmakers Such are
the rigors of society," 1t is not time for the
window curtains to go up, nor to light the
fires, nor to put down carpets. We do not
know exactly whether we are at home or
not We must be out of town as long as
our neighbors are. In order to be certain
whether we may stay at home we must -prac-
tise the ruse of being seen at church, or the
opera, or our carriage must go down Broad
way. Some neutral ground must be found
to exchange compliments and invitations,
and obs and abs, and find out each others
plans and the quantity of gas our friends
have on hand. Somebody must take the
iniatory, and everybody holds back for fear
of not doing the right thing.
Year: 1859

A proof that a new territory is about to
be born on the eastern slope of the Sierra
Nevada may be found in the large emigra-
ton thitherward of politicians whose star
in California has apparently set Each one
of these self-sacrifcing patriots throws him.
self into the arms of the western Utah peo-
pie, with entire willingness to go to Con-
gress or abide the chances of preferment at
home. Such hroes ever precede the birth
of infant States.
Year: 1859

ALL THINGS HAVE THEIR UsEs.-The Bee
is of opinion that the independence of SER
want girls in California will have the effect
to make their mistresses independent, by
compelling them to do more of their own
work and remarks, rather ungallantly :


elf California has brought, Or has been
instrumental in bringing about this result
giving servant girls more freedom and inde-
pendence, and forcing wives and mothers,
who have been idle before, to labor little
for living, she will be entitled to much
glory Hers be that great honor p
Year: 1859

floating paragraph declares that if one
half of the inhabitants of this earth were to
write and publish their autobiographies,
the other half would commit suicide to free
themselves from such disgraceful company.
This might be true of all but politicians and
rival editors, who say such hard things of
one another that truthful autobiographies
in comparison would be tame affairs. Still,
the remark reminds one of Poes observation,
that no man dare write his own biography
veraciously.
Year: 1859

VIM. H. Sears, one of the first settlers of
North San Juan, is now in New England en-
joying himself, and thus describes to one of
his friends here the sport he has had in
Maine:


!, 81 went with two of my brothers-in-law
on fishing excursion, about ten miles from
home, and camped out over night. Four
miles of the distance we made by wagon,
and the remaining part of the way we were
compelled to walk, packing our blankets on
our backs, through thick woods. We crossed
moose and bear tracks several times, but
did not meet any of the animals, fortunately
for them. At last we reached the fishing
pond which is situated at the foot of one
of the highest mountains of the State. We
made a camp out of boughs, and fish
ing raft out of dry logs, and, after all prepa-
rations were completed, pushed out upon
the lakes desoate surface-our right Of
passage being disputed by two looms, which
kept up an unearthly yelling. In about an
nour we caught more than thirty trout, some
of them weighing over pound each. It
was fine fun and paid we'll for our journey.
On returning to camp, this is the way we
cooked our trout: procured a forked stick





fish from tail to head, along the backbone,
and ON the other prong placed piece of
pork about the length of the. fish, pressing
1t down and sticking the fork into the head;
then held the fish before hot fire, turning
it constantly, so that it was well basted with
pork grease, until done, when we served it
up on birch chip, seasoned it with salt and
pepper and ate it with our fingers. This
was the entire cuisine of the best meal | have
ever eaten. On our way home, next day, we
shot several grouse and pigeons and ate
heartily of blueberries and reseberries-the
latter very luscious. .;


Let me say here, that Maine is certainly
the place where they raise mea-that is, SO
far as size and strength are concerned. That
writer in the atlantic Monthly was correct
who said men here are known by the size
of the plank they can shoulder Owing to
the exigencies of the lumber business, most
parts of Maine would be worthless without
large men, and their existence there is an
other instance of the wise adaptation per-
ceivable in all of natures works. There is
another thing l have particularly noticed
wherever you see any one, no matter what
age or sex, clothed in home made cloth, you
will find a healthy constitution and face
flushed with red blood. The spinning wheel
and loom are harbingers of health
Year: 1859

Smith, the Sacramento horticu1turist is
going extensively into the wine business,
according to the Bee He has already one
thousand gallons in cellar, and will have
several thousand more, as he thinks grapes
will pay better if made into wine than if
sold at eight cents pound. The main por-
tion of his wine will be from native grapes,
but he is making experimental lots from 20
foreign varieties.
Year: 1859

The artesian water of Stockton, which
has heretofore run to waste, is soon to be
made available as source of revenue to the
city, as well as of great use to the people
a contract having been made with parties
for laying down water pipes, and other ne
cessary works for distributing the water
throughout the city. This we learn from q
correspondent of the TELEGRAM.
Year: 1859

A NOVELTY IN FAsHIoN.-Among the nov-s
elites recently introduced in ladies apparel
is new article of suspenders. They bear
resemblance to those worn BY gentlemen,
except that they are made of delicate, white
elastic fabric, with frilled edge, about one
inch wide, and are attached 10 the skirt by
buttons in like manner. We doubt not this
view to relieve the waist of an unlimited
burden which such habiliments necessarily
produce. Reason and experience teach us
that the old and absurd method, while fol-
lowed, inpairs the health and impedes loco
motion.
Year: 1859

SPORTS on rHE lcx--Yesserday was pleas
ant day, and We we're glad to see aome Of OUT
lady skaters enjoy the sport now so fashionable
in the East. There il no more pleasing NOT
healthy outdoor exercise than skating, and We
hope thA. the ladies Of our city will hare good
tins.


Why cannot we have fne skating party Of
ladies' and their friends one OF tlle moonlight
evenings soon to come? Shall va not have
many such. What say the ladies':
Year: 1859

less grain per head, less per acre, than oul
fathers did fifty years ago. While tie az


erage British uheat crop (per acre. ha


nearly doubled in the last half century, our


has decidedly fallen of. With an admlra


BILE climate for producing Sugar from Beet


the Sorghum and other saccharine plants


we are talking seriously of paying One
Hundred and Fifty Millions for a single
tropical island, in order to obtain cheap
sugar. The new gold diggings are about
to call tens of thousands Of our people
from the axe and the plow to the very base
of the Rocky Mountains in quest OF sud


den wealth. In short, our people would
seem to have taste and an aptitude for
anything rather than patient, steady In
dustry. The last "Hog crop OF the
Great West sold at high prices; yet few
are preparing to double their last year
product of Hogs; Wool is now selling at
very high rates as compared with those of
Grain and other Agricultural Staples, and
seems likely to rule high for years yet
Sheep are being sold of and killed as reck-
lessly as though they were worthless dogs.
Land is dirt cheap, in the West and South,
yet few Of our young men who might do
so are securing tract on which to found
a home. Instead Of this, the sons even OF
thrifty farmers are crowdiDg the streets pf
our cities, begging chance to air their
abilities by weighing out soap or peddlng
calico. Every body seems to want to
avoid productive labor and devise some
mode of getting rich by buying and selling
tho products of others. On the heel OF a
great Revulsion, there are this day four
times as many living or seeking to live BY
trade as there should be, whether for their
own good or for the good of the country


THESE are among many probable rea-
sons why business men generally, should
carry easy sail, until the storm has fully
blown over. The failure Of the last ses-
sion of Congress to revise the Tariff, in
itself renders the present year peculiar,
and if we wish to avoid recurrence Of the
panic of lS57-5S, the greatest caution and
prudence in business must be exercised


A change in governmental policy would
have re-established confidence. That fail.
ing, the bes. plan is to keep out of debt,
and consequently, out of bankruptcy.
The Tribune says it may be mistaken, but
the commercial sky wears to its view a
portentous and troubled aspect. Aside
from the chances Of great European
War, there are troubles brewing IN Mezi-
CO and Central America which may involve
even our own country in hostilities whereof
the end is hidden from sight. Better, at
least in times of trouble, earn your living
by sure and quiet industry than commit
wealth to the mercy of angry winds and
waves l-PousuiNe Miners Journal.
Year: 1859

Old, thin, worn out clothing, ga shocking


bad hat," hands gloved for once, and over
the whole head wet silk handkerchief or
some other fabric through which one can
see and breathe, would be the proper
"costume" while throwing up the fine
dust described With such precautions,
the procedure could hardly be detrimental, /,
and we think is well worthy Of trial.
Frui. trees generally are certainly in a
decayiDg condition, and efforts must be
put forth to restore them thoroughly and
make them vigorous and productive -
EDS. CnRoN. ...--


Your APPLE ETREES-Have you noticed
their feeble growth and the young fruit in
unusual quantities? Remove the dirt from
around tie collar with hoe, and with your
sharp pointed knife examine for the borer.
Very likely you will find the tree half
girdled with the insect Most orchards are
ruined before their owners begin to sus-
pect the cause. They presume that every.
thing is right with the tree, because the top
remains green while the worm is doing
his work under the bark. Nothing but
vigilance-a careful examination of the
collar of the tree twice year-will secure
it against the borer. If this was not done
last month, let it be attended to now. 1t
will be some satisfaction to see where the
enemy has been, and to know where to
expect him in the autumn. We have fire.
quently seen thrifty trees Of eight or ten
years growth completely killed for want
Of ten minutes work with sharp knife
and bit of wire. Bore the borer or he
will bore your trees.-Am. Ay.


MAPLE SUGAR.-A supply Of maple
sugar, made this season, arrived here on a
raft yesterday, and was readily disposed
Of at fair prices The Yankee who in
vested in this article made q handsome
speculation. We tried some Of the sugar
and found it delicious. The wonder to US
is that the maple tree is not more gener-
ally cultivated by the farmers in this Sec
ton. In some Of the northern and north
western counties Of this State, owners
of sugar camps manufacture thousands of
pounds yearly, and sell it at large profits.
To our taste, the maple sugar is preferable
to the miserable sandy Southern stuff
sold BY many grocers.-HarrisJury Tel.
Year: 1859

A Page from a Patriarch's Life
A correspondent of the New York 1ri6


une, writing from St. Louis, relates the fol


lowing:


We had in this city not long since, ,


striking illustration of the patriarchal in


stitution of Slavery. A Mississippi gentle.


man came 10 this State to supply his plant.
ations, and made his headquarters in this
city. Among the two or three dozen be


bought, was little girl, about nine years
old, whose complexion was as fair as the
average of white children. She attracted
some attention, and the purchaser related
her history. She was the child of hand
some mulatto woman, and her father was
the Hon. Mr., Member of Congress
from this State. Her mother was not the
slave of Mr., but owned by neigh
Dor, for l believe it is the custom among
the patriarchs to make an interchange of
civilities of this kind. A strange coinci-
dence happened in bringing her to this city.
She came with others down the river in a
steamboat with her master, and among
the passengers was her father He con-
versed with her owner about her, and said
be would have bought her himself, were it
not for bis wife. l had this information
from the owner of the girl. The girl was
kept in slave-pen on Sixth street, and
was visited by numbers who had learned
her history. The purchaser was very re-
spectacle getleman, who bought her for a
nurse in his family. But who cannot
guess her destiny? Here was q child of
tender age, apparently white, herding with
a lot of common negroes, torn from her
mother, and doomed to Mississippi plant
alton, while her father, in the august Sen
ate of the United States, declaims of lib
erty. He stands cody by, while his own
child, bearing his own lineaments, is taken
forcibly from her mother and driven off
with gang of slaves to a distant land,
among strangers, never again to know a
mothers love or earess, but to be hence
forth the victim of tyrant's lash or lust.
She is the innocent profert and proof of
bis own faithlessness to solemn vows, and
mus. be removed to safe distance.
Year: 1859

A PRIsoNERs ErIeuErrE.-A curious


case of prison etiquette recently occurred


in Delaware. A number Of prisoners


broke Jail. and among them was one named


Turner, under sentence Of death for rape,


He called upon the Attorney General,
coolly seated himself in his Office, and in.


formed the gentleman that number Of
prisoners had escaped, among them him
self; that he was prepared 10 back again


whenever he could be assured that he
would be safe in so doing. Several Of his
social companions had been discharged,
and IN their stead a woman had been placed
in Jail who was afflicted with scarlet fever;
be formally notified the deputy sheriff that
il such conduct was persisted in he would
feel obliged to change his quarters and that
receiving no satisfactory evidence on tho
part Of the officers of the Jail that his
grievances would receive attention, be had
thus availed himself of the first favorable
of giving practical turn 10 his
indignation by leaving the premises. He
did not care straw about the sentsnce Of
death hanging over him. but be didn't
want TO catch the scarlet fever. The -.
eaped prisoner was escorted back 10 his old
quarters.
Year: 1859

DRUNKEN MANS ADDREss-Y yesterday morn
ing as the train on the Oswego road was few
miles south of Fulton, the engineer discovered an
object ON the track as he was going round curve,
but too late to stop the train. The passed by,
and the engineer saw the object was man, who
rolled down the embankment as if he was dead. The
train was stopped, and the man jumping up, said:
"You had better keep your d--d cars off from
me-" A brief examination showed that the man
was intoxicated and that his hat had been severed


in two by the wheels of the train but miraeulonsly
no injury whatever had been done to the sleeping


nebriate. .Syracuse Standard, June D aarVo us1I1aI