smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1864

- Vote for Abraham Lincoln and
you vote Tor government preserved.


For the death OF the Southern Confed-
eracy.


For the end Of the rule of the Slave.
driver,


For steady support of the brave men
that compose our army and navy.


For civilization and justice and Free
dom.


For the fuccess of tie cause for which
the heroes who have fallen from the ranks
o. the Uni'n army during this war have
offered up iEeir ives.


Tor the preservation Of all that is dear
to the American citizen.


Vote the Copperhesd ticket and you
vote against them ali.
Year: 1864

EgThe Sens Of Liberty in Indiana
will vote for Mac and Pen


Ne u bers of the .. A. X. will vote for
them.


Cole County insurreotionista will sup
port hem.


The mob and draft riot element of New
York are furious for Little Mao and
Pendeton
Year: 1864

The New York Tribune, reporting the
freedom from riot and violence of the voting
in that city, says


mouth, and the general conclusion was that
no tongue nor pen could have descr.hed the
scene which would have taken place had the
government not taken the precautionary
MEASURE of sendng a sufficient force to sup
press any disturbance which might be at
tempted STRONG men who had msgivings a
week ago, and who feared that there would
scarcely be chance even to get within see
ing distance OF the polls. felt strengthened
by Gen Bu ler's order and presence.
Year: 1864

In the recent railroad accident near Lafay-
elite, Ind, the baggage car was about four
lee inehes narrower than the passenger car
behind l., and the force Of the collision was
such As to drive the baggage car entirely
thToush the passenger car, tearing oil the top
but leaving the sides in.aet. Every person
IN the car was instantly killed..
Year: 1864

When Cornelius Vanderbilt was a
young man, his mother gave him fifty
dollars Of her savings to buy a small
sail boat. and he engaged in the bhsi-
ness Of transporting lmarkst-gardsn-
lug from Staten Island to New York
city. When the wind Was not favora-
bls. be would work Ais way over the
aboals by pushing the boat along by
poles, putting his owa shoulder to,thc
pole, and was very sure to get his
freight into market in season. This
energy always gave him a command
of full freights. and he accumulated
money After awhile he began to
build and run steamboats,. and he ia
now reputed to be worth more than
nineteen millions Of dollars, after max
ing the Government a free gift of a
steamship that cost 100000.
Year: 1864

An Indian sharpshooter belonging
to Michigan regiment said hc liked
fighting the rebels when we whipped
them. In the battle of the Wilderness
he said, "We whip them most !; first
they whip us some, then we whip
them good"
Year: 1864

1.-The only merit we can discover in this
Baltimore ticket is the merit of Consistency /; it
Is all of piece the tail does not shame the
head. nor the head shame the tail. A rail
splitting buffoon and a boorish tailor, both
from the backwoods, both growing up in un-
couth ignorance, they would afford . grotesque
subject for satiric poet &C., &c.
Year: 1864

Some Administrationists do not seem
perfectly satisfied with the currency as 1t
exists They appear to think that there Is
too great difference between the accepted
value of gold and silver coin and greenback
currency. By reason of this difference, the
expenses of the Administration are very
largely increased as well as the cost of living
to the people; but instead Of this being al
objection. it is an argument in its favor
We adopt the theory of the the Admins
tration,politicians. The President in his
Message and surely no one will have the
temerity to doubt his wisdom and tar-reach
ing perception, argues that, inasmuch as oul
public debt is held, ''for the most part, by
our own people, it has become substantial
branch of national, though private proper
ty." Therefore, if this public debt were
not held, "tor the most part, by our, own
people," it would not be branch of sub
stantal national property Indeed, it would
be the reverse. A home illustration will
make this unmistakabe. Suppose com
pany of gentlemen engaged in certain en-
terprise here in the city of Columbus ex-
pended daily from three to four times more
than they realized OF can realize from their
enterprise, and were constrained to go into
the money market to borrow means with
which to pay their expenditures. Now, II
they succeeded in borrowing those means
here in the city of Columbus, the evidences
of their indebtedness-their promisesto pay
become substantial property Of the city
the city meanwhile being rendered prosper
Gus; but if that company failed to secure
the necessary means in exchange for their
evidences of Indebtedness here, and secured
the accommodation in Cincinnati, the sub
stantial property Of Cincinnati would be
thereby increased, while the company would
feel the weight of their indebtedness more
than if they had been accommodated here
in Columbus. This is the President 5 ar
gument touching our public debt slightly
illustrated. If the argument is sound, it is
the greatest absurdity imaginable for any
efforts to be made by which check shall
be made to the increase of the public debt.
Nor is it sound financiering to undertake to
put gold and silver coin down to the value
of greenback currency, and to keep it down,
because Administrationists insist that the
wider the discrepancy between the value OF
these articles, the more is the ability of the
people increased to grow in prosperity and
wealth Sf1fesD,1n
Year: 1864

Sidney Smith, in his work on Moral Phil
osophy, speaks in this wise Of what mer
lose for want ofa little brass, as it is termed


"A great deal of talent is lost to the world
for the want of little courage. Every day
sends to their graves number of obscure
men, who have only remained in obscurity
because their timidity had prevented them
from making a first effort; and who, if they
only had been induced to begin, would. in
all probability, have gone great lengths in
the career of fame. The fact is, that in
doing anything in the world worth doing,
we must not stand shivering on the bank
thinking of the cold and danger, but jump
in and scramble through as well as we can.


1T will not do to be perpetually calculat-
ing risks and adjusting nice chances; it did
al very well before the food, when man
could consult his friends upon an intended
publication for hundred and fifty years,
and live to see its success for six or seven
centuries afterwards but at present man
waits and doubts, and consult his brothers
and his uncles and his particular friends, till
one day he finds that he is sixty-fye years
Of age, that he has lost so much time in con-
sulting first cousins and particular friends,
that he has no more time to follow their ad-
advice. There is so little time for over
squeamishness at present, that the oppor-
tunity slips away. The very period Of life
at which man chooses to venture, if ever, is
so confined, that is no bad rule to preach up
the necessity, in such instances of little
violence done to the feelings, and efforts
made in defiance of strict and sober calcu-
lations.'
Year: 1864

Have the hog laid on his back on a stout
table Clean the carcass of the leaf fat.
Take off the feet at the ankle joints. Cut
the head off close to the shoulders, separate
the jowl from the skull lengthwise on the
under side, so as to remove the brains fully
Remove the backbone in its whole length,
and with sharp knife cut off the skin
then the fat, leaving only about one halt
inch of fat on the spinal column. The mid
dlings or sides are now cut from between
the quarters, leaving the shoulders square
shaped, and the ham pointed, or it may be
rounded to suit your fancy. The ibis are
next removed, partially or entirely from the
sides. The trimmings of fat from the hams
and flabby parts of the sides are rendered
up with the backbone strip for lard. The
sausage meat is cut from between the leaf
fat and the ribs; and other lean pieces are
used for the same purpose The thick part
of the backbone that lies between the shCul-
ders is called the chine; it is cut from the
tapering bony end, and the latter part call
ed the backbone by way Of distinction. The
backbones are used while fresh the chine
is better after being smoked. - Country
Gentleman.
Year: 1864

Love watches over the cradle of the infant,
over the couch of the aged, over the well
fare and comfort of each and all; to be happy,
man retires from the outdoor world home.
In the household circle, the troubled heart
finds consolation, the disturbed finds rest,
the Joyous finds itself in its true clement
Pious souls when they speak Of death, say
that they go home. Their longing for Heav-
en- is to them home-sickness. Jesus also
represented the abode of eternal happiness
under the picture of home, a father $
house. Does not this tell US that the earth
" home is appointed to be a picture, OF
Heaven, and foretaste of that higher
home.
Year: 1864

MY dear husbond," said devoted wife,
Twill you not leave off smoking? 1t is such
an odious practice, and it makesyour breath
smell so. True replied the husband,
''but only consider the time / have devoted,
and the money l have spent, to learn to
smoke If ! should leave off now, all the
time and money would have been wasted,
don't YOU see y
Year: 1864

An urchin suffering from the application
of the birch said, Forty rods are said to be
furlong. | know better; let any person
get such licking as | have had, and he'll
find out that one rod makes an achcr.
Year: 1864

A gentleman at a musical party, seeing
that the fire was going out, asked a friend in
whisper, how he could stir the fire without
interrupting the music. Between the
bars" replied the friend.
Year: 1864

A wife in San Francisco lately put a peti;;
ton for diverse in the court on the ground
that her husband was 'contounded fool. y
The court wouldn't admit the plea, because
almost every married man would be liableto
the same imputation. Did you ever.
Year: 1864

He that gives good advice builds with one
hand; he that gives good counselan example
builds with both but he that gives good
admonition and bad example builds with one
hand and pulls down with the other
Year: 1864

UNITED STATES HOMESTEAD LAW
BY recent decision of the Commissioner
General of the Land Office, the homestead
settler has not complete legal right, but
merely an inceptive title liable to be de-
feated for performance Of the con-
ditions: He can therefore only use tim
ber for fencing, and building and repairs,
under the bounty Of Congress. He is
permitted to acquire homestead in the
public domain for agricultural purposes,
on condition of settlement and cultivation
for five years. Until this condition is
satisfied he cannot commit waste by fell
ing timber for market, as it reverts to the
United States on his failure to comply
with the terms of the law. AS to any
supposed purchase by party from the
homestead settler, nc, right can attach to
sale. The homestead settler has no
power to sell, and hence the timber cut
by him is liable to seizure.
Year: 1864

A MINISTER had a quarrel with one of
his parisbioners by the name Of Hardy,
who showed considerable resentment. On
the succeeding Sunday the divine preach
ed from the following text which he pro-
nounced with great emphasis, and with
significant look at Hardy, who was pre-
sent: "There is no fool like fool Hardy"
Year: 1864

live FOR those who love NE,


For those who know NE true;
For the heaven that smile above me,
and awaits my spirit, too;
For the cause that .acks assistance,
For the right 'gAiRst wrong resistance,
For the future IN the dist4Rce;


FIR The good hat I can do;
Year: 1864

upon the just and unjust: that Government
which Mr.. Stephens, the Vice President of
the rebel Contederacy said, in the spring Of
1861, 'it had not done one act of which the
South had any right to complain" It is
sustaining this great and good Govern.
ment, against treason and traitors, that We
are engaged. These are of the past aud
the present. Let us look to the swelling
future, in the which, If we are but true to
ourselves, lies the happiness and prosperi-
ty of generations yet unborn.


And now, my friends, how is this great
struggle to be ended2 Shall We take
counsel Of that class who advise the with.
drawal of the armies, and an effort to con-
ciliate the rebels by concession and com
promise Have we not been told over
and over again, and for the thoasanth time,
by them, including JEFF. Davis himself, that
they scorn, scout and contemn any PROPOSE!
ton of compromised That they would not
write the conditions themselves on blank
piece of paper. Then is it net idle and
silly to be talking of compromise 2 lfqr


Or shall We now, after more than three
years of war, bloOdshed and deyastation-
after thousands upon thousands of precious
lives, and millions of treasure have been
sacrificed, craven like, lay down our arms,
confess our inequality to the task, permit
the rebellion to become success-the
Union dissolved-the Government destroy
ed-and the question settled that man is
incapable of self governmental May loyal
and an outraged people forbid It'll Forbid
it, Almighty God 5 li..r


No. Let US rather grid ourselves afresh
for the contest. Let us renew our energies
and our ledges-belleving that God is Just
and that he will defend the right ..,r
Year: 1864

We are surrounded by the living dead,
Men whose whole lives seem purposeess and vain
They're bubbles in the air husks mid the grain,
Mere walking fesh-piles, without heart OF head
They're dead as those on whoseold graves we ire ad
Long years companioned with the feshfat worm,
To show they're men, they've nothing but the form.
They are not worth their daily meat and bread
The marvels of creation move them not;
As well preach God unto heshless skull.
Surrounded by the grand and beautiful,
They're cold as icy stone of messy grot
Their life IS a dream, fostering id the
Snatched from this fostering earth, who'd miss them?
Year: 1864

WHY BEES WORK IN THE DARK.--A lifetime
might be spent in investigating the mysteries
hidden in a bee hive, and still half Of the secrets
would be undiscovered The formation Of the
cell has long been a celebrated problem for the
mathematician, whilst the changes which the
honey undergoes offer at least an equal interest
to the chemist Every one knows what honey
fresh from the comb is like. 1t is clear yel-
low syrup, without trace of solid sugar in it.,
Upon straining, however, it gradually assumes
a crystalline appearance-it candies, as the say
ing is, and ultimately becomes a solid mass of
sugar. 1t has not been suspected that this
change was due to Photographic action; that
the same agent which alters the molecular ar
rangement of the iodine of silver on the excited
collodion plate, and determines the formation of
camphor and iodine crystals in bottle, causes
the honey syrup to assume crystalline FORM
This. however. is the case. NJ. Scheiber has
enclosed. honey in stoppered TASKS, some of
which he has kept in darkness, whilst others
have been exposed to the light. The invariable
result has been that the summed portion rapidly
crystalizes, whilst that kept in the darkremained
perfectlv LIQUID We now see why bees are so
careful to work in perfect darkness, and why
.they are so careful to obscure the glass windows
which are placed in their hives The existence
of the young depends the liquidity of the
saccharne food presented to them, and if light
were allowed access to this, the syrup would
gradually acquire a more or less solid consist
ency: it would seal up the cells, and, in all
probability, prove fatal to the inmates Of the
hive,
Year: 1864

THE BEST C1GARs.-Itis is not generally known
that the best Havana cigars are made from to-
bacco dipped in a solution of opium. Natural
leaf tobacco never has that peculiar effect, as
will be noticed upon smoking the best clean leaf
in pipe. 1t is the opium in a first rate cigar
and not the tobacco, which smokers get enslayed
with and cannot get along without. In some OF
the Havana establishments $40, 900 worth OF
opium year is used
Year: 1864

THE Inevitable PENALTY OF CRnE.-There
is a wholesome truth in the following passage
from Emerson, which all would do well to lay at
heart. It may help to ward off temptation,
when purer and better motives grow weak in the
contest "There is, he says, ''no den in the
wide world to hide a rogue. There is no such
thing as cOncealment. Commit crime, and 1t
seems as if a coat of snow fell on the ground,
such as reveals in the woods the track of every
partridge and fox and squirrel and mole. You
cannot recall the spoken word, you cannot wipe
out the foot-track, you cannot draw up the lad
der, so as to leave no inlet or clue. Always
some damning- Circumstance transpires. The
laws and substances of nature, water, snow,
wind, gravitation, become penalties to the thief"
Year: 1864




THE STRAsBURG CLoCK.-The priest and mil
itary have retired, and l am now sitting in
chair facing the gigantic clock-from the bot
tom to the top not less than one hundred feet,
and about thirty feet wide and fifteen feet deep.
Around me are many strangers waiting to see
the working of this clock as it strikes the hour
of noon Every eye is upon the clock. 1t now
wants five minutes to twelve The clock has
struck, and the people are gone, except few
whom the sexton or head man, with wand and
sword, is conducting round the building.


The clock has struck in this way; The dial
is some twenty feet from the floor, on each side
of which is a cherub or a little boy, with mall
let and over the dial is a small bell; the cherub
on the left strikes the first quarter, that on the
right the second quarter. Some fifty feet above
the dial, in a large niche, is huge figure of
Time bell is in his left a scythe in his right
hand In front stands figure Of young man
with a mallet, who strikes the third quarter, on
the bell in the hand of Timej and then turns,
and glides with slow step round behind Ilme
then comes out an old man with mallet and
places himselfin front


AS the hour of twelve comes, the old man
raises his malet and deliberately strikes twelve
times on the bell that echoes through the build'
ing, and is heard all around the region OF the
church Soon as the old man has struck
twelve and disappeared, another set Of machine
~ is set in motion, some twenty feet higher still
1t is thus There is a high cross with the i'm
age of Christ on it. The instant twelve is
struck, one of the apostles walks out from be-
hind, comes in front, turns facing the cross,
bows, and walks on around to his place.


As he does so, another comes out in front,
turns bows and passes in. So twelve Apos-
ties, figures as large as life walk round, bow
and pass on. AS the last appears an enormous
cock perched on the pinnacle of the clock,
slowly flaps his wings, stretches forth its neck,
and crows three times, so loud as to be heard
outside of the church to some distance, and so
naturally as to be mistaken for a real cock
Then all is as silent as death. No wonder this
clock is the admiration of Europe 1t was made
in 1911 and has performed these mechanical
wonders ever since, except about fifty years,
when it stood out Of repair.
Year: 1864

Let us assert that in the Divine government
the matter of fact always determines the ques-
ton of right, and that whatever has been done
by him who rendereth no account to man of his
matters he had in all ages and in all places an
unchallengable right to dO.-Hugh Miller.
Year: 1864

It is the general custom with sketch-wrlters,
male and female, of a romantic and marvellous
disposition, to mix up with the plots OF their
narratives that universal and worldwide lngre-
dent, love, as a druggist mixes up with his med
cines that slow but deadly poison, mercury,
which preys upon the human system IN such
manner that, before the patient is aware OF the
fact he falls victim to its use. Love is drug
that has poisoned more poor frail-minded NOR
tails and done more to create rancor and dis
cord death and destruction, than all the quack
doctors, observation-disclosures and nOstrumsj that
have cursed and blighted this fair world OF
ours


Love Away with such trash Iyerily
there is no such thing as pure, true love inthese
modern and enlightened days Time was, when
our grandparents were children-''the happy
days of yore when love aOas lovei not mere
declaration of foolish balderdashj on the bend
ed knee; calling the moon, and stars, and heaven
above to witness the sincerity of their affection,
and threatening to commit some desperate act,
such as self-immolation, in case of rejection by
the adored one, as in those days Of greenbacks
and fractional currency.


Then, a grasp of the hand, full of that warmth
and affection which characterized the folks OF
the olden time, sufced to express the feelings
of heart overfowng with that creme de Ia
creme of love-pure, constant and nnselhsh-
that an all-wise Creator intended they should
enjoy; or a loving look OF the expressive, pas
sionate eye bespoke more truth and affection
than the quivering lip could speak.


In the olden time love-making was not an at-
fair of days, but months and years. and when
united in the holy bond of wedlock, it was with
the solemn vow to stick to each other with un-
finching devotion through thick and thin, veal
and woe, till the Angel of Death should summon
them to that bourne ''where the wicked cease to
trouble and the weary are at rest"


But in this age of telegraph, locomoton and
gas q mean gaseous Individually we have
mode of expediting matters, and it is but the
work of day to become acquainted with that
''fair young angel" (barring wngs) over the
way, who is great source of trouble to the
gouty old Jew who resides next door, for she is
continually hanging and humping on that
love of piano, which she has hired for three
months, and, under the false pretense OF la
king lessons" makes herself obnoxious to all
the old maids, and young ones too, in the aris-
tocratic neighborhood of Mushroom Place
Aye, she is a sweet, angelic creature
Year: 1864

A man named Peter Murry was drowned in a
vat containing only three feet of liquor, in Bos-
ton. It is stated as fact that the liquor was so
poisonous that the owner Of the distillery, in at
tempting to descend into the vat to rescue Muir
ry, Immediately tainted away, and almost met
the fate of his employee. The dead body could
only be taken out by the use of hooks.
Year: 1864

While we lay at Hakodadi the bark Messenger
Bird came into the bay and anchored. The cap
tain's wife was on board with her two children,
one a fat little cherub, baby of only a few
months old, born on the passage since leaving
the Sandwich Islands


l shall never forget the day on which the first
American woman and her baby appeared on the
streets of Hakodadi.


The population, men, women and children,
priests soldiers, BARRIERS, merchants all seem to
have deserted with one accord their various
callings to gaze upon Mrs. Homer and her in-
FAINT. The baby excited the most intense Curl
osity among the woman and children; with gap
ing mouths, oUtstretched necks, and piercing
eyes, they followed it through the streets; every
turn, every movement was watched; police Off
GERS would occasionally drive them off, but Il
was only to give place to more eager faces; at
the turn Of every street troops would dash off
and seek to get a better view by appearing
through other streets tO-inercept her at the next
corner. As we turned the corner of the street
leading to the temple, on one side of which the
foreign bazaar was held, the crowd, men, women
and children, made rush for the inner court to
gain the temple. There was perfect stampede
the Gathering of wooden-shod feet overtherockY
pavement with the hum of a thousand voices
filled the air; they piled up The steps, rushed
pell-mell into the temple and crowded the court
hoping to get better view. In this they were
doomed to disappointment, except favored
few who reached back balcony, from whence
they had full view of the lady and baby as they
sat within the bazaar.


Upon her return the streets were again filled
with curious people following to the gate of the
custom-house which led to the boat, in which
she again reached the ship, eyed as she passed
through a labyrinth ofjunks by the curious Jap
anese sailors, who beheld for the first time a
white woman Overland Explorations By p
Med Collins