smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1869

Widow Maria Spoor, of Bellingsworth, has
recently sent the following epistle to one of
oar prominent mortuary sculptors


You were pointed out to me the other day
as the man who makes gravestones. l want
stone for my late husband, Hezekiah Spoor
l want large stone, as he was very large
man, say two feet wide and eight high
His age was sixty-Dine years, nine months
and seventeen days, had he lived till three
o'clock in the morning, but as he died at
twelve, think you had better put it down
sixteen days. l want you to be particular
git it right. His disease was bilious cOlick,
and was sick only two days and nights. |
want you to put it in, especially the disease
he was sick with-he YVES most sick. The
first day he was afraid he would die, and the
hext dag no vas afraid he wouldn't, but he
died yes, he's dead, and | shall never forget
the expression that lit up his countenance in
latter moments. understood that you some
times carve images on gtavsstoEeg, aad like
nesses. Now, if you can do SO, 1 wish you
would chisel out a picture of my Hezekiah
Gate Hezekiah, mean, for he did not look
like another Hesekiah 1 met yesterday. L
will try to describe his looks. He was really
fine looking man, had TbiskeTs which was
red, short neck and very large head and
foot-but don't suppose you could chisel out
his foot in tii.e picture, but you might get his
hand in. He had large mouth, and two
large gray eyes His eyes were very peculiar,
and want you to catch this peculiarity on the
grave stone. l will try to describe this pecu.
Iiarity: One eye you want looking right at
you, and the other you want turned as though
it was looking up the chimney all the time
Now l want this done by next Eees, as
think of marrying another Hezekiah the week
after, and L want the grayestone up before,
for fear this other Hezekiah would think it
was designed for him. don't suppose you
could picture him having the bilious collie,
could you? want to pay you part in some
of the clothes he had on when he died with
the bilious colick, and the rest will pay in
money as soon as 1 get married, which viii
be in about two weeks, L think, only spoke
to him for the first time, yesterday. Tell me
by return of post what will be the price O
the grayestone with the picture of him hay.
ing the bilious colick.
Year: 1869




A gust of wind, says Washington corres-
pondent, will sometimes make queer reyela-
tious. 1t will lift vail, and show you u
hideously- marked face, or a skirt, and exhibit
deformed limb. Sweeping through the
forest it will lift an autumn leaf from the
earth, and disclose under il a nest OF horrible,
nOxious vermin. 1t has been shown that it
will uncover as curious moral deformities.-
One day there came whiting breeze around
the corner of Government department, not
far from the Interior, sweeping in behind the
massive coloDadcs, and carried letter lying
on the table of female clerk through tho
open window.


The lady CLERK had Eead the letter, and had
gode hastily indignant from the room to con-
suit the gentlemanly chief of the bureau upon
its contents. The letter was written by sister
clerk in an adjoining TOO.s, who had just made
the startling discovery that the person TO whom
it was addressed was rival in an unlawful
intimacy with the chief of the bureau The
letter, in its turn, had just maddened the
receiver by similarly surprising development
Meanwhile a newsboy-the gdDlin Of the
Washington streets-had caught the hutter-
ing letter out of the window and returned it
to the room from which it came. It was
received there into the general possession of
the lady occupants of the room. Another OF
them catahing its contents was shocked by a
doubly exasperatiDg surprise, but prudently
withheld the letter from further observation


The owner, returning, accused her of theil,
and under mutual recriminations there trans
pired the trinity of secrets. The breeze had
discovered three nlisfreSSes, IN q single depaTE-
nacHt, to its chief. 2.
Year: 1869

SWEET Conn FOR WINTER.-A Tennessee
correspondent Of Hearth and Home gives the
following directions in reference to putting up
green corn for winter use. Shave it from tho
cob, and pack it in an open vessel with layers
of salt We never haze fears of getting too
much salt, as we 10 not think large quantity
Injuries the corn. In preparing it for use, do
not soak it in cold water, but have vessel of
boiling water ready, and throw your corn into
it. Let it simper few minutes, then pour
off and refill with boiling water. Do this
three times, and your corn will be ready for
cooking Tho hot water cooks the milk in tho
corn aud prevents its soaking away whereas,
if cold water was used, the milk, and, conse-
quently, the richness and flavor of the corn
would pass away with it. Corn put up and
treated in this way will bo just as good, after
having been kept five years, as it was when
first cut from the cob.
Year: 1869

= The correspondent of the New York
Tribune sends the following to that paper
from Washington


The President informed the Texas poli-
tIcIans during his late visit here, that the
Administration would not give its influence
to aid their people to full restoration before
Congress meets, unless they elect persons to
Office who can take the test oath, choose q
Legislature that viii promptly ratify the -Four
teenth and Fifteenth Amendments to the
Constitution, aad make laws securing most
complete equality and protection to all classes
of citizens The President has not, so far as
is known, expressed preference either for
Davis or Hamilton as Governor.
Year: 1869

A man Of sixty and woman ofeigbteen
got married in Chicago, and started on brl-
dal tour. On arriving at Milwaukee the
wife told the husband she had got enough OF
married life, quit him and returned home by
next train. She had divorce before he
knew what allied him.
Year: 1869




D. ON the London S0,urdGy ReUielO.


In the United States we see the influence of
MOI ey in its worst ana most unblushing form.
o: all the dangers TO which the great democracy
is exposed, none Is so conspicuous, aud none SO
generally recognized by all thinking men, as
the danger of downright pecuniary corruption.
An effort is being made in England to bring to
justice men who are accused, rightly or wrongly,
of having dCfIauded the shareholders OF great
financial company. Whatever the result, no
one doubts that the case will be fully investi-
gated and that the judges will do their duty
without tear or favor. But in New York the
leaders OF commerce appear to be above the
law. They use their power without restraint or
concealment for transactions in shares which
fairly astonish the enterprslng British hnancier;
and when an appeal is made to the law in
CONSEQUENCE of q quarrel between the con-
spiratoTs, it turns out that each OF them has Il
judge in his pay, and Is able to drag the
machinery of justice through the dirt of the
most unblushing corruption. Certainly no
spectacle has been exhibited in England half
so demoralizpg to the public mind us the whole
course of the rival manipulators OF the great
Erie Railroad. Money has doubtless great
influence upon the British Parliament, bat at
least it does not influence members In the re-
pulsive form of direct bribery. The taxation OF
the country is doubtless determined in great
measure by rich men; but at least we are not
told here that more than half the revenue
escapes through mysterious leaks between tne
contributor and the national eXchequer, and we
are entirely free from such mysterious but pow
eriul agencies as the notorious "Whlsky ring
The influence of money in England acts through
what, by comparison ut least, may be called
| legitimate channels; and we are not dsgracec
by paying one set Of taxes to the public anC
another TO the pluuderers of the public revenue
| The wealthy classes may be powerful, b 1T the!
| have not the power to mould tariffs with an ex
! elusive view 10 their own pockets.
Year: 1869

Where there is large Gumber Of hot
beds, they should be fenced in with a
high board fence; all beds should be
protected from the west wind, which
will sometimes blow frames of glass on
to one another, resulting in great dam
age in breaking glass. Besides, the bed
will be much warmer when protected
from the west wind.


Hot bed ashes of glass are made of
different sizes. / think the best is five
panes long, four wide, eight by ten
inch glass, made heavy; glass Tapped,
made Tight aud fastened with putty for
early hot beds. For tTansplanting and
for sweet potatoes, much the cheapest
and best way is to have the sashes
grOoved so as to slip in the glass. 1t is
unnecessary to have them laid on the
frames. When it is necessary they can
be all taken off or raised up; when the
plants crowd the glass, raise the frames
by putting something under them.


1t is very important when the beds
get cool, to bank up with warm horse
manure on the space left around the
bed. Plants should not be crowded too
fast or they will not be strong and
healthy; they should have considerable
air on warm days, requiring good judg-
ment and some experience to keep the
beds at the proper temperature. Too
much heat or too much cold may spoil n
bed ofsweet potatoes in few hours.


Great care should also be taken in
watering hot beds. Cold well water
will not answer; should be warmed by
hot water or 10y exposure in a warm
day to the atmosphere; brook water is
better. Early in the season, water in
the morning, on a sunshiny day; later,
when the weather is warm, water late
in the afternoon. Much care is required,
a few hosrs when the bed is too
dry and hot, sun without air or water,
may spoil bed of plants.


When the glass is fastened with putty
and will shed water, straw mats are best
to cover in cold spell of weather. l
have sometimes seen the mercury below
zero, with three coverings of straw
mats; when the cold spell was over, the
hot Ted was all right, tomato plants not
in the least injured. When the glasses
are in grooves, boards will shed water
the best in cold storms; for cold nights
or cold days, mats ara much the best
and by far the cheapest.


suppose everybody knows or should
know how to make straw mats, which
is very simple: The first thing is to
make frame by mailing two side strips
about three feet long on two end pieces
three and a half feet wide, of inch
boards, about two inches wide; then
tie across this frame lengthways four
strong cords like hemp wool.twine; the
frame will raise these strings about TIVE
inches. Lay on good straight rye straw,
take light, strong twine, wind some on
small short sticks, then with one of
these to every main string, commence:
SnoVe the straw up close, take a half
hiics around the straw, then continue
TINS en all four of the strings, until the
mat is finished, which should be about
lOur leet long and three feet wide and
tue eh9s OF the straw cut even.


These mats are easily made on stormy
days and cost trihe, and are useful for
a great many purposes, can be used for
covering shocks of grain and heaps OF
hay during wet weather. The sides
should be trimmed even.


ID. c. RICHMOND.
Year: 1869




An attempt was made in the House
on Saturday to reconsider the vote D!
which the Senate substitute for houso
Bill No. a, fixing the seat OF uo'e,n- g,
ment at Charleston, became u Jaw iN'
point WAS raised that a motion 10 TO-
consider was not in order, the whoie
question having passed beyond the con,
trolof the House. The Speaker held
that the motion was in order, but the
House overruled his decision, thus set
ting the whole matter at rest, for TINS
session ut least.


We do not regard this as by any
means a final disposition of the case.
The law fixing the Capital at Charles
ton does not go into effect until April
1870. An election for members OF the
Legislature intervenes, aud there Is
every reason to believe that the qpes-
tion of repeal will enter largely into ne
canvass next Fall, and that very many
members will be returned with insfruc-
items to change the location already
made. The various competing points,
such as Grafton, Parkersburg, Clarks.
burg and Buckhannon, will, we think,
unite in agitating repeal, and their
combined influence may have the effect
of unsettling all that has already been
done. Instead of getting this question
out of our legislation, we look for
harder fight next Winter than has ever
been had. The contest will be intensi-
fed by the general discussion of the
matter before the people.


Until the Great Kanawha Valley can
be made accessible by railroad lines,
Charleston will not be popular loca-
ton with this end of the State. The
only argument that will weigh with
the people of the central and northern
sections will be that it is better to
allow the matter to remain at rest, now
that a location has been made, than to
open up vexatious agitation with
prospect of arriving at no better con-
clusion than that already reached. We
are not Inclined to think that this will
control the people of interested points,
and are therefore not disposed to regard
the seat of Government as finally fixed.
Year: 1869

THE OBJECT OF THIS SUIT Is TO Oh
/ tain divorce from the bonds Of matri-
mony.


Affidavit having been made that French s.
McCabe is a non resident Of the State Of West
Virginia il is ordered that he appear here with
in four weeks after due publication and posting
Of this order, and do what may be necessary 10
protect his interest in this suit.


Given under my hand this 18th day OF JEnu-
ary. lo6a. FRIEND cox, Clerk


Hall Attorney.
Year: 1869

PERSONS ADVANCED IN LIFE,


And feeling the hand of time weighing heavily
upon them, with all it's attendant ills, will find
in the use of this BITTERS, or the TONIC, an
elixir that will instil new life into their veins
restore in a measure the energy and ardor of
more youthful days, build mp their shrunkcn
forms, and give health and happiness in their
Year: 1869

It is a well established fact that fully one.
half of the female portion Of our population are
seldom in the enjoyment Of good health, or, to
use their own expression, never feel we'll"
They are languid, devoid of all energy, extreme.
ly nervous, and have no appetite.


To this class Of persons the BITTERS, OF the
TONIC, is especially recommended.


WEAK AND DELICATE CHILDREN


Are made strong by the use Of either of these
remedies. They will cure every case Of MA
RASMUS, without fail.
Year: 1869

that are deleterious and often absolutely
poisonous. The evil is frightful one it,
existence is not disputed yet the people re-
gard it with that apathy which men learn in
reference to dangers or abuses for which
there is no help. They have looked to leg
islatiOu for remedy, aud it has proved in.
adequate; but there is another agency, far
more potent than legislation, which needs
only to be edectually invoked and vigorously
employed in order to secure the overthrow Of
this wicked and gigantic system of fraud and
poisoning, and that agency is the Press.
Year: 1869

A FRENCH lady of rank has sued for a
divorce from her husband on the ground of
III treatment and desertion. One OF the most
serious items laid to the charge of the defend
ant is that when he returned from the Next
can campaign, instead of flying at once to
Pau, where his wife was staying, he sent her
the following telegram: Where are my
shirt,Y can't 6nd them All Pau soon
became aware of the lacoric dispatch, aud
the Princess could not leave her house with
out being asked what she had done with her
husbands linen.
Year: 1869

FRANKLIN SAID ONCE: noticed mech
auc, among a number of others, at work on
a house being erected but little way from
my office, WHO always appeared to be in a
merry humor, and had kind word and cheer
ful smile for every one he met. Let the sky
be ever SO cold, gloomy and sunless, happy
smiles danced like sunbeams on his cheerful
counteua nee. Meeting him one morning. |
asked him to tell me the secret of his con.
slant happy flow of spirits" "No secret,
DOCTOR" he replied. al have got one of
the best wives When | 90 to work she al
ways has kind word of encouragement for
me; and when | go home, meets me with a
smile or a kiss. And then tea is sure to be
ready, and she has done SO many little things
through the day to please me that cannot
fiod it in my heart to speak an unkind word
to anybody" What an influence, then, wo>
man hath over tho heart of man, to soften
and make it the foundation of cheerful and
pure emotions! Speak gently, then. Greeting,
after the tolls of the day are over, costs moth
ing; and goes far toward making home happy
aud peaceful.
Year: 1869

FLORENCE is described in letter written
there as a slow place. The legend says that
Florence was built upon a field of lilies, by
refuge from persecution, about fIteen hun
dred years before the Christian era. The
letter in question says the poppy is filter
exponent of her present state. For spell
of sleep is upon her politics, her religion,
her industry. her modern art. The driver
lies asleep upon his load; the huckster mods
upon bench outside his little shop in the
drowsy morning The writer has seen bare
foot boy enjoying his siesia stretched upon
the pavement of a crowded thoroughfare,
and another throw down his cap for pillow
in the public street, with that careless grace
which belongs to the Italian people, as his
sole preparation for similar Slumber
Year: 1869

EFFECT OF BRAIN Work ON HEALTH.-
The discussion about wearing out the vital
forces too rapidly from brain work, is taken
up by several of our contemporaries. The
Troy Press says: If we but consider the
ages of men in the learned professions who
labor with their brains almost increasingly,
who to-day are prominent in this country,
we shall see at once that brain work does
not shorten life. If it does it is because the
same outside habits are formed, which tend
to cut the thread that holds the body and
soul of editors together. We know not
where this absurd idea sprang from, but we
know that it is absurd, and one which brain
workers themselves laugh at aud deride.
Year: 1869

only, as general rule, by those who know
how to use it Still he had hope that the
evils of extending the suffrage to the ignOr
ant masses Of other races would be corrected
in measure by the progress of education,
the preponderance of the Caucasian race, and
the enlightened patriotism of the American
people.
Year: 1869

REPRESENT Me- said gentleman to his
artist. with a book in my hand and reading
aloud. Paint my servant also In one corner,
where he cannot be seen, but in such a man
per tha. be may hear me when l call him."
Year: 1869

A WESTERN paper is responsible for the
following: Ii is said that cup of coffee is
sure barometer If you allow the sugar to drop
to the bottom Of cup and watch the bub>
bles arise without disturbing the coffee. If
the bubbles collect in The middle, the wealth
er will be fne; if they adhere to the cup,
forming ring, it will be rainy; and if the
bubbles separate without assuming any fixed
position, changeable weather may be expect
ed
Year: 1869

To the Editor of the Intelligencer, Monroe, La:


Sir observe by reference to your paper of the
Ith inst, an editorial article commenting Il report
made by me, as Foreman of the Grand jury at the
late June term of the District Court of Caddo parish
in which you state:


Judges who ALLOW themselves and the court they
preside in, to be rideuled and brought into contempG
By such TRADE against the laws of the General Gov
ernment and State, by the Foreman Of the Grand jury
without Furnishing him, should DC addressed out of
Office"


would not notice the above article did is not caN
in question the loyalty of the Judge of the 10th Judcia
District, and deem it simple act OF justice TO him
to state that he knew no more of the contents of the
report before, than the colored members did after it
read By in open Court, when 1 was immediate
ly punished by being addressed out of Office by the
Judge, as foreman and overseeT OF the Grand Jury.


do not object to your having published my report
as Foreman but your comment on that report is IL
my opinion calculated to convey the impression that
opposed to the present grand jury system of the
State, This is error, least in part, think that
like all Inventions it should Ee tested by practical
experiment. | can see no good reason why the untu
tored African stolen from his uative wds Ey the Pa
rans OF New England, sold into bondage by them for
price, then emancpated BY an act of war; should
be suitable persons to act grand and petit jurors
fully capable of deciding such minor questions
that OF life, liberty and property. Having had some
experience in the business in my official capacity
Foreman enabled to state that the present system
works like cbarm--moving with the precision of
well regulated watch. have Foreman only to say
unto go, anG be goeth; TO another come, and he
cometh; and to my servant do this and he doeth it.


Jndglng from yeur comments my report am Of
the opinion that you may be in the dark respects
the present condition of the State. You should
deavor to remember that it is not impossible for
to be the editor of an nelIigencer without being
an intelligent editor; and if you badly in the
dark the subject of the duties of Foremen Of
Grand Juries as I was when locked up two weeks in
the grand jury room, with tea loyal darles-whilc
darkness filed the room and gross darkness the minds
of the jurors-I would advise you to call on John for
at least Ray, that the light of truth might shine
into darkness, whether the darkness can comprehend
it or not. Respectfully,


c. H. BURNSIDE,


Foreman and Overseer of the late Grand Jury
Shrnuanorf In I,1lu
Year: 1869

Coal ON THE SOUTHERN PACIFIC RouTs.-We clip
the following from the San Diego Union. The editor
says the coal with the letter was very fine speci
OF anthracite:


Tucson, A. T., June l3, 1859.


Editor San Diego Union: Knowing that you have
at all times endeavored to convince the people of the
great advantage of railroad on the 32d parallel we
have taken the liberty of sending you specimen of
coal, found in the greatest abundance directly the
32d, in New Mexico. This specimen of coal is con-
sidered the best in the United States as to quantity
there is sufficient the entire road forever it is
just about half way between the town Of Memphis,
Tenn, and San Diego, California.


We send you this hoping that you will find it Of
some service to You in advocating the much needed
railroad OF the 32d parallel. We are long since cen
vnced that other road can be built as cheap as this
road nor will any other road have the advantage of
climate, &c, that this road will have.


Directly on this route, in New Mexico, you will fnd
in the Sacramento and White Mountains, timber of the
very best kind, sufficient to build the entire road This
fact has been entirely ignored by former surveys, for
some cause or other, suppose that the weight of
capital, North has had its effect. Let this bo as it
may, at no distant day, when comes down to the mat
ter of dollars and cents, this road will be built and
then and no then will those capitalists that appear
TO be blind now open their eyes to see the error that
they have committed.


Very respectfully, ruLLY ocHoA
Year: 1869

The ARMY BoARD.-The board Of United
States army officers called to meet at mill
tary headquarters yesterday to inquire into
the character and capacity of the numerous
patriots wishing to serve their country In
some profitable manner did not meet &C.
cordipg to order, in consequence of the non
arrival of General Wilcox. We learn that
every State except Alaska and Utah Is
represented in the List Of applicants, and
that the number of patriots willing to
leave their country for their own ceuntry's
good in order to serve our country is un-
precedented since the days Of the Nicara-
guam expedition. One applicant is willing
to enter upon the contemplated temperance
movement, and take an anti drinking oath,
provided he can get a soft place. This man
is, we hear, an ex-inmate Of the Connecticut
inebriate asylum; but this consideration
is counterbalanced by the fact Of his init
mate acquaintance with Henry Wilson Of
Massachusetts,. He wants to be- judge on
the supreme bench. The amount Of paper
used by the patriots is immense, and 1t if
contemplated to put wrapping paper
mill in operation at headquarters. Several
tons per day can be turned out from the
amount of material already on hand.