smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1869

1t is great folly to suppose that mead
ows composed of natural grasses are in.
jurcd by grazing Moving annually
will soon weaken any grass land, but
grazing with cattle and sheep will
quickly improve it. if the coarse and
sour portions of the fields are kept
down, so as not to have "a ton per acre
left on il to protect the roots next win
ter" as some people recommend. To
prevent the animals from eating very
bare in places and leaving other parts
untouched, some application will be
desirable, according to the composition
of the soil, which will induce them to
eat up the rough parts, if it is sown on
early in the season; salt in moderate
quality will answer the purpose, and
plaster will help, or ashes of any kind
will sweeten the flavor. Alternate graz
ing and moving is an excellent plan on
old grass land, and do not be afraid Of
eating the roots or be fooled into the
belief that it is wisdom to stock light;
but when we'll and evenly grazed all
over the surface, it is good policy to take
the stock off it very early in the autumn,
particularly when it is to be moved the
next year.
Year: 1869

tion and countless outrages which il


has committed. The worst spirit Of


the old pro slavery regime, with a le-


gion of uncleaner spirits, entered


into and took possession of it
at an early day. The slave


holders were never 80 in.olerant as the
affiliated Southern renegades, Northern
pet-baggers and the negroes (the


three constituents of the Radical party
in the South) became, as soon as they
attained power. The record they have
left cannot be blotted out. History will
call them the party Of reaction-the
Tories OF the period-the enemy of Dem
ocratic civilization. Gall rights for all, !"
is undoubtedly Mr.. GREELEY's maxim,
and we are happy to be able to add, of
tens of thousands of the Republican par
ty-of the very salt of that party all
over the North. But the record OF


Southern Radicals remains, neverthe.
Less, unobliterated. The attempt to
clothe that haggard monster with a
mantle of light, is a feat beyond the
power of any wonder working magic or
diabolism.


We cannot see any inconsistency in
che Democratic party accepting negro
suffrage, and making the best of it in
the States in which it is established,
and opposing its adoption in the States
in which it is not established. If it is
an evil in itself, as Democrats hold it to
be, the less there is of it the better.
Besides, it is one of the fundamental
ideas of the Constitution that each
State should regulate the suffrage for
itself. To oppose the Fifteenth Amend
ment, is to offer resistance to consolida-
ton. The great danger threatening the
government and the country is consol-
idation. Since the breaking out of the
war, the centripetal movement has be-
come alarmingly powerful. Imperial
ism is q common Word now in the politi-
cal vocabulary. If there was not
negro in the country, resistance to the
attempt to impose uniform suffrage
law on all the States would be the duty
of the Democratic party, for uniformity
in the last analysis means centralized
government of some kind, and the prac-
tical extinction of the State and local
governments, and as consequence of
the Federal system.
Year: 1869

If the patient be a female. the approach
of the menses is looked for with anxiety,
as the first symptom in which Nature is
to show her saving power in dlffusing the
circuis e1on and visiting the cheek with
the bloom OF health Alas increase Of
appetite has crown by what it fed on: the
energ es of the system are Frustrated, and
ths whole economy IS deTanged. The
beautitu, and wonderful period in which
body and mind undergo so fascinating a
change from child to woman, is looked
for in vain the parents heart bleeds In
anxiety. and fancies the grave but waiting
for its victim. 1a-
Year: 1869

THE Vincennes Sun says the Craw-
ford County. Ill.) people are earn
estly at work to raise the quota of the
subscription to the stock of the Dan
Vile, Paris and Vincennes Railroad
Influential citizens are canVassiDg the
county to urge upon the people the
propriety of county subscription in
the contaminated enterprise.
Year: 1869

INJURY TO THE WHEAF.-We are
informed by some of our farmers that
the laterains have seriously damaged
the wheat, that particularly which was
most thrifty, being bent or broken
down. We have been told that forty
acre field of wheat belonging to Mr.
Irwin Hogue, living in Palmyra Town
ship, is almost totally ruined from the
above cause Yin. Sun.
Year: 1869

Whilst we regret the existence of the
above diseases and symptoms, we are pre-
pared TO offer an invaluable gift of chem
istry for the removal of the consequences,
HELMBOLD'S HIGHLY CONCENTRATED
FLUID EXTRACT BUCHU. There is no
tonic like it. 1t is an anchor of hope to
the surgeon and patient, and this is the
testimony of all who have used or pre-
scribed it.
Year: 1869

once it found IodQment on q fence or
in the crotch of a tree, while he hunted
for that provoking orioles nest. The
tissue-paper bundle feel out, and the
wind played the mischief with it, and
blew it nobody knew where, save the
orioles.


All the powdered gold had vanished
from the fields, and the birds were
hushing their little ones to rest, when
Abner got home. Susan was ready to
sit down by candle-dght ana trim % her
Dunstable bonnet, while her heart
went pit-a-pat at the thought of where
that bonnet was going next day.


You may be sure she was dreadfully
put out when she found that needless
Abner had lost the face-trinznf11 and
she could not help crying little with
VexatiOn as she pinned in last YEARS
road, in quite a repentant mood, early
the next morning, to ind the lest
hnery; but it was gone. Susan and
Henry had started for the meeting at
Goose Greek before he got back. Susan
wore those dreadful old artidcials, but
they did not spoil her market.


During the next October, just after
Henry and Susan were g cried IN meet
ing,n Abner was running across Foxes
back Orchard-lot, with his dog Nap,
when at last, on the top boush of a
young greening tree, he spied the pen
dent nest of the orioles, The young
ones had flown away long ago, but
woven neatly into the side or the nest
was the pretty white satin taste and
the blonde edge poor Susan mad cried
over.


When Henry Cole came to preach in
Drastic, everybody but Susan sgronder-
ed they. had not discoveries fore how
much there was in him. Ever Abner
has found out that he is a trEEe man, in
spite of his g store-clothes,' and If I
am not much mistaken, that curious
orioles nest now hangs over the min
ister's study-table.
Year: 1869




4 was out hunting once,' he said,
in good Westernee which shall not at
tempt to Initiate, Hon this river, 1.-THE
Mississippi and I came late in the day
to bayou. Ny way lay down the
river, and around that bayou was six
or seven miles, while across it was only
two or three hundred yards I didn't
want the walk, and I did not want to
be belated, so i determined to try the
bayou. There was no water in its it
was all mud-that kind of Shiny.
greasy auickmud that holds on to q
man and sucks him down in spite of all
his strength. I knew the danger, but
1 thought j could manage It. Hunting
about found two planks washed up
from some old flat-boat, maybe, years
before. With these started out, step
ping from one to the other, pulling
first one and the other from behind me
and putting it ahead, till got to about
the middle of the bayou. Every step I
bad taken was more difficult. The
farther / went the more my planks
were sucked down by the deviIish mud,
till could stand up no longer, but was
Obliged first to sit and then to lie down
fiat on my stomach, to divide my
weight more equally.w Hauling myself
On the foremost, I would turn around
as on q pivot, grasp the plank behind
haul it alongside, and then shove il
ahead of me. Pretty soon had to help
nv hands with my teeth, for all the
strength of both was needed to raise
the planks from the ouagmire that
sucked them down. At last one of
them sunk beyond my reach. Flat on
my face, on single plank, in the mid
die Of the bayou, the mud rising around
me ready to swallow me Up-I couldn't
swim ashore, for I wasn't in the water
couldn't wade, for to stand up was to
go down like plummet; to move six
inches either way was sure death. No
human aid could ever reach me; no
human creature might pass that way
for months no house, no road was
within miles of me. My only chance
for life was another plank. That I
must have or lie. there till I starved to
death, or roll over and make an end of
il in the nasty mud. Then 1 remem-
bered my jackknife. Getting it out of
my pocket, cut under me, lying fiat
as was, slowly and patiently upon the
plank that long seasoning had made
almost as hard as iron, till / cut it in
two. Then pulling myself on the
farther half, 1 drew the hindmOat
ahead of me, and so went on as before
got out at last but, stranger, I was.
the ugliest looking white man when
craWled ashore that you ever did sPe 2"
He patted his long rifle affectionasely
and added, "But I never parted with
her."-A ddaltic Monthly for ApTI.
Year: 1869

General GarfieId's bill for taking the
census establishes a Census Bureau in
the Interior Department. At the head
of this Bureau is to be Superintend-
ent with a salary of $4,000 per annum,
and he is to have the requisite number
of clerks. One assistant superintendent
is to be appointed in each Congression-
al District and Territory with salary
of eight dollars day for six months.
The assistant superintendents are
authorized to employ as many enum-
orators as are necessary with a salary
of five dollars per day for the time
actually employed. The whole census
is to be taken in two months. The
Secretary of the Interior, the Attorney
General and the superintendent of the
Census are to prepare schedules and
tables to be communicated to Congress
for its action at the commencement OF
the next Congress; all publication to
be completed and the Bureau closed on
the first of May, 1872. The basis OF
representation is to be 10000 popula-
ton for each District. This viii make
about two hundred and seventy mem


bers of the House for the next decade


an increase of about forty members
| over the present number.
Year: 1869

The monotony of editorial life is once
in while relieved by an agreeable sur
prise. One of these green spots in the
desert it was our good fortune to enjoy,
this week, in the way of visit from one
of our lady subscribers who called to pay
her subscription, and lighted up the sane
tum with delightful confab, such only as
can be experienced with the gifted fair
Chesterto,cn Transcript.


We add our own experience to the
above. We never had a lady subscriber
(and we have had many in our time) who
was not prompt to pay her subscription.
Nor was that all. They always came to
us with words of cheer and encouragement
that made it pleasure to see them in a
double sense. They had no complaints to
make, that we did not publish this or pub
lish that; no snarling or fault finding; no
threats Of discontinuing their paper; but
shed smiles and gladness all through ouI
sanctum, and made us feel as if we could
have faced whole regiment of masculine
churls, if they had presented themselves
Year: 1869

TUNNEL UNDER THE ENGLISH CHANNEL.
The tunnel which is proposed under the
English channel at Dover, it is asserted,
will have to be bored through chalk for
nation, and though the actual perforation
will be easy, yet the pressure of the sea
upon the yielding rock will be immense.
In building the Thames tunnel, the water
burst through the roof several times, and
Brunei, the engineer, nearly lost his life
during one of these irruptions of the river.
In the event of n violent storm the danger
of break would be imminent, aLl The
workmen. having to run several miles to
obtain refuge, would have but poor op-
portunity to escape. The difficulty of
ventilating such tunnel must prove to be
very great. But, notwithstanding these
serious objections, three eminent English
engineers have pronounced the plan FEAST
BILE, and the estimated cost, forty five mil
lion dollars, to be reasonable.
Year: 1869

Aim at perfection in everything, though
in mos. things it is unattained however,
tIey who aim at it, and persevere, will
come much nearer to it than those whose
laziness and dependency make them give
it up as unatttainable.


The above is particularly applicable to
the subject of health should do every
thing in their power to t.ttain perfection,
as near as possible, in that. This can be
secured by regular and continued use Of
the Zingari Bitters.
Year: 1869




The ruined youth was upon the ocean
his voyage cOmmenced-his duties rs
a laborer for his own daily bread all fair
ly assumed. All, IL was a strange life
for him to enter upon for from the own
eTship of immense wealth to the trade
of books of merchant ship was tran
sitiOn indeed But, ere he went on deck
again, he had fully resolved that he
would do his duty, come what would.
He would forget that he ever did else
than work for his Livelihood: With
these resolves clearly defined in his
mind, he already felt better.


At first our supercargO was too weak
to d9 umCh He was very sick, and it
lasted nearly tsV0 weeks; but, when that
passed off and he could face the vibrat-
ing desk with a stout stomach, his ap-
petite grew sharp, and his muscles be-
ran to grow strong. Atfirst his appetite
crayed some of the delicaCies he had
long been used to but they were not to
he had, and he soon learned to do with
ont them. The result was, that his ap-
nptite became natural in its wants and
his system began to find itself invigOr-
ated by simple food, and fresh air and
healthful exercise.


For wears he had looked upon break
fast as a meal which must be set out and
partaken of from mere fashion. A cup
of coffee and, perhaps, a piece of French
roll, or q seasoned and highly-spiced tit
bit had constituted the morning meal
But now when breakfast hour came, he
approached it with keen appetite, and
felt as strong and hearty as at any 9TH
er time Of the day.


BY degrees the hollow cheeks became
Year: 1869

Correspondents will continue TO taAe
notice that we cannot undertake TO pun
lish communications which are written
upon beth sides of the paper SeVeral
good articles have recently been reject
ed for this reason.


Its proper to say, however, that this
is not the reason for the non appear
ance of sundry articles lately handed
us in relation 10 the Capital and othef
MATTERS in connection Herewith. we
want to see tAe Capital struggle con-
ducted in an amiahle manner, ana
therefore decline to allow the partlSanS
of different points to empty their gall
pots through the medium Of the REGIS
TER. When some of our excitable
friends get into the convalescent stage
of the Capital fever, they will thank us
for restraining their wrath.
Year: 1869

Let's have the old bend, and not have the new
Let's have the bend that our grandnothers


knew;


Over the wash tub and over the churn, :,
That is the bend that our daughters shouio


learn.


Let's have the bend that our grandmother


knew


Over the cradle, like good mothers true
Over the table, 1.-THE family rounuI,
Reading the Good Book mid silence Pioio''nu'
Let's have the bend that at church they did wear
Bowing them lowly. in meek, humble prayer;
Not setting erect with the medern:mlss AIR.
With the love Of q bonnet just perched on


one hair.


Leave the camel his hump-he wears IT Tor use
Leave the donkey his pannier-a1d cut your


selves loose


Fro-r fashions that lower, defoIm and degrade ;
To HIDE some deiOrmitv most OF them made.
Let orr heads Of false hair and hot yarn skeins
Let our garments be easy and light to be worn,
Don't shake in December and sSelter IN June,
And appear like unfortunates struck by the


moon.


Let's spend the time in things higher than dress
Time that was given us to aid and 10 bless;
Time that is feeting and passing away;
o, let us work while We call IL TO day
Let have the old bend instead of the newi
Let's have the old hearts so faithful and true
AWAY with all fashions that lower and degrade
TO hide some defOrmty most of them made
Year: 1869

A little more than q year ago | cover
ed small piece of winter wheat with
coarse horse manure, spreading /; as
evenly as possible on the top of the snow.
At that time there was but little snow
on the ground, and for fear il might all
melt or blow off and leave the wheat
exposed, concluded to keep 1t covered
with manure, knowing that top-dreSs'
ing would be beneficial to the crop al
ter the frost was out of the ground IN
the spring. When | came to harvest
the wheat, ! found it was remarkably
plump and heavy, and after threshing
some of it with fail, thought l
would measure it as accurately as possi-
BILE, aud weigh it to see how much it
would go to the bushel, and the result
was 63 pounds.
Year: 1869

San Francisco is to be Supplied with
ice from the summit of Sierra Nevada,
in a very novel way. A party sf specu.


lstors have constructed an ice-hOuse,
capable of holding 900 or 900 tons OF
ice, near the Pacific railroad track.
From a stream on the hillside above, a
hume has been run TO the top of the
ice-house, where the water is allowed
to fall in small jets or spray into the
building below. In this manner they
expect to gradually form mass of solid
ice which will fill the entire building
Year: 1869

KISSING IN THE Cause.-The Charivar
gives the following advice to young gen
tlemen, under the heading, "The Art of
Loving on the Cars - "Permit me to
suggest to You very easy way of kissing
a number of pretty women. You are in a
railroad car, and two or three ladies and
one or two gentlemen enter the same
coupe. At the first tunnel through
which the train passes, as soon as nobody
can see you, you put very loud kiss on
the back Of your hand Nothing is more
curious than to see the faces of your fel-
low travellers as soon as the train emerges
from the tunnel The gentlemen cast fu-
rious glances about them; the ladies then
blush, each of them believing that her
fair neighbor received the kiss, and ig-
norant of the man who gave it to her
Everything goes well; your prospects are
excellent At the second tunnel you
boldly kiss the first lady /; she dares not
cry out, bearing in mind as she does that
her fair companion, to whom happened
the same misfortune, did not say any.
thing. Can she behave more Indignantly
Would she not thereby betray the other
lady to her husband? For the rest, the
second kiss was not as loud as the first
At the third tunnel the same course is
to he pursued toward the other lady, who,
for the same reasons, does not say any
thing. Thus you get kiss at every tun-
mel except the first one"
Year: 1869

Many the writer these lines and invalid physician while visiting the
Island Of st. their health experienced and witnessed surprising and
beneficial produced Of the vias who ke
eurss) seeking health and inquiry and investigation obtained full history
its medicinal virtues He delighted and surprised and after his
which occurred determined possible procure the right manufacture
and sell it IN the United States


The result his labors glorious himself and suffering humanity
Tor the celebrated PLANTATION BTTERS the world PLAN
TATIoN slTTEas being article Of principles and


relying wholly the vegetable world for its medicinal worked rapid rr
ton in the history medicine and became household word all the civilized
world The eahase TlssoZ taisman for
the PLANTATION sTTEa far exceeded the abilities


Notwithstanding the large importation Of st. cx Rum expressly for the
pounding these ssr the quantity inadequate necessary
that arrangements scale abroad should
dispatched st. Thomas for that He fortunate securing and
leasing several plantations the largest and productive the
island Houses stills and erected BY magic which utterly
shed the natives The experienced and natives nd
cured and the rets the PLANTATION BITTESs position
osupr their laboratory with all the perfectly st. crox Rum needed arui


turing represents
the natives crushing the and otherwise preparing for the stills and
As anidoe Fever and Ag Intermittent and xious E Dyspepsia and


kindred Diseases the PLANTATION BTTERS the
history the world Over million disposed annually They
adapted old and male and female They agreeable always
nodu immediate beneficial result
Year: 1869




CULTURE OF OPIUM IN CALIFORNIA
The enormous price of opinm and the i'm
mense. quantity imported into California,
should incite to the production OF the
drug at home The poppy will grow lux
uriantE almost without cultivation, any
where on the Pacific Coast. 1t is well
known that the plant yields its narcotic
iuice of almost uniform strength under
all circumstances of soil and climate capa-
BILE of growing it. There is every reason
to Judge that no part of the world can
produce better quality of opium than
California. We have seen a specimen
produced in the garden of the Insane
Asylum at Stockton, by one of the in
mates whose head was clear on this point
To all appearances it was very superior
article, and the physician of the asylum
informed us that he had proved its activ-
ity. There is not process in hOrticul-
ture or in housewifery more simple than
that of lacerating the capsules and col
lecting the inspissated juice. Children
of six or eight years could do this, and all
that is required in the manufacture of the
article for market, except perhaps the
skillful mingling with stones, eowdung
and the like, which belongs to the art Of
adulterating 1t is marvel that the
Chinese have not turned their attention
to the subject Will not some of our
medical men in rural districts try the ex-
peoiment ?-Pacifc Medical and Surgical
Journal
Year: 1869

GENERAL Cox.-A gossipy correspon-
dent has this to say of Secretary Cox ::
Mature designed him for man of mark
Personally he is the finest looking man in
Washington. He is just six feet in hight,
of elegant figure and fine expressive fea-
lures. His hair and eyes are of dark
brown; his cheeks are ruddy with health.
His demeanor is that of country gentle
man; and his dress is faultless in style
and arrangement. Ofice-seekers swarm
around his private apartments, and he re-
ceiyes all kindly, unless satisfied that the
place hunter is utterly unworthy He is
a keen judge of men, and is not likely to
be imposed upon by the specious and pre-
tentious. The intimate friends of Secre.
tary Cox believe that he has by no means
reached the official hight to which his
talents and character entitle him, and pre-
dict for him an elevation beyond which
no man attains in America His family
consisting of beautiful and accomplished
wife and four children, is in Cincinnati
and will Join him in the Autumn, when
they will probably enter upon housekeep
ing in a moderate way" H.
Year: 1869

SARCAsTIc--The New York Herald is
rather sarcastic in its articles concerning
the fair creatures who are endeavoring to
change their sex. Here is one of its latest
squibs:


HENS RIGHTs.-There is a movement
in high chicken quarters, started since the
poultry show, to have the hens assert them
selves before the world in a series of reso-
lutions pointing out that the ROSTERS do all
the Growing and fighting and roost on the
highest perches, and yet lay no eggs, and
this is oppressive and unjust to the hens
Year: 1869

"No You DoN'T During the first
battle of Bull Run brigadier- general dis
covered soldier concealed in hole in
the g.ound, and ordered him to join his
regiment. The man looking him full in
the face, placed his thumb upon his nose
and replied, =" No you don't, old fellow you
want this hole Yourself"
Year: 1869

Established expressly to afford the afflicted
sound and scientific Medical Aid, in the treatment
and cure OF all Private and Chronic Diseases, Cases
Of Secrecy and all Sexual Disorders.