smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1869

SAD But COMMON STORY Troy
(NeW York; Times of November l4th contains
the following:


Within a short time the police have become
acquainted with the facts connected with the
abandonment by three Young girls of their
homes, and their deliberate entry upon lives of
prostitution. Ii one instance the father an
ALBANIAN. came 10 this city, and finding his


daughter III house Of Ill-tame, prevailed upon
her 10 accompany hlm home. She remained
there. however, bat short time. when she de-
serted her home again and Is now leading a lite


"i Ihiarny. \ second case was that Of a Young


glrl. also an Albanian. who came 10 this city


ANA was admitted into a house of improper


character only after She had brought from her


mother written document stating that she


had abandoned her and had no objection To her


leading Il life of shame. The paper was prob


ably "A forgery. Last night III cell in one of


the station houses of the city. a very beautiful


@Irl, only seventeen years OF age, was confined


Tor having deserted her mother and entered


upou career Of crime and dissipation. The


mother had been IN search of her some weeks


and Yesterday succeeded III finding her in Il


fashionable place OF resort on Sixth street


The Interview between the mother and daugh-


Ter IT tie station was Of singular character


The daughter charged her fall upon her mother


saving tha; She had been driven Ia despera-
t"n bl the uukIud treatment Of the parent,
and declaring that she would never 90 home
again io be subjected 10 persecution and out
rage at her hands. II was evident, however,
that Il taste for drcsS-a desire 10 wear better
clothes than her means would pr0cure-had
been the cause Of her downfall. and afterwards
She confessed rs much The Young girl stated
that the woman al whose house she was dis
covered and the habitucs of the place had all
urged her to :" home and lead pure and vir-
tnoHS life. and had pointed out 10 her the inev-
liable and certain end of the career upon which
She was cnlbarkjng, but that she had thought
the matter all over and had fully determined
10 continue on her course. 4 night passed in
the cells Of the station house. however, gave
the foolish girl time for further reflection, and
tins morning she consented to return home with
her mother. We trust thr lesson she has al
ready received viii be sufficient to keep her
footsteps in the path of virtue
Year: 1869

THE proprietors of the Boston Saturday
Eoening Express have recently engaged
the services, as a permanent fixture ol
their establishment, of fighting editor.
They thus announce the fact:


I'VE have the sublime pleasure to an
nounce to the deputy State cOnstables,
and all others interested, that we have en-
gagged at an immense salary, one of the in
dispensable adjuncts to an Independent
newspaper establishment, to vita fight
ing editor. This course has been taken by
US in order that we may have an equal
show with all belligerents who desire to
get proper satisfaction for anything we
may say. The gentleman engaged for this
purpose informs US that he has been In the
business for some fifteen years, and that he
is fully competent to attend to all the du-
ties required of him. As q recOmmends-
tion, he informs us that during his career
as fighting editor of various newspapers he
has succeeded in biting off some sixteen
noses and twenty ears, and gouged out
nearly forty eyes, having them now all
nicely preserved in glass bottle, which he
is willing to exhibit to any one who de-
sires it. He also informs us that, besides
being a good bitter, he has broken several
arms ndlegs of his numerous antagonists.
He has also killed six men by throwing
them out of the editorial window, and has
broken three spinal columns by knocking
the owners thereof down several flights of
stairs. He is an infidel, and has no fears
of q hereafter.


"Aggrieved parties who desire settle
ment are hereby notified to apply to him
at our Office at any time, and they will be
accommodated Our associate ia n little
over seven feet high; his age is thirty five,
and he weighs one hundred and sixty
pounds. He lives on raw beef exclusively,
and is never fed enough at any one time
to take away his appetite for more. He
was born in Fighting Hollow, Gouge
county, Arkansas, and never had
brother.


"He proposes to conduct his department
Year: 1869

On Wednesday, lady named Robert.
son living out at the Mission, left her
child, little boy about years old, play
ing in one of the rooms of her house and
went to house several rods distant After
half an hours absence she returned, and
on entering the house she beheld sight
that nearly made her heart cease to beat
There on the floor sat the little boy Harry,
his face, hands and clothing covered with
blood, and bleeding profusely from num-
Der of deep and gaping wounds. In his
hands he held an open razor, which he
showed to his mother on her entering the
room, and said, Mamma, I've dot papas'
shaver" 1t seems that the boy had, by
means of chair, climbed on the table and
from there had reached his fathers razor,
which was in its accustomed place on a
shelf The nearly distracted mother seized
her child in her arms, and rushing to the
door screamed at the top of her voice for
help. She then laid him down on the bed
and ran to the nearest house, and soon re-
turned with number of neighbors. A
surgeon was sent for, and on arriving
found that little Harry had inflicted
wounds that will disfgure him for life.
There was wound about three inches long
on one of his cheeks, another deep cash in
the neck, several slight cuts on the face
and hands, and five or six long and deep
wounds on each of the forearms. For
tunately no large arteries were cut.-San
Francisco Times.
Year: 1869

to investigate the cause of the trouble.
She went to the place from whence the
barking proceeded and discovered some.
thing jumping from tree to tree, but in
the darkness could not distinguish what il
was. She returned to the house for her
lantern, and went back to the grove, when
she found that the animal-which proved
to be wildcat of the largest species-had
engaged the dog in combat, but immedi-
ately upon seeing the light released itself
from the dog, and made spring for Mrs.
c., who had, upon starting from the house
the second time armed herself with bro
ken-tined pitchfork. When the animal
sprang, the lady assumed a position known
in military language as guard against in
fantry," and in alighting the "varmint
found himself impaled on the broken tine
of the fork, which had entered the crea-
lures throat and penetrated the base of
the skull, wounding the brain mortally.
Mrs. Colyer deserves pension for her
bravery, and we recommend some of the
weak-nerved, fastidious ladies of this place
that they spend few days with her, tax
ing lessons in the art of selfdefense.-Ap-
pie Rirer (M.) Gazette, August g.
Year: 1869

We have heard good story of colored
man named John, who resides at a place
not quite thousand miles from Savannah.
John has "bOss" who is fond of the ex-
element of playing at the game known as
"lottery policy" but he does not like to be
seen in such offices, and so he furnishes
John with the numbers and the money to
play upon them. Now John has learned
to read, and some seven or eight months
ago he read story about lady who was
in the habit of dreaming about numbers
and giving her husband money to play at
"lottery policy" :" how the husband put
her money in box and did not purchase
any policy ticket, but took home copy OF
The drawing every night and paid her all


the prizes she drew, and how on New
Years day he told her she had at last
hit the lottery and drawn handsome
little prize, and gave her the money which
remained in the box, after paying all the
prizes she had drawn during the year.
Upon reading this story, bright idea
made its way through Johns wool. He
reckoned up the amount of money his
boss had given him to buy tickets and
the amount of prizes drawn, and found
that the former largely exceeded the latter.
From these premises John reasoned


HSo John procured a small tin box, in
which he deposited all the money his
"boss" gave him with which to purchase
lottery policy tickets" but bought no
tickets He continued, however, to take
the numbers and the money from his
"boss," TO furnish him with copy of the
drawing every day, and to pay him from
the box all the prizes which his "boss
would have drawn upon the numbers fur
nished if he had purchased tickets, and at
the end of six months John counted the
money in the box, and found that after
paying all the prizes drawn by the num-
bers furnished by his "boss," it contained
the handsome little sum of 5000 At first
John was very much elated with his sue
cess in winning money from his "boss,"
but after while he began to feel uneasy
about the $40 in the box, and began to
reason with himself thusly: MY boss
pays me good wages, he gives me plenty
OF good victuals to eat and good bed to
sleep in, and he don't require me to work
hard, and now have got $500 of his
money in that box, which did not cost me
a cent, and don't feel right about it, so /
don't. Something tells me that ought
to give Kim the money and tell him
how badly he has been fooled. But sup
pose had purchased the tickets as he
told me to do, would not the lot
terry man have had this money, and
would he now think of paying it back !
Year: 1869

Certainly he would have II, and would
never think ofpaying it back. Why, then,
should not keep it? ! paid all the prizes
drawn, just as the lottery man would hava
done Tin fact was the lottery mani, and
therefore have fairly won the two hun
dred dollars, and have just the same right
to keep it as the lottery man would have
if had purchased the tickets from him
and he had paid the prizes as did"


John had never heard of a logician or a
professor of ethics, but he looked at the
money in the box, and somehow or other
he could not help thinking that it belonged
to his "boss," and that it was not right for
him to keep it, and so he went TO him and
told him all about how he had obtained the
money, and proposed to return it. His
boss" however, told John that he had
learned lesson worth more than thou
sand dollars, and therefore he begged him
to accept the money as a present. Both
John and his '"boss" have come to the
conclusion that the game of Lottery
Policy" was made to win, and that the
man who plays against it is simply fool.
-lSdrdnHah Repu6licaR.
Year: 1869

learned that success is not to be attaiend
by direct attack upon the candy, but by
q more general argument-thus "You
know that the stomach of a child is very
delicate, very sensitive-quite as much so
as the eye; It will bear milk, and so will
the eye; but if you odd to the milk, pep
per, the eye becomes red, and 80 does the
stomach. Cold water Is grateful to the eve,
to relieve this Inflammation, and it Is
equally 80 to the stomach Now, candy is
but little less irritating than pepper; it
creates the same redness, the same grade
of Inflammation, and there is the same de-
mand for water to quench the inextinguish-
able fame. In such o stomach, healthy
digestion ceases; the appetite fails; the
tissues are all impoverished. It is not the
is healthy; it forms part of the milk of
the infant, and enters largely into many
of our best vegetables 1t is the sugar
poisonous, and the process of manufacture
that render candy so injurious


"You mean to do well by your child, but
you are slowly and certainly effecting her
ruin. At this critical period of her life,
when, for proper development and growth,
she needs large supply of nourishing and
easily digested food, you give her these de-
testable compounds Of burnt sugar and
poisons, which not only slowly poison her
system, but, worst of all, deprive her of
appetite and even of the power of diges-
ton. If you persist in this course, It is
not difficult to predict the result; the
chances that your child will reach woman
hood will be diminished ten-fold; if she
reach adult years, it will not prove adult
life in her case, but rather dwarfed and
imbecile maturity. Her certain inheritance
will be dyspepsia, a morbid appetite for
crude and indigestible articles, and chronic
and incurable diseases which will render
her irritable and peevish, and lead to pre-
mature old age and death in mid-life.


"The cure is certain, and the remedy is
at hand: remove the particle of dust from
an inflamed eye, and the redness soon dis
appears; so cease to apply to the surface
of this inf1amed stomach the foreign sub
stance which irritates it, and it will re-
cover; the thirst will subside; her appe-
tite will be restored; her lips and cheeks
will become red, and she. will regain the
flesh which belongs to her-An Eminent
Physician, in Hearth and Home
Year: 1869

The reason why the 18th OF February
recurs regularly, and all the other days ir-
regularly, is that every period of four
years contains the same number of days
&, ,46D; but the separate years are equal
in length.


The reasons why every seventh 10Th of
February recurs on the same day of the
week, are:


1st Because each term of four years is
equal


ID. Becauseit is not an equal number of
weeks.


Sd. Because seven is a prime number,
for, if this term of !, ,461 days were divided
into weeks Of six days each, for instance,
it would contain 2431S weeks, and there
fore two terms would contain an exact
number of weeks; consequently the 29th
Of February would recur on the same day
Of the week once in eight years.


If every year contained 365 days, any
day in the year would recur on the same
day of the week once in seven years.


If year had exactly SO weeks, it is evi-
dent that any day Of the year would al
ways recur on the same day of the week.


If year had 382 days and week had
six days each day would recur on the same
Year: 1869

Dlt tD OW II dppCtltC dAl udttuS, oiiNf
halving this meagre dish with the pen
knife which he used at table, would ironi-
cally bid her fall to" on a portion that,
while it was ample enough to serve for his
necessities, would not make her decent
mouthful. 1t was the same with the food
of the mind she had taste for the beau
ties Of our literature, and was accustomed
to enjoy the classics in folios, but he in
sisted on her reading them in diamond
editions.


These were the main points of the story
she told me, with many tears, and IN
manner that would have touched heart
of stone. When she paused she drew out
handkerchief to wipe her eyes and IN
doing so she accidentally brought out OF
her pocket garment which turned out to
be the dwarf's great-coat, and which had
found its way there in manner she could
not account for, except that she had taken
it ND unknowingly in one of those period
ical fits of mental distraction caused by
her husbands brutal behavior 1t often
bannened. she informed me, that she fell
into little mistakes of this kind in tidying
up the place; but Minnikin made no al
lowance for them; on the contrary, they
served him as excuses for further ill-treat-
ment: and he had once INDUCED in horrid





excuses of violence because she had mad
vertently made an apron-strins Of his
dress -crayat


took my leave Of her without waiting
to see the dwarf, and told her in all sin
cerity how sorry felt to see her thus
placed in the power of tyrant. felt that
whatever my own misfortunes were IN
losing her services, they were as nothing
compared with her own surrendering her
freedom and happiness to wretch who
did not know the value of his position and
Twas so anxious to be of service to her
that / made up my mind to open my own
poor show at the other end of the town, in
order that might have an opportunity of
seeing her from time to time. l did so,
and made several calls, paying for admis-
sion each time, for was determined to be
in no way beholden to man / detested.
Year: 1869




A ! MECHANICS ExCHASGE.-An interest.
ing item to our many worthy mechanics is
the statement that q room in the basement Of
Thomas r. Price s. Co.'s building, corner Of
Main and Eleventh streets, is to be fitted up
as an Exchange and Reading Room fo1
their accommodation and benefit. As on
Exchange it will be o place where persons
can hear of mechanics who will do their
work, and where mechanics can learn Of
jobs to be done, and of anything else of in
terest to the various trades represented in
Richmond. The Reading Room will be an
interesting feature of the institution. It
will be supplied with all the leading news
papers and such other reading matter as
will be most appreciated by the class of
persons for whose accommodation it is
established. 1t will also be supplied with
writing materials, &c., for the use of sub
scribers and visitors. = .,.


We wish this enterprise all success, as we
do all movements looking to the mental i'm
provement or the ameliorstion of the condi-
ton Of the working classes-the " bone and
sineW" Of the country.
Year: 1869

PRESENTATION OF TEsTIMoNIAL.-At
Union Station Methodist church on Sunday
morning an interesting scene was Wit
messed. The occasion was the presentation
of a handsome and costly cane to Mr.. Ro-
bert L. Richardson by MIR. Robert j Chris
tian on behalf of the Sunday school. Mr..
Christians remarks were neat, brief, and
appropriate, and the recipient Of the testi-
monial was 30 surprised and affected that
he was for time unable to express his
qualification at the compliment. There was
hardly dry eye in the house when the
venerable pastor of the church, Rev. DR..
Lee, laid his hands upon his head and
blessed him.


Although Mr.. Richardson is q young man,
we know of few of our citizens who are
more widely or fayorably known, and
the news Of his early departure for
New York will be received with sin
cere regret. He was for five years clerk
for the Virginia Fire and Marine In
surance Company, and for some time after
the war was employed at the office of the
Times newspaper. More recently he has
been connected with the Danville railroad
He now goes to New York because he has
promise OF better things than Richmond
can afford.
Year: 1869

FUNERAL OF P. GAY ScoTT.-The re-
mains Of young P. Gay Scott, Of this city,
who died suddenly in Baltimore on satur-
day, reached the city on Sunday afternoon.
They were received at the depot by the
Howitzer organization (of which he was q
member) and conveyed to his mothers
residence, where the funeral took place.
he was buried in Hollywood. Young Scott
was very popular. and highly esteemed
among oil who knew him. His gentle dis
position, quiet and unassuming manners,
and high-toned nature, were the attributes
which won him many warm and true
friends. He was an architect of much
promise, and his steady devotion to the pur-
suit of his profession would surely have
gained him great degree of success but
that Providence had willed to take him
away SO early in his career.
Year: 1869

The JUVENILE OPEBETTA to be rendered
for the benefit Of the Dorcas Society of
Broad-street Methodist Sunday school will
be given at Virginia Hall. Every prepa-
ration is being made to perfect the perform
Iance, which will be given in full costume
and with all the attendant scenery.
Year: 1869




1t is encouraging to learn that man
is about to appear in the house of Con-
gress, who, in case OF q scrimmage in that
body, will be able to take the obstrep-
erous in hand, and compel them to behave
themselves. This person is Mr.. Pratt,
the new Senator from Indiana. The ma
ture of his possible services may be con-
ceived from the account given by the New
Albany Commercial of bis success in re-
storing quiet at the National Convention
in Chicago, by which Mr.. Lincoln was
nominated for the Presidency. Accord
ing TO the narrative OF that journal,
great uproar had set in among the mem
berS OF the Convention, and "the pre-
siding officer aud his deputies sat help
less and hopeless in their seats, gazing
despairingly on the wild crowd below
them. Some one bathousht him of man
who Immediately brought order out of
confusion. He was mighty man to look
upon, lsrge-limbed and leather nged.
He strobe across the platform. suggesting
Anak and his giant sons His voice was
like the snort of locomotive behind
time, aud it rang out clear and loud over
all the din, compelling attention and
silence by the suggestion that the owner
of that voice meant to be heard, and that
he was after ell only whispering SO easy
was the effort with which he trumpeted
that Babel into attention, that it was evil
dent if that man should become really
excited and speak right out with the full
force Of his monster lungs, something
would crack. 1t would have been awful
to have that wigwam hy to pieces and It's
acres of roof come down on the acres of
men beneath il"


We presume that the mere announce
nent that fellow is coming to the Sem
ate with limbs like Anak and voice like |
the snort of locomotive behind time,
will suffice to reduce the disorderly Sem
ators to quiet We trust also that il may
so overawe Salisbury and Yates, and the
others who sometimes get drunk, thai
they will keep sober ell the rest of their
lives. If such be the effect Of his pres
ence, we hope that Mr.. Pratt may remain
in the Senate for half a century to come
Year: 1869

which will form a valuable text and
prophesy of the future. 1t can be set
down that the Civil Tenure law will stand
just as it is, Cabinet restrictions and all /;
as, while the Senate is willing to undo
the latter, the House will entertain
nothing but repeal. Mr.. Edmunds, too,
in case his bill forbidding military men
to civil stations fails to pass as a rider
on the modified Civil Tenure bill, will
introduce it separately, and says it will
90 through ten days before adjournment,
so as to meet and smash veto. II is
apparent that every point is to be fortified
against Grant till be shows his hand.
Meantime the Democrats show no dispo.
sition to coquet with Grant, but they
mean to let the divided party fight them
selves into very small pieces.
Year: 1869

THE BR1TIsH WHEAT CRop.-The Lon
don Shipping and Mercantile Gazette of
August 27, in a review of the wheat trade,
states that the samples of new wheat ex-
hibited at Mark Lane showed better con-
dition than the previous unfavorable wealth
er gave reason to expect, but they were
deficient in weight and color as compared
with last year. 1t added that this year. S
cropis under the average, both as to yield
and quality. Stocks of old wheat have
been greatly depleted, but the deficiency
will be to some extent made up by the ex-
ira breadth of land under cultivation this
year, and prices are expected to recede
The receipts of foreign wheat are expected
to be heavy, stimulated by the high rates
of 1866 and the removal of every restrc-
tion upon importations. The amount of
wheat afoat for the United Kingdom was
about the same as at the same period last
year, and this is expected to receive con-
siderable addition from the fact of def
cient harvest, which is now a matter Of
certainty.
Year: 1869

The disquieting apprehensions concern
ing the fate of the Emperor Napoleon
are not entirely allayed. His age is not
so advanced that every transient illness
should be seriously regarded, but his life
is the hair by which the sword of revolu-
ton is suspended over France, and it is
alleged that exhausting passions have made
him much older than his years. He was
born in 1903, and is therefore only sixty
one, being but one year older than Glad
stone, and three years younger than DIS
raeli, both of whom are looked upon in
England as active and vigorous. The son
of Napoleon is but thirteen, so that the
Nopoleonic dynasty is likely to disappear
at least for the present, after the death Of
the Emperor.
Year: 1869

The total quantity of land devoted to
the growth of cotton throughout the whole
of India does not exceed $500, 900 acres.
If this quantity of land was as productive
in India as it is in the United States, it
would yield something like four million
bales, or half bale per acre. But the
yield is SO much less than this that the ex-
tent of the imports from India in an aver
age yield is not more than million and a
half bales of 394 pounds each.