smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1868

q THOUSAND DOLLAR RECIPE-We are
indebted to an exchange paper for the fol
lowing recipe, which, it is claimed, is worth
the above sum of money, and give it pub.
icity for the benefit of housewives in gem
eral, and our lady friends in particular, to-
wit


Take one pound of aIsoda and half a
pound of unglacked lime, put them in gal
Ion of water, and boil twenty minutes; let it
stand till cool, then drain off and put in a
stone jug or jar. Soak your dirty clothes
over night or till they are well wet through,
then wiring them out and put on plenty OF
soap; and to a boiler of clothes well covered
with water, add one tablespoonful of wash
ing fluid Boil half an hour briskly, then
wash them thoroughly through one suds and
rinse well in water, and your clothes will
look better than the old way of washing
twice before boiling This is an invaluable
remedy, and we want every poor, tired
woman to try it.
Year: 1868

o, like unto storm-tossed barqus


Is my torn heart from thee away,
And like unto a refuge ark


Is thy true heart TO me for aye!
For with thee my troubled soul


Is ever filed with perfect rest;
Content it seeks no other goal,


Where it is then supremeIy bIest.
To list thy soft and tender tone


To see ttat heaven-bOrn smile break forth
To feel those arms arou me thrown,
Seems too mnch bliss to be Of earth;
But when those lips are pressed to mine.
Beneath those eyes bewitching light,
'Tis then quaF Loves rosy wine,


And heaven itself beams on my sight.
Upon thy breast alone my heart


Can lose its keen and bitter pain,
And for a time forget the smart


OF hopless owe poured out in vain.
Yet when with THEE still must feel
Ny soul to be supremely bIess;
And with thee, cen in woe or veal,
Know all the bliss Of perfect rest!
Year: 1868

For the last fiscal year, according to the
Postmaster Generals report the mail routes
of Arizona cost the Government 5,607,
while the revenue derived from the same
mail routes only amounted to 81 1868 That's
the way the money goes. Who wouldn't be
a radical and a citizen Of q the best govern
ment In the world
Year: 1868

Sit by the window and look over the way
to your neighbor's s excellent mansion which
he has recently built and paid for and fitted
out.


"Oh that were rich mani


Get angry with your neighbor and think
you have not friend in the world. Shed
tear or two, and take a walk IN the burial
ground, continually saying to yourself:


"When shall | be buried here 2


Sign a note for your friend and never for
get your kindness, and every hour in the day
whisper to yourself: Il wonder if he will
ever pay that note ?'.


Think everybody means to cheat you.
Closely examine every bill you take, and
doubt its being genuine until you have put
your neighbOr to a great deal of trouble.
Put confidence in nobody, and believe every
man you trade with to be a rogue.


Never accommodate if you can possibly
help it.


Never visit the sick or the afflicted, and
never give a farthing to assist the poor.


Buy as cheap as you can and screw down
to the lowest mill Grind the faces and
hearts of the unfortunate.


Brood over your misfortunes, your lack
of talents, and believe that at no distant
day you will come to want Let the work
house be ever in your mind, with ali the
horrors Of distress and poverty.


Follow these recipes strictly, and you will
be miserable to your hearts cOntent-if we
may so speak-sick at heart and at variance
with the world Nothing will cheer or en-
courage you, nothing viii throw gleam of
sunshine or a ray Of warmth into your heart
Year: 1868




S-O-


OF My BEE.-BrownsviIIe Haywood
county, has Bee that stings some folks to
the quick once a week. From the Bee of
the 2Oth inst, we clip the following on
" universal suffrage"


We see from our exchanges, that this
question is just now engrossing the atten-
ton of both parties, and especially in Ten
nessee is it being agitated. We have but
little to say on the subject We are not in
the slightest degree responsible for the pres
ent deplorable state of affairs. We never
disfranchise, nor enfranchIse anybody, and
do not propose to endorse any party that
has DONE EITHER.


We are for white mans sufrage-nothing
more, nothing less.


Radicalism may pirate and howl until
Judgment Gay, about the vested rights of
" Africa; but that won't affect our views of
the matter. Tell US, ye super-lOil whelps
who authorized you to disfranchise the
white man of Tennessee, and enfranchise
the negro


Scouudrels you stole from US our birth
right, robbed US while we were absent, as
true white men should have been, battling
for what we deemed just and righteous
cause, and we do not now propose to BEG
l4OLn yOu d EGIuId u GA46 pIOp6IGy ODGd4ACu
by theft. You may oppress and grind US
down Gas we know your cOwardly souls
would desire to do, so long as you can with
safety, to your miserable selves until the
end Of time, but We will never forfeit self
respect by becoming suppliants to any of
your kind Do you understand that We
are white men, born free and never convicted
of crime rendering US infamous by the
laws of our State, and therefore have no
need of pardon at the hands of man. and
you may as well learn now that we will
never degrade ourselves by guaranteeing
the receivers of stolen goods, an uhirter-
rupted, perpetual possession Of the same,
and until you show US your authority for
fiIching from the white men of Tennessee,
rights inherited by them, we will continue
to brand you as political thieves and God
forsaken wretches, with whom decent gen
tleman cannot come In contact, and remain
clean
Year: 1868

DoN'T TAKE.-The editor of the KaoT-
Uizle Press and Messenger, like we'ns," and
a good many others, too numerous to men
ton, don't see things through glass darbly
like the AUalanche Fleming is usually
" kirect," and most particularly at this par
ticular time Read what he says it will do
you good all over and cause hopeful, self
relying feeling to rouse up your better. man
hood:


Temporarily, party may court the ne
gro, where he is in the ascendency; but as
a principle, our position is well taken, and
we feel like giving the hand of friendship
and CO. operation to all such journals as the
appeal For the time it may look right,
but in the end it Will be found that the
mingling Of the negro with the white man
will be productive of evil, and that continu-
ally. We see nothing in the situation, to-day
to justify a surrender of the white race to
the negro"


We took passage on that craft about 35
years ago, and never intend to abandon our
position.
Year: 1868

We will enact laws inside and not out
side the Constitution.


We will restore peace at homo and
maintain your honor abroad.


We will inaugurate day of modera.
tion, order and good will, instead OF hate
and i'll will, a. now taught by JacobIn
politicians.


We will give equal rights to all, and
grant exclusive privileges TO mono, and
limit to monopolies.


We will substitute calm statesmansnip
for mad Jacobinism.


We will make pets Of negroes no longer
at the expense of tho whites, nor force
suffrage for them against the will of those
who have created and have maintained
the Government.


1t you are tired of bearing the unequal
burd ms Of class legislation IL you are
weary Of fayoritism in taxation if your
souls yearn for retrenchmcnt aud reform,
y must place the Democracy in power.
Commence at the ground and build up.
Cast your influence TO the Conservative
ticket in the elections this fall, and roll
big majorities for the RI0HTl


We should not be led from tho perform.
ance of our duty by minor eIectionecring
hobbies, or the declaration that one is
good fellow" or another twas good sol.
dier" or 8 officer" We have paid them
for every day they scrved-poiitically We
owe them nothing, unless they arc labor.
ing to tighten tho burdens of our taxation.


What We want il relief. This Is offer.
cd through the Democratic organization
and through it only. Every vote, there.
fore, cast for the opposition is q vote for
the continuation Of unjust and oppressive
A Jacobin might, therefore,
Just As well ask you to draw your pocket
book and give him your money as to ask
your vote.
Year: 1868




worked By coiled spring, but I have
reasons since to think | was mistaken.
I suppose it took two minutes to wind
it, when he mounted it and started it
By pulling up the steel bar. 1t moves
gradually of, so that for the first min
ute I could walk alongside of it; but
presently it started at the speed of
fast horse, and in a moment more was
st going round the curve Of the cir
Gle.


"I suppose you know the grand Ex-
position is series of concentric rings,
eacbsone devoted to a peculiar branch
of industry. The one the machine was
running on was the Numero Quatre sec
ton del Macaniques, and is among the
largest, measuring some yards more than
an English mile 1t seemed to me in
credible that he should have performed
the circuit in two minutes and twelve
seconds. A hearty clapping of hands
greeted the machine as it came careering
on, and gradually stopped without any
apparent trouble.


Il noticed the Emperor, generally tac-
iturn, loud in his applause, clapping
his hands as Justify as / did, and was
assured BY M. de n, that he had never
seen his majesty on any occasion before
show the least signs Of commendation.
The inventor then said he would put it
to its speed, but to do this he must give
the machine a start. he then wheeled
round, aud just like q jockey starting
horse, got it up to q maximum; and as
he passed us he seemed to be flying. The
circuit was made IN 6fty-eight seconds.
A new salvo Of applause met him as he
brought the machine to where the emper-
or was standing, and must say that /
| felt some Just emotion when the Emperor
took the legion of honor from his button
hole and placed it on the young inventors
breast.


IN. told me that its endurance, if I
may use the term, was extraordinary
that at its highest speed it would keep on
going for four hours. / was led to be-
Iieve that the mechanical power was the
real motive power. Anyhow, the secret
is well kept, the Emperor having, with
the inventor, the only knowledge of it.
NJ. also lold me that in Vincennes, q
battery of artillery was to be moved with
it, instead of horses.


"I may add that I saw four persons
mount it, and it moved much more
rapidly than carriage An interesting
experiment was made as to its capabilities
of going over rough country. Several
loads of dirt were shot owes the floor, and
it passed over it with apparent ease.
One thing remarked was that there was
perpendicular play in the wheels, and
that as q difficulty was surmounted, one
I wheel would be higher than the other,
while the body was on the plane.


81 think that it has been placed pur-
posely in retired part Of the Exposition
before this exhibition, so rs not to attract
too much attention, and I hear this morn-
ing that the Secretary of War has had it
removed from the Exposition.
/ '.The inventors name is Victor de Mar
dea."
Year: 1868

Is IT YoU.-Radical friend, are you
the ran who proclaimed few years ago
that, whcnevsk the Republican party IA
vored Negro Suffrage you would leave
the party and vote and act with the
Opposition


Are you the man who charged your
neighbor with lying, because he claimed
that the Republican party would eventu-
ally make that issue, and called your God
to witness that, if it ever did you would
end your connection with it forever3


Yes, you are. Your neighbors and
friends believed you sincere.


BY this line of argument you induced
some of them to vote with you. The
time you referred to has arrived. What
do you propose to do !? If your love Of
country predominant over your political
prejudice, the time has come when you
will prove the sincerity of your words by
noble and magnanimous action. We
bide our time and await results. - Circle
VtILe { OhiOl Democrat.
Year: 1868

Tue CIHfK DIVOrC6 CHBes


Before Judge Garvin.


Marvin B. Clark us. Sarah Esther Clark.-This d.
case which has been so frequently before the
courts under various phases, came up yesterday on
q motion for alimony, and on an application by de-
fendant for the custody OF the Child born to the par
ties and which is at present In charge Of the plain
till The old story Of counter charge Of infdety was
rehearsed, as on previous occasions the husband
claiming that the wife is not proper person to have
the care Of her child Decision reserved.
Year: 1868

THE army and Macy Journal has an
article about General Grant, as President,
from which we make an extract. 1t says:


We may safely predict that the great
word of the hour, the great feature to
strike all observers, as soon as General
Grant has been month in power, will be
the confidence inspired in people ofall par
ties and all political creeds.


Grant, as soldier, understands well the
bounds of coordinate and subordinate au-
thority. Congress will not be suffered to
encroach upon his prerogative as the Ex-
ecutive, nor will he attempt to encroach
upon Congress as the legislative depart
ment of Government-distin simple
enough, it would seem to be. A soldier
is both used to command and obey-an
admirable training, say what civilians
will, for any administrative officer, from
poundkeeper up to President.


We shall make bold to predict that he
will realize, more than any man who has
sat in the Chief Magistrates chair since
Andrew Jackson, the erecutS0e idea, which
should be the central idea connected with
the Presidency. The truth is, that of late
we seem to have gone into wrong notion
of the Presidential Office. Men like Bu-
chanan and johnson have so perverted
the public mind, that when General Grant
announced that, if elected, he should have
no political policy of his own to follow
out, even his supporters were little con-
fused, and his enemies broke out into a
storm of rage. What? no policy! What
does the man mean? Never was such
thing heard Of


But General Grant was right. The
country has twice been nearly ruined by
its Presidents devotion to some pet polit-
ical theory. A man with theory is a
dangerous fellow-h1nc tn Romano caUeto.
Buchanan had political doctrine that if
the Union should be smitten by South
ern State on the cheek, its Constitutional
duty was to turn and beg Northern
State to smite it on the other. Rather
than give up that theory, he saw the
United States disunite under his own eyes,
though he was the guardian of the Union.
General Grant has got tired of the pirate
about "policy," and proposes to introduce
us to a little practice" His past is a
guarantee of his future.
Year: 1868

In Mr.. Beecher's admirable address in
the Brooklyn Academy he made great fun
of the new defenders of the Constitution.
And it was we'll timed. Nobody, it seems,
understands the Constitution but those
who struggled night and day to destroy it.
Nobody is to be accounted friend OF the
Union but those who fought to dissolve it,
or helped the fighters, or who have now
combined to overthrow its reconstruction
by armed force. Nobody is to be consid-
cred conservative but those who, after the
cancer has been cut out, are zealously
striving to put as much of it back as pos
sible. In the good old days, they cry, was
there not one of the completest cancers
loved country and how, pray, can our
beloved country ever be again what she
was unless we restore that cancer?


But to recall yesterday is as practicable
as to make the country what it was, or to
restore the old Union. The old Union is
impossible without slavery; and since that
is gone, all that belongs to it is gone with
it. When emancipation was declared
equal rights were assumed. No great
multitude of native male adults in this
country can be held in kind Of purgato-
ry between citizenship and non citizen
ship. When they cease to be slaves they
become men. When they become men
they have all the rights which our princi-
Piles accord to men. The folly of the
Democratic party is that it hopes to pre-
vent this. 1t thinks that baffied slave
holders can propose wise policy for q
nation Of free men. Who supposes that
the old politicians who prostituted the
whole Government to the protection of
slavery would now honestly direct that
Government, if they could get hold of it,
to the extension and security of freedom
When the Americans conquered in the
Revolution did they invite the Tories to
take charge of the new Government? If
the rebels had succeeded would the Union
men have directed affairs? Would Wade
Hampton, and Toombs, and Vallandigham
have invited General Grant to the head of
their Government And shall the men
who sustained Grant invite Wade Hamp-
ton, Toombs, and Seymour to the head of
theirs!


The plea of the late rebels now is, that
they fought for the old Constitution. What
old Constitution? Was not Abraham
Lincoln elected according to it's provisions?
Had not the slavery party controlled the
Government up to the hour of his election?
Had he proposed any thing, had Congress
proposed any thing Unconstitutional No
body pretends it. The rebels took up arms
because they knew that the Government
would no longer be unconstitutionally
strained to serve slavery. The plea is
wholly false. They cared no more for the
Constitution then than they do now. They
cared only for slavery. As long as they
could serve that under the mask of the
| Constitution they were satisfied. When
| they could not, they struck at the Consti-
tuition. Now again, that they hope they
can save some morsels of the corpse Of
| slavery, they profess immense Yenesation
| for the Constitution.


! i was very constitutional to roh the
Year: 1868

THERE are people who have prefer
natural faculty for detecting evil, or the
appearance of evil, in every mans char
acter. They have a fatal scent for carrion.
Their memory is like a museum I once
saw at medical college, and illustrates
all The hideous distortions, and monstrous
growths, and revolving diseases by which
humanity can be troubled and afflicted.
They think they have wonderful knowl
edge of human nature. But it is blum
der to mistake the Newgatc Calendar for
biographical dictionary.


A less offensive type of the same ten
dency leads some people to find apparent
satisfaction in the discovery and proclama-
ton of the slightest defects in the habits
OF good men, and the conduct of public
institutions. They cannot talk about the
benefits conferred by a great hospital
without lamenting some insignificant blot
III its laws, and some trifling want of pru-
dence in its management. Speak to them
about man whose good works everybody
is admiring, and they cool your ardor by
regretting that he is so rough in his man
ner or so smooth-that his temper is so
hasty, or that he is so fond of applause.
They seem to hold brief, requiring them
to prove the impossibility of human per-
fection. They detect the slightest alloy in
the pure gold of human goodness. That
there are spots in the sun is, with them,
something more than an observed fact-it
takes rank with q priori and necessary
truths


There are people who, if they hear an
organ, find out at once which are the
poorest stops. If they listen to great
speaker, they remember nothing but some
slip in the construction of a sentence, the
consistency of metaphor, or the evolu-
tions of an argument. While their friends
are admiring the wealth and beauty of
tree whose branches are weighed down
with fruit, they have discovered solitary
bough lost in the golden affluence, ON
which nothing is hanging


Poor Hazlitt was sorely troubled with
them in his time. Littleness," he said,
:" is their element, and they give charac-
ter Of meaning to whatever they touch.
They creep, buzz and fly blow. 1t is much
easier to crush than to catch these trouble
some insects and when they are in your
power, your self-respect spares them. p
Good Words.
Year: 1868

A PLEASANT anecdote is told of Par
fridge, the celebrated almanac maker In
travelling on horseback into the country
he stopped for his dinner at an inn, and
afterwards called for his horse, that he
might reach the next town, where he in
tended to sleep.


"If you would take my advice, sir"
said the hostler, as he was about to mount
his horse, "you will stay where you are
for the night, as you will surely be over
taken by a peIting rain"


"Nonsense, nonsense" said the alma
nae maker; there is sixpence for you
my honest fellow, and good afternoon to
you"


He proceeded on his journey, and, sure
enough, he was well drenched in heavy
shower. Partridge was struck with the
mans prediction, and being always intent
en- the interest OF his almanac, he rode
back on the instant, and was received by
the hostler with broad grin.


swell, sir, you see was right after ALL"


eyes, my lad, you have been so, and
here is a crown for you, but give it to
you on consideration that you tell me
how you knew of this rain"


"To be sure, sir" replied the man.
"Why the truth is, we have an almanac
III our house called P0rtridgc's Almanac
and the fellow is such notorious liar that
whenever he promises us fine days we
always know that it will be the direct
contrary. Now, your honor, this day, the
21st of June, is put down in our almanac
indoors as settled fine weather, no rain
| looked at that before / brought your
honor's horse out, and so was enabled to
put you on your guard"





gY" Colonel James O'Beirne, of Wash
ington, President of the Conservative Ar
my and Navy Union, delivered an elabor-
ate speech few evenings ago, at
a regular meeting of the Union, declaring
his intention to support Grant and Colfax
Colonel O'Beirne is a Fenian and Dem
ocrat of high standing and much personal
influence. In his speech he said
In common with many Democrats
throughout the country whom | have met
and spoken with and they are pure, un-
sullied high-minded men-I deem the cleo
ton of Grant the best thing for the country
at this time, although there are many men
tackled. on to his skirts whom do not like,
and believe he does not. Yet, If he be
elected, do not fear that he will be sway
ed improperly by men or influences. l
am no eleventh hour convert; do not seek
the favor of any incoming administration,
nor for mercenary purposes. Neither am
a time server or bolter. While, therefore,
I do not seek any end in this, my course,
and impelled, as here solemnly aver, by
NV own convictions of duty in common
with many Conservatives and older Dem
ocrats, shall feel called upon in duty to
throw the weight Of whatever little iniu-
ence possess into the scale In behalf Of
the election of Ulysses s. Grant and
| Schuyler Colfax."
Year: 1868

Among the people who came to market
recently, says a Philadelphia paper, was
a citizen of West Jersey. He brought a
stock of eggs and butter. In big coop
in the rearmost part of his wagon he had
a splendid peacock, whose tail spread out
beautiful even to gorgeousness, like a
trail of lady's dress An Irishman
passing By observed the splendid plum
age of the bird, and asked its price.


Thee can have it for fifteen dollars, +"
was the reply of the owner, whose garb
indicated him as a member of the Society
of Friends


That's a good price," was the inter-
rogative remark of the Celt as he smooth
ed the ample tail of the feathered biped.


There are plenty of people who will
give that for him." was the placid and
very true rejoinder.


The Celt surveyed the bird, admired
his proportions, but still endeavored to
cheaper him. &C Mister" said he, at last,
to the grave gentleman who held the bird
for sale, +" Mister, people say these birds
have a very bad voice"


81 have nothing to say about their
voices" was the quiet reply. If thee
wants the fowl thee can take it; if thee
dosen't, its voice dosen't make any mat
ter to thee"


But" says the Celt, don't thin birds
holler like the devil"


Friend" was the placid reply,
" thee probably in that respect has an
advantage over me. Thee evidently has
acquaintanccs that have not If thee
thinks that the scream of this bird is like
that of thy friend, whom thee has named
1, in my ignorance, will not presume to
contradict thee"


The next minute the Celt was at an
opposite stall in the market buying a ten
cent bunch of carrots. He bought nc
peacock on that day.