smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1869

transportation to about the price of transporting
its equivalent in extract made from the same
quantity of bark. ..,i.. -
= Now, Mr. Editor, should the Jonrnal of
Commerce set forth these facts to the people of
Virginia as earnestly, clearly and ably as it in
culcated the Importance of the culture and pre-
paration Of sumac, it. would benefit alike the
people of Virginia and the leather trade of the
northern and eastern States. 7at ol l9ls1 ~


Oak bark raised, ground and shipped in bags
to this and the eastern markets will eventually
form one of the most valuable of the commercial
industries of the Old Dominion, and your paper
will deserve the credit for urging upon the peo-
pie Of Virginia to take immediate steps in the
of an enterprise so essential to
their prosperity. J.
Year: 1869

Whilst we are contemplating upon the pass
ing scenes OF life, marking each moment as it
flies, and recording upon memory 8 pages the
changes incidental to our animated existence
may we not forget to pause a moment to reflect
upon those illustrious dead who fell in vindica-
tion OF their native SOIL Both the ties of ma
ture, and the bonds OF affection, demand that
we should cherish with high veneration the
memory of our brothers, our relatives, our
friends. We do not think it at all probable
that those dead ones have been forgotten for
how can we erase from memory the mental i'm
ages OF those brave and noble patriots who
chose death rather than submission.


Some one may say that this subject is too
painful to be recalled to mind and others per-
haps, that it is matter of little consequence
whether the dead are remembered or forgotten :;
but l would think it much more painful to
know that We were to die and be forgotten. =
Let US then in our minds eye review the battle
fields where the heroes who fought for justice
are sleeping their last sleep Of death. Our
dead where are they? Would you seek their
last resting place? Then go to the plains of
Manassas and you will find them there sleep
ing in all the honor and glory of the slain SOL
dier. Visit the batte-felds of Fredericksburg
and Charlottesville, and you will find them
there. Go to the banks of the James and call
for our dead, and the murmuring waters of
that stream as they glide swiftly along, on their
way to the sea, will respond to your CALL and
gently proclaim that our dead are resting there.
Survey the fields of thousand battles, and
you will perceive there. where many of our
friends and comrades are quietly reposing.


Sleep on, brave soldiers, and take your rest
where the battle-cry disturbs you not and the
clash of arms is never heard. You have fallen
in defence of your homes and 6resides, and we
humbly trust that high Heaven will reward you
for your gallantry and in memory of the slain
may it be inscribed upon the hearts of the liv-
ing-Dulce ct decorum est pro patria naori.


Sleep on, brave soldiers take your res.


Where the din of battles cease,


And the war trump's sound disturb you not,


THERE MAY YOU REST IN PEACE.
=, The winds a tale of you unfold


The streamlets murmur too


The leaflets tremble in the breeze


In MEMORY OF YOU.


Well not forget to mourn your loss


And speak of you with pride;


Brave soldiers of the southern cross,


How NoBLY YOU HAVE DIED.


Sleep on brave soldiers sleep in peace,


As quiet as the dove;


Till Heavens trump shall call you home,


To BETTER WORLDS ABOVE.


.H.T.


REATETOS STATION VA Sent 15th 1890
Year: 1869

BALLARD HOTEL, I


Richmond VA, March TO-
TENiliS Elegant Establishment is omen
IL to the accommodation of the public The
building is of the


FINEST IN THE CITY
sand for Style, Convenience and Beauty of Ar
rangement, is acknowledged to be superior


ITS FURNITURE
lis new and complete and for cleanliness, it is
proverbial.


The subscriber, after more than twenty years
experience in the business thinks he risks moth
ing in saying that this Hotel SHALL in every res
Rect, be


EQUAL TO ANY IN THE SOUTH,
and asks the patronage of his friends and the
public generally.
JOHN P. BALLARD,
march lift Proprietor.
Year: 1869

BEAUTIFUL PRAYER FOR CHILDREN.
reading over our exchange papers we lately
came across this prayer, which we commend to
parents as one OF the most appropriate for chill
dren that we have ever seen


Dear Saviour, we do thank Thee for coming
SO far to save US. We remember how Thou
vast little boy in Bethlehem s manager; how
Thou didst 60 about doing good without any
home; men ill-treating Thee until at last, after
thirty three years, Thou didst die for me on
Calvary. D, Saviour! help me to call Thee my
Saviour; may | show my love for Thee by try
ing to keep all Thy commandments by being
very kind to everybody; by keeping Thy Sab
bath day ; by not saying bad words by helping
my father and mother. Dear Saviour bless all
in little while may we meet Thee in Heaven.
for Jesus sake, Amen
Year: 1869

TREATMENT OF A FRIEND. D.-If you have a
friend who loves you, who has studied your in
terest and happiness; be sure to sustain him in
adversely Let him feel that his former kind
ness is appreciated, and that his love was not
thrown away.
Year: 1869

To secure constant and thorough drilling, the
Glasses are divided into sections of from twenty
to thirty, which are taught separately. In the
lower Glasses the instruction is mainly given by
Textbooks and Exercises in the higher classes
Lectures are combined with these. The Exami-
nations are both oral and written, and those fo1
proficiency and distinctions very thorough and
ripid
Year: 1869

simply because these States produce only the
hemlock The oak they have rejected In con
sequence of the distance ofsupply. Had Virgin
la and North and South Carolina been peopled
by race as inqusitive and ambitious as are
those on our northern frontier, they would long
siuce have found that an unlimited market ex-
listed along the New England coast for the oak
bark, which they have hitherto suffered to go
to waste.


No effort as I can learn has been made even
since the construction of the numerous railways
from the Atlantic ports back into the oak forests
of Virginia, North and South Carolina, Georgia
and Florida, to transport bark to the very heart
of the leather trade of New England cheaper
than it can be transported from beyond the
Canadian border over the long railways leading
to Boston. The great oak forests are also
penetrated by innumerable navigable streams,
which offer cheapa and convenient transit to tide
water.


The art of converting the astringent properties
Of oak and hemlock bark into an imperishable
extract, which is being successfully introduced
in various parts of the remote forests where bark
costs only the labor of peeling, should be noticed
here The great cost of the necessary appliances
for this manufacture and the practical chemi-
cal skill required confne the profits Of the enter
prise to the few, who can control the necessary
capital and skill. The limited pecuniary means
of the people of Virginia places its advantages
beyond the reach to the masses Of the people.
As all tanners prefer the use Of crude bark to
concentrated extract, however perfect its manu-
tacture may be, it is clearly for the interest of
the people of the Atlantic oak States, where
bark can be had in abundance, contiguous to the
facilities of cheap transportation to tidewater,
to grind and ship their bark in bags like those
used for Transporting sumac, as 1t prevents waste
and saves the cost of handling bark in the slab
in the several transhipments through which it
must necessarily pass in reachingits destination.
Tanners not only prefer it in this shape, but the
bark. after being deprived of its tanning pro-
perties, will command aready sale to the chemi-
cal works in the towns contiguous to the tan
neries-the former paying from six to eight dol
lars per ton for it. This will reduce the cost Of
Year: 1869

Six hundred French Canadians resist the authorities governing the Dominion and call themselves Liberals in arms. They have got possession of Fort Garry and are said to have the support of the scotch and English .vttIess The probability is that this affair r'il grow to open rebellion in which ease the mem ory of this Spartan 6and will live in the hear! S of free people beyond the lakes.
Year: 1869

A CURIOUS Will CAsE-A woman
worth $4,000 died recently in Bath,


Maine, leaving her only daughter $500 a
year. The latter entered suit to break
the will, on the ground of her mother be-
ing a Spiritualist The jury refused to
break the will The Judge said in his
charge = Eccentric people are conscious
of what they say and do. A person about
to make viii may take advice The in
fuence, to be undue so as to void will, must
be such and so exercised as in effect to
destroy thefreedom Of the testator' will,


so as to render the act more the offspring
of another's viii than his own. The
same rule applies whether the influence is
exerted by personal presence or by let
ter from distance and the rule is the
same whether the letter comes from a
husband in az absent country, or, what
is the same thing. if she believes she re-
ceives a communication from the spirit
world, if she yields her own vii, Judge
ment and free agency. it would not be her
will if she did not abandon them to the
supposed wishes Of her husband but re-


ceived it as advice. then it would be her
own will. The same rule applies to spiri-
tual communications on this point, if be-
lieved, as to advice from living person. :"
Year: 1869

The following extract from the speech
of o. II. Waldo before the State
Legislature, during the Senatorial
contest will be read with interest by all
who admire true worth and manliness.


Honesty is the best policy" with
nations as we'll as individual men. But
| like better to put it on higher ground
1t is wise to pay honestly because it is
right. | love to consider that the high
est thing rery highest thing in man
-obore all riches and all poacer, the
noblest thing Il, n,dn IS honor, integrity
and truth. When honor is gone the
man Is dead. So also, in nation, the
re,y highest thing IS Integrity and ,ohen
good faith IS ta1ntshed and lost, the poce,.
Of the aHtion for arg noble end is gone. A
wise and rigid economy, important at all
times, is vital necessity at this
time. The only safe mode of relief from
the burden of great debt, whether by in
divlduals or states, is by economy and
thrift. At the same time, it is not every
saving that is wise economy No wise
husbandman will seek to economize by
refusing to incur the expense Of necessary
seeds, or fertilizers, or impliments of hus-
bandry. So, no nation can wisely seek
to extricate itself from debt by stingily
pinching the outlay that is essential to
the opening of great channels OF trade
and to the protection and promotion of
the commerce, the industry and
the business ofits people, and, so, drying
up its own sources of revenue. Enter
prise, as well as saving is essential to
thrift.
Year: 1869

another mans home so his home had
been cursed. And he killed the man
who was the cause of his wife's loss of
homer. Now let the Marengo mechanic
whose wife has been sent home to her
parents degraded thing, kill Bailey and
the world will be quits with two VILLAINS. :"


If the above story be true, it certainly
aggravates the guilt of Bailey. If
after seducing the wife of another man
he shoots the seducel what puni. .hment
can he expect Virtually, he has passed
sentence upon himself. It may be and
IS not unlikely, that his infdelity first
laid the foundation Of his wife's run
and, if SO, he is responsible before God
and man for the blood SO crually, deliber-
ately and wantonly she'd His wife
stated at the time of the murder, that
when she laid her side of the story
before the public, the hasty condelnna
ton visited Upon her would be modified
if not reversed Prehaps It is stories
like the above that she has to relate
And yet an intelligent jury, very likely
will acquit this man, and send aim off
scott free, to continue his criminal prac.
tice.
Year: 1869

The Naperville tragedy is fresh in the
public mind, Chauncey Bailey, who
shot Laird for seducing his wife, has
been partially justified in his crime by
an erroneous public sentiment, prev. lent
at Naperville and nowhere else. Pre-
haps the following statement of the con
duct Of Bailey, while away from his
home, may possibly have the effect Of
turning the tide of popular feeling
against the murderer. 1t is taken from
the Davenport Iowa. Gazette of January
Goth;


'sOur readers will recollect telegraph
item which appeared on the 18th inst,
concerning tragedy that was enacted in
Naperville, H., the previous night.
One Chauncey Bailey, residing in the
village killed man named James Laird
whom he found in bedroom with his
wife. This man named Bailey, who thus
killed iberentine, is himself an adept
in the art of destroying the peace OF
households, and had but just fed from
a shameless liaaso,s in this State when be
killed his wife's paramour.


The citizens of Marengo, Iowa Coun-
ty, know Bailey we'll He went there
sometime in November last for the pur-
pose of working at carpenterlng, we
believe, in new school house at that
place, leaving his wife and children at
Naperville He obtained board and
lodging at the house of a fellow mechanic.
In less than a month the conduct OF
Bailey and his landlord wife was the
common talk. It was longer time than
that however before the husbands S eyes
were opened to the infdelity Of his wife.
He suspected nothing until ball was
given during the holidays. There Bailey
was so exclusive in his attentions to the
erring woman, that the husband could
not get chance to dance even once with
her. The couple were rather cautious
until the first part of last month. Then
Bailey and the woman were caught In
.fogrdnte de1ictu Bailey then made
his way out of Marengo in hurry, and
went to Naperville by circuitious route
There he found that as he had cursed
Year: 1869

An immense deal of talk has been
occasioned by the report that an order
was issued to General Banks in May 1864
to supercede General Grant We do not
see why this affair should occasion so
much interest. Suppose the authorities
at Washington did think at one time
that Banks was superior to Grant that
did not make it so Many times during
the war it was thought that Grant was
too slow OR too fast, too drunk or too
sober to succeed, but he did succeed, aud
Banks Eailod-on the Red River Expedi-
ton, if no where else. Then why make
all this blow about so small q matter
Grant is the last person who would Be
influenced by it particle. If he thought
the man who issued the order to have
him superseded was the best man for
Secretary OF War he would appoint him
in spite Of every thing, and possessing
such spirit he will be the last man to
pay any attention to this blarney about
supercedure.
Year: 1869


TO make good gum, procure two
ounces of the best gum Arabic at the
chemists Take one moderately sized
lump of white sugar, and crush this and
the gum together until reduced to a fine
powder, Dilute it in eight tablespoon
fuls of cold water for four and-twenty
hours, one ounce to four table-spoonfuls
When strained, it is fit for use.
The Boston fourier, speaking of the
great extent of modern hotels refers to
them as the ful6lment of the poets de
sire 80 for a lodge in some vast wilder
ness.


The value of time varies with individu-
ais, and in the same hour glass which
marks the fight of time to every eye, it
is less than lost sand to the idler, but more
lthan gold to the studious man.
Year: 1869

FROM MADIsoN.-On the 30th ult.
a resolution was introduced in the AS
sembly for tho special Committee on the
Supervisor system to consider about pass
ing law for counties to choose their OWL
system, and a resolution was adopted
authorizing the Committee on Assess
ment to reduce into one act all laws rela
tive to the collection of taxes.
Year: 1869

The Legislature has shown its deter
mination to make short work of legisla-
ton this winter by adopting joint reso-
luton to receive no new business after the
18th of February IF this resolution is
adhered to the session can be brought to
a close by the 25th of the month, and the
expense of much unnecessary work be
saved to the State.
Year: 1869

Since the Chicago Tribune published
the proceedings of the Police Court in
that city, and by giving prominence to
the misdeeds Of a bad woman, laid itself
liable to prosecution-in fact was prose-
cuted and fiued s., ,000-about half the pa
persin thecountry are beingsued for dam
ages which are placed all the way from one
| thousand to half a million of dollars. It


don't matter now much truth the paper


may tell. the simple fact that it exposes
wrong doing is sufficient to bring upon
its publisher the officers of the law who
at once drag him before the courts Of
course this is expensive play for those
who engage In it, as a general thing. =
The courts do not always, in fact but sell
dom, grant the claim for damages, and
the result is the one who brings the suit
has heavy bill Of costs to pay. But
still the work goes on, and an editor IS
compelled to write with libel suits staring


him in the face continually. We think
there is great wrong practised in this
matter. Of course we would not ask
that the press be permitted to deEame
any mans character at will, but before
any prosecution is commenced it should
be pretty clearly shown that the editor
was not writing for the public good, but
merely out Of petty spite or to crafty
some personal end. It is the opinion of
those who have been the longest in the
profession that where one private indi-
yidual has wrong done to him or his bus
iness, hundred wrongs on the public
arc allowed to go unnoticed, simply pc
cause the proof Of the wrong cannot be
obtained, or because, if stated, it would
be ibelous, If editors as class were
unwilling to make amends for mis-state-
ments perhaps it might be well to leave
the law as it is, but as an editor bread
and butter depends to some extent on
the opinions which people entertain of
him, it is extremely necessary for him to
do no injustice to any one, and if he does
BY accident do SO, to make the matter
right at once, so far as he can, on the
mistake being pointed out to him. Peo


pie seem to forget this, and instead of
viewing the press as the highest and best
means for improving and building up a
community they get an idea that it is
solely intended to insult and outrage
every one who dom do just what the
editor happens to think ought to be done


But they are wrong; the press has
mighty work to do, and if the publisher
is true to his patrons he will never fail to
do it, and that is to expose wrong doing
wherever found, if the proof is attainable


No matter if the CALLED jade does vince,


No rogue ere felt tho halter draw


With good opinion of the law,


and thinking men not only tolerate such
a course but they demand it, and in case
such exposures are not found in paper,
when evil doing is known to exist, the
sheet is at once dubbed ''milk and
water concern. So far as we are con-
cerned we do not wish to ,orong any one,
but those who are wrong need not COM
plain if we increasingly 1crite them.


e-4---
Year: 1869

A gentleman writing from
the South says that the negro
wenches in the section in which
he lives, destroy their progeny
almost as soon as they make
their appearance in this world,
and assign as a reason for such
inhumanity, that they are not
able to support themselves, and
therefore are not able to sup
port their offspring.


This is the race Of people
that the Radical party is put.
ting forward as the equals of
the Caucassian-the race of
people into whose hands the
Radicals are willing and en-
deavoring to put the balance of
power in this boasted of enlight.
ened government,


How about this, lovers of free
government, are you willing
that such a state of affairs shall
be forced upon you, Or are you
willing that we shall have the
policy that governed us under
Democratic rule. IF you de-
sire to return to the latter vote
the Democratic ticket, but if
you desire to continue in your
mad course vote the Radical
ticket.
Year: 1869

1t appears by the evidence
elected by the Coronor's in.
vestigation into the cause Of
the dreadful catastrophe on the
W Western Pacific Branch Rail-
road the other day, that the
switchman, who was carefully
furnished by the company with
a time table for his guidance as
to the running of trains, could
not read word of time table
uor anything else-in short,
that the poor fellow could neith-
er read nor write. Now, this
is not the mans fault, but his
misfortune. But what censure
is too severe for the company
who employed such person in
this responsible position, with
hundreds Of lives in his hands?
We fear that there are a good
many more switchmen to whom
the time tables are just as worth
less and incomprehensible as to
this California pioneerr in the
business.
Year: 1869

We hear that aschool house will


will soon be built in this city, in


which to teach the ideas of the


young darkies how to shoot. But


there is one subject Of much more


Importance to this class than book


learning, and that is to teach them


how to work. Their mastess taught


them this important branch of ed u


cation formerly, but who is to do it


now, is a serious question. The first


need of the negro race, and an es-


peciaIly important one to young
darkies, is to know how to work, for
there are no avenues opened for the
employment of educated blacks, but
pressing need Of black working
hands. 1t is nonsense to be teach
ing this class the accomplishments
Of scholastic education when their
utmost need is food and laiment.--
We should like to know what an
educated darly would find to do, be
his a ttainmen line ever so re
markable, while all who know how
to work are greately in demand.-
An edAcated negro could find no
employment fit to engage his talents


he would not be admitted to the
bar, not permitted to practice med
icine, and we are sure that our
neighbor of the Statesman would
not employ him ON his paper
Teach the negroes how to work and
keep them at it, and this is the best
education they can have.-Ler ing
ton (Ky) Gazette.


The above, says the NY. Day
Book, is sound advice. An
educated darkey is as abnor,
NAL a specimen of humanity as
can well be conceived. He is
simply a monstrosity, and
bears about the same relation
to the brotherhood of scholars,
or even ordinarily educated
white men, as the learned pig
which certainly does very ex-
traordinary feats in orthogra,
ply and syntax, but is, after
all, nothing but a pig. The
learned darkey' thus approach
es the learned pig, Educate
Sambo to work and honestly
earn his daily bread, and edu-
cate him to keep his hands from
the property of other people,
and he will have learned some
thing he very much needs to
know. Laziness and immoral
lty are natural to an educated
niger. Teach him to spell out
q few words, make him brrely |
able to read, and he goes of,
steals bible, and sets up as a
:preachel5' a little education
actually demoralizes him. And
worse than all, it exhausts his
and shortens his life.
Year: 1869

taxes on the farm, store, shop
mill, Office, or business he is
doing, based on the money ht
has hired!


So the business man is pay
ing


Tax on the bonds


Tax on the currency


Tax on the business he does


Tax on the property he
owns!


And all this for the benefit
Of the bondholder and national
bank owners-at the expense
of industry everywhere.


And still further let us probe
this matter and see if we have
the best Government in the
world!


We have one hundred and
ninety.eight millions of dollars
less money in the country than
before the war. And then we
had too little. And we have
a larger extent Of country to
supply than then. We have
a largely increased population
from natural causes and from
immigration. And we have
several million black people
who now, doing business for
themselves, must use money
not needed by them before the
war.


And what does our Govern.
ment to give relief?


1t withholds currency-is-
sues bonds, taxes the poor, ex-
empts the rich. Let the peo-
pie demand either money OF
blood!


Give us greenbacks for your
labor-robbing la bonds, or give
us a red,hot blood-letting peace,
bringing revolution, in place of
the lingering agony and busi.
ness depression settling like a
pail over the industry and pros.
pcrity of the country.