smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1859

0FtA a IA11Ch1Ga1 Tavern


A short time since a lady and gentleman were
travelling in Michigan, and having missed the
stage, were compelled to take private convey
ance from the town of Scuderi to Thomastown
The lady had with her beautiful little lap-dog,
which she carried on her lap on an embroidered
mat. During the ride the husband discovered
that he had no handkerchief, when the lady
lent him hers which was fashionably scented
with musk About half way between the two
towns the carriage broke down, M the midst of
a hard RAIN, and they were obliged to take re-
fttge in the halfway house-a lone horse log
tavern, consisting of two rooms-a bar-room and
lodgingroom. The lady laid her lap-dog on
its mat before the fire, and herself and husband
took seats In a short time the gentleman had
occasion to use his handkerchief, and took it
out, leaving it lying ON his knee when he got
through with it. In few moments the land
lord opened the door, put his head in, looked
around, went out, came in, gazed at the dog
his nostrils all the while upturned in intense
disgust. He finally appeared satisfied, went to
the outside door, opened it, came back with a
bound, seized the lap-dog by the tail, and hurl-
ed him howling through the open door full ten
rods into the forest. The wife tainted; the hus-
band rose to his feet, terribly enraged, and
wanted to know what he did that for. That's S
my dog continued he, furiously. Don't
xhose dog it is' said the man gruffly
II amt going to have no such blasted smelling
varmint around my tavern" The husband and
wife evacuated the house instantly, and pro-
ceeded on their way in the rain.
Year: 1859

A teacher was lccturing class of little girls on
the influence of pious instruction in the formation
of youthful character.


'Ah, Miss Caroline said he to one of the class,
what do you think you wuold have been without
your good father and pious mother7'


Il suppose, sir, answered Miss Caroline, should
have been an orphan,'
Year: 1859

Two centuries ago not one person in one hund-
red wore stockings. Fifty years ago not one boy
in one thousand was allowed to at large nights.
Fifty years ago not one girl in one thousand made
a waiting woman of their mother.
Year: 1859

1.-THE prospect of peach crop in New Jersey
tine coming season is very promising. The cold
OF two or three days in January killed portion of
OF the bloom, but greater part is in healthy
condition.
Year: 1859

IL A change In the inspection standard of New
York is said to have taken place, which it is hoped
will give flour passing through 1t better repnta-
tion The market for breadstuffs at New York is
very dull, owing:to the absence of all European
demands, the demand for New England being much
smaller than usual ts-
Year: 1859

KNITTING SrooKiNG.-In the Su- preme Court al Worcester, the other day, a jolly, plump old lady, who was witness in case on trial, was asked al what time in tue day certain train of cars passed her house. She replied that she com menced knitting at three o'clock, and knit twice around the leg of stocking before they came along. The next question was, of course, how long a time II would take to knit twice around the stocking leg. The judge here. in his usual quiet humor, suggested that that fact would depend up- on it's size. To this remark the witness responded that the garment was for her self, and that the jury could exercise their own judgments as to it's size, and guess at the length of time it would require in the work.-[ Boston Transcript.
Year: 1859

recover hls missing treasure, winch Il was supposed that Miss Lucy had borrowed that

 morning. The young lady declared that she had not borrowed the baby hat she had not seenit during the day. Mir Saint Clair was hard 10 be convinced that no one of the family had taken the child; but all assured him that they knew nothing of t.

 Itwas now time 10 be alarmed. What has become of the poor child Y was his exclamation; and he ran home In an agony Of distress The mother, n like manner, was almost frantic with grief. They could not conceive who had stolen their child.

 MT. WIllams's family joined in com mseratng their sorrow; but they could afford no aid to console them in their des- Sair. They could not invent any plausible theory, nor suggest any probable cause, for | the unaccountabe and mysterious disap- pearance ot the child Who was there that could have taken it awaya Why would any one wish to have i,? They were utterly at loss in answering these questions, and solving their perplexity, l At length Il was remembered that par ties of Cherokee Indians were occasionally bunting through that section of country. It was now sufmised that they might have come to the house while the mother was in the field, and had stolen and carried away the child. This supposition was received as a pl usible and quite probable one. Early the next morning Mir. Saint Clair and MT. Williams went ln search of the Indian camp, and Mrs Saint Clair was IIeft at home, alone. She was sitting in silence, weeping tears of bitter anguish. such as only bereayed mothers ever shed, and wondering in her heart what had be. come of her darling babe. It was now about the same hour Of the day on which she had gone out of the house on the pre- vious day, leaving the child alone. Al this moment, large panther, with a stealthy tread. approached the door of the cabin, and looked in toward the empty cradle. Mrs Saint Clair uttered scream, and the ferocious animal was frightened away.

 | The fearful truth, concerning tie fate of the innocent babe, now became apparent |; and no new light has ever been shed upon this ifaglcal subject. 5.
Year: 1859

BY CHARLES SWAIN Live for somethng-be not idle; Look about the for employ: Sit not down to useless dreaming Labor is the sweetest joy. Folded hands are ever weary;

 Selfish hearts are never gay: Life for thee hath many duties Active be, then, while you may. Scatter blessings in thy pathway Gentle words and cheering smiles Better are than gold and silver,

 With their grief-dispelling wiles: As the pleasant sunshine falleth Ever on the grateful earth, So let sympathy and kindness

 Gladden. well the darken'd hearth. Hearts there are oppress'd and weary Drop the tear of sympathy; Whisper words of love and comfort; Give, and thy reward shall be Joy unto thy soul returning,

 From the perfect Fountain Head: Freely, as thou freely givest, Shall the grateful light be shed.
Year: 1859

Since tho completion Of the Great Eastern. en-
quirieh have been rife Is to tho dimensions Of
all the .arge ships in the world We append a
list Of fifteen monsters Of the deep that. without
bowsprit, would cover space Of one mile in
length, were they placed in line:
Year: 1859

A SPORTING PLAN FOR THE SUMMER.-The North
Woods Woton Club, composed of many mighty
hunters and crafty anglers in New York State
held a meeting and had a banquet atAlbany last
week. General Sherman of Oneida is President
and George Dawson, Esq, of the Albany EUeil-
ing Journal, is one of the Vice Presidents of the
Club. They had right pleasant time recount
ing the field, flood and forest sports of former
campaigns and laid out scheme for the coming
season.


The plan adopted for next summers excursion
proposes the establishment of rendezvous camp at
Fourth Lake, on the Moose river chain, at which
large depot of provisions is to be established and
local accommodations provided for thirty men.
From this point excursions to be made by small
parties, during the month of June, to every point
of interest in the Browns Tract region. 1t is at
the option of members to remain at the rendezvous
camp or join in these side excursions as they may
choose The camp is to be kept up during the
whole of June, and parties can go in and out from
the settlements at their convenience. store of
ice is to be laid in for the keeping of fish, and
cook stove is to be sent forward with the other
supplies this winter. good cook is to be provided
for the main camp. All the arrangements have
been planned with reference to a pleasant and sue
cessfu trip
Year: 1859

A Port au Prince correspondent of the New Y York
Times says: Stories of unheardof barbarties per-
petrated by the ex-Emperor are in circulation;
among others is the following, about which unhap-
PLY, there can be but little doubt, viz: That on
examining the prison at Cape st. Nicolas Mole a
small town on the Northwest coast of Hayti) there
We're found no less than fifteen hundred skeletons
of persons who had been deliberately murdered in
that place. The prison was razed to the ground by
Gefards army, and the room where the skeletons
were found, and which is below the level of the sea,
was filled up with stones. 1t is said that at the
time it was discovered, the floor was covered with
water to the depth of more than foot
Year: 1859

A London paper saws: "Mr Francis Fitzgerald
the new Baron of the Exchequer, is brother of the
bishop of Cork. Although reputed to be high
conservative he has taken any active part in
politics. He is supporter of Scriptura as op-
posed to the national system of education, and he
has, it is said, upon more than one occasion re-
fused promotion from the former Government His
practice in equity has been enormous, and his ee-
vation to the bench will necessarily throw a vast
amount of business into the hands of some of the
more eminent Of the Chancery lawyers.n
Year: 1859

A Berlin correspondent of the New York Tribune
says:


An American medical student named Smith. ma
tive of New York State, graduate of Union College
and the College of Physicians and Surgeons in New
York city, is just now creating sensation in med-
cal circles Some months since he told me of case
of Group shipboard, during his passage over in
which the child fingered along day after day in in
tensest suffering. He at that time suggested the
administration of oxygen substitute for the at
mospheric air, which the child could no longer in
hale in sufficient quantities to life The sur
geon was afraid to venture, and the child died
Since his arrival in Berlin he has experimental
upon rabbits and some few weeks since brought
the matter before a small club of students. Since
that time his experiments have been repeated by
one of the oldest physicians here, under the insruc
tions of Smith, and those who were present drew
up paper to be presented to the Geselchqft fur
He'thHnde, the principal medical society of the city,
The other evening Smith invited to meeting
of the society, and found that he had been elected
active member during his stay here, and cores
ponding member after his return to America.
Year: 1859

Pixies OPERA HOUSE, Cincinnati was lighted up
on Saturday night. The Commercial SAYS:


There is, if we may express it, an evenness in
the brilliance which diffuses itself upon the vast
area in one steady and delicious food. This science
Of artificial light, too often overlooked in places of
amusement, is most exqusitey well as tastefullv
displayed in the present instance; there is no un-
pleasant glitter glare to distract the sight at
one spot, and contrast with the twilight gloom OF
another, dreamy-like halo pervades the whole and
contributes in no small degree to the fairy-like
beauty of the scene. 1t is also worthy of remark,
that in this, the first trial of the gas apparatus,
there was not single leakage or flaw, but all was
as perfect as if in operation for months The clas-
sic elegance which pervaded the whole, struck us
as being the very perfection of harmony and refined
taste.
Year: 1859

under any circumstances, necessary
society is in such a terribly warped
and unchristian state; but there is one
thing can say, | will never keep an
other school that | can not govern
without the rod If there chances to
be boy who will not behave, then
the school shall not suffer by his pres
ence. ] will send him back to those
whose duty it is to teach them the
first rudiments OF behavior.


People were astonished at the result
Of my efforts The committee were
forced to report, the school kept in
the district known as 'Rawbone Hol-
low,'' to be the best school in their
town.


So much for the Hard School,
Year: 1859

SELF -REFoRM.-lf man would re-
form the world. let him begin the work
in his own body How can he hope
to purify Others while his own breath
is tainted9 No other can begin the
work for him. He must bring the
physical into subsection TO the spiritu
al Of his own nature by his own effort


He must ascend into the frosty air
Of purity himself before ne can beck0n
others to follow him. If he remain a.
the foot Of the eminsnce. he can only
act the part Of guide board which
points out the way. never leading up
TO it, Life illustrated.
Year: 1859

AS weary and thirsty, We have
roamed on some sultry summer day,
over field and pasture. or through the
solemn walks of some ancestral wood,
how has the eye kindled with glad
ness, and the heart thrilled with rap
turous joy, at the sight of some cool
ing spring, beneath an impending rock
on the hillside, or in a secluded valley
nook, bubbling for perpetual invita-
tion and q living welcome, to the
chance -passcr there to satisfy the crav'
ings of his parched tongue. The gen
tie rain, let fall at the times of God:
appointing. on some distant hill. work
Year: 1859

a VERY DOUBTFUL ENDORSEMENT.
The Cincinnati Gazette, says
that recently business house in
that city had occasion to write to a
correspondent 10 one of the interior
towps of Indiana, and in closing
their letter asked the question,
"What is the standing of Mr.-?"
In due time the correspondent re-
piled to the query as follows:


fyour question refers to Ms
real responsibility to any limited
amount, we answer it is good; but
to say he is obstinate and mulish,
but family expresses bis peculiarity
of disposition when an account is
presented. He usually pays a debt
at the extreme tail-end of an exc
cution, and then doles out the cash
to the constable as though he was
driving nail in his own coffin. The
money shaver who took the last
seat in the last car of railroad
train, so as to have the use Of his
money while the conductor was reach
ing him, was not a circumstance
to the grim death grasp with which
Mr-holds on to bis purse-strings.
He means to be honest, but his
neighbors say that five cent piece
produces moral strabtsmus that af.
fects his vision quite painfully!


The firm concluded to close their
account at ''the tail-end of an ex-
ecution,' and "drum" no more in
that dire ction.
Year: 1859

Fisherville wants to know ''in case
good looking young man should
ask girl to marry bin, and she
should refuse to do so, what be had
better do about it," Ask her again,
and if she still refuses. ask her pa.
If he refuses, ask another gal.
Year: 1859

4 Little While.
Day adown the golden stair


Has turned the hinge of sunsets gate
A.gbostly mist is waiting there,


To rob her of her glorious state.
See! upon her brow of light


Its chilling. death damp folds are hung,
While from the silver bells of night


A low-tone dirge is softly rung.
Close your waxen Eds so meek,


Lily, pining in the glen;
She who kissed your pallid cheek


Meier will praise its pearl again.
When the tickle sun smiles on
The younger buds the morrow brings,
I he beauty, with the day that's gone,


Snail too have fown--like all bright things!
Passing thus away, the while,


Other days will bloom and fade
Other sunny hours will smile


Above the dun old church-yard shade. =
That wraps the tomb where mouldering lies
All thatsonce sprang from quick'ning GERM
Will smile--tho' kindly hearts and eyes


Are left to darkness and the worm!
A little while and we shall lay


Us down to rest, with folded hands:
While the great world its mystic way


Will circle on--sho' as the sands
That paved the desert are its graves


What wrecks it, that our little breath
Should pass upon the breeze that waves
Our new found wings Ger gulf of Death.
The rolling earth must still fulfil


It's mission; and, like bird of spring,
That drops its old. worn plumage, viii


Renew its crests tho on the wing;
Other feet shall press its sod


Other throbbing hearts will beat
Other weary ones shall plod '


Towar d that goal where all must meet.
A little while, little while,


And each his burden will lay down;
And who sorrows now will smile


To find his cross hath won a crown
A little while, ye weaty wait,


Some plying Day will beckon you
To enter at the Golden Gate


Lfe's thCrny path hath led you to.
Year: 1859

YESTERDAY was hot, sunny day, with slight
interregnum of rain. The town was quiet and dull,
and thousands of people sought the lake shore and
the different shady spots in the vicinity The health
of the city continues magnificent. We heard on Sat.
urday that case of yellow fever, an Irishman from
the Third District had been buried ,day before in
one of the Ridge cemeteries. We failed to discover
whether this was positively the fact or not. Todays
Board of Health report will tell. The latene IS of
the season forbids the probability of the fever this
year being more than meagerly sporadic.


We TOOK PEEP at Milneburg last evening" The
place was crowded as usual on Sundays and the cars
gorged going and coming. All the multifarous ex.
cements and attractions Of that little burg were in
full blast. The breeze across the wharf was delici
GUS; and so did the water appear to be, from the
great number of bathers dabbng in it around the
lighthouses.


THE GERMAN MILITARY COMPANY, the Yag ers,
were out yesterday They passed the Crescent Off ce
with several officers of the Washington Artillery in
custody. We suspect wine and other good things
suffered somewhere.


The ALARM OF FIRE last night had no foundat ion
in fact.


POLICE ITEMS were properly scarce yesterday. TIL e
Second District police book presented the novelty of
not single arrest in the nineteen hours-from l
O'Clock yesterday morning to o'clock last even ing
when we were last there.


THE DARkEYs had a great game Of racket yester
day afternoon at the old ground in the Third Dist rct
The Bayou party were. the vctors making two balls
almost at the start.
Year: 1859

IHE RELATION OF THE SExEs.-Strance.
and passing strange, that the relation be-
tween the two sexes, the passion of love,
in short should not be taken into deeper
consideration by our teachers and our leg
islators. People educate and legslate as
if there was no such thing in the world
but ask tho priest, ask the physician-let
them reveal the amount of moral and
physical results from this one cause. Must
love be always discussed in blank verse
as if it were u thing to be played in TRACE
dies or sung in songs--a subject for pretty
poems and weak novels, and had nothing
to do with the prosaic current ofour every
day existence, or moral welfare? Must
love be ever treated with profaneDess, as q
mere illusion or with coarseness, as a
mere impulse! or with fear as a mere dis.
ease or with shame, as a mere weakness?
or with levity, as a mere accident? Where
as, 1t IS a great mystery, and great ne.
cessity, lying at the foundation of human
existence, morality and happiness--mys.
terious, universal inevitable as DEATH
Why, then, should love DO treated less
seriously than death 1t is as serious a
thing.-lfrS. Jameson.
Year: 1859

A PARRY CoNcEGT.-We Yesterday saw.
IN tho parlor Of friend, very beautiful
conceit. 1t is, of course, the fancy of 4
lady, and consists of the burr of a pine
tree placed in a wine glass half full of
water, and from between the different lay
ors of the burr are shooting forth green
blades--brght, beautiful, refreshing. For
little thing, We have seen nothing that
so pleased us by its beauty and novelty.
And the secret is this: the burr was found
dried and open; the different circles were
sprinkled with grass seed, and it was pla
ced in a wiue glass, with water in as above.
IN few days the moisture and nourish-
ment gayo the burr life and health, tho
different circles closed and buried within
themselves the grass seed, and few days
more gave to the seed also, life, sprout and
growth and now a myramid of living
green, beau fully relieved by the sombre
hue of the burr, is the result-as pretty
and novel q parlor ornament as we have
for long while seen. We do not know
whether the idea originated with tho
lady. but we do know that its success il
beautilul.--Th2J Times.
Year: 1859

The Sacramento Standard processes to favor q
dissolution of the Union unless Congress gives
heed to our prayers for Pacific Railroad. 1t
says:


The road must be built, or California cannot
afford to remain in the Confederacy of the States
This document (the memorial of the late Con-
rention to Congress) we regard as the ultimatun
of the Pacific Coast. If it should fail to arouse
Congress and the country to a sense of their
duty in reference to the Pacific States and Ter
rltories, the Standard for one Journal will never
again agtate this question"


This is very silly talking for a leading Dem
ocratic newspaper. This fippant manner Of
speaking of the dissolution of the Union, should
be considered a crime. Just imagine that JEFF
ferson and Jackson could tread this earth fol
one short hour, and hear such remark coming
from the editor of an organ of the party to which
they gave lustre, more especially by making ii
the peculiar friend Of the Union than by aught
else How would they not stand amazed, and
how would not the old hero thunder for one
of his by the eternals! !"


Or suppose Washington could appear in life
again, how would he not rebuke Mr. Bolts, as a
son of his own native State, for thus talking
lightly of that which is of more value to us than
a thousand railroads We may infer the char
acter OF the rebuke which he would administer
by reading the subjoned extract from his Fare
we'll Address:


1.-THE unity Of government, which constitutes
you one people, y X is a main pillar in
the editice of your real independence-the sup
port of your tranquility at me, your peace
abroad, of your safety, of your prosperity of that
very liberty which you SO highly prize. Z
AS this is the point in your political fortress
against which the batteries of internal and ex-
ternal enemies will be most constantly and ac-
lively Though often covertly and insidiously,
directed,-it is of infinite moment that you
should properly estimate the immense value o.
your national union to your collective and in
dividual happiness; that you should cherish q
cordial, habitual, and immoyable attachment tc
it; accustoming yourselves to think and speak
of it as of the palladium of your political
safety and prosperity watching for its presery-
alton with jealous anxiety dlscountenancing
whatever may suggest even a suspicion that il
can, in any event. be abandoned and indig.
nantly frowning upon the first dawning of every
attempt to ALLEVIATE any portion OF our country
from the rest, to enfeeble the sacred ties which
now link together the various parts.