smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1861

The ADOPTED Birds" Switch, switch"
went the scythes. as the men, early in the
morning, were moving the tall grass. Round
the field they went, not mindiug the grass
hoppers that leaped in terror, or the moad-
ow-mice that scamrered in the thickest
grass. BY y-and-by the owner Of the field
came to them, when one of the men point
cd TO little stick which he iIad stuck in
the ground. and said with laugh, :. we
cut all before u.s.


"No harm, hope


Nothing Of consequence. But see -


The gentleman went to the stick, and
there found poor meadow lark, with her
head cut off by the scythe. She was on
her nest, keeping her little young birds
warm, and thus the scythe took her life
Faithful mother!


The gentleman took up the nest, contain
ing four very small, featherlesss BIRDS
What to do with them he knew not. SO
he carried them home. and on his way re-
membered that near his house was a faith
ful old robin. which had mad her nest in
the cherry tree, and also that she had Just
begun to set.


On reaching the tree, there the robin was,
to be sure. and he we'll knew that she must
have have her own way. So he watched
her. In few hours she flew off to get her
food. The moment che was out of sight,
the gentleman climbed up and took out the
four little blue robin eggs and put the four
little larks in their place. Again he took
his place to watch


In short time Mrs. Robin came flying
back to her nest. She went straight to it.
and was just going to hop into it. when she
looked in. She raised her wings and stood
in utter smazement. A few moments ago
she had left eggs. and now they wore birds.
She stood and looked. turning her head one
way and then the other. and seeming to
scan them very closely. After her amaze.
ment had gone past. she few of, and in
few moments came back with the male rob-
in. Then they both poised themselves. one
on each side of the nest. and looked in most
earnestly, with raised wings. Sure enough,
it was even 80. They were birds and not
eggs! Then they began to chatter, as if
talking the matter over. and explaining the
state of things. How they looked and
pesred in and talked ! Aftera while they
iew OF in great haste. The gentleman fear
cd it was ah over with the little orphaas.
But. no An STEW minutes they both rs-
turned, each bringing worm. with which
they began to feed them. and from that
hour they took care eflthem and raised
them.


Doth God take care of birds ? Yes. Ana
he has promised to take care of his people
and their little orphan children, as birds
take care Of their young.-Sunday School
Tsmes.
Year: 1861

lie therefore, with his drawn sword in
his hand, entered the cavern and moved
as rapidly as the darkness would let him,
along the stone way that lined the side


lie had reached lar enough to be in pro-
found darkness. and belived he was Sc
cure. when on DO; rd the boat, which was
Year: 1861

Pursuant to invitations issued by Mr.. L. Fl.
Place. the able and energetic President of the
Board Of Commissioners of the Second Draining
District party of gentlemen assembled to wit
ness the working of the new eScavator which has
just been put to work in the Claiborne draining
canal. The intersection Of Melpomene and Clai-
borne streets was the point of exhibition.


There stout and wefnished boat some so feet
long and 30 feet wide, with neat upper cabin for
sleeping, was stationed. The flag of Louisiana
hoated above it, and the boat sported the appropr-
ate name of az. H. Place. 1t is commanded and
worked by Capt. VIM H. Knox.


Steam being up the machine was put in opera
ton, to the admiration of ALL An engine of fifty
horse power drove large and powerful dirt-dlg-
ger, something between a spade and scoop,
into the submerged earth, at the rate of one dip
per minute, bringing up at each dip about23 cubic
feet of earth and throwing the on the side of
the canal next the swamp, thus doing the double
work of digging canal and building protection
levee at the same time. The machine is known as
the Osgood patent. 1t worked to a charm, and
showed that it could heave dirt three or four times
as fast as could be done by the hand-labor of as
many men as could be crowded at the work.


After the exhibition of the machine, the party
present partook of liberalrepast which had been
prepared. Good wine flowed freely, and many
pleasant things, appropriate to the occasion, were
said and responded to.


The canal is to be forty-four feet wide in the
clear and seven feet deep. It is under contract to
be completed in year; and with the excellent
excavating machine now at work, and under the
energetic supervision of President Place, there is
every prospect that the work will be finished even
sooner than contracted for. Mr.. Place, we may
add, is entitled to the public thanks for the energy
and good Judgment which have characterized all
his actions as President of the Board of Drainage
Commissioners
Year: 1861

The Calhoun Guards and Delta Rifles both COM
posed of Irish born citizens, were out on parade
yesterday the first turnout of each Company.
Both presented fine and soldierlike appearance,
and we are sure will be among the first to rally
whenever the State shall call for aid.
Year: 1861

rural youth was in New York one day, and
dropped casually into a hardware store. Lnunging
through the store he came to a large buzzsa
suspended against the walt Giving it a rap with
his knucbles, producing sharp ring, he remarked
to the storekeepPr who came up at that moment :


81 had an old dad ripped to pieces with one Of
them felIers last week q;
Year: 1861

A New VIRTUE IN CoTroN.-A Southern paper
says novel and Intoxicating liquor has been made
from the cotton plant. Ii may be Intoxicating"
but there is certainly no novelty in the "cotton
Gin ~ ......
Year: 1861

When Mary and l were married we
were young and foolish, for We had moth
ing to be married with but Mary was
delicate and l thought | could take care
of her best. l knew | bad strong arm
to depend upon. We rented chamber
and went to housekeeping We got to-
gether little furniture "a table, bed
stead, dishes - but our money failed us
before we got the chairs. l told Mary
she must turn up tub, for could not
run in debt. No. No, 1t was not long
before our rich neighbor, Mrs,
found US out and kindly supplied US
half dozen chairs were added to our
stock. They were old ones, to be sure,
but answered just as well for us. shall
never forget the new face that those
old chairs put upon our snug quarters
they never looked just right before
that.


The tables are turned with Mrs. NJ
and me now-she hath turned poor
widow, but she shall never want while
l have anything-never cried the old
man, with beaming face 81 don't for
get those old chairs"


All !. now the secret was out. 1t was
the interest of the old chairs which
maintained the poor widow. She was
living on the interest Of little friendly
act done years before, and it suficed for
herself and daughter.


How beautiful it is to see how God
blesses the operation Of his great moral
law, Glove thy neighbor," and We should
oftener see it, could We look into the hid
den paths Of life, and 6ad tn at it is not
self-interest not riches, not fame, that
binds heart to heart The simple power
Of friendly act can do far more than
they. 1t is these-the friendly acts, the
nelg ghborly kindnesses the Christian sym
pathy of one toward another-which rob
wealth of its power to curse, extract the
bitter from sorrow, and open the wells Of
gladness in desolate homes. We do not
always see the golden links shining in the
chain Of human events; but they are
there, and happy is he who feels their
,ap<la but ;rras;Stihle inf1uences
Year: 1861

ket. The top was partly raised and dis
covered some sandwiches, gingerbread,
&c 1t was of course nothing surprising
to see luncheon basket in the cars
The conductor came up and said, "Colo-
mel, an old woman owns that basket, l
believe she hs, stepped into the forward
car" Well, that was very reasonable
However, just as he was going to leave
1t, the Colonel put his little finger under
the handle, to see how much basket Of
luncheon weighs, you know. But the
thing didn't come up. Somehow it stuck
to the floor. He then applied his whole
hand, and after removing the ginger.
bread, he discovered about half peck of
bright brass buttons, which were on
their way to adorn the uniforms of Vir.
ginia rebels.
Year: 1861

people would accept 1t with enthusiasm.


A slave population to raise the food for
armies, and to cultivate the cotton which
should afford the means of equippiug,
them, aud white population Of masters
born to command, With every other class
subordinate to the limits which the ne.
cessities of these two would impose
This is the whole future of a slave hold.
ing republic. And when for party pur-
poses among themselves, or under the
sting of some fancied insult or imaginary
wrong, any baud Of political traders
should summon such people to a war to
be conducted on their rivals soil, the
impulse to the strife would prove uncoo-
trollabe. and the whole continent would
blaze and smoke with battle. Many are
crying "peace, peace" but there is,
there can be no peace, between two such
States. A Union like the present, in
which our sovereign authority extends
its equal and beucfcent sway over the
north and the South saike, is the only
hope for any permanent peace; and he
who will not fight to the death for this,
is traitor to all the hopes and all the
peace of generations to come. Now We
hold the destiny Of generations in our
own hands. We are to shape the future
Of the most magnificent domain ever re.
corded in history Let us see to it, that
wa trust nothing to deceitful promises ;
least of all to the promises of an institu-
tion which has already betrayed such
malignant hostility to the liberties of
mankind as this slave despotism of the
South. Let US see to it, that we secure
a peace by founding on an immovable
basis that Union, of our fathers, which
has given all we have known of prosper.
ity, and which has been the admiration
of the world. o. p.
Year: 1861

WHAT THE GOVERNMENT HAS Done IN SIX
MoNrHs.-The n. Y. Post says:


Let US review the months that have passed
since the day of SUMTER and see what we have
done. Six months ago we had not seven
hundred soldiers within the reach Of defense
less capital. To-day we have probably two
hundred thousand armed men on the line of the
Potomac, and another hundred thousand in the
West Six months ago we bad not the arms
to put in the hands of seventy FIVE thousand
volunteers to-day we have muskets, cannon,
every supply in abundance for four times the
number. Six months ago we could neither
feed nor move an army of 5000 men to day
every department of our vast military organi-
zation is complete, and we can make war
across the continent. Six months ago we had
not dozen ships of war at hand; today we
number our navy by the hundred, and are
guarding cost line of more than two thousand
miles.


Six months ago the Government could
scarcely borrow few hundred thousands al
twelve per cent ; today twelve millions OF
people lend it fifty millions Of dollars at par.
Six months ago the question was whether the
people would support the Government to-day
the only question is whether the Government
will support the people
Year: 1861

STATE or CALlFORNIA-IN THE JUSTICES
- Court Chico Township, in and for the County
of Butte The people of the State of California send
greeting to S. l.. Salisbury You are hereby sum
m ned to appear before me at my office in the
Township of Chico, in the County of Butte on the
NJ. to answer unto the complaint of Vanne.t &
Virgins, who sue to recover judgment for the sum
of two hundred dollars, which they allege is due
them for goods. wares and merchandise had by YOU
when Judgment will be taken against you for the
said amount. together with costs and damages, if
you fail to appear and answer.


To the Sheriff or any Constable of said County.
greeting Make legal service and due return thereof


Given undtr my hand this 18th day of November
A. ID. 1851. J. w. SHOOK


Justice of the Peace of said Township.


It is hereby ordered that this Summons be insert
ed in the Butte Record for three successive weeks
form this date. j. W. SHOOK, J.P.


November 18th 1861.
Year: 1861

Tue RAILRoAD.-We are informed that the
work upon the railroad is progressing promptly
and satisfactory. The bridging sc. upon the
lower end Of the road, will be completed in
about three weeks and The camps again re-
moved to This end Of the route when the short
distance of unfinished grading will be pushed
rapidly TO completion. and the whole line Of
road put in readiness to receive the ties and
rails as soon as they can be placed upon the
ground.


The Board of Supervisors have issued bonds
to the Railroad Company, during the past
week, to the amount of thirty six thousand dol
lars. which, together with what has been issued
heretofore makes considerable of hole in the
total amount subscribed 10y the county.
Year: 1861

NEVADA JoURNAL-The publishers of this
paper say in their issue of November 18th


The time for which the publication of this
paper was extended, by Court Order, having
expired with this issue, we now inform the
public that the Nevada Journal will be sus-
pended for short period. AS soon as the
business concerns of the partnership can be
sati actory settled, it is our intention, if GER
tain arrangements now in prospective can be
consummaled, to resume the publication of the
Journal as daily or tri>weekly.
Year: 1861

SINGULAR RoBBERY.-John Moss, while on
a back street in Sonora, some nights since,
was assailed by man who drew a knife and
compelled him to take from his mouth a sett
of false teeth and hand them over to him. The
next day the scoundre offered for sale the gold
taken from the teeth, and was thereby detected
and apprehended:
Year: 1861

Bound TO HAVE KlNG-We have always
believed until recently. that TIE people Of the
Uniied States were so firmly welded to a
republican form of government that they
would never consent to have king but the
events Of the past few days have demonstrated
the fact that they are bound to have King
Cotton, and have him hey will
Year: 1861

Nor DONE YET.-The great naval exned.
ton has not yet done its allotted work. After
taking Port Royal and landing an army with
ample munitions aud supplies, it has again
sailed South, casting terror before it. From
all the accounts received from the rebel side
the people along the whole coast are almost in
panic not knowing where the next blow viii
De struck. We are of course, not advised
what place will next fall, although runor
points to Pensacola. We are liable TO hear
any day, of another capture af forts, with their
armament and ammunition. and another laroe
investment of Uncle Sam in cotton.
Year: 1861

THE WEATHER Since the late severe storm
which covered the mountains with snow to an
unnsual dspln, for this season of the wear, the
weather has been clear ani beautiful. with d
fAtiering prospect Of continuing fac for weeks
to come We should not be surprised if but
little, if any more. rain fell before Christmas
Year: 1861

Tie Rc-action m tie Wes.-The
jackson Wing says the following is
an extract from letter to a citizen
of that place from gentleman in
Chicago:


4 should like to see you very
much, but | suppose it win be some
time before we wi see each other, as
yo,, have made up your mind to take
your chances with the South. |
know / should do the same if | was
there. One thing is sure, and that is
that | shall never fight against tin
South. I understand they are going
to impress men into service, and if it
should be my luck to be one of them,
You may look for me down there;
for before 1 would fight in this Abo-
Year: 1861

Some Of the EFects.-If the north
arm press and letter-writers. are to be
bel eyed, the effects of Mr.. Lincoln's
war are beginning to " hurt" all bran
ches of business. A letter from New
York says:


The war is pressing hard on some
of our first class educational institu-
tons. The general theological SEM
mary Of the Protestant Episcopa;
church, in Twentieth street, l un-
defstand, is reduced to great straits,
financially speaking, SO mneh so that
IN the course of a few days the trus
tees willissue an appeal for assistance
to the church at large, and failing in
that, the doors of the seminary will
probably have to be closed until the
advent OF more prosperous times, when
they shall be able to convert to ac-
count its immense landed estate,
which has been the ample source of
its support in ordinary seasons, bat
which is now, like all OF our city real
estate, entirely unavailable.
Year: 1861

lition army, would be shot. There
was a regiment of men left here last


night for Missouri. They We're the
most inferior men I ever saw. There
is great reaction going on here since
men begin to look at things coolly:;
Six weeks ago we did not dare say a.
word againt the war, but since they


are beginning to make it an Aboli-
ton war, we talk and say just what
we like. It has been very difficult
to get volunteers, and it would be
nearly impossible to get them at all,
if they could get any thing else to do.
Year: 1861

What more could l wish than to find
gold in my pocket as often as [ put
my hand into it, So Hans gave
the grinder his goose. "Now," said
the other, giving him an old worn
out stone which lay at his side,
..here is most capital. stone for you,
only manage it well and you may
make an old nail cut with it. Take
it, and begin your gold-winning.


Hans took the stone and marched
off with it in great triumph. "Sure-
ly must have been born in lucky
hour" said he to himself, "every
thing goes so well with me!' Mean
while Hans began to feel himself
very hungry; but he could get moth
ing to eat for he had given away his
last penny for JOY when he got the
COW, At last he got so tired that he
could not walk step farther; so he
sat down at the side Of a little pool
with his great burden of a stone, and
was stopping to take drink, when
the stone pumped into the well and
sank to the bottom. Hans was over
ioyed at thus getting rid Of his only
plague, the great heavy stone, and
leaped briskly up to his feet, exclaim-
ing: "How lucky am I! Sure
there never was such lucky NOR
tai under the sun ~ And with a
light and merry heart he walked on
till he came to his mothers house.
Year: 1861

Under the administration Of dIstIn-
tested for twenty years in the public Hospitals as
well as in their private practice with such complete
success as to have acquired the unqualified approval
of the medical faculty, and is now held in the highest
esteem and is universally used.
Year: 1861

A NEW TRADITION OF THE FALL OF MAN.
The Manbans, Dakota nation, processes
to be of a subterranean origin. Formerly
they were shut out from the light of Heav-
en-, and dwelt together near subterranean
lake. A stray grape vine from the upper
earth extended its roots into their dark re-
gions, and by means of this, one half of
the Il he climbed up to the surface and
were delighted with the new world,it fruit
and game. But unfortunately for the resi-
due, fat woman attempted to climb up the
vine broke, and the balance of the tribe
was forced TO remain below. There
fore was it written by an antediluvian,
whenever any mischief happens, 'you will
be sure to find woman at the bottom
of it."
Year: 1861

GRlPHIC.-Thc other day boy came
tearing round a corner, with his rags Hut
tering in the wind, his face smeared with
molasses and shingle hourishing in his
hand. while he was shouting to another
how about the size of a pepper box, who
stood nearly quarter of a mile down the
street: "Oi Bill, Bill, Bill-get as many
bows as ever you can, and come up the
street around the corner as fast as ever you
can. for there's big hogsit of lasses bust
ed on the payement-busted all to smash !
-EI
Year: 1861

The New York correspondent of the
Union SAYS he is prepared to prove that
Lola Montcz died in the utmost destitution
and mental misery. Having given all her
property and effects to Mrs. Buchanan, an
early friend, the latter placed Lola in
miserable tenement on Eighteenth street,
where she was kicked and starved to death
by an old hag hired to nurse her.
Year: 1861

AGNES OF SORRENTO is the title of the New
Romance which Mrs Harriet Beecher Stowe
las lust written for the Atlantic Monthly.
The first pages are given in the May num-
her of that work and the manner in which
the story'opens assures Us that its publi-
cation will add to the already brilliant
reputation of this most popular of Ameri-
can authors.


The story is one of love and duty, of joy
and trial. It's heroine is a young girl, bora
in Catholic country and educated under
the influence of Catholic institutions, and
in the development of the plot the author
has sought to illustrate the influences Of
that creed upon the lives and characters of
i.s votaries,


From the intense interest in tnis subject
which has been manifested by the people
of the United States within the past few
wears and the fact that it has entered so
LARGELY into the discussion of the political
as well as religious questions of the time,
II cannot be doubted that Mrs. Stoves elu-
eidation of it, through the medium OF a
fictitious narrative, will cause it to be as
widely sought for as her previous brilliant
contributions to American literature have
been.
Year: 1861

ga Judge Douglas, in his speech in Mobile,
thus answers the interrogatory, whether he
would take an Office under LING on:


| cannot believe that any man reputed to be
gentleman could put such question to me.
There is no language with which can express
my scorn and contempt for the wretch who
would intimate that in any contingency would
take Office under Lincoln The man who would
PROFOUND such question to would sell him
self in instant to Lincoln or any other man
who would offer him his price"
Year: 1861

Ealg% Douglas has made quite a good point
on Mason. The latter complained that the Fu-
gitive Slave Law had proved imperative. Doug
las reminded him that he was the author of the
law of 1850, and that if the law was insufficient
he should bring in amendments to render it
otherwise, rather than to propose to dissolve
the Iaioa
Year: 1861

Esy- The chances are that there will be bread


riots in the Northern States before the winter is


over. If so it is thought the New York Tribune
and leading Abolitionists will be dealt with by
anv fire-eater could wish
Year: 1861

MARYLAND STATE CoSvgsrroS.-The Mary
land State Convention has adjourned, subject
TO the call of the Pres ident, until the 18th Of
March, unless Virginia should take some
definite action sooner than that date


The resolutions adopted by the Convention
assert that a full and fair expression OF the
popular will is most likely 10 be had by a
Convention called on the accommodation OF
the Governor, and that as ii is now asserted
that the Governor will, by proclamation, au-
thorize such movement, in the event OF the
failure upon the part of Congress and the
Peace Conference TO adopt any satisfactory
plan of compromise, the Convention approves
that purpose and adjourns until the 18th Of
March TO await the Governors action; unless
intermediately the State OF Virginia shall Sc
eede when the Convention is to be mme-
diately re assembled at the call Of Its Presi-
dent. If the Governor declines to call a sSov-
ereign" Convention previous 10 the 18th prox-
imo then the Convention will at once recon
mend to the people to proceed to the election
of delegates 10 such u Convention.