smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1869

This was entirely without foundation,
as the product was too great for any
Combination to control.


He said the freight tariffs were ex-
orbitant and unless the people took
some action they would increase at
such a rate as to increase famine In
New England. To-day, few men like
Fisk, Vanderbilt andlDrew hold keys
10 the great Western granary, and we
could get supplies only at their bid
ding. He showed how forty millions
in railroad stock had been issued by
the Railroad corporation aud that the
consumers at the coast were obliged
to pay the additional tariff necessary
to meet the dividend declared on this
fictitious stock.


He quoted the action of the Massa-
chusetts Legislature forbidding the
issue, by the Boston & Albany Rail
road, of additional stock, unless cash
therefor was actually paid in, and
stated that like action by the Legis-
lature of New York and a few other
States, would materially cheaper the
neeessaries of life. Instead of paying
tax on shares that have not cost the
holders cent the people should re-
ceiye their grain from the West at
the price ruling there, adding only
the aese1l and necessary cost of
transportation.


Quiney was followed by a number
of weakly men and prominent mem
bers of the Legislature, nearly every
one agreeing essentially with the
prominent ideas expressed by him.
Year: 1869

LOUISVILLE, January 14.-A few
nights since man named Weathers,
living in the lower portion of the city.
while under the influence of liquor
asked his little boy, four years of age,
to spell a word which it was impossi-
BILE for the child to do; Weathers then
seized him by the hair, picked up a
stick and beat the child until the flesh
upon its body was lacerated in many
places. He needed not the cries of
the little one who pleaded for mercy.
He picked it up and held It over hot
fire in the stove until its whole body
was burned to blister. Weathers was
subsequently arrested.
Year: 1869

COUNTRY GIRLs.-Meta Victoria
Fuller, in a sisterly way, thus talks to
country girls;


"The farmers daughters are soon
to be the life as well as toe pride of
this country-a glorious race Of wo-
men which no other land can show.
| seek not TO fatter them; for before
they can become this, they will have
to make an earnest effort of one or
two things. There are some who
deprecate their condition, and some
who have a false pride in it, because
they demand more consideration than
they merit A want Of intelligence
upon all the subjects of the day and
of refined education is no more ex-
cusable in a country than in town
bred girl, in these days of many books
and newspapers.


Many girls are discouraged because
they cannot be sent away from home
to boarding schools; but men of supe.
rior minds and knowledge of the world
would rather have for wives women
well and properly educated at home
And this education can be had when
ever the desire is not wanting. A
taste for reading does wonders; and
an earnest thirst after knowledge is
almost certain to attain sweet
draught from the 'Pierian spring.


There is a farmers daughter in thi:
very room in which | am writing-s
beautiful, refined, and intelligent wo
man-in whose girlhood books were
not so plenty as now, and who obtain
ed her fine education under difficul
ties which would have discouraged
any but one who had true love fol
study"
Year: 1869

moment, and would have left him then
but at the threshold her spirit failed
and she turned again to throw herself
at his feet with tears ard sobs.
! Night has yelled many sights Of
woe, the clouds of night have many
times been pierced by cries of anguish
bitter cries for faith and patience, go
ing up above the stars right to the
feet of God, but night never shrouded
deeper woe than this, bitterer cries
never pierced the shuddering dark
ness.


When morning dawned, they were
both very calm and still. Their tears
were shed and their eyes were dry
He had decided for the right, though
his heart was broken in the conflict
and she, woman like, had accepted
the right, not because it was so, but
because he said it was so.


4 shall de- she said, in voice
from which all passion had departed.
Il can bear no more and live, but
can bear even this and die


Who can describe that parting ?
When the sun set, it was upon Ashley
broken hearted and alone. Holt had
taken away his wife.


Seven days passed, and Ashley new
er left his desolate home. He made
no distinction Of day or night, but lay
down to sleep-if the stupor which
from time to time rendered him un-
conscious could be so called-at any
hour that sleep came to him.
At the close Of the seventh day he
tried for the first time to look his fate
boldly in the face. 4 am not dead,
he said, therefore it is clear that this
grief will not kill me- That night he
undressed and went to bed.


The night six years ago, when the
sheeted figure lay upon the table, and
he dreamed fantastic dreams of terror
connected with it, came to his mind
more distinctly than it had ever done
before. His sleep was broken and
fcyerish, and haunted by wild dreams.
Twice he awoke, feeling certain that
he had heard a knocking at the door,
and twice he slept again, when be
found that all was silent; but awoke
a third time in the gray dawn, and
heard the sound again, feeble knock
ing at the outer door, which ceased
suddenly. He rose, determined to
ascertain the cause; he unbarred and
opened the door, and there fell for
ward across the threshold the dead
body Of Mary.
Year: 1869

A New York jury, in finding young
man guilty of assault and battery on
young woman who had refused to
marry him, and who in return he at,
tempted to convince by a persuader
in the shape of a revolver, added to
their verdict: ave respectfully sug
gest the extreme penalty of the law
He was sentenced to five years in the
State prison, with hard labor.
Year: 1869

4 SPECIFIC FOR CANCER.-Among
the latest discoveries is a reported
specific for the cure of cancer. The
following paragraph from the North
American aud United States Gazette
of Philadelphia, presents the history
of remarkable case. If it be true,
as we have reason to believe it is, it
will be a valuable knowledge:


Inventions are generally the result
OF investigation and study, whilst dis
coverieS are generally made when an
other effect than the one obtained has
been sought. An interesting confr-
nation of the correctness of the latter
remark has occurred to Israel II.
johnson, of No. l19 Market street,
who recommended a weak solution OF
carbolic acid as wash to correct the
stencil of a large and offensive cancer.
But the application almost immediate
ly removed not only the stencil, but
also the pain, and ultimately effected
a cure of the disease. Since then this
remedy has been used with such sat
lsfactory success in numerous cases
OF cancerous complaints, that if friend
johnson had been disposed to keep
the composition a secret and sell a
cancer lotion, so many high testimo-
mails of its efficacy could have been
produced as would have attracted
public attention. But as sufferers
from cancer or cancerous sores NAV,
of themselves, or under the advice OF
physician, test the utility Of the wash,
its composition and mode of use is
here given, viz; One-fourth of one
ounce Of carbolic acid in one quart OF
water. applied at least three times a
day. Friend Johnson sometimes rec
ommends the carbolic acid in the pro-
| portion Of One-eighth of an ounce to
a quart of water, to be taken in do
ses of one table spoonful three times
a dav."
Year: 1869

lhe supreme court Of Louisiana has rem.


dered two decisions adverse to power to re


move officers appointed to state and other


oihces which has been freely exercises by


Governor Yarmouth. In the case of the


Mayor OF Jefferson City, the court decided


thst no vacancy existed, and the Governor


Gad d no power to appoint In the case Of the


Parish Judge removed by the Governor on
the ground that the incumbent had not fled
an eligibility oath with the Secretary of
State, aud because Of his alleged disfran.
chlSement under the fourteenth amendment,
the court decided that the act of the Gov.
ernor in removing the Judge WAS without
authority, the section Of the act ccnferring
power of removal being unconstitutional
that Judges must be removed in the man.
ner pointed out by the constitution, and
their eligibility must be determined iudici.
ally The court orders the Judge removed
by the Governor, to retain his office.
Year: 1869

A frightf1l accident occurred at o coal
ult., by which two men met fearful death.
-Four men were about descending, two Of
them standing at the bottom and two on the
edge of the iron tub used for that purpose,
when by come action the engine was not
reversed and they we're drawn up until the
tub struck the large cylinder over which the
cable runs, when the two men standing on
the edge of the tub lost their foothold and were
precipitated to the bottom of the shaft, a
distance of nearly 200 feet. Their bodies
were afterwards brought up in a horribly
mutiIated condition. The other two having
safe footholds escaped without injury.
Year: 1869

Daring the great freshet on the night OF
the nth, three women, near Pigeon Creek,
Pike county, H., were washed out OF the
house and carried off by the raging stream.
They clung with tenacity tc some floating
wood, and finally lodged in some driftwood,
where they remained till next morning, the
eldest of the party,a lady sixty years Of
age, drowning in the meantime.
Year: 1869

1t is stated that Green Clay Smith, of
Kentucky, isno Baptist preacher. We
hope SO, and that he will preach vigorously
and often in partial atonement for some of
his sins as Radical politician. 1t is due
him to say, however, that he was among
the frat to abandon the party in Kentucky.
Year: 1869

Rumors Of another Fenian raid on the
Canadian frontier are current. Stacks OF
arms and cases Of raw materials about the
headquarters at New York give color of
probability to the report.
Year: 1869

NO TIE EDITOR OF THE HERALD:-


oIR-I notice that many Of the persons who are
examined in regard to the origin OF the fire state
their belief that it began midway up In the shaft
instead Of at the furnace and ali these give az the
reason for this opinion the fact that the WOODEN
brettce ts more burned In Its upper than In its
lower portion. But this fact admits OF a very sim.
pie scientific explanation, which did not occur To
the miners. Combustion depends on the supply OF
oxygen, which Is In greatest abundance near the
mouth OF the shaft; and therefore the combustion
OF the WOODWORK must have been more complete
.nerc mere than below, no matter where the fire origi-
"ateo' UHEMfCUS.
Year: 1869

Many the writer es lines and invalid physician while visiting the


Island St c-z for their health experienced and witnessed surprising and


beneficial effects Of the Rum there produced vds who ke
ousev seeking health and inquiry and investigation obtained full history
Of its medicinal virtues Es delighted 1d surprised after his
which occurred determined possible the sole right manufacture
and sell it in the United States.


The result his bors glorious fer himself and suffering humanity
for e celebrated PLANTATION BTERS thus made known the wo PLAN
TATIoN s7TER being article Of real merit founded uroa principles and


relying wholly vegetable wog for medicinal effects worked rapid
ton in the history medicine and became household w al the civilized
wo The cahasc Tlssox tasan health and the demand for
the PLANTATION BER far exceeded the abilities the propeo supply
Notwithstanding the large Importation Of St. c Rum made expressly for the
pounding these Be the quantity inadequate therefore
that
dispatched to St. Thomas for that
leasing several plantations the productive
island Houses stills aa erected as utterly
hed the natives experienced and natives the island
cured aad the the PLANTATION position
their laboratory all the perfectly


turing DysPEPTIc represents
the natives the and stills
As aaie Fever and Intermittent and Mau Fevers and
other kindred diseases the PLANTATION BTTERS
history the world Over five million bottles disposed Of annually
adapted old and male and female They agreeable taste and always
produce immediate beneficial result


l
Year: 1869

When female is in trouble, afflicted with disease,
weakness of the back and limbs pain in the head dim
of sight loss of muscular ralpation of the
heart, irrtabity. nervousness extreme urinary difficult


ties. arrangement of digestive functions general debility
vaeinitis all diseases of the womb, hysteria stery,
and all other diseases peculiar to females, she should
write at to the celebrated female DOCTOR W. X.
DOhery at his Medical Institute and consult him about
her troubles and disease. The Doctor is eectng
than other physician in the State of California
Let false delicacy prevent you. but apply Immediately
and save yourself from painful suferngs and premature
death All married ladies' whose delicate health other
circumstances prevent increase in their families should
write call DR.. W X Doherty Medical Institute,
and they will every possible relief and help The
Doctors offices arranged that he can be consulted
without fear of observation.
Year: 1869

Cuba.


Among the last things done by the
late session Of Congress, was the pas
sage of Banks empty, hollow resolu-
ton of sympathy for the Cuban rev.
olutionists, in their heroic efforts to
drive tho infamous effete Spanish
Bourbon dynasty from that lovely
Island.


We are among that number who
believe that Bourbon has no rights
which a Christian civilized people
ought to respect. The people Of
Spain also recently came to that con-
clusion, and drove the bestial Isabella
out of the country, and it was fondly
hoped that Prim and his confederates
would be able to establish a liberal
form OF government on the ruins Of
that licentious and tyranical monar-
chy which has degraded Spain to a
fourth rate power; but it seems that
the Spaniavds have gone back to
their vomit, and arc now dickering
with the King of Portugal, or any
other man, to play tho petty tyrant
for them. However the rebellion in
Spain, or Cuba, may finally termin-
ate, it does seem to be the propitious
time for us, either by diplomacy, pur-
chase, or in obedience to the inexora-
BILE law of necessity, and self.preser-
walton. to acquire Cuba. The virdi-
cation of the Monroe doctrine; the
fact that her natural fortifcation
bristling around her margin, are the
very military key Of thcttuif; the
cry that comes UP from the native
planters for liberty from their foreign
Spanish masters; the walls of the
hundreds of thousands of slaves who
would all now become free upon the
annexation ofthc Island the human
ity, to say the least, of breaking up
that great slave mart right under
the very beak of the bird of free
dom, and many more pressing rca-
sons too numerous for Il short news
paper article, Of policy, and neccssi.
ty, all cry out aloud to us, in tones
that should not be unheeded, that
now is the accepted time to add that
fair domain to the wealth and civili-
cation of the great Republic.
Year: 1869

In weight she might have turned,
when well conditioned, nine hundred
and fifty pounds. In color she was
dark chestnut, with velvety depth
and soft look about the hair inde-
scribably rich and elegant. Many a
time 1 have heard ladies dispute the
shade and hue of her plush-like coat
as they ran their white, jewelled fin
gers through her silken hair. Her
body was round in the barrel, and
perfectly symmetrical. She was wide
in the launches, without projection
of the hip-bones, upon which the
shorter ribs seemed to lap. High in
the withers as she was, tho line of
her back and neck perfectly curved,
while her deep, oblique shoulders and
long thick forearm, ridgy with swell
lug sinews, suggesting the perfection
of stride and power. Her knees
across the pan were wide, the can
non-bone below them short and thin;
the pasterns long and sloping her
hoofs round, dark, shiny, and well
set on. Her name was shade dark
er than her coat, fine and thin, as a
thorough.bred's always is whose
blood is without taint or cross. Her
ear was thin, sharply pointed, deli
eately curved, nearly black around
the borders, and as tremulous as the
leaves of an aspen. Her neck rose
from the withers to the head in per-
feet curvature, hard, devoid of fat,
and well cut up under the chops
Her nostrils were full, very full, and
thin almost as parchment. The eyes,
from which tears might fall or fire
flash, were well brought out, soft as
gazelle's, almost human in their in.
telligence, while over the small bony
head, ovcr neck and shoulders, yea,
over the whole body and clean down
to the hoofs, the veins stood out as if
the skin were but tissue-paper against
which the warm blood pressed, and
which it might at any moment burst
asunder. "A perfect ANIMAL said
to myself, as lay looking her over,
IAN animal, which might have been
born from tho wind and the sun
shine, so cheerful and so swift she
seems; an animal which a man wo'd
present as choicest gift to the woman
he loved, and yet one which that wo-
man, wife or lady-love, would give
him to ride when honor and life de-
pended on bottom and speed
Year: 1869

Early potatoes, says the Western
Rural, should be planted as soon as
the frost is well out of the soil, and
there is no danger of its return. The
sets may be forwarded very much by
sprouting them on shelves in a warm
room. When the weather is suita-
bic tor planting and the soil ready
the sprouted sets should be taken out,
planted in rows and covered with 4
few inches of soil. Care should be
taken not to break the sprouts off
the sets: the former should be plac-
ed upright their tods are an inch
under the surface. A gain of two or
three weeks growth may be obtain
cd in this way.
Year: 1869

SHOULD A FARMER BE MORE THAN
A FARMER ?--We think he should
He should be q mechanic as well
should know something more than


To plow and to SOW,


TO reap and to NOW,


He needs the ability TO repair his
too's; to understand how to keep his
implements in proper condition with
out being entirely dependent on the
blacksmith or machinist; to be able
to do carpentering work, to patch
and mend harnesses, to mend his
tlnware, and do many other jobs
which tho denizens of towns and cit
les find it more convenient to turn
over to those who mako these re-
pairs speciality.-G,isntifc Amer'-
/ sUn
Year: 1869

A QUERY.-An exchange asks the
following: ...


"Does it ever occur to those who
wish to use the columns Of the press
for the advancement of their peculiar
vscws upon any subject, that they
ought at least to become paying pa
irons of the paper before claiming
the privilege? Publishers often re-
ceive communications, the publicity
of which will interest nobody half as
much as the writer's, with the request
to ''insert and send copy to the au-
thor's address, This is modest, we
admit. But, in case Of these gentle
men, who never do anything toward
sustaining the press, we wonder how
they expect vehicle for the dissem.
ination of their thoughts could be
sustained, if the community were all
like themselves"
Year: 1869

1.-The sails are set and the breeze is up,


And the PROV is turned for northern sea
Kiss my cheek and VOW me VOW


That you will ever be true to met
y kiss your check, and kiss your lips


Never a change this heart shall know,
Whatever bctide-come life, come death


Darling, darling, l love you so.'
Oh. but the northern nights are keen.


The sailor clings to the frozen shrouds;
\ kiss burns hot through his dreams of home
And his heart goes south thro' the flying cloud,
The maiden laughs by the garden gate


Dreams of love are the soonest DER.
Kisses fall on her lips and hair


And the world goes on as it went before.
Year: 1869

Among the weed pests the thistle is 4 great one,
but is the easiest one to Kill. And the proper way
for this is to NOV them when in fun bloom. The
stalks are then hollow far down into the roots
which penetrated hy the rains, decay for that rea
son and die.


Many say this treatment doe, not even diminish
their numbers There is good reason for this that
should be better known. Most vegetable things in
full bloom, just beginning to mature their fruit con-
tain in thc entire plant. though separated from the
soil sufficient seed nutriment to completely ripen
up the seed. Thus corn and beans cut early and
stocked TO avoid frost. rpen from the juices i'll the
stalks and vines very good corn and beans and adj
vantage is taken Of thi, law of vegetable growth,
nowadays to cut all grain less ripe than formerly to
prevent loss from overripcning. Now this law ap-
plies with great force to such Juicy, rank growing
weeds as thisleS, dock, &C.. 50 that simply NOW
ing them in the green and bloom state, and leaving
them where they fall. is to allow them, like the
other things. TO ripcn their seed. and to sow Il flu
ture crop larger than before. -Four little words put
into yearly practice and all the trouble is avoided
now dry. rake, burn


This cutting down weeds to ripen and renew
themselves in future crops, shows how the public
money goes and what, partly, You are taxed for.
There is Il law in this state paving bounty of some
SO Il head on wolves. Some years ago, some per-
sons from the back counties carried to Augusta a
lot of wolf Scalps which get the bounties See
inc that they all Young wolf scalps, we inquir
"a, the reason of that, and told that the Old
ones We're kept to do the breeding and keep the
bounty business good, In this way most people
keep the Old weeds to 40 the breeding in this line
and keep the stock good And it is as pertinent to
our subiect-thstles--ls most sermons to the
teNts.-to say that this wolf bounty business is II,
very fair sample of all the bounes, from those of
catching fish TO high tariffs; they help breed finely
for the profit of the few which the many. to their
lnSs have a my.
Year: 1869

The statement is made that Mrs. Caroline
f Browne, mother of the late "Artemss
Ward, after waiting long, By the advice Of
friends, for the public to erect monument
over the grave of her son, and feeling morti,
fed that there is nothing to mark bis resting
place. has determined to put up grave.
stone at her own expense. Why not? This
monument business at public expense il
about to be run into the ground
Year: 1869

The appointment of old Ben Wade as one
Of the government directors of the Pacific
railroad has been ridiculed on tho ground
that be knows nothing about such matters
This is n mistake. He was the chief engin.
eer of tho underground RAILROAD through
Ohio for several years before the war and
did successful business, His being a Wig.
orous swearer is not his only qualification
tor his new office.
Year: 1869

um on gold ought to fall, and the public
credit in all respects be strengthened Such


large, quick aud unexpected advance as
that Of last month derAnges business aud
value, and works greatly to the detriment
of the mercantile interests Of the country


There is no doubt that tho carrying out Of
the ideas Of Grants inaugural with a sound
treasury policy and proper administration
of the treasury would prevent these embar.
RAISING and injurious fluctuations and al
some time soidly establish the public credit
Year: 1869

The business Of the old Arm will be settled by
the undersigned, who will conduct the business
Of the late firm, and hopeI to share portion Of
the very liberal patronage bestowed on them
heretofore. HENRY CAKSE'


Rock Island, May I4-d+t