smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1860

IN Interesting Neettay-Among the
rescued from the slave bark wildfre at Key
West, are middle aged woman and three
children. She seemed quiet and subdued
in manner, and excited no special attention,
other than that she had part Of her family
with her. Her great hope was to meet the
others from whom fate had separated her.
On the landing Of the William S cargo, she,
with the others of the first arrival peeped
through the fence which separated the new
comers from the old. Quick maternal in-
stinct discovered one, two, three and four
among the crowd who she claimed as her
daughters. She gave vent to her Joy in the
loud language Of song, and the children
hearing the familiar air Of home, caught
sight of the singer, in whom they found
their lost mother The meeting was one Of
tumultuous joy; shouts arose from three
hundred voices for the gladness Of sim
pie mother and with her four daughters
entw ned in each others arms, the mother
took them with her, to meet the long sepa-
rated, Of whose fate each party was in ut
ter Ignorance.


Tenacity Of DeaM Grp-The body
of the boy Smith, who, with his brother,
was drowned at Albany on Sunday, was re-
covered opposite this city yesterday-six
miles up stream. As some men employed
on board of one Of the tow boats were en-
gagged hauling up the hawser the body Of
the little fellow was found both hands
clinging to the rope with all the tenacity
that has ever been ascribed to the death
grip. 1t is supposed that as he was sink
ing he grasped the rope, but was too far
gone to pull himsclfup to the surface. BY
this grasp the corpse was fastened to the
rope for forty eight hours, and its tenaclty
was SO great that even the very strong cur
rent necessarily met with in dragging the
body six miles up stream had not force
enough to loosen it Troy Times, June g.
Year: 1860

For De&crt-Iine a large dish with
thin pieces of sponge, Or any other cake,
spread quite thick with jelly or marmalade
OF any kind. Prepare your cream and
eggs-half the quantity will be sufficient,
as for the whips described above-and fill
your dish with it. This is delicious des-
sert, and can be made 50 quickly that it is
a convenient resort when you wish to add
to your dinner or tea for an unexpected
guest.
Year: 1860

E HEADAcHE is the favorite sign by which na-
ture makes known any deviation whatever from The
natural of the BRAIN and viewed in this light
it may be looked on as safeguard intended to give
notice of disease which might otherwise escape at
tention till too late to be remedied and its ndica
tions should never be neglected Headaches may
be classified undert two names, viz Symptomatic and
Idiopathic Svmptomatic Headache Is exceedingly
common and is the precursor of a great vaaiety of
matism and all febrile diseases In its form
it is sympathetic of disease of the stomach consti
tuting sick headache of hepatic disease constituting
bilaous headache, of worms. constipation and other
disorders of the bowels, well renal and uterine
affections Diseases of the heart are very frequent
ly attended with Headaches; Aaamia and plethora
are also affections which frequently occasion head
ache Idiopathic Headache is also very common,
being usually distinguished by the name of nervous
headache, sometimes coming on suddenly in a state
of apparently sound health and rrostratng at once
the mental and physical energies, and in ether in
stances it comes slowly, heralled by depression
of spirits acerbity of temper. In most instances
the pain is in the front of the head, both
eyes, ard sometimes provoking vomiting; under this
class may also be named Neuralgia


For the treatment of either class of Headache the
Cephalic Pills have been found sure and safe rem
edy, relieving the most acute pains in few minutes,
and by its subtle power eradcating the diseases of
which Headache is the unerrlng index.
Year: 1860

IHE AMALGAMATIoN OF LANaUAGEs-There is
growing tendency IN this age to appropriate the
most expressive words of other languages and after
a while to incorporate them into our own thus the
word Cephalic which is freq the Greek, signifying
: for the head" is now bectsaing popularized in
connection with Mr.. Spalding great Headache
remedy, but it will soon be used ina more general
way, and the word Cephalic will become common
as Electrotype and many Others whose distinction
as foreign words has been worn away by common
usage until they seem &c native and to the nfsspor
born
Year: 1860

CvEe ExcITEMENT, and the mental care and
anxiety incident to close attention. to business
study are among i he numerous of Nervous
Headache The disordered state of mind and body
incident to this distressing complaint is fatal blow
to all energy and ambition. Sufferers by this diSor
der can always obtain speedy relief from these dis
trcssing attacks by using one of the Cephac Pills
whenever the symptoms appear. 1t quiets the over.
taSlled brain and sonhes the strained and jarring
nerves and relaxes the esion of the stomach which
always accompanies and aggrayates the disordefed
condition of the brain.
Year: 1860

rF DID you ever have the Sick Headache? =? Do
you remember the throbbing temples, the fevered
brow the loathing and disgust at the sight of food
How totally unfit you We're for pleasure, converse
relieved you from the suffering which you then
experienced For this and other purposes you
should always have box of them on hand to use as
occasion requires.
Year: 1860

GREAT DIscovERY.-Among the mort important
of all the great medical discoveries of this age may
be considered the system Of vaccination for protec
ton from Small POx, the Cephac Pill for relief of
Headache. and the use of Quinne for the preven-
tion of Fevers either of which is specific,
whose benefits will he experienced by suffering hu
manty long after their discoveries are forgotten.
Year: 1860

Can procure Railroad Receipts, Bills of Exchange.


&C., at the Progress Office where every species of
printing is done at short notice IF the Union is to
be dissolved let US keep all the money at home we
can. So get these things here--even should thew
cost little more, which don't think Will be the
Year: 1860

We have high authority for stating that before
the food there marrying and giving IN mar
yrage. up to the day when Noah entered the ark


we know that it was said of old: The Son of
Man cometh Ike Thief in the night" and in


the twinkling of an eye we shall be caught up.


We know that human affairs often proceed calm


1v and in their usual routine when the most tre-
rnendous crisis are at hand the people of Pom
pei were in the amphitheatre when the erup


fion of VesuVus overwhelmed them, and Bel
shazzar was feasting his lords while the enemy
let the river overflow bis city. Later, yet, the
ball on the of Waterloo is famous; Mr.
Everett said well, year ago: " The ordinary


business operations weEt on in France in the rev.
oution Of 1889, till the snnihilation of the circu-
lating medium put stop to every thing that re
.ouired its use. The theatres and operas and all
the other places of public amusement were crow
ded to madness during the reign of terror" The
revolution which overturned the theatre of Louis
Philippe occurred two days after the interruption
Of banquet and when no one of the ordinary av-
ecatiors of the business or social world of Paris
had been at all nterfered with People paid Wis
its and gave balls and went to the opera, and
dreamed not how near was the future, SO big with
events So now, those who fancy that because
the shops are open and thronged, because the
faneurs are seen on Broadway, because parties
are given, because the picture galleris open,
and the theatres succesfuI-need not lay the fat
terng JUNCTION to their souls that revolution is
to be appended here. 1.-The greSt social machine
moves with momentum that cannot be sudden
ly stopped And indeed, when misfortunes are
blackest, people sometimes rush to pleasure with
the maddest zest. The cholera season has been
known to be fortunate one for places of anus
ment. Three years ago, during the financial pa1l-
ic New York merchants might be every
night at the opera, who had failed during the day
anxious for while to distract their minds from
the contemplation of what either unavoida
FDe or rremediable. Let not then, those who
are casual observers fancy they see in their eve
ry day life no indications of storm, that it is
sure net to break upon them. We are in the
midst of the most momentous crisis that has c.
Cured in the history of the nation; we may be
on the brink of revolution and those who close
their eyes to this fact, will be infinitely the most
likely to be precipitated.-New York E1press.
Year: 1860

The Wabash Intelligencer tells the follow
ing of bee tanner in that place:


"One o: the remarkable sights on the
fourth was Mr.. Twining and his queen bee.
The day before he came into our Office with
an old plug hat. He had two holes in it q
bout midway to the crown-one in front, the
other in the back part. Holding the hat in
his hand and turning it over SO as to show
that it was empty, he said, You see that this
is now empty. Tomorrow intend to have
a swarm of bees in it making honey, and l
intend to wear it on my head with the bees
in it. Sure enough, on the fourth as We
were going out into the grove We came a.
Gross Mr.. Twining. He was located under a
shady tree and was exhibiting to an admir-
ing crowd of men and women his wonderful
patent beehive. Or his head was the iden-
teal hat that ne had shown US the day be-
fore. 1t was literally covered all o.
yer with bees, busy at work going in and out
at the orifces before mentioned. All the
spare space in the hat was filled with new
comb, that had been made within twelve
hours. In his hand he held the queen bee,
which he was showing to every one who
would venture near enough to gaze on and
admire the wonderful little insect During
all the time he was giving an eloquent and
instructive lecture on the habits, worth and
care of bees"
Year: 1860

On the Indiana and Cincinnati Railroad
pleasure party rode short distance, when
they alighted. and stood around on the small
platform, covering it completely, waiting to
see the cars move before leaving for the
woods. Just as the train started the skeleton
skirt of one of the young ladies, who happen
ed to be standing close to the train, caught
on a nut on the side of one of the cars, throw
ing her from her feet. Very fortunately, the
train was moving quite slowly at the time, or
the consequences might have been more seri-
Gus. AS it was the young lady was pretty
roughly used. A stout man in the party
seeing her condition, at once raised her in his
arms, and pulled with all his strength, endeav-
oring to tear her loose; but the skirt was
both strong and firmly fastened, and not ur.
til all the girls under-clothing was pulled
from her body, and her dress torn to shreds
did he succeed. All this transpired while the
train was moving distance of twenty OF
thirty feet, when the conductor saw the dan
ger and instantly checked its motion. In
deed, the girl was not entirely released unit
the train had stopped. After the excitement
of the moment had passed, it was discovered
that both the soles of the girls shoes, by tht
resistance she had offered to the train, haG
been completely stripped away, leaving th'
uppers upon her feet. Strange to say, sh'
escaped any serious injury. She was imme
dately encircled by number of her female
friends, who conveyed her to the village
where her wants were properly attended t.
by the villagers.
Year: 1860

POPULAR SOVEREIGNTY The Albany Jour-
nal speaks of popular sovereignty after the
following manner:


The territories of the Union, whether pur-
chased from France or conquered from Mex
leo, were all originally Free. Some were so
under their former laws; others had been de-
clared so by the Missouri Compromise. The
repeal of that compromise was simply to allow
them to choose slavery: for freedom they had
already.


The whole transaction was like stopping
the cars and turning the passengers out into
the road, in order that they might exercise
their sovereign" right of choosing whether
they would ride or walk. The territories
were on the way to freedom already, had Sc
cured and were enjoying it +; and the pretence
of allowing them to choose over again wheth-
er they would have it or slavery, was wholly
for the purpose Of giving slavery chance to
get footho!d.


! 1t was like taking a mans purse from his
pocket, and throwing it into the street; tell
ing him, when he demonstrated, that he had
the same right to scramble for it as anybody
else! The territory belonged to the Freemen
of the Union already, and all the purpose of
the Popular Sovereignty" scheme was to
give shareholders a chance to wrest it away
from them.
Year: 1860

When the large pipes Tor the new main
were laid recently at the corner of Boy lSton
and fremont Streets, many observers watch
ed the process curiously and were impressed
with the fact that there is a subterranean city
as we'll as one above ground. But in Paris
the sewers are large enough to be traversed
on foot with ease and comfort. The Jour
nal says


A correspondent of Swedish journal fur
nishes an interesting account of a subterra-
mean voyage made through one of the adm-
rably constructed sewers of Paris. The boa,
which conveyed the party was reached by de-
scendins flight of steps to the depth Of a
bout forty-fve feet. The boat, a fat bottom
ed affair, was lighted by four lamps. The
sewer is an archway fifteen feet high, and of
equal breadth with ditch or canal about ten
feet wide wherein all the dirt and filth of
Paris is carried away On the sides are side
walks which are together about four feet
!
white sandstone, and is kept remarkably neat
and clean. No stencil or bad smell was per
cepti5le. The denser portion of the filth is
carried away through large drains beneath
| the sidewalks. The sidewalks are excellent
and exhibited no signs of dampness, while
the walls of the archway are kept whitewash
ed and are at all times as white as the driver
snow. The structure possesses the proper
ties Of an immense speaking tube, the work
men being able to converse at the distance
of two miles from each other. The echo il
very strong and lasting. The fabric is sal,
to be built after model of the catacombs 0
Rome, aided by all the latest Improvements
On both sides at about two hundred yards
distance from one another are openings b,
which the workmen can ascend by means Of
permanent iron ladders in case sudden rail-
STERN should cause the water to rise over th'
sidewalks, which is however of rare occur
renee.


The contents of the sewer of course flow
into the river Seine, and the current is sutfi
cient to carry the boat used along with con
siderable velocity. Large reservoirs are con
structed at intervals into which the water Cal
be turned for short time in case it be neces
sary to have the canal dry for little while


The whole work was completed in two years
Besides the main canal there are many mino
ones constructed under the principal streets
all of which can be made to communicat
with one another. These admirable under
ground works are accessible from the Louvr
the Tuilleries, and from all the barracks, ant
should the Parisians take a notion to barri
cade the streets in any part of the city, tn
Imperial government might at short motto
and without any person being aware of i,
transport troops, and if there is time to max
use of the reservoirs, so can cavalry also b
transported the same way. There is an en
to shooting on the soldiers from the window
and revolution in Paris will soon only b


remembered among things that have beer
never to occur again. Through these under
ground passages prisoner can easily be ia
ken from the Louvre to the Seine w:thou
attracting attention, and thence sent off b
railway which is near at hand. This spler
did system of sewerage was one of the pe
schemes of the first Napoleon.
Year: 1860

T. Said DR.. Payson, "God has been de
priving me of one blessing after another
but as every one was removed He has come
in and filled up its place and now when
am cripple and not able to move, am hap
pier than ever was in my life, or ever ex
pected to be and if / had believed thi
twenty years ago, I might have been spared
much anxiety"
Year: 1860

BAKED BEAHs.-Few people know the lux
ury Of baked beans. simply because few
cooks know how to prepare them properly
Beans, generally, are not cooked half long e.
nough. This is our method Two quarts of
middling sized white beans, two pounds of
salt pork, and one spoonful of molasses.-
Pick the beans over carefully, wash, and add
gallon of boiling hot soft water let them
soak in it over night in the morning put
them in fresh water and boil gently till tie
skin is very tender and about to break, add
ing teaspoonful of salrratus. Take them
up dry, and put them in your dish. STIR in
the molasses. cash the pork, and put it
down in the dish, so as to have the beans
cover all but the upper surface; turn in boil
ing water till the top is just covered bake
with steady fire five or six hours. Watch
them, and add more water from time to time
as it dr:es away
Year: 1860

Did you ever hear corn grow You have
probably heard the remark, "Our corn grows
so fast that you can hear it" That is sup
posed by people who don't know, to be fig
ure of speech only. but the remark out here
is literal fact Go into one of these "bot-
tom" corn fields forty or fifty rods on a warm
July day or August night, when bright
moon is up, (for vegetation grows faster in
moonlight than in darkness,) and few hours
after heavy shower that has fairly wet the
earth, and walked up the drowsy corn to its
influences, and as the main stalk stretches
and and swells in its new strength up through
the contracted lips of the upper blades, the
crack and burst around you like the stiAed
reports of ten thousand rifles. That corn
field will be scme inches higher at sunrise
the next morning than at the last sundown.
There is no mistake about it. We hare
heard corn yro~ many time, and so every
farmer along in the Sciota valley will tell
you.--Corespondenee New York World.
Year: 1860

A HANDY COVER FOR THE FLOUR BARREL.
Housekeepers generally cover their -four with
a cloth loosely thrown over the top for pro-
lection from dust. &C., consequently it is al
WAYS coming of, and mice are not kept out
of the barrel. Tc prevent this annoyance,
take tine top hoop, after the head of the bar
rel is removed. and sew in white cloth it
makes nice, convenient, and firm cover,
thus protecting the -four from dirt and YER
min.
Year: 1860

A CHINESE RAcE.-Imagine from ten to
twenty shaggy animals of every color and
size, from ten to fourteen hands high, some
of them resembling bears more than horses,
mounted by Cinnamon of the most grotcs-
que appearance and costume, and literally
covered by housings or saddles nearly as
large as themselves. Upon the start being
effected, one half of these jockeys are un.
horsed, or rather unhoused, and are either
biting the dust or waddling after their i'm
practicable steeds. Their companions who
manage to keep their seats, and to direct
their course in a proper direction, continue
to gallop on until some other catastrophe
ensucs, such as the reversing one of their
sheep. skin saddles, or the pony boiling
with his rider into one of the muddy ditch
es that line each side of the course; and
there are rarely more than ono or two SUR
vivors that accomplish the whole round
These would, if permitted, continue to gal
lop to the end of time, or at least to the
end Of their ponies, having no idea Of the
termination Of the race, and are often left
to do so amidst the cheers of the spectators,
so that the one that holds out the longest is
declared the winner. The races terminate
in balls, dinner parties, and all the profusion
Of eastern hospitality.
Year: 1860

Woman More Secret than We suPPossd'


All the Year Round promugates new
doctrine on this subject: -


We laugh at woman,s tongue, and wot:
der when woman keeps secret; but every
true woman keeps box of choice preserves


for her own private indulgence. The name


mysteries are not hers; If he cannot keep
them himself, let him expect them to b.
blown abroad Her own secrets of love, Of
loss, of selfdenial, of unsuspcctcd sufiefing.
no woman exposes altogether, even hct dear
est friend. There never lived q husband
happy in the true love Of his wife, who
knew all the depths Of her mind about him.
Every sman profits stupidly by the :wise
little dcccptions that arise so quietly and
have no utterance except in deeds, of which
we vaguely ascribc the fitness to q special
faculty called woman fact Woman, in
short, keep to themselves four-fifths of thc
secrets of society, and do it with q win.
ming air Of frankness all their own.


A man with secret will be stony, OF
portentous, or provokingly suggestive; he
will keep his mouth shut ostentatiously. A
woman is too absolutely secret to set up a
public sign over whatever may lio buried ir
her mind. She gossips, prattles, pour out
what she does no. care to hold, with such
an air Of unreserved simplicity that all man.
kind is mystificd, and says, in friendly Jest,
"A woman only hides what she don't
know" Among the uneducated poor, this
difference between the woman and the man
is most conspicuous. The innate powers Of
the sex place her at once upon the eminence
which man can only reach by education:
She must needs often be tied to one whom
there is not the grain Of understanding ro-
quisite to the formation of true sympathy.
BY far the greater number Of the wives Of
laborers and mechanics live moro
Or less happily, and more or less conscious
of the hidden life within them, having such
4 seal upon their mind and hearts.
Year: 1860

A WORD TO BUSINESS MEN-Takc down
your ledger, open your pocket book, pull
out your drawers, look over your papers,
and see what portion of your capital is ly-
ing dead. If you arc actually in business,
(and If you are not you ought to be,0 all
such capital should be brought into use as
soon as possible.
Year: 1860

as if she had been taken out of bath.
She so strongly resembled the princess
from Egypt, that the stork at first thought
it was herself who had become an infant
again, but when he considered the matter
he came to the conclusion that she was
the daughter of the princess and the mud


king, therefore she lay in the calyx of a


water-lilIy.
Year: 1860

REMAINS OF AN ANCIENT MONSTER In
the National Democrat, published in the
parish of Rapides, we find the follow
ing: 80


Our friend b. lfallefret las disen-
tombed the remains of some gigantic
antedeluvian monster. We visited him
on tuesday, when he had succeeded in
taking out the upper jaw and head of
some animal bearing some resemblance
to the elephant-two tusks, about four
feet in length, were taken out with the
jaw and head. From the position of the
remains they had evidently been seat
tered, as the balance of the bones are
not yet found. The spot in which these
remains were found is just few hundred
yards above the lower falls, ten feet
from the present hight of the water, and
on the Alexandria side.
Year: 1860

SIXTH WARD WIDE AwAKE.-0ur Republi-
can friends in the 9th ward are doing nobly.
If the ward does not give largely increased
Republican majority, it will not be for want
Of steady enthusiastic work. At less than a
weeks notice Wide Awake Club was form
cd, and one hundred turned out at the dem
onstration on Thursday last. The COMMITTEES
have the name of every voter in the ward
upon their list for checking of, and they will
know very nearly when the polls close to-
morrow night how the vote stands.


The Germans had rousing meeting Sat
urday night, and this evening injecting will
be held to give one grand rally before meet
ing at the ballot-box. Able speakers will be
in attendance, and grand time may be ex-
peCted. The call will be found elsewhere.