smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1860

luton. All their entreaties. their misery.
their tears, could not induce her to change
her mind, and she soon entered convent
OF Marseilies as a postulant'


Six months after that fatal day, Just as
the time for her to take her VOWS was an
preaching, her family were pleasantly start
led by letter from their daughter, inform.
ing them that she had altered her mind
and wished to 90 back to them, to the
world, to pleasures, to happiness. For the
last three nights, she said, she had seen in
her dreams her beloved Charles, entreating
her. with tears in his eyes and the sweet
est voice, not to fulhll her terrible resolu-
ton, not to complete sacrifice which
would be the death Of them both. For
Charles was yet alive and would be soon
back, to keep his sacred promise and end
all her griefs. The nuns of the convent
had good humoredly laughed at her, and
tried to persuade her to stay amongst them.
in that quiet retreat, where she might. IN
disturbed, lament all her life the dear com
panion of her youth. Fox he was dead,
said they, and it was foolish to believe in
those supernatural apparit;ons. But she
was unshaken in her faith, and 20 all their
cntreatic3 she would answcr that her te-
trothed would soon be back, and. of course,
she must be at home 10 receive him.


Although the parents Of the young pos
tulant' did not believe, any more than the
nuns, that such 4 strange dream would ev-
er be realized, they were so much gladden.
ed by the letter Of their daughter that thew
decided not to say one word to undeceive
her. She might 90 on from day to dav,
hoping all the time for an arrival which
would never take place, and little by little
they thought the deep wound Of her heart
might be healed


Accordingly, on that very DAY, they
went to the convent, and in less than one
hour their only child was crossing again
the threshold Of the old family mansion
Her first thought was for her little room.
where she had gathered 50 many dear to-
kens and souvenirs from her cousin She
hastens up stairs, and she goes so fast that
her delighted parents can hardly follow her
But when she is on the landing, whom
does she see, standing in the door of that
room so long shut up? Charles, her aE
tianccd, who looks at her, smiling with hap
piness, and opens his arms to clasp her to
his bosom


1t is no longer a dream. Charles holds
her locked in his ar.as, kissing her and
mingiing his tears with her own. But
when he opens his arms again to receive
the caresses Of her parents, she sinks and
drops heavily upon the floor.


She was dead dead with surprise and
happiness dead without uttering one cry,
without heaying one sigh
Year: 1860

IF Brother Jonathan were as saving Of
nanures, as John Bull is, he would be 6
better farmer. No ono knows until he
has seen ii, how careful English and Euro
pean farmers aud gardeners are Of every
thing WHICH can be converted into manure,
And this is one ground of their superiority
in agriculture.


Now let US respeat what we haYe often
said, that few things are more valuable for
fertilizing purposes than deeayed leaves
They are hardly inferior to barn yard ma
nure. Gather them up, now this very
month Of November, before they are COW
cred by the snow They are abundant
everywhere, lying in heads and windrows
in the forest and by the roadside, and by
the fences in every yard. The wood-lot
should not be stripped clean of them bu5
doubtless every farmers land contains more
of them here and there, than lie can find
time SO cart home. Gather them up by
raking, or BY sweeping with large birch
broom. Stack them and pack them in the
large wagon, adding side boards as high as
convenient: you viii hardly get too heavy
load. Cart them home, and use them as
bedding for cattle and horses use them
for compost in the stable yard use them
to protect tender grape vines and shrubs
and plants in winter Strawberry patches
will fairly sing for Joy under such feath-
cry blanket. By all means save the leaves,
and use them.-American A5y5tahTtSt ,
Year: 1860

The last number of the French Psyche
has a story of love affair which has deep
ly moved the whole population Of Mar
seilles, but will hardly be credited by per-
sons who do not believe in supernatural ap-
partitions, However, here is the story in
as few cords as possible


Charles R was born in wealthy
family Of merchants, and an orphan from
his childhood, had been brought up at his
uncle'S with cousin whose beauty, sweet
ness and graces never failed to produce a
lasting impression on all persons of her ac-
quaintance. 1t is consequently not at all
surprising that Charles r., who had grown
up In her intimate society, should have fall
len deeply in love with such fascinating
cousin. Nor was his love unrequited for,
when the proper time came, she decided
With the consent of her family, that their
marriage should take place as soon as he
was twenty years Of age. Just about that
time, his uncle, having received from Cal
cutta the news Of the failure of house
with which he was doing an extensive bust
ness, sent the young Charles to that dist
ant port to effect liquidation. The mar
riage was necessarily postponed, and the
young lover left Marseilles, promising to
write as often as God and the ocean would
allow, and to return as soon as his business
was settled.


-Four months passed on and no news
came from the young traveller. His rela-
tions, and more particularly his cousin, be-
gan to feel uneasy and we're already accu-
sing him of neglect, when one day they
read in the papers Of the total loss Of the
steamer on which they knew that Charles
had gone. The young MarseilIaise vas
almost mad with grief; and after lcng
and dangerous illness, the poor girl, dis
heartened, and seeing before her nothing
but complete blank, resolved 70 spend
the remainder Of her life in convent, to
mourn, far from the world, for the only one
she had ever loved It was in vain her pa
rents tried to dissuade her from that reso-
Year: 1860

A LITERALEUR ON BLLIARps.-The follow
ing is Doesticks' idea Of the game Of billiards:
/" need hardly tell you that the game Of BIZ
liards consists in punching ivory balls about
on q big table covered with green cloth that
looks like half an acre Of meadow land with
an India rubber fence around it; that the.
balls arc punched with long wooden ramrods
with wax on the end to save the wood, and
leather on the end to save the wax, and chalk
put on to keep the leather from wearing out.
You take your ramrod and rub some chalk on
the little end then you lean over the tables
then you sqnint; then you lift up your Lex |;
then you fiddle little on your left hand with
your ramrod then you puch your ball; If
your ball runs against the other mans ball
you've done Zig thing, and you poke up
lot Of buttons that are strung on wire.--
This is all there is Of the game Of billiards.
Anybody can punch billiards. can, and
maybe you could"
Year: 1860

Bulwer eloquently says Il cannot believe
that earth is mans abiding place. II cannot
be that our life Is cast upon the ocean Of
eternity to float moment upon its waves and
sink into nothingness. Else Why is it, that
the glorious aspirations, which leap hike an
gels from the temple of our heart, are forever
wandering about unsatisfied? Why is II that
the rainbow and cloud como over us with
beauty that Is not Of earth, and then pass OF
and leave us to muse upoh their faded lowell
ness? Why IS it the stars who hold their
festival around the midnight throne, arc set
above the grasp of our limited faculties, for
ever mocking us with their unapproackablc
glorys And FINALLY why is it that bright
forms OF human beauty are represented to
our view, and then taken from US, leaving
the thousand streams of our affections to How
back in Alpine torrents upon our hearts p
We arc born for higher destiny than that
OF earth, there is realm where the rainbow
never fades; where the stars will be spread
over us, like islands that slumbcr on the
ocean, and where the beings that pass before
us like shadows, will stay in our presence for
ever. ~. A>.G


The following beautiful thought is from
the pen OF Geo. ID. Prentice: ~
There is but breath of air and beat Of
the heart between this world and the next.
And in q brief interval Of painful and awful
suspense, while we feel that Death is present
with us that he is oil powerful and we are
powerless, and that the last faint pulsatioh
here is but the prelude Of endless life hereaf-
ter; we feel in the midst of the stunning ca
lamity about to fall upon us, that earth has
no compensating good to mitigate the sever
ity Of our loss. But there is no grief without
some bcnificent provision to soften its in.
tenseness. When the good and the lovely
die, ,the memory Of their deeds like the Moon
beams on the stormy sea, light up our dark
ened hearts, and lends to the surrounding
gloom beauty SO sad, so sweet, that wc
would not, if We would dispel the darkness
that enyirons II. a.
Year: 1860

Perhaps the first thought suggested to most
Christians by the mention of the society in
heaven, is of their own personal friends whom
they have right to hope to meet there. The
frequency and earnestness with which the
question is asked, Shall we know our friends
in heaven? serves to illustrate the fact that
God made man to find no inconsiderable nor.
ton Of happiness in loving, and in being loved
by limited number Of peculiar personal
friends. The question Just quoted seems to
be gratuitous yet it has been great interest
for multitudes, precisely because SO much
happiness depends upon the proximity and
the fellowship Of earthly friends. Close up-
on the question, Shall we know our friends
in heaven? follows another, Shall we be
with them p and still another, will they be
to us in heaven what they have been on earthy'


Nothing can be more natural than asking
these questions; yet they ought never to hare
occasioned great anxiety in the heart Of Chris
uans, nor would they have done SO, but for
.nc Iamcntable distrust Of Gods Kindness
which prevails. So surely as God gave to us
friendship, and the interchange Of friendly
offices, our necessity, as well as our Joy, and
an inseperable portion of our immortal na-
ture just so surely as God himself is love
and the truest, warmest friend in the universe
just as surely will he re-unite Christian
friends in heaven. s-e ...s


AN INGENIOUS EDlroR.-Mr. Beach, of the
New York San, Is an inventor Of no inconsid-
cradle rank. Some of his models adorn the
cabinets Of the patented inventions at Wash
ington; and his name stands recorded, both
in Europe and America, as the author and
patentee Of q number of valuable improve
ments. He is even now just completing the
construction of . monster steam printing press
by which the sheets are cut from the rolls.
dampened, printed on both sides at the rate OF
forty thousand impressions an hour, folded
up. counted and delivered from the machine
ready for the carrier and the mail. This ma
chine is as high as q common two-story coun-
try dwelling house, and it will, when finished
If the expectations Of its inventor are real
ized--cOnstitutc most extraordinary speci-
men ofmechanical skill and ingenuity. Thus
it is that our inventors are to be found in
every walk in life. always contributing some.
thing new and useful for the common benefit
OF mankind. Scientific american.
Year: 1860

1S- y lady who had read of the ex,en-
SIve Manufacture of oiometers, TO tell how
lar carriage hal been run, she said she
WISHED some genius would invent an instru-
Ineni TO tell how far husbands had been in
the evening when they stepped down to
the post Office or went out to attend a
Caucus
Year: 1860

l authorized.o to say in Your last issue;
that l Dot a candidate for Clerk thought
then would not be candidate, but have welded
Ia the earnest solicitations of many of nv friends
and now wish to say through your paper, that if
the good people of Crawford want me for Clerk
they have only to elect and will serve Us best
l can, and thank them too


L. W TALKISGToS
Year: 1860


Say, can ask for thee what thou hast not
Is not thine own truly favored lot
From the first dawn of infancy till now
Has augbt but happiness swept DER thy brow
And knowing this, how vain were wish of mint
To call down blessings which were ever thine
Then, while the past its own bright impress
bears
While the unclouded present owns for thee nj
cares
For the dim future will ask of Heaven
AL that to mortal ever yet was given.
Its joys to bless--its hopes to cheer
It's peace to soothe--its light to guide thee here
And while offer up for thee this prayer,
My own shall be that may meet thee there.


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Yazoo County, April 24th 1860.
Year: 1860

CHEATING THE Subsistence and practice
unite in averring that when the farmer cheats
the soil, he cheats himself. Science asserts
that when the soil gives up to the husband
man more than it receives in return, it grows
poor; and experience, have no doubt, will
confirm the fact, that it is equally improbable
for the farmer. Furnish nature with the ma
terial, and she will manufacture for you with
aut charge the valuable products you may
covet. Rob her of the means of labor, and
her returns will be scanty. She cannot work
out miracle. l believe that many of our far
mers pursue very impolitic course. That
only is valuable in farm which is capable OF
being converted into vegetation, or in some
way aids in the growth of plants and that is
the most valuable portion which may in the
least time be transformed into garden vegetable
products. Every crop selects the most avail
able part of the soil, and when removed from
the field, the land is deprived of that part of
itself which was especially useful in producing
the crop. The soil, as it were, becomes cul-
led each season parting with its most valua.
bic constituents, and in a short time all that
was worth anything is gone. The man con-
tinues to own his land, but has lost his farm.
1t will usually take but little while to dis
pose of all that is valuable in the soil; the
farmer owns the same number of acres he pur-
chased, on which he can pay his annual tax
but the farm he bought has been sold.-Prof.
Fisk's .4dIress.
Year: 1860

SEcRETs.-We laugh at woman's tongue,
and wonder when woman keeps a secret; but
every woman Keeps box of choice reserves
for her own private Indulgence. The mans
mysteries are not hers if he ca not keep them
to himself let him expect them to be blown
abroad. Her own secrets Of love, of loss, of
self-denal, Of unsupported suffering, no wo-
man exposes to her nearest friend. There
never lived husband happy in the true love
of his wife, who fairly knew all the depths of
her mind about him. Every man profits stu
pldly by the wise little perceptions that arise
SO quietly, and have no utterance except in
deeds, of which we vaguely ascribe the fitness
to special faculty called woman tact Wo-
men, in short, keep to themselves four-fifths of
the secrets of society, and do it with win
ming air of frankness all their own. A man
with secret will be stony or portentious. or
provekingiy Suggestive; he will keep his
mouth shut ostentatiously. A woman is too
absolutely secret to set up public sigh over
whatever may lie buried in her mind. She
gossips. prattles, pours out what she does not
careto hold, with such an air of unreserved
simplicity, that all mankind is mystified, and
says. in friendly jest, ga woman only hides
what she don't know.''
Year: 1860

Ore of the religious papers has the follow
ing strong remarks on the religion of paying
debts. They drive the nail up to the head and
clinch it:-ssMen may sophisticate as they
please. They can never make it right, and all
the bankrupt laws in the universe cannot make
itright for them not to pay their debts. There
is sin in this neglect as clear and as deserv.
ing of church discipline as stealing or false
swearing. He who violates his promise to
pay, or withholds the payment of debt, when
it is in his power to meet his engagement.
ought to be made to feel that in the sight OF
all honest men he is swindler. Religion
may be very comfortable cloak, under which
to hide but if religion does not make man
sdeal JUSTLY it is not worth having"
Year: 1860

Hay, speak no i'll kindly word


Can never leave a sting behind;
And, oh to- breathe each tale we've hsazc
Is far beneath a noble mind.
Full oft better seed is sown,


BY choosing thus the kinder plan;
For if but little good be known,


Still let us speak the best we can,
Give US the heart that fain would hide,


Would fain another faults efface;
How can it please cen human pride


To prove humanity but base
No. let us reach higher mood,


A nobler sentiment of man;
Be earnest in the search of good,


And speak of ell the best We can,
Then speak no i'll. but lenfent bs


To ether's failings az yoar cwn;
II you re the first fault to see,


BE not the first to make it known.
For life is but passing day,


No lip may tell how brief its span;
Then. oh the little time we stay,


Let's speak of all the best we can.
Year: 1860

Hollow Horn IN Cows.-A correspondent of
the Germantown Telegraph, communicates tho
following :-ssI formerly did, as everybody
else did, with case of this disease, viz: Bore
the horns, cut the tail ,and turpentine the back,
which oftentimes gave relief. But for the last
two years, have practised differently, being
a method that was informed rarely failed in
curing case of this kind. 1t is thus Take
one tablespoonful of fine saltpetre, one do.
of fine salt, one do. of ground black pepper ;
add to this flour and water enough to make
into pills; it will make three about the size of
a hulled walnut. These make the cow swal-
low in this way have her tied IN the stable.
take hold of her nose, open her mouth and
drop ore in at time, after she swallows give
her another in the same way and SO on. Gen
orally one dose is sufficient if she is not bet
ter. repeat the dose the following day. 1t has
never failed to cure for me. 1t would not be
prudent to let the COW out in rain or rongh
weather for a day or so after giving the above
medicine"
Year: 1860

At Womelsdorf, Berks county, Pa, few
days since. boy about six years old was Bit
ten in the nose by small pet dog. The
wound was only slight scratch, but the lad
was taken sick the same day from its effects,
vomited considerably, and by next day at noon
was a corpse.
Year: 1860

A happy woman! Is not she the sparkle
and sunshine of life? A woman who is hap-
ny because she can't help ii-yhose smile
even the coldest sprinkle of misfortun can
not dampen. Men make a terrible mistake
when they marry for beauty, for talent, or
for style tbe sweetest wives are those who
possess the magic secret Of being eontented
under any circumstances, Rich or poor,
high or low, it makes no difference the
bright little fountain of Joy bubbles up just
as musically in their hearts, Do they live
in a log cabin? The fire light that leaps up
on its humble hearth stones becomes bright
er than the gilded chandeliers in an Aladdin
palace. Was ever the stream of life SO dark
and unpropitous that the sunshine of haps
Ply face falling across its turpid tida, would
not awaken an answering gleam Why,
these joyous tempered people don 'tknow half
the goo1 they do,
Year: 1860

"a A moral man reed not tell the world
that he is such it will be known without
Just as a wicked man is known by his evil
deeds, Is good man known by his righteous
acts, and it will be known without being
told.
Year: 1860

A full report of statistics from the M. E. Sun
day School Union was read at the New York
Methodist Episcopal Conference, last Thursday,
comprising the following dstails for the year
Year: 1860

cratic party now seems impracticablc. The South
cannot enter tho Baltimore Convention without
abandoning it's lofty position, and the gulf will
Consequently soon be impossible. Shall we hnve
n Richmond nomination If not then the Union
ticket will be taken up with enthusiastic zeal In eve
ry Southern State. II will become ihc palladium
Of safety, and may be crowned with victory.
Year: 1860

HrpRorAraIc.-Dr Smith, the proprietor
Of the celebrated Water Cure establishment
in Sacramento, arrived in this city, yesterday,
from some oft mountain towns where he
has been lecturing He proceeds to OroviIle
to-day where he will lecture this evening
Tomorrow he will return to this city, and
in the evening address the people upon the
history and nature of the hydropathie
science.
Year: 1860

A SMALL schooner is building at San Fran
cisco to be put in the cocoa-nut oil trade be-
tween small island in the Pacific ocean and
Honolulu. A party Of men are already at
work on the island, and have more than a
cargo ready for her.
Year: 1860

LEvIATHAN GIFT ENrERrAINMENT.-We nc
tice that the tickets for this entertainment are
going off very rapidly. The office is crowded
nightly. Those who wish chances had bet
ter secure them soon.
Year: 1860

HArs FOR 1s6O.-Elegant and fashionable
and attractive to the eye are the Spring style
of hats which may now be seen at X. Meuss-
dorfTer's popular establishment at the corner
of D and Second street. See his advertise.
ment and straightway call and get you tile
Year: 1860

FIENDIsH PLOT TO Ron AND MURDER-Or
Monday last we published a brief account Of
heartless act perpetrated on the Illinois Cen
tral Railroad. The Illinois State Journal
states that owing to the removal of the rails
from the track, and the placing of ties across
it, the down train on Wednesday night, the
23d inst, was thrown from the track. For
tunately no one was injured, although the
place at which the disaster occurred-the
bridge across the Vermill:on-invited whole
sale destruction Of life. Two men were ar
rested who had been prowling about the place
for some time. The account continues : Ad-
ditional particulars have come to us from an
authentic source, which are calculated to
thrill with horror, and exhibit naked malg-
nifty Of heart and tiendshness of purpose
scarcely credible. The men arrested confess
ed that they had, with aNview to plundering
the passengers, removed the rails and placed
ties across the track, and had even, when the
loss of life they had anticipated was providen-
tally averted removed the signal-lights which
were placed in each direction on the track to
warn approaching trains with the hope that
another train might be precipitated upon the
one already demolished, and thus give them
the opportunity out Of which they had been
cheated


But what is more horrible still, they con-
fessed that they had deliberately prepared
themselves for murder as well as robbery, and
exhibited bludgeors loaded with iron to
knock in the head, and knives of horrid pro-
portions to stab their victims should they
make any resistance 1t was feared that when
the enormity Of their intended crime was made
known they would be lynched-a fate too
lenient for such monsters With view to
their safety, they were brought up to Kan
kakee, and confined in the Jail at that place. -
Mr. Arthur, the superintendent Of the road,
despatched a number of special guards to stay
with the prisoners, and prevent the possibility
Of their escape. We hope that by no posi-
bility will justice be cheated of her dues.
Year: 1860

PUBLISHING HOUSE FOR THE BLIND-We
take pleasure in calling the attention Of our
readers to the proceedings of the Board in re-
lation to this enterprise, which may be found
in another column