smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1869

Lead me to the Rock that is higher than ],
In Its shelter I'll hide while the storm passes by
I'll yield like the howeret that bends to the gale,
And bows without breaking when tempests assail;
Then rising anew, when the storm is o'erpast,
Adore Him who sends both the calm and the blast
Lead me to the Rock that Is higher than l."
When the glare OF the noontide IL free In the sky;
When faint from the burden and heat of the day
Oh, lend me thy screen from the suns burning


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Within thy cool shadows my alter III raise,
And send up the incense Of prayer asd OF praise
Lead me to the Rock that Is higher than Il"
When the path through the desert is scorching


dry, - -
MY spirit shall find her deep cravings supplied.
In the streams of salvation that fiow from thy


side;


I'll bathe where thy waters refrerhingIy stray,
And then with rejoicing 60 forth ON my wy.
Lead me to the Rock that is higher than 4"
When the nght-wind is chill to thy covert Ill ay
Beneath thy protection my couch will spread,
No damp Of the midnight shall fall on my head,
And when the bright morning sheds light throueh


the skies,


My grateful Thanksgiving to thee shall arise.
Oh, draw me, kind Father, in faith to thy sidei
In thy secret pavilion" iain would abide;
My Covert in danger, my Screen from the heat,
My spirits Refreshment, my one sure Retreat.
strong Rock of Ages my frailty sustain!
Through mountains should crumble, thou still


shalt remain. ...a...
Year: 1869

August the llth, 1869.


For information and assistance
will drop line to you Mr.. Clerk of
the court at demoin, Ioa, will say
10 you that have married A waldo
woman that was married in that
place 23rd of august 1862 by the
name of Almyra-to one ID. o. NJ.


-, who shortly after died and
she returned home to her parents
she according to nature brought
fourth air now / will inform you
that their are some ISLANDERS t0ngs
reporting That she bare this air with.
out Being married, tall / want you
to IL you please to look IL up and
send me A certificate OF their mar
ledge that / may get at the founda-
tion of the thing so that I can put a
stop to those reports II you will be SO
kind as to confere this favor to me
and send the same to me with the
amount of trouble and damage and ]
will send you your money by mail OF
express which you choose, please
give the certificate stamp with the
seal that 1t may not be pronounsI
counterfeit will close hoping thi.
will be attended to Immediately
yours aud so forth Please direct tt
l
Year: 1869

HUMBoLDT.-Gur German fcllow-ctizens
celebration, and it will doubtless be great
success. Other classes of our population
ought to he moving, however, in response
to the invitation Of the German associa-
tons. The exercises will take place on
Tuesday next, the one hundredth birth day
of the author of Cosmos.
Year: 1869

THE Man WHO SHOT ITIN.-Thc following
communication answers the question Of the
gentleman who was shot ut the reservoir
on Wednesday night:


"REsERvoIR, September 10, 1869.
"EditorS Of the Dispatch:


Gcntlcmen,-In this mornings issue [
noticed n paragraph headed Taken by
SURPRISE" which stated that man was
shot near the reservoir fence on last We'd
nesday night by some unseen person, and
he wished to know who did it. TO comply
with bis request would state that | did it,
and regret that did not wound higher up
than the foot. / was walking on top OF the
reservoir bank after the city bells had
tolled II, and discovered some person walk
ing between me and the fence, inside the
enclosure. | hailed him three times, and
receiving no answer | went to the watch
house, got the muskct, which was charged
with turkey shot, and while he stood on the
pile of pipe l let off at him. lie cXclaim-
ed Do not kill me- and scrambled over
the high fence. | noticed next morning
| that he had blcd some on the pipe and fence.
Now, request that this gentleman, who
was trcspassing upon the city property ut
| the late hour OF l. o'clock, will come out
with his name, and state why he was near
the reservoir fence on the inside. Being
in charge Of the reservoir, deem it my
duty to the city to guard and protect the
property on the inside of the enclosure, and
shall shoot any person that comes inside
the fence at such late hour. Every person
who is consuming the water from the rescr-
voir will not blame me for shooting such
characters. l shot the man because he paid
no attention to my challenge and because
he was trespassing upon the property which
am employed by the City Council to
guard. Any person doubling my assertion
will please come up and see where this
gentleman was when | shot him.


Very respectfully,


- u Er....,,L.
Year: 1869

BALL FOR A COOP OBJEcT.-The work
men who lost their tools by the fire on Mon
day night will give grand ball at Monti-
cello Hall on next Thursday night, the
proceeds of which will be appropriated to
the purchase of new tools. Tickets for sale
ut the bookstores after Monday morning.
Year: 1869

SUNDAY. June 81, 1859.


The course Of the markets In Wall street
during the week hinged upon the announce.
men< from the Secretary OF the Treasury
that with the advent Of the new fiscal year.
beginning July l. lie would materially modify his
policy as to the sales OF government gold and pur-
chases OF government bonds The effects OF this
change were reflected by anticipation in the various
Tami1cations OF business, but more Immediately and
promptly In the price OF gold which advanced 10 the
highest point OF the week, wnen Mr.. Boutwes in
tentions were made public through the Washington
newspaper dispatches and through the publication
OF the letter Of instructions TO the Assistant Treasu
rer in this city. 1t Ia an unfortunate accompani-
ment OF the event that the speculating ciques
the first to get possession ofthe news Mr.. Boutwell,
owes 1t to himself and to the public that this piece
Of jObbery In his olllce should be fully invesrL
gated. He gave the public promise, In his speech
at the Stock Exchange that he would not lend him.
SELF to the Wall street gamblers, and went far
to institute rule that the doings or his department
should not be communicated to outsiders until after
the close Of banking hours each day. Yet the inn
portant intelligence was known In Wall street early
on Monday and was very probably used by the
cliques. The problem in godas undergoing great
many efforts at solution. The new pokcy OF the
government, which cOntemplates the sale OF mil
lion OF gold every other week instead OF
two millions per week, as heretofore, is an
important element In the calculation. The faith of
che spectators IN the highest price attained during
the week was not firm one, for they un0aded at 1t
and gave evidence OF an uDwIngness to further
operate, as result OF which the market drlfted to
figures controlled by more legitimate influences
The tendency to settle, induced by the withdrawal
Of their support, was checked by an advance in
foreign exchange. which seemed in some respects
artificial, and suggested the suspicion that Of
the holders OF gold had not, yet got from under
their loads and were stiiiening the market as a
means to their doing so probably. The price re-
acted and then became steady until the very close Of
business on Saturday, when there slight yield
ing. The course OF the market during the week is
Year: 1869

Tue tendency OF the money market was to easier
rates Immediately upon the announcement OF
an intended reduction in the amount OF the
weekly gold sales, but was arrested by the
continuance Of the influences which produced
the great irregularities and spasms Of the month
OF May and the expired portion Of June. The
struggle continued to Thursday or Friday, when
high rates collapsed. The change was more remark
able on Saturday, whom at the close money was
being lent at and i've per cent for the two days
to Monday The statement Of the banks for the week
Is favorable They have contracted their loans about
ve millions and lost nearly four millions hun
dred thousand dollars in deposits. A loss in legal
tenders Of million and a half Is almost made up by
q gain OF million and a quarter in specie. The
ioanabe resources Of the banks are thus strength
ened for the ensuing week, and 1t was doubtless
upon foreknowledge OF this fact that the "bulls"
An stocks Saturday the market up In very lively
manner. The totals Of the last two weeks are con-
Year: 1869

There are a great many women who
seem disposed to accept the title oi
weaker sex, and conform their char
acters to it in every respect. This
term, however, like softer, gentler, OF
tame as is meant, and other express
sions Of the same sort, were first ap-
piled by man to woman to indicate
his own affected superiority. They
are words of pity which scantily COW
sr a meaning of scorn. They were
never intended as compliments, and
should not be accepted as such.


Women are in no sense-physical-
ly, morally, or intellectually-less
strong by nature than man. They
have as large a sum of strength in
each respect as he, although the par
tieulars of which it is composed of
are different. The threading of a needle
is as great a proof Of physical superb
ority as the welding of a crow-bar.-
If man has the broader grasp and
stouter muscle, the woman has the
greater delicacy Of touch and precis-
ion of movement. There may be as
much strength in the one as in the
other, though its nature is totally de
ferent.


Many women have, however, un-
fortunately we repeat, accepted weak
ness as an essential of their nature.
We thus find them doing their best to
enfeeble, and reduce themselves to
attenuated ghosts of humanity hard
ly to be seen orfelt. They have been
impressed with such an artificial hor-
ror of the substantial that they will
make any sacrifice of health and COM
fort to avoid it. Thus they tighten
their waists, they squeeze their toes,
they starve their stomachs, they
blanch their faces, and shut them
selves up indoors without light and
exercise until they become almost dis
embodied.


They have such an aversion to the
least indication of the ruddy hue OF
health that they conceal it with chalk
and paint, and to the activity of Wig
or that they affect a languor when
they have it not. They reach their
ideal of perfect woman when they
have reduced themselves to the fewsst
possible pounds avoirdupois, dimin-
ished their power of locomotion to
the minimum necessary to getting in
and out of carriage with the aid oi
helping arm, whitened their faces
to the pallor of disease, and accom-
plished the feat of a daily headache
in the moIRing and fainting fit al
night.


A claim to the title of the weaker
sex may thus be made good, but at g
fearful sacrifice of health, happiness
and-according to all unperVerted
taste--loveliness too. Women should
scorn all such enfeebling appellative:
as insults to their nature, and strive
in accordance with their original or.
ganization, to become robust phys
ically, morally and intellectually.
Year: 1869

wv. -O1 WV


: 1t has been some time since Erot.
you my last, but affairs have taken
such a turn here in the last few
months, and the future looks SC
brigh; in this section that l thought
of giving you few items. Work OF
the mines and Improvement on every
kind of property is progressing with
energy Notwithstanding Winter has
ser in. Several fne mills are under
way Of construction-some of them
will soon commence operations. By
early Spring there will be at least
twelve mills in motion in this camp ;
most Of them will be of the first
class. Considerable capital will be
invested this Winter, several prom
inent mines have changed hands, and
the companies purchasing are making
active preparations to develop their
property. The Tifhn Company that
purchased the east end Of the cele,
brated "Miners' Delight mine, will
commence TO extract ore therefrom
soon, besides adding. a twenty stamp
mill in the Spring. Mr.. Pease, an
old Pioneer Of this camp, has just
returned from the East, where he sold
some mining property, and is now
bringing out quartz mill, which he
will have running by Spring. There
are about twenty-five tunnels now be-
ing run to develop lodges, and for
prospecting purposes, this will in the
course of time display the country to
better advantage. The inhabitants
that are here at present can be con-
sidered permanent: they number from
twenty-five hundred to three thou
sand. The Spring is sure to bring
large acquisition to this number, be-
sides adding more life and energy to
this mining district than any in the
west. The Young America Mine is ina
better condition now than ever before,
and it is the opinion of all experience

ed miners that little more depth is
all that is required to bring out this
mine 20 one of the first paying insti-
tutiOnE of this country.


We have had an occasional storm
here this Fall, but nothing to serious
ly deter mining and milling opera
tions. In fact everything to protect
and forward mining interests through
out the severe Winters usually exper-
fenced in this latitude and altitude
has been done, so the elements may
rage with all their fury, they can have
but little effect on quartz mining
operations. will not write more at
present; you may hear from me again
ere long. IS.
Year: 1869

earnestness in PRAYER. Any one
hearing him either speak or pray
would readily inquire who he is.
This convention was characterized by
much ability and deep sOlemnity.
On the last evening especially, did
the vast assembly seem to feel that
God was near. Over twenty asked
the prayers Of Gods people We
were only sorry that Tifhn had but
one representative. NJ.
Year: 1869

The organ of Good Templars in
Ohio, the Temple Visitor, which has
lately been removed from Alliance to
Dayton, in speaking of the late abOr-
tive attempt to make distinct poll
teal issue of the temperance ques'
ton, alluding to the meagre vote cast
for that ticket, pertinently says:


ave hope that the leaders of the
movement in Ohio will see the folly
of attempting to establish a nationa
party with prohibition as the only
feature in the platform. Better fal
that temperance men should work
in the existing parties, and by theil
vote control the balance of power IL
the county and municipal elections.
If the advocates Of Temperance leg
islation would attend the primary
conventions, they would in man.
counties secure the nomination o
good men for the legislature, and fol
every Office from Governor down t.
town marshal"
Year: 1869

We can afford to laugh at the tricks and
lodges resorted to by veteran office-seekers
in order to obtain place, and draw the peo-
pies money for doing nothing but there
was another feature in the recent scramble
at Sacramento, which is not provocative of
mirth, but rather of the contrary feeling
We allude to the presence there OF boys in
the political arena, seeking for pages ap-
pointments We are credible Informed
that lads, in years ranging from twelve to
eighteen, have been Withdrawn from their
studies at the High School in this city, by
their friends, and sent to Sacramento to
endeavor too obtain those berths, honestly
if they could, but to get them by any means,
for the place is worth three dollars per day
San Jose, Petaluma, and other tows in the
State, are said also to be represented by
such boys in this squabble for place And
worse yet; they are represented as indulg-
ing in about all the dreadful practices of
older candidates for office there, drinking
in the saloons. smoking, maudlin drunk in
the taverns, cursing and splitting as large
as life, and acting the politician of the
period to perfection. This is sorry sight,
to see these young lads who, if now not
altogether debauched, soon viii be, if they
keep such company, striving by all means,
humiliating or shameful even, to obtain a
miserable position, which is certain to ruin
the purest boy living.-[S. F. Call.


According to the foregoing admissions
the youths who are permitted to associate
with the men who make our laws are liable
to become corrupted and fitted for lives of
dissipation and crime Such are the de-
moralizing influences which surround a
modern " Democratic" Legislature The
Call is candid as well as Democratic
Year: 1869

ANNIVERSARY BALL.-John V Scott
will give grand ball and supper on Friday
evening December 31st., the anniversary
of the re-opening of the Empire Hotel
The mere fact that he has undertaken to
get up ball and supper is sufficient assur-
ance that the affair will be success. s.rand
everybody who can appreciate pleasant
party and a sumptuous feast should be
promptly on hand Let there be a general
attendance
Year: 1869

FIRE.-The stable belonging to John
Gleason, at Horsetown, was consumed by
fire this week. Three horses were in the
stable when the building was discovered to
be on fire. one of which was got out without
injury, while the other two were so badly
injured that they will probably die. One
of the poor animals was so exposed to the
flames that its eyes were literally burned
ont
Year: 1869

For REpEAL.-The Sierra Messenger,
Republican, favors the unconditional repeal
of the fee and salary bill passed by the
Seventeenth Legislature. That paper con-
tends that the Sheriff of Sierra cannot per-
form the duties of his Office under the
bill We also hear the same complaint
from this county, Trinity and Siskiyou.
Year: 1869

BAND. We are requested to state that
a meeting will be held at Hartmann's
Shaving Saloon on Sunday evening for the
purpose of recognizing the Shasta Brass
Band All who feel an interest are invited
to attend. Shasta should certainly have a
live hand
Year: 1869

TREASURER REPoRT-Every tax pay
er should read and preserve the Treasurer
Quarterly Report. The document is got
up in such plain and correct manner that
it is easily comprehended and understood.
Year: 1869

WILD CAT-Joe Mullen having been
unable to find either bear or panther the
past week, reports killing an enormous wild
cat as tn. best he could do toward furnish
ing an item. That will do very well for
starter.
Year: 1869

"ERE WE ARE AGAIN WITH A FOUR
iii horse Wagon which, we challenge any Shop
in the State to beat We don't file our work to
make it smooth just take look at it. Tape is
the lucky man. SAMUEL ISAACKS.
Year: 1869

TO the knowledge Of the Philadelphia
bank by a telegram from the ChieOpee
bank, in reply to an inquiry as to
stating that the bill had not


b el received. This was two days.
afler il was pay, be. The letter con-
tanning 1t had slipped through crack


in the desk of the cashier OF the Chico
pee bank. rf tEffUf
Year: 1869

with comparative Indifference II they could be
sure Etbat snothipg worse was In reserve for
them; but they know very well that sooner or
later Greece would have powerful assistance,
and that Russia would ind In the quarrel be-
tween her and Turkey the desired advantage
which in 1859 France found In the quarrel be
tween Austria and Italy. AS long as the policy
of Russia remains what 10 Is and has been, IL
will be for the interest of that power to foment
strife between Greece and Turkey.
Would IL not have been wiser OF the govern.
ments which profess TO desire the limitation OF
Russian power to lessen the Likelihood OF this
contingency than to encourage the Turkish
Government in policy and pretensions which
neither It's political nor Its financial position
can sustain?


The London Standard OF the 18th says


The great powers have met, not to aronrate
between Greece and Turkey, but TO concert
such an arrangement as will relieve Greece
from the chastisement she has provoked while
giving a nominal satisfaction To Turkey. They
and Independence of the Turkish empire, but
10 devise some means of further diminishing
It's independence and endangering its tute-
gritty. They all want time No one Of them
cares, II only the question can be pat OH for O
few months or years, TO what hopeless anarchy
they condemn European Turkey. Each Is
afraid OF decision because doubtful OF the otheri
and so this Con nference has been called as IL the
question at issue between Greece and Turkey
involved any point affecting the Treaty of
Paris, and will, no doubt, meeting under such
false pretenBes, separate without having ao-
comp pIished anything more than TO disqulet
end fetter Turkey and give confidence TO
Greece.
Year: 1869

early history and rapid development of
Iowa and Wisconsin. At the conclusion of
this speech there was another fine song by
the Glee Club, and the convention adjourn
ed to meet the next day for an excursion
ON the Wolf River.
Year: 1869

No great public want can long remain
unanswered. When condition of things
has become developed so that great puo-
lie want is realized either in theology, civil
government or physics, that very want or
demand is sure to create a supply. The
hour will create the man, and the need the
thing. Witness the sewing machine, the
reaper. the telegraph. There may be sew
eral abortions. Many may run before thev
are sent, but ultimately humanity will
triumph, and the want be supplied


1t cannot be that medicine will long re-
main what it has been-a mass of intrica-
cies, of which they who know most know
little, while the confident pretender is sure
to be knave. Nor will it be always sys-
tenn so intricate and obscure that only the
priests of the temple can speak it's Ian
guage or interpret its symbols; OF an oracle
so equivocal that he who censults the priest
fares as i'll or worse than he who abjures
the temple altogether. There must ere
long be a system that comes down to the
wants of humanity in every day life-that
meets the. wants of the mother at her
| cradle, the nurse at the bedside, the fathe-
on his journey, or the sailor on the sea
some thing or some system that everybody
can have and everybody can use, to arles
the first invasion of disease and to restore
| the ruddy current of life ere its fountains
are vitiated and its forces undermined.
| Old school medicine, with its crude drug
poisons, can never meet this want. That
is a game long since played out, thing
we'll understood. Equally futile the vaunt-
ed panaceas and elixirs which ig-
norance has begotten and folly pa
Jronized. Tie water-cure can never be
more II n o doubtful expedient or useful
palative in the hands OF the people. No
can the usual form of Homeopathy, bow
ever large its domestic manual, or con-
plete it's assortment of tlnctures and pei
lets, be more than an amusing pastime in
the hands of the people. The system was
never designed for such use, and can never
fiji such place.


But it is contended that HUMPHREY sys
TEN of Specific Homeopathy does NEE
this want. In a small neat case are com
prised some thirty Specific Remedies for al
the more common complaints to which
family are subject and the whcle are SO ar
ranged and simpllfied that any person o
ordinary intelligence can successfully ap
ply them.


They are free from danger or intricacy, ,ant
according to the testimony of thousand
who use them, entirely successful. VIII,
then may not this great problem be consid
cred as solved, and that here is system
that does meet the wants of our common
humanity in everyday life-the great pop
ular system of medication for the relief o
the people and adapted to their wants
Surely nothing can be more hamless thai
these Sugar Pills, nothing more convenien
or successful than these SPECIFICS.
Year: 1869

A special meeting OF this Eoard was held last
evening Tor the purpose Of considering the estimate
OF expenditures for the year 1870 but as such
meeting was rather unusual there was rather slim
attendance. The President Mr. Il. L. Larrcmore,
was IN the chair. The first business presented was
report from the Finance Committee. giving the
estimate of expenditures for the coming year as
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