smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1866

II Experience has proved to US
that happiness without alloy falls to the
lot Of but few; 10 fact, we question if.
in the literal sense of the word, it has
ever been the destiny Of any-and
wisely net; for were it SO, the affections
would enchain US so closely to this world
that we should find no time to think OF
another. As it is, not tie is broken,
nor being we love torn from US, but
earth loses some portion ofits hold, and
the memory of the dead renders the
idea of the grave less terrible.
Year: 1866

IL A correspondent asks us why
the city papers charge for the insertion
of marriage and death notices. For the
very best of reasons, we suppose. in as
much as one is an advertisement of CO.
partnership and the other of dissolu-
ton. Business is business in this city.
-TNew York News.
Year: 1866

A Jusr CoNcLUsIoN.-"The doc
trine Of dead States is dangerous" is
the belief of the Cincinnati Commercial,
since ''it opens the broad way for the
nation to go down to DEATH" There
is nothing truer. The vitality Of the
whole system depends upon the vigor
Of its members. Paralisis is the Begin
ming of death. Unless the functions of
the several parts are fully exercised, the
the great centre of the body polite
must go to decay.
Year: 1866

For him no martial pomp displays
Its regal splendor to the gaze,


No willy courtiers sound his praise,


That ''thift may follow fawning )"
Yet for him minstrels sound the lay,
And for him loving hearts still pray,
And Time is bright'ning into day


That fame which is but dawning.
Year: 1866

-


OF There are hundred thousand
young men TO- day, says the New York
Times, who, with half the ambition and
energy they are expending to beat
some shrewd sharper at billiards, might
raise bale of cotton; with half the
money they are squandering every year
for poor oysters and worse whisky,
might purchase principality, and have
a chance to live like men until their
hairs were gray, instead of dwelling
here and falling at last to piliful beg
gary.
Year: 1866

H There is wisdom as we'll as wit
in the following remark Of Josh Bill
lings:


u always advise short sermons, espe-
cially on bot Sunday. If a minister
can't strike lie in boring forty minutes,
he has either got poor gimlet, or
else he is boring in the wrong place. y
Year: 1866

Now, first in peace as first in war,
When foes his thunders felt afar,
And fortune nor reverse could mar


What God had made sublime
The patriot hero well may claim
A place upon the scroll of fame,
To write the purest, brightest name


His age viii give to time.
Year: 1866

Our country's idol, and its stay
When hope shed not one blessed ray
Upon the dark and dismal day,


Which palled US in its gloom
Is now become the beacon light
To guide the foot of youth Alright
And cheer with radiance pure and


bright


The darkness of our doom.
Year: 1866

'Tis his, nor can the ruthless hand,
That scourges his unhappy land,
Upon his brow e'er dare to brand


The infamy of traitor.


The nation that would taint his fame,
Or stain with treason his pure name,
Would steep its very soul in shame,


Oh ! how our hearts would hate her
Year: 1866

Nor need her callous marbles keep
His images Ger which to weep,
A richer crop his fame will reap


And garner from the heart,
The sweetest yield to mortals given
Beneath the canopy of Heaven,
And fairly for it has he striven


And nobly played his part.
Year: 1866

He bade no gloomy, long farewell
To all his greatness when he fell,
For loud, and louder still must swell


The chorus Of his fame;
The monumental architrave
May some from dark oblivion save,
But here his country will engrave


Upon her heart his name.
Year: 1866

So nobly great and purely good,
Before his very foes he stood;
They could not wrong him if they


would,


And would not if they could.
Full fairly did he WELD his sword
Against an overwhelming horde,
And now as nobly keeps his word;


As Christian chieftain should.
Year: 1866

| given or not l do not know. But he was
brought before the court this morning in


Brooklyn. on a suit brought to recover a
| claim of $50, 900, founded upon some of
their oil transactions. In the course of


the preliminary examination, new fact
appeared in the person of Mr.. Heydricks'


wife, whom, it is claimed, he privately


married last year, the fact of his being


married not having been known until
brought out by this trial.


Among other items of metropolitan


gossip, is the one that Charles a Dana,


formerly of the Tribune then of the War


Department, and mora recently of the


Chicago Republican, is to start twO-cent
radical morning newspaper, about the
size of the quarto daily He is a thorough
journalist and knows all about local as
well as national politics and personals.


The publishers of the Round Table and
The Citizen, still talk of starting dailies
q to fill Il void" There is still room here
for such dailies, Us any of those would
he-sprightly, local, lively and cheap; but
money alone can put them upon a pay
ing basis, even here. Starting new pa
pers is up hill work.


I've found new luxury-one that your
Garrett and Mould had better get the
secret of at once if they want to receive
the grateful benizens of the strollers upon
Superior and Euclid streets 1t is frozen
coffee! and most delicious thing it is too.
l know of only two places in the city
where it is to be had but it is a great card
for them, and as everybody will drink
something cold nowadays, whether chol-
era follows or not, this is q most health |
ful and delightful substitute for ice water
or cobblers. 1t is not merely cold coffee, |
but is prepared in some peculiar way, |
which lingereth in the memory ''like a
tale that is told d. Z.
Year: 1866

Whittier recently said, in answer to a
lady who thanked him for My Psalm"
as if it was hers, and written especially
for her, II am glad you can make it
yours, l cannot always make it my own"
Year: 1866

stores just mentioned by US. The old structure


had not the very commodious verandahs, which art
such an ornament to the present rows, and besides
this improvement, the modern edices also present
third or upper story, then wanting in the ancient
buildings. As for the public edfce on the right
and left side of the Cathedral, we shall only say,
that their exterior has as much been changed
from their former appearance as the Cathedral it.
self, and that by comparing the former regular
architectural symmetry, the modern transtorma-
ton certainly has not been at all advantageous.


However, one consideration with our authorities
was to increase the interior accommodation for
the additional Offices of courts and other public
institutions, and hence the superstructure upon
the second story, which mars the whole symmetry
OF the original design. Indeed, stranger must
feel puzzled to account for such singular STYLE of
architecture, and might make many conjectures to
find model for this composite architectural order
or structure among the known as well as the un.
known public buildings i'll other countries for this
grand plan simple Roman style has been COM
pletely put to fight by the addition of Dutch or
flemlsh ornament of upper stories, and the window
openings form the most singular contrast to the
lower Roman arches and pillared galleries or paz-
zas Add to this the slate e-covered roof and there
IS indeed something exceedingly ludicrous in this
grand composition of the old ornamental front
scene OF the Place d'Armes, with its present
flower parterres and ever green myrtle bouquets.
Year: 1866

For THE FLORIDA PoRTs.-Attention is directed
to the notice of the steamship Lizzie, of the regu-
lar Pensacola and Apalachicola line. We under
stand this vessel is intended to continue regularly
in the trade to Pensacola and Milton in connection
with the line through to Apalachicola, and will
take freight for her particular ports at the low rate
of seventy five cents per barrel.
Year: 1866

- clerk of the Second District Court
tsptan z r ORoRKE is announced BY his friends as a
Tor the cerkshp Of the Second District Court sub
M 10 she nomination Of the Parish Convention of the Ma
tiona Democracy.
Year: 1866

A wife in New Orleans sued for divorce
and obtained it on the established testimony
that piece Of belt ribbon and hair pin be-
longing to another woman were found in the
plaintiffs bedroom A wife in New York
visited her husbands Office down town and
discovered long hairs in the hair brush, tried
on the same dodge, but he turned the laugh
against her by proving that his char-woman
had been surreptitiously using his toilet
apparatus.
Year: 1866

believe. 1t is an embarrassing question
for me to know, not as Mr.. Webter said,
where am | to go, but how am to vote
No, it is not an embarrassing question
That was slip of the tongue. l shall
have no embarrassment about it. shall
vote for the Unconditional Union party
of this nation. Immense applause. There
may be a great deal of radicslism in it;
but tt never saw a party in which there
was not radicalism. Radicalism is some
times little too fast, and sometimes con-
servatism is little to slow. But you have
a medium between the two that win regu-
late it. .-..- f.-rs t.-.+. .i.,.t
,, TWO PARTIEs-THE UNION AND REBEL.


l am not to abandon those who agree
with me on this great question of the re-
storation of this Union, because there are
radicals in the party, and when. if l do not
go with them, | have to go into another
party where there is more radicalism,
and more obnoxious radicalism, than |
find in the great Union party. Of all
radiclism that which is most obnoxious to
me is the Radicalism of Democracy. Ap-
plause. And | will vote with any party, /
do not care what it is, to beat it down
and to keep it down. Great applause.
Much as suffered, and as much as we all
suffered in this war, would, so help p me
God, ten times over rather go through an
other rebellion than to see that party re-
stored, and to see the great war carried on
by the United States, the hundreds of
thousands of lives that have been lost and
the millions and tens of millions of money
that has been expended, all go for nothing
to restore that party who are alone respon-
sible for all this. Immense applause.
Get up another party There can be but
two parties in this Union, and one is a
loyal party, and the other is disloyal
party. Great applause. He who does
not vote with the loyal party must vote
with the disloyaL, and vote to bring the
rebels and Copperheads into power again.
Applause. know what the object Of
this party is, for they attempted to initiate
me into it "What party do you propose
to raise, inquired, ''to bring up the old
Democratic party, the rebels and Copper
heads into power again" ''Ob, no; not
at all; not at all" "What do you mean
to do! Out of what element do you pro-
pose to raise this paftyF' "Why, the old
fashioned jackson Democracy" "The
old-fashioned jackson Democracy9 Why
/ have heard that much-hackneyed phrase
of playing the play of Hamlet with the
part of Hamlet left out, but if ever it was
aptly applied it is when you propose to
raise Democratic party and leave all the
/ Democratic party out. And if you leave
out the rebels of the South and the Cop.
perneads of the North, the rotunda of the
Capital will hold them all the three times
over. If you do not vote with the loyal
party you are obliged to vote to bring that
disloyal party back into power, and am
opposed to all parties and to all measures
that are calculated to bring about such an
end. [Applause.
Year: 1866

For several days past number of teams
have been engaged in hauling the steam mill
which was formerly owned by the Calaveras
company and which was used to crush the
dirt from their claim in Chilli Gulch to Am
ador. 1t was purchased by parties in that
county, who intend to re-erect it on their
quartz lead. A large amount of prospect
ing in quartz is being done in this vicinity,
and several companies have developed leads
of sufficient richness 10 warrant them in put
ting up machinery. and it is surprising that
some of them did not seize this favorable op-
portunity of securing mill cheap. Is Am
ador more enterprising than Calaveras in
matters of this character
Year: 1866

SUICIDE 1T SANDY GuLcH.-On Tuesday
evening Of this week Jacob Wink. a miner
living at Sandy Gulch was found dead in his
cabin. When found, partial decomposition
had taken place, and the body presented a
horrible appearance. Under the bunk where
the remains lay was found the pistol with
which the terrible deed had been DONE
Justice Briggs, upon the following day, held
an inquest upon the body. and the jury re-
, turned the following verdict:


1--WE find that deceased was named Jaco-
bus Wink. and native of Rotterdam, Hol-
land aged about thirty nine years, and that
he came to his death at his cabin in Sandy
Gulch. on or about the Goth day of April
1866, from the effects of pistol shot wounds
inflicted on his person with his own hands,
while laboring under temporary insanity"
Year: 1866

ResOlued That
this Convention
does most heartily
indorse the AMERI-
CAN FLAG, as q news
paper true. energet-
ic and reliable for
its advocacy of the
great measures and
principles of the Un-
ion party in this
State Z; and that we
do hereby commend
it to the confidence
and support of all
loyal men.--Resoiu-
tiOns IF Union
State Convention.
Year: 1866


board of the future
and will serve as q
beacon light on the
political paths of
the nation. A large
number of these ar
ticles are worthyof
republication in
book form.-Los
.7ngeles Ne,cs.
Year: 1866

The FLAG is to be trusted as q,
true Union paper without deceit
which no motive of interest can
turn from its course and which
cannot be swayed by favor or in
timidated by threat. Itis first
class journal, and ought 10 re-
ceive the hearty support of the
true Union men of San Francis
co and the interior.-Stockton
Independent.
Year: 1866

Having established myself in San Fran
cisco in order to have facilities for supplying
my store with the latest arrivals of Goods
from the East venture to say that there is
not as complete stock of Spring and Sum-
mer goods in the county as there is in my
store. l shall continue to keep it we'll sup
piled with the latest and most desirable kind
o. goods. Particular attention will be paid
to the selection of such articles in the San
Francisco market, as some of my customers
would see proper TO order, if in the store
they cannot be suited.


Very grateful for past iavors, will here
with solicit that share of patronage hereto
fore bestowed upon me. and shall assure those
who will favor me with call that
Year: 1866

much wheat into the ground as possible, aud
now there is no stir made about it. Every
body is as quiet about that, as if sowing wheat
were thing unknown.


The grasshoppers are now diligently at work
harvesting our corn. They have stripped the
corn of its leaves, and eaten the most of the
soft ears, and find upon inspection that they
have teeth sharp enough to devour even the
hardest ears. They appear to have no mar
ners, and [ afraid they will take it all.
But We are not alone in our calamity. In Hi
nois they were overrun by them long before
they reached us.


Aside from grasshoppers, there is not much
news. In politics there is but little excit e
ment, though a great deal OF earnestnesS.
The people are getting their eyes open to the
danger impending over the country. The
responsibilities of free people are great. 1t
took four long years of toll and blood he'd to
bring the WEI to a successful termination, bu,
in single day We may vote all We have gain
ed away and place ourselves in the same old
plodding track were in before The war
The people of Kansas will commit no such fol-
ly. The favorers of any Policy +" are very
scarce | gentleman yesterday from
Enporia, and he says there is hardly John
son man TO be found in that thriving town.


He says there may ne johnson men there, but
it is hard to fad them. They keep remarka-
bly, still | is certainly so here If Andrew
Jhnsoa Should come to Geneva doubt
whether the poor would fnd friend in
The place. migration still continues to pour
into The country south of Us. a large
tract Of choice land has lately been treated fer
with the Indians sud Is new open To settle
ment 1t is ex,oled very highly and doubt
less it deserves It. l. is well timbered and
well watered, and IS fertile as any land i. the
u nited States. The gentleman from Emporia
m entioued above was on his way 10 set up
steam mill IN this new country, and doubt
less other pioneers of civilization will speedily
follow If any one wishes to get good land in
the Great West, yery cheap, here IS al oppor-
tuuity they ought to improve. Uncle Sam wi!
not always have suon good land to dispose of.
WILBUR.
Year: 1866

GENEVA, ALLEN Co.. KANSAS,


October 1st, 1856.


FRIEND WILLARD In this part of the
world We are just now suffering under scourge
somewhat fferent bu' no less destructive than
the regular X ksnsas drouth or the chintz bug.
An army of grasshoppers have taken posses
sion of the country here, and the prospect now
is, that they will devastate it as completely as
Gen. Sheridan devastated the Shenandoah Val
ley. Their name 10 legion. You might as
we'll attempt to count The atoms of dust as to
count them, and they came all at once. Kan
sas is not grasshopper countryi the most of
seasons there is not grasshopper to be seen.
In fact there was none to be seen this year, up
to September 10th. About noon Of that day
tee air was full of them. Around the Sun it
looked as you sometimes see it upon squally
day in winter, when the white snow fakes are
flying about so thick and fast. They seemed
to come from the north, and ss they were at
Ottawa and Lawrence some little time before
they reached US, the north is, no doubt, re-
sponsble for this raid. 1t was fun to see them
come, though far from funny to have them



in some places, and ahere there was not room
for them to light side by side, they dropped
down one upon another. They lit upon the
corn leaves until they bent and broke
them down. They ate up every vestige of
green wheat within twenty-four hours after
making their appearances. Some farmers had
fields which they had sown to winter wheat
with much care, and which had come up and
was looking very promising, but there is no
sign Of wheat in those places now. They even
devoured th- kernel where men were SOW in.,
Amos, as soon as it fell from the sewers hands.
OF course they put an end to sowing wheat,
and unless they 30 away soon. We shall be
unable to prepare for crop next year. Spring
wheat il not raised at all here.


Men say, who pretend to know, that wheat
eaten up by grasshoppers when It first shoots
out of the ground is killed most effecual-
ly. 1t will 10 no case sprout up again


How quickly the fever for sowing wheat sub
slded u While ago every man was keen to get
Year: 1866

and cannot fail to interest ali intelligent read
ers. We are told that the book will not be
for sale in the bookstores, but will be sold only
by canvassing agents.


We can safely predict that this publication
will be one of the curiosities of our tera ture.
If Mr.. Simms does his work faithfully, and
gives every phase as well az every variety OF
this" war poetry" the historian and the politi-
clan Can proftably study the volume while per-
sons of literary tastes viii find in it much matter
for amusing if net for serious contempls-
ton.
Year: 1866

We commend the following model
to boys and girls who are obliged to
write compositions and don't know
how to 60 to work:


WINTER. Winter is the coolest
season of the year, because it comes
in the winter mostly. In some coun-
tries winter comes in the summer and
then it is very pleasant wish win
ter came in summer in this country,
which is the best Government that the
sun ever shone upon. Then we could
go skating barefoot and slide down
hill in linen trowsers. We could snow
ball without our fingers getting cold
and men who go out sleigh-riding
wouldn't have to stop at every tavern,
to warm, as they do now. 1t SHOWS
more in the winter than it does at any
other season of the year. This is be.
cause so many cutters and sleighs are
made then. ,..


Ice grows much better in winter
than in summer, which was an incon-
venience before the discovery of ice
houses. Water that is left out of doors
is apt to freeze at this season. Some
folks take in their wells and cisterns
on cold night and keep them by
the fire, so they don't freeze.


Skating is great fun in the winter
The boys get their skates on when the
river is frozen over and race, play tag
break through the ice and get wet all
over (they get drownded sometimes
and are brought home aR dripping
which makes their mothers scold, get
ting water all over the carpet in the
front room), fall and break their heads
and enjoy themselves in many othel
ways. A wicked boy once stole my
skates and ran off with them, and
couldn't catch him. Mother said
''never mind, judgment will overtakC
him."


Well, if judgment does, judgment
will have to be pretty lively on his legs
for that boy runs bully.


There amt much sleigh riding ex.
cept in the winter. Folks don't seen
to care about it in warm weather
Grown-up boys and girls like to gosleigl
riding. The boys generally drive witt
one hand and help the girls hold thei
mufEs with the other. Brown Bob le
me, go along a little way once whel
he took Celia Ann Crane out sleigh ri
ding, and ] thought he paid more at
tention to holding the muff than h
did to holding the horses.


Snow balling is another winter sport
[ have snow-balled in the summer
but we used stones and hard apples
1t isn't SO amusing as it is in the win
ter somehow. -.#
Year: 1866

UNDER THE BED.-Most of the un-
married ladies enjoy a pleasant delu-
sion. They seem to think that men
have mania for getting under beds
And accordingly few ofthem retire for
the night without first, going through
the ceremony of looking there. We
have never known of but one instance
in which the search was rewarded by
success. The discovery was announced
by little scream of delight, and the
lucky lady was congratulated by hel
companion with the remark: "Well
Jane, 1 am glad you have found him
for to my certain knowledge, you have
been looking for him for the last TWEEN
ty years." 1t is little singular that
men never look under beds to see Il
they can find q woman there.
Year: 1866

Here is bit of information worthy
of attentions:


"Moisture generally penetrates the
soles of boots-the upper leather is not
easily wet and is easily dried. To rem
der the sole impervious to water, order
your boot-maker to cut pieces of can.
vass to the proper shape, dip them in
melted pitch or tar, and lay them up
on the inner soles of the boot. This
simple process, it is said, will insure
dry feet without making the boot
clumSvO -
Year: 1866

fast in their organization, hoping its
dissensions may yet be healed, and to
keep aloof from proceedings which
can only result in the election of the
regular Democratic ticket in Indiana.
I heartily approve of the Presidents
policy, and regard him personally with
esteem and friendship, and 1 would
cheerfully participate in any meeting
to express appreciation of his meas
ures. but | am not ready to punish
the Radicals by returning to power
men who melted resistance to laws
made to fill up the ranks of the army.
| speak only for myself, and no other
is responsible for this communication.


-stl ~ JAMES HUGHES"


Judge Hughes is special friend of
President Johnson, and was expected
to take a prominent part in the John
son Convention which is to, assemble
in this city on Thursday next.
Year: 1866

making themselves prominent in the
organization of the johnson Clubs,
and third party moves. to hear that
leading Union Senators affirm that
not one of this class, thus working in
the fall elections, will be confirmed at
the next session, in case they receive
appointment during the recess. $3.50


Several Republican Senators have
already expressed their intention to
vote for Mr. Stanberry's confirmation
as Attorney General, if he is nominat-
ed for that position by the President,
but say they will vote to reject Mr..
Randall as Postmaster General.