smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1875

Gather the sacred dust


OF the warriors tried and true,
Who bore the dag OF our Nations trust
And died for me and you.
Gather them each aud ALL


From the Private to the Chief,
They fell for us. and for them should lal


Tho tesrs Of nations gri,f
Gather the sorpses strewn


Ger many battle plain,
IRON many grave that lies so lore.
Without o name and without stone,


Gather the Southern slain.
We care not whence they came,
Dear 10 their lfeless clay.
whether unknown or known to fame,
Their cause and country stiIl the same
They died, and wore the Grey
Wherever the brave have died,


They should not rest apart;
WIZ s5s EsnS 81 divide


A single heart from heart
Gather their scattered clay,


Wherever it may rest;
Just as they marched to the bloody fray,
Just as they fell on the battle day,


Bury them breast to breast.
The foeman need not dread


This gathering of the brave;
or flag and rsh soundies tread
Ont of each lonely grave.
The foeman need not frown;


They are all powerless now
We gather them here, and we lay them down,
And Iears and prayers are the only crown
We bring 60 wreaIhe each brow.
And the dead thus meet the dead,


While the living Ger them weep;
And the men whom Lee and Stonewall led
And the hearts that once together bled,
Together still shall sleep.
Year: 1875

NEW YORK, February 26.-The assemblage
OF spectators in the Brooklyn city court room
to-day was not SO large as on former occa-
SiOnS.


Tracy continued his argument. He pro-
ceeded 10 show that by the very punctuation
of the sO-caIled letter of cOntritiOn in was
prepared in hasty manner, and that Beech
er had never dictated il, as he was careful in
point, said counsel, 1 come to is
the alleged confession OF his guilt
that the defendant is charged with having
made to MOultOn and his wife: at the church
committee TfltOn said that his evidence
against Beecher was in writing, and he did
not then pretend that he had in his possession
any oral confession of Beecher In MOultOn's
statement of August 21St he stated that Mr.
Beecher had confessed TO him, but that was
gwen In general terms and not specifically.
This was challenged, and il was not until
the second statement that he came out with
1t boldly, and they would also remember that
on his examination here he clothed his lam
guage in different terms TO what he did in
his second statement.
Year: 1875

THE TRUCE IN THE HOCsE.-The demo-
Gratis in the House Of Representatives this
morning waived the demand which they
had authority TO make, for the reading of
yesterdays Journal. an agreement having
been previously entered into by which the
Sundry civil appropriation bill should be
brought up for cOnSidera ton. The under
standing now is atdebate closes on the sun
dry civil appropriation bill at five O'Clock:
that an evening session Will be held at half
past seven O'Clock for debate only on the
Force Bill and that the previous question
on this bill be called at one o'clock to-mOr-
row Should Speak Blaine decide to deliver
MS speecn which he has prepared in OppOSi-
non 10 II. ~ will be made some time tO-mOr-
row morning.
Year: 1875

Has made the most Astonishing Cures !:
so quick, so rapid are the changes the
body undergoes under the influence of
this truly wonderful medicine, that
Every Day an Increase In Flesh and Weight


Is Seen and Felt.


The Great Blood Purifier.
Year: 1875

The need of good book bindery has
long been felt by THE ARGUS ofice-one
where our work can be done promptly and
our customers not be disappointed This
want we have now supplied and we are
now ready for work. People who have
magazines or books issued in mum bers, OF
any work in the way of binding or ruling,
are respectfully invited to try us. Our
bindery is in charge ofan experienced and
accomplished workman.
Year: 1875

So many of our readers are leaving their


homes at this time tor journeys on RAILWAYS
that we give the following, which was
written by an eminent physician: "Called
to prescribe for Mrs. Andrews inflamed
eyes; learned thaf-she had bit of cinder


in her eyes; occurred while travelling in
the cars four days ago; eyes very much
inhamed. painful and attacked with severe
headache. This is one of hundreds of
cases where very little knowledge would
not have been dangerous thing andIwould
have saved world of pain. Nothing is
more distressing to q traveller than . piece
of cinder in the eye, and no disorder is
more easily remedied. Calling the family
together proceeded to show them that it
was not an eye-wash that Mrs. Andrews
needed to relieve her sufferings, but the
removal Of the foreign substance. The
cinder will be found to be just underneath
the margin of the upper lid. where there
is small groove or gutter, for the fOw
Of tears to the inner angle of the eye.
Foreign bodies tend to fall into this
groove, and if they are very angular, like
cinder, they adhere in spite of the current
OF tears which now flow in greater abund-
ance, and sooner or later carry of smooth
substances. Now, if You will raise the
upper margin OF the lid and turn it over,
the cinder or grain of sand win be 'ex-
posed, and may be removed by the point
Of pencil, or with the finger covered by
handkerchief. then demonstrated this
simple operation on one OF the boys, thus !:
Taking my pencil in my right fingers. with
the thumb and finger of my. left hand. 1
seized the eyelashes of the upper lid. and
drawing the lid gently out q from
the ball, passed the point the of pencil
downward upon the upper surface of
the lid, about one-fourth Of an
inch from its margin, and at the same
time carried the margin upward over the
pencil by the eyelashes, when the lid


readily rolled over the pencil SO as to
expose completely the gutter described.


| then asked one of the young ladies to
perform this operation upon her mother,


which, after two or three failures,S she
accomplished. and as had predicted,
small angular pieces Of cinderx were
found beneath the margin OF the lid,
which she very adroitly removed with the
point of the pencil. Mrs. Andrews ex-
perienced immediate relief. So much in
terest was felt in this painless operation,
that all in turn performed II. being much
aided by requiring the person operated
upon to look downward when the. lid is
being averted, and upward when the op-
orator wished to restore the lid. nahsnd
Year: 1875

Flatuleney, Sluggish Digestion, want of Tone and
Activity in the stomach and Bowels, Oppression
after Eating, are sure to be relieved by single
dose taken after each meal. great want exists
for q
Year: 1875

Ihls elegant preparation is prepared from the
true Jamaica Ginger, combined with choice arc.
matics and genuine French brandy. and is vastly
superior to every other Ext act Essence of Gin
ger before the publi;-al Of which are prepared
with alcohol by the Old process.
Year: 1875

n n n WILL BE PAID for bottle of any
XIHlI other Extract Essence of Jamaica
ID Uvv Ginger if found to equal it in fine flavor


' purity, and prompt medicinal effect
Largest, Cheapest and Best. Take no other until
you have given 1t trial.
Year: 1875

To CURE TOOTHACHE.-A correspondent
writes to the Scientific American that the
wor=t toothsche, neuralgia coming from the
teeth, may be speedily and delightfully."- ended
by the application of small bit of clean cot.
ton saturated in a strong solution of ammonia
to the defective tooth Sometimes the latter
sufferer is prompted to momentary nervous
laughter by the application, but the pain has
dsappeared
Year: 1875

party differences ought To be merged be-


fore it.


New York Herald


AN OUTLINE OF THE CONSPIRACY.
In Louisiana the case is bad enough


as it is, but suppose out Of these events
should come a collision OF the people
with the troops. What then? 1t would
be a collision that would arise from pop


ular fury, for the citizens are, it is clear,


resolutely resolved against the resort to


violence. 1t would be an outburst of


popular passion overriding the restraints


of better Judgment. Therefore it would


not be resistance of the sort that sudden


Iy arose in September. 1t would not


surrender at any formal show of author


ity or In any spirit of discretion. Ii


would fight. Somebody would be hurt


Naturally the people who would be most
hurt would be the small force of United


States troops on the spot, compelled to
face whole population of Tesolute and
desperate spirits. The troops would be
driven out and the people would hold
the city. Grant would, thereupon,
"take command in person." He would
concentrate all the available force OF the
government and endeavOr to
take the city; but he would
probably fail, for in sup'|
port of the people of New Orleans would
Immediately rally, to fight their battles
over again, the whole of the population
of Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Texas
and Arkansas, and the men who once
marched under the Confederate colOrs.
We would be in the presence of new
rebellion, fomented by the executive, |
and the President would call on con-
gIess for troops-and money. Would |
congress vote them? There can be no
doubt of it. 1t must be re1hSmbered that |
this congress still represents the pTinci-
rIes and the party that the country has
repudiated at the polls, and in the |
chance of new conflict Rnd a revived
rebellion it would see the hope OF re-
newed hold on the nation. 1t would
vote the President the hundred thou
sand men he wants, and il within year
from this time Grant has command of
one hundred thousand men, the next
election for the Presidency will be held
at the Greek kalends, or whenever else
his excellency may please. By all
means, then, let there be7nO conflict, for |
that is the thing that is most desired by |
the military satrsPy of the White
House, which has Grant in its hands.
Year: 1875

A CONTROVERSY between the editors
of the West Tennessee Democrat and
Paris InteIIigencer has brought to light
this Scriptural injunction against the
passage Of dog laws: Cursed be the
man who shall bring the price Of dog
into the treasury Of my people, for they
are an abomination unto the Lord thy
od.'-Deut. xiii: Is.
Year: 1875




What is more delicious for a minister
than to accept al invitation to a parishiOn-
er's house, and sit an hour or two in the
evening at the table with a collection Of
pleasant people? But that is what kills
ministers. Hot wafileS, fresh biscuit,
oysters, and cold tongue at o'clock
in the evening have given many a
ssman of Cod dyspepsia, dull brain,
poor sermons, short paSt0rale and an early
decease. Rich and late sUpp=rs are doing
a bad work for some of our best clergymeD.
We know Of ministerial clubs where the
members assemble Saturday afternoon TO
discuss religious topics, tarrying until
evening, when a sumptuOus table is pro
yided for them. As a consequence they do
not sleep well on Saturday night,
and the congregation on Sabbath see
what they suppose is heavenly pallor
on their uasJor's cheek, when his wife
knows Il was hot biscuit at tea tie evening
before that did the business. If you IN
yite your minister ont to eat, better have
him at noon or thereab0uts; or, if calling
him TO tea. then let 10 be in The early
part Of the week, giving him time TO set
over his Custatory indulgeHces. The most
of ministers have 4 powerful appetite for
good food, and capacity to resist temptation
in that direction is not one Cf~thelr strong
points.
Year: 1875

THE MAXWELL HOUSE MURDER.


In saying that the verdict in the
Maxwell House murder case meets with
very general disapproval, we but mildly
express the state of public sentiment
concerning the result Of the trial. Mob
law assumes at least the semblance Of
Justice when assassins thus easily
escape the hangman.
Year: 1875

The Prince of Wales in his tour in In
dia will be dressed like an Eastern pOten-
tate, in big turban and baggy trousers,
and his eqUipage will be as magnificent As
it can be made. The intention, Of course,
is to dazzle the natives with a spectacular
exhibition Of their future ruler. The cost
Of this royal show will be about a million
dollars,
Year: 1875

ANOTHER fresh budget Of European
gossip, from our special correspondent,
will be found in this mornings UNION
AND AMERICAN. It is quite as inter-
esting as lis first letter, which was
very favorably received.
Year: 1875

LATER-There is no foundation for the
report that the Belgian Cabinet is in diff
ficult position and that crisis is immi-
nent. DENIAL is also given to the report
that the German Government had instruct
ed its Ambassador at Brussels TO ask Bel
gium to prohibit religious professions, the
object being the overthrow Of the Belgian
Cabinet.
Year: 1875

NEW YORK, May PA dispatch from
Nutford, Pa, says the forest fires are sweep
ing over ten out of eleven townships in
Pike county, and unless rain comes soon


there will be great suffering and loss Of life.
Year: 1875

AS VIC are continually menaced
with the loss of necessary labor for
the cultivation of our lands, and as
the time seems to be rapidly ap~
proaching when the proprietors of
the soil and their sons must do their
own farm work, the Importance of
increasing the fertility of our fields.
that we may produce largely on a
small area, is more clearly and for
chilly perceptivc. Let US prepare to
give up hired labor, which will pro-
baby equal one.half of that applied
to agriculture IN North Carolina,
and reduce our cultivated acreage,
in the same ratio, but keep up pro-
ducts by doubling the capacity of
our land. This can be doue in
comparatively brief period and at q
small cost. Then the farmer who
employs two laborers and furnish
es two from his own family FOR the
cultivation of farm Of one hundred
acres, may be applying fertilizer ju-
diciously, realize with half the la
Dor on fifty acres as much as here's
tofore on one hundred; and by pur~
suing this policy, the cost of labor
dispensed with will be saved.


When the above policy is adopted
and pursued the young men Of this
country will be disposed to stay on
the farms; for while it sickens the
spirit to labor and toll on poor soil,
witnessing through the whole period
indictions of a scanty reward, there
is magic charm in luxuriant groth
on fertile fields. and a satisfying
influence in signs of bountiful
harvest and large reward. If our
farmers would pursue this course,
they might laugh at the idea of
lack of labor, replying to all such
suggestions by pointing to their fer
tile fields and enlightened home
muscle ready for their cultivation.
Edward s. Stokes, convicted of
manslaughter in the third degree for
killing James Fisk, Jr.. having failed
TO secure a pardon from Governor
Dix, now appeals to Governor Tilden.
The merits Of his case have been suf-
fciently discussed and the refusal to
pardon him met with general aDpro-
baton. Governor Tilden is not likely
to reverse the judgement of his pre-
decessor, especially as that judgement
was sound and just one.
Year: 1875

number OF men, or his carelessness
in sacrificing them. The first was
not always the case in his battles,
and with the last his opponents, in
more than one battle, deserved to
be more reproached than he. The
fertility of his mind, in extensive,
far>combining, grand projects, is
also as undeniable, although doubl
ted, and greatly by many. The
intended conquest osEgypt, the at
tempted oppression of Rsssia, and
his chief, great aim, to be attained
by the combination of both, viz: the
humiliation of Great Britain, ought
not to be taxed by their result, or
ranked because they failed, among
the number of adventurous specula~
tions. The means employed for
their attainment were not at all in>
adequated to the purpose, and af-
forded as much hope of success as
those, by far inferior means, with
which one alexander subdued Asia,
to the banks of the Indus. 'Tis
the circumspect man that is judged
by the means he employed, and by
the sufficiency of those used, but the
upright and great man, is only to
be judged by his aim. France had
indeed all that she could Justly
wish for, after the conclusion of the
treaties of Luncville .Amiens. Her
frontiers1 towards Germany we're
those prescribed by nature. She
reigned in Italy after the founda-
tian of the Cisalpine republic. In
her interior she wanted nothing but
what she enjoyed-peace and trans
guilty.


The lot of Napoleon was the
highest that ever fell to mortal man.
Whatever he might have been
blamed for as done in the rashness
of youth, appeared only at dis
tance, or was forgotten; his station
was of such kind, that he could do
without the state, but the state
could not do without him. The
latter feared to lose him, but he
might resign without fear. Yet
nowhere has that maxim, that man
does everything for his idea, and
nothing for its reality, confirmed
itself more strongly, that in the
mode of proceeding adopted and
followed by Napoleon, since the
above mentioned period. Carless
about the peace and the lives of
millions, and needless of the lessons
and warnings of history, so dill
gently studied by him, and yet so
neglected, he paid only homage to
the idea of becoming all>powerful,
and pursued it with such an overs
violent passion, that he lost the
esteem and regard of mankind, in
the same proportion as such an
idea annihilated in him all regard
for them. There is no doubt that
those astonishing undertakings
which exhausted and terrified the
whole world for a number of years
and those injustices which confused
and disturbed it, are to be considered
as the consequence of the most un>
natural pride, and most destructive
and baneful ambition; yet it must
be admitted that besides Napoleon,
perhaps no man ever existed, dur~
ing whose life so many circumstan-
ces united to create and foster such
a high degree of pride, ambition,
and love of power.
Year: 1875

It is invaluable as Newspaper and should be
hreside in Edgecombe and adjacent counties.


Being received on the day Of publication in PITT
tains LATER for the citizens of those counties
daily or weekly, that can reach them.
Year: 1875

There is an old maid in Kal-
amazoo who is determined to
get a husband. She caught a
burglar in her room the other
night, turned the key on him,
and made him promise to marry
her before she would let him
out. The fellow was allowed
to go to a neighboring town to
get his wedding suit, and from
there wrote back to say that he
couldn't honorably fulfill his
promise as he had wife in
England.
Year: 1875

A Great Darlington Mass }
merchant found a box of parlor
matches on the store-Aoor the 9th.
er morning, which had been
knocked off the shelf by rat or
mouse over night. On opening
the box the discovery was made
that by the coDcussion every
match in the FOx had been light
ed, and the wood of which they
were made was charred and turn
ed brown. Fortunately the box
was 80 tight as to smother the fire,
and no harm resulted. l: was a
narrow escape; and if a fire had
taken place, its cause would have
been a perpetual mystery.
Year: 1875

Holt, a condemned Texas
murderer, was found to have
hanged himself in his cell when
the time came for his execution.
He was revived and taken to
the scaffold, whereupon the bun
CLING work of the Sheriff justi-
fed Hollis sound Judgment in
having tried to do the hanging
himself. The rope broke twice,
so that altogether he was in et-
feet hanged four times. And
to the last he declared that he
was innocent.
Year: 1875

An Amercanized citizen was
called on as a witness in a case
before one of the justices lately,
and when the oath was admins
tered he raised both hands and
said:-"I shall spoke nodding
what amt drew, if l ever hope to
die so quick as a minute!"
Year: 1875

A Cincinnati corpse rose in
its coffin and quietly remarked:
81 feel very queer" The two
young men who were sitting Up
with it had important business
down town the next moment,
and did not hesitate to pass
through the window to attend
to If.
Year: 1875




In one Of his addresses, at
Brooklyn, on Sunday last, Mr..
Moody told the following anec-
dote: "Therc was a nice Chris
tan in my Chicago church-one
of those men who made you
feel good if you looked at him,
and made you feel better if you
spoke to him. He was the most
grateful man l ever knew. He
always had something that he
wanted to thank God for par
ticularly. Well, one morning
he cut his finger-cut it pretty
bad--and [ knew he would man
age in some way to return praise
for it, but [ did not see how he
was to do ii. Well, the prayer
meeting came, and he was there,
and one of the first to get on
his feet. You know, O Cod
he cried, that | this morning
cut my finger; and 1 thank
Thee, Heavenly Father, that |
did not cut it off,
Year: 1875

The man who is curious to see
how the word would get along
without him can find out by stick.
ing a cambric needle into a mill
pond, aud then Withdrawing it
ard locking at the hole:
Year: 1875

Norristown Herald: Unless
the nights are very dark during
the remainder of the week and
the first half of next, many a
family will have to substitute Il
mackerel for a Thanksgiving
turkey, or the head of the house
run the risk of having a hand
full of shot inserted i'll his legs.
Year: 1875

A jlilor in a Western State had
received strict orders not to keep
his prisoners in solitary confne-
ment. Once when be had two
in charge, one escaped, and he
was Obliged to kick the other out
of the door to comply With the
egulatiOn.
Year: 1875

Almost any animal properly
housed, will winter with one.third
less food, and come out in better
condition in the spring, than when
exposed to such severe weather
aud storms as prevail from No
vember to April, The cow will
produce double the quantity of
milk when kept warm that she
will when curled up and shiver
ing by cold. The hog will fatten
easily and cheaply in mid-winter
as in May OF September, if kept
warm. Young stock, such as
calves, colts and sheep, may just
as we'll be kept in the growing,
thrifty condition during the win
ter; as to come out mere skeletons
and spend the summer-and the
best half, forgetting in as good
condition as they were the fall be-
fore.
Year: 1875

BY MRS. ALLAH EvARD.
They bore thee, darling one,


From the threshold of the door,
And the hearth thou did'st brighten,


Thou'lt brighten never more.
From yearning hearts they bore thee,


And from your mothers side,
Where thou hadSt been so lately


Her darling, and her pride
They laid thee, darling one,


Where the standing shadows creep.
But they, nor the whispering winds ca


rouse


Thee from thy quiet sleep.
The garish sun, and the blessed stars,
Still shine upon thy head;
They smile for the living earth alone
Folds the unwelting dead.
l saw thee, darling one,


In your coffin pure and white,
A pale face tinted with a smile,


Born of vision bright.
Hands folded meekIy as in prayer,


Over the cold, still breast
Life's ieaping, bounding pulses laid
In everlasting rest.
Thou sleepest, darling one,


But we know that thou wilt wake,
When the resurrection morning
Has begun to break;
For we deem thee little Fanny,
Not as we saw thee last,
Ere the stern strife and agony


Of mortal pain was past.
Not as the wailing dirges,


Fell moaning like the wave,
And tears and surging heart-sobs burst
Over a made grave,
But think of an autumn morning,
a morning months ago -
When thy fair pure spirit


Went up in that mornings glow;
Rose up from the earthly sorrow,
To our Fathers house above;
Turning from human affection
To God and the angels love,
And deem it blessed thus TO stand
In the bright and glorious sky
That for the home thou hast won
'Twere beautiful to die.
Lynchburg, Va.