smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1866

wood was manufactured solely fol


home demand, Bass Wood, Jois blanc


the true White Wood Of the haJitaas
was an abomination Butternut, Elm,
and Black Ash. were a nuisance. -
Black Walnut, Curled MARBLE, Bird s.
eye Maple and Cherry, though of the
choicest quality, had no market value,
and it was a matter of reproach to
the State that it was Wooden
Country" The transition, slow
enough when regarded in the light of
personal experience, but marvellously
rapid as indicating the progress of a
commonwealth, is certainly worthy of
serious consideration, and thinking
men would do well to look to the pro-
priety of devising measures at least TO
economise and make the best of our
still abundant but not exhaustless
supply of timber. On the subject of
numbering in Michigan we shall have
more to say hereafter.


In the Lake Superior region there
is no timber for export. The quality
of the pine save an occasional grove
Of Norway, in small bodies too far
separated from each other to make
operations remunerative--is of the very
pooroet quality. The inferior quality
of Minnesota and Wisconsin pine is
indicated not alone in the RATS of
small, knotty, irregular shaped logs
met with in the " Father of Waters -
and its tributaries-but in the slack,
neglected and unpromising condition
of the saw mills on their banks.


1t is fact not to be gainsayed, and
one worthy of careful and grateful
attention, that the heart of the largest
best and richest numbering district in
the world is right here in Saginaw
This is indeed the Ell Dorado Of the
pines, and nothing in the ordinary
course of events can prevent such pro-
gress here in improvement and tho
accumulation of wealth, as will be
in the future, as it has been in tho
past, without parallel in the history
of communities, suburban or metro
politan, in the Great West, save only
those where natural concentration
of trade and travel makes scores Of
States tributary by reason of fortu-
nate popularity in situation.
Year: 1866

TRouBLEs.--Somep people are as care
full of their troubles as mothers are Of
their babies; they cuddle them, and
rock them, and hug them, and cry
over them, and fly into passion with
you if you try to take them away
from them; they want you TO fret with
them, and help them to believe that
they have been worse treated than
anybody else. If they could, they
would have picture Of their grief in
gold frame hung over the mantel-
shelf for everybody TO look at. And
their grief makes them extraordina-
rily selfsh--tlnnk more of their dear
| little grief in tho basket and in the
cradle than they do Of all the world
beside; and they say you are hard
hearted If YOU say "don't frot." "Ah


you don't understand me-you don''
know me you can't enter into my
trials. Blind limos.
Year: 1866

WAN ED.
I teIl Won reader what I want s
I like TO get q band .inf r
That's what day by day I'm looking for
A sweet and gentle hand
Az soon rs ever can ind
Ono who suit me best
Then l will come and buy Of you
NV Coat aud Pants and Vest
But so far have found none yet
The one who would say yes
Although trayelt foreign lands
And foreign sens all over
But dit not find one to join hands
With me SO young and sober
I've travelt through most oil the States
And then 10 West India / won't
Itook a trip W s.~.h America
And then in Me xico some time sf~--
fI9ve there for'sJi6s fms hf"rn'A
left and went to Oregon
O what beautiful elmo
But still my wish was not full6llt
won't TO Idaho
i saft all the gold dust for my future


sweetheart
thought IL should be 80
In short time folt myself rich
For the gold dust 6llt my Purse
Now thinks 20 and get married
To Lady OF Nnrsc
So starded 10 British America
But ditat like il tLero
So went back to the City
To San Francisco Cal
From there | took tho Steamer
And staricd for New York
From there / went 10 ireland
But myself l am a German man
From there went 10 Liverpool
But ditnt stay there long
So vent from thero to London.
o goodness what town
On the Cars went from there 10 Hull
Where haft TO pay half crown
From there went Hamburg to 500
My Fatherland old Germany
But soon dreams Of love was gone
thought evory heart was turnt into stone
Shortly after that / left the land
And come TO New York back again
Still looking for that gentle hand
But alas alas il was In vain
So went and joint the Ar-,eo
Tho Boys Of Unci.. Gam
Last year ..e ..yo me my discharge
s.~w th:axs I for the game
i Thought Of nothing but to marry
And have gentle Wifo
But so far have found mono yet
To 20 with me through live
Perhaps you think that am poor
But that Is not the case
I am we'll and hardy and got good health
And look we'll in the face
rather tall and slender


But whats the difference


beg Of you be tender


And let me know from hence
II have 10 be 4 bachelor
o no that cannot be


Or IL there be q gentle one
Who would like to marry mo
o tell me whore TO find her
And l forever bless


The one who act 50 kindly
And Answer frznklyi yes.
East Saginaw the 4th Of July 1866.
Year: 1866

Cruz, or take steamer for Havana and
thence to Mexico. 1t is only six days
passage.


We believe we can safely say that all
the emigrants in Mexico from the United
States are doing well. They have to
work hard and submit to many privations,
but this is the case in all new countries.
Learn to labor and to wait. Put your
trust in Providence, and all will be well
in the end. No man in seeking new
home can expect all the comforts of the
old; but his energy and industry will, in
a few short years, insure him a rich re-
ward, giving him all that the heart could
desire.-City Of Merico Times.
Year: 1866

o'clock Yesterday morning young named Henry James
Sherman about years Of age killed on Hunts Point
Road Farms the accidental discharge Of Spring
field which standing his side lie in company
with his father and brother and two other Of lis com
panons Who had gone in the country In the
morning in search Of game and their way
back to MOrTisania Of them made proposition
20 shoot at a mark While they about 20 place
the marx they heard the report Of the decease rife and
turned found him lying dead with the night side Of his head
blown entirely away. 10 Is supposed bis fe standing
his night side with the muzle close 20 lis head when II
discharged lie conveyed 20 the town Of MOrist by
his father and Coroner f. Mason Oliver Immediately
notified who held inquest upon the body ~ the Office of
Justice Burnett Fordhamaye The jury rendered verdict
deceased his death by the accidental discharge
Of rife standing at his side IL is supposed that he Ia
Of raising II from the ground when tie trigger caught
ia lis clothes and thus discharged
Year: 1866

Why hath my soul been given A zeal to soar at higher things Than quiet rest--to seek haven

 And fall with scathed heart and wings! Have been blessed :? the sea wave sings Tween me and all that was mine own; I've found the joy ambition brings

 And walk alone land walk alone!
Year: 1866

Rogers is engaged on q new statuette.
entitled "Uncle Ned's School" It repre-
sents a venerable colored gentleman, whose
legitimate profession is that of a boot
black, engaged in teaching q bright-look-
ing black girl the alphabet. The exceed
ingly wise expression in the old darkeys
face, the learned wrinkles across the fore
head, and the self complacency which he
shows, are wonderfully suggestive and
characteristic. He has paused moment
in the act of polishing the boot, into which
his left arm is thrust, while be holds a
brush in his right hand, to explain diff
ficult letter to the slim, hoopless girl, who
stands with downcast eyes and opened
book resting upon the cupboard, within
which the old man keeps his tools of trade,
beside him. The old fellow himself, with
patched trowsers and shoeless feet, is seated
on the top of the cupboard, with one foot
just touching the ground, and the other
raised short distance above it. Leaning
against the cupboard, and half lying on
the earth, is a little black boy, with dog
cared book resting beside him, engaged in
the laudable occupation of tickling with
his fingers, the bottom of sUncle Ned's"
lifted foot. The old darkoy is too much
engaged at the moment with his studious
scholar to pay attention to what the idle
one is doing; but we feel certain con-
viction that when he is through with
"Miss Nancy" the shoe-brush which he
holds will form an acquaintance with
"Tim0thy's" skull. The humor displayed
in this group is excellent, and the story is
forcibly told.
Year: 1866

A young fellow at PittsAeld had for
some time been paying his attentions to a
young lady at Williamstown, and, a few
days since, having obtained the consent of
the lady, as well as that of her parents, the
pair started for an adjoining town to be
made one. A clergyman was called, and
the marriage ceremony commenced, when
the almost bride required that her lover
should give pledge that he would hence
forth abstain from the use of all intoxica.
ting liquors as beverage. The young
man refusing to dash the Intoxicating CUP
from his lips, the matrimonial cup of bliss
which might have been his, was dashed
instead. The couple left the scene as they
came, except perhaps he was a triAe sad
der, and she trife wiser.-Cpringfek
Republican.
Year: 1866

"Will you resort to an arbitrary power
and say majority of the people shall re-
ceive a state of things they are opposed to p
-AndretO johnson to the Colored Delegation.


4" If there were only five thousand men
Qoya) in State, or less number, but suf-
icient to take charge of the political ma
chinery of the State, those five thousand
men, or the lesser number, are entitled to it,
if all the rest should be otherwise included.
look upon it as being fundamental that
the exercise of political power should be
confined to loyal men."-Andrel0 johnson to
The Virginia delegation 10ithiB one Soeek of the
delivery Of the G6Ove opinion to the cOlored
Delegation.


Query-Suppose there were but five
thousand loyal men in State, and they
were colored men, what's to be done under
the above ruling and logic Chicago
Tribune.
Year: 1866

There lives man ia the town Of Ma
rion, Wisconsin, who is sixty years old,
and who never went to a bar Of any kind
and took q drink Of ardent spirits never
attended theater or a show Of any de-
scription. never took chew Of tobacco,
or smoked a pipe or cigar; never went to
a ball or danced step never played
game Of cards, billiards, dominoes, dice or
checkers, or any game whatever that is
played for money; never courted but one
woman, whom he married and lives with
vet; never Joined any order or organiza-
ton except the Christian Church, Of
which he Is yet member, and never had
his name in newspaper but once, which
was when he was married, and so refuses
to give his name for publication now.
Year: 1866

If you want to buy a handsome present for Christ
mas, go to Wadsworth Co. You will find there
the hsndsomest stock of dress goods the best stock
of coaks and shawls and Mt the lowest prices of any
in the city. They have large stock of white,
colored and crib blankets which they will sell at
lower prices than the same quality can be bought
for at any other place in Rock Island. Their stock
of carpets oil cloths and rugs is the best in town
and their prices the lowest.
Year: 1866

It's weh-known that Benjamin Franklin was very
persistent in advising people to save their money
If he were now living hs would no doubt earnestly
recommend the Eclectic Cleanser 40 one of the
greatest money savers of the nineteenth century.


Sold by ali druggists and groosrs.
Year: 1866

We are informed that the roof of Mrs. Bar
rstt's building is of tin and that the fire IN
the upper pars of that building caught thro'
8 window on the west side, which was placed
there before Kale's addition was built. This
window should have been bricksd up when
ing would have been secure.


We presume Mavo's dry goods store will
be opened Immediately ,as nothing was injur-
sd in it, except by water. The roof is prob
ably tight, but the frame which supports it
will need strengthening.
Year: 1866

pro strate our business, bankrupt the treasury,
sink the credit of the Government, and destroy
his own re putation? must say that, in my
Judgment, these are idle fears and unworthy to
be lodged in the brain of any man.


Now, Mr.. Speaker, if gentlemen will look at
the laws We have passed, they Will see that even
in relation to the terms on which these loans
shall be negotiated, this bill proposes to confer
no greater powers than the Secretary OF the
Treasury already possesses. Some gentlemen
desire that we shall insert in the bill provision
that these bonds shall be disposed of at not less
than par. Why, sir, if such provision should
be inserted, and if the brokers OF New York
should make combination, as they might at
any time. to reduce the price of these bonds even
one tenth of one per cent. below par, the Sec
retary of the treasury would be bound hand
and foot he would be utterly incapable OF
moving, and could not fund a dollar Again,
If he desired to employ, as agent to dispose OF
this loan, Jay Cooke, who has heretofore man
aged so successfully the sale OF our bonds and
notes. and should desire to pay him quarter OF
one.per cent, or threeeighths, or any other per-
centage that might be agreed upon, he would
be precluded from doing Conversion. ex-
change sale would stop.


By an examination of our former acts of this
kind 1t viii be found that they contained simi-
lar provisions this subject. In the law OF
1861 the language was, - on the most favorable
terms. In 1865 We SAID, " upon sucn Terms
as he may deem most advisable" In the act of
March, 1864, and the act of January, 1865, the
same language used. In the act of March,
1865, the words were, - at such rates and under
such conditions as he may think advisable"


Again, sir objection is made to the provision
of this bIll because 1t proposes to authorize the
Secretary of the Treasury TO negotiate loans IN
any foreign country. The bill. as it will be lett
If the amendment l propose be adopted, will still
leave power to negotiate these bonds = In the
United States or elsewhere" OF course he does
not intenc, after the emphatic condemnation OF
the policy his report, TO negotiate any bonds
abroad, but the power may be useful In order
that he may obtain the best possible terms here
at home.


As 1t is getting late. do not propose to oc-
cupy any more OF the time OF the House. L do
appeal to the House TO let this bill stand as We
have it, except tar as the amendment which
have proposed under the Instructions of the
Committee OF Ways and Means. | hope there
Is enough of good sense and patriotism IN this
House u sustain the bill. If we do, l cannot
think We shall have any reason to regret 1t.
do lear may have much tor regret II the
House undertakes to manage the finances of the
country. For one, L prefer the responsibility
sha II be With the executive department.
Year: 1866

The amount of currency that this country re-
quires in the ordinary normal condition of affairs
has usually been not more than from five to sew
en- or eight dollars per capita. That is as nuch
as has been required to do the business OF the
country when it was in healthy state. From
1889 to 1853, inclusive. period of fifteen years.
DR.. Elder sta tes that the average circulation of
bank currency did not vary more than twenty
six cents per capita, standing very uniformly at
about SIS 20.


Now, what is the amount of the currency ?
Gentlemen undertake to say that the gold of the
country has gone abroad, and We are % iake
from the amount of the circulating medium OF
the country the amount of gold tnat was former
ly In use. That is not true L have state
ment here showing precisely how that matter
stands ; showing that during the last four years
we have not exported more than two millo n
dollars over the amount we exported in the four
previous years, and not over the amount of our
annual production
Year: 1866

The birds pass two thirds OF their time in


midwinter in sleep. during which they require


DO food while during the long days are NOV


ing about for at least sixteen houra The ssme


providence which causes 80 many created things


TO hibernate during the period they would perish


for want of food if awake. also provides rest


and sleep for the birds, during which they feel


no hunger, and renders the few brief hours OF


winter daylight long enough to gather sum-


cheney of food before retiring to Toost BONE


birds iced only In the night, and 1t ls becoming


q question whether some few hat are classed as


wil.-fowl migrate at all, their nests have been


found by our water-courses all the plovers,


god wits, coots, waterfalls, the sheidrake, and


teal met with in summer and though they


may SHIFT from place to place, most of them,


many think, remain with Us all the year round,


although they may rove to every point OF the
| compass.


Chief iavorite of all our winter birds r the
little robin. He never leaves US, but still sings
the old year out and the new year Id. as his
foreiathers did centuries before q Christmas car
oil was heard. His beautiful red breast and the


crimson holly berries are generally the only bits
of warm coiorng We see out of doors, where all
the landscape whitened with winter. lie hops
on the window sli, leaving the print of his long
claws In the snow, while he peeps through the
pane with his bold black eyes, asking, In his
way for food and will enter the room, after a
lew visits, if he is treated kindly. He has such





and would not harm him for the world, were he
caught and placed in their hands. How dillght-
ed the children are to stand at the door and
feed the birds in winter to watch their shy -hao-
its, as they draw nearer and nearer until they
reach the iurthermost crumb; then they open
their wings and off In the twinkllng OF an
eye Throw up few shovelfuls of earth in the
garden, and there the robin Is rummaging among
It to see what he can fnd, almost before our
back is turned or else we find him perched,
.mpudently, on the handle of the spade We had
letl sticking in the mound, auu singing away
| ith ali his might, as il trying bow much space
he could fiji with his song, since all the other
BIRDS are silent. Neither does he tOrsake us tor
long together, either IN spring or summer, e1-
cept at breeding time, but comes every now and
| then, as if just to look on and say he has not
forgotten US. Then he comes again, with bis
| little family about him in their Juvenile suits
! and you must look very close at them to see


likeness, for they are too young to wear the red


walstcoat-the proud crest of the house robins;
but they will put it on In autumn, and be able


to take part in the carols their parents sing at
Christmas around our leahess homesteads.-En-
giish Popr.
Year: 1866

around u.s. Some of these fires set purposely
1t makes the feed better to have the old grass
burned of, and many burn it off on that account
Cattle will feed contentedly such ground when
otherwise they would ramble badly.


We had some splendid fires last evening, the boys
and l, bur ming off little piece near here. Ihis
little piece of say forty or So bad roads all
around it, which were our safe guards. There
was no grass in the roa DIS and tie fire would stop
when it got to them Had the fire jumped across
at any point it would have had the sweep of many
miles, and it would be impossible to estimate what
the da mage might have been to the settlement.
1t would probably have made pretty little bill
to settle, for if let's fire get away from
him on the prairies, the law says be shall be liable
for all the damage it does. With brisk wind
the fire swept across the ground fast the boys
would have wanted to run, ard in few moments
ths whole piece black bank OF char
coal. Such a fire as that will not burn in all di-
rections with equal rapidity. The point opposite
the wind, the " head FIRE" i is called will c1t
its way through with iracuous lmpetuosity
while the two lines of fire behind, like the lgl-
tated waters in the wake of vessel will recede
farther and farther from the common centre, but
without one tenth of the fury which the head
fire" displayed in opening the way. What pity
it would seem in Vermont to let the grass, stout
and heavy and of as good quality much of our
prairie grass is, grow up uncared for and left to
wther on the ground. Yet there millions of
acres here in Just that condition. As man told
me few days since, he was losing thousands OF
dollars every year because he had I stock to eat
up this grass. | heartily .ympathize with him, for
am in the same fix myself. We have, at least,
one consolation if the draughts and excessive
rains spoil crops, raise stock, aud that
very easily, aud there is always good market for
that WILBUR
Year: 1866




FRIEND WILLARD Il have assumed that some
of YOUR farmer readers would ike to hear now and
tEeu from one of their number who is trying on a
small scale to farm it here, and SO, though apollo
ges re eminently 10 place for Just now, shall
dispense with them entirely. Farming here, Of
course, Is somewhat different from farming in Yer
mont, but the object IS the to compel the
man and bels- These boundless praires are call
ing for somebody to cultivate them, and they pro-
mise rich reward 1t seems a pity their call
should be unheeded and many fertile
should lie dormant.


Oar Spring we consider now just opened. Dur
ing all the past week strong south wind has
blown steadily, which aided by sun, has
taken out every vestige of frost from the ground.
Farmers are already commencing plowing, and
the ground now pows beautifully. We usually
have to catch the very first moment in Spring that
the ground IS thawed and dried to put in our
crops as the earliest planted almost invariably do
the best, while oats and some other crops if sown
later will do nothing at all More than all that,
the rains which are liable fall at any time now.
NA-"N
perhaps if the opportune moment is not seized as
it flies, it may not return again. The soil here IN
kausas is remarkably sticky or cloggy when it is
little wet, and il does MT take but little to wet
it. 1t is difficult to work it then, and imprac
ticabe as it is difficult. 1t would make the ground
as hard baked cay t o plow it at such times.
The soil here is peculiar as the famous Virginia
mud, only more rich and less clayey. At any rate
it is on my farm.


The past winter there has been but very little
rain which makes the ground in such admirable
condition for plowing just now. The ground is
almost as dry midsummer. The roads have
been dusty large share of the time all winter.
Doubtless there will be ran and plenty of it, but
while it delays coming, if the ground is thawed,
it is the farmers opportunity, and farmers i'm
proving it. great many plows have been bright
ened up and set to work during the past week
and during the week to come doubt if there will
be many idle When the rain does come
our fun will be spoiled for nobody knows how
long. The rain here mocks at all signs and rules,
as fellow remarked TO me not long since, It rains
in Kansas Just when it is a-mnd to, that We
never know when to look for it or make prepar-
ations for its coming. If it does MT come at all
it will be nothing very singular for u.s. and in that
case all our blowing and planting will go for moth
ing, but we trust Providence and hope for the
best.


One thing we have that you do not Almost
every evening the sky is Illuminated in various di-
rections BY the burning prairie, and in the day
time the columns of smoke seen ascending
from prairie fires far and near. From my cham
Der window, as ! am writing this letter. can see
bright prairie fire but few miles distant, which,
reflected from the sky, makes it quite light all