smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1867

surrounding field The cakes are then
iloated to a slip where an incline plane
is constructed, the lower extremity being
under water and the upper entering the
ice house, some eighteen\feet from the
ground Up this inclined plane the ice
slides, assisted by horse power, in an
almost endless procession, each cake
pushing the one ahead OF it, and as much
as three thousand pounds being hoisted
at single pull. Once in the house il is
firmly packed in layers, with nothing
between or around it. The house being
filled the surface Of the ice is covered
with thick layer of straw, and all is
ready for summer.
Year: 1867

laws; nevertheless they legislate for
our government. We find the Governor
of the State sharing the proceeds of an
act by which the treasury is plnndered,
and using his place for the commission
of unnumbered deeds of wrong; never
theless he is tolerated. So long as such
men are not compelled by the force of
public opinion to retire to the privacy
they deserve, their immunity will
tempt Others to crime. If scoundrels
are allowed to disgrace our public
places, their example will be felt upon
those in private life. If too charita-
BILE public sentiment palliates OF excuses
vice because of the station OF talent of
the vicious, the effect will be to increase
the rascals and multiply their rascal
tiles.
Year: 1867




curiosity, ventured into the neighbor-
hood of his crime. Bysom was inform
ed of his presence and started at once in
pursuit. He came upon the betrayer OF
his sisters honor at blacksmith shop,
where he was having his horse shod.
The unfortunate, but guilty man was
about mounting, when Bysom fired six
successive shots from a Colts navy,
each barrel taking effect, and the man
gled corpse Of Oglesby falling amid q
pool of blood. Not content with this
the infuriated avenger caught up the
body, lifted it to the forge,and but for
the sudden return of the blacksmith,
who had stepped out moment before
and was recalled by the firing, would
have burned it to a cinder. He mount
ed the horse of the murdered man, how
ever, without interference, no one but
the head of the shop and negro boy
being present, and rode away, since
which time he has not been heard of.
Year: 1867




LIBERTY OF THE Press AND OF SPEECH
The New York Herald says:


The military Governors of the South, who
are acting as police in the unrecoustructed
States, should remember that no legislation
of Congress can abolish that clause in the
Constitution of the United States which re-
cognizes and guarantees the perfect freedom
of the press and speechy except in time ofw
If they properly understand their duties un-
der the laws of Congress, they can get along
with the greatest ease, and will find no deli
cacy or difficulty in theirpostions. One edi-
tor is Just as much at liberty 70 write against
the reconstruction laws as an0sheris to write
in their favor. One stump speaker has just
as much tight to criticise the Acts of Con-
rress and to laud the used-up chivalry to the
skies as another haste uphold the Congress
sional policy and ridicule the Southern braves.
But no State oficeris entitled to use his posi-
ton to interfere with or embarrass the opera
tion of United States law, nor has any man,
ofice-holder or private citizen right to in
cite a riot or disturb the public peace. Gen
eral ScoGeld did wrong and exceeded his duty
when he prohibited that literary Bohemian,
Pollard from delivering stupid lecture IN
Richmond but he did right in arfesting 3
white instigator of riot in that city. The
former act interfered with the constitutional
right of free speech the latter prevented .
breach of the peace and punished a violation
of the law.
Year: 1867

TIE STREET CAR QUESTION IN New YORK
So much ado has been made Of late about
the exclusion Of negroes from the street rail
way cars of Southern cities, that the follow.
ing from that Radical sheet, the New York
Evening Post, of the 18th inst, is rather as
tonishing:


About eleven o'clock this morning, clean
ly and well dressed negro boy, apparently
fourteen years of age, attempted 70 get into
a Fifth avenue stage on Broadway, but the
driver, with great rudeness, prevented him
from doing go. The occupants of the stage
were only five in number-one lady and four
gentlemen. AS soon as the driver saw the
color of the boy he shut the door, so that the
child could not get into the stage and called
to him in much anger to climb .on top of the
stage. The boy who was burdened with Q
morocco satchel, with difficulty tried to climb
over the wheel to the drivers seat-which
BY the way, is not intended for any person
but the driver. The boy did not succeed il
this effort, either through the opposition o.
the driver, or for some other reason. he de-
scended to the pavement and again tried the
door, but with many objurgations the driver
still held it fast, whipped up his horses, and
drove down the street.
Year: 1867

the position in which it vas found; then. not
satisfied with the programme thus far carri7
ed out, the little butcher must needs disem.
bowel his dead brother. almost in the exact
manner in which his father had the pigs the
day before. l mention. here. that. the boy
Gustsve has always been considered as pos
.sessins weak intellect, but was thoughtto
be q good hearted and tractable child. w What
could hsge induced him to commit this fear
full crime is beyond our conjecture, except it
be from 90 unavoidable desire to initiate his
father in tAe killing of the pigs. Since the
tragedy he has seemed to realize, in certain
degree, the fearful nature of the deed, and
cries bitterly when he sees how unhappy his
father and mother are. At present he is
kept in close custody, but what disposition
the authorities will make of him I cannot say.


X X
Year: 1867

from all parties Of the country welded to-
gether by the cohesive power OF common
danger and a common purpose 1t is hard
to believe il, but if it is, it Is high time it
was dissolved, for it certainly hasoutgroyn
its usefulness when it seeks, under the
leadership Of such men as Ashley and
Butler, TO engage in the contemplate and
dastardly business indicated in the PROPOSE
tion | refer to. If the Union" party has
degenerated into conspiracy to destroy
the men TO whom the nation owes its life,
the sooner it is swept out Of existence the
better Mr.. Bingham deserves she appro-
baton Of all true men for his timely inter
eession to avert an act, the slightest mis-
chief done by which would have been the
disgrace Of the men who participated 10 II,
for in their disgrace the whole american
people would have been inyelged in the
eyes Of the civilized world.


Bat sfter all, though there is room Cor
and cause for wrath in the
idea Of Butler and Ashley charging Grant
with conspiracy 20 subvert the govern
ment, isn't there, on the whole, more
TO good laugh? MACK.
Year: 1867

DOES 1T PAY TO ADVERTISE? "A gentleman
doing business in Boston, while travelling In the
cars year or two since, took copy of the Lon
don Punch with which to relieve the monotony
of tedious journey; and having finished read
ing it's well stocked columns Of fact, fun and
fancy" took to reading the advertisements. AT
last, in remote corner, he discovered an an
nouncement, about half an inch in length, which
told him where an article he dealt largely IN
could be procured in England; and being one Of
the shrewd, sharp kind of men, ne wrote the
parties for price list, the result OF which wa'
that he sent them an order amounting to severa
hundred pounds sterling, and during the year hi


partner. visiting Europe left another large order
and they still remain good customers. All thi


was the result of the half inch advertisement
| Who will say that it does not pay to advertiser
Year: 1867

Within the walls of the Bastile, during the
reign of Louis the XIV, was enacted the mex
plicable mystery, which has continued mystery
to this day, of the man in the Iron Mask. W hen
first heard of he was confined in the Marguerite
Islands. in the Mediterranean, whence he was
removed by De Saint Mars, who was his private
governor, and answerable, it is believed, tor hls
safety with his own life, to the Bastie, where he
died on November 10, 1903, and was buried On
the Goth, in the cemetery of st. Paul, under the
name of Machiati. No man, except the governor,
so far as is known, ever saw his face or hearo
his voice. Two persons, to whom ne had conveyed
written words, in one case marked upon linen
SHIRT. in the other engraved on a silver plate,
died, without apparent cause immediately a1ter-
wards. During his conveyance from the Mar
guerite Isles, De Saint Mars dined at the same
table and slept in the same chamber with him,
with pistols ever at hand ready to destroy him
in case of an attempt on his part to reveal him.
self In the Bastle he was waited upon, at the
table and toilet by the governor, who took charge
of and DESTROYED all the linen he once used He
was never seen but with a mask OF black velvet
fastened behind his head with steel springs; and
when he went to hear mass, the mvalides, who
were In charge of him, with muskets and lighted
matches. were instructed to fire on him instantly
in case of his speaking or showing his face. A
hundred conjectures have been risked as to who
this mysterious person was who was treated with
such respect, yet with such jealous rigor, whose


life was held sacred against taking off, yet made


one scene of incessant mystery. The absence o.


anv person of sufficient note from the stage o.


history to account for such precautions alone


battles all inquiry The general idea seems t.


he that he was an elder brother of Louis tht
| XIV. the fruit of an adulterous intrigue be
tween Annie of Austria and the Duke OF Buck
ingham, or some other lover, who, being born il


wedlock, could not have been dispossessed OF hi


claim to the throne had his existence been ad


mitted
Year: 1867

No Coon DEED LosT.-Philosophe tell us
that since the creation of the world, not one
single particle has ever been lost 1t may have
n,zsed into new shapes-it may have foated
away in smoke or vapor-but it is not lost 1t
will come back again in the dewdrop or the rain
it will spring up in the fibre of the plant ITSELF


or the rose leaf Through all its formation,
providence watches over and directs it still.-
Even SO it is with every holy thought or heavenly
desire. or humble aspiration, or generous and
self denying effort. 1t may escape our observa'
tion--we may be unable to follow it, but it is an
element of the moral world and it is not lost y
Year: 1867

NEVER INVITED HIM.-"Why is it you
never trade with me p said a tradesn,an to
friend from the country, the other day. The
reply was Characteristic +: ''You have never IN IN
vited me, sir am reader of our county paper,
and never fail to search the advertising columns
I have seen no invitation from you, and make
# a rule never to 90 where am not invited Z
Year: 1867

Who'll press for gold this crowded street


A hundred years to come
Who'll tread yon church with willing feet


A hundred years to come? a- s
Pale, trembling age and fiery youth,
And childhood with his brow of truth,
The rich and poor on land and sea
Where will the mighty millions be


A hundred years to come! .s..s
We all within our graves shall sleep


A hundred years to come;
No living soul for US will weep


A hundred years to come;
But other men our land will till,
And others then our streets will I'LL, .s..
And other birds will sing as gay, as
And bright the sun shine as to-day, Na2sf
"A hundred years to come.
Year: 1867

Th. old and numerous friends of my house know
of their interest demands them to give me call
before purchasing whilst the public generally can
rest assured that trial at my store viii leave them
fnuv sats6ed that ON and will sell at least low
as the lowest. -


WHOLESALERS who do not wish to be under
sold. will do well to look through my stock.


Oct. q, 1857. b. kOOPMANN.
Year: 1867

A father having taught his son how
to tell the hour by the clock, said to
bin: There is another clock-tht
clock of life; | mean," said he, "the
beating of your pulse; for it may
often remind you of the value of time
and the necessity of turning it to good
account. Time is worth more than
the finest gold.'


MyPulso is the clock of my life;


Il shows how the minutes are flying:
Itmarks the departure Of time,


And it tells me how fast | am dying


He who lives a day without doing
rood, loses a day; and he who makes
another happy, is sure to be all the
happier for it himself.


Place your fingers on your pulse, as
il beats remember every beat makes
one less in your life.


You may think it will be long time
before it will stop beating, but it may
stop very suddenly. If God don't
keep it wound up, the clock would stop
ST any moment. Very little disturb
mce of the running works of the
clock would stop it. So a cold or fe-
yer or fall, or a blow, or ten thOus-
and incidents that might happen,
would stop the beating of your heart
nl pulse. We ought to observe daily,
and try to improve the time while it
passes. We will soon be in eternity,
where they will no longer reckon by
hours and minutes, or the beating of
our pulses.


How long has your clock been run
Hng: You count it by years and
months, but it runs it round by min
.utes, and even seconds. Each tick tells
.oi a change, and announces to you
that so much more Of life is gone, and
that You are so much nearer eternity.
We note the hours of the clock dai-
y to make our arrangements for it's
duties. Men of business would be
plnctuaL They would not for any
consideration, be too late to meet an
engagement with Il banker or a mer-
chant But, ah they keep no en-
gagement with God, their Maker and
Judge God has the hour fixed when
.ney are to meet him, and when it
comes he will not wait one moment for
amy engagement they may have. He
las long before and oftentimes called
upon them to measure their days, to
set ready for their account. At the
leh OF the clock, the summons will be,
tive an account of thy stewardship"
hat have you done with what the
Lord has entrusted to you?


bishop Ken wisely sets forth in one
oI ms hymns the spirit which leads us
20 Improvement Of life:


Awake my soul, and with the sun


Thy daily stage of duty run:


Shake off dull sloth, and ioyful rise,


To pay thy morning sacrifice.


my precious time miSspent, redeem


Each present day thy last esteem;


Improve thy talent with due care.


For the great day thyselfprepare.


Direct, control, suggest this day


All l design, or do, or say,


That all my powers, with all their


might,


In thy sole glory may unite


Northwestern Presbyterian
Year: 1867

Feed your poultry raw onions, chop
ped fine and mixed with other food,
about twice week. 1t is better than
a dozen cures for chicken cholera.


Fowls exposed TO dampness are apt to
be troubled with catarrh, which will
run to roup if not attended to. Red
pepper mixed with soft feed, fed sever
al times week, will relieve the cold.


Pulverized charcoal given occasional
ly is a preventive of putrid affections,
to which fowls are very subject.


Pulverized chalk, administered with
soft feed, will cure diarrhea. The dis
order is caused by want of variety of
food. or by too much green food.


Setting hens can be cured by putting
water in II vessel to the depth of one
inch, putting the hen into and covering
the top of the vessel for about twenty
four hours. The vessel should he deep
enough to allow the fowl to stand up.
This is the best remedy | have ever
tried.


Garlic, fed once or twice week, is
excellent for colds.


Earth worms are greatly relished by
confined fowls. Take spade and turn
over the ground once a day for your
hens They will soon run after you
when they see you with the spade, and
will amply reward you for the extra
trouble to accommodate them, by an in
creased supply of eggs.


See that plenty of pure water is with
in easy reach of your chickens on frosty
mornings. Also, feed early.
| Close up all cocks in poultry houses
near the roosting poles. Fowls very
much dislike air which reaches them
| through cracks and crevices.
Year: 1867

A shoemaker over in Jersey bought
half an acre lot. He was fond of fruit
and read the papers. The soil was wet
clay, and he selected fruit suited to the
climate. He built house and put his
Land in q condition to produce fruit.
He had no manure but the droppings OF
street cattle. In his leisure, he brought
from the woods bark, rotten wood,
moss and leaf mold, which he mixed
with the soil three feet deep. This was
done by degrees, and as fast as the
ground was prepared he planted fruit:
He become so interested and successful
that he retired from the cobbler's bench.
was his near neighbor and knew him
intimately. His half acre supported
himself and wife comfortably, almost in
elegance. She had no servant, and had
plenty of time to cultivate flowers.
Strangers inquired about their beauti-
full home.


Isabella grapes and common currants
formed the bulk of his fruit. With a
better selection his income would have
been larger. Others have had the same
success on small pieces of ground.


One knew who supported his family
ON one acre. Half was in grapes, the
crop of which In one season sold for
saOb, and he had no labor bills TO pay.
If concentration will give success lot
his know it and practice :t..-Dr. fecS
in D.. j. Tribune
Year: 1867

A dispatch from Meriden, CT, states
that ncgTo had been admitted to reg
i>trv 10y the Republican Board of Reg
i>trar> of that town and declared en-
Titled 10 vote. and that there was much
excitement in consequence. Such a
high-handed proceeding by Republi-
al, election board is not to se wonder
rd az. in view of the example set by
the leaders of the party in Congress
iu utterly disre sarding AL constitution
al and lawful restraint when the end
sought could not he otherwise reached.
But in this case ii only serves to show


he desperation of the Radicals without
jhc slightest possible chance of avaiiing
chem anything. Less than two years
rgo, proposition to enfranchise the ne
grocS III Connecticut by constitutional
amendment was sdefeated by u majority OF
over six thousand. As the franchise
question now stands, no negro who was
not an admitted freeman prior to the
ratification of the Constitution OF ISIS
can be admitted to vote in Connecticut.


The Republican Registrars of Meri-


den have introduced an element into
the canvass which is not calculated to
3elp their dropping cause. Repeated
rotee have shown that many of their own
party are not in favor of negro suffrage
made lawful, and it is but reasonable tt
conclude that they will be prompted b!
the action in this case to rebuke at the
hallot-box the attempt to foist such sui
lrage unlawfully upon their State.
Year: 1867

Clerk Of the Munici ipaI Court.


Editor of the Register:


Being daily reader of your excellent
paper, and assured that the triumph of
the party whose principles and tenden-
cies you so effectively advocate is the
loftiest object of your ambition, l am at
a loss to comprehend your apparent in
sensibility in regard to the election of
Clerk of the Municipal Court, now so
rapidly approaching. Il is true that
two communications on this subject from
"Obseryer" have appeared in your col
umns. but without eliciting line of
editorial comment. Do you approve or
repudiate his suggestions 1t is evident
that the overthrow of Radicalism is a
precedent condition to tae ascendency
of Conservatives; at the same time your
enlarged experience must convince you
that such results are impossible without
the instrumentality of party organiza-
tion, and that no party can be triumph
ant, or prolonged i'll its duration that
adopts the policy of prescribing its
friends and eXalting its enemies. A
majority of the present Council enter
tain political opinions and sentiments
with which the present incumbent has
no sympathy. They were elected as
the regularly nominated candidates of
a party which he has denounced and
opposed, and whom to defeat and sub
nit to political ignominy, has been the
grand object for which he and his Rad
ical associates are now and have been
laboring for years.


We scarcely think that gentleman
possessing the modesty and discern
ment of Mr.. Cbaplire, will urge his
claims upon the consideration of a
Democratic Council, but should he be
tempted to experiment upon their gem
erosity, then due regard for the wishes
of a majority of voters in the city, and
a determination to preserve the integ-
rity and maintain the ascendency of
orr party in Ohio county, will induce
the powers that be to remind him that
it is their duty to be just before being
generous. Permit me to suggest to our
friends in tho Council that to elect a.
Radical under present circumstances
would be an act of pusilanimity that
would be ,ieered at even by the OppO-
sition, and an irritating insult that
would be remembered and resented by
the hopeful and working rank and file
of the FIFTH WARD.
Year: 1867

On Saturday last some Of the ladies
Of the Union Mission Association visit
ed family in whose house they found
little boy standing mp in beer keg.
They asked how he came there, and
were told that he had nothing to wear,
and did not want to lie in bed all the
time. He was therefore put in the keg
so that he could see what was going on
around him.-BnE. Er.
Year: 1867

R6~Soandulous stories are told in
regard to the conduct of the Prince of
Walesand his brother,iu-law, the young
King OF Greece, during their two
days sojouru in that city. One day the
Prince and the King of Greece rode in
an open barouche with three lorottes
through the streets. They had several
bottles of brandy in their carriage and
we're noisy and intoxicated
Year: 1867

FoR spring suits Of the latest style and


finish, go to Sam Perry He has large
stock Of dre.s goods, both plain and fancy,


ready made clothing for men and boys. aud
a heavy stock Of gents furnishing goods,
every thing new and Of the latest fashions.
Year: 1867

ABOUT HUMoR-Humor will often dis


pose best of enthusiastic or frantic fancies.-


In Dean Swift's time a tailor near him took


into his head that he was divinely called to


interpret tbs prophecies, especially Revela-
tions. One night he received the commits


sion to declare the word of the Lord to the
Dean, and bright and early next morning he
was on his way to do it. Through his glass
door the Dean saw him coming and surmis-
ell his errand. Putting on a grave, studious
air, and opening his Bible to Revelations X,
with fixed attention he awaited the proph-
cts approach. The door opened. and in an
unearthly voice it was announced: Dean
Swift, l am sent by the Almighty to-
Come in come in my friend" said Dean,
I" [ am in great trouble and no doubt the
Lord has sent you to help me out of my dit
ticuties." The prophet was cheered by the
welcome. He was all ears in more sense
than one. My FRIEND" said the Dean, &c 1
have just been reading Revelations x, and
am greatly distressed at a difficulty. and you
are the very man to help me out. Here is an
account of an angel that came down from
heaven, and was so large that he placed one
foot on the land and the other upon the sea,
and lifted up his hands to heaven. Now,
my knowledge of mathematics has enabled
me to calculate exactly the size and form of
this angel but am in great difficulty, for
wish to ascertain how much cloth it will
take to make him a pair of breeches; and
as that is in your line of business, have no
doubt the Lord has sent you to show me-
The poor tailor was confounded. He felt as
if struck by an electric shock. He rushed
back to his shop; revulsion of feeling came
over him, and he was fully satisfied that his
calling did not lie in the line of prophetic in
terDretatlOn
Year: 1867

There cometh glad tidings of joy at all,
To young and to old, to great and to small;
The beauty which once was so precious and rare
Is free for all, and all may be fair.


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