smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1867

was appointed to act as Sunday School
Missionary III Marshall county about the
3Oth of April last. As this was my first
missionary experience, ] had no very def
mite plan of operation in mind when first
set out, but determined to seek and follow
the direction Of Providence In arrang-
ing schools, had great difficulty in find
ing persons suitable and willing to take
charge of them and carry them on Bnt
as duty seemed to point forward, resolv-
ed to pray the Lord of the Harvest to pro
Year: 1867

vide labOrers for the work. The result
was somewhat gratifying, although not so
much so as | could have wished. [ was
compelled on leaving the county. to leave
a large number cf schools still destitute Of
them, because no one could be found to
superntend them, if an attempt should be
made to organize them. The plans follow
ed in pursuing my work were varied to suit
circumstances. But when I had decided
that school was needed at any point, l
generally visited, during the week, some
of the families most likely to be interested
and on the Sabbath met the neighbors at
their regular appointment if they held
any, at which [ addressed them on the i'm
portance Of early religious training for
children and induced them if possible to
organize a Sunday School AID provide it
with such books and papers and other nee
essaries as would be likely to make it in
tercsting and profitable to those who might
attend. But as there were many places
where no regular religious services were
held at any time, often found it necessa-
ry to visit near y every family in the set
tlement during the week, and to make a
special appointment for convenient hour
of the Sabbath. In this way frequent


y succeeded in organizing a school.


But not unfrequently whetever plans
were adopted, l failed to effect an organi-
zation. In this way l spent nearly four
months, from May I'd until August 26th,
in exploring Marshall county with the fol-
loTVi roSi,lFcs
Year: 1867

SUPREME COURT-CHAMBERs- Before Mr.. Justice


SUTHERLAND.


THE RIGHTS OF STOCKHOLDERS-THE PACIFIC


MAIL STEAMSHIP COMPANY.


T. Munson ag The Pacific Mail Steamship Company. a.


JOS f. MunsOn as a stakeholder to the extent
Of fifty shares applies for mandamus directed To the Of
ceTs OF the Pacific Mail Steamship Company requiring
them TO exhibit to him such books they had showing
Co. incorporated in 1873 with capital Of half mil
On five per cent Of which to be paid in befOrhtho
Company commenced operations. and since that time by
successive steps its capital has been increased TO twenty
millions The original act Of Incorporation contains the
following section 1t shall be the dnty OF the said Cor
pOratiOn book be kept by the Treasurer
Clerk thereof containing the Of all persons who
ore shall within two years have been stockholders of
said corporations and showing the places OF residence
the number Of shares OF stock held by them respectively
and the time when they respectively became the owners
such shares winch book shall at all reasonable times be
open for the inspection OF the creditors and stockholders
OF the SAID Corporation at the Oce or principal place or
business OF the said Corporation" Beside this the gen
eTal laws Of the State provide that within so days Of
election stockholders may see the stock books.


The defense ia this case is threefOd. l. That the
ton Of the charter only applicable until the original
stock was paid up, and that, election was mpcnd-
ing the general law did not apply 2 That there was no
such book the relatOr demanded, ana there was no
possible means OF giving correct list Of the present
stockholders owing TO the fact that transfers often
made Of stock without transfer the books That the
rcatOr this not the real OF the stock
but only for another party having large in
erests 80 000 in the stock and who desired the control
OF the stock for mere stock jObbiDg interests.


Judge Sutherland, in discussing the question, took
broad ground He ruled that independent OF all statutes
the officers but the agents OF the corporation and
the stockholders who made up that corporation
Company; that 1t to the officers OF the
Company that they had kept such stock book that
ii would be some inconvenience TO them to exhibit Their
stock ledgers, &C. 10 the stockholders II they had
such book they must show any books which would give
the information A peremptory mandamus there
upon ordered the form TO be settled ON Wednesday morn
Year: 1867

Jas Hogan agt Michael Cregan.


Plaintiff brings suit for damages in $4,000 for
the seduction OF his daughter, Margaret by the defend
ant and consequent loss of services.


The complaint sets forth that about the 18th Of
August 1896, Margaret Hogan daughter Of the plaintiff,
seduced by defendant and enticed away from her
home and that at various times since the criminal
rcspOndence had been repeated that in consequence Of
this criminal connection Miss Hogan became pregnant,
and in due course Of time became mother that her ~.
lasted nine months during which time plaintiff not
only sustained the loss OF services hut was also obliged to
90 TO great expense for medical treatment attendance
&c For this and the disgrace attendant upon his name
and family, plaintiff claims vindictive damages.


The defense introduced number OF witnesses TO prove
the loose character OF the girl policeman tcstfyng TO
having accompanied her 20 house OF prostitution.
Counsel for the defense urged in mitigation OF damages
that the parent only lost the services OF his child during
actual labor Case still on.
Year: 1867




EDIToRIAL PI.-Newspaper people are
proverbislly temperate as well as virtu>
Gus. We believe one of the craft did
get tightly slight few days ago, and
the following local appeared in his pa
per next days 4asf


Yesterday morningabo four o'clock
P. NJ, small man named Joncs or
Brown, committed arsenic by swallowing
dose of suicide. The verdict of the
ipauest properly returned jury that
the deceased came to the fact in accord,
ance with his death. He left child and
six elderly wives to lament the end of
his unfortunate loss. Ia death we are
in the midst Of life
Year: 1867

On some railroads it is customary TO
have lock on the stove to prevent pass
engers from meddling with the ERE. A
wag being asked Why they locked the
stove, coclly replied that 'sit was to pre-
vent the ere from going opt p
Year: 1867

The following is from a recent sermon by
the pastor of Plymouth church:


On earth there is nothing mole beautiful
than the first breaking of young, strong,
new, pure love. No flowers thai ever bios
somed, however fair; nor Fragrance that any
flower ever emitted, however sweet; no bra
very of the sky; no Witchery of art, nothing
that man ever invented or imagined is to be
compared with the hours of dawning love in
the young soul. And it is a shame that
men should be taught to be ashamed OF that
which is the prophecy of their highest be-
ing and glory. Alas, that men should not
know that to endure it must rise higher,
since ii is only by growing into its full and
later disclosures that 1t must be saved from
quick mortality, 1t must grow or die for
that which sufhees for a beginning is not
enough for all, and for all time


Love, therefore, should be school-mas-
ter, carrying it's pupils up from room to
room, through the whole university Of the
mind As the lower begins first, it ends
first. The higher, beginning latest lasts
the longest


And, hence, true affection is strongest in
the latter periods of being. Perhaps it is
less stimulating than young love, but the



when we love earliest is not found in truth
or analogy. No one knows the whole lore
of love, that does not know how to love
with the reason, the Imagination, and all
the moral sentiments. 1t is the most lnte
rior school that the soul can know. Men
may know how to deal with numbers and
solve problems; but that is the rarest, the
innermost, the deepest knowledge that
comes with loving by all the parts and facul-
ties of the soul.
who are good, since the line, the direction
is from the flesh toward the spirit 1t is
from the low toward the high, 1t is frou
the substantial toward the invisible. And
none can truly love except those whose life
is the unfolding Of their whole nature on the
plan of Christianity


How pitiful it is to see men build too
low | cannot bear to see the young gath
ering together and building their nests as
the birds do. On my lawn | see the lark 5
and other birds building in the grass and
know that before the young are fiedged the
remorseless mower, with revolving strokes,
will sweep the ground, and the nests will be
utterly destroyed, and the young cut and
wasted. And do / not see men building
their nests Just so? Do ! not see love be-
ginning to nestle in the fiowers2 But the
flowers themselves are rooted in the dirt
down low, close to the foot that easily shall
crush them


| mourn when | see a mother loving her
ehildren for tiue Cor time only nourh
when ! see two natures that should be eteT-
naIy affianced, loving each other within the
horizons of time There must be something
higher than the circlings of this world. No
love is fit to be called by the name love that
has not in it something of the other world,
and much of immortality. 1t must have in
1t faith and hope. 1t must be o love that is
served by the reason, by the Imagination, by
all that there Is in the soul.
Year: 1867

A lady who signs herself A Martyr to
Late Hours, offers the following sensible
suggestions to young mem


Dear gentlemen, between the ages Of IS
and 10, listen to few words of gratuitous
remarks. When you make social call Of
an evening, on young lady, 60 away at
reasonable hour. Say you come at eight
o'clock, an hour and half is certainly as
long as the most fascinating Of you in con
versatlon can. or rather ought to desire to
use his charms Two hours, indeed, can be
pleasantly spent with music, or other games
to lend variety; but, kind sirs, by no means
stay longer Make shorter calls and come
oftSner. A girl-that is, a sensible, true
hearted girl-will enjoy it better, and really
value your acquaintance more. just CON
ceive the agony of girl who, well knowing
the feeling of father and mother upon the
subject, hears the clock strike ten, and yet
must sit on the edge of her chair, in mortal
terror lest her papa should put his oft re-
peated threat into execution, that OF inviting
the gentleman to breakfast And we girls
understand it all by experience, and know
what it is to dread the prognostie Of dis
pleasure In such cases a sigh of relief
generally accompanies the closing door be-
hind the gallant, and one don get over the
feeling of trouble till safe in the arms of
Morpheus. Even then the dreams are
sometimes troubled with some phantom of
an angry father, and distressed (for both
paTties) mother, and a young man viii make
a longer call than he ought to. Now. young
gentlemen friends, I'll tell you what we girls
will do


For an hour and half we will be most
irresistibly charming and fascinating Then
beware; monosyabIe responses will be all
you need expect and if, when the limits
shall have passed, the startling query shall
be heard coming down stairs Ism it time
to close up?' you must consider it righteous
punishment, and taking your hat, depart, a
sadder, and it is to be hoped, a wiser man.
Do not get angry, but the next time you
come, be careful to keep within just bounds
We want to rise early these pleasant morn
ings and improve the shining hours, but
when forced to be up at such unreasonable
hours at night, exhausted nature will speak,
and as natural consequence, with the ut
most speed in dressing, we can barely get
down to breakfast in time TO escape a repre-
mand from papa, who don't believe in
beaux as though he never was young, and a
mild, reproving glance from mamma, who
understands a little better poor daughter S
| feelings, but must still disapproye outwardly
to keep up appearances. And now, young
men, think about these things, and don
/ for pity sake throw down your paper with
a pshaW but remember the safe side Of 10,
Year: 1867

] have speculated deal on matrimony.
! have seen young and beautiful women,
the pride Of gay circles, married as the world
says, well. Some have moved into their
costly houses, and their friends have all
come and looked at their furniture and their
splendid home for happiness, and have gone
away and committed them to their sunny
hopes cheerfully and without fear. 1t is
natural to be sanguine for them, as the
young are carried away with similar feel
lngs. love to get unobserYed, in 4 corner
and watch the bride in her white attire, and
with her smiling face and soft eyes meeting
me in the pride of life, weave a waking
dream of future happiness, and persuade
myself it viii be true.


l think how they viii sit upon the luxu-
ri0us sofa as the twilight falls, and build
gay hopes and murmur in low tones the not
now forbidden tenderness; aud how thrill
lngiy the allowed kiss and beautiful endear-
ments of the welded life will make even
their parting joyous, aud how gladly they
will come back from the crowded and empty
mirth Of the day to each other quiet com
pany. picture to myself that young crea-
ture who bushes even now at his hesitating
caress, listening eagerly for his footstep as
the night steals on wishing he would come,
and when he enters at last, with an affection
as undying as his pulse, folds her to his bo-
som, | can feel the tide that goes flowing
through the heart, and gaze with him on
the graceful form as she moves about for the
kind offices of affection, soothing all his un-
quiet cares, and making him forget even
himself in her young and unshadowed
beauty.


| 60 forward for years and see her luxuri-
ant hair put soberly away from her brow, and
her girlish graces resigned into dignity, and
loveliness chastened with the gentle meek
ness and maternal affection. Her husband
looks on with proud eye, and shows the
same fervent love and delicate attentions
which first won her; and her fair children
have grown about them, and they go on,
full Of honor and untroubled years, and are
remembered when they die-Irrilg.
Year: 1867

Manners easily and rapidly mature into
morals. As childhood advances to man
hood, the transition from bad manners TO
bad morals is almost impreceptible Vul-
gar and obscene forms Of speech keen vulgar
and obscene objects before the mind, engen-
der impure images in the Imagination, and
make unlawful desire prurient. From the
prevalent state Of the mind, actions proceed.
as water raises from fountain Hence
what was originally only word OF phrase,
becomes thought, is meretriciously en-
bellished by the Imagination is infamed in
TO vicious desire, gains strength and bold
ness by being always made welcome, until
at last under some urgent temptation, it
dares, for once, to put on the visible form
Of action: it Is then yentuFed upon again and
again, more frequently and less warily, IN
til repetition forges the chains of habit and
then language, imagination, desire, and
habit bind their victim in the prison house
of sin. In this way profane language wears
away the reverence for things sacred and
holy: and a child who has been allowed to
follow, and mock, and ho0t at an intemper-
ate man in the streets, is far more likely to
become Incorporate himself than If he had
been accustomed to regard him with pity, as
q fallen brother, ard with sacred adherence.
as one self-brutihed or denounced So. on
the other hand, purity and chasteness Of
language tend to preserve purity and chaste-
ness Of thought and Of taste: they repol
hcentlous imaginings; they delight in the
unsulied and the untainted and all their
tendencies and aptitudes are on the side Of
yirtue.-H0rdce Mum.
Year: 1867

site side Of the river, he found the entrance
opposite to him of the most beautiful valley,
already described, with two fine streams
flowing into the river about five miles apart,
and on the eastern side an elevated plateau
unsurpassed in loveliness in the wide world
with tho little Paxton flowing at the base Of
an elevated slope of ridge of land. Here he
settled, and the ferry across the river to the
entrance of the Cumberland Valley was
called after him.


His son, the first white child born west Of
the Conewaga hills, subsequently laid out a
town ON the spot and with singular fore
thought set apart six acres on noble hill
which rises on the northwest, which he
conveyed to the State for public purposes
The Capitol of Pennsylvania is now built
upon it. and the city of Harrisburg bears his
name.
Year: 1867

The man that don't take newspapers was
in town the other day He brought his
family 10 an OK wagon. He still believed
that Mlllard Fillmore was President, and
wanted to know if the Kamschatkians
had taken Cuba, and if so, where they had
takenlt. lie had sold his pork for six cents
when he might have got ten. One Of his
boys went to blacksmith shop to be meas
ured for pair of shoes, and another mistook
the market house for church He hung
his hat on a meat hook and patiently waited
one hour for meeting to begin One of
the girls took lot of seed onions to the post
Office to trade off for letter She had
baby which She carried in a sugar trough"
stopping occasionally to rock it on the side
walk; when it cried she tilled its mouth with
cotton handkerchief, and sang Barbara
Allen. The oldest boy had sold two coon
skins and was on bust, When last seen
he had called for so1y and water" and
stood soaking gingerbread in it, and making
wry faces. The shop keeper, mistaking his
meaning had given him mixture Of sal
soda and water, and it tasted strongly of
soap. Bat he d 'hearn tell Of sody water,
and was bound to give it fair trial, puke
or no puke. The old man had tea kettle
he wanted fixed up, and he carried it to
the mllliner shop. The clerk thought the
man was crazy, but noticing the hole in the
kettle, politely told him that Dreylus &,
Woracek could mend it for him. He then
took an old plow to the jewelers. to have it


'pinted and sharpened, We told the fel-
low he ought to read the papers, but he
would not listen to it, He was opposed to
internal improvements, and he thought
'larnin' was a wicked invention. -cE
chauqe
Year: 1867

1t is the destiny Of men and boys, women
and girls, to labor. IF we would have any
thing in this world, or become useful in any
way, or eminent for any thing desirable or
worthy of praise and admiration, we must
strive for it. If the boy or girl would be
wise in any thing, wisdom Is to be gained
only By making the effort The most dis
tingUished persons of our age have risen to
their present positions by hard study and
unremitting perseverance. Even our most
eminent ministers have disputed the way to
their present positions Of influence, honor,
and usefulness, by incessant toll Their
progress has been made inch BY inch. A
man is not born with wisdom Whatever
he knows must be acquired by patient OBJ
servation and By hard study 1t is the
height Of folly to think Of knowing anything
or Of being anything more than "a newer Of
wood or a drawer Of water, without such
effort. Close application and rigid discip-
line are essential for satisfactory success in
any employment. If boy or man would
be a scholar, he must study If he would
be q skiful mechanic, he must apply him
self No boy or man has ever attained to
eminenee and distinction, without toilsome
and laborious pains taking. Earnest dis
cipline and culture make the man. For
want Of them, promising boys grow up
into men who are easy and worthless kind Of
nob0dies
Year: 1867

A condition of ultimate progress, more
essential than all others, yet little considered
by men, is the suppression of moral aud So
cial evil. We can never get on while we
are disc0rdant and selfish. Capital and ia
Dor can never succeed at sword points.
The sel6shness of rival interests iuexorably
bars improvements the most practicable and
important. The corruption Of politics par
alyses government for the great public works
that properly belong to it, and the richest
commonwealth is glad 10 borrow from Shy
lock corporations, on their own terms, the
use of roads, bridges or supplementary
streets which it needs and ought 10 own.
Nor can we have them even thus; the null
titude of Shylocks contending for the prey,
and each determined that if he cannot sue
ceed no other shall is what prevents the
construction alike Of the Under Broadway
and the Upper Broadway and the Back
Broadway and the Tabular Ferries And
so it goes everywhere. The strength Of
union has never been tried. The strength
of innocence and loyalty has hardly been
thought of. And we may be as sure as We
are that there is a good Providence over
us, that the power of man will never be
suffered too greatly to exceed his fitness for
the trust of power. Even without overru-
ling, the natural workings of depravity set
limits to the advancement OF its own resour-
ces. IF real union were possible for selfish
ness and SIN, the power of man might attain
thereby would surpass the widest dreams
ofimagination but it would ee a formida-
bic power, and most formidable to itself.
The power of a regenerated and united hu-
manity for good, when it comes will be lin
liable only by the capacity ofits sphere.
,ScicRtiJic .Imeic6n.
Year: 1867

FIND fault, if you must find fault, in pri-
vate, ifpossible, and some time after the Of
fence, rather than at the time. The blam-
ed are less inclined to resist when they arc
blamed without witness. Both are calmer,
and the accused person may be struck with
the forbearance Of the accnser, who has seen
the fault and watched for a private and
proper time for mentioning it. Never be
harsh or unjust with your children or ser
wants Firmness, with gentleness of de
meanor, and regard to the feelings consti-
tutes that authority which is always respec-
ted and valued If you have any cause to
complain of servant, never speak hastily;
wait, at all events, until you have had time
to reflect on the nature Of the offence, and
then you will see It's extent
Year: 1867

[ have somewhere seen the story of a
man who went one evening to steal eorus
I from his neie ehbor's field. He took his
little boy with him to sit on the fence and
keep lookout so as to give warning in
case any one should come along. The
man jumped over the fence with large
bag on his arm, and, before commencing
to take the corn, he looked all around,
first one way and then the other, and not
seeing any person, he was just about to.
fill his bag. Then the little fellow, his
sou-a good little fellow he was, too
cried out:


"Father, there is one way you havn't-
looked yeti


The father was startled, and supposed
that some one was commins. He asked
his son which way he meant.


"Why," said the little boy, "you forget
to look up!"


The father was conscience stricken;
he came back over the fence, took his lit
tie boy by the hand, aud hurried quietly
home without corn which he had designed
to take. The little boy had reminded
him that the eyes of God were upon him.


"The eyes of the Lork are in every
place beholding the evil and the good"
Year: 1867

An eminent physician of Dublin says :
"lf an end were put to the drinking of
port, punch and porter, there would soon
be an end of my worldly prosperity
Physicians, surgeons, and apothecaries
would be ruined, our medical halls would
be stripped of their slpcndor, and disease
would be comparatively rare, simple, and
manageable. Twenty years experience
has convinced me that, were ten young
men, when of age, to commence drinking
one glass of ardent spirits, or pint of
port or sherry, and continue to drink that
quantity daily, the lives of eight of them
would be abridged twelve or fifteen years. -
Would that every young man 10 the land
could read this