smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1866

FIRST MONDAY OF MARCH,
enter upon the performance of his official duties for
the current year. He would call particular atten-
tion to the following section Of the Revenue Law:
IF any person shall wifully make, or give, un-
der oath or affirmation false list of his or her, or
their taxable property, false list of taxable
property nnder his, her, their control, such per-
son shall be deemed guilty of perjury, and upon
conviction thereof shall be punished therefor, is
by law provided fer the punishment of perjury
and any property wilfully concealed, removed.
transferred, misrepresented, by the owner or
any agent thereof to evade taxation shall upon
discovery be assessed at ten times the amount of
tax for that year, which would otherwise have been
assessed upon it and fifty per cent of the amount
of such additional tax. when collected, shall be
paid to the person persons who shall furnish the
information which reveals the property so conceal
ed transferred, removed misrepresented, and the
remaining fifty per cent. after deducting the usual
per centage fer collection, shall be paid into the
Treasury for the benefit of the Common School
Fund of the State"


If Tax Payers were to have list of their proper
ty prepared ready to be sworn to, as the law di-
rects, by the time of my reaching them, they would
thereby save themselves some annoyance, perhaps,
as well facilitate my work.


A. P. LADD,


Assessor of Shasta county.
Shasta. Feb. "a, 1866. IA
Year: 1866

At q Welsh celebration in New
York city, DR.. Jones told the follow
ing amusing anccdote:


The speaker said tie editors were
like other shrewd men who have to
live with their eyes and ears open.
lie related the story Of an editor who
started a paper in a new village In
the West. The town was infested
with gamblers, whose presence was a
source Of annoyance to the citizens,
who told the editor that if he did not
come out against them they would
not patronize his paper. He replied
that he would give them "smash-
cr" next day. Sure enough, his next
issue contained the promised smash
err" and on the f6llowing morning
the redoubtable editor, with scissors
in hand, was seated in his sanctum
cutting out news, when in walked a
large man with a club in his hand,
and demanded to know II the editor


was in. "No, cir was theresponse,


"he has stepped out; take seat and
read the papers he will return in a


minute Down sat the indignant
man Of cards, crossed his legs, with
his club between them, and COM


menccd reading a paper. In the


meantime the editor quietly vamoosed


down stairs, and at the landing be-
low he met another excited man with


a cudgel in his hand, who asked i
tho editor was In. "Yes SIR" wa,
the prompt response, "you will fnt
him up stairs reading newspaper
The latter, on entering the room
with a furious oath commenced |
violent assault on the former. Th'
fight was continued until they ha,
both rolled TO the foot Of the stairs
and pounded each other to thci
hearts content.
Year: 1866

T. OTTo respectfully announces to his friends
and customers and the public generally, that his
store having been removed from its former stand,
adjoining Days Drug store, to the large store and
warehouse building,


ON THE SOUTH EAST CORNER OF THIRD AND


LAUREL STREETS,


He is fully prepared to keep on hand one of the
largest and most varied assortments of the above
articles to be found in the city of Baton Rouge
with his increased and increasing facilities for
obtaining and storing merchandise he is enabled
10 meet all present and future demands, and
therefore invites the special attention of pur.
chasers to that fact, hoping by spirit of accom-
modation to please all, and to always sell on as
reasonable terms as the state Of the markets will
permit, to secure liberal share of regular patron
age Please call and examine before purchasing
eIse"nere. aug10-f
Year: 1866

their lives are just as precious to them and
their families, as the liberties and lives of the
rich and learned to them and theirs. They
are as ready, too, to enlis. in the defence OF
their country and to shed their blood and
lay down their lives if need be in vindication
of their Governme ent and the rights and honor
of their country, as their more fortunate
neighbors. Justice, the principles of Repub-
licanism, sound policy and the true interests
of our State demand an extension of the right
of suffrage to the utmost admissible limit, and
forbid most imperatively any additional re-
striction thereon, or any new qualification
therefor. Let our legislators provide every
possible facility for poor men to acquire
property and better their condition, and OK
tend to all the best practicable advantages OF
education, under such conditions as will
induce all to avail themselves OF its benefits,
but never degrade the poor and the ignorant,
by excluding them on account of their mis-.
fortunes from the enjoyment of equal political
rights
Year: 1866

In the Patent Office Report for 1861 there
is an account from the South Of France, which
states that forty weight and q half .aAs of sos
ghum lggeoll have been raised on bne' acre
Of ground How much it will lose in drying
| have no idea. But this much | DO know.
that sown broadcast at the rate of two bushels
to the acre, it will yield more feed than any
thing have ever tried in the way Of grass.
| have tried it for two years. and have found
the yield truly surprising-I should think
more than two tons of dry feed-but never
having weighed it, | cannot speak positively,
but am perfectly satisfied that it is far superb
or to anything | have ever tried, not even
excepting Hungarian grass, so much lauded
some years ago. @@


Sow it in good corn ground, as early as it
can be put in good order harrow smooth, the
finer the better; aid when the seed is spwn,
go over it with brush it must not be Gov
cred deeply, and if the seed is good it needs
bly, of corn fodder, try the sorghum, and do
not think they will bother with corn.


Ny horses and cows prefer it to any kind of
feed can give them. have tried them re-
peatedly, and they will leave the best timothy
for the sorghum, and eat it up clean. The
blades we pull from the cane we grow for
syrup are preferred by the stock to corn
blades, and they will devour 1t with the great.
est avidity. BY sowing early it can. be cut
with strong cradle at the best time for cur
ing properly. After being cut few days,
have it tied up in bundles and cooked the
same way as wheat or oats. The quantity of
seed sown to the acre prevents the stalks
growing thick, which renders it easy to cure.
| could make this communication much
longer by amplifying words, but have par
ticular dislike to windy articles on useful sub
jects, which causes me to be 90 lacomc; all |
wish are plain facts, told in as simple Ian
guage as possible. SO that all can understand
them. If my plan were adopted there would
be more room ih your valuable paper for usa.
full articles. -TIE p, NJ Carmk, q, IarcA
1, 1855.
Year: 1866

Quite number of otherwise good grape
growers delay pruning their vines till spring.
This we'think bad practice. If they wish
to make cuttings ofthe surplus canes they are
not near as good as if taken off in the fall and
carefully buried or put away till spring. The
wood is frequently so much injured by the
winter as not to grow in the spring.


But the wood left for producing fruit is bet
ter for being pruned in the fall. 1t is much
more easily protected, as it can readily be
laid down and covered slightly with earth,
deed, we think it would pay to protect vines
in this way even in our mildest winters.


1t is not for the protection of the vine alone,
however, that we recommend fall pruning. 1t
is to strengthen the buds and canes which are
Left. Many may think it will have no such
effect But if they will prune two vines in
the same manner-one In the fall as soon as
the leaves are destroyed by the frost, and the
other the following spring will find that
fall pruned vines will be much more vigorous
and productive the ensuing summer. The
vine is not dead in winter. Its roots continue
to absorb food, though of course, in much
less quantity than in summer The nutri-
ment thus absorbe is distributed throughout
the vine. All the buds are more or less ben
efitted, but as the buds remotest from the
roots always receive the principal flow of sap
they are most benefited Now. by pruning
in the fall, all this is saved in the buds and
cane we have left for bearing. 1t is upon this
principle that we always prune in the fall or
winter for wood. BY summer pruning we
check wood growth, as all know


The buds that arc left, win become strength
ened by The sap they have received during
winter. They will push early and vigorously
i'll spring; and. If well cared for, viii delight
the eyes of beholders with the large clusters
OF luscious fruit that they produce. Rural
World
Year: 1866

There nothing that touches the LIVER the seat Of the
mAlAdy quickly and restores it certainly to per
f-ctly healthy ani regular condition. HosrETTER's
STOMACH BITTERs- II Of bilious habit, the ten
dency OF system that form Of disease may be held
in check for lifetime by the occasional Of this harm
less vegetable antidois.
Year: 1866

CALL FOR A JOHNSON MEETING. We
are very happy 60 learn that the business of
finding proper delegates from Portland to the
Philadelphia Convention has fallen into suit
able hands. Awell known lady of this city,
the author of several remarkable pamphlets
on politics, jurisprudence and theology (com-
binedl one whose perseverance and argu-
mentative powers have been largely tested by
most of the members of the Bar and the CITY
Government-to say nothing Of every State
Government for the last half dozen years
despairing probably of seeing any vigorous ac-
ton on the part of the men, is circulating a
call for meeting to consider this important
matter. The lady in question recently made
a visit to Washington to lay the particulars of
her own legal case before the President, and
was so much gratifed at the kind reception
she met with from that functionary that she
has become one ofhis most ardent supporters.
We have no doubt, since she has taken his
cause in hand, that proper delegation to
represent his supporters here will be chosen.
Ii that delegation were to be headed by the
lady herself we should deem such nomina-
ton one eminently eft to be made" We
would mention that copy of this call was
handed to the publisher Of this paper with a
request for its insertion, but as the Press has
no pretentions to the character of a johnson
"organ'', that gentleman felt compelled to
recommend to the applicant some other meth
cd of laying her views before the public.
Year: 1866




The most thoughtless rambler on the streets
during the night of the fire. and for one or
TWO days Immediately following, must have
noticed the work of the rum shops in our
midst. Drunken rows on almost every COR
ner; assaults without number; repeated
thefts and burglaries; children almost nnr
dered by rum-crazed parents, were but some
of the many evidences that the LIQUOR SELLERS
were reaping rich harvest during the ex-
element Of the time.


The "Notice" of the Mayor to the Hopor
dealers, day or two after the fire, had for n
time marked and beneficial effect 1t seem.
ed as If the rumsellers themselves, appalled,
by the horrors they had wrought, confidently
expected that the threat of the Mayor would
be executed; and they absolutely refused to
furnish liquor to their customers! AS con-
sequence, our streets once more became quiet,
and men and women who had ror days been
drunk returned in sobriety to their daily
tasks Why should not this timely threat of
summary process" be at all times vigorously
fulfilled? ''


Passing down Plumb street day or two
since, I noticed new shop in process of cree
ton. The building was not nearly COM
pleted, though the sign was already over the
doorway. The name it bore was suggestive
OF ruined homes, Injured credits and violated
laws. 1t informs every citizen of Portland
that in that shop, at least, it is intended to
prosecute business that is doing very much
TO complete the disaster only threatened by
the fire; business that will delay the re-
building of our city; that Is injuring the
credit o. many Of our merchants and blasting
the morals of hundreds of our young men
that Is neutralizing gospel sermons and sab
bath school Instructions; that is increasing
the taxes and adding to the charitable bur
dens Of our citizens. Shall this be permitted?
As city, we are receiving in our need the
lavish contributions of sympathizing friends.
Our authorities have assured the generous
donors that these charitable gifts shall be
worthily bestowed. In fulilment of this
pledge they very jealousy and properly
watched the distribution of the food and
clothing, that it may not reach unworthy
recipients; they vigorously and righteously
prosecute those who obtain lumber under
false pretences. Should they not also with
equal zeal watch and punish those men in
our midst who, in open and shameless viola
ton Of laws, under the name of liqnor deal
ers, are doing more to make of no avail the
charities of our compassionate countrymen
than all the smaller imposters who beg for
bread and raiment in our streetsl


Let our charitable committees look to this
matter, and above all let the Mayor and Mar
shal resolve that the intention to violate law
and to rob the community, so apparent and
barefaced, on Plumb street, be seasonably and
persistently prevented from becoming more
than an intention, and they win receive the
appreciation and thanks of all good citizens.


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Year: 1866

PoRTLAND TRANSCRIPT. This handsome
sheet, the established favorite of all Portland
ers wherever they may be scatterec, once
more makes its welcome appearance upon our
table.


1t reappears in full size, and with all its
old features so fully restored that no one
would suspect it of having passed through the
fiery furnace. Previous to the fire the Tran
script was printed at the establishment of Mr.
Brown Thurston, but since the destruction OF
that office the publishers have procured press
es OF their own and with new dress of type
from the foundry of Messrs. Phelps and Dali
ton who furnished the type ofthe Press, the
paper once more takes its place among the
institutions" of Portland. Success and long
life to it. aii
Year: 1866

LIGHTNING ON THE LAKES. Another ex-
traordinary story Of the freaks of lightning is
told by western paper as follows:


It is said that during recent storm in Wis
consin the lightning was seen to strike into
the lakes in the vicinity Of Madison, and
masses OF ice two feet in thickness were hurl-
Ell hundreds of feet in the alr, like dust before
the sweeper; and the latent heat, set free by
the change OF vapor to liquid was so great as
to raise the temperature in a few hours from
below the freezing point to that Of summer
(seventy two degrees), and preserved it there
for nearly twenty-four hours.
Year: 1866

James R. Spaulding, one of the edit brs of
the New York Times, who had taken a trip
to New Orleans for the benefit of his health,
was on his return last Wednesday, struck
with paralysis, and it is feared the attack will
prove fatal.
Year: 1866

Peter Milestone, OF Arkansas, was once
travelling on horseback through the interior
of the State, and called one evening at lit
tie log house where entertainment and post
office were kept Two strangers were there,
and the mail rider rode up about dark
Supper being over, the mail carrier and the
three gentlemen were invited into a small
room furnished with good fire and two
beds, which were to accommodate the four
persons for the night.


The mail carrier was a little, shabby, dir
ty looking wretch, with whom none of the
gentlemen liked to sleep. Pete Milestone
eyed him closely as he asked:


Where do you sleep tonight, my lad p


TN sleep with you, reckon or with one
o them fellers, 1 don't care which," lisped
the youth


The two gentleman took the hint and oc-
cupied one of the beds together leaving the
other bed and the confab to be enjoyed by
Pete and the mail boy. Pete and the boy
commenced hauling off their duds, and Pete
getting into bed first and wishing to get rid
Of sleeping with the boy, remarked with
great emphasis


my friend, I'll tell you beforehand, I've
got the itch, and you had better not sleep
with me, for the disease is awful catching"


The boy who was getting into bed too,
drawled out very coolly.


oval, reckon that don't make bit O
difference-Iv We had it nearly seven years, "
and into bed he pitched, with Pete, who
pitched out in as great hurry as if he had
walked up hornets nest.


The gentlemen roared, and the boy, who
had got peaceable possession of the bed
drawled out


why, you muth be a thet of darned
FOOLS man and dads got the itch heap
wuth than l is, and they thlept in that bed
last night"


The two strangers were now in a worse
predicament than Pete had been and bounc-
ed from their nest, shook themselves, and
ordered their horses, and although it was
nearly ten clock, they all three rode sew
eral miles to the next town before they slept,
leaving the imperturable mail carrier to the
bliss Of scratching and sleeping alone.
Year: 1866




Foolish VIRGINs.-A few days since we
were dining with friend who had gathered
a beyy of pretty girls around his hospitable
board, and during the meal we received a
lamentable evidence of the ignorance of our
latter day young ladies of the first rudiments
of making man happy. We spoke of cab
bage pudding; and heavens what fiutter


Eight pretty hands clapped at once in holy
horror eight bright eyes turned up their
whites in refined disbelief, Cabbage pud-
ding who ever heard of such thing =


If indeed, so be that this most comfortable
way Of cooking the vegetable has passed
from the memory of housekeepers, let US
recommend the trial of our recipe, given
merely from recollection After boiling the
cabbage well, place it in baking pan with
LAYERS of crumbled bread !; butter, salt and
black pepper literally used; sprinkled well
on top with grated cracker, and bake gently
until crust is formed on tor. Take our
word for it land we are no mean Judge of
the creature comforts; it is good and deli
cate enough in favor for the finest lady who
ever tainted at the smell Of turpentine soap
Year: 1866

HoPE.-Never quit your hopes Hope is
often better than enjoyment Hope is always
the cause as well as the effect of youth 1t
is certainly very healthy and pleasant pas:
sion. A hopeless person is derserted by
himself and he who forsakes himself is soon
forsaken by friends and fortune.
Year: 1866

A letter from New Orleans refers in
indignant terms to an order of Secretary
Stanton and the mode in which it is car
ried out in that city. as sbllows


To give you an idea OF the spirit and
temper exhibited toward this people by
that bloodIess demagogue and white haired
creature who fills the Department Of War
at Washington. let me advert to a single
order which is put forth daily on the
streets II this city. OF course, since the
surrender, an immense number of poor
Confederates have flocked to this city.
many Of them having no homes to 20 to.
many on their way to other states.
When they arrive here they have no
other clothes but the plain, coarse domes-
tie which they wore us uniforms in the
Confederate service They would will
ingly abandon their tattered and stained
garments if they could get others, but
are, of course. invariably moneyless.
They take care. from consideration of
.prepriety, taste and respect for the Fed
eral authority, to strip from their clothes
all military insignia but the only buttons
they have by which to fasten their clothes
are the military buttons, which are almost
identical with those worn hy the Federal
officers. Now, here comes an order from
Stanton, directing the subordinates of the
army to stop on the street every man
wearing these buttons, and have them cut
OF on the spot. And this is done every
hour Of the day il the streets Of the city.
Gallant men, SCARED veterans who have
attested their vaIor on hundred battle
fields, are roughly arrested on the high
ways and hyways, and there. in the pres
ence of crews of gaping spectators, are
required by some upstart from Vermont,
or by some negro sergeant, to cut off their
buttons and hand them to the individual
in blue and gold One poor fellow, yes
terday, in delicate health, who was sub
jected to this indignity, begged that he
might be allowed to retain the top button
Of his caat, to protect his breast from the
severe norther that was blowing. He
was refused The order was imperative.
Dh. what base order this Is How that
man apd all his friends must love and
venerdte the Government and the people
who treat him with such generous kind
ness and magnanimity.
Year: 1866

DEMOCRATIC DESPAIR-The Democrats in
this State seem to have lost heart since they
learned the result Of the election last week
They appear to have feeling that they are
iOredO0med to defeat in November as in Octo-
ber They do not, as a party, display the ener-
gy and assurance which the crisis demands of
them, if they would succeed 1t is true some
of the Democratic papers have assurance
enough, and figure out victory as positively tor
New York as they did fortnight ago for the
States which had just gone against them
But that is very shallow expedient, and the
rank and file of the party cannot now be much
deceived by it. The Republicans will carry the
Empire State and we shall be disappointed if
in all the Fall elections that are to come they
do not make as clean a sweep as they have
made in those that have already taken place
The Democrats, in making up their minds to
this in advance, display a very cOmmendablc
sagacity and discretion.-N T. Times.


The N. Y. Times protests against the course
of the Administration in removing Union men
from office, and filling their places with Cop
perheads" and men distinguished tor their
sympathy with secession" Such changes, it
tells the authorities at Washington, are mel
ther unselish or judicious," and do their
cause great harm"


The cheapest Goods Of every description for
Ladies and gentemens wear can be had Of
Baggs L. Cotton.


A splendid line of Ladies fall and winter
Dress Goods at Bags & COttOn's
Year: 1866

FINISHED. We learn that the new pivot


bridge across the Delaware and Chesapeake
canal at Summit Bridge is finished. They are
now in quandary to know how to get the old
the abutments and let it fall In either case
the canal would be obstructed with the debris,
which would cost much pains to be removed.
Year: 1866

GArsFss OF HIGH PRICES. high price
re al commodities is due TO the excessive re-
aundancy of iDconvertible paper currency,
which is almost made a legal tender for all pur-
poses The plain legal tenders or greeDbacks
amount TO four hundred and fifty millions OF
dollars and the National Bank notes are paya-
bic in these legal tenders, which, in effect,
makes them all legal tenders.


The aggregate amount of paper currency is
not less than seven hundred aud fifty millions; !;
and if it was doubled tomorrow, all prices
would be doubled II it Wasreduced one half,
all prices would, other things being equal, be
Secretary Chase that the greenback currency,
war, would be retired upon the advent of peace,
and that the three hundred millions of Nation
al Bank currency would supply a sufficient
circulating medium, and be convertible into
specie Three hundred millions is as large a
sum in paper as can be sustained on a specie
I basis That is the opinion OF Secretary Nc.
Culloch, as expressed in his report on the fnan-
ces. But the greenbacks are not to be with
drawn They cannot be withdrawn under the
loan act except at the SLOW rate OF ten millions
for the first six months, aud seven millions
month afterwards. Contraction OF the curren-
cy was thought to be as easy matter as its ex-
pansion. All nations have found this to be an
error; and the laws Of finance are as applicable
to us and to our condition as to other nations
in other times. Contraction Of thepape cur
rency must he gradual and slow, and therefore
prices of merchandise, and the general cost of
living, will come down, but very slowly and
gradually, owing, not to currency contraction,
nor to fall in gold, but to overimportation
and manufacture. Sunday Herald.