smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1866

CONFEDERATE DEAD.-on our sixth page
VIII be found q list of the names Of Confeder-
ate soldiers who died and were buried in and
near New Orleans during the war. We shall
keep this list standing for some time, for the
benefit Of those who desire such information
as it affords
Year: 1866

The murderers of Mrs. Perrine and her children
at Little Rock have been arrested, and one of
them was hung by an infurated mob. Two others
we're committed to jail to await examination
While taking them to jail, the sheriff was obliged
to fire into the crowd to prevent their seizing the
prisoners. The ball wounded one man in the head
clipping his ear off
Year: 1866

The applicant must either make oath. as
heretofore, before the Clerk of the Circuit Court
of the county where he is engaged in business,
OF the amount OF goods kept on hand at the
principal season of sale or the oath NAV be
administered by Justice of the Peace, when
the person wanting license applies through
agent. If the latter course be adopted the
following form will be deemed sufficient COM
pliance with the act: H6


Baltimore County, to ,cit:
scriber Justice of the Peace of the State of
Maryland, in and for said county, personally
appeared-- and declared that he intends
to apply for a traders license, under the second
section of the Act of January Session, 1855, to
the Clerk of the Circuit Court for Baltimore
county, and made oath that the amount of the
stock of goods generally kept on hand by him
case it is partnership, at the principal season
of sale, Tor if the applicant has not previously
engaged in such trade,] that the amount Of
goods which he intends to keep, &C., does not
Tor will mott exceed S..


Sworn before


If the oath be administered before Justice
of the Peace out of the county in which the
application is made, there must be attached the
certificate of the Clerk of the Circuit Court of
the county in which the Justice resides.


Persons may sell salt to cure fish in March,
April and May, without license. Vendors of
cakes and vendors of beer and cider, who are
the makers of such beer and cider, [lager beer
excepted are not required to pay license.


LICENSES TO ORDINARlES AND TAV-
ERN KEEPERS.-The licenses to ordinaries
and tavern keepers to sell spirituous and fer
mented liquors, or lager beer, in quantities less
than pint, at any one time, are as follows -
Provided that the applicant shall first be re-
commended to the Clerk by two respectable
freeholders of his immediate vicinity, and shall
make oath before said Clerk that he has bona
fde and without intending to evade the re-
quirements of this article,l provided and ex-
poets to maintain six good beds, with sufficient
covering therefor-and three rooms more than
sufficient for the private use of said ordinary
keeper, with stabling and provender for FIVE
horses at least; and if said applicant resides
in the city of Baltimore, that he has provided
and expects TO maintain twelve good beds with
covering as aforesaid, and six rooms.


The said applicant is also to make oath be-
fore the Clerk as to the rate of rent or annual
value of the house at or in which the business
to be authorised by the license may be done, or
intended to be done.


If the rental or annual value is not
Year: 1866

No license shall be granted to sell spirituous
or fermented liquors or lager beer, i'll quanti-
ties not less than pint, for the sum of SIS go,
unless the eperson applying therefor shall also
and merchandise, paying therefor the sum
hereinafter prescribed, according to the amount
of the stock in trade.


OYSTER AND EATING HOUSES.-The IL
cense to be paid by the keepers of oyster and
eating houses is $5O.60 throughout the State.


Females vending millinery and other small
articles, whose stock is not over $500, pay Ii
cense of $500 only; but if over that amount,
they are required to pay the same licenses as
other persons-oath to be made as to the amount
of stock at the principle season OF the year.


The Clerk shall not issue license to any per-
son to sell spirituous and fermented liquors
from whom the grand jury has recommended
license to be withheld, or to person whose
license has been suppressed by the Court, with
out a special order of the Court.


The S6th Section of the Code, which requir-
cd an applicant for license to open oyster or
eating houses, to prOcnre the recommendation
of two ncighboring freeholders, and also to
make oath before the Clerk of the Circuit Court
of his county, &C., as to the annual value OF
his house, is repealed.


The above licenses to retailers and oyster and
eating houses 90 into effect on the 1st of May.


The owner or keeper of every stallion or jack
shall, before being permitted to stand or station
such animal, pay to the Clerk of the Circuit
Court of some one of the counties in this State,
the highest sum which he intends to ask or re-
ceive for the season of one mare; and the re-
ceipt of the said Clerk, with the seal Of his
court attached thereto for said sum, shall be the
license for stationing or standing such stallion
or jack for one year from the date thereof: pro,
vidcd, that in no case shall the sum directed
to be paid by this section for such license, be
less than ten dollars; and that every stallion
be exempt from all other State tax.


Any owner or keeper stationing or standing
any stallion or jack without license, shall for
felt and pay twice the sum authorized and re-
quired to be paid in the last preceding section,
one half to the State and the other half to the
Year: 1866

THE LESSON OF THE WINTER. The terribly
severe winter teaches a lesson that should not
be lost on our people. Living up on the 10th
parallel, we have no right to calculate upon the
mild climate peculiar to the temperate regions.
Instead of this, we should make our arrange
ments so as to be prepared for the cold winters
that usually obtain in high Northern ATTITUDES.
Instead of fimsy structures, scarce ft for sum
mer residences, we should build strong, sub
stantial houses, such as will AFFORD protection
against the heat of summer a. we'll as the cold
of winter. If other and better building material
is not to be had, we should resort to the adobe
by the use of which we shall obtain comfortable
dwellings, such as will stand the test ofAll sea-
sons. Whilst thus providing for ourselves, we
should not be indifferent to the comfort of the
animals that minister so much to our enjoy.
ment. Arrangements for the winter should never
be deemed complete that fail to include abun-
dance Of feed for stock. Shelter too should be
provided. The stock thus cared for will be vast
ly more valuable than under the present make
shift arrangement. In an early day we fell into
the habits ofthe miserable Cayuses who pcopled
this country. Let US now go back to the good
old customs of our fathers
Year: 1866

TIE IDAHO JUDGEs.-The memorial to
Congress asking the removal of the Idaho
Judges, concludes as follows That the legal
requirements of our Judges have not been
such as to inspire confidence in the minds Of
the members of the Bar or mass of the peo-
plej that there are great and growing interests
in our Territory, involving immense outlays
of capital, and that security of life and prop
erty in our Territory require Judges of q
higher order of talent and great purity of
character, as well as knowledge of the wants
aud interests of our rapidly developed Terri.
tory as suits involving mining interests Of
almost inOalculablo Talust and now pending
in the Courts, your memorialists would there.
fore request an immediate reorganization Of
the Judicial Department of our Territory, BY
the removal Of the present iucumbents and
the appointment of persons to the Supreme
Beuch who know their duty and have the
honesty and integrity to perform it.
Year: 1866

THE WEArHER.-In the absence of any other
topic of news, the weather affords a fruitful
theme for speculation. How long the winter
will last2 How mnch more snow we are likely
to have? are the questions that are constantly
being asked. Without pretending to answer
either of these queries, we have only to say that
the weather is in the last degree unpleasant. On
Sunday last the sun shone out mAgni6cently and
gave every indication that winter was about to
relinquish his icy grasp but the following day
dispelled this pleasing anticipation, and for the
past five days Wa have had nothing but cloudy,
gloomy, disagreeable weather. The Oldest in
habitant declares that be has never before known
such a miserable winter, and the newcomer
echoes back that it would do credit to Green
land. There is an old saying, that 'misery loves
COMPANY" !" and inasmuch as the severe weather
has extended to the whole coast, possibly WI
have no right to complain. When every thing
is dreary and unpromising, it is we'll to cult
Vate a kindly, jOvial disposition, and patiently
wait for the "good time coming"
Year: 1866

MODIFIED Parties who have arrived
from below, inform US that the Oregon Leg
islature, at its late session, materially mOdi-
fed the Sunday law, and so changed it as te
relieve it of all its oppressive features. This
law was one of the stumbling blocks in the
way of annexation, and its removal has ten
deney to reconcile those who nave been
most determined in their opposition to the
measure.
Year: 1866

QUICKSILvER.-Great excitement has been
Occasioned at Canyon City by the discovery
of rich quicksilver mine in that neighbOr-
hood. A friend has forwarded us piece of
the cinabar, which bears unmistakable evil
dence of being genuine. A few months back,
rich quicksilver mine was discovered at
Owyhee, and this latter discovery only goes
to show that the country inside the Cascades
is more richly endowed with minerals than
any other like extent of country.
Year: 1866

CH1LLINo.-PrOfessOr Agassiz announces
the theory that at one time the North Amer.
lean continent was covered with ice a mile
thick. Judging from recent experience, we
are inclined to think that the ice period is
about to return.
Year: 1866

EcoxoNY.-We hear of farmer iu 0wyhee
county who sold his hay in Ruby last fall for
seventy Eve dollars per ton, and is now hauling
hay from this valley, paying the same price here
that he got in Ruby. That kind Of farming
Wou't pay very well.-Boise Statesman.
Year: 1866

Nothing can be more productive of cure than
these Pills. Their almost magic influence is lel.
ut once ard the usual concomitanis of this most
distressing disease removed. These remedies
are made from the Eurcst
Year: 1866

The new Photograph rooms of Mr. Oliphant are now open, and their proprietor is prepared to do all kinds of work known to the art. He will receive in very short time, complete supply ofimproved stock. Mr. 0. is an obliging young gentleman, and will ncv- CT grow weary of trying to please those who may give him patronage, and in endeavoring to execute his work in an artistic manner. Sc his advertisement on second page
Year: 1866

Why is it?--We notice in almost all the advertisements of steamboats for White river, that they are advertised for every point or the river, except .Des Arc. Now, why is this? is it because of it's small importance? No for steamboatmen-- and travellers well know that Des Arc is the most important point on the river, in point of size and trade, Now, we do not know that if injures us, but we do think it would be giving 10 our town something more like justice, to mention us at least, when White river towns are spoken of.
Year: 1866

From private letter we learn that the crops in White county are much more promis- ing, than they were some weeks since, and the prospect is, that an average crop will be made if the season continues favorable.
Year: 1866




MORE ABOUT THE BURNING WELL.-We
have already noticed the existence of won
derful burning oil well on the Allegheny
river, fifteen miles below Franklin. A cor
respondent who has just visited it says
The flames rise to a great height, and are
plainly visible at Oil City, Franklin, Mer.
Ger and Georgetown. Large numbers from
all parts of the country have visited it, and
crowds continue to come every night. The
writer of this embraced an opportunity to
visit it few evenings since, arriving there
shortly after dark. The roaring and crack
ling of the flames can be distinctly heard at
the distance of mile. The ground around
the well for nearly five hundred feet in every
direction has been thoroughly baked by the
heat. The trees are budding, and some
have actually put forth leaves. In some
places the grass has grown two inches high.
forcibly reminding one of summer on a
small scale. The flames rise to a height of
sixty feet, sometimes higher, lightning up
the hill, and valleys for miles around. At
times 1t burns hercer than usual. breaking
and roaring and threatening to burst the
earth and engulf all within its reach. and
forming scene beautifully grand and sub
lime. This well, it may bo remarked. has
been singularly fruitful of disaster from the
beginning When putting it down two men
were killed. One was engaged in hauling
up the tools when the pully ON the ton Of
the derrick broke and fell on his head. kill
ing him instantly. The other was killed by
being entangled in the machinery.-Pitts
burg Dispatch.
Year: 1866

THERE is in New York a gentleman of
ample fortune, which he received bv inheri.
tance. His wife recently ordered new
carriage. and was very anxious that the
g family" coat of arms should be emblazoned
upon its panels. This the husband con-
sented to, and taking pen the millionaire
drew something resembling a small mound;
by it was stuck manure fork, and upon
the fork was perched chanticleer, rampant
Why, what is this ?' asked madam in
amazement This" said the man of
money, is our family coat of arms My
grandfather made his money by carting
manure in Brooklyn, and invested it in real
estate in New York Now listen to the ex-
PLANTATION of the arms. This mound and
fork represent my grandfather's occupation
the cock perched upon the top of the fork
represents myself. who have done nothing
but flap my wings and crow on that dung.
hill ever SINCE" The carriage still has plain
papels
Year: 1866

SALT PORK RIpGE.-There is a feeling
among our citizens favorable to prospecting
this ridge. Who will take upon himself the
initiative in the matter? Who will step out
from the crowd and make a starter? That
is all that's wanted now. A company should
be formed so large that assessments would
not be onerous, yet not so large as to make it
unmanageable. To clean out the old tunnel
and continue it through to the centre of the
ridge, would not be an expensive affair. A
company of fifty would do it at an expense
of from ten to twenty dollars EACH This
done, and the prospect favorable, there
would be no difficulty in forming a company
that would buy the Spring Greek ditch and
put its waters on the summit of the ridge.
thus insuring mining population of from
five hundred to one thousand men, with room
for more. The small sum necessary to pros.
pect it could not be better invested. for it
would return to business men here tenfold.
in the additional business it would create
Again we ask, who will take the initiative ?
Year: 1866

WANT THE OATH MoDIFIED.-The Presi-
dent and Cabinet are now soliciting Congress
to so modify the Test Oath that rebels can
take it and hold appointments in the various
Custom Houses and Post Offices in the
South. The Secretary Of the Treasury de.
clares that his greatest trouble in collecting
revenue in the South is owing to the fact that
suitable men cannot take the oath-al hav-
ing been engaged in the rebellion. Poor
things. They have by rebellion disqualified
themselves for holding Office the nation is
beseeched to remove the disqualification by
special legislation, and men high in Office
have the impudence, the meanness to ask it!
Was ever such dirt eaters known? Now we
venture the assertion that Sherman, with a
small force, would be able to collect all the
revenues, of whatever kind, that should be
levied upon that people, and that, too, more
thoroughly, and at one half the expense to
the Government, than it could be done by
all the white washed rebels seeking the lob.


Experience does not teach that such men
can be trusted with large sums of money,
nor that they make the most profitable en-
ployes lof the Government, however highly
they may have been appreciated by the Con.
federacy.


The Secretary would have the word "vol-
untary" inserted in the oath, so that it would
read that the person taking it had not been





a roluntdry rebel. That's good. Every
mothers son of them would then swallow it
as delicious morsel. for were they not all
g forced' by circumstances over which they
had no control? Didn't their allegiance to
their State force them? Didn't the law of
selfinterest, in the preservation of a good
and safe title to the niger, force them?
Year: 1866

PAST PRAY1sG.-A correspondent of
New York Radical paper complains that
number of Methodist ministers, whom he met
on Mississippi steamer, while on their way
to the General Conference at New Orleans,
prayed night and morning for the President,
but did not once pray for Congress. This
complaint is just. The President doesn't
need praying ior particularly, while if there
aver was ANYTHING on this earth that did, it is
the n a. preseut Congress. The ministers in ques.
tion. however, may have thought the concern
past past praying for. In that case, they were not
so much to blame.
Year: 1866

dred miles distant. During the war the want
of skilled mechanics was felt and acknowl-


edged to be seriously detrimentaito our cause !;
cut off as we were by the blockade from our
Year: 1866

We are informed. says the Augusta Sen
ttneI, that about thousand freedmen have
already been sent from this section to
the Mississippi Valley. These parties re-


fuse to make contracts With their forrE =
owners. They probably think that those
who provided for them in days past will have
to continue to do SO, whether they work or
not. But the authorities are pursuing, a
cousse Tbich Ein scoh dispel this deIusive
idea The freedman will find that if he will
not work in Georgia, he will have to work in
some other State-and more than likely in
some location where he will not be so we'll
taken care of and provided for as he would
be with his old master in his old home
When once in the hands of the authorities
the Will ind that they cannot remain here


even II they then make up their minds tc
work. To all freedmen, we say make rea.
sonable contracts with those with whom vor
have lived. '''
Year: 1866

PhELsANT AUGURIEs FOR TIE UTURE.
The journal Of Commerce says:


1t is exceedingly gratifying, upon looking
over our exchanges from every part of the
country, to observe the unanimity with which
the new year is greeted by newspapers of all
shades of party feeling, as the harbinger of
more peaceful and better times. From the
extreme radical to the most timid conserva>
tive there seems to be but one mind on this
subject. All rejoice that the new year finds
comparatively happy and prosperous land,
in which but 80 recently the different eIe-
ments of fraternal and civil strife and blood
shed were seething in one heaving molten
mass. Cne desire alone appears to animate
the press of the country-tiat the new year
shall be devoted to the Christian task of re-
pairing and binding together the shattered
fragments of the best country God ever gave
to man for his use and development, and of
restoring the republic to all its pristine beau
ty.
Year: 1866

FRAUDS IN Do1NG UP WooI.-Some farm
ers have the habit, if they have few sheep
die in the winter, Of putting the wool pulled
from them into the shesred wool. distributing
a handful or two in each place. II the pulled
wool is unwashed and the aeeces are sold as
washed, the practice is a serious fraud. If
the pulled wool is washed, or is in the same
condition in this respect with the fleece wool,
then it is petty ffaui-ior pulled wool is
not so well adapted to some purposes as
sheared wool, and dead wool is apt to be
inferior in various particulars. Putting un-
washed tags into washed Aeeces, is also fraud
ulent for they are parts of Of the same fleece


Breech wool simply discolored by dung may
enter the fleece, but all respectable Aock-
masters should take good caae that no Jumps
or masses Of dung are accdently rolled up in
it, Locks wet with urine should be dried in
the sun before being done up in the fleece.
It is not fraud to put the hairy shank wool
into the fleece, but it is unworkmanlike. 1t
is fraudulent to sell aeeces blurred to any ex
tent unless the buyer is distinctly put on his
guard. All such heeces, however much or
little barred. should be put by themselves,
and the buyer invited to open them.--Ran-
daHs Practical Shepard.
Year: 1866

Save your suds for garden culture.


Keep a nice cat to destroy your rats and
mice.


Ribbons of any kind should be washed in
cold water, and not rinsed.


Oat straw is the best for filing beds it
should be changed, however, once a year.


A gallon of strong lye put into barrel of
hard water will make it as soft as rain water.


Half cranberry bound on corn will soon
kill it.


In winter, set the handle of your pump as
high as possible at night, or throw blanket
over it.


Increase your expenditures in housekeep-
ing only as your means increase. 1t will
save trouble and sorrow.
Year: 1866




THE TINES TRIBUTE TO OUR GOVERN
MENT.-The London Times, in the course of
its article on our Governments preservation
OF neutrality in the Fenian affair, says:


IF we have sometimes thought that the
American Government were tardy in discern
ing sutfi cent grounds for their interference,
we must now acknowledge that when the oc-
casion occurred they have acted in manner
which even exceeds anything that could have
reasonably been expected from the most
nation. The public will not fail to
see the most conspicuous evidence of this
disposition in tho persons to whom they have
intrusted the duty OF suppressing this igno-
BILE raid. A force of police might have seemed
the more appropriate agents for capturing
mere band of robbers and murderers, and, at
the utmost, a subordinate military officer
might have been thought amply sufficient to
deal with SO trivial disturbance But, in
stead of this the Federal Government have
employed the most distinguished officer in
their service, together with his most trusted
Lieutenant. General Grant, in America, holds
something of the position which the Duke of
Wellington held among ourselves, and Cen
eral Meade was only subordinate to him
throughout the final operations of the war.
To employ these two officers is not only to
insure that the Fenian attempt shall be most
effsctually suppressed, but to give the most
conspicuous evidence of the determination of
the Government to oppose, and, if necessary.
to suppress the Fenian Society. In point Of
moral force. President Johnson's proclama-
tion itself could hardly be more effectual.
This document, however, and the arrests by
which Il has been accompanied. are the most
complete blow which could have been struck
at the movement, and will do for us every
thing we could have wished to do for our
selves These energetic acts of genuine friend
ship on the part OF the. United States Gov
ernment will be long and cordially remem-
bered."
Year: 1866

All persons holding any bonds other evidences debs
against the city of Mobile are hereby notified and requested to
make known N WEEKS City Treasurer the character an d
amount of such Indebtedness fully describing the same
also whether zneh claims be due due when and where
payable and If not when they viii mature


The statement Of claims hsrsy called for must be fsd with
the City Treasurer on or boe day of October 1856


The city desires to Indebtedness by the issue
bonds and te bonds VIII be ready s delivery by the
day Of July, 1866
Year: 1866

THE SABBATH SCHOOL PICNIC OF THE


Caondeet Street Church will take place TOMORROW
9th at the City Park if the weather continues favorable
otherwise it vii be held at Church The children will
senble at the Church at A PRECISELY Basket con
tTibusions will please be the place same hour


J. WILKINSON S. s. Snpetintendent.