smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1871

exemplary gentleman and universally pop
ular as a journalist.


The friends of the union Of Canada
with the United States will hold conven-
tion at Niagara Falls on the 4th of July.
Two delegates from each Congressional
District in the United States, and two
delegates from each Parliamentary Dis
trict in all the British Provinces will com
pose the convention.


The Utica Observer is answerable for
two statements in regard to the miscreant
Just executed. The hrst is that Rulofi
made known TO his counsel that his asso-
cia.es in the crime for which be was hung
we're also his victims, their drowning be-
ing not accident, but the great criminal:
own work. He committed three murders
the night he killed Merrick. The second
fact is that RuloG had the hardihood
pending his trial, to propose to his counsel
still another murder the killing of the
principal witness against him, and gave
the name of desperado in New York
who would do the deed.
Year: 1871

THE weather this week has been warm but somewhat clustering, at times threatening rain. Heavy show CTS did fall ill the mountains, and a slight sprinkle in town. The wind early in the week partly unroofed Lee & Scott's Touring mill.
Year: 1871

An Oregon editor, alarmed by the rapid
= increase of certain class Of shooting cases,
j announces his determination to turn over
new social leaf in these words:


All mems wives who have hitherto en-
joyed the advantage of our acquaintance,
are hereby notified that this ceases to-day,
never to be renewed Somebody perishes
ingloriously every day for being on speak
ing terms with married women, and we do
not care to have our turn come around
Whoever shall attempt to introduce us to
his wife, or any other mans will be re-
garded as a conspiratsr against our precious
% life, and subject to abuse in the colnmDs
of this journal
Year: 1871

APPLE SNow.-Put twelve good, tart
apples in cold water, and set them over
the FIRE, when soft, drain the water, strip
the skiu off the apples, core them, and lay
them in deep dish. Beat the whites of
twelve eggs to stiff frotb; put half a
pound of finely powdered white sugar to
the apples; beat them to stiff froth, and
add the beaten eggs. Beat the whole to
a stiff snow; then turn into dessert dish.
Year: 1871

that those bold, defiant, energetic, perssvering
successful business men. always those whose
generative organs in perfect health


You never hear such men complain Of being
melanc choly, of nervousness, palpitation Of the
heart. They never afraid they cannot succeed
in business they dom become sad and disceurag-
ed they are always polite and pleasant in the cen
panyof ladies, and look you and them right in the
faco-none of your dcwncas looks or ether mesasss
about them. i de not mean those who keep the
organs inflated by running to excess. These viii
not only
Year: 1871

spinal affections suicide, and almost every ether
form of disease which humanity is heir to, and
the real cauic Of the trouble scarcely suspect
ed, and have doctored for all but the rgkt one.


Disease Of these organs require the use Of
Diuretic.
Year: 1871

gUvHE IMPRESSION OBTAINsAMoNGm many
{ persons that the value of Accident Insurance
can be appreciated .only by Gaxslers. or those
whose ayocations are necessarily of . hasardons
nature. Still statistics show that one in every
ten of the entire population meets with an
Accident every year. Every prudent and careful
man will act with reference to future contingencies.
Bodily injury by accident is of the most fire.
quent causes of distress of distress to mans family
if fatal to him and to himself also, if only dis
abling him from business,


In either case this mode of insurance comes to
you with a certain relief.


Eucry is liable to accident, Good Luck"
cannot always be depended upon.


The question to be settled precisely the same
as in fire insurance. Is it not cseaper to let o
responsible company take the risk than it is to
carry it yourself? Is not the protection offered
ioorth more than It costs.


What Accidents Have to be Paid For.
Year: 1871

LIQUOR LAw.-Michigan appears to be
the champion temperance State. Under
her amended liquor law, now in force, any
person found drinking in a saloon, tavern,
or public place, or in the streets, is liable to
a fine Of five dollars and costs, or imprisOn-
ment for not more than twenty days. No
countenance, much less aid and comfort, is
given to the great enemy Of our social
peace. Such measure is equally sound as
a principle Of political economy, and as
cOnservator of morals.
Year: 1871

l renew my recommendations that the
public lands be regarded as heritage to our
children, to be disposed OF only as required
for occupation and to actual settlers. Those
already granted have been in great part dis
posed of in such way as to secure access
to the balance by the hardy settler who may
wish to avail himself of them, but caution
should be exercised in attaining so desirable
an object. The educational interest may
well be served by the grant of the proceeds
of sale of public lands to settlers. 1 do not
wish to be understood as recommending in
the least degree a curtailment Of what is
being done by the general government for
tbe enrouraoement of education
Year: 1871

The report of the Secretary of the In
terror, submitted with this, will give you
information collected and prepared for
publication in regard to the census taken
during the year 1870, the operations Of the
Bureau of Education for the year, the
Patent Office, the Pension Office, the Land
I. Ofioa apd the Indian Rurpau
Year: 1871

The continued fuctuation in the value of
gold as compared with the National cur
rency, has a most damaging effect upon the
increase and development of the country in
keeping up prices of all articles necessary in
every day life. 1t fosters spirit of gamb-
ling on the National finances. If the ques-
ton can be met as to how TO get a fixed
value to our currency, that value constantly
and uniformly approaching par with specie,
very desirable object will be gained.
Year: 1871

The enlarged receipts of the Postoffice
Department, as shown by the accompany
ing report of the Postmaster-Gene ex-
hibits gratifying increase in that branch of
the public service. 1t is the index Of the
growth of education and of the prosperity
of the people, two elements highly condu-
Give to the vigor and stability of republics.
With vast territory like ours, much of it
sparsely populated, bat all requiring the
service of the mails, it is not, at present, to
be expected that this department can be
made self-sustaining; but a gradual ap-
prOach to this end, from year to year, is
confidently relied on, and the day is not far
distant when the Postoffice Department of
the Government will prove a much greater
blessing to the whole people than it is now.
Year: 1871

The subject of compensation to the heads
of bureaus and officials holding positions Of
responsibility and requiring ability and
character to fill properly, is one to which
your attention is invited. But few of the
officials receive compensation equal to the
respectable support of family, while their
duties are such as to involve millions of in
terest. In private life servants demand
compensation equal to the services rendered.
A wise economy would drtate the same
r1Ile in the government service.
Year: 1871

have not given the estimates for the
support of the government for the ensuing
wear. north comparative statement between
the expenditures for the year just passed
and the one just preceding, because all
these figures are contained in the accompa-
nving reports or in those presented directly
to Congress. These estimates have my
Year: 1871

There has been imposed upon the Execu-
tive branch of government the execution of
the act of Congress approved April 20, 1871,
and commonly known as the Ku-Klux law.
In portion Os the State of South Carolina
the necessity of the course pursued will be
demonstrated by the report of the commit
tee to investigate Southern outrages. Un-
der the provisions of the above act issued
a proclamation calling the attention of the
people of the United States to the same and
declaring myreluctancet to exercise any ofthe
extraordinary powers thereby conferred
upon me, except in case of imperative ne
cessity, but making known my purpose to
exercise such powers whenever it should
become necessary to do so for the purpose
of securing to all citizens of the United
States the peaceful enjoyment Of u i0hts
guaranteed To them hy custom e
Year: 1871

# is to be regretted that the disturbed
condition of the Island of Cuba continues to
be a source of annoyance and Of anxiety.
The existence of a protracted struggle in
such close proximity to our own territory,
without apparent prospect of an early term
ination, cannot be other than an object of
concern to a people who while abstaining
from interference in the affairs of other
powers, naturally desire to see every coun-
try in the undisturbed enjoyment Of peace
and liberty, and the blessing of free insti-
tutiOnS.
Year: 1871

The report of the Commissioner Of Agri-
cultures gives the operation of his depart
ment for the year. As agriculture is the
groundwork of our prosperity, too much
Importance cannot be attached to the labors
of this department. 1t is in the hands of
an able head, with able assistants, all zeal
ously devoted to introducing into the agPi-
cultural productions of the nation all useful
products adapted to any Of the various
climates and soils of our vast territory, and
to giving all useful information as to the
method of cultivation of plants, cereals or
other products adapted to particular lOcali-
ties. Quietly but surely the Agricultural
Bureau is working a great national good,
and if liberaly supported, the more widely
its influence viii be extended and the less
dependent we shall be upon the products of
foreign countries.
Year: 1871

l desire to direct your attention to the
fact that citizens of the United States are
large holders in foreign lands of this species
of property forbidden by the fundamental
law of their adopted country. recon-
mend to Congress to provide by stringent
legislation suitable remedy against the
holding, owning or dealing in slaves, or be-
ing interested in slave property in foreign
lands, either as owners, hirerS or mortgagers
by persons of the United States.
Year: 1871

A MULE l,000FEET UNDERGROUND.
The Belcher Inine, says the Gold


Hill News of September 29th, has
been developed hithe new strike, for
month past, by crossing the Grown


Point, Kentucky and Yellow Jacket


ground, on the 1,000-foot level, to the
shaft of the Yellow Jacket, where the


ore is raised to the surface. The
track grade over the Crown Point,
however, has been almost too heavy


for men to push the loaded cars, and
the work wore out too many men,
So Hank Smith, the foreman, conceiv-
ed the idea the other day to buy a
couplesof good stout mules, one for
each " shift of the workmen, and in
troduce them into the mine to draw
the carts over the heavy grade. One
of them was lowered down through


Yellow Jacket shaft last evening,
being lashed well and swung off un-
der one of the cages. This new and
interesting miner kept entirely quiet
and docile while hanging over the
yawning abyss of 1000 feet, and he
arrived safe and sound on the plat
form below, where he was loosened
from his ropes, and seemed to rather
like the situation, being not at all
mulish, and he was Immediately treat
ed to good feed of barley and hay,
This animal is 1000 feet from day
light. down in the bowels of the earth
perhaps the only one in America SC
far away from grass. The other mule
is to be taken down in a day or two
Year: 1871

In the first place butter makers
must have good room in which to
set the milk. It must be cool, list
as cool rs the butter maker wants it
in summer, and just as warm in win
ter as IS necessary. Then there must
be, if possible, stream of living
water run IN troughs through It, in
which to set the milk pans with milk.
And then these pans, mostly crooks
that hold half gallon or more, are
kept sweet by hot water and warm
rag to dry them And then when
they go to milk the cows, they carry
basin with cloth, to work the bag,
so that no dust should fall into the
milk; and when they bring the milk
to the dairy room, it is strained into
the crooks and the crooks set into
the cool water, where they remain
until the cream rises. And they
watch the cream, when it is all right
they don't let it sour-take it off
and put into churn, pure and sweet,
and the butter is soon made to come;
and then they don't put their sweaty
hands into the butter to work out
the butter-miik, but they do it with a
paddle which is as clean as the
churn or the bowl in which their but
ter is worked. And then after the
butter milk is worked out, the butter
is made into large rolls and each roll
covered with clean, white cloth,
and is laid away in cool place,
where it is to remain until wanted
That's the way butter makers make
good butter Adcocafe.
Year: 1871

Do JUSTICE. Persecution never
rooted out truth, nor did 1t ever
build up permanently lie. It has
often made the attempt to do both,
but IL every instance it has failed;-
and by strange law, they that use
the sword shall fall by the sword
You can never do an injury to anoth-
er, without feeling sooner or later
that injury rebound and strike Your
self. Wind a chain around the
wrist of the poor and dewn-troddcn,
and you will find ere long the other
end gradually tightening round your
own. You are fated evermore to
drink the bitterness of the cup you
have mingled for brother.
Year: 1871

MORE OUTIAwRY.-Tbe Girard Press printing
office was burned TO the ground, early on the
morning of the 18th inst, by gang of outlaws
belonging to the Land Leagucrs. The Press has
been one of the most independent and one of the
fairest papers in that section of the country Its
course the Neutral Land question has been
straight forward and honest, and no fair-m minded
person could object to it. But that did not suit
the outlaws who have Just been beaten in the
Courts, but who seemed determined to keep up the
terrorism that has made the Neutral Lands, for
the last two years, a disgrace to the State. The
burning of the Press Office is a fair example OF
their mode of warfare.
Year: 1871

Da correspondent of some paper, having
charged that an article in the New Chicago Tran
script contained falsehoods the editor of the TraR
script says that he wrote the article, and that all
the facts in it were true. Perhaps his opponent
would admit that and still claim that the article
was false.
Year: 1871

ROMANCE AND REAIITY.-A young preacher in
Tennessee, several years ago, believed in slavery
preached it Biblical doctrine, and saw a divine
plan in the whipping of men, the selling of wom-
en- and the separation of families. When the war
broke out he was honest enough to fight for what
he believed to he the truth. He felt so deeply the
wickedness of the final triumph Of freedom that
Brazil with other southern malcontents He soon
became a naturalized citizen, and then q bank
rupt. According to the Brazilian law the children
of bankrupt citizen may be sold in payment of
his debts. This mans two children, one of them
nearly grown to womanhood, were sold for 81, 200.
He does not now believe in the divine origin of
slavery.
Year: 1871

veniences, but every innovation IN our
households seems to signalize the death OF
some treasured pleasure. Your furnace,
do doubt, difuses an even warmth through
the house, but, in shutting up the fireplace
it scatters the household and breaks up
the old-time family circle. 1t drives out
of the home an artist who was wont to
paint delicious pictures on your walls, and
tint the cheeks of your dear ones with a
rare glow. 1t excludes a friend whose
bright sparkling chatter once entertained
you many long evening, and whose blaze
and glow rarely failed to fill your heart
with cheerfulness and gratitude.


There are few old fashioned people
who cling to wood fires, but many of the
younger generation remain ignorant of
what was once the greatest charm of a
winter home. Coal says TX Marvel,


may have its uses in the furnace, which
takes off the sharp edge of winter from
the whole interior Of the house and keeps
up night-and-day struggle with Boreas
for the mastery, but country-home with
out some one open chimney around which,
in time of winter twilight, when SHOWS
are beating against the panes, the family
may gather, and watch the fire flashing,
and cracking, and flaming, and waving,
until the girls clap their hands and the
boys shout in kind of exultant thankful
ness, is not worthy the name.-AppletOaS'
Journal.
Year: 1871

1t is a sweet, sweet song, warbled
to and fro among the topmost boughs of
the heart, and filling the whole air with
such JOY and gladness, as the songs Of
birds do when the summer morning comes
out of darkness, and day is born on the
mountains. We have all possessions in
the future, which we call sometime
Beautiful flowers and singing birds are
there, only our hands seldom grasp the one
or our ears hear the other. But oh read
er, be of good cheer, for all the good there
is a golden sometime when the hills
and valleys of time are all past; when
the wear and fever, the disappointment
and sorrow of life are over; then there is
the place and the rest appointed of God.
oh, homestead. over whose roof fall no
shadows or even clouds, and over whose
threshold the voice of sorrow is never
heard; built upon the eternal hills, and
standing with the spires and pinnacies of
celestial beauty among the palm trees of
the city on high, those who love God shall
rest under thy shadows, where there is no
more sorrow nor sound of weeping, some
time. .'-Prentice
Year: 1871

Hawthorne, after spending a winter IN
Rome, declared that thereafter he would,
if possible, pass that inclement season in
some part Of the globe where it IS recog-
nized as a legitimate institution. Haw-
thorne has not been the only traveller who
has descanted upon the disco mforts Of win
ter when experienced in a climate where
frost is but an irregular and uncertain
visitor Omstead, in his account of his
winter travels in Texas, describes feeling
ly some Of the sufferings he underwent
from the cold northers,' against which the
imperfectly constructed houses afforded
very inadequate protection. Winter, in
deed, is only an affiiction in some places
or with people where or with whom there
is no suitable means for guarding against
its rgors. To well-fed, well-housed, we'll
clothed people, winter IS as delightful as
any other season Of the year. Its pleas
ures, of course, are essentially different
from those Of summer, but they are no
less vivid and no less genuine Not to
mention those out of door sports, such as
skating and sleighing. that are unexcelled
by any other seasons, 1t is within-doors
that the winter supplies us with some of its
best delights. In summer the hilltop, the
brook-side, the garden, the porch, the open
window-all places, in fact, that afforded
US quiet and pleasant air, have equal claims
upon our affection but it is only in win
ter that we come to understand the full
significance of the word home. When the
storm is shaking our easements, and the
night is black and dangerous, then, within
the drawn curtains and around the blazing
fire, we discover how secure, and glowing,
and peaceful, and rich in affections, are
hearth and home Just as in spring the
first blossoms give us delight, so in winter
does the fire when first lighted give us
singular pleasure. Perhaps of all our
boyhood recollections those of the old win
ter's freside are the keenest and the most
delightful. When the first snowfall comes
this season, let the reader take down his
copy of Whittier's Snow bound, and read
the poem by the brisk blaze of cracking
logs, with the sound of the outward blast
reaching his ear in melancholy menace,
and see what relish the old-fashioned
picture will have for him. By the brisk
blaze of cracking logs Alas if he reads
it at all, in all probability it will be over
the hot air of a register, or by the burnt
iron of stove Firesides and hearth
stones are things of the past, and with
their departure have gone nearly all the
best charms of a winter-home. Modern
life is surrounded with a good many con-
Year: 1871

woman's kingdom May sewing machines
be broken past remedy, and rufles come in
like a flood, and men wear seven bosoms to
one shirt, and the bosom factories stop work.
and all the laundries dry up May women
receive one quarter the wages of men and do
twice the work. and kid gloves 60 up to five
dollars pair, and tear out on the back OF
the hand the first time they are put on


. Ia short, may women be held subject
race when they shall have proved themselves
one. and be oppressed and spoiled evermore ;
for they will surely deserve it if they 60 back
to the leeks and onions of Egypt after having
eaten the mamma and quails Of the promised
land


:, Long skirts indeed -
Year: 1871

FATALIsM IILUsTRATED.-A Hard-shell
Baptist minister living somewhere on the
frontier of Missouri, was in the habit of say
ing TO his family and to his church Friends.
you need not take any unusual care about
your lives the moment of your death was
written before the foundation IF the world,
and you cannot alter it" His wife observed
when he left on Saturday to meet one OF his
frontier missionary engagements, that he
dressed the flint of his rife with unusual
care, put in dry powder, fresh tow, and took
every pains to make sure that the gun would
60 off in case he came upon an Indian


1t struck her one day as she saw him il
the saddle, with his rife on his shoulder,
that his conduct contradicted his teachings
and she said to him q My dear, why do you
take this rife with you , If it was writ
before the foundation of the world that you
were to be killed during this trip by an In
dian, that rife won t prevent 1t and if you
are not 10 be killed of course the rife is IN
necessary so why take 1t with you at all p


= Yes he replied, q to be sure, my dear,
Of course you are all very right, and that is
a very proper view but, see here, my dear
-Dow-reslly-but then, you see. my dear
suppose | should meet an Indian while am
gone. and his time had come, and / hadn {
my rife with me, what would he do2 Yes.
nv dear. we must all contribute our part
toward the fulfllment of the DEGREES of
PrOvid -Ce.
Year: 1871

1t is considered a neat thing
for young gentlemen TO have
their overooats made with a
pocket in one side lined with
flannel oiafaF, III which a lady


may,slipfer hand when walking
of a cold winters evening.
Year: 1871

A SYSTEM OF VOTING by the audience at the
Skating Rink assemblies for the favorite skater
will take place at every night assembly, and the


one getting the largest number of votes at the end


Of the week will receive free admission to the


rink for one week and badge Of honor. This
system will be commenced next week. asSs -
Year: 1871

OTTowA, March 31.-In the Senate
the Postmaster General stated that
the claims of Canada for the Fenian
raid expenses have been submitted TO
the Joint High Commission, and that
if they were not entertained the Gov
ernment will press them on the at
tentiOn Of the Imperial Government.


In the House Of Commons, after the
rejection of several amendments,
the Government plan for the admis-
sion of British Columbia into the Do
miniOn, and for the construction Of the
Pacific railroad, we're adopted by a
vote of 81 to 20,