smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1870




A writer says with more force
than elegance: God intended all
women to be beautiful, as much
as he did the roses and the morn
ing glories; and what he intended
they should become, they would, if
they should obey his laws, and
cut Incidence and corset strings,
and indulge in freedom and fresh
air. For a girl to expect to be
handsome with the action of her
lungs dependent on the expansive
nature of a cents worth of tape,
is as absurd as to look for turnips
in a snow bank; or a full grown
oak in little flower pot.
Year: 1870

Don Piatt is rash enough to per,
petrate the following piece of ir-
reverence: The suspicion is gain
ing ground that had we put in
Grant s. Co., at the time we did
Mcclellan, they would, in all hui
man probability, have come out
as well plucked as he was. These
last great heroes of the war had
the good luck to be in command
when the Confederates had no
longer the fierce armies that sent
ours whirling back into Washing
ton. The war had ended in the
South nearly a year before we
learned the facG up North. OF
course this is neither patriotic nor
loyal. One ought to puff, and
snort, and bump ones head before
the idol of the day, whether he
has the brain or is only stuffed
out with old newspapers. 't@
Year: 1870




Jusr IN PIAcR.-Daniel Webster
once told a good anecdotc in n speech
When asked where he got IL, be said I;
81 have had it laid up in my head for
fourteen years, and never had n good
chance 10 use it till to-day"


My little friend wants TO know
what good il will do TO learn the rule
Of three, or to commit verse of the
Bible or in the catcchism. The an
swer is this: Some time you need
that very thing Perhaps il may be
twenty years before you can make il
fit in just the right place. BUTT will
be Just in place some time, aud then
If you don't have it, you will be like
the hunter who had no ball in his rife
when he was met by deer.


Twelve years ago, my teacher
mnde me study surveying" said man
who had lost his property; "and now
| am glad Of il, 1t is just in place !
can get good situation and a high
salary"
Year: 1870

Seventeen Of tho old European gov
ernmcnts have recently adopted a
declaration renouncing the use, in
time Of war; of explosive proiectilcs
under a certain weight, on account Of
their cruelty and dstruction Of life.
This indicates progress In the right
direction. But II they can agree to 90
thus far, why not 60 farther, and re,
nounce the use of all instruments OF
human destruction, and indeed a re
sort TO war at all
Year: 1870




payments OF coin interest, S,1f,790.


The week closes upon an extremely easy feeling in
money and at the close large balances were left with
the leading bonddealers as low as per cent, in
order obtain interest sunday The range of rates
has been 3a5 per cent no transactions being
ported above the latter rate In discounts there il but
little doing, owing to the scarcity Of prime offer
ing There is active demand for the same however,
MLich move tho basis of the follow ing rates:
Year: 1870

Some months since we published .
statement to the effect that Miss Gray
4 millincr of Fort Edward had become
the fortunate heir to Sl9,000,000,
which her, lover, young Englishman
had willed to her upon his dying bed.
Ths main fact in the case-the heirship
is true; but we now learn that it was
not to the lover but to his father that
Miss Gray is indebted for her extraor-
binary fortune 1t seems the lover on
his return to England, like too many
others proved inconstant, and married
another lady against his fathers will.
Whether it was remOrse at his faith
lessness or from some other cause, GER
tain it is the young man died in about
q year after his marriage, and left all
his property to his father. The old
gentleman was without heirs and not
having become reconciled to his daugh-
ter-in law, upon his death left one halt
of his property to the government OF
England, and the remaining half, S10.-
600, 900, to Miss Gray, the Fort Ed.
ward milliner. The sum was SO large
that many people were disposed to
doubt its truth when it first appeared
in pint; but Miss Gray has already
received the first instalmen. of her for.
tune, trihe, of s5,O00,000, from the
British Consul in New York. On Tues
day last she received dispatch from
the Consul announcing that the money
awaited her order, and on the folio wing
day she LEFT Fort Edward for New
York, where 1t was paid over to her.


Troy Times.
Year: 1870


On! say has the past been forgotten,
Dear friend of my happier years.
And must my sad Tyre awaken
Its music in sorrow and tears9
There's whisper that breathcs in the


South wind


That brings me vision of thee;
And pictured OH memory's mirror
Thy beautiful image Isec!
Each dcwdrop that kisses carth's bosom,
Every bird that its sweet notes doth


sing;
The flowers that blossom in beauty
TO brighten the beautiful spring;
And the song Of the murmuring river
Hath sound that is music to me;
For the flowers, the birds and the spring


time


AL. bring me sweet memories of thee.
Thou friend of my soul would have thee
TO come with thy sweet smile again,
And let thy fond faithful caresscs
Win my sad heart from sorrow and


pain;
For the sweet past has not been forgotten,
Dear friend ofmy happier years!
And my Tyre no more shall awaken
Its music in sorrow and tears.
Year: 1870

A nice young woman called upon u
clergyman one day, and told him that
her husband was unkind to her, that he
passed nearly all Of his leisure hours
away from home, and that, in short,
his conduct WAS rendering her miser-
able.


II thought sir" said she, Gas you
are n good and wise man, perhaps you
would advise me what to do, that l
nigh; reclaim my husband


"Your complaint is not an uncom
mon one, my good woman," said the
pastor, land | think it is within the
reach of simple remedy"


go, tell it to me, and l will bless
you," said the poor woman.
The pastor took her hand kindly and
looking into her face, said:


always meet your husband with
SMILE -
Year: 1870

A lawyer observing Il little boy to be
very sprightly and talkative, took him
between his knees, and commenced
conversation with him, when the boy
asked him what trial was 10 come or
next, as the court was then in session.
to which the replied that the next was
10 be between the Devil and the Pope,
and asked the boys opinion as to who
would gain it. He Immediately repliesl
that he thought it would be bard tri-
al as the Pope had the most money,
but the Devil the msst lewyera
Year: 1870

Communicates.
Tho Water Works BleetIOn-A Card.
Editors journal;


1t is a fact too well known to all of
us, that until we shall erect Water
Works we shall never, exceptin locali-
ties very near the river, command water
enough to extinguish a fire of any
considerable magnitude; and should
confagration once make much head
way, the Fire Department would be
powerless to suppress it. and the city
would be at the mercy of the flames.
1t has been shown US plainly, that
with Water Works in operation on
the Holly plan, very destructive FIRE
is almost impossible.


1t is not, in my opinion. necessary
that there should be vote of the cit
izens to enable the City Coun
ell to go to the expense of full sur
veys and estimates by competent
engineers. But the Council seems
to think such a vote is neces-
| sary. Impressed as l am with
the necessity of Water Works. ]
shall vote to authorize the Coun-
Gil to erect them, if, after exhaus.
tive surveys, they shall End it with,
in their power to do so. l am satisfied
they will not undertake the work un
til they first have satisfactory evi-
dence of its ultimate cost, and thai
water works bonds can be sold fol
such a price as honest men will be
willing to take for them. This Coun.
Gil, though differing from you and
in politics, is but too we'll aware that
anV serious blunder in this matter o.
Water Works would end the rule O
the party in power with th,
: present year. I therefore earnestl!
! hone that the vote now to be takeI
Year: 1870

I. We congratulate The country on the
restoration of law and order in the late
rebeliious States, under the reconstruc-
ton measures adopted by the general
Government, and upon the return OF
peace, and of fraternal feeling among the
people of all the States under Constitu-
ton securing an equality of political and
civil rights of all citizens, without dis
tinction of race or color.
Year: 1870

2. That we reverence the Constitution Of
the United States, as the supreme law OF
the land, and wise embodiment of the
lowing its teachings we will adopt from
time TO time, such amendments as are
necessary more completely TO establish
secure the blessings Of liberty TO ourselves
and our posterity.
Year: 1870

Before all things, and beyond all
price, is a good name. Eminent Wis
dom has declared that it is "rather TO
be chosen than great riches"


1t islands for, and is the label OF
mans character. The name OF bears.
or the accredited repHlation, represents
his manly worth his so,idity, his virtues
and honor.


No power can bring back the frag-
rance of a good name once blasted. No
tongue can declare its value, no mind
can conceive the vacuum made by its
loss. Without it poverty becomes a
handmaid, without it wealth is dis
grace.
. With it the humblest relation of life
are blessed and ennob]ed; Without it the
highest titles, the most honorable posi-
tions. and the most favorable human
relations are marks of humiliation and
insignia OF worthlessness.


A good name is the blossom and fruit
of goodness. 1t is not mark pasted
on The character by some outside hand,
but it is the proper Development of the
inner man-the shining light which a
pure and good soul puts in sight from
within.
Year: 1870

iF No man can tell whether he is
rich or poor by turning 10 his ledger
1t is the heart that makes a man rich.
He is rich or poor according TO what he
is not according to what he has.
Year: 1870

A ContemptuOus Editor Locked Up.


MEMPHIS, June 1.-THE A0alGnche
Little Rock special says Major Woodruff,


editor of the Gazette, refusing to apologize
or retract for an article in regard to the
White County Circuit Court in relation to
the trial of Col Cypert, was committed to
iail yesterday by Judge Wiltshire, OF the
Supreme Court, for five days for contempt.
Year: 1870

Successful advertising is a veritable art,


not to be learned at glance an art, in
fact, concerning the first principles of
which the most woeful ignorance prevails,


even among many business men who are


spoken of as sharp among their fellows.


The clear-headed business men Of the
country, those who, by judicious use of
the great art of advertising use it steadily
and regularly, and understand how to use
it, make fortunes. The successful use OF
the art is as simple as the alphabet. In
the case of the merchant, for instance, he
first fills his establishment with good
articles, which he sells at fair prices. The
next thing to be done is to let the people
know that he is prepared to sell them any
thing in his line of business, and this can
only be done through the medium of ad-
vertising. The whole business world ac-
knowledge this is one of the axioms Of
trade. To succeed in business through
liberal advertising is natural result; to
fail from neglect to do SO is equally
demonstrable as the result of business laws.
Year: 1870

CINCINNATI, June 14.-Active prepara-
tions have been proceeding to-day for the
great Saengerfest that begins tomorrow.
The city is already in holiday attire.
American and German flags are floating
in all directions. In the German parts OF
the city the houses are profusely decora
ted with evergreens and national colors.


All the Fools not Dead Yet.


The news of the defeat of the Rec
Stockings produced great sensation here.
During the progress of the game people
gathered by hundreds in the street around
the Gazette Office, watching with interest
like that manifested during the war wheI
waiting for news from the front. The
excitement at the close of the ninth in
ming was intense.
Year: 1870

ROME, June 14.-The Pope Is certain of
a majority in favor of the infallibility
measure Several members of the minor
ity repeat their resolution to retire in case
the proposition is successful. The Fathers
who are In favor of infallibility arec .ontrib-
uting heavily to make up a purse to be
given to the Pope. The minority decline
TO subscribe ANYTHING.
Year: 1870

UHE ELLIPTIC SEWING MACHINES ARE


manufactured and warranted hy the Wheeler
Wilson Sewing Machine Company. The lato
and important Improvements enable us to guar
antce to every purchaser that the Elliptic Ma
chine will do more work, better work, and n
greater variety OF work than any other Sewing
Machine now in use. The economy of the FL
liptc Machine in family is almost incredible
with one, good operator can do the work OF
twelve hands. BY it the making Of garments is
reduced from question of hours to one Of min
utcs as the following table will show;


W Is not TO bo understood that the follow ing table Ia the
time make the garments but to do tho stitching ony)
Year: 1870

NARROW EsCAPE.-Our townsman, NJ. NJ. Brown,
narrowly escaped horrible death last week
AS he was riding along in Hayfork valley, his
mule bucked him off and his foot hung in the
Stirrup. Nothing but Browns presence of mind
saved him. The mule did not seem aware for a
while, that the rider was off but bucked on,
uraggag him two or three rods over log two
feet through. Brown laid quietly on his back
working his foot with short quick motions and
succeeded in extricating himself from the stir
fuf' lie had hardly done so before the animal
started off on keen run, kicking with all its
might
Year: 1870

GRAND AwARD.-By reference to new ad-
vertsement this week, it will be seen that there
is another chance for some person to make a
small fortune for 81 so. The profits on the dis
tributon o. awards are to go towards paying off
the debt of the Nevada City school district
Agents for the sale of tickets will soon be APP
pointed and announced.
Year: 1870

GERMAN HOSPITAL SocIETY.-The German Hes
pital Society of Trinity county will hold their
regular quarterly meeting next Sunday after
noon at their hospital building on school-house
hill
Year: 1870

THE CURE - HOW DISCOVERED -
Having been long AFFLICTED with CANCER
resorted TO all the remedies OF which
could hear. Among them was one recon-
| las 1 supposedly procured the herb
and prepared and applied it, which
made perfect cure, but on examination
by the family physician ne informed me
that the herb had used, which had made
q perfect and speedy cure, was not the one
recommended. All VINO are afflicted can
ma speedy cure by sending for the re-
cipe, with full directions for use. Price IS.
Address, with regist cred letter or money
Jeryis, Orange County, New York.
Year: 1870

employ an amanuensis. Such statements do not
and cannot inure me, but 1t is source Of pain
and regret that even you, Deacon George, are
80 lost to every moral sensiblity, so destitute of
all shame, all virtue, and all truth, as to utter
such falsehood.


Suppose the statement You make was true,
what then I? You have charged the State ffteen
dollars % page, and sworn to the truthfulness of
your account and received your pay therefor,
for forged and bogus and fraudulent speeches,
thus making yourself as great a rascal as have
ever charged you with being II there is any
one thing which is better known to my con-
stituents than another, 1t Is that my speeches
and writings father themselves. They are as
legitimate and unmietakable as my own pecu-
liaiites and image are in the children and grand
children whose hearts you delight to wound by
advertising with a scornful mouth, in your
hell born and hell-bound paper, the brain
softenng and dementing process which you say
ia now going on within in consequence of the
physical misfortune of father and grand
father.


You, George, are professor of religion. You
belong to Christian Church and hand around
the bag for the collection on the Sabbath dlv,
and yet you are watched even in the discharge
of this pious duty.


AS good a man as there Is in this city, and as
high in the Church, told me SO. Is it possible,
Deacon that your brethren in the Church are
afraid that you would with one hand put a
penny in the urn of poverty and with the other
take shilling out ?"


This is my fifth letter to you. In my next |
will make, II possible. developments more
astounding from official records, than any that
have preceded 1t.


Faithfully, MORROW B. LOWRY.
Year: 1870

MILWAUKEE, March 1.-THE Committee on
State Affairs at Madison have reported against
the removal of the capital, for the reason that
the people have not demanded it. A meeting
was held here on Saturday night when it was
decided to make q strong effort to pass the bill
at this session, and if it failed to submit it to
the people at the next election.
Year: 1870

The boys of this day are more
specially the representatives Of
the features of the age than
anything else. We sometimes
say it is a railroad age, to ex-
press its fastness and it's fierce
ness; but the locomotive does
not begin to compare with an
average boy, as a reflex of the
features of the age. At fifteen
years he is as Independent and
self-supporting as a young man
of 21 was in our fathers day.
He imagines himself equal to
any enterprise from running q
steamboat to commanding a
regiment. He possesses all the
vices of the times, and reflects
all its characteristics. Such a
thing as reverence hei is q astran-
ger to, and can not be made to
understand it, He can not COM
prehend that old men are en-
titled to his humble respect, or
even that his parents have any
rightful authority over him.
Their duties are limited to fur
nishing him the means of going
to college, or Of maintaining
himself in the position of a
well-bred young gentleman at
home. He affects cigars and
pipes, and what he doesn't
know about meerschaum and
Turkish tobacco is not worth
knowing. He may be pale,
fragile, nervous, thin-chested
and dispeptic; but his eye is
cold and fierce as a brigand,
and he is as reckless in the use
OF his tobocco as an old tar. He
may, in spite of his vices and
evil habits, have a substratum
of genuine principle in him; if
So, the hard knocks, trials and
sutferings oflife will develop it,
and make good citizen of him,
through much tribulation; but
if his principles are fraif, he will
most likely become a helpless
and irreparable wreck before he
is 80; and live out his days in
dependency and uselessness,


And yet, the fault is not that
of the boys themselves; it is
their fathers. Men have so
much to do, that they imagine
they have no time to look after
their sons. They buy their
clothes and books, and send
them to school and college
and that is all. They do not
inquire into their boys habits
and associates; they give them
selves no concern about how
they are spending their leisure
hours. Indeed, they know lit
tie about their boys after they
have passed into their teens.
They do not seek to gain their
confidence, but allow a feeling
of estrangement to grow mp be-
tween them and their sons, at
that critical period in the lives
of the latter, when they most
need direction and advice. II
boys are independent, it is be-
cause they are left to them
selves, and forced to become so


They choose their own asso-
ciates, pleasures and occupa-
tions, and if the choice is fire,
quently bad, it is because they
have no paternal. counsel to
guide them. -Ifmen would de.


vote to the care and discipline
of their children a portion Of


the time which they giveexclu.
sively to business, they might


notaccumulate much money


but they would have bettel


sons and daughters.


MAMMOTH TREES.-It is vel


known that California has the lar
Year: 1870

The weary world wants wo-
men. It has had enough OF
those who call themselves so;
enough Of those who frown on
worth and culture, and make
fashion, and family, and posi-
ton override all other claims;
enoughof indolent self-indul-
gence and pretence, and it
groansin travailfOr the genuine
woman, representative Of all
that is possible, high ami noble
in her sex, 1t waits for those
who shall dare to be true to
every Womanly instinct, assert
and defend every womanly con-
viction in the womanly spirit,
and send out into society and
through all the earth the light
and grace, the healing and
power that come of woman.


Everywhere in society it is
woman that we want. AS the
reach and crown of mans life
is to be manly, as that sums up
and includes all that we have
to say or aspire to, so to be wo-
manly is the one worthy OBJ
ject OF feminine aspiration; and
the true womanliness is not
only the eliminating of the sex,
but the diyinest beauty that
God gives man to see. Iplead
for it, for the beatitude that it
may be to one and ali. I plead
tor it, because so many in the
glare of the life that now is
have forgotten the glory it
might be made to be; because
so many are looking for peace,
Satisfaction, award where they
never can De found. / plead
for every day, and more and
more, / feel the want of women
for every need and deed of life,
women not of genius but OF
character, not of position but OF
influence, women sanity and
tender and true. It was a gen.
uine outburst that broke from
sweet lips, and many a woman
says i'll want to be above
the little meanness and follies
and frailty that spoil so many
women Only let that he the
broad want, only let women
see to it that these are uproot-
ed and flung away, only let wo,
mahly grace and virtue abound
and the work is done, and she
who is said to have lost us Eden
will have gained lis Paradise


| ~-
Year: 1870

The Aberdeen Examiner, of
July, says that negro women
was terribly, if not fatally, burned
By the explosion of a kerosene
lamp, which she was carrying in
her hand from one room to another.
Year: 1870

TO THE ASSOCIATED PRESS


Please notify the public that, although there viii
be considerable delay. we send slowly TO Europe
through the French cable; therefore messages Will
be received and transmitted as early possible and
In the exact order of their reception.


CYRUS w. FIELD.
Year: 1870

HoMIcIDE.-It pans us to chronicle terrible
and fatal affray which occurred here on Wednes-
day evening last in which James Costello was
suddenly killed by John Leach 1t seems that
some disagreement about partnership in
mining claim on the Banvard place below town
has existed, but of this we will not speak About
sundown, on Wednesday last, the two men met
on Auburn Turnpike, in front of Robert Gordon's
barn, Leach having cane, which afterwards
proved to be sword cane, in his hand, and Cos
tello dinner bucket, and when first seen by
Moses FREEDOM, from his blacksmith shop, were
making passes at each other-Costello striking,
and Leach thrusting. FREEDOM thought it at
first only fun, but in a moment saw it was an
angry fght, and ran "a distance of some forty
yards) to separate them, and caught one with
one hand and the other with the other, and at
that moment Costello bent forward, saying: my
God, am q dead man, and fell TO the ground,
FREEDOM protecting or easing the fall, and never
moving afterwards. AS he fell the blood gushed
from his mouth. Costello had the cane whit h
had served for the sword or dagger sheath.
Leach was very bloody and was badly beaten
about the head. Leach went to the Sheriff7s
Office and surrendered himself. Coroner Jamison
held an inquest over the body Of Costello. when
it was found that he was pierced in three separate
places, in the region Of the heart, one or more
having evidently penetrated it. which was the
cause of instant death. Both these men reside
in town and have families-Costello leaving a
mourning widow, and Leach the husband OF an
sgonizing wife and the father Of five children.
We forbear further details as the matter will
undergo judicial investigation