smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1870

We publish the following from an autograph
copy, taken by Emma Jane Nash, daughter of
John G. Nash Esq, and committed to memory
by her, but a short time prior to her death, on
the Gath Of April last, aged fourteen years. AS
a compo sition, it is beautiful tribute of ailec-
tion, and expressive Of the great genius of its
author. How little did she who copied and
learned TO repeat this simple narrativ Of the
flower emblematic Of mortality, That she, too.
was soon to fade and de."-Roch. Union.


WRITTEN BY GOV. WRIGHT TO HIS NIECE, AGED


THIRTEEN YEARS.


The season of flowers is beginning TO open in
this northern climate, and who is not fond of
their quiet tcauty and sweet fragrance? The
carly spling brings forth the modest wild flow
er of the hillside, which blooms for season,
and fades and withers away and gives place to
its successor, and it to another, and another, in
regular succession, until they close the series.
Each succession in its day, is equally perfect in
form and beauty, and tint and fragrance, accord
ing TO its nature and racial equally display
ing the wonderful perfection of that Almighty
Power which has created all things, from the
world we nhabt TO the rose and the violet.
How slrikingly embemalc of human life are
the flowers Of the garden and the field! One is
low and modest, and simple; another is touring,
and gaudy and ostentatious. One is delicate in
tint and rich in fragrance; another glowing in
colors but wholly scentless. One is hardy and
enduring under almost any change of the season;
another is delicate and sensitive, and shrinks
from the shade and withers at the toJch. Yet
all spring up and bloom, and fade, and die. some
in one stage OF existence, and some in another"
So with human life. The shades and casts Of
chardct ter are as various as the tints and lrdg-
rance OF the flowers, and all bloom, and fade, and
die some in in fancy, some in the budding sea-
son of youth, some in mature life, and some by
the fross Of age; but all. all die, and, as with
flowers, the autum and winter Of years close the
series with one generation, TO make room for an
other and another, and another.


Sn.As WRIGHT.
Year: 1870

THE steamer Sena tor arrived at San Pedro
March 22d and brought back few of the gold
hunters, and number came in by the. afternoon
stage. Accounts from The mines are, on the whole,
uclavorabe. A few tons Of good rock have
been tuken out, there may be same leads already
discovered that will prove rich 1t will take
capital TO develop any of them and there ap-
pears now to be no justfable cause for any rush
10 the new district, or much chance for men Of
no means The excitement near San Diego IL
said to he rapidly effervescng.
Year: 1870

A REVOLUTION IN MEDICINE is not gilded
pill TO ght tho eye or please the fancy, but it
is a true medicine placed in the hands of the
people for their relief, and no person can take
it according to the directions and remain long
unwell. 1t may seem incr edible that many cases
considered hopelessly incueAble, have been fire.
quently cured in a lew days or weeks, and We
cheerfuly invite the investigation of the liberal
minded TO the cures it has made. Such is Dr..
Walkers Vegetable Vinegar Bitters, n safe and
harmless remedy Buy it, try it and be curcd.
Year: 1870

A NICE young man in New Orleans ran away
with and married the supposed daughter of a
hi ghly respectable lady, and came back for the
lady's blessing, which was freely given, together
with the information that the girl was not her
daughter, but quadroon servant girl. lie said
it was a swndle. and left for parts unknown.
Year: 1870

THE Internal Tax Assessor is around again in
quiring as to the peoples business for the last
il was in the power of Congress to have abolish
ished this tax year ago, and that the money
they are called upon to pay is for the salaries of
useless officials or to swell the surplus ying idle
in the treasury. This income tax is curious
net. lis mefhes catch the small fish, while the
larger ones pass through unhurt.-- Capital Re
DOyter.
Year: 1870

GIRLS Shouldn't have anything in their
mouth when act as though they are going
to kiss them. Now. girl in Ohio bad
button in ber mouth when visitor went
for her, and she has never found the button
since. She is going to bave him arrested
when she gets well, for forcing the button
down her throat.
Year: 1870

A CURIOUS SOCIETY There was, many
years ago, Lazy Mans Society organized
in certain town in Maine. One Of The ar


iicIes required that no man belonging to
the society should ever be in a hurry.
Should he violate this article he must treat
the other members. Now it happened on a
time that the village doctor was seen riding
post caste through the streets, to visit a pa


tent. The members Of the society saw him
and cbucked over the idea of treat, on bis
return reminded him Of his fast riding, and
violation Of the rules "Not at ALL" said
the doctor; "the truth is, my horse was de-
termined to 60, and felt too lazy to stop
him / They did not catch him that time
Year: 1870


Oh for lodge In garden Of cucumbers.
Oh for an iceberg or two at control!
oh for vale which at midday the dew cumbers!
Oh for . pleasure trip up to the Pole.
oh for little ones story thermometer,
With nothing but Zeros all ranged in row
oh for 4 big double barreled hydrometer
To measure the moisture tina, rolls from my


brow.


Oh that this cold world were twenty times colder
Chats irony red hot, 1t secmeth to mel,
Oh for q turn OF Its dreaded cold shoulder!
Oh what n comfort an ague would be!
oh for grotto to typify heaven,


Scooped In the rock under cataract vast!
oh for winter Of discomfort, even.
Oh for wet blankets judiciously cast!
Oh for u soda fount spouting up boldly
From every hot lamp post against the hot sky!
Oh for proud maiden to look on me eoldly.
Freezing my soul with glance Of her eye!
Then for draught from cup OF :. cold pizen"
And oh = resting place In the cold grave!
With bath In the Styx, where the thick shad-


ow lies OH


And deepens the chill of it- dark running


wave!
Year: 1870

'Tis ever sew, as the seamstress said.


Ladies will please get their ages ready
for the census man.


May 'viyandiere' under twenty be
said to be in her can-teensY'


When a man marries a vicious woman
he becomes possessed Of devil.


The degree Of NJ. D. most appropriate
for ladies' is that of Mother Dear.


Boise City, Idaho, has only one un-
married woman. This lack Of girls is
bad for Boise.


The principal occupation of the girl
of the period is said to be to sit at the
window and watch for the coming
man.


There is often but slight separation
between a woman's love and her hate.
Her keen teeth are very near to her
sweet lips.


Iowa college has been astonished by
the exploits of party OF sweet girl un-
dergradnates, who walked Is miles in
one day.


There is nothing so calculated to call
out the deep earnestness of true wo-
man and enlist her most faithful devo-
ton, As doing up her back hair.


by dear, said wife to her husband,
on his return from town, What was the
sweetest thing you saw in bonnets, in
Baltimore? The ladies' faces, my
love.
Year: 1870

DIR. Hall, in his book Just published,
relates the case of a man who was cured
of biliousness by going without his sup
per and drinking freely of lemonade.
Every morning. says the Doctor, this
patient rose with wonderful sense of
rest, refreshment and feeling as though
the blood had been literally washed,
eleansed and cooled by the lemonade
and the fast His theory is that food
will be used as remedy for many dis
eases successfully. For example, he in
stances cures of splitting blood by the
use of salt; water-melons, epilepsy and
yellow fever; kidney affections, celery;
poison, olive or sweet oil; pounded cram
berries applied to the parts affected, cry
sipelas; hydrophobia, onions, etc. So
that the thing to do in order to keep in
good health is really to know what to eat
and what medicine TO take.
Year: 1870

does not exhibit an Official ttnbTe on the arnlet as
well as the red cross. II any of them have not
adopted that plan, some plan like it, the sooner
they do so the better. Although every wounded
man who can be removed from Sedan without posl-
tive danger is being brought away as quickly as
possible, there are still about 1000 OF them lying in
town. The floor of the large church which stands
in the centre of the Place dArmes is covered with
them. There are ladies attending to their wants.
1t Is the same thing in several of
the casernes. Every day for the last eight days
hundreds of wounded have been sent on;
but there are cases too bad for removal, besides
which, though the Prussans press into the ambu-
lance service every carriage or cart they can ind,
considerable period must yet eapse before the whole
OF even those who may be removed can be con-
veyed to Libramont In the meantime, the breaking
out OF some terrible epidemic at Sedan is much
to be feared. The smell all over the town is some
thing dreadful. 1t is offensive beyond all imagine
tion. Along the streets you sometimes meet as
many as dozen stretchers in procession, on each of
which is wounded man. Even that movement
seems to cause great suffering to Of the PATIENTS
but what is 1t to the olting which they sustain when
passing over the rugged pavements Of Bouion
in carts without springs? Fortunately, the roads
between Sedan and Libramont except Just here are
as good as any to be found elsewhere, England not
excepted but twentyeght miles is frightful Jour-
ney by sucn conveyances. Some dozen or so of
ambulance carts set out at a time. They are for
the most part very long ones and each is drawn by
four horses, Prussan troops riding as postiliona
One or two Prussan surgeons and several persons
wearing the red crosses accompanied the sad corr


ege Sisters of Charity sit in the carts attending TO
the worst cases.
Year: 1870

HUNUh TO WHUM HONUR IS DUE.


The Pail Mall Gazette says there is a tendency to
exat the great talents OF the strategsts and gene
rails who have planned and executed the various
movements, and to attribute the defeat of the
French to the want OF skill Of their marshals. No
doubt very large portion Of the Prussian success
may be accounted for in this way but it would show
disregard OF the lessons OF war If the influence
attaching to the composition of their rank and nle
were overlooked. In the first place, few can fail to
be struck with the difference between the discipline
OF the German and French regiments not Only
when defeat had test ed to the utmost the quality Of
the latter, but even before the war had actually
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Year: 1870

The Times says the wonderful successes of the
German army, and their obvious generation from the
Prussian military system, have naturally drawn the
thoughts Of BDgshmen to their own military Short
comDgs. 1t is so seldom that their minds do turn
In this direction, and there is so much to occupy
them when they are turned thither, that we have
trary, we have had some share in evokng and guid-
ing It, But now that this bias has been impaired to
the popular sentiment, it becomes necessary to
guard against its taking an exclusive hold on mems
mi
Year: 1870

About o'clock yesterday afternoon, says the
st. Louis Democrat of the 9th inst. Johanna
Sullivan who is certainly old enough to know
better, threw herself into the river from the
Carr street ferry landing with suicidal intent
The act was witnessed by quite q number of
loungers and passengers waiting for the ferry
boat Among the spectators was Punch Morris,
the lightweight who gallantly plunged in after
her, and, seizing her by the hair as she was
sinking for the third time, swan with her to the
wharf-boat to the side of which he clung with the
nails OF his right hand.


The spectators appeared too much interested
in the struggle to offer the hero any assistance,
and the old woman revived sufficiently to un-
gratefully clutch her would-be rescuer by the
throat and endeavor to strangle him. The mans
strength was fast failing him, and matters we're
getting desperate, when officer Thomas Reilley
appeared upon the scene and assisted the couple
out.


The pucky little pugilist who so brayely
risked his own life shook himself like water
dog on regaining the shore, and said he believed
he was all there.
Year: 1870

suEar-Mysterious Doings In the West indies.
There was singular story, says the Chicago
Tribune of Monday, current among South
Water street wholesale merchants Saturday,
story that brought exclamations of surprise, of
disbelief, or of disgust from the many to whom
it was told. A human hand and an arm had
been found in an alley, running between State
street and Wabash avenue, and, from its APP
pearance, there was unmistakable evidence that
it had been previously found in hogshead of
sugar, taken out and deposited there by the dis
coyerer who was too sharp to leave any clue
that might identity the merchant who was the
proprietor of that particular sugar cask. The
hand was evidently that of female, and, from
its color, il appeared TO be that of a creole or
mulatto. 1t was very small and well formed,
and was In a state of perfect preservation,
having been completely sugar cured"


OF course nobody owned the article, or knew
how IL eame there, or where IL came from.
Crowds of people focked to the spot TO witness
The strange sight, and speculation was rife on
The subject, resulting in nothing satisfactory.
Year: 1870

THE San Domingo treaty received its
quiems yesterday in the Senate, having
been rejected by a direct vote As the
President pressed this measure very warm
", this is an emphatic defeat for him; hut
MS it comes from his political friends, lie
will no doubt receive it gracefully. Il is
TO be regretted that the President and the
Republican majority IN the Senate should
differ on any question oI moment, but in
this matter we cannot but think the Sen
ate is right, and that it has done both IhC
country and the administration II real ser.
vice in rejecting Me trcnty.
Year: 1870

[Born in 1854, and who never published
book.


Wisdom is repose in light. Happy
the mind that scars high enough to
sport in its beams.


Consult the ancients, listen to the
aged. He is not wise who has only
his own wisdom, and little learned is he
who has only his own learning.


Imagination and wisdom combined
are the chat of life and art.


Wisdom Is the strength of the weak


Good sense accommodates itself to
he world; wisdom cndeavors to con
orm itself to heaven.


Never cut what you can unite.


Virtue is the health OF the soul. 1t


ives relish to the smallest leaves of
tie.


His own virtue and the happiness Of
'thers, is the twofold end Of man on
arth. His happiness is his supreme
estimation; but it Is not what be
houid seek, 1t is only what he may
xpcct and obtain if be is worthy Of it.


Virtue by calculation is the virtue Of
vice.


We are not innocent when VIC do
harm to ourselves.


We should do everything to lot good
people have their will.


Everything can be learned; even
virtue.


Morality is the knowledge of those
rules to which it is of moment to us to
conform, not only in our actions, hut
also our affections. These are so i'm
portant portion Of our mode OF be-
ing that am astonished that no phi
losopher has embraced them within the
definition of the essential object Of
morality. In fact, our affections are
to our actions what ideas are to words.
The essential test in morals, as in log
ic, Is that the former be good.


Morality must have sky, as picture
air.


Tue morality of some people is in
remnants-enough to make coat.


Morality is a curb, not spur.


Without a model, and without an
ideal model, none can do we'll.


A rule of conscience for ones self,
code of morals for ones self, a relig-
ion for ones self! BY their nature,
these things cannot be private.


A maxim is the exact and noble ex
preston of an important and indispu-
table truth. Sound maxims are all
germs of good: strongly imprinted in
the memory to nourish the will.


TO think what we do not feel is to
lie to ourselves. Whatever we think,
we should think with our whole being,
will and body.
Year: 1870

John Faughnan. from his mountain Ranch,
brings in sample Of superior Early Rose
potatoes, grown in eight weeks. They are a
light cream color. and possess all the qualities
of first claes potato. They are ns far above
the valley potato as is a mountain trout above
n salt Goldfish.
Year: 1870

TABLE MOUNTAIN There is yet great
deal of gold in the gravel deposit inside OF
Table Mountain, and some companies are
quietly taking out. week after week, an
amount which would surprise many were it
trumueted abroad 1t must he that portions
of the mountain. now regarded from miners
standpoint with comparative Indifference, will
yet pay for working.
Year: 1870

Some one has gone from this strange world


of ours,
No more to gather its thorns with its flowers
No longer to linger where sunbeams must


fade,


Where, on all beauty deaths fingers are laid 1,
Weary with mingling life's bitter and sweet,
Weary with parting and never to meet.
Some one has gone to the bright golden


shore


Ring the bell softly. there's Grape on the door
Ring the bell softly there's scrapc on the door :
Some one is resting from sorrow and sin.
Happy where carths conflicts enter not IN
Joyous as birds, when the morning is bright,
When the sweet sunbeams have brought lis


their light.
Weary with sowing and never to reap, .'
Weary with labor and welcoming sleep
Some ones departed for Heavens bright


shore


Ring the bell sofily, there's Grape on the door
Ring the hell sortly,there> serape on the door
Angels we're anxiously longing to meet
One who walks with them in Heavens bright


street;


Loved ones have whispered that some one is


blest;


Free from earths trials and taking sweet rest.
Yes. there Is one more in angelic bliss
One less to cherish, and one less to kiss;
One more departed for Heavens bright shore.
Ring the bell softly there's GRAPE on the door
Ring the bell softly there's Grape on the door.
Year: 1870

ry-" Mack of the Cincinnati In
qairer. has learned the following facts.
which throw the shadow OF a sad romance
over the Oneida disaster: Commander
Williams, the highest officer on boar'i
the vessel, and ono of the lost. was A
widowcr o: something less than forty,
and the father Of two bright little chil-
dren. In May last he contracted an en-
gagcment for a second marriage, which
was to have taken place very soon after
the arrival Of the Oneida In this coHntry.
believe it was fixed for the middle of
April lie left the United States Tor Js
pau in June last. and just before bis de-
parture he was one of a dinner party 1T
which my informant and the afiianced
bride were also present. Had he return


cd safely he would have known fate
which his brave heart would not have
met with the cool courage that faccl
death, at his post on the quarterback.
Since the first Of January his two chill
dren and his intended wife have died.
When he left Japan he had not heard
this sad news, but supposed he was CON-
ing home to meet them all In health and
happiness So to one, at least, Of the
gallant men who went down ON the III.
fatcd steamer, death cannot be ccallssi dis
aStcr. 1H fa ta ek8 tS83a4 94s5 f4 n@A1
Year: 1870

SENSIBLE. The Rome (Ga.) Courier,
of a recent date, has the following sens-
BILE article:


Corn is worth one dollar and forty
cents in this city--cove hay is worth
forty two dollars ton--bacon is worth
sixteen cents-cotton is dull at 22i.


The above is the severcst sarcasm that
we could heap upon those men, who,
with utter disregard of oil common sense,
advocate the Wholesale planting of cot
ton, to the exclusion or corn and the
grasses. just think Of it, ye fanatics!


In this rich and royal country, where
clover will thrive as heartily as in the
valleys Of Virginia--whcn corn can be re-
muneratively produced at thirty cents n
bushel, we are giving nearly five times
that amount for it, and holding cotton
at the disastrous figures quoted above.


No man is farming on safe principles
who does not plant enough corn for his
own consumption at least.


The idea that we can coin money in
piles and purchase an abundance of corn
and pork from Western monopolists, is
an unwholesome one. ual


Put in enough corn and clover to keep
your family from starving, and then If
you have surplus Of land and labor,
plant cotton to make money with. But
be sure and get in enough corn and clio
yer to provision yourself You can live
BY wearing last years clothes, but you
cannot live on the memory OF last years s
dinners.
Year: 1870

WoMEN's RIGHTS IN MINNESOTA. bill
proposing an amendment to the State consttu-
ton giving the women the right of suffrage has
passed both houses Of the Minnesota Legisla-
ture and will probably be signed by the Gov
ernor. When the amendment is submitted to
the people the women will have the right to
vote upon it. This puts the issue fairly and
square!y. If the women of Minnesota want
the suffrage they can vote for it, and if they
do not vote in Minnesota we can take it for
granted that they are merely flirting with snf-
frage and won't accept it for better or worse, no
matter how often it proposes or is proposed.
In Utah the women would not vote when they
could, and we incline to the belief that if they
had the suffrage oil over the country they
would not use it. 1t would therefore be as
we'll to let them have it, and probably we
would hear no more about it. Then Miss
Anthony's mission would be ended, and we
have her word for it that she would agitatc no
further. 1t is the best thing, therefore, to let
the women have tho suffrage, il only to quiet
them.
Year: 1870

In THE STATE LEGisLA,~Rs yesterday two
bills Of more than ordinary impos,ttancc were
disposed Of. The Senate passed the house
bin abolishing the Court of Special Sessions Of
this city, and it was sent Immediately to the
Governor, who, according to promise made
Colonel Murphy, signed it in the afternoon,
thus making it law. The bill abolshing the
Contracting Board and contract system on
the canals was also passed by the Senate, with
on amendment prohibiting the Canal Board
from entering into any new contracts for keep
ing the canals in repair. The radicals made
their last struggle over the section authorizing
the appointment Of patrolmen, but, as might
be supposed, failed to have II stricken out
In the Assembly the Excise bill for the State
was passed after numerous amendments had
been voted down.
Year: 1870

The programme of the Citizens Association
for the regeneration of the metropolis is right
so far as it touches the great necessity for Sc
curing the purity Of elections. 1t makes little
difference how good system Of government
may be il bad men can pervert 1t to s,rve their
ends rather than to secure its benefits to the
people; and bad mon will do this unless we
have some means of securing the verdict Of
the people in favor of good men on election
day. Two points are necessary-to secure
against fraudulent votes and against false
counting. The Citizens Association recon-
mends that the registry shall bear description
Of the voter, such as is put in passports, and
that o certificate should bo issued to him.
This, 1t believes, will protect the people from
repeateN. And it believes that the appointment
of convassers by somo authority not directly
subject to popular influences will secure an
honest count. There is germ of good thought
in each of these. If it is practical to put upon
the registry description of every voter, it
would be equally practical and far more cffec-
tive to put there the photograph of every voter
Why not thus utilize science for tho benefit of
society? No description could be SO accurate,
and none is SO readily made. Let camera
and an operator be kept at every registry
bureau, and if it breaks up the gams Of the
repeaters it will be money well spent. The
appointment of inspectors and canvassers by
the Judges of the Supreme Court, or an
authority that is as pure as that authority
ought to be, should prevent false counting if
there is any health lefs in our society.