smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1871

The following is sent out by the Light
house Board of the Treasury Department: :
"Ihe following recipe for whtewashing has
been found by experience to answer on wood,
brick and stone, nearly as well as oil paint
and is much cheaper: Slake half bushel of
unslaked lime in boiling water, keeping it
covered during the process. Strain it and
add peck of salt, dissolved in warm water;
three pounds OF ground rice, put in boiling
water and boiled to thin paste; half u
pound of powdered Spanish whiting, and u
pound of clear glue, dissolved in warm water;
mix these well toge: her, and let the mixture
stand for sew raj days. Keep the wash thus
prepared in a kettle or portable furnace, and
when used putt on as hot as possible, with
painters or whitewash brusher." +"
Year: 1871

IMPORTANT LAND UEusI0N.-A recent
decision of the Commissioner of the General
Land Office makes all lands within the limits
Of railroad grants, upou which a homestead
or pre-emption filing existed'at the date of
the grant, which have been subsequently
abandoned, revert to the Government, and
are again open to prc-empsion and home
stead. BY former decision such lands
went to tho railroad companies.
Year: 1871

| A few nights since q resident of Te
cumseh, who had been on visit to one
of the way stations of the L. 5. d M. s
railway, being desirrOus of reaching
home, took passage on freight train to
which a caboose was attached. The train
was very long and heavy, and the track
was slippery, rendering it almost impos-
sible to make any sort of progress. In
order, therefore, to get the freight
through the conductor divided the train
at side track, leaving the rear half to
be drawn by another engine, which was
to have been furnished in the morning.


The idea of remaining, in Il caboose
car, on side track, on a cold night, was
not relished to any great extent by the
passenger referred to. and he decided to
test the virtue of riding, as the brake
men usually do, on the top of the train.
Hastily putting his plan into execution,
he climed upon the roof Of one OF the
ears, before reaching which, however, the
engineer started his engine, and the
train was on its way to Tecumseh. The
passenger found his perch anything but
comfortable, but having chosen the
place he could not well leave it at this
time. The roof of the car was covered
with snow and ice, and he seized hold Of
two iron brackets in order to prevent
his being rolled off. On the train went
at the rate of about twenty-five miles an
hour. The car vibrated and .jostled
about; the escaping steam from the en-
gine often enveloped the Tecumsehian (;
the wind was dead ahead and keen and
sharp, and the air was frosty.


On thundered the train, and the
homesick traveller clung to his perch
with d heroism worthy of a man who
loves his family and home and friends
and has a holy horror Of being crushed
to death by a railroad train. After pro
ceeding few miles his hat flew oft aad
each particular hail, Of his head stood
up like quills on fretful porcupine." J"
The steam penetrated "those hair," went
up his coat-sleeves, around his face and
throat, and soon he was covered all over
like " Frost King" Arriving at Te-
cumseh he was quite benumbed and had
to be helped down, and he presented q
laughable yet deplorable sight His
nose had swelled to enormous proper
tions, his head presented the appearance
of miniature iceberg, and his ears
were "like unto those Of u baby ele-
phant, the only exception being that
they couldn't be tapped worth cent
Detroit Tribune.
Year: 1871

that had sheltered the homeless child so
long began to feel their loneliness more
keenly. After q few years they went to
their daughters home, and when they
went to their reward, it was from the
loving arms of Faith, whose husband
and little children wept for them. "And
the King shall answer and say unto
them, verify I say unto you, inasmuch
as We have done it unto one Of the best
of these, We have done it unto Me. =
The E30,0sESt
Year: 1871

Mr.. Charles M. Lee is we'll known
criminal lawyer of Rochester, New
York. He summed up case with 8
superhuity of gesture, and an affluence
of perspiration, that would have aston
ished even John Graham in his vehem
ent and melting moods. Lee was Gle.
Tending an old revolutionary soldier fol
passing forged promissory note FOL
some $50. There was hardly the faintest
doubt of his guilt; but Lee contrived tC
get before the jury that the prisoner
then daredevil boy OF nineteen, was
one of the storming party that followed
Mad Anthony Wayne in his desperate
night upon Stony Point, and helped tC
carry the wounded General into the fort
during the terrible fray. In summing
up Lee, after getting over the ugly
points of the evidence as he best could
then undertook to carry the jury by es
calade, on the ground Of the prisoner
revolutionary services. He described IL
graphic language the bloody attack on
Stony Point, the impetuous valor OF
Wayne, the daring exploits Of his client
and wound up with the stunning inter
rogatory: Gentlemen OF the jury, vii
| YOU send to the State Prison, for passing
contemplate thirty dollar forged note
an old hero of three score and ten, who
| in his youth, cheered the heart OF his
country in the darkest hour Of the rev
olution, by storming Stony Point?'


This was poser. The chins OF some
of the jury quivered, but the foreman,
bluff farmer, put on an air which
seemed to say, that storming Stony Point
was a good thing in its line, but what
had that to do with this forged note
After being out couple Of hours, the
jury returned to the court room, went
through the usual formula:


Gentlemen of the jury, have you
agreed upon a verdict?


ave have"


ado you find the prisoner at the ban
guilty or not guilty."


"Not guilty, because he stormed Stony
Point," thundered the stalwart foreman,
who. it was afterwards learned, was the
last to an agreement.


The audience applauded, the crier
raped to order, the District Attorney
objected to the recording Of the YER
dict, and the judge sent the jury out
again, telling the foreman. in a rather
sharp tone, that they must find an un-
conditional verdict Of guilty or not
guilty. After an absence Of q few min
utes, they returned simple verdict OF
not guilty, adding, however, as he dropt
into his seat, "it was a good thing,
though, judge, for the old revolutionary
cuss that he stormed Stony Point
-,Stauton's Bench and Bar.
Year: 1871

A writer in the Gentlenaan'S 1NQga2tne
estimates that sum hardly less than
100000 has been expended upon the
observations OF the recent solar eclipse,
while hundred or more eminent men
of science have devoted to it months OF
patient labor. 1t is gratifying to us as
Americans to know that more than half
the cost of the observations has been
borne by the United States; and the
pride we may reasonably take in the
fact is certainly not lessened when we
consider that no immediate practical
advantage can be gained by the expen-
diture; that the sun pays no dividends
to the astronomer, and will not ripen
one acre more Of the farmers wheat for
all the triumphs of the spoctroscope.
Whether the outer environment OF the
sun is mist or glowing white hot mat
ter, seed time and harvest will pass in
their accustomed succession, and with
their average results. But for the glory
of teaching posterity why the sun
shines, we might well expend five times
the money that was devoted to this
eclipse.


From the accounts that have reached
us of the observations we may fairly
infer that they were less satisfactory
than those of the eclipse last year. The
weather was unfavorable, a jealous cloud
obscured the two luminaries, the greater
light that rules the day and the lesser
light that rules the night-at the golden
moment, the precious ''two minutes
and a quarter" of their coincidence.
But enough was accomplished by the
commission to confirm Sechi's theory Of
continuous spectrum at the edge OF
the sun. The scientific journals Of
America and England will soon give US
the full report, and all parties interested
in the matter must await its appear
ance.


SAVE LITTLE.-Every man who is OBJ
liged to work for his living should make
it point to lay up little money for
the srainy day." which we are all liable
to encounter when least expected. The
best way to do this is to open an ac-
count with savings bank. Accumu-
lated money is always safe; 1T IS always
ready for use when needed. Scrape to-
gether five dollars, make your deposit,
receive your bank book, and then re-
solve to deposit given sum, small
though it be. once a week, according to
circumstances. Nobody knows, with
out trying it, how easy thing IL Is 10
save money when an account with the
bank has been opened. With an ac-
count man feels desire to enlarge
his deposit 1t gives him lessons in tru-
gality aud economy, weans him from
his habits Of extravaganza, and Is the
very best guard in the world against IN
Temperance, dissipation and rice.
Year: 1871

The great Blood Purifier and delicious drink, War
ner's Vinum Vita, or Wine Of Life, is free from any
those who require a stimulant 1t is splendid appe-
tizer and tonic, and the finest thing in the world for
cious article offered to the public far superior to
brandy whisky wine. btters, or any other article 1t
young or old can take the Wine of Life 1t is in fact


life preserver Those who wish enjoy good health
The Wine of Life 1t is different from any thing ever
before in use 1t is sold by druggists. Price 81, in
queTt bottles.
Year: 1871

RISE When the birds are
fying over, and the fowler lies in wait
for them, if they fly low, at every dis
charge Of the fowler's gun some fall,
some are wounded, and some swerving
sideways plunge into the thicket and
hide themselves. But you will find that
Immediately after the first discharge OF
the gun the flock rise and fly higher.
And at the next discharge they rise
again and fly still higher. And not
many times has the plunging shot thin
ned their number before they take SO
high q level that it is in vain that the
fowler aims at them, because they are
above the reach of his shot. When
troubles cume upon you, fly higher ;
and if they still strike you, fly still
higher. And by and by you will rise
so high in the spiritual life that your
affections will be set on things so en-
tirely above, that these troubles will
not be able to touch you. So long as
the shot strikes you, so long hear the
word of God saying to you, " Rise
higher;
Year: 1871

Judicious advertising always pays.


If you have a good thing, advertise it.
If you havn't, don't.


Ifyou don't mean to mind your own
business, it will not pay to advertise.


Never run down your opponents goods
in public. Let him do his own adverIis-
ing.


It's as true OF advertising as of any
thing else in this world-if it is worth
doing at all, it is worth doing we'll


We don't recommend advertising as
the best way to get wife; but we know
that it is the best way to get a good
trade.


You can't eat enough in one week to
last whole year, and you can't adver-
tise on that plan either.


An eccentric minister in large parish
had seventeen couples to marry at once
in grand common service at church. In
the course of the wedding he asked one of
the men to pledge himself to the wrong
woman. The man naturally protested,
but was told "Hold your tongue | will
marry you all now and here you can
sort yourselves going home"


An English scientific writer maintains
that sleep is produced by ga molecular
change in the nervous structure itself of
the cerebro-spinal system"


There are said to be very few deal and
dumb colored persons. In Verginia so
far as is known, there is but one negro
thus afflicted. In the Illinois Asylum
there are two deaf mute colored girls who
found their way thither during the war,
nobody knows whence or how.


Edward Murphy, who was confined for
four years in the State Prison of Michi-
gan on false charge Of murder, has ap-
pcaled to the Legislature for compensa-
tion.
Year: 1871

INGRATITUDE, BASE INGRATITuDF.-
The following sad truths are clipped from
an exchange, which also clipped it
from an exchange.


at is strange how closely people read
the papers. We never say anything that
anybody don't like but what we soon
hear of it, and every body tells us about
it. But, if once in while we happen
to say good thing, We never hear that
no body seems to notice that. We
may pay some man hundred compli-
ments, and give him dozen puffs, and
he takes it as tribute to his greatness
and never thinks anything about it
never thinks it does him any good. But
if we happen to say something that this
very same man don't like, or something
that he imagines reflects on him or his
character, see how quickly he flies up
and gets mad about it. Al our evil is
duly charged to us, but we never, ap.
parently, get any credit for what good
we do"
Year: 1871

When you advertise, see that you do
it on the same principle that you buy
goods. Get the most you can for the
money,


People who advertise only once in
three months forget that most folks can't
remember anything longer than about
seven days.


Injudicious advertising is like fishing
where there's no fish. You need to lei
the lines fall in the right place,
Year: 1871

From the San Francisco Bulletin.l


The telegraph brings us the painful
intelligence of the death of the Sonora
Don Marguerite Maza de Juarez, wife OF
the President of Mexico. Born of an
honorable family in the city Of 0axaca,
she married at fifteen the then unknown
young lawyer, who subsequently rose
step by step in his profession and in po-
litioal position until he became literally
the head Of tho nation and one of the
most famous men Of our times. Few
women ever passed through such vicis-
itudes Of fortune. She saw her hus-
band at one time prisoner in the hands
of the revolted church party, under Mi
ramon, at Guadalajara, and threatened
with instant death, and again was her
self compelled by foreign invaders to
seek an asylum in the United States
where she industriously furthered the
cause Of the Republic and contributed
not little to the further overthrow Of
the empire. On the fall Of Maximiliar
Mr.. Seward sent her and her children
back 10 Mexico in an American wal
Year: 1871

.


By Mark Twain, in Galaxy for February.


What a ludicrous satire it was upon
Christian charity-7even upon the vague,
theoretical idea of it, which doubtless
this small saint mouths from his own
pulpit every Sunday.
: Contemplate this freak of nature, and
think what Cardiff giant of selfrighte-
BUSINESS is crowded into his pigmy skin.
If we probe, and dissect, and lay open
this diseased, this cancerous piety of his,
we are forced to the conviction that 1t IS
the production of an impression on his
mart that his guild do about all the good
that is done in the earth, and hence are
better than common clay-hence are
competent to say to such as George Hol-
land You are unworthy; you are a
play-actor, and, consequently, a sInnerj
/ cannot take the responsibility OF re-
commencing you to the mercy OF
Heaven"


II must have had its origin in that inn
uression,, else he would have thought:
1--WE are all instruments for the carry
ing out of Gods purposes; it is not for
me to pass Judgment upon your ap-
pointed share of the work, or praise or
reyile it; / have divine authority for 1t
that we are all sinners, and therefore, 1t
| is not for me to discriminate and say we
Will supplicate for this sinner, for he was
a merchant prince or banker, but we
will beseech no forgiveness for this other
one. for he was play actor. 1t surely
reouires the furthest possible reach of
selfrighteousness to enable a man to lift
his successful nose in the air, and turn
his back upon so poor and pitiable a
thing as dead stranger, come TO beg the
last kindness that humanity can do IN
its behalf. This creature has violated
the letter of the gospel, and judged
George Holland-not George Holland
either, but his profession through him,
Then it is, in a measure, fair that we
Judge this creature 5 guild through him.
IN Effect he has said "We are the salt
of the earth; we do all the good work
| that is done; to learn how to be good and
do good men must come to us; actors
and such are obstacles to moral pro
gress. r.


PRAY. look at the thing reasonably Tor
a moment LAYING aside all bases OF edu-
cation and custom. If a common pub
lie imnression is fair evidence, ofa thing,
then this minister's Legitimate, reoog,
nized and acceptable business is to tell
people calmly, coldly and N, stlfi, writ
ten sentences, from the pulpit, to 60
and do right, be just be mereitul, be
charitable. And his congregation for
ge. it. all between church and home.
But for fifty years 10 was George hoi-
lands business on the stage, to make
bis audience 60 and do right, and be Just,
merciful and charitable-because by hls
living, breathing, feeling pictures, he
showed them what it was to DO these
things, and how to do them, and how in
slant and ample was the reward. Is 4
not singular teacher Of men, this rev
ernod gentleman, who is so poorly IN
| formed himself as to put the whole
stage under ban, and say, do not
think it teaches moral lessons9"


l
Year: 1871

steamer. She always manifested the
most grateful regard for the American
people, who had been the friends of her
family and country in their hour Of ad-
versity. She was admired and beloved
by all classes in Mexico; by the aristo-
cratic church party for her piety and
courage; by the Republicans for her un-
ostentatious mode of life and patriotic
devotion 20 the cause of the nation, and by
all alike for her charity, kindness Of heart
and maternal devotion. She was the
mother of thirteen children, of whom
one son, a fine, promising young man OF
twenty years Of age, is now in Europe;
three married and three unmarried
daughters survive her. A year ago she
appeared like an American woman of
thirty-6ve or forty, in excellent health.
Nothing in her dress or equipage dis
tinguished her from the wife Of any we'll
toado citizen of the capital, and her taste,
like that of her husband, led her to avoid
all unnecessary display on even the most
important occasions. When the Seward
party called at the place to bid her good
bye on their departure from the capital,
they found her sitting with her daughters
around her, all engaged in family sew
ing and noticed that the work was merely
laid aside for the moment to be resumed
on the departure of their guests, not hur-
ried.ou Of sight as it would have been
in many snobbish American or English
families occupying infinitely less ex-
alted positions in society. She was al
ways kind sympathetic and affable, dis
playing all the characteristics of per
feet lady, faithful, devoted wife,
model mother, and an honor to her sex
and race
Year: 1871

The Rome Georgia. Commercial made
is appearance the other morning with a
hole in It. The editor explained it in
the next issue by stating that he had
discovered an Objectionable Rs-ticle after
The edition had been worked of, and had
clipped It out Of 81 the papers before
sending them of.
Year: 1871

II possesses the very great advantage
of carrying the work in the natural WAY
from left to right-which enables the
operator to handle the work more readily
and to sit upright; while machines which
carry the work from the operator require
an inclination Of the body forward (detri-
mental to healthy and are hard and tire
some to use.
Year: 1871

The New York Stars wood-cuts would
cut of the subscription list Of any ordi-
nary paper. The transformation a
sweet young girl goes through in the
course Of one Of those engravings would
frighien a medical student,
Year: 1871

uc AO0A - t..rII.l x


makes is more durable and beautiful than
any other, presenting the same appear,
ance on both sides of the fabric and will
not ravel. 1t is also more economlcal,
recurring oNE-THIRD LESS cotton than
any otter kind of stitch Being the same
on both sides, it is not necessary to use
the extremely fine sewing cotton required
by those machines which make a stitch
with a ridge on the under side, which can
only be concealed by using thread too
delicate and fine to bear ordinary wear.
Year: 1871

It is an instrument of great versatility
in its operations. 1t will hem, fell braid,
cord, gather, tuck more beautifully than
any other machine in use, without bast-
ing or any preparation of the work.
Year: 1871

from the Boston Advertiser (Sumner ergan),


Jan. Ill


The appointment for the vacancy in The st. Do
mingo commission was offered by the President yes
terday to DR.. Samuel G. Howe, OF this city, and, we
are informed, was promptly accepted DR.. Howe
has seen O great deal Of the world and OF men In
his day, Is perfectly independent in his judgments,
ana the last man the world 10 take hold OF this
matter speculation or the friend OF specu ators.
IL the report is correct, trust It Is Dr. Howe
has Joined the commission in order that the facts
the SIDE OF Domingo @ may be seen by the country
In their true light The appointment is an excellent
one and every way honorable to the President.


Recent events have called to mind the way In
which President Lincoln poured oil upon the
troubled waters after the defeat OF his favorite
Louisiana scheme. Possibly President Grant may
have had this in view when he placed the secre.
taryship OF the commission at the disposal OF
bosom friend OF senator Scnurz, and invited 10
She commission itself intimate and lifelong friend
OF Senator Summer. Whether he nad not the ap-
pointments are in themselves all that could be asked
by the opponents OF annexation, and vindicate the
President from any design 10 make the commission
a stalking horse for scheme ready to be consum-
mated In spite OF IL.


commission s TO get annexation through before the
eth Of March under plausible pretext II this was
the object, the President has made an extraordinary
selection OF instruments. They are hardly the kind
TO be used In any such scandaous way; and those
VINO think SO do not exercise their usual inrSlli-
Gepce, The annexation interest nag not gained
ground enough IN this discussion to attempt any
gnch snap Judgment. The appointment OF the gen.
fieIueu composing tns commission affords the best
possible evfdspce that NO such snap Judgment IL
}Dfepded.