smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1871

In soliciting anew the public patronage domestic pro-
ductOn the American Watch Company respectfully represent:


in the history Of manufactures completely
demonstrated system of making Watches the
first established by them at Waham. That system always had the
and the test OF time in the


Watches themselves cannot be denied have been ample
1t is admitted ande evidence OF daily
epuethat the Watches not only keep
time that machines they endure 1t should that
nothing needed but that their Sizes shapes and appearance
should of the people, As to all these conditions the
fully prepared the exactiOns
of the market They confidently there no longer need
for such watches description whatever
decoration be had And the recent reductions
leave for doubt that the Wham system of Matchmaking
the economical well the most reliable and that the Walham
Watch the cheapest well as the best


Many varieties of have been added during the last
all Of which display the latest Improvements design and nsh
and evine the rapid progress the Company making toward perfection
in the Among these the small Watch for Boys and
gentlemen to be specially noted low price has been
this boys watch, and with the object of
bringing within the of boys of all classes Price being
sidered such watch quality and beauty has country
been produced


The full plate Watch added during year.
made either with without mwnding and setting attach
men This watch in either the Company challenges all
ctue of all countries to beat equal for its price 1t made with
and which not only make it better for its purposes mekeepe
but will make the great vOre with watcmakers This the high
est grade Of full plate watches made this country size and
anc in ni and general excellence especially intended for and
recommended to business and particular Railway and Express
men, to constant aveern fact to all live who must be told by
their watches the time of day whenever they want it, All such
should have the "Ameran Watch Co., Crescent street. Count
ing such destination for this variety their manufacture the Com
devote the greatest construction employ only
their best and best machinery and issue with their reputation
stake upon its


For sale by all leading jewelers. No watches reted by the Com
pany For all other facts address


ROBBINS & APPLETON,


General Agents for American Watch Co., S2 Broadway N Y
Year: 1871




WASHINGTON, March 26.-A curious
circumstance has been brought to light,
which, it is understood, will be made
the subject Of Congressional investiga-
ton. 1t appears that the State of Ala
bama is entitled to several thousand
acres of agricultural land scrip under
acts Of Congress; that when Smith,
late Governor Of that State. visited
Washington about year since for the
purpose of causing the issue Of scrip,
the Commissioner Of the Land Office
directed the scrip to be made out, but
from some mysterious reason it was
never issued Some few weeks ago
Governor Lindsay, of Alabama, received
communication from gentleman in
Ohio, charging the existence Of a con-
spiracy for the holding of this scrip, by
which Alabama five per cent bonds
were to be deprecated in Wall street to
sixty certs on the dollar, and then
bought up by interested parties, and,
under the State law, exchanged at par
rates for this scrip. As consequence
an examination into the matter was
had under the auspices of General
Lindsay, Of Alabama, and a package of
scrip is said to have been discovered in
the Land Office, all made out, but in
dorsed on the envelope as withheld by
direction OF Senator Warner" The
writer OF the warning letter from Ohio
charged that Ex-Governor Smith and
Senator Warner were interested in this
stock;jobbing conspiracy. tits said ex.
Year: 1871

In view Of the late news from San
Domingo the Herald is spprehensive
that unless annexation is not hurried up
it will fall through. 1t says: "Notwith-
standing that the Commissioners are go
ing to report the feeling of the people Of
this mongrel Spanish American repub-
Inc as being almost unanimous in favor
OF annexation, it strikes us there are
enough holding totally different opin-
ion to make it very warm for the 9TH
ers, and we would not be surprised to
hear at any moment that Baez had left
and that annexation had been killed BY
the Dominicans themselves"
Year: 1871

OLD WoMEN.-I think old women
i don't quite like the word "lady,"
because it does not mean anything now
a-days-are the most beautiful and
lovable things in the world. They arc
SO near heaven that they catch the glow


and brightness which r:diate from tho
pearly gate and illuminate their faces.
When the hair begins to silver, and
the embers in'the fire grow cold. and
the sun has got so far around in life's
horizon that the present makes nd
shadow, while the past stretches down
the hillside to little mound of earth
where we will rest for season-a little
mound not big enough 10 hold our
corner lots, and marble fronts. and
safes, which we shall have to leave ON
the other side of the hill, hut big
enough, trust, TO hold our memories
and tancies, our air castles and secrets:
and when the journey is nearly done,
and the right is setting in, and the
darkness begins to gather around us
without any stars, and the birds sing
low in the trees, and the flowers wither
and die, and the music we hear comes



from afar. strangely sweet, like sounds
coming over the water, and like little
children we live within ourselves, and
the worA!gradually recedes from us
het should like to be as an old wo.
man, full of blessed memories and
peaceful anticipations.
Year: 1871

MARRIED LlFE.-Good counsel
from a wife and mother: II Try to
make myself and all around me agree
able. 1t will not do to leave a man to
himself till he comes to you, 10 take
no pains to attract him, or to appear
before him with long face. 1t is not
50 difficult as you think, dear child, to
behave to n husband 50 that he shall
remain forever in some measure Il hus-
band | am an old woman; but you
can still do what YOU iike, a word from
you at the time vii! rot fail of its
effect; what heel have YOU TO plqy the
suffering virtue.


The tear cfa loving eih,@ says an
old book, "is like a dowdrop on rose
but that on the check of wife is
drop Of poison to her husband" Try
to appear cheeriG and contentcd, and
your hasbaAd will be so, and when
you have made him haopy, you will
become so, not in appearance, but in
reality The skill rcqgired is not so
great. Nothing'hatter, man so much
as the happiness of his wife; he is
always proud Of himself as source of it.
As soon as you are cheerful you will
be livoly ard alert, and every moment
will afford you an opportunity to let
fall an agreeable word
Year: 1871

A little girl when her fathers table
was honored with an esteemed guest
began talking very earnestly at the first
muse in the conversation. Her father
checked her very sharply saying, "Why
is it that You always talk SO much


"Tausc I've dot somcsiu to say, waa the
Year: 1871

AN Important feature OF the day is the great
closing sale of Dry Goods at LEVY BRoTHsRs,
Their store has been crowded this week notwtth-


standing 1t is the dull season Of the year, which
proves that everybody appreciates purchasing
goods a. low prices.
1he sale which Is now going on at LEVY BROS


Is no new feature IN their business, as they have


nad just such sales every since tho close Of
the war.


1t is the object OF the proprietors to close out
| their stock at The expiration Of each season In


ORDER to be able to show new stock each succeed
ing one. TO make such n sale successful prices


must necessarily be fixed low, or else these sales


would not accomplish the object they are intended


TO. 80 far we pronounce the closing sale OF LEVY
| BROTHERS success, and recommend all In want
| OF dry goods to call on them and make their pur.


chascs, thereby saving at least one-fourth Of the
| value OF the goods which they buy-no doubt
about It..
Year: 1871

SAN DoaINGo-FRED. DOUGLAS ON AN
EExATIoN.-[From Fred. Douglass's New
National Era. I'VE fail to see any serious
objection to the measure on the ground
that the tropics especially belong to the
colored race, since their political union
with the United States will not necessarily
prevent the dark-colored races already
there remaining there, or prevent other
men of the same color from going there.
The probability is that large emigration
will set off to San Domingo from all the
southern States just SO soon as that country
shall be made part of our own; and hence
the tropics will guin rather than lose part
of its appropriate population. Keeping San
Domingo out OF our Union depriyes her not
only of the advantages of our religious and
educational institutions, but keeps from
her her fertile soil thousands who would
gladly flock thither if assured Of the pro-
lection and stability of American law and
government. ~
Year: 1871

In the city which he had the honor to
represent (Petersbrg) the class who had
suffered this punishment were mostly boys.
He preferred some sort of reformatory
school for the punishment of persons who
were thus guilty. He could not agree with
other senators, who said it would be q
measure of economy. To his mind it would
be the contrary. In conclusion, he
thought this was the only relic of barba-
rism that remained in Virginia, and he
hoped that both Houses Of the General As
sembly would unite with him in doing away
with this brutal relic Of the days Of
slavery.
Year: 1871

that he hailed from section of the State


whose people claimed to be the equal in


refinement of any in the world, and whose
Judge was as good and pious citizen as


ever wore the ermine, and who, be be-
lieyed, was the first to put this system into
operation since the close OF the war. He
had seen that the Senator classed as barba-
~;
Year: 1871

he wished our statute books were Ike
those reported of the Old North State in
other times, where there were but two pun
shments-whipping and hanging the
whipping for the minor offences, and the
minded of circumstance which had oc-
Cured in his own county. A colored boy
had been arraigned, tried, found guilty, and
sentenced to be whipped and imprisoned:
The prisoner arose in his seat and asked
that few more stripes be ordered and his
term of Imprisonment shortened. He hoped
it would be the pleasure of the Senate to
let the law remain as it now stands.
Year: 1871

so far as ne knew, the coored people were
the ones to suffer most in this matter. 1t
would serve, if it was continued, to drive
away the great laboring class of our people
from the State. 1t was not those who re-
manned in the cities that it would effect,
but those who were tilling the ground-in
word, the working class of the people.
Year: 1871

Dir. Patterson said that this law was re-
vised in 'G5 or $50, and was made for the
white man and not for the black. He would
like to know from the Senator's on the other


side which was the most degrading, to be
whipped and turned loose at once, or to be


confined in Jail for period of almost inde-
finite length Whipping is terror to evil.
doers. Revive it everywhere and we will


soon be rid of this class Of petty offenders.


1t is to protect the honest man, and for the


white man 1t was made. As for his county
(Patrick), but one man bad there been
whipped under the existing law, and he


was white man. Even in the schools the
white boy suffered alike with the black.
Year: 1871

THE Masonic Brotherhood are max.
ing the most stupendeous preparations for
grand time in this city next Saturday
Neither time. money. or labor is being
spared. Fifteen different lodges are invited
to come, and it is expected that at least a
score ofmembers will come from each, which,
added to the lodge OF this city, will make a
company of about 400 of the ancient
Order. The procession will form at the
corner of High and Chestnut streets, and
parade through our principal streets in full
regalia, accompanied by band of music
The dinner, ,oration and other exercises will
all be had in the Grove on the Fair Grounds
The procession will be sight worth travel
Ing ten miles to see.
Year: 1871

A BIG DAY.-Besides the great
Masonic celebration next Saturday, Miner
al Point viii have the honor OF visit from
the Episcopal Sabbath School OF Platte vile,
and the NJ. f. Sabbath School of Darling.
ton, as we learn they are coming here on
AL excursion.
Year: 1871

"LET IT nE REMEMBERED' that the "Ad-
vance" Reaper and Mower is offered to he
placed in the hands of any responsible
farmer, on trial with any othen machine
made, throughout the entire Harvest and
Ilaying season; the only condition being
that the farmer shall purchase at the end
of the season the machine that suits him
best
Year: 1871

THE rust being washed Off the wheat,
removing the last doubt of an abundant
harvest, Peter Noble d CO., will sell any
article of farm machinery on good, easy
terms, so that the crop can be saved
right, and in good time
Year: 1871

To THE CITIZENS or MINERAL PcINT.
The subscribers have taken upon them
selves the duty and labor of collecting a
sum of money sufficient to insure regular,
old-fashioned celebration IN this city on the
4th of July lS7l. la this undertaking we
have been only partially successful, having
raised about $500 by subscription. You
all know the thing cannot be a success with
less than $500 to,expend for music, expenses
es of procession, orator and big display
of fire works in the evening. If YOU are
patriotic anG public spirited enough TO add
the amount necessary, the celebration will
be a success. Otherwise il will be failure.
The amount paid is in w. T. Henry's Bank
and the amount to be raised will be expend-
ed by committee whose aim will be to
give everybody satisfaction. The time
for preparation is short but much can be
accomplished, when everyone lends willing
and helping hand.
Year: 1871

Mineral Point June eist, ISL.


The above card was handed us Yesterday
afternoon, after the article on Linden Gel
ebration was in type. 1t would seem that
the sum necessary to secure celebration
ought to be raised, and no doubt it will be.
The latcness of the movement need not
prevent good celebration. If we mistake
not the parties who were Instrumental in
securing the celebration last year. feel in.
different because they found so many then
who (though they were financially largely
benefitted) refused to subscribe. For the
celebration this year, we understand that
some of the delinquents of last year are
most anxious They appreciate that if no
celebration is had they will lose an oppor-
tunity of making twenty Five, fifty or a
hundred dollars. We do not 90 much on
the patriotism of men who want celebra.
tion only because "there is money in it,
Ed. TRIBUNE.
Year: 1871

A CURIOUS CUsToN.-It was the
custom in Baby on, five hundred years
before the Christian era, to have an
annual auction Of the unmarried ladies.
ln every year, on certain day, each
district assmbled all its virgins Of mar
riageablc age. The most beautiful we're
put up first, and the man who paid the
highest gained possession of her. The
second in personal charms followed her.
and SO on, so that the bidders might
eratify themselves with handsome wives
according to the length of their purses.
There may yet remain in Babylon somo
for whom no money was offered, but tho
provldent BabyloaiaIs managed that.
When all the comely ones are sold, the
crier orders the most delormed one to
stand up, and after demanding who
viii marry her for d small sum, she is
adJudged to him who is satisfied with
the least and iu this manner the money
raised from the sale Of the handsome
serves as a portion to those who are
either disagreeable in looks, or that
have any ottAr imperfection.
Year: 1871

Fill the Easter font with care,
Heap the roses rich and rare,
Round the stately calla set
Hcliotrope and mignionette;
From their fragrance comes voice
Bidding christian hearts rejoice;
Whispering thro' their lips of bloom
Christ is risen from the tomb.
Angels with their heavenly tone
Mid the sepulchre Of stone,
Watching in that fearful shade
Where the crucified was laid,
Saw the mourning few who came
Ere the mornings earliest fame;
Met them with the words of cheer
"lIe is risen--He is not here"
Blessed Saviour! Glorious Kingi
Deign to take the praise we bring;
And when meath the turf we rest,
With the wild foYers Ger our breast,
May it Of our souls be said,
They are risen from the dead,
And their Easter Hymn shall be
An undying melody.
Year: 1871

but he was as generous to Others as he was
unmindful Of the comforts Of his own family.
Who can blame Xanthippe for giving her
husband piece Of her mind only gill
that, thanks be to his shiltlessness, slIe had it
in her power to make any one. Imagine q
woman not only poor but proud, trying TO
Keep up appearances, surrounded by from six
or eight young Socrates and three or four
little Xanlhippos, and lacking not only the
luxuries but tho necessities Of life. Socrates
would be of feasting with wealthy friends,
while there was not stick Of wood or a
handful of wheat ia his house, considering
all these things, she had good reason for max.
ing the philosophers house too hot to hold
him, that being the only way in which its cold
atmosphere could be warmed. A woman may
marry man for his talents and his fame but
when she finds that his talents are fruitless,
and that instead Of being source Of gain to
him they have led him to poverty, she may
be excused for concluding that she has made
a fool of hersclf-a conclusion that never yet
sweetened human temper, but which has sour
ed many temper which nature had made
sweet Her lot is one of the saddrst in histo-
ry-to be miserable in life, and because thus
miserable to DC llbelled in death.
Year: 1871

A good instance of "sharp practice" is
that OF man in this State, who was ae-
Quilted Of murder on a plea Of insanity.
lie had secured his lawyers by giving
them mortgage on his farm, but now
he rcpudiates the mortgage on the
ground that he was insane when ne
made it, according to the showing OF
these same lawyers.
Year: 1871

Poor Tweed He cannot run away.
Mast has made the bury figure and
sanity countenance of the Boss so ia
miliar 10 the whole world that there is
no place where he can hide or pass incOg.
Garvey, the prince of plasterers, has
plastered himself up in some secret wall.
Woodward, the thief whom the Demo
cratic journals of Connecticut have de-
lighted TO honor, and who has command
ed the applause of the listening Senate
of the State, has become invisible and
intangible but Tweed cannot tuck
away his towering hulk. He must come
down with his two millions OF bail or &c
to Jail. Fame is an inconvenient time
for scoundFels, QQurahb
Year: 1871

An ADVENTURE IN A PRINTING Or
FIcE.-The Lyons Republican tell this
story of an incident which came under
his personal observation: We like to see
man make himself entirely at home ;
and we were never more thoroughly graf
flied in this respect than on Saturday,
when good natured stout-limbed Teu-
tonic friend, who had given us sturdy
lit upon heavy bit of machinery, sat
down upon the ink-fountain of our news
paper press. Welike to see man take
comfort" too, and We didn't disturb him.
And when he got up, with about two
pounds of printers ink on the broadest
part Of his pantaloons, and the impress
sions of about a dozen set-screws, we
didn't say word about ink being twenty
five cents a pound-though perhaps it
was our duty, considering that We have a
family, and that -four is eight dollars a
barrel. 'The boys" who are only a lit
tie less polite than we are ourselves, were
equally considerable and though we saw
"April fool in their eyes, they didn't
say an aggravated word, bet fell to with
will and scraped him off with shoe
knives and shingles.
Year: 1871

How TO Cook A FowL.-A Pail Mall
Gazette writer on middle Class Cook
cry extracts the following from very
able treatise on the subject -


Cut up a fowl into pieces the leg and
thigh into two pieces, each wing into
two pieces, the back into three, the breast
into two, which, with the merrythought,
will form in all fourteen pieces. Take
a Spanish onion, cut it up small, put it
into stewpan with two ounces of butter
and little cayanne and salt. Let it
stew gently for about an hour until it
is complete pulp. Haitian houi before
you want it, put in the fourteen pieces
of chicken. let them stew for half an
hour. and, when done, put into your sil-
yer dish teaspoonfnl of Spanish or
French garlic vinegar; ifthat is not
liked, the squeeze of half lemon, and
you will never again want 10 taste insipid
boiled fowl. Mind it requires no water;
the fowl will be done IN it, own gravy.
Year: 1871

Some farmers OF our acquaintance,
feel an antipathy to sheep, for the
reason that they "hite close" We con-
slider this their chief recommendation
They can only bite close when the
pasture is short, and the pasture is
short only on poor farm. A poor
farm will necessarily be encumbered
with brers, weeds and brush in the
fence corners. Under such conditions,
we would gay TO farmer who has so
or upwards in cash (or credit for it, and
then let him borrow the amount il he
has TO pay one per cent a month for
the Use OF lt, invest it in as many ewes,
not Older than three years, as YOU can
get for that money. Put them this
summer ia such a field as we have de-
scrbed and give them, in addition to
what they can pick up, pint OF wheat
T. IN and oat meal daily, with free ac,
Cess to water and salt They will first
go for the briers and clean them out
every portion of tha. field will he trod-
den over and over again, and the weeds
will have no chance Fold them on
that field during the winter, and carry to
them Iced sufficient to keep them
thriving. Get the use OF a good buck
in season-SouthD Down would be
prcfcrabe-and in the spring, il you
hare luck Chat means if You give them
proper attention ard feed regularity,
YOU will raise more lambs than you
have ewes. The money will be more
than doubled, and the wool and manure
will pay for their feed and interest.
Ia the spring you may put that field in
corn, with the certainty OF getting fifty
per cent increase Of crOp.--.UaiHc
Elr,r,r
Year: 1871

Put frying pan over the stove till it
becomes quito hot. Have your steak
well pounded or mangled-a sirloin
steak is very good for this purpose lay
it on the not, dry pan, and cover it in
stantly, as tightly as possible. When
the meat touches the heated pan it will
seethe and adhere to it, but in few sec
onds it will become loosened and juicy
turn the steak every half minute, but be
careful to do itas quickly as possible, so
that it may not be long uncovered
When nearly done sprinkle on pepper
and salt, lay a small piece of butter on
the steak, and add tablespoonful OF
strong coffee This makes a delicious
broiled steak. Or, if you wish much
gravy, Shire little flour over the steak
when Just done, and pour in three OF
four tablespoonfuls of cream, let It Just
boil up, under cover, and when the meat
is done, take the pan from the fire, re-
move the meat, stir in quickly the well
beaten yelk of an egg, and serve hot
If cream is used, omit the coffee. Nut
ton or ham may be cooked in the same
way, only they should be over the fire
longer than beef.
Year: 1871

No trait of character is more valuable
in woman than the possession of
sweet temper. Home can never be
made happy without it. 1t is like the
flowers that spring up in our pathway re-
viving and cheering US. Let man GO
home at night wearied by the tolls of the
day, and how soothing is word dictated
by good disposition. 1t is sunshine
falling on his heart. He is happy, and


the cares are forgotten. A sweet tenn
per has a soothing influence over the
minds of whole family. Where it is
found in the wife and mother you observe
kindness and love predominating over
the natural feeling of hard heart
Smiles, kind words and looks, character
ize the children, and peace and love have
their dwelling there A sweet temper is
more valuable than gold; it captivates
more than beauty, and to the close of
life it retains all its freshness and power