smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1871

We commend to the consideration of our


readers the suhjoined article from the More


house Conservative:


We have long been thoroughly convinced


that the quickest and most direct way to


build up our country is for large land hold
ers to be willing to divide their possessions


into small tracts and sell to good class Of


immigrants. If it was known that immi-


grants could buy lands in lots to suit. say
from forty to eighty aud one hundred and
twenty acres, we believe the parish would
soon be filed up, and that with the best
class of people.


A gentleman from Alabama visited More
house. not long since, looking for a home
He had been farming since the war on an
extensive scale. He wished to change his
plans. He no longer desired to risk capital
and labor ON large fields. He wished o
small place-Only eighty acres-and finally,
after considerable effort, by buying for his
brother in conjunction with himself, he
found place Of one hundred aud sixty
acres.


Now we have good many places for sale
several that are not advertised-but the
good thing. Men have lost too much since
the war in large farms to be willing to risk
the matter any longer. And besides, they
lack the means to buy even il they desired
it. A gentleman, long q resident Of More
house has in part been depending on our
agency for place for the past several
months. He wishes only about two hun
dred acres. Would even buy less. He
wants good land. And yet, not until this
last week did we know Of single land
owner desiring to sell who was willing to
divide their possessions. The owner Of one
Of the places advertised, Mr.. Handy. intu-
enced in part by short paragraph in the
Conservative. called on US last week and
the sale of his land in lots to
suit. He will sell one, two and three
hundred acres. Are there others who
are willing to do the same thing


We have no longer any use for immense
What We want now are small
farms and plenty Of them. There is TOO
much risk in these huge places. The labor
is too scarce and unreliable. Taxes are too
high, and the one man has too much 10 ad-
vance TO the many to make planting on
large scale in the least a pleasure.


Now we call on each large landho.Ger in
Morehouse to think Of this matter. The
immense tide of immigration that will pour
into this country on the completion of a
railroad must have homes. As a general
thing. small places will be in demand: and
we wish our large landholders 20 be ready
and willing to give them homes. If a man
should desire only twenty acres. sell him
the twenty acres if he wishes forty, let
him have it. Every good man we get into
the parish, though he may lie a poor man.
adds just that much to the value Of our
and our homes.
Year: 1871

We refer our readers to the advertise
ment Of the Industrial School Of Our Lady
of Holy Cross" under the patronage of the
most Reverend Archbishop of New Orleans,
which is now opened for the reception Of
boys desirous of learning trades, and at the
same time Of receiving instruction CORE
spending with the position which they are
TO occupy in the world. Two classes Of
boys, entirely distinct, are admitted into the
school. the advertisement names the con-
ditions OF admission tor each class. Address
the Reverend Superior Of the Industrial
School Of Our Lady of Holy Cross, Third
District, near the Ursuline Convent. New
Or1ocps
Year: 1871

WEDNESDAY. Oct. l8-P. w.


There has scarcely been a more active day
in stocks since the telegraph first flashed the news
that Chicago burning. The considerations anecuhG
the market to-day less the situation with relation
TO the Chicago banks than the position TO be taken by
the Treasury in regard to the bond and gold policy
the day there flying rumors that bonds
would be exchanged direct for gold at the sale tomor-
row. thus mitigating the position to the extent OF the
currency required in payment OF the gold The reports
however, up the close had assumed no dennlte FORM
The stock market started of steady but speedily devel
oped feversh one and prices declined but later, under
the leadership OF Western Union Telegraph (whch
seemed to have predominant In the street to-day
becamr firm and prices advanced II became Oruited
about that the Treasury wOuld buy additional bonds to-
day The rally was brief and quickly sbsded; but the
street once more became active and strong with sharp
rise after the fact ransprcd that four millions Of bonds
had been taken. As this construed an indication
that the Secretary would shape his policy TO give ease to
money the shorts became frightened and attempted
process OF covering. The market however. again drop
ped and in some the list the lowest prices OF the season
were touched evidence that there have been con
siderable purchases at late low prices, operators to-day
were taking advantage OF the market to wash down
many stocks, this being noticeable In Lake Shore and
Pacifc Mail. Npw-Y0rk Central. Lake Shore, Ohio and
Mississippi. North West, Rock Island and Pacific Mail,
after Western Union, attracted most attention, and III
the afternoon dealings led the upward turn The follow
ing table shows the highest and lowest prices of active
stocks made today
Year: 1871

WASHINGTON, Oct. 1.-THE following is the
official report from the Agricultural Bureau:


The cotton returns for October are favorable
than those Of the preceding months In NO State is the
average Of September fully sustained The general
mouth per cent against 50 per cent In September
prospects are reported while the prepoDderance Of
tmony in the Southwest, well as on the Atlantic
coast favors further reduction Of the expected yield
The percentage condition in the several States is
Year: 1871

combination Of qualities goes to make up
that seourge of civilization A total lack of
humor, we should say, and of that sympa-
thctic power which enables person to see,
as if by instinct, whether he or his convcrsa-
tion be agreeable TO the listener. joined,
sometimes. to intense egotism though this
last Is not a necessary ingredient sin the
bore's character. except so far as it is con-
nected with want of sympathy. The essence
Of the bore is the absence of the sympathetic
power. This. by no means implies the alb
sence Of sympatbizing power. The two are
quite distinct. A person may bore one to
death with sympathy, by offering it at the
wrong time. A bore has no tact, This is
Year: 1871

The Lacrosse Leader is responsible for the
following Not long since, while some of
the river boats were taking in some live stock,
among the lot was one gray mule, that re-
fused to walk the staging. The mate shout
ed out to a roustabout. Twist his tail and
he il come a coroner's jury has Just rem
dered verdict that the man came to his
death by obeying orders,
Year: 1871

The old style of presenting each guest at
a wedding with box, containing liberal
slice Of wedding cake to take home and
dream on. has again come in fashion and is
much more sensible and agreeable to all par
ties than having very elaborate cake in the
centre Of the table for every one to look at
and be aggravated by the smell ol it.
Year: 1871

One Of the most prolific sources Of amusement
here, to those persons who are thrown on their
own resources for entertainment, is studying the
H0tel Register, sni fitting the names to different
people. Il is very rarely that 4 mistake can be
made in this new solitary game Of guessing.
The name Of the city opposite the name Ct the
person giyes the solution st once. The represent
auyes Of these places are as entirely distinctive
ss the places themselves They carry their in
diviiualites 10 their faces, their manners, their
dress snl their conversation. The bride from
New ork would never be mistaken for her Of
New Englsal, and she Of the West has scarcely
q trait in common with her Of the South
Year: 1871

believe the time is coming when the churches
will be compelled to take up the question-no;
in the way they DO now. of wholesale denuneia-
tion-but to have theatres Of their own, to
which they can go with their families and feel
sure that they viii not be insutsi in their most
sacred human instincts and moral principals.
but will find the best genius Of the profession
81 their command in the best and truest forms
think such sight as that We saw in our lee
ture room, few days ago, when our own young
people carried themselves so oapitsliy through
two pieces and len us all so well paid for our
evening. is TO be the beginning Of most whole
some and hopeful enterprise, that Will spread
until there will be few great churches found
without some such power at their command -
Rer RoiCri C0Iycr.
Year: 1871

This gentleman proposes toy visit California, soon after the adjournment of Congress. Should he do so, we hope he will extend his visit 10 Arizona. We would like to point out to him the effects of his Quaker Indian policy,--the numerous graves and mounds which mark those spots where men have fal- len by the hand of the savage. They are scattered profusely alongside every road and trail in tbc Territory, and the sight of them might set Ulysses Co thinking that he was in some way, responsible for the murder of his countrymen, and bring to his mind, the utter emptiness of his famous declaration, Let us have peace"
Year: 1871

The murderer of the Viceroy Ma was executed few weeks ago at Nankin by being "cut into 10000 pieces," which means cut to pieces gradually until he died. He bore the punishment as stoically as he had supported the hor- rible tortures to which he had been sub- jected in the course of the judicial investi- gation. He first declaredthat he murder ed the Viceroy because he believed him to be in reasonable communication with the Mohamedan rebels in Kansrh. Af- terwards he told tale very similar to This was extracted from him by keeping according to The Pekin Gazette, this dis cipline was kept up afterward for 20 days, until he was too weak to eat, and apparently at the point of death, noth- ing else could be got out of him. "As it would never have done," says the official accounts, to allow him to die from exhaustion, thus cheating justice of her rights, it was thought necessary to hurry on, so that he mi ght live long enough to be suitably executed" What the suitable mode of execution was ] have related. The value of confession extracted by torture is not very great and Chinese official statements are al ways untrustworthy. For what it is worth, however, I may say that the as sassin declared his enmity against Ma to have been caused by his rejection O petition for justice against lna1 who had carried off his wife and som, money He had got his wife back, bu not the money; and when he appealed to Ma for help the latter refused to en tertain h1s request. Some piratica friends, whom Ma had disturbed in thei avocations, worked upon this irritation and impelled him to avenge their an, his own wrongs at once.
Year: 1871

It took the faculty about thousand years discover that the best to disease render the patient too weak to contend with it. Within the last twenty years, however the whole system of medical practice has been changed for the better diseases complaints caused by heat instance the doctors longer the reduction of the inva- lids strength by prostrating medicines. The vast which has attended the Hostetters Stomach Btters remedy for debility has given even the most prejudced memb of the old school insight the only true and rational theory of cure Cantharides caomel. and overpowering doses of opium, are now among the obsolete nostrums of another age. The lancet, much the legitimate weapon of the phy- scan the sword is of the soldier is seldom drawn from its The principle of life is longer drained from veins by the quart and wategue for the strength less invalid has ceased to be considered appropriate

 diet Vigor is the motto of the rational members the profession and they understand at last the value of sterling vegetable tonic. So also, with the people large and without consulting medical all they have adopted the bters household remedy thereby economsing both cash and health.

 Note the fact that Hostetters Stomach Btters solo in bottles only, in bulk, and that the abortion sprnging up in various parts of the country and times ered substitutes for the great national specific all utterly worthless.
Year: 1871

The great want in our streams and rivers is fishways, or means whereby fish 1n search of their spawning may ascend from the bed of the stream below dam to the bed of the stream above. As the manufacturing interests of the country have compelled the utilization of water-power in its fullest extent, near ly every stream suited for the purpose is damned to produce it and the fish that are spawned above, when once they go below have no means of returning when they may be matured, unless fishways are built for them. The energy with which the commissioners are prosecuting the erection of these is good omen for the future plentiful supply of fish. Fish ways are not very expensive, except over high dams upon large streams. They are made of plank, and usually start from one end of the dam. A small gap, say four to twelve feet wide, and from one to two feet deep, according to the size of the stream is made in the dam, so that the waste water that otherwise would flow oyer itshan pass through this gap and enter the fshway, which is a trough or chute descending, about one foot in ten. In this trough are bars extending about half way across, and slightly in clined up stream, to afford resting places for the fish as they go up the fshway. It is important that the foot of the fish, way be in deep basin. If the only ba- sin below the dam is too near it to be reached by a fshway, one may be made to run down part of the distance, and then be turned so as to reach the basin, similar to the turn often made with g flight of stairs. -.-.. ...=.
Year: 1871

On the occasion of the sentence of the

 two convicted Indian chiefs for murder at

 Jacksboro, Texas, @ few days ago, Satanta,

 one of the prisoners, in reply to the

 charge of murder and sentence of death,

 spoke through an interpreter as follows :

 Why should I lie, since l have been

 under the white mans control ever since was young man ? I started off with party of my people for Texas, and stopped with sick man on Peos River. I have been abused by my people for being too friendly with the white man. I have always been an advocate for peace.

 I have always wished this to be white because of the Kiowas and General Sher- man. am. to suffer for what others did. This is the first time I have ever been so near to Texas They know me not,

 neither do I know him. If you let me live, I feel my ability to control my peo- pie. If I die, it will be like match put it. If I could see General Grierson or that if I get out of this will make peace. What mischief has been done has been done by the Ionorie Kiowas. It is the | uISU ulSCu1cl l nave OFSI USSu Ill., have better knowledge of the Texan than have ever had. If ever get out your people can go on with theirifarning g and stock raising-all will go well. When General Custer and General Sher

 man had me arrested the indignity of shackles was never put upon me. I have now seen these Texas people in this house for the last few days-woman and children and I said in my heart I an willing to make peace. Take off these shackles I cannot treat now. am as { woman. expect to hear of mischief done by my people, and I know they arc only waiting to hear of my death to take the warpath. Big Bow, Lone Wolf, Lost Bear, Eagle Heart, and Parah have beer depredating on Texas, and.,I feel more enmity against them than I do tht Texans. I will kill them with my owl hands if am permitted to go to my trib, again. >..' .r -

 After making the foregoing remarks and being informed, through the inter preter, that the decree of the Court stood unaltered, and being informed that the, would be hung on the first Friday O September next, they both arose and ex pressed wish to be executed immedi . ately that they were tired of confne ;: ment and were not afraid to die. .-..
Year: 1871

A PRoBLEM.-Any number of figures you may wish to multiply by will give the same result if divided by ga much quicker operation; but you must remem- Der to annex a cipher to the answer when there is no remainder, and when there is remainder, what ever it may be, annex to the answer. Multiply 464 by 5, and the answer will be 2,32O; divide the same by 2, and you have 232, and as there is no remainder you add cipher. Now take 359-multiply by 5, the answer is 1,795; on dividing this by 2 there is 179 and remainder you therefore place at the end of the line, and the result is again, 1,795.
Year: 1871

A HAPPY COUPLE. few days ago a young gentleman and lady from the rural districts visited Somerset, Pa., to get married. The young couple entered of one horse. They dismounted, had their horse fed, partook of sumptuous repast consisting of crackers, were then united in the holy bonds of matrimony by justice of the peace, when they again mounted their steed and wended their way to their mountain home amid the cheers of the populace.
Year: 1871

FEELING AND AcT1oN.-It is not enough that we wish we'll to others. Our feelings should clothe themselves with corresponding actions. The spring which has no outlet becomes stagnant pool; while that which pours itself off in the running stream is pure and living, and is the cause of life and beauty where ever it foWs
Year: 1871

A Turkish breakfast comprises about thirty dishes. Soon after the first dish comes lamb, roasted on the spit, which must never be wanting at any Turkish banquet. Then follow dishes of solid and liquid, sour and sweet, in the order of which a certain kind of recurring change is observed, to keep the appetite alive. The pilau of boiled rice is always the concluding dish. The Texternals to such feast as this are these "A great round plate of metal, with a plain edge, of three feetsin diameter is placed on low frame, and serves as table, about which five or six people can repose on rugs. The left hand must remain invisible it would be improper to expose it while eating ygEhe right. hand is alone permit ted to be active There are no plates. or knives or forks. The table is decked with dishes, deep and shallow, covered and uncovered these are continually being changed, so that little can be eaten from each. Some remain longer-as roast meat, cold milks, and gherkins, are often recurred to. Before you an attendant or slave kneels, with metal basin in one hand: and piece of soap on little saucer in the other. Water is poured by him over the hands of the washer from metal jug over his arm hangs an elegantly em- broidered napkin for drying the hands upOn-
Year: 1871

GREAT harm and discomfort is caused by the use of purgatives which gripe and rack the system. PARsoN's PURaAT1vE PILLS are free from all impure matter, and are mild and health-giying in their
Year: 1871

ASoU1RRE1 HUNTER. There is a young man in Contra Costa County, California, who may be. regarded as the champion squirrel-killer of all creation. He is said to have killed no less than ten thousand in a single season. From this it may be inferred that the squirrel crop of the Golden State is one of the heaviest of the industrial resources of the Pacific slope. The young man in question gath CTS his crop not for the fun of the thing, nor because his family is habitually out of meat, but as a matter of business. He sells the skins of the squirrels for fifteen cents each to the agents of foreign kid glove manufacturers, and the county pays him a bounty of ten cents head for every squirrel killed.
Year: 1871

4 very disagreeable prophecy Is
quoted Inv the Journal de Bruxelles.
The prophecy is attributed to the
venerable Anna Maria Taigi, and is
20 the effect that two great chastise-
ments may be expected-the one
from Heaven, the other from Earth.
The latter which will consist in wars,
revolutions and other calamltles,
,eing terminated, that from Heaven
Will succeed, and is explained as fol
lows:


Great darkness is to prevail over
the whole land during three days
and three nights. 1t Will be so thick
that absolutely nothing will be Wis
ible. and will be accompanied by
pestilence which will chiefly fall on
the enemies of religion, although the
scourge will not be entirely confined
to them. While this darkness lasts,
no lights will shine, no fire will have
anv brightness. and only those who
have blessed things candles p will
be able to see.


All this is very horrible, and it is
to be hoped that the lady may be
mistaken in her predictions, and that
they may turn ont to be as erroneous
as that of the great tidal wave which
was the other day to have destroyed
New Orleans. The prophecies, how
ever, gives full directions as to the
proper course to be pursued during
this reign of darkness andpestilence.
People are exhOrted to not endeavor
to sean the heavens curiously during
the darkness. for whososver shall go
and look out of window, or leave
his house for the purpose of descry-
ing the armament, will be immedia
telv struck down. The whole time
that the judgment shalllast ought to
be employed in prayer, and above
all in reciting the Holy Rosary. The
director of Anna Maria Taigi said,
in August, 1864


1T is most true the venerable SER
want of God announced the scourSe
of three days darkness extending
over the whole earth. While it lasts
the windows must be kept closed" "
Year: 1871

"A correspondent Of the Scientific
American writes as follows: Il once had
occasion to examine the bottom of a mill.
pond. | constructed q float out of inch
plank, sufficient TO buoy me up; through
the centre of this float ! cut hole and
placed blanket over it, when was en-
abled to clearly discover objects on the
bottom. am satisfied that, where wa
ter is sufficiently clear, this plan can be
successfully used for searching for lost
bodies and articles would suggest
that this experiment be tried on the sea;
for am satisfied that, in ship like the
Great Eastern, where IN observatory
could be placed at the bottom, with suf-
iicient darkness, by the aid of glasses
we could gaze down into the depths of
the sea, just rs we now survey the star.
ry heavens at midnight"