smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1872

A RIVAL no TEA AND CoFFEE.--Tea
and coffee are threatened with "A Brazilian
rival called guarana. Guarana consists
of the seeds Of tree known to botanist
as the pautinds s0rbitis which is very
abundant. The tree produces fruit about
the size Of walnut, containing five or
six seeds. The seeds are roasted, mixed
with water and dried. Before being used
they require grinding, when they fall
into kind of powder. The active prin-
ciple is an alkaloid identical with that
found in tea or coffee, but there is twice
as much of it in guarana as there is in
tea. The effects are similar to those Of
tea and coffee.
Year: 1872

Now, as one-half of the above figures
represent wethers, and as it would not be
profitable to keep any Of lower grade
than seven-eights for wool, ! propose to
dispose Of all below that grade Tor nut
ton, average price three dollars per head,
to be sold when one year old. This
would give for first sales in the Spring of
1873, 1872 head, l also propose to shear
all, beginning with seven-eights and run
ming up, to be shorn when one year old,
average fleece four pounds, average price
per pound one dollar. This gives the
first wool in the year 1873 (06 lceces).
For convenience l will place in tabular
form:
Year: 1872

EF The following paragraph, from the Plea
yune of the 3d. is about the situation of affairs
in New Orleans, so far as heard from,-the mail
due Thursday evening having failed-as usual


''We are gratified to be able to announce that
the disturbance threatened yesterday did not
occur. After IL o'clock there were large gather
ings on Canal street, and for time the scene
was exciting. In pursuance of the published
address of Col Carter, deplorable collision
might have occurred but for the known readi-
ness of the commander of Federal troops, near
ut hand, to interpose for the prevention of a
collision of armed forces


1t is to be hoped that legislation will now go
on without more needless interruption, and that
the long promised measures of reform will take
the shape of definite enaetments.
Year: 1872

"a The following sad but true repre-
sentation of the state of affairs, brought
on by the systematic corruption of the
last few years, in our State government,
is taken from Judge Abell's recent charge
to the Grand Jury in New Orleans:


''The people have suffered themselves
to be literally robbed before their own
eyes, and the money plundered from
them devoted to RIGHTEOUSNESS, bribery
and corruption of every description. This
state of moral and political depravity
must be dispelled, or our people, both
white and colored, will be demoralized,
and great fertile State and a f1ourislling
city left in poverty and disgrace. With
an honest and wise administration of the
public revenues of the State of Louisiana
she would furnish happy homes to more
than million of prosperous and happy
people. If few plunderers are permit
ted to waste that part of the revenue in
debauch, bribery and corruption, that
should go to the aggrandizement and the
future good of the State, then she will he
but barren waste, her people degener-
ated, ignorant and oppressed.


"Gentlemen, the burthen of the people
has grown 10 Oe lHtolefaDit. corruption
has assumed the proportions of a deluge,
and will sweep all before it unless rolled
back. Taxes FIVE per cent, with fifty or
sixty millions of Indebtedness, crippled
resources, and reckless legislation, will
ruin the State and enslave the people.
Every honest citizen, white and colored,
rich and poor, should stand as firm as a
rock against it, with unwavering de-
mands, for an honest discharge of Off
cial duties.
Year: 1872

IMPERIALISM. - The careful student
will find more genuine imperialism and
less of what goes to make up truly re-
State government of Louisiana than in
any other system or rule on the Ameri-
can continent. The Governor has so
insidiously gathered every power of the
people into his own hands that he is their
antocrat. He is not their servant but
their master. The distinguishing teat-
ure of q republic is that all power re-
sides with the people, whereas in an en-
pire it is exactly the reverse, and the
power is lodged exclusively in one man.
One is government by all; the other is
government by single individual In
Louisiana we have republican form of
government in name, but in reality it is
no such thing. 1t is strictly an antocracy.
The change was ingeniously y made. The
liberties Of the people were silently sto-
len under the pretext of securing them
by the simple passage of an election law.
1t cut the jugular vein of civil rights and
cleared the Governors way to supreme
power. It transferred to him every
power the people possessed when it gave
him control of the ballot box, which is
the peoples will. His caprice is our
law. What need he care for the Consti-
tuition when, with breath, he can make
and unmake the Courts which interpret
it Who shall blame him for laughing
at the laws, when he fabricatcs the Leg
islature that must repeat them at his
bidding! No checkmate can be placed
upon his arbitrary will, because he is
master of all the checks and all the bal
ances. The whole people, blacks and
whites, are opposed to him, but with all
their power in his hand and his grasp
upon their throats, their opposition is
impotent. In the most insignificant viii
lage the citizens cannot put down side
walk if he should choose to object, for
lie makes and unmaks their Town Coun-
Gil. If he sees fit to say no.. the Police
Jury of his creation dare not fill up
mud hole in the most obscure neighbor-
hood road We have no Republican
form of fgovernment, and it is insulting
to common sense to say that we have


National Republican.
Year: 1872

THE WEATHER. Last Wednesday morning
the weather turned suddenly cold and about 2
O'Clock in the evening it commenced to snow, at
a o'clock the ground was completely covered
with white mantle, the snow continuing to
fall and being succeeded duridg the night with
shower of sleet. Yesterday morning every
thing was frozen, and at the hour of going to
press it is commencing to thaw. We will have
more to say on this extraordinary weather at
another time.
Year: 1872

An act to authorize the appointment OF


shipping commissioners by the several


circuit courts of the United States, to


superintend the shipping and discharge


of seamen engaged in merchant ships be-


longing to the United States, and for the


further protection of seamen.


BE it enacted by the Senate and House OF
Representatives of the United States Of
America in Congress assembled, That
the several circuit courts Of the United
States, in which circuits there is a seaport
or seaports for which there is a collector of
customs, or in which there is a port of
entry, shall appoint commissioner f0rsuch
seaport within their respective circuits as in
their judgment may require the same, and
which shall also be ports of ocean naviga-
ton, such commissioners to be termed
shipping commissioners" and NAV, from
time to time, remove from office any of the
said commissioners whom it may lave
reason to believe does not properly perform
his duties; and shall provide for the proper
performance of such duties until another
person is daily appointed in his place; shall
regulate the mode of conducting business
IN II the shipping Offices to be established by
tne shipping commissioners as hereinafter
provided; and shall have full and complete
:I con0fol over the same, subject to the pro
visions herein contained.


oEc' = That every shipping commissioner
Year: 1872

An act in regard to the commencement OF


Increased pay to promoted officers IN the


navy.


Be it enacted by the Senate and House
of Representatives of the United States
of America in Congress assembled, That
fbe clause in section seven OF the act of July
fifteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy,
q making appropriations for the naval ser
vice for the year ending June thirtieth,
eighteen hundred and seVenty-one, and for
other purposes" which enacts that here
after the increased pay Of promoted officer
shall commence from the date he is to take
rank as given in his commission" be, and
the same is hereby repealed; provided, that
il such officer shall have been promoted in
course to fill vacancy, and shall have
been in the performance Of the duties OF
the higher grade from the date he is to take
rank, he may be allowed the increased pay
from that date.


Anprovnd Tuna s. 1872.
Year: 1872

The GRANTEES had scarcely gotten over
feeling good from the effects of their victory,
as they called it, in Vermont, when in steps
Maine with another triumph for them. Great
er than ever is their joy, and louder rings
their shouts of exultation. Because a dar


key does not turn white by little washing,
gives no reason for rejoicing. But the hope
of dying man is renewed at the least ndica-
ton in his favor, and he usually feels better
just before the final collapse. Notwithstanding
they still retain a majority in the above men
toned States, they know and feel that vast
numbers have left their ranks, and that
their comparative majority is growing small
er and beautifully less. In the recent cleo
tions these States polled the first full vote
since 1868; and when we consider that the
increase in population since then is trltling, il
really seems as though the late vote in Maine
was rather more than full. But let that be
as it may. In 1868, at the last Presidential
election, the State of Maine did not poll SC
many votes by nearly 20 1000, as it has done
at the late election. Then the Republican
majority was 28,059, and the most they
pretend to claim now is 10000, showing 4
falling off, notwi lhstanding the increase o.


the total vote, of over 10000. This almost


appears that, if after washing, they haC
wiped it clean of all the skum which may
have drifed in from Canada and the borders


the slight washing it has had would have
been sufficient to have changed its color Lei


Liberals and Democrats look at these returns


in their true light and rejoice at the gooc
prospects which the truth so clearly indicates
Year: 1872

LOUISVILLE FA1LURE-The great at
tempt and last hope of The Grant party to
originate movement that would divide the
opposition to their chief has proved decided
failure. The Louisville Convention has re-
eulted in a farce for want of candidates.
Many Of the friends of Greeley and Brown
have been quite uneasy for the last few
weeks for fear the actions of the Louisville
Convention was going to seriously weaken
their cause. We have had no fears. The
whole affair has turned out just about as we
anticipated it would. We have repeatedly
declared that O'Conor would not accept the
nomination for President or any other office
from source so unpromising in its results,
unless bribed to do so, and we entertain too
high an opinion of the man to ever think for
a moment that lie can be either bought or
.old. Democrats and Liberals, we say to
you, be at ease, the victory is yours. You
need have no fears of third candidate; the
fight stands and will stand between Greeley
and reform on one side and Grant and cor
rupton oh the other; seeing this it is no'
difficult to discern which way honest men
will cast their votes.
Year: 1872




FoUNp HIM-We stated few weeks
AGO that the man, over whom the
Grant papers had been making such pa
rade on account of his conversion to Grant
ism, could not be found. We also stated OF
left it be inferred that the name was fictitious
and that no such man existed. We were
wrong, and knowing it we willingly re'ract
A correspondent informs us of our error, stat
ing that he knows him, knows where he lives
and all about him, and gives his address anc
n description of his character as follows:


"Hc is a third rate lawyer or a number
one pettifogger; resides at Kane county, lll'
nois. He is the personihcation Of meanness
drunken blackguard, pocket edition O
Brick Pomeroy, a wretch with whom NJ
Democrat ever desired to associate ant
no Republican ever did, however low. Th
is the great accession the GRANTEES hay
had to their party"


They usually turn before getting quite e
mean as this fellow.
Year: 1872

How They TALK.-Some time ago the
Grant press said Greeley had no strength and
would not he able to carry single state
They say now that he had strong hold
some time ago, but he is now losing ground
They also say the South can't go for Greeley
because he opposed them so bitterly during
the war. The next day they say the North
can't support him because be sympath'zed
with the rebels. We believe, as an exchange
suggest, they would do better, since it is then
natural inclination TO vary from the strctes'
veracity, to select one of the above falsehoods
we don't care which, and stick to it.
Year: 1872

The sweetest the most clinging affection,
is often shaken by the slightest breath of
unkindness, az the delicate rings and ten
drills of the vine are agitated by the. faint
est air that blows in summer An nm
kind word from one beloved often draws
blood from many heart which would
defy the battle axe of hatred. or the keen
edge of sindictiye satire. Nay. the shade,
the gloom of the face familiar and dear.
awakens pain. These are the little thorn !;
which though men ofa rougher form may


make their way through them without
feeling, extremely incommode persons of a
more refined turn in their journey through
life, and make their travelling irksome
and unpleasant. 800 .su -
Year: 1872

/. speak it without exception, and
know what say to be true. all our men
are oyerworked and underpaid. There
is no class of men, in the world or in the
church, at this day, who require SO much
intelligence, attainments, and expense for
their education who are SO miserably
paid and so prodigiously overworked, as
those who are engaged in, education. in all
its departments from the highest to the
lowest. We, can never become a civilized
people, in the highest sense of the word,
until we are willing to pay for the brain
work that is engaged in the work of ed
ucation. anderson.
Year: 1872

A JURY was brought into court In
order that one Of their number might
be Instructed upon the following poiut
OF law: III | believe that the evil
dence was one way, aud the other
eleven believe different, does that
justify any other juryman In knocking
me down with a chair 2" The Judge
answered In general terms.
Year: 1872

SU.cIDE.-Lass Saturday Coroner Sehuler
was notified that Frenchman by the name
Of Hy1olte Beau, had committed suicide
at his cabin on Oluey Gulch about four
miles from town snd the above official ac-
cordirgly held an inquisition on the body
in due form Th. Fenchn,an was found
lying on his back with double barreed
shot gun grasped in his right hand. Both
barrels of the gun we're discharged. A
Gun shot wound appeared under his chin
and the charge mad ranged upward in the
face ard some of the slot had passed out
through his cheek. Another gun shot
wound appeared just above the. left eye,
the charge having entered there and passed
through the brain, blowing off the back
rart Of the skull. There was also cash
cut across bis throat, a deep stab in bis
right breast, and bloody butcher knife on
the ground near by 4 Ratchet covered
with blood also lay partly under his body.
The body was considerably decomposed and
much bloated aud the deed had evidently
been committed two or three days before
the inquest. A more desp rate determine
tion to Get cut of this world has seldom
been recorded.
Year: 1872

Academia terrible accident happen
cd to james Sinclair few days ago
While at work at Belle Mills his hands in
some way came in contact with the clrcu-
lar saw and were sawed off One of his
hands was cut off near the wrist and
half of the other one was taken of, leaving
only the thumb and fore finger.
Year: 1872

RAD RoAD-The wagon road between
Oak Run and Burney Valley is in ter
rible bad state, bat the exper diture of a
small sum of money would put it in good
order. The present condition of the road
is a subject worthy of the attention of our
Supervisors.
Year: 1872

THEATRE-The Wilton Troupe of The
atricals will perform at Harmonic Hall,
Shasta. on the evening of August 5th-
This troupe is one of the very best that
ever travelled the State and are received
with favor everywhere. Don't fail to go
and see them on the evening of the 5th.
Year: 1872

An Oshkosh girl who picks four quarts
of potato bugs before break fast, with one
fand tied behind her. in four different
languages, wants to make the acquaintance
of a congenial spirit, with a view of going
into the bug business.
Year: 1872

HoNoRs ARE EAsY.-A foolishly jealous
wife in St Paul, in order to test the fidelity of
her husband and the virtue of the hired girl,
one night changed beds with her, having reason,
as she thought, to believe the husband intended
unlawful acts on that particular evening. How
she proved his fidelity is thus told by the Press:


The wife consequently took the servant to
her own room for the night, and adroitly slipped
to the trysting. place of the servant, where she
had not long to wait in the darkness before the
guilty-lover stole cautiously upon the shrewd
woman, who, after she had been sufficiently
handled and caressed, thought it time to ex
pose her perfidious husband; and so, striking
q light, she said: All! ha! I've caught you
this time, old fellow when, horror to behold! !!
she discovered that she had been clasped in the
fond embraces of total stranger.


The jealous wife stood not long upon the
order of her going but left the scene of her
remarkable exploits in unravellng marital mys.
terry. with commendable velocity with a shrek,
dashing into her own room where she had made
the girl retire, nearly frightening her husband
to death, who had come home an hour before,
and, without asking any questions, went straight
to bed, hugged and kissed the hired girl, think
inn all the while she was his wife. The girl
obeyed to the letter the wifes order not to say
one word, and seemed to enjoy what was 60
ing on.


1t will thus be seen that it proved an even
thing all round, and it is safe to say that that
wife has not changed beds since, with that
servant girl.
Year: 1872

SOME ROYAL ARTIsANs.-The King of
Sweden is said to be an excellent blacksmith,
and to devote much time to the Improvement
of that branch of mechanics. The King of
Portugal excels as tanner of wood and ivory
The members of the royal house of Hohen-
zollern- possibly with view to some future
contingency-have all been trained up to some
useful art The present Crown Prince is said
to be an expert book-binder, and his wife an
accomplished miniature painter. The queen
of Holland is a poetess, but poetry is an in.
spiration and not an art, Louis Napoleon and
Queen Victoria have both essayed to write
books. The wife Of the Prince of Wales is
superb musician, and has but few equals
among amateurs as panist The Czarina of
Russia paints miniatures well. The Queen of
Belgium is a horse trainer and q fearless rider,
while the Queen of Denmark is great house
Keeper and one of the best cooks in her domin-
ions. 1t is also said some Of the junior male
members of the royal family of England are
proficient as practical composers, while the
Prince Imperial OF France is first-clasas ~
pographer. . st
Year: 1872

a DRUNKEN STRIKE.-A man in Virginia
City, Nevada. recently made SIS, 800 by getting
drunk. He had 300 shares of stock in the
Savage mine, and as the stock was going down,
having already got as low as 500 per share, he
started out to dispose of his stock to the best
advantage, before it should go still lower Feel
ing considerably discouraged, he concluded to
take drink and after that he kept on imbib-
ing until he became blind drunk and was car
ried off to bed. After sleeping until late the
next day, he awoke, and knowing that he had
not sold his stock, he started out for the Ex-
change, expecting to find himself ruined man
financially, but he was thoroughly astonished
on looking at the bulletin board to find that
Savage had gone up to Sl65 per share since
the day before The "rch strike" was made
in the mine while he was in bed drunk He
sold his shares at all advance of 81, 800 over
what he would have received the previous day,
and in few days after, Savage advanced to
upwards of $500.
Year: 1872

QUITE 4 BATCH.-Jersey City appears to
have been under the rule of as grand set of
rogues as has Chicago and New York The
Grand jury of the former place recently
brought in fifty-one additional indictments
against officers of the city government for
frauds of various kinds.
Year: 1872

For STATE PRiNTER.-T. l.. Ham, foreman
in the Eureka Sentinel Office announces him.
self candidate before the Democratic State
Convention of Nevada, for the office of State
Printer.
Year: 1872

Amongst popular fallacies, a prominent
place must be given to tho75 which arise
from the actual deception of the senses;
for neither our ey esight nor our sense of
touch is to be absolutely depended upon.
Thus, the beautiful phenomenon known as
'the sun drawing water" is caused simply
by the rays of the sun piercing rift in the
clouds, and rendered more intense by the
prevailing gloom. Few people would be-
lieve that actual measurement of the sun
and moon, when near the horizon at ris-
ing or setting, would fall to show that
they are then much larger than at other
times and yet, allowing for the differ
ence caused by retraction, and which is
too slight to be measured by any but the
finest instruments, actual measurement
does show that not only their real, but
their apparent, sizes are precisely the
same at all times.


Another fallacy which is very prevalent
is that every drop Of water contains mil.
lions of animalcules, and that every peb-
bic, indeed, every fragment of solid mat
ter on the face of the globe, is peopled
with myriads of these small creatures.
For this belief there is, however, no foun-
dation whatever. So far as animalcules
are concerned, most pebbles and frag-
ments of rocks are barren deserts, espe-
cially when dry; and good spring-water
is, so far as animal life is concerned, a
liquid waste. A few stray animalcules
may occasionally be found in the water
that we drink but if it is "filled" with
animalcules, it is certainly not fit for hu-
man use, either as drink or in the prepar-
alton of food.


But while most of the fallacies which
we have mentioned are due to simple
ignorance, there is another class which is
based upon sort of quasi-scientific in
formation, and which are far more
dangerous. A good example of these is
the opinion generally held by half-taught
chemists, that it is to the silicious coating
of the grasses and cereals that these
plants owe their power of standing up
right-in other words, that it is to this
that they owe their stiffness. This opin-
ion has been so firmly held by many,
that they have advised the addition of
silica to land for the purpose of giving
stiffness to the straw, and thus preventing
the lodging of the grain. Now, when
we learn that almost all soil consists of
at least one-half silica, we shall see the
absurdity of such advice. The truth is,
that the stiffness of straw is not due to
the silica at all; for chemists have dis
solved the silica by means of hydro
huoric acid, and removed it completely
from the vegetable stem, without i'm
pairing the stiffness of the latter.-Leslie's
WeeiZU
Year: 1872

A farmers boy passed the whole morn
ing piling up wood under the shed, and
when evening came he called the farmer
to look at his work, expecting to hear
words of praise from the old mans lips.
But the farmer was silent, although the
logs were piled up so evenly that it seem
ed like one solid piece of wood.


The boy went sorrOwfully TO bed, for
he could not understand the farmers
silent and thoughtful face. At earliest
dawn he betook himself to the wood shed.


There stood the farmer, and al his feet
lay the wreck of the fine, even pile of
wood.


"My boy" said the old man, ''you
laid your heavy logs on the top; but
mind, in the future you will do better.
Above all things, if you expect to heap
up wealth and character in a beautiful
pile that will stand to the end, you must
lay the heavy legs of temperance,
honesty, industry, and frugality at the
bottom"