smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1870

put forth that day, and some rather hard
stories. AS it drew near midnight of the
day in which we committed poor Peter to
the deep, I was somewhat surprised to see
first one and then another of the watch on
deck, come shambling aft, and pretend to
be looking for something, while at the
same time they managed to get as near the
taffrail as they could, and a. couple of them
made an excuse to come over to the wealth
er side, and ask me some questions about
California, pretending that they had an
argument and wanted me to decide.


But while they spoke, l noticed they
cast sidelong glances aloft to the top, and
were scarcely conscious of what they were
saying, and understanding the matter at
once, 1 laughed, and said


"Well boys if you are afraid of Peters
ghost, have no objection to your staying
aft, until the time is past for him to appear,
but / don't think he will do you any
harm"


At this there was volley of protesta-
tions, that they were not afraid of Peters
ghost, nor the ghost of anybody else. but
even while they were assuring me that they
were uUG dlTdlu VI uiu
foot" himself, the door of the house flew
open, and the. watch below came bundling
out, and rushed aft in body SO hastily,
that their panic was at once communicated
to those on deck, and they all flew aft,
throwing each other down, and tumbling
one over another in most ludicrous man
ner. They finally brought up at the taf-
frail, but not before making such noise,
as brought the "old man" and second
mate on deck.


explained, and the old man" went
below smiling grimly. while the second
mate staid up on deck to see the fun, as
he phrased it, when Peters ghost should
appear.


1t was poor fun for the men and fancy
most of them felt Toms queer sensation
of "soft cool wind blowing through their
hair" Among the others l could see the
black face of the ships cook, with his eyes
open, the most terrified of all.


I could not help laughing, but said moth
ing, for remembering my own sensations
the night before, felt that I was in
glass house myself, and it would scarcely
become me to throw stones.


AS the bell struck eight all eyes were
fixed on the top, and though for fifteen
minutes not glance wavered, nothing ap-
peared, and | sent the watch to their beds,
with the comforting assurance. that what
Tom saw, was Peters ghost, going aloft
to heaven, and although the Iris was. a
sweet little craft, he was not fool enough
to come down to keep his watch on her
deck


They went below quieted, but I have
no doubt but that Peters ghost has form
ed the subject of many yarn when our
crew was scattered into other ships, and
have no doubt, but that any of them would
take any amount of oaths to the effect
that Tom really saw the ghost of I" Peter
the Swede."


As for me say nothing, but if Tom
dill see something, and it was not the
ghost of "Peter the Swede"-


What was it?
Year: 1870

Cur THIS Our,-Mr. Daniel Crigler, of
the Natural Bridge, gave the Lexington
Gazette fine remedy for certain disease
in fruit trees. He had half dozen apple
trees with the bitter rot The fruit fell
off before it was ripe. By boring into the
body of the tree with an augur and filing
the cavity with spirits of turpentine and
tightly plugging the orifce, his fruit never
failed to ripen finely. One pint will do
for six trees.
Year: 1870

CHEERFuLNEss.-Try for single day, I
beseech you, to preserve yourself in an
easy and cheerful frame Of mind. Then
compare the day in which you have rooted
out the weed of dissatisfaction with that
on which you have allowed it to grow up;
and you will find your heart open to every
good motive, your life strengthened, and
your breast armed with panoply against
every trick of fate.
Year: 1870

There was once an awful little girl
who had an awful way of saying "aw-
full" to everything. She lived i'm an
awful house, i'm an awful street, i'm an
awful village, which was an awful dis
ts nee from any other awful place. She
went to an awful school, where she had
an awful teacher, who gave her awful
les sons out of awful books. Every day
she was so awful hungry that she eat
an awful amount of food, so that she
looked awful healthy. Her hat was
awful small, and her feet were awful
large. She went to an a fful church
and her minister was an awful preach
er. When she took an awful walk she
climbed awful hills, and when she got
awful tired she sat down under an aw-
full tree to rest herself In summer she
found the weather awful hot, and i'm
winter awful cold. When it didn't rain
there was an awful drought, and when
the awful drought was over there was
an awful rain So that this awful giri
was all the time i'm an awful state, q ID
if she don't get over saying lawful"
about everything, am afraid she will,
by and by, come to an awful end.-Es-
cI0n0e.
Year: 1870

Light pine-wood fire in an air-tight
stove; when burning briskly, take a
bottle of alcohol and throw it into the
fire. The alcohol will Immediately
burn up as quick as the necessary oxy-
gen can be furnished, with an enor-
NOUS flame and heat; but when it IS
burnt up, the fire is out altogether.
The alcohol has robbed the pine-wood
of its necessary oxygen for combustion.
The very same process occurs in our
Year: 1870

In one of our schools there is a Young
girl who is cripple. It Is the custom
of the teacher to allow her, when the
scholars are dismissed, always to pass
out first, i'm order that she may escape
fIOm the confusion attendant upon the
dismissal OfsO many children.


At one time when the alarm of fire
was sounded, all the school rooms were
at once einptied of their contents.
While i'm all of them they rushed out
i'm dismay and fright, in some cases
leaving everything behind, in the ooo
where the lame child was, there NJ
perfect Quietness and order All tie
scholars, notwithstanding the noise
and apparent danger, remained quietly
i'm their seats until their lame compan-
ion had got safely out, and was secure
from the rush, when they with bound
cleared the room.


They thought of her safety before
their own; neither fright nor selfish
ness induced them to provide for them
selves until they saw her secure from
peril. Such a display of consideration
and kindness we have not heard of for
many Il day, and when We remember
that it came from children il becomes
all the more touching and beautiful
EnstOH, Pr, Press.


The following observations are by an
Ohio editor: 1.-The woman who made
the butter which we bought last week
is respectfully requested to exercise
more Judgment i'm proportioning the
ingredients. The last batch had too
much hair in it for butter, and not quite
enough for u waterfall. There is no
sense in making yourself bald-heasied
if butter is Is cents a pound"
Year: 1870

A daughter of A. G. Hedges, of Sag
Harbor, went to her sleeping apartments,
taxing her fathers razor with her. After
disrobing herself, she deliberately cut an
ugly wound across the breast Immediately
over the heart, from three to four inches
in length The razor not reaching the
heart, she drew it across her abdomen,
making wound Of some five or six in
ches long, and SO deep that the bowls
protruded. Her protracted absence ex-
cited the fear of the family, and on search
they found her in this mutilated condition
Physicians were called, and succeeded in
sewing up the gashes, but only after ad-
ministering powerful anasthetic, as the
girl did all in her power to tear the
wounds open, saying she wished to die
The doctors say it is impossible for her
to live. No reason can be assigned tor
the commission of the act.
Year: 1870

Delaware belongs to class of States
having nearly the area of county in
the West, while it goes through the
motions OF State Government. 1t has
among OF er curios;ties, a Democratic
party, and this party has just thrown
itself into the breach, self confident and
defiant 1t has resolved 'sto have moth
ing to do with the negro vote, but TO
appeal exclusively to the white vote of
the State for support" and it calls on
the Republicans to come to its aid for
fear the negro will put quietus on the
concern. Its going to die game-it is
and show to the whole world the
stern virtues of the old Roman The
State has population nearly half as
great as Cook county, Illinois, and if the
Democratic back gets up, the public
microscope turned that way may yet
reveal something fearful. The country
trcmblcs at the prospect.
Year: 1870

| A VAST IMMIGRATION SCHEME
The st. Paul Press announces that ex-
Secretary McCullooh, Senator Carl Shurz
and Ex-Governor Marshall, of Minnesota,
have been selected, and will be invited
by the Northern Pacific Railroad Compa-
ny to go to Europe on a mission to or
ganize and stimulate emigration to the
line of the road and the settlement of its
lands, on plan more comprehensive and
extended than any heretofore devised.
The company own every alternate section
in a belt forty miles wide, from the head
of Lake Superior to the Pacific Ocean,
equivalent to strip Of twenty miles
wide, in all between thirty and forty mil
lion acres of land, "a territory greater in
extent than all New England, and capa-
BILE of sustaining five or six millions of
people. They have already arranged
with German capitalists for all means
necessary to the construction of the road
with the largest force they can employ.
They propose to offer to every immigrant
in Europe abundant employment in
building the road for the first year or two
after his arrival. Whether they assist in
his passage here is not stated. When he
has finished his work for the company he
is to have farm of forty, eighty, or one
hundred and sixty acres, with neat
frame building erected thereon, and lot
of reasonable size fenced in, all at the
expense of the company. The terms of
payment are so long, and on SO low inter-
est, that they cannot prove a burden to
the poorest. 1t is expected that the sur
plus wages received for constructing the
road will stock the farm and provide the
tools, SO that every person employed in
the construction Of the road may, as soon
as it is finished, go to raising the crops,
which it will bring to market. The COM
pany will manufacture the houses by
thousands, exactly alike, like fhesparts of
a Springfield rifle or Elsin watch, so that
each piece of any one structure will fit
the corresponding piece of any other.
They expect, in this manner, to secure an
abundant and immediate supply of cheap
labor, and to Immediately enhance the
value of their lands by the rapid settling
up Of the line of their road The present


is peculiarly favorable time for inaug-
urating such an enterprise, in view Of the
distressed condition of the laboring class
in England and other parts of Northern
Europe, and the universal desire of the


European working classes to get to Amer
lea by all means within their reach. The
unasslsted immi grafton of the past year is
about so, 900 In excess of the year before,
as indicated by the arrivals at New York.


Everything promises an immigration


during the present year exceeding any


thing ever before known in our history.
This will be exceedingly desirable, in


view of the high prices of labor prevail
| ing among farmers in our agricultural
DISTRICTS Chicago Tribune.
Year: 1870

General Roberts is extremely unfortu-
nate in his friends. Upon one hand, on the
same ticket with himself, is Marcellus
Emery, whose paper congratulated the
rebels upon their victory when they cap
tured Fort Sumpter, and was so disloyal
that some of the democrats told him in the
Portland Convention he ought to have
been hung to the lamp-posts for his shame
less course. Oh the ether hand is Ebcn
Pillsbury with the Maine Standard, extol-
ing Roberts as soldier and patriot. Now
we wish Mr.. Pillsbury to answer the fol-
lowing questions.-


Did you not declare the war needless,
wicked and unholy war?


Did you not stigmatize those who en-
listed in the Union army as "Lincoln's
hirelings?"


Did you not exert your influence to pre-
vent enlistments and to make the draft as
odious as possible?


Did you not rejoice over rebel victories
and laugh and sneer over disasters to the
Union armies?


Were you not the editor of the demo.
cratic paper in the only county in the State
which resisted the draft by force SO that
United States troops had to be sent to
crush out the rioters, and did not you aid
to stir up that riot?


Did you ever say a cheering word fol
the Union cause while the war was in pro-
gress, or a word of commentator for its
gallant defenders'


In short were you not copperhead o.
the most poisonous kind?


After these questions have been proper
ly answered the encomiums of the Maine
Standard for General Roberts may be est
mated at their proper value. Those who
were in the Union army will find the slavel
of such a sheet as poisonous as the venom
of a copperhead. To be defended by the
Standard for loyalty or bravery as a soldier
is about the most damaging thing to the
character of man who was in the Union
army that could happen to it. If General
Roberts has any friends they had better
call off the Standard from its extraordina-
~ defence ef his loyalty and so,diership.
Let Emery and Pillsbury retire to the
shade where they ought to be.
Year: 1870

The French sailors are being armed
with dirks for boarding purposes, and
with this object number of old double
edged bayonets are being cut down for the
supply Of the navy.


The Prussian army has received an un-
pleasantly suggestive though practical
order. Every man of the regiments Or
dered for active service has to wear round
his neck, underneath his clothes, ticket
with number corresponding to one stand
ing against his name in the lists, IN order
that this might be ascertained in case Of
death, without delay; while the officers
are furnished with diaries containing their
designations in French as well as German.


The superb navy of France has not been
able to render the slightest service to its
creator during the crisis of his Empires
existence. At the outbreak OF the war.
great things were expected from the
French fleets, and the Empress Eugenie
read grandiose address to the officers
and sailors of the navy at Cherbourg,
Just as the vessels were about to sail on
their mission of ravaging the Prussian
coast. bombarding and seizing the Prus-
sian cities on the German Ocean and the
Baltic, destroying the Prussian iron-clads,
and conveying military force destined to
advance from the seaboard upon Berlin.
But the French fleets have not thus far
done any thing either against the Prussian
coast cities or the Prussian men-of-war


a correspondent says: "You must not
expect a republican revolution in Paris.
From all can gather, the movement will
be in an Orleanist sense. 1t seems most
probable. No one believes the Emperor
can ever return to Paris with safety
Some affirm that he would not scruple to
make hasty peace with Prussia, and to
return escorted by King Frederick William
and his cohorts, proclaming that his ac-
ton had been paralyzed by internal dis
sension, hence his defeat. l give you
these as rumors. One thing is certain; he
has failed ANONYMOUSLY as general and
can never again hold the same position in
public estimation which the hollow glory
of Solferino accorded to him."


The Prefect of the Seine appeals to
the Parisians as follows: 1.-The news
from the army imposes on you a great
duty the government invites you to ac-
complish it. We have to guard our hon.
or, to preserve it intact. and to remain
worthy of our past and of ourselves. Eel
low citizens, the peril is not imminent,
but it is necessary that our Notifications
should be in good condition and that our
army should know that we are uprisen be-
hind it. From tomorrow books will be
opened at the Hotel de Vile and in the
twenty mairles of Paris. Let all those
men not called by the new decree to form
part of the National Guard, and who are
willing to aid in the earth and masonry
works necessary for the common defence,
come forward immediately and enter their
names"
Year: 1870

The journal says that the high school build
ing in Gardiner is approaching completion, the
brick work being up to the top of the second
story windows. 1t is most substantially and
thoroughly built thus far, and does credit to
the skill of the workmen. Parties from Port
land are expected to put on the tin roofing.
Year: 1870

as we have stated, far below four hundred
millions. There is not female clerk, or
scarcely an errand boy in the U. S. Treas
ury, that would not laugh at the blunder
of the Standard.
Year: 1870

The North German Lloyds announce that
in consequence of the success of the German
arms their steamers will soon be able to re-
sumo their trips to America, and time table
for their departure will soon be issued
Year: 1870

INDEPENDENCE DAY.-The Fourth OF July is
approaching, and we notice by our exchanges that
Preparations are being made in pearly all the
Of this our National day. Sevetai Of our promi
nent citizens have spoken to us on the subject
and desire that we call the attention CT our peo-
pie to the subject, that The people of Auburn may
also tate steps for mass celebration here Who
will start the ball. that we may have grand cell
ebration in Auburn
Year: 1870

NATIVE GOLD Sites Some two or three
weeks ago two Chinese came TO Hubbard x IN
drews' Bank and sold some gold siugS; few
days afterwards they returned aud sold some
more; later they came again with three slucs
worth nearly three hundred dollars. III these
elugs had qulrtz sticking TO them, hal never
been in the fire or touched 10y quicksilver. aud it
was plain TO be seen that they had be en- cut from
a slab or bar OF gold by some dull instruments,
such rs dull Ratchet or the broad point OF Il
common steel pick, and that this slab or bar of
gold was in its native state aud never had been
touched by the hand Of man until found by these
Chinamen. These Cinnamon bad evidently found
this slab or bar OF gold imbed led in som, qI,rtz
boulder or ledge, and had been cutting and HI q
CLING at It for full week and the last pieces
brought to this bank showed no sigus of their
having got to the end OF it yet. These Cinnamon
may Ave concluded not to create suspicion by
continuing 10 sell here, and have gone elsewhere
with their slugs, and may he hagglng away at
this quartz imbedded nugget yet. This gold
came from around .fuburn somewhere The
question is, where is it? Chinese don't quartz
mine unless they find it in this shaps in their
surface claims
Year: 1870

CLEAR had the day been..from the dawn!
All chequered was the sky;
Thin clouds, like scarfs Of cobweb lawn,
Yelled heavens most glorious eye;
The wind had no more strength than this
That leisurely it blew,
To make one leaf the next to kiss


That closely by it grew. --Dyuyton
Year: 1870

Heaven shines above us, bless all that love US,


All whom We love in thy tenderness keepl
While down the river we float on forever,


Speak not, ah, breathe not-there's peace on the
Year: 1870

A great may admirable actions are
overlooked by US, because they are so
little and common. Take, for in
stance, the mother, who had broken
slumber, if any at all, with the nurs-
ing babe, whose wants must not be dis
regarded; she would fain sleep awhile
when the breakfast hour comes, but
patiently and uucomplainingly she
takes her timely seat at the table,
Though exhausted and weary, she
serves all with a refreshing cup of cof-
fee or tea before she sips it herself,
and often the cup is handed back to be
refiled before she has had time 10
taste her own. Do you hear her
eOnplain-this weary mother - that
her breakfast is cold before she has
time to eat it? And this not for oner
but for every morning, perhaps,
through the year. Do you call this q
small thing2 Try it, and see. Oh I
how does woman shame US by her for
bearance and fortitude in what are
called little thingsl Ah, these Httle
things which are the tests of charac-
ter, it is by these "little" self-deRialsy
borne with selfforgotten gentlenessy
that the humblest home is made beau
tiful TO the eyes Ofangels, though We
fail to see il, alas until the chair is
vacant, and the hand which kept in


motion all this domestic machinery is.
powerless and cold
Year: 1870



They say-Ah well, suppose they do,
But can they prove the story truoi
Suspicion may arise from naught
But malice, envy, want Of thoughti
Why count yourself among the "they,"
Who whisper what they dars not sayI
They say-But why the tale rshsarss,
And help to make the matter worlsI
No good can possibly accrue
From telling what may be untrusi
And Is it not nobler plan
To speak of all the best you can1
They say-well, If it should be so,
Why need you tell the tale of wOyi
WIN it the bitter wrong redress,
Or make one pang Of sorrow less -
Will it the erring one restore,
Henoeforth to "go and sin no more?"
They say--ohl pause, and look within,
See how thine heart inclines to sim
Watch, lest in temptations hour
Thou, too, should'st sink beneath its power,
Pity the frail, weep Ger their fall, ..
But speak Of good or not at all.
Year: 1870

A NOVEL DIvoRcE. the town Of
-, in this State, lived some two wears
ago couple who had got tired Of the
Jars and troubles of welded life, and nm
tualiy resolved to end them. But being
rather short of this worlds goods tbeS
hardly felt like paying out the money ne.
cessary to obtain divorce So they went
to the old gentleman who had joined them
IN the bonds of matrimony some years ago
and desired him to unite the not. Tbe
worthy old Squire scratched his head, and
thought moment, and told them there
was no way but to go to court. " But
hold" says he, 81 have it. You nro.
mised to live together and be true to each
other until death should you part Come
out into the yard" Then seizinr A cat that
sat IN the door way, he directed John to
take her by the tail and Jane by the head
and to pull apart. Then lifting a sborn
az, he said, " Now, death doth YOU part ;,
The ak fell. and the couple were divorced
Wing.
Year: 1870

a Bachelor sea captain who was remark
ipg tne other day that he wanted a good
s cn'ei oihcer, was promptly informed by n
iady that she had no objection to be his
J'rst mate. He took the hint and the IaJn 20
Year: 1870

A mother in Prussia, while taking
leave of her son who was starting for the
army, brought him sort of amulet. such
as good many people in Europe still
believe in, to make him bullet-proof:
The son laughingly pushed it aside, and
taking some of the gold pieces which his
parents had given him, remarked that
they should be the only talisman ne would
take along. During the battle of Mars la
Tour, the young student was struck by q
bullet and fell to the ground. He thought
his last hour had come, but when tfe pain
of the first shock gradually ceased he
looked at his breast and found that the
bullet had not penetrated to the skin. 1t
had been arrested by the last gold piece
which the youth had in his vest pocket,
and this had been completely followed
out by the bullet.
Year: 1870

The --LATEST STYLE-The Providence jour
nal says: "We have gone through with every
kind of wedding card, from tho simply writ
ten Invitation to the most elaborate copper
plate, adorned with initial letter, monogram,
or family coat of arms. We have had cards
for wooden weddings, written on the thlnnest
possible shaving, cards for silver weddings in
letters of silver, and for golden weddings in let
ters of gold. And We have had weddings with
no cards. But the latest feature in cards
which has come to our knowledge is that an
nouncing the birth of son and heir the
name OF the said son and heir being given
without those OF the parents, so that the card
seemingly comes from the infant itself. When
this card met our astonished gaze, We could
not help exclaiming, What will como next {?
This card bears first the initial letter of the
family, then comes the name OF the infant,
followed by the date of his birth, and the
place of residence. Whether this is a fashion
that will take or not remains to be seen. -
Should it prevail. in addition TO the parapher-
MALTA supposed to be absolutely needed on
the occasion of the birth OF child, hereafter
must be added to the extra labor Of getting
out card to announce the advent Of another
Olive branch around the table.