smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1870

During tho rebellion this excellent
plant served US in such good stead that
we regret to see an evident decline
in its culture. Iowa consumes some
six to seven millions ofdollars worth
of sweetening annually, and the more
OF it that is made ut home, the better.
When carefully made into sirup, it is
certainly good enough for anybody,
AS yet the indications from making
sugar from it are not promising, nor
has as much progress been made in
getting upa really handsome article
Of refined sirup, as every lover Of
home manufactures would wish. The
big talk OF sundry chemicals used by
Mr.. Clough, Of Cincinnati, which
wero to preeipitate all the iccula and
impurities in the sirup seems to have
died away, Yet wc all ought TO hope
for and encourage the growth OF any
plant that will make cither long OF
short swcetcning--tLc shorter The
better, Of course. In growing thiI
crop, great care should bo taken tc
procure perfectly pure seed. Nearly
all in this State is ruined more or Icsl
with broom corn, aud neglect in this
will he tue most expensive sort o
economy.
Year: 1870

We take it all back we acknowl.
edgo the corn; we confess our stu
pidity and want Of appreciation.


We have heretofore supposed it
impossible to find anything in the
Burlington Argus worthy Of copying
and dishing up to tho intelligent,
loyal, and patriotic readers Of the
COURIER. but the following from its
last issue, shows how badly we were
mistaken.


Read 1t aud then mover doubt
again that there is any sort Of a Naz-
areth out of which it is impossible for
some good to come:


"AN UNJUST CHARGE, We find in
the Dcs Moines Register an unjust
charge against the GaIette 4 Argus,
in reference to the position occupied
by.a fow democrats, who favor repu-
diation. We occupy no doubtful
position upon that question. We
were opposed to creating the enor.
nous debt which the radicals have
forced upon the country, but We are
opposed to repudlating it now that
it has been made. We are not ma
tion Of repudiators, yet we do not
know but what the radical party
may forcS us into that position which
might compel us to take the benefit
of bankruptcy. But that shall not
be done if our feeble voice can pre-.
vent it. We ought to have an honest
administration Of our governmental
affairs, and faithful payment of our
obligations-but we ought net to be
compelled by wanton and corrupt
partisan administration to pay TWEEN.
ty per cent premium upon the face oi
our obligations.


The Register says we are too COW.
ardly to attack Clay Deans repudia,
ton scheme. This is false. We do
not propose to waste our ammuni.
tion in getting up personal war.
fare. We oppose the scheme. Dean
defends it. He had o communication
in our paper the other day, over bis
own signature, in which he defended
that position among others. He is
sponsible. The democratic party
is not responsible, neither arc we
Mr.. Dean is our friend We are his
But upon that point wo are oppon-
ents. We attack repudiation-Mr.
Dean defends it, and we don't pro.
pose to fritter away our strength by
getting up personal war about a
matter that can never bo mado par
ty issue, unless the radicals force it
upon the country by their unjust and
corrupt legislation"
Year: 1870

The Davis County Republican
comes to us enlarged to beautiful
and neat eight column shoet. This
evidence Of prosperity is compliment
tary to tho talent and enterprise Of
Bro White, who runs the machine,
all of VIII ich we are glad to note.
May it's shadow never grow less.
Year: 1870

concerning the Blind.


Section |. Be it enacted by the
General Assembly of the State OF
Iowa, That it shall be the duty OF
each County superintendent OF Com
mon Schools in this State to report
on the first day of November of each
year to the Superintendent Of the
Iowa Institution tor the Blind. the
name, age, residence and Post Office
address OF every blind person and
every person blind to such an extent
as to bc unable to acquire an educa-
ton in the common schools and who
reside in the county in which he is
Superintendent.


Approved March -, 1870.
Year: 1870

WASHINGTON, May 90, 1870


The pulpit of the First Unitarian church, corner OF
and Sixth streets, was nled to-day by the Rev.
the text, 81 ascend unto my Father and your Father
and my God and yonr God.r The preacher said the
highest testimonies that we have 60 to show that
God is personal, or rather spiritual being. His
nature comprehends In completest falness the es-
sential attributes of the spirit, WISDOM goodness,
power. The prophet and Psamist knew nothing
about nature as under a system OF nvlolate law To
them natures processes We're all the results Of arbi
whoie OF nature and the whole OF human.life are
under law that all the affairs Of time have their an
tecedents and cOnsequents; that all are somehow


UNDER THE GUIDANCE OF ALL-pERvADING LAW.


GravitaOn Is the direct or indirect result OF WILL
The regularity and constancy OF law teach us the
regularity and constancy OF the divine WILL The
scientific conception or law and order Is not de-
structive OF the higher conception Of heavenly
equally imperative demands OF the human mind; but
science must not have Tor her practical methods full
sway over the human mind In all its OutgOingS. In
other words science must not forget her own fntut
tive groundwork, whereby she Is related to religion
Otherwise the spiritual which the religious faculty
attests IN nature would be taken entirely away. We
would nave law ana succession,


BUT NO GOD.


Thought must not only be destructive, but con-
structive, reaching finally the Infinite subject the
divine consciousness everywhere present. TO which
no life or beauty Is lost This fOrme5s presence Is
the basis and characteristic Of all religion, OF whatso
ever form. We may not know 1t perfectly, but we
may take ali times and spaces and things as types
ofthe Eternal one The highest type In the soul of
man, and the highest testimonies OF the soul
love, wisdom and justice, and God as known to us
through these highest Testimonies, becomes a
persona being, father, the fundafiental thought
Year: 1870

The Empire State of the South enjoys
no special immunity from the excitement
incident to political reconstruction. Not
long ago the agent of the Associated
Press, at Atlanta, favored Us with an
opinion Of Ex-Governor Joseph E. Brown,
a column and half long, giving a semi
Judicial view of one of the local questions.
This was followed up the next day by a
document of equal length on the other side
Of the same question. We have now q
renewal of the telegraphic messages from
Georgia. A dispatch was received yester-
day from Mr.. Isham Cooper, of Columbus,
informing certain parties in this city that
his whole household had been thrown into
state ofexcitement in consequence Of his
having drawn one-f fourth Of the $4,000
prize in the Louisiana Lottery, on the
nineteenth of February. Our friend G. Z
Howard, is responsible for this little furry
in Mr.. Cooper's household; and we shall
not be surprised if he receives, at an early
day, letter OF inquiry as to how it can
be done again.
Year: 1870

A RASH MAN.-A man was heard to say, q
day or two since, that Mr.. Wickliffe had
boasted that he had fourteen Senators
pledged to vote for his acquittal in the trial
now progressing before the Senate; and that
on the strength of this vain boast, he would
wager five hundred dollars that Mr. Wick.
life would be acquitted. Rash man, thus
to venture his money on so hazardous
chance to win. He had far better invest 1t
in tickets in the Louisiana State Lottery,
where the chances to win are far greater.
Year: 1870

kiss me, mamma, before Isleep.n
HOW simple boon yet how soOtlr-
Ing to the little suppliant Is that soft,
gentle kiss. The little head sinks
contentedly on the pillow, for all is
peace and happiness within. The
bright eyes close, the rosy lips part In
a sweet smile, for the little heart is
reveling in the bright and sunny
dreams of innocence. Yes, kiss 1t,
mamma, for that good night kiss will
linger in memory when the giver
lies mouldering in the silent grave.
The memory of gentle mothers
kiss has cheered many lonely wan
derer's pilgrimage, and has been the
beacon light to illumine his desolate
heart; for, remember, life has many
a stormy billow to cross, rugged
path to climb, with thorns to pierce,
and we know not what is in store for
the little one so sweetly slumbering,
with no worldly care to disturb Its
peaceful dreams. The parched and
fevered lip will become dewy again
as recollection bears to the sufferers
couch a mothers love--a mothers
kiss. Then kiss your little ones ere
they sleep-there Is magic power In
it that Will endure even to the end OF
Life.
Year: 1870

WE are indebted to the National
Publishing Co. Memphis, for a new
work, entitled "China and the United
States" by William Speer, d. d.
once Missionary to China. The
volume contains some 700 pages, neat
ly bound, printed on good paper in
large clear type, and appropriately
illustrated. The Book is written i'm a
lucid narrative style, and enters
largely into the political, social and
religious history of a remarkable peo-
pie, whose present and prospective re-
lations to the United States must give
to such work an unusual degree OF
interest. AS history, 1t Is doubtless,
as reliable, as can be expected In
such condensation of so extended a
subject; but we dissent from the idea
that 1t is the mission OF this people,
to civilize SO large number of heath
ems. And we, Of the South, should
hesitate long before making another





experiment in the way of civilizing
an inferior type of mankind, through
the agency of menial service. And
the ease with which the white man
can retrograte towards barbarism--
should warn us that we are as likely to
be heathenized by the Chinese as they
are to christianized by us.


We have not so fully investigated
the character and scope of the Book
as to warrant an extended criticism, a
task we reserve for a future day. In
the meantime we commend 1t to the
public as containing mass Of useful
information to every class of readers,
Year: 1870

There has been during the week at
the Galatin fair grounds a contribution
box for the benefit and convenience
of those who may wish to furnish
their mite or dollars, as it may be, to
the Confederate orphans at Clarks-
vile. The box and contents will be
sent to them as soon as the fair Is
over. We learn that the contribu-
tions will be quite liberal, worthy the
noble people Of whom the charity is
ask ed.
Year: 1870

A KANSAS youth, who fell In love
with a colored girl, but was afraid to
marry her because his friends polSed
such fun at him, did better thing
by shooting himself and leaving all
his money to his adored.
Year: 1870

10 CUNE A Doc FROM SUCKING
EGGs.-Mr. G. w. Jefferson can
etfectnlly cnre his dog from suck
ing eggs in the following manner /:
lake an egg, punch hole in it
large enough to admit the little
blade of knife, and put in
through the hole as much tartar
emetic rs he can pile on q dime
piece, and give to his dog, or pnt
in a convenient place where he
can find it. Repeat three or
four times witain ten days or two
weeks. / have had good many
snck egg hounds to contend with,
and have never failed to effect a
speedy and permanent cnre with
the above remedy.
Year: 1870

REMARKABLE CASE OF CoNscIENcE.-An
uhuS"ai case of conscience has just been pre-
senteu TO the Commissioner OF Pensions.
Inc Fension Office is in receipt of letter
from Western pensioner, who states that he
has been drawing pension of six dollars
month as disabled soldier tor sever al wears.
but that he feels that he has no right to such
a pension and that he will no longer receive
it. He says that he was induced to make ap-
plicalion for the pension by claim agents and
other interested parties, and he warns the
Commissioner that such parties may apply for
tue pension money, but declares that any
further application will be without his con-
sent. In addition. he volunteers the advice
that the Pension Officer should employ good
surgical examiners who cannot be imposed
upon BIZ persons engaged in getting up claims
against the government. The matter will be
INQUIRED into.
Year: 1870

blame not that your courage failed,
That prudence over love prevailed:
IL seemed that we must walk together
Rough ways through wild and stormy we ,ther
And you must have smooth paths to tread
And skies all cloudless overhead
Wise was your choice, the world Will say,
That sees you fresh and fair to-day
AS In the spring-time of your years,
Those hazel eyes undlmmed with tears.
That forehead all unlined with care,
Nor strealted with gray that chestnut hair.
Yet If you could have dared to lay
Unfaterng hands in mine, and say,
81 trust you still, nor count the cost ="
something, doubt not, you had lost
Yet found when all was told remain
To You and me some larger gain.
NOT loveless nor unsweet my days;
toll, nor miss some need of praise.
Had you been with me they had known
The grace they lack and thou hadst grown.
. weak but pure and tender heart
To something nobler than thou art
All! better had we both been laid
To res forever ere the shade
OF that cold worldliness had made
Division worse than death, and babe
Our souls be parted evermore,
sun strangers on the heavenly shore,


The Spectator
Year: 1870

CLEANING COAT CoLLARs.-Forc clean
ing coat collars and all woolen goods,


we recommend the soap tree bark which
can be procured at the drug stores.
Break piece about two inches square
into small bits, and pour over it half a
pint ofboilling water; let it stand an
hour or two, then sponge the collar we'll
with the liquor: a second sponging with
clear water will clean it nicely. Both
washing and rinsing water should be


warm Us for flannel. We have, by
using this bark, washed black and blue
Empress cloths successfully, and have
cleaned hair cloth chairs which had
been soiled by contact with the head.
Year: 1870

ALLUDING to the extreme modesty
of General Geo. Ii. Thomas, the In
dianapolis journal says he was so in
different to all the "pomp and circum.
stance of war" that though made a
Major General on April 25th, he had
no stars on his coat until after the
battle of Stone River, eight months
afterward; and they were put on by
the strategy of his servant at the in
stigation of some members of the
Generals staff. He wore his Colonel's
coat until the moment of taking COM
mand at Mill Spring though he had
been Brigadier General six months.
Year: 1870

IT took the best government the
world ever saw, five years to pay the
men who captured jefferson Davis
what it promised them for that job, and
then they were cheated out of gooq
share. Of it, and the officers got the bal
ance. One young soldier in Wisconsin,
who was IN that crowd has been cal
culating on his share of the reward to
set him up in business, and when he
got it, after paying his lawyer he had
just enough to buy a bushel of second
class peanuts.
Year: 1870

A Baltimore man offered to bet
money that he could fill lighted kero-
sene lamp. He filled the lamp and a
six-fOot coffin, and now the man he
bet with wants the widow to pay the
debt. OF course the widow cannot be
held responsible for acts committed by
her husband, when insane, as man
must be to commit such an act.
Year: 1870

WE ALL CONSIDER IRON the embodiment of strength and power, but how few are aware that it is this same element in the system that gives us strength and vigor, and that an insufficiency of it causes weak ness and debility. The Peruvian Syrup, protoxide of iron, is prepared expressly to supply this vitalizlng element.
Year: 1870

The Good Templars are going ahead. They have removed their place of meeting from Stevens Hall to the conference room of the Congrega- tional church. This room was in former days 8 place for the worship of God, but it is now made a den for gossip!

 The members of this or der are united to pro

 tect each other and com

 bined to injure those

 who do not belong to the Inquisition. They ex-

 pect to contfol the church and the Republic an party. Their aspira- tions thus far have been gratified. I am informed

 that the name of the lodge is Charity. A more appropriate name would be Parvenu. It is much

 to be Regretted that they have not stopped the sale of liquors in this place. Thus far their efforts have done more harm than good. I hopeI ere long they will proye| themselves more echarita-l ble and better disposed to the erring and unfor-i tunate! For instance, | take this doctrine taught in the bible, ''Let himI Shat is without sin cast l the first stone." Do this and your efforts will bel successful. l

 CDrcrI
Year: 1870

Much of our paper is taken up this week with the address of Mir. Goodman, of Lenox, Mass, before our County Agricul- tural Society. We have low opinion of such orations in general, but this is a marked exception to the usual rule. MT. Goodman is not only thinker and writer, but fa,mer-hence the extraordinary merit of his address.
Year: 1870

The women, being all virtuous and conscientious, will vote only for pure men. There can scarcely be any doubt about this. When we see that wo- men refuse to marry any but pure men, of course they will be equally particular in selecting public officers. s.-SeTatinel.

 If women are in fact indifferent to nor ality, the foregoing sheer rises to the dig nifty of an argument. If, on the other hand, they are not indifferent to morality, it is simply the contemptible insinuation of an untruth. That excellent and pure wo- men knowingly marry impure men, or, finding them to be impure. continue living with them, is an undeniable fact. The ed itor of the Sentinel may depend upon it, however, that wives so situated are not in- different to the bitterest degredation to which an honest woman can be subjected. While nature enforces marriage, custom

 leaves woman, in many cases, something worse than Hobson's choice in this grand prerequisite of personal purity. In our day, the pure Esther is not, indeed, forci- bly seized by the polygamous Ahasuerus, and reckoned happy queen if she and her people are not massacred when his passion is sated; but woman still needs the cour- age of rebel to repudiate, if not to. refuse, an unworthy husband. That the wife now exacts less of the husband on the score oi morality than he exacts of her is simply because sue is unable to enforce her natur. al rights. When woman is given real choice, there is never any question how she will exercise it. The candidate for of

 fee who supposes that his soundness as g partisan will atone for his moral unsound

 ness, before female constituency. vii | make fatal miscalculation. Man is per

 fectly free, now. to show his contempt ani

 loathing of the impure of the other sex

 when woman is equally free to show hel

 greater hatred of his impurities. we may

 safely expect Q great reformation in indi

 viduals as well as in candidates. e.. r
Year: 1870

MURDOCH is called the mechanics friend
What do those bricklayers and fathers say
who had to go over to Davenport to get
work, while Mardock employed men from
Davenport? Mechanics friend, indeed
Bah out such friendship.
Year: 1870

The unfortunate Empress of Mexico,
the widow of Maximilian, is yet residing
in Tervueren Castle, and has still but
very few light moments. She is strictly
watched, and her keepers hardly ven
ture to allow her the former long
promenades in the park, as she has more
than once endeavored to elude their
vigilance. Even short time ago they
had the greatest difficulty in preventing
her from galloping off on the horse OF
a soldier who had just brought dis
patch to the castle. She was always
passionately fond of riding, and Obserst
Van de Velde, one of her attendants,
was compelled to use all his authority
TO hinder her from carrying out her
intentions. In Tervueren Is tele-
granbic bureau. There the unhappy
Empress spends great part of her time
in sending messages to all the European
soyereigns, to whom she bitterly COM


nlains of her close confinement. These
telrprams are always forwarded to the
conrf at Brussels, and Carlotte never
Quits the bureau until she has received
an answer. One of the strangest symp'
toms of her arrangement Is that she
will never sit at the table to take any
meal. She has her dinner served on
small night table, and the officer on
guard must eat by the fire place She
sill holds fast to the idea that some one
intends to poison her, and each dish has
to be tasted of in her presence before
she will consent to touch it. Her nights
are very res stless; only toward morning
she enjoys q few hours sleep. The
physicians have given up all hops Of
ever being able to restore her TO reason.
Year: 1870

bold and polished uttsrances in de-
Tense of the principles in whose behalf
we battle, we feel some compensation
in the fact that his able and valuable
services are not to be lost to the party
in the State. Located at the seat of
Government, he will tie able to
publish paper that will pos
sess a general interest to all
our citizens. Possessed of ability, edu-
cation, tact, energy and industry;
thoroughly versed in the politics Of the
State and knowing the interests and
wants of her citizens, and with an
editorial experience of four years, Mr..
W. will make newspaper that will
rank with the best. On my own behalf
and on behalf of the patrons of the
REGISTER throughout the State, l wish
both himself aud his new enterprise
great success.


l am gratifisd to be able to add the
announcement that the readers of the
REGISTER will be treated weekly with
a letter from Mr.. WALKERS pom, from
the Capital. l know these letters will
be looked for with interest, and read
with pleasure and profit.


LEWIS BAKER.
Year: 1870

February l5th, ie'O.


The remarkable success which attended our
negotiation oftAa Loans OF the CENTRAL PACIFIC
RAILRoAD CoNPLNr aud the wESTKRS PAcITIc
RAILROAD CoMrASr, ana. the popularity and
crEdit which these Loans have maintained in
the markets, both in this country and Europe.
have shown that the First Mortgage Bonds OF
wisely located and honorably managed Railroads
are promptly recognized and readily taken as
the most suitable, safe, and advantageous form
Of investment yielding moro liberal income
than can hereafter be derived from Government
Bonds, and available TO take their plars. y


Assured that, in the selection and negotiation
Of superior Railroad Loans We are meeting
greA; public want and rendering q valuable
service-bOth 20 the holders Of Capital and to
those great National works Of internal improve.
meat whose intrinsic merit and substantial
character entitlo them TO tho use OF Capital and
the confidence OF investors-we now offer with
special confidence and satisfaction the
Year: 1870

Reflect that sound mind and body aro The
most necessary requisites ta promote connubi-
al happiness, Indeed, without these the ejour-
ncy through life becomes n weary pilgrimage
the prospect hourly darkens to the view, tho
mind becomes shadowed with despair, and filed
with The melancholy reflection that the happ-
ncss of another is blighted with our own.