smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1879

Before you begin your heavy spring
work after winter of relaxation, your sys-
tenn needs cleansing and strengthening to
prevent an attack of Ague, Bilious or
spring sickness that will unfit you for a
seasons work. You will save time, much
sickness and great expense, if you will, use
one bottle of Hop Bitters in your family
this month. Don't wait. See other col
umn
Year: 1879




A few nights ago about three hundred nead
of csttle stampeded from the stock yards, Al
the end Of the Gulf track At the Territory
Iine-the cattle taking fright from cats Tight
ing. The cats were mounted on the fence
engaged in feline harmonies- In the melee,
one of the cats Ieaped from the fence to the
back OF a steer, planting himself on the Dov,
vine. With the usual tail elevation, spinal
euIyature and unearthly howl; he raised the
steer and the steer raised him, and jumping
from steer to steer, he In Jny aroused the
without any regard for fences, and ned In the
darkness.
Year: 1879

Since the city marshal's salary has been
advanced TO SIS month, and the police judge
has struck big lead, every man in town want
an office, providing il can be SO arranged that
they can strike big lead or get the votes of a
majority OF the council.
Year: 1879

The following very romantic story
/ is but the substance of what happened
in our own city masy years ago. The
characters that appear as principals
have passed away, but their descendants
yet live among US and occupy honor
able positions in society. Two young
men who had passed through college
and graduated with honor, studying
medicine They were fast friends and
were almost inseparable. They entered
society together and were we'll received
in the best houses. They were to-
gether one evening at q reception in
one of the wealthiest mansions of the
city, when q new star appeared in the
person Of niece Of the hostess, who
had come from Massachusetts,. She
was handsome, and reports agree in
saying she was as good as she was
pretty.-Both of the medical students
were smitten, and for the first time in
their lives feeling of estrangement
came between them. The natures of
the two young men were essentially
different. One was as frank and open
as the day, while the other was tacti,
| turn and reserved. Both paid court
to the lady. but she soon manifested a
choice for the more frank character
and they became engaged The defeat
ed suitor seemed to bear his disap-
pointment resignedly. In time the
lady went home, and the successful
suitor went abroad to complete his
studies. While absent letters were
received by the young girl concerning
her lover, which created the feeling
that he was false to her, and finally,
one came in his own hand writing
bidding her farewell, and stating that
he was to be married to lady of rank.
This proved almost death blow to
the girl, but she soon rallied and
sought in every way to conceal the ira
ces of her grief. The defeated suitor
was at hand aud again proffered his
homage, and finally, in fit of pique,
she married him. Had this been the
final of the story there would be no
romance. 1t was not long after the
wedding before the lover turned. He
could not be made to believe that the
one he loved was false by nature. He





change, and, like a sensible man he
commenced the task of unraveling the
mystery. After much trouble, he OBJ
tained q interview with the wife in
the absence of her husband, and as
answer to his letter of renunciation.


She was happier than she had been
in many days when she learned that the
letter was forgery, and that the lover
had always been true to her. She at
once renounced her husband, and soon
opportunity offered and she procured
divorce, and was united to her first
and only love. The husband and wife
settled down in this city, and here he
enjoyed long and successful career,
and when be died, full of years and
honors, he was surrounded by his wife
and family. The false friend who, by
his wicked Vaccinations, had wrought
so much sorrow, removed to lansing
burg, where he became physician OF
note. He afterwards remarked, and
his posterity to day occupy honored
positions in the State. In two family


Bibles in this city the marriages are
recorded among the family archives.
Year: 1879

Once more, let me beg the teachers
of Fulton county to take an interest
in the Teachers Column. One teacher
should be as much Interested In this
matter as another. Surely every teach
er in the county can give his or her
method of teaching some branch. II
you are a young teacher, and have not
enjoyed many years experience as a
teacher, you certainly have some ideas
worth communicating TO your fellow
teachers. Every teacher says he learns
something from other teachers at the
County Institute. Those who have
been so fortunate as to attend the State
Teachers Association are loud in their
praise of what they have learned. But,
through the kindness of Mr.. Warren,
we have an opportunity to hear and


heard. toteaeh and he taught. every
week, through the columns of the
COURIER. Do the teachers of Fulton
county fully appreciate this matter
Just suppose we call for an old fash
iOned experience meeting. We had
quite lively time two years ago dis
cussing the methods of teaching the
alphabet. Let US call on every teach
er in the county to give his or her ex'
perience in teaching \, B, c. re-
gard this the most important matter
for discussion that can come before any
body of teachers. | am aware of the
fact tLat it is usually overlooked and
called little matter, but let me say
once more | regard this the most i'm
portant of all. However, if you re
gard it a small matter, select some part
&C the teachers work aud give US your
experience in that department. Two
years ago you adopted the COURIER as
your county organ. Outside of school
reports l do not think the teachers OF
the county have written two columns
of educational matter in the two years
Now, that We have put our hands to
the plow, let Us not look back.


j. w. S.
Year: 1879

West Indies, the harbor of Havana ;s
most freauented by commercial people.
and is the most prolific source of yellow
fever. In a receT personal letter to nv
self. DR.. Peters has expressed the oninion
in reference to Havana, which he had inst
visited, that IAN International public sent
iment should be created against the filthy
and careless ways of the anthorities


which cause so much suffering and death
among the mercantile and public navies
of the whole world The harbor is small
and landlocked snil the drainage and
sewage Of the city 90 into il. and very


little gets out of it.. DR.. Peters suggests
that canal could be made at the head of
the harbor, to the ocean, allowing the
tidewater to sweep through the whole
harbor, and thus remove its unhealthful-
ness. a vessel exposed TO the influences
of an infected harbor may not be able to
escape, but The danger can be greatly les
sened by enforeing strict cleanliness of
the men and vessel. The bilge should be
changed every day fSsith sea-water, until
the pumps bring clear water. The men
should be compelfcd b bathe and change
their fannels daily Fhen their work is
done, and should notsbe allowed to sleep
on the open deck, GRIN the lower part of
the vessel. Tie Sane precautions should
he contiaued.tlssss'sir - I ts.e -vc5age >from a
yellow fever port. Ventilation should be
freely encouraged, and no confined air
. allowed IN any part of the vessel, if it be
possible to prevent it. There is an ex-
ample of ship trading between New
York and Havana, on which these pre-
cautions have been strictly enforced for a
period Of twelve years, and not single
case Of yellow fever has occurred on
board. The prOprietors of line of steam
vessels, trading and carrying passengers
between West India ports and New Or
leans, employed an experienced person on
each vessel, during last year, to super
wise its sanitary condition and to disin-
feet 1t after the discharge of eachscargo,
with similar result"


The important point is, of course, to
get the Havana authorities to do all
that sanitary science may suggest to
stamp out the yellow fever, which al
rays exists there. The way to stop
the execution Of battery on battle
field is not to try to dodge the balls,
but 10 take the battery and spike the
guns. That is what must be done with
the yellow fever at Havana and Rio.
We will then have removed most
terrible menace to the health and pros-
perity Of the country.
Year: 1879

A report reached Nashville a few
days ago of the discovery of a new
cave at Newsom's Station, seventeen
miles out on the Northwestern railroad.
It is about mile up the road from
Newsom's, on the farm of Mr.. Hut
ton. The entrance opens on a rough
country road, running around the foot
of an immense hill four or FIVE humid
red feet high. The opening is about
four feet by two, and is almost covered
by large bowlder. Two men passing
along the road noticed the hole, and
through curiosity enlarged it sufficient
ly to admit of passage, and explored
the cave some die,zsse. They report
ed the discovery. ne station, and In
day or two parties for miles around
came to see the wonder. In a few
days an exploration was made under
most favorable auspices. Preparing
themselves with lanterns, candles and
ropes, a party of FIVE started on the
expedition. For seventy-fve yards
the passage was so small that they had
to crawl on all fours. Then it grew
larger, widening into large chambers,
the roofs of which could not be seen
or struck with rocks thrown upward.
All along the sides were beautiful for
nations, white and sparkling in the
dim light. A mile from the entrance
there was fork in the passage, one
branch leading north and the other
south. Selecting the northern route
first the party proceeded something
oyer a mile, when they came to what
seemed to be the end. All along
walking was easy, and no idea could
be formed as to how high the roof was
in plaCl Retracing their steps they
next took the southern passage. A
mile from the fork it also divided into
two branches. Taking the right hand
branch, the explorers advanced some
distance, coming at last to large lake
Of the coolest aud sweetest water. No
attempt was made to proceed beyond
this, but going back they started on
the left branch, which they explored
nearly a mile without finding any
prospect of an end. The further they
advanced the wider and larger was the
passage and the more frequent the
chambers. The finest formation OF
stalactites was found in the utmost pro-
fusion. The rooms were immense IN
size and weird in outline, fantastic for.
nations being scattered over the hoor
and along the walls. Frequently run
ming streams of water were crossed,
remarkable for their almost more than
icy coldness. This was the third party
that had gone any distance in the cave,
and all who had been to the Mammoth
Cave declared that this great wonder
rivaled it.


Some two hundred yards up the road
there is another cave, discovered dur
ing the war. 1t has large entrance,
and consists of one large chamber sew
eral hundred feet long and hundred
feet or more high. At the end is a
we'll. the bottom of which has never
been touched. A party in the new
ly discovered cave the other day heard
noises like striking of stones, and il
is supposed from this fact that the two
caves are connected. Other explora
tions will be made in few days. Tho
proprietor proposes to commence i'm
mediately enIarging the entrance and
passages. The location is a beautiful
one, high up on hill overlooking the
Harpeth river and valley.
Year: 1879


Whatever you have to say, my friend
whether witty, or grave or gay,
Condense 81 as much as ever you can,
And say Il iB the readicst way
And whetheryou write of household affairs
Or particular things in town,
Just take word of friendly advice


Boil it down.
For if you go spluttering over page,
When couple of lines would do,
Your butter is spread so much, you see,
That the bread looks plainly through;
So when you have a story TO tell,
And would like little renown,
To make quite sure of your wish, my friend


Boil it down.
When writing an article for tAe press,
Whether prose or verse, just try
To utter your thoughts in the fewest words
And let them be crisp and dry
And when it is finished, and you suppose
1t is done exactly brown,
Just look il over again, and then


Bell it down.
For editors do not like to print
An article really long,
And the busy reader does not care
For couple of yards of song.
SO gather your wits in the smallest space,
If you'd win the authors crown,
And every time you write, my friend,


Boil it down.
Year: 1879

The Empress of Austria likes a
solitary hunting expedition. With
her favorite rife in hand, she goes
deep into the wooded mountains and
solitary valleys which stretch round
the imperial domain in every direction.
Dressed in rough costume Of the Ty-
rol, she will often make excursions of
two or three days duration, staying at
night at some distant cot, wherc the
only fare, besides the game she brings
with her, is goat cheese and milk, with
black bread.
Year: 1879

There is an i'm mense increase in the
sale of public lands, owing to the mi
gratory movement from the States.
The land grant roads will profit large
ly by this, and the Northern Pacific
is likely to find its treasury enriched
by a handsome amount in preferred
stock in exchange for land on its line.
Year: 1879

\ paragraph 10 last weeks COURIER
stated there was not case Of any kind
of sickness 10 the corporate limits
This was an error, as we learn there
were two parties at that time confined
to their beds from sickness. Our OBJ
ject was to indicate the general health.
fulness of the town, which was true.
Year: 1879

In an article speaking of the ad-
vantages of Memphis as cotton mar


ket and its superiority over New


Orleans, the PauOla Miss Star says:


All our people know Memphis is the
best market. They have tried both,
and they know, too, that it is the


legitimate, the natural market of this
section of country. They know, too,
that she has been a terrible sufferer
during two consecutive summers and
autumns, and their earnest sympa-
thies have gone out to her. : Let
them show their sympathy now in a
material and substantial way, by not
letting New Orleans rob her of her
legitimate trade while she is in dis
tress, and locked in by a Gordon OF
guarantees. Let them hold on to
their cotton, and our word for it, they
will be the gamer in doing so. While
at the same time they will be doing
that much toward helping dear old
Memphis recover from her distress.
Again we repeat, Remember Mem
Dhis."
Year: 1879

The Decca muslins of India are
among the most wonderful evidences
Of the hand-skill of the strange peo-
pie Of the mysterious East. These
fabrics, which are spun and woven en-
tirely by hand, and are the product of
obscure and curious processes, un-
known and unattainable by the West
ern nations. like the fabrication of
Damascus steel and the making of
camels hair shawls, are maryels of in
genuity and skill, and they illustrate
tue poetry Of cotton; the most delicate
of these fabrics is known by the name
Of woven air" 1t can only be made
in the early morning and in the even
ings, when the air is full of moisture
and the dew is on the grass. The
processes by which it is woven are
kept secret, and the people who do
the work are compelled first to pass
through a long course of training and
initiation. Their delicate wares are
Of such ethereal texture as to be al
most invisible, and yet are so endur-
ing that they will bear washing and
wear in wonderful manner. This
precious stuff is monopolized for the
use Of the ladies of the Oriental ha.
rems, and is said to be worth hundreds
Of dollars per yard.
Year: 1879

AhllduolPild ASuBelsI


If ever there was a gallant soldier
who needed some careful man with
well balanced mind to read and revise
his letters and dispatches before he
sends them off, Lieutenant General
Philip Sheridan is the man. In his
hands the pen is nearly as dangerous
to himself as his sword is to his enc
mics. In his last dash at the interior
department, which ought never to
have occurred in view Of his former
experiences with General Sehurz, he
has been very badly repulsed again.
1t does begin to look just little, per-
haps, as if the lieutenant general had
been petted too much, and so is in
clined to behave like spoiled child.
Year: 1879

1t is related by Chester, Pennsyl-
vania, lady that when General VIM
Harrison was running for the Presi-
denoy he stopped at the old Washing
ton House for dinner. After dinner
wine was served. 1t was noticed that
the general pledged his toasts in water
and one of the gentlemen from New
York in offering another said Gen.
eral, will you not favor me by drinking
a glass Of wine?" The general de.
clined in very gentlemanly manner.
Again he was urged to join them in a
glass Of wine. This was too much
lie rose from the table, his tall form
erect, and in the most dignifed man
ner replied Gentlemen, / have re-
fused to partake of the wine cup
that should have been sufficient .
though you press the cup to my lips
not a drop shall pass the portals. I
made resolve when | started in life
that | would avoid strong drink and
| have never broken it. | am one of
a class of seventeen young men who
graduated, and the other sixteen
fill drunkards graves-all through
the pernicious habit of wine drinking
| owe all my health, happiness and
prosperity to that resolution. Will
you urge me now ?"
Year: 1879

The wealthiest man in Kalamazoo,
Mich, was approached in the street by
an excited little boy, who said mis-
ter, my sister is in the Aume, over
there if you'll get her out I'll give
you a dollar" The man rescued the
imperiled child. A few days after
ward the boy entered his Office and
put on his desk dollar in small coin,
having broken open a toy bank and
sold q hobby horse to raise the amount.
But, unlike most wealthy men, this
one in Kalamazoo was not perDicious,
and the faithfulness Of the little boy
in redeeming his promise made such
an impression on his mind that he
handed back halt Of the money to the
little fellow and Immediately invited
the gangin the Office to go and have
something with the balance Of the
bill.
Year: 1879

A new device has been designed by
which linen ulster can be used all
winter and appear as warm as beaver
overcoat. The old plan of putting a
fur collar on a linen coat has been
done away with, and now fire. place
is painted on the tail of the linen
ulster, in natural colors, and the
wearer looks as though he was in
profuse perspiration in the coldest
weather.
Year: 1879

As we see the great advance that has
been made in the last fifty years in many
departments of labor, the better methods,
by which economy in time, in muscle,
and OF course money-money being only
the result of time and labor, are gained,
we ask has not the time arrived when we
should turn our attention to domestic
economy? Are We not ready for better
and less wasteful methods of conducting
our household? It is not our purpose
here to look into the reasons, and ask
why this most necessary and useful de-
partment of life and labor is the one last
to be taken up for reform Many of the
causes are self-evident, SO apparent that
it would seem to be unnecessary to
enumerate them.


Now, however, so many thinking men
and women are asking this question, that
the next step after agitation and intelli-
gent dlscontent, must be experiment.
Already many excellent inventions for
better ways of doing home work have
been devised, but they are either not yet
heard of by those who need and would
be glad TO use them, or they are too ex-
pensiye to be attained by small, separate
households; or, as is often the case, they
would unnecessarily multiply kitchen
utensils where the small, inconyenient
kitchen is crowded already.


It is very clear that the only way to
any real improvement must be in some
form of combined labor; where, by the
ombination of capital, numbers and in
telligence, several or many families can
! procure the best machines and most
Skilled laundry men or women and
cooks. One uneducated person can not
be supposed to be excellent IN various
departments, and we rarely find one who
is excellent in any, but under 9 better
method inducements would be onered 70
make il worth ones while to be an artist
in every branch; and instead OF food
cooked by an inexperienced woman who
had hardly known how to cook anything
more than potatoe; or fieid hand
from Southern plantation, who had not
been able to try her skill on much more
than corn cakes, for these we should be
able to employ persons who knew some
thing of the science of cooking and COM
/ bining and preparing food suitable fol
refined and highly organized men and
women.


Many experiments will doubtless b
| tried before we find the perfect way, bu


let the experiments be made, we are Ger


tainly ready for them.


| The generation of Young people grow


ing up will adapt themselves very read


lily to new forms and methods. The bur


den of large house and all of its care


will be thing of the past, as soon as


is seen that we can have home, and 81


of its joys and comforts, without Il


cares. This viii be stride in the diret


ton OF making life fine art, worthy {


thinking beings, instead of the worry


is to most people.
Year: 1879

That newspaper wit who revived the
joke about the lady who laced tight IN or
der to prevent wastefulness win hereafter
remain qniet when he has been informed
that recent explorations by DR.. Schlie-
mann prove conclusively that for thou
sands OF years before Noah laid the bull
of the ark thu centennial of this joke vas
celebrated in Egypt.
Year: 1879

and who was often found dancing with
the hurdy gurdies.


Sixth Any man who, after taking
few drinks, would pin his ears back and
walk around from place to place, begging
Tor some one to step on the tall Of his coat.


There were several other misdcneanors
which came under the Sackers' notice,
wn'ch will not mention here. The sack
isvery mild and yet very convincing to all
who come under the heal OF Dcadnors,
and If few lodges of Sackers were organ
lick OIL the Sound there would be fewer
dead beats. tramps and Others who make
night hideous; in fact this plan is a puri-
tier in Its way. S. r.
Year: 1879

door-yard, or vine TO cover the bars
and weather. beaten walls of the house
Here sons and daughters were grew.
ing up in ignorance, and, with such
surroundings, passing the spring and
freshness Of their lives. And ! have
said, Is it any wonder that these up.
lovely places are forsaken for tie
rudsss society and coarsest an,use-
ment that can be found elsewhere /?
Is it any wonder that out of such
such schools as these there should yo
an element of lawlessnsss, misruIe
and vice, to corrupt and destroy
everything that is lovely and Of good
report :? Who are to convert
these drsary and doleful homes into
places Of order and beauty, till thew
shall win their inmates away from all
the coarse and dissipating attractions
outside and bind them there, where
refinement and purity and peace have
their dwelling place ? The daughters
OF our land that arc now receiving
the right education and culture. II
it be true, as most are willing to al.
low, tnst, "the hand that rocks the
cradle rules the world" it is most
important that that hand should
beguidsd by knowledge and wisdom,
and it should bear rule, not BY force
and violence, but by discretion, ten.
derness and love, and that, like the
lily which it sometimes rivals, is
should be the unfailing sign and sym-
bol of truth and purity. They that
rule there, and thus, are worthy Of
all honor; and they that train and
fit our daughters for this rule, come
behind no others in their claims up.
on our gratitude and affection.