smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1877


Ten thousand sewers through the land
Passed needless on their way:
Ten thousand seeds In every hand
OF every sort had they.
They cast seed here, they cast seed there,
They cast seed everywhere.
The land forest straghtway grew,
With plants Of every kind;
And kindly fruits, and poisonous too
In that wood you could hnd;
For trees grew here, and trees grew there,
And trees grew everywhere.
Anon, as many year went by,
Those sewers came once more,
And wandered meath the leaf-hid sky,
And wondered at the store;
For fruit hung here, and fruit hung there.
And fruit hung everywhere.
Then plucked they many berry bright
None could their right deny
And some ate to their long delight,
And some ate but to die
While some pucked here, and some plucked there
And some plucked everywhere.
Nor knew they in tha. tangled wood
The trees that were their own;
Yet as they plucked as each one should
Each plucked what he bad sown:
SO do men here, 50 do men there,
SO do men everywhere.
Year: 1877

A preparation so elegantly favored and medic
inaly effective as to utterly surpass all previous
preparations OF crude ginger and household rem
e3ies for the relief and cure of diseases and all.
sons, and 10 sudden changes of temperature.
Year: 1877

The following special TO the Inter
Ocean is an Interesting bit of history
ofthe reckless prevalence of crime in
West Virginia:


According TO reports from the inter-
nal revenue officers in West Virginia,
it appears that the Illicit distillation of
whisky is carried on TO large extent
in that State. Collector Duvall for
wards to the department a report of a
recent tour of inspection made by one
Of his deputies, in which he says the
Clerk of the Mercer County Court,
David Foley, and Counsel Walker, u
prominent Justice of that county, are
both engaged in Illicit disi.llation. In
his report the deputy says: cit is an
astonishing fact that every lawyer
aud officer Of the court in Mercer is In
the whisky ring. They are "a band
of brothers, and will, they say, go
down together. Thompson, the editor
of the HuntOn Herald, Is q member of
the ring. and his paper is their organ.
He is also member ofa line of coun-
terfeiters which / have traced from
White Sulphur Springs to Charles
town, and, although this is not part of
our business, am working 1t up, and
Thompson knows il. There is more
outlawry in Rawley, Summers. and
Mercer Counties than you can imag-
inc. Twas not In Rawley six hours
until I discovered that the United
States Commissioner, who was sup
posed to represent the interests of the
government, was in league with the
distillers and counterfeiters."


The Commissioner referred to above
was summarily removed upon the facts
being brought to the attention of the
District Judge. The department will
take prompt steps to ferret out and stop
the frauds upon the the revenue, and
send sufficient force for the purpose.
The strength and character of the or
ganization is such that it may be nec-
essary to use the military force to en-
force the law.
Year: 1877

The reliable foreign news is not of
Importance since our last issue. The
armies are manoeuvering, but as yet
no important battle has been fought.
1t is thought that a decisive battle
will soon be fought at or In the vicini-
ty of Erzeroum. England and the
other great powers are still maintain
ing q neutral attitude.
Year: 1877

The editor of the Falrbury Times,
In attempting to ape Sylvester Frank
lin Wilson, should improve his syn
tax and photography, and become
possessed of little more common
sense, If possible. journalistic hon.
esty, which he lacks in a large meas
ure would also slightly improve him,
so that he would either publish the
article of cotemporary or tell the
truth about it.
Year: 1877

manufacturing and commercial inter
ests. supplemented by our raif an,l
other carrying facilities. When all
these work together tremendously for a
common end aud purpose, We can welt
understand that no slight cause can in,
terrupt the rapid progress of the eoun-
try toward that prosperity which lies
before her in the immediate future.


Until we have much lsnser pop,i-
iation and much more money, the farm
ing interests OF our section will oyertop
every thing else In view of this per-
fecsly self-eyieent fact let it 90 out
abroad that Texas wants only that class
of immigration which will tend TO the
rapid opening up of this sure means of
wealth, only such as are able to buy
small farms and improve and operate
them. When we have added two or
three hundred thousand more farmers
10 the population OF North Texas. We
will then have ample capital OF our own
to build and operate manufactures.
Nov IL We do 80, we must assiduousiy
court, unwilling. and, per consequence,
costly capital. and perhaps we might, if
successful, be called upon to pay rather
too much for the whistle.
Year: 1877

Why don't some individual owning a
claim against the Dallas and Wichita
push it now and force the sale of the
road, so that it will go into the hands of
a new management likely to finish and
equip it. Haven't we waited long
enough for DR.. Reid 2 The Kansas roll
ing mill company, Pointer and oben-
chain, Calder and the rest. Sell out
the road to whoever will buy and COM
plete it-Morgan. If no one else. But
it would be much better to put it into
the hands OF a company willing to re-
duce it from standard to narrow
guage road
Year: 1877

Tue Gainesville Hesperian enters upon
its second year with many bright prom-
ises of success. Indeed, it deserves it
all, and much more, Tor it is really a
very superior paper in every respect,
while geographically it is very nearly
faultless
Year: 1877

THEER is something seriously wrong
with the mails between this point and
sherman Ii is the rarest thing now
tor us 10 get a CLINT AT Sherman paper
viii the postal authorities look into
the matter
Year: 1877

STANLEY MATHEWS is provided for let
come what will. II he misses the sen.
ate the supreme bench will catch him,
should that also fail he can fall back
on his talking talent, and always earn
bread and meat,
Year: 1877

A clam Of the large hard-shell speths,
taken at the beach, with grip like a vice,
had been left lying loose, and had opened its
mouth wide for breath of fresh air and
gone to sleep with it open, when a grimalkin
CHANGED to pass that way, and inhaling the
Scent of the delicious morsel, forthwith COM
menced a search, which revealed the where
abouts of the bivalve. Pussy was bound to
possess the clam. Cautiously, yet earnestly,
she went to work. First she walked round
and round It, cycling it on every side. Then
she poked it with her paw, turning it round
and round The clam by this time had got
its eyes open. Its curiosity was aroused to
see what the cat would do. Next pussy
tried to insert its nose between the shells.
The clam knew she couldn't do it, and he
lay there and laughed in his sleeve. Next
pussy inserted one of her paws between the
shells and rapidly withdrew it, watching its
effets on the objective point. Not muscle,
however, did his clam-ship move, not so
much as TN eye-winker. Emboldened by
this, puss put her paw full upon the coveted
carcass of the bivalve. The latter winked
with one eye, as much rs to say, "Now, old
lady, I've got you !" and, bringing those two
jaws of his together with snap, held that
cats paw with grip that filled her with
astonishment. First came spit, then pro-
longed yell then spit and yell altcrnat y.
and a series of gyrations that would have
done honor to circus performer. She snaked
that clam oil over tie yard, up against door
step, between two fence pickets, and over
stone wall. But the clam meant business
and wouldn't let 60. Finally the cries and
outics of the poor creature brought two men
to the scene, and by their united efforts the
grip of the clam was loosened and puss re.
ased Press.
Year: 1877

A letter from Paris to Philadelphia pa
per says, "Queer things are occasionally to
be seen in Paris, but queerer sight than that
which 1 witnessed this morning on the Rue
de Ia Paix, it has rarely, IL ever, been my
lot to behold. In taking my morning walk,
I met large white poodle, shaved and clip
ped lion fashion, who wore round, black
velvet cap, coquettishly placed on the side
of his curly head. In his mouth he carried
q basket, to the handle of which small ecru
silk parasol had been adroitly attached in
such q manner that in carrying the basket
the dog held the parasol over his head, and
so shaded himself from the rays of the sun.
1t is impossible to describe the gravity and
aplom6 of his dogship, nor t.e immense
amusement of the street boys, and the pass
e-s-by at this novel spectacle"
Year: 1877

Says the Honolulu Commercial Advertiser:
When whaling shippers get together on
shore many are the interesting and anus
ing yarns that are spun, Of which .
careful listener with talent for "quill
driving" might make very readable book.
Here is a specimen retailed one day this
week in a ship chandler's store on Queen
street: This is rather tough story, but
the Kanaka who ran down coyote il now
in Honolulu. ns also several persons who
witnessed the race. It was on the coast Of
California, and the whaling brig Kohala's .
boats Captain Cogan) were sailing along
tho beach. when they saw dead whales
carcass on the sand with several coyotes On
and around it. Some Of the officers ex.
pressed q wish to get one Of these animals
alive, when one Of the native sailors said
that if they would land him he would catch
one alive. He was laughed at and called .
fool-for coyote is mighty spry creature.
He said he had run goats down ct the il.
lands, 80. for the fun Of the thing he was
landed close to the dead whale. stripping
naked with the exception Of . marc. and
having provided himself with some rope
yarns with which to tie his game we'll hs
started across the sandy plain with the COY.
ote some thirty yards in advance. amid the
shouts and laughter Of his shipmates. But
the coyote found he had no time to spare.
for when he Stacked his pace to look around
the Kanaka had gained on him. So the
two disappeared in the distance and were
not long in doing it; when last seen The
coyote was doing his level best and the
Kanaka evidently gaining on him. After
they had gone out Of sight the officer IN
charge Of the boat began to feel uneasy, for
it seemed to him that the Kanaka must b
mad to run down one of these nimble.
footed gentry. Two men were despatched
in the direction in which the CRITTERS"
were last seen. In . couple Of hours the
Kanaka WAS observed coming in the dis.
tance, and as he nearsd it was seen that he
carried something across his shoulder. II
was the coyote Securely muxzled and his
legs tied with rope yarns. The animal was
taken on board and the attempt made to
tame him, but resulted in failure. - he
Jumped overheard one day and swan
ashore.
Year: 1877

The school population of the United States
Is thirteen millions-nearly fourteen. OF
this number eight millions are enrolled in
schools, and only four aud one-half millions
are in average daily attendance. Through
the State and general governments, public
and private funds, provision is made for the
education of number Of children three
times as large as that actually in attendance.
With two-thirds of our educational force and
money wasted, who shall say that our sys-
tenn is q success?
Year: 1877

Harvey discovered the circulation Of the
blood before he was thirty-four. Yet some
editors get to be over hundred before they
can discover the exact circulation of their
own newspapers
Year: 1877

Lot N gather up the sinb ana


Lying al along our path;
Let US keep the wheat and roaes,
Casting out the thorns and cha,7l
Let Us find our sweetest comfurt
In the blessing Of to-day;
With the patient hand removing
All the briars FROM our way.
Year: 1877




y WASHINGTON Novs az, q q, NAT LAO a. m. the
Senate Is still In session, and the meis>heing
consumed in roll calls on dlatory motions and
amendments varied with occasional parlia-
mentary passages at arms. 1t Is noticeable
however that the Senators are getting better
humored than they were early in the evening
md the occasional little debates are much less
acrimonious,


Only about half the Senate is now on the floor,
the other half having paired Off and gone to
sleep to come on watch again about q. m,
when the half now on duty will take rest The
object OF the Republicans in this sort of flibust-
ering Is not clearly apparent. rs they all admit
that they have no hope Of defeating Butler.
Patterson and Conover say that they will sit 1t
out until Saturday night rather than yield to
theleast compromise which affects the seating
Oh Butler. The session Will undoubtedly last
all night, and may be prolonged all day to-mor-
row without recess.


Field Marshal Thurman has been at his post
without intermission since noon, and has been
on the floor for remarks Of greater or less
length no less than twenty times. His man
arement thus far has been without fault, and
Is said by the most experienced and widely
read parlamentarians, to be unexceled in the
history of deliberative contests.


AT this hour the galleries are still we'll filled,
and public interest runs as high as 1t did at any
period OF the electoral count, and well 1t may,
for the contest has become one for the political
control of the Senate itself. as well as for the
seating of Butler and his fellow claimants.


BITFTT,
Year: 1877

The Jefferson county bar has taken notice Of
the attacks made on the judicial integrity Of
Judge James NJ. Smiley by the Vicksburg Her
aid and New Orleans Times. Among the reSo-
lutions adopted are the following:


Resolved That it is the sense of the bar Of JEFF
ferson county formed from a long intercourse
socially and professionally with Judge Smiley,
that he is an honorable, conscientious and in
corruptible public offic~r-a man who has al
ways exhibited marked integrity and profound
learning on the bench, whose probity cannot, in
our opinion, be successfully impeached.


ResoLyed That we have profound respect
fer his high-toned judicial character, and we
deeply regret to see any attempt to injure or
destroy his weIl-earned reputation. which he
has acquired by many. years OF professional
labor at the lar and on the bench.
Year: 1877

New YORK. Nov. 27.-A dispatch from Kitty
Hawk says that no more bodies have been re-
covered from the wreck of the Huron. The
tide is running northeast, and probably num-
Der will come ashore further north. The sea is
too high to get boat to the wreck.
Year: 1877

As no great amount of damage was sus-
taineo by the breaking up of the Brandy
wine. which occurred on the 7th instant,
pubic attention has not been particularly
attracted to it's condition. A hasty inspec.
ton yesterday, however, by q HERALD re-
porter, revealed the fact that it's present
improved state should be source Of con-
graduation to owQers Of property along its
BANKS. Evidences Of the great force and
power Of the "break up'' are still visible in
me shape Of immense blocks of Ice piled
upon each other to the height Of fifteen or
twenty feet above the ordinary level Of the
creek. The stjam" extends from. Market
street Bridge to point one half mile below,
embracing within its grasp two schooners
and . canal boat, the latter showing great
signs OF distress, being partly crushed be-
tween the ice-foe and the pier at Grubb's
coal depot. On the south side NAV be seen
sloop perched high and dry upon q
wharf, az though the torrent had It in its
arms and carefully placed 1t out of harms
way. The effect Is most picturesque, and
not within the memory of the Oldest resi-
dent, has this historic creek presented 90
formidable an aspect. The advent of the
"break up" was anticipated by the mills,
and precautions were taken, so that with
the exception of slight flooding, no damage
was sustained. The water works were not
embarrassed to any extent. They are now
gaining their supply Of water from over the
wheel In place ofthe usual method of taking
It from the pit. Unless large and sudden
freshet should occur, no future danger is
apprehended. "''S
Year: 1877

A strange sight was witnessed one
afternoon recently by writer in the
Corinne Record office. Our attention
was attracted by several lusty squeaks
from the inside of pail, almost full of
water, into which half grown mouse
had fallen. The alarm had hardly died
away before four or five more mice ap-
peGred on the scene, and began Chamber
ing to the top edge of the pail. For
several moments after gaining the top
of the pail and catching sight Of the
mouse in the water squeaking confab
was held.


First ore mouse and then another
would cling to the rim of the bucket
with his hind legs, and while almost
touching the water with his nose,
squeak out either consolation or advice
to the immersed; but while all this was
going on the swimming powers of the
unfortunate mouse in the pail were
rapidly giving out. At last happy
thought seemed to strike the biggest
mouse in the crowd, and almost with
out squeak he firmly fastened his fore
feet to the edge of the pail and let his
body and tail hang down. The drown
ing mouse saw it, and making last
desperate effort for life, swan to the
spot, seized the tail of his brother
mouse, and amid squeaks of delight
from all the mice present, was hauled
high and dry out of the water and over
the edge of the bucket.
Year: 1877

light. and il seemed TO be swimming in
a splendor that was intoxicating to be-
hold. We traversed the plateau, and in
less than another hour we had scram-
bled up the steep into the cold, ghostly
moonlight, and simultaneously it semed
as if the rest of earth were extinguished
TO us; for beyond the circle of light all
was darkness. And here was the pure
perennial snow, very fine and little
moist and sending chill through the
body as we slowly walked across it to
the rude stone shelter that was our goal.
Ii consisted merely of blocks of stone
that had been thrown confusedly to-
gether from east to west when it had
been first discovered that Ben
Nevis surpassed by few feet
both Ben Macdhiu and Cairn-
gorm. We squatted down in compact
order as best we could, and proceeded
to draw on our TASKS and sandwiches.
A few lighted their pipes, and there
was faint attempt at jOcularity, but it
died away i'm space like an echo, while
not few were soon snoring in their
rugs, in imminent danger of suffocation.





l rose up quickly. The moon was
declining, and the eastern heavens, low
down, were rapidly assuming a deep
purple hue, above which, and blending
with it by infiniteismal gradations,
there was coming ont a belt of red, and
over this again zones of orange and
violet. At length faint illumination
be seen; as far as the weather was con-
cerned, we were going to have fair play.
The dawn advanced: the eastern sky
became illuminated and warm. The
sun had not Yet smitten the SHOWS of
the lower mountain; but the whole
eastern sky was. becoming deep orange,
passing upward through amber, yellow,
and vague green, to the ordinary firma-
mental blue. Away TO the north purple
clouds were becoming dimly defined,
hanging mOtionless, and giving depths
to the spaces between them. There
was something sanity in the scene-a
something that bewispered the repres-
sion of all action, and the substitution
for it of immortal calm. At last rose
the great artist of all this, the sun Hood
ing the revealed panorama of hill and
silver lined vale and burning lOch with
unspeakable glory. Here and there
along the lower slopes there appeared
faint, white streaks of mist that lost
transparency "a the moments advanced.
The gauzy haze of the distant air on
our plane, though Ifiicient to soften
the outlines and enhance the cOloring
of the seemingly endless mountains, was
far To thin too obscure them. Over their
crests and through the valleys the sun
beams poured unimpeded save by the
mountains themselves. which in some
eases drew their shadows in straight
bars of darkness through the illumin-
ated air. Far off to the southwest could
be seen the island of Butte, resting like
a couchant lion on the deep, and sur
rounded by score of the islets that
dot this portion of the Atlantic; and,
perched on the woody face of every
sheltered bay, shone the white walls of
some outlandish village port.


This strange, sweet light was fleeting,
however. Soon the whole horizon as
sumed its normal morning colors, and
heavy masses of cloud, hitherto invisible
or floating in their air like barges of
gold and purple, put on the gray, dull
livery of full day.-Appletons Journal.
Year: 1877

Men who use their muscles imagine
that men who use their brains are
strangers to hard work. Never was
there a greater mistake. Every sue
cessful merchant does more real hard
work in the first ten years of his busi-
ness career than 3 farmer or blacksmith
ever dreamed of. Make up your mind
to work early and late. if necessary,
that you may thoroughly master every
detail of the business upon which you
purpose to enter. The system of per-
sistent, rapid work once formed, you
have gained momentum that will
carry you very successfully through
many a pinch in business where less
persistent worker would find 1t vastly
easier to lie down and fail.
Year: 1877

1t was a clear, cool night when Rom
aid and 1 joined the little party of sun
worshipers who aspired to ascend four
thousand three hundred and seventy
three feet of as bleak and perilous
mountain slope as the Scotch mount
aims afford. We were driven in three
coaches TO the base of the mountain,
where we arrived at twelve O'Clock,
with four hours left to make the ascent
before dawn. On our way / had
a glance at the dark crumbling walls of
Inverlochy Castle all that remains of
stronghold whose antiquity no Schlie-
mann cares to ascertain; and also at
the handsomer modern structure Of the
same name occupied by Lord Abinger.
At the Ben Nevis Distillery, which was
to be our starting point, and which
nestles cozily in the shadow of the
mountain, guarded by a posse of gov
ernment "gaugers, we were each
handed flask of the S'mOuntain dew"
as inspiration for our journey: then,
each man grasping his staff, and re-
spending to the hoarse ''Are-you-
ready?' of the guide, we marched
away in pairs.


When we had accomplished the easier
half of the ascent, most of us were suf-
fering from intense thirst, and we
halted beside a tiny stream TO have a
draught qualified with a portion of the
now warm contents of our flask. There
was little conversation: all seemed to
have set themselves down to piece of
hard, silent work. The peak of the
mountain was not yet visible, being far
withdrawn behind the range, and we
could only see above us a dark semi
circle drawn across the sky. As we
slowly climbed the slope, picking our
way among masses of rock and patches
of strong. prickly heather, the preci-
pices on our right and left were apall-
ing i'm the dismal shadows which filled
them; but the sense of power and calm
self-possession was exceedingly sweet,
as from time TO time we paused to take
breath anu lODk dToullu US ~ ii>t We
emerged on a damp, barren plateau,
and sighted the peak. Up the arch of
the opposite heavens the moon, within
one day of being full, was sailing.
While for some minutes we leaned
against the shattered powders. which
pointed their long, weird. parallel
shadows toward the lurid northeast,
she appeared exactly touching the cone
of the mountain-the projection of the
peak on the disk darkening for time
our face to each other, and lifting of
the plateau, as if by magic, the attenu-
ated reflection of the rocks. Only for a
short though gloomy interval, however; !;
for the queenly orb sailed aloft, cleared
the mountain, and bore splendidly away
through the tinted sky. The motion
was quite visible, and resembled that of
vast balloon. All the lower portions
of the mountain were deeply shaded,
while the peak, craggy and irregular,
was fully exposed to the raining moon