smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1877




The pastor Of a church ia one OF


our large cities said not long ago Il


have officiated at forty weddings since


came here, and in every case save


one / felt that the bride waa running


an awful risk. Young met Of bad


habits aud fast tendencies nsver mar


ry girls of their own sort, but demand


a wife above suspicion. SO pure,
sweet women, kept from the touch Of
evil through the years of their girl
hood, give themselves, with all their
costly dover Of wOmanh0od, into the
keeping Of men who, in base associa-
tions, have learned to undervalue al
that belong to them, and then find no
time for repentance in the sad after
years. There is but one way out OF
this that | can see, and that ls for you
the young women Of the country
to require, ia association and marriage,
purity for purity, sobriety for sobriety,
and honor for honor. There is no
reason why the young men Of this
Christian land should not be Just as
virtuous as its young women; and ii
the loss of your society and love be
the price they are forced 20 pay for
vice, they will not pay il. admit
with sadness that not all Of our young
women are capable Of this high stand
ard for themselves or others. hut be-
lieve there are enough earnest, thought
tul girls in the society Of our country
to work wonders il faithfully aroused"
Year: 1877

The British papers publish the fol-
lowing extract of letter written to a
friend by Carlyle:


"A good sort Of man is Darwin, and
we'll meaning, but with very little in
tellect. All, il is sad, terrible thing,
to see nigh a whole generation Of men
and women protesting to be cultivated,
locking around in a purblind fashion
and finding no God in this universe.
suppose it is q reaction from the
reign of cant and hollow pretense, pro-
Tossing to believe what we have got to.
All things from frog spawn. The gos-
pei of dirt is the order Of the day,
The older l grow-and / now stand
on the brink of eternity-the more
comes back to me the sentence in the
catechism which / learned when q
child, and the fuller and deeper its
meaning becomes, What is the chiei
end of man To gloriiy God and en-
10y Him forever. No gospel of dirt
teaching that men have descended
from frogs, through monkeys, can evel
set that aside"
Year: 1877

When the summer of youth is slow
ly wasting on the night-fall of age, and
the shadow of the path becomes deep
er, and life wears to its close, it is
pleasant to look through the vista of
time upon the sorrows and felicities of
our earlier years. If we have had a
home to shelter and hearts to rejoice
with us, and friends have been gath
cred around our freside, the rough
places of wayfaripg will have been
worn and smoothed away in the twilight
of life, and dark spots we have passed
will grow brighter and more beautiful.
Happy indeed are those whose inter-
course with the world has not changed
the tone of their holier feeling, or
broken those musical chords of the
heart, whose vibrations are so melodi-
Gus, so tender and so touching in the
evening Of their lives.
Year: 1877

Matthew Dorm, the monster headed
boy, is dead. He was fifteen years of
age, and was certainly q curiosity, if
not monstrosity, so far as his head
was concerned. 1t is said that it was
four feet in circumference, and weigh
ed almost eighty pounds. He was of
Irish parentage. When six weeks old
his head began growing much more
rapidly than his body, and continu-
ed up to grow up to within few
weeks of his death. He was never
able to sit up, but could move his head
from right to left while lying on his
pillow. During the Centennial Ex-
hibition, at Philadelphia, he was taken
there by speculative persons, but the
undertaking did not prove successful
there or in Albany, where he was sub
sequently exhibited for a few days.
His body at the time of his death
weighed about one-half as much as
his head.
Year: 1877

Learn from the earliest days to en-
ure your principles against the perils of
ridicule You can no more exercise
your reason if you live in the constant
dread of laughter, than you can enjoy
your life if you are in constant terror
of death. If you think it right to diff
fer from the times, and to make point
of morals, do it. however rustic, how
ever antiquated, however pedantic it
may appear; do it pot for insolence,
but seriously aud grandly-as q man
who wore a soul of his own in his
bosom, and did not wait till it was
breathed into him by the breath Of
fashion.-Sidney Smith.
Year: 1877

An Irish girl was ordered to ham
the washed clothes on the horse in th'
kitchen to dry. Her mistress shortly
after found very gentle family horse
standing in the Kitchen completely
covered with the articles that hac
been washed that day. Upon interro
eating the girl, the reply was. Och
to be sure ye told me to hang the
clothes upon the horse in the kitchen
aud the baste is the kindest / eve
saw"
Year: 1877

WE have no heart TO comment upo
a spectacle that is n judicial disgraC
to the American name and characte
a burning libel upon the very name
popular government and Tepublics
liberty, which are sure 70 condemn u
highest judicial tribunal Of our couE
try to the contempt Of mankind
Omaha Herald.
Year: 1877

THAT the Tribunal has proved
neither fair nor hOnest-thAt il has re
fused to discharge its duty in man
ner TO secure the the respect and con-
fidence of the country.-that il has
made itself simply q machine for sus-
tanning fraud-must cause regret and
humiliation to those who sustained the
bill as well as TO those who opposed il.
But certainly this cannot justify any
outcry against our respected leaders
Montgomery AdUertiser.
Year: 1877

A WOMAN is either worth a good
deal or nothing. If good for nothing,
she is not worth getting jealous for
if she be a true woman she will give no
cause for jealousy. A man is brute
to be jealous Of a good woman. and q
fool to be jealous OF a worthless one,
but he is a double fool 10 cut bis
throat for either of them.
Year: 1877

Rowland Hill was once requested
preach a sermon TO the elect. l
promptly replied: Have the goo
ness to mark the elect with a piece
chalk, so that / may know them
The request was not insisted on.
Year: 1877

On motion of Mr.. Smith the resolu-
ton in regard to the committee to go
to New York and confer with the
ond-holders was taken up and adopt
ed after a suspension of the rules.


If now the right sort of commit
tee be appointed, if they do their work
we'll and do it quickly, and if, on their
reporting back to the Assembly, our
Representatives and Senators legislate
Justly, wisely and with energy, they
will atone for many instances in which
they have done those things which
they ought not to have done, and left
undone those things which they ought
to have done"


But there is an alarming number of
IFS in this hypothesis.
Year: 1877

RETURNING BOARD BoAsTs-pICKErT


AND MADDOX TO BE "BLowN SKY


WASHINGTON, February 2.-The Loui
siana investigation was continued to-day
by the House committee. Maddox gave
some further testimony, which was main
ly corroborative of that already elected
from him. The impression here is that
the letter which is considered of so much
importance, and which Maddox was CIV
en- until to morrow to produce, is in the
custody of some person in Baltimore. The
republicans to night profess to be satisfied
with the testimony Of Andersen given to-
day, and argue that it puts the boot on
the other leg so far as corruption and
bribery are concerned. 1t is, however,
well assured that both Wells and Ander-
son will now stop at no assertion that
they imagine may break the force of the
testimony of Pickett and Maddox. 1t is
understood that Governor Palmer, of Illi-
nois. who Is pretty well posted on all the
matters connected with the action of the
returning boards, is likely to be summon
ed before the committee. Marshal Pit
kin, of Louisiana, stated in conversation
to day that the republicans of that State
were not at all alarmed at the testimony
of Maddox and Pickett; that they were
getting their witnesses all ready, and that
in day or two they would blow Maddox
Pickett and David Dudley Field sky high.
A suspicious circumstance is the evident
desire Of Mr.. Wilson, the counsel for
Wells and Anderson, to get them out of
the hands of the House committee and be
fore the Senate committee on privileges
and elections, the majority of which are
their personal and political friends, and
who will deal with them tenderIy nd
put just such questions as they can give
answers to.


Statements have been published in the
partisan journals allegingharsh treatment
by the Sergeant-at'arms of the House of
the members of the Louisiana returning
board, who are now held in custody for
contempt. These statements are utterly
and entirely untrue. The prisoners are
confined in comfortable committee rooms
and have the pick of the bill of fare of the
House restaurant. Saying nothing about
the colored members, who are without
doubt, dupes and creatures of their white
confreres it can truthfully be said that
| Wells and Anderson are receiving much
better treatment than they deserve OF
will get, if the legal courts Of Louisiana
ever get hold of them.
Year: 1877

MERCHANT TAILoRING.-Mr.H Howard
Simpson having taken the store No;
CANT style, is prepared to do all work in
his line in the best manner and latest
style. Mr.. S. is master of his profession,
having travelled through several coun'
tries in Europe and finished his trade in
Paris, where he received full instruction
in the art of cutting. He keeps on hand
a full assortment of piece goods which
he will make up at moderate prices, and
guarantee perfect fit and entire satisfac-
fion. We hope for him a liberal patron,
age, believing him to be in every respect
worthy of the same.
Year: 1877

In this moist and variable climate colds
are the rule rather than the exception.
DR.. Bulls Cough Syrup is just the remedy
for every one to take when suffering
from cough, cold or any throat trouble.
Year: 1877

part of the skeleton is the frontal bone.
1t is very low and differs radically from
any ever seen in this section before. IL
is q narrow but rather heavy ridge OF
bone which, instead of extending up
wards, as it does now in these days OF
civilization, receded back from the eye
brows. forming fiat head, and thus in
dicates a low order OF mankind. Ii IS
the opinion of the scientific gentlemen
who are making these discoveries that
these bones are the remains OF prehls-
toric man. They do not resemble the
present existing race oil Indians. nor are
the mounds constructed upon pattern or
model known TO have been in use by any
race of men now 10 existence in America.
The bodies are discovered in q sitting
posture in the mounds, and among the
bones are found stone weapons, such as
flint knives, aud flint scrapers, all OF them
different in shape to the arrow-heads,
war hatchets and other stone tools and
weapons known to have been in use by
the aboriginal Indians of this land when
discovered by the whites.
Year: 1877

The Kansas City Academy of Science
has recently made some very interesting
discoveries of mounds on the bluffs north
of and about four miles distant from kan-
sas City. As yet, only ono of these
mounds has been opened. Judge West
discovered a skeleton about two weeks
ago and made a report TO other members
of the society. They accompanied him
10 the mound, and not far from the sur
face discovered, aud took out the remains
of two skeletons. The bones are very
large, so large, in fact, that when COM
pared with an ordinary skeleton OF mod
ern date, they appear to have formed part
of a giant. The head bones. such as
have not rotted away, are monstrous in
size. The lower jaw of one skeleton is
in state of preservation. and is double
the size of the ordinary Jaw. The teeth
in this Jaw bone are large, and appear to
have been ground down and worn away


by contact with roots and uncooked food.
The Jaw bone indicates immense muscular
strength. The thigh bone when COM
pared with that of an ordinary modern
skeleton, looks like that of horse. The
length, thickness aud muscular develop
ments are remarkable, Bat the peculiar
Year: 1877

US better. I'm sure it would make us
happier, and you too. Suppose you try
TO give US a little more family piety. This
is nv first sermon. aud hope it will be
productive of good. There's no company
here, so | won't pretend that 1t has been
preached from Il sense of Guly, but be-
cause feel out OF patience and just like
speaking my whole mind "


Well, what did Mrs. Simpkins say in
answerP This only: that she was glad
there was one in her own family to hear
him, that she was glad there were some
people who had good opinion OF her;
that Rev. Dr.. Smoothiougue had told
some of tho church that very week, he
wished there were few more just like
her.
Year: 1877

of all who have ever received sill
YER medal for saving human life, Eudoxie
Cherreton, aged seven, is probably the
youngest. On October p, she was pas
turing some sheep, near Tramolie' in
France, when her little companion, i've
years old, who was washing her apron
from board over deep tank, tipped
over and fell head foremost into the
water. Instead of running away Tor
help and crying, the brave little girl
quickly righted the board, caught her
drowning companion by the heel and
succeeded in rescuing her. She then
stripped. wrapped her benumbed and
almost lifeless protege in her own warm
clothes, and then ran off to get help.
Year: 1877

Practices prevail to quite an ex-
tent among a certain class Of news
paper makers, in diIuting their goods
with thin solution Of headlines.
This may have originated in the GUS
tom among law reporters of giving
the syllabus Of the decision in con-
else form as q caption to the full
opinions Of the Court, but as no par
allel exists between the two cases,
either in the necessity or the manner
in which the custom is carried out.
the only object visible to the naked
eye in this shallow headline bust.
ness is to consume space and defraud
the purchaser. A simple indication


ofthe subject matter of an article i.
not only unobjectionable, but desir.
able, although the leading journals
ofthe world, the London Times, etc,
Year: 1877

ANOTHER INVESTIGATION. = The Mayor
and Police Justice have resolved to ascer-
tain, if possible, by whose order and for
what purpose a pane OF glass was taken
from the streetlamp, corner OF Ninth and
Franklin streets, and its place filled with
sheet OF tin. The police have never made q
report in regard to this lamp as far as
known
Year: 1877

JUBILEE SISGERs.-The New Orleans Ju-
bilee Singers will give Il concert for the
benefit of the Sidney Baptist church this
week. The reputation OF these singers is
established here, and the worthy object for
which this entertainment is given will no
doubt attract large audience.
Year: 1877

PAsruRfyG CATTLE ON THE HIcH-
wAr.-The Philadelphia Times in re-
cent article says it is popularity sup
posed that the fruit and grass growing
along a public road are public property.
This is not the case. Every person has
the right to pass along the road but has
no right to the products growing by the
roadside. Whenever the traveller, or
cattle or hogs running at large, diverge
on either side Of the limits of the road
they become trespassers. The true Of
fee of outside fences, and of all fences,
is. not to keep on. the stock Of neigh
Dor but to keep in ones own. Much is
said Of the cruelty of preventing the
poor man from turning his COW out in
the public road; but it seems that in
street equity the right TO turn cattle at
large does not exist. and again, it is well
known that the road cow is mostly ad-
dicted to fence breaking and to jump
ing, and is. therefore, great nuisance.
Every person who turns his stock into
the public road, for the purpose Of pas
turing them, does so at the risk Of hav-
ing them impounded by the owner Of
the land alongside Of which they may
be found. r E
Year: 1877

RErRuGERAroRsAND HOW TO MAKE
CNE.-Take large, tight box OF the
required size. and put some blocks on
each corner for legs. Then take a
small box. leaving space of at least
six inches on the sides and bottom
Place layer Of powdered charcoal, fine
sawdust, or some other good non-con-
ductor upon the bottom and set the
smaller BOX in. Then pack the char
coal or sawdust all about in the space
between the two 10 the top. Make a
closely fitting cover for each box. The
ice should be placed in the box in some
tin vessel, so arranged ina: the water
will run of through the bottom Of both
boxes. If such refrigerator is tightly
and well make and placed iq a cool
place, 100 pounds Office will last aweek
in il. -'1+
Year: 1877

.
need of praise. The "Song of the
Shepherdess,' with the introduction
of the echo, was a sweet little gem.
Miss G. G. Rounds gave us poetical
account of "The Maids of Attilash" in
a forcible manner, giving evidence of
study and good memory. The NOR
al was good and should be we'll heed
ed. A tableaux, called the ssArtist's
Studio" was well carried out, espe-
cially the portraits in the background,
which were extremely life-like. We
heard whisperings of large sums of
money offered for the sole proprietor
ship of the central portrait. We
would family and humbly express our
opinion that coin is not the medium
through which possession of that lit
tie piece of property can be gained.
Miss Dimick narrated in verse the
unhappy history of "The Proud Miss
Mcbride" This lady's delivery is
pleasant, and we do not doubt she re-
cited this poem in her accustomed
manner, but we can't say. Probably
most of the audience are in the same
state Of miserable uncertainty as our
selves. We were deprived OF the
pleasure of hearing this recitation,
partly by the insane wanderings of a
plaguey boy with water-bucket,
which made a racket seven times
louder than is won't to be made. It's
very strange, Sir, that boy who has
arrived at the maturity and attendant
discretion of 10 years should possess
no more sense than to so openly and
unnecessarily disturb public assem-
blage. But stranger still, that it
should not occur to some person of
ripper years to check such "youth to
fortune and to fame unknown" in his
mad career. We were further pre-
vented from hearing the recital of the
aforesaid voracious and startling his
tory of Miss McB. by the opportune
entrance, at convenient intervals, of
some well developed specimens of
the genus homo; who, on account of
the mud, had covered the lower ends
of their bodies with unusually heavy
cow-hide boots. These, as they
trapsed the bare floor, were brought
down with sufficient emphasis and
becoming yigor to portend the digity
of the man who was riding therein.
Can the average moss-back not learn
to enter public gathering quietly.
and more quietly proceed to seal
and take it quietly? If we can learn
this we can find many in towns who
will need instruction. Or is it a ne
cessity for Granger to pound the
floor with such power that ''depart-
ing he leaves behind him footprints"
in the floor? We think if they
would practice little, they would
readily acquire the mack of walking
as stealthily as many of their COM
peers do. For there are many who can
walk quietly OH bare floor, whether
you have ewes met them or not.


Near the close, Miss c. G.. Rounds
sang in an excellent manner, comic
piece-'Loving Husband" Her act
ing was superb. The fact is, if we
had laughed much more, we would
have feared the consequences. How
a chap could sit there as shy as did
the supposed husband, when such me-
lifluous words were issuing from such
a course, passes our ken.


Well, Sir, we enjoyed ourselves q
sright smart chance" notwithstand-
ing few pullbacks, or rather, draw
backs. NED l.. GILsEy.
Year: 1877

Provided, That nothing in this act shall oper-
ate in any way to affect impair, or defeat any
adverse claimto the land described in said pat
ent or TO any part thereof; And provided fur
ther, That the United States shall have the
right TO remove therefrom any property, build
ings, or fixtures it may have thereon.
Year: 1877

When you and are asleep, my love,


Under the carvCn stone;
Who will he left to weep, my love,


Of all that we have known?
But the lark will sing as clear and free,
AS he springs from his nest IN the alder tree
And the robin carol hearts desire
Above us in the red rose bricr.
Though your voice is low and weak, my


dear,


There is lovclight in your eye.
Tho the roses fade from your check, my


dear,


Loves roses never die
But it's oh, for the long and lasting sleep
Where the wildwood honcysucklcs creep
Under the violcts to lie,
And let the weary world 90 hy.
Year: 1877

1t is a curious fact that an eight
year old boy can t sit for five minutes
on a cane seat chair without getting
the back-ache, bat he will walk right
out and sit on the top Of a hitching
post for half an hour and feel like
peaches over it.
Year: 1877

1T was perhaps ordained by provi-
lence to hinder US from tyranizing
over one another, that no individual
should be of such Importance as to
cause BY his retirement or death any
chasm in the world.-Emerson.
Year: 1877

A young fellow who induIges in
the use Of strong drink, says at night
he feels as if he owned all the proper
ty in the world In the morning he
feels as if he owned none, and was in
arrears for his taxes on what he
owned the night before.
Year: 1877

I never owned mule. / came near buy
ing one once. He was a fne-looking ami
NAL his ears stood up like the side spires
on an Episcopal church. His tail was trim
med down so that it looked like tar brush
leaning up against him. He was striped off
like the American flag, and Raphaels cher
ubs never looked more angelic than did that
mule. He looked all innocence though he
was in no sense. The owner sat in his wag.
on with his chin resting on his hand and his
elbow resting on his knee. In the other
hand he held stick with the brad on the
end of it. / examined the mule and asked
the man few questions, and out of mere
form inquired if the mule was kind or if he
kicked. "Kind2 Kick ?" said the man, and
these were the last words he ever uttered.
He reached his stick over the front of the
wagon and stuck the brad into that mule. 1t
was awful to see man snuffed out as quick
ly as he was. 1t almost took my breath he
went so suddenly. never saw the thread
of life snap so abruptly as it did on that oc-
casion. He didn't have time to leave a mes.
sage for his family. That mule simply
ducked his head, and then aTair of heels
flew out behind there was crash, fly
ing of splinters, and that was all and the
next moment that mule and / stood alone
my face covered with astonishment two feet
deep, and his covered with an old bride
The next day | read an account in the tele-
graphic news Of shower of flesh in Ken
lucky, l was the only man that could ex-
plain that phenomenon, and I did not dare
to lest should be implicated in the affair
with the other mule.


| have seen death in many forms, but don't
recollect of ever seeing funeral gotten up
with less pomp and display that on that oc'
casion. If had my choice, to either work
in nitro.g ycerine factory or take care of 6
mule, | should go to the factory, as in cas-,
! of any explosion, there would be more pos
sibility of my friends finding some little me


mentoes Of me, with which to assuage the


grief A very small piece of me would light
en- very big sorrow.


! will hunt round and if find any othe


facts that belong to the mule | will writ


them down and send them to you by expres
G, ., De-,
Year: 1877

How easily He turns the tides r.,
just now the yellow beach was dry,
just now the gaunt rocks all were bare ttl
The sun beat hot and thirstily
Each seaweed waved its long brown hair
And bent and languished as in pain;
Then in flashing moments space
The white foam-feet which spurned the sand
Paused in their joyous outward race,
Wheeled, wavered, turned them to the land,
And swift, legionary band


Poured on the waiting shores again.
How easily He turns the tides
The fullness of my yesterday
Has vanished like a rapid dream,
And pitilcss and far away
The cool, refreshing waters CLEAN;
Grim rocks of dread and doubt and pain
Rear their dark fronts where once was sea;
But can smile and wait for Him
Who turns the tides so easily,


Fills the spent rock-poo to its brim,
And up from the horizon dim


Leads his bright morning waves again.


-lSUsAN COOLIDGE.