smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1877

ceed with the regular docket OF
the district court now in session.
The attorneys in the cases set
for the day voluntarily waived
them in order to take up the case, but
the judge still refused to hear 1t, and
adjourned court about IL o'clock. Ii the
District Court docket is to Interfere with
this case, then it cannot be taken up for
two or three weeks to come. Nor can it
be taken up sooner, under the ruling OF
the court, though the cases are. passed
eyery day, as they were passed yester-
day. and will be passed to the end in
order that Justice may be done to sister
State with which we have such intimate
relations.


The very theory of a habeas corpus
case is speedy trial. II the prisoners
demand such trial they will be accom-
modated by the prosecution at any mo-
ment. If they do not want such, then
they have no right to play into the
hands of those who are determined to
cheat Justice of her dues. The State OF
Texas has rights in this matter, which
cannot be ignored, and neither the prls-
oners, nor the attorneys. nor the court,
have any right to deny them.


I5 is impossible not to see the milk IN
this judicial cocoa-nut. The district
Judge was elected on the Radical ticket.
His eletion has never been disputed.
On the contrary, considering the man
ner Of his getting into the Radical
party, he must admit that the bar has
treated him with great deal of consid-
Grafton, and has smoothed the rough
places in pathway which men Of ordi-
nary sensibility would dislike to
tread, It is the boast Of Packard that
| his authority is co-extenslve with the
State And vet here is one of the m OS6
| pronounced Radical parishes in the
State, a Judge elected on the Packard
ticket is afraid to say that Nichols is
not the governor of Louisiana. The
Judge Of the Tenth District is long
way removed from an idiot. He would
| like to decide in favor Of Packard, but
he knows very we'll that Packard s
great authority" could not save him
| from the consequences Of such q decis-
ion, He dares not decide against N lch-
oils because he also knows the newt
able consequences of the decision: And
thus Justice is to be outraged and Sis
ter State insulted in order that a
ground squirrel Radical official may be
able to keep on the fence, and take to
either side only when he is firmly con-


yinced that it is the winning side. We


know something about the arrogance OF
| Radical officials In the day OF Radical
domination. The fact that they have


come down several feet is proof positive


that the most sensible Of them are con


vinced that the reign OF Radicalism in


Louisiana is about over.


IL the State of Texas is entitled tt


these prisoners she will get them. We
know who is Governor of Louisiana


and we also know something abou
Interstate comfy.
Year: 1877

shreveport Times.]


For three weeks past three alleged
fugitives from justice from the State OF
Texas have been In the parish Jail Of the
parish of Caddo. A requisition in due
form from Gov. Hubbard was made on
Gov. Nichols, in response to which an
order was received yesterday to deliver
np the prisoners to the agent appointed
to receive them, who has been in this
city all this time awaiting this order.
There was nothing left to be done ex-
cept to deliver up the prisoners. But it
seems that writ OF habeGs corpus was
sued out on the Sd day of April, and
granted by tho district judge, but made
returnable at no particular time.


On yesterday tue COUNSEL ffof the State
OF Texas demanded immediate trial OF
the habeGs corpus case, in order that it
might speedily be settled whether these
persons are to be given up or not. The
district judge refused to try the case, al
though no ground for postponement OF
case which the law requires to be
summarily disposed Of, was urged by
the counsel for the prisoners. The
Judge held that be was bound to pro-
Year: 1877

Chole Morbus is now travelling
through country, ostensibly for its
health, 81 ally in the interest of sor-
row and ering. It has been to Oil
City, and having had a brief but spirited
interview with it, we desire to warn the
public again it. Cholera Morbus doesn't
say much appreciates the fact that
actions speak louder than street mer-
chant with new kind of glue. 1t is
quiet and unassuming, and allows its
victim to make all the fuss. 1t is the
champion wrestler.of the world, catch-ae.
catch-ean q any other hold, and asa
spTizeyi ghteI Is S1be avoided. 1t has no
respect for the rules of the P. R., and will
strike below the belt nine times out of
ten. Without word of warning it will
catch man in the stomach, and double
him up quicker than the kick of a mule.
If the victim be short man, he will roll
up like dough-nut. If he be tall man,
he will fly together like a watch spring
In this condition he is of no earthly use,
unless as a worm in distillery. A man
rolled up like thread on a spool can't
be expected to do much work. But to
hear him groan and complain and carry
on in one way and another, you would
think he did more hard work for less
wages than any other man on the face of
the earth. In this condition he will do
almost anything. He will roll over the
floor like a hoop-snake, to the infinite
amusement of the neighbors' children,
who are doubtless peeping through the
blinds. And to hear him yell for the
camphor, the mustard plasters, the tur-
pentine, his wife and mother, and all the
doctors this side of the Rocky mountains,
is enough to move the stones of Rome to
pity. But it doesn't move the cholera
morbus. Because the cholera morbus is
slayer. Every time the victim yGlls,
say for aqua fortis, the cholera morbus
might be heard to reply: 90, I'll give
you aqua fortis, you miserable worm" +"
and then it thumps him in the bowels
until he prays for the rocks and hills to
tumble in upon him. He does this be-
cause he realizes that, compared with
the cholera morbus, the rocks and hills
will sit as lightly upon him as an alpaca
coat. There is nothing too mean for
cholera morbus to do. It will take a
man of the build of Carl Schurz, tie
bow knot in his middle, and offer to sell
him for a neck-tie. Avoid it as you
would the tax collector.
Year: 1877

The testimony of Miss Jane Parry, the
plaintiff in a breach-of-promise case,
which came before the Queen's Bench
Division, London, fortnight ago, is as
racy as anything between the covers of
q Pickwick papers" She explained to
the jury that she was /" the proprietress
of a shell-fsh shop, and that the defend
ant g was in the bottle way and such
ike" After telling her that his home
was furnished " beautiful" and that he
was seeking for a wife, he added Well,
what do yon say for yourself2 You are a
good daughter to Jour parent" !" She an
swered that she { would never leave her
parent. When the old lady died, and
the whole shell-fish business became hers,
the defendant said to her, Your mother
is dead now" She answered, must
Year: 1877

aa Eea
81 en aatiaa
Miller in the case of J. K. Place & Co.,
of New York, is an instance when law
and equity have Joined hands to protect
the shorn creditors from the wiles and
devices of dishonest business men filing
voluntary petitions in bankruptcy. Like
hundreds of others before him, Place
had taken money from his business, had
invested it in real estate, and had set
tied the same upon Ills wife. Without
doubt, both of them had concurred in
the idea that it would be good thing,
while business was prosperous and credit
good, to build nice home, and secure
the same against all possible contingent
cies of the future. The plan was accord
ingly adopted and carried out, the fine
residence was erected on Fifth avenue,
properly transferred and secured Gas they
thought), and then Mr.. Place and wife
were ready to submit to the inevitable
reyerses of fortune with reader grace
and more submissive will. But the
over-bold creditors stepped in just here,
and very forcibly questioned the right
of Place to thus use their money for his
own personal purposes without as much
as saying By your leave" Or, in other
words, after Place & Co. had failed, the
creditors insisted that the Fifth avenue
property should be sold, and the proceeds
reckoned in with the other assets of the
firm. Whereupon Mrs. Place, through
her agents, objected, and the case was car
ried successfully through the local dis
trict court, the circuit court, and then
up to the United States Supreme Court,
from which decision has been given
that said Fifth avenue property, mas
much as it was purchased with money
taken from the business, rightfuily be-
longs to the company's creditors, its
t-ansference to the wife in the meantime
to the contrary Notwithstanding.


This decision, coming as it does from
the highest legal tribunal in the land,
and therefore final in its nature, becomes
very important to the wives of all busi-
ness men who may be fancying that
property thus secured to them by their
husbands is safe from all further mo-



lestation by legal processes. 1t is also
very important to business men them-
selves, showing them, as it does, that all
such gay and festive schemes to defraud
their lawful creditors of that which has
been intrusted to their management and
care for the time being, will be sure
henceforth to gang aft agley. ~ Chicago
Journal.
Year: 1877

The marvellous success which has at
tended my treatment of scarlet fever by
sulphur induces me to let my medical
brethren know of my plan, SO that they
may be able to supply the same remedy
without delay. All cases in which fused
it were very well marked, and the cpl
dermis on the arms in each case came
away like the skin of a snake. The fol-
lowing was the exact treatment followed
in each case: Thoroughly annoint the pa
tient twice daily with sulphur ointment; +;
give five or ten grains of sulphur in q
little Jam three times day. Sufficient
sulphur was burned twice daily (on Goals
on a shovel) to fill the roem with the
fumes, and, Of course, was thoroughly
inhaled by the patient. Under this
mode of treatment each case improved
Immediately, and none were over eight
days in making complete recovery, and
| firmly believe in each it was prevented
from spreading by the treatment adopted
One case was in a large school. Having
had a large experience in scarlet fever
last year and this, feel some confidence
in my Judgment, and am of opinion
that the-vsry mildest cases ever saw do
not do half 30 we'll as bad cases do by
the sulphur treatment, and, as far as ]
can Judge, sulphur is as near a specific
for scarlet fever as possible. London


T1aesf
Year: 1877

think that was the play;


The house was packed from pit to dome
With the gallant and the gay,


Who had come to see the tragedy
And while the hours away.
There was the ruined spendthriftI
And beauty in her prime;
There was the grave historian,
And there the man of Thyme
And the surly critic front to 'front.'
To see the play of crime.
And there was pompous Ignorance,
And Vice in hOwers and lac;
Sir CroBsus and Sir Pandaurus,


And the music played apace
But Of all that crowd only saw
Asihgle, single facet
That Of girl whom had known
In the summers long ago,
When her breath was like the new-mown hay,-
Or the sweetest flowers that grow;
When her heart WAS light aud her soul wa


white


As the winters driven snow. ..
And there she sat with her great brown eyes
They wore troubled look;
And read the history Of her life
AS it were an open book;
And saw her soul, like Shiny thing
In the bottom Of a brook.
There she sat in her rustIing silk,
With diamonds on her wrist,
And on her brow cleaning thread
Of pearl and amethyst.
IA cheat, gilded grief " l said,
And my eyes were filed with mist.
could not see the players play,
heard the music moan;
1t moaned like dismal autumn wind,
That dies in the weeds alone;
And when 1t stopped heard it still,
The painful monotone!
What II the Count were true or false
did not care, not L;
What If Camille or Armand died2
did not see her die.
There sat woman opposite


With pite9us lip and eye.
The green curtain fell on all,
On laugh, and wine and woe,
Just as death some day will fall
'Twixt us and life, know.
The play was done, the bitter play,
And the people turned to CO.
And did they see the tragedy?
They saw the painted sceneG
They saw Armand, the jealous fool,
And the sick Partisan queen.
But they did not see the tragedy
The one saw, / mean,
They did not see that cold cut face,
That furtiye look of care;
or, seeing her jewels only said
tFhe lady 'srieh and fair"
But, I'll tell you, twas the Play of L ffe,
And that woman played &c Despair
Year: 1877




The French butcher separates the
bones from his steaks, and places
them where they will do the most
good. The housewife orders Just
enough for each person and no more,
even to the coffee. If a chance visitor
drops in, somebody quietly retires and
the extra cup is provided, but nothing
extra by carelessnessa of intention,
when the little range Is extinguished,
and waits for another time. No roar
ing cook stoves and red hot covers all
day long for no purpose but waste.
The egg laid to-day costs little more
than the one laid last week, Values
are nicely estimated and the smallest
surplus is carefully saved. A thou
sand little economies are practiced, ,and
it is respectable to practice them.-
Cooking is an economical as ;welI as
and gustatory science. A
French cook will make a franc GO as
far as an American housewife will
make three, and how much further
than the American Bridget nobody
knows-we should probably be great
ly. astonished, could the computation
be made, how much of the financial,
powers of France is ow-
ing to her soups and cheap food bet
ter living after all, than the heavy
bread and grassy failure of our culi-
nary ignorance.
Year: 1877

The world is half-darkened with croakers


Whose burdens are Weighing them down,
Thew crOak of their stars and i'll usage,


And grope in the ditch for crown.
Why talk to the wind OF thy fortuue,


Or clutch at distinction and gold?
II thou canst not reach high on the ladder,


Thou canst steady its base by thy mold
For the flower, though hid in the corner


Will rs faultlessly finish its bloom,
Will reach for a sparkle of sunshine


That clouds have not CHANGED to consume,
And wouldst thou be less than a ilower-


With thought, and brain, and a hand:
VIII wait for the 6ribbles OF fortune,


When there's something that these may COM


mand?
There is food to he won from the furrow,


And forests that wait to he hewn,
There's marble untouched by the chisel,


Days that break not on the forehead OF June.
Will You let the plow rust in the furrow-


Jnbuilded Il house or Il hall?
Nor bid the stones wake from their silence
And fret rs if frettins were all?
Go learn from the blossoms and ant-hll,
There's something your labor must give;
Like the beacon that picrces the tempest,
Strike the clod from thy footing and live.
Livc-not trail with thy face in the dross heap,
In the track OF the brainess and proud;
Lift the ccremcnts away from thy manhood
Thou'rt robbing the dead OF shroud.
There are words and pens to be welded,
There are thoughts that. would die if unsaid;
Wouldst thou saunter away amid roses,
Or sepulchre dreams that arc dead?
No, drag the hope to the pyre,


Dreams dead from the ashes will rise,
Look not down on the earth tor its shadow,
There Is sunlight for thee III the skies.
Year: 1877

One of the chief compensations of


woman's life is found in the fact that


she does not have ''to go ACQUIRING"


1t must be confessed that in these


days the modern belle does her share


of the wooing bnt she does not dress


up in a stiff collar and pair of boots


two sizes too small for her, and march


up to the cannon's mouth of her in
amorata's family-consisting of father
and mother, and grandmothers, and


maiden aunts, and half dozen BROTH


ers and sisters-and inquire, in trem-


bling voice: els Miss ArabelIa at


home ?" Whenever man goes q


courting everybody seems to know all


about it. His demeanor tells the OBJ


servant spectator the business he is In.


tent upon. He might just as well pla-


card himself with the legend, "I go


a-courtingl" Everybody is cognizant


of 1t, and looks knowingly and asks


him, s,Were the northern lights bright


last night about one O'Clock ?v and


"How is the market for kerosene M


at Daddy Brown,sw and a score of
other questions equally out of place.


We have in our family at present a


young man who is deeply-we trust
successfully engaged in going a-court-
ing, and our warmest tsympathies have


been aroused for him. When Sunday
afternoon arrives, it is plain to see
that something is about to happen.
Our young man is fidgety and nom
communicative, and cannot sit in one
place half minute at time. He is
continually interviewing his watch,
and comparing it with the old eight
day, coffin-shaped clock in the corner.
lie looks in the glass frequently, and
draws his forehead-locks first back and
then forward, and combs them, and
pats them down, and is unsatisfed
with the effect throughout. The smell
OF bay rum and bergamont is painful
ly apparent. When he shakes out his
musk is perceptible;
His boots shine like mirrors. There
is faint oder of cardamon seeds on
his breath when he yawns. He
smooths his budding moustache with
pats, and feels invisible
side whiskers constantly, to make sure
that they are still there-a fact which
is not established to outside observers
by the sense of sight. He tries on all
his stock of neckties without finding
just the thing. and he has spasms of
brushing his coat that commences
with violence and at last one grows
nervous for fear the broadcloth will
meyer be able to stand it. He de-
clines soup that day for dinner. He
says 1t is because he doesn't feel hum
cry. We know it is because there are
onions in it-and onions, as every one
do not sweeten ones breath to
any great extent. If spoken 10 on
sudden he starts and bushes, and
looks as guilty as if he had been caught
stealing something; and directly one
1oes not speak to him he goes back to
he delightful occupation of staring at
lething, and waiting for the hour to
creep round to seven. And at seven
he sets forth clean and tidy from top
% toe, looking precisely as if he had
ust stepped out of bandbox.
Year: 1877

The first mistake which is make by


most men is in making wealth the OBJ


iect of their lives. But wealth, as we


know, does not give happiness


Wealthy men DO not, because of their


wealth, get happiness. The Wander


bits, the Stewards and the AsIors,


have not been our happiest men. They


are not the typical men in the home !;


they are not the typical men in social


life they are not the typical men in


the delights of life, nor in the pro-
gression OF learning-which, perhaps
yields the finest joys men can know.


We can go down lower still, and find
the men who have only one million or
so, or half-a:million, and they do not
typify the happiness of American
homes. Go into their houses. How
splendid! How gorgeous! How gaudy
they are! And yet they cannot rival
the little homes in the love of husband
and wife-in the reverence of children
for parents-in the parents guardian
ship over children-in all the sweet
happiness that affection spreads abroad
like fragrance through the chambers
of our houses. You know that almost
every American gets wealth who
chooses TO, though he loses it again,
perhaps; but he gets it. 1t is not
great proof of ability, nor evidence of
success, for a man to get wealth in this
country and in this age. Now, then,
it seems to- US that if young man
should picture to himself rather a.
quiet house, sunnily placed on some
with stretch of meadow in
front, through which courses run
ming stream, shaded by pleasant trees,
with loving wife, group of pleas
and virtuous children, quiet
nde of days and peacefulness of nights
health and contentment of mind-that
would be much better than to set up
= fictitious standard and strive incess-
andy for it, as though you must reach
it or be utterly undone.
Year: 1877

Amy housekeeper who desires to


test the purity of the lacteal fluid fur
nished daily by the milkman, can pro-
vide herself with an impromptu, and,


to all land efficient lactometer
in this easy way: Procure glass


bulb and stem, both hollow; load it


with quicksilver, sand, or even bird
shot until the instrument will float up
right in milk known to be pure. Mark
on the stem the point to which it sinks
the surface-point. Remove it from


the milk aud float in pure water, mark
ing the surface-point as before, which
will be considerably higher on the
stem than the other mark. Now take
a narrow slip of paper, capable of be-
ing rolled lengthwise, and insert it in
the stem of the instrument so that the
figures on it will be visible through
the glass. Lay off on this, in the di
rection of its length, a space equal to
the distance between the two surface
points, numbering the first point 0
and the other 100. Subdivide this
space into ten or twenty proportional
spaces correspondingly numbered
roll the slip and insert it in the stem
until the 0 is at the surface-point OF
the milk, the 100 at the point of the
water. Your lactometer is now COM
plete. Float it in your milk-can every
morning, and the depth to which it
sinks will register the percentage of
dishonest water, if any, the milk con-
tains. Suppose, for example, the in
strument sinks till the surface-line
cuts the figure 15. The milk contains
fifteen per cent. of added water.
Year: 1877

AN editor announces the death of a
ady of his acquaintance, and then
touchingly adds: 'In her decease the
sick lost an invaluable friend. Long
will she seem to stand at their bedside
as she was wont, with the balm Of
consolation in one hand and a cup of
rhubarb in the other"
Year: 1877

THE time may not be far distant
when the pious missionary-man will
remain at the old homestead, and
preach to the heather through the Ca
BILE telephone, aud when the distant
cannibals will sadly gaze at each other
and indulge in profitless coniectures
as to the flavor of his ribs.
Year: 1877

He was praising her beautiful hair,
and begging for one tiny curl, when
her little brother said: ooh, my! It
amt nothin' no,o. You just ought to
have seen how long it hangs down
when she hangs it on the side of the
table TO comb it, Then they laughed,
and she called her brother cute little
angel and when the young man was
going away and heard that boy yell
ling, he thought the lad was taken sud-
denly and dangerously ill.
Year: 1877

A writer in the Le Courier Medical, on the use of milk in hot weather, states that his attention was directed to the subject by noting the value of milk in dysentery, ulcer of stomach, and varlous acute and chronic gastro- intestinal affections, and he therefore milk in the treatment of gas tric derangements so frequently induc- ed by high temperature. In very hot weather, small draughts of milk are found 10 relieve thirst and to render unnecessary the dIinking of many flu ids, which, though they may allay thirst, are liable to produce some dis orders at the same time. X case Is cit ed in which, during the fearfully hot weather of last summer, gastric de was produced in the pa tient with great thirst and cramping pains in the bowels; laudanum had been taken without success, but relief followed the administration of warm milk, small cup every quarter of an hour, by the next day