smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1874

The Little Rock Gazette of Thurs
day morning flops its exultant wings
as follows:


p We cannot refrain bringing out our
rooster this morning. There is no use
talking. he will crow. We kept him
checked when we knew our ticket had
ca arried the city, and there was little
doubt we had carried the county, but
after it became known that our victory
was so overwhelming, from seven hun
dr. ed to one thousand majority, taken
In connection with the returns from
the outside counties, added to the
glorious. news from Ohio and Indiana,
our rooster could no longer he restrain
ed, but tapped his wings and crowed
lustily-and he is growing yet.


Fifty to seventy-five thousand ma
jOrity for the new constitution in the
state; nearly one thousand majority in
Pulaski county, and a democratic viz
tory In Ohio and Indiana Why
I shouldn't we rejoice And why
Shouldn't our cock crow? Crow loud
and long ..
Year: 1874

Never did the political skies look
brighter, or the political prospects for
overthrowing the radical party appear
more encouraging. n all the men who
are honestly opposed to the present re-
publican party, which has shown itself
to be both inefficient aud incompetent,
will to-day go to the polls and vote
their sentiments, we will soon have .
change In all of our public affairs, and
better times In the future. indeed
there must be a change in the affairs ol
the country, or bankruptcy will be the
condition Of the most Of our active
business men. A change Is demanded
by all the interests connected with our
domestic, state and national relations.
Bad men have governed US long enough,
and II is now time that q better class oi
men come to the front and take our
affairs Into their hands. Go, then, to
the polls and vote, and be sure tha,
you vote right
Year: 1874

PATIENCE and long suffering are
most eminently manifested by news.
paper in this day and generation, that
will allow subscribers who are five
years in arrears to continue to receive
the paper. And yet it is done, and the
said subscribers are surprised at being
reminded of the little matter, even af-
ter SO long indulgence.
Year: 1874

SIGNING NoTEs. Henry Ward Beech
ersays men viii sign notes merely to get
rid of man. They will recommend O.
book they know natling about rather
than hurt some ones feelings BY refusal,
They recommend men as highly fitted
for positions which they positively know
they are entirely untitled for. Nay men
will give to candidates the strongest let
ters for an otiice, and then write secret
letters to headquarters to say that the
letter is not to beregarClea Indeed II Is
said that In certain cases politicians find
It necessary to have it understood at
headquarters that 10 letter is to be re-
garded unless ii has some distinctive
sign upon it. Is there not need of a bet
ter public sentiment on the subject of
signing names The laxity of practice
is fast taking all value from documents
bearing eminent names. Such loose
policy as is now practiced ought to be
ranked with falsehoods, deeeptions, and
conepiracies to defraud,
Year: 1874

He was an IrislIman, was coming


down Montague street, Brooklyn, ON his


way to the Wall street ferry. Over his


port shoulder hung bag containing
about a bushel of potatoes, and in his


starboard hand he carried stout stick.
Being under full sail, the momentum
acquired in coming down the steep
grade carried him nearly the gateway,
when, seeing boat about ten feet from
the dock, he shook ont another feet,
made an astonishing burst of speed
and jumped. Just as he reached the
deck the potato bag shifted heavily to-
port and laid out Broad street clerk
who was smoking Henry Clay through
q Hleershaum holder, while the stick
hit rotnnd South street merchant in
the waistbaid, shutting him up like q
jack knife, and Pat himself assumed
an involuntary devotional attitude.
He was the first to recover his perpen-
dicnlarity, and as he replaced the bag
to its normal position he complacently
remarked: "Be jabers, but | got the
boat anyhow" "Got the boat ~
screamed he Of Broad street, splitting
the pieces of amber out Of his mouth.
Why, you double blank idiot, this
boat is coming in"
Year: 1874

A country clerk in d rural town had
d pet calf which he was training up in
the ways of the OK. The calf walked
around very peaceably under one, end
OF the yoke while Mr.. Clerk held up the
other end, but in an unfortunate mo-
ment the man conceived the idea of
putting his own neck in the yoke, to let
the calf see how it would seem to work
with q partner. This frightened the
calf, and, elevating his tail and voice,
he struck a g. dead run" for the village,
and Mr.. Clerk went along, with his
head down and his plug hat in his hand,
strainiH1g every nerve to keep up, and
crying out at the top of his voice
Here we come, dang our fool souls
head us, somebody ~
Year: 1874

A Chinese DoctOr.-Li Pc Tai is a
Chinese doctor who has made money
and fame in San Francisco, and this is
the diagnosis of the case OF gentle
man who consulted him ;-"I think you
too much dance, too much eat, too much
fool round. If you dance you no get
better; too much eating no good; too
much fooling round no good. Good
hyp"
Year: 1874

Chicago wants to have the next
worlds fair held there "In the first
place." says the Boston Post sit isn't
certain that the next world will have
a fair, and in the second place those
who'd be likely to attend it will prefer
a more pious town in which to cele-
bratar
Year: 1874

HeSoBlSd THE SoUrH. So far as it Is


heroism That we honor on Decoration Day,
our four long years of wasting war testify


that no causa lost from the beginning ever


before drew To itself so magnificent u valor,


SO nttor devotion, so stern a persistence so


soaring hope, so patient an endurance, as
tha cause OF the South. Because her sol J..
diers wore American descendants like ours
of the men eli the revolution, we could only
win by wearing them out, as they must
| have won by wearing us out could they
have won at ALL Those qualities which. on
| the ono side were heroic, cannot on the
| other side have been despicable. A COM
mon courage like a common sorrow, should


be bond of sympathy between genero; 9
minds Rec. Henry Yard Beecher.
Year: 1874

To me RditOr Of The Tribune.


SIR The Committee of Nine are bent upon
good service in the of charity and well deserve
the expression of thanks and confidence cordially
awarded them on Monday. IL to be regretted that
something ike smothered animus may be detected in
minds toward the enterprise, with little spurts Of
bad temper from Others in the way Of resentment and
still must regret that such b measure OF co
operation has not yet been accorded the Committee
as they essential TO the Of their endeavo


This part is due TO want Of clear understanding
the character and scope Of the scheme. The aim
s systematIze and supervise the administration OF
charity that only those who deserve relief shall obtain
It, 30 far good But il seems that. In the prose
cution OF this aim. there Is tendency TO indulge In
broad general statements calculated " create the m
Year: 1874

We must be careful in our measures OF
national legislation, offend the majority Of our
Intelligent citizens for later all laws and
Institutions must conform TO the popular Will III
the que put to most Intelligent citizens,
whether currency gold basis is not better than our
present currency they would nearly gl answer Ia the
affirmative but upon the question as 10 whether our
peope are now In a condition frame OF mind to
cent system which proposes to force speedy resumP
tion OF specie payment tneee Intelligent citizens
would divided IN opinion. II would avoid sucn a
revusion In public opinion may launch us upon "a
IA career OF inordinate iDtatOn, must WORK toward
specie payment with the utmost caution.
Year: 1874

GOING TO THE Cry. We have noticed
in the metropolitan journals disposition
10 discourage young men in the country
from leaving their farm homes and com
Ing into the cities to seek their fortunes.
Evidently the editors of the great dalliss
have forgotten that they were once young
men, devising all sorts of plans by which
to evade work. They want to keep young
men down. There is no chance for young
men in the country to get before the pub
lie. They are kept down by disagresable
duties. Let them come to the city and
see life. Let them stand on the curb
stone at the corners all Summer till they
grow corns on the soles of their feet.
Let them attend lot sales and beer sa-
looms where free lunches are served, and
enjoy themselves that way. There is
always something to be done in the city.
After the young man gets tired standing
on his corns, and gets sent out of the
free lunch establishments few times on
his ear, he can steal an overcoat. There
is always chance for young man to
steal an overcoat in the city. Overcoats
are among the wisest provisions for
young men who stand around all Sum-
mer. They must have been originally
designed for them, and it is certain that
they get their share OF them. Let the
young men in the country come into the
city and see life.-[ Pittsburg Leader.
Year: 1874

WHEN MEN ARE AT THEIR BEsT.-Dr.
Beard states that from an analysis of the
lives of thousand representative men
IN all the great branches of human effort,
he had made the discovery that the
golden decade was between thirty and
forty, the silver between forty and fifty,
the brazen between twenty and thirty,
and the iron between fifty and sixty.
The superiority of youth aud middle life
over old age in original work appears all
the greater, when we consider the fact
that nearly all the positions of honor and
profit and prestige-profsssorships and
public stations-are in the hands of the
old. Men are not widely known until
long after they have done the work that
has given them fame. Portraits of
great men are delusion statues are
lies. They are taken when men have
become famous, which, on the average,
is at least twenty-five years after they
did the work which gave them their
fame. Original work requires enthusi-
asm. If all the original work done by
men under forty-fve were anpihilated,
the world would be reduced to barbarsm


Men are at their best at that time when
enthusiasm and experience are most
evenly balanced this period, on the
average, is from thirty-three to forty


After this the law is that experience in
creases but enthusiasm declines. In the
life of almost every man there comes a
point sooner or later, when experiences
ceases to have any educating power.
Year: 1874

Elder Cannon Is in The same old trouble. Hia
sent in Congress as Delegate from Utah ia con-
tested On the score Of his polygamous relations,
Rnd IT will 60 lard with him. Tho MormonB
ought to accept Of some compromise with the
National Government. Anything in roason will
be fayorably entertained. It is not in reason
Tint one who pluces lis religious obligations
above tho laws OF Lis country should sit III tho
law-makiug body. Persistent defiance Of the
Government will only hasten tho doom Of Nor
monism which will como quite fast enough
under the most favorable circumstancca. For
the 1lormons to send polygamtst to Congress
Is to invite tho destruction Of theig Church.
Year: 1874

We last week took occasion, in replying to an
article from the Salina Journal to define our Po-
sition on the Congressional question in this Dis
trict, IN which We expressed determination To
drop local quarrels, and heartily support Judge
Price. This is very distastefnl to The DoNiPHAN
COUNTY REPUBLICAN, which emits a quarter of
column grunble upon the subject. Ii is difficult
TO decide whether that sheet is grumbling at rs
for endorsing Price, OF at Price because We en-
dorse him. Bat it looks very much like slurs
and insnnations upon the Judge-either that he
is SO Office hungry, that if be cannot get Con-
gress he will go for Stat. Senator, or some small
er office; or making sport of his candidacy, by
suggesting his name for Governor, and other Of
hces We have reason TO believe that, SO far from
our friendly words being displeasing to Judge
Price, he appreciates them; and as long as he
does not serve legal notice upon us toquit speak
ing we'll Of him, We shall occasionally give him
friendly word, the displeasure of the Republican
to the contrary notwithsia auding.


The Republican had fondly hoped that We would
pitch into Judge Price, aud oppose him, thereby
giving 1t an opportunity to become his champion.
But our making an advance movement in his IA
yor, before somebody told that concern to hoist
the flag, knocked the wind out of it. 1t has ex-
listed simply because of the division in this Coun-
ty, which rendered it necessary to keep up an
organ at all hazards, regardless of its weight or
ealibre-anythns, Lord, that it answers for
an organ. And after Judge Price, for the last
two years aud = half, has given it his,undivitlrd
patronage and snpport, it grumbles and ridicues
him because the Chief supports him, without
promise of reward or gain. The editors of the
RepnLlicaR never harbored generous OF. inagnan-
imOus thought. The only two motives that ac-
tuate them, patronage and pap on the one
side, aud envy and jealousy on the other.


Judge Price is our authority for announcing
that he will he a candidate for Congress. If he
wins, he will need ire support, not skim-milk
blarney. He can't afford to kick his editorial
supporters on the shns every week, to wake
them up, and get them to write something, tell
ing the public that he is alive and would like to
be elected. Some people think that grunting is
an assistance in heavy lifting; but grunting SUP
port of man for Office, is the very poorest kind
of support.
Year: 1874

GEO. S. .HILLYER.-The Grasshopper Falls New
Era contains obituary notice of Geo. S. Hill
yer, one of the old Free-State men of early days
We clip the following extract:


. In Col Phillips History of the Conquest OF
Kansas it is recorded that in all that body
known as the Topeka constitutional convention
which met during the fall of 1855, there were
but seven who were willing to acknowledge
manhood as well under a black skin as white
and among those faithful seven We find the name
of George s. Hillyer, who quietly but firmly said
aye when a motion made to strike the
word white ont of what was intended to be the
organic act Of the future State of Kansas. In
that day when popular prejudices, even among
free state men, ran high against the negro, it
was no small sacrifice for man ambitious Of
political honors to put his convictions into prac-
tice.
Year: 1874

rA few years ago, the public were bored
with accounts of the Tyngchurch trial and now
they are enjoying the Swing trial. Next we shall
have the Thing trial. And it is all about some
petty difference in religious humbuggery-sueh
a i, an inch or two in the length of gown, few
drops more or less of water in baptizing. or a
difference in belief the sixtieth part of degree
Fahrenheit in the Temperature of hell. The Chi
rese will carry home bad reports of the Chris
tian Religion.
Year: 1874

The distinguished representative of abdomen
adipose and arrogance, who presides with 50
mnch eeiat over the agricultural fraud on the
hlll a mile or two away, last week expelled three
students for the silly reason that they wonld not
cover their faces with their hands during prayer
But the aforesaid balloon soon took the back
track, and pitifuily begged the young gentlemen
TO return; Another victory for the new manage
ment.-NaRkattan Beacon.
Year: 1874

To timid reporter, who asked him If it was
true that he had decided not to be a candidate
for the Governorship of Massachusetts, again,
but that he intended to take a trip to the Fiji
Islands for the benefit of his health, and, while
there, eat two missionary babies. -
Year: 1874

Washington Coz. New York woridl


Whatever there was of mystery in the veto of
the late senate currency bill is solved in the i'm
portant revelation that General Grapt is a candi-
the contrary Notwithstanding. We have the in-
formation from Trustworthy source that all his
confidential conferences with senators are direc-
ted TO the Republican presidential nomination OF
1876 that the veto was q flank movement upon
Morton and Logan and their imitation. party of
the West and South; that Morton realizes the
TACT the veto has killed him as presidential
aspirant, and that if he has not for week or
more gone to the capitol it is because he is ar
ranging his plans to ''hesd off" General Grant,
as john Minor Bolts in his day, headed of Cap
tain Tyler. Between Morton and Logan we may
look for new party plan of operations, South
and West, which will split the Republican party
into fragments and leave General Grant with
only the snppO-t of the eastern contractionists
aud the money lenders to support him for the
succession. We understand, furthermore, that
while Senator Morton sits in his room, like Mar
ius among the ruins of Carthage, our aspiring
buckingham of New York, Senator COnkling,
though consentng to the inyitabie in consenting
TO withhold his claims upon the Republican party
as presidential candidate for 1876, in Difference
to the wishes of General Grant. is nevertheless
deeply disappointed man. How can lie be
otherwise when Int a brief mouth ago he was
inspired with the delightful thought that lie was
the favorte of the President for the suecession



term. east his mantle over the shoulders OF Mar
tin Van Buren, as his anointed successor, so
wOnld General Grant, in 1876, cast his martial
cloak over the broad shoulders of Roscoe Conk-
lingf


All the political mysteries at Washington, con-
1ected with the movements of the administra-
tion and the Republican leaders in congress, are
cleared up with the simple announcement of the
fact that General Grant is a candidate for anoth-
er presidential term. Only the touchstone To
any otherwise inexplcable proceeding at the
capitol or the white house, and We see at once
what it means 1t is even said that General
Grant permitted New Hampshire and Connectl-
cut to be lost to the Republicans in the recent
elections in order to impress the all-imPortant
fact npon the party that it can do nothing with
out him. The people of the country may be as
sured that General Grant is resolved upon an
her term, and they will have landmark from
which they may at any time discover the bear
ings of any political movement in any part of the
cOuntry-it is for or against General Grant.
Year: 1874

a Louisville papa did not seriously OBJ
ject to the proposed elopement of his laughter
with dry goods clerk. Happening to get
wind Of the plan, he merely lay in wait for
Augustus, and sent him away with the i'm
preston that a remarkably healthy young
mule had played tattoo with his heels under
his coat tails.
Year: 1874

A bashfuI young clergyman recently
rising to preach for the first time. made
terrible mix of it. and announced his tex, in
this wise: land Immediately the cock wept,
and Peter went out and crew bitterly"
Year: 1874

EAKACHE,-Perhaps some mother may
thank the household for my remedy for ear
ache. take piece of salt pork, say an inch
or more long and half an inch square, cut
down one end to fit the ear and insert it. taking
care not to slip in. l use it in my family, and
always find it gives almost instant relief Tie
Landkcrchicfto to keep it in place, if the child
will allow it. I also use pork for sore throat.
croupc, and lung colds. Cut slices full half
an inch thick dip in warm water sprinkle on
little pepper, aud sew on fannel.-Ruya1
Nc,c Yorker.


ETA BERGER MARRIED-Somc of our
young men will be sorry to learn that Miss
Eta Berger has been married since the com.
pany was through here last winter She cast
her lot with young man resident in Jackson.
Michigan. who has blonde mouStachc, half
million dollars, and block of brick builds
ings in jackson. Miss Eta is with the
troupe this season, but it will be her last trip
with it. These facts are told US by Mr. Fow
lcr, the business manager


TCHGrIOffe IN. TO OLseryer
Year: 1874

A Man Trapped by n Railroad Frog


Is Unable TO EHtricate Himself, and


Barely Escapes Death by Signaling


an Approaching Train.


PATRICK MACARTHUR arrived in Detroit the
other morning, fresh from the wilds of Can
ada, having walked the entire distance from
Port Huron to that city. When near the
junction of the Grand Trunk and Michigan Cen
trail Railroads, an adventure befell him ,l 90 90
came near making peiT0u - rnd1ck's ca
reer. While crossing the track where a
switch leaves the main line he got his foot
fast in q "frog," and was unable to eXtricate
it. He had on stout boot aud it fitted so
closely over the instep that he could not draw
his foot out In fact the boot was wedged
in the "frog' so closely that the mans toes
were severely pnched. He pulled this way
and that, wrenched aud twisted, but the
"frog" held the foot like wise.


He could hardly move his leg for the PAIN
and he found that he must either be run over
by the next passing train or make some one
understand his situation. He shouted for
help, but no one came. The nearest house
was half mile away, and if the farmer heard
the wild calls he gave them no attention.
After the man had been prisoner for upward
of an hour he heard the whistle of a down
freight train. 1t was yet long way of and
he had little time to think. He had match
box in his pocket, papers in his bundle, and
| the idea came TO him to signal the train.
Tearing the paper Off his bundle and getting
at number of letters, he rolled them into q
heap, and for fear that the flame would die
out too suddenly he added two flannel shirts
from the bundle. The bundle was then made
fast to the end of his walking-stek, matches
produced, and he waited until the headlight
of the locomotive appeared up the track.


1t finally greeted his vision, looking like {
bright white star as it gistened in the dis
tance. The rumble of the train grew louder
the star grew larger and brighter. He strucl
his match. The flame blazed up brightly, bu
as he moved it toward the bundle little gus
of wind blew it out. Was there time yet


Up the track he could hear the thunder of


hundred heavy wheels, and the great light o


the locomotive glared at him like the fiery ey


of some wild beast. Another match, an In


slant of fear and doubt, and then the pape


blazed up and curled over and around tn


bundle, and swayed right and left with tn


night wind. He waved the signal of fire bac


and forth, and Just when he was ready to b'
, lieve that death under the wheels was certai
. he heard the whistle for brakes.


He could hear the wheels grinding an
, groaning, the hiss of steam as the engine'
threw back his lever, and then the heavy trai
came TO a stop with the great light shinin
( down upon him, paling his dying signal. I
8 was saved, but the engine had only thirty TO


more to go to crush him, The fireman can
: forward, got crowbar and released him, al
= he was taken back to the caboose.