smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1874

fOO-KEG BLAST. We are under obligations to
our friend, Miner" of Bath, for the following
interesting items:


Preparations have been making for the last
three weeks for tremendous blast at the
Golden Gate mine, owned principally by Breeze
d Wheeler, of this place. A large tunnel had
been run into the bank, in which 700 kegs of
powder were placed to be let off at one stroke
of the electric battery. The blast was to be set
OF on the 2Sth, and many gathered from all
parts of the county to see the result For lack
OF arrangements, the time was postponed until


O'Clock, p. NJ, Wednesday. The people, not
to be cheated gathered in immense numbers to
see the effect. the appointed time all was
ready and OIL she went with crash filling the
atmosphere with smoke, and shaking the earth
for miles around not unlike San Francisco
earthquake The preparations and material for
this explosion had cost great deal of money
but, fortunately, it proved splendid success
The bank, about 130 feet high, was caved off
for over so feet back, and $50 feet along the face
besides cracking and shaking up the earth for
hundreds of feet back of the cave These mines
require immense capital to work them but they
are rich, and yield handsome profits to their
owners. This blast alone cost between three
and four thousand dollars.


Bath is looking up, owing to the abundance
of water this Spring, still there is not as much
as could be proftably used. The ditch supply
ing the mines in that section, only carries about
900 inches, and 1000 could be used to advantage
The Golden Gate is using now 275 inches, and
the Roush mine $50, which leaves but little for
the many other good mines in the neighbor
hood. The Hazard mine situated near Bath,
in Volcano Canon, is doing well. The gravel in
this mine, though, is quite hard, so that all the
gold cannot be secured by washing through a
fume. The company talk of erecting FIVE
stamp battery to crush the tailings, which, no
doubt, will prove success.
Year: 1874

THEEE is to be an election this afternoon, at
the Auburn public school-house, at which every
child in the district is a candidate, aspiring for
the positions of well educated men and women.
Their ambition is a laudable one, and deserves
Encouragement. If you vote no to-day, they
are defeated; if you vote yes they win the day.
Let every man do as he would have been done
by in his youth. Support the children.
Year: 1874

The school tax election went by default at
Roseville, but that is no sign tlHt every man
should not turn out and vote YES, most en-
phatically, at the election to be held here TO-
day
Year: 1874

EDITOR AUBURN HERALD.-The exhibition of
Rosevlle school last Thursday evening, was all
that it promised and much more. The large
room used was completely filed standing room
being at a premium. The exercises commenced
at O'Clock, and continued until eleven. Not
withstandng the very uncomfortable seats and
crowded condition of the Hall, all seemed to
regret that the exercises closed so soon, they
having been kept during the entire three hours
IN sea of mirth. I am sorry to inform you
the election for raising special school tax was
failure, on account of the picnic coming off at
that time. Not enough persons were present to
constitute a full board The Trustees decided
1t would not be legal, and, therefore, did not
open the polls. The work must all be done
over again l send you an essay written, and
read at the close of the school, by Miss Cora
Taylor.


SAM. j. PUILEN.
The essay referred to will appear next week.
ED. Herald
Year: 1874

The STATE ELlBRARY.-A neat and substan-
tial ceiling has been put in the State Library,
and the room properly painted. It presents
a creditable appearance at present, but new
carpet would render the room much more
comfortable, and be in better keeping with
the new furniture, recent repairs, and clean
paint,
Year: 1874

THERE was truth in the old 4Esopian fable of
the traveller who wrapped his cloak the tighter
round for all the stormy wrath of rain and wind,
but who flung it from his shoulders at the first
kiss of the warm sunshine. Ease, comfort. in
dolence, are the rust and mildew of many q
noble nature, aud that man is strong, indeed,
who always resists the Mephistophelian whis-
per that it is better to put off till tomorrow
what may as well be done then, or any day.
To enable US to overcome obstacles of this in
sidious species, even misfortune often proves a
ner Of the worlds prizes has lived to bless the
day when the shock of some apparent calamity
nerved him, at the pressure of need, to bring
rorth the talent that otherwise might have lain
in the napkin, unheeded, until the final reck.
oning Christian Veekly.
Year: 1874

NEVADA. Il State of mines and drsolaton
whose only hope after its mineral wealth shall
have been worked out is the agriculture of one
or two valleys. is having its woods lcveed by
5000 sturdy axmen. In n few years it will be.
come a commonwealth Of sage brush Gin.
cinnah Times.


Poor Nerada, How melancholy, Did the
Times ever think what dreary waste Ohio
will be when its rich agricultural lands shall
have been exhausted That time will come
and something sooner than the mineral wealth
of Nevada will be exhausted Has it ever oc-
Cured to tn. wiseacre who wrote the above
that if he shall live till the day that the mines
of Nevada are worked out he will have
abundant opportunity to know something, and
Methuselah will, ages before, have ceased to be
wonder for longevity


Poor Nevada True, she is now yielding
millions annually from her rich mnes-but
when they are worked out-apd they will be
but whcnl The mines in the Hartz Mountains,
Germany have been worked for centuries and
show no more signs Of failure than when they
were first opened The silver mines of Hun
gary have been worked for more than two
thousand years, and are still apparently ex-
haustless We have yet to learn of the first in.
stance in the history of mining since the crea-
ton where mines have been worked out. Ra-
ces of men have become extinct and even their
histories have been lost in the dim twilight OF
o,os. but the mines they worked are still ex-
haustless, and the rude instruments they used
in working them are found where they lett
them: so we infer that the prospect for any i'm
mediate exhaustion Of the mines OF Nevada Is
40 faint that we will reserve our tears to shed
at the grave of Adam. The rich agricultural
lands of the Mississippi may become desert
as has the valley Of the Nile. but the mines OF
the Rocky Mountains, when that time shall
come, will be found more productive than they
are to-day.-Montanidn
Year: 1874

AMAN in Oregon named Newsome, found a
large panther lately, but knowing the animal
was not his, as he had not lost any panther,
and having no disposition to fool with other
peoples property. he left it where he found it.
The beast was very large one, and has been
making free with the stock in the vicinity OF
where it was seen, for some time.
Year: 1874

SPEAKING truth is like writing fair, and
comes only by practice; it is less matter OF
will than Of habit, and doubt if any occasion
can be trivial which permits the practice and
formation Of such habit -Ruskin. 'f
Year: 1874

The Paterson Guardian says: GA
recent paragraph calling attention to
the fact that the summer widowers were
having the jolliest times imaginable in
the absence of their voluble halves has
had a most remarkable effect. The
wives come trotting home to see abodt
this thing. One gentleman who was
having an unusually good time, and
whose wife had gone away to stay till
the middle of September, was wonder
fully astonished on going home at four
O'Clock in the morning to find his wife
sitting up waiting for him. She gaze
him rousing reception, and he looks
like the last rose of summer. The wide
world may wag as it will, but it is doubt
ful if he ever smiles again. The wives
are coming home unexpectedly every
day, and husbands had better look out
little in order that they may save
some trouble." 4"
Year: 1874

The enchanted park in Colorado is a
beautiful valley about a mile in length,
walled on either side by perpendicular
walls from 200 to 800 feet in height.
There is but one entrance to the en-
chanted spot, and that is by a rugged
and dangerous pathway, and the foot
man experiences great difficulty in the
descent. Upon reaching the valley one
would hear the rustic of the " md
through the lofty pines in the cliff
above. sounding like the roar OF some
everlasting hurricane. while the grass
beneath the feet lay as calm and still as
death. Not even the slightest breath
of air could be felt. Everything. wai
SO still that a person standing at the
lower part of the valley could distictly
comprehend persons speaking at the
! upper end.
Year: 1874

THE Austrians say that the reason
Kullman fred at Bismarck's face is that
the prince is known to wear SHIRT OF
mail on his body, without which, IN
deed. he would have been killed by
Young Blind.
Year: 1874

PROGRESSION is the watchword OF the
hour, but modern mothers haul their
disobedient children over the knee and
strike on the same old spot that the
Romans did three Thousand years ago.
Year: 1874

tired, he will go to sleep, and awaken
brigh, cheerful and happy. Do not,
though, as have seen some parents do,
plunge child into cold water when he
screams and shrinks from it, thinking
you are doing good deed. Nature
must be the guide if your child has a
nervous constitution, shock of this
kind is only exhausting and injurious.
Year: 1874

From the British Colonist, Dec. l6thl


There are cases where blows on the
head have benefited The brain and pro-
dueed extraordinary changes for the bet
ter. Mabilen was almost an idiot till at
the age of twenty he fell down stone
staircase, fractured his skull and was
trepanned. From that moment he be-
came genius. DR.. Pricbard mentioned
n case of three brothers who were nearly
ali idiots. One of them was injured on
the head, and from that time frightened
up, and is now successful barrister.
Wallenstein. too, they say. was a mere
fool till he fell out of window, and
awoke with enlarged capabilities. A pa
tient in an asylum was the victim of
many delusions. He was paying off the
national debt. going into partnership
with Baron Rothschild, and was forming
a Lodge of female Freemasons. One day
an epileptic patient, irritated at being
asked to buy imaginary shares, gave
him tremendous blow on the bridge of
the nose. From that time he improved
rapidly, and he acknowledged that the
blow had SOLDERING effect and had quite
knocked the nonsense out Of him. There
is no doubt that this was the secret of
that cruel old remedy for madness, the
circulating swing, mentioned favorably
by physicians of the last century. This
horrible swing was a small box fixed
upon pivot and worked by winlass
The "inhexibis" maniac, or the maniac
expecting paroxysm, was strapped in a
sitting or recumbent posture. The box
was then whirled around at the average
velocity of a hundred revolutions min.
ute, and its beneficial effect was sup
posed to be heightened by reversing the
motion every six or eight minutes, and
by stopping it occasionally with sud.
den jerk. The results Of this swine
(Which occasionally brought on concus
sion of the brain) were profound ant
piotracted sleep, intense perspiration
mental exhaustion and a not unnatura
horror of any recurrence to the sam,
remedy, which left moral impression
that acted as permanent restraint. Tha
the results were often beneficial we hav


indisputable evidence.
Year: 1874

Whether or not It will be used when the
subject comes up for the consideration of
Congress, one of the strongest arguments IN
favor Of Government aid to the Northern Pa


cific nilroad will be found in the circum>
stance that. in less than two years from the
the date of its completion of it. present termi


nus on the Missouri river. q distance of 45O
miles from Duluth, and through q desert
country where the foot of q white man had
scarcely trod, the road has paid the enormous
sum of one hundred thousand dollars, over
and above its running expenses! What argu-
ment than this, that this great work is open
ing up to settlement one of the richest por-
tions of our national domain! Were il not
20, and were those new and rich fields of
land now already supporting. q large and
constantly increasing population. how could
this new road, plowing its way through SO
vast region. pay not only the expense of
operating y. 6nt profit besides & This cir
cumstance will put to the wall all the subtle
arguments used BY its enemies. Does it not
satisfy even, the most dubious that the
great highway is destined to success un.
paral]eledf just think off reader. The N


p. road started from . point where all was Q
wilderness ct its inception and coursed its
way through an unbr0ken wilderness of 46o
mka TO Q point equally wild and rugged. and
yet in less than "a months from the time It
reached that point It has crested trade suf.
licient not only TO operate it but to pay q
st1Ausof ono hundred thousand dollars, or
about one thousand dollars per week clear


Aud yet, with this showing, there are people
foolish enough to assert that the Northern


Pacific railroad is failure.-[Duluth Herald.
Year: 1874

We had confidently hoped to be able to
give our readers full paper this week, but
our display type for advertisements did not
arrive in time. Next week the COURIER will
appear in regular size and form.


When our material all gets In we will have
. complete printing office, and will be able
70 print much better paper than we have
done in the past, giving our patrons, at least,
q third more of reading matter.


We ask the forbcarance of patrons for .
week or 70, should the paper not come up to
the standard We have promised. 1t requires
time to perfect such arrangements as we COZ.
template, but in the meantime We shall do
the best we can.


To the friends who have stood BY and
nobly aided rs in the matter Of continuing
the COURIER we can only say At this time
that We shall endeayor to prove that we are
not uogra:eful for the kindly interest mani>
Tested AID that the substantial assistance rem
dered US was not unworthily bestowed.
Year: 1874

The patrons of this paper are entitled to
some explanation for it's sudden suspension.
It is not our purpose, nor do we think it
proper, to discuss private affairs in public,
manner but, we will say that the suspension
of the COURIER Was unavoidable on our
part, except upon conditions that, in justice
TO ourself and patrons, we could not and
would not concedc to.


The stoppage was not the result Of lack
of patronage or financial embarrassment, but
disagreement between Colonel Black, who
owned the material upon which the paper
was printed, and oursclf in regard to the
policy and management of the paper. which
he desired changed. A due regard for our
own feelings and the interests of our patrons
rendered it necessary for us to relinquish
the material upon which the COURIER had
received it, baptism. and procure s new ont.
fit, which we have done. And VIC shall not,
q the yelping cur of the Madisonian inti-
mated in noticing our suspension, make our
rc-sppearance with an apology TO the course
we took in regard to the capital question, &c.
There is no such sycophancy about US as the
fraudulent editor of that sheet, who knows
that we have been tried and are not one to
: ''bend the pregnant hinges of the knee that
thrift may follow fawnlng."


1t is our purpose to publish free and ince
pendent sheet, devoted more especially to the
interests of the people of this section of the
Territory, but liberal in its character We do
not intend to be hampered by local or sec.
tional jealousy, to the detriment of the gen.
eral prosperity of the Territory. Renouuciug
entangling personal and partizan alliances on
one hand, and everything that savors Of
neutrality on the other, our aim will be TO
discuss subjects ofinterest connected with
politics, religion, agriculture and current
events in an independent manner.


It has been our desire and aim to give the
people of this county good local paper.
giving . cheerful and hearty support to al
measures of public interest, and at all times
standing firmly by and aiding every enter
prise calculated TO inure to the advantage Of
the people among whom we live and get our
support Upon the prosperity of the people
Of Eastern Montana depends our own success,
and the assertion of some, inspired by self,
interest, tha1 we haye in the past or would in
the future support measures detrimental to
the interests of these people and suicidal to
our own business ID too flimsy to justify no>
tice and will not be entertained by intelligent
men.


Ihe paper commences its fourth volume
with : largely increased patronage and on
better basis than ever.


We ask the cooperation Of friends not only
In this but other counties to increase the cir
culstion of tine COURIER.


We invite correspondence from all sections
for publication. In this manner the interests
of communities can be advanced, and our
readers kept posted Of passing events in Sec
lions thus represented.
Year: 1874

1t was in his retirement on his be-
loved Mt. Vernon estate that the char
acter of the Father Of his Country de-
veloped itself as farmer He carried
into farm life the same industry, energy,
method and exactness that distinguished
him as surveyor, general and a states
man, or rather we would say, he carried
from his farm those grand qualities that
made him great.


From the time of Braddock' 5 defeat
until the revelation General Washington
managed his vast estate of Mt. Vernon
with consummate skill and address. He
regularly exported to London the pro
ducts OF his farm, and imported such
goods as we're needed on his plantation
direct from London. The grand ex
ample of Washington as a farmer might
be followed by the leading minds Of the
country, and the young men who have
adopted agriculture as business should
profit by it.
Year: 1874




I board now, and think have one Of
the kindest landladies in the world.
She seems to think a great deal of me.
and | sometimes decide that should
weep if any harm came to her.


She is very particular about her board
era. Before she would take me in | was
compelled to get certificate from three
clergymen, two bankers and a lawyer,
stating that l had never been hung for
murder, or sent to State prison for horse
stealing. / bargained for front room
looking out on the campus martlus, and
it was understood that was to have the
room alone. On the third night went
home and found stranger in bed, aud
when began to raise a row, Mrs. Dolby
caught my arm and whispered:


There now, be a good, dear man, and
say no more. Hes preacher, and as
he is going away tomorrow ! thought
YOU wouldn't mind it just one nigh"


At the end of the week she beekoned
me aside and smiling like load Of fresh
hay. she wanted to know if / would do
her a favor, a favor which would place
her under great obligations to me. l
replied that would die for her, and then
she asked me to give up my room look
ing out upon the grand square and take
one looking out upon a grand alley, full
of ash barrels and oyster cans, She had
new boarder coming who was awful
particular, and she knew 1 would do
ANYTHING to accommodate her.


made the change, and the grateful
look she gave me was enough to melt a
vest hutton. / had only got fairly set.
lied when l was told that she wanted to
see me in the parlor after dinner /
found her in tears. She said that very
nice man and his very nice wife wanted
70 come and board with her, but she had
no room and it grieyed her to think that
she must tErp them away when she was
so hard pushed TO get along


told her that i / had q hundred lives
I would Law them all down for her and
then borrow a hundred more and add to
the nile and she seized my hand and
said that Heaven would surely reward
me for being good to fatherlsss orphan.
| moved into the garret, the awful par
ticular man moved into my room, and the
very nice man duu us "AAc HN'~N INV
the front room.


In about another week Mrs. Dolby
whispered to me and wanted to know It
l had snake in my stomach. She said
that she had observed that | was very
hearty eater, and she didn't know but l
had a snake. ! set her right, and when
l promised to take full lnnches down
town aud urge all the other boarders to
do the same, she put her hand on my
shoulder and remarked that Heaven had
a place for me.


That night my bed was made without
sheets, and when 1 went TO raise a row
she took me by the hand and said that
her experience went to show that It was
healthier TO sleep without sheets. was
going to argue the question when tears
came to her eyes and she hoped
wouldn't say anything to hurt a poor
lone widow, whose life bad been one lone
struggle with poverty. The next night
the leather bed and one Of the pillows
went, but didn't say anything. Then
she wanted 10 borrow my tooth h-brush ioi
boarder who hadn't any, and she tool
Year: 1874

From the ST. Louis Republican,


Dickinson was promising young man
belonging to highly respectable family
in Nashville, aud the junior of Jackson
by several years. Attached to differ
erent and hostile faction, he imagined a
rivalry where none really existed, and
being in the habit of drinking toe freely,
occasionally made remarks which would
not bear repetition. Of course they
were repeated, and to the one of all
others most deeply interested.


When the first offense of this sort
transpired, Jackson went to Dickinson s
father-in-law, told what he had heard,
and begged him to guard, if possible,
against similar occurrence in the tu-
ture. The warning was of no avail, for
when the wine was again in the ascend
ant Dickinson threw out the same slurs
and this time they cost him his heart S
blood.


The duel ostensibly originated in a
horse-race, which, by the way, was never
run; but the animus Of it, so far as
jackson was concerned, lay in the fact
that Dickinson had spoken i'll OF Mrs.
jackson. Dickinson was dead shot;
could hit half dollar at ten PAGES, kill
birds on the wing, and perform other
marvellous feats with the pistol. He was
as brave and cool as he was skillfal, and
never entertained doubt as to the result
of the combat. The arrangement was
that when the word was given they could
fire as soon as they pleased. Jackson,
knowing Dickinson's superior quickness
with his weapon, resolved not to attempt
to get the first fire, but to take the chances
for a second.


The instant the signal was shouted
Dickinson fred. The dust few from the
breast Of the loose fitting black frock
coat which Jackson wore, but he stood
there like a pillar of adamant, appa-
rently unharmed. Dickinson started
back in horror and amazement, ex-
claiming, my God have | missed
himw His stern and unrelenting an
tagonist took deliberate aim and pulled
the trigger. The pistol did not respond.
He looked and found it was only
at half cock. A second time he took
aim, and as the sharp crack ran out
among the silent woods where the deadly
scene was laid, Dickinson tottered and
fell into the arms of his friend. He died
the same night.


Jackson was able to mount his horse
and ride home next day-barely able
for the bullet which seemed to miss him
had really passed through the heshy
part of his body and cut the breast bone
His shoes were full of blood when he
walked from the fatal field; but he con
cealed the fact, as he said, " because he
did not want Dickinson to have the sat
isfaction of knowing that he had hit him
at all" In answer to the question how
he could, after receiving such shock
retain his steadiness OF nerve, ne re
Piled II believe l should have killed
him had he shot me through the brain. .


This wound never healed properly
was the occasion of frequent hemorrha
ges In later years and ultimately caused
his DEATH


There is no evidence going to show
that jackson ever repented of the duel.
Long afterward-indeed, only a few
weeks before be died-a friend visiting
his sick chamber happened to pick up an
old pistol lying on the mantel. The
keen-eyed invalid saw the movement
and remarked quietly: That is the
pistol with which killed Mr.. Dickinson.