smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1874




The marvellous escape of young Dun
ming at Leeds has already been alluded
to, but his story is so interesting that it is
worth giving in detail. When the alarm
was given he was at his work in the
spoolroom of the Nonotuck silksworks,
and, rushing out of the mill, his first
thought, of course, was for his family.
Hesfound that his father, wife and three
children had all left the house. He shout
ed to them to run for their lives, at the
same time pointing to them what direc-
ton to take. His wife and children
obeyed him and were saved but his
father, an old man of seventy eight, think.
ing that something might be got out OF
the house before the flood reached it.
went back. In dashed the son after him
begging him to leave the doomed build
ing. While raising one of the windows
the floor gave way beneath their feet, and
his father disappeared from his sight. The
young man had just time to Chamber out
of the window and as the house tipped
over crawled up its side to the roof just as
the building broke up, leaving him but a
fragment to cling to for his life, and on
he went sailing down that awful flood in
full sight of wife and children, who, as
they looked on in terror and agony, ex-
pected momentarilly to see him sink be-
meath the surging mas. In few seconds
his frail raft was crushed like an eggshell,
but his presence of mind never deserted
him. He jumped for another, and when
that was gone for yet another. He was
Fastening down with the current at ter
rifle speed, and, intent on the fearful task
he had in hand, never once thought of
the dams toward which he was hasten
ing. The first one is reached in the
awful crash and jam. He is hurled
seemingly twenty feet in the air, to
come down and be submerged for the
first time far beneath the waves. AS
he came to the surface again and clasped
another piece of driftwood he realized
with an intensity unimaginable by those
whose lives have never been imperiled
that another and higher dam was but a
short distance below, and that he had ab-
solutely no hope for life unless he es-
capped from the flood before that point
was reached but fortunately the swollen
mass of water and debris at that moment
surged toward shore, and seizing an op-
portunitv which seemed to be providen-
TALLY presented he clambored across
some broken roots, which served him as
a bridge, and with a leap again had a
foothold on the earth. The feelings of a
man who, like him, had scarcely hope
of life, on finding himself escaped from
the Jaws of death cannot be depicted.
Only cool and intrepid man could have
passed through that experience, and pos
sibly Mr.. Dunning could not but Tor his
experiences before as raftsman in Can
adian waters. He had been swept half a
mile down the river and was utterly ex-
hausted by the intense strain on mind and
body, nerve and muscle, yet as he lay on
the bank for moment to get his breath
he could not suppress a smile at the ap-
pearance of man who escaped from the
flood near the same place by seizing hold
of the limbs of a large tree on the DanK.
Fleshy though he was, this man went up
that tree like squirrel, and did not stop
until he was at least thirty feet above the
water,
Year: 1874

WHILE American women are so shy of
going out to service, it is said that many
of the Eastern college students exc out
their income by spending the summer as
walters in the larger country hotels: One
landlord in New Hampshire says ne has
forty walters Of this stripe engaged Tor
this season,
Year: 1874

The Alta CatJo,1liu has become the
champion of the liquor dealers and dur7
ing the past week has given some figures,
showing the amount Of capital invested
in and the number Of men who derive EN-
ploymcut from the business, in its var
ious branches in San Francisco. There
are always two sides to every question,
and the showing made by the 1la is one
calculated TO create more than one i'm
preston. The are eleven thousand men
employed in San Francisco in branches
of industry connected with and dependent
upon the liquor trade, to whom over ten
millions Of dollars are annually paid as
wages. This is strong showing as to
the amount of capital necessarily invested
in the business and its accessories. The
temperance advocates urge that this ar
ray Of figures IS, Of itself, a convincing
reason why anti-license should universal
ly prerail-that it would be far better if
this number Of men were put to employ
ment Of Il more useful character than
their present mode Of livelihood.


Generally, the press Of the State has
RETAINED from taking sides in those local
tiles where the question of Local Option
was before the people. 1t has been re-
garded in much the same light that a re-
ligious question would be, or questions in
which there are equities on both sides to
be respected. There is no diversity OF
opinion upon the main fact, that intem-
perance is a great evil, and as such should
be abated, but whether the present law is
the proper means to be used, is n point
upon which even the most earnest friends
of temperance reform are divided. That
a law may be sustained by majority of
the voters of community is not, Of it.
self, a sufficient reason for its being adop-
ted-such a procedure would be the old
political dogma of popular sovereign
~" carried to extremes. A law, to be
effective, must be sustained by the over
powering preponderance Of public senti-
ment, and, unless so sustained, it be-
comes a nullity and its enforcement an
impracticabliiy.


The first elections held under the Lo-
cal Option Law, were in the main won
by the friends Of temperance. But later
elections have generally resulted the OPP
poste way. The important points Of
Red Bluff, Colusa and San Jose, with
others Of lesser note held elections last
week, the returns from which were all in
favor Of license. OF course the result OF
an election does not alter principle, but
it shows the drift Of public sentiment
In the meanwhile the constitutionality OF
the law, the point on which its usefulness
will rest, remains undetermined. 1t
would seem advisable to secure decis-
ion on this point as speedily as possible,
for if the law is consttutionally defective,
it would be as well to spare the counties
the great expense attendant upon such
elections.
Year: 1874

POSTMASTER GENERAL CREsswELL,
who is the last member Of President
Grants original Cabinet, has been COM
PEELED to resign his Office on account of
falling health and the requirements of
his private affair. There will probably
be little difficulty in providing a fitting
successor for the retiring official, but the
public will share the regret that the Pres
ieent very naturally expresses, and will
themselves in time come to remember
Mr. Cresswell fayorably as the advocate
of Postal Telegraphy-a great progress
i've measure which is sure to be adopted
at no very distant day.
Year: 1874

TIE Sacramento UajOH is by no means
sorry that that Lultrel's resolution, call
ing for an invest CATION into the affairs OF
the Contract and Finance Company has
failed to receive an investigation at the
hands Of Congress, and adds: There
will be another Congress some Of these
days" OF course The Union is not sorry;
nobody for moment supposed that it
would be. The worst thing that the Dolly
Warden organs have TO dread Is an i'm
partial investigation into Railroad affairs.
When they had full power in this State
to investigate the affairs Of the Central
Pacific Railroad, they constantly refused
to do it, and insisted that the Legislature
should go it blind for measures dictated
in malice and spite. Investigation will
expose the falsily Of their anti-rairoad
howl and leave the facts for the people to
base a Judgment upon and then the polit-
ical stock in trade Of the Dollies will be
gone. 1t is only by keeping the people
in the dark that the Dolie5 can hope for
further success. Ofcourse the Union is
not sorry.
Year: 1874

One of the rules of the new Order of
Enoch, in Utah, the I}ibunc says, is that
all girls on reaching the age of fourteen
must get married There is to be no de-
Walton from this, and the first offer, no
matter how many wives the man may
have, or how ugly he may be, tho girl
must accept his hand.
Year: 1874

AT Graniteyillc, or Eureka South, sit
uated in the upper part of Sierra county,
a serious accident happened yesterday
morning. Stephen Fowler former res
ilcnt of this place, had occasion to cut a
cartridge Of Giant powder, and to 90 so
he used an axe. lie placed the cartridge
on a piece Of timber and struck it a blow.
An explosion occurred and Fowler was
badly injured. His left hand was torn
from the wrist, leaving only the little fin
ger hanging BY the skin. Ills left knee
cap was injured By piece Of gravel or
stone striking it and going through it,
and it is probable that both eyes are so
injured that he will entirely lose his sight.


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Year: 1874

BETTER LATE THAN NEVER.


Those who have waited till after Christmas for bar.
gains in FANCY GOODS will find them now at HOWARD
CO.'S No. 22 Fifth avenue. here not much left
but what remains will be sold at very tempting prices.
Year: 1874

to place hydrant at one corner of
one street at each of the cross streets
where pipes were then laid, and at
other crossings as fast as pipes are
laid down. How well this contract
has been complied with, let the people
say. They agreed not to take more
than ten inches of water from the
river without permission. They are
taking about 200 inches of water from
the river without permission. They
agreed to take up all the wooden pipe
within one year from the date of the
contract. How well that promise was
kept, let the people say. They agreed
to erect an ornamental fountain on the
Plaza. They built the basin for a
fountain, but that it was ever con-
verted into fountain, ornamental or
otherwise, by the Introduction of water
is an event not within the memory of
our little children. They agreed to
keep all the improvements they were
to make in repair. How well they
have done these things, let the people
say. They agreed to furnish the resi-
dents of the city with water, but
failed to place it on the high lands,
and when the residents of that part of
the city are accommodated by another
party, that party is threatened with
all sorts of prosecution and persecu-
ton. These are q few Of the items
we now recall which probably go to
make up the "valuable consideration"
There may be other considerations
equally valuable, but they do not oc-
cur to us at this writing.
Year: 1874

The heaters used in the Alden fruit
drying process are Colds patent and
they are remarkable piece of ma
chinery. Small in size and simple in
construction, they have proved the
most effective combination for even,
steady heating that has yet been in
vented. The three of the heaters that
form part of Mr.. DAVIS factory are
in the hands of the masons and in a
day or two will be surrounded with
brick and mortar. One of the evapor-
ators will be in operation within a
week from this time,
Year: 1874

Many young people think that an idle
life must be pleasant one but there are
none who enjoy SO little, and are such
burdens to themselves, as those who have
nothing to do. Those who are obliged to
work hard all day enjoy their short periods
Of rest and recreation so much, that they
are apt to think if their whole lives were
spent in rest and recreation, it would be
the most pleasant Of ALL But this is sad
mistake, as they would soon find out il
they made trial of the life they think 50
agreeable. One who is never busy can
never enjoy rest; for rest implies relief
from previous labor; and if our whole time
were spent in amusing ourselves, we should
find il more wearisome than the hardest
days work. Recreation ID only valuable
as il unbends us the idle can know moth
ing Of il. Many people leave of business
and settle down to life of enjoyment !;
but they generally find that they are not
nearly so happy as they we're before, and
they are often glad TO return to their old
occupations to escape the miseries Of indo-
lence.
Year: 1874

There is great difference in men.
Some are true hearted and unsuspicious as
New Foundland dogs; others, like rat ter
riers, always nosing around under the inn
preston that there is something going on
that they don't understand. Some are
noble and generous; others are mean aud
contemplate. Some are modest some
overrun with vanity and egotism. Some
are invariably kind and considerate; Others
go about with their eyes shut, in utter ig-
noranee of the trouble they are giving
Others by their carelessness. Some are
slow and steady, and to be depended upon;
Others are quite brilliant and unreliable.
Some have a taste for detail, and attend to
oil the minuti@ Of a subject, while Others
are only for great principles and require a
thing to be gigantic before it arrests their
attention. Men of genius are always un-
comfortable to live with. Absorbed on
one subject they ignore trifes which make
up the comfort or discomfort of life. Men
have talents for different things; some have
talent for being good husbands. II was
probably neglect and annoyance that made
Xantippe shrew. The founder Of the
stoics could not be expected 70 sympathizc
with the trials Of housekeeping.
Year: 1874

III must tell you," writes New York
correspondent, chow an amiable lady from
the right little, tight little island was de-
ceived by her trusted but wicked nephew,
who had lived in this city some time be-
fore his aunt came to pay him visit. She,
the aunt, had heard much Of our water
melons, and was anxious to see and taste
one; so in the height Of the season off
went the nephew to Washington Market,
and there procured the largest melon that
ver,grew. At dinner, the whole affair
having been previously arranged, this
huge specimen was put on the table, when
all at once another nephew exclaimed to
the host: "Well, should have thought
you would have got q sgood-sized melon
to-day, when you knew auntie has never
seen one, and that is such miserable lit
tie thing T. Poor auntie looked at the
fruit With staring eyes; and it was found
that she had written in her notebook,


Mel ons grow gigantic in America
Year: 1874

The American Grocer says: "Perhaps
three-fcurths Of all the butter marketed
might be made, with proper care and sys.
tenn, worth twenty per cent more, and
actually at less expense than it is now pro-
duced; and something of this sort the but
ter-m9kers must do to compete with the
artificial product. 1t can, in our judgment.
be accomplished by the farmers adopting
some plan of cooperative butter-making,
as is done by cheese factories. We do not
say that the same plan may be suited to
every locality, but the principle, in some
form, is equally applicable to every Sec
tion. Where the population is sufficiently
dense, the regular butter factory, taking
the milk directly from the farmers, may be
adopted. Where the difficulties Of trans
porting the milk are too great to admit Of
this plan, the farmers might churn their
cream, and carry the raw butter itself to a
central factory to be manipulated by some
such method as is proposed by the Dake
process, by which all the different grades
Of butter could be thoroughly worked over,
and uniform quality and color obtained.
Factory butter, like factory cheese, now
commands an extra price.
Year: 1874

If the digestive process in cattle we're
better understood, would it not rather
seem strange that there are not more sick
oxen than that there are so many? Just
look moment at the treatment our work
ing oxen receive during the spring while
doing the plowing They are fed in the
morning with all the hay they will eat,
and perhaps have only just about time
enough to swallow it brfore they are yok
ed up and hitched to the plow. They are
made to stick to it till noon, when they
are again fed with more hay. As soon as
it is eaten they are taken to the Geld again
and driven before the plow till five, six or
seven o'clock, according to the ambition
or necessities of the owner. They are
then put up again and fed with hay.


Now, if an OK can only digest his food
after it has been remasticated, and he is
given three meals in succession of such
food as needs to be chewed over, and is
made to work hard, as at plowing, all the
time between meals, what time does he
have in which to prepare that food for
digestion except during the hours of night,
when he should be expected to sleep
If the night, after hard days work, is
the only time in which digestion can 60
on, is it strange that we find every year so
many oxen that are ''of their fecd," have
no appetite. and do not seem to be ben
netited by what food they do eat?


If cattle are fed meal after meal Of long
hay, with no time allowed for rumination,
how can they be expected to, long remain
in health? Does this peculiar condition
of the working OK explain the reason why
daily feeding of meal and less hay to a
hard working animal is a great deal better
for him than hay alone9 And does the
fact that the OK needs long time every
day in which to rechew his food, and that
he cannot retain his health without it, &C
count for the superiority Of horses over
oxen for doing very hard and continuous
work for whole days at time?


If the above propositions are pertinent,
do they not help to throw some light on
the long disputed question: Which are
bette, oxen or horses for the farmer
The answer must depend wholly on the
kind Of work to ne done, the length of
time allowed for doing it, and whether the
work is continuous for many hours in sue
cession or alternated by frequent resting
spells, as when waiting for cart to be
loaded or unloaded.-iNew England
Farmer,
Year: 1874

Professor Wilder gives these short
rules for action in case Of accident


For dust in the eyes. avoid rubbing,
dash water into them; remove cinders,
&c, with the round point of a lead
pencil. Remove insects from the car
by tepid water; never put a hard
instrument into the ear If an artery
Is cu Comp ess above the wound if a
vein is cut compress, below. If clicked
get upon all fours and cough. For
light burns. dip the parts in Id water !:
If the skin is destroyed cover with
varnish Smother fire with carpets.
&c; water will ofte i spread burning
oil, and increase the danger. Before
passing through smoke take q full
rreoth, and then stop low, bnt il car.
bon Is suspected then walk erect.
suck poison wounds, unless Your mouth
is sore Enlarge he wound. or, better.
cut oat the part without delay. Hold
the wounded p1rt as long as can be
torne to hot coal, or end of cigar


In case of poisoning excite vomiting
by tickling the throat, or by water or
must rd. For acid prisons give acids |;
in case OF opium poisoning give st ong
coffee and keep moving. IF in water
float on the back. with the nose and
mouth projecting For appoplexy


raise the head and body; for fainting
lay the person fat :
Year: 1874




As We suggested in orr l.sst nualbcr. I
Is not wholly 81 nainjy ola account oI
small crops or low prices that our farm
ing fails . pay 4 fair profit on the capit,,l
and labor employed in tise business. We
may make better crops. and That is one of
the points To he kept cons antly in view,
but we shall harily get higher prices than
the average Of the past few year. The
principal difficulty with Us, however, lies
IN the cost Of rnakiug our crcps. 4 he
outgoes are too heavy. The expeuse oi
making busbel of corn OF a pound If
cotton Is too great TO make farming
profitable, we must cheaper production.
fit cost fourteen cents pound to make
cotton, it is evidently losing business,
when We get no more than that for il in
mraEzet, less the factors commission -
But suppose We can make pound Of cot
ton for ten cents or for seven cents, then
the lowest prices likely to rule for long
time to come viii give Us profit. How
TO make cotton cheaply is what we want
TO know. Planters, let US have your ex-
perience on this point Let every one
who has succeeded in reducing the cost
Of production in the cotton crop, either





labor-saving appliances, tell US how it
was done. What is the lowest cost at
which upland cotton can be made per
pound Of lint


MAKING GOOD BEGINNING.


a had beginning may make good end
ing, as the adage has it, sometimes; but
good beginning i much better-in fact.
inf of
wrong through the whole year, if our oper-
ations are not promptly and judiciously
commenced at the beginning of the sea
son 1t Is easy to get off the track but
hard to get on again. Above all as we
have repeatedly urged, make your ar
rangements for good provision crops Of all
kinds. After this do what you can in
cotton. All the teachings Of the last few
years point to diversified industry as the |
policy and hope Of the South 1t is well I
that we grow cotton. We can grow it I
with profit, if we manage in sensible |
way; and the world wants and must have |
it; but if we grow nothing else, We shall, |
as we have done in the past, enrich (
others while irnpoyerishing ourselves
Aim to make the plantation or the farm |
There are crops which it |
would not pay to raise for home supply. |
Cotton IS good thing, but not to eat!
EXPERIMENTS, AND HOW TO MAKE THEM.


Experiments in agriculture are often
exceedingly deceptive, and thousands of
farmers are yearly led astray by them
But experiments properly made and care
fully recorded are nevertheless Of the ut
most value. Properly made experiments
take account Of many circumstances,
such as the nature of the soil and its
previous treatment and condition; the
character Of the season, whether dry or
vet, and the amount and quality Of cult
'atlon given the crop. 1t is for the want
# this careful discrimination that they
ire deceptive, and often misIead instead of
guiding Alright the novice and the inquir-
sr.-Rural Carolinian