smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1877

D0HE.-A man who looked like
countryman was lately walking in the
street with a packet in his hands sealed
aad addressed with memorandum that
it contained thousand dollars in bank
notes. AS the bearer appeared to be at


loss, he was accosted by man, who ask
cd him what he was looking for. The
simple countryman placed the packet in
the inquirer's hands, and requested that
be would read the address, as he was un-
able to read, and had forgotten it. The
reply was made, as with agreeable sur
prise, "Why, this letter is for me |
have been expecting it for long time"
The messenger upon this demanded n
dollar for the carrying Of the packet
which was readily paid. The new pos
SCISSOR Of the packet hastened to an OBJ
scuro corner to examine his prize: but,
on breaking the seal, he found nothing
but few sheets Of pa per, on which was
written the single word Dome"
Year: 1877

When he invited her to marry him,
she gazed into his face and tenderly in
qured il he knew what costly thing he
had asked fora woman's life, woman's
wondrous love. -Four months after the
wedding be climbed through the scutteon
to the roof, and when a neighbor came
with ladder to take him down, he put
it to him, ms n fellow creature, whether
it wasn't a mans duty to run when a
woman rose MP after him with hot tea
kettle in her hand.
Year: 1877

4 PANS woman has put a new and
startling face on that particular breach of
the Decaloguo on which rests most of our
modern dramatic literature. "Alas ="
she cries in an agony Of bitter tears at the
reproaches Of her enlightened lord
ALAS that should ever live to be the
wife OF deceived husband -
Year: 1877

double object-an escape from all further ques'
tioning and reproof in regard to her naughty
behaviour, and leisure for indulgiug her own
reflections, which were of complicated and
confusing nature. 1t was, indeed, true, how.
ever that her ankle was paining her more
than it had done, and felt easier in bed than
anywhere else, and in bed she resolved to re-
main, "as long as it hurt her," she said to
Rose or, she secretly added in her own mind,
as long as certain person remained within
visiting distance of the ranch.


II could not face him again, after my con-
duct this morning." she soliloquized. "He
thinks me perfectly hateful, know, and so 1
was, then. Evelyn Lyndhurst, you are an
idiot, nothing more nor less, and you deserve
that he should detest you-yes, with all his
heart. T hope he does, and ever will! But
what nonsense I am talking. BE will 60
away in day or two, and never think fyou
again. don't suppose your image will ever
cross his memory, so you need not distress
yourself about any impression you have made,
since most likely it has already vanished into
air."


Julian returned the next afternoon to in.
quire after Evelyn. He came, ostensibly, to
bid Major Lyndhurst goodbye; but he quick
" altered his intention when he learned that
Evelyn was feeling worse, and was not able
to move about. He could not make up bis
mind to leave the neighborhood while she re-
NAMED in this condition. He forgot the dis.
dain with which she had treated him ; thought
only of her sufferings, her beauty, and was
supremely miserable. He knew, all the time,
that he was fool-so he said to himself-for
making himself wretched about a girl who
was not only entirely Indifferent to him, but
even appeared positively to dislike him, and
who would probably not give him any oppor-
tunity of seeing her again. Still, folly though
it might be, he could not conquer it,


A week passed, and Evelyn was reported
better. At last, one evening, just about sum
set, Julian came to the ranch to make his US.
ual inquiries. He had made up his mind
that this should be really his farewell visit,
since it was probable that the object of his
"mad infatuation," (to use his own words)
being now convalescent, would soon be about
again, and it was best that he should avoid
meeting her but as be lifted the latch of the
gate, he raised bis eyes to the verandah, and
his heart gave great bound when he saw her
sitting there alone.
Year: 1877

WEATHER.-When folks have nothing
whatever to talk or gossip about, they
usually gabble about the weather, which
everybody in that bailiwick knows just as
much about as anybody else, excebt Old
Probabilities, and he gets wofully fooled,
once in while. Editors are but folks, and
some of 'em not very good folks neither;
but those round here are truly good.
And the millions of readers from Beer
sheba to Bulldozia who may happen to
read this item we will instruct that the
Weather in Minnesota has been, for the
past few days, most preposteroas. Colder
than Zero in March after remaining mild
as April for full five weeks previous
Hutchins hit it, Thursday, while looking
out of window into very bright sunshine
while twas cold enough to freeze an ear ol
nose in a minute; and he told the truth
when he charged that such day as this
is an awful hypOcritet" Little snow
after much blow; and it comes hard on III
all, after so much warmness. One consola
ton: it is the rear end instead of the from
end of winter We refer it to the Return
ing Board.
Year: 1877




READERS Four months ago, the owner
of the material whelewith this paper has
been printed since that time, leased it to the
semblance of man named w. Fl. Graves.
That biped has proved to be walking
enigma, to this communicable puzzle be-
ing whether he is greater fool than knave
and now he is generally acknowledged to
be the consummation of both. He has
proved to be an awful dead beat, swindler,
liar, brazen cheat and sanctimonious ass;
duping everybody he could victimize, and
all this whilst protesting profound piety,
and all the virtues of a SANITY temperance
reformer. Processing to be teacher of
classics, he knew less of the English Ian
guage, or how to spell it, than a ten-year-
old school-boy ought to. And yet, this
vile pretender and fraud had faculty of
obtaining money and goods under false
pretenses, which a shrewd rogue might
covet.


And l became convinced, long ago, that
| the monstrous ass would at last show the
religious people and others who undertook
to &c tail him up" that they were harboring
a viper He has defrauded many people
wish had escaped his duplicity; and dam
aged this material more than his neck is
worth for any purpose except to break. i
will require the labor of a good printer
three weeks to distribute the pecks of pi he
left for me. And l feared it would be so
when he commenced dabbling it. He haC
no more business to try to run any depart
ment of printing Office than any four-leg
ged donkey has to try to repair watch.


When some order can be brought out O.
chaos, will endeavor to print paper in ;
printerish manner. Until then, let not th'
reader laugh at the imperfections. Cam
do things we'll without things to do with.


SHANGHAI CHANDLER.
Year: 1877

To THE GRAssHoPPERED.-The Com
missioners of Stevens County will meet in
special ses sion, at the Auditol', Office n
Morris, on Monday, March IL, 1877, for the
purpose of considering and acting upon the
applications made to the Commission for
seed to be furnished, according to law.


WONDER IF THEY LII COME IT?"-We
are sorry to say that some men have ap.
piled for seed grain, and sworn to a pretty
heaoy state of their poverty, that they
may thereby receive what the law contem


plates is not for them at all. We hope the
Commissioners will duly consider that every
bushel of grain bestowed upon this County
will be officially published; and we shall


get pro rata left handed credit for it all
Year: 1877

IN ORDER to experience the unspeakable re-
lief Of a change from an enfeebled and unrest.
full to a vigorous and tranquil condition of the
nervous system. the nervous invalid should try
course Of HOstefter's stomach Bitters. I'M
der the bracing and soothing influence of that
benign tonic and neryine appetite returns. di-
gestiOn becomes complete and painless and
sleep revisitS weary eyes,
Year: 1877

There is cell in New Castle Jail called the
ttBlack Hole in which parties for vagrancy
are confined. It is at present crowded with
fifteen vagrants. The occupants wear scarce
ly any clothing as their clothes are slowed
away elsewhere in order to keep them from
being lousy, and the cell is well warmed.
The present number of prisoners in the entire
Jail is l25.
Year: 1877




People want rest. o how we long for
it Now the Lord gives his people rest, lie
make us TO lie down IN green pastures aud
leadeth us beside still waters, There was
a friend of mine in England who told me
that she went out to ride one day, and met
with shepherd with a large flock of sheep
in front of him. Instead of being like the
good shepherd, he was not leading them,
but driving them-and if they stopped to
eat the grass by the way-side dog started
out TO scare them on, and she got so in
terested, as she thought he was very cruel,
that she Just watched them for a long time (;
but by-and.by he opened the gate, and they
passed into beautiful park, and she saw IA
beautiful stream running through that park,
and after he had got them into that enclo-
sure they went down TO that stream and
drank, and then laid down by the side OF
that river and then she understood why he
didn't want them to eat by the roadside
there was danger there, lie wanted them
TO lie down in green pastures and beside the
still waters. Now that is not a good illus
traton, for this good shepherd never drives
us. lie will not force us into heaven. But
you will find that the sheep who are willing
to follow him-the men and women who
have no will of their own, but have only
Gods will-how they prosper rl-Moody.
Year: 1877

People said they would not be influenced
by that fanatic that was going out of his
mind. Some one said that Noah must have
been deaf that he did not hear this scotiing,
but il he were deaf he could hear the voice
of God, and he obeyed it. One hundred years
passed and there was no sign of the deluge.
They said, there is no sign OF its coming, and
Noah has been telling this for one hundred
Years. Where are the signs of the coming
storm? Methusaleh told them nothing about
it. Yet the old Ihan toiled on until it was
flushed. The people continued to laugh,
They said they never were mole prosperous.
If God was going to destroy the world, why
did he let them prosper as they were doing Z
When the ark was finished Noah moved into
it. As long as he remained outside of 1t
they did not mind it so much, but when he
moved into it they were somewhat aston
ished, and some of his neighbors wanted to
know what he was going to do with his old
homestead. And he said, "Any one may
have it, for God is going to destroy the
world" And men reason that way now.
| They say, " If these things you preach are
true, why don't the whole world believe
There are great many who don't believe it,
aud they think because the world don't be
lieve what God says he will do, that he will
not 90 IL, ana lnal tHtSc thltdttHlnSH anu
warnings in the Bible are just to frighten q
few weak,mnded people, aud the strong
minded are not moved by them at all.


STRANGE SIGHTS TO MAN.


But Noah moves along, aud the first thing
that alarmed them, | can imagine, was on'
morning they got up aud the heavens wer'
black with fowls of the air. They wer'
coming from the forests and all the quarters


of the earth, flying toward the refuge anC


Noah was taking them in Up out of thu
caves came the lions aud tigers and wolve


and wild animals of the forest, two by two
the tiger and the lamb and the lion went in
side by side, and Noah took them all in
And as they looked on the earth they saw


the little insects crawling up, two by two
, to the ark, and some of them cried out


Merciful God what does il mean N
doubt but the rulers and statesmen AM
. great men said ave can't just explain il


but this is not a sign of the coming storm


1t is a very strange phenomenon, we vii
l. admit. We don't understand it exactly, bu
. this will not bring about deluge." Bu
. now they are in, aud we are told that Go
i shut Noah in. Bear in mind, Noah didn


shut that door, but God shut him il
= = when once the master of the house ha
risen up and shut the door, there is no hope.
Year: 1877

GAME.-Large shipments of wild geese
partridges and other game are still being
made over the lines of our railroad. In
view of the fact that nearly all now being
killed Is by professional gunners for mar
ket outside the State, we would suggest
to our sportsmen desirous of protecting the
game, we have, that the easiest and best
way is to shorten the period in which
game may be lawfully taken, and to pro-
hlbit the shipment from the State OF to
market after January lst, Of each year.
This is but just, since our neighbors
prevent the destruction of their game after
that date, and so turn their pot gunners
upon us. Sixty days would be quite long
enough for the purpose OF our own sports
men, and the extra time now had is mort
for the benefit Of such as should not be
allowed to come among us for this pur.
pose at all, than any one else.-News.
Year: 1877

HANGING WALL PAPER
as follows Unglazed or blank paper redu-
ced from is to Is cents per piece; glazed or
satin paper reduced from % to 20 cents per
piece; all other qualities reduced in proper
tion.


am thankful for your patronage during
the past twenty years, and trust that with
my practical knowledge and personal su-
pervision the busideSs will be so conducted
that it will be mutual interest for you to
continue your patronage.


We have hopes that on or before March
25th we will be able to reduce prices in the
material department. as well as at present
in the work department.


Yours very truly,


JOHN r. HOLT'
janl-tf 223 Market street
Year: 1877

Indian (Creek Nation) journal; The


Iowd, Comanche, and Apache Indians live
under the shadow of Fort Sill. Yet the
horses and mules with which they have been
powing their corn.felds through the day
are stolen at night. Many of them are left
without mules to work with"


The surrender of Crazy Horse and his
band, added TO the others of the worst
fighting Indians on the plains, who have
come into Red Cloud and Spotted Tail
agencies during the past ten weeks make a
total of over $500 souls. With these have
been nearly 5000 ponies and numerous tro>
phies from the Custer massacre. All have
reached agencies in suffering condition, and
aver that General Crooks policy of dealing
with allies, and his vigorous field work have
combined to produce the result. Warriors
of this band report Sitting Bull with 800 or
100 lodges on Dry 2reek, $50 miles north of
the Tongue river cantonment


A Salt Lake City dispatch says that in
the tabernacle Sunday Brigham Young arose
at an unexpected moment and broke forth
in an address to the saints and sinners which
gave the latter to understand that if they
wanted blood they could get plenty of it,
and indeed, that they were likely to have
more OF it let out of their veins than they
could spare at an early period. Many dis
Greet gentiIes are quietly arranging for the
removal of their families at the first sign of
an outbreak. The Mormon legion are drill
ing in meeting houses, barns, stables and
corrals in Salt Lake City and minor towns.
Breech-loading rifles have been shipped in
great numbers in the last fortnight to this
nlqpp
Year: 1877

This is not dissimilar from sea sick
ness it requires long experience in a
ring to overcome the nausea consequent
upon going round and round in one di-
rection. One of the most difficult things
for A circus rider to overcome is this
sickness. Clowns and ringmasters suffer
from it greatly, at first, from merei y see
ing the horses 60 round and round but
even after years of experience, q ring
master (whose principal business in the
ring is 70 keep the horses up to Z certain
gait, and not merely to give cues TO the
Clown, ii horse halks or gets behind
time, and he is obliged to keep close
upon him, is very likely to suffer from .
pronounced fit OF sickness at the stomach
after be leaves the ripg.-Sc'ens.fe
american.
Year: 1877

A young man who called on a South
B street lady few nights ago was in
formed by the matron of the house that
her daughter was putting the children to
bed, but would be in presently, and she
left the young man alone in the parlor.
Just then three little things came rush,
ing into the room clad in the costume
generally noticeable in the cherubs and
cupids that dance along the corners of
valentines and marriage certificates They
rushed right in and began climbing up on
heyoung mans knees, They hadevident-
ly just come frem the bath, and their
white skins were slippery with soap.
suds.


"Oh, Charley! Did 90 tum to see
sister Lucy ?"


"Say-tan't we stay up and watch you
play tards and dominoes ?"


While these damp divinities of the
nursery were drying themselves on his
lavender pants, sister Lucy came in and
the way she snatched those three young
ones out into an adjoining room and laid
down the household law With the back of
a hair-brush, made the young mans
blood run cold.- Virginia Chronicle.
Year: 1877

The following extraordinary story
comes to us from Cambridge, England
A railway porter, about thirty years of
age, was recently seized with bronchitis,
and was supposed to have expired in the
throes of that dreadful ailment, which
Stays every year its thousands of little
children and of aged people, simply be.
cause extreme youth is equally with ex.
treme age too feeble to clear the bronchial
tubes by vigorous and sustained effort
of coughing. The railway porter sup
posed to have departed this life was duly
laid out and placed in coffin. As his
assumed dissolution had been sudden,
the coroner was consulted on the pro.
priety of holding an inquest. Some un.
certainty in this regard appears to have
reigned in the mind of the me dical man
whohad been called in, but at any rate, the
railway porter lay in his coffin two days,
at the expiration of which he quietly
got out of it, and, to the inexpressible
amazement and alarm ofthose present in
the chamber of death, sat himself down
in chair. 1t is stated that, in order to
alleviate the severity of the spasms OF
Year: 1877

In the southern portion of Italy goats
milk is very generally used by the poorer
classes, who cannot afford the milk Of
cows. This kind of milk is frequently
required also by worthy people, as it is
said to be eficacious in the cure of
various diseases. Difficulties, however,
often attend even the procuring of goats
milk, although the vendors drive the
little animals about from door to door,
and deliver the article done up in its
original package. A case in point oc-
Cured wnere friend OF the writer's,
desiring some goats milk for his sick
child, directed that goat should be
driven up each morning, three flights of
stairs, and be MIXED at his apartment
door, in order to be safe from fraud. One
morning a member of his family stepped
suddenly into the hall when the process
of goat-milking was going on, and her
eye caught a glimpse of two streams OF
fluid gently Aowing--one from ths ma
tural source and the other from asyringe
partly hidden up the milkmaid's sleeve.
1t is hardly necessary to add that one
stream was milk and the other tolera-
bly, fair quality of water, both of which
were harmoniously commingling'-Ihe
EungeliSt.
Year: 1877

An old piute Indian departed for
the happy hunting-ground, by way
Of old age and general debility,
from the camp on the hill back of the
city hall last night. Itis not the cuctom
with the Plutes to bury their dead, and
in this instance they merely carried the
corpse few rods from the camp and de-
posted it on the ground. City Marshal


Brennan, learning this morning that the
corpse was lying on the hillside, com.
manded Capt. Sam to have it properly
buried. Sam is an intelligent native and
made no objections to complying with
the marshars orders; but five other In.
dians standing by, whom he asked to as
sist in the burial, positively refused to
have anything to do with it, Upon this
the officer threatened that unless
they proceeded to bury the dead Indian
forthwith, he would arrest them and
have them fined $4,000,000 each. This
threat had the desired effect on the In
dians, and the funeral commenced. They
wrapped the corpse in robe of rabbit
skins and tied it up with ropes, making
bundle in the shape of a ball. This
they dragged over the hill to an old shaft,
into which they dumped it without cere-
mony. In reply to a question as to the
cause of the Indians death, dusky
maiden who was an interested spectator
at the funeral, replied: "Heap too dam
old.-Austin (Nep RereiLe.
Year: 1877

thousand dollars, and I'll allow you to
marry Salle Miller"


made spring for the door aud was
burrying to the stable, when the old
gentleman followed me.


Remember my conditions, the four
thousand dollars | lost Find that for
me, and you can marry Salie Miller,
and III provide for you. But if you
fail 10 bring me the money, | say nay,
and perhaps for good while to come.


flew along that road as fast as good
horse flesh could carry me, but felt like
a guilty wretch, as knelt down by the
stone and passed my hand beneath it.
A CLEAN of happiness crossed my heart
as held the package in my hand,


My first impulse was to hurry home as
fast as had hither. But rejecting that
my speedy return might throw suspi-
cion on the affair, | allowed the horse to
walk nearly the whole distance.


Grandmother met me at the door She
said my grandfather bad been counting
the minutes since left. He was still in
the sitting room.


i held the package up, and grand,
mother kissed me.


" You are good boy" she said, and
III see that your grandfather does the
right thing by Sallie Miller"


" Here you are, sir" shouted, COM
ing into the old mans presence, and
placing the package in his hands.


"Thank heaven" he deyoutly cx-
claimed, ~ had given it up, my boy.
Did you baye much OF a search? Where
did you discover it -


Just where | said you lost it. On
the spot where We broke the shaft"


Grandfather examined the package
and found it all right. Then he hugged
me, and pulled my ear saying:


Now, you scamp, YOU can marry Sal
lie Miller Bring her home here, for she
no doubt requires good deal of instruc-
ton in housekeeping, and your grand
mother will make her fit to keep your
house from running to waste" "


y ~.


Readers, these things happened many
years ago, All the landmarks about the
farm have long since passed away; but
there is still large, fat stone by the
roadside, as one rides out from the town
of Randolph, and never gaze upon it
without recollecting how intimately my
destiny and that old rock are connected.
Year: 1877

surface coal, turf like substance, which
burns like wood and which IL found in
considerable quantities near the centres Of
population. All information concerning
these products and where they grew can
be obtained either from the display itself
or in the Office Of the bureau.


Horace Greely once expressed the hope
that he would live to see every State and
Territory of the Union represented, peri.
odically at least, in great agricultural
and mineral exhibition located in one of
the large Eastern cities. Such an insti-
tuition, he thought, if properly maintained
could bs made the means of furnishing
cheaply and accurately all information
desired by persons wishing to immigrate
and would prove powerful agent In de.
veloping the wealth of the country, as
we'll as in leading to prosperity the needy,
surplus population of the towns and cities.
Times.
Year: 1877

ed Senator, and in 1876 was a prominent
candidate for President in the Republican
convention, receiving 124 votes on the
first ballot. He was also appointed one
Of the members Of the Electoral commits.
sion, and the last great speech in the Sen-
ate he made was against that measure
that ultimately prevailed"


twas left for the people Of California
to hear bis. last public effort where he had
gone with Senatorial committee, imme-
diately proceeding the attack Of paralysis
that finally proved fatal


His voice is hushed, but its echoes will
linger until time, and the end Of the world
alone, will obliterate history and the
memory of man.