smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1874

EpAu empty headed exquisite was
present when a young lady was singing
a song in which the following lines oc.
cur: ...-.
"By that fair brow where innocence reposes,
Like moonlight resting on the spotless snow.


Looking at him intently, she divided
the words in the first line in a manner
not particularly complimentary, thus:


"By that fair brow wherein no sense reposes,
Like moonlight resting on the spotless snow
Year: 1874

The temptation to drink ice water and
ice cold drinks of all sorts is of course
very great. Sensible people, however,
know that there is no surer way of in:
increasing ones discomfort from the
heat, and Of inviting sunstroke and apo!
pleXy than the use of ice water.
Year: 1874

room was converted into pleasant and
cosy place. A man brought in stove


which was set up, and a fire started
Another man followed with table and
chairs. Then bed was set up, and a
comfortable mattress and blankets placed
on the same. A load Of coal was placed
in the yard, and food and money left in
the house. The poor lady and distressed
husband, when they perceived what was
going on, fell on their knees and thanked
God for His goodness, and when they
rose to thank their benefactors they were
gone. The joy and happiness of the
unfortunate sufferers were thanks enough
for them. Such happy New Year they
had never witnessed before.


There is not the least doubt that many
similar cases exist in this great city, but
the sufferers are prevented from applying
for help because the dead-beats and Seal
awags block up the entrance to the build
ing, and take up all the attention of the
officers. Five thousand dollars in mon
ey, one hundred and fifty tons of coal,
and other necessaries, were again dis
trlbuted among the needy yesterday
The society has also ninety sick persons
in the hospitals.
Year: 1874

DISTRESSING CASE PROVIDED FOR.


A Chicago daily gives the following
respecting the Relief Society:


The greater part of those now asking
for relief are undoubtedly dead-beats
who make applications under different
names. The really needy and destitute
are too proud and sensitive to stand day
after day among those collected in front
of the building, and for this reason some
OF the worst cases are not reached by the
society. A case Of this kind came to
the notice of the society the day before
New Year. A lady made application
for relief by letter. She stated that she
had sick husband and child and she
herself was in such circumstances that
she could earn nothing; that she had
lived on two dollars for the last fifteen
days, and If the society would let her
have that amount she could do the same
again. BY the style of her writing and
the manner IN which she worded her ap-
plication Mr.. Trusdell saw at once that
she must be lady of refinement and
that assistance was asked very reluctant
ly. Mr.. Hawkes., the assistant suner;n


tendent, was detailed to visit the 1adv' 9
house. He found; on inquiry, that the
lady who had made the application had
once moved in the highest spheres of So
ciety and had made quite name by her
literary productions, but now she was but
skeleton covered with a few scantv
rags. Her child was very sick, but she
mad no money to procure medicine, and
her husband, who once was the business
partner OF one Of the most prominen,
men in the country, was lying in the las,
stages OF. consumption, with nothing but
few rags to cover his person. There
was no furniture in the room except ar
old dry-goods box, broken chair, anc
an old straw-tick, which served them a.
bed, and which had only recently beer
presented to them by an old Irisf
woman: The next dry, New Years, tn,
aiady's house was visited by several oen
tlemen, and before the poor and distressed
sufferers knew what was going on thei,
Year: 1874

Many instances have been recorded
of the display of the intelligence by rats
to which we beg leave to add the fol-
lowing: A farmers wife in the west
Of Scotland remarked that the cream
on the surface of the milk in her diarv
was often interfered with. At first.
she suspected that some of her children
had taken the unwarrantable liberty Of
dipping pieces Of bread in it. but she
could find nothing to confirm this sus-
picion; and by-and-by she noticed
strange little streaks of cream on the
edges of milk-basins, as if string
had been dipped in and drawn out. so
as to leave mark. At last she dis
covered the secret. The cream was
stolen by rats, which got upon the
edges Of the earthern-ware basins con-
tanning the milk, and not being able to
reach down to it, depth of several
inches, nor daring to attempt to go
down, as they could never have climbed
up the smooth surface again, dipped in
the tips Of their long tails, drew them up
loaded with the rich cream and licked
them. An arrangement of the basins
such that the rats could not get upon
the edges Of them, put an end to all
further depredations of this kind.
There was surely something more than
instinct in this case in the procedure Of
the rats.


e have something still to tell re-
garding the ingenuity Of rats. A fam
lily in country house in Hertfordshire
England, had fancy for rearing ducks,
but could not we'll do so on account Of
rats, which Systematically got hold of
and carried away the young ducklings
even from close to their mother.
With view to circumvent the rats.
the maternal duck and her young
were housed for the night under a coop,
which admitted Of no opening for the
turtive intruders. The rats were not
to De so easily cheated of their prey.
On discovering that the. mother-duck
and her family were closely shrouded
from intrusion, they devised a pretty
plan of engineering, which was eminent,
~ successful. In the course of sin.
gle night they excavated tunnel
gong below the outer edge Of the COOP
to its interior, and thus very neatly
without producing any alarm, stole ev.
cry duckling from under the guardian.
ship Of the mother.


Two rats belonging to the same colo.
ny performed feat quite as ingenious
A trap which was balted for their cap
ture was habitually plundered withou,
securing single rat They had evi
IDENTIFY invented some plan for safel,
stealing away the bait, and what that plar
was could only be learned by setting :
watch on the trap. We shall explair
how the the theft was effected. The
trap was of the kind which is some
times employed for catching mice. I,
was box With sliding door, which
was sustained by mechanism connected
with the bait. On the bait beiue
nlbied at the door descends and make!
the mouse prisoner. The two rat!
saw throug IA the device, and resorted tt
the following very simple but effectua
method to take away the bait, which
was a piece Of toasted cheese. and ye
escape imprisonment. One Of then
placed itself under the door, sc. that i


might fall on its back, while the othe
Year: 1874

|crePt IN and successfully carried Of
the morsel Of cheese The first rat
then drew itself from under the door


and joined its companion. This demon
stration Of rat intelligence, like the pre-
ceding incident, is of recent occurrence
Year: 1874

"A GENTLEMAN who rather suspected
some one was peeping through the key
hole OF his Office door, investigated with
= syringe tuil Of pepper-sauce, and went
nome TO ind that his wife had been cut
nng wood and chip had hit her in the
eye. q = :
Year: 1874

A San Francisco exchange tells the the story of ghastly murder. Chris

 tofore Citcovich, an Austrian fruit seller, was found dead in his room. The discovery of the death arose in conse. quence of the horrible stench emana- ting from the apartment in which the horrid sight was found. Repairing to the designated place, the coroner found the body of man, perhaps fifty y-eight years of age, far gone in decomposi- tion, lying upon the table. On exami- nation they also found the instrument of death-a dirk knife, with blade six inches long, driven into the skull from ths top of the head, and penetra. ting down into the neck, the handle of tue keen edged weapon barely discover ing itself couple of inches from the top of the hair. By the side of the ghastly corpse was another dirk knife. but with wider blade, covered with congealed gore, while beneath the pu- trefying body lay hatchet, with which the knife must have been driven into the head, also dipped In the crimson blood of this old victim to some barbarous, fint-hearted and cruel brute, who must have perpetrated the deed for the hope of gain. It is said by those about the house, that the old man had not been seen for ten days; but the men of the morgue are of the opinion that Citcovich must have been dead for three or more weeks. They say that no sight, within their knowledge and experience among the sickening sights to be met about the "Dead House" was ever so revolting.
Year: 1874

At the gaming table the Duke of Richmond incurred debt of honor to Lord Cadogan, which he was unable to pay, and it was agreed that his son, lad of fifteen, who bore the title of Earl of March, should marry the still younger daughter of Lord Cadogan. The boy was sent for from school and the girl from the nursery a clergyman was in attendance, and the children were told that they were to be married upon the spot. The girl had nothing to say the boy cried out, "They surely are not going to marry me to that dowdy !' But married they were. A post-chaise was at the door the bridegroom was packed off with his tutor to make the grand tour,, and the bride was sent back to her mother. Lord March remained abroad for sev- eral years, after which he returned to young man, but in no haste to meet his wife whom he had never seen except upon the occasion of their nasty mar riage. So he tarried in London to amuse himself. One night at the opera his at- tention was attracted to beautiful young lady in the boxes. "Who is that ?" he asked of gentleman beside him. "You must be a stranger in London" was the reply, "not to know the toast of the town, the beautiful Lady March," The Earl went straight to the box, announced himself, and claimed his bride. The two fell in love with each other on the spot, and lived long and happily together and when the husband died, she also died of a broken hearG within few months.
Year: 1874

The attention of persons who like to see good mechanical work. and especially those who would like to see what Yuma can do in that line, is directed to a large wagon, or 'prairie schooner" just completed by Chris. Horner, at his shop on Main street, for Mr OrmS Of Salt River valley. This wagon, together with a buggy just finished at the same shop for Wm. P. Miller, of the Castle Dome Smelling Works. show the most admirable workmanship, and are equal to the best that can be built anywhere in the world. Persons wishing wagons or buggies need not go to California for them, for they can have them built here, of the best of material, brought from the States, thoroughly seasoned ard adapted to this climate, and 8 workmanship unsurpassed any. where. Go and see them.
Year: 1874

Samuel Purdy, IT,. Superinseu- dent and Agent of this Compsny, is busiiy engaged surveying what they claim to be their 'grant." And now we may as well say right here that we have been urged, both personally and by letter, to pitch into this pretend ed grant business.

 Because we have been silent, let no man think that we have not kept a strict watch upoE this mat ter "The SENTINEL is at his post" and will give timely warm ing of approaching danger. We believe in the maxim of David Crokett, "be always sure you're right, then go ahead" We will not pitch in against anything un. less we believe that we are right. We have been waiting for devel- opments and we hope they will soon appear. This company may have rights in the premises. If they have, all honest men will say let them be sustained But if this is one of those fraudulent grants, bOlstered up by wholesale perjury and false record 8 in Mex. ico, as many pretended grants were in California years ago, then we will fight it to the bitter end. The thing has a very bad look on the face of it. but as above remark. ed we wish to know that we are right before we oppose it. We hope to be able in our next to show what this Company mean, what they claim and by what right they claim it. We have been silent long enough and we intend to speak.
Year: 1874

Give me the money that has heen spent inwar, and I will pur ch4se every fpot of land upon the globe. I will clothe every nan, woman. and child, in an attire ot which kings and queens might be proud. wilt build a school-hOuSe on every hillside and on every valley of the earth :; will build an academy fin every to wn, and I will endow it; eoii4age in every State and fill it with able prOfeS. sors; I will crown every hill with a place of worship, c0nseerated co the promuIgati0n of the gospel of peace; will support in every put. pit an able teacher of righteous ness, SO that on every Sabbath morning the chime on one hill should answer the chime on an other around the earth's wide circumference !; and the voice of prayer and song of praise should ascend like a universal holocaust tp Heaven, ,~-RufIs SteUeisS,
Year: 1874

With this issue we commence Volume III of the ARIZONA SEN TINEL. We have no change to announce in the manner of con. ducting our journal, nor do' we think that any change is necess' ary.

 It has been our earnest en- deavor to ma e the paper accept able to an intelligent and appre- ciative public. In this we think we have been in a measure suc- cessful, which is evidenced by our inoreasing subscription list and the character of our new subscrib- CTS. The very hest men of the Territory and many out of it, are gradually coming up and giving the SENTINEL their support. This Is very gratifying to US and en. courages and stimulates us to press on in our determination to make our paper worthy of the support of all good people.

 Few persons, except those im- mediately connected with a news paper establishment, have any idea of the difficulties and en- barassments to be encountered in publishing a newspaper in a new and sparsely settled country, par particularly when the circulating medium is scarce. The paper must come out, whether the editor has any money with which to pay the expenses of his office or not. And if it fails to come out on it's regular day. it is dead and damned. Hence all live men, all men interested in the welfare Of their country, should be liberal in the support of their local paper.

 No intelligent man, no man who has any regard for the best interests of his country and of so- ciety, and particularly of his own locality. can fail to support his To- cal paper and he innocent.

 When we came into possession Of the SENTINEL, we found on the subscription hook many dead. heads; many who had not paid anything, and some who never intended to pay. Some of these deadheads we have decapited, and others we will lop off soon, a, fast as we find that they do not intend topay. We want pnyiuo subscribers. Give us plenty of these and we will print you good paper, one that you will be pleased to read and send to your friends, and we will go on improving just as fast as you enable us to do so by your patronage. The English reading population in this part of the Territory is not large, there fore it is the more necessary that these who do read English should come forward and subscribe and help to sustain their local paper, and that all business men should advertise, both for thelr own in. terests and ours.

 And now, kind friends, thank ing you for the generous support you have already given us, and respectfully asking d continuance of it and an enlarged patronage, we spread our sails to the breeze for new volume, wishing health,
Year: 1874

J. H. Cook, who is confined to the Sacramento jail for the at. tempted murder of his wife. tried to kill himself, on Sunday, by tying a small strip of whalebone tightly around his throat. The following note Was found write ! upon card and lying by his side in the cell when the discovery of his attempted suicide was made : "Oh, take me to my wife. that may see her once mnre before I die, and ask her forgiveness. This is my last and only request"
Year: 1874

The strongest argument, in our opinion, in
favor of large farms is that they can be worked
more economically by the employment of la
Dor saving machinery than small ones. Farm
labor has become so high-priced, and at the
same time so inefficient, that farming can on
ly be made profitable by substituting as far az
possible iron and wood, in the form of ma
chinery, propelled by blind, insensate, or
brute force, for muscles moved by human in
telligence. ia a diCN si -aa'ralr gMul


A farmer cannot afford to use machinery
unless it will save labor enough to pay inter-
est on cost, repairs, and wear, or depreciation
in value from use. If he has but a few acres
OF grain to drill in, few acres of corn and po-
tatoes to plant and cultivate, a few acres of
grass to NOW, rake up, and draw into the
barn; few acres of grain to reap, etc, etc.,
he cannot afford to keep grain drills, corn and
potato planters, sulky cultivators, mowers,
sulky rakes, and horse forks, reapers and
other expensive machinery, for they would
not save to him labor enough to compensate
for the cost of keeping them. yla-


But if farm is so large that the breadth
sown to grain, for instance, will keep drill
employed during the entire season of sowing,
and reaper employed during the entire sea-
son OF reaping, the saving in labor in a single
season might go far toward paying the cost of
those machines. Perhaps 1T would not be ex-
aggerating to say that farmer on 200 acres,
raising ordinary farm crops, will hardly re-
quire more help to do his work, in addition
to the machinery he would be warranted in
keeping, than would farmer on eighty acres
without the labor-saving machinery.


The only way small farmers can avail them
selves Of the advantages of labor-saving ma
chinery is by cooperating. If three or four
small farmers would unite and purchase all
necessary machinery to be used in sowing,
cultivating and harvesting crops, they would
remove one of the strongest economical OBJ
jections against small farms.


In our opinion the most important consid-
Grafton in favor of small farms are of a social
and political nature. Small farms bring farm
ers into proximity so that they can enjoy that
neighborly intercourse so pleasant and so nee
essary to the development of many of mans
higher qualities. They make small school
districts and large schools, and many other
social advantages which cannot be enjoyed in
sparsely settled rural district.


Not the least among the beneficent effects
of small farms is their tendency to make pat
riots. A hireling who possesses no real es-
tate, no home OF his own, has less attach
ment to country, less interest in good, sta
Bile government than one who has a home and
property that must be untavorably affected by
unjust and oppressive laws, or by riots and
disorders in society.


To sum up the matter we shall have, in our
opinion, the highest idea of rural society
when our country is divided up into small
farms, and those farms are owned and worked
by an educated, moral and patriotic yeoman-
ry, with sense enough to unite and cooper
ate for their mutual interests ts.-American
Rural Home.
Year: 1874

WHEAT IN MIcAIGaN.-Phe Detroit Tribune
ct Saturday says: "Within the past two weeks
the movement in wheat in this State Aas been
very large and active, The receipts and ship
ments at this point within this time are without
precedent for amount in the history of the grain
trade in this city. This shows that farmers are
generally selling, and that money is consequent
ly coming into the State in large quantities


The fact cannot fail to exert a stimulating and
beneficial influence upon all branches of BUSH
Year: 1874

nd The Coal TRADE.-The coal trade is re-


ported to be just now in an unusually flourish.
ing condition as the result Of the rigid control
over production and prices exercised by the
combination. The tonnage for the year up to
this time isfully million tons short, as COM
pared with the same period last year, and con-
sequently there is no gfut in the market to de-
press prices This short production will not
probably be made good this year, but there is
every prospect that next spring the market


will be amply furnished and prices viii stand
at a reasonable figure. During the winter
prices will rule somewhat higher than they arc


just new, but there is not likely to be very
material advance. 'i''oi"
Year: 1874

ONLY N FCN.-A smart little boy in New Or
leans reprOyed by his mother for telling a fib
He insisted it was only in fun, but his pious
mother told him he must ask Divine pardon. So
the little boy knelt down aud said .. o, Lord
forgive me. l wouldn't have done it, only |
thought you could take joke
Year: 1874

An ECsTAuC MOMEST.-He unblushingly saws
that 1t was one of the most ecstatic moments
of bis life when the doctor laid his hand upon
his shoulder, and sadly whispered, - Your moth
er-in-laws voice IS irretrievably gone. She will
never speak again
Year: 1874

How he FELT.-''I tell yOu," said Wiscon-
sin man to n neighbor next day after burying bis
wife, g when L came to get into bed and lay
thar, and not hearing Lucinda jawing around
for an hour and half, it just made me feel as il
I'd moved into a strange country
Year: 1874

Among the articles of import at the Chi
cago custom-house, last week, was one bot
tie Of holy water, from France. If the Chi
cagoans hope for the remission Of their sins
through the agency of holy water, they must
import consecrated loke. 1t would take a
good sized well to purify the Times Office
alone.
Year: 1874

Amoung the Union miners in Ohio they
have plain, blunt sort Of way of arguing,b but
very effective one withal. They tie rope
around mans neck. sling the other end of it
over lime tree, and then inform him that he
has the floor, but that how long he retains it
depends entirely on what side of the question
he takes.
Year: 1874

Some lynchers in Texas shot nine horse
thieves and such who were in a Texas Jail
the other day. One of the victims came near
getting clear, because he had stolen DO horses,
but had only killed his wife. However they
shot him all the same.
Year: 1874

EE- We are ruined not by what we
really want, but by what we think we do !,
therefore never go abroad in search of
your wants. II they be real wants they
will come home in search Of you, for he
that buys what he does not want will
soon want what he cannot buy
Year: 1874

etc. he thought when he examined their
record, that this claim would come with
as good grace from Satan himself. He
reviewed their treatment of the South
and quoted the remark of the late Chief
Justice Chase, "If the Southern people
ever did have the right to rebel, (which l
do not admit they did have they GER
tainly have that right now" A voice,
'that is Gods TRUTH If the people of
West Virginia were treated to-day, as
are those Of South Carolina, would they
not rebel? Would our neighbors in
Ohio tamely submit to the outrages and
indignities that have been imposed upon
the people of Louisiana? He challenged
the world to show country that has So
patiently endured what the Southern
States have since the close of the war.
Talk about Ireland and her wrongs they
are no comparison. Talk of her wrongs
nobility. Has it not been done here? He
alluded to the impoverished condition o.
the Southern States, the enormous debts
created by carpet baggers and negroes,
the terrible depreciation of real
estate, the scarcity Of money,
and the exclusion from official
position of the intelligent white men,
and the devotion of all ignorant negro
rabble at the head of affairs, and yet they
are required to meet the burden of taxa
ton! A voice, Good God Almighty" ]





Tho speakers best effort was when
dwelling upon our financial system. His
remarks upon that subject were most e1-
celent, and it is doubtful whether more
clear and lucid speech upon that intri-
cate question was ever heard in our town,
and it was evidently appreciated, and the
Democracy will lose nothing by inviting
COL johnson to again address the people
of Wetzel upon the questions of the hour.


OBSERVER.