smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1874

and PAPER HANGGNGS.


He will also procure any article on
short notice, Whether in this market or
not. Will nave in stock in their season,
a fine lob lot of Valentines both senti-
mental and comic, which will be sold to
dealers at very low prices


He also keeps in stock great variety
of Picture, Picture-Frames and material.
will make picture frames of any size or
quality on short notice and at reason Bile
prices janl0
Year: 1874

Those who appear to know say that
the summer of 1874 will be very IN
healthy, as open, warm, moist winters
like the present are invariably follow
ed by seasons characterized by the
prevalence of fevers of low type.
Year: 1874




An article in late number of the
Evening Exprsss while it does not di-
rectly attack the members of our pres
ent Council, certainly indicates that
1t is the opinion of the writer that
they should not be reelected. The
uncomplimentary reflections of our
contemporary upon these gentlemen
seem to us to be undeserved. If we
go back little less than four years in
the history of our municipal affairs,
we find that the City Treasury was
quite empty, and that to meet our cur
rent expenses it was necessary to issue
scrip, which would not sell at par nor
within thirty-three per cent. of it. A
glance at our present financial affairs
shows that we have no scrip on the
market, and the city's liabilities are
promptly paid in coin. Men who went
into Office under the circumstances
named and have so arranged the af-
fairs of the city, so as to make the
showing our Councilmen now does,
may not be as "wide between the
eyes" as mule nor be able to evince
the mental ponderosity of the Express
editor, but they have done their city
some service, and as they work with
out fee or salary, they are at least de-
serving of our thanks for economy if
not for enterprise. The extra taxa
tion that has been imposed since the
election of the present Councilmen
has been assumed by direct vote of
the people, and if there are complaints
at the imposition of these taxes, they
cannot be directed at the Councilmen.
II the present City Fathers have erred,
they have done so in favor of the
masses. They have practiced econ
omy perhaps little too rigidly, but
economy is virtue, and by practicing
it we become wealthy. Under the
circumstances we think the Council
has done well--so we'll that the men,
bers merit the thanks of the commu-
nifty. What should be done in the fu-
ture we shall allude to hereafter.
Year: 1874

The Alden Evaporator is to be built
on the elevated land on the right of
the road, a short distance beyond the
bridge. This location was selected by
Mr.. DAVIS, with the aid of Mr.. TEN
PIE, after learning that the lines of
the fire ordinance prevented the estab-
lishment of this business on Requena
street, where more satisfactory loca-
tion had been accepted from Don
MANUEL REQUENA. Mr.. DAVIES is
not only satisfied, but quite delighted,
with the fruit yield in this county.
He declares with enthusiasm that he
never saw better fruit than is to be
found in great abundance about the
city and in various parts of the county.
He also says that all kinds of vegeta-
bles of which there is surplus in the
market can be dried to the ad-
vantage of producers, and he has
found market for all he can
get to-day. The advantage to the
county of this business must be ap-
parent to every intelligent reader. No
more money will be sent out of the
county for these dried fruits, but a
large income will accrue to the COM
munity from the fruit dried and
shipped from here to Arizona and
other parts of the country. Ofcourse
there can be no limit set to the busi-
ness of fruit-raising, for the facilities
for drying can always be made to ex-
ceed the fruit crop, and the price of
fruit will never fall below standard
of profit. We may now safely advise
farmers to engage with confidence and
zeal in the cultivation of fruits and
vegetables, for no risk will attend the
venture, and they are certain to be
we'll paid for their enterprise. Mr..
DAVIS expects to have his works in
operation in less than a month from
this times
Year: 1874

He told her atterward what he had
intended to tell her that day if he had
not SO broken down. How he had
missed her from the nursery window
how he had thought of her almost I'M
consciously ut first, and quite conscious
ly after how his memory of her had
grown into his life. until he had begun
to long for something more real how
he had failed to understand himself.
until the truth had come upon him like
Il shock how he had feared and wou-
ed and theOrized. until the sight of
her as she walked among the pupils
that day had struck him to the heart
and forced him to take the strange step
of coming to her with no excuse but
the one of his overwhelming love. And
the end of it was that of COURSE. he won
her. Indeed. the truth WAS that he had
won her long ago, even before she ever
guessed that her sad shy thoughts of
him were more than rcvcrently admir-
ing ones. And when she WAS his wife.
the wife of the great DR.. Theobald. and
the beloved young mistress of the house
she had regarded with such awe. the
time came when she told him so.
Year: 1874

WASTING TrMR.--Ths prolonged, bitter and
useless debate In Congress over the Salary Bill
and back-pay grab The anxiety to put them
selves right with the country or to excuse their
conduct does not justify such waste OF ttne, par
ticuiarly when the financial affairs OF the govern
matters, require immediate consideration,
Year: 1874

HThe following paragraph is
said to have come from the pen of
GeorgeD. Prentice. They are worthy,
true aud beautiful words:


There is but breath of air aud a
beat of the heart betwixt this world
and the next And the brief interval
of painful and awful suspense, while
we feel that death is present with us.
and that we are powerless and He all
powerful, and the last pulsation here,
is but the prelude of endless life here
after; we feel in the midst Of the
stunning calamity about TO befall US,
the earth has no cOmpensating good
to mitigate the severity of the lost.
There is no grief without some be-
neficent provision to soften its in
tenseness. When the good and love-
ly die, the memory of their deeds,
like the moonbeams on the stormy
sea, light our darkened hearts, and
lend to the surrounding gloom q
beauty so sad, so sweet, that we
would not if we could. dispel the
darkness that environs it.
Year: 1874

A gentleman of our city is in re
ceipt of the following letter from
Senator THURMAN concerning the
probable fate of the Bankrupt law
in Congress:


UNITED STATES SENATE CHAMBER,


WASHINGTON. Feb. 7th. 1874.


DEAR SIR: Yours of the 5th INST
received. The Bankrupt bill is now
under consideration in the Senate
| do not believe that u majority of
the Senate will agree to repeal the
Bankrupt law. but think they will
greatly modify it as recommended
by the Judiciary Committee. Should
the bill reported by that committee
become law, the involuntary bank
rupt who has been guilty of no
fraud will be discharged, no matter
how small his assets, and the volun-
tary bankrupt if guiltless of fraud
and his estate pay dividend of
thirty three per cent. And to put
Il man into involuntary bankruptcy
it will be necessary for one fourth
of his creditors in number, (whose
respective debts exceed two hundred
and fifty dollars and one-third in
value shall join in the petition And
proceedings in bankruptcy may be
discontinued if the debtor and a
majority in number and value Of
his creditors desire it to be done
These are few of the many impor
tant notifications recommended by
the committee. Among others they
recommend a great reduction of the
fees and costs and very severe pro-
visions to prevent fraud by assignees
and others executing the law. |
think their bill will pass the Senate
next week. What will be its fate in
the House | cannot tell.


Yours, truly,


A. G THU RMAN.
Year: 1874




The hosting into the air and low.
ering elephants into the hold of a
ship, says the Calcutta Englishman,
is not only an unusual sight to most
men, but also strange experience
to most elephants. They were
lashed with strong ropes, slung as
far as practicable in slings, hoisted
up with cranes with three foot
tackle, and lowered into the steam
ers hold like a bale of cotton When
IN the hold, they were placed in
pens built of strong teak timber
0aulks, bolted to the ships side to
prevent them from breaking looso
The fear the ANIMALS suffered was
the only pain they underwent, and
by watching the eyes OF the poor
beasts their terror was very mani
fest. Tears trickled down their
mlld countenances, and they roared
with dread, more especially when
being lowered INTO the hold, the
bottom OF which was Sanded for
them to stand upon. We are told
that one female elephant actually
tainted and was brought to with
fan and many gallons of water. At
sea it appears that they got into
curious habit of occasiOnally-evi-
IDENTIFY with preconcerted signal
setting to work rocking the ship
from side to side, by giving them
selves, simultaneously, swing mo-
tIon as they stood athwart the ship,
the vessel rolling heavily, as if in
seaway. This they would do for
u spell of an hour or more, and de-
sist for several hours until the
strange freak took them again.
When they reached port they were
hOisted out of the hold and swan
on shore, thirty-tive being thus safe
iy landed without any accident
whatever. When they were released
from the slings it was Il supreme
moment for the mahOut, who was al
ways on the elephants neck from
the time of it's touching the water
to letting go. As the word was
given to let go, each of the ele-
plants, either from the lightness of
his heart at being freed from his
floating prison, or from his own
weight. we are not sure which
lightness of heart, like lightness of
head, causes elephants and men to
play pranks-plunged down deep
into the water. the mahout on his,
neck. The anxiety on the face of
the mahOut just one second before
the plunge was study; so. too, was
it when elephant and man rose to
the surface again, the former blow
ing water from his trunk and the
latter from his nose.
Year: 1874

League of GaliipOliS.
Though we cannot comply with
your request, to send one or more
delegates to the meeting of the
Temperance League on the 9TH, yet
we feel it our duty to answer your
appeal to the women of Gallia coun
ty, to give you some assurance of
our firm support, if it be but in
words penned by feeble hand, and
inexperienced writer.


We do assure you there are many
noble, true hearted women in our
vicinity, who have and will ever
stand fairly and firmly on the glo-
rious platform of temperance.


Our hearts have beat in unity
with yours. since we first knew of
the demonstrations made by your
League. In our judgment you have
adopted the only sure method of
conquering the great evil of intem-
perance and liquor traffic.


Men legislate and enact laws to
restrain the liquor dealer, but the
mass disregard and trample them
IN the dust. Something must be
done Let those who will, call us
fanatics. What matter, if we &C
complish a great and good work.
The crisis is at hand woman must
act. She must put her shoulder to
the wheel; she has long enough stood
idly by, in her modest sphere, while
the demon intemperance stalked un
molested through our land. DESC
lating our hearts and homes, and
blighting the intellect Of our hus-
bands, brothers and sons. Is this
not sufficient cause! Then let wo-
man go forth, doing what God has
given her to do. whatsoever her
hand findeth to do.


Written in behalf of the women
of Huntington township, Gallia
county, Ohio MYRA.


FEB. 9th, 1874
Year: 1874

The following is a copy of sin .
gular petition now being circulated
for signatures: "We, the under
signed, citizens of Massachusetts
and consumers of tobacco, protest
against any advance in the rate of
tax on what we consider one of the
necessities of life and a great help
in the temperance reform now going
on in this State"
Year: 1874

EA thief who had the merit Of
about him was convicted
the other day Of making a regular
business of stealing wheat from the
farmers. His harvest moon averaged
him some twenty bushels night. The
court, after sitting the proof, thought
there was too much cheat in his crop,
and bolted him in the penitentiary.
Year: 1874

There was once a little girl who
sat alone in a cold, dark gariet, and
wept She had neither father nor
mother; she was poor and forsaken.
But the sun, which was then setting.
peeped forth from a cloud and spread
a little light in the attic. The door
opened softly and little bent old
woman stuck in her head.


"Come in, aunty," said the little
girl. pleasantly.


81 am tired; may l sit on your lit
tie stool?" asked the old woman.
Twill you give me something to
drink, for / am so thirsty?"


The child took her little bowl of
milk and gave it to the old woman.
That was to have been her evening
meal; but she was such a good little
girl. When the old woman had
drunk the milk, she seemed to be-
come more beautiful and friendly;
the sun shane on her silver hair and
made her cheeks red. She sang soft
ly to herself:
Year: 1874

Perhaps some housekeepers would
like to know how they can make an IN
expensive, and at the same time a goodi
and durable bed, or mattress and
bolster. have bed that will with
good usage) last lifetime. 1t Is mere
" a tick, the same as for straw, or
Eusks, with openings in the upper side
to insert the hand for stirring, and filled
with cut paper. Now, reader, do not
throw aside the paper with disgust, but,
if for nothing but curiosity, iinish the
article, it will do you no harm possibly
Won may be induced to make one. The
work of cutting the paper is not such n


long Job as you would think. Take any


kind of clean paper except straw paper


and fold it, or roll, 80 that it can be cut


with one clip OF the shears, and then


cut it you need not be particular ar a. to


the width, although the narrower 1t Is


cut the better. These clippings are


like little curls or rings Of paper, ano


lie like feathers, and after using the bec


they will not grow fine and dusty, bu'


are clean, and can be stirred as light a.


when first used. | have heard people


who have slept on them say "they wer,
the best beds they ever slept on.
prefer them to feathers or common mat
tresses hair mattresses are nicer, o
, course, but few of us farmt rs wives ca
afford to buy them; whereas the pape
, bed we can have without cost, eXcep
3 the work, and that the smallest chill


you have who can use pair OF shears
3 will help you, and ii not kept busy to
: long at time, will think it but play
3 The same material makes nice pillow
: for lounges, chair cushions, cradle ticks
D etc. have box to keep waste pape
$ in, which is out OF the way, and at til
y same time handler thon the rag-hng
/ and when it is full, l cut them up INT
e another box and put them into the tlcI
o { use the same ticks that | have us.
s for straw wash them and sew up Il
Il openings, so they are Just large en05nG
I for the hand to pass through readily
II three openings are sufficient --to'' C'


ciqndti Times.
Year: 1874

brought bitter ruin to many a happy
hearthstone. Go, Mr.. White, 60 forth
into the great, wide world with the dS
termination in your heart never to drink
three cent cider or to have a large fam
ily or a respectable character again"
Year: 1874

Coroner Etckhon was yesterday called to the


Fifteenth precinct station house to hold an inquest
ON the body of Richard Bomminx under arrest on
charge OF grand larceny, who committed suicide
In his cell by hanging himself TO the grating of the
door by means Of q handkerchief. The body was
sent to the Morgue where the relatives can re-
Year: 1874

The day In Trenton was observed with becom-
ing respect by all classes of the Inhabitants, bus
ness was entirely suspended and the streets wore
the aspect throughout the day OF sabbath les
ttval In all OF the churches special services were
held and appropriate sermons delivered. The
prayers OF the rich and poor were offered up In
unison together, giving thanks in the most heart
felt manner to the Almighty for the blessings He
dispensed during the past year. The inmates OF
the public institutions received sumptuous feasts
and the cOnvtCts In the State Prison were regaled
with DOuntiful dinner.
Year: 1874

tist church Thanksgiving services would be held
with Rev. DR.. MOore's church, and that Rev. Dr.
Fulton would preach the Thanksgiving sermon,
resulted In large attendance yesterday at the
morning service In the spacious ediflce corner of
Washington and Gates avenues Brooklyn.


DR.. Fulton took as his text the eleventh chap
ter Of Deuteronomy, in which the love and service
OF God are incuicated in the sacred writing, with
blessing to those VINO serve Him and threats Of
punishment to those who forsake His law. The
Rev. Doctor began by calling attention to the era
OF good feeling which. upon this annl-
versary Of nations great festival OF
heartfelt Thanksgiving. An era OF good feeling he
pointed out which for the rst time In long series
ofyears was shared In BY all the States on such
an occasion as this O new birth OF Fellowship
which gives us the assurance that the prayers or
millions onered up TO this end are being answered.
one people. Here he drew attention to the par
ticular moral Of the chapter ne mad read which.
eaaaily applicable TO u.s. as % people, Who. ike Ss
Israel OF old, are working out . special mission
to Of
US, admit, and in the manner OF this days
we naye the largest enconr
that God promises temporal as well as spiritual
good 70 them that serve Him. The Rev. Doctor
then referred to the subject Of education, being
the preparation TO nt man to enjoy this temporal
good promised nim to quality him for the dignltes
saat may be mn n We he
education than was necessary to the discharge or
duties in the past. and to direct our enterprise
upon the basis or known facts. The Doctor then
branched into poIitico.religious review OF the
Sonth, referring to the odium into which the car
was q carpet-bagger but he was the salvation
OF Egypt The carpet-bagger In the South, he
thought, had some such mission to reawaken the
dormant energies OF the people there, grown slug
gish through the effects OF slavery, and stimulate
then pronounced in favor Of educated suffrage
and specie payments. He wanted President who


" ouG nos ~ one oe or ays say ne was
viewing. then, some OF the issues decided by the
war, notably the closer union OF the States, and
pointing out that in this land of universal tolera.
ton the conflict now wagtng IN Germany had
been settled two centuries ago, he concluded by
further application OF the text, that II we aban-
doned the service Of God as He has commanded.
and become o nation OF sabbath breakers, we
cannot expect continuance OF that favor now SO
aoundantly shown US.
Year: 1874

What is the natural antagonist of dis
ease? 1t is the vital principle. From
the moment that disease is developed in
the system, this champion fights the in
truder until it either conquers or is con-
quered. Which side should medicinal
science espouse in this life and death strug-
gle Should it depress and cripple the
physical enemies of the patient, thereby
helping the disorder, or should it reinforce
the vitality of the patient, and thereby as
sist in quelling the ailment? OF course
the proper answer to this question must
be obvious to every one above the grade
Of an idiot or lunatic, and hence it fol-
lows that the weak and broken down in
valid who chooses to dose himself with
depicting slops, instead Of tonng, invig-
Grating and vitalizing his enervated frame
with Hostetter's Stomach Bitters, must
be either feeble minded or deranged.
Surely nothing short of imbecility or in
sanity could induce person labofing un


der bodily weakness and nervous pros
doses of some drastic purgative in the
llOBC Va Suibih5 SbiShSbh III
though charlatans may advertise prepa-
rations of this character as tonics, people
in the full possession of their reason can
not, one would think, accept them as such.
If they do the penalty Of their credulity
may be the shortening of their lives.
The rheumatic, the dyspeptic, the bilious,
the debiitated and nervous, and all who
are subject to intermittents, or other dis
eases brought on bV the inclement weather
which prevails at this season, will do well
to strengthen their nerves, tone their
stomachs and regulate their bowels with
the Bitters. The two-fold operation Of
the restorative as an invigorant and an
aperient, in addition to its direct and spe-
cifc effect upon the disordered liver, rem
ders It most efficient remedy for COM
plants of the digestive, secretive and ex-
cretive organs, at present in use.. This.
fact is conceded by eminent members of
the faculty whose testimony to that effect
is published in Hostetter's Almanac for
1874. 3mar.
Year: 1874

WATER PLENTY.-For the first time
in several weeks, miners everywhere in
the county are at work with all the water
they can use. 1t is but fair to presume
that the extreme cold weather is now at
an end, and that water will be plenty for
the next five or six months.
Year: 1874

that he was a fool and we do not now pos |
itively deny it. We hope that he is not an
out and out fool, ias his present public
manifestations would lead one to infer, be-
cause he is 80 mixed up with the very ex-
traordinary a1darian movement which now
is stopping over the land where some saw
ing grains Of sense are so much needed.
Mr.. Lewis has hitherto been chiefly known
as the anostle of reformed system of
dress and diet, the first based on the prin-
ciple of ugliness, and the last on that of
emptiness A good many of that type of
New England women who wear spectacles
ard cut their back hair short have adopt
ed Dio Lewis s systems of attire and feed
ing to the terror of their households and
their neighborhoods, but they soon famish
and pass away. So the Lenten regimen OF
the Doctor does not bid fair to root out the
old-tashloned New England devotion to
fiesh pots and pork and beans. If he had
confined himself to these chimerical and
visionary Outgivings we should have had
only word of regret for the fools who
starved themselves because the Doctor had
a weak stomach, or limited their personal
embellishments to flannel petticoats and
brogans because the Doctor was without
any sense OF the beautiful But he emer-
ges upon wide and more important apos-
tolship, and wants looking after, We be-
lieve he claims to have invented prayer as
applied to publicans We have no objec-
tion to his assumption of patent on this
device, nor upon his exaction of royalty
Of so much night for his patent, with his
presence and palaver thrown in; but the
female aquarians ought to be permitted to
exercise their discretion as to when and
where and under what circumstances they
will uplift their voices ofsupplicatiOn. But
the Doctor seems to think his advice and
direction is necessary on that point. He
thinks they should go ''in parties of five, "
in the forenoon; often the best way,


he says, lis to kneel in the corner of the
saloon and pray earnestly in silence. If


on a second visit they be denied admission


let them pray for the proprietor knceling


close by the door, Our own hope is that


the women who engage in this work will
take counsel of their own good sense and
delicacy of feeling, and not be led into alb


surdities by this bumptious, bean -consum-
ing apostle. Without his intervention the
movement may retain whatever of force OF
dignity it has ever possessed, but under
his direction it will speedily become mark
for dcrisinn- y World
Year: 1874

Ey- IL the time ever comes for the cx
plana,ion of the mysteries Of this world
VIC shall be glad to know why the young
man vino remarks on leaving the church,
/" can preach a better sermon than that
myself, is content to wear out his life
over a counter at $25 month
Year: 1874

WHO CAN TELL what day may bring forth
Nobody! Yet everybody can tell what the DAY OF
the drawing of the last Gift Concert In ala OF the
Public Library of Kentucky will bring forth. AS
the ponderous wheels of fortune reyolGe. we all
know that they will inevitably bring forth fortunes
of greater or less amount for some, and dsappont-


mcut for Others No ticket-holder can tell but that


thar day may bring forth for him the whole Of his
future happiness For tickets or information apply
to A. P. L'EcUYER, 900 Bauk street, Richmond