smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1874

November 20, 1874.
Editors Of the Grange Advance:


RESPECTED S1Rs:-Our pleasant weather
has vanished and we must look to the win
ter king for any more fine days. The ice
has blockaded the river for the past few
days, and those who had teams to cross
felt "blue," but our ever ready J. Day
rugged the ferries 50 that when the ice
flow was at the ebb teams could be crossed.


think good time will be passed on
Thanksgiving Day and the day preceding
in this place, for turkeys and geese will be
plentiful and many will be won by Che
"shots" Of this burg. expect however,
that our Diamond Bluff friends will have a
hand in.


Mr.. Dodge will start q singing school ut
the Trenton Hall, Friday night.


Many Of our farmers are marketing their
hogs: they get six cents pound. Now,
when corn is so to 60 cts. per bushel does
hog raising pay? think not.


We had a pleasant time at our last Grange
meeting. Many questions of interest and
importance were discussed. A club was
formed who sent An order for some goods
to the East. I am glad to see the cause ad-
vance. 1t will be but a few short years
when the people Of this burg and many
others, will be thankful for the enterprise
ing spirit of the Patrons. They say that
the present hard times is caused by the
Grange movement. think not. For in
California times are good and we all know
that California is the strongest Grange
State.


The youth of this village are preparing
to have good time skating. In this old
and pleasant pastime both young and old
can indulge with an assurance of an in
crease Of happiness and physical vigor.


Not much snow before Christmas and
but little then, is the prophecy Of the
weather prophet.
Year: 1874

A writer in Lippincott'e Magazine says
the household manners of Napoleon
were those of boor. "When the es-
tablished hour for dining at Malmaison
was six O'Clock, and, though etiquette
forbade any one to approach the table
before the announcement of the head of
the house, he often failed to appear be-
fore seven, eight, or even ten o'clock. A
chicken or some other article was placed
on the spit every fifteen minutes by or
der of the cook, who knew well the
habits of the Emperor. The table man.
ners of Napoleon may have been those
of the hero; they were certainly any
thing but those of the gentleman. He
completed the process of cramming-it
could scarcely be called eating-in six
or seven minutes as rule. Ignoring
the use of knives and forks as regarded
his own plate, he did not stop there, bu
helped himself with his fingers from the
dishes nearest him, and dipped hi
bread in the gravy"
Year: 1874

How few realize what good thing
work is-how much better it is, as Mrs.
Browning has said or sung, than any
thing we work to get There is no more
unhappy man than your retired merchant
the man who has always been active
in business, quick to see and take his
chances, interested the world over in
thousand outgoings and incomings of
nations, ships, and men. To have this
all at once cut of, to find himself strand
ed, as it were, high and dry to be sure,
but out Of sight and out of hearing Of all
that had made up existence only brief
while before,-it is not pleasurable; it is
not the enjoyment he looked forward 10.


He is, like Rip Van Wrinkle, in
strange, new land, with strange, new peo-
pie, whose habits he is not accustomed
10 and which do not agree with him; ev-
ervbody is busy but himself@and he
must fall back on kettle-drums, sewing
circles, or some chronic idler for society.


His womenkind are astonished; the
bright, genial, pleasant, good-natured
husband and father, who was 10 have
been always ready to take them to ride,
visit, or attend places of public enter
taiament, has become the grabbed, mo-
rose old curmudgeon, or a swapping,
snarling animal whom they are glad to
let alone or get out of the wa Of


Instead of going to bed with regulari-
tv and enjoying sleep unbroken only
by his own sonorous breathings, he takes
maps in the middle of the day and kicks
around all nigot. His wife begins to
doubt his sanity, and his relatives tell of
some mysterious and hitherto unknown
progenitor, who fell heir to fortune
and committed suicide Immediately az
terwards. Steady, exacting work is the
moral security of most men, and idle
ness, just as surely, physical, mental,
and moral deterioration.


Nor can men be trusted when or how
they shall bestow their labor. 1t is
among the infinite blessings that circum-
stances decide this for US, and exact pa
tient, steady, unremitting toll and rou-
tine as the price of success Nor is there
much reason to anticipate long and
compulsory inactivity as the close of an
active and well-spent life. Where all
the faculties have been kept in exercise,
yet none subject to violent abuse, the
close of life usually comes with the ces-
sation of work; the human life going out
| like the sun after having run its course,
and its last efforts being not infrequent-
| ly its brightest and best.
Year: 1874

About seventeen years ago, young
boy, residing in Wood county, O., took
black cat-skin, from which the origin
al tail of the cat had been removed and
a mink's tail nicely sewed on instead,
and sold it to a certain buyer of furs,
not far from Grand Rapids, for $1,25.-
1t was done as practical joke, but the
boy kept the money, grew to be a pros
porous business man, and joined the
church; but his conscience upbraided
him so much that few days ago the ex-
fur dealer received note inclosing
So 70, principal and interest. The joke
is now on the fur dealer, as he put the
cat-skin among a lot of mink-skins
and sold it for three dollars. AS he
cannot now find the purchaser, he pro-
poses to contribute the money to some
benevolent purpose.
Year: 1874

Mr.. Brain is IN fa7or of substituting
electrical shocks in place Of the COM
mon pUnisnments employed in pr son
discipline. By such shocks ana eu=-
rents, SAYS he, any amount of torture
might be inflicted, and the graduation
might be made with scientific precision.
The punishment would be less revolving
to the spectator and the general public
than foggings, while it would not be
less awful to the criminal himself; the
mystery of it would haunt the imagina-
tion, and there would be no conceivable
attitude of allevIating endurance. The
terrific power exercised by an operator
through the slightest inger-touch would
make more deeply felt the humiliatine
p-ost-ation of the victim. If capita
punishments are to be permanently
maintained much could be said for dis
carding strangulation and substituting
electric shock.
Year: 1874

The Mobile Register says As a
strong evidence Of the effect Of time in
healing old animosities, we note the re-
ceipt by Admiral r. Semmes Of an in
vitation from a post Of the Grand Army
of the Republic at Rome, New York.
to deliver lecture at that place this
winter, for the benefit Of the 'gravestone
fund The letter says: The cruise Of
the Alabama or anything that in your
Judgment would be Of interest," would
be acceptable, and that the people Of
Central New York would extend 10 you
a cordial Welcome"
Year: 1874

The story is told of a woman who
freely used her tongue to the scandal of
others and made a confession to the
priest of what she had done. He gave
her ripe thistle top, and told her to go
out in various directions and scatter the
seeds one by one. Wondering at the
penance, she obeyed, and then returned
and told her confessor. To her amaze
ment, he bade her go back and gather
the scattered seeds, and when she objec-
ted that it would be impossible, he re-
piled that it would be still more difficult
to gather up and destroy all the evil re-
ports which she had circulated about
others. Any thoughtless, careless child
can scatter handful of thistle seed be-
fore the wind in moment, but the stron'
gest and wisest man can not gather them
again
Year: 1874

The New Haven Union well says
The truth is just here: there is not an
intelligent man living that believes la
Dor is properly adjusted. Every man
knows in his heart that a system of So
cial or political economy which puts the
wealth of a country into the hands of a
few, and allows that few to rob labor and
create paupers, is contrary to the teach
ings of divine law and the genius of our
Government. Every human being en-
dowed with a conscience is aware that
something is wrong.
Year: 1874

Many child goes astray, not because
there is want of prayer or virtue at
home, but simply because home lacks
sunshine. A child needs smiles as much
as flowers need sunbeams. If thing
pleases they are apt to seek it; if il dis
pleases they are apt to avoid it. If home
is the place where faces are sour, and
words are harsh and fault finding ia ev-
er in the ascendent, they will spend al
many hours as possible elsewhere.
Year: 1874

The late Charles Dickens, IL was gen
orally known, was separated from his
wife. In the third volume Of ForsteF's
life Of Dickens" just issued in Lon
don, the great novelist himeslf explains
his mysterious family troubles: "Poor
Catharine and I are not made for each
other, and there 10 no help for IL. Ii 10
not only that she makes me uneasy
and unhappy, but that make her 80,
too-and much more 80. She is exactly
what you know, in the way Of being ami
able and complying; but we are strange
ly ill-assorted for the bond there is be-
tween us. God knows she would have
been a thousand times happier il she
had married another kind Of man, and
that her avoidance Of this destiny would
have been at least equally good for rs
both. l am often cut 10 the heart by
thinking what pity 4 is, for her own
sake, that eve fell in her way; and IL
/ were sick or disabled tomorrow
know how sorry she wouid be, and how
deeply grieved myself to think how we
had lost each ether. But exactly the
same incompatibility would arise the
moment / was well again; and nothing
on earth could make her understand me,
or suit us to each other. Her temper
ament will not go with mine. II mat
tered not SO much when we had only
ourselves TO consider, but reasons have
been growing since which make it all
but hopeless that we should even try to
struggle on. What is now befaliing me
1 have seen steadily coming, ever since
the days you remember when Mary was
born; and know too well that you cam
not, and no one can, help me. Why /
have written hardly know, but It is q
miserable sort Of comfort that you should
be clearly aware how matters stand"
Year: 1874

pcrs. few days ago, that Gen
Grant did not consider it consistent
with his dignity to mako any denial
of being a candidate for third term
lhat was very poor apology. The
Republican State convention of South
Carolina had solcun!y nominated
him for third term. Did not that
authorize him to speak on the subject,
or did he consider that tho Radical
party of South Carolina was SO ut.
tcrly contemplate he could not an
swcr it
Year: 1874

there and get it. The DR.. stands ready
to testify to the above statement at any
time. Now, you pusillanimous quidnunc,
is this statement satisfactorys If not,
what are you going to do about it?


a company of three persons came from
Plymouth to this place last Tuesday to
hunt and fish. AN informed that one Of
the party, while bunting Yesterday in the
neighborlood of Manatua Lake, two
miles west of here, shot himself in the
arm. He was already cripple.


The first snow Of the season fell hero
to-day. JCSo.
Year: 1874

Some Of our amateur astronomers, anG
a number of the curiously inclined have
been somewhat exercised latterly over the
discovery of a new planet visible in the
heavens, and particularly noticeable from
the northside of the river By careful oh.
servation the star was discovered to be
a lantern attached to the tail of kite by
some enterprising but mischievous boys
-lHishaeoaku Enterprtse
Year: 1874

Mrs. Elvira Wilcox respectfully in
forms the citizens of Plymouth that she
will be glad to do any kind of sewing
except on coats. She is in need of em.
ployment by which to support herself
and will esteem it favor to receive or
ders. mott.
Year: 1874

SPLENDID OPPORTUNITy-FOR SALE. THE
n Lease Furniture and Utensils of large four story
house well flied with good paying boarders the owner
desiring account OF i'll health If agreeable
will take part OF purchase money In board. Ad
dress ROWLAND, Herald office.
Year: 1874

By Messrs. Hopkins and Baker who came down the other day, we have good news from the new mining region. Every thing is lively. The ledges are yielding excellent ore and the smelling works are nearly ready to run. There is some ex- citement about ten miles southeast of the Castle Dome mines. Specimens brought from there are full of gold and horn silver, plainly visible to the naked eye. As usual, few men are trying to keep the matter quiet until they secure their locations, but we will soon know all about it. 4e9t
Year: 1874

THE MINER notices the sale of fifty feet in the Colyer claim, Tiger lode, by G. w. Bowers to Clark Wilson for S1400; and that Col. BigeEow is in town again. Working ing in the water brought on the rheuma- tics, so he had to forego washing out his half ounce day and come to town. 1T the Colonel Is disposed to enter the fall race for Congress he must endeavor to get rid of the rheumatism before he comes on the track.
Year: 1874

Scores of times we have heard of men who
claimed be the legal owners of half city
but we never any OF them come into Dossesslon
of much land. We mention this because q Kentucky
gentleman lie laying claim 10 half the City Rich
mond Va.
Year: 1874

The Chattanooga Times copies para
graph from the Rhea county ,correspon-
dence of the PosT in which the above
named gentleman is favorably mention
ed as a candidate for the State Senate
in the Seventh District, and remarks:


1--WE hope Col. Neal will be run and
elected. We mean no disparagement OF
others when we say there is hardly so
fit man FOR the office in his District.
He is precisely the sort of material OF
which the next Legislature should be
cOmnosed."
Year: 1874




The balloting for nominee OF the Con.
servative Convention began In the af-
ternoon of yesterday. immediately after
the adoption Of The platform. Aflcr ad-
journment for supper, the balloting was
resumed at the night session; aud after
the fourteenth ballot--the struggle hav-
ing narrowed down to two contestants
james L. Bales, of Montgomery, aud
James ID. Porter, of Wenry--tEe latter
was nominated by acclamation amid a
thunder OF applause that almost shook
the Capitol building TO its foundation.


We congratulate the convention aud
the State upon this result. And it Is in
no disparagemeut Of his worthy com.
petitors that we pay this much HON.
age to the worth Of Judge Porter. His
nomination on snch platform Is
equiv alent to an election. Though n
Young man, comparatively, he is an old
line Whig-bred Ia the conservatism Of
that grand old religion from the cradle.
He is man of signal ability. and OF
know conservatism. A practical rebel
in the late war--yet, in peace, rs staudch
n defender Of the restored Union as
breathes beneath its starry flag. A man
whom 10 know, is to love. and whom
to try, is to trust forever. We honestly
believe he win go out OF the Office with
more glory than he goes in-such is our
faith In the later generation of the
Why pedigree.


Since the war Judge Porter was
twice candidate before the people OF
his county-once ms delegate 10 the
Constitutional Convention, when he
was elected without opposition. and
next when he was elected Judge of that
circuit. lie was also member Of the
State General Assembly of 1885. 60
He will be Governor of the common
wealth of Tennessee in 1876, and
let us try and give to his aid Leg
islature of as capable and reliable ma.
terial.


There arc many minds that cannot
dissociate the idea Of service in the
ConIcderacy with that OF unnecessary
heat and passion, and with chronic dis.
loyalty to the Government 1t is time
that public sentiment should he cor
rectcd on this point. Many men who
were the last 10 despair Of The Confed-
eracy, and who were bound TO it in It's
darkest hour, were also the last 70
give up the old flag. They had loved
the old Government, had been true to
it up to the hour when the thunder
came, but when il did come, they cast
in their fortunes with those of their
own people, and with their character
istic fidelity clung TO them until the
strife was ended. Judge Porter was
of this class, and the Union loving elo-
inert Of the State need not fear to find
in him an enemy of this Government,
or of those who differed from him in
their sentiments concerning the necessi- :
ty or the justice Of the late var,
Year: 1874

The Cleveland Banner, of last week,
says: Experienced farmers tell us that
not more than half Of an average corn
crop will be raised this year in this Sec
ton, and from our own observation we
are convinced that it will fall far be.
low that Of last year. Good rains would
help IL some, but not enough to make
anything like full crop.
Year: 1874

We copy below the remarks Of our
Nashville contemporaries on the result
Of the Convention the morning follow
ing the nomination. II will he seen
that both endorse the platform and the
nominee in the heartiest manner:
Year: 1874

Removal of the Capifai-COuuty


News and Local Gossip.


FAIRvIsw, HANCOCK Co.,


June 9Th, 1874.


Editors of the Register.


Touching the removal question your
correspondent is Of the opinion that 1t
should be made an issue in the election
of this fall, in every portion Of the State
where there is any considerable division
o, opinion on the question. No more
favorable time could happen. At the
next succeeding general election there
will be full corps Of State officers to
elect, and it is not unlikely that our law
may be 60 changed as to throw such
general election upon the day Of the
Presidential election. The latter will
at auy rate very soon follow, and the
passion snd paramount concern slwsyf
epgendered in a Presidential canvass
would render that an unfavorable time
for popular consideration and decision
OF the troublesome capital question,
Would it not, therefore, be wise for the
people to take right hold OF it now and
| make it-especislly in the election o.
mem bers OF the legislature-the issue
Party affinity need not, By any means
be ignored. Let the political parties
| in counties where they are divided OF
the capital matter within themselves
20 about it in q practical and business
| like way, and let the minority party
forego, for the occasion. and TO the enc
OF efsc,ipg q much.to-be-desirec
settlement Of an important aut
vexatious contest, the nomins
ton and support Of opposing caudi
dates for the Legislature, where candi
dates sound on the Capital questiol
bsve been nominated BY the majority
Here would be no surrender OF part
principles, and the conscienses OF tbos
who are tender upon the point OF fidel
ity to principle would be saved iror
laceration. Thus, the Democracy q
Monongslis might refrain from nomi
mating for the Legislature and passivel
Year: 1874

This oil deriving its name from
Sampson, meaning strength is one OF
the best if not The best remedy offered
to the public for Rheumatism, and all
pain, and it appears no medicine has
ever gained so flsttering a reputation
In as short a time. mayl8
Year: 1874

WARRINGTON, June ..
The District Of Columbia Invessigat-
ing Committee have agreed to report a
bill authorizing the President, by and
with the advice and consent OF the
Senate, toappoint commission OF three
persons who shall exercise all the pow.
ere OF the government cow vested in
the Governor or Board Of Public
Works.
Year: 1874

It is not difficult to believe that she kept to
her resolution. But, unluckily, Mr. Russell
was gentleman not easily keptat distance,
and for politeness sake she was forced to give
him much larger share of her attention
than she at all desired. What was fully as
disagreeable to her, she found that he managed
to throw Sydney and herself into each others
ompanionship much oftener than had at first
been the case. As there we're now four of
them, it was only natural that Russell should,
in general, constitute himself Kates cavalier,
and leave the other two together-an arrange
ment which did not appear to afford very
great enjoyment to either of them, but which
could not be helped, and therefore had to be
endured with equanimity.


fro BE CONTINUED NEXT WEEK.
Year: 1874

SEX OF EGGs.-Science and experience
have sufficiently demonstrated that every
thing that bears must possess both the male
and the female qualifications but perhaps it
is not generally known that such is the case
with eggs. I have found by experience that
it is, and by the following rules raise as
many pullets among my chickens as wish
to, while some Of my neighbors complain that
their chicks are nearly all roosters, and they
cannot see why there should be difference.
I will tell you here what I have told them,
and for the benefit of those who do not know,
that the small round eggs are female eggs,
and the long, slender ones are males. This
rule is good among all kinds of poultry, and
I dare say all kinds of birds. So, if you wish
to raise pullets, set the small, round eggs; if
you wish to raise roosters, set the long, slen-
der ones in this way you will be enabled to
raise which ever sex you wish to.
Year: 1874

most indifferent wooer that has ever come
within the range of my observation, or of any
body else's, l do believe"


"Hush my child, don't make such remarks"
said the old lady, cautiously. awe never
know who may be within hearing; and it
wouldn't do to let dear Eliuor suspect that
we thought the young man was Indifferent to
her; it would hurt her pride very much"
Year: 1874

WAYS OF CARRYING BABIEs.-In the Vi
emma Exposition were number of models IL
lustrating the style in which women of differ
ent nations carry their babies.


The Asiatic Indian woman carries hers in
blanket hanging in front somewhat below
the waist; the Bengalese woman, with the
child astride low down upon her left hip, and
her left arm supporting its back. The figure
seems quite Indifferent as to the difficulties in
this style of carrying, which must be highly
artistic performance if done so cleverly in re-
ality.


The Egyptian woman carries hers in state
ly manner, the child sitting astride her shout
der, with its hands upon her head, and with
out any clothing to speak Of.
The Brazilian woman carries hers in a some.
what similar manner, also in full undress, it
sitting astride her neck.


The Chinese babyis carried upright upon
the back, in blanket, and the South African
in bag in front formed by blanket, round
the hips of the mother.


The lower Australian woman carries hers
by swinging it in blanket over one shoulder
upon her back, while the Northern Australian
woman carries hers bound upon board, after
the style of candy models in confectionery
stores.


The Lapland baby is carried in sledge'
shaped cot, made of leather. 1t seems to have
been chucked in feet foremost, and then
frame tied over the opening for its face,
whether to prevent it from crawling out, or to
keep the dogs from kissing it, is more than
can be imagined.


The most unique style of all is that Of the
Esquimaux woman, who wears wide, high-top
boots, and puts the baby, right-end foremost,
down in the outside of one of them, and doubt
less, according to DR.. Kanes description of
her style, carrying her cooking and eating
utensils in the other.


The North American woman carries her
papoose strapped to board, and that strap
ped upon her back by band over the fore
head.
Year: 1874

CS)[. EAST 18th STA RESPECTABLE YOUNG
CAO woman as good plain cook and to assist with
the washing and ironing to do general houSework in
small private family; is good washer and ironer
would go short distance in the country best reference
Call days