smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1877

"On turkle. This animal is found most
always in the water, and then he comes on
dry land. The turkle cannot fly. If he was
the right kind of bird he could fly; but if
he was a goose bird or an ostrich he could
not fly. The turkle has four paws and a
mouth like an American eagle, which makes
the British lion and the unicorn tremble. The
turkle has a shell, and sometimes folks put
fire on it, and the turkle crawls out. When
the turkle crawls out of his shell he is very
wet and sticky. There are two kinds of tur-
kles; muck turkle, and the other kind. We
don't have any other kind in our pond.
French and Irish people eat turkle and frogs,
but should not like to- caught turkle
once, but it did not do me any good for ex-
changed it for jacknife and cut my fingers.
Father said it was judgment, but thought
it vas knife"
Year: 1877

Intimidation will be no longer regarded
as "a Democratic myth now that one of the
South Carolina bench-a colored man
confesses that he is afraid to pronounce
his opinion in the contested gubernatorial
case by reason of threats. from the misled
negroes, who are urged en- to disorder and
possible destruction BY the carpet. baggers.
Year: 1877

Here is hit Of sensible talk from one Of
our exchanges on the subject Of advertise
ments in the reading columns Of a news
paper:


There is a tendency on the part of ad
vertisers to run all their advertising into
what is known as locals, and publishers
encourage or permit the practice until
many papers we receive contain little else
in the way OF original matter. Now we
deprecate the custom entirely. 1t is
ruinous to the papers, and eventually to
the interests Of the advertisers themselves
When paper Is habituaily full Of such
reading matter,th business local. has no
perspicuity 1t is lost in such mass of
stuff Just as effectually as a small standing
card in the regular advertising columns
| while in the former instance all interest
in the paper dies out, and advertising and
ali goes for nought


! We always call attention editorially to
new advertisements in regular form, and
mention whatever we see that is note
worthy from time to time in the business
Of our patrons; but we shall never devote
our columns to announcements tha


Jones has the cheapest goods in town,
and that Browns goods are great dea
cheaper than the cheapest" "
Year: 1877

New YORK, March 3.-The World says:
Governor Hayes is beginning a task in
which no man can possibly hope for any,
the least, measure of success without the
most thorough sense of the unchallenged
legitimacy of his functions. Under cloud
of doubt and Of reproach which might
well beuumb the energies of the ablest and
most experienced statesman that America
has ever produced, this cloud cannot be
conjured away, He must begin, continue
and end his presidential career on suffer
ance.


The San is in mourning and says these
are days of humiliation, shame and mourn
ing for every patriotic American"
Year: 1877

Seize the present hour, rather than
trust in the least to any future good" sings
the wise Roman poet, Horace. This preg-
nant advice to enjoy lie as we go along
cannot be too earnestly enioined cn all.
Among many other practical rules helping
toward so desirable an end, there is none
with so vide a range, and genuine force a:
use none but B. t. Babbitt's Best Soap
Year: 1877

They had q discussion over at Miller's
the other day about bulls. Mr.. Miller
said that II was all nonsense 10 talk about
bull being excited and made furious by
. red rag. He said he had an ugly tenn
pered Devon bull over in the field who
would take II like lamb il you would
stake the flags Of all the nations in his
face. DIR. Robinson said that Miller
daren't try Il, and Miller bet Robinson
that he would. SO Miller went into the
house and loaded himself up with a red
flannel undershirt, and we all walked out
to the field The bull was there, looking
as calm rs summer morning. Miller
climbed the fence, aud went toward the
animal, keeping the shirt behind him.
As he came close 20 the bull he suddenly
produced the shirt, and flirted il in the
bulls face. The beast jumped back a
yard or two in astonishment, and kept
his eye on Miller, while Miller waved the
old yermilion garment vigorously. Then
the bull shook his head several times, as
if he declined to have anything to do
with the business; and Miller turned to-
ward us and put his thumb TO his nose
and wiggled his fingers; while he was
making this signal of victory, an idea
seemed to strike the bull. He put his
head down and moved swiftly forward.
Miller at first thought there had been an
earthquake. He was hurled up twenty
feet, and when he struck the ground he
made another ascension. Upon his de.
scent he though the would try to run. but
a Devon short-horn was inserted in his
trousers, and again he went up high
enough to make bird's-eye view of the
surrounding country. On the twenty
fifth descent he fell on the other side of
the fence from the bull, and we picked
him up. His clothes were in ribbons.
His nose was furled and bloody, and his
mouth was full of grass and mud


We asked him how he felt; but he
said nothing. We inquired concerning G
the condition of his bones, but he made
no reply. We asked if his views about
bulls had undergone any change, but he
walked silently along. We wanted to
know how he enjoyed the scenery the
last time he went up, but he would not
say. He merely went into the house,
filed up both barrels of his gun with
old nails, and screws, and scraps of iron,
and then he went out to interview that
bull The animal was corpse in Ten
minutes, and then Miller peeled his un.
dershirt and went up stairs to bed.


We know what his views are now, al.
though he doesn't express them freely
Ndr AdeLer.
Year: 1877

SAN FRAScIsco, July is. 1917.
To he Country Dealers or hs Pacific Coast:


GESrLEMEs-For several months have been sci.
ling nv pure COMPRESSED COFFEE to the trade
through general agency and Johbin dAsers ,volv-
ing two immediate prons before the goods reached
the distributing trade Under ordinary circumstances
this plan would have been without serious objection,
bat where much competition In the way OF aduter-
ated conces has to be met, find that much again nst
my inclination shall have to deal directly with the
country trade In order TO get my superior productnto
general consumption. BY initiating the example OF
some others, could easily afford to sell 'cofee" at
as low prices, as could be named, but my ambition
Is to build reputation on purity and excellence
alone.


My PURE COMPRESSED COFFEE is In no sense an
extract or preparation from coffee. but simply the
best coffee, carefully selected roasted ground and
compressed after formula which at once fixes and
permanently retains all Its exhiarating and refresh
ing qualities, among which are caGeine its polatis
OILS and asnfn0ent acids, which lose nearly If not
quite oil their virtues before they reach the table OF
the consumer In any OF the old methods Of preparing
coffee for immediate use. This fact 10 well under
stood by experienced coffee men, and to supply the
unavoidable deficiencies, chiccory stale bread, rye
certain barks and other foreign substances have been
added in the way Of adulteration until now the peo
pie scarcely know what pure coffee is. And with the
oenef that dealers and the best class of consumers
Will welcome and sustain me In my efforts to supplya
pure wholesome and delicious article now offer it
direct to the retail dealers at s2 cents pound cash.
no chdrge.tor carta0 This coffee Is an equal mix
ure Of the very best Java and Costa Rca and is put
up in handsome style, under the brand Of MOCHA
QUALITY" and those who once use 1t will call for
no other 1t pure, rich, delicious and wholesome,
and always secures uniform excellence in the coffee
made from It, Send six dollars and fifty cents for
sample box Of 20 pounds, and give your customers
something for which they will thank you.


Address:
Year: 1877

The Woman's Pavilion, which was
one of the chief attractions of the Cen
tenniaI Exhibition, was recently sold
for 81, ,325. 1t is to be converted by the
purchaser into a hotel for visitors at
Ocean Beach. An exchange remarks
that the proprietor can talk about it in
a style that will throw all competitors
into the shade. He can remark that it
was opened by her Imperial Majesty the
Empress of Brazil, and that it has al
ready been patronized by larger num-
Der of visitors than any other hotel on
the American continent. Also, that all
who ever visited it were enthusiastic in
their praise of its internal arrangements.
Year: 1877

SHAKY.-It is apt to shake mans
confidence in his wife to wake up in the
morning and find her sitting on the
edge of the bed searching his pockets.
Aud it is apt to shake a wOman's conf
dence in her husband to find nothing
in those pockets but lager beer check,
a piece of bologna sausage, a variety
show ticket, and perfumed note signed,
"Ever yours, Julia"
Year: 1877

When an unsophisticated Reno girl
gets her pompadour panier on before in
the excitement and nervousness attend
ant on her wedding trip, her general re-
semblance to a Central Pacific snow
pIow is what makes people stop and
stare at her in speechless amazement.
Year: 1877

Came in this week, and has also been in
daily conference with the President and
Cabinet. He is an earnest advocate of his
claimed rights, among which is the pres
ence of Federal troops to sustain him in
position, as he frankly admits that their
removal would necessitate his immedi-
ate abdication, as his party has not in
herent strength sufficient to sustain it.
self. 1t is on this point alone where he
will doubtless fail, as the whole execu-
tive seems averse to sustaining any
State government with bayonets under
any plea. The feeling undoubtedly ex-
lists that the duty of the general govern
ment is only to preserve the peace and
not to hold any party in power by force
of arms, and under Hampton's guaran-
tees as to peace when the troops are
put in barracks to be used for peaceful
purposes alone, it does seem that Cover
nor Chamberlain will soon cease his ex-
ecutive functions in South Carolina.
He is an able man and has made many
friends here, and but for the fact that
his official career can only be continued
through the Intervention of bayonets, he
would undoubtedly be master of the
situation.
Year: 1877

Sometimes the financial genius of wo- man, towering in epic dignity above the low levels of masculine imbecility teaches the lessons of economic sense There was meeting of the depositors of the Allegheny Savings Bank at Pittsburg, and committee of fifteen men presented report. Then there was mumbing and stuttering and growing aHd intending chatter over P. J. Hite's plan of compost tion, at the rate of seventy-fve cents on the dollar At the electric moment, when all the men were talking at once, up sprang Mrs. Thomas Sproull and gave her tongue full play: "We want our money, dollar for dollar, and you're no man if you speak for less. We put our money in there and we want it back. Let the women take charge of the matter, if you men can't manage it." The ave- struck crowd, watching her scornful ges- lures in the direction of the unhappy Hite, cried "Put him out p "Dollar for dollar p Then she went on "I want what put in there nothing more nor nothing else. They Knew they were going to fail when put it in, and what is that but stealing'" When she sat down her hearers said one to another, "We may get our money after all." They were still somewhat dazed, for her plans seemed rather vague, but they felt bet ter, and the cheery ones even went so far as to whistle. Financial genius always inspires confidence.
Year: 1877

The New Orleans Picaya1sse says :- About three months ago two of the chil- dren of Mrs Ferl1n, residing on Jour- dan avenue, near the Levee, were play ing in the green near the residence of their parent, and were attacked by sav- age dog, the property of a colored wo- man, named Mime. Pierre, and severely bitten. One of the two, little boy aged two years; was bitten in the arm and face, and the girl in the ankle. The dog, at the request of the owner, was killed im- mediately, and the children attended by physician. A few days after the occur renee, both children were, as 1t was thought, well, and played around the house as usual. One month later the boy complained of being ill, and after a few days, died of what was declared by the physician to be hydrophobia. Just one month and two days after the death of the little boy, Victorine told her mother that her leg, at the place where she had been bitten, pained her. Hardly had the child been removed to her bed than she complained of violent pains in the stom- ach and expressed an ardent desire for water bu5 as soon as the liquid was handed to her she repulsedit. The next day, whenever any one would approach her, she would complain that their breath ing was so violent that it annoyed her extremely, and during the four days of her illness, whenever one of the dogs of the house would enter her room she would scream and order it taken away. The pains increased considerable, and, after terrible agony, Victorine died.
Year: 1877

The abstract proposition that the world in which we live is colossal graveyard of myriads of generations of men who have passed away, and of the animal and vegetable life which preceded and ac- companied their existence, is perhaps instructive, but it is not offensive. We are all in the same box, so to speak, and the dismal fact is part of our environ ment. When, however, the proposition is brought home to mankind, that it has pitched its tent, so to speak, on compari- lively recent cemetery, the objection to continuance of the state of things is natural. Fortunately this continent is large enough to have escaped the trouble but London is so crowded that its very graveyards are built over. Imagine the disgust of the householder in the very heart of the city, when on excavating a cellar in his building he came across quantities of cofins piled thickly above and beside another. The stench from one- half decomposed remains drove the workmen from the building, and filled the air with noisome gasses, and doubt less with profanity. A few years ago cholera was raging in London, the use of well and spring water was forbidden, it having been ascertained that nearly all the springs under the city were impreg- mated with human remains.
Year: 1877

Two sailing ships and steamer will be ready to sail in February and March under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy, with goods for the French h. ternational Exposition, The Commiss- toner of Agriculture will at once proceed to prepare for an extensive display of cotton, tobacco, wool, Indian corn, sngar, rice and other products of this country. He also intends to exhibit 8 choice collection of different kinds of wood of this country, Governor McCor- mick, the Commissioner General, will, the first of next week, issue rules and regulations concerning the application for space and the transportation of goods. He will require the services of only four or five clerks up to the open ing of the Exposition, and these places have already been filled.
Year: 1877

Apropos of the enormous thefts of timber from Government lands, to which Secretary Schurz makes reference in his report, an Iowa paper tells this little story We are reminded of a Methodist conference which was held at an early day in this State. A minister who had just come into the country and was the possessor of stovepipe hat and broad cloth coat got the floor and said: II am against stealing in every shape, md therefore move the adoption of the fol lowing resolution: Resolved, That in the opinion of this conference it is as sin full to steal Government timber as any other kind of property" A minister who was dressed in home spun suit arose in great haste and said {" It is evident that the brother who introduced this resolu- tion is new conner and does not know the wants and necessities of this com munity. I move that the resolution be laid on the table," and on the table it went by large majority.
Year: 1877

The Pittsburg Commercial says :- An accident occurred at the Valley Pa per Mill, at Verona, on the Allegheny Railroad. A young woman named Mary Ann Collins, who had been employed in the mill three or four years, had been as- signed to new position on the second story, in which there was large trap door immediately over vat on the ground floor. Miss Collins had been called from another part of the room to assist in dumping box of rags. She started to answer the call and walked into the hatchway, which was obscured by steam arising from the vat of boiling water and vitriol. She was precipitated directly in- to the vat and must have died very speed fly. In three minutes after she fell her body was taken out scalded white. It seems that she had a premonition of death in this manner, and had remarked several times that the vat would be the death of her. She was 16 years of age.
Year: 1877

Edward J. Ford is about to be re- leased from the Movamensing Prison. in Philadelphia, after enduring twenty seven years of the solitary confinement. He is convicted murderer, but no Gov ernor has ever signed his death warrant, and now he has been pardoned. He is a negro. The horrors of his punishment have been augmented by the constant dread of being ordered to the gallows. His mind has become diseased, and he imagines that he is thermometer that the weather affects as though he was mercury. Yet he retains remarkably vivid memory of things previous to the incarceration. The subsequent period is nearly blank to him, as far as any. thing outside of the prison is concerned. He has an idea that there was war, be. cause he heard so much music and march ing in the streets, and once he caught a glimpse of soldiers that he knew were not Philadelphians.
Year: 1877

ROAST WILD DUCK. Slice an onion or carrot, put inside of the duck and par boil ten minutes this takes away the disagreeable strong taste. Throw away this water and lay the duck in fresh, cold water half an hour; wipe dry, stuff and roast until nice brown, basting with butter and water; thicken the gravy with Drowned four, and just before tax ing up stir in tablespoonful of currant ie1lv
Year: 1877

The position of the Scotch farmers seems to be, if possible, worse Just now than that of their English brethren. The Glasgow Herald says: "Another har- vest like that from which the farmer is just emerging, and it is not too much to say that half the agriculturists of Scot land would find themselves in the Gazette. This may be thought a gloomy view of the position, but it is sufficient 1y founded on fact to bear the most questioning an- alysis."
Year: 1877

WHES Congress meets we hope every
Southern Congressman will sct with
the West on the financial question,
We have suffered enough from the su.
icidal policy the Radical A1ministra.
tions have carried out on this subject.
We want the greenbaeks made equal 10
gold, and we want silver made equal
10 gold, and we want all ofthem made
receivable for all debts due to or by
the United States. The Resumption
Act ought to be promptly repealed, and
silver ought to be remonetized.


Ohio has spoken and her voice Is for
a change. Those who do not hear her
and who do not shape their course ac.
cordingly, will be swept down by the
tide Of public sentiment which Is now
flowing irresistlbly towards a wiser
and more liberal policy Of national
finance.
Year: 1877

N1NGAaog We uAaSNH q - eeS AS'AN"
ing foolish and uncalled for notice on
our desk:


ATTENTION vIGILASTi.


"Owing to the entire absence Of law
in our city, murderers and criminals
escaping punishment thrOught be mach
nations of lawyers, you are request
ed To- meet on Tuesday evening next,
October 18th, at 5 O'Clock, for thorough
organization. The time has arrived
Tor action"


Why this thing was left on our desk
is more than we can say. We cannot
imagine that any persons bent on taking
the law Into their own hands would
invite one 10 join with them who has
persistently and constantly advocated
the enforcement Of the laws 10 the very
letter; nor eau we imagine that these
people would invite publicity which
would be death 10 their lawless pur-
poses. If they thought for one instant
that the editor Of the HERALD or any
Of the proprietors will engage in the
sort Of movement that seems TO be con.
templated, they are cruelty mistaken,
for ifsuch a movement begins the men
above alluded to will oppose it to the
extent Of placing themselves under the
command Of the Sheriff to put It down
by force of arms. 1t is possible that
the notice was only sent US to zee
whether we wouldremain quiet, and lei
others carry out lawless purposes. We
will not. We will act the part that all
good citizens should act. We will de-
nounce any, no matter who they may
be, that attempt at this time to stir up
the demon Of lawlessness in our midst
Our people want the laws executed and
criminals punished, but they want this
done BY the proper officials. Mob
violence at any time Is a desperate re-
source, and we have no sufficient cause
now to even agitate such a measure
Our citizens want peace and quiet, thai
trade aud agriculture may flourish
We have a good Judge, a good Sheriff
and good Clerks, and we will soon
have good magistrates. Let the peo'
pie be quiet and patient, and strengthen
the hands of those whose duty it ia to
punish criminals, aud all will be well.
1t is useless to dream of any other
course, for our Sheriff will exhaust all
the power at his command, aud then
call on Governor Stone, before he will
allow one single act of mob violence
in this community. Iteven the slight
est move Is made, we know he viii
promptly put every man engaged in i
in the cells of the county Jail.
Year: 1877

SENATOR PATTERSON will be q nice
chap to take a seat in the United States
Senate. How consistent It Is with the
waysOf the rotten old thing known as
the Southern Republican party for
him to in the Senate pretending to
represent a State whose Governor is
using every legal means to have him
carried back to be sentenced to the
Peniteutiary. ...