smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1874




A SPECIAL dispatch to the Shreve-
port Times gives the following as the
situation in New Orleans on Saturday
afternoon last:


Kellogg was installed to-day; that is
he went to the state house, guarded by
the Penn police, and locked himself in
with Longstreet and few Others.
There was no crowd, no enthusiasm,
nor anybody knew that he had moved
until the news spread abroad that he
was there. The other officers have
been gradually dropping in all day.
The metropOlitans were reorganized,
about half of them only being discover
able. Penn's chief, BOylan, cooperated
with them, and many of his men are
still on the force. Things are still
very much mixed. The most palpable
fact now presented is that Kellogg is
anxious to do anything that will bring
peace and satisfaction. The confer
ence took n very favorable turn to-day
at three o'clock, owing, it is said, to
certain dispatches from Washington.
Our friends are now very hopeful, and
it is confidently believed that in addi-
ton to creating tremendous revolu-
tion of feeling at the north in our favor,
the emuete of Monday will result
in the practical liberation of the state.
/ never felt friendly to a compromise
before. cannot help doing so now.
There is very little eXultation on the
part of the restored officials. Kellogg's
position is regarded as only less pitiful
and melancholy than Grants. The
joke of the day is the gun boat
which was towed up to the head of
Canal street, yesterday, had been of
fered for old iron at auction last week,
but found no bidders. There is a great
deal of merrimant over GRANTS war
iiI.o preparations. Altogether the air
has cleared wonderfully, and it seems
almost certain that incalculable good
will result from the revolution. 1t is
the opinion of our leading men that all
the parishes which have ousted usurp-
ing officials should maintain posses
sion for the present.


Kellogg, in a dispatch to Congress
man Sypher, who is somewhere in the
north, out of danger, accounts for his
cowardly flight from the state house
in the following manner:


1 see by western papers that you
have severely criticised my leaving
the state house. | left on Monday ut
the earnest solicitation ofall our friends
the lieutenant governor and speaker
being absent from the state. An acci-
cident to me, they felt, would have
made complications desperate. There
were none but cOlored militia in the
state house, and had they made any re-
sistance they would have been burned
out and massacred, the building being
indefensible. If our friends
will come here and help us we will be
very glad
Year: 1874

seek information rs to each industry
or branch of trade, which will enable
them to calculate the chances of profit
upon money or labor put here. fla
manufactures or particular kind Of
trade shows a regular increase, SWELL
ing withsiI cngth enough to counteract
even a panic; il taxes are not exhaust
ing; if domestic advantages are abund-
ant in good schools, good health and
good government, they can see that
money Is to be made here, and then
will be sure to come.


TO disseminate this information Is
the object of Board of Trade. Its am
nual reports should exhibit the opera
tions of every class of enterprise and
trade during the year, and furnish far
better data for "guessesn at the next
years developments than the observa-
tions at our signal stations furnish for
the very accurate deductions of "Old
Probabilities"


A comparison of year with year of
one business with another, and of all,
with the general progress of the state
and connected interests, will give to
an experienced man what he desires to
know, to decide in his choice of loca-
ton, or at least direct him where he
can make closer inquiries.


1t is the constant succession of publi-
cations that tells, at least upon those we
are most desirous to reach, and accu-
rate statistics embodying, in each in
stance, full statements of the years
business in all its varieties, is possible
only to board of trade. No man can
assume the burthen of 1t, or if he could
IT would lack the authority that inheres
in such an organization.


But the familiarizing each interest of
the city with every oUher, and holding
all in general cooperation and diffus-
ing abroad constant and accurate infor-
nation of the natural progress Of the
city, though the most important are
not all the beneficent offices of the
Board of Trade. It's board of arbitra-
tion enables business men to avoid
and adjust, SO far as practicable, the
controversies and MISUNDERSTANDING
which may arise between individuals
in trade, where they have no acknowl-
edged rules to guide them. AS a resort
where business men can meet sociably,
it is advantageous and calculated to
encourage and foster friendly relations
among business men.
Year: 1874

We have to thank our courteous
friend, Captain ]. A. Work, for an OPP
portunity to view the suburbs of Dali
las from behind oneof the haL dsome-
est turnouts that our city can afford.
We were impressed with the improve
ments that are going on in every quar-
ter of the city and with the substan-
tial style of houses that are being put
up. Croakers, who have been whis-
pering their fears about that Dallas
was going down, that the trade
this winter was going to be a
great deal less than last season, and
that bankruptcy was the inevitable
portion of great many of our business
men, ought to get one of Captain
Works dashing equipages, take a
drive. around on a bracing after
noon, such as last Saturday was,
and hear the sound. of the hammer
and saw in every direction. If this
don't cure them they ought to go home
anu Tie their heaus up In flannel ana
pass themselves off as regular Miss
Nancys, as they are.


Passing beyond the city limits we
reached the summit of high hill,
about three miles northeast of this
city. The view that greeted the eye Of
Moses from the top of P!sgah, as he
dwelt in rapturous vision on the prom
ised land, could not have been more
enhancing than the lovely scenery
that lay spread out before us. We
boldly challenge Italy, the Rhine, the
Hudson and all other much written
about places, to show more beautiful
and varied scenery than is to be found
all around Dallas, on the shores of the
classic Trinity.
Year: 1874

tions of governor; II Ia not his business
to inquire into the facts of an election
of two years ago; 1t Is not his business
to count the ballots. What he does
know Is that William Pitt Kellogg has
been the acknowledged governor of
Louisiana since the last election, and
that he has been interfered with In the
discharge of his duties by an armed
mob which he is powerless to disperse.
The constitution clearly makes it the
duty of the federal authorities to step
In at this juncture, and every good cit
izen will indorse the action of the
president in going just as far as the
'White League" mOb compels him to
go, not only for the restoration of peace,
but for the establishment of the laws
which have been so ruthlessly defied
in the whole proceeding.
Year: 1874

WE were pleased to meet, the other
day, on our streets, Captain George w.
Stephens, who f informs s US tn, that l,is' all is
boys are all in fine spirits and good
health. The captain is moving twenty
five of his men to Whites prairie, in
the northeast corner of Jack county,
where he expects they will remain in
future. This point is Immediately on
the principal passway on which the In
dians come in and go out, SO near to
the settlements that the rangers may
be notified when they are in, and can
accomplish more good then a whole
company where they are now station
ed.-[Advance Guard.
Year: 1874

The department of the interior at
Washington has decided that the Cher
okee Indians have a right to levy tax
upon all cattle driven across their res
ervation, and in case of default of pay
ment to seize the cattle and hold them
for the taxes.
Year: 1874

ONE of the social events exciting in
terest in England is the conversion of
the Marquis of Rlpon to Catholicism.
The marquis was recently grand mas
ter of the grand lodge of Masons of
England. He resigned that position
in favor of the prince of Wales.
Year: 1874

THE Texas Iron Age has temporarily
suspended publication, in order that it
may introduce new printing machin-
cry, reorganize the editorial depart
ment and make other changes for the
good and welfare of the establishment.
Year: 1874

The Pells case occupied the court at
Marlin six days, and the jury were
finally discharged without agreeing up
on a verdict. Six were for acquittal
and the other six for five years in the
penitentiary.
Year: 1874

We do not pretend to justify the
senseless and reckless outburst of Gov
ernor Penn and his adherents, who
whatever their instigatiOn have
placed themselves not merely In the
wrong legally, but in the power Of a
cIuel and malignant despotism, which
will gloat over their folly ana stamp
them out by the force of an irresistible,
muscular power, equally unreasoning
and merciless.


The letter of the law Is against them.
They are i'm rebellion against q consti-
tuted authority, which the federal gov
ernment is bound to support. Kellogg,
Infamous as he Is, and vile as his gang
may be, has only TO call for troops and
get them. He will do SO, and the end
Of It all will be renewed success for
the radicals.


For our own part, being hopeless Of
justice from the north, or Of any good
from the government as 1t Is now con-
stituted, we regard the whole affair as,
politically, unimportant, merely q
straw showing which way the wind
blows, and only little more noticeable
because II is a bloody straw.
Year: 1874

1t is the custom in Mexico fer the cler-
gy to require foreigner, wishing to mar
ry native, to bring proof that he is not
already married man. An American,
about to marry senorita of very good
family, was required to furnish the proof
of his being bachelor Not finding any
of his countrymen who knew him suffici-
emily well to testify to this fact, he deter
mined to supply the deficiency with the
oath of native.


Meeting a Mexican in the street, whom
he had never seen before, our country
man proposed to him that he should swear
to his being unmarried for the considera-
ton of five dollars. The senior, after a
moments study, said to the Yankee


" Get down on your hands and knees
and creep about "


Not exactly understanding what he was
at, our friend obeyed, much to the detri-
ment of his unmentionables. The other
party then told him that he was all right ;
that he would swear that the American
had not been married since he knew him, ,
and that was since the time he crawled.
Year: 1874

The other day, says a lady writer,
heard Of an incident which shows that even
the best men do not understand all the
mysteries of the feminine toilet. A gem
teman, who devotes much of his time to
the society of ladies', and who believes
himself connoiseur in all that pertains to
them, was much annoyed by observing
that fair friend of his, favorably known
for her style of elegant dressing, would
insist, when the weather would allow it.
upon wearing an old looking shawl, devoid
of any claim on beauty or good taste


The gallant endured this for long
while. He drove in the park with his
friend, and often looked at the odious
shawl in way that he thought would
convince her Of its unftness for so elegant
woman as herself She did not take the
hint, however, but continued to display it
on every possible occasion He lost all
patience at last, and said to her, one day,
May be permitted to inquire why you
will wear that miserable shawl so often :?
1t spoils your dress. You look so exqui-
sitely otherwise, that cannot comprehend
why you will deform yourself with such a
faded rag as that. 1t has nothing in the
world to recommend it; and believe if you
were to throw it off into the street nobody
would pick it up"


The bright eyes opened with surprise,
and strange expression fell across the
pretty face


90 You are jesting, are you not?' the
lady asked. I" You do not really dislike
my shawl do you?"


% never was more serious in my life
l thoroughly detest this thing that you
call shawl"


Well, then, I'll inform you that this
10 camers-hair shawl. ond, though
think it in very bad taste to speak of pri-
ces, it cost seven hundred guineas, and is
one of the finest ever brought to this coun-
try"


The young gentleman was astounded !;
but his taste was correct
Year: 1874

Some men take too much money out o
their business to expend in household ex.
penses and lavish display and speedily
bring themselves to the verge of bank
ruptcy. One cid gentleman, who had
commenced life as poor boy, had, by
mastering the difficult steps to final sue
cess, gained considerable wealth as mer-
chant When he arrived at old age he
retired to private life, to live In ease and
comfort on his income, leaving a prosper
Gus business in the hands of his SON.


In three years the young man was bank
rupt. He had failed in business and was
compelled to take position as clerk in a
strangers store.


His father was asked why it was that,
in business in which he had succeeded
so well his son had failed


He gave this characteristic answer -
" When l first commenced business my
wife and l lived on porridge As nay busi-
ness increased we had better food and
when | could afford it, we had chicken
But, you see, Johnny commenced with
the chicken p
Year: 1874

If | had leisure | would repair thai
weak place in my fence" said farmer
He had none, however, and while drink
ing cider with neighbor three cows broke
in and injured prime piece of corn. He
had leisure then to repair the fence but il
did not bring back his corn


If had leisure" said wheel wright
last winter, :" would alter my stove
pipe, for | know it is not safe" But he
did not find time and when his shop goi
on fire and burnt down he found leisure to
build another


3" If | had leisure said a mechanic, 81
should have my work done in season -
The man thinks his time has all been oc
cupied, bnt he was not at work till after
sunrise; he quit work at FIVE o'clock
smoked cigar after dinner, and spent
two hours on the street, talking nonsense
with an idler.


- If had leisure, said merchant, IL
would pay more attention to my accounts
and try and collect my bills more prompt
ly." The chance is. my friend, if you
had leisure you would probably pay less
attention to the matter than you do now.
The thing lacking with hundreds of farm
ers who till the soil is not more leisure,
but more resolution-the spirit to do, to
do now If the farmer who sees his
fence in poor condition would only act
at once, how much might be saved? 1t
would prevent breachy cattle creating
quarrels among his neighbors that in
MANY cases terminate in low-suits which
take nearly all they are both worth to pay
the lawyers.


The fact is farmers and mechanics have
more leisure than they are aware of for
study and improvement of their minds -
They have the long evenings of winter in
which they can post themselves upon all
the improvements of the day, if they will
take ably conducted journals and read
them with care. The farmer who fails to
study his business and then gets shaved
has nobody but himself to blame Cor.
~ e. Farmer
Year: 1874

A night or two since, while on his beat
through B street, Officer S found
an inebriated individual reposing on a
bench in front of Wilson & Browns un-
dertaking establishment The officer shook
the fellow until be awoke him from his
drunken slumber, then explained to him
that be would be obliged to escort him to
the station house unless he hunted other
quarters. The man told the officer that he
was stranger in town, that he had but
four bits, and the night being warm he
had conclrded it would be good economy
to sleep out doors and save his four bits
to buy his breakfast in the morning. Not
being hard-hearted man. the officer told
the fellow that he might finish his snooze,
provided he would get up and move out
of sight before the people were astir on
the streets. Passing that way again in
the course Of an hour or two, Mr.. S.
found that his snoozer had rolled off the
bench and was lying in the empty case of
a coffin which was setting at the edge Of
the sidewalk. Rousing his man again the
officer told him he "must get out Of there. +"


"Out Of what ?" grumbled the fellow


"Out of that cofin,' said S.-though
it was but one of those large cofin shaped
cases in which cofins are shipped.


Who's in coffin" said the fellow,
rubbing his eyes.


Why you are," said S.


" If am don't know it,"


Well, know it, and if you don't get
out Of that it will be the end of you
Don't you know that if the undcrtakers
get up in the morning and find you snooz-
ing in here they'll clap lid on the coffin, i,
nail you up and bury you, and then send
in bill and make the county pay your
funeral expenses?"


Crawling out of his narrow quarters,
the fellow stood and gazed upon the coffin
case for time, then said:


What sort of undertakers have you
got up here in this country that 60 and
set collins 'longside the sidewalks to ketch
men ?" and without waiting for an answer
he shuff1ed away to find safer quarters.
Year: 1874

1t is one the greatest mistakes of our
farmers, that as a rule, they suffer the
buyer to know more about the quality and
value of farm products than is known by
those whose labor makes them. The buy
er has tests which the farmer does not
have. l notice that when the wool buyer
comes around he takes out his glass and
sees at glance the structure of the article
in hand, and knows more about it than he
who has toiled year in its production.
The same theory is true of seeds. The
magnider is applied to pork to see if it is
infested with trichina l think it is true,
as rule, that buyers of farm products
know more about them than the producers
The man who know the most always get
the best of the bargain. 1t is certain that
knowledge is power in making trade.
1t can safely be put down as a rule that a
man, who for natural or artificial reasons,
can see hundred times as much as his
neighbor, will know the markets.
Selected.
Year: 1874

PERILs OF OLD AGE-An old man is
like an old wagon ; with light loading and
careful usage it will last tor years bu,
one heavy load or sudden strain will break
it and ruin it forever So many people
reach tne age of fifty or sixty, or seventy
measureaoly free from most of the infrmi
ties of age, and with reasonable prospects
and opportunities for continued usefulness
in the world for considerable time. lie,
such persons be thankful, but let then
also be careful. An old constitution is
like an old bone-broken with ease, anc
mended with difficulty.


A young tree bends to the gale, an old
one snaps and falls before the blast. A
single hard lift, an hour of heating work
an evening of exposure to rain or damp
a severe chill and excess of food, the un
usual indulgence of an appetite or passion
a sudden fit of anger, an improper dose O
medicine-any of these or other similar
things. may cut off valuable life in ar
hour, and leave the fair hopes of usefulness
and enjoyment but shapeless wreck.
Year: 1874

SUGGESTIONS ABOUT WooL.-The pros
pect for wool growers for obtaining good
prices in wool, in our opinion, was never
better. The amount of sheep in the
country over last year is nothing, only
one State showing any decided increase,
while others remain as before or fell off.
There was only enough wool to be had in
the spring to run the mills until the coming
of the present clip, consequently there is
no stagnation in that direction True,
woollen good are lower now than they
have been for some time, but they have
all along been too high and that is moth
ing against our argument. The unsettled
financial condition of the country has un-
settled values and wool is one of the first
articles to respond to the monetary bar
ometer, but it is settled that there will be
no expansion this season, all values
will settle into their legitimate channel,
hence wool should start off at the figures
ruling before the clip came in. Fifty to
ffty-fve cents is the price it should COM
mand during the whole season, and if
farmers are wide awake it will command
that price at once A word to tho wise
is sufficient. Buckeye Farmer.
Year: 1874

z. Il


It is too liable to be the csse that farm
ers keep up certain field fences because
they were originally built where now
standing, or we're in that position when
the farm was purchased It often proves
very profitable to study the matter over
and lay out new plans for fields, lanes,
etc. We have seen farms SO badly planned
that by removing at least one-third of the
fence material, and e-arranging the fields.
the premises would be greatly improved
in appearance, convenience and profit.
The study should be 10 have just as few
fences as the best planning viii admit Of,
and have those fences as good as they can
well be made We do not mean BY this
to have plough and meadow land all in
one field and the pasture all in another,
but to SO arrange the fence as not to have
half dozen different meadows. a. many
plough fields, etc., all on one farm Of a
hundred acres It is often the case that
by moving barn to new position, one
half Of the lane fence may be removed,
and the building be in a more convenient
situation than before We only throw
out these suggestions to put farmers to
thinking. and each one can look over his
own premises and see what is needed in
his own special situation. Ohio Farmer.
Year: 1874

What can be pleasanter than the life of
Missouri farmer? At daylight he gets
up and examines the holes around his corn
hills for cut worm; then he smashes cod
dling-moth larvae with hoe handle until
breakfast. The forenoon is devoted to
watering the potato bugs with solution
of Paris green, and after dinner all hands
turn out to pour boiling water on the
chintz bugs in the corn and wheat fields.
In the evening favorite occupation is
smudging peach trees to discourage the
curculio, and after brief season of family
devotion at the shrine of the night flying
coleoptera, all the folks retire and sleep
soundly till Aurora reddens the east and
the grasshoppers tinkle against the panes
and summon them to the labors of another
day.
Year: 1874

A COLLEGE Professor SoLD.-It ap-
pears that one of the students at Davidson
College, who was teo lazy to do anything
right, was in the habit of cleaning out his
lamp chimney by running his finger down
ii as Ear as he could aud twisting it around
After he had cleaned it out in this partial
manner, one day not long ago, a fellow
student took it up and carried it to the
residence of one of the professors. with the
inquiry: why is it that this chimney is
smoked up to this point and no farther ~
The learned gentleman entered into an
elaborate scientific explanation of why it
was, arguing with great lucidness, and
citing various authorities to shew the cor
rectness of his reasoning. When he had
finished, the student said to him: "No,
sir, you are wrong" "Why is it then ?''
inquired the professor. because the
fellows finger wasn't long enough to reach
any further" replied the student.
Year: 1874

COMFORTS AND LUxURIEs OF THE FARM.
There is class Of farmers who are liv-
ing only to grasp more acres Their farms
can never be large enough, nor can their
workmen or themselves do quite enough
work. They cannot be satisfied with the
income Of farm, nor could they be with
that of any other business. But those
who understand that the highest object of
labor is not simply to make money, but
to provide the largest amount Of the means
of improvement and innocent enjoyment
that the world affords, can make the pur-
suit of agriculture furnish more luxuries
that really contribute to our well-being,
than any other employment requiring an
equal amount of capital Their farms
are not so large as to make slaves of them
selves and their sons, and their wives and
daughters are not worn out with incessant
drudgery. Their door-yards blossom
with flowers, their tables are supplied
with many varieties of well grown delicious
fruit, their houses are made cheeful by the
influence of books aud music, and taste
for the pure and innocent enjoyments Of
life is developed in their children. Here
and there farmers home exempli6es all
the contentment and happiness possible to
a race doomed to labor and disappoint-
ment --Practicdl Farmer.