smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1874

- himself and hs wife zee that she reverence her
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nnow. Iorsaking ell Others, you are prepared to
give yourselves TO each other, TO live in the holy
estate OF marriage. according to Gods law, you
will join your right hands.


DO you, Frederick Dent Grant, take this woman
whom you now hold by the right hand t. be your
wedded wife. vowing to be to her true. loving
and faithful husband 30 long AZ you both snan
liver


Do you, Ida Marie Honore, take this man whom
you now hold by the right hand to be your welded
husband. vowing to be to MIN q true. loving and
faithful wife SO long ss you both shall liver


Let this faith be mutually plighted by giving ana
receiving this ring. Pure and endless, let 1t
symboNze she love which makes you one.


Having thus promised to be true and faithful to
each other. and having sealed your vows by giving
and receiving ring,


NOW PRONOUNCE YOU HUSBAND AND WIFE,
heuceforth one in name. In intereAt and In all the
Joys and OF n!e until 1t shall please God 10
part you By death. What God hath joined together
let not man put asunder.


May our Father In Heaven bless you and make
you blessing, and enanls you so to live life OF
faith In the Lord Jesus and OF obedience to Him.
that you may enjoy the riches OF His grace here,
and In the world to come lie everlasting.
Year: 1874

Many Of the colds which people
are said to catch, commence at the
feet. To keep these extremities
warm, therefore, is to effect an insur-
ance against the almost interminable
list Of disorders which spring out Of 4
slight cold" First never be tightly
shod. Boots or shoes, when they fit
closely, press against the foot, and
prevent the free circulation of the
blood. When, on the contrary, they
90 not embrace the foot too tightly,
the blood gets fair play, and the
spaces left between the leather and
stockings are filed with a comfortable
supply Of warm air. The second rule
1s-never sit in damp shoes. It is
often imagined, that unless they are
positively wet, it is not necessary to
change them while the feet are at
rest. This is a fallacy; for when the
least dampness is absorbed into the
sole, 1t is attracted further to the foot
itself by its own heat and thus per-
splration is dangerously checked.
Any person may prove this by try
ing the experiment of neglecting tho
rule and his feet will become cold and
damp after few moments, although,
taking off the shoe and warming it,
it will appear quite dry.
Year: 1874

Multitudes of men and women
have made their eyes weak for life
by the too free use of eyesight, read
ing small print and doing fine sewing.
In view of these things, it is well to
observe the following rules in the use
Of the eyes:


Avoid all sudden changes between
light and darkness.


Never read by twilight, or on .
very cloudy day.


Never sleepy so that on waking the
eyes shall open on the light Of the
window.


Do not use eyesight by light 30
scant that it requires an effort to dis
criminate.


Never read or sew directly in front
Of the light of window.


1t is best to have the light from
above, or obliquely, or over the left
shoulder.


loo much light creates 4 glare,
and pains and confuses the sight.
The moment you are sensible of an
effort to distinguish, that moment
stop and talk, walk or ride.


AS the sky is blue and the earth
green, it would seem that the ceilings
should be a blush tinge, the carpet
green, and the walls of some mellow
tint.
Year: 1874

Feed only meal to fattening fowls
for at least two days before killing,
and feed nothing for few hours be-
fore killing.


Chickens cannot be raised profit
ably alone, but in connection With
other farm operations nothing pays
better. -


You can save feed and trouble by
getting rid Of your poorest stock now.
This IS particularly true of sheep.
Get rid of the miserable, scrawny
ones that you know will not winter
over, or if they do, will be worth
nothing when spring opens. Better
knock them in the head and sell the
pelts than to feed them all the winter
for nothing. It pays to keep good
stock, but poor stock never.


A good lubricator for wooden axles
is made of six parts of clean tallow
and two parts of fine smooth plum
bago. Another is made Of five parts
of tallow, five parts Of soapstone, one
part plumbago, and nine parts rosin
oil ; the tallow and the oil are heated
and mixed, after which the soapstone
and plumbago are added.
Year: 1874

Never put a particle Of soap about
your silver if you would have it re-
tain its original luster. When it
wants polishing, take a piece of soft
leather and whiting and rub hard.
The proprietor of one of the oldest
silver establishments in the city of
Philadelphia says that "heusekeepers
ruin their silver by washing it in
soap suds, as it makes it look like
pewter


Stove lustre, when mixed with tur-
pentine and applied in the usual
manner, is blacker, more glossy, and
more durable than when mixed with
any other liquid. The turpentine
prevents rust, and when put on m
old rusty stove, will make it look as
we'll as new.


To extract ink from cotton, silk
and woolen goods, saturate the spots
with spirits of turpentine, and let it
remain several hours then rub it
between the hands, it will crumble
away without injuring either the col
or or texture of the article.
Year: 1874

The real waste among well-to-do
farmers, the Boston Journal Of Chem
,stry says, ''is the throwing away of
house slops, and in allowing the
liquid excrement of animals to be
lost. It is better to advise farmers to
save every drop of the liquids Of the
house and barn, than to urge them to
pile up huge heaps of inert substances
to be used as fertilizers. A heap of
dry muck or peat, which in itself has
no special value, may be used advan-
tageously to absorb the valuable IL
guilds of the house and barn, and in
this way a farmer may largely in
crease his manurial resources with.
out incurring great expense"
Year: 1874

A man had better have a mill
stone tied to his neck and be cast in


to the sea, than to promise to marry


a Texas girl and then refuse. The
whole1country turns out to hunt him,


and heis. generally left to grow up
with a tree. :,
Year: 1874

The following record will show the changes in
the temperature for the past flour hours in
comparison with the corresponding day Of last
year, as indicated by the thermometer at hud-
nuts Pharmacy, HERALD Building:-
Year: 1874

NECESSITY OF SLEEP "a man VIII
would be good worker, says Henry
Ward Beecher, "must be good sleep
er." The quality of mental activity de
pends upon the quality of sleep. Men
need on an average eight hours of sleep
a day. Emphatic man is sluggish.
moves and sleeps slowly. But a ner-
vous man acts quickly in everything.
He does more in an hour than d slug
gish man in two hours, and SO in his
sleep. Every man must sleep accord
ing to his temperament-but eight hours
is the average. Whoever by work. pleas
ure, or sorrow, or by any other cause
is regularly diminishing his sleep, is
destroying his life. A man may hold
out for time. but the crash will come,
and he will die. There is great deal
of intemperance besides that of tobacco
opium or brandy. Men are dissipated
who overtax their system all day, and
under sleep all night.
Year: 1874

How FRANK PIERCE GOT THE NEWS OF
Hrs NOMINATION TOR THE PRESIDENCY.
Sitting one night in the fremont
House with the late Colonel Barnes, he
said to me: e. That was a queer thing
about the nomination Of Frank"
:. Frank who?" I said. "Why Frank
Pierce General Pierce. You see. we
intended to run Frank for the Vice
Presidency. We thcrght the South
would concede that much to the North.
and We pitched upon the General. He
was very social in his habits, but very
quiet. He spent his evenings with set
of good fellows, and the fact is, he drank
a good deal, though it was not generally
known. The day of the nomination it
agreed between Frank and myself that
he should spend the day at Mount Au.
burn, no one but myself knowing where
his place of resort was. He was very
nervous and greatly agitated. I agreed
to drive out in the afternoon and tell
him how things looked. When the
news of the Generals nomination came
on, men rushed into the fremont House
in hundreds. They knew my intimacy
with the General. But I kept my own
counsel. I drove to Mount Auburn. 1t
was long time before I could find
Frank. 4e was solitary ard alone.
leaning on the monument over the graves
of the Webster family. As soes I saw
him I shouted By =, Frank, you have
got lt!' Got what?' Got the nomin-
alton for the presidency! Not the
presidency Yes. you are nominated
for the presidency by the great Demo-
cratic party of the States Pale as mar
BILE, Frank turned from me-half kneeling
and half standing -grasping the sand
stone shaft, he took solemn vow that
he would drink no intoxicating IL
quors during the canvass. nor, if elect
ed, during his presidential term. That
vow those who know him best know
that he kept B,rleigh's Letter to the
Boston Journal,
Year: 1874

LIE Down AND Rest. DIR. Hall says
the best medicines in the world, more
efficient than all the potations of the
mdteria medica, are warmth, rest. clean
illness and pure air. Some persons make
it virtue to brave disease, "to keep
up" as long as they can move foot or
wiggle finger, and it sometimes sue
leeds; but in others the powers of life
are thereby SO completely exhausted
that the system has lost all ability to
recdperate, and slow and typhoid fever
sets in and carries the patient to pre-
mature grave. Whenever walking or
work is an effort, warm bed and COO,
room are the first indispensibles to a
sure and speedy recovery. Instinct
leads all beasts and birds to quietude
and rest the very minute disease or
wounds assail the system.
Year: 1874

question, but few colOred men dare to exer-
else that great Republican and Democratic
right at this time in the parish of Caddo.
The letter, after depicting the many horrors
that Republicans are subjected to up there,
concludes as follows: Great God Gov
ernor, what sort of government is this
Shall we live in peace. or shall we 60 to
war? If the latter alternative is forced
upon us we have nothing to defend our


selves with. Great God Gov
ernor, is it not possible to have something
done that will put stop to the monstrous
acts of the men who have determined to
inaugurate reign of terror in order to ac


complish their political ends y For
Gods sake let us have State militia, or
United States troops, OF something that
will protect us. Governor, we ask your
assistance and advice. What must we do ~
This is only enc of the many letters upon
the same subjective will say the subject OF
domestic violence-that have been received


by Governor Kellogg, asking for protec-
ton; and as they contain matters that
should concern President Grant as well as
Governor Kellogg, we hope that he has been
kept advised of their contents in order that
he may fully know what infamous means
are being resorted to in Louisiana to nullity
the reconstruction laws and place the State,
by means of fraud, murder and assassina-
ton, in the hands of the Democratic party.
Year: 1874

In the election on the second of Novem-
ber there are eighteen Senators to be chosen.
For the information of our readers we pub
1ish the following table to show what mem
bers of the Senate hold over, and where
new members of that body are TO be elected.
Of the number holding over all but one are
Republicans, and the prospects of the
Democrats making any serious inroads
upon that body this fall are very small. In
fact, by no possibility can the Democracy
get control Of that body, no matter what
efforts they may make. Even we're they to
have full control of all the election ma
chinery of the State, such result would
still be impossible. TIE following is the
table:
Year: 1874

A Georgia paper describes a Southern


beauty as follows: "Among the many Wis
itors who came to our city on Saturday last
to sell their country produce was young
lady from an adjoining county who had
chickens, eggs and butter for sale. Her
beauty was of transcendent excellence.
Bright, flashing, intellectual eyes, and face
round and rosy, while her calico dress was
plain and neatly made and fitted beautiful
ly. Her rich black hair flowed in luxuriant
richness. Highly educated, she conversed
fuently and deported herself with becom-
ing mOdesty. She wore no false hustle or
purchased complexion; had no top knot on
her head or false fxings to present, but stood
in the majestic beauty of a created intelli-
gence that would not yield to the despotic
dictates of frivolous fashion. 1t has been
q long time since we gazed upon such
sight. The young men crowded around
her wagon with curiosity in their eyes and
admiration in their hearts. The old men
wept for Joy that there was one who had
not bowed to Baal. She sold her country
produce, went home, MIXED the cows,
cooked supper for ten farm laborers. and
went to church in the evening with her
Year: 1874

The White Mems Fresh Meat League.


The Bulletin publishes the following calls
head and cross bone paragraph as another
solo in the starving-out programme:


1t ie we'll for our people to know tn at
large number of the butchers of POyd Ias
Market marched in body to late ma ct
ing of the Third Ward Radical Club nd
participated in its deliberations, and vOt ed
for delegates to the convention.


If these men who live by the patronage of
our citizens are reinforcing and abetting
our enemies, their names should ba known.
Now that the crusade has fairly opened
against fraud and usnrpe tiOn, every means
should be taken to starve the enemy out.
Be careful where you sp md your money.


Was anything seriously intended ever
more ridiculous in aspectl Was anything
American ever meaner in tpiritl 1t tells
our people what we have before told our
people, that the butchers are with the Re-
publican party. What Of thatl Thousands
of other intelligent and industrious white
men, following all honorable pursuits for
livelihood are members OF the Republican
party, vote with it, believe in it, and have
no fear that their names should ba known.
We see in this subdivision Of the White
League division of races.


1t is proposed to ostracise white men who
do not vote with the Democratic party
This is naturally the next short step
in the march Of a narrow policy. We
much doubt if .'our people" will submit
to this Infringement on their private rights.
The resolution to employ no colored labor
ers was passed unanimously by many who
never gave employment. That was senti-
ment, and cost nothing. The war of the
White Mems Fresh Meat League is to be
reality, and concerns mems stomachs. The
halter and the shoemaker may agree to dis.
charge all colored longshoremen in their
offices, but they will hardly agree to sub
nit to the annoyance, as a political meas
ure, of demanding to see and read each
butchers diploma, or certificate from the
Captain General of the White Mems Fresh
Meat League, to the effect that the butcher
named is duly authorized to sell tripe and
liver to hungry Democrats. Will "our
people" submit to the dictat ton of the sub
division, or will they rather attend to their
own business, and buy their meat where
and of whom they can get the most and
best quality for the least money! The
White Mems Peanut party has not yet been
organized, but it is presumed the Starve-
out Leaguers will be extended to embrace
all branches of business. 1t is a mastery
stroke, however, to starve out, first Of all,
the white bakers and butchers who are not
Democrats. The oracle orders our people
to be careful where they spend their money.
We caution the butchers to grant no exten.
sion on bills for sausage and liver sold to
citizens reinforcing and abe:ting" them on
credit.
Year: 1874

PIETY KNOCKED INTO PI.-lIorace
Greeley used to affirm that newspaper
men were the most patient people, as q
class, on earth, and he was not far from
right, though there are times when pa
tience ceases to be virtue with the most
enduring. Nearly everybody in the west
crn part of the State knows Burr, who
used to start newspaper about once 4
month the year round, generally bring
ing them out in Grand Rapids, but some
times making flying trip TO other points
Burr could stand to be told that he lied
about his circulation, was on the fence
as q politician, and that he didn't know
anything about publishing newspaper,
and when men threatened to sac or
thrash him he only smiled sad smile
and wished that mankind wouldn't get
excited.


During religious revival in Grand
Rapids, Burr was converted, and it fre
quently happened that religious people
called ut his office 10 talk with him One
day minister came in, and after talking
for awhile he proposed prayer, lie WAS
in the act Of kneeling when his foot
struck one of the outside forms, which
was leaning against n leg of the stone,
ready to be lifted up. and over it went,
making half hushel Of "pi Burr
locked at the ruin wrought, thought of
the two weeks Of overwork, and he com
menced taking off his coat. saying
I'm trying to DO a Christian and set a
good example, but rat by buttons if
cant lick you in just two minutes = The
clergyman backed down stairs in no
time, lodging the lye brush on the way,
and Burr backslid at once, and sent down
for pint of stimulant, Detroit ffee
Pres,
Year: 1874

warranted not to cut in the eye-not head
ache in hhds. of tit is no sooner in your
belly than its on your back in pound Of beet
and it carries a bead like necklace; for
sale by


GEORGE AUSTIN.
Year: 1874

Not an ungenerous girl was Faith
Murray by any manner of means, and
her honest blue eyes were very pleas
ant and kindly to look into. a part,
nevertheless, of Faiths inheritance
from her high-headed Scotch ancestry
had been n somewhat hasty and jeal-
Gus disposition. and a goodly share of
their own unyielding obstinacy. As
her mother was apt to remark at times:
"Faith is dear girl, but she needs
management, and it isn't everybody
that knows how"


Not everybody" indeed; and as
suredly not such a bluff, frank,
straightforward up-and-dOwn fellow
rs Curtis Rowland.


Tall, broad-shouldered, curly-head-
ed, dark-eyed, was Curt, aaad his white
teeth were perpetually cleaning thro'
his heavy mustache, IN smile that
betokened good will to every soul he
met, male or female.


That was very much the way in
which he came so utterly to grief In
his management" of Faith Murray.
He was as true as steel, and she knew
it; but his universal popularity had
shaped itself, strangely enough, into
one of her pet grievances, and this
she had nursed into such strength
that its evil energy burst forth, at last,
lust at the wrong time and place.
Openly, angrily, and in the hearing
of others even, had Faith told Curt,
on their return from the last picnic
aud boating party of the season, thai
she would never put her foot into
boat of his again"


Curt had replied, with laugh
"Then I'll have to borrow one for yor
of somebody else:' but Faith learned
afterward that, from that day forth
| the sduare-nosed but light-built anC
| almost handsome skill, which haC
carried so merry aparty to the picnic
| had never, since that day, been lOOseC
\ from its chain at the head of the lit
/ tie cove where the Rowland farm
came down to the river.


When winter approached, the boa
/ had been taken out, of course, an'
carefully carted to its customary shet
near the great barn, but Faith tel
very sure that no other female foo
since her own had been permitted t.
step within it.


AS WICK uutl lOllO W GtA "NNNs eA'
month after month went by, Cur
Howland's broad and merry face hau
seemed to grow trihe graver an


more thoughtful; but his thoughts
however serious they may have beer
had taught him little additional wis


dom. If they had, he would hav


known better than to say what he di
/ to Faith when he made his first out


and-out effort at reconciliation.
He had refused all along to be o
any other than speaking terms" an


had "Ieft Faith to do her own qua,


reling" in a way that was exceedingl


impolitic and exasperating.


She had fairly longed to see hi


show some signs of temper or sent


ment, and she had derived no sma
degree of satisfaction from the mai


ner in which he had treated his boa


She had fairly warmed toward hin
: one day, when she learned of his bo


rowing n skiff to 90 duck-huntinl


and vet she had muttered:


"He said he would borrow a bot
Year: 1874

A CONyICF's SPEECH.-Brown, the
convict who stole some boots from the
Albany Penitentiary, Immediately af-
ter his Liberation from that institution,
at the end of a five years term, was
brought up for sentence before Judge
Ingalls, Saturday morning. On being
asked by the Judge if he had anything
TO saw why sentence should not be
passed on him, he got up and made
very excellent speech. He spoke as
follows: ''I reside in Baltimore, 1 was
sent to the Albany Penitentiary in
1869; have worked for the prison


faithfully for four years; there is not
a single black mark against me for
ANYTHING. got discharged n few days
since without a shilling in my pocket
TO buy food or take me home. L tried
to obtain work as n barber; could not
obtain any. The smell Of the peniten-
tiary was on me; no man dared employ
me: refused TO solicit aims; l refused
TO break into q store or dwelling to
obtain the means of supporting life.
As worked for years for the peniten-
tiary, 1 thought the prison honestly
owed me enough to get food and reach
home. / stole the boots from the
prison simply 70 save me from com
mittlng a crime against others" The
Court was so touched by the modest
appeal made by the prisoner that it
very properly reduced the proposed
sentence from five years to one year.
Year: 1874

The Livingston County "trance
mystery is a mystery 10 longer, being
in fact as wretched a case Of supersti-
ton as ever occurred. Miss BOnny,
the girl who was to die and come TO
life again, is found. as the result of an
inquest, to be so thoroughly defunct
that she viii never reappear in the
flesh this side of the resurrection
morn. What caused her death is still
somewhat of q mystery, and some
think she took poison stronger
dose, probably than she intended-ln
order to accomplish what was desiged
to be her temporary demise The
strange part of the affair, however,
is that her friends persist in keeping
the decaying and disgustingly oiten-
sive corpse IN the house with them,
IN obedience to her ante-mortem re-
quest. while one Of their senses, at
least, must tell them that she has
long since gone to anOthsrworld, new
er to return. And stranger still, the
authorities out there, who are not
supposed to be imbued with any su-
perstitious notions, have thus far
failed TO institute a much needed
post-mortem examination, or TO order
the burial Of what is fast becoming a
mere mass of putrefaction.-CiHein-
natl Commercial.
Year: 1874

We have heard it rumored that
the Brownsville Radicals are fixing
up a slate for use in the COM
ing election for Chancellor Of this
Division. There are said to be q
number of aspiTants for the party
nomination, aud it is not unlikely
that there will be pr ny sharp
contest for the honors and loaves
and fishes that cluster around the
Chancellor's Office. We regret to
see thus early disposition to give
a political cast to tie August elec-
tions, but if our Radical opponents
wan to fight it out on that line, we
hope the Democratic leaders will
not be stupid enough to again re-
peat the blunder WHICH gaVC 70 Aav.
Num- his present scat in Congress.
Aipley Ne,OS.