smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1877

To prevent saddie-galls, the saddle should
be lined with some smooth, hard substance.
Flannel wooden cloth is bad. A hard, fin
ished, smooth. rawhide lining, similar to
those of military saddles is preferable. Then,
if the saddle is properly fitted to the horses
back, there will be no gals, unless the horse
is very hardly used. Calls should be washed
with soap and water, and then with solu-
ton of six grains of copperas or blue vitriol
to one tablespoonful of water, which will
harden the surface and help to restore the
growth of the skin. White hairs growing
upon healed CALLED spots cannot be prevented.
Year: 1877

IN THE CIURCHYARD AT TARRYTOWN.
Here lies the gentle humorst, who died


In the bright Indian Summer Of his fame!
simple stone with but date and name
Marks his secluded resting place beside
The river that he loved and glOritied.


Here in the autumn of his days he came,
But the dry leaves of life were all afame
With tnts that frightened and were multiplied.
How sweet lite was his how sweet DEATH
Living, to wing with mrth the weary hours,
Or with romantic tales the heart to cheer
Dying. to leave a memory like the breath
OF summers full of sunshine and OF showers,
A grief and gladness in the atmosphere.
Year: 1877

l.


NATURE
As fond mother, when the day is DER,
Lead by the hand her little child to bed.
Half wailing half reluctant to be led.
And leave his broken playthings on the floor,
Still gazing at them through the open door,
Nor wholly reassured and comfOrted
by promise Of others in their stead
Which, though more splendid, may not please him
more;
So Nature deals with us, and takes away
Our playthings one by one, and by the hand
Leads to rest SO gently that we 60
Scarce knowing if we wish to 60 or stay,
Being too full of sleep to understand
How far the unknown transcends the what we
know.
Year: 1877

Knoxville Tribune.l


The case Of Allsop VS.. the State
(from Granger county,, decided in
the Supreme Court some days since,
has connected with it incidents of
almost romantic interest.


Allsop, an inexperienced youth
of twenty years, had an alteration
with a mature man, his superior in
strength, years and skill, and withal
a desperate and dangerous man.
After throwing away his knife and
declining the combat, when his an
tagonist again attacked him, he
threw at him a small scaly stone,
which struck him on the head, and
death followed. Allsop was indict-
ed for murder and placed upon his
trial. AS usual, public sentiment
was divided as to the character of
the homicide, and great interest
was manifested in the trial. Men
took sides, some favoring and others
opposing his conviction. Of the
latter class was an excellent, up
right, thrifty Quaker Of the neigh
borhood, who not only defended
Allsop in the neighborhood and at
the fireside, but gave substantial
evidence Of his friendship in stand
ing as his bail for a year or more,
during which there were two mis-
trials of the case. On the third
trial, last summer, Allsop was con-
yicted of murder in the second de-
gree and sentenced to the peniten-
tiary for ten years. But the friend
ship Of the good old Quaker did not
waver; and when the case was
appealed to the Supreme Court, he
still appeared and stood as surety,
and still continued to express his
esteem of the young man and his
confidence in his eventual acquittal.


These good words were not lost,
they fell upon the listening ear of
the Quaker's daughter, to whom
Allsop was by no means a stranger,
and were not forgotten; and though
he was a convicted felop in the eye
of the law, she testified her love by
her fathers good opinion and gave
the young man her hand, but all
unknown to the family.


} Since the sitting Of the Supreme
Court and but few days before his
; case was to be heard a secret mar
riage was arranged,


Allsop,


Mounted on his black marc Meg.
A better never lifted leg"


met his fiance at the trysting place,


and setting her on a pillow behind
MIN they started for the nearest
Squire to have him tie the golden
knot. The magistrate had, how.
eyer, been warned by the old
Quaker, whose suspicious had been
Year: 1877

The first frost banished the flies, and
the young man with the straw hat feels
as much out Of place in this world as q
delinquent subscriber would in the next.
Il Rhinebeck Gazette.
Year: 1877

Twenty ThOuSald People
old and young, every week. 1t is just to say
that the patrons of the WESTERN
METHODIST belong to the best class Of
community.


We desire our business mon to make note
of the above facts before completing their
advertising arrangements for the coming
season.


We use our best efforts to keep our columns
free of all irregular and irresponsible adver-
tisingi for many good people seeing an ad-
vertisemsnt in paper. especially their
church paper. take it as guarantee of re-
spOnsibilty. Such confidence should not be
abused when it can be helped. We want.
therefore.
Year: 1877

There Is strike Of te!e4raph-operator in
Turkey. This interruption Of the evil communE.
cations Of tic Porte may perhaps account for
the cessation io tue corruption of tho good man.
nefs Of the Sultan.
Year: 1877

How real a long -fostereG belief in legend
may become is strikingly illustrated in the
very general prevalence of the banshee super
sttion among the high families of Ireland.
This weird spirit, whose voice is heard on the
evening before death in the family, is con-
sidered to be in every case specially related to
the family it warns of calamity. Each high
family has its. own banshee, and il is very
plebeian sign to be without one. A family
without this invisible attendant is like one
without hall porter in livery. The distinc-
ton of having a family banshee has so long
been essential that the superstition seems 10
be quite unconquerable. M. d. Conway says
he recently met an eminent physician in
London who comes Of an ancient Irish fami-
ly, and while he could ridicule splritualism
and talk scientifically on every other subject,
no sooner was the banshee mentioned than
he relapseG into the measureless past, and as
sured the company that he had himself heard
the cry of his family banshee on the night be-
fore death in the house; "a voice just out
side the window, unlike any earthly sound he
had ever heard"
Year: 1877

ELSEWHERE will be found an apprecialive
sketch of the life and labors Of Edwin Bck-
nell, who, despite Of obstacles which would
have seemed insuperahle to a common nature,
won for himself high place as naturalist
and scientific student. Had he lived he
woald undoubtedly have take position in the
very forefront of men of science.
Year: 1877

we do not read anonymous letters and communi
cations The name and address of the writer are in
all cases Indispensable not necessarily for publication
but as guaranty Of good faith.


we cannot undertake to return or reserve commu-
nieations that are not used.
Year: 1877

Ifthe new collosal statue Of liberty
to be erected in New York harbor
could depend on one of the Pennsyl.
vania gas wells to keep the great
torch burning which it will hold in
its right hand, the sublime effect
would owe as much to nature as to
art.


The Bradford "New Era" says: The
immense vein of gas was struck on
the night of October 4th, at depth
of $40 feet, and was SO strong as to
render further drilling impossible.
The we'll is about two miles from
Bradford, on the Bruce Rodgers
farm. Running from the we'll are
two-inch pipes, attached to which
are three gas jets of the same size,
the gas belching forth from these
pipes with such terrific rush and
noise as to render conversation
pitched in the ordinary tone, inaudi-
Bile for fully one-fpurth of mile
away, and the roar can be heard five
or six miles away.


The blaze from each of the three
pipes is sent by the force Of the gas
to height of from twenty-five to
forty feet, the heat being so intense
as to melt the snow entirely away for
a distant of at least one hundred feet,
and also keeping the ground so warm
during all the cold weather Of the
winter, that grass, strawberry vines
and other plants may grow. In
many places, where the crowd OF
sight-seers have worn the ground, il
is very dusty.


The light is so strong that news
paper may be read half mile away
On very dark nights the illumination
is grand. The lights has frequently
been seen in Ocean, Salamanca, ard
other towns twenty miles away.
Year: 1877

The time has come when a KNOW,
edge of this art is an essential part oI
the education of every business man
To be successful in business they
should understand how to advertise
It is not only necessary, in order to
illustrate the truth Of this statement,
to call attention to the most success
full merchants and manufacturers OF
any large city, or small village, in the
United States. They know just
what to say to the public, when to
say it. how to say it, and the medium
to employ in saying it. They have
made the same careful study of this
as of any other branch of their bust
ness. They don't insert a single beg,
carly little ad. in an obscure corner
Of same paper, out of favor to the
publisher, to support party organ
and then endeavor to make the pro-
prietor of the paper sensible of the
value of their patronage, by growing
when asked to pay for the advertise.
ment, and vowing that it never did
them any good, but was just put in
out of charity. They are not content
with an old stale advertisement that
repeats the same old story at all sea"
sops of the year, Offering the same
bargains, and the same tull supply of
goods "just received" at all times of
the year,-when their stocks have
run so low that they are scarcely able
to fill the orders of a single custom,
er, as when their houses are filled
with the most seasonable and attrac-
tive commodities. They never allow
the public to remain in ignorance of
the fact that they have good thing
to sell. They know how to make
their constant appeals in a manner
that will prove attractive. They are
always devising new and striking
methods for presenting their wares
to the public notice, by the use Of
printers ink. They are always care
ful to advertise what they have-not
what they had last winter, nor what
jerks, or Brown, or Smith, or some
one else has now. They advertise
honestly as well as literally, and
their customers learn to believe the
promises publicly made through the
Their advertisements
are studied with interest by every
one who expects to become a pur-
chaser.


tits as important that a man about
TO engage in mercantile pursuits
should know how to advertise, as to
know how to buy judiciously, or to
sell at a living pro6t.-"Chicago
Specimen"
Year: 1877

The pastor of the largest colored church Tn Charleston writes to the. Nation that he shall feel easier about the interests of the colOred people for the next two years Hnase HampkOn than under Chamberlain, believing that the antagonism of the ra- ess wiIl be much less under the former than under the latter.
Year: 1877

The people of Connecticut have learned to place high estimate on. the abilitys candor and conscientious thoroughness of the firm of HALL & READ of Bridgeport,

 and there is no doubt it is an excellent place to buy Dry Goods and Carpets. They are already making arrangements for spring, and are introducing some new de- signs in the celebrated ingrain carpetings of their own make: Their stock of fine carpetings and house furnishing goods is always attractive. while they are always offering some real bargains in Dry Goods.

 It is becoming an established fact that the interior of our dwellings can be furn- ished with carpets and wall decorations by Messrs HALL < BEAD of Bridgeport in better taste and at less expenditure than by any other firm for the following req

 sons: They make their own carpets and

 control the deslgns of the new decorations and can therefore not only fit up houses W with good harmony in the fittings but save the purchasers one profit. z
Year: 1877

AN ENTERPRIsING TRAMP.--A tramp ar
rested in the vicinity of Worcester, Mass,
recently, on being searched, was found to
have a copy of Boston paper with the
names of parties in Boston and other cities
who were at places of summer resorts
Opposite each name, in nearly every case
was in lead pencil marks the street and
number of the residence, with one or more
signs.
Year: 1877

NEARLY BANKRUPT.-The managers of
the Permanent Exhibition in Philadelphia
have been constrained to make an appeal
to the public for further subscriptions to
the capital of the enterprise. They ask for
$4,000, which they say is "wanted i'm
mediately." The managers have wisely
avoided a panicky tone in their address,
but it is we'll understood that the money
is very badly wanted indeed, that the
losses have been constant, and that nothing
but prompt response to the call can
avert disaster. A premature closing of the
great show, before the season when it is
expected to receive its largest support,
would be real public misfortune.
Year: 1877

King Cotton and His Gin is the title
of an article in the atlantic Monthly. 1t
recites how Massachusetts, invention came
to the State of Georgia in the person Of Eli
Whitney, the inventor of the cotton gin /;
how his patterns were stolen before his
patent was obtained how Gin one instance
Mr.. Whitney had difficulty in proving that
the gin had ever been used in Georgia,
although at that moment there were
several machines in motion within a
stones throw of the court-h house, SO that
the rafting of the wheels might be dis.
tinctly heard from the jurors seats.n In
four Southern States efforts were made 10
set aside Mr.. Whitney's claim 10 his inyen.
ton, in spite of the activity which the
cotton gin had avowedly brought to the
former languishing industry Of cotton.
growing. Although from the State in
which he first made, and where he had
introduced his machine, he had received
nothing, and from no State had he re
ceiyed the amount of half cent pound
on the cotton cleansed by his machine in
one year, he was unsuccessful in obtaining
from Congress renewal of his patent
living before the days of the lobby, and
turned his attention to the manufacturing
of arms for the United States, which
presumably he found a more profitable
customer
Year: 1877

Turkeys and chickens are the most
profitable of fowl were it not for that
almost incurable plague, the gapes-we are
glad however to learn upon good authority
that it can be cured and entirely preven.
ted by putting little Of Foutz's Celebrated
Horse and Cattle Powders in the food.
All Poultry raisers should avail themselves
of il and save their fowls.
Year: 1877

In this Department everything will be found from
french China Tea Sets and Decorated Toilet Sets
down through Granite and c. c. Ware in infinite
variety. TO Common Stone and Red Earthen Ware
Stove Pipe Guards Speciality. Flower Pots
Year: 1877

A NEWSPAPER correspondent has beer
having talk with the widow Of "Stone
wall" jackson, who is living at Il board
ing school in Charlotte county, Va,
which her daughter is attending. Gen
Jackson left his wife and child in very
moderate circumstances, having invested
most Of his property in the bonds OF the
COniederacy. Mrs. jackson, in the course
Of conversation about her husband
said:


Nothing was so certain to him as that
u protracted struggle would wear the
South out. He believed that we had but
one hope, and that was to press the Fed.
erals at every point, blindly, furiously,
madly. we must .frighlen them,' he
used to say. He believed that a fatal
mistake was made when our people
failed to take advantage Of the splendid
victory Of Manassas. think he saw a
permanent triumph Just beyond tha,
battle. So thoroughly was he impressed
with the Importance OF pushing ahead
all the time, and in the face Of any oh.
Stacle, that he was considered fanatic
His whole correspondence with me was
full Of expressed and implied horror Of
war and bloodshed. l am convinced thai
one Of the reasons impelIing him to tn.
positive and vigorous course that he
pursued was the knowledge that it mus
speedily release him from the repugnant
work in which he was engaged"
Year: 1877

she mothers tenderness in her
looks? Does she subordinate
the vanity of displaying herself
to that OF exhibiting her child?
Does she not show selfshness
and frivolity, and is she not hand
some merely by virtue of her
face? Is she not showing her.
self off more than her baby?-
Now look yonder," continued
the philosopher, "and see the
contrast. Look at that woman
at the top of the hall. Her
features are not regular, but
look at the depth Of motherly
feeling IN her eyes--look at"
"Oh! give us a rest!'' cried out
the citizen addressed, and thus
an edifying discourse was
brought abruptly to an end.
Year: 1877

New York Herald: Congress
should Immediately make pro
visions to put the life-saving
stations in a thorough condition
of equipment. 1t is agreed on
all hands that if the station near
the scene of the wreck Of the
unfortunate Huron had been
manned many lives would have
been saved. The policy that
leaves our sailors and passengers
to the mercy of the waves, while
thousands of worthless officials
are kept in Office, is a disgrace
and d swindle.
Year: 1877

Prof. Tyndall thinks that the
thoughtful and penetrating
minds who, following the lead of
physical science, are trying to
discover the laws of society with
out the aid Of the supernatural
will succeed, and that morality
as a social duty will obliterate
the strifes and heartburnings
which disfgure our everyday
life. So he puts honor above the
creed.
Year: 1877

They come to your back door
and demand hot coffee and mince
pie; they stop you near your
home and want money for a
lodging; they unfalteringly pull
the front door bell out of it's
socket and demand a new shirt
and a few dimes. How many of
them ever ask if you have a lit
tie work for them to do? Alas!
work is not what they come for.
Year: 1877

Worcester Press: George
Francis Train has discovered
how any man can live in luxury
on five cents a day. But why
should we live in luxury when
we see SO many poor families
around us who are struggling to
get through the winter with only
one dOg?"
Year: 1877

much good to our future prospects as 9
city. People CRY hard times. Money


ID scarce and business is dull. All
true, perhaps; nobody doubts that such
is the case generally; but not only will


business continue dull and times hard If
capitalists will persist in withholding
their means from legitimate enterprises.
which will give employment to many,
and open up the avenues for brisk trade;
but it is with bad grace, anyhow, that
such cries arise from Wheeling. Prices
are not as high as formerly; but to n
casual observer there certainly is very
fair amount of business done in the city,
and a. to money being scarce, that is
more in. the imagination, we believe,
than in the reality. Last Sunday
afternoon there were thirty-6ve hired
carriages and hacks standing, at
one time, at one single locality on the
National road, all hired for pleasure
rides. Now, if money can be spent so
freely for pleasure, it certainly cannot be
so very hard to get, or so very scarce,
and really it does seem that, if it can be so
readily procured for amusement, 1t ought
not to be so difficult to be raised for
business venture, which promises ample
return.


We present these thoughts to our busi-
ness men, capitalists and all others who
feel an interest in the future growth
and welfare of the city, for
their careful consideration. An op-
portunity Is presented for Wheeling to
be city directly in the liae OF rail-
way atfording her direct access, east and
west, instead of being, as she is now, a
town, located on switch track of the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. Can it
be possible that with all the wealth con-
centrated here, this chance WALL be per-
mitted to slip away unimproved for the
lack of the comparatively small sum OF
Sl2,OOO2


All that we will say further on the
subject at present, is, that some OF the
party of gentlemen who lately went on
an excursion over the line Of this
road. stated, while in Cleveland,
that they believed the whole sum
asked for from Wheeling could be
raised in about two weeks. Upon the
strength of these statements, steps were
taken to complete the final location of
the line to this point, and we learn that
the engineer corps, accompanied by Mr..
w. w. CARD, chief engineer, will arrive
here about the latter part of the present
week. This is but another reason Why
the subscription should be speedily raised.
We hope that this, in connection with
the other facts We have stated, viii open
the eyes of our people, and instii fresh
lite into the undertaking.
Year: 1877

An indignation meeting over the COM
mutation of the sentence Of Thompson
was held at Columbia tonight, and the
Governor and the Judges OF the Supreme
Court burned IN etigy. The dispatches
do not state the number OF persons who
took part in the affair, but it is thought
not many.
Year: 1877

Silver spoons are used to scrape ket-
ties.


Coffee, tea, pepper and spices are left
to stand open and lose their strength,


Potatoes in the cellar grow and
sprouts are not removed until the pota
toes becomes worthless.
Brooms are never hung up and are
soon spoiled


Nice handled knives are thrown into
hot water.


The -four is sifted in a wasteful man.
ner, and the bread pan is left with the
dough sticking to it.


Clothes are left on the line to whip
to pieces in the wind


Tubs and barrels are left in the sun
to dry and fall apart


Dried fruits are not taken care of in
season and become wormy.


Rags, string and paper are thrown
into the fire.


Pork spoils for want of salt, and beef
because the brine wants scalding.


Bits of meat, vegetables, bread and
cold puddiugs are thrown away when
they might be warmed, steamed and
served as good rs new
Year: 1877

An amusing incident occurred in a
Connecticut district school few days
since. A little boy, six years old, was
seen to whisper, but denied doing so
when reproved by the teacher; he was
told to remain after school, when the
teacher, trying to impress upon his
youthful mind the sinfulness of not
speaking the truth, asked him if they
did not tell him in the Sunday.school
where bad boys went to who told false
hoods Choking with sobs ho said
4" Yes, marm, it is a place where there
is fire, but [ don't just remember the
name of the town.
Year: 1877

When sober he is 10 the poor Indian
At other times he is high, the poor In
dian.


In many instances the last scene in
all this strange, eventful history" is
kerosene.


1t is getting so chilly that ice cream
dealers have to set their freezers behind
the stove at night.


1t is suggested that the name of the
Charter Oak life insurance company
ought to be changed to Slippery Elm.


A Georgia woman, who has given
birth to twins three successive times,
strongly in favor of new constitution


An eminent philologist, when asked
what "modus operandi meant, re-
piled, 1t is the Latin for how the old
thing works.


Have you seen how Humboldt's
Cosmos p be inquired, No" was her
answer, but | have his buchu." He
didn't talk literature to her any more.


A lady has just been appointed priu-
cipal of high school in Delaware.
From which it is fair to assume that the
motto of the trustees is Principals not
men,


Enamored writing. master to a young
lady pupil | can teach you nothing:
your hand is already very desirable
one, and your ps are the most beautiful
[ ever saw"


A young lady, who does not pride
herself particularly on being political
economist, thinks the sooner greenbachs
reach pa" the sooner she will be able
TO invest in a new fall bonnet.