smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1878

We give the following warranty with each wagon:


we Hereby Warrant the FISH BROS.
WAGON No. to be well made in every partlc-
ular and of good material, and that the strength OF
the same is Sufficient for all work with fair usage
Should any breakage occur within one year ironl
this date by reason of defective material or work
manship repairs for the will be furnished at
place Of sale, free Of charge, or the price Of sucn
renairs as per agents price list, will be paid III
cash by the purchaser producing sample OF the
broken or defective parts as evidence.
Year: 1878

band (Pinkstion} was killed and
herself wounded on account OF po-
litical opinions, when the facts were
that her husband (PinkstoD) never
took any part in politics, and had
in no way given any offence to any
person on account of politics but
deponent believes, and did believe
then, that said murder was in no
wise connected with politics . that
che did not then know, ror does
shc now know, who were the per
sons engaged in said murder anG
wouhdingj but size believes that
there is every reason to think
that colorcd man who had twice
fought with her then husband, and
had been by Elm wozsted, and who
had made threats to take his Pink
ston's) life. was one of the persons
engaged in said killing; that she
was told by her said hts band pink
ston) shortly before his death Of
the circumstances of said fights,
while at dinner one time, and said
Pinkston pointed out the said col
ored man ore day as he passed
their home on The road that de
ponent cannot at this time recite
the name of said person, but knows
that he lived in the neiohborhood
Of Ouachita City. Deponent fur
thcr deposcs that she was persuaded
and prevailed uron to testify that
Tom Lyons, colored man, was
with the party who killed her hus-
band and assaulted her, bat depo-
nent had no personal knowledge OF
the fact other than being Informed
by Cora Williams that said Lyons
was at her CORA Williams 5? house
on the day of the murder. Depo-
nent further deposes that she was
brought from her home in Ouachi-
ia parish aid conveyed to New Or
Leafs, and she was Instructed to
testify and lay all the blame of said
Killing and assault upon the Demo-
Gratis and that She was farther III
st:ucted and induced to pretend
that her wounds were more serious
than they were, and that she could
not WALL; wlfch IN t;!,:t Che had
walked each Gay considerable dis
:ances and assembled long flights of
stairs, such as the cnstom-housc
stairs III New Orlcahs5 without as
sistance, and on the day she WAS
carried in the room of the RetGrn-
ing Board on lounge, or sofa, she
was conveyed i'll a carriage, but was
able to walk; and did walk part
Of the way up the stairs to the room
in which tic Returning Board was
sitting, and gave ont, but she was
induced TO allow herself to be car
ried in on said sofa; or lounge, in
order 20 ptod1ce the impression
tba. she was worn out and could
not walk. Ueponent farther de
poses that previous to her giving
her testimony before said Return
ing Board she was visited by John
Sherman and others of the visiting
statesmen, as she was Informed,
and introduced to them as such, an,!
that she walked before them and
they had ample opportunity to see
what her condition WAS, and that
she could walk about. Deponent
further deposes that during the
time she was in New Orleans attend
I ing the said Returning Board she
was constantly given money by
different Republicans and was
promised support for life, which
last has not been given as promised
Deponent makes this affidavit
without fear from any cause, and
without any promise of reward oI
other consideration than desire t.
have the whole truth known in tht
interest Of truth.


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LLIzAI PINKsToN.


mark.


IN \
Year: 1878

policy pursued by the Republican party
whereby the volume Of the currency has been
contracted far below the business require
ments Of the country, and failures, depression
Of business@and pauper wages have been en-
tailed. We demand the repeal of all laws i'm
posing tax upon the circulation OF State
banks.


10. That 1t is the sense of this convention
that all bonds and obligations OF the national
government should be paid In the legal ten
der greenback notes Of the United States,
except where 1t Is otherwise provided in the
original Law tlndsrggFEiehe they were issaleeas
We further demand the repeal Of oil laws
passed subsequent to tho original law Great


ing tho public debt by which the obligations
OF the country have been made more onerous,
and we recommend that United States trehs5,-
ury notes shall be made receivable for all
dues, public and private, including customs
duties.
II. That ii is the sense and Judgment OF
this convention that the Legislature OF this
State at it's next session should provide for
the calling and assembling OF u convention ut
the earliest practicable time thereafter, To-
frame and to establish q new constitution of
tho State of Louisiana.


H. That in favorng q call for conStltu-
| tonal convention it Is not purpo8ed to dis
place or interfere with the incumbent officials
in the State government. A. Il. y.
Year: 1878

NEW YORK Aug. GA morning paper has
received q letter from an unknown male
writer, who says Mrs. Smith is guiltless OF
the jersey City police murder, and writes tflaL
he himself committed the terrible crime! tie
tells at length how it WAS done.
Year: 1878

chants of this city, through the Chamber OF
Commerce, intended to give the Chinese Em"1
bassy reception on their arrival in thig city,
is without foundation. At the Board OF Trade
the same information is obtained
Year: 1878

The district attorney of--iistriot
related to us substantially the follow
ing incident:


A culprit. in the person OF q negro
man, was arraigued before his honor for
capital crime. A point of law was
raised and argued all day, which was of
vital importance in the case pending.
The life or death OF the prisoner hung
upon that sirgle point of law. The
Judge adjourned the court and promis-
ed decision in the morning. As he
and the district attorney occupied the
same room in tho hotel, and as the lat>
ter observed marked solemnity on the
face of the former, accompanied by un-
.uscal reticence, he retired to bed and
left tie Judge wrapt in silent thought.
He soon saw the Judge on his knees in
prayer. The attorney slept and awoke
through the night, and tound the Judge
on waking ut each time, on his knees.
He SAID the Judge prayed all night.
The attorney. being an irreligious man,
thought his case gone-so much pray
ing wonld cause the Judge to lean to
the side of mercy and save the life Of
the guilty negro. Court being called,
the Judge announced his decision, the
effect of which was to hang the guilty
man. That District Attorney has since
become religious man, aud the Judge
is to day prominent man, in Texas.
Year: 1878

Gods dominion takes all things with
in its great circumference. All That
ever was, all that eyer shall be, lies
within the divine jurisdiction. In the
beginning was the word. In the con,
summation the Word shall abide. For
the Word is God. Little things and
mighty things; the whispering of
thought, and the dissolution of king
dom; the fall of leaf aud the crash Of
world, the animalcule of q gain. drop
and the solar systems of the universe,
all these things coma under the rim OF
the wheel which Isaiah saw in his Wis
iona wheel 30 vast and high that il
was dreadful. Noscorner of creationIis
left to chance. What we call accidents
are providences indeed. There may bo
local disturbances; but the general or
der sure. There are backward move
ments in certain parts Of the engine;
but the combined power is a unit in
pressing the vessel forward agsins.


wind and tide. The pilot takes besr-
ings from the sun which is ever on>


ward and not from the piston which
iplics't to and fro. High as the tides o.


sin may flow, awful and dark as the
storm may sweep, chance cannot eend a
single breath of its snray across the
boundaries which Providence appoints.
All things in nature and Revelation are
at inmost harmony.
Year: 1878

his fellownen upon the high seas, and
the name, Bloody Tim," would, by its
bare mention, strike terror into the
heart Of the captain Of any vessel from
a mill pond skiff to an English man of
war.


For forty long years, We repeat, did
he thus amuse himself, and now grown
old aud gray. wild longing took pos
session of his breast to return to his
native land.
He longed to once more gaze upon
the red head and large feet of his be-
loved Mary Jane.
He longed to see his children, now
probably grown into men and women.


He longed to caress the bob-tail cat
|of his early manhood, and to once
more kick IN the ribs of the ancient
family dog.
Year: 1878

We advise all young people to ac>
quire early in life the habit of using
good language, both in speaking and
writing, and abandon the use Of slang
words and phrases. The longer they
live, the moro difficult the acquisition
Of good language will be; and if the
golden age of youth, the proper time
for the acquisition in language, be pass


ed in abuse. the unfortunate victim oi
neglected education is very probably
doomed to talk slang for life. Money
is not necessary to procure this educa-
ton. Every man has it in his power.
He has to use the language which he
reads, instead of the slang which he
hears; to form taste from the best
speakers and poets of the country; tc
treasure up choice phrases in his mem
ory, and habituate himself to their use
avoiding, at the same time that pedan-
tic precision and bambast which show
rather the weakness of vain ambition
than the polish Of an educated mind.
Year: 1878

Few men die of age. Almost all die
of disappointment; passion, mental OF
accident. The passions kill men some
times. even suddenly. The common ex
preston, choked with passion. has little
exaggeration in it for even though not
suddenly fatal, strong passions shorten
life. Strong bodied men often die
young; weak men live longer than the
strong, for the strong use their strength
and the weak have none to use. The
latter take care of themselves, the for.
mer do not. As it is with the body, sc
it is With the mind and temper. The
strong are apt to break, or, like the
candle, to run out; the weak. to burr
out. The inferior animals, which live
general regular end temperate lives
have generally their prescribed term OF
years. The horse lives twenty-five year;
the OK fifteen or twenty; the lion about
twenty; the dog ten or twelve; the
rabit eight; the Guinea pig six or seven
years. These numbers all bear singn
lar proportion to the time the animal
takes to grow TO its full size. But man, OF
the animals, is oneithat seldom comes up
to this average. He ought to live a
hundred years. according to this phys
sio!oglcsl law, for five times twenty are
one hundred; but instead of that. he
scarcely reaches, on an average. four
times his growing period; the cat six
times; and the RABBIT even eight times
the standard Of measurement. The
reason is obvious-man is not only the
most irregular and the most intemper.
ate, but the most laborious and hard
worked of all animals. He is also the
most irritable of all animals; and there
is reason to believe, though we cannot
tell what on animal secretly feels, that
more than any other animal man cher
ishes wrath to keep warm, and consum-
es himself with the fire of his own sc.
cret reflections.
Year: 1878

There is nothing which should DO
more frequently impressed upon the
minds of young men than the impor-
tance OF steadily pursuing some one
business. The frequent changing from
one employment to another ID ono
of the most common errors commit
ted, and to it may be traced more than
half the failures of men in business.
and much of the discomfort and disap
pointment which renders life uncomfur-
table. 1t is a very common thing for
man TO be dissatisfied with his business
and to desire to change it for some oth~
er, which, it seems to him, will prove q
more lucrative employment; but in nine
cases ont of ten it is a mistake. Look
around you, and you will find among
your acquaintances abundant verihcs-
ton of our assertion. There is on hon
est farm paid for, but does not grow
rich very rapidly, as much from lack OF
contentment mingled with industry as
anything. though he is not aware of it.
He hears the wonderful stories of Cali
fornia, aid how fortunes may be had
for the trouble Of picking them up;
mortgages his farm to raise money; goes
away to the land of gold, and after
many months of hard toll comes homes
to commence again at the bottom of the
bill for more weary and less sucessful
climbing up again. Mark the men in
every community who are notorious for
ability and equally notorious for never
getting ahead, and you will find them
to be those who never stick to one busi.
ness long, but are always forsaking
their occupation jnst when i. begins to
be profitable.
Year: 1878

Daul bennett writes from Brookhasen
to, the New Orleans Picayune; They
have a peculiar way OF saving seed
cane here, which We have not seen
elsewhere. It may be common. how
ever, in other portions Of the piue re-
gions Of Mississippi ard Louisiana
I,sey claim they save seed successfully
every year, aud seldom losc aa@ This
is better than Louisiana sugar planters
do. Their mode Of saving seed would
be too laborious and expensive for
largs plantations. They cut their
standing cane up by the roots iu Octo-
Der. yhey commence their seed saving
operations by digging pit abont ten
feet in width, and a spade deep, putting
the roots of the cane in the pit, the
tops inclined upwards at an angle OF
fifteen or twenty degrees. After put


ting in one OF two hundred stalks they
commence extending the pit in front,
throwing the dirt on the roots of the
cane, aud some Of the tops. They
then put IN moro cane to fill up the
new cavity. and then dig more in front
to dirt the cane last put in. They con-
tinue this, alternately :: digging ana
placing the seed cane until they have
ridge one or two hundred feet in length


sas body Of the mat standing two OF
three feet above the level of the ground
Stubble cane they do not consider o.
much value, even where they cut the
cane for the mill. They sell seed caut
by the hundred stalks IN the field from
81 90 to 81 25 hundred. It is difficult
to find it for sale in the planting sea-
son. An acre or two of sugar cane i,
here considered pretty good patch


The increase in the cultivation OF syrul
and sugar producing plants speaks vel
for the country, and shows that there
are at least some farmers here who ar,
willing to work for the luxuries Of life
as we'll as to make corn aud cotton


When farmers here produce the home
luxuries which they can easily do. the,


will need bat few store luxuries, ant
they will be sure to have plenty of thu
solid necessaries Of life made on thei
own farms, when they are willing Z


toll for better living and more OF th'
comforts OF life.
Year: 1878

II not unfrequently happens. in this
world of mistakes and thoughtlessness,
that man, even the best OF men, may
once or twice during long or other
wise faultless lite. kiss his hired girl by
mistake for his wife. But no man, OF
ages past or of to-day, was ever known
to kiss his wife under the erroneous
impression that she was the hired girl.
Year: 1878

LET no man presume that he can
see prospectively into the ways Of Prov
idence. His part is to contemplate
them in the past and trust in them fol
the future; but so trusting, to act al
ways upon motives OF human prudence
directed by religious principles.
Year: 1878

They who tread life's pathway, ever
bearing on their faces an expression OF
cheeifulness, are radiant ministers of
good to mankind. They scatter sun
shine on all they meet, depression and
gloom fade away n they presence.
Year: 1878

Shut every door after you without
slamming it. Never stamp, jump or
run in the house. Never call to per-
sons upstairs or in the next room: if
you wish to speak to them go quietly to
where they are. Always speak kindly
and politely to the servants, if you
would have them do the same TO you.
When told to do or not to do thing by
either parent, never ask why you should
or should not 10 it. Tell of your own
faults, but not of those of your broth
ers or sisters. Carefully clean.the mud
and snow from your boots or shoes be-
fore entering the house. Be prompt at
every meal. Never sit down at the Ia
Bile or ir the parlor with dirty hands or
tumbled hair. Never interrupt any
conversation, but wait patiently for
your turn to speak. Never reserve
your good manners for strangers, but
be equally polite at home and abroad
Year: 1878




play-only an hour of intermission :;
but we crowded in as much sport as we
could, and the time passed rapidly with
one thing and another. Ii must have
been nearly time for the teacher to come
back to open afternoon school, and we
were every minute expecting TO hear
some one say, oh dear there he comes y
when shout or scream from the boys
made us spring up in terror and direct
every eye TO the object from which they
were running in hot haste, screaming,
a bear. bear! jump, girls, jump
and jump they did, every one, except
me; for trotting along after the boys
came a good sized bear ont of the woods.
Not in i great hurry TO be sure, for he
was too certain he would catch one of
us; but coming right along and no
mistake. The boys ran TO the school
house and scrambled in, shouting TO the
girls to jump and rum


at took only minute for all to reach
that safe shelter, except Ned and poor
little grandmother There L was para
lyzed with fear, TO scared too leap OF
the low part of the roof, which was the
farther way, too scared TO move at all,
and that dreadful bear coming nearer
and nearer.


'As Tor Ned, he saw my helplesness,
and he was just a. anxious To get int
the house as any of them; but the dear
fellow rushed Tor me with all his might,
crying out Jump, Jeanie, Ill catch
JON | fell oil into his arms-it was
all | could dO-and half carrying. half
dragging me. he stumbled up to the
door. sprang in aud pulled me in after
him; the door was slammed in bruins
face, with loud bang, but not until he
had lifted one wicked paw and taken
the backbreadth out of my dress ~


''And what did you DO them | ask
ell Jeanie


''Oh, We huddlcd under the desks,
too frightened TO even whisper, and
that Dear went round and round the
house, scrambling toward the windows,
and growing till our hair stood on eud
1t the dreadful sound.


''Fortunately the windows were too
high for him to reach, and when he
found he couldn't have nice little boy
or girl for dinner he left US, and sulked
cE down to the springs"


And was tha. the last of it!"


NO, not quite; when We found he
had fairly gone, 4 few OF tho biggest
boys ran to meet the teacher, and among
them they called ont some men with
dogs and guns who hunted through the
woods, and the next day the bear was
shot On rhe mountain"


"That was good, - sail the old child,
who was listening TO the story. Any
thing more about Ned:"


"Oh, yes" said grandmother Jeanie.
''Stout, short, middle-aged man, a little
bald. good As gold. married and blessed
with two pretty children so they tell
me. We moved from the Laurel hill
few months after, and I've never seen
him since"


"O-h-h," said the old child. ''But
thanks for the tale of the bear-which
Is always snort.
Year: 1878

Next TO the fire place an open stove,
like the old fashioned Franklin CRATES
or stoves, are pleasant. In these can be
burned wood or coal, but have the for
mer if possible. Again we say what
ever means you employ for heat either
furnace, steam coal or wood stoves try
and have an open fire in the family or
sitting room, One movement with reg
ard to closed stoves is being made in the
right direction of which a moment,
thought will assure one. 1t has been
thought proper for some years to send a
stove As high up in the air a possible,
put story upon story and then finish by
letting the pipe drag its black length
through a chamber abOve-tO warm the
chamber? No, such heat ever was sd
tisfactOry, but to let the accumulated
breath of the whole day descend TO the
sleeping apartment to be inhaled all
night by its occupant. When you buy
stoves buy the low ones that are now
made; the nearer the floor the better,
and if you want TO warm a bed room get
a little box stove, and one armful of
wood will make the room whOlesOmly
comfortable, instead of that clammv
unhealthful chill that attends amy heat
derived from room or stove below.
Year: 1878

After the 7.45 Long Island Railroad
express train from Hampstead passed
Garden City recently, the engineer,
John Townsend, espied gaunt, black
horse grazing by the fence. AS the
train neared the horse he bounded out
on the track with snort of defiance,
and started on fast trot ahead of the
locomotive. He was not swift-footed
enough to keep ahead, however, and as
the train crept close 10 his flying heels,
Engineer Townsend showed down the
brakes and set the whistle TO Shrek
ing. At this the horse redJubled his
speed, and the train started ahead, and
was quickly at his heels again. For
over mile the race was kept up in this
way. Every time the train overlook
the horse it would be Stacked up, and a
wild whistle would make the horse re-
new his efforts. Still he determinedly
kept on the track. In one place there
was small culvert crossing the road
bed, and the horse got one of his feet
All tiiis anu went uON II IletlS over mean.
His nose struck the track. and he made
a somersault on his back, and then
rolled on his side. The engineer then
stopped the train and went with some
of the passengers to see whether the
horse was dead, but before they could
reach him he was on his feet and away
down the track again at a tremendous
pace, still snorting defiance at his pur-
suers. At the end of the next half
mile he stumbled and fell a second
time, but pluckily picked himself up
and ran on. A little further on, as the
engine was close to him, he dropped on
his knees again, but was instantly erect
and off once more. After he had ran
nearly three miles, he came to a road
diagonally crossing the railroad, and
wheeled into it just as the train was
again rushing and bowling close be-
hind him. The horse kicked up his
heels as he dashed snorting down the
road and disappeared. The train lost
about seven minutes on its schedule
time by the race, but the passengers
quietly enjoyed it.