smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1874

y camp of gipsies is near Washington,
and Republican reporter has visited it
and talked with Gitana, a Gipsie maiden
We quote:


We suppose you are human beings
ana nave to get divoreedF


sometimes; but its a dreadful thing
WIN Us TO get divorced 1t causes grief
anu mourning, and blood has to be shed" D"
vorced.1


L know am talking too much, 4" and
Oi'aill trein pied as she spoke, but half
dozen OriSilt SILVER quarters thrown into
her lap seemed TO give her assurance:
Il know am talking too much, but III
tell you. It is this way When a man
and his wife is to be separated it is done
by the sacrifice of horse. One is pick
ed out which is entirely sound and free
from a bruiSe or even a scratch, and he
is led out to the place where the divorce
Is TO take place, and exactly at twelve
o'clock. The men east lots for the one
who shall kill the horse, and for this oc-
casion he is the priest. The priest takes
a long pole IN his hand and walks around
the horse several times, and in a loud
voice praises his good qualities and

names all the persons who have owned
it.


The horse is then led TO the tent of
the woman who is TO be divorced. If he
kicks around and jumps about the wo-
man has been very bad; if he keeps qui-
ct she has not been so bad. The priest
then takes a large knife and stabs the
horse to the heart. and when it is stretch
ed out on the ground, the husband takes
his place on one side of it, and the wife
on the other. They join hands across
the horse and repeat some sentences in
the gypsy language. They then walk
three times around the horse in opposite
directions"


The last time, when at the head of
the horse, they face each other and
speak, and do the same at the tail They
again shake hands and separate, one go
ing north and the other south. She
never marries again, and has to wear a
mourning veil and big shoes on her feet.
The heart of the horse is then taken
out, roasted, sprinkled with brandy, and
eaten by the husband and his friends.
The horse is buried on the spot The
husband can marry again"
Year: 1874

If we would but check the speaker,
When he SpOils his ncighbor's fame,
If we would but check the crring


Ere we utter words of blame:
If we would, how often might we


Turn from paths OF sin and shame.
All, the wrong that might be righted
If we would but see the way:
All. the way that might be lightcned
Every hour and every day,
If we would but hear the pleadingS
OF the hearts that go astray.
Let us step outside the threshold


of our selfishness and pride;
Let Us lift our fainting brothers,


Let us strengthen aud ere we chide;
Let Us, ere we blame the fallen,


Hold the light 10 cheer and guide.
All, how bleSScd-ah how blessed


Earth would be ii we would try
Thus toad and right the weaker,
Thus 10 check or brothers sigh,
Thus to talk Of duty's pathway


To cur better iii


In each life, however iowly,


There are seeds of mighty good.
Still. we shrink from souls appealing,
With iimjd If we could
But a God who judges ali things
Knows The truth is ii We would.
Year: 1874

A CURIOUS KANSAS ADVERTISEMENT.
The following, clipped from the Atehi-
son Champion, shows what kind of wo-
men they have in Kansas


Lost, strayed or stolen. An indi-
vidual whom /. in an urgent moment Of
loneliness, was thoughtless enough to
adopt as my husband. He is a good
looking and feeble individual, not know
ing enough, however, to come in when
It rains unless some good looking girl
offers him the shelter of her umbrella
Answers TO the name of Jim. Was last
seen in company with Julia Harris,
walking with his arm around her waist,
looking more like a fool, if possible,
than ever. Anybody who will catch the
poor fellow and bring him carefully
back, so that can chastise him for run
ming away, will be invited to stay to tea
by KATE e. SMITH"
Year: 1874

We shall soon hear from a thousand
stumps the Democratic eIamor for a
return to 1.-THE good old times" Many
a hungry politician will hear the sound
Y and believe it the promise of the good
time coming when the cry Il am DEM
ocrati" will open TO the faithful the fat
test offices of the land. No doubt Tweed,
the dethroned king Tammany. as he
sits with striped suit and shaved head in
his forced retirement and moralizes over
the degeneracy of the times, looks for
ward to the hour when the Democratic
wand shall open his prison doors and re-
instate him in the political kingdom
which he lost. We have no desire TO
welcome the return of the ''good old
times" We have had enough of them
They cost us over 50. 900, 900. 600. and
over half a million lives We are do
ing our best to repair the injury, and
hope in less than a score OF years to wipe
out the last trace of Democratic misrule.
We have reduced the debt nearly 800,
000 600 in a little over five years, and
shall continue its reduction until every
cent is paid. But we protest against the
return of the times which forced this
burden upon the nation. Once in thous-
and wears we might endure like expe
rience, but to go through 1t again during
the present century would tax good ma
lure beyond endurance. We might live
through an epidemic, be tranquil over
the escape of Tweed, read the details
of the Brooklyn scandal every day in
the year. but nothing short of direct
interposition of Providence could make
us submit with cheerfulness to the good
old times of Democracy May the sac
riiice never be called for


TICHBoRNE.-The trustees for the
heirs of the Tichborne estate have been
Obliged to obtain an act of Parliament
to enable them to raise money upon the
estates, the incumbrance to cover the
lives of future heirs, to defray the cost
of litigation enforced upon them by
Arthur Orton. The act has been oh
.tained at the instance of the English
Court of Chancery, and in it the costs to
be betrayed have been agreed upon at
a sum of f91, 677 lbs I'd.
Year: 1874

We ARE glad to learn, as we do
by telegraph this morning, that the
house of representatives yesterday
passed the bill reimbursing the East
Tennessee university in the sum of
eighteen thousand dollars for the occu-
patton of and damage to the premises
during the war. That's justice and no
Year: 1874

The Holly Springs Reporter of the
twenty-ninth ultimo, say of another abscond-
er: " W e are informed by gentleman ust from
the Miss ssippi Bottom, that Senator Bowles
OF Bolivar, who was some time ago appointed
commissioner under an order OF the chancery
court OF that county, 70 sell lands belonging
with him several thousand dollars of the pro-
ceeds of said sale. The senator had two years
more to serve IN the legislature, but we sup
pose he has concluded to let his constituents
look out for q suitable successor,
Year: 1874

THE Probate court of Pima county did little business this week. The hearing of petition for the sale of real estate in the case of the estate of Michael Layden, was set for November 23. In the matter Of the Mcfarland estate, the hearing of a motion for final settlement was postponed to November g, to which day ithe court adjourned.
Year: 1874

PEOPLE should look well to their house. hold goods nowadays. The nights are getting cool and blankets are much need ed by men who are too lazy to earn means to buy them, and prefer to steal them than to sleep cold. On Thursday night, the room of MT. Yerkes and room mate, in Welisch's building, was robbed of nearly all clothing and blanketSAleaving but few articles
Year: 1874

DAVID DAVIS is out for constable of Tucson precinct. He is quiet man with whom we have but slight acquaintance, but his friends are active in his behalf and they claim that he is capable for the place. "a
Year: 1874

Swans have bothered themselves since the
days of Lucretius tying to determine the ex-
istence of law in matter by which the organic
is naturally developed from the inorganic, but
none Of them have been courageous enough
to grapple the problem of why it is that a
man with green-watermelon collie doesn't
get before looking-glass and see himself as
others see him.
Year: 1874

down among the people and teams who
crowd densely about the other three sides of
the parade ground But By far the most
distingue person on the grounds is


GENERAL JOSHUA L. CHA MBERLAIN,
who with his erect carriage, iron-gray hair,
and Roman features, looks every inch the
solder-just the soldier to be in at the death
of mighty confederacy, and to win renown
at cost of painful and dangerous wounds.
Plainly dressed, absolutely without decora-
ton, he moves about the camp with an eye
that takes in everything and sparkles with
interest at every military evolution.


At four O'Clock Is the hour for the


GRAND REVIEW,


when the soldiers form in line facing head
quarters, the regiment occupying the tight,
and the artillery and other unattached COM
panies the left of the line. The Governor
and staff ride slowly down the line the re-
spective bands striking up


"HAIL TO THE CHIEF"
as they move slowly along in front and in the
rear. The line then breaks into column and
marches in review, but before entering up
on the doube quick, warning drops from the
murky clouds that all the afternoon have
been creeping up from the west, tap geotly
the hats and sunshades of the spectators who
promptly take the hint; a stampede ensues;
and mnster is over for the day. Fortunately
for the crowd, the rain-storm gets under way
slowly and the majority arrive home without
serious wetting.


While the military exercises OF the alter
noon have been transpiring at the MUSTER
fiel1, preparations have been making IN the
city for an


IsiPRoMPTU RECEPTION.


for General Chamberlain and stall, and 1t II
held in the evening at the city hall, and is
largely attended by citizens and visitors. A
ball follows, and 50 in music and dancing
closes the third day of the muster. p.
Year: 1874

There is to be an Episcopal General Coun-
Gil in New York next October. Shrewd
people expected as much when the Con
gregational Council met in Brooklyn.
Let boy get new pair of top-boots, and
sure as death some other boy will never
leave off teasing his mother till he gets a
pair, too
Year: 1874

Milwaukee Neaos: A Western man set
fire to the prairie for fun, but after he had
run seven miles and climbed tree. with his
pants about all burned off, he concluded the
sport was little too violent exercise to be
INDUCED in oftener than once in life time.
Year: 1874

Ladies Desiring to secure rare
bargain in black, cOlored and fancy
Silks Will serve themselves by in
spectng our goods before purchas-
Ing elsewhere, our stock being the


cheapest ever offered on Broad way.
Year: 1874

The Radicals have been practising upon the
creduity OF the negro ever since he his been al
lov ed TO vote, 10y telling him that the Democrats
would enslave him, and that if any Of them were
placed in office 1t would result in the defeat of
the Radical party. Thus the negro has been
kept back in This State and thus they continue
10 Keep him back Were it not for these admoni-
tons the negroes would have clamored more
openly for admission to the public schools. This
they ate led TO believe is certain 10 follow the
passage of ihe supplemental Civil Rights Bills
now before Congress, the passage of which would,
they arc told, be defeated II they now made such
demands openly in Delaware aud other States
north of u.s. The snme results would follow
their introduction TO the offices; or the placing
of any of their race upon the Radical election
tickets. When we called attention to the fact
that the Radicals frequently tell the negro that
lie is good the whites and stated that if this
wero so he entitled 10 half the Offices in Del
aware that the Radicals controlled, because he
cast for that party moro than half of its votes in
Delaware, the Republican niscs the old scare
crow, and concludes its admonition as follows:


"The colored people can estimate them at their
proper worth, and avoid the gulf into which II
0he GAzETTE) seeks TO lead them TO plunge"


That is TO say, the negro must not ask an Office
of his party; or to be placed on the ticket OF his
party, or he cannot "avoid the gulfh-that Is the
Radical party will be defeated How long will
the Radical party he ashamed to acknowledge
one-haf OF their voters? And why ashamed 10
put them on their ticket, if they ere rs good as
the whites
Year: 1874

The Republican of this morning gives utterancs
to the following sentence which our readers know
is most wilfully false


The OFFIcEs-The Delaware GAZETTE favors
the nomination of colored men for office.


The Republican can show no words OF ours IN
which we say that nominations" should be
given to colored men, and until it does thus prove
Its charge it must lay under the mpulation of
lying.
Year: 1874

There Is to be another great ship-launch at
Chester on the 18th Of this month. Mr.. Roach
Will then have another mammoth iron vessel
for the Pacific Mail Steamship Company a
comrade, in fact, of the City of Peking. The
new ship which was to have been called the
City OF Yeddo, will receive the name of the
City OF Toxic, after the present capital of ia
pan.
Year: 1874

SERMON BEFORE THE GRADUATING CLASS BY PROF.


OLIVER sTEARNs.


The sermon before the graduating class of
the Divinity School of Harvard University preached
by Prof Oliver Stearns in the Appleton Chapel Sun
day evening His text was Go ye therefore and teach
all nations. baptzng them in the name OF the Father
the Son. and tho Holy Ghost from Mattno xviii 10.
The speaker understood these words signify the bap


s into the Christian ministry, and were based on one
fact the incarnation OF Divine The nature of God
seemed TO some only matter of speculation The Chris


an faith used the term Father tQesf.ibe the nmost
which was the ground of his inherent nature to
men. The term Father" used by Christ, i'm
ported the reality of God. He was than
order, more than nature Instituting human nature.
God expressed himself Closely related to this first
truth what Jesus SAID Of himself the Son OF God
aud the Sou OF Man. The Saviour opened way
for God TO man. BY the indwelling OF
the Father the Son had the purest spiritual quality Of
that Father aud brought 1t into communion with
God came 70 his children through mediation. Every
human being was "a mediator OF something to others,
and there were thousands OF natural mediators so
there great mediator OF spiritual truth Christ
sion TO us rs much as did his mind need expression
through natural laws This the second great for
Inula OF the Christian faith The third belief That
glad OF lfo and love close to all souls IL cor
rected the vitated because IL the pure
IL was health, strength, ealvatlOn We could put no
limits TO soui's capabilty OF being Influenced by
divine lnnnence. Jesus. III whom the Divine dwtlt
illustrated the energy With which Gods truth acted
We could not be Influenced by the Divine spr, without
the letter OF ITS history Christ oamo into history that
his spirit might come to-day into our consciousness
The ministry Of the Word was special effort forw ard
the manifestation OF Christ In the flesh. II was ne,
strange that the proper statement of that which lay
the human soul should be the subjects OF warm
controversy. Ho held that Tho power of Jesus was
fternaIy with God any wai G?d: IL Yp, 2atttd tl4t
Year: 1874

A call has been signed for special meeting
of the Board of Aldermen TO take place ON Friday next


President Vance and Tax Commissioner
Wheeler had a long conversation with Mayor Have
never Yesterday and the result the issuing ~ can
for a meeting of the Board of ApportIOnment when
viii place AT IL A. III. oday.
Year: 1874

Train is on the rampage again. He
has written a letter to Tweed, in which
he says: "You possess secrets against
public men, that in my hands will re-
iease you and put them in your place.
Will you speak If so, name the time
that 1 can visit you. I represent the
coming revolution. Two millions of
working men will soon be clamoring for
bread. My last letter to you was from
the Bastile of Lyons, France. You are
the first victim of the gigantic con-
spiracy to change our form Of govern
ment. Act quickly, for desperate men
sometimes resort to poison" There is
hint of happy relief in the closing SEN
tence, which Ion suffering public
will hail with pmans Of icy, and 1t Is TO
be hoped that Tweed will not heed the
injunction to "act quickly"
Year: 1874

our party was always well providedTf Tfor
in the course of the evening. The
palm-wine at the palace was seldom
good, bnt zest was excited by the ex-
quisite polish of the plate in which it
was served.
Year: 1874

Remember that appearances are often
deceiving. Many pale, thin young
lady will eat moro corned beef than a
carpenter Because you find her play
ing the piano in the parlor, it is no sign
that her mother is pot at the corner
grocery running in debt for peck of
potatoes.
Year: 1874

Respect old age. If you have mai
den aunt forty years old and she is
passing herself of for girl of twenty
three, there is no cause for you to ex-
pose her. The more you respect her
age and keep still about it the more she
will respect you.
Year: 1874

A writer in Blockavood's Maq-
az5ne says: During the late
war a French General had up
on his staff a certain volunteer
civilian, who had several times
showed signs Of unwillingness
to expose his person. One
morning the General said to him,
Get on horseback, sir; ride be-
yond our line till you see the
Prussians. Draw fire if you
can, and then, when you have
made out exactly where their
outpOsts are, come back and re-
port to me- The gentleman
trOtted for two hundred yards,
pulled up and thought he would
go no further. Finally, after an
hour Of fear he decided to ride
home again. AS he reached the
cottage where the General was
Warrington nm, the latter looked
out, saw him, and exclaimed,
what? not gone yet? Start
instantly, SIR Thereupon the
individual in question glanced
with terror at the General, and,
after a few seconds of hesita-
ton, turned his horse sharp a.
round, and rode off at full gal
lOp towards the rear. The Gen
eral snatched out his revolver,
fired at him, and put a ball
through his throat. He was
carried to a hospital, remained
there for six months, until, in
theeXcitement Of the Commune,
he was quite forgotten He
then came out with a doctors
certificate, obtained with that
document the influence Of peo-
pie who knew nothing of the
facts, and finally, on the ground
that he had been wounded be-
fore the enemy obtained the
cross"
Year: 1874

In China it is a strong mark
of filial regard for a son to buy
a coffin as a present to his faith
er, while yet living. On pre-
senting it he says: "May you
live ten thousand years!"


When a man becomes able,
one Of the first articles of furni-
ture he buys for himself is his
coffin. 1t is often used as a
bench or table foryears. When
it becomes tenanted it is fire.
quently kept in the house for
many years longer, instead of
being taken out and buried !;
and when thus taken out, it is
often placed on the surface of
the ground, instead of beneath
it. The inscription is always
on the end Of the coffin instead
Of on top. They wear white
for mourning instead Of black.
At funerals women must weep,
even if they are not grieved;
men must not, if they are
More lanterns are carried at the
time of the full moon than at
any other.
Year: 1874

Tui Levuka, of FIJI, was up
set in his canoe when about half
way between Wakaia and Ova-
lau, seven miles from land. He
had with him at the time some
iOrty-six dependents. AS the
canoe sank these men made a
circle round their chief, joining
hands and keeping themselves
afiOat with their feet. One by
one the sharks, who quickly
gathered to the spot, took his at
temdants down. The remain
der joined hands afresh from
the gaps thus caused, and Tui
Leyuka continuedto swim about
peaceably in the midst of the
constantly narrowing circle
The sharks kept steadily at
their work, and when at length
the whole party was picked up
only twenty out Of the forty
six survived. There can be
no doubt that the chief retinue
were the less inclined to shrink
their duty from the knowledge
that if they had landed without
their chief they would have
been considered candidates for
the oven.
Year: 1874

ATLANTA, Ga, Sept. 24.-The Odd
Fellows had grand banquet tonight.
The Grand Lodge to-day selected In
dianapolis as the next place of meet
ing. The decision of the Grand
Lodge of New Hampshire in the
Fletcher case was sustained. The
Grand Lodge resolved that the Grand
Sire be and is hereby authorized to
adopt such measures in relation to the
establishment of the Order in Austria
rs shall seem to him most judicious
for obtaining permission from the
Austrian Government to establish the
Order there, and to establish it there
if permission be obtained. Also, that
Grand Lodges Of the several jurisdic-
tions subordinate to the Right Worthy
Grand Lodge be and are hereby au-
thoriZed to cause to be conferred the
honorary degree of Past Secretary on
any Past Grand of good standing who
has served the lawful term as Vice
Grand and Noble Grand in subordi-
nate lodge. The Grand body almost
unanimously re-affirmed the position
of the Grand Lodge of 1874, making it
illegal to hold a meeting of the Lodge
or Encampment on Sundays, except
for funeral purposes. The Grand
Lodge decided the question Of consoli-
datiOn in the negative.
Year: 1874

Everybody is wondering why the BAZAAR
Is selling their goods 50 cheap. The reason IS
mer goods to make room for the immense
stock of Fall and Winter goods which they
will soon receive.
Year: 1874

THE Poughkeepsie Eagle, in an arti-
Gle on "How Mistakes Happen in News
papers," figures up the number of types
used in a newspaper the size of the Ea-
gle, at 600. 600, the actual number of bits
of metal arranged and re-arranged every
day in preparing a newspaper the size of
the EG1Ie for the press. We suppose
few people think of the printing trade
as the most exact and particular buSi-
ness. but it il. In making type, varia-
tions that might be allowed III the ma
chinery of the finest watch would render
the type useless. IL is very rarely that
type furnished by two separate fOundries
can be used together without a good
deal of trouble. though they try to make
it after the same standard. We read
once in a while of a wonderful piece Of
cabinet work, or mosaic work, contain
ing ten, twenty or fifty thousand pieces,
the maker of which has spent months or
even years of labor to produce il, and
people 90 10 see IL as a great curiosity,
but the most elaborate and carefully
fitted piece of work of this kind ever
made does not compare with that which
the printer does every day. The man
who does the first is looked upon as an
artist-a marvel of skill, and if a hun
dred of his pieces are put in wrong side
up, or turned the wrong way, it is not
observed in the general effect; but il the
printer, in fitting ten times as many
pieces together in the same day, puts
one where another should be, or turns
one the wrong way, everybody sees 1t,
and is amazed at ''the stupid careless
ness of those stupid printers
Year: 1874

The following is a good recipe which
give saddles AMI brides a good polish,
and be entirely free from all stickiness:
The whites of three eggs eyaporaUed till
the substance left resembles the common
gum, dissolved in pint of gin, and put
into a common wine-bOttle, and filled
up with water.