smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1874

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into drunken sleep. He did not
awaken until the ne:t morning,
but before he did so the settler
quietly removed his bonds and re-
stored the weapons, which he laid
by the sleeper's side. The savage,
on awakening, rose slowly to his
feet, felt his wrists, as though the
thongs had left a feeling there,
took up his weapons, and without
speaking word, left and disap-
peared in the timber near by.


"What do you think Of that :"
asked the wife, turning to her hus-
band with frightened look.


"Pshaw! Don't trouble your
head about the drunken brute ~
answered the settler lightly-but
as he turned away and stepped into
the yard he muttered;


"Like it Well, not much. The
fellow must be watched. was in
hopes he would not remember, but
the lump where my fist landed was
enough, if nothing else, to recall
the circumstances"


The summer passed and they
saw no more Of their drunken
guest. He failed TO make
his appearance. But rs tho leaves
began to fall, the settler one day,
while returning from hunting on the
hills and passing through dense
peice Of timber not far from the
house, caught sight Of figure
lurking in the bushes, which quick
ly disappeared when he advanced
to where it was. The figure was
that Of an Indian warrior, and
Branson would have sworn that it
was the Indian warrior whom he
had knocked down and bound the
previous spring. The news was
in no way comforting, and hence
he did not tell his wife of his dis
covery.


1t would only alarm her, he
thought, and without perhaps any
good result. He simply told her
he had discovered bear tracks near
by, and that she and the child
must stay within or close to the
house during his absence.


Several days afterward Rnfns
Branson heard his dogs in the tim
her down by the river, and, know
ing they never opened without good
cause he caught up his rifle and
hastened to where the dogs were
barking. They had struck fresh
bear trail, and as he arrived in
sight they fairly lifted it, going off
in a straight line down the river.


The chase led him several miles,
and, when he at last got shot that
finished bruins career, he found
that it was three or four o'clock in
the afternoon, Swinging his meat
to snpling, out of reach of cat or
wolf, he started for home to get
his horse and return and fetch II
that very night.


Taking a near cut, he reached
the cabin from the western side
whore the timber grew heavy up to
within few yards of the building,
and consequently hc could not see
the clearing or what might be tran
spring there, until he had passed
through the wood.


Thus II was that, when within a
short distance from his home, he
heard a wild, piercing shriek-but
he could only guess that something
terrible must be taking place be-
Year: 1874

A VERDICT FOR THE GOVERNMENT IN THE GLOVE


FORFEITURE CAsE-THE ELEMENT OF INTENT TO


DEPRAUD.


The trial of the case of The United States
aet three trunks of kid gloves alleged 10 have been
smuggled and claimed by Sampson Levy, was resumed
Yesterday In the United States District Court before
Judge Blatchford. The testimony having been au-
nounced as closed Wednesday Mr. Stanley OF counsel
for the claimant obtained permission to offer in evil
dence the Regulations of the Surveyors Department
He then reviewed the evidence at length. claimed
that IL showed an entire absence on the part
Of Lowry of an intent TO defraud tho revenue
when landed the gloves, and that therefore, under
section 20 Of the act Of June a. 1874 the gloves could not
be legally declared forfeited TO the Government At the
close of his argument Mr Stanley asked the Court to
charge substantially follows The gloves were not
landed without permit within the meaning OF section
2s72 of the Revised Statutes. landing by O mere
stranger without the knowledge Of the claim
ant u not such landing will authorize forfeiture
OF the goods There Is Federal law which forfets
imported goods by reason Of the offer of bribe
70 officer Of tho customs to omit
TO perform his duty In respect to the goods.
The jury must consider tho question Of intent as
separate and dstinct matter In compliance with sec
ton 10 Of she Act OF June a. 1874 On the question Of
intent, the 0nus probandi 10 with the Government.
That Is. the Government. before 1t recover. must
prove that the claimant landed the gloves with the
tent to defraud."


Assistant United States District Attorney Smith, who
represented the Government claimed that the evidence
showed that the gloves did not appear upon the ships
manifest; that they landed without permit that


bribe was offered to allow them TO 30 landed FREQ Of
duty and that all Of Lewys acts concerning the gloves
clearly prove that he brought them into this port with
tho premeditated and deliberate intent dsraud the
revenue Counsel therefore insisted that they should
be declared forfeited to tho Government At the
tho Court 70 charge Substantially as follows
Tho goves having been landed without permit. the
intent 70 deirand the reyenuei The intent to defrsud
and the jury shall and that Levy knowing the goods
u question 70 bc merchandise took proper steps TO
inform tho officer OF that fact ana goods TO be
landed they at liberty nd that Lswy caused such
landing. IL the jury find that the gloves landed
with intent 70 defraud hAs reveluc. they wll Ind
Year: 1874

1t is stated that u. 8. District Attor


ney Schofo.d has sent his resignation or
to Washington, at the request Of Sena


tor ingalls,. If this is the case, he is
probably guilty Of tho charges made
against him, and is afraid of an investi.
CATION. We are afraid that it will have
to be said that "grave mistake " as
made in the appointment of Scho6eld.' .
Why is il that Kansas must have lit
tie corruption upon the tapis every
few months? Are all our public men
thieves and rascaIs! 1t was loss than a
year ago that the newspapers were Tell
ing good things of this same Schofcld.
If he had then any reputation for dis
honesty, it was not made public. Eli
ther some Of our Kansas men are woful-
ly and foully misrcpresentcd, or there is
a bad set of them in power which
should be upset and cast TO the lowest
depths at the first opportunity. Ifthere
are liars abroad, who care nothing for
the reputation of the State, nor for
themselves, they should be whipped and
lasheJ by public sentiment until they
arc heartily induced to stop their lying.
We have had enough of the cry Of cor
ruption and want TO strike new tune.
Year: 1874

HUMAN HAIR, HUMAN HAIR, AT E. l.. GRAN
GERS, 627 BROAD STREET, would respectfully
to call the attention Of the ladies to lot of air
have just received, containing two hundred pounds,
The cheapest ever imported into Richmond; and l
VIII for the next thirty days give the greatest in
dueements ever offered TO ladies fnneed of human
hair goods. With many thanks to my customers
Tor their most liberal encouragement since my
starting the manufacturing of human hair goods,
Will at all times exert myself to secure such bar
gains as will enable sell human hair goods at
prices unheard of before In this city.
Year: 1874

VISIT OF OBJ. FELLOWS FROM WASHINGTON.
The general committee Of the lodges Of Odd
Fellows of this city held meeting Satur-
day, when they were officially informed that
visit will be made by the Encampment
branch of the Order of Odd,Fellows Of
Washington, D. c., to the Order In this city
on the 22d instant; whereupon it was de-
termined that there should be general
turnout of the Order on that occasion, and
that the visiting brethren should be enter
tanned with banquet.
Year: 1874

" God bless you." Then he had lain
quietly back, with his fading eyes upon
that glimpse of heaven beyond the lat
tice window, and had died quietly at
midnight.


What? The money? Don't ask me
what became of the money. Over those
five notes 1 worried myself at last into
the most serious brain fever that ever
man came back from into life again.
They were gone. No trace could ever
find of my old pocket-book, though L
made it well known that the numbers
of the notes had been taken. When 1
had offered ESQ reward, and that did
not bring them, 1 doubled it and offer
ed 910O. Who would care to keep them
then? Who would keep five notes which
were stopped, when they could receive
five available ones OF equal value by
only bringing the worthless old pocket
book to meP But ns one brought it,
and then I advertised anew, offering
e150 reward for those five eco notes.
Of course, I tried to make out that it
was the old pocket-book set the value
on, but, after AL, I didn't much care
who had the laugh against me if I could
only set this matter straight, and give
it an air of daylight reality. But no
that never brought them.


Another cock-fght? A.? No, I never saw
another cock-fight. Don't ask me any
more. It's five-and-thirty years ago
LET IL ract
Year: 1874

The propensity to make the best of
things is generally found in combina-
ton with those smaller virtues which
are more annoying to ones neighbors
than most vices. The man who rises at
five every morning, who always ties up
his letters with red tape, and who is
convinced Of the great truth that it is
better to be half an hour too early than
half a minute too late, is frequently
given to making the best of things.
The duty of doing so is a moral maxim
just big enough for him to understand.
He probably reflects upon it in the early
morning at the time when the cold bath
is bringing out that glow, physical and
moral, which makes him an offence to
all weaker vessels during the rest of
the day.


The ruddy, iovial person who gets
himself up after the country-gentleman
type, or the more unctious variety of
popular preacher, is apt to be perspiring
this doctrine at every pore. 1t is a
pleasure to him to meet somebody in
distress upon whom he may discharge
boisterous comfort through his favorite
aphorism, as a fire-engine sends cold
water through hose. II he acquires
. some dim consciousness of the fact that
his kind exhortations sound like bitter
mockery to his victims, it only increases
his sense of virtue. They cannot COM
fort themselves under the loss of wife
by the reflection that they still have
several first cousins and money enough
to pay for handsome monument That
only proves that they have not studied
so we'll as he the great art of properly
directing their sentiments. For of
course he will deny in the most pathetic
manner that he would ever advise any
thing like self-deceit. He does not
avowedly ask a sufferer to profess that q
toothache is rather a pleasant distrac-
ton than otherwise; he only recon-
mends him to fix his attention upon his
great toe or some other remote part of
his body which may appear to be enjoy
ing good health.


And, in fact, there are some people
so enviably constituted that a small
pleasant object elevates them more than
great unpleasant object depresses
them. They are people, so to speak, of
small specific gravity, who cannot be
submerged without heavy burden of
melancholy. The person who makes
the best of things processes to be of
this temperament. 1t is not, he would
have you believe, that he does not SYM
pathize with grief, but that his consti-
tutional buoyancy makes sympathy
with him compatible with exhilaration !;
he does not deny the existence of evils,
but the smallest grain of good makes
him happy, just as half glass of wine
makes some men drunk. There are, we
say, such people as these-men, if we
may coin a word, easily intoxicable.
But we are inclined, as a rule, to a We
hement suspicion in both cases. The
man who is upset by the first glass has
generally had number of glasses be-
fore, and the man who makes the best
of things is generally helped to be Sc
rene either by the absence of strong
feeling or by the want of courage to
look at the worst.
Year: 1874

Many of our readers, says the New
York Evening Post, may remember the
little piece of verse in which . company
of British officers in the Indian service
are represented as getting together, du-
ring an unusually violent epidemic of
cholera, and singing song, the chorus
of which, as we remember it, ran thus: ::


Here's health to the dead already,


And health to the next to de-"


An incident is reported to have oc-
Cured in Memphis, which indicates the
existence in that city of similar dis
position to make a jest of death. A
man, some days i'll with the yellow
fever, perceived one day that the disease
had taken fatal turn. Remarking that
he was going to die, and that he was
determined to die happy, he thereupon
drank large quantity of brandy, and
died in the middle of the fit of drunk
enness which was thus produced.


However horrible such a scene may
be, it must be confessed that it is not
unnatural. Few men are able to main
tain an Indifferent bearing when they
are forced to keep still and watch the
constant and irresistible approach of
death. One may face the danger of a
desperate charge on battlefield with
comparative calmness, because there is
something to do. But to lie still and
wait for death to make an end of one
requires philosophical courage such
as few men possess. The poor man who
got drunk in order "to die happy" was
probably too frightened to be fully re-
sponsible for what he did; but his con-
duct shows under what tremendous
strain human life is maintained in those
districts of country where the yellow
fever has been raging for the last few
weeks.
Year: 1874

A famous Western trotting. horse,
Ripon Boy, lately died from hydro
phobia.~ The first suspicion that any
thing was the matter with the horse was
when the groom took him to water.
He drank sparingly, and at each attempt
to drink thereafter would tremble in
every limb. The horse allowed his
keeper to approach, but exhibited great
vice when he attempted to touch him.
He supposed that the horse might have
been poisoned by eating sumac with
the hay. After watching the symptoms
of the animal for few moments, his
owner pronounced them those of hy-
drophobia. Water was several times
offered the horse, but when he under
took to drink he was seized with spasms,
followed by extreme viciousness. The
doctor says the actions of the horse
were terrible to behold. He would rub
his head against the stall so forcibly as
to knock out his upper teeth, and finally
fracture his jaw. Finding that the life
of the horse could not be saved, Mr..
Van Brunt ordered the stall to be
boarded up so as to prevent him from
doing any mischief, when death ended
his misery,
Year: 1874

An Indian bear boy has been on ex-
hibition in San Francisco, and the
papers have discovered that the mon
strosity is case of cruelty. The bear
boy is a born idiot, and that is about
all there is unnatural about him. His
points of resemblance to a bear have
been stimulated by barbarous cruelty.


His keepers story is that his mother
was frightened by a bear before his
birth. This could scarcely have broken
his ankles and cut the tendons behind,
so that the feet bend beneath the legs,
their upper portion touching the shins
and rendering it impossible for their
owner to stand upright. The inference
is that the Indian boy has been cut and
slashed and hewed into rude imitation
of an animal going on all-fours. His
idiocy aided the transformation and


renders him valuable as show. The
matter was brought before the courts
through the efforts of humanitarian,
and the boy was sent to the alms-house.
Year: 1874

At this season of the year every horse
should be shod. A great many horses
are ruined every winter by the careless
ness of owners. Slipping around on
the ice will soon render horse totally
worthless. It is the meanest kind of
cruelty as well as q criminal extrava-
gance to work smooth horse in win
ter. There is no excuse for this neglect,
and man who will not see that his
horse is properly shod ought to be
compelled to go with bare feet in mid
winter. The horse, of all animals, de-
serves the kindest treatment at the
hands of man, and there is something
radically wrong about the head or heart
of man who neglects or abuses his
horse. The practice of letting a horse
stand in q snow-storm, without O
blanket, is cruel in the extreme,
Year: 1874

Autumn is dying, winter is come.
Dead leaves are flying, the rivers are dumb;
The winds like knife ones fingers grow


numb
There is snow on the mountains, ice in the


pond.


Winter is with us, but spring is beyond.
The old year is dying, its glory is dead;
The days are all flying, their brightness has


fled;
The bushes grow bare as the berries grow red !;
There is snow on the mountains, ice in the


pond.


The old year is dying, the new is beyond.
We are all growing old, and life slips away;
There is bare time for work, and still less for


play,
Though we think we grow wiser the longer we


stay;
But there's life in us yet no need to de-


spond.
This world wakes old, but there's heaven


beyond
Year: 1874

A Queensland paper gives the follow
ing account: Early in April boy, aged
about fifteen years, the son of Mr.. Por-
ter of Euri Creek, was dragged by an
alligator into a water-hole close by his
fathers house. 1t appears that this boy
and his elder brother had been engaged
in getting pigs into stye, and that the
poor lad VINO is gone went into the edge
of the water.hole to wash green hide
rope which they had been using with the
pigs. While he was SO engaged his lit
tie sister, who was sitting on the bank
near by, saw the alligator seize the boy
by the leg and drag him under water.
She gave the alarm, but it was, ofcourse,
too late the brute had dragged the boy
down to the bottom, and nothing more
was seen of him for several days, when
leg and a portion of his clothing foated
to the surface. A few days later the
same paper thus records the destruction
of the alligator. The brute was over
twelve feet long, and of very great age,
probably over one hundred years. This
was indicated by the condition of his
monstrous teeth, many of which we're
gone altogether, and the remainder much
worn. He also showed scars and severe
marks of former battles, having lost
considerable portion of one side of his
snout, probably bitten off by some rival
alligator Inside the stomach was found
the skull and some of the bones of the
boy. Among the bones we're some of the
vertebra, already much worn by the ac-
ton of the stomach, and also softened,
probably by the gastric juice.
Year: 1874

The recent execution Of negro named
BLY, was attended with a peculiar exhi-
bition of feeling on the part of the faith
er and family of the man whom the
prisoner had been found guilty Of MUIR
dering. The father. Mr.. Carmichael,
gray headed but robust old fellow,
watched the trial like hawk, saw the
murderer of his son convicted, and hired
an extra guard at his own expense. In
the four weeks of waiting he came from
his home, forty miles away, once every
week to see that the murderer had not
tampered with his chains, and on the
day of execution he came to the gallows
with his whole family. He came in q
buggy with his wife, while his son-in-law
drove the three daughters in . rocka-
way. They drove up in front of the
scaffold and took look at it; then went
away to their stopping place. The next
that was seen of them was when an open
ing was made in the crowd to let the
crowd pass into the scaffold. The old
man Carmichael and his family came
marching in ahead of the guard, and
took their seats almost Immediately un-
der the scaffold, the old man with
Winchester rifle in his hands. When
the negro was brought out, Carmichael
cooked his gun and sat withI his eyes
fixed upon him. When the drop fell,
old man Carmichael instinctively grasp
ed his gun and rose out of his seat; but
there was no breaking of the rope. no
accident of any kind, and the vengeance
of the law and the still keener vengeance
of the Carmichaels was satisfied. When
the body was taken down and put into
the coffin, the old man came and claimed
the hangman's knot, which was given
him. He stood around the streets for
several hours with it in his hand, and
then started for home.
Year: 1874

A good story is told of the students of
an institute which is located in the New
England states. A year or two since,
just before Lent, the principal of the
school leetured the boys upon the pro-
priety of abstaining from some accus-
toned article of diet during Lent, and
desired each one to write the nsmeo of the
article upon a slip of paper, and hand
them to him the next morning at the
opening of the school. The papers were
banded in, and upon every one was writ
ten the significant word HASH"
Year: 1874

An inquisitive chap stepped into a
marble shop the other day, where Smith
was about completing the sculpture of a
lamb. did you cut out that animal p
asked the interrogation point. "Oh,
no, said Smith, the lamb has been
there all the time only took the mar
hle from around him=that's all
Year: 1874

some other Presidents have boom that he actually lob
bied for an increase Of salary There those who
ought To know whereof they affirm who affirm that tho
strange power which Massachusetts Mephstophees
has been lately manfestng the neighborhood Of the
White House due to services rendered In that salary
business, which now claim their reward. We know
nothing about the truth fasehood of these charges


We almost take 1t Tor granted that they fase-but
We do know that Is disgraoefu that things should
have come to such pass that there Is any possibility
for snch charges TO be made. And do know that 1t Ia
quite time Tor the Christian OF the land to enter
upon an inquston Of these matters with reference to
their own future duty the polls and to take OF
them there with sternness hitherto unused-[ Boston
COugregaJoualyt.
Year: 1874




The results at which it arrived after so much
labor and trouble meager. The churches that be-
Meyed in stringent will believe still; while
those who believe larger liberty will find nothing
derived from the Word OF Godthe only final authority
nothing from reasons gwen by the Council nothing
from Of antiquity to prevent their accepting
and administration in the local church
God by His spirit may show 10 them TO be Wise and
necessary. No Council bind Congregational
churches hand ana foot and deny TO them the liberty
Of growth toward methods OF administration suited
TO the day and the land in which we live.
Plymouth Church will bear with meekness, we
believe, the criticisms and Judgments which have
been expressed by the Council; aud we trust that
the members OF the Council also will accept in spirit OF
meekness and candor those criticisms and judgments 10
which they themselves unQuestionably 10 be sub
tected the future. The Council takes pleasure in
believing that Plymouth Church will not repeat in the
future the which il is conceived to have taken in
the past. II gives the other band, pleasure 10
believe that the experience OF these brethren In Brook
lyn such discourage all further attempts ike
that In which they were entsnged. They narrowly
escaped nfictng upon the CODgre gational churches
lrreparsbe injury and they would doubtless now con-
fess individuals, what desre, i0r the sake o the
Congregational polty TO generally acknowledged
that the hazardous experiment of Disgusting an pdrte
council under another order to get rid or whole
some safeguards ought never TO be repeated.
Year: 1874

The result, we frankly say, would have
suited u.s. would members Of the Council bet
ter il IL had been little more definite in Its mention or
the period during which these churches shall he held
morally bound to delay final action i'll case OF the con-
tinued development Of uncongreGatonal practice by
the Plymouth Church As it is, understand that TO
be left wholly to the Christion discretion OF these
churches-a discretion which we should hope would be
exercised by them should such action ever be called
for in exercise OF conspicuous Orbearance and gem
teness. 1t is much more nestly, however, 10 be
hoped that the occasion for such exercise ay never
aris