smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1874

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ING RAILWAY TRAIN.


Patrick Macarthur, met with thrilling
adventure about six miles east of the juno.
'ioD Thursday night He is a labo.ipg
man. and having no money. he started to
walk Gown on the railroad track, aud had
nearly completed his journey when the ad-
venture befel him. He lay by during the
heat of the day Wednesday, and was walk
Ing in the evening to make it up. While
crossing the tracks at a switch he got his
foot caught fast in C. frog" He had on
stout boot, and it fitted so closely over
the instep that he could not draw his foot
out. In fact, the boot was wedged in the
frog" so closely that the mans toes we're
severely pinched. He pulled this way and
that, wrenchcd and twisted, but the frog"
held the foot like wise. ....


AT length he could hardly move his leg
for the pain. and he found that be must be
run over by the next passing train, or
make some one understand his situation.
lie shouted himself hoarsc, but no one
came. After the man had been a, prison.
or for upward of aD hour, he heard the
whistle of a down freight train. 1t was
yet long'way off, and he had little
time to think. He had q matchbox in
his pocket, papers in his bundle, and the
idea came to him to signal the train.
Tearing the paper off his bundle and get
ting at number of letters, he rolled them
into heap, and for fear that tho fame
wolld die out too suddenly, he added two
flannel shirts from his bundle. The bun
die was then made fast to the end of his
walking-stick. matches produced, and he
waited until the head light OF the locomo-
tive should appear up the track.


1t finally greeted his vision, looking like
bright white star, as it glistened afar up
the track. The rumble of the train grew
louder, the star grew larger and brighter.
He struck his match. The fame blazed
up brightly, but ashe moved it toward the
bundle little gust of wind blew it out.
Was there time yet? Up the track he
heard the thunder Of hundred heavy
wheels, and the great light of the locomo-
tive gared at him like the fiery eye of
some wild beast. Another match, An in
slant Of fear and doubt, and then the pa.
per bazcd up and curled over and around
the bundle and swayed right and left with
the night wind. He waved the signal of
fire back and forth, and just when he was
ready to believe that death under the
wheels was certain, he heard the whistle
tor down brakes.


He could hear tho wheels grinding ard
groaning, the hiss OF the steam as the en-
gineer threw back his lever, and then the
heavy iron came to u stop with the great
light shining down upon him, paling his
dying signal. He was saved, but the en-
glne had only thirty feet moro to 60 TO
crush him. The fireman came forward,
got crowbar and released him. and he
was taken back to the caboosc. The train
men were very kind to him. and yester.
day he found acquaintance here who ar
ranged for bis board until he will be able
to work. His foot is badly swellcd and
very tender. and it will be several days
before he will be able to walk.
Year: 1874




He did, and his store was soon stocked with
the best goods in the market There are many
iu this city who remember the circumstance
and the man. He died many years since, aud
left fortune s300,00O So much for polite
ness, SO much for civility, and SO much for
treating one S elders with the Difference due to
age, 10 whatever garb they are clothed
Year: 1874

Concerning the 100000 libel suit which ssna-
tor Chandler has brought against 1t, the Detroit
Free Press says:


I'VE propose to keep our temper, advise the
people as best we can what of good or evil their
servants in public life are doing, and VIXEN the
Senator's libel suit comes off to be ready with
our witnesses.
Year: 1874

The radical county OonSenSton
Il called to meet at New Castle tomorrow. It
should be attended by equal numbers of whites
and blacks; and to be up with the main feature
of the platforms and published purposes Of that
party the officers of the meeting and the commit
tees should all be composed of an equal number
Of each color; and further, the chairmanship Of
the committees should be equally divided, one
half given to the black and one-halr to the white
men Of the party 1t boasts of its desire to make
the negro the equal OF the white In citizenship,
and to be consistent with Its proposed purpose it
cannot do otherwise than thus share the official
positions.


This course recommends itself to that party
from the fact that about one-half its votes are
cast BY the negroes The negroes themselves
have complained that they were put of with
promises, and in q meeting held in this city few
days since resolved that they would be held BY
promises no longer. And If such is their deter
mination Of course they will be expected TO be on
hand 10 force tomorrow to see that their race is
treated fairly and equally at the opening of the
campaign.
Year: 1874

Mr.. Foster has made some inter-
esting experiments on dogs and
pigeons, which show that animals
suffer and die when inorganic salts
are altogether absent from their
food although the other nutritive
constituents may be abundant. In
all the animals tried there was a
condition of muscular weakness,
tremor, and general exhaustion.
In the dog the muscles of the pos
terror extremities, from the second
week of the experiment onward,
gradually assumed paralytic
character, as when the function of
the spinal cord is;weakened. The
activity Of the cerebrum was also
impaired, as was evident from the
bluntness of the senses and apathy
of the animal. Later on, increased
excitability often appeared; the
dogs were terrified at any quick
motion; one had a brief attack Of
madness, but soon crouched down
trembling and growing. On being
taken out, it ran forward and
knocked its head violently agains,
a wall. After the animals had
been deprived Of salts for some
time, the juices of the intestine
canal either lost their digestive
power or were not secreted in prop
er quantity, and nutrition was thu:
interferred with, Death took place
however, from the alterations in the
nervous system, before there hac
been time for it to occur from in
anition. The quantity of salt


necessary to life il smaller than
generally supposed, but the exac


amount required is still to be de


termined,
Year: 1874

A lady, returning from an un-
profitable visit to church last Sun
day, declared that "when she saw
the shawis Of those Smiths, and
then thought of the things her own
girls had to wear, ifit wasn't for
the consolation of religion she did
not know what she should do.
Year: 1874

At this city last week young
lady entered Il drug store lately and
wanted to see the papers for weak
back, and the intelligent clerk
showed roll of sticking plaster.
Look her John, that is heavy.
Year: 1874

The greatest magicians of the
ago are the papermakers they
transform the beggar's rags into
sheets for editors to lie on, says a
wag.


Lately a Western young lady had
occasion to inform young man that
her hand was not a lemon He
wanted a punch and had the other
ingredients.
Year: 1874

No victory has been so cheering to the
friends Of the Democratic cause in all
parts OF the State as that which our
friends achieved in this city on Tuesday.
We trust, however that they will net be
misled by it. The enemy is hard at work
and will spare no effort to unite his bro
ken and demoralized forces for the great
contest should they be allowed to see
the least hope for success through inert
ness, apathy or divisions in our ranks.
With prudence and energy the victory
in November for the white mans cause
will be complete. But to make it GER
tain and sure every Democrat is expect
I'd to render all his aid, and spare no eff
fort to secure harmonious action. No
one who holds our cause sacred can now
refuse this. Let us present a united
firm and solid front to the black tide Of
corruption that threatens to engulph the
State. and thus turn it aside once NOR,
and forever
Year: 1874

For every breach of the laws Of health tha
we commit the stomach inaicts n penalty
Headache. biliousness. nervous tremors, con-
stipation. collie. heartburn nausea. debility
and mental depression are only few of the
punishments which an outraged stomach is
capable of imposing upon US. To bring back
this vengeful organ to its normal condition
to plaeate. invigorate and regulate it-there
is nothing in the wide world SO potent as II


course of Hostetter's Stomach Ditters. I'm


der the operation of this benifcent vegetable


corrective and tonic. the gastric juice beeom es


pure and healthful solvent and resumes its


natural flow. The effect is the same on the
of the body. and the final result is the re-
movai of every painful or unpleasant symp-
tom occasioned by the rebellious action of the
digestive organ, sepSto10
Year: 1874

The usual September county meeting
will he held in the court room at New
Castle on next Saturday afternoon at 9
o'clock.


The convention will meet AT | o'clock
in one of the upper rooms Of the Court
House-the Grand Jury or Petit Jury
room-and while they are transacting
their business the county meeting will
be addressed by several gentlemen of
the Democratic Party whom all will be
pleased to hear speak upon important
national and State questions


JOHN P. COCHRAN, ESQ, our candidate
for Governor, will be present; but will
not preside. assigning that duty to one
Of the Vice Presidents.


Hon. JAMES WILLIAMS, our candidate
for Representative in Congress, from Kent
county, will also be present and may
address the meeting.


SENATOR BAYARD, We are authorized
to say, will be present and address his
constituents on the Importance Of the
present contest in this State, and its
bearing upon the question of local self
government, and the necessity there is
for Representative in the Lower House
Of Congress who will not misrepresent
the opinions of the people of our State
on the most vital questions of social pol
ity.


Other gentlemen may also be present
and speak, but we are not authorized to
mention any other names 1t is hoped
that the meeting will be large. and an
invitation is extended to all of our fel.
low citizens who feel deep interest in
determining the future attitude Of Della
ware; whether she shall be classed Will
the States whose governments shall bt
continued in the hands of the post crit,
Of the white inhabitants OF pass frou
them partially into the hands of tn,
posterity of the negroes. This question
is paramount to all others in our Stat
at this time. The other questions relat
ing to the State tax and State debt, al
OF minor Importance since, happily 70
us, our State affairs rest in such an envi
able condition that we may point witt
eKultant pride to the fact that our peo
pie have reduced the State debt nearl
100000, and the State Treasurer is no,
Offering to pay off about 100000 more @
our bonds. We would be glad to wei
come hundreds of heretofore Republ
cans at our meeting on Saturday, hopin
that they see and feel the Importance c
keeping the government of our dear lii
tie State from the hands of the spoiler.
If we can tide over another campaig
we may rest assured that the people wi
he sick of tho horrible fanaticisms grow
ing out of the war. In our own city tn
evil is fast curing itself; and the e,
tremists are beginning to feel and 81
the errors that have flown from the
past course here, and errors that woul
produce similar or worse evils were IL
Radicals allowed to get control of ii


state and County governments.
Year: 1874

GROWING SMALL BY DEGREES. Re
publican says it is the only Republican
paper in Wilmington now. This may
show how odious the party has grown
within Il few months; since within that
time there were four or five Republican
papers.
Year: 1874

his father heard him say Gracious God,
make room for another little chitd IN Heap-
en-. No sound was heard after this, and
his father spoke to him soon afterwards;
he received no answer, but found his
child dead"


Was there ever anything sadder than
that? The printed letters grew dim and
melted into each other as tried to read
them again. | glanced across the table
at Charley and Talbot, eating their
breakf fast, with the slanted sunlight from
the window turning their curls into real
gold, and / had not the heart to tell them
what had happened.


OF ali the prayers that hoated up to
heaven, that Saturday night, from the.
bedsides OF sorrowful men and women,
or from the cots of happy children, what
accents could have fallen more piteously
and tenderly upon the ear of a listening
angel than the prayer of little James
Speaightl


He knew he was dying. The faith he
had learned, perhaps while running at
his mothers side, long ago, in some green
English lane, came to him then. He
remembered it was Christ who said "suf-
fer little children to come unto me" and
the beautiful prayer rose to his lips !:
Gracious God, make room for another
little child in Heaven"


folded up the newspaper silently, and
throughout the day | did not speak be-
fore the boys of the little violinist's
death but when the time came for our
customary chat in the nursery, l told the
story to Charley and Talbot l do not
think they understood it very we'll, and
still less did they understand why ling
cred so much longer than usual by their
bedside that Sunday night.


AS / sat there IN the dimly lighted
room, it seemed to me that could hear,
in the pauses of the winter wind, family
and doubtfulIy somewhere in the dis
tance, the sound of the little violin.
All, that little violin Ia cherished
relic now. Perhaps it plays soft, plain
tive airs all by itself, in the place where
it is kept, missing the touch of the baby
fingers which used to waken it into life
st. Nicholas for Aprl.
Year: 1874

GIRL LoAFERs.-When, girls are
taught at the mothers knee, at the home
freside, in school, and in society, that it
is disgraceful for them to be loafers as it
is for their brothers, we shall have girls
demanding and getting that thorough
ness of mental and technical training,
which is needed in the successful pur-
suit of any employment, and not before.
We shall have a standard then for schol-
arship, and women will look upon edu-
cation as something better than mental
rufies and furbelows, or as a mere means
of enabling them to support themselves
in genteel independence until they can
marry, and we shall hear no more lack
of enjoyment for women.
Year: 1874

BANG.-Almost every boy who goes
cunning, if he can find nothing that he
wants to bang away at, considers il the
next best thing to kill few woodpeck-
ers. They look so funny. wrong end up
on the side of tree, bobbing and
whacking around the loose bark, that the
temptation is strong, and the poor, jolly
hammerer has no friends-so bang =
and down he comes, and he is given to
the dog to play with and tear to pieces.
That poor little bird, if over year old,
has killed and eaten many hundred thou
sands of bugs, Larvae, in the form of
grubs and worms, and aim st every one
of a kind which is injurious to vegeta.
ton. The cat-bird, one of our finest
singers, and bird that is always socia-
BILE, if ever permitted to be so, eats
cherry occasionally, and of course he
must be banished or suffer death. He
pays a better price for every cherry he
eats than any fruits ever would dare de-
mand in the markets in the worms he
destroys, and throws in a complete bird
opera several times a day in the bargain.
St. Nicholas
Year: 1874

TACT IN LITTLE KINDNEssEs.-I
spent few days ON steamboat journey
last spring, and in the evening the pas
sengers would gather in the cabins, and
each contributing something to the gen.
eral entertainment, we had very pleasant
times. One young man gave recitation
not much of piece, perhaps--one of
the old time school boy declamations-
and in the midst of it he forgot how it
went, got confused and broke down, feel
ing immensely mortified. But one of
the eladies sitting near him spoke. "Thank
you for that piece. 1t was particularly
pleasant to me to be reminded of it, for
| used to hear it years ago, and it brings
to my mind the pleasant old times when
[ went to the district school in the coun-
try, But have not heard it, nor thought
of it, for long time" The mans en-
barrassment was half taken away by
such thoughtful acknowledgment that
he had given pleasure by his attempt,
and the lady proved herself "real
lady," but unfortunately, nine out Of ten
would not have thought to say anything
of the kind.


If the man who happens to sit on the
same seat with you in the cars has not
the morning paper, and you have, don't
read it through and put it in your pock-
ct, but offer it to your neighbor. And,
in offering kindness, if you can put it
into shape of asking one, SO much the
pIeasanter. A lady said to me: hate
to carry round subscription paper, and
go begging, but when | do go, there is


just one man / like to go to. Mr.. A.
always thanks me for coming. just as
though / had done him favor by giving
him a chance to subscribe. Sometimes
he says he can't give me anything, but
he always thanks me for coming" How
easy for Mr.. A.. to do so yet, in one
point at least, it makes him regarded as
the most agreeable person she knows.


The impressions left by these little
things lasts SO long, too. / remember
we'll how an old gentleman, a stranger to
me, gave me luscious pear one day,
when | was an errand boy in Boston.
He slipped it through the wire-g grating to
me without saying a word. Why the
thing has been pleasure to me every
time have thought of it, all these years.
Year: 1874

A PREMoNITroN OF DEATHS. M.
Cooper of Stockbridge, who died on Fri
day night. had a remarkable PRESENT.
ment that his death was near. He was
an active, robust and healthy man, but
he had said to several persons that he
should never live to see his forty fourth
birthday. He was forty-three in Janu-
ary. His father and grandfather had
died at forty-three, but of diseases of
which he showed no symptoms, yet his
conviction that he should not survive the
year was so strong that he had been
making various arrangements of prop
erty, etc, with reference to that impress
sion. A few weeks before his death,
when at work with his son on the noun
tain, he had a slight attack of illness,
but it soon passed off, and he enjoined it
upon his son to make no mention of the
occurrence at home. On Friday he rose
in his usual health, attended an auction
in Glendale, in the forenoon, was about
at the stores on Stockbridge Plain in the
afternoon, procured a check at the bank
there, for the payment of a life insurance
policy, went home and retired early, but
to all appearances well. He soon had
occasion to get up to look to one of the
children and while standing by his own
bedside, was seized with a sort of inter
nal distress, lay down, and in less than
an hour was dead.-Springfeld, Mass,
Union
Year: 1874

The following record will show the changes In
the temperature during the past twentyfour hours,
In comparison with tho corresponding date OF last
year, as recorded at Hndnuts pharmacy, HERALD
Building, New York
Year: 1874

In attacking Irun the Carlists are playing q
bold game, but one which in the presence of a
resolute and skilful enemy might expose their
cause to complete overthrow. We learn from
private sources that though the position of
the Carlists is far from desperate, there
exists great deal of want of confidence
among the supporters of the Pretender. Sus-
picion of treason seems to be pretty generally
entertained, and were it not tor the incom-
prehensible stupidity Of the so-called generals
commanding the Madrid forces Carlism
would long since have ceased to be national
danger. But the generals commissioned by
the Madrid government display more talent
in the manufacture Of high sounding de-
spatches than in carrying out the operations
Of campaign. Since the death OF General
Concha no one appears TO comprehend that
the first and vital necessity of the campaign is
the recapture OF Estella Through sheer in
capacity it was allowed to fall into the hands.
of the Carlists at time when they were
wholly unprovided with artillery. By nature
it is one of the strongest positions in Europe,
but the carrying out of General Concha's
plan of operations would force the Carlists
to abandon the town or be caught like mice in
a trap Instead Of adopting this effective
means Of dealing with Carlism the govern
ment generals fritter away the lives Of their
men in endless skirmishes, which have not the
slightest effect on the campaign. Should the
Carllsts succeed in capturing Irun they would
have free access, not alone to the French
frontier, but also to the sea. We have
they maintain themselves in positions once
acquired, and should they succeed in their
new attempt we might look forward to on in
definite prolongation Of the war. At present
the forces OF Don Carlos are we'll furnished
with field artillery, having supplied them
selves since the battle of Abarzuza with
some forty-eight steel cannon and sixteen
brass rided field pieces. The position of Don
Carlos is therefore strong one, and, judging
by what his partisans have accomplished by
their courage and indomitable pluck, it would
be rash to prophesy On early termination of
the struggle. 1t even looks as if the North
ern Spaniards, or, as they proudly call them
selves, the true Spaniards, might again sweep
down and impose their will o., the less vigor-
Gus inhabitants of the South. There is some
thing remarkably chivalrous in the untiring
devotion of these Carlist raountaineers to the
cause of their chief which must command
the admiration even of those who would look
on the triumph of their cause as a misfortune
for Spain and check to the development of
human liberty.
Year: 1874

think it prudent to wait and sea how Mr..
Tilden discharges his duties as Governor be-
fore accepting his fine professions as payment.
He will have the earnest moral support of the
whole community in attempts to raise the
tone Of official lite but Mr. Tilden. who is
no neophyte. has had too much experience to
expect his fellow citizens to set much value
on fine words until they are justified by
performance


But it must be conceded that his advice to
the democratic party is excellent The party
is in great danger, in the intoxication of sud
den success, Of hurrying into extravagant re-
action and enabling its opponents to recover
all they have lost. 1t is q. proof Of Mr.. Til
den's sagacity and of the solidity of his judg-
ment that even in the flush of victory, which
turns weaker heads and sets shallow demo-
Gratis all agog in the elation Of success, he
preserves his mental equipoise and sees that
these elections can have no permanent value
unless the democratic party frankly accepts
the results Of the war and pursues policy in
which honest republicans can unite. 1t will
be satisfaction to the steady part Of the
community to see that Mr.. Tllden keeps his
mental balance under circumstances which
would have hurried weaker men into foolish
political gush and spread-eagle exultation. If
the democratic party shall have the wisdom
to make wise use of victory it will easily
gain possession Of the national government