smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1874

How often we are provoked 10y q stub
born chap we may oycrtake on pike
thrown up high so that we cannot get 10y
to find himporsstently determined not tt
get out of the way with his team, nor tC
give an inch for our accommodation ! On
to find two such fellows, whose teams
have met. sitting on their wagons,
blocking the road, so that to get by
there is no way for it but to take the
ditch.


If there is no law on the subject, one
would think that men of common sense
would know better than to treat Others
with such incivility; but the law defining
the duties Of travellers on the highway
when meeting or passing others, is us
explicit as it is simple and comprehen-
sive


The great leading rule is, that no one
has the right to be in the middle Of the
road, except when 40 other person is
present to claim his right to the use of
one-half the highway: which claim he
has precisely the same right to assert
when travelling in the same direction,
that he has when he meets another
This is the law Of every State of the
Union, and, SO far IS we are informed,
of every civilized country; and all per-
sons violating it are liable for all DANA
ges resulting from their conduct.


When teams meet, the American law
is that each turning to the right, shall
give half the road, The custom and
the law of England require teams to
turn to the left as expressed in an old
dosSerel


The rule Of the road is paradox quite;


In riding or driving alone,


II YOU keep to the itt vOi;lrc sure to gO riJht,


Ifyou keep to the iight You go cro"y.


In passing, the party is required to
turn to the left, so rs to allow the per-
son in the rear who is travelling ut Il
more rapid pace to pass on his right


Where teams approach at right angles,
or interscctinS roads, it is the duty of
the party who, by turning to the right
would pass to the rear of the other team,
to pull up, and allow the other to pass.


In wide streets in towns and cities
these general principles should be OBJ
served, though from the necessities of
the case parties are less strict in keep
ing on the proper side of the street +,
being frequently obliged, with proper
care for the rights of others, to pass to
the other side to avoid q crowd or other
obstruction.


A person with light vehicle meeting
or desiring to pass heavy-laden team,
especially if the latteris going up hill,
will generally turn out, without requir-
ing the man with the loaded wagon to
give half the road; but the law imposes
no such obligation in any case, and
under all circumstances requires each
party to give half the road, unless by
accident or some obstruction it is found
impossible to do so.


If party happens to be in the wrong
place in the road or street, party
coming in collision with him is not en-
titled to damages, if, by the use of Or
dinary and reasonable diligence, he
could have avoided it.-NutionM lire
Stock journal.
Year: 1874

l said to her, Belle Granger has run
away with my Sun this morning."


"And all Myrtleville has been busy
with the scandal Mrs. Sawyer manufac-
tured Of your remark" cried Mr.. Grain
ger. II can only hope she will be as
active in contradicting as she was in
circulating it.


But to this day Mrs. Sawyer persists
in declaring that she can't see where
she was to blame, after all. Anybody,
she is quite sure, might have made the
same mistake on the same grounds.


Pretty Susie was not left long in
doubt, for Fred, having drawn from
Mrs. Sawyer the confession that she
" thought it duty to tell the Bel
knaps the first ones he hurried over to
his betrothed wife to vent his indigna-
ton against all tattlers and mischief
makers, and very soon Mr.. and Mrs.
oeymour's wedding cards put the final
contradiction to the Myrtleville scandal.
WATER AS FUEL.-A large number of
citizens recently visited, by invitation, O
brass foundry in San Francisco, for the
purpose of witnessing some experiments
with new fuel just invented. They
were shown into that portion of the es-
tablishment occupied by the furnaces,
and in one corner found brick furnace
some eight feet long and six feet high.
On the top Of this was an iron tank
holding about ten gallons, which was
filled with crude petroleum. From this
tank pipe about an inch and half in
diameter led into the side of the furnace.
A small jet of oil, not larger than a
small goosequill, was permitted to flow
out of this tube; light being placed
beneath this jet, it Immediately ignites.
Another pipe, about an inch in diam
eter, leads from steam boiler stationed
some fifteen feet away. This pipe leads
a small jet of steam upon the burning
oil, and tho moment the steam strikes
the oil the oxygen in the water is set
free and ignites with tremendous roar,
generating in very few moments a
most intense white heat From this
small source the entire chamber of the
furnace, which is some two feet by five
feet, is filled with u flame so brilliant
and dazzling that one cannot gaze on it
for more than moment at a time:
This flame possesses all the heat of on
oxyhydrogen flame, and beneath its
fierce power the hardest metals melt in
few moments. The inventor of the
apparatus by which the elements of
heat, which nature so generously pro-
vides, can be utilized is very modest
man, saying that he did not want to
bring his discovery before the public
until he he had fully demonstrated that
it would do all he claimed for it. He
says that the cost of his furnaces will be
only nominal sum that will be within
the reach of every one who owns a
quartz ledge, while the amount of oil
consumed in twenty-four hours will not
exceed ten gallons.
Year: 1874

merchant who should sell his sign-board
and attempt to carry on business without one,
because money is scarce, would be considered
little better than insane. Those who stop ad-
vertising for the same reason are equally fool
ish. Hoarders of money the country over are
waiting to learn who will sell cheapest those
articles of comfort and necessity which even
the closest hoarder cannot do without.
Year: 1874

THE ELEcTroN.-The following is the vote
for Representative i'll the Legislature cast
at the election held in this parish, by order of
the Usurper, on the 29th nit. As will be seen,
the vote was very light one, but little inter
est being manifested in the matter by the
white people, most of them thinking that it
was entirely useless to vote, as the popular
will, no matter how strongly expressed, is no
longer respected in this State. ITO this COM
plexion have we come at last What nexta


The total number of votes cast was 733-less
than one-sixth of the vote polled at the last
election Simms ran as Radical Republican
the other three as Independents.
Year: 1874

THE VrRGINIUs FARCE.--No sooner had the
steamer Virginius been surrendered by the
Spanish authorities to the United States, than
that great legal luminary, U s. Attorney Cen
eral Williams, discovered that she had no
right to carry the American flag. and that she
must therefore be returned to Spain. But she
will never be given up, nevertheless, for she
lies at the bottom of the sea. She went down
on the evening of Dec. Goth, some ten miles
south of Cape Fear light, while being toWed
to New York 1t is broadly limited that she
was purposely sunk to relieve the government
of the modification of her surrender to Spain.
The survivors of her crew arrived safely In
New York, and were enthusiastically enter
tanned. We suppose the poor fellows are to be
shot or drowned. to avoid the modification OF
their surrender to their would be executioners!


The N Y Sun, commenting upon the man.
ner in which this matter had been managed
by the authorities at Washington, truly says :


A tragedy which startled the civilized world
and reused the Indignation OF our own people
to fever heat has ended in miserable farce,
at a cost of many millions, without cenferrlng
the least benefit or satisfying any substantial
demand.
Year: 1874

Received directly from the importers, and
Sold in any desired quantity with one profit


only on cargo prices i'll New York, or from
one-thrd to one-half less than the usual
charge for similar goods.


Housekeepers who wish to reduce the cost
of their household stores will please notice the
Year: 1874

Some people imagine that an inde-
pendent newspaper should not men,
tion politics-that to do so is to lose
its independence; and these same peo-
pie are quite confident that the church
they belong to is the only gate through
which one may pass to Heaven. This
is o mistake. The independent news
paper is the freest and most unpreju-
diced of all journals, and it is therefore
the most impartial discusser OF politi-
cal questions. Party journals DO not
argue upon the issues OF the day.
They denounce without cause and
commend without reason. Their bus
iness is to SANDER and traduce their
opponents and to find virtues where
none exist in the candidates Of their
own party. The independent paper is
not tied down to party; it is not
compelled to advocate the election of
whoever county or State convention
nominates; it never stultifies itself
by lauding q man whom the whole
community knows to be indifferently
honest. The independent paperis the
purifier of the political atmosphere; it
is the bane of bad men and corrupt
parties. They fear its bold, out
spoken, honest sentiments. Their
own organs they know must defend
them, and those of the other side they
tell the world are paid to denounce
them, but the independent journal is
beyond their reach. 1t stands above
them, and they dread itas they would
dread the hair-suspended sword OF
DEMocLEs. They cannot destroy it;
influence by asserting that it is 9
party paper, and they know its opin'
ions are accepted by the people as fact
1t is the independent press that the
public must look to for clear exposi.
tion of political questions, and for q
fair and truthful estimate of political
aspirants. 1t is the inder rendent pres;
that elects good men to office, and
keeps bad ones out of places OF honor
and trust.
Year: 1874

Mr.. McGregor and others are build
ing small furnace at Highland, i'll
the Pioche District, with q view of
testing the practicability of reducing
the base ores of that district by smelt-
ing.


A large quantity of California oat-
hay, in bales, is being received in Vir-
ginia City and distributed among the
various livery stables. The importa-
ton of California hay is new thing,
but this season, owing to the high
price of the domestic article, it is found
profitable.


The Virginia Chronicle, of Thurs
day, in concluding an editorial on the
recent clOud-bursts, in Nevada. says:
ga better illustration of the sudden
precipitation of such vast volume of
water can be readily illustrated in the
chemists laboratory. by the simple
process of combining hydrogen and
oxygen and producing the liquid water
10y the electric spark. 1t is doubtless
this combining principle OF electricity
which causes all rain storms, whether
accompanied by visible lightning
flashes or otherwise, and when we
have water-spout, or clOud-burst, we
only experience on a grand scale the
simple experiment of combining oxy-
gen and hydrogen by the electric
spark. In conclusion, we only have
to add that the conformation of the
great Basin of Nevada and Utah
clearly indicates that it is the bed of
an ancient sea, and therefore the true
home of the water-spouts anyhow. In
addition to this, the whole country
abounds in vast belts of iron, which
are the best conductors known for
electricity, and it is not surprising
that the great mineral beds of the
base-metal range should be subject to
startling electrical phenomenal
Year: 1874

silver is applied are so numerous that
all the cinnabar mines now worked in
the world do not produce sufficient
quantity of the article. The recent
discovery of rich mines of this mineral
in Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo
counties will no doubt add largely to
the quicksilver product of California.
The owners of these ledges are taking
active steps for erecting the requisite
works, and in short time the product
from them will form no inconsiderable
portion of the immense amount OF
quicksilver produced in this State.
Year: 1874

THE man who exhibits a human
deformity in this State for hire, is
guilty of a misdemeanor for which he
will be fined. The individual who
brought the four-legged baby to Cali
fornia has fallen into the Slough of
Despond. At Sacramento he was cap
tured and fined.
Year: 1874

SAN FRANCISCO Grand Jurors have
fallen into the habit of handing down,
f.om one to the next following, work
that should be done but which no one
cares to do. The last jury recon-
mended its successor to indict a GER
tain publication.
Year: 1874

Towns and cities that have closed
up, or are about close up, natural es-
capes of water, will learn a valuable
lesson from the recent flood in Pitts
burgh. Five and half inches of rain
overtlowed the streets, and brought
death and destruction to the people
and their property.
Year: 1874

ALTHOUGH new mines are discov-
cred almost daily and the quantity of
quicksilver produced is constantly in
c easing, yet the supply does not meet
the demand. The uses to which quick
Year: 1874

Sow with a generous hand;


Pause not for toll or pain;
We; y not through the heat of summer,
Weary not through the cold spring rain;
But wait till the autumn comes


For the sheaves Of golden grain.
Scatter the seed and fear not


A table viii be spread;
Whatmstter if you are too weary


To cat your hard-earned bread?
Sow while the earth is broken,


For the hungry must be fed.
Sow-while the seeds are lying


In the warm earth's bosom deep,
And your warm tears fall upon it
They will stir in their quiet sleep,
And the green blades rise the quicker
Perchance for the tears You weep.
Then SOW, for the hours are fleeting,
And the seeds must fan to-day,
And care not what hands shall reap it,
Or if you shall have passed away
Before the waving eornfelds


Shall gladden. the sunny day.
Sow-and look onward, upward,
Where the starry light appears;
Where, in spite of the towards doubling,
Or your own hearts trembling fears,
You shall reap in JOY the harvest
You have sown to-day in tears.
Year: 1874

Farming that will pay does not
consist in grain-raising alone, for
that will reduce the farm. He should
do little dairying and woOl-grow-
ing also then he will feel the fod-
der and grain on the farm, make
manure, and thus be enabled to keep
the land in good condition for grain
and grass. Cropping and grain
ing helps one another. Cure should
be taken to select and raise good
stock. Animals kept warm viii fat
ten on less food Il an if exposed to
cold weather. Mind to do your seed
ingstt the proper time.
Year: 1874

DISCUSSION OF THE SUBJECT IN CABINET MEETING


-THE PRESIDENTS VIEWS.


Especial to the New York Republic.l


WAsHINaToN, Oct. 27.
At the cabinet meeting, held to-day, the third
term question was discussed


The discussion took quite wide range, but
the few remarks OF the President WAS the sig
nifcant feature of the conversation. The Pres
ident, in substance, said the object OF third
term candidature had never been presented to
him in any form which required of him
any expression of opinion or desire concern
ing it; that In the absence Of any demand
upon him which was entitled to formal express
sion on his part he did not think that 1t COM
ported with the dignity of the President of the
United States to make any public statement
The President further added that no one had
ever seriously suggested what is known as
the "third term" to him that he had never
intmated to any person, directly or
indirectly, that he contemplated entering upon a
third term candidature that he himself had
never thought of such a thing, and that he could
only explain the agitation of the question Of
'Cesarism" or ''the third term, or whatever 1t
is called, as mere journalistic sensation, a
piece of political clap-trap, ridiculous farce.
Year: 1874

The meeting called at Memphis last night to
protest against the presence OF Federal troops
was failure.


The people OF Southwestern Nebraska are re-
norted to be in a terrible state Of destitution.
Some Of them, it is said, have been living for
weeks on baked squash and pumpkin alone.
Year: 1874

To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD


The latest act in the burlesque Of political
reIormn is Mayor Havemeyer's letter addressed to
Mr.. John Kelly. In reading this extraordinary
paper the public should keep in mind the motive
which prompted it and the ends its reputed au-
thor seeks. Revenge was the inspiration, and
rage over the spectacle OF his own blasted charac-
ter was the ft accompaniment OF an act which
must inevitably cover the old gentleman with
further disgrace.


The righteous revolution which took place in
this city In 1871 against organized robbers then in
power was simply so spontaneous and majestic
that party lines were swept away and the cry OF
"Reiormn was shouted by million people. seventy
gentlemen organized themselves into a commit
tee, and MIR. Havemeyer became their candidate
for Mayor. The fact that he headed the reform
ticket secured his election. When younger man
he had served the city in the same position with
sides. The fair one had been seen, but the
other was. to be "ended foul IN many
scay fold" AL his entrance into ONCE, two
years ago, the Committee oil Seventy was a power;
he killed 1t ''as dead as door nailn In months.
There was piebald democrat like himself VINO
had stormed the citadel OF his senie affections and
carried him of willing, or at all events snb-
mssive captive. This man became 1.-THE power be-
hind the throne greater than the throne ITSELF"
BY the ascendant OF superior craft Oliver Charlick
not only led the Mayor aside from the reform TO
which he owed his election, but INTO the crooked
and devious ways OF what Is known In a neighbor-
ing state as addition, division and silence" IL
may be said that the Mayor has only connived at
the street cleaning, the charity and correction
and other municipal scandals that have grown up
thick ana rank around him during his admnistra-
ton. But ne has honeycombed many or the ave-
nues OF profit with his own relatives and friends,
and he has turned deaf ear TO every branch or
the government, legislative and municipal, which
has exposed those great wrongs and demanded
MIR. Havemeyers lnterposition 60 prevent them.
BY his course he has achieved the unprecedented
distinction OF being the nrst Mayor the history
vi New York who hasn't a single friend TO sustain
him, save the creatures OF his oriciai bounty and
the first one ever execrated by every political
party and every party leader, without single ex


ception. Democrats and republicans, reiormers
ana antl-relOrmera optlmlsts and pesslmsts.
Year: 1874

tails of the Affair.


NEW CASTLE. Del, Sept. 90, 1874
The recent prediction OF the noted bank robber
Frank Mcdonald, known as "Big Frank" that he
would soon emerge from the Jail in this city,
where he was incarceraled, was fulfilled by his
escape about one O'Clock this morning. The only


WITNESS OF THE ESCAPE
is said to have been Night Warden Levi Wilson, who
had charge OF the prison at the time. He states that
he had gone down to the far end of the corridor
to the weavers' room to ascertain the cause Of
sounds he heard proceeding rom that direction Of
the prison. Turning to retrace his steps ne looked
mp and saw Frank running along the corridor at
the other end. he immediately started IN pursuit.
and


FIRED SEVERAL SHOTS
at him, but the noted criminal succeeded in reach
ing the street, ana making good ms escape. 1t Is
believed that confederaes were m waiting for
him. and that be was Immediately taken to place
Of safety.
Year: 1874

From the Louisville Courier-Journal. 17th.


We cannot hope, and therefore we
shall not try, to give satisfaction to any
of the many partisan sects which mud
die and disturb the course of truth and
justice i'm this Louisiana business. But
We think we can offer to reasonable
people a few a facts and suggestions
which are worth considering. We write
under no restraint, and from the stand
point Of fair-mined, liberal and
national patriotism. Intelligent read
ers will bear witness TO the faithful
zeal with which we have served the
interests of law and order; the loyal
earnestness with which we have sought
to establish good feeling between the
sections; the freedom from partisan ly-
ing which has marked our conduct in
treating the most exciting public ques-
tions. We have always fought for the
weak against the strong, for right
against might, and, consequently, we
have found ourselves for the most part
in opposition; in deposition to wrong
headed power abroad. The time has
come for even palmer language than
that which we have habitually en-
ployed in addressing the people, collec-
lively, for at no time have we confined
ourselves to partisan audience.


The present crisis illustrates all the
positions from time to time laid down
in the Courier-Journal, and that most
forcibly. 1t illustrates the ruinOus
character of the Radical policy, at the
same time that it illustrates the hope
less character of violent resistance on
the part of the South. The South has
never realized the fact of its thorough
and complete subjugation. The North
has heen steadily deluded by the tic-
tion of nationality put forward by
partisan oligarchy, intensely proscrip-
Year: 1874

In an article upon "Our Friends anC
Allies at the North" the Richmond
(Va.) Enquirer says:


Some of our Democratic friends and
allies in the North are just now pitch.
ing into the South for the folly of the
New orleans revolution, which they
say will be so injurious to their pros.
poets. Well, We are of course sorry
that these things will occur; but, then,
the Northern Democracy have no true
cause Of complaint against US. Indeed,
they ought to be the very last to offer
complaint. The devotion of the South
and its blind zeal for the Democracy OF
the North have been the cause of all
its troubles. Radical hate could not
reach the Nothern Democracy, and 80
it took its spite out upon us; and
though we have no doubt of the hon.
esty of the professions of sympathy
made by our Northern Democratic
friends, yet that did not prevent our
being pounded almost TO death for
their acts.


To this the Cincinnati Enquirer re-
spends in a calumn of recrimination,
closing as follows:


The Northern Democracy have made
great many sacrifices for the cause of
the South, but there is a limit to all
endurance. We cannot be expected
to 20 on and sacrifice every thing upon
the altar of Southern folly and infatua-
tion. Ifthey willi insist every year
upon the eve of all-important Northern
elections upon hecoming a disturbing
element for the advantage of the Re-
publican party, then we say let them
take their chances with that party for
their restoration to the Union and the
Authority connected with it. We are
willing to do our best for those who
are maltreated, but if the maltreated
seek to injure US, after the fashion of
the Richmond Enquirer, we wash our
hands of them, and upon their own
heads be the responsibility.


Advertising Pays.


1t is not in the dry goods and cloth
ing trade alone that colossal fortunes
are made, through liberal advertising.
The same result follows the same policy
in nearly every other pursuitr Bar
mum pays the newspapers s4OO, 900 eve
ry year noted soap man spends some
years as high as $225, 900 in advertising:
Bonner, the newspaper publisher, prac-
tices his own precepts to tie extent of
about 500, 600 annually; and number
of medicine men pay out as much or
more every year. Many people look
upon money paid out for advertising
as spent and gone, but these shrewder
business men view it in its proper light.
They regard it merely as an invest
ment, from which large and regular
returns are certain to be gained. And
not for one year or two alone, but as
long as they continue in business. Nor
are they ever mistaken in this calcula-
tiOn' No investment a business man
can make will pay as certainly and
largely as the money paid for adverti-
sing in a newspaper of large aud good
circulation. Itgenerally yields, when
judiciously used, from one hundred toI
one thousand per cent. This is the tes-
timony of all who have fairly and
thoroughly tested the principle. The
sun is not more necessary to ripening
grain than publicity to a man who has
he wants the public to buy.