smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1875

Territory of Arizona

 Notice is hereby given that in pursuance order the Probate Court of the County Yavapa Territory Arizona made the 20th day of January 1875 in the matter of the estate of George Thasher deceased the undersigned Administrator of said estate will sell pub- lie auction to the highest bidder cash subject frmation by said Probate Court on Thursday, Feb. Il, 1878, at II O'clock. A. M, In front of the Court house in town of Prescott all the right title interest and of the said nestate at the time of his death, and all the right title and interest that the said estate has by operation of law otherwise other than in addition to that of the said nesta,e at the time of his death or in and to that certain piece parcel tract of land lying and being in the county of Yavapai and described as follows to wit

 Half interest in l6O of land known as the Thrasher and O'Leary ranch, situated Walnut Creek Yavapa county.

 Fifty feet in the list north extension of the Gray Eagle mine, in the Tiger district, Yavapa county A. T. One lot m the Tiger mining district being 90 feet front by 5O feet deep, joining Fishers lot on the east.

 PHI. MCDONNELL Administrator Prescott, 6anuary 70 1875. ju22td
Year: 1875

have done myself Here is the price of
six glasses F'


The money dropped upon the floor as
with clasped hands, she exclaimed:


my dear husband, oh, my husband,
will you give it up, altogether It would
be but little sacrifice now and oh, be-
lieve me, it is the only safe course I
Think of our children. Surely you will
do it for their sakes p


"No, no, foolish child, will not give
it up, but 1 will take care to keep within
my allowance in future. Three glasses a
day never harmed any one"


Lizzie would have urged him still fur
tier, but look of impatience checked
her, and with secret prayer that he
might never again be led into temptation
she locked hes fears in her own bosom.
Long after the husband slept, her tears fell
fast upon the pillow, as she looked upon
her little ones and remembered her own
miserable CHILDHOOD and her poor moth.
er's unhappy life and early death.


This was but the beginning of sorrows.
For another week all went we'll; then
came a second excuse-some peculiar
circumstances which he said might never
occur again. But the path down hill is
q slippery one, and of quick descent.
Before another year had passed, his uns
steady habits were known and comment
ed upon by those who had once respect
ed him as a thriving, industrious man.
Several times he had been seen In the
street in a state little short of absolute
intOxication, and his work was often neg
lected, even at the most busy season of
the year. The parents had demonstrated
and his wife pleaded in vain. Opposition
seemed to serve but as fuel to the flames,


1--WE car but do our duty and trust in
God," said Lizzie, sadly, as, after the
most trying scene that had yet occurred,
she took her children to their GRANDPA
ther's for a day or two, thinking that
a change would be useful to them and
to herself


"But tell me, my poor child" said the
mother, to whom the remark was address
ed. sis my son very unkind to you and
the little ones? Surely he cannot forget
himself so far as to use personal violence


''No, no, mother, he is rather moro
surly than violent At such times he
dislikes to be spoken to, and is angry if
the children makes a noise. The poor
babes used to spring with delight when
they heard his steps. Now they shrink
from him with fear. Last evening when
1 bade Willie say his prayers for poor ia
ther because he was sick, the little fei-
low wept and said, "Willie will say his
prayers for poor father, but father don't
love Willie any more" Tears fell faa'
from Lizzie's eyes as he spoke, and the
mother wept also. William was her
eldest born, and had ever been
her pride and delight. 1t was, indeed,
hard to know that he had thus gone
astray.
Year: 1875

The Utica Herald says that thought
less man on the top of the BaliOu Block,
in that city, hung a carpet over the ire
alarm telegraph wire, SO he could whip
it more easily. Everytime he struck the
CARPET the wire swung against the tin
roofing of the building and grounded
the circuit-just the same as if be had
had turned the keyes in the signal boxes
He gave three blows at a time, and as
this is the signal for the first district Of
the Third Ward; the fremen got out
with their apparatus. This use of the
FIRE alarms reminds US Of the trouble
caused by farmers in the haying season
along turnpike liRes, by tying the wires
closely together with hay ropes 50 that
they could driYe under them easily with
their loads. When demonstrated with
they replied that they didn't think they
we're doing any thing wrong, as the sup
rosed the messages slid along shrough
the inside Of the wires.
Year: 1875

A father once came TO prominent pastor
in one of our large cities, and said TO him, as
soon as they were alone, am in great dis
tress on account Of the course my son is pur-
suing have done for him all that | can
do by counsel, eutreaty. aud reproof but all
my efforts have proved futile. have come
to you IN my sorrow, feeling that you PCS
haps, may succeed where have failed."''


shall be glad to do for you all that lies
in my power" was answered, "but when
fathers loving plea produces no Impression,
! fear that my words, too will fall powerless.
But must know what is the fault in your
son which has awakened so much solicitude."


DO you not know" answered the father,
IN surprise that my son INDUCES freely in
the wine-cup-tha he is, indeed, on the high
road TO common drunkenness, and that uD-
less he speedily reforms, he will become
wretched sot % Then, as if overcome by
the thought, he pleaded, Save, O save my
son will give you thousand dollars if
You win save my SON"


The minister sat few moments as if lost
in thought, then raising his head, and look
ing fully in the face of his afflicted friend,
he said very solemuly aud tenderly, My
dear friend You must allow me to speak
plainly to You. | fear for your your sons
condition you are responsible


" / responsible !" exclaimed the astonished
father. " Have not told you that since
first became aware Of his incorporate habits
have used the force of entreaty and re-
proof but both have proved unavailing
What do you mean You certainly do not
think that would encourage my son in
course that will bring not only ruin upon
himself, but disgrace upon his family"


Pardon me-" said his friend, but per-
nit me to ask where your son first acquired
taste for the intoxicating cup?"


The father did not answer, and the minis
ter continued Was it not at his own IA
Tiers table 2"


But he did not learn TO drink to intoxi-
cation there quickly pleaded the father.


No, myfriend, but he has learned to take
the social glass, and for him il has been but
short stage from social drinking to drink
ing to excess. The taste, once acquired,
has been strengthened by the daily glass at
his fathers table Your example, too, has
encouraged him. If you really desire to
save your son, from this hour resolve that
you will Danish wine from your table"


But ! do not agree with you that this is
necessary" answered the father. There is
certainly vast difference between glass
Of wine at dinner, and that undue excess
that produces intemperance."


True, my friend but the first is fre-
quently, as has been the case with your son,
but a stepping-stome to the latter. Unless
YOU are willing to make this sacrifice, have
little hope for your som"


The father did not Danish wine from his
table, and his son now fills drunkard's
grave, At whose hands win his blood be
required ?-NaiioHdi Temperance AdrocGie
Year: 1875

When go TO the country to visit my rela-
tions, the spare-bed rises up before my imag-
ination days before | start, and shiyer as
remember how cold and grayelike the
sheets are. put off the visits as long as
possible, solely on account of the spare bed.
don't like to tell them | had rather sleep
on picket fence than to enter the spare
room and creep into that spare-bed, and so
they know nothing of my suherings. The
spare-bed is as near a mile and q half from
the rest of the beds as il can be located It's
either upstairs at the head of the hall, or
off in the parlor The parlor curtains have
not been raised for weeks everything is as
prim as an old maids bonnet, and the bed
is as square and as true as If it had been
made up to carpenters rule. No matter
whether 1t be summer or winter, the bed is
like iee aud sinks down in way TO make
one shiver. Tho sheets are slippery clean
the pillow slips rustic like shrouds, ani one
dare not stretch his leg down for fear of
kicking against tombstone. One sinks
down until he Is lost in the hollow, and foot
by foot the prim bed-posts vanish from sight.
lie is worn out and sleepy, but he knows that
the rest of the family are so far away that
no one could hear him if he should shout
Tor an hour and this makes him nervous.
lie wonders IL any one ever died in that
room, and straightway he sees faces of dead
persons, hears strange noises, and presently
feels chill galloping up and down bis back
Did any one ever pass comfortable night
in spare-bed No matter how many quilts
and spreads covered him, he could not get
warm, and il he accidently fell asleep it was
to awake under the impression that a dead
man was pulling his nose. 1t will be days
and weeks before he RECEIVERS from the i'm
preston, and yet he must suffer in silence,
because the spare-bed was assigned him in
token of esteem and affection.
Year: 1875




is only practiced by the wealther, as well as
by some of the middle classes. The females
OF the lower and laboring classes have, it is
true, rather small feet, but their feet are
never compressed or tortured. | am told
that the Weather classes deform the feet of
their female children by bending four of the
toes under the sole of each foot, the great
toe being left in its natural state The fore
part of the foot is compressed with strong
bandages, so that it shoots upwards, and ap-
pears like large lump at the instep, where
it forms, as it We're, part of the leg. The
lower portion of the foot is scarcely more
than four inches long, and one and one-half
inches broad. The value of bride among
the higher classes is greatly augmented by
the smallness OF her feet. saw several
young girls being carried in the arms or on
Year: 1875

We hope, By all means, the Collectors
of the various Counties, will respond
promptly to the call of the State Board
of Finance in the trying emergency that
is now upon us. The Little Rock Gazette
states the case and makes the appeal as
follows:


Some weeks ago, the state board Of Fl
nnnce sent to the collectors of a number
ofthe large counties a request to send in
the receipts on the state interest tax as
early as possible, to assist the board in
meeting various obligations OF the state,
soon to mature in New York. 1t is well
to remind those officers that the time in
which their compliance will be Of most
practical avail is very short, and we there
fore hope they will all and scyerally send
in their funds with the least possible de
lay. Sheriff Rottaken, of this county,
turned in ten thousand dollars in curren
cy some time since, and will deliver the
balance due from him ts.day as nearly as
the condition of his accounts, 50 soon
after the close Of tax paying, will permit
Sheriff Rottaken deserves credit for his
promptness and for the example he has
set to others, and which, for various
reasons, should be universally followed.
Let US all give the state board a helping
hand. We are poor, it is true; but not
so poor to-day, that with such taxes col
lected as the law granting extension Of
time make it reasonable to expect, we
may not meet some portion Of our just
debt, and thereby prove our faith inch for
inch, in line with our ability The spirit
shown in paying any portion of our debt.
so soon after the devastation lately pro-
duced in our state by causes fresh in the
mind of every one, will entitle us to, and
will gain for us, recognition such as
would hardly result from ten times larger
payments in more prosperous times We
know we mean well-let us prove to the
world we know how to do well BY all
means the collectors should send on their
taxes, particularly for the fund mentioned,
at once.
Year: 1875

GRANT AND TUE Public PATRONAGE
1t is not an edifyiag sight to see scores
OF defeated Congressman, who have for
ieted the confidence of their constituents,
hanging about the White House, praying
for chance to subsst at the public crib,
and the President pouring over his list
OF vacant Offices and selecting those men
who favored his pet measures and de.
fended his "policy" through thick and
thin, that they may be provided for,
without reference to their qualifications
for Offices to be filed. The ex Con.
grcssincn are not 80 much TO he blamed,
for it may be their only chance for de.
cent livelihood to have the Government
provide for them, but the President ought
to have more exalted idea Of the pur
poses Of the civil service than to regard
itas charity fund for his friends who
have lost the support of those who know
them best.--B Boston Globe.
Year: 1875

There is fun enough in the May number of ST.
NICHOLAS to keep the children laughing till the next
number comes out-f children as jolly as take
them to be. First of all is Rose Terry's poem OF
"Poll Tadpole. " which has a very seasonabe flavor
at this time of the metamorphosis of everything in
general and of tadpoles in particular. Almost any
one would laugh at the picture Of Poll, taken as
he lying at in his puddle not dreaming that
he would soon become a " discontinued baby frog.


Then there is capital picture by Church, full OF
this artists humor. A more graphic expression OF
the comic effect Of newcomers entrance has rarely
been penced. The stranger is scanned as closely
by his fellow prisoners as new boy at boarding
school. Send for it.
Year: 1875

tH The Brooklyn Argus has been permit
ted to copy the following letter from moral
young woman:


ANY DEAR LucY-I think I won't come to
Brooklyn this spring. understand there is
something going on there that hadn't ought to.
Papa won's let any papers come into the
house, so don't know what 1t Is; but see
the parson ut the post-otllce every morning
reading his mail and laughing fit to kill him.
self. and think 1t must be something awful
wicked. ~.


"Yours lovingly. CAROLINE
Year: 1875

tY- The spelling school fever is raising to
the dignity of an epidemic, and is spreading
all over the land. Like the late epizootic, no
section Of the broad land is likely to escape
its ravage.
Year: 1875

GETTING UP AND PRospERiNG. &c ct
ting up in a cold room to make a fire is
like getting up in kfe lfyou crawl tim
idly out OF bed, goon tip toe to the stove,
and allow the shivers to get control of
you before the kndling starts, your fire
will probably be failure, and you will
hall freeze to death in the operation. But
if you jump out bravcly, hustle around,
pull on your clothes, knock over a chair
or two, and pitch in the stove wood, you
will probably be too warm by the time
the fire gets to burning, and you will
have to open window. So is life. At
tack it timidly, and you will fail. Crap
pie with it, hurry up things, stir around,
conquer fortune and you will be a sue
cess.
Year: 1875

The libel suit for $4,000, brought
by Stephen Grant against the Port
land. (Me. Press, was decided there
Saturday The Press asserted that
Grant was the biggest liar in the State.
What the jury thought Of the matter
may be inferred from the verdict,
which was for the defendant.
Year: 1875

taught animals to do all things but speak
was in league with the devil. This was
enough to rouse the spirit of persecution :;
and, one night, while the learned pig was
exhibiting his tricks in Banelagh, ireland,
the mob, headed by a stupid official, broke
into the room, destroyed the apparatus with
which Bisset worked, and assaulted him and
his pig so violently that they barely escaped
with their lives. This event was followed soon
by the death of Bissct but whether the
odium that fell upon him as a suspected nee
romaneer had anything to do with his demise,
our informant does not tell us
Year: 1875

For street costumes, fur Is the most fash
ianable trimming, as it is at once the most
expensive and the most appropriate, but
velvet and matelasse, il profusely en-
ployel are considered stylish. The heaviest
garments sold early in the season still rcpose
in their boxes Mt home on account Of the
mildness of the weather, and plain woollen
suits enjoy 4 longer reign in consequence,
bat the day Of the warm wnppings must
soon come Comparatively few fur gar
ments have been sold for city wear, this
year, and even the dowagers have shown a
preference for the silk bournouses, lined
with fur, rather than for the immense capes
in which they once rejoiced. These hour
nouses arc very warm and comfortable, but
no man was ever known to look at one for
the first time without saying. That woman
has put on her cape wrong side ont" This
is humiliating for the dowagers, but the
woman who cannot rise serenely above all
masculine preildice, if she be supported by
the consciousness of being fashiOnably cloth
ed has vet to be born
Year: 1875

Of December, 1862, as We moved at double


quick. to take our place in the line of battle


then already hotly engaged, we passed Prai-


rie Grove church, small frame building be-


longing to the Cumberland PresbYterians.


was riding on the flank of the command, and
opposite TO Williams, as we came in view of
the house. "This Is the church, colonel, |
saw in my dream, " said he. | made no re-
ply, and never thought of the matter again
until in the evening. We had broken the
enemy's line and were in full pursuit, when
we came up to dry ravine in the wood,
and Williams said :. Just on the other side
of tho hollow was shot in my dream, and I
will stick my hat under my shirt Suiting
the action to the word, as he ran along he
doubled it up and crammet; it in his bosom.
Scarcely had he adjusted it before MIME
ball knocked him out Of the line Jumping
up quickly, he pulled out his hat, waved it
over his head, and shouted I'm all right"
The ball raised black spot about the Size Of
a mans hand, just over his heart. and dropped
into his shoe
Year: 1875

some rich, black velvet dresses have been
made recently with two pairs Of slceye~-one
velvet. the other white lace. the lace plain
and ouiy tied a the wrist with a black vel.
Vet bow. Others have spiral OF white lace
down tie sides, outlining tie train. anu still
Others are lsuilcently trimmed wiki silver
foliage, cut out oa tie leaf patterns Of the
Breton six embroidery. Jet Is still used
layish.y, AMI takes tie place Of lace on
black t0i.ettcs, which are required - be all
back.


The passion ior sand color and soft Quaker
drab is on the increase. but either shade is
almost always a~sociatei with black Cash
mcrcS Of these colors are used for house
irl>-e, with c,lllrette and small velvet
lluns cals and csira-s jacket Of black
velvet. black velvet chatelainc or black
velvet sash ornamcntiu. the skirt. No
fashionable dresses are now made OF a SIN
gle material it Is always silk and wool, or
wooden and velvet. or velvet and six. or silk
and lace.


\ day dress IN the very best TASTE Is of six
and cashmere of the new black blue shade,
the silk forming the sleeves OF cuirass
iacket. the sash or chateaine pocket and the
knife Tlcatins alternating with folds or
19unccs upon the skirt and apron. \ great
deal of jeWelry and many ornaments are
worn in the evening but none in the day
time. There wasa period when greater dis
tiuction was made between day and evening
dre-s. Street attire with the except N Of
the hats and b5nnets, which have some
what aggressive character of their own, is
simple 10 severity, while in eYeniag dress
fancy seems to bc allowed fall swpy.


Cardinal red still retains its pl ace at the
head of the list of popular colors, and all the
-halc~ Of pink down to the pale-t flesh color
rank well Cardinal Is becoming to every
one but Indies with red hair and blondes
whose cheeks are crimson instead of scarlet
and it especially sets 90 the beauties Of
bright brunettcS whose lips it matches.
1t Is worn under black lace with an effect
only surpassed by ambcr color, and is much
used to trim black silks, Notwithstanding the
lari that black and red are the colors always
worn by Mcphistopheles When other
c3lofs are worn, bright but not deep tintS
are the tayorite- and the odd combinations
used at the beginning of the winter are often
some,
Year: 1875

How many lives are, so to speak
mere relics of an ended feast, fragments
which may be either left to waste, OF
be taken up and made the most of
For we cannot lie just when we wish it,
and because we wish it. The fact may
be very unrOmantic, but 1T is a fact,
that too large dinner or false step
on the stairs kills much more easily
than a great sorrow. Nature cOmpels
us to live on, even with broken hearts,
as with lopped-off members. True, we
are never quite the same again, never
the complete human being; but we
may still be a very respectable, healthy
human being, capable of living out our
three-score years and ten with tolerable
comfort after all.


These fragments" of lives, how
they strew our daily paths on every
side Not house do we enter not q
company do we mix with, but we more
than guess-we know-that these, your
friends, men and women, who go about
the world doing their work and taking
their pleasure therein, all carry about
them a secret burden-of bitter disap-
pointments, vanished hopes, unfulflled
ambitions, lost lovers. Probably every
one of them, when his or her smiling
face vanishes from the circle, will
change it into another, serious, anxious,
sad-happy if it be only sad, with no
mingling of either bitterness or bad
ness. That complete felicity which the
young believe in, aud expect almost as
a matter of certainty to come, never
does come. j Soon or late we have to
make mn our minds to do without IL. to
take up the fra gments of our blessings,
thankful that we have what VIC have
and are what we are above all, that we
have our own burden to bear, and not
our neighbor's. But, whatever it is,
we must bear it alone and this gather
ing up of fragments, which l am so
earnestly advising, is also thing which
must be done alone.-M5SS MuIOcE.
Year: 1875

A beautiful ornament for the sitting
room can be made by covering COM
mon glass tumbler with moss, the latter
fastened in place by sewing cotton
wound round. Then glue dried NOES
upon a saucer, into which set the tum-
bier, filling it and the remaining space
in the saucer with loose earth from the
woods. Plant the former with a variety
of ferns and the latter with wood vio-
let's. On the edge of the grass also
plant some of the nameless little ever
green vines which bear red (scarlet)
berries, and whose dark, glossy, ivy
like foliage will trail over the fresh
blue and white of the violet with
beautiful effect. Another good plan is
to Gil rather deep plate with some of
the nameless but beautiful silvery and
light green and delicate pink MOSES,
which are met with in profusion in all
swamps and marshes. This can be Kept
fresh and beautiful as long as it is not
neglected to water it profusely once a
day. 1t must, of course, be placed in
the shade, or the moss will blaneh and
die. In the center of this a clump Of
large azure violets should bo placed,
adding some curious lichens and pretty
fungus growth from the barks of forest
trees, and a few cones, shells and
pebbles.
Year: 1875

ing large number. Two were speared
by Narcisse himself.


The blacks have no knowledge of any
Superior Being, and no form of religion
OF any kind whatever. The dead are
tied up with cords after the fashion of
mummy, and exposed to the action of
the sun either in the forks of trees or on
a rough scaffold. He describes the
treatment he has received from the tribe
as having been uniformly kind, and he
thinks they would treat any white man
well. They are not afraid, he says, of
white men, but of white mems guns.
They are not cannibals, nor does he
think that any of the tribes in that re-
gion are SO. He states that he has heard
that in his tribe there was an old white
man who had lived among them for
many years, and was at last drowned
while out fishing. He does not recollect
having seen this man himself, and is
not sure when his death occurred.