smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1874

During the display OF fireworks at the Eipp0-
drome last evening Bella Decrow, girl employed
In the institution, was severely burned about the
arms and legs by some OF the rockets She Is not
considered In 8 critical state
Year: 1874

mean people of all nationalities except
Mexican A German who arrives in
Santa Fe. direct from Faderland, is as
much an American to the Mexican as a
descendant of Mayhower pilgrim. The
Mexicans have among themselves two
classes, the aristocracy and the common
people, and caste reigns here as much
as in any other part of the world. The
higher classes pride themselves much
upon the purity Of their Castilian blood,
and look upon the common people as
the joint progeny of Spaniards and In
dians. While the utmost good feeling
prevails between the two orders, there is
little or no social intercourse between
them. The higher classes are educated
and refined, the lower ignorant and de-
graded. The system of "peonage has
left its mark, and those who were
"peons" are still subservient to their
former masters.


MANNERS AND DRESS OF THE PEOPLE.


The people Of New Mexico appear to
the writer in very much better light
than that in which they are usually rep
resented They certainly are law
abiding, docile race. They possess, it
is true, many of the vices common to
ignorant people the world over; but dur
ing nearly two years residence among
them the writer saw far less lawlessness
and crime than is found in civilized com
munities populated by a more active
people. The dress of the people is pc
culiar and picturesque. The strange
features of the mems attire are their
broad-brimmed, low-crowned sombreros,
and the homemade blankets, usually of
white and black, which they wear over
their shoulders in lieu of coats. The
ladies wear shawls, black and red being
the prevailing colors, over their heads,
and held together with the hand SO as to
obscure the whole of the face except the
eyes. The men, who are. in the habit Of
riding on horseback, wear immense spurs,
the rowels of which are often nearly two
inches in diameter. The transition from
an American city like Denver to this
Mexican city of Santa Fe is wonderful,
and the surprise Of persons just arrived
increases at every turn.
Year: 1874




Letters from St. Petersburg, says the
Pail Nall Gazette, speak of remarka-
BILE feat of determination on the part of
General Trepoff, the head of the ST. Pc
tersburg police, who had given in earlier
life extraordinary proofs of personal
courage. A fearful double murder was
recently committed at the Military Acad-
emy of the city by a policeman, who,
being attached to the female servant of
the doctor of the establishment, fancied
he had cause to suspect her Of ofin6delity.
Having entered the doctors quarters to
upbraid her, he ended by taking up a
carving knife and killing the unfortunate
woman on the spot, and then Staying the
doctor himself with it in his study Here
he locked himself in with the instrument
of his crime, and avowed he would des
patch the first man with it who attempted
to arrest him. The police summoned
to the spot we're awed by his apparent
determination, while some proposed to
shoot him as a wild beast, anG party
went in search of fire engine with a
view to drench him into surrender. A
report of the occurrences reached Gen.
Trepof. Springing into the droshky,
which is kept ready for emergencies, the
General was on the scene in few min
utes. He ordered the door to be burst
open, and then entered unarmed. As
he expected, the murderer retreated into
a corner, prepared to sell his life dearly.
The General approached him unhesitat
ingly, with the words, Well, my friend,
you have committed "a pretty pair of
murders, and hear you are going to
stick any one who tries to take you.
Now stick me, for | have come on pur-
pose to take you myself" The wretched
man was so awed by the quiet and
authoritative manner of his former
superior that he lowered his weapon and
made no reply to the challenge, and two
of the police officers who had followed
General Trepoff sprang on him and
secured him without further resistance.
II is not surprising that the st. Peters
burg police, in relating the story, declare
their chief to be the bravest man in
Russia.
Year: 1874

washed Down with wine.


Writes Buckeye tourist: On Satur-
day morning j was invited by Admiral
Thomaset of the French frigate Magi-
chime, to breakfast with him, and few
invited guests, at IL o'clock-a some
what late hour for breakfast, so late as
to make it seem'lke some mornings at
home. At the hour the guests were all
present; when after the usual greeting
mass was announced. being the only
one who was supposed not to be Cath
olic the Admiral asked if would attend
mass with them, or did | prefer to re-
main in the cabin. OF course | joined
them; for though / did not accept their
faith, my conscience would not allow
me to refuse to join them in wor-
lship that should be universal. My
joining them was courteously acknowl-
edged, and we adjourned to the
quarter deck. Here an altar was ar
ranged, in the usual manner of the Ro-
man church, with candles, etc., and the
chaplain of the ship was beginning the
service. Files of marines were drawn
up on either side the length Of the quar-
ter deck, as on dress parade. We were
seated on chairs between the lines, and
facing the altar the band of the ship was
placed where they performed the duties
of choir, on the instruments alone;
and there was no singing and no speak
ing by any one but the priest. The ma
rines stood all the time, and in those
parts of the service where the worship
pers would kneel, they grounded arms,
and, indeed, followed the service through
out by various military movements.
During a prayer, the drums were kept in
a steady roll This was a curious form
of worship; but it was solemn, and there
was no reason why these peculiar forms
might not express sincere and earnest
aspirations.


The breakfast was of course in French
STYLE, and as unlike one of ours as may
be. The cookery was perfect, and if a
sample of the art with them, | would like
to live in France, at least at breakfast
time. There was nothing ostentatious
or stunning abont the table the prevail


ing idea was the exquisite neatness OF
everything, and an air of hospitality and
welcome. 1t was served in numerous
courses and changes like dinner-wlth
several kinds OF lighter wines. Coffee
and spirits come after all, and the latter
in very small quantity. At the table
where we sat long enough the eonversa-
ton was free and easy-as the French
say, sans souci. The stories were in
French, the chat in English and French.
Of the dishes you took your choice, and
we're pressed with nothing All was so
nice that you eat without appetite. The
occasion was not stitfened with toasts,
and was democratic, as becomes repub-
lcan France My recolleotons Of LIE
Magieinne and her officers will be of a
most pleasant meeting with strangers.
Year: 1874

A letter from Santa Fe, New Mexico,
says:


Santa Fe is situated at an elevation of
more than seven thousand four hundred
feet above the sea level, being about
fourteen hundred feet higher than the
top of Mount Washington. The at
mosphere is so greatly rarefed as to
give most newcomers much difficulty
about breathing, and cause frequent
bleeding at the nose in many cases. In
consequence of the small fall of water
the air is very dry, and at most seasons
of the year fresh meat can be kept in
the open air without fear of its decayiDg
until it becomes dry and hard. The ex-
treme dryness Of the atmosphere gives
a stranger an idea that cold winter S
day is not so cold after all; but if he
venture out without his overcoat he will
soon find his mistake. Another strange
thing is caused by this lack Of humidity,
namely the great difference in temper
ature between sun and shade. In the
warm season, to step from situation
where G person is exposed to the direct
rays of the sun to shady place, is al
nost invariably to pass from
extreme heat to an air almost
chilly. Snow falls to a very light depth,
rarely more than four inches during an
entire winter. Most gladly would the
people hail the heavy falls Of snow which
preyail in other localities, for upon it
they depend to start the grass for their
aocks and herds in spring, and to swell
the streams with water for irrigating
purposes. Rain very seldom falls, ex'
cent in the rainy season, which usually
commences about the 18th of June, and
continues until about the 18th OF August.
During this period the skies will be cloud
less until 2 or 3 o'clock in the afternoon,
when a shower will suddenly descend,
and last generally about two hours.
TheSe showers occur almost daily during
the period mentioned. At such times
the number of streams in New Mexico
is indefinitely increased, for the country
abounds in brooks and rivers, the beds
of which are at other times entirely dry.
These are called by the Mexicans ar
royas." The streams which flow all the
year are often so swollen by the rains as
to sweep away whole villages, 2 catas-
trOphe witnessed D1 tue WRITER az HeSefGA
points on the Rio Grande during the
present summer.


The city Of Santa Fe itself is, with
single exception, built Of " adobes," OF
sun,dried brick. They GEa eighteen
inches in length, nine inches In Width,
and four and half in thickness. With
very few exceptions the houses are but
one story high, with fat roofs, made by
covering the top Of the house with either
poles or boards, the letter being hard to
obtain aud expensive. Over them earth
10 the depth Of two or three feet is piled.
OF course, when the rainy season comes,
nearly every house in the town leaks like
a sieve. One army officer, known to the
writer. on one Of these occasions of gen.
eral leakage pitched 9 tent in his pariori
and another slept With an umbrella
spread over his head and rabbeT plan-
ket covering the rest Of bis person.


THE POPULATION OF SANTA FE.


The population Of Santa Fe consists
of about seven thousand Mexicans and
about three hundred Americans, in
clHding The Government officers. ~
the term American the New Mexieans
Year: 1874

No. The tide ofImmigration Is steadily set
ting in, and the first thing eastern people do
is TO throw away their New York Hats and buy
a new one OF DESMOND. They say there is no
comparison between the two. 2Lo
Year: 1874

democrats, or wings, or know notlings, or
Liberals, or reformers, or what not-it sutfices
that they are LOuisianians, whose interests
are identical with those of their constituents.
We may rest i'll security that the white vo-
ters will not send men to the Legislature, in
an emergency like this, whose fidelity to the
State is not above question. Such represen-
tatives could not we'll differ as to the essential
measures of reform, for their most pa1pable
duty would be to undo what their profiigate
predecessors have done and to reduce the ex-
penses of the government to the lowest prac-
ticable point. Our past experience has shown
that party platforms are utterly worthless in
guiding the action Of public servants. Tho
only reliable security representative OF the
people can offer for hisfdelity in the discharge
OF his trust must be found i'll his capacity
and probity. Sound in these respects he may
be safely trusted whatever his ideas may be
Of Democracy, or of the philosophy OF Confu-
cins.


For one, accept the programme Of the
white league, pure aud simple. For this
campaign | desire no political organization
more exclusive than that which admits with
i'll its fold all members OF white family, of men
who are disposed to cast their lot with their
own race in this emergency. trusting to the
wisdom and sagacity of the party to select
proper representatives of their own race for
office.


God pity the cre,luity of that man on
whom the experience of the past is SO utterly
lost as to allow him still to believe that the
negroes can by any means be induced to act
with the whites politically, or that any poll
cal compromise can be made between the races.
Any organization among US that stops short
of an exclusively white mans party is DOOM
ed to an iguominious defeat. 1t will not
have the support of the people, because it
will lack the qualities hat command respect.
1t will show that it has not the courage to
accept the issue which the negro party has
tendered--that it prefers to cringe before the
arrogance of the negro rather than to COM
mand his Difference by boldly accepting the
guage which he has thrown down.


Very respectfully,


A. t. TICKER
Year: 1874

A mass meeting Of the white citizens OF this
Parish will be held at the Court House in
Opelousas on the 18th Of August inst, to take
come action towards securing fair registra-
ton of the voters under the new Registration
law recently promulgated by Kellogg.


Unless the taxpayers do something in this
matter, they cannot complain if they be de-
frauded by the parties in power out of their
right to vote. If We are united in opposition
to O partizan enforcement of this law, which
must be expected, we may be fairly dealt
with, but if we remain quiet We cannot ex-
pect it.


We say then let us come together as men
determined not to be swindled out of our
Just rights even under this iniquitous law.
We desire all white men to come.


The Democrats Of the Parish are earnestly
invited and requested to attend and partici-
pate in this meeting. The White League does
not desire simply White League meeting,
but one representing the entire white popula-
ton Of tue Parish, from whom some action is
have no partizan purposes to subserve in this
matter, and hope we can come together simply
as fellow citizens to discuss a question SO vi
tally affecting the rights we all claim in COM
mon.


BY order of the Executive Committee of the
White League. NJ. G. MAY,


Secretary.
Year: 1874

Times. 1t is conducted upon the prin-


ciple of the Knapp brothers, who pub


lish the ST. Louis Republican. one OF the


wealthiest papers in the West. The


Knapps have standing order which


Hyde, the managing editor, has TO en-


force, and that is to discharge any man


from the paper who should wilfully at


tempt to perpetrate joke in it. The


Knapps had serious community to


deal with, a community that would not


be trihed with. One of the many Knapps


had boy named after George Washing


tom tomb by his solemn father. Indeed


the boy was often called by his irreverent


associates Mount Vernon. You can


fancy what boy had to endure, going
round labeled as the tomb of the father


of his country. The boy was not very
strong in the regions abait the eyes, but
because his pa published newspaper he
thought the son of his pa ought to be able
to write for it, One morning, about one
o'clock, several years ago, he came into
the Office after Hyde, the manager, had
gone home The young man had been
out to seance of the Black Crook, and
had been very busy ever since the close
of the performance eating oysters with
large party of jovial friends. Now
this young Vernon had never been per-
mitted to write for the paper, but out
among bis friends he gave the impression
that he did great deal of that sort Of
business. That night, one mad wag in
spired by the devil, got Vernon to write
criticism for the paper of the Black
Crook performance. The young man
caught at the idea, and going to the
Office, he found Hyde away and the coast
clear. Being the son of his father, there
was no one there to dispute him, and as
for the foreman, he was one Of those
steady going machines who would have
set up the devil and all his angels if they
had come up the regular spout from the
editorial rooms. The next day there ap-
peared in the columns of the Republl-
can one of the most fearful articles on
legs that think eve- appeared in print.
Mount Vernon had expanded under the |
influence of oysters and his friends The
result was frightful. For few days the
reason of Knapp pere tottered upon its
throne, but he finally recovered. The
article in question made more excite
ment in the city and discomposod the
office more than had it been burned |
down. The young man was sent abroad |
after this scandal, and now watchman
inspector is detained in the editorial |
rooms, who, with his relief, is always on
duty.
Year: 1874

From the Ebs AOAAo keOf0HAANAsl


A young couple ten years ago agreed
TO disagree, and the she of the firm went
West % the Eldorado of discontented
wives in those days, Chicago Then she
commenced suit, but before it was
granted he went op, made up the peace
between them, and hand IN hand they
returned. Before the year was out how
ever, they quarreled again, and this time
he didn't reach her qaiek enough the
she resided in Boston for FIVE years.
Then in an idle hour she answered a
matrimonial or q personal in New
York paper, correspondent some months
journeyed on TO this city to meet the
Adolphus of her mature dreams, and
found in him the Ichabod of her early
days. They had lied so faithfully IN
their letters and so unanimously that
neither had discovered the other 5
identity.
Year: 1874




The New York papers have more dig
nity to maintain than their Western CO.
temporaries, so the solemn element is
cultivated, upon that principle that Tom
Corwin advocated in giving a young man
about to start in life the secret Of sue
cess, BE solemn ass, my boy, said
Corwin; and there is every indication
that some Of the young men now in con
troll of the New York press received in
early life similar advice, and have acted
upon It. You rarely find in any Of the
New York papers the weapon of playful
satire used in combat, and yet there are
times when no more powerful weapon
could be used. They either deal in saw
age irony or more ponderous inveetives.
They attempt satire at times, but It
always becomes too bitter, and so loses
its character All of the morning pa
pers, with the exception OF the erratie
Herald, are very solemn and heavy in
their comments upon the Issues OF the
day. The Times is an especially solemn
newspaper In the long days Of a weary
year never does a shade Of humor tighten
the news or editorial columns Of the
Year: 1874

second on time, and managed to get


away. His friends in the first section


missed him, and were seized with dread


that he had been killed. The conduc-


tor telegraphed to the second station to


look for him, and bring him or his be dy


to Laramie. The passengers turned out


readily to aid in the search. Foremost
among them, and displaying terrible
anxiety, was the man for whom they
were looking. He hunted for the mis-
sing emigrsnt with a zeal which could
only be accounted for by the fact-un-
known to him-that he was looking for
himself During the whole day and the
following night the search was continu-
ed, the unconscious cause of it suffering
deeply to think that he had been lost
When he reached Laramie. the idea
never occurred to his friends, and the
railroad employees might still be look
ing for the missing emigrant, when one
bright individual startled the crowd with
the remark that our hers had been look
ing for himself, and failed to find him
self.
Year: 1874

LLI NIsElI p llolg 097 I-Nll Llll'll
10 create the belief in the northern
mind that the New Orleans affair was
the beginning OF new rebellion Is
the malicious and wicked Invention
OF those who esire TO keep forever alive sec
lOnsl strife and bitterness between the north
and south. The New Orleans revolution was
simply az uprising OF men who had borne all
the wrong and mi ustice possible for them to
bear and who, in their unreasOn, were guilty
Of very wrong and very foolish act.


THE PEOPLE DESERVE SOME CONSIDER
Year: 1874

Although this prominent organ is a
leading feature, yet few of US care TO be
led by it, except in the direction OF a
good dinner. This need not prevent us
from pursuing it as a subject, showing
wherein the Importance Of the organ is
not duly estimated.


The sense of smell is popularly sup
posed TO be the only service the nose is
called upon to perform; at least we
should judge so from the number of
open mouths we see sailing along the
streets.


But one Of the main objects Of the
nostrils is for respiratory purposes.
There is very little donbt that cir pass
ing through the nostrils is refined, puri-
ssd and eliminated Of all injurious
gases. infection and dust before being
permitted. access 70 the lungs. It is
very easy TO see how habitual respira-
! ton through the mouth is not only un-
Year: 1874

At recent fire in Moscow man who
had been sleeping in the burned dwell
ing was rescued in an unconscious state.
1t was proposed to take him to the sta
ton and try to resuscitate him, but the
local officer who was present decided
that the man was dead, and ordered the
body to be given up for dissection. II
was accordingly taken to the anatomical
museum and placed upon a dissecting
table. Suddenly the man recovered his
consciousness aud cried out, Where
have been taken2" You have been
carried to the anatomical museum,
coldly replied the half-drunk watchman
who was on duty. Then they will soon
begin to cut me to pieces" shrieked the
unfortunate man, and overcome by hor-
ror at his position and surroundings, he
sank back, this time really dead.
Year: 1874

natural,s but productive of disease.
More especially at night we should ac-
custom ourselves to sleep with mouth
closed. All the energies of the system
are then at rest, and its power of re-
sistance at the lowest ebb. III the
mouth be open the enemy is allowed to
enter, and we may be sure he will fasten
upon the most delicate part Of our organ
ization.


In recent lecture by Professor Tyn-
dali, he demonstrates fully the danger OF
sleeping with the mouth open, practice
unknown to the lower animals, he says:


If we're to endeavor to bequeath
the most important motto which human
language can convey, it should be these
worda.