smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1874

Politeness, due and proper regard, that
IL, for the feelings, wishes, and pleasures
Of other people, is the thing that, perhaps
Of all others, renders life the easiest aud
the pleasantest; It is the oil that enables
all the wheels Of the complex machinery
Of social life to work satisfactorily. What
a pity it is, then, that it should be disre-
garded as it so frequently Is ia domestic
life, the place where Of all others its soft-
ening influence is the most required The
constant intercourse Of home life causes
unsuitable tempers and dispositions to jar
each other in manner hardly possible IN
general society-how unwise, then, is It to
relinquish the one quality which acts as
species Of buffer between antagonistic
tempenments. Beside, 1t is cardinal
mistake to regard politencss as 50 many
unfortunately do, as species Of company
manner to be assumed or relinquished
simultaneously with our best clothes: il is,
properly considered, most valuable quail
ity, involving self-eontroI, some unselfsh-
ness, and a certain regard for the feelings
Of others. 4


We wish VIC could regard ID as by any
means common virtue in the home-circIe,





but fear it is very far indeed from being
so; neither men nor women are blameless
in this respect, but owing to their gentler
and softer natures women are less frequent
offenders than the lords Of creation. Still
they frequently allow themselves license
in saying unpleasant things TO their own
immediate belongings, that they would
never talk in the hearing of stranger.
They argue, at is hard If you can't say
what you think to your own husband, or
sister, or other relative" Granted-but
the very same thing, if necessary, may be
said in different ways--why not select the
one which will neither wound the feelings
nor rouse the temper Of the listener /?
Many Of the bitterest and most irrepara-
bic disagreements in married life have
arisen, not from any want Of absolute af-
fection, but from a caselessness on one side
or the other, frequently on both, as to the
manner on which subjects on which there
may be difference Of opinion are remark.
ed upon. It is almost impossible that two
people can, even though they be husband
and wife, think alike on every subject the
probabilities are that on many their opin-
ions will be widely different. Why, how.
ever, should they not be as politely tolerant
of each Others views in private as con-
yentionality would force them to. be in
public2 Why should the wife's express
sion Of opinion be received with, maria,
don't be fool, or the husbands with,
Really, John, you are quite too silly 2"


We have already said the men are the
worst offenders, perhaps because they care
less for, and consequently think less Of,
the small courtesies Of life than do women.
Still this reflection hardly consoles wo-
man when she first finds her husband
punctilious in helping every other woman
over the raised stile, while he leaves her
to climb a fve.bared gate unassistcd, nor
is she free from certain feeling Of NOR
ti6cation when she finds he considers it
too much trouble to dress for dinner with
her alone, Or to youchsafe an answer to a
question should he have the newspaper in
bis hand.
Year: 1874

QUARRELISG.-If anything in the
world will make man feel badly, except
pinching his fingers in the crack of door,
it is unquestionably quarrel. No man
ever fails to think less of himself after il
than before. 1t degrades him in the eyes
of others, and what is worse, blunts his
sensibilities on the one hand, aud increases
the power of iritability on the other,
The truth is, the more quietly and peace
fully We get on the better for our neigh
bors. In nine cases out Of ten the better
course is, if a man cheats you cease to deal
with him if he is abusive, quit his COM
pany, and if he ISLANDERS you, take care to
live SO no one will believe him. No
matter who he is, or how he misuses you,
the wiscst way is to let him alone, for there
is nothing better than this cool, calm, and
quiet way of dealing with the wrongs we
meet.
Year: 1874

In the District Court of the Fourteenth Judicial
District, Of the Stale of California, in and for
the County of Placer


Nellie Winters VS.. Francis Winters.
Action brought in the District Court of the 14th
judicial District of California, in ana for the
County OF Placer, and the Complaint filed in
said County of Placer in the office of the
Clerk of said District Court.


The people Of the State of Califoynid send qreetnq
to Francis Winters, Detendda:


NOU are hereby required to appear in an ac-
Il ton brought against you by the above
named plaintiff in the District Court of the 18th
Judicial District of the State Of California, in
and for the County of Placer, and to answer the
complaint filed therein Ga copy of which accom-
pan'es this summons), within ten days (exclu-
slve of the day of service after the service on
you OF this summons--if served within this
county; or, if served out of this county. but
within this Judicial District, within twenty davs:
OF, If served ont of said District, then within
forty days--or judgment by default will be taken
against you, according to the prayer of said
complaint.


The said action is brought to obtain a decree
Of this court dissolving the bonds of matrmo-
ny existing between you and this plaintiff and
awarding to her the and custody of her
minor child, Frank Winters all of which is
more fully set forth in said plaintiff complaint
on file, herein a copy of which accompanies this
summons.


And you are hereby notified that if you fail to
appear and answer said complaint as above re-
CURED, the said plaintiff will apply to the Court
for the relief demanded in the complaint.


Given under my hand and the Seal of the
District Court of the Fourteenth Ju-


dicial District of the State of Cali
[sEALl fornia, in and for the County of Pla-


Ger, this ninth day of April in the


year Of our Lord One Thousand


Eight Hundred and Seventy Four
n36-2lp r r RI1R'R ClaI
Year: 1874

Old friends are like old boots We never
realize how perfectly they were fitted to us
till they are cast aside, and others, finer and
more stylish perhaps, but cramping and
pinching in every corner, are substituted
Then we are often forced to hunt up the
worn articles from the attic where they have
been thrown, and for little season at least
rest our weary feet by wearing them. With
our friends it is the same; after trying in
vain to fit ourselves to the pecuiarites of
new ones, how often we 90 back with a
sigh of relief to the dear people whose very
faults may sometimes have been brought
about by serving us.
Year: 1874

An old bachelor in Orleans county, YER
mont, has been deferred from committing
matrimony in the following way. Thinking
over the subject, and particularly the ex-
pense of maintaining a family, be set the
table in his lonely abode with the plates for
himself and an imaginary wife aud five
children. He then sat down to dine, and
as often as he helped himself to food he put
the same quantity on each of the other
plates, and surveyed the prospect, at the
same time computing the cost. He is still
bachelor.
Year: 1874

The number of feet of lumber manufac-
tured in 1878 in the Lake Tahoe Basin is
estimated at 3O,000,000. Nearly all of
this was shipped to Virginia City and Gold
Hill. A considerable portion of it was
mining timber
Year: 1874

A sentimental editor says, cit is comfort
ing to know that one eye watches fondly for
our coming, and looks brighter when we
come. A cotemporary is grieved to learn
that his "brother of the quill has wife
with one eye"
Year: 1874

ENOr those who prefer a Ma
i chine feeding the wOrk away from
the operator, we now have one of
that description, quiet, easy.runninE
and having all the other peculiar ex.
ceIlencies Of the other style.
Year: 1874

This is the last number of Volume Eleven of the Weekly ARIZONA MINER. The fire,

 which damaged the office to the extent Of $sOOO and which came very near wiping it out of existence, caused us to miss publishing just two numbers of the Weekly. But we have more than made up for these two misses, by the publication of extra pages and supple ments. And now, with thanks to those who at great personal risk saved the old MINER establishment from total annihilation by the devouring element, we bid goodbye to Volume Eleven and hope, by out course in the future, to merit a continuance of the pa tronage and good will that has enabled us to publish paper of which no Arizonan and no friend of Arizona has ever yet been ashamed.
Year: 1874

PAY UP, AT ONcR.-We have already in- formed MINER subscribers that after the first of January next, the new postal law will force publishers to prepay postage upon every newspaper sent out of the county in which a paper is published that the MINER will pre- pay postage upon all such papers and that the present rates for our Daily and Weekly will remain as before.

 These being facts, subscribers will readily see the necessity of paying for their papers an advance. \ great many of our subscribers have always doue so; but many others are in arrears and would remain so for ever, if We would let them. This We cannot afford to do, and they know it, so we are now under the necessity of informing all who owe us to pay up promptly and save us from having to collect, by law, and, perhaps, to erase their names from our books. If.
Year: 1874

Two merry Detroit youths were ont for a
days amusement, and INDUCED in freak
which they will be obliged to prove was all
in fua. They were shooting at mark with
revolyers on the city common. An old
picturesque POlander came along, and they
resolved to have some sport with him.
They pr scented their pistols and smiling
ly demanded his hat. OFF came the hat
and fell at their feet. They followed up
their success until they had stripped the
old man of his boots, pantalOOns, coat
and vest. and thought 1t would be a good joke
to send him home in his drawers and shirt
and stockings. He went and was glad to
get away. Then these two merry youths
became frightened at their fun, and paid
another boy two shillings to take the old
maT'S clothes home. The poor old fellow
faiHiel away when he reached home, and
recov+ring from the stupOr it was evident
his mind was gone. His friends informed
the police of what had happened, and the
face. Gus American youths have been ar
rested on a charge # highway robbery.
They did not mean TO he so funny as that,
but sGcceSs is the test Of merit. They will
have to establish the genuineneSS of the
joke before the court.
Year: 1874

THE disease known as trichina is caus-
ing terrible havoc among the hogs along
the Kaskaskia river in Illinois. Not less
than ten thousand hogs have died already,
and the fatality is still unchecked.
Year: 1874

The danger from overflow at Hushpuck-
ena and Bolivar has been Over-eStimated.
As yet the damage is insignificant, though
the water on the levee is so high the swell
from each passing steamer throws it TO the
ton of the leVee
Year: 1874

NEW YORK, April 14.-The master me-
chanics engaged in the building trade, held
a meeting this afternoon in regard to the
proposed return to the ten hour system.
The committee appointed at the previous
meeting were empowered to correspond
with all organizations OF master mechanics
in the United States, with the view to the
establishment of National Exchange. A
number of new signatures were received to
the resolutions binding the signers to re-
turn to the ten hour system, and the meet
ing adjourned.
Year: 1874

ON the Judiciary renorted hac< the civil
rights bill introduced on the first day of the
session by the late Senator Sumner with an
amendment and recommendation of the
majority of the committee that it be passed
as amended. Placed on calendar.
Year: 1874

The House Judiciary Committee to-day
by majority of one, voted to report and
recommend the passage of the bill for the
distribution of the Geneva award.


The House Committee has fixed Thurs
day next for the consideration of the postal
telegraph scheme, and the Postmaster Cen
eral and the President of the Western
Union Telegraph Company will be notified
to be present and submit such arguments
As they may desire
Year: 1874

their views pick them mp here and there and anywhere
and never have any genuine convictions. They are
without continuity. without root This is far too COM
mon fact. We are brave about opinions maintain
them vigorously when they assaed, seem


eye what we hold to In conversation: but the difficulty
Is they are not our opinions at all. They dictated
by society. by clubs by elques We get them from the
newspapers perhaps and do not think and study them
out for ourselves.


Character has no root So men generally have that
stability which comes OF conviction When you are
brought by circumstances into sudden difficulty. do you
see men standing around you waiting TO help you 7
Character is that vital thing that should not be driven
by the winds aud tossed and with IL men do NOT drift
about like floating islands in the Stability is not
ours We arc not growing 10 declared end. Here and
there Is one who looks like Colossus among the pig
mics, but he has to contend against the multitude
Rootless we must wither and fail. Toe drouth, the
storm. and the tempest como, and must meet them
with power or fa before them. Suferngs and tempa-
tuns try test you test your faith. your opinions.
your character ana find they have root. In all your
getngs get root planting deep, that the roots may
supply we that you may grow into your proper sta
ture and become stable. balanced men with roots.
Year: 1874

II is said that Victor Hugo rarely
makes use Of the pen be works with
the brain and not with the hand
When composing his works he PAGES
the floor Of his room, holding high his
head, and debating to secretary sit
ting at desk in one corner. He die
tates very slowly, sentence by sent
ence, as Moses, to whom the poet Of
ten compares himself, must have dc
tated tho words engraved upon the
ancient tablets of stone. Moses ho
regards as the greatest man that ever
lived, but there arc grave doubts in
his mind whether or not Moses and
Victor Hugo are not one and the same
person. II Hugo did not live few
thousand years ago under the namo
of Moses, be thinks that the soul Of
Moses must have descended to the
Hugo OF today. 1t is even said that
he has declared any other mind that
ever existed incapable Of writing tho


irst books Of the Bible, and rather in
clines to the belief that he wrote them
himself. If he extends his theory to
Others his lofty contempt for the rest
of mankind must make him assign tho
rest OF us 10 brute state Of existence
at the time ho was the chief Of tho
Hebrews and the law-giver to the hu-
man race. Victor Hugo works inces-
sanity, wearing out two secretaries
when pressed for the timc, and eats
as hearty as any man alive. The
amount Of fish no consumes by him
self woald supply small family, aud
his bcefsteaks are Of old-fashioned d.
mensions. After all, there is nothing
like good appetite and an excellent
digestion, especially when one rises
at FIVE o'clock in the morning and


works until midnight.
Year: 1874

Editors Dispatch :: The present condition
of our Fire Department is matter of pride
to US all. The chief, his officers, and men.
have faithfully performed their duty, and
the city machinery is In good working or der.
Let US have still another improvement which
will not cost money but simply require or
ders from the chief. Persons living between
the Brook.avenue engine-house and the
Third.street engine-house cannot tell where
a fire is by the ringing of the bells.
When the Third-street bell begins to
ring out the alarm and then sounds
The boz, and while you are count
ing the number, the Brook-aveDue bell
sounds the alarm, and then it is beyond
the power of man to tell where the fire is.
This may seem small thing, but to mer-
chant who has his busiuess-house down.
town and he living uptown, the exact box
from which the fire is turned in is q very
important question, as the writer knows
from sad personal experience in the way of
walks to Station-houses to learn where the
fire was at midnight and in the small
hours Of morning. Let Chief AiDslie issue
orders that two bells shall not ring
at the same time, and thus enable
citizens to read the number sounded from
the station. This state of affairs applies
with equal force to parties living near the
First Baptist church. In fact, the trouble is
so great that / have known persons say that
it was impossible to tell anything about the
location of fire by the bells. Please say a
word for US, and add another to the many
fayors already done our people.


-..f' DowN.TowN MERCHANT.


We, like our correspondent, have expert
enced great difficulty in counting the strokes
Of the bells. If there is remedy let it be
h.d - 5i
Year: 1874

] We draw near tie reality, and the fancifnl
anticipation Of its joys is growing less and
less entertaining. Nobody is sorry for this.
We are not. We have few more good peo-
pie anxious to serve the public and make q
good time all the better by their disinterest.
ed acts
Year: 1874

This market was 1rmer The price opened and
closed at 1ll7s, with figures meanwhile at 11l1 a
1925. The rates paid Tor carrying ranged IRON
pa per cent TO fat. decidedly stronger feeling
Is being SHOWN IN this department, and II a
sympathetic will well supported by men OF
wealth the result would be quickly and strongly
Year: 1874

THE MONEY MARKET.


Money was without feature, loans on call being
made at to per cent. The range OF prime mer-
title paper was from 5is to per cent. Money
ls said to be somewhat nrmer at the West, but
Offers made at this point have not found accept
ance. THIS would seem 10 indicate an ample sup
ply in that section. Foreign exchange is quoted as
1ollows:-
Year: 1874

The celebrated case of the State, er REL ueoise
T. Anthony, against the editor Of this paper ior
libel, in the District Court, was called Monday
morning, and ON motion of the attorneys ior tne
prosecution. was dismissed, at the cost OF the
County.


OF cours.. we are not disposed to object to this
wind-up of the affair. Still, we cannot neip
thinking that it should never have been IN the
Courts. George T. Anthony was as well con-
WINGED last February, as he is to-day, tnat we
did not maliciously publish the Objectionable ar
tcle, but that we did it upon information and
nnder circumstances that we believed to be relI-
able He has put us to some little cost, himself
to great deal more, sand the County to eOnsid-
erable, and has not thereby vindicated his char
acter a particle more than it was by our article
explaining and correcting our first statement.
Another course would have been of as much BEN
eft to him, and there would have been better
feeling over it. We think that revenge was
sought after, more than Justice.


But We do not lay the whole blame on Capt.
Anthony. We know who surrounded him when
he frst came, and took interest in his case We
have not the slightest doubt that be was led to
believe that the entire community made his case
theirs, and that he had ony to submit his cause TO
a Doniphan County jnry, to insure our certain
conviction. And when jury was secured We
know that boasts were made, that some of them
were fixed" that they knew their men, and
that bets were offered that We would not be ac
quilted. The result told different story. Per.
haps the County can stand it to pay heavy costs
because We happen to be obnoxious to CERTAIN
individuals; but if were the County, we
would want individuals to pay the expense OF
their own spite.


We mean no alusion, in the above, to the at
torneys for the prosecution. They but performed
their duty, and did the best they could for their
| side of the case.


Price of the Chief, 81 a year, in advance, post
age prepaid.
Year: 1874

Last Wednesday the fifteenth anniversary
of the execution Of John Brown. When Cover


nor WISE who is still alive, told him be had bet-
ter prepare for death: his reply was; Governor,
you do well tn advise me to prepare far death !;
fifteen years. perhaps to live longer than l. you
have as much need Of that hint as have myself
Year: 1874

IN THE WALLow.-The Germantown (0.) Inde-
pendent Press may think it quite funny, and try
to laugh and ridiculs it down. when we speek of
what the Democratic party will do When it has
the power; but laughing and ridicnle will not
change the matter That party is doing as We
spoke Of, just fast as it gets the power. Ev
cry victory they achieve, is made an opportunity
to glorify prominent rebels, and to humiliate
those who fought for the Union. 1t would be
the acme of their delight to return the country
to the condition it was in when the shareholders
ruled it. The late Judicial decision in Indiana
is of itself enough to convince any unprejndice'l
man of the drift of the party, and to disgrace it
in the estimation of every lover of justice. They
claim that the negroes are ignorant, and then de-
eide that they have right to be educated; and
they are turning them ont of the schools by
wholesale. We are afraid the Press is lndepend-
ent only in denouncing Republicans, while blind
ly clinging to what is called Democracy, no mat
ter what it does. The Press may be excusabe
for publishing the story of Madden's fiddle and
Hollenback's dog twice in the same isrue, but it
is not excusable in defending or countenancing a
return to the worst form of barbarism.
Year: 1874

A LONG LEAP FOR LIFE.-The Bangor

 W1tg says; Thursday morning last little red squirrel having been pestered consider

 ably by the lads about the sawmill of Eben Webster 6 Co. on Marsh Point, 0rono, took refuge for life by running up the large brick chimney near the mill. By clinging to the corner he kept foothold so well that he succeeded in reaching the very top. Here he found himself upoh the iron cap l05 1-4 feet from the ground. As more and more of the waste stuff from the mill was added to the furnace the chimney grew hotter, and bis situation became more and more disagreeable. He tried to descend upon the side of the chimney, but after getting down few feet gave it up, turned about and went back. By this time the chimney top had become so hot that he must leave It; so after looking about care fully for few minutes he evidently made up his mird that Ee must leap to save his life, and this he did. spreading out his legs. and balancing himself so that he struck the ground about fifty feet from the base, un- injured, and immediately scampered off and screened himself under pile of boards
Year: 1874

Sheffields

 Monday of this week was quite an eXcit- ing tune both with teachers and scholars in all parts of the town, as all the schools commenced on that day The High school. with the efficient MT. Hall for instructor, will last ten weeks. MT. Warner, the former teacher, has been West, but found the climate ruinous 10 his health and has re- turned, hoping soon to be able to teach again in the vicinity of home. His old pu- pills of the High school were very glad to see him again, as they had all become much attached to him, and were very un- willing he should leave...... On Friday even- ing of this week the well-known play 'Lon- don Assurance will be again repeated by request. Any one who has not seen it be- fore cannot fail to be delighted. Lady Gay Spanker' being the star as usual, a. ways draws large house. ..... While the peach crop is failure in some place, Shef- field seems to be favored, as Ralph Little has a large peach orchard and report says the trees are most of them loaded with fruit of every variety you can mention, both early and late. He has not only peaches in abundance, but pears and apples. Hay ing such great quantities, he has found it necessary to put up fruit house, where it can all be stored and ready to sell if any one wishes to buy......People are just now talking camp meeting more than anything else, seeming to feel more interest than usual OCCASIONAL.
Year: 1874

Saturday afternoon Mrs. Ann Comfort of Fair Haven, young married woman, soon to become mother, endeavored 70 kindle fire with kerosene oil. The can exploded and her clothes caught fire. She was fatally burned before the flames were extinguished and died during the evening.