smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1874

here are usc1ul suggestions from q
member of the British Parliament, Lord
Derby, who IS robust, manly man. He
says; !
exactly alike in mental and bodily apti~
tudcs, and let one 60 on carelessly and
idly, indulging his arpetitcs and general
ly leading life of pleasure, and let the
other train himself by earl y hours, by
temperate habits, and by giving to mus
Gle and brain each their fair share of
employment, and at the end of two or
three years they will be as wide apart in
their capacity for exertion as if they had
been born with wholly different constitu-
tions. Without normal healthy condi-
ton there can, as rule, be no good work;
and though that qualification cannot
absolutely be secured or preserved by
any rules, a little common sense and care
will go long way both in securing and
preserving it. On that point would
give you these hints: First. That it is not
mental labor that hurts anybody, unless
the excess be very great, but rather fret
ting and fidgeting over the prospect Of Ia
Dor to be gone through; 80 that the man
who can accustOm himself to take things
coolly, which is quite as much q matter
Ot discipline as of nature, and who, by
keeping we'll beforehand with what he
has to do. avoids undue hurry and nerv-
Gus excitement, has a great advantage
over one who follows different practice.
Next l would warn you. that those stu
dents who think they have no time for
bodily exercise will sooner or later have
to find time for illness. Third, when an
opportunity of choice is given, morning


work is gene rally better than night work ;
and lastly-a matter which should not
stop to allude to but that know the dan.


gers Of an overdrivcn existence in a


crowded town. if a man cannot get


through his days labor. of whatever kind


it may be, without artificial support, i,


should be serious consideration for him


whether that kind of labor Is fit for him


at ."-[From the chronological Jour


nal for December.
Year: 1874

When first butchered rub the hams
and shoulders with salt and let them
lie thirty-six hours. Then covered with
brine for six weeks longer will not hurt
them. Then remove them from the
brine, insert strong string in the large
end and hang them up in the smoke
house hook end downward. by this
means tenderness and flavor are given
to q portion of the ham often thrown
away. Smoke with green hickory
chips, and when they are sufficiently
smoked and dried, wrap them each in
a large sheet of brown paper and put
in loose bag of brown domestic. Tie
up the mouth of the bag carefully,
leaving out the string by which it was
hung up, and return to the hook in the
smoke-house or any other safe cOnve-
nient place. Hams thus treated will
keep for years. So says large pork
raiser of Indiana whose hams COM
mand the highest price in the markets.
Year: 1874

OUR jury system must be amended.
A qualification better and higher than
those now required of jurors is de-
manded. and must be established. II
is shameful to see important questions
of law, involving the value of proper
ty, handed over too often to lot of
seedy, needy fellows, some of whom
are in want and some incapable of re-
sisting temptation and corruption. No
wonder verdicts are not always OH the
side of justice. Where are the presi-
dents of banks and the railway mag
mates? Where are the rich real estate
men, hotel keepers and merchants :?
Why do they never appear in the jury
box? And hundreds of other wealthy,
able and well known citizens, why are
SO very, very few of them ever seen in
a jury box? Almost all Of them decry
the jury system. but they do nothing
to purify it. They shirk duty they
should seek as a matter of conscience,
yet they leave it to unworthy hands
too often, not regarding the quiet,
stealthy injury their neglect is surely
working against the common good.
The jury system, that is, the mode of
selecting and qualification, must be
amended so that the riff-ratf will be
kept out of the jury box.
Year: 1874

The bill now before congress author
lzing the government TO endorse the
bonds Of the Texas and Pacific railway
for forty thousand dollars n mile, In
exchange for n mortgage on all the
lands and property Of the company,
will be reported from the committee
about the first of February. A special
to the Galveston News gives the result
of an interview with one of the roads
friends, who Is very confident of n
favorable action by congress. He
says "that the bill was strong on its
merits. 1t was an act of juctice to the
south, giving that section assistance to
enable it to reach the Pacific coast, al
though the aid proposed was much less
valuable than that given to the north.
On this account it would receive the
solid southern vote and substantial
support from fair minded northern
representatives In the next place,
the construction of the road would do
much to revive the prostration of the
industry Of the country, and this argu-
ment had already proven efIectual with
several members representing iron-pro-
ducing districts. He counted on u
heavy vote from Pennsylvania on this
account, as well as on account of the
controlling influence exercised by Col
onel Thomas A. Scott over members
from that state, with the south unit
for the bill, backed by Pennsylvania
and the Pacific coast, he believed there
would be no trouble to pick up enough
members here and there in other states
to make majority. Once through
the house there would be no difficulty.
On the other hand, the northern Pa
cific will urge its friends to vote for the
Texas Pacific, which will give it some
strength in the northwest. The senate
had long been ready to pass the bill
whenever friends of roads desired.
Year: 1874

A New York exchange reports


During the week past two important
cases have been decided in the court of
appeals. The first was the case of the
Marine National bank of the city of
New York against the National City
bank of New York, and the second
that of the bank of North America
against the National bank of the Com
monwealth. Both suits were brought
to recover sums paid out on checks
certified by the banks complaining,
and are considered important rs likely
to affect loose and dangerous practice
which has become common among
operators In the money market


The court decides In both cases that
the certification ofa check by bank
Is simply the recognition of the sigma
ture thereto, as that of person or firm
having an account with and funds in
the bank to which the check is sub
mitted to be certified; that the money
was obtained under misrepresentation,
and that the judgment entered on the
report of the referee, directing that the
plaintiffs should be repaid the differ
ence claimed, be affirmed with costs.
Year: 1874

ONE thing is as clear as the noon
day sun. The international road
question must be put peacefully and
justly at rest. The people are weary
of it. The HERALD does not propose
to discuss here the legality or justice
of the company's claims. The whole
matter has been gone over until 1t is
the greatest Of bores. Either the de-
cision Of the legislature or the supreme
court must be acted upon and made
final. To refer 1t to the people would
be to put 1t within the corrupting in
fluences of purchasable politicians, We
nal presses and demagoguery. Lift
the question out of the reach Of these,
and settle II honorably and at once.
Year: 1874

Texas has made heroic efforts for
years to fill up its vast, beautiful and
fertile territory, and to develop its i'm
mense resources which, when accom-
plished, will place us as far ahead ofany
other state in the union, in point of
wealth and political power, that we
haven't room here to figure it up. We
are happy to state that those efforts
are being crowned with that success of
which they are SO imminently worthy.
Hundreds of intelligent and honest
people are daily pouring into its con-
fines. The tide of emmigration to the
west has at last turned in this direc-
ton, but there still remains much to
be done to complete this victory, and
we cannot think that the task is une-
quail to the men who have already
done 30 much under many more scri-
Gus disadvantages. Our cities must be
built up by manufactures of every
description, else that vast amount of
money realized from the products will
go to fill the Golfers of st. Louis and
other large manufacturing cities. The
press wlelds the greatest power, both
at home and abroad, but its power
ceases when its patronage stops. Your
papers must be literally supported by
subscription and advertisements at
home. No danger, then, Of its finding
patronage abroad.


Remember that people always see
the journals of city before 1t sees the
city, and by 1t the city is invariably
judged. Let them see a live paper
and they at once conclude it emanates
from a go-ahead community. A few
old fogies In business might ruin
whole city. They derange, confuse
and smother their own and their
neighbor's trade. Shrewd business
men, therefore, prefer good to bad
competitors in trade. Renew your
vigor and capitalists will flock to your
city and In few years Dallas will TEEN
with factories of every description,
your stores be filled with customers and
your property greatly enhanced In
value. Dallas has many advantages In
location, ETC., and has greatly out
grown her sister cities, but without
proper vigilance some other city may
yet snatch your large and fast increas-
ing trade from you.
Year: 1874

NEARLY every one of our state ex-
changes have been discussing the pro-
priety of usury law being enacted.
Miles of argument pro and con have
been spun out. Some contending that
such a law will drive capital out of the
state instead of inviting it here, to
such an extent as to cheaper money
through an ample supply and others
that unless some limit is put upon in
terest, which shall be a safeguard, the
very substance of the people will be
devoured in time. When the matter
comes up for action, either In the pro-
posed constitutional convention or the
legislature, THE HERALD will define
Its position ON the subject.
Year: 1874

THE great topic in fashionable radi-
cal and colored circles is the impend-
ing exodus of negroes from Alabama.
A convention of them was recently
held in Montgomery, and an address
prepared doubtless by some carpet
bagger who is going to make money
by moving them), setting forth their
"wrongs under kuklux hate and
white league prescription" which is
addressed to the people of the United
States. They want assistance from the
north to help their emigration associa-
tion effect their colonization in the far
west. 1t wouldn't be bad idea for con-
gress to present them with territory
next to Utah, so that the tworemnants
of "the twin relics of barbarism," the
negro and polygamy, can settle down
under their own vine and fig tree away
from "de pore white rebel trash"
Year: 1874

IT is not to be expected that any
movement looking to our securing all
rail communication with New Orleans
would be very palatable to either Gal
weston or Houston. Both have watched
with a jealous eye all of the recent ne
-gotiations relative to the New Orleans
and Dallas railway, and Dallas may
expect vigorous effort, on the part of
Houston particularly, to diverge the
line of the road to Houston. This will
not suit US. Our people wish Houston
success, but charity begins at home.
Year: 1874

THE st Louie Globe says: An afro
cious and utterly irresponsible slander
on the character of Miss Nelson has
ct last found circulation In the columns
Of the most irresponsible paper Of this
city-the Democrat-and as there is
not the slightest evidence Of Its truth,
the only explanation Of its appearance
must be to ascribe it TO incurable STU
pidity, or to even more reprehensible
malice. The story was sent over to
this country from England, and came
to our knowledge on its first appear
ance. AS 1t lacked confirmation we
did not feel called upon to notice It,
nor have we felt called on since, as nc
effort has been made to verify It.
Year: 1874

He was an Evansville, Indiana,
lover and his name was Reynolds.


His hated rival was coming home from
church with the Idol of his soul, and
brother Reynolds quietly laid for the
favored one as be was spooning home
ward with the maid on his arm, and
filled the skin of the hated rival 30 full
Of buckshot that he brought about @
first-class funeral. Now the Evans
Williams 60 In arms to church at night.
Year: 1874

THE committee appointed at the last
conference of the Methodist church to
receive proposals and award the loca-
ton of district school have awarded
it to Honey Grove, which gave forty
six hundred dollars i'm money.
Year: 1874

A LETTER from the department of
the Aube, in France, states that Nine.
Guinot meeting with a large wolf,
Immediately assumed the offensive,
and after driving the animal into a
thicket with stones, pursued her ad-
vantage with a pitchfork, and very
shortly after, coming to close quarters,
slew her redoubtable enemya and carried
the body in triumph into the village
Of Villars-en-Azois.
Year: 1874

less of past political affiliations, to
unite with US in support of the plat
form and ticket of this convention.
and we appeal to the better judgment
of all our business and professional
men to lend US their aid and sympathy,
remembering, as we'll they may, that
upon our prosperity and happiness de.
pends their success in business.


A resolution for the return to specie
payments and to stop imitation was
promptly voted down, and the leading
newspapers Of the country were &C..
cused of being bought up to oppose in
tlation.


A resolution was offered and adopted
thanking Gov. Taylor Of Wisconsin for
bis manly action in enforcing the law
against the exactions of railroad mo.
nopolies, and expressing the hope that
two years hence Illinois will have q
Governor who will emulate his firm.
ness.
Year: 1874

9ittsburg Commercial!


It'll quite remarkable the number of
back paysters who are declining nomioa.
tons for Congress. Nobody asked you,
sir, she sa;d.'


We believe that General Averi!l's chan
ces for re- e!ectioa this year are on the
wane. If b7 chance he should get the
nomination, judging from the last campaign
we believe he would stand very sim
chance 10 be elected. The candidate that
ls nominated by the Republican party
must have the united strength Of that ra7-
ty in the D ret to elect their man over
the Farmers ticket. We look at the farm.
ers movement as no laughing matter. If
they put up the right man, their chances
for success are as good as the other party,
and they will work with a will to attain
their object If Gen. Averill intends to
ride into Congress for another term he will
hud the reins of that party worn thread
oare. There is going to be fun in this
vicinity this fall. and we imagine that pol.
tics will be red hos.-Sherburn County
News.
Year: 1874

The ST. Louis Democrat, in very sensible
article on this subject says:


Colonel Forney complains in a we'll written
article in the Philadelphia Press, that men are,
rs a class, ungratetul to the newspapers aud the
journalists to whom they, in many instances,
owe their positions. Nobody is more compe-
tent to speak on this subject than Colonel
Forney himself He has made more statesmen
out of small material than any man in America.
He has taken a more active part in the per-
sonal of American politics in the last twenty
years than almost any other man. Much OF his
work has been that of journalist, but in
either capacity he has always been able to serve
his friends well, and he has always served them
faithfully. His reward has been very small.
II he had left politics alone and devoted him
self exclusively to Journalism, he might have
made greater name than Greeley's and a
greater fortune than Benefits But he WAS al
ways very fond Of helping some friend to an
Ohc3, and always had a taste for political
intrigue with purpose OF this kind. His ex-
pcrience has no doubt, been that Of hundred
others who have operated in the same way on
smaller scale. Make Governor out of an
Alderman to-day, and tomorrow no will tell
you that he owes his elevation to his own
superior merits FOrney made President out
out of james Buchanan-but before the old pub
lie tunctionary had taken his seat he repudiated
his patentee and manufacture in the most un
grateful manner. Congressman are made by
country newspapers-yet, when they 20 to
Washington, it wouldn be safe to tell them so.


Garfield, as an NJ. G. was invented by q
seven by nine sheet, the editor of which had
probably never seen five dollar bill in his life,
and Garfield would certainly be indignant now
if asked to give FIVE dollars of his bsckpsy to
that man. Trumbull was frst heard OF, We
believe, through little paper at Alton and
he was last heard of drawing his $1,000 grab.
Ben Butler says he was not made by the news
papers but then it must ever remain one of
the mysteries of nature where Ben Butler came
from. and what object was in view in producing
him. Ii the grievance of which Colonel Forney
complains is a sore one, it is the fault of those
who are aggrieved.


There is too much puffery Of small men in
the newspapers nowadays-teo much dispois-
ton to exalt geutle dullness and amiable ia- :
beoility into intellectual greatness and real
ability Every chucklehead in Congress gets
more praise from the press Of his party now
than could truthtuly have been bestowed upon
Daniel Webster in his palmiest days"
Year: 1874

rostrum, foolish and yet touching figure.
Dressed in shabby linen, with his homemade
calico shirt open at the throat, smoking
always smoking-a wretched dissoute looking
cigar, grinning vacantly whenever the hammer
falls, and never by any chance meeting the
spectator eye, he is picture at once torlorn
aud tragic. They say he is crazy, that he has
deliberately furthered this sacrifice in order to
destroy his faithless sons Inheritance his
other son, the darling on whom he lavished all
his love and generosity, was killed in the
Mechanics Institute riot of 1866. L do not
know how this is. | cannot quite make him
out. His yellow face seems very unmeaning.
His struggling white hairs are fraught with
dignity. He watches the dissipation Of his
suberb fortune with apparent Indifference.
Once, when some especially beloved property
was disposed of he gave way. He sobbed
piteOusy and his hand hurried unsteadily to
his eyes for just one instant. That was the
only time. Before and since there has been nc
sign Of feeling, or indeed Of consciousness. He
is too narrow and suspicious to be hero, toe
selfish to be martyr, too ignorant to be q
strategist. | am bound to believe, as | see
him looking on unmoved while his possessions
go to sharpers as a gift, that he is a poor de


mented old man that age and avarice have
driven mad. lie is one of the last of the
ancient class Of freeborn French colored men
and his was one Of the last OF those supert
estates which war and carpet baggers have lef
in Louisiana.-N Y Tribune
Year: 1874

The work of the Massachusetts Republican
Convention in nominating Talbot for Governor
will be regarded by the friends of Prohibition
az in some sort a temperance triumph. 1t was
supposed at the time when he vetoed the
License bill, some months ago, that he had
thereby ruined his chances for ominstion,
which before were exceedingly favorable. But
no other candidate before the Convention was
considered SO strong.
Year: 1874

Indianapolis has the champion kind hearted
man. He cut down his plum tree, loaded with
fruit, because he feared that his neighbors
children might get hold of the green plums and
be made sick
Year: 1874

R0oFs OF HoNEY.-In removing the
frame cornice of the United States Hotel
yesterday, says the Los Angeles Express
of the 25th ult., the interstces inside
were found to be filed with honey-comb.
Bees had lined the entire cornice with
honey and over two hundred pounds were
secured by the proprietor Of the hotel
Parties are now endeavouring to hive the
bees, Of which there is an immense
swarm, or several swarms. Many hous-
es Of this city are thus stored with the
sweet product Of the busy bee. Be-
tween the ceiling and the roof of the
house in which we write are stored tons
Of honey, Bees have been hiving in our
roof for years, and frequently, when the
weather is very sultry, the pure honey
percolates through the crevices of the
ceiling. Whenever we need honey, all
we have to do is to bore n hole through
the ceiling, then go to the grocery-store
and buy some. A hive Of bees is also To-
Gated in the Court House, but they don't
seem to flourish there, Too many drones
in the vicinity.
Year: 1874

a TERRIBLE THIRTY MINUTES HIS
TORY.-Mr. Kyle was at a near neighbours
house-raising, and Mrs. Kyle, with the
smaller of her two children, went to
spring near by to do her washing. After
being engaged some time she heard
scream from her little girl, whom she
had left at the house, and Fastening to
the scene, it was her horror to behold a
huge rattlesnake lying there with its fangs
fastened in the child's arm. She succeed
ed in killing the snake, and then thinking
of the child which she had left at the
spring, she FASTENED there, to find that
this one had climbed up to tho tub of
water, fallen in and was drowned. This
nearly crazed her, and she ran with all
her might to the neighbor's where the
house raising was, and screaming with
excitement, called to her husband, who
at the time was upon the building, and
he through excitement, in trying to get
down, pulled piece Of timber off upon
him and fell, killing him instantly. The
friends then went back to where the child
and snake were, only to find each dead
lying on the floor. This all happened
within thirty minutes.
Year: 1874

A YOUNG Sacramento woman sued for
a divorce from her husband, but accord
ing to her way of thinking, her attorney
was too slow, as she was in haste to mar
ry a resident of Gold Hill. A second
lawyer was engaged; the first discharged; +;
the divorce procured, and the parties
mentioned united in wedlock. The happy
couple when about to depart from the
city, were stopped by an attachment upon
the newly made husband by the first law
yer to secure legal fees.
Year: 1874

A GREAT scientific discovery has been
made in New York as to the cause and
effect OF hydrophobia. 1t is shown TO at
tack at once the nerves. Some persons
have it from the very fear of it; others
when not bitten by dogs. AS the disease
is unknown to California, the discovery
does not possess such vital Interest to the
people here as il would were the case 9TH
e-vvse.
Year: 1874

If the report about General McClel-
lan's last engineering feat is true, he has
made as big blunder as he did before
Richmond. He is said to have squan-
dered two million dollars on the Stevens
battery, which proves lamentable fail
ure, and will have to be sold for old iron.
Year: 1874

A TRAIN on the Shore Line Railroad
was thrown from the rails while crossing
a trestlework at Stony Creek, near New
Haven, and rolled down into the meadow
below. Superintendent Wilson was kill
ed, and several had arms or legs broken.
The papers publish list of 107 persons
who received injuries, but most of them
were not of serious character. There
are two or three whose cases are critical.
Year: 1874

THE comet now visible will be bright
est on the evening of August Sd, when it
will be 245 times brighter than at the
time Of discovery, and as the moon will
be absent it will be subjected to spectro-
scopic analysis under circumstances more
favorable than may occur again for ma
ny years.
Year: 1874

ONE DOLLAR PER DAY.-The value Of
a prisoners time has been reduced by
one of the amendments to the Code.
Heretofore, when man was convicted
before a court and fined, he had the al
tentative of serving out his sentence by
imprisonment at the rate of s. per day.
As the law stands now, he is allowed but
81 DOR dAY.
Year: 1874

A COUPLE of swell thieves in New
York were driven to the steamer dock in
grand style, by iveried coachman, and
going on board the outgoing vessel, went
into a state room, stole $1,000 worth of
money and jowelry, and then departed in
the same gorgeous way.
Year: 1874

A "FAIR complexion is what young
ladies desire to have, and they will try
almost any means to secure one. A
young lady named West, in Kentucky,
took arsenic to improve hers and succeed
ed well. One dose was enough to add
another to the list Of victims Of fashion.