smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1875

Many years ago | was on mail coach
and as soon IS we came to a public house
the coachman pulled up for fraction Of
a second. He Gid so when we came to a
second public house, and then asked
him the reason. He pointed 10 the off
hand wheeler, and said that she had long
been completely blind and she would stop
every place on the road at which she had
before stopped. He had found by sxpe-
rience that less time was wasted by pul.
ling up his team than by trying to drive
her past the place, for she was contented
with momentary stop. After this
watched her, and it was evident that she
knew exactly, before the coachman be
gan to pull up the ether horses, every
public house on the road, for she had at
some time stopped at all. think there
can be but little doubt that this mare re-
cognized all the houses by her sense of
smell. With respect to cats, so many
cases have been recorded OF their return.
ing from a considerable distance to their
homes, after having been carried away
shut up in baskets, that can hardly dis
believe them, though these stories are
disbelieved by some persons Now, as
far as | have observed cats do not pos
sess a very acute sense of smell, and
they seem to discover their prey by eve
sight and by hearing. This leads me to
mention another trihng fact. | sent
riding h.rse by railway from Kent via
Yarmouth to Freshwater Bay, in the Isle
of Wight, On the first day thtt rode
eastward, my horse, when turned to 90
home, was very unwilling to return TO-
wards his stable, and he several times
turned round. This led me to make re-
peated trials, and every time that |
slackened the reins he turned sharply
round, and began to trot to the eastward
by little north, which was nearly in the
direction Of his home in Kent. had
ridden this horse daily for several years,
and he had never before behaved in this
manner. My impression was that he
somehow knew the direction whence he
had been brought / should state that
the last stage from Yarmouth to Fresh.
water is almost due south, and along this
road he had been ridden by my groom;
but he had never once shown any wish
to return in this direction. | had pur-
chased this horse several years before
from gentleman in my own neighbor-
hood, who had possessed him for con.
siderable time, Nevertheless, tits posi-
BILE, though far from probable, that the
horse may have been born in the Isle Of
Wight. Even if we grant to animals a
sense Of the points Of the compass, of
which there is no evidence, how can we
account, for instance, for the turtles
(which formerly congregated in great
multitudes, only at one season Of the
year, on the shores of the Isle of Ascen-
sion-6nding their way to that speck of
land in the middle of the great Atlantic.
-DdrwiR. NN
Year: 1875

How are we to account tor the singular
disappearance of Arkansas as a disturbing
element from S1r politics. For years
that State was The theater of tumult and
uprcar, of falschood, fraud, blood and
crime. Its society was torn by dissen-
sions, its white and black population ar
rayed against each other, lis high offices
made the stakes of a disgraceful struggle,
its high officers often agents in shame
less conspiracies and fraud, and even its
courts manufactures of partisan decis-
ions. The State was disgrace to its peo-
pie and disturber of the country But
within the last few weeks it has grown
quiet; its name is rarely mentioned; it is
minding its own business and leaving US
TO mind ours; no wrangles and contests
are heard within its borders the names
of its factious chiefs no longer salute
our ears In short, Arkansas is at peace.
What is the explanation of this change.


The same, we imagine, accounts for the
subsidence Of strife in Virginia, in North
Carolina, in Georgia, in Florida, in Ten
nessee, in Alabama and in TeXas-the
downfall of the local Republican party
All these States were, in turn. scenes of
violence and disorder while the carpet
baggers, welding the power of the Ma
tional Government, held sway in them.
All of them have become tranquil since
the rout and flight of the carpet -bagger
Outside government kept them in inces-
SAINT ferment; free government gives them
peace and order As long as the Admins
tration attempted to control them they
were refractory and uncomfortable; the
moment they were left TO their own people
they became quiet and loyal. Could there
be more striking proof of the benignity
of local government or the evil of Federal
interference?


The case of Arkansas shows the Repub-
lican party in its true character as natu-
raj disturber of the peace. Its rule in
every Southern State has been marked by
hostile arrangements, prescription and
strife; its overthrow has been followed, al
most invariably, by reunion and repose
Even the labored patchings and splicings
that are being made in Louisiana are moth
ing more than miserable effort to repair
the disorder of Republican rule and annul
the effects of Federal interference The
true remedy for the Louisiana evil is that
which cured the evils Of Arkansas-leav-
ing the people to themselves. But the
personal policy of the President was in
volved, and it would not do to give Louis
lana peace at the cost of a rebuke to the
President and his Attorney General hence
the importation of a cumbrous machinery
from abroad to do, or attempt, what the
simple policy of let alone would have
peacefully and effectively done two years
arO-.Sf I,uis R,,1lybZic01
Year: 1875

THE Supreme Court of the cnitea
States has Just rendered decision OF
special interest and Importance to all
holders of life insurance policies and al


who may hereafter apply for such poll;
cies. Ii is to the effect that untruthiui
answers to the questions which iorm the


basis of the policy, even though they
NAV be immaterial to the risk assumed
by the company, render the instrument i
void. This is the first time in when ihe
question involved has been brought De
fore the court of last resort ID TINS coun-
try
Year: 1875

credentials that the Wheeler Congressional Committee
did investigate the election OF 1872. He says


l. therefore, as Governorelect OF Louisiana, In the
OF the people do deny that their right TO govern
themselves has been lost either by their own aeqies
cence or by the Wheeler adjustment Of the Louisiana
House OF Representatives., or by any action OF the
Federal Congress. Regretting your course In re-
signing Senator, have option but TO accept the
risignation and 7 Will forthwith appoint your sue
c,ssor with a still unfatering confidence in
the justice and good faith Of tho Federal Congress-
and the people OF the whole United States,
shall never cease 10 appeal to that justice
and that faith, until I shall have secured
to Louisiana the right which alone s denied her and
which she Will surrender Of living under the rue
of the lawfully elected officers OF her own sovereign
choice Very respectfully, your obcdent servant,


JOHN MCESERY, Governor Of Louislana
Year: 1875

Andrew COnklin of No. 46S Greenwich-st.
attacked his wife Mary about o'clock this morning, and
kicked and beat her badly about her face and head
that feared that her injuries will fatal Tho
husband crazy with liquor Leaving his wife
upon the Oor he hed and has not since been
The injured woman was taken to the Chambers Street
Year: 1875

THE FOURTH OF JULY sNARL OF THE LONDON


sTANDARD-OUR INSANE REvOLT-AND OUR


GENERALLY DEPLoRABLE CONDITION


The following is the editorial from the
London Standard which provoked go much
comment at the time of its appearance: Tie
Fourth of July falling this year on Sunday,
the Americans we're obliged to postpone their
demonstrations'of good will and brotherly
love to the nation over whom they celebrate
an annual triumph till yesterday. when
they assembled in the Crystal Palace to
boast, in England and in the face of the Eng
lish nation, the disruption OF the British
empire. 1t is hardly necessary to
say that none. but Americans would
venture on such a display of bad
taste and discourtesy, and none but
English:nen would tolerate it. What would
be thought OF US were we to celebrate the
anniversary of Waterloo by public dinner
10 Paris-and what would become of the
celebrants? Would the Belgians propose to
hold, at the Hague or In Amsterdam, q
public festival in honor of their successful
revolt from Holland, or, despite the cordial
fealing which now exists b9tween Austria
and Italy, would Italians propose or Aus
TRANS permit a public dinner at Vienna on
the anniversaries Of Solferino and Sadowa?
L is equally needless TO say that since our
American guests have not sufficient sense of
the becoming TO abstain from this kind OF
offensive Standardization, it would never
enter into the head of any Englishnlan to
disturb them, though we think it is hardly
decent for any loyal Englishman to join in a
demonstration which, whatever its imme-
diate form and actual incidents, avowedly
commentaries great dishOnOr sustained
by English arms and grave disaster to the
British Empire. Such participation may be
permitted to men like Mr.. Bright, who re-
ioice in everything that tends to impair the
power and awaken the national spirit of
their country, or like Lord Granville and
Lord Kimberley, who have done their best
to deprive England of ner remaining pos
sessions. But it should be recognized that
no desire to conciliate, no friendly feeling
toward our kinsmen and former FELLOWSHIP
jects, should induce any man who is proud
present greatness, TO participate in festival
which has its origin in the worst and


MOST DIsCREDITABLE DISASTER


she ever sustained. Let us hope that in
future, as the Manchester school dies out,
and the Wings learn that though Eogland
has forgiven the political heirs of Fox, she
has never condoned the disloYalty which
exiled him and his adhereDts from power
and place for nearly fifty years, the Ameri-
can envoy and his countrymen will be left
to make their boast alone The acciderft
which postponed for day the celebration
of the greatest OF English defeats gave to
Dean Stanley an opportunity OF Improving
the occasion in political sermon, character
istic alike of the man and of the party he
belongs to. He began by applying the
Year: 1875

Our hands as free from afterthought or doubt
AS here the united North
Poured her embrowned manhood forth
In welcome to our savior and thy son.
Through battle have better learned thy


worth,
The deep-set courage and undaunted Will,
Which, like his own, the days disaster done,
Could, safe in manhood, suffer and be still.
Both thine and ours the victory hardly wons
IL ever with distempered voice or pen
We have misdeemed thee, here we take 1t


back
And for the dead of both don common black.
Be to us evermore as thou vast then,
AS we forget thou hast not always been,
Mother of States aud unpolluted men,
Virginia, fifty named from England's manly


onpan
Year: 1875

Tho Worcester Spy gratlfies the people OF
Massach Isstts with the a lnouucement that
they ara more heavily taxed than the people
of any other state in the Union. The state
and municipal taxes tor the current year
amount to s17 10 for each individual of the
population, while each New Yorker pays
only $I1 06, and the fortunate dweller ia the
sparsely settled state of Texas only 81 81. 1t
may comfert the Bay State man to reflect
that If the Texan pays little he doesn't get
great deal for his money.
Year: 1875

prisoner in Paris lately received let
tor containing merely lock of hair wrapped
in the leaf of a small book. The jailer did
not consider the souvenir, important enough
to be delivered, but few days after came
similar enclosure, and yet another. This
aroused suspicion, and the governor took
the matter in hand. He examined the leaf
OF the book. 1t was only that of common
novel, twenty-six lines on page. Then be
studied the hair ans noticed the small
quantity of the gift. Counting the hairs he
found them of unequal length, and twenty
six in number the same as the lines of the
page. Struck with this coincidence, he laid
the hairs along the line of the page which
they respectively reached, beginning at the
top with the smallest hair. After some
trouble he found that the end OF each hair
pointed to different letter, and that these
letters combined formed slang sentence,
which informed the prisoner that his friends
were on the watch, and that the next time
he left the prison to be examined an attempt
would be made to rescue him. The COVER
nor laid bis plans accordingly, the attempt
at rescne was made, but the rescuers fell into.
their own trap.
Year: 1875

THERE is still outstanding twelI Q
thousand dollars OF the three.cent frac-
tional currency notea, the issue of which
ceased in 1889, and one million eight
hundred and seventy thousand dollars
of the five cent denomination. All this
is clear gain to the government and loss
to the peCple
Year: 1875

1T is now asserted that the activity in
the navy department had not any more
to do with Spanish affairs than those OF
any other country, and that the Presi-
dent had not given the slightest intima-
ton to anybody as to what he shsll say
Oh Cuban affairs in his forthcoming
Year: 1875

thousand five hundrei and eleven, and
a congressional repre- entstion Of ninety
five. With these figures in view we
ought certainly be able to csrry our
Southern Pacific railroad despite Tom
Year: 1875

ANoNCAAOCA -oB lOfOsJ


The President of the United States
announces the death of Vice President
Henry Wilson in the following. order {:
Here follows the order of the Presi-
uent In pursuance of the foregoing
order it Is hereby directed that upon the
day following the receipt of this order
the ensign at each United States naval
station, and each United States naval
vessel in commission, be hOisted at half
mast from sunrise to sunset, and that
thirteen guns bs fired at sunrise, nine
teen minute-guns at meridian, and na-
tiOnal salute at sunset, at each United
States naval station, and on board the
fiagships and vessels acting singly at
home and abroad. The officers of the
navy and marine corps will wear the
usual badge Of mourning for the period
OF three months.
Year: 1875

bring into this assemblage politics, certainly
not partisan politics, but it is fair sub
Ject for soldiers IN their deliberations to
consider what may be necessary to secure
the prize for which they battled in Re-
public like ours. Where the citizen is the
sovereign and the official the servant,
where no power is exercised, except by the
will OF the people, it is important that the
soyerign-the people-should possess in
teligence.


A WORD FOR FREE SCHOOLS.


The free school is the promoter of that
intelligence, which is to preserve us as a
free. nation. If we are to have another
contest 10 the near future of our national
existence predict that the dividing line
will not be Mason and Dixon s, but between
patriotism and intelligence on the one
side, and superstition, ambition and ig-
norance on the other. Now. in this cen
tennlal year of our national existence,
believe 1t good time to begin the work of
strengthening the foundation of the house
commenced by our patriotic forefathers
100 years ago at Concord and Lexington.
Let US all labor to add all needful guaran-
tees Tor the more perfect security of free
speech and free press, pure morals, un-
fettered religious sentiments, and of equal
rights and privileges to all men, irres-
pective of nationality, color or religion.
NO sECTARIAN APPROPRIATIONS.


Encourage free schools and resolve
that not one dollar of money appropriated
to their support, no matter how raised.
shall be appropriated to the support of
any sectarian school, Resolve that neither
the state nor nation, or both combined,
shall support institutions of learning other
than those sufficient to afford to every
child growing up in the land the oppor-
tunity OF good common school education,
unmixed with sectarian, pagan or atheisti-
cal tenets. Leave the matter of religion
to the family altar, the church and the
private school supported entirely by pri-
yate contributions Keep the church
and state forever separate. With these
safeguards believe the battles which Gre
ated the Army of Tennessee will not have
been fought in vain."
Year: 1875

His place was soon reoccupied by an
other, whose appealing, terrified looks
told Only too plainly what he suffered.
Hi would have resisted we're it of any
use. He had been there before, knew
what it was, and would have almost
given life to bereprieved Stripped and
strapped to the triangles, unlike the
prisoner before him, he turned his head
over his shoulder and watched the ex-
ecutioner. There we're the old marks of
former Asgging on his back-black
spots and hnes-lett there six months
before, He tried to be brave and bear
it; but 1t was no good the "swish"
sounded once more, the horrible, knotted
cords swept cuttingly across his back,
and with burst of agony he broke out
in long continued shrieks. 0ne of his
legs got twisted with cramp, He tried
to stay the lash for a minute-anything
for time-anything for one moment Of
peace. But there was none the pitiless
lash descended till the sentence was car
ried through. Then, when it was over,
he went away, muttering thanks to God,
as with bent form and tottering steps
they led him to the cells. 1t was the
last time he would enter that yard-and
that was his sole relief.


"A BOY IN AGONY.


There was one more victim--a mere
lad, sixteen years of age. / had heard
him convicted the day before in court
for an offense he could scarcely know
the nature of. He was a good-looking
little fellow, with clear skin and bright
blue eyes. He looked upon it all as a
thrashing at schools, walked forward
with a light, jaunty step, and stripped as
coolly as if he we're going to plunge into
the river. They strapped him up, and
then there came the order once again,
twenty-five" The executioner took
up lighter cat. with thinner thongs
than those he had used before. 1t
whistled for moment in the air, and
then the fair, white skin of the boy was
walled, and livid and blue. There was
sudden jerk of the body, a quick
drawing of the breath that made
the chest expand and the ribs
stand out more prominent A second
blow, and still no cry. He was game,
and would see ii out. AT the third the
pentup suffering burst out, and with q
yell | shall never forget, the lads head
was thrown back, and he wrenched at
the wrist-straps till they almost cut the
Year: 1875

He is a renovator, and he does not
ask for money, and this is the way he
gets at it. First. He has discov-
cred certain process for colored, and
black goods, by which after cleaning
them, no matter how faded or rusty
they may be, he restores them to their
original newness of appearance. and
then he only asks for cast off clothes
as payment for his work, so don't let
us hear any more about hard times
but muster up all your old traps, and
take them to his shop. His name is
Horatio Marteen and he keeps at No.
"a, Arcadia street, one door below
Main and adjoining Mr.. Signorets sa-
loon. dec1 Inn
Year: 1875

The world is all dark or the world is all


bright,


Just as we choose fo make it;
Our burden is heavy, our burden Is light,
Just as we happen to take IL;
And people who grumble and people who


groan


At the world and its every proposal
Would grumble and groan if the world were


their own,


With the sun, moon and stars at disposal.
II is all very well to have beauty and health,
But II ugly and sick we must bear II;
1t is all very we'll to have oceans of wealth.
Though we find if we MUST we can spare II /;
But healthy anu. wealthy, or sickly and


poor,


We are wise to be "careless and happy"
And gracefully try all our ills t. endure,
Though we try till we're "halrless and cap


py."
Year: 1875

IN THE DISTRICT COURT, THIRD JUDICIAL District Yavapai County.

 MARTHA STEBBISs Plaintiff,

 against

 JOHN STEBBINs. Defendant.

 Action brought in the District Court Third Judicial Dis tric in and for the County of Navapai in the Terrto " of Arizona

 The Territory of Arizona sends greeting John Sebbns defendant.

 You are hereby summoned and required to appear in action brought against you by the above named plain tiff in the District court of the Third Judicial District in and for the County of Yava in the Territory of Ari zona and answer the complaint filed with the clerk of this court Prescott in said county Ca copy of which complaint accompanies this Summoas), within twenty days exclusive of the day of service after service upon you of this summons if served in this county but if served out of the county and within this district then within thirty days in all other forty days.

 This action brought praying for decree disSclvng the bonds of matrmOny existing between the plain tn and defendant the grounds of extreme cruelty causing grievOus mental and bodily suffering plaintiff And you hereby notified that if you fail to appear and answer the complaint above required the plaintiff will take default against you. and will apply the for the relief demanded in her said complaint and costs and disbursements in this behalf exrended

 Given under my hand and the seal of the said Dis

 rict court, at Prescott this 18th day of August A. , D. ls75 WILLIAM wILKERSON, IL. z. Clerk. RUSH WELLS, Attys. for PlG. ang2M9.
Year: 1875

A Washington correspondent of the New York Evening Post telegraphed the follow ing under date of Sept. ::

 A singular story has been current for two or three days to the effect that Cardinal McCloskey carried with him to Rome the details of a scheme devised to break down the public school system of this country, and that, if it is approved by the Pope, 1t will be immediately put into operation.

 Certain prominent Roman Catholics liv- ing here are credited with having divulged the plan, which, according tO the statement of persons who believe the story to be au- thentic. consists chiefly of the establishment of college of Jesuits m Washington, with branch colleges in other cities, for the pur- pose of directing war upon the school sys- tem. and to influence men in public life.

 There are no means of verifying the story, and it is given only for what 1t is worth. Several public men have been informed of the alleged project, and have been furnished with the details more fully than are here given, and they are satisfied that 1t Is not founded on mere rumor.

 Whether this war which they will wage is to be open or covered will depend largely upon the success or failure of their political movements in the forthcoming elections The vote in New Jersey last week. on the question of adopting the new Consultation, was severe rebuke to the priests in their open efforts to defeat the section relating to the public schools.
Year: 1875

A LADY WOULD LIKE A POSITION AS COMPAN
N ion TO lady governess to small children
graduate Of state Normal school with two years OK
with rtamily; accustomed TO refined society ana has
reference. Address ELOCUTIoN, Herald Brooklyn
Branch Office.
Year: 1875

TICKETS AND GREENBACKs.-A ticket In the
last Library Concert is just as good AS gree nback
of the same size. Its value Is fixed and 1t can be
used like currency. Many people prefer ticket TO
It's money value, because It may come TO be worth
thousand or more times its price. Besides, a
ticket admits the holder to the great Gilmore JGbi-
lee which admittance alone is worth the price Of
COMMON.
Year: 1875

A DEAD BABY AT TIE CITY HALL.-The
dead body Of white female infant was
found on Capitol street in front of the City
Hall early yesterday morning. Coroner Tay-
Tor made post-morten examination, and
found that the infant Was born dead. No
inuueSt.
Year: 1875

Bob taking an terribly. 1t was a lucky
die for me-"


"Could you hpar?" she Gasped


81 rather think could some" 1 re.
piled.


She looked toward the door, but it
was crowded full, SO she made dive
for the open window, and went through
it like deer. Sac Shut herself up in
the smoke house, and would not come
out until after-I had LIFT the house.


Bob would not ill his promise of mar.
liage with his cousin because she tried
to make up with me again; so she is
living a life of single bles'edness.


While am writing, my wife is cut.
ting up my snuif-colorel clothes to
make stripe in new carpet for our
front loom.