smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1879

There were two men (about 1880 Stic1penny s. Whe-
well, who owned sawmill Old Town Maine, III
mon The arrangement under which the mill was opper-
ated that each had the mill all TO himself during
the alternate weeks. Stickpenny mean rusty old
chap Whewell was shrewd, investigating young man
The mill run by crude, rough kind of undershot
wheel that gave very little power for the amount of water
used that the water often short Whewel wanted
TO put in iron spiral vent wheel then just coming out
but Stickpenny would have nothing TO do with it, He
wasn't going lay out money for any such Job that
Finally Wheweli said he would pay all the bills to which
Stickpenny last agreed but provided you put the
wheel in, in your week. So the wheel put in
and Whewell being of mechanical of mind exper-
mented with it, and found by plugging up Of
the orfces the went through the log faster than when
they all open So he plugged them up during his
week, and always pulled the plugs all out again for Stick
penny operate with Soon ii began to be noticed that
somehow other Whewell always managed to saw a
couple of thousand feet of lumber in his week than
Stickpenny could, matter how the pond FL
naly, Stickpenny went down to see Whewe about it.


Says he Whewel, how is it that you always manage
to more lumber in given time than can when my
turn comes rounds? Says Whewell Don't you know how
that is? Waa III tell you. It's because you amt been
treatn of me fairly this matter It's again
You can't expect the mill to well for you it does
for them does the square thing all around Stickpen-
NY wouldn't believe that and away. But still the
mill turning out regularly lumber for Whe-
well than Stckpenny managed to get out of it finally
the latter came around and said " What your bill? I'll
pay my share He paid il, and thereafter Stickpenny
managed saw lumber just as lively as Whewell did


Wel said the old fellow always knew that the folk
around here all ag but never thought the Al
mighty " and he died without finding out the explain
alton of it all.


HEROIC IRISH SERGEANT-Naper records in his history
of the Pennsular that at the desperate battle of the
Coa in Spain in 1910. Major Mcleod led four companies
of his regiment, the Forty Third against of the
enemy, to wing of the Fifty Second, who would
otherwise have been cut of from the bridge across Which
they obliged Through gap in rocks
which must be won to command the ground and defend
the passage, two muskes pointed whose contents
awaited the first British soldier who should attempt
to ascend by that way. An esgn of the regiment
found himself in the position which made it his duty to
! ~
but Just at the moment when the rush to be made


young Irish sergeant Robert McQuade gently pulled the
officer back saying, 'You two young sir be killed.
and stepping forward received the of the
muskets and fell dead pierced by both balls That young
officer, then sixteen, became General Sir George Brown
who commanded the Light Division the English army in
the Crimea Sergeant Robert McQuade only twenty
four Nomarble records this royal munifcence of cost
est devotion
Year: 1879

! OUR enierprising towusmun, Mir. <. Le-

 win, has another building about complet-

 ed. This IS jo be his new brewery. and when it is finished Alex will be able to sling as goo! lager as Is made this side of the Mississippi The cellar k divided into three apartments with stone floors and

 walls or stone two feel in thickness. The room In the west end oc the building will

 be used for storing The grain, and the east cellar for fermenuug and storing the beer. On the second floor arc also three rooms. One Of these is the drying room where The grain Is dried by artificial heat after being sprouted. Tine middle room is a sleeping room for watchman and employee. The third room is Co be used as a general store room. The length oi the building Is about eighty feet and width about twenty feet. Around the entire building Mir. Levin has extended a broad porch which will give a grateful cooling influence during the warm season. The mfI for grinding the malt is 10 be placed at the northwest corner near the drying room. The furnace for boiling Will be at the northeast corner, and at the east end oi tle building under the broad porch has been built spacious vat for cooling the beer This vat alone cost over S-lo. Alter thc beer IS cooled IL isl run through pipes into The cellar below.

 We take great pleasure lu making these statements for no other one or our citizens has shown more public spirit, or generous enterprise than has Mr. Levin. He is making other improvements in his gar dcns, 6c., Of which We shall speak more fully in the future.
Year: 1879

DRUNKENNESS IL ENeLAND.-I have told you
before of a church OF England temperance
society and predicted that little good was likely
% come from II so long as the parsons preached
Temperance to their foeks and prac,ced the
other thing at their tables. Aud yet one would
think they must see enough OF the evils OF
Drunkenness to in luce them to use all their
influence against the practices which lead to IL.
Look at this appalling fact: In Westminster
alone. within the radius OF the shadow cast by
the towers Of the venerable abby, there were
last wear sent to its prison, for drunkenness
alone. no less that 5, 789 women. How many


men neither knew nor care, but probably a
much larger number. Here is an average, in
one small district, of 16 females, young, middle
aged and DID, sent every day in the year, Sun
days included to prison for no other ofense
than Drunkenness. Is 1t unreasonable to sup
pose that, il the clergymen of Westminster did
their duty in all respects, such story as this
need be told ? But this is not what | commenc-
ed to write about, though it comes in appropra
tely enough. We have a church congress now
in session at Sheffield, met to discuss seriously
the interests OF the church. On the programme
is the temperance question. This Is quite right
and proper, and hope the discussion OF il Will
produce some good results. But take leave
to doubt il, aud simply for this reason "a mem
Der OF the congress, not ashamed to give his
name, wrote to one Of the London journals q
day or two age, stating that lie bad tried at the
reception room attached to the meeting place
Of the congress, and was unable to get cup OF
tea or coffee, but could have any amount Of
gin, rum or brardy-London Correspondence
Chicago Journal.
Year: 1879

Under the heading, ais the Yellows Con-
ta9ious.. w. II. Psckwr to the South Haven
Sentinel:


As think the first thing that should be done
about the Yellows is to settle the question OF
it's contagious nature, beyond the shadow OF
doubt. for one intend TO undertake the little
job next SIMMER.


have a notion that 1 can carry as much
yellows at one load as bee, or a summer
breeze and when find the fungus growth on
one OF my trees / shall wait for cloudy, wet
day, and then take twenty leaves from the dis
e1sej sprouts aud pls c them lengthwIse upon
the leaves OF branch on the north side OF a
healthy tres in distant part OF thu orchard,
and sew them togette, with a needle and
thread. II passing a needle and thread from
the diseased leaf through the healthy one
twenty or thirty times and rubbing the diseased
caves against the glands of the healthy oner,
and leaving them fastened together two or
three months does not vaccinate that tree as
we'll as breeze from a diseased tree could do
it, then / am no Doctor, that's al. | shall also
split some OF the diseased sprouts and insert
them between the bark and wood OF the roots
and branches OF another healthy tree and
reckon that tree is then grated with yellow
small pox better than the west wind could do
it. have one tree that doesn't enjoy very good
health and 1 presume some people would say
{" the yellows is what ails it, and next Spring
shall take large bouquet OF it's fair bat frai
blossoms and shake them we'll among those
which are above suspicion, on healthy tree
and fasten them where they will be likely to DO
the most good


Now if these experiments are thoroughly
tried and the trees experimental on 90 not
show any signs of the yellows within So years,
| leave it to the jury to decide whether there
would be, Gas claimed by the highest auihori-
ties) Just as good evidence that the yelloEs is
contagious, as there is that small pox is a con-
tagous disease, but on the other hand if in
due time the trees do begin TO look suspicious,
pound of nitro ,lycerine under the roots of
each Of them would be cure cure
Year: 1879

At Kalamazoo horse belonging to MIR.
Fuller, OF the International hotel, got fast be-
tween barn and fence aud there stuck for
eleven days and nights With nothing 20 eat bat
pine fence boards When found he was so
enaciated that they bad to bind banke,
about him to prevent the hay from blowing
out between bis ribf.


Now that the Legislature is in session again,
we hope 1t will pay some attention to that
element in society that chews tobacco in
theaters and expectorates upon tie floor. The
penalty should be open air confinement iu the
midile Of ten-acre lott Boston Post.


lie lives at Romeo, is worth 100000, and
stopped bis village paper because times arc
hsrc, and three CENTS week too much to pay
for luxury. What is pork worth at Romeo
now, eh ?-Detroit News
Year: 1879

The article in the last issue Of your very
welcome paper headed = Terror from the stars
caused the question to come to miud If that
may not be the means which will be used to
fulfll the prophecy IN Rev 10th Chap, where
the seven angels pour out the seven walls OF
the wrath Of God. Many dihgent Bible student
agree that IN the fulfllment OF prophecy, the
coming Of the Lord and the end OF all earthly
things is near. Soon the wise will trim their
lamps and 60 forth to meet him. And who are
wise but those who observe the signs OF the
times, and are resdy and waiting to meet the
Lord with Joy at his coming? or the condl-
tion Of society at that time, the Lord says: 1t
shall be as it was in the days Of Noah, they
were eating and drinking, and knew not until
the flood came and took them all away so
shall also the coming Of the Son of man be-
Year: 1879

While in Niles few days ago man ap-
pro oached us and said, "If you do not want
work can you tell me OF any one that does ?"
" There must be great many wishing employ
ment, you will find any number without doubt y
F." have been looking all day aud can find no
one who will work" In less than an hour two
tramps came along begging for something to
eat, but they weren't looking for work. Dows-
gisc Republican
Year: 1879

Written For The True Northerner.


LIBERTY
And man has welcomed the cold tomb
To shun the dungeons damper doom
The earth whereon he ate his bread
Lay warmer TO the victims head,
And the chains hung dangling DER his grave
That bound the solitary slave.
So long in dungeon left to brood,
The fly that crawled upon his food
Seemed company the slave Of thought,
Whose years OF solitude had wrought
That crimson cancer of the mind,
And choked the heart in frost confined.
But though the crust ia iced with woe,
The struggling spirit throbs below;
The nerve that frets beneath it's chain
Will wear the gall to keener pain;
Unlike the simple hearts that bear
Grown crisp and callous with despair.
The stagnate pools freeze to the ground
And every crop is crystaled round;
Peace for the pulse within the breast
Is stiled, and dademed, and can rest.
The lively current scorns the ice
That hugs its waters like a vlse,
And ID its narrow channel pent
The smothered passion wreathes for vent;
All that the swollen waters felt
Unto the single drop is dealt
Az when the casks vile dross Is froze,
The very heart more sparkling flows
The fettered food the prisoned soul,
Will curse the chains that check their goal;
Wilder the fierce convulsive motion
For liberty or boundless ocean.
But there's sunny cline where tree
The ocean smiles eternally,-
The Heaven of waters, where the shore
Basks in the sunshine ever more.
And there's cline more glorious
Ger coils OF Care victorious
Tue Ocean OF the soul where free
The human wave sleeps beauteously.


+. L.
Year: 1879

Agreeable to announcements made
through the Press, and according to the
programme laid out, Prof. Charles Hardss-
ty accomplished one of the most remarka-
ble feats ever performedin the nineteenth
century. The programme announced that
the Professor would walk from the east
end of the Missouri river bridge. The
start was made at about half past two
o'clock 10 the afternoon, and in in nine and
half minutes from the time of starting
the west side was reached. The river at
that point, owing to the narrowness of the
channel and the extraordinary rise of the
past tso Sags. had acquired velocity of
over fonrteen miles per hour. which rem
dered the feat much more difficult than t
would have been in an ordinary stage of
water.


The crowd commenced gathering at the
place designated IN the bills about one
o'clock, and by two o'clock the river for
over mile was packed with carriages and
pedestrians. When the west bank was
reached cheer after cheer went up from the
delighted auditory, all of whom proclaimed
it to be the most marvellous feat of the age.
After resting few moments the manner of
working the shoes was explained, showing
that any person of ordinary intelligence
could walk more easily than upon snow
shoes in winter. The Professor then, by
attaching the two shoes together, showed
how one could sit down, or lie down with
perfect ease and safety, and established
the fact that his wator shoes" were the
most perfect life preserver ever invented.


1t is the intention of the inventor to give
a series of exhibitions at the principal mar
itime cities in the world, and will challenge
Capt, Boyton or any other inventor to a
trial as to the utility and perfectness Of the
various inventions for the preservation of
life upon the high seas, or any ofthe navi-
gable waters of the globe.
Year: 1879

Far back In my musings, my thoughts have been cast
To the cot where the hours of my childhood were
| passed


love all the rooms TO the pantry and hail.
Sut that blessed old kitchen was dearer than all,
Its chairs and Its tables. none brighter could be,
FOR all Its surroundings were sacred to me-
TO the nall In the ceiling. the latch on the door,
ana loved every crack in the old kitchen floor
remember the fireplace, with mouth high and wide,
Ine odIashloned oven that stood by it's side
Out OF which each Thanksgiving came puddipgs and


pies,


Inat larry bewildered and dazzled my eyes,
ana tnen, too Saint Nicholas, slyly and STILL
came down every Christmas, our stockings to fill:
But the dearest of memories I've laid mp in store
LIS the mother that trod on that old kitchen floor
Day in and day out, from morning till night.
Her footsteps were busy her heart always ,gbt.
For it seemed to me then, that she knew moi csre
The smiie was SO gentle ner face used to wear.
remember with pleasure what iov filed onr aves
When she told us the stories that children so prze
They were new every night, though we'd heard them


before


From her lips at the wheel, on the old kitchen floor
l remember the window, where mornings I'd run
As soon as the daYbreak to watch for the sun:
anu tHouShI Wheu nly uead scarcely reached to


SILL
That it slept through the night in the trees I'm ,a


hill.
And the small tract of ground that my ewes there


cond view,


Was all of the world that my infancy knew:
Indeed, cared not to know of it more,
For a world of itself was that old kitchen floor.
Tonight those old visions come back at their Will.
But the wheel and its music forever are still;
The band is moth-eaten. the wheel laid away, |
And the fingers that turned it lie mond'ring in claw
The hearthstone, SO sacred is just as twas then,
And the voices of children ring out there again:
The sun through the window looks in as of ycre, i
But it sees stranger feet on the old kitchen ioor
ask not for honor, but this would crave
That when the lips speaking are closed in the grave,
My children would gather theirs round by their side
And tell of the mother who long ago died;
I would be more enduring, far dearer to ME,
Than inscription on marble or granite could be,
TO have them tell often, as did of yere,
)f the mother who trod on the old kitchen floor


Anonymous.
Year: 1879

Van Amburg is the man who lives in
Central New York, and who is likely to be-
come somewhat notorious from his purchase
Of wife and subsequent incidents connect-
ed Herewith. He bought a wife cheap
from man named Joseph Weod, who was
evidently tired and sick of her, and who
was glad to sell her for So and kitchen ta-
BILE. The woman, it appears, was perfectly
satisfied with the transaction, and changed
her name from Mrs. Wood to Mrs. Van
Amburgh without the slightest objection.
But an accident happened, as they some
times win, even in as well regulated fam
lily as this. and Mrs. Weod-Amburgh drank
several glasses of beer, and as result, was
run over and killed ON the Erie Railroad
station, near her, second home. OF course,
damages were wanted, but the question 10,
who shall have them Both Van Auburgh
and Woad haze sued the -ss-:.A,-s.>s she
TO her DEATH under the civil damage act, Dy
which several large Judgments in cases of
this sort have been recently awarded in the
courts of New York State. Van Amburgh,.
X ~ ~. /.
who fears The court will not look upon bis
purchase of Mrs. Wood as a perfectly legal
transactions. sues Wood for the value Of the
kitchen table and the 50, the price Of the
woman, This ID rather startling coInensI
targ on the possibilities Of human nature.
even in so enlightened a State as New
York.


II the court. instead of awarding any
damages TO either man should send them
both to the House of Correction till they
learned how TO behave themselves, it would
be doing a kindness TO society in that part
of the world. The woman may not have
been worth the SO and the kitchen table,
but the buying and selling Of ber was
shameful breach Of decency which no State
can afford to tolerate.
Year: 1879

Revolvers, Shot Gums, and a Reckless


Use of the Same. ... "..


Sunday afternoon q party of colored


gentlemen were amusing themselves with
little game of poker ON the head Of a
beer keg at the brewery on the river side,
when difference of opinion caused their
bad bleod to move. The stakes were a
dollar and jack knife and why it was
that there was SO much trouble over so
little, this inquisitive member Of society
didn't find out 1t was first a sharp crack
and a ball through the leg of John Madi,
son. Next the roar of a blunderbuss and
the face and breast of John Williams were
riddled with shot. Then there was the dis
papearance of Buffalo, ,''the man who han.
died the murderous weapons so indiscrim-
inately. Buffalo can live on roots and
stand several weeks of prairie life before
he will give up. His capture IS hardly
probable. The wounded men are both in


Jail, and Madden Burns, who is held as a
witness. The merits of the quarrel are
not known. The demerits are obvious.
Beer and cards were at the bottom of it.
Considerable old Adam, too. @
Year: 1879

WE received yesterday in our Sun
days press dispatches a pretty full
synopsis of the report of the majority
of the Potter Committee. OF course
the conclusion is that Tilden was
elected and Hays was fraudulently
seated. The Democrats are very much
pleased with the report as prepared
by Mr.. Potter, and speak of it as an
able presentation of the facts and the
pOists in the question at issue. The
final conclusion of the report is that
the vote of Florida and Louisiana was
wrongfully given to Hays, and that
Noyes, Sherman and others eucour-
aged this result; that the second GER
tificats from Louisiana was a forgery
as to tU-o of its names, Kellogg and
Clark being privy to it: and that Til
den and Hendricks received a MAORI
ty OF the true Electoral vote, and were
the choice of a majority of the people
Of the United States at the last Presi-
dential election.
Year: 1879

BE good to yourself, says the Peoria
Journal and then tells the following story:


Pale, haggard, with head bowed low. vet
with the appearance of gentleman
Robert Martin has just stood at the bar of
the special session in New York aud been
sentenced to five days Imprisonment in the
city prison for the theft of coat and shirt
Ten years ago Martin was a member of
the stock exchange, was rated millionaire
and in those days of prosperity be gave at
one time 100000 to the churches of New
\ ork. When he was in trouble and ar
rested did any of the noted divnes, or
wealthy members of the church of New
York, come to his assistance? Not one!
Where he had given fortune he received
not a dime The churches were glad
enough to get bis money, but when he be-
came so pinched by poverty as to steal ap-
parel for his body, ike the priest and the
Levite they passed by on the other side.
Helping the Lord is all we'll enough in its
way. The only drawback connected with
it is that it is very much like highland
ie-all an one side. When it comes to re-
ciprocity, the Lord helps those only who
help themselves.
Year: 1879

WASHINGTON, March 6.-It having been
mentioned by visitor to the president to-
day, that some surprise was expressed at
his calling an extra session so soon after
the adjournment of the late congress, the
president replied that the proclamation for
that purpose was issued on information
that the earliest practicable day would be
acceptable to the majority Of the members
elect.


The president was indisposed to converse
on the declared object of the Democrats,
through Senator Beck, to insist on the en-
actment of a certain measure as condition
for granting supplies He had not yet
seen the programme, aud therefore could
not pass an opinion upon it, but be could
not believe. in the absence of such infor-
nation, that any revolutionary movements
were contemplated.


Although there is no semi.oficial basis
tor the announcement. there is reason to
oelleve that the presidents message to
congress will be brief and confined to the
subjects for which It will be convened. and
mat he will, at the instance of the secretary
OF the treasury, ask that measures he
adopted for an Increase of the revenue. il
having been decreased to an extent Of $40
OO0,OOO by the passage Of the tobacco bill.


The secretary said to-day that but for
this, he would have $28,0000OO surplus
revenue with which to pay the arrears of
pensions recently authorized by congress.
Year: 1879

A father never thinks his ten year
old son is stronger, than horse until
he employs him to turn the grindstone
to sharpen an old AK that is about as
sharp at one end as at the other. The
old man bears on until the lads eyes
hang out and his trousers buckle flies
of, and Just before he bursts a blood
vessel his father encourages him with
the remark, "Does-it-turn-hard P"
Thousands OF boys have run away
from home and become pirates and
greenbackoFs in order to escape Sec
end siege at the grindstone.