smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1875

be one. No barrier can ever come between us
there"


"But when it comes to reason, then, being
a totally unreasonable being, have no share
in it,


"I don't think you at all unreasonable. 1t
is on that account that now appeal to your
good sense Besides, you are wilfully per.
verting my words. I allude to the mere pos
sibility of an instance occurring, where my
conduct may not be perfectly clear to you,
and where appeal to your faith in the purity
of my motives, and your knowledge of the
general reasonabeness of my disposition, to
prevent any undue inquisitiveness on your
part, or any feeling that am doing you an
injustice in Withholding full explanation" ;"


"Very WE'LL" responded, with a little ire
pressible sigh, II suppose it must be as you
wish. shall trust you, as long as you don't
do anything very atrocious. may speculate
on the reasonableness of that, I suppose,
mayn'tI? But warn you, Arthur, l can
never become Griselda.


"Nor do l want you to, Rosamond; and l
trust 1 have nothing of the tyrant in my ma
ture, to make me try your dutifulness too Sc.
verely."


"After ALL" thought I to myself, as I went
to my own room, II believe this conversation
has been just an experiment, to see how far
my affection for him will 60. Well, l am
willing that he should put it to the test I
almost wish he would be very provoking once,
just to prove how patient and forgiving can
be


I did not know that the time was at hand
when the patience and forgiveness 1 was so
anxious to display, would be drawn upon to
an extent which would far exceed my antici'
patton or my desire.
Year: 1875

to large bodies of valuable land, were, by the
order of the Assembly, taken into custody.
The Assembly were melted to take this action
by petition sent up by thirty.nine citizens OF
Granville county. Cooper appealed to Chief
Justice Wright, by whom he was released.
The Assembly declared that the writ ofhabeas
corpus did not apply to persons committed by
the Assembly, and resolved that mo writ Of
habeas corpus lies in favor Of any person COM
mitted by the house, and that the messenger
attending do yield no obedience to such; and
that the Chief Justice be made acquainted
with these resolutions" The Chief Justice
complained that the resolutions of the Assem-
ely had a tendency to subvert the principles Of
the government. His views we're neither IA
vored by the Governor nor by his Council,
who concluded that the lower house possessed
the same power in this particular as was pos
sessed by the House of Commons in England.
The Chief Justice was not without strong
friends. They were, however, individuals who
were influenced by selfish ends, prejudicial to
the general welfare. The Assembly were not
to be baulked in their course. A resolution
was passed that Chief Justice Wright had
conducted himself unworthy of the high and
responsible Office which be held, and that it
would be for the benefit of the province to sus.
pend him from Office: The conduct of the
Surveyor General was censured. He, in or
der to make his Office more profitable, had en-.
couraged unscrupulous individuals in loca-
ting lands. The result was that St. John was
forbidden to survey any land unless he had
first received warrant from the Governor.


[To BE CONTINUED NEXT WEEK.
Year: 1875

the settlers, respecting the manner in which
lands were taken up. Grasping individuals
run out large tracts of land, to the great det-
riment of the colony. This was especially
the case in the region bordering upon Port
Royal. Some individuals, with the expecta-
ton of making themselves the owners of vast
tracts of land, had unjustIy laid claim to
tracts of land which had been laid out as
baronies under the proprietary government.
All these empty titles had been abolished by
the royal government. Still, some indiVidu'
ais endeavored to enforce their claim to large
tracts of land, to the great detriment Of the
colony. All the best lands on the water
courses, in the direction of Port Royal, had
been marked out for no other purpose, it would
seem, than to secure the foundation for Ger.
tain individuals, in time, to become mighty
landlords.


St. John, the Surveyor General Of the
province, so far favored these individuals as
to mark out for them lands contrary both to
the law of the colony and to the general well
fare of the country. 1t was matter of vital
Importance to the existence of the settlement
that the number of the inhabitants be increas.
ed. This could not be done, if few individ-
uals were permitted to lay claim to all rich
lands and force the multitude to either settle
on the poor and unproductive lands, or settle
on the rich lands in the capacity of tenants.
This was, in part, what brought them to the
New World. They had been mere serfs in
Europe. They came to America that they
might have home of their own.


1t was determined that such system of
oppression should not have an existence in
South Carolina. Job Rothmaller and Thos.
Cooper, two individuals who had laid claims
Year: 1875

THE Council CHAMBER.-A Brus
sells carpet, very handsome, has been
laid on the floor of the Council cham
Der, inside the railing, and the mating
outside the railingis being covered by
a very pretty and substantial gum
carpet The desks and chats are
all in the chamber and will be placed
in position to-day, while the other
work will bepushed on so that Council
can meet in the new chamber next
Thursday night.
Year: 1875

A DouBLE-TURRETTED MONITOR.
The keel of An immense double-tur.
retted monitor Is being laid at Roach s
ship yard. The vessel when completed
will be q monster, and will no doubt
be a valuable addition to the United
States Navy. The work on one of
these monitors is always of more
important nature than that of any
other class of vessel and the time
necessarily longer. = Chester Nena.
Year: 1875

Who has not seen the barbarous
operation Of boring cattle for the
hollow horn? And who ever saw
it and did not rejoice that he was
not a COW? Well, the cattle will
be glad to hear that this barbarous
custom is about to be done away
with, and that it was a practice of
semseless cruelty. Professor Cresy
is the friend to cattle who has ex-
ploded the "hollow-horn' hum
bug. lie tells the "c0w doctorsr
there is no such disease as the
hollow horn. The professor has
cut open innumcrable horns aud
found them all hollow. The cure
practiscd is 70. borc into the horn
and inject some remedy. Now, y
little common sense ought to teach
any..farmer that every horn is as
hollow as Amcs's head. Horned
cattle will be glad to hear that the
surgery Of the gimlet is not ncces-
sary TO their health, US scarcely
any of them ever get thpugh life
without being horribly bored.
Year: 1875

ALL THE SHERIFF's SALES CPSET.-We are
informed that all the sheriff sales for this
county, made since the last court have
been upset by the present court. The
ground for the upsetting. as stated to Us. is
as follows:


In New Castle county it is the custom.
when the sheriff makes Il distraint upon a
property. with a view to sale thereof. to
notify all the parties who may have liens
entered against said property. In this
county, however. the custom has been to
make the sale upon the claim of the party
pushing, without any notification whatever
to the other parties who may have claims
entered upon the docket. The court
directs that hereafter all parties who have
claims-claims duly entered-shall be duly
notified by the sheriff of any and all steps
he makes or proposes to take looking to
the distraint and sale of any real estate.
Such is the case. a. stated to lis 10y an
interested party i'll this town.
Year: 1875

We have been addressed twice. recently.
with reference to the employing of school
teachers under the new school law. We
will make this statement: commissioners
are at liberty to employ teachers from the
present to the first of August next without
anv reference to the new Jaw. After that
date however. the law positively prohibits
anv set of Commissioners from employing
any person as a teacher who has not a certiti-
cate from the Superintendent. And no
teacher who may be already in employ at
that date can continue to teach without
such certificate.


The Superintendent now in Sussex
holding examinations will shortly name
times and places to hold the examinations
in this county, but parties may apply TO
him at any time to be examined. The ex-
aminationS are. under all circumstances. to
be made in the presence of any and all
persons who may desire to attend. After
teacher shall have received a certificate
from the hands of the Superintendent ii i,
further required that the holder. to make il
effective, shall present it to the county
treasurer to be counter>igned, and pay said
officer two dollars.


Every applicant who i, Of good mora
character. and who shall be found qlalfe,
to teach the branches now required by Law
to be taught, shall receive certificat,
thereof from the Superintendent. and an,
applicant having been refused a certifcat,
may appeal to the State Board Of Eiuca
ton.


Teachers are required to make MONTH,
reports to the Commissioners. showing tn
number of scholars in attendance. and til
number of days each attend, together witt
the books used and the branches taught
In case this report be not furnished it
unlawful for the Commissioners to pay tn
salary to the teacher 50 neglccting.


1t will be seen. therefore. that the ne,
law virtually goes into effect on the first G
August, and no person can secure or hold
situation as teacher, after that date. withou
thorough compliance with the law.
Year: 1875

CoUYr NoN ARSHW, who has been
indicted AM tried a compile Of times al>
ready by the German government, is
now to be tried for treason, for the
publication Of certain pamphlet res
fieeting upon the Emperor and EJap>
ress. Since Bismarck got cut of the
war business, ne does not appear TO he
ratisiied. He is Just all the time spoil
ing for fight, and as he has thus far
been unsuccessful in getting any for~
eign nation to knock the chip off his
shoulder, he eases himself of his extra
energy by lighting the Jesuits and
Count Won Arnim. Buff the Count
suffers this time more severely than
heretofore, he will have himself to
blame for his misfortune. He ought
to have been made wise by his former
experience. There is no use in kick =
ing against the bricks.
Year: 1875

The Suez Canal purchase by the
English government is steadily assum-
ing the aspect of a first move toward
the dismemberment of Turkey. II
the three Emperors believe that Eng.
land is thus helping herself in advance
they may proceed to carve Turkey
in Europe without much delay.
Year: 1875

\ PRETTY and sensible young lady re-
marked in the presence Of several bare faced
young men, the other evening, " that 1t Just
doubles the value of a kiss TO have 10 burrow
it from under mustaehe." The next morn
ing our druggists had quite number Of
calls for a preparation TO encourage mus
taches. in less than half an hour after opening
their stores.
Year: 1875

A MAN can fully appreciate the terrors of
winter when he awakes near morning and
fads the bed clothes on the floor, and himself
engaged in gigantic struggle to crawl up
under his shirt.
Year: 1875

MUST BE SToPPED.-The first thing
Mexico will know will be the presence
on her soil of body of United States
troops to protect the people of border
Texas from the depredations OF the
cattle thieves, who cross from the
Mexican side and commit outrages
upon the defenceleSs inhabitants of
that State, If the Mexican govern
ment is not able to capture and punish
her desperadoes herself, the United
States will have TO do it for her. and
this may neceSSitate the crossing of
the Rio Grande by the troops of Uncle
Sam. Should . war ensue in conse-
quence, Mexico will only have herself
10 blame, These outrages and rob-
berries have been going on too long al
ready, ani they must be put an end to.
II Mexico can dc it herself and will
do it, why, then, all right but if she
cannot and will not, then let her stand
out of the way while Uncle Sam does
II.
Year: 1875

WHEN person feels disposed to over
estimate his own Importance. let him re-
member that mankind got along very well
before his birth and that in all probability
they will getalong very well after his death.
Year: 1875

Dr. Voelcker of England, according

 to one of our exchanges, Is the author of the following, and as the quality of water is important to every person,

 We give it:

 Water, suitable for all domestic purposes. should not contain an excess of saline and earthly matters, and, generally speaking, not more than about 25 grains of solid substances in the imperial gallon. The less lime and magnesia salts it contains the better it Is for washing or cooking, or the generation of steam in boilers. A moderate amount of mineral matter, or even a, sufficient amount os earthly carbonates to render water decidedly hard. does not interfere with its use as 8 beverage, for 1t may be safely stated that no sufficient grounds exist for believing that the mineral contents of ordinary hard spring waters are injurious to health. The amount of lime and magnetism salts in chalk springs, and in waters having their origin in calcsreous strata, must be greatly exceeded in general by the quantity of the same salts which enters the system in solid food; and it is notorious fact that chalk springs, which seldom contain less than 15 or Is grains of carbonate of lime, are universally considered to furnish perfectly whol,som and. indeed, the choicest drinking water.
Year: 1875

IN the line of " How to Bring Up Parents Is the speech of the little boy who said Father, l think You should give up swearing or family prayers. The boy recognized the fitness of things.
Year: 1875

From the San Rafael Journal, March lth

 A rumor prevailed on Sunday that young man had been ar rested and lodged in jail the night before, charged with being Wo- man in mans clothing. A young person in male apparel has been engaged for many months driving a milk wagon and doing mans Tor boys work on a ranch in the edge of town. It was known to 8 few that the mistress thought tn IS help was not of the male presua- sion, and it was said that she al- lowed "the boy" to sleep by him. self in her own house, instead of tue one occupied by the other help. The few who were cognlz- ant of this supposition heard also the reason for the disguise, which was that the young milk. man was a married woman, whose husband was serving out short term Tn the State prison, and she had dOnned masculine attire and taken this situation in order to make all the money she could against the day of his release, and to be near him and see him often during his confinement, Know ing this story, her appearahce made it plausible. She had a thin, pale face, with @ dOwncast look, like that of 9 bash ful boy, her shoulders did not seem as mar row as 8 girls, but below the waist she was large and heavy and in Walking always seemed to be impeded and worried by hel thick brOgans, which gave her ar ambling motion. She was much in town, doing business and CT rands but never idle for mom ent, and never speaking to any one by the way.

 When it was said that she was arrested and had been locked in Ijail over night, great sympathy was felt, and everybody was glao when it was ascertained that there was no truth in the story. Sher if Olds expressed the genera sentiment when he said that h' would sooner help to make up.' tpurse for her than to arrest her She has gone to the city, wher' she will soon bejoined by her hus

 band, whose time is most out

 He oupht to be a good man here after, for his wife is true hero inc.
Year: 1875

IT is now boiled down to an al- most positive certainty that the individual in confinement at Flor ence, supposed to be John Bender, the Kansas murderer, is the veri- table old cuss himself. An officer is on the way from Kansas with a requisiti0n from the governor of that State for the body Of the dia bOlical old william. If he proves to be the man we hope he will swing. but we would rather hear of his being burned at the stake with a slow fire.
Year: 1875

BARGE No. 2, which arrived from Castle Dome last Monday, brought down 15O.OOo lbs. of bull lion from the Castle Dome Smelt- ing Works. This barge also had on board .77 tons of ore from the Castle Dome mines, bound for San Francisco. In the evening or the same day the barge dropped down the river to connect with the steamship MontanG. That is all right and just as it should be. It will not be long until the river will be crowded with steamers and barges carrying bullion to, the sea.
Year: 1875

WE have some nice blue gravel side- walks on Main street and al. SO on Madison Avenue, but the crossings have always been deep in sand and dust. Bill Pulfer is the first man who has made a start to change this thing. He has at his own expense made hard walk accross Second street, for which he is entitled to the thanks of all amiable pedestrians.

 DAVID BALE, of Redondo & Balz, is always on time and treats men and horses we'll. He is al- ways on the trade too, and a man can get a horse saddle and bridle of him for less money than any, where else in the Territory. In fact he almost gives them away. How he can stand it, we can't tell. It is none of our funeral. Go and see Dave.
Year: 1875

WASHINGTON, Feb. s.
In tho Senate the bill for the extension of the
sewing machine patent WIS defeated Several
Senators declared themselves opposed to an ex-
tension of any patent connected with sewing ma
chimes.


The Committee on Railroads decided adverse
lygon three railroad subsidy bills. The Texas
Railroad bill goes over to another meeting for
final action,
Year: 1875

take any bottle and colored water into it
to one-forth its depth, insert in it
glass tube from three to four feet long
and passing air-tight through the stop
per which must also be arr tight. Let a
paper index, divided according to any
scale of division. say into inches and
fractions Of an inch, be glued to the
glass tube. = Blow into the glass
tnbe) so as to cause the water to rise
IN 1t few inches. say ten inches, and
the instrument is constructed The
bottle must be placed in another vessel
and projected by sawdust or some other
material from the influence of change
IN tie atmosphere. This very sensible
instrument records faithfully any
changes in the density of the external
air and the approach of storm will
be indicated by sudden rise of the
water in the glass tube.
Year: 1875

The most perfect home I ever saw
was little house into the incense of
whose fires went not costly things. A
thousand dollars served a years living
of father, mother and three children.
But the mother was the creator of a
home her relations with her children
were the most beautiful | have ever
seen; even the dull and commonplace
msn was lifted up and enabled to do
good work for souls by the atmosphere
which the woman created; every in
mate Of her house involuntarily looked
into her face for the keynote of the
day, AID it always rang clear From
the rosebud or clover leaf, which, in
spite of her hard housework, she al
ways found time to put by our plates
at breakfast, down to the story she
had on hand to read in the evening,
there was no intermission Of her infu-
ence. She has always been and al
ways will be my ideal of a mother,
wife and home maker.


If to her quick brain, loving heart
exquisite face had been added the ap-
pliance Of wealth and the enlargement
of wider culture, hers would have been
absolutely the ideal home As it was,
it Maa the best | have seen.-HeLen
Hunt
Year: 1875

PROF SWING


Of ali books the Bible scenes most
honest. Its men and women move
before us In life the most real. The
art Of the Middle Age Church, painted
according to an ideal, and when it group
ed the diciples on the sea-shore fishing,
it bedecked them iii gorgeous robes
as If they were fishing in the place of
the king. In the colored fresco, Paul,
the orator, is dressed in gaudy raiment,
III purple robe, and some Of the almost
barefoot apostles ride in chariots.
But the Bible knows nothing of any
such idealism. Itis a realist 1t picks
up its mortals just as they stood, and
if Jacob put goats skins on his wrists,
and if Abraham told a falsehood, if
Moses slew an Egyptian and hid his
body IN the sand, it David sent Uriah
to the front Of the battle that the
beautaous wife might become widow
all these facts of the case In the sa-
cred pages in their real deformitv.
As the Photographic art will not make
the homely beautiful nor catch lands
cape without catching the shadow Of
detormity as readily as the shadow of
beauty, SO the historic genius of the
Bib. gathers Ill Up, virtue and vice
equally, and transfers it to the record.
The history in the Scriptures is not a
composition picture but photograph,
with Abraham not only man Of large
faith, but of human iuirmity, a pho
tograph with David not only as a poet
and a king, but as a man capable of
dishonor. Thus it comes to pass that
We do not see a Hebrew nation adorn-
ed IN the gay robes Of modern fresco,
not nation that only worship Of
living and true God, but also OF ma
tion that sold slaves and stole land,
and IN many ways revealed all the
frailties Of mankind in the dark period
Before that picture the Bible student
it he would be just, must select those
features only whom God loves, those
which belong to perpetual religion
When the painters Of the last century
painted Franklin and Washington,
they threw upon their subjects the
costumes Of the day; and now when
the days have come in which the cos
tunes is opposed to our taste, and ex-
cites a smile we rise at once above it
and see the face, the eye, forehead,
mouth Of the Franklin and Washing
ton, and bless the artists that they left
for us such glorious lines Of manhood
SO all the worthless from Adam to Da-
vid stand in the Bible in the costume
Of a far off era, and we must go away
from Abraham's cloak of deciet aud
Dayid's romance and sin, and look up
on all that was beyond their age and
that pointed to a glorious future.
Year: 1875

"It is better to yield little than to
quarrel great deal. The habit of
standing up, as people call it, for their
(little) rights, is one of the most disa-
greeabIe and undignifed in the world.
Life is too short foe the perpetual bick-
erings which attend such disposition;
and unless very momentous affair in
deed, where other peoples claims and
interests are involved, it is a question
if it is not wiser, happier, and more
prudent to yield somewhat of precious
rights than squabble to maintain them.
True wisdom is first pure, then peacea-
bic and gentle"
Year: 1875

Life is very short, and the single
brain and hand, at best, very weak, and
there are thousands Of things to know
and 60 dc. One must choose and be
content with his choice. And SO it
comes to pass that now, at last, the
measure of mans learning will be the
amount of his voluntary ignorance, the
measure Of his practical effectiveness
the amount of what he is content to
leave uninterrupted. = Hugh Miller
Thompson.
Year: 1875

q A mighty traveller, when at some
turn of his path he has seen the coun-
try for an Instant Illuminated by flash
OF lightning, will, with dazzled eyes,
the next moment, seek in vain for the
preceding marks and the connections of
his road SO it is with bosom friend
when first he gets glimpse of the un-
faithfulness of the heart IN which he
puts its trust.
Year: 1875

+" 4 we'll known divine, in his wise
old age, once said to a newly married
pair, | want to give you this advice,
my children-don't try to be happy,
Happiness is shy nymph, and if you
chase her you will never catch her; but
just go quietly on and Go your duty
and she will come TO YOU. -
Year: 1875

One great and kindling thought from
a retired and obscure man, may live
when thrones are fallen. aud the mem
ory Of those who filled them are oblit-
Grated, and, like an undying fire, may
illuminate and quicken all future gen
erations Chanasng.
Year: 1875

Henry Ward Beecher expresses not
only his own sentiment but that Of
many others, when he says that almost
every scrape into which he ever fell
has been in attempting to befriend some
unpopular cause or some unfortunate
man.
Year: 1875

The society of dead authors has
this advantage over the living they
never fatter US TO our faces, slander us
behind our backs, intrude upon Our
privacy, or quit their shelves until we
take them down"