smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1874

is made of Wrought Iron and BY simple
device can be raised or lowered 30 that it
will cut the worst tangled grain as easy as
the best respers can do it.


The MEADOW KING MOWER for ightness
Of draught, simplicity and durability, stands
without rival.


l have also a superior HORSE RAKE and
other Machinery and Implements which 1
would be pleased to show to any who desire
to purchase, all Of which I am prepared to
sell on terms as favorable as any others; to
cash buyers or clubs can offer special in
ducements.


Call and examine these machines before
ordering elsewhere.


THOS. WILKINSON.
Year: 1874

Mr.. John ). Holloway has received
letter from his brother, DIR. Jason Hollo-
way, dated Cheyenne and Araphaho
Agency, Indian Territory, May 9th, con-
veying the sad tidings of the killing of
his son by an Indian. BY the kindness
of Mr. Holloway We are permitted to
make the following extract from the let
ter, giving brief account of the horrible
tradgeti7:


II have sad rev To communicate to
YOU. Our dear son Frank has fallen u
victim to savage cruelty. Last Thursday
he was assisting me'in dressing a fractur-
eel limb Zone of our young men had his
leg broken) and we had just redressed it
about 8 o'clock in the evening, and he
was standing in the room talking when
couple of young Indians rode up. they
came to the rear OF the house first, and
the woman of the same was Just cut side
the door. They saw her and said "bOw"
their usual salutation) and rode round To
the frons window. Frank was standing
near the window with his back To the
same when they shot him the ball pass
ing through into the cavity and breaking
rib. He exclaimed as the gun fired IL
am shot," and turning around said he
would kill the man that shot him. /
walked out of the door and went with
him, but the indians had fled. We went
back into the house and he sank down on
the floor. caught him in my arms ana
soon had him laid on a bed. The shock
was so great that | feared he would not
revive. But in few hours he rallied SO
as to be conscious. We had him carried
home in the morning, where he fingered
in great agony until Monday about mid
night VIXEN he expired. lie was con-
scious most OF the time"


The Doctor adds that the Indians who
committed the murder are believed to be
Chcycnns. What their motive was can
only be conjecturcd, as young Holloway
had never had any trouble with any of
the savages. 1t is supposed that they
"got mad at something" and to crafty
their barbarouS malice shot the first white
man they laid their eyes upon.


The deceased was about % years old,
and a very sober, kind hearted estlmablc
Young mar.
Year: 1874

Last Friday evening, while we were
in our office, We overheard a lawyer, in
ESQ. Fish's office, talking very loud. So
loud that we were obliged to hear what
he said. He was telling a tragic tale
about bad little boy, who had, with
vengeance in his heart, slain another
boy, and had been hanged for the offense.
The lawyer seemed to be afraid that the
SQUIRE and the twelve men, who had
been selected to hear case OF assault and
battery, would not believe his story-it
was so improbable. So he told it over
and over again, until we were almost as
sorry for the jury, as we were for the
poor little seven years old boy, who was
found guilty of murder, and suffered the
death penalty, and yet the lawyer seemed
to glory over the fact that the little fell
low was hanged not because he was a
little boy, but because he was so bad.
We are thankful that our vocation don't
harden our heart like that. After while
another lawyer got up and said that that
hanging was done great many years
ago, before the people were christianized
and civilized, and he denounced the
whole thing as disgrace to the Judge
and jury. He had read the story and be-
lieved it; but he didn't want TO adopt
such a custom in this country.


The ladies Of the LaPorte temperance
union furnished the Herald with the
names of the signers of petitions for per
mits to sell liquor in that county; but too
late for publication last week.


Rev DR.. Kendall, of the Presbyterian
church, and wife. haye gone east on
vacation, 70 be absent fill about fhe-first
of July.
Year: 1874

THE distinguished Prof. Huxley
believes that nine-tenths of the al
legged physical disabilities of women
are the products of their mode of life,
and that nothing would tend so eff
fectually to get rid of these creations
of idleness, weariness, and that SOW
er stimulation of the emotions
which in palmer spoken days used
to be called wantonnesS, as a fair
share of healthy work, directed to-
ward definite object, combined
with an equally fair share of healthy
play, during the years of adele
scence; and he adds that those who
are best acquainted with the acquire
ments of an average medical practi-
toner will find it hardest to believe
that the attempt to reach that stand
ard is likely to prove exhausting TO
an ordinarily intelligent and well
educated young woman.
Year: 1874

REMBRANDT AS LANDSCAPE PAINTER,
was in advance of his age; or rather he had
the courage to interpret the spirit of his own
time and country. While Poussiu still peo-
pied his glades with gods and goddesses, and
Claude set the shepherds and shepherdesses OF
Arcadian days reclining in the cool shadows
OF his meadows, Rembrandt drew just such
things as were before him whenever he went
forth from Amsterdam to any neighboriBg
village, trudging slowly along the high road
edged with stunted trees, or wandering by
the side of the weary canal. Thus it is that
at one point at least he touched the mod
erns, but at other points he was very far re-
moved from them. If he sketched the
woman going to market and the farmer on
his horse, he did so because these objects
happened to be before him and could give
some animation to his landscapes. But he
did not seek in any other way to connect the
scenery with the figures. The poetry of coun-
try life and country pursuits did not exist for
him, any more than there existed for him
Turner's sense, now of the terrible accord,
but oftener of the yet more terrible discord,
between the face of nature and the weary
work and wearier life of man. To show the
'.polard laborers'' of England as they are
human life at its poorest, and the country
at its dreariest-the immortal artist of Liber
Studiorum devotes plate to hedging and
ditching. He means you to see clearly that
these battered peasant are as stunted and as
withered as the willow trunk they hew. To
show the undertone of sympathy between
the fleeting day and the brief sweetness Of
human joy, the great Venetian places the
music party in the garden, by the fountain,
and paints the figures when the viol has
stopped:


And the brown faces cease to sing,


Sad with the whole Of pleasure.


But the one thing and the other are alike
far from Rembrandt. He cannot take into
Year: 1874

The water is now higher in the lakes of
Northern New England than has ever before
been known in August. In fact the passion
for water as a beverage in New England is
rapidly dying o1t.
Year: 1874

We forgave England some years since for
getting into difficulty with this country and
getting whipped, and yet it is difficult to pre-
vent feeling of fserenity at the fact that Eng
land is about to succumb to the horrors of
base ball.
Year: 1874

There are some portions Of this State and OF
lows where there has been no rain sines the
corn was planted, unless there was rainfall al
these points last night, and these portions are


in the most productive sections OF the corn


producing belt. The corn has been growing
timely. giving promise of very large crop; but
within the last few days there have come re
ports that it was endangered by the continuance


of the drought and the nnusal hot weather,
1t is true that corn does not stand so much
| IN need Of rain as other crops. Nature has
| furnished il with means of catching aud sbsor
bing other moisture. but nevertheless it nuts
! perish in case Of total failure Of rain.
Year: 1874

He, in turn, explained to her how he had
read her letter over several times without In
the least comprehending her innuendo about
"blue eyes and black ones" how bis wounded
pride at last got the better of his love, and
how, after roaming about in his misery for a
year, he saw how foolishly he had acted, and
at once set out for home. Imagine his con.
stsrnation when he came to her old home and
found her not there


He inquired for her, and heard of the faith
er's losses and death, and since then, he had
never ceased to search for her in every con-
ceivablc place, :,


"And now, my little darling" be continued,
for fear | might lose you again, you must
consent for US to be married to night. Will you,
Sweet ?"


The only answer he received was a gentle
pressure of the arms around his neck, for at
that moment Jessie entered the room.


On seeing them she drew back, but Roy cal
led her to them, and told her all that was ne
cessary to make her throw her arms around
Lenore, and through her sympathetic tears as
sure her that she would always love her as
Cousin Roys wife.


The next day Paul LIE Jour received the fol
lowing telegraph


Dear Paul Your sister and myself were
married last evening, and will pass through
your city next Tuesday, on our way to Europe
Meet us at the National Hotel at 3 O'Clock
p. NJ. on that day. Your brother
Roy ELLISON"
Year: 1874

The WIDOwERs Brown AND JONES'
We have two wldOwers up in our neighbor-
hood who have engaged lately in a friendly
but exciting contest in which everybody in the
vicinity has taken the deepest interest Both
lost their wives about the same time, and each
had SIX fingers OF Grape wrapped around his
high hat. Brown determined to-show the
nelghbors that he mOurned more passionately
than Jones; so he put three fingers more
around his. Then Jones thought that every
body would think he cared less for the depart-
ed Mrs. Jones than Brown cared for the late
Mrs. Brown SO he got band of Grape fifteen
fingers wide around his hat This fred the
heart of Brown, who Immediately put on 80
much Grape that it projected an inch and
half above the summit of his hat crown. Jones
saw it, and instantly cutting the crown out of
an old that, he telescoped it on to his new hat.
and craped the cylinder clear to the ton,
Brown now thorOugly excited, and determined
to do justice to Mrs. Browns memory, got
eighteen old hat crowns and erected upon his
hat kind of funeral shottower, which he
enVeloped IN Grape and wore on the street.
Jones feeling that his dear departed would
think him cold and heartless if he failed to do
his duty in this crisis, built up stack of about
twenty sections of stOve-pipe, which he dove
tailed on his hat, draped in mourning and
sported. Brown at once telegraped to Paris
for silk hat six hundred feet high, swaddled
in Grape twelve feet deep, and reaching from
the brlm to the top of the crown. 1t will shut
up like a Spyglass when Brown wants to 90 in
his front door, When Browns hat arrives il
is though Jones will commit suicide and ioin


Mrs. Jones on the other shore.-Maz Adcler.
Year: 1874

CONGRESSIONAL BoMBAsT.-Although the
bombast of the past was wearisome. it had it's
virtue in the patriotism by which it was usually
inspired. This virtue gave it attraction, and
there are few of our elders who have not been
thrilled by tho diffusive, burning harrangue Of
the stump; but TO our ears the wild cry of the
bird of freedom has become a disagreeable
squawk. After while, its voice got into the
throats of demagogues oftener than those Of
true men, and thus it went out of fashion
Now, when man begins to talk about this
great and glorious country, and her manifest
destiny, we suspect him of q scheme to obtain
land grants or subventions for steamship lines
Ito extend the area of freedom. When he
speaks of the sufferings Of his community
through the want of internal improvements,
We suspect him Of desire to get his hand into
the meal. bag; and when he says he is ready to
lay down his life on the altar of liberty. our
suspieions grow almost to convictions. IT. in
addition to this, he invokes the name Of his
Maker as to the purity and patriotism of his mo-
tves, our mind is made up.-Abert Rhodes /;
ScYibner's for January.
Year: 1874

She was expecting him Sunday night. The
parlor curtains were down, the old folks mott
fed that it was healthy to 90 to bed at eight
o'clock, aud Johnny bribed with q cent to per-
NIT himself to be tucked away at sundown
He snsaked up the path, one eye on the dog
aud the other watching for the old man, who
didu' like him any too we'll, gave faint knock
at the door, and it was opened and he was
escorted into the parlor. He said he wOuldn t
stay but minute, though he didn't mean to
go home for hours. She wanted to know how
his neither was; if his father had return from
York State If his brother Bills rhumatism
was any better, and he went over and sat
down on the sofa so as not to strain HE voice.
Then conversation Stacked, and he played with
his hat, and she nibbled at the sofa tidy. He
finally said it was a beautiful evening, and she
replied that her grandfather had predicted a
snow storm. He said he gussed it wouldn'
snow, as the moon was not crooked enough to
hang powder horn on the end of it, and she
said she didn't believe it would either. The
mutual understanding seemed to give them
both courage, and then he wanted to know il
she had seen Bill Jones lately. She hadn't,
she didn't want to.


Then they went on talking about the dona-
ton visit which was to be given before long to
Elder Berry, and he carelessly dropped his
hand on hers-his right hand, while his left
arm sneaked along the sofa and got behind her
shoulders. She pretended not to notice it and
he looked down at his boots, and wanted to
know il she thought mutton tslow rotted out
boots faster than lard and lanpblack. She
couldn't say but she had an idea that it did.
He had just commenced to hook fingers with
her, when she discovered something allied the
lamp. She rose up, and turned the light down,
making the room look dim. 1t took him five
minutes to get hold of her fingers again, and
she pretended to want 10 draw her hand away
all the time. After long pause he lowered
his voice to a whisper, and said he didn't see
what made folks love each other. She bit hel
handkerchief, and admitted her ignorance
He said that he could name a dozen young
men who were going to get married right away
and his left arm fell down and gave her hug
Then he went over and looked out of the win
dow to make sure that it was or was not gOinl
to snow, and, coming back, he turned the ligh
down a little more, and then sat down anC
wanted to know IL she didn't want to rest her
self by leaning her head on his shoulder.


| Ah me! We have all been there, and who
of us cared cent when the clock struck twelve
and we FIVE miles from home2 The old mar
was fast asleep, the watch dog gone visiting
and che han0somest girl in the country didn'
see why we need be in q hurry.


Perhaps | should mt have written OF this
but as | was going to Saunders the other day
thinking of the night heard him whisper il
her ear at the spelling school, that he'd lovt
her very shadow as long as he lived, he raiseC
the window and called to her, as she was pick
ing up chips in the road;


''Sue Saunders, come in here and find tn,
bars grese for my sore heel. or 1 break ever,
bone in your body. ."-Ddnbury Netcs.
Year: 1874

The MASSACHUSETTS LIQUOR LAw.-Our
New England contemporaries are dsvoting
considerable attention to the Massachusetts
Prohibitory Liquor Law, the revival of dis
cusson on that subject being caused by the
resignation of Mr. Martin Griffin, from the
State Police Commission, whose duty it is
to enforce the law. Mr.. Griffin, during his
connection with the Board. is said to have
made conscientious efforts to put the law into
effective operation, and has resigned because
he is convinced of its impracticability. In his
letter to the Governor, he writes that he is
fully convinced that the law, as it stands on
the statute book, is detrimental to the cause
of temperance, and that it leads 10 ineficiency
and corruption. He continues that q great
portion OF the time Of the Commission is spent
in the Investigation OF charges OF malfeasance
against the State Constabes whose duty it is
to enforce the act 10 different localities, aud
that his belief is strong that good license law
is the best means of arriving at the result now
desired by the temperance people. There
views, from one of the strongest advocates in
past time in the prohibitory law, have caused
our contemporaries to renew the discussion oil
the matter. In Boston, the police reports
seem to demonstrate vast amount of drunken


ness, showing that the use of spirituous


liquors is on the increase rather than the de


crease. Dealers 10 these make no complaints,
whilst. on the other hand, the brewers appear
to be the scapegoats of the law. Malt liquors,
being in bulky packages, Incapable Of elandes.
tine transportation, are easily discovered and
seized while the others are allowed compara-
lively free movement. Hence the sad exhibit
Of the Boston Police Courts. Ledger.
Year: 1874

Mary had little lamb,


With which she used to tussel;
She snatched the wool all off its back.
And stuffed it in her hustle,
The lamb soon saw he had been feeced,
And in passion few;
But Mary got him by the ear,


And stuffed the lamb in, too.
Year: 1874

Lord Massey" is good looking young man
and is evidently highly educated. His manner
wasdecidedly nervous, but whether this was the
result OF his past excessive drinking or the great
fear Of the issue at stake we could not div.
inc. Tie is most pleasant conversationalst.
and We do not wonder at his having been tho
= lion" among the people generally wherever he
has chosen to play his deceptive art. His ward.
robe consists of large heavy English brown
Overcoat, blue sack under coat, blue pants and
vest, black and white plaid shirt, and hat Of
English fashion made of felt and on the sugar.
loaf style in point of shape.
Year: 1874

AS ravs come from the sun, and yet
r. MT the sun, even so Our love and
oigy, though chcy are not CD, but
merely a poor weak image AMI refec-
ton Of him, yet from him alone they
COME. IF there Is mercy in our hearts
it cones from the fountsin Of mercy.
# there IS the light Of love in Us. it
comes from the full sun Of love
Ktnysiey-
Year: 1874


To Governor e. j. DuUi5 dustin TcraS:


Your telegram stating that according to
the Constitution of Texas, YOU were Gov
ernor until the 2Sth of April and that Hon.
Richard Coke has been inaugurated and
will attempt to seize the Governors office
and buildings, and calling upon the Presi-
dent for military assistance has been re-
ferred by him to me for an answer, and l
am instructed to say that after considering
the fourth section of article four, of the
Constitution of Texas, providing that the
Governor shall hold his office for the term
of four years from the time of his
installment under which you claim,
and section three of the Election
Declaration attached to the said Constitu-
ton under which you are chosen, and
which provides that the State and other
officers elected Hereunder shall hold their
respective offices for the term of yeurs pre-
scribed by the Constitution, beginning
from the day of election under which the
Government that claims the office And
more than four years having expired since
your election, he is of the opinion that
your right to hold the office of Governor
at this time is, at BEST so doubtful that he
does not feel warranted in furnishing Uni
ted States troops to aid you in holding
further possession of it, and he therefore
declines TO comply with your request


GEO. II. WILLIAMS,


Attorney General
Year: 1874

THE BEAUTY OF HEALTH. How
cheering and charming is the young
girl, full of life and energy, with rosy
cheek, pearly teeth and sparkling eye.
1t does not lay her upon the sofa for a
day to take a mornings ramble. Her
complexion tells of wholesome, nutri-
tious food, and you know by the rosy
redness of her lips that her breath is as
sweet as the new mOwn hay. That in
valid wives very often loose all influence
with their husbands is notorious yet
not a singular fact, much as it is to be
regretted. Nothing will so soon out
weary patience or cool the warmth of af-
fection, as the complainings and disa-
greeable accomplishments of i'll health.
Girls, if you would be valued, cherished,
beloved, attractive and useful wives,
cherish good health.
Year: 1874

DIsRAELI AND HIS WIFE.-If any
oody desires to know what n wife may
De 10 her husband; with what pure un-
selnshness and devotion she can give up
every thing that she has to his service,
and lind noble happiness in doing it;
what support and comfort she can be
TO him under the inevitable sorrows and
mlsfortunes of life; how magnifieentIY
she can inspire him to fresh exertions,
ana stand as bulwark between the ad-
verse world and himself-any one who
Wlsnes 10 comprehend all this need
only read the story of Mr.. Disraelfs
married life. 1t will be found that in
such case the devotion is not all on
one side. The affection of q good woman
kindles the nobler qualities of man,
and he will repay her devotion with
lofty fidelity. If Mr.. Disraeli had, as
he once said, the "best of wives" he, on
his part, proved the best of husbands.
Till the last day of her life, he paid to
his wife those attentions which are too
often associated rather with the romance
of youthful Intercourse than with the
routine of married life.


When he rose to the highest point OF
his ambition, the only favor he would
accept of the Queen was cOrOnet for his
wife. He was scarcely ever absent from
her side until the dark day when the
fast friends were to be parted. She
knew that she was dying, but refrained
from telling him so, in order that he
might be spared the pain of bidding her
farewell He also knew that her last
hour was at hand, but kept silence lest
he should distress her. Thus they
parted, each anxious to avoid striking
blow at the others heart. The do
nestle lives of public men are properly
held to be beyond the range of public
comment; but in an age when marriage
is the theme of ridicule from "leaders
of process, ,r'ft may be that this passage
in Mr.. Disraeli's career may be pom
dered with some profit by the young
AtIdltic.
Year: 1874

The addition of a small quantity of
boric acid to milk retards the separation
OF cream, and the milk does not become
sour when kept several days. Beer also,
to which the borie acid has been added,
does not SO quickly become hard
Hirschberg.
Year: 1874

SALT IN SICRNESS.-Dr Scudder re-
marks: / am satisfied that have seen
patients die from deprivation of COM
mon salt during a protracted illness. It
is a common impression that the food
for the sick should not be seasoned, and
whatever slOp may be given, it isalmost
innocent of this essential of life. In the
diet that 1 recommend in sickness,
common salt is used freely, the milk be-
ing boiled and given hot. And if the
patient cannot take the usual quantity
in his food, / have it given in his drink.
This matter is so important that it can
not be repeated too often, or dwelt upon
too long. The most marked example of
this want of common salt l have ever
noticed has been i'm surgical disease,
especially in open wounds. Without a
supply of salt the tongue would become
broad, pallid, puffy, with tenacious
pasty coat, the .secretious arrested, the
circulation feeble, the effusion at the
point of injury serous, with an unpleas-
ant watery puss, which at last becomes
a mere sanies or ichOr. A few days of q
free allowance would change all this,
and the patient get along well.
Year: 1874

A Journal for the People.


Devoted to the Interests OF Humanity.
Independent in Politics and Religion.


Alive TO all Live Issues, and Thoroughly
Radical in Opposing and Exposing the Wrong
OF the Masses.