smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1878

There are many ways In which we can
annoy cur friends without intending to
do 10. A few of these are easily stated.
Never call upon people out of season.
in business hours Idle persons are apt
TO have too little consideration for those
who are busy. Call upon business people
on business in business hours, but not for
a long friendly chat on matters and things
in general. Call upen your neighbors in
their homes at such hours as they will be
prepared to receive you, and not before
they are down stairs in the morning, or
while they are at dinner, or just a. they
are going to bed. Never stop people
upon the street il they appear to be in
q hurry, and buttOnhole them for ten
or twenty minutes. Neither is it good
taste, when you see two persons engaged
in earnest talk, to step In and enter upon
miscellaneous conversation. A mans
ordinary instincts ought to know at once
when his company is desired and when
it Is a nuisance. 1t is also a great i'm
pertinence to strike In with something
entirely foreign to the subject when one
is in the midst Of story or statement,
or an argument, and to persist in talking
about "this, that and everything" to
one wao is trying to read the morning
paper, or book or anything else. When.
ever mau is 10 absorbed that he does
not care to reply to what you say, 1t Is
time to stop talking. There are legion
of other annoyances, equally trying
Carelessness in keeping appointments
keeping other people waiting your own
convenience coming in late to church,
or the concevt, or the lecture, and always
in creaking boots; delay in answering
important letters; borrowing new books
from the owner before he has had time to
read them, and returning the same at a
late date, perhaps never; scribbling foolish
comments on the margin I; always de-
pending upon neighbor for sight Of
the daily or weekly paper when you are
ss well able to pay for it as he is; learn.
ing to play on musical instruments in
the ;ull hearing of sensitive and nervous
people. But we may as well stop here.
From your ownexperience you can com.
ple.e the list.
Year: 1878

DIR. w. F. Carver, of California, is said
to be the most wonderful riAe-shot in the
world. He is coming east with his rife
and reputation. The other day he gave
an exhibition at Denver. His perform
ance is to break glass balls thrown in the
air twenty or thirty feet distant and
twenty or thirty fest high. He engages
to break eighty out of one hundred glass
balls thus thrown in the air. At the
Denver exhibition he broke ninety out OF
one hundred. Besides this he made very
difficult fancy Substituting from his hip
and over his head. and with the rifle up.
side down, etc His most difficult shot
was this: A ball is thrown into the air
about twenty feet high. He fires aud
misses it with the first shot He then
reloads the rifle. and breaks the ball
before it reaches the ground. This he
did st the second trial He loads with
cartridge, OF course, but this feat requires
amazing dcSterity.
Year: 1878

| married my wife about thirty-five
years ago. The ceremony was performed
about seven O'Clock in the morning. Be-
fsre retiring that evening we had a good
talk with each other, and the result has
sweetened our entire lives We agreed
that each should always be watchful
and careful, never, by word or act, to
hurt the feelings OF the other. We were
both young, hot tempered, both positive
in our likes and dislikes, and both some.
what exacting and inhexible-iust the
material for life of coDjugsl warfare.
Well. foi few years we found it hard
wsrx to always live by our agreement
Occasionally (not often) a word or lock
would slip of the tongue or face before
it could bs caught or suppressed but we
never allowed the sun to 20 down upon
our wrath. Before retiring At night on
such occasions there was always con-
iession and forgiveness, and the culprit
would become more careful in future.


Oar tempers and dispositions became
gradually more congenial, 30 that after
q few years We came 10 be one In reality,
as the martial ceremony had prons unced
US nominally. In thinking back we find
that for more than twenty years our
little agreement has been unbroken, and
there has been no occasion for confession
and forgiveness. In business we have
had adversely and prosperity, failure AID
success. We raised a family of children
about US. and we are simple enough to
believe that we have better children, and
better grandchildren because Of our little
agreement. Under such a contract reli-
giously kept, no ill-natured children will
be reared, and no boys will find the
streets and barrooms more pleasant than
home. To make good wife or good
husband requires the co operation OF
both.
Year: 1878

WHETHER merely foolish, or cunning
and avaricious, the men who are urging
the negroes to leave this country and
cast themselves upon the savage coast of
Africa, are doing a cruel thing. There
is no good reason for any class of men
emigrating from this country, and none
have ever yet gone away in body who
did not heartily wish themselves back.
The Joppa colony, the settlers of Liberia
and the mechanics who went to England
last year are familiar illustrations in
point. Every negro who is entrapped
by this colonization scheme will make
grievous mistake. This country is wide.
II stretches between two oceans, and
from zone to zone; it presents every va
riety of climate and vegetation; its laws
are flexible, and its conditionl adaptable
TO any race of men. however rich or poor,
high or humble. Every tramp is eligible
TO the governorship; every hod-carrier's
son IL in the line OF the presidential sue
cession sny negro may aspire to be a
law.maker in congress or the senate or
the founder of new state. Even two
hundred and fifty freedmen are too many
to be given over to the losses, sufferings
and disappointments which this visionary
scheme will be sure to entail The Col.
onization society revealed its real animus
a generation ago, when it strove to exile
free negroes SO that slavery might be
more firmly rooted, and it is high time
the nest of fraudulent philan.hropists
was broken up -[Graphic.
Year: 1878

SO FAR as can be ascertained from the
illustrated pspers, Mr.. Stanley generally
fought naval battle before breakfast,
ran thirty rapids, and cut three paths
through the forest before noon, and then
fought land battle during the heat of
the day in order to give his men a rest.
1t could be wished that Re had mentioned
how many Central Africans he killed in
his various battles. Probably the number
was beyond the capacity of the largest
slate, and so could not be calculated.
We msy feel sure, however, that he
tbinned out the population, and that not
more than two native kings and half to
the square yard will be found by the
next Central African explorer New
York Times.
Year: 1878

Calling at farm house the other
day; says a writer in an English pa
per, was told | was just day too
late to see a very wonderful sight
nursing some little chickens. It
appears the cat had family of dead
kittens q few days before, and the
same morning some five or six chicks
were hatched. As there were others
TO come out, the lady of the houee
took the just hatched chicks into the
house till all wore hatched, and
placed them before the fire in the
sitting room, or, as we say. here, the
keeping room. Pussy, greatly to the
horror OF the good lady of The house,
took a great fancy to them, and could
not be kept away from them. Wish
ing to see what would take place, the
owner allowed her to come near,
whenshe began to stroke them down
with her paw in the most affection
ate manner, and after awhile, lying
down, gathered them well under her.
There she lay al the day; in the
evening they were taken from her,
but the next day she did the same:
but the third day, fearful of accidents,
they were taken from her and put
under their proper mother; who had
now hatched ont her whole brood.
wonder what pussy would have done
with them2
Year: 1878

A writer says: II have seen WON,
en- 80 delicate that they were afraid
to ride, for fear of the horse running
away; afraid to sail, for fear the boat
might upset; afraid to walk, for fear
they might fall but l never saw one
afraid to be married, which is far
more riskful than all the others put
together"
Year: 1878

The wealth of our next door neighbor,
But bid me still to be stout of heart,


And cheerfully follow my labor,
You must know the last of these little debts,
That have been our lingering sorrow,
Is paid this night So we'll both go forth,
And shake hands with the world to NOR
Oh, the debtor is but shame. faced dog
With the creditors name on his collar,
While I'm king and you are queen,
For we owe no man u dollar.
Our neighbor you saw in the coach to day,
With his wife and his founting daughter,
While we eat down at our coveriess board,


TO crust ard cup of wotcr,
saw that tear drop stood in your eye,
Though you tried your best to conceal il;
knew that the contrast reached your heart,
And you could not help bat feel it;
But knowing now; that our scanty fare
Has freed my neck from the collar.
You'll join my laugh and help me shout
That owe no man dollar.
This neiskbor whose show has dazzled your


eyes,


In fact, is q wretched debtor;
l pity him oft from my very heart


And wish that his lot were better;
Why the man is the veriest slave alive,


For his dashing wife and daughter,
Will live in style though ruin should come,
So he goes like lamb to the slaughter!
But he feels ii tighter every day,


That terrible debtors colar
Oh, what would he give could he say with us,
That he owed no man dollar
You seemed amazcd-but I'll tell you more;
Within two hours l meet him
Sneaking away with q frightened air
- AS if fiend had beset him;
Yet he fed from very worthy man,


Whom met with the greatest pleasure
Whom called by name, and turned to stop,
Though he said he was not at leisure,
He held my last note! so 1 held him fast!
Till he freed my neck from the collar;
Then 1 shook his hand as 1 proudly said
"Now I owe no man o dollar!"
All! now you smile, for you feel the force
OF the truths I've been repeating;
knew that drowning honest heart
In the gentle breast was beating
Tomorrow I'll rise with giants strength
. To follow my daily labor;
But ere we sleep let us humbly pray


For our wretched next door neighbor;
And We'll pray for the time when all shall
be free,


From the weight of debtors collar;
When the poorest shall lift his voice and cry;
"Now / owe no man O dollar"
Year: 1878

Among the business transacted by
the State Democratic Executive
Committee, at is Meeting. in this city
yesterday, says the Columbia Regis
ter, the following general plan for
conducting the primary elections
was agreed upon, and ordered to be
sent to the various County Chair
men. The members are impressed
with the importance Of the system as
the best and tairest method for se-
lecting candidates to be voted for in
each county, thereby tending to uni
fy and harmonize the party thropgh~
ont the State. The suggestions made
in the annexed series are general
in their character, as is entirely
proper, for it would be difficult to
-prepair details which would ol crate
with equal force and smoothness in
every locality. The recommends
tions of the Executive Committee
are embraced in the following points:


1. Aspirants for the position of
candidates should be announced in
dividually in any mode deemed prop
er by themselves or their irieuds, but
should be placed distinctly before
the Democratic party on their own
merits, and not as the candidate of
any organized body of Democrats.


2. Each aspirant for the positions
of candidate, when he accepts tie
nomination So made, shall immedi
a'ely rotify the County Chairman in
writing Of the fact, and in tie same
communication state that he is
melNb per Of some l. Cal club, and sab-
scribe to lhe following pledge: IL
agree to abide by and support the
nomiaiinnns Of the Democratic arty,
and not to accept either nomination
or an office from any other source
than the Regularly constituted Demo-
cratic organization"


3. AT least five days before the
primary election, the County Chair
man shall notify the Democratic
Clubs OF The aspirants who have
thus qualified themselves tor the po-
silion OF candidate, and votes cast for
any other person or persons shall not
be counted.


4. On the day fixed for this pri-
mary election, each local club shall
hold an election tor candidates of the
Democratic party, and report the
result in writing over the SIGNATURES
OF the managers to tue County Chair
man. At this election none but
members ofthe local clubs shall vote.
and each member before being al
lowed to vote shall take the follow
ing pledge: Il solemnly affirm that
l am duly enrolled member Of this
Democratic Club; that I have not
voted at this election, and that I will
abide by and sustaip all nomina-
tions made by tie Dem cratic party,
whether for Federal, State or county
officers"


5. Upon the following day, the
County Chairman and at least two
members of the County Executive
Committee shall assemble at the
county seal, and aggregate the votes
reported, and before sundown declare
the candidates selected.


6. No one shall be declared the
nominee Of the party unless be shall
have received a majority of all the
votes cast in the primary election.


z Should no candidate for any
particular ofice receive a majority
Of the votes cast, the County Chair
man shall 80 declare, and order a
second election to complete the nomi
nations in sufficient time before the
general election.


l once defended a man charged
with the awful crime Of murder. At
Year: 1878

The local editor of the Wilmington Repuhlica,


droped IN on the jovia agent of the American Swino


Machine We quote: Primrose, this looks busnes,


lRe we said after we had glanced around and taken
In the situation. "Yes," was the reply why wouId
you believe 1t, we have really had shipped from
the LIST OF March up to the I'd of April, 90 sewing


machines, the largest number of which have already
been sold.


In two days during March, we sold % machines.
ana we have two wagons running from the office
outside OF the city, and two are kept busy in the in
side of the city. Since the prices were lowered we
are selling double the number of machines that we
sofa before and we have agents in every town of lead
ing importance on the Peninsula all making sales
The prices at which we are selling now are $50 and
s5O" W


We could not help but acknowledge Primrose's
go-a-head-a-ttve-ness, and that the American was
really in fair way to take all the world and the rest
Of mankind.


Now word for Primrose. He used to be as success
ful in the dry goods trade in the town of SMYRNA as
he is now in Wilmington as general agent of the
American.


He came to Wilmington years ago on the 11th of |
the coming June, took charge of the American and i
found everything down at the heel things terribly /
demoralized and his machine almost hooted at but
throwing energy. vim, pluck and good management
into his business he is undoubtedly in the ffont
Of the front ranks of sewing machine agents on the
Peninsula, including Wilmington"
Year: 1878

The bill to repeal the bankrupt law has
passed the United States Senate. There is
verv little doubt that it will also pass the
House. 1t is pity that some proper
measure of relief for bankrupts could not
be devised which would be of general opera
ton throughout the country and remain
permanently upon the statute book. The
present law is a standing invitation to
fraud; but a properly law, guard
ing the rights of creditors, should be per-
fected at once and passed.
Year: 1878

Mr.. Woods Tariff bill will now be the
football of the House for some time to
come. He is sanguine of its passage, but
it seems hardly probable that majority
will be secured for it. Even should it pass
the house, the Senate will put its foot on it.
Revenue reform is sadly needed, but it is
not likely that the present Con gress will
bring it about. The subject needs thorough
research and mature deliberation.
Year: 1878

Cats are affectionate u they love young
chickens, sweet cream, and the best place in
ont of the fireplace.


Dogs are very faithful; they will stick to a
bone when everybody else has deserted it.


The donkey is an emblem of patience, but
if you study him closer you will find that
laziness is what is the matter with him.


The eagle is the monarch of the skies, but
the little king-bird will chase him to his hid
ing place.


Monkeys are initiative, but if they can't
initiate some mischief they are not happy.


Hens know when it is going to rain and
shelter themselves, but they will try to hatch
out glass egg just as honestly as they will
one of their own.


The elephant has the least and the rabbit
the most eyes for its size, and rats tail is
just the length of its body.


The roof of a thoroughbred dogs mouth is
always black. So is the bottom of cats
foot who is q good mouser.


The serpent and the crab change their
clothing each year, and the raccoon lives all
the winter long on the memory of what he
ate in the summer.
Year: 1878

hate above all things cross man. What
right has he to murder the sunshine of day


What right has to assassinate the joy of
life? When you 60 home you ought to 60
like ray of light, so that it will, even in the
night burst out Of the doors and windows
and illuminate the darkness. Some men
think their mighty brains have been in a tur-
moil; they have been thinking who will be
Alderman from the Fifth Ward; they have
been thinking about politics great and
mighty questions have been engaging their
minds; they have bought calico at five cents
OF six, and want to sell it for seven. Think
of what an intellectual strain that must have
been upon that man, and when he gets home
everybody else must look out for his comfort.
A woman who has only taken care of five or
six children, and one or two of them sick,
has been nursing them and singing to them,
and trying to make one yard of cloth do the
work Of two, she, of course, is fresh and fine
and ready to wait upon this gentleman
head of the family-the boss !-Ro6ert G.
Zn0ersOU.
Year: 1878

"Why does lightning 90 rarely strike twice
in the same placer" Professor Workman
asked the new boy in the class of natural
philosophy. Huh, said the new boy. 1T
never needs TO-" And 1t is little singular
that nobody had ever thought Of that reason
before.
Year: 1878

The worst Of it Is, that when these
passions pull very often, the face does
not return to what it was before, but
the muscles harden and retain that ugly
expression. By indulging in evil pas
siOns, people may work their faces up
into such awful faces, that sometimes
when you meet man in the street you
can tell, just by looking at his face,
what his character Is.


A face that was very lovely when it
was that OF q child, has had the passion
Of anger pulling at it SO often that it
always wears q sullen, cross, dissltis-
tied look. Or if = man has learned to
love to hoard up money for its own
sake, his face gets mean, grasping
look, and we say when we pass him,
There goes miser.' Or If he has
learned to lie and steal, he cannot
make his face that Of an truthful, hon
est man.


Dear children, do you want to have
pleasant faces that everybody will love
to look atp Then don't let the ugly
passions get hold of the strings. Put
them into the hands of love and char
ity and good will and truth and hon.
esty, and then they will be beautiful
faces.


have seen faces without single
handsome feature, that were sweeter to
look at than the most perfect features
that ever were formed. And whyp II
was the expression. And what makes
the expressiona Oh. it all depends up
on whether the bad passions or the
lovely virtues get hold the little
strings.-N Y. Observer.
Year: 1878

life; and then there came q shock, and
then another, and I don't know how many
more, until the whole scene was exceed
ingly shocking; for as each succeeding
sled dumped its load over us, the CON
fused mass Of laughing and squirming
bodies became more bewildering, and the
placid moon grinned down upon sight
it IS to be hoped not often enjoyed by the
chaste Diana's symbol. At last every
body succeeded in extricating his or her
own robes and turs and overshoes and
limbs, and something like order and pro-
priety was once more restored; but the
mere consciousness of my spotless inno-
cence did not save me from being accused
by all parties as the author of what they
pleased to call " shocking mishap'
Though very much bewildered and con.
fused, had in my mind one clear idea
that I was not destined to shine in that
peculiar institution of Russian society
the "katok.'
Year: 1878

A correspondent in Nature SAYS
Wanting to banisn mice from pantry l
placed on the floor at night a slice of
bread spread over with butter, in which
| had mixed a threepenny packet of
Battles Vermin Killer which contains
about a grain OF s,rychnia alon. with
flour and Prussian blue. The following
morning was reused by a servant, telling
me that favorite skye-terrier was living
dead found that the mice HAD drag,
ged the slice of bread underneath the
locked door, and that the dog had thus
got at it and eaten part equal to about
one-sixth of grain of strychnia; It lay
on its side perfectly rigid; an occasional
tetanic spasm showed that life was not
quite extinct. Having notes of the ex-
periments made by direction of the Brit
ish Medical Association last year on the
antagonism of medicines, and wherein it
was,proved that fatal dose of strychnia
couldbe neutralized by afatal dose
| OF ehloral hydrate, and that the minimum
fatal dose of the latter for rabbit was
twenty-one grains, at once injected under
the dogs skin forty-fve grains OF the
chloral in solution, my dog being about
twice the weight OF rabbit. In quar-
ter OF an hour, fancying the dog was
dead, as the spasms had ceased and it lay
apparently ifelcss, moved it with my
foot, when it at once struggled TO It's feet
and shortly after staggered to it's usual
corner by the parlor fire; it took some
milk, and except for being quieter than
usuel, seemed nothing the worse for the
ordeal it has passed through. That the
fatal effects OF a poisonous dose of stryh-
MIA was thus counteracted SO successfully
by what say was a poisonous dose
of chloral, given hypodermically, is an
interesting fact verifying the experiments
| alluded to. Without such expcrime ents
on the lower animals, medical man
might often be found standing by help
less to aid his fellow man under similar
effects of poison.
Year: 1878

The Edge Moor Iron company haye
closed a contract with the Perry Safety
Car Coupling Company Of Beaver Dam,
Wisconsin, for the manufacture Of tn
Perry car coupler. Mr.. Perry has been
in this city nearly two years p.rfecting
his patent and he is to be congratulate
ed that such a responsible firm as the
Edge Moor Iron Company is taking
hold of the matter. There can he no
doubt that the invention is a good one,
both in apecuniary and humanitarian
sense, for ii ia adorted by all the rail.
roads In the country many lives will he
saved. We sincerely wish Mr.. Perry
great success.
Year: 1878

The body of one Of the two children
drowned in the late storm near Bombay
Hook, was recovered on Saturday last


after five weeks, near the public road
leading to the Light House and about
half mile from where the other was
found. They were the children, it will
be remembered, OF Hugh Durham. It
was said to be in as good a state Of
preservation as the day it was drowned
Year: 1878

Dennis and Frank Mcguire were
each tried at the Mayors court for va
grancy, and ordered by his honor to be
sent over the bridge for thirty days.


The High constable,a a grocer, "a butcl'
or and an ex- Councilman are quarrel
ling about a stray COW.
Year: 1878

John Mccall had hitched his horse to
post in Fourth street near French,
yesterday morning, and on being fright
ened by something it broke tie strap
and ran across the street at a high rate
of speed, whore it was caught by the
head, before any damag" was done.
Year: 1878

nity Church, Clark county, Ala,
Pe groans like a human being in
! dying. Numbers of persons Of
prs visit the place to hear the
'unds, With colored people the
n the mysterious sound is en-.
the fact that the tree stands


a large graveyard and is also
place where a man of their color
d by lightning a year or two