smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1874

The Memphis Register of March
18th, says: When the war between


the States broke out, there lived in


Memphis a certain young mechanic
who volunteered his services as a sol
dier in the Confederate cause. Just


before receiving marching orders he
fell heir to $500, which he received
in English gold, and buried 81 900 of
the same beneath the roots of tree
on a certain lot in the city. The said
lot belonged to friend Of the young
man whose family had kindly nursed
him during protracted illness and for
whom he felt deep sense of graft
tude. 1t chanced that said soldier be-
came tired of his unrequited life, and
despairing of the cause which he
deemed lost before many of his fell
low soldiers came to the same con-
elusiOn, he left his comrades without
the usual preliminary of an honorable
discharge and passed beyond the boun-
dairy of the Confederate States into
Mexico. In due course of time he
sailed for England and there shipped
as a sailor on a merchant vessel. Af-
ter various adventures around the
world he was at length taken very i'll
recently, while sailing in the Medlter-
ranean, and, before meeting with his
approaching death, summoned to the
side of his hammock the master of the
vessel, revealed to him the above sta
ted facts and desired him to write a
will in which he bequeathed to the
friend in Memphis, who had nursed
him in sickness, his buried treasure.
This was accordingly done and the
will duly signed and witnessed.


The master of the vessel faithfully
carried out the dying request of the
deceased soldier and sailor and com
municated the facts with the will to
the Memphis legatee, who received
the same. But he had sometime be-
fore sold and delivered another party
the lot on which the valuable sover-
eigns were deposited. How to get at
it now without incurring opposition
and perhaps litigation, was the ques-
ton which arose in his mind. After
taking the advice of counsel, he con-
cluded to develop the whole matter to
the purchaser and owner of the place
and ask for the right to make search.
This was done, and the new proprie-
tor generously forwarding his wishes
and giving him every facility to possess
himself of the treasure. On digging
at the foot of the tree described in
the will, the gold, amounting to s., 900
was happily found and the new owner
made glad by the glittering heap. Thus
did the bread cast on the waters re-
turn after many days" And thus is
truth again proven to be stranger
than fiction" This remarkable state
ment is vouehed for by respectable
lawyer of this city. 1t furnishes abund-
ant foundation for an interesting ro-
nance, which we hope some competent
person will work up
Year: 1874

The sock market TO-DAY has been generally dull,
stupid and lower the single exception to this rule
having been Lake Shore, in which fair business
was done at 72!G .G13,, closing az %, a 15s. The
cause assigned for the exception in favor of this
stock was a report that meeting of the Executive
Committee Of the Company had been called for to-
morrow This was regarded a sufficient basis for
jumping to a conclusion that dividend was to be
declared and this in turn soon grew into a
statement that per cent dividend had
been actually determined upon but "a no
one seemed able to give any satisfactory infor-
nation as to how the Company were to raise the
means with which to pay a dividend, the stock adj
vanced only g, per cent on the purchase of about
5000 shares being considerably more than the total
sales of all other shares put together. Apparently
the bears took with reasonable freedom whatever
Lake Shore shares were offered. We know nothing
of the meeting of the Executive Committee or its
Intentions. The leading shares after Lake Shore
were Western Union telegraph, Northwestern, st.
Paul Union Pacific, and Wabash. The market
closed steady. The opening, highest, lowest and
closing prices of leading stocks sold to-day as
ftlluN;s.
Year: 1874

THE elephant, like the whale, is dying
out. In India he is becoming almost as
rare as is the red deer in England. The
hunters have driven him farther and far
ther inland. Unless something is done to
protect him, he will before long become,
upon the main continent at any rate, alto
gether extinct, and Sahib will have TO i'm
port his elephants from Birmah and Cey-
Ion as much as England imports her horses
from Ireland aud her foxes from any coun-
try that will send them in sufficient num-
Year: 1874

A RATHER singular present received by
a bride last week, was a lie insurance policy
for $4,000 on her husbands life. The
poor little thing, all tulle and orange bios
SONS, wept when she saw it, and continued
to do so until her mamma whispered some
thing in her ear. Then she raised her eye
brows, sweetly smiled, and trpped up stairs
to put the policy carefully away.
Year: 1874




But one week remains of the present
session of Congress. The passage of a
fresh initiation bill by the Senate, and
its rejection by the House, remitting
the matter to a new conference COM
mittee, leave finances Just about where
they were seven months ago when Con-
gress convened. So long as the coun-
try has system depending so directly
on the whims of Congress, to be tam
pered with and temporized according
to party exie enc.es and political effects,
so long will our trade aud traffic be
paralyzed occasionally by such intoler-
able delays as this has been
to every man devising plans
and enterprises for the near fu.
ture. Congress has not even legalized
the S26,00O,0O0 greenbacks issued last
fall by Secretary who has since been
disgraced. The action of the House
yesterday may indicate an unwilling
ness to invoke another Presidential veto.
There is no likelihood of any initiation
hill passing over the President, as
the Senate vote on the former veto was
81 Co 80, with 8 absent. Some say that
Grant is in the Wilderness of finance
and viii fight it out On this line if it
takes all summer. Others are unchar-
liable enough to regard his late ''mem-
Orandum" as a hint that he will not
change his views unless a certain sort
of pressure be brought to bear upon
him personally.
Year: 1874

ILL-FOUNDED enmities are ever the
most obstinate. The reason of this IS
clear As offences of that kind exist only
i'm the imagination, they never fail TO grow
and swell in that receptacle. too fruitful IN
evil fancieS.
Year: 1874

The Levee Convention at New Or.
leans of delegates from the over4lowed
parishes have appointed committee
to represent to Congress that the great
er portion of the $500, 900 appropriated
by Congress for charity can be more
effectually used by employing those
who are LII want upon the work of
rebuilding the levees, thus securing
not only means Of support but at the
same time a sure guarantee against a
repetition of the overflow next season.
Year: 1874

THE man that would be truly rich must
not increase his fortune, but reirench bis
appetite; for riches are not only superhuOui
but mean, and little more To the pOsseSso,
than the locker on.
Year: 1874

Two American women, recently return
ed from England, express their disgust at
the exactness and exactiOns Of London
landlords. They had hired two rooms, par
lor and bedroom. One night the invalid
sister tossed so restlessly upon her pillow
that the other, to get little sleep herself,
took her own carriage robe and lay down
till morning on the sofa in their parlor.
When they came to settle their bill, the
landlord obliged them to pay one shilling
for fragment of a night on the sofa, de-
claring that the agreement between them
only included the use Of the sofa during
the daytime,
Year: 1874

She viii not care for me; my engage
ment is not to be announced till the
spring no one Of the club set knows
Eleanor and besides it's matter of
honor with the men to keep our wa
ger secret So he went to bed with
doubts, his penitenee and seruples Of
the morning all vanished into smoke
by the blaze that had fiared up with
in him, kindled by the glance of
Marian's eyes. -fAA
Year: 1874

The note was sealed and tossed to
the witing messenger before minute
more had passed. And after the door
closed, Walter Gordon did what he
wss little wont to do, he poured out q
third of a tumbler of brandy and
drank it off; anything to drown
Year: 1874

Speak, I truly give sou heed,
So we serve each others need.
l who write, and you who read.
Was it love, the name we named !
Can we speak it unashamed!
Touch the sacred ark unbalanced I!
Wear we purple robe and vesture,
And with princely gait and gesture
Do We claim the proud investure [!
Can l nobly give and take!
Are you true enough, to break
Not one compact, for my sake!
With your souls integrity.
But serene, erect and free,
Can we love right tender'y9
Every loves trinity,


And the mystic one in Three,
1t is God, and you, and me.
We may name the holy name,
Claim the good with urgent claim,
Yet ever at His touch of flame,
All that is not brave and just,
Simpl. faith and noble trust
Crumbles back to foolish dust.
Dare we desecrate the shrine.


With our pa'try mine and thine -
While He pours the sacred wine =
Toll and travail in the heat
To garner store OF corn and wheat
With His mama at our feet!
Rather meet in worthy giving.
And in generous receiving,


For the heights Of noble living
Waiting. feaIessly. His ends 3
by the mama that He sends
Shall we know If We be friends.
Year: 1874

TIE extreme low prices now made
upon almost all kinds of Dry Goods
in the St. Paul market, should not be
passed over by our readers without
their taking advantage Of it, and
thus offset the low prices at which,
wheat is now selling. The expense
Of getting goods from St. Paul by
freight or express is trifie com.
pared with the advantage gained
in price, and especially so if farm.
ers club together and send their
orders. Messrs. D. w. Ingersoll &
Co. are doing large business
in just this way, and arc send.
ing goods to all parts Of the
State. We speak of Ingersol1
& Co. because they are known
all over the State, and have
given much time and atten'
ton to this order business and
can be relied upon. They will
send samples to any one wish
ing to buy, and we advise such
to send and see what can be
saved in this way.
Year: 1874

On the evening Of the l1th, two men,
named Franklin B. Chase and Rufus
Hodgman, stopped at Dcsnoyer's Half
Way House between St. Paul and
Minneapolis and after drinking refused
to pay. An alteration ensued, result
ing in the bar keeper, Geo. Chattlin,
shooting Chase through the breast and
inflicting probably fatal wound. The
following is Chattlin's statement, made
on the 18th inst


Yesterday morning two men whom l
did not know came into Mr.. Desnoycr's s
saloon and called for two drinks, which
[ furnished them. They refused to
pay when asked them, and one of
them said: ''You son Of a, if you
want to know come out here and will
show you." made no reply,
and they went away. After supper the
same men returned and called for
drinks and cigars, which l furnished.
They walked out without paying, and
Mr.. Desnoycr coming in told him they
owed forty cenrs and refused to pay, ,and
Mr.. Desnoyer told them they should
pay their bill, and one of them said,
''Charged it to Bill King and be id
to you." Mr.. Desnoycr said they
could not have their horse until they
paid. He then went out to take hold
Of their horse, and I followed to see
what way the matter woulh
end. Both the men had
their coats off: They threat
ened to clean out the whole
house, and would. kill every --
who would interfere with them. Iran
| back to the bar.room to remove the
glasses for fear they should throw them
at US. AS I came from behind the bar
after putting the glasses away, one OF
the men struck me. knocked me down
and kicked me twice in the stomach. l
got up and got my revolver and shot
through the window to scare them
when did that the man whom I shot
took up chair and struck me on the
head. 1 halloed "For Gods sake don I
kill me. can't fight. an
a cripple.'' He shouted cut
Then he brought back the chair and
struck me over the left shoulder with
it, and raising it again struck me
again. The legs Of the chair we're Get.
ting loose and I was afraid he would
strike me with one Of them and kill
me and I fred with my left hand;
meant to strike the chair, not him and
did not know what I was doing.
put the chair away and returned. / die
not know I had shot him and I am YER,
sorry for it. did not know how t
Year: 1874

A reader, who was recently married,
writes US asking which end of stove
Is the lightest. We really wish VIC
knew, but we don't. A stove Is very
deceiving and one has to become well
acquainted with new one to fiud its
points of advantage. Our friend should


not be too hasty in taking hold of


stove, A stove that Is to be moved


should be visited in the still watches of
the night before, and carefully examin-
ed by the light o. good lamp. The
very end we thought the Highest may


prove the heaviest Gin fact, "a extremely
likely to or it NAV be that the lightest


end is the most difficult to get hold Of
and hang on to. 1t Is a very distress


ing undertaking to carry half ton of
stove By your finger nails. with cold


blooded man easily holding the other
end, and nervous woman with dust
pan in one hand and the broom in the
other bringing up the rear, and Citing
the broom between your legs. In going
up stairs Is to be at the lower end OF
the stove.


Going backwards up stairway with
stove in your hand requires delicacy
Of perception which very few people
possess, and which can only come after
years of conscientious practice. RI you
are below you have the advantage of
missing much that must be painful to a
sensitive nature. The position you are
in brings your face pretty close to the
top Of the stove, and as no one can be
expected to see what is going on when
thus situated you are relieved from oil
responsibility and thought in the matter,
with nothing to do but to push valiant
ly ahead and think of heaven. Then
above you is the oar man whom you do
not see, with his lios two inches apart,
bis eyes protruding and his tongue loll-
Il ing on his chin. And it is we'll you
don't see him, for it is an awful sight
But the chief advantage of being below
is that, In case of the stove falling, YOU
will be caught beneath and instantly
killed. Nothing short of your death
will ever compensate for the scratched
paint, soiled carpet and torn oil cloth,
And no man in his senses and with bis
hearing unimpaired would wantto sur.
vive the catastrophe e-Danbury Neps
Year: 1874

''That dog of yourn few at me this
morning and bit me on the leg and l no.
tify you that intend to shoot it the first
time l see it." "The dog is not mad!'
"Mad! / know he's not mad What
has he got to be mad about? Its. me
that's mad -
Year: 1874

per-

 arrearges before taking advantage of the forego- ing propositions and subscribers who are in advance may deduct the amount their subscrip tions are in advance.

 Money should be sent by post-office order, check or registered letter, if possible. If remit tances arc made by mail we cannot be responsible for loss before the letter reaches us, but will take all risks of remittance to the clubbing peri odicals.
Year: 1874



 MIR. EDIPsB We have had qnite a musical time th1s week. On Tuesday evening the Curtiss cornet band gave an open air concert at their stand which was numerously attended. The band played twelve pieces. Their execution was fine and highly appreciated by the audience. On Thursday the Woodbury Brass Band had festival at the Town Hall which was crowded and the music showed decided progress. The festival was a success pe- cuniarily, the net avails being S21O.

 Our hay crop is mostly secured and in fine condition, except the little that was cut early in the season. Rye is good and corn and potatoes never promised better, the two last taking the place of tobacco with us this year to a great extent.
Year: 1874

Mir. Henry A. Botsford, formerly sheriff of this county, is the president of com pany that is bringing beef direct from California in refrigerator cars, of which the Courant remarks that sit is as differ ent from the beef of cattle which are slaughtered at the end of a starved lOlted journey, as a saddle of venison is different from a side of sole leather" and that ''many families are now buying the California beef and will have no other; that the call for it has steadily increased since the first car load arrived and that Se is far superior to the average beef they tAve had to wrestle with in this city,
Year: 1874

crimes before experience has come with
its cruel teaching. Too soon we all
must learn that goodness dwells not in
every man, and that there is treachery
and duplicity in many a heart, but let
those fresh enough. sweet enough to
believe in angels, keep their faith as
long as possible.


Let them he happy, too. Never
darken their lives with sad revelations.
We are none of lis free from care too
long. If all women are not models of
innocence, what good will it do the boy
to know it If all men are not faith
ful lovers and husbands, why should
you force the truth upon loving girl +!
The very knowledge of crime sometimes
sullieS the soul. The longer one is kept
ignorant of it. the more likely is that
one TO he permanently good and inno-
cent
Year: 1874

FLOWERS FOR THE SICK.-ln an
upper room in a poor house
lay a sick child, wasted with fever and
the prostration which followed 1t had


seemed impossible to rouse him, or ex-
cite the slightest interest in any thing.
The young lady who had carried her
tiower-basket to the room selected a


bunch of shining golden buttercups,
and held them up before the child.
The dull languid eye Enlightened. the
tiny emaciated hand opened to receive
them too feeble for spoken word,
the smile that fitted across the wee
white face was eloquence enough. The
fingers clased tightly over the simple
flowers that were like yellow sunshine
Year: 1874

"Pop Goes the Weasel" has become
the chorus of thousand snatches of
song, but not one of thousand who
sing it ever heard of its origin. But its
parentage is as easily traced as that Of
an English baronet. A famous Metho-
dist preacher by the name of Craven
was once preaching in the heart of Vir-
ginia, and spoke as follows: Here are
a great many professors of religion to-
day. You are sleek, fat, good-looking,
yet something is the matter with you.
Now, you have seen wheat which was
plump, round and good-looking to the
eye; but when you weighed it, you
found that it only came to forty-fve or
perhaps forty-eight pounds to the bush
el, when it should be sixty or sixty three
pounds. Take kernel of that wheat
between your thumb and fore finger,
hold it up, squeeze it, and pop goes the
weevil! Now, you good-looking pro-
fessors of religion, you are plump and
round, but you only weigh some forty
five or forty-six to the bushel. What is
the matter? All! when you are taken
between the thumb of the law and the
finger of the Gospel, held up to the
light and squeezed, out pops the whisky
bottle!" From "pop goes the weevir'
to "pop goes the weasel" the transi-
ton is easy.
Year: 1874

Lay it down as foundation rule that
you will be faithful in that which is
least" Pick up the loose nails, bits of
twine, clean wrapping paper, and put
them in their places. Be ready to throw
in an odd half hour or hours time, and
don't seem to make a merit of it. Do it
heartily. Though not n word be said,
be sure your employer makes note of
it. Make yourself indispensable to
him, and he will lose many of the oppo-
site kind before he will part with you.
Those young men who watch to see the
very second their working hour is up |;
who leave, no matter what state the
work is in, at precisely the instant who
calculate the amount of work they can
slight and yet not get reproved, and
who are lavish of their employers
goods, will always be first to receive
notice, when times are dull, that their
services are no longer required. Re-
member you are not a slave. Then
serve your employer as friend ; in due
time he will be friend to you.
Year: 1874

We are all of one mind in regard to
the propriety of celebrating in fitting
manner our one hundredth national
birthday. The details of the plan are
more or less bones of contention, but it
was long since practically admitted that
Philadelphia. as the undisputed owner
of the Old Bell and Independence Hall,
had first choice. This was the more
readily conceded as the State and city
declared themselves willing to pay the
expenses and be humbly thankful for
the profits. First, however, it was
natural and necessary that a national
tone should be given to the enterprise
by obtaining Congressional charter
and Government commissioners. This
was accomplished and offices were es-
tablished in Philadelphia. Some three
or four millions were subscribed, plans
were adopted, and fair general progress
made when it became evident that more
money must be had. This was no more
than everyone expected who gave the
matter serious thought. Nor is it un-
natural that the Government should be
the first and probably the last resort of
the commissioners. Congress has COM
mitted itself by an overwhelming ma
jority to the support OF the enterprise
by requesting the President to extend
official invitation to all nations to take
part in the exhibition, and, of course,
when this is done the country will be
committed to paying all necessary ex-
penses, and probably something be-
sides. There is little doubt, we sup
pose, that Congress will vote the re-
quired millions, be they six, eight, or
ten. The thing to be regretted is that
private contributions could not be COM
manded to n sufficient amount, as was
nominally the design at first.
Year: 1874

THE RIGHT SORT OF RELIGION.


We want religion that goes into the
family, and keeps the husband from
being spiteful when the dinner is late,
and keeps the dinner from being late
keeps the wife from fretting when the
husband tracks the newly-washed floor
with his muddy boots, and makes the
husband mindful of the scraper and
door-mat-keeps the mother patient
when the baby is cross, and keeps the
baby pleasant-amuses the children as
well as instructs them-wins as well. as
governs projects the honeymoon into
the harvest-moon, and the happy hours
like the Eastern fig tree, bearing in its
bosom at once the beauty of the
tender blossom and the glory of the
ripened fruit. We want religion that
bears not only on the "sinfulness of
sim" but on the rascality of lying and
stealing-a religion that banishes small
measures from the counters, sand from
sugar, chicory from coffee, beet juice
from vinegar, alum from bread, lard
from butter, strychnine from wine, and
water from milk.cans. The religion
that is to advance the world will not put
all the big strawberries and peaches at
the top, and all the bad ones at the
bottom. 1t will not offer more baskets
of foreign wines than the vineyards ever
produced bottles. 1t will not make one
half of pair of shoes of good leather,
and the other of poor leather, so that
the first shall rebound to the makers
credit and the second to his cash. 1t
will not let piece of velvet that pro-
fesses to measure twelve yards come to
an untimely end in the tenth, or spool
of sewing silk that vouches for twenty
yards be nipped in the bud at fourteen
and half-nor the cotton thread spool
break to the yardstick fifty of the two
hundred yards of promise that was given
to the eye--nor all-wool delaines and
all-inen handkerchiefs be amalgamated
with clandestine cotton-nor coats made
of old woolen rags pressed together be
sold to the unsuspecting public for legal
broadcloth. 1t does not make window
blinds with Stats that cannot stand the
wind, and paint which cannot stand the
sun, and fastenings which may looked
at, but are no account to be touched.
The religion that is to sanctify the world
pays its debts. 1t does not consider
that forty cents returned for one hun
dred cents given, is according to Gospel,
though it may be according to law. 1t
looks on man who has failed in trade
and who continues to live in luxury as
thief. 1t looks upon a man who prom
ises to pay $50 on demand with inter
est, who neglects to pay it on demand,
with or without interest, as a liar.