smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1874

From the Sacramento (cal) Union.


At the conclusion of The az
ternoon performance, while the
people in attendance were look
ing at the menagerie, some boys
annoyed the elephant by giving
him sticks, tobacco, etc, which
made him so angrythat he reach
ed out his trunk for the youths
nearest to him, aud partially en-
circled three OF them. Two
managed TO get away, but one,
aged II years, son OF, II. Luhrs,
ofthe Sazerae saloon, was caught
by the elephants trunk, turned
around two or three times, and
raised to the Beasts mouth, the
animal seeming to have the in
tention of biting him. In fact,
his head was raised so high and
with such force that the boys
felt hat had a hole broken in its
top by collision with one Of the
e elephants tusks. \ number of
men spranS forward to cause
the animal to release his hold
upon the boy, which he did,
throwing him aside with such
violence that his right fore arm
was broken. The animal was
much excited for about ten min
utes, and prevented the boys
hat being obtained during the
time. The elephants keeper
was not present at the time, aud
no precautions had been taken
to keep children and other per-
sons at a proper distance from
him. The boy who was injured
had had his left arm broken by
an accident about year ago.
Year: 1874

A peculiar dental operation has


just come under our observation.
A certain citizen has an upper
tooth which was loose and trouble
some, sohe resolved to extract it by
fastening a string to it, but after
a trial, finding the operation pain
ful, he hadn't the grit to grin
and bear it. He thought if the
tooth could be extracted by some
sudden mode, the pain would be
but transient; and alter mature
deliberation be hit upon an ingen-
ious plan to jerk it out in jiffey.
Procuring a heavy fiat iron be
tiedi it to the other end of the cord
attached to the tooth, then shut
ting both eyes he let the iron
"drop," which descended plump
centre upon his pet corn. After
hopping about the room wildly on
one foot groaning from very an
guish of spirit and reciting choice
passages from profsne history, be
calmed down sufficiently to hurl
the fat iron over the fence, and
swathe his sore toe in camphor and
cotton. But he pulled the
tooth, and with it a piece of gum
the size Of beefstake. And the
man lived.
Year: 1874

A terrible punishment was that
inflicted upon a man in Delaware,
who was found untying another
mans horse at midnight, by two
men, who made him kneel on the
barn floor and pray his level best
for seven straight hours.
Year: 1874

"Yes, Job suffered some" said
an Illinois deacon, ''but he new
er knew what it was to have his
team run away and Kill his wife
right in the busy season, when
hired girls want three dollars q
week"
Year: 1874

Oh, know the angels met her


When the bOatman rowed her DER,
And they sang song OF welcome


When her feet touched Heavens shore
There she waits the heavenward coming


OF The ones she loved on earth,
On her face and heart the glory


OF her new immortal biIth.
Sometimes, in the twilishts silence,


fancy she is near,l
And | listen for her blessing,
Which teel but do not hear.
Then l long tohear her calling


From that fairer shore than this,
For my heart grows weary, waiting


For my angel mothers kiss.
Year: 1874

On the crest of Locust Hill, In Green
wood Cemetsry, is the grave OF Horace
Greeley, still unmarked, and apparently
uncared tor. There is no mound over It,
the line between the new laid sod and
the old only distinguish It from the rest
of the hill. An iron park stool has
been placed at the foot of the rave and
a small Fourth of July flag and the old
cane of the great editor are by it, At
the head of the grave are the remains OF
wilhered floral offerings and another fad
ed flag, The spot Is difficult to find. II
the tribes that mark 1t were removed the
exact spot Of the grave would soon be-
come obliterated.
Year: 1874

A New HAVEN chemist has made two dis
coveries of great importance in the working
Of copper. BY an inexpensive method he is
now able to make q perfect weld in copper
- readily as it can be made with iron. He
has also found out a process for hardening
copper. - that chisels can he made to cut the
hardest stone with "a much facility as steel,
and they will not splinter or wear out with
service. The discoverer of the process has
been appealed to by parties engaged in the
manufacture Of copper, for the right to make
zee of his methods.
Year: 1874

cial. 1t would rot be surprising if the field
should prove bo.h extensive and rich. But
only further exploration and experiment can
establish the fact Those who seek the Hills
only for gold must he prepared to take their
chances. Let the over-confident study the
history of Pixies Peak The Black Hills,
100. are not without ready-m made monuments
for the martyrs who may perish in their
narkS
Year: 1874

IT is now decisiycly demonstrated in phys
olOgical science that colds are the effect of
arrangements Of the stomach and the bloo.l
when" says writer On the subject, 1.-The
human body is at its prime, with youth. vigor,
purity, and good constitution ON its side. no
degree of ordinary exposure to cold gives
rise to any unpleasant effects. All the ordi-
nary precautions against colds, coughs and
rheumatic pains may be disregarled, and no
i'll effects cnsuc But let the blood become
impure, let the body become deranged from
any acquired disorder, or let the vigor begin
to wane, and the infirmitics of age be felt
bv occasional arrangement in some vital part,
either from inherited or acquired abuses, and
the action of cold will excite more or less
disorder of some kind, and the form of this
disorder, or the disease which will ensue,
will be determined by the kind If pre-exist-
ing blood impurity, or the prs.existing fault
of the organic processes.
Year: 1874

If the reader will cast his eye back Ne will
see that ever since the war, the South asss
been in comparatively quiet and peaceful
condition when there were no important elec-
tions to be held in the North; but whenever
President, or Congressmen, or State Gov
eminent are to be chosen, there is certain TO
be terrible state of affairs down there. Il
used to be the Ku-Klux, and that string was
played upon until it was worn out, but now
it is a ''war of races" Outbreaks are re-
ported at different points in the South. and
strangely enough they occur when an i'm
portant political campaign is just opening in
many of the Northern States. The history
of these disturbances demonstrate that they
are the result of design, for they always oc-
cur just at the right time, and are seized
upon by demagogues at>ihe North and used
to convince the voters that the white people
of the South are still rebels, and that if the
Democratic party should get into power, the
poor negroes would all be butchered directly.
or reduced to slavery again. The vilest Of
men incite the ignorant blacks to deeds of
violence for the purpose of provoking the
whites to acts Of retaliation, and their con-
federates in other States, the men who pay
them for their Infamous work, make political
capital out Of it. The people, however, be-
gin to understand the trick, and are not
quite as credulous as they were formerly.
and it is not probable that many votes will
be influenced by the old dodge We expect
to hear of great deal of lawlessness in the
South until the Fall elections are over, and
then everything will settle down quietly
until another campaign, when the carpet
baggers will stir up trouble again. Vallejo
Indepeudenf.
Year: 1874

The NEXT CoNaREssMEN. 1t is stated
that the railroad influence will be exerted to
re-nominate Page for Congress. He has
served that interest faithfully, and it would
seem to be base ingratude TO desert him.
There is no doubt that the railroad people
intend to elect full set of Congressman
devoted to their interests, if possible, and
to accomplish this, and secure the next
State Government and Legislature, it will
not permit its fealty to any party to stand
in the way. II has leaked out that a con-
spiracy was arranged, before the close of
the last Legislature, to combine the monopo-
y elements in both parties upon mixed
ticket, to run as the "Poople's Ticket" The
nominee for Governor is to be a Democrat,
while the Congressman will be given to the
Republicans. We presume, therefore, that
the story about Page is true; and if Per-
kins is not set up for the Third District.
then our information is not correct. But
there is power that will assert itself on tho
day of election which will spoil the little
game. The free and independent people
will send men to Congress to represent
them.- HallSo Independent
Year: 1874

LEFT HER PIPE AT HoME.- Some time
since gentleman was travelling on railroad
train that had but one passenger coach at
tached. The gentleman is addicted to the
bad habit of smoking. He had but one
cigar at the time, and longed for a smoke,
but hesitated, thinking the smoke might be
unpleasant 10 the fascinating lady passen-
ger-the only one aboard. Finally he could
endure the privation no longer, and taking
out the cigar and reaching toward the seat
where she sat; asked if she objected to him
smoking. 'Oh, no., said she, reaching for
and taking the cigar, 4 left my pipe ter
hum.'
Year: 1874

KIND FATHER. following letter was
sent by man to his son at college:


My dear son-I write to send you two
pair of my old breeches, that you may have
new coat made out Of them. Also some
new socks which your mother has just knit
by cutting down some of mine. Your moth
er sends you ten dollars without my consent,
and for fear you would not use it wisely,
have kept back half, and only send you f.
Your mother and l are well, except that
your sister has got the measles, which we
think would spread among the other girls, if
Tom had not had it before, and he is the
only one left. l hope you will do honor to
my teachings; if not, you are an ass, and
your mother and myself your affectionate
parents"
Year: 1874

The foot-hil lands of the State are attract
ing much attention, and many think that
they are destined to take high rank for the
cultivation of fruits; in the production Of wine
and raisns they are confessedly superior,
while they are excellent for grain growing
and grazing. They also have the advantage
Of an excellent climate, free from malaria, or
orther injurious infuences.-Bee.
Year: 1874

This is the way the Louisville Courier
Journal talks about the political situation:
If the North wants war of races at the
South, it must prepare for civil war at
home and despotism at Washington. We
have for years sought to escape the race
issue and the sectional issue; but if they
must come, let them come; and devil take
the hindmost.
Year: 1874

President White of Cornell says that he knows of but one single instance anlUng the young ladies at the University of inability to keep well up with the class. lie observes that as d rule they aver age about ten per cent. better on examination papers than do the young men; that they have raised the average of conscience ana m Illness and decency more than ten per cent.; and that the yonng woman who took degree at the last commencement stood easily among the first fifteen in class of 8 hundred.
Year: 1874

struggle of Louisiana. and the triumph Of
State sovereignty in Louisiana, involving
the perDetuatiOn of our Constitutional lib
critics, | say let every man in this crowd
swear. as am willing To swear that all
nv aid will be given To protect the people
OF Louisiana. and uphold them in this
struggle which they will maintain against
the authorities and against the Government
Of the United States. We have
I Ebope that noble Creole blood thar
has never proved itself recreant, against
which the finger of coward has never been
pointed ON the battlefield; viii be pro
CLAIMED that death il may be, but dishOnOr
it never shall he, and If the President
sends his minions there let the Presidents
miniOns beware, fOr they may be damned.


After Mr.. Garsche concluded, the chair
man, Gen. Shields, said: Before l an
uOunee the adjournment Of the meeting,
wish to say, We know not what day may
bring forth. | ask you 20 90 TO your
homes prepared to come together at any
moment 10 assemble here again, not only
as YOU have tonight, but with ten times
the number. We know not what we may
be called upon to do TO ald
our suffering brethren in Louisiana,
stool III silence, We usiNt SuDullttcu " chtig y
wrong. we have seen people outraged, we
have seen people that have been murdered
and their women TayIshed and l say now
there is nothing left but honor or dishOnOr;
and better die than tO submit to dishOnor.
II is a question Of do or die; they have un-
furled their flag and taken the motto,


He would be free must himself strik the blow.


tell YOU with all sObriety, God speed
Louisiana, and if she wants troops or
money let her call on the Union and let the
Union respond, for it is the battle cry Of
freedom II is a craven thought that would
urge upon US, Oh, it Is not our battle. y
is our battle. Let one State be flung from
the Union and put under the heel Of des
pot and / say every man who submits to it
and sanctions the principle proposes his
own neck for the halter.


But am sure from the manifestations
you have made tonight, that whatever call
may be made. if in furtherance of right and
justice and opposed to expressions, the peo-
pie Of ST. Louis and citizens Of Missouri
will never fail to respond to il.


The meeting, at very late hour, then
Year: 1874

1t was by the advice of Attorney
General Williams that Grant sus-
tanned the illegal midnight order of the
drunken Durell, and recognized the
usurping government of Kellogg In
Louisiana. And Notwithstanding the
best lawyers in the Senate, and a ma
jority of the committee of that body,
instructed to investigate the Lou
isiana case, declared the pre-
tended election of Kellogg a
fraud and his government usurped and
illegal, Grant sustained him and kept
him in power with Federal bayOnets.
Still it was evident he felt he had made
very grave mistake, and when Davis,
of Texas, appealed to Grant for troops
to keep himself in the Office of Gov
ernor to which the people of that State
did not elecs him, he refused on the
ground that it was a State
matter which should be settled
by those interested. He refused troops
to Brooks to upset the result Of an
election by the people of Arkansas.
And when Ames appealed to him pite-
ously for troops to be used in Missis-
sipi, where there was about as much
use for them as there is for a third
wheel to a cart, he told Ames to attend
to his own business. 1t. was thought
the lesson he had learned would induce
him TO keep out of Louisiana affairs
at the present time, but he has rushed
headlong into this purely local State
matter to sustain the usurper Kellogg,
when every body in Louisiana appears
to have deserted him. Does Williams
bad influence still ways his Judgment,
or is it because the South shows but
little favor toward his third term aspi-
rations? He had better have followed
the course he adopted in the Texas i'm
broglio. sc
Year: 1874

AOsIOh Ii. HOWELL FOR MAYOR.


The nomination Of Morton B.
Howell as a candidate for the Office Of
Mayor cannot do otherwise than give
satisfaction to those of our citizens
who desire the material prosperity of
Nashville and the maintenance of her
financial standing.


As will be seen by our report of the
proceedings of yesterdays convention,
some of the best men of the city were
named as candidates for the position,
and to be the man chosen out of this
number, is an honor of which Mr..
Howell may well be proud, even if such
nomination were not followed by a tri-
umphant election, as in this case IL
most certainly will be.


Perhaps there never vas a more IA
Torable opportunity for the selection of
No. l city officials than is now pre-
sented' and the result of yesterdays
WORK demonstrates very plainly the
tact that our people are going to i'm
prove that opportunity. Possessing.
as she does, advantages second TO those
OF no other inland city on the
Continent, Nashville should be
a place of more than double her
present population, and would be if
her affairs were conducted by men Of
broad and liberal ideas, with the nee
essary vim and energy to carry those
ideas into effect.


Our people seem TO be waking up at
last to this fact, and are evi-
IDENTIFY determined to relieve
themselves of that class of Off
clals who are actuated only by selfish
motives, and who are incapable of pro-
perly appreciating the responsibility
and Importance of the duties they have
assumed. The events of the last few
days, have reused our citizens to an
appreciation of the situation, and have
shown, but too plainly, the criminal
folly of placing in the hands of in
competents the interests of city like
Nashville. The attachment by a
United States officer of city property
is an act which brings the blush Of
shame to the cheek of every right
minded citizen, and should result in a
determination on the part of all that
class to make a recurrence Of this
shame an utter impossibility.


But under the new regime, differ.
ent order of things may be confidently
relied upon. With such a Mayor rs
our present nominee, backed by such a
City Council as we trust will be sworn
in next month, order will be brought
ont of chaos, the financial standing of
the city restored, and a fresh impetus
given to al worthy public enterprises
IL augurated for the benefit of our
city.
Year: 1874

ONE of the latest indications Of emo.
tional insanity among the Davidson
county Radicals is their claiming Judge
East as one of that political stripe.
They forget he was a delegate to the
State Democratic Convention, went for
Porter, after Burns was Withdrawn,
and voted for the platform. They are
welcome to all the cold comfort they
can get out of this.
Year: 1874

IEx-PREsIDENT JOHNSON yesterday
accepted the invitation of the Sumner
County Agricultural and Mechanical
Association to deliver an address at
the opening of the fall fair at Gallatin,
on Friday.
Year: 1874

WELL done for the Fifth Ward
She has not only nominated the best
City Council ticket that could have
been put out, but is the first to indorse
the nomination of Morton B. Howell
for Mayor. Let the same spirit be
exhibited in every ward, and Nashville
will be redeemed from hummer rule.
Year: 1874

WHAT does Grant propose to do
about it? viii he use the army to
again foist upon the people of Louisi-
ana the unscrupulous scoundrel whose
minions deserted him as soon as the
hour of trial cane?
Year: 1874

A DENTIST in Wisconsin, who kissed
a young lady while filling her teeth.
was called on by her father with a shot
gun. He paid the parent five hundred
dollars not to fire, being extremely SEN
sitive to noise.
Year: 1874

Proclamation.


SELMA, Ala, Sept. ia dispatch to
the Times, from DemOpOlis, reports that a
body OF armed negroes were yesterday dis
covered drilling near that place, who re-
piled to questions as to what they meant.
that negro blood had been shed and they
were determined to have white blood.
Two unarmed whites who were sent
10 learn their grievance and assure
them Of their error, were fired upon
and both wounded, ore seriously and the
other mOrtally. This morning the whites,
to the mum er of30 or 40 went down and
dispersed the armed n-groes, killing and
wounding several of them. The negroes
numbered 200. They are thesame negroes
that stopped government rationS, and have
since held armed possession of the public
highway. When fired on they dispersed,
but 2S are reported to have reassembled,
and declare that no white man shall pass
the road on pain of death,
Year: 1874

The history of the world Is full OF tes-
timony to prove how much depends on


industry. not an eminent orator has lived


Init is an example of it Nevertheless IN


contradiction to all this the prevailing
opinion appears to be, that industry can
effect nothing, that emlnence is the result
of accident, and that every one must be
content to remain Just what he may hap
pen to be. Thus 1t is that mulutudes
who come forward as teachers and guides.
suffer themselves to be satisfied with the
most Indifferent attsinments, and mis-
erable mediocrity, without so much as IN
quirIng how they may rise higher, much
| less making any attempt to rise. For any
other art they would have served an ap-
| premiership, and they would be ashamed
| to practice it in public before they nao
/ learned it, r any one would sing, he at
tends a master, and is drilled IN the very
| elementary principles and only after the
most laborious process dares to exercise
his voice in pablo. This he does, though
he has scarcely anything 70 learn but th'
mechanical execution of what lies IN sen
slble forms before the eye. But the ex


tempore speaker, who is to invent as wei


as to utter, to carry on an operation o


the mind as we'll as produce sound, enter


upon the work without preparatory dlscl


Mine. and then wonders that he fails,


he were learning to play on the clarlone


for public exhibition, what hours and day
: would he spend in giving facility to n


fingers and attaining the power Of tn


sweetest and most expressive execution
If he were devoting himself to the orgal


what months and years would he labt


that he might know its compass, and


master of its KEYS. and be able to opera
h the instrument with the skill Of an arts
Year: 1874




The House Committee on Pacific Rail-
roads have agreed unanimously to report
and recommend the passage of bill to de-
mand of the Pacific Railway companies the
immediate payment of the five per cent.
per annum of their net receipts in hquids-
tion of the interest on their bonds. 1t is
time the Government enforced their claim.
so that the people of the UniIad States
NAV be relieved of the burden of paying
interest on the bonds of these private cor
porations, and to get back as much as pos
sible of the vast Mount already paid. The
bill will have to be carefully framed and
very clear in its provisions or the compa-
MES will make out that there are no nei
proceeds of FIVE per cent. If the enormous
drain upon the Treasury to pay interest
or the Pacific Railroad bonds cannot b
stopped it would be better to foreclose OF
the roads and sell them out.-NssS Yorl
! Herald
Year: 1874

The colors of the sky at particular times
afford wonderfully good evidence. Not
only does rosy sunset presage fair wealth
er and rudy sunshine, but there are other
tints which speak with equal clearness and
accuracy. A bright yelloWish sky IN the
evening indicates wind pale yellow wet;
q neutral gray color constitutes q taYora-
BILE sign in the evening and an nnfayora-
bic one in the morning. The clouds are
full of meaning in thentelves: II their
forms are soft, underlined and feathery,
the weather will be fine. If the edges are
hard, sharp ard definite, it will be foul.
Generally speaking, any deep, unusual
lines betoken wind and rain, while the
more quiet and delicate tints bespeak far
weather.
Year: 1874

was not satisfied so getting out Of
bed ! siezed one Of his boota and softly
raised the window in time to hear more
plainly one last, frightful intermingling
Of groan and YELL and some one say,
bully Tor you. Mariarl' Heavens it
was Maria singing to her sweetheart
Crestiallen stole back to bed to dream,
when ths.smal hours found me asleep
of tom cats anu steam engines.
Year: 1874

Our bodies are constantly changing. The dead
matter passes of by the bowels and the pores. and
digestion aud assimilation supply fresh material


This material cannot be pure, and consequently the
body cannot be healthy unless the stomach and
the secretive organs perform their allotted tasks
thoroughly and regularly. That they may do so
keep them ia good working order with that most
efficient of all invigorating. regulating and purify


ing preparations, Hostetter's Stomach Bitters. IL
you wish your blood to be really the stream OF
life" to have your bones clothed with sound flesh.
to be exempt from nervousness and debility. 10 be
and cheerful in short. to possess that
sound body. resort to the great vegetable restoTa


tive whenever you feel languid. or suffer from indi-
gestion, or bilious low spirited. suffering
from any derang ement of the animal functions.
The relief is immediate and full restoration GER
tain. aprlOto2S