smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1874

The air of Washington during the
last session Of Congress must have
been very unwholesome. Judging from
the exceedingly bad health a good
many Congressman are complaining Of
now. In fact many Of them are SO en-
feeble / that they are compelled to de-
cline denomination long before it has
been offered to them. They must have
rest, and 1t Is to the credit Of their con-
stituelts that they viii be allowed TO
have all they wart.
Year: 1874

WASHINGTON, July 14.-One of the
ladies employed as counter in the National
bank redemption division of the Treasury
Department to-day discovered among the
NOES sent for redemption one of the
counterfeit $500 bills, originally discovered
a. the Treasury about a year ago. 1t was
so perfect that several of the most expert
enced clerks in the Treasury Office thought
t genuine, but upon reference TO the en-
craving and printing division it was pro-
nCunced A counterfeit
Year: 1874

The warning was swift enough, giving
quite ten minutes for the escape Of the
men, women and children to a hillside stu
ated in Skinnersville, but further of. At
the end of about ten minutes the fume
gave way and wall of water sixty feet
wide. covered with a cap of SNOWY foam.
rushed through it with a roar and de-
scended the main street with more than
the force Of an Alpine avalanche. The
terrified people stood on the hillsides in
safety and watched the destroying wave.
Leaving the main street, it branched east
ward, rolled down in the rear Of the houses
and into Blush Hollow, an adjoining vii
Year: 1874

He Saves Scores Of Threatened Lives.


NEW YORK, July IA Springfield
dispatch says the discovery of the leak was
made by Deacon Harry Meacham, a lava.
maker, who viii be remembered from this
date not as Scion, but as the Collins
Graves of Blush Hollow. At four on Sun
Gay afternoon, Meacham. who lives about
one quarter of mile from the upper dam
visited it, feeling anxious lest the long
continued and heavy rains had weakened
its walls. The dam appeared TO him all
right, but ne bethOught him that poSsiblythe
dam of Little Goose pond had given way,
and he went up there to investigate. Com
ing back after finding that all right and
again surveying the dam, he was about to
turn away satisfied, when he was Mortified
to see a heavy landslide on the lower
slope. Knowing at once what that meant.
he got out his horse, mounted him in haste,
and dashed down to Blush Hollow, carry
Year: 1874

We have information from q
trustworthy source of the remark
able capture of a horse thief and


and recovery of the stolen horses.


through the al of spirits. The
facts are given to rs by Dubu


quer, who will vouch for their cor


rectness and substantially. At the


recent spiritualistic camp meeting


at Iowa Falls which our informant


attended span of valuable horses


were stolen one night from a stable


near by, and when the theft was


discovered the owner of the horses,


himself spiritualist-having come


many miles to be in attendance


applied to one of the mediums for


information concerning the where


abouts of the team and who had


stolen it. The medium would not


give the name of the thief, though


protesting to know, but told the


hour the team had been taken, the


route of the thief, and the rate of


speed at which he had driven, also


described the roads and by ways


through which he had passed, say


ing that at the time she was giving


this communication of the spirits,


the thief was resting the team at


an old deserted shanty in the woods
near the bank of a creek, and the


horses were eating The owner of
the horse, encouraged by the mi
nuteness of the details given by
the medium, but not yet full of
faith, tried another medium, who
knew nothing of the circumstances
or of his interview with the first
medium This medium gave nearly
the same communication from the
the spirits, and the owner of the
horses, accompanied by the sheriff
of the county, at once set out after
the team, then twenty miles away.
In a few hours they succeeded In
both horses and thief,
and described the route taken to be
in exact accordance with that de
scribed by the medium.


This may be set down as one of
the most remarkable evidences of
the power of mediums on record.
When help can be had from the in |
visible. all seeing spirits of the |
shadowy land, for the detection of |
crime and the arrest of criminals. |
then let rogues beware. We give |
the above item solely on our faith |
in our informant. It is of a char
acter that may be easily substanti-
ated or proven false by those who |
care to investigate. : Dubuque
Iowa Times.
Year: 1874

How little We know of each other,


How ready we are TO condemn,
And lszily drift with the current


Twere manly and noble to stem,
When, could We know the temptations


And trials OF frail ones that fall,
Our Judgment were tempered with mercy
And tender compassion for all.
How little We know of each other.


How dim is prosperty's ray.
The trials and struggles that cover,


Like guilt from the eyes of the day,
The pangs of the houseless, the homeless,
The friendless on poverty s road,
May be at our threshold. unheeded,


And visible only to God.
How little We know of each other,


The brand of dishonor and shame
II truth We're as welcome as falSehood,
Might canonize many a name.
The culpi IL might put on the ermine,


The silver be purged OF its dross,
And crimes CHASTITY eibbet transfigured
To rnartyrdoms glorious cross.
Year: 1874

must satisfy the most careless observ-
er of this fact, for | am credibly in
formed that the nomination of Judge
Hall as a candidate for Supreme
Judge was opposed on the ground
that he voted for a certain ordinance
of the convention which was dIstaste-
full to secessionIsts.


What is meant by the declaration
that General Cockrell fought four
years for his Democracy? When
before was it ever admitted that the
war of the rebellion was a Democratic
war? These declarations of Demo
cratic doctrine in the Dispatch have
a peculiar significance when we reeoi
leet that Mr.. Hutchins is the chief
manager of that paper; that he is now
canvassing the State for the Demo-
cratic ticket, and that he is exercls-
ing more control ia the affairs of the
,,arty than any other man in the State,


For my part, want none OF such De
mocracy. [ would not oppose MIR. Har-
den because he was not a Union man,
nor favor Maj. Gentry because he was;
but when that issue is distinctly made,
and | am told that Democracy means
rebellion. there is but one course for
me to pursue Above all other things
the country needs repose and order,
and if the people would seek their
true interests they should avoid rad
iealism of both extremes, but Missouri
Democracy is drifting into the worst
kind of radicalism. Its doctrine on
the currency question leads to repudi-
alton, and springs mainly from the
fact that the government bonds were
issued to raise means to carry on the
war; and its hostility to Union men
shows that it still harbors that 'yearn-
ing for revenge" that must inevitably
columinate in lawlessness and dis
order which will paralyze the industry
of our State and drive emigration
from its borders. And l am sure
that if the people of Missouri were
satisfied that success ofthe Democrat
ic party in this State would cause the
canonized bones of the rebellion to
break their cerements, they would
have none of it.
Year: 1874

It is hard to determine whether
the document on the Beecher scan
dial is the production Of George
Alfred Tlton or Theodore Town


send. In fact we are getting so
confused over this matter as to
have doubts about who the injured
party really is. Sometimes we are
confident it can't be any other than
Alfred Elizabeth. If it is not too
much trouble, we should be obliged
if the Graphic would print the
original charge. with map and Illus
trations, showing who the original


party was who is supposed TO have
been ruined If this last produc-
ton is all from the pen of Tilton,


we sigh when we think of the valu-
able time that has been wasted
All these weary weeks he has been
writing, writing while others slept,
walked, and attended to the ordi
nary affairs of life Men might
mourn ur be merry, but Tilton
wrote The greedy seeker after
wealth might be laying up his du.
cats, but 1'ilton's pen still glided
over pages of foolscap. Children
were born, and died; the harvest
came, and was ended; but still this
indefatigable man fiinched not
from his great purpose. It is the
most astonishing effort Of kind
and doting husband to prove his
wife ''bold bad woman" We ever
witnessed. If he has not done it
after all this toll, he is really to be
pitied. But may we not hope that
this gush will last Mr.. Tilton for a
fortnight Mt leastf OF course,
nothing can be SO important as this
matter, and nations may crumble
and dynasties perish without heed :
30 long as it is before the public;
but there are, after all, few nee
esasry duties of life that require
and now and then an
event occurs which may be of inter
est to the world, even while this
great question is being discussed.
We offer no criticism on the docu-
ment, further than to say that the
original production covers about
six square feet of surface, and is
of about $4,000 words
Inter Ocean.
Year: 1874




BY LON HOLDING.
On a morn in dreary winter
Came n worn and weary printer,
With his bundle on a splinter


Ger his back;
Travei-strained, he was, and needy,
And his appetite was greedy


For q smack"
For the printing Office steering,
Till within the door appearing,
Where lac bowed, as one revering,


When he spoke,
Saying, in a voice as solemn
As a gratis Buchu column,


81 am broke.
In your city I'm a stranger.
Dusty, seedy as a Granger
For slumbered in the manger


OF a barn
desire a small donation
And some easy transportation


For my CORN.
Boatr tried to work my passage,
Moving freight and rough expressage-
Living on bologna sausage,


Dry and poor
But they found was printer,
And they hustled me instanter


To the shore.
Then I sadly recollected
Days when printers were respected
For their skill. Now I'm elected


Fore and aft,
Just because SOME have by drinking
Set the steamboat men to sinking


ALL the craft.
Thus do sober workmen suffer
By the vices of the loafer,
Till indeed whene'er go for


Work / shrink,
Lest another's imposition
Throws on me foul suspicion
: That drink.
Deeply does it wound and grieve me
When man will not believe me,
But, dear sir, If you will give me


Fifty cents,
Will, by its proper using,
Show you I'm above abusing


Confidence"
BY his doleful conversation
Reused he our commiseration,
And we made the "smail Donation"


Which he sunk;
But while going TO our dinner
We observed that hardened sinner


Beastly drunk!
Thus do sober workmen suffer
BY the vices of the loafer-
Basest coin will often go for


Purest stamp,
Kindest ones who most have trusted
Are most thoroughly disgusted


With the tramp.
Year: 1874

ALTHOUGH declareda defunct party,
the Democracy has certainly demon
strated that It is dangerous thing to
fool with even in DEATH The way that
corpse kicks in its shroud is suggestive
of inherent and diabolical obstin a.
Year: 1874

TIE Democratic party is now to un
dergo probationary trial in the South.
Upon its behavior, its good conduct,
its high and noble regard for the rights
and liberties Of the citizen, rich and
poor, white and black, will depend the
ultimate defeat or triumph of the Ma
tional Democracy in ls76.-Lering-
ton Pres.
Year: 1874

We have information which We deem rei-
able, that the bond required by the Governor
for the completion of the North Wisconsin
according to law, has been made out under
the eye of Governor TAYLOR, and signed by
the parties named by the Governor himself,
and it is positively known that he will accept
the bond It is believed that work will be
resumed on the road at an early day.-Saint
Croir Republican 2Sh odt
Year: 1874

The qu-ry now Is not,


What values have you got,
In banks, or stock, or in estate,


But what deetls have you done,


In shadow or in sun,
To make the people gnod or great?


You have IA reason why,


You hold your head so high.
And stride in pOmp along the street.


Can you show any one,


The good that you have done
To make life sunny, pure and sweet!


Ship loads of costly wares,
Bank stocks and railroad shares,
Are proper things to have and hold.


But he has little won,


Who nothing else has done,
But gather greenbacks, stocks and gold.
You eat at ease and drink,


You sleep but do not think
OF any mortal save yourself;


Since life with yUu begun,


What have you ever done
To make man better, with your pelf?
Do you assist the poor?


Or drive them from your door,
When panics pinch with want and cold
Can any mothers son,


Thank you for what you've done
To aid him with advice and gold?


You cannot always live,


Now is your time to give,
And letyour heartpuIse in your palms
Heaven smiles on every one,
Whose deeds discreetly Gone,
Give added blessings 10 their aims.
Rugs in the wind that flies,


Pale faces, hollow eyes
And the unwOrking multitude


Appeal to every one,


And ask what have you done
To feed the hungry, clothe the nude?
Streets filed with the untaught,
Foreheads unlit with thought,
Mouths full of speech base and profane,
Might shame at noon the sun;
Alas what have we done,
To wash away the sCathing stains?
May benedictions fall


From Heavens starry wall,
On those who lift the irodden down;
And when life's race is run,


May they all hear "well done"
Thou good and faithful, take the crown.
A PLEA FOR THE LITTLE ones.
Gather them closer to your loving heart
Cradle them on your breast
They will soon enough leave your brood


ing care
Soon enough mount youths topmost stair,
Little ones in the nest
Fret not that the cliildren's hearts are gay,
That the restless feet will run; :;
There Will come time in the by and by,
When you'll sit in your lonely room and


sigh


For a sound of childish fun.
When you'll long for the repetition sweet,
That sounded through each room,
OF "mother, mother" the dear love calls,
That will echo long in the silent halls,
And add to their stately gloom
There may come time when you'll long


to hear


The eager, boyish tread,
The tuneless whistle, the clear, shriII
= shout.
The busy bustling in andout,
And the pattering overhead.
When the boys andgirls are all grown up,
And scattered far and wide,
Or gone to that beautiful golden shore,
Where sickness and death comes never


more,


You will miss them from your side
Then gather them close to your loving


heart


Cradle them On your breast:
They will soon enough leave your brood


ing care
Soon enough mount youths topmost stair,


Little ones in the nest.
Year: 1874




!, A remarkable accident happened to the
eastward bound passenger train on the Kan
sas Pacific road Saturday last, while driving
along a few miles east of Wallace, and one
that for a few minutes spread consterna-
ton among the passengers. During rain
storm, with light snow, a loud explosion
was heard in the rear car, and the train
came to an almost dead halt instantly. Tho
front end of the sleeping car, which was
empty, was found to have been blown al
most to pieces by the explosion. heavy iron
bars being bent and twisted, and great oak
timbers lay rent and,tofn into spIinters. 1T
first it was thought can of nito-glg lgcerine
had been placed in the car by some means,
but afterwards a lady remembered that
there was a bright flash Of lightning sirntll-
taneous with the explosion, and the theory
generally accepted was that a bolt of cleo
tricity had struck the. car ant caused the
damage. The front end of tie sleeper was
a total wreck, and the rear erd of fiie car
next in front was also badly damaged a
few minutes before the explosiona passen.
ger had been lying down in tie front part
Of the sleeIer. but left it just IN time to save
his fe.-Rn7ssa8 City Neaos
Year: 1874

Young man, never think of having an idea
OF your own. It's dangerous. You might go
contrary to some established rule-you might
do something unlike somebody else has done,
or do the same thing in way different from
that of some other person, and be suspected Of
possessing little independence of character,
little originality. Don't lit; have a pattern,
q model for everything you undertake, and
copy after your model with the most minute
exactness. Run in the same groove your father
and grandfather did, and if you should be in
danger of getting out of it, put down the breaks
at once BY this means you will avoid creating
any stir in the world; your whole life will be de-
lightfully free from any excitement; you
will never BE- suspected of plotting treason
against the government, or doing any other act
requiring spirit. and when you die the medioc-
rites and snails who have been your associates
will jog with dreary solemnity to your slimly
attended funeral. The same painful inanition
which distinguished your life will brood over
its close. and settle around your unmarked
grave and nobody will weep because you are
dead. because nobody will know that you have
either lived or died. Don't do anything start
ling or original, it gives weak minded people
the fidgets so.
Year: 1874

EVEN those who deny to General Grant the
quality of craftsmanship will now. we think.
be disposed to accord him political sagacity
Having first killed off all Of his formidable ri.
walls for the Office of President by his veto OF
the imitation bill, he next comes out in favor OF
hard money. thus winning to himself the sup.
port of sensible men of both parties AS we
have before said, General Grant will be the
next President OF the United States. He is
not only supreme commander of the entire
"bread and butter brigade" Of the country,
numbering over FIVE hundred thousand strong.
whose rations he can shut off at will, but he
has the sagacity to see, and the wisdom to do'
the right thing at the right time-to get votes,
this being the controlling influence of his life.
Year: 1874

SECRETARY Bristow has already discharged
eighteen supernumeraries from tho Treasury
Department, and more are still to 60. He has
also interviewed Vanderbilt, the appointment
clerk. and notified him that he would be held
responsible, that no one is hereafter borne on
the rolls who does not render an equivalent in
actual service for his salary, which frightened
the clerk, who intimated that the responsibility
might be more than he would be able to stand
up under without assistance. II will sustain
you. Mr.. Vanderbilt, replied the Secretary, and
I assure you you will not find any deficiency in
my backbone"
Year: 1874

TIE more we think Of the state after death
the deeper is the awe with which we must con-
template it; and sometimes in weakness we long
for the happy. bright imaginations ofchildhood,
when we saw the other world wildly psctured.
bright aid perfect copy Of the world in which
we now live, with ito sunshine and flowers, and
into something higher. We say oil this we
shall have, but in some higher form. All this
beauty around US is perishable; its outward
form and substance il corruption; but there is
. soul in it, and this shall rise again. Olympi0
Echo,
Year: 1874

A FINE ART FOR THE LADIES-A writer
in the London Figaro asks, while GIL can
make lace, why should she waste her time in
work 80 far inferior to it in interest and quail
ty2 If q woman can put together beautiful
poem with her needle and bobbin, why should
she longer groyel over the dull doggerel that
proceeds from the crochet hook or the tatting-
shuttle1 It is true that lace-making among
the million is now almost lost art. But that
is no reason why it should remain 80. We have
noted gladly an increasing interest in the sub
ject. Here is chance for our women to- set
to work on something worthy Of their talents
and application. It is open to them to repro
duce the glorious patterns Of the past; to revel
in fairy, gossamer-lke designs, or even to orig
mate for themselves fresh combinations of beau
ty. Let us hope then on eta of lace Is at hand,
and that the fingers Of the descendants of those
and history, as they toiled in loving spirit at
the Bayeux tapestry, will now be busy with
needle and bobbin and pillow, and leave behind
them heirl0oms of loveliness and grace. For
we must remember that good lace is almost in
destructible It wears for hundreds of years,
and grows more valuable as it's years increase,
like good ale. port and pictures. Surely we
need say no more to our lady readers on the
matter. That they all love lace we fully be-
lieve, and we trust that very soon the lace pill
low will be an object as common in our homes
as the piano, and that morning callers will soon
develop new topic for conversation in talking
of the web-like delcacies of the Honiton
springs, the madiaval richness OF the antique
Spanish point. and the geometrical glories Of
the old Greek, which they will see growing up
under the busy needles and deft fingers Of the
ladies of the house."
Year: 1874




SIR: | beg leave, through your columns to
give publicity fact in connection with the manage
ment Of the American Museum OF Natural History and
the Metropolitan Museum OF Art, hoping il not to
rect least sinvito criticism OF the The scope
OF these institutions is sufficiently indicated in their
names to convince unpreudiced person what class
Of subjects each could consistently take cOgnzance Of
at least to show that what within the spheres of
one could not with be considered by the other
The Metropolitan Museum has for its object the
ing OF art the American Museum the advancement OF
sclentlc knowledge, particularly in the way OF
natural history and ts many auxiliary branches and tits
this very diversity in the ends sought that has induced
many individuals contribute largely to both Of them,
the reason in fact, which induced the State to
subsidize both in equal amount.


In visiting the American Museum in Central Park.
notice that they building up department of arche
oogy aud the large number Of specimens recently
added should infer that considerable money being
spent toward that end. The Metropolitan Museum ii is
well known. spent large amount in the field
in acquiring the very admirable Cesnoa collection OF
which will Ultimately be situated within half a mile
Of one another establishing each Its separate collection
In archaeology AS consequence neither OF them can
by any possibility be made perfect. Archaeological
specimens. unlike those OF natural history proper are
not TO any great extent susceptible OF manifold redupl
cation and 1t is reasonably apparent therefore that
what one museum which IS Of value from its
In other words there can hardly DC another available
Cesnola collection nor any great number OF Dsvis's
relies ~ the Mound Builders.


In view OF the recently awakened interest in arche
oogy 1t seems absolutely essential mus early In the
In this city, at least, should be determined. Which OF
the two institutions named can fairly claim 1t shall
not pretend say. nor, fancy is 1t matter OF much
moment which does. SO long one and only under
takes duty II will probably be difficult matter to
convince that IL ought abandon its purpose OF
building rival collection, nevertheless In the inter
est Science also OF common sense. trust it
attempted. ULF.


Ser' York. March L. 1874