smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1878

NRECkED AMRRICANs.-The intelligence OF
the wreck OF the American ship Mabel Clark,
the Cape OF Good Hope having been brought
10 The notice of the Navy department, tele


gram has teen sent to the commander OF the
Brazil squadron to dispatch vessel 70 that
sland, where il was supposed portion OF the
crew, with their officers, have taken refuge,
and TO render such relief as may be required
Year: 1878

EX-SENATOR CARPENTER. is charged with
wanting the people of Wisconsin to arise
spontaneously and insist that he shall become
a candidate for the United States Senate. He
is said to be sending out petitions for sigu:-
lures requesting himself TO permit his name
to be used in this connection, after the man
ner of the Essex statesman
Year: 1878

IHE CIRCULAR for the Information Of post
masters and the public giving the regulations
and Instructors of the Treasury department
on the subject Of dutiable books sent from
foreign countries in the mails. a full abstract
OF which was recently published in the STAR,
was issued at the foreign mails Office Of the
Post Office department to-day.
Year: 1878

ApAsx. ignobls brute says that when
he sees q woman neither fat nor fair.
but forty. with Cardinal red plume on
her hat, 1t suggests to him life and
death struggle between nature and art.
with art on top by small majority.
Year: 1878

A man he owned a terrier dog
A bob tailed ornery cuss,
And that there pup got that there man
In many an ugly muss.
For the man was on his muscle,
And the dog was on his bite;
So to kick the dorg- goned animIle
Was sure to raise fight.
woman owned a Thomas cat,
That fit at fifteen pound;
And other cats got up and slid
When that there cat was round
The man and his dorg came along one day,
here the woman she iddwell,
And the purp he growled ferociously,
Then he went for that cat pell-mel.
he tried to chaw the neck of the cat,
But the cat he wouldn't be chawed;
So he lit on the back of that there dorg,
And bit and clawed and chawed
OH the hair it few and the purp he yOuledl
As the claws went into his hide.
And chunks offesh were peeled from his side;
Then he fummixed, and kicked, and died.
The man he ripped, aid cussed, ard swore,
AS he gathered big brickbat,
That he would be darned essentially
If he didn't kill that cat
But the old woman allowed she'd be blest


if he did,
And snatched up an old shotgun,
Which she fred and peppered his diaphragm
With bird-shot number one.
They toted him home on a window blind,
And the doctor cured him up;
But he was never known to fight again,
Or own another purp.
Folks may turn up their snoots at this here


rhyme,
L don't care a cuss for that!
All l want to show is, that fighting dogs
May tackle the wrong Tom cat.
Year: 1878

sued, prisons and penitentlaries are
opened wide, and into the rank and
file come men died in crime. With
the crimson hue of blood resting
upon their hands ere the tocsin of
war sounded and the dead lock of
arms began; blood that would not
"out, damned spot" though bathed
in seas of water


When the eye had begun to
weary in its attempt to pierce
through the confusion in search of
the beginning of the end, suddenly
and unexpectedly the son confront
ed his mother in their old home
with a reckless, devIlmay- care air,
and in our country's national uni
form with a silver leaf upon his
coat collar, and a governors pardon
in his pocket!


The mother, enfeebled with long
suffering and affrighted for her sons
safety, not knowing the circum-
stances of her unworthy sons re-
lease, gave a great scream and fell
forward from her chair at his feet;
folding his neither limbs and press
ing them with convulsive throbs to
her hungry bosom! "Oh! if tie years
would only empty back their ruined
days into the lap of the Present."
But alas! "God had folded up the
white tent of her YOUTH" and desc
lation, darkness and ruin were en-
folding her in their gloom and
terror!


ITO ha Nnntinnad
Year: 1878

Mr.. EDIToR:-If you will allow
us the space in your paper we will
endeavor to give you some of the
news from our part of the Lone Star
State. Sickness and death are
abroad in our midst. We have had
more sickness this summer than
has been known for years. There
are so many cases that it is impos
sible for the physicians to attend
them ALL There is scarcely a house
in our county which has escaped
sickness. 1t is thought that so
much sickness was caused by hav
ing such wet spring and such hot
weather since summer set in. An
other cause of sickness is bad wa
ter. Most of the water used is
from cisterns, and a great many
have to strain their water to get the
water lice out. Others drink from
holes where the creek ought to be.
People in this State don't have as
good water to drink as the horses,
cattle and swine in Middle Tennes-
see. Your humble correspondent
has seen but two springs in Texas,
and they were the spring of the
year.


Texas may be the Empire State
of the South at some future day,
but it is our humble opinion that
several drawbacks will have to be
removed first, The water is bad,
timber is difficult to get at, fencing
material is scarce and what we have
is a very poor quality. We can't
grow blue grass or clover to any ad-
vantage. The range IN this part of
Texas is fast giving out, and stock
men are moving farther West, This
is no better wheat country than
Middle Tennessee. If this comes
before the eyes of your many read
ers, we hope they will not think we
are exaggerating things, and if it
goes to the waste basket, we know
it will not knock the bottom out,
for the weight is wanting.


Crops of early corn are good, but
all the late corn is suffering for rain.
Cotton that was worked at the
proper time will make a very fair
yield. Almost every farmer had to
turn out few acres of cotton on
account of the protracted rains in
the spring. Cotton picking is in
full blast. Our first bale of cotton
from this county was sold on the
22d day of this month at Ladonia
for IA! cents per pound. Can Giles
beat this? NosREDNA.


Ladonia, Fannin Co., Tex,


August 9th, 1878.
Year: 1878

No one who looks down from a
gallery in a church, upon devout
and Ged-like congregation, can fail
to notice how prone the Christian
is to the loss of his hair. Piety
and baldheadedness seem to go to-
gether, that the head of the believer
might be shining light, a city on
the hills. And yet if one goes TO
Goddess theatre, the same thing is
observable. Worldliness is as bad
as piety. The bloated capitalist
and the horny handed son of toll
are equally liable to barefootedness
on the top of the head. And this,
too, in the face of the fact that
proud science has long wrestled
with this problem, and inventions
innumerable announce themselves
as causing a luxuriant growth of
hair. Baldheadedness, however,
does not impair a mans value in
the ordinary affairs of life. He can
buy or sell, insure, run a bank, or
accept an office, with not enough
hair on his head to make a first
class eyebrow; but when it comes
to making love to a girl it is very
much in the way. There is a great
deal of capillary attraction in love.
Girls adore a handsome suit of
glossy hair. 1t Is lovely. And
when a lover comes to WOO her with
the top of his head shining like a
CREASED pumpkin, he is at = disad-
vantage. just as the words that
glow and the thoughts that burn
begin 30 awaken in her bosom a
sympathetic thrill, she may happen
to notice two or three flies prone
nading over his chronological or
gans-and all is over. Girls are so
frivolous. She Immediately be-
comes more interested in those flies
than in all his lovely language.
While he is pouring out his love
and passion she is wondering how
the flies manage to hold on to such
a slippery surface.
Year: 1878

New York Herald: The immedi.


ate future is full of promise On


every hand mems energis, so long


paralyzed, are reviving. Want and


distress have sensibly stimulated
the enterprise and skill of our peo.
pie. Economy in all branches Of
government, State and Federal is
the rule, and no longer the excep-
tion. a greater number Of men are
willing TO work for a living than sc
any time since the war, and farm
ers and skillful and industrious me-
chanics in all parts of the country
are earning a living. Few men are
making rapid fortunes, and specula-
tion has undoubtedly received A
blow; but faithful, punctual, honest
and skillful labor is already getting
the moderate reward with which il
was satisfied before 1850. IL is A
curious sign of the times. that in
many Of our cities house.building
has recommended, but the houses
are mostly small! and inexpensive.
Finally, there is little doubt that Il
the people who now cry out about
the severe pressure of the times and
demand n new imitation could be ex-
it would be found that they
consist almost entirely Of two class
es-tramps and spectators who
bought at the top of an inflated
market, and are suffering the result
OF their incautious ventures. But
no legislation can help these two
classes.
Year: 1878

The Mobile Register says it is not
the South which will hereafter de
sire to secede from the Union.
When power shall have passed from
the East to the South and West, we
will in all probability find the East
as ardent for a separate government
as they were in 1S12-as they were
at even an earlier day, when the
purchase of Louisiana threatened to
shift to the Southwest the political
power then exercised by the smaller
States of New England.
Year: 1878

"A wasp's nest contains IO,OOO
cells" and the greatest of these
'sells" is to sit down ON the nest
under the mistaken impression that
all the wasps have gone to the sea-
side or somewhere on a visit. A
single wasp loafing in the back
kitchen will give the sitter a warm
reception. And no doubt a married
one would treat him in the same
Year: 1878

The LangLorn, Pa, Beacon point
edly says: "Nere a man to go to a
bank and get little sccommoda-
tion-for instance, a couple of hun
dred dollars for thirty days-he
would have to pay a dollar or two
for it. Were he to object to paying
on the plea that it cost the bank
nothing TO lend him money, and
that the currency would probably
be idle any way if be didn't take it,
be would be set down as a fool,
without ceremony. Yet, similar
objections are made by sensible peo-
pie when a newspaper asks pay for
q little service rendered"
Year: 1878

The cottonwood poles used on
the line of the Southern Pacific rail
road to support the telegraph wires,
have sprouted and give promise of
supplying a continuous line of flour
ishing shade-trees.
Year: 1878

Hartford Courant on Butler: "If
he doesn't withdraw he will be the
worst whipped man that ever ran for
Governor in that State" Then, let
him stay and be whipped. as he de-
serves to be, and the worst he is


whipped the better. Indeed, ii
somebody accustomed to the hand
ling of dirty subjects will take him
in hand and whip enough dog out
of him to make full pack OF
hounds the people around there can
well afford TO take whatever addi-
tional risk of hydrophobia the act
may engender.-- Courier-Journal,
Year: 1878

The pencil marks you see around this
paragraph (thus) mean that your sub
scription is out or unpaid, and that you
are requested to pay mp at once. We
would take great pleasure in extending
credit to our friends and patrons, but
cash alone will way our expenses, and
we are forced to adhere to a strict cash
rule. We hope you will comprehend
and appreciate the necessity Of such
course, and renew your su scription
without delay. We solicit your favor.


eB- We enter no new names on our
books without the money In advance
Year: 1878

The Greensborough Ga. } Herald
thus forecasts the destiny of the
graduating class at college in that
State at the recent commencement:


Three -fourths of them will go to
teaching school About fourteen
will study law; about two will be
lawyers. About five will join the
North Georgia Conference. About
three will marry and wake up. Two
or three will 60 on at once to the
University of Virginia and stay
year or two, and then go to Cam
bridge Law School and graduate,
and then come home and clerk in
dry goods store for twenty-five dol
lars per month and board them
selves. Some fellow who studied
like sin, and who stood high up in
his class will 60 home with the firm
conviction that all has been accom-
plished-he has fought a good fight
and there is nothing more to dos
He will remain under this impress
sion until next January, when the
old man will say to him: well
done, thou good and faithful ser
want. but you havn't done enough.
Git the mule and break up that per
tater patch" SHeh is life.
Year: 1878

An English puper says: The useful
ness of toughened glass bids fair to be
greater and more serious than was first
supposed. Some experiments are re-
ported to have been made in France with
view to showing whether this sub
stance can be pressed into the printers
service and substituted for the metal
composition of which types are made.
The metal does not at first sight strike
the observer as the best that could be
found. 1t is bright enough when the
letters first come from the foundry, and
before they have seen any service; but
few days wear gives them a very much
more dipgy appearance, and before they
are finally returned to the melting pot
they have degenerated into a very
squalid form, looking dirty in their
bodies as well as battered in their faces.
The.id now is to discard these long
proved but unattractive servants and fill
their places with glittering types OF glass.
The advantages in point of cleanliness
alone would, it is alleged, be not insig-
nifcant. But the Patrie points out that
there are other and more solid improve
IleutS 1uNOlNtu III blIc uCW oJ oOOhs AhS
toughened glass, which is not to be
made in quite the same way as that used
for tumblers and wine glasses, and need
not, of course, be quite so transparent,
is naturally much harder than the old
metal, and can hardly be crushed out Of
shape by those little accidents which SO
shorten the life and spoil the beauty Of
the only type we now employ. 1t is also
capable of being cast into more delicate
shapes, SO that the difference, for in
stance, between the thin and the thick
strokes can be more clearly defined.
Finally, it is now found that the new
material can be cast in exactly the same
moulds as the old, and that therefore
there need be no expense incurred in al
tering the machines and implements
used in the manufacture of type. If the
Patrie has been we'll informed the ex-
periments have been completely success
ful, and the adaptability of toughened
glass to printing aud to numerous other
purposes is likely ere long to be fully
established.
Year: 1878

The buffalo COW seems to have little
maternal instinct, differing in this re-
spect greatly from the domestic COW.
When frightened, a buffalo COW will
abandon her calf, and running away
leave it to be protected by the bulls, who,
to their honor, seldom forsake their
charge. An army surgeon once saw an
admirable illustration of this maternal
care.


One evening, as he was returning
from a days hunt, his attention was at
tracted by the curious behavior of six or
eight buffaloes. Approaching them he
saw that they were all bulls. They
stood in close circle with their head
downward. At some twelve or fifteen
PAGES distant sat, in an eccentric circle,
a dozen large gray wolves, licking their
chops, as if impatiently waiting for
supper.


In few minutes the circle of bulls
broke up, but keeping in compact
body, walked off toward the main herd
half mile off. To his amazement, the
doctor saw in the centre of the guardian
bulls little feeble calf, newly-born, and
hardly able to walk. After going a hun
dred PAGES, the calf lay down, and the
bulls again formed protecting circle
about it. The wolves, who had followed
on each side, sat down and licked then
chops.


The doctor did not wait to see the
end, it being late and the fort distant
but he had no doubt the bulls brought
the calf, abandoned by its mother, safely
to the herd.
Year: 1878

DIR. Carbally says: "In descending
stairs or deep declivities while wearing
high-heeled shoes, which throws the
weight of the body upon the front part
of the foot, the extra effort made for the
purpose of retaining the body within
the centre of gravity produces direct
strain upon these tendons, causing rup-
ture or stretching of the annular liga-
ment sufficient to allow them to be dis
placed. 1t is no wonder, then, that
fashionable women waddle in most un-
graceful manner when they attempt to
walk. They destroy their comfort to
follow a ridiculous fashion, and acquire
an ambling and undignified movement.
People do things to follow fashion that
their good sense would cause them to be
ashamed of under any other circum-
stances. Ladies wearing such shoes are
often obliged for safety, to go down
stairs backward; and they can be seen
every day descending the steps of our
fashionable residences in this manner,
making pretence of talking to some
imaginary person in the front door as an
excuse to hide their awkward move
ments,"
Year: 1878

II some hind power, when our youth is ended,
And life's first freshness lost in languid


noon,
Should stay awhile the doom by Fate intended,
And grant US generously one precious boon
Saying, "with thwartings, bitterness and


trial,


Your toilsome days thus far have been OPP


pressed;
Choose now some blessing, fearing no denial,
To light and charm, and beSutify the rest
What should we ask the prize of young


ambition?


Fame, power, wealth, and gifts of priceless
cost?
All, no-our souls would utter the petition
"Give us-oh, only give us back our lost y
No visioned bliss, no pleasure new and splen-


did,


No lofty joy by longing never crossed,
No new delight undresmed Of, heaven


descended,


Only our own-the treasures we have lost
For, wearied out with strife, and glare and


clamor,


Grown wiser with our years, and clearer


eyed,
No more beguiled by dreams, nor charmed by


glamor,


We dread the new, and prize the known, the


tried.
Ah, what a crowd Of joys would gather round


us,


Could We but have our vanished back again
The heart unspoiled, the strength and hope


which crowned us,
The bounteous hfe the ignorance of pain
The innocence, the ready faith in others
The sweet spontaneous earnestness and


truth,
The trust of friends, the tender eyes OF


mothers,


And all the rich inheritance of youth
The plans for noble lives, that earth thereafter
Might be more pure; the touch of loves


warm lip
And saving hand; the sound of childish


laughter,


The peace of home, the Joy of comradeship-
We had them all and now that they have lef


US,


We count them carefully, and see their worth
Aud feel that time and fortune have bereft III
OF all the best and dearest things on earth
Ah, yes when on our hearts the years are


pressing;


And all our fower-plats are touched witt


frost,
We ask no more some new untasted blessing
But only sigh, "Oh, give us back our lost =
Year: 1878

Long shafts of moonlight were shoot.
ing down through what seemed an almost
impenetrable wood and quivering on
the green MOSES. A faint wind dallied
with the foliage. Wild flowers fecked
the ground.


Here, in this sylvan retreat sat Miss
Barron, and she was very much out OF
humor, for every now and then she drove
the point of her parasol into the un-
offending MOSES. She looked and was
downright disgusted with everything
and everybody. The belle of three
seasons, during which she had escaped
heart-whole, she was now caught"
and all because of three weeks sojourn
at country villa.


Madge had never been off her guard
before. Hitherto she had visited
fashionable watering places; but this
year she had come to quieter place, and
had met Lindhurst Darlington. She
did not yet know, however, she was in
thralldom.


She only knew she was cross and
lonesome; and so she sat punching the
little blossoms and pouting. She thought
Darlington exceedingly companionable,
and that the other four gentlemen stop
ping at the villa were little better than
wooden men. AS for downright, earnest
love, why her intentions for three years
had been never to venture her heart at
sea, but only to glide about the shore,
flirting, safe to disembark any time.
Yet she was now thinking of Lindhurst
Darlington in way many would have
termed love. But she would not admit
this to herself. He was a delightful
summer friend, that was all, she said
She liked summer, and flowers, and
birds, and hazy atmospheres, and a
quiet Irritation; but when these went,
the coming season brought new enjoy
ments and fresh firtations, and Barring
ton could go with them. Were there not
others, pray, who could read Tennyson
and sing tenor? But now, just this
moment, it was rather lonesome. If he
only would come


He had gone to town the morning
previous, promising to return in the
evening. She had walked with him
through this wood-path, on his way to
the station. He had fingered moment
at tae stile beyond, to tell her how beau
tiful she looked-how the fresh morning
air had frightened the color on her
cheeks.


"Come this evening as far as here to
meet me-" he had said, "won't you
The path will be horrid labyrinth with
out you"


"You will surely return?" she had
asked. eff you don't, I shall find
every tree hobgoblin when I go back
alone"


"Return, indeed I shall think oi
nothing else. shall do nothing all day
but pull out my watch to see if it is time
for the train"


Then he caught her hand in a quich
way, thought moment, bounded owe,
the stile, and hastened down the path
turning often to look back at the pretty
picture she made. listlessly leaning OF
the stile, with tinge of regret in hel
face. At turn where she would soor
be hid from sight he had dared to wave
her kiss.


Madge was now waiting according *
appointment, and she had taken care X
concoct most ravishing toilet.


But all her little preparations wer,
wasted. Lyndhurst Darlington did no
come, Still she waited. It seemed 8,
unreasonable, SO cruel, to disappoin
her. Perhaps he was only trying I,
tease her, had got out unseen. ant
Year: 1878

On one of the coolest days last winter
a German man called at a house in the
Fourth ward and asked for something to
eat, saying he had just come from Kan
kakee and his feet were frozen. The lady
gave him something to eat, medicine for
his feet and pair of socks. He went
away and nothing was seen of him
until yesterday, when he returned and
wanted to pay for the things he had re-
ceived last winter. He would not leave
until the lady ha taken fifty cents with
the promise that she would feed the next
poor fellow who came along. He then
went away satisfied. Lafayette (Tnd.I
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