smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1877

raid upon the settlements, and only
a small guard were to be left in the
cave.


"All this Inez hurriedly ex.
planned to Joe, and it was agreed
that he was to lie concealed in the
unexplored portions of the cave to
the rear, recover from his wounds
and wait till the Indians left before
attempting rescue. while Inez was
to furnish him with provisions from
her own allowance.


"The chief, Red Eagle, in the
meantime treated her with distin-
guished consideration, offering her
whatever she called for. After
three weeks Of weary waiting Inez
learned from the old woman that
Red Eagle and his braves had gone
South, and that four braves had
been left to guard her night and
day. They took up their places in
the far corner of the great hall,
and he waited impatiently until
they should go to sleep. Day and
night were the same in the
cave, but finally the braves
stretched themselves out one after
another to sleep. That sleep was
their last, for four shots from Joe's
revolving carbine fred in rapid
succession killed them all before
either was aware of their danger.


"The old woman was forced to
guide them to the entrance of the
cave, which was found after many
and tortuous windings, and Inez
and Joe emerged from their living
tomb just after sunrise. Joe then
saw that he had passed entirely
through the mountain.


Romuldo and his friends had
long given them up for dead, and
their feelings may be better i'm
agined than described when they
returned safe and sound after their
miraculous adventures. Ever since
then Joe has ridden that pony and
has been perfectly happy"


"But you don't mean to tell me,
Colonel, that Joe got no other re-
ward than that miserable piece oil
horsehesh. He married Inez, Of
course ?"


"That's the way the story writ
erS would fix things" said the col
onel, "but they never deal in facts
as | have done. The senior was as
good as his word, and got sur.
veyor to divide the ranch into two
equal parts, and showed Joe about
fifteen cart-loadS of gold and silver
bullion as his share"


"No, sir" said Joe. 81 wan
none Of these. want that sorre
: pony. Here are the $50, and
want to know if you will trust mt
for the other S."


"I'll give you the pony and any
thing else you want" said the senior
"You deserve anything that you
will ask for"


"But with all that the senol
could do or say, Joe made him take
the $50 and let him have the pony
with S. due on it,"


Well, that is the most unnatu
raj ending to wonderfully roman
tic story ever heard. Colone
Fleance Fitz Roy, there is some
thing wrong with the sentiment
and civilization of Tucson"
snow, don't deceive yourself
there again." put in the colonel
Mountain Joe and Inez RomuldC
are to be married next week, anC
we will both go to the wedding"
Year: 1877

LOUISVILLE, ARK, Feb. 2S. ". MISTER EDITOR Sir, will you be so kind as to permit Solomon tSowzer to come again? We'll we just wan ted to tell you that Spring time is coming; the blue bird is thirping; the doves are cooing and our farmers are busily engag ed preparing for the anticipated big crop of 1877. The wheat crop looks better; oats have been sown in abundance; everybody has been busy during the entire beautiful and lovely weather ol the month of February. The short crop of the past year seems to have urged them up to doub- ling of their diligence, and with good seasons, those who have fall en behind with their. merchants i last year will be able to pay up next fall. Upon the whole we believe the prospect ahead is pretty good; anyway Clark town ship is in fine spirits and we ex- hort our neighboring townships to hold stiff upper lip, at least while we have plenty to eat, good appetites and work to do.

 We are trying to get up good school. The people of the far famed towns of Piney and George town are about to splice and have one regular four horse school on the halfway ground, about where Bolesyillc used to be, before the R. R. killed it. If this succeeds 1t will pay . good teacher say about ten months in the year.

 Our invitation to people to i'm migrate to Clark township hasn' t banned out much yet; we thoug t there would have been a whole colony here by this time, but just AS like as not they didn't believe half we said in that article. But we was in cold hard earnest, and we belive yet that Pope county is about the best county in the State, and we are confident that Clark is one of the bulliest, best townships in Pope county and that you know makes it just close about the garden spot of creation.

 Well the R. R. Go. has land enongh Tn this township to settle a whole colony and they sell it on long credit. Now ain't that just as cheap as they ought to want it? and there's plenty of govern. ment land to enter or. homestead, with pine trees on it nearly as high as you can see, R. R. and River navigation, beautiful run ming creeks chock full of the fin est of fish; the natural scenery is unsurpassed, and for loud thun- der, keen lightning, big red ap- ples and pretty women the world can beat us. Come and see for yourselves. Yours truly,

 SOLOMON SowzER, ESQ.
Year: 1877

Millions of sheep could be put up
on lands where winter feed may be
almost if not quite dispensed with.
Keep the best, and keep them in the
best manner. and they will afford
more profit than the raising of wheat
or even corn or hogs. Freezing
don't kill out wool; dry weather
don't dry it up chinch bugs do harm
grasshoppers cannot destroy the
crop. 1t is the cheapest produce to
handle or ship that the farmers
grow.
Year: 1877

polls and excluding it from the computation
in Masking up the aggregate OF the votes cast
the effect is precisely the same: ifit is wrong
to reject a legal vote at the polls. then il can
not be right to exclude it from the general
count The same vote cannot be both legal
and illegal, at the same time, in the same
State, and under the same constitution aud
laws. When q citizen entitled to the right OF
suffrage, exercises that right by putting his
vote into the ballot>box, ingenuity can devise
no lawful means of getting rid OF it. This
ballot may be given ut an obscure polling
place in a remote district of Louisiana, still is
must appear and be allowed to have its due
weight in all of the election machinery from
the incipient act of placing it in the ballo,-'
box, to the iual act of declaring the result by
the Congress of the United States. This is
the real point in issue in the present con-
troysrsy, but it has received little attention in
the excited discussions that have taken place.
If intimidation has been used, the proper
thing to do, is to punish the parties guilty OF
it, but not to deprive the voter of his legal
right by rejecting his vote, because OF the mis-
conduct of others. To overawe a voter aud
deprive him of his freedom of choice, is .
wrong, but to deny him his freedom of choice,
by rejecting his vote, is a greater and more
exasperating wrong, b5cSusc done under tho
forms of law-the one is au open act of sio-
lencc, the other covert fraud.


The will of the majority of the people ex-
pressed at the polls must be respected and
obeyed, and the right of each State to man
age its own internal affairs must not be in
fringed-auy departure from these principles
is well calculated TO awaken grave concern
aud anxiety among the people. ...


This unhappy controversy can be decided by
Congress alone, and no solution can be had ex-
cept with the consent Of Congress; to Congress
therefore do the people look with confident eI-
prctatiou of its amicab!e and just settlement.
Well established principles and precedents,
nearly as old as the government itself, are land~
marks for its guidance and it will do we'll to
follow them, disrcgArding all quibblcs and
cvasive suhterfuges to march to a conclusion
according to the very right of the matter.
will not presume 10 intimate what course OF
proceeding Congress ought to adopt; this Is
to some extent left to- it's discretion ; aud
am unwilling to believe that it will ignore
fundamental principles and old precedents,
for the purpose of declaring any citizen to be
President who has not been riShtfully elected.
I sincerely hope, therefore, that Congress,
with the proper appreciation OF its dignity
aud responsibility, will reach n result honor
able to itself just in its bearings on NIL parties.
and conducive to the best interests OF tho
country Let this he done, and in tho future
we shall look back upon the present political
agitation as ePhemerAl excitement, and
shall cto it as strong evidence OF the vigor OF
our institutions and their ability to bear the
severe strains by which they were tested.
Year: 1877

The annual report of the Superintendent
of the Deaf, Dumb and Blind Asylum, shows
the total number of deaf mutes in the insti-
tuition as sizty-fve, and of blind nineteen,
making a total of eighty>four.
Year: 1877

1t is sweet, sweet song. warbled to
and fro among the topmost boughs of
the heart, and filling the whole air with
such joy and gladness as the songs OF
birds do when a summer morning
comes out of the darkness, and day is
born on the mountains. We have all
possessions in the future, which we call
''sometine." Beautiful flowers and
singing birds are there, only our hands
seldom grasp the one or our ears hear
tine other But o reader! be of good
cheer, for all the good there is a golden


sometime" when the hills and valleys
of time are all passed, when the wear
aud fever, the disappointment and sor


row of life are over, then there is the
place and the rest appointed of God. o
homestead! over whose roof falleth no
shadows or even clouds, and over whose
threshold The voice of sorro is never
heard; built upon the eternal hills, and
standing with the spire4 and piunacles
OF celestial beauty among the palm
trees of the city on high. those vino
love God shall rest under thy shadows
where there is no more sorrow nor pain.
nor the sound of weeping sometimes
Year: 1877




some unusual leap of the horse, had
been the cause of her husband falling
to the ground. Reasoning thus, il
seemed to her he might be somewhere
along the route in need of her help.


If mot alive, she might find his dead
body. Or, if she failed to discover
him dead or alive, she could ride to the
mill settlement for safety and assist
ance.


With such reflections, she decided to
make an early start along the.wild val
ley route.


She gave the horse an abundance oi
food, and bound up the wound in it:
neck, knowing that all depended upon
the faithful creatures strength.


1t was & long and anxious night to
poor Annie, but the dawn came at last,
and she mounted and road away; and
SO swiftl' did she go that, had any ybody
seen her, she might have seemed like
some spirit of the wood.


AS she sped onward, along the faint
trail marked by blazed trees, tine pc
culiar excitement OF the horse ttracted
her notice, and it occurred to her tina:
if she was attentive enough to the in
stinct of the animal. she might learn
where it had parted from Leslie. And
SO it proved.


All Gay she went forward, her senses
almost supernaturally alert to find her
husband and avoid being surprised by
Indians. As the sun was declining, she
approached the brook where Leslie had
fallen, and the conduct of the horse
con, inced her that she was near the
scene Of some part of the disaster.
Slowly she rode the slope, watching on
every hand to hear something pertain
ing to her search, her heart ahame
with feelings too intense for words.


1t was the tread of the horse that
reached Leslie's ears. As the animal
stepped into the stream the poor man
saw his wife, and putting forth all his
strength, he called, in feeble tones,
"Anuiel"


She heard, and in an instant was at
his side. And such meeting. To each
it seemed as if the other had come
back from the dead. What followed
scarcely needs rehersal By slow
marches and great caution, living on
chestnuts and raw panther's meat, they
reached the stockade.


A few months restored Leslie from
his wound; years brought peace and
safety, and ultimately thousands of
settlers flowed into the region. The
pioneers farm where once the little
stockade stood SO distant and alone,
became village site, and wealth and
have fallen to the Cochrane
descendants


Whoever has heard the aged Leslie
recite this adventure, must have been
by the emphasis which he
placed on 1.-THE three strange provi
dences by which he was delivered"
First, had he fallen anywhere but in
the stream the Indians would probably
have found him where he fell. faint or
dead, and tearing off his scalp, would
have crushed in his skull with toma
hawk and departed. Secondly, had
it not been for the Indians rhe panther
would have finished him. And thirdly,
the bullet that drew the dripping
blood from the neck of the horse, so
that the crimson trail did stop at the
brook, saved his life by leading away
his pursurers.


Iu closing the story he used to say,
in a most solemn manner:


Death missed me by a miracle
three times in a single hour"
Year: 1877

Over one eye was a Liece of sticking
plaster as big as street car ticket, and
one leg seemed to hesitate and hitch
along as though a grain or two of grav-
ell had somehow got INTO the knee Joint
and made trouble and dissatisfaction.
His boots were as full of squeak as a
clearinghouse rocking-chair, and the
heels were edging around aud trying
to climb up and see what the panta
looms were mcde of. His eyes had a
wandering, startled, half frightened
SORT of look, and one of them seemed
inclined to set up an observatory on
its own account. His nose had started
out boldly into the world, but, after
slight progress, had thought better of
1t, changed its mind and scooted for
home again. This move had aroused
the curiosity of the chin, and it sailed
out resolutely to tiud out how matters
stood. When they came within hail
ing distance, both organs seemed to
take alarm at the hostile appearance
OF the Intervening chasln of a mouth.
and halted right where they were.


The man was very polite though
awkwardly so, and pulled off his nap
less, rusty stove pipe hat, with a
springy. nervous movement, the instant
he crossed the door-still, and came for
ward with crouching, hesitatina air,
seemingly fearful that his intrusion
might be unwarranted. He came TO a
tull stop with bow that made bis ribs
rattle, and asked with a voice afraid TO
come out all At once:


''Is-the-sditor-inr


He vas.


'Be-you-hef"


Such was the case.
Year: 1877

Are the most
effective and
congenial pur-
gative ever dis
covered. They
are mild, but
fe ctual in
their opera
ton, moving
the bowel Is
surely and
without pain
Although gen.
tie in their op-
erati0n- they
Year: 1877

Nearly every reader Of the Democrat has
'em-corns. Below we give few remedies
for getting rid of the troublesome customers.
The remedies are taken from an excellent
eastern magazine, and are we'll worth pre-.
serving and trying:


l. Put the feet for halt an hour for two or
three successive nights IN a solution of SODA
two tablespoonsful of soda, in a small foot
tub of hot water. The alkalI dssolves the
indurated cuticle, and the corns drop out.


2. Tie piece Of raw cotton on the corns
and wet it several times day with spirits Of
turpentine; this will In three days cure the
corn without The least apparent pain.


3. Take lemon, cut piece of it Oft, ther
nick it so as to let in the toe with the corn
lie this on at night so that il cannot move
and you will find next morning, with the aic
of blunt knife, the corn will come out to {
certain extent. Two or three application
will effect q thorough cure.


4. Dissolve glue, just as you would fol
mending furniture; spread il on the corns
put muslin rags over them to prevent tht
glue from sticking to the stocklngs; repea
the application few time and the cure will
be efectual.


Here Is another for the cure of either corn
or bunions:


Squeeze out the juice of two good lemons
put 1t in bottle; add one dozen small pear
buttons-old ones will do as well as new
shake the bottle a few times until the buttons
are all dissolved, when it is ready for use
Apply with the finger to the corn or bunior
twice day until a cure IS effected. | hav,
never known it to fail of accomplishing th'
desired result. 1t is very penetrating. Keel
closely corked
Year: 1877

WASHINGTON, June 2f.-There are many indca-
tions that the removal of Collector Arthur from the
New-York Custom-house will take place IN the
course of the next two or three weeks. Strong IN
huences being brought to bear upon the Cabinet
to accomplish this action. 1t is urged that the re-
cent investigation of the Custom-house aiiars as
closed so many abuses llOurishing under Mr ArthIUs
administration that his removal musi follow as the
logical consequence of exposure Ii would seem to
be only natural that the President should desire 20
have its civil service policy carried into eject IN the
Custom-house by some one not identified ith the
old order of things However much willingness
Mr. Arthur may display to conform his manage nc Mt
the ideas in force, he can scarcely cont
mand the full confidence of the Administration.
Year: 1877

IBY TELEGRAPH To TIE fEBUSE.l


WASHINGTON June 2f.-it is estimated by COM
pctcnt Treasury authority that the total amount Of
gold and silver in the United States at this time Is
S22J. .OOO, ,JOJ Pho increase during the fiscal year
ending June 30 is supposed to have been not less
than $40 ,00O, 900 The imports Of gold and silver
coin and bullion have about eQuaed the exports
and as the balance Of trade is becoming more and


more pronounced in favor of the United States. it is
believed that the accumulation Of specie in this
country viii continue during the ensuing year at
more rapid rate than heretofore, that when the
time fixed for resumption comes around there Will
be an abundance of the precious metals available
Dr. Linderman,, the Director of the Mint, expects TO
spend some time in California and Nevada during
the Summer Investigating the capacity of the prn-
cipaI gold and silver mines, IN order TO determine
upon the supply OF the precious metals which the
Government can count upon for coinage purposes.
Year: 1877

All men who avoid female society
have dull perceptions, and ara stupid,
and have gross tastes, and revolt against
what pure. Your club-swaggerers who
are sucking the butts of billiard-cues
all night call female society insipid.
Poetry is uninspiring to a yokel beauty
has no charms for a blind man music
does not please; poor beast does not
know one tune from another; but, as a
true epicure hardly ever tires of water,
sauce. and brown bread and butter, /
protest can sit for whole night talk
ing to a well,regulated, kindly woman,
about her daughter Fanny, or her boy
Frank. and make the evenings entertain
ment. One of the great benefits man
NAV derive from a woman's society is
that he is bound to be respectful to her.
The habit is of great good to your NOR
ais. men, depend upon it. Our education
makes us the best eminently selfish men
in the world, and the greatest benefit
that comes to man from woman's society
is that he has to think of somebody to
whom he is bound to be constantly at
tentive and respectful.
Year: 1877

A very dark picture is drawn by cor
respondent of the Paris Temps of the dis
tress which has been prevalent in China
for the last few months. He says that in
the Chilli and ShantuDg districts the
distress has reached such height that a
mart of the inhabitants Of these large
provinces are literally dying Of hunger.
Two Europeans who had the courage to
carry some provisions TO a small village
in Shantung returned horror-struck with
what they had seen. The inhabitants
were putting an end to their suferings
by suicide, and in one family the father
and mother, to avoid witnessing the
death agony of their children, had buried
them alive. The famine has been caused
by the failure of the harvest for two
years running in districts which are gen
orally very fertile. Neither grain nor
,fruits are to be had at any price, and the
land seems to have been scorched by a
burning wind. The grass by the roadside
has been devoured to its very roots by
the famishing people, who have stripped
all the trees of their bark and foliage.
AS the winter has been exceptionally
severe, many of the sufferers have died
from cold as well as from hunger, and
the appearance of the survivors is most
ghastly.
Year: 1877

An anecdote illustrative of an animal
abandoning its artificial for its natural
taste, when once it has learned what it is,
may be told of a tame inchneamon,
which ] kept and fed with milk. One
day brought him small water serpent
alive, being desirous to know how far his
instinct would carry him against being
with which he was hitherto totally un-
acquainted His first emotion seemed to
be astonishment mixed with anger, for
his hair became erect; but, in an instant
after, he slipped behind the reptile, and
with remarkable agility leaped upon its
head, seized it, and crushed it between
his teeth. This essay, and new element,
seemed o-have awakened in him his in
nate and destructive voracity, which till
then had given away to the gentleness
he had acquired from his education. |
had about my house several kinds OF
curious fowls, among which he had been
brought up, and which, till then, he had
suffered to go and come unmolested; but
few days after, he strangled them every
one, ate a little, and, as appeared, drank
the blood of two.
Year: 1877

Omission of good is a commission OF
evil.


1t is absurd to be serious about trifing
matters.


He that lends to all shows good will,
but little sense.


The memory should be a storehouse
not lumber-room.


You may gather a rich harvest OF
knowledge by reading; but thought is
the winnowing machine.


Keep the horrors at arms length.
Never turn blessing round to see
whether it has a dark side to it.


The great master of even a single in
strument of music is indeed a wizard
He chains us in the slavery of de
light, and is heonly despot that rules
over willing captives.


Advice Is offensive, not because it lays
us open to unexpected regret, or con,
victs us of any fault which has escaped
our notice, but because it shows that we
are known to others as well as ourselves
and the officious monitor is prosecuted
with hatred, not because his accusation
is false, but because he assumes the su
periority which we are not willing tc
grant him, and has dared to detect what
we desire to conceal.
Year: 1877

A Dutchman let his lands to an oil
company last spring, on condition
receiving one eighth of the oil procured.
The well proved to be pretty good one,
and the farmer began to think the oil
men would give him better chance, and
ventured to tell them so. They asked
him what he wanted. He said they ought
to give him one-twelfth. The arrange
ment was finally made, with the under.
standing that the Dutchman was not to
tell any one. All went smooth until
the next division day came, when our
friend was early at hand to see how much
better he would be off under the new
bargain. Eleven barrels were rolled to
one side for the oil men and one for him.
This did not suit him.


How's dish ," said he; think
was to get more as before. You have
made some mistake ;"


The matter was explained to him, that
he formerly got one barrel ofevery eight,
but it was his own proposition to take
one of every twelve. This revelation
took him back. lie scratched his head.
looked cross, and relieved his swelling
breast of feelings of self-reproach by in
dignantly remarking,--


"Well, dat ish de first time as ever
know'd eight was more as dwelve.
Year: 1877

The angel who tends the flowers and
sprinkles the dew on them in the still
ness of night, siumbered one morning
in spring under the shade of rose bush.


When he awoke, ne said with friendly
countenance Lovliest of my children, l
thank thee for thy refreshing fragrance
and thy cooling shade. Couldst thou
ask a favor how willingly would grant
it."


Adorn me with a new grace, i'm
plored the spirit of the rose bush. And
the angel adorned the queen of flowers
with veil of moss.


Lovely she appeared in her simple ar
ray, the moss rose, the most beautiful Of
her kind.


Young girls, bid adieu to fnery and
glittering jewels and follow the maternal
beckoning of Nature.