smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1874


My machine is in order, its wound up


again,
And now it will sing you sweet little
strain,
About young lover whose name | won't


tell,
But all of you know him, I know very


well.
lie dresses quite neat, with his cane cuts


dash,
When he speaks you would think his


mouths full of hash;
He thinks he is handsome but that's a


mistake,
He's miserable fool and a.bonafide rake.
Tie courts young lady, at least so It's


said,
He bathes in perfume and greases his


head;
He calls her his duck also his dear,
She gigglcs and wriggles then drops 4


big tear.
Twas not long ago, twas one Sunday


night,
was taking a stroll and saw sight;
They were taking Il stroll and in whispers


did talk,
He said my dear duck we had 4 good


walk.
4 tree was close by and they stopped in


the shade,
She simpered and sighed and with her


apronstring played;
He said something then / know made her


blush,
For she said oh my dearI wish you would


hush.
For some one might hear youand we'll be


found out,
And you know that my mother don t


know I'm out;
Oh let us 90 home can slip in the gate,
You know my beloved it is now getting


late.
They then left the place where they had


stood,
Now to follow them home L thought l


should;s
| came to the conclusion I'd better go


home,
SO ] left the sweet lovers homeward to


roam.
And now in conclusion TO the lovers


would say,
BE careful in the future who you meet i'll


your way:
Such conduct is sinful and morally wrong
And YOUR names may appear i'll ma


chine song.
Year: 1874

TAKE TINE TO RRsT-Most men and
women must keep in the traces, and
keep pulling the year around. All the
more, therefore, is it their duty to take
things easier as hot weather comes on.
Take longer at noon. Put on less
steam when you are at work. Snatch
Sunday now and then from the middle
of t he week. You can't! You can.
People find time to be sick and die.
They can inst as easy find time to rest
and keep we'll Everything does not
depend on finishing that dress or tenc-
ing that field; or putting up so much
fruit or catching SO many customers
Better that the children should wear
old clathes than their mother should lie
laid aside by fever. Better that the
corn crop be than there be no one to
harvest it. Let rs have shorter sermons
and fewer Of them on Sunday; longer
recesses tor the children at school on
week days Put up the store shutter
earlier at night; prepare palmer meals
in the kitchen. Take MONDAY nap
yourself and give employees chance
to 90 fishing Of an afternoon now and
then. That only is duty which the
Lord laws upon us and he is not so hard
a master as We sometimes suppose.
Year: 1874

RoAST TURKEY-lsinse the turkey
out in several waters, and in the next
to the last mix teaspooniul OF soda;
fill the body with this water, sbake
well, empty ont and rinse with clean
water, snge off the hairs and prepare a
sressing of breadcrumbs; add small
piece Of butter, pepper and salt, and
add thyme and majorun. sage II prefer
red. Wet with bot water or milk. liv-
er. heart, etc, should be boiled and
choppcd fine AND mixed with the dress.
ing. The water in which tehy were
boiled should be put in the dripping
pan with which to baste the turkey.
Dredge it with -four and salt before
roasting. and baste often. With brisk
fire and young turky, allow ten minutes
to pound for roasting. Tie string
tightly about the neck when the craw
is filed, aud sew the body with strong
thread. Remove this when the fowl is
dished. When the turkey is lifted from
the pan, add a spoonful of fonr, wet
with cold water, 10 prevent its Jumping.
Boil Up Obce and pour Into. The gravy
boat. Hearth aud Home says: In car
wing a turky, cut off The wing nearest
YOU first, then the leg and second joint;
then slice the breast nntil a rounded,
ivory-shaped piece appears; insert the
knife between thnt and tie bone. ana
separate them; then turn over the bird
a little, and just below the breast you
viii find the 'oyster, which you scpar-
ate as you did the inner breast Pro
ceed the same way with the other side
The fork need not be removed during
the whole process A sharp knife is in.
dispensable, The platter should be drawn
near enough TO the carver ior him TO
reach each part Of the bird with perfect
ease.
Year: 1874

How DIZZY IT WAs.-An honest old
farmer from the country gave his rccol-
lection Of the hot spell rs follows ut
was SO dry we couldn't spare water in
our whisky. The grass was so dry that
every time the wind blew it flew around
like ashes There wasn't tear shed at
a funeral for a month. The horses they
looked like Mexican dogs, and the
sheep like poodle puppies, they shrank
so. We had TO soak all our hogs To
make en- hold; the suu dried up all the
cattle. and burned the hair of, aud If
any cattle were killed in the morning,
they'd be dried before daIk


The woods dried up so that the far
mcr's chopped seasoned timber all
through August, aud there amt n
match through all the country in fact,
10 weddin' since the widow Green mar.
lied old Baker three months ago What
few grasshoppers are left are all skin
and legs, aud | didn't hear tea kettle
stag for six weeks We ate our poia-
toes baked, they being all ready, and
we couldn't spare water 10 boil en-.
All the red hair girls r afraid to stir
out OF the house in day light, and tell
YOU, was afraid the devil had moved
out Of his Old home and settled down
with us for fife. Why, we had TO haul
water all summer TO keep the ferry run
ming, and-say, its getting dry; lets
take suthiu.
Year: 1874

Yesterday tho wife Of John H. H. Camp,
an officer Of the Metropolitan Police, came
to New Orleans from Algiers to 81 eek for
him, as she had not heard from him since
Saturday. She learned that as NJ. ! Of
Captain Gray's battery he had fallen dead
a. his post.


His death lsases her and large family
entirely destitute Of means for their sup.
port, and they are most worthy objdets Of
beuevolence.


The deceased vas an old soldier. served
in the Mexican war. rose to be captain.
and III the last war was q captain OF the
famous SCOTS 900. Of New York. BE was
a gentleman. cultured and refined. bIisfor.
tune reduced him to poverty, and to become
a member of the police force was th b only
way open to him to obtain support. He
was good soldier and an upright gentle.
man.


There are those among us to whom an
appeal in behalf of the family Of a man who
died doing his duty at his post shou uld not
be made in vain. A purse will be made up
for the benefit Of the widow and fatherless
children. Any contribution thereto will be
gladly received at the counting room Of the
REPUBLICAN,
Year: 1874

of savages to the customs of our ia.
! theirs.


There might have been a time
when our judicatory was admirable
when it was peculiarly adopted to
the wants of our people; but that
was before the age of railroads,
telegraphs and fast time. 1t was
when the country was sparsely set
tied, and there was but little COM
mercial intercourse among the peo-
pie, and when there was but little
more legal business to transact in
an entire circuit than is now to be
done in single county.


That was in the days when the
master corrected his servant, and
criminal prosecutions were rare now
times have changed-the colored
man is no longer a slave to be cor
rected and punished for his crimes
and piccadilles by his master, but
free man, and ansWerable to the law
for his offenses, and our courts are
crowded with prosecutions of
character unknown to our fathers,
and unprovided for by them. AS
times and circumstances and condi-
tions, and customs change, the laws
and the methods of their administra-
ton should change so as to preserve
a proper adaptation to their end. 2a


Now what / desire is that our peo-
pie may realize the changes that
have been wrought in their condition.
and the necessity that exists for
some change in the manner of adj
ministering the law in order to keep
pace with the mutation of condition
in circumstance in the people; and
thus that they may determine what
innovation shall be made, and pro-
ceed to make them.


If the plan l have suggested meets
the necessity Of the time. why let it
be adopted. If some other plan
would answer better, let it be adopt
ed.


But, L say, let us at all hazards
do something that will make a sixth
rate county to defray the expenses
of administering public justice at a
less cost than 100000.


Respectfully,


O. G. KING.
MOssY CREEK, Tenn.
Year: 1874

We hear a good story of a man
who went to the frontier to see a
friend. The family consisted of the
husband and his two grown sons.
The good old lady was the only one
Of the family who did not take some
of the ''Oh be joyful" Sitting by
the fire few minutes. the old man
tipped him wink, aud the visitor
followed him out. Stopping by a
tree, he took out O long-necked bot
tie, remarking;


81 have to keep it hid, for the boys
may get to drinking. and the old
woman would raise the Deuce They
took drink and returned to the
freside Soon Tom, the elder son,
asked the visitor out to see the colt,
and taking him behind the barn,
pulled out a flask, remarking:


81 have to keep this hid, for the
old man will get drunk, and the
deuce is to pay" and they both took
o drink and returned.


Soon Bob stepped on the visitors
toe and walked off, the visitor fol-
lowing. AZ they reached the pig
pen, Bob drew out a good-sized bot
tie. remarking:


'.You know the old man and Tom
will get drunk, and / have to hide
this.


The visitor concluded he could not
drink confdentially with the whole
family. and started for home.
Year: 1874




MIR. HELMS In answer to sun
dry enquiries, permit me to say, /
found the financial condition of
North Georgia better than it has
been for the past six years. Here
tofore, but little else than corn and
wheat has been cultivated in that
section. A few years since, an ex-
pertinent was made in cultivating
cotton, and it was found by the use
of small quantity of guano, cotton
could be grown cheaper than in any
other section of the State, conse-
quently, the past year compara-
lively large crop of cotton was grown,
and since a surplus.of provision was
also produced, the money for which
the cotton sold. remained at home.


The financial condition of Middle
Georgia, was not so satisfactory.
and yet, is not so bad as is repre-
sented abroad. A very large crop
OF cotton was grown but the price
being twenty per cent. less than for
several years past. but little if any
margin for profit was left the
planters, and as but little corn. and
no meat was raised in that section.
the money necessary to purchase
these necessaries the present year,
will be larger than usual, which must
produce a scarcity.


In Southern and Southwest Geor-
gia and Southeastern Alabama. not
over half a cotton crop was produced.
The w weather in the spring. the
army worm in the summer, and the
storm in the autumn, destroyed full
one-half OF what was planted, and
almost universal bankruptcy is the
consequence.


One serious evil in all the cotton
growing region is, the planters op-
crate too much on credit, and pay
too high a premium for time. They
had better borrow money at q per
cent. per month, and pay cash for
their pnrchases-this premium for
time consumes all the profits of their
labor. j. "A. G.
Year: 1874

A Norristown youth sent his girl a
box Of grapes, one afternoon lately,
and the next day fellow met him
on the street and said: Those
grapes were jolly good last night !;
send some up every Wednesday
evening-that's my night you know"
Year: 1874

You have known me-let me see
something like dozen years; and you
must have known Tuftsboro' and its
neighborhood about the same length OF
time. It has changed very much, how
ever, in the few years preceding
Twelve or fifteen years ago the whole
region was wild, rough, bleak and IN
hospita'ble.


The house which I now occu
been inhabited by my fatheI
father. Where it stand


weod, just before the Z


Use t.


then 3


miles on the Holdane


thing like a mile and han
other, toward Burn.


I courted and won wife at HoIdal
I had my wedding day, or rather weu
ding night, fixed, after two years of en-
gagement. Isuppose I must have been
madly in love with Milly Golden. She
was very young-even younger than
myself; I thought her very handsome,
and quite worthy of even all the affec-
ton that Ioould bestow upon her; I
certainly thought I could give more of
that security for welded happiness than
most men of my age.


Milly Golden was the Oldest daugh-
ter of partially-invalid widow lady,
living at Holdane, pinching along lit
tie, I was often afraid (though I did not
dare insult them by limiting at assist
ance. or even making direct inquiry,
on q small life annuity left her by her
deceased husband, clergyman and
something of habitual sadness being
connected with the family history and
traditions, through the loss at sea, many
wears before, of no less than three of
the brothers of Milly's mother, all sea-
faring men, and more or less scape-
graces, perhaps remembered but the
more fondly on the latter account. II
is necessary again to be particular in
saying that Mrs. Golden was not an old
resident, but had accompanied her hus-
band, some years after marriage, from
the coast line, her family history being
far less known, and her circle of visit
ing acquaintance much more limited,
than they might have been in the event
of her original residence in the neigh
borhood.


How is was that my wedding hight
was set for Christmas, I forget, Il s
really knew.


At all events, the marriage was axed
for Christmas night, in the room in her
mothers house where we had so often.
sat hand-in-hand to talk over the love
of the present and the hopes of the Il
tnre. And never did expecsant hria
groom look forward to any one pei
with such certainly Of happiness, al
to that Christmas evening.
Year: 1874

THEY tell this story of an old Scotch
Judge. who, when one of his colleagues
failed to take his seat on the bench,
leayinga a brother to excuse his absence
on the ground that he had lost his wife,
exclaimed, elias he? That is good ex-
cuse, indeed I wish We all had the
same.
Year: 1874

READING ExTEMPoRE.-Mark Twain
created no small amusement at a dinner
to which he was invited lately. In the
course of the proceedings, his health
was drunk with enthusiasm. The fact,
although he had been notified of it be-
forehand, appeared to take him utterly
by surprise. In response, he rose, and,
drawing from his pocket huge roll of
foolscap-some thirty pages-began to
read, slowly and with dificulty-read-
ing that he was taken entirely by sur
prise; that he was wholly unprepared to
reply; that, had he known the honor in
store for him, he would have come pre-
pared with suitable speech, etc. Of
course, the joke was taken, and the ap-
pause was uproarious.
Year: 1874


Footsteps coming near II
never moved nor said w0f


Fearful he might hear me
The sound increased and louder was,
That first was but a rustllng,
Till felt sure that Santa Claus


Was in the chimney bustling,
knew he'd find the stocking there,
But feared he'd fill the wrong ones,
For 1 had borrowed sisters pair,
She wore such very long ones.
And so I thought to take peep


While Santa Claus was near me,
For when he thought l was asleep
knew he would not hear me,
No doubt yon think his merry looks
You'd recognize instanter
You've seen lin in the picture-books
With reindeer on a canter
That should know him anywhere,
l felt profoundly certain,
So cautiously, while he was there,
1 folded back the curtain.
And then looked for Santa Claus,
Nor dreamed I'd seen another
Now, who do you suppose it was
Why, bless you, twas MY MOTHER!
She came and knelt down by my bed
When that sweet work was over
" God make him kind and good, she said
"O'er him good angels hover"
never told her that I knew


She was my Christmas giver.
For soon she went, as so must you,
Across the silent river.
And then little heart was left


without her love to shield IT,
OF almost everything bereft


That happiness could yield it.
And many, many times I've thought
Of all the thousand others,
Whose little hearts have vainly sought
To find love like mothers.
And have thought of what she said
That night when she was kneeling
Beside my lite trundle-bed7


Her tender love revealing;
Then have vowed would be true,
To all be kind and tender;
And so I hope at last with you


A good account to lender.
To be a rich old Santa Claus


To all it is not gwen,
But we must all be good, because
'Tis that will make our heaven!
Year: 1874

your beds and remember you do not
keep an inn He will get along all well
enough and the roads are always full
of such fellows with pitiful stories"


All, we'll, suppose so; but it is
very cold, Richard, to be out-very cold
II wish your father was at home. "


She said nothing more on the subject,
and was glad that she did not, for the
double reason that she did not wake my
sleeping conscience, as she might have
done. and that I was thus enabled to
fall away into one of my cherished wax
ing dreams, in which was bathing my
self in the light and warmth of the
great fire, all the joyful events to the
next evening-MiIly in bridal white,
with her face all bushes of love for me;
an hundred friends around us, all hap
py because we were so; and myself ar
rived at that summit of happiness on
which the crown of king, with no
Milly to bind it on the brow, would
have been an insult. I had dreamed
such dreams thousand times before
at night in my lonely room-by day, in
my office, if left alone and in silence
for few moments-under the starss
when each seemed sending down some
benson on my love; but never before
SO fondly or vividly as that night when
the near approach of my noces gave
color to some intensity of expectation.


Ny father fulfIle my mothers wish
in very brief period-perhaps half an


by returning now crunch
Year: 1874

the party as it exists to-day. However, be
he what be may politically, he is a good
man, and we like him because he is good
We have demand for such men in our coun-
ty and our country, and though we opposed
his election for man who we thought was
equally as good, we award him this favor
able but only just comment with pleasure


Though this article may be getting tire
some, we cannot close without word for
Sergeant-at-Arms, Crutcher. We have
taken pains to inquire, and find it UNIVERSAL,
conceded that MIR. Crutcher has filled the
office of Sergeant-at-Arms of the Assembly
with greater ability, economy, and more
general satisfaction than it has been filled
for years. He has often been the subject
of eulogy from the members, for the very
able and prompt manner in which he has
dispatched the duties of bis office. Every
attempt at fraud or undue allowance in hi
department has been choked off in a min
ute.


In conclusion, we would say, however
much the people of Placer may feel dis"p-
pointed at the results of the recent session
of the Legislature, they cannot hold their
Representatives responsiis. For every
measure the people demanded they uniedy
worked from first to last to bring about.
And if unsuccessful the blame must be at
tached to dsgraceful coalition of Demo
Gratis and Republicans, and not to them.
TO that unnatural coalition all evil must lie
attributed, and that unholy, corrupt coal-
tion, honest reader, You will have to fgh'
in the future, if you wish to see you
country ruled by honest men.
Year: 1874

A writer in the Galaxy says: "Ev-
cry art has limits, in endeavoring TO
pass which it becomes not only power
less but ridiculous; but within those
lin its it admits no rival, no co-worker.
Hence it is that great music is not writ
ten to great poetry, that music is not
married to immortal verse. A beauti


full song, like one of those which
Shakespeare has scattered through his
plays, needs no music. BY its inherent
quality it attains its end. In itself it is
a song. II sings itself, and is both
words and music. What would Take,
o take those lips away gain by being
sung to any music? If the music We're
great the poetic value of the thoughts
would be lost, or sink out of sight for
the time if the music were inferior to
the words it could only provoke the re-
sentiment of impertinence. Hence 1t is
that lyric writing not of the highest
order-that which embodies the pleas
ant suggestion OF emotion in flowing
rhythm, without much strength or
beauty of expression--is most frequent
ly made the vehicle of fine musical
thought. The composer expresses
that which the song has suggested to
him. His is the passion, bis perfect
utterance. Lyric expression may come
from one soul, not from two. Words
written for music should merely minis
ter to occasion, and be the ISmbIe, IN
seen nucleus of beauty, likth blade of
grass made splendid By the jewels of
the morning.
Year: 1874

no top-knot on her head, or false fix
ings to present, but stood in the maies-


tic beauty of created intelligence that
would not yield to the despotic dictates
of frivolous fashion. It has been
long time since We gazed upon such
sight. The young men crowded around
her wagon with curiosity in their eyes
and admiration in their hearts. Tie
old men wept for Joy that there w2s one
who had not bowed to Baal She sold
her country produce, went home,
milked the cows, cooked supper for ten
farm laborers, AID went to church that
night with her sweetheart q"
Year: 1874

1t is rumored that German diploma
cy Is waiting to annul the London treaty set
tiing the neutrality of Luxemburg.


Dispatches state that the distress
ON the famine in India is increasing. Nearly
Gree million people are dependant upon the
government for food
Year: 1874

The following table made from the
ninth census shows that there are only
three states in the union wherein
the negroes have a majority, and only
two wherein on a square division of the
races at the polls the negro majority
is large enough to be fairly counted
upon
Year: 1874

A writer says "The mountain re-
gion of east and particularly the south
eastern part of Tennessee, one OF the
most charming places that can be found
for grand and beautiful scenery, has re-
ceived the title of the Switzerland of
America, to which it is fairly entitled.
The sportsman never fails here in meet
ing abundance of game, and both land
and water teem with the spoils that made
ground of the Indians. But 1t is the
almost fabulous mineral wealth of this
region that is drawing so much atten-
tion to it. Here tilted up on edge
are the different strata of minerals OF
various kinds and astonishing richness,
only waiting for the hand of man to put
them to their proper uses. Both
coal and iron were known to exist
in large quantities in this section, but
thew were not developed, simply because
the habits of the old slavery days led
the owners to have no relish for the
busv conflict and strife by which the
wealth and power of the n rthern states
had been so rapidly acquired. Since
the war, however, change has come
over the spirit of their dreams, and
Chattanooga, thanks to the energetic
northern men, drawn hither by her
great natural advantages, has become 9
thriving manufacturing center, and
promises to become one OF the most I'M
portant points in the south.
Year: 1874

have greatly changed for the better.
The farming element ofthe State have
taken matters into their own hands.
They have determined no longer to be
led by professional politicians, to no
longer be bound by party lines. Their
first effort was made last Fall, and
came near overturning tho Republican
power Of the State. Their zeal has not
abated, their power has not diminished,
their determination has not changed.


. My formal success or defeat is mat.
ter of no Importance. But that tie
party whose standard I this day take
should march on to victory, is of the
greatest moment, not only to US but the
country. The zext Congress will be
closely divided, and probably be in op-
position to the present administration.
The delegation Of Minnesota may be
the decisive balance Of power,
and I would suggest it as a matter Of
practical consideration, whether it is
better fo1 Minnesota to be as she has
been, represented entirely by Republi-
cans, or whether it's interests cannot be
better cared for by having some repre-.
sentation from the opposition party.


But, gentleman. will detain you no
longer at present. During the short
canvass / hope to see many of you in
your homes. Again I thank you for
this renewed mark Of your esteem.