smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1877

the blue cerulean dome above. The
aisles where she loved and sung
were different aisles; in the church
probably. She was naughty to a
degree, but rather nice. The isles OF
Greece are in no manner connected
with the ex lies of Erin. The gen
tleman to the right of the picture,
in linen tunic and classic nose, is
a Grecian They all wore noses of
the same pattern. The gentleman
down the valley is a wiper at the
B. & M. shops. He is just going
down to rub old 298, that had to be
pulled off the bridge by ewitch en-
gine the other day.


This is a milliner's clerk. He is
going to enlist in the suffers de-
partment. See his cuffs hang out
over his hands. He wears a three
and a half boot. And a hat two
sizes smaller. He does not work
because he is obliged to. Salary is
no object to him. Neither is it to
his employers. They constantly
pay him 81 month. They would
pay him half as much rather than
have him discontented. He is a
valuable member of society. He
would make excellent fish-bait. He
is going to war, but he does not
know which side he will fight on.
He can't tell until he sees which
uniform is most becoming to his
complexion.
Year: 1877

Postmaster General Key, who has
returned from his Southern junket,
has made quite doleful account of
his observations, in so far as the
new party in the South which was
to rise up and call Hayes BLESSED
is concerned. He says that he
finds that the majority of the Dem
ocrats of the South are not at all
swayed from allegiance to their par
ty by Hayes coquetting with them,
but are as much united as ever, and
show a disinclination to form any
alliance for the support of the Pres
ident in a policy which had been
forced upon him by the action OF
the Democratic House in refusing
to appropriate money for the sup
port of the army to uphold the rot
ten Radical Governments in Lou.
isiana and South Carolina. He
found no Whig party, nor any
signs of enough life in that direc-
tion to galvanize.this old corpse into
a final kick. 1t is believed that
Hayes sent Key South to make q
note of the situation, and the report
is not at all Aattering.-Ex.
Year: 1877

There are few traps for the fe
male sex any more deadly than the
side saddle, and no one of any sense
grieves at the decay of the "noble
art of horsewomanship," as long as
that art cannot be practiced except
at the imminent risk of the ladies
doing so. English people are de
voted horsemen, and the ladies as
well as the men take the greatest
pleasure in galloping after the
hounds. But recently an English
lady, who enjoys what IS considered
an enviable fame for skill and dar-
ing in riding close to the hounds,
and who is also a pattern wife and
mother, has announced that she
will risk her life no more riding on
a side saddle, but in the next seas
on will ride masculine fashion. Her
announcement has set the whole
fashionable world to talking. since
she is woman of spirit, and if is
believed she will do as she says. II
she does she will have followers
without doubt, and it may be that
this will inangurate the long-ex
pected dress revolution. s
Year: 1877

The pain caused by the sting of
a plant or insect is the result of a
certain amount of acid or poison in
jected into the blood. The first
thing to be done is to press the
tube of a small key firmly on the
wound, moving the key from side
to side to facilitate the expulsion OF
the sting and its accompanying
poison. The sting if left IN the
wound should be carefully extract


ed, otherwise it will greatly increase
the local irritation. The poison of
stings being acid, common sense
points to the alkalies as a proper
means of cure. Among the most
ersily procured remedies may be
mentioned soft soap, spirits OF
hartshorn, smelling salts, washing
soda, quicklime made into a paste
with water, lime water, the juice OF
an onion, tobacco juice, chewcd to-
bacco, bruised dock leaves, tomato
Juice, wood ashes, tobacco ashes
and carbonate Of soda. If the sting
is severe, rest and GOODNESS should


be added TO the other remedies,
more especially in the case of nerv-
Gus subjects. Nothing is so apt TO
make poison active as heat, and no
thing favors its activity less than
cold. Let the body be kept cool
and at rest, and the activity of the
poison will be reduced to a mini
mum. Any active exertion where
by the circulation is quickened, will
increase both pair and swelling. If
the swelling be severe the part may
be rubbed with sweet oil or a drop
or two Of laudanum. Stings in the
eye, ear, mouth or throat sometimes
lead to serious consequences; in
such cases medical advice should al


ways be sought as soon as possible.
Year: 1877




The Burlington HdaoE Eye gives
the following valuable advice to
correspondents:


Never write with pen or ink. 1t
is altogether too plain, and doesn't
hold the mind of the editors and
printers close enough to their work


If you are compelled to use ink,
never use that vulgarity known as
the blotting pad. Ii you drop n
blot of ink on the paper, lick it of.
The intelligent compositor loves
nothing so dearly as to read through
the smear this will make across
twenty or thirty words. We have
seen him hang over such piece of
copy half an hour, swearing like a
pirate all the time, he felt that good.


Don't try to write too plainly.
1t is a sign of plebeaD origin and
public school breeding. Poor writ
ing is an indication of genius. It's
about the only indication of genius
that a great many men possess,
Sprawl your article with your eyes
shut, and make every word as illeg-
ible as you can. We get the same
price for it from the rag man as
though it were covered with cop
per-plate sentences.


Avoid all painstaking with proper
names. We know the full name of
every man, woman and child in the
United States, and the merest hint
of the names is sufficient 1t is q
great mistake that proper names
should be written plainly.


Always write on both sides Of
the paper, and when you have filed
both sides of every'page, trail line
up and down every margin and
back to the top of the first page,
closing your article by writing the
signature just above the date. How
we do love to get hold of articles
written in this style! And how
we would like to get hold of the
man who sends them. Just for ten
minutes. Alone, in the woods, with
a cannon in our hip pocket"
Year: 1877

That man Is 70 DO envied who, as
be stops his work, Instantly forgets
IL anti il Is time 20 begin again
who cah lay down his pen and 60
out for a walk. and not wrestle With
his subject through all his walk.
Oh, could we las down the minds
load as we can lay down the body'sl
III the mind could sit down aud rest
Tor n breathing spacel IL was
doubtless a great secret OF the work
which Napoleon did. with 20 little
apparent wear, that he could fall
asleep whenever he chose. IL 10
long continued wear that kills. We
can do and bear a vast deal II we
have blinks OF interrnission. They
would lengthen many a valuable
life-would preserve the spring OF
many n noble mind.
Year: 1877

Jackson (Tenn.) Wing and Trib-
une, (Dem. ID: Mobs are the dir
est curses that ever broke the peace
of any nation or destroyed the
prosperity Of any people. When.
ever, in any community, a mob
gathers, takes the keys by force
from the jailer, and taking a man
from prison executes him without
giving him the benefit of trial by
Judge and jury, it is clear evidence
that all taking part in the anarchy
and crime of the proceeding have
neither respect for law nor conf
dence in the efficacy of statutory
provision to protect the innocent
and punish the guilty. We cannot
too earnestly condemn the advocate
of mob law. He is the enemy OF
public morals and public peace
He who has no confidence in the
law will not hesitate TO violate a
statute; and all who join a mob in
taking a prisoner from under the
law-from the hands Of the laws
executors-and hang, shoot, OF
otherwise take the life Of the vic
tim, deserve TO feel the "halter
draw"
Year: 1877

Senator Fsrry's very serious III
ness at Grand Haven, Mich, Is re-
ported TO have been brought about
by "the excitement and anxiety Of
the Electoral Commission struggle.
which affected his nervous system.
Ferry was evidently not hardened
70 the transaction OF such business
like old Joe Bradley, who got fat
on his part Of the disreputable
work. Courier Journal
Year: 1877

Fine sense and exalted sense are
not half so valuable as common
sense. There are forty men OF wit
for one man Of sense. And he that
will carry nothing about him but
gold, viii be every dag at loss for
reader change.
Year: 1877

If, after the morning sevices have
begun, Brown walks into church,
his Sunday boots squeak from pew
to pew; but two hours later he can
slide into the private door of a
lager beer saloon without making a
particle of noise.
Year: 1877

A German Psychologist states
that the heating of the earth by the
sun causes magnetic currents from
the equator to each pole. Such be-
ing the case, persons who suffer
from sleeplessness should pay at
tention to their positions at night,
and lie in the direction of these
currents: Restlessness and want of
sleep result from lying across them.
The head to the north is the best
position-to the west the worst.
Physicians in charge of hospitals
attend to the directions in which
the beds are placed with the best
results.
Year: 1877

We never Knew a scoIding person
that was able to govern family.
What makes people scold? Because
they cannot govern themselves.
How can they govern others? Those
who govern well are generally calm,
They are prompt and resolute, but
steady and mild.
Year: 1877

~ @OOMs N


The pencil marks yOu see around thi


paragraph (thus) mean that your sub
scription is out or unpaid, and that you
are requested 10 pay up at once. We
would take great pleasure la extending
credit TO our friends and patrons, but
cash alone will yay our expenses, and
We are forced to adhere to strict cash
rule. We hope you viii comprehend
and appreciate the necessity of such
course, and renew your subscription
without delay. We solicit your favor.


t$- We enter no new names on our
books without the money in advance.
Year: 1877

a woman had done in palace and cottage be-
fore her. / think che lived up to her relig-
ion in her family, for che was devout
Catholic, and even Maggie had sundiy OBJ
servances of counting beads, etc, totally
incomprehensibe to the uniuitlated. When
asked about it, she would never explain and
while liking "us girls" in the main, pitie1
US heartily because we were "heretics."


1t was six o'clock by the old timepiece
when Kitty was again at the door, with the
low box sleigh without back to the seat,
and an old coverlet Tor robe. | wonder
If the poor little mother did not give her
little ones more than her usual caresses IN
that last, last farewell? ? All poor babies


So soon to be motherless 1t was showing
considerably by this time, with keen wind,
but the full moon made 1t light enough to
see the road. After time they arrived at
Murphys where the evening was spent for
the most part pleasantly, although Mary
saw, near its close, that her husband was
drinking far more than ever before. She
tried to persuade him IL was time to go
home, but he was too far gone in his cups
to hear word. At last, by three O'Clock
in the morning they succeeded in getting
him to consent to carry his wife home,
when he acted like one mad, as he in real
ity was, beating aud shouting at his poor
horse who leaped franticaly awsy,trying to
escape her cruel master. The night had
grown bitter cold, ard Mary Bryan sitting
in terror of fear on the board by the tide
of her husband, felt an awful numbness
creeping over her. In his excitement he nov-
er thought of cold, he tore her shawl from
her shoulders snd waved it madly at the
horse who plunged wildly into the snow,
and it was a long time before, unaided, she
reached the middle of the road agsin.


Willie was awakened by great noise,
first, the door was burst open, and not
shut, then thick uiterances and heavy foot
steps, and last a fall over chair that Jared
the cottage to it's foundations. Hurriedly
shutting the door and dressing, how must
he have felt, when on lighting light to
find his father utterly incapable of speech.


A little after daylight, the body Of poor
Mary Bryan was found with the snow
drlfted over her frozen face quite dead.


| When the poison lert James Bryan's brain
clear at last, no mortal could have felt
deeper remorse than did he he pitied bis
motherless children, he cursed rum as his
deadliest foe and yet 90 the inconsistency
of drunkards) he drank deeper potations
than ever TO drown for time the voice OF
an accusing conscience. And when the
long funeral procession wound its slos
length along to the distant cemetery, three
men were required to hold him on his wife,
cofliu, where it was customary for the near
est relative of the deceased to sit. This Il
but humble story, but true one 1t i!
the only great evil ever knew of person
ally to result from intemperance, yet al
over the land the curse is felt, more griev
GUS to be borne than any other burden
Within the maze of whose paths is an al
lurement as fascinating as the eye of the
deadly eastern serpent and as fatal at last
Year: 1877

Away down in the countrg


Where there is nothing else to get,
They take all old and worn-out brick
Aud with it polish bright, you bet.
But in this enlightened country,
Where progress has its sc DE.
The ancestral bricks is put dtwl
And they pick up CRYSTAL Soar.
Year: 1877

SOUTH CAROLINA PATTRRsoN,-The
exposure of the rascality of Senator Pat
terson and his confederate conspirators
In South Carolina is sad blow to the
northern Radical Republicans. 1t is
especially bitter dose for the Delaware
Radicals who espoused the cause of
Chamberlain, Blaine and Morton, against
Hayes and the better class of Republi-
can citizens. During the last year the
Delaware Radical candidates and the
advocates of their election, frequently re-
ferred to Chamberlain as an able and
pure man. Some of them even claimed
him as former associate for whom they
still felt a warm and abiding friendship,
and regarded as the very soul of honor.
All this was said to bolster up theRepub-
hcan carpet-bag party in the South and
to discredit the honorable men there who
were using the best efforts of manhood to
expose the foulest acts of corruption ever
witnessed anywhere in the country.


But one of the worst features of these
South Carolina exposures for the Radical
Republican party is that which brings to
public view the manner by which Sena-
tor Patterson obtained his seat in the
body, which his presence disgraces.-
Patterson is now under Indictment; a
true bill having been found against him
by Republican Grand Jury, and the
charges are Of such grave character as to
send him to the Penitentiary, if convict
ed. 1t is therefore doubtful if he be
allowed TO go back to Washington In
December even if he has the audacity to
do SO at the extra session.


There is no wonder that Patterson was
against Hayes policy. Had Hayes sus-
tanned Chamberlain as Grant did, Patter-
son would have held high head and
0een encouraged to pursue such other
rascalities as his ingenuity could have
suggested. Perhaps he would have found
meals by which to have perpetrated q
greater fraud on the United States Trea-
sury than he has assisted to do to poor
downtrodden and robbed South Carolina
Patterson's expulsion from the Senate
can hardly be prevented. That bodv
will have to vindicate itself very soon, or
high souled patriotic men will not stay ir
1t. 1t will remain too for the Democrat,
Senators to assist in purging that body O
the corrupt crew that have crept into it il


the last few years,
Year: 1877

TEE CRY EIRC zion has resulted in q
gain to the Democrats in the City Coun-
ell of such character IS to make their
success next year in securing majority
more than probable. oie- - .1,l s,


The failure TO elect MIR. Bright as Pres
ident 10 serious for the interests Of the
City, as hs would doubtless have had
great weight with that body on the side
of economy. Personally his defeat will
relieve him Of a vast amount of care and
trouble. Last year at the city election
the Democrats, because of the faithless-
ness Of some members Of Council, were
beaten by 1900 majority, and we hardly
hop ed to recover from such a disaster in
single year. We could hardly have
expected to do better than we have done.
The temperance movement had its influ-
ence, and, although our candidate was
not involved in it, he was cut because
his presence was never found in the sa-
looms, while his opponent is known to be
the head Of social society, that has for
its basis the principle of hostility to cur
tailment or legal restraint of social rights.


The majority against Mr.. Bright is 203
while the majority against the Democrats
on the Council ticket is Only II. Mr..
Morrow for City Treasurer is defeated by
POT.


Our opponents will have to bear the
responsibility of the work they have ac-
quired by their activity at the polls. We
do not see that they have strengthen
their lines any. The loss ofM Febiger
and Mr.. Pickels will be felt very much
by their old allies in the Council. Mr..
Price of the Third ward comes in very
timely indeed, for them. He is a compe-
tent man and has had good training at
business, with large experience as clerk
manager, and proprietor of several large
firms as well as twenty years or more
business life for himself in tanning. We
think he will make first rate member.
1t is no discredit to be beaten by him.
He will not be in the field next year.
Then, if the Democrats act wisely, they
will ha an opportunity to carry the city
with more ease. In conclusion we feel
greatly encouraged and never saw our
foes achieve victory that in all the es-
sentials for the future looked so like 4
defeat.
Year: 1877

political sky, and tortoise life, shut
themselves up within themselves! or,
that they have an idea that their COM
munications are not of sufficient inter-
est to your readers to justify the waste
of brain force aud the paper on which
they are written : Hope Civis, rs
citizen, has not lost interest in passing
events; or that your lady correspondent
B. whose plaintive notes called up the
years of long ago, has become so alb
sorbed in domestic duties as TO let the
ink dry on her peni Or that your versa
tile correspondent our mutual friend,
who. though changing so often with
grateful ease his non de pinme, could
not hide his strongly marked individu-
ality, has lost himself in his noble ro-
cation of training future statesmen.
Poor Quirk how my sympathies were
drawn out towards him ] Hope he has
survived his many troubles, especially
the one caused by the motto on that
banner which ne would persist in read
ing wrong. No doubt, however, some
Of the "Returning Boards, if not the
board of Education, will make that all
right to bis satisfaction. | have heard
of an Irishman, who, while the question
was being discussed as to what color
a certain place should he painted, NOV
ed that it be whitewashed green; but
how our friend ever come to be white
washed black is mystery, his country
men and friends have failed TO solve.
Now, we are old personal friends, AMI
though we are both modest men and
have an humble opinion of ourselves,
yet we have high appreciation OF each
others individuality, that idiocrasy
of mind and character which makes
Quirk Quirk, and Alex Alex, and no
body else. In conversation with q
friend, he made the observation, that
the citizens of-were more strongly
marked in their individuality than those
OF any other place, and he gave several
illustrations, which were very striking,
and so far as my personal knowledge
extends, correct. The more l have
thought on the subject the more fully
I am convinced of the truth Of his
statement. Did you ever notice the
marked individuality of certain persons!
Now here is a study. Will not Quirk
give US a dissertation on this subject,
than whom ! am sure, there is none
more competent. Now Mr. Editor,
you have several spicy correspondents
at different points in the county show
ing that there are some live places in
old Jefferson. May we not hope tina,
those familiar names We have missed
from the columns of your excellent pa
per may soon make their appearance
again. / intended giving you SONS
items from this place. But excuse me this
time, l may do so hereafter. an
aware that printers, and indeed, reader
do not like long articles.


ALEX.
Year: 1877

Mr.. Zittle-After long silence-uo
disadvantage perhaps to your readers
Iresume my pen to make few dottings
respecting matters and things in and
about this place. Dull times make dull
places, and where there are no enterpri-
ses to call into exercise the activities OF
the people, they become dull and de-
spondent. This seems to be the condi-
tion of affairs at this once thriving and
business place All along our people
tried 20 encourage themselves with the
hope that after the sale Of the water
power and its surroundings, the pros
pect for building up the place would be-
come brighter, and something be done
to give employment to those who were
anxiously looking forward to such an
event. Tie property reverting to the
Government, the matter has been
brought before Congress and uufavora-
Year: 1877

into his face, answered And you shall
never loose her again.


And think lie will not The sweet
ness of that hour, and the lessons it
taught, can never I've forgotten hy friend
MaggV.
Year: 1877

To Make Salt Cod-Fish Baus.-Onc-
third of a salt cod-f add six potatoes ;
the Goldfish to he the best isles ofShoals
fish prcferable), and the potatoes ripe and
mealy. Put the fish in gallon of water
and let it come to a boiling point. Boil
and peel the potatoes. Chop the fish fine
and mix with it the potato mashed in
half pound of butter, half tea-cupful of
milk and two eggs. Make with the hand
oblong balls, roll in fine bread crumbs,
and fry in boiling lard. Remove each
cake carefully with skinner, a1d serve
while hot. =:
Year: 1877

Reducinx Cost OF srain lnspeetion.


The committee on grain trade of the
produce exchange of New York on the 18th
ordered that charge ofinspection of grain be
forty cents per car load and two dollars for a
boat load, a reduction OF 10 cents per car load
and one dollar per boat load.
Year: 1877

An attempt on the part of the Lacka-
wanna iron and coal company to work the
Pinebrocke colliery near Stranton has exas-
perated the strikers to fearful pitch. About
twenty men worked in the mine on the 18th
and were escorted to and from their homes BY
strong military guard. On quitting work
they were assailed by the shouts Of the mob
who assembled in force near the coal breaker,
but were kept back by the soldiers. The col.
liery is strongly guarded by day and night.
The men who worked there appealed for pro-
lection to the authorities stating that they
were in fear Of being murdered in their homes
Detachments have been sent to protect them
and a strong force Of military is under arms
in the city ready to march at moments no.
tice.