smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1870

quiet, peaceable man, beloved by all
who was never known to engage in a
quarrel. He went to the stranger, told
him of the feeling that had been aroused
and advised him to be more circumspect
in his conduct. Instead of taking the
advice in the spirit it was given, the
gombler, without word, drew his pis-
tol and shot Price through the heart,
causing instant death.


And now comes the strangest part of
this strange story. The moment he
fired his pistol and poor Price fell, the
cat jumped upon its masters shoulders,
and seized him blythe throat with its
teeth. In vain he struggled to throw ii
of; it clung to him with the tenacity of
a bulldog, and did not release its hold
until its master had raised his pistol and
blown its head to pieces.


The greatest excitement followed the
murderer. The murderer tried to es-
cape, but the crowd, summoned by the
report Of the pistol, collected too quickly
and he was captured In less time than
IT takes to narrate it, the excited crowd
had procured rope, placed it around
the neck of the miserable man, and
swung him to the end of wagon
tongue, which was elevated for that
purpose.
Year: 1870

A Gentleman ordered suit of clothes
from tailor, and specially enjoined
him that they must be made by the
next Tuesday, and must be made in the
finest style, and that unless the tailor
could have them ready to q certainty
beyond peradventure to the day, that
he must not undertake them; but Snip
promised faithfully that they would be
finished. Tuesday came and no clothes;
the enraged man flew to the cabbage.
mans house and said:


"What's the reason my clothes are not
ready as you promised Here you've
kept me in the city at loss Of time and
business only to disappOint me; now, if
we had you in our part ofthe country,
l tell you what they would call you
they would call you ii perfect squirt !"


The humble knight of the goose eX-
planned that the only competent work
man that he had, capable Of making the
suit, had wife lying at deaths door,
and he could not possibly leave her,
The outraged gentleman was not able to
smother his disappointment, and bera-
ted the tailor pretty soundly for falling
in his positive promise. The ninth
fraction of the genus homo" could not
stand this, and llainly told his custom
er to go to the cu.uric regions Of Pande-
monium.


The customer, red with rage, rushed
across the street to a lawyer, and in au
excited and hurried manner, said:


do you know, Snip, the tailor across
the way ?"


eyes, l know him." answered Brief


"Well, now, ! want your advice,
said the gentleman 81 want to know
what you would doin such case. Thai
old stitch louise has kept me here in the
city on expense, to the great detriment
Of my business and disappointed me in
suit Of clothes; but when went to re-
IN monstratc with the fellowabout it, what
do you suppose he said to me" He told
me to go to the devil"


With these words he laid down a ten
dollar bill on the desk, and said, "NOw,
sir, what would you do?"


"Do you mean this for a retainer %
asked Brief.


81 do" was the reply.


"l hen," said Brief,quietly folding up
the ten and putting it into his pocket,
"h" '0ld you to so to the devil. Well,
my opinion and advice to you is, don't
do it. There is moreover, no statute or
loc al law that can compel you to spe-
citic performance. l say, don't do ii
until called by Almighty power"
Year: 1870

The world is full of mOurnful Incl.
dents. How little do we know of the
poignant sorrow myriads of our fellow
creatures are compelled to suffer. The
following touching event we take from
Boston journal:


"An eXpressman upon reaching his
Office early one cold morning in January,
observed on the sidewalk, a long heavy
box, which his practiced eye at once
identified as containing corpse. Upon
one end of the box, shivering with the
cold, sat halfclad boy about seven or
eight years old. Addressing him kind
ly, he said


''My lad, don't sit there, you will
freeze ; come in and sit by the stoyc.'


Bursting into tears, the little fellow
replied, "No, | can't come in; my
mother is in this box, and l promised
her would never leave her until we
got home"


Deeply affected with the touching de-
votion of this brave little fellow, he
finally succeeded in convincing him of
the entire safety Of his precious charge,
and taking him over TO neighboring
restaurant, gave him warm breakfast,
and learned the particulars of his story,
His father died abouta year previously,
in a remote village in Minnesota, leav-
ing his mother in poor health and near
ly destitute. She died but a few days
before the boys sad journey, charging
the little hero with the duty of convey
ing her remains to her friends in a dis.
tant State, and furnishing him with (all
she had sum of money barely sufli-
Glen to carry them both by freight cars
to their destination. The little fellow
had actually ridden night and day in
freight car with his melancholy trust,
never for moment losing sight of it.
Year: 1870

A MAN in Ohio recently killed l5,7S4
snakes in twenty acres of woods on his
farm, and he says there are three ii lines
AS many left. a correspondent says he
is trying torrent out the woods for picnic
parties and Sunday school celebrations,
but the people of the neighborhood have
hardly any enthusiasm for the place.
They say they don't object to snake
or two here and there, but when there
are forty thousand in one sylvan glade,
there is likely to be too much sociabil'
itV
Year: 1870

The happy possessor of II big dog, out
West, being denied passage for him or
the cars, chained him to the rear brake
of the train. After an hours journey
he went back to look at him, and found
the chain and collar all right, but the
dog was pretty much towed away.
Year: 1870

YOUNG man of Patterson, n. j..
read that a young lady's pulse
s beat stronger In the palm Of
and than any where else, tried
ld out for himself, the other


while sparkling his intended,
le burst an iron skillet over his


He has concluded that their
beat as strong over the head as
here. But he is not of an In
z turn of mind any more.
Year: 1870

Boswell complained to johnson that
the noise of the company the day before
made his head ache. mo. sir, it was
not the noise that made your head ache !;
it was the sense we put in it,
Year: 1870

rUHE TOLL BRIDGE across the Bayou


L Carron at Washington, having been COM
pleted in accordance with the act of the Police
Jury authorizing the same, will on and after
this date be open to the public as a Toll Bridge
Year: 1870

John A. House, of Belleville,
Wood Co., W. Va, puts to the sgri-
cultural editor of the Chronicle this
question:


Does wheat, when pastured In the
fall, turn to chess or cheati Please
give your opinion through the Chron-
icle, and oblige many readers.


If the opinion of a "boOk farmer"
is worth anything to many readers"
who are practical farmers, we will
cheerfully give it. We viii first
simplify the question; Does wheat
ever turn to cheat? The notion that
it does is a very ancient one, but no
truer than the other notions trans
ferred to our shores from the Old
World, that wheat at one time and
another degenerated into rye, then
into barley, then into cheat, and that
from cheat finally came to oats.
Farmers now would as soon expect
to breed hogs from sheep, as rye,
barley or oats from wheat, but there
are still those who think cheat is
produced from seed wheat, either by
pasturing or some other circum-
stance.


The truth is, cheat is a distinct
wheat, known to the ancients, and
ever since by botanists as broRaas,
the grain from which has at times,
to a small extent, been used for food.
1t was undoubtedly imported to this
country among seed wheat and thus
disseminated. 1t makes its appear
ance in the harvest field, now and
then, here and there, according as
the wheat sown contains kernels Of
the cheat, or fayoring circumstances
bring them up from the soil where
they have lain dormant for q year or
two, or longer.


The protection against cheat is to
SOW pure seed, and cultivate clean
fields.


We would not, in thus answering
the question, encourage the pastur-
ing of wheat in the fall The injury
done to wheat is hardly less than if
much of it was turned into cheat,
According to the well established
laws of vegetable physiology, the
leaves of plants act for them rs the
lungs of the human system do for
man; and if they be cropped of late
in the fall the growth of the roots
will be interfered with, and they will
not be in a good condition to endure
the severe cold of winter. Every
good farmer knows how important
it is that the young wheat plant be
come firmly rooted before winter
sets in, so that it will not be lifted
out by the freezing and thawing of
changeable weather; and there is no
question that the uninterrupted
growth of the plant above ground is
more advantageous to the healthful
development Of the roots than any
mutilating process can be, such as
the cropping and tearing oil, by dull
teeth, not only the leaves but often
the germ of the future stalk. The
value of the fall growth OF wheat as
a mich for the roots, even II no
damage were done the latter by pas
turing, is crater than it can be rs
food for cattle.


No intelligent, scientific farmer
nowadays pastures his wheat
Year: 1870

At the special meeting OF the Common Council Of
Newark last night no less than three veto messages
were read from Mayor Ricord The first two were
those In relation to the paving Of Orchard and
Thomas streets and the third decension to sign
the ordinance, passed at previous meeting, giving
spolation OF the republican organ Of tho same na-
tl0nalitY.
Year: 1870

The nght between the two banks for the posses.
sion OF the Jersey City funds is to be finally settled
at the next meeting or the Common Council. The
Mayor has communication on the subject.
Year: 1870

The Catholic World for October fully maintains
the enviabe reputation 1t has won Of being one OF
the ablest conducted magazines In the country.
The contents OF the present number are varied and
interesting.
Year: 1870

The republican and the democratic candidates for
Congress In Of the i've districts OF New Jersey
have made solemn agreement that neither will
spend any money in the approaching election. It
the other candidates had tine same good sense the
bleeding" process would soon be at an end.
Year: 1870

much. One ofthem is, that the face should
present, when seen from in front, a geaeral
oval outline from above downward This
can be greatly aided by the beard. If the
face is round the beard on the chin should
be cultivated; If long and thin, then side
whlskers are appropriate. Aperson with a
fiat broad nose should never wear a NOUS
tache, nor should one with very short and
thin upper lip, as in the former case it
gives british, in the latter an ignoble as
pect, to the features. Still less should a
person with retreating forehead or chin cul-
uvate this style of beard, as it gives the
profile a vet more unfavorable outline A
bald-headed man should not wear a heavy
beard, as the contrast is ludicrous. A full
beard, however natural it is, is not suitable
to him who has but sparse, hungry, and
irregular growth on his face, nor to him
whose beard sprouts out crooked, bristly
and harsh.


SUMMARY ADVICE TO WOMAN WHO WISHES


To BE BEAUTIFUL


First let her correct her bad habits. if
she has any, of carriage, of expression, of
want of cleanliness, of false modes of dress,
of injudicIous diet, and of indolenee.


Secondly, let her study her own COM
plexlon, expression, stature, profile, and
outline, precisely as an artist does those of
one of his ideal figures, and with the same
care and pains as the artist, let her choose
for herself the contrasting and harmonic
ing colors, the couture, the expression, and
the manner best adapted to bring out
prominently all her natural advantages,
and throw into the shade all unfavorable
traits.


Thirdly, let her unsightly warts and
scars be done away with, let hairs which
iDjure the appearance be destroyed, the
complexion and hair be cultivated, the
form developed, diminished, or increased
by hygienic, emotional, and dietetic means,
the features and organs of special sense
subjected. if need be, to the training and
the modification of the surgeon, and the
general health improved under the advice
of an intelligent physician, the teeth,
voice, and even the nails attended to. If
she has done all this, there will be little
need for the purely venal cosmetic arts,
such as paint, powder patches and rouge
Year: 1870

strain my worn-out sight across the sea,
hear the wan waves sobbing the strand,
Ny ey es grow weary Of the sea and land,
OF the wide deep and the fersaken lea;
. All Love, return-ahi Love, come back TO me
As well these ebbing waves Knight command
To turn and kiss the mOist-deserted sand
The Joy that was is net, and cannot be,
The sit shore. IurrOwed by the foam smells sweet
Oh blest for meIf it were now my lot
To make this shore my rest, and hear all strife
Die ont like yon tides faint, receding boats
If he forgot so easily in life,


May in death forget that he forgot.
Year: 1870

At this time Venus is the evening star, and
evidently she wishes this important fact un-
derstood by all. Sheis now approaching the
grand solar centre, and on the 23d of Febru-
ary she will reach her inferior I'M junction and
turn her darkened side towards us, reappear-
ing on the western side of the sun as a morn
ing star. She is alternately a morning and
evening star for a period OF 292 days, al
though her annual revolution takes only 225
days, but as the earth moves in the same di-
rectiOn it takes this additional time Tor the
earth, the sun and Venus to come into the
same position regarding each other. The
approaching translts of Venus lend her adj
ditional interest. The last one occurred in
1769, and the next occur IN 1874 and 1882.
These events are anticipated with profound
interest by astronomers, as they will enable
them to verify the distance of the sun from
our planet. This vast problem is of the
greatest consequence, and there is an admit
ted error in the computed distance. All dur
ing this month Venus will be unusually
bright and interesting to star-gazers, and
will be seen twinkling brightly some time be-
fore other stars put in an appearance.
Year: 1870

Each individual must judge for himself,
but there are certain rules he must never
transgress. We will mention few of them.
They are founded on those same laws of
beauty on which we have been harping SO
Year: 1870

Milan Lynn had cut loose from all
good influence. and was rapidly drifting
on to hopeless ruin. lie was like the
young man who, at the hour of midnight,
when the heavens were black with gath
ering tempest-when the crested waves
were half revealed by the vivid lightning
when the foaming breakers were roar
ing along the rock-bound coast-who
stepped into a frail bark, and without
light, or sail or compass, madly pushed
away from the friendly shore, and perish
ed miserably. How many thoushtless
Year: 1870

This charming and talented American


Prima Donna will appear for the hrst time
in Davenport. at the Burtis Opera house on,
Friday evening of this week, Dec. End. She
will be most cordially welcomed, for person
ally there is no artist so loved by the people
and especially by thcse who are acquainted
with her history. Her life has been one
continued romance Of labor. She has shown
that a frsil girl can accomplish by honest,
earnest work, meeting and conqueripg diff
culties with hopeful heart, which has
discouraged thousands. This young girl,
almost child, cast into the very vortex
of Italian opera, the favorite of the wealthy
patrons of art, an object of rivalry, praised
by the press aud sn American, struggled
step by step and steadily up to such fame,
as would have turned older heads; but with
a will of her own sAd by hard study and
practice, now stands where she has no fear
Of rivalry. In this struggle of supremacy,
another element sustained her, and that was
the stfectiorate interest taken in her efforts
by the public. At every step in advance
she was met BY loving encouragement, and
to day she appears surrounded with the hale
of popular appreciation and affecsionate
esteem. No artist We have ever known has
occupied SO envisble s position. 1t is not
for her talent alone that she is admired.
although that is brilliant enough to com.
. mand the admiration of ell; but mixed up
with this admiration is an affection which
belongs solely to the woman, and is shared
alike by her own and the sterner sex. By
the young ladies OF society she 10 positively
idolized, and there must be something
beautiful, and truthful, and endearing in
her nature to excite SO tender an interest
and SO warm love among whole classes who
know her on the stage. Americans may we'll
be proud of their Queen of Song, and it is
but just reward for true merit and honest
work,to greether every where with overfowing
houses In this connection we wish to state
that these are her own concerts. Others
have made thousands of dollars out of her
lsbors she now appeals to the public on her
own account. She is her own manager, and
the concerts she now gives through the
country are her OWL, and all the profit which
arises from them will insure to her benefit.
We wish the public to know this, because
We are satisfied that it will be an additional
inducement to substantially prove their
esteem and admiration for Trustworthy and
brilliant young artist.


Those attending from this city, Moline and
along the c. R. I. & P. R. R.. can go over
on the regular train at Gas in the evening,
and return on the regular Chicago train at
i0:l5. This train will start from the Opers
House at the close of the concert. Let it
De labor of love, as well as an apprecia
sion of true merit, to give Miss Kellogg a
good house from this city alone.
Year: 1870

The matter Of tha Walsh petition has
been considerably muddled by the report
Of Alderman Camp 2ban, which asserts that
two petitions were circulated, very differ
ent in their character, and that, after they
had been signed, the heading Of one was
torn of and the paper attached to the
other one. The appearance of the docu-
ment leaves little doubt that such was the
fact. Whether thare Is any Inv to punish
such an act we do not know. Perhaps all
the patties who had anything to do with the
Walsh case feel sufficiently punished Ill
ready.
Year: 1870

Horse Car Accident-Suit for Damages.


Before Judge Spencer and Jury.


Amelia Pirley Us. The THIRD Auenue Railroad
C0mpanp.-The plaintiff sues to recover $4,000
damages for injuries inflicted in falling from Third
avenue horse car on the Fourth OF July, 1868. She
alleges that she had put her three children on the
car, and on getting herself felt hand LAID on her
shoulder, and that Immediately she was either
tHXned around or pushed or the platform by that
hand. falling heavily to the ground, SUSTAINING Sc
we're injuries, which confined her to her bed for
several months. The defence set up was that
no hand was lad on her shoulder; that
she got on the car ana had not enough
money to pay the lares OF herself children
ana a woman who accompanied her; tnat she pad
the iares or the woman and tne children, and in
turning round To get or the car herself, by her own
negligence fell and sustained the injuries COM
planned Of


The evidence developed the fact that the conductor
OF the Car SAID plaintiff was drunk, and that before
she had time to get INSIDE OF the platform she heard
the bell pulled: a hand was placed on her shouo
and she Immediately found herself pushed from the
platform to the ground.


The Court ordered sealed verdict for this morning.
Year: 1870

The Fenian Fund :squabble Again.


Bdttey rs. O'AahonN.-Ycsterday the defendant
made a motion TO have the paintifrs complaint
stricken out as 'lrrelevant and redundant sham
and frivolous" for the reason that the same does
not state facts sufficient on which to institute
cause OF action. The motion was opposed ON the
ground that the defendant had answered, and that
the only way TO bring up these questions was by
demurrer. The plalntir offered to allow the answer
to be withdrawn and demurrer 20 be inLerposed in
place OF It, which defendant declined to do. Mr..
Guernsey opposed the motion on the ground Lnat an
answer had been put IN several months ago and
that these questions could only be brought up on
demurrer. Motion denied.
Year: 1870

II is little singular, the way We
have IN Iowa Of counting out our
votes election nights. As though
there were but five men to bc had in
ia township, we'make those five work
all day and all night; AMI for the sake
OF thus Furnishing them submit to tho
discomfort OF not knowing the result
OF the election till the next day. 1t
is queer. this is. Why don t we act
more scnsihy. Every year everybody
swears at the slow old method, and
declare that it must be changed; but to
make the change wonld he every
body's business, and so there's nobody
to do it. The plan Of correction IS
simple and would be inexpensive
The Council Bluffs Nonpareil offers
a very scnsiLly proposition for the
cure o! the evil. It suggests that the
Board Of Supervisors in each county
can make the reform simply by reso-
lntion providing ''that hereafter, at
every Slate and county election the
officers constituting the election
board shall call TO their assistance
two extra clerks as caisvassers, aud
provide themselves with two ballot
boxes instead OF one. When the
judges have deposited in box No. l
for an hour or two let them pass i.
over to the two canvasscrs, who shah
proceed TO count and canvass the
ballots therein, while the judges de-
post in box No. 2, and thus keep the
counting and voting going on togeth-
er, and in fifteen minutes after the
polls close the result can be annouuc-
ed This is so senaibly that not the
least objection can be found to it, un-
less it would be that.the extra clerks
should be members officially ofthe
board. and this short and simple
act otlegislation would speedily mend.
BY all means, now while We are out of
humor at the tardy receipt of returns,
let this subject be agitated until the
absurd practice that now holds rule
shall be superseded by something at
least little sensible.-[State Regis
Year: 1870

A nice little boy in Pittsburg
went to the circus the other day, and
amused himself throwing stones at
the elephant while he was drinking.
When he got through the boy tried tn
propitate him by offering him piece
Of gingerbread. Before accepting
tho cake, tho elephant emptied about
sixty-fonr gallons Of water, beer
measure, over the boy, and then slung
him into the third tier to dry oil.
This boy is very indifferent about
circuses now. He says he believes
he does Mt care Tor them as much n
hc used to. M
Year: 1870

A WESTERN ROMANCE. About light or nice
months since man living in the northera part
OF Virginia City, New, went out Into the east
ern part Of the State to seek his fortune in the
new mines Of that section, leaving his vile and
one child in Virginia City. Some seven
mouths ago gallant disciple OF st. Crispin per-
suaded the White Pine widow to take up her
abode with him in house which he furnished
tor her The new pair lived together Tor about
seven months, when few days since the gen
uine husband returned. Of course there was
trouble in the camp, but after some quarreling
the two men agreed to play game OF seven-up
Tor the woman. The game came off last Sa-
back by just two points The man claimed
but that he had fairly won her.


The woman preferred tho shoemaker, but
the husband and winner Was determined to
have his own. He packed up what furniture
they possessed, and last Sunday evening, with
his house hold goods and gods, lett by a fast
tleig wagon Tor California When the wa
gon started there was quite scene A crowd
OF nearly one hundred persons had collected to
see the husband carry away his stake" and
there was much merrment over the romantic
affair The woman cried ami wanted to stay
with the shoemaker and the shoemaker cried
at parting with the treasure he had lost by not
holdiug enough "trumps.' lie asked Some o.
the crowd if they thought he would be arrested
II he attempted to take the woman out OF th'
wagon They told him he had lost her "oI
the square, and he must bear it like maD
SO the wagon moved on, and soon the tar ont
was gone from his gaze