smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1873

the Finances of North Carolina.


RALEIGH. Nov. l3.-The Treasurer Of
the State, under authority CT the Legisla-
ture, has appropriated to the general pUr-
poses of government, S24l, 800 that had
been collected TO pay the interest on the
bonds known as the Special Tax bonds.
To-day four bills in equity were filed in
jhe United States Court for the Eastern
District of North Carolina, praying that
tie Public Treasurer be e1joined from pay
ing any money out Of the treasury until he
has first replaced the above sum to the
credit of the fund for which the same was
raised. For the purpose Of providing for
the payment of the bonds held by the plain
tiff and all other holders who may become
parties TO these suits, preliminary in
junction has been granted by Judge Bond,
and the 26th inst. set for hearing the mo-
tion for special injunction. While there
is growing disposition ON the part of the
people and press to recognize the old debt
of the State, the people are fixed in their
determination TO resist by lawful means
the payment of these Special Tax bonds.
When these are disposed of, steps will un-
doubtedly be taken TO compromise the old
debt upon a basis acceptable to the State
and bondholdhOlderS.
Year: 1873

PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 1.-THE Ameri
can Iron and Steel Association win meet
here on the 20th TO consider the present
critical condition of the iron trade, and take
action regarding the future work of the
Association.
Year: 1873

A youngster in Muskugum County,
Ohio, thought he would like game
rooster, so he wrote to the editor of the
Courier for information as to how to select
a pure blooded one. Here is what the
editor says about it:


"Joe S. writes from Blue Rock and
asks us to tell him how to pick good
game rooster We are not certain that
we are the most proper person in the
world to apply to for such information,
never having picked one. However, we
are no towards, so here goes. In the first
place catch the game rooster, either by
running him down yourself, or by hiring
a small boy to do it for you. Next, Gf
necks, and you don't seem to have had
any)-next, with the left hand take him
by the legs and carry him to the wood
pile, and after procuring an ak, gently
press his craw against a log, near the
top. This is a critical moment. The
rooster will begin to have confidence in
you by this time, if you have handled
him carefully, and will stretch out his
neck to know what it all means. Then's
your time. Let the ak fall, edge down,
so as to strike about two inches back of
the comb. and at the same time letting go
your hold on your bird. He'll flop some,
but don't mind that. The next thing to
do is to heat couple of gallons of water,
scalding hot, take it to some convenient,
out of-the- way place, get the rooster,
plunge him in head first a time or two,
then take his legs in your lefthand so the
spurs will be above your thumb and fore
finger, elevate him on level with your
face, catch hold of the saturated plumage
with the right hand, the same as if you
were going to peel elm bark and-then
pull. You'll pick him, you bet. At least
we have never seen one that could not be
picked in that way"
Year: 1873

Iwonder if girls realize what an infiu-
ence they might have over their brothers
by exercising little self control. / say q
little, perhaps that is too moderate q
word; it would hardly be too strong to
say a great deal, for / know very well how
tormenting boys are oftentimes, and how
they put ones patience to the severest
proofs. But, after all, there is nothing
gained by finding fault with them, for the
next day after we have scolded and lee
tured them for prowling about the house
and helping themselves to whatever there
is to eat, they will go and do the same
thing again. I grant that it is provoking
to have all the doors left open, and the
tracks of mud on the floor and carpet,
and that it is discouraging to have boy
swallow his food without chewing, show
all he has in his mouth while eating, drink
with his mouth full of meat and potatoes,
put in his food with his knife, or any
way to get it in; il is discouragiDg, es-
pecially if the boy is getting on in years,
and quite disgusting to his more refined
and delicate sister. But it is not positive
ly wicked, and have known such boy,
a boy who did not half wash himself be-
sides, grow to be great and good man,
and behave as well among civilized peo-
pie as any gentleman of them ali. don't
know as there is any reason why boys
should not be as tractable and comfortable
as girls, but as class they are not,
and we must accept the fact and
govern our department toward
them accordingly. They will be
out evenings without always account
ing for themselves, which their sisters
would not think of doing or be allowed
to do if they cid think of it; and they
won't get up in the morning when they
ought to; like enough they are lazy, and
perhaps they smoke and won't study. 1t
is an unpleasant state of things to say the
least of it, and ought not to be so. But L
don't know any other way for sisters to
help the matter than by uniform kind
ness and forbearance. III possible, never
find fault with them, ana let the sisters
never miss a chance for commendation.
1t is surprising how little judicious
praise will seta boy thinking of his short
comings, and planning how he may de-
serve more. Don't look at them when
they are eating. 1t is very comforting to
remember that boys do learn to eat prop
erly when they have stopped growing,
and all the fault finding in the world does
not hasten the matter. l don't believe
there is a boy in the world who would not
be susceptible to the refining influence of
a gentle, loving sister, who was ready to
help and encourage him. Sisters, do all
YOU can to make the home such a cheer
full, delightful place, and yourselves so
good -natured and obliging, that many of
the places where your brothers now seek
amusement will lose their attraction, and
a coarse, loud, fast girl become repulsive.


-Ctristian Union.
Year: 1873

-Courting the daughters of publicans
is risky in North Wales. A young man
tried it lately, and though the young lady
and her father were both willing, the law
inflicted fine of five shillings because he
was in a public house beyond the hour
for closing.
Year: 1873

It Is a little singular how well pair
Of boots can be made to Ii; at the store.
You may not he able to get your foot
only part way down the leg at the
first trial, but that Is because your
stocking Is sweaty, or you haven't
started right. and the shoemaker sug-
gests that you start again and stand up
to Ii, and he throws In little powder
from q pspper-box. to aid you. And
50 you stand up, and pound your foot.
and partly trip yourself up. aud your
eyes stick out In an unpleasant mail
ner, and every vein In your body ap-
pears to be on the point Of bursting,
and all the while that dealer stands
around and eyes the operation rs IN.
tently as If the whole affair was per-
fectly new and novel to him. When
your foot has finally struck bottom.
there Is a faint impression on your
mind that you have stepped into an
open stove, but he removes 1t by SOL
emnly observing that he never saw
boot fit quite as good rs that. You
may suggest that your toe presses too
hard against the front, or that some ot


the bones on the side Of the foot are
too much smashed. but he says that is
always the way with q new boot. and
that the trouble will entirely disap-
pear in a few days. Then you take
the old pair under your arm and start
for home as animated rs relic OF
1912, all the while feeling that the
world will not look bright and happy


to you again, until you have Drained
that shoemaker. You limp down
town the next day, and smile all the
while your mouth. while your eyes
look as If you were walking over an
oyster bed barefoot. When no one is
looking, you kick against a post or
some other obstruction, and show
fondness for stopping and resting
against something that will sustain
your weight. wheu you get home at
night, you go for those old boots with
an eagerness that cannot oe described,
and the remarks you make upon learn
ing that your wife has disposed OF
them to a q widow woman In the sub
urbs, are calculated, to Immediately
depopulate the earth Of women and
shoemakers generally.-DaRbu' NeteS
Year: 1873

WE presume there is no doubt the bank
ruptcy of the Washington City District
Government" That Government has
been run by a ring of highly respectable
robbers. They have taken the precaution
to purchase all the newspapers In the
District with advertisements. The city
might have been saved from bankruptcy
and shamesif there had been a resident ed
Itor capable Of refusing bribes. & of serv-
ing the public in the capacity of their
enemy. Nothing saves q town from
the wild raids of the thieves who confs-
cate the property of the people in the
name Of Improvements" like a public
enemy, with highly improper newspa-
per largely circulated among all sorts Of
people. Bankruptcy is before all our
cities unless the fell spirit Of public i'm.
provement is checked by public enemies. y
Gin. Commercial.
Year: 1873

A TIMoRoUs organ recently charged that
there was a diabolical conspiracy among
the editors of the independent press to
ruin the Republican party In response
to this awful assertion The Ctncirnda
Commercial has the audaeity to remark
1--WE shouldn't wonder. If telling the
truth about it will kill that party. we in
tend that it shall die. It is our impres


sion, however, that the persistent refusal
OF the Democratic party to be buried will
Keep sufficient vitality in the Republican
party to run it several years. Both the
great parties-the Republican and the
Democratie-are abominable. So long as
both remain, there is but melancholy
chance for choice of evils. -Erehagloe.


The audacious impudence Of the Gin
cinnati Commercial is astonishingl We
desire the Democratic party to li5eralise,
strike hands, unite, combine sc. with ell
good men who desire and will honestly
and earnestly labor to overthrow The
present corrupt, grabbing administration
Let Us have a change for the better-it
cannot be for the worse. We hope TO fool
the Commercial, and to see our common
sense, practical old party, cease to act as
hoops to keep the radical party in power
Year: 1873

slender trees, evidently growing from a
cleft IN the rock. A Wild hope animated
her, and gave renewed strength 10 her
faltering limbs. By getting behind the
trees, and dodging, might she not contrive
to elude the animal until the party from
below should arrive?


The cluster of trees was now the coYet-
ed goal, and she strained every nerve to
reach it. But when she was within ten
feet OF 1t, she met with q fearful disap-
pointment-a deep, yawnIng chasm, right
in her path, between her and the trees,
and which had hitherto been hidden from
her sight by high bushes fripging the
edge.


The chasm was too wide TO leap over.
She turned and stood at bay-her back to
the abyss, her face toward the lion. There
seemed no hope now. Death was before
and behind her, hemming her on both
sides.
HIM. He uttered growl of triumph and
croucned for the fatal spring.


The lady strained her child closer to
her breast. To descend the dark depths
of the chasm was preferable to being torn
by that savage monster. There was no
time to lose. In another moment the
tawny body must come sEooping down
upon her.


But now a quick, wild thought-a
mothers spiration-flashed through her
mind. Under the armpits she clasped the
child which each hand, and raised it high
above her head, so that the bleeding
scratches on its white flesh were fully ex-
posed to the lions view


That sight reused to the full the uncon-
trollable desires of the savage BEAST
WithA smothered roar he shot up from
the rock, his huge form cleaving the air
with one tremendous bound for the child


That was what Mrs Benton had waited
for. By eleyating her child, she had com
PEELED the lion to take a lofty leap; and
now, with her little one, she quickly sank
fiat on the rock, thus eluding the monster,
which, uttering one long, wild terrible
roar, was carried head foremost, out of
sight for evermore, into-the frightful
depths of the chasm.


Nearly senseless from the fatigue and
excitement sne had undergone, Mrs. Ben
ton was soon after conveyed to the ship
by her rejoicing friends, who next day
left far behind them the place of that ex
citing scene Of mothers peril and time
ly stratagem.
Year: 1873

Great pains are taken at Washington
to protect Gen. Howard's reputation for
honesty and capacity IN advance of any
proceedings that may be instituted
against him. He is warmly indorsed by
heads of departments and touching testi-
monials of entire confidence in him are
prepared and published to the world. We
are given to understand that if an exam
inatien of his accounts should show a de-
6ciency, the responsibility will be laid at
the door of his subordinates.


Now, we do not know IN the first place
whether there is any deficiency or irregu-
larity, but if such should prove to be the
case, General Howard as the Commission
er of the Freedmen's Bureau, Is in law as
in fact the responsible party If there
were dishonest subordInates, it vas the
Commissioners duty to put them undei
arrest and make an example of them
Failing to do that, he must be held tC
have been inefficient or criminally neg
| hgent.
Year: 1873

of Diebold & Kienzle are new, and re-
Gently put IN running order. They en-
ploy about tour hundred workmen, and
manufacture safes of every size and price,
and send them into all the States of the
Union. Their fire and burglar proof safes
are extensively used by banks and COM
panies, and by counties for the safe keep
ing of treasure. They are as beautiful in
finish, as they are strong and secure IN
make. These works add very much to
the business enterprise of Canton by bring
ing work, people and money to the place.
Year: 1873

FRIDAY, June 27-P. NJ.


There is hardly any change to report i'll the general
condition of affairs the Stock Exchange; the bust
ness though perhaps showing slight improvement
over Yesterday has not resulted in any important
change in values Toward o'clock there was, how
ever, a change in the temper of speculation and
gradual improvement in prices took place at and
after that time The stocks chiefly dealt in were
Pacific Mail, Union Pacific Western Union, and Lake
shore At the close the full advance was not
maintained, but the market was frmer in
tone on the general list, and weak on Harlem and
Pacific Mail. There some stories current at
the start to the effect that the Pacific Mail Directors
had agreed to authorize the issue of $G,OOOOOO of
bonds, applying S5OOOOO of the yearly subsidy as
sinking fund. Later on, however il transpired that
their counsel Judge Jonathan Edwards PieTrepOnt,
had given il as his opinion that the proposed issue
of bonds cannot he legally made and that the Com
pany can only raise money by pedging parts of Its
propertv whenever it can find anybody willing to
lend on such property. Quite likely those children
Of Israel having pawnbroking proclvties will reap
q handsome profit from this decision. Surely My
Uncle need not look for business now Outside OF
the shares referred 10 above no comment Is neces-
sary and no information other than our usual
tables contain The investment, as well as mlscel-
lapeous and express shares, were quiet and devoid
of specal interest. The general market closed firm
The opening. highest lowest, and closing prices OF


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Year: 1873

The following is an abstract of reports made to
the Controller of the currency, showing the condi-
ton of the National Banks in the United states at
the close Of business Friday, the 25th day OF April
Year: 1873

News comes from Idaho Territory that
the cattle in Snake river valley are dying
in large numbers on account Of unavoid-
able exposure to unusually cold weather,
which has been the severest known in the
valley for many years.
Year: 1873

A good advertisement In a widely cir
culated newspaper is the best Of al
possible statesmen. It is a salesman
who never sleeps, and is never weary
who goes after business early and late
who aocosts the merchant in his shop.
the scholar in his study, the lawyer in
his Office, the lady at her tea teable
Who can be in a thousand places at
once, and speak to a million people
every day, saying to each one the best
thing in the best manner.


A good advertisement in a newspaper
paws no fare on railroads costs nothing
for hotel bills gives away no boxes of
cigars to customers, or merinO dresses
TO customers wives; drinks no whisky
under the head Of travelling expenses ;
but goes at once and all the time about
its business free Of expense.


A good advertisement insures a bush
.ness connection Of the most permanent
and independent basis, aud is IN GER
tain sense 8 guarantee to the customer
Of fair and moderate prices. Expert
ence has shown that the dealer whose
wares have obtained a public celebrity
is not only enabled 20 sell, but is forced
to sell az reasonable rates. and to fur
nish good article.
Year: 1873

a... ~ .4uHOcSnI mural boys.


1t is mistaken idea to suppose that
the small boy of the city is more
wicked than the rural lad; that he
is, in fact, such bete nOir that when
placed beside his country cousin, the
latter appears shining saint. Such
an opinion has obtained fora time. and
possibly will for all time to come. But
it is a libel upon the children- of the
street, and has no foundation in fact.


We intend to explode this bubble and
have Justice done to our !gan1irls, It is
true that they are very wicked, and they
! play IN the cutters, pick pOckets,- ge- in
swimming from the pier-heads, throw
stones at each other, break windows,
steal mats, get up behind cabs, and per-
form many other freaks of like nature.
But is that any reason why we should
paint them with the sombre brush of
condemnation, and pat the boys of the
fields upon the head, and hunt in our
pockets for pence to bestow upon them
| The popular idea of the rural boy is very
pretty asa mental picture. He is indus
trious, and carries his little hoe a-field,
with which to touch up the sprouting
| corn. He is studious to fault, and it
is favorite habit of his to sit up all
night and read Latin books on astron-
omy by the light of pine torch. We
never witnessed this operation, but have
it on good authority that it is looked
at as the correct thing for the country
boy to do. No sluggard is he; but
when the first flush crimsons the eastern
sky ne bounds from his bed, pulls on
his jeans trowsers and rawhide boots and
goes TO work in the stables, or at chopping
wood. In the winter he walks ten miles
through the snow to school and draws
his little sister upon his sled. In time
he comes to own farm, then he marries,
builds church, becomes a justice of
the peace, dies, is buried in the village
church yard-a hundred dollar tomb
stone informing passing world, in a
very expensive manner, of his many
virtues. This is what the country boy
is supposed to be, but we know the
statement to be a swindle. As we have
often seen him, he was an adept in all
sorts of mischief. He could steal eggs,
and then deny the accusation with a
nerve that Schuyler Colfax might envy.


Dog fights are his delight; circus his
heaven. To get into the circus he viii
appropriate money that was intended
for the conversion Of some Iittleheatben


boy and, that scheme failing, be VIII
crawl under the tent. It is a grim salts
faction to know that he isoften punished
for this sin. In one instance the per-
forming elephant acoideutly stepped on
three little boys who were squirmingin in,
and mashed them so that their different
parents we're at loss to tell which was
which, and so had to shake their names
up in a hat, and draw for it. When
such sad scenes are possible, is it well
to claim moral superiority for the boy of
the country 2-FFdslk Lesslis's Igltbstsr-
ated Newspaper.
Year: 1873

By THE LATE CHARLES DICKENS.
When the lessons aad tasks are all ended,
And the school Of the day Ia dismissed
And the little ones gather around me,
To bid me good-night and be kissed;
the little white arms that encrcle


My neck in q tender embrace;
o the smiles that are haloes OF Heaven
Shedding sunshine Of love on my face.
And when they are gone, I sit dreaming
OF my childhood too lovely to last;
OF love that my heart viii reInenbar


While IL wakes to the pulse Of the past,
Fro the world and its uieEsdness made me
When the glory Of Goa was about me-
And the glory Of gladness within.
my heart grows weak as a woman's
Ana the fountains Of feeling VIII how,
When think Of the paths steep and stony,
Where the feet Of the dear ones must 20:
OF me mountains Of sin banging Ger them,
o there's nothing earth half 90 holy
Az the innocent heart OF child
They are idols Of hearts and Of households:
Ihey are angels Of God IN disguise;
His sunlight stil sleeps in their tresees
His glory stin CLEANS in their eyes,
. those shouts from home and from Heaven,
They have made me more manly and midi
ana I know now how Jesus could hken
The kingdom o. God 20 a child.
ask not life for the dear ones,


All radiant, as others have done:
But that life may have just enough shadow
To sleep In the glare OF the
would pray God 10 guard them from evil,
But my prayer would bound back to myself,
Ah seraph may pray FOR q sinner.
But q sinner must pray for himself
The twig IA easily bended,


I have banished tins rule and the rod,
have taught them the goodness Of knowledge,
They have taught me the goodness Of God.
Ny heart Is a dungeon Of darkness
Where shut them for breaking q rule;
NV power is sufficient correction;
Ny love is the law Of the school.
shall leave the Old house in the autumn
To traverse ifs threshold no more:
All how shall sigh for the dear ones,
That meet each morn at the door
shall miss the "gOod-nighta" aud the kisses
And the gush OF their innocent Rlee,
The group ON the green, and the hOwers f.
That are brought every morning to me.
shall miss them Al and at even
The song in the school and the street
shall miss the low hum of their voices
Ana tue tramp OF their delicate feet.
When the lessons all ended,


And Death says, " The school Is dismissed
May the little ones gather around
10 bid goodnight and be kissed
Year: 1873




The London Engineer states that the
highest railway speeds in the world are
attained in England, and that the high
est Of all is reached on the Great Wes-
tern railroad, the speed on the latter
being given roundly as fifty miles an
hour. Instances are given, however, of
sixty-five and seventy miles an hour,
and the engineer thinks it would be pos
sible TO lay permanent way so well, and
to maintain it in such excellent order,
that trains might travel on it with per-
feet safety at one hundred miles an hour,
indeed, mites upon miles of such track
are now to be found on most the great
main lines, but nowhere can one hun
dred consecutive miles of permanent
way in perfection be found and, as a
chain is no stronger than its weakest
link, so few hundred yards of bad
track would spoil, for the purpose of
travelling at one hundred miles an hour,
a whole line. The really important
question, argues the Engineer, is, given
the line end the cars ft for it, what
shall the engine be like, and is it possi-
BILE TO construct an engine at all, which,


with a moderately heavy train, will at
tain and maintain avelocity Of one hum
dred miles an hour, on a line with no
grade heavier than say one in three hun
dredP After thorough examination
of the question in all it's bearings, the
Engineers figures prove that it is abso-
lutely impossible to obtain speed Of
one hundred miles an hour on railway
if the resistance is anything like one
hundred and twenty pounds per ton.
Year: 1873

AN Indian lady Of an original turn
of nind bases her application for q di-
vorce on the circumstance that her hus-
bands legs sre too long for her to keep
step with him when they take walk
together
Year: 1873

Now, while Congress is dealing out cash, with liberal hand, for the improvement of rivers and harbors, it would be good time for our delegate and legislature to put in A little bluff on behalf of the Colorado River, which Is in great need of some improvements.

 Were steamboat n Adams a member of tho legislature, he would be very apt to pay attention to the principal river and "nayy " of Arizona.