smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1875

We hear of quite a romantic affair
in private life, the parties to which
reside in the upper portion of this
country: In 1866 a Mr.-took to
himself a young wife to adorn his
household. After living happily to-
gether for four months, the young
bride, without any apparent cause,
took a notion that "she wanted to see
her mamma" and left the husband
solitary and alone. Time rolled on,
but the recreant wife did not return
to cheer his desolate home until last
Sunday morning. Thus, after an ab-
sence of nine years, though hus band
and wife were living within 5 or 6
miles of each other, the wife volun-
tarily returns. 1t may be possible
that she learned of a recent visit of
her spouse to this place when the SER
vices Of an attorney were procured to
file a bill Of divorce on the ground
of desertion. Our legal friend was
seated at his desk on Monday morn
ing, drawing up the bill in question,
wuen a note was handed him notify:
ing him that his services would not
be required, as the wife had returned.
-Lumpksn (Go.) Independent.
Year: 1875

Last Monday morning, man and
Wife who live about g miles east: Of
Willis, left home on business, leaving
their house IN charge Of their eldest
child about y years of age, To-


wards noon the child heard the in:
fant, aged IA months, which had
been laid while asleep on a bed in an
adj joining room, utter horrid screeeh,
upon which. she Immediately ran to
its relief, and imagine her: feelings,
upon opening the door, to see huge
panther with the babe in its mouth
leaping from an open window, imme-
diately over the bed But she, like
a true heroine, sprang upon the bed
and then out Of the window, scream
ing at the height Of her voice, and,
upon being joined by the other chill
dren about the house, pursued the.
panther at her utmost speed. They
followed about forty rods, to a pair
of bars which separated the clearing
from the forest, at which place the
girl states that she approached to
within Is: or 20 feet of the panther,
when it: :relinquished its hold of the
child, 1eaped the bars, and made its
way to the woods. The infant was
picked up, much strangled from its
rapid movement through the grass
and sand, which had filled its mouth
and eyes, but soon recovered and is
now we'll, save a few scratches about
its body which have the appearance
Of having been made by the panther's
teeth. These marks are very plain,
and there are several blood blisters
where the teeth in slipping came in
contact. The girl states that the
panther dropped the child once be-
fore arriving at the fence, and it is
supposed the giving away of the
clothing was the cause, as it was much
torn.-Houston TEXAS Telegraph
Year: 1875

Napoleon I. was always in too
great a hurry. This characteristic
quality especially showed itself when
he set about committing that most
proftless of crimes, the divorce of
Josephine. He first thought of mar
rying the Grand Duchess Anne, sis
ter Of the Emperor of Russia. Be-
fore Caulain court, the French Am
bassador at St. Petersburgh, had had
time to sound the Car on the subject,
Napoleon had changed his mind and
decided on an alliance with the
House Of Hapsburg. Such being the
case, his course was clear enough;
viz: to instruct Caulaincourt not to
press his suit too eagerly, to show no
disposition to smoothe away difficult
ties, and to allow the negotiation
gradually to fall to the ground. In
stead of this Napoleon sent letter,
probably without precedent in the
annals of courtship, in which he Or
dered his ambassador to present
kind of matrimonial ultimatum to
the Car, demanding a categorical
answer, before the expiration of ter
days, to his proposal. OF course this
was to ensure refusal, and so to set
the Emperor at liberty, but at the
cost of afronting the only monarch
on the continent Of Europe whom
Napoleon had reason to fear. Three
hundred thousand French soldiers
were to pay with their lives for this
piece of brainless impertinence. But
such are the natural results of imper-
ialism, or the government of a nation
for the benefit of an Individual.
Will France return to this rule p
GreenviNe Murray, IN the GALAXY for
October.
Year: 1875




Poe then occupied cottage at
Fordham-a kind of poets nook just
out of hearing Of the busy hum of the
city. He had walked all the way
from New York that afternoon, and,
having taken cup of tea, went out
in the evening and wandered about
for an hour or more. His beloved
Virginia was sick almost unto death
he was without money to procure the
necessary medicines. He was out
until about ten O'Clock: When he
went in. he sat down at his; writing
table and dashed off "The Raven"
He submitted it to Mrs. GLENN for
her consideration on the same night,
and it was printed substantially as it
was written.
Year: 1875

-"I lived with him nineteen
years." says an Indiana applicant for
divorce, "and all the clothes he ever
bought me were a bunch of hair-pins
and a toothbrush" You can see by
this what a hard time she had to keep
we'll dressed,
Year: 1875

The young wifi of the Grand Duke
Alexis Of Russia, son of the Czart, has
just been divorced by the Tribunal of
St. Petersburg. She was a Hessian,
and in that quality had been accept
| ed by the Empress Maria Alexan-
drowna as maid of honor. Her
majesty was rapidly captivated by


her young countrywoman, who speed,
lily became her favorite. Another
conquest Of still greater Importance
awaited the young lady in the Mus
covite Empire. Not absolutely pref
ty, but endowed with that grace
which bewitches more than beauty,
possessing a charming figure and an
incompatible elegance, she inspired
the young Grand Duke with an ire
sistible passion. One evening the
Empress saw enter her apartment
the maid Of honor bathed in tears,


who, throwing herself at her Maies-
tvs feet, avowed her love, and be-
sought the Czarina's consent to the
marriage. That same night the
young lady was put into a railway
carriage, and, under good escort, con-
Quoted to the frontier, while the
Grand Duke Alexis received orders
to rejoin his ship. But the Car had
reckoned without the determination of
the two lovers. The prince escaped,
rejoined his fancee beyond the Rhine,
and married her in German territory,
Notwithstanding the paternal fulmina-
tions and then left with her for
America. The romance lasted two
years, and nothing could bend the
determination of the Emperor nor re-
store the son to his favor, when the
influence of the Empress, being
brought to bear on the son, determin-
ed the latter to accept the fathers
conditions. 1t was decided that the
Grand Duke should consent to d.
vorce, resume his situation in the
Russian navy, and that an annuity
should be settled on the heroine of
the romance. It was Immediately
after that the Prince was in London
with the Gar. The formalities of
the divorce were completed last week.
-Gahgnani's Messenger.


1t is said that Isaac M. Singer,
the sewing machine man, has left
fortune of nineteen millions of dol
lars-ffteen millions in the United
States and four millions in Europe.
During the last twenty-five years of
his life he spent great deal Of mon
ey, but he made great deal more.
The magnifcence of his estate forms
a striking contrast with the poverty
and privation in which he began. At
one time he was a strolling actor in
the West, and after he had left that
profession and invented his sewing
machine he was in such state of des-
titution that one day herhad only six
pence left in the world. After much


deliberation he bought himself a din
ner of pork and beans at Sweeny's


with this money and with the vigor
derived from this nourishing repast


he went on to accumulate the nine
teen millions he has left to his heirs.
Year: 1875

When all is lone and dreary,


When life is sad and bleak,
And but my spirit kisses


At night thy teerful cheek.
Then come where am sleeping,


Where elder and roses grow,
And cool thy throbbing temples


Among their dreamy glow.
Confde thy longings and sorrow, e
Thy griefs and thy hopes to me,
And I will family whisper


What have dreamt Of thee.
-1ranslased for THE JOURNAL BY c. s
Year: 1875

Facts recently presented to the public view
are certainly Calculated to produce the conclu-
SION that the whipping system is not q success,
as penal method, At the opening in this
colnty, Of tile present term Of Court, Judge
Gilpin dweis earnestly upon :" the fearful in.
crease of crime amongst ua, and this although
it was true that the pillory and post stood up
right in our jail-yards and remained in constant
use, Spring and Fall Then, it appears that in
stead of the candidates for punishment decreas-
ing i'll number as they ought to do, if the whip
were an effective punishment, they are more
numerous than ever before. Seventeen
persons were whipped at New Castle
on May 10Th and May 22nd, and as
the criminal trials of this term of Court are
not all over, the probability is that still other
convicts Of the term will be whipped, running the
aggregate up quite beyond any previous expe-
rience.


Furthermore, cases are continually found of
persons who are twice or oftener whipped. The
old theory that man seldom or never comes
back to be thus punished is being perforated by
the truth, at each session of Court, the fact be-
ing that out OF every dozen brought up to the
post, one or two have been there before. Out
of the eleven who were whipped at New Castle
on the 18TH two were recognized as having been
whipped in that yard, on previous
occasions, and when it is considered
that the class of persons who incur this penalty
are frequently vagrants and wanderers, whose
features are not readily recognized, and who
frequently change their names, as well as their
dwelling places and that they may have been
whipped at Dover or Georgetown without the
Sheriff at New Castle knowing the fact. it is, we
believe, fair TO say that from ten to twenty pet
cent OF the cuiprits who are tied up to the whip
png-post, III this State, year after year, have
been tiad " AMI whipped a. least once pre-
viously.


In one other respect, the pillory and post seeu
to be failures. They were designed mainly to
punish the coiorei people. They are survivors
Of the Slave Era. They are erected as the pro-
iecting dyinities that guard the hen-roost and
the smoke-honse. Bat, unfortunately for their
purpose, the coloyed people are not using them
The proud Caucasian is bowing his stiff neck in
the p!lory. and bearing his white back to the
ca. or the seventeen persons who were pun.
ishei in the two recent occasions, no less than
Six on. Of tue first batch of eleven, and four out
Of the &c ond instelment of six were white, ma.
king tn of that color oa, OF serenteen. This ii
raj, but tue. 1t will, we fear rob tile post ant
pillory of their most precious attributes in the
opinion OF some who have heretofore loved and
cherished them earnestly.
Year: 1875

tunes will come upon the older house
sickness or death or other domestic
calamity if it be dwelliDg-fnancial
embarrassment and failure if it be a
business house.


A Chinese restaurant was a short time
since doing o thriving business on Jack.
son street A higher building was
erected in the vicinity and the shadow
fell on the restaurant. The business fell
of, owing, undoubtedly, to natural
causes, but it was sscribed to the shadow.
A high board wall was erected between
the two buildings by the proprietor of
the restaurant, to receive the shadow,
and thereafter the business of the
restaurant revived 1t is undoubtedly
owing to this superstition that such
uniformity prevails in Chinese architec-
ture


There is a rule adopted BY congress
OF washermen, and sanctioned by
Chinese private law and the heads Of the
different companies, that in order that
competition may not render the washing
business Improbable, the wash house
shall be separated by so many doors
genuine doors which will open and shut.
A Boston Chinaman, who claimed IL
superiority over the uncouth laws and
customs Of his countrymen, wished to
establish wash-house in a certain block
on Davis street, but unfortunately
another Chnsman was before him; and
there was not the requisite number of
doors between, on account Of a vacant
lot. He, for small sum, obtains per
mission to use the lot, and erects long
shed extending the whole front, and puts
in as many doors as space will permit at
the distance of few inches apart. The
doors open and shut, and are genuine
doors The inspector, a Chinaman, is
summoned, and for a small fee expresses
himself satisfied, and the wash. house is
esta blished. The next day the temporary
b1ildiDg was torn down.
Year: 1875

Apparently the ladies' who listen to
the sermons of the Rev. Mr. Talmage
have not learned that black is the most
fashionable color for church wear. for he
declares that there seems to be, in the
churches, great strife raging. 1t is an
Austerlitz of ribbons. The carnage of
colors is seen oil over our religious as
semblages. Along on the outskirts of
the Sabbath audiences you see here and
there picket Of fashion, but down in
the middle of the church are the solid
columns, blazing away all through the
services. Five hundred "broken and
contrite hearts covered up in rainbows
and spangles. Followers of the meek
and lowly Nazarene all a-jingle and
flash. Furthermore, he says: We want
a great ecclesiastical reformation in this
matter of religious accoutrement. Shoe
these religious peacocks out of the house
Of God By your example, make sub
dued and modest costume more popular
than gaudy apparel. Do not put so
much dry goods on your back that you
Year: 1875

A correspondent. Of the Spectator
writes thai, 10 an article published in the
Lyon Medical for April IS, 1875, NJ.
Cheville declares that he has seen mare
refuse her food and kick her stall to
pieces from jealousy, whenever her
groom eoaxed and petted another horse,
her stable companion. He also says
that in a stable where a COW and donkey
were confined together curious scene
might be witnessed whenever the dairy
maid came to milk the former No
sooner was the maid seated on her milk
ing stool than the donkey would leave
Its stall, come close to the woman, and
rest its head on hers until she had fin-
ished milking, showing that the poor
animal was anxious to claim share of
her attention.
Year: 1875

Bayard Taylor says it is not generally
understood that woman in ancient
Egypt was honored and RESPECTED
equally as man. There was among the
Egyptians a lofty appreciation OF the
marriage tie The wife's name was
often placed before that of the husband,
and the sons often bear the names OF
the mothers, instead Of those of the
fathers. Women often sat upon the
throne, and administered all the affairs
OF the government The assertion we
so often hear 10 these days that woman
has always occupied position of sub
lection to man is glaringly false. In
ancient Egypt he possessed no impor-
tant right which was not shared by her.
Year: 1875

Mr.. John w. Swindells having dis
posed of his interest in The DALLAS
HERALD, from to-day the daily an,
weekly editions of that journal will b,
issued regularly under the manage
ment of the DALLAS HERALD PRINTING
COMPANY.


In assuming control of this old and
respectable journal, which for more
than quarter of Il ccntuary has 50
worthily ministered to the moral and
intellectual wants of the people of Dal-
las and vicinity, the printing compa'
my has no other ambition than to pub
lish good newspaper, and thus to ad-
vance the moral, intellectual and ma
terial interests of this community and
state. 1t is started in the interest of
no individual or political or business
clique, and while it will be democratic,
it will be sufficiently independent
to deal with the men and measures of
the democratic party as become citi-
zens who set higher value upon the
good of the country than upon the sue
cess of party. 1t will not feel bound to
support derelct officials because they
happen to have been elected by demo-
cratic votes, nor withhold commenda-
tions, honestly earned, by officials
differing from THE HERALD in politics.
1t will advocate every measure having
for its object the moral and material
advancement of society. twill be the
'unsparing critic of official derelction,
whether municipal, county, state or
national.


There will be no compromise by
THE HERALD with crime or i'm
morality. 1t will probably have
much to say in regard to criminal
justice in this community, as upon its
proper administration depends the well
being of society and our good name
abroad, which have been seriously
compromised by recent events in our
midst. In a word, an earnest effort
will be made by the present manage
ment to render TIE HERALD n useful
and welcome visitor to the ii; eside and
the counting-house. AS this has been
undertaken with no expectation of pc
cuniary reward, we have the right to
ask of the citizens Of Dallas and those
interested in her prosperity, for
hearty and generous support.
Year: 1875

crous heart In this county, and II h
confidently believed he will speedily
he released and allowed 10 return In
peace TO his new home"


Colonel llibhlcr was not fugitive
from justice In any sense Of the term.
He had committed no ollense save the
technical one Of homicide, and that
was clearly justiiiable.


During the late unhappy civil strife
there were many OIIenses, much more
serious than any that Colonel llibbler
has committed, and we hope to see the
mantle of forgiveness thrown over all
of them. All ollcnses committed prior
to the first of May, 1865, ought to be
amnestied, and If Governor Ames
should issue n proclamation Of general
amnesty, we feel assured il would meet
the appreciation of all right-thinking
men,
Year: 1875

IT is understood that the visit of ex-
Senator Matt. Carpenter to Milwaukee
is in the interest of the whisky ring,
that a suit to test the constitutionality
of the revenue seizures is to be insti-
tuted, and that heavy array of legal
talent has been engaged by the distill-
ing interest.
Year: 1875

Boss TWEED has grown so stout since
his confinement that it is next to i'm
possible to squeeze him into cell door,
and even If he could, the bed with
which each cell is provided is too mar
row for his bulky form, hence he is al
lowed to occupy a larger cot in the
hall,
Year: 1875

THE rich developments made in the
matter of smuggling and under-valua-
tions have given rise to the belief that
these practices are not peculiar to the
New York custom house, but that other
large ports will bear watching.
Year: 1875

The officer whose command gave rise TO
so much bitterness of feeling was the bril-
liant young MCPHERSON, whose death came
upon the country so grIevOus!y at the out
set of this campaign Hood had been ap.
pointed to command the Army of the South
in place of Joe Johnston. because of his be-
ing ''better fighter" Mcpherson and
Hood had been in the same class at West
Point, and when it was learned that Hood
had been given the command of the Oppos-
ing army it was agreed that we ought to be
unusually cautious and prepared at all
times tor sal3ies and hard fighting; for
Hood, though not deemed much of scholar
or OF great mental capacity, was undoubt-
edly brave. determined and rash man. 1t
was during the progress of sally suddenly
made by Hood tor the purpose of turn
ing Shermans rear that the noble
young Mcpherson lost his life. 1t was in
rha morning about eleven o'clock. Nc
Pherson had called on Sherman to talk
about the prospects of the day. They
walked to road, a short distance, and sat
down at the foot of a tree to study map.
There was an occasional musketry firing
and artillery, but suddenly in one part Of
the line an occasional shot began to be
heard. Sherman asked Mcpherson what it
meant. I'VE took my pocket compass"
says Sherman, which l always carried
with me, and by noting the direction of the
sound we became salts led that the firing
was to far to our left rear to be explained
by known facts, and he hastily called for
his horse, his staff and his orderlies. Nc
Pherson was then 10 his prime. about thir-
t. four years old, over six feet high, and a
very handsome man in every way, univer-
sally liked and had many noble qualities.
He had on his boots outside his pantaloOns,
gauntlets on his hands, had On his Major
Generals uniform, and wore sword belt,
but no sword. He hastily gathered his pa
pers, save one, which l now possess, into a
pochetbook, put it in his breast pocket and
jumped on his horse, saying he would hurry
down his line and send me back word what
this sound meant In q few minutes
Sherman, who in the mean time had gone
back to the house. alarmed by the increase
Of the mysterious firing, met one Of Nc
sweat. who reported that the General was
either killed or prisoner Mcpherson had
ridden ahead, giving an order to some
troops to hurry forward, and disappeared
in the woods, doubtless with sense of alb
s0,ute security. The sound OF musketry
was there heard. and MePhersons horse
came back bleeding, wounded and rider
less. Al hour atterward McPherson's body
was found. 4 bullet had entered MS body
near the heart, and Mcpherson must have
died il a few seconds after being hit. The
remains were sent back TO Marietta. and
from thence TO bis home in Clyde, Ohio,
where they wer6 received with great honor
and are now buried in a small cemetery
close 10 his mothers house. which cemetery
Is composed III part of the orchard in which
he used 20 play when boy.-Sherman's
Memoirs.
Year: 1875

The court record yesterday contained an
error which is quite important to the party
injured to have corrected. In the case of
John Cockrem. receiver of the New Orleans
National Banking Association, a judgment
was given against Fairbanks s. Gilman Tor
Sl0,0S7 -. The Judgment is all right, but
the report indicates that Mr.. Cockrem was
receiver of the New Orleans National Bank,
an institution whose financial basis is too
sound TO need any other receiver than its
own receiving teller. The correction is
made that the ccrresp pondents of the New
Orleans National Bank may labor under no
misrepresentation OF its condition in conse-
guence Of the error above noted
Year: 1875

zens by driving election judges from their
seats, stutiing ballot boxes and bribing a
jndge OF court will not go unrebuked by
the people of the United States II the
Democratic leaders in st. Louis had not
been awkward they would have indorsed
the Independent candidate Overstoltz, who
received the undivided support of the large
German population of st. Louis. If they
had not been corrupt and certain that an
investigation would lead to the develop
ment OF the grossest frauds they would
have permitted contest Of the election.
As it is they have shown themselves both
corrupt and awkward, and stand con.
demned before the country.-Clereiand
LeuHer
Year: 1875

EAyIGATIoE.-W We recently published
an article briefly setting forth the advan-
tages that would result to the people in
the opening Of the Sacramento river up
to the mouth of Middle creek, n point
nearly opposite TO Shasta. Acting on a
petition requesting a Government appro-
priation towards accomplishing this OBJ
ject, Congressman Luttrell has introduced
a bill into Congress appropriptng the
sum OF ten thousand dollars for a "survey
for the improvement of the Sacramento
river between Tehama and the mouth Of
Spring creek" 1t is to be hoped that the
appropriation will be made and that the
waters of our noble river will be utilized
in the interest of trade and commerce, to
the great benefit of our county in particu-
lar and the State in general. SHASTA
courier.
Year: 1875

Is tho spring tho German army as well
as the French, is to engage in series OF
military manouvers. In England much
suspicion is entertained of these military
displays, it being believed that they arc
but tho preliminary TO war.
Year: 1875

NoTwITHsTANDING that IL is the dead
of Winter the overland trains bring daily
on an average two car loads of immi-
grants, while the express trains carry
more than their ordinary Winter compile
mani
Year: 1875

A school not twenty miles from White.
ball, n Y, is presided over by a cross
eyed teacher A few days ago he called
OUT, That boy that | am looking at will
step out on the floor" Immediately
twenty seven lads walked out in front OF
the aoionished pedagogue,