smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1873

The following is clipped from the
Paterson Guardian " In The shanty
which, in CALIFORNIA; early days, did
duty-as office for the banking, postal,
and express business Of Wells, Fargo
g. Co., in Marysville, there sat, one
Saturday evening, a misanthropic and
detected individual, whose long and
unkempt hair and beard, cowhide
boots, and rough dress bespoke the
miner For over an hour he sat there,
the picture of despair, with not word
or a look for any one present. Mn
ers came, left their dust Nck their
coin in return. aud exchanged greet
ing with all present, ssye the one
morose man, whose apathy nothing,
it seemed, could disturb. Finally
there entered young miner with
beaming face, who, after completing
his business at the counter, turned to
the agent in charge and remarked that
on the previous Saturday he had some
dealings with the bank, and thought
some mistake Lad been made in his
account. Guess not, said the agent.
.Our cash was all right, and | reckon
we keep our books pretty straight.
But upon the request of the miner
that the account should be examined,
the account was looked at, and it was
found that, through a clerical error,
the miner had been paid just fifty dol
lars too much. 'Thats just what |
make it, said the latter, and here's
your money With this he threw
down the gold and received the thanks
of the agent. While this conversa-
ton was in progress, the misanthropic
miner had preserved his look Of utter
indifference but, when he saw the
money actually returned, his face
frightened up, he rose slowly, walked
toward the honest miner with slow
and measured step, and said: Young
man, don't you feel awful lonesome
in this country?
Year: 1873

A GREAT prospecting expedition is being oreanized here, says the Pioche Record, to prospect for gold and silver the coming summer through Arizona and New Mexico. We'll known mining men are at the head of the movement. It is thought the expe- dition will leave Pioche about the nrst of May. They will start out provided with several months provisions and armed to the teeth--the intention being not to be turned back by hostile Indianss ta-
Year: 1873

PHEx1x, April 2S.-The weather is par ticularly fine just now, and crops are growing fast. Watermelon vines are con- mencing to blossom and a few young wa termelons have already appeared on the vines. Times are beginning to be little more lively in town than formerly as L ar vest approaches. Farmers are very busy procuring and fixing up their threshers and headers, and preparing for harvest ing generally. One new steam thresher and number of new headers have been brought from California to be used at his harvest. G. A. Wilson began cutting his barley last week, and some others are to begin to-day, so that in a few weeks the whole valley will be one great harvest field, and laborers will be in demand. The people of the valley intend holding social picnic on the first day of May on the grounds of J. Montgomery, close to town

 It is to be a universal affair, to which all are invited, but every person is expected to bring basket, not to eat solidarity, but to spread common table. The gentle Apache has been up to more deviltry. On Sunday before last they ran of eight mules
Year: 1873



 French critic must try again.

 A sickening commentary on our institutions, and what seems to puzzle the best of our fnanciers, is that these gold broker thieves are eternaIIy keep ing all legitimate business in a Hutter . the only one thing more disgusting is that ali nands immediately LOOK to general government for relief, as if our people are quite given over to cursing for the very trouble they themselves originate. These Bulls and Bears work for months and years to "corner things, and all the rest of the community admire it in silence, until the crisis comes. Then a grand howl--as at present.

 They have succeeded in as good as hanging another poor devil, and virtue is once more triumphant. It is morality in spasms; justice going it blind with a vengeance. A year from now Mrs. Fair will come over here shoot a New York "Chief," and be in demand at Niblo's-a la "Buffalo Bill" w.
Year: 1873

A PIECE OF WEDDING -CAKE.-We saw.
q piece of weddiDg-cake the other day
which had a somewhat remarkable history.
1t was made on the occasion Of the mar
riage of lady Of this city twenty years
ago, and sealed up to await the return Of
her brother, who was then expected home
in few weeks. The lady died fifteen
years ago, bus the cake was kept intact un-
til Monday last, when, as her brother is still
in California, and will probably never again
come East, it was removed from the case
where it had remained so long and sent to
hin-Bqnqor, Maine, Wig.
Year: 1873

The old superstition that cats sometimes
kill infants by sucking their breath has
been lately revived by story in Port
land paper, in which it is stated that a
babe was recently found dead in that city,
with large cat lying upon its breast. A
writer for the New York Tribune shows
that 1t would be almost impossible for a
cat to kill a child by sucking its breath.
Alluding to the Portland case he says:


II do not doubt the death of the child,
or that the animal was present at the time,
but that cat "sucked its breath" or
would or could do so, must be regarded as
a piece of gross superstitious ignorance I;
as such it is hurtful and ought not to
pass unchallenged, Death Is q serious
matter, and therefore this subject must
be treated seriously, otherwise it were
easy to ridicule the assumption made,
which do not now meet for the first
time. ul "ti =" ''i"


! Let me say, then, that cat could have
no possible motive for sucking child's
breath, even II it were possible to do so.
The breath Of any animal after it has en-
tered the lungs is disagreeable and poison
Gus, and we know of no creature with
liking for such air. .,t..-r ..-,,s IL,


Are we to suppose that the cat applied
itS III CiOoCiy W thiOcC VI tiC Ciiuu, niiu GA
hausted the lungs OF the latter by filling
its own? If so, what next? The cat
must breathe or die. If it breathes, the
child will breathe also and live. 1oi ~


But it may be said that the cat places
its mouth In such proximity to that of the
child, as to intercept the pure air and SO


'suck" In that which the child required.
This would involve the death of the cat
first, for 1t is the smaller animal and the
child's mouth must also be In the proper
position to intercept the pure air required
by the cat. That the latter, either from
malignity or affection, would voluntarily
suffer semisuffocation, is of course alb
surd. -.i-,
; In fact, the statement is absurd alto
gether, and it would require the clearest
circumstantial description of the way In
which the act was performed, and that by
disinterested observer, to entitle the as
sertion even to the consideration here
given. - The true explanation of the case
is doubtless very simple. The cat lay
upon the child's mouth, and so smothered
it, or upon its stomach and chest, and by
its weight tired the respiratory muscles
so that they gradually ceased to act, and
the poor little infant to breathe. Let me
say, in conclusion, that such accidents are
frequently facilitated by the senseless way
in which mothers and nurses place their
children, deeply imbedded in soft clothes
and pillows, depriving them, by so doing
of full supply of the fresh, pure air,
which Is their very life."
Year: 1873

The glass-blowers in the vicinity Of
Boston are making quite profitable job
out of the great fire In the shape Of curl
Gus relics. Their plan of operation Is to
blow bottles and other vessels Into all sorts
of shapes, resembling the result Of intense
heat, while the inside Is ingeniously filled
with liquids, from cheap whisky to castor
oil. Corks are inserted showing every
degree of burning, from slight scorch
to half consumption, while the contents
have the appearance of having remained
intact. These relics sell readily for from
70 cents upward.
Year: 1873

THE question, Of future punishment is
getting to be quite an interesting one
among Mcthodists, several prominent
ministers Of that denomination being
known and others suspected of holding
views on the subject which, according to
the orthodoxy Of the majority of the
Church, are heretical,
Year: 1873

SwINDL1NG-At an early hour this morn
ing Ia little after midnightl an apparently
intelligent and respectable iaboring man
came into the editorial rooms OF the he
PUBLICAN to give an item Of news. and this
is the item: Last night he visited lager
beer saloon and gave pretty waiter gir!
iso,calledj dollar after he had ordered
glass of beer or some other beverage. The
blandishing girl gave him back thirty cents.
thus deflauding him out of sixty cents. as
the price OF the drink was only dime.
Cpon his demonstrating against this
positive swindie. the officer in charge
Of the saloon put the man ont
and refused to arrest the modes. sw:E-
dler. Our advice 20 this hard working man
is to stay ont of lager beer saloons. or any
other place where swindles are perpetrated.
and save his money for the education OF his
children and support of his family.
Year: 1873

At Adamsville, Ohio, Mr.. A. j. Wine
has well which latterly proved great
disaster. 1t was thirty-five feet deep, had
long been in disuse, and was nearly dry.
He was engaged in digging it deeper, and
there was windlass and tub for draw
ing up the dirt. The workmen, being
otherwise engaged, had not touched 1t for
several days, and daughter of Mr.. Wine,
a young lady of eighteen years, thought
she would put some butter at the bottom
of the well to keep it cool. She per-
suaded her brother, young man of
twenty-One-ath home from college during
vacation-to let her down in the tub. She
took the butter down safely and deposited
ing her up, and when within few feet OF
the top, the young lady became insensible
and fell out of the tub to the bottom. The
young man raised an alarm and the father
came. He let his son down, and before
he could secure his sisters body to be
drawn UP, he was lying senseless at the
bottom. The father then raised an alarm,
and the neighbors came. A young man
who was very intimate in the Wine fam
lily, and probably loved one of them,
agreed to go down the well to bring up
his two friends. He was let down as
young Wine was, and like him stayed at
the bottom. Onl ly then it seems to have
occurred to anybody that it was foul air,
and that this going into the well was GER
tain death. The deep hole had already
swallowed up three estimable young peo-


pie. A fourth went down with more care
and proper machinery for graphing, and
| finally all three were brought to the sur


face, dead! The young lady was much


ADMIRED In the country round, and the


two young men who lost their lives In


irving to save a sister and betrothed


were Of great promise. The affair caused
inconsoisble family grief, and greai
public distress In Adamsville.
Year: 1873

1t is often to us a subject of surprise to
find so few persons, especially those re-
siding in the country distance from nur-
series, who attempt to increase their stock
Of shrubbery by layering the branches.
Almost every variety Of shrub can be
thus multiplied. Even among those who
do this it is not often that the queen Of
flowers, the Rose, is thus treated. 1t is
usually propagated by sticking cuttings
from the new wood in August and nurs-
ing carefully through the winter. By
layering the growing branches, however,
it is by the succeeding season q bloomer (;
and this too can be done easily, that is,
without the use of sash or hot bed,
usually resorted to with the cutting. In
laying down, take sharp knife and slit
the part of the branch that enters the
ground, from one joint to another, then
cover with two inches of soil and fasten
down with forked stick. Not only
roses, but almost every kind of shrub car


be thus propagated. And the person who


does not know how to do this, should &c


without them all the days Of his life.-
Germantown TELEGRAPH.
Year: 1873

estate, which b going to rack and ruin,
and transform It by Ma elArgy and brain
into home of wealth and ccm1brt for
Fanny. u


7 never saw my little humming.bird
look prettier. than when she stood by
Harry, blushing and smiling under her
white bridal veil and wreath. This morn
ing they left US on their little tour, and
l felt the arms of Fanny around my neck
with a pang at my heart. The very sun
shine seemed to 60 away with her,
Hearth and Ho,ue. :. -
Year: 1873

SIX roughs penned Natchez reporter
in an alley and were thinking how they
would batter his head, when four of them
fell into an old sewer and woman scald-
ed the other two. 1t does seem as ifProv-
idence was on the side of reporters,
Year: 1873

The new postal card does not seem to
be understood In Augusta, Ga. A young
man of that city received one on Satur-
day, and after tearing at it for some time,
said to a friend standing by: "See here,
Jack, l can't get the darned thing OPEN"
Year: 1873

Yesterday noon large, stout, and


but for his bloated appearance, prepos.
sessing looking man, asked patrol


man to direct him to the station house


This the officer did, and to the sergeant
in charge the man stated that his name


was Alfred Barrett, his age forty-eight


and that until a few months ago he was
a commission merchant in New York
city. For some reason, which he de
clined to state, he had of late beer
drinking heavily, ana in hopes that 6
change of scene might be of benefit tC
him in his desire to reform, he hat
come West, but without avail. In yail


did he hourly resolve that he wonlt
never again touch Intoxicating bever
ages; he had not the power to withstand
temptation, and he at last realized how
ahject was his bondage to rum. HI
was entirely penniless, but said he coult
obtain all he required by sending to
friends in the East So strong was his
desire to reform, however, that he hat
decided to remove himself from thu
path of temptation, and asked that h(


might be sent to the House of Cerrec


ton for month. To this end charge


of vagraRcy was preferred against him


to which he said he would plead guilty


this morning, ard he weEt to his Gel


with the bearing of mali who had per
| formed righteous DUTY. s-
Year: 1873

THE New DIET KlTCHEN.-Those who Ia.
bor among the dependent poor must have fire.
uucn,ly felt the necessity of some organized
nup for providing suitable nourishment for
The SICK, or have seriously lamented the made
Iuacy Of both medicine and careful treatment
to combat lack of proper food. This necessity
will be successfully met by a scheme recently
proposed Tor establishing die! kitckens through
out the city, which are to become adjuncts to
the different d!spensarles. This need is mostly
felt among the children Of the poor


The scheme in question was suggested by
the visiting physicians of every leading city
dispensary, and endorsed by so many of the
leading medical men in the city that it would
be nvidious to pame them least few might
be omitted. 1t took form in the incorporation
recently of society named '"fhe New York
Dict Kitchen" which designs to establish q
diet kitchen in some central place in each dis
pcnsarY district.


Each kitchen will be under charge of com,
rcteut matron, aud will honor written requisi-
tous upon it by the house or visiting physi-
clans Of the district for Cruel, paDado, beef tea,
icIics aud all matters of curative diet. Of
course this can only be accomplished by the
aid of subscriptions and donations; By the
terms of incorporation any annual subscriber OF
only three dollars becomes a member


The late DR.. Valentine Mott used to observe
that to the sick poor suitable food was the best
medicine How few OF them can obtain ap-
propriate diet for tevers, exhaustion and the
variety Of disorders induced by impure air and
toil.-Ne,c York Herald.
Year: 1873

Reflect that Il sound mind and body are the
most necessary requisites to promote connubisl
happiness. Indeed, without these the journey
through life becomes weary pilgrimage, the
prospect hourly darkens to the view, the mind
becomes shadowed with despair and filled with
the melancholy reflection that the happiness OF
another is blighted with our own.
Year: 1873

Reflect that :. sound mind and body are the
most necessary requisites to promote connubIal
happiness Indeed, without these the journey
through life becomes " weary pl srimnSc, tho
prospect hourly d,rkcns TO the view, tho mind
becomes shadowcd with despair, and flied with
the melancholy reflection that the happiness OF
another is blghtod with our own.
Year: 1873

A MAN WITH Is YEARS EXPERIENCE IN THE
N Wholesale business wants partner TO JOIN him in
the commission business, with capital make advances
goods thatis competent TO take charge OF books
ufhce.
Year: 1873

Politicians have looked with more
or less concern upon the organization
of farmers clubs in the Western
States, lest by some possibility they
hereafter be used for or against some
aspiring statesman. l am free to say
l can see no reason why such assOci-
atiOns should not be formed. We
have legal and medical, ministerial
and trade associations, and why not
farmers as well have confidence
that the agricuiturists are as sensible
as other people, and do not believe
they can be used by designing men for
personal ends, or for any purpose other
than for their own and the public good.
Worthy and reputable public men need
not fear their influence. II only bad
men are retired by their action, no
harm will be done. By well organ
iZed and proper associations, inteiii'
gent farmers can impart valuable in.
formation to their neighbOrs. When
any important interest requires an ad-
voeate, the ablest representative can
be selected to present the case. There
is no reason why such organizations
should degenerate into political ma
chimes, any more than in the case OF
lawyers, doctors, and ciergymen. The
farmers and mechanics Of Ohio will
soon have their own college, open and
free to AL, where their sons can be
educated for lives Of usefulness-eitheI
for the occupations Of their father, OF
for any other honorable avocation in
life. As the means Of knowledge
multiply, we hope and believe the
standard Of Intelligence will be elevat
ed, and that prosperity and happines'
will abound in proportion to the prigi
leges enjoyed.


1t is gratifying to know that th'
value Of farming lands in Ohio has in


creased more than two hundred pc
cent, in the last ten years. The yalu'


of farm products amounts to S2OO, 900


600 annually. see il estimated tha
at present one hsif the amount raiset
Year: 1873

lhE DEAD FISH IN TIE BRANDYwINE.--The
dead hsh have ceased to float down the BRANDY :
VINE VINE ana the water has resumed its usual purity
KNOWN but the matter Will be fully investigated
Year: 1873

We see It stated that the Rtna Insurance Com
Eany of Hartford has been obliged to pay $1,000
on policy which never was issued, and which Il
never intended to ISSUE A special agent took
the application of man ut Prairie Du Chem and
sent it to the general agent, who sent 1t to the
home Office. The home office declined the risk,
writing upon 1t, ''not approved" !" and il was re.
turned to the general agent, but the latter ne
elected to notify the applicant. The Judge Of
the United States District Court Of Wisconsin
ruled that it was their duty to notify the appli.
can't within a reasonable time of non-acceptance
that the failure Of the agents to notify was the
failure Of the company likewise. This piece o
information may be found as valuable to those
applying for insurance as to those who insure.
Year: 1873

NAN BLINDED BY A bLAhr


On Saturday morning last, as some laborers
we're filling drill hole preparatory to blast in
quarry at Front and Broom streets a premature
explosion ensued. AbrAm Anderson, a colored
man 70 years of age, and boarder at Water and
ratnall streets was tamping at the time. and one
hand was very severely burned and himself
blinded ia both eyes 80 that he could not see at
all: His physician, however, thinks ae will re-
gain his sight after a time, though up to this
morning there was no improvement in his CON
dltlon. Several boys are powder marked.
Year: 1873

The foll,wing ten rules, applicable to sitting
hens aud young chickens, were contributed
to the Mobile Register by lady:


l. Never set hen in close box; give her
plenty of room to turn about; she will not do
well if cramped o. crowded.


g. Always set her on the ground, if possible.
The eggs will hatch best with the nest direct
ly on the grouud.


2. Don't give any hen more than thirteen
eggs for sitting. know fifteen is the rule,
but experience has taught me to consider fit
teen just two too many.


4. Be careful to mark the eggs, for other
hens are apt lay in the nest with your sit
ter, and unless the eggs are properly marked
you might not be abe to identity the new
eggs. You understand tha' eggs laid to a
sitting hen must be promptly removed.


5. Make a record OF the time when you set
your hen, in order chat you may be looking
out for The hatch ng.


o. Some eggs will invariably hatch a little
sooner than others. Remove the young chick.
at once, and keep them from the hen until al
are hatched. Ii you do not the hen will be
likely to quit the nest with the first comers
leaving the unmatched chicks to chill and die


7. Don't pick at the bills of The little chick
in an effort to remove what some people cal
the pip" IL is all right and will disappear
as soon as nature requires.


s. Never undertake to feed your sitting
hens on the nest-it is poor way. Let them
come off for their food-they will not stay of
too long. Nature knows what she is about.
The eggs require about the amount Of airing
they receive while the hen is off Tor food.


9. Sc, that the hens do not run about too
much while the chicks are yet young-it WILL
cause them to droop, and will sometimes give
them disease called the ''spraddles"


10 Feed YOUR young chicks on corn meal
mixed with pure water, and don't mix it TOO
wet You want it so that it will crumble.
Year: 1873

A Brooklyn man mas been obliged to curtail
his wife's allowance of pin money in conse-
quence OF the enormous Ring-stealings and
the continued high price of good whiskey.
He says economy is the road to wealth.
Year: 1873

Among many things it was said that the
Shah Of Persia, having been induced to taste
the German porter-beer during his visit to
Berlin, at once ordered dozen bottles to be
forwarded to an uncle in Teheran, whom he
suspected of growing too popular during his
absence, adding. as he pocketed the receipt
given him at the parcel delivery office. IF he
can stand that, have nothing more to say,
and must bow to the viii of Allahr'
Year: 1873

Railroads arc not tho only corporations the
assessment Of whose property will give tho State
Board of Equalization some trouble. In the
rotrrns made to tho Board from Cook County
capital stock Of any Of tho corporations in
tho county. Not moro than ono-fourth of tho
counties OF tho State haze made any assessment
Of such property, md even in those that have
done 80 it iB said that the assessment by no
means covers all tho stock.
Year: 1873

Tho pressure upon our coumna on Sunday morning
Is great TINT we compelled to request advertisers
to send In their advertisements for that Issue at
early IN hour possblc In order that they may with
certainty secure tue proper classification.