smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1873

Tn sueal- Of tile amount duo the city by the Brook
lru Trust Company, tie Controller sand that the Com


is.ousrs ought TO ask for information in the matter
and should rd out something OF the affairs OF tie Com
pauy. lie had iu couAdcAce ia M CAauncey' the re-
cciycr but at the Same time thought il advisable to
make uouirics They should first satisfy themselves as
70 the securities possessed by the Trust Company and
he thought that hoy should all see Mr.. Cmuncoy for
that purpose They could then be better satisfied than
by the looking over merely Of any written statement


which he ni.nt make Itls understood that the course
suggested uy The Controller wiI be adopted
Year: 1873

How TO MAKE s5OO.-Buy for song,
stylish broken down horse, one that is pro-
nounced played out from lameness;-cure him


with bottle or two of Centaur Liniment, and
pocket the difference. The Liniment is simply
one of the wonders of the world Dumb beasts
neigh out their gladness, and the sore MANNED
and crippled of the human family hobble in
and 60 on their way rejoicing. Yes, it's won
Year: 1873

OFFICERS DANcE.-We call attention to the
advertisement in another column of the grand
military and civic promenade and dance to be
given by the past officers of military organiza-
tions in this city. It will be frst-class affair
in every respect. Every man whose name is ou
the committee is personally interested in the
success of the dance.s We trust that the In
fantry, Blues, Cadets, Mcclellan and Mont
gomery Guards will turn out in force and show
by full attendance their appreciation of their
officers
Year: 1873

TUESDAY. November 4th, 1873.


Our prophesied Indian Summer arrived
this morning about sunrise, beautiful and
mild, but there is no telling what day
may bring forth. We see clouds already
arising, and before the sun hides itself be-
hind the western hills we prophesy at least
a shower if not a storm.


We judge from the stir there is among
the candidates and their friends that to-
day settles the fate Of Minnesota and per-
haps the Nation; what an awful condition
our State would be in if our party should
fail Of an election. What tears Of regret
these old veterans. these Simpsons, who
for years have with the same weapon as the
Sampson of old stayed his enemies with,
been pummeling their enemies how they
will mourn if this fair State should not be
governed by their party. It is much to
be regretted that the farmers movement or
party Of reform, should have to carry the
weight of SO many worthless workers, for
an outsider can plainly see how heavy the
load Of such class Of political tricksters
must be to the honest worker for reform.
Keep them from the front and eventually
those who are honest and never can be
marshalled under such worthless leaders,
will stand shoulder to shoulder working
only for the general good.


Whisky flows bountifully. We presume
thst neither party are to blame for this,
for there seems to be class Of men
who cannot be brought to see their duty
only through glass of whisky. l wonder
if the Changers could not do something to
relieve the country of this unnecessary ex-
pense (whisky). We have one dozen places
in this town where whisky is sold and they
all seem to do we'll. Now who supports
these shops and pays their license? We
know that ours are supported by formers
to great extent; yes directly and indi-
rectly, and entirely. We think that this
tax the farmer might dispense with, by q lit
tie work for the Changers; presume the
tax paid by the farmers for whisky, Il
mean the amount consumed and paid for
yearly in this county, is more than all the
duty paid on manufactured articles, more
than paid to any railroad unjustly, and .
good many thousands over.


It is time for the battle to commence. l
must go out and see the fight; presume
it will be bloodless as all the cartridges
seem to be made Of paper our friend WAL
ton has but up many thousand. But nary
ticket straight farmers, and Walton is a
Granger, but Walton must learn to follow
his file leader or the old Bourbons must
be re-instated and show the -


Yours, B.
Year: 1873

Thirty-six young lady students in
the Medical class at the Michigan State
University remained unmoved during a
difficult surgical operation recently per-
formed by Professor MacLesn. who in
their presence, abstracted the greater
portion of the jaw bone Of a young wo-
man patient.
Year: 1873

The Casssc of Public Schools En Knox
| County and in Knexyillc-What Does


1t Require: -


Il answer 1.-The entire time of a compe-
tent, experienced and live school man as
superintendent Such an one could serve
both city and county. The work that ought
to be done, in addition to that required by
the State law, is of q very miscellaneous
character. He should meet with the School
Directors of each civil district, learn their
views and stimulate them in their efforts
for the advancement of the schools in their
respective districts address the people at
different points throughout county !;
visit each school in the county twice dur
ing its session; present in cheap pamphlet
form at the close of the school year re-
port of each school, commencing teachers of
superior tact and ability; hold number
of teachers, institutes or meetings for the
instruction of teachers in he best methods
of teaching the different branches, &C.,
&C., giving from time to time, through the
newspapers an account of his labor5, with
an official report of the same at the close
of the year in connection with his report
of the schools. The case needs just this
stimulus and agency at this time. The
city and county would find the eXpendi-..
ture of the money necessary to obtain such
service wise and profitable. 1t wasby just
such services in conjunction with some
other instrumentalities that the public
schools and cause of popular education in
many of the Eastern States, were speedily
brought, more than twenty years ago,
to such a position of excellence
and security, rs to require no
local supervision, the public senti-
ment and general interest in education
securing teachers of the very highest order
of qualifications, and hence, good schools.
With such aid and service as have spoken
of above, the,ycau would be advanced
more in a single year than in three or four
without it. There may be no legal way
by which such service can be obtained!
About this j do not now inquire, Ihntt !
simply point out what it deeply concerns
the city and country to have done, if pos
sible. Let us strive for the first rank in |
the State in the excellence of our schools.
1t is worthy and ennobling ambition.
And nothing else would give us more
valuabls reputation abroad than such a po-
sition, or have greater influence to bring
among us desirable class OF, citizens.


PRO Bono PUBLICO.
Year: 1873

In infancy, the mother should make it a
part of the daily care of the child to secure
to perfect cleanliness of its teeth Becom-
ing thus accustomed to it, the child, when
old enough to use the brush, will find it
impossible to feel comfortable after a meal
untilafter the teeth have been cleaned as
carefully as the face and hands. Small, soft
tooth brushes, and pleasant dentrifices, are
now manufactured exactly suited for the
purpose these, if the habit Of use is early
formed, will soon become necessity to the
child's comfort; and the practice thus
commenced will be almost sure to be con-
tinued through life.
Year: 1873

/ EDITORS CHRONICLE: Permit one OF
your humble patrons to put at rest the
minds of many of your readers in Jeffer-
son county. am opposed to frivolous or
malicious controversies, and wish to desist
from any further to do or say in this thing,
like childrens play, I do not wish to have the
last lick, but simply to let the people of
this county know that there is no contract
for barn on the county farm, and don't
know whether there will be during my
time in office. AS Alpha is little slow
about getting up the lumber, our second
rate army garden houses are in dilapidat-
ed condition, one of them having stood for
forty-five or fifty years, the other one about
twenty.


AS to letting the farm and paupers out
last fall, the keeper made the trade with
Hill, not me. All the proceedings were
presented to open Court and indorsed,
though the proceedings displeased some to
such an extent that they threatened to Pc
ton on Jefferson county for new set of
county officers.


We thought that little heavy for the
Mayor of cambridge to threaten us as we
were all acting under oath and doing what
we thought best. We thought it might be
economy to change the Doctor that had
been doctoring for five or six years in the
second rate army garden house for another
Doctor We never thought of offending
Alpha or we might have acted differently.
We had always been as true to Alpha as
the needle to the Pole, and would still
hate to hurt his tender feeling, owing to
our past and present relations. Then it
would be great pity for two great men to
fall out. We might do great deal towards
keeping the government together. Boath
high officials, he is Mayor and am stiled
Chief of Paupers.


Excuse me, as this is designed to be the
Omega of this controversy, will say moth
ing about dogs nor dog suits.


NJ. NJ. CORBETT.


March %, 1878. rre-p7 srR-rrss
Year: 1873

Thomas Velfe and wife, with family Of
small children, settled in this county, some
thing more than year ago, and being poor,
they, after many hardships, erected a small
dwelling and cleared a few acres OF land,
but they were in the wilderness, ten miles
from neighbors. A few weeks ago the
father and mother left their family, con-
sisting of a girl aged twelve years, one
aged nine years. and two other children,
aged respectively three years and thirteen
months. on trip to the settlement to get
cow and bring in some potatoes to plant.
After the parents had been gone few
hours, Tie house took fire, and the Oldest
girl Immediately rushed to the raOf with
water, but not being able to remove
the shingles, che could do nothing to stay
the flames which gained rapidly, spreading
on the inside of the roof until bursting
through, they drove her from her work.


The heroic girl now turned her attention
TO saving her brothers and sisters. Coming
to the door Of the building she found that
the child next to her own age had got out
OF the house, bringing the baby with her;
but the little three-year old had crouched
under shaving horse in the further corner
OF the room. There being no chamber
floor, the fire was dropping from the burn
ing roof between the child and the door,
and when asked to come it refused to do so,
saying. Il am safe here; the fire don't drop
here Our little heroine hesitated only
moment. but rushing through the falling
embers brought the little one to safe
place, both having their clothes somewhat
burnt


But now comes the hardest part Of the
task before her. Scantily clothed, and
with no food, she took the babe in her arms
and with the other children started upon
the trail for the settlement. After going a
few miles she encountered rapid stream,
swollen by the spring rains. so that in ford
ing it the water came up to her armpits
She first carried the babe across. and then
the little three -year-old, and lastly half led
and half carried her older sister through
the water to the other bank Three times
during the remainder Of the day she strug-
gled across the swollen streams in her way.
until night set in the deep forest surround
ing her.


Cold, wet and hungry, she sought place
to camp. and by good fortune found an old
camp. left by the Indians, upon which
about one-half Of the roof still remained.
Under this she placed her little flock and
then collected pine boughs and made a
rude bed. Placing the little one in the
nj : the heroic girl stripped off her dress
a..u ts,. : over the children. then cov-
oioi chen, with the houghs tn keep
.a'..- Ton. II" chill II ght air. and sat
0own beside them, 10 satcn through that
long, coIu nlsnt, comforting the little one
when it cried, and speaking words of cheer
to the elder ones. The long, dreary hours
of night dragged slowly by, and at the first
peep of day she resumed her toilsome
march, and had nearly reached the first
settler when she met her parents returning.
An older and a wiser head might have found
an easier way out of the dilemma, but we
feel certain that no one could have acted
braver or have endured more than the
little aughter Of Thomas Velfe.- Wisconsin,
River Pilot.
Year: 1873

fvien2a Correspondent New York Mail.


am sorry we are not represented in tele
things in America that would be worth
seeing. The French telegraphic depart
ment is the best in the exhibition, and some
of the inventions are exceedingly interest
ing. There is machine that prints an au-
tographic dispatch, not chemically, like the
other autOgraphic Instruments, but on
white paper with printers ink. 1t can not
be described in writing, and so l will not
attempt to say how it is made, except that
there is synchronous action of two rollers;
one may be in New York and the other in
San Francisco, or in any other two places
connected by a telegraph wire. A written
message, sheet of music, the portrait of a
burglar, anything that can be drawn with
a pen-nOt with a pencil-may be tele
graphed from one end of the world to the
other and reproduced with printers ink on
white paper, like that wheron the
patron OF the Nail reads this letter. Then
they have a machine by which four opera
tors can work over single wire at once in
one direction, just as one operator does
with us, and by putting on foar operators
the other way you can make the capacity
of one wire equal to that of eight by the
old system. We are now using in America
system by which a wire may be operated
both ways simultaneously. The French
machine is exactly four times ahead of US.
They have also an electromagnetic that
works over hundred miles of wire, and
they have machine that will tell within
half yard or so exactly where a pneu-
matte tube has become Obstructed Sup
pose you have tube between New York
and Harlem, and wad of paper, a rat or
something of that sort gets into it; you
don't know exactly where to lO6k for the
obstruction, and it is serious matter to go
and dig up from one end till you find it
possibly not a hundred yards from the
other. This achine tells you just where
to go, though it will not tell you whether it
is rat or . wad of paper that stops the
fuhe.
Year: 1873

The word cyclone has frequently, but in
correctly, been used as Significant OF an
enormous or very violent meteor, as If its
application was to be confined TO the de-
yastating hurricane of the West Indies, or
the terrific typhoon of the China seas. IL
simply means storm which acts in clf-
cular direction, and whose winds converge,
by radials or sinuous spirals, toward CEN
ter, moving in our hemisphere IN the oppo'
site direction to that of the hands OF a
clock, and in the Southern Hemisphere 10
a contrary direction. Taking this as de-
finition of q cyclone, it seems clear, from
observation alone, that all storms are to be


regarded as cyclone. Volumes have been


written to prove that this is not the case.
But we have only to examine lew series
of weather maps from week 10 week 10
see that, wherever you have an area OF low
barometer, into its central hollow the ex-
terror atmosphere from all sides viii pour,
and that in so doing rotary spiral or Vor-
ticose storm is generated. The tornado,
the simooms, the dust WhlrlWind, the
fire storm, even the slow and sluggish
storm which moves on our Western plains
as the laboring wheel of the steamship
buried in a heavy sea, all attest that body
cannot move on the earth's surface in a
straight line. 1t is not more true with us
that the Gulf Stream turns 10 the east
ward, the polar streana to the westward,
and the equatorial currents to the north
ward, than that every air-current, in obe-
dience to the same law, should turn to the
right of the line along which from any
cause it is called to move. The meteorist
has therefore only to ascertain by observa


ton where the barometer is lowest, TO
know at once the direction Of the winds
from the circumjacent districts, far and
near, or at least to test the mathematical
law by a grand experimental PopuLar
Science Monthly.
Year: 1873

Beecher on Sunday morning, took for
bis text, "Love your neighbor as yourself" ("


and made It the peg on which to hang these
sayings on family government:


Look at it in the household in the pro-


cess Of rearing children. When children


are not but are merely the shadOw of things


to come, while they yet lie helpless in the


parents arms they must be cared for, and


this must go on TO q certain point where


government begins. Just as soon as tie


child gets large enough the teaching of the


child to take care of itself begins: he is


taught how to walk, how to use his hands,


and after little time the child learning


some of the primary physical truths, be-


gins to learn moral and social truths from


another child just ahead of him, while an


other Just behind him learns Of MIN, and


the three have to get along together, and


by-any there are fives or six, and all have 20


live together, and so comes up the grad


ual developlnentlOf character upon the foot
ing ofself-restraiot, learning TO take care OF
self by suffering for self, and thati S the theo
of punishment in the family. Many per-
sons OBJECT to physical punishment for
children, but they might as well revile God
for making the child suffer pain when it
cbuulDtcS On q cbOucs Z uAiLoALucDb - ucc--
ed sometimes, and where it is needed use
it, and where It is not needed do not use it..
It is purely matter of practical skill and
wisdom. Use first so much as is necessa-
~ to accomplish your end-sO much and
no more. Ihave no doubt that aman, say
with great experience in the rearing of
child en-, might stop and reason with the
child, and so dispense with the rod: but
/ should like to know what woman who
has to work for aliving who has fourteen
should like to know what she
is going to do about it. (Great laughter)
You that have amplitude of means can stop
and blow the bubNl les Of society, but for 9TH
be afraid to dc what God does; all
creation is whipped by him, and you need
not be afraid to use the switch. Men say
it awakens more bal passions than it cures.
Well, that is because yeu don't whip hard
enough. All slight pinches, all slapping
sf the ears are denominations. You mus
aim to establish q counter-iritatiOn and
have It so. Those, then, can't be the points
inside and outside at the sane time: thor
,ughness in whipping, or nothing, that is
he rule.
Year: 1873

LITTLE Rock, Feb. An accident occur
red on the Ft. Smith Railroad about day
light this morning, 10 miles from the city,
ipjuring several persons seriously, but none
fatally. The engine run off the track while
rounding a curve and the tender and pas
senger coach were both turned upside down
as thew fell down the embankment.
Year: 1873

In a great many instances young
men spend half their lives in chang
ing from one thing to another be-
fore they learn what they are COM
petent 10 perform A correspon-
dent writes thus: AS a general
rule, the best place for young man
to begin life is right where he is
He need not 60 hundred, or two
hundred, or thousand milesI away,
from home to try the world; that
particular spot where he lives is q
part of the world, and just as good
Il place to try as some other par
ticular spot three hundred miles
off. In the Eastern States, where
society is settled, and things change
but little, where business is held in
fixed channels, and certain families
are supposed to have a prescriptive
right to do everything that is done,
there is not much inducement for
young man to remain at home, un-
less he possesses the genius and en-
enterprise to break through the tra-
ditions and regulations that hamper
him, but no such condition of things
exists out West; here everything is
new, fresh and plastic; and young
man may do his part in molding
things to his purposes. 1t is very
common mistake for youngsters
who haye not yet butted their ten
der heads against the hard angles
Of the world, to imagine they pos
sess superior talent, if they only had
an opportunity to exhibit it. Ifthey
live on farm, there is no chance
there to show their genius. If they
live in a country town, it is entirely
ly too small to spread their wings
in. They yearn for a great city
where talents arc Appreciated, and
imagine that there is the field for
them to rise to eminence and wealth,
and yet they had better stay right
where they are, and make their be-
ginning in the locality where they
were raised. If they really possess
genius or special aptitudes they may
first develope them and test the
metal they are made OF in the limit
ed sphere of their native place, and
If the experiment proves satistac-
tory, afterwards transfer them to a
wider sphere of action. Thousands
of young men who 90 to great cities
to try the world, find the world in
such cities too much Tor them, and
they learn too late that it would have
been better for them to make their
trial in a humber and safer sphere.
Neu York Herald
Year: 1873

thermore, as years accumulate be-
hind one, so does work. You have
done such q deal. 1t mounts up in
to something awful to think OF.
And this though very much Of the
work done leaves no permanent
trace, but just suf1ices to do what
is required by the day, and to keep
the machinery going. You have
written fourteen letters this morn
ing; you have visited. eighteen sick
folks this afternoon. 1t had all to
be done. Had you not done it, you
would have been miserable in the
sense of duty neglected. But there
is nothing to show for it. 1t is not
like the abiding pages OF incstima.
bic theology or mild morality,
which, being written, you lay up in
a box-the abiding memorial of pas,
labor. 1t frightened one, in the old
days, to hear a man in advanced
life speak of the work he had done
remember the sense of awe with
which / heard a clergyman of abou,
sixty years mention with no air ol
recording an exploiD that he had Al
one period Of his life, written one
hundred and fifty lectures on Saint
Paul's Gospel. | gazed upon him
with the feeling, And are you there
living to tell it?"
Year: 1873

suppose ladies thought they
looked marvellously stylish when
they first wore hoops, and used to
build cotton skirts with a tuck at
the knees, into which was run a
rattan that set out around them as
big as hogshead. And now they
gaze delightedly at the new fashion,
which demands perfect plainness in
the front breadths and an appear
ance Of being in the grip of some
monster hand, which inexorably
hangs on to their gown tails.


Dresses this fall have gored
front width, two narrow, straight
side widths, which half yard from
the waist run out in a big triangu-
lar shaped scallop towards the back;
two straight breadths and two side
cores form the remainder. Carry
ing the back out around the pointed
side-widths makes the skirt the re-
quisite length behind, then two
strings on these points, tied tightly
back underneath, gives this straight
ness in front demanded by fashion.
One ceep tlouncc all round, with
many dress makers, forms all the
trimming. Pockets, cuffs and revers
of velvet finish the waist, which in
most cases is open coat shape.
With the fall come importations of
grapes for bonnets. For elderly Ia
dies they seem very appropriate,
but feathers are far nicer. The
huge clusters of brown glass grapes
are stiff looking, and when accident
happens to those fruit trimmed hats
the carnage and destruction are aw-
full. A Paris milliner was trying
in July to make me believe l had
been created especially to crown my
brow, like she-Bacchus, with the
"vintage of Champagne" She piled
a chapeau heavily trimmed with all
species Of the grape family upon
my noble head, and when repudi-
ated the bacchanallan chaplet she
substituted another, and hung the
dcposed grapevine on a wire tree.
Its weight toppled 1t over, and with
crash of splintering glass the fra
gile fruit went to peices. Such an
other wreck a hat never made.
Countless bits of broken painted
glass, crooked wire and little dabs
of cotton were all that was left of
the beautiful. That act settled the
grapevine question for me. 1 de-
sire TO look like a crushed rose
when / meet a railroad disaster,
and wearing that hat during a col
lision l should resemble grape
vine that had been in a cat fight.