smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1873

\ correspondent of the Norfolk Journal,
writing FROM Baltimore tells this story:


Some time during the last winter there
came to our city man from Norfolk, with an
Interesting family, consisting OF a wife aud three
daughters, the eldest probably not over ten or
twelve years of age. Like old Damos, the hus-
band and father came here to make bis fortune
He was good workman. and ne offered ln-
ducements to parties wishing watches repaired
or any work done in his line of business by ad-
vertsing to do it for one dollar, after the style
of Cheap John. The result was that very soon
he had good run of trade, and his friends
here who had known him iu Norfolk and Ports
mouth we're pleased with hisapparent success.
A few days since they we're startled at the an
nounceuent that he had pawned every watch
or other valuable that had been left with HIM
for repairs and had left at an unreasonable hour
for parts unknown. Be it said to his credit
that he carried bis family with him. 1t would
have been better for all concerned If he had re.
mained in Norfolk, where the temptatlen to
gamble is probably not so great as here. Or 1t
nav be the result would have been the same
10 either event. 1t is not believed by those
who know this man that he ever contemplated
such ap act when he offered such inducements
for work, but his fonduess for gambling tables
reduced his family to want to raise stake,
with the hope of extricating himself from the
net of poverty he was led to pawn one watch
after another until he launched into water too
deep, and here he was swamped.


An Incident in his life was told us to-day.
Several months ago he pawned several Of his
customers watches. They could not be had
when called for. Excuses were framed to meet
the demands. Those excuses were repeated
until the owners of the watches began to smell
mice and made formal demand. Then the
Cheap John consulted his lawyer and told him
his situation. He was advised to look for his
money where he had lost it, but 10 a different
way-to go to Dr. Slater and tell his situation,
aud ask for money enough to relieve him from
his difficulties This was done, and the result
vas satisfactory. The money was given aud
with it lecture upon the evils of gambling.
We are told that, instead of taking this money
and lifting the watches, he went directly TO
another gambling house and there lost money
given him to save his good name. The sequel
has been told
Year: 1873

BOSTON, Oct 81, 1873.
This afternoon in the Superior Criminal Court, the
trial OF Clint Peaslee, on an Indictment for main
tanning a lottery, was continued. Judge Aldricn,
in his charge, ruled that Peaslee maintained lot
terry II the disposition OF his candy had connected
with it q chance to obtain something beyond the
value OF the candy, no matter by what name the
business was called II the element Of chance en-
tered into 1t. The jury were out about an hour
and returned verdict OF guilty on the first count
OF the Indictment The case Will be taken to the
Supreme Court TO test the question whether Peas
lie els method OF selling candy Is lottery within
the meaning OF the sfatute.
Year: 1873

The following record will show the changes in
the temperature for the past twenty four hours in
comparison with the corresponding day of last
year. indicated by the thermometer at Hud
nuts Pharmacy. HERALD Building:-
Year: 1873

Break In sewing Machfnr Priccs.-Ouf
readers will he interested to learn that the FLORENCE
COMPANY have responded to the general call for lower
prices for sewing machines and will henceforth sell
their well known and superior machines at reduction
Of from 30 to 40 per cent from former prices.
Year: 1873

down to Agnesville, and he, Hood and
JohnstOne, had laid their heads togeth-
er to save me-


knowing that l was supposed by the
Duval family to be the eldest son and
heir, they arranged that he should per-
senate me until he had become suffi-
ciently acquainted with Marguerite to
find out which way the land lay. In
the course Of the evening he had quiet
ly told her that l was the younger son,
and that he had personated me in or
der to make the acquaintance o: one
whose beauty was of world wide re-
nown. So we'll did he do this, and with
such extraordinary tact, that he was
Immediately forgiven, and Mademoi-
selle Duval turned the whole battery
of her charms on him, as representing
the older son. She flattered herself
she had succeeded so well that, with.
out hesitation, she gave me my congo.


need hardly say it was case of
the bitter bit, and that my brother de-
parted and was never more seen by the
lovely eyes Of la belle Marguerite and
when, after some months, | heard of
the tickle beautys marriage to rich
merchant it was without regret, and
with devout thankfulness that nv
dreadful habit of unpunctualty had for
once saved me from u terrible error,
and With the conviction that man
may do far worse things than commit
the crime of being ten minutes late.
Year: 1873

In a lecture recently delivered in Bos-
ton Mr.. John l.. HAYES related as an an


ecdote OF the revolutionary period the
story of the whipping which King Will
lam w. received from Portsmouth
sailor bov. Nathan Lord, afterward a
prominent shipmaster of Portsmouth.
was a lad on one Of the privateers cap.
tured by British frigate. One day a
young Midshipman came near the pris-
oners, who were having an airing on
deck, and spoke sneeringly of "the reb-
els Young Lord, being a lad OF spirit,
retorted: IF it were not for your rank,
SIR, l would make you take back that
insult. "No matter tor my rank" said
the gallant, though arrogant, young
officer; ''if you can whip me, you are
welcome to do it," The challenge was
eagerly accepted. and the two had reg
ular sailors set-to. The Yankee was
victorious, and the Englishman acknowl-
edged himself beaten, and, shaking
hands with his opponent, said: "You
are brave fellow give me yonr name
and will not forget you" At the end
OF the voyage all the prisoners with the
exception of Lord were sent to prison.
The Admiral sent for him and inform
ed him that the young Duke of Clarence,
son OF his Majesty George III, the
young Midshipman with whom he had
fought, had requested that he be set at
large; that he was at liberty to go into
any part OF the Kingdom, and that the
Duke had placed a Go note at his service
Year: 1873

We were twins-my brother and |
but for all that he was ten minutes
older than myself. OF course, we were
the image of each other, and beng
strongly impressed with the fact, we
naturally grew up to admire each other
intensely. l never, however, quite for
gave him for giving me the go.by in
my entrance into life, until he squared
matters by outrunning me in another
race.


First. 1t is necessary TO tell you that
through whim of my mothers we
were christened by the respective
names Of Charles and Charlewood nv
fathers name was Manners my moth
ier, having been an heiress of the name
of Compton, had conferred it, with
herself, on my grateful father. Such
being tue case, the double patronvmic
of Compton-Manners descended to the
twin offspring of the illustrious couple
aforementioned.


pass over the school-days at Har-
row, year at Christ church, and final
iy, as we would have it so, our first
separation, my brother Charley getting
his commission in the guards, while l
contented myself with one in the rifle
brigade; and l had not been in that
regiment month before | became
fully convinced that the guards we're
nowhere as compared with it, and not
for gold untold would have exchange
ed my dark green for the gaudier trap
pings OF the household troops.


When l was about two and twenty,
it Glanced that my brothers battalion
of guards and my battalion of the rifle
brigade were ordered TO Montreal. 1t
happened to be about the time that a
certain political outbreak was feared.
and soon after our arrival at Montreal
l was sent on detachment to the town
of Agnesville, Canada West. For the
first week l fiirted generally; the Sec
ond week l began to reduce the circle
OF my acquaintance the third found
me in state of waver between two
beauties and by the end of the first
month l was. fguratively speaking, ON
my knees before Miss Marguerite
Duval. who, had now quite made up
my mind, was one of the most innocent
and simple-minded of her sex. She
was tall and light, with a graceful,
piquant head, crowned with quantities
OF silky hair, massed in an extraor-
dinary and mysterious way, all loops
and twists, and coils and sunshine.
Not was not dyed, and it WAS not
bought. She tainted in my arms once,
and, though it came tuulbling down in
glorious and golden confusion. it did
not tumble off. AS for the ewes, it is
simply impossible TO describe them.
They were everything By turns and
nothing long. Yes; they we're always
beautiful-melting. burning, laughing,
loving, scorning. They were large,
they were brown, with very large,
diIating irides, and they were guarded
by double file of lashes, long, soft,
and almost black.


When the rifle brigade had been
quartered there two months, it was
agitated among as that ball to our
hospitable entertainers would not be
only right and proper, but politic-in
fact, the only thing wanting TO restore
completely and Immediately that loyal
Year: 1873

VALUE OF SLEEP.-lt must be remem-
bered that sleep repairs not the vital func-
uon only, but simultaneously those func-
tlons which we diStinctively describe as
mental attributes and of which the brain
Is, to our limited comprehension, the
organic instrument. The intellectual
part OF our nature. taking the phrase in
ITS largest sense, is exhausted by its con.
tlnued exercise, in like manner as the
bodily organs, and requires the inter.
mlltent periods of repOse and repair, If
other proof were needed of tie great
function which sleep fulfill in the econo-
my OF life, it may at once be found in the
effects which follow the privation of this
repair. A single sleepless night tells its
tale, even to the most careless observer.
A long series of such nights resulting,
as often happens, from an overtaxed and
anxions brain, may often warrant seri-
ous apprehension, as an index of mis-
Chief already existing, or the cause of evil
at hand Instances OF this kind. we he.
lieve, are ia niliar TO the experience of
every physician. But here, as i'm so
many other cases, the evil of deficiency
has Its counterpart in the evil of excess
Sleep prOtracted beyond the need of re-


pair, and encroaching habitually upon
the hour OF waking action, impairs more
or less the functions of the brain, and
with them all the vital powers. This OBJ
servation is old as the day of Hippocrates
and Artaeus, who severally and strong
" comment upon il. The sleep of in
fancy, however, and that Of old age, do
not come under this category of excess.
These are natural conditions appertain-
ing to the respective periods of life, and
to be dealt with as such. In illness, more.
over. all ordinary rule and measure of
sleep must be put aside. Distinguishing
1t from coma, there are very few cases in
which it is not an unequivocal good !;
and even IN the cOmatOse state the brain,
we believe, gains more from repose than
from any artificial attempts to arouse it
into actiOn.-Edin6urgh Review.
Year: 1873

just such weather as this instills new
life and animation in man. and is apt to
make him frolicsome. 1t stimulates him
to racing, jumping up and down, clapping
his hands, and feeling good generally.
1t so stimulated one of eur merchants on
Friday evening, and led him to invite his
wife to catch him before he got around to
the back stoop. He started on smart run
and she bore down after him at a credita
BILE speed. He tore around the corner very
much in earnest, stepping on piece of ice,
swung from his foothold, and went careen-
ing across ten feeG of frozen ground, and
brought up with considerable force against
pear tree-a new variety, we believe.
Ii Was genial spectacle to see the fond
wife pounce on him. and hear her gleefu
shouts of victory as he struggled madly to
his feet and besought her ''not to make a
darn fool of herself. f."-[ Daabury Ne,os.
Year: 1873

A good mother was trying to explain to
young hopeful the other day about fight
ing against the devil. After telling the
little fellow who the devil was, and how
hard he was to successfully resist, he
turned around and said: Mama, I'd be
scared of the old devil, but if l was to
come across one of his little devils Id
knock the stuhing out Of him."
Year: 1873

The Young women Of the island of
Java have rather curious way of in
forming the young men that they are
dcslrous of entering the matrimonial
state. Some years ago our country
lasses were supposed to express will
lngness to cucumber themselves with
husbands when they adorned their tenn
pies with kind of curls called Beau
catchers, or when they wore a narrow
ribbon around the neck with streamers
floating behind which bore the inviting
appellation of Follow-me-lads. But
the Javanese beauties go to no such
toilet trouble or decorative expense.
When they become weary of maiden
meditation, and no longer care to be
fancy free, they declare the gracious
condition of their hearts by placing
an empty hower-pot on the portico-
roof.
Year: 1873

VIRTUES OF THE LEMON.-Says that
walkin. cyclopedia of health, DIR. Hall:
When persons are feverish bevond what
is natural, indicated in some cases by
a meta lie taste in the mouth, especial
~ after drinking Of water, or by whit
lSh appearance of the greater part of
the surface OF the tongue. one of the
best "coolers,' internal, is to take a
some loaf 81 ai{ ii, the top, sprinkle over it
the lemon with spoon, ana then stitk
1t slowly, squeezing the lemon and add
ing more sugar as the acidity increases
from being brought up from the lower
point. lnvalids with feverishness NAV
take two or three lemons a day in this
manner, with the most marked benefit,
manifested by a sense of cooIness.
comfort, and invigoration. A lemon
or two thus taken at tea-time, as All
entire substitute for the ordinary sup
per of summer, would give many
comfortable nights sleep, and an
awakening after rest and invigoration,
with an appetite for breakfast to which
they are strangers who will have their
cup of tea for supper or relish and
their berries or peaches and cream
Year: 1873

My brother was most agreeably as.
tonished at his hearty welcome, when
he appeared in the course of the morn
ing. l handed him the elegant effa-
sion above described, and on mastering
its contents he laughed till was fear
ful Of the consequences.


He then. by my request, told me the
whole story-how he had received a
frantic note from Johnstone relative to
my fOolhardy determination to fall into
the trap laid for me, now he had run
Year: 1873

Nothing is more haracteristie of tire age than the coolness with which bis fellow phi lanthropists witness attacks made upon Gen. Howard, the bright exemplar of the "Chris- tisn soldier" We hear of no subscriptions being taken up to make good his deficit, and neither synods nor presbytries, nor convoca- tions take action condemning his impious prosecutors. This cool ''going back on pal" would shock the most benghted denzens of Baxter street, and send a thrill of horro- through the chain-clad gangs of Sing Sins, whose sense of honor would at least induce them to share their lost Jimmy" with an un- fortunate comrade. Evidently, General How ard cast in his lot with heartless crew. After having been. for ten years held up to the American youth and the American savages as a perfect working model of the Christian vir- tues, he is permitted to become "frightful example of human depravity" without an effort on the part of his quondam friends to save him from his fate. This is sad, but its most unfortunate result seems likely to be somewhat remote one. When there shall be no more IIoYards, what then shall we do for our annual indian pilgrimages to Washing toni "Shall there be no more cakes and ale,h and must we forego the periodical de- light of gazing upon and metaphorically em- bracing our copper-colored brother--the scalper of the plains In spite of the grow ing sympathy existing between us, and re- gardless of the aptitude with which we have learned to "shoot on sight, are we to be cut of from sW.et communion with Comanches, and interviews with the amiable Apache Let us trust that other Towards will arise whose caution shall be commensurate with their Christianity. and who will not shock our moral sense by permitting it to be found out that they steal.-I Arcardian.
Year: 1873

We had Q good deal of trouble with our horse last summer. He was bob-talled horse, and it seemed to annoy him 90 much that he couldn't reach the flies which fat tened on his ribs, that it occurred 10 us to fix him up kind of an artificial tail to re- lieve the situation, as it were. So we pro- cured three feet of half inch rope, unraveled about eighteen inches of it, and spliced the other end to the horses tsl. This would have enabled hin to switch fly off bis nose as soon as he had acquired a little practice But our Irisbman, seeing the rope, and not understanding our motive precisely, concluded that we were trying experi- ments with some new kind of hitching strap to be used in the rear, and so he tied tue horse to the stall that night by his arti- ticial continuation. By morning the feed box was kicked to kindling wood, and the horse was standing on three legs, with the other leg caught in the hay-rack, while he chewed up four of the best boards in the side of the stable in front of him. Then we | got him up another rope tail, and ex- | plained the theory to our man. But the | tail bothered the hostler so much while currying the horse that he tied half a brick to it to hold it still. The conse- quence was that the horse, in a moment of | tACltcUcut, JcThCu Lue OIlCh uiOuhu ahu mashed in the Irishman's nose, and be sued us, and we spent two hundred dollars trying to settle the case. Then we bought bunch of horse hair, and spliced that on very neatly

 When our new man came be began to curry that tail, and it came off in his hand. HC thought it indicated diseased condition o the horse, and he gave him a huge dose O some kind of patent powder to improve tho animals health, and in half an hour the horse had convulsions, during which he kicked down the stable door, battered the stall into splinters, dislocated his off hind leg, and diet in frightful agony. Now we have bors, with long tail, and when we see peddle

 coming with horse medicine we send dos out to interview him, and lombard him iron the front window with a shotgun Maj Adelcr in N Y. Post.
Year: 1873

We had the pleasure of meeting Captain James this morning, who returned last night from bis expedition to explore the topogra

 phy of the Colorado Desert and determine the feasibility of connecting the waters of the Gulf of California with that vast arid basin. He is fully satisfied that there is no physical difficulty which cannot toe overcome

 and the only question is now of aspeculatiye character. namely, the meteorological effects of the creation of the vast new inland laNs. which would cover 8, 800 square miles of des- ert. There can be little doubt that the soil which would be reclaimed and rendered de. sirabc for cultivation in the immediate lit- toral of the projected lake would support a vast population where now nothing exists but a solitary waste. The climatic effect of so vast body of water on contiguous latitudes, would also inevitably be beneficial. There can hardly be any question that such body of water would have beneficial influences on large portion of Arizona, and on all the tier of counties in this section of our State

 Captain James tells us that no one who has not had practical experience on the desert can imagine the normal condition of heat which prevails there. The ground in mid. day IS hot enough to cook eggs and snakes, bugs, toads and all kinds of insects refuse to venture out of their holes until the evening has set in. This heat, intensified by the re. Traction of the vast desert, renders it unin- habitable for all living things, excepting the Indians who seem endued by nature to the exigencies of the zone in which their exist ences are cast. They will pass bareiooted over ground that would produce blisters or our feet at the first step Their hair is na turally long, and falls luxuriantly down thei backs. They plait it into thin strands, whicl give it a consistency that enables them tC make of 1t a perfect sunshade; and wher they are travelling toward the sun they vii throw it out over their heads so tha. it form, real protection against it's rays.

 There IS every evidence of past civiliza tion and great populousness in the place which is now desert. If all the crockery in the United States were broken up and scattered it could not cover so great space as the fragments of pottery of the lost in- habtants of this desert now cover Not merely are the utensils of an extinct civliza- tion to be found in these wastes, but the rel ics of great works of engineering, of aaue- ducts and embankments, and the earther lines which carry to us ideas of villages and cities can be traced at various points in ,hi: interesting region. ..e.-r...

 The expedition of Captain James has dem. onstrated what can be done, and the dues ton now IS merely whether there is enough general advantage to be obtained by flooding the desert to justify an expenditure which Government alone should make, and whicf 1t IS hardly questionable that private enter prise should not be permitted to undertake
Year: 1873

There were at the first annual State
Grange, held at San Jose, delega-
tlons; from l04 Oranges in California,
there. were also visiting brethren from
CT Oranges in Oregon and Washing
ton Territory.


In his address, the Worthy Master,
Wright, spoke on the subject Of rail
roads and monopolies, as follows:


1--WE do not make war against rail
roads and other internal improve
ments, but agains. the spirit of their
management. We do not make war
upon mere concetrated capital, called
under some of its forms monopoly
Capital and labor must 60 hand in
hand Tor the successful development
of any country. But we oppose the
tyranny of all such monopolies as be-
come oppressive. II we cannot Great
monopoly without making it op-
pressiye, we say don't create it,
If we cannot correct any existing
monopoly so that it will cease to be
oppressive, we say, put it down, if it
can be done. We do not make war
on Just freights and fair profits, but
only upon those which are made ex-
orbitant and burdensome by the men
who handle our productions and sup
ply our wants We do not wage war
against fair rates of interest, but we
do not think it right for the moneyed
men Of our land to get from twelve
to twenty.four per cent upon their
loans, aud spend their days in tapes.
tyide homes and luxurious offices,
while the hard listed sons OF the soil
cannot realize two per cent-nay can
not realize any profits as the reward
of that earnest and unceasing labor
which furnishes bread to the millions
of our race"


On the relation Of the order to poll.
tics, he said:


"The Oranges are not political or
ganization. They do not even allow
the discussion Of political questions
inside the Oranges, but as farmers,
who in the past have been an oppressed
class and have borne our oppression
too silently, we are allowed to say
this much III our present system OF
trade and our present political organ
izatious can be SO modified and con
trolled as TO secure what we justly
require and demand, we shall be con
TENT but If we find any system OF
trade or any political party standing
between us and our rights as farmers,
we say, in imitation Of our brothers
oil Illinois Let them all die"