smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1875

had just been one year in l1dia,
and | felt that it was high time for
me TO mount the steed in pursuit of
the wild ho-, charge an elephant in
to sugar-cane plantation after a
tiger, or at any rate, flesh my virg n
spear at an antelope hunt.


Que day, therefore, after an early
breakfast, | set forth for good days
sport, accompanied by my friend,
Halse, an elderly subaltern Of cele-
brated experience, not only as a shot,
but as jolly comrade. The jungle
near our encampment, at the village
of Cooloor, was said to abound in
game, but we did not find the ground
answer our expectations i cannot
say much for my success; it 81 hap
pened that could not manage TO
kill, or even wound, what | aimed at
The hares had knacK Of getting on
scct-free that puzzled me; somehow q
branch OF a tree, or the shadow OF
one. kept constantly interfering be-

tween me aud my object, and then
the unaceountable visibility OF my
companion when be happened TO
witness nv discontinue, male me
nervous; and was safe to hit some
innocent bush, or, as be said) dis
charge my piece at the sky, to my
great confusion. Presently we tell
in with partridges, green pigeons
and 90 end to quails, and due havoc
did Halse make among them, whilst
all my shot seemed to melt innocent
" into the air.


At length saw through the trees
stately bird as large as a turkey
| had heard bustards described ID
glowing terms, and made sure that
this was one it seemed SO tame
and fearless that felt certain tnat l
could knock it down; 80 saying notn-
ing OF my discovery to Halse, 1
sneaked off towards the creature
Year: 1875

To TIE Editor Of the Herald:


lido not wish to enter into any contro-
veny with Mr.. Croziep Of whom i have
heard for the first time to-day, Ny letter
had no direct bearing upon patriotism and
things Of that kikd. I wish merely to say
that the good taste Of the city is little
shocked; something like it would be If
our worthy ministers, however fine their
sermons might se. should preach to us in
red coats, blue vests and white breeches.
From the tone Of Mr. Croziers letter, I
see that he imagined himself writing
against an ex-rebel. l will state that. I
was born and raised ten miles from the
city of Boston, but cannot afford 10 let my
patriotism lead me into wearing tri-colored
neckties, or stripping my face with red, white
and blue. Put them on a piece Of muslin
ia the shape Of the stars and stripes, and I
am willing to pull off hat to them at
any time, if it is not raining, and I show
my country any respect thereby but put
them ON pickets, l cannot stand off and
admire them with Mr.. c.


Yours truly,


HAUTH.


NVv
Year: 1875

The, coming circus advertised very etlcc-
lively last evening, if we can Judge from the
large crowd that collected on Market street
to witness the calcium display from the
Delaware House. Especially did it delight
the coOred population who, with profound
commen's in the most amusing dialect,
watched the In coming of the elephant and
outgoing of the monkey. The motley assen :
blage was even greater than that n the prc :
ce1ing evening.
Year: 1875

This department II ths paper win b
open at all times To those who wish 40
furnish Communication for publication.
But the editor reserves to himself the
right to accept or reject The name Of
the author must invariably accompany the
article, and manuscript should be written
upon but one side Of the paper.
Year: 1875

Ez- A remarkable article called fish
-four has been brought forward in the
last few years. It is not yet manufac-
tured in any great quantity, as the ar
ticle is still new in the market, and con-
sequently there is no great demand for
it. The -four is prepared from dried
fish OF the first quality; it is thoroughly
dessicated, and then ground in a mill.
Year: 1875

After the battle is over, and while
the victors are singing triumphant
p@ans to the funeral dirge of the de-
feated, We are beginning to learn the
causes which led to victory and de-
feat in Ohio. We say causes because
it appears more than one conspired to
secure the Democratic issue-the rag
baby-was the heaviest milestone tied
about the Democratic neck, but there
were others and together they were a
load that no party could carry and
win the race. II the order of their
Significance these causes stood as fol-
lows: Initiation, Temperance, Division
of the school money. The initiation
proposition was generally unpopular
throughout the State. 1t had oppo-
nents everywhere and in every party
and organization. The advocacy of
this measure lost the Democrats ma
ny thousand votes and was the prime
cause of their defeat. Hamilton c0un-
tyin which Cincinnati is located elec-
ted the entire Republi can ticket and
people at distance from the scene of
action wonder what transferred the
heavy German vote of this county to
the Republican side. The detection
was in the main induced by the last
two causes named. A radical temper
ance candidate may always count on
losing the entire German vote. The
Germans do not believe in extreme
temperance measures. They do not
assume to dictate to any one on this
subject and they deny the right of any
one to- say that they shall or shall not
drink in moderation. The Democrat
ic candidate for Lieutenant Governor
was temperance extremist and this
lost the ticket the German vote. The
third and last milestone was the de-
mand of the Catholic church for an
apportionment of the public school
money to which demand certain of
the Democratic candidates manifested
disposition to accede. This propo-
siUion W as opposed by the German
votes and many others. This lost the
party votes more than sufficient to
have secured it the victory. No sane
managers of party could hope to
keep it afloat with these three great
weight about its neck. The candidate
or party who shows the slightest dis
position to divert the public school
money from its legitimate purpose af-
fords the most unmistakable evidence
of being unsafe and unworthy of pub
lie trust or confidence. On no other
one subject can the interests Of the
people be more vitality touched and on
no other one issue can they be more
thoroughly aroused.
Year: 1875

Our people seem hardly aware Of
the railroad progress steadily going


forward In their midst. The South
ern Pacific Company is pushing the


work on the great road which will at
no distant day become the grand trunk


and main thoroughfare between the
Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. The gap
between our city and San Francisco is
rapidly closing. Every man, cart and


animal that can be used in preparing
the road bed through Tehachape Pass
is constantly employed and in few
months the whistle Of the locomotive
n will be heard on the Northern edge of
Tee Mojave desert. Once through the


sad building is comparatively
FINE MET. the Eastern base of the San
rhe Rest isnge is reached The tun-


he summit of these hills
ready st one hours notIc;d as speedily as men
FURNI TURE WSSroSd WSst the u. gap pAe setween sDm,
No. is Main stCaliente shall be
Nsarthe Pico House next July and
Year: 1875

the energy now displayed is a guar
antee that the promise will be re-
deemed. But it is to the progress of
the road Eastward that we wish more
particularly to call the attention of the
HERALD's readers. The track is now
completed to a point seven and half
miles East of San Gorgonio Pass and
about ninety miles East of this city.
The grading is done and the road bed
ready for the ties and ironsome thirty
miles beyond the end of the tack. We
unders tandfrom the Off Q of the road
that it is the intention of the COM
pany to continue road building until
their locomotive stands on the bank
of the Colorado river. Thirty miles
added to the track already down will
extend the road beyond the sand belt
and turn the trade and travel of Ari-
zona over the Southern Pacific and
through Los Angeles.
Year: 1875

NEARLY or quite one year ago the
HERALD pointed out the fact that a
stock board would be an accommodating
institution,in this city. Many of our
citizens deal more or less In mining
stocks and board here would save
them the trouble and expense of tel
egraphing and writing to San Fran
cisco. But the great advantage which
we should derive from the establish
ment of stock board here would be
the creation of a home market for the
sale Of the many rich mines which
are now developing in our imme diate
vicinity. The great bulk of the mon-
ey for which the stock sold woald re-
main in this city.
Year: 1875

THE HERALD's suggestion that the
Council postpone the time for collect
ing taxes for one month is generally
approved. Although times are rapid
ly improving money is really very
scarce and we are assured that many
property holders cannot pay their tax
es without sacrifice. A staving off of
the final day of payment for one month
will reach period when money
will be more abundant and times ea-
eier.
Year: 1875

ADVERTISING is safeguard against
failure. The Sheriff never has any
thing to do with firm that is not too
parsimonious to let the people know
what it has for sale. A liberal invest.
ment has made more fortunes and
built up more business-than years Of
patient industry and closest economy.
The careful observer will notice that
newspapers never lose anything by
houses that fail. They don't adver-
tise and of course they don't sell goods
enough to keep up their business.
Year: 1875

IT now seems probable that the
Council will take early action on the
proposition to light the streets during
the Winter. Itappears to be the gen.
eral wish of the citizens that some
light be thrown on our dark streets
and by-ways.
Year: 1875

Pitman's wood pile has suffered good
deal lately from the rayages of thieves, so
the old gentleman, the other day, ioadci
his gun with coarse salt, and expressed his
determination to lombard the first man who
should be observed to haunt the timber
On Wednesday he attended court. and as
he did not expect to reach home until late
in the evening, Mrs. Pitman felt it her duty
to keep an eye on the woodpile. But Pit
man returned about dusk, and as he walked
through the yard he thought he might as
well carry in enough wood to last all night
He had just placed the fourth stick upon his
arm when an explosion occurred, and the
same instant he felt as if u million red hot
darning needles were dancing up and down
his lees. He had heard from Mrs. Pitman.
He yelled with pain, and dropping the
wood, most of it upon his toes, he fell to
the ground. just as ne did so he saw Mrs.
Pitman standing in the kitchen doorway
with frearm at parade rest and con-
templating her victory and her victim with
serenity. Pitman's first thought WAS that
she had suddenly been animated by an in
sane but judicious desire to realize upon his
life insurance policy. But when he scream
ed to her, she dropped her artillery and flew
to the scene with expressions of alarm and
grief at the discovery that she had pcrfors-
ted Pitman. She called the servant girl,
and as they carried him into the house, she
explained that she had mstoo', him for
thief and then she apologized pitman
said it was all very we'll to apologize, but
what good was that to a man with two
| quarts Of salt and q half pound of gun
wads in his legs. Mrs Pitman insisted
that he oughn't to mind little salt, it
would do him good She urged that salt
was better than anything else for preserving


meat, and that his legs would probably be
alive aud well and prancing around the uni
verse when the rest Of him was dead and
spoiled. That made him mad, and after
splitting up his gun with the axe, he went


to bed, and ne hasn't spoken to Mrs. Pit


man since but he has limited gloomily to


the doctor ifa divorce can be had he viii


obtain one.
Year: 1875

GUS this noble Girl has made her own
living for meuy years and no one can
say aught against her she does not sew
for living neither does she make hats
But she simply does House work she can
turn her hand to eny thing about a house
Cooking washing iorring scrubing or
Milking Chirning or sewing or fancy
work my wife said she never saw more
Perfect Lady in her life She goes Bout
her work for more cheerful than those
Porlar orniments aud wall flowers 90 to
the Pians She all ways welcomes with
smile she keeps the house cheerful with
her cheerful noise singing But with all
her Cheerinlness there is some thing
about her luvly face that shows sad
Grave look as though some Cruel knife
had Pearced the true Pure heart / will
not give her name she is inmate Of the
house Of - and is much Beloved by
all the family the treat her as they do
their own Daughter she has the Noblest
OF Blood in heir veins.
Year: 1875

between them quantity Of air is in
closed sufficient to enable two men to be
under water all day without exhaustion.
The poisonous gases exhaled from the
lungs are absorbed by a chemical con-
trivance whose efficiency has been we'll
tested in connection with other inven-
tions.


The new graphing iron and bell
promise to be Of great value, not only
for the purposes to which such in
strumenrs are usually applied, but also
in obtaining coral and pearls--a business
which has been carried on hitherto at
much risk, and with considerable loss Of
human life.
Year: 1875

New York Ledger.


The great difficulty in this country is
that we have no time for anything The
very walk of an American shows that he
is in a hurry. An Englishman buttons
his coat and goes TO business as deliber
ately as he goes TO church. An Ameri-
can business man q es after the car,
struggling with his coat sleeves as be
runs, plunges in head foremost, and
plunges out at the other end without re
gard TO his neck. Chief among our ac-
cidents stands those which occur because
people jump upon flying trains or after
departing boats. To walt tea minutes is
something not to b' thought Of Dinner
is not eaten, 1t is swallowed whole. an /
when one comes to the desert he finds
the fruit was picked before it WAS ripe.
Everything is hurried through from the
building Of house to the curing of a
ham The women who work on sewing
machines stop before they come TO the
end of the seam. The dressnaker sends
home your dress with bastlng threads in
it, and no loops to hang il up by. There
is none of the slow, sure completeness
Of the old world about anything, and even
fortunes are generally made in hurry,
aud lost in the same way. II any man
we know is getting rich by the slow and
patient process of saving, be sure that
he was not born upon this continent
Yet people live as long here as they do
anywhere else, and the days are the
same length Why is it that we have no
time for anything2
Year: 1875

WILL TWO YOUNG LADIES, BLACK VELVET


w and brown dresses who got out Of omnibus about
O'clock Yesterday and went 10 jewery Maiden
lane let the gentlemen know when and where they
will meet them. Address JAMES X, Herald Office.
Year: 1875

ESPECIALLY ASSORTED FOR SCRAP
BOOK KILLUSTRATTONSA AND DRAW


ING CLASS COPIES.


A large collection of pictures of different
Lies and on almost every conceivable sub
ject have been put up in an attractive envel-
ope and are now offered at price intended to
make them popular in every sense.


Envelope No. l containing so beautiful en-
gravings) is now ready, and will be sent post
age paid, to any address for ONE DOLLAR.
A liberal discount to agents and teachers.
Year: 1875




More than fifty years ago a boy some
sixteen or seventeen years Of age was at
WORK one afternoon on the old '.Hingham
Station Packet" which will be remembered
by some Of our citizens as for years Occu-
pying a berth az the head Of the dock
where State Street Block now stands. Il
was an afternoon when there was no
school, and a girl, somewhat younger than
the boy alluded to, was passing the half
holiday in play near the store Of her
father. Venturing too near the edge Of
the dock she missed her footing and fell
overheard, it being high water at the time
she disappeared No one saw her fall, but
BY accident the lad noticed some bubbles
in the water, and having Just before seen
the little miss on the wharf, instantly took
in the situation. Springing into the water,
he succeeded in bringing her to the surface,
and calling for aid she was taken on shore
and restored to her parents. This act
Of herOism saved the life Of one who
has become the most distinguished
American actress Of the age--a lady as
highly respected for her moral worth and
irTeproachable private character as she is
renowned all over the world for her emf
nent histriOnic achievements. Her rescuer
is to-day one Of our most estimable eiti-
zens, and less than year ago acquainted
the lady with the circumstances Of her de-
liverance from a watery grave through his
instrumentality-a fact she well remem-
bered, although till then ignorant Of the
name Of her preserver. Cornelius Lowell
had saved the life Of Charlotte Cushman.
Year: 1875

Yesterday and last night Nashville
Vas the scene Of q horribly atrocious
murdel,. followed by retribution swift
and terrible. The murder was without
nrovocation, without anger; and be-
cause it was so, 1t gave horrible provo
cation to retribution and revenge. In
view of the sworn testimony before the
coroner's jury, there can be 10 ques-
ton about the substantial justice OF
the second murder, but as advocate of
law and order. and Of self-gOyernment,
which implies self-control, We must
condemn in terms unmistakable
the resort to mob violence. 1t
was hazardous in itself, and, under the
circumstances. unnecessary. We hap
PLY enjoy self.go vernment. We make
our own laws and select ourown judges
and inferior officers. When a culprlt
is once lodged within the strong walls
of prison, under the officers OF the
law. there should be nc excuse IN a
well-ordered community fOr interfering
with or anticipating the course OF the
law. If the walls of the prison
are not strong enough, 1t Is our
fault, not the prisoners. If the
laws are defective, it is, again, our
fault. If the courts are not all they
should be, it is still our fault. There
fore, to interfere with the course Of the
law, after a prisoner is fully within Its
grasp, is to impeach ourselves and our
capacity for self-government. To this
irrefragable argument there can be
here in Nashville no satisfactory an
swer. That this most horrible murder
of a peace officer and most estlmable
citizen should have excited to the
highest pitch the passions Of the null
titude is not strange. But the very
raturalness Of this excitement, of this
intense passion, should have put the
officers Of the law on their guard
They should have been pre-
pared to resist the resort to mob
violence. 1t could have been
done and easily done without the she'd
ding Of g drop of blood, and with
perfect certainty of the condign pun
isbme7t of the murderer Of policeman
Frazier. How grand, how noble would
have been 81. .2h a triumph Of the ma
jesty Of the law.


We understand that the Jailer made
a gallant effort to protect his prisoner
but was really and truly overpowereo
But there was official negleeS some,
where; where, we are not prepared
this morning to say. Still, there was
official neglect, which cannot be eA'
culpated
Year: 1875

We b ad little fun in town this evening
at the expense Of three gentlemen who
went out last night on a fishing excurs-
ion. They expected to be absent a few
days, but came in to-day dressed in paper
collar, pair of spurs and blanket, and on
being asked why they were crOwding the
season, explained that last night about II
O'Clock, while they were quietly sleeping
they were awakened and told to peel of
them store clothes. They did wake up,
and finding themselves confronted by two
escaped cOnVicts with dOuble-baTeled shot
guns pointed threateningly a. their heads,
they concluded that it was too warm to
wear clothes, and did pull of in double d
quick time. The cOnvicts immedi atel-
changed their striped suits for these, any
went on their way rejoicing.
Year: 1875

NHIIUEEI LIIN IIEII q p


LOUISVILLE, April 30.-In Estill county,
last Wednesday, the wife of Albert Long
went to a neighbor's to borrow some meal
for breakfast. While she was gone the
house took fire and burned to the ground,
consuming two little boys, one five and the
other three years Old. Prom the fact that
some clothing had been carried out, the
neighboTs believe that the older child had
gone out of the house and returned for his
little brother, when both were burned to
laatL
Year: 1875

WASHINGTON, Feb. 26.


HOUSE.
In the House, proposition made by Mr.. Ran
DALI was accepted whereby the Civil Appropria-
ton bill is to be considered until five o'clock,
when recess will be taken till evening, when
the Force bill will be considered.
Notice was given that the previous question
would be called on the Force bill at one o'clock
tomorrow.


The House then went into Committee Of the
Whole on the Civil Appropriation bill.
Year: 1875

REPORTED DISAPPEARANCE OF EX-SENATOR NYx.


WAsHINGToN, Feb. 26.
The report is current here that ex-senator
Nye had disappeared from sleeping car, last
night on a train going north, but it is now
believed that it was some other person by the
came name, who left the train at some station or
walked off in his sleep while the train was in
Year: 1875

The absurd bill to divide the school fund in
Wilmington, according to color, almost passed
the House, yesterday. At least we judge from
the report that that was tho measure. IL is a
totally unnecessary and mischlevous bill, and
ought not to pass. All that is needed il sim
pie amendment requiring the City Council to
levy school taxes on colored, the same as on
white citiznna.
Year: 1875

sunaet Cox wears suit of clothes and brags
about their ceapness which he bought in
Canada. Judge Kelley remarked very forcibly
that as Cox had all his life been favoring poll
cy which would degrade American labor, lis
clothes purchase was very consistent.
Year: 1875

Editor cf Connecticut Western Neus:

 While occupying leisure day in looking over some old letters, found one, a DOT ton of which is so patriotic and almost prophetic that I send it to you for publica. ton Tn the NEWS. The writer of it died while a member of Congress in 1s4s, and of course before the outbreak of the terri. ble struggle since made by the people to preserve the Union he estimated SO highly.

 H.

 The pervading subject of talk, and the topic of chief interest among us here now, is qualification. In my judgment, troubles have begun which are not soon to end. I do not entertain the slightest doubt that all the slave states, at least Virginia, Georgia and Alabama, will support South Carolina ln the extremity. If the pretenses of Car oiina be well founded, then those states, and the others similarly situated, have a common interest, and cannot hesitate to make common cause with her. But whether she stands alone, or with the whole south, my perfect conviction is that the doctrines of the proclamation General Jackson's) should be enforced at every hazard and ex- pense. A ten years bloody civil war by the whole south against the north. would be cheap price, in my judgment, to pay TOT the full establishment of the vital doc trlue that no one state of the Union has the right to secede and set up sererate gov ernmenr. The members of this Union cannot exist as separate republics. There naay continue to be one great republic, but if not. there must be innumerable petty states, perpetually torn by factions and swinging from the extreme of anarchy to that of despotism. With the end of the Union comes the end of our present bless ings and our hopes for the future. We ought to stand by it to the last, for those will be base who surrender it and miserable who survive it. But I am outrunning my paper. We have remarkably mlld win ter. There is no snow nor ice here, anc it has been so warm for few days that the grass is starting.