smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1871

The Chattanooga Times of yesterday says
that while two of the police officers of that city
were patroling through Sutler Town their at
tention was called to large number of persons
gathered together few rods below the old
Star fort. Upon arriving there they found the
remains of child partly devoured by the hogs
The child had evidently died after birth. Coro-
ner Critchett with the assistance of the police
men procured box and burid the remains. If
the heathen mother could be discovered there
would be no punishment too good .or her.
Year: 1871

Our thanks are due Mr.. Pickens Secretary
of Knoxville Division Brotherhood of Locomo-
tive Engineers. The organization is strength
ening its ranks daily, and will work reform in
this branch of railroading A member is ex-
PEELED for drunkenness or unbecoming conduct
without scruple, as in the most strictly conduct
ed temperance organization, realizing that So
briefly is essential to the proper discharge of an
engineers duties.
Year: 1871

COURAGE IN EVERY DAY LIFE.-Have
the courage to discharge debt while you
have the money in your pocket. Have
the courage to do without that whichyou do
not need, however much your eyes may
covet it. Have the courage to speak your
mind when it is necessary you should do
so, and to hold your tongue when it is
prudent you should do so. Have the courage
to make will and just one. Have the
courage to tell man why you do not lend
him your money. Have the courage to cut
the most agreeable acquaintance you have,
when you are convinced that he lacks
principle. "A friend should bear with a
friends infrmities," but not his vices.
Have the courage to show that you respect
honesty, by whomsoever exhibited Have
the courage to wear your old clothes until
you pay for your new ones. Have the
courage to obey your Maker, at the risk of
being ridiculed by men. Have the courage
to prefer comfort and prosperity to fashion
in all things.
Year: 1871

Commencing January and July. EACH of the Semi
Annual Volumes outains much Reading and more
and better Illustrations than formerly gave in
whole year land DOUBLE wha most of the eight page
Weeklies of the same class can furnish
Year: 1871

On SPRINGING Our OF BED.-Dr.
Hall does not approve of the old-fash-
ioned doctrine which was formerly in
stilled into the minds of children
that they should spring out of bed the
instant they awoke in the morning.
He says that cup to eighteen years
every child should be alIosued ten
hours sleep, but time should be allowed
to rest in bed, after the sleep is over,
until they feel as if they had rather
get up than not. 1t is very great
and mischievous mistake for persons,
old or yOung-especially children and
feeble or sedentary persons-to be-
come out of bed the moment they
wake up; all our instincts shrink
from it, and fiercely kick against it.
Fifteen or twenty minutes spent i'm
gradually waking up, after the eyes
are opened, and in turning over and
stretching the limbs, do as much good
as sound sleep, because these oper-
ations set the blood in motion by de-
grees, tending to equalize the circula-
ton; for during sleep the blood tends
to stagnation. the heart beats feebly
and slow, and to shock the system by
bouncing up in an instant and send
ing the blood in overwhelming guam
titles to the heart, causing it 10 as
same gallop, when the instant be-
fore it was in creep, is the greatest
absurdity. This instantaneous boun-
cling out of the bed as soon as the eyes
are open viii be followed by weariness
long before noon."
Year: 1871

JOhn hemDlo used to say that lie


could learn a whole number of the


Morning Post in four days; and Gen


eral Christie made similar assertion


but it is not known how far either OF


them verified their statement. Rob-
ert Dillon could repeat in the morn
ing six columns OF a newspaper he
had read over night. During the
Repeal debates in the House of Com
mons, thirty seven years ago, one of
the members wrote out his speech,
sent it to the newspapers and repeated
it to the House in the evening. 1t
was found to be the same UerbGtine as
that which he had written out. John
Fuller, land agent in Norfolk, could
remember every word of a sermon,
and write it out correctly after going
home. This was tested by comparing
his written account with the clergy
mans manuscript. Scaliger could re-
peat hundred verses or more, after
having read them single time. SEN
eca could repeat two thousand words
on hearing them. Magliabecchia,
who had prodigious memory, was
once put to q severe task. A gentle
man lent him manuscript which was
read and returned. The owner, some
time. afterward, pretending he had
lost it, begged Magliabecchia to write
out as much as he could remember !;
whereupon the latter, appealing to
his memory, wrote out the whole
essay. Cyrus, if some Of the old his
torians are to be credited, could re-
member the name of every soldier in
his immense army. There was a
Corsican boy who could rehearse forty
thousand words, whether sense or
nonsense, as they were dictated, and
then repeat them ON the reversed
order, without making single mis-
take. A physician of Massachusetts,,
about a half a century ago, could
repeat the whole of " Paradise Lost
without mistake, although he had not
read it for twenty years. Euler, the
great mathematician, when he became
blind, could say the whole of VirgiPs
" Eneid,n and could remember the
first line and last line on every page
of the particular edition which he
had been accustomed to read before
he became blind.


One kind of retentive memory may
be considered as the result of sheer
hard work, determination toward
one particular achievement, without
reference either to cultivation OF to
memory ON other subjects. This lis
frequently shown by persons in hum
BILE life in regard to the bible. An
old beggarman at Stirling, known
some forty years ago as Blind Aleck,
afforded an instance of this. He
knew the whole of the bible by heart;
insomuch that, if sentence were
read to him, he could name book,
chapter and verse or, if the book,
chapter and verse were named, he
could give the exact words. A gem
tleman to test him, repeated verse,
purposely making one verbal inaccur-
acy; Aleck hesitated, named the
place where the passage is to be
found, but at the same time pointed
out the error. The same gentleman
asked him to repeat the ninetieth
verse of the seventh chapter of the
book of Numbers. Aleck almost in
stantly replied: "There is no such
verse; that chapter has only eighty
nine verseS1
Year: 1871

A man of seventy years, living
near Newport, Ind, quarreled with
his wife, and taking down his shot
gun, annunced that he would commit
suicide forthwith. He went into the
yard, lay down on the ground where
he could be seen from front window,
fired the gun off in the air, and re-
manned motionless for an hour, during
which time he slyly watched the door
and window for the appearance of his
grief-striken wife. But he was sad
ly mistaken" says the old gentleman's
home paper. "They did not come
cut to see whether he had blown the
top of his head off or not. This was
more than the old man could stand !;
he rose up, went into the house, and
made things hot for the old woman
and the children for while. He'd
show them whether they wouldn't
come out when he had killed himself" )"
Year: 1871

We learn from the Houma PatriO,
that the Banner, of that town, LAS
been suspended for the past threef or
four weeks, but may soon be issied
again, as large lot of Tax Collectors
advertisements win be ready for phb-
ication in short time. When she
funny man of the Iberville PioneeE is
again driven to desperation for want
of something to write about, and has
to get off that pap Sheet joke of his
for the twentieth time, let him make
the Banner the objective point of This
witless wittieism.
Year: 1871

The telegraph few days since
brought the heart-rending intelligent ie
that the Prince of Wales had passed a
sleepless night. Countless thousands
await with trembling anxiety to learn
the cause of this fearful catastrophe.
Perhaps the Prince was up all night
playing draw poker.n
Year: 1871

We have received for the first time
a copy of the Louisiana Farmer, pub
ished at Arcadia, in this State, but it
is SO badly printed we are unable to
read it. If the publishers expect us
to exchange they must send US reada-
BILE numbers of their journal.
Year: 1871

A young Republican candidate for
Office, in Greene county, New York,
took his defeat so much to heart that
he went on drunken debauch to
drown his sorrow, and died in week.
Before his nomination he had never
tasted drop of liquor.
Year: 1871

EARN WHAT You ND.-Three- -fourths
of the difficulties and miseries of men come
from the fact that most want wealth without
earning it, fame without deserving it, popular
ity without temperance, respect without virtue,
and happiness without holiness. The man who
wants the best things, and is willing to pay
just what they are worth, by honest effort and
hard self-denial, will have no difficulty in get
ting what he wants at last. 1t is the men who
want goods on credit that are snubbed, and
disappointed, and overwhelmed in the end.
Happiness cannot be bought by the bottle, nor
caught up by the excursion train, nor put On
with any robe or jewels, nor eaten at any feast.
1t does not exist in any exhilaration, excite
ment or ownership, but comes from the use OF
the faculties Of the body and mind.
Year: 1871

At almost every step in life we meet with
young men from whom we anticipate wonderful


things, but of whom, after careful inquiry, we
never hear word The effervescenee of youth
and passion, and the fresh gloss of intellect and
CIV, which makes fools of themselves and other
people Like certain chintzes, calicoes and
ginghams, they snow finely on their first new
ness, but cannot stand the sun and the rain, and
assume very sober aspect after washing day.
Year: 1871

THE ENoUIRER's PRoaREss.-A single
ray of sunshine bids US hope for fair
weather-however we may be disappoint-
ed in realizing it.


The Enquirer has progressed so far as to
treat us, this morning, to an able article
favoring the adoption of the narrow in
place of the broad gauge railroad.


It's Democracy has deserted it for once,
and although the subject is so little identi-
fed with political questions, the we'll
known determination Of its party to al
ways oppose progressive ideas, gives Us
hope that this able journal will some day,
however distant, desert the fast sinking
ship, and let her go to the bottom of the
ocean.


Narrow gauge roads are of recent
thought, and incline Us to the opinion that
in few years the laws of equilibrium
will be SO controlled by man, as to enable
him to build railroads and run them sue
cessfully upon one rail only; and we are
not entirely unprepared to see them flying
through the air, without rail or wheel


II you don't want to keep up with the
Improvements, daily astonishing the world,
just stand off, as Jackson's soldier prayed
the Almighty would do, and let us win the
battles.


The next thing we hear of, will be that
the Enquirer is discarded as the organ of
Democracy, because it said there was to
be change in our railroads. Well let
them read you out il they choose, and we
will welcome you on our side, now that
we have satisfied ourselves that there is
some good in you.
Year: 1871

To the Editor of the State Journal.


The present managers of the Enquirer
seem determined to do injustice to the Me-
chanics' Trades Union whenever they
mention the subject of its recent action.
If they expect to gain friends by such
action they are very much mistaken. In
its issue this morning, it says:


There have been no nominations made, as
yet, BY any party. The Trades Union and
the Germans have simply put forward certain
names for the consideration of the Conserva-
tives, some of which will, of course, be &C.
cepted by the convention when it meets, or by
the primary meetings.


have nothing to say in regard to the
action of the Germans but that portion of
the above in reference to the Mechanics
Union is not true That body did not re-
commend, but nominated the men of their
choice to be voted for at the coming cleo
ton. A report was presented to the Union
by committee that the names be simply
recommended to the different ward meet
ings of the two parties as their choice but
that portion was stricken out and failed to
pass by Uery large mcjority-so the ac-
tion of the Union remains as originally in
tended, to nominate and support, and not
to recommend. We are pledged to sup
port our candidates no matter what par
ty ticket they may be placed on, or no
matter what party they may belong to.
Ths action of the Union was regardless of
party.


While we have no desire to die
tate to others, we have the right to say
for whom aue will vote. 1t is useless to
appeal to the Enquirer for justice, and /,
therefore, ask you to insert this card, as
you have always shown disposition to
aid the working classes of all colors and
all parties


| differ widely with you in politics, but
am your friend aud co-laborer in the ad-
vancement of the interests of the working
classes. AN OFFICER OF THE UNION.
Year: 1871

Postponed The case of Ex-mayor
Chahoon, set for to day, was calle1 this morp-
ing in the Hastings Court, and continued until
June 9th, the first day of the next term,
owing to the absence of an important witness
for the defence
Year: 1871

Sample Merchant arrested Detective
O'Dwyer arrested on Saturday evening last a
young man by the name of NJ. s. Fittings, on
the charge of selling goods by sample without
license, in violation of the State law and city
ordinance. He had hearing before Justice
White this morning, when it was proven thar
the goods we're duly invoiced to a merchant 10
this city, and upon this evidence be was dis
charged.
Year: 1871

Misuse Of the Relief Fund-A Worthy Candidate
for Mayor-The Sheridan Rule in the City
Governor Palmer on Military Usurpa-


tions-Inquiry as to the Cause Of


the Death Of Col. Grosvenor
Year: 1871

When we see men who are old and in
firm, we sometimes say,-"They look like
dis-branched trees" but if God were to
touch our eyes, and reveal to us the COM
panies of angels that surround such ven
erable, waiting saints, we should never
think that they We're solitary, or impov-
erished, or to be pitied.-Beecher.


1t is strange that the experience of so
many ages should not make us judge more
soundly of the present and of the future,
so as to take proper measures in the one
for the other. We dote upon this world
as if it were never to have an end and we
neglect the other as if it were never to
have a beginning.


Oh, send your old troublesome thoughts
to the wind, not cuddle them TO your
breast as if they were angels of mercy in
stead of ministers of evil. Everybody
has trouble of some kind, and it is the
bounden duty of each one to rise above it.


The Lord sends all kinds of messengers
to teach us how large, merciful and pa
tient His love is and it does not matter
in what shape they come, if our hearts will
only let them do their appointed work.
Mary Anles aiken.


A LIVING FAITH.-In some few sad
lives there comes moment when the
shadow OF death passes over the soul, and
does not touch the body. After that we
walk along our appointed path through
the world, and laugh and talk, and buy
and sell, and marry and are given in mar
riage, maybe and none of our friends,
who hold our hands, and wish us God
speed on our way, imagine when they
look into our eyes, that we are dead and
there is no more light i'm the evening
sky, nor freshness in the morning dew
that in our hearts there is neither hope
nor fear, regret, remembrance, nor delight ;
only so much of the red heart-throb as
keeps up the show of life for other needs
than our own-only cold, dull patience
instead Of living soul
Year: 1871

can anywhere north of us. This would
enable us to throw them into any of the
eastern markets that much earlier, and
thus give us an open market for wide
margin in our sales. We would have but
little competition.


In conclusion, we would say to our
Northern friends, if any of them are de-
sirous of embarking in sheep husbandry,
they can find no better opening than in
East Tennessee. We will give them cor
dial welcome, and do all we can to expedite
the undertaking,
Year: 1871

"The Invisible Empire" in South Caro-
lima will now have an opportunity to mea-
sure its strength with the United States
Government. Warning was given to the
kuklx in Spartansburg and eight other
counties of the State, on the 18th of Octo-
ber, that unless they dispersed and gave
up their arms within five days, martial
law would be proclaimed. They did not
disperse nor disarm, and martial law has
come as threatened. This action is notable
as being the first case of suspension of the
privileges of the writ of habeas corpus un-
der the enforcement act, passed at the last
session of Congress- 1t is notorious that
the kukluX "dens' in South Carolina are
well supplied with arms stolen from the
State militia, and are otherwise well
equipped Within few weeks there have
been no very fiagrant cases of outrage by
these rutlians, but it is well known that
their organizations are more compact than
ever, and that sign of hesitation on the
part of the Government would be signal
for general outbreak. The authorities af
Washington say that the proclamation of
martial law will not only stop prevailing
violence, but prevent a general massacre
in the nine counties specified.-NeV fork
! IIibLUIC.
Year: 1871

We DO not think This an excessive esti-
mate, and it comes from a very careful
business man of the West who knows
whereof he writes. To this loss of $780,
melse loss in arrested improvements,
works stopped, and corresponding or
worse calamities incidental to the greatest
misfortune of the times. But among all
the people we know of, the citizens of
Chicago will bear their losses in as manly
q way as the very best. They have shown
patience, pluck, courage and hope, with a
becoming sorrow and resignation, and
there is no better capital than this to begin
a new life,
Year: 1871

This is an enormous profit if the reader
will take the pains to calculate the per
cent. realized upon the capital invested
1t is upwards of seventy per cent


But there is another aspect of this ques-
ton that has not been considered, which
will go to swell the profits. 1t is this: We
can produce lambs in this latitude at least
one month or six weeks earlier than they
Year: 1871

The ENCOURAGING Defeat in New Hamp.


shire.


From the New York Tribune


When, on the fifteenth of March,
the returns from the New Hampshire
election came in. rejoicing shout went
up from the Democracy throughout
the Union, whereof the vehemence
could only be explained on the theory
that it had been sixteen years since news
from that quarter had g given them a similar
opportunity. Republicans were depressed
in corresponding degree. New Hamp-
shire had often been close, save on Presi-
dental elections, but had never gone against
us, and for all practical purposes was reck-
oned as safe as Iowa. The disaster came
on the heels of unwise action in the Senate,
and unfortunate dissensiOns between lead
ing Republicans and the administration
they had helped to make. To many of our
own friends it looked like the beginning of
general Republican disruption; by the enc
my it was jubilantly hailed as the knell of
the great party that had abolished slavery,
conquered secession, and ruled the republic
with the greatest brilliancy through its
greatest perils. ....... ..-... ..r.


Well-COnnectlcut having meantime
purged their vision and chastened their
hopes, we invite them to bestow their best
attention upon the dimensions of the great
triumph that in March set them wild. as
now illustrated in the dispatches from Con
cord. 1t is greater than we wish, and
greater than they are at all likely to get,
under similar circumstances, within another
sixteen years, but its net result is disprO-
portionate to the moral effect it undoubt-
edly exerted at the time, and the deafening
noise wherewith the astOnished victors
gave voice to their amazement at their sue
cess. They yesterday succeeded. by CO.
alition with the labor refOrmers, in electing
a former abolitionist as Speaker by ma
jOrity of One-that one being already hon
ored (by the associates to whom he had per-
sOnally given authority to classify him
with the Republicans'') as "the Winans of
New Hampshire" On the election of other
officers they are brought to halt by the
failure of their uncertain majority, and at
them from open defeat by claiming the right
to vote in order to make tie.


Ultimately we suppose they will succeed
in effecting their organization and electing
Democratic Governor. On the whole we
do not regret it. The votes of renegade
Republicans and men who are betraying
their constituencies are needed to do it;
and we rather think the effect of little of
that sort of practice on the New Hampshire
body polite will be wholesome. We don't
believe so many Republicans will think the
next election not worth attending, and we
are sure they will take care to vote for can
didates on whom they can count after the
election as well as before it, Set down New
Hampshire as made safely and inevitably
Republican by the election of last March
and yesterdays dear though imperfect
success.
Year: 1871

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"Widenin' ="


Afe'nOon.-The two loud raps that now
called us to the door were made by one of
three gentlemen in boat. They inquired
as to the condition of our larder, saying
that the people ashore had sent them to dis
tribute rations, free of charge, to those
whose meal, like Burns, had given out. AS
the countless bugs and numerous rodentia
had eaten or destroyed whatever eatables
we possessed, we accepted enough to see us
safely, we hoped, to land. And may the
authors of this good, who thus cast their
bread upon the waters, live long to enjoy
the blessings which the unfortunate should
ask for them. council was now held,
which resulted in the promulgation of an
order to move at daylight.


TueSday-The bugs are evidently fixed;
they have divided the walls and ceiling into
the rights of the others, and all to under
stand the arrangements we were completing
to leave them alone in their glory. Rats
were fitting about the room in evident
dismay, while the dreadful note of pre-
paration" caused half a dozen to raise their
heads above the bread pan which sat upon
the table, and as these shot out to seek
refuge behind box or trunk, their COM
panions hastily vacated, seeming to dislike
the ghostly appearance which -four and
dough had given them.


boat was now signaled, short parley
ensued, which resulted in bargain to
transfer ourselves and one trunk to Clai-
borne market. We regretted having to
cave our effects thus, and the boatman
gave it as his opinion that there was some
danger, and said he would advise people
who had left in their houses anything valu-
able to visit them at least once day dur
ing the continuance of the flood, as be
thought it far better to spend few dollars
a day in this way than to perhaps have
their clothing or furniture carried away,
when this visitation might avert such a
calamity. When we had given in partial
Endorsement of his views in ''thats so,',
he said we should remember him and his.
BOAT, lnaSmucn as he knew Cne way now,
etc. He said there were some unscrupulous
fellows iwho were charging extortionate
prices for movin' of people, and we heartily
confirmed this opinion by remarking that
they deserved cowhiding; and the chap
never blushed.


Having now arrived at Claiborne market,
he said that was as far as he run, and that
now we would find no difficulty in reaching
the city by cab or express. Several of the
gentlemen owning such conveyanees now
offered their services, and we accepted
those of fellow with white sloueh hat,
red wagon and poor mule. This rig was
selected with an eye to economy, but its
owner proved to be man who had no COM
junction of conscience whatever


When we dismissed the expressman we
found ourselves safely housed, having Sc
lected quarters in the third story of an up |
town boarding house. SGT
Year: 1871

Heavy showers now seem to be of daily
occurrence, and from five to seven o'clock
last evening, during great portion of that
time, the rain poured in torrents and
streets were quickly submerged. Later in
the evening the stars were out in all their
brilliancY.