smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1876

Beside what was once church in De-
troit, the Free Press tells us, vine one
day took root in the dry clay soil. Men
tramped past it, and around it and over
it, but somehow it clung to life, and
by-and. bye it reached up and caught the
brown clapboarasand pulled itself along.
AS years fed away and the vine was
surrounded by great buildings, and hur.
rying feet were ever beside it, it covered
latticed window and the birds built
their nests in its shade and chirped JOY
fully at the roar of traffic. Thousands
of men have halted during the last de-
cade to wonder how the vine could live
and flourish among the dust, smoke and
cobblestones, but it lived on. Hundreds
of workmen have eaten their MONDAY
meal in its grateful shade, and more
homeless men and boys have crept be-
hind it to sleep. Wreaths from the
vine have been laid upon more than one
little coffin, and thesongsof the nesting
birds have more than once reached and
made glad some heavy heart.


Progress digs open the graves OF the
ucdu duQ odCllACS5 VIC VoAAoASos
thoughts which men can hold in their
hearts. Progress has removed the vine.
The little ground it covered had . cash
value, and sentiment cannot hold Its
own with cash. Still, there was one
thing to console those who will miss the
vine. The birds had nested in it every
year for this long time past, and "cash
was not heartless enough to disturb
them. When strong hands took hold
to pull down the vine mother bird flew
out in wild alarm, and five little birds
looked over the nest into mems faces.
Itwas great, strong, sunburned laborer
who said: "Let us wait until they can
fly" and they all went away. They did
wait, and only after the five young birds
had winged their way to the shade trees
and the clover fields was the vine pulled
to earth and rooted out. Can the world
be very wicked when men will do
this2 80
Year: 1876

P esident Porter, in his sermon be-
fore the senior class of Yale College,
gave theyoung men the following advice:


The last stsp must soon be taken, and
you will find yourself each fighting his
battle, no longer mimic, but a stern
struggle for what are called the prizes Of
life. You will stand upon the threshold
and wistfuny inquire whittier will life
take me and what will life give-me2 I
hear voice replying in the distance to
each of you, gentle but clear, tender but
firm, loving in its accents yet capable of
sterrest command, and its answer is:
Life will bring back to You what you
bring to life in purpose and resolve,
only with ampler returns. 1t is a good
time for an honest and earnest man to
begin life. It would seem that there
has never been time, for generation,
which is so full of hope to young man
who is willing to make full proof of an
earnest, intelligent, courageous and low
ing Christian life. The country has
been chastened. If it brings wealth and
power and culture and freedom as the
fruits of the first century. Of its inde-
pendent life, it begins the second with
some just convictions that the manhood
of the people aud their rulers ale its
only security; that truth and honor are
the only reliance of free common
wealth which hopes to remain. Go
forth, then, in this time of fear and of
hope, of thankfulness and of Christening,
90 fo.th in the name of the Master, to
labor in His service and to live for His
kingdom. Yield to no fear. Remem-
Der that you arenot brought to this open
door by your own hand. No man is
self commissioned except he cuts him
self off from God. He who has brought
YOU to this place will guide you to the
end. May we now and then hear of
each one OF you that he is high-toned
and intelligent servant of his country
and his time, and that .he world is daily
the better for his living IN it, that his
life is suided and blest by the living
God. With these wishes aud this prayer
| bid you all affectionate farewell"
Year: 1876

How to have fish dinner when you
please, is provided by Seth Green as fol-
lows-always provided you know some
thing of management and are In the
right locality: Never take any more
than you want for present use, and stop
fishing when you have got enough. II
you catch small one, take him careful
" off from your hook and put him back
in the water don't throw him down in
the boat and take him ashore for the
purpose of counting him, and then
throwing him away. That little fish, If
put back, would grow to be large one
in time, and the man, woman or child
that does not put the little fish back is
worse than brute for the brute, with
few exceptions, will not kill anything for
fun. If parties living near the lakes that
were stocked with salmon trout In the
years 1872 and 1873, will anchor buoy
in the deep water and bait it with small
pieces of small fish twice week, they
can 20 to that buoy and drop a hook
baited with piece of the same kind OF
fish that you have been in the habit of
scattering around it, and take mess OF
fish whenever they please. This fishing
will last the season through, provided
you manage taking the fish with the
same Judgment that you do your stock
of chickens, and stop killing when you
have got a mess. Fish are local, and
there is a certain number of fish that
live in the neighborhood of your buoy,
and they do not go much further from it
than your chickens do from your barn
and there is a rule among fishermen that
is generally observed-if a man sets up
a buoy, and keeps it baited, it belongs
to him, and no we'll meaning man will
fish hear his neighbor's buoy.
Year: 1876

Once upon time there was young
princess, beautiful as day, according to
her flatterers, red headed as the March
moon, so said the envious, who, at the
age of fifteen, was married to the heir OF
the throneof q friendly state. The prince
was but one year older than she, but OF
a very different disposition. He was
as dull and heavy as she was gay. No
one had ever heard him utter word in
public, and his only taste was for hunt
ing and masonry. After his marriage
he continued to hunt the stag, to help
the masons when they came to work on
the palace and to sit at the table with
out opening his mouth, except to greedi-
" devour his food. As to the princess,
she cared for no other society than that
of number of dirty, noisy little dogs,
that tore and spoiled her dresses. Her
greatest pleasure was to ride on o dom
KEY at the risk Of being thrown, and she
liked to have some one point out to her
all the old visages of the court-a pro-
ceeding that amused her 80 much that
she often burst out laughing in peoples
faces. Her only intimate friends were
ladies who were as fond OF talking scan
dal as herself, which Is saying not lit
tie. Called by the DEGREES OF Provi-
dence to govern great country, one
day. side by side with her stupid hus-
band, she despised her future subjects
so much that she ceased to respect her
self; she neglected to put on corsets
when about to appear in public, and she
never brushed her teeth, although, as
We have stated, she was very fond OF
laughing.


Knowing well that the slightest OF her
caprices were to be obeyed, she refused
to learn anything. Her ignorance was
excessive. She could scarcely form her
letters, and although che had q reader
she could not endure to listen to him
for more than half an hour day, and
then only by dint of playing with her
dogs or with little children who were
brought to her expressly. Neither
music nor even singing had any charms
for her, because to study them would
require some application.
Year: 1876

The Overland China Mail gives an
account of strange suicide that was
lately committed at Fuh Chow Foo. A
young lady, who had the misfortune to
be left widow while yet in her teens,


was urged by some injudicieus relatives
to enter again into the bouds of wed


lock. The thought thus suggested of
supplying the place of her late husband
was go repugnant to her feelings that,
in order to escape from the persecution
of her advisers, she determined to cas-
cend to heaven on the back of a stork, I"
or, in other words, publicly to commit
suicide. Having arrived at this deter
mination day was fixed for the cere-
mony. Early on the fatal morning the
lady, dressed as the "queen of heaven" I"
and surrounded by large following Of
admiring relatives and friends, started
from her late husbands house in an
open sedan chair for the scene of her
self-inficted death. By the way, she
visited her parents, to bid them fare
well, and stopped occasionally en- route
to taste the viands which were placed
at intervals by the side of the road, as at
funeral. On arriving at an open space
at the back of the Hai-chaou temple,
she mounted on scafolding which had
been erected for the purpose, and, hav-
ing bowed to the vast crowd which had
assembled to witness the proceedings,
she cried with loud voice: Heaven
and eartu and my friends I am quite
satisfied to die in this manner" Hav-
ing said this, she stepped on to q chair
on the platform, and thrust her head
through moose of red cord, which
hung suspended from q cross-beam
above her. At the same moment red
cloth was placed over her head and face,
and then, without the least hesitation,
she jumped off the chair. Death was
almost instantaneous, and she expired
without the least apparent struggle.
Unfortunately, the effects of this young
lady's sef-devotion did not end with her
life, for so deep an impression did her
conduct make on some boys who had
witnessed the spectacle thatthey amused
themselves on the following day by
making believe to follow her example.
By misadventure, while one of them
was adjusting the rope roand his neck,
his playmates ran off, and on their re-
turn they found that he likewise had
"ascended to heaven on the back OF
stOrk
Year: 1876

A young lady abruptly turned the
corner of street, and very rudely ran
against small boy, ,hatless and shoeless.
Stopping as soon as she could, she
turned to him and said: 81 beg your
pardon indeed I am very sorry"


The small, ragged boy looked up in
blank astonishment for an instant, then,
taking off about three-fourths of a hat,
he bowed very low, smiled until his
face became lost in the smile, and an
swered: eyer can hev my parding,
an welcome, miss an yer may run
aein me an knock me clean down, an l
won't say word"


After the young lady passed on he
turned to q comrade and said, half
apologetically: 81 never had any one
ask my parding, an it kind O took me
off my feet"
Year: 1876

WASHINGTON, May l.-Representa-
tive Faulkner, chairman pro tenn of the
Committee on Foreign Affairs, hsd an
interview with Secretary Fish this MORN
ing, and learned from him that there
was a meeting Of the British Cabinet
Saturday, at which they determined to
adhere to their former position not to re-
turn Winslow to the United States, as
requested by our government. The pro
test of the Secretary of State,
which the British Cabinet had be-
fore them on Saturday, shows that
such an evasion of the treaty, stipulation
was never before suggested by any gov.
ernment. The Secretary strengthens his
protest by citing number of precedents
aliudIng to the fact that parliamentary
enactment seems to be considered by the
British government of more binding force
than the solemn treaty existing between
the two nations and which provides for
extradition under the circumstances
presented in the case under
consideration, as our government will
not give such assurance as Great Britain


REQUIRES, and as the latter is unyielding
Winslow will be uncvnditIonaily dis
charged to morrow, on the reception
OF official intelligence of these facts.
The Secretary of State will transmit all
correspondence IN the case to the House
of Representatives. There is no doubt
that the action of the British govern
ment will lead to measures having in
view the repeal Of the extradition clause
of the Washburne Treaty
Year: 1876

man in Belllaire for President. Hes q


good one. .e># E-e..


WnY put out the street lights in the


most frequented portions OF the city
hrst2


LET the Council take some steps to
have our police force uniformed and the
old wooden awnings taken down, and
they will have done big thing for q Bel.
laire Council to do.


MARTINS PERRY.


The pound festival, in Commercial
Hall, Friday night, was grand success.
The attendance was large, plenty of fun,
&c. The donations were varied, but one
of the chief commodities was salt. Before
the auction began, some forty OF the
packages were condemned, because they
were supposed to be salt. Yet it was
found, on inspection, as the pack
ages sold were opened, q great
many were found to contain salt.
There was a bountiful supply Of ice
cream and cake. Every one seemed TO
enjoy the fun, especially our handsome
friend Frank Watson who was so for
tunate as to procure young pet elephant
Tor the small sum of seventy-five cents.
One feature of the occasion we didn't
like, and that was the boisterous mirth
INDUCED in by some of the young men
about fifteen or sixteen years of age.
The next time, boys, don't be 80 noisy.


THE torturing of a bslky horse by
placing fire under it and burning It's
legs aud tail till they were raw, and
beating it over the head. one day last
week, in the upper part of town, called
forth q good deal of righteous .ndigna-
ton, and caused some of the actors to
absent themselves for short time. Our
advice would be to those engaged IN the
cruel transaction, to examine our law be-
fore being guilty OF second otfense.


SHALL we have a Fourth of July cele-
bration in Martins Ferry this year or
not? is what we want to know. Who is
in favor Of beginning the preparations
early? Why not try Gov. Hartranft's
suggestion and have some one prepare
sketch Of the town and deliver it
on that occasion?


Your Bridgeport correspondents ex-
PLANTATION of South America is satisfac.
.ory and calls to mind sn effort we made
ately to have mistake corrected. First
We wrote Try Company and was made to
,ay fire company and in our effort to
nave it corrected was made to say Fry
Company.
Year: 1876

GAN the way from New York, and no
grub to cat for two days." said weary
looking tramp last evening as he entered
the hall, and jostled against the Chief and an
other gentleman. They were talking over a
pair of boots that had been stolen from the
residence of Mr.. Jesse X. Boyle's, by a
tramp who had his dinner furnished him
there. Thethought struck the Chiefthat this
might be the game, and when he made an
examination Of the feet covering of the
stranger, who had first entered, he found he
was right. This tramp got nights lodg.
ing, a gentleman recovered q pair of boots,
aid reporter got an item. They all met
by chance in an unusual way.
Year: 1876

TRINrry CHUBcu.- great revival at this
church seemed to receive new impetus last
night. Seventeen persons, among them some
of the most influential young men of that
part of the city, professed faith in the
Saviour. This is the fourth week of this
meeting, and one hundred and sixty-eight
have been converted. There seems to be no
abatem in the Interest, and the meetings
will be continued next week.
Year: 1876

There was at this time at the Cape person
whoee secentricities attracted universal atten-
tion-Dr. James Barry, staff surgeon to the gar
rison and the Governors medical adviser. Lord
Charles described him to me as tho most skillful
Of physicians and the most vaywarl OF men. He
had lately been in professional attendance upon
the Governor, who was somewhat fanciful about
said or done, he had left his patient to prescribe
for himself bad heard so much OF this a.
prisious yet privileged gentleman, that had
o great curiosity to see him shortly after sat
next him at dinner atone of the regmental messes.
In this learned pundlt beheld q beardless
lad, apparently about my own age, with an nm
hair, high cheek bones There was q certain
efeminaey in his manner, which he always
seemed striving to overcome. His style Of con-
usually heard at mess tables In those days Of non
competitive examination A mystery attached to
Barry's whole professional career, which ex-
tended over more than half q century. While at
the cape he fought duel, and was considered to
De OF a most Quarrelsome disposition. He was
Ssea1 nSs a guty Of bagrant Ssesehes Of disc
home under arrest, but somehow or other his
offenses were always condoned at in headquarters.
the name Of james Barry, n. D., stands at the
tails.


nounced the death Of DIR. Barry, and the next
day It was officially reported to the Horse
Guards that the Doctor was woman. 1t Is sim
gular that neither the landlady Of her lodging
nor the black servant who had lived with her for
years had the slightest suspicion Of her sex. The
late Mrs. Ward, daughter Of Colonel Tidy, from
that she believed the Doctor to have been the
granddaughter of q Scotch Earl, whose name
do not now give, as am unable to substanttate
the correctness Of my friends surmise, and that
she adopted the medical profession from attach
ment to an army surgeon, who has not been
many years dead.-Lord Albemdrie's Reeoliec'
Year: 1876




At q meeting OF the committee appointed by
citizens Of Washington county, east OF the Ana
costa, TO consider form Of government for the
county, the old Levy Court system was fully dis
cussed. The committee appeared to consider the
following as among the pOints-to be impressed
upon the Congressional committee: Property
Qualification and actual residence in each mem
Der of the Levy Court; that the future govern
ment Of the county should be framed with no
retrospect to the territorial now existing forms
Of government, but should start anew, with
whatever improvements experience or the judg-
ment Of the committee Of Congress may deem
desirable for the ends Of good government; that
the Levy Court, or equivalent body, should con-
sist Of seven members, that being the present
number OF the school districts, which are pretty
equally and fairly divided as 10 population and
territory; that such matters the tenure of
ct1ce by members of the Levy Court, road re-
pairs, coruner's inquests, expenses of registra-
tion Of deeds, and some other details be left for
the decision OF the honorable committee, or to
future experience and legislation The com
mittee Will in person present the result Of their
inquiries and deliberations to the honorable CON-
iaittee Of Congress, and request the aid and CO.
operation Of citizens in other parts Of the county
Year: 1876

A Frenchman who wanted to kill his wife,
but leave no trace of the murder, recently re-
sorted to the ingenious expedient of causing
her death by indigestion. Partridge was the
name Of her paramour, 50 the infuriated hus-
band decided that by the bird of that name
she should shuttle of this mortal rope. At the
point of the pistol she devoured six partridges.
She died singing "Come, birdie, and live with
meo
Year: 1876

Gov. Bagley, of Michigan, has offered to
subscribe $500 toward the purchase of the
Michigan State building at the Centennial
grounds, and for its removal to the grounds Of
Michigan University at Ann Arbor, where it is
proposed to use it as an art gallery.
Year: 1876

The Atlantic Monthly for May is one
of the best numbers of that magazine
ever issued, which is saying great
deal. 1t is filled with the best and most
interesting matter, and there is not an
article between its covers, that will not
benefit the reader of it. From an arti-
Gle, a most graceful one, written by Mrs.
Kemble, we take the following gem:


II sometimes think that instead of
beginning, as we do, with whole heav-
Ell and earth embracing theory of duty
to God and man, it might be better to-
adopt with our children the method of
dealing only with each particular in
stance of moral obligation empirically
as it occurs; with each particular Incl
dent of life, detached, as it were, from
the notion of a formal system, code, or
theory of religious belief, until the re-
currence of the same rules of morality
under the same governing principles,
invoked only in immediate application
To some instance of conduct or incident
of personal experience, built up by de-
grees body of precedent which would
have the force and efficacy of law be-
fore it was theoretically inculcated as
such. Whoever said that principles
were moral habits, spoke, it seems to
me, valuable truth, not generally suf-
ficiently recognized or acted upon in
the task of education.n
Year: 1876

a correspondent of the Scientific
american says:


1.-THE Indians of North America do
this by cutting through the ice, and
then covering or hanging blanket in
such manner as to darken or exclude
the direct rays of the sun, when they
are enabled to see into the water, and
discover fish at any reasonable depth.
Let any one who is anxious to prove
this, place himself under the blanket,
and he will be astonished when he be-
holds with what brilliancy everything
in the fluid world is lighted up. L once
had occasion to examine the bottom of
a mill-pOnd, for which | constructed "a
float out of inch plank sufficient to buoy
me up; through the centre | cut hole
and placed "A blanket over it, when |
was enabled to clearly discover objects
on the bottom, and several lost tools
were discovered and picked up. L am
satisfied that, where water is sufficiently
clear, this latter plan could be success
fully used for searching for lost bodies
and articles. would now suggest that
this experiment he tried on the sea; for
| am satisfied that with craft like the
Great Eastern, where an observatory
could be placed at the bottom, with
sufficient darkness, 10y the aid of glasses
we could gaze down into the debths of
the sea the same as we can survey the
starry heavens at midnight.
Year: 1876

On the intelligent and loyal press of
the country the hopes of the nation de-
pend. The people look to the press for
correct information, and on this they
base their judgement for governmental
affairs. A bad paper conveys a moral
poison wherever it circulates. If it is
edited with commanding ability, its
power for doing evil is greatly increas-
ed, and this is still further enlarged in
proportion To its circulation. How vi
tai, then, in view Of this, becomes the
necessity of supporting good papers,
Every citizen who believes i'm public
and private morality should extend lib
eral support TO his home paper. His
first duty should be to strengthen that.
If he has patronage it should go to the
local organ before dollar is sent to "A
paper at a distance. The principle of
home protection should be applied to
the local papers of the countrywide
public.


The above accords exactly with the
views on several occasions expressed
through the columns of the Banner. A
good home paper, published in the in
terests of the people, cannot be too lib
orally patronized: bad one, the vehic-
le of malice and defamation, cannot he
dropped too soon. The former deserves
to live and prosper: the latter should be
discarded, repudiated and consigned to
an inhospitable grave.-Ligo1aier Ban
ner
Year: 1876

Don't live single hour of your life
without doing exactly what is to be
done in it, and going straight through
it from beginning to end. Work, play,
study, whatever it is-take hold at
once, and then attend to the next thing
without letting any moments drop out
between. 1t is wonderful to see how
many hours prompt people contrive to
make out of day; it is as if they pick
ed up the moments that the dawdlers
lost. And if ever you find yourself
where you have so many things press
ing upon you that you hardly know
how to begin, take hold of the very
first one that comes to hand, and you
will find the rest fall into Ille and fol-
low after like company of well-drilled
soldiers, and though work may be hard
to meet when it charges i'm squad, it
is easily vanquishtd if you can bring it
into line. YoJ may have often seen
or heard the anecdOte of the man who
was asked how b. accomplished SO
much i'm his life. my father taught
me-" was his reply, ''when / had any
thing to do, go and do it, There is
the secret-the single word, "now."