smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1875

come no more until next time. He will


will turn his attention to the wheat crcI


which must be gotten in, and then thers


are the apples and after that comes "little


more cider for Mrs Dinah. When all this


has been done the farmer of the Peninsula


takes his resk Then it is that he has the


sweet old evenings in the cozy sitting
room and it's blazing log fires, with nuts to


crack and good cider to drink, he feels


truly in the hey-day of his success. If he


be not an advocate Of apple jack or undis-
titled apple jack, then he suacks his lips
over glass with the self-satisfaction that
his peach and honey is the best solace in
the world. He dreams of the future and
ruminates upon the revenues Of the crops
just past, and unless he is too great an ad-
mirer of peach and honey or apple jack, he
dreams wisely, but if he is,he dreams long.
The winter is the same to him as Cape
May is to the fashionable during the sum-
mer. I, is the dreamy, happy state Of his
life. When the reaper and the pruning
hook have been laid for rest the same as
himself when he reflects upon the past
and tries to make its experiences a wise
teacher of his future. He then has free
dom from the worriment Of rot in the
peaches or worms in the apples. The
winds and rains may come but they disturb
not his dreams, instead lend an additional
sense to the comfort of his house. The
industrious wife sits closely by with her
knitting and the talkative children happy
in the society of father and mother give
striking picture Of the pleasures Of farm
er's winter evening. But the time comes
round again, when the brigade of peach
plucks, arrayed in their variegated uni
forms, and armed with pocket comb
march in solid phalanx to the Peninsula
to make an onslaught upon the peaches.
The baskets are brought forth from their
resting places and the work begins. The
winter dreams have ended and practice
takes the place Of theorizing. The points
for improvement that the winter dream.
suggested are taken advantage of and the
season is passed through and another win
ter entered upon.
Year: 1875

IT is the opinion of The Baltimore Ga
se'te that "it is the greatest of absurdities to
call the graduates of colleges throughly
educated" and that "the mass of matter
that is crammed at school into vonng
America only to lie undigested and useless
IN after life is wonderful" 1t goes on to
say that the Society for the encouragement
OF Home Study for Young Women is sug-
gestive of what might be done by IAN as
sociation of young men ambitious of i'm.
provement, and whose udies should take
a pratical direction under some professor
capable of laying out proper course of
reading, and ready to explain any points
that require elucidation.
Year: 1875

from the London Telegraph.


We frankly declare that in all our expe-


rience Of official communications we have
never read one purporting to issue by Her
Majesty's command with feelings of such
surprise. A lady Of gentle birth is miser-
ably drowned along with venerable and
worthy captain and mate, who leaves a
dependent family ano her honest fellow
has his arm broken and valuable yacht
with all it contained is totally wrecked.
All this is wrought-for British jury has
said so-not by the Mistletoe's steering, but
by the fault Of the Royal officers and now,
as the official comment upon this lamenta-
BILE business, some one has put into the
Queens mouth notice to all yachtsmen to
get out Of the way of Prince Leiningen
whenever that dangerous mariner takes
the sea. What the jury appended to their
finding, was, if we remember rightly, to
warn all Royal commanders not to risk the
safety of the Queen and her subjects again
by going at furious speed through
thronged and narrow channel. What the
jury also said was that good lookout
ought to be kept in future, which meant
nothing if it did not mean that the lookout
on the recent occasion had been bad. Who
then, we should like to know, has coun-
.eled this issue of separate warning lay
ing the blame upon quite another ground
than the one adjudgel by public Justice,
and, worst of all, presumed to lend her au-
gust name to such reelection upon the
dignity of her own court? A coroner, or
coronator, is in very distinct sense the
Crowns peculiar representative Bar
rell says: "This name is clearly derived
from the important part which the officer
original y took in the prosecution of those
oHenses which concerned the Crown" Did
the prompter of this most unfortunate let
ter not understan that he was making the
Queen traverse and override the Queens
own justice?
Year: 1875

Whey the hopes of the Southern people


la dead, while they were pricked into


madness by their defeat, some of them re-


solved not to witness, the fall of the slave


power, and the utter destruction of their


hopes but bury their woes in foreign


land. This course of action was unwise,
and weak, as their true policy was to accept
their defeat, and labor to hold up their
fortunes under new conditions of things.
Quite large number of southern families
emigrated to Brazil, hoping in that slave
empire, to find thcre,a a congenial people, ,ac-
ceptable Institutions and fertile lands:-
their Disappointment was complete. Their
story is one pockmarked over with travels
and suferings-and at last poverty and
starvation, forced them to ask the Repub-
lie they turned their backs upon to bring
them home again to their native soil. The
action Of the United States government in
the matter, Ii lofty, humane, and wise. In
answer to the appeal, no slow numbering
vessel is fleet, but thief st sailing steamship
Swatara, and soon she will be ploughing
the waters Of the Amazon or R.o Madeira
in scrcli of the home sick exilcs. God send
t EN- safe voyage back, and warm well
come home.


This action of the Government must be
felt at the South, a. paternal in character,
it is national reading of the parable of the
prodgal son. There is much food for re-
Election herein, showing how absurd it is
for few persons to set up,against anatulal
decision. The emigrants return no bad
sample of the poetry Of justice, as they
are aided in the trouble, and carried out
Of a strange land, to their own home, at
TIE expense of and in one of the ships of
the government they labercd hard to
Year: 1875

THE farmer down the Peninsula has
now biddcn farewell to the peaches, and


taken long look at the fading away Of
what has been great annoyance to him.
And as he puts by the baskets and
watches the retreat Of the "peach pluck"
as he wandcrs off to other fields to conquer,
bcthinks himself that the task has been
done, and tie great army Of pluc.is will
Year: 1875

We ask attention, to the fact, that the


HERALD of yesterday morning, contained
several items of Philadelphia news, missed
by all the Journals Of that city save the


wide-awake Times. The very interesting in
terview of our Philadelphia reporter, with
Mr.. Moody, was the subject Of commenda-
BILE comment in this city yesterday. There
never was a paper published in Whining
ton, which gave such complete resume Of
the doings Of the day previous in the city,
State, and county generally, as the HERALD
presented to its readers yesterday. The
evening papers are now but little better
than partial republication Of the HER
AID; as we leave nothing ungatEered, in
the way of news. This accounts for the
daily increase of our circulation, which is
now larger in this city, than that of any Of
our neighbors. In the early morning,
in almost every store and office,
one sees the HERALD in the hands Of
readers: the same can safely be
said of the passengers in the street cars,
and in the trains the HERALD is to be
found with nearly every passenger. Busi-
ness men who are anxious to reach the
public, cannot fail to see the vast ad-
vantage the..HERALD..has, as medium of
Advertising, over any of its cotemporaries


N na1oro~o
Year: 1875

Since the sad havoc made by mice in our apple and pear orchards several years ago, we have adopted the plan of placing around each tree covering of tarred paper late in the autumn. This has proved entirely successful, and as it costs but little for material or labor, we venture to recommend it. The cylinder of paper should be brought close to the ground, and extend high enough to pro- tect the tree for a foot or more above, and the cord holding it in place should be securely tied without loop knot. Trees that are liable to be covered by deep snows must be protected for more than one foot, as we have had trees from which the bark was gnawed three feet above the ground, not only the trunk being den1lded, but many of the limbs. Mice attack almost every kind of bush, shrub, and tree. The bitter barks of the peach and cherry appear to be fully as acceptable as those of the pear or plum. Where mice prevail, it will not do to depend upon any of the usual eXpedients, such as banking trec with earth or manure, or treading down the snow ill winter. Reliance upon these has cost us more than 100 of our choicest fruit trees. The tarred paper coverings must be renewed fresh each year, as tRey become so tender or brittle that they cannot well be used 8 second lime
Year: 1875

The disposition to commit suicide

 seems to be growing one of this coun-

 try, the Louisville Journal says. Our

 columns contained an elaborate account

 tho other day of the striking and sad

 case of Colonel Anderson, in Atlanta :;

 then of Presbyterian minister in Wash

 ington, and for the past month there has

 not been single day in which the tele-

 graph has not made one or more addi-

 tlons to the list. A correspondent,

 writing from Indianapolis to the Cincin-

 natl CO77anaerci0l, mentions large num-

 Der that have occurred in that city :; some of them, apparently, being without provocatlon. Two men who were we'll to-do in the world terminated their existence to avoid the payment of taxes. They seem to have thought it time to square the account with one government and to open 8 new one with another,

 under the conviction, doubtless, that the worst government on the other side of death was an improv ement upon :' the best the world ever saw.' What is singular, there was but one bachelor among the number, while the names of several unmarried girls appear. The statistics of New York show a large in crease in that city also, and if we keep on in this way we will rival the old Romans in our readiness to face the dis advantages and t.angers of another world in preference to enduring the cares and disappointments of this. It was an easy thing for heathen, ignorant of the re- responsibilities of our Christian life, to plunge into t' the yellow Tiber,'' and bury his grief beneath the tr1rbid flood. But even had not heaven "fixed it's canon 'gainst self-slaughter it is diff cult to understand how a sane being would wish to make an untimely plunge into the dark unknown, however un- comfortable might be his situation here. The trivial cause assigned by the Indian apolis correspondent for most of the cases in that city is what is most sr1pris- ing, and we may next expect an intro duction of the Oriental custom of cutting ones throat upon the premises of an un- kind neighbor to give him the entertain ment of an arraignment and trial for murder.
Year: 1875

A foreign town has recently been the scene of sad event, very similar to that of the Mistletoe Rough. A gentleman by the name of Kelk, cashier to ;l building firm there, had recently got married. He gave party at his house. His young wife, in her anxiety to get out of the hot air, ventured up stairs, and seeing small closet with ventilator, she entered to fasten it, when the cur rent of air closed the door. In vain she called to the servants, although she could hear the door-bell ringing and the visitors enter, and as none suspected that the imprisoned lady was in the roof of the house, all the other parts of the dwelling and grounds were searched. When at last found, Mrs. Kell was seri- ously ill and hysterical. Violent epi1ep tic fits followed, and the shock being more than the nervous system could slls- tain, death shortly put an end to her sui ferirgs.
Year: 1875

The following story is told by Penn- sylvania paper: Near Mount Pleasant lives a rich farmer, and, as is the case everywhere, he has poor neighbor. The times being hard this winter, the latter, whose family is large, had a tight time of it. His neighbor, although rich, is q kind-hearted man. He helped his poor neighbor and gave him permission to cut down and tale home for fire wood an old, hollow -butted apple tree, which had stood the storms of many a long year. The man did cut down the tree, and discovered in the hollow thereof something to make his heart glad. With him hard times, tongh struggling, and battling with the cold were over. for in that hollow, rotten trunk Inc found at least 8 hat full of gold, enough in value to make him a comparatively rich man.
Year: 1875

In union there is strength, especially where the union is fortified bya fixed policy. ..-

 It is strange fact that wise men learn more from fools than fools do from wise men.

 Patience and cheerfuhess adom the ruins of fortune, as ivy does those of castles and temples. The customs of an enslaved people are part of their servitude; those of free people are part of their liberty. Who can measure the power of great idea! Armies fight in vain against it, and nations yield to its sway,

 All men who do anything must endure a depreciation of their efforts. It is the dirt which their chariot wheels throw up.

 There is no such thing as luck. It's fancy name for being always at our duty, and so sure to be ready when the good time comes.

 There are many who talk on from ignorance rather than from knowledge, and who find the former an inexhaustible fund of conversation.

 In all good things give the eye and ear full scope, for they lead into the mind; restrain the tongue, for it is @ spender; few men have repented of silence.

 The true wealth of a community lies in the integrity of it's citizens, and its chief honor arises, not from the posses sion of great riches, but the possession of true men,

 We never detect how much of our social demeanor is made up of artificial airs until we see person who is at once beautiful and simple. Without the beauty we are apt to call the simplicity awkwardness.

 Douglas Jerrold says, in his "Hedge- hog Letters, that responsibility is all very well for folks who can have it for ready money; but to be obliged to run in debt for it is enough to break the heart of an angel" ..sa.t .. ....

 It is high, solemn, almost awful thought for every individual that his earthly influence, which has had com mencement here, will never, through all ages, were he the very meanest of us all, have an end. a aa.II
Year: 1875

The question as to whether a news

 paper can or cannot exist wholly inde

 pendent of advertising patronage has

 says the New York Sun, in a few rare

 Instances, been answered in the affirma

 tive. A problem less difficult of solution IS whether a journal can reject news from

 its columns altogether, and by offering

 almost nothing but advertisements, ob tain material for publication on the one

 hand, and circulation on the other stuff

 clent to insure its success. In preparing

 to issue such sheet the first necessity

 IS to obtain advertisements, and here an

 apparently insurmountable difficulty

 arises. Advertisers would naturally

 raise the objection that the public would

 scarcely care to pay for journal COL

 talnlng no reading matter merely to see advertisements which they could find in any of the leading newspapers. The question then would be how to obtain a circulation for the paper and the readi- est way to do this would be by supplying 1t gratis, and relying for remuneration solely upon the advertisements. Ger ta1nly no man could object to receive a paper that was not only not charged for but left at his door free of expense every week. Under ordinary circumstances he might not read it, but if he wanted to buy or to sell anything, or required a servant, or desired to fill situation, he undoubtedly would and this is all he could be expected to do with respect to the advertisements of the most popular newspaper in the world.

 The ectem pt to produce such journal would not be an entirely novel one even 1n New York. It has been tried and abandoned more than once, the failures being unquestionably due to lack of capital, and, possibly, to deficiency of intelligence in the management. The scheme would not be one to be entered upon with aDy prospect of immediate success; but man prepared to swim against the current for some time might embark in such 8 venture and reasonably hope to reap Q plentiful harvest at no very distant date, when the importance of his journal as an advertising medium had become fully known.

 The only thoroughly successful journal conducted on this principle is the Dublin General 44dUertiscr, thoroughly familiar to every one who has resided in the Irish It labored for @ long time under the disadvantage of very limited ejaculation, and consequent difficulty of obtaining advertisements. It is now the first advertising medium of the coun- try, the recognized official sheet, and is looked upon as almost necessity in every house. Its reading matter, which is of the very best description, seldom more than two columns out of some thirty-two, all the remaining space being filled with advertisements. It iSs delivered by carriers, who return subl 2- luently and take it back. Thus paper delivered on Saturday might be returned )n Monday, and even allowing for the oss of one-half of the copies, the re- nainder would. as waste paper, far more han pay the expenses of delivery but wen supposing that the papers were given entirely away, as would perhaps oe done in New York, there would still De liberal margin for profit after the deduction of all expenses.
Year: 1875

Don't run ill debt-never mind, never mind

 If your clothes are all faded and torn; Fix 1em up, make them do ;; it is better by far Than to have the heart weary and worn. Who will love you the more for the set of you,

 hat,

 Or your ruff, or the tie of your shoe, The style of your boots or shade of cravat s If they know you're in debt for the new? Good friends, let me beg of you, don't run in debt,

 Ii the chairs and the sofa are old; They'll fit your backs better than any new set, Unless they are paid for-with gold.

 If the house is too small, draw the closer together Keep it warm with hearty good will; A big one, unpaid for, in all kinds of weather, Will send to the warm heart chill. Don't run in debt-dear girls, take hint, If the fashions have changed since last sea-

 son

 Did Nature is out in the very same tint, And old Nature, methinks. has some reason But just say to your friends, cannot afford To spend time to keep up with the fashion; My purse is too tight and honor too bright To be tarnished with such silly passion.
Year: 1875

We may just as well confess that there
are simple things which are very hard
to do; and Ike. ping easy under cir
cumstances is one of them. 1t is not
every man tnaI HIS the philosophical
composure cf the miil-owner who, when
his factory was burning, quietly re-
mark d that the pleasure OF earning
$4,000 Was compensa ion enough for
him, and having done it once he could
DO it again, or something better. Rut
there is no question that this disposition
is a very convenient commodity TO have
a large supply of in these uncertain and
pinching times. There is good deal
more disqui,t, chatting aud irritation
among us than is VIII lesome or well. We
fret too much over thinls that cannot be
helped, and the boiling over of the pot
puts out the fire. Competition makes
our people eager, and il is hard not To
quicken ones pace when everybody else
is on the run 1t WOW d be really better
for our health if we took things more @ s.
llv, and laughed ana Jokvu and played
with children, and were merry with
friends in the teeth of misfortune. More
d ople fret themselves out than work
themselv,s out. Chatting is taking
things by the wrong handle, and cut
ting thr fingers instead OF carving the
meat. The socke of human nature
require great deal of the oil OF gladness
to keep them in good working order, and
the at of life consists very largely IN
keeping them well fabricated. In these
crow ded ways people do grind into each
other terribly. ,.uh, ess they protect them
selves by fenders of good feeling, as
ships keep their sides from being rdbbed
through. To take things easy is the
happy way We tire OF teasing one who
turns every criticism into joke, and the
fates relent and ow kind toward hose
who keep an unfailing stock OF sunshine
for cloudy days, and Welcome the storms
for rest or experiment. There was
sound wisdom in the course of the
WON n who was teri flied by lightning
until she caught glimpse of its effects
on the landscape, and forgot all her fears
in watching its spectacles and sdmiring
is splendors. Americans are proverbial-
ly anxious. They borrow trouble when
they do not have it, and when they have
a little they borrow more. They are too
much exercised about tomorrow to
quite enjoy today, or use it to the best
advantage. One of the things we need
specially to cultivate as people is the
act of taking things easy. 1t makes a
world of difference in the comfort OF life
whe her the peas in the shoes are hard
or cooked. Hearth and Home.
Year: 1875

AN ACT TO amend Sec 80 of Chap. 119 of the


general laws of 1872, entitled AN act in re-


lation to railroads and the organization of rail


road companies


The people of the State of Wisconsin. represent


ed in Senate and Assembly, do enact fol-


lows:


SECTION l. Sec. fifty ss0l of Chap one hundred
and nineteen Qlg) of the general laws OF
1872 entitled IAN act in relation to rail-
roads and the organization of railroad
companies" is hereby amended SO as
to read as follows: ANY railroad com
pany incorporated by or under the laws of
this State may, by majority vote of all its
adopt such other corporate name as the share
holders shall designate in the vote OF resolu
tion. In the event of any railroad company
changing its name az above authorized the Sec
rotary of said railroad company shall file in
the office Of the Secretary of State q copy "
the resolution. certified under his hand and the
seal Of the company, changing the name a.
aforesaid, and shall publsh tbe same for three
successive weeks in the official State paper. and
when the is filed with the Secretary of State
A transcript of such resolution, the record
thereof al any time heretofore or hereafter certi
fed by the Secretary Of State in due form of law
shall be sufficient evidence of such change oi
name and of the name adopted. in any and all
courts, and in any and all proceedings. All acts
and things done or undertaken 10 be done Tor the
benefit and in behalf of the company, or for which
the company shall have been before liable in any
and as full tent binding and obligatory in fayoi
Of and upon the company under the new name
adopted BY ii.


SEC 2. This act shall take effect and be in forct
from aud after its passage.


Approved February II, 1873. eg-COPY.
Year: 1875

The fredericksburg Courier has been informed
By gentleman who recently had an interview
with the President of the Old Dominion Steam
ship Co. that it was the determination of that
Company to build line OF railroad between Sea-
ford and Georgetown as soon as the extension
of the Frankford Breakwater R. R., by means
of existing lipes and additional links, is pushed
on to the Virginia line.
Year: 1875

Forty thousand Northern people are expected
to visit Florida during the present season-ex-
tending from about New Years to May 1st. The
number who go there is immensely increasing,
year after year, and no wonder such changes
of temperature as that from yesterday to to day
are irving indeed to weak constitutions.