smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1873

two hours from the time he came into the
store, he started home with S4S9.63 worth
of goods for himself, and a good supply for
some of his neighbors. The last thing he


aid when starting home, was this: Il shall
always come to
Year: 1873

Judge in the obscure State or oregon for a time,
and worried through the docket OF his court with
out any special diserace but that he ever attained
or ever can attain to any eminence In the profess
sion or on the bench IL not To be anticipated.
That the great minds OF the country should be set
aside TO make place for personal favorites OF the
President should not asonsh us at TINS day In the
history of The present Administration.
Year: 1873

The Weather In This City Yesterday.


The following record will show the changes in
the temperature for the past twenty-four hours in
comparison with the corresponding day OF last
year, as indicated by the thermometer at Hudnuts
Pharmacy, HERALD Building:-
Year: 1873

No one. says Won Humboldt, can fear
death less than do, neither am I much
attached to life; but 1 have never
known the feeling Of an anxious long
ing for death; and although it be a no
bier one than that of an absolute weari-
ness of existence, 1t Is nevertheless
bIamabIe. Life must first, for as long
q period as Providence wills it, be en-
ioyed or suffered-in one word, gone
through, and that with a full submiss-
ION, without murmuing, lamenting, or
repining. There is one important law
Of nature which We should never lose
sight of mean that of the ripeniug
for death. Death is not a break IN ex-
istence, it is but an intermediate cir
cumstance-a transition from one form
of our finite existence to another. The
moment OF maturity for death cannot
be decided by any human wisdom or
inward feeling, and to attempt to do %
would be nothing better than the vain
rashness Of human pride. That decis-
ion can only be made by Him who can
at once look back through our whole
course and both reason and duty re-
quire that we should leave the hour to
Him, and never rebel against His de
crees by a single impatient wish. The
first and most important thing is, to
learn TO master ourselves, and to throw
ourselves with peaceful confidence on
Him who never changes, looking on
every situation, whether pleasant or
otherwise, as a source from which our
interior existence and individual char
acter may draw increasing strength;
and hence springs that entire submlss-
ion WHICH few attain to, although all
fancy they feel It.


Conscience warns us as Il friend before
it Furnishes us as judge.
Year: 1873

about the house, while they would not


hire. in New York, a first class waiter or


q butler. The idea is horrible, but the


facts are as we state them, or we have


been misipformed by one who has the
best opportunity Of knowing them.


What must generally be the class of
men who can be hired at these wages
" hen this question is nationally answer
ed. we can form some conception of the
risks we are compelled to run by the
parsimony of companies whose cabins
we crowd with passengers, and who can
hardly find room for the enormous
freights which we commit to them?


We know of no way 70 secure a safer
service but by holding the companies
rendering it to a strict accountability.
They are accountable for their ships, for
their supplies. and for their rcommanders.
If they wish for better captains-nay, if
they wish to secure the best service Of
those they have-Iet those commanders
hold a place whose wages are a prize
worth holding, and make that place so
high that young men of the best talents
and character VIII look upon it as worth
seeking. Let it be given to no man
until it can be given as the reward OF
eminent character and eminent seaman
ship. As the facts stand to-day, we have
in sayingthat the niggardli-
ness of these Angio-American lines Is
shame to their owners and managers,
and that, until it Is corrected, we have
a perfect right to hold them criminoIIy
responsible for all the disasters that
occur to them through the carelessness
or ignorance of their employees q.
Year: 1873

The pencil marks you see around this
paragraph 0hus) mean that your sub
scriPtior is out or unpaid, and that
you are requested to pay up at once.
We would take great pleasure in extend
ing credit to our friends and patrons.
but cash alone VIII pay. expenses. and
we are forced to adhere to a strict cash
rule. We hope you VIII comprehend
and appreciate the necessity of such 2
course, and renew your subscription
without delay. We solicit your favor.


F5 We enter no new names on our
books without The money IN adyl1ec.
Year: 1873

On which they had lived so many


months. and on which stood their homo S


OF snow and newly-stored stock Of food.


The foe, which had been nearly five


miles IN circumference, was by this I'M
toward calamity reduced to a pan of ice
no more twenty yards in diameter. The
consequence was that they concluded,


by the advice of Captain Tyson, and
after much alteration and difference of
opinion, to abandon their late home
and endeavor to regain the main pack.
This was done on the 1st of April, and,
with the foe and huts, they also aban-
dOnod all their stock of meat, a large
quantity of ammunition, clothing,
skins and other articles. A small por-
ton of the meat was put into the boat,
in which they now again took to the
water; but, owing to the boat being too
heavily laden, it became necessary to
throw that overheard. On the Sd and
4th of April the outer edge of


THE MAIN BODY OF ICE WAS RECLAIMED,
And some progress made inwards. The
elements still adverse, a tremendous
gale and heavy sea breaking the ice
into yet smaller pieces, continuously
hindered and threatened them with de-
struction, so that they were obliged to
confne themselves to small pars,
changing their positions from time to
time as danger necessitated. It was
impossible to launch the boat, no seals
could be taken, and actual starvation
was inevitable. It was at this crisis
that, on the 21st of April, fortune sent
the Polar bear, which they happily OBJ
tanned possession of as above described.
The boat was afterward got into the
water, and they worked their way west
and southwest every day in the hope of
reaching some part of the Labrador
coast. The only then remaining shelter
was a canvass tent, erected after the
annihilation of the winter camp. On
the ODD of April the boat happened to
become separated from this tent some
soven or eight feet. The weather,
which had been fine for some days pre-
viously, with hardly any wind, sudden
Iy shifted, and
Year: 1873

Fit be true-and we suppose it is
that the stomach and the brain are
50 interrelated that the condition Of
one organ defines the state of the other,
then the man who teaches us the prop
er laws of cookery must be regarded
as benefactor of his species. One
Of our leading literary journals re-
Gently declared that more good food is
worse wasted in this country than any
where else on earth, and the fact is ad
mitted by all who have had the oppor-
tunity to break bread at European
tables. 1t is proverbial saying that
Freuchman will get three courses out
of bone, and the economies Of the
German are equally famous. The
dense populations, the low wages and
the distinctions of classes in Europe
compel the people to make the most
Of what they possess. There is a very
waste, and hardly any trace Of the
tendency to dyspepsia which is 40 Pc
culiar to Americans; and human life
is longer and happier in consequence.
Our people, bent upon getting through
the world in hurry, and generally
careless Of their diet, might learn
something from the Englishman, the
Frenchman and the German, and even
from the stolid Indian Of the Far West.
Better methods Of cooking, less haste
in eating, and smaller consumption Of
unwholesome articles Of food, would
not only lengthen the average term Of
life in this country, but also, by Civ
ing the American stomach better
treatment than it now receives, i'm
prove the quality Of the American
brain. We therefore welcome the an
ti-dyspeptic cook as one Of the most
useful Of our public instructors.


I@ A venerable relic has disap-
peared in London-the house in which
the great poet Pope was born--and
in the front of which his father, it
will be remembered, kept haher-
dasher's shop. This building was in
Plow Court. There has been a haber-
dashery in it ever since the time Of
Pope, until recently, when it was oc-
curied by chemist. In Germany.
such an interesting structure would
have been religiously preserved, but
the English, and we are sorry to say,
the American people have no such
reverence, especially when money is
to be made by not having it.


. .
Year: 1873

Peaches are very scarce in market Those that
are for sale are Of the most inferior kind. Bui
high prices are asked for them Notwithstanding.
Snch as were sold at twenty-five cents per hall
peek on Thursday are now bringing thirty. five
aud forty cents. But this is not ALI The supply
/ fast disappearing. We shall soon be without
fruit. Nor are we likely to get a new supply fos
several days yet.


What shall be done


We have it, Let some enterprising dealer ar.
range with the railroad authorities to bring up
from the orchards to the farthest point which il
Is possible to reach the needed supply and then
let the train be met with wagons which will bring
the fruit on to Wilmington. Or il this be deemed
inexpedient, let steamer be chartered and run
OWN to Lewes, where peaches may be had ip
a undance. Something should be done. Our
people are great lovers OF peaches. They have
snjoyed few good ones yet this season. And
the season is fast slipping away. We are losing
ie very best of the fruit. Can we afford it I
We think we hear some one say mol" Then,
let some one organize an expedition for the
peach orchards. Success is assured from the
start. 1t will be fine speculation. Who will un-
dertake ii?
Year: 1873

We had omitted to notice the 4dcefser's
change of form, because no copy of last weeks
issue reached US. We make this explanation as
our apology. The .4doerfiser is now duarto,
and contains considerably more reading matter,
some part OF it being transferred from one Of
the city dailies. The price of the paper is now
four cents per copy.
Year: 1873

Mr.. EDITOR A capacious NAV has this Radi


cal city administration truly. 1t grasps ALL holds
all, and greedily looks at an points at once for
more, and Is never satisfied. Having spent hun
dreds of thousands of dollars of the peoples mon
ey, extravagantly, it now proposes to increase
taxation to enable it to go on in its reckless
reer of wanton extraVagance, and in addition, has
the teRerity to order bill TO be prepared for the
Legislature to grant it permission TO borrow a
half million or SO more of money for the pretend
ed purpose of extending the water supply of the
city. A tine fat goose indeed would this loan be
for the hungry jobbers of pluck If the Legislature
should be foolish enough to grant it. But they
will do no such thing. At least if they do give
Council permission to borrow, we trust they will
do it through the medium Of Water Commission
ers who will know all about the bills and into
whose hands the money goes to be spent. The
very wise men Who,dO our local legislation iust
now tell us there Is no money and no way Of get
ting any for police purposes, 70 give protector
| to the people, but they soon find plan to get a


the flesh pot for their own purposes, and so, un
der pFetence of water extension would like Il
have the lingering Of half million of dollars
But the Legislature must beware, and if they gv'
any money 70 the present Council at all, 1t mus


certainly DO through special Water Commission
ers, who are known in our community to be hon
est men. ECONOMY.
Year: 1873

The canvass for the City Directory, this
year, shows very large number of changes, and
the work will be of unusual Importance, and val
ne, on that account. There has been great
influx. Of new residents. They come from all
parts OF the country Earound us, large number
being from Cecil County, though nearly every
county on the Peninsula has sent some. Many
of those who have coms,in this way are mechsn-
les, who will find in Wilmington, SO long as our
present prosperity and rapid increase continue
and we see no reason to doubt their permanence
better wages, steadier work, and better schools
for their children.


Very many of the in-eomers, however, are
farmers, who have removed hither, on account
OF Encouragement in their pursuit. For the last
twJ or three years, farmers in this section have
felt forced to complain, and while it Is probable
that the business is as remunerative, now, as it
was before the War, and that the practice Of
equal economy would produce the same ratio Of
returns, the apparent prosperity of maRufac-
turing pursuits in the cities has proved strong
attraction to hundreds of the tillers Of the SOIL


There is danger that many of this latter class
may find their condition little improved. A
man, bred farmer and having no other ''trade, :"
is not able always to find business suitable for
him in city. We have known of cases where
persons used TO country life. came into Will
mington with a small capital, on the vague
prospect Of getting something to do" and in q
little while, found their means exhausted mo en-
ployment or business available and their situa-
ton a hard one.


This truth, however, is applicable mostly to
elderly men. Young men. of spirit and perse-
verance, ceming from the country to the town
generally succeed-in fact, there is good reason
to believe that they form the bulk of the sue
cessful class in all large cities. The children of
the crowded streets and high-pressure life do
no. sppear to have the strength and endurance
that belongs to the fields and prairies.


The rapid growth of Wilmington by accessions
of sober, Industrious, and earnest people, is,
auany rate, a gratifying fact, and we cannot but
rejoice to notice it.
Year: 1873

It is bad enough, says the Danbury
News, to see a batchelor sew on but
ton, but he is the embodiment of grace
alongside of a married man. Necessi-
ty has compelled experience in the
case of the former, but the latter has
always depended upon some one else
for this service, and fortunately for the
sake ofsociety, it is rarely he is obliged
to resort to the needle himself. Some
times the patient wife scalds her right
hand, or runs silver under the nail
of the index finger of that hand, and
lit is then that the man clutches the
needle around the neck, and forget
ting to tie knot in the thread COM
mences to put on the button. 1t is
always in the morning, and from five
to twenty minutes after he is expected
to be down street. He lays the button
exactly on the site of it's predecessor,
and pushes the needle through one
eye, and carefully draws the thread
after leaving about three inches of it
sticking up for lee way. He says to
himself, "Well if women don't have
the easiest time ever see" Then he
comes back the other way, and gets
the needle through the cloth well e.
nough, and lays himself out to find
the eye, but in spite of great deal of
patient jabbing, the needle point per-
sists in bucking against the solid parts
of that button, and finally when he
loses patience, his finger catches the
thread, and that three inches he had
left to hold the button slips through
the eye in a twinkling, and the button
rolls leisurely across the floor. He
picks it up without single remark,
out of respect for his children, and
makes another attempt to fasten it
This time when coming back with the
needle he keeps both the thread and the
button from slipping by covering them
with his thumb, and lis out ofregard
for that he feels around for the eye in
a very caefal and judicious manner,
bat eventually losing his philosophy
as the search. becomes more and more
hopeless, he falls to jahbing about in a
loose and savage manner, and 1T is just
then the needle finds the opening, and
comes up through the button and part
way through his thumb with d celerity
that no human ingenuity can guard a.
gainst. Then he lays down the things,


with a few familiar quotations, and
presses the injured hand between his


knees, and then holds it under the
other arm, and finally jams it into his
mouth, and all the while he prances
about the floor and calls upon heaven
and earth to witness that there has
never been anything like it since the
world was created, and hoWles, and
whistles, and means, and sobs. After
awhile he calms down, and puts on his
pants, and fastens them together with
a stick, and goes to his business a
changed man.
Year: 1873

Is EARTH MANS ONLY ABIDING


PLACE? Those who admire the writ
ings of Mr.. Geo. d. Prentice will be


pleased to read the following extract


again: "It cannot be that earth is
mans only abiding place. It cannot
be that our life is bubble cast up by
the ocean of eternity to float moment
upon its waves and sink into nothing
ness. Else why is it that the high and
glorious aspirations which leap like
angels, from the temple of our hearts,
are forever unsatisfed? Why is it that
the rainbow and clouds come over us
with a beauty that's not of earth, and
then pass off to leave us to muse on
their 1oveliness? Why is it that the
stars which 'hold their festival around
the midnight thrones are set above
the grasp of our limited faculties, for
ever mocking us with their unapproac-
able glory? And finally, why is it that
bright forms Of human beauty are pre-
sented to our view and taken from us,
leaving the thousand streams of our
affection to flow back like Alpine tor
rents upon the heart? We are born to
ahigher destiny than of earth. There
is realm where the rainbow never
fades, where the stars will spread out


before us like the islands that slumber
Year: 1873

They fit, they come, they go,
The visions of the day;
They change, they fade, they glow,
They rise, they die away.
And all within the scope


Of one poor human breast,
Where Joy, and fear, and hope,
Like clouds on heavens blue cope,
Can never be at rest.
They press, they throng, they fill
The heart where they have birth;
Oh. pour them forth to thrill
The brethren of the earth
In circles still they swim,


But outward will not go;
The lute-strings cage the hymn,
The cup is full, full to- the brim,
Yet will not overflow.
When will the lutte be stricken,
So that its song shall sound2
When shall the spring so quicken
That its streams shall pour around?
Woe for the struggling soul


That utterance cannot find,
Yet longs without control
Through all free space to roll,


Like thunders on the wind
The painters pencil came


The struggling soul to aid,
His visions to proclaim


In colored light and shade;
But though so fair to me


His handiwork may seem,
His soul desponds to see
How pale his colors be


Before his cherished dream.
So from the sculptor's hand


To life the marbles wrought;
But he can understand


How lovelier, far, his thought.
The minstrel's S power ye own,


His Tyre with bays ye bind;
But he can feel alone
How feeble is its tone


To the music of his mind.
So strife on earth must be


Between mans power and will
For the soul unchecked and free


We want symbol still.
Joy when the feshy veil
From the spirit shall be cast,
Then an ungarbled tale
That cannot stop or fail


Shall genius tell at last
Year: 1873

BACK AGAIN.-Capt. Geo. II. Atkins
returned from Nevada last Monday in
company with several other residents of
that county who came to take look at
our gravel mines with view to making
Trinity their future home if they find
prospects ms favorable as the general APP
pearance of our extensive gravel deposits
seem to indicate. Capt. Atkins will re-
move his family to this place in few
weeks. We are informed by parties late
ly arrived here that many more Nevada
men will visit Trinity during the Summer
and that many of them will undoubtedly
locate in this county.
Year: 1873

ROAD TO DoUGLAs.-Mr. Leonard,
Overseer of the Dutton Road District, has
nearly completed change in the road
down Weaver creek, opposite the mouth
of Democrat gulch, which has long been
much needed. The wagon road, when
the change is made will, instead of cross
ing and recrossing the creek, which in
Winter is at times both difficult and dan
gerous, keeps along on the east side OF
the stream. This will leave only one
crossing of Weaver creek between this
point and Douglas City.
Year: 1873

ton because the indirect claims had been
excluded, they record that the Queen
twas enabled to prosecute the inquiry in
consequence of the exclusion Of the indi-
rect Claims" We do not think state
document should be fiippant or familiar,
but surely the resources of our language
are sufficient to express any plain fact In
words which are at once clear and digni-
hed.-Hearth and Home.
Year: 1873

A PARIS paper draws a distinction be-
tween sincere suicides, and ipsincere sui
cides, the former being those who really
wish to get rid of life, and the latter those
who do violence to themselves for the
sake of gaining notoriety.
Year: 1873

The EVIL OF THE DAY.-A judge in
Shanghai has been giving some useful
hints on the prevalent desire to get rich
too fast. A Shanghai correspondent
tells of criminal case which has there
been creating some excitement on ac-
count of its novelty, though we should
perhaps not be disposed to regard it in
the same light here. He says: .'A gen.
tleman holding a position of trust made
use of moneys not belonging to him, and
was tempted SO to act by unsuccessful
speculations and extravaganza in living.
The Chief Judge, in passing sentence,
took advantage of the opportunity to
read wholesome lesson to the commu-
nifty, and his remarks are we'll worth re-
peating to large sphere Of society.
He said: ssYou are the self made victim
of a passion which seems to be seizing
on society at large, and which, like dis
ease, spares neither age nor sex, the SIM
gle or the married, the rich or the poor
the passion for getting rich by one or
more strokes of Luckily process which
is as much open to the fool as to the
wise man, to the knave as to the honest
man. 1t appears as if, in these times,
men had but ode faith, one hope, one
object in life-wealth. Responsibility,
contentment with what we have, the
happiness of our family, honor, are all
sacrificed in this one god of the age We
live in. Everything is to be sacrificed
NOT only or own prospects, the pros


poets of those dearest to us, the pros
poets of our wives and children, TO the
great mania of getting rich; and this
sswealth' is not that which is the resul


of patient industry, uprightness in deal


ings. and legitimate trade, but th'


wealth" of the gambling table" Thes


words of Sir Edmund Hornby's are lik


a shower of pearls, and it is to be hope'


that the effect will not be lost. =
Year: 1873

deferred to, and their service held in
higher esteem. But there is propriety
in their patience. Real merit can afford
to wait, if need be, for its recognition is
sure when the proofs of it are fttingly
brought forward. They may well dis
trust their own impressions when the ex-
perience of older men contradicts them.
They cannot be harmed by mixing
teachableness with zeal and self-rellance.
We want them to come forward and take
their share of the trusts. They will
most assuredly work with more wisdom
for working with those who have lived
twice as long. Both the older and the
younger men need to clasp each others
hands with fresh charity, and with a
pledge to co-work for the great ends set
before us. Then we may be sure of
achieving worthy things.