smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1873

FRANK IS SICK


L went up and found him with his body
rigid and this pallor of which I have
spoken; applied such restoratives as
could, and he shortly fell into pro-
found sleep for an hour; noticed
similar symptoms on various occasl
ions, in greatet '6r less aesTea; heYas,
before first let him know about bis
father, very gay, joyous boy; after
that he was at times very quiet and
there was a notable failure
Year: 1873

ARoMANCE.-About seventeen years
ago an elderly couple, while on a visit
to friends in Fairfax, Conn, passed
through the poor-house at that place,
and among the inmates bright little
girl of seven summers attracted their
attention, and SO favorably were they
impressed that they determined to
adopt her, to which the authorities
readily assented. All that was known
of her history was the fact that she had
been left at the institution when a
mere infant by disreputable- looking
French Canadian couple, who immedi-
ately left the place, and nothing subse-
quent was known of them. The little
girl, apparently delighted with her
found friends, went with them to
their home in the northern part of the
State, where she became to them as
their own child and shared the love of
the old couple equally with their son,
who was some three years older than
herself. After lapse of about six
years, however, Misunderstanding
man appeared at the Fairfax almshouse
and demanded the maiden he left there
so many years before. representing that
he was her father. The adopted pa
rents were at once informed and deter
mined to retain their adopted child at
all hazards, the girl vehemently pro-
testing that the man was not her father,
although she could give no reason for
her belief One day, however, the
man, accompanied by three associates,
invaded the quiet homestead, and for
chilly carried her away. They were,
however, pursued by the old gentleman
and his son, who traced them to Bur-
lington, and through the valuable assis-
tance rendered by lady of that place
the abducted girl was restored to her
home and the abducters fed from the
place, narrowly escaping coat of tar
aud feathers at the hands of the exas-
perated citizens. For several years af-
ter this occurrence a vigilant watch
was kept over the young lady from fear
of another attempt at abduction, but
the parties never appeared again, and
only short time ago the heroine of
the incident was married to the son OF
her adopted parents, but the mystery
other birth and parentage has never
been unraveled, as e verything goes to
strengthen the belief that the ruffian
who claimed to be her father was of no
kin to her.
Year: 1873

The following question has been pro-
posed to US: 81 sent a substitute to
the war, and he was disabled by
wounds. As l paid him for his serv-
ices, am l not entitled to his pension


"P. r. L. JONES',


This person could not have sought
for information in better quarter. 1t
is perfectly clear that the substitute was
the agent of Mr.. Jones, and nothing is
better determined by law than that a
principal and his agent are one and the
same person to all intents and purposes.
Now if this is true, Jones himself was
really in the army, and was disabled by
wounds. In that case it is evident that
he is entitled to the full amount of the
pension. At the same time the actual
fact is, that the substitute was in the
army and received the wounds; so he
is entitled to the whole pension. But,
as the Government only had the serv-
ice of one man, it will, of course, pay
but one pension. Now, how Jones is
to receive the whole of this, and at the
same time his substitute is to obtain it
all. we don't pretend to understand,
any more than we do how each of Brig
ham Youngs thirty-seven widows is to
have third of his property when he
dies. We only know that the Govern
ment is obliged to attend to it, and we
have no doubt it can be fixed up some
how by algebra, Jones being represent
ed by and the substitute by y, and
the pension by the rest of the alphabet,
may be. But at the same time Jones
must not forget that his identity with
the substitute brings car and response
bility upon him. Ifthe substitute loses
his leg, for instance, Jones is bound
by law to wear a wooden leg, even if his
own limbs are all sound. 1.-THE substi-
tute proposes to dozen girls, and then
backs out, twelve actions for breach of
promise will lie very uncomfortable
against Jones. 1t will be exceedingly
warm for him if his substitute doesn't
behave. And if the substitute dies, it
seems to us that any undertaken in the
country would be warranted in seizing
Jones and placing him under the sod.
The subject opens up as we contem-
plate it. Suppose, now, that the sub
stitute had deserted to the confederates
during the war, and had been made
commander-in- chief of the army; and
suppose old Jones had been placed at
the head of the Federal army. We
should then have had Jones leading
both armies, and fighting against
himself In such an event, no matter
which side whipped, Jones would have
been both defeated and victorious !;
and, if either army retreated, Jones
would have engaged in the interesting
recreation of chasing himself around
over the country, and pouring hot shot
into his own troops. When we con-
template the frightful tangle in which
things would have gotten under such
circumstances, we cannot be sufficient
ly thankful that Jones had the courage
to remain out of the army; and we
suppose he is glad of it himself.-Mar
Adeter IN Sat. EUening Post.
Year: 1873

An infamous person finds it little
difficult to sympathize with Tennyson' s
overpowering horror of the troublesome
ly affectionate curiosity of which he is
the object. Even such extreme cases
of hero-worship as that of the American
who climbed the tree at Farringford to
survey its master at his leisure, and
that of the bevy of ladies at London
exhibition, who, occupying a lounge
before one of the special pictures of the
season, and beholding Tennyson ap-
proach for look, overwhelmed him with
discontinue by impressively ceding him
the entire sofa-even these, and others
of their kind, have a humorous side
that might serve to qualify their imper-
tinence and ill-breeding.


Neither Browning nor George Eliot
is unknown by sight to the reading
world of London: neither was Thack-
cry nor Dickens. Did either of these
ever make an outcry at the friendly if
vulgar glances: Yet it is true that no
one of them, save Dickens, has been so
widely read, and it is probable that
Browning, who looks like nothing so
much as a hale, hearty businessman,
oftenest escapes detection, while Tenny-
sons late photograph reproduces him
so faithfully that he declares he can 60
nowhere without being known. Of the
mischievous fidelity of the picture l am
myself witness, for having driven up
one day to the Victoria station of the
London, Brighton and South Coast
Railway, by which Tennyson's new
home is reached, and being busted with
extricating from my purse the cabman' S
fare, my companion suddenly caught my
arm, crying out, "Oh, s., there
Tennyson !" The purse dropped in
my lap: he was so near the cab | could
have touched him, and of course he had
heard the exclamation and knew why
two ladies had so utterly forgotten their
manners; but if he had also known
that one of us had certain shabby
through-use edition of all his earlier
poems, which during space of dozen
years had never been separated from
her, travelling in a crowded trunk fol
even the shortest absences from home
that for months of that time she had
been used to read therefrom to a precu-
cious child who came every night in
her nightgown to nestle in the reader
lap and listen to the music, without
which she declined to undertake the
business of sleep-I think the look
bestowed upon the absorbed twain
might well have been more amiable
than the one which really fell upon
them and blighted their innocent de-
light. 1t was all the photograph
fault, and, enthusiastic American sisters,
be content with beholding the repre-
sentation, for the original looks neither
more patient, more gracious, nor more
hopeful. So sensitive is he to looks
which have in them any recognition,
any stress, that a visitor at Farringford
relates that, wandergabout the cliffs
and shores with his host, the latter would
every now and then nervously cry out,
I" Come! let's walk on-I hear tour
lists !" and his companion, delaying a
little, would be able to answer reassur-
ingly, "Oh no: see! there's moth
ing in sight but flock of sheep"
Lippincott's Magazine.
Year: 1873

A corpse has been kept six months
without any sign of decomposition, and
only slight change of appearance, by
simply enveloping it in cloth saturated
with solution obtaining two per cent.
of carbolic acid, and pouring more of
the solution over it after an interval of
four or five days. At the dead-house
in Paris solution containing one-twen-
tieth of one per cent, sprinkled over the
bodies, arrested putrefaction even dur
ing the heat of summer.
Year: 1873

Not long since Henry Ward Beech
er was requested to lecture for the ben
eft of the Canterbury Educational As
sociation, and was informed that if he
would come he might calculate that
Canterbury would nominate him as
General GRANTS successor. Mr.. Beech
er replied: 81. shall not be able to
comply with your kind request, even
in view of your tempting offer. If ]
live until l am nominated for President,
/ shall be so old that Methuselah
will be regarded as young man
Year: 1873

An Irishman speaking of suicide said
the only way to stop it was by making
it capital ofense, punishable with
death.


1t is the fashion now for ladies to
buckle their belts behind, which is not
so becoming as the way they used to
buckle them before.


There is said to be man in Cincin-
natl who is in possession of such a
powerful memory that he is employed
b y the Humane Society to remember
the Door.


A pompous philosopher extracted
the following reply from an advanced
free-school lad to the query, "How
is the earth divided, my lad?"


"By earthquakes, Sir"
Lightning recently struck telegraph
pole, and ran along the wire into the
office at Coatesville, Indiana, when the
operator, seated at the instrument, ex-
citedly telegraphed back: "Don't send
so thunderin' fast "


The most appalling case of deafness
outside of an asylum was that of an old
lady who lives just across the street
from the Navy Yard gate. The other
day they fred a salute of thirteen guns.
The old lady was observed to start and
listen as the last gun was fired, and
then she exclaimed: "Come in !"


Two Titusville pa. lawyers entered
into solemn compact not to drink in
toxicating liquors for a year, except
when out duck shooting, under forfeit
of 500. One of them quenches his
thirst without losing the ducats by
keeping duck in his backyard to fire
at when he is dry, and the other has in
vested in one also.


During the late gale at Nova Scotia,
barber took stroll to witness the de-
struction in progress, and while contem-
plating the ravages of the storm, some
one came running up to him, and ex-
claimed: " You have more need to be
at home-your shops blown down! "
"Good man, coolly replied the barber,
chow can that be, when I've got the
key in my pocket"


Mother wants to know if you'll
please lend her your preserving kettle,
cause you know as how we want to
preserve" "We would with pleasure,
boy, but the truth is, the last time we
loaned it to your mother she preserved
it so effectually that we have not seen
it since" "Well, you needn't be SC
sassy about your old kettle. 1t was
full of holes when we borrowed it, and
mother wouldn't "a troubled you again
but she seen you bringing home new
one."


A pious old lady at New Bedford
boasted in prayer meeting that she
wasn't afraid of the devil. A young
chap present, with a view to testing
her faith and courage, followed hel
home, and in lonely, secluded spot,
crept up behind her and whispered, 81
am the devil" But the good woman
never needed him, and again and again
he introduced himself in the same style
Finally, finding the thing was getting
monotonous, she turned to him with
the ejaculation, well, nobody denies
it." The young man don't follow the
frightening business any more.
Year: 1873

Here is an order lately received by a
music teacher: "Please send me the
music to Strike the harp in heavenly
strains and paddle your own canoe" Ii
is almost as unique as the title page OF
a new piece of music, which reads
"Hark ! sister is dying with piano-forte
accompaniment"
Year: 1873

speed, to say nothing of reaching down
to the ground 70 cut OFF the heads. But
while the rider is thus slashinS with his
sabre he must keep one eye ahead and
hold his .teed well in hand. or be woald
soon be climbing the planks which, slope
down to the ground from what would 10
the'podium in an amphitheatre. Having
made the circuit the two horsemen hold
in their painting steeds and resume thaiz
places in line .--


The captain, then calls next" and
two more horses come prancing out. go
ing through the same m1vement as the
frs t, ard go on until all have had their
turn. Occasionally the rider. in thrust
ing at the head, aims too low and hits
the wooden post. Somctines the post
goes over, and sometimes the sabre falls
to the ground, leaving the post standing.
1t is fearful test for the nerves. When
tue exercise is fully under way the noise
becomes so great as to be almost deafen-
ing. The whanging of the sabres as
they hit up and down. right and left, the
changing of the long scabbards at tas
horses sides the discharge of the pis-
tolls, filling The place with smoke the
clatter Of tie horses hoofs the ratlling
of the earth they kick mp and shoot far
behind them all this, mingled with the
pounding of the horses feet agains. the
slOpiDg planks whenever they deviate
from the regular course, makes quite
noise enough but there would be no
opportunity for the spectators TO applaud
even if they were cool and collected
enough to think of applauding, which Is
seldom the case


OF this last exercise in the troopers
school it can hardly be said that the par
, ticipants did as well as they ought to do
While they showed much skill as far as
mere riding was concerned for they stuck
like leeches to the bare backs of their
horses, even when they baked at the
most critical moment of leaping hurdle,
many of them lost their sabres, and some
even their pistols, the attendants recover
ing them and handing them up again -
1t would seem from suci results as these
that the present graduating class have
been better taught how to get away from
an enemy than to fight and conquer him.
Certainly, a cavalryman with bis weap-
ons lying on the ground is good for moth
ing but to retreat
Year: 1873

THE county court will be called upon
at the session which commences to-day
TO elect a superintendent fer the State
schools o. this county. We understand
there are many candidates for the posi-
tion, among them our old friend and for
mer co-laborer, Colonel Leon TrousdaIe
Of him we can truthfully say, without
disparagement of other gentlemen, that
lie possesses all the ability, taste, and
skill necessary to fill the position
satisfactory to the public and with ben
eft to the children. He is too well
known here TO need eulOgy, at our hands,
and We will not attempt it, suffice it,
that We think his consistent devotion to
this people from boyhood to manhood
deserve such a recognition as his cleo
ten to this Office, would be, and we trust
his will he the strong Hame before the
uEathars of old Shelby"
Year: 1873




on our second page to-day, in fur
therance Of our purpose to post our
people upon the current events in our
own and the States contiguous to us, we
publish an interesting melange Of south
ern news. The citizens Of Memphis
largely represent the States of Missis-
sippi, Alabama and Arkansas as well as
Tennessee, and even from Georgia We
have many whom We regard among our
most industrious and therefore best peo-
pie. They viii no doubt welcome the
news from home, and read carefully the
paragraphs We select at an expense in
volviag much time, patience and labor.
We are determined to make the AP-
PEAL u thorough newspaper.
Year: 1873

Lord Derby, in a recent letter, is very
severe on Englishmen for their sense
less extravaganza in foreign travel But
his lordship adds that the American
tourists are even more ridiculous than
the Englisle.
Year: 1873

count for the five million dollars OF
earnings and receipts which have come
into their hands since the so-cslled sale
of 1871. A restitution of the road and
all its appurtenancee is also asked.
Year: 1873

Oh the steamship Virginia, that ar
rived In New York last week, were n
msu and woman who had met. loved,
and been married OH board the ship.
The most interesting feature of this
hasty affair was that. the happy couple
would not permit n minister to per-
form the ceremony, but insisted Oh the
captains marrying them, which lie did.
Year: 1873

n HOUND was chasing a fox near
Laurel Hill. North Carolina, u few
DAYS since, when the latter being tight.
ly pressed, took refuge in hollow log
entrance into which 1t effected at 4
knot. hole. The dog coming up and
finding that the fox had gotten into the
log thrust his head into the knot-hole
after the fox, and got his head ias,
therein. Being unable to extricate
himself the dog died, and the fox. be-
ing cut off from the only avenue OF es,
cape from the log, likewise perished,
both OF them evidently having died ol
starYatiOn.
Year: 1873

That was happy thought OF the
Post Office Department which guards
against the improper use of the postal
what Is written on the cards, unless it
is scurrilous! It will be seen that
this Is a perfect security against the
abuse Of the new system. 1t was In
vented in ireland.
Year: 1873

fuller, from year to year; and, in the
course Of time, the poor farmer became
a rich and prosperous one. :, He worked
all day with his men as IL the whole
world depended upon it; but in the even.
ing, when the vesper bell sounded, he
was,always to be seen sitting, lcontented
and wen to,d0, at his threshold, to be
wished Good evening" BY the passers-by.
Now and then, when they were quite
alone and no one near to hear, the woman
still reminded him Of the ring, Iahd
made all sorts of propositions to
him. ~ He always answered there
was time enough to think about
1t, an that the best ideae always oc.
Cured 10 one last So she gradually fell
into the way Of mentioning It less often,
and at last 1t rarely happened that the
ring was ever alluded to at all. The farm.
er, 1t is true, turned the ring on bis finger
twenty times a day, and examined 1t close
~, but he took good care newer to .expross
the slightest wish at the time. -


And so thirty and forty years went by,
and the farmer and his wife grew old aud
their hair snow white, and still the wish
remained unspoken. At last 1t pleased
God to show them a great mercy, and
He took them to Himself both in one
night. Children and grandchildren stood
weeping round the coffins, and, as one
of them tried to withdraw the ring from
the dead mans fingers, the eldest son
said:


"Let our father take his ring to the
grave. There was some mystery about it.
Probably it was some love token, for our
mother often looked at the ring too; per-
haps she gave it to him when they both
were young" -


So the old farmer was buried with the
ring which should have been wishing.
ring, but was not one, and yet had brought
as much good luck to the house as man
could desire. For it is strange, as regards
the true and the false, but bad thing
can be turned to better account in good
bands, than good thing in bad.-GOod
Thinss.
Year: 1873

There is absolutely no safe way to carry
a pistol except to carry It without a
charge. A young man lost his wife, re-
Gently, by trusting to the directions OF a
friend who told him how he should carry
pistol without danger.


His Mary Jane resided some distance
from the city, and he had q great horror
of dogs, 80 he put his revolver In the hip
pocket of his Sunday clothes, one even
ing, when he started to see her. The
prospective, mother.in-law met him at
the gate and told him to take the rocking
chair, and as he did so, the report of fire.
arms caused the old lady to scream and
fall to the floor, while fire in the rear
claimed Charles Henry's attention, and
consumed portion of his best doeskin
'smalls." The old lady. swooned; the
girl ran in, forgetting her disordered dress
and hair, and followed her mothers ex-
ample. The old man and his double"
fisted boys ran in, and, seeing mother
and daughter lying on the floor, went for
that young man, and he went through
the window, carrying sash and glass
with him as he went. A big dog aroused
by the noise make for the fugitive, who
in his turn made for the city, about 3
mile and half or two miles distant,
emptying his revolver at the dog as he
went. The dog was dead for that young
man In more than one sense; for he dares
not approach the ouse now, lest the old
man may revenge the loss of his dog on
him. The old man says he will never for
give the murderer of his dog. If any one
asks that young man how he likes Mary
Jane, he says that her nerves are too deli
cate for a country girl, and betrays an
anxiety to drop the subject but he con-
fided to friend that, in sitting down, the
hammer of his revolver caught upon the
rocker, and it was In that way discharged,
whereupon that house and his clothes be-
came too hot for him. (Ir1d.)
| .Io1JrO0L
Year: 1873

A bill incorporating the Loomis Aerial
Telegraph Company was recently passed
by Congress. This aerial telegraph
scheme is a novel thing. The plan of DIR.
Loomis, the inventor, is TO telegraph from
high point of the Rocky Mountains to
the highest attainable peak of the Alps,
at which point tower is to be erected,
on the top of which huge mast is to be
placed. An apparatus capable of collect
ing electricity is to be put upon the upper
end of this mast, by means of which, at
such elevation, it is claimed that strata
of the atmosphere will be reached which
is charged with electricity. Ground con-
nection, the same as is used In ordinary
telegraphy, will be erected. This electri-
fed strata of the atmosphere will, as with
the ordinary single wire and ground con-
nection, make a complete circuit, and IL
Is claimed that the slightest pulsation of
electricity at one tower will produce SINH.
lar pulsation at the other. The company
is to have capital stock of two hundred
thousand dollars with the privilege of
| increasing it to two millions if the inter-
est of the company shall require it. The
business and objects of the corporation
are stated in the bill to be to develop and
| utilize the principles and powers OF nat
ural electricity, to be used in telegraph
| ing, generating light, heat and motive
power, and otherwise, and operate any
machinery, run by electricity, for any
purpose.
Year: 1873

THE New York World makes the serious
charge that a few days ago not less than
twenty car loads of diseased Western
sheep arrived in that city from Chicago,
and many of them were killed as quickly
as possible and sold to consumers. The
senders were Immediately telegraphed to,
and warned that if any more diseased
sheep were shipped they would be imme-
diately returned or seized by the proper
authorities. Sheep whose fleece showed
evident signs of the pestilence when alive
il was found could be detected by com
petent butchers after they had been
slaughtered. The deep, dark blue veins,
filed with sluggish blood, along the back,
visible when the pelt was stripped off,
was sufficient indication that the disease
permeated the system, to say nothing OF
the general leanness and thinness of the
mutton,
Year: 1873

streams.-Now, Nettie, if you love me as
eyer-and God knows | love You the same
let US get married over again, and the bitter
experience Of the last few years will only en-
hance our happiness. Nettie, dear what do
you say?"


She could not answer; she was crying as
if her heart would break, and her head was
pillowed upon his breast. 1t was more
eloquent Eyes" than her tongue could speak.


The moon was rising as he walked home
with Nettie to her fathers


So Harry Rogers and Nettie Ray were
married again, and there Is no divorce that
can part them now