smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1873

Enclosed yOu will find a memorandum which
IHickedup on Dauphine Island after u severe
blow from the southeast 1t was sealed and
the Russian language. Thinking that it may
have been written by some person in distress
have taken the liberty to send it to you, hop
ing 1t may contain some information that may
be of some use to somebody. am


Ynnra rasIfctfl1ll,r
Year: 1873

There Is not the least necessity of frit-
tering away much time on people who
are neither profitable, congenial, or in
any way cOmpaniOnable, although there
is an immense amount Of time wasted in
that manner, and deal of seOlding done
In consequence.


Those who have nothing to do but
chatter, lounge about in easy chairs, eat
bOn-bOns, and cOnjure about their neigh
bors, will soon seek more welcome quar-
tiers if one continues the duties and Ia
bors of the day regardless of their pres
encc. The atmosphere of industry does
not harmonic with chronic idleness.


How often it occurs that entire plans
for the.dAy are frustrated by an lntimely
visit from the last person one would care
to see! Important matters are neglected
merely to be civil and hOspitable, purely
from CannOt-hel p-yOurself feeling.


Entertaining people without being at
all entertained Or edited in return, is the
most stupid, thankless task one can as
sumo. There is absolutely nothing to
be gained from it in the end.


The only true, successful and lasting
basis for sOciahility and companiOnship
is sympathy Of thought or similarity OF
pursuits. g.


1t is unwise to ohaveOrpermitac acQuaint-
anceships which cannot prove pleasure
BILE or beneficial.


Now and then it may be paulonahlc in
q man or woman to treat Il cOnsnnnatc
bore with consideration because he
has money, and can be induced to lend
Il few dollars in an emergency, but the
Obeisance and sacrifice made to money
are generally tOolOw, frequent and fawn-
ing. Money and clothes are net recon-
mendations to the friendship of those
who amount to anything intellectually
still they are too apt to win soft smiles
gentle words and t1attery from the mas
ses, and pass for much that exists only
in daZzled imaginations.


Such twaddle as people endure because
gilded with money is almost enough to
discourage the poor from seeking after
knowledge. Rich ignorance and Vul lgar-
ity snub impecuniOus culture and refine
ment, and the people bow in submission
"She is al heiress,7 or he is rich,7 set
tie all questions Of equality and merit,
and the poor aTe discounted at once.
There are few eccentric individuals
who do not regard money above all else
and they will not bend the knee to that
which is tasteless and uncongenial. Such
persons are not popular; but they enjoy
Freedom from the trammel of unwelcOme
guests, and cringing to the unworthy is
to them unknown. Blessed be such &c
centricity.-[E Elm OFlOu.
Year: 1873

Mr.. Boggs is a we'll -to-do, big, fat
farmer, living in the southern portion
of Harbercreek, where the local ep-
tion law doth flourish and the the sup
ply of Wahoo bitters has long since
been expended in correcting incident
cholera. Boggs came to town yester-
day, and the family wagon, besides
bringing his wife, furnished room for
a couple of maiden sisters of certain
age, who also wished to do some shop
ping. Of course he swgged a few
glasses of lager, partly because its rari.
ty made it very palatable and some
thing had TO be taken to balance the
evaporation caused by the intense heat.
Boggs was about ready to start for
home, his cOuntenance lit up by the
sunshine of a beaming smile that
showed him to her at peace with his
fellow-men.


As he turned on State at Fifth
street, his attention was attracted to n
group Of boys. Happy little fellows,
unconscious of the interest Boggs was
taking in them, they played at leap
frog and then one put his hands ON
the top of hitching post, lightly
bounding over, leap frog fashion, and
the others all following suit, even the
smallest one springing up on his hands
and going over like jumping jacks.
Boggs gazed at the last with curious
sort of fascination and then at the
post, and there was an almost irresisti-
BILE impulse at work which plainly
said, "Boggs, just jump over that post
as you used to jump when you was
boy" The lager may have had lit
tie to do with the infatuation, but the
longer Boggs looked the more he felt
impelled to try it, and casting hasty
glance up and down street to see that
no one was looking, he ambled at the
post. 1t would have been all right
but that at the critical moment his
strength failed him. AS he made the
best spring of which his corporosity
was capable, his right hand slipped
the post was hemlock and gnawed ut
the side-and was instantly the recep-
tacle of dozen slivers. But for that
he might have got safe over. The de-
fection caused him TO lureh to the
right, and fall with his bread basket
on the end of the post. A few nails
had been driven there for the horses
to gnaw at, and one of them caught
his pants by the waistband, and ripped
them from the band clear down his
right leg, and held him there, head
doWnwards, with mashed hat over
his eyes, in the gutter, his No. II boots
waving helplessly in the breeze. A
triple scream, which he recognized as
the voices of his wife and two maiden
ladies, reused but didn't release him.
A bottle of cholera medicine, which
smelt very much like Monongahela
whisky, got broken in his pants pocket,
and ran down his reversed duds, soak
ing him to the neck 4
Two sooty Samaritans from the coal
docks lifted him down and tenderly
helped him to the wagon, where he lay
on the bottom, in shame and sorrow,
while the wife of his bosom drove the
team and delivered temperance lee
ture. AS for the spinsters, they rode
home in virtuous indignation, upon a
hay rack, with a man who neither
layers nor plays leap frog over hitch.
ing posts. Erie Dispatch,


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Year: 1873

GEN. O. O. HOWARD is reported largely delinquent in money trans actions connected with the Freed mans Bureau, and that his manage ment of the Howard University, at Washington, has greatly embarrassed that institution. He insists on his innocence but the War Department finds delinquencies enough to justify an inquiry of the Attorney General as to how the General should be tried therefor. Whether he is or is not dis honest, we shall not now even give an opinion, but our observation of his course in Arizona led us to the con- clusion that disreputahle men if not noted scoundrels, took kindly to him and received more consideration at his hands than those who sought no favors of him but told him much truth without any reference to "the love of "the Lord Jesus Christ (which he 80 persistently mixed up in nearly all his conversation of public nature.
Year: 1873

ONE Joseph Felmar recently passed through Tucson and out of our hear ing, so we are informed, talked of doing us violence for publishing his terrific falsehoods. That we deserve punishment for giving newspaper publicity to any thing Joseph reports, hardly admits of a doubt, and we urge upon the officers who employ him to summarily discharge him that he may come in and do the job.
Year: 1873

freely condemned their wrongs over the border, we are not unmindful, and we hope not unappreciative, of the peace and safety our people now enjoy at their hands instead of their carni- val of theft and murder less than one year ago. (
Year: 1873



 clared 8 conditional peace with certain

 tribes of Indians before in hostility

 With many outside and inside Arizona

 this declaration was regarded as pre-

 mature. But let the facts determine

 Since that declaration, not one citi'

 zen has been killed or wounded by

 Apaches, and only one we'll authenti-

 cated case of stealing citizen property

 in Arizona, viz: Some horses in the

 San Pedro settlements about May 15

 The killing of It. Amy cannot be classed under the head of outbreaks or renewal of war, any more than a murder of a citizen by citizen in- dicates a beginning of war in the locality of the deed.

 Gen. Crooks declaration of peace did not apply to all the Apaches in Arizona, but, as the order stated, to "the tribes referred to" therein; and even with them, the peace was only conditional that they should "cease "plundering and murdering, remain "upon their reservations, and comply with the regulations made by Gov ernment through authorized agents |" for them" So far as injury done to the persons and property of citizens is concerned, the peace has exceeded the expectations of the commanding General and ought to be satisfactory to nearly every one exposed to Apache outrages. It is true that discontent has appeared among the Indians on reserves, but not more than was req sonable to expect. Being brought from war and warlike life to the very opposite, some disquietude should have been expected. That there has been no more, is complimentary not only to the Generals declaration of peace but his management of the res- ervations.

 Again: Gen. Crook appreciated the necessity of the earliest possible an- nouncement of peace. He had been staying the hostile Apaches at an un- exampled rate for four months, and to have continued right on without even 8 conditional declaration of peace, would have almost certainly aroused the professional but imprac- ticable peace men to pitch that might have led to another visit by one of them to Arizona and an undoing of all that had been accomplished, and instil anew into the savages' mind 8 belief that the troops and authorities at Washington were at war and the latter were their especial friends and the more powerful. This declaration effectually estopped such a calamity i; and as he only declared conditional peace with any Indians and none at all with hostile ones, he has almost constantly kept scouting parties in the field, some of which have very recently done deadly execution, and scouts are still out.

 Again: Some think the peace order led to the removal of the First Cav airy at time when they were needed to keep order on the reservations, but it did not. For long time prior, it was in contemplation to remove those troops.

 Again, as pertinent to this peace order: The impression has gone abroad that the troops were removed because the General said he did not need them, and very wrong inn precision it is. After the troops were ordered away, the General probably did say he could get along without them, and any other expression would have had the appearance of fault finding with his superiors. We ven- ture the assertion that had be been asked, before the order for their re-
Year: 1873

IMPORTANT MEASURES BEFORE THE


LEGISLATURE.


From the Nashville Banner


An effort is being made to remove a
certain difficulty in the way of immi-
grafton and the development of the
State, that Is not a small one. The
boundaries and titles to many of the
lands of the State, and especially to
some OF our most valuable mineral lands,
have always been uncertain. The Board
of Trade of Chattanooga took the first
active measures in regard to this subject
1t is to be hoped that similar organiZa-
tiOns will continue to agitate this and
other subjects of general interest. In
this way important matters will become
better understood, and the necessary
legislation more readily secured. Mr..
Snyder, of Hamilton, has introduced the
following House joint resolution on the
subject:


WHEREAS, On account of the confu-
sion of boundaries and the conflict of
titles in that portion of the State not
heretofore laid off by law into districts,
ranges, townships and sections, the
State is annually losing a considerable
amount of revenue, and much of the
land is unOccupied and undeveloPed;
therefore,


Be it ResOlUed 6y the General Assem-
big Of the State Of Tennessee, That the
Governor be, and he is hereby author
lied and directed to appoint from each
of the grand divisions of the State, one
attorney-at-law, TO constitute a commits
sion, whose duty it shall be to draft and
report to the next session of the Gener-
al Assembly, such bill or bills as may be
necessary to cause such parts of this
State as have not been heretofore laid off,
to be surveyed and laid off into districts,
ranges and sections, and as will compel
each claimant of title to any part of said
land, to set up the same, to the end that
the titles may be vested in such as are
or may be entitled by law.
Year: 1873




If one man owned Memphis, and
owed only four millions, would this pre-
vent his using million in such man
ner, as he easily might, that his twenty
millions ofproperty, in twelve months
would become thirty millions Would
a debt Of four millions, having ten and
twenty wears TO run, signify anything
10 a man owning twenty millions, who
knew he would live, as does the city,
thousand years Would not such a
man add another 10 the Little Rock
railroad trsckway across the lowlands,
and send an arm TO Shreveport and an
other 10 Kansas City? How easy the
task, Indispensable to our very exist
ence, if suggested to any man of brains
on Front or Main street if he were in
vested with the power, duration Of life
and resources Of this city. And yet the
city stands with its hands in its pockets
staring vacantly at st. Louis while this
vigorous city absorbs the food we eat
and inhales the very air that Memphis
breathes and destroys every resource of
Memphis's wealth and greatness. 1t is
against the stupid policy of those
that govern that a revolt viii
be inaugursted Monday afternoon
at the Hall of the Chamber of
Commerce. Memphis has every natu-
raj facility for the acquisition of bound
less wealth, and is new emily great in
the little despicable men who shape the
ciy's fortunes, and, unfortunate is
Memphis, that there is no great man to
lead the way cut Of the midst of calam-
ities which deprsvity and weakness
have strewn along a once magnificent
city's pathway to splendor and bound
less prosperity.
Year: 1873

There is more interest felt in the en-
actment Of wise laws making real es-
tate convertible, and enabling Lenders
on mortgages to exact absolute and spe-
cific compliance with contracts, than in
any one measure considered at Nash
vile. The law should provide for long
loans on real estate, so secured that the
lender can neither lose time nor money
when his debt natures, and then the
lender can always use such paper and
it becomes doubly useful. Such a law
will convert real estate into cotton
mills, and utilize il in every way.
Year: 1873

hklaA1IoN. exchanges from the
lower part Of the State have irrigation for
locals, irrigation for editorials, and if they
keep ON they will soon have wasted ink
enough to irrigate the whole country.
Year: 1873

tbe largest and best stock of goods he had
over seen. The rural gent thought he
would look through the different stores in
this city and Davenport, and compare the
goods and prices before purchasing He
c,red at an old established Carpet House
in this city, and also at several stores IN
Davenport, and after long and careful
examination of goods and prices, ne re-
turned to this city, thoroughly disgusted
with what he had seen, and almost
Year: 1873

two hours from the time he came into the
store, he started home with S4S9.63 worth
of goods for himself, and good supply for
some of his neighbors. The last thing he
said when starting home, was this; Il shall
always come to
Year: 1873

The Foarth Grand Gift Concert authorized by
special act the Legislature for the benefit OF the
Public Library of Kentucky will take place In Pub
lie Library Hall, at Louisville, Ky.
Year: 1873

The grand dedication ball came off as was expected on Thursday eveaing, and considering the fine weather the gathering was rather small. The committee of ar engagements are considering the feasibility of having party every two weeks. It is hoped that they will come to the conclu- sion of having them, ss it will do much to enliven the monotony of our evenings this winter......The roan horse, Family Pet" belonging to J. L. Richardson of Lime Rock, was taken sick when under Dud- ley's shed on Monday night and died on Tuesday morning. Disease unknown. The last of the course of lectures to young men was given on Sunday evening. Sab Jsct: "Clains of religion on young men." ......The third debate of the F. V. Literary Society comes off on Friday evening of this week. Subject Resolved, ''That the recent capture of the Virginius and the ex- ecution of her officers and several of her crew and passengers, together with the present condition of the government of Cuba, is sufficient cause to justify our government in securing the independence of that island and annexing it to the Unit cd States" If the argument is as long as the subject. it will take at the least estimate week to come to conclusion. As some of our best speakers are on the list, we may expect something worth hearing. There Is talk of new drug store being started in the court house building.

 SPHINX
Year: 1873

It is an annual custom among some Christmas observing people, more particu- larly among the French and Germans, to fat goose for Christmas. For the benefit of those who may wish to try the experi- ment. Twill explain how it is usually done. The first important step is 10 get a goose-s young one preferred have box prepared just large enough to hold the goose when it sits down, but not large enough to allow it to turn around have an augur hole bored in for ventilation the box must then be put in a warm, dark place.

 About seven days before Christmas you will need to commence operations. The manner of feeding is all important part, and is performed in the following manner. You will keep "a dish of ground corn soaked in warm water:and left sufficiently stiff to be pressed in balls about as large as can be put in the goose's mouth. At the time of feeding, your wife or some other person will be seated in low chair with an old cloth spread on her lap, and tbe feed dish handy by. You will then pass her the goose; she will gr.sp it's neck with her lief, hand and the feet with her right hand and place it on it's back in her lap with it's head up. You will then take its feet with one hand and hold the wings with the other, to prevent struggling when the feeding opera ton commences. She opens the goose's mouth with her left hand, and with the other hand puts in one of the feed balls and presses it down with her fingers, repeat ing the operation until the crop. is fully dis tended. The goose is then reverentially put in the box and left to mediate until the next feeding time, which will occur in about three hours, when the operation is re- peated.

 A goose fattened in this way becomes prodigy for fatness. The liver becomes very much distended and is considered Ii great delicacy. The gravy that cooks out of the goose during the process of roasting makes a delicious dressing for the vegeta- bles to be eaten with the dinner.

 ONE WHO KNOWS.
Year: 1873

wife suggested that he could surprise him.

 self and all the rest of mankind bv per

 forming little manual labor in the wood

 room. Now this was very unkiad of her,

 and shows sad want of regard for her

 husbands safety, to say nothing of his

 wounded feelings.

 The accumulation of ice on the roof and

 in the cave trough of the main building

 had, during the thaw, caused the water to

 overflow and make the wood loom 8 wet,

 uncomfortable place.

 Mir. - seized hls little hatehet. The al-

 ways was truthful boy) and rushing out of the house. caught up an empty flour barrel and turning it upon one end vaulted lightly upon it. It occurred to him at the time that this feat was very clevsrly per formed, and he was just congratulating himself upon his agility when the treach- erous barrel suddenly Clay down) with him upon it and commenced to roll. The ac- tivity of that barrel was something wonder ful. It was enough to put to shame all the gymnasts in the country.

 It managed to keep we'll under its unwil- ling passenger for some distance. (he says several rods. but then he was excited, )until good sized pool of water was reached. when by dexterous flank movement it "shitted it's responsibility" into that pool. The result was disturbance in that pool to which the annual disturbance in the Pool of Bethesda bore no comparison. Nor was the disturbance confined to that pool. Mr.

 - felt that he was an injured man. Up to this time the hatchet had remained en- tirelY passive, but just as MT. - had comfortably composed himself upon hls back and was consoling himself with the thought that his ''bed was made with Princes" the hatchet descended from some unknown reglon and struck him square up- on the forehead. He suddenly ejaculated ''God - bless the man who first invented sleep," or words to that effect. and arose and eyed that barrel in manner that showed very conelusivelY that he was thinking of something. Then he sighed as ae thought that the lamented c. w. no SA9S~ AAssA my uSS AVA 0 AdkCu6ks Auu tOeEe- l fore would not appreciate such donation | IS he contemplated. At this point his wife | .rrived upon the ground and ventured to | him upon his good fortune in l escaping so well, but it did not strike him IS being subject for such congratulation, md so he mildly remarked that a piece of court plaster would be better adapted to he case, in which opinion his amiable pouse considerably indulged him.

 We are happy to add that he is uow con- 'alescent, but manifesta peculiar aversion o empty flour barrels. We saw man rive away from his door with six empty Jour barrels in his sleigh, which shows hat the lesson was not without effect. This alter remark applies also to the hatchet.

 MT. - says it may be all very nice to 'e one of the "Sons of Toil," but he is lot of any such percentage. x.
Year: 1873

TWEED IN PRISON At last William M, Tweed is in the penitentiary at Blackwells Island in .the garb of an ordinary convict. He has lost his exuberance of spirits, his bravado and his diamond pin, and appears disconsolate and down-hearted. He no longer courts the popular gaze, and when the crowd assembled to witness his depart ure from the Tombs he averted his face md hid himself in the hack as completely as possible. Attorney General Barlow, to whose energetic and fearless efforts much of the success of the. ring suits is due, ad- ded another to his good deeds by calling Sheriff Brennan sharply to account for his delay in carrying the sentence into effect and forcing him to do his duty.-Hauford Courant
Year: 1873

MORE SLERP.-The motto of the over- taxed brain worker should ever be-moIe sleep, more sleep, and as much as possible of the folding of the hands to sleep. By day and by night, before meals or after, early or late. in the horse car or on the fer ryboat, we should welcome each desire to dose as an angel from heaven. The habit of early rising, which under the old dis pensation, before the era of the telegraph. steam power, the press, and other agencies that rob us of our nerve fierce, was vir- tue-we in this year, 1873, should with all our might, avoid. Early to bed and late to rise makes the modern brain toiler wealthy and wise.