smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1876

What matter ifthe farm didn't yield quite as
much profit as we wanted it to, so as we all
were together, and kept we'll ?"


Nobody knows what might have happen
ed even if you had stayed" said Mary Ora
ham, trying to comfort her. sickness and
death come to US everywhere"


"Ah but they come lighter on us at home
At least, if the grief is the same, it's easier to
bear. It's hard thing to lose children any
where. I've lost two before this, in my early
married life; but when you can lay them
along side of one another, and of all the fam
lily that's gone, in the church-yard where you
90 every Sunday, and keep them near you
and tend the flowers you plant over them, il
don't seem as if you'd let them 60 so far away
But to leave one here and another there
miles and miles away from any of our folks
in this big desolate country, tell you, it cuts
deep into the heart"


"After ALL" said Mary, gently, 1--WE mus
remember that, in reality, it matters little
where the earthly part Of them is laid W.
must think of them as being all together, ano
happy, in another world"


II wish, for my part, { was there with
them" said the sorrowful mother. lam we'll
nigh worn out with this wearisome journey
wasn't over-strong when we started, but my
husband was so crazy to come | could no
bear to hold him back. 1t seems gears since
we left the farm. l feel old and broken down.


eve shall soon be in our new homes, now
1 hope," rejoined Mary, "and there we cal
rest and get back our strength"


"Rest There'll be little rest for any of us
for good while to come. In new countr.
there's always enough to do to keep your hand
and feet going from morning till night. No
Year: 1876

in the golden Western land, had but lured
them on to find fate too fearful to record


Some five years before, an exploring party
had set out from Washington, for the purpose
of locatiLg claims in some uncultivated land
in Arizona Territory. When about fifty or
sixty miles from their destination, they hired
small band of Indians to conduct them the
rest of the way, as they had missed the direct
route and were fearful of getting lost. The
Indians were friendly and faithful, and per-
formed their part of the contract to the best
of their ability; but being overtaken by se-
we're snow-storm- it was in early spring,
and travel was difficult at that season-the
whole party were forced to halt in desolate
valley, where they suffered severely from ex-
posure, fatigue, and want of food. Quarrels
ensued between the white men and their
guides, many of the former asserting that the
Indians had been guilty of treachery, in. lead
ing them to this spot with view to delaying
them unnecessarily on their way, and that
had they gone by shorter route they could
have accomplished their journey before the
storm set in. The Indians Indignantly re-
sented the accusation, and one was overheard
to mutter threats, ola nature somewhat alarm
ing to their accusers, who knew not how large
hostile force might be brought around them,
at a moments notice, for their destruction.
The head of the exploring party, an ex-ofhcer
of the army, named Dwight, undertook to set.
tie the difficulty and restore amity among the
beligerents. ..a


"See here, Oconosh," he said to their chief
guide, "you fellows are quite wrong in getting
angry in this way. Consider how we've all
suffered. 1t was no wonder we said hard
Year: 1876

Ladies' who are spending the winter in this
city, or others who have the time and the de-
sire to finish their education, should not fail
to avail themselves of the opportunity offered


them by Mrs. and Miss Pollock to study the
Kindergarten system of teaching. as invented
by Frederick Froebel, the course of lectures
beginning this week. They will find 1t not only
an admirable education and preparation for


teaching, but most delightful and efficient
assistance to better comprehension and full
fillment of the many duties q woman of cul-
ture is called upon to perform in her office OF
educator, which Providence has assigned to
Year: 1876

Chief Engineer Hoxie has authorized the
erection of a lamp-post opposite the alley on
o street, between Sixth and Seventh streets
northwest; one on the corner of Eighth street
and Market space; two on the corner of Sew
enth and H streets northeast; one on Eleventh
street, between B and streets northeast; one
on New Jersey avenue, between NJ and N
streets northwest; one on Eighth street, be-
tween r and S streets northwest; one on N
street, between Seventeenth and Eighteenth
streets northwest; one on Marion street, be-
tween Q street and Rhode Island avenue, and
three on Samson street, between Fourteenth
and Fifteenth streets northwest
Year: 1876

The District Commissioners, in q communi-
cation to DIR. c. 81. Nichols, superintendent Of
the Government Hospital for Insane, state
that the attorney for the District of Columbia
has given the opinion that the District is not
liable for any portion of the expenses of the
iudigent insane admitted to the United States
asylum by authority of the Secretary of the
Interior, except in the case of those who were
actually residing within the District at the
by his order after due process of law, showing
the person to be insane and unable to support
himself, &c; and that the only nonresident
ip9:sepi insane persons for whose support the
District Is liable to the asylum are ts0se who
are admitted upon application of the execu-
tive authority Of the District. The Commis
sioners, conformably with this opinion, return
bill for such expenses to DR.. Nichols for cor
rectiOn.
Year: 1876

To the Edtfor or The Tribune.


SIR The voters of this community are slowly,
and the best minds Of them rather reluctantly wheeling
into line for the next November election Nothing 10
more evident than tho fact that many in the community
are dcsrous Of better nominees for President
aud Vice President than found either party ticket
Why have not OF the independent journalists
put forth such namesi Vim. Lloyd Garrison for Pres-
dent and Frederick Douglass for vicsPresident arc
Year: 1876

BY American Press Association to the STAR.


WASHINGTON, June 13.-Mr. Blaine's
physicians this morning announce that
he is gaining strength much faster than
they had any reason to expect. 1t now
appears that the attack was much less
important than appeared from the first
symptoms. He is suffering much more
now from the result of continuous over
work for long time past than from the
effects OF the attack Of Sunday.


He rested well last night, ate q hearty
breakfast, and conversed with his friends
in almost his usually viyacious manner
He had the papers read to him this NOR
ming, and also a number Of dispatches
from his friends In Cincinnati. The
greatest trouble now is to keep him quiet
and prevent him from concluding that
he is strong enough to do much more
than it IL proper 10 allow him.
Year: 1876

Weare requested BY several worthy
cOlorcd men to put the following
query to the republicans of this
county;


"The colored voters of this county
would like to be informed by the re-
publicans who are now seeking their
votes what would become of colorcd
people between elections if they had
to depend for support for themselves
and families on employment given
to them by republicans. The repub-
lican party of this county is compos.
cd chiefly of that class who either do
not or cannot employ the colored
man, and it is a self evident fact that
but for the employment afforded
the colored man by democrats and
conseSatives-tho whomthe color
ia man ~, to bsliepo aro his
b
worst enemies, ho wond nave %
move out of the county or starve,-
These colorcd men want to know, .
hard winter coming on, and the
country already full of white tramps
with no place whereon to lay their
heads, if they can depend upon the
republican party of this county here
after for employment-if not can it
be longer expected that democrats
and conservatives shall give support
to themselves and families only that
they may be kept here to vote the
ticket on election days.
Year: 1876

One of the happicst signs in the
South, pointing to peace and pros
pcrity, is the growing tendency of
the negroes to abandon the idea that
in voting with the whites they arc
imporiling their own rights. The
colorcd men trust thewhitcs in their
personal and business relations with
them, and give them confidence and
respect. Yet in political matters
they have been taught to so in di-
rect opposition 10 them. 1t is the
fear that the negroes are now learn
ing the folfy of so separating them
selves from the whites politically and
keeping up forever the race line, that
is making the Republican managers
at Washington SO anxious about the
result in some of the late slave States
upon which they once counted for a
majority next November.
Year: 1876

SENATOR BAYARD on TAFT's ORDER.
In answer to the inquiries of an
interview as to what he thought of
Attorney General Taft's late order
turingover the South to military law,
Senator Bayard, of Delaware, said;


"No document so partisan in char
acter, so reckless of all constitution
al limitations upon power, so regard
less of historical truth, so utterly in
subordinate to the decisions Of the
Supreme Court Of the United States,
has in the history of our country is
sued from II department; not only
acting as all departments should act,
under the sanction Of law, but looked
to by all other departments of the
executive as itself the fountain OF
law for them"
Year: 1876

Act like wise men and vote with
the army of reform that is now
marching on under the leadership Of
those fearless, gallant and honest lea
ders Tildcn and Hendricks? There
is but one escape from our present
difficulty, there is but one road
which will lead us out of our fearful
condition, but one course left for us
to pursue, and that is to vote for Til
den and Hendricks, Business and
working men, shall we not do this,
and achieve victory decisive and
complete?
Year: 1876

Your memory is bad, perhaps bu,
| can tell you two secrets that will
cure the worst memory. To read a
subject when strongly interested. The
other is: TO not only read, but think.
When you have read paragraph or a
page, stop, close the book, and try to
remember the ideas on that page; and
not only recall them vaguely in your
mind, put them into words and speak
them out. Faithfully follow these
two rules, and you have the golden
key of knowledge. Besides inatten-
tive reading, there are other things in
furious to memory. One is the habit
Of skimming over newspapers, items
Of news, smart remarks, bits of infor-
nation, political reflections, fashion
notes-all in a confused jumble, never
to be thought of again-thus diligent-
ly cultivating habit Of careless read
ing, hard to break. Another is the
reading of trashy novels. Nothing is
50 fatal to reading with profit as the
habit of running through story after
story, and forgetting them as soon as
they are read. knew a gray.haired
woman, lifelong lover of books, who
sadly declares that her mind has been
ruined by such reading.


A help to memory is repetition.
Nothing is so certain to keep your
French fresh and ready for use as to
have always on hand an interesting
story in that language, to take up for
ten minutes every day. In that case
you will not "forget your French, +"
with the majority of your schoolmates.
-[Olive Thorne, in st Nicholas.
Year: 1876

She led him to sofa, and in deep
bass voice, called him her souls idol,
and inquired what his monthly income
was. Seeing his gaze fixed on her boa
constrictor.like mouth, she remarked (:
Darling, | see you notice my large
and beautiful mouth; let me explain
to you the reason of it, unusual size.
When was quite child, I was play
ing on pappy's cellar door. IL gave
way ! was precipitated down into the
basement and caught by the mouth on
a projecting hook, which ripped up my
face aud extended my mouth several
inches" With his eyes full of SYM
pathetic tears, he rose from the sofa,
and replied as he went towards the
door: "My angel, you are, perhaps,
mistaken. Probably in the excitement
of that awful moment you left your
mouth down in the basement and acci-
IDENTIFY brought up the cellar door. We
shall meet again in a better world.
Adieu."
Year: 1876

A near-sighted man out on South
Hill, went wandering around among
his currant bushes yesterday afternoon,
and stopped down and pulled a live
Centennial wasp's nesi up by the roots
to see what it was. He didn't get it
any where near the focus of his eye
before he bad an idea that ii was a
flat-iron some of the women set out to
cool; then he thought it might be a
concentrated case of prickly heat and
then it dawned upon him that he had
picked up raw thunderbolt, and
finally his heart went clear down into
his boots as he realized that he had got
hold of the dangerous end of the He'll
Gate explosion, and pulled it off.
Year: 1876

This is from Alabama. There Is an
underground lake near Montgomery,
upon which a fine field of corn is
growing. II is covered with thin
layer OF earth, which, however, is not
thick enough to bear horses weight,
and the land is titled by hand. The
farm laborers amuse themselves at
noon by fishing through holes cut for
that purpO'e, the fish caught having
no eyes nor scales. Some people may
doubt the above, but if so, all they
have to do is to go down there and see
about it That's easy enough.
Year: 1876

Nothing makes young man so
happy as to get around to the post.
office after it is closed, and see a letter
in his box to have his heart 10 whis.
per il is from her, TO dream sweet and
tender fancies, hallowed with loves
sacredness, all night, and to come
down in the morning and find it a bill
of 81 so for his last years under.
clothes. Il Norwich Bulletin.
Year: 1876

Beeeher Vas in his pulpit Sunday
week, aud those who went 10 hear the
scandal preacher would have filled
Plymouth Church three times over,
Doubtless the multitude was largely
composed of the rustic throngs with
whom this city is now filled, and who,
being on their way to or from the
Philadelphia show, are in a mood foI
wonderseeing
Year: 1876

The Revue iScientifgue contains an
interesting chapter quoted from work
on volcanoes by NJ K. Fuchs. The au-
thor, after reviewing all the different
theories hitherto in vogue, distinctly re-
pudiates the notion that volcanoes are
in communication with the center of the
earth. The real cause of eruptions, he
says, is still mystery ; the modern hy-
pothesis, which supposed the center of
the earth to be solid, but enveloped by
a stratum of rocks in state of aqueous
fusion, over which lies the hardened
crust we inhabit, answers pretty nearly
to the facts brought to light by recent
investigation. II is not to be doubted
that eruptions are owing to struggle
between the vapors contained in the vol
canic focus and the masses of lava that
stop their ISSUE These will absorb a
large quantity of the former, but in the
end they get saturated, and the remain
ing vapors force passage to the terres-
trial surface. The origin of these vapors
is stated to be the sea, which provides
the volcanic force with the requisite
steam. In support of this view the au-
thor points to the fact that active volca-
noes are almost exclusively situated near
a sea coast. Out of 139 that have had
eruptions since the middle of the last
century, ninety-eight are insular, and
nearly all the others are close to the
coast. Another argument in favor OF
the infiltration of sea water is this: that
the chemical constitution of volcanic va
pors comprises all the substances that
distinguish sea water from fresh, and
even in the same proportions. The real
volcano is the invisible focus situated in
the entrails of the earth, and not the
mere crater exposed to view. The noun
tain is nothing but sort of chimney
formed by and for the passage of the
lava, and it incloses vast space where
the lava accumulates from time to time
until it is expelled by the steam. We
may here state that these views coincide
with those explained by DR.. Montucci
in his Questions ScientifQues, in which
he considers the various focuses of vol
canic activity as SO many "ulcers" " of
the terrestrial globe, and not reaching
further down than couple of miles be-
low the level of the sea
Year: 1876




the World.


The Cincinnati Price Current has the
following: The promise now is that
this is to be year of bountiful produc-
tion of nearly everything in this country
and in Europe, but when we consider
that unfavorable weather at the moment
of harvest may cause great damage we
are disposed to be cautious in assertion.
In California, however, the crops of
barley and wheat are made and gen.
orally harvested. The wheat harvest
proves to be all that was anticipated.
After deducting an ample supply for
home consumption there will remain the
enormous amount of 100000 tons avail
able for exports, which is equivalent to
nearly %, 800, 900 bushels. The yield of
barley is also very prolific, and there
will be 210, 900 tons, or nearly 10,000,0 900
bushels available for export. The good
fortune of California is shared by Texas,
where the cereal crops are fine and have
been harvested in good condition, but
the great staple of the State is cotton,
and the reports regarding it are unusu-
ally favorable, there being scarcely
enough which are otherwise to "prove
the rule" The cotton crop in that
State is nearly a month in advance of
the more northern cotton growing sec
tion, where it has passed into an adage
that "July makes the cotton CROP" and
therefore we may safely say that the
cotton crop of Texas is assured. The
first bale of new cotton has arrived at
Galveston, which is an indication, al
though not certain one, that the crop
is rapidly maturing. In other sections
of the South the reports are somewhat
conflicting regarding the present condi-
tion of cotton, but perhaps not more so
than usual even in good yielding sea-
sons, and the favorable returns far out
weigh the croaking. Coming now to the
West and Northwest, we find in the
winter wheat growing section that the
harvest is far advanced and in many
places entirely over, and the yield
proves to be much larger than antici-
pated, for where only one fourth to one
half an average crop was expected it has
proved to be seldom less than one-half,
and from that up to full average. The
spring wheat growing States have given
us some discouraging reports, but they
have in many, if not in all instances,
proved to be exaggerations, and it is not
improbable that full crop will be har-
vested. Fall barley has been harvested,
and turns out well. Spring barley in
the Northwest gives fair promise
of a full crop. Rye and oats are
abundant everywhere. Corn is grow
ing rapidly, and continues the fair
promise of the largest yield in the his
tory of the country. Turning now to
Europe, we find that as the harvest ap
proaches the croaking becomes silent
the damage caused by storms and unfa-
vorable weather earlier in the season,
especially in France and Holland, has
not proved to be permanent, and the
cereal crops at the latest mail dates were
in promising condition. In the south
of Russia the wheat harvest has already
commenced. The only real unfavorable
reports come from Hungary, and even
in that country there had been change
for the better.
Year: 1876

The newspapers of the day arc filled with accounts of Outrages by the tide of wanderers distinguish. ed by tn e general name O. "tramps," and all the women and children in lone country houses live in constant fear. In making some call not long since in a country neighbOrhoOo where we have 8 wide circle O acquaintances, we found every door securely fastened, and to Oul rap somebody from within called out, in trembling accents, which they tried hard to make sound brave:

 "WhO's there ?"

 We have no doubt but that the tramp nuisance is a disagreeable and perhaps dangerous evil, but it is one which law ,sand some times the judiciOus use of revol' yer, will restrain, and in time wipe out.

 And we believe that every lady should number target shooting among her accomplishments. We would rather be able to scientifi calIy lay out a burglar by the ap- piication of cold lead, if occasion required, than be classed as pro- ficient in embroidery, or an adept in any kind of fashionable work.

 But as we faithfully read the papers we cannot help being struck by the fact that-judging from the printed accounts-the women of these United States are in much greater danger from their own husbands than they are from tramps.

 We scarcely take up paper in which there is not an account of some atrOcious murder of which a wife is the victim.

 The axe which sewers the head from the baby. the "cOld pOisOn," the deadly bludgeOn, the blazing kerosene, all have lately cOnspired to put wives out of the world.

 Women are abused and beaten by their own husbands quite as much as by tramps, and, if we were tojudge at all from what we hear, we should say that a wo- mana liability of death at the hands of her husband is about twice as great as from the hands of tramps.

 Young girls who are about get ting married, and who dream of nothing but roses and kisses in nuptial life. how would you like having can of kerosene poured on you and set on fire by your loving and protecting husband :

 How would you like to have your head chopped off while you were washing the floor. as an af- fectionate husband chopped of his wife's recently ?

 Does not the prospect frighten you ? Is it not better to be an old maid, and keep cats, and make pinafores for some other Woman's children

 Of course it is; but then who among us, if we were young girls, could be made to see it ?-Kdte Thorn.
Year: 1876

A very daring Kentucky girl lately rode her horse up to the edge of a yawning chasm and proudly defed any gentleman ot the party to follow her example, Not soul stirred except one youth, who boldly backed his horse into the same position and, standing on his head in the saddle, dared her to do the same. She cOnclu- ded not to.
Year: 1876

To be- properly enjoyed, walking tour should be gone upon alone. If you go in company, or even in pairs, it is no longer a walking tour in anything but name; it is something else, and more in the nature of picnic. It should be gone upon alone, because freedom is of tn. essence; because you should be able to stop and go on, and follow this way or that, as the freak takes you; and be- cause you must have your own pace, and neither trot alongside champion walk CT, nor mince in time with girl. And then you must be open to all impress sions, and let your thoughts take color from what you see. You should be as a pipe for any to play upon. ''I cannot see the wit," says Hazlitt, "of walking and talking at the same time. When I am in the country wish to vegetate like the country" which is tue gist of all that can be said upon inc matter. There should be no cackle Of voices at your elbow to jar on the meditative silence of the morning,