smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1873

The Sparta Tribune of the 18th inst.
contains the following beautiful morsel:


"The Nashville papers have been forced
to admit that the regular Asistic cholera is
prevailing in that city; but, in order to lie
about the thing as long as possible, they
give the general average of deaths at from
ten to fifteen per day, and say the number
is decreasing. Gentlemen now in this city,
almost direct from Nashville, where they re-
side and do business, tell us another story
to the effect that the deaths number from
firty to seventy-i five and even one hundred
per day; that there is but little if any de-
crease In the virulence of the disease; that
all but two of the hotels have been
closed, public schools discontinued,
and many Of the business houses shut up
The people are, or were, leaving by thous
ands, and that standing room on some of
the trains could not be procured. W.
would believe any one, now, rather than
the Nashville editors, for, lying as they
did, we cons der it but little better than
ATTEMPTED murder, and such yarns as they
have been telling only show with what a
degree of Indifference they regard the
truth"


If the fellow who indited the above had
sense enouch to take the cholera, we would
send him slice, postage paid, believing
that in ridding White county of such a
brainless specimen of humanity, we would
be doing the Sta'e some service.
Year: 1873

Several of our contemporaries OF the press
have suggested meeting in this city on the
10th of July, for the purpose Of taking the
necessary steps to form a new S ate out Of
all the territory of West Tennessee, West
Kentucky, and portion of North Missis-
sippi. We say, let The meeting be held, and
in behalf of the hos pitable citizens Of jack
son we hereby tender a cordial welcome to
all the friends of the enterprise who may
attend. Ample arrangements will be made
to accommodate al who may core. 1t is
not necessary to have meetings in all the
counties to appoint delegates, for the invita-
ton is broad enough to ts'e in all the
friends Of this great movement who may be
present on the occasion. But we especial
iy invite editors and representative men,
irrespective of political parties, TO be with
US on the 10th July. If We had united
press on this subject, all working to given
point, and take a strong pull, a long pull,
and pull altogether, the new State can be
formed. In the E1ean time we suggest to
the citizens of Jackson that they have an
early meeting aud appoint the necessary
committees to push forward the work.
Jackson Wing and Tribune, June 81.
Year: 1873

THE great leading cry of the book trade
is the consumption Of dry-rOt which has
overtsken the business. There are VAL
ious explanations given: one class of deal
ers attribute it to "uDderselling;" another
to the 'pushiDg" Of an overweening guam
tity of poor books on the part of the pub.
fishers; third, to the overcrowding of the
trade, both wholesale and retail; fourth,
to the absorption by the daily and periodi-
cal press of all the time of readers and OF
most Of the Intellectual ability of authors.
There is little douOt that the last is the
leading influence in the comparative decline
of the book trade. There is talk of some
great centennial publication of a historical
nature. But that is not the way great his
tories are made.
Year: 1873

A telegraphic dispatch brought the sad
intelligence yesterday of the death of Miss
Glenn of cholera at GGllatin yesterday. She
was the daughter of our esteemed fellow
citizen John L. Glenn, the water tax col
lector. She left here only a few days since
in good health to visit s me friends in
Sumner. She returns today, alss a corpse.
We offer our coincidence to the family in
this their sad Bereavement.
Year: 1873

WHEN you see others laughing at some
thing you have said, try and find out
whether they really think you are smart,
or only fool.


You cannot make a success of yourself
without hard work, any more than you
can put up stove without wishing that
swearing was not sinful.


a friend Of mine hit upon an ingenious
eXpedient to suppress his neighbours dog,
which made a business of barking and
bowling when honest people wanted to
sleep. He buried dozen very small fish
hooks in piece of raw beef, tied a string
to the tempting morsel, and lowered it
down the partition fence into his neigh
boris back yard. During the night that
dog lost his voice, and his owner lost his
dog.


When you see a man so poor that he
can hardly stand alone, be sure and help
him-fall down.


| never believed there was a talking
mountain in Colorado, till | went there.
While in Denver, | actually saw Pixies
Peak.


There is nothing like having confidence
when buying city milk, or signing a
document which you have never read.


The most liberal man | ever knew was
pubic lecturer. oH opCiliiS d .cti oC
of lectures in Salt Lake City, he presented
Brigham Young with season ticket for
himself and family


Nature always knows her business, and
she never NEEDLES with other peoples.
In this latter respect she differs from
many other folks whom | could name.


When see modern tattler, always
think it a pity he had not been created
without any brains. As an idiot, he
might have been harmless success. AS
an intelli gent being, he is the vilest failure
imaginable.


Speaking of that generous lecturer re-
minds me of another remarkably liberal
man, who lives in Illinois. During the
recent war, he donated no less than three
hundred thousand dollars to the Govern
ment, to help put down the rebellion. He
didn't give that amount in money exactly,
nor in army supplies, but in ad0ice.


| once knew two lawyers who bore the
same name, and practiced in the same
town. Whenever one OF them received
letter containing money, he knew he was
himself; but when either one happened to
be bonn barded with a lot OF unpaid bills,
he felt willing to swear that he was the
other man.-Raiph E. HoW, IN ftrestde
ETrjP16
Year: 1873

The summer has been unusually cool and
healthy and dull. But the prospect for a
large and profitable business season is de-
cidedly good. Already there are sure in
dications of revival of trade, and mer-
chants and manufacturers feel a healthy
glow OF encouragement-Ddily Graphic


THE woman worth having lives in Rip
ley, Miss, and is seventy-ive years old
The local paper says she walked five and
half miles to market, lately, carrying
on her back seven turkey gobblers, TWEEN
ty-tWo chickens, twentyfour dozen eggs
and six pounds of butter" and she does
that sort of thing regularly.


Now COMES another awful warning to
tobacco chewers, all the way from San
Francisco, too. A doating wife of that
city, and pink of neatness had a hus-
band who chewed, and always carried the
evidences of his servtude on his shirt
front. She demonstrated, but it was of no
use. A couple of weeks ago he donned
his clean linen, and within five minutes
the wife discovered tobacco stains on it.
She therenpon event for'' her husband
with a rolling-pin. He may recover, but
there will be no more biscuits in that fam
lily till another rollingpin is procured


ooMEBoDA VINO mas Deen studying the
matter of the form and substance of the
human hair in different races, finds that
the hair of the North American Indian is
cylindrical that of the white race is oval,
and that of the negro may be termed ell
liptical 1t is also found that when the
hair is cylindrical the stretching and
shrinking powers are equal on all sides
of the filament and this condition gives
IT the lank, straight appearance of that of
the pure blood Indian. The oval hair
displays greater number of tibers upon
| the fiattened side than elsewhere, condi-
ton which gives to such hair tendency
to curl or curve in that direction When
eccentrically elliptical it not only always
curls, but often assumes spiral shape, as
on the head of the negro. The hair of
the Chinese is nearly cylindrical, and
hence it is that curled hair is almost un-
known among that people.
Year: 1873

Brown, young insurance friend Of
ours, who lives in Cambridge, had the
fifth anniversary of his wedding occur
about a week ago, and his friends deter
mined to celebrate his wooden wedding
by surprise party. Brown came in yes
terday and told us how they succeeded.
They commenced by sending a servant
round with a team to take Brown and his
wife out to ride at about seven O'Clock.
Then they began to come with presents
and materials for supper. There was
little party Of five came first, all laden
hands full They all got nicely inside the
garden gate, which shuts with a spring,
when Browns big mastiff, who is always
left unclaimed in his masters absence,
came round the corner and surprised
them One woman stepped on her dress,
and in her fall so demoralized fragile
black walnut bookcase she carried that it
was afterward done up in a bundle and
presented as kindling-wood. Another
fellow got safely out of the yard, all but
part of his pants, while old Smithers,
who weighs two hundred and twenty
pounds, plunged wildly, the eight-gallon
nail of ice-cream he carried, through
Browns glass hot-house in the corner of
the ward, and surprised some thirty dol
lars worth Of exotics. Finally they fixed
things up and got into the house. and as
it was about time for Browns return they
commenced laying the suppertable.
They got down a tea set OF rare china that
a friend of Browns in the trade had loaned
him week before and broke two pieces,
so that Brown has sine been obliged to
mortgage his hen-house and buy the set;
and the comments Of Mrs, Brown when
she saw the condition of the carpet, were
sarcastic in the extreme Finally, as
crowning touch, they tried to hang out
Chinese lanterns with the words wei
come" on them on the porch over the
front door They succeeded in hanging
two lanterns, and when they had saved
the house from the fiery fend there
wasn't enough porch left to pay for the
trouble in trying to hang out any more.
Then they sat down and waited for
Brown and his wife to come home. We
draw the veil over the scene that followed
their return. Some scenes are too joyous
to be described in cold, cold words
Boston Ir0UeLler.
Year: 1873

The Shah was astonished when told
that the honor Of the Knighthood OF the
Garter was expected to cost him 120o,
and he left England without paying. ne
seems to think, as the Emperor Napoleon
declared, that to ask money as part re-
turn for suppositious honor is peculiarly
English and extremely shabby.
Year: 1873

During the performance Of woman
gymnast and velocipede rider, on tight
wire, at a theater in Leeds, England, a
man in the gallery was detected in an at-
tempt to unfasten the guy ropes by which
the wire was strained up. The slacken,
ing of the wire would have thrown on
the woman and killed her. The man was
heartily thrashed by about dozen IN the
gallery. and then kicked out.
Year: 1873

He Visits His ssCountry Cousins"


A certain city chap, who, to be suff1-
ciently personal to make our story


interesting, we will imagine once
lived less than one hundred miles


from Warren, but who now resides in
that portion of Minnesota where
mosquitoes disturb not the peaceful
slumbers Of the weary, desiring to en-
joy a short season of rural felicity,
determined upon paying his cousin a
visit, whose residence happens to be
in wild ,sequestered spot overlooking
the tranquilwaters of Mosquito Creek.
This he accordingly did.


Whether the following graphic de-
scription was written for the purpose
of depicting the incidents of this par
ticular visit or not, no matter it tells
the story well.


The day Of arrival passed pleasantly,
and as the timefor retiring drew near
our country gentleman assigned the
'spare room" to his friend, and bid
ding him an affectionate good night,
retired to rest. Now the tuneful mos
quito, whose exclusive possession Of
the region above mentioned, has been
established by seeming Iez loci right,
has had his trombone reconstructed,
and begins the new season in animat-
ed style. Near the small hours of
night the slumbers of the country
cousin were disturbed by an incipient
earthquake up stairs. Hastily dom
ming his trousers, he proceeded to his
guests room, from whence the uproar
came. When that unbridled indiYidu-
al went to bed he had thrown open
the window to draw untrameled
breath and preserve the idea of his
native freedom. The mosquito, scent
ing foreign produce from afar. whet-
ted up his knife and fork upon the
stone window still and humming a
short grace before meat took a chair
uDOn the Minnesotain's nose and
tucking his napkin under his chin,
set to work. The sensitive foreigner
said an ungentle thing about the musi-
cal bird Of night, and, springing from
his couch, struck s light to meet his
unseen adversary face to face. No
sooner had he deserted him than
with uplifted pillow he snote upon
the wall where sat the patient insect.
But TO no effect, for so quickly had
the intruder gathered up his traps,
and so silently stole away that the
blow was spent on empty spsce. Two
more unsuccessful attempts 1pon the
Door mosquitoes life exaspented the
gentleman and the scene became ex.
citing. Blow followed blow IN quick
succession as the irate victim danced
in fantastic pursuit about the room.
Just as he had taken cArefulaim at
the artful dodger, who sat UPON
panel of the door with a mirthfu twin
kle in his eye, enjoying the spot, the
proprietor of the mansion popped his
head in and received the whatk in
tended for the mosquito full II the
face. He laid down unpremeditaedly
and called for the neighbors. When
outside reinforcements appeared an
enhance was effected. into the ,oom
and fearful scene of ruin met the
gaze of the intruders. The only whole
remaining article of furniture wa the
bedstead, upon which sat the disson-
solate Minnesotain, picking the f,ag-
ments Of the loOking-glass out of his
bare feet and saying terrible thing
He was ineonsolable. and next dayhe
left without offering to pay for he
broken furniture.
Year: 1873

shrewdness, with money enough to
keep him one year, he is sure to make
money. and in few years place him
self in easy circumstances. But men
come to this State with but little
or no money and do well, yet they
are exceptions. There are very few
that the climate will not benefit or
that will not enjoy good health if
they are only contented and do not get
discouraged. L consider this a very
healthy climate.


The timber and water lands are all
taken in this county, but there is
pleanty Of prairie land within six to
ten miles Of fiourishing towns, and
there is good timber and water lands
one hundred miles west of here.


Republican City is yet growing.
When L came here, last August, there
was but three frame buildings in the
place, now there are sixteen and more
building. Frum that you may know
that mechanics are doing something.
Crops are looking well, potato bugs
are plenty but 1 guess that Paris
Green and a little work will beat
them. A. L. FITCH.
Year: 1873

You can always tell boy whost
mother cuts his hair. Not because
the edges oft look as If it had been
chewed offby an absent minded horse
but you tell it by the way he stops on
the street and Wriggles his shoulders.
When a fond mother has to cut her
boys hair, she is careful to guard
against any annoyance and muss by
laying sheet on the carpet. It has
never occurred to set him oyer bare
floor and put the sheet around his
neck. Then she draws the front hair
over his eyes and leaves it there while
she cuts that which is at the back.
The hair which lies over his eyes aP-
pears to be sur.charged with electric
needles, and that which is silently
dropping down under his shirt band
appears to be on fire. She has un-
consciously continued to push his
head forward until his nose presses
his breast, and Is too busily engaged to
notice the snuffing sound that is be-
coming alarmingly frequent. In the
meanwhile he is seized with an ire
sistible desire to blow his nose, but
reccollects that his handkerchief Is In
the other room. Then fly lights on
his nose, and does it SO unexpectedly
that he involuntarily dodges, and
catches the points of the shears in bis
left ear. At this he commences to cry
and wish he was q man. But his
mother doesn't notice him. She
merely thumps him on the other ear
to inspire him with confidence and
goes on with the work. When she il
through, she holds his jacket collar
back from his neck, and with her
mouth blows the short bits of hair
from the top of his head down his
back. He calls her attention 70 this
fact, but she looks for new place on
his head and hits him there, and asks
him why he didn't use his handker-
chief. Then he takes his awfully dis
figured head to the mirror and looks
at it, and, young as he is, shudders as
he thinks Of what the boys on the
street will say.
Year: 1873

Sometimes there is way of self
culture attempted in the name Of Re-
ligion, which is not in any proper
sense religious, having no uplifting
help or gracious Inspirations Self
culture is what q man may dc upon
himself, mendlng his defects, correct
ing his mistakes, Christening his
faults, tempering his passions, putting
himself into the charities he has
learned from Christ. perhaps to ad-
mire finishing himself in the graces
that have won his approval or COM
manded his respect. But the work is
far more hopeless one than he imag-
ines, and is almost sure to result even
visibly, in more affectatlons of charae-
ter than are likely to be much ap-
proved besides, it holds him to a
continual self contemplation which
is selfish, and keeps him all the while
filing and polishing on his nature by
his will (; which is in fact the most
wearisome possible, or, rather impos-
sible kind of self attention. The old
faults conquered too, will be coming
back on him just when he is conquer
ing another set, and turning round to
fight them off he will find the whole
swarm worried, and Yexed, and soured,
and discouraged. He virtually,
though perhaps not consciously, gives
over his whole undertaking. o! if
he could have gone up to Christ, or to
God in a true faith culture and let his
faults fall of, the trees dislodged by
the life principle in them, his beau
tiful thought Of finishing character
would have been more easily put for
ward without care, too, and in
the sweetest liberty not go above
himself and take the eultuTs of Gods
own spirit by that growing out a
character from within which cannot
be manipulated inwardly from with
out. If there be any good gift that
cometh from above and can not be
made below, it is Character.


D. CHALKER.
Year: 1873

The object Of intellectual discipline


Is the establishment Of a strong cen
tral authority in the mind By which
all its powers are regulated and diree-
ted as the military forces Of nation
are directed by the strategist who
arranges the operations Of q war.
The presence Of this strong central
authority is made manifest in the
unity and proportion Of the results
when this authority Is absent lit Is.
frequently entirely absent from the
minds Of undiscipl plined persons, es-
peeially Of the female SEX you have
3 chaos OF complete confusion when
the authority without being absent
is not strong enough to regulate the
lively. activity Of the intellectual
forces, you have toe much eneEgy in
one direction, too little In another, a
brigade where regiment could have
done the work, and light artillery
where you want guns Of the heaviest
cslibrs. To establish this central au-
thority it is only necessary, in any
vigorous and sound mind. to exercise
it. Without such q central power
there is neither liberty Of action nor
security Of possession. ~
Year: 1873

They have a practical way of right
ing things up in Canterbury, N. H
A Manchester man who had unfairly
obtained farm of q dying man. to
the detriment of the widow and his
children, recently visited it to cut the
hay, got his moving machine ready
for use the next morning, and retired.
That night about twenty men and
women turned out, prepared the hay
by moonlight sold the crop, and
placed the money in keeping for the
rightful heirs, all before daylight.
Year: 1873

An illustration of Irish simplicity
is afforded by the reply Of a young
candidate for the Office OF teacher
The examiner was endeayoring to
elicit the candidates. idea of the mar
ket value of labor with reference to
demand and supply ; but, being baf-
fed, he put q question in this simple
form @If there are in your village
two shoemakers, with just sufficient
employment to enable them to live
tolerably, and no more, what would
follow IL q third shoemaker set up in
the same village ?n "What would
follow, sir?n echoed the candidate,
"why, fight, to be sure"
Year: 1873

triliug rise in the price OF beer q
Frankrort.on thc.NIain led to such BLOODY
riots there Us reported few days since
how will it be here when the public sup
ply Is cut of altogether, as contemplated
by the resolution of the saloon keepers, at
ter tho 1st Of May? Possibly something
may be done to mitigate the hardship by
laying in abundant private supplies be-
OrehAnd,
Year: 1873

STOKES CAsE.-The New York cor
respondent OF the Philadelphia Ledger
remarks OF tho pending ClIort to get a
new trial for Stokes, that "itls seldom q
criminal case has been so stubbornly OF
50 persistently fought as this, but the
opinion is gradually gaining ground
among the lawyers that it will ultimately
be Of no avail in avertiug the impending
doom"
Year: 1873

VIENNA, April 25.-Twenty cases Of
sporadic cholera were brought to the
hospital yesterday, five OI which proved
fatal. An effort Is being made to conceal
tho fact of the appearance of the disease
IN the City.
Year: 1873

THE BREWSTER WAGON A
in all weights, for pleasure driving or speeding


exquisitely finished.
and embracing ~ their construction the various inn
provements introduced by during the past 10 years.
making them ~


the Standard for Quality
throughout the United States.
These wagons arc exclusively the production Of our
wel-known Broomc street factory, and offered in
stock in all ect equal in quality TO those built to the
order Of the most valued customer, and at prices


uniform to all.
Tn order that we may not be confounded with Joint
stock company OF carriage dealers who have adopted
firm name similar 10 and impucently clam he
reputation have made for the brewster Wagon" we
leg the puic will remember that our only warerooms
are at the corner of


Fifth avenue and Fourteenth street,


and our only Factory BroOmc street


BREWSTER 4 CO.,


Of BrOomc street.
Year: 1873

FREMONT, o., April 1st, 1872.
DIR. LIBBEY-


DEAR SIR: should be ungrateful indeed
If did not make some acknowledgment to
you, of the wonderful change you have work
ed in my physical condition during the past
three months treatment Ihave received from
you. My heart and lungs were in fearful
condition. ] was generally prostrated and
completely broken down. I feel now as we'll
as nine-tenths of the women of my age. am
sure that your treatment was the cause Of so
wonderful change. My friends and neigh
bors are loud in your praise. There are many
in this place and vicinity that are anxious to
avail themselves of your skill, and look for
ward with great anxiety to your next visit.
That you may live to do more Of the good
work you have begun, is the constant prayer
of Yours,


MRS. MARGARET BoWLUs.
Year: 1873

The investigations already made,
demonstrate the necessity fora thor
ough examination of all the Railroad
Bridges and Trestle-work of the
State, some having been found in a
very weak and diapidated condition.
I recommend that the Commission
er Of Railroads and Telegraphs be
authorized to employ such assis-
tance as may be needed, and that he
be provided with funds to pay the
expense thereof.
Year: 1873

3 By always keeping the best to be
had, and selling them at small
profit, has enabled us to build up
our large trade, and we shall con
tinue to do so. Any one needing
articles in our line should not fail to
give us trial.


S. BUCKLAND & SON.