smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1873

There is nothing harder for man with
strong will aud stronger won't" 10 bis COM
position, than to make up lis mind not always
to have bis own way-to submit 10 a thousand
little wrongs aud suppositious rather than quar-
rel with bis neighbors. 4 man who had been
q clergyman, physician and lawyer was asked
which profession was the most profitable lie
replied in substance that where man would be
willing to pay twenty-five cents to secure bis
salvation, and fifty cents to be made well when
he is sick, he would willingly give five dollars
to have his own way.


Now this willfulness is, Of all kinds Of busi-
ness the most Improbable One well says
that mau needs long purse who determines,
come wha: will, to have lis own way. We
must learn to turn sharp corners quietly, or
we shall be constantly hurting ourselves. Two
men with mills on the same stream, quauelcd
over the water power. There was probably
not five dollars difference between them at the
start, but neither would yield an inch. The
case was thrown into the hands Of smart law
yers, who aggravated the difficulty for their
own ends, and worried the case long year
after, till one lawyer took the upper mill for
bis dues, and the other the lower. They pro-
badly were contcnted not to quarrel over thetri-
les that proved 50 disastrous to their clients.
Year: 1873

At a recent lecture on typhoid fever at
Guys Hospital, Sir William Gull re-
marked that two hundred and fifty years
ago one of the kings of England died of
the ague, but now by improved agricul-
ture and drainage the disease had be-
come rare, and certainly few die of it.
Typhoid fever, he asserts, is as prevent
able as ague, and two hundred and fifty
years hence deaths from it will be rare,
The disease is caused by virus of ma
ture, which may get into the healthy
body, increase in it, and destroy it. 1t
is an accidental condition, and not one
of the ordinvry processes of nature.
The origin of the disease is somehow
or another connected with drainage; it
has therefore been called the filth fever,
and to get rid of the filth is to get rid of
the fever. This was illustrated in the
case of the Milbank prison, where
typhoid and dysentery were once thor
oughly established, but where both al
most wholly disappeared when the
water supply was changed and efficient
drainage provided. In closing his re-
marks on the treatment of the disease,
the lecturer said that no man can ap-
proach case of typhoid fever without
paying some attention to hygiene. This
he claimed was of the greatest import
ance, and with it he would prefer to
carry any one through the disease by
wines, soups and fresh air, rather than
by drugs GGLGGy.
Year: 1873

A few miles from this city, on the op-
posite side of the river, is Mr.. George
Humphreys plantation, known as the
Dalkieth place, on which there are
several colored families living. The pride
of one of these families is very pre-
cocious little six-year-old boy, whose
sprightliness and intelligence have been
the Joy and admiration of his parents,
and the remark of all who knew the lit
tie fellow. Some time ago little
stranger appeared in the family to claim
O part of the love and care of the parents
and divide the parental affection with
the little six-year-old. He had no love
for the baby, was jealous of it, and its
presence in the family was a sting in his
little breast. In his own childish way,
he brooded over the matter for some
time, and seemed finally to decide upon
a course of action.


Day before yesterday, while the men
were in the field at work, and the woman
either with them or engaged elsewhere,
the children we're left alone about the
cabins to amuse themselves as they might
see fit. The mother of the infant and
the little six-year-old had left the baby
snugly slowed away in the cradle asleep,
and her little boy in the yard playing
with the other children, when she went
away. She had scarcely gotten out of
sight, when the little boy gathered up a
brickbat, almost as much as he could
carry, and walking into the cabin where
the baby lay, began to pelt it over the
head with the brick until he actually
succeeded in breaking the infants skull,
and mashing it almost to jelly. He
then managed to get the child out of the
cradle, and dragged its lfeless body to
the woods, short distance from the
house, where he hid the body in the
bushes, and returning to his pIaymates-
said to them ''I beeve till ole baby"
He then led them to the spot where he
there lay the little innocent with it's head
crushed, and life extinct. When it is
considered that the perpetrator of this
most foul and atrocious crime is only 6
years old, it almost staggers belief
Vicks6erg (Hiss.) Herald.
Year: 1873

A horrible report comes from India.
A gentleman living in the interior, be-
ing something of a naturalist, had a
great passion for hunting snakes. His
wife, however, had great aversion to
them, and could not bear to look at a
dead one. He thought this all nom
sense on his wife's part, and resolved to
cure her of her fear by making her fa-
miliar with snakes. One day, while
hunting, he killed an exceedingly large
boa-constrictor, which he brought home
and stretched out on the verandah in
front of the house. After dinner he told
his wife he had something on the ver-
andah he wished her to look at. They
went to the door together, and as she
stepped out he closed and locked the
door. She screamed frightfully, but he
thought her fear would be soon over,
and so he remained in the hall making
sportive remarks for his wife to hear.
AS her screams continued he opened the
door only to see his wife in the agony
of death, crushed in the folds of a mon
strous boa. It appears when one of
these serpents is killed that its mate
will always follow the body if it is taken
away, and will avenge itself on the first
object it meets. In this case the boa
had followed its dead companion, and
had lain in wait for some one to appear,
on whom it could fasten it's coils. The
gentleman went mad on the spot, and
had to be conveyed to an insane
asylum.
Year: 1873

The ConstitutionalCon Convention of Penn
sylvania has incorporated the following
into the new Bill of Rights for that State:
'sThe printing press shall be free to
every person who undertakes to examine
the proceedings of the Legislature or
any branch of the Government, and no


law shall ever be made to restrain the
right thereof The free communication


of thought and opinions is one of the
invaluable rights of man, and every citi-
zen may freely speak, write, and print
on any subject, being responsible for
the abuse of the liberty. No conviction
shall be had in any prosecution for the
publication of papers relating to the off
cial condnct of officers or men in public
capacity, or to any other matter proper
for public investigation or information,
where the fact that such publication was
not maliciously or negligently made shall
be established to the satisfaction of the
jury. And in all indictments for libel
the jury shall have the right to deter
mine the law and the facts, under the
direction of the court, as in other cases. "
Year: 1873

CANINE STRATEGY Pittsfeld, Mass.
dog and Berkshire woodchuck recent
ly met in a clover field, and, as is usual
at such meetings of antagonistic princi-
pies, a battle followed. They were
equally matched in size and grit, and
the fight was long and furious, and it
became evident that whichever won
must employ strategy. The dog was the
first to discover and employ it. By
super canine efforts he dragged his ad-
versary to a small brook near the battle
field, and plunged him in, holding him
there until the woodchuck was obliged
to succumb, leaving the dog master OF
the situation.
Year: 1873

TIE SHIP CANAL The Maryland & Della
ware Ship Canal bill comes up for final passage
in the Legislature this week-to-day or to.
morrow. Considerable interest was awakened
in this town, and throughout the State, doubt
less, on Saturday, by the statement made by
the Legislators that formidable effort was
being made to kill the bill. In this town a
petition praying for its passage was circulated
rapidly and signed unanimously by the voters,
and the statements made by Messrs. Mustard
and Van Gasken awakened an interest in the
enterprise that has never heretofore been made
manifest.


1t is understood that two prominent citizens
OF Dover, Ex-Governor Salisbury and Hon.
j. p. Comegys have been retained by the op-
ponents of the bill to lobby it to death, for
which service they are to each receive s., 900
And it is further publicly announced that men
all over the State have been bought into this
lobby influence against the BILL including some
of the legal fraternity of Dover not heretofore
named.


Whether the citizens named are selling
their influence against the interests of the
State for the sake of the wages they are to get
we know not; but we do know that the
published report to that effect finds general
credence.


The objections to the bill do not transpire.
The one urged against the size of the canal
has been obviated. The bill now before the
House requires that the canal be IS feet deep,
40 feet wide on the bottom and 60 feet wide ON
the surface


Il is said that ''Tom." Scott is fighting the
bill and furnishing the money to kill it.
Year: 1873

THE BOMABY Hook RAILROAD. In another
column we give a carefully prepared and COM
prehensiYe article relative to the distances, ad-
vantages, ETC., of the proposed Smyrna and
Delaware Bay Railroad or Bombay Hook
Road, as it is popularity called. The article
is furnished US by Col. Douglass, and is par
tlcularly interesting just at this period, in
view of the amendment to the charter, now
pending in the Legislature, to allow the road
TO be extended to the Maryland line.


This article views the proposed road simply
in the light of an additional internal improve.
ment. 1t recognizes the great advantage the
Delaware Railroad has been to the State, and,
eschewing all factious opposition or petty spite
towards it, recommends that we secure still
greater advantages by increasing our railroad
facilities that if one railroad has benefited
US so much, two roads will benefit us still more


We had hoped to announce, in this issue,
the fate of the Amendment now pending in
the House, at Dover, (it passed the Senate
last week but it will not be put upon its final
passage until this afternoon, after we have
gone to press. Since the passage in the
Senate, considerable opposition has sprung up
against it in certain quarters, and Senator
Mustard and Representative Van Gasken. last
Friday, informed our citizens of the lobby
influence that was at work to defeat the bill.
a petition was at once put in circulation in the
community, and between Saturday and Mon
day at noon hundreds of our citizens signed
the prayer for its passage. Our people are
unanimous in its favor.
Year: 1873

TURBULENT SPAIN.
Graphic Battle Scenes by a Herald
Correspondent at the


Seat Of War.
HE is ORDERED TO BE SHOT.
The Cure Of Santa


Cruz.
Trial Of the Ex-PrieSt Before Court
Martial for Cruelty.
HIS SPEECH AND ACQUITTAL.
The Engagement at San


Vincente.
The Herald Correspondent Holding Two


Armed Men at Bay.
General characteristics of


the War.
Year: 1873

OF q march pull out his rosary ana pray q Pater.
noster OF Ave Maria, his example being followed
by all his men, who adore him. Such were the two
persons who, with their forces, sweed our ranks
to the number OF about four thousand men, all
well armed


But before arrangements could be made for these
forces to work In harmony disagreeabe duty had
to be performed 1t will be remembered that the cure
OF Santa Cruz having been accused OF disobedience
and wanton cruelty, had been condemned to death
by Don Carlos, and that Lissaraga had been en-
trusted with the execution OF this order. Now,
although Lissaraga had been the General
whom the cure was supposed specially to have
dsobeyed, certain facts came to his ear which led
him to believe that the cure had been deceived,
and consequently he decided to take no steps
personally in the matter, but to refer the question
to court martial. This court martial was held on
Saturday evening, and by my request was allowed
to be present-a favor which would scarcely have
been granted to any one but correspondents OF
the HERALD.


At six p. M. the proceedings commenced.


THE ACCUSATION AGAINST THE Ex-PRIEsT
was that he had shot woman and old
peasant without sufficient cause; that he had
been guilty OF dsobeying certain specific orders,
and, finally, had used language dtsrespectful to hts
snperiors, and especially so In regard to Don
Carlos. His answer to the first charge / give
verbatim


'Sefores, the woman, as well as the Alcade OF
Amoroviela, who were executed by my orders, had
frequently been foundin various villages where we
were staying, without any good reason for their
presence. They assigned frivolous reasons. which
induced me to warn them not to let me see
them ega!p: IL spite Of this warning the woman
was discovered one evening by one Of my men on
the point OF leaving the village by q lttle-known
footpath. She was seized and on her was found
letter from the Alcalde informing the commander OF
one OF the columns-Colonel Morales-that the cure
Of Santa Cruz was at Amorovtela with 300 men, and
that he intended marching to depot that same
evening In order to take possession Of nfty guns.
Charged with their orence and their treacherous
conduct, both the culprits turned pale and trem-
blingly confessed their guilt Thereupon gave
them half an hour to confess, and ordered twelve
OF my men to fusilade them Here Is the letter
found upon the woman sewed into her Dress
Call the men who discovered 1t and hear their
testimony. You say that hitherto the Carlists
have carried on the war In noble, generous and
chivalrous manner, and that His Majesty has the
right TO expect that his shall not be dishon
ored by his own partisans. deny that have ~
Year: 1873

by the fountain to let her pitcher ILL., while the other


just arrived swings hers of her shoulder the hint OF
spoken salutaton just passing serving unite the two
In one motive.


picture similar In It's inspiration though far less
p0etca than those of Breton's, Is Marchals Servants
at Market Numerous candidates for domestic service
are ranged in long line in the market-place while the
ervaDt seeker-a somewhat antiquaed country dandys
in this case-passes along tue line making his examina
ton and observation and has Just stopped to chuck
of the girls under the chin while another OF them whs
pers something malicious, commonplace into the of
her negbbor The phases Of servant-girldom well
distinguished and the whole picture has OF YER
ity and accidentasm whoh of the best elements
Of genre painting; but 1t has, apart from technical
power, tone OF double entendre incipent scandal In
the eerng aud eycing which suggests dubious relations
In future aud which, after the purity and poetic tone OF
Breton's picture rather jars. with who does not
prefer the dubious. That Is pastoral this satire.


The fever for battle pictures has lost something of its
heat now and the only noteworthy called by the
late war is by Protair-a rather meodramatic In
element that revenge the German, which are
led to believe one the articles OF the popular creed
in France There is wide, desolate plain by twilight.
in the distance OF which more dmly as the dis
tance grows the bodies OF the dead while in the FORE
ground wounded officer lies heap OF his dead
brothers in arms still clutchng his tatered and almost
indistinguishable aG and looking with boodshot eyes


ike hungry eagle after the foe; at the left in the dis
tance, a village is burning. The worst OF these
artistcopatrIotic appeals is that, when the spec
tatOr does not sympathise with the motive, the
picture becomes either stupid, or ludicrous.
German, for instance, looking at Protairs picture would
laugh when the Frenchman weeps-augh because this
theatrical menace is 20 curiously with what
the actual showed. One should be sure OF ones
heroism before paints commentaries it, for
nothing but true heroism lift such subjects into the
sphere in which art ought to dwell doubt the philos
ophy and the art alike of battle painters and Protar Is
no argument against my doubt This picture, with un-
questionable fire and enthusiastic hardly rises into good
painting. That may be subordinate in patriotic ap-
peal In the light of history 1t hardly awakens sympa
thy, for cannot sympathze with men worsted in
combat Of their own making.
Year: 1873

glowing descriptions of what TO be found there, this
favored spot soon appeared In the HIGHT OF second
Cathay; purple green, and white mosses were to b5
had for the picking up while at Star Island had only
found the red and varieties. Some OF rs do not
take kindly tho water, having been halfdrowned
few times, and n general thing the only way or get
ting ISLAND Is by boat But all hesitation vanished
prospect OF untold treasures There the Hgnt-
honse too which desired to explore and we Thought
that sight OF the family who occupy the island,
AMI thus live In u OF Swiss Robinson style, would OF
Itself DO worth the trip. SO we got into boat ana
huks that fill the dock and went rapidly over the CLASSY
wafer, the prospect was q magnificent one. Dlstnnt
sails. like snowy sea-birde. dotted the horizon ana
nelther mist cloud showed It's s0nDer race aiu INC
general brightness. The day waning into sunset
and such sky, with all Its beautiful, changing tints re-
neeed In the mirror beneath, picture that nxed
ITSELF lndebly on our minds Our little boat looked so
small as viewed 10, all alone there, amid the waste OF
waters, that felt almost like party OF ancient mar
liners going, not to weddng-feast but in fear and


trembling on some such voyage resulted IN the us
covery or the very islands which we were steer
Ing our way 1t Is not very long vOyage-about three
miles, we were told but the lighthouse had advanced
ana receded number or times before we bore steaoy
down upon II. And then what did we findf Why, that
we were getting into horrible melstrOD, that seemed
to guard the island like q savage dog while the angry
waters white with rage, seethed and boiled around us,
lea'enng an rr every - moment to swallow ,h Ss US
at the oars "Oh. do turn back" But the did not


Ike to be tred withhavng started for Whites Island,
nc was bound to reach IT. and he evidently regarded
sake OF bravado. We almost went knees TO him
before he could be persuaded TO around and he
hm was the sky afame with glory, when few breakers
hhd got the upper hand of himf We had no mosses
aiter all; We returned empty as we came but
we TOOK II out In that violet aud the Of
while the lingering gold fell in DANCE shower flood
ing SKY ana sea alike with dazzling beauty.
Year: 1873

The Vicksburg Republican
says it is rumored that George
G. Mckee is to marry one of
New York's fairest daughters
the latter part of this month,
We have no objection. If the
girl can stand it we can, but il
we were a pretty girl we would
remain single a long time be-
fore we Would consent to marry
a fellow. who voted for anC
accepted the back salary steal
-IBrandon Republican.
Year: 1873

A fashionable young lady
accidently dropped one of her
false eyebrows i'll her opera box
the other evening, and greatly
frighented her beau, who on
seeing it, thought it was his
mouStache.
Year: 1873

An exchange, in a spirit Of
bitterness, says that eff Maud
Muller had herlife to live over
again, and meet the Judge in
this year of grace, 1878, she
would sue him for breach OF
promise, and obtain sufficient
damages to make her family
happy, or else shoot him, be,
come a lecturer, and die ricE
and respected by all"
Year: 1873

The best thing for a man 10
do after being an accomplice in
a murderis to sign the temper
ance pledge and keep it. In
vino yeritas and many a crime
has come to light on account
Of the leaky character OF a
brain befudddled with liquor


4 Georgia man, in the COURSE
Of a drunken spree, lately told
about holding a horse for two
men while they shot another
ten years ago. One of those two
men and the tipsy tale bearel
are already in custody. .r.-.
Year: 1873

thus gives his impressions of
the opera: THE aroma of VIC
lets eXudes from it as though
every note were an odorous
petal whose exquisite scent is
carried to the finer nerves of
the brain upon the balmy air
of sound, dying away in melo-
dious and evanescent falls, and
swelling with the richness OF
perfumed life into being again,


until the soul is wrapped in a


mantle of sensuous delight that


makes it faint with rapture"
Year: 1873

. An exchange has this CO
nundrum: "Why lit that a
young fellow and his girl can
sit in the parlor until aftermid-
night, without making noise
enough for the old folks to heal


them through the partition,


but can't sit in a public place
! five minutes without annoying
the whole house with thell
giggling and talk"
Year: 1873

Hlsu FEEDING is very bad for the
nightmare. Curry moderately, not too
much drink, blanket light, exercise
with discretion not too soon after feed
Ing, avoid puttiusa 4 bit in the mouth
too frequently.
Year: 1873

SINGULAR MARRIAGE curious mar
riage is announced by the Figaro 1t is
that ofo ne of the japanese Embassy at Lon
don with a young lady who moves in the
best of Partisan society. The name of the
japanese gentleman is Lakana. He is
young, high in office in his country. and is
worth several MILLIONS The bride is Mile.
Hebert, daughter of rich coal merchant
who has retired from business. She has
asked that her future husband should be-
come Christian before their marriage.
He consented without difficulty, and the
wedding will take place in the beginning OF
May.
Year: 1873

u A queer story is told in the New Yorh


correspondence Of the Chicago 4Itans


Of two prosperous merchants in West


Broadway. One of them was married


rather late 10 lite, some two years sgo'


and after be and bis vile bad gone to


housekeeping, be invited bis fellow


merchant to pay them visit The


latter went, and Was much pleased with
the new wife, who appeared to be very


Young They grew TO be firm friends.


He told her he could not resist the
conviction that he bad seen here before,
at which she laughed, and said that wa
the impression oblsiued from all sym
pathetic natures. Their cordial rela-
tions continued for a good while, and
one day the mercantile admlrer re.
ceived q letter from an intimate in
Boston, informing him that bis frieud
had come time before married an eccen-
trio woman, Mrs, who had the re-
putation OF being several times divorced.


This Get the admirer to thinking and
tracing out circumstances within bis
know Wedge. The result vas, he discov.
cred beyond question that Mrs. -,
the wife of bis friend, had. seven years
before, been bisiown vile, from whom
he had obtained a legal divorce on good
and sufficient reason. six months after
their union. Anxious TO corroborate
this. he went to Mrs. -, and asked
her if it was not 40. She replied in the
and without hesitation, ad-
ding that she recogn zed him from the
fret but did not care to impart any in
formation be did not himself possess.
She had been literally in the divorce
business. having had no less than seven
lieges in twelve years. She understood
the art OF making herself look young.
and at tlve and thirty she did not appear
more than five and twenty. 1t was the
art that had deceived the friend and
caused him to regard her as somebody
else than her real self. .,..-.-