smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1875

We hope the Southern Pacific peo- pie will hurry up and lay their track to the Colorado river, and thereby bridge the broad, barren chasm of des- ert that has been such a drawback to the settlement of Arizona Next to the Apaches in the Territory, the des- ert on this side of the line has been a barrier to development Perhaps a majority of Californians are under the impression that the celebrated desert is an Arizona product Tn toto, and 10 show the delusion under which they labor, we reprint the following from The Southern California, paper pub lished at Bakersfield:

 Four men passing through the Caion de las Uvas, on their way from Arizo- na to this county, on Friday last, were badly, though not seriously, injured by the running away of their fOur-horse team. They report that of the 700 horses with which they started to Ari- zOna two months ago, they only reach ed their destination with ljO. Most of them were poisoned by drinking bad water. The bands of sheep which left California late in the Summer for that region, died by hundreds on the desert. The feed on theyOther side of the Col Orado was good; but on this side there was no subsistence for man or beast. and the great bulk Of the stock driven during the past few months in that direction perished.

 Arizona has deserts enough of her own; but owing to her Summer show CTS, which start up the grass in July and August and refresh the atmos- phere mosI agreeably, she is enabled to present a paradise on the opposite side of the Colorado. as compared with the Fort Yuma or California side in the hot season of the year. Alta. December II
Year: 1875

Many very well-meaning people readily and persistently urge executive officers 10 pardon criminals of the basest character. Having no official responsibility in the premises, they rarely take a proper view of that re- sponsibility. Directly in point, is the following from The San Francisco Bulletin:

 Governor PachecO expresses himself as satisfied that he is no longer the of the pardoning power. He states that no person outside the office can imagine the pressure brought to bear to obtain a pardon. even for the worst class of criminals, those who have betrayed public trust He in- stances the Marks case a. one in point. where leading lawyers and merchants of San Francisco brought every kind of influence 10 bear to secure release.
Year: 1875

Following is a bill passed at the re- cent Con gress and approved March 3, 1875. Hon. H. s. Stevens sends It to us, and says parties have expressed " the opinion that something similar made applicable to Arizona, would '' be of great benefit But the class of lands designated in this net as desert lands, we have but little if any of. '' l would like 10 hear more about the |" matter"

 At present, We print the Act, and simply call the attention of our Ari- zona readers to ii, and suggest thai views thereon be sent to our Delegate, or they may be sent to us for publica- ton and thereby elicit discussion gen orally on the merits of an Act having for its object the reclamation of the dry but rich lands in some parts of Arizona:

 An Act to provide for the sale of desert lands in Lassen county, Califor- nia.

 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Unit ed States of America in Congress as sembled. That it shall be lawful for any citizen of the United States, or any person of requisite age who may be entitled to become citizen, and who has filed his declaration of intention to become such, to file declaration with the register and receiver of the proper land district for the county of Lassen California, in which any desert land is situated, that he intends to reclaim a tract of desert land situated in said county, not exceeding one section, by conducting water upon the same, so as tO reclaim all of said land within the period of two years thereafter; and said declaration shall be under oath and shall describe particularly said section of land, if surveyed, and, if unsurveyed, shall describe the same as nearly as possible without survey {; which said declaration shall be sup ported by the affidavit of at least two credible witnesses, establishing to the satisfaction of the register or receiver the fact that said lands are of the char acter described in this act And at any time within the period of two years after filing sad declaration. and upon making satisfactory proof of the reclamation of said tract of land in the manner aforesaid, before the register and the receiver of said land office. such person shall te entitled 10 enter or locate the reclaimed section, or any part thereof in the same manner as in cases where public lands of the United States are subject to entry, at a price not exceeding one dollar and twenty five cents per acre, and shall receive patent therefor

 Sec. ?. That all lands within said county of LaSsen, exclusive of timber lands and of mineral lands, which do not produce grass, or which will not, without such reclamation, produce some agricultural crop, shall be deem ed desert lands within the meaning of this act
Year: 1875

QUITE a sensation was created in the Sacramento county court on Saturday, by the ruling of Judge Clark, that a lawyer who had formerly acted as the attorne, and confidential adviser of a man charged with felony, must testify against his whilom client. The ruling was stated to be the legal consequence Of the prisoners having testified in his own behalf After taking time to con- sider his duty and consult authorities, the attorney testified that full comics sion of guilt had been made 10 him. If this decision be sound, criminals will be apt hereafter to confess to their advisers nothing but innocence.-S- F. Post.
Year: 1875

ONE of the "independent' papers says: The religious press denounce the pull-back as an abominatiOn in the eyes of the Lord They used to say the same thing about hoops, and we should like them to define exactly what the ladies should wear to please the Lord and be in the fashion at the same time.
Year: 1875

ES 1t is the penny saved, more than
the penny earned, that cnriches; it Is
the sheet turned when the first thread
breaks that wears the longest; it is the
daInper closed when the cookingis doae
that stops the dollers from dropping
into the coal bin; il is the lamp or gas
turned low VIXEN not in use that gives
pin money for the month; it is the care
of making the coffee that makes three
spoonsful go as far as q teacupful or
dinarily; it is the careful mending Of
each weeks wash tha. gives ease TO your
conscience and length of days to your
garments; and last of all it is the con-
slant care exercised over every part Of
YOUR household, and constant endeavor
to improve and apply your best powers
TO your work that alone gives peace and
prosperity to the family.
Year: 1875

A very good looking young lady
entered the central station Yesterday
and walking up to the sergeant she
said: ''I want policeman" As
soon as he could recover f. ON his sur
prise he replied: "Well, there are
FIVE widowers and seven young men
left-have you any choice: She was
very indignant as she explained that
she wan ed an officer to go and help
take care Of an insane woman.
Year: 1875

If you get fish bone in your throat, and
sticking fast there, swallow an egg raw; j.
will be almost sure to carry the bone down
easily and certainly. When, as sometimes
by accident, corrosive sublimate is swal-
lowed, the white of one or two eggs will
neutralize the poison, and change the effect
to that of dose of calomel.


For chilblains cut up two white turnips,
without pairing, into thin slices; put the sill
ces into a lineup with three large spoonsful
of lard, let it simmer slowly for two hours,
then mash through a sieve; when cold
spread it on soft linen cloth and apply to
the chilblain at night.


Milk for breakfast, when used in the form
of bread and milk, should never be boiled,
but steamed; that is, the jug of milk should
be stood in saucepan of boiling water for
two or three minutes until hot.


To prevent hard soap, prepared with
soda, from crumbling, the bars may be
dipped in mixture of resin soap, beef tai
low and wax.


A little camphene dropped between the
neck and stopper of glass BEETLE
will render the latter easily removed il
jammed fast.


To make silk which has been wrinkled
appear like new, sponge sponge on the
surface with weak solution ofgum arabic
Or white glue, and iron on the wrong side.


A piece of paraffine candle about the size
of nut, dissolved in lard oil at $50 deg.
Fab, the mixture applied once a month,
will keep boots waterproof.


A strong solution of sulphate of magnesia
gives beautiful quality to whitewash.


Leather can be made hard by saturation
in solution of shellac in alcohol.


Paraffine is the best material for protect
ing polished steel or iron from rust.


Soap and water is the best material for
cleaning jewelry.
Year: 1875

You may think the word that of very
little consequence.


If you will read on, however, yeu will
soon see that that is of some considerable
importance.


You will see that that that which is used
in the second sentence is used as nonu.


And we will say still further that that
that that has been spoken Of last in the
third sentence is also noun.


We gave the fourth sentence out one time
to gentleman to parse, aud friend after
ward remarked "that that that that that
gentleman parsed was parsed incorrectly.


The first gentleman retorted "that shat
that that that that gentleman parsed was
rather clumsy sentence"


Another one said, "that sthat that that
that, that that was still more clumsy SEN
tence."


A lady present ventured the suggestion
sthat that that that, that that that that
gentleman made use OF wasa correct gram
NAUTICAL sentence.


That's enough.
Year: 1875

A widow writes from Springfield, KY,
to the New York Sun, that about a year
ago. while she was preparing for nap at
ter dinner, she saw dark spot moving
over the newspaper that she was reading
and that some months later she saw several
dark spots whenever she looked toward a
light object or out of q window. She felt
that she had a premonition of approaching
blindness, but being unable to employ an
oculist, she awaited developments. Soon
she began to see figure, which she de-
scribes as kind Of a worm or snake NOV
ing before her eyes, changing its position
whenever she moved her eyes. She fancies
it to be living creature made mp of little
links, and she writes to that paper for in-
formation on the subject.


What the correspondent describes as a
kind of worm has been described as spi-
der web tracery by other persons who have
been afflicted with cataract. 1t is the dying
of the crystalline lenses, and the infinitesi-
NAL black rings that one person styles
worm and another more fancifully calls a
spider web tracery, are merely some OF the
dead and ossitied cells of the crystalline
lenses. One after another these cells die,
and at length the entire lens dies and shuts
out tile light. After that vision can be re-
stored onlysby the oculist's knife.


The correspondent writes that she is 45
years of age. She is still young enough to
preserve what eyesight she has and escape
the peril Of an operation for cataract. But
will size so change her mode of living as to
arrest the advance of death upon the lenses
in her eyes? She writes Of her nap after
dinner and OF her riding home from church,
thus indicating that she does not take
enough physical exercise. Probably, also,
she eats daintles, instead of plain nourish-
ing food. Let her, without delay, take ex-
erc;se in the open air-moderate exercise
at first, then gradually increasing it until
she begins to crave hearty. easily digested
food, such as mutton, beeisteaks and above
all, oatmeal and cream. Peas may be adj
ded to the list, and beans, if she can take as
much outdoor exercise as woodchopper
has.


We are not sure that these hints may not
be usefal to all classes of our readers,
whether they feel conscious of the death of
any part of the system or not.
Year: 1875

At Fort Madison, Iowa, there may be


seen going about the streets with the ut
most freedom grey-haired old man, the


only appearance distinguishing linn from
| the city fathers is the uniform dress of the
penitentiary. This custom is in strange
contrast with the rest of nOt-unattractive


exterior, and it brands its wearer as an OBJ
| iect of curiosity tn corner idlers and of dread


to little children. 1t is the mark of Cain.
indicating that the hands which protrude
from it are stained with human blood !; it
is the badge of a murderer who escaped
hanging only through a technicalitySof the
law.


The old man is known by the name of


tlnctioE of having been the first white man


10 commit a capital crime within the bor


ders of Polk county, Iowa. When last he


crossed the county line, in August, 1854,
journeying westward with his young wife


Ruth, in search of home. They never


found one. In an evil hour jealousy thrust


itself between them, and the husband, in a


moment of madness, struck Il murderous


blow of which he has never ceased to re-


pent.


A trial in those days, and in that sparsely


settled region, though fenced about with
some formalities, was comparatively rapid


and positively decisive. Fouts, when


brought TO the bar, was confronted with an


unimpeachable witness, who swore that he


saw him stab his wife again and again with


a knife, despite the deponents entreaties to
desist and that after his victim had once
escaped from him and taken refuge in the


house of IL nei ghbor, he obtained access to
her there by deliberate cunning and deceit.


Neither the deed nor the malice aforethought


could be controverted by the Vaccinations
of counsel. Fouts was convicted of muir
der in the first degree and sentenced to be
hanged. Less than fortnight before the
day appointed for the execution, however,
reversal of Judgment was obtained and a


new trial trial ordered, which resulted, in
the then cooler state of popular feeling, i'll


his condemnation to the penitentiary for
life.


For the first ten or twelve years of his
imprisonment he lived like other convicts !;


but little by little the warden came to have
more confidence in him and to allow him
greater liberties, until now he is under no


restraint whatever, and transacts much of
the official business of the institution both
| inside and outside its gates. He really


needs no watching, for he feels no tempta-
tion to abuse his privileges. With his
wife's death the last link that bound his
desires to this world was severed. The


half-score of years that followed permitted
the rest of mankind to outrun him in the


race Of life. He is, to all intents, and pur-
poses, dead to social life ; the hands of the
century clock have been turned SO far back
for him that they can in no manner regain


their wonted place. Persons who know


him say that he is so sensible of his isola-
ton that nothing would induce him to
leave the penitentiary-not even a full


pardon those gray, grim walls, sorepug


nant TO the sight of men who never forfeit


ed their freedom, encompass the only home
/ he cares for
Year: 1875

Twenty clerks in a store,


twenty hands in a printing Of


fee, twenty apprentices in o
shipyard, twenty young men in
a yillage--all want to get on in
the world and expect to do so.
One of the clerks will become Il
partner and make a fortune; one
Of the compositors will own Il
newspaper and become an in
fuential citizen; one Of the ap-
prentices will become a master
builder; one of the villagers will
get d handsome farm and live
like a patriarch-but which one
is the lucky individual? Lucky
there is no luck about it.
The thing is almost as certain
as rule Of three.


The young fellow who Will
distance his competitors is he
who Will master his business,
who preserves his integrity,
who lives cleanly and purely,
who devotes his leisure to the
acquisition Of knowledge, who
gains friends bydeserying them,
and who saves his spare money.
There are some ways to fortune
shorter than this old highway;
but the staunch men Of the COM
munitY, the men who achieve
something really worth having,
good fortune, good name, and
serene old age, all go on that
road.
Year: 1875

There was a double service in


a Methodist Church at Noting


ham, Manitoba, on a recent Sur


day. A quarrel had divided


the congregation, and each par
ty claimed to be dominant.


Each had called new minister,


and the two clergymen were on


hand to begin their labors.
The first to arrive took possess


sion of the pulpit, the other sat
behind the chancel rail. The


man in the pulpit gave out a


hymn, the man gave out anoth-
Grand both were sungcOnfused-
ly by the rival sections of the
assembly. Then the man be-
hind the railing started off on
his sermon, and the other began
to read a chapter Of Scripture.
When the reading was over,
and 1t was plain the preaching
was going to last much longer,
the partisans of the reader sung
hymn with a loud or
gan accompaniment. The mu-
5ical noise drowned the voice
Of the clergyman in the
pulpit, but when it was over he
was found to be preaching right
along, as though nothing unu-
'ual had happened. The cler-
yyman in the chancel, less cool,
was unable to fix his thoughts
IN a discourse, and so remained
silent and beaten. At the close
IF this extraordinary scene, a
leacon explained that it had
,een enacted ''under legal ad-
ice, and to further the cause
# Christ" +"
Year: 1875

Seventeen years of shine and sorrow,
Since the rosy light Of morn
Made the sweet June roses redder,
In the hour that you were born;
Hour that brought the flesh and spirit


Such an ecstacy Of pain
Such a rapture Of rejoicing.


As will never come again!
| remember how the tender


Rose OF morning flushed the gray,
How the sun with sudden splendor


Changed the dawning into day;
How the dappled clouds went sailing


All across the summer sky,
How the robins trilled and twitted-


When heard my baby cry!
Seventeen years. but l remember


Still the passionate delight
Of that radiant June morning,


After all the weary night.
Haply born to wom2n-nature,


1t may come to you to learn,
With your own child for teacher,


Such story in your turn.
If it ever does, my darling,


May the time be rosy June
May the robins trill and twitter


Such another happy tune.
And the child that God shall give you,


All ask is, it may be
Just the daily joy and comfort


That my frst-born is to me!
Year: 1875

A lady correspondent inquiries
of an Eastern paper: "How shall
/ keep my husband at home in
the EVENING"" Women are con-
stantly asking this question; but
every woman of sense ought to
know that she can keep her hus-
band at home easily enough by
opening frst-class beer,garden in
the back yard. tits hardly nee
essary to say that few pretty
waiter girls thrown in, by way Of
supplementary diVersement, might
have a tendency to drive him a.
broad, but it would be ridiculous
to omit them, nevertheless.
Year: 1875

"In the year Of our Lord 1927,
forty,eight years ago, the grass
Eoppers came to lower Canada IN
clouds, and literally ate up every
thing green excepting the green.
horns just coming into the coun
try) Our garden had been sown
around the fencing with mustard
profusely, and within forty eight
hours we hadn'ta living grasshop-
per in the garden OF around the
bmns. The hoppers ate up every
bit of the mustard. The conse-
quenae was that they burst right
open from stem to stern, and we
shoveled them into large hea ps
and burned them. and the next
year we had comparatively few on
our farm. presume could have
this testimony corroborated by
some of the old citizens of Mon
treal."
Year: 1875

A man will carry five hundred
dollars in his vest pocket, but a
woman needs a morocco portmon-
naie as large as fist, and too bea-
Wy to carry in the pocket, to es-
cOrt fifty cent script, a recipe
for making jelly-cake, and two
samples of dress goods down town
and back, every pleasant after
noon.
Year: 1875

Take life easy, and don't always
be trying TO beatthe sun up, says an
exchange. You may win for a
while, but in the long run you are
sure to be beaten, and some morn
ing it will rise when you don't.
Year: 1875

Fast young ladies, like fast
race horses, often win by a bare
neck, and yet by this difference
the horse victoryis due to the
space covered quickly, the
Young ladies' has no cover at all.
Year: 1875

sum of five thousand dollars, and the Ter ritorial treasurer shall pay the same on presentation, out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated by law.

 SEC. 10. In case of a vacancy in the office of agent, it shall be the duty of the Governor to appoint and commission a suitable person as such agent, and such appointee shall be subject to all the duties, requirements, and conditions imposed upon the agent by this act, and it shall not be lawful for the agent to appoint a sub- stitute for the performance of his duties, except in case of absolute physical inabili- ty to personally discharge the same, and the services Of such substitute shall at no time extend beyond tie period of such ah- solute physical disability, and for the off cial acts of said substitute, the agent shall be held responsible.

 SEC. II. Fhis act shall take effect, and be in force, from and after its passage.
Year: 1875

They have arranged to have arrive Month ly, a complete assortment of such goods as the people of Arizona want, and they Can Sell them at Wholesale and Re- tail Cheaper than they can be Afforded from any other

 Market. Not excepting the much extolled Quay

 mas route.
Year: 1875

GRAND OPENING The Great Eastern show ot New

 Goods

 LORD 6 WILLIAMS WILL DISPLAY FOR PUBLIC IN. w spection one Of the Largest and Most Attractive Stock of Goods ever before Brought

 to this Market.
Year: 1875

Pooh, blind, deluded Southern people,
Of course they are blind, and can see and
comprehend nothing = cannot understand
how it is, and why it is, that while society
and government are alike destroyed by
trades unions in Pennsylvania and an abso-
Lutte state of war exists, Sheridan is sent to
Louisiana, the State is enslaved, the people
humiliated and degraded by subjection to
military masters, against the bare semblance
of which an American naturally revolts,
and yet violence and murder and desolation
stalk abroad unrepressed in Pennsylvania,
and Grant is blind and deaf when looking
North, and does not at the same instant
hesitate to place his foot upon the neck Of
helpless Southern community. The
wrong is infamous as base and cowardly.
Year: 1875

THE most pleasing incident Of modern
times was that evoked in the action of the
Chicago a few days ago. Many leading
Uficers of the army, General Sherman
among the rest, were present. To the
astonishment of everybody an old soldier
moved to invite all the soldiers of both
Union and Confederate armies to share in
the festivities OF their next convocation.
There was dead silence At last shout
welcomed the proposition, and only one
single protest was entered. Grant is going
to change his tack, There is no help for
it. Feelings excited by the approach of
the centennial celebration at Philadelphia,
the want of money begotten by lavish
waste of public money wrested by multi-
tudes of place-holders from the toiling
poor, the earnest desire for peace and for
the reproduction of honest, economical
governments, rapidly effects Cancellation of
the sections, and unity of popular action
and purpose. Parties even may be slaugh-
tered by the people that patriotism and
honesty, rather than demagogues, may
shape the country's fortunes. This Incl
dent at Chicago is surely most significant
of better time coming when soldiers them
selves declare that they want no Union
pinned together with bayonets. Such is
the substance and effect of their invitation
to the soldiers of the South.
Year: 1875

as changed toward him, but that the an
tagonism was displayed for the purpose of
gaining favor with powers that be. This is
the kind of man, we repeat, who pirates
about ''foul conspiracy" Heis beyond the
pale of respectable consideration, and the
STATESMAN will not extend it, as he de-
sires. HelsS first class political traitor,
sycophant to place and power, fraud upon
the introduction of respectable house
maids, and as such we wall only treat him.