smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1871

GAIL HAMILTON on CHAs DIcKRNs.-Gail
Hamilton, in an article on Evil Times" :" in
the New York I9dfpendeak assails a Doctor
of Divinity for kind work spoken in regard
to Charles Dickens, and freed her mind" in
regard to the CONDUCT Of the great novelist in
discarding the wife Of his youth, with the fol-
lowing womanly vchemence:


| have no tenderness for Mr.. Dickens.
| do not believe in his deep soul OF truth
and goodness, or in his noble and pure
sympathy with what is highest and best.
II desire, in the most public and unre-
serving manner" to declare that a regi-
ment of little Nells and Tiny Tins can
not redeem the man who publicly dis
honored the mother Of his many children.
Mr.. Dickens holding the pen of a ready
writer, told the story glibly to the world.
Mrs. Dickens suffering the deepest
wound woman can know, has remain
ed steadfastly silent. Tie wife's silence
is full of dignity the husbands speech
bristles with Disgrace. He feels no
shame in saying that he lived with q
woman as his wife, exacting from her
ali the duties and enforcing all the suf.
fPring of a wife until he had consumed
all the vigor of her youth and that he
had turned her away, and announced tc
the world that she was unfit for him
He felt no shame in saying, virtually,
that, while this woman was living in his
house as his wife, another woman was
also in his house, holding in regard both
to himself and children position which
belonged to the legal wife and mother.
n gland is beating her obstinate head
against marriage with deceased wife's
sister; but here is living wife's sister
superceding the living wife. 1t was Mr..
Dickens himself who made this public
property, BY his last will and testa-
ment he even stretched his dead hand
ont of the grave to iniure his discarded
wife ; and neither in this world, nor the
next, or the world after the next, shall a
man escape the cordial hatred of at leas
one heart for such coarse and shameless
seltishness.
Year: 1871

The New York Court of Appea Is
has recently decided that WITNESSES in
a trial before Court of Law must
state facts and cannot draw conclusion
nor give opinions. The case in which
this decision was given, arose in an
action on policy of insurance to re-
cover for loss by fire. The plain.
tiff who, under the New York statute,
was witness in his case, gave his own
opinion as to the quantity as we'll
as the value of the goods destroyed.
To this evidence the Insurance Com,
papy, which was defendant, excepted
and carried the case to the Court of
Appeals, whore the decision of the
court below was reversed, the evidenced
held inadmissible, and new trial
ordered. The Court Of Appeals in
delivering its opinion stated that the
instances in which the opinion of wit.
nesses can be admitted, constitute ex.
ccptions to tho general rule, and thai
these exceptions are not to be extehd-
ed or enlarged SO as to include new
cases except to prevent failure of
Justice and when better evidence can
not be obtained.
Year: 1871

Washington Dollard, a negro out
law, was killed few nights since in
Clarendon. There we're several war
rants out against him, but he had
successfully resisted arrest-in one
instance choking the Trial Justice,
and in another leveling a double-bat-
rel gun at the officer who tried to take
him and who, thereupon, backed out
and allowed him to escape. He is
said to have been Ku Kiuxed by his
own color, the party surrounding his
house and being fred upon by him,
it is rumored, with some damage to
the assailants. He then made a dash
for the woods and was fired upon and
killed. He was a brother of Jim
Reed, recently killed by Constable
Weeks, and he and his brother we're
both from Clarendon. They were run
off from there and came to this Coun-
ty where they continued their course
of crime until the country became too
hot for them. Both are now dead
Sumter Watchmdn.
Year: 1871

FAYETTE COUNTY, WEST VA.
Sept. 90. 1871. }
As "variety is the spice of life" L have
| thought that letter from this fu7TtT
county might not be unacceptable, and
| then, too, the Dispatch is such firm friend
of the Chesapeake and Ohio railroad that
am sure it is always glad to hear of its rapid
on this portion of the road are getting
along tinely, and there is no danger that
they will delay the through train of 1872.
I Hands are plentiful ut this time, but wages
hold well at $3.50 per day. The health of
| the hands is remarkably good, though the
doctors who practice on them at the rate OF
fifty cents per month. sick or well, have to
put on show Of business, and fly around
considerably. ..-.-..-.---


One Of our men was bitten some time
since by coppelhead, butfurther than Il
GOOD scare he suffered very little. The
doctor advised that he drink as much whis-
key a possible. and being large man his
caDacity was considerable. He took to it.,
however, like fish to water, and remark
ed afterwards that it was the first time
he had gotten enough OF that medicine
since the good old days when he used to
inbibe ut three cents II drink.


This being the most inaccessible portion
of the road, our greatest difficulty is to kee .
supplies on hand hut by ordering a month
ahead of their need we manage to keep
enough to eat.


l was reminded considerably of bellum
times while riding through the adjoining
country few days ago by the creakiDg OF
the sorghum mills. The people here still
make it, and declare that "their molasses
is the best IN the world" How the people
along the river lived prior TO our coming
is mystery to me, for there are scarcely
any signs OF their having raised anything
but dogs and children.


The great event of this week is the looked
for passage Ton a tour of inspection) Of our
worthy digpitaIies, President Huntington,
Vice President Wickham, and Chief En-
gineer Whitcomb.


T take your valuable daily, but as live
tbirty.two miles from post-ottice (tell
Postmaster.Gener Creswell about that it
is a little old when it reaches me. Should
you give this place in your paper VIII
write again 1T You say SO, when nave
more to write about than / had this time.


RAILROAD MAN.
Year: 1871

HAIL, HEAVENLY PEACE The project of set
Ting the existing differences between England
and the United States peaceaoly, by joint com
mission, is the first great measure which has
been brought forward under President Grants
administration. If this undertaking is success
fully carried out, General Grant will be enti-
tied to the thanks of the whole civilized world.
The interest of the people is to have peace
New York Sun.


The Sun is bitterly hostile 20 the President
1t has given him credit for no good act. 1t has
impugned his motives in everything. Now it
tells us that if the undertaking of the Joint
Peace Commission "is successfully carried
through, General Grant will be entitled to the
thanks of the whole civilized world" There is
something gained when enemy like the Sun
feels obliged to concede so much as this to the
credit of President Grant.-Lockport Journal.
Year: 1871

Movable or adjustable horse shoes have be-
come fixed fact, and company in Chcopee,
Massachusetts, are engaged in their manufacture.
This shoe can be taken off at night, or when the
horse is not at work, and put on again when
wanted easily as pair OF boots.
Year: 1871

TooTH-PIcKs.-A sentence is going the rounds
of the papers, which is most pernicious, that one
tooth pick is worth bushel of tooth brushes.
The people must get into the habit of weighing
every practical statement in reference to the
health and wellbeng of our bodies, or they will
be led by specious statements, striking com
parisons, or popular names, to many hurttul
habits. practices and observances. Every dem
tst knows that the more n tooth-pic is used
the more the yielding gum is pressed upward
and the larger the space becomes between the
teeth next the gum, the larger will be the pieces
of food that will lodge there and the greater the
necessity of the use of the tooth-pick for the re-
mainder of life, and to some extent the solid
tooth itself may away.


If the tooth is hollow it ought to be extracted
or filled with gold at the earliest moment pos
sibe, so as to prevent decay and a noisome
breath.


To be under the necessity of spending five or
ten or more minutes after each meal in picking
the teeth is a great and useless waste of time,
and is essentially loafng and indecent prac-
tice, unless done in ones private room. On the
other hand, the intelligent dentist knows that
the judicious of tooth brush Immediately
after each meal, twisting it up and down side
ways, so that each briste becomes soft tooth
pick, and gently dislodges particles of food,
while at the same time it hardens the gum,
makes it more firm, causes it to grow more fully
into any crevces, and fills them up more per-
fectly. Whether by pick or brush the same i'm
portant end is sought, to keep the teeth clean,
because its the only way of preserving them,
and the want of it the certain means of their
speedy destruction in almost every case. The
true statement of the proposition is to reverse it
and say tina. one toothbrush is worth n cart
load of the indecent and always hurtful tooth
picks.-HaWS Journal Of Health.
Year: 1871

Gen. Stoncman says in his report that we cannot be believed, because the editor Of q another newspaper once said so. Gen Stone man ought not to have forgotten that during the time he drew his pay and allowances in this Territory he did his utmost to have us lie. and failed. You must recolleet, General you tried your seductive powers to have us publish statement that Indians were peace able, at q time when murder and robbery were rampant. Colycr, too, makes this charge. His promise to buy goods from mer- chants and make times good, generally, fall cd to induce us 10 lie for him. Bat he is now in disgrace, and upon hts tarnished claws rests the blood of Loring and those who fell with him.
Year: 1871

Some months ago l saw running


the rounds OF tie press in substance


as follow: Set eggs an instant in


boiling water; it will coagulate a


thin film of the albumen, and thus


make eggs keep long time" Since


then it has been extensively tried


with one and the same result. All


[ have to say is that when tricks


are 10 he played on travellers / do


not want to be in the cars; that is,


as Jim Jinkels said, "my speariance. "


For 1 bought lot Of eggs thus


preserved. The first thing my wife


said was-"What queer eggs! They


have a thick, dirty film on the inside


of them" The next week 1 was a


little unwell, and my wife boiled


one as a delicacy for me, and that


thing of an egg had one side a black
coat and the rest q leathery yellow
skin next to the shell; and 1 could
not eat my boiled egg, which made
my wife think | was sicker than l
was. So she boiled another, and to
please her I ate it. But it went
down dreadfully hard-as if / was
eating boiled toad. in fact. Had !
only been aware at that time that
the rotten appearance was due to
this philosophic way of preserving
eggs, there would have been less of
the toad and more of the philcsophic
endurance about my throat.


Next we smelled in the pantry
some putrid thing, and my wife had
it cleaned, but to no effect. At last
1 perceived the odor not only of
some dead animal matter in the
pantry, but Of rotten eggs. So l
investigated the eggs--their center
and yolk were perfectly sweet; the
chicken pit was alive, and if set
under a hen would have hatched;
but the boiled portion next to the
shell, about a sixteenth of an inch
thick, was putrid and stunk.


Now, all I have to say is, when
m announcement of scientific dis
covery for the preservation of eggs
is made to such a sensitive and
lives and adopts new things 80 rap
idly, the promulgator ought to be
sure that heis right before he teaches
the public.


Two principles are at the bottom
Of this last egg preserving hoax. l.
thin layer next to the
shell will coagulate the albumen,
md for a. very short interval "a few /
nation as ours, which |
hours tend to keep it. 2. As the
heated portion Of the albumen be-
zones dead matter by the boiling,
of course it decays just as would
The whole egg if hard boiled. And
nence the discoloration in o few
lays, and the offensive stencil.


Conld the eggs be dipped in hot
water an instant, and then, before
cooling, the shell be rendered i'm
oervious to air, the egg would be
made like fruit jar in its principle,
md hence keep longer than it
otherwise would. But to put the
eggs, as has been recommend, in
not water, and leave the shell per-
neable by air, IS only to hasten the
iecay. All this might have been
Known by the one who was so
lnwise as to recommend the
lelusiye process Such eggs will
not keep as long as if not put
n hot water an instant, for
Year: 1871

They tell story about girl up in
Bethlehem, who wished to rid herself
of persistent lover. So, when he
used to come around in the evening,
she would ask him ifhe wouldn't please
help John to carry the piano up stairs,
and he would take of his coat and work
like a brigade of Irishmen until it was
time to 90 home. Then the next eve
ming, as soon as he called, she would
say, wouldn't he please help John to
carry the piano down stairs again? and
at it he would 90 lifting and pulling
and bursting blood vessels, until the
hour arrived for departure. This kind
OF Thing continued for about week
when one night he got the piano down
as far as the first landing, and the cor
nor fell OH his toe. Then he cOnfided
to the faithful John his secret cOnvic-
ton that Loves Young Dream was
fast assuming the character of a me st
disgusting and oppressive. nightmare.
Leaving the piano there, he went
down to ask his enSlaver to say finally
and forever just where she wanted
that piano to be fixed. He was sur
prised to find upon entering the par
lOr that another young man was there
"a young man with mild eyes and
spectacles, And there that young man
had been every night, while he was
moving the furniture and cherishing
visions of bliss! 1t occupied exactly
four minutes and when the cOmhatants
were drawn the painist rushed from
the house, singing Beware, she's
fooling thee!" while a miId-eyed
young man decorated with spectacles
might have been seen lying on the
sofa. feeling one of his mild eyes to
find how much it was swelled.
Year: 1871

A correspondent in speaking Of
the absurd custom of drinking
healths. says, with a good deal Of
force: .....


Chow in the name of common
sense and reason do l show an af-
fectionate regard for my friend by
drinking into my own stomach that
which oppressess and distresses ma
ture, and which nature does not
want; or. what sense is there in
drinking his health while ! am des-
troying my own. Drink his health!
Why the very words. are silly upon
the face of them. if man will but
stop to consider their meaning
How can I possibly drink another
mans health? I may wish him
health, or pray for his health; but
that has no rational connection with
my drinking. I might as well dance
his health, or wrestle his health, for
any real connections between the
means and the end.
Year: 1871

this payment, he it ! remembered,
has been made while taxes were
repea)od that were yielding eighty
millions per annum when Gen
eral Grant came into power.
Look at New York during the
same period. It's bonded debt is
increased to such mammoth ex-
tent that the authorities dare not
confess the actual amount Tax
levies are all the while heaped up
beyond the imagination of honest
men. and a scale of corrupt expend-
itnres maintained that challenges
the credulity even of those who are
best acquainted with the audacity
OF Tammany Hail." ~
Year: 1871

A French physician is out in a
long dissertation on the advantages
of groaning and crying in general,
and especially during surgical ope-
rations. He contends that groar-
ing and crying are two grand ope-
rations by which nature allays an
guish; that those patients who give
way to their natural feelings more
speedily recover from accidents and
operations than those who suppose
in unworthy a man to betray such
symptoms of cowardes rs either to
groan or cry. He tells of a man
who reduced his pulse from one
hundred and twenty-six to sixty,
in the course of a few hours, by
giving full vent to his emotions. II
people are. at all unhappy about
anything let them go into their
rooms and comfort themselves with
a loud boo-hoo, and they will feel a
hundred per cent, better afterward.


In accordance with the above the
crying of children should not be too
discouraged. If it is sys-
tematically repressed the result may
be st. Vitus's dance. epiletic fits, or
some other disease of the nervous
system.-What is natural is nearly
always useful; and nothing can be
more natural than the crying when
occurs to give them either
physical or mental pain. Good
Health.
Year: 1871

Ignorant people are very apt to
use phrases with double meanings
without intending to do so. Among
the advertisements We may some
times read that respectable Young
woman wants washing. The pro-
prietor of a bone-mill advertises
that parties sending their own bones
to be ground will be attended to
with fidelity and dispatch. 1t was
once related in city paper how,
during the celebration, ga child was
run over, wearing a short red dress,
which never spoke afterwnrd.
Year: 1871




People say, ''TAe steamer took
away a million dollars" Just as
complacently as though a million
dollars could be picked up like dirt.
An anonymous writer remarks that
but few people have any more idea
what millions, billions and trillions
are than they have of the brogans
worn by the cobblers who inhabit
the moon. A million of silver dol
lars possess a vastness that is rather
startling to a man who has never
faced such a pile. To count this
sum at the rate of one thousand
FIVE hundred dollars an hour, and
eight hours day, would require a
man nearly three months. If the
said dollars were laid side by side,
they wouldrea one hundred and
thirty-six miles, while their tran
sportation would, require fourteen
wagons carrying two tons each. If
millions become thus Overpowering
in their magnitude, what shall we
do with larger sums? The seconds
in sly thousand years seem al
most incalculable, and yet they
amount to less than one-ffth
of a trillion. A quadrillion of
leaves of paper, each the two hun
dredth part of an inch in thick
ness, would form q pile, the
height of which would be three
hundred and thirty times the moons
distance from the earth. A cannon
ball flies swiftly; but if one were
fired at the moment that one of our
national Presidents takes his seat
in the White House, and were it to
continue with unabated velocity of
twelve hundred feet q second during
his Whole term of office, it would
not travel three millions of miles.
We never hear of tie Wandering
Jew, but We mentally inquire what
was the sentence of his punishment.
Perhaps he was told to walk the
earth until he counted a trillion.
Suppose man to count one in
every second of time, day and night,
without stopping to rest. eat or
sleep, it would take him thirty-two
years to count O billion, or thirty
thousand years to count a trillion,
even as the French understand that
term. As We said before, what
limited idea men have of the I'M
mensity of numbers!


Weekly Courier.
Year: 1871

We shall support the doctrine Of an
eqnitahle division of taxation among
al classes. faithful collection of the
revenues, economy in the expendi-
'meS conformably with the exigen-
'IaN Of the State or Country aud the
discharge Of every legitimate obliga-
,inn
Year: 1871

verged upon discourtesy. There has been on
the face OF the papers before the Court
failure TO furnish full and complete extracts from
the minutes OF the Board OF .Apportlonment These
cate demand that tffe entire minutes OF that Board
be laid before the Court


Mr. O'GORNAN- the exercise OF nv right as
counsel for some OF the defendants and In the POSI-
tlou | now stand. not having had time to-day to
finish the reading or all the adavlts OF the defend
side an improper demand. shall give to the Court
which am bound to respect, just such inlorma-
tion-sO much or so ittle-as think my duty to IL
and my duty to my clients demand. When my
learned friend on the other side shall have heard
read all the aidavits tnat viii be the proper time,
make sucn demand are improper


Mr.. BARRETT shall not discuss nero tie pro-
prlety OF the demand. IL may be am right, and It
may be that am wrong; out do cay that 1t Is
for the Court to pass upon the question whether We
are entitled to the entire and complete minutes OF
tire Board. do not ask them now; but should
counsel resolve not to give them, we ask Your
Honor to rule whether we have right to COM
pete record OF what has been but partly presented
here.


finished the reading OF the afldavits and necessary
papers IN the case which, In their Judgment, are ne
cessary to meet successfully the alterations In the
complaint, and iall TO give what may be considered
an explanation OF what Is set forth, and they can
give no satisfactory reason for that failure must
When man iails TO produce papers IN case or
iacts the presumption IS that he has nothing which,
II produced, would not initiate against MIN, He is
at least. liable to strong suspicion.


Mr. OGoRMAN--We will take the espocsblity,
and VIII satisfy the Court that we had nollMng To
evade and nothing 70 suppress Ia this case.


The Court then adjourned TIL eleven O'Clock this
morning.
Year: 1871

into the path and follows him. It is too
light at present for his deed OF darkness,
and too near the entrance Of the wood,
but he knows that shortly the path will
branch off into two, and the right one for
the boy to take will be dark and lonely.


But what prompts the little midshipman,
when not fifty rods from the branching of
the path, to break into sudden runp 1t
is not fear-he never dreams of danger.
Some sudden impulse or some wild wish
for home makes him dash off suddenly
after his saunter, with q whoop and
bound. On he goes. as if running race;
the path bends, and the man loses sight of
him-'But l shall have him yet,' he thinks,
'he cannot otkeep upthe pace long, The boy
has nearly reached the place where the
path divides; he puts up white owl, that
can scarcely fly as it goes whirring along
close to the ground before him. He gains
upon it; another moment and it will be
his. Now he gets the start again; they
come to the branching of the path, and
the bird goes down the wrong one. The
temptation to follow it is too Strong to be
resisted; he known that somewhere, deep
i'll the wood, there is cross track by
which he can get into the track which he
has left; it is only to run little faster,
and he shall be home nearly as soon.
On he rushes; the path takes bend,
and he is just out of sight when his pur-
suer comes where the paths divide. The
boy has turned to the right. and he makes
the left, and the faster they both run the
further they are asunder.


The white owl still leads him on, the
path gets darker and narrower; at last
he finds that he has missed it altogether,
and his feet are on the safe ground. He
founders about among the trees and
stumps, vexed with himself and painting
after his race. At last he hits upon anoth-
er track and pushes on as fast as he can
The ground begins sensibly to descend;
he has lost his way-but he keeps bearing
to the left; and though it is now dark he
thinks he must reach the main point SOON
er or later.


He does not know this part of the wood,
but he runs on. Oh, little midshipman
why did you chase that owlP If you had
kept the path with that dark man behind
you, there was chance that you might
outrun him; or if he had overtaken you,
some passing wayfarer might have heard
your cries and come to save you. Now
you are running straight on to your death,
for the forest water is deep and black at
the bottom of this hill Oh, that the moon
might come out and show it to you.


The moon is under thick canopy OF
heavy black clouds, and there is not star
to glitter on the water and make it visible.
The fern is soft under his feet as he runs
and slips down the hill. At last he strikes
against stone, stumbles and falls. Two
minutes more and he will fall into the
black water.


TCONCIJrDED TOMORROW