smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1875

RACING IN THE STREETs.-A large number
of teams were out enjoying the fine sleighing
Saturday afternoon. There was considerable
racing on Congress and Middle Streets Two
teams started from Congress square about four
o'clock ia the afternoon, and passed down Free
street at furious rate. Both horses were
''steppers," the drivers had been there before,
and the street was clear The horses were trot-
ting so nearly even that when they turned into
Middle street the one on the inside gained near
ly length. This encouraged his driver, and


he urged him SO that just as they passed the
Falmouth, the inside horse broke badly and the
other passed easily. The breaking horse SET
tied down again and regained his place before
he reached Pearl street. The horses continued
to India street about neck and neck. 1t was
very exciting race but very dangerous amuse-
ment ON public street.
Year: 1875

Owing to the illness of the pastor, who was,
however, able to be present at the morning SER
vice, there was no sermon. The service was of
musical nature, and the pastor pronounced
henadiction.
Year: 1875

The United States District Court met yes
terday morning at 10 O'Clock, but the only
business transacted was the granting of ma
turalization papers, thirteen of which were
given out


The Court will meet again this morning g
for the same purpose, and those who wish to
avail themselves Of the opportunity had
better apply at any early hour.
Year: 1875

When DR.. Campbell moved away from
Wilmington year ago he left his little rat
and tan dog with a man living in Wilmington
A short time after the man moved away and
took the dog with him; a short time after.
wards the dog came back to Wilmington and
staid a few days and then was not heard of
for several months, till Saturday Dr. Camp
bell heard something scratching at his office
door, and when he opened it, in stepped the
little rat and tan, capering around the room
rs pleased to see the Doctor as if he had
never been deserted by him. The dog had
never been in Joliet before and he must hav e
Travelled over considerable of the country in
search of his lost master.-J0lid SIN.
Year: 1875

A MU.KMAN MAKES A FUNNY MIsTAKE.-
A New Hampshire mlkman has just struck
the tide that leads to fame, and If he had the
traditional cuteness Of the universal Yam
kee nation he might have taken it at the
food and reached fortune too. He kept q
stock of the ardent in a milk can, which
somehow got mixed up with the Others and
when he gave it a shake the other day he
thought it was only water that swashed about
inside, and so proceeded to fill it up with
milk in the orthodox milky way, and sent the
mixture to market. OF course there was a
high time among the consumers; all the ba.
bies began to crow as they never crowed be-
fore the nurses took great many extra pulls
at the bottle, just TO see if it was right for
baby
Year: 1875

"Disease is very various, SAID Mrs. Part
ington, as she returned from the street door
after conversation with Holus. The doctor
tells me that poor old Mrs. Hare has got two
buckles on her lungs! The disease is SO
various! One day we hear of peoples dying
of hermitage of the lungs; another day OF
the brown creatures; here they tell us of the
elementary canal being out of order, and
there about tonsors of the throat here we
hear neurology in the head, there Of enbar'
60; on one side of US we hear of men being
killed by getting pound of tough beef in
the sarcophagus, and here another kills him
self by discovering his jocuar VEN. Things
change so that declare don't know how
to subscribe for any disease nowadays. New
names and new nostrils take the place of the
old, and might IS well throw my old herb
bag away
Year: 1875

In New Jersey, some years ago, there 'rav
eled over some OF the hardest counties good
faithful, hard.working brother named james
Moore, or Jimmy Moore, as he was familiar
ly called. He was devoted TO the itinerancy
4 true and loyal Methodist-plain, pointed
and sharp in all his preachings and eXhorta
tions. He had been laboring a year in one ol
his circuits and before leaving for his new
field he gave his people, whom he dearly
loved, his farewell sermon. AT It's close he
said:


My dear brethren, this is my last address
to you. am going from you, and you may
never hear the voice of James Moore again


Amen! came loudly from the seat before
him.


He looked at that man a little surprised,
but, thinking it was a mistake, went on


My days On earth will soon be numbered.
am an old man; and you may not only
never hear the voice of James Moore, but
never see his face again


'Amenn was shouted from the same seat
more vigorously than before:


There was no mistakng the design now.
The preacher looked at the man; he knew
him to be hard grinding man; stingy and
merciless to the poor. He continued his ad
dress:


MAY the Lord bless all Of you who have
been KIND to the poor, and, pauslng and look
ipg straight in the eye, and pointing to HIM
with his finger, may his curse rest on those
whe have cheated the Lord, and ground the
poor under their heels. Say amen to that
brother.


The saot told. He was not interrupted
again.
Year: 1875

Some people never make acquain-
tances, but shut themselves up from
their kind ike an oyster in his shell !;
while others-and by far the happiest-
are never at loss for cheerful COM
panionship. 1t is not hard to make ac-
quaintances if we set about it the right
way but it is useless to hang back
for every door to be opened; we must
push them ourselves. Said lady to
us the other day, 81 never make any
acquaintances when travelling. / wish
L could" Said another, 81 get ac-
quainted with everybody. l talk to
the woman who sweeps the ferry boats,
and to any decent person who happens
to sit by me in the cars. / find every
human heart is human, and then can
learn something l didn't know before
from every new acquaintance, or COM
municate information that may be val
liable to them. We are all apt to stand
and wait for advances from each other;
TO indulge captIous disposition, and
criticise where we should commend.
The cultivation of genial, charitable,
benevolent spirit will not iniure any of
us, and will benefit the community in
which we live, and add constantly to
the number of our friends.
Year: 1875

The legend says there once dwelt on
the island of Falster lady of rank who
was extremely rich, but had neither son
or daughter to inherit her wealth. She
therefore resolved to dedicate it to
pious use, and caused church to be
built which was both spacious and
magnificent. When it was completed,
she had the altar candles lighted, and
going through the choir to the altar she
cast herself on her knees and prayed to
God that in reward for her pious gift
he would add as many years to her life
as her church should stand. From time
to time her relatives and servants died,
but she who had made so foolish
prayer lived on. At length she had no
longer relative or friend. She saw
children grow up, become aged, and
die, and their children again grow old,
while she herself was wasting through
extreme age, so that she gradually lost
the use of all her senses. Sometimes


however, she recovered her voice,
though for an hour only, at midnight
on Christmas. On one OF these nights
she desired to be laid in an oaken coffin,
and placed in the church, that she
might there die, but that the priest
should attend her, every Christmas
night to receive her commands. From
that time her coffin was stood in the
church, but she has not been permitted
to die. Every Christmas night, the
priest goes to her, lifts the lid of the
coffin, and as he raises it, she rises
slowly up. When sitting she asks, sis
my church yet standing 2" And when
Year: 1875

Men are admitted to be more untidy
than women. "One boy creates more
trouble in house than three girls, !"
says many a suffering mother. But,
after all, she's to blame for it; there's
no real reason why a boy should not
form tidy habits. One of the benefits
that the mother of sons can confer on
her own sex and all the world beside,
is to form IN them the habit of putting
things in place. This can be done
only by following them around and re-
guiring them, when they are through
with library book, to put it on the
shelf where it belongs when they take
off their overcoats to hang them on the
rack when skates are unstrapped or
boots taken off that they be put some
where else beside on the hearth rug or
under foot when slippers are removed
that they at once rest in their appropri-
ate case. The law of habit thus formed
will gradually extend its domain till it
includes everything the boy handles or
calls his own, and exercises an influence
on all he is and does. In q house in
hsbited by such men and boys, put
ting things to rights" will occupy a
very brief daily interval.
Year: 1875

quick. 1 couldn't have stood it much
longer, dear boy, for it was killing me-


81 took his dear hands in mine, and
looked into his good, honest eyes.
With a swelling heart l told him in
such words as L could, of my gratitude
for his heroic efforts when he came
down through the waters at the risk of
his own life to save mine"
Year: 1875

While oyerhauling some old papers in
my desk came across scrapof minutes,
which made out at the time for pub
lication of curious case of SANDER. Ii
was tried al the Court Of Common Pleas,
in Cambridge. Mass, some five and
twenty years ago. A man named Avery
was the plaintiff, and Constable Pressy,
Of Lowell, was the defendant


The defendant had a civil process
against the plaintiff, and seeing him in
the street, approached him for the pur-
pose of serving il. Avery knew that the
process had been issued, and to avoid its
service he took to his heels, upon which
the constable, in the excitement of the
moment, and from long habit in pursuit
Of criminals, cried out, "stop thiefp A
crowd Immediately gathered in pursuit
and the fleeing man was caught and held
until the officer came up, who, then and
there, served the process.


For this cry Of "Stop thief" the
plaintiff brought an action of SANDER
against the constable, alleging that he
had thus been openly and noisily charged
with the crime OF stealing; and he got a
smart lawyer 10 handle his case.


The defendant said he had meant no
harm; and he offered little testimony,
but very good and reliable, tending to
show that the plaintiffs moral character
was not very clean. The jury Mre
forced 10 recognize the SANDER, and
they assessed damages in the sum Of six
cents.
Year: 1875

The preliminary remarks of your letter
only set forth what was distinctly stated in


the article that gave you such pain; that
Jones was indicted for murder, that you
had declined on account of relationship.
and Judge Buskirk had heard the testi-
mony and declined to admit the prisoner to
bail. The sfflicIion of yourself and family
is calculated to excite sympathy, and is a
proper excuse for your not occupying the
bench, but is no way pertinent to the mat
ter objected TO. your appointment of such q
man to represent you. You state that he is
Year: 1875

thews admitting the publication of the said
article and his responsibility thel efor, but
denying all intent to prejudice the case over
which Judge Prsther had presided, or to
heap odium on the Bsrth olomew Circuit
Court, or on Judge Hester or Judge Prsther
in bis judicial capacity. The counsel
for the prosecution professed not TO be salts
fed with this document, and asked for more
time in which TO prepare their case. After
good deal of legal sparriDg, the counsel
for defense finally yielded this point, and
the case was continued until Friday morn
ing at 10 o'clock.
Year: 1875

gained definite distant period Tor resumption
abored to defer the date far judcious 10 my
view Of what could DO ia discordant commit
feared FOR the result upon business Or fixing any
definite period for resumption. prophesied that gold
would advance. The premium then was ten and a half
II has steadily advanced since Time will prove
whether fixing date for resumption was wise


NOVEMBER ELECTION.


In conclusion, Mr. Ferry said that his opinion
tho November elections did not altogether upon
the currency question. There were other important
interests involved but he prepared to enumer
ate them His closing sentence folows:''It Is
not to be disguised that the people stlI divided on
the currency question"


TUE RIGHT PRESIDENCY
Some of the indscree friends Of the opponents Of
Senator Ferry the Of last March have mooted
the question Of his right to Vice President Wilson'S
chair at the opening OF the Senate December Q.
The fact is that Senator Ferry elected President Of
the Senate pro tenn for the very emergency which has
just occurred and tho Senate would stulty itself by
deposing him unless for reasons which very
likely to arise In March last the day the Senate
was about TO adjourn Vice President Wilson vacated
the chair to allow of the choice OF who should in
tho event Of his death Of the death Of Ulysses s
Grant become President of the United States and
Senator Ferry, Of Michigan, duly chosen to this
line Of succession
Year: 1875

The only matter Of special interest from Chill Is the
account Of the Naval Court of Inquiry held at Val
paraso investigate the that led the collision
between the Pacific Mail Steamship Navigation Company's
steamer Cotopaxi and the Chiian steamer Bio-bio
The Court returned to the master second officer and
the chief engineer their certificates.
Year: 1875

The following record will show the changes In the
temperature for the past twenty four hours in com
parson with the corresponding date Of last year. as in
dcated by the thermometer a. Hudnurs pharmacy,
HERALD Bullding -
Year: 1875

FOREIGNERS are apt TO take their i'm
preston solely from Paris, which attracts
them by its brilliancy. Floating on the
surface they see great deal of gayety
and folly and vice, and hastily conclude
that this is French morality and French
life. But Paris is not France, nor indeed
do they see but very small part of Paris.
Tney have no access to French society o
the better class. One must disengage
himself from this first impression if he
would Judge justly of the real character
of the French people.


Leaving aside these frivolities of a gay
capital, and seeking the French in those
interiors which are generally closed to
foreigners, we find their is very strong
feeling of home in both senses of that
word. First, the love of place of fixed
habitation-what phrenologists call the
organ of locality-is largely developed in
the French nature. They love their coun-
try, and never leave it but with reluctance
Hence they make poor colonists. While
the English and Germans emigrate the
French can hardly be torn from their ma
tive soil. And not only the country but
the province, the city, or the little village
which gave them birth, is always dear to
them. Go into the country and you find
families that have always lived in the
same place. Generation after generation
has come and gone and still they cling to
the old spot. Children and children s
children are born and die on the same
farm, in the same moss grown cottage, be-
meath the same matched roof where their
fathers lived and died. This single fact
the love of fixed abode-speals much
for the home feeling of the French, es-
nnninllN In A hn1nripanc Giprn n N
such strange contrast to the migratory
habits of their cOuntrymen.


With this love of the birthplace, the de-
sire to have little spot, however humble,
where one may become rooted TO the soil, is
one of the strongest passions of French
man. 1t exists among the poorest peas
antry. Even the common labOrers who
go to Paris to find employment, always
have it at heart to return to their native
village. The popular songs which the
workmen sing at their tasks almost all
have reference to the country-to the spot
they have left, and to which they hope
some day to return. This is their safe
guard amid the temptations of a great city
Out of their little savings they send back
something to keep alive the old people. OF
to help their younger brothers. And the
height of their ambition is by many years
of hard labor TO save enough to return
and buy plot of ground and build lit
tie cottage, where they may pass the rest
of their days.


Every family which is little easy ir
its circumstances, though it may spenC
half the year in Paris, has somewhere in
the country, buried among the trees, re-
treat which often has been in the family
for generations, and which is cherished
with as much love and pride as any bar
onial castle. Only extreme necessity car
induce them to part with it.-Hearth an
Home.
Year: 1875

A CASE of subsistence without food for
an extraordinary length of time was dis
covered at the transfer depot of the Penn
sylvania Railroad on Monday afternoon.
4 brakeman who had occasion TO pass box
car standing upon the siding heard pecu.
liar noise issuing therefrom. He unlocked
thedoor TO make an examination, when he
discovered man lying upon the floor
Upon approaching the man he discovered
that he was in an exhausted condition,
having been so reduced evidently by the
lack of food, that he was scarcely able to
rise. He was carefully lifted from the
car, and stimulants were given him, the
poor wretch devouring all that was placed
before him with a greediness that was as
tonishing to behold. A quantity OF prov
ender sufficient TO satisfy three hungry
men was quickly slowed away, and after
the man had satiated himself he was al
lowed 10 tell his story. He said that,
wishing to make his way TO this city, and
having no means wherewith 10 pay ms
travelling expenses, he entered the car AT
Chicago, and had friend lock the door,
lie entered the car on Thursday evening
after supper, and since that time had moth,
ing whatever to eat. He had number OF
times attempted by shouting to attract the
attention of employees Of the train 10 which
his car was attached, but had never sue
ceeded till the brakeman heard him call
ing at the transfer depot The man was
comfortably dressed, and presented no APP
pearance Of being a common vagabond'
He refused TO give his name. Atter tel'
ling his story he was allowed to depart
philadelphia ChrORfcle.
Year: 1875

THE jury in the case of Westervelt, on
trial in Philadelphia for alleged compiled
ty in the Charlie Ross abduction, have re-
turned verdict acquitting him of actual
participation in the crime, but find him
guilty of conspiracy TO conceal the child
and of having guilty knowledge of the
abduction
Year: 1875

THE Alabama Constitutional Conven-
ton has adopted Bill of Rights, one Sec
ton of which reads as follows 1.-THE
people Of this State accept as final and
established the fact that from the Federal
Union there can be no secession of any
Staten
Year: 1875

WHILE Mrs. Uda's patent aerial ladder
was being experimental with in New
York city on the 14th, and after eight or
ten men had mounted the structure, which
was elevated to the height of nearly 100
feet, it suddenly snapped in two and the
occupants were precipitated to the ground,
three of them being instantly killed and
as many more dangerously, if not fatally,
injured.
Year: 1875

Nineteen years ago, Henry Ludding.
ton, = farmer, living two miles west Of
Galesburg, Michigan, was moving grass
on his marsh, when. STOPPING over to
pick up n bush that hc had cut of, q
=" massasauga that lurked behind it bit
him on the wrist Of his right arm. He
instantly killed the reptile, and hastened
to tho house to apply the usual remedies
in such case. Tho wrist and whole
arm commenced swelling, and finally
turned spotted like the snake. The
remedies used finally subdued the
swelling, and tho wrist became appalent-
" vol. But every year since that,
about the same time in the season that
the snake bit him. his wrist has COM
meuced swelling, tho swelling extending
up his arm to his shoulder, with sicken-
ing pain. and remains 80 for two or three
weeks, when tho swelling about the
wrist would gather to head and burst.
1t would then gradually quiet down, and
he would be relieved from all pain and
trouble from his snake bite, until the
time in the year when it first occurred
and then the pain and swelling would
commence, his arm turn spotted, and he
would suffer this distressing allliction
and swelling fer two or three weeks
again. The pHin md swelling do not
seem 10 abate, but are rather on the in
crease each year.
Year: 1875

In other days it was the rigid and
faithful performance of their contracts
which gave to the banks of Charleston,
South Carolina, Mobile, New Orleans,
Savannah and other cities of the South,
their enviab,e fame and credit through
out the Union. Some of these institu-
tions never failed to redeem their notes
on demand in gold and silver coin,
even in the midst of general temporary
suspensions OF specie payment-so
rooted were they an stubborn, old
fashioned integrity. This was not ouly
expedient, but it was right. 1t made
loans easy to be obtained, because they
wepeto be faithfully returned, and the
rate of interest teds tor, because the risk
Of lending icGs small


Nowhere in the wide world of COM
merce was strict business integrity
more rigidly insisted upon and more
honored than in the cities of Charles
ton, Savannah, Mobile and New Or
leans, when the real men of the South
ha9. contiol of affairs, and before the
days of carpet-bagging and military
interference. The time has again come
when the true men of the South
should, as | believe they can and will,
restore the old regime ofhigh personal
character, and at once speak, plainly
and sensihly as of yore in favor of
such policy of administration as shall
lead to the substitution of II sound
currency, convertible at the will of the
holder into gold or silver coin. Such
u policy announced by them will in.
stantly give confidence to those who
own capital or who control capital, and
we should witness the quick reward OF
such proofs of wisdom and sound pol
icy in the abundant supply of money
upon mortgage and other security, and
Year: 1875

We clip the following from the
Baltimore Sun, of Saturday


An Able Defense Of the Hard Money Doc
tr1ne -Erils Of the National Bank Mono
poly-Tribute to the Southern People
The Government and the Money Power.
Year: 1875

Taken in full doses on retiring for the night, it
will be found to exert the most powerful influence
on the organs of circulation and perspration. Per
spiration flows from every part of the body, glow
o! heat extends from head to foot, every muscle and
6Dre is relaxed, and in state of the most crafty
ing repose, while pain soreness of the bones and
muscles disappear, and the poor sufferer, in state
OF mind at once composed and happy, sinks into q
refreshing sleep, lasting until morning, from which
he awakens new man. A mild dose before break.
fast and another before going ont for the day. will
prevent his taking more cold.
Year: 1875

We take great pleasure in informing you of the surprisingly beneficial results from the use of your English Remedy, the Cordial Balm of Syri- cum aud Lothrop's Tonic Pills in a case of great Nervous Debility and Presentation, by member af our family who had been under ireatment hv different doctors for nearly three years pa4t with out any apparent benefit therefrom: but your medicines have produced wonderful change for the better, and the patient now enjoys compare lively excellent health
Year: 1875

However obscure the causes may be which con- tribute to render nervous debility disease so prevalent, affecting it does, nearly one-half of our adult population, it is melancholy fact that day by day, and year by year. we witness most frightful increase of nervous affections from the slightest neuralgia to the more grave and extreme forms Of
Year: 1875

It is of the highest importance, then, that in- dividuals should be able to judge for themselves by their own feelings, if and to what extent they are attacked by this insidious enemy to i'll health comfort, and even life itself if left to run it's course unchecked, by the early and prompt ap- plicatiOn Of curative remedies
Year: 1875

The worst case of selGshness that ever
has been presented to the public, emanated
from youth who complained because his
mother put bigger mustard plaster on his
younger brother than she did on him.