smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1871

Saws the Louisville Courier: A
Young lady informed us Yesterday that
the .horrid men who hold up the rail-
lug around the First National should be
frowned upon BY all ladies'. She says
her reason for this is that she slipped on
The pavement there, and the only notice
taken of her was to say they thought
shoe la es made mighty poor garters.'
Year: 1871

SAtT LAKE, October 1O.-The counsel
Of Brigham Young continued their argu.
ment today to quash the indictment or
compel the prosecution to select one Of
the sixteen counts upon which TO try the
case. Fitch Tor the defense concluded
this evening and tomorrow the Court
will give its decision. The principal At.
torneys are Buskin and Maxwell for the
prosecution and Hampstead and Fitch for
the defense. The Hawkins adultery
case Is next on the docket, There Is con.
siderable excitement in regard TO the
Ogden TIN Mines
Year: 1871

Summers erratic, and at this time posi-
lively vicious, course, pursued in spirit
OF revenge by one who if he cannot rule
the temple would pull away its pillars, has
not taken that hold upon the country
which the Democratic papers and their
congeners of the Fgotistic Press would
have the people believe it did. Sumner
and they had hoped that Connecticut
would have gone Democratic so that they
might have. pointed to it as their work /;
but it has not On the contrary, the
Republicans have gained Governor there
and one Congressman, and have both
branches of the Legislature! These
papers were regretting the course of the
s'tools' of the Senate, as the Sacramento
Union kindly terms them, in displacing
Sumner because, as they said, it would
ruin the party in Connecticut and in all
New England! And this is how it has
ruined it! When will these Mugginses
have sense enough to "dry up" and cease
exhibiting their folly before the world?
They are baked at every turn. They
could not raise a new party on Revenue
Reform, Grant having punctured their
wind-bag, and now they have as complete
ly failed to create disturbance over this
Sumner imbroglio. "Let us have peace"


Sacramento Bee
Year: 1871

WITHOUT AN ENEMY.-Heaven he ep
the man who imagines he can dodge en-
emies by trying to please everybody. If
such an individual ever succeeded, we
should be glad of it-not that each one
should be going through the world trying
to find beam to knock and thump his
head against, disputing every mans opin-
ion, fighting and elbowing, and trying to
crowd all who differ from him. That,
again, is another extreme. Other people
have their opinions-so have you; don't
fall into the error of supposing they will
respect you more for turning your coat
every day, to match the color of theirs.
Wear your own colors in spite of winds
and weather, storms and sunshine. 1t
costs the vacillating and irresolute ten
times the trouble to wind and shuttle and
twist, than it does honest, manly inde-
pendence to stand its own ground
Year: 1871

| By private letter from DR.. Mooers, dat
ed Burgetville, March 10th, we learn that
he is able to attend to business again.
having recovered from his late accident
of getting his ribs and shoulder fractured,
In being thrown from horse. He also
writes that the winter has been more Sc
we're than the two preceding ones, and still
there was no great depth of snow at any
one time. The greatest depth of snow
was about IA inches in November last,
which remained six or eight days, the
ground being bare again until the middle
OF January, when four or five inches of
snow fell, which remained lorger and made
very good sleighing for three or four weeks.
Cattle wintered we'll in all the Pit River
section During February, and up to the
middle of March, farmers were busily en-
gagged in plowing and sowing grain, and
there was quite quantity of grain sown
last fall, which at this time looks very
promising. The people are short of grain
for seed, and there is no way by which it
can be brought soon enough for use. The
consequence is grain will range at higher
figures next year, although the price dur
ing the past year has been at 8, 81 and
cents A large emigration is anticipated
the coming summer to Pit river and Vi
clnity, and has already commenced from
the south, but it is too soon for wagons to
run over Burney mountain. 1t is open
for wagoD travel probably by this time
Burgetville is improving and has fatterng
prospects ahead. A new and very good
school house has just been built, and other
building are in contemplation of being
built, while several arc putting up new
fences and otherwise beautifying their
premises with trees and shrubbery The
town lost good deal of travel last year,
an account of the toll bridge, which now
being free, will cause travel to go through
town. A mail is to be established from
Camp Bidwell to Burgotvile on the 1st of
July, which will provea great blessing, and
DR. Mooers has made application for the ex-
alted position of Postmaster The DR.. says
there are thousands Of acres OF land in Pit
River and Fall River Valleys yet unoccu-
pied, which he believes is just as good as
what has already been taken up, and pref
cradle to any of the land in the upper
valleys on Pit river, with better climate
also, less liable to late and early frosts.-
The emigration passed through these two
valleys last year without giving them a
passing notice. They had heard Of Big
Valley and Hot Spring Valley, and they
would be satisfied with none other. These
upper valleys are undoubtedly good stock
ranges, but how many years will it be be-
fore they are eat out like these valleys ?
Some of the people are much dissatisfied
about being placed in the Susanville Land
District.-Yreka Journal
Year: 1871

Unity and concert of action, and a lib
eral mixture Of the same vim and persist
ence which characterized the political
battles of few years ago, are just as GER
tain to bring the State under Republican
rule again, as that the sun shines to-day.
And if the members of the Republican
party will go into the fight with this idea
predominant in their minds, the battle is
already half won. Danish heightened WIS.,
ages-the result of defeat four years
ago-and go at the work with premoni-
ton that success is certain. Times and
things have changed in the last four years,
and there is every reason for Republicans
to be hopeful of the future.-West Coast
Signal
Year: 1871

The latest dodge of the New York
Democracy was the introduction of bill
in the Legislature to make St. Patri, ks
Day legal holiday. The bill was killed
by the Irish members, who saw the point
and repudiated the imputation on their
susceptibility to arrant demagogism. Irish
men arc beginning TO find out these fel-
lows. They have sent the Democratic
member who offered the bill "a huge leather
medal.
Year: 1871

1t is not very comfortable or satisfac-
tory reflection that there can be no longer
any doubt of the fact that the pupose Of
the Democratic party is to upset by every
means at its command the settlement which
has been reached of the important and
exciting questions which grew out of the
civil war Frank Blair, the most candid
and outspoken of its leaders, makes no
secret of the hostility which is felt toward
the Fourteenth and Fifteenth amendments,
though he has been careful, probably in
consequence Of lively recollection of the
Broahead indiscretion, to declare that none
but constitutional means would be adopt
ed. Let us suppose, however, that by
any instrumentality these additions to the
organic law should be rescinded? The
first direct consequence. of course, would
be the denial of the right of the colored
people to vote. That once accomplished
reputation of the national debt and COM
pensation to the owners for the negroes
liberated by the war would follow. If care
be not taken, indeed, the verdict of the
battle field will yet be reversed and victory
will fall to the side which was worsted in
arms.
Year: 1871

"Why, Billy, your room is as cold as the hut
We had by the swamp and river;
When we lost our Major and Tim, you know,
And twenty more with the fever"
"well, Tom, old comrade, it's hard enough,
But the best at times knock under;
There's nary stick of W ood in the house
But that crutch in the corner yonder."
"Sorry listed? Don't ask me that, Tom!
If the flag was again in danger,
I'd aim a gun with this aching stump
At the foe-were he brother or stranger.
But, say, ought wound from a shot or shell,
Or pistol bullet, by thunder!
Forever doom . poor fellow to want


With that ar in the corner yonderT'
"That crutch, my comrade, ought ever to be
draft at sight on the nation.
For honor, respect, and friendly hand,
For clothing, and quarters, and rations."
ssI'd sooner have kicked the bucket twice Ger,
By a shell or q round ten.pounder
Than live such q life as I'm doing now,
With that ar in the corner yonder.
There's nary a thing left for to pawn and sell,
And the winter has closed on labor;
This medal is all that is left me now
| wi ith my pistol and trusty sabre;
| And these, BY the sunlight above us, Tom,
No power from my touch can sunder,
Save the power that releases me at last
| From that ar in the corner yonder.
l can raise this arm that is left me


To the blessed heaven above us,
And swear by the throne of the Father there
And the angels all who love us,
That the hand lost, and the hand / have,
Were never yet stained by piunder,
And for the love of the dear oil flag, l now


Use that ar in the corner yonder.
Do ask too much, when say we boys,


Who fought for the nations glory,
Now that danger is past and gone,
In comfort should tell our story?
How should we have fought when the ma


shells screamed


And shivered our ranks, wonder,
Had we known that our lot would have BET


to beg,


With that ar in the corner yonder2
There's little we hear of nowadays


But pardon aud reconstruction,
While the sojer who fought and bled for boil


Is left to his owp destruction.
'Twould be well, think. in these nippin


times,


For the Congress fellows to ponder,
And think of the boys who use such things


As that ar in the corner yonder.'
Year: 1871

Hitherto the Japanese govern
ment has prohibited the raising Of
swine As being impure, but recent
ly it has decided that it is advisa-
BILE to encourage the production Of
pork as an article Of food and has
removed the prohibition. An agent
Of the japanese government arri-
we'd in California by the last steam
or to purchase stock on govern
ment account Seven hundred live
hogs will be shipped at once.
Year: 1871

Good old Deacon s.. Of Ipswich.
who laid up goodly store Of this worlds
wealth, and retired from active business,
was a stern patriot, and a prompt support
er Of government in its hour of peril -
Among the goods aud chattels of which
he still retained possession was an old
brig, Of two or three hundred tons meas
urement, which had recently brought
home a cargo OF sugar from Cuba, and
which had been pronounced by her skip
per to be unfit for another voyage with
out much repair. But the Deacon sent
one of his younger sons to Boston, where
the brig lay, with instructions to sell her
if he could. Said the old man:


"She's good enough for coastins. Tim
and may be of much service yet Get
eight thousand dollars if you can; but
don't let her 60 for less than six thou
sand"


Timothy went to Boston, where he
found half dozen parties eager to pur
chase, and without delay be sold the ves-
sci. and returned home.


What, Tim-back SO sooni Dye
sell the brig2'


"Yes, father


How much dye gesT"


Twelve thousand"


Twelve thousand ,ohat?'


Twelve thousand dollars, to be sure, y
The old Deacon could not credit it,
The sum was more than double any pos
sible price he could have fixed as the
briggs real value. OF course nobody had
been reckless enough to pay any such
sum in cash.


Look ye, Tim," he cried, with great
indignation, you've been and sold thai
old brig to some underhanded rebel
some contemplate enemy of our govern
ment-who was willing to promise dou-
bic what she was worth just to get her
off down South His notes aren', worth
the paper they're written on"


But Tim assured the old man that he
had sold the vessel to carry provisions
to our own troops and. furthermore,
that he had received the full amount in
greenbacks which latter statement he
verified by producing the crisp and
| highly illuminated issues of Uncle Sam s
Treasury Department.


The good old Deacon stood for little
time thoughtful. Then he laid his hand
upon his sons shoulder; and, with a
sligh: shadow Of regret upon his face, Sc
riously said {:


Tim, if ye'd hung on, and been BIT
stiff, don't ye think ye might haze got a
LEETLE MORE for her?
Year: 1871




Not long since a mother in Syracuse
took her little child's life by forcing down
its throat a cup Of whisky. The Tribune
comments upon the case a. follows


"The temperance question has become
an unmitigated bore to many men of cul.
ture and refinement. Tragedies, such as
that at Syracuse. may very properly
serve. they think; as text for needed
and beneficial sermons to the lower class
es, bat their conscience being clean, there
is no reason why these unbandsome
corpses should be brought between the
wine and their more delicate senses. But
it is to these very men we wish to say
few practical words. They would be
prompt TO remove stagnant pool if the
wind carried the miasma into the windows
of their own costly dwellings as well as
into the novels where it originated. Put
ting all questions Of morality aside,
drunkenness, as our physicians and the
statistics of every State prove, is the
pregnant, death breeding influence which
is the cause Of half the physical disease
and cerebral weakness in America to-day.
Climate infiue nee has its share IN this,
but temperam ent has more. We are COO
bilious and nervous people to bear the
use of liquor with impunity; and the
more cultivat ed the man, the more accus-
toned to brai n rather than manual labor.
the less able is he to bear it the more sure
and rapid is its effect, not only upon him.
himself, but pom his children and his
children's children. The bottle of cham
pagne on his dinner-table. to the cool
headed man of business is, he holds, a
necessary harmless stimulent after bis
days work /; only vulgar fanatic would
protest against it. He keeps it there.
therefore. and passes with smile of in
difference the vile grog-shops where the
dangerous classes find their necessary
stimulent. They are not of his kin OF
kind, either in their temptation or down.
fall. In few years he wonders why his
son, under the influence of champagne
and highly seasoned food, should become
hopeless debauchee and libertine. and
is still more puzzled as to where his
daughters could have inherited their
weak bodies and weaker minds. Let any
man consult his family physician. and he
will learn the old. hackneyed fact in
science, that the use of liquor entails upon
offspring a greater or less degree Of i'm
becility and disease.


I've confne ourselves to the purely
physical view of this ma tier. The sta
tislics, with which we are familiar, leave
none Of US ignorant Of the fact that
drunkenness has dragged into onr peni-
tentiaries aud Jalls two-th lrds OF their
inmates. Looking around through what
is called society, we see but few families
out of which some gallant. generous boy,
the one usually the most love d and most
worthy of love, has not gone down that
sudden path into the outer darkness,
cursing God and his own life. Is this to
have an end ? Shall we act as reason
able men, and grapple with drunkenness
as we would with cholera or any other
pestilence Or shall we, fahers and
mothers, 60 on year after year building
our hopes on our boy. teaching him
Christ love with our lips, and with our
hands putting cure death in his grasp ?"


A SMART MARYLAND GIRL.-Miss
Year: 1871

To Make Cows Give Milk.-The ag-i
cultural editor of the Bee Keeper's Journal
vouches for the following, handed him
by a friend: IF You cesire to get large
yield of milk, give your cows three times
day water slightly warm, slightly salted
in which bran has been stirred in the
proportion of one quart to two gallons Of
water. You will gain twenty five per
cent. Immediately under the effects of it,
and she will become so attached to the
diet as to refuse to drink clear water unless
very thirsty. but this mess rhe will drink
at almost any time, and look for more.
The amount Of this drink is an ordinary
water pail at time. morning, noon, and
night. Your animal will then do her
best at discounting the lacteal.
Year: 1871

When man is asleep, his pulse beats
and his lungs play. but he is without
sense, and you can easily wake him up.


If person faints, he. too, is without,
sense, but he has no pulse and does not
breathe.


Apople1y is between the two; the
heart beats, the lungs play as in sleep,
and there Is no sense, as in fainting, but
you cannot shake the man back to life.


In sleep, the face is natural; in faint
ing fit, it has the pallor Of death in ap-
oplexy. it is swollen. turgid, and fairly
livid


If man is asleep, let him alone ; ma
ture will wake him up as soon as he has
got sleep enough.


When person faints, all that is needed
IS to lay him down fiat on the floor and
he will come to- in double quick time
He tainted because the heart missed a
beat, failed for an instant, failed for only
once to send the proper amount of blood
to the brain. If you place the patient in
horizontal position, lay him on bis back
it does not require much force of the
heart to send the blood on level to the
head but if you get man up. the blood
has to be shot upwards to the head, and
this requires much more force; yet in
nine cases out of ten, if a person faints
and falls to the floor. the first thing done
to him is to run to him and set him up.
Or place him on a chair.


In apople1y, as there is too much blood
in the head, every one can see that the
best position is to set man up, and the
blood naturally tends downwards, as much
80 as water will come out of a bottle
when turned upside down, if the cork is
out.


II, then. man is merely asleep. let
him alone, for the face is natural; if a
man has tainted, lay him fat on his back,
for his face is deadly pale; if a man is
apopleciic, set him in a chair, because
the face is turbid, swollen, livid, with its
excess of blood,
Year: 1871

SECRETARY cox IN THE NORTH AMERICAN REVIEW


The following points are extracted from an
article by the ex-Secretary Of the Interior in
the forthcoming number Of the North Amer
Ican ReUie0


Some forty years ago President Of the
United States first avowed and acted upon
the determination to make the use of govern
mental patronage means of partisan control
in public affairs and of party success in po-
litcal strife. From that day TO this the cor
rupting influence Of such a use of the ap-
pointing power has been constantly widening,
reaching out into new circles, until there Is
no backwoods hamlet so obscure that i is moral
atmosphere has escaped the cOntagion OF the
degrading hunt for place. The mis-
chiefs and abuses in the present system have
gradually become known, until at length it
seems to be almost universally recognized
that our civil service, as it exists, is little
better than a nuisance, that must be thor
oughly reformed, unless we arc to admit that
republican government is n failure in the or
binary business administration of public al
fairs 1t seems desirable that those who
have had some experience in public life,
without losing faith in the practicability of
satisfactory organization of the civil service
should be heard and perhaps they could do
no more valuable work than 10 give, without
reserve, the results Of their observation of
the present system, and their views of the
means by which better can be reached.


Let us begin at the fountain-head of the
dispensation of patronage-with the Presi-
dent Of the United States-and inquire how
he stands related to the officials of the cOun
try, and how his efficiency the Executive


is affected by this relation. On the advent
of a new administration, We know that the
capital swarms with crowds of ofhce-seekers
applying for every imaginable place, from
diplomatic position at a foreign court to
messengership in a department at nome
They come armed with recommendations and
credentials which experience has proven to
be worthless as evidences of character or ca
pacity, but which certify on their face that
the bearer is one of the most capable and de-
serving of men, whose labOrs in the election
Of the incoming President were of the most
signal and decisive value. The
facility with which written recommendations
are procured leads to duplicity on the part
of the persons giving them and it is no un-
common thing for one who has written a
high eulogium upon the character and ac-
quirements of place-hunter, to write pri-
vate note begging that his formal indorsemen n
Year: 1871

the curiosity which most challenges the
interest and Investigation of antiquaries


is the petrifed form of what was evident
Iy once an immense sea monster. 1t lies
on the high plateau in position giving
rise to the theory that its locale was once
a great shoal and that the antediluvian
leviathan foundered and perished on its
surface as the water receded. The pet
rifaction is perfect and is estimated to
weigh about ten tons. 1t presents a dual
appearance-the head and body that of
humpback whale, and the extremities ex-
tend into feelers and antenua like the
polypus of devil fish, with the exception
that they were evidently during life lined
with hard and bony substance. The
eyes are set in each side of the head,
which is fiat and oblong, and are twenty
four inches apart. The mouth is armed
with triple rows of teeth, sharp in front.
but underneath and well into the Jaw they
turn into grinders, capped by a solid
OsseOus formation, running back from the
widest portion of the head. In this re-
spect it resembles the celebrated marsh
COW of Central America, amphibious in
habit-graminiverous on land and carni-
verous in water.


The length of this singular relic of un-
known age has not yet been determined
but as the body blends into the tail, it ia
pers down to so small a size that, making
due allowance, its entire weight would not
be far from that stated This inland
country abounds in curious fossils of a ma
rine character. We have seen specimens
of crustacae found in our immediate vicin-
ity which puzzled scientists and antigua
ries.'
Year: 1871

NARROWING SITUATION FOR BEAR
Out in Porcupinc Valley, Nevada, big Gin
namon bear came down from the mountains,
about the middle Of the afternoon, during a
furry Of snow. and got after some young
hogs running about the barn, some 20U
yards from the house. The sudden appear
ance Of bruin created great commotion IN
the barnyard the hogs boohing and snort
ing and the fowls cackling at great rate
The noise attracted the attention Of the men
at the station, and going toward the barn,
they saw the bear in full chase and close
upon the heels of porker. Finding the
bear close upon him he lodged behind a har
row that was leaning against the side of the
barn, when bruin ran his head through the
harrow up to his shoulders in a vain attempt
to reach the frightened pig. The pig dart
ed from its cover, and the bear, in pulling to
withdraw his head, was caught in the side
of one of his jaws by the sharp point of the
harrow teeth. The bear began pulling to
free himself, when down came the harrow,
and being turned tooth side down, the fast
ening process was most substantially finished,
as not only the tooth that was in the Jaw
was forced into tho ground, but all the rest
were similarly fastened and bruin most
effectually trapped Seeing and comprehend
ing the situation, Thomas Rand, keeper of
the station, ran to wood pile, seized an
axe, and by few blows soon dispatched the
varmint. The bear weighed nearly 400
pounds dressed.