smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1871

The mule stood on the steamboat deck,
The land he would net tread;
They pulled the halter round his neck,
And cracked him Ger the bead.
But obstinate and braced he stood,
AS born the scene to rule,
A creature of the hold back brood,
a stubborn, s5eadfast mule.
J hey cursed and swore-he would not go
Until he felt inclined
And though they thundered blow on blow
He altered not his mind.
The deck hand to the shore complained
"The varmint's bound to stay I"
And still upon the critters hide


The sounding lash made play
His master from the shore replied,
''The boats about to sail
As other means in vain you've tried,
Suppose you twist his tail
It's likely that will make him land"
The deckhand, brave, though pale,
The nearer drew, with Outstre tched hand
To make the twist avail.
There came a kick of thunder sound!
The deck hand-where was he?
Ask of the waves that far around


Beheld him in the sea
A moment not voice was heard


But winked the mule his eye,
As though TO ask to him occurred
How is that for high p
"Just cut his throat" the captain roared,
"Aud end the cussed brutel"
But the nOblest seul who perished there
Was he who tried to do'tI
Year: 1871

a painful domestic scene, resulting from
too tardy discovery Of 'ineonpatsbiIity of
temper" has just been enacted in Massa-
chusetts Mr Thomas Earle, of Worees-
ter, an enterpT1siDg merchant and a respect
able citizen, was divorced from his wife two
years ago. MR. Earle then removed to Sa-
lem, taking with him his little son and
daughter, who have lived with him since.
The question of the custody Of the children
was not decit'ed until last Friday, when the
Court ordered the children to be given to
the mother.


On Saturday Mr. Earle went to Salem and
tried to carry the children away. He sue
ceeded in carrying the little girl to Boston.
Officers followed, and when he was about
taking the train for Worcester they seized
the carriage and drove to a police court
Mr.. Earle resisted violently and wounded
one of the officers. He refused even when
overpOwered at the Station, to give up his
daughter. His daughter was as determined
to cling to him; she had not seen her moth
er for nearly two years, and could not IN
derstand why they should tear her from
kind and affectionate father.


1t seldoms falls to the lot of officers to
perform the disagreeabDe duty which these
officers had to do. A father and daughte
were in each others arms declaring that not
even the order Of the court should separate
them. Mr.. Earle was thrown upon the
floor, but still his little girl held fast to him,
and she did Dos leave his embrace until the
officers had checked him nearly to insensi-
bility.


This is one Of the occasional sacrifices
which must be made by those who appeal
to the law 1t is legal justice between the
man and his former wife. But the public
will ask whether it Is a natural mother who
can exact from a child such sacrifice Of
her fixed affections.
Year: 1871

The county site of Haywood county is
one of the most thriving, lively and pro-
gressive inland towns in the South. There
capital delights in the employment of labor;
there the merchant and professional man
sustains home industry and home enterprise
not stintingly, but in generous, liberal
way. Would that the same could be said
of every town in the State. Bot such is not
the case. In speaking of local affairs, the
ever welcome bee" of recent date, has
the following:


Zone of the most gratifying indications
that we have observed in the rapid growth
and development of the young city Of
Brownsville, is the large number of homes
being built up in every part of the place by
our mechanics and workingmen. It shows
tina. Brownsville considers ''the laborer
worthy of his hire and believes in giving
him work and paying him for it. 1t also
shows that our mechanics are class Of re
liable, honorable gentlemen, who work for
money and then use it in taking care Of
themselves and families. A mechanic can
not afford to pay board or live in rented
houses all his life You may gas about
"shrewd investments of money" as much as
you like, but for the poor man, we will al
ways contend that there is no investment
like nice little home in striving town.
Money invested in other things may pay
big per cent, and it may pay none, but no
where else will it bring him in as heavy
percentage of e joyment and satisfaction
His little home and it's circle Of happy
hearts and bright faces make up his world.
lie has no disposition to visit places of ex-
travagance and dissipation, or to squander
his hard earnings in useless follies.


There is abouS thousand dollars year
OF solid satisfaction in living in house that
belongs TO yon, and knowing that no rent
gatherer will call upon you at the end Of
every mon tn. There is at least a thousand
more of the same in the thought that should
you wake up ION the other side of the
River" some morning, the wife and little
ones are not homeless in the world when
they return grief stricken and broken heart
ed from your newly filed grave. They can
COi06 DtCk GO the 4Olu6 LudL lONS duu pEOfs
ident care have provided for them and hide
their heart sorrows from the world at least
A home to the workingman is an ever pay
ing investment, for it stops rent bills which
run ceaselessly on through i'll fortune and
good fortune, in bad weather and fair, at
night while you sleep, and on the Sabbath
while you rest. Rent bills and interest new
er get tired, never cease work, never stop
for moment, but gnaw with unceasing
Vigor into your little store of hard earned
dollars and cents at all seasons and at all
times.


Lay aside Iuxuries, stint yourselves in ne
cessities, even, to get homes. ''The law al
lows a man u hons" in this country, and he
is mistaking the true interests of himself
and family in not getting one. If an humble
one, still let it be his own. Gentle hands
may plant modest flowers beneath it's mar
rev windows, and trailing vines festOon
door post and Intel When times are easier
and money abundant, improvements can be
made and conveniences added. Get home.
Year: 1871

The official report of the Bureau of Agri-
culture, for May lst, speaks Of the general
condition of winter grain over the whole
country as follows: "The autumn season
was generally favorable for termination and
vigorous growth; the winter has been com
paratively mild and uniform in temperature
the freezing weather mainly occurred in
midwinter, and found the wheat plants pro-
tected by sufficient covering of snow: the
spring has been unusually early, and the
growth of grain advanced two to four weeks
beyond its accustomed status. There is no
State in which winter killing is not excep-
tional, and in several it is almost entirely
unknown. 1t may be that future reports,as
the season progresses, win be less favorable;
they certainly cannot be more fatterIng."
Year: 1871

Every part of a Waltham Watch is made
by machinery, The machinery used in
making the movement of n single watch
coast over Hundred Thousand Dollars,
yet We sell these Watches, in solid Silver
Hunting Case, for SIS. The same watch
could not be made by hand and finisheds
as perfectly for Ten TINES AS MUCH.
Year: 1871

How TO BORE HOLES IN Glass
Any hard steel tool will cut glass
with great facility when Kept freely
wet with camphor dissolved in tur-
pentine. A drill-bow may be used
or even the hand alone. A hole
bored may be readily enlarged by a
round file. The ragged edges of
glass vessels may also be thus easily
smoothed by a fiat file. Flat window
glass can readily be sawed, by a
watch-spring saw by the aid of this
solution. In short, the most brittle
glass can be wrought almost as
easily as brass by the use of cutting
tools kept constantly moist with
camphorized oil Of turpentine.


Rural Southland.
Year: 1871

After months OF small threatenlngs, and
many opinions from Professor Palmlerl,
our old volcano, writes 4 Naples correspond
ent of the boston Adrerf-er. has been true
to ITS average of the past thirty years and
has begun Its new eruption just at the ex-
piration Of a two-year period since the end
ing of the last preceding one. As yet,
there Is nothing magnificent in the sight or
destructive IN the action of the mountain
but Palmieri, who was right in predicting
this new outbreak, which be deduced from
the unsettled state of the crater and from
the cessation ofthe severe CalabrIan earth
quakes-all of which he attributes to one
and the same subtarranean cause-is con-
fident tnat the present Is but the beginning
of an eruption which if not one Of the
greatest, will at least be of very consider
able consequence. Now the lava does not
proceed from the summit of the mountain,
but from a small crater which has been
formed near the top, on the north side, and
which may be distinctly observed from the
city as a sort of bulge on the heretofore
regular slope The smoke Is constant and
profusa, and dense, black mass Of It also
issues at short intervals from the great era
ter. in which the lava has been steadily
rising. The stream of lava Is about fifty
or eighty feet wide. and Is making its way
into the rugged and uncultiVated hollow
between Nesuvius aud Mount Somma.


In a clear day, when the wind Is light,
the two columns of smoke are beautiful to
see, one dark and compact, the other whit
ened and difused by the steamy vapors
which are mingled with it ; o-e rising to
a great height, scarcely altered in form and
color, the other melting into clouds and
wreathes at the slightest breeze and catch
ing a score Of radiant hues as it vaRishes
away By night the whole track Is visible
from Naples not in its entire breadth,
however, and therefore presenting simply
the appearance of a glowing outline to one
side of the cone. over which sometimes
low bank of ruddy, vaporous clouds may be
seen palpitating in the heat the crater it
self is 4 vast burning coal, from which on
some nights flames and blazing fragments
have been seen to shoot upwards, but such
energy is rare The Neapolitan resident al
most turns up his nose at such an apology for
an eruption as this but even this Is violent
enough to convey to the visitor clear idea
of the forces at work and the nature of
their action. There is the sluggish, molt-
en- mass, creeping with groanings and
rumblings, with hissings and settings,
from its fiery, fuming source there is the
scorching heat that withers while the crawl
ing lava is yet distant there the hideous,
contorted, infragile coils, blackening as
they cool and there the same evidence of
helplessness to contend with the might of
an approach at once so insidious and ire
sistible.
Year: 1871

the execution of this work most admirable.
A good deal of this, We are glad TO hear,
is done in this country. and 50 well that
it readily passes for French work. These
jackets are edged with very full narrow
fringe, containing all colors in the orna-
mentation. A very pretty new shape of
cloak has appeared, quite deep, With
sleeves and deep cape; it is made of black
cashmere, embroidered with white and
trimmed with black and white fringe.
Short jackets of gray cloth are very pretty
for spring wear these are made with
naouSquetaire cuffs and large side pockets,
or bordered with bias silk of the same hue
and edged with corded fringe.
Year: 1871

Not long since Adjutant General Baker
received letter of inquirey asking about
certain soldier in the Twenty-fourth Iowa
infantry. The tone of the letter was so
peculiar as to attract considerable attention
and create much comment in the Office. In
reply the general stated that the records OF
the regiment were in the Office, and the record
of the soldier, whom for convenience. We will
call Smith, although that is far from the real
name. A few days afterward a gentleman
from Northern Iowa, appeared at the Office,
inquired for General Baker, found that char
acter, and was closeted up with him long
enough TO divulge the following singular
tale: When the war broke out Miss Mary
Smith, daughter of the Generals visitor,
was residing in Ohio, working for farmer
in the kitchen Her fathers family had
Year: 1871

a Georgia colored debating society was
lately discussing Which is the best for
the laboring man, to work for wages or
part of the crop ?. An old uncle spoke
the sense of the meeting when he thought
bofe was de best, if dey could be brung
togedder somehow.
Year: 1871

bic says, The fool and his money are soon
parted Give me some snuff On being
told there was no such passage in the BIZ
BILE, she was quite surprised, and said that
she should look when she got home.
Year: 1871

4 cockney tourist met with Scotch
lassie going barefoot toward Glasgow
: Lassie,' said he, L should like to know
if all the people in this part 60 barefooted 2
Part of 'em do and part of the rest of
'em mind their own business, was the
rather setting reply.
Year: 1871

A Maine man, going into the wilderness,
took what he supposed to be his compass,
but found when he needed its guidance, he
had instead taken his wife's daguerreotype.
1t brought him out all right.
Year: 1871

The fashion Of rosettes and bows on
boots has passed away embroidery, which
has come into such general use for trim
ming, Is preferred. The handSomest boots
are embroidered around the top as we'll as
on the toe, and very elegant ones are
made stitched with shades to match the
dress For general use, however, white
stitching is preferred. Bronze boot; are
no longer worn, but gray leather worked
with black or purple, are suitable for wear
with light dresses.
Year: 1871

The new style in bonnets is decidedly
the gypsy shape. This is larger than we
have seen for some time, low-crowned, and
has something approaching to a cape. \
beautiful bonnet was in pearl straw, very
white, and blue ribbon put on full around
the crown, and a bunch of white sweet
brier roses on the front. Another, suitable
for an old lady, was Of gray pulled silk,
with large bunch Of ribbon Of the same
color on one side, and pink rose in the
centre Another bonnet of black straw


was trimmed with ribbon Of cameo yellow,
with large bunch Of pansics on the side
Year: 1871

For married ladies the peignoir is pre-
ferred. These are cut gored, full at the
back, fastened at the waist with cord and
tassle. \ very pretty one suitable for
bride was white cashmere, faced with quill
ted blue silk up the front and round the
neck. Sleeves oriental. turned back with
the silk
Year: 1871

careful survey of the condition OF the
water works Beeye shows that viii be some days
~ not whole week before water again be supplied
70 Jersey CITY Yesterday the machinery put In
plsce by which 1t intended 10 raise the massive iron
pipe to its position pedestal 40 feet In hight The
nine weighs % tins and is 125 feet long. and must be
raised IN single piece To day IL vii be placed In po-
ston for hosting and tomorrow the work OF raising
will begin. Those engaged in tho work ASSERT that the
repairs cannot be completed before the middle Of next
week.
Year: 1871

WASHINGTON, May 1.-The decision of the
Supreme Court yesterday, affirming the validity OF
contracts for payment Of specific weights OF
cold in coined money, was based upon case
appealed from tho Superior Court OF Michigan,
which presented instance of singular pro-
vision and caution The action in the Court below was
to recover rent upon lease executed IN 1873 fOr
tbo term of 100 years in which the yearly rent reserved
WAS four ounces, two penny-weights, and twelve
grains Of pure gold, in coined money, payable
Quarterly The State Court, instead OF giving
Judgment for the extent and interest in coined money
gave Judgment for the market value In United States
notes of the coined money, but the Supreme Court re-
versed this Judgment and held that payment must be
made in coined gold money.
Year: 1871

EGGs By WEIGHT Ohio Far
mer is rather wise than otherwise in
the following suggestions:


When eggs were worth 6 to IL
cents per dozen, it was matter of
no great Importance whether they
were large or small, but now as they
range from 20 to 40 cents per dozen.
there is an item worth looking after
in selection. There is nearly a diff
ference of half in the amount of
meat to be found in different lots of
eggs in the market, and justice can
never be done to the purchaser until
they are sold by weight. Eggs
weigh usually !. lbs. per dozen,
and at forty cents per dozen are ex-
pensive meat. When sold for breed
ing purposes, the present custom
may be best. There would be an
advantage to the producer, resulting
from a change as above suggested,
as we'll as to the buyer, for then
every keeper of poultry would seek
such breeds as would produce the
greatest number of pounds in eggs,
while now a hen which is prolific is
profitable, let her eggs be as small
as those of the partridge; the object
being to get number, not size or
quality.
Year: 1871

Apropos of the recent speck OF
war between New Jersey and Penn
sylvania NOW happily brushed
away the Philadelphia Post pro-
nounces this glowing eulogy upon
the oyster: The raw oyster is a
fiery and proud creature, with a
bright and penetrating eye, and a
lip now curled in scorn now sweet
with smiles. His forehead is high
and expansive, and his instep has
that peculiar arch the Arabs declare
to be an infallible sign of nobility.
His hands, too, are white and deli
cate. and those who have seen an
oyster bound upon his war horse
and career along the desert sands of
Jersey, tossing his spear in the air,
and shouting his battle-cry of de-
fiance, say there is no nobler sight


He is affectionate, too, and often
on moonlight nights may be seen
beneath the windows of the New
Jersey maidens, leaning against a
tree and singing to his plaintive lutte
the love-songs of his native land"
Year: 1871

A writer in the Trinity Gal. Jour
nal relates that in 1850 party of
miners in the mountains of Ell
Dorado, prospecting in an isolated
place, where they were without
fresh meats and vegetable food, were
afflicted with scurvy. Six of the
worst cases We're planted in the
earth up to their necks, and left
alone over night with chew of
tobacco apiece. The result of this
attempt at earth cure might have
been happy but for the fact that
in the night coyotes came along and
ate off all the six heads.
Year: 1871

Do the doctors know that half the wives
in the world die of this complaint? "He
never spoke an unkind word to his wife"
Yes but did he remember, now and then,
to speak kind one? Did he have any
sympathy for her bodily or mental ails ?
Or was he blind and deaf 10 both, treating
them with that cutting Indifference, which
in time chills tho most loving heart, and
'silencesits throDs for ever2 Men are verify
guilty in this regard. They take a young
girl from the warm atmosphere of loving,
cheerful home; and after few brief weeks
of devotion, leave her to battle, single.
handed, with new cares and new dutiesi
and to bear sickness with what courage
she may and go their ways into the
tangled paths of life, without thought OF
the responsibilities they Ore Sinking, or
the solemn vows they have really broken.
Year: 1871

Which will you do, smile and make others
happy, or be Grabbed and make everybody
aroundyou miserable? You can live among
flowers and singing birds, or in the mire
surrounded by fogs and frogs. The amount
OF happiness which yon eau produce is in.
calculablc, If you will only show smiling
face, a kind heart, and pleasant words On
the other hand, by sour looks, cross words,
and fretful disposition, you can mako
others unhappy almost beyond endurance.
Which will you do? Wear q pleasant
countenancc let joy and love beam in
your eye? There is no joy 80 great as
that which springs from kind net or a
pleasant deed; and II you do kind act
during the day whereby some fellow NOR.
tai has been made happy, you will feel its
glorious influence at night wien you rest,
and throughout the day when about your
daily business.
Year: 1871




The avarcious disposition of Queen Vic
toria and the en- 'rmous amount of money
taken from the public treasury for the sup
port of her family and relations, arc among
the principal causes of her present unpop
ularity 1t costs the British people over
three millions of dollars year to support
the royal family and yet, ever since the
death of Prince Albert, the Queen hos
avoided the usual expenditures of her sta.
tion, much to the disgust Of the London
tradesmen and the English people gcner'
ally. She inherited over Ave millions of
dollars from Prince Albert, who possessed
an income of about thousand dollars q
year when she married him. She has also
received several bequests Of large sums OF
money from wealthy people ambitious to
connect their names in some way with
royalty. Ono Of these, n man named
Neeld, bequeathed to the Queen million
and half OF dollars, which she pocketed,
although it was shown that the kindred OF
this person were in very needy condition.
The belief is becoming prevalent that in
England the monarchy will be abolished
when Victoria dies; and II such should
prove to be the case there can be no doubt
that her grasping conduct ia money mat
tiers will have contributed largely to such
q result.


In this we may see the superiority oI
American institutions over those of Great
Britain; for If we should ever be 80 un'
fortunate as to have President who
should prove himself greedy for gain,
it would not be his high Office, but himself
that would be repudiated by the people at
the end of his term.
Year: 1871

The Millerites predict the
wreck of matter and the crash
of worlds during this year.


1t is given out from Admin
istration sources that this fear
full event is to occur only in the
case San Domingo is not an
nexed. Grant thinks if his pet
job should fail, it can't make
much difference how soon the
world "comes to an end."
Year: 1871

One of the greatest embar-
easements which the Democrat
ic minority in Congress have
heretofore had to encounter
was the refusal Of the Admin
tration to furnish satisfactory
information as to the true con-
dition Of the country. For
ten years past the rule Of the
Republican majority has been
ooncealment.
Year: 1871

The Grand Council Of tile
Workingmeu's Benevolent As
ISOLATION have agreed to a Gen.
eral Board of Arbitration to
settle the present difficulties,
and to meet the coal operators
on the 17th Of April.