smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1871

MORE IMPROVEMENTS We see
that Capt f. ID. Jett is preparing to
make an extensive addition to his stor c
house on the corner of Franklin and
Hapslton streets. The extension is
designed To extend some thirty
feet back from his present building,
along Hamilton. This will make his
establishment one of the most commo
dioas and conveniently arranged store
houses in town A great portion of The
lumber is already on the ground.
Year: 1871

SEMI-WEEKLY SUN, 81 A YEAR.
of the same size and general character AZ
THE WEEKLY, but with q greater variety OF
miscellaneous reading, and furnishing the news
70 its subscribers with greater freshness because
tcomes twice week instead Of once only.
Year: 1871


ened, falling hair checked, and bald
ness often, though not always, cured
by its use. Nothing can restore the
hair where the follicles are DESTROYED.
or the glands atrophied and decayed.
But such as remain can be saved for
usefulness by this application. Instead
OF touilng the nair with pasty sedi-
ment, it will keepit clean and vigorous.
Its occasional use will prevent the hair
from turning gray or falling off, and
consequently prevent badness. Free
from those deleterious substances which
make some preparations dangerous and
injurious to the hair, the Vigor can
only benefit but not harm it. Ii wanted
merely for a
Year: 1871

Judge Peck was once holding court
ut Chelsea. when backwoOds witness
was brought on to the stand for exam
na'ion. He had never seen court
room before, and had no idea of the
solemn dignity Of judges or of court
room propriety. The lawyer was spur
ring up the witness recollections, and
the judge was taking down his testimony
which the witness was ANXIOUS 10 have
recorded correctly. The questions had
been put rapidly, and tie judge was
scratching as fast lis he could to catch up.
Come, come," said the lawyer, ''ans-
wer my question" "WeLI, look a here,
squire" responded the witness, you
Jest wait till tbs ere old cl7tter gifts that
DOWN" The judge, vino enjoys good
joke, as well as sound logic, droppei his
pen and his gravity to jJin the bar in Il
rousIng laugh At the expense Of the bench.
Year: 1871

for the following thrilling story:


IF We are not mistaken, we have heard
or read somewhere that truth is stranger
than fiction" An instance, strictly true.
has come to our knowledge, which vividly
illustrates that, and also exhibits with al.
most thrilling effect the danger of mob
law. s'f


A young Maine man, who is engaged in
the commercial travelling business for a
Chicigo house, was recently travelling out
in the far West, when he was taken DOS.
session OF on the train by two men who
simply Informed him that they were off,
GERS and wanted him. He exposeulated.
explained, demanded explanations, etc.
but all in vain. No one on the train knew
him, and there were those who did know
the officers. All he could get ou. of them
was that he was the man they wanted. In
this way he was taken ninety miles into
the interior. Upon his arrival he had no
longer to remain in ignorance of his SUP.
posed offensc, the whole village being out
to welcome him with such cries as, " Here'S
the ID horse thief, caught at last" and
Let's string him up"


The officers made some show of resist
ance, but the excited mob took possession
of their victim and marched him into town. .
near the centre Of which q moose was al.
ready strung over the limb Of a tree. Our
friend thought it was up with him sure.
Expostulations were received with derision.
Everybody recognized him as q notorious
horse thief, whose depredations in the vi
cinity had been long continued and exten.
sive. A horse thief in that section is look.
ed upon as something worse than an aver
age murderer. There was not pitying'
eye in the crowd, and the universal howl
was to lynch him. He tried to pray, but
the commercial traveller business had ruin.
ed him for praying! While waiting under
the moose a happy thought struck him !;
his Masonry! He was Royal Arch Ma.
son. ,,-t


In all that crowd there must be some
Masons. He gave the Grand Hailing Sig.
nal of distress! We are not at liberty to
explain how it was done, for several rea-
sons, the chief one of which is, we don't
know. But he gave it, and in an instant
one of the foremost citizens of the town
sprang to his side, and he gave some more
Masonic signals, and the prisoner was
quickly surrounded by twenty or thirty de-
termined men, who held the crowd at bay
with drawn pistols. Our friend explained
to the leading man who he was; they or
ganized committee Of investigation tel.
egraphed to Chicago and verified all his
statements; aud the brutal mob skunk
away heartily ashamed. Our friend was
made as comfortable as possible by his Ma.
sonic friends, but he says he never experi-
enced such intense anxiety as he did when
he stood under that moose. alago


The above is strictly true in all essential
points. We have the names of the parties
and places. The young man has one OF
two brothers living in this city. The man
who rescued him proved to be an old friend
of his fathers. 5t vgs
Year: 1871




Local ENTERPRIsE.-There are some
places more remarkable for their local en-.
terprise than Others Wherever a number
of energetic men locate to embark in the
different avocations of life, there you may
expect to see local enterprise. The sue.
cess that almost universally follows energy,
is certain to induce others to settle in their
midst, and follow as close as possible the
course pursued by these who were lucky !;
and thus the population increases and the
inhabitants are vieing with each other in
their strides Of enterprising energy, until
the whole people have caught the flame
and their success soon attracts thousands
from other sections, so that fresh capital is
invested and new fortunes are soon carved
out which gives more impetus to the enter
prisiug spirit, that but few had COM
menced. Any one who takes retrospec.
tive glance over the history of Chicago for
the past fifteen years, can see fair and
grand illustration of what We say; place
that eighteen or twenty years ago was but
"howing Wilderness" stands to-day
foremost among the leading cities of the
nation; not so much on account Of the su-
pcriority of her natural advantages, as of
that great spirit of public enterprise that
always pervaded her men Of wealth, and
which is to this day characteristic Of the
wealthy citizens of Chicago.


There are other places cursed with men
of different character-men whose fever.
ish swamps and open prairics become so
valuable as to make them wealthy as the
country scttled-men who build such ten
ements as afford the least comfort to the
laborer and mechanic for exorbitant rents
men whose exclusive profession is to
"shave" city warrants, and charge any
where from twenty to forty per cent. of
those that hard times compel to borrow
little money-meu who would never invest
dollar in any enterprise that would give
employment to others, and be conducive
of general good to tho people, unless it
paid such dividend that any legitimate
business could not afford Council Bluf'
Times.
Year: 1871

The following is from Washington
special to the st. Louis Republican, a
journal opposed to San Domingo annexa.
ton


Two official reports, covering SURVEYS
upon the flagship Severn, now in the West
Indies, have been made to the Navy Depart
ment, showing the condition of the vessel to
be not only unseaworthy, but that her tim
bers are rotten and in most dangerous
state. These reports are dated the twenty
fourth of April and the first of July. The
ship had been bored in seventeen different
places, and with the result above stated
Before she left the United States the greatest
apprehensions were expressed by competent
nautical men as to her safety for this SER
vice, but the order was given without re-
gard to facts, which properly demanded the
most serious attention by the Navy Depart
ment. The season of hurricanes in the
waters of the Gulf is now at hand. To ex-
pose the lives of the officers and crew of the
Severn and other ships to their perils is a
wantOn and cruel act of inhumanity, and
yet the administration keeps the squadron
cruising in these pestilential waters for no
other purpose than to aid in propping up
the despicable despotism of Baez at San
Domingo and to carry out the Presidents
pet scheme of annexation. The Severn be-
longs to the class of ships of which the Ten
nessee is an illustration. They were both
built of green timber, and are pronounced
by the best professional authority to be
worthless
Year: 1871

Can any one who lives in this city tell
without reflection, by glance at the sun or
North star, his bearings! Now it is a fact
that, to use the expression of our 'oldest
and best upon an occasion when his city
knowledge was brought in question, "Sir
the sun does not rise in the east in the Third
District" Believing it does not apparently
obey the universal law in this quarter, there
are many who have applied the remark to
other neighbOrhoods. Now we are migra-
tory population, and move, five thousand
families of US, every year.


Far as our towns latitude and longitude
are concerned, Canal street is to us what
Greenwich is to the world-the basis. This
avenue runs east and west, and the sides of
it are north or south. Take a street car and
90 up town little ways and, to your
great surprise, the street where you get out,
though it runs apparently parallel, runs
north and south and the sides are east and
west! There are thousands who, though
born and brought up in New Orleans, never
saw map of it in their lives, and, unable
to give directions of houses by the points of
the compass, fall to and tell you, ''It is the
first house on your right as you 90 toward
the river on the other side of the street, in
dicating 'the other side" by wave of the
hand as opposite to 'this side" where YOU
are standing.


Points of the compass are out of the aues-
tion-no one uses them here The front of
the city is round, and street corruption.
by the way, of straight) drawn correctly
swampward is similar to drawing a straight
line from the rim of basin to the center
the parallels at the river side will, contrary
to the mathematical definition, meet. In
the nature of things, several streets are lost
in others, until at the lake end of Delord
street, or new shell road, one finds thirty
or forty between the river head of that
thoroughfare and the cut that runs by Dan
Hickock's in Carrollton, have entirely dis
appeared, so that what is travel of a few
miles along the river side is only few steps
at the lake.


Here is one cause of the apparent irregu-
larity of the compass which bemuddles any
one who is not aware of its cause.


Then again, the lines of street railways
that by fiction are supposed to run the
same directien throughout their extent
but they do lQt, A passenger who puts
Year: 1871

his fare in the box" at Canal street to go up
town, comforts himself that he, at least,
''knows where he's goin'." But he don't /;
for before he has travelled mile, he makes
SO many turns out of a straight direction
that he would be out if he should guess
three points out of the four cardinal z
For this reason of bends in the streets, of
their loss by making triangle with another
street, and of the curve in the river, there is
only one way to tell the points of the com
pass in any given locality-carry one in
your pocket. 1t is the only safe way. The
shortest way to point is Every desirable" !"
as the real estate men say; but only an ex-
tensive acquaintance can find out these
shortest ways" for taking the streets like
all straight lines as ''the shortest distance
between two points, a voyager would ride
three miles where he has occasion to 60
but one. But to find out the points of the
compass of any given place is impossible
without an immediate consultation of the
map on the wall, or the thing itself.
Year: 1871

| 1t was night, and the wind whistled


mournfully around the old stone house, so
! deeply imbedded among Scotland's hills.


The snow had been falling for many hours,


and now, like ghostly phantoms, the cliffs
| appeared clad in this raiment Of white.
Here, amid this wildness and desolation, old
Doctor Audrient lived. For years he had
been recluse, and studiously avoided hold
ing intercourse with his fellow-beings. He


had with him but one attendant, an old wo-
man, whose witch-Hke countenance, shrill
voice and ungainly appearance were at once
the dread and aversion of all who came near
her. Those who had seen Doctor Audrient,
called him crazy. He rather liked the accu-
satiOn, for it served to keep them away from
him. He was an old man, embittered with
his atbeistical views; distrusting both God
and his fellow-beings. His life was given
up to the study of metaphysics, and each
day his existence became more and more alb


sorbed in his views, and, like all of his kind,
clung most tenaciously to them. Lately
feeling of uncertainty in his opinions had
come over him, and despite his endeavors,
he could not rid himself of the feeling. On
the day of which our story opens, he had
been feeling more than usually depressed.
AS night came on his fears seemed to in
crease. In spite of the comfortable arm
chair, the glass of smoking beverage by his
side, the blazing hearth, he felt nervous, and
could not conquer it. He remained long
gazing intently on the bed of burning Goals
before him, until at last his senses gradually
became dead to surrounding objects. How
long he sat thus he knew not. Suddenly he
was aroused by rustling sound near him.
Rising from his chair he gazed around to see
from whence the sound had proceeded, and
he saw in the doorway creature fair as
though it were visitant from heaven. She
was clad in robes of shining gold and silver,
and on her brow was tiara of stars which
in brilliancy rivaled those which shine in
the blue vault above.


Gliding softly to him, she said "Thou
vain one, putting thyself above all on earth
and disbelievmg in the God that made thee,
follow me to yon distant mountain side:
the way is rough and rugged, and thy steps
l know are feeble, but there are sights
which are sometimes given man to see, and
thou, for one, hast need of seeing them r'
Trembling in every limb the old man
obeyed and followed her On she led him.
until at last they arrived at a forest. deep,
dark and seemingly impenetrable. Here
they stopped, and the angel, holding torch
above him, bade him look around him. He
looked, and saw there millions of creatures
made like himself, groveling in the dark
ness that surrounded them-they seemed
as though searching for something-th
faces bore traces of anguish, doubt and
misery. Oft they would walk along and
appear as though about to grasp at some
object near, and then whatever they fancied
these would Faaish infs the aiI ag9und' |
Year: 1871

Fourth of July Meeting.


From the Petersburg (Virginia) Index.


At the Tammany celebration of the Fourth
more than one noteworthy feature appeared.
Governor Hoffman was not present, but a
letter was read, wherein he rather gave the
go-by to the new departure. A letter from
George b. Mcclellan heartily indOrsed ii;
and one from Montgomery Blair ignored
it, falling back on denunciations of the
''sordid moneyed class from whose infu-
ence in the administration flow, in his view,
our evils. Whatever this division portends
we do not know; what it does not portend
every man knOws-it promises no success.
The fact is, the Northern Democracy does
not know its own mind; it is in transi-
ton state; it is split into hundred
sections, each following a leader. Every
individual section, almost every man, has his
chosen man, the mass has not united on an
idea, We, of Virginia, care nothing for the
man, we are definitely resolved upon the
idea, and that is the difference between us.
Why! Because we have always sustained
our beliefs, we have been consistent and
fought to the bitter end ON principle,
when war was war. Accepting the fact of
peace, we accepted all the facts in its train,
among them the truth that the constitution
is no longer what it was, but still is the
law which, amendments and all, we must
and do submit to accept and fulfill.





new to us. We struck the first note of the
air to which the country begins to march
on. We keep in accord, one with another.
We know the tune.


This unity has enabled us to see clearly
what else must form subject of discussion,
and to perceive that in settling the one
question we have only taken preliminary
step. Does nothing more remain Enough
for the wisest of men and of parties; how
best to supplant Odious tariffs by just and
moderate impOsts; how to free the admins
tration of affairs of its manifold corrup--
tions; how to restrict the growing tendency
of centraliZatiOn how to bring back the
old and pure idea of constitutional limita-
tion and well ordered freedom; how to
cleanse the civil service and furnish it q
basis honorable to the country and useful
in it's service; how to meet the growing de-
mands of labor, and fairly to hold the bal
ance between the hand that wields the tool,
such are the mighty problems which we are
called upon to solve. Shall we who have
pOndered them be absent when the council
is held, and leave them to the men of the
North, whose chief or only care seems TO be
whether TO take for leader Mr.. A, or Mr.. B.,
or Mr. c..
Year: 1871

The Bank of France has in its vaults FIVE
hundred and fifty millions of francs, and
the treasury balance is one hundred and
forty millions. This, after the loan, is not
indicative of despair on the part of France.
VIII France ever know her strength
Year: 1871

A bucolic Indiana wayfarer on Chicago
train, being anxious to see what he could
see, thrust his head out of the window and
into another train, and now shows signs of
premature baldaess,
Year: 1871

ADvIoE-GooD FOR EVERYBODY
Mind your own business l. If you
meddle with other peoples be sure
you know what you're talking about.
When your dear friend comes to you
and abuses another friend, be sure
your character is not safe in his hands
when your back is turned. If you
can say no good of others, preserve
silence. BE assured that it is no part
of your duty as q christian or a man
to elect yourself perpetual Vigilance
Committee over your neighbors. Old
women of course we can't reform
we are talking to men.
Year: 1871

Dickens Little Emily"


There were nearly two hundred fallen
women assembled at the Cafe Royal, Re,
gent street, in the small hours of yester.
day morning (says the London Daily
News of November % The invitations
were for twelve o'clock on Thursday
night, and half an hour afterward the
spacious, handsome room was full. 1t
was a strange scene, and though the pro
|ceedDgs at one Of these midnight meet
ings and the people they assemble to-
gether have been described before, the
work they represent is of such grave i'm
port, it is scarcely possible to give it too
much publicity. fsIE


, When the doors were opened there was
rush Of girls of low class from
Charles street, Drury Lane and such
neighborhoods, and when the better
dressed women of Regent street saw this,
nothing would induce them to enter. Be
this as it may, the fact is indisputable
that a majority of the girls present we're
not of the class with which the pedes-
trian at West End is but too familiar.
There is an aristocracy in female vice,
and this did not appear to have been
reached.


The directors of the meeting give the
girls play, and let them talk and laugh
and ridlculo within certain limits until
they have all eaten and drank as much
as they wish. The real business of the
evening only begins then. A layman
mounts the platform, and in few sensi-
Bile words announces that the one OBJ
ject of the gathering is to do "the dear
sisters good. They are asked for their
own sakes to listen to what is to follow,
and to join in hymn, couple of lines
of which was read out 1t seemed a
hazardous experiment to invite such a
crew as was in our immediate vicinity
to sing aloud, but here again the pro-
moters of the meeting were right, for in
another second every girl in the room
was lifting her voice in good time and
tune, and with a fervor which was amaz-
ing. Where were the low jests, the ten
dency to horse play, the mocking and
the gibes now2 The hymn seemed to
dissolve these things ON the instant, and
the old Sunday school training asserted
its power.


Another gentleman ascenued tne plat
form now, and taking for his text the
words Little Emily" which you've
all seen on the advertisement boardings
and on the play-bills," told the story Of
poor Peggotty and his misguided niece.
There was fair average Of attention
throughout the audience. The sketch
from David Copperfeld was merely
taken in outline, the details being filed
in in the speakers own language, and
the girls grew interested. There were
some interruptions. "0h, / dessay,'
delivered with much vixenish emphasis,
was the commentary Of one young wo-
man upon the speakers attempt to de-
scribe the anguish of the old fisherman
and the faith with which the candle was
placed night by night in its old place in
the boathouse to lure the wanderer
home. But it was plain that "the tone
of the meeting" was greatly improved,
The unseemly bursts Of laughter grew
rarer. A softened look came over some
Of the worst faces, and by the time
another speaker had in few sentences
introduced the rector of st. Clement
Danes, there was general disposition to
behave well.
Year: 1871

-" =


From the Denver (Col.) News.l
The narrow-gauge road beyond the di


vide was severely blockaded by the storm
Of Thursday night and Friday morning
and the return trip Of Frank Hodges
train Friday consumed nearly eighteen
hours time From passenger .wht
came through" we gather the follow
ing particulars: la1,1g Z .gH..l


"fbe train left Colorado Springs a
3:40 Friday morning, having been delay
ed on the downward trip by snow drifts
in the cuts beyond the divide. Colone
Borst, Division superintendent was on
board and autographed for an extra en-
CINE TO meet the train as soon as posi-


Bile. A force Of track hands, armed with
shoyels, accompanied the train, and by
dint Of active and persistent shoy'
cling about nineteen miles was
accomplished before dark, when
it was found necessary to sound
retreat for the purpose Of Sc
curing water for the gallant little en-
CINE. But for this mishap the train
might have gained the summit of the
divide in an hour or two at farthest, but
the fierce wind which never ceased to
blow, drifted the snow back into the cuts
again, and the train was compelled to fight
it's way from Monument TO the summit,
every cut being filled in level with the
surface. The hours wore away very
slowly, as well for the impatient, hungry
and sleepy passengers as for the brave
conductor and his little army Of shovel
ers. The night was bitter cold; and by
the roaring FIRE in the cars men, women
and children shivered, grumbled, swore,
slept, snored and otherwise amused
themselves, while in front the hardy pi-
oneer corps shoveled and swore accord
ing to their several abilities. Inch by
inch the train moved along now back
ing and butting, now going ahead q
mile or two, and now standing motion
less for an hour at a stretch. Meantime
the second engine had come up, and 1t
was hoped their united strength would
force "a passage, but again the
water in the tanks ran low
and the train was abandoned,
while the engines pushed forward
for water, Hours on hours seemed to
elapse before Frank returned with the
cheering intelligence that he had reached
the summit, had filed the tanks with
water, and was going to take the train in
right away quick But he didn't do it
The treacherous snow had already drifted
back into every cut, and the shovel brig
ade was ordered out dozen times be-
fore the summit was reached, and the
gray morning light was breaking when
the train started down the decline.
This side Of the divide the track was
comparatively clear, aud Denver was
reached about half-past eight in the
forenoon. In some Of the cuts the snow
was drifted to the hight of the windows
of the cars, shutting out the light, and
the task of forcing a passage taxed the
narrow gauge to its utmost. That the
train came through atall is remarkable,
and reflects much credit on the noble
conductor and his assistants, to all Of
whom the passengers desire to return
their grateful thanks"