smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1872

According to recent statistics the pop
ulation in country towns and in rural
districts is not increasing, but the cities
are filing up at the expense Of the out
living regions. As a consequence uf this
exciting city life, the robust women Of
former DAYS are no longer known, and
the number Of the children who die In
infancy Is increasing. Another defect
Is the great prevalence OF extraYagance
in every shape, and old fashioned econ
omy is considered disgraeeful. Too
much money Is spent on dress, and
greater frugality IN housekeeping would
promote both health and comfort The
art OF living both well aud eheaply Is
not now thoroughly uncerstood, and
girls are not brought up 10 supervise the
management OF q household. On the
other hand the acquisition Of money
seems 70 be the only object worth con-
tending for and the owners Of fine


houses and snowy equipages, however
/ dishonesty acquired, are held IN higher
estimation than the quiet unpretending


citizen who pursues the even tenor of
bis way In his daily avocation.
Year: 1872

ed reader, and it was noteworthy
fact, that in addition to being inform
ed on every day topics he was well


read in the better class of literature
Here is the secret of much of deceas.


eds success as clean compositor. He


stored his mind with useful informa-
ton. He so qualified himself for the
duties of a compositor, that when a


piece of manuscript of poor chirogra-
ply was handed him, he had the intelli-


gence to discover it's defects, and sup
ply any omissions which the writer


may have made. It is too frequently
the case that compositors pursue their
vocation as mere MISUNDERSTANDING
up type mechanically as it were and
never pausing to exercise the reason
ing faculties with which God has en-
dowed them. Had the craft more such
men within it's pale as Mr.. Alcott,
authors and proof-readers generally
would enjoy comparatively happy
time, and many of the errors which
now find their way into print, marring
the sense and paining the reader,
would be unknown. Of all men else,
printers should be Intelligent and we'll
read.
Year: 1872

experience In rearing sheep, assures us
that the epizoetie influenza, which has at
tackled the horses with so much virulence,
is precisely similar to the malignant dis
temper which sometimes destroys whole
flocks of sheep. A year or two ago his
sheep were affected with the distemper,
and he cured them with the following SIM
pie remedy:


Each sheep was caught and lighted
match held under its nose. The fumes of
the sulphur and phosphorus entered the
nostrils and produced a violent sneezing
by which all the mucous seeretions were
thrown out. The nose was then touched
with tar and the animal kept in dry
place for two or three days and allowed to
eat nothing but soft food. The cure was
immediate and failed in no instance.


The same gentleman has frequently cur
ed horses that were suffering from influen-
"a by giving mixture of powered bay
berry and slippery elm bark. Take equal
parts of each, feeding quarter of a pound
fat each meal. The horse should be fed on
ground corn and ground oats mixed, and
the powder shonld be put into the food.
1t is better to put lump of rock salt in
box near the trough where the horse can
lick at it whenever the notion takes him,
than to season his food with ground alum
salt-BGLtina0re american.
Year: 1872

b0A Jersey paper tells very in
teresting story of little boy in that
State. He was climbing an apple tree
and when upon the topmost limb he
slipped and fell to the ground. He
was picked up and carried to the house
in an insensible condition. After
watching by his bedside through many
weary hours, his mother perceived
signs of returning consciousness
Leaning over him she asked if there
was anything else she could do for him,
now that he began to feel better
Should she bathe his forehead, or
change his pillow, or fan him? Was
there anything he wanted? Opening
his eyes languidly, and looking at her,
the little sufferer said: eyes, [ want
pair of pants with a pocket behind .
He got them.
Year: 1872

- Il
no time like the present"


"Will thee be good enough to search
the prisoner~ he said to me, still keep
ing his hand, in a friendly way, upon
the passengers arm. I did so, but not
one of the stolen articles could be found.
'He must have got rid of them in the
coach" the gay gentleman suggested,
and Immediately offered to go in search.


'Stop! thundered the Quaker, tight
ening his grasp. The man turned pale
and struggled to release his arm. In
an instant one of the Derringers was
leveled at his heart.


"Stir hand or foot and you are a
dead man!'


The Quaker must have been awfuIly
excited so completely to forget both
the language and the princip Piles of his
persuasion. Finding the other pistol
in my hand with directions to fire at
either Of the two men that made sus-
'picious movement, he went to work on
the Lothario, from whose pockets. in
less time than it takes to tell it, he
produced every item o. missing
property, to the utter lllkazement of
the two ladies,~who had begun, in no
measured terms, to demonstrate against
theshameful treatment the gentleman
was receiving:


The Quaker, | need scarcely add, was
no Quaker at all, but shrewd detec-
tive, who had been set on the track of
a band of desperadoes, of whom our
middle-aged friend-who didn't look
near so middle-aged when his wig was
of-was the chief. The robbery had
been adroitly planned. The leader of
the gang had taken passage in the
coach, and after learning, as he sup
posed, our defenseless condition, had
given the signal to his companions by
throwing out the scraps of paper already
mentioned. After the unexpected cap
ture Of the first robber, it was attempt
ed to save the booty by secretly passing
it to an accomplice, still believed to be
unsuspected, who counted on being a.
BILE to make off with it at the next stop
ping place. The result was that both,
for season, "did the State some ser.
vice."
Year: 1872

It was night, Jerusalem slept as qui-
city amid her hills us child on the


breast Of its mother. The noiseless


sentinel stood like a statue at his post,
and the philosophers lamp burned


dimly in the recess of his chamber.


But moral darkness involved the ma
ton in its unenlightened shadows.


Reasons shed faint glimmering over
the minds of men like the cold and


insufficient shining of distant star.


The Immortality of mans spiritual ma
tuae was unknown, his relation to


Heaven undiscovered, and his future
destiny obscured in a cloud of mystery.
1t was at this period that two forms
of ethereal mould hovered about the
land of Gods chosen people. They
came like sister angles, sent to earth
on some embassy of love. The one of
majestic stature and well formed limb
Il e,. G1rz1
Year: 1872

I'VE were five passengers in all; two
ladies on the back seat, and a middle
aged gentleman and Quaker on the
middle, and myself on the front. The
two ladies might have been mother and
daughter, aunt and niece, governess
and charge, or might have sustained
any other relationship which made it
proper for two ladies to travel togeth-
er unattended. The middle-aged GEN
tleman was sprightly and talkative.-
He soon struck up an acquaintance
with the ladies, toward whom in his
zeal to do, he rather overdid the agree
able-boWing, and smiling, and chat
ting over his shoulder in a way pain
fully suggestive at his time of life, of
a"crick in his back. He was evident
ly gay Lothario. The Quaker wore
the uniform of his. sect, and confined
his speech, as many parliamentarian
would save his credit by doing, to SIM
ply ssyeas" and ssnays." Asfor myself.
make it an invariable rule of the road
to be merely a looker-on and listener.


Toward evening I was aroused from
one of those reVeries, into. which a
young man, without being poet.of
lover, will sometimes fall, by an abrupt
query from the talkative gentleman.


care you armed, sir pa {.


81 am not" I answered, astonished,
no doubt, visibly at the question.


81 am sorry to hear il, he replied
for before reaching our next stopping
place it will be several hours in the
night, and we must pass over a portion
of the road on which more than one
robbery is reported to have been com
mitted."


The ladies turned pale, but the stran-
ger did his best to reassure them.


"Not that / think there is the slight
est danger at present" he resumed
'tonly when one is responsible for the
safety of the ladies, you know, such q
thing as pistol in reach would add
materially to ones confidence"


"Your principles, my friend" adj
dressing the Quaker, '1 presume, are
as much opposed to carrying as using
carnal weapons.


4
Year: 1872

The Opera Last Night nj the AeademyA


The lst Of April, 1872, will be long remem-
bered by the operate public OF New York a.
one OF the most remarkable occasions In tina
history OF Italian opera in this country--tha
strongest combination Of lyric talent that has
appeared SINCE the famous Havana troupe
drew within the walls Of the Academy Of Music
an audience Of overwhelming proportions, and
the receipts were considerably over nine thou
sand dollars. The apathetic nature Of an
Academy audience is we'll known, and nothing
short OF an extraordinary event could call forth
the wild enthusiasm with which the principal
artists were greeted last night. Madame
Parepa- Rosa, Miss Adelaide Phillips, Herr
Wachtel and Mr.. Santley appeared in the
well-worn 'sTrovatore" with magnificent
chorus and orchestra, one hundred and twenty
strong, and the performance in general was OF
such nature that the old, familiar music
seemed as fresh aud novel as it had been given
for the frat time. The result Of such daring
experiment on the part OF the management~
daring in view Of the enormous expense con.
SequeDt- on bringing SlCu u%CouiuiuauoA W.
gether-proyed the correctness OF our con-
slant assertion tha tie New York public will
support first class opera, no matter what It
costs. An impresario need not feel any
apprehension Of failure if he only sec are tha
best talent and we are of opinion that com4
pany like that which is heard In the sumuier
at either Of the London opera houses, great
though the cost may be, can be presented at
our Academy for an entire season with the
best financial results. Parsimony in manage
ment has been ever the banc of opera here.
A prima donna or a tenor OF fame has been
thought, heretofore, q sufficient attraction.
and the ensemble has had to lock out
for ITSELF We trust that the example which
Mr.. Rosa has shown in presenting an opera
complete in every sense Of the word will not
be lost upon future managers Of Italian opera,
Certainly the public have shown a desire to
assist the lyric drama when thus presented,
and any failures in the future, as in the past,
must necessarily be placed to the account OF
the management.
Year: 1872




. EDITORS APPEAI-Our citizens have
been considerably excited on the subject
of the proposed railroad from Jackson
to your city, and not a few have been
accused of having 'srailroad on the
brainu Granting that your humble
correspondent may be classed among
the latter, would beg room in your val
liable paper to make public my views
as to the probability and practieability
of this road, and to call attention to the
cheapest and most direct route. By re-
ferring to the map, and with ruler
drawing an airline from Jackson to
Memphis, you will find that you will
pass near or through Wythe depot,
from which point you viii leave the
Memphis and Louisville railroad and
bear eastward, while the Memphis and
Louisville railroad runs northward
across LOosahatehie to Mason and
Brownsville. 1t is well known to every
taxpayer of Shelby county that to ask
for public aid for this road is prepOster-
Gus at present. Our people now know
what it costs to build a railroad, and
they begin to growl and grumble
whenever you advocate taxation, but
convince them that a road can be
constructed at small expense, and at the
same time be the cause of enhancing the
value of their property and opening
between important
cities or sections of country, and it is an
easy matter to find men of means who
will take stock sufficient to build such a
road. My plan, then, is to use the same
rOad-bed from Memphis to Wythe de-
pot, and then run up on the south side of
Loosahatchie to SolOmon's MILL thence
across the river on an airline to Den
mark and Jackson. Should the Jack
son road be a narrOw-gauge, it would cost
very little to lay a third rail within the
present track, or even two light rails,
agreeing to keep the road-bed in order
for the right of way, thus saving expense
to both roads, [ know of no section of
country in West Tennessee that would
offer greater inducements to capitalists
than the line of this road from Wythe
to SolomOn's mill. We have an mex
haustible belt of fine timber common in
the South. we have fine mill-sites,
which could be converted into cotton
factories with sufficient water power TO
keep them running all the year. The
grading on this route would be light for
about twenty miles.


We will have lively picnic at Hick-
ory Wythe on the thirtieth instant.
Year: 1872

GRANTS plan for carrying the South
becomes more and more clearly deyel-
oped, and yet there are those weak
enough TO bend before the majesty of
Grants despotic authority and support
him, or a Democrat, if nominated, who
could beat nobody except Greeley. The
proposition to adjourn is pending in
Congress. The kuklux act is operative
until Congress adjOUrns. Butler and
Grant do not intend that Congress shall
adjourn. Instead, recess will be taken
from the twenty-ninth instant till the
last of November. The object of a
recess is to secure a continuance Of that
clause Of the kuklux law which pro-
vides for the suspension of the writ Of
Aabcas corpus to the end of the present
session, without the necessity of special
Legislation now proposed in the Senate
for that purpose. 1t is probable that
the recess will be voted down, and the
hGbeds corpus suspension debated on its
merits. Very certainly, it is the pur-
pose Of Butler TO have Grant invested
with authority to suspend the writ Of
haboGS corpus in these Southern States
during the months of October and No
vember. The people very certainly
will vote for Greeley, and Grant would
restrain their action by force. In fact,
Grant will probably employ Clayton TO
manage this election for him. Give Clay
ton martial law, and then the right to
count the votes, and Greeley will not
carry precinct in the South.
Year: 1872

The above received very general circu-
lation after its first appearance in the
APPEAL, being honOred among other
papers with a place in the CosDlOpOlitols,
published in London, and edited by Col.
Hiram Fuller, for many years editor and
proprietor of the famous New York
Evening Mirror. Colonel Fuller, man
of fine literary taste, in presenting "The
Dead COnfederacy" TO the British pub
lie, made the following handsome no.
tice, which we publish as proper in
dorsement of our poets merit: % In a
former number we published touching
poem from the pen of a valued friend,
entitled THE Lost Cause full of in
teTest, and breathing hopeful signifi-
canoe that cannot but have its influence
in the quarter where its authors sym
pathies and many of his tenderest. asso-
Citations lie. We publish this week, in
another column, poem bearing the
above title, which has been sent US
by the friend above alluded to, with
the information that it is from
the pen of daughter ofthe late Senator
Borland. 1t is with a feeling of pride
and sadness that we present this poem
to the British public-where, although
the subject is among the things of the
past, its beauty will find a ready appre-
citation. 1t is touching, tender, chaste,
classic, beautiful We are glad to take
this young author by the hand, andwel-
come her among the ranks of the poets.
We regard this poem as one of the finest
rythmic tributes that has yet been paid
to The Lost Cause. and its. spirit of
tender resignation, the eart-brokenness
of its entire utterance, can not but touch
the very souls of those whose sympathies
and associations induced them to look
upon that cause almost as a crime. The
devotion of the Southern wCmen to the
Confederate cause was something ex-
eeeding belief, and now that the cause is
dead it will not, we hope, challenge un-
worthy criticism that we seek to snatch
this last wall of their sorrow from the
dangers of unappreciation and oblivion,
and place it where it ought to be, among
the lists of those gems of poesy which
should never be forgotten"
Year: 1872

There is authority for denying the
truth of the statement that President
Grant, in conversation with an Ohio Re
publican Congressman recently, said in
case of his reelection he intended to
make a general change of office-hOlders
throughout the country, and as rule
he did not believe that any person who
held Office during one administration
should be retained during the succeed
ing one, but it was simply justice TO keep
all faithful officers until they had served
four years. 1t is denied that the Presi-
dent ever held such conversation.
Year: 1872

GRANT may not be wholly indisposed
10 conciliate the South, and it may be
true that while be holds the kuklux act
in one hand he may be dOling out kind
Resses to individuals and States with
the other He certainly speaks very be-
wilchingly TO Florida and the Gulf
States and the West when he approves
the construction Of a ship canal across
the aOwery peninsular. In reply to a
delegation from Georgia, who are urging
the construction of an inter-oceanie
canal connecting the Mississippi with
the Atlantic, Grant said he had seen a
map of the route, and it looked to him
as eminently practicable, and be thought
1t very important in view of the fact
that the present commercial routes are
inadequate to the growing needs of
commerce, and were it not for the late
ness Of the present session, he would
make it a subject Of special communion
ton to Congress.
Year: 1872

In the case Of Josephine McCarty
charged with the murder of Henry H.
Hail, in street car, returned a verdict
of not guilty. There was tumultuous
applause in the courtroom on the an
nouncement of the verdict. Mrs. Me
Carty was Te-auested on a bench war
rant on the charge of assault on Milton
H. Thompson with intent to kill.
Year: 1872

ing a new building. The coins were of
foreign mintage. Wonder if that was
not a dodge to get the ciearing-away
done for nothing? M


The effect of Governor HofTman's veto
of the charter of New York city will be
to retain in Office all the present city
officials, several of whom It was espe-
cially designed to get rid Of


Z senator Ferry's re-election was re-
ceived IN Lancaster, New York, with
enthusiasm by the Liberal Republicans.
Greeley and Brown flags were thrown
out, salutes fired and procession took
Year: 1872

IT WOULD be well If those who are
directly interested in the conduct of po-
litical conventions of this district, would
at least select delegates TO congressional
and other conventions before the people
are dispersed over the continent at the
watering places. When will action be
Year: 1872

Correspondence Between Her and


Queen Victoria.


The San Francisco Chronicle has re-
ceived through private sources q letter
written by Miss Nellie Grant to Queen
Victoria, previous to her recent visit to
Windsor Palace. 1t reads as follows:


L1NoLEY's HOTEL, May, 1872.
My Dear Lxdy and QUEEN:


1 am embarrassed at the honor of
an official request given through high
officer (youi lord chamberlain, I think, J
to be presented to your majesty. /
should dearly love to see you, that /
might tell my mother and father that /
had been thus honored. am but a
simple American girl; that I am the
presidents daughter gives me no claim
to your recognition as q sovereign. If
with the kind lady who is acting with
me as my ch0peron, might visit you
l should be very glad. Our secretary
of legation hints at some political sie-
nificance in this opportunity. I cannot
SO interpret it, and would not wish to
be so received, because it would not be
right, as I am nothing in American
politics, and I am sure that my father
would not desire me- to appear other
than as my simple, and very humble
self. If with this explanation, your
majesty will allow me to visit you. I
shall be greatly honored. and very
proud.


1 have written this note of my own
notion, and because think it the right
thing to do. lam your majesty's very
obedient servant and admirer.


NELLIE GRANT.


The reply is equally refreshing, and
betrays spirit which does more honor
to the British Queen than multitudes
of other actions for which her subjects
have loudly applauded her.


WINDSOR CASTLE.
MISS Nellie Grant:


I have instructed Lady
to convey to you this note, and We shall
receive you as the daughter of your
honored parents without intervention
of our high officers of. state. I shall
accept your visit az an American
girl, and there shall be no other sieni
fcance in the fact than your kindly ex.
pressed desire to see the lady and not
the sovereign. Isball find it pleasant
to forget that I am Queen in received
you tomorrow afternoon at our palace
OF Windsor. >. VICTORIA
Year: 1872

The Southern California (Auaheim),
of the 18th says: We saw som ethine
the other day at Los Alamites Ranch.
which We think would somewhat sur.
prise the good people away down East.
It was wild celery-a whole pond full
of it-and grown to such q prodigious
size That one stalk measured over eight
feet in height, and two inches in diane.
ter, two feet above ground. It is good
to cat ut the proper season, but it is now
too old and woody. 1t has the same
taste and smell of the tame article. and
is favorite food of wild ducks, which
flock there in great numbers to eat it.
Mr.. d. Lyons, lesse of the ranch, pro
poses to bank up and blanch some of
it another season, and see if it cannot
be made as good for man as it now is
for the birds.


IGNORANCE is not so bad as error
the former il blank sheet on which
We may write but the latter is q scrib-
blcd one from which we must first
erase. Ignorance is content to stand
still but although error moves, it goes
in the wrong direction.
Year: 1872

SHIP PBUILDNG.-Parties came up from
San Francisco by the last steamer, who
have made arrangements to build sever
al ships and brigs here during the COM
ing summer. A vessel is now on her
way up here with men and material, and
work will commence Immediately.
Year: 1872

SwAaIPED.-Jackson Price, mail car
rier between Mukelteo and Priest
Point, was placed Oh Monday last in
rather an unpleasant, if not dangerous.
position. In passing over a low piece
of ground be was swamped; luckily,
however, the telegraph operator saw him
and went to his rescue. After being
about two hours in the muck, the car
rier was rescued through the assistance
of the operator.
Year: 1872

GooD FOR THIS DATE ONLY.-The
Railway ticket agents are bothering their
brains over the question whether passen-
gers may clay over" and resume their
journey at pleasure or whether, when
they have once Quilted the cars, they have
forfeited their tickets for the remainder
of their journey. The courts have already
decided that man who buys ticket, as
it were between Boston and New York,
has the undoubted right to stop at any
place On the road and to resume his jour
ney at his leisure, without buying another
ticket. The legend, "Good for this date
only" has no value IN the eyes of any
save railway officials, and the law has de-
cided that any action taken by conductors
with view to enforcing the implied con-
tract is illegal. There the matter should
be allowed to rest. The public are salts
fed SO to leave it, and the railway COM
panies ought not to complain. II man
buy ticket for Boston, and the company
receive the money for it, there is no rea-
son why they should refuse to carry him
thither, or why they should wish to force
him to do it to suit their convenience
instead OF his own.