smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1875

This from a correspondent at
Rivers du Loup, Canada.


When the Grand Trunk Rail
way of Canada was completed in
1860, many of the farmers had
never heard of, much less seen, a
railway, but it soon got reported
around that passengers could
travel by it, and even cattle. A
backwoodsman, who was indebt.
ed TO a country merchant was
pushed by the latter for payment
the amount due, and the only
means of liquidating the debt was
by taking a fat OK to the Quebec
market. For this purpose he tied
his OK to the back of his cart, and
drove to the railway station, dis
tance of nine miles. On survey
ing the train and seeing an iron
railing around the platform Of the
hind car, he concluded that that
was the place to tie his OK, which
he accordingly did, taking a
place in a second-class car him
self forward. Presently the train
began to move off slowly. The
speed increased; quicker and
quicker it went. The poor man
got very fidgety, the speed still
increasing, until large drops of
sweat became visible on his brow.
BY this time the conductor had
reached his car to collect the tick
cts. Nearly out of breath, the
man ran to him, exclaiming,


"My dear conductor, my OK will
never be able to keep up to this
pace; it is not possible"


''Your OK! Keep up to this pace!
What do you mean! don't under
stand you. Have you oxen on
boardT


"Not ON board, of course. i
tied him to the railing of the hind
car"


"You tied your OK to the rail
ing of the hind car? Who told
you to do sop


"No one; but that is the way
we always do in the country"


OF course the conductor could
not stop his train before reaching
the next station, when, needless
to say, ON looking for the OK, they
found attached to the rope pair
of horns, with a small portion of
the neck.


Mr.. Bergh could scarcely call
this cruelty to animals, as it was
not intended.


The humane conductor made
collection among the passengers
on the spot, realizing larger
amount than the OK would have
brought at market, which he pre-
sented to the crest-fallen farmer,
who Immediately returned home,
vowing he would never have oxen
taken to market by railway again.
He has kept his word, and to
this day he leads his OK to mark
ct behind his own CART Har-
pcr's Magazine.
Year: 1875

BY DIR. A. II. Winfield, in th'
4 House Of Representatives.


From the Gazette.


The following is the appropriate


and eloquent prayer offered by d.


A. r. Winfield, at the opening o


the h ,use yesterday morning


which was ordered spread on ths
journal. Its pure sentiment anc
holy thought echo in many
hearts,:


"Oh, God We thank Thee fol
the blessings of the day. We ac-
knowledge Thee as the fountain
of all good, and the givcr of all
things. Thou art the only true
and living God, and we bow in
profound alteration before Thy
throne and offer our sacrifice OF
thanksgiving. We thank Thee for
the day. We thank Thee that
Thou hast make us in Thine own
image, and created us to work out
a grand destiny and to fulfill a
glorious mission, Thou hast
made us to be free and happy
here, and to live with God forever.
May we by no wickedness Of ours
thwart the promise Of Heaven,
and Danish ourselves from Thy
presence, but may we endeavor to
serve our generation by the will
of God and finally be saved. We
thank Thee that the clouds are
passing away, and that
the sun will soon gild the heavens,
and fairy spring will soon adorn
the earth with birds and flowers,
and warm the earth with life from
the winter of death. We thank
Thee for the tidings of to-day.
We thank Thee for the signs of
peace returning to our poor, op-
pressed State. We thank Thee
that our POLITICAL sky is becom-
ing clear and bright. We thank
Thee that the tyrant's heel of op-
preston is lifted from the neck of
our state, after many years of suf-
fering and oppression. We pray
that we may now prove ourselves
worthy of the blessings of free
dom, and that not only our state,
but that our whole country may
breathe the air of freemen. May
we indulge no sins, individual or
national that will call for the
judgements of Almighty God.
God grant that reason and moder-
alton may rule the power. May
we rise above all passion and pref
udice. and give to every man,
without any relation to color or
previous condition, the right to
work out their own destiny, and
enjoy all the blessings of freedom.
May God bless our governor and
all our state officers, and give
them wisdom to carry out the
great purposes Of government
May God bless Arkansas, and
may she now 60 forward in the
great work of progress and i'm
provement, and become one of the
brightest stars of this union.
May God bless our Legislators,
and direct them to proper conclu-
sions and wise legislation. We
thank Thee that after many
months of toll without
fee or reward, they have
toiled on till the day
of deliverance has come, and now
their day Of reward has come in
the smile ofGod and the plaudits
of their countrymen. Bless their
families; bless our whole country;
bless all now. Be pleased, oh,
Lord! to bring all these men in
safety to their homes, and amid
the congratulations oftheir neigh
bors and families may they find a
full reward of all their toll. May
God grant that we may all live
well, die happy, and be saved in
Heaven for Christ's sake. Amen.


Value of Time.-As nothing
Year: 1875

Has the largest circulation of any paper in
the State. outside of Little Rock, and is not
surpassed by any other paper in the South
west being circulated in nearly every town
and city in the south and west. and read by
an intelligent, enterprising people.
Year: 1875

Who is wise? He that is teach
able. Who is mighty? He that
conquers himself. Who is rich
He that is contented. Who is
honored9 He that honoreth 9th
ers.


Charity is never lost, it may
meet with ingratitude, or be of no
sevice to those on whom it was
bestowed, yet it ever does a work
Of beauty and grace upon the
heart of the giver.
Year: 1875

A new work has recently been
published entitled Man and Beast,
in which the author, the Rev. }. G.
Wood, seeks to show that the low
CT animals possess those mental
and moral characteristics which in
human beings are supposed to per-
tain to the soul. In support Of
this theory he narrates many sto.
ries, among them one concerning Il
duck whose mate was stolen. The
morning after her loss the duck
commenced morning for her drake,
and refused to be comiorted, but
nursed her sorrow in silence and
far away from the other ducks and
brakes. Some time elapsed but it
did not mitigate her grief. One
day very young drake, whose
duck had been killed. waddled up
to the supposed widow and sought
to console her, but she refused his
consultations. He then sought to
force them upon her, whcreupon
she made 1t 50 hot for him he skunk
away. A few days after this, the
long-lost drake was discovered and
brought back, whereupon his duck
was so overcome with joy that she
did nothing but quack for half a
day. After this periorman e, she
and the drake retired TO n sccIud-
cd spot where she informed him of
the proposals which had been made
to her by the other drake. The
result was, that they hunted hIm
up and gave him the sevorest kind
| of chastisement for his conduct.
Year: 1875

brute. I'm to be called a hussy,
am !, after working my knuckles
off for you, and shaving Tor thirty
years. There, she Grid in a parox-
ysm, throwing the malIet on the
ground, take your old croquet and
shove it down your throat, and
choke yourself to death with it. If
you want to. And don't you ever
ask me to play with you again,
or II! tell you something you'll
remember the longest day you
live


And she bounced INTO the house
leaving HIM standing there and
rubbing his hand in "a bonumbed
sort of way. But almost immedi-
ately after she thrust her head out
the window, and snapped out:


you needn't think you are gong
to get any hot biscuit for your tea
in this house this night, young
man, and you can put that in your
pipe and smoke it just as soon as
you have a mind to-.
Year: 1875

Each one OF us has a different
Satan. Satan comes TO one man in
the form OF idleness, and makes
him waste day after day, year after
year, until he has wasted his whole
life dong nothing. Satan comes
to another man as work, and makes
him destroy himself in the oppo-
site way by wearing ont prcma-
turely his brain and his body. lie
comes to another as christian zeal
and the man becomes bigot, full
of fire for the Lord but the Lord
he serves is n God Of wrath, u God
who cares for trifles, God who
prefers sacrifice TO mercy. lie
comes to another as charity, but ii
is as charity which tolerates evil
and lets it clone, which has nc
edge TO it, no courage an indo
lent charity, which is not love at
al, but only easy good nature. Sc
he DISCUSSES himself rs an angel o
light, calling himself patriotism
when he wishes TO make nation.
hate each other; calling himscl
christianity when he wishes tC
make men persecute each other
calling himself honesty when h'
wishes TO encourage Il man IN hi
rude and OVerbearing ways; ant
so on, changing himself into every
virtue and every grace.
Year: 1875

The prevalence OF the base
ball fever was observable the other
day in one of our best families,
where at the breakfast table, the
eldest boy had occasion to ask for
another biscuit. "Give me a hot
one, mother" he said, "and send II
with twist His father lmme-
diately batted HIM out and scored
Year: 1875

"A young lady with the indie
Gently fashionable tight dress,
tried to sit down at party and
had 10 lean to one side. A sympa-
thetic old woman whispered to her
-'got a bile haln't your I've had
Year: 1875

\ BEAUTIFUL WOMAN-The perceptive
faculty of woman Is usually keener than
the same chronological organ in men.
Woman knows that beauty rather than
genius is worshiped by the sterner sex.
4 man may talk with his lips of the lat
ter to his lady-love, but the keenness of
the woman knows he is thinking of the
former in his heart. All women have an
innate desire TO please their bsGur. They
are fond of admiration, hence one of
their longingS is 10 be beautiful The
grand secret of female beauty is health
the secret Of health is the power 10 eat,
digest and aSSimilate proper quantity
of wholesome food. Take VINEGAR BIr-
TIERS. 1t will cleanse the stomach, tone
the vital organs, give perfect digestion,
purify the blood, clear up the complexion
and produce a state of mental and phys
ical electricity which gives symmetry of
form, bright eyes, white skin, glossy
hair and genuine type of female love
illness which no cosmetic can compare
with. ~
Year: 1875

We learn that The Cooperative Stove Co.,
of Cleveland, are the only manufacturers Of
the celebrated Rotary Soft Coal Base Burner,
said TO be the cheapest, most economical,
powerful heating, durable and only successful
hasc-hurncr stove for soft coal yet produced
Gail at your stove dealers and see the
Rotary
Year: 1875

There is an artful dodger in Paris
whose operations have been so clever as
to deserve respectful notice he is a
middle-aged person of an innocent as
pect, and his pretty plan was to meander
slowly along, and, seizing the first mild
eyed old gentleman he met, to lisp in a
childlike manner: "Totty has lost his
NANNY; take Totty back to nanny"
The mild-eyed would naturally feel some
what confused and alarmed, when to
him would further appear a confederate
of Tottys, who would remark in accents
bland that Totty was harmless idiot,
and if the stranger would see lofty
home it would be real charity. Fired
by benevolence, the old gentleman would
undertake to bear the soft, sweet lofty
to his abode, and would trot along the
boulevards among the toy-shops, which
appeared to enchant Totty. That gen.
tie being would observe: "Totty wants
harlequin; buy Totty harlequin" and
his antique warder would hasten to graf
ify that mild longing. Before the ingen-
ious Totty reached his home he was usu-
ally laden with the marketable results
of the kind-hearted old creatures benev,
olence, and did thriving business until
several benefactors happened to COM
pare notes, and Totty's innocent industry
was quenched.
Year: 1875

THE following correspondence, says
the Chicago Post and Mail, which has re-
Gently passed between new gospeler
and one of the railway Superintendents
in this city, explains itself:
"DEAR SIR-Over twenty years ago i
rode upon the trains of your road three
times between - and - without pay
ing fare. Once upon passenger train
the conductor passed me, supposing
that had paid. Once upon a freight
apd once upon an excursion train where
I purposely avoided paying fare. Three
times in all. ] am now trying to preach
the Gospel and wish to clear my con-
science of this wrong. Please let me
know how much money I must send to
make restitution. Respectfully yours,


&C
Year: 1875

aDEAR SIR: Yours of the 26th, ex-
pressing your contrition for riding upon
the trains of this company without pay
ing fare, Is at hand. Your repentance is
evidently SO sincere that / am not dis
posed to press you for payment OF the
fare at this late day; and if you will give
us the benefit of your prayers Tor as
many years in the future as. you nave
had the benefit of the fare in the past
we will eaD the account square. ;,


Very trl1ly, -"
Year: 1875

To the above number of twenty one contested
seats may possibly be added others. Some OF the
above also may not be brought before the House
at ALL The seat for Delegate of Idaho Territory
is contested by Samuel S. Fem, Democrat.
Year: 1875

how very beautifully it is done, and how


nicely bonds are sold in New York at eighty


i've cents and bought here afterwards at sew


enty-tWo and One-haf cents to I'LL the New


York purchasers order. Publish these facts


and all the bankers in the United States


viii rush down upon Austin and we will


have all the money in the country. There
can be no doubt about it. The pamphlet
might be somewhat historical and tell curl
Gus little incidents about other operations
in contracts and finances which people re-
member now and begin to inquire into.
One mishap always breeds another, and one
little oOntretemPs is the sure precursor of
another tempest. There are other financial
and business operations and financial re-
ports that need ventilation and all these
may yet be discussed. Meanwhile the best
thing the city government can do, now
that it must keep close to shore and can
nevermore use the city's credit, will be to
provide for the future. 1t could make no
expenditure so wisely as that proposed in
behalf Of the descriptive pamphlet, and if it
fail the people themselves should furnish
the money required to make the pubIica-
ton. But the duty is that of the city and
county governments.
Year: 1875

1t is strange that newspapers still pirate
about injecting all sorts of acts of legisla-
tion into the Constitution. Laws are one
thing; a Constitution is quite another,


since it is the basis for laws. A Constltu-
ton creates the State; the Legislature
makes the States laws. Those creating a
Constitution have achieved their mission


when they have framed government; law
givers come after them to restrict and regu-
late society and individuals. Leave the
Legislature plenary powers. Its, members
will be as wise as they whe frame the Con-
stitution. They have the advantage, too,


of learning each successive day and year
new facts and new necessities, and should


be restricted in nothing save that they must
provide that pure republic be maintained.
They are never dangerous while RESPONSE
bic to the people, and if this force fail to
restrain them, constituti ,nal limitations Of
power would be ropes ,f sand. The fear
of punishment, present or future, for per
jury is not half so potent as fear of public
opinion. If the Christian religion dealt
with this world alone, and punishments and
rewards were the same as now prescribed,
save that they were made temporal, the
world would be ehristianized instantly.
Public opinion will never lose its force TILL
oaths may no longer bind mems consciences,
and public opinion is the surest guardian
of popular rights. The purpose is proclaimed
by one to prevent forever the creation of any
public debt beyond fixed sum, and yet, ten
or twenty years hence, war may make
public debt a public necessity, if not, as
deemed by Radicals in power, a pub
lie blessing. Experience of States and
cities and facts constantly cumulative
win soon determine the question of
public policy and its disposition may
be safely entrusted by constitu-
tion makers of to-day, to lawgivers of to-
the latter necessarily knowing
more of the results of legislation affecting
this matter than we ourselves. If suffrage
had not been grossly polluted by sectional
folly and fanaticism there would be no diff
ference of opinion perhaps as to the mode
of creating the Judiciary, but the necessity
for the exemption of judges from popular
prejudices and influences may make their
election by the Legislature and Governor
desirable. But it was not our purpose to
speak of these details but only to refer to
the necessity for that restriction Of consti-
tutional provisions which may leave to fu-
ture legislators and people the greatest
possible degree of freedom in facts and
forms of society and government, and we
may modestly suggest that there is no
aspirant for place in this coming consti-
tutional convention who would not derive
infinite advantage from the careful perusal
of volume recently published containing
the debates from which were evolved the
new Constitution of Penpsylvan1a. 10 ~
Year: 1875

Z WE are told that the price of broom corn
has varied for four years from $40 to $12O
per ton in st. Louis. Now that Austin and
its vicinage will have direct access to st.
Louis over the International road, and since
we have here growing broom factory, it


would be well for all farmers in this vicinity
to see that at least every fence corner is
studded with stalks of broom corn. It is
still true that corn crop is infinitely more
valuable than crop of broom, corn. The
latter is perhaps used in making "clean
sweep" of city's credit and funds.
Corn, on the contrary, is convertible into
the very elixir Of life, while modern modes
Of city fnanciering and the juice Of corn
only make ones head swim.
Year: 1875

IT is said that yellow fever is at Key
West. The rumor is of doubtful authen-
ticity, but the fact, if fact, makes the
convocation Of doctors on the sixth instant,


in this city, Of infinite interest. They can
tell one another what they have learned
about the course Of this epidemic, and
what agencies may be most successfully en-
ployed TO arrest its progress. It Is under
stood that all educated physicians those
who may show, by diplomas or otherwise,
that they have been taught the seiencs OF
medicine, without regard to the mode Of
practice preferred, will be admitted to
seats in the convention. Is this truef
Who can tellG 80 w dif.
Year: 1875

AhcHBIsHcP McCLosKEY having been
raised to the dignity Of cardinal, It win be
etiquette for him always to appear in a COS
tune some portion Of which shall be scar
let. This regulation is said to have caused
Cardinal Manning in England some annoy
ance until his couDtrymen became familiar
lied with his new ecclesiastical garb and
equipage, and win probably produce the
same result in New York. It is supposed
to Symbolic the special readiness Of digni-
taries Of that class to shed their blood for
the good Of the church. The full dress Of
a cardinal Is one Of the most gorgeous and
striking costumes worn By civilized men.
Year: 1875

in all the daily uses Of life, to elevate Him
before the people is to elevate His truth in
our affections, and let it shine forth in our
deeds. SO far as any form Of worship or
auy doctrine Of truth helps Us to live a
heavenly life, it is useful. So far as It
tends to conceal the essence, in the form, to
substitute the apparent and accidental for
the substantial and permanent, it is him
drance. So far as the fOrmalities OF wor-
ship conceal its true object, and lead the
mind to rest in the form, and-tO think that
true and acceptable worship has been OIL


fered when the ritual observance has been


fully complied with, it must be harmful to


the last degree. f t ne nt
Year: 1875

Whenever the bank becomes private
bank, its private Affairs are as sacred "a
those Of any o.her private concern, and,
even now, we have nothing to do with the
bankers as individuals. It is their public
acts that concern the public which the peo-
pie and press win talk about.
Year: 1875

Very certainly yellow fever is epidemic
at Key West and its destructiyeness at forts
TAYLOR and Worth is asserted. Ordinarily
this malignant disease docs not reach the
Florida coast till late in the summer or fall,
and since the season has been extraordinary
in many aspects we should provide against
the possible appearance Of the epidemic in
this city. There are filthy drains and sew
ers and vaults and cellars everywhere, we
are told, along the Avenue. There are de-
positories for garbage from taverns and
boarding houses that will emit deadly
efiuvia and if there be idle policemen thel
should at once bestir themselves in having
nuisances abated. The bond selling bust
ness having failed and our city government
having won no profits or honors, it ma,
now render itself as useful in assuring pub
lie health as in destroying public credit an'
thus regain a share of lost public conf
dence.
Year: 1875

ought to be given to these directors to show
that they are innocent. If, on the other hand,
the charges are sustained, system of fraud
and peculation will be developed astounding
in its proportions, even in these days of gi-
gantic embezzlement.


recommend the appointment of a commit
tee, as asked for in the resolution, with author
ity to sit during the mornings of Congress,
and with power to send for persons and pa
pers and to report as soon rs practicable
Year: 1875

Last Tuesday morning, about 10 clock, the
workmen engaged in the header of the Sutro
tunnel fired a blast, the explosion of which
was Immediately followed by a heavy rush
of water. The men were back about fifty
feet from the face of the tunnel, in short
tunnel, when the blast was fired. Hearing the
rushing sound of the water, they fled toward
the mouth of the tunnel Before they reach
ed place where they could get out of the
tunnel the water was above their knees. The
volume of water which thus rushed out of
the face Of the tunnel amounted to about one
hundred and twenty five inches. 1t not only
filled the drain cut in the bottom Of the tun-
mel under the track, but rose to such hight
as to float and tear up the car track itself.
Wednesday the yolnme of water remained
about 1875 inches, but yesterday it decreased
to 90, at which it continued last evening. The
point where the water was tapped was about
$50 feet from shaft No. 2. At first it was
thought that it was from the shaft that the
water was coming, but subsequent examina-
ton shows that the decrease of the water in
the shaft is no more rapid than it was before
the stream was tapped in the header, namely:
about IS inches per day. They have been
unable to do any work in the tunnel since
striking the water, but the reservoir from
which it proceeds will probably run dry in a
few days.-Ente1prtse.