smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1871

Here is now field for rivalry A Lancesville man, eighty-seven years old, was born when his father was seventy eight, and he wants to know if there is an other man living whose father was born one hundred and axty-6ve years ago.
Year: 1871

'Tis not for man. O tritie. is brief,

 And sin is here. An age is but the falling of leaf

 A dropping tear. ~ We have no timo to sport away the hours . All must be earnest in Q world like ours. Not many lives, but only one, have We

 Frail, fieeting man How sacred should that one life ever be-

 That narrow spanl Day after day filled up with blessed toll, Hour after hour still bringing in new spoil
Year: 1871

1t having been announced to
me, my young friends, that you
were about forming fire COM
pany, 1 havo called you together
to give you such directions as
long experience in a frst-quality
engine company qualities me to
communicate. The moment you
hear an alarm Of fire, scream like
pair of panthers. Run any way,
except the right way-for the
furthest way round is the nearest
way to the fire. If you happen
to run on the top of wood-pile,
so much the better, you can then
get good view Of the neighbor-
hood. If a light breaks on your
view, "break" for it Immediately !;
but be sure you don't jump into a
bow wondow. Keep yelling, all
the time ; and, you can't make
night hideous enough yourself,
kick all tho dogs you come a.
cross, and Set them yelling, too !;
twill help amazingly. A brace OF
cats dragged up stairs by the tail
would bo i "powerful auxiliary"
When you reach the scene of the
fire. do all you can to convert it
into a scene of destruction. Tear
down all the fences in the vic!n-
ity. lift be chimney on fire,
throw salt down it; or, if you
can't do that, perhaps the best
plan would lie TO jerk off the
pump-handle and pound it down.
Don't forget to ycll all the while,
as it will have prodigious effect
in frightening off the fire. The
louder the better, Of course and
the more ladies in the vicinity,
the greater necessity for "doing it
brown" Should the roof begin
to smoke. get to work in good
earnest, and make any man
"smokc" that interrupts you. II
it is summer, and there are fruit
trees in the lot, cut them down,
to prevent .he fire from roasting
the apples. Don't forget to yell |!
Should the stable be threatened,
carry out the cow-chains. Never
mind the horse-he'll be alive and
kicking and if his legs don't do
their duty, let them pay for the
roast. Ditto rs to the hogs;-lct
them save their own bacon, or
smoke for it. When the roof be-
gins to burn, get a crow-bar and
pry away the stone steps ; or, If
the steps be of wood, procure an
axe and chop them up. Next,
cut away the wash-boards in the
basement story and, if that don't
stop the flames, let the chair
boards on the first floor share a
similar fate. Should the ''dcvour-
ing element" still pursue the "even


tenor of its way" you had better
ascend to the second story. Pitch


out the pitchers, and tumble out
the tumblcrs. Yell all the time !!


If you find q baby abed, fling it
into the second story window Of
the house across the way but let
the kitten carefully down in a
work-bashet. Then draw out the
bureau drawers, and empty their
contents out of the back window ;
telling somebody below to upset
the sIop-barrel and rain-water
hogshead at the same time. Of
course, you will attend to the
mirror. The further it can be
thrown, the more pieces will be
made. IF anybody objects, smash
Year: 1871

A gentleman, in describing the
absurdlty of man dancing the
polka. appropriately said that 'it
appeared as if the Individual had q
hole in his pocket, and was vainly
cndeavoring to shake q shilling
down the leg of his trousers.
Year: 1871

Hearing that the little town of Rosny,
which lies in hollow below the fort, and
between it and Avron, had been bonn
barded yesterday and this morning,
writes war correspondent of the Lon
don Times, we resolved to go and see it.
An artilleryman pointed out the road,
declaring that we might follow it safe
enough if we only ducked our heads now
and then. As the precaution could not
be taken with much effect in the car
riage, we thought it advisable to walk,
but had not gone hundred yards before
a shell whizzing close over our heads
made us duck with vengeance. 1t was
the first that had very really come near
me, though an alarmed imagination had
made me fancy myself hundred times
on the point of being hit; and if | may
venture upon rash generalization from
one solitary instance, | should say that
il must be easy enough to get out of the
way of shell, if a man does not stand
upon his dignity, hut is ready to throw
himself upon his face or rush into the
nearest hole. tNRN


We left the road Immediately at the
double quick, making a circuit TO the
left across the country, got down to Ros-
ny without again incurring any risk,
although the shells from both batteries
kept up an incessant whistling match
high above our heads. We were sur
prised, after what We had heard, to see
so few traces of bombarding about the
town. Here and there, at long inter
walls. huge hole in q roof showed where
a she'll had gone crashing through, and
near the church the statue Of a foun-
tain, once, perhaps, the pride Of the
village, lay in pitiable prostratiOn along
the ground. Il was fortunate the church
had escaped, for it has since been turned
into an ambulance, and when We were
there was filled with wounded. They
were on the point of being moved, how
ever, to Paris by railway train, the
whistle Of which considerably astonished
Year: 1871


Singular Encounter with wild


Cattle.


A correspondent of the Colussa (Cal
Sun, writes: T


A few evenings since, as James Dar-
ley and wife, who reside on the plains
near Stone Corral, in company with two
or three neighbors, were comfortably
seated around the fire talking over the
events of the day, a noise was heard
near the house, and on going out Jim
discovered two animals which he mis-
took for some cows belonging to one of
his neighbors Kissing his dogs, he ran
up and threw his hat, thinking to frighten
them, but as Jim expressed it, they
didn't scare worth d-n."


Before he had discovered his mistake
large Spanish steer, lowering his head,
rushed at him. In attempting to retreat,
Jim stumbled and fell, and the steer,
taking advantage of this, made good use
of his long, sharp horns, completely
stripping him of his coat and pants, but,
strange to say, inhicting no injury other
wise. After lying in dreadful suspense
for several minutes, Jim succeeded in
regaining his understanding, and being
rather feet of foot, reached the house in
time to enter and close the door behind
him. .a'tI
After having his wounds dressed, or
rather dressing them himself he loaded
his gun with buckshot and went out with
the determination to renew the battle,
but his antagonist had betaken himself
to other quarters. In the meantime
steer No. 2 had gone to the house of
Reynolds. distant about quarter of
mile, and another fight had taken place,
but Reynolds succeeded in keeping the
infuriated beast at bay for about an
hour, sitting on the top Of his hen-roost.
Since that night nothing has been
seen or heard of them, and if they know
what is best for their beef they will make
themselves scarce in the neighborhood
of Stone Corral.
Year: 1871

The LUUh STIIOH WHICH IL
makes is more durable and beautiful than
any other, presenting the same appear,
ance on both sides of the fabric and will
not ravel. 1t is also more. economical,
requiring oNE-THIRD LESS cotton than
any otLer kind of stitch. Being the same
on both sides, it is not necessary to use
the extremely fine sewing cotton required
by those machines which make stitch
with a ridge on the under side, which can
only be concealed by using thread too
delicate and fine to bear ordinary wear.
Year: 1871

us, as il was apparently within easy
range Of the Prussian guns, and could
have been knocked to pieces by single
cannon, until we noticed that II was pro-
tected by the red cross Of an ambulance
flag fY' ~ POO HiIiot'


One house, indeed, at Rosny had been
terribly knocked about 1t had been,
perhaps, the handsomest house there,
and the Prussians may have found out
that it was the headquarters of the
French staff. At any rate it had fer
some reason been the special object of
their vengeance, for while the houses all
around remained untouched this had
been made utterly uninhabitable, and
anything more desolate and dreary-
looking than its pretty papered rooms
unroofed and barred to the wind, and its
crumbling staircases, l have not often
seen. 4E'


Returning home we had TO take the
road Immediately behind Fort Rosny,
but the firing of the Prussians had been
so good that the risk we incurred seemed
very slight 1t so happened, however,
that as we drove past shell came flying
over the fort and pitched near enough
to the carriage to send the earth rafting
up before the windows. A bit of shell
whizzed past the coachman's head. The
horse started off at gallop, and / was
drawing down the window to tell the
coachman on no account to stop him,
when, to my astonishment the man
pulled sharp up, and asked if he might
go and pick up bit of the shell to take
home My reply, not, trust, couched
in stronger language than the occasion
warranted, started him ON again at once,
and in few seconds We were out Of
range.
Year: 1871

1t is an instrument of great versatility
in its operations. twill hem, fell, braid
cord, gather, tuck more beautifully than
any other machine in use, without bast-
ing or any preparation of the work.
Year: 1871

1t possesses the very great advantage
of carrying the work in the natural way
from left to right-which enables the
operator to handle the work more readily
and to sit upright; while machines which
carry the work from the atorrequire
an inclination Of the body forward (detri-
mental to healthy and are hard and tire
some to use.
Year: 1871

eouns cont In tomorrow coupled with an In
timation that the favor Of your future patronage
would be dispensed with.


TAsre are tho parks, however they do not go out Of
town pat shutters, put resh paint. What
you want than the parks with their splendid
spaces and trees that prmeva forest hardly sur
passt An American lady wss very angry with me BE-
cause sad-or she said said which Is the same thing


that Hyde Park and Kensngton Gardens finer than
Central Park IN NewYork. weh II Is very unpatrtotio
say so but 1t true and truth before
patriotism. Almost any square Of the Central Park
10 finer than screin Hyde Park arfully laid out
and euriousy ornamented freely admit that In
landscape gardening the NewYork park beats London
but It Ia landscape gardening alone that one wants
In the heart Of crowded city. 1t is the sense OF
room and free air and the presence OF No
ture, and just in those things the Central Park
10 lacking and the London Parks abound But the
glory Of the latter not in August after four weeks OF
blazing heat when the grass trodden and brown when
the trees yellow with dust when the water looks
stagnant and when the noble woods OF
lost something Of their GOODNESS and their depth OF
impenetrable shade. And whether It fault or not


cannot say. but they are as desolste as the stree


walked homo last night through them; and Will ask
my indignant American friend to from what point
in New-York o business man can leave his once
and walk three miles in line nearly
straight to within another half mile OF his
home In London do IL every night II please
Quitting Pail Mall at tne WesRrn emu, ny au ehuahoo
into Green Park, you may pass through Green Park,
HYDE Park to the northwestern extremity Of Kensing
ton Gardens, never touching public highway except
once Piccadlly Through this noble stretch OF
green neid and wood walked. and often walk In the
season. the rong of carriages where the drive bends
round the Of Rotten Row. great the
throng Of cabs and drays at the bottom Of Ludgae HILL


in the city itself Yesterday two carriages, and
solitary horseman cantered lstlessy up Rotten Row.


the fashion Of going out OF town fs tnot gone yet
includes people yearly just because every
year there are more people who have money and who
ape the habits Of people who had money before L
have seen many and ctics" said Thackeray, "and
noted their manners and for servy will back free
Engshman Of the respectable classes against any
Of any nation in the world or the three millions
who not respectable enough to be servie aud
who do not go out Of town, ry we'll say nothing.


I told London is not pleasant place for poor peO-
pe" said an English lady to the other day in rail-
way carriage She had lived all her life in LOndOn her
total knowledge of It's poorer millions lay in half
temptueus, wholly careless am told" She was young
and pretty and just married. why should she care TO
know whether 1t was pleasant to poor peOplei How
many Of your readers care to knowf 0%.s.
Year: 1871

There was brisk demand for money reported at the
opening and under the apprehension that the payment
for the four millions gold sold by the Treasury, yeser


day, would tighten up rates Temporarily, borrowers
started out early to make up their accounts The rates
were and per cent on railway and miscellaneous col
lateral and and per cent United States securities


The demand In the afternoon was limited and at the
close money accessible at and per cent "all
around" while round amounts OF million were offered
at per cent While this reflects the growing feeling
OF confidence and security In monetary Affairs,
these low rates provocative OF speculation which


feeds easy money In the present instance however


these rates can scarcely he taken criterion OF the
market though IL Is expected that the Bank statement


omorrow will show handsome increase In the net re-


serves of the banks from the Influx OF currency There
has been fair movement In discounts the demand De-


ing principally from outoftown BUYERS. Tho following
Year: 1871

The result of yesterdays Treasury move
ment In making additional sales OF gold, While dseon-
certing the bull clique in that market seems but to have
added fresh the fire of speculation that still RACES
in stocks day to day compelled to chronicle
higher prices. when ii would seem apparently safe
to hazard prediction of break To-day has been no
exception the general rule. The transactions In the
leading stocks have been very large amounting To what
in ordinary times would he considered enormous; and III


certain speciates such Lake Shore of which nearly
10000 shares were sold, New-York Central, Wabash,
Reading and st. Paul. the prices recorded were higher
to-day than any previous day OF the campaign Lake
Shore continues lead the market and the price stead
lily advanced to 111t from 109t, without the
frequent setbacks usually experienced in that specially
What point stock will yet attain is impossible to
predict but purchasers found in numbers who are
not wanting In the belief that the advance will not halt
permanently until least 100 is reached. The move
ment at present going forward shows at all events
great confidence Il further advance. We have no pre-
dctions TO make. The Northwest and Rock Island
shares were strong. without making any notable ad-
vance, while the upward turn In Reading seemed to be
based upon favorable reports from the mining districts
Ohio and Mississippi has been heavy, no new point being
given out Of sufficient importance TO base advance
and the old not provocative OF further rise
Western Union quiet and lower, some talk that
the next deal comprehends the skipping of the next
dividend, with view Of depressing the price prepara.
tory to fresh start The less prominent stocks were
strong and in good inquiry, while express shares were
strong and higher. The following table shows the high


est and lowest prices OF active stocks made to-day
Year: 1871

The good commercial demand for gold and the pros
pective specie shipments OF million tomorrow have
encouraged strong underone to the market to-day the
dealings during portion Of the day being animated and
the business brisk Early sales were at tdlll6 but
subsequently the price broke down TO 1lOt and later
reacted to 1il and closed steady at lll In the gold
loan market the rates and per cent, and per
cent Clearing House for carrying, and and per
cent for borrowing large number Of loans were made
fiat both in and out OF Clearing House The days busi-
ness at the Gold Exchange Bank was as follows: Gold
cleared SOS 735.OO gold balances, s2lil,65 currency
hnInncns 200 Ga The following the quotations:
Year: 1871

The well known fancy dress and millin-
ery establishment of Mrs Rose P. Thomp-
son, 273L Main street. over Singers SOW
ing machine rooms, will present q lovely
appearance this morning on the occasion
OF the fall opening. In order to make this
a more than usually brilliant event, prep
srstion has been going on for over
month in the way of selecting goods suit
able for the fall snd winter, in keeping
with the season snd c0nsonEnt with the
latest styles in ladies' apparel. Mrs.
Thompson stands away up in this line.
Many brilliant assem- blage in this city
owed much of their elegance and grace to
the genius of her establishment. The
opening to-day will be a recherche af-
fair. The advancing taste and know
ledge of our Memphis bellies induce
the exercise of superior sbillty1n the mil.
linery department. This advance Is no.
where more marked than in the reaEDs of
Mrs. Thompson. The results ofAthuch
careful and discriminating labor will be
on exhibition to-day in such q manner
that the ladies who may attend will not
only bs delighted, but instructed. With
The sc x dressing, of course, hss long since
passed into fine art; and It is but justice
to say that those who desire to keep up
with the general progress going on at the
fashionable csnters will hud it necessary
to attend Mrs. Thompson's opening tc-
day. Madame Bird, lady of great ex
psrience, has charge of the dressmsking
department. Last night we had the
pleasure to inspect the establishment after
it had been got in order for to-day's dis
play. and can only remark that we nev-
er beheld greater evidence of correct
taste, Dor a greater variety of rich and
recent styles in dresses and dress mate
rials. The ladies will miss treat If they
neglect to visit Mrs Thompson's apart
ments to-day. The opening will be in
sugurated at o'clock, and the rooms
will be crowded all day with the fashion
able and elite of the city.
Year: 1871

OF course the week has not passed
without its record of crime, and one
that seems frightiul in Its atroefty, is
The murder and suicioe of couple in
one of the lower wards In Washing-
ton. Both were young, for she wfss
but twenty and he not thirty. On
Saturday morning such silence reigned
on the floor where they lived that
neighbors forced an entrance, when
the husband was found hanging to the
bolt Of the door, suspended by q
clothes-line, and the wife sitting at the
tea-table, the repast still spread
around, but with her head bowed on
her hand, quite dead. The picture
presented was frightful, and In the
midst of all the horror q dog and kit
Ten were chasing each other, hiding
ID the folds Of the dead Woman'e dress
Jealousy vas the motive for the sad
scene presented,
Year: 1871

by good judges, that not less than three
thousand people were present.


Had not the weather looked so unfavor-
able, it is thought that twice the number
of schools and people would have come to-
gether to join in the jubilee.


All honor to old Greene the banner
county of Tennessee, in the glorious Sun
day school cause. We would that other
counties could be moved to initiate her
worthy example, in bringing the Sunday
schools of the country and towns together,
and thus encourage the soldiers in the
Sunday school army in bearing aloft the
Banner of the Cross.


Thou hast given a banner to them that
fear Thee, that it may be displayed because
of the TRUTH Oh! that the different
tribes of Israel were more united in dis
playing the " banner of TRUTH" and less
concerned shout the low partition walls
that divide them.


HERE AND THERE
Year: 1871

From the New York Tribunel


Marshal Bazaine has broken his long
silence by making a speech in defense of
his conduct during the war, before the
Committee of Military Investigation of the
National Assembly. He attributes his fail
ure at Metz mainly to the lack of ammu-
milton. This is the first time that that
excuse has ever been offered. Bazaine
himself never mentioned it in his official
report of the operations Of the army of the
Rhine, and General Coffinieres, the post
commander, has pretty clearly shown that
only the inability to provide against hun
ger was the pretext, if not the direct cause,
Of the surrender of the fortress. On the
night of the 31st of August, 1870 there was
undoubtedly an abundance of ammunition,
for four French corps succeeded in break
ing through the German line, composed
of only one and half corps; but through
bad generalship, those same vanquished
German troops were allowed to rally and
beat the greatly superior forces of the
French back into Metz. An impartial in
vestigation into the matter will convict
Bazaine of at least weakness and indecis-
ion.
Year: 1871

Knoxville enjoys peculiar advantages as
commercial city. 1t has an immense ter
ritory naturally tributary to it. Its busi-
ness men have had the capital, energy and
sagacity to improve these advantages, and
they command influence and respect rare
ly accorded the commercial men of even
much larger cities. These men have eX-
tended their business in every direction
ustl now they sell to most merchants
within a radius of one hundred and fifty
miles of this city. Their reputation has
gone far and wide, and they have given
a character to our city which we could get
i'll no other way. All this work they have
accomplished under disadvantages. Thus
Il few days ago we published an extract from
the letter of a correspondent of the Cincin-
matt Commercial, written from the Cum
berland Mountains, near hundred miles
from here, in which he spoke of every
merchant in that isolated section, drawing
his supplies from Knoxville. All that
territory naturally belongs to our city, and
If our means of transportation were in
creased, our business men would, for all
time, monopolize their trade. And this
brings us to what we said before, namely ::
that heretofore our merchants have labored
under serious disadvantages. What Knox
vile needs, not only for her merchants but
IOT ner llauuIaclurelS, Is Jle complexion OF
the cross trunk line from the Ohio to the
South Atlantic. We must have this great
road or we can never have cheap freights.
Until we secure competition in transporta-
tion, we will suffer as do all cities and
places with but one railroad.


On the Goth inst, these roads are to be
sold by the State. Knoxville is interested
in having them fall into proper hands, and
she can afford, if necessary to lose not only
all the interest she now has in them, but
give additional. 1t may not be necessary
to do either, but, if so, we ought to be
ready and willing to make the concession
We trust the opportunity now offered to
give us new and important advantages will
not pass without being improved. Knox
vile can not afford to have her interests
jeopardized by the schemes of cunning
rings, and she should see that this golden
opportunity is not lost to her, or to the
State. Have not the State Commissioners
the right to demand of the purchasers of
these roads guarantee that they will
complete them? If they are only to be
sold to a ring for speculation, what does
the State or the people gain by sacrificing
millions? This is point worth consider
ing and Investigating.