smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1873

poke with the whip-stock, and she
peeled it faster than ever.


"The man called out to me twice
more pretty soon after this, and as he
got no reply, he made some tremendous
efforts to break the door open, and as
this failed him he made several attempts
at the top. But 1 had no fears of his
doing anything there, for the top of
the cart is framed with dovetails, and
and each sleeper bolted to the posts
with iron bolts. I had it made so
could carry loads there. By-and-by,
after all else had failed, the scamp COM
menced to holler whoa to the horse,
and kept it up until he became hoarse.
All this time I kept quiet, holding the
reins firmly and kept poking the mare
with the stock. We were not an hour
going that dozen miles-not bit of it..
hadn't much fear; perhaps I might
tell the truth and say had none, for I
had good pistol, and more than that
my passenger was safe; yet I was glad
when came to the four-barrel factory
that stands at the edge of jackson vii
lage, and in ten minutes more hauled
up in front of the tavern, and found q
couple of men in the barn cleaning down
some horses.


"Well, old fellow said I, as I got
down and went to the back of the wag-
on you have had good ride, haven't
you?'


"'Who are your he cried; and he
swore as he asked the question.


eel am the man you tried to shoot,
was my reply.


"' Where am I? Let me out


6" Look here, we've come to a safe
stopping place, and mind! my pistol is
ready for you the moment you show
yourself. Now lay quiet


"By this time the hostlcrs had come
to see what was the matter, and I ex-
planned the case. After this I got one
of them to run and rout the Sheriff, and
tell him what believed I'll got for him.
The first streaks of light were just COM
ing, and in an hour it would be broad
daylight. In less than that time the
Sheriff came, and two men with him.
I told him the whole affair in few
words, and then made for the cart.
He told the chap inside who he was
and if he made the least resistance he'd
be dead man. Ithen slipped the iron
wrench out, and as I let the door down /;
the fellow made spring. I caught him
bv the ankle and he came down on his
face. and the moment saw the chap 1
recognized him. He was marched to
the lookup, and I told the Sheriff l
should remain in town all day.


"After breakfast the Sheriff came
down to the tavern and told me that 1
had caught the very bird, and if l would
remain until the next morning should
have the reward of two hundred dollars
that had been offered.


ct found my goods all safe, paid the
express agent for bringing them from
Indianapolis and then went to stow
them away in my cart. The bullet
holes were found in the top OF the We
hicle Just as I expected. They were in
linevabout five inches apart, and had
| I been where I usually sit, two OF them
sthave hit me in the small OF the
back, and both charges Of powder were
heavy ones.


"I afterwards found letter in the
Post Office at Portsmouth for mo, from
the Sheriff of Hancock county, and he
informed me that the fellow who tried
to kill and rob me was in prison for
life"


Day- While Unitarian young men aro
Year: 1873

HENRY WARD BEEcHER ON THE FU-
TURE STATE.-Rev. Henry Ward Beecher,
in a recent sermon surprised somo OF his
hearers by espousing Universalist doc
trines. He chose for his text the words I:
"For The former things are passed away"
Revelations 2l:4. MIR. Beecher said: "In
this world men experience sorrow and
trial, their hopes are disappointments, their
aspirations failures but there comes
world in the future in which all this, the
former things shall have passed away for
ever. Did souls pass Immediately into
blessedness after they quilted this state, or
did they lie as the Jews believed in vast
receptacle, awaiting the last day? The
New Testament was not clear on the sub
ject, but by implication its teaching was
that they rose at once into the Divine pres
ence. No allusion was made by Paul to
an interval or dormant state, and yet he
made constant reference 10 the state after
death. He never intimated that the soul
took sort OF unconscious vacation await
ing general ingathering to the spiritual
sphere. nor did such an idea address itself
to any human instinct which desired 10 be
true. Pauls doctrine was "absent from
the body, present with the Lord-out OF this
into that" There was a sprig Of immed-
iatism in his doctrine. If there was great
slumberous interval after death, why was
there no hint of it in the word of God?


Mr.. Beecher did not affirm with arrogant
positiveness that this doctrine was true and
none other, but he thought that Scripture
warranted the presumption that they had
a right TO believe so. They may conceive,
said MIR. Beecher, how men when they
were not fit for earth might nevertheless
enter heaven, and heaven might develope
what earth might never develope. One
might conceive people are unified by force
of animal passions for spiritual life, who
nevertheless when death took away what
was their bane in earth might begin good
life in future state. Men whom society
rejects now may get standing room in
heaven, not high up, but a starting place.
Year: 1873

shaft in mandatory Of buttons, in Nau-
gaiuck, Conn. The accident was a very
serious one, as the seal p was torn from the
entire skull.


We are in receipt Of letter from the
young lady in question, who confirms ev-
cry particular of the account given, and
who states that she is now entirely rocov-
ed, though she is forced TO wear a wig to
replace the natural hair lost by the injury.
She adds TO our statement, that she had
over thirty pieces of skin taken from her
person and grated upon her head.


We are greatly pleased to learn of the en-
tire recovery of this young lady, not only
on her own account, but in the interest of
surgical science. The case is one of the
most remarkable on record, and its sue
cessful issue will form precedent for the
treatment of similar cases hereafter.
American artisan.
Year: 1873

Father Hyacinthe insists on still remain
ing Catholic, and believes that he can do
so. Protestanism Is not sufficiently church
ly for him. In his fifth lecture at Geneva
he said that for the building of reformed
Catholic Church there were three plans !:
"The first would reconstitute 1t on the basis
of simple deism. This he rejected, because
deism was only q philosophy, and not
religion. The second was to accept Prot
estantism as a solution of the problem !;
but Professionalism had not preserved enough
of the Church. For him more symbols
were necessary. He wanted the chain Of
efficacious sacramerts, embracing the
whole life OF man from baptism to extreme
JUNCTION he wanted historical hierarchy
and visible centre of unity, such as now
at Rome, but might be elsewhere in the
future" 1t remains TO he seen if this scheme
of Church reorganization is feasible
Year: 1873

REMARKABLE REcovERY.-our readers
will recollect an article published in our is
sue of May 10, giving an account of the
scaiping of young lady, who was so un-
fortunate as TO he caught by revolving
Year: 1873

The Washington correspondent of
the New York Sun draws the follow
log pen portrait of Old Mobilier."


Ames is he most cheerful looking
person Of the whole sorry lot. I see
the Sun calls him that ''great aud good
man." Great he certainly is. He Is
the most ponderOus member Of either
House. He stands about six feet three
inches, and weighs well on toward
800. He has immense arms and feet,
and his long jaws and stupendous
nose constitute by far the greater part
of his person above the bread, round,
STOPPING shoulders. He is pointed
out hundred times from the CALLER.
les every day as Old Mobilier. 1t was
an amusing spectacle to see him re-
Gently with his great feet restilg on
the arms of another chair, looking
over, in his heavy way the famous
memoranda" wherewith he Was go
ing to corner and crush those who
had taken his stock and moneys, and
then rspudiated them while 10 re-
mote corners of the hall some Of his
victims could be seen nerYiously
watching his aged eye and bObbing
ABOUT like birds under the charms Of
a serpent.
Year: 1873

The young man who has an ambi
! tiOn TO make great noise in the world
should learn boiler making. He can
make more noise at that trade than at
anything else he can engage in.
If he believes man should "strike
for wages" he should learn black
smithing-especiaily if he is good at
"blOwing"


If he would embrace a profession in
which he can raise rapidly he should
become an eronaut. He couldn't find
anything better ''fOr high"


He certainly could do a staving (and
perhaps a starving) business at the
cooper trade.


If ne believes in measures, not
men," he will mbark in the tailoring
business.


If the one great object of his life is
to make money, he should get posi-.
tion in the United States mint.


II he Is punetual sort of a chap,
put his hands to watch making.


If he believes it the chiefend Of man
to have his business largely "felt,"
why of course he will become a halter.


1fhe wants to ''get at the root of q
thing" he will become dentist; al
though, if he does. he will often be
looking down in the mouth"


If a man is bungler at his best he
should become a physician, and then
he will have none of his bad work
thrown upon his hands. 1t is general
ly buried out of his sight, you know


Should he incline TO high living, but
prefer plain board, then the carpen-
ter's trade will suit him. He can
plane board enough at that.


If he is needy and well bred, be will
be right at home as a baker


He shouldn't becomea cigar maker
If he does, all his work will end in
smoke.


The young man who enjoys plenty
of cOmpaI Y, and is ever ready 10
scrape acquaintance, will find the
barber business a cOngenial pursuit.


The quickest way for him to ascend
to the top round of his calling is to
become a.hod carrier.


A very grave" young man might
flourish as an undertaken.


Don't learn chsir making, for no
matter how well you please your
they will sooner or later |
''Eet down" on your work.


And don't become an umbrella |
maker, for their business is fused up"


If he would have his works touch |
the heads of the nation, we know of |
DO way he could sooner accomplish |
such an object than by making combs. /


The young man who would have ;he |
fruits of his labor brought before the |
eyes of the people will become an Op
.ician. The work, being easily seen
through, cannot be difficult to learn


A man can always make a scent in
he perfumery business.


If II young mau is a paragon of
honor, truthfulness. sobTiety, has new
sr sworn a profane word, aud has $50,
100 that he has no use for, then he
should Immediately staIt-a newspa-
Der.
Year: 1873

A book of ESSAYS, written by Rich
ard a. Proctor, of Cambridge, has
been published, from which the fol-
lowing Is taken:


The fact is that, although when
contemplating our solar system we
are struck by the evidence of adApta-
tion TO the wants of living creatures,
it is when we attempt 10 conceive the
immensity of that space, thrOnged
with suns, which lies beyond the solar
system, that We are most powerfully
impressed with the conviction that
there must be other inhabited worlds.
Insignificant as our earth undOu6ted-
ly j. when her dimensions are COM
pared with the magnificent proper
lions of many of the other planets,
and still more when considered with
reference TO the grandt ur of the solar
system itself, we have a far more START
ling contrast To contemplate when we
compare the solar IysJem with the di-
mensiOus of the sideriaI scheme
From the nearest of the fixed stars the
orbit of Neptune would have an ap-
parent diameter scarcely equal to one
sixth of the moons, and the orbit of
the earth would be but as a point
Even the gigantic orbit of Nept, ne
would seem but a point, rs seen from
many of the stars which shine con
spicuously in our heavens. But the
lucid stars, far of rs they are from Us,
are quite close in comparison with the
stals which come into view under the
searching eye of the telescope. Ithas
been calculated that some of the stars
seen with Lord Roses telescope,
shine from such an enormous distance
that the light takes upwards of 50, 200
years in travelling to US from them
Now consider for q moment the flight
of a light-ray from star at this dis
tance on one side Of our system to an
other as far off on the opposite side.
For 100000 years the light speeds on
ward-each second passing over near
ly 200. 900 miles; past stars and sys-
TENS TO which it comes not near
During 5000 generations Of mortal
men-if one can conceive that our
race could last out that time-the pull
saIiOus of the other are transmitted
along the tremendous line which sep
arates the two stars Yet dnTiug that
time-if we are TO accept the opinion
of those who hold that our earth Is
the only inhabited wOrld-the onward
rushing light never approaches SIN =
gle spot where sentieot beings are to
be found, save one tiny glO0e, around
which il could circle eight times in one
of the seconds which makes up the
vast psriod of its flight"
Year: 1873

and the road resembled the approach
es TO the building of Hanover College
so much that we almost expected to
see that venerable edifice appear; but
the illusion was soon dispslled by some
emphatically Mexican features. At
the distance OF two leagues we could
see the city of our destination but
two weary hours passed ere we reach
ed it and drove in under the lighted
street lamps (which are suspended
over the middle of the street. and
stopped at the door of the hotel in San
Luis Potosi.-C Correspondence Herald
and PreSGUter.
Year: 1873

1 Tn the wreck of. the NorthAeet. C one navvy who was saved was heard by the correspondent of the London Syamdard saying:1 ''When I saw what was up, I said, ses I, I'm agoin' to die, and may as well do it as comfortable as I can,' and so I lit my pipe" There was no high feeling in that man, but there was an infinite capacity for discipline. Fear did not over power him in any degree He thought smoke even in the face of death still an object worth desiring.
Year: 1873

Corporation Counsel Smith has written a long
opinion to the Corporation, in which he declines to
take up an appeal in the OF Jacob Soils Ritter
band, counsel for the Commission or Taxes and
Assessments, who has obtained mandamus
against the Comptroller to pay his salary at the
rate OF $4,000 year. The Comptroller believes
that the salary should be only $4,000, but the Cor
poration Counsel thinks differently. At the close
OF his opinion he says:-


Under circumstances, advise you that
appeal IRON the order directing the writ of mandamus
issue would be wholly rutess; that the defence of
want of Appropriation topay the claim could not
be set up II such appeal were aken that such defence
tlemen who usually furnish such info nation and make
aidavits be used in the courts In reference such
matters positively declined to make such afdavits in
this that such aidavits, made would have been
by the Finance Department Is to audit and pay
f1,a ctatu AT
Year: 1873

meeting of the Dock Commissioners was held
yesterday, when in answer to a communication
from the Pacific Mail Steamship Company, relating
to the proposed enlargement and Improvement Of
the Offices on pier AZ North River, and asking as.
surances Of OF the premises for 10 years
from January l, 1874. the Board replied that it
unwilling to give guarantee OF a continued occu-
pancy OF said premises, the design Of the Board
being to proceed as rapidly as possible with the
permanent Improvement OF the water front, and
that in the opinion OF the Board, 1t would be In
judicous for the company at present TO make any
expensive improvements.
Year: 1873

Commissioner Van Mort. OF the Department OF
Public Works, has transmitted to the Board of As
SCISSORS the certificate the cost or regulating and
grading Seventy-fith street, from Fifth avenue to
the East River, amounting to Sl2l, ia, in order
that the assessment therefor may be made
Year: 1873

Now that the holidays are upon us, the
long and dismal period Of financial dist ress
is coming to close, and merchants and me-
chanics are alike rejoicing in the approach
of better times with the new year, the
wicked spirit of anarchy and disorder
threatens again to lift it's head in our midst.


Not satisfied with the mischief they have
done our city in the past year, not satisfied
with the expense they have inflicted upon
the people, and careless of the vain and un-
necessary blood caused to be shed in their
former disorderly enterprises, the handful
of Fusion leaders who created the disorders
of the past and went un whipped of justice,
are canvassing the subject of reinaugurat
ing new reign Of outlawry and crime.


In proof of this, we are informed that on
Christmas day Colonel John McEnery ad-
dressed a communication to General
Emory, in which he declares it to be his
intention to reconvene the Fusion Legisla-
ture of last year, and asks the General if
the assembling of the body will be inter
fered with by him. He asks. in case Kel-
logg should interfere with the assembling
of the body and order it to be dispersed,
will the General assist therein. And he
asks the General if he will sustain kellogg
in case the body should resist him with
force of arms.


To these three interrogatories it may be
surmised what answer the bluff old soldier
gave the inquirer. 1t was in substance, we
hear, as follows That he had been hereto
fore instructed to prevent all violent demon
stration and preserve peace and order. and
that his orders had not been counter
manded.


This is but glimpse of what may come.
But We know the masses of our community
are heartily sick of such political escapades
as the Fusionists treated them to a year
ago, and will not submit to them any more
Those who propose to try their hands at
them again, Will do well to give the matter
careful thought before they go step too
far. The time has passed when riOtous
mob, infiamed by incendiary hsrangues,
and inspirited by vile whisky, can be per-
mitted to defy the law and its officers in
their crusades of riot, intimidation and pill
lage, The FIRST overt act, therefore, on the
part of the Fusionists. or their leaders, will
find the State executive prepared aud de-
termined, without invoking the military
aid Of the government; and the pathway to
the Penitentiary will be found to be short
and straight Let Mr.. McEnery's friends
take warning. and see to it that he involves
them in no further mischief.
Year: 1873




We are informed that on Saturday even
ing last an attempt was made on the life of
John T. Yates, sheriff OF Red River parish.
The court had been for some days in ses-
sion at Coushatta, and in order to clear the
docket the Judge had remained on the
bench up to about nine O'Clock on Saturday
evening. Upon adiouruing the sheriff
stepped to the door, in conversation with
lawyer, when gun was discharged at him,
load of twelve buckshot entering his right
breast. At last accounts the sheriff was
lying in precarious condition, though the
wounds are considered not necessarily fa-
tai. A man named Newt. Giliem was ar
rested few moments after the shot was
fired, with gun in his hand, and was
identified at once by the sheriff as his in
tended murderer, his face having been dis
tinctly seen in the light made by the dis
charge of the piece. The assassin is a well
known Democrat, and the sheriff claims to
know of no personal grounds for tho as
af,If
Year: 1873

went after her three times before he brought
her. His wife lived at Hazlettville. While at
his fathers this time went aud got tub OF water
and two cats, or kittens aud washed them,
wrapped them up and hung them up in a basket
TO dry He Isaac) was kind to witness but the
kindness was that of u child rather than that OF
a man. He wanted the witness to play with him
the witness prepared dinner and left it to go to
church 10 have it eaten cold on her return, but
prisoner in the meantime cooked warm dinner
He on one occasion went to visit rela-
tive and the whole family were sur
prissd to find him home late that night. They
found that he had made his wife and child get
up after tLey had gone to bed in order that they
all might come home. The change after 1863,
gave the witness great trouble, very fearful lest
he Qsaac) should entirely lose his mind. He
went to basket-meeting (pcnic) and came
home in the same unaccountable manner as in
the last instance


Cross erdHined. The husband Of witness is
81 or 68 years old. The instance spoken OF was
the only time that her husbands condition had
given the witness any uneasiness. This was in
the winter OF 1886. Had chills just before his
time (husband) which had weakened his body
considerably. Isaac was the only child born
after this time.


Examined again by defendants counsel. There
was a looking glass fell while he was studying III
parlor one day, which 80 unnerved him that he
could not sleep that night.
Year: 1873

THERE are many errors in the Cali
fornia school system that should be
remedied, but one Of the most glaring
is failure In the law to prescribe the
qualification for school trustees.
Those who are elected to the Office of
trustee, and cannot read and write,
are not well qualified to direct the
educational interests of their respec-
tive districts. No one should be eligi-
BILE who cannot read or write some
language. Fraud and corruption will
creep Into the management Of the
finances where ignorance reigns.
Year: 1873

Up to the present writing we
have had no later news than that
brought by the Belle Memphis on
Wednesday last from tho stricken
city. On the day previous to that
that on which she left port, Crues-
day. the mortuary report was
cighty-onc, of which the greater
part was from yellow fever. This
was the day after the first frost,
and an increase of mortality was to
be expected, but by the next steam
'er we hope to hear brighter and
more cheering news. God grant
it! The writer was in the city
several days last week, and though
we have seen the plague in its worst
forms several times IN Mobile and
New Orleans, we have never wit.
messed anything to compare with


what was to be seen any day in
Pinch and Happy Hollow, or as il
is appropriately called "Ihe infect
cd ddistrict'-though tho disease wa


then spreading oil over the city
Major W. Il. Walthall, with his no
BILE army of nurses from Mobile
under the patronage of the Howard
Association, was doing everythin,
that devoted, earnest men, wh,
thoroughly understood the discas


and were laboring in the cause o
humanity could do TO arrest tn


progress ofthe pestilence. Money
aid and sympathy were pouring il
iron all parts of the country, an,
the hospitals were supplied wit
every necessity and even luxur'
that could ccndscc to the prope
treatment Of he siek, and the, rapi


co"vA'essancs Of aa,ch as shoqld e.
capo the dreaded q crisis" of IN