smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1871

think that the civilized world never was so happy in ancient times as 1t is now-relatively, 1 mean, com pared with what civilization Is now doing. If you go back two thousand years, even, you will find it to be so. Men like to praise old times. They like to praise, for instance, the good, old hearty days of England before King Henry VII. reigned, when there was simplicity, and when there was a rude yeomanry virtue, and when men were gay and happy. tell you that were you to take these men up, and carry them back there, and let them sleep where men slept then, and let them eat what men ate then, and let them do what men had to do then, and take away from them what men did not have then, but do have now, you would hear the most piteous moan ing and whining and complaining that ever afflicted your ears For we have grown in the number of enjoy ments, in the refinements of sensibility, in the realization of life, in all the sweet elements that go to constitute satisfaction in life. No pen can re- cord, no tongue can tell, the, growth that has been made in five hundred years. The world is steadily growing. II Beecher.
Year: 1871

Pamphlets containing a history of the
origin and progress of the Holly water
works system, in the form of a prospectus
OF the Carrollton Holly Waterworks Com
pany, are distributed about the city. In
reading one Of them out of curiosity, we
found that it is a new system Of water
works, invented by Birdsell Holly, of Lock
port, New York.


The popularity of the Holly system Of
waterworks is that the supply of water is
direct from the inlet pipes without the use
OF reservoir. The delivery of water takes
place through properly constructed mains
and services provided with fire hydrants,
placed at convenient intervals and at proper
points, BY means Of a suitable arrange
ment Of safety-valves, pressure gauges and
registers, perfect uniformity of flow and
complete control of the water is obtained


These works dispense with the reservoir
system entirely, and the result is purer and
more wholesome water. Very likely, if
Chicago had the Holly waterworks, which
reach out by their underground pipes
throughout the entire city, where there are
always several hydrants on hand, ready
upon the turning of wrench and the at
taching Of a seetions hose for instant and
successful action, that city would not now
be in ashes.


Tie water supply Of these hydrants, with
the pumps driving the water into the mains
in volume sufficient to give sixty pounds
pressure per square inch in every part of
the city, is so immense and powerful that a
fire has no chance in contest. Streams
can be thrown sufficiently high to deluge
the tallest buildings, and extinguish the
Year: 1871

The following story is told by The San
Francisco Chronicle of Meiges, the great
railway prince of Peru, who ran away in
debt from San Francisco, some years ago !:


Mrs. Josslyn is washerwoman, and
works very hard fo- her living. In the
palmy days of Harry Meiggs she deposit
ed with him no less an amount than $2,-
500, and when Meiggs and her money
were gone, the time in which a woman
couldla up so large sum from the profits
of her business was gone ALSO But she
washed on. and kept her head above
water. Some two or three months ago
she read in The Overland Monthly, or
some other publication, of how much
money her old banker had made in South
America by building railroads, and with
beautiful faith in human nature, which
cannot be too highly commended, she en-
barked upon the Panama steamer and
wended her way to the sultry South, where
Meiggs now holds sway She sought the
millionaire in the gorgeous residence SO
graphically described in The Overland,
and presented her bank book and told her
tale. Meiggs listened, and when she had
finished he handed her check for the
amount of the deposit and interest from
its date to the time of payment. She de-
parted wealthier and happier woman.
and returnd to San Francisco, where she
arrived by the last steamer.
Year: 1871

PHILADELPHIA, August 3.-Mrs. Gross
vile OF Dr. Carl Gross, on Seventh
street, in Limerick, has been suffering
since the birth Of her child, about
seven days ago, with child-bed fever.
Last night Mr.. Swift learned that DR..
Gross had a fit about IL o'clock, and
hastened to the scene. He found the
wife lying upon the bed lifeless and the
Doctor on the floor, kicking as though
in terrible agony. The corpse Of Mrs.
G. was removed from the bed to bench.
After the removal of the corpse the
Doctor threw his own carcass into the
bed from which his wife had been
taken and went into what is termed to
be a deep slumber. Mr.. Swift re-
mained with him an hour and then
went out for cigar. On returning he
had disappeared. The neighhors re-
port that three days before the birth Of
the child Gross had beaten his wife Sc
yerelv with a cowhide, and attmept-
ed to take from her her child,
when she fled and sought shelter with
the next door neighbor. 1t ls thought
the whipping and excitement caused
premature birth, which greatly added
to cause her death. About three weeks
ago he threw her from the house.
About an hour before the unfortunate
woman died colored woman went into
the cottage and found heavy feather
bed on her and nobody but her husband
attending her, and when che attempted
to take the bed from the dying woman
she was ordered to desist by the hus-
band. Not long since the injured wife
eudeavored to sell her feather bed and
other articles in order to procure money
to return to her mother in Chicago. DR..
Gross is a young man, not over thirty
two years OF age, and his wife was not
vet twenty-one and was woman well
beloved by all who knew her. She lay
this morning until ll;30 before the ar
rival OF the coroner, who made imme-
date preparations for holding an In
quest. Her husband has not been
heard OF, and it is thought be has COM
mitted suicide. The coroners jury
returned the verdict OF, 1--WE ofthe jury
believe, from the evidence, that death
was caused by the i'll treatment OF her
husband, Dr. Carl Gross, during con-
fipement.'
Year: 1871

broadcloth, with a cooked hat, then
read the riot act and in few words
said that if the assembly did not dis
perse without delay he should order the
military to fire upon them, and your
blood be upon your own heads, we will
enforce this law" 1t is needless to say
that the assembly dispersed. That IS
not the word for 1.-THE scene baffied
description. A few Of the tiercer ones
showed fight, but soon quieted down,
and pulling up the stakes they made
their way to the boats. The military,
about three hundred strong, followed
and stood on the top Of the bluff to see
the last leave shore.


Immediately sought the boats left
for Erie, Matters Will be finally settled
at 10 O clock on Friday morning.


An incident Of the affair is found in
the fact that while the High Sheriff
and Justice were delivering their man.
dates and declaring the law, some OF
the crowd went through them entirely
stripping them of their valuables. The
Jnstice regretfully remarked to a re
porter that among the booty taken from
him was a twenty PUN" watch.
Year: 1871

SCRANTON, May ll.-Everything is
quiet in the city at present. The only
event worthy Of notice was the meeting
Of laborers on a hill near the town.
About two thousand men assembled at
10 clock and formed a mass meeting
being a continuation of the meeting
which was interrupted on Tuesday. In
the early parf Of the meeting an at
tempt was made by few OF the Union
men to create a disturbance and thus
break it up, but they were speedily
quieted Addresses were made, most Of
them with decided political tenor, and
then the following resolutions were
adopted:


ReSoEved, That our motive in this
struggle is to secure justice to ourselves
and fellow laborers OF every, nationality;
that we wish to extend to others that
which we have resolved to claim for
ourselves; that We have no antipathy to-
ward the Welch as class or as citizens
ofthis community, but deep sense of
wrong inflicted upon US by the inside
former for the last quarter Of a century;
that we, as German, Scottish and Eng
lish miners, indorse the action taken by
the laborers; that we condemn riots as a
breach of the peace in direct opposition
to the fundamental principles OF this
glorious Republic; that it is not the in
tention of the laborers to reduce the
rate of wages, but that the same may
be adjusted according to all the rules Of
equity and work resumed.


The sentiments of the meeting as ex-
pressed by the speakers aud which
were applauded, seemed to be a desire
TO resume work speedily, but at some
rate of wages and terms in the making
of which, they should have voice
This meeting did not materially brighten
the prospect Of resumption and there
will probably be considerable delay
still before work is generally resumed.


rhe only mining OF importance in
this region now is that OF the Lacka.
wanna Iron and Coal Company, which
has one mine in operation, but is max
ing no effort to find men to start the
rest nor are the men coming forward
and offering to work.


PoTTsvTLLE, Pa, May 1.-THE arbi-
tration papers are now being prepared
for signatures. A number OF colleries
started this morning and there is now
no doubt but a general resumption of
work will take place this week.
Year: 1871

About the shabbiest trick we ever
knew one white man to perpetrate upon
another, was played off on us by Gal"
Mcfarland, of the Portsmouth Tribune,
in connection with the late Editorial
Convention at Jackson. A few days pre-
vious TO the Convention he wrote US a
letter, telling US he would be at the Con-
ventiOn, and urging us to meet him
there, to do which we had to travel in a
buggy forty miles overland, part of the
way in the rain, and all of the way over
the worst roads we ever saw at this sea-
son of the year, while he had but take a
two hours ride by rail. Of course we
kept our word-we always do for that
matter-but what was our surprise, on
arriving at Jackson, to find that no Nc
Farland was there! Now, what ought
to be done with such a man2 We sub
init to our brethren of the press whether
be ought not to be poisoned to death on
corn molasses? No one need be surpris-
ed to hear that he has taken his depart
ure from this mundane sphere very
shortly. We have made provision for
that. We know his weak points. A
whisky bottle, containing a portion OF
the aforementioned article, dropped
quietly in his way when he is thirsty
and he's always thirsty, when whisky
is about-will probably do the business
-[Pomeroy Telegraph.
Year: 1871

The American people have made the
culture of rice so much of a study, and
pursued its progress so scientifically,
that our Carolina rice is acknowledged
to be the best in the world. While grow
ing, it is the most beautiful of all Amer
lean husbandries, and cannot fail to at
tract the attention of the most disinEsr-
ested reader


It is a very important article Of food
in its general usefulness. It is used for
breads of various kinds, cakes, pies,
custards, soups, gravies; also as a diet
for invalids-as a medicine in relieving
a disordered condition of the stomach
and bowels; it is invaluable in the
laundry, and is of great use in the man
ufactures, its paste being made into a
variety of tasteful ornaments. All kinds
Of stock, from horses to pigs, are fre-
quently fed on rice meal, the detritus Of
chaff and grain; it is a nutritious and
fattening food.


The rough rice, or paddy, the favOrite
food Of the rice bird, may be given to
poultry; it contains so much silex in its
rough husk, that while feeding on it
they need no gravel for attritiOn in the
gizzard. It is, therefore, particularly
suitable for poultry on a long voyage, or
in places where there is no gravel in the
soil. The chaff is in demand for pack
ing glass or chinaware, and is also g
perfect non-conductor of heat.
Year: 1871

According 10 agreement


Too many persons display moral
.carelessness in passing doubtful bills.
If they are taken in by worthless
bank note, they get rid of it the
first opportunity, letting it slip to
some one else. An incident in
point is said to have occurred lately
at Buffalo. An enterprising mer-
chant of that city runs both a grocery
and a fsh market, the latter by a
deputy who every night makes re-
turns Of the days proceeds to the
proprietor.


A day or two since the grocer
found in his fish market returns a
a counterfeit S5. He didn't like to
lose it and he did not like to take
the chances of trying to pass it.
"Sam," said he to a fifteenth amend
ment citizen hanging about the
premises, ''here is a five dollar bill
that is little doubtful if you will
pass it, I will give you a dollar out
of the change" "Bery WE'LL" said
Sam, and he took the bill and went
of. Later in the day he returned.
having accomplished the feat, and
handed over four dollars in good
money to the grocer. That night
in looking over the cash returns of
the fish market the grocer was more
surprised than delighted to find the
identical bill in the pile. "LOok
here" said he, to the market clerk,
"Here's a bad bill +; who did you
get it of; didn't you know it was
counterfeit ?' ''That bill!' said the
clerk, Il took it of old Sam, the mig
ger. I thought it looked suspicious
at the time, but he said he got it of
you, and of course, I concluded it
was all right"
Year: 1871

BeecheF On Church Dressing.


Here is some good plain talk and ad-
vice which ought to be needed, from the
Christian Union:


There was a time when good taste de-
manded the use of the pIainest clothes
in the sanctuary, when the weaIthiest
were distinguished for their conspicuous
absence of personal adornment and sar-
torial display was q mark of vulgarity
at such time and place. But nowadays,
in the congregation on the Sabbath, rich
and poor alike seem on a desperate
strain, the one to make some faint ap-
Proclamation to the other, in point of ex-
travagant display, and the other to dem
onstrate to the one the utter rhopelessness
of the attempt. It would almost appear
as if whatever might be thought Of the
propriety of a modest garb in other pla-
ces, the proper costume for the house OF
! God, where theoretically we all go to be
reminded of our common origin and
destiny, were an agglomeration of all
the jeweIry and all the chignons and all
the feathers and furbelows in ones ward
robe. The wearer is to carry all this pill
ed agony to the sanctuary as to a fair
as if her errand were not so much to
praise as to be appraised-and there en-
plov the sacred time in envious compar-
ison of her own mountain of millinery
with the Himalayan triumphs of her
neighbOr.
Year: 1871

ONLY A BABY'S GRAVE.
Only baby's grave


Some foot or two at the most,
Of star daisied sod, yet think that God
Knows what that little grave cost.
Only baby's grave


To children even so small,
That they sit there and sinE-so small thing
Seems scarcely grave at all
Only baby's grave


Strange! how we moan and fret
For little face that was here such a space
Oh! more strange could we forget
Only baby's grave


Did we measure grief by this
Few tears were shed on our baby dead
know how they fell on this.
Only baby's gravel


viii the little life be much
Too small gem for bis iisdem,
Whose kingdom is made Of such
Only baby's gravel


Yet often we come and sit
By the little stone, and thank God to own
We are nearer to Him for it.
Year: 1871

An exchange tells a novel love story:
A young couple planned an eIopemenU.
The girl descended from her room on
the traditional ladder, but at the gate
they were met by the father of the girl
and the minister, by whom they were
escorted to the parlor, where, to their
surprise they found all the relatives col
lected fOrthe marriage ceremonies which
took place at once. It was a neat pater-
nal freak, but not near as neat as that Of
a fond parent we know. He heard his
daughter and her fellow plan an eIope-
ment. The next day the old man waited
on the young man and addressed him
thus: "You're a fine, brave youth, and
I don't object to you for a son-in-law.-
Here's a hundred dollars to aid in the
elopement. May you live happily in the
same house, and may no accident occur
to throw the least shadow on the sun
shine of your life. All I request is that
you elope with my daughter;-she's a
mighty nice girl, but somehow and her
mother could never travel smoothly
with her. EIope with her to such a dis
tance that she won't return to her loving
father and mother any more. Good bye,
sonny, and may you be happy" There
was an elopement that evening of one.
The young man went UnaCcompanied.
He thought everything couldn't be right
when the father was so anxious to get
rid of the girl. The father looks on this
as a neat bit of strategy for one who had
never been on NcCIeIIan's staff.
Year: 1871

The New York Post, comment
ing upon the platform made by the
Ohio Democrats at Columbus, says {:
The only question is whether the
voters of Ohio can be fooled by so
transparent a piece of deception
such a marvel of hypocrisy and
falsehood. On this subject there can
be no difference of opinion. The
people who scotched the snake Of
treason will pull the fangs out of
this new creation as soon as they
get an opportunity to vote. They
will never permit such an incuba-
ton to survive beyond its allotted
period.
Year: 1871

Robert Toombs is still making red hot
speeches in the South. A recent one at
Augusta, Ca, he closed in this style /;
'sWhen you can tear the live thunder
from its home in the burning ether and
bind it a captive at the footstool Of ty-
ranny, then and not till then, will I ac-
cept the situation"
Year: 1871

A stone cutter in this State has won
immortality for himself by cutting on e
tombstone the assertion that the little
child buried beneath 'swas an angle on
earth, and now she is an aag1s il heav.
emp
Year: 1871

a Yankee having told an English
man that he shot on one particular
occasion nine hundred and ninety
nine snipe, his interlocutor asked
him why he did not make it a thous-
and at once.


"NO," said he, "nOt likely I'm go
ing to tell a lie for one snipe!7
Year: 1871

Fox Talbot proposed to the spectrosropc IN the
following manner for cectng this object In binary
systcms: suppoec the plane Of thu orbit OF binary
system to pass through the sum- that tho observer IL
in tho plane of the orbit and that in the specra Oh 'he


individual stars there lines belonging 70 the same
element, The spectra of the two stars. taken through
the same slit should be observed and compared. When
the stars appear In the straight line II Ia c'ear
that their vcloctcs relative to the earth arc
the same, since both moving, perfTh
dlcularly TO the line of vision, tne nhes
from tho two stars will therefore coincide But
when their apparent distance from each other great
est the difference of their vcOcites relative 10 The
observer IL equal the velocity Of either star In III.
velocity u its orbit about each other. This difference Will
served and measured. This gives the value Of that
velocity; but know also the periodic time We have,
then at once the circumference and the diameter Of the
orbit. We know the greatest angular distance between
the have tAen the distance OF the stars from
the earth.
Year: 1871

I saw a new heaven and new earth
but thought it best to say nothing
Opening at the twenty-first chapter
of Revelation, she read slowly, "And
for the first heaven and the first
earth were passing away, and there
mas no more sea-" Here she paused
a moment, and looked out upon the
breakers tossing in the sunlight and
stretching far, far away until thev
seemed to mingle with the sky. For
getting us all, she murmured to her
self: mo more seal no more seal
And God shall wipe away all tears
from their eyes, and there shall be
no more death, neither sorrow nor
crying, neither shall there be auy
more pam" Repeating these last
words slowly, and as if drinking in
their benediction, she stopped, and
little Katie's hand still more
closely, leaned gently back in her
chair; a smile passed over her face,
he eyes closed, and she was gone.


The COUNTRY Cousin.
Year: 1871

DEAREST ANGEL: Oh, my love of
love, clarified honey and oil Of cit
ron, white loafsugar of my hopes,
and molasses of my expectationsl
you have been absent from me for
three whole days. The sun is dark
at mid-day-the moon and stars are
black when thou art absent. Thy
step is the music of the spheres, and
the wind of thy dress when you pass
by is the zephyr from the garden of
Paradise in the spring time of early
flowers? l kissed you when last we
met, and my whole outward frame
was filed with sweetness! One of
your curls touched me on the nose,
and that organ was transmitted into
Ioaf-sugar! Oh, spice of spices, gar
den of delights! Send me a lock Of
your hair-send me anything that
your blessed finger hath touched, and
/ will 90 raYing mad with ecstasy!
One look from thy bright eyes would
transmute me incOntinently into the
third heavenl Your words are as
molten pearl dropping from your
mouth My heart blazes at the
thought of thee! My brain is an
everlasting frel The blood burns
and scorches my veins and vitals as
it passes through them-oh! Come
most delightful of delights, and with
your seraphic breath, breathe upon
me! and when you do come, be sure
and bring that quarter dollar which
you borrowed of me before you
went, for / want to buy a plug of
good chewing tobacco!


l remain your loving tulip,
Year: 1871

''Beautiful child by the mothers knee,


In the mystic future what wilt thou beV


A demon of sin. or an angel sublime
A poison Upas, or innocent thyme


A spirit of evil flashing dOlOn


With the lurid light of fiery crown


Or gliding up with shining track,


Like the morning star that ne'er looks backP
Daintiest dreamer that ever smiled,


Which wilt thou be, my beautiful child?


'Beautiful child in my garden bowers,
Friend of the butterflies, birds and flowers;
Pure as the sparkling crystalline stream,
Jewels of truth in thy fairy eyes beam,
Was there ever a winter soul than thine
Worshipped by love in mortal shrinel
Ny heart thou hast gladdened for two sweet


years


With rainbows of hope through mists Of tears
Mists beyond which the sunny smile,
with its halo of glory beams all the while.
''Beautiful child, to thy look is given
A gleam serene-not to earth, but to heaven;
With thy tell tale eyes and prattling tongue,
Would thou could'st ever thus be young,
Like the liquid strain of the mocking bird,
From stair to hall thy voice is heardj
How oft in the garden hooks thou'rt found,
With flowers thy curly head around,
And kneeling beside me with figure so quaint
Oil who could not dote on thy infant saint
"Beautiful child, what thy fate shall be,
Perchance, is wisely hidden from me.
A fallen star thou may'st leave my side
Aud Of sorrow and shame become the bride,
Shivering, quivering, thro' the cold street,
With curse behind and before thy feet,
Ashamed to live, and afraid to die;
No home, no friend and piriless sky.
Merciful Father-my brain grows wild
Oil keep from evil my beautiful child.
"Beautiful child, may'st thou soar above,
A warbling cherub of Joy and love;
A drop on eternity's mighty sea,
A blossom on life's immortal tree
Floating, Towering evermore,
In the blessed light of the golden shore.
And as gaze on thy sinlesss bloom
And thy radiant face, they dispel my gloom.
1 feel He will keep thee undefiled,
And His love perfect my beautiful child"
Year: 1871

There is a man out in Wyoming
who did not want for woman's wit
when forced to do woman's work
while his wife was on the jury. He
appealed to her to come home but
she wasn't in any particular hurry,
as che would now find out how nice
it was to stay at home and mind the
children, while she was loafng
around court-houses as he nsed to
do" The man went home and
hired a looking cook, and sent
his wife word to be sure and not
come home until she wanted to on
his account, but as soon as the news
reached her she bolted immediately,
and is now one of the loudest op-
posers Of female Suffrage.
Year: 1871

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