smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1871

A NEW STATE IDEA.-The Dalles Noun
taineer favors q secession of oil that part OF
Oregon lying east of the Cascade mountains,
and formation of new State out of that
portion of Eastern Oregon with portion OF
Washington and Idaho Territories. As all the
territory out of which such State would be
formed is strongly Democratic, there is very
little danger of Congress adopting the sugges-
tions of the Moantdiaeer.
Year: 1871

Most people think the selection Of suit
able matter for a newspaper the easiest
part Of the business How great an error
To look over fifty exchange papers daily,
from which the question Is not what shall
but what shall not be selected, j. no very
easy task. If every person who reads a
newspaper could have edited il, we should
have less complaints. Not untrequently i
is the case that an editor locks over his ex
change papers for something interesting
and finds absOutel y nothing Every paper
u dryer than a contribution box, and yet
something must be had-his paper must be
out and something must he in it, and he
does the best be can To an editor who
has the least care in what he selects, the
writing be has to do is the easiest part d
bis labor Every subscriber thinks the pa
per is printed for his OWE benefit, and i
there Is nothing that suits him it must h,
good for nothing. As ,Iany subscribers al
| an editor has 80 many tastes he has to con
suit. One wants something smart ant
sound. One likes anecdotes, fun and frolc
and bis next door neighhor wonders that
man of sense will put such stuff in MS ra-
per Something SPICY comes out. and tb
editor is blackguard. Next come some
thing argumentatlve, ana tie editor l.
| duh fool And 80, between them all, th


poor fellow gets the worst Of It. The
never reflect that what does not pleas
them, will please the next man; but the.


insist that i the paper does not please them
il j. good for nothing, and stop i immedl-
ately.
Year: 1871

= The symptoms of Liver
Complaint are uneasiness
and pain in the side. Some
times the pain i. in the
shoulder, and is mistaken
for rheumatism. The stom-
ach is effected with loss of
appetite and sickness, bowels
in general costive, some
times alternating with lax
| with pain, and dull, heavy
sensation, considerable loss
of memory, accompanied
with painful sensation of hay
ing left undonc something
which ought to have been
done. Often complaining or
weakness, debility and low
Year: 1871

Reflect that Il sound mind and body are the
most necessary requisites to promote connuba
happiness, Indeed, without these the journey
through life becomes Il weary pilgrimage, the
prospect hourly darkcnS to the view, the mind
becomes shadowcd with dcspnr, and filled with
the melancholy reflection that the happiness of
another is blighted with our own.
Year: 1871

A Boston lady, who has been there, &"
saws that. in view of the awkwardness
with which men aid a lady in rising
from the sidewalk, she would much
rather remain in that position than have
such assistance. The gallants must not
be so gingerly, but take hold with both
arms, lift neatly and firmly, and not dis
engage themselves too soon,
Year: 1871

A Chicago man left 81 to each Of his
two daughters, and the rest Of his prop
erty to his wife, but authorized his wife
to sell the entire estate if otherwise she
could not raise the 81 to pay the bequests
to the two daughters.
Year: 1871

The meeting between the loving pair
may, to use hard-worked reportial ex-
preston, be better imagined than de-
scribed; but there is no doubt that that
bridegroom mentally resolved that if he
left that train, or any other during his
bridal tour, for any purpose whatever,
his wife should accompany him.
Year: 1871

Many precious moments had been lost
in the negotiation with the superintend-
ent and in the preparation Of the loco
motive, and it was not until after a run
at full speed for thirty minutes that the
anxious eyes Of the husband we're blessed
with the sight of the pursued train, com
ing up with it when it stopped at the
Railway station.
Year: 1871

Brtue ADOucteO Dy hhilrOau


Train A Hot Pursuit with n


Happy Result.


From the New York Worldl


Stories of runaway wives are Of fire.
quent occurrence, but it is seldom that
such desertions occur on a wedding day.
Yet such an event actually took place
yesterday over in New Jersey A fond
couple were regularly married, and after
duly receiving the congratulations of
their friends, stepped into a carriage and
were driven to the depot of the New
Jersey railroad at Jersey City, intending
from there to set out upon their bridal
tour. Carefully and tenderly the happy
bridegroom escorted his blushing bride
to a palace car, and then stepped back
to the depot for a moment.


REMARKABLE ABDUCTION.


When he returned, to his consterna-
ton he found that the train had started,
bearing with it his bride, who was thus
compulsorily flying from him at the
rate of thirty miles an hour Deter
mined, however, not to be separated
from her who had SO recently been joined
to him for life, he rushed to the Office of
the superintendent crying, not Ny
kingdom for horse, but One hundred
dollars for your fastest locomotive. "
The superintendent, more moved by the
hapless plight of the bridegroom than by
the pecuniary offer, ordered the iron
steed brought forth, and the husband
mounted it in company with an engi-
neer and fireman, and swift as the wind
the locomotive sped out ofthe depot and
flew along after the preceding train.
Year: 1871

and 80 belabored the villain that he
let her mother go and turned to attack
her. While he was choking the little
girl, Mrs. J. got an ak and gave
him such blow, with the sharp side
of it, that ga change came over the
spirit Of his dream" He is not dead
yet and may recover. Neither of the
others were seriously hurt.


That house failed to ratify the FIT
teenth Amendment. Arkansas, with
its evil reports of "bowie- knives"
"buffalO-guats," and unsettled legis-
latiOn, is certainly proud of such an
example Of female courage. ItshOuld
90 forth as q warning to other agents
of rapine and plunder that infest our
land, telling them TO stop and think
at the threshold, before they presume
too largely upon WOman's helpless
ness and timidity. Let it be a noble
example to other seemingly helpless
women, who may be the attempted
victims of such hellish men, nerVing
them to resist such villainy with
heroic desperation, rather than SAC
cept the situation" scream, and then
get murdered, as is the case too fre-
Quently.
Year: 1871

We sincerely and heartily cOngrat-
ulate Gen. Forrest and his cOadjUtOTs
in Memphis upon the handsome and
general endorsement by the people Of
Shelby county Of the aid voted the
Selma railroad by our County Court.
The vote cast yesterday proves
that there was an unusual in
terest felt in the question Of
ssubscription or no subscrip-
ton, -" and that our citizeng were fully
aroused to the importance Of a line Of
railroad which penetrates a country
unsurpassed by any other Of equal ex-
tent in the South, either for salu-
brity and pleasantness Of climate,
or the extent and variety Of the
commodities Of life, which the soil is
capable OF producing.
Year: 1871

NEW YORK, March 25.-The Times
Washington correspondent telegraphs
that the reports of the proceedings Of
the Joint High Commission are with
out any basis whatever, 50 far as de.
tails are concerned, for it is next to
impossible that anything should be
disclosed. All that is known now is
that discussions have progressed so
far that it will probably be determined
within the next week or ten days
whether or not there is any possibility
Of arriving at any satisfactory con-
clusiOns. If the Commission sits be-
yOnd the first week in April, it will
be a strong indication that an adjust
ment Of the leading question Is prob
able.
Year: 1871




Editors AppeaJ-I send you an
account of the most heroic example of
womanly courage and self.possession
I have ever heard of. l got this from
the Deputy Sheriff, who was on the
spot shortly after the brutal attempt
was made.


On last Tuesday night, about three
o'clock, Mrs. johnson, a widow lady,
ami her daughter eleven years old,
living near the town OF Cotton Plant,
in this (WoodrufD city, were awak-
ened bv a noise as of some one knock
ing at the door. AS Mrs. J. opened
the door, a negro caught hold OF her,
saying he was sent there by the negro
militia to rob her house, and com
meneed robbing the house by vio-
lently choking the brave woman.
The little girl seeing the danger her
mother was in, came to the rescue,
Year: 1871

Children are delighted with poetry
at early age: and what is loved in ear
ly life cannot be easily effaced in later
years. A lady informed US few days
since, that when very little girl she
had learned hundreds of hymns and
poetical effusions-not of childish,
but of pure and elevated character.
This early discipline, she says, has
been safeguard to her all her life--a
preservation against sin and folly.


Among the German forefathers it
was common practice, in professedly
Christian families, to teach their chill
dren hymns and spiritual songs. The
afforded them to fill up the time which
would otherwise have been spent in
idleness, it not in something worse.
Frequent repetitions of them at in
tervals, prompted to efforts to connect
the poetry with music, and this grad
ually led them to acquire taste and
cultivate talent for singing. To this
simple practice may be attributed, in
great degree, the finely cultivated
musical talent of the German people.


Singing in the family adds greatly
to the interest of devotional exercises,
especially among children. 1t makes
the family altar and home circle a
pleasant place. The influences of vo-
cal music of social character have
always been very happy indeed. Show
us the family where good music is
cultivated, where the parents and
children are accustomed often to min
gle their voices together in song, and
we will show you one, in almost every
instance, where peace, harmony and
love prevail, and where the greater
vices have no abiding place.-Rural
NeaC Y YorEer.
Year: 1871

A dealer in pork has a precocious
son who was expert in cards, and, in
playing with his young companions
was seldom on the losing side. He
began at first to bet on the game, and
ere long would play regularly for
money with any of his age disposed
to accept the risk. He came home
one day bringing several dollars which
he had acquired in his small way of
gaming, and exhibited his gains to his
father with an air of triumph. The
thoughtful father shook his head and
told his son that the money was not
honestly acquired. "But 1 did not
cheat" SAID the boy. "I hope not"
replied the father; I" but did you give
the loser any equivalent for it ?" The
boy hung his head and the parent
added, Money is honestly gained
where there is an exchange of pro-
ducts or services, and the receiver gives
an equivalent for it; to take another
mans property and give him no equiv
alent for it is to rob or cheat him."


A few months after the father came
home from the Produce Exchange
with an elated aspect, and announced
that he had settled his speculative con-
tracts in pork by the receipt of nearly
$51, 900. His son eyed him steadily a
moment and then said: What did
you give the other man, father, as an
equivalent for the money!"
Year: 1871

A fire occurred at Findlay, Ohio,
commencing about half past three
o'clock on the morning of the 25th.-
An ice house and two stables were
destroyed. a thrilling incident of
the fire is related by correspondent:


In one of the buildings three kegs
of powder were stored when the fact
became known the crowd began TO
run; but not SO with a young man
named Harry Ebb, who seeing that
unless the powder was removed from
the burning structure a terrible loss of
life and property would result, sprang
forward and crying" Stand back, there
is powder in here and I am going
to get it out" rushed into the burning
building. For moment he was lost
from sight, but in moment reappear-
ed bearing in his arms two kegs of the
powder, which were soon in a place
of safety, but the third still remained.
But Ebb did not count the cost. Again
telling the crowd to stand back, he
pushed his way into the flaming mass.
AS he passed throughthe building the
flames were leaping and kissing all
around, dense masses of hot black
smoke almost blinded. him, but moth
ing stayed his purpose. Before he
reached the object of his search the
6eg had caught fire, yet without
seeming to notice his terrible danger
he picked up the powder and carried
it from the building-carriedi it


Through the jaws of death,


Up from the mouth of hell.''
Year: 1871

A farmer cut down tree that stood
so near the boundary line of his farm
that it was doubtful whether it be-
longed to him or his neighbor. The
neighbor, however claimed the tree,
and prosecuted the man who cut it
for damages. The case was sent from
court to court. Time was wasted,
temper soured, and temper lost; but
the case was finally gained by the
prosecutor. The last we heard of the
case he went to the lawyers Office to
execute a deed of his whole farm,
which he had been compelled to sell
to pay the costs. Then, houseless and
homeless, he thrust his hands into his
pockets, and triumphantly exclaimed,
" Tee beat him."
Year: 1871

Oh, don't you remember our grandfather's barn,
Where our cousins and we met 70 play;
How we climbed on the beams and the scafolds
Or tumbied at will on the hay;
How we sat in row on the bundles of straw,
And riddles and witch stories told,
While the sunshine came in through the cracks


at the south,


And turned all the dust into gold?
How we played hide and seek in each Granny


and nook,
Then made a coach of a hogshead of rye,
And on it to Boston - we rode?
And then we kept store. and sold barley and
And corn, by the bushel or bin:
And straw, for our sisters to braid irto hats,
And fax, for our mothers to spin.
TLen we played we were biddies. and cackled


and crowed.
If the weasels were killing the old speckled hen,
Or whatever the matter migb5 be-
How she patted our heads when she saw her


mistake.


And called us her sweet chicken -deaIs p
While a tear dimmed her eye Us the picture re-
The scenes of her own vanished years
How we Uttered and swung, and played meeting
And Indian and soldier, and bearI
While up on the rafters the swallow kept house.
Or sailed through the soft summer air.
How we longed to peep in their curious nests
But they were too far overhead;
So we wished we were giants, or winged like the


birds,


And then we'd do wonders, we said.
And don't you remember the racket we made
When selling at auction the hay;
And how we wound up with a keel over leap
FROM the scadold down into the hay?
When we went into supper, our grandfather said,
If he had not once been boy
He should thought that the Hessians were sack
Or an earthquake had come to destroy
-louth's Companion.
Year: 1871

That the negro was for the climate
of Africa, the whole structure of his
body unites to prove. First. as pro-
lection to the brain against the direct
rays of the sun, his hair is made to
grow short and curly, and he is fur
nished with skull of enormous thick
ness. In no other being do we see
the wisdom of the Creator more clear
ly exhibited than in the construction
of the African. The soles of his feet
are overlayed with thick layer of
fat-a bad conductor of heat-thereby
enabling him to walk at his ease over
the burning sands, and forming for
him a far better protection than any
contrivance the art of man could de-
wise. And now you ask why did God
make the African black? answer, in
order that he may be able to keep cool
in that torrid climate. A black sur
face will radiate or part with heat
more rapidly than a white one. an
experiment that any one may try
Take two vessels that are in every re-
spect the same-two teapots, for in
stance; let one of them be covered
with Iampblack, and fill them both
with boiling water, and you will find,
that the black one will be cold much
sooner than the bright one. believe
that all scientific men agree that since
the creation of man, large tract of
land, stretching out from Africa to
New Holland, has been submerged,
and is now covered by the Indian
ocean. This would readily account
for the negro being an inhabitant. of
that country, and such change must
have very much modified the climate
| of Australia. 1 have no doubt that
in past ages the different races of men
must have been far more numerous
than at the present. Those great rev.
olutions that raised the Alps from the
bed of the ocean, which submerged
whole continents, while it brought
others into existence, must have swept
away whole races of men, while others
were lost sight of, like the ten tribes
of Israel, through amalgamation. 1
think it is plain that the African was
distinct race from the beginning, and
that the only reason for forming him
as he is, was simply that all the earth
might be inhabited. - New YORK;
| World.
Year: 1871

1t is said of the sanity George Her.
bert, the quaint old English church
poet, that once, in walk to Salisbury
to join musical party, he saw poor
man with a poorer horse that had fall
len under his load. They were both
in distress and needed present help,
which, Mr.. Herbert perceiving, put off
his canonical coat, and helped the poor
man to unload, and afterwards load
his horse. The poor man blessed him
for it and he blessed the poor man !;
and at his coming to his musical friends
at Salisbury, they began to wonder
that Mr.. Herbert, who used to be trim
and clean, was so soiled and discom-
posed. But he told them the occasion !;
and when one of the company told
him " he had disparaged himself by
SO dirty an employment" his answer
was &c that the thought of what he had
done would prove music to him at
midnight, and that the omission of it
would have upbraided and made dis
cord in his conscience whensoever he
should pass by that place; for If be
bound to pray for all that be in dis
tress, am sure that l am bound, so
far as it is in my power, to practice
what pray for; and let me tell you,
would not willingly pass one day of
my life without comforting one sad
soul, or showing mercy, and bless
God for this occasion" Many might
have anxious thoughts which often
infest their midnight hours changed
to sweet music, if they would only be
more frequently seen with full hands
and friendly words in the abodes of
poverty n d sufferings! - Leisure
Hours.
Year: 1871

AFFECTING INCIDENT. THE Norfolk Jour
nal relates an affecting incident which took
place on the streets of Norfolk last Sunday
An intoxicated man was being led home by his
little daughter, a bright-eyed child of six or
seven years old. The man resisted the efforts
of all persons to take him home, but was per-
fectly passive in the hands of his child. After
threw her arms around his neck and kissed
him. All who witnessed the scene and the ac-
ton were afected-some to tears. There is
power in that little child's love to win her
father back to sobriety and virtue-if there be
aught of manhood left in him.
Year: 1871

It was Madam de Stael who remarked of
oonceited acquaintance: Whenever I see
him. feel the same pleasure that | receive
from looking at fond couple-.he and his self
love live so happily together
Year: 1871

The WIGGLE-WIaGLE WALK.-It is a
bright day, and the ladies are out in force. -
Now let us notice how they walk. Why, they
don't swing their arms at all Their arms
must be laced down upon their sides? No,
they are holding their arms still, and see, they
have tucked their hands into those large fur
rollers which they carry on their stomachs.- -
Their arms lock for all the world like the wings
of Christmas turkey, all tied down and ready
to be put in the oven.


1t must be hard to walk in that way


1t is very hard, indeed, and you see they
have to walk very slowly and wiggle their
hips.


What funny motion that wiggle isl
should think fastidious people might call it vul-
gar and immodest.
Oh, well, that depends upon the fashion,
That wigglewaggle walk is all the 90 now.
l should think it would lame them across the
back.


It does there is not lady in twenty who is
not lame across the small of the back. Let a
man wear shawl and hold it together in front
with his hands, and he will not walk far before
his back will ache. It is hard strain upon
the spine to walk without swinging the arms. -
Dt0 Leac.s,
Year: 1871

We are indebted to General Maury for the
following letter, written to him BY Gen Lee,
and never before made public Now that this
great and good man has been taken from his
people, it will afford them pleasure to know
that in the darkest hour of their adverslty his
heart beat warmly in their behalf, and that, ex-
cluded rs he was by the dominant power from
taking any active part iii the, rehabilitation OF
the South, he still took a deep interest in the
present and future welfare OF those whose
cause he 80 long, so ably, and so heroically sus-
tanned on the tented field. .-Bamerofth the South.


LEXINGTON, Va, May %, 1867


Ny Dear General, i was very glad to hear
from your letter Of last month the prosperous
condition Of the Southern Hospital Association,
and the relief that has already been afforded to
disabled and needy men. | trust that US our
political troubles are reconciled, and business
becomes re established and extended in the
South, that the sufferings Of all may be relieved
feel assured that, under the present manage
ment Of the association, all will be done that
can be done, and those who are deyoting their
time and energies to this praiseworthy work
will receive from posterity, as well as from the
present generation, the thanks which are due.


Asregards the course Virginia may take under
the recent laws of Congress- to which you refer,
it is difficult to see what may eventually be the
best | think though it is plain in the execu-
tion of the laws that convention will be called,
and State Constitution formed The question,
then, is, Shall the members of the convention be
selected from the best available men in the
State, or from the worst? Shall the machine
ry of the State government be arranged and
set in motion by the former or by the latter?
In this view of the case, [ think it is the duty
of all citizens not disfranchised to qualify them
selves to vote, attend the polls, and elect the
best men in their power Judge Underwood,
Messrs. Bolts, Hunnicut, &C., would be we'll
pleased, presume, if the business were left to
them and the negroes But | do not think
this course would be either for the interest of
the State or country When the convention
assemblies it will be for them to determine
what, under the circumstances Of the case, it
will be best for the people to do, and their de-
cision should be submitted to by ALL as the de-
cision of the State. 1 look upon the southern
people as acting under compulsion, not of their
the best interests of their States as far as may
be in their power to do. G-


hope that all our friends in New Orleans
may do well, and that each may succeed in the
business which they have undertaken. Every
man must now look closely to his own affairs
and depend upon his own good sense and judg-
ment to push them onward, We have but lit
tie to do. with general politics. We cannot con-
troll them, but by united efforts, harmony, pru-
dence, and wisdom, We may shape and regulate
our domestic policy. ..


Please present my kindest regards to Gen
erals Beauregard, Longstreet Hood, Buckner,
and all friends. Wishing you every happiness,
| am truly yours,


Signed K. +. LEE.


To Gen. d. H. Mawy"