smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1875

Are taken out FREE, and those who
do not mean business, please defer
your trip until Dec. 8, when the Lots
will be 5000. Then we will have
more time, and the weather will be
cooler,
Year: 1875

The Louisville COuTier-JO ty7adt says:
"At last exhausted nature gave way
and he was stricken with his hast ill
ness. A friend informed him that he
must soon die, and asked him some
question looking to u preparation for
another world. He promptly stopped
him, and said: No, sir; no sir; | do
not wish to pray. | had no hand in
coming into this world; / have failed
in all have ever seriously attempted
or desired whilst in it. | shall make
no arrangements for my departure nor
for another existence. Ii God has
managed the matter so far, shall per-
nit Him to continue so as best pleases
Him., He dismissed. the subject and
referred to it no more. After remain
ing silent for some time, as if musing,
he said, well, well, this is the end.
Tom Marshall is dying, dying, not
having q suit of clothes in which to be
buried; dying upon a borrowed bed,
covered with borrowed sheet, in a
house built by charity. Well, well, it
is meet and proper After an hour
or more he looked through the open
window, and calling the attention OF
those around him to a solitary tree,
standing in the middle of large open
pasture, he said When | am dead
bury me beneath that tree in the mid
die of the field; | have been clowded
all my life, and do not wish to be
crowded in DEATH He said no more;
but after time quietly ceased to
breathe. He was placed beneath the
tree, but no stone nor mark tells the
passing traveller who rests below.
Year: 1875

the Democratic ticket. might defeat the Of the
people as represented by the independents IT says
"Thc apparent anxiety Of the Republicans to extingush
the last trace of the sorehead independent element
counts for the fact that they permitted the Democratic
vote to roll without the least opposition, while they
directed their special Efforts against the ndepen
dents Most Of the Republicans exutant over the
victory which they claim they have the Inde
pcndents. We feel dispose to crtcise the Republican
state Central Committee for not exerng thcpsclves to
assist Phelps in this city; but will refrain at present"
The other Journals agree III saying that the Democrats
because there three tickets in the field The call
draws this lesson from the result Nothing in the future
is certain than that the next Presidential contest
will be fought between Democrats and Republicans
Two years ago there prospect that the Indepen-
dents would become national organization. Now there


is none. The Independent pary has resolved itself into
te independent voer. The latter viii be- Republican or
Democrat for the time being. according as the plat


form and candidates OF the two parties NAV suit bis
IDEAS OF policy. Senator Booth may III himself an Inde
p.nicnt bat after all. no Is only an independent voer
When political questions M IN the Senate he VIII


be Democrat OF Repub ican as the case may be-"
Year: 1875

The DEATH OF THE AGED. 1t is noteworthy
that the severity of this winters weather has
been peculiarly fatal to persons Of advanced
age pneumonia and its conGeners having found
IN that class a vast number of victims. This
has been sadly observable in Baltimore and in
more northern parts of the country, but it has
arrested attention chiefly from the fact that
many of the most prominent and worthcy citi
zans have been included in the death-rol 1t
Is matter of profound regret thus to lose the
advice counsel and conservatism that can come
no other wise with such effect and seryccable
soundness as from the mellow and temperate
wisdom of ripened years. Nor is tho situation
mendsd il we observe how very small is the
number of survivors of these citizens who have
for so many years been foremost in State aud
municipal councils, and in all those business
enterprises which have made US famous among
ths peoples. They have dwindled to small
band, truly and soon even these will pass away
from our midst; but it is hoped that for them
there will still be many days and the honored
fullnass thereof-Bdlt. San.
Year: 1875

NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. has been
much talk on this subject Of late and the
newspapers have been full Of it. Now
we have a case Of our own right at home.
For the past three or four weeks the spir
its have held a nightly seance in a certain
section of this town-spirits that by their
stvle of manifestations, would seem to be
clothed in ut least moderate share of the
flesh of poor, errlng m )rtality, and bread
and beefsteak, mayhap, have something
to do with the vigor and animation they
show. During the time above named, n
dwelling house occupied by lady whose
husband is at present away from home,
has been subjected to a severe course of
rocking" Every night at the witchng
hour OF twilight and just after dark, stones
and occasionally, cods Of earth come
humping and banging down upon the
roof and pattering into the yard just rs II
they had right there. Every night a
crowd of interested spectators gathers
about to watch the phenomena and in
quire into the cause. They tird by expe-
rience that the missiles are no rospecters
of persons, and would as soon hit man
as dog. But although a strict watch
has been kept, the direction from they
come seems hard to determine and all eff
forts to find the throwers have failed
Some of our officials have taken the mat
ter in hand, and it is to be hoped that the
mystery will be solved ere another week.
Night after night the projectiles come
pouring in, and it has got to be decidedly
uncomfortable for the family against
whom their attentions are directed. On
Tuesday evening Il large pebble smashed
a square of glass and found its way into
the room where the folks were sitting.
Wednesday night, a repetition of the
same. Don't say it's ghosts, for nothing
but muscles the size Of fence-posts could
ever achieve the fcats as above.
Year: 1875

The stomach has been we'll named n
royal organ since it sways and controls
the entire system, every gland, tissue and
nerve sympathizing with it as the serv-
ants of prince sympathize with their
master. Each one Of thom is fed and
sustained by it--even the brain ITSELF
the center of sensation, is absolutely de-
pendent on it for sustenance. Conse-
quently, when the stomach fails to per-
form its all-important office, the subord


mate organs also falter in their duty
The reason why Hostetter's Stomach
Bitters have such wondrously benef-
cial effect upon the general health, and
are such reliable preventive Of disease,
is that they speedily overcome weakness
sure complete nourshmcnt of the entire
system, and healthiul performance Of
its various functions. Unlike those slim
ulants whose alcoholic principle is un-
modified by judicious medication, the
spirituous basis of these Bitters, which is
of the purest description, holds in solu-
ton herbal Alternatives and invgorants to
which foremost rank has been assigned
in materia medica. But it is not alone
the fact that these sovereign botanic ele-
ments enter into the composition of the
Bitters that constitutes them such be-
nign tonic and corrective, but also that
they are so happily combined that the
full effect of each is exerted upon the dis
ordered and debllitated system. The di-
gestive and secretive organs are the first
to experience their benefcent operation,
which extends, by sympathy, TO the
brain, the nerves and the circulation
The influence thus exerted is fruitful Of
those great sanitary results which have
built up the reputation Of this truly ma
tional medicine. mar n3
Year: 1875

THE WANDERING JEw-ELER.-
Who has not heard of the Oriental legend
of the " Wandering Jew?" or has not
pictured i'll Imagination the almost cease
less peIance embraced IN the sentence
"Tarry thou till 1 come" Perhaps, in
his journeying he has visited this land of
gold and sought beneath the caving bank
or from the vapors and perils of the mine
that death which the battle field denied
him. The Wandering jew may have
been in Weaver-but if he has not, the
wandering jeweler certainly has. And
when, after little tarry, he set forth
again, he left in the witching hour OF
night, nor did he reappear to public view
till he had passed the Tower House. 1t
is unnecessary to add that he will linger
in the memories and on the books of some
of our people.
Year: 1875

ANOTHER VICTIM OF RUM.-We find
the following in reference to man who
lived here until quite recently, in the
North San Juan Times of Feb. 9th -
james Lay, native of Ireland, died at
the Milton tunnel near French Corral, on
the 10th inst, aged about 40 years. Mr.
Lay was not employed at the tunnel at
the time of his deeease, nor had he been
in the employ Of the Milton Company.
He went to the tunnel in an intoxicated
condition, and died from the effects OF
liquor. He had been drinking very hard
for some time prior to his decease. lie
was found dead on the morning of the
10Th by the workman at the tunnel"
Year: 1875

Low WATER.-We saw Vitzhum in
town on Tuesday, and asked him how he
crossed the river. That, he said, is the
least Of his trouble, for it can be forded
with a horse anywhere, while at the usual
fording place just above the mouth of
Weaver creek it can be easily forded by
a footman. Such low stage of water at
this season Of the year is of very rare oc-
currence, though it happened four years
ago. Unless we get more storms for the
remainder Of the Winter than we have
thus far, Trinity river will be u small
stream next Summer. The Indians hav G
a legend of the time when it could be cross
ed dry-footed, by stepping from stone to
stone on the rifles and we may sec a re-
currence of similar low water. Mining
in the river bed will be a comparatively
easy job, but as that kind of work is
mostly done by the heathen Chinese, we
don't know as any one will be benefited
by it.
Year: 1875

HEARD FRoM.-We mentioned few
weeks since the painful accident which
befel the little son Of Mr.. Hooker and the
departure Of the boy for San Francisco, in
charge Of Mrs. Clifford, in search OF
medical aid. Late advices received by
Mr.. Hooker, state that the eye will prob,
ably be saved, but at the time of writing
it could not be determined whether the
sight could also be saved or not. Our
hopes are with the little fellow.
Year: 1875

LOST HIS EYE.-In another part of
this paper we have noticed that jerry
Culverhouse, the stage driver between
Shasta and Reading, had been taken be-
low for medical treatment. We learn
from Doc Gardiner that Che right eye
was in such condition that the physicians
were compelled to take the eye out, when
the shot fell to the floor. 1t is sad case
and it is to be hoped that the perpetrators
of the outrage will be brought to justice.
Year: 1875

THE advertisement of the Newark
Land Company will be found in the
proper place. The company will be pre-
pared in this month TO take 8 900 persons
on a grand excursion to their lands which
will be sold in April, in lots.
Year: 1875

Cur DowN.-Tho row of cottonwood
trees in front of Mrs. Cochran's residence
on Taylor street, has been all cut down
during the past week. They had grown
to large size and as Pope says, Gas the
twig is bent SO is the tree inclined, {" those
who set them out must have bent the
twgs toward the street so that when the
wind blew it was dangerous to the houses
on the opposite side. They made sever
al cords of wood and show the astonish-
ingly rapid growth of this species of
timber,
Year: 1875

A SLIGHT ripple is distnguishable on
the sea Of county politics. We hear that
knowing ones have figured out the pro-
spective candidates for everything except
County Treasurer, We should like to be
informed of the result of their cogitations
that we might set the public mind at
rnet
Year: 1875

TRINITY CENTER.-Word reachesi us
from the Center that times are lively
there, work is going on in the mines, and
lack Of water does not seem to hinder op-
erations much. The town is full of
strangers, many of whom are on the way
to Cinnabar, and the hotel is crowded all
the time.
Year: 1875

"SToP MY PAPER. This was the OBJ
servation of two of the JOURNAL sub
scribers when we told them that both of
the "bosses" had become salivated, and
gone up to the quicksilver mines. We
"stops nothing" We propose to show
our worthy friends what is meant by the
term, "imporsonal journalism" and il
they can tell by reading the paper wheth-
er the boss is at home or abroad, we want
to know IT,
Year: 1875

COFFEE CREEK DITCH.-We learn
that the new ditch designed to bring the
waters of Coffee creek to the extensive
mining grounds above Trinity Center
was commenced this week, and large
force of Cinnamon left Weaver in the
fore part of the week to begin work on
that enterprise.
Year: 1875

Ex-Governor Butler, of Nebraska, tells
this story on himself: While election
eering in one Of the frontier counties, he
was lodged at a log bolstery where the
accommodation was so scRnt that his
Excellency and son Of the Emerald
Isle were assigned to the same bed. On
retiring, the Governor remarked to Pat
that be would "have to stay long time
in the old country before he could sleep
with Governor. To which Pat re-
piled: Begorra, ye'd have to be a
moighty long time in the owl country


before your Honor would be Governor.
Year: 1875

The Sultan of Zanzibar is furious
because the Egyptians have occupied
the northen part Of his kingdom. Backed
as they now are it is probable they will
occupy the southern part, too, before
they get through with him. 1t is well to
recollect that these old peoples Of the
old continents are having the wasps
stirred up among them with the long
pole of European civilization.
Year: 1875

A Tenth, which costs only s5. can draw any
Of the following, and will be received by the
Company at any time in six month, as s. In
the purchase of a t20 Bond.


This is a chance for gain and no chance for
Year: 1875

WEDNESDAY, Dec. 70 7. n.
"a prophet is not without honor save in his own
country and seldom is that his prediction, be IL
ever so true meets with grateful recognition. The
HERALD for past has espoused the opinion that
advance in prices upon the Stock Exchange n
compatible with the existing condition OF commercial
ana financial AFFAIRS. The march OF events has proved
the OF this assumption Though the phrase
We told you son would be fitting rejoinder to those
who have suffered for "opposite opinions sake,n We
refrain from expressing IL. We simply intimate to
those who have followed and have been benefited by
suggestions that In the approaching Chrstmastde, at
least tthe OF their gains should be devoted to
oent ends and thus prove the poet in when he
NO SIMS
Year: 1875

THERE is great distress among the poor
of Montreal this winter, and there have
been demonstrations by starving men
which have approached the proportions
of bread riots. One cause of the existing
distress has been the misdirected zeal of
our Canadian neighbors in promoting
immigration schemes without providing
employment for the immigrants who
have been induced to try their fortune in
the Dominion, where there is but little
demand for labor except for very brief
season in the summer. The wages paid
the laboring class in Canada are exceed
ingly low at the best, and immigrants
arriving there without money at this
season of the year find themselves in a
most pitiable condition.-Erchange.
Year: 1875

ALLIANCE.-On Saturday last, Mr.. Cul-
bertson, conductor of the Local, bound
West, in running to open a switch at
Canton station, slipped and fell striking
his head. He was carried to the general
waiting room of the depot where he lay
about an hour before he came to. We
are glad to learn that he is looking after
his train as usual.-RevieW,


Two tramps entered the Chase House
on Monday last and stole the overcoat of
Chas. Peterson. The parties were ar
rested and the property recovered.


A man by the name of Baird from the
neighborhood of Homework, came to
town last Saturday, got drunk and was
robbed of SIP in cash.
Year: 1875

PRESIDENT GRANT, in authorizing the
dismissal of the Hon. E. F. Dunno, Chief
Justice of Arizona, gave the Attorney
General authority to state that it was in
consequence of the publicly expressed
opinion of the Chief Justice on the
School question. Free speech is con-
strued by the present monarch to mean
toadyism to Grant and Third Termism
Year: 1875

IT seems Senator Anthony says JEFF
Davis was not very anxious to take the
South out of the Union, but in fact, held
back and had to be driven. When he
left the Senate in 1861 he wept in bid
ding his brother Senators farewell. Truly,
the devil may not be as black as he is
painted, and Senator Anthony may yet
discover that the Pope even hasn't horns.
Year: 1875

Correspondence St. Louis GlObe.l


Perhaps you will do well to prone,
made your eyes" as the French say
when you see some charming girls draw
ing water at fountain, for the anger Of
the peasant lover is quick and unreason-
ing, and he carries his stllletto or his
curved Dalmatian knife, which makes
such cruel wounds, conveniently ready.
You would not like to be.leit in a by-way
just outside the city walls, with half a
dozen ugly gAshes in your back or throat,
so you had better allow Anita aud Ste
FAM to draw wafer from the fountain in
peace, even although they cast bewitch
ingly sly glances at you as they trip
away with buckets on their fair young
heads.
Year: 1875

had no difficulty in tracing him. In a
short time be was overtaken, whereupon
each opened FIRE, and the lion shed out
his life sweetly there De was a mon
ster in size, weighing GIT pounds.
Year: 1875

Rev. Florence Mccarthy, of Chicago,
who knew Stonewall jackson intimately,
has given some personal incidents OF
him. He says: One comical popularity
of Jackson was his talent for going to
sleep. When L lived in Lexington it
was a well-known fact that the major,
notwithstanding his punctilious attend
ance at church, had never heard DIR.
White preach. About the time that the
second hymn was sung he invariably
went to the land of nod, whence he re-
turned only when aroused by the last
hymn. 1t was said that this habit was
the effect of disease, and could not be
helped. It followed him all through
life, and l saw him yield to it once in
the army. On one Sunday, somewhere
i'll eastern Virginia, remember attend.
ing preaching service in front of Gen.
Jackson's headquarters. The general
sat at the preachers right hand on q
backless camp stool. AS the sun was
very hot and there was no shade, he held
his cap in his right hand between his
head and the sun, his reverence not per-
mitting him to place it on his head, as
many others did theirs. With his hand
elevated in that way, he peacefully
glided off into dreamland and slept with
out moving his arm or no6ding once,
until the noise of the closing exercises
startled bin into consciousness again.
The truth is, Gen. Jackson always look
ell as if he were asleep; and even when
walking he had tho appearance of som.
nambulist.


1t was said that on one occasion q
number of the cadets of the Virgins
military institute, of which Jackson was
q professor, mounted the barracks at the
hour when Jackson had to walk under
the caves of the house, and dropped
brickbats in front of him as he walked
along, endeavoring to see how near they
could come to his head without hitting
it. AS this trick was played at the i'm
mediate risk of killing the innocent pro
fessor, it would hardly be believed that
the cadets would practice it, unless the
reader was first informed that these ca
diets were generally reckless. riotous,
irresponsible, and unscrupulous des
peradoes. 1t is said that they succeed
ed admirably in making all the bricks
Craze Prof. Jackson's s nose. But to their
utter surprise the major did not look up,
nor around, nor quicken his pace at all.
He possessed such extraordinary nerve
and determination that he treated the
whole performance with ICY contempt.
Year: 1875

A medical writer does not approve
of the old doctrine which formerly was
instilled into the minds of children
that they should spring out of bed the
instant they are awake in the morning
He says up to eighteen years old every
child should be allowed to rest in bed,
alter the sleep is over, until they feel as
if they would rather get up than not. 1t
is a very great mistake for persons old
or ryoung-especially children, or seden-
tary persons-to' bounce out of bed at
the moment they wake up; all the in
stincts shrink from it, and fiercely kick
against it. Fifteen or twenty minutes
spent i'll gradually waking up, after the
eyes are opened, and in turning over
and stretching the limbs, do rs much as
good sound sleep, because the operations
set the blood in motion by degrees, tends
ing to equalize the circulation; for dur
ing sleep the blood tends to stagnation,
the leart beats feebly and slowly, and to
shock the system by bouncing up in an
instant and sending the blood in over
whelming quantity to the heart, causing
it to assume gallop, where the instant
before it was a creep, is the greatest alb
surdity. This instantaneous bouncing
out of bed as soon as the eyes are open
will be followed by a weariness long
before noon.
Year: 1875

wish he would make up his mind, ma,


For do not care longer to wait
am sure have limited quite strongly,


That thought about changing my state !;
For sweetheart he's really 30 backward,
can't bring him out, though try;
l own that he's very good tempered,


But then he's 30 dreadfully shy
When speak about love in cottage,


He gives me look Of surprise;
And if but hint at marriage,


He bushes quite up to his eyes.
can't make him jealous-Tve tried it
And tits no use my being unzind,
For that's not the way, am certain,


To get him to make up his mind.
I've sung him love sonnets by dozens,
I've worked him both slippers and hose,
And we've walked out by moonlight together
Yet he never attempts to propose
You must really ask his intention,


Or some other beau must find;
For indeed won't tarry much longer
For one who can't make up his mind.
Year: 1875

While Detroit ferry boat was crowd
ed hat belonging to one of the ladies
blow off and alighted in the river. Many
persons cried out in alarm, and young
man who was aching for n chance to do
something heroic imagined that woman
his @ hat % and ] sonssd INTO a" the We water Ha
got the hat, and after great deal of
trouble the deck-hands got him, and as
they pulled him on deck and tore his
coat tails off, and rolled his vest up I'M
der his chin, and scraped his back on n
plank, hundred people remarked
/" "Haw haw! haw -
Year: 1875

A great many people in this country
are shamefully negligent about answer
ing letters. Nothing is more annoying.
In European countries it is regarded as
the height of ill-breeding to allow let
ter which needs reply to go unanswer-
ell, and so it ought to be considered
here. This is point OH which parents
should lay great stress to their children.
They should be taught to consider it as
rude not to reply to letter which needs
attention as to hand fork with the
prong end. The busiest people are gen.
orally those who are the most exact in
this respect. The late Duke of Yelling
ton, who, it will be admitted, had good
deal on his hands at different times of
his life, replied to every letter, no mat
ter from how humble source. Once n
clergyman, who lived in distant part of
the kingdom, wrote his grace, on whom
neither he nor his parish had shadow
of claim, to beg for a subscription to
rebuild church. BY return of mail
came back letter from the duke to the
effect that he really could not SEQ why in
the world he should have been applied
to for such an object; but the parson
sold the letter as an autograph for $5,
and put the duke down for that amount
among the subscribers.
Year: 1875

He watched beautiful bubble of fame;


It fosted upward and broke.
He dreamed . dream Of . world without blame
It vanished away when he woke.
But out Of the bubble precious tear


Fell soft ON his feAvered hand;
And the memory Of the dream was dear


As q glimpse OF the blameless land.
Year: 1875

"A dollar is n large price for water
melon" said purchaser to n vender of
this fruit, as he was paying for one the
other evening. "You wouldn't think
so, mister" said the dealer, elf You had
set on the fence with a shotgun in your
hand every night for three weeks, watch
ing the patch"