smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1876

Brownie came of \ black-and-tan
family, but was himself almost entirely
brown; hence was called Brownie. He
was great pet with his owner, a lady,
and one day was taken on a railway
excursion to village about eight miles
from the city. On arrival, Brownie
trotted up the street after his mistress,
who stopped at house, and becoming
interested in other matters quite forgot
her little dog After some time he was
missed, and no calling or whistling
brought him from any part Of the house
or street.


His mistress thought there was no
other course but to advertise for him,
and she turned homeward, quite de-
pressed at Brownies loss. When she
reached the depot in the city, she found
that Brownie had arrived alone by an
earlier train, and had been locked up
by a railroad official to await a claim
ant. When brought out he seemed
quite uncertain whether he had done
the right thing or not, for he came for
ward in crawling sort of way, as dogs
do when filed with mingled Joy and re-
morse but his reception soon reassured
him as to the propriety of his conduct.
No doubt, as soon as he missed his
owner, it occurred 10 him that the
surest way to find her was to return to
the point from which they had started.
He accordingly returned to the station
and took his seat in the cars, for the
conductor reported that he had seen
Brownie sitting demurely alongside of
a gentleman, and supposed that he be-
longed to him. 1t was not until they
reached the city that the dog was found
TO be without master.


Probably Brownie thoughtit safer to
seem to be under human protection
than to be travelling Independently At
any rate, he gsined~a reputation for
considerable sagacity by being able to
take such good care Of himself and to
get a free passage on the railroad at
the age of two.-Rochester 0r'o-'
Year: 1876

The other day Grand River Avenue
grocer purchased 30 pound crock of
butter of farmer whom he had never
dealt with before, and while down cellar
emptying the crock he thought of a
trick to surprise the agriculturist. Find
ing a stone weighing about eight
pounds, the grocer creased it, carried
it up stairs with the crock, and, point
ing to it, quietly remarked:


"This, of course, is to be taken from
the gross weight, as well as the jar"


The farmer looked at the stone for
several long seconds, and then in a
voice so low that no one else could hear,
replied:


"Please kiver a piece of paper over
the jar, for there's man out by the
door who knows me-"


The grocer finally explained his
fiendish plot, and the butter-seller's
face underwent a sudden change.
Reaching over the sugar barrels to
shake hands, he said:


81 didn't hardly believe it, though
my wife came from tricky family, and
l should have gone home and organized
mourning and lamentation in that farm
house. .''-Detrott Free Press.
Year: 1876

SOME mistaken genius has invented a
pocket photograph apparatus. You
meet a woman who pleases you; you
draw out the machine, and before she
has time to be astonished you have her
likeness in your pocket. A man operat-
ing with such an apparatus is warrant
ed to have an eye poked out with par
asol several times 9 day.
Year: 1876

macaroni," had strong preference
apparently for all that was in conflict
with his subsequent social theories,
laughed, jested, made love to the little
bellies of the little capital, and was the
very last man whom any one would
have regarded as the future leader of a
great political party and the writer of
the Declaration of Independence
John ESten Cooke, tn Harper's for July
Year: 1876

The Cinnamon in California, in the
expectation of being driven from the
country, are sending home the remains
of their dead. In cases where only the
bones are left, scrupulous care. is taken
TO miss none, as they believe that to
leave one behind would imperil the soul
of the dead person. A paper is spread
BY the grave, and upon it the skeleton is
laid, piece bypiece, until it is complete.
Year: 1876

While visiting at the house of a
friend in Dayton, Ohio, two weeks
since, Gov. Hayes was honored with an
extemporaneous popular domonstra-
ton, in which over thousand peo-
pie participated. A salute of 152
guns was fired, fireworks were dis
played and music mingled with the
booming of cannon and cheering of
the crowd. In response to repeated
calls, the President elect addressed
the citizens in these words:


My Friends will not detain you
longer than four or five minutes. [
am here on short visit to your beau
tiful city of Dayton, not on any politi-
cal mission, or TO talk on any of the
political questions of the remarkable
canvass that has just been closed |
understand that these greetings here
to- night are not so much in honor of
myself as or account of the peculiar
interest that is felt in the present con-
dition of the country. In the excite
ment that has prevailed before and
since the election, people of ardent
temperaments have said and done
thugs that are indiscreet but as the
excitement subsidies we begin to re-
turn to our better wisdom and iudg-
ment. | have too much faith in the
common sense of the American people
to think that they desire to see in
their country Mexicanized Govern
mept. Whatever may be the result
at which the lawful authorities arrive,
you and will quietly submit; and l
have sufficient respect aud confidence
in the great majority of the opposite
party to believe that they will do the
same. was glad to see in a paper
this evening an article from the Lon
don Times respecting the condition of
this country. Such IL state of affairs
could not occur any where else in the
world. The entire area of the coun-
try agitated by the uncertain issues
of the political conflict, yet not one
shot fired, not one man killed, aud no
breaches of tiieS peace. We have this
Centennial year the wonders of our
growth displayed in the exhibition of
agricultural and mechanical arts. and
We are now afforded an opportunity
of giving to the world an example of
the value of republican government.
In speaking to you this evening, /
have referred without previous
thoughts to what must have occurred
to every one of us standing here, and
must take my leave of you with the
most sincere Acknowledgements for
this expression of your friendship aud
good will.
Year: 1876

The staff tcorrespondentoft of the Tsibalae


ut New Orleans, in letter published


this morning, giyesa careful statement


OF the murder of Henry Pinkston. of


the violence offered TO his wife. and


OF the brutal killing of their child


Mr.. White, man of large experience,


declares that " it is long time since


he has been so shocked by the recital


OF any crime" and that to ''the worst


phase of the story there is no other


side" There is a perfect coherenca


III the statements of Mrs. Pinkston,
and her narrative is one which it


would have been hardly possible for
such woman to invent. These
dreadful deeds are not to be sneered
down, scofYed down, sophisticated in
to misdemeanor, nor cross examined
into trifles INV orthy of public con-
sideratioD. There are those who may
have an interest in discreditinc Mrs.
Plnkston's testimony; but it is the
whole situation which they have to
eneouEter-the military, semi
political clubs; the nocturnal visits;
the blacks flying from their homes
and taking refuge in swamps the
withholding of employment from the
laborer the prosecuted, with bullets
~ their bodies, crawling for succor-
and medical treatment to the quarters
OF Federal soldiers; the raids, the
burnlngs and the mysterious assassi-
nations. All these could have but
two obiects-either to prevent the
colored men from voting at all, or to
keep them from voting the Republi-
can ticket. Our correspondent in a
previous letter, while suspending his
found in the facts "a
sufficient explanation either for gen.
eral absence of the negro voters from
the polls or for their desertion of their
party"


If the fundamental condition of the
amnesty which gave again to this and
other Southern States their former
place in the Union is repudiated in
this way, and the right of colored citi-
zens to vote greatly abridged, it is
time that the fact was officially known.
The penalty which the fourteenth
provides is one that the
South would feel to it's inmost soul.
With its representation in Congress
reduced in the same proportion that
the rightful vote has been wrongly
abridged, the solid South wouldn't
mean so much as it does now, and it
might not be solid.
Year: 1876

We learn that vigorous measures
are being taken by the Government
to fully protect witnesses who may
testify before the Senate Investigat-
ing Committee now in New Orleans.
and particular attention will be given
the bnlldozers in 0uachita, Baton
Rouge and the Feliciana parish. How
this protection is TO be accomplished
We have not learned. To protect
them until the Committee is done with
them, and then leave them to the
mercy of their enemies, would be to
mock them in the hour of their dis
tress, and involve them in greater
trouble than they have already en-
dued The Government will have to
continue its protection long after the
committee has left, or else remove
either the witnesses or the bulldozers
to some other section of the country.


Amite Independent.
Year: 1876

One very curious thing connected
with the Servian military bands is the
manner in which nearly all the regi
ments carry the big drum. Instead.
as in other armies, of being slung
in front of the man who plays it, this
instrument is placed upon two
wheeled cart, drawn by large dog,
the latter being so trained that he
keeps his place in the band, even
through the longest marches. The
drummer walks behind the cart, and
performs on the instrument as he goes
along.
Year: 1876

The woods would be very silent if
no birds sang there but those that sang
best"


l know not who said those beautiful
words, but l. may be safe to say it was
no great man. Not what the world
calls great nor learned, not rich, but
whOsOever placed them upon paper to
be read by its struggling thousands
gave sermon in the plainest, truest,
yet grandest way it could be told.


know how anxious everyone feels
to do his best-tO be first. Well, you
may do your best. But if your talent
will not bring you hundred fold, be
content by its doubling. Rather be
proud that you can look back and say
hat is as we'll again as l once did"
II you are capable of no more, why be.
moan your own fate because others have
outstripped you Do you gain by conf
planning, or by silence Can you lose
by trying again ? How many churches
would be vacant If every preacher
should say will not preach unless
can have my church filled like Beech
er or SpurgeOn If none went abroad
but the .doodys and Sankey's, how many
places would be unfruitful F? All the
churches would be very silent If none
preached but those who preach best |
To be first or nothing is poor saying
by which to live. No one expects you
to give your first speech like Wilber-
force. Everybody knows you have not
tho head of Daniel Webster-they only
think it is very well for you, John Smith.
1t does not cool your ardor to be thus
spoken Of. 1t helps to make cOmpari-
son between the poorer and the better.
Very rarely would the world look upon
pictures or works Of art, II nCne sat at
the easel or held the chisel but the
worlds great masters. What would
you be-what would the world be-if
none struggled to be heard ? Because
you cannot pipe so long or SO load as q
stronger or bolder brother, need you
try on that instrument? You may make
a clearer, and sweeter strain on some
other one. The world does not measure
all beauties or talents alike. II one
thinks the whippOor- will the best singer
of the wood would he care to have that
bird under his window always His
nelghbors might like the robin best,
then wao Is to be judge between the
two ? Should one bird stop singing be-
cause some other can be heard the far
thest No use what talents you pos
sess. Set not smiles or frowns, hear not
the cheers or envious remarks, heed not
the prophetic sayings of your future,
and never mind II you do not as well as
the best. Keep doing-sculpture or
paint, study. or play, sing, speak or
write, and II you do not stand FIRST, re-
member that the woods would be
very silent II no birds sang there but
tho'e that sang best. chronological
Journal.
Year: 1876

So Who would throw away a barrel
full of soft soap or a box of hard


soap? Were it not otherwise use
full, it would be of great value as q
fertilizer. if spread, in its raw state,


about our fruit trees or berry bushes.


But, after being dissolved in water
and and passing through the wash


tub, cleaning the impereeptible ele-
ments of the best nature from soiled


linen, its fertitizing power is vastly


Increased. Indeed we may almost
say that the average soapsIds from


the kitchen and laundry is worth
more than the soap which produces


it. do not, then, allow your soap


suds to run away wasted, while you


have trees which it might benefit.
Year: 1876




Belknap is now fairly on his trial.
The court of impeachment, as we an
jticipated, has taken under discussion
the preliminary plea of jurisdiction.
There is no doubt of Belknap's guilt.
We presume there is not a member
Of the court who, upon the merits of
the case. after his confession. would
dare to declare him innocent. But
there is technical point to which
we have heretofore called attention,
and that is the question as to wheth-
er impeachment applies to a public
officer after resignation. The gen.
eral concurrence on the part of SEN
ators in Belknap's guilt may control
their Judgment on this preliminary
question: Still we shall not be sur.
prised to hear that the court has suss
tanned the plea of the defendant and
given him technical discharge
KnorUiEe Daily Tribune. -
Year: 1876

The Rural New Yorker, in answering
the question of subscriber as to wheth-
er working horses should be trotted to
and from work, thus remarks: If more
pains were taken to break colts into fast
walking it would be necessary to trot
them i'm intervals between hard work.
Trotting is hard pace for q horse on
a hard road-bed, and more horses are
prematurely disabled by fast driving TO
and from market than by the severest
work they do upon the farm. Still, if a
horse is kept in good working order, he
ought to, and will want to go faster than
walk when. drawing an empty wagon,
and, in such cases most working horses
will not hurt themselves by fast trot
ting. Often the team is anxious to get
to its crib and feed of oats AZ the driver
il for his supper. and we don't know
why it should be held in, to the dIscom-
fort of both AS for whipping or urg-
ing d poorly-fed or hardworking horse,
either to orsfrom work, it should never
be allowed. 1t is much better 10 take
the old-fashioned advice and put the
whip in the manger-
Year: 1876

A louisville chap thought he had
found someth ing pure and fresh in
the shape of laughing, sunny little
witch of a girl and was on the point
of proposing marriage when she
scattered his found hopes to the
winds by remarking one evening :
fs.Yop kiss and hug me more .thas
ans, gentleman am acquainted with,
except Charley Wallace. and he is
a steamboat clerk and only comes
here once month"
Year: 1876

Simon Eliseman spent one night of last
week in Elk Point, and rising early on the
following morning, he took a stroll down
the principal street of the place, when he
met a man coming in an opposite direction
who accosted him thus " Is it you l see,
Father Lenigan? Simon nodded assent
and reached forth his hand which the man
took in his own and began full and de-
tailed recital of his troubles and grievances
how he had abused his wife, lied to his
mother-in-law, whipped his neighbor, &c.


When the man got too infinitely fine in
detail concerning his misdeeds, Simon said
he must go into the hotel, and asked his
new found friend to await his return. Once
out of the mans sight Simon concluded that
the character of priest was too heavy for
him to assume and he slipped out of the
hotel by side door. He is rather inclined
to change his costume little and confine
himself to the drygoods business hereafter.
Dakota Herald.
Year: 1876

Another heavy defalcation is reported,
this time from Buffalo N. Y. City Trea-
surer Bork has fed, leaving deficit of
over three hundred thousand dollars. Like
many others who have gone his road he
was open-handed, and apparently open
hearted. lie was president of thirteen
societies, and foremost in all philanthropic
works. Doubtless he thus managed to
divert suspicion from his dark doings for
who could question the man who kept his
balances straight on paper, who had the
reputation of great wealth, who gave homes
to the working classes for a song and was
foremost in all benevolent projects? These
cases are hard to judge without all the eyi-
dence; but, whether he lent the city's
money to others or used it in other ways,
he was stepping himself in dishonesty at
every step, and it is proverbial how difficult
it is to retrace these downward steps.
Year: 1876

Carl Schurz protests, in a recent letter to
that President Grant is personally in
terested in such corrupt combinations as
the Whisky Ring. Mr.. Schurz says: "In
my recent visit to Europe | have met
almost all classes of people, and | assure
you it is a very bitter thing for person
who is really attached to this country to
see that almost all mention of the United
States in newspapers is devoted to stories of
fraud and swindle, and from questions and
observations to be forced to the conclusion
that they there consider our public service
as n great hot-house of infamous corruption
from which honorable conduct is banished.
What then would be the effect if we gave
public opinion of Europe to understand
that we here consider the President of the
United States, the head of the entire Gov
ernment, the member of an infamous band
of robbers2 No more should our own peo-
pie be made to believe that thing so fear
full is possible at all. Even party spirit
should shrink from such an extreme, for il
1


the mind of the masses could familiarize
itself to such a picture of utter moral
degradation the terrible consequences
would be almost incalculable. Indeed, is il
possible that the President would have
permitted the investigation to go on which
threatened the exposure of the whole frauc
and all the participants in it if he himsel


had belonged to them2 Surely not; an(


it is certain that he could have throttlet


the investigation in its incipiency if he haC


SO desired. With such powers as hi


one who feels guilty could have soon foun'


the means to do 50, and would not hav'
failed to avail himself Of them. Every sus


picion of such participation, therefore,
hold to be unfounded and unjust.
Year: 1876

NAroLEoN's HAPPIEsT DAY.-When Ma
poleon was in the height of his prosperity,
and surrounded by brilliant company of
the marshals and courtiers of the empire
he was asked what day he considered to
have been the happiest of his life. When
all expected that he would name the occa-
sion of some glorious victory, or some great
political triumph, or some august celebra-
ton, or other signal recognition of his
genius and power, he answered without
moments hesitation, "The happiest day of
my life was the day of my first communion"
At reply so unforeseen there was a general
silence; when he added, as if to himself,
" l was then an innocent child"
Year: 1876

a remarkable instance of calculation was
recorded at Aslmcr, Canada, where a bar
Der named johnson, for bet of fifty cents,
ran under the cars of railway train that
was passing at rapid rate of speed. He
won the wager, though he lost the heel of
one boot by wheel that came unpleasant
tly close as he emerged. The man who
lost the bet said he had expected to win
and get couple of dollars for attending
the inquest.
Year: 1876

There is one thing done against Roman
ism that cannot be charged upon the fools,
and which is likely to spike all our Protes-
tant guns unless it is Immediately stopped.
We refer to the organization of a secret
political society to overthrow political Ro-
manism. Such an order, we have reason
to know, exists, and is being extended in
several States-possibly in all. Only evil
to good cause can come from such o
society. Persons at its head may secure
private advantages, temporary successes
may attend the first years, but the reaction
is sure to come, and Romanism is sure {
gain by such an order. The settled policy
Of this country is liberation of all sects
Keep out of this political secret society,"
The Methodist.
Year: 1876

The report Of the Aricultural Bureau for
November and December states that the
corn crop is one Of the largest ever grown
in this country, probably equalling the
crops Of 1870 and 1872 the potato crop is
extraordinary, both in product and quality,
the total yield being fully one-fourth larger
than last year, that the cotton crop will
g pass the limit of 100000 bales and
that there Is an increase of rs per cent in
the yield Of tobacco over that OF last year,
Year: 1876

A FATAL EXPERIMENT. Richart,
employed in the paper mill at Spring City,
Chester county, committed suicide at an
carly hour Wednesday morning. 1t ap-
pears he and his wife had a quarrel about
some trifling matter, when he told her that
he would take his life. She paid no atten-
ton to his threat, and had nearly forgotten
the little affair, when in passing to another
part of the house what was her horror upon
discovering his dead body dangling from a
rope fastened to the top of room door.
It is believed that he merely intended to
frighten her, as the wall and door bear
marks of his desperate struggles to free
himself. He leaves, besides wife, five
young children, Hisage was about thirty
five,
Year: 1876

This is the kind of weather that makes
the dashing young man wish that instead
of spending dollar and half for that
massive diamond pin last Summer, he had
judiciously invested it in pair of Winter
drawers.-N0rtcich Bulletin.
Year: 1876

A lady having been ordered by her ply.
sician to a warmer climate, her husband re-
marked that if there was warmer climate
than he had been living in since his mar
riage he was not aware of it.
Year: 1876

Wendell Phillips said in recent tenn
perance speech You can't make license
law loose enough, but what I'll strangle
every grogshop in Boston, if you viii make
me Superintendent Of Police He ought
to be elected to that Office without delay.
He would soon find out the difference
between talking and doing.
Year: 1876

Congressman Seelye believes in the exis-
tence of the secret organization, Order of
American Mechanics, and thinks it has
great power. lie says, in an interview
with areporter of the Springfield RcJuJEcan,
that there are many politicians in it, and
that he first heard of it in 1873. He fully
believes the Roman Catholics are making
strenuous efforts to get possession of the
ruling power in this country, for these rea-
sons: "The Church Of Rome is insdiously
seeking to control the negro vote, as it
already does the Irish. There are now at
the College of the Propaganda at Rome
between GO and 70 colored youth being
educated to take the field among their
brethren in our Southern States. Who can
imagine the success of the pomp and tinsel
of the Papist Church with the excitable
negro temperament? What will be the
result Of the negro and Irish vote combined?
Who will lead a party to defeat them
Some people cry, Pooh there is no dam
GER 1t was just so before the Rebellion,





ern States could not be kicked out of the
Union. We all know the result of that
letting alone. There are two dangers that
beset us in this question of religion in the
schools One is letting it alone, and allow
ing education to slip into the hands of the
Catholic priesthood the other is taking
away the Bible from the schools and max.
ing them altogether secular. The first
means delivering posterity, body and soul,
into the hands of the Romish Church; the
second means destruction to our system o.
education. lie would avoid both dangers
and, while he would yield neither to the
Romish nor the secular theory of educa
ton, he would maintain as stoutly as the
Romanist the need of religion in schools
and resist as positively as the secularist tn
denomination of church or hierarchy.