smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1876

THAT'S How" AFTER great snow
storm. little fellow began to shovel 8
path through large snow bank before
his grandmother's door. He had moth.
ing but small shovel to work with.


How do you expect to get through
that drift ?" asked a man passing
along"


"By keeping at it," said the boy
cheerfully /; "that's howl


That is the secret of mastering almost
every difficulty under the sun. If hard
task is before you. stick to it, and little
by little it will grow smaller, until it is
done.


If "a hard lesson is to be learned, do
not spend moment in frettiug do not
lose breath in saying, II can't' or II
do not see how" but go at it and keep
at it-study. That is the only way to
conquer it.


If fault is cured or bad habit
broken up. it cannot be done by merely
being sorry, or only trying little
You must keep fighting until it is got
rid Of.
Year: 1876

KINDNESS IN LITTLE THINGS The
sunshine of life is made up of very
little beams. that are bright all the
time. Ir the nursery, on the play.
ground and in the schoolsroom, there
is room all the time for little acts Of
kindness that cost nothing, but are
worth more than gold or silver. To
give up something. where giving up
will prevent unhappiuess; to yield when
persisting will uhafe and fret others; to
go little around rather than come
against another; to take an i'll word or
cross look, rather than resent or re-
turn it-these are the ways in shich
clouds and storms are kept off, and
pleasant smiling sunshine secured even
in the humble home. among poor peo-
pie, as in families in wealthier homes
Much that We term the miseries of life
would be avoided by adopting this rule
of conduct.
Year: 1876

That was big book P T Barnum


wrote about himself 1t is very COM


plete, too. says the Danbury News. but


there is one little incident which be


either forgot to m, ntion or which be


got pied when the forms went to press.


1t occurred when the great Snowman


was young man and resident of this


section. He was paying impetuous


attentions to young lady living in


Newtown. Being the son of poor but


honest parents. be was obliged to walk


over to the village which contained his
adored on the Sunday nights be visited
her. When there be labored under
another and more awkward disadvan-
tage. The young lady's father con-
ceived singular and most violent dis
like for the amiable embryotic show
man. This necessitated extreme eau
tion on the part of the lover, and be
was equal to the emergency. as a matter
of course. His ingress to the house
was by window on the second floor,
which be reached by springing from a
cover of cistern curb and catching
hold of the window ledge. His egress
was effected by hanging full length
from tho ledge and then dropping to
the cistern cover. fall of about six
inches. One Sunday be took with him
on the visit young man who now
carries his silvered hairs behind DAN
bury grocery counter. They reached
the place; the young lady saw the sig
nal, opened the window, and the fa-
nous Barnum sprang up into bliss.
The young man was to amuse himself
about the village until the hour of de-
parture. He amused himself. It don't
seem possible that any one could be SO
brutal. but that young man actually re-
moved the cover to the cistern. Then
he sat down by the fence and ate cur
rants and calmly waited for the rest
P. 7. finished his sparkling. and backed
out of the window the full length his
hands would permit.


Good bye" he gasped in a whisper,
as he prepared to drop.


Goodbye, Phinny," she whispered
back.


Then he let go. and instantly shot
from sight into yawning abyss of
harness and rain water, and if be had
been Of solid iron heated to a white
glow be could not have created more of
! commotion in striking the water. 1t
9 not necessary to repeat what Mr.
Barnum said, both when crawling out
If the cistern and during the eight
niles walk home.
Year: 1876

The mind perceives by occasion Of
outward objects as much more than is
represented 10 it by sense, as q learned
man does in the best written book than
an illiterate person or brute. To the
eyes of both the same characters will
appear; but the learned man in those
characters will see heaven, earth, sun,
moon and stars-read profound theo-
ries OF philosophy or geometry-learn
great deal Of new knowledge from
them. and admire the wisdom of the
composer; while. to the other, nothing
appears. but black strokes drawn on
white paper.
Year: 1876

The confirmed preudices Of a
thoughtful life are ss hard to change
as the confirmed habits of an indolent
life; and as some must trif1e. away age
because they tri6e away youth, others
must labor on 10 a maze Of error, be-
cause they have wandered there too long
to find their way out -Botingbroke.
Year: 1876

People have . custom of excusine
the enormities of their conduct by talk
ing of their passions as if they were
under the control of blind necessity.
and sinned because they couldn't help It.
Year: 1876

An Acr OF HERolsN Daring the
great storm in Ohio a train OF ears
ran INFO a tunnel near North Bend,
in which the water WAS 80 deep that
it pat ont the fire in the locomotive.
and over a hundred passengers were
imprisoned. Another train would be
due in an hour, and il was necessary
that somebody should get oat Of the
tunnel and reach a a-nrighbo'ing signai
TO prevent a terrible disaster. The
water was about four tee; deep and
running swiftly. \ Ayoung man, whose
name is not given IN the CINCINNATI
Times account Of the occurrence,
volunteered for the exploit. Tue to
tai darkness increased the danger,
and the distance was an eight Of a
mile The young man removed his
boots and coat and plunged IN The
current carried him along and he ea,l
" kept his head above wafer, r,alihough
colisiuned against The rrcky sides Of
the tunnel nearly disabled him, but he
made the passage and STOPPED the
threatening train. In III" meantime
the passengers in tie tunnel were
trembling with hope and fear, aud
the suspense was not relieved until
several hours later, the water Subsld-
ed, the fire IN the locomotive was re
kIndled and their journey was contin
ued.
Year: 1876

EF During the trial Of divorce in
England, recently, the libelant's counsel
in cross examining the co respondent
concerning certain affecting leave.ta
king with the respondent at railway
station asked: "Did you not place your
hand in his, saying, Meet me in heaven
George ." "Would you have had me
ask him to meet me in hell ?" flashed back
the lady. When the roars in the court
room had subsidized, the lawyer repeated


"Did you, or did you not, ask him to
meet YOU in heaven i" Yes, l did,
was the net retort, but l hope you
don't call that an improper assignation p
Year: 1876

Joint Resolution on the Celebration OF


the Centennial in the Several Counties


or Towns


Be it resolved by the senate and house
of representatives of the United States
of America, in congress assembled. That
it be and is hereby recommended by the
senate and house of representatives to
the people of the several states that they as
semble in their several counties or towns
on the approaching centennial anniversa
ry of our national independence, and
that they cause to have delivered on such
day an historical sketch of said county or
town from its formation, and that copy
of said sketch may be fled, in print OF
manuscript, in the clerks Office of said
county, and an additional copy. in prin,
or manuscript, be fled in the office of
the librarian of congress, to the intent
that complete record may thus be oh
tanned of the progress of our institutions
during the first centennial of their exis'
tence.


Approved March l3, 1876.
Year: 1876

How GRANTIsM PLUMBERS THE PEOPLE.
The band is well arranged. Where
ever three or four scoundrels were gath
cred together in Grants name, there he
was in the midst of them, in the person
of brother, brother in law, cousin, or
friend. No custom house or whisky
ring could divide its plunder without the
devils being present to cry "halves -
The ubiquitous Asmodeus, as Porter in
New York, or as Casey in New Orleans,
filed his fathomless pockets, and where.
ever the White House cast its shadow, a
brother Orvil, or brother in law Dent
came forth out of it with extended palms.
If Shepherd and Babcock could make
their hundreds Of thousands out of tho
district ring, and Belknap scarcely less
out of single department, how shall we
estimate the probable total sum ground
out of the toiling citizens and tax-pay-
ers Of the country during eight long
years by the we'll organized band created
by that ncpotism OF the White House
which has thrown the chief patronage
of the administration into their dirty
hands p Vesttiche Post.
Year: 1876

Having received many letters from
friends in different sections of the state,
soliciting me to become candidate for
governor, and finding it impossible to re
spond directly to each one. l avail my
self of this method of making general
reply to all


After mature consideration, and learn
ing that my old friend, the present dis
tinguished incumbent, will uot be can.
didate for re. election, have concluded
to make the race, and accordingly an
nounce myself as a candidate, sebject, OF
course, to the action of the next demo.
cratic conservative convention.
take this occasion also to say that |
have been led to this determination not
through any selfish desire on my part for
office, or from any undue estimate Of my
own personal merits or abilities but
solely through desire to serve my friends
and willingness to respond to any de
mand that may be made upon me TO serve
the public.


have no hope. wish or desire in life
that is not bound up with the honor and
prosperity of my state, and the happiness
and welfare of my fellow citizens; and il
it should be their good pleasure to Cal
me to the high distinction and responsi
BILE position of chiet magistrate Of the
state, ] need offer them no better pledge
of my administration Of the office than II
to be found in the record of my past life
which is open to the inspection of all
and which can proudly though honest
ly claim is without blot or stain person
ally as we'll as politically.


have the honor to be, with much re.
spect, your obcdient servant,
THOS. FLETCHER.


Little Rock, March 25, 1876.
Year: 1876

E1- Mrs. Secretary of the Navy Robe
son is one Of the most cultivated singers
in Washington. Her voice was one OIL
her many attractions as q young girl
and during her married life she has beer
a constant musical student.
Year: 1876

Divide two or three oranges into quarters !;
remove with a sharp knife every particle of
skin of any sort from each quarter, and cut it
In three or four pieces. Make in the usual
way jelly favored with oranges, put into it
the pieces of orange, and place it on ice to set.
This preparation is an agreeable change from
the ordinary orange jelly, and is, so to speak,
the first step toward learning to make that
delectable dish-a chartreuse of oranges.


To make this, procure two plain noulds,
one exceeding the other in diameter about
one and onefourth inches. Make an ordina.
ry orange jelly, pour little of it into the lar
ger meuld, place in it layer of orange quar-
tiers, pour over them just enough jelly to
make smooth surface. Place the mould on
ice for the Jelly to set. When it is quite firm
put the smaller mould inside the larger one,
taking care so to place it that the vacant
space between the two moulds be of the same
width all round. In this vacant space dis
pose quarters of oranges prepared as above,
filling up the interstices with liquid jelly until
the whole space is filled up. Place the mould
on ice; whip pint of cream with half an
ounce of isinglass dissolved in milk, and some
sweetened orange juice, which must be added
very little at time, else the cream will not
rise. When the cream is ready and the ielly
set remove the smaller mould by pouIing
warm water into it; fill up the inner space
with the cream, set the chartreuse ON ice for
hour; turn out and serve.-W. Rural
Year: 1876

by making all its departments more complete and by
sparing no effort or expense at their command to
make the PRESS more valuable and desirable.


The PRESS has larger editorial corps than any
paper in Maine, and has unexceed facilities for col
Getting news in all parts of the state The business
agricultural and manufacturing interest of Maine
will receive the continued attention of the PRESS.


The growing Importance of Portland as dstribu-
ting center for Maine and its fast increasing whole
Fale trade make daily paper at this point of special
Importance to every merchant and business man in
the state.
Year: 1876

An article in our last issue, giving an
account of the successful use of this fertilizer
on turnips, should have been credited to the
Colonial Farmer, N. B. We willingly make
the correction, as it affords the opportunity
of saying that this superphosphate is very
skillfully and faithfully compounded, and Of
the highest intrinsic value. A feeling of
state pride as well as selfinterest, should
induce our farmers to encourage this home
industry, which is more largely in their inter-
est, than that of its projectors.
Year: 1876

subject, the sale of these deadly papers still
remains unrestricted by law and we daily
see them used on railroad and concert tickets,
boxes for confectionery, and other articles
Journal of Chemistry.
Year: 1876

The nice young man who searches
the book stores for "A guide to Gro
quet,' exhibits an honest devotion to a
noble game, but he is not the sort Of
person one would willingly select to
break a mule.
Year: 1876

A little boy. in Denver Sunday
School, was asked by his teacher if he
had learned anything during the past
week. oh, yes,' said he. What is
it you have learned 2 Never to lead
q deuce when you've got an ace back Of
it, was the reply.
Year: 1876

@ The circulation of aTHE TINES y is
much larger than that of any other daily pa
per in this City or State, with the single ex-
ception of the Ledger, and is constantly in
creasing.
Year: 1876

STANDARD OF QUALITY STRICTLY
MAINTAINED.


While we-announce reduction in the price
Of our RAW BONE SUPER-PHOSPATE, we
would respectfully represent to dealers and
farmers that its standard of quality has been
strictly maintained. The proportions of sol
uble and precipitated Phosphoric Acid, and
Ammonia, have never been higher than they
are in the article we are now selling our Gus
TONER'S This statement we make as o bind
ing guarantee.
Year: 1876

Has been running regularly ACROSS THE
BAY from Bombay Hook, making very de-
lightful and cheap EXCURSION. This is to
announce that from and after the present date
tho Muc;c nf q fua
Year: 1876

Hereafter no Legal Advertise
ments will be inserted in the TINES
unless payment is made when hand
ed IN. 1t requires money to carry
on our buslness and we are COM
PEELED to adopt the cash principle.
This rule will not be deviated from
in any case.
Year: 1876

The wife of Andrew James, colored man,
who is in Jail under three months SEN
tence for larceny, died Tuesday night, and
the next day female relative obtained
through the clerk of the Criminal Court
permission for the bereaved husband to
leave the Jail In charge ofa deputy warder
to take a last look at the features of his late
consort. When James was Informed by the
warden of the privilege proffered him he re.
fused It, to the utter surprise of his sympa-
thetic relative, saying "What for I wan
to see her; she done gone dead now. ]
doesn't want to see the ole woman cam
do her NO good now.""
Year: 1876

WE are glad to know that when Mr..
Conrad makes his famous political speeches
that he is out side of the pale of religion,
and that he is not in religion except when
leading in the Young Mems Christian
Association. This is where his religious
proclivities are exercised alone
Year: 1876

THE New York Sun tells wonderful
ta'e of young man among the Newburgh
converts who reSists temptation to a won
derful degree. The young mans father
threatens TO disinberit him if he does not
leave the church, and, as the Sun expresses
it, ''return to the service Of the devil"
But the most unaccountable part of it is
the fact that the Sun, the leading organ on
earth Of his Satanic majesty, commends


the young man for his sacrifice of wealth
for principles sake. Perhaps Old Man
Dana, whose sands of life have about run
out, is beginning to feel some compunc.
lions Of conscience which cause him to ad-
mire that which is noble in others and
which he does not himself possess; but We
doubt It. He has served his master, the
king of liars, so long that his livery will
stick TO him as q shroud, and the recollec.
tions the public will retain of him after his
death will be similar to those which en-
bellish the memories of Ananias and Saph-
Year: 1876

CoHGREss reassembles today after hav-
ing wasted month, SO far as the House
wing IS concerned, in holiday feasting and
completing very unsatisfactory organizl-
ton. While the Senate has mapped out
some business OF Il le gisative character and
transacted a large amount in executive ses-
sion, the Democratic majority in the lower
branch mas done nothing of striking public
interest except 10 get into squabble re-
gardiug committee selections and make
draft upon the Sergeant-at-Arms for the
payment of salary accounts. II must be
admitted, in view of the boasts of the Op-
position, made during the last canvass, of
the high minded intentions of the Democ-
racy, that this is very bad beginning. 1t
is the natural result, however, of sending
inexperienced and incompetent men to
Congress, and is one which the public will
soon learn to regret
Year: 1876

ocrats to draw Northern votes In the coming
election. Wecan better determine whether
our "guess" as to its paternity is correct
when We hear the Democratic Senators ex-
press themselves in the debate on these and
Senator Morton's resolution. Whether the
resolution was the unaided work Of Senator
Mcdonald or the result of consultation
upon the best means to catch votes, it
forcibly reminds us that pdrturtent montes
ct redtculus mas is as true now as it was
when first enunciated.


The disavowal of the right of secession
contained in the first part Of the sentence is
a complete summersault upon the part of
the Democrats, and as specimen of ground
and lofty tumbling Is unexcelled by any
previous efforts of the Democratic party in
that way Even its Endorsement of the
life long Republican Greeley did not sur
pass it. But the motive that prompts it is
too transparent: in the slang of the day, 'ft
Is too gauzy" Time and again since 1856
the Democtatic party has been beaten when
its banners were inscribed with the damna-
bic doctrine that resulted in drenching the
land in blood and burdening it with debt
that sits like an Incubus upon its material
prosperity. And now some of the leaders
want to change the issue. They want to
go before the country in the next race less
heavily handicapped, and therefore the
resolution of the Indiana Senator. Butthe
device will not work. The Ethiopian can
not change his skin, nor the leopard his
spots, neither can the Bourbon Democrat
forego the Virginia and Kentucky resolu-
tions of '9S and 80. Nor, if they could,
would the people have any faith in their
conversion to the true principles of Ameri
can statesmanship. The Democratic party
has been weighed in the scales and found
wanting
Year: 1876

THERE was some excitement yesterday
and day before regarding the appointment
OF new jury commissioners by the District
Supreme Court The truth about the mat
ter is. that the selection was made by the
court ITSELF and however much objection
may be made to some of the appointees
it must be admitted that no one will have
any reason to find fault with the character
of the jurymen selected by them on
grounds of partisanshp. The new jury,
however, will not be called until March,
and it is not improbable that as soon as it
is called attorneys for the defense in Grim
;naI cases will move for the selection OF
another lot of commissioners.
Year: 1876

THE Liberal Republicans have received
no encourag 5ment whatever at the hands
of The Democratic House. There are a
small number of them who have some
claims upon the Democracy, based upon
their opposition to the Republican party,
but they have been entirely ignored.
Verify gratitude is not a prominent charac-
teristlc Of the ex- Confederate Democracy.
Year: 1876

pecied to be given by the great food Of hu-
manity that will pour into this country from
foreign shores. M IL


There were two Of them, and they were from
Alexandra. They came here for purpose,
but failed to accomplish h.. One was lawyer,
the other an official. They were searching for
tie man who wrote that article on the Chesa-
peake and Ohio railroad, in which the young
lawyer figured conspicuously as a spread-eagle
orator, and was checked in his lofty fight Of
rhetoric by the Chief Justice Of the United
States. They were anxious to meet that man
in the dark, light, rain, sunshine or moon
shine, anywhere, only so that the meeting was
secured. Sore wroth were they, filled brimming
full of that anger which it is very hard to ap-
pease; but when they were told that the man
who wrote it weighs twenty ounces to the
pound and is a walking arsenal they found it
convenient to go home on the next train,
which, perhaps, is all for the best.


That part of Congress devoted to the in
terests of the old secession element of the
South is just now vociferating loudly for a
reduction of the army. There is nothing
strange about this. 1t is very natural. They
failed TO reduce 1t sufficiently with the bullet
to gain their reasonable ends, and now they
propose 20 secure the reduction by their bal
lots. 1t is believed, beyond the possibility of
a doubt, that the American army is already
50 diminutive tn at few skulking savages
and horse stealing Mexicans can engage in
their nefarious work without being visited
with that condign punishment which for the
dignity of the nation should be inflicted upon
them; and yet an ex-Confederate general,
sitting in the House, seeks to cut down this
meagre military force and thus subject the
Government to more insults and more out
RACES. This is perseverance indeed. When
he laid down his sword he quietly put his
cause away in some safe spot for future
reference, and he has not forgotten to refer.
Year: 1876

Is IT NOT STRANGE that any one should
claim that our party, that never yet had a
President live out his second term, had
made ''unwritten law that would exclude
the peoples choice from the third term
This certainly differs widely from the
moss grown "lez non scripta' known to
CnIIrts
Year: 1876

THE FACT that Senator West is Re-
publican Senator from Southern State
furnishes sufficient explanation of the at
tacks now being made upon him by the
Opposition. The charges upon which these
assaults are based will not bear investiga-
ton in the light of truth; but that will make
no difference to the ex- Confederate De-
Year: 1876

Mrs. Hannah storer, of Bowdoinham, Me-,
came into the world at the time when the
Liberty bell'' was sending the glad tidings of
the Declaration of Independence ever the land.
She expects to attend the Centennial, but is in
rather precarious health at present. May
Heaven re-Storer health
Year: 1876

ANermOnt tramp undertook to eat at a
farmers table against the express commands
Of the husbandman; but he insisted, and Just
as he was folding up a griddle-cake to put it
into his mouth he received a charge of buck
shot in his abdomen which saved the cake and
sent his soul to Judgment
Year: 1876

This is an age of wonderful progress, which
fact is luminously illustrated by a pinafore
chap in this city who chews and smokes, plays
cards, and recently threatened to blow his
mothers brains out if she told his father
about his running away from school