smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1873

Bridgewater, Vt, Aug, Stb, 1878.
A TRIBUTE TO TIE PAssERS-BY:


AS the golden rays of the morn
ing sun were rising the hills and val
leys, this morning, and my dear old
grandfather, Daniel Lake, nearly 80
years old, was sitting in his accustom-
ed place upon the piazza of the house,
quietly watching the changing scenes
around him and giving his child like
greetings to the passers-by, party Of
young Ladies and Gents, who were
evidently pleasure seekers came along
and as they approached the house, and
saw him, commenced singing (and
sweetly too) "Auld Lang Syne." Dear
old man: He raised his voice, and
sang with them until they had passed.
He then came into the house, and like
a pleased child told about it, was ask
ed if he knew the piece they were
singing. Yes, he could sing it as he
can many other songs at the sugges'
ton of others, but could give it lie
name. The incident so impressed
my feelings that l could not keep back
the tears and felt that it would be O
privilege to thank those young people
for that old song, given, as | know 1t
must have been from kind, sympathiz
ing hearts to the poor old man who
waits so patiently, among the turmoils
and cares of this life for the pale boat
man to bear him to the Better Land,
where with rejuvenated spirit and
abiding love he will meet our sainted
Grandmother, gone five years ago to
prepare the way, and watch for his
coming.


Accept our thanks, travellers
friends or foes, who cast friendly
glance, give an encouraging word OF
sing cheering song to the aged one
and may your last days be as peaceful
as his seem to be, and may you be
surrounded with loving friends who
will not, in your second childhood, for
get your generous deeds and goodly
Year: 1873

1t is grand thing to read in q po-
|pular journal that 'the newly married
pair embarked for a bridal tour in
Europe" But really it is not so
grand. We have bride on board
and If the engaged could see her we
doubt their retaining wish to do the
same. Don't know, however; any
thing fashionable will at least be en-
dured. We saw this delicate crea-
ture come on board, surrounded by
loving friends and fairly smothered in
flowers and tender leave-taking. She
belonged to the extensive family of
blondes, and her get mp was exceed
ingly beautiful. What a travelling
dress that was, what panier, what a
train while her little hat sat on the
dizzy pinnacle of blonde hair like a
birds nest swaying on a tree top.
Look at her now; to what favor has
she come so suddenly and think of
the process! Think, if you can, of a
loving husband, sick himself, trying
to hold the loved head of his bride
and bowl at the same time, while
pitching, tossing vessel tumbles him
over and spills the contents of that
bowl into the bosom of his beloved.


We happened to pass the state
room Of the pair makino their Eu-
ropean bridal tour. The door was
open for air. Sea sickness destorys
the proprieties. The most difident,
shrinking creature in the world will
defy the eyes of all Delaware when in
paroxyism Of that deathly sickness.
We have seen delicate young lady
in the arms of the first officer begging
to be thrown overheard between at
tacks, and clinging to the rough sail
or (good looking however0 regardless
Of appearance. We saw the young
husband. in his shirt and drawers, try
ing to hold the head of his beloved
over bowl. And, O heavens, such
a head! The lofty structure of blonde
hair had disappeared, and in its place
was a diminutive knot and little
skull hid under an arrangement that
resembled hair sofa in its close
smoothness. We did not want to
look but the motion of the vessel
was such that we had to cling to the
door And what spectacle, what a
tableau to be made up by the said
bridal party! The poor fellow, sick
himself was trying to hold head and
bowl in the same effort, and sometimes
he ducked the beloved countenance in
the bowl, and then he would, as the
vessel gave a sudden lurcE, support
himself by clinging to the head which
he had vowed to cherish and protect,
and the head shrieked dismally.


Then when the fair bride appeared
or deck, feeble and half sick, unfee]-
ing comments and criticisms would
provoke any true Christian gentlemen
to profane language. Doubtless the
announcement in the fashionable jour
mails of the bridal tour to Europe
compensates for all this. But we
have our fears, are inclined to believe
that the many unhappy marriages
terminating in elopements and divorces
may be traced to the disgust created
by the first three days at sea. Dom
Piatt.
Year: 1873




Spruce Beer.-Allow an ounce of
hops and tablespoonful of ginger to
gallon of water. When well boiled
strain it, and put in a pint of molas,
ses and half an ounce or less Of the
essence of spruce; when cold add a
teacup OF yeast; put it in clean,
tight cask-a jug will do-and let it
ferment for day or two, then bottle
it for use; you will find it quite good
after three days. The essense Of
spruce can be obtained at any drug
store.
Year: 1873


They stood by the garden gate,
By the lifting of lid,
She might have read her fate
In a little thing he did.
Ee plucked beautiful flower,
Tore away from its place
On the side of the blooming bower
And held it against his face.
Drank in its beauty and bloom,
In the midst of his idle talk;
Then east it down to the gloom
And dust of the garden walk.
Ay, trod it under his foot,
As it lay in his pathway there;
Then spurned it away with his foot,
Because it had ceased to be fair.
Ah. the maiden might have read
The doom of her young life then;
But she looked in his eyes instead,
And thought him the king of men.
She looked in his eyes and blushed;
She hid in his strong arms fold;
And the tale of the flower, crushed
And spurned, was once more told.


Harper's Bazaar
Year: 1873

have no objection to travelling
at our expense, and may &C
cept our humble service and
all we have as their due
smoker in their sleeves at our
servility, verdancy and folly,
and then go back home and
take INTO themselves seven
devils of hatred, persecution
and fanatical hate, worse than
the first. ... .......


No one who knows anything
Of human nature or Of Yankee
nature, (Which is a very differ
ent thing), will suppose for a
moment that all this lavish eX-
penditure of money, time, rep
utation and laudation; all this
display of love for the Union
and Loyalty to the Govern
ment, will extract one root of
bitterness from the tree of
Northern hate or cause one
single scion of justice, mercy
or forbearance, to spring up in
their tiinty hearts. The very
fact that they know they have
inflicted deep injustice on the
South, only adds intensity to
their fanatical and fiendish
hate. Witness the cowardIy
and disgraceful act of petty
spite displayed by the Wash
ington officials in refusing to
let the graves of the Confede-
rates, at Arlington, be decorat-
ed on the 3Oth Of May. Can
Southerners, with a thimbleful
of brains, hope to soften hatred
so undying and implacable, Sc
tanatical and diabolical, as to
follow the dead into thei1
graves, thus attempting to in,
suit the pulseless clay at theil
feet, that if alive, they would
leap over a precipice rather
than encounter.
Year: 1873

We regret 20 see that there
is a tendency to say "damnly"
when "damnably" is intended.
How frequently we hear people
who are educated say. "You
are damnly mistaken" These
errors in speech are growing
more numerous all the while,
and ourlanguageis is consequent
ly losing that purity and tone
which are characteristic of it in
the original. A little watchful
care ON the part of all will, in
time, remove present errors,
and avert future defects. r
Danbury News.
Year: 1873

God always proceeds order
ly; to everything there is a
season and a time; he never
sends an unreasonable trouble,
nor an unsuitable mercy; trials
and comforts are always well
timed.
Year: 1873




ginning to feel complaisant in
the idea that they committed
no mistake in having their
smoke house in the northwest
instead Of their own yard, and
to regard him as a foolish fogy
that, for the sake of sausage
meat. and spare ribs and nice
lard, would feed an extrava-
CANT hog that cost him twice
as much as he could be
bougth for in a st. Louis or
Cincinnati bacon hogshead.
When one pound of the al
mighty lint would get him
nsarly threr of bacon, why
should a grain of corn be ev-
er thrown, or a field of peas
be opened, to a porker herel
But it looks a good deal now
as if we might relapse into
the days when a pound of cot
ton did not weigh much heavier
in the scales of value than a
pound of meat. For the lat
tea is rising and the former is
falling, and they soon must
come together in the process,
unless they pass each other,
and the hog gets uppermost.-
Look out for the worst, we
farmers, and aim at smoke
house independence. If we
cannot attain it, we can ap-
proach it; and the nearer we
approach, the safer we will be
from these unlooked-for fiuc-



tuation that bring disappoint-
ment to all our calculations
We seem to be at the mercy of
every other people, wheu they
ought to be much more at ours.
If corn goes up we tremble, if
meat advances we groan aloud,
if cotton tumbles, we tumble
headlong with it. We have
done it in the past since the
. war forced us to do otherwise,
and now some are doing it in
the future. Truly we are hard
to teach, for we have had the
best Of all instructions in ex-
perience. She has given us
sharp lessons,she has whipped
us with smart punishments for
| our folly every year, busting
our jackets, keeping us in,
when the northern and western
boys were playing-and send
ing us at the close Of the day of
our long cotton harvest often
? supperless to bed. Yet in
spite of it all, we are doing
worse in '73 than usual. We
owe more for guano. They
could not make it fast enough
for our rapacity of consump,
ton. But the bills are all tt


pay-out of a big crop of cot
= ton that nobody hopes to SEE


as high next season as it ha:
y been this. Bacon is going up


If corn should take that notion
: it would require a lively pei


to describe our fix. Industri


lo,l ,rot1yino. forDnarS N
Year: 1873

We have often admonished
our readers of the fact that it
costs as much to raise a COW
worth S25 as it does to raise
one worth 500; that it costs as
much to raise a horse worth S75
as it does to raise one worth
$500 or S500-apart from the
investment in the original
stock. Then, in this view of
the case, it becomes apparent
that a healthy economy de-
mands that our time, attention
and means be expended upon
the best breeds which it is pos
sible for us to obtain. And it
is a fact susceptible of easy
demonstration, that none but
good stock will pay for good
care and keep.-[South-L
Year: 1873

The Philadelphia Press is
out in favor of a new party in
Pennsylvania to protect the
people from the railroads, the
rings, and the political sharp
ers who are enriching them
selves at the expense Of the
people.
Year: 1873

A married life made pure
and holy by mutual love is, no
doubt, the happiest: the most
satisfying and ordained OF
God; but without that love,
who can imagine anything
more irksome or disgusting
Year: 1873

Connecticut papers protest
that after all the pother made
over the laxity of their mar
riage laws, only 464 divorces
were granted in that State last
year; not so much as one and
a half a day.
Year: 1873

THE Howard association are sixteen
hundred dollars in debt, and have been
refused any more money by Mayor
Johnson, who has disbursed TO it only
one thousand dollars Of the ten
appropriated by the council. This
will not do. The city government is al
ready chargeable with a great many
lives that might have been saved had
the mayor hut assumed the responsible
ty in this that he has in other matters.
The APPEAL, some days ago, pointed 10
q way in which the money might be
borrowed, and we believe that to-day,
notwithstanding the monetary pressure,
the whole amount can be had from our
hanks, if the mayor wills it. He does
not seem to realize the duty that de-
wolves upon him, or, if he does, is indif-
Eerent to it and to the results of his sll-
pineness or ignorance. The Howard -
sociation is doing a great good, and
must be sustained at the public expense,
or cease to exist. Ifit does and the city
refuses also TO disinfeet, as the APPEAL
has time and again urgel, We might as
well surrender to the seouTge, and say to
the world that we are lacking in every
essential as a community. This we
know is not true, but we also know that
il is the character which the city gov
.ernment is making foI us by its inertia
ia this time of great public calamity.
Year: 1873

ALL our citizens will be glad TO
learn that the First national bank re-
sumes business this morning. Else
where we publish card to that effect
from the cashier and directors. twill be
seen that the old business will have to
,taud as il is until the committee ap-
pointed to negotiate the two hundred
thousand dollars subscribed IN good
paper returns, as it no doubt will,
with that amount. Then all the
liabilities Of the bank will be
taken up, and the old business
he placed on the same foot
ing as the new. We sincerely con-
gratulate all concerned on so satisfac-
tory a result Of labors that have been
unremitting ever since Thursday last,
and We hope that all who are depositors
OF creditors of the First national will
exercise the same degree of forbearance
toward it as it in the past has IN
seviatingly extended TO its creditors
and customers. We rejoice at this re-
sumption Of business by one of our best
banks and hope to be able to announce
in a few days a similar course by the
naEnfR
Year: 1873

The trade in stocks to-day resulted in
a general decline In prices, due mainly
to the sale Of collaterals for loans and
realizing by parties who need 'mOneV
more than stocks. The decline was not
attended with any excitement. Specu-
latiOn was dull, the demand principally
being for investmentin small lots. Quite
a large amount of railroad stocks have
been absorbed in the last few days by in
vestors. On Friday the rules permitting
an officer of the board to sell any
dsfsUlting member out or buy him in will
come in force again, and then all con-
tracts which are not settled will have to
come before the exchange. 1t is not now
apprehenGed that there will be many
such, and. indeed, there may be none,
but until that day comes no one can tell
the worst, so far as stocks are concerned,
and therefore all are waiting for that day
to come. The gold market closed
weak, with some stocks down to the
lowest point Of the day. The following
are the closing quotations:
Year: 1873

THERE is q rumor sflost that an at
tempt will be made by injunction to
prevent the continuance of the tempo


rary hospital established for the use of
the fever patients! What next? Would
il not be easier and better to serve an in
junction on Iellow-Jack to prevent his
making any more funerals? DIR. Will
liams, in a communication in another
column, shows us how this may be done.
Year: 1873

The following was written to be read
before the general council yesterday,
but there being no meeting Of that body
it is submitted to the public in these
columns, and, we hope, will be acted
upon promptly by the city authorities;
Year: 1873

Following is dispatch of MT. Smith to the Agent at Fort Sill, and shows that the Indian office is determined to make the Indian do right. Cachise's reserva- ton must be reconstructed on a just basis ere long. The dispatch reads:

 Issue no more annuities to the Com anches; the demand for the five raiders and murderers is not remitted, and if not compiled with within ten days alter the receipt of this dispatch you will stop their rations entirely; and if they still refuse they will be handed over to the military. Assure the Indians that the Government is in earnest and that ar engagements are already being made to compel the Indians to do right.
Year: 1873

SIX Apaches came to the old MowrY mine in the Patagonia mountain on the 2Sd of November. On approaching the house they raised white flag. There was but one man about the premises and he made a virtue of necessity and let them come in. One of the number spoke Spanish and said they were Cachise Apa- ches and from his reserve. After talking little while they told the inmate of the house that they wanted some articles then in sight, and that the best thing he could do was to make no fuss about it, and thereupon he took the same view of it, and they took a arevolyer, some blankets and other articles, and went on their way rejoicing-probably to their stock ranches in Sonora.
Year: 1873

"YoUNG AMERICA" WoNDERs.-I won der why mamma keeps Bridget at home from church to work all day, and says it is wicked for me to build my rabbit-house on Sunday?

 Wonder why our minister bought that pretty cane with the lions head on the top, and then asked me for my cent to put in the missionary box? Don't I want a jewsharp just as well as he wanted a cane?

 Wonder what makes papa tell stories to visitors about hiding the masters rattan when he went to school, and about run ming away from the school mistress when she was going to whip him, and shut me up in dark room all day, because 1 tried just once to be as smart as he was?

 Wonder what made papa say that wick ed word when Betsy upset the ink all over his papers, and then slapped my ears be- cause said the same thing when my kite broke?

 Wonder why mamma told Bridget to say that she was not at home when Tom my Days mother called, and then puts me to bed every time I tell a lie?

 Oh, dear! there are lots of things want to know. How wish was man!
Year: 1873

OUR MILL NOW BEING IN FULL. V operation, we are prepared to furnish the market with quality of Flour, which we guarantee far superior to any manu- factured in the Territory, and fully equal We will keep constantly on hand at the Mill, and at our several agencies
Year: 1873

There are number Of correspondents
Of Northern and Western newspapers now
in this city with instructions to put
the local dissensions of this city in the
worst light possible to furnish reasons for
commercial men to establish such commu.
nications as will leave New Orleans out Of
profitable lines of business. From the
behavior O: some of the people the other
day, we would naturally suppose they
were in the pay Of rival cities.
Year: 1873

We had the pleasure of a call this week from MT. George Gleason, joint member of the Assembly from the counties of MOhave and Yuma. He is practical miner and possesses a common sense and practical turn generally. He is deeply interested in that important branch of industry-rnining and brings good news from his section. He showed us specimen of the first days work of Col. H. F. Bakers galmador at Wallapai, and to the extent of our judg- mont, it is perfect and we'll adapted to the purpose intended, that is Aux for re- ducing, in a blast furnace, the silver ores of that very rich mining district. Colonel Baker is erecting very costly and elaborate works at Wallapai, and as far as heard from, they are 8 grand success. His blast fur nace was to start up about the first of this month. and there is no reason to doubt its success.

 We trust that Col. Baker may be well rewarded for his energy and enterprise shown in. the erection of such extensive reduction works and, with him, may all the miners of that promising section of Arizona prosper. They have shown great faith and industry in developing our really rich but long neglected mines.
Year: 1873

The military successes against tile

 hostile Apaches who for nearly year

 and half past have been repeatedly

 invited to go upon reserves and subsist

 in safety on the bounty of a govern

 ment and people they too long have

 defed and outraged, are provocations

 to exult which we don't care to resist j;

 although no people on earth have so

 sincerely regretted the necessity for

 these deadly battles with the Apaches,

 as those of Arizona. The killing and

 captures by the troops during the past

 few months must amount to hundreds.

 In any event, this kind of work will soon bring peace to Arizona. That peace has been so long deferred, was for years attributable to the ineffcien- cy and indifference of military com manders; that it has been deferred during the past year, we sincerely be- lieve is justly attributable to the visit of Vincent Colyer. Colyer's untrust- worthiness occasioned the sending of Gen. Howard whose presence again required 8 complete suspension of military movements then begun in the same good earnest, directed by the same wise chief, and certain of early peaceful results.

 But the past is beyond remedy, and mere allusions to guide, if possible, clear of similar errors, will now suffice. The sorrows of the past are greatly assuaged by the cheerful blows now being struck for peace under the per- sonal direction of Gen. Crook. We acknowledge to personal pride in his successes. We knew he possessed the ability to win as signal victories over the Apaches as he had done over other braver and equally numerous and intelligent Indians. While the Territory was weighed. down with that military failure, Stoneman, THE CITIZEN referred to the value of Gen. Crook and hoped that Gen. Grant, with his accustomed good sense, would assign him to this Department. The interferences with his plans, his orders and purposes. misled many into the belief that he too was a failure or overrated-especially as subduer of Apaches. We never for moment doubted his ability and special fitness for the position, and Gen. Howard has testified thereto. Since he has had few months of uninterrupted sway, without a troop more than has for many years been stationed in Ari- zona, all admit him to be the right | officer in the right place. Given a fair opportunity, he quickly proves his ability and worth. It being our right and inclination to exult over his triumphs, we do it heartily. What ever efforts have been made for his it is certain that Presi- dent Grant has fully sustained him because he knew Gen. Crook to be the most suitable man for this Depart
Year: 1873

Tho epizootic has crossed tho continent: ana
is now working havoc with the business OF san
Francisco. Street cars have stopped, and all
tho voxations and LOSSES that havo marked the
path Of this curious disease through the country
are now felt in their full forco On the Pacific
coast. It is expected that the progress Of the
disease will interfere with tho transmission OF
nhws by couriers from tho Heat of tho Modoo
xynr IN Yrakn