smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1873

District Attorney Fisher in his report as
to the burning of the steamer Wawasset last
summer, says there is not sufficient evidence
of misconduct or inattentiOn to duty to
convict any officer or empioye of the crime
of manslaughter and he will not insti-
tute in any criminal proceedings. As it is
clear from evidence that the captain, mate
and engineers violated the law by not being
licensed, he will, unless instructed other


wise, bring suits to recover the amount Of
penaltv-a forfeiture of 500 in each ease.
Year: 1873

Tho Wilson Credit Mobilier Committee was
not in session to-day. The Committee do not
expect to examine any moro witnesses, with tho
exception Of General Dodge, whose arrival is
still awaited, and it is not known when ho will
come.
Year: 1873

THE MoDocs.-A special from the
Modoc country of the 5th, says Gen.
Davis was preparing evidence to prove
the identity of the Moloc murderers.
intending to hang eight or ten on the
next evening, when he received a dis
patch from Washington to hold them
subject to a decision there, and they
will probably be tried by court mar
tial in camp. The delay causes great
dissatisfaction among citizens, and is
calculated to cause a wrong impression
among the surrounding tribes.
Year: 1873

The BACK-PAY STEAL.-The attempt
Of the Democratic papers to make party
capital out Of the back pay matter, is thus
rebuked by the Memphis ArataHchc =
" AT any time the democrats could have
defeated it. A splendid chance to plant
themselves upon the solid rock OF virtue
and reform was in their grasp. Did they
avail themselves OF it ? Not if the off
cial records tell the truth. A majority Of
them voted for the infamous measure.-
Others, afraid to vote for it, but yearning
for their prospective share Of the robbery,
lodged at roll call, and when the bill be-
came law rushed to the Treasury to se-
cure their extra money early to avoid ac-
cidents.
Year: 1873

ARBGTRATIoN.-Two farmers living in
this vicinity, having little business diff
ference between them, have agreed to
settle the same by arbitration, instead Of
taking the matter into the courts. This
principle is taught by the Grange, of
which organization one of the above men
toned parties is a member. These men
had doubtless seen the illustration in
which two farmers are quarreling over a
COW, one holding it by the horns and the
other by the tail, while a lawyer was
quietly securing the milk. Litigation is
expensive business at best, and the costs
Of a suit frequently exceeds the sum in
dispute, while arbitration just as effect
ually meets the ends OF justice and costs
little or nothing.-HcotdSber9 rag.
Year: 1873

SAD SUIciDE.-Mrs. Lottie Warner,
wife Of the clown who was here with the
circus last week, committed suicide at
Sierra city on the night Of the 23d ut
When the circus was at that place She
was taken sick and had to be left there
on the 4th Of July, but under the kind
treatment Of the people there She recover
cd and on the day OF the fatal act was un-
usually lively. AT 8 o'clock she retired,
and soon alarmed the house by saying
she had taken strychnine. a doctor was
sent Tor bat it was OF no avail. Hers was
a sad history. At the age of sixteen,
lured by the glare and tinse of the ring,
she ran away with Warner, leaving a
kind home to follow the fortunes Oft dis
solute, worthless man, who often treated
her cruelty. I'm her deirium before
death she imagined her husband was
with her and piteously pleaded with him
not to beat her any more. Her last words
were, Thank God, | die among stran-
gers"
Year: 1873




Confinement goes very hard with an
Indian, and Capt. Jack has suffered
much since his imprisonment. He Is
thin in flesh and haggard in appearance.
No doubt he was especially discomfei-
ted at the result of his interview with
the cheifs, old Sconches and Allen Da-
vid. few days before. He had been
proved liar there under very mortlfy-
ing circumstances, and may have felt
that his case was weakening thereby.
When he came into this last ModOc
stronghold, when the ModOc nation
were penned like sheep, and kept un-
der vigilant guard, it is not unlikely that
the situation was presented to his mind
in a very vivid light. He had been
chief. had magnifed his office, and had
filed it with all possible dignity. He
had dictated terms to the whites as long
as they chose to parley with him, and
when they came in force, he had waged
war with such success as the world had
never before known.


I imagine that the past swept through
his mind. He remembered that the
treachery of part of his people had be-
trayed him to death, and that his cher
ished dream of retaining his birthplace
and the home of his fathers on Lost
river was ended forever. Here were his
people captive, aud he in chains, and
they were objects of sympathy for the
hated white man. No doubt, too, the
kind words, and sympsthetic looks, and
tones of the Boston women were some
thing beyond his ideas; and he sat
for while following the movements
of Gen1 Davis with an eagers pleading
look that had in it something that was
untranslatable that may have been
half wonderment, that they who were to
Judge and condemn him, should show
such sympathy and kindness, and there
NAV have peen questioning OF the JUS
tice of that mystery of Providence that
made him an Indian, wild and untu-
tored, and gave such gifts, such wealth
and such wonderful power to the white
man. The fountains of his soul opened
at these impressions and remembrances,
and tears coursed down the cheek OF the
Modoc chief who will live in history as
the general of the lava beds. His two
wives wept bitterly; old men, women
and children joined in the vail: Jacks
sister, Mary, sobbed and cried with
loud voiced grief, and the lady visitors
lent their tears at the sorrows OF wo-
manhood so true it is that "a touch OF
nature makes the world akin" The
general himself has a sympathetic ma


ture, and, though quick and impatient


as a soldier, does not lack apprecia-
ton of the finest feeling of our natur1


I tell the story as he told it to me.
Year: 1873

There was duke once who disguised
himself and placed great rock in the
road near his palace. Next morning a
peasant came that way with his ox-cart.
80 these lazy people, said he there
is this big stone right in the middle OF
the road, and no one will take the trOu-
BILE to put it out of the way" And so
Hahus went on scolding about the lazi-
ness of the people. Next came a gay
soldier along. His head was held 30
far back that he didn't notice the stone,
so he stumbled over it. He began to
storm at the country people around
there for leaving huge rock in the
road. Then he went on. Next came a
company of merchants. When they
came to the stone, the road was SO mar
lxQw that they had to go off in single file
"DAher side. One of them cried ont:
big stone f0dy ever see the like of that
but no one stopbAxe all the morning,
It lay there for three Ntake 1t away


tried to remove it. Then t6epG no one
around word to all the people onsent on IN
lands to meet near where this rock Law
as he had something to tell them. Ths
day came, and a great crowd gathered
Old Hahus, the farmer, was there, and
so we're the merchants. A horn wa,
heard, and a splendid cavalcade came
gallopiDg up. The duke got down from
his horse, and began to speak TO the
people: "My friends, it was I whC
put this stone here three weeks ago.
Every passer-by has left it Just where Il
was, and has scolded his neighbor fol
not taking it ont of the way" He
stopped down and lifted up the stone.
Directly underneath it was q round hol-
low, and in the hollow lay a small lea
thern bag. The duke held up this BAG.
that oil might see what was written on on
it, For him who lifts up the stone. /"
He united the bag, and turned it upside
down, and out upon the stone fell a
beautiful gold ring, and twenty large,
bright gold coins. So they all ost the
prize because they had not la he'd the
lesson or formed the habit Of [iligence.
Methodist.
Year: 1873

Leigh Hunt SAYS: Beauty too Of
ten sacrifices to fashion. The spirit of
fashion is not the beautiful, but the
willful not the graceful, but the fan
tastic; not the superior in the abstract,
but the superior in the worst of all con-
that can afford to shift and vary itself,
opposed to the vulgarity that longs TO
do so, but cannot. The high point IF.
taste and elegance is to be sought for,
not in the most fashionable circles, but
in the best-bred, and such as can dis
pense with the eternal necessity of nevsf
being the same thing. -"
Year: 1873

That alteration which a young man
gives to a woman whom he feels to he
greater and better than himself, is
hardly distipguishable from religions
feeling. What deep and worthy love is
not so whether of woman or child, or
art or music. Our caresses, our tender
words, our still rapture under the in
fuence of autumn sunsets, or pillared
vistas, or calm, majestic statues, or
Beethoven symphonies, all bring with
them the consciousness that they are
mere waves and ripples in an unfathom-
able ocean of love and beauty; our emo
tiOn in its keenest moment passes from
expression into silence, our love at its
highest food rushes beyond its object,
and loses itself in the sense OF divine
mystery. Is it any weakness, pray, to
be wrought OH by exquisite music to
feel its woundrous harmOnies searching
the subtlest windings of your soul, the
delicate fibers of life where nOmem-
ory can penetrate, and binding together
your whole being, past and present, in
one unspeakable vibration; melting yOu
in one moment with all the tenderness,
all the love that las been scattered
! through the toilsome years, cOncentra-
ting in one emotion of heroic courage or
resignation all the hard-learned lessons
of self-renouncing sympathy, blending
your present Joy with past sorrow, and
your present sorrow with all your past
ioy? If not, then neither is it weak
ness to be 80 wrought upon by the ex-
neck and arms, by the liquid depths Of
her beseeching eyes, or the sweet child.
ish pout of her lips. For the beauty OF
a lovely woman is like music what can
one say more2 Beauty has an express
sion beyond and far above the one wo-


man's soul that it clothes, as the words
Of genius have wider nearing than the
Thought that prompted them it is more
than a woman's love that moves us in q
woman's eyes it seems to be far-oH
mighty love that has come near to MS,
and made a speech for itself there /; the
rounded neck, the dimpled arm, move
us by something more than their pretti-
ness, by their close kindship with all We
have known of tenderness and peace.
The nOblest nature sees the most of this
impersonal expression in beauty Git is
needless to say that there are gentle
men with whiskers dyed and undyed
who see none of it whatever), and for
this reason, the noblest nature is often
the most blinded to the character of the
one woman's soul that the beauty
clothes. Whence, l fear, the tragedy
Of human life is likely to continue for
long time to come, in spite of mental
philosophers, who are ready with the
best receipts for avoiding all mistakes
of the kind.-GeOr0e Eliot.
Year: 1873

In composing, think much more Of
your matter than your manner. To. be
sure, spirit, grace and dignity of man.
ner are Of great importance, both to the,
speaker and writer but of infinitely
more importance is the weight and worth
of NATTER Writ.
Year: 1873

An old bachelor who raises hogs and
lives alone near the Golden Gate Park,
San Francisco, fell into the well the
other day. Although not much hurt be
could not get out, and be shouted in
vain for assistance. The next morning
the carrier Who left his paper thO1ght be
heard call, but did not wait to investi-
gate i and q vas not until he returned
The following merning thai the prisoner
vas found and rescued, very much er-
han.sed bat not beyond recovery. A two
fold lesson suggests itself-the danger Of
LIVING bachelor life and the wisdom Of
taking q Newspaper.
Year: 1873

THE FOURTH GRAND GIFT CONCERT
i authorized by special act OF the Legisla-
ture for the benefit Of the Public Library of
Kentucky, will take place in Public Library
Hall at Louisville, Kentucky,
Year: 1873

1 have word to say to good hard
working mothers who don't know half
that goes on in this world-mothers
who bake, boil, wash, iron, sweep, and
scrub all day, and go to bed dead tired,
glad that their daughters are young yet,
and can enjoy themselves.


Do you know where your girls go in
the evening? I


"Oh, yes" you say "to see some
young friends; to spend the evening
with Betsy and Jane and Fanny" You
think SO but are you Sure3 Other
people are as sure of their daughters,
and if you take the trouble to investi-
gate, you will find, perhaps, that Sally
spends her time after dark in running
the streets.


1t is a fact, as any one with the ordi-
nary power of observation csm discover,
that the daughters of respectable parents
in ordinary ranks of life, who are not
properly watched by their elders, flock
the streets after dark nowadays, and
are discreditably bold in their manners.
That they even "firt," as it is called,
and allow strange young men to speak
to them and offer them refreshments,
and that each girl keeps the secret of
the other, that she in turn may keep
hers. In this country, the poor mans
daughter should be as much a lady as
the daughter of the millionaire. At
least she should be well hammered, pure
and honest, as, we are proud to say,
most of them are.


The mere contact with boldness sui
lies purity. A bad companion has more
influence than a good one, and boldness
and bad company throng the city
streets at eventide. Keep your girl out
of them.


If she has legitimate invitation out,
know all about her escort, or make her
father or brother take care of her on the
way to and from the house to which she
is to go. If she has no escort and no
male relative, it might be best to do as
an English mother would-go and fetch
her yourself.


Never let her contract a habit of stay
ing all night with her girl friends. It
is an idle sort of way any how, and takes
her out of your control.


If you have been lax in your disci-
pline, your girl may pout little at first,
and find home somewhat dull; but il
she lives to be woman, and to marry,
she will thank you at last-thank you
from the bottom of her soul, as she
looks back on the sad fate of some oi
those girls whose mothers had not pru.
dence or authority enough to keep them
home Of nights. Au'at POIly," in The
LedQer.
Year: 1873

The inhabitants of Arabia are closely
associated with the earlier ages of the
world, and on that account, probably
we are apt to invest them with a certain
halo of romance, which fades away on
close acquaintance. They are q singu-
lar race, probably the most conserva-
tive-the Chinese excepted-on the face
of the earth In appearance they are
of middle height, and sparely built, but
with prepossessing countenances, and
eyes dark as night, deep as the sea,
sparkling as the stars, eyes which are
the admiration of all travellers. The ;
men of middle age are the least en-
gaging; they seem to have shriveled
under the desert sun their eye-sockets
are cavernous, hidden under the shadow
of beetling brows, and their eyes glow y
like fire. The youths and the aged are
the most interesting. The boys are
fine, athletic fellows, and the men ven
cradle, with their snowy boards and
frosty brows. The beauty of the wo- a
men is of course perfectly Oriental;
they are shorter than the men, and
ssme of them well looking. They are y
more respected than is the case usually
in the East. As robbery is the legiti-
mate calling of the Arab, thieving is a
considered no disgrace. They regard Il
the desert as their own, and demand a
toll of all travellers crossing its sands.
Bloodshed is seldom resorted to, If the
traveller recognizes the right of these
wandering people as simply levying
of tribute. But the Arab can shed
blood, he can pursue with relentless
hate, he can leave to after generations
the legacy of a family quarrel, and the
feuds burn longer and more deadly
than those of medieval Italy. Let one
Arab tell another that he is the child Of
bulrush, that his trlrban is filthy, that
he is dog and the son Of a dog, let
him hint that a jackass sat on his
| fathers grave-and the feud begins
which may last as long as the war OF
the roses, and reduce one or both OF
the families connected with these men
to absolute beggary. The Arabs live
almost entirely on dates, and q coarse


kind of bread, and they drink little else
than water. 1t is seldom that they par


take of animal food. If stranger of


any Importance pays them a visit, q


kid is killed and cakes are baked.


Sometimes on grand occasions a camel


is slain, and the whole family or tribe


assemble to partake of the dainty.


Knives and forks are never used. The


men generally feed apart from the


women. They take two meals only


breakfast at ten in the morning, and
| dinner at sunset
Year: 1873

An experiment recently tried by a
party Of excursionists in Illinois, to in
duce a railroad conductor to accept the
legal fare for conveying them from q
place called Ludlow to Champaign, was
not attended with a very encouraging
degree of success. The conductor re-
fused to accept the amount offered, and
the party continued under the impress
sion that "it was to be free ride un-
til the train reached a point where it
was necessary to change cars. For this
purpose a general rush was made, but
all the doors were found to be locked,
with the exception of those belonging
to the rear car. Into that they CT ushed
themselves as speedily as possible, and
had just found seats when the forward
part of the train moved off, leaving
them alone on the track. The conduc-
tor had evidently adopted this plan to
"get square" with the party, who were
sufficiently punished by having to pro-
cure tickets and finish their journey on
freight trains. Backed up by the COM
panies, conductors, as q rule, care very
little about laws that have for their
purpose the protection Of the travelling
public,
Year: 1873

The st. Louis Globe of Wednesday
says: "Night before last there was much
excitement on the levee. Some gentle
men standing near the river looked up
stream and saw what they thought was
a great ice gorge coming down, slowly
but surely toward the city. They gave
the alarm, and many interested parties
came down to the levee to witness the
grand spectacle. The more they looked
up stream the more they saw the won
derful sight. 1t looked like ice-like
broken cakes of ice. It seemed to be
moving, and there appeared to be q
great commotion of the current, as if
the river was on rise. But the spec
tators, after gazing an hour or so began
to get tired, and thought the gorge was
a long time coming All at once, and
while their straining eyeballs were
about to burst, the fog lifted from the
river, and the light of the stars revealed
the water, hnobstructed and moving on
toward the Gulf. ....-..-r .-.-.


The sightseeing citizens had beheld
mirage. What such phenomenon is
the reader can learn by referring to a
copy of Webster's Dictionary. A mir
age is beautiful thing to look at, but
"you can't most always tell' whether
it will amount to anything or not,
Year: 1873

The London Grocer suggests that
greenhouses, containing hnlf-hardy
plants and in which no regular method
of heating exists, may be warmed even
during a hard frost by lighting and dis
tributing dozen or so common oil
lamps, at convient localities. In select
ing these lamps they should be chosen
with vases largo in proportion to the
size Of the flat wick, in order that they
may continue burning all night without
reflling or other attention. 1t will be
readily understood that, whether one OF
many lamps are used, the total amount
of heat given off is proportionate to The
quantity of oil burned, provided the
combustion is complete. And in using
a lamp, all the heat of combustion is
utilized none goes up the fue as with
stoves or fire places,
Year: 1873

The model for the statue of the in


ventor of the sewing machine, Elias
Howe, which is to be placed in the
Central Park, is now complete. It is
the design of Mr.. Ellis. The work is
eight feet in hight and the tall figure
stands erect, the weight of the body
resting on the left foot. In the right
leg certain stiffness is noticeable, and
the knees are closer together than per-
feet proportion sanctions. These pc
cuharities, however, belonged to Mr..


Howe's physique, and demand recog-
milton in any honest portrait of him.


The right hand holds walking stick,


the left broad brimmed hat. The
costume is simply reproduction of
that of the ordinary man of business in


the upper walks of life. The long and
ny-ringleted hair, which constituted
SO impressive cheUeyure, is exceeding
ly well rendered, and the countenance
expresses that intrepidity, obstinacy


patience, honesty and hope which sus-
tanned the inventor of the sewing ma
chine through the quarter of century
through which he toiled to obtain
permanent success. The statue is to
be cast in bronze in Philadelphia, and
is to be ready in May next. Three bas-
reliefs are to adorn the pedestal. One
of these is to illustrate the misery of
the preserving machine needle-woman,
as indicated in Hoods Song of the
Shirt" The second will show Elias
Howe, Jr., in his workshop pondering
over his first machine. The third will
indicate the perfected instrument under
the easy manipulation of the average
worker. These bas-reliefs will adorn
three sides of the PEDESTAL An inscrip-
ton will probably find place on the
Year: 1873

WASHING WoonEN CLOTHING. .-Arti-
cles of wooden clothing, washed in ordin-
airy soap and water, not only shrink, but
acquire peculiar fatty odor, due 70 the
decomposition of the soap by the Tactic
and acetic acids present in the prespira-
tion, and consequent precipitation of
the greater part of the fat of the soap in
the fiber of the wool. According to
Prof. Artus, both of these effects can be
prevented by stepping the articles for
several hours in a warm, moderately
concentrated solution of washing soda,
then, after the addition Of some warm
water and few drops of ammonia,
washing them out, and rinsing them
in lukewarm water.
Year: 1873

A system Of sewerage, reaching into
every street and alley in the city, and
capable of perfectly draining them, the
people have determined shall be pro-
vided. A permanent and scientific
board of heslth, with a sufficient num-
Der Of sanitary police, they have long
ago concluded shall be organized and
sustained by the city. A pest
house or hospital for persons
afflicted with contagious diseases
is already agreed upon. Industrial
homes for orphan children, steps are
being taken to establish. None but COM
petent and honest men for all Offices
within the city, with an imperative
order for old fogies, old party-hacks,
and stereOtyped Bourbons and imprac-
ticables TO so to the rear, has been
moved and carried without dissenting
voice. Ruffisnism upon the streets and
rudeness in the theaters have been con-
demned as unworthy city life
and city character. Party ty-
ranuy has taken an eternal farewell
of Memphis, Of Tennessee, and let US
hope of the whole country. Religious
differences are softening, and men are
daily becoming more tolerant Of relI-
gious opinions conflicting with their
own. The times are frightening, and
the government is thinking of resuming
specie payments. There are to be no
more internecine-Indian wars, and
cotton is-well, we won't say anything
about cotton just now, though there is a
fair prospect Of the staple bringing pay
ing value in the market. The Exposition
is rapidly marshaling its host of attrsc-
ton, and tomorrow week will throw
open its inviting doors TO thousands of
the fairest women in the world, in whose
presence the fairy palaces of the exbibi-
ton will shine with additional radiance,
and many a heart beat fast with hope of
winning to itself and for itself, some
fair hand, first clasped beneath the light
OF the chandeliers of the Exposition.
What, though the autumn leaves lie up
on the new made graves Of our sainted
dead, there is hope yet for Memphis,
and live love and enterprise in the
hearts, of her people.