smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1873

Not long ago, the Waco Errpiaer, report
ing the sale Of a quantity Of wool in. that
city and the price Tor which il was sold, We
yantured to inquire whether the wool was
washed or unwashed> This was made q
subject Of ridicule BY the two Radical papers
in this city, the Journal and Ga.ette, and,
much to our surprise, the Examiner has
thought proper to join with them in their
weak and harmless attempts at wit. Now,
for the information of the Examiner, we
viii say that the object of the inquiry was
to ascertain whether, anywhere in Texas,
the wool was washed before being put upon
the market. AT the north, great care is
taken in preparing the wool for market, and
the consequence is that, while the northern
wool, washed and clean, sells frequently for


fifty or sixty cents pound, the Texas wool Of
the same quality, unwashed and full Of all
sorts of dirt and filth, brings but twenty or
twenty five cents. We wish to impress upon
the sheep raisers of Texas that it would be
greatly for their interest to pay more atten-
ton to the putting up of their wool for
market. If it was offered for sale in as
good condition as the Northern wool, there
is no reason why it should not command as
high price Now, if the nincompoops,
who are making themselves merry at our
expense, can see nothing sensible in this,
we cannot help it. A great deal Of pert
criticism is only the product of ignorance.
Year: 1873

We published yesterday an article from
the Memphis APpeal, showing that there is
being manifested by the white people of
Northern Mississippi a strong DISPOSE
ton to cut loose from the Southern and
more negro portion of the State and to
unite with West Tennessee, thus forming
a new State. This has been talked of ever
since the war was over. Northern Missis-
sippi naturally trades with Memphis, and
the people of these two sections are very
similar in manners and ways of thinking.
But we should be very sorry to see this
proposition carried out. We have no fears
of any States or State becoming per
manently Africanized, as limited by
the Appeal. 1t is true, that the negroes
from the border States are mostly
immigrating further South, and for a time,
under the unfortunate state of affairs
brought about by the unreasonable and
odious reconstruction laws the white peo-
pie of South Carolina, Mississippi and
Louisiana are bound to suffer from their
preponderance, but relief will come at last.
The negro race, in state of freedom, and
in, collision with the white and superior
race, is bound to go down, down. until it
will be finally extinct The negroes, as
they are going on, will not increase in num-
bers-they will decrease. With liberty to
do as they please, they are becoming lazy,
careless and improyident. Not one in
twenty thinks of the future, or will lay up
anything for it. When sick, they will not
take care of each other, and the females
ere having fewer children than in
the days of slavery, and, when they have
them, take less care of them, and numbers
Of them born will never be raised, or, if
raised, will be worthless to themselves and
the country. We have no pleasure in say
ing these things, but we believe them to be
incontrovertible facts. On the contrary
white immigration from Europe is pouring
in, ship load after ship load, and when the
lands of the Northern and Middle States are
all occupied, the whites will press onward
to the Southern States and crowd out the
inferior blacks, who will disappear before
them, and ultimately they will fill and rule
every State in the Union. 1t is only ques-
ton of time, and the time is not so very far
off. Let the people of South Carolina,
Mississippi and Louisiana be patient, and
struggle on-the day of their. deliyerance
will come.
Year: 1873

THE Journal thinks we are hard on its
friend, Judge Nancy. It is not strange
that the Journal sympathizes with Governor
Davis's appointee, and we suppose Judge
Nancy is really better than many other
judges selected and appointed by his Excel
Iency. He is doubtless better than Oliver
But his notion that his court is an omnipo-
tent one, and that he has a right to i'm
prison the Supreme Bench for entertaining
a different opinion, is, to say the least
something new, if not startling. Weshould
like to know the names of some of ''the
best lawyers in the State" who uphold
Judge Nancy in his strange doings. How
stands the ''Shot Tower.n
Year: 1873




In the game which Governor Davis is
playing at Washington with Grant, santanta
and Big Tree are his main trump cards.
He holds them in terror over his besmoked
adversary, and the point is this: If Grant
will give Davis the disposal of the Federal
patronage in Texas, Davis viii give up the
big chiefs and save the plighted word of the
mighty smokeist. If not, hewlll hold on to
them and try to gain some credit at home
thereby. From the intimations of some of
the Radical papers which are already down
on Davis, we think Grant viii win the
game, and Davis will be euchred at home
and abroad. If Grant gets after him, he
will be a ruined sinner He will not be able
to run for anything but Corpus Christi.
Year: 1873

a


The editor of the Houston Age getting
the worst of it in the little fight going on
with the STATESMAN, as usual IN such cases,
shows temper and threatens to do someth
ing dreadful. Now don't, Dan. Keep cool,
and remember that you commenced the
fray. If you don't want to get thoroughly
pelted, don't throw the first stone. We viii
refresh your memory a little, for you be-
come oblivious sometimes. Before we had
any connection with the STATESMAN, you
were constantly indulging in vulgar little
squibs about it, and when it was announced,
that we had been added to its editorial
force, you took occasion to say, what
you knew was not so, that we had no
particular politics, or something of
that sort. Well the consequence
was that the ''superannuated Gosling," as
you are pleased to call us, has been spank
ing you pretty hard ever since, until you
are so sore that you cry out like a whipped
cur If you don't want to quarrel with the
STATESMAN, let us alone and behave your
self. Keep cool until you come up to TIE
Democratic State Convention, and then we
viii give you warming the shape of a
mint julep or good whisky punch.
Year: 1873

WE would call the attention of our read
ers to the announcement of Professor NJ. B.
Franklin as candidate for the Office of
Superintendent of Public Instruction. Mr..
Franklin is gentleman of fine culture and
attainments, and is weIl and favorably
known in this section of the State.
Year: 1873

IN reply to our correspondent from But
Ter, we would inform him that the Attorney
General has given his opinion that the mag
istrates of the different precincts must be
elected by the voters of all the county as
heretofore. We think the present consti-
tuition clearly contemplated this mode of
a1ac+;o,
Year: 1873

WE notice, with pleasure, the Democracy
moving all over the State since the call of
the State Convention. Calls for county
conventions are in nearly every paper re-
ceived of late. The party is rousing itself
for the coming fight, and, when fully
reused, everything must go down before it.
We must make clean sweep of Radicalism,
from Governor down.
Year: 1873

WE know that the honest Intelligent peo-
pie of Texas pay no attention to the re-
peated Misrepresentation of the State Ga
sette with regard to the public printing g-its
character is well known-but we again call
upon tito produce its facts and figures, as it
promised to do, or to shut its foul mouth
and behave with decency.
Year: 1873

IT is rather laughable to see the State
Journal and the State Gazette attempting to
run the Democratic party. But they were
together last fall in opposing the nominees
of the regular Democracy, and why should
they not be nowl They have one and the
same master. Governor Davis.
Year: 1873

wEwOuid say to the STATE Journal, that
the original appointments of Governor Da-
Wis, on the District Bench of Texas, have
been considerably modified by the force Of
public opinion, but there is still great deal
Of bad material left besides Judge Nancy.
Year: 1873

The question of whether little Clark used
to pay the bills of Governor Davis and Sec
retary Newcomb, when they travelled very
lovingly together in the days that are passed
and gone, is still left unsettled by the Radi-
cal papers. It don't amount to much
that is. the question.
Year: 1873

THE State Journal and the State Gazette
are still working lovingly together. They
are both much hurt at our article on the
''Credit of Texas" They would have much
preferred We should have written against it.
They seem even to be mad that we should
undertake to defend It. It is impossible to
please these noble brethren, and, indeed,
we are not at ali disposed to try. But they
are pleasing one another channingly. They
quote from each other, and compliment
each other and are united in their efforts to
niisrepresent the STATESMAN aud Its course,
as they were united in their endeavors to
secure the public printing. Both are the
trusted organs Of Governor Davis, though
one faunts the Democratic flag, that Il
may more efectually serve him.
Year: 1873

A singular Good Friday custom still prevails
at Smith6eld, Eng. 1t is the duty of the
rector of the parish OF St. Bartholomew the
Great to deposit twenty one sixpences on
grayestone, which the same number of poor
widows picked up. The custom originated in
the will of lady, who left sum of money to
yield the sixpences to be distributed over her
grave. A strange part OF the tradition is that
any one too stiff in the joints to pick up the
money must not receive it.
Year: 1873

The House reassembled at ten, the hour
up to the regular time of meeting being
considered as part of the legislative day of
yesterday to be divided among members
wanting to speak on the Expulsion resolu-
tiOna
Year: 1873

Mr.. Kelley rose and addressed the House
He had been member of the House for
twelve years. Had been connected with
the Committee on Naval Affairs during the


war, when contracts by millions were made,
and who had ever heard that one dollar Of
his country's money, not received for sal
ary, had stuck to his fingers? He had been
charged with speculating in Credit Mobilier.
He denounced that charge as false. He did
not propose to argue his case now, but be
could show before committee, if the mat
ter be sent to one, by testimony, that dur
ing the time he was supposed 10 be receiy-
ing enormous dividends of Credit Mobilier
be had been and was still paying eleven per
cent. for few thousand he had borrowed
to save a little real estate he
owned in Philadelphia. He would detain
the House no longer. he desired nothing
but justice. With three years of broken
health he approached the period of three
score years, feeling that the strength which
might last the other ten years was not given
him. 1t was not, therefore, for himse II
that he pleaded, but he asked the House
to maintain law, and give to member of
the American Congress those privile ges
Year: 1873

testified before the Committee that if the
people ofthat State would pay the taxes at
all, they would rather pay to the McEnery
Government than to the other, and PACK
ard being the United States Marshal cannot
be supposed to be on the McEoery side.


Morton-If had time to read all that
Marshal Packad said, the Senator from
Year: 1873

There have been indications for some
time, and from various quarters, that
wool is going to advance in price The
demand appears to be heavy in England,
and this affects our own market We
have watched the wool and sheep busi-
ness for twenty years, during which time
there were several panics, sheep being
butchered for their pelts and tallow, but
Immediately after prices rose, and then
every sheep was saved. Meanwhile,
those who have kept on steadily and sold
at going prices have done well; while
those who held their wool over year or
80 thereafter were we'll paid. The truth
is, there is no better business, year after
year, than that of sheep husbandry, and
for the reason that the increase of our
population is so constant and great as to
keep up steady demand for all kinds of
wooden fabrics. As it has been in the
past, so it in quite certain to be in the
future, and those who have sheep may
safely get more. But let not inexperi-
enced men rush in, for complete knowl-
edge is required, and constant attention.
The best way to get good flock of sheep
is to raise them, because there are few
chances to buy such sheep as win pay TO
keep, unless at high price. He who
has good sheep knows it as well as any
body else, and, as a general thing, if he
offers to sell sheep, they will be culls.-
BY commencing with few sheep pains
taking man can learn how to manage
them as fast as they grow, being like
some school-teachers, who learn as fast
as their scholars do. 1t will take from
three to five years TO learn the sheep busi-
ness, and by that time the flock should
be Of respectable size. We hardly know
of an instance of young men going
blindly into the business with 500 head
who have not lost their whole invest
ment-N T. Tribune.
Year: 1873

A man named Weston was lately
murdered at a farm house near Albany,
New York, where he was staying. Wes-
ton had friends in Brooklyn, who set
themselves about discovering the murder
er and bringing him to justice. There
were three ladies in the farm house, one
of whom was very pretty young girl,
named Mary Cochrane. 1t was deemed
necessary by the authorities to secure
the ladies, in case it might appear upon
investigation that they were in some
manner connected with the murder.
They were accordingly taken to Albany,
placed in hotel, and a trusty officer,
Amos r. Walker, was selected to keep
guard over them. He performed his
duties remarkably we'll, and scarcely
ever allowed the fair prisoners to be
moment out of his sight. 1t was cheer
less and lonely outside of their apart
ments, and so he went inside to keep
closer watch upon them. He tried to
make himself agreeable and entertain
ing, and found his prisoners very pleas
ant, especially one of them-Mary. In
fact he, SO far from thinking that Mary
Cochrane could have had anything to
do with a murder, began to consider Der
the very best woman in the world. On
the other hand, she regarded her jailor
with growing respect, and the two
watched each other more and more at
tentively. When, one evening, the Off
Ger told Mary he loved her, and asked
her to allow him to watch over her for
life, she readily agreed to the proposition.
The next day the prisoner and the faith
full guard were duly married, and Off
Ger Walker affords bright example of
integrity in the performance of police
duties. Business strictly attended to
sometimes becomes the greatest pleasure
of life.
Year: 1873

A haunted railroad is the latest sem
sation in the ghostly line in Detroit.
The drivers and conductors on the Fort
street route in this city have been half
frightened out of their wits by lady
spectre, who mysterinusly boards the
last car at night, and vanishes from it
as mysteriously without paying her fare.
The circumstances of her appearance
are thus described by local paper:


about ten nights ago the conductor
of the last car down, having no passen-
gers beyond Twentieth street, was stand
ing in the front door talking with the
driver, when he heard the rustic of silk,
and turned about to find lady seated
in the car. He wondered to himself at
her agility in boarding the car while the
horses were at trot and after the car had
passed along several blocks he started
forward to collect her fare and ask her
where she desired to stop. She had her
face turned away from him, and as he
put out his hand to touch her shoulder,
the lady vanished. The conductors
hair stood up, and the driver felt cold
chills run up his back. Every night
since then, as half dozen conductors
allege, the ghostly passenger boards
the last car, provided there are no other
passengers and after riding few blocks
she suddenly vanishes. The conductors
describe her as being richly attired in
winter clothing, having a shawl, hood
and muff and so closely veiled that a
glimpse of her features is impossible.
The most alarming circumstance of the
affair appears to be the omission on the
part OF the ghostly lady to pay her fare
Year: 1873

There are people in this world who
seem to be so constituted that they keep
all they have and add more to it. There
are others who are always losing their
scant possessions and rarely finding them
selves able to replace them. 1t begins in
childhood with children of the same
household. One will have her Christ
mas book with the gilt covers, her doll,
and her fancy box, and little trinkets, al
most as good as new the next Christmas.
Nay, the doll will have a new wardrobe.
and be fresher than at first. Her sister,
with the same presents, will have torn
her book into bits, broker hef-vfoiii, given
away her trinkets, and be quite uncon-
scious Of the whereabouts Of the fancy
box. They live in the same house, and
have the same education, but one is diff
ferent from the other, and remains so all
through life. As young lady, one
never can find her thimble or her scis-
sors, nor the book she wants, nor the
music she has but half learnt, while her
sister is never at a loss as to such mat
ters. And as married Momen, one, with
the same amount Of pin-money, will
fine clothes and jewelIy, while


ler goes shabby.


boys start in life with equal


One finds himself, at forty, with
sE4 sne; the other Is wretchedly poor,


sithout prospects. The pennies he
a-eorned to save have made the other a
rich man, perhaps, Something has, at any
rate. One has been no more vicious than
the other; but while one has accumula-
ted wealth, the other has not.


am not sure that any thing can be
done for people who are not born to get
on. Something within them clogs their
movement. We should no more be an
CRY with them than with cripple who
cannot climb hill. Nature made them
&c, and so they will stay as long as the
soul eieaves to the mortal body. They
are often good people, often desirous of
being generous. They are generally
people who can't say "No;" and the 9th
ers are sometimes little hard listed;
but still, the good things of the world
cling to the one class and fall from the
other, vino, for some inscrutable reason,
known only to their Maker, do not seem


be born to get on.


MARY KYLE DALLAS.
Year: 1873

HORSES IN NARROW DooRwAYs.-
A man who will habitually take horse
through a narrow door knows very little
of what a horse remembers, or what is
fair treatment to the animal. One sim
gle blow Of the hip against the sharp
corner of doorway is sometimes sniff
cient to ruin valuable horse; but, when
the blow has been several times repeated,
the horse becomes valueless, because he
has become highly dangerous animal.
We have seen a horse whose hips were
never healed after striking two or three
times in pasting through narrow way.
Another dangerous practice is the lead
ing of horses out of the barn door, by
the sides of loads of hay, grain, Sc. A
slight blow upon the hip will sometimes
so excite high spirited horse that the
person leading loses control over him;
and he escapes upon the jump, banging
his shoulders aud. hips as he proceeds,
leaving patches Of skin and hair as evi-
dence that he has got through. Many
a valuable horse has been ruined in this
way, and many a valuable one can be
saved by never leading him through a
narrow space Young FoLks' REa'.
Year: 1873

UNFERMENTED MAHURE.-Many ex-
cellent farmers have an idea that manure
to be most efficient in raising crops
should be well rotted; bat this Is a mis-
take. Manure loses heavy per ccninEn


Fresh manure, dripping with animal
urine, hauled directly from Che stable
on the land and plowed under, N worth
nearly double that which has decom-
posed to saponaceous consistency. When
it is convenient for farmers to haul
manure on corn ground from the stable,
as fast as it is made, il saves handling
il twice and forwards the work in busy
spring time. No fears need be enter
tained that the atmosphere win carry
off the strength of themanure if left ON
the surface. The only danger to be APP
pretended by this method will be in
case of the ground being frozen and
covered with snow and ice when the
manure is applied; il upon slopiRg
land the virture Of the manure might
wash away, but on level land there il
no exception to this plan Of operation
during the entire fall and winter season,
Year: 1873

Better to wear q calico dress With
out trimming, if it be paid for, than
70 owe the shOp-keeper for the most
elegant silk, cut and trimmed in the
mos beWitehing manner.
Better to live in = log cabin all your
own than q brown stone mansion be-
longing to somebody else


Better walk forever than run into
debt for q horse and carriage.


Better 10 sit by the plain pine table,
for which you paid three dollars ten
years ago, than seud home new ex-
tension black walnut top, aud PROM
Ise TO pay for Il next week. a"


Better to use the old .cane-seated
chairs, and faded TWO ply eafpet,
than Jremble at the bills sent nome
rom the upholsterers for the most
elegant parlOr set ever made.


Better to meet your business ae-
quaintanees with free don't owe
you q cent" smile, than 10 dodge
around the corner to escapes dun.


Better TO pay the street organ-grinder
two cents for music, II you must have
it, than owe for q grand piano.


Better to gaze upon the bare walls
than pictures unpaid for.


Better IOeat tnin soup from earthen-
ware, if you owe your butcher nothing
than to dine of lamb and roast beef,
and know that it does not belong to
you.


Better let your wife have fit Of
mysteries than to run in Cebt for nice
Dew fnrniture, clothes, jewelTy or any
other thing that women wish for
A tit of Mysteries, properly managed,
Is often OF more real benefit to wO-
man than anything you could buy
IL is better TO treat them IN this way


"Whea she begins to cry for sOmea
thing she ought TO know she cannot
have, try to reason with her q little"
Year: 1873

William Hickox, or "Wild Bill, u
as he was generally called. and who
was Marshal of Abilene, was killed al
Fort Dodge, on the Atchison, TOpe
ka and Santa Fe Railroad, last week.
Two men, whom he thought were
his friends. proved treaeherOus ami
murdered him in the following man
ner: The three were going about
the small town on the night Of the
murder, the assassins being very
friendly and finally they entered a
saloon where, at q signal, the lights
were all extinguished- Simultane
Ously with the going cutoff the lights,
firing commenced, and with the first
report, the tall form of the man who
had proved such a terror on the
Plains fell at the feet of his enemies,
vanquished by death, bullet having
pierced his brain, entering his skull
in the centre Of his forehead. The
firing was kept up in the dark by the
assassins, one shot entering BilPs
heel, another his shoulder, aud tour
others peIfOrating his body In differ
ent places. Then all ran out, and
when the lights were again turned
on all that was left of Wild Bill Was
q dead and bleeding body, fulfilling
the prophecy in connection with him
aud ail his class that he would die
with his boots on It is almost Ger
IAN that the two falls friends, al
least, were concerned in the murder,
although Others may have Joined in
the firing. 1t was dark no one
could zee another do the deed, and in
that country they consider that they
have no evidence to warrant the ar
rest of any one for the erime.-Rockg
Mountain NetCs.