smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1876

tachment row pending or he aNaf-
ter instituted, IN which the defen.i.
ant shall recover judgment tor the
discharge Of the attachment. the
court or jury trying such attach
mcnt shall assess the damages sus-
tanned by the defendant by reason
of such attachment, and the court
shall render judgment against the
plaintiff and his sureties in the
attachment bond for the amount OF
sud, damages and costs of the at.
tachment. But if the plaintiff
shall! recover against the defend
ant, and tho attachment shall
have been discharged upon the
execution Of bond, as provided
by section 4l6 of Gannt's digest,
then the court shall render iudg-
mcnt against said defendant and
his sure'ies in 'aid bond, for the
amount recovered and the costs of
said suit. But If tie defendant
shall have given bond for the re-
teIt'on OF the property attached,
as provided by section 400 of
Gantts Digest, and tho attachment
shall be sustained, thc court OF jury,
in addition to finding tho amount
OF debt or damages done to the
plaintiff, shall, upon demand OF
the plaintiff, also assess the value
OF tho property attached, and the
court shall, in addition to judgment
against SAID defendant for amount
found due to the plaintiff and costs,
render further judgment that, In
case said property shall not he de-
'ivcrcd up to the proper officer to
he sold, and SAID officer shall not
be able to make said Judgment out
OF the property Of said defendant,
execution shall then issue against
the property Of said surcties for 20
much Of said Judgment ns shall not
exceed the value Of said property,
which execution shall be enforced
rs in other cases.


SEC. 2. This act shall takc effect
and DO in force from and afles its
passage.


Approved Nov. 10, 1878.
Year: 1876

SEPARATED AT THE GRAvE.-We re-
Gently printed, says an exchange, an
account of the final separation of two
young people at the grave of their child.
A stranger and sadder case occurred in
Illinois few days ago. Ahusband and
wife had lived together for over thirty
years, and had raised to manhood and
womanhood several children. The hus-
band was for years a Leading and active
member of the orthodox church, and the
wife still retains her place in the church.
A few months ago the Oldest son died.
and at the time of his death the young
est son, about twenty years of age, was
lying sick. The father and mother ten
derly nursed him, but in a short time he
also died. Funeral services were had
at the family residence, and as the body
was to be taken 70 Ohio for interment,
the family went together to the depot,
and one of the sons accompanied the
body to Ohio. The mother also took
the same train for the county-seat to get
a divorce, which was readily granted, on
the ground of the husbands adulterous
practices. Comment is unnecessary.
Year: 1876

Frederick Douglass was travelling with
a friend of another color in a part of
the country where public sentiment was
bitterly hostile to the association of col
ors. They stopped at a tavern and din
ed together, at which spectacle the viii
lage, growing and grumbling about the
stove in the bar room. was Immediately
disposed to make mischief. The bar
room philosophers were troubled for
the honor of their color "'What bust
ness has white man to be travelling and
eating with - nigger, anyhow? If
he does't know what's decent, We'll
teach him" Che crowd was indeed,
very alxio;:o 10 ; ire the offender a few
summary lessons in deceney. They
were like duelists, who have ludicrous
conceit that they know what honor is.
Douglass slipped ont quietly, and re-
turning after little while, he remarked
to his companion in a good-humored
way. that he had just seen very singu-
lar sight in the stable; and the crowd
turned to hear what it was You'll
hardly believe it, "said Douglass address
ing his companion as if there were no
one else in the room, ''but i gave my
white mare and your bay horse four
quarts of oats each, and there they are,
eating side by side as quietly and con-
tentedly as if they were of the same
color. 'Tis most extraordinary He
did not laugh or wink, bat made his
remark with simple sincerity that was
irresistible. There was a moment of
silence. Then came the echo. Human
wit had spoken, and human heart had
answered. "What cussed fools we arem
said one of the crowd, sententiously;
and loud laugh followed, which scat
tered like burst of sunlight the gath
ering cloud of mischievous intention
A little tact had been a hundred fold
more effectual in melting a prejudice
than series of solemn lectures.
per's Magazine.
Year: 1876

CHANCELLOR ELIOT of Washington
University, st. Louis, says concerning
the education of women: ITO speak
from our own very limited experience, /
can most confidently say that it has thus
far developed no insuperable difficulty
to the admission of young women, when
properly prepared, to the regular classes
either of college, or scientific or law
school. We have observed no indica-
tions of intellectual inferiority, of di-
vided attention, of careless habits of
study, of inability TO meet all reasonable
requirements of q strict curriculum. l
sincerely wish that we could have more
of them i'm every class from this time
forward, with this one condition, that
the courses of study should not be low
cred i'm any respect, but held to the full
standard of scholarly education, so that
young women graduates should stand
upon the same level of scholarship with
the young men. There was L time when
should have liesitated to say this, but
my skepticism has departed, and my
only fear now j. that very few young
women can be so inspired with the love
of learning as to desire the highest edu-
cation, or who are SO fortunately situ-
ated as to have the opportunity and
choice given to them"
Year: 1876

THERE is an unhappy Democratic ed
itor in Titusville, Pennsylvania. He
has been standing on the Democratic
platform of last year and yelling like
hero for the rag baby. Suddenly his
party turns up in convention as a
hare money organization, punches the
peted infant between the eyes, and de
clares for the bloated aristocrat's gold
and silver as the ''only true basis for the
currency of the Republic" The editor
is astounded. 'Tf it were not wicked"
he says, ''we should swear a little" a
desire entirely natural under the circum-
stances. As for going back on the rag
baby he will Fever do it. He will go
back on the party sooner. "For quar-
ter of a century we have voted the Dem
ocratic ticket" he proudly boasts, ''and
have never swerved in giving the party
an unfaltering support. Year after year
we have consented to be led like lamb
to the slaughter, and so long as the
party remained true to its principles we
were never discouraged under defeat
But if there are any who expect us to
stultify ourselves, they will expect in
vain" 1t must be monotonous to be
sled like lamb to the slaughter" every
year for a quarter of century. Even
Job himself would feel like varying the
proceedings with bolt after an expert
ence like that
Year: 1876

THK next president of United States
should be capable administrator, a
clear-sighted statesman, an a fearless
and energetic reformer. He must be
man whose past public lie needs neither
apology nor defense, because it speaks
for itself. He must be free from all
sympathy or connection with the inhu-
ences which have thrown discredit on
the good name alike of the party and
the people. He must, in short, be man
thoroughly identified with the principles
and thoroughly qualified to fulfill the
expectations of the new era in our poll
tics and our public life.-Neso York
Times.
Year: 1876

A BENGAL Tiger AS COLLATERAL


A circus company in this State owed


an editor bill for advertising and re-


fused to pay it. Thereupon the editor
called upon the Sheriff, who attached
the Bengal tiger and brought him
around to the newspaper Office in his
cage. He was placed in the composing
room, and during the first two days he
not only consumed fifteen dollars worth
of beef. but he scratched six dollars
worth of trowsers from the leg of local
reporter who endeavored to stir him up
with a broom handle to make him roar.
On the third day the tiger broke loose,
and the entire force of eompositors de-
scended the staircase with judicious
suddenness. The editor was alarmed to
find his exit through the composing
room cut off and that the latch upon
the sanctum door was broken. So he
climbed out Of the window and sought
safety on the roof. The tiger was shot
Year: 1876

A YOUNG lady graduate of Western
medical college, When asked by her
father what he should get her for birth
day present, caused that gentleman to
turn pale by exclaining: "Oh! my dar-
ling pa. If you could only go to the
hospital and buy me the head and arm
of a man ! should be the happiest girl
in the world. could dissect them on
the kitchen table, you see."
Year: 1876

IF is urged 10y some that prohibitory
law against intemperance is In advance
of the sentiment of this age, and should
not be enacted. The same is true of the
Ten Commandments. When reforlners
have no higher ambition than to please
public sentiment, reforms will cease.
Year: 1876

THK New York city schools are suffer
ing terribly from overcrowding. Several
hundred more pupils are received in
some buildings than there is legitimate
room for, and the average air space runs
down to fifty cubic feet per person in
many rooms, whereas three hundred
feet is the proper allowance.
Year: 1876

The Supreme Court of Vermont has
decided the celebrated Brattleboro
school case in favor of the School Board.
The opinion was delivered by Judge
Barrett. 1t will be remembered that q
large number of children of Catholic
parentage, in violation of rule of the
school, absented themselves from the
public school on Corpus Christi day;
that on previous 'day of obligation"
of the Church, they had similarly alb
sented themselves; that, on this occasion,
they had requested to be excused from
attendance, but were denied; and that,
in consequence of their non-attendance,
they were expelled from school. The
present action was a bill in chancery
brought to restrain the school board
from carrying the order for expulsion
into effect.


The court held that the rule was with
in the legal power of the school board to
make; that requiring the children to
attend on that day, and refusing to ex-
cuse them, was not such an interference
with the freedom of conscience as to
make the rule in conflict with the Con-
stitution; that the holding of session
of the school that day, was not any more
illegal than it would be to hold a town
meeting On that day; that the school
laws, as we'll as this rule, were made for
all persons, and, as it did not conflict
with the Constitution, was legal and of
binding force. The court, therefore,
dismissed the bill.


We presume this decision is good law.
But it does not prove that the action of
the school board was wise, kind and ex-
pedient. If the Protestant people of
the town were observing day of pray
er, and parents desired their children to
be excused from attendance at school, it
would be well to give them the privilege
and thus crafty the parents and prevent
ill-feeling. The slight interference with
the classes studies would be of no ac-
count compared with the injury result
ing from doing violence to the con-
sciences of such as think it improper to
send their children to school on days
set apart for religious services. And
more emphaticaliy should this right be
accorded to Roman Catholic parents.
Because Protestants are in the majority
in any board or community, they should
be the more carefulto extend the largest
indulgence to the wishes of the minority,
consistent with integrity and the laws.
If permission to the Roman Catholic
children to be absent day works the
dissolution of the classes for that day, it
is an evil less than that which follows
the refusal of a privilege claimed on con-
scientious grounds. While, therefore,
the decision of the court is with the law,
it by no means affirms the wisdom of the
school board.-NeW York Observer.
Year: 1876

The infidel FASTENED on to take his
seat in the ears; but the simple words
of thar hymn or chorus had found a
lodgment in his mind. He could not
drive them from his thoughts. They
were fixed. A world where there is no
sorrow This was the great idea that
filed his mind. He dwelt upon it, re-
volved it over in his thoughts. 1t was
the message by the Spirit that led him
ruined from sin here, and raises them to
that world of JOY and glory, where sin
and sorrow are unknown.-Sslected
Year: 1876

Keep it from unkindness. Words are
sometimes wounds. Not very deep
wounds always, and yet they irritate.
Speech is unkind sometimes when there
is no unkindness in the heart. So much
the worse that needless wounds are in
hicted, SO much the worse that, uninten
tionally, pain is caused.


Keep it from falsehood. 1t is so easy
to give false coloring-to SO make a
statement that lt may convey a meaning
different from the truth, while yet there
is an appearance of trHth-that we need
to be ca our guard. There are very
many who would shrink from telling a
lie, who yet speak i'm such inaccurate, or
exaggerated, or one-sided statements,
that they really come under the con.
demnation of those whose '1ying lips
are an abomination to the Lord"


Keep it from slander. The good rep
utation of others should be dear TO us.
Sin should not be suffered to go unre-
buked; but it should be i'm accordance
with the Scripture method. $50 and tell
him of his faults twixt thee and him
alone" And it should be borne in mind
that what is too often considered as
merely harmless gossip runs dangerously
near, if it does not pass, the confines of
slander. a reputation is too sacred to
be made plaything of, even if intent
be not malicious. NelD Yorker.
Year: 1876

had been placed under Frost's left ear,
almost around to the center Of the neck.
Frost was man OF no especial muscular
development, and, though he weighed
but 12O pounds, the drop was enough
not only to break his neck, but to sever
the spinal column entirely, leaving the
body hanging by the integuments of the
rear portion only. The body was allowed
to hang few minutes after the exami-
nation by the doctors, when it was
lowered and carried from beneath the
OallOWs.
Year: 1876

This young lady informed me that
her trousseau cost upward of $4,000,
and when / expressed astonishment at
this extravagant expenditure of money,
she naively replied Yes, spent
great deal of money but one pever ex-
poets to marry more than once in life
time, and beside, papa may fail. Emma


- often expresses regret that she did
not buy lots of pretty things when she
was in Europe for her father failed
Immediately after their return, and few
thousand dollars more would not have
made much difference. ."-NoaRs Sun
day Times and Messenger.
Year: 1876

HINTS FOR VIsIToRS-It is when we
are temporarily in the homes of others that
tact and good breeding tell. 1t is difficult
to attain the art of easily and gracefully
adapting ones self to any circumstance, so
as to be at home and agreeable, whether all
things go to ones satisfaction or not 70
be thoroughly pleased with the arrangements
that others make for us, after having for
time abandoned our own, is next to impos-
siblc. Hence We put as the highest proof
Of being pleased that we are perfectly at
home. Next to being SO, is the honest cf-
fort to make others feel that you arc so. 1t
is the token of rue nobility to make even
the lowest at case in your presence. And
the advent of such well.bred person into
the house Of any fmily, is soon found to
be Il pleasure to the old and the young
While, on the other hand the airs and
tones, and fdgets and fretfulness of dis
contented visitor, are enough 10 make a
house wretched to all it's inmates
Year: 1876

When merchant grufly refuses to ad-
vertisc, you may set him down as one who
will soon hand in his commercial checks
and retire from business for the lack of
both customers and money. The successful
business men are always cheerful, polite,
and if not ready to advertise do not fail to
appreciate its advantages, especially to at
tract trade in dull times.
Year: 1876

To GET RID OF STUMPs-Mr. W. NJ
Turner, Of Maine, communicates the follow.
ing to the New York HoyM:


In the Autumn bore hole one or two
inches in diameter, according to the girth
Of the stamp, vertically in the centre Of the
latter, and about eighteen inches deep
Put into it one or two ounces of salt
petre fill the hole with water and plug up
close. In the ensuing spring take out the
plug and pour in about onc.half gill of
Kerosene oil and ignite it. The stump will
smoulISr away without blazing, to the ,ry
extremity of the roots, leaving nothing but
ashes
Year: 1876

"What would be your notion of absent
mindedness ~ asked Rufus Choate of a
witness whom he was cross examining
"Well," said the witness, with strong
Yankee accent, 81 should say that man
who thought he'd left his watch to hum,
and took it outn zig pocket to see if he'd
time to GO hum and get it, was a lcetlo abb
sent minded"
Year: 1876

The fish are suffering. Did you ever
think of how foolish fish must feel Just
after swallowing worm, to find himself
flirting through the air and then wolloping
around on the ground with pain in bis
jaw
Year: 1876

A startling rumor comes from Paris that
long gloves, reaching nearly to the elbow
and requiring twenty buttons, will be essen
tial to the peace Of mind Of every we'll
dressed lady this year
Year: 1876

On /! THOSE SUNDAY NIGHTs-A wet
Sunday night affects the two classes of low
crs in opposite ways. To him who is en-
gagged it is a godscnd, as it enables him to
snug up 20 her in the paror and have the
whole evening to HIMSELF but to the other
lover, one who is not engaged, rainy Sun
day night is n most painful episode His
footing at the house isn't sure enough to
warrant his going there through the storm,
and all he can do is to attend the church,
and stand in the vestbule. and pull his shirt
collar, in the despairing hope that she may
appear. She don't of course, and he goes
back to his dreary home wretched and mis-
cradle beyond description. Oh, those days
of ecstatic idiocy! how their memory over
comes us
Year: 1876

BEWARE OF DRUNKARDs-Wc tender
our thanks to the Vermont judge who the
other day, in pronouncing upon divorce
suit, laid down the opinion that when We
man marries man of known Incorporate
habits, she takes her happiness, prosperity,
and welfare in her own hands, and has no
claim for riddancc Of him thereafter. We
have great pity for the wife who is Joined
to an Incorporate husband, but we trenblc
for the fate of the woman who marrics an
Incorporate man. If these words reach


the eye OF any woman under engagement of
marriage to such a man, we most solemny
appeal to her to pause before she imperiis
her well-bcing by accepting any such risk
Year: 1876




l-coil. Iahd was taken SICK nafe-.-


He told his wife that he must have'infihea<E
ate relief, or he could not live and thought
mustard draft would relieve hiro. She
hastily robcd herself, went down st:lrs and
found the watchman, who admitted her to
the dining room, and sire spread the mustard
from the castor on her hankerchicf and has
tened up stairs. Finding the door ajar,
she rushed in, turned down the bed clothes
and slapped the mustard draft Oh the uu-
conscious mans bowels He instantly
sprang up in bed, and in strang. voice
said "My God Madam, what are you do
ing z" She had got it on the wrong nan.
We leave the reader to imagine her feelings.
She found he. own room, and iu accents of
horror told her husband the facts The ex-
treme ludicrousness of the incident set him
into an inordinate fit of laughter that re-
lievcd him as thoroughly as the mustard
plaster would have done. Very early the
next morning, beige many of the guests
were up, man and woman, trunk, band
boxes, ETC., might have been seen leaving
the hotel, for the woman's name was on the
handkerchief
Year: 1876

c. C. BEAN, in the Miner of Novem. Der 3, says:

 All this hue and cry about fraud in the census is bosh. I know good deal about Yavapai county, and I know that if you could only bring up the people to the great register and then bring them to the polls that Va vapal county can cast "nigh on " to three thousand legal votes, and I don't believe that any paId attorney will pre- vent the vote from being counted, nous verrons, as the French say, we shall see.

 Without calling attention to the gross indecency of using the French phrase "nOus verrons " in a pubic print that finds its way to the family circle, we wish to say that MT. Bean established his reputation in Tucson. two years ago. We a;e sorry to say it and would not if he had kept out of sight, but his political word is absolute ly worthless in this part of Arizona. and must be wherever he is rightly known.
Year: 1876

Is always supplied with an ample variety or well-cOoked food. No exaggeration in this. Stage passengers and travellers by there understand if, and to them all un- acquainted with the fact are respectfully referred for information.
Year: 1876

A PULPIT TRUTH. Adirondack MUIR
ray says that heaven is not populated
with singing thieves or palm bearing
bankrupts, wqo settle with the credi-
tors at twenty-five cents on the dollar
Wednesday and ride to church the
next Sabbath in a thousand dollar
coach with man in livery box We
believe this proposition to be incontest-
able.
Year: 1876

Some old fraud says, "Get up with
the sun if you want to be healthy and
wise" It is easy enough to follow this
advice in the winter. when the sun acts
sensibly. and doesn't get up until seven
o'clock but when he commences to get
up at four o'clock. we have observed
that th wisest men give him about two
hours start, and let their wives accu-
mulate health and wisdom.
Year: 1876

Some people seem to be extremely
sensitive at one Of the churches on
Sunday the minister read the prayer
for person in deep aff1iction, and a
man who had just been married got up
aud went out. He said be didn't want
public sympathy obtruded on him in
that way.-NoTwich Bulletin.
Year: 1876

Do not imagine when you see one Of
those broadchested statesmen get up in
his place on the floor Of the House Of
Representatives, that your soul is about
to be aroused by burst Of sonorous
eloquence. He carries his paper Of
chewing tobacco in his coat-tail pocket,
and is too fat to reach it without rising
Year: 1876

A young lady went to photograph
er recently and wished him to take her
picture with an expression as if compos-
ing poem 1t came out with the ex-
preston she had when the editor but
the poem in the waste basket
Year: 1876

Seven thousand Europeans were
killed or half killed by railroad acci-
dents last year, and it has been ascer-
tanned that a majority Of them parted
their hair in the middle. Providence
works in a mysterious way
Year: 1876

Texas has one county larger than the
State Of Rhode Island, but if you
should see one of the Spragues you
would realize that land against land is
no rule to 60 by. Any one Of the
family feels as big as all Texas
Year: 1876

Been in general use for twenty years. Everywhere
proved the most SAFE, SIMPLE, ECONOMICAL and
EFFICIENT medicines known. They are just what
the people want, saving time and money averting
sickness and suffering. Each single specific the well
tried prescription of an eminent physician
Year: 1876

! IT has been the custom in the Astor
family for three generations TO deposit
500 eco 10 bank at the birth Of son or
daughter, the money and interest to be
given to the child when he or she became
.of age. This should be the custom in


every well regulated family.
Year: 1876

NINETY-THREE young ladies out Of a
class Of one hundredand twenty five pass
cd asucessful examination in an academy
Of surgery recently. 1t now looks as if
tie time was not far distant when it will
be real pleasure to have ones leg taken
Year: 1876

"THE excuse Of the third man." said
Mr.. Moody, illustrating the parable of
the guests who were backward in coming
forward, was more absurd than any
j have married a wife, and therefore l
cannot come" Now, why didn't he
take his wife along with him"