smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1875

and finding that he had dropped his
Derringer pistol, he got pistol of
one OF us, and returned to Pratt to
pick up his. We were astonsled at
hearing another report Of a pistol.
Mclean, when he returned, said he
found the "old sconndrel' sitting up,
leaning on his elbow, and he put
pistol to his head and shot him. He
was not struck by pistol ball at all,
but was killed with knife. He lived
long enough to send to town for Mrs,
Mclean to go and see him. Mr.. Nc
Lean left her with his children, feeling
that he had done no more than was
right, and in this the community were
with him. Mrs Mclean was sent to
an insane asylum. The above was the
whole cause of the Mountain Meadow
massacre. SEBASTIAN.
Year: 1875

There are some crimes so
fearful in their nature, that a man
who commits them deservedly be-
comes an Outcast and a Pariah of
society, and forfeits lis life to an OUT
ragged community as surely as does
the rabid dog who is hunted to death.
One of the strongest reasons Justify
ing the summary execution of Simms,
was the resolution adopted by the
citizens of Anne Arundel county,
Nd, in an Indignation meeting:


''Thirdly. We are not willing that
his victim shall be dragged into court
to tell over and over again the story
Of her terrible wrongs, or that her
name shall be entered upon the re-
cords of our criminal jurisprudence
for fuLure reference"


We .hink this view settles the mat
ter. The hanging of the wretch saw
ed Miss Jackson the dread ordeal of
utter humiliation and sorrow Of re-
peating before LIndreds of men
the horrible story. Again, let it be
understood that certain death shall
follow such crimes, and there will be
fewer commissions. .-Aie.;. Sentinel,
Year: 1875

In conversation with an editorial
writer on the st Louis Times, in reply
to an inquiry as to vino he regarded
as the principal genius of the Con-
federacy in the Western iield, General
Sherman replied: sob, Joe John
ston. He was a cunning, subtle fei-
low. Albert Sidney Johnston was
more of Kentuckian, and had fine
inspiring presence on the battle field.
We felt in our lines, without knowing
much about it, the effect of his death.
There was a lull in the battle. He
had been killed and BeauregGard
could not be found" He also said
he had met General Pat Cleburue
everywhere. He was just coming up
to the prominence. he deserved when
he was killed. If there had been
another year of Cleburne and the
war he would have left one of the
greatest regulations in the South
west.
Year: 1875

John W. FOrney writes to his paper
from Europe


''The death of John G. Breckin-
ridge, though not unexpected, was
sorrowful in the fact that he was a
much younger man. Itwas my good
fortune to know Mr.. Breckenridge
twenty years ago as intimately as if
he had been my brother, Our rela>
lions were confidential and constant,
and learned to appreciate his cam
dor, integrity and courage. Separat-
ed. butn alienated, by our civil
war, it is cOnsOling to feel that in all
those bitter years never thought of
him unkindly, nor wrote or spoke a
harsh word against him. Like thou
sands Of others, he became a sacri-
flee to what l have no doubt be al
ways regarded as the great mistake
of his section. When the war broke
out no American had a brighter fu-
ture than Breckinridge. The very
conservatism of his nature would
have placed him by common consent
in the leadership of his party. lie
was always a favorite. There was
nothing in his disposition to arouse
enmity, and yet his instictive chivaIry
induced him 10 cast his lot with his
people to bear all the resulting bur-
dens. 1t may be said of him that,
notwithstanding his expulsion from
the Senate during his long residence
abroad after the war, no word of hate
was ever heard from his lips and it
is gratifying to add that his cOmpara>
lively death is mourned among those
who knew him in London as sincerely
as it is at home"
Year: 1875

Twenty clerks in a store, twenty
hands in printing Office, twenty ap-
prentices in a shipyard, twenty young
men in a village-aIl want to get
along in the world, and all expect to
do so. One of the clerks will become
a partner, and make a fortune; one OF
the compositors will own newspaper,
and become an influential citizen; one
70 the apprentices will become q
master builder; one Of the young viii
layers will get handsome farm, and
live like apatriarch-but which one
is the lucky individual? Lucky ?
There is no luck about it. The thing
is almost as eeltain IS the rule OF
three. The young fellow wAo will
distance his competitors is he who
masters his business, who preserves
his integrity, who lives cleanly and
purely, who devOtes his leisure to the
acquisition of knowledge, who gains
friends by deserving them, and who
saves spare money. There are some
ways to fortune shorter than this old,
dusty highway; but the staunch m en-
OF the community, the men who
achieve something really worth hav-
ing, good name, and serene old age,
all go in this hard, dirty road.
Year: 1875

Who can tell tine worth Of true
home There is nothing on earth
equal to it, and | often think nothing
which gives us so true type OF life
10 heaven. Nothing can do what
home can to elevate and purity the
world nothing makes men so strong
and steadfast, 50 firm in their prin-
ciples and manhOOf; nothing makes
women so true and noble, so gentle
and wOmanly, SO lOvable. Ills the
pure, happy homes scattered up and
down our land, out of which come
loyal, honest men and women, i'm
which our hope lies, and which will
do more to free US from the evils and
woes of intsmperanee and corruption
in their multitude of forms and phases
than all the laws and politicians can
ever do. Make the roots pure
and right and the tree will be
vigorous and healthful. Homes are
the roots of national life. II
these be pure our national tree will
cast off all unhealthy growth, ali cor
rupt branches, and become in time
good in every part. Woman is the
heaven-appOinted home-maker, and
here she will find a work broader,
grander and more beautiful than any
other. though l would by no means
disparage any Of her efforts for good
wherever and whenever made. SO, /
say, God bless the homes and their In
mates, and make them all they are
capable OF becOming-make them
many and blessed everywhere
nest.
Year: 1875

How Is this great power Of music TO be
controlled aud brought 10 bear most direct
ly, most efficiently, on our people? That
nation is the best educated in which knowl-
edge is most diffused, in which the r, suits
Of learning are within the grasp of The
greatest number. Only so far as any art or
science becomes part of popular educa-
lion can that art or science become pow
er, an influence, in a land. or the grow
ing desire among our people for higher
musical education we have many signs in
the frequency Of festivals and choral unions
and the number of musical associations.
We Americans are a conglomerate race,
made up of the best of every people under
the sun, SO transrused that the origin of
even a single family can scarcely be Traced
without an element Of Celtic or Teutonic
race discovering itself. Perhaps this is the
source o: the musical taste so widely spread
among us as people. We say taste, not
culture; we are not yet cultivated peo
pie in any true sense. As national char
acterslic, 10 be song and music lovers be-
longs to the Irish and German races rather
than 10 the Saxon. 1t is rare to find Ger
man or an Irish girl without an ear for
music. In our Western States and centers
Of population the Germans instinctively
gather, in remembrance OF the father-land,
into Sangvereins, preserving the songs and
musical traditions Of the old land, while
they welcome gladly anything fresh and
worthy from the new. The marvellous
achievements Of the school festivals in the
Music Hall in Boston are largely due to the
fine voices, the quick perception, of the
Irish, either by birth or descent, who con-
slitute a majority Of the pupils in our pub
lie schools.


No one Thing has done more for music in
the past twenty years than its Introduction
as an integral part of our common sch ool
education. In the large cities and subur-
ban towns little seems left TO desire in that
direction. From The lime children at the
age of five enter the primary school till at
the age of sixteen or eighteen they gradu-
ate from the high or normal school, music
Is as much part of their training as the
multiplication table and spelling book.
The next generation will see what we fore
see, and reap the harvest this generation is
so widely sowing.


II, as we contend, music is in itself puri-
flying and elevating, if il can displaee and
crowd out baser pleasures by giving inno-
cent recreation and excitement TO people
that must be amused, a people who must
be busy for good or for evil, we can not
have too much of II, Ii can not enter too
largely or too deeply into the system OF
common-school education.-HdTper's Mag
dzine for October.
Year: 1875

found my tongue afler awhile too, so that
when uncle Jerry and aunt Nancy came
home, we sat by the fire as sociable as
though we had known each other all our
lives.


"Well, / staid and staid there till my
folks began to think never was coming
home. helped uncle jerry get in the late
crops and I had a knack with saw and
hammer which made me very useful about
the house TO aunt Nancy. Then in the eve
ming sometimes took Content to husk-
ing or an apple-bee.


FINALLY my father sent for me, and that
night, coming home from husking at
Deacon Banifords-I mind how the moon
shone down through the pine trees that
shaded the road Content promised 10 go
back TO the Bay State with me when I came
up in the spring"


Uncle Ezekiel grew thoughtful. He
seemed 10 he living over again that golden
October evening; Geneva clasped her hands
together and said in that pretty little affect
ed way she has:


"What did she say when you proposed
to her? Oh, 1 should like to know so
much"


Uncle Ezekiel reused up:


"She gave me a simple, straightforward
answer" said he, land didn't ogle and put
on airs, as you would have done in her
place, miss"


We were familiar with Uncle Ezekiel's
rough ways, but we all thought he was too
hard upon Geneva, so we changed the sub
iect to the aslimportaiions 10y Stewart and
he fell into doze in his easy chair by the
crate.
Year: 1875

The Rocky Mountain News does not
perceive that woman suffrage in Wyoming
has wrought astounding changes Of any
sort. The ladies divide their votes very
much as the mon do, rather more perhaps,
voting for personal friends but political
affairs Ia general are very much as before.
Year: 1875

The greenback dollar is worth SO cents
in gold at the present writing. Some peo-
pie think II is the best currency In the
world. The interest bearing bonds of the
government are worth lIs in greenbacks.
Whence tho di6f-BostOA Herald.
Year: 1875

cheap, and an Indifferent marksman
can bring in every day more game
than party of twenty-five can con-
sumo. Quails and rabbits are curse
to the country, and may be counted
by millions.


| took dinner with Gen. Stoneman
the other day at his rancho, and find
him plain, practicle farmer, and, so
contented with vine and fruit-growing
that verify believe that he has for
gotten all about battles and sieges.
He says Los Angeles is the finest spot
in California. California the finest
spot in the United states, and the
United States the finest country In the
world.


But, dear Pic, believe me when /
say it is hard working country. An
idler cannot prosper here. 1t is an
and would not advise any one to
come to it VINO is not both able and
willing to take off his coat and go to
hard labor. "Quill drivers" and
counter Jumpers are not wanted and
had better remain in the States. There
is a superabundance of brains, and we
need capital and muscle. Labor is
honorable throughout, and carpen-
ter or teamster is as good as a Sem
ator. The intensely Democratic char
acter of the people astonishes the new
conner, particularly if he come from
the South, though half the population
hail from the old slave States. Tenn
pie, the leading banker here, drives
into town in plain open wagon, from
his rancho, and would be taken for a
small farmer. Downey, Ex-Governor
of the State and President of the
farmers and Mechanics Bank, is as
unostentatious and simple in his man.
ners and dress as the poorest citizen.
A sunburnt face and hard hand are
honored in this community. Brains
and enterprise are joined with o stout
arm and bold heart. If all the
Southerners in California would 60
back home and teach the people how
to work and make money, your Sec
tion would prosper and return to its
ancient wealth. l see men making
more on ten acres of land in this
country than your sugar and cotton
planter make on hundred, and this
because of diversified industry.


The Blue Grass girls of Kentucky
and the bells of Baltimore will have to
look to their laurels. The California
lasses will beat them all. have seen
more perfectly beautiful girls in Los
Angeles than it has been my good for
tune to gaze upon. The climate will
develope here in the next two or three
generations race of women that will
have no superiors. They have rath-
er rough time now, for domestic help
cannot be had, and you know while
proper exercise develops and beauti-
fies the female sex, labor and drudg-
cry are apt to detract from grace and
symmetry. G. H. PARKER.
Year: 1875

Who may be suffering from the effects OF y
|lyouthful follics or indiscretion, will dol
lwell to avail themselves Of this, the great
est boon ever laid at the altar of sufferingf
humanity. Dr. SPINNEY will guaran-
tee to forfeit $500 for every case OF seminal
weakness, or private disease OF any kind
or character, which he undertakes and
falls to cure. He would therefore say toI
the unfortunate sufferer who may read
this notice that you are treading upon
dangerous ground when you longer delay
in seeking the proper remedy for your
complaint. You may be in the first stage
remember you are approaching the last
If you are bordering upon the last. .and are
suffering some or all of Its i'll effects, re-
memb ber that II you persist In procrastina-
tion the time must come when the most
>killful physician can render you no assis-
tance; when the door of hope will be
closed against you; when no angel OF mer-
cy can bring you relief In no case has the
Doctor failed of success. Then let not de-
spair work upon your imagination, bui
avail yourself OF the beneficial results OF
his treatment before y.ur case is beyond
the reach of medical skill, or before grim
deaf h hurries you to premature grave
Full coarse of treatment s25. Send none,
by Post Office Order or Express, with ful
description of case. Call, or address,


DIR. A. h. SPINNEY,


sel0 d&wy No. IL Kearny St, s. T
Year: 1875

A COUPLE or UsEvUL HINrs.-
Very often screw hole gets 30 worn
that the screw will not stay in. Where
tho glue is handy tho regular carpcn.
ter makes the hole larger and CLUES
in n large plug, making a nest for an
eutire new hole. Bat this Is not always
the case. and people without tools
aud in an emergency. have to fix the
thing at once. Generally leather i
Used, but this is so hard that il doe.
not hold we'll. The best of all things
is to cut narrow strips Of cork aud Gl
the hole completely. Then force the
scrow in. This will make Is tight q
job as if driven into an entirely now
hole.


Another hint Of O similar character
may be useful Ono often desires to
put staple into block OF stone -
The hole Is made, the staple inserted,
and load melted and run 10. But
unless the hole is made with the bot
tom larger than the top, the lead will
in time work out, il thero is much jar
or side strain on tho iron. Besides,
the lead is liable to some compression,
which admits Of looseuess, especially
after being subjected to very hot 6rss.
A much better article is sulphur. II
this be melted and poured in around
the staple instead Of lead, IL makes a
much moro durable job, besides. 1t is
ofton more easy to procure sulphur
than lead, as overy store keeps it that
deals in general variety. Am Builder.
Year: 1875

ALONE IN A CAR WITH A LION. -Peo-
pie who have read DIR. Murray's account
of ride in Cur with mad horse may
be able to form slight idea how man
felt on the Ogdensburg road this morning.
A cage of lions or tigers, which was on
its way to the New York and New Or
leans menagerie, now exhibiting south of
here, was placed in one end of the ear,
and zebra was tied in the other end.
The watohman lay down on n BOX and fell
asleep; when he awoke he discovered that
one of the animals had bent the iron bnrs of
its cage, forced its way out and was crouch
ing in the opposite corner. The regular
keeper of the animals was in the sleeping
car at the rear end of the train, and there
was no chance to communicate with him
or with any one outside. The poor
watch man was frightened into motion
less silence and in that awful suspense he
made the long and weary journey to st.
Albans. After the train came to n halt
here, one of the train men. in passing the
car, saw large, cat like nose thrust out
of an opening, and not knvwing that any
ones life was endangered in the car, but
fearing lest the animal should escape,
ran to the sleeping car and aroused the
keeper, who soon appeared, rawhide in
hand, and lashed the beast back into his
den to the immeasurabie relief OF the
poor fellow who had been curled up for
hours ON the box.-S. Adams Messenger.
Year: 1875

A VALUABLE When Eph
w. was elected constable Of township,
il was n sensation to him, and he could
hardly realize it. 1t awakened visions of
war and bloodshed and he determined to
put himself on war footing. Wouldn't
he have to command the peacef And
wouldn't he have To bring the whole
power of the army and navy to effect this
purpose if necessary Then he procured
horse pistol. and securing a copy of a
warrant. and repairing TO the forest, to *
seat under his vine and fig tree. as it
we're, whore none dare molest or make
him afraid, and selecting pine tree a
foot in diameter, he read the document to
il in II loud voice which fairly made the
forest tremble. Hold you scoundrel /!
one foot more. and III blow your brains
out I" Then bang went tho horse pistol,
but he missed the tree every time.
Year: 1875

The marble was pure and white,
Though only block at best,
But the artist, with inward sight,
Looked further than the rest
And saw in the rough, hard stone,
The loveliest statue the sun shone on.
So he set to work with care,


And chiseled form of grace
A figure divinely fair,


With tender and beautiful face
But the blows were hard and fast
That brought from the marble that work


at last.
So think that human lives


Must bear to Gods chisel keen,
If tho spirit ycarns and strives


For the better life unseen.
For mon are only blocks at best,
Till the ehiseling brings out the rest.
Year: 1875

"IF | were in California" said fop,
in company the other evening. "instead
of working in the mines I'd waylay some
miner with bag of gold, knock out his
brains, gather up the gold and run" II
think you would do better to gather up
the brains," quietly responded a young
lady,
Year: 1875

perpetrators of the deed were vel


known. They were among the mos


prominent citizens of the colony, and


some of the younger and more rash 40.


completes had openly boasted of the oc


currence the next day. while the smoke


of the burning vessel yet darkened the
sky. The court of inquiry was COM
posed of the loyalists who we're honest
and earnest in their examination, but
no direct evidence could be obtained
except that of slave, whose testimony
was successfully impeached. ~,


Much has been said in chronicle and
song of later achievement in the ad-
joining province, where a party, dis
guised as Indians, threw over a cargo
of tea, while the captors Of the Gaspee
until a very recent date have remained
almost unknown, unhonored and nm
sung - The Boston tea party have
been lauded for performing an act Of
exalted patriotism and unequaled dar-
ing. But we submit that the seizure
of merchant-man requires less cour-
age than the capture Of a man-of-war,
while the patriotic impulse that would
face undisguised the desperate danger
of the latter enterprise is no less worthy
of historic fame The affair of the
Gaspee is still more deserving of COM
as it was the first bold
blow in all the colonies for freedom and
the earliest blood shed in the war of in
1t was the beginning of
the end. The Revolution had COM
menced.
Year: 1875

little District and its splendid improve
menis, or the whisky rings ofIthe Western
cities, or the managers Of the Erie canal,
which has thus far preserved the Western
trade for the mart of New York, by this
Detective Press. The great railway lines
centering there may. rob the people of mil
lions annually in the shape of exorbitant
freights and fares, and fail to pay their in
ternal revenue taxes; the great coal monop.
olies may combine to keep up the prices of
fuel TO freezing rates upon the starving
poor, and not word of exposure or con-
demnation comes from this pure and unde-
filed press. The spectators in sugar and
molasses may cry out for crushing OF the
struggling patriots of Cuba, and they are at
once seconded by the entire Detective Press
of N ew York, who point with pride to the
millions of revenue which the Treasury is
annually receiving from this trade as
though they were not all squeezed from the
oppressed and over. burdened consumers OF
this country, and we are coolly told that If
the moral force of this great nation is
thrown in favor of a recognition of Cuban
independence, we shall not only lose this
revenue but have war with Spain on our
hands


Does this press suppose that the people
of the United States can be hoodwinked by
such stuff as thisf Does it imagine that
the intelligence of this land does not COM
prehend the fact that the revenue of the
country derived. from importations is an in
direct tax upon the supplies consumed by
the labor ofdhe country3 Or does it for
moment suppose that the same intelligence
cannot discern the difference between the
recognition of a republic and casus belti?


1t is about time that the Detective Press
of New York should pay little attention
to the real rascalities that are constantly
being perpetrated in its midst and under its
own nose in New York, instead Of drawing
upon its gossi p-mongers of other places for
sensational reports of corruptions and. rob-
berries, most of which it is totally unable to
substantiate. The thefts from the revenue
in New York alone are greater annually
than in all the other cities of the country
combined. As they are committed under
the guise and in the name of commerce, the
Detective Press appears to overlook or
justify them. This thing is getting to be
well understood, and it must have an end.
When Secretary Bristow opens his guns on
tie corruptions and revenue stealings Of
New York, we predict there will be such
bowling of the Detective Press, large
portion of which is now loud in his praise,
as was Shylock of the wise young judge of
Venice, as has not been heard since the
days of the New York whisky war of 1867.
The Detective Press was then as dumb as
an oyster over the exposures and seizures
of the metropolitan board until it finally
crushed out the investigations and sent
McHenry to prison and Bailey to exile.
But the great distillers and rectifiers went
unwhipt of justice, as did also the corrupt
revenue agents. They will not come off SO
well with the present Administration. The
day of reckoning is in the near future. Let
the Detective Press watch for it.
Year: 1875

DANA, the Ishmaelite. is doing all he can
to inspire the natural breyado of Spain and
stimulate her to insult and provocation of
war by belittling our navy and abusing
Secretary Robson, Admiral Porter and
Chief Constructor Hanscom. 1t is hardly
to be expected that these gentlemen and
their skillful subordinates can possibly
know as much of the capacity and efficiency
of naval feet as q newspaper editor who
has been engaged forty years in slandering
his fellow men, with a view of converting
them to the doctrines of Fourier. This
great philosopher was eminenuy man of
peace, but his New York apostle has always
q voice for war. Having once been for
short time tolerated in the War Office here
by the great War Minister of Lincoln, he
mastered the arts of land and naval warfare
completely, and is now an acknowledged
authority upon these matters the world
over. Listen to him.