smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1873

A Detroiter named Andrew Steadnan
who buys cattle, deals In hides and oc-


casionally makes dollar by buying and


selling produce, went out to buy span
of heavy horses which were wanted by


firm in the city. Upon reaching the


farmers house he found that the man


was working with neighbor mile


away To save the distance he cut


across lots, but was warned before he


started to look out for savage bovine
which had the run of ten acre field.


Thinking of how he was going to get


that span of horses for $50 less than


their value, Steadman kept plodding
across the field, which had strip of


bushes two or three rods wide running


half way across it. There were a few


stumps and logs, one small tree, but


nothing which prevented any one from


crossing the strip. The Detroiter was


about tehsrods fromthe bushes when he


heard IA distant thunder sound" and


looked around to see from which way


the shower was coming. About thirty
rods away he beheld the old bovine
coming for him, head down, back up
and eyes blazing. Steadman was salts
fled that he was the man who wanted to


be making the gravel fly, and he went
for the bushes. He thought the bull


would stop and run around the strip,
and was startled when the old fellow
dashed through them on his trail UTTER
ing deep 'boomn' every instant.
Steadman lodged this way and that, but
the bovine tore along after him, smash
ing bushes and leaping logs, and it was
getting to be red.hot affair when the
man spied the open end of a large hol-
low log. The bull was not more than
forty feet behind, and into the log he
went, finding an orifice about twenty
feet long, land large enough to be roomy.
The bovine had seen the movement and
stopped at the log and ripped of . BUSH
ell of bark at the first DASH; Then put
ting his horns under it he gave it a roll
and Steadman spun around like dried
pea in policeman's whistle. The log
was large, but old and tender, and every
time the bull hauled back and jumped
it he covered himself with glory and
clouds of bark and dust. Sometimes he
whirled one END, and then gave the CEN
ter heave, and then he knocked foot
off the other end. Steadman swore
shrieked and plead, his eyes full of bark
and his mouth stopped up, and every
act of his life passed before him like a
vision. "W-o-o-h! whoop" beloved
the bovine as he slammed away at the
Jog, and every moment Steadman ex-
pected to see the roof cave in on him.
He was in despair when he heard the
barking Of dogs and the shouts of men,
and after few minutes the farmers
succeeded in, releasing him, but it took
a good hour to get the kinks out OF his
back and'the rotten wood from his ears
and eyes.-Detroit Free Press. q,
Year: 1873

ness by moral suasion goes on at a mar
velous rate. His work commenced in
behalf Of the men alone; but he has
now begun to save the many women who,
in a great city, also fall into the vice OF
intemperance. He recently brought to-
gether in place known as Newsome' 9
circus, about fifteen hundred women and
girls who gained their living by hawking
wares through the city. Never before
we're there so mary bare-headed women
brought together in the city, and for two
hours they were kept perfectly happy by
excellent music and n fund Of appropri-
ate amusement. After that he spoke to
them upon temperance. while they lis
tened to him with patience, aud seemed
10 be much impressed.
Year: 1873

THREE ATTEMPTS AT BURGLARY ! ester
day morning it was discovered that during
the night an attempt had been made to enter
the storehollse Of Spots Il Gibson, on Four
teenth street near Cary. A bar across the
tranSom over the back door was broken and
an attempt made to enter. The thief was
probably frightened of by some movement
of the young man who slept in the store.
An attempt was then made to enter the store
of jenkins. CaperS, Il Co., next door TO
SPOTS d Gibson, by prizing OF bar that
crossed q rear window. No entrance was
made, but small hat-rack and tin letter.
box were found IN the alley, and had proha-
bly, been obtained by reaching hand
through the window. Though the burglar
seems to have been frightened away, he
made another attempt to obtain booty by
going further down the street to the corner
of Fifteenth and Cary.


At the back of the warehouse of a. !.
Stokes & Co. Il graLing-p place, to give light
into the cellar, was pulled up and the rogue
descended, broke the iron window-barS, and
passed into the cellar The floor was damp,
and tracks of bare feet were found yesterday
morning from the window to the dumb
waiter, and on it. Br help of the waiter he
ascended to the first floor. Nothing has yet
been missed from this house, but the exit of
the thief seems to have been deliberate. He
passed out through the side door, locking it
on the outside, and leaving the key in the
door. These attempts were probably MADE
between 3 and O'Clock A. NJ, us everything
is known to have been right at A. M.
Year: 1873

THE NEW POSTAL CARDS UNDER THE LATE POS
TAI law-useful, serviceable, and cheap. The all
vcristr can fill the lack Of the cards with any
printed announcement he may wish to make public,
and send them through the mail for only one ceni.
Can be printed at this office at low rates.
Year: 1873

PREPARING TO BUILD.--Workmen are now
engaged on the vacant lot at the corner OF
Ninth and Franklin streets In digging a
foundation for the new building about to be
erected by the Wheeler & Wilson Company.
Year: 1873

TIE NEW POSTAL CARDS-very useful for bust.
ness purposes Cards or announcements of any
kind printed on them will pass through the mail for
one cent. Printing for these car'is neatly and
cheaply done ut this Office
Year: 1873

A first rate story is told of a very
prominent man, who lived in De-
troit forty years ago, and who at that
| time owned more steamboat stock
than any other man in the Western
country, besides other wealth to q
large amount.


Like many of the pioneers who
acquired great riches, he was very
! ignorant in all that books taught,
but his learning was more like wis
dom; and in common with many
who lived and passed away he knew
what tree would make shingles by
looking at it.


He had at the time of our story,
just completed a splendid new ware
house at Buffalo, and wanting q
suitable clerk to take charge Of it,
he advertised for one in the papers;
Next morning early a candidate for
the position presented himself-a
rather too fiashy man in appearance
when the following conversation
occurred:


Young man when you make q
mistake in any Ofyour books, how
| do you correct it,"
The young man explained in q
very prOfuse manner, how he should
proceed to make it all right.


"A good way, no doubt, to'dO it,"
replied the old man; "but | shan't
want YOU"


Very soon another aspirant put in
his appearance. A similar question
was asked him, and in a long and ell
oquent manner he pointed out the
remedy in all such cases.


All the reply was, ''Young man, /
shan't want you"


Some three or four others drop
ped in during the day, and to each
the same question was put, and they
all had some smart way of covering
up errors in their books.
The old gentleman was entirely
| ignorant himself Of the art of book
keping but he had wisdom in al
things, which is NOPE than a match
for learning.


Just after the close of the day, a
plainiy-dressed man, with a bright
eye and brisk step, called for the
situation.


Take a seat sir" said the old
gentleman. Il want to ask you lust
one question. When you make a
false entry on the books, how do
| you 90 to work to correct it:''
Turning upon his questiOner a
cold, sharp look, the young man re-
| piled: 81 don't make those kind Of
mistakes, sir"


! "Ah! my dear sir, YOU are Just
the man have been looking for all
day." and in a few moments after,
the man who corrected his blunders
by not making them, was installed
| in the Office.
Year: 1873

The following Card, isays the
Mobile Register,) addressed "To the
Medical Profession" has been sent
US by friend in Savannah. It was
published in the papers OF that sec
tion by medical gentleman who, in
answer TO numerous enquiries,
gives a synoptical statement OF his
treatment of meningitis, that terri
BILE disease which appears to be
spreading throughout the country.
The author of the card states that
this treatment should not be en-
ployed by any one but a skillful
physician, as to such this communi-
cation is addressed. We give il
below for what it is worth, without
endorsement or cOmmendatiOn:


To THE MEDICAL PROFESSION.
The following treatment, which
has been employed by me since the
winter of 1928, with uniform sue
cess in all cases where the treatment
has been instituted within twenty
four hours after the development of
the prominent symptoms: In the
first place discard all ideas Of this
disease being an infiammatOry af'ec-
tion of the brain and spinal cord !;
saturate a flannel (fofded several
times) with spirits of turpeutine-
apply this along the whole course of
the spine, pass over this after the
ordinary mode of ironing, a COM
mon sad or smoothing iron well
heated. Continue this for ten or
fifteen minutes until you have well
stimulated the spine. In the mean
time give quinine III heroic doses,
to be repeated every two hours until
all symptoms are overcome. Fol
low each dose of quiniAe with q
heavy dose of bromide of potassium
combined in solution with an ordi-
nary dose of solid extract Hyoscya-
mus. The object of bromide is 10
control reflex action, and the doses
should be regulated according TO
the head and spinal symptoms, as
this is dependent on electro-mOnic
changes in the periphery of the
nerves; from this the action of the
mOdHS Operdndt of the quinine and
bromide will be readily understood
by the intelligent physician under
no circumstances use fly blister or
opiates in the outset OF this disease (;
avoid all cold applications to the
head and spine. When constipation
exists, which is generally the case,
use large doses of calomel every
three hours until the bowels act
freely. Physicians can rely on this
treatment when instituted in time.
Year: 1873

a great many things may be well
done provided that only one thing
at q time is attempted.


Many active, energetic people sui
fer their lives to waste, simply be-
cause they are without method OF
any kind. True, they are busy, and
fussy and fidgetty, and full TO the
bursting with all manner of plans
and projects; but while agonizing
with the pains of parturition, they
seldom bring any matters of impor-
tance to birth. They should recoI-
lect that good deeds are not pro-
duced in litters, but are laid down
On a solid basis, after the order
of steps, ascending toward the
summit of a pyramid.


As q rule, the great thing to be
done is that of immediate. present
duty. 1t should be done to-day
and not be postponed until to-mor.
row. 1t should be done now, and
not when one feels more like try
ing il. Thy body is lazy, the mind
is often sluggish; but to will is to
do. The will has imperial force in
men of will, who firmly resolve to
rule themselves, aud so far as they
can all the circumstances surround
ing them


Few things worthy of being done
can be done, can be accomplished
without hard work. ShiftIess peo-
pie are cowardly. They shrink
from contest with difficulty or hard
ship. They run fer refuge 10 the
quicksand of idle hope.


Full of wishes, they imagine that
somehow luck will fill their hands
with benefits. And so they dream
and wonder how others get along,
and why they do not. Life doses
oHt nothing but stagnation and de-
cay for all such cowardly spirits
that dare not compete for the pri-
Zes of diligent industry.


Hard work grows easy and be-
comes a pleasure to all who have
felt the stimulous of its medicinal
charms. One task well done makes
the next lighter. The ancient Sy-
racusian who began by carrying the
calf, found himself able to carry the
full grown bullock with ease. zone
thing at a time and courage" these
make life pleasant and fruitful.
Year: 1873

A correspondent of the Boston
Daily News thus calls attention to
the pin factory in Winsted, Conn,
which turns out two million pins a
day:


1 wonder some poetical genius
has not immortalized himself before
now rehearsing in heroic verse the
exploits of one of these leaping,
laughing streams, as it goes rushing
down from its source in the noun
tain tops to the peaceful bosom of
the Connecticut. There is no end to
the versatility of its operations, and
no limit to the amount of its pro-
! duct. Take, for an instance, the
stream that goes down the gorge by
Winsted and CollinsVille. In a single
mile, as it tumbles through Win
sted, it is made to elaborate an end
less variety of articles to be distrib-
uted all over the land. Not the least
interest of its operation here is the
production OF two million of pins
every day. 1t used to be said that
there were twenty trades to make
a pin; but here is a little machine
not two feet square, which, set in
motion by the falling stream, with
out the touch of human hands, takes
the wire from a reel on one side,
and turns out perfectly finished and
polished pins on the other side, at
the rate of105 per minute, 5000 per
hour, or 10000 per day. Forty of
these machines in the little chamber
turn out two million per day. The
most curious part of this machinery
is for sticking them in papers. tits
net permitted to anybody to see it,
and of course it can only be known
by its works. We are told that the
pins are thrown by the bushel into a
hopper, helter-skelter, and the
machine straightens them out, pa
rades them in in regular ranks
of twenty each, crimps the strips of
paper for them, punches them into
it, and send them along. We can
only see the strips as they come
down through crevice in the cell
ing with their battallions all in reg
ular order, without touch of hand.
The chief manuel labor of the whole
process is putting them up in gross
es for market.


One would think the world would
be pinned all together; but thanks
to somebody's carelessness, they say
the demand is increasinUl
Year: 1873




ny JOHN G. sAXE.
saw her last night at party,


(The elegant party at Meade
And looking remarkably hearty


For widow so young in her weeds;
Yet know she was suffering sorrow


Too deep for the tongue to express
or why had she chosen to borrow


So much from the language Of dress:
Her shawl was as sable as night,


And her gloves were as dark as her shawl
And her jewels-that flashed in the light
Were as black as funeral pail;
Her robe had the hue Of the rest,


(How nicely it fitted her shapeD
And the grief that was heaving her breast
Boiled over in billows Of Grape.
What tears of vicarious woe,


That else might have sullied her face,
Were kindly permitted to now


In ribbons Of ebony lace.
While even her fan in its play,


Had quite lugubrious scope,
And seemed to be waving away


The ghost of the angel of Hope,
Yet rich as the robe of queen,


Was the sombre apparel she wore;
I'm certain never had seen


Such a sumptuous sorrow before;
And couldn't help thinking the beauty,
In mourning the loved and the lost
Was doing her eoDjugal duty


Altogether regardless Of cost.
One surely would say such devotion


Performed at so vast an expense,
Betrayed an excess Of emotion


That really was something immense;
And yet as viewed, at my leisure,


Those tokens Of tender regard,
thought 1t was scarce without measure;
The sorrow that goes by the yard.
All! grief is a curious passion;


And your's-I am sOrely afraid,
The very next phase Of the fashion


Will find 1t beginning to fade;
Tho dark are the shadows of grief,


The morning will follow the night,
Half-tints will betoken relief


Till joy shall be symboled in white
All! we'll it were idle 10 quarrel


With fashion, or aug.ht she may do;
And so l conclude with a moral


And metaphor-warranted new
When measles come handsomely yui,
The patient Is safest, they say
Aud the sorrow is mildest, no doubt


That works in a similar way
Year: 1873

The funding party at Nashville
propose to compel the people of Ten
nessee TO pay in forty years three
hundred per cent. interest alone and
leave at the end Ofthat time the prin-
cipal of the debt unpaid. The inter
est to be paid under the proposed
plan of the funding party will be


sixty millions on a debt Of twenty
one millions. On. how the people
will appreciate the kindness of those
who thus protect them.-AUGLaache
Year: 1873

e. Que OF the most heartless,
soulless provisions proposed by any
member of the present Legislature
TO any law. Is that providing that no
child shall be allowed TO attend
school until its father has paid his
poll tax. We believe it the duty of
every citizen to promptly pay his
taxes, but if a man fails to do so.
who that has any soul at all would
think of depriving his innocent
child of the privilege of free school
education as punishment to the
father? 1t is a monstrOus PROPOSE
ton, unworthy of this civilized age
1t will not become a law, to the
credit of the Legislature be it said
-HRorriLe Chronicle.
Year: 1873

In a long and able resume of the
principal events in the career of
Louis Napoleon, in which he is set
down as cautious and sagaeious to
large degree, though inferior to his
uncle in prOmptness of intuition
and efficiency of execution, the Lon
don Standard says:


''The free italian monarchy is the
creation of the Emperor, and, in a
sense, of the Emperor alone-seeinp
that without CaVour must have died
with his life's work undone, and
Garibaldi would have been crushed
and hanged at the first step. And
surely no modern prince has left so
grand a monument behind him.
Two monuments as glorious would
have perpetuated his fame but for
the fatal opposition of Great Bri-
tain. But for us, France would
have interposed at the critical mo-
ment to assure the independence of
the Confederate States; but for us
the Emperor Macmillan would be
reigning over a regenerate Mexico;
two great countries rescued from
misery, two more rising States ad-
ded to the family Of nations, would
have given to the restorer of Italy a
new claim on the respect of history
and the gratitude of mankind"
Year: 1873

When any one was speaking i'll OF
another in the presence of Peter the
Great, he at first listened TO him at
tentively, and then interrupted him.
"Is there not" said he, "a fair side
also to the character of the person
of whom you are speaking? Come,
tell me what good qualities you re-
marked about him."
Year: 1873

Gifted with noble tendency to climb.
Yet weak at the same time,
Faith is a kind of parasitic plant
That grasps the nearest stem with tend Il rings;
And as the climate and the soil may grant,
50 is the sort Of tree TO which It clings.


Thomas Hosd.
Year: 1873

He that hath light within his own dear breast,
May sit fthe center and enjoy bright day;
But he that hides q dark soul and foul thought,
Benighted walks under the midday sun.


-Hiifon.
Year: 1873

Which Is Bestg
This world is dark and dreary.
When we make it so;
This world is bright and cheerful
When we take it so.
Our friends are cold and distant
Wiener we doubt them;
Our friends are true and loving
Wiener we trust them.
Is't best to live in the dark,
Doubling day by day,
Or live III the light of Love,
Trusting day by day7
Year: 1873

of ice one-half of the crew sup
ported life for six months by shoot
ing seals. The other half, after
wintering in huts built with spars
of the disabled vessel, put to sea in
canvas boats, by happy streak OF
good fortune have lived to tell the
tale, are now in the enjoyment of
good health, and on the other side
Of The Atlantic await a passage
home.


Any doubts existing as to the
cause of Capt. Halls death will
now be entirely set at rest. Capt
Buddington will, doubtless, be sub
iected to close examination on the
part of the Secretary of the Navy,
and if there is any secret to be di-
vulged we shall soon be enabled to
get at the truth Of it.
Year: 1873

1t turns out, after all that the
meanest man is not the man we re-
ferred to the other day, who split
up his first wife's tombstone. Bur-
rows is even meaner than he. Bur-
rows was an inveterate tobacco
chewer, but his wife detested the
practice and made home tempestu-
Gus and stormy for him when he
INDUCED in the habit there, he al
ways chewed when away during
the day, and declared to his wife
that he had stopped permanently.
But one evening, upon entering the
front door and drawing out his
handkerchief, he accidently pulled
out his paper of tobacco, and with
out noticing it, left it laying on the
floor. When Burrows sat down to
his tea his wife walked in with the
tobacco in her hand, looking
Burrows firmly in the eye, and
said: "Do you know who that be-
longs to-" With great presence OF
mind Burrows turned scowling to
his oldest boy and said, with a Sc
we're voice: "Immortal Mars Is
it possible that you have begun to
chew tobacco, you young reprobate!
Where'd you get that nasty stuff
What a. you mean by such conduct
you young villian9 Haven't l told
you often enough to let tobacco
alone! Commere to me, or I'll teal
the jacket off you" And as he
spoke the stern father made grab
at the boy and dragged him out in
the entry, where he chastised him
with q cane. Then Burrows threw
the tobacco over the fence, where he
went out and got it the next morn
ing and enjoyed it during the day
"Merciful Moses J" he exclaimed
when he told us about it, "what
would l have done if my children
had all been girls 1t makes an
old fathers heart glad when he feels
that he has boy he can depend OF
in such emergencies"
Year: 1873

A strange story comes from Ohio


During a thunder storm few days


since, a large oak tree in the Mi


ami Valley was struck by lightning


and rent from top to bottom. In


falling apart the fragments disclos-


ed a skeleton, yellow with age,


which instantly fell to pieces and


scattered over several feet of
ground. With the remains was
found few buttons of ancient pat
tern and a leather pocket-book well
preserved. The book contained
papers which discovered the secret
of the entombed skeleton. The re-
mains were those of Roger Wander
berg, captain in the Revolution
airy army and an aid to General
Washington. After participating
in the privation of Valley Forge
and the retreat across the Jerseys
he marched with st. Clair againt
the Northwestern Indians. On
Nov. 8, 1871, he was wounded
and captured, but managed to es-
cape, and being closely pursued,
took refuge in this oak tree. The
hollow gave him hiding place, and
to make his retreat still more Sc
cure from observation he allowed
himself to drop into it. He had
mistaken its depth and when too
late discovered that he was walled
n and without the possibility Of es-
cape. He spent the remaining
hours of his life in writing an ac-
count of the manner of his impris-
onment and also his sufferings as
he felt himself starving to death.
1t is supposed that he must have
lived about eleven days. Now af-
ter nearly century has elapsed his
secret is disclosed by an accident,
and the story of his death given to
the world.