smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1870

There are some men moving about in
this fast age of steam and telegraph. who,


in the due order OF things, sh luld have lived
two hundred Years ago, and then died be-
loved and respected a hundred wears ago.
/, alludng to these honest gentlemen, we
of course allude TO tha, class designated
and known as 'old fogies" composed of
men who are about two centuries-"be the
same more or less as the sale bills have it
behind the times. In this rapid go-ahead
country we ought not to have any of these
individuals, but sorry are we to be con-
strained TO answer that several of them still
inhabt the mundane atmosphere. They
are not, perhaps, iogies exactly. but they
lack spirit and enterprise. They are in
every respect, good citizens; good, honest,
wel-meaning fellows, but the absence of
vim in the physical make up, .erces them
down to the class known as .togies. They
get along very wel-rather slow 20 be sure,
but then it has not cost them the loss of
sleep, or any extra exertion. When you
speak 10 them oftbe future prospects OF the
city, and the ne essity Of developing enter
prises, they agree with you exactly but they
never push They are forever awaiting the
good old times to come again, and if one,
more enterprising than themselves, attempts
TO hasten that time. by pushing, they are
struck with his audacity, and ten chances
to one they will ''throw cold water" upon
the pr iects End hinder him in more ways
than one. If the enterprise shond fail
through their want Of support, they become
distressingly sympathetic. They are ready
with their advice, and can point ont various
ways and places where the taiure came in.
assuring you all the time that they "sold
you So This class OF men are the living
automatons of twenty years ago. They
don't believe in new things--the old-fash-
ioned way of going to mill suits them the
best. They will not help the city themsel-
YES, nor will they allow others to do it. CT
a half dozen of this class of men into n
town and if they do not keep il in the back
ground for at least ten years, it will not bs
their fault.


'I have lost my watch overheard. Is
Year: 1870

Startling theories concerning the
heavenly bodies are not unfrequently
advanced. Among these, is that of
some scientific men, who think that
the planets are all gradually tending
toward the sun, and must, at some
distant period, at least, be rendered
uninhabitable, and meet fiery end.
The following is attributed to writer
in the Edinburgh Reriel1.


1t is absolutely certain that all plan
etary matter is inevitably graviating
toward the sun, which will be the
common bourne of our system. "As
SURELY" eloquently writes Sir VIII
liam Thompson, 'as the weight Of a
clock run down to their lowest posi-
ton, from which they can never rise
again unless fresh energy is commu-
nicated to them from some source not
vet exhausted, so surely must planet
after planet creep in, age by age, to-
ward the sum-" not one can escape It's
fiery end. In like manner the stateli-
est of the planets must inevitably fall
into their respective planets. As, then,
it has been proved by geology that our
earth had fiery beginning, so 1t Is
shown, by an appeal to the laws Of
gravitatiOn, that it will have q fiery
end. The earth passed from
the incandescent into the habitual
state, and will have its individuality
annihilated by falling into the sun, if
it be true that it also is revolving
around some enormously distant cen
ter of attraction.
Year: 1870

ing in our foot! The right leg was
asleep. Limping forth into the open
air, relief came to our heart. The
being out of doors had always an in
eXpressible charm, and never so much
as on Sunday. Away went the wag-
ons. Away went the people. The
whole green swarmed with folks
The long village streets were filled
with company. In ten minutes all
were gone, and the street was given
up again to the birdsl


Little good did preaching do me un-
til after / was fifteen years old-little
good, Immediately. Yet, the whole
Sunday-the peculiar influence which
ii eXerted on the household, the gen.
eral sense of awe which it inspires,
the very rigor of its indifference from
other days, and the suspended anima-
ton of its sermon time, served to pro-
duce upon the young mind a profound
impression. A day that stood out
from all others in hard, gaunt way,
might, perhaps, be justly criticised
But it left its mark. 1t did its work
upon the imagination, ifnot upon the
reason. 1t had power in it: and in
estimating moral excellence, power is
an element of the utmost Importance.
Will our smooth, dry, feeble modern
Sundays have such a grip on the moral
nature? They are far pleasanter.-
Are they as efficacious? Will they
educate the moral nature as much?
Year: 1870

The following is clipped from the
Laws of Life":


Very few ladies know how to ap-
preeiate an easy and healthful dress
Tkey think their dresses are loose,
when a man or boy put into one as
tight would gasp for want of breath
and feel incapable of putting forth an
effort except to break the bands
Ladies are so accustomed to the tight
fits of dressmakers that they "fall to
pieces" when relieved of them They
associate the loose dress with the bed
or lounge. To be up, they must be
stayed up, and to recommend a COM
Portable dress to them is not to meet
conscious want Of theirs


1t is a great pity, none the less. II
they could once know what luxury
it is to breathe deep and full at every
respiration, to feel the refreshment the
system takes in by having the blood
enIfvened and seGt bounding though
the arteries and veins, to have the
aids to digestion such dress gives, to
have their own strong, elastic muscles
keep everything in place and them
selves erect; if they could for while
know this blessed luxury, and then
be sent back into the old, stiff, straight
Jackets, they would fume, and fret and
rave in very desperation if they could
not get rid of them.


AS it is, they prefer to languish and
suffer dreadfully, and die young, and
leave all their friends, and husband,
and their children, and l do not see
any other way than to let them be
sick and die until they are satisfied.
If only the sinner were the sufferer,
it would not be worth while to
make q great ado about it, but the
blight to future innocent lives which
must follow, renders the false habits
of our women in the highest degree
criminal.
Year: 1870

Think not that God hath covered
the hills with their soft, green robe,
or the meadows with their dark, flow
ing grass, interspersed with pure
lilies, for naught but the eye of an
unthinking gazer to look upon.


Every spear or blade of grass hath
its name and nature. Every bud
hath its sweetness, and every flower,
bush and tree hath its separate mis-
sion on earth, and doth fulfil it.
The beautiful harmony of nature
manifests the inanimate love of earth
for the source whence it came. Be
come familiar with the outward
beautiful, and inward beauties of thy
spirit will expand more and more
rapidly, Cultivate n taste for that
which can but elevate thee in the
sight of God and man. Let thy labor
be truthful, and thy reward will be
beautiful as truth understood in puri.
ty. Let thy desire center in that
which should be the desire of every
one on earth, to glorify God by the
elevation of man.
Year: 1870


When one first awakes 70 the fact


that in his natural state he Is inclined
to evil as the sparks to fly upward,
and that he will be lost if he does not
/ change, some anxiety for self is not
only excusable, but is the proper
/ thing, for ithe fear of the Lord is the


beginning of WISDOM" though in
/ this sense il is not the continuation,
nor the end.


When we have found out what to
do to be saved, we go on and do it,
still under this bondage; but after
while we get ashamed Of this soliei-
tude for number one, and become
more interested in the welfare OF 9TH
ers, leaving the Lord to save US as he
thinks best. We know that he will
save us Just as far and just as high as
he ean-though we further know that
he cannot save us at all without our
eonsentand cooperation, having given
us freedom in this matter which he
never violates.


SIS there a crown for me?" 'Is
there harp?n as my place among
the angels?h All this Is unbecoming
and impolite. 1t is as if we rushed
with breathless anxiety up to the peO-
pie who had invited us to a party,
and said. "Will you have ice cream
to night, and will there be some for
me?"


/ do not mean to be irreverent, nor
to shock YOU with what at first might
seem trifiing. Far be it from me to
trifie with these matters, but We are
suffering from kind of sentimental
ism which keeps religion out of our
daily lives, as a thing too delicate to
have any common sense in it; and a
few plain words may be of use to
some. The truth is the Lord can
save US a great deal better while we
are doing something useful, than
while we are thinking about ourselves
or wondering what our prospects for
happiness in the other world are. In
fact, it is only in doing his will that
we can be saved at all, and this does
not mean merely going to meeting.
That is a luxury and recreation, and
getting instruction how to work, and
getting warmth and impulse to
work. 1t is the sixth day that we
must labor and do all our work-On
the seventh we rest.


How smoothly and happily all
things go when we live in accordance
with the Lords laws of order-that is
how smoothly and happily they would
go if we did; and how merciful is the
arrangement that we should run
against something disagreeable and
hurtful if they dsn't go right, for this
is the only way we can learn, and
every trouble saves us from something
worse.


Now friends, let US accept these
great truths:


Action is the law of life-every
kind and all kinds.


I Action in accordance with the
I Lords will is Heaven.
Year: 1870

How TO BE NOBODY.-Young man,
it is easy to be nobody. Go to the
drinking saloon to spend your leisure
time. You need not drink much now
just a little beer, or. some other
drink. In the meantime play
ehequers, dominoes, or something
else to consume time; then you will
be sure not to read any useful book;
or if you do read, let it be the " dime
novels" of the day. Thus go on
keeping your stomach full, head emp
ty, and yourself playing time-killing
games, and in a few years you will be
nobody, unless you should turn out to
be a drunkard or professional gamb-
ier, either of which is worse than to
be nobody.
Year: 1870

The New York Tribune inquiries,
"Where is the beef of the future TO
come from ?" Unless something turns
up that we cannot foresee, the proba-
bility is that the beef of the future,
like the beef of the past, will come
from cattle.
Year: 1870

In consequence Of the crowded condition OF the
Tombs and other district prisons the ma gt,trates OF
the Court OF Special Sessions have resolved Ia hold
extra session. of the court every day th.s week.
Year: 1870

at each and every Public Fair since 1867, (ths
year it was completely where any premium At
all has been given, where its strong points
have been really exhibited


There is this difference: All the Premiums that
the WEED Sewing Machine Company claim, from
Year: 1870

Fticulars Of the Collision on the Ohio aud


HiissisSipDi Railroad.


he Missouri Republican of the 9th instant


the following:-


disastrous railroad collision occurred on the


o and Mississippi Railroad shortly after ~


Ock yesterday morning. The express train
winch left East st. Louis at 15 F. NJ. on Tues-
day collided with train of coal cars. The
collision took place at point four miles west
of Shoals, and about midway between st. Louis
and Cincinnati The coal train consisted of un-
loaded cars, and had been switched off the
track TO leave the latter clear for the express.
The blunder or criminal negligence of
leaving the switch open was, however,
committed, and the express, moving
at a speed of abOut fifteen miles an hour, ran
into the switch and into the coal train. Three
persons were killed and from twelve to fifteen
more or less injured. The express train con-
sisted of five cars; two of which were sleeping
cars, one smoking, and one ordinary passenger.
The engine of the coal train was pretty effectu-
ally demolished; the plates of the boiler were
torn apart and the steam escaping added to the
confusion of the terror-stricken passengers. The
force of the collision was somewhat weakened
by the coal train being driven forward, the cars
being empty, and the engine OF the express was
badly smashed, the tender forced into the bag
gage car, and the smoking and ordinary passen-
ger car telescoped for about one half the length
of the car; the floor and roof of the passenger
car were forced above those of the smoking car,
One poor woman and girl sitting in the pas
senger car were killed instantaneously by the





part of the body. The fireman of the passenger
engine, who was killed, is reported to be
Charles Fredericks. The bodies of the woman
and child killed were left at Shoals names yet
unknown, but believed not to be of St. Louis.
The express messenger is stated to have been
badly injured about the arms, and the baggage
master about the head. Persons in the sleeping
cars were not injured


Some persons who have come from the scene
of the wreck are in doubt whether all the pas
sengers were extricated from under the floor of
the car. The fireman, who was killed. had
scarcely any bruises on him. He was standing
ON the Goals of the tender when the collision
| took place. There is no switchman stationed
| at the side switch, and it was the duty of the
| switchman, who is also head brakeman of the
| coal train, to attend 10 the closing of it. The
engineer of the express escaped. On the disaster
| becoming known the officers of the road made
commendable eXertiOns to relieve the sufferers.
One of the incidents of the collision is that a
lady sitting on the same seat as one who was
killed escaped uninjured"
Year: 1870

The money market continues quiet, and,
though working closely, it is not anticipated
that any serious pressure will be made on the
banks which they will not be able to meet with
a cautious nursing of their available funds. The
legitimate business demand Is gradually falling
off, and no special revival is anticipated during
the balance of the season, unless some active
speculative movement In cotton or breadstuffs
should result from a sudden closing of the waT
in Europe, which is probable.


Rates continue very steady at 51S@611 pei
Year: 1870

-GUSTAVE FLOURENS.


IPROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT


LONDON April 1.-THE House adjourned on Tues
day for the Easter Holidays. If its right to vaca-
ton depended on good conduct fear it would have
had TO 90 on with its sittings. 1t is hard to say
whether the House itself the public is more dis
satisfied with the session thus far. Never was such
a lot of work cut out for Parliament as the Queens
speech this year promised. Never did House ad-
ourn at Easter with 50 little work done. Mr. Bright
knew best That speech at Birmingham about the
omnibuses begins to read like a prophesy full
filed We all thought it very desponding. 1t
proves to have been merely prudent. The omnl-
buses that started at such lively pace for the
journey through Temple Bar--where are theyf Not
one of them in sight of its journeys end. -Four out
of the six have not even started OF the
Land bill there is nothing better to be
said than / said ten days ago. The Education
bill which Mr. Forster believed would go through
in canter sticks fast The bill for aboshing Uni
versity tests has not even been brought IN The
Trades Union BILL the Licensing BILL the Ballot
where are theyi This session, Mr.. Gladstone told
the world, was to witness the accomplishment of a
great act of justice TO Ireland. After the Church,
the Land But the sole vet passed is an act
of the most shameful injustice to Ireland and to the
Liberal cause the world over. In place of the
benefcent relief promised to the tenant the Govern
ment has driven through with whip and spur o
measure of unscrupulous oppression directed against
the press which ventures to state its own views OF
Irish policy.


AS was natural and fitting, the adjournment was
accomplished in the midst of q wrangle 1t is the
fourth within ten days. and all the four quarres
have related to the conduct of business. Sir Wford
Lawson, the Parliamentary champion Of the Tenn
perance party-whch you must not suppose To DO q
Total Abstinence party-c0mplained bitterly and
justly that the Government, after having got nd OF
his bill by promising to bring in one OF their own,
had not kept their promise. Mr.. Bruce could only
say that he had found it tougher subject To deal
with than he had expected, but that he had not al
together given up the hope of introducing tho bill
this session. That is a Parliamentary way OF say
ing that its passage is utterly out of tho question.
Mr. Benal Osborne thought the Government had
attempted too much, but Mr.. Mundella went straight
TO The point with his remark that the block in
minority Mr. Disraelis tactics plain enough,
and they have two objects The first is TO delay the
Land Bill TO 80 late period in the session that the
Government shall be forced in ORDER to secure its
passage in some shape, 10 consent tO amendments In
favor of the landlords. The second purpose has
grown ont of the opposition developed no strongly
and unexpectedly among the lDssenters 10 Mr..
Forsters Education bill TO that bill in its original
shape, the Tories, following for the lead Of Sir
John PakingtOn, consented. LIKE the Land bill, it
was 50 much less radical than they feared. that they
Year: 1870

three hundred miles east of Portland,
and might lengthen that branch road,
| it would do no possible good. The:
danger apprebended on this point is
entirely imaginary, and no gentleman
familiar with the the country would
have raised it in honest opposition to
the resolution. / do not suppose it
WAS raised for any bad purpose, but
from ignorance Of the character Of the
country.
have single remark to make In
regard to one other point, and that is
this: it is claimed by many gentlemen
that the interests of the people wing
in the region Of country traversed by
this road requires restriction as to the
price of the land and the time of it's
sale and the quantity to be sold to.
each person. It is feared that this.
company will resist the claims of set
tiers and oppress them.


MIR. Speaker, along the line of this,
road, in Washington Territory, in Or
egon, and in Idaho, and I will ven
ture to say in Montana, though have
no positive knowledge, there cannot
be found an individual who is not
anxious to have that road built on
such terms as are offered here. The
people who are directly interested ARG
willing that the grant should be made
as provided for in this joint resolution.
The men who live isolated from civili-y
Zation and commerce are pot those
who complain of these Land grants;-
but, as has already been well said, the
opposition comes from gentlemen
whose constituents have been hereso.-
fore gorged by land grants. Having
secured all they want, they very un-
graciously oppose extending like fa-
vors to others. The actual settlers.
present and prospective, will not thank
these gentlemen who thus misrepre-.
sent them. They want these roads :.
the country through which they are to
run is of little value without them
This proposition Will secure the con-
struction of these roads, so much
needed, and for which our people will
have reason to be thankful, and the
building of which no one will ever re-
gret.


Mr.. COBURN. ask the gentle
man from Oregon whether he will vote
for an amendment to this joint reolu-
ton to fix the point of departure of
the branch road at a point not more
than four hundred miles east of the
western terminus of this road?


Mr.. SMITH, of Oregon. 1 would
do so most cheerfully if it were not for
sending this joint resolution back to
the Senate, although, for the reasons
have stated, there is no necessity for
1T. / will state again to the gentle
man that the character of the country
is such as to offer no temptation to the
company to increase the length of it's
branch for the sake of additional land.


Mr.. COBURN. The question is
not what the gentleman states, but
the question we have is what construc-
ton will be put upon this language.
Mr.. SMITH, of Oregon. I will
vote, after this joint resolution passes,
for resolution fixing the point of de-
Iparture at not more than four hun
. dred miles east of Portland, if it is
thought desirable; but I know it is
not necessary.
Year: 1870

Josh Billings says: Menny peo-
pie spend their time in trying to find
the hole whar sin got into the world.
If two men break through the ice into
a mill pond. they had better hunt for
some good hole to git out, rather than
git into a long argument about the
hole they fell in"
Year: 1870

1.-The fact is" said an orderly wife,
ga man does not know how to straight
en- up things. He does not know
where to commence! do not WON
der, that when God made Adam that
he went right to work and made wo-
man to tell him what to do"
Year: 1870

AN old bachelor geologist was boast
ing that every rock was as familiar to
him as the alphabet. A lady present
declared that she knew a rock of which
he was wholly ignorant.


"You don't say-iust name it. mad
am" p"


s'It is the rock of the CRADLE" she
replied.
Year: 1870

Professor Agassis says that men
can train themselves SO as to acquire
the tact of breathing under water
We know of men who manage very
uccessfully the feat of always breath
lug under whiskey.
Year: 1870

In this city the demand for money is fully up
to the average but with good supply at the
banks ana the outside sources no difficulty Is
experienced in flling all wants, both for speeu-
latiye and business purposes. The demand
from legitimate trade is exceptionally light,
even for this dull season of the year. Very
little money is going either towards the South
or West, the outflow in these directions being
Year: 1870

See the rivers flowing


Downward 10 the sea,
Pouring sll their treasures


Bountifil and free:
Yet to help their giving


Hidden springs arise;
Or. IL need be. showers


Feed them from the skies /!
Watch the princely flowers
Their rich fragrance spread,
Load the air with perfumes
From their beauty shed
Yet their lavish spending


Leaves them not In dearth.
With fresh life replenished


BY their mother earth I!
Give thy hearts best treasure
From fair nature earn;
Give thy loye-and ask not,


Wait not q return I!
And the moro thou spendest


From thy little store.
With Q double bounty,


God will give thee more!
Year: 1870

INGENIOUS FIRE EscAPE.-Another fire
escape was placed on exhibition at the Sher-
man House yesterday afternoon. The appa-
ratus seemed to consist simply of Manila
rope about an inch in diameter, one end of
which was securely fastened upon the roof of
the hotel, on Randolph street, while the other
end was held taut upon the ground by two or
three men across the street. At length the


operator appeared on the cornice with stout


leather belt under his arms, the belt attached


to brass tube, the latter having been prrvi-


ousiy "threaded" upon the rope. Having
cleared himself OF the cornice, the man swung
off the giddy height and began descending the
oblique lope with fearful rapidly. Suddenly
be placed his hand upon a lever attached to
the outer surface of the tube, which e.idently
operated clamp upon the rope inside, and
his progress Was at once checked, he being
then in front OF one OF the fifth story windows.
The rope being slackened from below, he
swung in towards the window, stepped upon
the sill, and disappeared inside. In moment
he reappeared AMI resumed his descent, this
time having companion, a lady, also belted
to the apparatus. BY means OF the lever the
two came leisurely down, and landed fairly
upon their feet in the middle of the street
An immense concourse OF people had assem-
bled to witness the performance, the success.
full termination OF which was greeted with en-
thusiastic shouts Of appproval.-CMcago Tfi-
bunp