smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1873

We clip the following from the Portland
Argus: A young Maine man, who is engaged
in the Commercial travelling" business for
Chicago house, was travelling out in the far
West, when he was taken possession of on the
train by two men, who simply informed him
that they were officers and wanted him. He
expostulated, explained, demanded explana-
tions, &C., but all in vain. No one on the
train knew him, and there were those who did
know the officers. All that he could get out
ofthem was that he was the man they wanted.
In this way he was taken some ninety miles
into the interior. Upon arrival he had no
longer to remain in ignorance of his supposed
ofense, the whole village being out to welcome
him with such cries as Here's the d-n horse
thief, caught at last. Let's string him up"


The officers made some show Of resistance,
but the excited mob took possession Of their
victim and marched him into town, near the
centre of which moose was already strung
over the limb of tree. Our friend thought
it was all up with him sure. Expostulation
was received with derision. Everybody rec
ognised him as notorious horse-thief, whose
depredations had been continued and extern
sive A horse.thief in that section is looked
upon as something worse than an average
murderer. There was not plying eye in
the crowd, and the universal howl was, "Lynch
himw He tried to pray, but the commercial
travelling business had ruined him for praying
While waiting under the moose happy
thought struck him! His Masonry! He is
a Royal Arch Mason! y


. In all that crowd there must be Masons.
He gave the grand hailing signal Of distress.
We are not at liberty to explain how it was
given, for several reasons, the chief of which
is, we don't know. But he gave it, and in an
instant one of the foremost citizens of the town
sprung to his side and gave some more Ma
sonic signals, and the prisoner was quickly
surrounded by twenty or thirty determined
men, who held the crowd at bay with drawn
pistols. Our friend explained to the leading
man who he was. They organized commit.
tee of investigation, telegraphed to Cairo and
verified all his statements, and the brutal mob
skunk away heartily ashamed. Our friend
was made as comfortable as possible by his
Masonic friends, but he says he never expert
enced such intense anxiety as he had when he
stood under the moose.
Year: 1873

sssH A loving heart and pleasant counte.
nance are commodities which man should
never fail to take home with him. They will
best season his food and soften his pillow. 1t
were a great thing for man that his wife and
children could truly say of him: qHe never
brought frown of unhappiness across his
threshold"
Year: 1873

They stood at the garden gate,


By the lifting of lid
She might have read her fate


In little thing he did.
lie plucked n beautiful flower,


Tore it away from its place
On the side Of the blooming bower
And held it against her face.
Drank in its beauty and bloom,


In the midst of his idle talk;
Then cast it down in the gloom


And dust of the garden walk.
Ay, trod it under his foot,


As it lay in his pathway there;
Then spurned it away with his boot,
Because it had ceased to be fair.
An the maiden might have read
The doom of her young life then;
But she looked in his eyes instead,
And thought him the king of men.
She looked in his eyes and blushed;
She hld in his strong arms fold;
And the tale of the flower, crushed
And spurned was once more told.
Year: 1873

II strikes the most Of persons. when
they first sit dow 10 Sewing Machine,
that it is so complicated they Hill never
be abe to learn its operation. This i.
true Of many machines, but . single days
use Of the New Howe Machine with
the instruction that 10 easily obtained
will enable any lady to make a good be-
ginning. aud few days practice will
make it pleasant employment. Oi
course in this. As in any other work. prac.
tice is needful to reach perfection. Sew.
ing With the needle in the fingers is no,
learned in day. and years are required
to become an expert. Bat q few weeks
use Of the New Howe Sewing Machine
will enable any lady to do oil her plain
sewing. and to do it we'll. and soon her
fine sewing with far more success than
with her needle. and leave her plenty OF
time for everything else she may have on
hand. Call aud see these world d-renowned
Machines. or take one on trial Of the
Agent. Mr.. G. 4. Simms, Leonard
town.
Year: 1873

LOUISVILLE, Oct. 2S.-The Senatorial
Transportation Committee arrived to-day
and were received by the Board of Trade
Committee. During the afternoon they in
spected the canal. Tonight the Committee
is in session at the Gait House obtaining in


formstion from the officers of the Louisville
and Portland Canal concerning the status
of that work and hearing of commercial
statistics from the Board of Trade Com
mittee. The Committee will meet again
for business tomorrow morning and de-
part on the afternoon train for St. Louis,
where they will disband for the present..
Year: 1873

A Washington letter to the New York
Sun relates an incident connected with the
sus pension of the First National Bank OF
the former city which shows that q banking
house Of the highest p:etensions at the Fed
eral capital, enjoying the special patronage
of the Administration, can sometimes stoop
TO practices which are as discreditable as
the tricks of Peter Funk
auction-sbop or an old-time wild cat bank.
A staff officer Of the army went TO the
First National Bank about noon on the day
of its suspension, but before any intimation
had been given that it was not
perfectly sound, and deposited about
5000. The money was counted
and received, and the depos'tor congratu-
lated himself that bis money was safely
lodged in the keeping of those renowned
bankers the Cookies, who by the extraor-
dinary favor Of several administrations had
amassed fortune of many millions out of
nothing. The officer went down the stair
case, followed by the jsnitor, who immedi-
d.ately began to close the doors. The OFF,
Ger asked why he did this, and the janitor
replied that he was only obeying orders.
Alarmed by this sign, he returned up stairs,
demanded his money, and was answered,
"It is too late" The Suns letter adds:
"The lips of that officer are sealed, but
they may be opened by Congressional in
vestipatiou1
Year: 1873

In order to prevent the possibility of such
q case as that of the TichbOrne claimant
ever again recurring, it is said that early
next session bill will be introduced into
the British Parliament to the effect that if
any presumed heir to property should leave
the country, and through any eccentricity or
other cause purposely abstain from making
bis existence known, be shall be looked
upon, after the lapse Of certain number OF
years, as dead in the eyes of the Law, the
property TO go to the next of kin.
Year: 1873

Prince Bismarck has been re-appointed
President of the Prussian Ministry, in place
of Gen. Won Room. It is understood his
restoration to the post carriers with it the
effective control Of the whole Cabinet,
which he demanded previous TO his resigna-
ton some time ago.
Year: 1873

OF the five hundred or six hundred de-
positOrs in the banking house of Jay
Cooke & Co., al but about thirty have
signed plan agreeing TO place the settle
ment in the bands of the Commissioners
of Internal Revenue, Rollins. These
thirty are either distant from the city or
cannot at present be reached.
Year: 1873

The Courant calls on Theodore Thomas for lighter music at his concert in Hart ford. The heathen musical critic says:

 And, after listening respectfully to his classic concerts which fifty people in the audience understood and enjoyed. and two hundred thought they enjoyed, ?: we we give delight to all-in fact, such a pro- gramme as he plays at Central Park Gar den, or did play there every day of the week.
Year: 1873

The Salisbury News comments as fol- lows on the management of the Connecti- cut Western Railroad

 If the trains on this road would run at such times that it would be for the advan- tage of people to ride on them, the man agement wouldn't be compelled to resort to reduction of the working force of the road to keep their head above water.
Year: 1873

It is the singing at Plymouth church which draws people there, and not the preaching. People come there they go to Barnums because the papers rep in and sit down, looking around queerly rise, and they look as they expected would turn somcrsaut next. give out hymn and they keep looking for something which never comes. And when tho great volume of sound strikes them they look around to all the books open and everybody singing At the ond verse the tears begin to You the hymn knocked them over fairly, better than sermon and why not?
Year: 1873

WHEN an advertisement is inserted IN
the APPEAL, signed by a fictitious sig
nature, and answers to which are to be
addressed care Of this office, we viii in
no case reveal the name of the sdver-
tiser or give any Information whatever
about the advertisement. This has been
an imperative rule Of this office for
years, and has been followed strictly,
but as so msuy apply at our business de
partment every day to gain some in
formation on this interdicted subject, We
give this public notice, in the hope that
in the future everybody may know that
a fictitious signature to an advertise
ment is sacred with US, and that in no
case will we reveal the name Of the ad-
r-arrfcGr
Year: 1873

MICHIGAN CITY, IND, August To-
This morning while Chas. A. Manning,
deputy warden of the prison, and Mr.
st. John, president of the board OF
directors, were alone in the guard-room
of the prison Joseph Simpson, q pri-
soner, having armed himself with a
cooper's brOad-ax, came into the room
aud advanced toward Manning and ex-
claimed, damn you, Twill kill yOu.n
The deputy drew his revolver and ordered
the man from the room, threatening at
the same time to shoot him if he did not
obey. The only response the prisoner
made was an attempt to strike with the
AK, and spinning from side to side to
avoid the pistol, and advancing
upon the deputy, who still continued to
order him from the room on pain Of
being shot. At this junctlre St. John,
who could obtain no better weapon,
seized a chair, and aimed a blow at the
prisoner, which unfortunately touched
the deputy, who was somewhat
in the rear Of st. John at the time.
The blow, however, fell on the prisoner,
but with insufficient force to prevent his
further advance, recovering himself he
rushed at the deputy, aiming a blow,
when the latter fred. Undaunted for an
instant the prisoner still advanced, when
the deputy fred twice again. Muster
ing his falling strength, the prisoner
threw the ak with all bis force, narrowly
missing the deputy's head, and then fell
back, and as be fell the deputy fred
fourth shot. The second was fatal, as
was afterward discovered. No motive
for the murderous attack is known, ex-
cept that Simpson had once escaped and
had an idea that Manning had reported
him to the prison when he escaped.
The coroner returned verdict exoner-
atiDg Manning from all blame.
Year: 1873

FEMALE DELIcAcY.-Above every
other feature that adorns the female
character, deicacy stands foremost
within the province of good taste.
Not that delicacy which is perpetually
in quest Of something to be ashamed
of. which makes merit of a blush, and
shippers at the false construction its
own ingenuity has put upon an inno-
cent remark; this spurious kind OF
delicacy is as far removed from good
taste as from good feeling and good
sense; but the high minded delicacy
which maintains its pure. and undevl-
ating walk alike amonst women as IN
the society of men, which shrinks
from no necessary duty, and can speak
when required with seriousness and
kindness of things at which it would
be ashamed to smile or blush.
Year: 1873

A FEW days since a seedy person
applied to q wealthy citizen for help
and received the small sum of Ave
cents. The giver remarked, as he
handed him the. pittance: 1Take it,
you are welcome; our ears are always
open to the distressed "That may
be, = replied the recipient, g but never
before in my life have seen so small
an opening for such large ears.n
Year: 1873

THE farmers Of Independence, Ind;
held a mass meeting recently, at which
about six thousand persons were pres
ent. The. sentiment of the gathering
was indicated by the following utter
ance of one of the speakers: ''We in
tend that political tricksters shall not
make up the State entire for us. We
wild say to the Democrats, if they are
in power in our county or State, Give
us good representative men who will
look too well to onr interests or wa
will not vote for them. So we will say
to the Republicans il they a. 9 in power.
If they do not ponder these things
well In their hearts now, they will af.
ter the next election. We would not
close the door of Office against an hon
orable profession or calling of life. We
do not ask to fill the Offices ourselves
as class. There are good and pure
men of the different yocations, and we
are determined to have them to the
'front.'"
Year: 1873

PRUss1A's sovereign evidently does
not have much faith in the policy of
changing his tried servants in the army
and has an abiding faith in the wis.,
dom and discretion of old men,
Moltke's great age was a standing sur
prise all through the great Franco
German campaign. How a leader of
his years could take the field and put
forth such enormous energies as he did
was surprise to Americans, who in
sist on the employment OF men of mid
die age or even young men as military
leaders; yet the venerable Moltke's
chiefs of armies were all grey headed.
veterans; the youngest marshal in the
service of. Prussia is Manteuffel, and
he has just completed his sixieth year.
Year: 1873

AS A. fountain of water cannot be
purer than its source, SO the laws
which govern community must par
take of the character of those who
framed them. IF we demand good
laws, we must elect good men to make
them. IF we desire their impartialex-
ecution, we must elect men who are
above reproach, whose integrity has
been tried, and whose sense Of justice
cannot be influenced by bribes or
threats, fear or favor.
Year: 1873

A deep gloom was cast over large
circle of friends in this city by the in
telligence received yesterday, that on
Saturday night Col. Clarence Prentice
had been thrown from his buggy and
received injuries from which he died
in few minutes. He had just re-
moved to a farm on the Preston street
road, o few miles from the city, where
he proposed to make his permanent
home. On Saturday night, about mid
night, he was returning home IN his
buggy with his little son, George d.
Prentice, when turning suddenly into
the lane leading from the pike to his
house, the buggy capsized, throwing
him upon the hard ground with vio-
lence that ruptured blood vessel
abont the heart and caused almost in
stant death. His son was unhurt and
ran to the residence of Mr.. Phillips
near by for assistance, hut before any
one arrived the injured man had
breathed his last. Thus has passed
away the last of the immediate family
of Geo. d. Prentice, whose genius fill
ed the whole country with admiration
for many years.


Col. Clarence Prentice was man of
great personal popularity. Accom-
plished, genial and kind, he lent a
charm to every circle in which he was
thrown. He was followed to the tomb
this morning by sorroWing friends. His
little orphan son is now. the only sur
yiyor of the family of the great jour
Ealist and poet, whose name he bears.
May he grow up to a career of useful
ness Louisville Ledger.
Year: 1873

CHINA is doing what she can to put
a stop to the coolie traffic. As the de-
portation of the Mongolian laborers is
nothing more than slave trade-in-
famous as that of Africa-the Chinese,
in their efforts to suppress the horrible
system. deserve the aid of the Chris
tan Powers that act in concert for the
determination of the dealing in human
souls as carried on by African slaves.
Abundant raoof is in existence to show
that the coolie ships arc managed on
the. same plan which has made the
slave vessels from the African coast q
by-word and a reproach TO humanity
and civilization. So seldom it is that
the rulers of China take the initiation
in . measure of reform that they
doubly deserve the countenanee and
N ater;al support of Europe and Ameri-
"a IN their efforts to terminate the
Coolie trade.
Year: 1873




WHATEVER may the result of the
present Spanish imbroglio-whether
the Administration Of Grant rises to
the height of the occasion or not-the
acquisition of Cuba by the United
States is event which will happen in
the near future. If it is not acquired
by war before Grant goes out of Office,
it will be the great question in the
Presidential election of 1876. The
Democratic party will favor the annex
alton of Cuba as they favored the ac-
QUESTION of Texas in 1874. The Wig
orous, healthy, progressive American
sentiment is for extending the area of
American freedom, especially in the
direction of Cuba A party which
makes that a speciality is sure to tri-
umph in the election. The Spanish
despotism in Cuba might have been
perpetrated for sometime, but the Nir-
ginius massacre will cause it to totter
to its fall. The public sentiment of
this country recognizes that its exist
ence near our shores is not compatible
with our peace and safety. We have
periodically, for the last twenty years,
in consequence of the Spanish out
RACES in Cuba, to our flag and to the
persons of our citizens, been compelled
to make great military and naval pre-
parations at cost of many millions
of dollars. The state of peace we have
had has been about as costly as that
of war would be-. This condition of
things must end. Cuba must be free,
and, If she desires annexation to the
United States, we shall be glad to take
her. If the people Of Cuba and the
people of the United States are united
in desire to be under the one Gov
ernment, we do not recognize the right
of old Spain toforbid the bans OF union.
The parties concerned attend to their
own business without the Intervention
Of outsiders.-[ Cincinnati Enquirer.
Year: 1873

The arguments urged for tho abolition Of the
Railroad and Warehouse Commission IN the
House, yesterday, wero that 1t could do nothing
that could not bo - we'll done by tho law
officers Of the State, and tint II tho rail-
roads could buy Congress and State Legislatures,
they could easily corrupt tho Commission. On tho
othor hand, It was urged that the Commission wna
as necessary to guido and concentrate litigation
on behalf OF tho people, as General to CON-
mand an army, that the Supreme Court and
the Governor wero III liable to bo purchased al
tho Commission, and that this argument would
compel the abolition Of all the departments Of
tho Government Tho proposition WIS lost by a
vote Of 78 to 81.
Year: 1873

Correspondence New York Herald.1


Several extra supplies Of the Herald
containing the particulars of the
recent bloody duel here have been
received blythe news purveyors, and
speedily disposed of, yet the sanguin-
ary encounter and the various Incl
dents connected herewith continue
to be the main topics of conversation
in all circles. Last Sunday some o.
our fashionable preachers even adj
dressed the Throne of Grace in miti-
CATION Of damages on both the souls
and bodies Of the young men engaged
in the realistic pastime. Meanwhile
the field friends of both the late due
lists are Quietly hobnobbing together
Year: 1873

of prosecution; and for every viola
ton of the provisions of the third
section of this act, every person con-
victed as the keeper of any OF the
places therein declared to be nui-
sances shall forfeit and pay fine of
not less than fifty dollars nor
more than one hundred dollars and be
imprisoned in the Jail of the county
for not less than twenty days nor
more than fifty days, and pay. the
costs of prosecution and such place
or places so kept by such person or
persons so convicted shall be shut up
and abated. upon the order Of
the Court before whom such
conviction may be had, until such
time as such person or persons keep
ing such places shall give bond and
security, to De approved by said
court, in the penal sum of one thou
sand dollars, payable to the State Of
West Virginia, conditioned that he,
she or they will not sell intoxicating
liquors contrary TO the laws of this
State, and will pay all fines, costs
and damages assessed against such
keeper or keepers, for any violation
thereof; and in case of the forfeiture
of such bond, suit may be brought
thereon, for the use of any person
interested, or for the use Of the
county; in case of fine or costs due
such county. And the penalties in
the nature of fines mentioned in
this section may be enforced sepa-
rately from the imprisonment, be-
fore Justices of the Peace or Police
Magistrates.


EvASIONS.


The giving away of Intoxicating
liquors, or other shift or device to
evade the provisions of this act,
shall be deemed and held to be an
unlawful selling, within the provis-
ions of this act.


LIABILITY OF OWNER OF BUILDING


OR GROUND-wHEN.


For the payment of all fines, costs
and damages assessed against any
person or persons, in consequence of
the sale of Intoxicating liquors rs
provided in section six of this act,
the real estate and personal property
of such person or persons, of every
kind, shall be liable, and such fines,
costs and damages, shall be a lien
upon such real estate until paid.


HOW PENALTIES MAY BE ENFORCED.


The penalty and imprisonment
i'm the seventh section of
this act may be enforced by indict-
ment in any court of record having
criminal Jurisdiction and all pecu-
mary fines or penalties provided for
in any of the sections of this act,
Except the fifth and sixth, may he
enforced and prosecuted for, before
any justice Of the peace Of the prop
er county in an action Of debt, in the
name of the State of West Virginia,
rs plaintiff; and in case Of convic-
ton the offender shall be committed
to the Jail Of the county until the
and costs are fully paid
and the justice or court in which the
is had shall issue writ
Of cnpiUS ud snti&fdcicndum there
for; and justices of the peace shall
also have jurisdiction of all actions
arising under the fourth and fifth
sections of this act, when the amount
in cOntroN @rsy does not exceed one
dollars, such actions to he
prosecuted in the name of the party
injured or entitled to the debt or
damages provided for in said section.
Year: 1873

For every violation of the provis-
ions of the first, second and third
sections of this act, every person so
offending shall forfeit and pay a fine
of not less than twenty dollars nor
more than one hundred dollars, and
be imprisoned in the Jail of the coun-
ty not less than ten days nor more
than thirty days, and pay the costs
Year: 1873

I have on hand large ard beautiful sssort-
ment of


GENTS FURNISHING GOODS,
and as this department is now receiving spcclal
attention, trust it will not be considered no
cessary for gentlemen to leave the city for sup
plies, rs they can find in my stock al assortment
of as fine goods as can be found in any city, ana
as to prices satisfied that the same goots can
United States l would be glad to have those OF
our fellow.citizens who seem to delight IN an
nouncng that their purchases, in tins line nave
ior many years been made North, to examine
and compare goods and prices