smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1874

n resident of Kansas sends the follow
ing to an exchange. 1t is from one of
their local papers.


l have seen nothing in the papers that
would give IL man that never saw them an
approximate idea of their numbers. I'll
would say that one time, when they were
thckest. that know there were, in an
az OF ten miles square, as Whiting as the
centre, in all corn fields at least 40 BUSH
els to the acre, it is true; and If would
say a bushel to the square rod (16O bush
els TO the acre), could get any amount of
certificates to substantiate it. One man
says thoy were so thick on his peach trees
that they broke the branches Another
said that if they had all been on the ground
that were in his corn he thinks they would
have been three inches thick all over the
field


They came eleven days ago, and now
perhaps three-fourths of them are gone
but there are enough left to eat up all the
wheat and turnps that might come up, if
every foot of tillable ground were sown to
them. They have stripped all the corn of
blades and tassels, and have eaten up all
the young shoots and ears, and are still
working on it. Cabbage is all eaten up;
Pot"tOSo, tho SleuS are OulJ leIL, SOTRuu
is the only thing they don't eat. l have
known wheat to be sown broadcast and by
the time the sower got back. having gone
forty rods, he would find no wheat where
he first sowed-all act up.


There is not a leaf on apple trees, and
peach trees are served nearly as badly.
% They have eaten nearly all the peaches.
leaving the pit where the peach used to
be. l hear many say II have heard
about the grasshoppers but never real
lied till now how many there could be
and what mischief they can do.'


1t took them a week to go from here to
Atchison, thrty-one miles, which would
be from four to six miles day, but south
east, the course they wanted to 60, they
might have gone in a shorter time.


The Champion advises to sow turnips.
l say that as long as they remain here
there is no use to sow either wheat or
turnips, for both seed and labor will be
lost, and we have all lost as much as we
can afford to lose. They are depositing
their eggs, but not enough to hurt much
in the spring, and it is question with
me whether the eggs deposited now, will
not hatch this fall and perish with cold.
1t may require rain and moisture to hatch
them, and they may be like the locust
seed-require freezing. F. M. G.
Year: 1874

The great object of the Democratic
party and those who united with it in
the late election was to effect q Reform
in the city government looking to the Sc
curing of greater economy. 1t was not
merely to secure change Of ofice-hold-
ers. 1t was, las we understood it, with
this view that changes were made in the
Committees of the City Council; and ii
was with this view that the Republicans
abandoned their party and voted for the
Democratic ticket in many of the wards
The Democrats in the City Council are
therefore bound to look to this object
and will do so in proper time. Economy
is the paramount object now, and cannot
be set aside without loss to tho great par.
ty whom they represent.
Year: 1874




SECTION l. The judicial power of the
State shall be vested in a supreme court,
circuit courts, courts of common pleas,
courts of probate, justices of the peace,
and such other courts inferior to the cir
cult court, in one or more counties or
cities, as the General Assembly may,
from. time to time, establish.


Sec. 2. The supreme court shall con-
sist of five judges, a majority of whom
shall be necessary to form a quorum or
pronunce decision. 1t shall have orig
inal jurisdiction in quo waranto, man.
damus, habeas corpus and procedendo,
and such appellate jurisdiction as may
be provided by law. 1t shall hold at
least one term in each year, at the seat of
government, and such other terms, at the
seat of government or elsewhere as may
be provided by law. The judges of the
supreme court shall be electors of the
State at large, and their term of Office
shall be ten years Said court may ap-
point clerk and reporter, who shall re-
ceive such compensation as shall be pre-
scribed by law.


Sec. 3. The judges of the present su-
preme court in Office, when the judges of
the supreme court first elected under
this Constitution shall be qualified are
hereby constituted commission to dis
pose of such part of the business then on
the docket, as shall not, by arrangement
between the commission and the new
court, be transferred to the latter, which
commission shall have like jurisdiction
and powers in respect thereto as are or
may be vested in said court. The mem
bers of the commission shall be paid
the same compensation as the Judges of
the supreme court for the time being.


SEC. 4. Said commission shall consist
of five members, majority of whom
shall be necessary to form a quorum or
pronounce decision. Any vacancy oc-
curing in said commission shall be filled
by appointment of the Governor, by and
with the advice and consent of the SEN
ate; or, if the General Assembly be not
in Session, by the Governor; but, in such
case, the appointment shall expire at the
end of the next session of the General
Assembly. The commissioners may ap-
point and remove such attendants as may
be necessary The clerk and reporter
of the supreme court shall be clerk and
reporter of said commission. The decis-
of the commission shall be certified en-
tered and enforced as the judgments of
the supreme court. The commission
shall continue until the cases committed
to it are determined, but not exceeding
three years and all cases then unde-
termined shall be heard by the supreme
court


SEC. 5. The General Assembly may, on
application of the supreme court duly
entered on its journal and certified, pro-
vide by law from time to time, for the
appointment by the Governor, with the
advice and consent of the Senate, of q
like commission, provided that the term
of'any such commission shall not exceed
than once in ten years.


Sec. 6. The State shall be divided into
Year: 1874

young man in Ashtabula sought to
secure his sweetheart by strategy, so he
took her out for boat-ride, and threat
ened to jump overheard into the lake if
she didn't consent to marry him. But it
did not work. She offered to bet him
dollar that he daren't dive in.
Year: 1874

hear them in the TaindropS
As they patter on the leaves,
Or one by one descending


From the caves.
- They whisper in the sunshine
As II cheers US after rain!
But look to see their faces


All in vain.
They call me in the breeZes
That dance upon the stream,
Yet know not what they utter


What they mean.
But when at eve linger
By the grave of one held dear,
These voices fail the sweeter


On my ear.
Are they voices of Forever,
Sweetly calling me to come,
To reSting-place eternal,


In their home?


-GalGIy for January.
Year: 1874

MAYOR VANCE ANNOUNCES HIS POLICY.
HE WILL MAKE NO CHANGES IN TIE DEPARTMENTS


"A CONSERVATIVE COURSE TO De PURSUED


DURING THE MONTH.


Mayor Vance was in his Office good part OF yes
terday signing warrants and attending to the duties
of the position, which are multiarious and pressing
at the beginning of the month"; there are so many
pay-rolls TO be examined and signed. Several per-
sons called upon the Mayor, among them Tax Com
missioner Wheeler. Commissioner Van Mort. Alder
men Morris, Billings, Cooper. and others. Late In
the day the Mayor was questioned by reporter OF
The TRIBUNE relative to the likelihood OF any ma
terial changes being made by him in the heads OF
the various Departments. The Mayor was informed
that there was a great deal of discussion among
politicians and the public generally as to the proba-
BILE course he would take in the matter, and IL he
thought proper to do he could end the discussion
By declaration of his policy.


The Mayor replied that he certainly had no inten-
ton Of making removals of any kind. He intended
to carry out strictly conservative policy during his
short term of office and not to dsplace the heads OK
departments appointed by his predecessor. IT, how
ever any of the heads of departments were guilty Ok
acts which would render them liable to dismissal.
he would not hesitate to act promptly. lie wished
to have the business of all the Departments move
along smoothly aud to have the work performed
efficiently. He was asked whether the Board OF
Estimate and Apportionment would be likely to
meet before the new President of the Board of
Aldermen, who. by virtue of his Office. would be n
member of the former Board, could be chosen He
replied that he could not say. 1t would depend on
how soon the new President chosen. The Board
of Estimate and Apportonment were by law allowed
until the end of the present month to make tho
final revision of the estimates. No date had yet
been fixed upon for the meeting of the Board OF Es-
innate and Apportionment
Year: 1874

SALT LAKE CITY, Dec. 1.-The bingham
Canon Railroad Company have been meeting for some
time past with serious opposition to the extension OF
their road from who object to the railroad cross
ing their claims on the way the CANON For some
time the resistance confined TO rolling rocks down
at the workmen employed grading the road, and sew
eral persons arrested for the ofense few DAYS
ago miner whose claim they were crossing chased the
manager and all the railroad employees with Henry
rife firing several shots at them He was arrested
and placed under bonds. Other parties have aso en-
and ali the employees OF the railroad company we're
arrested on complaint OF miner and brought before


nstiee of the Peace Illegally taking possession OF
mining property. As four indictments wero found to,
day for assault with intent TO KILL 10 Is thought some OF
tlIe prncipai parties will be arrested II prompt
legal measures are taken 10 suppress the distur
bances the war between the miners and the railroad
employ6s will become general.
Year: 1874




IMPORTANT PARTS OF IT SUBMITTED TO THE CAB1-


NET-A sPECIE BASIS URGED IN THE STRONGEST


LANGUAGE THE ENCOURAGEMENT OF SHIP


BUILDING AND OTHER INDUSTRIES FAVORED


IBY TELEGRAPH TO THE TRIBUNE.


WASHINGTON Dec. 1.-The President. at the meet
ing of the Cabinet to-day submitted portions OF his
message particularly that part relating to the
finances and the national material prosperity Those
who pretend to be in the Presidents confidence and
have announced that he would. in q measure,
weaken in his hard money ideas will find them
selves further from the facts than ever before. He
will speak in the strongest language in favor OF q
specie basis for all transactions at home and abroad,
and will urge Congress to take some steps TO that
end before il is too late He will also urge liberal
policy toward home industries, in order to encour-
age the laboer aud bring business back again to the
furnace the ship-yard, and the factory. He will
especially urge the necessity of encouraging and
fostering shipbuilding The Secretary of the Trea-
sury read 10 the Cabinet portions of his report the
financial situation, and his position. of course,
agreed with that Of the President The message
will be considered again ON Friday, and on Monday
morning final session of the Cabinet will be held
10 consider it before its transmission to Congress.
Year: 1874

In a small room of house on Clin-
ton Avenue, West Hoboken, resided a
Frenchman, who, although in the
midst of populous locality, led the
life of a hermit. He never associated
with the neighbors, nor was his real
name ever discovered. Whenever he
appeared abroad he was known as
Bismarck" During the past five
days he was not seen, and his peculiar
proclivities gave rise to much gossip
regarding his strange disappearance.
Yesterday morning the stencil from
his room was so great that the neigh
bors notified the landlord, who broke
open the door and found the body of
the man sitting upright in his chair,
half naked. Decomposition was set
ting in, and it was supposed he had
been dead four days. The body was
almost black, and emitted stencil that
was intolerable. The floor was COW
cred with blood. The County Physi-
clan was notified, and after examin-
ing the body, pronounced it case of
suicide. The room was then diSin-
fected, and the body removed to the
Morgue by Colonel Parslow, of Hobo
ken. Among the effects of the deceased
were several drawings, paint brushes
and tools, from which it was concluded
he was an artist. About a week ago
he stated to one of the neighbors that
he had relations living in Fifth Ave-
nue., New York, and he expected them
to do something for him, as he was in
very poor circumstances. He said he
had been long time out of empty
ment, and had no money. 1t is sup
posed his real name was Cuno Gross
man, from papers found in the room.-
n. Y Herald, august 22d.
Year: 1874

A considerable quantity of wool has
been hauled to this point during the
week.


There has been death on the rail-
road wharf each day for the last four
days.


Grain is still being stored in the
Cooperative Warehouse, and the
great piles of bags begin to present a
very formidable appearance.


The Sea Lion landed at Wilmington
last Tuesday a party of ladies and
gentlemen who had made a pleasant
stay of fifteen days at the hQspitable
bachelor retreat of James G. Johnston
on Catalina Island.


Although tree growing and the cul-
tivati0n of flowers have been greatly
neglected, yet enough has been done
in this direction within the past few
years, to satisfy the most skeptical
that our soil will produce most any
thing that grows.
Year: 1874

That handsome suit of clothes came
from Fltzpatrick's. He makes the finest
fitting suits to be had in the city; best of ma
terial scientific cutting; good workmanship
style. Call on Fitzpatrick the fashionable
tailor when you wish to repleniSh your ward
Year: 1874

na- The tide ofimmigration Is steadily set
ting in, and the first thing eastern people do
is to throw away their New York Hats and buy
a new one of DESMOND. They say there is no
com parison between the two. 2Lo
Year: 1874

"At the close of bitter cold day
When the snow on the frozen ground lay,
A poor woman's child rrs
With face wan and mild,
In garret was passing away.


Gaunt hunger,


Dread hunger.
Had stolen the bloom from his cheek,
And his mother sat there,
With look Of despair,
To catch what her darling might speak.
Come closer dear mother, he said.
And lay your soft hand on my head,
And tell me once more,
OF that other bright shore,
Where we never shall hunger for bread


Hush, darling,


Peace, darling.
She raised him to lull him to rest,
And she brushed the soft hair
From his forehead 30 fair,
But he died as he lay on her breast.
The morning broke joyous and clear,
Twas the first Of the opening year;
But the shouts Of gay boys,
And the cannons rude noise,
Fell unheard on that poor mothers ear.


Oh hear it


Oh heed it !
Ye wealthy, well clothed, and well fed,
In that season Of joy,


A mother and her boy,
Had perished for the want Of bread"
Year: 1874

A western minister told the young
ladies of his congregation that the first
step to ruin was an ostrich feather and
a yard of gay-colored ribbon. One ol
his hearers having occasion the mex
day to use some ribbon, asked the CLERK
for "three more steps to ruin."
Year: 1874




Mr.. s. DUNHAM: AS "a farmer feel and
take great interest In all that pertains to
the Interest and welfare Of the members of
that occupation. The farmers. so far as have
been enabled to inform myself are earnestly
at work. and deeply moved through the Uni
ted States. They feel that their rights have
not heretofore been properly regarded and 1t
seems that they are determined that they
shall be 1t is an undeniable fact that the
farmers. as class have been too much in the
habit Of leaving all their public affairs to cor
rnpt and INSCRIPTIONS men, who have be-
trayed the trusts reposed in them, and |
think it right that we should be more atch-
ful and careful in relation to this matter. and
see that good and reliable men are placed in
our public offices.


But in doing this care should be taken that
no line Of demarcaton should be drawn be-
tions and pursuits The true foundation OF a
well-organized society or community is mu-
tuality. We cannot be Independent of each
other. either socially or otherwise. The rights
and immunties of all classes of men and
professions should be mutually respected and
without this comes persecution, which is fa-
tai to every enterprise that inaugurates it.
do not care hill of beans about who has
got, or who exercise. the poacer. i it protects
me.


The object of all government is the protec-
ton Of lite and property. AL the agricultu-





ting one it is right that it should have con-
trolling voice in all our public affairs, bat this
should not DO done to the exclusion of 9TH
ers. regret to see a disposition on the part
of some to bring into collision and unkind ar
ray the citizens of the town and those of the
country. This is wrong. and should be
promptly denounced by every good citizen.
fully recognize the fact that some of our
very best citizens are in the town, and who
are eminently entitled to every consideration
and respect Our fellow-cltzens of the coun-
try should remember the favors they have
received at the hands of some persons in the
town in the days Of their need and distress.
Let no unklnd feeling exist between the
town and county. Our true policy is, where
all are mutually concerned. concert of effort
and action, and the unyielding determ!nation
to establish honest. elevated and correct prin-
cipies in the administrator of all our public
affairs, and all will be well! Ignorance i. the
mother of prejudice Away with it, and let
the farmers act in noble patriotic and state
menlike manner and Ged will defend the
right. RIcHLAND.
Year: 1874

1t NAV be remembered that the yener-
able Poland of Vermont spared time
from his arduous press-gag labors last
session to move for a committee to in
vestigate Arkansas in the interest of
Brooks Clay ton and Dorsey. But after
he got his press gag law passed the con
sequences of it, which were immediate
and very binding, absorbed his attention
so entirely that he was unable to accom-
pany his committee to Little Rock. The
other two members went, however, and
investigated. They were Messrs Milton
Sayler Of Cincinnati and j. ID. Ward Of
Chicago. They did not find that Arkan-
sas lacked the republican form Of gov
ernment which it is the duty Of the fed
eral authorities to guarantee to the sew
eral states On the other hand, they
found perfect quiet and good order pre-
valing in the state, such as has not been
known there before since the war They
found that as soon as the people had
gained the cause for which they took up
arms they disbanded, hung up their guns
and went to work with some prospect for
the first time in eight years that the fruits
of their labors would not be stolen by
the tax extorting carpet baggers. They
found the people Of the state almost as
one man in favor of throwing off the in
cuhus Of the carpet~bag constitution, de
vised for the convenience of rings, And
one Of them, Mr. J. D. Ward, found that
the state was likely to go back into the
hands of the Conservatives, or as he calls
them. the Bourbon Democrats


Now here is a fine opportunity to revive
some ancient usages Of the Republican
party. Let Mr. Ward report to congress
whea he returns to Washington next
winter that Arkansas is likely to relapse
into the hands of her own people. Hor.
rid thought! That she shows unmistak-
able signs of a disposition to dispense
with the further public services of those
eminent Republicans, Clayton and Dor
sey and Jack Mcclure and Aleck Nc
Donald to send Joe Brooks back to his
pulpit and some of his crowd perhaps to
their cells In other words, that the
Conservatives threaten to carry the state
lie can also report that he found every
thing tranquil and everybody orderly and
peacefully disposed. But that is not the
point The Republican party is likely to
lose the state! Upor that fact then be
can predicate u host Of calamities, meas
ured only by the scope of his imagina
ton and the depth Of his Loyalty Ihen
he can move for a new reconstructlon'
and see how it will work. That is PIE
ciscly what would have been done three
wears ago. But we hardly think it can be
done now We wish the people OF Ar
kansas no i'll. But we wish all manner
of disaster to the Republican party and
for that reason we express the wish that
Ward and Poland and that lk would un-
dertake to reconstruct the state over
again lust to accommodate Mr. Powell
CLAYTON and Mr. Stephen W. Dorsey of
Kansas and Ohio respectively but now
senators from Arkansas We don't think
the attempt would hurt Arkansas mueh'
bat 1t would open some new gaps III the
Republican party that would be worth
looking ut,
Year: 1874

We are requested by the members of
he Episcopal Society Of Van Buren, to


ender their very grateful thanks to the
bembers of the Presbyterian Society of
bis place, for the frequent use of their
(hurch for public worship.
Year: 1874

A correspondent Of the Spring
field Republican says: "At one of
our quiet summer resorts the other
night, lady of delicate physique
was complaining that for a number
of years she had been unable to sleep
without taking some narcotic
Those who heard the remark were at
first tempted to condemn her for
having fritted away her strength in
the pleasures of society, until her
story, quietly and modestly told,
showed that she had been through
scenes of trial and suffering that
might affect the stoutest. The wife
of United States naval officer, it
was her fate few years since to be
on her way to join her husband at
some port on the Pacific coast of
South America at the time the great
earthquakes and tidal waves that
were so destructive to life and pro-
perty upon that coast. Her ship
had but just dropped anchor in a
Peruvian harbor when the tidal wave
came that wrenched her from her
mooring and swept her over a cliff
forty feet high into an inner harbor,
while before the eyes of our heroine
who was seated on the deck, the pop
ulous city fell down as if the block
creation of child. Fortunately the
ship, unlike its compcers i'll the har-
Dor, which were many of them dash
ed to pieces, had steam enough to get
out to sea with the receding wave,
though, dry land seemed to pursue
her for space in the retluX. Pro
ceeding down the coast that night,
town after town was found to have
been swallowed up by the earthquake.
How for weeks this woman in 4
strange land, where she did not
speak the language, sought her hus-
band. not knowing whether he was
alive or dead, and how he at dis
tant port longed and prayed for, and
ut last found her when she had al
most given him up; how they met
soon to part, as he was again called
away for months-here is a theme
for novelist. The nervous strain
on each has left inetfaceable marks
on their lives. Is it any wonder that
even in the soothing influence of this
glorious sea air, sleep comes but
slowly to the eyes that never close
but to see pictured anew the great
rush inland of mighty ocean, and
to hear the crushing of stone and
timber and the shrieks Of despairing
humanity as great city is swallow
ed up in the earth to the music of
many waters?'"