smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1879

Klein Adair sued the Third Avenue Railroad Com
pany to recover $4,000 for the death of his boy.
The boy crossing Chatham street in company
with another child when he came in contact with
the car. The suit tried yesterday in the Court
of Common Pleas. before Judge Larremore and q
jury, Messrs. ID. p. Hayes and II. S. Newcombe
representing the plaintiff, and Mr. Henry Morrison
representing the railroad company. The plaintiff
sought to recover on the ground of negligence on
the part Of the companys servants the driver hav-
ing left the platform and allowed the car to move
while the child under it, thus adding to the in
juries This was claimed the part OF the COM
pany not to have been negligence the object of the
driver in leaving the platform of his car being to
rescue the child from under 1t. The jury returned
o verdict in favor of the company.
Year: 1879

At yesterdays meeting Of the Pilot Commissioners
Inspector Conway reported that Notwithstanding the
appeal made last week to the Police Commis ssionors
had been placed in either OF the rivers for
the reception OF ashes from tugs and steamboats,.
anchor largo quantity Of ashes were deposited
weekly in them, and he apprehends that now all or
most OF the ashes will be thrown In the bay or
rivers. He insisted that for the protection Of the
harbor, the Police Board should be compelled to
provide scows. at least until the Ice makes its appear



Secretary Nash was instructed to call the attention
OF the Police Commissioners for the second time to
this violation of the law.
Year: 1879

II is charged that the Senate committee
on appropriations attached a good many dis
reputable pieces of jobbery to the appro-
priation bills as they came from the House.
Among them is mentioned the purchase of
a building belonging to Boss Shepherd for
the pension Office at a price twice its value,
the job to control the public printing, and
the provision for sinking fund for the old
District of Columbia bonds. All of these
SAVIOR of jobbery, and no one was found in
the Senate bold enough to defend them.
The argument is that the Republican party,
being about to surrender control of the gov.
ernment forever, was determined to give its
friends as big slice of the public cheese as
possible. It was desplcable scheme of
robbery, and the country is to be oongratu-
lated that part, at least, Of the job failed
of accomplishment. fsf
Year: 1879

Congress will meet in extraordinary ses-
sion to-day. The business that will proper
ly come before it will require but brief con-
sideration. The two appropriation bills
have already received all the consideration
they require, both from the public and from
Congress. They contemplate only the neces-
sary expenses of the departments which
they cover, and in addition abrogate the law
authorizing the appointment of federal su-
pervisors of elections abolish the test oath
for jurors, and forbid the military from par
ticipating in or interfering with elections.
These three changes in the law have been
attached to the appropriation bills simply
because, as independent measures, they
would probably be vetoed by Mr.. Hayes and
oould not be passed over that veto by the
requisite two thirds majority.


The Democratic majority has assumed the
Year: 1879




AN ACT to authorize the city of st. Paul to
aid in the improvement Of roads leading


into the city.


Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State


of Minnesota:


city of st. Paul is hereby empowered by q
three-fourths vote of all the members elect
at any time during the year one thousand
eight hundred and eighty, to issue the bonds
of said city or to appropriate money either
from the general fund or the local improve
ment fund.of said city, to an amount not to
exceed ten thousand 10000 dollars, to be
expended by the board of public works under
the direction of the common council outside
of the city limits upon such roads leading
into the city of st. Paul, as the common
council may deem proper.


Sec. 2. If the common council shall de-
termine to issue said bonds, they shall bear
interest at the rate of seven ~ per cent. per
annum, and shall be payable at such time
as the common council may determine at
the financial agency of the city of st. Paul
in the city of New York.


Sec. 3. If the common council shall de-
termine not to issue said bonds but to ap-
propriate said sum Of ten thousand 10000
dollars, or less, out of either of the funds be-
fore named, it then shall be the duty of the
common council to include in the next gen.
eral levy of taxes for city purposes, suf-
tcient number of mills on the dollars of the
assessed value of all the real, and personal
property in the city of st. Paul to replace in
the city treasury the sum advanced and ap-
propriated aforesaid.


Sec. 4. This act to be in force from and
after it's passage.


Approved February a, 1879,
Year: 1879

Secretary Evarts Called to tho Relief of


the Export Trade.


New YORK. March IA petition in relation
to the cattle export trade will be sent to-day to
Secretary Evarts. 1t is signed by many rail
road presidents, insurance and bank presidents
and prominent merchants. Itsuggests that
certain sanitary precautions be adopted by the
British government, acting in concert with
this government, whereby no danger need be
apprehended from the expectation of our cat
tie and whereby the present burdensome edict
may be removed or at least robbed Of many Of
its oppressive features. Secretary Evarts is
urged to secure the relief asked for in the petit
tion at the earliest possible moment, q the
question is one OF national Importance and
threatens the destruction of one Of our great
est commercial enterprises.
Year: 1879

A DECISION of great Importance was rem
dered in the United States court in this city
yesterday, as it affects to a great extent the
manufacture of -four by the famed patent
process. The case was an agreed one be-
tween the patentees and Mr.. Christian, of
Minneapolis. Judge Dillon rendered an
opinion, which is printed elsewhere, in which
he decides that the patent does not apply to
the process ordinarily adopted in the manu-
facture of -four and the publication of
middlings, and that therefore the reissue OF
the patent is void.
Year: 1879

MIR. PATrERsoN's assertion to Washing
ton correspondent that he had been granted
full immunity for the offenses he has COM
mitted against the people and the State of
South Carolina turns out, of course, to be
false. The legal officers of that State have
neither the power nor the authority to grant
such immunity, and if MIR. Patterson re-
turns to the State he must expect to stand
his trial for the corruption Of which he has
been proved to be guilty.
Year: 1879

SOUTHERN paper thinks there is no dan
ger to be apprehended from jeff. Davis now;
he belongs to the past, not to the present.
True enough, but why in the mischief
doesn't he stay in the realms of the past in
stead of inhicting himself upon the present.
He's almost as bad as Banquo's ghost-com-
ing when he is not hidden to the feast.
Year: 1879

IT now seems to be settled that France
will have to endure ministry headed by
Gambetta. The republic has had many a
severe trial thus far, but this threatens to be
the worst. If it survives this affection it
may be considered as firm as adamantine
Year: 1879

IT is not at all probable that Ramsey
county will suffer from lack of means, for
there was in the treasury on the 1st inst. the
goodly balance of $14O,s79.34. If we owe
any man anything we are abundantly able
to pay on demand, and yet levy only thir-
teen mill tax. Few counties can make as
good showing
Year: 1879

The Philadelphia Times alleges that Mr..
Wheeler amounts to very little in his own
party and still less in the other party. These
Philadelphia chaps sometimes hit the nail
on the head, singular as it may seem.
Wheeler hasn't got great deal of strength
anywhere, and if he attempts to buck against
the Democratic party he will find himself in
the predicament of the goat that essayed to
ston locomotive.
Year: 1879




Paul.


AN ACT to allow the Common Council of
the city of Saint Paul to lay out levee
and street.


Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State


of Minnesota:


Section l. The municipal corporation of
the city of Saint Paul is hereby authorized
to appropriate and condemn whatever land
or real estate that may be necessary, for the
making and improvement of levee or street
along the Mississippi river, in the Fifth and
Sixth wards of the city of Saint Paul, and to
levy assessment therefor, as we'll as for the
filling in and grading of said street or levee,
upon the property fronting upon such i'm
provement, or upon the property to be bene-
flied by such improvement, without regard
to cash valuation, as now provided by law
for other local improvements in the city of
Paul. Provided, however, that whenever
the board of public works shall be requested
or required by the common council to re-
port upon the necessity and propriety of such
improvement, if in the opinion of the board
of public works property cannot be found
benefited to the extent of the damages, costs
and expenses necessary to be incurred there
by, they shall SO report, and to what amount
of the cost property cannot be found bene-
fted to pay for such improvement, and if
the amount does not exceed sum which
would be equivalent to ten thousand dollars,
each ward for the entire improvement in
each of said wards, the common council may
order part or either of said improvements,
and may order and direct the damages, costs
and expenses necessary to be incurred in
making said improvement in excess of the
amount to be levied upon property, to the
extent which the same may be benefited, to
be paid out of the local Improvement fund
of the city of st. Paul, but not more than
one of said improvements shall be ordered
in any one year; and provided further, that
it is hereby made the duty of the common
council of said city, at the next succeeding
tax levy after such improvement has been
ordered, to levy a tax for sum which shall
be sufficient to reimburse the local improve
ment fund for the advance made as afore-
said.


Sec 2. This act shall take effect and be
in force from and after it's passage.


Arnroved March 8. A d. 1879.
Year: 1879

A number of journals in New Jersey
and Ohio have betrayed grave anxiety
of mind in respect to the hardships and


perils of baptizing in the open air in cold


weather In particular the enormity of
baptizing persons in water that could


be reached only through an opening
made in the ice that covered it, ex.
cites very lively emotions. 1t does not
seem to have occurred to these our
brethren of the press-what is never.
theless the authentic fact verified by
many witnesses-that the suffering in the
cases referred to is all in the Imagination
of lockers on. 1t seems to have been for.
gotten that water under ice is warmer than
the atmosphere above the ice. We have
personally tested the point, and the near.
est approximation to the sensations of a
warm bath IN the act of baptizing, within
our experience, were felt on cold day in
winter, in n baptistry formed by cutting
through more than a foot of ice. The
water seemed tepid.-[ Boston Watchman
Year: 1879

The Asiatic gambler is the most reck-
less; it seems to be his second nature, and
he will not scruple to stake his wife. child
rem, or, at Il last venture, one of his own
limbs, his life or liberty, becoming thus
the slave of his antagonist. And here l
am reminded of fine point in law once
extant among the ancient Hindoes and
touching upon this very question. Awar-
rior stalking his last arthing on chance,
finally put up his liberty, losing which he
bethought him of his beautiful wife. Luck
being still against him, she was summon
ed as slave before her husbands antago-
mist and escaped the life of serfdom by the
adroitness of her first query: did my
husband lose me or himself firstg For if
he played away himselfhe could not stake
me-" There is a story of a similar case as
having occurred in an English-sp
country. 1t was during the plague in Eng
land that a young captain of the kings
body-guard pledged the key of his house
against all the winnings of his adversary
and lost. The wife's honor was saved
through the medium of terrible avenger,
the plague, one spot of which, having ap
peared upon her throat. frightened away
the winner of the key. The story is a long
one; there was a duel; the husband was
the cause of all this woe, the lucky games.
ter was only cursed by the weird plague.
prophet, ito perish in everlasting fire.
Forney's Progress.
Year: 1879

The following story about President
Lincoln is certainly characteristic: Soon
after he went To Washington he attended
the Foundry church, occupying a seat
within the alter while Bishop Simpson
preached a missionary sermon. After the
collection was taken at the close of the
sermon, and as the congregation was
about to be dismissed, an irrepressible
brother rose and proposed to be one of a
given number to raise 800 to make Presi-
dent Lincoln life director of the mission
ary society. The proposition was put, and
brothers \. B. and c. responded glibly.
But the inevitable pause finally came.
p, of the money was wanting. When
H. bishop announced who will take the
.iance?" the pause became slightly inn
pressive. Then the long form OF Lincoln
was seen to rise, a long bony arm was ex
tended imploringly, and he said, bishop
this is the first time / have ever been
placed upon the auction block. Please LEI
me pay the balance myself and take me
down,
Year: 1879

That learned and judicious divine,
Richard Hooker obtained his wife some
what casually. When he was ordained
priest he went to London, according to the
statutes of his college, TO preach at st.
Paul's Cross. He arrived there wet, weary,
weather-beaten, and very angry at friend
who had persuaded him not to walk, but
to take the journey on horseback, which
had prostrated him with influenza. His
hostess, one Mrs. Churchman, attended to
him with all care and diligence. Hooker
was afraid he would not be able to preach
on the following Sunday; but the
good wishes and good nursing of his host
ess nerved him for his duties, and he got
through his work admirably. The
preacher was very thankful to Mrs-
Churchman, who had cured him of his
dlstemper and cold, and he thought him
self bound in conscience to believe all the
poor woman said. Mrs. Churchman told
him he was a man of tender constitution,
and that it was best for him To have wife
that might prove a nurse to him, such a
one as might both prolOng his life and
make it more comfortable; and such one
she could and would provide for him if
he thought fit to marry. So Mr.
Hooker, in his guilelessness en-
powered her to choose wife for
him, and promised to return
to London at her call to receive his bride.
Mrs. Churchman at once attended to this
little business for Master Hooker. In look
ing around to find him wife, she thought
it wise To begin at home, and in her own
daughter, Joan, according To her judg-
ment she found one who would nurse the
preacher, prolong his life and make it
more comfortable In due time Mr.
Hooker went to London 10 be joined to
the wife of the choice of his hostess; but
she brought to him neither beauty nor
portion: She was. sad to relate, a woman
of an unruly tongue, and, instead of add
ing to his comfort, she was an incessant
trial to his patience. The moral of this is:
choose yourself.-[C Chambers journal.
Year: 1879

Ii sometimes happens that the people
who are afflicted with it mistake their own
symptoms, and miscall their own state.
They think themselves diffidcnt, timid,
deplore their want of selfpossession even,
and never dream that the trouble lies in
their inability to forget themselves.


"What courage you have" said one
young lady to another. II could rot have
crossed this crowded room before all these
people, as you did just now, under any
circumstances" ut did not require any
courage" replied her friend, smiling. 1T
never occurred to me that any one would
notice my movements" And that is the
whole secret: it is but "a nervous sense of
our own conspicuOusness which makas us
so keenly alive to the effect of our words
and acts If we really believe that we are
unimportant-if we feel hat our fellow
creatures have more cngrossing subjects
of contemplation than OuIselves-wc shall
hardly be likely to suffer from any dread
of their criticisms. Besides seifconsciOus-
ness destroys independence of thought and
action. The unfOrtunates who feel them
selves the center of interest and observation
will be continually adjusting their words
and ways to suit their beholders.
Year: 1879

ing of fresh seed, the seed being quite uncer-
tain if not of the growth of the previous
season. Make the rows fifteen inches
apart and sow as soon as the soil is dry
enough to work; the seed being long and
narrow is not sown readily in a machine,
and IL is safer to SOW by hand. The root


Scorzonera, or BLACK Salsify," is re-
lated plant, grown in the same manner
and for the same uses the root has q dark
er exterior. By sonss- the flavor of
this is preferred-try both. Both are
hardy, and if desired, part of the crop
may be left in the ground until spring, the
winters supply being stored away like
other roots. Uses-The roots are to be
scraped and thrown into water at once
else they turn black; They are cut into
small pieces, stewed and served with a
sauce of butter thickened with flour; they
are boiled whole until soft, then DIPPED
into butter and fried, or are mashed after
boiling, made into cakes which are dipped
into butter and fried. II is surprising
that so excellent vegetable should be so
little known.-[American Agriculturalist.
Year: 1879

IL to Eat His Own Words.


A recent libel suit in Moscow, in which
city the author of quartO volume was
subjected to a most ignominious punish.
ment, very forcibly reminds one of the in
estimable blessings enjoyed IN a country
in which the freedom of the press is a
guaranteed and established right. The
facts In the case referred TO are as follows
In the above named city go0dly-sized
book was published in vindication of the
rights of the subject. The work contained
stinging sarcasms aimed at the venality of
the officials, with many satirical and hu-
morous allusions to bribe-taking and other
iniquities. Even the Gar himself was
handled without gloves, his acts were fear
lessly denounced and powerful argu-
ment was adduced in behalf of the rights
Of his subjects. The maladministration of
law was set forth in strong, plain Ian
guage.


The book attracted general notice. but
this was bad for the author. He was ar
rested and thrown into prison. After a
short and summary trial his production
was pronounced libel, and lie was con-
demned to "eat his own words" OF suffer
the punishment of the knOut. This terri
BILE instrument of torture is in the shape
of a long whip or scourge, and Is COM
posed of many tough thongs of thick,
hard skin plated together and enterwoven
with strands of stout wire. The GRIM
minal is stripped, and is firmly bound to
two stakes, which are sufficiently wide
apart to admit the free motion ofthe head.
The blows are laid upon the bare back


every stroke cutting like knife, and soon
the victim of the scourge is shapeless
mass of blood and flesh. One hundred
blows are equal to death sentence. This
was the alternative of the unhappy author.


The day fixed for carrying the sentence
of the court into execution arrived. A
platform was erected in one of the public
squares in the city. Bound hand and foot,
the victim of despOtic power was seated in
the center of the platform. An immense
concourse of people had gathered to wit
ness the strange spectacle. The Imperial
Provost, the Magistrate, the physician and
surgeon of the Gar were in attendance.
The obnoxious book had been separated
from its binding, and as an act of grace
the margin had been cut of The leaves
were then rolled up not unlike cigar light
ers. And there they were-a basketful;
Now the meal began. Amid roars of
laughter from the ignorant and degraded
populace, the provost served the author
leaf by leaf with his own production, put
ting the rolls of paper, one by one, into
his mouth He slowly chewed and swal-
lowed one-third of his book, when the
medical gentlemen concluded he had re-
ceived into his stomach as much of the in
nutritious material as was compatible with
safety He was then reconducted to his
cell to digest his meal. The two follow
ing days the same scene was enacted, un
til every. leaf was swallowed, and, as a
matter of fact, he was compelled to literal


ly eat his own words and feast on his own
Year: 1879

When Jim Younger was captured near
Madelia, Mimi, September 81, 1876, he
had a bullet fired into his face from q
needle-gun at ten PAGES distance. The
ball smashed the right half of the upper
jaw, and lodged in the muscles in the back
part of the throat. There it has been ever
since till last week, when the stewart of the
Minnesota state prison hospital undertook
made by the surgeon, and two days after,
at Younger's request. the stewart began to
separate the muscles from the ragged bull
let, and after working at intervals for two
days he removed the battered and twisted
piece of lead from the place where it had
been for two years and a half The con-
vict was in fair way to die, but he is
now likely to recover.
Year: 1879

S%lisfy is often called Oyster plant"
We wish it wasn't, for many who live far
inland do not like oysters, and the name
prejudices these against one OF the great
est delicacies of the garden. 1t is indeed
a choice vegetable, but one within the
reach of every one, as 1t requires no more
care in cultivation than a parsnip. Its
requirements are precisely those of the
parsnip-a deep, rich soil and early SOW
Year: 1879

Comfort, Silence and Patience were the
names of brother and two sisters in a
New England village. A gentleman called
to see Comfort. His sire said: "He is not
at home, but if you will sit down with
Patience and wait with Silence, Comfort
will come soon" Silence died. the other
day, at the age Of so.
Year: 1879

Those who are at all afraid of epidemic
disease may feel comforted ON hearing
that one of the best protective measures
they can resort to is very simple one
the use of soap and water. An eminent
physician says:


at is worth while for common people to
learn that $4,000 typhus gems will thrive
in the circumference of pin-head or a
visible globule. II is worth while for
them to note that these germs may be des-
sicated and be borne, like thistle seeds,
everywhere, and like demoniacal posses
sions, may jump noiselessly down any
throat. But there are certain things spores
cannot stand, according to the last ascer-
tanned results Of science. A water temper
ature of 100 degrees boils them TO death
and soap chemically poisons them. Here
sanitary and microscopic science come to-
gether. Spores thrive in low ground and
under low conditions of life. For redemp-
tion. fly to hot water and soap, We who
live In danger of malarial poisoning. Hot
water is sanitary. Soap is more sanitary.
Fight typhus, smallpox, yellow fever and
ague with soap. Soap is a board of
health.