smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1879

The new bankrupt act has been prepared
carefully, add is ready for presentation to
the state senate. Several prominent mem-
bers of the Phiadelph bar have been con-
suited in regard to the bill, which is briefly
as follows:


An act relating to failing traders and 9TH
er insolvents, and the administration of
their estates.


Provides that any citizen OF this state may
make cession of his property, provided that
hesurrender be without fraud and conforms
with this act, viz:
Every debtor who shall wish to make sur
render shall present petition to the judge
briefly stating the circumstances and ask for
a meeting of creditors, and in the meantime
proceedings against him shall be stayed.
A schedule of his creditors shall be pre-
sented, aud statement of value of all his
property assigned.
A debtor is not obliged to surrender any
property not subject to be seized and sold in
| execution.


The schedule shall be signed and sworn to
by the debtor.
| After the debtor has complied with the
formalities, the judge shall endorse the sched-
ule and shall order meeting of creditors to
be called.


The judge shall older that all proceedings
against the person and property of the tbt-
or shall be stayed.


The court shall appoint trustee who shall
administer and sell all the property accord
ing to law. On application of three of the
creditors, an additional trustee shall be ap-
pointed, both to give bonds.
All property shall be delivered to the
trustees.
A debtor shall be declared guilty of frsud


who shall keep back any of his property.


The trustees shall divide the proceeds


among all the creditors, following the order


of priority in cases of liens or judgments, OF


proportionately il there are any other credi-


tors.


Any debtor who may be imprisoned under
t writ of arrest, and against whom no charge
a Of fraud spending. may be discharged from


arrest by making surrender of his proper


ty to his creditors.
$ Following the above are large number Of
e sections relating to involuntary assignment


one of which provides that in cities of tn,
Q first class a separate court shall be held con
|, tnuously for the transaction of business un.
der this act.
Year: 1879

An enthusiastic breeder of poultry says :
"Farmers will feed bushel of corn TO pro-
duce six pounds of pork, while the same
amount of corn will keep good laying hen
one year, and she will produce at least twelve
dozen eggs, s,averaging eighteen cents per doz-
en- which would equal S2.l6; in addition
she would rear brood of chickens worth as
much more, making total of nearly five
dollars, against six pounds of pork at ten
cents, equalling sixty cents or, in other
words, the hen will yield seven times a
much as the pig on the same quantity ol
food Aside from the profit, which is au
important consideration in the keeping o.
poultry, it affords a healthful recreation anG
enjoyment to all classes. Those who daily
toll in the counting house, factory or mill
each and all need some light, attractive
Eeaith-produciug employment
Year: 1879

AN AWKWARD BLUNDER.-In Paris a
young lady went into one of the great dra-
perry houses to shop with her maid. They
keep watchers there and one of these max.
ing sure he had seen something, presently
tapped the young lady. on the shoulder and
asked her to follow him to the searching
room. you have just put pair of new
gloves in your pocket, madamoiselle don't
deny it. Il know have, said the young
lady quietly; 'andif you will be good enough
to look inside them you willsee that, as they
were bought at another house, they could moi
have been stolen from this The watcher
had made mistake and he and the whole
gang of searchers began to grovel in excuses
Now: said the lady, turning to her maid


go to the nearest commissary of police anC
tell him that the daughter OF Prince Orlof
requires his protection 1t was the awk


wardest of blunders her father was tn,
Russian ambassador The contrite draper.
company offered thousands to hush it up.
Year: 1879

Have You been lately to Liborman's!
If not start right off examine his fine
stock of goods and make your pur-
c,,asc for Christmas and New Year.
You went lose by buying of him il 1T
: :, fine suit for yourself handsome
dresa for your wife and daughter do
mestic utensils, sud every thing yea are
likely to need during the year. tie Is
lust as accommodating too as meT'
chant can he. and if you know you'
own interest you will patronize him.
Year: 1879

RESIGNED. DR.. James, Commissioner of
Agriculture for Georgia, has stepped down
and out, giving as his reason the personal
hostility he has aroused against himself.
He thinks his retention would cause the
abolishment of the Department; to avert
which he patriotically withdraws. Such
selfdenial is rare in these latter days: SO
rare that he would do well to leave sample
of it on exhibition at the Geological Rooms,
for the edifcation of unborn ages. There
ought to be specimen locked up in glass
case at the coming State Fair.
Year: 1879

JUST So.-It is scarcely possible for an
editor to write candidly and plainly about
public affairs land especially where public
officers are interested) without pinching
some ones toes, when really no particular
individual was in the eye of the editor at
the time he wrote and published. But our
plan has always been to let those who take
offence sweat it off or wear it off at leisure.
If any person, clique or combination don
like the way newspaper is managed there
is no law compelling them to read it.
Charlotte DemOcrot


That's our view All our efforts are given
to please our patrons, and we dislike ex-
ceedingly to lose single one Of them. L
seems like losing an old friend, even though
we may never have seen him in our lite;
But an editors duty is to advocate the good
ings or pecuniary profit His aim should
be to try to do ri ight, and let the likes and
dislikes look out for themselves.
Year: 1879

THE Enterprise is authority for stat ing that Mrs. Belle Lynch, at one time editor of the Ukiah Democrat, Ukiah, Cal, will start a newspaper at Maricopa as soon as the railroad reach es there" Belle may brush up brisk business out on the desert. Who knows.
Year: 1879

bill as reported to the Senate to
day are those which were agreed
upon by the Committee yesterday,
including the omission of House
clause directing the ten millions res
serve to be issued in payment of
arrears of pensions.


A resolution was introduced in
the House to-day, rendering the
thanks of the American people to
Mexico for its hearty contribution
to the success of the Industrial
Mission of American Merchants
and Manufacturers recently visiting
the City of Mexico, which will ex-
tend the friendly commercial rela-
tions our countrymen have been so
instrumental in establishing.


The House Committee on Ways
and Means met to-day and ap-
pointed a subcommittee, of which
Representative Carlisle is Chairman,
to take under consideration and re-
port to the full committee on all the
bills now before them relating to
the subject of Internal Revenue.
No other business was transacted at
at to-day's meeting.


The Cabinet to-day again discuss
ed the Indian Territory question
and the threatened frontier invasion
of that section. 1t was decided that
in case of an invasion by whites the
Indian service would have to call
for troops, to be used as posse
comitati for preventing such VIOLA
ton of the law and to eject persons
who have already invaded the In
dian Territory.
Year: 1879

IT is said that many COugressmeu
think the Presidents veto message
was insulting. The trouble about all
this lie thEt these aforesaid statesmen
have so long thought that the Presi-
dent had only a piece of gristle for a
backbone, that now when it has so
suddenly ossified they are complete
ly upset, and magnify mo!e-hilIs into
taken place, it is not very likely that
the President will take any trouble to
pour oil on the troubled waters. Lowe
might challenge him though.
Year: 1879

Mrs. A. L. Stewart and Judge Hilton
and his family arrived at the Grand
Union Hotel last Saturday evening and
took possession of their apartments
The suite of rooms set apart for them
are twelve in number on the first floor.
Eight of them, which Mrs. Stewart and
her friends occupy, look out upon the
hotel park. The apartments have been
newly finished in very expensive style,
and the furniture is exceedingly rich.
Judge Hilton's parlor is fitted out Who'll
ly with antique furniture, old as to the
wood and design, but new as to uphol-
stering. The rich lace curtains at Mrs.
extremely novel in hotel drapery. The
"royal family" has come to stay, hence
the season at the Grand Union is re-
garded as formally begun.


An unique feature attended the arri-
val of Mrs. Stewart and her company.
One of the new things at the Grand
Union this season is the electric light
ming, which has been most successful.
One of the lamps is situated on the roof
of the central tower, and on Saturday
night it was lighted for the first time.
When the New York train arriving here
at 8:l5 o'clock in the evening was sight
ed from the hotel tower, the focused
ray of the electric lamp was turned
upon the track mile and half away
from this point; it followed, or rather
accompanied, the incoming party all
the way to the station. At the furthest
point the light was broad enough to en-
velOpe the entire train, but us the latter
neared the village the drawing room
car in which Mrs. Stewart was riding
received the greatest benefit from the
superb illumination. There are five
generators used in the Grand Unions
electric apparatus, each of them feeding
a lamp. Four of the lights are suspend
ed among the elms of the court, and
one occupies the top of the central
tower. They were all tried on Satur-
day night, and were found to be sue
cessful. The light on the tower is used
with a powerful reflector, which re-
wolves at the will of the operator. The
light is thus made to sweep the whole
landscape within sight of the tower.
Reports have reached the village that
the light was observed last evening at
points from six to ten miles away.
When the tower lamp was lighted on
Saturday night rain was falling, and
the drops crossing the light looked like
snOwf flakes. To a person looking stead
lily at them moment there appeared
to be vast cone-shaped wheel, polish
ed to the brilliancy of silver revolving
at rapid rate. The novel spectacle
was viewed by thousands who stood
under umbrellas in the streets and on
the piazzas. By using colored glass be-
fore the light the cone becomes red
or blue or yellow. The quick flashes
of binding light as the ray was made
to dodge about the pillars caused MANY
persons who were not aware of its orr
gin to prepare for a heavy storm. The
apparatus used is of the Maxim patent.


This morning the proprietors of the
Hathorn Spring. began business under
their new policy of charging an admis-
sion fee of five cents to the spring. This
| is the first time, believe, that a charge
Year: 1879

Beware the cup. In these days of
raging thermometers and busy CorOn-
ers it is fraught with peril. 1t amazes
us, sometimes, to think how long the
people of America have been permitted
to go on dallying with this living death,
unwarned by the monitions of science.
1t is seldom that scientific men have
been so criminally negligent as they
have shown themselves to be in this
matter of iced tea. They have been
prompt enough to warn us of the poi
sOnous qualities of everything else we
like to eat or drink from the bill of fare.
and starved us down to a bran bread
diet, and now comes along DR.. Holland
in Scribner for July, and assures us that
the Graham system of diet starves more
New Englanders to death in six months
than die from all other causes in year.
Blessed be the name of DR.. Holland for
that statement He doesn't put it quite
so strongly as that, but that is the way
we believe it. Scientific men, learned
men in the professions, have compelled
us to drop the luscious rawberry in
terror, by screaming out to us that it
would give us the hydrophObia. They
have made us heart-sick with apprehen-
sion by showing that the tempting
peach In our hands was reeking with
the deadly prussic acid. They have
hlled our ice cream with poisonous i'm
purities. They have forbidden us to
drink water that has passed through
IRON pipes, or lead pipes, or that has
stood in wooden vessel, or lain in a
cemented cistern, or rippled from the
rock of the hillside, impregnated
with, heaven and chemistry only
know what, awful substance, until one
restriction after another has made it the
only safe way for man to get drink
OF water for him to lie down on his back.
open his mouth and wait for the show
er. Science has kindly warned us of the
death that turks in the coffee cup. The
cup that blesses the breakfast table i'm
pairs the digestion. Large doses of if
produce palpitation of the heart. 1t is
adulterated with Venetian red and ma
tive sesquiOxide of iron. 1t has also
warned us against the use of warm tea.
bread and butter, meat, vegetables.
fruit, roots, berries, milk and similar
articles of food. Singular enough, Sci
ence has not yet assailed iced tea.


But it will not do to permit people to
enjoy this cool, delightful beverage,
simply because its taste is grateful tC
the wearied system during this scorch.
ing weather. We must do our duty


though science may shrink from it. and
the people may cry out against us


There is danger in iced tea, and if yor
would live long and we'll, shun the cool.
ing cup. We have not the space to de.
Year: 1879

Jimmy Carr came to America in
1885," says the Cincinnati Enquirer,
land took up his abode in this city
soon afterward. Liking the country
he settled here to work at his business
OF machinist and engineer, and was al
ways good citizen and faithful en-
ployee. He was rather old to begin
the profession of arms when the war
began, but he did the next best thing,
he went into the navy, enlisting as as
sistant engineer on the steamer Queen
OF the West, a freight boat which had
been bought by the government and
altered into a ram here in Cincinnati.
The vessel, which was under command
of Captain Elliott, Was ordered South,
and it was at the battle of Memphis
that Jimmy Carr met with this partic-
ular adventure, which made him a hero
in as peculiar manner as ever hero
gained the title. We give the tale as
he tells it: ..... ..


lit was on the 9th of june said jim
my, that Memphis was taken. 1 re-
member it well, for it was hot day,
and l was in hot place, too, can tell
you. The fleet was laying five miles
above Memphis, and the Queen was
volunteer that morning. Early in the
day we got orders to move down tow
ard the rebel batteries, but had no
sooner got within range than the
"Johnniesn opened fire on us. Our
captain called on Curtis, the first en-
gineer, to let loose, and he did, and we
were soon steaming down the river.


We weren't long under way until we
had one hundred and fifty pounds of
steam on, and still rising. Curtis de-
Year: 1879

tailed me to look after the boilers-we |
hau four which were on deck-and
went off to my post. The first thing l
notlced was that the safety-valve wasn't
weighted heavy enough for the extra
pressure, and the steam escaped.
couldn't see anything lying around to
weight it down with but large lump
OF coal. lifted that on to the lever,
but it was no use, as it was tumbled off
IN minute or two. By this time we
must have had fully two hundred
pounds of steam on, and on looking out
l saw the rebel gunboat, the General
Lowell, steaming up and firing at US.
We had no guns aboard and only eleven
sharpshOoters, and the shot was flying
around US pretty lively. Iknew it was
the captains intention to try to sink
the Lowell, and l saw that it would
never do to allow the steam to escape
as 1t was doing. l had to think quick
there was nothing near that l could
weight down the valve with, but was
bound not to be beat, and 1 just got
astrlde of the lever myself and sat
down on it. 1t was pretty hot, but
stuck it out. l looked out and the
Lowell was only couple of hundred
yards off. She stopped to round-to,
but the Queen was too quick for her,
and wit.I a rush, we were into her, just
astern of the wheel, and almost went
clean through her. / was so excited
that l never took my eyes off her when
we were coming up, and just bore my
weight down on the lever, never think
ing to hold on to anything. When we
struck, the shock was so terrible it just
knocked me head and heels over the
boilers. Curtis was watching me, and
thought was killed, and halloed out
"There goes poor Jimmy )" but wasn't
gone. l was stunned for II minute, but
jumped up and climbed over the boil
ers and straddled the lever again, this
time taking a good hold. ..


The Lowell sank in about five min
utes, but we had hardly time to get
clear of her before another rebel craft,
the Beauregard, steamed up toward us.
We treated her the same way as we
treated the Lowell, but this time | kept
my seat and clung on for dear life, and
the shock didn't knock me off. Soon
after the Queen, having nothing more
to do, drew out from the fight and l got
down from my perch. felt a little sore
and had few burns-for it was hot
place | was in-but that was all the


worse l was fol the adventure
Year: 1879

One of the most wonderful natural
phenomena ever witnessed was seen by
a large crowd of people few days ago
at the home of Mr.. Peter Taylor who
9iVes just outside of the corporation.
For some time Mr.. Taylor has had a
number of men boring for water in the
southwest corner of his grounds. When
a depth of about one hundred and fifty
feet had been reached Mr.. Taylor heard
peculiar rumbling sound, apparently
issuing from the hole, and judging that
something unusual was about to hap
pen, warned his men to move to a safe
distance from the well. Scarcely had
they done so when fountain of muddy
water shot straight up into the air with
terrific force, carrying up the boring
pipe with it as far as the fastenings
would allow, and scattering the mud,
water and stones in all directions. The
subterranean noises appeared gradu-
ally to increase in violence and as they
did so the expelling force, whatever it
was, seemed to be proportiOnally aug
mented until the cOne-shaped column
obtained a height of fully one hundred
and fifty feet. Some idea of the mystic
riOus subteranean power which sup
piled the motive for this exhibition of
natural water works may be conveyed
by the fact that stones weighing fully
five, six, and even eight pounds were
shot up into the air to a considerable
height, while showers of round pebbles
of smaller size fell like hailstones upon
circle of several yards around the
hole. One large sized stone struck a
timber of the derrick in its upward
course, and glancing off, was thrown
several hundred yards into Mr.. William
Taylor's grounds on the opposite side
of the road.


The wind was blowing pretty strong
from the south at the time, and the re,
suit was that the roof of Mr.. TaylOr's
large brick hOuse-One of the largest in
tOwn-and its south side were bespat.
tered with the muddy mixture, there
being actually puddle of clay, pebble:
and water several inches deep on the
roof. Showers of the same mixture were
carried clear over the house and fol-
some distance along the street north OF
his lot.


After the extraordinary spectacle had
lasted for nearly an hour and a half
the fountain appeared to make one last
W uO uoJlGE Judu lGS UeSU-
and then gradually to lose its ascending
force. The series of jerking leaps-foI
the expelling power seemed all along to
be irregular and intermissive rather
than cOntinuOus-became weaker and
weaker; the steady whirring sound
which accompanied the exhibition, and
which can best be described as resem-
bling very closely the noise of steam
fire-engine, gradually lessened and at
about 6:30 Mr.. Taylor was rather re-
lieved to find that his magnificent but
incOnveniently powerful llawn-sprinkler
had disappeared, for the present at
least, within subterranean recesses.
The rumbling sound continued for a
few minutes and then ceased, though
the water which filed up the pipe to
within twenty-three feet of the surface
of the earth was disturbed for some
time after by bubbling agitation =
Sdrnid (ORt) Observer.
Year: 1879

was ever made for water drank at the
Saratoga Springs. In 1876 the Congress
and Empire Spring Company, after
spending many thousand dollars on their
park, began to charge for admission to
that enclosure, but the water of either
of the two springs thus enclosed, the
Congress and the Columbian, was ac-
cessible from without. The HathOrn
Spring is the most convenient to the
principal hotels and to the public gen.
orally, and everybody drinks its water.
The new policy of the proprietors is
looked upon with favor, for the price of
admission is so small as not to exclude
anyone, and at the same time revenue
can be derived from it for keeping the
place in repair. Marked changes have
been made in the enclosure and in the
approaches, so that the public have no
reason to complain that free drinkin&is
no longer allowed. The new plan will
distribute the tax which was formerly
paid by the few bibbers who were dis
posed to fee the r-boys.-Corres-
pOndence EUening Post.
Year: 1879

As President Grevy and the Ministry are
decidedly opposed to the project for the
impeachment Of the Duke de Broglie and
18th May it is very certain that any motion
made to that effect will be voted down by o
satisfactory majority. Indeed, we cannot
see that this motion has had any serious
chance for success in the recent turn
of events. An inquiry was ordered to
be made into De Broglie's conspiracy with q
specific object in view; but that object has
been accomplished in another way, and
those who could have used that inquiry in
way dangerous to DE Broglie know this
and are disposed to hang the now useless
weapon on tho wall but the contankerous
men of the Left want to get the old blum
derbuss of, if only ut dead game. With
MacMahon in tho Presidency land in an
attitude of defiance toward the will Of the
nation, and with the political elements Of
which Dc Brogie is the type behind him -
there was constant menace and possible
danger to the republican constitution daily
Haunted in the eyes of the nation. But
the strong republicans knew how to con-
jure that danger. They knew that the
last reactionary Ministry was compromised
before the law by its actions, and they
proposed to fight this enemy with the i'm
peachment process. But that enemy is
dead, and the reactionary conspirators
are as much out of the game Of contem-
porary French politics as tho Mcrovingans.
1t would be only folly, therefore, to dis
turb' public tranquility with them now,
and the Assembly will not permit that
folly.
Year: 1879

Captain Paul Boyton complains vigor-
ously and justly in another column Of the
delay that has marked the supposed enter
prise for turning "Nan the Newsboy," and
his associates into permanent and effec-
tive life saving corps on our river front. The
Captain naturally feels uncomfortable about
the matter because at one time his own
name was associated with the undertaking,
and public blame for delay and neglect is
always likely to fall upon the most prom
inent parsonage that appears in the matter.
1t is certainly time for the committee which
took the local life saving enterprise in
charge to either do something or admit
their incapacity by resigning their work
into ADLER hands. After the assurances which
the boy received it will be disgrace to the
city if whatever is to be done falls finally
to Captain Boyton, a nonresident, and with
no more responsibility in the matter than
he may in his good nature and sympathy
aaeuma-