smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1879

contend is her lack of good roads.
With ample mail facilities, and a dis.
play OF harbors which must prove
invaluable TO her as an aid to future
growth; with large amount ct
farming land, both wild and under
cultivation; with her two sawmIiIs
and eligible sites tor several more;
with her valuable forests, her stores
Of iron ore, her mountains of useful
stone, and her varied mineral treas.
ures yet unearthed-with all these of
which we may justly boast, the roads
leading from one point to another
across our public domain are 50 i'll
ieror that they form subject OF
general remark.


We have enterprise enough to de-
velop every industry; Port Town
Selu, our CIlCl COlIllcl Cldl CSht"'' ,
exhibits many evidences Of thrift
and healthy growth; most OF our
farms indicate that our agricultural
interests are in the hands of a hardy
and enterprlslng class OF people; ana
yet our public highways afford
strangers an excuse for turning away
IN disgust and telling their friends
as was recently saij-that "the peo-
pie of Jefferson county are too par
simonious and short sighted to make
good roads" A case i'll point may
be alluded to. Not very long ago a
couple Of gentlemen of means visit
ed Port Townsend with the intention
of staying week or two in the
county and looking around for an
opening TO invest iii some prodtabIe
enterprise. A day or two after com
ing here, they hired a wagon to make
tour Of Chlmacum valley; but
their experience with the roads was
of such character that supreme
disgust took the place of any desire
to see sights and take notes of re-

sources. Returning to town they
embarked on the very next steamer
leaving for up Sound ports, saying
that they "didn't want to invest
money where people hadn't enter
prise enough to construct better
roads than those of Jefferson county,"


The stage road leading to Port
Discovery is one of our most import
ant highways, and yet it was con
structed by private enterprise and Is
KEPT IN REPAIR through the same
agency. We understand that few
months ago, when an effort was made
to secure county assistance in widen
ing and grading this road SO as to
bnng it up to the required standard
the proposition was met with the
bluff remark that "You Port Discov
cry people MUST come to Port Town.
send to do your trading, and as long
as the road is passable we needn't
lay out county funds on it," Now,
we ask in all candor, what will our
public roads come to if the above in
dicated spirit continues to be the
ruling one? Suppose Port Dscov
cry people DO have to come over here
occasiona ly to do a little trading,
does not Port Townsend reap the ben
eft of it, and should we not make an
effort to secure and retain as much
trade as possible from that quarter
But there is no need Of discussing
or combating such narrow and mig
gardly ideas. What we need is to
feel our mutual dependence, one
point upon another, and above all to
consider public needs and public
welfare.


Our newly elected county commits
sioners will, in few days, hold their
first meeting and commence their
acts as public servants and agents for
Year: 1879

A IMAM who kept shooting gallery in
Philadelphia, the other day came to his
door with his gun and deliberately aim
ed and shot at a crowd Of several little
boys. The ball took effect in the lung
Of Ole of them who is not expected to
live. The man who perpelrated this
deliberate murder in the great city was
allowed by the police TO close up his
house and make h escape. Had this
brutal act been done in the South and
the boy been negro, the Radical press
would have boiled over with RAGE. But
the ac' being d ne at home, and only a
white boy being killed, the press is very
p-udently quiet, 10 screen the inactior
of the police.
Year: 1879

THE Senate yesterday concurred in
the House resolution to adjourn from
the 10Th December to the 9th Of January.
The next nine days will probably be de-
voted to work but after the reassembling
the chin music will begin.
Year: 1879

Just as the last rays of the setting sun
were gliding the church spires and white
washing the back kitchens of Detroit, man
and barrel were discovered at stairway
on Monroe avenue. He was small man
and it was big barrel, and pedestrians who
saw him looking up the stairs and back at
the barrel inferred that il was his intention
to elevate it to the third story. But how


I'D rig tackle and pulley in that third
story window, said the first man who halt
ed. "That's your easiest way, and there's
no danger of accident"


He leaned against the lamp-post to calcu-
late on the length of rope and the lifting
power required, and along came a man who
took in the situation at a glance and said:


go and get some scantlings fourteen
feet long and lay EN- on the stairs. Then
two men can roll that barrel up there as
slick as grease.


The little man looked around in a help
less sort of way, and a third man came blus-
tering up and called out:


''Want to get that barrel up stairs, ell
Well, now, fasten your pulley at the head
of the stairs and ten men down here can
snake the barrel up stairs in no time.
Where's your tackle."


By this time the crowd had increased to
twenty, and was pretty evenly divided be-
tween a dead lift through one of the front
windows and pulley at the top of the
stairs but the man who suggested the skids
mad very loud voice and was determined
to carry his point. Taking off his coat, he
said:


II know what I'm talking about, and
say that can skid that barrel up there alone.
You just wait a minute.


He crossed the street to an unfinished
building and returned with a couple of 2X4
scantlings and laid them on the stairs, and
the crowd now numbered fifty.


''You want this barrel on the third floor
do you?" he asked of the little man.


Yes-but-but-"


.'But what Z"


"Why was waiting for my wife to get
the clothes-horse out of the upper hall.
She's all ready now, and I'll take it up"


And the little man shouldered the barrel
and trotted briskly up stairs between the
kids. 1t was empty
Year: 1879

Most of our invalids are such, and mil
lions of more healthy people will become
invalids, for want of paying the most Or
dinary attention to the requirements of the
skin That membrane is too often regard
ed as "A covering only, instead of compli-
Gated piece of machinery, scarcely second
in its texture and sensitiveness to the ear
or the eye. Many treat it with ss little
reference to Its proper functions as if it
were nothing better than bag for their
bones. Ii is this reconsideration for the
skin that is the cause of very large pro-
portion of the diseases in the world. If,
as claimed by some scientists, four fifths,
in bulk, of all we eat, and drink, must
either pass off through the skin or be
turned back upon the system as a poison,
and that life depends as much upon these
exhalations through the skin as upon in
haling pure air through the lungs, it must
be of the most vital importance to keep
that channel free.
Year: 1879

The Texas cowboy is a rare bird He is
a sort of happy jack Of the Wilderness, "a
dry land sailor, who takes his fun in large
doses whenever he gets to port port being
to him the nearest town with a dance
hOuse-his fun pure deviltry. He can yell
louder in an unearthly key, swagger more
and swear harder than any man of his
inches on the continent His dress is evi-
IDENTIFY intended to ape the Mexican cOun-
terfeit of the Spanish cavalier, with a
sneaking regard for home cOnventiOnalities
thrown in. Imagine the conglomeration


Having no tiXity of form it is wholly in
describable and varies with the whim of
the individual. Yet he is proud of his


''make up, and pays particular attention
to the style Of his hat, boot and spurs.
The hat is an elaborate affair Broad
leaved, tasselled and tinseled, it spreads its
far-reaching shadow over the form of its
festive owner a few acres beyond His
only pet is his horse; his only toy his pis-
tOl; but he would prefer losing his horse
for day to being severed from his six
shooter for a moment. All his strength is
in his toy. Like the savage Indian, when
deprived of his weapon his ''heart is on the
ground" \ small boy could thresh him
then. Give him the pistol and the drop
on a man and he will rejoice in his ability
to bore hole in him big enough for
good sized dog to crawl through, as if the
boring process were something to be eX-
ceedingly proud of. This is because COW
boys are not hung often in Texas, and the
reason why they have not been is because
they have been employed and protected by
the cOwman. We have had some very dis
tInguished cowboys in this part of the
world. Bill LOngley, who killed thirty
seven men in the course of his brief ex-
perienCe, was a cowboy most Of his time,
as was also John Wesley Hardin, better
known as Wes. Hardin, who has been 10
kill man for snoring in his sleep. These
miscreants have had no such word as fair
play in their lexicon. If they intended to
get a quarrel up they first ''gOt the drop
on their victim, then bullied him into active
then shot him Gin sclf-defense. ~
Year: 1879

The manufacture of shawls at Cachmere,


with supplies all the world with a splendid
article of dress, furnishes employment to
the industry of nearly fifty thousand indi-
viduals. Ii would perhaps be difficult to
determine with accuracy the quantity of
shawls manufactured annually; but the
number of looms employed is said to be
sixteen thousand, and supposing five shawls
are on an average made at each loom, it


would give eighty thousand in the course of
the year. A shop may be occupied with
one shawl, provided it be remarkably fine
one, above year, while other shops make
six or eight in the course of that period.


OF the best and most worked kinds, not so
much as quarter of an inch is completed


in one day by the three people, which is the
usual number employed at most of the shops.


Shawls containing much work are made in
separate pieces at different shops and it
NAV be observed, that it very rarely hap
pens that the pieces when completed cor
respond in size The shop consists OF a
framework, at which the persons employed
sit on bench; their number is from two
to four. On plain shawls two people alone
are employed, and long narrow, but heavy
shuttle is used those of which the pattern
is yariegated are worked with wooden
needles, there being separate needle for
the thread of each color, and without the
aid of shuttle The operation OF their
Year: 1879

How oft at twilight hour
We two went floating of upon the wave
The West resplendent with its sunset dover.
The East all luminous, yet softly grave;


The ocean spread around,
Just ruffied, yet rejecting every hue.
Marking W tn foam each emerald islet's bound.
And gliding back its pillows to renew.


Then the lone sea-bird sped
rs trackless way with many plaintiye cry
The winds swept slowly. and from oceans bed
Rose perfumes that cen now seem gathering
nigh.


Leaning on idle oars
We gazed on hills whose feet were ON the
sand
Their crowns rose grsndly where the sunli ,;ht
pours


Its last rich food ON rippling sea and land


In all the long, bright past
When ocean, earth aud sky in blest accord,
Their'spell of light, song, motion round US
cast


There are no dearer hours in memory's ward


The cup our lips did press
In that glad time WAS trembling to the brim
With its sweet drsught of mortal happiness =
Not wasted lost, but grown far of and dim
Year: 1879

Don't come in over the fence, but through
the gate. The fence is simply for ornament.


Keep to the right as you pass around. If
you don't you may get left.


If YOU observe any animal which strikes
your particular fancy go by it at once.


In passing around ameng the live
stock remember that the horses and cattle
are well heeled.


Beware of pickpockets. 1t order not to
put them to unnecessary trouble, carry your
wallets In your hands.


In case you get lost, hire some one to ind
you. Twelve cheap boys will be stationed
on the ground for this purpose.


In walking round you will find plenty of
chances TO get a square meal.


IN efficient corps of police are on the
ground, ready to club in and help make the
Fair a success.


Any man caught squirting at the weather
and predicting rain will be ordered to dry
up.


The half mile track is no; a mile around.
Bear this in mind and it may save you
much sorrow in after years.


In case your pig don't get a prize don't
bristle up about it.


When you get tired of sitting take a grand
stand.


Quarters have been provided for all the
officers of the association, but if you want
a quarter you must go down in your pocket.
Year: 1879

manufacture is of course slow. proportiOnate
to the quantity of work which their patterns
may require. The women and children
pick out the fine wool from the coarse hair,
and other heterogeneous matter, which is
afterwards carded by young girls with their
fingers on India muslin, to lengthen the
fibre and clean 1t from dirt, and in this state
it is delivered to the dyers and spinners.


The loom that is used is very simple and
horizontal. The weaver sits on the bench,


a child is placed before him with his eyes
on the pattern, and gives him notice after
every throw of the shuttle of the cOlOrs
wanted and the bobbins to be next employed.


The Oostaud, or head workman, superin-
tends, while his journeymen are employed
near him Immediately under his directions.


II they have any new pattern in hand, OF
one with which they are not familiar, he
describes to them the figures, color and
threads which they are to use, while he
keeps before them the pattern on which
they happen to be employed, drawn upon
paper. During the operation of manufac-
turing the right side of the shawl is upper
most on the frame; Notwithstanding which,
the Oostaud never mistakes the regularity
Of the most figured piece. The wages of
the head workmen (the employer furnishing
the materials) are from six to eight pice per
day; of the common workmen from one to
four pice; which currency in Cachmere
may be valued at three-half pence each.


When a merchant enters into trade he fire.
quently engages several shops, which he
collects in a spot under his own eve or he
supplies the head workman with thread
which has been spun by women, and pre-
viously cOlored; and they carry on the
manufacture at their own homes, having be
fOrehand received instruction from the mer-
chant respecting the quality of the goods he
may require, their colors, patterns, etc.
After the goods are finished the merchant
carries them to the custom house, where
each shawl is stamped, and pays certain
duty, the amount of which is settled accord
ing to the value'and quality Of the piece.
The officer of the Government generally
fixes the values beyond what the goods are
in reality worth, and the duty levied on this
estimate is One-tifth. Most shawls are eX-
ported from Cachmere unwashed and fresh
from the loom. Amritser is the great shawl
mart, and they are better washed and pack
ed than in Cachmere but of those sent 10
the Westward, many are worn unwashed.
Year: 1879

The agents of the Water Board, in a
large city, are now abroad with the assess
ments for the coming year, noting down
increase or decrease in families, any intro
ductiOn of new pipes, and whatever is
necessary to aid the Board in making up Il
fair tax on each householder. 1t is the
duty of these agents to ask various qUes-
tions, and they expect truthful replies
When an agent asks if there has been any
increase in the family, or if bath tub has
been put in, ten out Of every fifteen citi-
Zens hesitate, Stammer, and rather seek 10
convey the impression that nothing has
occurred to cause an increase in rates. We
all know how weak human nature some
times is, but the following statistics, care
fully compiled by these agents, should
warn us that truth is the beacon light OF
safety. DufiRg the past year twelve citi-
Zens who had introduced bath tubs and
failed to remember 1t, died after a brief i'll
ness, and in most cases each one seemed to
have some awful trouble on his mind and
died hard. Fourteen citizens who had
branch pipes put in and failed to notify the
agents were either taken down with run
of fever or went into bankruptcy. Four
women who tried to slam the door on
agents, saying they didn't want TO buy any
clothes wringers that day have been laid
away forever. Three citizens who used
lawn FOUNTAINS and didn't report the fact,
have been laid up with broken limbs for
months, and now hObble around pale and
emaciated, a sad warning to other absent
minded persons. One man who solemnly
asserted to the agent that his family had
not increased was taken with st. Nitus
Dance the next day. After vainly employ
ing seven or eight physicians he sent note
to the Water Board admitting that triplets
had been born to the family and that he
had lied about it. The Board put up his
rates to the proper figure, collected arrears,
and in two weeks the man was in perfect
health. These statistics are not presented
with any intention Of frightening old liars
and hardened prevaricatOrs, but simply to
show that deception does not always bring
happiness and wealth
Year: 1879

And stimulates the torpid Liver, Bowels,
and Kidneys to healthy action, in cleansing
the blood of all impurities, and 1mparting
new life and vigor TO the whole system


A single trial will be quite sufficient to
convince the most hesitating of its valuable
remedial qualities.
Year: 1879

Tho Conditions Under Which 1t Was Made


Ahoat In the Air without Dras-Rope


The ascension of Burr and Wise was
made from Lindell Park, Sunday after
noon, September 28th. The balloon filled
much faster than Professor Wise expected
it would, the gas-pressu9e at the Lindell
Park being greater than had been repre-
sented to him. At twelve o'clock the bal
loon was inflated sufficiently to carry
four passengers, and it was the Professors
intention at this time to take three COM
panions with him-young Burr, Charlie
Gonter, and Mr.. Downey, his nephew.
The ascension was not to be made until
five o'clock. About three o'clock gen
tie breeze turned to strong wind, and the
balloon surRed about in violent man.
ner, and finally broke its fastenings-
network to which the sand-bags were
attached. Professor Wise and his assist
ants, one Of the latter his grandson,
caught the balloon and held it down till
the valve was opened and the gas let out.
The balloon, Of course, collapsed and fell
to the ground entirely. The Professor was
disgusted with the way the Pathfinder
had acted, and he said that he would
postpone the ascension to some future
day. The netting was all broke. and it
would take all afternoon to fill the bal
loon again. The ascension would
have been actually postponed had it not
been for the Professors friends, and par
ticuiarly the three who wese to accom-
pany him on bis voyage. They could fill
the balloon again in time, they said, and
repair the netting. There would be a
big crowd Of spectators there, and it
would be shame to disappoint them.
Balloon people were generally looked
upon as humbugs, any way, and it would
Year: 1879

he had contributed to the election Of ga
cross between mule and a jackass, in
Mayor Cooper, /" and he wanted God to
forgive him, and he would never do it
again.


John Kelly, chief sachem, was then
nominated as candidate for governor,
and accepted.


New York City is alive with excite
ment over the result.
Year: 1879

euif Court for Florida. In this case Juror was
asked If he had aided and abetted In the rebel
lion. and being advised by the court that 1t was
optional with him to answer declined to answer
but he did not serve as Juror, although o
motion to exclude for cause was .overruled.
The reason Of his not serving fs not shown by
the records. The question here was upon the
ruling of the court to the duty Of the Juror to
answer the question and II is said that Juror
is no more bound TO declare his guilt OF
the crime than the. witness, In order to
test his qualification. In this case an afflrma.
tive answer would have admitted treason and
whether pardoned or not by general amnesty
the juror could not be required to. declare the
fact Ia this manner. The judgment and ruling
Is affirmed.


Mr.. Justice Field agreed that a Juror could
not be required to answer the question, and
vent further. saying that he. did not think that
the act of Congress, which. by requiring
the test oath, as to past conduct, excludes tne
great majority Of citizens OF one. half Of the
country from the jury boxes valid. In his 1udg,
ment the act is not only oppressive odious gnd
1t is clearly unconstitutional and void. =, AZ 9
war measure to b. enforced In insurgent States
when dominated by the national forces. tho act
could be sustained but after the wal. was over
and these States were restored to their normal
and constitutional relations to the Union, 1t
was as much out Of place and as imperative as
would BE- law. auartering soldier In every
Southern mans house.


This was the only question of importance In
ths case. being simply one Of ejaetment.
Year: 1879

cided to do with the river and harbor appro-
priations. He stated to-day that he had sim
appropriation during the present fiscal year
than Is absolutely necessary to repair any
damage which may occur to work now In pro-
gress, but at the beginning Of the next fiscal
year the regular system OF work contemplate
ed and provided for by the river and harbor
bill will be pushed forward. The Secretary
does not contemplate adopting the course pur-
sued by President Grant, OF deciding what
improvemsnts. etc, shall be made.
Year: 1879

AS the freight train On the Delaware
Railroad was travelling towards this
CITY last night at the rate Of twenty
miles an hour, one of the piles fell of Z
car and one end stuck in the ground,
when the other end few around with
such force that 1t tore the end and side
out OF the riding car. The conductor
John Book, the only person In the car
at the time, narrowly escaped, as he
was close to where the car was struck.
There were thirty-eight cars on the
train, thirty-three Of which were load
cd with Delaware grain going North.
Year: 1879

The committee on opening streets,
have had the city Surveyor making
surveys and sounding the depth of the
water down about the mouth of the
Christiana, with view to the erection
of pier there at some future time not
far in the distance.


The sounding made by the engineer
show a depth Cat low water) of five
feet at a distance of one hundred feet
from low water mark, ranging to a
depth of 20 feet five inches, at distance
Of 900 feet from low water mark.
Year: 1879

Last evening as farmer was driving
along Fourth street with load of hay,
when at the corner of Fourth and Wal
nut the wagon ran against the lamp
post smashing the lamp and completely
demolishing the letter box attached
thereto. The wagon did not upset and
as soon as the farmer saw the damage,
he hastily hurried away with his team.
fortunately there were DO letters In tho
box, and this morning a number Of
Official parties are desirous of knowing
who the farmer isf
Year: 1879

The Moral Suasion Association haa
made large preparations for a large
meeting in their Hall tomorrow even
ing. New and good speakers will ad.
dress the meeting. Good singing will
also be feature Of the occasion. They
seem more determined than ever to ~
on with the good work.
Year: 1879

"In the general excitement goods old prices
customers may assured that large force will do their best
supply waited these short days The increase
Of clerks quite noticeable but at times in the day it far
from ample Please take kindly any disappointment not being
again We have lately gotten hold Of lots
Of Dress Goods that late for ORDERS and sold to
. sacrifice As very desirable quote in Ladies' DreS
Goods