smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1879

was actually in New-York suffering from the
consequences Of o serious carriage accident.
Doubts were even expressed whether he had
ever left New-York on the expedition to
which he was understood to devote himself,
and a discreditable conjecture was thrown
out Eve blush even to repeat iD that the en-
tire company may have proceeded no further
than the Manhattan Club, and that they may
now be concealed somewhere about that es-
tablshment preparing to delude the puDilc
with narrative ola journey never performed,
and the details of purely imaginary inter-
views. Fortunately for the good name OF the
gentlemen involved in the affair." Mr.. Belmont
has now recovered from his injuries. He is able
to step forth into the keen, bright sunlight
of publicity, and give n full circumstantlai
account of the adventures of the search party.
1t is not to be imagined for moment that
the seven able and enterprisng Democrats
who comprise the expedition have done moth
ing since they volunteered for duty at the
beginning of April. Undoubtedly, If they
said they were going, they went; and II IL
happened that two weeks after their dlsap-
pearance Mr.. Belmont was discovered IN
New-YOrk, it is probable that he returned on
some brief errand, perhaps for consultation,
perhaps to forward supplies. and that he
meant to rejoin the party Immediately Mr.
Belmont owes it to himself and his associates
to report proceedings ut once.


Besides, the Democracy Of the metropolis,
of the Empire State, nay Of the whole nation,
is seriously embarrassed by this long delay.
The publication OF the police, the reform OF
the Sheriff, the reorganization OF Auburn
Prison, are going Oh all the while'
and if Mr.. BelmOnt's candidate Is not
discovered soon there is danger that the DIS
closure will be too late. The fortunes OF the
party in Washington are fast going to the
bad and every fresh exhibition OF the trucu-
lence of the Confederate brigaders, and the
folly of their Northern assistants, gives Ar.
Tilden an extra twist, which it will be found,
by and by, very difficult to reverse. If that
remarkably astute old gentleman Is to be
headed off, it strikes us that no time ought
TO be lost in beginning the operation. Should
the mysterious disappearance OF the search
party last much longer, it viii 90 near to oe
thought that all the seven are indeed shut mp
in the Manhattan Club, where they have been
irving for a month to allot the candidacy to
one of themselves by the agency OF game
of cards,
Year: 1879

This weeks reports show us that the negro
emigration into Kansas is settling down pre-
cisaly as any rational observer could nave
foretold from the outset. There is much sut-
fering among the emigrants, and there VIII
he much more when next Winter, with a
climate and privations of which they know
nothing is upon them. There Is scant welcome
for them in any of the towns; naturally no
struggling community wishes to DO drowned
in a food of pauperism. There Is great
deal of windy sympathy for them among the
people who make it point OF conscience 10
indorse the negro, right or wrong, but so faf
very little money or practical help has been
sent from this class. The North poured out
money like water last Summer for the Southern
whites. vet she looks on the misery OF these
innocent blacks with an UnaccOuntably chilly
apathy.


Yet. with all this discOuragement, the outlook
for them is reasonably fair. They have been
largely helped by men of their own color and by
tbe farmers and small villagers. Thousands
of the first arrivals have been absorbed into the
interior of the State and are now at work as
miners, farm-bands, servants, etc. Freedmens
Aid Societies have been started in Topeka,





Ting TO work. Three or four practical, nom
est men, who would not embezzle the FUNDS
given to these poor creatures, nor advise them
from political motives, but would SIMPLY set
them to work in some place where they would
neither starve nor freeze for year or two,
would prove as much their deliyerer just now
rs WAS Moses to the Israelites. No doubt, for
the majority the exodus will result in good,
at least for their children. The majority were
miuslly and brutally misused. But there were
many of the flying refugees who were
lust as certainly very comfortably OF IN
their old homes. All Southerners are not
Legrees There are kind, just, Christian en-
ployers in Mississippi as in Kansas. and these
working-people, if they know any such, should
have stayed where they were OF should 90
back rs soon as possible. AS for the political
association in Boston which now claims to
have been the motive power IN sending these
hordes away from their oppressors, what is
il doing to feed and clothe them now that
il has set them adriftf Money was always
forthcoming when needed to flood the South
with agents and circulars, but now that these
hapless creatures are starving and dying OF
disease, we have not heard OF dollar con-
trbuted from that source
Year: 1879

Probably few members of the present Legislature
ST Albany are even aware of the existence OF bill,
recently introduced by one of their number which
might be termed bill to reform the Legislature.
II is designed 20 correct the methods which have
brought the laws respecting this city and Brooklyn
into such hopsle5s confusion that even the highest
court of the State declared ITSELF occasion,
unable to discover what the law The measure
has the appreciation of the Municipal Society,
4 BODY of men who arc striving in all
sincerity though not always perhaps, by the
most practical methods, to improve our municipal
condition and the bill therefore deserves tho re-
spectful consideration OF all those who realze that
New-York i, one of the worst-governed cities in the
civilized world


Mr. Simon Sterne, who is the author of this BILL
took the ground in address before the Municipal
Society which foreshsdowed this measure, that we
had outgrown the old methods of legislation; that
the law-maklng machinery which answered every
purpose in the days when the population was
sparse trades and industries were comparatively
few in number, and almost every man-certalnly
all the best men-had leisure for public duties will
not suffice in this age of the vast growth Of corpora
tons the wonderful increase Ut wealth and tho in
cessan and tremendous conflict OF special interests
Keeping this idea in mind, and remembering that
many Of the innovations embodied IN this bill are
already settled parliamentary practices in other
countries notably in England where the Legislature
is certainly not fettered, the average citizen will
be able to hear with more equanimity propositions
which. to one familiar only with American legsla-
tive methods, may sound almost revolutionary.


The first Of these changes Is designed to prevent
clandestne or hasty legislation affecting local in
teress Tho bill provides that notice shall be given
of all applications TO the Legislature for action
affecting u local matter which involves taxation
by an advertisement to be published week
for several weeks Immediately preceding the open
ing OF the session. the advertisement to appear in
ono daily paper in the city county to which the
bill asked for applies in the State paper and if the
proposed legislation affects New-York City, in The
Cify Record All private, special and local bills
TO be filed ON tho first day of the session and if any
Year: 1879

With the dispute in the Democratic ranks as
to the responsibility for the present condition
of affairs, which now and then crops out in
spite of caucus pledges and Oaths of secrecy,


we have nothing to do, except as it concerns
the public welfare and throws light upon the
general situation. Whether the Northern or
the Southern Democrats have been the more
instrumental in bringing the party to
such an issue with the Administration
that one or the other must back down, is
question which, so far as party discipline and
organization are concerned they may settle
among themselves. The only interest in it is
as it ELIMINATES the policy and the plans of
the party which asks to be intrusted with abb
solute control of all departments of the
Government. We have been repeate jy told Of
Year: 1879

As a rule, the "hindsight" of the Demo-
cratic party has been about as poor as its
foresight, but now it has actually disclosed
the ability to know a blunder after making
it. The Overp0wering force of public opinion
upon the controversy between the President
and Congress has made itself s. plainly
felt III Washington, that the DemoC IS have
practically surrendered already wat they
have been vowing they would never surrender.
The Joint Caucus Committee, of which Sena-
tor Thurman is chairman, has agreed to
recommend that the majority in both houses
shall recede from the position they assumed
with reference to the right of civil officers of
the United States to employ force for the
preservation of peace at the polls aud that,
after amending the present sixth section of
the Army bill, so as to AVOID the objections
on this point which the President showed to
be unanswerabe, they shall pass II section
as separate bill. This is douole surren-
der, and of great Importance. The actual
harm which the Army bill would have
worked aside from the coercion of the Ex-
ecutlve, would have como through Chis
feature of it; the Army is not used to
influence elections, and as the President
showed, there is no power, under tho laws as
they now stand TO use it for that purpose.
The Democrats abandon, therefore, the one
feature of the bill itself which was a serious
danger. They also recede to "a certain de-
gree, at least, from their intention o. coereing
the President by not carrying out at once
their threat of stopping supple Bat this is
not an absolute surrender. They propose to
wait to see what the President viii do with
the new bill before making app. opriatons for
the Army. The country must sill ren ain in
doubt, therefore. whether the attempt bull
doze the Executive may not be 7, sumed
Year: 1879

1t seems to be well understood by this time
that there is no prospect of the passare of a
bill to allow Nassau-st. to be conhscated
by an elevated road, unless such a bill steals
its way through the Legislature under a dis
guise. Now that the public is thoroughly
aroused upon the subject, no such stratagem
seems possible; certainly, in the present con-
ditiOn of sentiment in this city no such
measure could be openly passed. Mr.. Bliss's
bill, absolutely prohibiting all further extern
sion of the roads south Of the City Hall has
been referred to a committee that is
above reprOach, and will be favOrably
reported to-day, it is understood, by
unanimous vote. The Legislature should
show the same promptness in putting
this matter beyond the reach of question. 1t
should be remembered that no one asks for
legislation extending the NewYOTk Road
except a few stockholders who seek 1t only for
private ends. No public end warrants such
legislation, and the men who are seeking
it have already achieved colossal fortunes by
means of the free grants made to them by the
city.
Year: 1879

The negroes are an inferior race, we are told and
vet without them the South is helpless and hope
less They are an inferior race, and yet since the
war they have proved themselves less idle and shift
less than their late masters. They are not experts
with the rifle and derrnger, but they can WELD the
hoe and guide the plough, accomplishments which
have nev er been acquired by their white brethren
When they abandon the homes for which they
have toiled, but for which they could not
secure title, the South is bereft OF
all promise Of material prosperity. The
Southern whites as q class are the most dependent
race OH the globe, and ordinary prudence should
have prompted them first OF all to strengthen
and make sure their main support. That the
South Is now threatened with desolation by
the withdrawal of this support is not
moro striking exemplary retrbuhon
for course of cruelty and injustice than It is
marlable as q demonstration of the improyidence
and recklessness Of the superior race" This
Northward flight Of tho negroes may prove dis
astrous piece Of folly on their part, OF which they
will bitterly repent. 1t certainly was madness on
the part of tho whites to allow this spirit OF deser
ton to invade tho only body Of labor at their
mand much less to drive tho negroes to an abandon
ment OF their homes rs the only escape from bur-
dons which had grown intolerable.
Year: 1879

The reduction rate Of interest eur public debt TO
threeau hall four per cent is permanent benefit to
every person and enterprise IN the country ad Is the se'
SIGN Of returning National wealth and sound prosperity.


Respectfully Ilsh HATCH
Year: 1879

Mr.. Voorhees, is anxious 20 have it understood
that he was not present at the Democratic
caucus whose proceedings have been so care
fully suppressed. This may help the Indiana
Senator a little in the public estimation, bat it
will not help the caucus to have the fact known
that it reached the sum TOTAL of confusion and
disorder that it did. without the assistance OF
the ablest Senatorial rOter of them all.
Year: 1879

Don't crowd and push in tho march OF life,
Or tread on each others toes
For the world at best. in its great unrest,
Is hard enough az it goes.
Oh why should tho strong oppress the weak
I'LL the latter 90 to tho wall 2
On this Garth OF ours with its thorns ant


flowers,
There is room enough for all.
II tagging brother falls behind


And drops from tho toiling band,
II fear and doubt put his soul to rout,
Then lond him Il helping hand.
Cheer up bis heart with tho words OF hope
Nor season tho speech with gall
In the great highway, OH tho busiest day,
Thore IL room enough for all
II a man with the tread OF pioneer
Steps out Oh your path ahcad,
Don't grudge hiA start with All envious heart
For the mighticst once wore led
BIT grid your loins for the coming day
Let nothing your heart appal-
Catch up, II you can. W. til tho for,rard man,
There is room enough for all.
And II. hy doing your duty we'll


You should get to lead the van
Brand not your name with deod Of shame,
Bit come out an honest man.
Keep bright lookout Oh every side
TILL heoding the Masters call,
Your soul shall 20, from tho world below
Where thoro's room enough for all.
Year: 1879

One day slim wasted young man with
Il clothes -wringer under his arm ATTEMPTED
TO open the gate Of Il yard Oh Cass avenue


He had made up his mind that he could sell
the people wringer, and he might have
accomplished his object but for dog about
us big rs tobacco hogshead which stood
waiting on the other side of the gate for Il
chance to tackle some leg weary agent.


I'll call again, whispered the agent as
he turned to go, and he meant just what he
said. The presence Of one dog didn't dis
courage him except for the moment. lie
passed up the street and in an hour returned
to try again. There was no dog there rs he
opened the gate, but in ten seconds after
the latch clicked Il bundle of teeth and bones
shot around the corner Of the house and the
agent shot across the road. .,.
"Now you mark my words!" lie said, as
he shook the wringcr at the dog, tTll get
in there If have to walk over your dead
body"


lie meant IL again. and in the afternoon
he returned. IIc surveyed the yard from
every point, had reasons to conclude that
the dog was down the cellar, watching for
rats, and finally opened the gntc School
children who were Watching say that the
dog overshot tho mark by trying to swallow
the agent and wringcr at one gulp, and
therefore got neither; but It was such u
close shave that the young man went around
the corner minus his hat and one coat-tail.
lie did not return again by daylight. Per-
haps il was he who tossed the poisoned
meat over the fence that night, or perhaps
i was some young man who wanted to fall
in love with the good-looking girl in the
house. Some folks may think the dog
didn't find the mcnt, but there are proofs to
the contrary. The agent was on hand
about . O'Clock the next morning, and to
his great joy he discovered the dogs "lcad
body" lying in the yard. The poison had
done its work, and he was free to announce
the merits of his wringcr to the waiting
fumily. .. ....


boy who sat on the fence saw the dogs
eyes open little rs the agent passed through
The gate. lie saw'thc dog softly get upon
his feet after the agent had passed the
'body.' He saw something like grin
cross That cnnincs face as he got his legs
well under him, and then the lad fell or
his roost, and only scrambled up in time to
see shadow cross Il vacant lot, jumping
clear over the tops Of old thistlcs, and never
minding the frog-ponds. The boy hung
around there till the dog had swallowed
everything belonging to tho wringcr except
one cog-whccl, and that he buried alongside
the fence, to "keep'' for some future meal
Year: 1879

put out. II, on the other hand, she
loves him, or thinks she does, he is
admitted to privileges that, in Christ
ian communities, are deemed infamous
until the church and state have given
their blessing and their sanction. In
the morning the warrior presents hi
bride with q new dress-a present from
his relatives. She accepts 1t with many
thanks. The man leaves for his own
house and sends his mother or sister TO
bring home the girl. She then returns
TO her own house and gives the new
dress to some female relative, takes
what belongs to her, goes back to her
husbands tepee and all is settled, until
one party or the other gets tired of the
arrangement. In such case, after wait
ing a proper period either one can
marry" again, and keep on marrying
and separating to no end. Among the
i've nstions-or, at least, four of them
marriage is about the same as with
white CHI istisns. Some OF the wilder
tribes are rank polygsmists and pay no
heed whatever to marriage ceremonies OF
any kind.
Year: 1879

Uncle Dick weighs sixty-fve tons and
he is sixty feet long from his head light
to the rear end OF his tender He is the
biggest locomotive in the world, and is
for duty on the precipitous inclines of
the Atchinson, Topeka and Santa Fe
railroad. a boiler 81 feet long supplies
steam for cylinders 20 inches by 26, and
gives motion to eight 42-inch drivers,
while large tank surmounting the en-
tire structure not only carries water
supply, but helps to give Uncle Dick a
tighter grip on the rails. His driver will
have control Of three independent sys-
tens of air brakes and can bring to bear
at once upon his heels restraining force
OF Is tons, which is none too large mas
much as ''shoe pressure" of $4,000
pounds is Squired to keep him when
standing still and alone on the steep
road over the Ruton Pass, from surren-
dering to gravitation, and rushing down
hill by his own weight. How heavy
these grades are can be understood when
1t is noted that one end Of Uncle Dick
will often stand more than three feet
higher than the other, so that in travel
ing his own length he viii do the work
OF lifting about $50 tons perpendicular
foot. And yet this monster rejoicing in
his strength, viii rush up the flank OF
the Rocky Mountains with ten loaded
cars behind him,
Year: 1879

All the gorld has heard of the eccen-
trio distaste of King Ludwig of Bavaria
for publicity, especially in the theater.


His passionate love of the drama, and his
excellent Judgment upon its allied arts
its poetry scenery and music-are equal


Iy matter Of notoriety. A citizen Of


Munich says he has not seen the king in
a theater since 1868. when he sat alone
in the royal box at the first representa-


ton of the "Rheingold," and watched
the sporting of the water nymphs in the


green flood of the Thine. Since that


time King Ludwig has become still more


shy of society, and he now arranges for


separate representations of plays and
operas, at which he constitutes the whole


and sole audience. On such evenings


even his manager, Baron Won Perfall,
dares not show himself in the house, but
is compelled to watch the performance
from behind scenes. OF the actors and
actresses in these secret performances


the king is severely critical His favor


ite play, Schiller''s 'Jungfrau Won Or
leans, IS now never acted, because his


majesty cannot find any actress who
| renders the part of Joan of Are to his
satisfaction, although the decorations for


the separate presentations of this drama


have been produced at enormous expense
| of time, talent and cost. The king him.
self journeyed to Rheims in order to
secure that the scenery for the corona
ton in the cathedral of Rheims should
be accurate and faultless, and the view
of the interior of the cathedral is said to


be masterpiece OF decorative painting.
The coronation procession also has been
| arranged with rare magnifcence, wealth
| and fidelity to costume in the smallest
| detail, and yet, on account of the exact


ing criticism of King Ludwig, it is never


placed upon the stage He has lost none


Of his amiability for artists, and when a
scene painter or actor has specially
| pleased him he rewards them with gifts


of unusual value. Such life is a strange
| contrast to the active publicity of our


own royal house, and, indeed, to that of


all the other sovereign princes within the
| German Empire.
Year: 1879

Troy Press: The following very ro-
mantle story is but the substance of what
happened in our own city many years
ago. The characters that appear as
principals have passed away, but their
descendants yet live among us and occu-
Ply honorable positions in society. Two
young men who had passed through col
lege and graduated with honor were
studying medicine. They were fast
friends and were almost inseparablo
They entered society together, and were
well received in the best houses. They
were together one evening at a reception
III one of the wealthiest mansions of the
city, when new star appeared IL the
person Of q niece of the hostess, who had
come from Massachusetts,. She was
handsome, and reports agree in saying
that she was as good as she was pretty.
Both OF the medical students were snit-
ten, and for the first time in their lives n
feeling Of estrangement came between





men were essentially different. One was
frank and open as the day, while the
other was taciturn and reserved. Both
paid court to the lady, but she soon
manifested n choic for the more rank
character, and they became engaged.
The defeated suitor seemed to bear his
disappointment resignedly. In time the
lady went home, and the successful
snitor went abroad to complete his
studies. While absent letters were re-
ceiyed by the girl concerning her lover
which created the feeling that he was
false to her, and finally one Game in his
own hand writing bidding her farewell,
and stating that he was to be married to
a lady of rank. This proved almost q
deathblow to the girl, but she soon raj
lied and sought in every way to conceal
the traces of grief. The defeated suitor
was at hand and again profered his
homage, and finally, in a fit of pique, she
married him. Had this been the finale
of the story there would be no romance.
It was not long after the wedding before
the lover returned. He could not be
made to believe that the one he loved
Was false by nature. He reasoned that
there was cause for her change, and, like
sensible man, he commenced the task
of anraveling the mystery. After much
trouble he obtained an interview with the
wife in the absence of her husband and
as an answer to his upbraidings she
handed him his letters of remuneration.
She was happier than she had been in
many days when she learned that the
letter was forgery, and that the lover
had always been true to her. She at
once renouncod her husband, and soon
opportunity offered and she procured a
divorce, and was united to her first and
only love. The husband ard wife settled
down III this city, and here he enjoyed a
long and successful career, and when he
died, full of years and honor, he was
surrounded by his wife and family. The
false friend who, by his wicked machina-
tons, had wrought so much sorrow,
removed to Lansingburg, where he be.
came physician of note. He afterward
remarked, and his poaterity o-day
occupy honored positions in the State.
/ In two family Bibles in this city the
marriages are recorded among the family
archives.