smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1879

The London correspondent of the Bal


timore Gazette writes as follows in re-
gard to the dress of English women:
"Our British cousins-how big and jol-
ly, and altogether well fed and comfort
able they look, after one has been gaz-
ing for five years and more on the stunt
ed forms and sharp faces of the Pari-
slams. The young people especially
the young men, fair and fresh colored,
with tall, manly figures and well-opened
blue eyes; the girls with wonderful
compilations and golden hair, and above
all, with that look of innocent, girlish
sweetness and purity ttat one never,
never sees in France-are altogether
pleasant to look at. But their clothes!
Shades of our ancestress Eve, surely
You wore your leafen kirtle with more
style and grace than do these, your Brit
ish descendants, their tiebscks and their
Jackets. What is the matter with that
woman-they are clothes blind-style
blind evidently, as some unfortunates
are born color blind. The more they
try to dress the worse do they fail in the
attempt. They have no sense of the
fitness of things. Lately, at a splendid
London bail, lsdy appeared in a cos,
tune of gray and black silk and cash
mere, with high neck and long sleeves
and with magnificent diamond neck
lace clasped around her throat. An
other lady at the same en-


tertainment had on q white
satin dress, cut low in the neck, but
made with long sleeves reaching to the
wrist and very much puffed and slashed
at the shoulders. 1t is yet too early in
the season for the fashionable British
garb of sealskin jacket worn with a
muslin dress to be visible, or for that
other touch of elegance-a muslin dress
worn over woolen petticoat. But
there are plenty of things to be seen that
are wild and wonderful, especially to a
Partisan eye. And, oh! the headgear-
such hats and bonnets, big as bushel
baskets and all bushy with feathers,
worn well cooked down over the nose
And yet these people have quantities OF
taste in other directions. In all matters
of decorative art they are admirable.
Their household fittings and embroider-
les and porcelain and book bindings are
altogether lovely. 1t is only in the
matter of feminine attire that they 90 so
wildly astray. And the pity of it, the
pity of it! For the faces that are SO
disfgured by abominable hats and hide
Gus coiffures would be so very pretty ii
they only had fair play. Give to Par
isienne that complexion of cream and
roses, those masses of gold cleaning
hair, those candid blue eyes, those rows
of pearly teeth, and see what she would
make of herself. She would step forth
Year: 1879

The COLORED PEOPLE AT WORK IN KANSAS
Kew: John Turner, a cOlOred member of the ST.


Louis refuge relief board, is coming east to en-
list sympathy and aid In behalf Of the colored
people who have left their homes in the south.
that all refugees who have gone to Kansas have
found work at fair wages. Gen. Conway, the
New Jersey philanthropist, now in ST. Louis,
denies being In favor OF encouraging emigration
from the south, but says those who have
already left their home and are along the river
aW aitiDg transportation should be assisted in
migration by all available means. He claims to
De backed by number OF very wealthy philan-
Year: 1879

BRIDGEPORT, CONN, NOV. AT the opening OF
court in the McAulffe case this morning the
state attorney said that from the evidence he
would not ask for verdict of murder in the
first OF second degree; that he had agreed with
the counsel for the defence to accept verdict
of manslaughter, which, under the direction OF
the court, was given. The prisoner then made
a statement OF the circumstances attending the
homicide. He claimed to have risen about $50
a. m, when his wife was getting breakfast he
had fixed the stovepipe. bending knife in the
operation. He threw the knife on the table. and
soon engaged in an alteration with his wife, In
the course OF which he pushed her to the floor;
could not tell whether she had the knife in hef
hand or not; she arose, and he soon went out,
and did not return until afternoon; his wife was
then On the floor in the bedroom, but he did not
go in to see her The boy reported her as bleed
ing, but supposed 1t was from triling injury,
such as is frequently received by persons intoxf-
Gated: went out again, and was arrested on his
second return; had lived here twenty years; was
never before arrested. The court sentenced
John McAuiffe to three years In the state prison
and one dollar fine
Year: 1879

NEW HAVEN, CONN.,, Nov. An Important
has just come to light II is to the effect that
there has been found in Mary STANDARDS right
cheek which has been preserved in the Yale
medical school, seventeen indentatlonS which
correspond exactly with the seventeen nails in
the heel of Mr.. Hayden'S left brogan
which he wore on the day OF the
murder. 1t is claimed by the state
that Hayden put his foot on the girls face
when he cut her throat and that the indenta-
tions were made by the nails in the boot heel at
that time. This is considered vital point In
the case, as it tends to fix the personality of the
murderer.
Year: 1879

OF the interest for both manufacturer ana
Farmsr-Ths Sweet Pctatos as Sugar
Producer.


We make the following extracts
from letter written by promi.
nent citizen of Watsonville to a
Compton farmer:


WATsoNvILLE, Nov. II, '79.


Ihave been trying to find out all
1 could about the sugar business.
They are running the sugar works
quite extensively at Sequel, in this
county, producing a very fine arti"
Gle Of sugar from the beets, and are
making financial success; that
Is, the company and the beet rails
ing are o financial success. The
farmers average 16 tons per acre;
some land will produce 25 tons per
acre. AS to raising the beet on alkali
land, 1 can't say, as we have had
no experience on that kind of land,
but have been informed that beets
will grow large on it; but do not
know as to the sugar qualities OF
the beet when grown on such land.
We raise them here on all the dif-
ferent kinds of soils, and we have
several varieties of soil. The best
quality and quantity is raised on
land that has a little sand or sedi-
ment mixed with 1t. The cost OF
digging. trimming and sacking is
40 cents per ton. 1 cannot find out
the per cent. per ton of sugar, as
they do not want every one to
know all of the particulars. The
price per ton given for beets is "a 5O


There has been no test of drying
the beets In this valley. 1 have
been informed that there are par
ties trying to make arrangements
with some of the farmers about
drying, and there has been test
Of the same near San Francisco,
and 1 see by the papers that it will
probably be the best method OF
shipping and most profitable to the
raiser. do not know how much
the shrinkage will be per ton.
They are now experimenting on
sweet potatoes, and think there is
more profit in raising them, and
are making better article oi
sugar from them than they make
out Of the beet. 1 think your coun'
ty is well adapted for raising the
potatoes. They are a new kind o
potatato called the "Ocean Queen
They are testing them in Kern
county.
Year: 1879

The Democrats of the House of Repre-


senatives in caucus on Wednesday last made
substantial confession to the world that they
had surrendered on the matter of general


legislation to the Greenbackers, in consider
alton, undoubtedly, of their having chiefly
betrayed their constituents in voting for
the army bill with the Democratic rider.
1t may as well be understood by the people
that one of the most corrupt coalitions ever
known to our history has been entered into
between the Democrats and majority Of
the Greenbaclsers in the House upon the
basis, first that the Greenbaclers shall vote
with the Democrats on their programme,
which is not to stop until the last vestige of
our war measures are wiped from the stat
ute book, and shall perform any other SER
vice required of them by their Democratic
allies in the interest of Northern and West
ern subiugation to Southern domination ;
second, in return for this political seryitude
on the part of the Greenbackers the soft
shell Democrats-and they are majority
of that body in the IIouse-hoye agreed
to favor general legislation and open the
door to q flood of the most pernicious mon
etary schemes and plundering jobs yet dis
covered outside Of n lunatic asylum. DE
La MATYR's $350,0O0,000 plan for scatter
ing money on wild schemes Of improve
ment that arc not needed for commerce or
public benefit in any shape, as profusely as
ROBIN RoUGuHEAD would scatter bless
Year: 1879

ings, until he had made all peoples and all
classes happy, stands to the front. The ma
tional banks are to be moved against madly
under the Greeuback lead until the last
vestige of them are wiped out of existence.
For that matter there is TO be general
wiping out Of war measures, banks and
banking, national bonds and bondholders,
and, in fact, everything that stands in the
way of this double-headed coalcsccd
craze, This thing viii run wildly
and wicl,ety against the general
business interests of the country,
during the life time of the Forty-sixth Con-
gress, when Democrats and Greenbackors
alike will be wiped out and swept by the
tide Of popular disgust into hopeless mi
nOrity once more, where they belong, ana
where they will be harmless until the peo-
pie forget their oileuses and grant them im-
munity again The worst enemies the ma
tion has ever had have coalesced at this
Liuucture in the interest Of mischief, for they
have proposed nothing yet in the interest OF
the public welfare, but have resolved TO tear
down the Constitution ana he laws enacted
for its enforcement on the one hand, ana
make wild foray upon the general miSi-
ness interests of the country on the other


thus unsettling everything aua carrying
dismay and discontinue to every branch OF
trade, commerce, and manufactures in the
land. This will be the upshot of this coa-
lition. Let the people watch it closely.
Year: 1879

the time and for which Garfield and company have
see ali the troops getting IN out of the wet and up
on high Republican ground, The Iowa Republican,
platform of 1877 has now become the national
colors OF the party Let 1t wave.
Year: 1879

TIE last Democratic Administration, in
156O-'61, found it difficult to borrow money
for the Government at 5 per cent. interest.
The present Republican Administration
finds it difficult to supply the popular de-
mand for our per cents
Year: 1879

THOSE gentlemen in the House who are
,ighing for an opportunity to contribute to
The columns of that vivacious, luminous,
and aesthetic daily journal, known as the Con-
Uessioaal Record, have not yet been able to
open their laboratories ofrhetOric, argument,
eoquence, and wit TO the delight Of the
world on the pending appropriation bill.
The corks will be drawn in a short time, no
doubt and then the question will be with
the drill-master in the chair whether they
will open fire by file, platoons, Or companies.
BY way of economizing time it is suggested
that platoon on each side be arrayed
against each other, and that they open fire
simultaneously and do not cease firing until
they exhaust their ammunition. This will
be great saving Of time, aud will not be
Year: 1879

IT is simply a question of taste with our
local militia whether they will carry the
Union flag or not. And out of respect for
the prejudices of the loyal people Of this
community, it would appear that they ought
to carry it. To be sure, it would wound the
feelings of a certain class of intensely re-
spectacle citizens, and it may be that sub
serviency to those feelings is the proper
thing-ior feelings, sensitive feelings at that
are supposed to be Of more account than q
mere prejudice.
Year: 1879

THE Senate is very peculiar body-a
dignified body, and very apt to be given to
technicalities, hair-splitting, and the entan-
clements of legal alembics, so to speak. But
il is worthy of note that none of these Pc
ouliarities have ever been permitted to in-
terfere materially with the voting strength
of the Democratic membership in that body.
In the current case Of Senator BELL, of New
Hampshire, the exhibition of Democratic
generosity and technical adherence to al
legged principles, for example, can have no
direct effect upon that strength. 1t must
be admitted, however, that Senators BAY
ARD and JONES (of Florida) have eyinced a
quickening of conscience and an honesty OF
purpose which is as commendable as it is
rare on that side of the Chamber.
Year: 1879

THE Norfolk visiting company, out of
Difference to expressed public sentiment,
left here last evening bearing the national
flag and keeping excellent step to the music.
We trust that the example may be emu
lated by all our local military organizations.
Year: 1879

THE Democrats in the Senate do not
seem TO be cavortingly anxious to tackle
the army bill, Perhaps they think, in view
of the recent elections, that too much DEM
ocrdtto talking has already been done on
TINT subject.
Year: 1879

Ben HILLS inadvertent allusion in the
Senate the other day to the Confederacy as
an existing power" continues to attract
attention. He remarked in effect that " the
Governor Of New Hampshire had no right
to fill vacancy in the Confederate Senate"
This is one of the few declarations Mr.. HILL
has made in his entire career worthy of
general and unqualified credence. But he
was not so absent-minded when he made it
as some people suppose-only little pre-
mature, that is all, unless the pending rcvo-
luton reverses the established order OF
things and goes backward
Year: 1879

THE Democrats are disclaiming and apol-
ogizing for the vaporings of the Southern
Sdtes but when closely scanned and an
alyzed the yapors that emerge from that
fre-eating sheet are not half as nefarious
or half as dangerous TO the future unity
and peace of the nation as that one sentence
uttered by BLACKBURN when he gave
notice to the country that the Confederates
would not stop until they had wiped the
statute book. This declaration has moro
meaning than the vaporings of an Ohio
Confederate arpet-bagger.
Year: 1879

ONE statement made in THE REPuBLI-
CAN yesterday morning, based on inlorma-
tiOn that should have been reliable, in effect
that quarters are furnished Company A by
the Government, should be corrected.
Colonel MOORE says the statement is incor-
rect and we cheerfully make the correction
on such authority.
Year: 1879

TINS extra session Of Congress, was, in
part, forced by the rapacious greed of Office
hunters, who wanted to seize upon the
Senate offices, and in part by desire to
beat SAM RANDALL for the Speakership
the idea being that time would add to his
strength as a candidate for that Office. The
same character Of influences, inspired by q
spirit of plumber, are now at work in Con-
gress 10 open the doors for general legisla-
ton. They are, of course, backed up by
other especial and more commendable de-
sires but the entire combination of forces
in favor of general business is opposed only
and simply by conservative fear that
danger would follow thereirom to the gem
eral interests of the country. This conserva-
tive fear is entertained and supported by
the Republicans, upon whose careful states
manship the country must solely rely ia
prevent the disaster threatened in the con-
stant appeals for Democratic caucuses.
Year: 1879

ON the 9TH instant the Hon. MosEs A.
MCCOGD, OF the first Iowa district made n
speech in the House of Representatives on
the army bill, which has just appeared in
the Congressional Record, This effort is stall
wart politically, as well rs in its straight
forward good saase and honest and fearless
expression of scntimsat, lie reminded the
Democrats of the fact that moi cue OF them
had ever yet been heard to deny the right OF
secession on the floor OF Congress. They
make 10 reply thereto. A hasty glance at
this speech brings with it the conviction
that Iowa has sterling Representative in
Mr. McCoID, whose abilities will develop
into marked usefulness under experience
/ lie is good thinker and sound reasoner
and withal is, politically, strong advocate
and defender of the pure principles of Re-
pubicanism as incorporated in the articles
of Republican faith
Year: 1879

likely materially TO interfere with the in
telligence and interest of the wordy contro-
versy The next intellectual battle, how
ever, will be fought with short-angc
smooth-bores, and some of the armament is
sufficiently antique TO be provided with flint
locks. There are very few breech-looders
among the seventy Or eighty who seek
recognition" from the chair on the legisla-
tive hill
Year: 1879

Here is a chapter of horrors
from Germany: A peasant nam
ed Blandsleben, living near Ko-
nigsberg, sold a COW and receiv-
ed as part of the purchase
money a hundred-mark bank
note. His little son pulled the
note from his pocket, and in
playing with it tore it into pie
ces. The enraged father drag
ged the child to a chopping-block
and cut its head off with an axe.
Then he returned to the house
and told his wife what he had
done. The woman who was
bathing a younger child, fell
down in faint, dropping the IN
FAINT in the bath-tub where it was
drowned.
Year: 1879

The boy stood on the back
yard fence, whence all but him
had fled, the flames that lit his
fathers barn shone just above
the shed. One bunch of crack
ers in his hand, two others in
his hat, with piteous accents
loud he cried, 81 never thought
of thati" A bunch of crackers
to the tail of one small dog he'd
tied; that dog in anguish sought
the barn and mid its ruin died.
The sparks flew wide and red
and hot, they lit upon that brat;
they fired the crackers in his
hand and exc those in his hat.
Then came a. burst of rattling
sound--the -boyi Where was he
gone? Ask of the winds that
far around strewed bits of meat
and bone, and scraps of clothes
and balls and tops and nails and
hooks and yarn, the relics of
the dreadful boy that burned
his fathers barn.
Year: 1879

To THE EDIToR OF THE HEIALD:-


Professor Parkhurst has not quite caught my
meaning regards seeing meteor clusters lend on"
Taking his three sertam In the first place
my suggestion was general not specially directed to
the Biea meteors or to the possible occurrence Of


display during tho week ending November 20. 1S7a.
The brightness of the moon. of course. greatly
duced the chance of this particular meteor system
being recognized this time Of passing near 1t.
Second. am Of course we'll aware OF the circum-
stance that usually Gn fact. in every except
Pogson's observatory meteors have become visible
only when they have entered our atmosphere. and
may add to Professor Parkhursts remark 'that they
reflect very little light from the sum- that at such
times they reflect no light at all from the
sun. for the parts Of the air traversed by
them at such times are Of course. in
the earth's shadow. My suggestion that
under suitable conditions, presently to be noticed
they may become visible q fight when outside
the earth's atmosphere. Professor Parkhurst's
third objection. however. is that which most deh-
nitely indicates misapprehension of my position.
and in meeting it take occasion to present my sug
gestion in such form that it will not probably be
misunderstood. note in the first place that Pro-
fessor Parkhurst directs his attention entirely to
the thickness Of the train leaving Of considers
ton its length, which my case entirely depends;
he considers also the part of . cluster through or
which the earth passes. whereas my suggestion
relates to parts near which the earth never comes
Year: 1879

AN ERIE RAILWAY FERRYBoAr BADLY DAMAGED


By A STEAMER.


The Erie Railway ferryboat pavonia. while en-
tering the slip ct the feot of Chambers street. this
city, early last evening" collded with Of tho Old
Dominion steamers and was badly wrecked. The
bow of the steamer struck the ferryboat about ten
feet In rear Of tho paddle wheel and carried away
all the part Of tho gcntlemen's cabin together
with the guards. Joiner work and all Of the roof
far ~ the engineers room. There were about
one hundred passengers board. though In tho
ladies' cabin there were only few females. The
greatest excitement prevailed among the passengers
but As fan As could DO learned none were seriously
injured. The ferry employees very reticcnt in
their statements In regard to the collision, and
would give little or no Information. After the ac-
cdent the Pavonia entered the Chambers slip
this sido Of tho river. but started almost i'm
diately to return to Jersey City, where she was
placed In the slip at the foot of Pavonia avenue to
be repaired. HERALD reporter visited the ferry
wrecked boat proesscd utter ignorance OF the COLI
sion. Peter NJ. Van Keuren the pilot, LII was
making my quarter to six trip from Jersey City,
and when half way scross the river saw q
Dominion line, heading up stream. I blew two
whistles TO notify the steamer that would cross
her bow, but she answered with q contrary whistle
and continued on her course The bow of the
steamer was then heading for the centre OF the
ferryboat, ana il had stopped the vessel would
have cut the Pavonia square in tho middle was
quito close to the Slip aud was almost entering
when tho steamer struck the stern OF tho boat
aud tore away the cabin and guards. entered the
slip and the steamer stopped for few minutes then
went ahead" Mr.. Van Keurcn did not think there
twenty-five passengers on board and he
river he says, all HIS life. Tho Jersey City police
were not notified whether any passengers had been
injured, and thsir escape IN considered wonderful
Year: 1879

Suppose the space b to be occupied by meteors
more lass donsely strewn. but that this s only
space is represented with straight boundary edges.
because along range OF four or hve millions OF
departure from straghtness Now. let Ell. "a aud E3
be three successive positions of the earth a. she
passes athwart this meteor train and let the
either side of these places indicate lines Of sight
directed as nearly as possible along the length
Of the meteor system in this neighbornood.
time that the earth is within the space
A B. such lines of sight traverse . long range of
meteors on either side Of the earth. and when
the earth is somewhat outside as ct and Es. there
is still long meteoric range through which tho
lines Of .isht on either side win pass Thus for
uated, there may be q chance of seeing the meteor
train by virtue SIMPLY Of the enormous number
be noticed. however. that the earth's motion does
not affect the direction OF the meteor train thus
they the eye must be directed toward or tow.
ard Is to see the meteors in the form of
a visible though but family luminous cloud Now,
q meteor entering the atm sphere has an apparent
path. depending not on its own motion alone (which
will be in tho direction 81. but that motion
bined with the earths, and it Is the combination Of
these motions which determines the position Of the
radiant point of the shower. Hence II Is not toward
the radiant of meteor system that the telescope
on but toward that point OF the heavens from which
the meteors of that system would seem to radiate
II the earth ut rest. Klinkerfues seems
to have overlooked this when he telegraphed to Pog
son; and confess that when consider where Pog-
from the position in which any long meteor flight.
travelling after Bielas comet could have been
nearly end on Tor, for that matter. could have been
seen at all. yet how nearly the two comets. into
which Bela had divided In ls46. were repre-
scented. begin almost TO fear that in those
early morning hours Of December and
Pogson's eyes must have been daxed into seeing
what he considered they ought to have seen. I
should be glad to know what result Professors
Pierce or Newcomb would obtain IL they subjected
Mr.. Pogson's observations to careful mathematical
scrutiny. l believe their conclusions would agree
viii ID cd. MAJ re m
that seoing the meteor system lend on" and seeing
display OF meteors November ~ different
matters. do not think 1t can be shown that made
q prediction eithcr point. though showed how
desirable 1t that the heavens should be observed
that night. Writing now. when news of q single
Andromede being observed has reached me (here ut
Montreal), / yet venture to express my confident
anticipation that many hundreds of meteors belong
ing to that system have been seen by observers In
this country or in Europe.


RICHARD A. PRoCTOR.


MONTREAL, Nov. 20, 1879.