smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1877

would not quietly submit to be deprived Of
long enjoyed privilege, which they re-
garded as a right. There were two courses
open to him. One was to secure to the in
habitants the enjoyment Of this privilege
without molestation, which would have re-
moved all ground of complaint; the other
was to have sent to that distant set
tlement sufficient body OF State
militia to protect the private claimants
to the salt lakes or springs Governor
Hubbard did neither. Considering the great
expense of enforcing the rights of the pri-
vate claimants the wiser course would have
been to secure free salt to the inhabitants.
The State of Texas, in the exercise Of its
right of eminent domain, could have taken
this property for public use by making just
compensation to it's owners. To be sure, 1t
would have required an act of the Texas
Legislature, but Governor Hubbard could
have informed the owners that he Intended
to recommend such action to the Legislature
at its first meeting and have told them that
meanwhile he forbid the local State officers
to enforce their claims. Had he done this
the whole matter would have remained
in abeyance until the next meeting
of the Legislature. The cheapest and
easiest way to dispose Of the difficulty was
by taking the salt ponds for public use and
making them the property Of the State.
But if the Governor thought this mex
pedient it was his duty to send to the spot
a sufficient force of State militia to enforce
the claims of the owners. AS he miserably
failed to do either nothing was left for him
but to apply to the President for federal
troops. There is military post in New
Mexico within less than hundred miles
of the scene of the riot, whereas State
militia would have to be marched six or
seven hundred miles through difficult
wilderness, and would arrive too late to be
Of any service. Under these circumstances
the President was doubtless wise in acced-
ing to the application and trying to get the
Governor of Texas out of scrape into
which he has fallen by his miserable inca
pacity, inefliciency and want of foresight
We presume, however, that Governor Hub
bard is not fool. He is probably in SYM
pathy with the knot of intriguers who are
plotting war with Mexico and a consent
ing tool of this mischievous project.
Year: 1877

The Rapid Transit Elevated ROADS.


AS much misapprehension and doubt ex-
lists as to the routes of the two lines Of ele-
waited railroad now in course Of construc-
ton in this city we publish this morning
for the information OF our readers maps
showing these new rapid transit routes,
with an accurate description Of their ter
mini and the various streets and avenues
through and over which they will pass. On
comparing the two lines known as the New
York Elevated road and the s'Giibert Ele-
waited road" we find that they accommodate
as nearly rs is practicable for such means
of rapid transit all the business and pri-
vate residence districts of the city.
The New York Elevated Railroad
embraces in the loop formed by
it's lines the area between Ninth avenue
rs far as 10th street and thence northward
to the Harlem River rs western line and
Pearl street, the Bowery and Third avenue
on the east side OF the city, From this loop
branches will extend outward to the princi-
pal East River ferries and to the East River
Bridge approach, and inward to Centre





Central Depot at Forty street. The
extension northward along the west side Of
the Harlem River to Kingsbridge is COM
mon to both lines. The portion of the New
York Elevated road now constructed and
in operation extends from the Battery
Park 10 Sixty-frst street and Ninth
avenue The Gilbert Elevated road also
forms q loop extending from the Battery to
the Harlem River, but it's western line is
moro toward the centre of the city, and will
run through Church street, South Fifth
avenue, Sixth avenue to Fifty-third street.
Ninth avenue to 10th street and Eighth
avenue to the Harlem River, with the con-
Meeting links on the streets named. Except
along West Broadway there are no exterior
extensions from the Gilbert loop. but there is
M interior cross line through Murray
Chambers and Chatham streets, connecting
the east and west lines, and short extern
sion along Sixth avenue from Fifty-third to
| Fitty-nlnth street. The east side line OF
the Gilbert loop, starting from the Bat
terry, follows nearly that Of the New
York Elevated road to Chatham square
but then passes eastward through Division
street to Allen street, and through that
street follows First avenue to Twenty third
street and Second avenue to its termination
at the Harlem River, and thence passes
across to the end Of Eighth avenue. Thus
it will be seen that the great east side tcne-
ment house districts will have two rapid
transit lines, separated only by one block,
northward of Twenty-third street and ap-
preaching quite near each other down town,
while the west side of the city, east of Ninth
avenue. will also have two lines, with more
Year: 1877

TRAIN WREcKING is the newest development
in Harlem in the criminal line. The attempt
made yesterday morning to wreck u train on the
Hudson River road ut that point was certainly a
bold piece Of business, and the police are enti-
tied to credit for the efficiency shown by them
in the capture of the desperate gang who
Manned the decd
Year: 1877

NEARLY ALL the nations Of the earth have
been made to contribute to the exhibition Of
holiday goods on sale in the city stores.
The collection of treasures and curiosities from
India China and Egypt is especially rich and
valuable
Year: 1877

FATHER PREsToS's lecture last evening on the
subject of Education and the Church. con-
tanned nothing that has not been repeatedly
said on this question; but it will, nevertheless,
attract good deal Of attention. He velcmently
denies the right of the State to be an educator
Year: 1877

As THE RECOGNITION Of Diaz may possibly aid
in preserving peace on the border it is some
comfort to be informed semi-officialy that the
administration will consider the question when
it gets a little time
Year: 1877

Reflection and action are supple


mental. One is life and the other its
pulsations. Peter was once n mystic.
On the Mount his fcrvor carried him
into the proposal of living on Tabor,
under q tabernacle. He was 90
ing to keep the Saviour, and Moses,
and Elias, In booths. How long, none
have told us, and il is relief to hear
that he did not know what he was
talking aboat. He was too dazed TO
recollect how often he had been told
that the mission of the life trnnsfgured
was not to be in joyful ccstacics, but to
suffer, and that through ita world was
to be redeemed. Even then poor
dcmoniac, foaming in convulsions ut
the foot of the Mount, waited His
coming to be disenchanted and healed.
This Peter who is proposing TO stay on
tho Mount, in a booth of withercd
leaves, Is soon TO learn that lite is 10
be more painful thing. Pcntecost Is
in the near future, aud he ~ even now
preparing Tor life Of intense labor and
privation, and cross, and death there
on at tho end. How slow both are ia
adjust themselves TO the fact that the
mcditative and devotional are to give
us strength for the practical.-Er.
Year: 1877

They kept sending men out into
Montana 10 erect telegraph poles, but
when ono lett civilization nothing was
ever heard Of him again Finally they
sent out regiment of soldiers who
found men dead and nicely laid out on
u s,do hill with an old man standing
near them, swinging big horse pistol
and yelling "You can't put them
poles up 10 this country, strangers r
and they hung him up to mountain
ash.
Year: 1877

The importations Of corn were 3d.
95S, ,226 cwt., of which upwards of so per
cent came from this country. Canadian
exports of grain are included in those of
this country. 1t will be seen that Rus
sia and Turkey have furnished 226 per
cent. of the supplies TO England. In In
dia a dearth prevails this year Egypt
being subject to the suzerainty of the
porte, will be affected by the war, and
whether the war is localized or whether
it draws into it the other European pow
ers it is evident that the demand fer
American breadstuffs will be increased
in the neighbOrhOOd of Is per cent. in
case of the cutting off of the Russian and
Turkish supplies from market by a pro-
longed war. Italy imports verv largely
from Odessa, on the Black Sea, and war
will also create an active demand for
our breadstuffs in Mediterranean ports.
In this country the visible supply OF
wheat is only about one-half what it was
this time last year, and if the Russian
supply is cut off from the English mar
ket the supply of wheat until the next
harvest will be very scant, and prices
necessarily high. This will tend TO
make q good market for com, Of which
there is in this country more than twice
the quantity in store than there was AZ
this time last year. although the exports
to England have been larger than last
wear. While much depends upon tne
area Of hostilities and the length OF tne
war. IL is the opinion OF statisticlanS
that the eastern war can not fall 10 Gre
ate an extraordinary demand Tor our
Boston Herald.
Year: 1877

w nlClll0S StIduSOA SOutOA 1uOAulOnuOhls


A duty assigned to the police was to
watch all strangers that came into the
city, and whittle every suspicious person
out of town. This whiting process was
peculiar. Some ten or fifteen Mormons
would get around the man they wanted
to drive away, each with keen ground
butcher knife, and a piece of soft wood
in his hand. They would crowd close up
to him and commence whiting, all cut
ting toward him, but ne one apparently
paying the least attention to the stranger.
Surrounded and threatened thus, the
poor man was compelled TO retreat from
the town. On his retreat he was sur
rounded by whittlers whiting, whit
tling, some of them make skittish lunges
toward his breast and arms. If he took
his escort quietly, very well. If he was
foolish enough to resist or threaten, he
was very likely to be put out Of the way.
From Supplemental Confession Of j hn
ID. Lee.
Year: 1877

o In all diseases affecting these organs,
whether they secret too much or too little
water; or whether they be afflicted with
stone OF gravel, or with aches and pains set
tied in the loins or over the regions of the
kindnevs, these Pills should be taken accord
ing to the printed directions, and the Oint-
ment should be well rubbed into the small
of the back at bed time. This treatment
will give almost immediate relief when all
other means have failed.
Year: 1877

Is the great blood purifier cures Syphilis, and re-
moves fimples and Humors on the face


Reason should teach that blotchy, rough or
pimpled skin depends entirely upon an internal
cause and outward application can ever cure the
defect.
Year: 1877

exhausted abroad. The condition OF the working
and lower classes even in The capital Is becoming
the subject OF great anxiety, while in the provinces
want and privation are such as no other people
would patiently endure. When winter comes upon
them It is feared that there will he much misery
and suffering, and 1t Is fearful to contemplate what
may be the results when the country shall have
been utterly drained or all resources. Food fuel
and clothing Will all be wanting and the usual
means OF supply will not he available, all trade
having been stopped through the war.
Year: 1877

The members OF the Dearborn Club were out
for team practice on ThursdaE and yesterday.
the storm on Tuesday morning preventing any
shooting The practicc results were good.
though OF course not up to the extraordinary
work being done at Creedmoor By the American
and New Orleans teams; but whether they can
do such work on the prairies with the 'fsou-
Year: 1877

THE delay of the Russians in crossing the
Danube is said to be affording high degree
of comfort to the Turks who OF course con.
slider every day gained as good as thousand
men distracted from the Russian army. The
heat in the valley of the Danube is already
considerable, and under the influence of the
noxious, miasmatic vapors arising from the
Roumarian marshes, the Russian troops are
rapidly falling sick and going into the hospi.
tails. The marsh fevers and the plague have
always fought under the crescent against the
Gar; in the war of 1928 more than two.thirds
of the Russian army being off duty at once
from sickness. Russians are not any cleaner
now than they were then. nor have their
methods of preventing disease been at all
improved.
Year: 1877

The war correspondent of the New York
Times writes discouragingly of the organiza-
ton and efficiency of the Turkish Army.
The Turkish regulars will fight well and die
hard, he believes, but says in the field they
will be found wanting, as they are without
an intelligent direction, and cannot manoeuyre
even at review, much less under fire. Of
the much-taked-of Balkan defences, the cor
respondent says, "The Importance of the
Balkans as natural line of defence is exag-
gerated. There are only seven passes, it is
true, and these will doubtless be so fortified
that their defence will be successful; but all
the northern slope of the chain is so gentle
that the traveller often arrives at the summit
of the ridge without seeing mountain.
There are few points where carriage cannot
ascend. Sheep walks are to be found every
where, and covered by the fire of heavy guns
from below infantry can advance where goat
can climb. Certainly the line through Aidos,
Karnabad and Seim is strong, but it is very
long, and it may be turned from the west by
Sophia."
Year: 1877

THE first conspicuous fruit of the new
Democratic government in South Carolina is
reputation. The lower branch of the Legis-
lature acted badly enough in refusing to meet
the obligations of the public debt and compel
ling the creditors of the state to wait a year
or more for their interest. But the Senate
has added to this disgrace in striking out all
provision for the payment of the interest at
any time. This is direct, undisguised repu-
diation. Such disregard of honor will not
commend the new Democratic rulers to the
confidence of the country.
Year: 1877

In Jerusalem tenement houses for Jews of
different nations are rapidly building by So
cieties organized for the purpose. They are
going up on the Jaffa road and on both the
north and west sides of the city; and even
within the walls, near the reputed tomb of
David, large group of tenements is now in
process of construction. The poor are to have
free rooms for a time, and those able to do so
are to permitted to purchase their habita-
tions. Until recently the Jews in Jerusalem
had their "quarter." Now they can live any
where outside or inside of the city's walls.
Year: 1877

Judge Dykmau of New York has nipped in
the bud a very pretty little legal expedient.
A husband alleging that his acts of violence
towards his wife occurred only when he was in
the delirium of fever, the judge declares that
he hasn't proved it in the first place, and, in the
second place, it wouldn't make any difference
if he had Temporary insanity has been worn
threadbare; if it had not been for this decision
temporary delirum might have come into
vogue,
Year: 1877

IT is estimated that coffee, both beans and
leaves, are drunk by sixty millions of the hu-
man family. Tea of all kinds is used by five
hundred millions, and opium by four hum
drel millions; alcohol, in its various forms by
five hundred millions of the human race.
Tobacco is probably used by seven or eight
cate large portion of the race using some
substances that are either stimulants or mar
cotics. The work of the Psychologists, in the
future will be to determine the true place in
nature of these substances, and indicate
where Their use ends and abuse begins.
Year: 1877

EVERY regular attache of the PRESS is furnished
with Card certificate couDtersigned by Stanley L.
Pullen, Editor. All railway steamboat and hotel
managers will confer favor upon us by demanding
credentials of every person claiming to represent our
journal,
Year: 1877

We do not read anonymous letters and commune
cations. The name and address of the writer are in
all cases Indispensable not necessarily for publication
but as guaranty of good faith.


We cannot undertake to return or reserve commu-
nications that are not used.
Year: 1877

MT. SAVAGE, June rs, 1877.


Mr.. Editor According to prom
ise l made in my last, these few lines
are sent. Since I wrote you the work
men have finished tearing away tn.
old mill and heating furnaces; they
are also busy doing the same with the
pudding furnaces and sending the
castings away and driving the old
lumber off the ground, to give place
for the new brick-yard.


The coal mines which started here
this month are doiug nothing hardly.
Two men only get car about every
other day, but they think to put more
force in them as soon as the track is
ready to bring hoppers to the dump.
The tracl will be commenced this
week. The mines are under the su-
perintendence of Mr.. Philip B.
Thomas, an old and reliable employee
of this company, and man that
thoroughly understands his business,
and gentleman in every sense of the
word.


There is considerable talk here
about the new way to get employ
ment around Frostburg. A miner
living in Frostburg q have been told)
went to the boss of mine not more
than three miles from town, to get
work but without success. He went
four or five times, but had to gang
ava hame with "got enough hands
now sounding in his ear every time,
until novel idea ran into his head
one day, and next morning he acted
upon it. He took half gallon of
whisky with him for the boss. Well,
sir, after the boss had drank to prove
if it was good and smacked his lips
couple of times, he said, with great
dignity.


"Sir, you can come here tomorrow
and bring your boy along with you to
get your tools"


The best thing we miners can do is
to keep the bottle in the cutting to
give the boss drink when he comes
up the room. We may all get free
turn that way, especially if he has a
share in store, and we go there to
buy it. Yours, ETC.,
Year: 1877

it, and these laws wherever enforced,
have had the desired effect. Public
and local laws have been passed pre-
venting the sale of unwholsome meats,
fruits, or vegetables, and no objection
has been made to such laws, because.
forsooth, such things are unhealthy.


But whenever men talk of laws to
prevent the manufacture and sale of
that which annually is killing, and
danlning its thousands, somebody ap-
pears to be hurt, and a great cry is
raised about the invasion of men per-
sonal liberty Liberty to be a slave |!
Liberty to kill, to damn and to des-
troy all that is purest and best in hu-
man society!


Mr.. Rooney in his letter frequently
quotes scripture to prove that irtem-
perance is an evil, and proposes as a
remedy the converting grace of God,
forgetting, apparently, that the mil
lennial day has not yet dawned upon
earth, when all men shall be under
the influence Of this grace, and that a
large proportion of our race are yet
subject to the god of this world, ruled
in great measure by carnal appetites,
and passions. Now, if l have rightly
understood the word of God, I am Just
as guilty in allowing my brother to do
evil that l could prevent as though I
had done the evil myself. And while
to me all the grog shops and saloons
in the world offer no temptation to
drink, yet if they are stumbling
block in my brothers way, then it is
my duty as christian to endeavor re-
move them ; and as the experience of
many years has proved that moral
suasion is farce and delusion when
applied to the liquor traffic, therefore
| would say, in conclusion, to all low
ers Of humanity-let US at least try
the effects of legal enactment.


r. W. MASON.
Year: 1877

- - AsSS
MINING JoURNAL-Dcar Sir In
your issue of June 23d l noticed
Temperance Letter" signed "Thom-
as Rooney" which, while it seems to
be in sympathy with the cause of Tenn
perance as an abstract principle, yet
is so indefinite in its utterances as to
leave the question just where he took
it up. If l can learn anything at all
from the letter it is that the writer
is opposed to Local Option" as pro-
posed in the last Maryland Legisla-
ture, and still advocated by the
friends of temperance reform in this
and other States.


While l am not strenuous advo-
cate of local option law, much pre-
ferring, if it We're possible, so to edu-
cate public opinion that prohiLitory
laws should be passed that would
sweep the evil from the land as fast
and as far as legal enactment can re-
move any evil that has so entrenched
itself in mems appetites and passions
as the drinking custom has done. Yet
as public opinion has not yet reached
that point, and as some communities,
in advance of public opinion, are anx-
iously longing for enfranchisement
from the calling bondage of the liquor
traffic, it appeares to me that justice
demands that they should be allowed
to say through the ballot box whether
or not the evil shall be continued
among them. This is all the friends
of the law ask, and this they will new
er cease to ask, until this, or something
more positive and effectual, shall be
granted them.


Reforms of this kind never go back
ward they may be delayed by the
Vaccinations of enemies or the cold
heartedness Of friends. But by these
delays they often gather fresh force
for the conflict. In the great anti
slavery movement of the past, men
who advocated the abolition of fslavery,
entrenched as it was, and defended by
wealth and power, were called tools.
and anatics the way at times appear
ed dark and gloomy; civil discord,
strife and bloodshed was the result,
but God was at the helm and guided
the vessel through. So W II it be in
the temperance cause; interests as
dear and as vital to our national and
individual welfare are involved in this
as in the other, and although the
friends of the cause may at times be
respondent and sigh-Oh Lord how
long? yet they believe that the cause
is of God and will ultimately tri-
umph over all the passions and preju-
dices of men.


So far as the constitutionality and
right of such enactment is concerned, l
do not see how there can be any differ
ence of opinion. Laws have been'en-
acted to prevent public evils of inf
nitely less magnitude, and there has
been no effort to prove them an inva-
sion of individual rights. Gambling,
for instance, was found to be public
evil and laws were passed to prevent
Year: 1877

ate than is generally supposed; men
can bear more than they get credit for
bearing. The catastrophe Of Ponty.
pridd shows that rssoluteness and
strong will have not little to do with
keeping alight the vital spark; and
80 these men have added most val.
liable item to the collected experience
Of the biologist, as we'll ss an example
CT noble heroism to mankind.
Year: 1877

THE TELEPHONE UTILIzED.-The
Offices of the mayor and the chief of
police in Providence have been con-
nected by the telephone. Not only
can conversation be distinctly heard
from one Office to the other, but the
different voices can be distinguished.
The instrument was attached to the
regular wire connecting the two Offices
by switch, and these officials can
use the telegraph or telephone at will.


TIE proprietors of the Middle
Greek Mines, at fremont, Pa, are
much alarmed at the discovery that
the mines are on fire and burning to a
considerable depth. The fire origi.
mated last Saturday by a blast which
ignited the gas.
Year: 1877

Every Description Of Real Estate
In section Of country unsurpassed
for health, scenery and fertility. 1t
is remarkably free from all malarious
and pulmonary diseases. Its pure
bracing air, fine springs Of fresh cool
water, short mild winters and long
seasonable summers, its gentle noun
tain slopes and rich valleys, its forests
and fields, its Covers of spring and
varied hues # autumn,-all combine
to place this region of country in the
front rank of superiority and beauty
to the colonist and home seeker.


We continue this week our list of
the very attractive properties for sale
by this agency, in both the rfamed
Piedmont and Valley regions of Vir-
ginia.