smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1874

False Rumor Of the Discovery OF the


Child in the City-How the Report


Originated.


telegram was received In this city yesterday
containing the interesting information that
rumor prevailed In Philadelphia that the parties
concerned IN the abduction OF the lost child
Charley Ross were detained at the Metropolitan
Hotel, here. The intelligence, which would have
been startling had 1t not been that similar rumOrs
have prevailed hundred other times in connection
with the same case, was, Of course, generally dis.
believed.


HERALD reporter called at the Metropolitan
Hotel to md out how much absurdity there was in
the rumor. 1t Is needless to say that the story mad
been cut out OF whole cloth and that the abductors
Of the cnild were no more at the Metropolitan
Hotel than they were in Lapland.


Inc report seems TO have originated
In the fact that on Tuesday last the father OF the
lost child INF. Ross arrived In this city, brought
here by telegram from Police Superintendent
Walling, which said that q child had been found
answering the description OF the lost Charley
Hotel, where, to avoid curiosity ana annoyance
and attention being drawn to the matter, Super.
intendent Walling called on him with the child.
III Is hardly necessary TO say 1t was not the long
sought fof Charley, though the resemblance was
sad Dy the father to oe sufficiently striking to
warrant a stranger in making the mistake. Alter
gong through the ceremony Of nOn-rccOgnition
the father lett again for Philadelphia, once more
disappointed IN his hope; and so another bubble
burst


The reporter of the HERALD called also on Super
intendent Walling to ascertain whether there
was any truth in the telegram, aud received the
same answer as at the hotel, that IL was a mis-
take, probably based on the facts given above.
Year: 1874

A desperate encounter took place among the
street sweepers on Thompson street, between
Spring and Prince Streets yesterday morning.
There are a number OF colored men employed In
this capacity In that section OF the city. and
among them is man sixty or seventy years of age
and his son, youth OF aDont twenty. 1t seems
that quarrel took place, In which the old man
was involved, and ne was set upon by number OF
hts sable companions and quite severely beaten.
When the son, who was absent at the time 0i
this occurrence returned and learned that his ia
tber had been handled to great disadvantage and
badly beaten, he sought the o. lgnator OF the dim
Guilty, and row ensued. The c0lored men OF the
gang OF whom there are eighteen or twenty, were
pretty well divided the question IN dispute, and
the fight, which was at frst confined TO only two
of them, soon became general, and hoes, brooms,
pitchfoYks and whatever else came 10 hand were
Freely used. Several badly cut heads and many
knockdOwns were the result Of the ARRAY. For
time the stout negro VINO had commenced the
difYicuity with the old man stood his ground and
fOuuht his four assalants, who rained
blOw on blow with steel scrapers and brooms
on his head At length not being able to stand
the pressure, he started on full run, pursued by
several of the attacking party, who pelted him un


merclfully with the implements OF their trade.
This man finally mace his escape up Thompson
street BADLY cut about the head, with the blood
streaming profusey from his wounds. The men
VINO had pursued him then turned their attention
to several others, and general fight ensued, In,
which number OF them were badly hurt. The
row was finally quelled by the man IN charge oil
the gang, but no policeman appeared on the scene.
Year: 1874

To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD


correspondent Of your paper in speaking Of
"Ryan's Farm"-the Central Park-complains that
the drivers OF the Park carriages instead Of heed
ing the wishes Of their patrons and "doing the
grounds" drive to Ryan's principal restaurant,
where they, suggestlvely at all and annoyingly at
very many times, stop, and Keep stopping. until
parties get out and pay tribute or stay In and
Damn the driver forward. Any OF your reporters
that said drivers com PEELED to drive their pa
irons 70 said restaurant, and that the order from
Park superintendent Ryan or from some one act
ing Tor him Is peremptOry In its issuance and
penal for It's violation In snort, the drivers have
to stop al said restaurant or have ITO get 0ut.n


FACT.
Year: 1874

Yesterday afternoon, about four O'CLOCK report
was made at the Hoboken police station that dog
had bitten child at the corner OF Fourth and
Washington streets. Oficer McDermott was called
upon to attend to the case. He armed himself
with revolver IN addition TO his cluo and soon
encountered the animal. lhe latter made q race
1or hie, but was soon overtaken by the otficer
who grasped MIN by the neck and in TIE excite.
ment OF the moment presented the revolver AT the
head OF the canine and fred. The ball struck not
the dog's head but the ofiicer's hand, one nnper
being badly mutilated Ihe dog made his escape
and is now at large.
Year: 1874

There was second postponement and disap-
pointment, at Saratoga, yesterday. The Lake,
though smooth enough in the morning, grew
rough late III the afternoon, and it it was again
decided not to attempt the race. 1t was apparent
ly understood that the contest would take place,
this morning, at ten O'Clock, and if this pro-
gramme was adhered to, we shall probably have
tls result by telegraph, under the proper head
ino
Year: 1874

City Solicitor Spruance sent an important
opinion to the Board of Health, last evening.
According to his conclusions, additional police,
special constables, deputy sheriffs and the mill
tia force generally are not at the command of
the Board, to march in defence Of the odious
Excayator. This seems verg sad. Must the
Monopoly depend upon the Mayor and his Off
GERS
Year: 1874

How many people are there who know
how to make mustard plaster? Not
one in hundred, and yet physicians
prescribe their application, never telling
how to make them, for the simple reason
that the doctors themselves do not know
as rule. The ordinary way is to mix
the mustard with water, tempering it
with a little -four, but such plaster rs
that makes is abominable. Before il is
half done its work ii begins to blister ihe
patient, and leaves him finally with a
painful hayed spot, after having pro-
duced far less effect in a beneficial way
than was intended. A mustard plaster
should never make blister. To make
a mustard plaster, then, use no water,
but mix the mustard with the white of
an egg and the result will be a plaster
that will draw" perfectly, but will not
produce blister, no matter how long il
is allowed to remain upon the part.
Year: 1874

How we value our elective system Of
government; yet how utterly contempt
ible its practical workings How de-
siructive of true and noble manhood
just sit, for n whole hour if you please,
and listen to the conversation of the
average oiiice-secker. Does he ever give
expression 10 a well formed, decided
opinion upon any subject Of public inter-
80 upon which there is likely to be any
cnntlarie;y OF opinion, Ii his manhood
even 50 far asserts it-elf as to express
such an opinion, he modities it in four
minutes thereafter, or makes some kind
Of an apology for it. lie i seldom gull
ty of such mistakes, SO carefully does
he weigh his words. \ nickel apiece for
such opinions duringan entire canvass
would not bankrupt any respectable es-
tate; such, for instance, as that of the
Rothchilds'.


How careful the ofiice-seeker is to
shake hands with every voter! and he
inquiries so tenderly about the family
that one would think that he was the
family physician of every man in the
county, that his anxiety about the health
of so many women and children was a
terrible weight upon his mind. Crhis
anxiety, if real, would put him in bed
in two days; he couldn't stand it,


Fellow citizens, you have seen these
things year after year, and have conniv-
ed at them until now they have abso-
lutely become burning shame and dis
grace to our common humanity You
know it is IA species of the basest and
most degrading demagoguery-doubly
degradiug-degrading to the candidate,
degrading and insulting to you-a kind
of cheap buying and selling, alike dis
graceful and humiliating to buyer and
seller. VIII the time never come when
n man may seek Office and still be a man;
may not feel il necessary To sacrifice both
his money and his manhood oodl-Fraasiia
Il iriGi.
Year: 1874

Let the person whose name YOU wish
TO know inform YOU in which upright col
umns the first letter of his name is con-
taincl. II it be found in but one col.
umn it is the top letter; if it occurs in
more than one column it is found by
adding the alphabetical numbers of the
top letters of these columns, and the sum
will be the mum Der of the letter sought.
BY taking one letter time in this way
the whole can he ascertained. For ex-
ample, take the word Jane. J is found
in the two columns commencing with Il
and ii, which are the second and eighth
letters down the alphabet their sum Is
ten, and the tenth letter down the alpha
bet is j, the letter sought. The next
letter, A, appears in but one column,
where it stands at the top. n is seen
in the columns headed B, ID, and IL
these are the second, fourth and eighth
letters of the alphabet, which added give
the fourteenth and so on. The use of
this table will excite no little curiosity
among those unacquainted with the fore
going explanation.
Year: 1874

There is story of Judge Grier which
everybody delights in how he set aside the
unjust verdict of a jury against an un-
popular man, with this remark EN-
ter the verdict. Mr.. Clerk. Enter also,
SET aside by the Court lwant ii to be
understood that it takes thirteen men to
steal a mans farm in this Court"
Year: 1874

A YOUNG man sent his girl a box of
grapes, one afternoon lately. and the
next day fellow met him ON the street
and said, Those grapes were jolly
good last night; send some up every
Wednesday evening-thal's my night,
you know"
Year: 1874

For the life of US we cannot under
stand the exact status Of the North
Carolina consolidation bill. We
have published the jist Of what the
Asheville papers said about it, and
all that could be gathered from pas
sengers from the State, and yet the
subject is too be fuddling for our
comprehension. We have stated
on one or two occasions. on the best
authority to be had, that the bill had
been passed, and would be accepted
by the North Carolina Company, and
yet the Asheville Eeposttor of the
18th gives this as the present stat
us of the bill:


From The Legislative proceedings
of last Friday will be seen the stat
US of the Consolidation Bill. The
Senate bill has not passed the House
on its third and final reading. On
the second reading, the day previous,
Mr.. Moments amendment, prevent
ing change of gauge, was adopted;
but we are glad to see that on the
final reading, on motion of Mr.. John
ston. of Buncombe, and supported
by Bowman and Robinson, the
amendment was stricken from the
bin on a vote-yeas, So; nays, 35.
If no other amendments were at
tached, the bin is now the law; but
if the House put amendments to the
same, it will have to be returned to
the Senate for concurrence.


AS we understand the bill now,
the only objectional feature of it is
the one prescribing W. A. Smith the
President of the Road. And our
correspondent from Washington
thinks that the Road will not accept
the act with this proscriptive and
insulting provision. But we hope
that on mature reflection this will
have no weight. The amendment is
absolutely void, and has no legal
force. The attempt of the Legisla-
ture to qualify who shall hold an
Office. is beyond their jurisdiction.
Year: 1874

Dispatches from the west show
that tke women's raid upon the sa
looms is spreading. Their numbers
are not large, but they comprise a
very determined class of the fair
sex. The saloons close upon the
approach of the women and open
after they leave.
Year: 1874

great medicine is always n target for fraud.
Shallow cheats. without the talent originate any


thing useful the decency to permit an article of
superior excellence to perform Its mission, without
striving to turn dishonest penny by attempting
TO substitute trash in its place. now engaged in
initiating and ccunterfeitine Hostetier's Stomach
Btters. the most popular tonic and restorative in
the civilized world. brood of local btters. mix
lures Of damaged drugs with worse liquors has
cropped out all over toe country. Although the
sales OF these perncious slops too insignificant


to affect the interests of a staple remedy it seems
dntv to warn the public against them. The color
Of the true specific may be simulated but its cures
OF dyspepsia. liver complaint. rheumatism. inter
cannot be initiated jyltto23
Year: 1874

PEACE AND HARMONY


do not generally prevail In the Tammany ranks.
SO long as the Adermanic ticker Is unsettled Just
SO long Will the places OF the candidates lOr the
other ofnces oe uncertain until after the Conveh-
h0n. AS lor the republicans, they are stlll lylng
low, determined to give the nomination lot
Mayor to George Van Mort. who, they believe, VIII
be able to carry the city against any democrat on
the single ground Of his opposition 10 Comptroller
Green. AS for the latter he Is already bargaining
with the custom house Tor future support In The
Legislature. His forcing out OF o(ice OF Andrew
Leggatt was one OF the first signs OF his new policy
he Is, In fact, ready TO trade with the republicans
and Will for exchange OF possible votes TO sustain
him In the Legislature the coming winter, sacr-
fce so lar as lies III mis- power, some OF the best
democrats IN his ONCE and not a few OF the demo-
cratic Assemblymen OF the city, So it is trade and
bargain all around, and between now and election
time the others had better think twice before they
vote for anybody for the mere sake OF party.


The Keglstershp contest presents no new fea'
ture. Hayes is yet ahead on the democratic side,
with Sigel looming up on the republican side, only,
II may be said, to be slaughtered in lavor Of
other and better natured German when the time
comes for nominating people generally.
Year: 1874

o what q Fall was There, MY COuh-


tryWOmen?


From the Chicago Times, August S.l


She is fallenl We may now pause
before that splendid prodigy which tow
cred for centuries among US like some
ancient ruin whose frown terrified the
glance its magni6cence attracted.
Grand, gloomy and peculiar, she sat
upon her virgin throne, an austere and
ancient maiden, wrapped in the solitude
of single blessedness. A tempest upon
the rostrum, tornado at the polls,
a vortex in social life, whirlpool,
a maelstrom, a cloud burst, a rapid
old girl generally, she seemed always
as to virtue a very iceberg. Erotic pas
sion had, apparently, no course through
her veins; they bowed with the ice
brooks temper. Scorning her day and
generation, she seemed bent as far as
in her lay, on thwarting posterity by
leaving no copy of herself; and tradi-
ton has it that when Moses proclaimed
the decalogue she moved an amendment
to the seventh commandment, contem-
plating such condition of human at
fairs as would in short time have
brought the world to an ending But
she is fallen. Amid the crashing thun-
ders of her coming down we were lost in
such maze as to be incapable of com
ment. Even now it seems incred'
ible. The iceberg of virtue, melting in
the embrace of passionl But the tele-
graph tells the woful story, and IT we
would save a Titan-we- must sink a
Titaness; if we would spare Beecher we
must believe Bessie. Ali Susan, how
grandly and grimly you came down from
the prehistoric times, sitting in the
lapse of ages. That you should have
lapsed into other laps and become a
spectacle to Bessie and a salvation to
Beecher is, as to Bessie, terrible to con-
template. There is but one consolation
in the terrible story She jumped
pretty quick" Let US be thankful for
the celebrity of that jump. 1t showed
that there was yet in the old girl some OF
the activity of her antediluvian days, Il
it does not establish her desire to sail
again an iceberg through the ardent
seas. But she is fallen
Year: 1874

The Tax Payers Association of this
District has adopted plan of organiza-
ton which provides for the appointment
ofa committee of seventy to guard their
interests generally and to prosecute in
criminal and civil courts such officers Of
the late District government as have act
ed Illegally in the collection and expendi-
turc of money and for other acts perform
ed by them in disregard of law.
Year: 1874

The officers of the chief Railway Com
panies were in session recently, and
greatly reduced the number of ticket
agencies, in fact to abolish all beyond
the regular offices established by the
Company. 1t was argued that these
latter met all requirements Of the travel
ing public, and that the commissioners
paid other agents additional. The ex-
pense in printing and advertising were
useless expenditures, that they brought
no increase of business, and the risk run
in the circulation Of SO many tickets was
Very great.
Year: 1874

NEW YORK, July 1.-THE Erenmg
Post says that the fire which broke out
last evening in the oil depot at Wehaw-
ken, New jersey, is still burning, with no
hope of extinguishing the flames till the
oil is burned out. All the oil tanks are
either burned or torn down, and the
cooper shop and one warehouse are burn
ed, while it is expected the remaining
warehouse can be saved Tho railroad
tracks have been wrenched from the
sleepers by the great heat, and nearly all
the property in the neighborhood has
either been destroyed or badly damaged
There were from $4,000 to 10000 barrels
of oil burned. The total loss is roughly
estimated by the superintendent Of the
road at half Il million dollars.


The fire at the Wehawken oil docks is
still raging, but is now confined exclu-
sively to the oil tanks. The coal wharf
of the Erie railroad for distance of five
hundred feet has been burned, and with
great difficulty the vessels in the neigh
borhood were saved All the oil tanks,
seventeen in number, have been burned.
The loss is placed at eight hundred thou
sand dollars, and is said to be covered by
iDsuraucn
Year: 1874

place more terrible still than any that hm


preceded 1.-THE whole leinterior of the mA


Is complete wreck. All hope Of saViA


any of the men below is abandoned. Tiw


pillars Of the mine are now on fire in fA


places The only way to save the mine H.


70 hll it up with water. The poor widow


who have hoped against hope implore thb
officers Of the mine TO desist, there may be
some Of the men living yet. But, alaa
there is no heed paid to their appeals. "a
stream of water is turned into the shaft. \
And the fragments OF the bodies Of N
slain miners float in the waterr Of KIM
mine for months, and are finally got out
50 chared, and mutilated that wife cannoN
recognize husband, mother cannot recoR
nlze son.


Such are the scenes Of many a mine en-
plosion. The Drummond Mine catastro-
Phe which occurred last spring by which
the whole pits force to the number Of
seventy-two souls where lost, is the latest
example Of what we have partly endeav-
ored to describe The bodies Of the men
are still in the mine which is filled with H
water. One of the men was blown out OF \
the ali shaft up in the air for 200 feet.
But one single man of the whole force Of N
the mine was got out alive.


In some Of the fiery mines in the ".
Etenne, in France, the miners never 20
down the shaft in the morning withUut
first impIoring the divine protection Of st. e.
Barbe, their Patron Saint, and they have
in one mine solemnly erected his statue At
the mouth Of the main gallery. No lateI
that the middle Of the last century Priest
Of Germany used to come to the mine a
the request of the miners and In the nam
Of their Patron Saint order away the nor
lous and poisonous airs Of the mine.
Year: 1874

prietor Of the Mansion house. Th 8
course he decided upon, because he was
determined to keep the boy out Of his
fathers way if possible.


While the conversation was pro-
crossing Chief Harrigan appeared on
the scene, and on being informed Of the
circumstances, he quickly brought mat
ters to head. He asked Mr.. Fields if
he had abducted the boy, and on re-
ceiving negative reply, he asked him
if he was willing to 60 back to face the
boys father. Fields replied that he
was. The chief then asked him if the
boy could possibly be worse off in the
charged Of = doting father and mother
than in a notorious assignation house
here. Fields had nothing to say. The
chief then told him that he had either
to take the boy back with him or to
be locked up in the Gala
boose until the boys father
could be brought down, when he would
quickly take possession of the little
fellow. This was sumner, and after
little demur Fields agreed to 90 and
take the boy with him.


The lad, who is nine years old. is re-
markably bright, and talks very freely.
He declares that he was not abducted,
but that he ran away Of his own &C.
cord, and that he would not go back
to his father if he could hefp it. He
cried bitterly on being informed that
he must 60. This IS all the more
strange in view Of the fact that no
harsh treatment is alleged. and that he
has an elegant home.


Officer Mishen and his two charges
started north last night.
Year: 1874

1t is a prevailing vice among men of
doubling the virtue of woman. To us
it looks not only an outrage to good
taste, but also betokens a want of in
telleet. Besides this, it betokens a be-
sotted nature, and passions that would
disgrace a beast. The idea Of dragging
woua down to mans level, in a point
of virtue, is so fepugnant to the feel
ings, that the utterer ought not to have
a place in civil society.


We would wish to impress upon
those who cast this slur upon the char
acter of the women Of our land, that, if
what they charge were true, this fair
world of ours would be perfect hell.
The women ofour land are as far above
those who make these assertions, as
the heavens are above the earth. Our
women are the highest type of purity
and virtue, and any craven who would
drive them from this high estate de-
serves the execrations of all good men.
-E.rchunge.
Year: 1874

TIE New York Herald thus speaks
of President Grant and the never end
ing subject of third term:


ave are told that the President him
self is impatient with this subject,
that he will not read any newspaper
which discusses it. One distinguished
editor quotes him as having 'distaste'
for the throne. These are all good
signs, but they are not manifest to the
country. Let the President make them
manifest. He knew how to do it in
finance. Here is a question no less
important, but one affecting the exis-
tence and continued security Of our
Government. A letter from the Presi-
dent to Senator Jones or to any other
Senator enterprising enough to coax
him into a correspondence, written,
let us add, in the most impatient
temper and declaring that under no
circumstances would he accept another
nomination, would be the crowning act
of his life. Is it beneath his dignity
Well, it was not beneath the dignity of
Washington, Jefferson and jackson to
give expression to their feelings on the
subject and General Grants dignity
will never suffer by following these il
lustrious examples.