smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1879

ATTENTION is called to the notice. in
serted this week by McSSrs. Rothschild &
Co. Their business affairs are being
closed up as rapidly as possible, and they
desire all who may have running accounts
with them to facilitate settlement. They
have sold o@ an immense amount of goods
since the dissolution came in prospect,
and they have plenty more on hand
Year: 1879

THE friends of the Murphy movement
will be gratiiicd to hear of its activity Oh
the Pacific Coast. Washington Territory
is shipping large quantities of potatocs to
California. The warehouses at this place
have done their work nobly.
Year: 1879

The Young Women's Journal thinks
refined. graceful manner can be acquired
by any woman. 1t saws:


The best grace is perfect naturalness.
Still, you must study yourself, and form
your manners by the rule of that art which
is by carrying out the law OF nature. But
if it is your nature to be forever assuming
some unpicturesqe, ungraceful attitude.
pray hel Up your nature with little art. If
you are stout. avoid the smallest chair i'm
the room, and be sure YOU sit on it, not to
lean back in 1t with your hands folded in
front of You Just below the line of your
waist, especially while the present fashion
lasts. If you are thin. do not carry your
self with Your chin protruding and your
spinal column curving like a bowl of n
spoon


Do not wear flimsy materials made up
without ruille. or puff, or flounce, to fill
up the hard outlines of your bad figure, so
cruelty defined by the tightly pulled-baek
draperies.


Study the art of dress. We once knew
a very plain woman who dressed so taste
fully that it was an absolute pleasure to
look at her.


If you have been moping until you are
sick with the thought Of your own hope
less usiiness, be mp and doing. Forget
your disappointments, forget the past and
the sneers of your family over the mistakes
that YOU have made"
Year: 1879

an alarmist, but it would really seem as
tough we were on the eve of great events.
When we consider what has taken place
within the past year or two, and is yet
taking place, we can hardly treat the sub.
ject lightly. Earthquakes, and Tidal waves
in South America; great tidal waves and.
famine in India; famine in China violent
hurricanes through the Eastern States, to-
gether with the great heat of last summer,
which killed hundreds of people; yellow fe-
yer in the South, now followed by extreme
cold such as was never known before ; the
plague in Russia, ali seems to indicate that
Old Mother Earths system is terribly out of
order, and may indicate her speedy demise,
and cause person to wonder at times if it
might not just possibly be true, as the
seventh day adventist claim that we are in
the last days, in fact very near the end.
At least I think you will admit that it is
high time l was to the end of my letter.


J. j. WINANA


Alameda, Cal Jan. 10, 1879.
Year: 1879

EDITOR GA2ETTE:--I read an article in
your paper recently, copied from the States
man, written by Mr.. Bagley, in which my
name occurs and to which desire to make
simple statement in personal vindication.,


II Is the duty of the agency physician to
report every case treated by him under the
head of the disease the patient was suffering
at the time--though that be a cold, itch, or
simple abscess.


When we remember that nearly all the In.
dians are affected with constitutional forms
of disease, as well as subject to all the acute
forms of diseases and that you viii perhaps
Sraat one Indian eight or ten times during
tfeyear, it is not strange that the number
may reach LOCO or 1000 within that time,
and not be many Indians either.


All my reports, for about three years,
were examined by Mr Bagley before being
sent to the department, and if they were not
right, it was the duty OF the agent to have
called my attention to the matter, which he
never did.


I don't remember Of a single report being





one made out for every month in the year.


1t was no interest to me- and l had no
disposition whatever to misrepresent the
number of Indians, I know it was one con-
tinual round OF practice from year to year.


l am not surprised that the number of In
dians'treated have decreased since DR.. Bos-
well took charge. The DIR. was OH the
agency some years ago and so many of the
Indians died under his treatment that they
are fearful of his medicine and will not call
ON him, and they never will until he has
gained their confidence.


If these things are to go before the public
at ALL 1 want them to go in their true light.


Very respectfully, F. NJ. CARTER


Newton, Jan. 10, 1879.
Year: 1879

The English language is-wonerfnl for its
aptness of expression. When number of
men and women get together and lookat each
other from the opposite sides of a room
that's called sociable. When hungry
crowd call upon a poor minister and eat him
out of house and home-thats called a do
nation party.
Year: 1879

A GENTLEMAN is rarer thing than some
of us think for. Which of us can point out
many such in his circle-men whose aims
are generous, whose truth is constant and
elevated, who can look the world honestly
in the face with an equal, manly sympathy
for the great and the small? We all know a
hundred whose coats are well made, and a
score who have excellent manners, but oi
gentlemen, how maay? Let us take a little
scrap of paper, and each make his list. =
ITacEary
Year: 1879

A MALIGNANT TYPE of malarial f.-
yer has developed in one of the Hudson
River towns. The citizens may console
themselves by thinking it is not yellow
fever, but if 1t kills there is some doubt
IS to the exact value of the consolation.
Peculiar and dangerous fevefs of local
origin are not uncommon in the United
Ssatcs. Let citizens guard against home
enemies instead of turning suspicious
eyes toward the South. The good ad.
vice in the last sentence comes through
the N. Y. Herald of to-day.
Year: 1879

THE New York Herald finds cause of
the late onslaught on the Jews, in the


following :-"It is said that one reason
why Mr., Corbin objects to the Jews at


AAnhattan Beach is that they go down
there In family parties, taking lunch
with them, and that by consequence they
are not so profitable customers as those
who 20 down there to dine. But they
pay their railroad fares. If Mr.. Corbin
wsnts more let him charge an admission
fee, TO his grounds. The general under
sanding has been that the railroad fare
entitled those who paid it to make any
proper and quiet use of the grounds at
the terminus of the road. The practice
of bringing lunch along is not Jewish
It il followed by q great many Others.
Many . father of family would hesitate
1t the cost Of taking wife and children
70 tie beach If this involved an expen-
Year: 1879

THE Nessrs. Bancroft x Sons DO mol
In 80 many words desire the puohc 10
become q common carrier TO remove
their refuse dye stuff by means o' All
elevated railway, or an uhoersro'.''u
railway, they will be satisfied with a
palmer system Of transit, and Therefore
ara satisfied to allow us TO take it away
through creek, race or sewer. In TINS
they are not hard to please. They only
desire to escape moving their own
poisonous filth.
Year: 1879

The Charleston Nescs and Courier is
sounding only the keynote that can win
in the South on business basis. 1t says:


There is certainly no reason why tho
South should MT look forward to
the time when manufacturing capital
will largely seek employment in the cot
ton states, where theraw material can be
had at the doors of the factor les. The
cotton mills which have been started In
the South have been very successful and
the number is incressing every year.
We repeat again the wa'chwOrd hrst
gwen, ten years ago, In these columns
bring the miils, to the COTTON u
Year: 1879

sive dinner at the restaurant; and II the
people of moderate means who take their
lunch basket FROM home when they ~


on days holiday to the beach are ~
welcome, this ought TO be underaeod. 2
Year: 1879

THE House Of Representatives has
fashioned and approved the first nail to
be driven into the Chinese question, and
has sent it to the Senate TO be examined
and approved. This is the bill framed
in the House Committee on Education
aad Labor which provides that no master
of vessel owned by any citizen OF the
United States shall take on board at any
foreign poet any number Of Chinese ex-
cceding fifteen, with the intent 10 bring
them to the United States, under pen
atty Of 500 for each such passenger in
excess OF ten, such penalty to become a
lien on the vssscI.-Bee.
Year: 1879

II has been discovered that the act pro-
vidine for u Constitutional Convention
states That the Great Register Of 1877
only, will be used in the next election
and that no one whose name is not on the
printed register is entitled 10 vote. The
Of this matter is OF great in
forest to those who have arrived in the
State siace 1877, ard to those who have
changod their residence.
Year: 1879

Republican party than 1t gained by
negro accessions. And the negroes have
been a bone of contention in that party
ever since. They were promised every
thing for their votes but they got nothing
worth talking about. But these gentle
men who are now crying out for help
were guilty of another thing that caused
their party to become weak, lose hope
and confidence. Without any regard for
the feelings of the Republicans in the
two lower6counties, they set all the pre-
vious party rules aside and selected
double the usual number of Delegates
from this county to the State Conven-
tion, rushed down to Dover and over
ruled their nominating body, carrying
all their own candidates and fayoring
weak clique in the lower counties which
had control Of the negroes. This was q
fatal blow to the party. Many OF their
best men grew angry at such conduct,
when remonstrances were answered with
angry oaths, and they either abandoned
all efforts, refused to vote, or voted
openly the Democratic ticket. Since
that time the Republicans in the lower
counties have not worked in harmony
with their overbearing brethren in New
Castle county, and last fall In Kent
county held meetings and formally
adopted resolutions refusing to nominate
ticket or participate in the election,
they formally abandoned the Republi-
can party. Whether they will re-organ-
ize or not we do not know; but we pre-
sume they will wait and see what the
prospect is. Now, there is question
raised by the Republican that is calcu-
lated TO divide their party again. In the
two lower counties both political parties
may be said TO be opposed to representa-
ton according to population. But the
Heputticda by its course on this ques-
ton and references to the opinions OF
Senator Bayard, does not look to the
lower counties to favor the proposition
to amc I'd the constitution; but hopes to
divide the Democrats in New Castle
county, and gain some members of the
Levy Court and perhaps one or two
members of the Legislature. OF course
its hostility to Mr.. Bayard and the
Democrats is apparent; and no further
explanation or defence is needed now.
When the Democrats of Delaware de-
sire to amend the Constitution they will
adopt some mode by which it may pos
sibly he effected without imperiling thu
rights and interests of any of our citi


zens.
Year: 1879

THE BRANpYwINE WArEE.-Ihere
IL an effort now making that we very
much fear will seriously damage Tie iu-
t,,re increase and interests OF Tins city.
To poison or foul the drinking water oi
any people has always been considered
nm offense against law and hunanity'
But the discharge OF dye stnils into the
Brandywine by the firm of Joseph ban
croft & Sons, has been persisted in Tor
wears against the urgent protests OF our
people and so late as Monday tue water
In that stream. we are told, was black
with these foul dyes. A suit was brought
last year against those parties, and last
November it was deferred; no doubt
with the expectation OF gaining longer
time. And in the meantime We are al
flicted with this dangerous stun III The
water. The poisonous substances that
fow down the stream a'e pumped up in
to our reservoirs and may settle around
in the various odead ends' to our water
pipes and become very dangerous to life
as well as health. 1t will be seen that
those manufacturers attended a Joint
meeting of committees of the Council
and Board of Health last night, with
their legal counsel. This meeting was
called at the request of these mamtactur'
ers, and no doubt the lawyer was there
to take advantage Of all possible circum
stances. 1t is very unfortunate that on
people are to be plagued with these mon
strous attempts to continue so odious
thing as the fouling Of the water W
have to drink. The dyeing bushes
with this firm is an accession to the
trade. In former years they dyed bl
little. Now they do the ooloring II
other mills and the refuse stuff is turnt
into the Brandywine in defiance of a
law and Of all right. II is not just


the people who live along the strea
and own the land that borders it, to tul
into it this poisonous stuff, which III;
poison animals as well as men. 1t Ii
actually prevented the boys of this ci
and the neighborhood from bathing


summer In the creek and race into viii,
it has flowed.
Year: 1879

The little elbow leans upon your knee
Your tired knee that has so much to bear
A child's dear eyes are looking lovingly
From under meath u thatch of tangled


hair.


Perhaps you do not heed the velvet touch
/ OF warm, moist fingers holding you SO
tight,


You do not prize the blessings ovrrmuch-
! You almost ars too tired to pray might,
But it is hlessedncss! 4 year ago
| did not see as do to-day
We are so dull aud thankless, aud too slow
| To catch tho sunshine till il slips away,
And now it seems surprising strange to me
1hat while wore the badge of mother
hood


j did not kiss more oft and tenderly
The little child that brought me only


good.


And if, some night, when you sit down to


rest,


You miss the elbow on your tired knee
This restless, curly head from off your


breast,


This lisping tongue that chatters con-


stantIy:
If from your own the dimpled hands had


slipped,


Aud meier would nestle in your palm


again,
If the white feet into the grave had trip.
could not blame you for your heartache
wonder that some mothers ever fret
At their precious darlings clingins to


their gown;
Or that the footprints, when the days are
Are ever Black enough to make them


frown.
If could find u little muddy boot,
Or cap. or jacket, OH my chamber floor
If could kiss a rosy, restless foot,
Aud hear it patter in my house once more;
If could mend broken cart to-day,
Tomorrow make a kite to reach the sky,
There is no woman in Sod's world could


say
She was more blissfully content than
But ah the dainty pillow next my own
IL never rumpled by shining head
My singing birding from its nest has


flown
The little boy | used to kiss s-dead.
Year: 1879

Through an interview last week the
Hon. Samuel j. Tilden arraigned
Cyrus w. Field in reply to recent
charges of the latter, alleging bad
faith on the part Of the former in
certain business transactions wherein
the selling out of Elevated railway
stock by Tilden was the main trouble.
A letter from New York says the
interview bears all the marks of care
full preparation. AS a piece of per
sonal jnvective here and there, it is
Enthusiastically bitter, and what its
effect upon Mr.. Field is can only be
gathered from the vigorous expressions
of indignation one hears from his
friends. AS both gentlemen are law
yers, other people say it is about an
even match, Still it is a matter Of
regret that two eminent citizens, one
of whom is a candidate for the Presi-
dency of the United States, should
thus descend to the washing of So
much dirty linen and to an imitation
of the methods of the pot and the
kettle. People will begin to think
New York railroad jobbing is getting
to be about as disreputable thing as
New York politics, and, if the testi-
mony of the two eminent citizens as
to each others character is to be ac.
cepted as correct gauge of our most
respectable citizens, one cannot helE
thinking what a hard set the non
respectable ones must be. Perhaps
it is unnecessary to add that many
personal and political adherents of the
venerable statesman of Gramercy
Park are highly elated with this last
card of his, and they have no hesita.
tion in saying "it will send Tilden
stock up fifty per cent"
Year: 1879

MEMPHIS, September 20, 1879.
EREQUENT applications being made 10
l. the Board Of Health and Superintendent
of Quarantine by absentees from here to re-
turn, we deem it best to make this public an
nOuncement, that, though the number of new
cases Of yellow fever and deaths are small
and perceptibly on the decline, it would not
be safe for those who have not had the dis
ease to return yet.


The comparatively small number of new
cases and deaths is due to the fact that there
are so few unaeolimated people here.


Those who have had the fever and wish to
return will be permitted to do so, and will
be furnished a certificate to that effect on ap-
plication to the Superintendent of Quaran-
tine. None others will be permitted to enter
Memphis before it is officially announced By
the Board of Health that it is thought there
is no longer danger from the infection, which
will be done at the earliest possible day.


G. B. THORNTON, MD,


President Board Of Health.


JOHN JOHNSON,


Superintendent of Quarantine.
Year: 1879

The subscription price Of the DAILY
PUBLIC LEDGER is s5 per annum and
SOC per month fOrless than one year. The
WEEKLY LEDGER Is 81 per annum-
postage free.


Persons leaving the city for the summer
can order the DAILY LEDGER at SOC per
month in advance, with the privilege Of
changing postoffioe.
Year: 1879

SUBSCRIBERS who wish to re-
new will do us favor by SEND
ING MONEY before their time
expires, as our mail list Is very
large, and our force 20 do the
work small. NO USE TO SEND
ORDERS WITHOUT the MONEY.
Year: 1879

The friends of the Baltimore and
Ohio railroad are greatly encouraged
by the business outlook of that great
work. It's traffic is very large, its net
earnings for the past ten months being
some S609,000 ahead Of those Of corre-
spending time last year. A 4 per cent.
cash dividend is now confidently pre-
dicted for the next semi annual
period, and even 5per cent. is limited at
as not improbable This is encourag-
Ing for stockholders.
Year: 1879

Mr.. HAYES thinks he is earning
his salary in swinging around the
circle making speeches. He is per
fectly clear upon one point, that the
war settled the question of secession.
1t strikes us we heard that before, in


fact during the past fourteen years we
have heard it pretty often, but it is
quite an interesting if not novel
theme in the hands of the great fraud.
Year: 1879

The San Francisco Herald of the
18th instant says the mining stock
market had picked up a little during
the week, but the volume of business
was somewhat less, which was attrib-
uted to the election excitement and
the adjournment of the boards ON
election day. The north. end mines
had made a considerable upward move,
which was well held at the close.
Year: 1879

The Empress Eugenic, who at first
so sympathized with Captain Carey
that she addressed a letter to the queen
in his behalf, has been greatly irrita,
ted by Carey's persistent attempts in
the newspaper to excuse himself at
the expense of the young prince. The
poor woman is reported as saying the
other day Of the pious captain; "Why
cannot he lot my poor boy alone? He
left him alone once |"
Year: 1879

The SOuth and the Presidency.
New Orleans Picayunel


Numerous Southern politicians by
trade, here and there, will be cIamor
ing for certain named candidates.
trusting that they will be remembered
and rewarded if the statesman named
by them should be nominated and
elected. We advise Northern Demo
Gratis to pay no attention to them at
all, but to go forward and plan for
themselves the battle which they will
be obliged to fight under leaders of
their own choice. We take it for
granted that Northern Democrats
know best how to win New York.
Pennsylvania or Ohio, and know best
under what standard bearer to 20 into
the fight. 1t will therefore be wise in
Southern Democrats to take good
care not to embarrass our Northern
friends. The campaign before them
will tax their utmost powers, and it is
only fair, right and just that they
should have the choice of the cham.
plon Democrat who is to lead them
through fierce struggle to brilliant
victory. Our Southern States will
surely ratify any nomination the
Northern Democracy may agree upon.
Year: 1879

spring of mother sent to Siberia. might
be seen the infamous hag who had hab-
itually decoycd young girls to ruin in
whose soul every spark Of womanhood
had long been cXtinguishcd. And these
people were called upon to marry; and
one hour was granted them in which to
become acquainted and assorted Sir,
You will now perhaps comprehend my
emotion in relating this shocking busi-
ness


" | consider it the most shocking and
at the same time the most curious out
rage which has ever been committed.' .


(To be CoHcludcdD
Year: 1879

GLOW fast do you think we are trav-
eling?" Charley Fraser, one of tho
oldest engineers of the New York,
Lake Erie and Western Railway, asked
a Sun reporter as they were standing
together on the foot board of Locomo-
tive No. 300, rushing over the mead
ows toward Rutherford Park.


II should think we were going
nearly mile minute"


"a mile a minute p said Fraser.
81 doubt if you ever rode a mile
minute. Few locomotives have driv-
ing wheels over FIVE feet, and | have
my doubts if a five-foot wheeler can be
pushed mile a minute. People have
very erroneous idea of the speed OF
railroad trains. We are not going now
more than 80 miles an hour, and this
is very fast. Few trains make this
speed The passengers in the cars
would think we were going a mile
minute sure, if was to pull out the
throttle SO as to send her forty miles
an hour. The express trains make no
such time as the local trains. Where
we lose is with 50 many stops. No
man can stand on platform car and
face the wind going mile minute,
and live. The breath would actually
be blown out of his body. You couldn't
count the telegraph poles going mile
minute. Talk to an old engineer of
that rate being made by passenger
train, and he would laugh. | made
mile minute once, however. 1t was
when was but lS years ofage. | was an
engineer then, in charge of a fine six
foot-wheel locomotive. There were a
lot of railroad moguls on board, and
the object was to make the best time
we could They were to ring the gong
when the speed was n mile minute.
| thought we were making it for some
time before the bell rung. AT length,
on down grade, with full head of
steam, we were spinning along as if we
were all going to destruction, and the
motion of the piston going over the
center could no longer be distinguished,
the bell rang. We had reached the
rate of mile minute. 1t was the
fastest | ever rode, before or since. L
tried hard to make mile a minute on
subsequent miles, but lacked it three
or four seconds every time. | couldn't
squeeze another mile inside of the
sixty seconds When you hear man
telling about riding in a passenger
train that run a mile a minute, don't
say anything, but mentally scratch OFF
good allowance.