smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1874

Isiand-rnat is to say, escapes from the PenIten-
tiary-has taken OF late days more than usually
active turn, and almost daily the number OF board
ers In Warden Liscomb's charge becomes reduced
without any positive consent on his part; and
were IL not that the institution receives supply
from outside sources, u Is possible that the popu-
lation OF the place would become utterly depleted
and that Boss Tweed would remain the sole ex-
ample OF wickedness to show strangers who might
then wonder at our marvellous virtue.


Escapes from the Penitentiary have always been
more or less frequent owing to the opportunities
Afforded, and at one time during Warden rtch's
management the number had become 20 great
as to call Tor very energetic measures against this
easy eGress. or late, however, the number OF
escaping prisoners has again risen very high.


The means employed TO effect escape are very
simple and consist simply IN swimming the river
either to the New York shore or TO tnat OF Long
Island. The thing is done usually by precon-
to facilitate escape when either shore is reached
by means OF clothing and carriages.


IL may seem strange that 30 lengthy and DIM
cult means OF escaping cannot be avoided. but
yet 1t is accounted for by the Keepers It is doubt
lul II the keepers on land have any power to shoot
volvers IN the air to irighIen the prisoners, who
sometimes turn back; but the plan ts quite inefi-
caeSas ca; S with the % old hands who tow they win
kind, however the Penitentiary is furnished with
two small guard boats, one or which does duty on
tuc river bctWceu DldCA Woub Ioiouu ouu NcW
York, the other doing duty between the island
and Ravenswood opposite the stone quarry. At
times one OF these boats Is called away to guard
of the island Institutions. At such times the
escapes usually take place, and the Keepers
on land are rendered utterly helpless to prevent
escape II the convicrs succeed in reaching the
water. A very simple way TO obviate this would
be to have another boat, which would involve the
payment OF two more keepers to man 1t. But this
seems not to have been considered. Another
mode Of escape is when the guard boat is away for
q strange boat containing friends OF some pris-
oner to approach the place where the cOnvicts
may be working. short swim takes the prs-
intention) to the boat, and he Is taken to some
friendly shelter on the New York shore, where he
remains until the search Is given up. sometimes
an exciting chase takes place between these
boats and the guard boat which is notified, and
success varies between the two. Sometimes
these escapes are effected at night, when, II the
prisoner succeeds in keeping ont OF the cell and
Secretlng himself elsewhere, escape Is easy, as a
large portion leave the institution for New York
at nightialL
Year: 1874

tophelean stolidity OF oicOuntenance Mr. Whippe was
terwards able TO try laugh but 1t was stllDorn
HIS enorts to persuade the ofilcers and gentlemen
Interested In the case that his presence was not
at all necessary and that he about to leave IA
form through when he went half dozen tlmes)
tion, have brought down the house. II Is to be
presumed the case VIII come on Tor hearing at
once, and thon the public may look for something
with regard to this case, as the police have evi-
IDENTITY struck rich lode. The tact and prompt
cannot De too highly praised in this case. The
whole anair was managed like the pulling on OF an
old RiOV0
Year: 1874

The noted and long pending Bartemeyer
case, from Iowa, which it was expected
would overturn the excise law of many
States, was to-day disposed of bv the Su-
preme Court, by an opinion, the following
is the substance The usual and ordinary
legislation of States regulating or prohihit
ing the sale of Intoxicating liquors raises
no question under the constitution of the
United States prior to the fourteenth
amendment. In that instrument the right
to sell such liquors is not one of the priv
leges and immunities OF citizens of the
United States, which by an amendment
the States are forbidden to abridge, but if
case were presented in which person
owning liquor or other property at the
time the law was passed by the States alb
solutely prohibiting any sale of it, it would
be a very grave question whether such law
would not be inconsistent with the provi-
sions of that amendment which forbids
State to deprive any person of life, liberty
and property, without due process. While
the case before the court attempts to pre-
sent that question it fails to do it, because
the plea, which is taken as true, does not
state in due form or positive allegation the
time when the defendant became owner of
the liquor sold, and secondly because the
record satisfies us that it is a case which
asks the opinion Of the court on this grave
constitutionalqu question without the existence
of facts necessary to raise that question


In such case, when the Supreme Court of
the State to which the writ of error is di-
rected, has not considered the question.
this court will not feel at liberty to 90 out
of its course to decide Justice Miller de-
livered the opinion. Justice Bradley de-
livered an opinion, in which Justice Field


concurred, that the question involved in the


case is one merely of police regulation, con


corning which the States have undoubted
authority.
Year: 1874

The true girl has to be sought after.
She does not parade herself in show
goods. She is not fashionable. Gene
rally she is not rich. But, oh what a
heart she has when you find her! so
large, and pure, and womanly. When
you see it you wonder if those snowy
things outside are women. If you gain
her love your two thousands are mil
lions. She'll not ask you for carriage
nor a first-class house. She'll wear sim
pie dresses and turn them when neces-
sary, with no vulgar magnificate to frown
upon her company. She'll keep every
thing neat and nice in your sky parlor,
and give you such welcome when you


come home that you'll think your power
higher than ever. She'll entertain true
friends on a dollar, and astonish you
with the new thought how little happi-


ness depends on money. She'll make
you love home, (if you don't, you're a
brute, and teach you how to pity while
you scorn a poor fashionable society
that think itself rich, and vainly tries to
think itself happy. Now,do not. pray
you, say any more, 81 can't afford to
marry" Go and find the true woman,
and you can; throw away that cigar,
burn up that swtcS cane, be sensible TO
yourself, and seek your wife in sensi-
Bile way. ,.
Year: 1874

1t is easy enough to put up q stove:
You postpone the matter as long as pos
sible, and then suddenly remember that
the walls need whitewashing. You send
the whitewasher on, and if be does NOT
fix the stove beforehe gets through he
is dead man. And no whitewasher
likes to be murdered
Year: 1874

indianapolis Journal, Morton's organ.l
. 1t is impossible for President Giant
TO be reelected The party that nom-
mates him will be ignominiously de-
feated. 1t is not only impossible tor
him to be reelected, but not desirable
if it were possible. His reelection
would not conduce to the elevation of
American politics Or to the inaugura-
ton of such an era Of reform as can
alone restore the Republican party to
popular confidence There is but one
way to meet this question. If Presi.
dent Grant does not speak out before
the meeting of Congress in December,
the Republicans in Congress must ex'
press the sense Of the party against
this third-term business. If they had
done this last winter the Republican
party would have been in much better
shape to day. t e -,.sI .i
Year: 1874

increased. Rich. Dispatch.


THE MODEL SHEEP MAN.-The New York
Tribune saws 1.-The best sheep man we ever
heard of was soldier of Stonewall jackson,
who saw somewhere how valuable are sheep,
for renovating worn out land, and after the
cruel war was over he went home to his poor
farm and bought l3 ewes, all that he was: able
to buy. He put them in q small field OF brlars
and weeds, which they soon destroyed, then ne
fed them on bran aud meal. u ln the winter ne
sheltered them we'll, feeding oats and swamp
hay, and 10 the spring he had thirteen hne
lambs Saving the manure, he planted the
old briar patch with corn and harvested line
crop. All his spare time, was devoted to car,
ing for the sheep The next spring he had
more lambs; he was able to plant more corn;
then came more lambs, when he sowed clover
aud grew turDips; and now to-day, as result
Of such small beginning he has has several
hundred fine sheep, free from disease, bring
ing him -, 900 year, while his farm has be-
come extremely fertile and he is rlch man.
We know that thousands and thousands OF poor
young men have tree course open to them to
became wealthy by beginning inrthe same way;
But the trouble is, the way is too humble and
slow, they want to get along faster; they have
no patience, no faith, no pluck. Truly 1t does
seem small business to watch dozen sheep,
as if it were beneath the attention of q bright
American youth; but if said youth will look the
subject over he will see it is worthy OF alt hls
powers. A young man can we'll afford to SIT
down with dozen sheep on the plains, live IN
dug out, aud feed on antelope meat, rather
than undertake to become independent In
city on cerkship OF 81 900 year.
Year: 1874

Tho Danbury News describes the
humors Of moving as follows:


There is an entire abseuce of old
landmarks, and II strange weird now.
ness OH every thing, and you can't find
your shaving soap. You start ou,
for IL scuttle Of coal, but you don't
sec the ocuttc. 1t Is in the b..ttom
Of barrel in the garret. You take
the dripping. You then change you,
shirt-yuu look for it first. it is in
one of the bureau drawers, which are
piled one upon another in the parlor,
and you find you have got to lift a
half ton Of carpets and feather beds
before you can get down to the draw.
ors. After you lit them down and
search them 1t il remembered re by your
wife that the desired garment is in
one of tho barrels-tho one in the
shed, she thinks, although it may bo
in tho garrett, aud yet it wohld be
just like tile stupid cartman to have
carried that barrel down in the cell
lar. You think so too. You attack
one of tho barrels, and are surprised
at the result.


A bed quilt comeh out first, then a
pic next, piece of cold ham,
neatly done up in vest and packed
away in the missing scuttle. Below
IS an assortment Of iron nware and a
length of u stove pipe; half loaf Of
bread, couple of towels, aud roll
ing pin. You begin to expect you
will eventually como upon coal
mine and perhaps s6ms doad
friends. Then you 20 down in that
barrel again and come up with Il
pleasing assortment of stockings and
half cmptiod medicine bottles. The
way yuu come up this time leads you
to consider the barrel itself: 1t
caught in the back of your vest, and
made the cloth let 60, it took off
one half of one Sieve, aud created a
Sensation on the back Of your hand as
it bonfire had ragged there. 1t is
quite evident tho cooper who built
the barrel was called away before he
commented to clinch the nails.


You involuntarily grasp the rolling
pin and look around az if you half
expected to see him. Then you call
the girl to rcpack the barrel, aud
start up stairs 10 look for something
that was easier to find, but finally
change your mind, pass the balance
of the day in digging carpet tacks
and worthlc, 3 wood from the palm of
your feet, and concocting liea about
the wealth OF your uncle &; and the
moon looks through the window at
night, aud touches Up with glow Of
FURNISHED sil,e", several lengths Of
stove pipe, and a Ealidozen chairs,
Il sheet OF dingy zinc, aid barrel
with bed Quilts foaming over the
top.
Year: 1874

A ono legged soldior, a Mormon,
recently asked Brigham Young to
supply, by q miracle, the missing
limb but tho apostle. not to bo
caught, made this reply; "L oan, in
an instant, produce a new leg in the
place Of tho old one, but thon, YOU
see, IT do, it will cause great in
convenience to you in heaven, for
after your exaltatioh to glory, tho
original leg will come back to tho
spiritual body mino also being of
divine origin, becomes immortal,
and, In this case, observe how very
awkward thrco-leggcd angel from
Utah would appear among the in
habltants Of tho eternal world -
Year: 1874

For long time the gentle, the feeling
Julia, INDUCED her tears and grief with
out restraint. Again and again she read
the laconic epistle before her, to ascertain
what more might be made of it than at
first met the eye. But nothing could be
clothed In palmer language or more easily
understood. 1t was as brief and as much
to the point as those letters which debtors
sometimes receive from their creditors
through the agency of an attorney. "Did
ever youthful BRIDE" thought she, ire
ccceive from her husband such letter as
this p? He strives to show me the coui-
plete Indifference and softness OF his heart
toward me. o. why did l accept his
hand, which was rather his fathers offer
ing than his own? Why did | not listen
to my reason, rather than fond and fool
ish heart. and resist the old mans reas-
ouiug and pleading? Why did believe
him when he told me | should win his
sons affections? Did not know that
his heart was given to another? Dear
old man, he iondly believed bis Frederick S
affections could not long be withheld from
one whom he himself loved so tenderly-
and how eagerly drank ip his assurances!
Amid all the sorrow that | felt, while
kneeling on his dying bed, how did my
heart swell with undeinable pressure, as
be laid his hand already chilled By death
upon my head, gave me parting bless
ing, and said his sou would love me.


Mistaken assurance ah. why did !
fondly trust it? Were | now sree--
would then have the knot united that
makes me his for life? Not for q world
like this. Now he is mine and ! am his
by the laws of god and man, we are one.
He must sometime be at home, apd an
occasional hour ip his society will be q
Year: 1874

1t was bright and beautiful autumnal
evening, The earth was clad in garb of
the brightest and richest hues ; and the
clear ceruleau of the heavens get place
near the setting sun, to a glowing "saffron
color" over which was hunga most mag
niiiccnt drapery of crimson clouds. Fur
ther towards both the north and south, was
suspended here and there sable curtain
fringed with gold, fooled as but one hand
could fold them. They seemed fitting
drapery to shroud the feet of Him who
"rideth upon tho wings of the wind"


Such was the evening on which Ed
ward Cunningham conducted his fair bride
into the mansion prepared for her recep.
tion. But had both earth and heaven been
cecked with ten fold splendor, their beau
ty and magnifccnce would have been lost
on him for bis thoughts, his affections. his
whole being we're centered on the grace.
ful creature that leaned on his arm, and
whom he again welcomed to his new abode
her future home.-He forgot he still
moved in world that was groaning un-
der the pressure of unnumbered evils !;
forgot that earthly joy is oft times but a
dream, fantasy, that vanishes into the
shadow of summer cloud that fits across
the landscape, or, as the morning vapor
before the rising sun; forgot that all on
this side heaven is deeting, and changea-
BILE, and false. In his bride, the object of
his fondest love, he felt that he possessed
treasure whose smile would be uncloud-
ed sunshine to his soul; whose society
would make another Eden bloom for him.
1t was but six short months since he first
saw her who was now his wife; and for
nearly that entire period he had been in
"delirium of love-" intent only on se-
curing her as his own. He had attained his
object, and life seemed spread before him,
a paradise ofdelight, blooming with roses,
unaccompaniad by thorns.


Joy and sorrow, in this world, dwell
side by side. In stately mansion, two
doors only from the one that had just re-
ceived the joyful bridegroom and happy
bride ,dwet one who had been four weeks Il
wife. On the same bright evening she was
sitting in the solitude of her richly fur
uished chamber, her elbows resting on ta.
BILE, her hands supporting her head, while a
letter lay spread before her, on which her
eyes, blinded to tears, were riveted. The
letter was from her husband. He had been
from home nearly three weeks, in which
time she had heard flom him but once,
and then only verbal message. The
letter that lay before her had just arriv-
ed; it was the first she had ever received
from her husband, and ran thus:


Mrs. Westbury. Thinking you might
possibly expect me at home this week, L
write to inform you that business will de-
tain me in New York some time longer.
Vours &c
Year: 1874

We like to see the leading organ OF
President Grant abusing Its own party
in such deserved language as the fol
lowing from the Washington Rc3'uJN-
cqn, j a opposing the Christmas recess
of Congress-, that journal says: g..
There, is no excuse for 1t. The.
gentlemen who are so anxious to get
away have had a holiday for the last
six months, and, SO far as public life is
concernen, there is, we ;arc sorry to
say d long, long holiday before many
Of them from the fourth day of next
March. The appropriation bills ore
ready, or'uearly 80. Why not go ahead
with them and pass them,. and, in the
meantime, agree upon.some financial
bill which win give relief to the coun
try? The mechanic, the merchant, the
farmer, the manufacturer, every rank
and class of our people are entreating
the Republican party in Congress to do
| this work, bring them out of their pre-
sent distress, and make bright the dark
and threatening future before them
Their petition is answered bya propo.
sition TO run away for two weeks, to


blot out one sixth of the entire session


and fritter 1t away in idle frivolity.-


What is it but cowardice of the most


contemptible character


The party has been dying OF the dis


ease for the last two years, and we cx,
[pect that there Is no immediate pros
Ipect of its recovery. Last winter, when
levery industry in the country was par
lalyzed, 1t was too cowardly to inaugnr


ate the policy which should give it re
lief. The session was wasted in weary


sickening debate upon a finance bill
which the President vetoed and thu


country repudiated at the polls. In til,


House it was too cowardly to pass til,
civil rights bill or to reject it, Tt wa


too cowardly to stand by its action o


the year before upon the salary ques
tion. 1t was too cowardly to resist til
,, Opposition in ordering theDepartment
of the Government, merely to make In
, vestigation after investigation into po
, litical capital, to deal with the mul
derers and assassins who were and ar


making mockery of republicanism i


the South. 1t was too cowardly to d
anything; to commit at single blo'
; the political suicide it tperpetratcd an
Els perpetrating at the present time inc


by inch. This policy must come to a
| end If the party would live and succce


in 1877"
Year: 1874

The making of naptha gas by the
Reading Gas Company, for mixing
with the coal gas, was commenced on
on Monday afternoon, when about
5000 feet were made in an hour, by
way of trial of the new machinery.


Yesterday afternoon 1000 more feet
were made, and it was expected that q
still larger quantity would be made to.
day. The new jet photometer indica.
ted the intensity Of the naptha gas to


be equal to 20 candle lights, and that
Of the mixed gas 81 candle lights.
The officers of the company state that
after the new department is in full


operation they intend to make the


mixed gas equal iu intensity to 10 and
II candle lights Reading Eagle.
Year: 1874

CHEAp AND PRErTY.-An exchange
says that very pretty ornament for o
wall can be made Of Q piece Of paste.
board cut in the shape Of a acoruucopia or
basket, and covered with moss. which
can be tackled on with needle and thread.
Varnish some autumn leaves and tie
them on to broom splipts Or wire. aud az.
range them In the basket or vase. and
they will keep for years and look pretty.
Year: 1874

FRUIT AND HEALrH.-Dr. Hunt said
at recent meeting of the Warsaw Hor-
ticultural Society, that can absence of
fruit implies doctors bills" We have
urged for many years the importance
OF regular supply of ripe fruit to pre-
vent disease, and insisted that the best
medicine chest which an emisrating
family could carry to q newly settled
country would be a box of early bear
ing fruit trees, currant, gooseberry and
raspberry bushes, and strawberry plants.
We know family who moved West,
and took with them very large sup
ply of dried fruit, which lasted them
throughout the first summer. None
OF them were sick, although disease
prevailed all about them that year: but
the next year, with more comforts and
less privations, but with no fruit, they
suffered much from sickness. Other
western residents have told us that SO
long as they could have ripe fruit, they
nave been free from all disease result
ing from malaria.
Year: 1874

PRECIPITATION IN FRESH AND IN SEA
WATER.-It is a curious fact that the de-
position OF sediment is much more rap
i'll in sea water than in fresh water. At
recent meeting of the Royal Physical
Society of Edinburgh, some experiments
made to determine the comparative rate
of deposition in the two cases were
described by Mr.. David Robertson
The reader can satisfy himself that the
precipitation really is quicker in the sea
water bya simple experiment. Let him
take two glass jars of equal size, and
fill the two about four-fifths of their
depth, the one with sea and the other
with fresh water; then fill both up with
clay dissolved in fresh water say,
about the consistency of cream-and
stir both we'll up, set the jars side by
side to settle, and in very short time
the precipitation in the jar containing
the sea water will be seen to be going
on rapidly, while in the jar with the
fresh water little or no change will be
observable. From these results, it is
evident that rivers running into the sea
will deposit their sediment nearer their
mouths than if they empty into fresh
water lakes, and, are therefore, other
things being equal, more likely to be
obstructed by bars.
Year: 1874

CASH INSTEAD OF OnEDr.-People who
buy for cash always buy cheaper
than those who buy on credit. They
buy more closely, and select more care
fully. Purchases which are paid for
when they are made are limited more
exactly to the purchasers wants.
There is nothing like having to count
the money out when the article is
bought. The amount of indebtedness
incurred is not much considered when
the payday is far off. Persons who do
all their business on a cash basis know
just where they stand and what they
can afford; consequently they never
find after-occasion for regretting in q
turn Of times, that they have INDUCED
in this luxury, or that, which they
would have foregone had they seen
what was coming. Zeal wants are
few, and can be gratifed for cash; at
all events they should always he linn
tied to what can be paid for in cash.
How much of anxiety, how many sleep
less hours, how many heart-burnings,
disappointments and regrets would be
avoided if this rule was always ad-
hered to.
Year: 1874

PoTrRA1Ts IN SILHOUETTE life.
like portraits may be made in the fol-
lowing way: Pin a large sheet of pa
per against the wall. Some light col
ored papered is preferable. Let the
subject sit between the lamp, which
must be on level with the center of
the head and this paper. There must
be but one light or the shadow will be
confused. Adjust the relative distances
of the subject and the lamp until
clearly-defned shadow of the face in
profile is thrown upon the paper. The
proper method of arrangement can be
easily acquired. Now let the subject
sit as still as possible while the outline
of the face and head is rapidly traced
on the paper. After the outline is
traced on the wrong side of the paper
in order to conceal the pencil-marks,
it can be cut with sharp penknife.
You will then have, if the cutting has
been carefully done, two heads. Mount
them with contrasting colors. We have
made some with blue on red ground
the finest being gold on black velvet
ground. A very little practice and q
degree of taste will enable one to make
very striking portraits Of the members
of the family-circle. The occupation
will be found very pleasant and amus-
ing.