smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1878

The pencil marks you seq around this
paragraph (thus) mean that your sub
scription is out or unpaid, and that you
are requested 70 pay up al once. wo
would take great pleasure In extending
credit to our friends and patrons, but
cash alone win yay our expenses, and
we are forced to adhere 30 a strict cash
rule. We hope you viii comprehend
and appreciate the necessity Of such a
course, and renew your su scription
without delay. We solicit your favor.


t8- We enter no new names on our
books without the money In advance.
Year: 1878

Widows over so are not allowed
to marry in Portugal. The law,
however, is void and useless, as no
widow has ever been discovered in
that or any other country who
would plead to more than half a
hundr red
Year: 1878

The old army OF officers and fol-
lowers is still solid for Grant. II
would spring into life again like
magic at the sound Of his rame. Il
was the most powerful political or
ganization ever seen in this country
and it would start on a fresh cam
paign for him with all the old zeal,
and with the fervor which comes
from a consciousness that the cold
man always stands by hls friends"
: Cleveland Herald Letter.
Year: 1878

South American pest says Were il
not for one thing | could very readily
conceive Of many conditions more in
toerablo than life in Brazilian forest


This one pest keeps you ever on the
alert, and soon teaches you q whole
some regard for what it doubtless con.
siders as its rights. | refer to the ant,
who is ever on the belligorent and
ready on the instant TO defend any en-
croachment upon his territory. 1t
would be difficult to tell, however,
which is not bis territory in Brazil, for
he is everywhere and swarms over
everything, In color he is black, brown
and red, and in size he varies from that
of the eye of a cambric needle to an
inch in length. AT the risk Of being
regarded byperbolical will state
that there are bushels OF them. Some
build on trees nests as large as -four
barrels, with covered archways run
ming up the side of the trunk Of the
tree and the limbs to the nest. Woe
to the unfortunate who strikes this tree
blow with an axe. 1t just simply
rains ants, and as they are endowed
with both biting and singing capaci.
ties, they make it interesting for the in
dividual on whom they may chance to
alight. Other varieties of the ant build
mounds four and five feet in height,
while others content themselves by
plowing up a space of ground forty to
fifty feet in diameter Some of them
in their journcyings through the woods
clear for themselves path about six
inches in width, along which they pass
in two streams, one army carrying
small bits Of leaves, the other moving
in the opposite direction after fresh
supply. If any one is desirous OF in.
dulging in an interesting study y'let him
come down here and Investigate the
uprisings and the downsittings of these
ants.
Year: 1878

If our ministers would preach that
morality was good thing, and that
people could be good without making
a profession of religion and joining tho
church, the world would be better Off
Religion and morality have been
too widely separated by the pulpit.
The man that lives right is sure TO
think right. Teach that morality is a
good thing even If il is not welded TO
religion. Err.
Year: 1878

DANGERoUs.-It is dangerous thing
to neglect a cough or cold, or any difficulty
of the throat or lungs. Lose not moment
in getting bottle of Johnson's Anodyne
Liniment. You can rely upon it to cure you.
Year: 1878

A rider was threading his way over
road which lay along the hills at the base of
the Blue Ridge Mountains, in the region
known as the Piedmont Of Virginia. about
the sources of the Rappahannock river.
Year: 1878

A thoughtful housewife in New Lon
don, Conn. started a fsh-hook on a
strange round of adventures not long ago,
and brought some people INTO curious
iuXtapositions as a result OF her pains.
Finding the hook among her husbands S
papers she thought best to destrOyit, fear
ing it might wcnd its way into his fingers.
Accordingly she threw it into the fire.
The following day her good husband,
while patiently taking ont from the stove
CRATE pieces Of stone and partly burned
coal that had accumulated there, sudden
~ found tish.hOOk in the ileshy part OF
his thumb. He called surgeon, and,
when the hook had been removed, he put
it into his waistcOat pocket, thinking to
show it to his friends and acquaintance.
After breakfast hr went ont, and while on
the street met Il cOlorcd woman, who pass.
ed him with high head and rapid pace.
The two people suddenly came to an EN-.
barassing halt. The hook had found its
way through the side of the gentleman
pocket, and its point fastened itself tC
the waist of the jaunty maiden. l'hi,
afforded great delight to the small boy.
who gathered to the spot from all dirCc
tions. Releasing himself from the hook
the gentleman saw his whilom captive
dash away from him and pass down thC
street, A policeman attempted to stol
her. but before he had succeeded in in
ducing her to return, he found the fish
hook had lodged itself in the hollow o
his hand. At this point the strange event
full history of II fsh.hook draws to II close
The policeman found a surgeon to extrNc
it from his bleeding hand, and then de
posted it in the station house to show tc
! the pnblic.
Year: 1878

The Home Industrial Aid Asso.
citation, a meeting of the subscrib.
ers to which is called for this eve-
ming at the County Court room at
half-past Z o'clock has its origin
in the wish Of few public spirited
gentlemen to effect an organiza.
ton whose principal object shall
be :he aiding and encouraging
any new in1ustry or manufacture
that might seem practicable and
profitable in this locality. 1t is
thought that this could be best ac-
complished by the formation of q
corporation having the above
name, with a capital stock of
SIS, 900, divided into 5000 shares OF
one dollar each. This would ena-
BILE every person to share in it ac-
cording to his means. The few
prominent citizens who are trying
to inaugurate this movement are
actuated by pure, sincere and ear
nest public spirit, and having only
the good of the community in
view they ask the cooperation of
their fellow citizens and cordially
invite all to be present at the meet
ing. There Is no ring, or clique, or
monopoly sought to be attained by
it, nor any mercenary or selfish
purpose. But they do hope that at
this meeting there may be formed
nucleus out of which shall gro w
large and useful public institu-
tion which will prove of great ben.
eft to our city.
Year: 1878

The building committee of the
Horticultural Society held an
important meeting yesterday.
Active work will be COM
menced in grading the Pa
vilion on Thursday next by Mr..
York, the contractor. In six days
time the lot will be ready for the
foundation of the building and the
carpenters can work while the
grading of the terrace is being done.
1t is proposed to secure a
company of carpenters TO
make u big rush on the work as
soon as the ground is ready for
them. The United States Hotel
will board the men for three
days work gratis to the ex-
tent OF fifty men, and the Com
mittee appointed to superintend
this work, Messrs. Denker and
York, will provide board for any
additional men who may be on
hand to give the Society a days
help that day. The Society will
,redit each days work done on


membership or dues account.
Year: 1878

minlsiration surrounded this gen.
tleman and extorted from him a
promise that my answer should
not appear In the Review. In his
embarrassment at such gross un.
fairness, the editor of the Revieu
offered to print my rejoinder In
pamphlet form, at his own ex-
pense, which was done.


Reporter-Csrtainly very ex.
traordinary chapter of political
chicane, Judge. How do you look
upon the recent labor movements


Judge Black-I study them with
great interest. Thus far two emil
nent men have identified them.
selves with this agitation-Wen-
dell Phillips and General Butler.
Wendell Phillips is man OF
genius, unsurpassed in oratorical
invective, but person of no sense
whatever. Butler is by far the
shrewdest man who has ever
seemed to fraternize with the
movement. l regret that I did not
have a conversation with him on
the subject before L came to this
coast, and I shall seek an early OPP
portuuity to talk with him and
learn his views as to the signili-
canoe of the movement. Ny own
are not yet fully formed.


Thanking Judge Black for his
ready and courteous response to our
questions, we took our leave.
Year: 1878

TO THE EDITOR TxIE HIRALD:-


Why caunot either tho Sixth or Eighth Avenue
Railroad Company place car at the corner OF yesey
street and Broadway, nearly opposite your olce for
tho accommodation Of those who compelled to be
down town lato at night, or whose business will not
permit thcm 10 oave for home until early hour In
the mornngy travel every morning tho sixth
avenue road aud TO catch car am compelled 10
stand on tho street corner until arrives. Some
times seek tho friendly shelter oil your publication
Office, but when do almost invariably lose cur
am compelled to chase half the way down ycscy
street, In tho carly hours OF the tho start
as soon MS The horses are changed and II is TO
make the dead IN St. PauPs churchyard hear than
the divers. What We pccd Ia shelter at tho Vesey
street end OF tho ne and, Tor that mattor, at tho
other end OF the road, noar Central Park. 1t is
outrage TO keep passengers standing IN tho sleet
snow moro especially when shoter could be SO
enslIy provided Z.
Year: 1878

tNorR.-Letters intended for this column must be
accompanied BY tho writer's full name and address to
insure attention Complainants who are unwilling to
comply with this rule simply waste time In writing.
Write only on one sido OF the paper.-ED. HERALRl
Year: 1878

To THE EDITOR THE HERALD:-


Having been depositor in the German Uptown
Savings Bank called on Mr.. Uhi, receiver. 70 ask
him whom might expect q dividend on the money I
had deposited at the time OF tho failure, and po
lteiy informed me he knew nothing about II and
could not givo any information about the matter.
Now being married man and having large family
TO support take the liberty Of ASKING you to whom
shall apply for tho desired Information. N. h
Year: 1878




Tho foolishness of strikes s well enough illus
Horse Railroad. The company says that it will not
employ two men as drivers. IL is not Obliged to
give its reasons but ii does il refuses this pair
work because they were foremost some
months ago in strike against Ieduc-
ton of wages The company viii not
have the men upon the road: the other drivers say
"You must have them OF you shall not have u.s." And
thercupon they throw down the reins and leave the
road to get along az well rs it can. But it did got
along, nevertheless, toerably WELL Drivers were
found for y considerable number of the cars, and
will soon be found for all. Violence has been
guarded against by sufficient detail of policemen
and nobody suffers except the poor public, or so
much Of prefers surface roads to elevated roads,
Thus it always is when the employed organize
an effort to make employers do what they hayo no
mind to DO. How much Inconvenience and loss the
great railroad strikes of 1876 inflicted upon the COM
munty cannot be definitely known. because there
are no settled data from which 10 compute it. We
know what the railway corporations lost approxi-
mately at least but when business is derangcd and
travel impeded aud transportation hindeTed, how
are the damages TO be accurately reck0nedf 7 Tho
more, however, the community is made TO feel that


strike affects universal interests the stronger will
be that feeling which must prove something of a
safeguard against its recurrence.


Ii is society. after all which pays the most roundiy
for all attempts TO regulate the rate of wages with
out the full consent Of both parties to contracts.
Year: 1878

production is le sened prices, of course, go up. Ii
there Is destruction OF property, it may be accom-
panied by losses suffered by those who have MOTH
ing whatever to do with the quarrel, and by the
increase of taxes which everybody must help to
pay. The strike yesterday must have resulted III
some annoyance and good deal of inconvenience; /;
but if it shall demonstrate that it is not for the
servants of company to dictate its course in any
case whatever all legal rights being studiously re-
spectel, then it Will compllsh some good, and not
evil altogether.
Year: 1878

While Mr.. Edison has been freely accorded n
patent in this country, he is compelled to con-
tend in London with the legal opposition OF a
Mr.. Russell, who has so far lodged no evi-
dence in support of his objections. Evidently
the British Patent Office needs more light.


The trials of various managers OF elections
in South Carolina for frauds upon the ballot
box serve as a timely reminder of the justice
that Southern Democrats may be expected to
deal out to themselves. In all OF the three
cases reported the guilt of the accused men
seems to have been demonstrated beyond the
possibility of doubt in one there was no at
tempt to disprove the charges made, and yet
in all the defendants were acquitted. Honest
men of both parties in the North VIII not be
sorry to see the Senate vote to-day that some
of its own members shall inquire into these
matters.


1t is n significant circumstance that al
though the Democratic newspapers have been
fairly insolent III their cOSfdence that Con
grcss had no right to investigate the conduct
of the Southern elections, when Dymo-
cratic Senator moved yesterday to lay Mr..
Blaine's resolution Oh the table, only
two of his colleagues ventured to vote with
him sixty voted against him, though the
Senate is in reality often Democratic nova
days, owing to Republican absenteeism. Evi-
IDENTIFY the Democrats of the Senate apprecl-
ate, as the organs Of the party do not, TIE
gravity of the indictment which mas been
brought against it, and the strength OF the
feeling upon this subject which has been
aroused in the Moth. Not daring to prevent
the Investigation 10y direct means. the Demo-
cratic leaders seem to have set themselves to
the work of crippling it by indirect means
II is difficult to take any more charitable
view of the attempt, made under the
lead OF Hamburg Butler himself to de-
prive the investigating committee OF the
customary discretion respecting the nature
of its sessions, and to hamper 1t with
an absolute injunction that it should sit with
open doors. A. Mr. Blaine well said, such
direction, if once given, would merely serve
notice upon everl Republican in the South
that he would testify at his pcril-wmch no.
body understood better than the Senator
from South Carolina. His motion was de-
fcatcd, as was also another to the same effect
made by another Southern Senator. BY
another vote the appointment of n special
committee was ordered, instead of the pro-
posed reference to a committee already over
worked. Mr.. Blaine will necessarily take the
lead in the inquiry, and viii no doubt bear
himself as brayely as he has done in the de-
bate.
Year: 1878

The new Mississippi plan, making it g
penal offence for Government officer to
subscribe, or to ask a Government officer to
subscribe to campaign funds, had majority
vote in the House yesterday from the virtuOus
Democracy. If the virtuous Democracy
should ever get possession of the National
Government. the old Mississippi plan would
be used on any officer who refused to
subscribe.
Year: 1878

At eighty a gentleman in New York city
commenced trying to walk up the stairs
of the Evening Post building. and there
are eleven flights of them, of which there
are nine from the street to his Office. Any
of the elevator men will tell you that,
when the elevator is at all full. off he will
20 cheerily up all the nine flights, SEEM
ingly none the worse for it. Within a
year he also told the writer that he still
continued dumb-bell and club work before
breakfast daily, and simply because it
pays; and he is certainly still a wiry,
active man. even though it is sixty-two
years since he wrote "Thanatopsis. J." Pal
merston, tox-huuling when past eighty;
Vanderbilt, no youngster without groom
or companion, urging his blooded trotters
over Harlem Lane at a slashing pace
Gladstone, at siXty-eight. telling Harwar-
den trees by the hour, and for the bene-
fit the exercise brings-are but few in
stances of what old men can do when
they try. None of these are
more surprising than, in an intellectual
field, the learning of German by Caleb
Cushing after he had passed seventy, or
Theirs activity at nearly eighty, or in
all ways. than Moses's doing the
forty years best work in his lite after
he had passed eighty, and yet with eye
not dim nor natural force abated.
If some men, by oiling their joints daily
for, as Macaren says, ''they are oiled
every time they are put in motion or
lv'-can keep those joints from grating
and creaking and moving stifllv, even into
ripe old age, why may not others as
well And which OF these things which
man can, ii he will ito so readily, can not
woman do as well 1t needs no money.
very little time. little or no present
strength. One thing only it does need.
and that is perseverance. One-third of the
time often given to the piano will more
than suffice. One less study day of
those which are to-day overtaxing so
many school girls, and instead judcious,
vigorous, outdoor exercise aimed directly
at the weak muscles, and taken as regular
ly .as ones breakfast, and is there any
doubt which will pay the better, and make
the girl the happier, the filter for all her
duties, and the more attractive as well
We trust that the day is not tar off when
no boy or girl will be sent TO school
where care is not taken to develop vigor-
Gus, healthy bodies, and when that vigor
and health will be the rule and not the ex-
ception among men and women alike. and
in every walk in life William Blake IN
Harper'S Mdgagine for May.
Year: 1878

ST. EDMUND OF CANTERBURY.


twas said of st. Edmund that sin his
mouth was never aught save peace, purity,
and piety, and that in his heart was
naught save Christ alone. These graces
were due to the training of his ploos
mother, Mabel Rich, who instilled into his
young soul a mRrvellous love of purity
and of the Blessed Mother of God. He
left his home at Abingdon boy OF twelve
years old to study at Oxford, and there
protected himself against many grievons
temptations by VOW of chastity, and by
espousing himself to Mary for life. Wholly
given to the contemplation of divine
things, he was yet soon called to active
public life, and as treasurer of the diocese
of Salisbury showed such charity to the
poor that the dean said he was rather the
treasure than the treasurer of their church.
In 1884 he was raised 70 the see of Canter-
bury, where, Notwithstanding his gentle
and retiring deposition, he fearlessly de-
Tended the rights of Church and State
against the avarice and greed OF Henry III.
Finding himself, after fierce contest,
unable to force that monarch to rellnquleh
the livinGs which he kept vacant for the
benefit OF the royal Golfers, Edmund re-
tired into exile sooner than appear to con-
niye at 30 foul wrong. After two years
speut in solitude and prayer, he went
to his reward, and the miracles wrought
at his tomb at POntigny were SO numerous
that he was canonlzed In lao, Wltnln louE
years of his death.


St. Edmund wore night and day the
ring with which, as a boy, he had espoused
himself to Mary in her church at Oxford.
During his studies her image ever stood on
his table and when at the end OF his long
conflict be came to die, his love of Mary
shone out more brightly than ever: H"v-
ing received with great joy the last Sacrs-
ments, he asked that his crucihx, with the
figure of the Mother of Sorrows, might be
Brought to him. Ee Kissed them with
seIf laid on the floor, caused them to be 90
placed that his dying eyes might rest on
Jesus and Mary till his soul went to God
Year: 1878

The Washington Post of Tuesday morning
contained long statement purporting to be-
compiled from copies OF papers made accessible
through the bankruptcy of John G. Fremont
and covering long list of persons, members
OF Congress and others, whose influence in
favor of the Kansas Pacific railroad is alleged
to have been secured by corrupt means.


BLOW AT THE LOBBYISTS.


If Speaker Randall enforces the rules of the
House concerning the admission of persons
not members to the aoor, as be has been point
edly instructed to do, there will be a marked
Improvement over the present condition of
things, which had become scandalou5 to the
last degree. The debate on the subject was
courteous for the most part, but it was easy to
see that there was much feeling concerning the
annoyance to which members have been sub
jected.


GOVERNMENT OF THE DISTRICT.


The House Committee on the District Of Col.
umbia is considering the question of a govern
ment and is likely to come to determination
soon. 1t was decided Tuesday that the national
government ought to pay half the expenses Of
governing the District One probability is that
the government of the District will be made
bureau of the national government with COM
missioners, appointed by the President and the
Senate, reporting to ths Treasury department,
which will embody the estimates for carrying
Year: 1878

SENATOR DAWES Of Massachusetts, made
an excellent speech against the silver bill
Tuesday. His close was very fiue. He
said:


The laws of currency and political economy,
on which this bill and kindred measures are
making war, are older than this debate and the
popular excitement which it feeds aud is in
turn fed by it, and will control business and
trade long after both shall have passed away
and been forgotten. They are not needed now,
but the time is sure to come when they will as
sert their dominion and exact the penalty in
separable from their infracton. Ears now deaf
to the voice of all history-will then be unseaed.
Eyes that will not now see the unmistakable
signs of the coming of that day will then be
opened. 1t must needs be that the hereses
and deluslons of the hour must come, but woe
unto them by whom they come. Every step
thus far taken in the great financial struggle of
this nation with itself to recover the ground
lost by its first departure from those laws has
its counterpart written in English history be-
fore resumption in 1921, and in that deplorable
record of the rise and fall and ruin of the French
assignats. Statesmen were then as now fright
ened OFT their feet by the hoarse cry of more,
more, more, which gamblers in the rise and fall
of values had lifted up demagogues to utter in
the ear of distressed and hungry credul-
ty. There was the speculator in green
backs then; the Wall street stock iobber was
born of the French dealer in assignats, and the
English infationist of 1S18 1919, 1920, has his
descendants on this side of the water making
corners in currency and coin. 1t is their craft
that is in danger of destruction by resumption
And the din and uproar heard above the voice
of reason, the teachings of history and the
warnings OF experience are not the complaint
of sober, earnest business, intelligent, enter
prising industry, nor of honorable, thrifty
labor, but that of those alone who profit for the
moment by playing with loaded dice the game
OF tossing values. But be assured, sir, the day
of these men is short The end will surely
come The chapter in their lives aud their
work yet to be written here is already recorded
in the ruin their prototypes in France and Eng
land brought upon their deluded followers. If
we will not heed the warnings of history we
will surely be taught the lessons of experience.
The laws which govern currency and trade, old
as civilization and commerce among nations
and individuals, cannot he set at naught with
impunity Over the popular delusion and
political frenzy Of the hour there reigns an in
exorable higher law, waiting on the footsteps
of all law breakers: The way of the trans-
pressor ia hard. -
Year: 1878

UNLESS France is careful what she does
the silver men will cease to use her as an
illustration in support of their folly. Her
Senate has unanimously approved the bill
renewing the temporary suspension of the
obligation of the French mint to coin any
silver taken thither. The American situa-
ton is one of the causes that lead to the re-
newal. France does not care to be flooded
with cheap silver.