smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1878

The following are the remedies for social
Ills SO far suggested to the Congressional com
m1ttee on the StagnatiOn of business and in
dustry: Abolish capitalists: abolish interest ::
abolish private ownership of land: abolish
private property: abolish the patent laws;
abolish tine customs duties abolish all laws
for the collection of bills of credit; abolish
private ownership OF machinery; abolish the
practice OF giving government land to rail-
roads; prohibit employment of children under
fourteen: prohibit the employment of any
body but citizens on public works; prohibit
the Chinese immigration lay graduated tax
on incomes to prevent large accumulations of
property: furnish government work for the
unemployed: open Industrial schools at the
expense OF the government; raise the income
of the government by direct taxation build
two hundred war vessels; put the soldiers at
WORK on the pralrleS; enact universal eight
hour law; create a bureau of labor statistics;
create department OF industry make it il
legal Tor women to work long hours: have all
machinery be run on the cooperative princi-
pie for the benefit of the people amend the
constitution for the benefit of the labOring
men; establish government cooperative So
gratultous: give everybody the right to vote
women included: let the general government
control public education; establish minority
representation let the government issue un-
limited greenbacks: call in all government
bonds and national bank notes: let the gov
graph lines: keep politicians out of office:
submit all laws to the people for approval or
condemnation free travel to be furnished to
all persons on the railroads, which should be
managed by the state: a general law making
Worklngmen'S wages paramount lien: the
establlshment OF food and lodging asylumS, TO
be always open, and maintained by taxation
OF large incomes
Year: 1878

THE INFORMATION THE LABOR COMMITTEE
WANTs.-BefOre the adjournment of the Con
in the New York Post Office, Tuesday August
10Th, Mr. Hewitt read the following Questions
which the committee Submit to the people.
The committee also invite suggestions and
recommendations relating to the subject under
investigation from representative men in all
departments OF business. What were the sell
ing prices OF your products in 1860 and in each
subsequent year down to 1878, inclusive?
What were the wages paid by you in each of
these years for labor employed? Where the
persons furnishing information are willing to
do SO, the committee invites them to state the
percentage OF profit made by them in each of
these years upon the capital employed in their
business. What were the wholesale and retail
prices of the leading articles of family con-
SUMPTION during each of these years in your
vicinity? What is the difference, if any, be-
tween the rents of tenements occupied by
operatives in the years 1866 and 1878 in your
vicinity? What was the comparative amount
OF the products of your business in quantity
and value in the years 1860 and 1878? State
the comparative steadineSS of employment of
operatives between the years 1860 and 1878,
inclusive. The committee invites suggestions
from employers and employed as to the extent
and causes OF the present depression of busi-
ness, and as to any special federal legislation
which, in their opinion, would tend to relieve
the same.
Year: 1878

The MONTREAL ORANGEMEN have declined
the proposal Of the Catholic party to test the
legality of the order by civil proceedings in a
test case, to 60 before the privy council, and
the prosecution will be proceeded with in the
police court.
Year: 1878

. INSTANTLY KILLED BY LIGHTN1NG.-Last
sattnrday tanaay even evenlpg Lew Baker M was seated on
lightning struck a tree close by. The cleo
tricity rebounded from the tree when about
halfway down and struck the young man On
the head, instantly killing him. There was
but one mark of the stroke on him, and that
showed a slight burn on his hair, yet every
bone in his body appeared to have been
broken.
Year: 1878

by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER.
My lady walks her morning round,
My lady's page her feet greyhound,
My ladys hair the fond winds stir,
And all the birds make songs for her.
Her thrushes sing in Rathburn bowers,
And Rathburn side is gay with flowers;
But neer like hers in flower or bird,
Was beauty seen or music heard.
The distance OF the stars is hers
The least Of all her worshippers,
The dust beneath her dainty heel,
She knows not that see or feel
o proud aud calm she cannot know
Wberoer she goes with her 1 go
o cold and fair she cannot guess
kneel to share her hounds caress
Gay knight beside her hut and hawk.
| rob their ears OF her sweet talk
Her suitors come from east aud west
steal her smile from every guest.
Unheard Of her, in loving words
Igreet her with the song Of birds,
reach her with her green-armed bowers,
kiss her with the lips of flowers.
The hound and are on her TRAIL
The wind AMI uplift her veil;
AS il the calm, cold moon she were,
And l the tide, 1 follow her.
As unrebuked as they, share
The license Of the sun and air,
Aud in a common homage hide
My worship from her scorn and pride.
Nor look nor sign betrayeth me
| serve her in my low degree,
Content in humble ways to prove
He serveth well who serves for love.
And still to her my service brings
The reverence due to holy things
Her ma den pride, her naughty name
My dumb devotion shall not shame.


Independent.
Year: 1878




Paris Letter to N. Y. Times.


On Wednesday night, an incendiary bal
loon was let loose in the direction of the
Champ de Mars Palace. About II clock
the sailors who do the night watch noticed
bright light in the neighborhood of the En-
glish section. The alarm was given imme-
diately, and the pompiers were quickly on
the spot with their engines. At first it was
thought to be merely one of the montgol-
tiers sent up at some public garden, OF from
the American circus in the Avenue de Lam
ertre Piquet, but it burst into flames eight
or ten feet high just as it fell to the ground ,
after barely missing the roof of the fine art
gallery. The wind was blowing almost a
hurricane at the time, and if the balloon had
reached its evident destination, the central
annexes, the Champ de Mars part of the
Exhibition would now be only a heap of
ashes,as the infammable matters resisted the
action of the rain, which was falling in tor
rents, and probably consisted of those con-
nections of petroleum used with such dis
astrous effect by the "friends and brothers ,
during the Commune. This is the first, but
l fear will not be the last, attempt made to
destroy the Worlds Fair, as the hydra
headed demon of anarchy and destruction
still lives in the very heart of the metropolis,
and it will need the most untiring vigilance
to defeat his Vaccinations, angered as he is
by the refusal of the Government to agree
to general amnesty of the interesting con-
vlcts at Cayenne and Noumea.
Year: 1878

TO the Editor Of the Globe.


AS it is fact that none of the requirements
of the health officer of the City of St. Paul
have in any respect been complied with, or in
any way enforced by the president of the board
of health for the last two years, and as large
spectors for doing the business required of
them under said health ordinance which they
have utterly failed and neglected to do. Now
propose to discharge the duties of health in
spector under said ordinance for the sum Of
thirty five dollars per month. Common coun-
Gil please take notice. JOHN PATTERSON
Year: 1878

National Associated Press to The Star


INDIANAPOLIS, Sept. 2O.-Mary McHugh,
a very respectable young Irish girl, was
brutally murdered last night by Louis
Guetig, nephew of the proprietor of the
Spencer House, where Mary had been work
ing and where she lost her life Guetig
fired three shots at her, one of which passed
through her head, the others taking effect
in her body. He was arrested and lodged
in jail. His only excuse for the cowardly
crime is that she would not consent to
marry him. He is dissolute wretch, and
his prompt incarceration in the Jail prob
ably saved him from a lynching.
Year: 1878

The Murphies were out in goodly NUM-
bers last evening at 184 Longworth street,
their headquarters in this city.


President Ogden is completing his ar
rangements to carry the pledge into every
family in the city. Reformed men are do
ing grand work among their former assO-
ciates in winning them back to life of So
briefly and moral worth. This work de-
serves the encouragement of our citizens.
Year: 1878

Such beautiful beautiful hands


They're neither white nor small
And you know, would scarcely think
That they are fair at all.
I've looked on hands whose form and hue
A sculptor's dream might be;
Yet are those aged wrinkled hands


Most beautiful to me.
Such beautiful, beautiful hands


Though heart were weary and sal,
Those patient hands kept toiling on,


That the children might be glad.
always weep, as, looking bick


To childhood's distant day,
think those dear hands rested not


While mine were at their play.
Such beautiful, beautiful hands


They're growing feeble now,
For time and pain have left their mark


On hands and heart and brow.
Alas alas the morning time,


And the sad, sad day to me,
When meath the daisies out Of sight


Those hands shall folded be.
But, oh beyond the shadow land


Where all is bright and fair,
know full we'll those dear Old hands


Will palms of victory bear.
Where crystal streams through endless year


Flow over golden sands,
And where the old grow young and fair


I'll clasp my mothers hands.
Year: 1878

This is the choicest premium
ever given to newspaper sub
scribers-somcthing of real and
practical value. The ladies will
be delighted with it. If yom
neighbor don't take the OBsER-
YER tell him of this offer. They
all want the paper and book.
You get the old OBSERVER and
il capital, practical, useful book
of 160 pages, for the price of the
former.


Now is your opportunity.
This unprecedented offer will
expire in a few weeks.
Year: 1878

About the time a boy begins to
think his mother doesn't know
enough to select his clothing for
him is a dangerous period in his
history. If she has energy and
muscle he can ye. be saved.
Year: 1878

The Crime Of Her Murder Avenged
on Her EXecutiOnerS-Brand
of Cain en- Her Murderers
They Die Violent and
Miserable Deaths


The Martyr of the


White House


and the
Martyr of the Arsenal.
New York Star, June 22d.
Year: 1878

Did you slip in a vote for Reform" Moses7


The Widow Butler will now resume her weeds


New-YOrk is evidently opposed TO cOndoning
fraud, Mr. IldeD.


Did you have any Copenhagen on the result, Mr.
Weed, and was ii in paCkagesf


Is General Hancock so much of Presidential
candidate as he was yesterday
Pennsylvania has knocked the last breath ont of
the Greenback movement.


How many votes is the good will Of Tammany
Hall worth to you now, Mr.. HendncksH


Mr.. s. s. Cox will now repeat his champion joke
OF calling himself "A candidate for Speaker.


If Kearncy does not start back for California
pretty soon he won't be abe to travel in palace car


The Republican party is in line for 1880, with the
great States of Now-York and Pennsylvania solid
behind it.


Now, General Butler. get even with the unsymDa-
thetic Democracy by calling the Potter Committee
together and gong for the cipherers.


The solid South is IN pretty good condition for
its Treasury raid but its Northern ally, Tammany.
is III sore need of long season for rest and repairs.


Congressman B. A. Willis will have ample oppor-
tunity to mediate upon the folly of ceasng to be
an independent statesman in order to become
small politician.


Barnum the mule-buyeT, is among tho slain, and
Connecticut will have two men in the next Senate
instead of one and empty chair The mule
market is likely TO be feyerish for a day or two.


The only hope for Hendricks now is 10 run as the
candidate OF the Solid South and Che soft money
West. The East can give him no help. The sooner,
therefore, that no gets both feet on n combination
platform of unlimited claims aud unlimited money
the better for him.


Perhaps it will occur 10 Mr. Thurman now that
his enemies were right when they announced his
funeral after the October elections. There is about
as much chance for a soft-mOney candidate for the
Presidency IN 1880 as there is for a cOpaFcener to
develop wings and turn into an angel OF truth and
light.
Year: 1878

southern response. The firm alliance be-
tween the Solid South and the dan
gerous elements at the North 1or
soft money and raids upon the Natlonai
Treasury, has been another. The Northern
people have seen these responses, and the
vote shows that they understood them.


On the whole, the Judgment of the Northern
I,eople is that the destinies of the country are
still safest in the hands of the party
that freed the slave, preserved the Union'
and stands now the bulwark of the National
honor, and the champion of rational finance
Yesterdays work made this Judgment PLAIN
we may now confidently hope that the work
of 1880 will make it palmer still. For
the first time Hnce the Inauguration
of President Hayes there is good reason to
trust that he may have Republican success
Year: 1878

md hrs printed works but Of "the uniformly geniai
and loving treatment which 1t is bis won't 10 meto
out to men of a Christian fellowship, as well as 10
those of his own" One of the chief lessons VIC
may he permitted to say, which tie presehco
of Dean Stanley has given ns, Is that OF the pos'oh
ity of a much more harmonious relation OF churcheS
of differing professions to each other than has been
common-of lioerality without any latitudinarlan
lapse or loOsc indifference. To many this may seem
easy enough but perfect charity is not always easy
to of strong convictions, intellectual and spirit
ual. We all admit it's theoretical value-the VISIT
of Dean Stanley, now so auspIciOusly concluded
has demonstrated that there may be unity quite
independent of creeds, aud not in the least subver-
siye of their real authority.


For the very full and complete returns from the
Connecticut election. which we give this morning
The TRIBUNE makes acknowledgment of its Obli-
cations to the publishers of The Hartford Evening
Post, who courteouslY placed their dis
patches at the service of our CORE
spondent The collection of returns has been
so systematized and perfected in the Office OF The
Post that no other newspaper now pretcnds to make
any effort in that direction. but all depend in
greater or less degree upon the energy and enter
prise of The Post 1t often happens that The Post Is
able give the vote of tho entire State in au extra
issued as early as 10 O'Clock on election evening.


The most brutal thing in the late campaign
was the circulation of the falsehOOd that Peter
Cooper had denounced his son as treach-
erous. unsafe, and unworthy Of popular support,
The persons who invented this atrOciOus cal
umny. and those who circulated it, may
now reflect at their leisure upon the evidence
they have of what the public thought about
it. Ii win be a long time, we hope.
before an effort Is again made u this city to use
political weapon so infamous.
Year: 1878




The voice of the people has been heard, and
now the responsibility as 10 resumption of
specie payments rests with the President, the
Secretary of the Treasury and Congress. II is
easy to suppose that measures which the Sec
retary would have been glad TO take at an
earlier date, and may now deem advisable,
have bGon deferred by him because of n pos-
sible misapprehensiOn of their intention. their
nature or effect. il they had been taken dur
ing the heat of a political canvass. But he
now has the field open before him. He knows
that the Congress which will meet in Decem-
Der will do all the mischief it can, aud he also
knows what power the President has
and will exert to thwart mischief. Thus
ne should be able without further de-
lay to adopt and announce whatever
measures he may now deem necessary in prep
aration for resumption. Ii seems very desir-
able that he should make early and distinct
announcement of his purposes, for it cannot
have escaped his observation that the business
and finances of the country have been very
much disturbed by doubt, in respect to his
construction Of the law, in respect to the
measures which he may take, and in respect to
the probable consequences. II resumption is TO
succeed at all, Dir. Sherman knows that public
confidence in its success and permanenee must
be strengthened to the utmost, and that an
increase Of confidence in business operations
Year: 1878

Up to the hour of going to press with the first
edition of THE TRIBUNE, returns had been
received from 1877 towns. These towns
gave Republican plurality of a.561 for
Secretary of State in 1877. This year they give
plurality of IG.Oss. little more than double
that of 1877. The Nationals are drawing from the
Democrats in many counties and there is some
reason for believing that this proportional
increase will hold GOOD throughout the State.
IL it does it will make the Republican majority IN
the State outside Of New-York City about $500
A Republican majority of from $4,000 to 2O.OOOm
the State is indicated by these fragmentary returns
The large majority of towns reporting are Repubh'
can. Those reporting arc as follows:
Year: 1878

Probably there was never q sharper sermon
upon the uncertainty of life than the death
of Alexander Smith yesterday, at Yonkers,
before the votes had been counted which
elected him to Congress.
Year: 1878

General Hustled has made the name of
.carpet-bagger respectable. From the size of
his majority. it looks as if the people OF
Rockland would like to have him bring his
trunk over and stay.
Year: 1878

1t appears from the London letter on
another page that the tardiDess with which
Congress prepared for the Paris Exhibition
affected the American art department at least
as injunOusly as it did our general display
This is unfortunate, inasmuch rs it is desir-
able to remove the opinion entertained very
largely abroad, that this Nation is too intent
on mOney-makmg to cultivate the higher
branches of art.
Year: 1878

The gain of eighteen Republican Senators
which is to result from the recent French
elections will insure even a larger majority
IN the Senate than Gambetta expected. This
success cannot fail 70 have widespread
influence on French politics, and serve largely
TO consolidate the Republic, which will be-


GIN next year with strong majorities in
its favor In both branches Of the Legislature.
With the Senate IN accord with the Repub-
hcan Cabinet now in Office, it will be i'm
practicable to repeat the plot in virtue Of
which the Senate nv q majority of 20,
Year: 1878

THE CITY Council by its action last
night, will save in the single item of
lighting the city some seven or eight
thousand dollars year. This is large
saving to be made so easily by the contract
system and publishing for proposals.
The Lamp Committee cerla inly deserve
much credit for their efforts in this drec-
tion, in which they were, we judge from
the letters read last night, greatly assisted
by the Clerk Of the Council, who it APP
peared had, under their di ection perhaps,
conducted most of the correspondence
leading to the action in the matter. 1t
seems to be generally conceded now that
Mr.. Frazer is the most compe' ent and ef-
ticient clerk the council has had for a long
time.
Year: 1878

The audience which assembled last nj ght at
the Comiquc summer Garden was turned away
in happy frame of mind, as the performance
given is one OF the best ever witnessed in this
city. Tho company gathered at this delightful
place Of amusement will compare iuvOrably
with any in the country. Don't forget the
matinee this afternoon ut halfpast two o'clock.
Year: 1878

In the District Court at San Buenaven-
tura, F. A. Sprague was called up for SEN
tence. After the court had oVerruled
motion for new trial, Judge Fawcett said,
after directing the prisoner to stand mp:


"F. A. Sprague, You have been convict
ed of the highest crime known to- the law.
You we're skillfully defended at the trial.
Every device was exhausted to save you,
but a jury of your fellow-ci citizens has pro-
nounced you guilty of the great crimes with
which you are charged. In the dead hours
of night you, the leader of band of
masked assassins, applied the torch to the
premises of your victim, and as he rushed,
startled and half-naked, into the light Of
the flames, you closed up on him and shot
him near to death. He attem pied fight;
you pursued; he fell before you with a
pleading voice that should have wrung pity
from heart of iron, but you remorselessly
riddled him with bullets as you would q
carcass of dog. There is no language
strong enough to depict the atrocity Of such
deed. Your guilt is as clear as evidence
can make it. You probably thought you
would be upheld by the community in
which you lived. Thank God, you were
mistaken. There are but few monsters to
applaud your act. The result of your trial
proves that we are yet governed by law
that we are community of enlightened
human beings, and not a society of sava-
ges. The law has seized you, and the
voices of twelve good men held you in its
inexorable grasp to pay the dreadful penal
ty of your crime. Let your fate be warn
ing that justice is sure to follow crime, some
times travelling slowly with leaden heel, but
striking with an iron hand win not af-
feet for you sympathy do not feel.
There is no point in your case for sympathy
to grasp at SO far as You are cnnnA----'.'
deeply feel for your faithful wife and chill
dren. They are the ones who need ana oe'
serve pity and the sympathy Of kind hearts
Il only remains to formally conclude this
pa; nful duty. The judgment of the court
is that on Friday, the 9th day of Septenl'
ber next, between the hours Of 10 a. m. and
p. M, you are to be hanged by the neck
until you are dead, and may God Almighty
have mercy upon your soul.''


sprague presented a stolid indifference
and perfect calmness while sentence wa'
being pronounced. His wife and daughter
were present, and were calm and unmoVed


s. r. Post.
Year: 1878

Glass can be drilled with common driii


very really by using a mixture OF sur-


pentine and camphor. When the point OF


the drill has come through, it should be


taken out and tho hole drilled through


with the point of three-cornered file' hav-


ing the edges ground sharp. Use the cor


uers of the file, and scraping the glass;


rather than using the file as . reamer'
Great care must be taken not to crack the
glass or fake off parts Of it in finishing
the hole after tho point OF the drill nat
come through. Use the mixture freely dn
ring the drilling and scraping. The above
mixture will be found very useful in drill
| ing hard cast iron. Tempered steel can y
| drilled by making the drill very marc ane


using this mixture. esi' y eoea
Year: 1878

mittee. The sundry Civil Appropriation bill
was considered without final action. A bill
was introduced to enforce, under penalty Of
fine and imprisonment, Sec. 1,754 Of the Re
vised Statutes, providing that soldiers and
sailors honorably discharged by reason Of dis
ability resulting from wounds or sickness in
Cured in the line of duty shall be preferred
for appointments to civil office, provided they
possess the necessary capacity An amend
ment that the bill shall not be construed to
exclude any soldiers disabled in the line Of
duty and honorably discharged, or widows or
daughters of killed or disabled soldiers, was
agreed TO and the bill passed Adjourned
Year: 1878

BERLIN, June Z.


After the shooting of the Emperor,
on Sunday, when the enraged populace
broke into Nobeling's apartment, he
fired twice at them, severely wounding
Holtfeur, an inn-keeper. The crowd
seeing him bleeding supposed he was
the assassin and fell upon him, and he
was so roughly handled before the peo-
pie discovered their mistake that his
life is despaired of. After the second
shot Modelling shot himself He was
instantly seized and placed in the pris-
on van. As the driver passed through
the archway at the entrance ofthe house
his head struck the arch with such vio-
lence that his neck was dislocated, he
dying almost instantly.