smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1874

tinted cheek and brilliant eye-n0 royalty that
gives 80 prompt and keen o pleasure to its
possessor. When 1t belongs to woman in
happy home, where she is faithfully loved, and
from which she looks up faithfully from her
daily work for Him to an unseen Father and
Helper, it matters little whether the home be
rich or poor. Her happiness is founded on
rock. This girl went into home, where she
was, we have every reason to believe, loved
and guarded from temptation. How tempta-
ton came first, or how she fell Is not worth the
telling now, even if any know it is enough
to say that with the teaching of her youth
and her fathers prayers before her, she chose
a brilliant life of prOfigacy and crime, mar
ried and was divorced once or twice. dragged
into the courts the men whom she alleged had
wrongcd her, was known in this city and many
others as woman of exceptional charm and
power, which was never exerted to good end,
carried her charm and reputation to Europe, and
finally, having cozened boy, the nephew OF
the Car, to his undoing. ran away to Paris with
the jewels he had stolen, and is there now'
The whole story of the fair woman makes
romance as brilliant and dramatic as ever fell
from the pen of French novelist her beauty
has made itself felt in many countries !;
she has graspcd at different times power and
position.


We have no wish to dull the dramatic story
into a tedious sermon. But what is the end OF
it after all 7 What are the wages which to-
day she finds she has been paid The reputa-
ton over all the world of a thief and Mag
dalen, and the stolen jewels in her hand. We
boyo No intention Tn iOin in the hue and cry.
God knows what claims she has for mercy.
We only wish to say, there are the wages,
and none better are ever paid for such service
No matter how fair the promise OF SIN, the
score at the last foots up the same.
Year: 1874

The adjournment of the Rhode Island Legis-
iature from Newport to Providence seems to
be regarded as more likely to inure to the
benefit of Gen. Burnside than any of the other
Senatorial candidates. At Providence the
regular politicians are thought likely to have
q better chance for shaping things. Meantime,
the one man who has made capital out of the
contest so far is Gov. Howard, and his manly
speech yesterday is likely to lead to general
regret at a political situation which seems to
prevent the State from getting the benefit of
such services as he could render in the U. s.
Senate.
Year: 1874

The Park Commissioners have done wise act
gracefully In giving to the Flower Charity such
cuttings from the Park as may be safely taken for
in the hospitals There Is no more beautiful or
useful charity In New-York than this, and 1T was
fitting that aid to i should como Grst ispW ths Ger
Year: 1874

The enterprise of The London Times in spending
Paris and London does not look SO large to .Ameri-
cans as the letter of correspondent the otter
day, would show that they think it hr London.
There is no ffrst.class NewY0rk journal which does
not spend far more than this on the telegrapbic
Transmission Of news between Washington ard New.
York; and there is no which would not laugh at
the idea of being confined to the use of single wire
The TRIBUNE received the Treaty of Washington on.
fourteen wires In reply to Yemonstrance at the
slow delivery, the telegraph authorities sent word
that they would use twenty if our Washington Office
could furnish the copy fast enough. The bulk of the
news in Washington is collected between the hours
which after that time is transmitted every night to
THE TRIBUNE could no more be sent on one wire
than it can be printed in one column.


Even the grandeur of the average Boston
sage has no power to scare Mr.. Merryman of the
American press The noblest attitudes of the Tran
scendental only inspire that cheerful person with
desire to skip up with his light hilarious shout of
Here we are again % The lady who thought Mag
ara 80 pretty" who found Mont Blanc nce,' and
st. Peters Jolly" went to see Mr. Emerson not
long ago, and reported with all the enthusiasm of
her nature that she was delighted with the futing
and frilling Of his involuted words" Whereupon
The Detroit Post has expressed mild and innocent
SURPRISE pointing out that only last year the phios
opher had his words "cut biased but with plain
border, tastefully folded back and secured with
blue ribbon"
Year: 1874

Sectional jealousy is an amusing feeling which
will probably never quite leave this large and rest
less country. 1t would take more than millennium
to mitigate the lofty scorn with which patriotic
Bostonians regard goodnatured New-York. Our
business success maddens them while they scout it
and as for literature has not Mr.. Stedman rovsed
them to fury with bis prophecy concerning the fu-
ture literary center The West in its turn wastes no
love upon either ruler in the East Here comes
writer in an Illinois magazine of small but honest
pretension, The Midland Monthly, and with ire re-
quests characteristic Western literature. In this
persons opinion, wisdom evolved from Eastern in
ternal consciousness is not suited to the West The
agricultural essays of New-England do not appeal
to her. The household maxims of New-York appear
to her without sweetness and light. Her magazine
literature especially, this writer holds, should
"emanaten from Western homes. A man of an
eminently practical mind once impressed upon q
small boy the lucid and generous statement, "Barkis


is willin.D -
Year: 1874

We want q new Henriade. The herOine-Or. "a
Charles Lamb would have mildly corrected us, the
sberoine-is hen who made herself famous III the
Mill River Flood She has put out of jOint-tO en-
pIoy the slang of the nursery-the of two per-
sons hitherto famous, Archimedes and the Hen VINO
insisted on laying her daily egg on the best bed III
Mr. Beecher's farmhouse. Everybody has heard
how Archmedes sat on brood on his mathematical
cOnundrums in the very midst OF the hury-burly OF
Syracuse siege, and how the hatch aud disclose OF
his abstraction did prove some danger to him 10 the
shape of cracked crown. We would repeat
the story of Mr. Beechers hen, if the pOetpreacher
had not already told it in his inimitably delight
full way We believe it originally came in as an cpl
sode in sermon of his On the Perseverance OF the
Saints But our Mill River hen set larger example
than did this tempestuOus creature, and IN noDier
way We know few details of her history. Bddy,
we suppose was her name, and America her nation !;
Williamsburg was her dwelng-place, and as the Sc
ouel will show presence of mind was her salvation.
She had laid seventeen eggs in barrel, and having
done her level best in that ine she was setting on
them when the ildam burst In spite OF her teeth,
the flood bore her along with the awful wreck-with
houses and barns trees and fences and the bodies OF
men and beasts-but this steadfast creature never
stirred. She knew that Massachusetts, expected
every hen to do her duty She was clear grit. 80
long as her barrel kept out water she would be
hanged if she would drown. No one OF her sex ever
had such confidence in hoops. " Sink or SWIM she
cried, survive or perish don't give up the ship"
What outsiders were doing was none Of her
business She was too busy keeping the beams
ont of her own eye to look after the notes in the
eyes of other people. What thoughts may have
passed through her mind! Perhaps she whistled as
she went for want of thought. Who knOwsf How
her mothers heart must have trembled! What"
she cried must lose all my pretty chickens by
that dam 7" If she could have sung, no doubt she
would have clucked to herself some ancient lay
Until the barrel was stove she would not deny her
self the comfort of staye. "Give me but what
that bar-hoop bound, Take all the rest the sun goes
round.' Or something else, appropriate. Our hen
was carried five miles, and at length the Fates,
snubbed and disappointed, bumped the barrel ashore
and left it high and dry. What did the ben do 7
Did she Jump out and crow and cacke over her ride
like man , Did she scratch off letter to Barnum
Offering to make a show of herself 7 No, she just
went on minding her own business, and In due time
hatched out every one of her seventeen eggs. Oh,
fowl most far! How meekly did'st thou bear thy
woke! Many hens have done excellently, but thou
excellest them all.
Year: 1874

was cold and wet, but he knew that it was
a living man One after another of the
men gathered about, and ere long all knew
that young Walter Addison still lived =
The captain had him conveyed to the cab
in, where everything that could be thought
was not long ere he sufficiently revived to
give an account Of his strange escape from
the cold deep grave to which he had been
consigned.


1t seemed that young Addison had fallen
into that death-like lethargy which not un-
frequently results from sudden cholera,
and which, as all who are acquainted with
the disease must be aware, so nearly re-
sembles death, that even the best physi-
clans have been deceived by it. The sud-
den immersion in the cold water had re-
vived his dormant senses, and as the ship
had but slight motion at the time, he
came to a partial realization of his situa-
ton ere she had passed him, and by con-
siderable exertion he managed to get hold
of the rudder-chains. He tried to call for
assistance, but his tongue was so swollen
that he found it impossible, and after re-
naming upon the chains long enough to
gain more strength, he worked his way up
till he got hold of the lanyards of the cabin
headlights. From thence he reached the
lashings of the steamboat, but here weak
ness again overpowered him, and after
working his way into the boat he remained
some time insensible, but at length he re-
vived and came on board. He had tried to
speak, but he could not. When the helms
man fled from the wheel, he had sense
enough to see the ships danger, and from
the impulse of sort of instinct, he seized
the wheel and brought her up to the
wind.


The morning dawned, and the next day
passed-then another, and another, but
the death-fend came not again He had
lost his first intended victim, and he left
the ship in peace.
Year: 1874

I'm the summer of 1889 the "Vulcan,"
under the command of Capt. Isaac
Johnson, was on her homeward-bound
passage from the Indies, with half a cargo
of tea, and she stopped at Cape Negro, on
the coast of Benguela, after lot of ivory,
to make up her load Having gone on
shore, at the Cape, the captain learned
from the native contractor that he would
have to go some fifteen miles up the Can
nibal's river, as the elephant hunters had
all the boats further up in the country, so
that consequently they had not been ena-
bled to bring the ivory down.


Capt. johnson was somewhat disappoint-
ed at this cause of delay, but without wait
ing to find useless fanlt he determined to
man his own boats, and proceed at once
up the river. 1t required four trips to
bring all the ivory down, but as they had
opportunity to take advantage of the slight
tides, the task was accomplished in four
days. On the last trip the captain went
himself, leaving the first mate in charge of
the ship, and on arriving at the small vii
lage where the ivory was stored, he was
not little surprised to find that nearly all
the miserable huts were deserted. Sever
al times Capt johnson inquired the mean
ing of this, but the natives were either un-
able, or unwilling to give any plain answer,
and it was not until the last lot of tusks
had been conveyed to the boats, and the
natives had been remunerated for their
labor, that the least clue could be obtained
to the cause of this strange desertion, and
then, for the first time, the captain receiv-
ed the startling intelligence that the cholera
aoas s,oeeping doOn tho ricer


AS soon as this fact became known to
the seamen, they wildly huddled into their
boats, as though the fearful death-angel
was at their heels, and silently, yet with
powerful strokes, they pulled down the
fatal stream, AT length they reached their
ship, and though they breathed somewhat
more freely as they trod their own deck,
yet each countenance bore the stamp OF
deep fear. The ivory was soon got on
board, and with all haste the old Vulcan
was got under way. 1t was nearly night
when the ship got OF, and with a good
breeze from the northward and eastward,
sac stood we'll ON her course. On the next
morning, shortly after breakfast, and
while the crew had begun to think thai
they had no occasion for further fear, a
young man, named Walter Addison, wai
taken suddenly sick.


Young Addison was the favorite, both oI
the officers and the crew, and as it was re
ported that he was thus III, general con
sternation seized upon all hands. The
young man felt at first giddiness and I
sickly chill, and in the course Of two hour
Year: 1874

GB- Jack Pendergast was fined ten dol
lars by Chicago justice for an assault, the
alternative being ten days in Jail. To get
the money to pay the fine he picked the
pocket of a lawyer in court but when he
fumbled in the pOcket-bOok for the right
sized bill, the lawyer recognized his own,
and Jack will go to the State prison for
many years.
Year: 1874

Twas made to be eaten
And not to be drank
To be thrashed in q barn,
Not soaked in a tank.
come as blessing,


When put through the mill
AS a blight and a curse
When run through a still.
Make me up into loaves,
And your children are fed;
But if into drink,


1 will starve them instead.
In bread Pm q servant


The cater shall rule


In drink, l am master,
The drinker a fool.
Then remember warning:
My strength I'll employ,
If eaten to strengthen;


If drank, to destroy.
Year: 1874

which the republican majority may agree to


pass at this session, and if they bend their
policy in compliance with the popular will
they have a chance of recovering large part
of their deserters who swelled the ranks OF
the victorious democrats in the late
elections Besides possessing the legis-
lative power for the ensuing three
months the republicans will hold the
power of appointment and removal and the
direction Of our foreign relations until the ex-
piration of General Grants term of Office.
The republican President and Senate have a
long period before them for purifying and in
vigoratng the public service by displacing
bad officers and installing honesty, capa-
city and public zeal in every branch and grade
of the Executive Department. The whole
machinery Of the government is in the
hands Of the republicans, and they lack
nothing but the skill to run it. In-
finitely more depends on the President than
on any other officer during this crisis in
the fortunes of the republican party The
Presidents power in shaping the policy of the
government has always been practically ac-
knowledged by the supreme Importance our
people have attached to the Presiden-
tial elections The President is a great deal
more than mere officer charged with the
execution of the laws. The most tremen-
dous power possessed by the government that
of declaring war; is indeed, vested in Con-
gress; but the President has constant
opportunity to so embroil our foreign
relations es to render war inevitable and
leave Congress no choice President Polk
began the Mexican war on his own response.
bility by ordering General Taylor and his
army to the Rio Grande, thereby provoking
hostilities which led Congress to declare that
war existed by the act of Mexico. Our do
mestic policy is not SO fully in the control of
the President but he has nevertheless great
power to influence and mould it when his own
party form a majority OF Congress. Our
strong Presidents have seldom failed to pro-
cure such legislation as they wished when
they had party majority in both houses
and were supported by an able Cabinet. At a
time when party confidence is SO much shaken
as at present there will be disposition to
courage and sagacity, and it will be
the fault of General Grant if no re-
deeming measures are passed at this
session. 1t is true that he cannot command
Congress- nor does the photographic engineer
who prepares the chart of difficult channel
command ship, but if the chart be truly
drawn according to correct surveys every sea
captain is constrained to sail by it. The
Presidents Message should be a chart by
which Congress can be safely governed, and
by which the ship of State can be brought out
of dangerous seas into q prosperous and
peaceful port
Year: 1874

The BEEcHER- TnToN CASE has reached the
Court Of Appeals, and was heard yesterday on
q motion made by the counsel of Beecher
to reverse the decision of the Court in Brook
lyn denying Beecher bill Of particulars. The
counsel for Beecher made an elaborate argu-
ment, which was replied to briefly by the
counsel tor Tilton. The logic of the Tilton
case is that the demand Of Beecher is the first
instance of demand Of the times and places
of an imaginary fact. If the thing took place
the complainant knows all about it. If it did
not, then the time or place could not be men,
toned. As it is, the Court would not be JUS
titled in loading suitor with the infamy of
meditated fraud and perjury. The Court took
the papers and will announce the decision in
q day or two
Year: 1874

REPORTED ILLNESS OF THE CzAR-By cable
we are informed that the unwelcome news
has been received at London Of the illness Of
the Czar of Russia, with the rumor that he
is insane This rumor may be q canard.
but if to any extent founded upon truth the
misfortune to Russia will be regarded as
general misfortune throughout the civilized
world for this enlightened Alexander in his
admirable government of his great Empire
has fairly won the grateful affection of his
people and the respect Of all the nations Of
the earth.
Year: 1874

The LOBBY forces, earlier than usual, have
been this season gathering at Washington, in
advance of the two houses. But as the up
preaching session will be short the lobby is
only taking time by the forelock.
Year: 1874

THE CoNGREss which meets on Monday
could do worse things than appoint q CON-
mittee to examine into the circumstances at
tending the sale Of the Emma Mine, and
whether the credit of the American govern
ment was directly Oh indirectly used TO effect
that GALA
Year: 1874

graphs us that he does not know whether
Kellogg will fight the new government that
comes with the New Year or not We do
not think it makes any essential difference.
President Grant has had his fingers burned in
Louisiana, and even Presidents who have had
such experiences dread the fire.
Year: 1874

THE whisky war in Ohio interferes to
such su extent with the sale of the
"dOuble-distilled" and ''eopper-dis-
titled" for which Cincinnati is famous,
that the papers of that city express a
wish that it had taken any other shape.
They want a revival Of business instead
OF revival Of temperance.
Year: 1874

The police still continue their raids
upon the houses of ill-fame, disgracing
our civilization and exposing the city
to the thieves by taking the police from
their legitimate duties. We ask for the
interposition of the police board in this
matter; and, they falling, we petition
for that of the general council.
Year: 1874

THE papers of the State are uniform
Iy OF the opinion that not only is there
a larger acreage of land in wheat than
ever refore, but that the crop is more
promising in growth and appearance
than it has been for years.
Year: 1874

WE publish elsewhere a detailed ac-
count of the last effort at robbery and
murder by the Gadshill gang, in which
will be found a description of the two
scoundrels who escaped. We hope they
may yet be caught up with and punish
ed as they deserve.
Year: 1874

The life of an Indian maiden is blithe
and merry for few years, but when
she becomes O wife she is soon broken
down with the pains of motherhood and
the heavy labors which fall to her lot,
and she soon becomes wrinkled, garru-
lous, cross, scolding, in fact an old hag.
OF course such hags are not pleasant
company in camp, and in the belief Of
the Numa such old hags grow uglier
and meaner until they dry up and
whirlwinds carry them away, when they
are transformed into witches aud lest
such fate should befall old women,
they are taught that it is their duty to
die when they are no longer needed,
and if they do not die by natural means
in reasonable time, they rapst commit
suicide. This they seem very willing to
do rather than to meet that terrible fate
of being, transformed into witches and
being compelled to live in snake skins,
and wriggle about among the rocks,
their only delight being to repeat the
words of passersby in mockery. l once
saw three old women thus voluntarily
starving themselves. l rode up to what
was almost deserted camp, the three
old women only remaining, sitting by
the fire and intently gazing into the
embers. They seemed to heed not my
approach, but sat there numbling and
groauing until they rose, each dragging
up her weight with staff, and then
they joined in sidewise, shutting, tot
tering, senile dance around the fire,
propped up by thnir stats, and singing
a doleful song. Having finished which,
they sat again on their heels and gazed
into the fire, and / rode away. On COM
ing to the new camp OF the tribe the
next day, and inquiring of Chui-at-au-
peak, their chief, why these women
were left behind and what they were
doing, / was isformed they had deter
mined to commit suicide, fearing lest
they should be transformed into witches.
Year: 1874

The World has received information
that the comet is very popular among
young lovers, and they never tire of the
heavenly hunt, but endure with aston.
ishing resignation the constantly recur.
ring collisions consequent upon the sud.
den movements of their heads in oppo-
site directions. Now and then the
young fellow is sure he sees it, and then
in the excitement of the moment he
passes his arm about his companions
neck, and with his hand under her chin
raises her face toward that of the starry
armament where he thinks he has dis
covered the celestial wanderer. Full OF
enthusiasm the girl remains gazing in
this position long and earnestly, the
silver moonlight Illuminating her coun-
tenance with radiance that gives to
every feature an angelic charm, and
suggesting the idea that she herself
might be beautiful star, moulded into
human form and sent upon the earth for
the delectation of mankind. But at this
interesting point of the search the voice
of sleepy and unromantic father pen
etrates the shadows of the garden
ia a-a-ne it is ten O'clock" and the
charm is broken.
Year: 1874

FOR SUPERVIsoR.-John Sheridan this
week announces that he is a candidate
Tor reelection to the position of Super
visor from the Second District, subject
to the Republican nomination. Thus far
we have heard no other person who de-
slres the position, but presume there will
be other announcements. AS the election
takes place three weeks from to-day, all
candidates should announce themselves
without delay, in order that the voters
OF the District may know from whom
they will be required to choose. Don't
be backward, ye who are anxious for
official honors.
Year: 1874

A BIG ExCITEMENT.-3a Badgers Auc-
tion Bazaar was again thrown open to the
public on Tuesday evening, and was Wis
tied by hundreds of our citizens. There
was a grand time; several illuminated
balloons were sent up and plenty of liquid
refreshments provided for all. The dis
play of goods was the most varied and
complete ever displayed by a similar in
stitution in this town. There is hardly
anything needed to supply household
wants but can be found at this immense
establishment. The prices asked are ex-
coedingly low, and the business of the
house is simply immense. We would
advise our readers from far and near to
avail themselves of the present oppor-
tunity to purchase goods at the lowest
possible rates.
Year: 1874

BOUND OvER.-The three Chinamen,
arrested for the trunk robbery mentioned
last week, had a preliminary examination
before Justice Cochell and were bound
over 10 await the action Of the Grand
Jury on charge Of burglary.
Year: 1874

An imperative duty upon your return to the
city is to procure elegant Psi re Of GESTrsszss
visit either Of bis sosesSO 22 Brosd"a or IN Fs
Avenue Hoew be the accomplishment Of this udabs
Object The Knox Hat decidedly the prevailing sensation