smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1877

Tom-Walk in, sir.


Rep-I hope I'm not disturbing you?


Tom-Oh, no sir society is necessity. l
have gone so long without it's now luxury.
Things are out of place, you see. I'm house.
keeper and have not made bed for two
weeks.


Rep-Making bed, then, is one thing you
have not learned to do.


Tom-No; in the North people never 60 to
bed. The women take off their aprons, the
men their coats, and roll into their hunks.


Rep-Had you no society, then, all last
winter?


Tom-There were number of English
speaking people there, but found little COM
, panionship. There was "Old Sam" born in
an Eugllsn ooal mine. He worked there a
number of years, then left the black and
sought the yellow diggings of the West. He
had read with good judgment; thought much.
When he put forth an idea you felt it was
original to himself, which is one of the great
est charms of conversation. The heat of an
argument never acted upon his temper. l
saw little of him he would 60 up the river
and remain alone in the woods for weeks at
| q time.


A fortnight before leaving made the ac-
quaintance of McGinn, a man about thirty,
an employee Of the government. We were
continually together during the rest OF my
stay there He had had good advantages.
When at last you know him he is an agree
able associate. But could not make up my
mind whether nature made him so or not. l
am confident he owes much to an accident
he told me of. While staying in Winnipeg
he, together with number of young men,
hired pretty little cottage, and furnished it
handsomely. Here they lived. The had all
the later important publications which, they
discussed in regular debate with prepared ar
guments. Liquor was prohibited; loud talk
ing and vulgarity in the house were against
the rules, and they were obliged to be in slip
pers when they entered the library or sitting
room. They could not stand the expense,
and in time the club broke up. But its in
luence was fixed; you could notice it. After
speaking of this club one day, he said:


:.How wish could have lived in the days
of Holland House and blessed Lady Blessing
ton."


eyes, but if you had lived then you would
have been pioneer in America. If this is
your taste you have as good an opportunity
to crafty it in the present as you would have
had any time in the past"


Rep-Do you believe there is any place
where genius assemblies as in those days.


Ton-Not in the same manner. The Radi-
cal club of Boston is to the same end. Here
meet lhe best minds in Boston and visitors
from abroad. Here Phillips is heard, and
Emerson often talks. The equal of this
orator the peer of this man of letters, never
charmed the listener in either those halls in
London.


Rep-I wish you would give me notion
of this club.


Tom-They meet at the houses OF the
members. Well, the question this evening
is on the teaching of children. A dozen
opinbns have been expressed. A visiting
minider has said something about religion.
Morse formerly editor of the Lndec, now a
scultor, has wittily criticised with legal sub
tlety opinions given.


on Mr.. Alcott rises.


! WI teach too much. Thought is retarded
Year: 1877

A HERALD reporter a day or two since
called upon Mr.. Brush, yankee Tom, our
young and gifted Northwest voyageur friend,
and in his bachelor quarters in the valley met
with cordial reception. We give below the
result of the interesting interview carefully
nrenared for our columns:
Year: 1877

tried them. It surprised me. l thought the
name of itself would make them sought.
felt cut. thought would bring them again
into notice. Interrupting the conversation, !
said: 'Pass me them Saratogas. Help youz-
selves, gentlemen"


They both had ''more'n than they could
eat now"


The next day gave them to the dog. They
had too much pepper on them. That was the
only reason the dog would not EFT them.
Careful that Charley did not see me, dug a
hole behind the shanty in the snow and buried
them.


.Charleys duff put US all in good spirits.
We had celebrated the day and had company.
Year: 1877

writer in the Desert News, who dates his letter from $ ms, Crossing of U Little Colorado, Eastern Arizona, in relation to the Latter Day Saints, says:

 "When arrived at Elder Lot Smiths camp, a little over one year ago, l found his .cople living in the wagons under bower close on the margin of the Little Colorado River This was not suitable place for a permanent settlement, so we moved to the place where our fort now stands We have built quite number of houses besides a large hall over fifty feet in length and about sixteen feet wide. We have a blacksmith shop, corrals, stack yard; and many other good and substantial inn provements. Our land was all covered with a thick growth of rabbit and grease brush, and large, dry cottonwood logs that had fallen to the ground, intermiXed with large quantities ofdrift wood from the river. We have cleared many acres of land and sown and planted wheat, corn, squash, melons, sugar cane and a large variety of vegetables, all of which have done well, considering the chance they have had. We think we shall have about GOO bushels of wheat, and about the same amount of corn. We have some of the largest squash I ever saw. Our melons are excellent, our cane is getting ripe and We shall socn commence making molasses. Our wheat is all in the stack, and we are cutting and hauling our corn into the yard.

 Brother Balinger's fort is a little more than one mile west of ours. They have had good crops of wheat, corn, and other varie- ties of vegetables Brother Jackson and Blinkey have been to the timber country, and made moasses mill. Brothers Jack son and Garns have put the mill together, and it is now running night and day, grind ing cane for Bro Ballnger, and making first-rate article ofmolasses, clear as honey.

 Our grist mill has arrived, and we are going to commence building foundation at Brother Ballinger's dam, close to the riveE on which to erect house for the ma chinery So if all's well we shall soon have flour mill in active operation.

 Brother Hartley, an experienced lime burner, with others to assist him, has been to Sunset Pass and burned kiln of lime, for mortar for the mill foundation. So you see that we are progressing slowly but
Year: 1877

surely. By the help of the Lord we gre going to make success Of this mission. We want now to be properl; organized into the United Order, and then we art bound to prosper. We are trying to work in order We should have one organization for all the camps or settlements.

 A military officer was at our camp yester- day; he was much surprised to see tue great amount of work we have done in so short a time. We need some more good Latter Day Saints to join us. We need good shoema- ker. Brother Ballinger needs good black smith; any and all other good, faithful Saints that are willing to live in the United Order. Those who do not want to live in that Order had better not come out here."
Year: 1877

d calm examination of its resources. Strip ped of the glamour which distance; inacces- sibility, and ignorance always throw over a new land, and con sidered without regard to the great mines known to exist so short distance over the border in the true won- derland of Northern Mexico, Arizona un- questionably can boast of mines equal to those in any other part of the West. The belt of deposits which has made Nevada is there continued. There is no greater lack of water than in the central and southern parts of that latter State, and, as for heat, if the mines exist, neither heat nor cold will drive away the worker or the capitalist. -[Staff Cor. of the mining and Engineer ing Journal
Year: 1877

Another interesting fact in the develop ment of Arizona is that attention is at last being drawn to its rich placer deposits, and principally those lying along the course of the Gila river On this latter stream water is abundant, and rich bars exist which can be made the subject of most successful enterprise. Arizona is known to possess extraordinarily rich gulch deposits of gold, which ere this would have fairly rivalled those of Montana had water been abundant. Should success be encountered on the Gila, doubtless some experiments will shortly be made in the dry canons of the center and northern dis tricts.

 At present all the high grade ore pro- duced in Arizona is shipped to San Fran cisco for reduction, there being no smelt- ing works of any kind in the Territory. The exact amount of this class of mineral now being produced is difficult to ascer- tain, but it cannot be less than S500000 a year in value. It is necessarily of very high grade, considerably over $500 a ton and much running up to 5000 and over In fact, the first class ores and the concen- tra;es, from Frue tables, now being shipped from the Silver King, average in value over $500 per ton. As the railroad has now crossed the river there should be reduction works at Yuma or some central point The class of orc being produced now is highly quartzose; but there are districts close by the river where vast deposits of lead and copper ores exist, which would furnish d sufficient basis for very extensive smelting This upening is one that we think will bear close examination by capitalists. The SUD- ply of ore will hereafter increase very rap idly, by reason of the general cheapening of supplies of all kinds, and on account also of the abundance of capital seeking investment in the Territory.

 Our mining summaiy this week is rather full of Arizona mining intelligence; and certainly that distant Territory merits more than passing notice As the Amer ican prospector moves southward toward the fabulous precious metal deposits of Mexico the reports he sends back are liable to be considered somewhat more roseate than circumstances would warrant; yet, much of what has been said and written
Year: 1877

l THAT old Silver King dump has made l pots of money for the several parties who have taken their turns at it. First tie Copeland boys took it in part payment; when they solG their part of the mine to Reagan and Mason. They picked it over by hand and hauled the best of it from the mine down to the Picket Post, where they concentrated it on jigs and in sluices. They cleaned up S75,OOO at a cost of less than $30,000. A party of Frenchmen bought their dumps after they got through ant have already taken S4OO0O out of about half of it. They put up arrastras, got some mules and 'pulped the rock, washing the concentrations down by hand-regular old

 Mexican style. On one side of the creek, blindfoded mules are slowly dragging great bUu!ders over the ore ill the arras- tras. In the creek sit a number of MeXi- cans throwing water with horn spoon upon the pulverized ore, which is piled on

 little, slanting board platforms: the water flowing off carries with it the lighter and less valuable parts leaving the rich, and heavier, sulphurets etc., behind. On the other side of the creek modern quartz mill pounds up the same kind of ore at the rate of twenty tons day and passes it on to Frue belts, which concentrate and separate it's constituents with speed and precision that no human hand can ever excel. The contrast retwecn the old and the new way is very striking. After pick ing the ore over, Copeland had some 400 tons of the refuse left at the mine. Iris was bought for 5000 by another lot of Frenchmcn, who have already made small fortune by sorting it over The day will probably come, when their old tailings win be worked over and over till they fall to tie lot of that class of Chinamen, who work the abandoned gulches of California. And they will get good wages out Of them.
Year: 1877

Mr.. HAYES, having put his hand to the
plow, does not care to turn bank and in
qulre what was done before ciyil-service
reform set in. An era of good feeling
clearly ought to be an era of general for
giveness, and we need not expect any
thing in the way of investigation and ex-
posure except what may be done by the
House of Representatives,. 1t is, perhaps
well that it is so, since a little cheerful
spirit of good will seems to pervade the
Offices of the public prosecutors in New
York, and it would not do to have the
public virtue of Washington purer and
severer than the public virtue of New
York. If that could be, we might have
the spectacle of a sad and touching
meeting on the sea Of steamer bound
for Europe, carrying Chandler, Garfield
Blaine and Boss Shepherd waving con.
gratulations in mld-ocean to Fields, Ge
net and Connolly, homeward bound.-
". Y. World.
Year: 1877

Y L~N ..


From the n. Y. World.


A piece of news comes to us from
Washington this morning which will be
hailed with unfeigned joy by all who
have at heart at the honor and the pre- )
perity of the United States, and who un-
derstand the conditiops on which alone
our honor can be maintained and our
prosperity reestablished. The operation
of refunding our national debt at low
rate of interest has been advanced be-
yond the expectations of many even of
the most sanguine friends of the republic,
in part by the unsettled political condi.
ton of Europe, in part by the Vide dis
trust of private and corporate invest
ments which has been excited on both
sides of the Atlantic during the pest two
or three years, but mainly by the visi BILE
revival throughout this county of a
spirit OF nationalism and OF harmony be-
tween the great sections of the Union.
1t is not too much to say that for the sue
cessful issue yesterday of the negotiate ons
which have been going on between Sc.
cretary Sherman and the Syndicate the
country is absolutely indebted to the
bearing of the Democratic majority of
American voters during the late Presi-
dental contest and since the results of
that contest suffered SO astounding and
unjustitiable change at the hands of
the Electoral Commission. The Syndi.
cate yesterday agreed with the Secre-
tary not only to take the last S25, ,OOO, 900
of the four-and a-half per cent bonds but
to take $25,0OO,000 of four per cent. bonds
at par in coin. The condition was acoep.
ted by the Syndicate that these bonds
shall be put upon the market In thus
country for thirty days at par, so that
our OWE people may subscribe for them
At the end of that time the Syndicate
will be at liberty to offer them wherever
they may please and at whatever pre-
, MUM they will command. The imme
= diate and prospective financial effects O.
this new departure we may reserve fol
more mature consideration. But tn,


ability of the Government to secure sucl


a reduction Of the rate of interest is sucl
sign of returning health in the bod,
r polite and of reviving faith in our insti
tutions both abroad and at home as al
/ true Americans, we repeat, must regar,


with unmingled satisfaction. The often


quoted phrase of the Duke of Wellington
that high rates of interest mean poor Sc
curity is reversed for us Ia the lesson q
e this transaction.
Year: 1877

"Ir is stated that Secretary Shei nan
favors the reconciliation of silver, but
does not believe that it should be used
in the payment of Gust om duties"


The Republican will Gel .ainly come
down on the Secretary, since it has been
urging that even greenbacks should be
received in payment of custom duties.
Year: 1877

The terrible explosion at the Wadesvillc
mine. resulting in the death Of six persons, has
been followed by what seems to have been an
unusually thorough and uncOmprOmiSing in
vestigation. When we hear Of n coroner and
his Jury dong their duty wholly and without
fear, favor or affection, it is fit that special
note should be made of the encouraging fact.
II turns out that the Wadesville mine was ut
the best no better than fire trap; that the
owners of the colliery (the Philadelphia and
Reading Coal and Iron Company violated the
provisions Of the Ventilation law, and that the
Mine Inspector, Sampson Parton by name,
grossly disregardcd the laws OF the Common
wealth. 1t was the business OF the bosses
to see that the men worked with the safety
lamps exclusively, and this duty also
was neglected. The Inspector had not visited
the mine since January, 1876. He had not
required the mine boss to measure the current
of air every month and report 1t to him. lie
had not ordered a dumb door for the gang
way. as required by lava provision which
would have saved at least two lives. There
is another disclosure which shows anything
but a desirable state of things III the. mine


The labOIers had 10 confidence in its safety,
and were anxious for visit from the In
spcctor But they were actually afraid to send
him a request to make one, lest their names
might be made public to the loss of their sit
uations. Benjamin MOscly, one OF the men
killed by the explosion, had been discharged
from a colieTy at Mt. Lalle for being on n
coroners jury in the of man killed
there. Ii appears that the men were not un-
willing to work with the safcty-lamps when
ordered to do 50 by the bosses They only
awaited advice and direction IN The matter.


We have never heard of IA ease in which
everybody concerned, except the poor victims,
seemed so equally to blame. The Inspector
did not inspect. The owners failed to make
that provision for preserving life which the
law demands. The Bosses although they knew
perfectly well the danger of explosion, al
lowed the men TO work with naked lamps.
Of the men themselves it must be said
that their recklessness at least to give


it no harsher name, was inexplcable.
They knew that the fre-damp was there,
and the constant danger from it, aud
yet they waited for orders to do that which
left undone put them in such frightiul peril.
| 1t is not often that We meet with Il case Of
Year: 1877




The death of COrnelia Chisolm so deeply
intcnsifies the public horror at the bloody af-
fair in Mississippi that the Kempcr County
tragedy threatens to become political catas
trophe. 1t is in vain that Democratic news
papers exhaust their ingenuity to show that
the passions of party had nothing to do with
the massacre, and overhaul old records to
prove that the victims were men OF doubtful
character and turbulent manners. The spccter
Of tins heroic young girl, with her " sweet in
"tcllieent face, brown hair, and large res
" olute blue eyes" shot 10 death while trying
TO save her father from the murderous mob
shielding him with her shattered hand
struck in the face and pierced with
bullets, dying at last a martyr Of ilal
devotion, puts argument to flight and deiics
cool Judgment. 1t may be true that the feud
which has reached this shocking termination
was not entirely political quarrel. Yet the
Northen people will be sure to decide that
Cbisolm, his son and daughter McLcand
and Gilmer, were all massacred because they
were Republicans and the Northern people
will not be far from right. No one can read
the story of the deliberate gathering of two
hundred armed men, sober, cool, and deter
Year: 1877

such criminal negligence on the part OF every
bodv. The worst of it Is, apart from the
mortality that the laborers feel that they nave
been neglected and their lives left by their
supcriors at the mercy of accident The ehect
of this. at a time when the prosperity OF the
business depends so entirely upon good leei-
ing between the employers and the employed
is really to be deplOred.
Year: 1877

While the results of the examination into the
affairs of the St. johns Guild are not IN the least
damaging to the character Of its officers for honesty
the evidence as to business management IS not very
creditable. Faithful and accurate accounts are
quite as much an essential part Of the business IN
Gisposngof the gifts Of charity as is any other part
of the machinery for relieving the needy Inc
only reason for existence OF organized Dele'o
lencc is that it is expected to do It's work more sSs
tcmoticoIIv and exactly than private charity; neg
lcot in such partcnlars is so far it goes quito IN
cvcusable. Happily in the case of tho st. Johns
Child the neglect did not go very far, and seems to
have resulted in 10 bad consequences. 1t is great
relief. at a time when umors of the dishonesty OF
officials are rife to learn that in the case Of one OF
our most disnorested charities such reports had 10
inst foundation.
Year: 1877

Yesterday morning about 8 o'clock.
as Sergt. Williams was approaching
No. Station, he noticed two men on
their knees at one of the gratings, hold
ing, as he thought. conversation with
some of the prisoners inside. On ap-
preaching nearer and getting better
view OF the pair, the Sergeant made a
discovery Of different character. The
man nearest the wall-who, by the
way, was Dan Dewan, of Stanley
Street-was in the act of holding one
end of long, slender, tin tube to the
mouth of one of the prisoners below
a man named Jeremiah Sheehan-
while his companion was pouring the
contents Of small bottle of whisky in
at the other. The two worthless had
just emPtied one bottle through this
singular conduit, aud were in the act
of uncorking another, when the Ser
geant stepped forward and interrupt
ed the performance. After giving
the two reprimand for their con-
duct, the Sergeant took the tube and
whisky from them and sent them
about their business. As they were
moving of, Dewan begged that he
might have the tube back again, as 1t
might be useful to other poor creatur-
es some O. these cowld mornin's s.
The Sergeant did not see that the ar
gument was strong enough, so he car
ried the spoil into his Office. The
tube in question has evidently been
made expressly for the purpose 10
which it was seen to be put yesterday
morning, aud may have been used un-
der similar circumstances rep eatedly.
Toronto Globe.
Year: 1877

All intelligent travellers who have
visited Brazil speak in the most glow
ing terms of the country. Professor
Agassiz regarded it as the most pro-
ductive and interesting country on the
globe, and the one in which it is easi-
est to obtain livelihood. Some who
have sailed up the Amazon declare
that vessel can be loaded with Brazil
nuts at only a few pence per bushel.
These constitute valuable article of
commerce, while the oil extracted
from them is very desirable. All the
tropical fruits are produced in Brazil
almost without cultivation. The soil
in many parts of the country will pro-
duce twenty successive crops of cotton
or tobacco, or sugar cane without ap-
plication of manure. No country in
the world approaches the land of Dom
Pedro in the variety of its forest pro-
ductions. Professor Agassiz stated
that he saw lit different kinds of val
liable woods that were cut from q
piece of land not half mile square.
They represented almost every variety
of color, and many of them were ca
pable of receiving high polish. One
tree furnishes wax that is used for
candles another . pith that is used
for food, and still another yields a
juice that is used in the place of in
toxicating liquor. There is single
variety of palm from which the ma
tives obtain food, drink, clothing, bed
ding, cerdage, fishing tackle, medicine
and the material they manufacture in-
to dwellings, weapons, harpoons, and
musical Instruments. Doubtless the
day is not far distant when the valua-
Bile woods of Brazil will be used for
various useful and ornamental pur-
poses New York Mercury.