smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1874

stacles, though at present the opposition OF
the Indians seems formidable. Such expedi-
tions as those of Prof. Marsh, under Govern
ment escort, are fully within the provisions OF
the treaty with these Indians, and their armed
opposition may call out a similar demOnstra-
tion from Gen. Sheridan. IL war is precipi-
tated the treaty would be at an end, and it
may thus happen that the search for fossils
instead of that for gold may unlock the gates
of the Black Hills. ..I


Arbitrary action by the Board of Health
ought to follow the sanitary report on the
condition of the Fourth Ward cellars, OF
which we print an outline this morning. IL
doubtless appears at first as little less than a
cruel outrage to expel the poor occupants OF
these miserable lodgings at this season OF the
year, when, in all probability, they have not
elsewhere to lay their heads. But 1T is also
little less than criminal to permit the exist
ence of such filthy dwellings in crowded quar-
ters of the CITY and the Board of Health will
act wisely if they insist that the individual
right shall be sacrificed in this matter to tho
general GOOD The Board of Health, we un-
derstand, contemplate going further-perhaps
too far-and prosecuting the occupants of
these places. That will be blunder. Not
the poor wretches who herd in the dens, but
the rich misers who rent them, are the Grim
inals who ought to be prosecuted. A con-
yicted tenement-house landlord would be as
useful and awful an example on Blackwelrs
Island as Tweed himself. And we could well
afford to spare score of them if need be.


DR.. John Halls account OF the remarkable
labors of two American Eyangelists in Scot


land and Ireland is itself as remarkable as the
religious revivals to which it relates 1t is a
eulogy from one of the strictest and most dis
tingushed of Presbyterian pulDits on the
preaching of men not ordained or even
licensed to the ministry. 1t Is sug-
gestion from one of the wealthiest and
most fashionable congregations in NewYork
that our ministers fail to get near enough the
people 1t is a declaration from one of the
most eloquent of New-YOrk ministers in favor
of the methods of simple exhOrter destitute
of education and without power save in his
teaching of the simplest Bible truth And
it is an avowal from one who has
been prominently concerned in dealing
with the miseries of a great city that
not law but only moral and spiritual in
fuence can correct the evils under which our
cities labor. The American Evangelists, whose
labors DR.. Hall describes, are about to return
to the United States, and many of the churches
are already maturing plans for their reception
and the renewal here of their work.
Year: 1874

For so small a defalcation, that in the Pa
cific Bank is a very unpleasant mess. The
defaulter Is closely related to the President
and other people in the bank; he is missing
and cannot be found; and the woman IN
"the case" is annoying the officers OF the
institution by q cross-action for trespass.
Year: 1874

Although the students of the University of
Glasgow did not elect Mr.. Emerson as Rector,
their vote of 500 out of 1900 cannot be re-
garded as less than a compliment to the sage
of Concord. There are few men anywhere in
the world who would have obtained so high q
vote against such an antagonist as Disraeli.
Year: 1874

Great are the attractions of new bone-feld
to the student of fossils. Though so late in the
season that exposure to severe cold was in
eyitable, and notwithstanding the marked hos
tilIty of the Indians in that region, the dis
covery of new fossils south of the Black Hills
was a summons Prof Marsh could not resist


The energy which has brought him out there
VII probably enable bin to overcome al OBJ
Year: 1874

1t is reported that the civil war in the Ar
gentine Republic has come to an end through
the agreement of Senior Ayellaneda to submit
to new elections. Although such an arrange
ment is highly expedient, we must bear in
mind that this intelligence comes by way of
Paris, which is not the best channel for in
formation about affairs in other countries.
Year: 1874

We publish an abstract of the annual report
of the President of the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad delivered at the meeting of the
Board, yesterday. 1t contains much that will
be interesting to the merchants of this city,
as showing what may be expected from the
competition of Baltimore for the Western
trade. The road just opened from that city to
Chicago is almost an airline as far as New
ark, Ohio. Its grades are hight. Advantage
has been taken of the dull times, the low
price of labor aud materials, and the good
credit of the company, to build this road at
a lower cost of construction than that of any
competing line. The report does not indicate
a desire for combination with other roads.
There is suggestion in it that a ship canal
through the Delaware peninsula should be
undertaken as a national enterprise
Year: 1874

A State law requires that eight days notice
shall be given before application to court to
appoint receiver Of broken bank. de-
cison by Judge Blatchford yesterday in the
case of the Eighth National Bank seems to
indicate that this does not apply to other than
State institutions. And for that matter it
seems to be a dead letter so far as they, too,
are concerned.
Year: 1874

The folly of striking is probably already ap-
parent to the 'LongshOremen. If not, day or
two must clearly demonstrate its absurdity.
At this unfortunate season, both of the year
and of business. with thousands of idle hands
ready to do any work which will feed their
hungry families, it is in the highest degree
unwise to strike either for higher wages or
against reduction of pay. We had hoped
that better counsels might prevail, but the
threatened strike of the LOngshoremen has
become general, and several hundred are out
of work, possibly for the whole Winter,
though we trust only for short time.
Year: 1874

No effort is to be left untried to obtain
Federal interference in the Arkansas con-
spiracy. Smiths adherents are said to be
arranging to set up bogus State Government
at Pine Bluff or Helena, and Senator Dorsey
has a dispatch that would have made the
fortune of the Chattanooga Convention, describ
ing White Leaguers as raiding over the State,
perpetrating plentiful outrages. and creating a
reign of terror The chief trouble about all this
Arkansas business is that it is little too date
in the season.
Year: 1874

THE RATE OF INTEREST FOR MONEY is always an
important subject to both borrower and lender An
able and suggestive essay on this topic by Proi E.
b. Elliott of the Treasury Department read at the
Portland Scientific Meeting, is reported fully IN
TRIBUNE LECTURE EXTRA No 10. Price 10 cents


Address The TRIBUNE. New-fork.
Year: 1874

The San Francisco Post has from time to
time advanced earnest argument in favor OF
teaching political economy in our pubic
echoos. The Sacrament Record has occa-
eionally put in a word flvoring the subject,
and now the Chicago Tribune, on the other
ride of the mountains, renlizing the imp r
lance of more general understanding this
important subject, also says it ought to be
taught in the public schools of The co niry.
There is no doubling the assertion that the
science is very imperlfctly understood, even
among the most intelligent classes, and with
out thorough knowledge and appreciation
of State economy ON the part Of legislators,
the laws can not be expected to be such ~
will best promote the true interests Of our
whole country. And, as for the masses, ns
long as they are perfectly ignorant of this
science, tue antagonism which now exist
between capital and hbtr will not cease.
No man can vote integenly on such qnes-
tions as the tariff, the currency etc, without
some knowledge of political economy. The
regulation Of these questions is indirectly left
10 the masses. Under existing Ignorance on
'fbc subject of political economy, their on',
.chance OF knowing the best is by experience
and experience, as we are hst finding out, i
a dear school in which TO learn national qurr-
tions, as well as those of less impor nnce
Yes, teach the boys political economy, then
when they come to vote they will be pre-
pared to judge for themselves whether the
carrying out of such and such a doctrine will
be likely to promote the best interests OF the
country.
Year: 1874

''The shortest way by half mile
come so very often by it
Is up the road, across the stfle.
And through the meadow. Shall we try it
The days were not without charm
When, talking soft and looking silly,
My love and walked arm in arm.
The lanes were lone and fields were Silly.
We found so many things to say,
That always, in the shiny weather,
We took the-well the shorter way,
To be a longer time together.
We spoke about Cbut goodness knows
Our topics of eonfabulation)
About the weather. l suppose.


The crops. the harvest, and the nation
At all events. although the talk
Was neither wise Dor witty,
We ended each successive walk
With Home already-what pity!''
We might have lost Il little ground
Through coming by the road selected,
Bat both agreed that we had found
The journey shorter than expected.
Can life's experiment support
The paradox that love prOposesE
Does any path seem very short,
Unless it be a path OF roses2
We seldom find the nearest way,
And if we hit upon and take it,
BY creeping on from day to day,
1t seems as long as length can make it,
The road to fame is never brief.
The way to wealth is dull and dreary:
All earthly routes. in my belief,
Are very long AID very weary, .-
Nay-one that leads through care and strife
Is short when mortals once begin it;
We take the NEAR cut out of life.
Although we take the longest in it.


-TinsEey's Magdsisae.
Year: 1874

nR. J. A. STURMAN, of New York city, is


IL now in Memphis, where he can remain
but limited period, in consequence of the
urgent demand for his services at his Office in
New York, and may be consulted at his rooms
in the WOHSHAM HOUSE by those degirOus
OF availing OF his experience in the adapta-
ton OF his well known method OF relief and
cure for Rupture.


The appliance used in his treatment IS free
from the great annoyance and injury trusses
tnfilct, while it renders the patient perfectly
secure from the dangers OF Inhamed and
Strangulated Rupture,


During treatment the patient can exercise
or labor in any way without interfering with
the cure.


Consultation any hour of the day or even-
ing, free.


Rooms WOrsham House, convenient to
the entrance


DR.. S. has been in correspondence for several
years past with a large number of persons
living in this vicinity, through whose solIei-
tations he visits Memphis to give them an
opportunity TO avail themselves Of his popular
system of relief and cure who cannot afford
the time and expense Of going 10 New York.
Year: 1874




So, ifthey become extremely technical,
We will demand an investigation of the
fraud, farce, and intimidation by which
this constitution was foisted upon us.
These remarks are suggested by the as
sertion of certain Brooksites that our
present constitution provides only for
amendment (and that in very rounda
bout manner), and contains no provision
for the formation of anew one. SO they
would contend that a majority of 10000
ireemen were TO be fettered for all time
to come by an instrument that never did
receive u majority of votes for its adop
ton, The only possible chance for the
defeated insurgents to ever regain their
lost control over the State will bc by
legislation on the part Of Congress, more
violent and unjust and unlawful than the
original reconstruction measures.
You can tell better than whether they
will make any such attempt methinks
the "party" will have as much as they
can attend to without any more expert
mental reconstruction Of Arkansas, los
ing ground as they are all over the coun.
try. a word abut the miserable and ri
diculous story these fellows told at
Washington about fears for their lives
unless Congress restrained our blood
thirsty people here


WHY, my dear sir, Joe Brooks has
been here all the time, except flying trip
to Washington only few days ago :;
every one Of the old crowd are minglng
freely with our community, riding about
in their stolen carriages, occupying their
fine mansions built with the proceeds Of
their robberies, the fattest, sleckest, best
dressed, fastest living fellows in all this
region


Free to do as they please and to go
where they please, except-and the sole
exccption--nto the official positions from
which they have been finally and forever
hurled by the result of revolution of
their own misbegetting. This is all the
damage they have sustained, and the
measure of that damage is IN exact pro-
portion to the relief and benefit the peo-
pie have gained.


AS to Free Trade, Hard Money. and
Home Rule, no State will respond more
readily than ours to your most excellent





and soundly Democratic triple motto.


You will readily perceive that our sole
efforts are now directed to the last and,
to us, the most important of the three,
" Home Rule" BY the lst December
next we will have disposed to our salts
faction of that; then we will proceed to
the other two.


If remorselcss runian had your throat
in his murderous grasp, your sole and
absorbing concern would be how to over
come and defeat him. After you had
him PROSTATE at your feet then you
would begin 10 shape policy for the fu
ture That's the way with Arkansas now
-" Home Rule now, Free Trade and
Hand Money next. Essen.


To Manton Marble, Esq, New York
World.
Year: 1874

These old Mills are being put il thor
ouoh order for grinding wheat And
will in a few days be ready to purchase
and exchange -four tor wheat Before
the war these mills had as high reputa-
ton for its excellent Flour as any OF the
mills in this part of the State.
Year: 1874

The afternoon session began promptly
at half past one O'Clock.


After the transaction of q quantity of
routine business of no general interest the
following address Of Pr .sident Siney was
read BY the secretary
Year: 1874

The bark Kate Williams, Capt. Hale, of the regular packet line between Bos- ton and Fayal, which arrived at Boston, had remarkable escape on her passage. The Boston Journal thus describes the incident: 'tAbout nine o'clock one morning seaman aloft cried out that there was @ whale on the port bow. Capt. Hale stepped to the port quarter, and almost immediately could have laid his hands upon the upper jaw of 8 sperm whale, which had paid an unwel- come visit to the vessel. It was COW whale about sixty feet in length, which had set upon them, and had she struck the vessel a little further under, the Kate Williams would probably never have been heard from after leaving Fayal. As it was, the vessel received pretty good shock, and lost portion of her mizzen channels. The monster had seen the bark about the time the sailor discovered her, for she immedi- ately sunk and came up with great force right at the vessels stern Capt. Hale thinks her mouth measured at least fifteen feet, and her under jaw was felt to scrape the bottom of the vessel. as she glided swiftly away from her unex- pected enemy. The whale fared as badly as the bark, no doubt, for the quarter-deek was, covered with pieces of the leviathan's outer skin and the "mud" that is found between it and the tougher hide. The Kate Williams was sailing rapidly at the time, and in about fifteen minutes the fish was out of sight. While the latter could be seen she appeared swimming about look ing for the vessel, and evidently in a
Year: 1874

In criminal court in London, John Lakeman, 29, shoemaker, was convicted on charge of receiving the proceeds of a burglary with guilty knowledge. upon which evidence was given that, besides having been subjected to short terms of imprisonment, he had twice undergone penal servitude-once for five years-and had only been out of prison nine days when he committed the offense of which he was now con- victed. He was also at that time at liberty on ticket of leave. ssl

 The Recorder, in passing sentence, said, as the prisoner seemed deter mined to lead the life of thief, it was his duty to see that he was restrained for some time. He sentenced him to ton years penal servitude.

 On sentence being pronounced ter rife scene occurred. The convict, 8 young, powerful man, declared eyes cleaning with indescribable rage and his whole frame being fearfully agitated-that sooner than endure ten years penal servitude he would die on the gallows like dog. This he re- peated again and again, each time with more vehemence than before, and was preparing to spring over the front of the dock, when he was seized by the warders from behind :; but for few moments he kept them all at bay and roared and foamed like wild beast. The policemen in attendance from all parts of the court ran to their assist ance, upon which the prisoner renewed the struggle with still greater deter imitation than before, if possible. He was at length thrown upon the floor of the dock and held down there by main force, the audience meanwhile becom- ing much excited. For a moment or two it seemad as if he would have mas tered the policemen, but he was drag ged from the dock into cell behind, where additional assistance was .ob- tained, and where, in his now impotent rage, he was still heard asseverating that he would rather die on the scaffold like a dog than undergo ten years penal servitude. Gradually his cries became fainter and fainter, and at length died away altogether, as if he had succumbed to superior force, and was being dragged to his cell.
Year: 1874

Cough is 8 symptom by which various deceased conditions of the throat, bronchial whether it arises from the irritation produced in the throat and larynx by taking cold, from an attack of Bronchitis, from incipient Con- sumption, or from various other causes, noth- ing will allay it more speedily nor cure it more permanently than Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery. It does not matter whether it be recent attack, or lingering cough, the Dis covery is in either case equally well adapted for it's relief and permanent cure. In fact it will cure cough in one-half the time necessary to cure it with any other medicine, and it does it, not by drying it up, but by removing the cause, subduing the irritation, and healing the affected parts. No time should be lost in com mencing the use of proper medicine for the relief of Cough, for unless this course is pursued, serious and dangerous disease of the lungs is liable to result.
Year: 1874

Hear him s'now and then." Drop
in little late. Do not sing, do not
find the text iD your Bibles. If you
take little sleep during the sermon Sc
much the better.


Notice carefully any slip he makes
while you are awake; point cut the
dull portions to your children and
friends it will come around to him.


Censure his efforts at usefulnes, de-
plore his want OF common sense, let
him know that you won't help him be-
cause A. B. does, because you did not
start the plan yourself.


Let INN know the follies and sins Of
his hearers. Show him how much he
overrates them, and tell him their ad-
verse criticisms on himself


Tell him, when he calls, what a
stranger he is, how his predecessors
used to drop in for an hours chat, and
how much you liked them.'


Never attend the prayer-meeting,
frequent no special service. Why should
you be righteous overmuch p?


Occasionally get up little gayety
for the young folks. This will be
found very efectual abont the commu-
Mon season. There is a time to dance
you know"


Give him no intimation when you
are i'll, Of course he should know: and
your offending dignity, when he comes
to see you, Will render the visit pleas
ant. On no account intimate your re-
coyery.


Require him to swell the pomp of
every important occasion, unless, in
deed, there are prudential reasons for
passing him over.


If he is always in his own pulpit
clamor for stranger; if he has pub
lie duties, and sometimes goes abroad,
complain that he is never at home.


Keep down his income. Easy means
are sore temptation, and fullness
Of bread is bad for everyone-but the
laity.


As he will find it hard to be always
at home to receive callers, and always
running among the people, and always
we'll prepared for the pulpit and plat
form, YOU will be sure to have just
cause for complaint, one way or the
other. Tell it to everyone, and then
lament that there is SO general dissatls-
faction with him.


Patience continuance in courses like
these. modified according to circumst-
ances. has been known not only to dis
courage but to rain the usefulness and
break the spirit of ministers, to send
them off to other charges, and some
times to their graves.
Year: 1874

capacity, VIII and ability to SOW and reap,
open out and build up every business which
viii pay and add wealth to the communities


Now, in order to induce small farmers
and gardeners to move in, they must, in
the first place, have an assurance that they
can have few acres at reasonable figures
But there is a great drawback to small
farms. This must be obviated. How :
The men who own large tracts Of land must
divide them into small lots, so that the poor
laberer can buy. These large landowners
have been a great stumbling block in the
way Of substantial progress. They have,s
in many cases, refused to sell in
small quantities. thus keeping out
Of the State the very men so much
needed in every department of bust
ness. It is well known and admitted that
the small producers do more to build up
and enrich communities than men of wealth,
unless they are public spirited and phllan
thropic Gentlemen who own thousands Of
acres often labor under great error in re-
fusing to divide their princely estates so
that the men of limited. means can buy
home. They can generally sell small tract
at higher figures than a large one. If then
it is known that q colony or company of
men can all buy small farms in the same
community, the lands will soon be occupied
and settled; and the large tracts sold at far
better prices in the aggregate. There is
nothing so attractive to man as owning
home, however humble. The sweetest joys
Of youth and soIace of age cluster about
home. When homes are established,
orchards, gardens, school houses and
churches speedily follow; and soon the
wilderness is made literally to produce like
gardens. Life and activity take the place
of vast solitudes where but short time be-
fore the Indian and the wolf were the
undisputed lords.


Therefore, let the large landowners meet
and resolve that they will divide their
thousands of acres into small bodies, and
agree to sell to actual settlers upon the most
accommodating terms. This must be done;
else the settlement of the State. win be
greatly retarded and injured. Such is the
custom in the more populous States of the
Union.


Texas has the reputation abroad of being
a progressive State; and her citizens are be-
Heved to be generous and kind, ready to-
assist the immigrant and do all in their
power to make him happy and contented.
Let not her large landowners stand as
huge stumbling blocks in the way
of population and improvement; but let
them at once inaugurate a system which
will tap the older States and cause steady
flow of immigration north, east, south, and
west. Let them come ike mighty army
by every avenue OF approach, until millions
shall make the vast prairies, valleys and
hills vocal with the busy hum of industry,
the glad shout of children, and the fervid
appeals of the man of God.


No man has the right to place himself in
the way of progress. He owes it to him
self, to his race, to his posterity, to do all
in his power to improve the condition of
his fellow man.


But editorials and appeals viii do no
good unless they are needed and acted upon.
Let US be up and doing, and not rust and
grow old in ldleness and opposition to pro-
gress and wholesome reform.
Year: 1874

THAT thoroughly reliable newspaper The San Diego Daily Union-says its ar engagements for Washington news during the present important session of Congress are better than ever bcfore There is no doubt but its readers will be convinced of the fact, and all who want just those items of Washington news which are of special interest to Arizona and Southern CalifOr- Dia-two sections whose interests in many respects are alike-will subscribe for The Union.