smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1875

ma-A Troy stove firm has received letter
from the west in relation to the purchase Of q
heater for a church, which concludes as fol
lows: The heater furnished by you for the
church at - works bully. Gives us your
rock bottom prices, as we are poor but very
pious"
Year: 1875

PRoPA GATORS OF DISEASE The Pail Nall Ga
zette says: Among the many agents for the
spread of infectious diseases are, it seems,
''our domestic pets" For the propa CATION of
fever dog is sometimes as bad, worse, than
drain, and case is referred to in the Santa
~ Record in which scarlet fever was carried
from one child to another by iavorite retrev-
er. The dog had been reared in house where
scarlatina prevailed, and was subsequently
given to friend Of the family. Shortly after
one of the children in the dogs new home was
attacked with malignant scarlatina and died.
Disnfectants were used plentfully and every
precauton taken to prevent recurrence of the
malady, but in two months time, second
child took the same disease, in its worst form,
and died AS the dog had been the constant
companion and ayfellow of these children,
its woolly coat, it is alleged, became SO charged
with contagious matter as to render it source
of disease and death. Although it is only fair
to the dog to admit that the children may have
caught the fever from other sources than his
woolly coat, yet there is reason to fear that
dogs and cats, especially the latter, do occa-
ssnally assist in the circulation of infectious
illnesses, and where fever prevails the sooner
they are lodged out of the house the better
They are, however, probably not more danger
Gus in this respect than books. No one who
takes up book from library ever troubles
himself or herself as to the antecedents of the
volume 1T may have just left the hands of a
fever patient.
Year: 1875

and should attempt give the names Of the sufferers
they would occupy nearly the space Of a column


THE CROPS


Leaving Piermont behind. your correspondent pro-
ceeied 70 Norwood | took conveyance, Tor u was
only by travelling along the railroad distance OF 1--we
miles on foot that anything like satisfactory estimate
could be made OF the damage which these dreahiui
cloud bursts " had done TO the crops.


passeH numerous gangs OF workmen engaged IN re-
pairing the ruined track a task which will take weeks
To fully accomplish Between Tappan and Norwood
are many fertile fields which week ago gave iair
promise or rich harvests OF corn and hay ana oats
How great tho contrast between then and now Great
ponds or water rest upon the hay fields the corn IN
most instances is either up by the roots or else bent
over and buried in the mud, while many field is
wholly and utterly ruined ''Many days must
elapse, said one old farmer TO me while route Tor
Norwood, 'beiorc we fully estimate our losses. We
see only the water now perhaps when It disappears we
viii lind our rich fields but


AAzR BURROWS GULLIEs."


One corn field that passed was turned up as II by
plough, and during the entire walk saw hay mingled
with trees and underbrush tangled in the fences
and oat stubbe floating loosely the surface OF new
made lakes.


The cars are running again to-day but they are
obliged To travel cautiously and slowly the flooded
districts which are yet only artaly repaired; the
consequence Is that almost every train is behind its
regular running time
Year: 1875

legitimate subscription to the stock" II is true the
Secretary did the language attributed to him IN his
report 1872 The RAILROAD reports made by
the Secretary OF the Interior, merely compilation
Of the reports Of the Presidents Of the several land grant
roads made TO him under oath, according 70 law In
the nbove 1t Is found on examination that
the Secretary used the identical language that
was used by j. Gregory smith, President Of
the North Pacific road under oah In his report tothe
department The law and the regulations Of the de-
partment require such reports to be made to the de.
partment and the Secretary has been in the habit or
publishing his annual report synopsis OF these
reports II President Smith made such sworn state
ment the Secretary had no option under the law and
regulations, but 10 publish the reports before him
II Mr. Welsh knew the report in that respect
be flse he has slept IL too long to be entirely
free from blame himself in the NATTER especially as he
has evidently constituted himself general censor OF
public morals and official virtue.


Many OF the newspapers that publishing Mr.
Welsh's letters have somehow fallen into the error OF
supposng that Mr. Welsh driven from the Board OF
Indian Commissioners by Secretary Delano and the
Cincinnati Gazette paper that is usually very careful
its Of fact said in its issue of the 18th
inst -


r Weish served until he ound he could notpreyail
Secretary Deiano defeat the schemes OF tho Indian
King when he resigned


The fact is that Mr. Welsh resigned in May, 1869, dur
ing the term of Secretary Cox, and has never since
been connected with the Board. Mr. Delano was ap-
pointed Secretary In October 1870, about eighteen
months after Mr. Welshis resignation
Year: 1875

A RAvARIAN NATIONAL FESTIVAL IN NEW YORK.


Under the auspices OF the Bavaran Volksfest
Association tho annual festival of the Bavarian
societies commenced yesterday, with imposing
procession, escorted by the Ninety sixth reg
ment, Colonel StauH and composed OF richly
decorated trucks bearing symbols and emblems of Ba
varan history and illustrating the life and pursuits OF
the Bavaran peasantry and people The pro-
cession formed ut the Germana Assem-
bly, Rooms, under the marshalship OF Major
Sauer and his aids, and composed
of five divisions headed by mounted police The first
division included the marshal and his aids,
the Filth regiment drum corps under the
command OF Major Berchet. and several
Bavarian militia organizations -cuirassers infantry
chasseurs cheveauxlegers knights and Otto of Wit
tesbach, historical character The Second division,
headed by tho Ninety sixth regiment included
O number OF militia and rifle organizations
and several choral societies The Third
division with q number OF trucks, represented
the agricultural and industrial pursuits of the
Bavarian people The fourth and fifth divisions were
also composed Of trucks, richly decorated with
bems and devices and bearing persons in costumes rep
resenting variety of historical and ancient characters
and the procession was closed by Battery X NGS.NY,
Captain Henbrew and the mounted police The procession
started shortly after eleven O'Clock and passed down
the Bowery to Canal street. through Canal to Eldridge
up Eldridge street through several prncp thor
ougiares on the east side OF the city Then alter
review ut the Gcrmania Assembly Rooms, the process
sion passed up Third avenue to the Harlem River Park
The festivities the festival grounds were opened by
salute by Captain Heubners battery and address
of welcome by Martin Nachtmann, the President of the
Volkslest Association The programme OF festivities
the festival grounds included variety of popular games
and anusements choral exercises and other social
times and festivities.


Later in the afternoon there was balloon ascension
and in the evening torchght procession enhanced the
scene of festivities, which were continued until late
hour
Year: 1875

Complaints against the Atlantic and Pacific beer gar
dens In the Bowery; the saloon in the Tribune build
ing and a number of other places lodged with the
Excise Commissioners yesterday In each Of these
complaints charged that beer and other Intoxicating
beverages sold on Sunday last.


The Commissioners say they will at ouce cause all tho
parties complained Of appear before them and make
answer the allegations and II said allegations are sub
they will revoke the licenses Of the offending
saloon keepcrs
Year: 1875

Michael Murphy, thirytwo years of age, while suffer.
ing from attack Of delrium remens last evening at
his place Of residence No 32l Van Brunt street. Brook
lyn sprung from the window of his apartment, tho
third story, and narrowly escaped being dashed TO
pieces the pavement. His clothing caught in q
cornice he falling and he hung suspended In mid
air until released by his friends
Year: 1875

AN EXCITING GAME BETWEEN AMATEURS AT Ho-


DOKEN.


The Keystones, of this city, and the Hoboken Club
played very interesting game at Hoboken yesterday,
the presence of 900 spectators The Keysones
the river with very strong nine, including
Hayes Pursell and Hovey, formerly of the Arlngtons
and the general impression before the game was that
they would win. In Hayes they have secured excel
lent fielder though yesterday he rather slow in
handling ground balls. In the first four innings the
fielding both sides rather loose, but after that
the general play good The stood very even
throughout the game and at the end Of the eighth in
ming it IL to H. The Keystones then went in and
made run, after which the Hobokens scored two,
which were owed a safe hit for two bases made by
Lewis which knocked Shreeve and Donahue home.
This knock created great excitement in the crowd OF
the play the occasion McCarthys catching was ad-
mirable while Hayes made good running catch and
Lewis played his position we'll Below is the score by
innings
Year: 1875

CRoPs.-From an extended excur-
sion throughout the parish we can
reliably inform our readers that the
prospects for the largest crop of corn
made in this parish since the war, are
very tiattering. The cane and rice
crop can only be considered fair.
Cane and rice are suffering for rain


and loud complaints are manifested
among those engaged i'll the cuItiva-
ton Of these, important articles cf
consumption. assumption Chronicle.
Year: 1875

The New York World well remarks
There is no need for anybody to lament
the close OF the extra session of the Sem
ate. That session was held to confirm
the appointments of number of people
whom the public service could have got
along without, and for the consideration
OF the Hawaiian treaty-a piece of non-
sense, as We have several times taken
the trouble to show, since we got moth
ing in trade to compensate at all for
what we give up in revenue, and simply
discriminate in favor Of the products Of
the Hawaiian islands against the Ike
products of all other countries. This is
all the public business that the Senate
IN extra session made pretcnce of do
ing, for nobody will maintain that n SUI
perHuous and illogical puff of the Presi-
dent or the postponement of Pinchback
I'LL a more convenient season could be
SO characterized. In fact the postpone
ment of Pinchback's case was in itself a
virtual denial of the claim of the Presi
dent to be lauded for his behavior in
Louisiana. If the government which
MIR. Grant has maintained in Louisiana
is the rightful government of that State,
1t is outrageous to refuse Pinchback, the
accredited representative of that gov
ernment, seat in the Senate. If il is
not then 1T Is outrageous to approve the
action of Mr.. Grant in setting it up and
maintaining il.
Year: 1875

dermen to-day unanimously. passed the
following:


Whereas, this Common Council has
learned with most profound sorrow of the
death Of ex-President Andrew johnson,
and as this sad event is one that should
call forth proper expression Of the senti-
meuis and feelings Of the Common COun-
ell, the representatives. Of the people Of this
city, in view Of the exalted character and
public services Of the deceased patriot and
statesman; therefore be it


Resolved, that a special committee Of
three members Of this board be appointed
20 prepare and present resolutions express
sive Of the regret of the people Of this city
for the death of the illustriOus deceased,
and ID take such other and appropriate ac-
tiOn as TO them may appear best calculated


o manifest our sOTrOW for the death and
respect for the memory Of the deceased ex-
President Of the United States.
Year: 1875

TELEGRAPH and mail bring cumula-
tive advices from the North and West
OF continued heavy rains, working
enormous damage to outstanding crops
and threatening the lower Mississippi
Valley with mid summer floods that
may prove more destructive to levees
and plantations than the spring freshets
of last year.
Year: 1875

COLUMBUS, o., Aug. 1.-Mr. Wright, a
coloIed man of Columbus, drank a quart
of whisky last night and seven or eight
glasses of beer, all within half an hour.
The drinking was done on a bet which
Wright won, but the proceeds were not
enough to pay the expense of his funeral
which took place to-day.
Year: 1875

AN INCIDENT-Not many years since
certain miners working far underground
came upon the body Of a poor fellow


who had perished in the suffocating pit


forty years before. Some chemical agent


to which the body had been subjected


an agent prepared in the laboratory OF


nature had efectually arrested the pro-


gress of decay. They brought it up to
the surface, and for while, till thor


oughly exposed to the atmosphere, it lay
the image Of fine, sturdy young man
No convulsions had passed over the face
in death-the features were tranquil the
hair was black as jet. No one recog


nized the face-a generation had grown
up since the miner went down into thu
shaft for the last time.


A tottering old woman who had hur
ried from the cottage at hearing the new
came up, and she knew again the fac
which through all these long years sh
had not forgotten. The miner was
i have been her husband on the day afte
that on which he died. There were Il
: dry eyes when the gray headed old pi
e grim cast herself upon the youthf'
a corpse and poured into his deaf e'
u many words of endearment unused Il
le forty years. 1t was touching contras
y the one so old, the otherso young. Th'
u had both been young these long yea
P ago, but time had gone on with the Ii
" ing and stood still with the dead.-Ld
'e don Herald.
Year: 1875

An exchange speaks SO pertinently o.
the subject that We transfer the remarks


our columns. As there is such divers 1.
Of taste, it is impossible to suit the VIII II
or caprice Of everyone, and he who wot.
attempt it must make a lamentable failu o
"Just SO it is with every well edited neya
paper. No man is expected to read evel4
thing in the paper, or to like it if he real.
it; but every man is expected to fire
enough that is good, and useful, and 40
ceptable, and agreeable in the ample CD
umns spread out before him to be Fl


equivalent for what the paper costs hiI
and if he happens to find on the carte


article which offends his taste, or is in oil
position to his views, he has to just let th =
alone, and leave it for whose taste it wa
gotten up. In choosing his paper o.
should do just as he does in choosing le
restaurant; he should select one who I
general style suits him; and when his tas Y
changes, or the character of the paper di
teriorates, he should change and try


other; but never fret himself or vex ha
neighbors by grumbling and scolding abo4aa
his newspaper, which, after all, is jul
about as necessary to his comfort as h.
dinner. y
Year: 1875

There were ninety and nine that safely lay
In the shelter of the fold;
But one was out on the hills away,


Far off from the gates of gold,
Away on the mountains wild and bare,
Away from the tender Shepherds care.
Lord, thou hast here thy ninety and nine;
Are they not enough for thee?"
But the Shepherd made answer: 'This of mine
Has wandered away from me;
And, although the road be rough and steep,
90 10 the desert TO find my sheep
Put none of the ransomed ever knew
How deep were the waters crossed;
Nor how dark was the night that the Lord passed


through


Ere he found his sheep that was lost,
Out in the desert he heard its cry
Sick and helpless and ready to die.
Lord whence are those blood drops all the way
That mark ont the mountains track?"
They were shed for who had gore astray
Ere the Shepherd could bring him back"
81 Lord whence are thy hands so rent ana torn 2"
':They are pierced tonight by many a thorn %
And all through the mountains thunder-riven,
And up from the Rocky steep
There rose cry to the gate of heaven:
"Rejoice! have found my sheep!' @
And the angels echoed around the throne:
50 Rejoice! For the Lord brings back his own!'


AS sung By Mr.. .Saakey.
Year: 1875

like that ancient saxon's phrase which calls
The burial ground Goods Acre!n Ii is just
1t consecrates each grave within its walls,
And breathesa benison upon the sleeping dust
Into its furrows shall we all be. cast,


In the sure faith that we shall rise again
Atthe great harvest when the archangel's blast
Shall winnow, like fan. the chaff and grain
Year: 1875

A little while the roses bloom,
A little while the soft winds blow.
A little while the baby laughed
A little whiIe-erom bud to snow.
But after all the rose was sweet ..
And after all the winds have blown,
And after all the baby blessed.
And after all it is eur own.
If in our thought the rose remains,
And winds are sweet in memory,
Why should not then the baby gone
Forever be babe to me?


--AtkgatSc
Year: 1875

The Scientific American says in a recent
article on the British Arctic Expedition:
"Should the expedition be so lucky as to
reach the pole, all the points of The com
pass will be south; latitude and longitude
will vanish; the north star will lie directly
over head, and all the other stars will re-
volve around it, neither rising nor setting
The moon viii remain for days above the
horizon, and the sun, in the summer time.
will make an unbroken circuit of the heav-
ems, yet always in the south. Time in its
ordinary sense will cease; morning, noon
and night will be one; the dial of the heav-
ems will be blank"
Year: 1875

A star reader named "PrOfessor LIS
TER" has cast the horoscope of Presi-
dent GRANT and discovers that the
subjects power will begin to wane on
the fourth ofnext March. The trial
was made in the presence Of number
of intelligent people to whom every
thing seemed to be fair and square.
Yet we doubt if the President will feel
greatly depressed or relax his efforts
to retain the prize, over the verdict of
the stars. A man who has so thor
oughly realized the truth Of the adage
at is better to be born lucky than
rich," as he, is otiikeIy at his time of
life to fear the baleful Influences of n
star that shone upon his birth. There
are few men at this age of the worl d
who can be frightened from their pur-
pose by the gloomy predictions of the
astrologer and sooth-sayer. Supersti-
tition is the twin brother of ignorance
and the light of intelligence has done
much within the last half century to
dispei the gloom in which superstition
must work to make its influence felt.
GRANThas realized the power of self
reliance, individual exertion and
heavy batteries, too often to be deter
red from his purpose by the crazy
mumblings of a moon struck astrolo-
ger. Such stuff cannot weaken the
third term programme.
Year: 1875

Thanksgiving dinner has become
one of the fixed institutions of the
United States. The American as much
expects sumptnous repast on that
day as he does on Christmas or Fourth
of July, in fact if they do not get such n
dinner they go hungry the whole year
Los Angeles is filled with strangers
and visitors who are not situated 50 as
to prepare the usual Thanksgiving
dinner OF course the dinner cannot
be omitted, so the ladies' of the M. f..
church on Fort street have made eX-
tensive preparations to give an old
fashioned Thanksgiving dinner. They
design to make il family dinner on
large scale. Twelve large extension
tables will be set, each table in charge
of a committee of ladies'. Cooking
stoves will be kept going all day pre-
pairing constant supply of hot roast
turkeys, chickens, pigs etc. From II
A. NJ. until z p. NJ. dinner will be serv-
ed. Many families have sent in or
ders for dinner at q given hour for
whom tables will be reserved at that
time. Several hundred seats have al
ready been secured. The new church
is large and has ample room for social
gatherings without interfering with
the accommodation for dinner. A So
cial reunion will be the order of the
day for young and old. Advantage
should be taken of this occasion to
make the acquaintance Of as many as
possible so that our Eastern friends
may feel at home in this land of their
adoption. A fresh supply of choice
viands will he served in the evening
for the benefit of those returning from
the Fair grounds. Strangers who
have seen our orange groves, our vine-
yards and our fields of green should go
and taste the good things on the table,
for the proof of the pudding is in the
eating. stffUt4 3H
Year: 1875

SAN FRANCISCO, November 3d.
The reports that by treaty the United
States will take under their protection
in execution of judgment the North
ern part OF Mexico continue to be the
town talk, and as our dispatches show
the news is stirring up an amount of
enthusiasm not unexpected in sections
of our outlying territory, more imme-
diately affected by the change, the inn
preston prevails in well posted gov
ernment quarters that the movement
is a reality and has great probability
of being carried.


The politicians who cast our nation
al horoscope are aware of the difficult
ties in the way, but they do not regard
them as insurmountable; and MeXi-
can claims and Mexican lands are re-
garded as a speculation not amiss
among capitalists. All the Mexican
sources of information, il may be ad-
mitted, fail in lending confirmation
to the reports, and, indeed, deny them
positively. Senator j. p. Jones, in an
swer to questions addressed to him,
replied that he had no information
OH the subject that has not already


In possession of the public. His
own opinion was that scheme of
some kind pointing to cession of
Mexico Territory was on foot and that
strong effort was being made to ex-
tend our boundary lines farther south.
No movement of this proportion, he
suggested, could be started unless it
was urged by individuals having great
interests at stake. He knew that the
scheme was contemplated several
months ago, that is he had heard it
talked about. He had never had any
conversation on the subject with Gen.
Grant and therefore could not speak
by the card. Nevertheless he believed
the President was very anxious to an
mex a strip from the Northern portion
of Mexico. Senator Jones did not be-
lieve the Mexican people would sub
nit to the loss of an inch of their ter
ritory, but if they were willing to sur
render their soil on any honorable
conditions he certainly wouldnot vote
nay on the proposition whenever the
question should be introduced in the
Senate. The annexation proposed
would be of incalculable unfit to the
Pacific Coast.