smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1879

TNHE Vertical Feed is the greatest adj


u vance made in sewing mechanism
since the invention ~f sewing machines
We invite a careful examination of it,
believing no one oan tail to recognize tho
fact that it is the most perfect Sewing
Machine made, combining simplicity
strength, durability, and economy. We
do not hesitate to claim for the
Year: 1879

The Virginia Senate has adopted, by a
unanimous vote, the extraordinary series of
notification resolutions which were recent
ly presented to that body. These resolu-
tions assert the broadest possible view of
State sovereignty. They deny the right OF
the general government to protect citizen
in life, liberty or property, or the exercise
of rights where the State claims jurisdic-
tion declare the Legislation which has
grown out of the Constitutional Amend
ments to be null and void; deny the right
of the general government to enforce the
decisions of its own judiciary where the
State interposes its veto, etc, etc. These
fnlminations are quite as effective as a
bull against comet, but coming in the
unanimous voice of the upper branch of
the Virginia Legislature, they are instruct
i've indications of the tendencies of unre-
generate Southern sentiment.
Year: 1879




of us mean anything by it." We fling these
things back and forth if some of us were
here to oppose retrenchment and some ofus to
advocate it. 1t seems that the whole theory of
a republican government lies in the fact that
is so often talked ofin our school houses, that
every boy may become President ofthc Unit
ed States, just as in the French army it is
said every private soldier carried in his KNAPP
sack the baton of field marshal. If we are
to apply that principle we must attach such
salaries to these offices to be filed that ill en-
able men who are fitted to fill them, to accept
them. If we fix such a salary to the Office of
Governor that no man can afford to be Gov
ernor unless he is either rich, or rascal, or
both, then we deprive certain number of
very desirable people, perhaps, from accept
ing the office of Governor, or from even
thinking that they can ever G candidate
for that position. You offer a reward, then,
for men to take the office. either bee ause they
are rich and can afford to take that Office, or
because they are rascals and can make enough
out of il so they can afford to take it, Ify0u
pay your Treasurer of State so little that he
cannot find it profitable to hold that office,
then you offer a reward to that Treasurer of
State to speculate on the funds in his posses
sion. He did not say our present Treasurer
was going to do that, but it had been done at
some time in the history of our State. If the
salaries of the Judges are reduced to so little
that no lawyer will accept a position on the
bench, the bench is open to set Of
men who will take those offices for
what they can make out of them.
low priced Judiciary is very dangerous
experiment for State to try. Suppose we
start fairly upon this principle, that we are
willing to pay every man what his services
are worth and not work with this idea, that
each party has got to vie with the other in
cutting down, regardless of all reason. We
find here very extraordinary spectacle, a
Year: 1879

Corporation Counsel Whitney yesterday trans
mittcd opinion to the Commissioners of the Sink
ing Fund relative to their powers to giving per-
mission to private parties lin the event Of granting


lease for erection Of building at Fulton Mar
ket) to place business stores in that locality. The
opinion is q very long one. Its main conclusions
are follows:-


The Com mmissioners Of the sinking Fund cannot OF
make private lease to the
terms but they eau with perhaps one exception adver


se for sale lease OF the Fulton Market property
aud conditions proposed by the committee the
staudholders such other terms and cond
shall be mutually satisfactory The exception to which
refer relates TO the Insertion of clause In the lease
the will take the building the end Of the
valuation. There Is no provision OF law
dinance which expressly authorizes the Conmiss ssor-
OF the sinking tund to purchase any real
estate In behalf Of the city The authority con
ferred upon the Commissioners Is to sell lease
any city property, and. in my opinion, II is doubtful
the building ut the expiration OF the lease. / am
the opinion therefore, that is not In the power
nimssioners OF the sinking Fund to insert cond


on any lease which be made of the Fulton Msrxet
property permission to erect portion of such
along Fulton street stores tor the retail of
chMndise: and think that such of the property
would not be using for the PURPOSES of public market


In any lease shall be given II should contain


covenant that the property leas sed shall be maintained
and for the purposes ot public market for at least
the date of the lease and under due
ordinances OF the Common Council or the Department of
Health, under stpuatons be fully forth the
lalsp.
Year: 1879

TO THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD


Forsyth street. between Houston and Stanton
Streets has not been swept for three weeks. The
whose duty 1t is to sweep IL said to of the resi-
dents there that he could not sweep it, as it was
thick and to another. "You have nothing to say to
me; you are not my boss. Perhaps inserting this
in your valuable paper will remedy the evil.


A TAXPAYER.
Year: 1879

10 THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD


Cannot something be done to stop the goat car
riases being driven the Mall in Central Park on
Saturday afternoons while the band is playing? 1t
Is almost impossible to walk about owing to the
dust caused by these vehicles. 1t is not pleasant
either when walking with ladies to be shouted at
II one were dog and ordered to get of the way
by the boys who drive them and who seem to think
their uniform gives them the privilege OF yelling
and running over whom they please. lady was
walking with last Saturday came near being hurt
and having her dress torn by of these nuisances


A LOVER OF MUSIC.
Year: 1879

A LADY PHYSICIAN ON THE GARBAGE QUESTION.
To THE EDITOR THE HERALD


Woman makes the home. for her life there. and
the appliances ana conditions OF comfortable living
come from her plastic hands. Except in his sleep
ing hours man spends but small fraction of his
time in the house; he merely contributes in their
crude form the materials for family support
while it is the deft hand Of woman that
transmits these inert materials into the fam


lily living. Woman should be instructed
in hygiene and physiological necessities not alone
for exemption from diseases which now or in the
immediate future threatens those dear to them, but
to secure the growth of their children in the
favorable circumstances that good apd firm consti-
tutions may be developed; that adult life. instead
OF being feeble liable to frequent Illness incapable
of continued and severe labor. may be healthy,
robust cheerful, and children children inherit u
still hrmer health and constitution. The of
parents their children to the amount quali-
ties. cooking and proper hours of giving food. all
comes chiefly upon the mother; SO do bathing and
general habits OF cleanliness changing Of garments
&c. Let therefore appeal to the intel


gent cultured ladies of this city, whose
keen of need for greater cleanli-
in streets will surely suggest the feasibility
of burning the kitchen garbage. II properly burned
and daily. it emits no disagreeable odor, burns
quickly and gives the housekeeper far less trouble
than to keep receptacle to grow foul and offensive
in the cellar closet The vile garbage box in our
streets, where children play is perfectly abominable
and should not be allowed G. S. l..
Year: 1879

To THE EDITOR HERALD


appeal. in behalf of all who desire undisturbed
rest, to know whether something cannot be done to
stop the bowling of unmuzzled dogs. On l0sth and
110h streets. between Madison and Fourth avenues.
these dogs have become an unbearable and danger
ous nuisance. none the less satisfactory from the
fact that they are kept contrary to law. Will you
please bring this to the notice of the proper au.
thority by publishing it in the HERALD. aud oblge


A CITIZEN.
Year: 1879

tNoTE-Letters intended for this column must be
accompanied by the writers full name and address to
insure attention. Complainants who are unwillingto to
comply with this rule simply waste time in writing
Year: 1879

TO THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD


Is there no way to stop the kerosene oil factories
along Newtown Greek from running their refuse
into the creek? Some years ago there plenty OF
fish there. but now there is not eel left.
Cannot our State Fish Commissioners do something
for us2 FISHERMAN.
Year: 1879

81 am in favor OF Hancock said the Gov
ord equal to that Of any man in the army:
He has not been mixed up in the financial
discussions, and has no record on any 81
these questions that can be used against him.
War records are apt to prove troublesome to
this respect Hancock would stand on a level
with Grant. He can carry New York and
probably Pennsylvania. At all events he
would unite the two factions of the Demo-
cratic party in that State, as they were
united on him in 1876. Hancock can beat
Grant, and that is the all-important thing,
though think there are men III the Republi-
can party who would be harder to beat than
Gro -
Year: 1879

WASHINGTON, April 4.-What shall be the
final result OF the Fitz John Porter case de-
pends upon the action OF the President and
Congress. The board which recently made
the report generating Gen. Porter was an
advisory one, to inquire, come to conclusions
and recommend They have come to con-
clusion vindcating Gen. Porter, and recon-
mend that he be reinstated into the army.
court-martial by which he was cashiered,
The decision of the court-martial is final and
cannot be revoked. Gen. Porter is at present
out Of the army and incapacitated, on account
OF being cashiered, to hold any position Of trust
under the government. The President can par
don or rather remit the penalty imposed by
cashiering in SO far as it relates to his dis
ability for holding office. Congress only, by


special legislation, can restore him to the
army. The President may recommend such
the recent board of inquiry before that body
for its actios. The board was appointed un-
der a resolution of Congress, and Congress
will act upon its repoSt. In case the bill is
would practically, though not directly, annul
the findings OF the convlcting court martial.
The findings of the court-martial, which have
received the approval of the President cannot
be reviewed. The recent report has never
been referred to the Judge advocate general
Of the army for revision or recommendation.
1t was a particular case, the reference Of


which was by no means necessary. There
Is no question that all the proceedings of the
board were legal. If such doubt existed the
Judge advocate general would have probably
been called on for a decision. II special act
OF Congress should be passed restoring Gen.


Porter to the army, he would be restored to
the rank held by him In the regular not
volunteer service. He was Major General Of


the volunteers, but Colonel In the regular
army. He would be entitled to claim back
pay in this case, and would get back pay as
Major General from the date OF his discharge
to the date of the mastering out volunteers.
This would cover period OF three years, and
such pay would amount to about $4,000; in
addition to this he would also be entitled to
back pay as Colonel from the date Of mus
tsiing out Of the volunteers up to the date Of
reinstatement. This would be for about four
teen years. and now would amount to about
s56,O0O. fhe total amount of back pay to
which he would have claim would be S8O,000
Year: 1879

The members of the New Louisiana Jockey
Club are requested to take notice that there
will be an open air concert at the clubhouse
on Saturday, the fifth instant, to last from
o'clock till p. m. Members can bring their
families and lady friends to enjoy there
pleasant evening.
Year: 1879

Of the contemplated assassination Of Queen
Victoria IN Italy, various sensational stories
are In circulation, and 1t Is believed that the
anonymous warning given to the Italian gov
ernment was impaired in good faith. There
Is reason to believe that the conspirators on
the continent are determined to continually
assail the lives Of all the sovereigns who
come within their reach whenever an oppor-
tunity serves, sparing neither age nor sex,
and that an attempt upon the life of the
Queen was really contemplated
Year: 1879




PRINCE HoHESLoHE AND PRINCE BISMARCK
THE CHANCELLOR ASKS FOR SUPPORT AGAINST
SOCIALISM,.


[BY CABLE TO THE HERALD


BERLIN March s. 1879.
In the debate on the Parliamentary Discipline bill
in the Reichstag yesterday, Prince Hohenlohe
Langenburg. while emphatically disappearing
the bill. announced in the name Of the Free
Conservatives that on the second reading they
would move the standing orders Of the House. mod-
fed in accordance with some of it's points. The
principal incident of the debate was lively
ter between Prince Bismarck and Herr Lasker. The
latter declared that never the existence of the
Reichstag has there been single where the pro-
posed measures would have been applicable. The
Federal Council had used much more offensive ex-
pressions than those which the government
sought to curb in the Reichstag. Prince Bis
marck himself had once used the word ''ie." Herr
Lasker declared the bill implied attack on the
constitution and the law. He appealed to the House
to reject it, and to hold firm to the principle that
body must be allowed to touch the Reichstag's
solemn right to make Its own regulations for tho
maintenance of its dignity.


THE GERMAN CHANcELLoR's SPEECH.


Prince Bismarck declared the Reichstag at liberty
to accept such portions of the bill it thought
proper. He could only say to them benefcia OBJ
tysuiuntur The time would when the House will
regard the bill more favorably. Despite the probable
fate of the bill it the government duty to fulfil
its responsibilities The rest concerned the House.
As instance Of the necessity Of some means OF
checking incendiary speeches in the House. Prince
Bismarck pointed to the fact that Herr Hassel-
mann had during the last session threatened
insurrection by the words, LET the Chan
cellor remember the 18th Of March, 1s4S."
Prince Bismarck continued 1.-THE government had
hoped to find energetic support in combating Social
ism, but it had been mistaken" He did not think
the struggle yet over, proved by the Breslau
election. He proceeded to point to the American
regulations for securing propriey Of debate in Con-
gress and concluded:-''We trust you will stand by
us in the fight against Socialism longer than the
two years prescribed by the Anti-Socalist law,
with the energy which we expected Of you at
the time of the elections and of the attempts
the life OF the Emperor, and that you will not be
deceived by the momcntary silence Of the Socialists.
We cannot dispense with the support of :he Reich.
stag. but do not expect that. if remain in Office.
the question will be settled by hostile vote your
part. We must go further in the same direction.
We entitled to have opinion well as the
Reicstag. and should be bad patriots if acted in
opposition to the dictates of conscience. To-day
the debate the first reading concluded. after
the rejection by large majority Of proposal to
fer the bill to committee. Only two groups of the
Right voted for that course. The second reading Of
the bill then fixed for the full sitting Friday
next.
Year: 1879

1t is only now and then that man gives
away for nothing piece Of property which
he can sell for 81 ,000, 900. And yet this is
lust what Il certain hOrse-car company in this
city is asking the Legislature to do. The
privilege of building a horse-car railroad on
Broadway Is deemed so valuable that response
bic citizen has offered to pay down for it a
million dollars in gold, beside turning into
the city treasury fixed percentage of the
receipts of the road But the alleged Forty
second Street Railroad company which
seems to bear about the same relation to the
existing horse-car roads as the Flying Dutch
man bore to honest shippers, is using ma
chinery of all sorts, according to the best
observers at Albany, to obtain this
privilege from the Legislature without
the payment of bonus, unless the small
revenue from the receipts can be called one,
and without giving the people Of this city
proper opportunity to speak their minds upon
the subject. This is understood to be the
object of Mr. Hurds General Street Railroad
bill, which has a large lobby behind it, and it
is beyond question the object of Mr.. Braman's
bill, which was under discussion III the AS
sembly yesterday


But do our cltlZenS want nOTSe-car ROAD
on the lower half of Broadway If they do,
they have maintained a remarkable reserve
upon the subject. We venture to assert that
public opinion has undergone a change upon
this question since the scheme to confscate
the most crowded portion of Broadway or the
whole length of Nassau-st. for an elevated
road was exposed. The public has opened its
eyes to the fact that on the narrow end of this
Island elbow-room is exceedingly scarce, and
that railroads of various sorts have already
got all we can well spare them. 1t is ques-
ton whether a street railroad could actually
run its cars on Broadway from the Post Office
to Wall-st., after the road had been built, so
crowded is that part of the thoroughfare. 1t
will be time enough TO order horse-cars to be
squeezed in, too, when the property owners
ask for them,
Year: 1879

that, as Congress had in q general way yindi-
Gated the cause in which he fought. it would
be asking but little more of it to give him per-
sonal certificate for gallantry on the field and
humanity as victor. 1t may be that Mr.. Atkins
thought the party was already suihciehtly
handicapped In that direction at any rate,
he said he opposed the investigation, ana
moved to adjourn. But adjourning from day
to day whenever there's the appearance OF
danger from member who loves to llmDer
up his chin is not eifectual; it only postpones
disaster. The House would not adjourn on
this occasion, and the consequence was MT.
Chalmers relieved his mind on the subject OF
the massacre, calling attention thereby 10
one of those unpleasant bygones which the
Democracy so deeply deprecate any al
lusion to, and which they cannot refer to
without its costing votes. So upon the whole
Mr.. Atkins's well intended effort TO choke OH
the Mississippi member was failure. But
Proctor KnOtt's previous question on the caucus
bill was really a success. No Democrat sald
ANYTHING on it, consequently no Democrat has
ANYTHING to be especially sorry for. And that
is really a great thing to have accomplished.
The new plan seems to be to cork up the caucus
tight and fix things inside; then put them
through the House under the call for the pre-
vious question. 1t has worked well so lar, but
has yet to be tried in the Senate.
Year: 1879

A little homely truth is good Congress
sional tonic now and then, and Mr.. Chltten-
den gave the House very Respectable
dose of it yesterday. The public viii not
soon forget his portraiture of the National
party, its leader praying from the Chap
lain's place for the whole House without
distinction of party. and hurrying to his seat
to denounce the "infamous and hell-born
bondholders, and its members calling for
greenbacks by the thousand millions. 1t seems
to be about time that somebody de-
Tended the capitalists, and Mr.. Chltten-
den has done it in very vigorous fash-
ion. After the bondholder and mortgage
holder has heard himself abused as thief
for some years without much variation IN
rather a harsh tune, he can hardly fail to be
grateful for a declaration on the floor of Con-
gress that "every industrious and temperate
"man in the country makes money, but it
"requires common sense and tact to save
something and be a capitalist"
Year: 1879

sef-sacrificing and honest and truthful it Is, be
it reverently said failure as an organization.


IL is "a misfortune then, that preachers OF right
eousness the men officially clothed with the power
Of rebuke-the men whose high duty is to stand mp
as the repFovers of sin-do not seem to know Just
what sin is when they see it. This is abOut the
condition of some of the assessors in Judgment on
the charges against DIR. Talmage. The court is not
divided on a question to which IS the northeast
and which the southwest side of a theological halr,
for there has been no theological hairspltting
done. Nor is tho division essentially one
on matters of fact. Certain transactions are
admitted, and the judges, who ought TO be experts
IN morals, cannot agree as 10 whether these acts
were right or wrong If they were sinful, there
might be reasons why the transgressor should be
forgiven, but they would be sinful still, and no
affecting illusions to the deceased wives of the
judges can avail to make them anything other than
sinful If they were not sinful, it is melancholy
to find professed mOralsts prononncing them
grossly immoral and douby so in the light OF the
insnuatiOns against the motives OF these
austere Judges which have been thrown out
by opposing members of the court. The
case, too is complicated by the fact
that certain of the Presbyters declared with
some ostentatiOn that they had changed thelr
minds" and that not account OF the testimony as
to the nature of the Transactions IN question, but on
account of some new light upon DR.. Talmages gem
eral character and ''usefulness" which had been
vouchsafed to them Ii has been popularity sup
posed hitherto that the distinction between right
and wrong was absolute, and not to be modified by
the peculiar Temperament OF DR.. Ialmage or
anybody else. Altogether, the Brooklyn Presby-
terry which in other fields has proved itself worthy
body, doesn't appear to the best advantage N IT'S
character as an Ecclesiastical Tribunal.
Year: 1879

HOW TO SECURE A SIRE USE or SILIEb.


From the beginning THE TRIBUNE has pro-
tested against the silver movement in tins
country, not because we opposed the use OF
silver. but because we opposed the effort to
make the United States undertake to carry
the silver of the world alone. Events
on the other side are now rapidly
Fastening to such a point that unless
the United States insists on monopolzlng
this task, there is strong probability that
some of the gold countries, and particularly
England, will speedily be forced to help us III
II. In other words, the continued distress
in England, and the great embarrass-
ments in their Indian trade, resulting
from the depreciation of silver have built
UP a strong bi-metallIc party, and Gas shown III
Mr.. Geo. Walkers interesting letter. the indica-
tions are that, with little outside help. this
party may suddenly gain the control. Nothing
will so weaken it as to have English states
men believe that the United States is drift
ing toward the free coinage of silver, and the
consequent inevitable exclusion of gold. They
will naturally argue that, if this great country
proposes to use silver standard alone, this
will take the silver burden off their shoulders.


If we should temporarily stop the coinage of
silver. they would be brought face to face with
the immediate necessity of doing something
themselves to save India, If not England
also, from bankruptcy. There can be no
doubt that the conditions are all favorable
now for such private negotiation looking
TO the establishment OF a bi-metallic
standard as Mr.. Nourse suggested in
the sagacious letter which we printed from
him on Tuesday last. Nothing could so IA
tally interfere with a negotiation of this sort
as the free coinage Of silver in this country.
Nothing could so effrctualIy help it
as our temporary suspension OF all
silver coinage. What business men most want
is that there should be an end of currency
tinkerlng. But If the existing silver legisla-
ton Is to be touched at all, this last is what
ought TO be done. We urge it in the interest
not of the single gold standard, but of what
we have always believed to be the wisest dis
posal of the subject-a bi-metallic standard,
with the relations of gold and silver mutually
agreed upOn between the leading commercial
countries Of the world.