smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1878

The people of New York are soon to have
their demand for rapid transit on Manhat-
tan Island gratifed. BY the 1st of May we
on the west side of the city from the Bat
terry to Fiftieth street, while on the east side
companion routes will be in operation by
the end Of summer. This is. of course,
great boon to the travelling public; but we
trust that in the pleasure manifested at
being able to pass rapidly up and down the
island in the daytime the positive necessity
for night trains will not Be lost sight of.
Rapid transit between sunrise and sunset
only is not what we want, but rapid transit
at all hours Of the day and night. This is
what is needed and what we must
panies. But will these corporations provide
night trains So far they only promise
such accommodation, and that in very
uncertain and unsatisfactory manner. The
road now in operation has signally failed to
respond to the demands of the public, and
it is very doubtful that night trains will be
put on the line unless the company is COM
PEELED to do so. It is to be hoped that these
corporations will not be blind to their own
interests in this matter. for there can be no
question that the night travel. on our
elevated roads will be both heavy and
remunerative. Thousands of persons are
compelled by their business and pleasure to
travel at all hours of the night, as shown by
the crowded horse cars on all the trunk
lines; therefore the rapid transit roads must
accommodate this class of travellers to fulfil
all that is expected of them. We shall expect
to see night time table established as soon
as the day trains are in regular running
order on the Gilbert road, and the line that
first establishes such facilities will reap the
greatest reward. Mr.. Cyrus w. Field has
stated that his road intends to satisfy all
demands. Let him prove this by putting
on night trains at once, and we predict that
they will be found a decided addition to the
earnings of that road. No more promises,
gentlemen, but practical fulflment of the
rapid transit dream is what the people of
New York require and must have, SO the
sooner our facilities for rapid travelling
cover the entire twenty-four hours of each
day the better it will be for the corporations
and the people.
Year: 1878

THE WRATrER.--Thc conditions that prevailed
yesterday were those usual after the pussage of
q considerable disturbance. Tho winds were
chiefly from the north and west with cooler and
gradually clearing weather, but cloudincss is be-
ginning 10 prevail again in the West. The storm
il now moving eastward from Nova Scotia,
where it is again developing more energy than
1t possessed on leaving the coast. Rains have
fallen in New England and light snow mt a few
points in tho West Ground the margin of sub
sidiary depression in the lower lake region. Tho
highest barometer extends from Manitoba
through the Mississippi Valley, toward the
Western Gulf and Texas, but there are indica-
tions that it is falling quickly in Montana and
the regions northward Of that Territory. The
pressure has fallen again ON the Pacific
coast and depression is now central
northward Of. Utah Territory, moving north
eastward toward the upper watershed of the
Missouri California and adjacent regions
have suffered so severely from rainfall tins sea-
son that this new rain storm will not add to the
agricultural prospects of the Pacific coast. The
weather in New York and its vicinity to-day
will DO cool and partly cloudy or cloudy, posi-
bly, with occasional. light rain. Tomorrow it
will 10 cool and partly cloudy or fair.
Year: 1878

THE DENIAL Of Andcrson's application for a
new trial leaves that distinguished member of
the Returning Board no hope of escape from
State Prison except in the exercise Of the par
doning power by the Governor and Senate. His
chances in that direction are exceedingly sen-
der, and the best thing the President can do is
to remove him from his position rs soon us pos
sible. The spectacle of one of the leading fed
er,.l officials of the State in the Penitcntiary
for forgery would not be very scemly one, cs-
pecially with n reform administration in power.
Year: 1878

United States. But where a suit or
prosecution is in favor of or against an Off
Ger or soldier of the army, and in the judg-
ment of the commanding officer the ends
of justice require the testimony of wit
nesses subpenaed, he may in his discretion
order their appearance at the expense of
the United States, provided such expense
can be provided for in no other way, and
provided further that there is no State or
Territorial law providing for the payment
of fees, mileage or expenses of witnesses in
such cases."
Year: 1878

I


DENVER, COL, July 19.-Joe Jefferson is
here. He will play rip" next week, and
then leave for Middle Park for a months
hunting and fishing, where the weather is
cool and pleasant


The scientific celebrities from all parts OF
the world are gathering here to observe the
eclipse,
Year: 1878

Messrs. Packard and jackson some
'ime since sought TO remedy the def
.;ent water supply of the fat around the
school house at the eastern end of this
town, by taking water from the creek
vest of Henry Jackson's residence and by
means OF an hydraulic ram forcing il up
the hill to his door yard TO tank there
made to hold it; from thence it can be
taken in pipes all over that part of town.
This improvement is now in successful
operation, is of pubic interest, and will
add to the value of property there.
Year: 1878

No fresh developments from the Sui
tan river placer mines the past week. AS
it will be several weeks before any new
cuttings will be tested, we have deferred
+, visit there until these tefs shall be
made, whsn detailed description would
nc more valuable than now. A great nu =
mber have gone up there this week. In
he number are many from Seattle. No
mining before this has been systematic
ally attempted outside of the present bed
"t that river. Now the prospects are, to
ny the least, reasonably good for finding
'lggings where several hundred men
rould earn fair wages the year round.
Year: 1878

Golden Medical Discovery
Is Alternative. or blood cleansing.
Golden Medical Discovery


Is Pectoral.
Golden Medical Discovery
Is a Cholagogue, or Liver Stimulant
Golden Medical Discovery


Is Tonic.
Golden Medical Discovery
Year: 1878

For those who neglect to rectify irregulari
ties of the stomach, liver and bowels. which
they foelishly imagine will come right of
themselves Of this silly error such per-
sons are usually disabused by the develop
ment of some serious chronic malady,
traceable to what they were pleased to con
slider trifing disorder of the above named
associate organs. Such elimination is
easily avoided A course of Hostetter's
Stomach Bitters invariably has the effect
of renewing the secretive action of a tor
pid liver, restoring healthy disgestion and
assimilation. and rendering the habit Of
body perfectly regular. The activity of
these all important fuucticns being restor-
ed. .and the entire system toned and regulat-
ed by this incompatible corrective and
iuvigorant, no danger to the general health
is to be apprehended from causes which
if not eradicated in time, will assuredly
undermine it.
Year: 1878

That if everyone would use Hop Bitters
freely, there would be much less sickness
and misery in the world; and people are
fast finding this out. whole families keep
ing we'll at a trihiDg cost by its use. We
advise all to try i'll d, A., Rochester.
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Year: 1878

WASHINGTON, July 19.-Gen. Raum, Com
missioner of Internal Revenue, soon after as
inaugurate system of quarterly inspections
OF all collectors offices, with view to keep
ing the business OF the revenue office In thor
ough condition.


The results derived from the system fully
attest the wisdom of the measure. All col
lectors' offices were examined at the end Of the
fiscal year ending June 3d. and the condition
Of each found to be almost perfect. The man
agement of the Internal Revenue Bureau is
considered to be in far better condition than
under any previous administration, as Is fully
proven by the large collections made, system
attic work and entire absence Of defalcations
or discrepancies In official accounts. The tur-
bulent districts In the South have been taught
as q general thing to respect the law, and
illicit Oscillations In those districts have been
almost entirely killed off.
Year: 1878

NEW YORK, July ia special meeting OF
the stockholders of the Merchants National
Bank was held to-day, for the purpose OF
considering the advisability Of reducing their
capital stock from three to two million dol
lars, on account of excessive taxation by the
government.


close upon per cent on their capital, making
$4,000 per annum, in addition to which they
were expected to pay per cent to the stock
holders This made the taxation IL per cent
A resolution offered to reduce the capital to
to 90 into effect on the first Of August.
Year: 1878

WASHINGTON, July 19.-Orders have been
issued to the superintendent general Of the
recruiting service to forward to San Fran
cisco fifty-five recruits, of which thirty will
be assigned to the Second Infantry and twen-
ty-five to the First Infantry, both OF which
are now in the field.


The superintendent of the mounted service
has been ordered to forward to the same place
twenty recruits for the First Cavalry, also in
tho Hnld
Year: 1878

type in every town on the Mississippi river
between ST. Paul and New Orleans.


Not content with wandering over the North
American continent, he has crossed the Allan
tic and tramped over the greater part OF Eu-
rope. Texas Jack" fs a man Of considerable
intelligence and keen pereeptive faculties, and
the incidents Of mis- life would make an inter-
esting romance. He has had his love affairs,
the uncertain running of whose current has
had much to do with his travels for nearly q
quarter OF q century,.


The object OF his youthful affections Is still
living In his native city, Boston. He said yes
terday that in all his wanderings his thoughts
had ever been fixed upon Boston, his old pa
rents whom he had not seen for eight years,
and the object Of his youthful love- Heserved
as Union soldier in the late war as drum
major of the Forty-niath Massachusetts, un-
der Ben Butler. He was In New Orleans dur
ing Buffers stay in that city. He afterwards
went to Texas, where he obtained his nick
name He is now on his way to Boston to
visit his old parents, marry his only and first
love, and settle down for the rest OF his days
Year: 1878

put up their weapons. Stealing
here is sure death to the one get
ting caught at it. Two weeks ago
party of us went up into the
mountains prospecting for miner
ais in new gulch, and on our way
found man hanging to tree who
had been dead some days, with q
paper pinned on bis shirt simply
stating "Horse-thief.u These
things strike terror to the thieves.
Last night three derperate-looking
men aroused me in the night, and
said they were looking for a horse
thief and were tired. 1 invited
them to stay all night. They i'm
mediately made themselves at
home, cooking their own supper.
I finally fell asleep, leaving them
playing poker, ST. a cerner. They
departed early next morning, and,
l learned, came up with their man
and shot him. 1t is remarkable to
think that a man may shoot his
neighbor and nothing be said; but
let him steal anything and he must
die. 1t is one of the peculiar ideas
of the men on the borders that
every man must protect his life


and not the law. But there Is 9
good class of people now settling


up this country, slowly but surely


and their Eastern ideas Will bring


law and order.
Year: 1878

frobabio Ofmouify in Reusming.


New YORK, Dec. 7th.-The ques-
tion of resumption of specie pay
ments is attracting more attention
as the time draws near for that i'm
portant event in the history of the
country. There is a growing fear
in the public mind that resump.
tion will not be accomplished as
smoothly as was generally expect
ed some time since, as there are up-
doubtedly many contingencies
that may arise tending to disturb
monetary affairs in the operation
OF passing from paper to gold
basis and there is an increasing
disposition among all classes to
pursue very conservative policy
pending the solution of this great
financial problem. This il partic.
Year: 1878

Those who have never lived on n stormy
coast, nor been to sea, can form no ade-
quate idea of the effect that can be pro-
dueed by the impact of succession of
waves, or of single wave. What has hap
pened at Wick, on the extreme northern
coast Of Scotland, where a breakwater has
been building for several years past, may
give an idea of what is meant by wave
power. 1t was found that stones of ten
tons weight were as pebbles to the waves,
which have been measured 70 be here forty
two feet from the crest to the bottom of
the trough. The outer end of the break
water, where the storms beat most violently,
was built of three courses of one-hundred
ton stones laid on the rubble foundations;
next above these were three courses of
large, fat stones, and upon this mass of
concrete, built on the spot of cement and
rubble, the end of the breakwater was
thought to be as immOvable as the natural
rock; yet the resident engineer saw it slowly
yield to the force of the waves, and swing
round into the less troubled waters inside
the pier. 1t gave way not in fragments
but in one mass, as if it was a monolith
The displaced mass is estimated to weigh
about l $50 tons.
Year: 1878

The COrentry Standard says:-Gold
lace is not gold lace. 1t does not deserve
this title, for the gold is applied as a sur
face to silver. 1t is not even silver lace,
for the silver is applied to foundation of
silk. The silken threads for making this
material are wound round with gold wire
so thickly as to conceal the silk; and the
making of this gold wire is one of the
most singular mechanical operations imag-
Unable. In the first place, the refiner pre-
pares solid rod of silver about an inch in
thickness; he heats this rod, applies upon
the surface sheet of gold leaf, Furnishes
this down, applies another coating burn
ishes this down, and SO on until the
gold is about one hundredth part the thick
ness Of the silver Then the rod is sub
jccted to a train Of processes which brings
it down to the state Of fine wire; it is pass
ed through holes in a steel plate lessening
step by step in diameter. The gold never
deserts the silver; but adheres closely to it
and shares all its mutations; it is one hun
dredth part the thickness of the silver at
the beginning, and it maintains the same
ratio to the end. As to the thinness to
which the gold coated rod of silver can be
broughs, the limit depends on the delicacy
of the human skill; but the most remark
able example ever known was brought for
ward by DIR. Wollaston.


This was an example of solid gold wire
without any silver. He procured small
rod Of silver, bored hole through it from
end to end, and inserted in this hole the
smallest gold wire he could procure, he
subjected the silver to the usual wire-draw-
ing process, until he had brought it to the
finest attainable state-being in fact, a sill
yer wire as Ene as hair, with gold wire
in its centre. To isolate this gold wire
he subjected it to warm nitrous acid, by
which the silver was dissolved, leaving a
gold wire one thirty thousandth of an inch
in thickness-perhaps the thinnest round
wire that the hand of man has yet pro-
duced. But the wire, though beyond all
comparison finer than any employed in
manufactures, does not approach in thin
ness the film of gold on the surface of sill
yer and gold lace. 1t has been calculated
that the gold on the very finest silver
wire for gold lace is not more than one
third of one millionth of an inch in thick
ness, that is not above one tenth the thick
ness of the ordinary gold leaf
Year: 1878

CURE FOR a PEsT.-To those who are
troubled with bed bugs, we give the fol-
lowing remedy, which an exchange assures
the public is both speedy and eficacious ::
Wash the room and furniture with salt
water, filling the cracks with salt. When
this is done, you may look in vain Sor the
bugs. Salt seems to be inimical to them
and they win not go through it. 1t is
preferable to all ointments, and you can
always assure yourself that you have the
genuine article.
Year: 1878

CLEANING PIcTUREs.-Mr. Ribra de,
scribes new method for cleaning pictures
in a recent number of the Journal fur
Prahtische Chemio, A very indistinct
oil painting was freed from dust with a
feather, washed with sponge and water,
and then covered for eight minutes with
a layer of shaving soap. The soap was
then washed off with a brush ana the pic
ture left to dry. 1t was next thoroughly
cleaned with linen cloth soaked in nitro
benzine.
Year: 1878

Books AND DIsEAsE.-Books taken
from circulating libraries for the use of con-
valescents may easily become the vehicles
of contagious diseases, and it is much to
be desired that some effectual method
would be devised of disinfecting volumes
which have been so used. Until this is
done circulating libraries would do well to
caution their patrons against the danger
and to request that the books be not used
where such diseases exist. In these days
of cheap publications it is easy to obviate
this peril by procuring for the use of the
sick lOw-priced volumes, to be destroyed
after they have been perused.
Year: 1878

able to challenge the contrast as Il is, what
would our country be if we were as unified
in our traditions, habits, and religion as
the people of England are I?


| saw much in the manners and customs
OF English people that might be held up
for imitation. But what is the use of
speaking of it Is the average American
mind open to instruction by any other
people or tongue under the whole heaven?
And shall | not be set down as unpatriotic
and snobbish, if l venture to eulogize
England and the English? Even so.
But that does not alter the fact. do not
want to change our political or religious
institutions: they are the result of the
ripest experience and the concentrated
wisdom of preceding ages. But, as in re-
forming the church, the leaders rejected
some good things for the sake of casting
out more that was evil, so we in our revo-
luton have revolved so far as to regard
our own ways the only good ways, and all
that we left behind US, as positively evil
and intOlerable.


The more communion we have with
England, the better we will esteem the
people and their institutions. Ifhappiness
were an object, which it is not, it were
just as easy to find it in Old England as
in New England, in Yorkshire as in New
York. There is more and higher culture
in the fields and in the homes of the
wealthy English than in any other country
among people of the same social class, and
to mirgle with intelligent English people,
in their slight little isle, is one of the
highest pleasures of foreign travel.


They are not accessible. They have a
reserve which they suppose to be dignity.
They get it from the existence of an aris-
tocracy, and every man, whether born into
the charmed circle or not, wishes to be ex-
elusive that he may appear unto men to
be something more than he is. But that
reserve melts in a minute when he comes
into social contact with brother man.
It is foible of Englishmeu, as familiarity
is fault of our people.


An English gentleman introduced him :
self to me at the hotel where we met, and
the few hours of my stay were made very
pleasant by his agreeable company. Learn
ing that / was to visit the part of the
country in which was his residence, he in
sisted upon my going to his house, though
he would not be there, that his family
might have the pleasure, &c. And he
made point of it: wrote to his family
that | was coming, and when | called for
a moment at the door, l was received as
a friend, and they were positively disap-
pointed when declined to stay and enjoy
their hospitality. Such is not an isolated
case. Another English gentleman did
just the same thing. These are in proof
that behind that thick coat of digniied
reserve, there are just as warm, genial and
generous souls among Englishmen as in
every other land where Christian civiliza-
ton reigns.
Year: 1878

A correspondent of the Pal Mall Gaz-
cite writes on the 10th ult.:-The chaplain
to the Imperial family, NJ. Baur preached
on Wednesday last sermon in the Cathe-
dral of Berlin, before the Emperor and
the Imperial family, in which he spoke
of the present state of morality, or rather
immortality, in Prussia in very strong terms.
Affection, faith, and the Word of God
are now unknown in this country" the
chaplain said, Gin this our great German
Fatherland, which formerly justly was
called the home of the faith. On the
contrary, it really seems as if it we're the
Father of all lies who now is worshiped in
Prussia. What formerly was considered
generous and noble is now looked upon
with contempt, and theft and swindling
are called by the euphOnic word business, u
leading merchants openly declaring that
some transactions are bordering on felony.
Marriages are concluded without the bless
ing of the church-concluded ''on trial, y
to be broken if not found to answer. We
still have Sunday, but it is only Sun
day in name, as the people work during
the church hours and spend the afternoon
and evening in rioting in public-houses
and music halls; while the upper classes
rush to the races, preferring to hear the
painting of the tortured horses to hearing
the Word of God, which is ridiculed in the
press and turned into blasphemy in the
popular assemblies, while the servants Of
God are insulted daily" The German
clerical newspapers, Protestant as we'll as
Catholic, are writing in like strain.
Year: 1878

Attend well to your busines. Be pune
tual in your payments. Consider we'll be-
fore you promise. Dare to do right
Envy no man. Faithfully perform your
duty. Go not in the path of vice. Have
respect for your character. In everything
be just. Judge mercifully others faults.
Know tbyself. Lie not, for any consider
alton. Make few confdants. Never pro-
fess what you do not practice. Occupy
your time in usefulness Postpone moth
ing you can do now Quarrel not with
your neighbor. Remember the poor.
Save something against a day of trouble.
Treat everybody with kindness. Use your
self with moderation. Vilify nobody
reputation. Watchfully guard against
idleness. 'Xamine your conduct careful
ly. Yield to superior judgment. Zeal
ously pursue the right path
Year: 1878

To destroy bugs on squashes and Gu
cumbcr vines, dissolve a tablespoonful of
saltpetre in painful of water, put pint
of this around each hill, shaping the earth
so that it will not spread much, and the
thing is done. The more saltpetre, if you
can afford tit is good for vegetables but
death to animal life. The bugs burrow in
the earth at night and fail to rise in the
morning. 1t is also good to kill grub in
peach trees-only use twice as much, say
a quart to each tree There was not
yellow or blistered leaf on twelve or fifteen
trees to which it was applied last season.
No danger of killing any vegetable with
it-a concentrated solution applied to
beans makes them grow wonderfully.
Year: 1878

Or. Codes states that breed of solid
hOOfed pigs has apparently been established
in Texas. The terminal phalanges of the
toes are united to form single broad pha-
lanx; above this, however, the other two
phalanges remain perfectly distinct. The
hoof is perfectly solid, and on its sole there
is broad angular elevation of horny sub
stance, which is curiously like the frog Of
the horses hoof The breed is so firmly
established that no tendency to revert to
the original and normal form is observable
Year: 1878

DR.. G. F. Waters, of Boston, has found
in the juice of the miIkweed a remedy
for suppurating wounds. The time Of
healing varied from "a to 36 hours; but in
each instance new skin formed completely
across. The Doctor states that the only
essential point is to dry the wounded sur
face gently and thoroughly with blottiDg
paper before applying the milkweed juice.
After the juice is applied, and while heal
ing is in progress, piece of blotting paper
is used to cover the surface.
Year: 1878

Love one human being purely and warm
ly, and you will love all The heart, in
this heaven, like the wandering Sun, sees
nothing, from the dewdrop to the ocean,
but mirror which it warns and fills.