smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1879




Thsre are many persons slatsd over
the sudden rise in grain and look upon
Il a the harbingsr Of better times. we
must confess that We have our douo's
upon that subject but are rather w
clined to think that the rise IS . who'e
is mot beneficial. We do not know oi
a single instance where dear bread mas
added either to the happiness or pros
perity of tho laboring classes. Bread
has Justly been termed "the stan Of
life" aud II that staff gets so high that
the millions Of laboring people in this
country cannot reach 1t to lean upon'
We doubt whether the late rise Is bene-
fetal, however gratifying 1t may be to
the farmers. Ifa rise in bread-stuns
implied a corresponding increase in wa
ges, 1t would not matter how high the
price OF wheat was, but with hour az
ten dollars a barrel and wages the
same as they are to-day we doubt very
much whether the prosperity OF the
laboring man would be increased. Upon
the contrary, would not wide spread
distress be the inevitable consequences,
and how would this promote the pros
perity of our toiling millions!


It notable fact, that when the
price of any leading article goes muoh
above a reasonable profit an era Of spec
ulation is sure to follow and only few
generally undeserving ones reap any
advantage from it. The great body OF
the people are the sufferers in such
cases and whatever strikes at the labor.
ing classes strikes at the prosperity O.
the country. II the theory that high
prices for grain is correct one then
short crops would be desirable for in
such cases prices always go up, but are
short crops desirable : Both England
and France know something about that.
and could answer it satisfactorily. The
short crops of those nations the present
wear are not considered as being likely
to add to their prosperity hut rather
they are regarded as a national calamity.
Large crops are always desired by the
farmers although their inevitable ten
dency is to keep prices down. The
hardy grangers Of the country while OF
course quite willing to take sl:5o per
bushel tor their wheat, will hardly en-
dorse a short crop-the only means
likely to produce the desired result. II
the present rise is in consequence OF the
active revival Of business in every other
department Of industry, which is to be
followed by an increase OF wages ior
labor then it is desirable and the renter
and laborer alike will hail the increase
with pleasure.
Year: 1879

Wool Growers Bulletin.


Those having wool to sell should not,
we think, depend too much upon the
future OF the wool market, and expect
to get SOC for wool. Such thing might
happen, that wool would bring this
price, but as things are now, We scarce
~ think it policy to hold. 1t is true
that we have the promise OF improved
business, and we all must admit that
business is better than for some years
past, but is not likely TO result in a
"boom" that will carry everything TO
war prices.


While, in the spring, we advised
farmers not 20 be misled by the % cent
talk, we would again say, do not depend
too much upon getting so cents for your
wool. But with 40 cents per pound in
the East. for XX wool as a basis, we
would say, as your wool IL above or
below this in quality and condition, and
according TO the market, taking into con-
sideration the difference between the
East and the "interioT districts" it might
be better to accept fair offers for your
wool.


T. S. Economist


The leading wool markets Of the coun-
try have been exceedingly rampant dur
ing the week passing in review, and at
the close prices OF all desirable woods
are fully two cents per pound higher,
closing with a strong upward tendency
regardless of the sharp advance in the
rates OF money.
Year: 1879

A LEADvILLE WEDDING.-Although the as


pect of affairs in Leadvlle is becoming grad


ually less harsh, its humors are rather rough,
and continue to SAVIOR somewhat strongly of


gunpowder. The Episcopal clergyman who


was nonplussed, as our readers may remem-


Der, by his Bible-class, and who fed from the


imaginary revolver of one of his flock "a young


gentleman known in society" in New York.


has yielded place to a Pastor somewhat bet


ter adapted to the character of the particular
kind of sheep TO be found in Leadville pas
lures, as the following incident will show A
young woman there WAS discovered by her
family to be living in illegitimate relations
with one of the adventurers of the metallic
town. Her two brothers waited upon him
with revolvers, and informed him that unless
he married her Immediately they would i'm
mediately "empty" those utensils into his
body. Thus allured, he yielded coy con-
sent They applied to the Episcopal clergy
man to perform the ceremony, to which he
consented, also. The happy pair were march
ed into the CHURCH" the two armed brothers
as a guard of honor During the
ceremony the happy bridegroom, being dis
satisfied with some performance of the cler-
gyman, fired his revolver at the divine but as
he missed his shot, the bullet only whizzing
past the reverend gentleman's ear the latter
continued the discharge of his sacred func-
ton until the twain were one flesh. There
upon, in order that all things might be done
in the best style and according to old-fash-
ioned rule, he stepped forward and kissed the
bride. At this the jealous bridegroom was
wroth and smOte him. Whereupon the Rev.
Church Militant, he being brawny priest Of
some six feet in height, sprang over the chan
eel railing, and seizing the newly-made hus-
band by the back of the neck gave him, un-
der cover of the pistols of the newly made
brothers-in-law, such a dreadful drubbing
that he will remember it as long as he lives.
This closed the marriage solemnities.
Year: 1879

The offer to bet is a FOOLS argument.


Bookkeeping may be taught in lesson of
three words-never lend them.


We are all on our last legs, but all of us
hope they will last US for some time to come.


small town is a place where there are
many tongues to talk, but few heads to think,


Truth is stranger than fiction" and ii
takes some people long time to feel at home
with it.


Men and women are much alike. The one
takes to the beer glass, and the other to the
pier glass, a


People who growl about the monotony of
life, will please note great deal of sameness
in death.


There is no limit to human capabilities
A man can make note so big that he can
not lift fraction of it.


II is consolation for a man who has lost
every cent he possessed to be told that he has
gained in experience.


Gravestones do not mention the fact, but
there have been men whose dying was the
only good thing accomplished by them.


A newspaper reporter who died recently
left large sum of money behind him. In
fact he left all the money there was in the
world.


We don't see why man should pay S5,-
600 for a telescope to look at the stars, when
he can get a much finer display by simply
yanking the tail OF any mule.
Year: 1879

WOMEN EYENG WoMEN.-The eyeing Of
women by women is one of the most offen-
sive manifestations of superciliousness now
to be met with in society. Few observ-
ant people can have failed to notice the man
ner in which one woman who is not perfectly
well bred or perfectly kind hearted will eye
another woman whom she thinks is not in
such good society, and at the time in SO cost
ly dress as she herself is in. 1t is done ev-
erywhere at parties, at church, in the street.
1t is done by women in all conditions of life.
The very servant girls learn it of their mis-
tresses. 1t is done in an instant Who
cannot recall hundreds of instances of that
sweep of the eye which takes in at glance
the whole woman, and what she has on
from topknot to shoetie Men are never
guilty of it, or with such an extreme rarity,
and then in such feeble and small-souled
specimens of their sex, that it may be set down
as a sin not masculine, or at least epicine.
But women of sense, of some breeding and
even of some kindliness of nature, will thus
endeavor to assert a superiority upon the
meanest of all pretences and inhict wound
in a manner most cowardly, because it can
not be resented, and admits of no retorts II
they only knew how unlovely, how positive
ly offensive they make themselves in SO doing,
not only to their silent victims, but to every
generous hearted man who observes their
maneuvres they would give up triumph at
once so mean and so cruel which is obtained
at such a sacrifice on their part. No other
evidence than this cycling is needed, that
woman, whatever be her birth or breeding,
has a small and vulgar soul.
Year: 1879

To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD:-


Ibeg you to ask the elevated railroad companies Of
the city il they furnish the public with smoking
Why cannot smoking be allowed IN the front
of each train. the on other railroads? t
would certainly be = pleasure TO many to enjoy .
cigar while reading the HERALD, and it Ia question
whether it would not add indirectly to tho profits oe
the roads CONSTANT RIDER.
Year: 1879

To THE EDrToR OF THE HERALD


Will you kindly inform reader Of your valuable
paper why the Street Cleaning Bureau does nol
make the ash call for ashes before twelve p. n.
am the owner Of some houses Fortieth street,
between Seventh and Eighth avenues. The ashes
have been spilled the sidewalk and the barrels
stolen several times Will you please inform me-
what redress can have i'll the matter 2 OWNER.
Year: 1879

Congress- 30 that 1t was in reality composed OF l07
members, and, rs the number OF yeas was Is. tho
above proportion becomes 7S out OF lO7


WORK OF THE coSoRKss


To show the partial way in which the work OF tho
Paris Congress has been presented to the American
public shall add few remarks to what has already
been said All tho strcng til of the opposition has
been laid the vote relating to tide level canal.
But little has been said about . resolution more
general in its character and more fatal to the Mica
ragua project, NJ the argument of n less cost no
longer applies to this We refer the project
of u canal with locks by the route of Panama In
their exposition the opponents of this route have
dealt mostly with matters or secondary iiu-
portance. The object of the Paris Congress was
to decide upon the best route, not upon the best
project 1t was question OF general engineering
principle not OF small devices. nore less fash
foned after an engineers fancy. The Congress, l
repeat. not called reward engineers the
skill and ingenuit displayed in their conceptions,
but To discuss the data regarding the steal
ditions to be encountered the different routes
and to pronounce in favor OF the offering the
least difficulties to the art of the engineer aud the
efficiency of navigation. Every body knows that be-
fore canal. railroad other kindred work Is built.
the hrst step " to make preliminary survey of all
routes that at first sight seem advantage eous, and
upon such data engineers generally determine
the one to be preferred. 1t may happen that tho
route Offering the greatest difficulties Is the best
studied and the one concerning which the most in-
formation has been obtained upon arriving ut tho
execution of the project; but there is limit OF
work to be done for the comparison of two moro
rival routes that If passed only represents super
huous and unnecessary labor 1t is to the foresight
aud experience OF the engineer that the i'm portant
task s left of apprcciating the points in which they
dffer and to when further attention to details
becomes waste OF time and money. The observ-
of these elementary principles has provoked
criticism relating TO the insufliciency Of nforma-
ton Afforded by the plans Of the Panama route. Tho
Gross proves that such plans offered ell the elements
necessary judge the possibility and relative
OF the work. They may be mistaken with regard 10
Year: 1879

To THK EDIroR OF THE HERALD


Will you please direct Police Commissi0nsr
MacLeans attention to the corner Of Franklin street.
and West Broadway the same block with tho
Fifth precinct police station where he will hnd not
but mountains OF sand. brick aud stone
covering the whole or greater part OF the street.
They have stood there for at least . month, to thu
great danger OF the travelling public. this being the
principal approach to Vanderbilt's freight depot.


]. G. n
Year: 1879

WORK FOR THE POLICE AND HEALTH BOARD.
To THE EDITOR OF THE HEnALp:-


The stables in West Fifty fifth street. inst west Of
Sixth avenue have become intolerable nuisance
to the immediate vicinity and neighborhood. In the
first place. during the day and evening they serve
as q resort for lot OF young men and boys, Who.
besides using the profxne and obscene
commit fragrant acts OF indecency which neceGsi.
tate the occupants of the premises opposite leaving
the windows. Secondly. the sanitary condition Of
the stables is fearful. There 10 proper drainage
from them; refuse matter giving forth vile odor.
Is allowed to collect and permeate the atmosphere
with its ofcnsiveness. NEIGHBOR.
Year: 1879

The foolish cry about ''rebel brigadiers'
is likely to have an effect which the repub-
lican politicians who raised it little ex-
pected. 1t has aroused the Union soldiers
all over the North, who ask themselves,
'sWhy not Union brigadiers, too?" General
Wade Hampton very sensibly said in the
Senate, when some republican recounted
the number of ex-Confederate officers in
that body, 'I believe the best and ablest
men, North and South, entered the armies
and fought in the war. We in the South
are surely not to blame if we send our best
men to Congress- Why do you of the North
not send your soldiers too? You ought to,
but you do not, and it is mistake that you
leave them at home" General Hampton
was right, and his opinion finds echo
in the meetings of the Grand Army
Of the Republic. That body is not parti-
san, but it cherishes the soldierly spirit Of
comradeship. At meeting held at Ithaca
a HERALD correspondent reports, while the
members differed in politics, there was a
unanimous determination to require both
parties to select for public Office able men
from among those who distinguished them
selves in the war for the Union, and a feel
ing that the politicians had better take back
seats for while.
Year: 1879

In the compromise between Rome and
Berlin on the relations OF the clergy to the
constituted authorities in the Empire
Rome certainly comedies more than Ger
many, and the Pope's position is practical
acknowledgement that the ground taken by
the bishops in Germany was erroneous.
In the days of Plus TX. habit was estab-
lished in the Church of over hastily sup
porting every prelate who happened to get


in collision with the government of a coun-
but under Leo XIII. there appears to be a
tendency to return to the healthier consid-
Grafton of older times and to remember
that an ecclesiastic might err, and that
he very probably did err if to support his
own dignity he compromised the relations
Of the Papacy with the power of great
Empire The admission that the May
laws shall become dead letter if the
clergy will obey the common law and all
nominations are submitted to the govern
ment is not a retreat for the Chancellor,
since he would, doubtless, have always
been content with that condition, and the
May laws were enacted only to provide for
cases in which the obligation of the COM
mon law was defied. All that is exacted Of
the clergy as the price of peace is the eat
ing of little humble pie, and the Pope
believes that sort of diet will do them no
harm.
Year: 1879

BY the despatch from London it will be
observed that another English Arctic expe-
dition will probably leave England early
next year. England, Austria Denmark,
Holland, Sweden and the United States
will then be represented by hardy adven-
turers in the Polar seas, and while the men
of each country will be inspired with the
honorable ambition to score for their own
colors the great triumph of the solution OF
this important geographical problem, each
will also apparently be ready and anxious
to cooperate with the others and lend a
hand where it may be needed to get fellow
explorers out of difficulty. Men of all
nations are fitting at the Pole in these days
in spirit of nineteenth century knight
errantry, and there is no longer any
thought anywhere of any other than intel
lectual or humanitarian objects in the dis
covery. So there is room for all. More
over, there is in all likelihood occupation
for all; for while some lucky craft may
happen on the solution unaided it is more
than probable that the ultimate settlement
of all the Arctic doubts will need yet the
labor of many voyages.
Year: 1879

The vote of the French Chamber OF Dep
uties in favor of the demolition of the
Tuileries is already virtually annulled by
the action of the Senate in referring the
bill to committee appointed some time
ago to consider the question of recon-
structing this interesting public edifce.


1t would not be n pleasant spectacle to see
a thoroughly organized republican govern
ment deliberately determining to carry out
and accomplish an undertaking set on foot
by the wild anarchists of the Paris Com
mune. II any good was to be secured by
levelling the ruins of an ancient and beau
tiful palace--if the act spared the country
n burden or shielded the Republic from
any danger-practical people would not
put a word in the way of the project;
tor the security of government and the
liberty of people are not to be weighed
against monuments which, in such a con-
nection, become mere rubbish. But the
vote was simply an act OF foolish political
extravaganza that would have sacrificed
what remains Of an interesting structure to
mere whim of spread-eagle The
ruins of the old structure will, of course,
have to be removed. This will perhaps
satisfy the demands Of those who fancy that
Year: 1879

Some further observations on the subject
of the advantage it would be to Germany to
possess some bright little isle of her own in
the far away South Pacific Ocean are con-
tributed by the North German Gazette, which
journal is supposed to set forth the views
of distinguished fuctionary melodramati-
cally styled '.the man of blood and iron. I"
There seems, however, to be exceedingly
little Of either blood or iron in the temper
with which this great man approaches this
particular subject. For about five years
now he seems to have been moaning and
mumbling about his need of an island
in the Pacific, and no sooner has the
attention OF the world been turned
to the topic-and the attention of the world
is easily drawn toward man reputed to
be always ready to help himself without
regard to the convenience of others--than
presto we get from Berlin scores of off,
cial and semi-official denials and ample
declarations that Germany does not want
any islands, and would not take the best in
the world as gift. Why all these
grimaces? If Bismarck wants an island
why don't he go into the Pacific and take
one, or why not annex his neighbors. the
Dutch? Then no would own all their
islands, and they have fine assortment.
Year: 1879

Apparently the present Ministry of the
French Republic is not sensitive on the
subject of adverse votes, and takes the pun
ishment administered by an extremely lib
eral majority as a gentleman in a comedy
accepted certain kicks-with the personal
conviction that he was not bound to take
notice of anything done behind his back.
Pushing it's recent victories on clerical
points, and exhilarated apparently by the
swinging blows at the Jesuits delivered
from the tribune by M. Paul Bert, the
National Assembly took up the proposition
with regard to clerical stipends This prop
osition was to reduce the remuneration of
bishops and the higher clergy generally,
and to increase that of the inferior clergy;
keeping the figures in the budget about the
same, but making the distribution more
equitable. The government opposed the
measure, yet it was carried by majority of
fifty-one
Year: 1879

Arrangements should be made to bring
Hanlan and Courtney together at once.
From recent interviews both men seem will
ing, and all that is needed is little vigor
and energy in the proper direction to effect
meeting. When they rowed at Lachine
Montreal was packed to overfowing, and
the interest in the result was deep and wide
spread both reand in Europe. But when
they next come together, now that Hanlan
has done such unparalleled work abroad
and Courtney is going faster than ever, that
interest will be intense and universal.
Of necessity the race should be at a
place where great numbers can be
accommodated and which is central to
the people OF the Eastern and Middle


States and to Canada. Saratoga, with
her immense hotels and many boarding
houses trained to care for large assemblies,
and with her famous rowing course, stands
out as pre-eminently the battle ground for
the new fight. Let her at once offer purse
of five thousand dollars, to be rowed for
by these two men late this month or early
in September, allowing each five hundred
dollars for expenses. Set the race
late enough in the afternoon to insure
smooth water and no difficulty will
ensue. rs the lake has been behav-
ing admirably in this respect this year.
Canada, fresh from her recent and deserved
elation over Hanlan, will be there in i'm
mense force. New York, Philadelphia, Bos-
ton, Buffalo and all the Eastern cities will
send large delegations. while Albany and
Troy will turn out almost bodily. The two
greatest scullers America ever produced
will fight their second battle under circum.
stances most inspiring, both surrounded
by hosts of friends, and on absolutely fair
water. Canada had her turn last time in
selecting the place, and it is only fair that
this country should be equally favored now.
Montreal came forward promptly. Now let
Saratoga show her usual enterprise, raise
the money communicate with the two men,
fix the day and announce the fact.
Year: 1879

An evening contemporary fears that the
opinion of Attorney General Schoonmaker
in regard to the effect of the new six per
cent interest law on the State banks, if
sustained by the courts, may lead to a
'grave conflict of laws between the federal
and State authorities This apprehension
is based on the supposition that the ma
tional banks will still be entitled to charge
seven per cent interest, which was the rate
fixed by law in New York at the time of the
passage of the National Bank act by Con-
gress, and which rate, it is insisted, cannot
be "unfxed or arbitrarily or frequently
changed at the caprice of the Legislature
of the State of New York" 1t is argued
from these premises that if the State banks
after next December they will be at dis
advantage and must seek shelter under the
national banking laws.


Our contemporary fears are groundless.
The National Bank act allows such banks
to ''take receive, reserve and charge on any
loan or discount made, or upon any note,
bill of exchange, or other evidences of debt,
interest at the rate allowed by the laws OF
the State, Territory or district where the
bank is located, and no more" The
law does not authorize the national banks
to charge interest at the rate allowed by the
State at the time such banks are organized,
and to pretend that State cannot change its
rate of interest is absurd. AS the national
banks in New York can charge interest at
the rate allowed by the law of the State of
New York and no more, they will be entitled
to six per cent only after January 1, 1880,
Interpretation of the law, which is no
doubS correct, the State banks will then be
able to charge only the same rate of interest.
Year: 1879

they can shut out some future monarch by
destroying the house in which the last
monarch lived. But the committee VIII
doubtless show its good sense in advising
the reconstruction of the edifice either us
a national museum, public library or an
ornamental government office; and it will
be question for the government later on
to decide by what name the new structure
shall be called.
Year: 1879

The SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF
CRUELTY TO CHILDREN are again after youthful
lcrobats Why are not its officers equally ener-
getic in hunting up the hundreds of little waits
all around them who suffer from the torture of
unnatural parents and guardians! Does it in
volve less publicity and glory, or what