smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1874

7ry srECIE-PAYING THEORY ADHERED 10, but NO


TINE FOR RESUMPTION RECOMMENDED - THE


MESSAGE OF NEGATIVE CHARACTER AND DE
VOID OF RECOMMENDATIONS AND DECLARATIONS.


IpY TELEGRAPH TO THE rRDuNE.l


WASHINGTON, Dec. 4-The President Ggan sub
mtted PORTIONS of his message to his Cabinet at Its
session to-day but omitted to read those portions OF
Il relating to the finances which he Submitted on
Tuesday. The message although not yet fully COM
lted will be shorter than the last and will contain
very few recommendations. 1t will be confined
nrincipally to q recital of the events of q
nubhc character during the past year, and
% the subjects treated in the reports
Of the heads of Departments. As previously stated
in THE TmBUNE. he adheres strongly to the hard
money, specie-paying theory Of finance, but he
neither suggests nor recommends that any specified
time be set apart as date for the resumption of
specie payments. Ee seems to adopt the theory OF
many of the leading Republicans that under the
existing circumstances, considering the fact that the
Democrats are tne eve of taking control of the
popular branch of Congress, it is better to abstain
from taking an aggressive course, and to avoid as
much as possible issues that might further divide
the party.


Thus far in his message the President has had
nothing to say about the Civil Rights bill and there
Is little probability that he will again alude to it,
and no one believes that he will approve the princl
pie as he did before Neither will the President
recommend the sweeping system of internal i'm
provcments in the South which he known to favor
That portion of his message relating to the District
Of Columbia has not yet been prepared. He awaits
abstract of the report of the District Commissioners
which he will receive on Sunday evening. Alto
ecther the message will be of a negative character
and devoid Of recommendations and declarations
which ordinarily make the annual comm JnicatiOn
Of the President document of interest
Year: 1874

Swift (and we had almost said unerring) as il
Justice meted out to criminals in this State,
there are some essential powers for the facilita-
ton of the apprehension of evil doers with which
the administrators of the law are not clothed. 1t
rarely happens, however, that those who are
guilty Of a great crime escape. owing to the ma
ture of the crime itself, or the indisposition
of those who committed it to place
themselves beyond the pale of our State
jurisdiction But now crime essen
tally different from any ever before COM
mitted in this commonwealth has been brought
to light, and those who should be foremost in
bringing the offender to justice are powerless
to perform that which the very nature of the
case requires should be done at once.


We allude to the drowning mystery of Draw
yer's Creek, which has just been cleared up. A
cold .blooded murder, and one about which clus-
ters much OF romance as well as the deep-Gid plot
of the villain, was there committed. The perpetra-
tor of tho deed is known-at least all the circum-
stances OF the case point strongly to Joseph
Taylor, Jr, as render his guilt absolutely ccr-
tain. But he is. without doubt, beyond the juris-
diction Of our authorities. With at least eight
days start before the discovery OF the MURDER and
with the quantity of money which he is reputed
to have had, it is not reasonable to suppose tlfa
he is lingering anywhere in this section Of
country Wherever he may be he is compare
lively safe from arrest, inasmuch as his crimI
is hardly known abroad yet, or if known, the
officers of the baiwick where he is making hi'
stay do notfeel sufficiently interested to cause
his arrest.


The need OF tho moment is a reward for Tay
lor's arrest. With it he may be captured with
out it, nc may escape the penalty of his crime
But no one, it seems, is authorized under on
statutes to offer a reward in behalf of the Stat'
but the Governor. The process in this way il
usually slow, and several days may elapse befor,
the Governor acts at all. All this while Taylo
is probably increasing the distance between him
self and the scene of the tragedy and clos
ing up the avenues of capture. Th
reward should have been olfere
the moment the true state of the case wa
known and as the Acknowledgement is usual
the first officer to take cognizance Of such mat
ters, acting in conjunction with the coroner, h
=hor.ld be empowered to name any amount whic
in his discretion may seem suitable. Had Nj
Lore been so authorized, Che reward could hav
been offered on Saturday morning, as the fact
were then known to him, and detectives migl
now be working mp the case.
Year: 1874

There are no diseases so de 'ltating in their ei
fects upon the constitution as the above and none
more difficult to cure by the usual mLdes of practice
The FEVER AND AGUE POWDERS will effect q
care In cases OF the longest standing as well as
prove preventive IN the forming stages Of the dis
case Being purely Vegetable, they act with Ger.
tainty on the disease totally eradicating 1t from the
system, and prevent return at any future period.


Why waste yourmoney and health in trying every
medicine yon hear OF, when THOMpSoN'S FEVER
AND AGUE POWDERS have never failed to cure
the CIiIILS in any caseY
Year: 1874

THEIR REPUTATION is ESTABLISHED.
Thousands of te-timonias have been received
showing that these POWDERS have performed
miracles In curing cases of long standing, many or
them considered hopeless.


THERE is NO RISK IN TAKING THEM


They contain nothing injurious, and therefore
cause none of the lingering diseases so often the
result OF the many nostrums of the day Physicians
recommended them as superior to Quinine or any
other known remedy, for they leave the system In
healthy state and the patient beyond the probabil
ity OF relapse.


BEWARE OF COUNTERFEITs.


The genuine are put up in square tin boxes, with
TlioMPSoN'S FEVER AND AGuE POWDERS
stamped on the lid, and the signature of THOMPSON
Y CRAWFORD on the wrapper. No others can pos
Year: 1874

ABBY SMITHS cow, of Glastonbury, bids
fair to become quite as noted as any of the
famous animals of history or myth, and may
kindle as great conaagration as did Mrs.
O'Leary's awkward beast. Should the agta.
ton precipitated by the resistance Of the
Glastonbury ladies to taxation without rep
resentation result in the enfranchisement Of
woman, the sisterhood can well afford to erect
golden COW in some great square of the cap
ital. Such an image would become as famous
as the golden bull of the German Emperor
Lest some thick skulled man who has read
history-books should think it necessary to all
his knowledge in the way of correction, i
may be necessary to state that the bull ir
question is not gilded effigy of the male o
the genus bos, but an imperial edict ISSUED
three hundred years ago.
Year: 1874

MAST furnishes noteworthy cartoon 10
the last number of Harpers' Weekly. A h5-
ure clad in the rough garments OF an humble
son of toll and wearing the sash OF Com
munist is exhibiting himself to workman as
s.the emancipator Of labor" while under the
battered plug hat of the ward politician grins
the ghastly death s-head. In the background
the committee Of safety are instigating the
mob to murder and rapine. The wood-cut
will prove more effective than dozeu lead
ers.


The great caricaturist is quite as happy in
his conception of the American Twins, labor
and capital, bound, like their brothers of ST.
am, by a ligament which it is death to sever,
Year: 1874

We do not read anonymous letters and commune
cations The name and address of the writer are in
all cases Indispensable not necessarily for publication
but as guaranty OF good faith.


We cannot undertake to return or reserve COM
munications that are not used
Year: 1874

A WOMAN lecturer ip New York announces
a series of four lectures, in the course of
which she will display her skeleton, "with
suggestive hints and instructions such as she
deems her audience may need" As to how
this display of her bony framework is to be
effected without danger to life or health the
lady has unkindly left us in ignorance. 1t is
70 be presumed, however, that she is con-
s'eucted on the model of Swift's man, who
was IN the habit on a hot day in July of tax
ing Oh MS hesh and sitting in his bones.
Year: 1874

THE EUREKA
f A M I L Y B R e A d!
Has been tried and is said to be fully equal to the
best Home Made Bread. Ask your Grocer
for it. For sale from our Carts and from Bakery,
22 ANDERSON STREET,


RICE & CALDERWOOD.
jr30 sntf
Year: 1874

There arc two seasons IN the year when
fruit trees, grape vines, berry bushes, etc,
require mulching-in the heat of the sum
mer to prevent drouth, and in the tall to
protect from the frost and furnish nutri-
ment III the spring. The fall is the most
important season Tor mulching; as the
soil frequently stirred, and kept mellow
during the hot weather, will answer to a
great extent the purpose OF a mulch in
summer 50 will the snow in winter; but
in late tall and in the spring, as also and
more particularly IN an open winter, it is
OF the highest Importance that vegetation
be protected. Grass then, with a coat of
manure on good coat of aftermath, will
be greatly benefited; so will wheat with
a coat OF manure, OF even straw. The
cultivated blackberry in our latitude can
hardly be kept exposed to the cold without
harm. and too often with total loss Pro-
tected sby an early, deep snow, the pro-
lection kept up during the winter, there
will be less hurt and few canes (if any
will perish. In lieu of the snow, a mulch
will answer good purpose; for it is not
only the canes that are exposed to the air,
but the roots also that are hurt If both
are severely attacked, the plant will die
Roots that have a vertical tendency,
buried in deep, porous soil, are safe as
they impart yigor to the tree OF shrub
which will 60 far towards warding off the
effects OF frost. A warm covering of the
ground will be great protection, giving
chance for the roots to retain their yigor,
and thus increase the winter action of the
sap, which when entirely suspended leaves
the tree at the mercy of the cold We
therefore want TO protect the roots of our
trees and shrubs, our berry bushes and
grape vines. The best mulch for all these
is a coat Of leaves, unless the ground re-
quires more enrichment; then add manure
But usually good coat Of leaves, spread
thick and wide, answers a sufficient pur-
pose; at least | have found it So This,
where the ground has sufficient fertility,
applied each fall and in the spring worked
into the soil. will supply what the crop
removes; and leaf pabulum seems to be
what is wanted, containing the material
IN good proportion. | have tried this thing
with the most satisfactory results Some
times, where there is exposure to the
wind, it will be necessary to cover a little
with earth, so as to keep the leaves in
place Chip mould is also good; so is
garden refuse. Any dry vegetable material
will do, even straw packed with little
soil; but I prefer the leaves-Nature's
provision, Some sprinkle on little lime
doubtless in most cases it is a beneft-a
bar also to mice and insects, 1t probably
would not do to use every year, especially
if considerable is applied at a time. APP
piled thus, leaves, which are generally
considered useless and in the way, may be
made to serve a very good purpose. +.
G., in Country Gentleman.
Year: 1874

| aim to raise and sell for beef about
twenty calves per year, and until lately
the most OF them have been grades. |
usually castrate all my grade bulls. and
sell my thoroughbreds, while young, at
from 500 to $3.50; and if fail to make
sale of a thoroughbred bull before he is
two years old, | make steer out of him
also. | can make more out of nv steers
than IN raising bulls for sale at two Years
old at these prices as shall proceed to
show


One spring l sold 2 lot of yearlings at
So per head; they averaged about four
teen months. feed my calves nearly all
they Will eat until six months old through
the winter about half as much grain, and
sometimes much less, with plenty of hay


Last tall sold my steers at thirty months
Old, for five and five and half cents per
pound. They weighed 1900 pounds each
They had rot been fed any grain the sum
mer after they were a year old, and scarce
ly any during the winter, until April 18th
when l fed all they would eat Of twenty
five to twenty eight cent corn.


Last spring sold my steers at an aver
age of two Years and six days They were
ted nearly all they would eat, except the
first winter, and brought me over $50 per
head


Now, it costs twice as much 20 keep 4
bull two years as it does to keep steer,
and unless can sell my bulls Young. | find
| had better make stee 5 of them


Lam as ready as any man to benefit my
neighbors, but when they accuse me OF
ayarice for asking 800 to $50 tor bull
! confess my philanthropy evaporates, and
! 60 for beef to feed the world. even if
do have to compete with two cent Texans.
can compete with them successfully with
Shorthorns. Cor. Live Stock Journal.
Year: 1874

InE You've WIFE. The marriage of
middle age is companionship, the second
marriage OF maturity perhaps the repara-
ton OF q mistake, perhaps the pallid trans
cript of hurried joy; but the marriage
of the loving young is by the direct bless
ing of God, and the complete idea of a
lovely human life. Let those who have
found that pearls hold it fast and keep it
safe Within the doors where love dwells
no evil things should enter, and the loving
bride who would be the happy wife
must speedily guard against her own Inn
patience and despair when the lover is
emerging into the husband, the flatterer
into the friend
Year: 1874

The Calais Times says that many farm
ers in the vicinity of Calais and up coun-
try who have recently depended in part
Tor support upon numbering, have deter
mined in the future to devote their entire
time to agriculture, and with that view
have been making extensive preparations
this fall Others, who have become dis
couraged with the prospect of obtaining
as large wages as formerly in woods and
mills, are in search of farms, and q num-
Der have already purchased
Year: 1874

LAwLEssNEss IN PENNSYLVANIA Mn
ING REGION. Wilkesbarre, Pa The reign
OF lawlessness in the coal regions appear
to be continually growing worse, caused
perhaps by the TACT that most of the per
petrators of assaults and murders escape
capture and punishment At CarbondAle
on Saturday morning last two men muir
dered and three severely assaulted. one of
whom will probably die. Patrick Paddeu,
miner at Colebrook collierv, was found
upon Dundortf shot in that city on Sunday
morning with two bul.et-holes in his head
and badly wounded about the body His
head was frozen to the ground the hair
having dragged in a pool of blood and
water, which had congealed. He was not
quite dead when found, but expired in the
afternoon.


On Saturday afternoon Michael McNultv
was found dead upon the railroad bridge
near Lookout, in the same city. He was
about twenty years of age, and had ev-
IDENTIFY been put there Michael Begland
was found about the same time with his
throat cut. Hew dressed in an old suit
Of miners clothing, When last seen on
Saturday night, he had on a suit of good
clothes. He is still alive and will probably
recover. A boss at the Erie breaker was
waylaid on Saturday night and had his
arm broken, and received other injuries,
but escaped with his life, His name has
not been ascertained. About two miles
below the city, at Carbondale Mines, q
man whose name is unknown was found
nailed to beam in a lonely and unfre-
quented place. Strong nails were driven
through his coat at the wrists. and his
pantaloons at the ankles. and in this posi-
ton he was undoubtedly left to die, but by
mere accident was found and released. At
Scranton, on Sunday morning, newsbov
found the body of Michael hearney living
at the foot of q steep embankment. He
was dead and had evidently been thrown
there.
Year: 1874

A New York woman owns five acres of
peppermint meadow. An enviable woman
certainly. She has but to marry man
with barrel of whisky and hogshead of
sugar to have mintjulep fifteen or twenty
times day for the rest of her life,
Year: 1874

A MODEL AT THE MoRGuE. A Paris
correspondent says; Lately at the
Morgue there was exposed the corpse of a
young girl SO marvellously beautiful in
form that she looked in death like an
exquisite statue, and the guardians of the
Morgue caused a cast to be taken from
her corpse before she was inferred This
beautiful creature had a history as roman
tic as her appearance. She was an Ital-
ian model, known among the artists Of
Paris by the name Of Lucrezia Balb and
in that capacity she had often been EN-
ployed by the gifted and lamented Henri
Regnault. For this young artist Lucrezia
conceived a violent but unavowed and un-
requited passion; for M. Regnault, who
was engaged to be married, had neither
eyes nor thoughts for any woman save his
.fancee. His untimely death during the
siege of Paris broke the poor girls heart
She fell into a state ofdeepest melancholy,
and after struggling against her misery
for four long years, she at last grew
weary of the contest and sought forgettul-
ness and repose in the muddy waters of
the Seine
Year: 1874

But all these qualities that | have men
tloned-honesty, knowledge selt-control,
resolution, Perseverance-Will not max G
a man king of business. An individual,
let him be the greatest man that ever
lived, cannot accomplish much upless he
knows how to avail himself OF the services
ot others. In going over the letters and
dispatches OF Napoleon Bonaparte, de-
test him, but he had his good points Moth
ing struck me more than the pains he took
to distinguish and CRAFTY the men who
served him. In our complicated modern
lite, man may get together an enormous
mass of property and yet never become 4
king Of business, and it is not till man
has made his fortune that we can certainly
tell to which of these classes he belongs
Year: 1874

AgaIn: before man can be kNg ii
business, OF a king Of men, he must be
monarch Of himself A great part ot the
secret of being able to control others is
selt-controI | remember Robert Bonner
pointing out a person going to the office
of the Ledger, and saying | worked by
the side of that man for years setting type,
and very good workman he was Do
you want to know the reason why he Is
still iourneynan printer and an not p
| did want to know the reason "Well. ''
said he, the reason is this lie used to
buy five dollar pantaloons, and as soon as
they began to look shappy he cast them
aside. but bought coarse, strong, three
dollar ones, and wore them out That is
the reason"
Year: 1874

The wife Of Mr. T. H. Perkins of this
city died on the 10th OF this month of
consumption. W. J. McMasters editor
of the Lake City Leader publishes in a
late number of his paper the following
beautiful and deserved tribute to her
memory:


Nearly eight years ago, Mrs. Perkins
came to Lake City, the witely compan-
ion of our intimate friend and ( then J
business associate, where she spent the
first happy years Of her married life,
becoming we'll known to numerous ap-
preciative friends. She resided here
about three years removing with her
husband and child to Red Wing in
1869. For several years since her re-.
moval she has been an invalid. The
death Of her only chila--a bright and
happy boy-ovcr "a. year ago, seemed to
hasten her days into rapid decline,
from which there is no return this side
of the dark valley. Since then she has
been more than ever an object of anx-
ious and tender solicitude On the part
Of loving friends. During the past
winter she failed steadily; and on Sun
day last at the opening dawn, quietly
laid down her weary burden, and en-
tered upon the eternal Sabbath of rest


In the sweet fields of Eden


Where the Tree of Life is blooming.
1t is only those who knew Mrs. Per-
kins in the reserved circle of her fami-
ly and intimate friends and in the quiet
routine Of her home life who will en-
tirely appreciate her as the gentlest and
best of women and they can only real
ize in the depth Of sorrow that reigns
in the tender sensitive breast Of him
who remains to walk alone. The shad-
ows Of life's dark hours, which encom-
pass all at sometimes, have fallen on his
pathway, but it may be conso]ing to re-
member that


We see but dimly through the mists and


vapors:


Amid these earthly damps


what seems us but dim funereal tapers


May be Heavens distant lamps.


In the close and cordial relation with
our old and tried companion, we can
assure him of the most generous and
hearty sympathy Of his very many
friends, who will very earnestly hope
that He who has promised to remember
US In our sorrows and given the ample
assurance g I will not leave you CON-
fortless,'' will be very near in this day
of his trial.
Year: 1874

Box AND C0x.-A great many of
our citizens will be surprised to learn that
the comic operetta entitled g Box and Cox, -
was presented at Music Hall on Thursday
and Friday evenings last by home talent
at least the numbers Of the audience
seemed to indicate a most profound igno-
rance on the part Of the public of what was
being done for their amusement and en-
joyment. 1t is true, the weather was un-
favorable, but this is no excuse for not sup
porting and encouraging home talent.


AS an amateur performance the rendition
was most excellent. In the character of
Cox, Gen. Jennison succeeded most admir-
ably in piling on all the agony of high trae-
edy, and illustrated the modern style of
operate singing to a dot. Mr.. Raymond
made no attempt to be anything but natur-
al, and if he did not burlesque modern act.
ing he at least did not spoil the play by at
tempting something he could not accom-.
plish. His rendition Of the character of
Box was we'll received while his singing
was rapturously applauded. Mr.. sheldou's
conception Of the character of Bouncer was
by no means perfect. He failed to exhibit
the terrible anxiety under which the land
lord VINO was attempting to lodge two per-
sons in the same room must have suffered
IN the constant anticipation of discovery.
but II his acting scarcely met expectation
nus singing went beyond.it, and We do not
know who could have been substituted to
perform that part more acceptably upon
the whole .f


For our part We were delighted with the
entertainment throughout. Of course, NO
Year: 1874

The new railroad law which went into
etfect on the 2eth ult., has caused consider
able excitement among railroad men and
the people. How the thing will terminate
time will have to determine. On some Of
the routes passengers have rendered the
legal fare, to-wit: three cents per mile,
and on the conductors refusal to accent
they have rode free, the conductor inform
ing them that they were liable to prosecu-
ton for not complying with the demands Of
the railroads. There has been no violence
offered so far. The railroads are deter
mined not to yield; we say give them the
law; we hope the Governor will have
backbone enough to enforce it; we know
not whether he is greater than the influence
that will be brought to bear against him or
not; there seems to be more than Omnipo


tence in the strength Of money it moves
men into the consummation Of acts that no
code Of moral ethics will justify; even the
theological winnowings of the just from the
unjust. with its consignment of chaff into
the eternal shades of smoking Hades,
fails to make honesty above par and it goes
begging in the markets. So if an angry
God with the fearful threatening future, fail
Of itself to make men what they should be,
what will our poor Governors proclama-
tion do? We understand the Commission
ers have organized under the new law and
are going to proceed to vigorous measures
tor the State. We shall zee. G.,