smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1874

family this winter on account of shoes
would draw tears from a stone. Retrench-
ment means wearing domestic boots al
eight dollars; and when it comes to feet
that have been used to imported French
boots ct twenty dollars, the cup of mis-
cry is full. Take it altogether, | dom t
think the poor have got so much to com.
plain Of. They can't know what it is to
retrench. How can they if they haven t
anything to retrench on? There's Mary
Parker came here the other day and want.
ed me, for the love of mercy, to help her
pay the rent. Mary's our own laundress.
She worked in the family when / was a
baby, but she foolishly got married year
ago. Says /, Why, poor woman, it's
perfectly ridiculous; you talk as if we
hadn't our cross to bear as other peo-
pie. You must retrench. That's what
we do. Pa has stopped the rent of his
pew In DR.. Duster church, and had the
gas meter taken out of the carriage
house, and makes the girls in the kitchen
use kerosene, and cut off the bouquet
woman, and stopped the ice. Yes, in
deed, we have to suffer as we'll as you
do; but we don't run about making a
fuss over it. AS pa says, the thing to
do is to stand up to it and retrench.
Why, my dear woman" says i, getting
quite warn, there's plenty of money
in the country. 1t is not want of money;
it is want of confidence that makes the
hard times. That seemed to stagger
her We've got to restore confidence
before we can do anything else.


Then she went on to say that she was
about sick and hadn't got coal to keep
her warm. " Well, says |, that's pre-
cisely the way with us. I've been
brought up to have a CRATE fire in my
sleeping-room, day and night, but pa
says this winter that the register gives
heat enough"


But ! couldn't make that woman un-
derstand that anybody suffered but her
self They are all alike-these people
If you live in brown stone house, and
keep your horses and eight servants, no
power on earth will convince them that
you suffer from the hard times worse
than they do. I'd like to see Mary Par.
ker wear those shoes that Boncateh
sent me yesterday. Then the humila-
ton of it. That's the worst of it, Poor
pa, he has taken to using plain
black cane, because, as he says, a
gold-headed stick isn't the thing in
time of general suffering. Nobody but
the poor dear man will ever know what
that eacriice cost him. But it's the
same thing all through the house. Ma
she took off her plain gold spectacles,
and insisted on wearing a plain black
pair whenever she drove out in the park,
and Charles consented to give up his
cigar after dinner, and bought $40
meerschaum and pound Of tobacco.
Every time l go into the billiard-room
and see that splendid fellow smoking
his pipe with contrite spirit / say to
myself or to Celeste, "Ahl poor boy,
what he mus. suffer!" Celeste usually
remarks, "Ah, yes but it isn't circum-
stance to what he makes other people
suffer" Celeste does not like tobacco.
As for me, don't stop to think of the
tobacco at all; it's the moral heroism
that attracts my attention.
Year: 1874

At the opening OF the Oyer and Terminer yester-
day morning Judge Barrett informed Mr.. clinton,
the counsel for Coroner Croker, that no WAS not
prepared to give mis- decision on the motion TO
admit the accused TO bail. but would try to have
It ready for Wednesday morning.


Mr. Clinton-we now ask that You peremptortiy
set down the case for tomorrow morning. Under
the circumstances we think we are entitled to an
Immediate trial The District Attorney ought TO
be ready, the witnesses have all testified before
the Coroner and the transaction Ia recent one.


Assistant District Attorney Rollins remarked
that this was o very unusual application. He
never knew OF Court exercising Its powers OF
compelling the District Attorney to try case
next day. There was nothing In the case TO call
Tor such extraordinary haste. There was no such
extreme urgency, ana the District Attorney would
probably be ready next week.


Alter some further discussion. at the earnest re-
quest OF counsel the Court set the case down or
Tuesday OF next week. Coroner Croker was not in
court during shis discussion.
Year: 1874

The colored woman, Mrs. sutton, who was In
jured severely oy the boiler explosion at Jersey
City on saturday, Is likely TO recover. The entire
blame for the explosion rests upon the engineer,
who hung two pair Of tongs on the lever
OF the safety valve each weighing from six to
eight pounds The safety valve attached to the
boiler was smaller than that usually attached to
vessels OF the same dimensions, but Mr. Wildwood
had so arranged II that II would blow of when the
pressure reached alty pounds. The placing OF
the tonRs on the lever raised the pressure to
nearly seventy pounds and the explosion was the
result The boiler has not yet been raised out Of
the swamp where 1t 1ell.
Year: 1874

TUGNgLIEG NIAGARA RIVER Comprs6sn-
sire Statement of the Plan and the CoSt-The fact
has heretofore been stated that Civil Engineer
William Wallace had prepared a plan for tun-
neliDg the Niagara River at Buffalo for subnis-
sion TO and Consideration by those engaged in
the movement for providing additional facilities
for travel and business between this point and
Canada. A few facts in regard to the proposed
plan Will be or interest. IL c0ntemplates pas
senger depot on the Terrace, near NJ sin street,
with a railroad track running through the Ter
race 10 Court street, down Court street to its
foot, across the canal thence down between the
canal and the track OF the Niagara Falls branch
OF the Central Railroad to a point short dis
taDce south OF the railroad bridge over the ca
nal, where the cutting will commence. The
tunnel is TO run under Black Rock Harbor and
the river and emerge on tie Canada side near
where the old car shop formerly stood. After
the surface is again reached the track will be
continued around the high ground and Join that
OF the Canada Southern Railway he ar the Fpis-
CORAL church. The whole length Of the cutting.
including the tunnel, is 800 feet, and of the
tunnel proper 2,9i0 teet. The proposed dtmen-
sions Of the tunnel are 80 feet wide and 20 feet
high. This would give - ,627 cubic yards of ex-
cayatlon per lineal foot, 65 SO cubic var IN
all In the thoroU gh cut On this side OF the river
there would be 126 % cubic yards of rock and
earth excavstion-how much of each cannot he
determined without test pits. On the Canadian
side the rock and earth excavation would
amount 70 lis, 81 cubic yards. The roof Of the
tunnel would be some sixteen feet below the bed
of the river at the deepest point. The grade
from the center is put down at sixty feet TO the
mile. The estimated expense OF the work cam
plete is 81 $40 ,0O0.-Bu9idlo Commercial.
Year: 1874

IscoRREcT.-The rumor current in the
city on Saturday that business on the Ghcsa.
peake and Ohio railroad bad been suspended
on account OF a slide on its western division
was incorrect.


On Saturday evening the superintendent
reported the road clear and 10 working
order, and that one hundred aud fifty car
loads of freight would arrive on Sunday
night,
Year: 1874

EALE FOR FAMILY UsE-ESGLIsu ALE, CREAM
ALE, AND PoRTER.-To supply demand from his
many countrymen here, HENRY BOWLER has now
an ale that he hatters himself win fairly compete
with their home beverage both in flavor and quality.
and with his uniyersally-approved cream alen and
porter will enable him to please the pa,ates of all.
Orders to Spring Park Brewery promptly alIed.
Year: 1874

A BEAUTIFUL PRosPEcT.-Seemingly
the great point Of attraction for after-din.
ner observations yesterday and in fact the
chief popular resort throughout the day
was found in the upper terraces and sum-
NIT of that all-commanding pile of ma
sonry yclept the Palace Hotel. The outer
walls OF the edifice and large portion Of
the interior masonry and flooring are now
completed to the Top Of the sixth story,
affording a safe and spacious area from
which to enjoy the surrounding prospect,
something less than the summit of Monte
Diablo. The top of the structure is ac-
cessible by two winding stairways more
easy than the ascent of Bunker Hill Mon
ument and the view obtained, aside from
the inspection of this enormous enterprise
well repays the labor of ascent. From
the sixth and seventh stories of the Palace
a greater portion Of the city is within
range Of vision, the surrounding buildings
sinking into comparatively insignificant
proportions. The effect Of the view from
this lofty position is peedliSr, distances
seeming TO contract, and ASIAN instance
the new Mint, a good half mile away, is
apparently brought within stones throw.
The upper stories command a clear stretch
to Lone Mountain, all the Mission section
of the city, Mission Bay, the Potrero,
South San Francisco, far down into San
Mateo county, and the full extent of the
bay to the south. To the eastward a large
expanse of Alameda and Contra Costa
c1u4tios, to the mountains, is within the
range, and northward, San Pablo Bay
and the mountains Of Marin county,
When the hotel is completed the prospect
from the observatory will become one of
the chief attractions Of tbe city and no
doubt the company will perceive The pro-
pricty Of lending enchantment to The view
by providing a good telescope for the en-
joyment of guests. Another story re-
mains to be added, and the rext fortnight
will probably see the exterior walls of the
Palace to their full elevation, and the
company expects to have the structure
rooted by the 18th or Goth of the coming
month. Owing to the enormous dimen-
sions Of the edifice, and the admirable
proportions Of the plan, the great hight is
not readily appreciable from the street,
but ascending the pile at its present stage,
the effect is very grand and impressive
s. r. CdH, l6ih,
Year: 1874

The management have determined to
have the drawing Of the Fifth and Last
Gift Concert Of the Public Library of
Kentucky, on the 3Oth day of November
next. We believe now that all the tick
cts will be sold and that the drawing will
be full one, but whether all are sold or
not the drawing will nevertheless certain
ly come off on the day appointed.


The special object Of this card is to call
a meeting Of the ticket-holders at Public
Library Hall, on the Goth of November,
to make arrangements in connection with
the Committee appointed by the Trustees
to suporiatend the counting Of the tags
representing the numbers of tickets sold.
While there is no actual necessity for the
presence Of ticket-holdersS as Under our
arrangements the interests of all are
equally cared for, yet at the same time |
would greatly prefer that as many Of
those interested as can, would attend this
meeting and see each for himself how
perfectly fair and impartial the distrbu-
tion must be.


Every arrangement has been made for
the drawing, but little more than month
remains for the sale OF the remainder of
the tickets, and whatever is done must be
done promptly.


THos. f. BRAMLETTE,


Agent and Manager.


Louisville, KY, Oct. %, 1874.
Year: 1874

"IT's JUST LIKE A MAN. We paid
a visit last night to the house of n we'll
known citizen Of Virginia. 1t was some
thing unusual, Of course, but then we did
so. This gentleman has a couple Of
handsome daughters, and while we were
paying our respects to them we obtained
permission to light cigar. One Of the
ladies volunteered to light it for us, and
placing the right end between her ruby
lips (for wonder she did put the right
end in her MOUTH, she successfully per-
formed the operation. Well, she was so
elated that she Immediately rushed over
to her sister and kissed her vohemently.
What sweetness was then wasted upon
the desert air The sister Immediately
cried out, ooh, Carrie, do it again, quick
it tastes just like man ~ And Carrie
did do it again and quickly, too. Now
what puzzles US was, that we thought it
very strange that the eldst daughter of
citizen, supposed to be the head of well
regulated family, should know anything
about such matters. We did not say a
word, but we thought heap.-Gold LLiU
NcWS.
Year: 1874

A SAD incident is related in connec-
ton with the Fall River disaster. A
bereaved mother, whose three daughters
were killed, still believes them to be liv-
ing. Every day when the factory bells
are ringing for dinner, the woman who
saw her three daughters borne away to
be buried that Sunday, takes a tin pail,
as she used to do, and starts for Granite
Mill No. l. Sometimes her neighbors
divert her attention by telling her that it
isn't bell time, but other days she walks
to the place where the mill stood, sees
nothing that she can recognize, turns back
in 9azed way and goes to her deserted
home.
Year: 1874

The San Francisco Bulletin has reduced
It's price from three bits a week to two
bits, it being the last of the daily papers
to make a reduction. The Sacramento
Union was the first paper to come down
in price, and the causes which forced it to
do so are thus set forth in the Bee of that
city:


Before and during the war, and for
some time after the war, the Union, Bull
eha and Alta had a monopoly Of the
overland news; the San Francisco papers
were at Sacramento and north and east
thereof day behind the Union, because
there was no railroad between the capital
and metropolis. A day with a newspaper
or even an hour ahead of its cotempora-
ries, is fortune, hence the Union had
no competitor north or east Of this point.
One day the railroad dropped down to
San Franciscisco and thereafter the trains
brought the San Francisco journals with
them to be distributed all over the coun-
ly al luc SAINT tlilic WIN tlit CNtDH.
There was the CaU at bits week (Which
had secured the news and the Bulletin,
(which made a morning issue at three
bits having the same telegraphc news,
competing with the Union at four bits,
and they were grinding it to powder be-
tween the upper and neither millstones,
hence the Union had to reduce its rates
lpr be driven out of its own field. Other
Ahings being equal-time, cost, quality
3bnd quantity public will take met
roplitan in preference to a provincial
journal, as all provincial journals Of note
have long since discovered. 1t was the
Central Pacific Railroad, then, that caused
the reduction in the rate of newspaper
subscription in California, just as it has
caused a reduction in the price of many
other things, by bringing the people near
to one another, while at the same time it
has been the means Of raising the price of
real estate everywhere, and largely in
creasing the demand for labor and capital
in addition to which it has been the means
of breaking up the overland telegraphic
news monopoly, which the dailies hereto
fore named have so long enjoyed to their
own great financial benefit"
Year: 1874

IT seems to be the opinion of well in
formed Eastern and European journals
that We are on the eve Of an over-produc-
tion of wheat. Russia, by means Of rail
roods, is opening up a wheat country as
large as that Of the United States and
from which this staple can be placed in
the great markets Of the world at less cost
than from any part Of America. Atten-
ton cannot be directed to irrigation and
a more varied agriculture in the wheat
producing valleys Of this State too soon.
Year: 1874

Fox HUNTING BY RAIL.-Fox hunters
must take the modern world into consid-
Grafton. Recently the dogs lost a fox
near the station of Ferte Saint Auoin, in
France, and though they beat up tho
neighborhood for two hours, could get no
trace. 1t was thought very strange that
an old dog was missing also. Next day
it was ascertained that the fox had leaped
into the baggage ear of a train just going
out, and the dog had followed and killed
him,
Year: 1874

BUDD DoBLE says Occident is the only
square trotter among all the great step
pers of America. All the rest have a
hitch, skip or wabble, or run-behind
while trotting forward Goldsmith Maid
does this or cheat in some way to save
themselves ; but Occdent's stroke is as
regular as the motion of the walking
beam of an engine, and his limbs when
in play make one think or whole troupe
of ballet girls.
Year: 1874

SEEING that there has been an election
we have been waiting to hear something
about the great Independent party Of
Governor Booth and Sam Seabough. As
yet, no tidings Of it have come to hand.
What can be the matter? ? 1t must have
gone off fishing somewhere and forgot
about the election.-S. H. Post.
Year: 1874

THE Government has concluded ar
rangements with the Pawnee Indians for
their removal from their reservation in
Nebraska to one to be selected for them
in the Indian Territory. They have been
given permission 10 engage in buffalo
hunt in the Indian Territory with their
relatives, the Washitas, after which they
promise they will forever abandon the
chase and apply themselves to farming
and civilized pursuits.
Year: 1874

THE New York Express says il seems
somewhat of pity that the Icelandic
people, who are said to be enterprising
and highly civilized, and are used to cold
weather, do not undertake the job of in
vostgating the north pole and its sur
roundings.
Year: 1874

FouSD.-Wm. Porter, the young man whose dis
appearance We noticed yesterday, was found. by
some friends last evening. in the Delaware. aeating
with the tide in his boat. lie had gone out In an
old concern but little better than scow ith moth


ing but paddle. which broke, and left him at tie
mercy of the tide He was glad enough tq get back.
Year: 1874

A FALLEN M4N-There Is something very
sad about witnessing the downfall of a man.
brought about by the indulgence in crime,
who had previously sustained good charac-
ter in the community. We have prominent
example of such misfortune in the case of
Phelps. the defaulting clerk in the New York
Sts:e Treasury Department. After fair
trial. in which the sympathies of the Court
and jury were supposed to be in his favor, he
was convicted and sentenced to term of fif
teen years Imprisonment. In society lie held
high position, surrounded by relations and
friends, whose companionship was source
of pride. and calculated to make life pleasant
and desirable. Forgetting the claims OF these
and the higher considerations Of morality ne
yielded to the temptation of becoming dis,
honest, thus involving himself in trouble and
bringing reproach Upon those to whom he
was most endeared. Such instances should
serve as warning to the young men of the
land, who in being bonored with the high
public or private trust, ought to feel that
they have reputation at stake, which no
hope OF. gain will induce them to su'ly or for
felt. When this lesson is taught in the home.
circle, and cherished as valuable precept,
greater faith will be inspired in human in
tegrity aud fewer regulations become bank
rupt
Year: 1874

How TO GET INTO BUSINESS "A watch


maker st Florence, Alabama, once told Us
how he managed to get into business there


lie settle in the place stranger. just after
the people hal started new town clock in
the tower of the courthouse, but nobody
came to give him job. Il week or two passed
on without improving bis prospects, when III
kind If desperation be determined to make
Il bold stroke for business Everybody sWOrc
by the town clock, of course, q fact which
the matchmaker knew; 50 after dark he male
his way into the .owcr and changed the hands


fey minutes: .aa MeayS "a 9uaasea RShp s S t5ba 5
the next ngh. On the morning after the
second change had been made a man called
on the matchmaker and spoke OF employing
him to regulate the town clock; but the watch


maker told him he thought no regulation was
necessary. as he noticed that the clock was
running exactly with his time, and drawing
forth his watch, he compared it with the
clio l.. and, sure enoug gh, they were exactly
together. Next morning the town clock and
the watches of the place were further apart
than usual, and the gentleman who had called
at the shop the day before now again pre-


scntel himself, accompanied by several
friends. To their great surprise they found
the wa1chma aker's regulator and watch still
exactly with the CLOCK. aud that settled the
question. They all left their watches to be
cleaned, rem .rkiny that they would rather
have no watches at all than watches thar did
not keep lime. The news spread; other irregu.
lar watches came in by the score; until be-
fore the day was over, the matchmaker had
lis windows hung entirely full Of work.
Year: 1874

Frank ID. Curtis, in his address before the


New York State Agricultural Society, said
several good things in regard TO farmers
homes, but none more to the point than tho


following in regard to the location and sur
roundings Of the dwellings: "A house OH
hill with no trees around it looks cheerless
and unhomelike. Have grounds around the
dwelling. Tear awAv the fences they cost
money and arc useless mean fences shut
ting the house up as if there Was danger OF
its running away. Let there he not less than
An acre of door-yard; ten will be better
Make rich lawn of this aud Gu; the grass.


II can be no waste. but it will he thing OF
btv1ty, and a thing of beauty is joy for
ever There need not he any loss to DC taste.
fu!; nature and beauty are syn ynous; good
taste and economy can therefore he made
handmaids TO each other Set your fruit
trees in this enclosure and dig around them
with spade each year. aud top dress the
whole, and they will grow finely. and the
grass will grow luxuriantly. and the house
will grow beautiful, the children will grow
contented, TIE fathers and mothers as they
grow old will grow happy, the neghbors
will grow to emulate and to excel, the towns
ship will grow attractive, and the young
women will grow up to feel that there is nO
place after all l,k, Home, Sweet Home"
Year: 1874

TELLING THE Truth Mr. Worce ;ter, who
made the dictionary. evidently had a very dif-'
fcrent idea of truth from that which is hell
by most people. One Of his definitions is
''exactness," accuracy" Now there are
many persons|k no think they are telling tho
nth when they are very far from being ex.
sct How few are there among our friend,
whose statements 90 not require to be received
through some filter. Perhaps they sec with
distorted vision; what they hear lies in their
mind and unconsciously receives its impress,
or quite a. uncOnsciously they trim tLe,r con
versatiOn 10 suit the hearer In business, in
society, in the family, we are continually
meeting with this greet evil Is there any-
thing 10 be done about it, Certainly, in tho
home there may be an education IN the right
way; and each for himself may cultivate
purity Of heart and sincerity of speech.
Year: 1874

INTERESTING STATEMENT BY Mr..
WEED.-In the course of Mr.. Oh oat 5
speech of welcome to Mr.. Forster,
at the Union League reception, be
read the following extract from let
ter from Thurlow Weed:


And while you are recognizing with
appropriate honors the claim of an en-
inent British statesman to our own re
gard, [ am sure that you will cheer
fully, gratefully, and with a deep and
profound sense of the obligation, re-
member the action of the Queen, on a
question of momentous Importance
When Lord Palmerston went to Wind
sor with dispatch demanding from
our Government the surrender Of Ma
son Slidell, for the Queens approval


Her Majesty, absorbed by solicitude
for the health of Prince Albert, had
beard little or nothing of the Trent af-
fair, and was startled and shocked at
the idea of war with America Not
liking the preemptory language and
defiant spirit of the dispatch, the Queen
took it to the apartment Of the Prince
Consort, who used his pen for the last
time in modifying and softening the
tone of that dispatch. When. on my
return from England I informed Pres
ident Lincoln and Mr.. Seward of this
incident, the Secretary remarked that
this had rendered it easier for our
Government to discharge its part Of a
difficult and ungraclous duty"