smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1878

A legal point has been raised by citizen
who has gone into court to resist the pay
ment of his taxes in this city on the ground
that taxes cannot be constitutionally as
sessed by the city government as at present
organized. The point, as we understand it,
is that the laying of taxes is legislative
act, and that the Board Of Estimate and
Apportionment has no rightful legislative
authority. 1t has never been questioned
that the Board of Supervisors in county,
or the Board of Aldermen in city,
may constitutionally raise money by
taxation when empowered by the State
Legislature to do so. The State con-
stitution permits such authority to be
conferred upon boards Of aldermen and
boards of supervisors, and allows aldermen
to act as supervisors in cities whose bound
aries are conterminous with the county.
Whether the State Legislature can 90 fur
ther and authorize body which is neither
O board of supervisors nor board of alder
men to impose taxes is question which
may admit of debate. Should it be Judi
.cially decided in the negative the city Of New
York will be left in an anomalous and most
embarrassing condition.


BY universal consent for the last twenty
years or more the Common Council of New
York has been judged unfit to be trusted
with the power OF laying taxes. For long
period before the present charter was
adopted the city tax levy was annually
passed by the Legislature at Albany. This
method was no doubt constitutional, but it
was deviation from the usage pursued in
the other cities of the State. The other
cities were organized on the principle of
local self-government, with regular
executive, consisting of the Mayor, and q
regular municipal Legislature, consisting
of the Board of Aldermen. But although
the passing OF the New York tax levy at
Albany was an anomaly it was felt to be q
lesser evil than the trusting OF this impor-
tant power to such body of politicians as
are habitually elected as members of our
discredited Common Council. If the point
which has been raised in the courts is well
Year: 1878

When the aged French writer who
stands at the head Of the contem-
poraneous literature of his country
takes up the pen which gave so graphic
picture Of the battle of Waterloo to
write the story of Sedan all the world
leans forward to listen. True the story OF
that day when the Lower Empire fell in
blood and fire, is fresh with us; true also
that the old poet can add nothing to the
ample details of the busy writer's of the
time, but yet there is a certain magic in his
lines which invests all he has to say with o
weird interest. No writer Of our
day can approach him in chiaro-oscuro.
Around the act hang the motives and
the causes grouped with striking skill.
The shadow of the crime of December,
1851, hangs over the battle field OF Sep
te1nber, 1870 While describing the
iron environment the murderous on
slaught and the crushing defeat
with. wonderful power, he peers
through the battle smoke and descries
the Nemesis of the tyrant in the calm skies
above. Philosophy and history are painted.
as it were, with single stroke Of the brush.
Year: 1878

evident to practical men, who have conse-
auently sought to give their benevolence
a direction that might prevent abuses OF
reduce them to minimum. Ben Frank.
Inns fund for loaning money to poor me-
chanics, though it failed eventually for
want of administration touched the point
of practical benevolence in its purpose to
help those who were disposed to help them
selves, and that was apparently the pith Of
Mr.. Stewards purpose in the plan of this
Womans Home. 1t is grand piece OF
public benevolence, but not charity. II
is no place for drones. No one will
be fed or housed there at anothers
expense. Indeed, it is certain that the mass
of working women in the city do not earn
in week as much as is charged tor board
at this home, while of those who earn
enough to pay tor their board at this house
the larger number may have homes OF their
own, with parents dependent upon them.
It is not, therefore, n charity, nor, perhaps,
will it be for time very popular benevo.
lence. but it is an institution that will go
great way to show how the lives of working
women may be made happy aid pleasant,
and it's success with those women who can
participate in it's benefits will lead to the
establishment by other benevolent men OF
institutions of the same type at another
scale of expenditure.
Year: 1878

cisely what the people of Canada ought to
have expected. AS soon as the ten years
had expired Secretary Seward gave prompt
notice of the termination of the reciprocity
treaty, with the general acquiescence of'the
Northern States. From that time to this, n
period of twelve years, the Canadians have
been vainly striving to get new treaty.


Had their action in relation TO the fisheries
been moderate and just they would have
had no reason to despair of On early renewal
of the reciprocity treaty. An obvious at
tempt to drive us OF to overreach us was
not a promising entrance to negotiations.
The Canadians seemed to think that they
could utilize the fisheries question to extort
new reciprocity treaty. They set their
claims high, not in any expectation that
they would be allowed, but in the hope that
we would buy them off by reciprocity con-
cessions. They were brazen enough to esti-
mate the fisheries privilege to be worth
between fourteen and fifteen millions OF
dollars. The actual award Of five and n
half millions is extortionate, or, to use the
milder word of President Woolsey, who
maintains that it ought to be paid. 'inordi-
nate" We presume our government Will
pay it in spite of its injustice. But it
arouses feeling which is not favorable to
new reciprocity treaty. The Canadians
stultify themselves by clamoring for the
payment of this award. If their claim of
fourteen millions was honest why should
they be so anxious to get five millions? If
their estimate was correct they would be
great gamers by having the treaty fall
through even now. Why should they be so
anxious to be paid half million year If
the privilege is honestly worth million
and half per year?
Year: 1878

Our special despatch from Wheeling, w.
Va, published elsewhere this morning, re-
counts the hideous details of tragedy en-
lawless mob. A prisoner named John Wal
lace, accused of murder, was confined in q
room of temporary prison awaiting removal
to the Jail. The guards stationed for his
safe keeping and protection from violence
were attacked at night by an armed mob,
the prison doors forced and the prisoner
seized and bound in the most summary
manner. Realizing at glance what his
fate was to be Wallace made the most
piteous appeals for mercy, but the brutal
crowd laughed ut his cries and dragged
him headforemost down the stairway and
out Of the house. Here one would
suppose the innate barbarity of the howl
ing fiends who danced around their victim
in the darkness would have been satisfied
by the mans death on the nearest tree.
But no, they actually dragged the poor
shrieking wretch along the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad track on his back and as fast
as strong men could run. For quarter
Of mile this horrible scene was made,
if possible, still more dreadful by the
agonized screams of the dying Wallace,
whose bruised and bleeding body was torn
over stones and railroad ties as if it was
sack of chaf. 1t is to be hoped that the
man died soon after he ceased to cry and
moan. Anyhow, when his brutal execu-
TONERS hanged him on On apple tree q
mile from his late prison they found his
spine and neck broken. The barbarity
of this outrage demands that quick
and unhesitating vindication be made of
the majesty of the law, and that all the
perpetrators be brought to justice The
number engaged point to the probability
that the avengers of Wallace's crime were
actuated by the same motives that led him
to commit it, and that this numbering of the
murderer was the second bloody scene of o
family quarrel. If the authorities fail to
prove to these Littleton savages that State
law and not Lynch law is supreme in West
Virginia they will bring lasting dishonor
on their State
Year: 1878

The ALMOST AUToCRATIc power once possessed
by the bishops Of the Methodist Episcopal
Church would seem to be waning if the action
OF a congregation in Trenton, N. j., in claiming
right to have pastor of their own choosing,
can be taken as any criterion.
Year: 1878

TWICE within the past month the Prescott Enterprise has contained lengthy articles advocating the advan- tage of locating the coming railroad town at Gila Bend instead of Mari copa Wells. With the town at Mari copa the travel and freight for North ern Arizona would pass through Phe- nix, and add largely to our import ance. But with the town at Gila Bend this travel would follow a road thirty miles west of Phenix. The natural point for the railroad town is Mari copa, and in all probability will be built there, but the Enterprise, for any in consideration of the love and friendship it bears this town, would prefer to see the travel turned in an- other direction.
Year: 1878

The following table shows the cor rect count for delegate, so faras heard from. There are many precincts all over the territory yet to come in, which may change the result very much from the wsy it now appears:
Year: 1878

Never despair. 1t is brave motto,
and a brave mans armor. Bright.
beautiful Hope: the antidote of all the
evils which sprang from the fatal box
of Pandora. What a dTeary, dark


world this would be without its smile,
1t springs eternal III the heart, for it is


he immortal longing of the soul which
earth can never fill.


Man never is, but always to be blessed.
Strike out of the hearts and lives of
men this hope of future good and hap
piness, and it would be the death of
human effort and life, Hope; it is the
inspiring of every deed and effort of
the world since man came into it, and
will be so until the "crack of DOOM
| Is there life so hopeless and miSer-
able as not to be warmed by its smiIe7
Is there a calamity so great that hope
will not rise from its ashes? Is there
a crime SO dark and heinous that hope
will not tighten or color? Is there poy-
erty so bleak that hope Will not trans
form into affiuence and ease? Is there
a misfortune, sickness, poverty, or
death that the light OF hope does not
illume? As the rain bow, it spans the
heaven OF man with its eternal faith.
and gilds the world with its heaven
born JOY. Hope gilds all of earth, and
brightens even the portals of the tomb
Hope on. hope ever, and if the reality
never comes, the joy of hoping will
have cheered and lightened our lives,
and will find its fruitiOn in the heaven
from which it sprang.


This ever longing, hoping for the
future is the imprint of Immortality,
and the impulse of man. All nature
teaches the same lesson of EopefuIness
Winter thaWS into spring, and
spring glides into smiling, fruitful
summer, and the land is teeming with
the fatness of mans toll and natures
bounty. Let us, therefore, be hopeful,
and act, as well as fe9l so, and the cloud
hanging as pail about us will De rent
asunder, and the bright sky of prosper
ity viii again shine upon our path. We
must put our shoulders TO the wheel,


and if we do it manfully and hopefully


it will surely turn. Heaven helps those
WhO help themselves
Year: 1878

We should always bear in mind that
it is as bad policy to starve our soil as
it is our livestock; it is quite as much
as we can expect in the one case as in
the other for them to make Salaable pro-
duce out Of raw materials: but to ex-
pect them TO do so out of nothing, or
with insufficient materials, is almost
as absurd as it would be to expect a
bricklayer to make good progress with
his work, at the same time keeping him
short Of brick; get this is what many
farmers seem to be always trying to do.
We may depend upon it that the full
benefit to be derived from the soil, and
from our livestock also, can only be
realized when its productive power is
allowed full play by the plentiful and
judicious supply of food.
Year: 1878

The Maine Farmer says:-"One OF
our substantial subscribers, in a recent
conversation, gave his experience in
treating neat stock affected with the
habit Of eating wood, chewing bones,
&c. His cattle were one spring affect
ed in this way; they became thin IN
flesh, refused to eat hay, and presented
a sickly appearance. He put about
four bushels of leached ashes in his
barnyard and threw out to them about
a sh0velful each day. They all ate it
with evident relish. After turning
them out to pasture, he put one peck
of dry ashes per week on the ground
in the pasture. They ate it all up and
gnawed off the grass where it had been
lying. The cattle began 10 improve,
gaining flesh and loking better than
they had for several years. He now
gives one quart of ashes, mixed with
the same quantity of salt, to twelve
head of cattle, about once week, and
ends it to agree with them wonder
fully"
Year: 1878

1t was enough for him, says the Mu-
seal Review, as it was also for Rubin
and Ivanhoff, to walk on and OF and
about the stage, coming IN with his
parts at the proper cues and singing at
his best. But this did not suit Madame
Malibran. At the first rehearsal she
bore this imperturbability of manner
with some degree Of patience, thinking
tha5 she could rouse like enthusiasm by
her manner. But when, at the next
and the succeeding repetition, she
found him s'nO better than stick. "
she suddenly seized him by the arm
and hissed into his ear, GOOD heavens!
sir, don't you know you are my show
of passion in the first act; and in the
second you must pull me about the
stage as if you would tear me into lit
tie bits" But" replied Mr.. Temple
ton, as meekly as lamb, but, Mad
anne, | shall hurt you" And what if
you do?n screamed out the impetuous
woman. Never you mind; that is
my affair; and if you don't do it,
suiting the action to the words by
stamping her pretty little foot-"by
heaven, I'll kill you!' And Mr.. TEN
pleton so evidently thought she was in
earnest that he made an effort.
Year: 1878

ParadOxical as it may seem, those
who most enjoy life are often the least
careful of its preservation. The feeble,
sickly and unhappy cling to life with
the greatest tenacity. Those in robust
health have often a shorter lease of life
than those who are constantly com
planning OF i'll health. The explanation
consists in part in the fact that the
future is estimated by the past and
present. What is known imparts a
coloring to what is unknown. An in
diyidual whose mind is already filled
with JOY and satisfaction, arising from
pleasant surroundings and a good
digestion, has no solicitude or fear. On
the other hand a person long habit
uated to grief and pain does not easily
promise himself better things, nor is
he capable of vivid conceptions OF hap
piness. 70 feel an ardent wish for en-
joyment, some portion of it must be
already experienced.
Year: 1878

Almost everybody knows OF the flour
says an exchange, but not every one
understands what it is. Stripped OF
technicalities, this is perhaps about the
story OF its manufacture. The best
flour used to be made of Winter wheat.
Spring wheat yielded either much less
III quantity, or else so much Of the
bran got into the -four in its manUfac-
ture that its color was intolerably dark.
The wheat would be ground and then
bolted. In the refuSe-the bran and
mlddlings-would be included large
proportion of the weight of the Spring
wheat, and this would sell more partic-
ularly for feed for horses. Now the
best of -four, and the most expensive,
is made of this very refuse of the old
fashioned process. 1t all came out OF
the discovery Of way TO draw out the
bran. Under the new process the
wheat is ground about as before. The
first result is an ordinary -four sold for
expectation. Then the remainder is
taken and put upon great horizontal
sieVes, and while agitation is going on
there, an ingenious system of draft is
rushing up through, carries off the
bran. What is left is the glutinous
portion of the wheat, the most nutri


uous and most productive, and out OF
this, purified now by the drawing of
Of the bran, We get our new-prOcess


-four. The result of the discovery Of
| the process has been to make the poor
Spring wheat of Minnesota and upper
Wisconsin the most valuable kind o.
grain, and to make the fortunes of the
inventors of the method.
Year: 1878

To polish pearl, take finely pulyerized
rotten stone and make thick paste by
adding olive oil; then add sulphuric
acid, q sufficient quantity to make
thin paste. Apply on a velvet cork,
rub quickly, and, as soon as the pearl
take the polish, wash 1t.
Year: 1878

National Associated Press to the Star


HARTFORD, Conn, May 27.-The funeral
of the three tiremen-Camp, Parker and
Harper-killed at the fire here on Friday
morning last, took place here yesterday, and
it was the most imposing demonstration
OF the kind ever witnessed in this city The
entire Fire Department, the Odd-fellows,
the various local, military and civic organ
izations and hundreds of Hartfords most
prominent citizens including the Governor
of the State, followed the remains of the
brave firemen to their graves The services
at the church and burial ground were most
solemn and impressive.
Year: 1878

A rather stubborn fire broke out at hall
past 10 o'clock this morning in an old frazae
building on Lodge alley, just above sixsh
street, A good deal of excitement was man
ifested by the many colored people w3e
live in that locality, but the engines were
promptly on hand and soon deluged tho
premises with water. The loss was confined
to the one building where the fire Orig
mated and which is completely wrecked.
Year: 1878

III


Second judicial District Of the State of Nevada, in
and for the County Of OrmsbyLester Haskell plaintiff
Sarah NJ. Haskell defendant. Action brought in the
District Court Of the Second Judicial District of the
Of Nevada in and for the County Ormsby and the
plant flied in said County Of 0rmsby in the office Of the
Clerk of said District Court The State Nevada sends
greeting to Sarah NJ Haskell defendant You hereby
required appear action brought against by the
above named plaintiff in the District Court of the Second
judicial District Of the State OF Nevada in and for the
County Of ormsby, ard to answer the complaint filed
therein "a copy of winch accompanies this summons)
within days exclusive Of the day of service after the
service you of this summOnSm served within this
county served ont OF this county but in this District
within twenty days, otherwise within forty daysor judy
ment by default will be taken against The said action
brought dissolve the bonds Of marmOny existing be-
you and said plaintiff, the ground of adultery
an alleged against YOU BY said plaintiff, all of which is
more fully and specifically set forth in the plaintiffs
plant, now file in my office And you are hereby
notified that if you fail to appear and answer the said
plant above required the said plaintiff will apply to the
Court for the relief demanded in his said complaint


49,. Given under hand, and the Seal Of the Dis
~ trct Court OF the Second judicial District of the
( State Of Nevada in and for the County of 0rmsby,
'rH this 18th day OF November in the year Of our
Lord, Thousand eight hundred and eventy-eght.


ALFRED HELM, Clerk.
PEEsNoR CorFN Attogrc7 Co. l:i'..if.
Year: 1878

MantuA, April l9.-on Thursday tragedy most
horrible and sickening In Ia detailB was enRcted
In Troy, Geauga county, some thiIty.hve miles
from Cleveland and seven miles from Mantua
on the Atlantic q Great Western Railroad. A
man by the name Of Leonard Stroud came from
the east TO Troy some time ago. and settled here
on some land which he purchased. He was liv.
ing with his third wife, and in q short time had
the reputation Of being one Of the worst ChaIac
terB in this section. Last winter separation was
agreed upon between himself and his wife, and
after renting one.half Of bis land to a neighbor,
and leaving his wife in possession Of the other
half he went 10 Cleveland and took up Ills resi-
dence with a married daughter living there,
Thursday morning he announced his intention
ofgoing To Troy for day or two in order to settle
some business Of an unimportant nature, and &C.
cordingly departed On reaching Troy he re-
paired to the office Of Justice Of the Peace,
where some suits Of minor importance were en-.
tered against him. Here he met q son Of bis wife
by her first marriage and after settling his bust
ness at the office he started for the residence Of
his wife, In buggy, the son following on foot.
Arriving at the gate he called to his wife and re-
quested her TO get him something 10 eat. He re-
fused to enter and remained standing at the gate
while his wife proceeded to comply with his re.
quest. On returning to where he stood, she was
in the act Of handing him some articles Of food
when he suddenly drew a large size butcher
knife and stabbed her three times In quick sue
cession, the first blow taking effect In the hand
and the latter two in the abdomen, making "a
tai wound. She fell to the ground, when he i'm.
mediately cut deep cash in his own throat sew
ering the Windpipe and causing him TO fall to the
ground In half conscious condition. He re-
vived in moment and taking pocket knife
from his pocket stabbed himself again, from the
effects Of which he died In a short time. The
neighborhood was soon aroused and the woman
was taken to the house and everything possible
done to save her life. She was alive at last &C.
counts this morning. although II is thought she
cannot possibly recover. Strouds body was taken
to the town hall and the coroner sent for. Stroud
was man between so and 60 years of age of a
quarrelsome disposition and generally disliked In
the neighborhood where he lived. All the facts
connected with the dreadful affair 60 to show
that the deed was premeditated, and 1t is as de.
liberate piece Of bloody work as has ever been
committed in this section. Qhe excitementin the
immediate neighborhood Of Troy has reached
the highest pitch.
Year: 1878

New York, April 1S.-John Strickland, Bar


NUNS chief hostler, had an exciting and swift
ride to death this morning. He was exercising a
splendid six.horse team, driving behind them a
heavy baggage wagon. As he was going along
Forty. second street, passing under the elevated
railway on Ninth avenue, a train frightened the
horses and they dashed away, Strickland dis.
played great courage, guiding, though he could
not control the fiery team. Across Eighth, Sew.
enth, Sixth, Fifth and Madison avenue, with
their horse car and stage lines and crowds Of
wagons, he shot in safety. It was an exciting
scene. All who witnessed it expected that even
If Sixth Fifth and Madison avenues were crossed
without collision with one Of the horse cars or
omnibuses, surely an accident would occur as
soon as the wagon reached the eastern side Of
Fourth avenue, where, at the terminus Of three
horse railway lines, the cars form an almost
permanent baTricade of Forty second street. The
head wheels caught in frog on a Fourth avenue
railroad track and broke the axle, Strickland
still retaining his seat, but in passing the Grand
Central Depot, the forward axle was broken, and
he was thrown on the ground, his head striking
the rails dashing out his brains. Strickland was
held in high regard by Barnum ss he was al.
ways sober and reliable, and perfectly competent
for the position he filed. He was for many years
boss hoster for Lent and for the three years pre-
vious to the present month was in the service of
Queen. He leaves widow, for whom 1t is Bar
NUNS intention to make adequate provision.