smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1879

wILMINGTON's DANGER FROM SLOW


-P0Is0NING-THEB BRANDYwINE CON
= VERTEDINTo A DIE VAT YESTERDAY


AFTERNOON.


The Brandywine water yesterday was
10 filed with dye stuff from the mills up
the creek that hepumps were compelled
to be stopped. The offensive matter
came from both mills and emptied itself
In the creek below the bridge. MIN
The waters surface from above the
bridge TO the coal wharf below, was cov-
cred with o black iBky. substance, so
thick and heavy that the water in the
creek was hidden from view. This black
matter came out from the race on the
south side leading from Banc offs.


From the outlet Of the road near Lea's
mills, coming from st. Augustine mills
there issued steady stream Ofmilk white
dye which forced itsclfthrOugh the black
matter to the o her side where il laid or
the surface in great spots.


The two dy were so pure and so fill
ed with their respective composite virtues
that for them TO blend was entirely Out
of the question. The creek remained in
this condition during the whole after
noon, and the offensive sight was wit
messed by great many.


The white dye issues from the race OF
the. north side Of the creek at intervals
but the black iuky substance comes dow
the creek about once q week.


This repetition Of a nuisance so mncl
complained Of, and for the abatement o
which law suit is now pending in thu
court, is the subject ofmuch untavOrablt
comment.
4. As there will be joint meeting OF thu
committee of City Council and the Com
mittee on Impurities OF the Board Q
Health with the Messrs. Bancroft thi
evening to take definite action on thi
repetition will no doubt be the cause o
more complaint and will doubtless rem
der the intricacies of the matter more in
extricable and remove beyond all posi-
bihty, an amicable understanding be
tween The city and the, defendants.
Year: 1879

The steamer "John Sylvester" has
Withdrawn suddenly from the Lewes
route. ostensibly it is said because the
J. & B. Railroad Company charged her
so much for landins her passengers at
the pier. The general opinion is that
she has been bought of. She carried
too many passengers and carried them
at too low rates. The experiment is
sufficient, however, to demonstrate the
tact that an opposition to the Delaware
railroad can be run on the bay and
river and made to pay large dividends.
Two good boats with a few landing
piers along the Delaware shore would
equip a line that from Auril toJanuary
Of every year can 90 loaded with both
passengers and freight at paying rates.
Two hundred thousand dollars put in
such an enterprise would pay twenty
per cent. per annum profit, besides of
being immense service to the public.
We hope to see suclI line established,
and whenever it is it will prove a mine
of wealth to any well organized COM
pany. The success of the "Sylvest-r"
this problem.-"Peninsu
lar NeWs,n
Year: 1879

John Hops, who was tried and con.
victsd in the Court of General Sessions
of the robbery Of the Manhattan Bank,
Nav York was yesterday brought be.
fore Judge Canning for sentence, new
trial. or arrest of Judgment in the case
having been refused. Hope was con-
victed of robbery in the first degree,
and the sentence of the Court was that
he be confined in the State Prison for a
period of twenty yesrs.
Year: 1879

Congress passed law, based upon the
idea or principle, that its members should


have certain amount appropriated for "sta-
"tionery," aud that law now exists. The
provisions of the law are such that if mem


bers prefer the money they draw that, and


the Government furnishes no stationery"
to them. Under this law stationery store


is kept by each House of Congress, which is
stocked with stationery" purchased by the
proper officer, and which is furnished to
Senators and members at given rates of
value. Accounts are kept with them, and
when the amount of Sl25 per session is cx-
hausted then the accounts are closed. If
overdrawn, then the excess becomes lien


upon their salaries If not drawn in sta
"tionery,n then the balance of their quota
is paid 10 them in money. This is the case
and to the average American mind it
opens the door TO the very natural
query: If Senators and members have
need of stationery and there can be no
doubt of that-then why do they not take
the stationery" and use it, if needs be- to
the amount Of the appropriation And if
| they have no need of it, why is the money
appropriated under that head and why do
they put the money in their pockets under
the pretense that it Is stationery when il
is not? Why are Bibles, hymn-bools,
cards, ra2ors, opera-glasses, cutlery, and the
| like obtained under the head of stationery p
when the law contemplated no such use OF
the money or it would have so expressed it
We entertain the old-iashoned opinion that
the example thus publicly set by law maxi
ers is not healthy for the moral sentiment of
the country. 1t isa petty depreciation upon
the public purse, to pass law under plea
of necessity for stationery for the public
use and have any portion of the sum named
for that purpose diverted to other uses The
sum, we admit, is trivial, but the example
is high and of great magnitude in the public
eye, is to be deplored, and hence should
be discontinued Those members who
have use for opera-glasses, magic pencils,
Bibles, hymn-books, cards, or any other
articles of devotional or practicaluse in lilC
outside of stationery can much better af-
ford to purchase them and pay for them
from their own pockets than to obtain them
under thepretext that they are Stationery"
for they are not; and the exposure of the
Year: 1879

SENATOR MCCREERY preached his own
official funeral discourse yesterday in the
Senate ostcnsibly over the question of trans
ferring the management of the Indians from
the Interior to the War Department.. 1t
was his last great effort" in that body, in
all human probability, and like the swan,
he sings and dies officially. The effort was
eloquent, witty, and brilliant. He made
strong points against the religious treatment
of the Indians, showing from his assumed
premises that under the adopted Christian
effort in behalf of their management, dis
honesty and wrong had increased in fearful
proportions within the last year aud half.
If this be as he alleges, it only shows that
even among the savages there are men to be
found who steal the livery of the court of
Heaven to serve the devil in." This, how
ever, should not be scored to the account of
religion, but rather to the want of il
on the part OF pious pretenders. True
religious principles never have and
never will do wrong to any man,
much less to the "untutored savage" There
seems, however, TO be an impression on Sem
ator MCCREERY's mind that the religious
element that has been injected into the In
dian policy has neither advanced the poor
Indian in civilization nor in Christiani2a-
ton, but, on the contrary, has subjected
him to increased wrong, which has brought
fresh wars upon the Government to be man
aged and accounted for. The argument Of
the Senator is that there is no chance of
making matters worse by change of the
Indian policy in any direction. Perhaps
not. Most certainly the present policy does
not light up very favorably as the most
honest, benevolent, or economical that can
be imagined, 1t seems to be policy of ex-
termination more than Of civilization. The
agents of the Government will never civil
ize or Christianize the Indians by delraud-
ing them of their annuities and despoiling
them of their reserved possessions under
violated treaties.
Year: 1879

lF Congress (either House, wishes to earn
thegood opinion Of thestock-raisersa and deal
ers of the country it will investigate all the
facts bearing upon the stories regarding the
prevalence Of pleuro-pneumonia among
American cattle. 1t is shrewdly suspected
that these stories have been exaggerated iol
u selfish purpose. The exact place where
such selfish purpose could exist will in
stantly suggest itself to any one who will
take the trouble to examine certain appli'
cations for an appropriation germane to thi:
question,
Year: 1879

Of his prosecutors. The defeat of Judge
LEES nomination would prove q heavy blow
TO South Carolina Republicans, who would
be especially grieved to know that any Re-
publican Senatorvoted against this confirm.
alton, especially in view Of the fact that he
is just now the victim of fresh or renewed
persecution.
Year: 1879

WHAT has become of JOHNNIE CoYLE?
He was exceedingly anxious not long ago TO
be examined by the POTTER Committee, his
motive being to seek vindication. 1t is
understood that he has not lost his cipher
key. If he has it is very strange, for he is
not OF the kind to lose anything worth
keeping.
Year: 1879

If the Democratic party think they can
afford an extra session of Congress to please
the Office seekers, they have only to try it
on and see how it works. The people are
tired of such nonsense and expense.
Year: 1879

An English horticulturist on visit of
inspection into the French methods of
gardening, tells us that nearly every head
of asparagus is grown to the regulation
size, and isa circumference of 2ls to )
inches. The French growers also take
care of the vegetable after it is cut; do
not, as with u.s. leave it exposed to the
sun, the wind and the rain. It is, on the
contrary, packed in loose grass, and put
in close wicker baskets, and kept in them
at the market till it is sold, SO that its
freshness, its flavor and its crispness are
all preserved intact till it appears on the
table. This is very different to its treat
ment in our markets, where it /,
cut and put in lunches, and then bounced
about as if it were intended for cattle feed
instead one of the delicious Spring vegeta'
les tina! is grown for the supply of the ta-
hla
Year: 1879

III thc hlSG pldCC, uDOtlC Six weeks De-


forehand, the housekeeper must begin
by telling her husband that sllo wants
barrel fixed IN tho back yard to run
OFT lye. or course he won't pay much
attention ut first. but will merely say,
eyes, yes, I'll fix it," and go off to his
work as usual. In week or two she
becomes more emphatic; she tells him
that cvery crock and old pot and broken
dish about tho house Is full Of soap
grease, and that If he don't put up that
lye barrel the grease will certainly get
worms in it. Then he goes out and
looks around the yard and says he don It
sec any barrel and no place to put one
II he did. In about another week she
tells him that If she was man she would
have had that lye barrel put up long
ago, but 1t makes no difference to her
now, as sho means to throw tho soap
grease away anyway; that there is 10
use anyway IN n woman's trying to
save and economics; that 1t don't
amount to anything, as man can
spend Mt tho bung-hole while his wife
saves at the spigot; that she will mover
be any better Off for her economy, and
finally she caps tho climax by telling
him she isn't going to slave for some
other woman to enjoy after she Is dead
ana gone, and then she begins to cry.
lie goes OIL In nun, but in about an


hour she discovers that he has really
fixed the lye barrel. Then she wants
the ashes put III 1T and there is not a
creature In sight to help. SO sho rather
shcrpishly carries them herself and
dumps them IN, spelling her clothes,
getting dust in her hair and making
herself generally unattractlve and mis-
erabla by the operation. Whom her
husband comes to dinner he looks ask
ance at her rcd eyes and disordered
dress, but never says soap. Then water
Is poured on and the lye begins to run,
ana then 1t Is constant worry to keep
the children away from 1t. A week or
more OF constant and uneasy watching
ana she has enough lrst-class lyo to I'll
big iron kettle. Then ono morning


she gets the hired man to Ak a
place outdoors for fire, and gets the
kettle rigged on 1t and filed with lye.
Then she gathers tho disgusting grease
together and scrapcs it into tho big pot.
The smoke hurts her eyes, .and her
children all have a dangerous fascina-
ton for the spot. She dare not leave
1t and them, and so she watches and
stlrs it, occasionally with spoon and
saucer, and scolds tho children of anu


gets fcarfully ovcrhcatcd, and in few
hours has great pot of scaldlng soft
soap that is ''just splendid" If she is
so fortunate, by close watching, as to
Keep tho baby from tnmhling into IT.
she Will finally get 1t poured into the
soft soap barrel, and congratulate hor-


self that after all her trials and tribula


lions, and cares and vexations. she has
fully half dollars worth OF tho best
kind of soft soap. .. u, ...
Year: 1879

The lady who spent the above au.
tograph tripped directly into the dock
at the Police Court this morning to
answer the charge of disorderly con
duct. Sarah Jane asked for post
ponement of the case as she wished
some witnesses summoned. His Honor
complied and this important case will
be tried this evening.
Year: 1879

The Carolina farmer says: Tree
stumps can easily be removed by Dor
ing a two-inch hole eighteen inches
deep in the stump. Fill this with
concentrated solution Of Saltpetre and
plug up to keep out water. By Spring
i, viii have permeated every part
Then fill the hole with kerosene, set on
fire, and the whole stump, it is said,
will be consumed, even to the roots. 1t
seems to be possible, and it is certainly
an easy way to get rid Of stumps, while
the ashes will remain to fertilize the
soil.
Year: 1879

when done, if do not tell you it will


be. You can make it square or long,


by sewing the buttons on in rows in
stead of round and round. The buttons
are made by sewing one upon the 9th
er, as we fell a seam, sewing the small
est one on the second size, and the Sec
ond size on the largest. Have all the
buttons of one row alike.-Country Cen
Year: 1879

There is something passing strange
about human nature. lfa man had to
support, his family by playing billiards
at two dollars q day, he'd complain nc
had to work awful hard for living.
Year: 1879

A gentleman was promenadlng the
street with bright little boy ut his side,
when the little fellow cried out Oh pa,
there coes nm editor! Hush, hush " said
the father, "dont make sport of the poor
man--God only knows what you may
come to yeti
Year: 1879

A member of congressional investi-


patinp committee recently said: ITS
no Use trying to get at the truth with re-
gard to a political quarrel, for tho wit
nesses on both sides would rather lie ut
sixty days than tell the truth for cash"
Year: 1879

There is a touching beauty in the pale
wild rose that grows by the dusty way
side half-choked with thistlc-down; but
it is all lost upon the man 'who breaks
both his back suspcnder buttons when
he stoops to pluck it.
Year: 1879

A gentleman learned in the origin OF
social customs was asked the meaning OF
casting an old shoe after u uewly-mar-
ried couple as they start on their trip.
lie said: "To indicate that the chances
of matrimony are slippery"
Year: 1879

A Milwaukee girl suffering from lock-
inv was left alone with mouse by q
shrewd physician, and she coDtrived 10
open her mouth enough to give yell
that made the crockery in the china
closet rattle.
Year: 1879

A marriage has.been declared null IN
New York because the young man swore
lie was drunk when the ceremony was
performed. The woman in the case very
sensibly declined to make any defense,
evidently believing that the young man
wae not worth cOntcnding for
Year: 1879

Open confession is good for the.
soul. In a town some fifty miles from
Boston, the members Of religions So
cicty were in the practice Of holding
conference meetings in the church, at
which they made kind Of audible
confession, technically called, relating
ones experience A very pious
member Of the church, Mr.. D was in
the habit Of inviting Neighbor E., who
was not a member, to attend these.
meetings, at one of which Mr. D. got
up and stated to the congregation
that he was great sinner-that he
|sinned daily with his eyes en-that
he willingly and knowingly sinned


that goodness dwelt not in him-that
he was absolutely and totally de-
praved-that nothing but the bound
less mercy and infinite goodness of
God could save him from eternal dam
nation. After this confession Of Mr..
D., Mr.. L.. who had by accident been
placed upon the anxious seat, rose
with the most impurturable gravity,
stated that he had but little to say for
himself, but the brethren would re-
member that he had lived for twenty
FIVE years the nearest neighbor of Mr..
D-that he knew him well-more In
timaiely than any other man and it
gave him great pleasure, because he
could do it with sincerity. to confirm
the truth of all that Brother d. had
confessed. When Mr.. L. sat down,
under the visible and audible smile of
the whole congregation, the parson
not excepted, Mr. D went up to him
and said:


"You are rascal and liar, and I'll
lick you when you get out of church" J"
Year: 1879

NIHILIsM is giving the Russians a
taste of Tophet on earth. During the
month Of August there were nearly
three thousand fires in the empire, the
losses i'll the aggregate amounting to
twenty millions Of ronbles.
Year: 1879

A carrier pigeon this morning came
into the residence OF Seth II. Feaster,
629 East Sixth street, and at once made
itself at home. Noticing piece of
paper under its wing, the bird was
caught and the paper was examined,
and found to contain the following de.
scription: "Mr. John Parker, No. 1921
Story street, West Philadelphia" The
pigeon goes out in the yard and through
the house as if had come to stay.
Year: 1879

This morning at Esquire Coles court
Daniel Newcomb was charged by Sam,
uel Veach with having sold him TWEEN.
ty baskets of unsound and unwhole'
some sweet potatoes, knowing the same
to be such and with intent to cheat
and defraud complainant out of four
dollars. Upon hearing the evidence ol
the witnesses the Justice found that
the charge of guilty knowledge and
misrepresentation on the part OF the
defendant was not sustained and hence
dismissed the cases.
Year: 1879

This morning one of Hartman x Feb
renbachs horses while being harneSsed
to carriage, ran out of the stable yard
and after an exciting chase the driver
succeeded in capturing the animal at
Rosendale Park. Fortunately no one
was in the carriage, and beyond the
breaking of a swingletree no damage
was done.
Year: 1879

apostle and the sweat of q galley slave" Tring of
all this he returned again to Europe. living for
time in Florence where he might be seen almost any
day out riding with his family all dressed in gay
apparel. the girls with their hair hanging down their
stopped one day and asked if they belonged to
circus company. incident that none enjoyed more
than Lever. He low collars and never buttoned
more than one button of his wastcoat and that the
lower one, because he liked to present good shirt
'front.' Notwithstanding his extravagances he never
left his debts unpaid. Como. spot he described AS
so beloved of opera dancers the day dream OF prima
donnas the elysium of retired baritones. was also
of his favorites. Sensitive as he to adverse
criticism he did not mind good natured rdicuie. and
heartily enjoyed Bret Hartes clever buresque Of his
style, which reached him in Florence


In 1867 Lever was appointed Consul General at
Trieste. where he died in 1872. The genial. hearty,
joyous nature was very much changed in his old
age The death Of his wife nearly killed him. Then
disease laid hold Of him; he had long been martyr
to the gout and other ills Of similar nature. He
died quietly in his sleep without suffering All his
affairs left in perfect order to the amount
to be expended on his burial. which was found in
envelope marked, "The modest sum wish to be
expended for my funeral"


The two volumes which compose Mr.. Fitzpatrick's
interesting biography full of characteristic
dote and finish their perusal without
feeling that he has beer great gamer by this familiar
intercourse with the genius that created Harry LORE
quer. Charles O'Malley. Mickey Free. Tom Burke and
host of his highly priced friends of fiction.
Year: 1879

from the ST. Louis GlobeDemocrat. July III


The HERALD recently had occasion TO call at-
tention to the nuisance of newspaper tramps-meah-
ing class of men who travel about the country on
favors obtained from railroads and hotels on pre-
tended connection with some well known newspaper.
In some cases the tramps have forged letters; TIE
HERALD published one in which the name OF its pro-
pretor forged to general request for courteses
to some dead beat whom it never knew. The name
of the GioLe- Democrat was used at of our city
hotels yesterday by couple of tramps OF this kind.
and Informed that it is frequent occurrence
here and elsewhere for men 10 commit his offence.
II peope will allow themselves to be thus imposed
upon the fault is theirs and not ours. No person
connected. with the GLOBE Democrat Is allowed to
plead this connection in ment of any bill at any
hotel i'll the city elsewhere. and the fact that any
person does plead il for such purpose is evidence
that he is an mpostor who should ut once be turned
over to the police.
Year: 1879

Transit Commissioners in 1875 was to ask the Com
mon Council for consent even before the routes had
been laid out This of course refused. Subse-
quently. after the routes had been selected. the
Aldermen did give their consent. and remained IN
might be done within the time allowed by law.


NAY YET BE DONE


1t in believed that should any further steps be
taken by the Commissioners now in Office Mayor
Cooper will prefer charges against them and remove
them in the manner provided in section OF
the Rapid Transit act. Tho law says that
any or all of the Commissioners may be
removed by the power that appointed them-i. the
Msyor--on charges and after opportunity be heard
1t is deemed likely that the Mayor will be forced
to take this course but should he be there appears
to be doubt that the official terms Of the Com
missioners will be shortened very summariy
Year: 1879

Dull, depressing, dingy days produce dis
piriting reflections and gloomy thoughts, and
small wonder when we remember that the
mind is not only motive, but receptive
organ, and that all the impressions it receives
from without reaches it through the media
of senses which are directly dependent on
the conditions of light and atmosphere for
their action, and therefore Immediately in
fuenced by the surrounding conditions. 1t
is common sense inference that if the i'm
pressions from without reach the mind
through impe1fectly acting organs of sense,
and those impressions themselves are set in
minor asthetic key of color, sound and gen.
eral qualities, the mind must be what is call
ed moody" 1t is not the habit of sensible
people to make sufficient allowance for this
rationale of dullness and subjective weak
ness. Some persons are more dependent on
external circumstances and conditions for


their energy-or the stimulus that converts
potential into kinetic force-than others but
all feel the influence of the world without,
and to this influence the sick and the weak
are especially responsive. Hence the vary
ing temperamepts of mind changing wi b the
weather, the outlook and the wind.-Lancet.