smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1874

| From the Pottsville PENN journal


The other day young man named
BENJAMIN Machamer, one of the best
hunters in Northumberland county,
made a remarkable escape from a well
into which he fell. This well is in the
lower part Of the town OF Trevorton,
near the old round.house. So long a
time has elapsed since it has been in use
that its existence was almost forgotten.
Il is about eight feet wide and eighteen
feet deep, and at the present time con.
tains ten feet of water. 1t was covered
with plank the day in question. Macha-
mer started out in pursuit of game, ac-
companied by his dog, a valuable setter.
His path lay near the old well, into which
his dog had the misfortune to fall, through
hole caused by the decaying planks


The dog was highly priced by Mr.. Ma
ehamer, who, in attempting to rescue IT
fell in himself. In an ordinary sized
we'll the situation would have been dan
gerous, and in this case it was extremely
so, as the unusual width of the well pre-
vented him from bracing himself against
the side. The only possible way for him
| to get out was TO climb up one side, aud
as the wall was very closely built, this
was a difficult feat. But It was struggle
for life, and Mr.. Maehamer, being a
young man of powerful strength and
great energy, resolved to try. He sue
ceeded in almost reaching the top,
only to lose his hold and fall
back. Again and again he climbed
up the side Of the wall, and each time
fell back into the cold water beneath.
Every time he fell back the halfstrangled
dog would spring upon his shoulders,
thus bearing him down and keeping him
under water. In spite of this difficulty,
however, he would succeed in regaining
| the wall. At one time be became faiEt
from the effect of the impure air. he
| had found q small stick floating on the
water, which he inserted in the wall and
placed one foot upon it, then put both
hands in another aperture, thinking il
be did swoon he might possibly hang
there until he returned to CONSCIOUSNESS.
The faintness, however, passed away,
and he again attempted TO reach the top.
Finding that his clothes greatly impeded
his progress, he succeeded in divesting
himself of his coat and boots, one oi
which ne threw off, leaving the other
i with the coat to sink to the bottom,
Thirteen times he climbed up the side OF
the we'll, aud thirteeS times he fell
back into it. His perseverance sur
passed that Of the traditional spider, for
be had great odds 10 contend with. Al
last, almost worn out, be made a ina
effort and reached the top. BE didn't
wait for the dog, but started for home
Immediately, and told his story. Hil
father and another gentleman returned
at once and rescued the dog. Mr.. Mac


hamer states that he was in the we'll an
hour. The escape was wonderful.
Year: 1874

FRIDAY, Oct. 23-P. NJ.


Lake Shore continues to lead the stock market,
and the chief occupation of large number of per-
upon the street seems to be to try to discover
on the one side the causes which have made and
kept the stock strong of late and ON the other to
show why it ought to decline. In addition to the
bull statements that the Company is to pay divi-
dend in February; that the road is to be leased to
the NJ Y Central. and that it's earnings increas-
ing Ian official statement would be in point on that
question:. are told that the heavy short in
terest in the stock is what keeps up the price
This latter story is not at all improb
able, as there can be but little if any, doubt
that there strong parties pitted against each
other one working for advance and the other for
decline, and which will carry the day remains
TO be seen. To-day the scales tipped slightly to the
side of the bears, the price having Huctuated only
between isOi and 79,, finally closing at SO conces
sion Of from last nights final quotation. The busi
ness at the Stock Exchange was light the sales foot
ing UP only about 10000 shares the leading stocks
after Lake Shore having been Wabash Erie, West
ern Union Telegraph. Union Pacific, Pacific MAIL
Ohio and Mississippi, and North Western. The
market opened with very little change from
last nights closing quotations. and that little change
was In favor of higher prices At the First Board
Wabash broke away 10 per cent to slyand. the re-
mainder of the list fell of to per cent. At the
second call there q recovery of to itper cent,
but in the subsequent dealings this improvement
was lost. Wabash alone showed strength, moving
up on account of the covering of the shorts from
2s3 to 2s3 The report of new and heavy failure
may have had some influence upon the market in
the afternoon. The opening, highest, lowest, and
closing prices OF active stocks sold to-day were as
foil
Year: 1874

All the business in money was at 3d3I per cent
Time loans and mercantile paper as last quoted


In Government bonds a fairly active business was
recorded and prices were per cent lower in some
instances. The tone of the market is firm The fol-
Year: 1874

if this paper (Adoance) is not in
favor Of Donnelly's new party, what does
this language mean? If the Advance had
been wise friend of the Patrons of Hus-
bandry, it would have rebuked this viola
tion Of the organic law Of the Order bv
Donnelly, instead Of aiding him in his party
scheme.


In ordinary times We would be will
ing to devote columns to instruct the
News as to our future course and in
tentions, but can now only briefly refer
1t to the ADVANCE Of May 9Th and 18th
where, by intense application, it may
learn considerable; but just now we
have the dead weight of the decrepid
old Pioneer on our hands which needs
close attention. AS they say, you know,
1t has recently made a "shp," which
little irregularity has caused all its old
democratic acquaintances coldly to turn
their backs upon it, and say it is none
OF theirs; and notwithstanding its edito-
rial manager shows the marks of the
collar he wore, stamped with Grants
official seal, yet the modest republicans
refuse to adopt the bantling. This
leaves the poor thing out in the cold,
toraging for a precarious subsistence in
unknown pastures.


We are apprehensive if the Pioneer
is not carefully handled it will 90 over
body and breeches to Donnelly. It has
already had him thoroughly interviewed,
given in sort of tacit adhesion, but we
still hope with the aid Of the Ne,cs to
keep the thing from stopping over too
much before the farmers in mass have
had their say.


Here is the style in which the heart
less mortals talk:


The most, and in fact all the Democratic
papers Of the State, 80 far as we have seen
them, take . similar view to tne ArQu, of
the turns and tumbles in politics which the
st. Paul Pioneer has taken so often It has
no political status that recommends it to
Democrats as worthy Of their support.
David Blakely, the present owner Of the
Pioneer, may make good Republican editor,
but the Democratic party does not need his
services.-Shakopee Argus.
Year: 1874

BERLIN, MIMI. May 10th.


Editors Grange Advance:


Having just been out in my garden and
seeing the first bright flowers Of Spring,
the tulips and bright little crocus, remind
ed me that had not said one word about
the bulb family, and they are one of the
most interesting of all the flower family,
the hardy bulbs, such as the tulip, crQcus,
hyacinth and narcissis. know of nothing
that will give so much pleasure with as lit
tie trouble as the hardy bulbs. They seem
to defy the cold and stormy weather, and
send up their gay blossoms so early in the
Spring. The time for planting all hardy
bulbs is in October, and after they are
planted they can remain in the ground all the
time. You only want to divide them every
year or two for they multiply so fast; if not
divided the blossoms will be very small and
they will not blossom near as long. After
they get thorough blossoming you can put
few plants Of verbena or petunois in with
them and have gay bed all Summer.
The lilies. the queen Of the family, are 80
hardy we should have a few Of the tiger
lilies candidum and lancifolium are per-
fectly hardy, only 20 cents apiece Who
says they cannot afford them? They must
be planted deep, and they must not be dis
turbed for few years. They increase in
size and beauty as they grow older. Their
stems with their thick glossy leaves are an
ornament Of themselves. The tender or
Summer bulbs, such as the dahlia, and
gladiolus, flower in Autumn. They can be
forced to blossom in midsummer by start
ing them in the house early. Where we
have only few it is good plan, with the
dahlia especially. I have never tried it
myself but called ut q friends house last
June and actually saw her dahlia in bios
som. and it blossomed till fall. Sol may
! safely recommend starting them in the
house. The gladiolus may be put in the
open ground the middle Of May small
| group in the border looks we'll. They must
be taken up in the fall the same as the
dahlia. store in some dry place free from
frost. Now I have tod what little know
Of flowers and their culture. may fairly
say that the women Of our town have COM
menced the crusade Of flower culture, and
the farmers home that their front yard
will not glow like rainbow by mid Sum
mer, will be An exception, instead Of rule,
and why. shouldn't they? Because our
husbands are tillers Of the soil as God COM
'nanded man should be. is that any rea-
sou we should crowd all re6nements out Of
our natures and that Of our children
know the men folks lsugh 1T US and tell u.


we have posies on the brain but we car


afford to be laughed at when we know We
are right. And think it is way they
have for showing their admiratiou. Fol-


who ever saw a man laugh at anything h<


didn't like? do hope some abler pen thar
mine will take up the subject Of home adorn
ment and give us a good lecture occasionall,
in the ADVANCE. ID
A library for the Gr.ngers is 70 be open
!: ed ct Marshall, Mimi. NJ
Year: 1874

at the absurdity of third term-were hoid-
ing office and depending upon it for your
support-wbat would you dof 1t is no deiu-
sion that take the country through, the men
who hold office really control the caucus and
cover all the approaches to the National Con-
yention. All their interests obviously lie IN
the direction of q reelection OF the President
who gives them official life. Is it grotesdue
absurdty then to say the third term question
is practical. present, realf Would it be weak
ness in a New York Republican State Con-
vention to treat it as a live issue, at least
alive enough to be stepped on and stamped
out


The Convention at Utica tomorrow will re-
nominate Gov. Dix. 1t can hardly adopt
platform 80 different from and so much better
than that put forth at Syracuse as to make
great diversion in its favor. There will be
then two tickets, each with candidate for
Governor at its head of admitted ability and
irreproachable integrity. Between them there
will be little choice; between the platforms
upon most of the current issues scarcely
more. Between the two parties the State Is
pretty evenly balanced. Neither can afford to
take any risks or be Indifferent to the large
class of voters who hold off from both, but
give their votes to whichever promises best
for the State and the country. For the Re-
publican Convention to pass by the question
of a third term will be to throw into the
hands of its opponents large advantage. Its
leaders do not need to be informed that this
it cannot afford to do. The action of New
York will go long way to settle the ques-
ton. If the gentlemen who laugh at the sug-
gestion of third term as the hight of abb
surdity, and characterize the discussion of 1t
as a mere newspaper sensation. desire to prove
it an absurdity and put an end to the sensa-
ton, they will contribute to that end by taking
explicit action in the Convention tomorrow.
To avoid meeting the issue is impossible to
postpone action upon it will be fatal.
Year: 1874

recognized by decisions of the Supreme Court
The court in question was Judge Durell. The
decisions are pronounced by Senator Carpen-
ter and his associates unwarrantable, extra
iudicial, utterly void for want of jurisdiction,
mere obiter dicta entitled to no consideration
whatever. and Senator Morton is perfectly well
aware that the Judiciary Committee OF the
House, led by so good Republican as Mr..
Wilson of Indiana, recommended that Durell
should be impeached for making them.


But the most disingenuous of Mr. Morton's
statements is that the Senate set the stamp OF
its approval upon the Kellogg usurpatlon by
rejecting the bill for a new election Gov
Morton is not ignorant of the meaning OF the
Senates action in that case, and he knows-or
he ought to know-that the bill was rejected
for reason directly contrary TO the one he
suggests. The question of approving the
Kellogg Government was never before the Sen
ate at all far from it, Mr.. Carpenter and the
majority of the Committee assumed that there
could be no question as to the fraudulent
character of the Kellogg usurpation, and they
only raised the issue whether McEnery should
be recognized or n new election ordered by
act of Congress. They said explicitly ii either
Government was recognized 1T must De
McEnery's. The alternative they recommended
was q new election, and when the vote was
taken on the bill prepared by them to carry
out their scheme only eight Administration ke-
publlcans were found to vote against it, and
those eight may fairly be considered the full
strength which Kellogg was able to command
in an intensely partisan Senate. The bill was
rejected because the Democrats insisted that
it was an unconstitutional invasion OF state
Rights and that instead of ordering new
election Congress ought to recognize McEnery
This is perfectly plain from an analysis OF the
vote For the bill there were eighteen votes,
all Republican except one; against it there
were twenty votes all Democratic except
nine, one of the nine being Senator Trumbul,
who had strongly advocated the recognition
of McEnery In short, the Kellogg fraud was
never sustained in the Senate at all except by
very small minority of extreme partisans OF
the Administration, led by Mr. Morton and
including carpet-baggers of the Clayton stamp,
and the neglect of Congress to provide any
remedy for the wrongs of Louisiana was made
all the more criminal from the fact that these
wrongs were so generally admitted.


We are not surprised, however, that Gov
Morton should be unwilling to remember the
history of the Louisiana inquiry; for in what
a situation do the facts we have recounted
leave the President! They strip from him the
last rag of excuse for his unwarrantable action
in New-Orleans, leave him without even the
pitiful plea of ignorance, exhibit him to the
country in the act of forcing upon protesting
and helpless people a government which has
not even the sembance of regularity.
Year: 1874

Washington is generally credited with having
the dullest newspapers published this side of Lon
don and some of the editors trying to get up
excitement by waking their fellow journalists to
sense of their heaviness. 1t is in pursuance of
this charitable design. doubtless, that one of the
morning papers calls its rival the daily morning
eghtpage stupidity" and insnuates delicately that
its editor made fortune by selling whisky to the
soldiers during the war; journalism is liveher to-
ward the setting sun. In a certain Western city,
where the sanctums of the rival papers command
diagonal views each of tho other the respective
editors are said to be suffering a severe attack of
strabsmus brought on by incorporate and angular
glaring into each others windows, and the local
Knickerbockers record with awe that on certain
nights when the political elements are laShed into
fury chains of blue lightning flash from window to
window and the papers next morning are Just
shade more bitter and personal than usual.
Year: 1874

What can be sweeter to teacher Of youth than
the consciousness that his efforts have been re-
warded with glitterng success and that he has had
part in ennobling the future society of his coun
trYi Sunday-school teacher at Alton, H., can
scarcely be said to possess that radiant satisfaction
After a very long and beautiful moral lecture it
occurred to him Furthermore to adorn il by desiring
all those scholars to stand up who intended to visit
the wicked, soul-destroyng circus All but little
lame girl bounded 70 their feet.
Year: 1874

Chicago, by which it was not supposed that
any companies suffered materially. The busi-
ness of fire insurance ought to be profitable
as the rates were considerably advanced after
the great losses in Chicago and Boston, and
we have no doubt that our leading companies
are generally in good condition.
Year: 1874

A rumor of heavy defeat and loss by our
forces operating against the Indians in the
Red River country, and giving many details,
is specifically contradicted by the official dis
patch which we publish this morning. From
this it appears that our troops have been sue
cessful in all their encounters with the saw
ages, but that one series of attacks on a wagon
train was of extraordinary severity and dura-
ton; that the loss inflicted on the Indians was
very much greater than our own, the latter
being specified as one killed, one mortally
and three moro or less severely wounded.
The Indians withdrew from the attack on the
third day. The return march of the troops
under Col. Miles, after what seems to have
been fruitless pursuit of the Indians routed
on the Staked Plains, is described as exceed
ingly harassing to the men and animals; but
the forces are now encamped in position OF
security, and will doubtless be able to give a
good account of themselves in new expedi-
tons from their present base. After season
of this sort of hard work there will be capi-
tai opportunity for the triumphs OF the peace
policy
Year: 1874

The postponement for month of the trial
in the safe burglary case is said to be in the
interests of justice. Harrington is anxious to
have the trial proceed Immediately because
certain witnesses are now absent. Meanwhile
even those who were most incredulOus about
his guilt are beginning to be disgusted by the
expedients of the defense. Col. Whitley's
non-appearance when called for is an unfayor-
able feature. What with absent witnesses,
escaped convicts, and missing defendants, the
case would be very prettily managed if Mr..
Harrington had it all his own way.
Year: 1874

Not many years ago clergyman of one of
the strictest of sects in neighboring city-a
man eminent for his piety and learning
had daughter, girl Of unusual beauty and
charm of manner. Much of the story tells it.
self in those facts. The child was no doubt
carefully taught and tenderly loved. Father
and mother gave her to the Lord; mother and
father, too, as the wisest Of fathers and
mothers will do, were secretly glad Of her
beauty, aud prophesied fairer future for her
from it. Why should they not The world
has no future fairer than that before woman,
young and good and beautiful. There is no
sSepter With rule 40 absolute and sure az rose.
Year: 1874

The argument of Gen. Butler and those who
voted with him on the bill for the distribu-
ton of the Geneva Award is substantially
this, that the money was paid by Great Brit
ain as a Government to the United States as
a Government, without conditions of any
kind as to the disposition to be made of it,
and hence that we can do with it what we
choose. In respect to the insurance companies
particularly, our Agent at Geneva was In
structed that our Government wished to hold
Itself free to decide as to their rights and
"claims upon the termination OF the case;"
and although their losses were enumerated In
estimating the value of property captured or
DESTROYED, Mr.. Fish was careful to say that
"the distribution of the amount recovered
"would be made by this Government without
"committal as to the mode of distribution"
Hence Congress is bound only to divide the
money as may seem to it equitable. 1t may
exclude insurers, who have obtained cOmpen-
sation already in the shape OF extra war
risks, and it may include the owners of ves-
sells for whose destruction the tribunal de-
o;dod IN ,,.-nsItiOn to our claim, that Great
Britain was not liable. e.-------.


There are strong arguments, however, on the
other side, and these have been well set forth
in minority report from the Committee on
the Judiciary presented the other day by
Messrs. Potter, Tremain, Poland, and Jewett.
Their argument is that when the United States
presented the claims of its citizens at Geneva
it acted as their agent, and it received the
money as their trustee. Hence it is morally
bound to distribute the award to those claim
ants, and to those only, whose case the arbi-
traitors decided to be good. And as for the in
surers, it is a well ascertained rule of law that
on payment of the amount insured they sue
ceed to every possible claim Of the assured,
not as O technical but as natural light
Admitting then that the Government is bound
by the treaty to distribute the award in any
particular way, it seems plain that the insur-
ance companies have On equitable right to
their full share Of whatever has been recOv
cred. IL they make money thus by the war,
they only accomplish what they were organ
lied for. They took the risk, and are justly
entitled to the profit.
Year: 1874

TIE BLUNDERS IN THE SPRAGUE CASE.


The decision in the suit against ex-Treasurer
Sprague of Brooklyn is the elimination OF
series of blunders on the part of the prosecu-
ton. Judge Daniels stated that it was better
for the public interests that new indictment
should now be framed But it seems every
way probable that any new indictment would
equally fail of its hold upon the ex-Treasurer,
since it must proceed upon much the same
basis as the one which has just come
to such an ignOminOus conclusion. The fact
that a vast amount of the funds OF the
city has been distracted, was clearly
brought out in the trial but the Taxpayers of
Brooklyn will have no resort but to submit to
the loss, if as now seems to be the general
expectation, this defaulting official can recover
from the city the money which he restored
during the pendency of the trial.


1t is scarcely worth while to review the
management of the prosecution which has
led to this result other than to notice the
completeness of tho failure. An agreement
with Rodman, by which he turned States
evidence, cuts off the power to con-
yict him of his share il the en-
bezzlement; and he and Sprague go
scot free with their plunder. We are
inclined to think that this business of assuring
immunity to rogues who give evidence is far
too frequent feature of our criminal law
practice. At all events it should be regarded
as an extreme resort, since if, as in the present
case, 1t fails to accomplish any good result, it
adds extremely to the harm.
Year: 1874

With a heavy sea rolling and all the wind
that sails could carry, the annual regatta of
the New-York Yacht Club yesterday was a
splendid contest. Seamanship and pluck
were as important elements as the models
and sailing qualities of the yachts them
selves. The Tidal Wave was the last
at the start, but crossed the line
far in advance of her rivals. The feet was
smaller than In past years. but nearly every
yacht had the prestige of former triumphs.
All in all, it was red-letter day in the calen-
dar of the Club.