smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1879

resting places at convenient intervals;
iamprosts are too far apart for this pur-
pose and doorsteps too cold, but ash bar
reis filled, according to police regulation,
to within four inches of their tops afford
seats that are sufficiently oapacious, rea-
sonably soft and not overcold. Many of the
poor will approve the change, for fuel
is prime necessity at this season,
and woodyards are seldom left un-
locked at night the outstanding ash bar
rel, however,. after being quietly relieved
OF its contents, can noiselessly be carried
to where it may be far more useful than it
was when merely the recipient of the refuse
OF other fires. And what comfort to be able
to look out of the front window at any hour
on ash day and know that you will see some
OF your own property! We have no hesita-
tion in saying that an ash barrel of
average appearance in front of good
house on a fashionable street. where it
has remained all day, will elicit more
spirited comments from the home-seeking
merchant or professional man that owns
the house than if it were the turnout of
some local Croesus. The press is SO fire.
quently compelled to criticise the course
of the Police Department that the oppor-
tunity to call attention to what is evidently
devised to meet the views of many classes
the proud as we'll rs the humble-is not on
any account to be neglected.
Year: 1879

The republican editors of Kansas seem to
have entered into conspiracy to shelve the
distinguished Senator from Maine From
a series of interviews printed in the Leaven-
worth Times we learn that these gentlemen
are almost unanimously of the opinion that
this impetuous statesman should be nomi-
mated next year for the Vice Presidency.
with General Grant as the head Of the
ticket. Mr.. Blaine would, of course, make
an excellent presiding officer of the Senate.
He is handsome, dignifed, and as con-
versant with Jefferson's Manual as he is
with the manipulation of the hidden
wires and pulleys of q small State conven-
ton like that Of Maine. To make him Vice
President, however, would be to deprive
him OF all his usefulness to his party. It
would be base surrender to Mr.. Ben Hill
and the brigadiers in the Senate whom Mr..
Blaine has specially in charge. No; Mr..
Blaine's place Is in the last Senatorial
ditch of stalwartism, where he is as gal
lantly fighting the new rebellion as whea,
far in the rear, in the brave days of old, he
upheld the flag against the first one. The
Maine Senator makes 30 interesting and
picturesque figure on the floor of the
Senate that it would be a pity to consign
him to the cold oblivion Of the Vice Presi-
dency.
Year: 1879

General Hatch may be correct in the sup
position, telegraphed by him on Sunday.
that the Utes will surrender the Indians
Chief Douglass being among them who
took part in the massacre at White River
Agency, and Secretary Schurz may have
good reasons for his own sanguine expecta-
tions to the same effect, but the public will
do well to indulge in no anticipations OF
such surrender. 1t would be entirely
contrary to precedent, to Indian nature in
general and the character Of the Utes in
particular for the tribe to surrender any
of its braves to certain death. If
Douglass and his band are really delivered
up to issioners or army officers it
will be in order to expect an attempt, and
a successful one, at rescue, after which the
tribe and the murderers will be little more
lawless and warlike than ever before. The
indications" to which General Hatch re-
fers are not explained in detail, but the
craftiness of the Indian is fully equal to q
pretence of submission while the most seri-
GUS mischief is being plotted. The best
news that con safely be expected from the
Ute country is that General Hatch and his
party bring themselves out. Even a sur
render for trial only at Washington, which
is Ouray's extreme concession ut last ad-
vices, is not likely to be indorsed by such
of the tribe as may be rambling when the
prisoners start.
Year: 1879

Within the next two or three weeks Mr..
Parnell is expected in the United States,
and preparations are already making by
some of our Irish citizens to greet him with
a great demonstration of welcome. We
make no objection to this; for although
Mr.. Parnell is the leader and chiefiDspirer
of the agrarian agitation among the Irish
tenants he has borne himself with degree
of prudence hardly to havo been expected
of so young a man. We trust that before
he comes an American movement will be
practical relief in a shape different from
that which it is understood to be the aim
of his mission to promote. Americans can
do nothing which will influence British
legislation on this burning question
of tenant rights in Ireland, but they
can render more valuable service.
Before the winter ends multitudes
of the Irish people will be in a famishing
condition. Their most urgent need is food
to save them from starvation, and until
they are rescued from this distress and
peril it is idle and heartless for anybody
on this side of the Atlantic to waste breath
or contribute money to keep up an agita-
tion in Ireland looking to change in the
laws. If the land question were solved to-
day that would bring no present relief to
the sufferers-it would merely insure
them larger share of future crops
of which the seed cannot be sown
for many months and from which
people dying of starvation in advance
of the planting would derive no benefit.
The great thing, the imperative thing, is
immediate food and succor for the famish-
ing. When Mr.. Parnell comes and depicts
with moving eloquence the wretched con-
dition of his countrymen. let us be pre-
pared to say to him 1--WE believe this;
our people take lively interest in Ireland,
and our press keeps them fully informed;
we have as early and copious Irish news as
the newspapers of Dublin; we have not
waited for your coming to stir our sympa-
thies. Look around you! We are already
collecting food and are about to send it by
ship loads for the relief of your people.
We invite your cooperation in infusing
zeal into this movement and dissuading
rected efforts. We will give you meetings
for raising food as large as the famous
meetings in the Tabernacle at the time
of the great potato famine. In proportion
to the degree of suffering we will do as
much now as we did then, when seventy
three ships laden with provisions. the free
gift of our people of all religions and
nationalities, were sent to Ireland from
American cities"


Before Mr.. Parnell arrives we hope we
may be able to soy to him something like
this, not in the language of promise, but
descriptive of what he will find well started
and going on before his eyes.
Year: 1879

Men.


The extraordinary testimony introduced
at the hearing in the Lewis will case yester-
day, before the Master of Chancery in New
Jersey, deserves to arrest public attention.
Mr.. Lewis was the gentleman who died in
Hoboken two years ago and bequeathed to
the United States an estate valued at o
million dollars, deeming that disposition
of his property the most comprehensive
scheme of public charity possible. Instances
of such gifts by subjects to royal person
ages are not infrequent. A considerable part
of the private fortune of the present Queen
of England was derived from such source.
But, probably owing to the impersonality
of republican government, bequests by
citizens to the Commonwealth have been
comparatively rare in this country, and
Large as it is, however, litigation i'm
mediately ensued. which promised to use
it up in costs and lawyers fees. Such a
benevolent will was assumed to imply eccen-
tricity on the part of the maker, and several
contestants of it appeared, the foremost
being q woman who claimed to be his
widow and presented some evidence to
support her assertion of that relation to
him. But yesterday the very witnesses
who had testified in her behalf, being re-
called by the government, confessed that
their documentary evidence was forged
and their oral testimony perjured, and
made some revelations concerning other
conspiracies to pervert the disposition
of dead mems estates, which indicate
that bogus widowhood is carried on
MS regular business in New York and its
suburbs. In the records of celebrated
trials we know of few incidents more ex-
traordinary. There is material here for the
most sensational novelist or playwright.
II the government is in possession of evil
dence to disprove the claims of all the rest
of the contestants as effectually as those of
Mr. Lewis alleged widow seem to be dis
posed OF, possibly even after deducting the
costs and the lawyers fees there may be
some remnant Of the estate applicable to
the payment Of the national debt
Year: 1879

lowed. 1t supported the family fairly in


GOOD years-in bad ones it scarcely did


even that. In this way the economical


position became an entirely false one.
Irish farmers seemed to be solvent and were
drawing to keep up that appearance upon
a source that they had no good right to
count upon. They were bankrupt all the
time. With the rent paid from outside and
the farm only supporting those who worked
il the rackrenter was ever active. Upon the
prosperity which he saw he based an in
crease of rent. With those who are near to
the extremity of their resources that diff
ficulty Is ruin which to others would be
temporary trouble. Thus it is with the
Irish now. But it is easier to point
out why they are in Distress and to esti-
mate the financial difficulties of their posi-
ton, than to propose remedy. 1t is only
certain that agitation and a campaign OF
hifalutin eloquence will do them no good.
It is ridiculous to assume that it is crime
for men to own land in Ireland,
since every tenant himself aspires to
be a landowner yet that is all there is
in the Gland league" eloquence. If the
present agitators can really satisfy Ireland
with remedy for her difficulties and griev-
ances they will please the world at large as
well as Ireland. But they cannot conjure
financial difficulties with phrase, andth
term 'peasant proprietorship," though
good enough as far as it goes does not pay
for any land; and. communistic contiscation
aside, the land the peasants are to have
must, we suppose, be paid for. though who
is to pay the plan does not hint
Year: 1879

THE MOTHER of little Willie Leutze was about
to be indicted yesterday tor the terrible beating
she gave her three-y -year-old boy for not buying
liquor for her, but she stopped the proceedings
by going before the highest known court--the
only one where the measure of drunken
mothers responsibility can accurately be de-
ferYnined
Year: 1879

WALL STREET YEsTERDAY.-The stock mar
ket opened strong, but was weak at the close,
with many sales and no startling changes.
Money rose from 6 per cent in the morning to
in the afternoon. Government securities were
quiet but steady and railway bonds active.
Year: 1879

IT DOES SEEM RATHER PUzzLING to the Law
man, IA it did to some of the Baptist ministers
yesterday, that one preacher should be severely
blamed for using another's words, while
thoughts and ideas may be appropriated as
freely as If they were abandoned property. If
every preacher is to be original scores of New
York pulpits must be vacated ut once and some
valuable pastors be lost.
Year: 1879

The TELEPHONE is now being used to an
nonnce the time of departure Of projectile
from gun. Properly managed it might be
made to tell tales from batteries that two-footed
spies could not safely reach.
Year: 1879

LATE ADvIcEs from China and Japan indi-
cate that agents of European governments are
still fostering bad feeling between the two ma
ions. Fine business for Christians to be set
ting up between heather.
Year: 1879

The CoTToN TRADE will derive at least one
benefit from the prosecution of cotton samplers.
1t will happen that men not included in the in
dictment will waste very little of the staple for
some weeks to come
Year: 1879

1t now seems that the effort on the part
of the sporting men of our city to get up
trot during the early part Of the sum-
mer has fallen through. A strenuous ef-
fort will be made to have an organi zar ion
formed in time for the fall sports.
Year: 1879

TAKEN TO THE ALMSHOUSE.


A crazy German woman was brought
to the police station, yesterday, and as
she was destitute and friendless. She was
taken to the Almshouse, this morning,
by officer Payne.


Letters on the probable success or fail
ure of the peach crop have become bore,
few care to have them forced upon theil
attention. Since 1877 when an entire
failure was predicted, but instead the
largest crops on record was zeal zed
all predictions have been viewed will
suspicion. EEl5
Year: 1879

AT sundown to-day our Hebrew
fellow citizens will commence the
celebration of the feast of Purim,
which lasts two days and was in.
-stituted by Queen Esther and
Mordecai in Thanksgiving to the
Almighty for the escape of the
Israelltes from the persecution of
Haman.


These two days are called Purim,
from the word pur, which signifies
a lot, because Haman had cast lots
on which day he should execute
his wicked purpose. These days
are held as days of feasting and
merry making, sending presents
from one to another, and above all,
not forgetting the poor, so that
they may enjoy themselves on
these days equally with the rich.
Year: 1879

The facilities of the HERALD Steam
Printing House for doing job work are not
surpassed in California outside of San
Francisco and Sacramento. All work en-
trusted to US will be executed with neat
ness and dispatch at the lowest living
rates.
Year: 1879

The railroad companies ere thinking
about furnishing hot bricks for their pas
sengers. And yet some men will insist
upon wearing them cold, and in their hats
ct that.


Ny tail is ended said tad pole
when he turned iato frog, and with a
gasp tuaued over toad die.


Among the most remarkable inven-
tjous Of the day, in a small way, is thai
of paper teeth. We thought paper car
wheels capped the climax but paper teeth
go little beyond them


dying in poverty 'ays our cyuic.
''is nothing. it is living Ia poverty that
comes hard Oh a fellow.
Year: 1879

ODr Prescott exchan ges state that a rumor is afoat that our Governor will resign his office as Chief Executive of Arizona. We trust it will nOt be true, as we have every confidence in the ability and good government of the Territory under the administration of Gov John c. Fremont, and that he will be instrumental in developing its many resources.
Year: 1879

On every hand can be heard the buzz of the reaper and the hum of the ihresher in cur valley The yield @ the cereaIs this year will be large, probably exceeding that Of last year. Our northern brothers are praying for rain, while Es are doing the reverse, as it would entail damage Isere.
Year: 1879

-Four weeks from this date occurs a day that shouli be dear to every true lover of liberty, and the proper ob- servance of which should be enjoyed by all. Phenix-no longer a small town with but sparse population. but now a city, has, thus far made no preparation for celebrating its ad- vent Our citizens should call q meeting and canvass the matter, and let us have the finest celebration il the Territory. There are a large number of persons living near by in the valley, that would visit the town. Since the settlement of the Territory, this day has passed with simply a remembrance, and if ccle- brated at all only by a horse race. Let us wake up from this lelhergy of bygone days, and enter into it with a spirit of patriotism Other towns in Arizona have taken the matter in hand and will celebrate in Il credi table manner Let not Phpnix-the comi-g city of the Territory he backward in the movement, but com menee at once and make arrange ments for general and good jollifi cation.
Year: 1879

issue, and do not pretend to champion, or attempt to justify the demeanor of any indi- vidual, interested or otherwise. am not so party blind as to desire to conceal party error, nor 70 uncharitable as to deny wrong-doer the benefit of a doubt. But it is amusing to see how far out of the path it is necessary tor Reform" to go for argument. Here is another example of it "I sag the district had no right to pass such vote" Very well, We know that you say SO. ISdy It had. Now each knows what the other sdyS, but have 1 convinced you that the district had right, or vice versa2 Such is the depth ot the argu- ment of modern Mosesl Here Is question the Dr. asks me :-'Do you want your neigh bors' children to pay 25 cents week for your individual gratitication?" Now ln the name of common sense, wherein Is that question ap- phcsble to my stand? But if confront the Dr. with his own question can he reiterate miner

 With regard to the 'perversion' of the ststutss-perhaps better word would have been mutilation-the Dr.. quotation would not be recognized by general reader of the law. The same section from which he quoted con- tains the following, which stands bet,ceen the first and last clauses of his quotation:

 "Or if any district shall continue it's school for longer time than is provided for at the expense of the town; or if any district shall expsnd for teachers wages sum which the school visitors and selectmen deem unneces- sary and extravagant,-" etc. etc. This part was left out of the Drs. quotation. This places the treatment of the question Of contln- uing the school longer than the law requires, on the same footing with that of the higher branches. Now the two being rated exactly the same in one aspect, is it probable that partiaity would be shown in favor of either ill another aspectP or is it to avoid unnecessary re- petition that in speaking of the one clause, the same section further says that Nothing, how ever in this title is to be so construed as for bidding the payment of the additional ex- pS Rses by voluntary contribution O. Oy hutton charges"

 Without knowing his opponent, he says "he is loose in his mental, moral and legal hinges, and without backbone" an assertion certainly not warranted by any of my statements. He then agonizes over my assumed name. am averse both to notoriety, and the acknowledge ment with which old dog Tray might have avoided his lamentable fate,

 Now t0 simmer this thing down to tue ques- tion, is the school of high grade 8 benefit or not? If it is benefit, it is certainly worth supporting, and the bfe of a depends upon tue tssition fee plan, for the day will not soon come when this entire district will submit to a tax for the individual qualification" of a few and for ny part, prefer to pay my own fees, rather than see my tax-lidden nelghbor still further burdened for my children's tuition.

 By the way, would very much like to hear further from your "Beanfeld' correspondent. His brief allusion to this discussion betrays him to be at once fair, charitable, conslderate and just and with whom conversatlo would be real pleasure. Let us hear from Bean- field again. CoNFoRMlsT'
Year: 1879

Prince Victor Napoleon,th the seventeen year old son of Prince Jerome, and the new heir to the Bonapartist idea, is rather tall, handsome and straight as a dart; dark in hair, cheek and eye; and in temper and temperament true Corsican-Italian His features are regular, his hair is trained over his brow and cropped and he has his mothers mouth, though not the peculiar nose of the House of Savoy. He is said to be thorough Napoleon in looks, in character and in certain impetuosity of tenn per
Year: 1879

able there are a great many
more of these than we imagine, and
the spirit which would prefer to lead
plain, umble and independent life.
rather tLau sell herself and services to
some husband for whom she could
have neither affection nor respect, is
to be commended and encouraged.
Year: 1879

A " ashiugtOn writer says many of
the Congressman write such misera-
BILE scrawls that no clerk can make
out to decipher them except after long
study thus causing a waste of time
for which the country pays. We hold
that no man ought to be elected to
office who is too lazy, too careless, or
too conceited, to write legib.e hand.
1t is not given to every man to write
handsomely, but he can at least make
his words sufficiently plain to be read.
We have thrown many an article into
the wa te basket because we felt that
the author had no right to waste our
time, and our money, (by keeping the
printers decyphering his hieroglyphics
doubly as long as if decently written)C
merely to crafty his carelessness, or
haste, in penniDg it. III


There is no excuse for Ineligible
writing since even the poorest pens~
man can make his meaning plain by
spelling out his words, inste ad Of Civ
ing the first two letters and dash or
scrawl. And when it is remembered
that many sad and costly mistakes
have resulted from such writing, every
thoughtful man will accustom himself
to making his words, at least, plain !!
Year: 1879

Of men than the Southern leaders Of
the Democratic party. They seem
still to have the same idea Of the
cowardice and subserviency OF the
Northern people that they had before
the war commenced, and now they are
butting their heads against the same
solid wall of Northern principles that
they once before ran against and which
almsst resulted in their humiliation.
That they have these deluded opinions
is the fault Of the Northern people.
because they listen to nothing not pro-
mulgated by the partisan leaders of
minority of the people Of the North.
Having been beaten in the war by the
Republican party, they can never for
give it for what it has done. They seem
to forget that the party that has been
victorious can afford to be the most
magnanimous, and here is where they
make great mistake and become a
deluded people, following the advice of
the leaders Of party in the north
which has not the power to benefit them,
and if they had they would be afraid
to use that power. The South fancies
that il has to deal with an ignorant,
passionate and narrow minded people,
and unfortunately depends more upon
the small tricks of the plotting political
demagogue, than upon the broad, sober
common sense view of the millions of
the free and Independent voters of the
north, who despise such tricks. A
great mistake is made by the South IN
supposing that Northern doughfacr
trickster who through appealing to the
passions of the sensel.ss rabble has
crawled into Congress, understands
Northern sentiment. The advice of
such senseless fellows is followed, and



hence friends of the Southern people,
who would gladly assist in extr;cating
the South from its unhappy dilemma
in which it voluntarily placed itself,
are treated with insolenee and forced
into opposition. If the South ever ex


poets to govern this nation long alter it
has once gained the power, it must
wake up from the delusion that solidity
is the thing required TO insure success.
1t is now far too solid for its own good,
and the safety of the nation, and no
party that has the support of the solid
South, can expect to he very lorg re-
tanned in power. No public man Of
any party cursed with the support of
the solid South, ever will hold large
influence in the nation, fer the North
ern people are not fools, and are far
too intelligent to he cheated by the
tricks Of crossroads politicians who
have neither character nor intelligence.
The South should wake up from its de
lusion and admit that for all time to
come the Northern end Of this great
ration will be in the majority, and that
Whenever the South becomes solid in
the interests of fraud, violence and
oppression, the North will become as
equally solid to stem the torrent of such
wild political fanaticism. If the South
keeps on hugging the delusion, that a
majority of the people in the North not
only sympatLize with them, but are
ready to grant them relief, they will
have to bear with their burthens for a
long while in the future.
Year: 1879

WEEKLY REPuBLIcAs.-We would call
the attention of our business men to
tho fact that the WEEKLY REPUBLICAN il
the best advertising medium to reach
the shippers and peach growers Of the
State and peninsula Of Delaware 1t is
now cne of those mammoth weekly pa
pers, and has a healthy circulation, &C.
ing into the hest families. Call at Office
and procure sample copy.