smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1878

The New York World has lately been inves-
tigating the subject of tenement houses in
New York city. and finds the showing far
more unpleasant than it had expected. It has
always been known that certain portions of
New York city are more densely populated
than any part of London, Paris, or indeed any
other large city in the civilized world the
highest average being 275.OD0 to the square
mile; but 1t was scarcely expected that as
large portion of the population of the city
lived In tenement houses as 1t is now found,
do. According to the latest figures attainable
no less than $4,000 people in New York city,
or nine-tenths of the entire population live in
tenement houses. As there are only q 900 OF
these houses, this gives an average of over
forty persons to the house. The majority of
these houses are small and narrow and
wholly without yards of any kind They are
utterly unfit for residences, either in summer
or winter. The local authorities are doing
their best to remove some of the ncon-
veniences OF this system of living, and have
succeeded in clearing away much of the filth
and many OF the bad smells of the tenements.
This much they can accomplish; but it is i'm
possible ever to break up the tenement svs-
tenn In New York. That is disease peculiar
to Manhattan beyond the reach or cure of
philanthropists The average area of land to
each inhabitant Is smallest in New York and
Cincinnati OF all American cities, and largest
In New Orleans, Chicago and Philadelphia
The average house room to each person in
New Orleans is at least four times as great as
In New York. In this respect. at least, we are
far ahead OF the financial metropolis Of
Amar;no
Year: 1878

American beer for Germany is the latest
addition to our export trade. And yet the in
yidious say that Bayard Taylor is one of
those i'd literary fellows" not calculated
to practically advance American interests.
Still we must believe that the man who could
make Germany send over here for more beer
In go short while has practical turn, and
has also been attending strictly to business.
Year: 1878

Henry Esterfeldt, of Eighth street, drank
iced tea regularly every summer for three
years He persisted, and one Sunday after
noon, while he was out driving his horse ran
away, and smashed seventeen dollars out OF
borrowed buggy. He paid the money, but
neglected the warning. He went ON drinking
iced tea, and in less than six weeks somebody
poisoned his dog.


A young woman who did plain sewing in
this city, while employed in the family Of
Ralph Henderson Of Maple street, became
addicted to the use of iced tea She soon ran
a sewing machine needle through her thumb.
She refused to obey the warning however,
and in six weeks she was carried away. The
man who carried her away married her first.


Last week at the beginning of the heated
term, two eminent scientific gentlemen of
Burlington took a strong, healthy, black and
tan dog, and immersed him in tub Of pure
cistern water into which a weak solution Of
iced tea had been poured. They held the
dogs head under the water fifteen minutes,
although he struggled violently, thus showing
the natural and instructive aversion to A sub
stance which intelligent human beings blind
ly and eagerly drink, and when the gentle
men took him out of the tub he was dead. II
teacupful of iced tea in tub full of water
will kill n dog, think for yourselves what
must be the effect of a strong, undiluted cup
of this decoction upon the system Of weak
woman


Eleven grains of strychnine mixed in ta-
blespoonful of iced tea will kill the oldest
man in America. Burlington Hd,ekcye.
Year: 1878

Beware the cup. In these days of raging
thermometers and busy coroners, it is fraught
with peril. Scientific men, learned men in
the professions, have compelled us to drop
the luscious strawberry in terror, by scream
ing out TO MS that it would give us the hydro
phobia They have made us heartsick with
apprehension by showing that the tempting
peach in our hands was reeking with the
deadly prussic acid. They have filed our ice
cream with poisonous impurities They have
forbidden us to drink water that has passed
through iron or lead pipes, or that has stood
in a wooden vessel or laid in a cemented cis-
tern, or rippled from the rock of the hillside,
impregnated with heaven and chemistry only
know what awful substance, until one restric-
ton after another has made it the only safe
way for a man to get drink of water, for
him to lie down on his back, open his mouth,
and wait for the shower Science has kindly
warned us of the death that turks in the cof-
fee cup. The cup that blesses the breakfast
table impairs the digestion. Large doses of
it produce palpitation of the heart. 1t is adul-
terated with Venetian red and native sesquiox-
ide of iron. Science has also warned us
against the use of warm tea, bread and but
ter, meat, vegetables, fruit, grain, roots, ber-
ries, milk, and similar articles as food. Sim
gularly enough, science has not yet assailed
iced tea. But it will not do to permit people
to enjoy this cool, delightful beverage simply
because its taste is grateful to the wearied
system during this scorching weather. We
must do our duty, though science may shrink
from it, and the people may cry out against
us. There is danger in iced tea, and if you
would live long and well shun the cooling
cup. We will cite few instances of careful
ly made experiments


On the 10th of June, John G. Hampstead of
West HILL began to drink iced tea at dinner
and supper He kept up this practice for
nearly three weeks and then one day, going
down Division street steps, slipped and fell,
abrading the skin of both legs, and running
silver into the ball of his thumb so far that it
made his teeth ache when he pulled it out
His clothing was also considerably torn.
When he went home that evening, he learned
that his eldest boy had been whipped at
school for sticking pin as far through 9noth-
er boy as the head would let it go. He was
warned to quit drinking iced tea, but he per-
sisted in the praetice, and he is now sleeping
in the valley between West and North Hill,
where he lives and says he never felt so well
in his life. But may be he lies about it.
Year: 1878

and is still diminishing. So. too, as to the
expenses of the government And then with
that which helps us, a sound currency COM
ing, and immigration coming, may 1 not con-
fidently say that these are Indications at least,


that we are marching TO the threshold of re-
vivng general business prosperity? (Great
applause And now shall we look around for
n new way to pay old debts, or shall we
march in the paths marked out by the faith
ers, the paths of honesty, of industry, of
economy Shall we do what Washington and
Franklin would advise? That is the question
before the people to-day. My friends / en-
ter upon no argument of a disputed question,
but l say, as my opinion,-we may be mis-
taken, all of us, but believe it-that a re-
stored financial condition depends largely up
ON an honest currency. (Great applause
And why do 1 say this? The commerce of
the world is the commerce now in which we
are taking part. and that is the same thing
the globe around. We have with us to-day
the gentleman who is at the head of the sig
nal service of the United States. He is known
popularly as "Old Probabilities" (Great
laughter He is not old, and fear he is not
always probable (renewed laughter), but GER
tainly in the science of meteorology, he has
gone farther than any other, and what does
he tell us? He says that this atmosphere of
ours this circumambient air that surrounds
the globe, is one as a unit, and that they have
discovered by observations all over the globe
that great commotion, great disturbance
on any sea or any continent, sooner or later is
felt in every other sea and every other conti-
nent, and so the commerce of the world is
one. Where there is very hard times in one
great nation, sooner or later it goes around.


We should then base our financial system on
principles, and by instrumentalities that are
sanctioned and approved by the best judg-
ment Of the whole commercial world. Then,
l repeat, if we want our standard of financial
prosperity to be based upon sure and safe
foundations, let us remember, let us all re-
member, that its best security is an untarnish-
ed national credit and a sound constitutional
currency. (Great and prolonged applause
Year: 1878

tfrOln the Springfield HepublcAn.l


Ii is an admirable and clear condensation
of the statement of the finances of the coun-
try. its foreign trade and productive capacity
now as compared with 1850, and shows con-
clusively the reduction of the debt and of the
annual burden of interest, the reduction of
expenditures and of taxation, the restoration
of the money to its true value, the expansion
of our industries and the spread of our trade
over the world, all, in short, the substantial
basis for a recurrence of national prosperity.
The facts are not new, but they will attract
wide attention. not only in this country but
abroad when massed and uttered by the
President of the United States. The speech
is also remarkable for freedom from party
glorihcation. 1t is this quality which lifts it
from the level of partisan haraDgue to
broad and comprehensive presentation of the
grounds for hope as to our national future


[From tie Boston Journal.l


Doubtless the repudators will find fault
with the President for making a speech in
which the country is encouraged to look for
ward to better days. Those who have been
trying to create popular discomfort by repre-
senting that the Understanding debt of the
country is larger now than at any period of
the past, will not relish the exposure of their
falsehoods by the President, and by figures
which show that such debt has been decreased
S722, 100000 or one-fourth of the entire
amount, in thirteen years. Neither will it
suit the purpose of demqgogues who are wick
edly striving to create the impression that
the country is being taxed into distress to pay
the interest on the public debt to be informed
by the Chief Magistrate that the annual in-
terest charge of the country has been reduced
from $50, ,917, 900 in 1865 to 500, 1871, 600 in
1873. The economists who beg for power
because of Republican extrayagance will not
be pleased with IA statement by the Chief
Magistrate that the amount of taxes collected
by the Federal Government has decreased
from S4SS, 273, lGi in 1865 to $40, 7j2, 304
for the past fiscal year. 1t will scarcely
please these people to have the President
show that the public expenditures have been
feduced Sl2O,57 3iS since 1867. and sos
$500 in the past five years. Nor will the
selfish and designing men who are going
about the country cxaggerating the business
depression, and making gloomy predictions
for the future be pleased at the encouraging
facts which Mr.. HAYES sets forth
Year: 1878

A SAFE PATH.-In these days Of depression
and uncertainty in business matters. it is cOn-
forting to thousands of men in humble life TO
bear in mind that he travels safe and not un-
pleasantly who is guarded by poverty and
guided by love.
Year: 1878

Now, my friends, with this picture, as l
think so full of hope for the future, for you
and for me as individuals, do not venture
with confidence upon predictions of prosperi-
ty reviying l have no spirit of prophecy,
but reasoning, Let us see how it stands.
The debt is great burden upon labor and
capital; it is greatly diminished and is still
diminishing. Taxation is great burden up
on labor and capital; it is greatly diminished
Year: 1878

THE unpopularity of Mr.. Hayes adj
mimstration with the Republican party
leaders, is something very remarkable.
In Pennsylvania it is said no candidate
who endorses Hayes can be elected to
any office by the Radical party, and to such
IN extent is it divided that resolution
endorsing Hayes in convention could
not be carried. This would seem to make
the way open for the election of Demo
Gratis in most of the local as well as the
State tickets. 1t will be good thing il
this proves to be true.
Year: 1878

The Inauguration OF the Nichols govern
rnent was not quite the disruption Of the Re-
publican party in this State It is true the
shock was very severe to them, and II our
first success is followed up by o bold and an
aggressive movement this fall We will hear
nothing more OF federalism in louisiana
But We should not allow ourselves 10 be de
ceved by Appearances, nor trust too implicit
~ in our own strength. We have to deal
with willy and nnscrupulOus enemy, and we
must prepare for the coming conflict under
the positive assurance that every inch Of
ground vii be hotly contested


The Radical plan Of campaign is gradually
developing itself. They will make no nornf-
nation for the Office OF State Treasurer, but
'trab all OF their strength towards securing
the next Legislature. And they propose to
accomplish this by allowing the known Dem
ocratic parishes TO go uncohtested; In the
Republican parishes they will nominate
stTaight-out Radical candidates, and in par
ishes where the vote Is quite evenly divided
they will attempt to bring out com bination
tickets, composed OF colored Republicans and
White men OF some influence who would con-
sent TO Join them.


Avoyelies is one Of the latter parishes and
ls In that situation. The element II already
at work here to form such combination, and
We deem 1t not too early To sound the warn
ing and pass the word along the line Let
Democrats be on their guard, and when such
propositions are made TO them let them be
hurled back In contempt The arguments
used to accomplish such purpose are many
and cOuched In language most seductive
Generally it srnacks Of hypocrisy, and BY
landing and praising the political power and
influence OF person the unsuspecting object
Of their desire falls victim 10 mis- own unbri-
died vanity.
Year: 1878

rs do, that If the settlement Of the questions
resulting from the war had been left to the
lighting men of both Sides, they would have
been very speedily adjusted. But so-rhlled
statesmanshp which has been chronic dis
ease In our body polite broke out like the
measles all over the country. and kept 1t in ID
state of constant irritation for some years.
Laughter and applause


A u the defamation about n handful of am
hitious aristocrats leading the four million of
Southern people blindly into rebellion is the
nerest stuff and dlvel The slow and pain
ful task Of restoring wastnd land to pros
perity is now going on. Ghastened and puri-
fled by the fires through which he has passed
the Confederate soldier will redeem tho land
he loved SO well, and, inspired by the wisdom
born Of hard experience, will so shape her
destiny that you and all his countrymen will
ere long, gladly acknowledges that her ways
are ways pf peasantDess. and all her paths
are peace


Here and there, perhaps, may he found mn
individual who INDUCES the hope that at some
time no may receive compensation for his
losses during the war; but 1t would be lib-
eral estimate to fix the number Of such peg
sons at one in hundred thousand pf the
Southern people No shifting Of policy and
no change Of administration can ever produces
formidable increase in their number, the
prophetic utteranees Of over sensitive natures
to the contrary not withstanding. To suppose
otherwise Is to indulge n morbid fancy. Tho
manned Confnlerata soldier will chnarfully
contribute to the pension fund which gives
food and raiment to the MANNED Union sol
dier or his family. and will never ask to par
tcipate with them therein.
Year: 1878

Especial to tho Democrat


WAsHINaTON, May 4-The decision of the
Attorney General In the lottery cases has
been transmitted to the Postmaster General,
and Is being sent to postm asters as q circular.
1t does not differ materially from the brief
outline telegraphod you some days ago. OK
oept in one particular, which WAS probably an
after thought interpolated upon revision,


THE BURDEN or THE DECISION
is that postmasters are not informing or
sei2ng officers. that they are not supposed
to know tho contents of any letter passing
through their hands. and hence cannot be-
vested with power Ia seize or withhold letters
which are merely suspected OF being contra
band Mt law.


The Attorney General gives a strong ron
dering of the law itself, but says that in or
der to secure It's proper enforceme Mt it will be
necessary tgsubject the suspected matter TO n
process Of libe'ing under the form of law. the
same as any other contraband matter. that
is to say. in order to prevent the deliv-
cry of


LOTTERY MATTER AT THE NEW oRLEAHs rogr-


OFFICE.


It would be necessary for somebody to make
affidavit that any and all letters addressed to
Dauphn are contrnband under the law rogt-
lating tho treatment of immoral or obscene
matter in the mails. This affidavit, ns un-
derstands tho Attorney General, noed not be
specific as to individual letters, but may
cover, for example, ono days mail but it can
not be prospective in Its operation. For ex-
ample. it will be necessary to go to the post
office in tho morning, and serve upon the post
master a formal notice Of libel upon certain
LEITEHg THEN IN HIS KEEPING ADDRESSED


70 DAUPHIN.
This will compel the postmaster to deain the
letters and bring them into court TO answer to
the libel TheafIiant must then make oath be-
fore tho letters can be opened that they are
contrnbapd, when they can he opened but ae
in cases Of libelng goods on ships under rls-
toms laws. the real or supposed owner must
be unidentified against loss or damage in the
event Of tho libel being Guashed. Therefore,
the affiant or libeler must give


BOND OF INDEMNITY,
to be fixed by the court. This will, Of course,
be n tedious proceeding


In word. the intent Of the Attorney Cen
eral seems to be to sustain tho law. but to
prevent it's enforcement.
Year: 1878

OPINION OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL
As TO The EFFECT or THE LAW


GOVERNING THE SUBJECT.
Postmastrrs Cannot Open Lottery Pack
ages They Must be L,beled. Taken
Into Court and There EEK amIned- A
Tedious Proceeding That Null.Hss the
Year: 1878

The man who jumped from the new sus-
pension bridge at Niagara Falls, last Friday,
took pains to find out the spot where the last
lunatic had made the same terrible lean. He
walked from the Clifton House to the entrance
Of the bridge, and introducing himself with a
CHEEKY, good morning." asked some work
men who were making repairs where it was
that the last man had jumped off. Not re-
ceving definite information from them, he
turned to small boy who was standing near
and gave him fifty cents for pointing out the
precise locality. He walked slowly toward
the centre of the bridge and then halted to
take off hat and coat Mounting the cable
in the abyss below.
Year: 1878

rally for year 10 serve expressly MS trans
port, The value Of the vessel is secured to the
owners by Mendelsohn, the Berlin banker
Her principal work will be to supply provis-
ions and munitions of war to the Russian
lleet In tho Pacific Her present destination,
after taking abroad Tho war material con
tracted for in America is North japan,
Year: 1878

FARMERS, be careful what you sign.
Let no exclusive agency" let no pros
pective profit, let no palaver of any of
glibtongued salesman-no matter what
he has to sell, no matter what hopes of
. sudden fortune he may hold out-in


duce you to put your name to any
kind Of paper. IF one comes to you
we'll recommended, if be is honest, he
will will willingly want until you can
find out if his credentials are true


Make no snap agreement; jump at no
great chances. Whoever GENES alonI
with an honest thing will be ready and
willing to have it examined through
and through.-CDes Noines Register.
Year: 1878

At the old Reliable Stand on Mill St.


You will always find what you want
in the Furniture line. My goods are
all bought at the best and most Reli.
rble houses aud will be sold as such.
I warrant all I sell and charge nothing
for repairing work that does not give
satisfaction.
Year: 1878

MIR. Bryant has told the story OF his daily
habits himself. Nothing could be simpler.
The Athenian, born on the poorest soil in
Greece, contented himself at dinner with
the head OF fish, an oniOn and a few
olives. Even the rich were quite satisfied
with dish OF vegetables; while people at
large were accustomed To eat meat on 4
feast day tor the whole year. Mr.. Bryant
in diet and in all the pursuits Of the day
was quite as simple.


In winter he rose always at half past
five; in su0WeF from halt "a hour to an
hour earlier. With little clothing on his
body he Immediately beganj An hours ex-
ercise with the dumb bells. horizontal
bar. and Light chair swing rOuad the
head. Sometimes he gave more than an
hours exercise but never less. When It
was over he bathed from head to foot.


In the summer, If living at Roslyn, he us.
ually shortened the exercise in the cham
Der and went out OF doors to engage at
some work requiring brisk exercise, such
as pruning trees or cutting wood. After
the bath. u breakfast were not ready he
sat in his library. No breakfast could be
palmer than his-hominy and milk, OF
brown bread. oatmeal or wheten grits and,
in the season sweet baked apples. Buck.
wheat cakes he did not refuse, but coffee





or animal food he never took. Occasion.
ally he drank chocolate, as it has no mar
cOtic effect.


After the meal was over be engaged for q
while at his studies. and, If In the city
walked down 10 the Evening Post Office. q
distance Of three miles. After three hours
passed thus be retarned. always walking
whatever the condition Of the streets OF
weather might be. II living in the coun.
try, he studied or read until weary, and
then went into the garden TO prune peal
trees, or walked through the woods; he
seldom drove. He dined early on vegeta.
bles with little meat or fish At supper
he never drank tea, but was satisfied with
bread and butter and fruit. Fruit formed
q large part Of his diet, and he ate it at al
most any time without inconvenience.


In, the city, where people dine late, b,
only ste two meals a day. Water was hii
almost exclusive drink, though he Occa
si0nxliy took wine. He once said he wa
n natural temperance man, his mind beinl
rather confused than exhilarated by alcO
Year: 1878

LIRST, / must tell you who am and
Il how came to be in the Bayville
Bank in the "wee sma' hours'' one
dreary December night, some three
years ago.


My name was then Olive Hudson and
was seventeen years old that same De-
cember night, and so small that Mrs.
Knights Dolly, who was not twelve
years old, was half head taller than
myself.


We were rich folks once, but father
died and left us very poor. Mother
struggled along in a weary hand to hand
fight with poverty till was sixteen ,and
then died. She had rented two rooms
of Mrs. Knight, widow, also, with two
stalwart sons, an aged father and two
daughters. After mother died L was
adopted by the knights, and, although L
was earning support as music teacher
in the Baysville Academy 1 was like one
of the family when was in my good
landlady's home.


They were all in good position, but
by no means an aristocratic family
John, the eldest son, was in New York
In wholesale sugar-house; Tom was
the night watchman of the Baysville
Bank building, and grandpa - we all
call him grandpa-was telegraph opera
tor of the town, while Mary was mil
liner, and Dolly stayed at the office
sending and receiving messages.


Baysville Bank building was large
granite structure, containing the post
office and bank on the first floor, the
telegraph Office and number of private
law offices on the third floor. In the
basement were postoffice rooms for sort
ing the mail and also the large bank
vault.


knew the building well, for 1 was
fond of telegraphing, and spent half of
my leisure time perched up beside
grandpa while he slept peacefully or read
the newspapers.


And that was the beginning of my
amusement at Dryden, the next station.
The operator at Dryden was wit, and
flashed nonsense to our office when busi-
ness was dull. 1t fell fiat when grandpa
was in the Office, but if T. were there /