smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1879

80, 900 or 10000 acres of 1t is good farming
land, capable of producing immense quantl-
ties of grain and vegetables. Millions of
fine timber for numbering purposes grow up
ON the reservation and fine water power, all
wasting to be utilized only when occupied by
thrifty white population. The Indians
will never be able to develop the great re-
sources of the reservation, and it will re-
main, as now, heavy tax on government
until opened up to white settlement.


The Indians are rapidly fading out and
few years will find the most of them beneath
the clods of the valley, and the building of
boarding houses and agricultural schools is
the height of folly. A manual labor school
was tried a few years ago and proved per-
feet failure. These Indians have been
trained to work for more than twenty years
and they know how to use the plow and
hoe, but their aoiA is opposed to manual Ia
Dor, and no amount of instruction and labor
will change their nature. Some of the lead
ing Indians desire to throw of their tribal
relations, take lands and become citizens
while the majority of them prefer to follow
their old habits and live by fishing and
hunting. This class of Indians would do as
well removed to some other reservation or
turned loose to take care of themselves.
They would scatter along the coast and
through the mountains and would neither
be missed nor in the way, and much better
off than now This would make room for
at least two hundred families and do more
to develop the country and build our rail
road flor which the GAZETTE has labored so
long), than all other means combined


1t is the policy of the government now to
consolidate these little reservations, and
this should be done before any more public
Improvements are made.


If all the Indians that belong to the reser-
vation were counted they would not exceed
500, and a great proportion of these take no
interest whatever in civilized pursuits. A
dozen Indian families live ON the bay and
never pretend to make the reservation their
home; and this is so with a great many
others that are scattered along the coast
and through the country, making living III
their own way. Very respectfully,


f. NJ CARTER.


Nou,+or Eol> 1870
Year: 1879

suddenly rich couple not a thousand
miles from New York gave an upholsterer
orders to furnish their new house from top
to bottom, and make it as magnificent as
possible. A few days later he told them OF
one Of Church's famous pictures which could
be bought for $4,000, and advised its pur-
chase. They consulted, and the next day
informed him that they liked the painting
but agreed that the price was too high for
+" second hand picture.
Year: 1879

The latest fan in Paris is really q
sort of toilet set. 1t has mob handle
which holds powder and puff. Under
one of the side slaves is concealed a
mirror and under the other a scent
tube and pocket comb.
Year: 1879

And having business connections n, Prescott ss well at other points in the Territory where the products of The country find mar ket, we can and will offer more for the same than any other house.
Year: 1879

When the two motions made on behalf of Cornelius
j. Vanderbilt-one to remove the executors for al
legged reckless speculatons and another to compel
them to flc an inventory OF the estae-came before
Surrogate Calvin some time ago, a suggestion was
made by the Surrogate that the OF $4,000 in
gold which the income left to Cornelius by his
father, should be placed by the executors in some
trust company fund for his benefit.
This was deemed advisable II the only in
tercst he had in the estate An affidavit was mean
time filed by the counsel for William II. Vanderbilt
setting forth that within few weeks after the will
had been admitted To probate this fund had been
posted by the trustees in the Treasury Washing
ton, since which tine Cornelius had regularly
drawn the income In verifcation OF this
allegation his receipts were produced.
The matter set down for argument
yesterday, and when the case was called Mr.
Scott Lord, counsel for Cornelius j.. said that the
affidavit seemed to bo perfectly satisfactory and il
appeared that the fund was perfectly secured AS to
the removal of the trustees, Mir. Clinton said that
they. having accepted the trust. could not this
time shirh the responsibility which they had AS
sumcd.


Surrogate Calvin replied that he was satisfied that
tho whole matter could be adjusted, and accordingly
set 1t down tor the llth inst.
Year: 1879

In the suit of Lelah b. Upham against Jotham Will
ION, in the Court of Common Pleas, upon reference
ascertain the priority of claims to surplus moneys
lately decided that if one contracts to purchase
mortgaged premises after judgment of foreclosure
md the vendor is unable to perform because of his
wifes refusal to execute the deed. the vendee may
buy in the premises upon the foreclosure sale
plus the difference between the purchase price
under the contract and the price at the SALE and that
this claim of the vendee is superior to that of judg-
ment against the vendor entered subsequent to
cution of the contract Judge Van Hoesen confirmed
The report Of the referee. Messrs Frankenhmer and
Roscnblatt appeared for the claimant, and Messrs.
Chatfeld Ransom and 4. S. Caldwell opposed.
Year: 1879

In O communication from o we'll known
gentleman, which is printed in the HERALD
to-day. may be found the allegation that
"the condition of Fifth street, between
First avenue and avenue b, is utterly dis
graceful The mud in many places is moro
thnn ankle deep; there are heaps of ashes,
old bottles, fragments of baskets, wall paper,
plaster and the usual assortment If old
boots and shoes" Hero aro somo items for
a picturesque account by the municipal
poet of the period Of the contents of the
average uncleaned street Our correspondent
has neglected the usual dead cot Oh dog,
the wrecked remnant of hoop skirt, and
the flaming red label Of the empty tomato
can which gives color to the typical rub
bish heap. But this was because he was
giving O historical, not O poetical account |;
hc was telling what was in Fifth street, not
generalizing q picture from many details.
BY the testimony thus given it appears,
therefore, that when we spoke Of the energy
with which the excayators of the department {
were seeking for the real level of the streets
our terms were too general. Perhaps wo
should have said for some streets on tho
cast side OF the city. Cor MIR. Woods testi-
mony evidently implies that they have not
reached Fifth street III its lar eastern
regions. When will they get there?
Year: 1879

When a woman weighing hundred and
sixty-fve pounds and enjoying apparent
health goes into public charitable institu-
tion, and returns four months later
with her weight reduced nearly one-half,
her person filthy and covered with horrible
wounds and sores. and her vitality so ex-
hausted that she dies within three days,
her case very properly excites grave sus-
picions. particularly when her attendants
have been attaches of the Lunatic Asylum
on Blackwells Island. It seems impossible
that Mrs. Graham could have been reduced
to the condition which an eyewitness care
fully describes in another column unless
wilful privation and brutal abuse were
exercised toward her. The Coroner's
Investigation, which is to begin to-
day, cannot be too thorough, for who
ever starved or tortured the wretched
woman whose remains offer evidence that
cannot be overlooked are still in position
to do the same by hundreds and thousands
of others who may be unfortunate enough
to fall into their hands.
Year: 1879

Tho Society for the Prevention of Cruelty
to Children has so much work before it that
it can hardly be expected to do everything
at once, but letter which we give in our
complaint Book" to-day refers to juve-
nile class large enough TO merit serious con-
sideration. The children alluded 10 are
the cash boys and girls in largo retail stores.
II, as the complainant alleges, these little
people ARE kept on their feet eleven hours
q day. barring few moments at noon,
their case deserves prompt attention. It
may be claimed that they are employed in
a alegitimaio business, that they know exactly
what their duties arc to be before they
accept employment. and that they arc not
beaten or directly abused, but the same
may be said Of some of the children
whom the society havo taken from the stage
Soldiers under drill uro supposed to be us
severely taxed ms any one else, but il any
drill sergeant were to keep recruits Oh their
feet during eleven consecutive hours he
would soon find ball and chain upon his
own feet, and any commissioned officer who
could be proved guilty OF such an offence
against humanity would bo cashiered.
Perhaps the employers of these children do
not realize how deeply they arc SHINING
against nature-people seldom reason in
any way when dealing with beings who fear
to complain-or do not know how to do so
intelligently; but this fact urges NIL the
more strongly an investigation by those
who profess competence to deal with such
offaira
Year: 1879

ENGLAND AND IRELAND have been fighting
again in Canada, an unusual point being that
both parties hailed from the United States in
stead of only one, is usual. One peculiar
feature Of this prize fight might be remembered
with view to the honorable settlement of com
ing international affairs--onc man offered the
other hundred dollars, and to spar ut his ben
etit, If he would give up the fight.
Year: 1879

WALL STREET YEsTEHDAY.-Thc stock mar
ket was fairly active and steady. Government
bonds were firm, States dull and railroads
higher. Money on call was tight and lent as
high as 1872 of per cent per diem, but closed
Mt q 6 per cent
Year: 1879

ments sora o men yet to be millionnaires,
while desccnts from the top to the bottom
are also within the range Of possibilities,
so let tenants be consulted if the proposed
building movements are to be in their in
Year: 1879




From the pen of tho correspondent who
so graphically delineated few weeks ago
the scenes Of almost incredible suffering in
the plague stricken province Of Ceard dur
ing the past year we to-day present a letter
giving the annals Of the pestilence and
famine for the month OF January last. It
will be observed with pleasure that the
crisis was apparently over; rains had fallen
and the mortality from smallpox in Janu-
ary had decreased to little more than two
thousand. The beginning Of the end was
reached, and our correspondent appropri-
ately takes occasion to review the whole
history of tho epidemic and to correct,
to slight extent, the appalling sta
tistics of mortality given in his former
letter. Still, there is enough in the present
narrative to amply confirm the general
statements previously given, and indeed the
danger is not yet over. From its seat in
one or two thickly peopled cities the plague
has recently extended to the country
villages over wide extent of territory.
Fortunately the region new being ravaged
is very thinly populated. and the medical
experience already gained may probably
avail to prevent the recurrence of all those
features Of horror which were chiefly due
to the crowding of multitudes of starving
wretches within the precincts of the larger
towns If proper sanitary precautions for
the future shall be taken in Rio Janciro,
Bahia and Pernambuco this catastrophe will
not have been entirely in vain.
Year: 1879

comparison can be instituted between them
and city railroad grants in other places, be-
cause the conditions that SO to make them
valuable do not present themselves in any
city but New York, where the shape of the
territory absolutely bars out competition
beyond certain degree and pre-
serves for each line an enormously
profitable business. The only re-
turn which these I'll" companies are
asked to make, besides the accommodation
to the public which they are organized to
afford, is the payment of five per cent OF
their annual net income to the city
treasury. This amount, if deducted from
the legitimate incomes of the "L" roads,
would leave sum representing profits far
exceeding the highest expectations of their
stockholders, yet the companies not only
pay this tax, but make in addition large
profits out of the illegitimate in-
come derived from crowded cars and
packed platforms. II the greed of
the companies induces them to violate
daily their own printed rules how can they
expect the people who have granted them
their valuable franchises 10 regard with in
difference quarrels in which selfshness
holds the scales wherein public safety is
weighed against private profit and ''our
rights" are thrown in as makeweights against
considerations of prudence and justice9
Year: 1879

The disappearance of james Mills. an English
glass cutter, was reported at Police Headquarters
Monday by the proprietor Of the Exchange Hotel,
Greenwich-st. Mr. Mills came to this country from
London a week ago, and has since tried. IN van to
obtain employment On Saturday he left the hotel


for the purpose OF dispOsing of a Of diamonds
ouch as used BY glass cutters which he had
brought over with him from England. He has not
been seen since, and his wife and three young chill
sFen are at the hotel D great Distress lie had with
Year: 1879

which prompted the deeds of blood that he committed. He was known as 0 bright, innocent lad of average good ness. He apparently loved his mother, and was living in domestic peace. Yet, young as he was, he had carried deadly weapons, and had threatened to use them on one or more of his supposed enemies. But in him these things were looked upon as the bravado of 8 harm less youth who had been much given to reading dime novels of the most sensa- tional kind.

 His conduct both preceding and fol" lowing the massacre shows him to have been psychological phenomenon. The fact that he had bought the lime two weeks before he sprinkled it over the dead bodies, had sharpened razor, and had disposed of cerFain mementoes, shows that he had premeditated suicide as we'll as murder. After he had slaugh- tered his victims, and while he was daily going in and out of the house where their ghastly decaying bodies lay, nothing unusual in his habits, manner, or appearance was observed by his most intimate associates, except that one or two neighbors testified to his looking somewhat melancholy" Had he not killed himself, his testimony and an ex- animation of his mental condition would doubtless have proved valuable addi- tion to psychological knowledge. As it is, the cause of the tragedy and the motive which led to it are hidden in a mystery which now seems unfathomable.
Year: 1879

Next time you go out on the Michigan Central Road take @ seat on the right hand side of the car, so that you may notice, about ten miles down the road, a little old red farm house. The curtains will be down, the doors shut, and rank weeds and tall grasses will meet the flying glance in the front yard. A month ago old Nan Rogers lived there to-day the place is in the keeping of rats and mice and desolation. The old woman was widow and childless. If she had relative anywhere in this great world, those who buried her were not aware of the fact. She lived all alone, having only bit of land and being aided by kind neighbors to raise enough to supply her wants. Seven or eight years ego when her last child left home to meet 8 violent death on this same road, the men of the rails became interested in that quaint old farmhouse. One night they saw bright light in one of the windows. Its rays streamed out over the flowers and fell upon the rails along which the wheels thundered, and the engineer wondered over the sigual. The lamp was there the next night, and the next, and it was never missed for single night until one evening month ago. Old Nan, deprived of husband and chil- dren, made friends with the rushing trains and their burdens. The trainmen soon found that the lamp was for them, and they watched for it. During the early evening hours they saw old Nanny's face behind the light or at the door, and thousand times conductors, engineers and brakemen have called cheerily through the darkness

 "Good night, old Nanny-God bless you"

 Winter and summer the light was there. Winter and summer the train men looked for it, and the more thought full ones often left bit of money with the station men beyond to help the old woman keep the bright rays shining. The lamp was not there for one train, but for all, and all men understood the sentiment and appreciated it.

 One dark night not long ago, when the wind howled and the raindrops beat fiercely against headlight and cab, the engineers missed the signal-light. They looked for it again and again, as one suddenly misses an old landmark in a city, and when they failed to find it the hand instinctiyely went up to the throt- tie, as if danger lurked on the curve below. Each train abroard that night looked for the signal, became anxious at it's absence, and made inquiries at the stations above and below. Next day men went down to the little old house, fearing old Nanny might be ill. There sat the lamp on the window sill, but the oil was exhausted. In her bed, seeming to have only fallen asleep, was the poor old woman, cold and dead. Life and lamp had gone out together, and men of rough look and hardened heart replied as they heard the news:

 "Poor old woman! May her spirit rest in Heaven !'-Detroit Free Press.
Year: 1879

APPLE CUsTARD.- Take half cup of melted butter, two cups sugar, three stewed apples, four eggs, whites and yolks separately beaten. Bake in pie plates in bottom crust.

 A WHoRTLEBERRY PUDDING One pound sugar, half pound butter, three fourths pound flour, five eggs and one quart berries. Beat butter and sugar to cream; add the four sifted, alter nately with the eggs, whipped to froth; the berries last rolled in four. Bake in buttered cake dish. Sauce for pud- ding-Rub teaspoonful of flour smooth in teacup, with cold water, adding 8 pinch of salt. Then stir in slowly boil ing water until the cup is full. Have ready in bowl one egg and teacup oi the best white sugar, beaten to cream, and pour the hot starch water slowly on the egg and sugar, stirring it carefully the while. Flavor with lemon or vanilla, according to taste, and set 1t on the ice to be served cold. This is an incom- parable dessert.

 GRAPEs,-Grapes may be kept by packing them in jars (every bunch being first wrapped in soft paper) and cover ing every layer with bran, we'll dried, laying little of it in the bottom of the jar, then layer of grapes, and so on, a layer of bran and grapes alternately, till the jar is filled then shake it gently and fill it to the top with bran. Then lay some paper over it, and cover the top with bladder, tied firmly on to ex- clude the air then put on the top or cover of the jar, observing that 1t fits close. The jars should be placed in room where fire can be kept in wet and damp weather. Use Fuller's earth for cheat" Sprinkle on as you would common starch or keep 1t in muslin bag. It is sure cure. Gan be bought at any drug store. Ten cents worth IS about half pound.

 CORN MEAL GEMS. s.-Take two cups of corn meal, two cups of wheat flour, a couple of tablespoonfuls molasses, water enough to wet it thoroughly let it stand over night; in the morning have your gem irons hot; put in a pinch of salt, Q small tablespoonful of saleratus and a piece of butter as large as a nutmeg stir well, drop in the gem irons and bake in quick oven.
Year: 1879

Russian merchants recently returned from the interior of China to St. Peters burg have furnished terrible details respecting the famiue which has for some time prevailed throughout certain provinces of the Celestial Empire. They depose to having seen people die in the streets of many towns and villages from sheer starvation, and state that not only that anthropophagy is practiced upon the bodies of the dead, but that fam ished men attack the living and prey upon them with all the ferocity and greediness of the fercest carnivora. One of them alleges that he was present at the examination of a mendicant, who had been arrested for some petty theft, and in whose professional wallet the mangled remains of an infant were dis covered. This man confessed to the magistrate that for some time previous to his seizure he had lived exclusively upon the fresh flesh of human beings, as he could not surmount his antipathy to that of dead bodies. Another appal- | ling case which came under the noUlce of Russian merchant was that of young man who had persuaded his father to assist him in murdering and subsequently, eating a girl to whom he was betrothed. Men have been exc cuted for killing and eating their own children, and sons have slain their faith CTS in order to appease the bangs of hunger. In some of the northern dis tricts whole villages stand empty, their inhabitants having one and all perished for want of food. Some of the incidc $ recounted by these commercial travellers are too horrible for reproduction but the above details will convey some idea of the awful suferings by which the population has lately been, and indeed still is afflicted.
Year: 1879

"J have brought your dinner, father" The blacksmiths daughter said, As she took from her arms kettle And lifted it's shining lid. "There's not any pie or pudding, So will give you this," And upon his toil-woln forehead She left childish kiss. The blacksmith tore off his apron And dined in happy mood, ' Wondering much at the savor

 Hid in his humble food, -.. While all about him were visions Full of prophetic bliss; But he never thought of the magic In his little daughters kiss.
Year: 1879

MINNIE LEwIs's beauty was unrivalled in the neighborhood of Hot Springs, Ark, and Harry Farley is said to have married her for the express purpose of putting her on the stage. He believed that she would be attractive enough as an actress to bring him wealth but she failed when he took her on a theatrical tour, and he soon left her. Then she committed suicide.
Year: 1879

A gentleman who had been dining out the night before went into barber's shop one morning to be shaved. He saw that the barber had been taking more than was good for him, for his hand shook very much, and, naturally indig- nant, he began to give him little moral advice by saying "Bad thing, drink. "Yes," said the barber, !" it makes the skin awful tender"
Year: 1879

THE BEST OF ALL.-This is the way the
ladies Of the Sewing Circle OF Pine-Street
church announce their excursion to Old
Point, Norfolk, and Portsmouth, on the
10th instant. This Il very appropriate time
TO visit these famous seaside resorts, and it
also affords an excellent opportunity to re-
main at either place on Sunday. The ladies
having charge Of the eXcni sion are we'll
known for their ability in such matters.
and all who patronize them can rest assured
that nothing will be left undone TO make
tue trip a most pleasant and enjoyable one.
The tickets are good for one week, and are
for sale at various points in the city.
Year: 1879

ANNUAL MEETING OF sHE CHAMBER eF
CoMAERcE.-The annual meeting OF the
Chamber Q; Commerce will be held at half
part O'Clock this afternoon in the rooms
OF the Chamber, in Commereiai- Club build
Year: 1879

AN OUyu.aGE. one. by pistol-shot
or graves-shooter, has broken the beautiful
Woodbridge memorial Window in the
Monumental church. Such an outrageous
act should fhe punished most severely, and
it is to be hoped the rascal may be caught
by the police. Indeed the vestry of the
church have already taken steps to discover
the guilty party and to prosecute the Of
senders in the courts.
Year: 1879

EDITOR TIMEs-Why do not tailors or other
persons make pants and coats of linen or
light freight cashmere, for boys from to II
years of age? II a mother of boys wishes to
get thin coat or pair of pants for one or
more of her boys, she must buy complete
suit of vest, coat and pants, or have them
made at home, which is not always conve-
nient. l do not see why these garments
should not be made and sold separately at a
reasonable price in the dry goods stores. 1t
wOu d add much to the comfort of tho-e who
have boys To clothe 90 know that any time
they could buy either of these garments, well
cut and strongly made. MOTHER.