smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1874

Beyond all lights that ever shine
On land or ripping sea.
The love-light beaming in your eyes
The fairest seems to me.
Gladly to greet the sunbeam's kiss
The rose its beauty shows
Gladly to meet your tender glance
Ny quick blood comes and goes.
If the sun sees an answering smile
On land or glancing wave,
Can you not see in my eyes, dear,
The light your own eyes gave?


SWEETHEART.
Year: 1874

The Philadelphis Republican City Central
Committee have taken action upon The protest
Of Leonard Myers as to the nomination for Con-
gress in the fifth district of A. C. Harmer, and
adopted a resolution that Leonard Myers had
refused to comply with the rules of the Repub-
lican party and therefore could not be recoguiz-
ed as a candidate, and that this committee inst
again decide that there was but one candidate
before The Republican Congressional Convention
for the fifth district, and that the Hon. A. c.
Harmer, having fully complied with The rules of
the Republican party and received the votes of
more than two-ihirds of the delegation con
stitutpg the convection, is duly nominated as
the Republican candidate for Congress in The
fifth District"
Year: 1874

CULFhFEh, ~ JUIy I0i IstF.
Case or Observation-Disclosures among HE


Colorea People.


The inhabitants of this town were startled yea
tcrday by the announcement that we have n case
of hydrophobia in our midst A little girl, aged
about eleven years, was bitten by dog about
four weeks ago, and commenced showing symp.
toms Of the disease yesterday morning.


Whenever any water or milk is offered her
she Immediately goes off into violent tits and
spasms. The doctors arc experimenting on her
in various ways, trying TO lind out If possible
some insight into this terrible disease. They
have Ice bound all over her back There is very
great excitement here about it, especially among
the negroes, who are SO very badly frightened
that they are poisoning the dogs in every dirse
ton
Year: 1874

panies Of the sea. " These, it is
said, have taken advantage of the
uneasiness and homesickness which.
ordinarily take possession of the
newly arrived emigrants, and which
the hard times and general stagna-
ton IN business, have tended to
aggravate, by sending out thousands
Of circulars and flaming posters, in
vlting e.clgrants to return to the old
country for twenty dollars in gold.
This they do forthe purpose of filing
their vessels with steerage passen-
gers They announce that these
excellent opportunities will only be
given for brief time. knowing that
most of those who 90 now will soon
return again paying full fare. 1t is
said that the sea-traffic in this time
of financial embarrassment is thus
made comparatively profitable
Madison Democrat.
Year: 1874

The New York Daily Bulletin, one
of the most intelligenlly and carefully
edited of commercial journals, pub
fishes review of the money markets
ofEurope and the United States, and
contrasts the ruling low rates of
interest in all parts of the continent
and Great Britain at the present time
with the high rates ruling last year.
The conclusion arrived at by the
Bulletin is that the prevailing ease


in all the money markets of the
world must lead to revival of buSi-
ness this fall Of a healthy and sub
stantlal character, not perhaps of
extraordinary activity, as that may
be reserved for 1875, but a vast i'm
provement on the trade of last
spring. This calculation comedies
with the opinion OF most Of our
bankers and merchants. The revi-
val Of business in the fall is not a
question of any reasonable doubt,
as the associated banks of New
York have now a loaning capacity
Of Se5, 100000 III excess Of last
years ability, and this in itself
would be a sufficient reason for pre-
dieting an extraordinary speculative
movement In 1875.
Year: 1874

All signs seem to favor the idea
that those farmers who sell their
new wheat earliest will be the gain
ers--that this year it will be the
early bird that catches the worm.
Not only are prices likely to de-
cline steadily during the fall and
winter, but it is certain that freights
which have long been extremely
cheap, will advance largely on the
close of navigation. Wheat is now
carried from Chicago to New York,
by lake and rail, for fraction over
eleven cents per bushel, as follows
Steam from Chicago to Buffalo 28c
Elevating at Buffalo o-------- &c
Rail from Buffalo to New York Sic


Total 5c


From New York to Liverpool
rates are proportionately low, in
consequence Of the great amount of
freight room and the brisk compe-
tition. Including three cents per
buShel for handling III New York city,
the total cost Of carrying across the
ocean Is II cents, or % Is cents
from Chicago to LIVERPOOL These
rates are ruinous to the water carriers,
both On the lakes and the ocean,
and will not probably prevail
after this season for many years to
come. In any event as soon as
lake and canal navigation closes,
railroad frcights will be advanced
under the recent agreement Of the
trunk lines, when it will doubtless
cost fully % per cent. more to send
grain from Chicago to New York
than is now paid from Chicago to
Liverpool. A similar advance will
he made on railroad rates west OF
Chicago, after the competition OF
the water routes is withdrawn, 50
that, by the first Of December, it will
cost more than twice the present
IA. e to ship bushel Of wheat from
St. Paul to New York or to Liver
pool.


The difference in the cost of car
mage alone, to say nothing of the
state Of the markets, will amount to
not less than 81 100000, on a ship
ment offs, 100000 bushels to New
Y ork only, which may be saved to
the producers if their crops are
hurried forward to market during
September ana October. AS there
is no expectation in any well-intorm-
ed quarter of q better market next
spring than now, this fact of pres
ent low freights ought to be sutfi-
cient to call out promptly the ut
most possible amount of wheat
] 81 P13/Z Press Ith
Year: 1874

Prof Parkhurst furnishes the
New York Tribune positions of the
Coggia comet up to July D,
1874, the article concluding thus:


VIII it ever come back !?
There is no evidence in the affirm
ative. It's elements do not prove
identical with any comet previously
observed For q while it was sup
posed to be a comet that appeared
in 1897, but this is now exceedingly
doubtful. Its orbit is probably
hyperbollc, and the statement Of
its probable position thousand
years hence would suffice for read
ers who wish to dip into futurity.
As to its visiting the fixed stars
and returning to the earth again, the
calculations Of Mr.. Proctor rather
withdraw such possibility from
the sphere of mundane interest.
He found at the rate that comets OF
a parabolic orbit usually travel, the
outw ard voyage to the nearest star
would occupy something like eight
million years.
Year: 1874

Some special Investigations which
have recently been made relative to
the singular qualities of iron and
steel produced in certain parts of In
dia. show that the ore used is the
magnetic oxide of iron, consisting
of y per cent of iron with % of OK
ygen, combined with quartz, in the
proportion Of 50 of oxide and As Of
quartz. 1t is prepared by stamping,
and then separating the quartz by
washing or winnowing. Nothing, it
would seem, could be more simple
than the manufacturing processes.
Thus, the furnace is built Of clay
alone, from three to five feet high,
and pear-shaped !; the bellows is
formed of two goat skins, with BAN
boo nozzle, ending in a clay pipe.
The fuel is charcoal, upon which the
ore is laid without hux. The bel
lows are piled for four hours, when
the ore is found to be reduced ; 1t is
then taken out, and, while yet red
hot, is cut through with hatchet,
and then forged by the blacksmith
into bars and converted into steel.
The forging is accomplished by re-
peated hammering, until it forms an
apparently unpromising bar of iron,
but which is converted into cast
steel of the very best quality.
Year: 1874

The Oshkosh Northeastern
makes tn following appeal to the
public for aid to the sufferers from
the recent fire in that city. We
trust our generous citizens will re-
spond promptly and literally:


Some misunderstanding exists as
to the kind and quantity of relief
desired among our citizens who
were burned out Of house and home.
Several hundred families are entirely
destitute Of clothing, bedding and
furniture. We have provisions
enough to feed the homeless, but
the committee needs money, wo-
mems and children's clothing of all
kinds and bedding. Our people are
responding nobly to the calls of
charity, but feel under the necessity
Of asking the citizens of our neigh
boring towns to render the assist
ance stated above We know they
will respond to our call when they
know what is wanted.
Year: 1874

The Radical City Council are bent on inilicting
a scourge upon this city in the shape oil a Paid
Fire Department. Their action last evening is
proof OF this. They have simply deferred the
time of making the change until October, or until
after the city election They know they cannot
make their arrangements 10y that time. When it
is adopted look out for confagrations higher in
surance rates, and enormous taxation. This has
been the experience of the paid system every
where; and Wilmington will not prove all excep-
ton. 1t has been found an expensive failure in
Philadelphia; and n cry has been raised for its
reconstruction because Of the immense cost. Last
year the expenditures there exceeded S400, 900
and this year 1t will run 100000. 1t Is one
Of the Radical schemes there for political pecu.
lators to dlbble in and so it will prove here l. our
people suiicr it to go into operation. We have
now the best fire department in the United S ates,
on the safest and best plan we ever had it may
6e still further improved if more moral m IN OF
character will give it little attention and en-
couragcment.
Year: 1874

The Radical party has at last succeed in one OF
Its cherished ideas. 1t has been the cause OF CIV


ing the old Republican, war-like State of South
Carolina-the home OF that immortal Christian
Statesman, John e. Calhoun-a king. An Airi-
can king; it may be, from the royal line of Da-
honey. For such is the actual condition of that
proud old State-a State that could not be con-
quered by all the power of Great Britain, that
she'd her best blood for the freedom OF Massa-
chusetts has now by Massachusetts, been put un-
der the boot of the negro Moses. Good God :
What would Patrick Henry say If be hved III
this day. What would old John Adams say; or
Marion, or Sumpter? We believe they would
fight Tney would slaughter every negro and
white man that sustained Moses in his opposition
10 law Thus we see the proud spirit that once
made the Southern country the birth place OF the
most chivalrous and the most free and honorable
people of the whole world crushed out under the
heel of party governed by political despots Of
the most hated aud contemplate character. Such
men as Henry Wilson old "whiskey swggiRg


Chandler, and that old Winnebago fraud, Came.
ron Better had South Carolina been sunk and the
sea rolled over her Than that she should continue
to exist In such state as We now find her peo-
pie. And there are men in Delaware to-day who
would reduce our State to the same condition il
thereby they could defeat the Democrats and put
down the spirit OF the white people. There is
English blood still that hates Democratic free
Year: 1874

A st. Potersburgh letter to the Lon


don Standard, contains the following


"The convicts in Siberia are divided
into two categories, those condemned
TO hard labor, and those who are sent
as settlers, and with very few exccp.
tions, tho exiled Poles now belong io
the latter division, in consequence Of
the frequent occasions on which their
punishment has been mitigated within
the last ten years. AS settlers, they
arc free TO do us they like, so long as
they remain within tho limits Of the
locality to which tbcy arc assigned
II is now proposed that those among
them whose conduct has been salts,
factory should DO allowed to go back
to their native country, provided they
can return at their own expense, and
are able to find the means of subsist.
ence at homo. There is one other
condition-namely, that the head OF
the administration OF their native
district should not object to their re.
turn. The Poles in exile are very
different from their countrymen at
home. Once in Siberia, those who
are not kept at bard labor soon be-
come useful members Of society. Po-
litical agitators forget their dreams OF
personal ambition and their plans for
making people happy by putting them
through course of constant agitation.
They have to work and they do it,
Their labor is well paid, and il they
do not live comfortably as honest
workmen, it is their own fault. The
long journey is always a painful trial
to them, and when they reach their
place Of destination they find LABOR of
any kind relief Some of them, ii
is true, continue their old habits of in.
trigue for II time and try to work out
the political and social problems which
they consider it their mission to solve;
but in very short time they become
convinced OF the utter inutility of such
course, and settle down into good
subjects. Those who have any skill
get on very well. As artisans they
are preferred, for they always show
superior knowledge and taste, and
"Polish work" in Siberia means super


ior workmanship. Seeing this, those
who do not know any trade soon learn
one. We have heard OF Pole who
could do nothing; but as he must
either be content with the miserable
pittance allowed by the Government
of two cents day, or turn his hand
TO some useful occupation, he tried
boot'making, but that did not sue.
coed then be turned his attention to
sausages and made them so well that be
sold as many as he could manufacture.
AT Irkutsk the best shops are kept by
the Poles. There are undoubtedly
many who cannot become sausage.
makers or shop keepers, but for those
who would more willingly work with
their heads than their hands there are
careers open. Engineers and doctors
find ready employment, and indeed
Polish medical mon have a high repu


tation in Siberia. Authorship in any
shape is, of course, out of the question


The only remaining career, that ol
teaching, is according TO the law strict


ly forbidden; but, Notwithstanding
the prohibition, it is well known that
educated Poles are engaged as teach
ors in the families of some of the most
important functionaries in Siberia, ,and
they are never known TO abuse The
confidence reposed in them"
Year: 1874

so Iar as they have been put in operation, have
succeeded volunteer departments that have been
badly managed and conducted by men of very
depraved and disreputable habits. The cause for
change in our department We are told by The
advocates of the PAID system in the City Council
docs not exist here. Hence the charge that poll.
tics IS at the bottom of the matter. We do not
Ike to impugn the motives Of any, but the charge
seems to be generally admitted, notwithstanding g
there ore some citizens of both political parties
who are favorable 10 the paid system.
Year: 1874

DEFYING THE BUzzARDs Fellow who was
in the habit Of getting drunk whenever be went
TO town, in returning home one day fell from
his horse and was quiet as ihough dead A
buzzard spied him, few round and round. and
Lighting near, hoped up pecked his nose. which
aroused the fellow little. The bird stepped
up and struck him acaiO; this brought one .ey e
open, and that the bird thoght he was dead, he
wreatbed his lips with drunken scorn, and look.
ing the bird squsre in the face, said; you neednl
be go id smart; J. am not 30 dead as you
think ! am"
Year: 1874

We suppose that all our readers know
that man would not be what lie is without the
thumb. This little fact has been so impress
ed upon us from our school days that We are
not likely to forget it. Without the thumb
for a lever, we would be unable to hold any
thing tightly, and most of the inventions of
our era would he useless. no! to speak OF the
enormous general power that would he lost
Let us accept the fact OF having thumbs.
then, let us he thankfu! and rejoice over our
Darwinian friends, the apes. We did not
know. however. until we saw it in print yes
tertlay, that the thumb represented in,elli-
gcnce and affection. Born idiots frequently
come into the world without t.lnmls. In
fantS. unit, they arrive ut an ace H,n intel
lect dawns, constantly keep their fingers
folded above their thumbs. but they soon
know better, and as the mind develops, re-
cognize the dignity and usefulness OF the
despised digit. At the approach Of death
the thumbs of the dying as if impcllcd by
some vague fear, seek refuge under the fin
GERS and when thus found are an almost GER
tain announcement Of the end So. in leav
ing this world. i: would seem that our hands,
in their last desire for movement, assume,
with our growing unconsciOusnesS, the same
suggestive position in which the hands OF the
newborn babe, with faculties all dormant,
first shape themselves. Small thumbs denote
an affectionate disposition long thumbs go
with long heads; short, thick stumpy thumbs
mark cruel man, and much more is told us
of the same kind,
Year: 1874

On last Saturday an old gentle
man entered the cars at Sabula OF


the train coming north, and in con-


versation with q fellow passenger
confded to him an interesting por-
ton of his history, which is as fol-
lows: SOME time previous to the
late war he purchased a farm neal
Green Island, paying half the pur-
chase money down, and married a
widow, who was also his second wife.
When the war began he entered the
army, and in one of the hotly-con-
tested battles lost q leg, for which,
upon returning homie, he substituted
cork limb. His last union was
blessed with several children, and
all went smoothly until the year 1866,
when he and his wife began discuss
ing the virtues Of their former
spouses, which produced q serious
quarrel, ending by tile wife driving
him from home. Like Rip Van
Winkle, he kissed lis children and
departed without one word of COM
plaint or reproof. From his own
threshold he wandered over almost
every portion of the world, and for
eight years his family never received
either letter or message from him.
on Saturday, when he took the cars
at Sabula, he was within few miles
of his old home, from which he, too
had never heard q word since the
day he left. On the train he met an
Old acquaintance, who informed him
that his wife, supposing he had died,
had married again, and had two
children by her last union; that she
was living on the same old farm, and,
as Enoch Arden was told of Annie,
"was happy" The old man replied
that he was not grieved at that, but
that he returned to see his, children,
of whom he spoke very affectionate-
ly. The third station the train
stopped, and young lady entered,
who upon perceiving the old gentle
man, examined him very closely,
after which she asked his name. He
told her, and exclaiming, "Then you
are my father" she threw herself in
to the old mans arms. Both shed
tears of joy at the reunion, and our
informant described the scene as very
affecting. The old gentleman has
accumulated quite a neat sum of
money in his wunderings, which he
says he intends himself and children
to enjoy, and that he will leave his
wife and her new husband to them
selves on the old farm, adding that
he will be happy in company with
his daughter, who is married, and
that he feels no desire to interfere
with the happiness of his wife. Dw-
Juque Herald.
Year: 1874




On Sunday afternoon young man
named George Falk swallowed, as
he stated, three ounces of laudanum
and five grains of morphia, in order
to end his life. There was but one
way of saving him, and that was to
keep kim in motion,


After relieving him as far as posi-
BILE, his physician ordered that he be
walked until he was out of danger.
At half-past two o'clock Sunday af-
ternoon he was put upon his tramp
for life, and was forced to walk in
the open air as rapidly as he could.
His father kept by him for long
time, and friend or policeman as.
sisted. After some hours the father
Year: 1874

A Chicago correspondent of the
Troy Times says: ga bit of romance
recently came to my notice which
has not before appeared in print.
Some time i'll December last o girl
about seventeen years of age, who at
that time was serving as table-waite-
ip a large dining restaurant, was arr
rested for stealing a package of mon
ey from the pocket Of q gentleman's S
overcoat which was hanging in the
room while he was eating his dinner.
At the preliminary examination u
party swore to having seen her take
the coat down and hang it up quickly
again; that she soon left the room
for short time; and, as the money
was not to be found. she was held
for trial. In vain she protested that
she merely moved the coat to avoid
its getting soiled; in vain with tear
full eyes she offered to be searched.
The circumstances were suspicious,
and the officers inexorable. In the
meantime the gentleman who had
lost the money became Interested in
her history, found she was an
orphan. girl, and, though com
paratively friendless, bearing an
excellent character. Further than
this, he ascertained she was of Ehg-
lish parentage, that her name was
the same as his own, and, to make
the story short, from evidence which
he could not disbelieve, that she was
the daughter OF his own brother,
whom he supposed to have died
childless in Australia several years
ago. OF course he declined prose
cutting her, and, Us he is wealthy and
without near kin, he ut once arrang-
cd to take her home with him, on
his return from the West, whittier he
was then en- route. The other day
he, with his newly-adopted child 80
strangely brought to him, started for
New York, whence they will soon
sail for England" "
Year: 1874

FRoM THE SHADOW or THE GUuLo-
TINE.--One Of the most remarkable
escapes evor made was made by M,
de Chateaubun during the reign Of
terror in Paris. He was sent to exc
cution with twenty other prisoners;
but after the fifteenth head had fall
on, tho guillotine got out Of order,
and workman was sent to repair it.
The six remaining victims were left
standing in front Of the machine
With their hands tied behind them.
A French crowd is very curious, and
the people kept pressing forward to
see the man arranging the guillotine.
BY degrees NJ dc Chateaubrun, who
was to tho rear Of his companions,
found himself in the front line of the
spectators, then in the second, and
finally well behind those who had
come to SEQ his bead cut off, Before
the man could get the guillotine in
working order, night began to iall
and nj. de Chateaubrun slipped
away. When in the Champs Elysees
he told q man that d wag Ind tied
his hands and robbed him Of his hat
and this simple individual cut him
free. A few days later M. de Chat
eaubrln escaped from France
Year: 1874

joined, and in the end turned
preacher.


Now, for goodness sake, don't gel
mad or laugh at poor Joe! He'd had
enough, gracious knows, and he
proved such success as a preacher,
and he and the mule Jared SO well,
until in an evil hour, he got up big
camp meeting, and the greatest in
terest had been awakened, and one
Sunday Joe was up preaching rous-
ing sermon to sea of anxious peo-
pie, when along came that blasted
mule, helter-skelter, rattle-te-bangI
an oil can and fire-crackers to his
tail, and thousand dogs and boys at
his heels.


Six months afterward Joe found
the unhappy mule shivering in the
thickest tule on Sherman Island
His shipped the mule the next day
to what was then San Franciscoy and
sold it to Frank Pixley.


Alasl poor Joe! There had been
too much mule in his luck for the
girl and old PoseyS