smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1874

The following pretty sketch from Scotch


Uiohland life IS an extract from advance
sheets of Miss Wordsworth's journal OF her
father the poets tour TIN ough Scotland in
company With Coleridge, which Principal
Sharp is editing for publication: :" think
I never heard the English language sound
more sweetly than from the mouth OF the
elder of these girls, while she stood at the
gate answering our inquiries, her face
flushed with the rain; her pronunciation


was clear ans. distinct; without dlihcuity'
vet slow, like that of a foreign speech


They told us we might sit in the ferry
house till the return of the boat, went In
with us. and made IL good fire as fast as
possible to dry our wet clothes we learnt
that the taller was the sister of the ferry
man. and had been left in charge with the
house for the day, that the other was his
wife's sister, and was come with her moth
or on n visit-an old woman who sat In q


corner beside the cradle, nursing her little
erandchild We were glad to be housed


with our feet upon. a.warm hearth-stone


and our attendants were so active anf
4 good-humored that it was pleasant to have
1 to desire them = to do anything. In
Year: 1874

Some Of the Democratic papers continue
60 urge their party men in Congress to vote
for a new election in Louisiana. But none
of them have been able to point f. the
slightest evidence that the trainers Of the
constitution intended to confer on the ma
tional government any such power as
would be exercised in the passage of such
a measure. The World cites Mr.. Calhoun
in support of its views. but the language it
quotes does not help its case. The passage
cited has not even the most remote bearing
on the question.


But thousand passages might be quoted
from Mr.. Calhoun's writings deprecating
any such interference as that which is now
recommended. We have already shown
that the guaranteeing clause was meant by
the Constitutional Convention to apply to
the constitutions of the several States, and
was suggested by the not unnatural fear
existing at that time that anti-republcan
and monarchcal or aristocratic forms
might be substituted for those in force in
the States. Mr.. Calhoun's language was
quite in accordance with this view. 1t will
be a strange sight if the Democrats in Con-
gress should be found sustaining measure
utterly without authority in the censtitu-
ton, and which is an assumption of power
by the federal government quite equal to
anything that occurred during the war;
Ne11 York Times.
Year: 1874

a dispatch from Boston, dated tho twen-
tieth instant, to the New York Times, says:


The members of the Legislature and the
community at large were to-day surprised
BY the publication Of decision of the full
bench of the Supreme Court favOrably to
the election of women on the school board.
The Legislature asked for an opinion on the
question, whether under the State eOnstitu-
ton, q woman can be a member OF school
committee, and the decision was given in
reply to this request. 1t is in full as fol-
lows:


The justices Of the Supreme Judicial
Court respectfully submit the following
answer to the question upon which their
opinion was required by the order of the
honorable House of Representatives Of the
sixteenth day of the present month.


The question is stated in these words:
'Under the constitution OF the common
wealth, can woman be member OF
school committed" The question is limited
to the effect of the constitution upon the
capacity of a woman to hold this office, and
involves no Interpretation of the statutes.


If the constitution prevents woman
from being member OF school committee.
it must by force of same express pro-
vision thereof. or else by necessary implica-
ton arising either from the nature OF the
Office itself, or from the law of Massachu.
setts as existing when the constitution was
adopted, and in the light Of which it must


be read.


But the constitution contains nothing re-
lating to school committees; the Office is
created and regulated by statute, and the
constitution confers upon the general court
full power and authority to name and settle
annually, or provide by fixed laws for nam
ing and settling all civil officers within the
commonwealth, the election and constitu-
tion of whom are not IN the constitution
otherwise provided for.


The common law of England, which was
our law upon the subject, permitted wo-
man to fill any local office of an administra-
tive character the duties attached to which
were such that woman was competent to
perform them. The duties of a school COM
mittee relate exclusively to the education
of children and youth in the town or city
for which it is elected. They consist of
the general charge and superintendent
of the schools, including the employ
ment of teachers, selection of school
books, regulation Of the attendance of
scholars, and the preparation of school reg
listers and returns, and they are in no re-
spect of such nature that they can not be
we'll and efficiently performed by women.
The necessary conclusion Is that there ls
! nothing in the constitution of this common
wealth to prevent woman from being q
member of school committee, and that
the question proposed must be respectfully
answered in the affirmative.


Horace Gray. John Wells, James ID. Colt
Seth Ames. Marcus Morton. William G.
Endicott, Charles Devens. Jr.


Boston. February 20. 1874.
Year: 1874

The story is told of woman who freely
used her tongue to the scandal OF others,
and made a confession to the priest of what
she had DONE He gave her ripe thistle
top, and told her to go out in various direc-
tions and scatter the seeds one by one
Wondering at the penance, she obeyed, and
then returned and told her confessor. To
her amazement, he bade her 60 back and
gather the scattered seeds; and when she
objected that it would be impossible, he re-
piled that it would be still more difficult to
gather up and destroy all the evil reports
which she had circulated about others.
ANY thoughtless, careless child can scatter
. handful Of thistle seed before tho wind in
. moment, bat the stysagsst and wiDost
man en- noe eatAr tAs1 a9aiA.
Year: 1874

The last number of the Brashear Enter.
prise has the following bit of of apology;
''The thumb of our partners right hand be-
ing exceedingly sore, and we being left
alone this week to do all the Office work,
accounts for our paper not being out on
time"
Year: 1874

REAL ESTATE IN TAcoMA.-The Taco
ma Tribune, in an article boasting of the
improvements going on and contempla-
ted in that city, says: " Before starting
for the East, Mr.. E s. Smith Skookum ]
sold eight lots in the lower town. The
last one he disposed of on Saturday.
and is the lot on the upper side of Sec
ond street, near McCarver, ON which
the two-bit eating house now stands.
Mrs. J. W. Ackerson was the purchaser
and 500 the consideration. The new
proprietor will probably erect two fine
buildings on her lot, suitable for stores,
with rooms up stairs"


This was undoubtedly good sale for
Smith, but it strikes us that the price is
not remarkably high for house and lot
eligibly situated for business, in city
of such vast pretensions. A full lot of
60 feet front as eligibly situated in Seat
tie. would readily command ten times
that sum; and such lots sold at Duluth
within the year the terminus of the N.
P. Railroad was located at that place, as
high as 1000 apiece. A sale of land
was made last week within two miles of
the railroad depot at 81 an acre. The
same land was held at 800 an acre, by
the owner, six months ago. We believe
there is 40 land within two miles of the
wharves in this city which could be
bought for 500 an acre. These facts
prove conclusively the public faith in
the future of Seattle, and the utter want
of faith in the future of Tacoma.
Year: 1874

All public indications point to the
fact that the intolerant spirit of party
which has so long dominated the coun-


try. and been the chief instrumentalitv
by which official corruption has been
fostered and perpetuated, is gradually
but certainly losing its grip. The spirit
Year: 1874

Everybody is wondering why the BAZAAR
is selling their goods so cheap. The reason is
they must clear out their Spring and Sum-
mer goods to make room for the immense
stock of Fall and Winter goods which they
will soon receive
Year: 1874

There is scarcely fashionable caprice
that doesn't do good to some one. Thus
the ornaments of white and black jet,
which have become the vogue in Paris,
have restored prosperity TO the working
classes in Venice, who we're in a state of
great distress before the revival Of the
taste for JET trimmings.
Year: 1874

No honest man can read the story Of yes
terday's proceedings at Columbia without q
blush of shame. No conscientious Republican
can read it without feeling something like
despair. In South Carolina the atrocities of
carpet-bag misgOvernment had been carried to
such pitch that the whole country turned
away its face in disgust at the spectacle. Not
one voice was heard in defense Of the shame
less wretches who there made sport of law, Of
honesty, of even the external decOrum under
which official thieves generally try to disguise
their depredations. The politicians in Washing
ton fastened to disavOw the monster of their
own begettng. The President, who can
stand almost anything, is said to have lost
his temper whenever he spoke of the scandals
of South Carolina. So general was the indig
nation at the condition of things in Columbia
that Gov. Moses burst not ayow himself a
candidate for denomination. 1t was hoped
though we can hardly say it was believed
that the chiefs of the Republican party, for
the sake of the effect upon the elections in
other States if not for the sake of South
Carolina, would bring such moral pressure to
bear upon their clients, camp followers, and
licensed bandits III this unfortunate State as
to enforce some sort of reform or at least
some approach to decency in the present cam
paigI. What ground there was for any such
hope our dispatches this morning may show.


The Convention has not yet effected per-
manent organization, and already it is clear
that Moses can have the nOmination-unless
in the heat of competition the price of votes
should 90 above his means.


Probably if the Republicans of South Caro-
lima were to search the whole Union they
could not find candidate who would more
deeply disgrace them unless they took one
out of the Penitentary. But if they finally
reject Moses, will they do much better with
their second chocei The next bidder Just
now is Chamberlain, whom Moses charges
with being his accomplice in some of the
worst financial operations of the past
term, and who seems to have been un-
pleasantly implicated in the legal jugglery
by which Senator Patterson escaped trial on
Year: 1874

an indictment for bribery. Mr.. Chamberlain's
past associations are as bad as they can be.
His present comrades are perhaps the worst
there are left for him in the State now that
he has Quarreled with Moses. Bowen, the
bigamous Congressman, aud Whittemore, the
expelled cadetship peddler, are the noisiest
and most active of his supporters. What in
fanny may we not expect of Convention In
which Moses is the favorte candidate and
Whittemore and Bowen are the most indus
trious managersf


In the course of another month the Conven-
ton of Southern Republicans in Atlanta VIII
be heard shrieking of danger to the colored
people of South Carolina, and Senator Patter-
son will be camoring for more troops and
new reconstruction law. We shall be told
that the Republican party in the Southern
States is in danger of determination, and
nothing but the most vigorous action OF the
Federal Government can save it. But If these
are the representatives of the Republican
party who are making politics hideous IN
Columbia, its determination surely cannot
come too soon.
Year: 1874

of the disagreement, but this office the Asso-
citation would not undertake. The mill
owners were also represented and their side
of the case was put before the meeting.
Then for the first time apparently, each side
realized the weakness not to say the absurdity
of its own position, and the force OF the argu-
ments on the other side. Men who scarcely
an hour before had been bitterly opposed and
hopeless of reconciliation. saw in moment
the way to compromise. The adjustment OF
wages was mere matter of detail, easily
arranged at conference the following morn
ing; and on the next day the black plumes OF
smoke were rising from the chimneys of the
linen mills of Belfast, after seven weeks OF
ideness and the loss of million dollars.


While it is clearly evident that the exposi-
ton and comparison of their differences had
the direct effect of bringing about reconcll-
iation, it is also plain that the reason OF the
willingness of both sides to tell their story
was that both had confidence in the impartial
ity of the auditors. A new field for our scien-
tifc bodies is thus indicated; field of useful
ness where they will have no competitors.
Men who have devoted themselves to scien-
tifc inquiry are In general the most disinter-
ested persons of intelligence before whom
such questions could be presented. Their
advice, if they chose to give it,,
would be of the highest value, since
the whole business of their lives is the appli-
cation of common sense to abstruse problems
Nothing would be easier than for the National
Academy of Sciences or the American Associa-
ton to pick out permanent committee OF
half dozen members eminently competent to
form judgment on this class of questions
Now that the example has been set and the
admirable success of this method de-
monstrated, it would seem not impossible that
the experience of strikes of great extent or
long continuance might be relegated to a
past age. There can be little doubt that both
parties to any strike in this country would be
willing to lay their differences before such
committee and the mere exposition of the
case, with the advice of the committee, would
in nine cases out of ten solve the difficulty.
Year: 1874

THE SENATOR QUESTION IN WISCONSIN,


Last Summer a United States Senator, hold
ing the position of President pro tempore of
the highest legislative body in the land, dis
eraced himself and his high Office by such
indecent behavior in public in this city and at
Long Branch, and on the steamboat between
this city and Long Branch, that he was turned
away from the West End Hotel at the latter
place for that reason and no other. Such
conduct as his and his female companions
would anywhere have attracted attention and
excited disgust There had been much talk
privately of this mans unclean personal career,
and where he was known his name was
SYNONYM for unchastity. The vices which be-
clouded his character as a private citizen he
not only took with him into public life, but
IN that larger relation and wider field he ex-
tended and emblazOned them. At home i'll
Wisconsin, in Chicago st. Louis, NewOrleans,
and Washington, whether occupied with official
duties at the Capital or travelling In official
capacity through the country, he had affronted
the cleaner and better sense of his fellows by
the absolute shamelessness of his life. 1t was
said in his defense that he was one of those
brilliant intellectual geniuses who could not
be held to the ordinary rules of morality
that his nature brookcd no restraint; that he
was above law. Public discussion of the pri-
vate life of this public man was warded off
for the reason that it was improper. 1t was
right that it should be so. Bat when this
high officer of Government so flaunted his
Offenses against purity and deccncy in the
public face that on the deck of steamboat
honest women turned away from the exhibi-
ton with blush, aud prurient boys went
round 1t with chuckle and leer. and the
Year: 1874

The interesting letter of our regular eorre-
spondent, describing the part taken by the
British Association for the Advancement of
Science in terminating the strike in the linen
factories of Belfast, is exceedingly suggestive.
Strikes are in their essential nature unscien-
tifc. On the one hand stand the owners with
their machinery and materials; or the other
the workmen with empty stomachs and idle
hands. The men want to work the employers
want them to be working. The difficulties
which the forces of nature present have been
overcome and the obstacle encountered is not
I'm the process of manufacture. The channels
of trade have been opened and the market is
ready with its demand. Nothing needs ad-
iustment but question of wages. If it were
not matter of such frequent experience. it
would seem incredible that such question,
which ought to be the easiest of all to adjust,
should block the wheels of prosperity for
weeks at time, wasting vast sums OF money
and bringing want and desolation to thou
sand homes.


Some recognition of the utterly unphilosophi-
cal characteristics of their strike seems to
have dawned upon employers and employed
when they brought the matter before the
British Association. The workmen came TO
its sessions by special though not strictly
official invitation. Essays of n purely scientific
character upon the relations of labor and
capital had been read before the meeting
The workmen were then invited to come for
ward and state their grievances. They did
30. Very willing would they have been to
make that body of scientific men the arbiters
Year: 1874

The indirect action of last Winters panic is
long continued. Although nearly all our lead
ing industries have shown signs of revival,
and some of them are enjoying fair prosper
ity, the temporary check that was Occasioned
to many trades and the continued dullness in
Others seems to have produced some effects of
remarkable permanence. The impression has
gained ground abroad that emigration to this
country is no longer the high road to wealth.
A falling off in the past week, amounting to more
than forty per cent of the arrivals of imml-
grants for the corresponding week of last year.
is reported. Among other consequences of de-
creased emigration and diminished trade is a
serious loss of business on the part Of the
lines of steamships plying between our own
and European ports. BY an article in another
column it will be seen that some of the lines
are contracting their facilities and withdraw
ing from business, having no hope of revival
of traffic before Spring trade opens.
Year: 1874

The sensational rumors and wild surmises
about the political course of Senator Fenton
will be set at rest by the speech which he de-
iivered last night at Albany. The Senator has
no thought of forsaking his political associ-
ates, and is not insensble of the important
work he and they have accomplished in check
ing the dangerous tendencies and corrupt
practices of the ruling party.
Year: 1874

We are indebted to the Leonard Scott Publishing
Company for an early copy of Mr. William W. Story's
noble tribute to the memory Of Charles Sumner
which we print in THE TRIBUNE this morning
Year: 1874

Once in while there comes up some instance of
unequal legal punishment that almost makes one
doubt if such an attribute as justice lives in
mankind. Here is enc from England that is like
nothing so much as the story of Jean Vatican. The
other day Mary Fenton, poverty-stricken proba-
bly, starved factory operative, was actually SEN
fenced to ten years penal seryitude and seven
years police supervision for-murder mo, for
stealing piece of lamb 1t is strange comment
on English law that this woman should 80 suffer for
a small offenSe, while in the North of England
strange rage for kicking people almost to death SIM
ply for amusement exists among the men of the
lower classes and goes nearly and sometimes alto
gether unpunished.
Year: 1874

This is the story of baggage check that literally
deserved its name A gentleman of this city few
days ago purchased ticket to Lake George on the
day line of Hudson River boats, and asked if his
baggage might be checked through. The clerk said
it could be, and was as good as his word, which
turned out to be worth nothing at all. Arriving at
Lake George the traveller made the pleasing dlscov-
cry for man whose fancy lightly turned TO moon
light and porch flirtations that his trunk was
not only not at Lake George, but was probably at
that time reposng on the dock in Albany; that the
steamboat company's through checks were good for
nothing, and that the baggage checked was left
behind unless the owner alighted and had it re-
checked which of course he was extremely likely
to do; that he was by no means the first traveller
who had dislocated the bells in the Fort William
Henry Hotel from similar cause that the COM
pany, notwithstanding itheSe facts, still continued
calmly to check baggage to Lake George. doubtless
to induce people to patronize their line Exactly
what commandment a corporation violates which
agrees to do without any intention of doing, Bible
students will doubtless be able to determine. I'M
less such ways changed the day line seems likely
to suffer somewhat in reputation.
Year: 1874

The Republican State Committee Of Mis-


sour has issued a call for Convention, but
recommends that no ticket shall be nominated,
leaving the members of the party to choose
their own candidates-or in other words, to
coalesce in an informal manner with the Inde


pendents This action has been generally
anticipated, and seems so clearly dictated by
the exigences of the time that there can be
little doubt of its approval by the Convention.
Year: 1874

ing the city expenses and the local taxation at
low figures are rendered powerless to prevent
extravaganza. This is one of the particular
curses of special legislation for the large cities
Year: 1874

TIE TRIBUNE furnishes this morning addi


tional estimates Of several departments of the
City and County Government of their ex-
penses for the coming year. These important
figures, which will shortly be submitted to the
Board Of Apportionment for revision, and upon
which the rate of taxation for 1915 will be
based, have appeared in no other paper. The
amounts asked for of course greatly exceed
what the revised estimates will allow, except
to few favored departments. Some of these
are SO strong in patronage of the small kind,
that country legislators seek to influence the
Legislature to special legislation in their favor.
Thus the experienced men interested In keep
Year: 1874

Perhaps it speaks well for modern nations that
their rulers no longer depend even measurably upon
official paraphernalia to make themselves impressive.
Not one of the royal personages OF the time could
sit for that sarcastic delineation by Thackeray of
the one who was so regal and grandiose inside his
wig and state robes and lean, bent, bald and un-
important out Of them. Marshal MacMahon is
noted as a model of simplicity. He hasn' any good
clothes at all. For forty years he has INDUCED in
no civil dress but frock coat Winter and Summer
alike. After the war rheumatism claimed him for
its own and the ruler of his domescties persuaded
him to order dressing gown But that lazy garment
he has never donned choosing to wear instead his
officers cape He travels about with a small sub
lieutenants trunk, and even while Fashions highest
arts decoy his heart disrusting asks if this be JOY
Year: 1874

The Richmond Enquirer thus con-
cludes an able article on the civil
rights bill now pending before Con-
gress:


THE passage Of this civil rights
bill would b. one the boldest blows
ever struck at the rights of the States.
1t could be productive of no good to
the black race, and the white race of
the South would receive it as another
evidence of vindictive hatred on the
part of the chiefs and leaders of the
Radical party. i he colored man is
already invested with Equality be-
fore the law" by the States of the
South; and his liberties are conceded =,
and his rights respected by the
Southern people. He needs no Con-
gressional legislation to protect him
He is safe and free as he is to work
out his own destiny among the white
men who are fully as friendly toward
him as those who would, if they
could, force him into antagonism with
them"