smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1875

rS- NOTICE TO CAPTAINS OF VESSELS ENTERING
THE PORT OF NEW YORK AT NIGHT.-The NEW YORK
HERALD adopted distinguishing Coton night signal for
board the HERALD yacht showing while burn
ing colors green red changing from the other
succession be several miles distant Cap
of vessels upon seeing this signal will oblge
pairing any they have for the Ship News
Department of the HERALD.


pS-Persons desrous of communicating with vessels arriv


ing New York do by addressing such vessels
of HERALD yacht, pier No East River New York.
received from all parts of tho world and promptly de-
hvered- Duplicates required.
Year: 1875

| SENATOR JONES, OF bonanza fame, is
making a great effort to create n sensa-
ton about his new town Santa Monica,
400 miles south east Of San Francisco,
on the Pacific. He is building rail-
road from that point to connect with
the Union Pacific railroad, distance of
eight hundred miles, and he has ar
ranged with the Pacific Mail Steamship
company to allow their vessels to touch
at the new port. This movement OF
the senator is not regarded with much
favor Ly the people of San Francisco,
who see in Santa Monica possibly
successful rival for commercial supre-
macy ON the Pacific coast, as che harbor
at that point is an excellent one. 1t is
said that there is strong probability
that the establishment of Santa Monica
as seaport will lead to the division of
California into two states, as the people
in the southern districts are growing
tired of their dependence on San Fran
cisco and the grinding monopoly of the
Central Pacific railroad


The duke of Sutherland's wicker
coflins, now attracting attention in Eng
land, where the undertakers have held
a meeting to protest against the use of
them, seem to furnish solution of the
much. .mooted question about the best
way of disposing of the dead. They
are simply coffin shaped baskets of
wicker, in which tho dead are laid with
evergreen boughs, flowers, resinous
wood, or whatever else is liked, placed
about them. They readily decay and
allow the body to return to the dust
from which it came. Their cost is but
slight-not comparable with that of
rosewood conins and metallic caskets-
and the thought of death and decay be-
comes less repulsive when we think of
being buried thus. The objections
against vaults and Theoretically sealed
coilins are great if their purpose is to
prevent dissolution of the compages OF
the flesh they do not accomplish it, and
the horrible scenes witnessed when old
vaults are opened-where water has
come through or the bodies are found
in loathsome deliquescence in which
they foat-are infamous if they can be
prevented, as they can be by the use of
the wicker coffin.
Year: 1875

The committee appointed to count
the funds in the treasury on the retire
ment of Mr.. Spinner are about ready
to make their report. They have been
engaged for the past week in an investi-
cation of the $4,000 robbery, and after
taking mass of testimony without
inculpating any single individual, ex-
press the opinion that the money was
taken by an employe of the cash.room /;
and, further, that it is possible for such
robberies to occur at any time.
Year: 1875

Tired of play are you, children


And so you have come to talk will
the old grandmother. WHAT'S thai
you ask 7 Did they have Thanks
giving day when 1 was youngf IL
be sure we did. Tell you about one
What begsars you children are fol
stories. Well you see things were
different then. Thanksgiving.day
meant Thanksgivins-day, even to
the least child among us, and not
only a grand dinner, with ever SC
many courses E; though to be sure
we had q dinner then, such a din.
her! over thirty our family number
ed when all were counted up. A
row of happier faces than those on
either side Of the long table never
did l see.


But, will tell you of one special
day; looking back, it do MT seem
longer ago than a short week, when
in fact, it is fifty years since. Fifty
years that looks like lifetime to
you young folks, but when you come
to my age, you will find years do MT
seem much in the passing. Now
these days, the flowers hardly APP
pear to go to sleep for their winters
nap, before they wake up again for
their spriug-time blossoming.


My fathers house was up on a
hill, a hill so high, you could look
from it down into the valley where
the village was, and you could see
other hills, "way off hills" with a
shining line of silvery light beyond.
that was the ocean; you could look
up too, with never a thing between,
right into the bread blue sky; you
could see the sun rise and set, the
moon come up, and the stars twin
kle.


The governor appointed Thanks
giving late the year ] am telling you
of; I remember the day before, how
the first snowfakes of the winter
came dancing down, and at night
the wind blew so hard it shook the
doors and window.panes. In the
morning the front steps were piled
a foot high with dead leaves that
had blown round the corner.


Thought I to myself, there will be
no Thanksgiving for me to day
for But, dear me! the children
have gone to sleep. You older girls
want to hear the rest. Well, as ]
was saying, 1 was young then, and
youth was youth, just as it is now;
girls dreamed then, too, pretty much
the same, it's my opinion, as they
do in these days, and you see, there
was a ship expected in, with q sail
or lad. whose coming was to make
my Thanksgiving. Was it Your
grandpa, do you ask 7 Why OF
course it was.
1t was o clear morning, spite the
stormy night. l remember stand.
| ing by the window, looking out, and
wondering, did storms always die
away when the sun rosei I knew
! one kind of storm did, you know
Year: 1875

If you have beeA picking or handling
any acid fruit, and have stained youI
hands, wash them in clear water, wipe
them lightly, and while they aFe Vel
moist strike a match and shut yOul
hands around T. 50 as to catch the smoke
end the stains will disappear. If you
have stained your muslin or gingham
dress, or your white pants with berrIes
before wetting with anything else pOuI
boiling water through the stains, and they
viii disappear. Before fruit juice dries
it can often be removed by cold water,
using a sponge and tawel Il necessary
Rubbing tho fiegers with the inside OF
pariags of apples will remove most Of
the stain caused by pairing.


Tubs and pals saturated with glvcer-
inc will not shrink and dry up, the hoops
will not fall off, and there will be no ne
cessity for keeping these articles soaked,
Butter tubs keep fresh and sweet, and
can be used a second time.


To clean and restore the elasticity of
cane-chair bottoms: Turn the chair
bottom upward and with hot water and
a sponge wash the cane; work WELL so
thatit is well soaked should it be dirty,
use soap, let it dry well in the air, and it
viii be as tight and firm as new, pro-
-vided none of the canes are broken.


Match mats can be made of ordinary
sandpaper, cut in circular and Octagonal
shapes, fastened upon pastebOard and
bound with bright-cOlOred braids, a ring
attached to each, and the whole hung
near the match-safe for use whenever a
match is lighted. The unsightly marks
that disfigure many walls may by this
inexpensive and simple arrangement be
entirely prevented. There should be one
in every room in the house,
Year: 1875

In letter to the London Academy,
George Darwin, son of the great scientist,
says:


My father has now been carrying on
experiments for about nine years on the
crossing Of plants, and his results appear
to him absolutely conclusive as to the
advantages of cross fertilization to plants;
although as the investigation is as yet
unpublished, Mr.. Huth, of course, could
not be aware of this. Now, all modern
biological research points to the legiti-
macy of arguing by analogy between
forms even as distinct as animals and
plants, and accordingly the fair deduction
to be made from this inquiry will be, that
what is good or bad for plants is the same
for mankind and animals But this
purely scientific point stands rather apart
from what is in fact the main practical
question at issue, viz: Is cOnsanguineOus
marriage, to the extent to which it is now
practiced by civilized nations, detri
mental, and is the detriment so great as
to justify legislative interference? Mr..
Huth himself must be forced to admit
that it must be to some extent detri-
mental from the multiplication of identi-
cal pathological germs, and from the fact
that no man knows with certainty until
towards the end of life what ills may lie
hidden in his edition of the family con-
stitution; but by his work he makes a
good case for the opinion that the evil
seems thus far practically small, and that
legislative interference is so far unCalled
for; and this opinion my own recent in
quiry confirms.
Year: 1875

1t is noted as a significant fact that the
southern and western merchants now
crowding into New York for fall pur-
chases, almost universally take q more
favorable view of affairs than they find
existing in that city. The United States
Economist says they all report that busi-
ness in their districts is active; that the
crops are abundant, and that the plant
ers and farmers are in a more favorable
condition for supplying themselves with
the commodities Of which they stand in
so much need. And they afford the best
possible evidence of their views by'pur-
chasing with a freedom and liberality
that affords assurance of an active trade
just as soon as the crops begin to move
forward freely An impression also be
gins to prevail that the less favorable con-
ditiOn of affairs in the northern manu-
facturing states is more apparent than
real. When the crops in the other parts
of the country begin to move forward,
orders will pour into the factories from
all parts of the country to supply the
demand for agricultural utensils, cloth
ing, and household goods generally. The
manufacturers as a rule were never in a
better position to take advantage of any
Improvement that may take place in bus
iness. In this connection the following
remarks of the Economist indicates that
northern manufacturers begin to realize
that protection" is not without its


awbacks:


1t is significant fact that the chief
complaints of bad business come from
what are known as "the protected in
dustries," those which enjoyed the high
est bounty of the government now MAX
ing the most complaints, and in fact suf-
fering most severely. This is especially
the case with the iron trade, which has
been benefited to the amount of scores
of millions of dollars a year by federal
legislation. 1t exhibits least vitality and
energy.-NashviIe american.
Year: 1875

The Board of Engineers convened bv
Capt. Eads, with the approval of the
President. for the purpose of considering
his r1ahs fbt Tbs ediistFttUtioij Of q aystein
of ietties at the South Pass of the Missis-
sippi river, resumed its session yesterday
morning at the Fifth avenue hotel
Though the details Of the PLAN upon
which the ietties are to be constructed
were fully examined and discussed, ilC
action was taken except to. recommend
that the mattresses be laid in the fitei
out to the depth of thirty feet of water
Mr.. Whitcomb, secretary of the board
stated yesterday that very little doubt
was entertained of the. success of Capt
Ead's plan. Unless the construction Of
the ietties, he said, should develop sonic
action of the waters in the river above
and in the gulf, which can not be fore
seen or calculated on, the ietty system
will attain all that is necessary to make
the river navigable at It's mouth. No
engineer, who has given the subject the
slightest consideration, entertains any
doubt that by eontining the river be-
tween artificial walls the force Of the
currents thus produce6 vi q ieepen the
channel The experience derived from
other works of similar character has
satisfactorily settled this point. The
chief difficulties that lay in the way OF
the jetty system are supposed to exits in
the construction of works having suf-
ficient stability to Withstand the action
of the current of the river within and OF
the tides and gulf currents from without,
and at the same time preventing the form
alton of a new bar within too short a
period. 1t is now generally Admitted
by the present board of engineers that
Capt. Eads has obviated these difficult
ties. Some members of the board believe
that it will require over a century to
form a new bar, while others, who do not
think it will take so long, believe for at
least twenty years the mouth of the river
will be kept free from obstruction by the
works now in progress. 1t is also the
opinion of all the members of the COM
mission that the mattress system of build
ing up the jetties will be successful
NP1C York TriblIJP
Year: 1875

The Rural World says As soon as the
spikes begin to burst open they must be
cut off and thrown into boxes, and hauled
to the pOpping-Out place. The manner
of gathering is to make a sleigh that will
pass between the rows, having box that
will hold ten bushels, that being a load
for an ordinary horse. One horse at
tached to a sled on which a dry goods
box is placed will answer. For twenty
acres, three sleds, made of 2X6 stuff,
wide enough to hold the largest sized
dry goods box, will suffice.


Care should be taken to gather up
those that have popped out before a rain,
as rain blackens them, and they will not
sell as well. To prepare place for them
to pop out, select a clean, smooth, hard
place on the prairie, sloping enough to
cause rainwater to flow off freely, 50 that
none will stand or lie dead; take sharp
hoes and scalp off smooth all the grass on
a space say 100 by 80 feet, for twenty
acres. This should be swept off clean,
leaving level surface of hard ground.
Then deposit your spikes, leaving a bor
der uncovered of at least twenty feet all
around, to catch those beans that jump
outward when opening under hot sun.


ADOuG IllS SCCOllu OI JltlIu udN l1tN
should be turned, to bring those at the
bottom to the top. A steel garden rake
is the best implement to use. About
the fourth or fifth day they are nearly
all out of the burs, and the haulm or
straw, then greatly diminished in bulk,
should be pitched on a pile to give them
time for stragglers to leave it, and the
beans being set free are found in the bot
tom of the debris, can easily be raked
clear of empty burs, and taken away
preparatory to tanning. Any good fan
ming machine will clean them, and when
the yard is clean and solid very little
earth will 60 with them.


After the beans begin to ripen the
field should be gone over once or twice a
week till frost. In hot, dry weather
they ripen more rapidly than in cool,
wet weather. Children can perform this
work, and large family of children can
not be more profitably employed than in
taking care of crop of castor beans.
The work is all light. With a steady
horse children may do all the work.
Year: 1875

The Louisville COurier-JOurnal tells
this story: Between Clarksville, Tenn,
and Eddyville, KY, on the Cumberland
river, there is a cavern which can only
be entered by diving into the water, and
which has no other light than that re-
fected from the bottom of the river. 1t
was accidentally discovered by young
Indian chief, while one day diving for
his gun, which he had dropped from his
canoe into the river. The Indian youth
who discovered it, for a long time kept
the secret to himself, and would often
resort to it in his lonely hours, where, by
the aid of his flint and a piece of dry
wood, he would kindle a fire and enjoy
himself in looking at the magniticence of
the scene as the light reflected back mil
lions of beams from the numerous stalag-
mites and stalactites of gigantic size and
fantastic forms. The cave was about
fifty feet wide, and about the same in
height. In the course of time this Young
son of the forest became enamOred with
a beautiful daughter of one of the back
woOdsmen in the settlement. The young
chiefs name was Wallahalla and the girls
name was Agnes Robertson. In those
days the daughters of the backwOOdsmen
could swim, ride, and handle a gun with
all the dexterity and skill of their fathers
and brothers. Arriving at the place the
lover disappeared beneath the surface of
the water and the maiden quickly fol-


wed him. Here he informed her she
must remain as his prisoner until he
gained the consent of her parents to their
union. Wallahalla then departed to re-
turn soon after with dried venison and
such articles as were necessary for her
comfort. Returning to the settlement,
Wallahalla found that the place had been
attacked by the foe and the village burnt
to the ground. The parents Of Agnes
mourned her as dead, or lingering in a
captivity to which ssdeath would be far
preferable. The young chief was loudest
in his lamentations over the lost girl, and
at the war dance of his trife swore the
direst vengeance against her captOrs. All
the male portion of the settlement,
together with the friendly tribe to which
the young chief Wallahalla belonged,
started in pursuit of the foe to rescue the
Year: 1875

At the dog show at the London
Crystal Palace, there were one thousand
one hundred and seventy-eight animals
exhibited, and marked improvement
in all breeds was noted. The Princess
of Wales took the first prize for fine
animal in the class of st. Bernard mas
tiff,
Year: 1875

The SITUATION IN Nalmaseda
Is evidently unhappy. Failing to crush
/ Maxine Gomez he has turned upon the
mayor of Havana and humbled that
| functionary To the dust. 1t is evident
he aims at establishing purely personal
government, and will have no exhibi-
tiOns of independence on the part of sub
ordinates. Even Zulueta, the leader of
the slave power, is dissatisfied, and natur-
ally reSents a blow struck at his office
while he remains the incumbent. From
the seat of war we learn the signifi-
cant news that the headquarters of the
Spanish troops are to be placed on the
lines of railway. This new order will COM
pei the abandonment of many Strategic
points through the interior, which the
Spaniards have preserved with their
native tenacity. Everything, however,
points to the final disruption of Spanish
power in the island. Day by day the


torch of the insurSants increases the


area of devastation, and by the end of
the year there will be few sugar pls nta-


tlons to fight for, so that Spain Is losing
| blood and treasure in the vain effort to
restore her broken rule.-N Y. Herald.


HAPPY EVERY DAY.-Sidney Smith
cut the following from newspaper and


preserved it for himself: "When YOU
rise in the morning form the resolution
to make the day happy one to fellow
creature. 1t Is easily done, left-of'
garment to the man that needs it; kind
word to the sOrrOwful; an encouraging
expression to the striving trifes in
themselves as light as air-will do at
least for the twenty-four hours. And
if you are young, depend upon it, it
will tell when you are old, and if
you are old rest assured it viii send
you gently and happily down the
stream of time to eternity BY the
most simple arithmetical sum look at
the result. If you send one person away
happily through the day, that is three
hundred and sixty-ive in the course of
the year. And suppose you live forty
years only after you commence that
course of medicine, you have made four
teen thousand six hundred persons hap
py-at all events for a time
Year: 1875

A number of fashionable young ladies
in Boston have organized a cookery
club, meeting twice week at the resi-
dence of each member in turn, who
treats her sister, members to breakfast,
dinner or tea prepared exclusively by
herself.
Year: 1875

about FIVE miles from ROgeTsville juno
tiOn, were out in the woods on Tuesday,
engaged in peeling tan bark, when the
father met his death in the following man
ner: Mr.. Bryant vas engaged ia removing
the bark from the body Of a tree already
felled, whilst his son was telling another at
some little distance from him. Seeing the
tree at which his son was at work about to
fall, he stepped out Of the way Of danger Is
he supposed, but it appears1that the falling
tree caught on the surrounding timber,
which swerved it from its course and broke
a large limb which falling, struck Mr.. Bry-
ant on the top Of his head, scrushing his
skull, and killing him instantly.
Year: 1875

The divers were able to examine the
hull of the Schiller for four hours to-day.
They found her broken up-a confused
mass Ofiron and timber. Her lower deck
rests on the rocks and her bottom is torn
Of. None Of the specie was recovered and
no part Of the cargo was visible.
Year: 1875

The Point Pleasant Register, in a long arti-
Gle upon the decision Of the Supreme Court Of
Appeals upon this subject, depreca;es the in
PRODUCTION of the subject into the politics Of
the State, but concludes by saying


1--WE will aid in all honorable and legiti-
mate ways to bring the Capitol back to Charles
ton and if not successful in that, to remove II
from Wheeling to some other portion Of the
State, aud 10 this way turn and strS our
enemies" We want to see this matter, which
has been source Of contention since we havS
been a State settled, by permanently locating
the Capital, by law, or else submit the question
Of location 10 the voters If tie State. and let
them settle it by their votes. The people can
be trusted, aud wherever they say by theIr
votes it should be placed
Year: 1875

One Of the residents Of Springfield, Mass,
recently had dog which he was exceedingly
anxious to get rid Of, aul gave him the slip
repeatedly when he was abroad, but the dog
would generally reach home ahead Of lis
master. As last resort, man was hired to
shoot the animal, bet when be was dead and
buried its owner thought he had finally ac-
complished bis purpose. But ueiehbor's
dog, humble instrument to prove the vanity
Of human expectations, straightway went aud
disged in the earth, exhumed the body Of bis
recent associate, and laid it On the doorstep Of
the late residence Of tie deceased.
Year: 1875

Contrary to the general rule of this
office. several hundred names were en-
tered on our subscription list during the
last few months with the understanding
that remittances would be made during
the present month. We ask all our
readers, thus indebted, to remit US as
promptly as possible. We shall be
pleased to retain all our Campaign" sub
scribers permanently on our books, but
the very low price of our paper forbids
our carrying credit subscription list.
Remit 50 90 and we will send you a re-
ceipt for twelve months from date of
subscription.
Year: 1875

Senator Bayard is the South's favorite
for the Presidency, according to the
Raleigh News. That does not look as if
the rag-money sentiments were very
strong there. Neither does another
statement from the same journal: "But
we will be satisfied with any Democrat
our party can .elect. N. Y. Tribune


The Tribune may rest assured that
there are questions, the South is more
concerned about than the currency. She
will serve as peace-maker between others
on that issue.
Year: 1875

The great mission of the Democratic
party is to drive Radicalism from power
and bring back into operative efficiency
the perverted and Frustrated principles of
the Constitution. Let Democrats agree
to disagree as to the policy of imitation,
and specie payments, but let
us also agree to be united as to preserv-
ing the unity of the Democratic party
and in defeating corrupt Radicalism.-
Year: 1875

Repeatedly after the compact of peace
-vas formed between Gov. Anes and tho
citizens, we had occasion to bear cheerful
testimony to the good faith with which he
maintained it. Now that the election is
over, it is due to candor to reiterate our
declaration. and to express the hope that
such relations have been established by
that treaty between the Executive and
the body of our Democratic and Conserv
ative fellow-citizens, as will secure their
joint cooperation in achieving the re-
forms to which the triumphant party in
the late contest stands pledged.