smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1875

General Babcock did not arrive o-day, as had been
Will not be here until Thursday Judge Krum con-
hdenally declares that there dispatches from
Babcock to the Ring beyond those already published,
while have the word of Mr. Dyer and others of the
prosecuting counsel that there In fact know on
the very authority that their number very large
0y. Judge Krum says that the defence are will.
ing to try the case Immediately. This bears out
what ieegraphed you yesterday that the present de.
morazcd condition Of the prosecution would be gladly
seized by the defence pressing for an immediate
trial. Judge Krum declares that Dabcock was as in.
nocent OF any completely in this whiskey business as
the HERALD correspondent which is saying
good DEAL As the OF Mckee and others have
been transferred to the Circuit Court Judge Dillon tho
Circuit Court Judge, will sit at the approaching trial.
together with Judge Treat that redoubled judicial
wisdom will illuminate these cases when they are tried
in January.


GENERAL" M'DoNALp


Mcdonald, who will spend his holidays here in jail.
awaiting sentence was visited to-day by your CORE
spondent He is still called General" by his TAILOR and
all his subordinaes and treated with great Difference
However no looks careworn and haggard
His eyes arc sunken, and his face express
ses much mental suffering. His cell Is
luxuriousy furnished, and the jail is a model in
point OF cleanliness ventilation and light he appears
10 bo very comfortable. II certainly better lighted
and ventilated than nneteRshs Of the hotels Of New
Year: 1875

IT is said that in spite of the failure Of
Duncan, Sherman Il Co., Mrs. Sherman is
having her elegant villa on the Hudson
completed; ana some Of the creditors Of the
firm want to know where she got the
money for the purpose. They seem TO
think that a wife must break just because
her husband does.
Year: 1875

The River Within Half an Inch of


the Spring Rise.


MEMPHIS, Tenn, Aug. 1.-THE situa-
tiOn on the river to-day is very critical.
From 6 last evening to 10 this morning the
river rose over one and a half inches, and
is within less than half an inch of the
spring flood. Between 10 and II last
night violent wind and rain storm from
the south swept over this city, and this
morning another from the northwest
crossed the river few miles below the city,
and it is feared the wind has carried water
over some places which were within a few
inches Of being Submerged, and has also
damaged newly constructed levees, as it is
we'll known there are number of planta-
tiOns both above and below this point
where planters for some days have been
constantly on the watch 10 keep passing
boats from running in too close and flood
ing them with the swell from the boats,
and these, 1t is feared, suffered from the
storm.
Year: 1875

The decree requiring public sale OF the
property of the Northern Pacific Railroad
Company, was so amended yesterday that
fOr the present so much Of the cOmpaDy's
property as consists Of lands granted and
conveyed TO it-by the Government can't be
sold for the reason that a large part of the
land has not been surveyed and can't be
distinguished from the public domain. No
deed has been given the company OF part
Of the land which has been surveyed, and
il case Of sale the company could not give
a valid title to the purchaser. 1t Is said
the government refuses TO give the deed to
the land because the company declines to
pay for surveying it. The original decree,
in providing for the application Of proceeds
Of sale, said they should be applied TO pay
ment of all sums due for moneys borrowed
10 pay interest upon mortgage debt, or to
paw for labor and materials for repayment
of which any former or present officer Of
the company, or any other person Of his or
their instance, is surely not to exceed $780,
600 il the aggregate, 20 be paid pro rata.
The amended decree directs that this be
stricken out.


Counterfeit Bonds.


Well executed counterfeit bonds Of the
California and Oregon railroad were dis
covered N Wall street this afternoon.
Year: 1875

There will be a perfect feast of fat
things at the Rink during four days
of next week, beginning on Tuesday.
The ladies' of the Methodist church
South,an Baptist church, of this city,
have been preparing for month to
get up four days feast on that Occa-
sion, which will equal in variety and
elegance anything ever witnessed on
the Pacific coast, and if possible will
surpass the annual feasts of the an
cient Hebrews. The turkeys, chick
ems, pigs and lambs that have been
contributed, with every other good
thing in the calendar of edibles, will
supply an army. All of which is to be
done up in style to suit the most fas-
tidious. TO give an idea of what they
are doing, they have secured the SER
vices of a lady directly from Great
Britain to make the genuine old-fash-
ioned English plum pudding. The
American people will never know
anything Of the flavor Of this savory
dish until they eat it from the hands
of an English cook. Success to the
good ladies of those churches. We
hope they will realize large sum for
the benefit of their churches.
Year: 1875

A Russian river correspondent OF
the Sonoma Democrat, speaking of
the productions of that section, says:
"Corn is more profitable to raise than
wheat. We are advised by farmers
of experience with both kinds of grain
that this, too, is better paying busi-
ness than growing wheat at any price
less than two dollars per hundred. In
truth we have so many better paying
businesses that wheat growing is oil
the decline in our community. Our
farmers have found that grape grow
ing, wool growing, hog raising, pota-
to producing, corn cropping and pum-
kin producing are any of them more
remunerative than continued wheat
growing. So that any and all these
farm products may be found OH our
market at any time" This may be
very true, on the rich bottom lands of
the Russian river, where corn grows
like the natural grasses and appears to
be only amusing itself when it is hard
est at work growing. But in most
ether parts of the State, wheat will
for long time be the great staple
product.
Year: 1875

A Democratic exchange is curious
toknow what will be the course of
these Republican journals that have
so bitterly denounced GRANTS third
term aspirations in ease that gentle
man forces the Republican National
convention to nominate him for re-
election? Do! why, they will support
him, of course. Consistency is an abb
solute term for thing that does not
exist. 1t would be a poor compliment
indeed, to say that Republican jour-
nails cannot change their political sem
timents as rapidly as their great Re-
publican leader. For years GRANT
has watched the bloody struggle in
Cuba without showing the slightest
sympathy for the Cubans. Now he is
going to make recognition Of their
cause one of the legs of his Presiden-
tial bronco. Paper money is7child of
the Republican party and initiation is
its younger brother, yet GRANT is 60
ing to repudiate his own offspring and
make hard money another leg to the
charger he will ride next year. The
Republican journals cannot be more
inconsistent aud self stultifying than
their leader. They will support him |;
Of course they will. They dare not re-
fuse. The slave who refuses to obey
the master goes to bed with an empty
stomach and se0urged back.
Year: 1875

There is a splendid opportunity in
this State for the redemption of few
Democratic pledges. We have heard
a great deal about Republican extrav-
agance and rascality. The catalogue
of indictments against State and mu-
nicipal administrations is as long as
the moral law and great deal more
exciting reading. The Peoples party,
which is but another name for the Re-
publican party, has governed San
Francisco fol years, and taxes have
become simply unbearable. There has
been peculation, extravaganza and
rascality charged up against officials,
and these charges have been proven
so often that their truth cannot be de-
MED. Well, there has been change
in the political complexion Of the
city's officials. The Democrats have
elected the Mayor, a majority of the
Board of Supervisors, and sufficient
number of the other municipal officers
to give the entire control of the city's
affairs into the hands of the De,nocra-
| cy. Let us see what they will do with
it. The Democrats may control San
Francisco for years or they may be
hurled from place and power ut the
next election. All depends upon them
selves. The people are watching them
and strict account of their steward
ship Will be demanded. If it is good
they will be retained; if it is bad they
will be invited to step down and out.
After the first Monday of next month
the State government will be virtu-
ally under the control of the Democ-
racy. That party has brought grave
charges against the Republican-Inde-
pendents now in power, and it has re-
corded the most solemn promises of
reform. Will it redeem them? The
opportunity is presented and only dis
inclination can prevent four years of
economical administration. The peo-
pie expect much Of the incoming
Democratic administration, and the
Republicans hope 1T will be so much
worse than their own that they will
be again placed in power. If after the
many protestati0ns and promises of
economy and reform the Democrats
do not inaugurate and maintain an
administration that will show much
less bill of expense, they do not de-
serve and we are sure they will never
again receive the confidence of the
people. We have had the talk, now
let us have the acts.
Year: 1875




Nor loi.g ago we noticed an article
in one of our local contemporaries urg-
ing the location in this cfop ofa branch
Insane Asylum. We want no such
establishment here and we say this
with full knowledge that we are not
with an abundance of local material
for stocking an institution of the kind
named. Still, insane asylums do not
assist the prosperity OF u town or city.
The Insane Asylum of this State is
located at Stockton and so many iiaif
cured and half crazy people have been
turned lose upon the place that the
visitor is puzzled to determine who OF
the residents have been inmates of
the Asylum and who have not. But
seriously an insane asylum neither
reflects credit upon nor is it u source
of prosperity to city. We trust no
such establishment will ever mar the
beaaty or disturb the harmony of Los
Angeles. We had rather see our city
the site of ten colleges than of one
branch insane asylum.
Year: 1875

The non appearance OF 0. p. FITz-
GERALD when the libel suit commence
ed by himself against the Chronicle
was called a few days ago, has given
rise TO comments adverse to the plain
tiff and journals inimical TO Mr..


FITZGERALD have not been slow in
expressing the opinion that he dared
mot meet the issue. We are enabled
to throw some light on the case.
From the Examiner we learn that Mr..
FITZGERALD has no intention OF aban-
doning the suit; that his course is di-
rected by two eminent members Oh
the bar and that it is his intention to
push, the matter to the bitter end.
The plaintiff does not wish the case
passed upon by legal tribunal until
he is enabled to produce the most ir-
REPUTABLE proof of his entire innocence
of the charges preferred against him.
To obtain this proof 1t is necessary to
send to another State for testimony
which when obtained he intends to
punish the originator Of the slander
and then call to a strict account those
who have maliciOusly blackened his
fame and name. d
Year: 1875

in mining stocks within the past few
months has imposed immense loss on
dealers in that class of property. Since
the commencement Of the financial
stress the average shrinlage in min
ing stocks is perhaps not less than fifty
per cent. This is heavy loss on the
holder of q few shares, but the effect is
painfully apparent to the man who
has millions invested. The great min
ing stock speculator, in whose name
stands blocks of buildings, grants of
land and innumerable lots, feels the
depreciation because his real estate is
heavily mortgaged in security for
money that he has invested in stocks
which he now sees melting to moth
ingness. A large proportion of San
Francisco's most valuable property is
pledged for money Invested in mines
and mining stocks. 1t is but reason
able to suppose that the day is not
distant when great deal of this prop
erty will change owners.
Year: 1875

WITHIN the past few weeks rumor
has been busy with the financial repu-
tation of certain wealthy men of San
Francisco, and il the half that is told
is true colossal fortunes have shrunk
to the dimensions of small possessions
since the first of last July. Just who
have felt the pressure most and who
have lost the heaviest is information
that is not now and possibly never will
be In possession of the public. But 1t
Is apparent to all that the shrinkage
Year: 1875

He who spends his earnings in dissipation
and vice, leaving his family to suffer for the
necessaries OF life, may be tolerated IN a COM
munity and endorsed for time, but when
he SO far forgets his manhood and becomes
recreant to the obligations imposed upon
him by nature and the laws OF civilization
when under the influence OF intoxication or
rendered insane by debauch, he ''lays his
hand upon woman save in kindness, is n
wretch whom tits base fiattery To call II cow
ard :" society should not tolerate such. So
cial ostracism should be the reward of his
evil doings and the better class OF the com.
munity should shun IL creature as they would
IeDrosy.
Year: 1875

Good friend, don't squeeze 30 very tight
There's room enough for two.
Keep In your mind thar I've right
To live, rs well as you
You're rich and strong I, poor and weak
But think you presume
When only this poor boon ask
little elbow-room
'Tis such as you-the rich and strong,
Vi you but had the will
Gould give the weak a lift along,
And help them up the hill.
But no you jostle, crowd and drive!
You storm, and fret and funnel
lou are the only man alive
In want OF elb0w-rooml
But thus 1t Is on Lilies round path
"Self' seems the god Of all
The strong will crush the weak TO death
The big devour the small
Far better be rich mans hound
A valet, serf, or groom
Than struggle mid the mass around,
When we've no elbow-r0om
Up Heart, my boy Don't mind the shock |
Up Heart, and push along
Your skin will soon grow rough with knocks
Your limbs with labor strong!
And there's Hand unseen 10 aid
A star to light the gloom
Up Heart, my boy nor be afraid
Strike out for elbow-room
And when you see, amid the tbrong,
A fellow-toiler slip,
Just give him, rs you pass along,
A brave and kindly grip,
Let noble deeds, though poor you be,
Your path In life Hume;
And, with true Christian charity,
Give others elbow-room
Year: 1875

My dear, this sauce is staving. Wher.


did you buy it


/ | made it, said his wife, eoolly.


Oh, well, it is all the same in German


Nellie dropped her knife and fork
You must give me some money for the


butcher, tomorrow, said Mrs. Lowell.
You will have to spell ability, first


growled the doctor, savagely.


Then. suddenly taking out his hand
kerchief. he gave his nose tremendous
blow. There, said he, how is that, for
high


| know how it is, myself, meekly re.
piled the wife. That capped the climax.
The knowledge that her father must have
heard the afternoon conversation, was
too much for Nellie, and bursting into
tears, she left the room.


The sage doctor nodded wisely to his
wife, and when the daughter had got out
Of hearing, exclaimed There, wife, |
guess we shall hear no more slang phra-
ses from her.


The next day the good Doctor callei
Nellie into his study, and said to her:
My dear girl, don't you see how very
foolish all these phrases are They mean
nothing, but are exceedingly injurious to
those who use them BY ever SO sparing
a use, ones speech gets SO corrupted that
a person eften make. use of one of these
expressions at times which afterward he
would be sorry to remember. They
sound very silly to a listener. and often
the very usage Of them leads to some
thing worse, 1t is bad enough to hear
boys use them sometimes, but girl is
expected to be too refined and lady like
to sully her lips by such expressions
The use Of them is simply bad habit
but bad habits, like cuts in the bark of a
tree, grow and widen with age, and if
they once get firm hold, are hard to get
rid of. Then there is great deal in
companionship. If We keep company,
and are intimate with those who use bad
language, we are apt to make use Of 1t,
ourselves Persons are known by the
company they keep When you see
person using these slang phrases, you
may be sure such a person knows not
what is called good society. Such ex-
pressions as by gorry, or by dam, are
not only foolish, but wicked. For do
not the scriptures say, swear not ut all
neither by heaven, nor by the earth; bat
let your communication be yea, yea, nay,
nay, for whatsoever is more than these
cometh Of evil. There, my daughter, we
have made quite sermon, said the Doc
toi, let us have no more slang phrases.
Year: 1875

warranted not to cut in the eye-not head-
ache in hhds. of tit is no sooner in your
belly than its on your back in pound of beet
and 1t carries bead like necklace: for
sale by


GEORGE AUSTIN,
Year: 1875

The Centennial has been seized upon. by
the European and American advocates of
Free Trade, as leverage, to be employed for
forcing their views of political policy upon
us. A year ago they were particularly
anxious to have Congress pass all goods that
might be entered for exhibition and sale at
the Centennial, free of duty. 1t was urged
that if the concession asked were made, there
would be a grand display of European goods,
and the Centennial be made a success, so far
as the exhibition of goods is concerned. Con-
gress refused to act favorably in the case, and
the tactics of the Free Traders were changed.
They experimental for time on public opin-
ion, but received no favorable responses. At
last the happy expedienr was hit upon of hav-
ing the advertisements at the Centennial made
into arguments for Free Trade Thus they
propose to post over their goods statement
of the cost of a given line of goods in England
or on the continent of Europe; what they
would sell for if admitted duty free; what, if
an ad vaL0rem tariff of twenty per cent were
changed, and what is the present selling price
in New York. This is the strong point of the
Free-Traders-to appear to the pockets of the
people, and say that Europe can furnish goods
at lower rate than is charged for goods OF
American manufacture. Where persons dc
not look beyond the first statement they are, OF
course, impressed. To them it is astonishing
that they should not be as cheaply manufac'
tured here, and the first impulse is to accept
Free Trade as wondsrful boom


Against this enticing representation are two
classes of facts that show the other side of the
question in its clearest light. l. Protection
has tendency to give employment to Ameri
can labor. True, the system of Protection
has been tried, during the past fifteen years
under adverse circumstances. The war rolled
on the country heavy volume of debt, ran uI
Year: 1875

1t is mans own fault if he is un-


happy with his wife, in nine cases out
of ten. The great men of this world
have been wretched in their domestic
relations, while common men have
been exceedingly happy. Absorbed in
themselves, those who desired the
worlds applause were careless of the
little world at home, while those who
had none of this egotism strove to keep
the hearts that were their own, and
were happy in their tenderness. No
woman will love man the better tor
being renowned and prominent.
Though he be first among men, she
will be prouder, not fonder; and if she
loses him through his renown, as is
often the case, she will not even be
prouder. But give her love, apprecia-
ton, kindness, and there is no sacrifice
she would not make for his content
and comfort. The man who loves her
well is her hero and king. No less
hero to her though he is not to any 9TH
er; no less a king, Though his kingdom
is her heart and hOme.-[ Boston Gull
tiVafOr
Year: 1875

In lecture recently delivered in ST.
Louis, Rev. Father Henning said:-''It
is the duty of every Catholic to vote
for a Catholic candidate; for one who is
not opposed to the Catholic religion;
who is not an enemy of the Church;
and it is the duty of every faithful
Catholic to vote against those Catholics
who are enemies of our Church and of
our holy faith. The enemies of the
Church have already given us an ink
ling of what they are going to do.
They are going to make an issue which
will create fearful amount of bad
blood, and l am sorry to say that this
issue has been made most loudly from
the lips of one who calls himself the
President of the United States. This
issue is the question of education, and
this issue will be nothing else but a cry
against Popery; cry against the Cath
Ollie faith; u cry against the increase OF
Catholicity in America. 1t IS nothing
else but war. We must make use of
all the legitimate means in our power
in this struggle that we must face like
men-not violence, not revolution, but
the ballot that we, rs citizens of the
United States, have the right to use as
we please. We have the right to act
according to the dictates of our relig-
ion; and if we are good Catholics, we
will fight according to our faith. 1t is
a great shame when Catholic voters al
low themselves to be bribed with few
dollars or few drinks of whisky; it is
a great shame when Catholics perform
their duty as citizens without any re-
gard to the holy faith. Our duty as
Catholics is to work for our religion, for
the increase Of Catholicity, for the pro-
motion of the faith, for the Christian
education of our children, for the sue
cess of Catholicity in America; and to
do this, not by illegitimate means, but
those that are given to Us by the
Constitution and laws of the land"
Year: 1875

A COzY HOME.-A Vicksburg wife
informed her husband the other morn
ing that she was working herself into
the grave for the want of hired girl,
and as he went out she leaned back and
fell to weeping. The children were
making noise in the hall as he passed
out, and he called out: you want to
stop this racket! Your mother won't
live week, and when you get step
mother here next spring she won't put
up with any such fooling" When he
came home to dinner his wife met him
with smile and said: isn't ours a
cozy home, Richard, with only our
own little family TO look after'--[ Vicks-
burg Herald.
Year: 1875

THE provisions of the bill for the re-
organization of the Treasury Depart
ment will shortly be carried out. One
of these requires that the appointments
in the department shall be equally dis
tributed between the States and the
District of Columbia, so that as the
largest number have been made from
the District there will probably be a
good many changes. 1t is believed
that at least one-half the employees of
the department will shortly be dis
placed.
Year: 1875

THE Pittsburgh Democrats have been so
cruel as to invite Gov. Allen to take the stump
for them. Have they forgotten this remark
made by him a few weeks ago: Suppose l
shonld be beat like h-ll in my own State,
wouldn't be a pretty looking thing making
speeches in Pennsylvania There can only
be one answer to that question,
Year: 1875

A rare collection of Revolutionary Letters,
mainly from stores ia the hands OF the de.
scendanis of Col Joseph Ward. They are full
of interest, and will be read with rare relish
in connection with the Centennial celebration
of the wear,
Year: 1875

For the relief and
cure of all derange-
ments in the stoln-
ach, liver, and bow
els. They are a mild
aperient, and aa
excellent purgative-
Being purely vege-
table, they contain
no mercury or mine
r&l whatever. Much
serious sickness and
suffering is prevent
Year: 1875

We're not editorial secrets inviolable, many a
tale might be unfolded going to show that those
who are the oudest in complaint of the print
ing of an item are often the very ones who have
good many things are done for effect In this
Morld.-Boston TRANSCRIPT.