smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1872

AN ANALYSIS


of the statement shows that the banks now hold as
surplus the sum of $13 3973, 275-a gain for
the week Of $1177S75 This result is worked out in
the following calculation showing the relation be-
tween the total reserve and the total liabilities this
Year: 1872

One stratagem of the Grant party has been
so widely repeated that it must have been
adopted by general consent. This was to
print the Liberal ticket with large black
cross, such as the Grant organ in this city
disgraced itself by engraving and printing,
and an appeal to Roman Catholics to vote
this as the only ticket under which their tmth
would be safe. These tickets, and circulars
in the same sense, were then sent to Protest
ants and Administration men, on the theory
that their hair would stand on end at tins
willy attack upon their cherished convictions
IL is not impossible that there are persons 80
unthinkiug and so prejudiced as to be In
fuenced even by an artiice 80 coarse and 50
contemplate as this who felt, on receiving
one of these circulars as If they were already
broiling at Smithfeld stakes, or writhing Oh
the rack Of Torquemada. Such tactics mayy
therefore, have gained Gen. Dix some votes.


But they are Of kind that no candidate
and 10 party can afford to profit by. To gain
q trAing temporary advantage they SOW the
seed of endless feHds and hatTeds. But this
IT, after all, no mOYs than is to- be expected
from the men who are engaged IN perpetua-
ting the present Administration. The very
key OF their political position is Tho hatred
and Gistrust between the different sections OF
the csuntry which they are industriously
cultivating, snd it is Oniy natural shat they
should ey to reinforce this work by exciting
the bitterness and amnesty of differont re-
ligiOus seets.
Year: 1872

An article. which we reprint elsewhere,
from The 1itusrille Erentn0 Press, takes issue


with the conclusions OF correspondent


whose letter we recently published, giving an
account of the new combination of oil pro-


ducers in Pennsylvania. Their plan, it will
be recollected, is TO establish n Producers
Agency, with capital of million of dol


lars, which is to take all the oil produced by
members of the Association, at fixed price
of So per barrel. This price is TO be paid in
casn so long as tho Association can sell the
oil without loss; when it cannot. it is to store
the oil and advance only SO per barrel to the
members until the withdrawal of oil from
the market shall raise the price TO the re-
quired S.. II is supposed that the effect will be
to check permanently an over-prOduction of oil
on the part of the members, while fostering O
steady supply of enough to meet actual con-
sumption and, by enrolling in the member
ship the great bulk Of producers. to substi-
tute for the violent fluctuations aud specula-
tive excesses which have marked the business
hitherto, uniform system that shall yield
large and regular profits to tho owners OF
oil-wells. No doubt, from the producers


point of view, such q prospect Is contem-
plated with unmingled satisfaction and they
at least can bear with equanimity the prob
able mIsfortunes of owners Of pipe lines who
have speculatively contracted to deliver oil to
refners at prices which this combination
may render impossible. But in these con-
tests between seller and buyer there are al
ways two sides to the question:. The address
of the Petroleum Producers Association, in
soliciting subscriptions 70 the stock of The
Year: 1872

that nominated O'COnor and Adams, got
as full and fair treatment in our columns as
the body that nominated Greeley and Brownj )
meetings, speeches, addresses were reported
impartially with whatever fullness their news
importance warranted till, when the news of
the discussion seemed fairly exhausted, we
naturally gave more space to The movements
on our own side.


This honest presentment Of the news
whether it help or hinder the side we favor
we believe to he the duty of great newspaper
which means to deal fairly with its readers.
THE TRIBUNE pursued it, with some discour-
agements, throughout this most trying OF cam
paigns 1T will continue TO pursue 1t through
whatever rise and fall of parties the
future may have in store In our
news columns the news honestly told I'm our
editorial columns our own opinions honestly
expressed, without reference to the demands
of party managers or the decisions OF party
caucuses-that has been the programme OF
THE TRIBUNE for the campaign, and is Its
programme for all the future.
Year: 1872

the incorporated wealth, rallied to the support


of Gen. Grant, and poured out its millions in
his behalf lt did not generally deny that his


civil career had been faulty it merely insisted
TINT that of bis competitor had been and


would be more so. Then our manufacturers


bankers, etc, were nearly all making money,


and they deprecated any change whatever,


and especially q change which they feared


might prove radical and fundamental. Mr..


Boutwell, in the Treasury had satisfied them
that ho was trying to keep the discount on
greenbacks ranging between 10 and IA per
cent, so that the devices and struggles
of the gold and stock gamblers should
create no "pressurep or "panic." Whether
the means employed were legal or otherwise
was TO them q quite subordinate consdera-
ton, - the issue of millions of new green
backs, or snap sales of millions of gold,
troubled them nOt-sO long as the end were
attained of making or keeping money easy and
the disparity between gold and legal tender
as nearly uniform as might be.


Gen. Grant has a new four years lease of
power, with Congress of which two-tlrirds
to three -fourths of either House viii support
him zealously. He has every facility for eff
fecting the reforms he is said to mediate,
especially that of the Civil Service, while the
abolition of the much abused franking privi-
lege is so squarely promised that its success
would seem to be assured. For whatever re-
form he may give us, he shall have from TIE
TRIBUNE cordial recognition and praise =
where he falls short, he shall have, in the
future as in the past frank and fearless crti-
cism. And, while there are dangerous ten
denotes developed by this canvass, which
foresbadow q government by the rich and
able few, subsidizing and controlling such
portion as they may require of the ignorant
pennlless, venal many. let us never despair
of tho American Republic!
Year: 1872

work will be done, many of them under the
pressure of hunger, thirst, and every perilous
privst.on. Here and there an Individual may
find gem so large or so pure thaejt will be
worth good fam; but where ono is thus
lucky thousand will tramp, and pecTN and
dig, and wash for months without fpdlng
enough to pay for the wom-out shoe-leatber.
One who is near the supposed diamond field,
may reasonably pay them visit, but he who
rOams thousand miles TO reach them in quest
of sudden riches will almost certainly repont
his adventurous folly
Year: 1872

A Havana dispatch says that reports from
the Cuban campaign are favorable to the
SpaDiards. OF course that is the regulation
bulletin. But we must remember that the
Spanish theory, at least, is that there is no
war in Cuba, therefore no campaign. There
is something pitiful in this occasional cheer
which the Spaniards raise at victory over a
foe whose existence they deny.
Year: 1872

The Prussian Government has created n
number of new members of the Herrenhaus,
in order to secure a majority on the PROPOSE
ton for reform in the provinces. AS the
House was almost unanimous against the
Government, this action is merely menace.
Year: 1872

In 1866 a coalition of parties sprang into the
6eld with great enthusiasm. and nominated a
National ticket. For time the enthusiasm OF
its organization was infectious, and it prom
ised TO sweep the country. But in October It
was crushed in Pennsylvania, and the over
,shelming defeat which naturally followed,
month afterward, was supposed to have de-
stroyed it. Four years later it ruled the coun-
try. Defeat had consolidated it into the party
Of victory. Whether yesterdays defeat Is 70
have similar result may not be confidently
asserted; but it is certain that nothing which
occurred yesterday proves more against the
future success of the Liberal party than the
election Of James Buchanan proved against
the future success of the Republican party.
Year: 1872

Alas tas poor animalsl No sooner ar@tbe horses
getting little better than the pigs aroshreatened
with an apidemc. The swine pest it is stated, is on
its way from Canada. The dogs the CAMS. the cats,
and all the rest of the aaadrnpeds will tal Sick We
suppose in their turn. The horse sclpess will not
have come vain If ID Sufficiently ro8inds us that
it, as animals depend upon us, we also depend upon
animals and if are also taught that oil our do
mestio beasts require much sanitary care as mac
does. Living in o hah unnatural condition, and not
allowed any natural liberty of choice in tn ir habit
they are entirely at our mercy. and with only the
poor protection Of human cupidii9 against negisct
ard il-tTeatment.
Year: 1872

There is o German girl begging in Epston, who ha
no hands, but carries littlo tin box strapped about
her neck for the reception Of coin She is said TO DO
the possessor OF fine house in thjs city, aad be
now building a row of tenement bousos in ITooklyn
from the funds gathered in Aer peeuliar calling.@
What Grant cfice-holder she would make
Year: 1872

Among the things burned in the
great fire at Chicago were 10000 Bi-
bles, This information may seem to
be rather late as a matter Of news, but
the articles i'll question were so seldom
used in Chicago that nobody missed
them, and it was only by very patient
investigation that their loss has been
recently ascertained.
Year: 1872

a Mr.. Griswold, who formerly re
sided on farm a mile or two above
the village, but who recently moved
on to Martin Pratts place near the
line between Reading and Cavenish,
hung himself on Monday morning OF
last week, He had been sued and
stripped ofmost of his property, which
so discouraged and depressed him that
he committed the act. lie leaves a
wife and six children.
Year: 1872

TAKING IT OUT OF IIIM.-at Hins.
dale, New Hampshire, they have dis
covered an eIiectual way of taking the
beIligerent spirit out Of a man. An
irrate fisherman discharged gun in
the direction Of two men who had
excited his anger, when they immedi,
ately seized him, and one taking hold
of each boot, they dipped him like a
tallow candle several times in the
Connecticut. They then laid him on
the bank to dry, and after time he
arose and went his way, the spirit OF
murder having departed out of him
altogether
Year: 1872

DOLLY DEMONSTRATION is u sub
tie as well as a tickle dame. The
spring and fall seasons have what
they call their opening days, But the
styles of goods exhibited are not the
fashions of the ton. Servant girls and
those who can afford but one style of
dress, rush in for the new fashions
When these are served then the real
fashions for the tod are displayed
The Dolly Vardens are worn by no
fashionable lady. A few ladies wear
them in the drawing rooms, made of
very expensive materials. Servants,
principally patronize this flaming
style. The Dolly Vardens of the
street look like dresses made by a
country dressmaker out of the old
chintz hangings of past ages.
Year: 1872




The N. Y. Heraid exhibits suspicious
symptoms Of doserting Grant. In
one article it questions whether he is
strong enough to defeat a popular
Liberal Republican candidate in North
Carolina and Virginia, while in anoth-
er, we have this strong bit of sarcasm
on the Presidents "taking ways"


The Gramts-Wnlsh,g Gcny while thc
sam shines.


The Presidents family is wise in its
generation, or, in other words, has the
good sense to take advantage of the
fortunate and elevated position which
the head Of it occupies, and why n OF ?
A great deal Of fuss has baen made
about the relatives Of General Grant
being favored in the dlspensation of
Government patronage, but why should
not the President, who receives a
miserable pitiance himself, do what
he reasonably can to promote the wei,
fare Of his relation? The children of
General Grant have been honored in
Europe on account Of their father and
the high position he holds. Other
children Of the President, it is said,
are going to Europe shortly with
friends Of the family.


Nothing could be finer than that
"Friends of the family is good, though
rather funcleal


The Chicago Times of q recent date
gives an interesting account of what
has been done up to this time towards
rebuilding the burnt district of that
city, From this statement we gather
that the works OF reconstruction is
progressing with great energy. The
number Of men employed in the va
rious branches Of industry connected
with the building Of houses is rapidly
and constantly increasing, and within
a month more it is quite probable that
at least two or three times as many
men as are now employed will be at
work. Up to this time three miles Of
buildings have been completed in the
South Division upon the north and
south streets and the buildings in pro-
gress or already erected on the east
and west streets frontage include
nearly as much space. Nearly ali the
structures erected comprise tirst-class
buildings and blocks Of buildings
iron and brick, and iron brick, and
sandstone predominating in their
materials. Many very hansome mar
Bile buildings have been erected. Be
sides this, there are at least temporary
wooden buildings constructed equal
in extent TO another mile In nine
principal streets, including State,
Dearborn, Clark, and La Sale streets,
and Wabash and Michigan avenues,
G,977 buildings are completed, 2,7j6
are half finished, and 1883 have been
begun. Continued advances in the
prices of real estate are also noted,
and there is u large demand for cheap
lots in suburban points in the more
remote parts Of the city, Evidently
the people of Chicago have faith in
their city and its future.
Year: 1872

NEWARK, January l3-The state
ment that Bolts, condemned for the
murder of Pet Halstead, was the hus-
band instead Of the paramour OF the
woman Wilson has been verified by his
own admission of the fact. To-day he
stated that he first met her in 1861 at
a disreputable house in this city and
prevailed upon her to quit the house
and furnished her with means 10 lead a
respectable life. In the fall Of the same
year they went to the Paterson races,
and as thew were returning she dared
him to marry her. Botts, who was
somewhat drunk at the time, agreed to
do so, and they drove to Little Falls,
where they were married by Rev. T. II.
Langdon.


Afterwards she made him promise to
keep the marriage secret. She was
married under false name. For seven
years she lived with him and was sup
ported by him, still going under the
name of Wilson, for she had another
husband from whom she had never been
divorced. Bolts SAYS he would never
have betrayed her secret had she net
lately written him letter in which she
stated she had always loved another
man at the same time abusing him Tor
bringing her name before the public,
Year: 1872

The claims both OF the New ldra
Mining Company and McGsrrahan, to
the valuable mines so long in dispute,
will be opposed by the United States
before the Senate committee on Public
Lands, on the ground that neither is en-.
titled to the land, but that it belongs to
the United States.
Year: 1872

A bill will be introduced in the House
to morrow by Freeman Clark, formerly
Comptrolle. OF the Currency, provid
ing for a return TO specie payment
without a contraction of the cur.
rency. Among other things it will
provide for the payment Of imports in
coin and the redemption OF legal ten
ders at the Treasury Department.


KSowLToS.
Year: 1872

"A Vermont farmer was startled while hoe
ing corn recently, by seeing rhinoceros
coming towards him, plowing furrow like a
steam plow, with his horn. The farmer, who
relies on the Tribune for his agricultural
knowledge, at first took it for potato bug of
the me- new style, but The arrival of party of
showmen in search of the insect explained
things.
Year: 1872

A little son of Elisha Gillett of Canaan the
other day killed rattlesnake near the school
house where he recites the multiplication
table. -Four rattlesnakes have been killed
there this summer, which makes it pleasant
tor the children. Of this last one the school
ma'am says it was wont to wiggle its nara
tive in the grass under the school-house win
dow at the hour of dreamy noontide, and
mingle its tuneful tattoo with the dulcet
notes of the bobolink. Terms of tuition
moderate
Year: 1872

The system being put under the influence of
DIR. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery for
few weeks, the skin becomes smooth, clear,
soft and velvety, and being illuminated with
the glow of perfect health from within, true
beauty stands forth in all its glory. Nothing
ever presented to the public as beautifer o


the complexion ever gave such satisfaction for
this purpose as this Discovery. The effects
of all medicines which operate upon the sys-
TEN through the medium of the blood are nee
essarily somewhat slow, no matter how good
the remedy employed While one to three bot
ties clear the skin of pimples, blotches, erup-
tions, yellow spots, comedones or ''grubs,''
dozen may possibly be required to cure some
cases where the system is rotten with scrofu-
lous or virulent blood poisons The cure of all
these diseases, however, from the common pim-
pie to the worst scrofula is, with the use of
this most potent agent, only a matter of time


Sold by all druggists au II s&w
Year: 1872

Howard Glyndon asks a terrible question.
She wants to know if any one ever imagined
what sort of a sight would be presented by
an interior view of the six hundred private
rooms of a fashionable watering place hotel
half an hour before dinner or a hop.
Year: 1872

Infinite toll would not enable you to sweep
away mist; but ascending little, you may
look over it altogether. So it is with our
moral improvement. We wrestle fiercely
with vicious habit, which would have no
hold upon US if we ascended into a higher
moral atmosphere lr1 -. ..av .ar
Year: 1872

we make laws, but follow customs. M


The Wabash river is so low that the fish
are compelled to stand on their heads to get
water sufficient to moisten their gill,. The
inhabitants walk up and down the river bed
and pull fish as they do onions.
Year: 1872

SOLDIERS AND SAILORS HOMESTEAD
Acr.-We last week published the text
of the above named act as it WIS origin
ally reported. Capt. Hill has since fur
nished us copy as it passed and be-
came a law which exhibits some essen
tial notifications


The applicant under this act is allow
ed only six instead of twelve months IN
which to commence his settlement.


No sale or transfer of his right is per
mitted. ~


No patent she'll issue to any home
stead settler who has not resided on and
improved his said homestead for per
iod of at least one year. Ak


Any person entitled under the provi-
sions of this act to enter a homestead,
who may have heretofore entered under
the homestead laws quantity of land
less than one hundred and sixty acres.
shall be permitted to enter under the
provisions of this act SO much land as,
when added 10 the quantity previously
Year: 1872

It is mark of the unsuccessful man,
that he invariably locks his stable door
when the horse has been stolen. This
sort of wisdom never thinks about bodi-
ly health until it is gone. But just as
much as any disease has become seated,
the power of the system to resist and
throw it off is weakened; hence time is
all important. For dyspepsia. all dis
eases of the liver, stomach, skin aud
kidneys. and all that begin in vitiated
blood. do not wait until the trouble is
confirmed, but attack it by timely use
of DIR. WALKERS CALIFoHNA VINEGAR
BIrTERS Ek.fI
Year: 1872

extent of the law, for imposing upon us
in this manner. Thinking that perhaps
you do not understand the extent of the
injustice and injury done to us and the
attempted imposition upon the citizens
of Seattle. through us. we forhear doing
or saying anything further at present,
save to request you Immediately ON re-
ceipt of this letter to come down and
take the meat away or direct US to throw
it in the bay where it belongs.


BOOTH, Foss & BoRsT.
Year: 1872

~ The enterprising young men who
lead the Seattle Young America Musical
Union. propose an order Of celebration
for the coming 4th of July which will be
the most attractive ever attempted in
this Territory. They have the will. en-
erev and taste to make it a success.
Year: 1872

SENSIBLE AND CoNs1srENT.--The Olym-
pia Transcript declares fairlya square
ly for the nominees of the Cincinnati
Convention and for Judge McFadden
for Delegate to Congress against Gar
fielde. This is frank and candid. Had
the parties which control the course OF
that paper acted with the same indepen-
dence from the beginning, Mr.. Garfieide
would never have been elected to Con-
eress and there would not have been a
ring of unscrupulous politicians fasten-
ed upon the people to eat out their sub
stance. The Tribune and its friends are
making the same mistake now which
the Transcript and its friends made at
the time of Garfielde's first election they
are trying to preserve their party con-
sistency at the expense of their person
al independence and their own convic-
tions of duty to the public.
Year: 1872

TARpY JUsT1cE.-We are pleased to
learn that Col Ross. late Superinten-
dent of Indian Affairs for this Territory,
has by Act of Congress been reinstated
in the rank which he held at the time he
was mustered out OF service, and placed
upon the retired list with the rank and
pay of Brigadier General, in accord
ance with the recommendation of the
Retiring Board of San Francisco, OF
which Gen. Crooks was President. This
faithful old officer has been kept out oi
the Just rights conceded to him by his
fellow soldiers, by the personal malice
and misrepresentation of civilians con-
nected with the ring of Federal officers
who are now seeking to control the poll
tical fortunes of this Territory.
Year: 1872

mittee points in suppressing a scandal. One
of its exhorters sauntered home one night
last week and was followed to his very pork
barrel by neighbors pig. That neighbor
complained to the brethren. He was very
promptly and properly expelled for trying to
bring scandal on the cause
Year: 1872




ALL those in search of ladies' furnishing
goods would do well to call at A NJ Peabody's,
345 Congress street, where a full assortment
may always be found my4-2w
b For THE SPRING TRADE.-It will be interest
ing to those who are cleaning house and fixing
up TO" summer, to know that we have Just re-
ceived the laogest assortment of nice new chro-
mos and engravings ever offered for sale in this
city. Also beautiful assortment of French
photographs (plain and colored), copied direct
from fine oil paintings. These are very choice
goods, and We are prepared to frame them in
all the new and choice styles, as our stock of
mouldings is most complete and extensive, en-
bracing everything novel and stylish We also
have new lot of stereoscopic goods with va
riety of other fancy articles that are worth
looking at. We feel confident that those who
give us call will be satisfied that no such stock
to select from, at such reasonable prices, was
ever placed before the people of this city.


SCHUMACHER BROS, Deering Block.


my13eod1w
Year: 1872

WERE man to conform more to the laws of
health and of nature, and be less addicted to
the qualification of his passions, it would not
be necessary to advertise Fellows Compound
Syrnp of Hypophosphites as a restorative for
the powers of the brain and nervous system,
while the worlds progress in enlightenment
would indeed be marvellous. m1Sd1w&w1t
Year: 1872

A little Boston boy saved his pennies for
whole year. The object was, some might
suppose, to be good little Boston boy and
send the little hoard to the poor heather
We grieve to say that it was not; and herein
is the inevitable moral: The little Boston boy
bought revolver with his money, and direct
ly shot his hand of.