smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1873

The State Supreme Court has declared
the act of the Legislature establishing what
is known here as the forest park uncoDsti-
tutional. This park consists Of large
track of land which at the time the Leg
isature passed the act in questio lay west
of the city limits and which has since been
added to the city as the tenth ward. The
act also provided for board of Park Com
missioners with power to purchase or con-
denim land for park purposes, issue bonds,
levy and collect special taxes, etc, all OF
which has been done and all of which will
have TO be undone, leading to many COM
plicatiops and much vexation.
Year: 1873

LITTLE Rock, May 1.-The United
States District Attorney, by order of the
Attorney General, to-day officially notified
the builders of The bridge for the Cairo
and Fulton Railroad across the Arkansas
river, that should they proceed with the
work without an act of Congress, he would
institute legal proceedings to stop them.
Year: 1873

A young New York gentleman stop
ping at one of the lower hotels re-
quested the proprietor to change his
room, as the next apartment to his was
occupied by that torment of bachelors,
crying baby. When he arrived from
New York he went off to take a drive,
and on his return to the hotel he was
shown to his new apartment, with the
information that the baggage of the
former occupant had not been removed,
but that it would be taken away during
the course of the evening. 1t was
growing dark, so our hero sat down by
the window to indulge in little twi-
light meditation, and possibly in cigar.
Suddenly the door opened, the frou-frou
of woman's dress was heard, a soft
voice exclaimed: "Why, Jack, dear,
when did you come down. l am so
gladr' and simultaneously with the ex-
clamation he found himself


" Tenderly clasped in loving embrace,


With pair of long lashes just sweeping his


face"


$50 am l." was his very natural and
involuntary rejoinder, whereupon there
was shrek, rush and slamming of
doors, and my friend was left alone to
mediate at his leisure upon the charms
of the twilight hour Long Branch
Cor. Philadelphia Ledger
Year: 1873

Rosa BoNHEUR.-A good example of
the value of even slight work by artists
of distinction, is afforded by a charming
little charcoal frohe, by Rosa Bonheur,
which has been quite recently imported
by Mr.. Shaus. 1t is about fourteen by
twenty-four inches in size, has not yet
been put into the public exhibition, but
is privately shown to persons fond of
art. The drawing is very sketchy, and
the light and shadow are scarcely grad
uated at all, though the subject a flock
of sheep and their shepherd, with his
dog-is rendered with all the spirit and
feeling that characterize her most elab-
crate paintings of animals. The sheep,
about twenty in number, are grazing in
an upland meadow, in the background
of which, low hills are slightly defined
against the sky. The flock is scarcely
indicated more than by the fresh out
lines of the artist, yet each individual in
it has its own expression and motive !;
and the man and the dog in the fore
ground are developed only one step fur
ther than the rest No one can, of
course, tell precisely the time required
to execute such a work as this, for every
separate part of it may have been the re-
suit of direct study from Nature, but,
with the facility acquired by great prac-
tice, and the slightness of the outlines,
it would seem as if two or three hours
should have been sufficient to complete
it, and yet, for this little picture, fifteen
hundred dollars in gold was paid in Eu-
rope as the lowest price at which il
could be obtained.-Appietoa's Journal
Year: 1873

HASTE AND HEALTH.-It is not at all
wholesome to be in a hurry. Locomo-
tives have been reported to have moved
mile in single minute, for short dis
tances. But locomotives have often
come to grief by such great rapidity
Multitudes in their haste to get rich are
ruined every year. The men who do
things maturely, deliberately, are the
men who succeed oftenest in life. Peo-
pie who are habitually in hurry gener-
ally have to do things twice over. The
tortoise beats the hare at last Slow
men seldom knock their brain out
against post. Foot races are injurious
to the health, as are all competitive ex-
ercises steady labor in the field is the
best gymnasium in the world. Either
labor or exercise carried to exhaustion,
or even to a great tiredness, expressed
by Gagged out" always does more
harm than the previous exercise has
done good. All running up stairs, run
ming to catch up with vehicle or ferry
boat, are extremely injurious to every
age and sex, and condition of life. 1t
ought to be the most pressing necessity
which should induce a person over fifty
to run twenty yards. Those live longest
who are deliberate, whose actions are
measured, who never embark in any en-
terprise without sleeping over it, " and
who perform all the every day acts of
life with calmness. Quakers are pro-
verbally calm, quiet people, and Quak-
ers are thrifty folk, the world over
DR.. Hail.
Year: 1873

EARLY MATURITY INCOMPATIBLE
WITH DURABILITY.-The laws regulat-
ing growth and decay are immutable;
and it may almost always be pronounc-
ed, that in proportion to the quickness
of the growth will be the early decay
of the animal or vegetable being
Thus, the oak is more lasting than the
larch, and the elephant outlives the
horse; and so it will be found that,
whether in the case of the greyhound,
the horse, the sheep, or the bullock,
those animals which come to maturity
the earliest are the first to decay, or to
show signs of that stage. For in a
state of domestication actual decay is
rarely permitted to take place; hence,
while the breeder has his attention drawn
to the production of colts which shall
at two years of age be formed like old
horses, and be fit to compete with them,
it will always result that he obtains his
end at a considerable sacrifice of dura-
bility, as evidenced in the diminished
strength of constitution, and the feeble
and yielding nature of the organs of To-
comotion. The timber, in fact, instead
of being oak, is deal, and is as little to
be compared in durability with the ma
terials of which old-fashioned horses
were composed, as the latter timber is
with the former Of course we admit
there are some exceptions, even in these
days, which seem made of iron-like ma
terial, but these only tend to prove the
rule.-Prdirie Farmer.
Year: 1873

Remember that raw egg will clear
your throat of fish bones. Put one in a
little hot wine, add some sugar, and the
fish bones will slip down all the easier.
p. S.-You can take the egg, wine and
sugar, anyhow They'le good as pre-
ventive and you don't know what mo-
ment you may get a fish bone in your
throat.
Year: 1873

What we call turning point" is
simply an occasion which sums up and
brings to a result previous training.
Accidental circumstances are nothing
except to men who have been trained
to take advantage of them.


the chance came to him of making a
great forensic display; but unless he
had trained himself for the chance, the
chance would only have made him ridic-
ulous.


There is the story told of some gen.
tleman who, on battlefield, happen
ing to bow with much grace to some
officer who addressed him, a cannon
ball Just went through his hair, and
took off the head of one behind him.
The officer, when he saw the marvel
lous escape, justly observed that no man
ever lost by politeness.


There is a man in Berkshire, Eng
land, who has a park with walled
frontage of seven miles, and he tells of
beautiful little operation which made
nice little addition to his fortune He
was in Australia when the first discov-
cries of gold were made. The miners
brought in their nuggets, and took them
to the local banks. The bankers were
little nervous about the business, un-
certain about the gold, and waited to
see its character established. This man
had taste for natural sciences and
knew something about metallurgy. He
tried each test-solid and fuid-satis-
fed himself of the quality of the gold,
and then, with all the money he had or
could borrow, he bought as much gold
as might be, and showed profit of
hundred thousand pounds in the course
of a day or two. His ''luck" was OBJ
servation and knowledge, and happy
tact in applying them.


The late Joseph Hume went out to
India, and while he was still young
man he accumulated considerable for
tune. He applied himself to the hard
work of mastering the native languages,
and turned the knowledge to most prof
table account. On one occasion, when
all the gunpowder had failed in the
British army, he succeeded in scraping
together large amount of the neces-
sary materials, and manufactured it for
the troops. When he returned to Eng
land he canvassed with so much ability
and earnestness for seat in the East
India directorate, that he might carry
out his scheme of reform, that, though
he failed to get the vote of certain
large proprietor of stock, he won his
daughters heart, and made prosper
GUS marriage. And marriage is, after
all, the Quickest bit of luck" when it
is all it should be.


There is, then, in truth, no ''luck."
There are turning points in life, mo-
ments, critical moments, that are worth
more than years; nevertheless a great
occasion is only worth to man what
his antecedents have enabled him to
make of it, and our business in life is
to prepare for these supreme moments,
these hours when life depends on the
decision of the instant. Whatever of
truth is veiled under the popular idea
of luck and chance is, rightly consid-
cred, an incentive to the busiest indus
try, not an excuse for folded hands and
idle dreams.-Frederick Arnold.
Year: 1873

THE CHIEF JUSTiCESlIIP.
bEliEf THAT JUDGE WILLIAMS WILL NOT BIZ con


FIRNED-DAMAGING FACTS DEVELOPED By THE


INVESTIGATION.


lBY TELEGRAPH TO THE TRIBUNE.


WASHINGTON, Dec. 2I.--Public opinion in Wash
ington has become settled that Judge Williams will
not be confirmed to be Chief Justice. The iDvesti-
CATION that has been made by the Judiciary Com
m'ttee has disclosed practices and facts which the
Committee strongly condemn, and which probably
VIII prevent favorable report. The friends
OK Attorney General Williams are very in
dgnant that he should be slaughtered for
doing things which they say nearly every
cabinet Minister is guilty Of If there is to be any
such close scrutiny of the expenditure of the con-
tngent fund in the Department of Justice. they say
let there be also inquiry as to the authority OF
law by which other members OF the Cabinet and
officials Of lower rank make the Government pay for
their private carriages and keep their coachmen and
other servants on the department rolls If the ex-
penditure of the contingent fund in all Of the de
partments and bureaus was carefully investigated
there is no doubt that great many leaks would be
discovered
Year: 1873

CLAIMANTS ALARMED LEST THEY SHALL DERIVE NJ


BENEFIT FROM THE ADJUDICATION OF THEIR


CIAIMs-THE WORK or TIE COMMISSION VOID


UNLESS EVERY CASE ON IT'S DOCKET Is DECIDED.


GBY TELEGRAPH TO THE rRIBUsE.l


WASHINGTON. Dec. 2l.-Claimants before tne
American and Mexican Claims Commission, estab-
lisbed in 1869 and which expires in about a year,
are becoming alarmed at the prospect that, though
their cases NAV have been adiudicated, they may
derive no benefit from that fact. BY the terms OF
the treaty creating the Commission every case on
its docket must be decided before its expiration or
all of its work fails. The number of American
claims filed is or of which but 2SS have yet been
decided. The whole number of Mexican clai ms is
go, of which but 335 have been adjudi-
Gated Claimants are afraid that, since
it has taken almost five years to
dispose of less than onethird Of the claims, there
is little hope that the remainder will be adjudcated
in the year to come. Each Commissioner it is said
blames the other for the delay. If either did his
duty, the work would go on, SINCE If, after one
Commissioner has given his decision in any case, the
other fails within reasonable time also to lille his
decision it is the duty of the Secretary to send the
papers to the umpire who deals with such cases rs
the two Commissioners cannot agree upon. IL the
present American Commissioner cannot afford to
give his attention 10 the work for the salary paid
5000 he should resign and allow the appointment
of some lawyer who will finish mp the work within
tho oiy time
Year: 1873

[BY TELEGRAPH TO THE TRlBUsEl


WASHINGTON, Dec. 2l.-Mr Garfield intends to
bring mp the salary question again in the House
after the recess by moving to suspend the rules
so as to enable the Appropriations Committee TO
insert a section in the Executive, Legislative, and
Judicial Appropriation bill reducing to the old
standard all the salaries that raised by the bill
of March g. Such motion would not be debatable
and would bring members to the test OF square
vote on the question of undong the wrong commit


ted last Winter II the motion should carry and 1t Is
scarcely supposable that the House would dare vote


ii down. however great the disposition might be to do
so, the Committee could save at one stroke about
81 100000 in the appropriations contained IN the Dill
| Another project which the Committee have IN
view is to make careful inquiry into the work done
In the several Departments in Washington, for the
purpose of seeing whether there cannot be cOnsid


erable reduction effected in the clerical force en-
ployed 1t is reported that in most of the bureaus
of the Treasury there are as many clerks now en-
pIoyed as in 1865 and 1866 when the great bulk of
the accounts of the war in process OF settle
ment. In one bureau the number of employees is
now 100 greater than in 1866 although the work has
fallen of at least onehalf 1t is useless to expect
that the heads of bureaus will call attention them
selves to the surplus force in their Offices. They
naturally wish to magnify their positions, and have
"a numerous retinue of subordinates about them ;
besides from long association with their employees,
they feel that it would be unfrendly act to re-
commend the discharge of any Of them" So, as the
law authorizes certain number of deputies, clerks.
and messengers to be employed, they go on year
after year making estimates for their pay, without
regard to whether there is anything for them TO do
or not. A thorough inquiry by committee OF Con-
gress is the only thing that will discover what rela-
ton the work done in the several Departments bears
to the plumber of persons paid for doing it.
Year: 1873

and gave to those Companies patents Unless SOME
thing done the settlers on these 500 square miles
of territory will be dispresessed, and either driven
from their homes forced to pay tho railroad com
panes for the lands they have once paid the United
States for


These people ask Congress TO authorize suit to be
brought in the of the United States to recover
the title, in order that q final decision may be
reached. They have vain urged upon their SEN
ators and Representatives TO procure the passage OF
such an act, and now all of the agricultural clubs
and associations have made a common cause with
them. and they propose to elect Senator without
regard to politics who will ut least attempt to do
something for their relief Senator Crozer has intro
duced bill TO refer the TO the cOnrts, and made
a speech in its favor. He denies that he is candl-
date but would probably stand better chance to
receive the nomination, sbouldhe get his bill through
the Senate, than any other Republican. No one
would however be surprised if the farmers tired OF
trusting the promises of the Republicans, should
conclude to try Democrat.
Year: 1873

Ihe New Orleans Picayune, for whose pub
lie spirit and honesty of purpose we have
always entertained the greatest respect and
admiration, is disposed to ridicule and dis
courage any attempt towards the removal of
the seat Of government from New Orleans
Upwards of year ago we advocated this
measure. We then suggested several places
in the interior of the State, as suitable Dosi
tions for tue seat Of government, because of
theircentral location, territorially considered,
and, we may say, in reference to population.
too' These were Vermilionville, in the parish
OF Lafayette, Opelousas, in st. Landry, Marks
vile, in Avoyelles, and Alexandria, in Rapides
ALI ON the line of the projected railroad from
Fermilionville to Shreveport.


AT the same time we suggested that the
State owned, on the outskirts of Opelousas.
about one hundred acres of land, on which
there arc several buildings those of the
Franklin College-whieh constituted all ex-
cellent site for State House, and we gave a
few reasons why Opelousas would be proper
place at which to locate the seat of govern
ment. The Picayune took us to task about
these suggestions of ours, and intimated that
we were actuated alone by d motive of self
interest


We find now that it is attempting to throw
some ridicule on j. Henri Burch's paper, pub
lished at Baton Rouge, for advocating a re-
moval OF the seat of government from New
Orleans to Baton Rouge. Now, whilst we
think that Baton Rouge is Objectionable, be-
cause it is not central in its position, we would
prefer, Infinitely prefer to have the seat of
government there than let it remain where it
is. A few hundred thousand dollars would be
whereas upwards of million will be required
to purchase a site for and to build a new capi-
tol in New Orleans.


This reason alone, it seems to us, ought. in
the impoverished condition of our people, to
decide the question in favor of Baton Rouge,
as between that place and New Orleans. But
there are as good reasons besides this why the
removal should be effected, and we believe
that the people Of the country parishes feel
their weight and really wish that there should
be change. We hope that the press in the
country will take this matter up and agitate
the question of removal until it is effected.


We have State pride-we are proud of our
great city: but we warn our New Orleans
friends that the people OF the country parishes
are beginning to suspect them of strong
tendency towards centralization-a thing in
politics SO much and SO justly condemned by
the Picayune on all occasions. And we think
! that they are right to oppose it.


We are willing, nay, anxious that New Or.
leans should, commercially and socially, be-
come the queen city of the South but we do
not wish to see it become the centralizing
point of all power in the State. If the peo
pie of the country parishes will only direct
their efforts earnestly to this work, they Can
and will succeed in it, as they have heretoft ge
done.
Year: 1873

Doubt has been raised rega riding the
supposed suicide of e1 Assemblyman,
Dewitt c. Tower, yesterday. From the
appearance OF the body, and the copdi-
tion OF the room in which it was found
the police who are working up the case
cypress the belief that he died by
violence.
Year: 1873

Wishing to make suie, fhe hdy quietly
called her husband, and the two stood
watching the proceedings for at least ten
minutes. Every time fly dared to alight
on the little one face that old rats friendly


tail would brush it away, like the guardian
ang lowering about US, who. we believe.
is constantly brushing away dangers that
threaten us poor mortals. 1t was thought
safe by the child's parents to leave the child


in charge of lis singular nurse. and for one
hour lLc little one slept. When it awoke
its moller went TO take il mp, and the rat
jumped from the cradle and sped away
through the halfopened dor TO the wood
shed. Since that time the child has been
put to sleep in The kitchen to ascertain il
The experiment would be repeated. Each
lime when left alone, with the shed door
partially open, he old rat would enter and
take up its position over the head Of the
cradle, watching the little sleeper, and
brushing away the flies who dared to trouble
its cliar,c.
Year: 1873

ance and told their story, and she
said:


81 had hoped to have given
Margerie grand wedding, but ]
suppose l shall have to give up the
idea. There will be any amount of
talk about it, and advise you to
back off at once, and take a Eu-
ropean trip. 1t will all blow over
by that time, and then you can
open an establishment in style, and
live forever after pretty much as
you please"


AS Mrs. Won Hoffman's advice
was fully given and well meant,
and as Harry Roland Murray and
his wife Margerie looked upon one
quarter of the globe pretty much
as they did upon another provided
they were together, they went to
Europe.


"It was an old thing, after all, u
said Albany to himself. They had
been married ten years, and she
had been waiting all this while for
him. She deserves to be happy"
Year: 1873

lessons from the panic" are
now in order, and there are plenty
of valuable ones, if diligently
sought out and properly improved.
Among them is one especially for
young men in cities, who have small
accumulations of money from their
wages and other sources. These
are often tempted to "try their
luck" by speculation in stocks or
grain. They hear of fabulous gains
acquired by others in short time
and on small investment, and, con-
fident that fortune, so liberal with
others, will be more generous with
them, "dip in" lightly at first, but
deeper, as temptation and means
increase. Counting the smallness
of the margin" required, and cal
culating the largeness of the gains
on reasonable ADVANCE" they can
not entertain doubt as to profits.
But even admitting fall in prices,
they are sure to be able to "get
out" without serious loss. Led on
by such pictures of profits easily
made, thousands of young men had
every dollar at their command in
volved in a speculation when the
present panic came on, and in the
twinkling of an eye, swept away
their flimpsy margins" and left
them not only bankrupt, but over
whelmed with hopeless indebted
ness. In referring to this subject
the New York Observer says:-sf.


If the panic of 1873 only teaches
our young men this lesson, that in
dustry and frugality-a business
that is founded upon integrity and
built up by prudence and honesty
are the only things that pay well in
the end, it will be worth all it costs.
Let the stock business shrink to its
legitimate proportions, and the
banks encourage merchants rather
than speculations, and sound pros
perity will return; young men will
no longer be seen pasting money as
if they were princes; there will be
fewer defalcations, and a better
state of public and private morals.
Year: 1873

She comes down to the depot in
an express wagon three hours before


train time. She insists on sitting


on her trunk, out on the platform,


to keep it from being stolen. She
picks up her reticule, fan, parasol,
lunch-basket, small pot with a
house plant in it, shawl, paper-bag
of candy, bouquet, (she never trav-
els without one), small tumbler and
extra veil, and chases hysterically
after every switch engine that goes
by, under the impression that it is
her train. Her voice trembles as
she presents herself at the restaur-
ant and tries to buy q ticket, and
she knocks with the handle of her
parasol on the door of the old dis
used Toulouse, in vain hopes that
the baggage-man will come out and
check her trunk. she asks every
body in the depot and on the plat
form when the train viii start and
where it will stand, and looking
straight at the great clock, asks:
"What time is il now 7" She sees,
with terror, the baggage-man shy
her trunk into a car where two men
are smoking, instead of locking 1t
up by itself in a large, strong,
brown car with "Bad order, Shops"
chalked on the side, which she has
long ago determined to be the bag
gagc-car, as the only safe one in
sight. Although the first at the
depot she is the last to get her tick
ct, and once on the cars she sits TO