smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1875

AT the opening hour Union Pacific sold freely at 741s
in Wall yesterday until telegram received
from Washington stating that the United States Su-
preme Court had rendered decision supporting the
Union Pacific in its claims for payment for government
transportation. Instantly Union Pacific became tho
strong feature OF the day the Stock Exchange and
until the close OF the board the excitement
was high and continuous Opening at 741s,
the stock jumped the receipt OF the


first OF favorable decision to 7o16 bid with 76s
asked. The wires crowded with questions 10
Washington as to what the decision was the stock and
excitement appreciating every until near the
close OF the day, when the facts came, verifying the
most sanguine hopes OF the bulls The effect of this
decision woll known the street. 1t gives the
company about 81 600 900 in back pay secures to
II about $500,000 cash each year in pay
ment for government work The decision places
the dividends of the company a much 1rmer basis
will be by the street quotations Nearly every
other leading stock rose in sympathy with Union
Pacific until the gong sounded at the close when the
highest of the day registered Union Pacific
stock rapidly up the list until at three p NJ it
closed at the best figures during the day. 79l1. The
bonds followed, closing at 1041a
Year: 1875

OTTAWA, Nov 30 1875.
Hon. John Young gives notice in the Official Gazette
that application will be made at the session of Par
lament for act OF incorporation to construct the
Royal Albert Bridge the ST. Lawrence near
ST Heens Island to connect the Eastern, Western and
Northern railways OF Canada with the Eastern and
railways the south side OF the river. Tho
bridge will also be adapted to the running OF city
and for ordinary trat1c as we'll as for foot travel
Year: 1875

Joseph Abbot fifteen years Of age while at work in
the factory OF Hines McGinna, No. 81 Dey street,
caught his clothes in belt OF machinery and was
drawn to the ceiling, thrown round the shaft and
hurled 70 tho workbench beneath. His arm was
broken and his legs badly injured, besides wounds in
his head He taken to the Chambers Street Hosp.
tai bx the ambulance.
Year: 1875

ANOTHER BoBIN SToRY.-The Nil
waukcc Wisconsin tells a pretty story
about robin whose operations were
overseen in that city a day or two ago
The little fellow was busily engaged in
gathering material for the construc.
tion of nest. In flying around to
"see what he could see,' he discovered
an old nest, fastened to tree, and in.
tertwined in this nest was long string
hung floating, the other fastened in
the nest. Robin seized the string and
endeavorcd to pull it out. 1t was too
tightly fastened for an ordinary pull,
and he accordingly took short hold
and violently threw his head back
Still IL wouldn't come. After consul
tation with himself he tried n now
plan. Selling the end of the string
firmly in his mouth, he tumblcd heavi-


y from the limb, and let his full dead.
weight pull upon the coveted article.
This he tried over and over again, but
TO no avail. II would never do to give
il up so, however, and he again at
tempted it, this time commencing at
the foundation, by getting into the nest
and diligently tugging at the fastened
end Of the string. And he succeeded in
looscning il, drew IL through, and sped
away TO make use of il In his new
home. lie was fairly entitled TO il.
Year: 1875

Hope is the ruddy morning ray Of
joy; recollection is its golden tingc
but the latter is wont to sink amid the
dcws and dusky shades of twilight,
and the bright blue day which the
former promises breaks indeed, but in
another world, and with another sun,
Year: 1875

THERE is a man who lives In Denver
who knows just how to play a'good joke
vpOn fond parents. Two friends of his,
man and wife, were passing along the
street ahead of him, the man drawing a
small carriage in which was theIcouple's
first born. Every now and then the par
ents would look around at that baby
with more pride and satisfaction in their
eyes than single person could manifest
under any circumstances, and the sight
was enough to arouse all the mischievOus
propensilies of the man behind. The
father and mother had not discovered
him, as they stopped before o window to
admire the contents, as young people
who have rooms still unfurhished will
always do. The practical joker saw his
opportunity and improved it. He glided
up swiftly and silently to the carriage,
took out the baby and disappeared in an
adjacent doorway, all unnotioed. Final
ly the young married couple finished
their examination of the store window
and started on; they turned around to
look at baby! The scene that followed
was striking. The mother dived for the
carriage, shook up the coverings as
| though the baby might be hidden in
them, and then the air which swept
around the Denver street corners carried
to the ear succession of female screams
executed in the finest style of vocal art.
The father of the baby meanwhile, in
default OF any Other course to take, be-
gan a wild circular dance in Indian style
around the carriage where the baby late
| ly was, but wasn't then. Next on the
programme, the mother stopped Shrek
ing and prepared 10 faint away. Then
the baby was produced and peace re-
stored. The affair was a success.
Year: 1875

And now sweet Summer dies;
All me! to think OF all the golden hours
We passed when first to life she sprung,
And strewed our pathway with her choicest flowers
And lulled us with the magic Of her tongue
That whispered in the breeze, OF louder sung
As Phiomel. Till every fibre swung
In nrapturous pleasure known tut TO the young.
Such happy past remembering, who but sIghs
For Summer, vanishing. Too soon she dies.


But some say, wherefore weep?
Summer returns True, but not this not this;
Granted, the earth may wake again
To life and beauty, meath the ardent kiss
OF yet another, which shall doubtless reign,
Lavish Of fruits, and flowers, and blessed grain,
Now nurtured with her smile, now with her rain;
But for his Summer shall grieve In vain.
Once dead forever dead; the days Of yore,
To hearts that ache with longing come no more.


No skies will be so bright;
At least to us, who gazed on those Of June;
Beheld the west with light aaAme;
Then waited for the rising Of the moon,
That later like a sanity spirit came.
No fairer morns the glowing east will claim,
Nor rouse the lark to spread Aurora's fame:
What future Summer days can be the sameY
OF all that wait our mortal path to cheer,
What equal TO the past? what half so dear?


And therefore do mourn
Out Of our life the sweetest chapter done;
The very fairest page gone by.
There could not be happier one
Though we are aged ere We come to lie
In Deaths embraces; be he far or nigh,
We always must remember, you andI,
These halcyon days departed, brief as bright
This Summer which is dying as write.
Year: 1875

A little baby stranger came TO family
in Augusta last week, and a bright five year
old brother, who had been heretofore the
only child in that household, was brought
10 see the new conner. He greeted the lit
tie ono with apparent pleasure and delight,
patting it playfully under the chin and
smoothing down its soft hair. Then all at
once came the inquiry, "Say, how was God
when you left Y'
Year: 1875

The man who is curious TO see how the
world could get along without him can find
out by sticking a cambric needle into
mill-pond and then Withdrawing 1t aud
locking at the hole.-GlaSOOW lKy) 1Ssaes.
Year: 1875

Again the fohn was busy at its work
of destruction; again the windows of
heaven were opened, and the rains de-
scended, ,and the floods came, land accom-
plished more in single night than his
weak hands could have done in month.
With the morning light he crawed
through the how large tunnel; but when
he reached the other end he found to his
horror that he was on the top of the
mighty precipice. His blood boiled his
brain seemed on fire his heart beat as if
it would break through ribs and flesh
He was, if possible, more desperately
imprisoned than before. How was he to
get down? Through his bewildered
mind suddenly flashed the thought of
the skins of the ibex and chamos, and
he was not long in making a rope of
them He then cut deep hole in,the
ice, drove down his alpenstock, fastened
one end to it, and swinging himself off,
reached the bottom in safety.


With cry Of joy and prayer of thank
fulness, he fastened along the wel-known
path; and when the bell of the little
chapel, that reared it's gilded cross in
Matterhorn Valley, was tolling for the
evening prayers, he staggered like a
drunken man into the very midst of the
astonished worshippers-even as the
voice of the good priest was repeating,
"God is everywhere with me; and every
where. even in the most threatening dan
gers, his voice speaks to me in tones of
comfort and says, Call upon me in the
day of trouble and l will deliver thee,
and thou shalt glorify me e!'-staggered
toward the altar to kneel at it, but fell
fainting into the arms of his wife, who
again nursed him to health, strength and
manhood.
Year: 1875

The finest and softest wool is always
found on the shoulders tofs q sheep
But not one person in 10000 is aware
of this fact. Let us watch an expert
wheE he is about to pass judgement on
a sheep concerning the value of the ami
NAL producing wool, and it will be seen
that he always looks at the wool on the
shoulders first. A writer of extensive
experience in rearing fine-wooled sheep
and in handling wool, communicates the
following suggestions for selecting a
good wooled sheep:


"Always assuming that the wool to be
inspected is really fine wool, we first
examine the shoulders at the part where.
the finest and best wool is usually found.
This we take as the standard, and COM
pare it with the wool from the ribs, the
thigh, the rump and the shoulder parts,
and the nearer the wool from the va.
rious portions of the animal approaches
the standard the batter. First we scru-
tinize the fineness, and if the result is
satisfactory We pronounce the fleece in
respect Of fineness very seven' Next.
we inquire into the length of the staple,
aud if we find that the wool on the ribs
thigh and back approximates reasonably
in length to that of our standard. We
again declare the sheep, as regards
length of staple, true and even. We
next desire to satisfy ourselves of the
density of the fleece, and if we do this
by closing the hand upon a portion of
the rump, and of the loin wool, the
fleece at these points being usually the
thinnest and faulty, and if this again
gives satisfaction, we signify the fact by
designating the wool seven' as respects
density. Now to summarize these sep.
arate examinations: If you find the
fleece of nearly equal fineness from the
shoulder to the thigh, of nearly equal
length shoulder, rib, thigh and back, and
density on shoulder and across the lcins,
you may conclude that you have per-
feet sheep for producing valuable WOOL
Selecting sheep for valuable feeders is
quite another tbing."-1rale Journal.
Year: 1875

Every intellectual person should know
how to ascertain the state of the pulse
in health; then by comparing it with
what ii is when he is ailing, he may
have some idea Of the urgency of his
case Parents should know the healthy
pulse of each child-as now and then a
person is born with peculiarly slow or
fast pulse, and the very case in hand
may be of that peculiarity. A infants
pulse is l40; child of seven, about so /;
a I'd from twenty to sixty years it is 7G
beats a minute, declining to GO at four
score. A healthful grown persons
pulse beats 70 times in minute; there
may be good health down to 60; but ii
the pulse always exceeds 70 there is a
disease; the machine is working itself
olt, there is fever or Inflammation
somewhere, and the body is feeding on
itself; as in consumption, when the
pulse is quick, that is,over 70, gradually
increasing with the decreased chances
of cure, until it reaches 10 or 100,
when death comes before many days
When the pulse is over 20 for months
and there is a slight cough, the lungs
are affected.
Year: 1875

We are floating on the river of time
Voyagers together we noiselessly glide.
Drifting away to that beautiful cline
Eye hath not seen, on the other side,
Yesterday saw us step down from the shore
Into our barks at the dawn of the day
Others tomorrow will follow us DER
For none the glad light of the morning will


stay.
We are midway out on the river of time,
And drift with the tide we cannot resist;
II is sweeping us on to an ultimate cline
That is hid from our vision in far folded mist;
Manhood has stamped its stern seal on our


brow,
Life like swift panorama moves by,
Sunshine and shadows are Ger us now;
Is it life, or pale death, in that westering sky?
We have almost crossed DER the river of time,
The wind and the pillows have left us a


wreck;
What steals from yon mist, like some angel


wrought chime?
May we still look with courage and hope from


the deck?
Aged and silent and gray have we grown,
Battered our barks, our sails they are riven,
Yet we feel we are coming to friends we have


known
When we entered the gateway Of death and OF
. heaven.
Hartford Times
Year: 1875

Commodore Vanderbilt seemed in an
unusually communicative mood, and he
made the following suggestions to the re-
porter:


'When You have lived, sir, to carry as
many gray hairs as l do, you will have
learned that there is little sympathy with
or appreciation of your efforts, 1T matters
little what may be the circumstances. II
you are successful in accumuating for
tune you will be called speculator and
monopolist, while if you fail to amass
riches, i. will all be about the same,as you
will be talked of in that case as one who
does not amount to much anyhow. l
have never speculated on tie market. and
regard it as nothing less than a gambling
operation When was 80 years old 1
had been working for several years for
my employer at 81 900 a yea., and when
l left him l had not more than $40, 900 all
told.


"After long and very successful life,
Commodore, what in your opinion is tho
true secret of success in making mon
ey?"


"Save what you have and live within
your income. Avoid all speculation. No
matter what | was making, always made
it a rule to save something, and this
course, if persisted in, is sure to succeed.
The money will pile upin time. While I
was working for the gentleman referred
to ainoment ago, persuaded him to let
me use the profits should realize in the
business in further extending it. This 1
did until it had grown so large that in his
eyes the amount was too large to risk,a
he refused to let me 60 aheat any longer,
although he hail such confidence in me az
to offer me a partnership, which declin-
ed. Since then nave been operating for
myself. did not accept the partnership
because knew his other partners and
could not agree, and l never could quar-
rel where was one of the interested per.
sons. did not object to insisting upon
the rights of my employers as long as I
was not directly interested, hut to enter in
a partnership where knew ! should have
to maintain my own rights by repeated
quarreling, was more than would agree
TO do"
Year: 1875

We have probably all of us met with
instances in which a word heedlessly
spoken against the reputation of fe-
male has been magnilied by malicious
minds until the cloud has become dark
enough to overshadow her whole eXis-
tence. To those who are accustomed
not necessarily from bad motives, but
from thoughtlessness-to speak lightly
of females, we recommend three "hints"
as worthy of consideration:


Never use lady's name in an in
proper place, at an improper time, or in
mixed company.


Never make any assertions about her
that you think are untrue, or illusions
that you feel she herself would blush to
hear.


When you meet men who do rot scru-
pie to make use of woman's name in
a reckless and unprincipled manner,
shun them, for they are the very worst
members of the community,-men lost
to every sense of honor, every feeling
of humanity.


Many good woman's character has
been ruined and her heart broken by a
lie, manufactured by some villain and
repeated when it should not have been,
and in the presence uf those whose lit
tie judgment could not deter them from
circulating the foul and Dragging report.
A slander is soon propagated, and the
smallest thing derogatory to woman's
character will fly on the wings of the
wind and magnify as it circulates, until
its monstrous weight crushes the poor
unfortunate victim


Respect the name of woman, for
your mother and sisters are women, and
as you would have their fair name un.
tarnished and their lives unimbittered
by the SANDERS biting tongue, heed the
i'll that your own words may bring upon
the mother, the sister, or the wife OF
some fellow creature.
Year: 1875

An old lady in New York particularly
desired that certain cushion on which
she sat in church should he buried with
her. and as there was difficulty about
getting it into her coffin it was luckily
proposed to cut it, when several thou.
sand dollars in greenbacks came to
light. The old lady was clearly resol


we'd that, if she did bring nothing into
the world, she would at all events, as
far as possible, take something ont o
Year: 1875

tff00s M< fNt1tGGetph2G Tunes.
In the western part of the city there


resides young couple who have been
but lately married, and who, though
possessing unlimited means, are emIn-
emily respectable. A few days ago the
wife became raving maniac, from a
cause which Is we'll known to physi-
clans. For three days and nights the
husband, unwilling to expose his wife
with hair disheveled, eyes wildly glar-
ing and ferocity depicted on her coun-


tenance, 60 the vulgar gaze Of unsym-
lpathizing neighbors, struggled with


her in endeavoring to quell her violent


outbreaks. No sleep came to his eyes


so devoted was he to his suffering help


mate. The neighbors complaining of


the lady's cries and frequent calls Of
| murder" and her husband finding


himself unable longer to Withstand the


severe strain upon his energies, finally


decided to carry her to the almshouse.
A carriage was obtained and the unfor-
tunate creature was driven to that in
stitution, only to be refused admittance
The individual IN charge refused
to receive this ravins maniac un-
til all the forma'ities had been gone
through that were necessary to make
1t evident to his mind that the


woman was really crazy. Form must


be gone through, even though she re.


mained without medical attendance
for week longer. Her husband being
directed to the Guardians of the Poor,


visits them IN company with his wife
and she still in this painful condition.
The Guardians of the Poor informed


him that he must SEQ the Visitor of the


Poor, at No. Fayette street.


Having arrived there, that individual


was found absent, as one minute had


elapsed since the last hour of his daily
duties had expired. Even had he been
found, it would then have been neces-
sary to hunt up the two physicians as
signed to that district, in order that
they might sign the ceitificatc. Not
willing to carry his wife in a raving
condition from one end of the city to
the other, the luckless husband decid-
ed, as last resource, to carry her to
the Twentieth district police station.
Here he found that, though there were
no rules generally governing the case,
yet, that the lieutenant possessed suf-
ficient discretion and judgment to
know when to make exceptions, and as
a consequence the woman was taken
charge Of and phsician called in. Her
husband remained with ber in the cell
all of Tuesday night. Her paroxysms
were then so violent that she tore ev-
cry vestigs of clothing from her body.
Through the kind attention she receiv-
ed at the station house, however, and
under the care of the physician, she
was finally quieted, and the following
day was sremoved to her home. She is
still in very dangerous condition.
The mother of the woman has since be-
come insane through grief at the latter's
condition. That the woman has not
died, or that she did not do herself
some frightful injury while in the car
riage, is no fault of red tape
Year: 1875

The Bazaar is edited with contribution of
tact and talent that we seldom find in any
Journal; and the journal itself is the organ of
the great world OF fashlon-Boston Traveller.


The Bazaar commends itself to every mem
Der of the household-to the children by droll
and pretty pictures, to the young ladies by its
fashion-plates in endless variety, to the pro-
vident matron by its patterns for the children's
clothes, to pater-f -famiias by its tasteful de-
signs for embroidered slippers and luxurious
dressing-gowns But the reading-matter of
the Bazaar is uniformly of great excellence
The paper has acquired a wide popularity for
the fresde enjoyment it atfords.-N. Y. Even
ing Post.
Year: 1875

New YORK, Jan. 12.-The indigna-
tion meeting over Louisiana at Cooper In
stitute last night was remarkable in point
of numbers and enthusiasm. The hall
was packed, and the platform was
thronged. Prominent among the gentle
men on the platform were Mr. VIM. CuI-
len Bryant and Peter Cooper.


August Belmont called the meeting to
order, and proposed Mayor Wickham for
Chairman, who was elected by acclama-
ton


The distinguished Republican law
yer and statesman, W. NJ Evarts, spoke
at length.


He said the effort to control the
Legislature struck at its very existence
that is what they fought for in England
for years. The King and House of
Lords determined the qualifications of
the members Of the House of Commons,
but in 1924 the latter House resolved to
hold the matter of their qualifications in
their own hands, and allow neither roy
atty nor the House of Lords to interfere.
The speaker did not know whether there
was to be a sequel to this trouble in the
South, but he thought not. The peo-
pie should know and teach their rulers
they were only to act in accordance with
law.


What it (this government has done
In one State it should do in all States OF
Che Union. The Legislature of Louisi-
ana was as much a part of the United
States government as the Legislature of
The State of New York. He submitted
that the crowd that was here tonight
was not Democratic or Republican, but
American. If Republican majorities in
Congress approved; if they had no ac-
lion to take; if they sustained the right
OF soldiers to decimate the people, he
would not believe it until the party had
been given chance to speak. He had
observed tendency in Republicans to
break away from the party which gave ii
birth. Such abuses of power as this
louisiana affair would destroy it if not
checked.


WASHINGTON, Jan. 12.-The state
nent telegraphed from the Republican
chat the whole committee had started fol
New Orleans, was wild There is, how
ever, undCubted discomfort. 1t is stated
as indicative of the character of the Con
gressional report, that Mr.. Potter, the
Democratic member of the committee
has been selected to phrase it.


RumOrs still rife of cabinet break
up
Year: 1875

New YORK, Nov l3.-The trunk lines
have agreed to advance the rates offreight
west on Monday next on basis of 80 per
cent above those of the past few months,
The claim for this advance by railroad men
Is that rates are much lower now than they
have ever before beer at this season of the
year, and with the advance there is very
little margin for profits when severe wealth
er sets in. The following is the adopted
schedule of rates to the principal points of
shinmant.