smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1873

SIR VIII you permit an outsider to offer a
few suggestions upon the subject OF Quick Transit in
your City OF EewYOyk 1t seems clear my mind that
the street railroad of the future for NewYork must be


an elevated raroad-not like the contrvance in Green
wicb-st-but substantial structure with supports
each side OF the street. built, should say of medium
sizod stesmppes the principle Of truss bridges and


made stauncb and firm that at should be practically
as solid the street itself Built In that way IL would
be comparatively cheap and very durable Then would
have steel rails accurately fitted andi planed like the
ways OF an engine lathe. would have the carwheels
turned and fitted so that the whole affair should move
ike clock Would that not be the perfection OF
snOti0D DO You say IT would be exravagantf Not at
All on the contrary - wouls be positively cheaper TO
mako "a frstelass track IA that way Ior durable
were 70 be no Gar vibration and IN that case there
would practically be none. Inc WD9ie machine hke any
In no out OF the way OF the dirt and rubbish Of the
loe The structure could rest loosely IN The upfghts
Year: 1873




SIR: am an old 9TH Regiment man, and
want the corps 10 have a convenient armory but do
not quite like the idea Of building in Reseryoirquare
has occurred to that the top Of the reservoir
just the place to build The foor OF such structure
as the regiment wants is the only part that need be
solid and this rest pillars Of iron or masonry
standing on the bottom of the reservoir The structure
need be only story say 25 80 feet high 1t seems
TO me that very slightly addition TO those grim and
uniueresting walls may thus be secured. The prom
enade as IL exsts hardly used at all by the public and
indeed there is no reason why It should De much IN
only comparatively small part of the watersurface
will be rooted over; space 100 feet or more wide at
the Fthave end, for a regimental drillroom etc. Il
suppose that the eastern front OF the reservoir Will be
preferred for this purpOse) and perhaps strip
along Fortieth and Fortyseeond-sts for the company
rooms II the reservoir is properly built, the additional
weight will do 10 HARM and the water easily be
tected from any possible pollution. Moreover in case OF
riot the capture Of such armOry by the mob will DO
nearly impossible. o. L. NJ


Neir- York. Feb. "a, 1873.
Year: 1873

may be that he is comparatively innocent a
the crimes for which he is condemned to suf-
fer. However It may be. it is our duty to lay
the facts of the case before the public and to
give them the means Of judging for them
selves. One plain lesson the letter does read.
and that is-that the late war was blunder.
so far as France was concerned, and mainly
for the reason that the armies of France were
not organized and guided by the genius of ths
First Napoleon. France requires to be led
Under proper leadership she is strong With
out such leadership she is weak. 1t is the mis-
fortune of France that to her something like
C@sarism is necessity. This necessity
ought not to be allowed to continue.
Year: 1873

In the HERALD Of this morning we print
communication from one Of our correspond
ents in Paris bearing upon the late Franco


German war and on the question as to the in
nocence or guilt Of the now disgraced M arshal
Bazaine. Our correspondent in plain terms
tells what he knows and his knowledge in
this matter, coming, as it does, from first
sources, is entitled to much respect and to
serious consideration. It is most interesting
and instructive chapter OF the history Of the
late war. The Marshal has been tried and
found guilty. It may be that he is sentenced
70 suffer the proper penalty Of his crimes, Il
Year: 1873

on the last day, and would help mAke an
aquatic gathering which would completely
eclipse even that at Springfield, while. il
foreigners came. our prospects would be bet
tered. A little reflection and action on the
thoughts here thrown out may do much to
show in the coming summer that the amateur
rowing of America can be improved more
than was supposed, and can take long stride
towards becoming what our unequalled water
reaches viii yet greatly help to make 1.-THE
finest in the world
Year: 1873

REWARDS AND PUNISHMENT. T.-Suppose
Sheriff Brennan has offered a reward Of five
thousand dollars for the apprehension of
Henry w. Genet, and the latter should happen
to fall into the hands of some one who is pre-
pared to return him to the custody of the
Sheriff, could he not in sporting parlance,
''see' that five thousand dollars and "go
something better TO be released? If money
pc the only incentive to the capture of the
Fugitive, it is not at all likely he will be
arrested and delivered up within the ten days
prescribed in the reward offered by Sheriff
Brennan.
Year: 1873

Ex-Mayor Hall was yesterday acquitted Of
the charges of malefeasance in Office con-
tanned in the bill Of indictment found against
him by a Grand Jury some time since This
result was reached after o full and patient
trial, in which the highest ability at the COM
mand of the prosecution was employed to
secure a conviction. It is one upon which
a result which he considered SO certain that,
at the commencement of the present triad, he
declined to avail himself Of the privilege of
postponement, although the counsel whose aid
he desired was unable to attend, while, at the
close of the case for the prosecution, he
waived all testimony for the defence and
allowed the evidence on the part of the people
to 60 to the jury uncontradicted, for what it
was worth. The verdict will be approved by
the people. 1t has never been believed that
Mayor Hall was in any manner personally
implicated in the frauds committed by the
corrupt heads of departments who unfor-
tunately held Office during his administration.
No such charge was ever seriously made
against him by those citizens who were
honestly engaged in an investigation of the
municipal corruptions. Political organs,
it is true, denounced him in the
same coarse language which they
used towards the real culprits but this was
only for party purposes, and it is just to say
that their tone towards the ex-Mayor has
recently undergone marked change The
most that was laid to Mayor Halls charge
was a failure to exercise proper care and
vigilance in the discharge of his official duties,
and of this offence an intelligent jury has now
acquitted him. The only hesitation that ap-
pears to have been felt by the jury was as to
whether they could mark their disapproval of
the looseness which had gradually crept into
all official action by verdict of simple
neglect but not finding this within their
province, they promptly declared the accused
''Not guilty."


The verdict is gratifying to the city. 1t
shows that Notwithstanding the extent and
boldness of the conspiracy by which the
people we're robbed of millions, the chief
magistrate of the city had no part in the
crime. 1t would have been q public humilia-
ton if Mayor Hall had been convicted of the
offences charged against him, although they
implied only technical guilt and not moral
guilt As it is we have the satisfaction Of
knowing that although we have been plundered
by bold and reckless men, our chief magis-
trate has not been faithless to his high trust.
There is another view in which the verdict
may be regarded as gratifying to the people.
1t shows that the jury box may yet be relied
upon for honesty, fearlessness and justice.
The conviction of Tweed and Genet gave evi-
dence that an incorruptble jury can be OBJ
tanned who will find verdict of guilty against
wealthy and influential criminal. The
acquittal of Mayor Hall at period of excited
public sentiment proves that jury can be
found ready to do full and impartial justice to
an accused party without regard to popular
clamor.
Year: 1873

The WILL OF THE PRESIDENT. According
to the Washington news General Grant re-
mains infexible as to his nomination of Mr..
Williams for Chief Justice. He stated en-
phatically that the nomination would not be
withdrawn, and that he had never contem-
plated such thing. No President ever
talked more about deferring to public opinion
and to the representatives of the people in
Congress, and none ever carried out his own
will more obstinately. This is after the man.
ner OF Louis Napoleon proclaiming in favor
of liberty, universal suffrage and freedom of
the press, while nullifying these by the exer-
else Of arbitrary power. Words amount to
little when actions do not accord with them.
Year: 1873

was a time Of especial importance, because
Just before Christmas came the festival Of
Santa Claus, their especial patron, who, as
such, was sure to visit them, and might leave
some rewards for good conduct In those
days we had not the Christmas tree which
later German comers brought with them, but
which we have well nigh made our own, since
we far surpass the Germans themselves in the
success with which we cultivate this scrap of
household glory so that the Christmas tree,
like other trees, is all the thriitier for q new
soil.


In all our Christmas jollities there is no
especially national Characteristic We are
English and jolly, or English and Puritanical,
or we are Dutch or German. 1t is, how
ever, national in US that we accept rill from
every source and that for our freside festival,
our day for gathering if ever at the old
home, we are willing to decorate the occasion
with any wealth of fancy the world may
afford. Christmas itself is less glorious in
the land of its origin than in other lands. 1t
is denied and rejected by the moral races
amid whom it arose, and fourishes only
amidst the intellectual races who had at first
no share in it. 1t is not out Of character
therefore, that festival which the Old World
drew from still older world should, in the
New World, borrow from the Old its range of
peculiar devices in its lower sense as a
popular holiday; but in its finer sense it
may, perhaps reach its ultimate glory only in
q land where the divine aspirations Of
humanity are freer than elsewhere.
Year: 1873

COUHerClal huVertlser.


While in Rochester [ met Mr..
Hebbcrd, an old resident of Genne-
sec county, who saw Sam Patch
make his famous jump off Genesoo
Falls, thirty or forty years ago. He
says that jump day was a great
day in Rochester. The people
gathered for miles around to see
this intermittent American jump
er, as he performed his last
feat.


Sam Patch had previously jump
ed over Niagara. Then, saying
"some things can be done as well as
others" he slasbed around like
Sergeant Bates throughout the
Western parts of the State to back
up his proverb. Before his last
Jump he bought big black bear
o { circus man, and led him over
the turnpike to Rochester.


The morning Of the day came.
Sam had arrived in town with the
black bear, and the crowd rushed
into Rochester from miles around.
Twelve o'clock was tho hour to
jump-to jump a hundred feet down
down the terrible fall into the
boiling caldron below. A staging
had been built out over the water,
and Sam appeared on the staging
dressed in sailors fancy jacket.
His friends now took up collec-
tion on shore, while Sam swung
his hat and said after jumping him
sell he would return and throw the
bear over. Then, amid death
like stiffness, he ran few steps
and gave one leap into the air and
fell, cutting the mist like lead
sinker, two hundred feet into the
seething whirlpool. As he left the
staging his body assumed an OBJ
lique position, his head foremost,
but above his feet. As he struck
the water thore was a dreadful ST.
lence, while the populace awaited
with choking breath his reappear-
ance. One minute-two minutes
three minHtes-and no signs of the
daring jumper. Then the people
set up o loud wail--a long murmur
of sorrow.


This was the end Of Sam Patch.


They say he had been drinking
during the morning, and failed to
keep his feet together and his body
perpendicular, as on previous oc-
casions, so when he struck the wa
ter the breath left his body, and he
was knocked senseless. A month
or so afterward they found his body
away down below Rochester, drift
cd upon the rocks.
Year: 1873

Our special dispatch from the "Perma-


ueut Seat this morning gives us to un-
1ers,snd that the so.cslled Jacob Demo
Gratis have held o council OF war and de-
rermined to carry on the fight which the
Governor has been making against the
Bourbon wingSoi the party. If this Is
true, the regulars will not have the field
90 much to themselves next fall In the
election Of the Legislature that Is to elect
the next U. s. Senator as they recently
supposed. This will be bad news for the
CAMDEN men, and for the retainers Of
brother FAULKNER and the rest Of the
orthodox aspirants. Governor JACOB has
shown himself to be man whom the
Bourbon Democracy can not put down,
and 1t Is now an even chance II he does
not put them down. They undertook 10
massacre him in cold blood at Parkers-
burg in 1872, because he would not be the
creature and tool Of WALKER & Co., but
they found that instead Of killing him of
he rose in his might aad utterly irustrat-
ed their conspiracy. a-


Not being able to defeat his election
they undertook to tie his hands in pretty
much the same way that Congress tied
ANDY JoHNsoN's hands, by divesting his
office Of It's executive functions and TAX
ing away his patronage. And yet with
bis hands tied he continued the contest
with them and seems as little disposed as
ever to give up the contest. He is de.
termined not to- be subjugated by the
ring that has undertaken TO vscate his
office by assigning its prerogatives to the
Attorney General Of the State, And now
that their session at Charleston Is ended
be gives them to understand that he has
not been killed of but will again appeal
his case to the people as against the
doings Of the ring:
Year: 1873

TIE New York Times Of last Friday
declined to publish certain portions Of
the previous days debate in Congress on
the ground that It could fill its columns
to greater advantage ethan by publish.
ing mass Of scurrility and profanity 1t


therefore omitted "the. larger part Of the
proceedings"
Year: 1873

CHICAGO, Dec. 21.-Madame Galway,
late Lady Superior Of the order Of the
Sacred Heart in the West, died this fore.
noon In the convent Of that order In this
city. 5.,.r5


LAYING TRACK BETWEEN TWO pAYs.


Considerable excitement was created
this morning by the discovery that the
Aorthslde Street Railway Company had
during last night laid a track on Clark
street, south Of the bridge, to connect
their track on the north side with that Of
the City Railway on this side Much op.
position has been made BY property
holders on Clark street to this extension,
and the company have been repeatedly
enloined from laying this track through,
although the improvement will prove q
great convenience To citzens.
Year: 1873

followed the two men, leaving the wife
OF the younger brother asleep in the hut.


The night had already fallen; the cry
Of the jackal was heard; the bat wheeled
slowly through the opening in the trees,
and q pale streak on the horizon showed
where the moon was struggling to shed
her light upon the darkened landscape.
The two men moved on. followed by the
woman, whose terror, though great, was
overcome by a still stronger emotion.


Reaching retired space in the forest
the men paused, and the woman drew
back under the shadow Of magnolia
tree, where she stood covert spectator
Of their actions. The moon had now
risen, and filled the scene with a ghostly
splendor; the light falling through a
break in the trees on the spot where the
two men had halted, allowed the woman
To observe their actions with singular
distinotness. Suddenly she saw one OF
them = her husband = sink into the
ground. A wild cry followed, and as the
echoes rang through the forest, the
younger brother raised the club and
dealt the struggling man a murderous
blow upon the head. She stopped TO
see no more, but ran back, Mortified,
10 her hut.
The women of these hot latitudes are
often courageous. They are devoted and
revengeful. This woman, Tarp, was ore
Of these; she loved her husband, and
was endowed with courage rarely
found in her sex. She resolved to avenge
the death Of the man she loved, and
arming herself with long knife, awaited
the return of the murderer. The minutes
rolled by heavily, but at length the sound
Of footsteps aroused her 10 the fullest
activity. The fratricide reached the
doorway. There was no light in the hut
save what fell from the moonbeams.
The savage came on unmindful of dan
ger, when, as he crossed the threshold,
the knife was buried in his heart. He
staggered, but before the woman
could repeat the blow he seized her
by the wrist and wrenched the knife
from her hand. II fell to the floor. A
dreadful struggle then took place; the
woman striving to release herself from
the grasp Of the assassin, and he, con-
scious that his wound was mortal, deter


mined that her soul should follow his
to the land of shadows. The struggle
did not last long. The man fell heavily
to the ground carrying the woman with
him; his hand encircled her throat, and
she struggled wildly to free herself from
the grip which was fastened upon her.
But in vain. The clutch was that of
DEATH aud the last gasp Of the devoted
woman was mingled with her destroyer.
Year: 1873

From Sea Faring Men,,


The weather intensely hot, and the
shortness of our supply of water, forced
us to stretch for Sooloo, which we did
the wind being light, but in our favor
On the third day, at noon, we fell il
with party from the Lugutan islands
which we compelled to pilot us through
the archipelago. Having narrowly es-
capped grounding on sand bar, we ar
rived at the group, and came to anchor
off the island of Basilian. 1t was lying
off this island that a very tragic affair
took place, which | cannot forbear to
mention. There were two brothers,
large, powerful men, who lived in lit
tie hut about stones cast from the
sea. They were men of some authority,
but as arrant rogues as could be found
under the equator. Quarrelsome and
mischievous to degree.


1t CHANGED one day these two worthless
came on board the ship on pretense OF
trading, but in reality to steal. Our
men had their eyes upon themj but, in
spite of their wariness, the rascals got
of with broadax, which they carried
to their hut and triumphantly displayed
to their wives, who, rs amatter of course,
admired it exceedingly. But as an ak
is not easily divided, and when the
thieves came to share their plumber,
there was a catch in the business, as
each claimed an equal portion. They
had both been drinking samshoo, and
their blsod was not cooler on that ac-
count; and 50 the matter ended IN a
quarrel, which might have proven
serious but for the interference of the
women. who succeeded in allaying the
feud-the younger brother, strangely
giving mn his claim to the booty. This
was an the elder brother wished. The
disputants clasped hands, and seemed
to be as good friends as ever. But the
Younger brother was bent on revenge,
which, however, he took care to conceal,
and by the warmth of his apparent
friendship, lnlled the suspicious of his
victim.


Three days passed. In the meantime
be worked intently in the forest, and by
hard labor dug a pit, the mouth of which
he covered with q layer of jungle grass.
tyips and dried leaves so skillfully as to
deceive the most experienced woodman
lhis done, he informed his brother that
a white man from the " big canoe,
meaning our ship, had gone into the
the woods a good way, and was lying
down asleep in retired spot. The white
man. he said farther, bad a sword and q
brace of pistols, and, as he was alone
81 asieen Il would be an easy matter
70 kill him and get his arms and " hat
ever else Of value he had with him. The
elder brother, who was always ready iol
any piece Of roguery, took hre at the
tidings, and willingly agreed TO join the
other in his murderous resolution. His
wife, however, BY one Of those mysteri
Gus presentiments which often serve like
warnings from the spirit world, en-
deavored TO dissuade him, but be spurneC
her counsel, and went away with hii
enemy. The woman, whose suspicious
now rose TO point almost unbearable
Year: 1873

Fashionable ignorance, like logic, is
partly science, and partly an art. 1t
is the science of accumulating or neg
lecting a particular body Of facts. 1t is
the art of using a judicious reticence
in dealing with these facts. 1t is diff
cult to describe it, for it varies with the
age and with every country; it is impos-
sible to define it, for it is bundle Of
anomalies - Protean, endless and in
Vulnerable. It must not, however, be
COMPOUNDED with ignorance in the alb
stract. 1t is one thing to be generally
ignorant; it is quite another to be fash
ionably ignorant. The first is dis
grace; the second an accomplishment.


Society cares nothing for the past. If
you are quoting it is more elegant to
say, Somebody prettily puts it, than
to say who the somebody may be. So.
cety hates names, especially of people
who are alive, or who have long been
dead, but it is very gratifed with grace.
ful allusion to those who have recently
quilted it. Poor Jones used to say"
or | remember poor Jones saying just
before he died, are most effective ways
of prefacing any observations you may
wish to make. To be accurate is to be
insuf'erably dull. We know what Lord
Bacon said doth ever add pleasure" -
and what was true in his time is true in
our own. A man once ruined himself
for whole evening by knowing the
exact position of town in Siberia. He
had certainly prepared the way for his
downfall by saying something about
ancient Carthage, but it was the Siberia
that finished him. 1t never does to
allude definitely to the classics, or any
language. "When / was a boy they
used to tell us at Eton" "-or Il learned at
school may be an elegant periphrasis,
but it is safest to avoid them altogether
Horace, however, you may mention, if
you can manage to do it vaguely, and
an allusion to Virgil has been excused,
but it was dangerous ground, and the
speaker fortunately recovered himself
by forgetting the name of some foreign
painter. The most important, perhaps,
of all the varieties of fashionable igpor-
anoe, is typographical ignorance, which
is a science in itself, and should be care
fully cultivated. 1t is most telling A
man has been known to make himself in
attempting to understand the situation
of the lodging of an aristooratic but
ignorant friend, who had just come up
to town for the first time; and the com
pletest extinguisher man ever suffered
was managed through the medium of
typographical allusion. But the subject
is endless and he who has thoroughly
mastered it may be said to have attained
the one necessary accomplishment for
making figure in society, and to have
acquired the mysterious virtue hinted at
by Horace, and described as being as
useful to the rich as to the poor, to the
old as to the young. when attained, and
as injurious to the one as to the other
when neglected. - Globe.