smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1876

It would be well for persons visiting the
Centennial, who are not acquainted with
the ways that are dark and tricks that are
vain, to he we'll on their guard. Instances
are so numerous recently where visitors to
the Centennial have been taken In and done
for, that 1t may perhaps save great many
others similar experience, II they would
only be guarded as to the associates they sc.
lect.
Year: 1876

Since the commencement of the Centen.
nial Exhibition, the travel on the street rail
way of this city, has increased wonderfully
The cars are nearly always full, and large
four horse car has to be put on for one trip
every day. The cars are kept in good order
and the drivers are polite and obliging.
Year: 1876

A case of conscience is mentioned IL
an exchange. A man was conseien.
tiously opposed to the envelope system
OF making contributions, on the ground
that we are commanded not to let our
left hand know what our right hand
doeth. The system being adopted by the
church, he gave nothing, for tear his lett
hand would lind it out. ln this way he
kept his conscience unspotted and got
ahead of his left hand.
Year: 1876

Yesterday, as the 12:45 train was ap-
preaching Chester, the driver of horse
and wagon attempted to cross the track at
the main street in the city, when the wagon
was struck by the locomotive. There was
great excitement for a short time around
the depot, but on ascertaining the damage,
which was only broken headlight on the
locomotive and load OF wood scattered in
all directions; everything assumed it usual
course. This that threatened to be serious
accident was by hairsbreadth prevented.
The horse and driver escaped unharmed.
Year: 1876

Having received the nomination for
Assessor, I hereby return my thanks to the
Democratic voters of the Southern district
for the support bestowed upon me at the
election on last Saturday, and ask that the
same liberal support be given me at the
election to take place on Tuesday, October
3rd. also return thanks to my late COM
petitors for the nomination, for their assur-
ances of hearty support.


Yours respectfully,


HENRY BRADLEY.
Year: 1876

A large market yesterday afternoon.


Butter is selling at fifty cents Per pound
in market.


This evening at eight O'Clock . meeting
of the Democrats of the First Ward will
be held at the Sorrel Horse Hotel.


The Democratic Executive Committee Of
New Castle county will meet at the Demo
cratic headquarters McClay building, this
afternoon at 2H O'Clock.


The members of the Third Ward Pion-
GERS will meet at the room Fifth and Mar
ket street this evening at IN O'Clock, by
order of the Ward Committee.
Year: 1876

Tho concentration OF the management OF the exist
ing railroads Of Long Island into company has had
the effect OF revivng interest in certain other IRAN
chlses already granted by the Legislature One Of
these authorizes the construction of road from the
mouth Of Bushwick Creek at the foot Of North Thr-
teenth street. Williamsburg, 10 Glendale on the lne
Of the present Southern road to be known as the
Glendale Railroad and another from Rich
mond Hill, the next station on the Southern
road touching at Jamaica, passing through cut In
the hiils north Of that village and sKirtng
the north shore OF Long Island TO Orient touching
all the sound shore villages on the route, to be known
as the North shore Railroad OF Long sand There IS
talk now OF a consolidation OF these franchises and the
immediate construction Of the road, with branch
from Jamaica TO the South ferry by means OF sunken
track from the junction OF Atlantic aud Flatbush ave
nues and running through the old tunnel In Atlantic
street Eastward for the presents II Is contemplated
10 construct the road only as far as Huntington hut
eventually along the entira north shore
Year: 1876

The interesting revelations connection with the
management and managers OF the Waikiki National
Bank continue the examination into Us afsirs, be-
fore Register John W. Little No. Warren street, pro.
crosses.


II has been shown that quite large number OF per-
sons deposited bonds the bank for safe keeping and
at the time the bank failed all OF the bonds amounting
in the aggregate TO about 100000 had disappeared.
Dummies to the extent OF over sl0O 600 were found.
The Original capital ana surplus Of the bank the
that Graham was made President were 500, OO0
but all the money, security, bonds &c, that we're
found by the examiners after the failure amounted 10
less than 500, large part OF which mutilated
currency This represented all the funds that the bank
possessed When Graham assumed the Presidency of
the bank he did so with the understanding that the
capital should be increased The capital had all been


II seems that Alfred slawson, the teller several
times iouced tho discrepancies and irregularities which
occurred the books, and oflen called the atten
ton of the President and cashier to them Graham
and Horton, the cashier did not like TO be thus
fercd with in their schemes and one day Horton in
formed Slawsons mother that her "a very good
boy, but il he wanted to retain his place ho must do
he tod, and not NEEDLE in matters that did not
concern him" Aner that, through fear Of losing his
situation, Slawson kept his mouth closed in relation
affairs connected with ''0ad bookkeeping"


The evidence shows that Graham a habitual
poker player and whenever he lost in any
his debt by bank draft on New
York correspondent Of the Waikiki National
Bank signing IL president" No charge was
at any time made against his the books of
the bank, however. This shows what complete power
he had in the control Of the books and what perfect
con lldence the directors had in him. when Graham
was State Senator he secured for New York politician
the position Of Harbor Master Of New York This was
done with the proviso that the person for whom he
obtained the appointment should pay him half OF all
his fees The Harbor Master performed his agreement
faithfully during the time that he held the appoint
men and when he went out Of Office Graham attempted
to iorce him continue to pay the monthly stipend


The examination will be continued next week.
Year: 1876

Yesterday morning at nme o'clock Police 0fflcor
Hammond discovered the dead body OF man hanging
in woodshcd adjoining the Sinclair House. in Wash
ington street, Hoboken, near the Delaware, Lacka-
wanna and Western Railroad His feet were touching
the ground while the rope around his neck was badly
adjusted The body cut down and It was frozen
stin from exposure IL ascertained that he OBJ
tanned on Thursday piece Of rope about foot and
half length al Gregory stone yard Ferry street
This he fastened to nail in the wood yard and the
other end round his neck. The body conveyed 10
the horgue The deceased was about forty.fve years
OF age and apparently German His complexion was
dark his HAIR brown and his mustacho blonde and very
heavy. 1t is thought that poverty the cause Of
his suicide Nothing was found in his possession TO
lead TO his Identification
Year: 1876

Yesterday it was found that the iron wire which sur
rounds the top rim Of the tin cup in which Ruben
STEMS coffee is had bocn removed and that the
had been beaten back again. that the cup appeared 10
be in proper condition search made in the con-
demned mans CELL and the wire found stuck into
his mattress 1t had been sharpened The iron handle
of the sop pail also found hidden in a corner OF
the cell under clothes Every article that
Rubenstcn receives hereafter will pass through the
hands OF the keeper In charge Yesterday his brother
Jacob held a long conference with him. Motion for
new trial will be made week when the papers for
q bill OF exceptions will be ready.
Year: 1876

NEW YORK, March 3, 1876
To THE EDITOR OF HERALD:-


AT the time OF my arrest a charge OF criminal
outrage which preferred against me by malicious
woman the entire press announced the fact and CON-
mented upon il severely. Now that have been de-
cared innocent the statement OF the prosccutrx hav
ing been proven utterly untrue and the against
me having been abandoned, deem II but Just to ask
that prominence be given TO the fact OF my honorable
discharge kERRlN FlNNERTY


Patrolman First Precinct, Municipal Police
Year: 1876

Sturm brought obtained verdict and the Gen.
eral Term and Court Of Appeals confirmed IT, The new
suit Is brought by the Atlantic Company, which has
paid the amount Of judgment into court, and making
General Sturm, the captain OF the vessel and others
defendants sues restrain the taking or the money
out OF court on the ground that the transaction was


conspiracy 70 up fraudulent claim On both sides
voluminous papers were submitted and lengthy ex.
tracts read from some Of them. After lengthy aTgu-
mont the Court took the papers reseryng its decision
Year: 1876

The action IN which Civil Justice Kelly, Of the Sixth
Judicial District seeks the right of Comptroller
Green TO require the justices answer certain inter-
rogatorics under before delivering 10 them tho
warrant for the payment OF their monthly salaries,
up yesterday morning before Justice Dinkel, in
the Fourth judicial Court Mr. Green represented
by MI Bell counsel, and Justice Kelly by his law
partner Mr. j. H. Mackey the plaintiff In the case the
former having transferred TO him his right and title to
the warrant in question. Mr.. Green appeared In per-
son, but left the court shortly before the pro-
ceedings commenced TO attend to the duties of his
office. Mr.. Bell moved TO vacate the proceedings
variety OF grounds but the motion was denied.


Judge Kelly went the witness stand and testified
that he assumed office January that he demanded
his salary from Mr.. Guion who was the dsbursing
officer OF the Finance Department and that he
asked TO answer certain questions in relation to the
reception OF ices at the over which he presided
He further testified that his refusal 10 answer the
questions propounded qualified by explanation
10 the effect that he required 10 do by any
law, but that nevertheless he was willing TO answer
any questions OF make any affidavit If the authority
compelling him TO do so were produced. He also
stated that justice he had received fees
for the month of January and that his offer to make
statement had been refused unless il were given under
oath; meeting OF the civil Justices Of
New York had been held to determine whether
fees should be received in similar proceedings but
conclusion was arrived at No ices he added,
charged his Court, nor were any paid upon the ssu


ing OF summary proceedings TO his knowledge


Marshal DAILY next called aud testified that he
had served the necessary papers at the instance OF the
claimant, upon Mr.. Green, who sent for Mr.. Guion,
and requested him TO hold the warrant and not TO de-
liver It up under that process


Mr.. Mackay was also examined, and stated that the
claim had been assigned TO MIN and that he considered
the money as his own, in Of its recovery
would he be bound TO pay any Of 1t over to Judge
Kelly.


Nj Bell then renewed his motion to dismiss the
suit which was denied, and Judge DlnKel intimated
tina, he would lake the papers in the case and reserve
his decision.
Year: 1876

Tho following table Of prices OF the prominent gold
and silver mining shares including the opening prices
OF to-day received by telegraph from San Francisco
is furnished by William Ward Drexel Building
Year: 1876




One of the dangers Of house life is
this habit ofdisrespect-that which Il
bred by familiarity. People who are
all beauty and sunshine for crowd
of strangers, for whom they have not
the faintest affection, are all ugliness
and gloom for their own, by whose love
they live. The pleasant little prettiness
of dress and personal adornment, which
mark the desire to please, are put on
only for admiration and goes for MOTH
ing, while the house companions are
only to the ragged gown and threadbare
coats, the touzled hair and stubby beard
which, If marking the ease and comfort
of the "sans facon" of home. mark al
so Indifference and disrespect which do
so much damage to the sweetness and
delicasy of daily life. And what is true
Of the dress is truer still of the manners
and tempers of home, in both of which
we find too often that want of respect
which seems to run side by side with
affection and the custom of familiarity.
it is a regretable habit under any OF
its conditions but never more so when
1t invades the home and endangers still
more that which is already too much
endangered by other things. Parents
and up bringers do not pay enough at
tentiOn to this in the young. They al
low habits of disrespect to be formed
rude, rough, insolent, impatient, and
salye over the sore with the stereotyped
excuse "They mean nothing by it"
which If we look at Alright is worse
than no excuse at all; for if they really
mean nothing by it, and their disre-
spect is not what it seems to be the re-
suit Of, strong, anger uncomfortable
temper, but Is merely habit, then il
ought to be conquered without loss OF
time, being merely manner that hurts
all parties alike. Esr
Year: 1876

still frozen preserves, Others again sau-
sages, which could not be bent even il
put against the knee and pulled with all
the strength of both arms. Can you i'm
agine without laughing the appearance
presented of seven half f-famished people
sitting at table with thirty different
fishes before them. and unable to touch
one of them except at the risk Of break
except to wait patiently for the dishes
to be thawed. Gradually, as each arti


Gle of food softens, faces brighten, and
when at last knife entered one Of the
Dishes. there were shouts of triumph,
which announced the beginning of the
meal. At the close Of the dinner we
ate excellent fruit. which had been kept
frozen. Throughout Siberia, as soon as
very cold weather sets in, all fruit is
placed out of doors with Northern ex-
pOsure, that the sun may never touch
them. They are frozen through and
through. and retain their flavor as COM
pletely as if they had just been plucked
from the tree. When placed on the Ia
BILE they are as hard as wood, and when
they fall accidently on the floor they
make the same noise that a wooden ball
would do. The heat of the dining room
gradually softens them, and they reas-
sumo their original form. While eating
some game one day l, out of curiosity,
asked how long it had been killed. /
was told 'Over two months ago When
cold weather sets in. nearly every


butcher kills all the meat he requires
during the Winter. Fish become so
solid that i'm all the markets they are
seen leaning against the wall on their
tails, no matter what their length of
weight may be-" r'A>i
Year: 1876

In the first place, let people defer to
the laws of health, of sanity, hereditary
sOundness; let them obey restrictions,
consult wholesome seasons, respect the
limits set up by the sense of nature.
Mutual ignorance on these points is ill
ling marriage with unneccessary evils;
they not only spoil the well being of a
family, but spoil its disposition. Let
the work in every house be reduced, by
a reduction of its ambitions, till all its
tables, all the clothes, exactly represent
the current condition of every family |;
not a bracket or a ribbon for exaggera-
ton, not single room for parade, nei-
ther sewing, washing, eating, securing,
company giving beyond actual needs,
and all done by the least elaborate
methods. Then, in the second place,
reduce to the lowest possible point the
disturbances which arise from ignorance
and vanity, from artificial training;
you simply liberate marriage for more
effective discharge of its spiritual pur-
pose. The men and women might sus-
pect that they were ill-mated till life
itself pronounced the banns. Teach
children that marriage only prolongs
their school hours into the future or
sterner discipline and less perishable
attainments. Warn them against those
affectionate extravagances which under
mine respect, against the physical err
rors which so sap the will that it is
humbled and enslaved by annoyance
which health and freshness laugh at.
And teach them simplicity, make vul-
gar habits and ambitions appear odious
to them, ply their imagination with au-
stere and noble forms, tempt them to
fall in love first with spiritual beauty,
whose service makes them free, then
they will be better prepared TO discover
that marriage withhOlds felicity until
il has been earned.
Year: 1876

When in late summer the streams run yellow,
Burst the bridges and spread into bays;
When berries are black and peaches are mellow,
And hills are hidden by rainy haze;
When the golden-rod is golden still.
But tine heart of the sunfower is browner
and sadder;


When the corn is in stacks on the slope of the
HILL


And over the path slides the striped adder.
When butterflies fiutter from clover to thicket
Or wave their wings on the dropping leaf.
When the breeze comes shrill with the call Of
the cricket
Grashoppers rssp. and rustic of sheaf.
When high in the field the fern leaves wrinkle
And brown is the grass where the mowers
have mown,


When low in the meadow the cow-bells tinkle.
And brooklets crinkle DER stock and stone.
When heavy and hollow the robins whistle,
And thick lies the shade in the heat of noon;
When the air is white with the down o the
thistle,
And the sky is red with the harvest moon.
o then be chary. young Robert and Mary;
Let no time slip-not a moment wait,
II the fiddle would play it must stop its


tuning.


And they who would marry must be done


with their incoming:
Mind well the cattle, let the churn go rattle,
And pile the wood by the barn-yard gstel


-STibner's Monthly.
Year: 1876

This country was never more pros
porous really than now; the only need
is clear perception of its actual con-
ditiOn, and the adaptation of its forces
to this condition.


The remedy shall propose is plea
SAINT one, as this suffering country is
not really ill, but remarkably well !;
and the very evils which seem so heavy
are the best indication Of its thrift, its
prodigious vitality, according to my
diagnosis of the case; and 1 think you
will agree with me.


The condition of affairs is this:


Vast numbers of men are out of en-
ployment. They are consuming and
not producing. They desire work, but
there is no work for them. Every
branch of industry is full, and over
flowing. There is a glut of every pro-
duct, waiting to be consumed. Excess
sive accumulation had been growing
for years, until 1t eliminated i'm the
fall of 1873. Since then labor has been
reduced to the gauge of necessity, over
production no longer goes on, and many
thousand men are now without work.
Their work is not needed, but they need
work, for they need wages to obtain
the necessaries. of lite. Everything
produced is produced in abundance by
the workers now employed; and the
accumulation of an immense over pro-
duction continues on hand. What is
the cause of this apparent evil? Labor
sdring inuentioRs.


Month after month, year after year,
the great idleness continues. The army
of the unemployed is increasing in num-
bers. The amount of work they would
do, and wish to do, is not done; is lost
for ever, a great stream of waste. Nc
adequate measures are taken to utilize
this labor, to prevent this needless suf-
fering, to end this painful condition OF
unwilling idleness. Labor which would
make an enormous showing, If per-
formed, is not performed, and the whole
nation feels the loss as well as the un.
employed. Labor-saving inventions in
crease i'm number-as they should; Ia
borers diminish in number, forced out
into idleness, to avoid still greater
over production; and no new, grea,
enterprises are engaged in, although to
establish them is clearly the remedy
for the condition of over production In
the existing industries.-Ihe GatGry.
Year: 1876

1t is not so very long since we had
the pleasure of cOnversing with one of
the best Sdotch deer-stalker and most
successful of chamois hunters. Accord
ing to this gentleman's experience, get
ting a shot at red deer is mere child's
play compared to getting within range
of the lynx eyed and keen-scented cha
mois. No one need to sleep out all
night upon an icy mountain ledge to
kill a red deer; bur, in order to circum-
vent a chamois, the sportsman is often
compelled to adopt this course for many
nights at a time before he even sees his
quarry. Then, again. deer-stalkers
crawl up the mountain side as a rule,
while the chamois hunters object is to
attain a high altitude first and creep
down towards the object he wishes to
"draw a bead" upon. At gray dawn
the chamois hunter is on the alert, and
by the aid of his clear-eyed Swiss guide
and one Of Stewards best deer-stalker's
glasses, he sweeps the rocky peak and
ledge within his ken. If he is lucky
enough to spot the sentinel chamois
perched on some pinnacle of rugged
granite, the party separate in order to
circumvent the f1Ock-a proceeding
which i'm nine case out of ten ends i'm
miserable discontinue. Sometimes,
however, the party above the chamOis
get a crack, at others those below.
Even should the bullet take effect, not
a bone of the quarry may be even picked
at the camp fire. Sometime the DEATH
struck chamOis topples off the giddy
ledge, and bounding from projecting
crag to crag, as he falls downwards,
eventually lodges in some inaccessible
crevice, "a mere pommeled mass Ofshape-
less skin and bone. At other times
the hunters find it impossible to get at
the ridge upon which the chamOis has
fallen. Should the party, however,
succeed in catching the old goat, great
is the rejoicing and horn blowing, and
many the nips of old eOgnac indulged
in. The flesh of the chamOis eats more
like goats than deer's meat, and from
a gourdmans point of view, is a dead
failure. The wild, sterile, and roman
tic scenery, the dead silence of the AL
pine heights where the dangerous sport
is pursued, and the extreme arduousness
of the pursuit, all have charms for the
true sportsman and lover of nature.
Sportsmen-- we mean the genuine ar
ticle, not the base resemblance but now
too common-love sport for sport S sake,
and il is not the prize they value so
much as the winning Of it The Swiss
mountaineers are ardent chamois huut-
ers, and many of the goitre affected in
habitants of the Alpine hamlets lose
their lives yearly in hunting the wild
gOat.-London Illustrated Ne,os. r
Year: 1876

'Tis a rule of manners to avoid exag-
geration. A lady loses as soon as she
admires too easily and too much. In
man or woman, the face and the person
lose power when they are on the strain
to express admiration. A man makes
his interiors his superiors by heat. Why
need you, who are not gossip, talk as
gossip, and tell eagerly what the
neighbors or the journals say? State
your opinion without apology. The at
titude is the main point, assuring your
companion that, come good news or bad,
you remain in good heart and mind,
which is the best news you can possibly
communicate. Self control is the rule.
You have i'm you there noisy, sensual
savage, which you are to keep down,
and turn all his strength to beauty.


For instance what a seneschal and de-
tective is laughter. 1t seems to require
several generations to train squeaking
or a shouting habit out of man. Some
times, when in almost expression the
Choctaw and the slave have been worked
out to him, a coarse nature still betrays
itself in his contemplate squeals of joy.
The great gain Is, not to shine, not to
conquer your companiOn-then you
learn nothing but cOnceit-but to find
a companion who knows what you do
not; to tilt with him and be overthrown.
horse and foot, with utter destruction
of all your logic and learning. There
is defeat that is useful. Then you
can see the real and the counterfeit, and
will never accept the counterfeit again.
You will adopt the art of war that has
defeated you. You will ride to battle
horsed on the very logic which you
found irresistible. You will accept the
fertile truth instead of the solemn Gus
tomary lie.


When people come to see us we fool
ishly prattle, lest we be inbospifaoie.


But things said for conversation are


chalk eggs. Don't say things. !" nat


YOU are stands over you the while, ana


thmnders 40 that cannot hear what you


saw to the contrary. A lady Of my ac-


nny.;ntsnee say said 81 don't care so much
for what they say as do for what