smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1875

the 2Tth OF July last In Beach street Some days be-
fore his capture james Clarke Co.. brokers OF
Chambers and Chatham streets, had received in tho
course pf their business counterfeit trade dollar and
notified Chief Washburnc Of tho United States Secret
Service Bureau About the tmo q Pearl street
arm received similar coin from a dressed like
'longshoreman. Satisfied that determined effort was
being made put large quantity Of tho spurious issue


into circulation Chief Washburne placed five or six do
tectives upon the track He had hardly begun bis work
when to his SURPRISE old counterfeter fresh from
four years sentence voluntarily informed him Of the
identity or the gang and gave him ccw that led to tho
capture OF all the parties engaged In the scheme.
James Maher who appeared TO be the business man Of
the counereiters was approached Tor the purchase OF


quantity OF the spurious coin, and after some ncgo-
tations himself and his materials, battery, metal,
crucibles and other implements, we're captured at
104th street and Second McGrath was arrested
on tho same night, with over $50 Of the spurious
money in his possession, and before midnight Boyle
and Taguo also in durance and very clever days
work thus finished. The imitation coin we'll
executed, and would have deceived any but experts,
but fortunately its utterance stopped before any
quantity of II was issued
Year: 1875

Jane Gary, alias Scott of No 65 Oliver street. young
Of mixed Italian and Irish lineage yester-
day afternoon arragned tho Tombs Court on charge
of bigamy. Two years ago. it was alleged, Jane mar
ried one Robert Scott barber, by whom she had one
child daughter Seven months after their union they
mutually agreed TO separate and they have since lived
apart In the latter part of September last Jane made
the acquaintance OF August Miller a German, hang
from Albany, in this State. She represented
to him that she was single woman, and they
were married on the 4th of this mouth by the Rev.
S. Brown, of the Five Points Mission. A few
days ago husband No. was informed that the
woman whom he supposed to be his wife was
the property of another man whom she had married
some time previously, and he theroupon caused her
arrest She was held for examination. Miller sent
to the House of Detention, where by odd coinc-
dence he will meet with The fair James genuine lcge
lord who is at present confined there witness in
another case.
Year: 1875

Early in the evening Of the 10th OF April last Louisa
Slcdcnwand young girl aged twenty, came out Of her
mothers residence, at the corner of Chatham and
Roosevelt Streets in company With Annie Thomas, to
go to a singing society. Suddenly emerging from his
hiding place Jacob Sanderman stealthily crcpt behind
the fair young girl, placed the muzzle of a
shooter at the back Of her head pulled the trigger and
the deadly bullet entered the brain OF its unsuspecng
victim. Her only exclamations were, II am sholn ~
am dyingi" person passing by and witnessing
the murderous assault seized the prisoner The latter,
after desperate struggle escaped. He was, however,
speedily arrested by Fourth ward policeman and
taken to the station house. When asked why no shot
the girl he replied II wanted her to marry me and
she fooled meo The unfortunate girl fingered three
weeks, then died Al indictment FOR murder in tho
first degree foun4 against the prisoner, and yes
terday he brought to trial in the Court Of Oyer
and Termner before Judge Barrett. He is young
man. rather below the medium stature, stod looking,
and when placed at the bar stared about him with
air of vacancy and seemingly utterly unconscious of
his position Mr. William j, Howe appeared as his
counsel, while the prosecution conducted by As
sistant District Attorneys Rollins and Lyons


In opening the case MI. Lyons pronounced this
OF tho ccarest of murder in the first degree
presented 70 jury Tho witnesses for the prosecution
confirmed the above story Ore OF them Mr. IInlewicL
Walk, testified that the prisoner had told him that he
intended TO shoot the deccaesd and that his telling
him that he would be hung VI he did prisoner re-
Piled 'No, won't; before that shall happen will Kill
nyself The witness however admitted on lie
threats; that he openly brandished pistol and was
very much excited In the course of the testimony n
photograph Of the deceased shown 90 the Jury
II picture Of fair young blonde hair In curs and
its case yesterday and to-day the will open for the
defence the defence being insanity.
Year: 1875

spake to yourself, then," said she, 81


am sure l can live without it, or your


company" 'I'm sure so can /, then" I"


was the wrathful rejoinder. The poor


fellow whose eyes "hadn't gone to-


gether the whole night for thinking of


his darling," and he ''could not sleep
at night for dreaming of her." keeps
company with him who desired an
affectionate daughter to marry him,
and see if he did not 'beat her mother;"
and with him who wanted a meeting
contrived with his inamorata when
neither of them "knew the other was
present." The Hibernian paterfamilias
is also displayed who wanted the chill
dren kept in the nursery while he was
at home, although he "would not object
TO their noise if they would only keep
quiet;" in company with the beggar
woman, who was the mother of "six
small children and a sick husband"
This worthy lady was probably near
relative of her whose son Bill "just
made two chairs and a fiddle out of his
own head, and had plenty of wood left
for another" Here are also the physi-
clan who, in case of infanticide, could
not determine "whether the child was
alive at the time of its death or not"
and the woman who fell into we'll and
was thankful to Providence and an
other woman" for assistance in getting
out. The man who lamented the fright
full mortality, since "there were people
dying this year who never died before; :"
the man wfO, after an illness, twas
sick for long time after he got WELL"
on account of the doctors doses he who
would rot fight a duel because of his
unwillingness to ''leave his aged mother
an orphan;" together with the poor
boy who complained that his parents
treated him as if he were 'their son by
another father and mother;" all are
here, and the list is very appropriately
closed by the account of the lrishman
who was riding a mule, when the hind
foot of the latter became entangled in
the stirrup, "Be dad, if you're going
to get up, it's tonne for meself to get
down. ."-Mac6eth's Night and MirM Of
Literature.
Year: 1875

perry will be easily adjusted to it, for as
Spencer says, ''Sonl is form and doth
the body make" Patience must pre-
side from the beginning, middle. and
end of the work. The clay must be
kept overmore plastic with the love of
truth and purity. Nothing will harden
it so quickly as vice and prejudice.
And We must work till our life's end
on the corners of the mouth, on the
lines about the eyes, on the curves of
the brow, on the pose of the head, till
the Master appear and pronounce the
"Well DONE" That his eye may ap-
prove, the form beneath all the drapery
must be modelled in the severe and
naked simplicity of Truth and Virtue.


To many of us is given the modelling
of characters other than our own. 1t
is in our power by judicious training,
by the power of love, by the inspiring
influence of example, to work out nat
ural defects in the clay, and to impress
on it images of beauty; to fashion it in
fair and graceful outlines, and make of
it vessel unto honor. ''Like clay in
the hands of the potter" are the hearts
of our children in ours, and we are,
whether we are conscious of it or not,
molding their destinies. What skill,
what wisdom, and above all, what
patience we need!
Year: 1875

Keep ready money on hand if you
can. No matter if it is only little sum.
Ifit is only sufficient for the current
expenses, il is great convenience to
say the least. Any one who has tried
and compared the credit with the cash
system, will readily admit the correct
ness of the above remark. When you
buy for cash You generally get things
cheaper-get better weight and measure
and all the favors the dealer can ex-
tend 20 his patrons. On the chronic
credit system, the matter is usually re-
versed. If you try to avoid credit by
borrowing, you improve matters very
little, if any. Hence we give this adj
vice, "Turn an honest penny" whent
ever you can, and always have snfficien-
money on hand to meet your small en-
gagements-
Year: 1875

A friend residing in Baltimore had
in his possession small alligator,
which had been sent him from Florida.
Its habitation was tub partially filled
with water, kept outdoors. During one
of the cold snaps of the past Winter, in
the night the water became completely
frozen, imprisoning the reptile in the
ice, with but a small portion Of his
body protruding therefrOm. To lap
pearances. the animal was as dead as
one of the stuffed specimens seen in
museum collection. The want of time
precluding an effort for its extricatioD
in the morning, it was allowed to re-
main frozen, and was soon forgotten
in in the maze of the cares of the day.
For forty-eight hours the reptile thus
remained frozen and lifeless, at the end
of which time, being thawed out, vitality
became visible, and in a short time it
was animated as ever, with no evidence
of having i'm the least suffered by the
prolonged frigorific confinement. Here
is an instance in which the vital spark
seems not to have been extinguished by
the freezing, nor the animals organism
to have been mutilated, but that vitality
merely remained torpid or dormant
during the freezing, and ready to re-
spond to its functions whenever the
animals organism returned to its nor
NAL condition. Artisan.
Year: 1875

Old age finds no keener outdoor
pleasure than to revisit the seashores
familiar to it from childhood. Then
memory and reflection summon the past
to their silent sessions, as the man,
cheered, it may be hoped, with all of
love and Difference which should accom-
pany old age, watches at evening the
fishing-boats hoist their sails to pass the
harbor-bar ere the tide falls, and so,
with their large brown spread of can
vas, sweep majestically in.o the night.
The grandchildren, it may be, play
around; their father walks up and down,
unfolding to his approving wife in the
intervals ofhis cigar the plan of his great
work On Dimorphism, which is to watt
him on to fame. All things around him,
the aged man ponders, are full of hope
and innocent enjoyment, each looking
on to some higher stage, some blessing
to blossom i'm the future. Has not this
reflection a comfortable bearing on his
own years, which are fast nearing their
earthly term? And if the inestimable
boon be further granted him of knowing
that his life has not altogether been
spent uselessly and selfishly, if he be
conscious of good fight not unfairly
fought, if not a few memories of kindly
deeds beset him, of efforts made not
wholly in vain to carry out the law of
love i'm his dealings with others, if
peaceable thoughts and pure fancies and
righteous deeds and helping words have
been the diet on which he has fed his
soul, who would not envy him this re-
Prospect of life, mellowed by the seas
freshness, and with each hard outline
softened by its gracious influences
Then, turning from the past to the pres
ent, the sea spread out before him. with
its sails mysteriOusly sinking below the
horizon to seek another world, must
needs remind him of the numberless
philosophers and poets who have loved
to view in it ''that immortal sea which
brought us hither," as well as the sea
which rounds our little life, the un-
known waters on which, when our an
chors are once weighed, we must dark
ling make our voyage. The sea is thus
the latest, as it was our earliest, instruc-
tor. Its vastness, its brightness, its
union of perpetual agitation with CEN
tral peace-all these qualities are now
but symbols of the future state, as they
served in youth for the work of fancy,
or of encouragement and solace in man
hood. From this worlds sea old age
thus insensibly passes to the 'sea of
glass like unto crystal" 5" before the
throne of God. Finally, in order that it
may strengthen the man about to suffer
this ''sea-change" in higher sense than
Shakespeare ever dreamt, the notion of
trustfully waiting is also inherent in the
sea. Lowell seldom wrote grander
words than when he thus dwells on this
aspect of the sea and the home beyond:
"The dropping sea-weed hears, in night abyssed,


Far aud more far the waves receding shocks,


Nor doubts, for all the darkness and the mist,


That the pale shepherdess will keep her tryst,


And shoreward lead sg ain her foxm-heeced focks
And though Thy healing waters far withdraw,


l. too, can wait and feed on hope Of Thee


And Il the dear recurrence Of Thy law,


sure that the parting grace that morning saw"
Year: 1875

CLAY is the material most commonly
approved and used for modelling. 1t Is
wet with pure water, carefully freed
from all foreign substances, beaten and
worked to a proper state of fiji mness,
and is then ready to take the shape of
the ideal formed in the artists mind.


With the simplest tools or home man.
ufacture, made of ivory or bone or box
wood or rubber or cedar, of with his
bare fingers, the artist fashions the
plastic material, and touches and re-
touches it thousand times, until the
image before him is the counterpart of
that in his minds eye. Sometimes he
works all day on the corner of mouth
to get it just right, and then puts the
model away dissatisfied. but takes it
out again and continues his labor till,
at last, some happy touch makes the
whole complete. Very careful is he to
keep the clay moist, and for this he
sprinkles it through fine hose with
water, and covers it in intervals of
labor with rubber cloth, that its plas-
ticity be in no wise diminished.


Whether the figure be finally draped
or not. it is modelled naked, so that
severity and truth of form, upon which
the excellence of sculpture so much de-
pends, may be made perfectly sure.
The other day we stood beside the
modelling stand of an artist whose in
imitable groups are familiar to every
cultivated eye in the land, and watched
his skilful hand as it worked the veins
into an oak leaf. ''My talent is patience
said he: 81 never weary of working at
my model till it suits me. The fault
with novices i'm the art is that they ex-
pect fine results too soon; they do not
keep their clay MORT enough, and they
are not patient"


Modelers in clay are we all. The
tools with which we work are simple
enough; they are the duties. the pleas
ures, the crosses, the burdens of life,
made to our hand, waiting to be used.
The ideal to be wrought out must be in
each individual heart. BY education,
by discipline, by correction, faults must
be removed from the character, which
is the plastic material on which we
work. The drapery is the body. If
the shape beneath is perfect, the dra-
Year: 1875

1t has been observed by the ablest
writers in the service of geology that the
power of water rs an agent of denuda-
tion and subsequent transportation of
matter is, without any doubt, the great
est now i'm operation. The smallest
streams carry with them proportion
of the soil through which they flow,
and when union of their waters in
creases their volume and velocity, and
powers of erosion and trans
portation of a river, the effects on mat
ter through which the channel is formed
will be very marked. Lyell estimates
the quantity of solid earthly matter
brought down annually by the waters of
the Mississippi TO be three million seven
hundred and fifty-eight thousand four
hundred cubic feet; and this is exclu-
sive of the vast quantities of floating
timber and other vegetable matter which
are continuously being borne off the up
lands by the tributary streams.


A vast quantity of the alluvium finds
its way to the Gulf and is deposited on
the submerged plateau of mud at the
outer edge of the delta there forming
the foundation of that great alluvial





is deposited i'm the bed of the great river
itself, and this process of filling up has
for ages assisted in the formation of the
great alluvial plains or bottom lands
that stretch southwark from St. Louis
tor one thousand miles along the river,
and are in width from thirty to eighty
miles, and represent those inexhausti-
bly, fertile lands of which the London
correspondent wrote in 1866


'There is no system. The farmer
scratches the ground and throws in the
seed, and his bountiful harvests come
up year after year without further
thought or trouble. Thousands of GEN.
turies have made the soil for him, and
it defies him to make too heavy demands
upon it. 1t gives him all he asks and is
never known to disappoint or fail"
Year: 1875

To MAKE RENNET CUsTARD.-To
lukewarm new milk add sufficient rem
net to curdle the milk, then set in cold
water ON ice, and serve by dipping out
so as to break the curd as
little possible. 1t is better to prepare
it in the same dish you wish to send to
the table, CRATE a little nutmeg over it
and eat with sugar, and, if you have IT,
sweet cream. 1t is better to prepare but
a short time before using it.
Year: 1875

What's the matter Wih this Story
A rite suite little buoy, the son of a
crate kernel, with rough about his
neck, fiue up the rode swift as eh dear.
After thyme, he had stopped, at a
gnu house and wrung the belle. His
tow hurt hymn, and he kneaded wrest.
He was two tired too raze his fare pail
face. A feint mOwn of pane rows from
his lips. The made who herd the belle
was about to pair pare, but she
through it down and with awl her
mite, four her guessed would knot
weight. Butt when she saw the little
won, tiers stood in her eyes at the site.
Eve poor dear Why due yew lye heart
All yew dyeinge Know, he sade, 81
am feint to the corps" She boar him
in her aims, as she aught, too a rheum
ware he might bee quiet, gave him
bred and meet, held cents under his
knows, tide his chOler. raped him
warmly, gave him some sweet drachm
from viOl, till at last he went fourth
hail as young hOarse. His eyes shown
his cheek was read as flour. and he
gambled a hole our.-St. Nicholas.
Year: 1875

Next Saturday the people of this
county will have the long-desired op-
portunity of seeing and hearing In
diana's great "War Governor the
soldiers friend, the eloquent orator
and patriot Oliver P. Morton. The
deep interest he feels in the result
of the election in Ohio, to which the
eyes of the whole country are turned
in anxious expectation, has induced
him to come to our State and ad
dress the people on the momentous
questions involved in the contest, in
the hope that his efforts may have
some influence in securing triumph
for the Republican cause. 1t is sell
dom that our citizens are permitted
to hear such man as Gov. Morton,
and we hope that every one will ava l
himself of the privilege. Let him
have such an audience as will prove
that our people delight to honor one
who has deserved so we'll of his
country.
Year: 1875

Capt. Dawson, our candidate for
Representative, publishes a Card III
another column, which does honor to
his head and heart, and shows that
both are in the right place. His
frank, manly and explicit declaration
of his sentiments on the Schoolques-
ton ought to satisfy every friend of
the Schools, and his correction OF
the Gazette misrepresentation ofhis
religious views will effectually spike
that gun. We shall see whether that
paper will have the fairness to do the
Captain justice in its next issue.
Year: 1875




out the State develop an e1traordi-
nary amount of true inwardness.
There is something in the nature of
a revival among the Republicans.
The communistic how1ing has
brought out the people who have
made tia point to live within tEeir
incomes, and the mo Popery" flavor
has sharpened the public interest.
The shrieks for more money when
there are more than one hundred
millions of dollars idle, stacked in
the banks and no customers for it
and the groans about contraction
when there has been an expansion of
seventy-eight millions since the
Democratic party demanded on NOR
al and commercial grounds a speedy
return to specie payments, will not
win. The imitation programme is a
fraud punctured and played out
GCin. Commercial.
Year: 1875

SNow.-The first snow storm of the
season commenced in this geography
the latter part Of last week. The fall
here has not covered the round; twelve
Diles north. it is said n be foot deep;
and = report comes that the wharf of
Frost d Fowler. at Muke'teo. which was
heavily lns led wi wood. was on Sat-
urday night crushed into the bay by the
additional weight nf SNOW.
Year: 1875

A GENTLEMAN, FREQUENTLY ABSENT on BUsI-
A ness wishes nicely furnished Room. crate Are and
good Board in private family for his wife and child S
months old will when at home: terms must be
moderate. References. Address HOME box 1853 Herald
Office


A GENTLEMAN WOULD LIKE A NICE ROOM BATH
II connecting full Board; family private; from Forty
second TO Fyseventh streets between Madison and Sixth
avenues Address ADAMS, Herald office.


A CLERGYMAN AND WIFE DESIRE A SECOND
IA story front Room, with Board In private family,
pleasantly located will pay $50 per month regularly which
include fire and light: best Of
qured Address, for three days, CLERGYMAN Herald Up
town Branch Office.


A FAMILY OF THREE ADULTS DESIRES SECOND
"a Floor with private table, in house there are
other boarders must be between Thirtleh and Fifty
ninth Address with and full par tculars
COMMISSION, Herald Uptown Branch Office.
For Other Boarding Advertisements SEQ


Directory.
Year: 1875

meeting Of the Provision Committee OF the Prod
uce Exchange will take place day. Its object is to
decide to the propriety OF adopting rule requiring
payment to DO made in all transactions before the
transfer OF title to the goods takes place unless ex-
pressly stipulated otherwise at the tme OF the sae


The various opinions Of tho members OF the Exchange
on this subject have been already taken by the
Year: 1875

Money easy at and per cent on call loans, and
exceptionally loaned up TO a. per cent Foreign
change reduced by the leading drawers TO 81 for
long and s7H for demand sterling with actual busi-
ness at 4s3h a4s7. The market Is quiet but firm at
the decline.
Year: 1875




San Francisco has sent one of her
handsome, well dressed, diamond
studded Montgomery-street ornaments
to the State Prison, there to remain,
unless sooner pardoned out, for the
term of fifteen years. NEWT MORGAN
was thief. He was a forger and a
thief, and admitted that he was one
and both. But he was not whit
worse than hundreds-yes, thousands
whose presence still adorns the
fashionable thoroughfare of the great
metropolis. San Francisco is the
Mecca of thieves. For twenty years a
hundred golden streams have been
pouring into that city, and for twenty
years the thousand thieves have been
stealing the yellow treasure. tis some
thing to know that the owners of the
vast wealth have at last resolved to
beat off the thieves and purify as far
as possible the moral atmosphere of
their city. To use an old simile, San
Francisco is an Augean stable, and to
clean it will reqnire labor at which
HERCULES would have quailed. But
the people are mightier than HERCU-
LES, and when they work with will
the task is always performed.
Year: 1875




The great Artesia land sales COM
mence on Tuesday morning next and
continue for three days. Several
hundred people have visited these
lands within the last few days, and
many of them with whom we have
conversed all speak in the highest
terms of the soil and its irrigating fa-
cilities. All concede that with forty
acres of this land and the flowing
well that $500 or $4O0 will secure, a
valuable farm may be made on which
never failing crops will reward the la
Dor of the husbandman. The gentle
men who have purchased this large
tract of land for the purpose of dispos-
ing of it in such lots as people of
small means are able to purchase
are old and we'll known citizens who
will not risk their reputation in un-
worthy schemes. They invite all to
visit and examine the lands before
the day of sale, in order that pur-
chasers may fully understand what
they are buying. An excursion train
will go down to Artesia this morning.