smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1876

TO rHB EDIroR OF rHH HERALD


The ten minutes past five o'clock Wall street ferry
boat from Wall street came very being run down
last evening She had not cleared the slip than
fifty feet when the pilot sounded the steam whistle
Five hundred yards down the river when approach
ing two Of the large Sound steamers in the thick
Storm with the tide in their favor steaming at full
speed probably nfteen twenty miles hour,
almost abreast Of each other both nearest TO the New
York side our boat steamed out probably 200 feet,
sounded TO the steamer TO change her
TO allow us to her bow. This signal not being
noticed, we reversed engine and attempted to
back, the still heading directly for Our
gne stopped and the steamer passes only
few of and barely clearing the end OF the piers
n an may face death on gun deck or on the battle
field, where he have a chance to fire shot or
strike blow, IL he believes his just with some
satisfaction, but to face what appears the jaws OF
death by being run down on a ferryboat in the safe
harbor of New York is very different These steamers
should be restricted TO seven knots while passing
around our city, as trotting wagons aud steam rail-
roads are compelled TO reduce their speed In city linn
its and the river police be instructed to tot The
saving of few minutes time to these steamers be-
tween their docks and Blackwes Island is OF but very
little moment compared with the risk TO life run now.
Twenty years ago this comparatively safe,
there being only the river where there
thirty now. Cannot. our representatives at Albany
assist US in this matterP Yours very respectfully,


FERRY PASSENGER.


NEW YORK March 2I 1876.
Year: 1876

We were shown a few days ago by
Mr.. EDWARD S. BAKER, some thirty
or forty small photographs of Sand
wich Island Kings, Queens, Princes
and Princesses, and of noted localities
in those islands. The photographs of
the royal family are interesting by
comparison. The first King of the
present KAMEHAMEHA family who
mounted the throne, or stump or
rock, some seventy-five or eighty
years ago, has the appearance of
Jesuit Priest, and Is more intelligent
in appearance than some Of his sue
cessors. His Queen is fat, and her
royal robes are so scant that one can
hardly avoid the conclusion that in
her opinion, beauty unadorned is
adorned the most, or something of
that sort. AS we come along down
the line of pictures, the progress from
neutrality-suspicious. we had better say
anibalism-toward semi-civilized
stage is marked. On the female side
it is especially noticeable. In dress,
the step from the first old Queen
whose court dress consisted of pair
of brass earrings and an ostrich feath-
er, to the satin robes and fine lace OF
Queen EMMA, is a long one. The
Kings too, dress better in the last forty
years, unless there is no improvement
on no dress at all, than their ances-
tors. The improvement in intelli-
gence and personal appearance is very
perceptible. The series of pictures
form an interesting study for the OAR
wINIAN convert. The theory that
something can come from nothing, or
next to nothing, is well sustained, and
it is presumable that If the march of
progress and improvement continues
in this family for the next century or
two, the Kings and Queens of the Ha-
waiian Islands will take no especial
pride in tracing their descent from the
original King KAMEHAMEHA.
Year: 1876

We of the Pacific coast cannot, of
course, be expected to know a great
deal about 1t, but at this distance
from the scene of action, it looks to US
very much as though the war waged


against BLAINE had it's origin from


within his own party. We candidly
admit that without experiencing a
closely defined affection for the man,


we have for number of years past
felt genuine admiration for BLAINE.


In ability he Is long way above the
average Republican leader, and that
he compares favorably with the best
of his party magnates, is conviction
in the correctness of which we have
an abiding faith. 1t is quite possible,


nay, even more than probable he has
from time to time, as favorable op-
portunities offered, ventured his repu-
tation for honesty against the chance
of making half hundred thousand
dollars or 30 out of railroad bonds that
cost nothing but the risk, and we are
not inclined to waste a great deal OF
time and space in the effort to prove
that he has not engaged in number
of other bits of craftsmanship that
WASHINGTON, ADAMS, JEFFERSON
and LINCOLN would have regarded as
somewhat peculiar. But we shall in.
sist' that these modern day fashions dc
not place him one iota below the Sen
ators and other great men of the dom.
inant party. They have all made
Year: 1876

The communication published in
the Republican descriptive of sea
serpent seen from the deck of the
steamer Los Angeles, when short
last trip down, has attracted great
deal of attention from our exchanges
and has, we regret to say, called for tn
comments which taken as whole re-


fleet on the veracity of the author and
those who witnessed what he saw and
corroborate what he writes. The sto-
ry is long one-all large snake stories
must from their very nature be long
stories. The serpent or thing reared
forty feet of its body above the sea
level; the body gradually increased in
size from the head to the water, it
was from two to two and a half feet
in diameter, scaleless, black in color
and glistened after the manner of
negro's heel. The thing attacked a
whale, which was presumably an or
binary sized spouter, and while coiled
six or seven times around the body
elevated several feet of its tail some
fifty feet from the whale. The dis
tance from the steamers deck was
short; the exhibition lasted abont five
minutes, and was witnessed by Mr..
STEVENSON, the Republican cores
pondent, d. o. MILLS, of the Bank of
California, his son and another gen.
tleman. These are the incidents and
connecting circumstances. Now peo-
pie won't believe this large, long, we'll
authenticated story. The story of
the thousand deer that dwindled to
calf track. and of the ten million cats
that receeded to double exhibition
of "our Tommy" will come up
and with them an incredulous sneer
on the lips of the most credulous. We
respectfully insist that people are not
justified in treating we'll told and
strongly supported sea serpent stories
in this manner. There is nothing
more reasonable than that such rep
tiles should exist. The sea is long
enough and broad enough and deep
enough to breed them a thousand
miles in length. What is to hinder
the sea from having sea serpents?
We frequently read of whales from
eighty to one hundred and twenty
feet long and as large in circumfer-
ence as small island. No zone sneers
at these statements. They are, we be-
lieve, generally credited. Now mo-
ments thought will convince any one
that there is sufficient material in one
of these whales to manufacture a sea
serpent compared with which the
thing seen by Messrs. MILLS and
STEVENSON dwlndles to the pro-
portions of an infant Iangle worm.
The inference is conclusive that in
natures workshop or laboratory there
are wire plates for the manufacture of
reptiles and other elongated vermin,
as well as moulds and patterns for
casting one hundred and twenty foot
whales. If this is conceded it must be
admitted that in the marine depart
ment of nature it is as easy to turn out
sea serpent anywhere from fifty to
one hundred and fifty miles in length
as it is to fashion a shrimp or a smelt.
For ourselves we have large faith in
the powers of nature. We believe
there are sea serpents, and to prove
that we have no disposition to go back
Year: 1876

The high-toned, dignified, self
forced pensioner on the depositors of
the TEMPLE & WORKMAN Bank, by
refusing to support its assertion that
the HERALD had received railroad
money, virtually admits that it lied
willfully and deliberately lied,-and
begins to talk about its shell-box. :"
We incline to the opinion that there
Is some such box in that office. The
devil usually provides some place for
his precocious pupils to creep into.
Year: 1876

Alcohol is powerful. See what it
can do: 1t may seem strange, but it
Is nevertheless true, that alcohol, re-
gularly applied to a thrifty farmers
stomach, will remove the boards from
the fence, let cattle into his crops, kill
his fruit trees, mortgage his farm, and
sow his fields with wild oats and this
ties. 1t will take off the paint of his
building, break the glass out of his
windows and fill them with rags. 1t
will take the gloss from his clothes
and polish from his manners, subdue
his reason, arouse his passions, bring
sorrow and disgrace upon his family,
and topple him into drunkard' s
grave. 1t will do this to the artisan
and the capitalist, the matron and the
maiden, as we'll as to the farmer; for,
in its deadly enmity to the human
race, alcohol is no respector of persons.


The work of laying the % inch water
pipes is pro crossing favorably and the
city will soon have an ample supply
of water,
Year: 1876

CARSON, June 5th.-About two o.
clock this afternoon a mob of men
composed of anti-coolie clubs started
towards the railroad f1ume, about a
mile from town, for the purpose of
running off the Cinnamon working on
the Railroad company's flume. After
their leaving, it was found that the
arms from the armory of the Carson
Guards had been stolen or hidden
away. The Sheriff of Ormsby county
started for the scene of the expected
battle.
Year: 1876

1t is often remarked by strangers visiting
our State that we show larger proportion of
good horses than any ether State in the Un-
ion. This, we tell them, is owing to Two
principal reasons: in the first place we breed
from the very best stock; and in the second
place our people use Sheridans Cavalry Con-
dition Powders, which in our judgment are of
incalculable advantage deOdew
Year: 1876

Nainly now do you look for the jaunty
trousers-which the wearer was always
hitching up-and the sailor hats familiar
to fiction. Our sailors wear fur caps pull
ed down over their ears, and lack boots
Nor would much more picturesque cos
tune obtain were it summer, | fancy


The romance has gone from the sea.
The steamer sailor, alike with the sails. is
grimy with smoke. Furling is still done,
but reefng is a thing of the past-instead,
they put on less coal and'' slow the engine"


Instead of laying the main yard aback,
nowadays, with a good many hands on
the ropes, vast vocileratlons, and but an
inconsiderable amount Of hauling as of
old, the captain or pilot just rings a bell
and the engineer backs water.


Donkey engines man halyards, board
the fore and main tacks, and heave at the
wlndlass to say nothing of kicking up a
disturbance over the heads of quiet fami-
lies all night long. which prevents any
body from sleeping. Even the ship is
stcered by steam.


Able seamanship is at discount, and
not far distant is the day when the mari
ner able to ''hand reef and steer. knot and
splice" will be rated no higher on steam
er's books than he whose office it is to
sweep out the coal hole.


To the theatre, good friends, and there,
while you may, gaze your last upon the
typical tar. For depend upon it that anon
the drama of 'Black-Eyed Susan" shall be
revamped, and instead Of sweet Williams
sliding down the mast in spotless trousers
dressed to greet his sweetheart-as sailors
did in the good old days of tarred rigging
and lush-buckets-you shall see him
astrde of smokestack or mounted on the
back of donkey engine. And the inquiry
of Susan shall be amended to-


Tell me We sailors, tell me true,


Ifmy sweet Williams scraping down the fue.
Year: 1876

HE Live Stock journal gives the fol
oWng: Il believe that one great reason
why pigs do not prove more profitable on
ID great many farms, is. because they do
not have more clean yard room in which
TO run and forage. Too often they are con-
fined to Il small pen and a very small yard,
10th Of which are dirty. They have not
even clean grass spot, OF grass or other
green food to eat, but must constantly stay
ln a close yard or pen. For large hogs
This restriction is injurious, but for little
pigs it is very much worse. Young ami
mails want liberty to exercise their muscles
and clean grass on which to feed. A few
farmers let their pigs run at will, but they
are apt to do great deal of mischief. One
OF my neIghbors, who raises a great many
pigs, used to let them run into my garden,
corn and potatoes, tread down my grass,
and they did great deal of damage to
my crops; but he always had nice pigs,
and there was no evident reason except
that he allowed them full liberty out of
doors. Now | do not approve of having
drove OF pigs running through gardens
and crops, but think it would pay even
small farmers to fence in an eighth or a
fourth OF an acre Of land adjoining their
hog yards, and let their pigs run a part OF
the time every day in this enclosure


When they get large enough to root turf
land. they can be shut into their ordinary
yards or else have the tendons of their
noses cut or rings put in to keep them
from doing mischief. But whether it is
used for large hogs or not, it would GER
talnly pay farmers who raise many pigs to
furnish them such yard"
Year: 1876

A lumberman in Michigan, being poor
ly provided with materials of sustenance
for his men. fed them with pork cooked
with the rind upon it. A young man ofthe
company. not liking that outer portion of
the food, was observed by the host to be
carefully removing the outside covering,
whereupon the latter said, Young man,
we eat rind and all here" To which the
youth replied "All right, old man, I'm
cutting it off for you"
Year: 1876

A yankee has invented a milking ma
chine that can be carried in pocket book.
Now if he were to invent a milch COW that
could be carried in the coat-tail pocket,
his machines would sell more rapidly.
Norristown Herald
Year: 1876

A man residing near Sante fe,, New
Mexico, is said to own eighty thousand
head Of cattle, which roam over sixteen
thousand sections OF land. He can fill an
order tor twenty thousand or even forty
thousand beevcs upon ten days notice by
telegraph from the East, and to guard his
immense herds he employs one hundred
boys and a. many trained hnrSe-meu
Year: 1876

borer TO his rest. But to the gentle
hearted youth who is thrown on the
rocks of a pitlless city, and stands
homeless amid a thousand homes" the
approach Of evening brings with it an
aching sense of loneliness and desola-
ton, which comes down upon the spir-
it like darkness upon the earth. Ii
this mood, his best impulses become a
snare to him and he is led astray be
cause he is social, afectionate, sympa
thic, and warm-hearted. If there be
a young man thus circumstanced with
in the sound Of my voice, let me say to
him, that books are the friends of the
tiiendess, and that a library is the
home of the homeless. A taste for
reading will always carry you into the
best possible company, and enable you
to converse with men who will in
struct you by their wisdom, and charm
you by their wit; who will soothe
you when fretted, refresh you when
weary, counsel you when perplexed,
and sympathize with you at all times.


GEORGE S. HIILARD.
Year: 1876

The first month of the Centennial
Exhibition has ended, and the Phila-
delphia papers improve the occasion
to congratulate the people of the coun-
try upon the success which has thus
far attended the magnificent enter
prise. The most important fact they
have to refer to is that the daily num-
ber of paying visitors is now just
about three times as great as was that
of the first few days after the opening,
averaging from $4,000 to 10000. The
attendance greatly exceeds that of the
Vienna Exhibition, and is fast rising
to the proportions of the successful
ones of London and Paris. The num-
bers naturally increase as an exhibi-
ton goes on, and the closing ones are
always the most profitable, so that it
may be safely calculated that in Octo-
ber and November the daily average
of paying visitors will exceed fifty
thousand. All through the period Of
the exhibition there will be success
sion of meetings of National, State
and other societies, each of which will
bring fresh set of visitors. The va
rious military visitations will attract
thousands of civilian attendants. Thus
there is an ever-growing, progressive
increase in the number of those who
want and are resolved to visit the
Worlds Fair. While things have
settled down to comparative quiet at
The hotels, there is a much greater
number of strangers in the city than
there was three weeks ago. There
will be still greater increase when
the tide of Southern and Western
travel, mostly composed OF summer
tourists, sets in. The greatest crowds
will, of course, be on and about the
Fourth of July, and the Quakers are
preparing for such a multitude on that
particular day as has never before
been assembled for any one purpose in
any part Of the world.
Year: 1876

A North Adams correspondent says
it is not at all improbable that most
of the North Adams Cinnamon (the
first with whom the experiment Of in
PRODUCING Chinese labor into Massa-
chusetts was made) will be sent back
to San Francisco this summer. The
town is suffering severely from the
temporary stoppage OF large manu-
featuring establishments, and Mr..
Sampson, the employer ofthe Chinese,
feels that it may be for the best inter
est of the town not to re-engage his
imported. help, thus enabling hun to
give employment to residents OF the
place. Regarding the question as to
whether or not the introduction of
Chinese labor has been a success, the
correspondent finds something to say
on both sides. One Of the good re.
suits of the experiment has been the
breaking up Of the order of Crispins
which formerly controlled the shoe
shops of that section of Massachusetts.
Their improvement socially has not
been at all marked, though during the
first year or two after their arrival the
good people Of the community, who
did everything in their power to i'm
prove the moral and intellectual con-
dition of the heather strangers, felt
encouraged to believe that the work
in their behalf would bring forth
abundant fruit. They improved up
to certain point, and there they are
resting. After five or six years of
study none of them have advanced
either intellectually or morally. They
still cling to their idols and burn in
cense before their barbarous shrines.
AS to economy, some of them spend a
very small portion OF their wages,
while Others spend nearly all in luxu-
ries. The Cinnamon are not tax-pay.
ers, and they have peculiar fondness
of sending their earnings home, where
their hearts are and their hearts are
certainly not in this country. They
nave been going and coming during
the past six years, and the number en-
ployed has ranged from Is to upward
of 100. The present number is IS, of
whom 40, the latest arrivals, were i'm
ported a year ago. The prices paid
them have never been made known to
the public, though they are supposed
to received from 500 to 1925 per
month. Over 40 Of them are at lib
erty to go at any time, the term for
which they were hired having expir-
ed. They are in no hurry to return,
and would undoubtedly be glad to re-
new their contracts, but the opportu.
nifty to do so will probably not be
given them. On the whole, the best
that can be said of the experiment is
that it has been attended with indit-
terent success.
Year: 1876

Among the writings of George d. Prentice
nothing has been more justly admired than the
beautiful prose poem, bearing the above title,
of which the following is a partial versication


BY VISTA.
What is this darkencd life 1t cannot be
An empty bubble on Times boundless sea,
Cast up to float little moment there,
Then sink to night and darkness and despair.
Why is it, else, each high and glorious thought,
Those aspirations from the Gcdhead caught,
Which leap like angels from the tempted


shrine,


OF mans deep soul though plumed with light


divine,


And lit by love from the eternal throne,
Still wander forth, unsatisfed and alone
Why is it that the rainbow and the cloud
Wrap life and beauty in their misty shroud'
And passing like dream of heavenly birth,
Above the darkness of this lower earth,
Leave the sad soul, with feelings soft and


tender.


To muse upon their vanished light and splen-


dor ?


Are we not born for higher things than earth
Hath not the soul q sense of heavenly birth
Shall we not find at length amid those bright
And starry worlds. that gem the brow of


night


Those visioned forms. which mock our being


here.


And reign and revel in brighter sphere
Year: 1876

The Psalmist, after describing what
befell the Israelites who rebelled
against God in the wilderness, tells us
that "He gave them their request ;
but sent leanness into their SOUL
There is an important truth and les
son in this. The truth is that wicked
desires when gratified bring their own
compensation, Or punishment, in pur'
suance of the operation Of the law Of
divine justice. The qualification of
our wishes, the being permitted to
have our own way, oftentimes brings
upon us real misfortune.


This teaches us that our desires
should be conformed to what we know
of Gods will, and that if we oppose
our opinions to His eternal purpose
we may receive a bitter retribution in
the very permission give us to do ac-
cording to our own desires This is
what befell the Israelites and it is re-
corded IN Gods book for our instruc-
ton. And the lesson it teaches us
beside is that, if our hearts are right
before God there can be no difference
between our desires and His will.
After this state we would striye-a
state in which our nature would be in
harmony with Itself and its Creator !;
which condition can be reached only
through religious culture that will
result in the entire subjugation OF our
own will to Gods will, ard in 4 full
recognition that His ways are better
than our ways. Gods will, thus be-
ing open before us, by laying aside
our own would become the law of our
being.


The failure in so many of our plans
even in those things TOR which we
earnestly pray-arises from the fact
that they are our plans, and not Gods.
What would be the result if the de-
sires of all men were gratified, as men
now are-confdent in their own
strength and wisdom If the sun
shone whenever it's beams would de
light human being, would there ever
be day of rain, or would not the
earth be baked to crust through
which no blade of grass could pene.
trate q? Were the clouds as generous
as the wishes of every tiller Of the
soil, should we not have another de
luge? And could the light be arrest
ed in the western sky to shine upon
all the work not finished upon earth,
w ,uld the night ever come with Its
stars and silence and blessed invita-
tions to sleep and dreams ? What
clashing there would be with the ele-
ments if all the wishes of men were
once indulged.


Surely, we know not, often, what
we ask, and it is we'll Tor us that
Gods will Is law and we should
cease our foolish complaints at His
divine order. -IChicago Standard.
Year: 1876

KEEP YOUR Own COUNSEL, 49,
Nothing can be more injurious to your
peace OF mind than to have too many
confdants. You live in abject slavery
every day, as you are constantly fear
ing that some of your numerous conf
dants will reveal a secret you would
not have anybody know for all the
world