smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1872

| the rise in commodities ought not to be estimated
at more than 3 per cent, and judged of by the
criterion of corn, it would not be so much.


A word now about strikes. The earliest strikes
we read of in the history Of England occurred in
the 18th century, after period Of fearful SICK
ness, which so thinned the number of workmen
and artisans as to enable them to refuse to be
employed at the previous rate of wages; and
they were right Yet the most cruel laws, even
to capital punishment were pat in force to com
pei them TO resume work then followed, on the
other side, the illtresting and numbering Of each
other beyond anything we have seen of late
years, which has sometimes been bad enough
Subsequent legislation gradually relaxed what
were called the Strike Laws until the efforts of
Huskisson, and eventually of Joseph Hume, re-
duced them to insigni6cance. When defend
strikes as an expedIent for raising the remunera-
ton Of labor, do not defend the generally in
herent vice attending them of intimidation or
msdirectiou by agtators and hackers leading on
the men to miscalculate their employers power
of endurance, and probably of their own not
Ludk tulo Ieicdi Tue uliiuidtG duu OHil BUSol-
bic adjustment. but greatly Injuries by retardng 1t.


In near connection with the strikes the manu-
featuring engineer has to face for his old contracts
the augmented price of iron, easily enough ex-
planned by its employment in place of wood 10
every direction, and almost for every purpose,
but especially in shpbuildiug. Indeed the time
may come probably will come, when every fishing
boat will be a steamboat; but if il were possible
for the rate of wages 10 be unduy and for any
long time raised by strikes the capital and the
high degree of engineering skill which are now
the just pride Of England, will migrate to other
countries with facility and rapidity greater even
than can be obtained by the lower class Of work
men through emigration. Nothing goes to the
best market so cheaply and SO easily as capital
and skillfulness, Already our steamboat CON-
panies are beginning to look about them, and,
instead of entering upon contracts to build, are
seeking for steamers which it is well known are
or are meditating TO run their old steamers
year or two longer, awaiting the time when they
foresee that they will be able to build more ad
vautageously. Strikes may disturb trade, and
10 so very seriously, by driving industry evea
within the country out of one occupation into
another, to the injury and inconvenience of the |
workmen generally, but especially for the artisan
for all that venture to maintain that the op-
erative classes have not the faculty of command
ing the price of a commodity, except for short





if they are unable to do that which is impossible
namely. to make new scale of prices through
out the world, it is utter vanity for them to sup
pose that they can commanI new scale Of
wages.
Year: 1872

UNDISCOVERED CRINEs-The Pail Nail Ga.


zete says: Some years ago writer in the .Satuy-


day ReUieiD specified some eight or ten murders


which had taken place within the course of two
or three years in as many counties for which no


one had ever been brought TO tiial. Few people
also can have paid much attention to TRIALS for


murder without seeing that in large number OF
cases the clue bg which the murderer happened


to be discovered was very faint and might easily


have been lost. This suggests the probability
that large number of murders are committed


which pass unsuspected. To take single in
stance, the symptoms Of poisoning by arsenic re-
semble so closely those Of very common dsens-
es, that unless circumstances create suspicion
of poisoning death by arsenic may be often re-
I ferred to natural causes. Palmer is commonly
reported TO have poisoned large number of per-
sons before be was found out, and cases in which
people have been tried for poisoning, especially
by arsenic, considerable time after the death of
their victims, are by no means uncommon. In
every such case suspicion has been excited by
some accident subsequent TO the event. When
all is said and done, crime in general and murder
in particular, neither does nor ought to iil any
very large space in modern life. If We look at
the theory of the matter, it is obvious upon q
very little reflection that, unless crime is dis
covered at once, the chaEce that it never will be
discovered is great, and increased rapidly in u
geometrical ratio. In all cases of inquiry into
h. of
which is disputed, we have to argue either from
causes to effects, or more frequently backward,
from effects to causes. Each event, as it occurs,
diturbs the general course of things for a moment,
but is soon lost. 1t is seldom indeed that the
traces left behind by any event whatever are long
distinguishable especially if tie event is isolated
and, like crime, studiously concealed. How
ever loud the splash may be at the moment when
the stone falls into the water, all traces of dstur-
bance are soon lost, and there is nothing to show
where the stone has sunk The truth about
crimes is that it is surprising rather that so many
should be discovered than that so many should
evade discovery. If all that murderer wanted
was to kill somebody without being discovered
nothing would be easier. The reason of the de-
lection of nine-tenths of the murders which are
detected is that the murderer has to make tie
most of rare opportunities, and that be has OBJ
jects to gain by the crime, the attainment of
which is usually more or less suspicious. Nothing
is so difficult as to discover murder where the
murderer has no personal interest in the matter,
and is merely the agent of secret society. This
was one Of the great difficulties in dealing with the
Irish agrarian murders.
Year: 1872

it produced upon the Southern peo


ple towards its author. What cffcc


could IT produce but that of tn,


very warmest esteem and gratitude


We are satisfied the fact in this case


accords with The inference. Every
thing emanting from the South Il:
dicatcs that tho people there veno.
rate and love the character of Han.
cock and would hail his nomina.
tion with unrestrained enthusiasm


Are thero any facts upon which n
Ike conclusion may be based in
respect to any other candidate? Is
there single act in the life of one
of thcin to attract the attention or
rouse the enthusiasm of any class
Of the people2 These are the ques.
tions to be decided. There is an
! other aspect Of the subject not to be
neglected. The enrnestncss of tho
support we give to men, tho en-
crtions we put forth in their behalf,
depend upon our confidence in them.


Is it like that tho people Of tho
whole country can rely on any can
didate named above as perfectly as
on Hancock? They know he had
no motive to defend constitutional
rights but sense of duty. They
know he had everything to lose and
nothing to gain by resisting the in
justice of tho reconstruction acts.


They know he was poor and dis
dnined to accumulate wealth by
official extortions. They know
that while a bill was pending in
congress to abolish his Office and
strike his name from the army rolls
because he had dared to defend con.
stitutional rights, he wrote and
published his letter to Governor
Pease reascrting the doctrines of
Order No 40, avowing his intention
to adhere to them, and denouncing
MS an encihy of liberty any one who
opposed them, They know TINT
for this he has been maligned, in.
suited, degraded from his lawful
rank and command in the army,
aid sent into exile by President
Grant. All know that he has look
ed this persecution sterItly in the
fate and never duailed nor bowed
the knee, nor turncl rom the line
of duty by n hairs Breadth, to pro-
pitiatc the insolehte ofpower. These
are ouf Impressions. Many per
sons agree with us. We should not
be surprised to tiid tic great Dem
ocratic pArty coihlng to the conclu-
sion that in such il crisis the c,un-
try needs sach n man, such prin-
ciples of government, and such firm.
ness Of purpose. If in addition to
this it should be evident that his
name has a deeper hold upon the
popular masses than any other, his
nomination may become q ncces.
sity.
Year: 1872

A correspondent writing of the lat 0
terrible snow storm along the line
of tho Pacific railroad says: The
train was caught in n bank-it
could neither back nor 20 ahead.
Tho wires w1rctappcdaLd dispatch
rs were sent to different quarters
for men and shovcls. While the
trniil was waiting the buhalocs
gathered from the plains to the lee
side for shelter If any one felt
disposed he might, from his scat in
the car, pop thetn over with his re.
volrer-the rest Would not move
they could not be driven away by
engine whistle or human voice, but
crowded their shaggy side close up
to the cars md there stood with
bowed heads for the storm to pass
Many were seen to fall down in
their tracks, dead from tho cold,
and when ut last the train was dug
out and moved off, the track was
lined with these huge, shaggy, fro
zen carcasses. We think u robe a
luxury in winter-so it is. Imag-
inc the severity Of the weather when
the animal who furnishes the robe
freezes to death under its natural
protection.-Missomi Rep.
Year: 1872

The Liberty Observer comes 10 us in
mourning for the death of the wife ufthe
editor, the Hon. T. J. Chambers. We ex
lend to him our sympathy in his sorrow
which time only can assuage.
Year: 1872

Girls are the most unaccountablest
things in the world-except women
Like the wicked flea, when you have
them they amt there. l can cipher
clean over to improper fractions ard
the teacher says I do it first rate; but
I can't cipher out girl, proper or
improper. and vou can't either. The
only rule in arithmetic that hits their
case is the double rule of two. They
are as full of old Nick as their skin can
hold, and they would die if they could
not torment somebody. When they
trv to be mean they are as mean as
pulsey though they amt as mean as
they let on, except sometimes, and
then they are good deal meaner.
The only way to get along with a
girl when she comes at you with her
nonsense, is to give her tit for tat,
and that will hummux her, and
when you get girl fiummuSed she
is as nice as a new pin. A girl can
SOW more wild oats in day than a
bov can sow in a year. but girls get
their wild oats sowed after awhile,
which bows never do, and then they
settle down as calm and placid as
mud puddle.


But 1 like girls first rate, and I
guess all the boys do. l don't care
how many tricks they play on me
and they don't care either. The
hoitytoityist girls in the world can't
always boil over like a glass of soda.
By and by they will get into the
traces with somebody they like and
pull as steady as any old stage horse.
That is the beauty of them. So let
them wave, say; they will pay for
it some day, sewing on buttons and
trying to make decent man OF the
feller they have spliced on to, and
ten chances to one if they do not get
the worst of it.
Year: 1872

The Sentinel has the following in relation to two earth shocks that oc- cured in its town on May 2, at 5:45 P. NJ.

 The vibrations, which were ac- companied by sound similar to dis tant thunder, were from the northwest to the southeast, and were of from one to two seconds duration each, with an interval of about two seconds. The first shock was very light, but distinct The second shock, which is said to be the heaviest ever felt here, was so se- we're as to cause the inhabitants to seek refuge i'll the streets. The only damage caused by the trembler, so far as we can ascertain, Is in a room ill the rear of MT. Pulfer's saloon, on Main street, where the two corners to the south were badly cracked, the crevices being not less than half an inch in width, and extending from top to bottom the counter in the saloon was thrown from its position nearly an inch. The store of Charles Neisen S Co.,, on the corner of Gila and Sec ond streets, was also damaged to the extent of "a crack in the wall" on the south side also, of about the eighth of an inch. Up to the time of going to press, no further disturbance has been felt.
Year: 1872

Special Dispatch from the San Diego

 Union, May g..

 The Thirty-fifth Parallel ROad--

 San FranciscO's PrOpOsitiOn--FuIl

 Statement of the Terms Proposed

 1.-The St. Louis Party in Consul

 tation--Suicide of F. l.. A. Pioche,

 the French Capitalist.

 SAN FRANCISCO, May 2. = The Committee of One Hundred to-day presented to the St. Louis delegations a formal proposition for building the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad on the 35th parallel, which will undoubtedly be accepted. The Company is to be incorporated here with twenty-five millions of subscribed capital to i'm mediately commence the construction of the road eastward to the Colorado River, and will also secure per cent. 20 year city bonds under the Five Per Cent Act, the interest on which is to be paid out of the earnings of the road as soon as finished to the Colo rado river. St. Louis is to do the same for the construction of the road from the present terminus to the Colorado River ; each company to build at least 250 miles annually, and to make the junction at an agreed point within five years from the commencement of the work. The Atlantic and Pacific Company is to concede to the San Francisco Company all rights to grants of lands, depot and terminal sites, and Government aid in all forms for its section of the road and if either party fails to construct its re- \spective share of the road up to the point of junction within the specified time, the other to go on with the con- Ftruction until the junction is made, hnd receive all the benefits and aid for the part of the line so constructed which the other would have been en- titled to. The St. Louis party are now A consultation. It is understood that the terms are satisfactory and will be accepted.

 1 There was a report this morning that F. l.. A. Pioche had fallen dead with apoplexy while conversing with Major Livermore, and 1t was circu- lated by his friends to conceal the real facts, of a painful nature. The facts are that he had suffered one attack of apoplexy, and has of late complained of severe pain in his head, which the heat of the last few days had aggra- vated to an extent rendering him really insane. Last evening he con- plained greatly of it, and said that his life was becoming unbearable. Yhis morning his servant brought his papers and left him lying in bed reading them. About quarter past elght dull noise was heard, but no particular attention was paid to 1t till some time after, when it was found that he hrd blown his head into frag- ments with a revolver. His mining and other interests were prosperous, and he had no cause other than that assigned for the act. He was sixty years of age and unmarried.
Year: 1872

would propose that the excess OF the excise
moneys as reported by the Excise Commissioners,
should be distributed in an allowance OF So per
head on the average attendance at the schools
named in the report OF the Commissioners


The Board then adjourned.
Year: 1872

~ The Ladies honuneirmsnto while protest
ing against all the old WORT ess Dsntrinoes now in
the market, the LAdles, with one consent have
adopted the eozodSnt As the one thing needful &C
insure the integrity sf the teeth and a fragrant
breath.
Year: 1872

ONE of the most remarkable episodes
that has ever occurred in the life of
Frank AIuhlbesch happened on yester-
day.


A few days ago Mr.. Muhlbesch was
taken suddenly i'll at his residence. His
disease was of a very acute nature, and in
spite of all the efforts of his physicians,
he died after brief illness, and his sor-
rowing friends made ready for the funer-
al. An undertaken was summoned aud
the body properly laid out, and on yester-
day the funeral services took place from
his late residence. After the customary
services had been performed and the sor.
rowing relatives had taken their last look
of the deceased, the cof1ln-lid was screwed
down, and the funeral cortege moved
slowly toward the quiet confines of Grace
land cemetery, where the body was finally
lowered sadly into the grave which had
been prepared for it. The last prayer
had been offered and the last solemn SER
vice repeated, when just as the sexton
seized his spade and was about to drop
the first shovelful of earth upon the
coffin, sound, something like stitied
groan, followed by scratching noise, as
if the dead man was trying To release
himself from the confines of his narrow
house, was heard proceeding from the
still open grave. For an instant every
heart stood still, and the blood of every
listener seemed to curdle in his veins.
The women screamed and hastened to-
ward the carriage, while the men were
not slow in following them. In an in
slant the sexton was the only man
left at the grave, and he too trembled at
hearing what he had never heard
before Finally he recovered
presence of mind enough to descend into
the grave and break open the rough box
which the coffin was encased. Then the
noise was repeated, and he knew that the
occupant of that grave, who in few mo-
ments more would have been consigned
to a horrible death, and whom his friends
had already mourned as dead, was still
alive and anxious to be set free. A screw
driver was soon procured from the un-
dertaker present, and the coffin lid re-
moved, when its occupant, instead of be-
ing cold and dead, as he had appeared
when last seen, was found to be once
more alive. His friends, who had by this
time recovered courage enough to return
to the grave, were of course almost over
joyed at this sudden and unexpected turn
of affairs, and fastened to rescue the late
deceased from his unpleasant quarters and
remove him to one of the carriages in
waiting, where he was rolled up in a
plentiful supply of blankets and lap,
robes, and the friends who had lately fol-
lowed him sorrowingly to the grave, now
fastened joyfully toward their homes.
The rescued man was so overcome, on
being rescued from his perilous position,
that he was for long time unable to
speak, and what his feelings were while
undergoing burial, or whether he was
conscious at all or not until the last mo,
ment, when he managed to signify that
he was still alive, is not Chicago
Tines
Year: 1872

THIEvEs are scarce in Siam, and the
reason is obvious; When one is convict
ed, he or she, it makes no difference
which, is put in bag and laid upon the
ground, face downward, with the throat
resting upon the sharp edge of triangu
lar block. The executioner then pounds
with heavy club on the back of the neck
until the victims head is bruised of. The
poor kleptomaniac is gently prepared for
the final operation by judicious prelimi.
nary scourgings.
Year: 1872

A DANBURIAN who was in New York
Saturday came up with the wild state
ment that he had seen hotel clerk with
side.whiskers This is more of lie than
one man should undertake to tell. Hair
growing on the cheek Of hotel clerk
'Scatl-DGR6uSy Nesos.
Year: 1872

against eighteen games last year with a gross total of $40 to 531. The non-appear- ance of the second nine this season is due to the energy displayed by their captain.

 Perhaps some of our friends would be in terested to know why the club has not played as much this season. can only explain it by saying that every club on the line of the c. w. R. R. that we have heard of we have challanged and only one (the Salisbury nineI has ever come to tune. No. Canaan promised to play us immediately after haylng, and as we have not heard from them, they must have had very heaVy crop. Wlnsted with her ''Dexters' of only year or two ago, could not even raise picked nine New Hartford with nine that rumor says is as strong as our own, could not be prevailed to come within sight of us. The Grant club of Collins vile, took the trouble to write to one of our own men to ascertain it he knew of a club who would play them. Of course they heard from us, and they did not have the courtesy to answer the letter. Tue last challenge sent was to the Live Oaks of Maiden Bridge, N. Y., champions of Col

 umbia Go. and ln reply received an invita- ton to meet them in Chatham. AS we have
Year: 1872

WoRsE AND WoRsE.-We can understand the green-eyed monster playing havoc with heart of any age from eighteen up to eighty, but we cannot conscientiously find a justification for that human being who will permit it to find an abiding placa in his breast after that extreme point of life's hayday. How then shall we speak of the Othelo in North Carolina who, at the i'm pulslve age of ninety six, is under indct- ment for murdering his wife in fit of jealousy? The wretched man pleads in mitigation that the fckle and heartless young creature of ninety callow summers had been flirting with other young fellows, which was an outrage that his nature could not calmly bear and permit to go unpun- ished. Here his jealousy destroyed at one fell blow party who might, if properly encouraged, have lived to be one of those remarkable women who do all sorts of wonderful things at the age of l2O, and make the rounds of the papers as an exam pie for others to go and do likewise. This is too bad
Year: 1872



 EFFICACY OF PRAYER IN PHYSICAL NA- TURE.-Prof. Tyndall says in the Popular Science Monthly:

 The bone contention at present is the physical value of prayer. It is not my wish to excite surprise, much less to draw forth protest, by the employment of this phrase. would simply ask any intelligent person to look the problem honestly and steadily in the face. and then to say wheth- CT, in the estimation of the great body of those who sincerely resort to it. prayer does not, at all events upon special occasions, invoke power which checks and aug ments the descent of rain, which changes the force and direction of winds, which af- fleets the growth of corn and the health of men and cattle-a power, in short, when . appealed to under pressing circumstances, produces the precise effects caused by phy. sical energy in the ordinary course of things. To any person who deals sincerely with the subject, and refuses to blur his moral vision by intellectual subtleties, this. l think, will appear true statement of the case. It is under this aspect alone that the scientific student, as far as represent him, has any wish to meddle with prayer, Forced upon his attertion as a form ot physical energy, he claims the right of sub jecting it to those methods of examination from which all our present knowledge ot the physical universe is derived. And ii bis researches lead him to 8 conclusin ad verse to it's claims; If his inquiries rive him still closer to the philosophy enfoldec in the words ''He maketh the sun to shine on the evil and on the good, and sendetl rain upon the just and upon the unjust = he contends only for the displacement o prayer, not for its extinction. He simply says physical nature is not it's legitimate do main. This conclusion, moreover, mus be based on pure physical evidence ant not on any inherent unreasonableness il the act of prayer.
Year: 1872

OLD NEwsPAPERs.-Many people take newspapers, but few preserve them, yet the most interesting reading imaginable is ar old file of newspapers. It brings up the very age, with all it's bustle and every day affairs, and marks its genius aud it's spirit more than the most labored description of the historian. Who can take paper, dated half century ago, without the thought that almost every name there printed is now cut upon a tombstone at the head of all epitaph.

 1t is easy to preserve newspapers, and they will well repay tue trouble, for like that of old wine their value increases with their years.
Year: 1872

A VERMoET farmer was startled, while hoeing corn recently. by seeing rhinoceros coming towards him, ploughing furrow like steam plough with his horn. The farmer, at first, took it for potato bug of the new style, but the arrival of party of showmen in search of the insect explained fhin0o