smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1876

If the Tilden and Hendricks Central Asso-
citation OF the XXIst Assembly District does


not by this time clearly apprehchd its political
d,.t3, it is through no fault of the Hon. Fer
naIdo Wood, who, on Thursday evening OF
3e present week, at what is called "a grand
" ratification demonstration" in that district,
undertook to- and doubtless actually did, make
everything clear in that regard. The Hon. MIR.
Wood is person who has been in political
life in this country great many years, and
has held in his time a variety of civic trusts.
He has been long time in Congress, and has
enioyed opportunities there Of becoming
familiar with the legislation OF the country, of
hearing and taking part in great debates. of
studying the principles of administration and
of government, and of acquainting him
self thoroughly with the history of
parties. their methods and policies, and
their claims upon public confidence. He
should be, with his experience and his nat
ural powers, which are by no means small, by
this time so much man OF affairs as to have
some title TO the much-abused name of states
man. Having been for so many years trusted
leader of his party, elected 10 Office repeat
edly, and kept so continuously III the public
service, and enjoying the confidence of his
political associates in Congress to such a de-
gree as to receive their nomination for the
Office of Speaker Of the House of Representa-
tives, it il fair to presume that he knows the
whole argument upon which the party rests its
claims, and that he presents it IN the most logical


earnest, and forcible manner A gentleman
who has been so often selected by his party
to represent them IN the National Legislature


to impress the principles and theories of the
party upon Federal legislation, must know pre-
cisely what those principles are and what he
is sent to Congress to do. When he came be-
fore the Tilden and Hendricks Association of
the XXIst District, therefore, to tell the mem
berB of that association their political duty, it
was to be expected that he would point the
way for them very clearly, give his reasons
distinctly and forcibly, and discuss the
issues of the canvass in somewhat
large and statesmanlike manner. We must
suppose that he did that he threw into his
address the weight of all his observation and
study and experience. The strength of his
argument is embodied IN the report given of
it by friendly journal, which represents him
Year: 1876

BROOKLYN people seem 10 regard with curl
osity rather than with interest the process of
stretching the wires that are to uphold high
way between the two cities, Occasionally
there is started among the groups that are
crowded upon the ferry-boatS some discussion
about the proposed hight of the bridge, and
whether it will be sufficient to clear the masts
of coasting vessels. But most people look at
the towers in far-Off way, as if the whole
structure was intended as work of art, and
the towers were only to be considered as
monuments. That the East River Bridge Is
something in which they have direct, per-
sonal interest; that when completed it
will essentially change the course of
travel of perhaps $4,000 people twice a
day, and that great alterations in the value OF
property in many parts of Brooklyn must re-
suit - these are matters rarely alluded to by
the people of that city. From the very begin
ming of the enterprise they have treated the
building of the bridge as if it were matter
that did not much concern them For long
while a majority of BrOOklyntes did not really
believe it would ever be built. and an express
sion of doubt on the subject, with a shrug of
the shoulders, has constituted the bulk of the
popular comment on the slowly rising towers.
Now, since some of the wires have been ac-
tually stretched and the reality of the work is
dawning upon them these doubters still shrug
their shoulders and wonder whether the bridge
will be of any service.


The people of Brooklyn are not peculiarly
apathctc. II is safe to say that they turned
out in the rain quite as numerously as New
Workers last Sunday, and fastened to He'll
Gate under umbrellas. They were aroused
sufficiently last Fall to make an effort toward
shaking off their Ring government, and to
elect a Republican Mayor They know per-
fectly well the deficiencies of their city.
They are quite aware that it is solely because
of the inadequate means of reaching it that
Brooklyn real estate, calculating its value by
its distance from the New-York City Hall, is
not worth half as much as similarly distant
property on this side of the East River. They
know that the bridge will help to equalze
this difference il it adds To the facilities for
reaching Brooklyn. And yet they doubt.


The whole question of the value of the
bridge turns upon its capacity for shortening
the delays of travel For foot passengers it
will be of no great Importance; after its
novelty is over people will think walk over
the bridge more wearisome than ride on a
ferry-boat. 1t is scarcely expected to carry
locomotives and long trains of cars. If small.
special cars running only on the bridge, are to
be used, receiving their motive power from an
endless rope, it must result that to cross the
bridge viii be quite as troublesome and very
nearly as slow as is now the passage by the
ferries. To the great proportion of those who
cross the East River in going to- and return
Year: 1876

ing from their business the chief inconyeni.
ence is the change of vehicles. They como te
the river in an omnibus or street-car which
they must leave to find seat on boat. and
then must leave that again TO find A
seat in another car after crossing. This
trouble will not be renedied Of o,I
by the bridge, il that only substitutes
a bridge-car for the ferry-boat, aud there ia
still the same trouble of changing yehicles.
What will be wanted, what must be arranged
if the bridge is to be made really useful, is
that the same car which brings its quota of
passengers TO the bridge shall carry them across
it and after crossing it. If we suppose that
tho present system of horse-cars in our streets
is to be indefinitely continued, the car COM
panies on each side of the river will soon find
it to their interest to agree on such an ar
rangement The capacity of the bridge may
be insufficient for caIs and car-horses together;
but the latter could be dispensed with on tho
bridge if the street cars on arrival should DO
clutched to an endless rope driven by station
airy engines at each end.


But at best this arrangement will very poorly
meet Brooklyn's needs. Rapid transit is wanted
in that city more than in New-fork, and there
is less hopO of it. There is, indeed, COM
pany formed for the purpose of promoting
rapid transit in Brooklyn, and somewhere in
the outskirts it has broken ground. But New
York is an age ahead of BROOKLYN 10 the pros
pect of an elevated railroad. The real reason
why the good people across the river shake
their heads so solemnly and doubtfully when
they look at the bridge towers, is that they have
had sad experience in the slOwness of any
marked improvement in the means of travel
in their city. They still drag slowly along in
the horse-cars up their steep hills as they did
fifteen years ago. At tho present rate of pro-
gress we shall be in our graves before there is
rapid transit without change of cars between
Central and Prospect Parks; and yet this
should be made practicable when the bridge is
completed.
Year: 1876

Half million is not much. Besides, the
Southern claims which the House voted to
pay were not very different in character from
other claims, urged by patriotic carpet-baggers
at other sessions, and passed by Republican
maioritics. The trouble is that the South is full
of them. We confess some anxiety, not about
those which have been passed, but about the
infinitely greater number which await the full
restoration of Democracy to power. 1,ne
petty stream which trickled through the base
Of the dam at Worcester for some DAYS was
quite insignificant in itself, but men who OBJ
served it realized that there was hole in the
dam, and foresaw the terrible devastation
which the food afterward caused. When we
consider the nature and magnitude of
the claims which have already been
presented, and may by any Democratic
Congress be passed, the subject does
not seem by any means Insignificant. 1t was
Year: 1876

We print on the second page this morning
the third of the articles undertaking to present
the real condition and prospects of the New
York Central and Hudson River Railroad.
Thus far these articles have been based absO-
mtely ON the successive reports of the road to
the State Engineer. Not a figure has been
given which is not official, and the means are
therefore in the hands of every reader to de-
termine whether the inferences drawn from
them are or are not warranted. When we
began the publication of these papers we
stated their real and sole purpose to be an
exhibition of the exact facts concerning the
Company in the interest of investors and the
public; and we especially rendered TO Mr.
William II. Vanderbilt an opportunity TO cor
rect any error, even the slightest into which
we might be betrayed. Mr.. Vanderbilt accepted
this invitation in very different spirit from
that in which it was offered. He has made no
specific corrections, bat in a large and vague
way has assured the stockholders that every
thing is right, and that anybody
who states uncomfortable facts is doing
it for speculative purposes. MIR. Van
deTbilt is following fatal precedent.
That is the way the President of the New
Jersey Central began, the way the President
of Delaware, Lackawanna and Western began,
the way the President of Delaware and Hud-
son began, the way the President of Reading
began. We now repeat that we can have no
other object in this investigation than to fur
nish the exact facts which thousands of our
readers are desiring and if we have fallen, or
in subsequent papers do fall, into the slightest
error, we shall be most happy to have Mr.
Vanderbilt correct it. But il his facts are all
right, he can afford to keep his temper in
tpllinp them
Year: 1876

Chancellor Runyon denies the petition for a
Receiver of New-Jersey Central, on the ground
of insufficient evidence. The ground on which
the public had already dismissed it was that
it came from man having only trifing in
terest in the stock of the company, and was
presumptively, therefore, mere movement for
speculatiye effect.
Year: 1876

The secret of the still hunt is out. 1t was
simply to concentrate all the Democratic forces
upon the candidate who heads the Republican
ticket in Ohio, and who has the misfortune OF
pronounced opinions with the weakness. OF ad-
herring to them. The head of the ticket once
beaten, the arithmetic men would figure out
Democratic victory to the entire satisfaction
of everybody but the remaining Democratic
candidates butchered to make q Tildon holi-
day. This was the sly intent Of all the bur
rowing that has been going on in Ohio. Once
known, as a letter from our correspondent
shows, it is almost surely defeated. A letter
from Indiana gives an interesting account OF
the facilities that exist in that State for fraudu-
lent voting, of which tho Democrats are more
likely 10 take advantage than the Republicans
not only because of Democratic instinct but
OF long Democratic practice. In this October
State the hunt is noisy one, because it is
desperate Defeat there means defeat every
where.
Year: 1876

The revival of business is past doubt.
The increase of the dry goods trade Of this
city will be generally accepted as the most
certain among the numerous indications that
q reaction from the hard times has fairly set
In. 1t is, however, healthy reaction with
nothing speculative in it, buyers being cautious
and credits short.
Year: 1876

The strain on Gen. Newton, last week, was
too heavy. He kept his head beautifully about
the explosion, but lost it completely in reply"
ing to Mr.. VIM. +. DOdge's letter on the Sun
day question. We say this without in the least
disputing his declaration that it was neces-
sity that the explosion should occur on last
Sunday at ten minutes before three o'cleck'
and on 10 other day and at no other hour
whatever. This he states on his responsibility
as an engineer, which nobody will challenge.
But there was enough that was startling III
the situation and repugnant to the feelings OF
our best people, to give a full warrant for
Mr.. Dodge's protest. There was nothing in the
protest to warrant Gen. Newton's abusive
reply and there was everything in. Mr.,
Dodge's character, public service and age 10
entitle him to respectful treatment. The cor
respondent who discusses the question ID
another column clearly has the right of It,
Gen. NewtOn's hot temper and strained nerves
have betrayed him into false position
Year: 1876

The Democrats claim that as Newark gave 1913 ma
iorty for the Republican last year and only lGOG
for the ticket at this election therefore there is heavy
Republican loss; but the Eepubncans claim tia. az no
MAYOR was voted this year there not tuil vote
and that their majority of 1000 Is gain as against the
67l Republican majority cast in 1874, when similar
ticket to the one just elected was ln the field
Year: 1876

LARGE NUMBER REGIsTERED-A SUPERVISOR AR


RESTED FOR LARCENY.


The following table shows the number of
citizens registered in each Assembly district IN this city
Yesterday ana also the number registered the first
Year: 1876

Government shall expend in any fiscal year
any sum in excess of the appropriations made by
Congress for that fiscal year. involve the Govern
ment in any contract for the future payment Of
money in excess of such appropriations" II Secre-
tary Robson is not involving the Government in


liabilities to pay money in excess of the appropra-
tions for the present fiscal year. he would have no
OCCASION to grant four months acceptances because
all the appropriations for the current year al
ways available, so that all bills against the depart
ment may be paid in cash.


Under the circumstances, and il view of the plain
provisions of the law quoted, well decisions of
the Supreme Court it is doubtful If Secretary Robe
sons acceptances wO1th the paper on which they
are written, since the giving of them was without
doubt illegal and unauthorized. II is also reported
that other paper of the Navy Department, besides
the S200,0 900 of acceptances, in certain banks
1t is also said that this practice of postponing pay
ments and making the appropriations of one year
pay the expenditures of previous one has been
in the Navy Department, and that by it
will be explained the immense expenditures of last
Fall during the excitement the Cuban question
caused by Administration maneuvers.
Year: 1876

warranted not to cut in the eye--not a head
ache in hhds of tit is no sooner in your
belly than IFS on your back in a pound of beet
and it carries a bead like necklace; for
sale by


GEORGE AUSTIN,
Year: 1876

which are introduced for the first time in
the present edition have been added not
for the sake of pictorial effect, but to give
greater lucidhy and force to explanations
IN the text They embrace all branches of
science and OF a natural history, and depot
the most famous and remarkable features of
scenery, architecture, and art, as well as
the various processes of mechanics and
manufactures, Although intended for in
struction rather than establishment, no
pains have been spared to insure their
Year: 1876

Within the last ten years the progress
OF discovery in every department of knowl-
edge has made a new work of reference an
imperative want.


The movement of political affairs has
kept pace with the discoveries of science
and their fruitful application to the indus
trial and useful arts and the convenience
and refinemen Of social life. Great wars
and consequent revolutions have occurred,
involving national changes of peculiar mo-
ment: The civil war of our own country,
winch was at its height when the last vol
ume OF the old work appeared has happily
been ended, and new course of CONNER
cIal and industrial activity has been COM
menceG. Large accessions to our
Year: 1876

have been made by the indetatigable ex-
plorers of Africa


The great political revolutions of the last
decade with the natural result of the lapse
OF time, have brought into public view a
multitude of new men, who's names are in
every ones mouth, and whose lives every
one is curious to know the particulars
Great battles have been fought and impor-
tant sieges have been maintained, of which
the details are as yet preserved only in the
newspapers or in the transient publications
OF the day, but which now ought to take
their place in
Year: 1876

In preparing the present edition for the
press, it has accordingly been the aim of
the editors to bring down the information
to the latest possible dates, and to furnish
an accurate account of the most recent dis
coveries in science, of every fresh produc-
ton i'll literature, and of the newest inven-,
tions in the practical arts, as well as to give
succinct and original record of the prog
resS of
Year: 1876

Out one-half pound of Soap into small
y shavings and dissolve in five gallons
of hot water, and then put in as many pie
ces of clothes as the solution will cover, let
them soak 3 or 10 minutes; then little
hand rubbing will make them as clean as
hours of hard machine rubbing would do
with ordinary soap.


When clothes are not much soiled, no
rubbing is required


Wiring them out of the solution, then
treat them the same as though they had
been washed in the ordinary way.


When one lot of clothes is removed from
the solution, replace with another


This Soap is warranted perfectly free
from anything injurious, and careful ana
lysis has proved that its ingredients cannot
mjure the finest fabrics. 1t is also an ex-
cellent Shaving Soap. For cleaning Paint,
use Il sponge or cloth saturated with the
solution; 1t will leave the paint bright and
uninjured; the repeated use of it ON painted
wood tends to make its glossy.


For removing Paint, Grease Spots, &c,
from Clothing, dip one end of the Soap in
hot water and rub on the soied spots; then
with linen towel and warm water, wash
the Soap off; if the spots are of long stand
ing, repeat the operation.


This Soap being very dry and pure does
not dissolve easily, but must be Thoroughly
Boiled in water to make it dissolve.


Mouselin de LANES, Cashmeres, Woolens,
Flannels &C., are rendered soft and
smooth, but should not be boiled.


All fast colors are made bright and clear
with this soap. Dresses can be washed
without ripping.


p. S.-To get the full benefit of this
Soap, it should always be dissolved in boil
ing water, and the solution used while
warm Manufactured only hv
Year: 1876

He came home one night with a
torn coat which she kindly undertook
to mend but when she turned it up.
side down so that letter and a do
mestic Fashion" of new overskirt.
which she had given him to mail to
her mother some two weeks before
tumbled out of one of the pockets, it
was lively there for the next ten min
utes that his first move in the morn
ing was in the direction of wig store,
to the proprietor of which he gravely
explained that the close application to
the study of the Foreign Policy of the
Khedive of Egypt had done it.
Year: 1876

The work has been begun after long and
careful preliminary labor, and with the
most ample resources for carrying it on to
successful termination.


None of the original stereotype plates
have been used, but every page has been
Year: 1876

Mr.. R. II. RoBB, of Horseshoe Bend,
who has been furnishing butter to his
customers in the Basin twice month
since early summer, made his last
trip a few days ago, as his cows have
failed in giving the usual quantity of
milk. Next season he.proposes to so
into the business on more extensive
scale, and will milk many more cows,
thereby keeping up his supply of but
ter to later day in the fall. Mr..
Robb is g first-class dairyman, and
his brand was SO much sought after
that he was seldom able to meet the
demand.
Year: 1876

TIE Statesman has at last concluded
to shoulder the task and squelch Nor
monism. It made column and a-half
dash at it last week. The peculiar in
stitution will flourish right along, we
presume, Notwithstanding; and Utah,
one of the most prosperous Territories
in the domain, will continue to send a
delegate to Congress, as usual. Why
will that handful of Mormons living
in Oneida and Bear Lake counties, in
the exercise Of their great North
American prerogative, persist in vot-
ing the democratic ticket
Year: 1876

TWEED was much surprised Wien
told that the Franklin was to take
him to the United States. He had
hoped on arriving in Cuba to be let
off through the assistance and infu-
ence of friends, to avoid being surreu-
dered to the American authorities.
He expressed great disappointment at
the new aspect of affairs. Tweed and
Hunt have been kept in separate
rooms, and no one allowed to speak
to them. 1t is thought Tweed viii
make way with himself rather than
return to new York, therefore he will
be strictly confined.
Year: 1876

UNFORTUNATE. Mr.. John Connors,
whose leg was broken last August in
the Gold Hill mine, while out OH crutch-
es the other day had the misfortune to
fall and again break it in the same
place. This last accident will prove a
heavy blow to Mr.. Connors, as he will
most likely be unable to work for sew
eral months to come. He is still at
the house of Mr.. Marshal, at this
place, where he has been since his leg
was first broken.
Year: 1876




To the Editor Of the Commercial:


MY attention has been called to the arti-
Gle in your issue of May 10Th, headed
Manipulation of the State Convention, -
and from it's tenor I am led to think that
you have been misinformed as to the true
state of facts in the case. 1 did not as
sumo to fill single vacancy occurring in
any of the delegations except by, and with
the consent OF the delegate or delegates
from said Hundred. There were bu6 three
Hundreds that came to my knowledge
where vacancies existed viz West
Brandywine, New Castle, and Appoquin!-
mink, all of which were filled by, and
with the consent of the delegates present
from said hundreds. The vacancy in Red
Lion hundred knew nothing of, until it
was made known in caucus; if the delegates
present from that hundred had made known
the fact of vacancy to me, would cheer
fully have placed upon the list of delegates
the person selected by them. The delega.
tion from Pencader hundred was not pres
ent, and did not feel that l had the right
to fill the vacancies, and hence Pencader
hundred was not represented in the con-
vention. My action may be liable to criti-
cism, but it should be in spirit Of fair
ness, and should not be made to appear
so utterly untrue to myself, and the party
with which 1 have the honor to act.


Whether had the right to exercise au-
thority as Chairman of the County Com
mittee, "a new Committee having been
elected but not organized is question
that has two sides, and in exercising the
right to fill vacancies when asked to do 60
by the delegates present. believed then,
and now, that had the right, and exercised
it neutrality-suspicious. may differ from me,
and they have perfect right to do so.


Not willing to believe that you would dc
an act OF such injustice, and suppesing that
you have been misinformed, ask that you
insert this in the COMMERCIAL and oblige


Yours very respectfully
Year: 1876

BASE BALL.-The Professional Quicksteps
will play the Philadelphias professionally
on Saturday, on the Adams street grounds.


On Saturday the Amateur Quicksteps will
go to West Chester to play the Brandy
wines. On Friday afternoon they play the
Athletics on the Rodney street grounds.


Householder left the professional club,
this morning, to join a club at Taunton
Mass. An effort is also being made to in
duce Holbert to play with the same club,
but he has not yet decided to accept
Householder's place will not be filled by a
new man, as the nine is already full.