smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1871

/ The following communication Was sub
mltted to the Legislature on Thursday:
| To the General Assembly Of Tennessee
! have to report failure to negotiate the
! loan of $500, 900 authorized by joint resolu-
! ton of your Honorable body, forthe reason
! that I could not find any responsible par
ties willing to lend us upon long time,
with bonds alone as collateral. without the
passage of proper revenue laws. The pub
| lication of the notice that we would resist
all bonds illegally issued operated very
greatly TO impair faith in our future good
intentions, and although the present price
of our bonds has not been changed very
materially, yet they are not available as q
basis upon which to effect long loans they
argue that State which owes near $685.
900, 600 i'll bonds, and win not pass laws
sufficient to defray current home expenses,
does not intend to pay bonds or interest,
and money cannot be had upon them. ex-
cept from parties who would take them at
about 20 cents, then sell our bonds and
lend part of the proceeds, keeping wide
margin in their own hands; then when
we got ready to pay back the money bor-
rowed, we should probably have trouble in
finding the bonds. ] did not suppose the
Legislature contemplated such loan, and
] avoided all such. Sought responsible
parties who would accommodate us, but





The loan we owe in New York would
not have been pressed had we given an in
dication of future ability to pay. But see
ing that we had nothing with which to
pay, and were not expecting to pay except
by borrowing, they decided to demand pay
ment. We have until February l, an ex-
tension of one month, to meet this, and
will arrange it some how or other, but the
passage of the Senate tax bill-e0 cents
would place in our power to save this loan,
and get what money we need. When we
show disposition TO help ourselves by
imposing proper tax. we have no further
trouble.


I herewith, In this connection, present
an estimate Of the demands upon the trea-
sury for 1870 and 1871, remarlling that it Is
not fancy estimate, but really under the
actual amount


Outstanding warrants January l.
Year: 1871

There ara some excellent farms in this
town, especially those on the high land. The
corn and potato crops were large and of ex-
cellent quality. Potatoes ale selling from
forty to fifty cents 6ushel. The hay crop
was about two-thirds on an average, and OF
excellent quality. Among the best farmers iu
the county is William Hill, who has a barn
one hundred feet long, and built in the best
manner, which he usually fills with hay. He
keeps an OK team which those interested in
sach stock would lake pleasure in looking
Year: 1871

Notwithstanding that railroad facilities
would seem to be abundant, there being 22
trains day past this village, they are to be
increased by the new track now being laid by
the Boston & Maine railroad company. The
track is to be laid direct from Salmon Falls TO
this village, where it will cross the track of
the Portland, Saco & Portsmouth road, run
ming south of it to near Wells village, and
then south of Kennbeunk village and direct
to the cities of Biddeford and Saco, and then
running to Old Orchard Beach, crossing the
Portland, Saco & Portsmouth road again on
or near Turner's Island. The two roads
coming together at this village will render it
very desirable place for any kind of manu-
featuring
Year: 1871

A gentleman whose abode is at Turkey Creek, send. a message requesting us to state that the man who recounted to us the particulars of the Indian difficulty at Pine Flat last week, invented a great Iart Of the story lt was glarng "uo- such.a.ihing" that the miners were all driven away from Pine Flat, or that they ned through fear; and in proof of this are assured that work Is still progressing al the mines.
Year: 1871

Popular Indignation Against n Railroad


Compuny-nIass Meetings and Petitions
to the Legislature.


So mach indignation is expressed in Paterson al
the high price OF coal, which is now selling at
fourteen dollars tcn that an indignation
meeting Is proposed to be held on Saturday even
ing. The great trouble seems to he with The Della
ware, lackawanDa and Western Railroad Company,
which, during the closing or the canal transports
III ost OF the coal for Paterson. They charge more
per ton for coal delivered In Paterson than is
charged through to Jersey City. The Paterson
people demand that they be charged only a
mo rdtc Tor coal 1feight, and petition being pre-
pared TO be sent to the Legislature compel The rail-
road 10 do IT, The suffering among the poorer classes
is very great. Chestnut size Is not tO be had 3t any
price. so great IS the Indignation that Il riot IS an
pretended, resulting from an attempt ut summary
vengeance on the property OF the railroad, whom,
the popuace seem to consider responsible for much
of the suffering. But az a fresh supply OF coal is
anticipated in day or so IL is hopeful that there
vii be no trouble in the direction rerc rrcd to-
Year: 1871

10 THE EDITOR or THE HERALD


| read with much interest in yoar edition OF to-day
several articles on the subject rapid transit Aud
more particularly interested In the article
which assigns as the reason for speedy relief from
the slow and uncertain means of travel through and
across our beautiful island. the certainty OF accident
10 one or more Of ferries ana consequent teariu.
loss OF lie 10 many OF our valuable citizens and
friends can fuzzy demonstrate 70 any OF our citizens
that the bill that was offered in the Senate ON the
10th inst, 10 incorporate the Metropolitan Safety
Railway Company, contains oil the elements ncces-
sary TO speedy solution To the problem. The nd
vantages claimed for the plan as proposed by the
gentlemen named IN the bill are as follow


Fsrst-Its adaptabity TO any route that can be se-
If need be.


Second-The actual cost OF the structure can be
determined uno- ana substantial parties now stand
Year: 1871

Our venerable friend Of the NEW YORK HERALD
proposes to emerge from the retirement Of his edi-
tortal chambers and to don the sacerdota robes
what are they 9-of Hebrew peacemaker, and by a
wave Of his majestic arm and glance Of his glitter
ing eye, to awe the discordant tribes of American
Israel into submission and peace. The guns Of our
dreadful discord 10 be spiked, the swords with
which our Jewish editors slash each other weekly
and the clubs with which we pummel each 0tners
devoted head and shoulders are to be tossed
the ocean and the demon OF internal warfare Is
TO be sent by the latest subterranean railway to his
own land to enjoy his own blazing fire and weep
over MS sost causen thus ruthlessy defeated. And
all this noble work is to be done by our new medi-
ator OF the HERALD.


Let the synagogues rejoice and the temples shout
hallelujah Let all Israel assemble in their taber-
nacles and praise the new mediator. Rabbls cast
your sermons In the fire and sell your robes OF office
Peace is to reign in our midst and you need no
longer worry about disputed dogmas. Editors, re-
move your signs, and dispose of your 'good whip
to the highest bidder The HERALD is henceforth the
great Jewish journal OF the age No longer dun de.
hnquent subscribers and complain OF the indiner.
ence OF your readers but hereafter let your talents
be alone displayed IN the new messenger Of good
tidings,r for great Is the HERALD, and Mr. Bennett
Is It's prophet and our new mediator.
Year: 1871

An Ohio hog grower says that the follow
ing treatment will make the biggest hog
out of pig in twelve months: Take two
parts Of barley, two of corn, and one of
oats. Grind them together, then cook and
feed cold He says it is the cheapest food,
and that any pig of good, improved breed
can be made to gain pound day untii o
uaar old
Year: 1871

DANGEROUS STUFF.-The other day a
little shaver was expatiating on the injurl-
GUS effects of tobacco. He said:


1.-THE oil of tobacco is so poisonous that
single drop of it on the end OF dog IS tali
will kill man ia a minute"
The boy had got things slightly mixed.
Year: 1871

An English writer thinks the American
early potato will come to an end ere long,
as each new variety is claimed to ripen
about ten days earlier than any other; the
time between planting and digging VIII
soon be used up.
Year: 1871

The CHENEY WHIrEHoUsE CONTROVERSY
In Chicago came to head yesterday, when the
church and found the dissentient pastor there
awaiting him In full clerical robes. lie and
the wardens were defiant, and tho bishop
having entered a written protest against
the iusolence Of bis ecclesiastical subordinates
took his departure, while Cheney and his
assistant trumphantIy took the palpit aud
let out their venom by reading the fifty second
Psalm with gusto that by inference applied
every denunciatory word in il to the defeated
bishop. The Church in Chicago must be in
with the name of that city when such un-
seemly things occur within her holy prec inc,s
Year: 1871

The RETURN OF OUR SUMMER SWALLOWS. -
The fashionable season at the watering places
is over and our summer swallows have re-
turned 10 the city to resi-. II Is q blessed
privilege for our overtaxed fashionables that
there is somewhere q resting place for them.
The poor birds are worried all summer and
al winter, and If there was not a short season
Of repose for them in the autumn they would
die. We welcome our summer swallows back
TO enjoy this bland weather and the comforts
OF home In their season of respite.
Year: 1871

sales or the new nves would furnish him with
money to pay for them, he may find himself
embarrassed through the action OF the Syndi-
cate agency abroad The whole operation is
complicated and appears to have big job
in Il.


In all his transactions the Secretary seems
to have q greater regard for the interest Of
corporations rings Of bankers and spectators,
or Of certain class, like the New England
manufacturers, than for that of the people. In
his conflict with the late Commissioner of In
ternal Revenue his drst thought appeared to
be to protect great corporations at the ex-
pense Of the Treasury, and that against the
law giving the Commissioner authority for bis
action. The Secretary suspended the collec-
ton of the tax on the New York Central Rail-
road alter the Commissioner bad ordered its
collection revoked the decision of the CON-
missioner on the tax for the last Eve months
on dividends and coupons; and he otherwise
obstructed the efficiency of that officer by Civ
ing orders and instructions to supervisors and
detectives of internal revenue without the
knowledge or consent Of the Commissioner.
In short, Mr.. Boutwell, is incapable in the i'm
portant Office he holds, and If the President
would save his administration from reprehen-
sion he ought to tell the Secretary that his
resignation woald be acceptable. A thorough
change in the financial management Of the gov
ernment is needed, but this cannot be made
while Mr.. Boutwell, is at the head of the Treas
ury Department. The country wants an
abler man-a statesman-in that position, and
not local politician or country lawyer; and it
is to be hoped General Grant will look at the
matter in this poiat of view.
Year: 1871

The JURY IN THE REVERE DISASTER have
rendered verdict, placing the direct respon-
sibility of the collision on Conductor Now.
land, Engineer Brown and Depot Master
Lunt, and by reason of their neglect of all
system OF signals and gross mismanagement
indirectly upon the President and Directors
Of the railroad. Now let the Massa-
chusetts Grand Jury proceed to indict these
persons and the courts proceed to convict and
punish them. There ought TO be rivalry
between New York and Massachusetts as to
which State shall soonest and most severely
punish wholesale slaughterers of the people.
Year: 1871

A Little Breeze Ia the Navy Department.
Navy, not liking the course of Surgeon Gene
raj Wood in the efforts that have been made to
equalize the rank OF the staff officers with that
OF the line, have been making strenuous efforts
to get the Surgeon General removed. Or
course, they are aided by those who want to
have the position and their friends. II is
natural that Surgeon General Wood and other
staff officers should make an effort to improve
their rank, and while 1t might not prove useful
to the service to concede what they want, their
action to that end is not cause for personal
hostility on the part of line officers or of
removal by the department. The present
Surgeon General has had great experience.
aud his efficiency is acknowledged. The
bureau of which he is the chief was previous
to his administration, mere fiscal one; but
he has given 1t q professional character and
extended its usefulness. But those who want
his place or are personally inimical to him will
not consider that. A nice question arises,
however, as to the tenure of the Office. The
chiefs of bureaus are civil appointments of the
President and Senate under a law which SAYS
they shall hold Office for four years. The Sur
geon General has held his but two years.
Though he may have reached the age of
retirement from active service in the navy,
that would not appear to affect The legal term
of his commission in the civil appointment of
chief of Bureau. Altogether, there may be
another muddle growing out of this breeze
among naval officers with regard to the tenure
of Office, without any necessity for it in this
case, unless the President puts his foot down
and refuses to sanction the removal of Surgeon
General Wood
Year: 1871

The explosion on the Norwalk, Coney
Island excursion boat, yesterday, although
resulting in no loss of life nor any serious
damage to the boat, carries moral lesson
with it, and enforces the moral of the West
field and all previous steamboat explosions in
a way that cannot be disregarded. Three
steamboat explosions have occurred in tie
bay within month an half Two of these
have occurred on what may properly be
called excursion boats, and on Sundays, the
day of all the week when excursion steamers
are most heavily freiyhted with humanity,
and when engineers and 6remen, and, indeed,
all the officers, should be more than ordinarily
careful and vigilant. There is no doubt that
the great number Of excursion boats that find
employment and handsome remuneration
during the summer months by carrying
our working population about our beautiful
bay and mp our noble rivers, and thus
give them the breath of pure salt air that they
crave so much, are all as unsafe and rotten,
not only in their boilers and engines, as the
Westleld and Norwalk, but also In their
timbers and stanchions. Those that do not
blow up are likely to go to pieces through
sheer old age or at the slightest collision or
mishap, and it is providential thing that the
time Of the year when excursions of this sort
are usual is near its close. Inspections and
wholesale condemnations of the decayed hulks
that now ply in this business should be made
at once, and new fleet Of excursion steamers
should be built, ready for next summer. One
good effect Of the Norwalk accident will GER
tainly be that our courts and juries will have
an additional screw put upon their courage, to
bring it to the sticking place in the case of the
People VS. Vanderbilt, Brasted and Company.
Year: 1871

In the South it was never powerful before the
war; but our kind masters in Washington have
injected into our halls of legislation purchasable
CATTLE which have degraded them all to entire
subsection to a corrupt lobby .-Dispotch


Perhaps the Whig may have word or
two to say with reference to this pert re-
mark of our neighbor, inasmuch as the last
successful job of the sort referred to was
in accordance with the views of the Dis
patch, and opposed to its own. We are
disposed to think the jeff. Davis govern
ment, also, must have had something to do
with the injection of purchasable cattle into
"onr' halls of legislation, as the last was
composed of a majority of its admirers,
and we are told were bought at less cost
than some others. Don't be charging the
Washington government with all the vii
lainies practiced at home. After awhile
you will believe it had something to do with
your last City Council.
Year: 1871

Haaascay.-This morning, horse at
tached to wagon, standing in front of the
store of John Bowers, on Thirteenth street.
became frightened and ran away. His
course was down Thirteenth street to
MAN, which he crossed in such hurry that
but for the hind wheel striking the curb of
the pavement, he would have run through
the window of the Merchants National
Bank. The wagon was considerably dam
aged and the horse slightly injured. The
habit OF leaving horses standing alone is a
dangerous one, and will yet result in the
serious injury of somebody.
Year: 1871

LmpuoAace.-Thc Alexandra Gazette has
the impullence to inform us that the gentle
men taksn from here as jurors, are now
comfortable at the Mansion House. We
promise that they are anything else, and
are constantly annoyed, thinking of their
business suffering for want of their pre-
sence. We have a number of professional
jurors I'M this city who live by such SER
vices, and it would have been nothing more
than right to have taken them. They are
iirst-rate fellows, too, and will hang a Jury
just as long as they are furnished comforta-
bic quarters and good pay. Try these
fellows next time, and see if you will want
any more of our jurors.
Year: 1871

Market Complaints. The season of the
year, and the scarcity of good beef, is Il
cause of complaint from both the butchers
and their customers. Much of what they
butcher is left unsold, because of its in
ferior quality, while houselkeepers complain
that without beef they cannot live. Good
cattle ought TO bring good price in our
market.
Year: 1871

NAn useless .4eiage.-''A drop of honey
will catch more H. than pint Of vinegar"
Within the past few days this old adage has
been repeated to us by fadlmber OF friends,
and we have endeavored " jind some facts
to prove it a humbug. We fAave one this
morning and shall give our readers the
benefit pf our experience. In the first place
we DOM want to catch flies, because tits
said whel you kill one, dozen move VIII
come. N the second place we have III our
office, three pet flies, each of whom we can
recognize by some particular mark, who
this morning, particularly, have made the
end OF o'hnose, their favorit, resort, there!
we Just caight one of them, thereby falsity-
ing our. statmcnD and to save us we can't
persuade them to leave it. II drop of
honey is meh attractive than our nose (and
we thoroughly washed it, we make this
statement soss to prevent any cnvious re-
porter from laying something bad about
u.s. we would be glad to have a drop about
now. We have concluded that honey is a
humbug, that ! fly is "A humbug and that
we are hunibug, therefore we decline to
continue this subject further, for the want
OF something che to say.
Year: 1871

iSd.tSied.--Our first visit to the Tredegar
Iron Works yesterday, determined us to be
satisfied with or lot, whatever may be in
store for us. There we beheld men stripped to
the waist handling red hot metal, with the
sparks Tying over them thicker than the
stars of the armament, sweating until it
ran from them in streams. Yet we are
told they were happy and contented.
How can it be? Those who are idling
away their time, using palm-leaf fans and
drinking soda cocktails, are advised to visit
the Tredegar and see what it is to earn
ones bread by the sweat of his face. Go
and see if it will not make better creatures
of you and teach you to thank God for His
kindness to you.
Year: 1871

Richmond, and had seen for themselves the


character of our people and the rare advan-
| tages of climate and position which our city


and State possess. He was equally graft
| fled that they had observed what well-Ci-


rected Southern energy, skill and capital


can accomplish, as illustrated by the oper-


alton of the great Tredegar establishment.


AT the risk of being regarded cgotistical


he would tell them, that the world has all


along been mistaken as to the inventive
resources of the Virginian. The fact is, that
there is nothing that he cannot do about as
well as anybody else, if he only once turns
his attention to it. He can for example
make wooden nutmeg equal to its original
patentee, and beat the grayest-hcaded old
sinner at Baden at his own game of cards.
He had even seen delicately raised female
during the war, perform tricks as pie-pei
dler that beat the Yankees all hollow.


The Virgirian, native and adopted, how
ever, has now started on the race with those
who are developing the material resources
OF this great country, and does not mean to
be hindmost when the next quarter stretch
is made. In conclusion, Mr.. Gilman gave
glowing picture of Richmond's future,
with her railroeds reaching to the great
graneries of the west and the banks of the
beautiful river dotted with manufactures.


In manner, matter and spirit Col. Gil
mans speech met the heartiest commenda-
ton. 1t was combination of brilliant. |
keen wit, and fervid eloquence,
such as one rarely hears anywhere, and
which was all the more appreciated, that it
was entirely temporaneous. We ought to
add also that it came from calm, clear
brain, which neither had, nor required any
aid from wine. Nature has been lavish of
her gifts on one whose gifted pen has been
by such powers on the rostrum,
as surprised and delighted lis at the Trede-
gar reception yesterday.


The occasion was in every way delightful
ard profitable to all parties.


Our manufacturing interests have received
new impulse, and our people will begin
% sec that industrial development is the
oyway Incompetence and independence.
Year: 1871

A writer who has recently visited the
above cathedral says that outside it looks
very much as it did eight years ago, with
the exception of broken statue here and
there. Of the interior, he says:


But on going within the beautiful edi-
flee, we were greatly grieved to see the
fearful gaps-now closed by boards-and
numerous speckings all over the grand
colored glass of the windows. The one
most seriously damaged is in the clerestory
of the nave, Immediately facing the organ.
The large cinque-foil in the head Of this is
shot away, and great damage is done to
other portions of this and the neighboring
windows. A horrible "obus" came
crashing through the glass, flew across the
nave of the cathedral, and, smashing in
the organ pipes, lodged in the organ itself;
here, wonderful to tell, it remained with
out exploding. Had it burst, of course,
annihilation of not only the beautiful or
gan. but also of a great part of the cathe-
dral itself, must have been the conse-
quence. The custodian of the tower has
had the dreadful missile mounted on foot
of marble, and OH it is fixed brass plate
telling the day, or rather the night, month
fire fell on the devoted town. The organ
pipes have not yet been replaced, but
white linen blinds are drawn down over
the cruel gaps, More than half of the or
gan is covered, thus showing the extent of
the damage done. The marvellous me-
chanical clock is apparently uninjured.
Year: 1871

In his speech at the Amherst semi-cen-
tennial commencement Professor Park
said: "I have recalled this afternoon
scene which occurred thirty-si1 years ago,
on the day proceeding commencement.
Edward Everett then delivered the ora
ton. In the midst of the oration he ut
tered one sentence which called forth
bursts of applause.


II will read that sentence: Before the
admiring student of nature has realized all
the wonders of the world, let him sit down
and know the Universe in which he lives,
by examining the races ofanimals dlsport-
ing themselvesint their representative ocean
"a dead drop of water


After that sentence, it appeared as if
all Amherst College would not cease to
clap their hands and stamp their feet and
yet you seem to be unmoved by the recital.
Now the question comes. what is the rea-
son. The reason is found in the studied
artlessness of Edward Everett


While he was on the point of speaking
the words, drop of water he turned
carelessly and saw a glass of water on the
table. He put his finger in the glass. and
drop of water was suspended therefrom
L have it on the best authority that six OF
seven weeks before that Grafton was de-
| livered, Everett wrote letter to friend
in Boston, asking hsm whether so bold
| gesture would be proper"