smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1873

II Is bad enough To see a baehelor


sew on q button, but be il the enbod-
iment Of grace alongside Of a married
man Necessity has compelled expe-
rieuee in the ease Of the former. but
the latter has depended upon some
one else for his service, and, foFtu-
nately for the sake Of society, it is
rarely be IS obliged to resort 70 the
needle himself Sometimes the pa
tIent wife sealds her right hand. or
runs silver under the nail Of The in
dex finger Of that hand, and il is then
the man clutches the needle around
the Ecck, and, forgetting TO sie knot
in the thread, commences 70 put on
the button. IL is always in the morn
ing, and from fTe TO twenty minutes
after this be is expected to be down
street He lays the button exactly
on the site Of its predecessor, and
pushes the needle through one eve,
and carefully draws the thread after,
leaving about three inches Of it stick
ing up for lee way. He says to him
self: well if women don't have the
easiest time ever / see.r Then be
comes back the other way, and gets
the needle through the cloth well
enough, and laws himself OUT TO find
the eve, but in spite Of q great deal
Of patient jabbing, the needle point
persists in backing against the solid
parts Of the button, and finally when
be loses patience, his fingers catch
the thread, and that three inches be
had left 10 hold the button slips
through the eve in a twinkling, and
the button rolls leisurely over the
floor He picks it up without a sin
gle remark, out Of respect for his chill
dren. and makes another attempt 70
fasten it. This time when coming
back with the needle he keeps both
the thread and button from Slipping
by covering them with his thumb. and
it is out Of regard for that part Of
him that be feels around for the eve
in a very careful and judieiOus man
ner, but eventually losing MS phiIos-
Ophy as the search becomes more and
more hopeless, be falls to jabbing
about in a loose and silent manner,
and it Is just then the needle finds the
opening. and comes up through the
button and part way through his
thumb with a CELEBRITY that no human
ingenuity can guard against. Then
be lays down the things, with few
familiar quotations, and presses the
injured member between mis- knees,
and then holds it under the other
arm, and finally jams It into his
mouth. and all the while he pranees
about the floor. and calls upon heaven
and earth 70 witness that there has
never been anything Ike it since the
earth was created, and hoEls, and
whistles, and mOans, and sobs. AZ
ter while he Gains down, and puts
on his pants, and fastens them togeth-
ct with a stick, and goes to his busi-
ness a changed man.-Dqu5ury
NPtrs.
Year: 1873

4 beautiful young girl was mar


ried in San Francisco last week, and
attbe conclusion of the marriage GER
emony she turned to her husband and
said George kiss me; am dying "
The husband complied with her re-
quest, and at that moment the young
bride fell dead on the floor.
Year: 1873

TIE YELLOW FEVER AT SHREVEPORT, La.
has become SO terribly fatal among that u n
fortunate population as to make its visitation
there one of the most remarkable outbreaks of
that dreadful epidemic of which we have any
record. But as at Norfolk some twenty years
ago, the predisposing causes and all the con-
ditions needed for the fullest developement of
this pestilence existed at the outset, and with
the subsistence of the disease the people of
Shreveport will have SO dearly learned the
lesson OF sanitary precautions as to be as ex-
empt hereafter as New Orleans has been since
the war from any panic-creating returns of
the yellow fever
Year: 1873

our fathers in founding republican institutions,


and commanded the respect and admiration OF


all mankind by our achievements in industry,


science and art, we feel that we are not pre-


pared to surrender all, to dishonor all, in


order to meet the demands of an ambitious


and desperate party, and to remand the gov


ernment to the hands of men who are only


exhalations-creation of our civil war;


There is Masonic legend which tells that


when by tho sympathy Of union and inter


change of thought among the peoples, the


representatives OF all nations shall finally as


semble in the same lodge, there will then be


given the final crowning degree. We have
striven to realize this beautiful conception
to unite under one flag and merge into
one citizenship the people of all ma
tions of the earth-Germans, Scandina-
vians, French, Irish, Italians, and even
Cinnamon, whose coming reverses the order
of nature-that the tides of emigration shall
flow only Westward. We have boundless re-
sources; climate that in one day, so vast is
our extent Of territory, will show seventy de-
grees and zero on the Thermometer -midsum-
mer heat and midwinter cold. We have the
means of living in luxury within ourselves, in
dependent of all the outside world. We have
millions Of acres Of land ready to spring forth
into productiveness at the touch; great rivers
and inland seas to bear our commerce; min
eral wealth that ages cannot exhaust. We
have hoped to develop people with the ulti
mate power to create a universal masonry of
humanity, and to reap the rich fruits in the
enlightenment and happiness of all mankind
With these high hopes in the American heart
we dare not feel that our national career will
end in disappointment, shame and anarchy;
and such, we are convinced, would in
deed be our fate were we to crafty
the hopes and realize the prophecies of
the London Times. It is in this belief
that we have raised our warning voice
against that spirit of C@sarism which, if left
unchecked, would speedily verify the predic-
tions of the English journal. To us parties
are nothing; individuals are nothing; politics
are nothing; our government is everything.
AS q soldier as ruler and as q man we
respect and honor General Grant, and we
have given his administration discreet and
valuable support. For these very reasons we
are the more jealous in guarding the nation
against the danger which threatens it; against
that spirit Of C@sarism which, under the mask
of third term, would impose upon us life
ruler and strike fatal blow at republican
government to the qualification of the COM
bined reactionists, monarchists and absolutists
all over the world. We love our people. We
have warned them.
Year: 1873

The Grangers and Their Dangers.


That which was but short time ago O
simple organization among agriculturists for
mutual protection and benefit has grown to
be giant power, affecting the commercial
and political as well as the agricultural inter-
ests of the country. We refer to the Changers,
or the Patrons Of Husbandry. In this wide
spread influence of the Grangers it may not be
out Of place to suggest an idea or two that
may enable them to avoid dangers that always
beset similar organizations when not strictly
confined to the special purposes for which
they were originated. In the first place they
should beware Of the intrigues of political
tricksters, who are ever ready to seize upon
organized bodies like theirs and shape them
to suit their personal uses and to insure
their personal aggrandizement 1t matters
not which party may have its represen-
tative demagogues in these organiza-
tions, it is certain that neither of
them will work for the especial benefit of the
masses who compose the bodies. If there is
o selfish, sordid mortal in the world it is your
professional politician and chronic place





this class of people and set their faces as hard
as a stone wall against their Vaccinations.
In the next place these Changers should not
while reposing confidence in their acknowl-
edged strength and influence, demand too
much from the monopolies of whose exaotions
and extortions they have just reason to COM
plain. Let them move carefully and judi
ciously in working out the reforms they seek,
and not embarrass valuable roads by unneces-
sary and untimely pressure. There are not
many branch roads, Independent Of the main
trunks, that are able to pay dividends, if they
even succeed in meeting their running
expenses; and these roads are constructed
with view to open up new terri
tories and farming lands, and thus benefit
the agriculturist 1t is difficult now
to raise money to complete roads already in
progress and the work on some Of them in
the West has been entirely suspended in con-
sequence of the inability of the companies to
sell their bonds. In others, and we need go
no further than New Jersey for examples
freight Is rotting on the lines of some roads,
because the bonds Of the companies are dead
on the market and funds cannot be obtained
to construct double or more tracks. The rail-
road business in some sections is, no doubt,
overdone-scme companies may be nothing
short of absolute frauds-but at the same time
this is no reason why healthy and useful
roads-roads that do legitimate business at
reasonable rates for freight and passenger
travel--should be condemned, and by unwise
action be compelled to suspend operations
altogether. While the Grangers are calcu-
lated to accomplish much good in the way of
railroad reform, let them not overdo the thing,
make failure and create disaster all around.
Year: 1873

A TRAIN RUNNING OVER A Cow has before
now resulted fatally to the passengers. In
Michigan two persons were killed and several
injured by this means. In districts thinly
populated where the roads are not fenced in,
the straying of cattle on the track is a
frequent cause of danger and delay. Great
carefulness is necessary on the part of en-
gineers. Farmers and stock owners along such
routes are greatly to blame for the negli-
gence which so often makes such dangers
to the travelling public end in dis
aster. The matter should come within
the cognizance of the law in the various
States. Where the chance of actual loss will
not make cattle owners careful fine for the
neglect should follow every case of such stray
ing Of cattle, while the loss OF Lives therefyom
Year: 1873

ana as little quiet will do him good he will
seek Reshd with thankful heart. He must,
if he has heard of America, wish that his
royal master had come here and studied our
ways on the spot.
Year: 1873

Already we "see the front of battle lower"
and have little doubt that the coming down.
fall of the Ministry will, early in the session,
be accelerated by some ungracious act, some
bitter gibe of the new Home Secretary.


AS it became absolutely necessary to silence
Mr.. Ayrton, whose coarse, rough brusquerie
and professed ignorance of and indifference
to matters with which it was his duty to be
acquainted had disguised alike the min
isterialists and the opposition, and as Mr..
Ayrton, having tasted official loaves and fishes,
declined to give them up without On equiva-
lent, it became necessary to do something for
him. This something was to revive the Office
Year: 1873

$2,5G0, 900 State bonds given for worthless
stock, $4,000 State subsidy bonds, and
$4,000 second mortgage bonds indorsed


by the State. 1t had the right to issue


$2sIo,Uo0 first mortgage bonds OF its own
to the Sabine river, and that investment in
these would secure the eventual ownership
of the road was plain.


But this company wanted too much; TO
build the road entirely with money TO be
obtained On State securities, and to own
the property themselves afrerward. Not
only the golden eggs" were stolen, bat the


goose wac killed too soon.


We are not certain that this correspon-


dent is correct in all he says, for it is rot
clear to Us that the company ever in
tended to complete the road to Houston.
He may be correct in asserting that this


company is in nobody's way now-that is


if Governor Kellogg has made up his


mind finally not to sign the bill extend


ing the time Of the company to complete
the road.


We freely admit that Louisiana's rail-
road interests have been trifed with, not


only by a portion of her own people. who.


like the dog in the manger. would neither
build railroads themselves nor let others


build them, but by railroad companies


that have received large inducements to
fulfill their contracts with the State. This
trifing wifi grave interests has already
been borne too long. 1t is to be be hoped


that some combination Of interests friendly


to New Orleans will be effected to speedily
complete railroad connection between
this city, Houston and Shreveport. If
citizens of New Orleans can control these
enterprises and secure their speedy COM
pletiou so much the better: but if they
can not or will net do it, then other aid
should be sought in a work IN which the
whole country is interested.
Year: 1873

Virginia believed in the right Of revolu.
tion; it had, indeed, been her birthright.
She was neither inimical to republican
form OF government nor was she ever a
convert to the doctrine of notification.


At the close of the war an effort was made
by the political mound builders to bully
her into federal politics. She resolutely
refused. She left her impotent dictators
to the remedy of the Ku-Klux and tax re-
sistance, and devoted herself sedulously
to restoring her relations with the federal
government and the Union. The mound
builders dared not question the motives
ofapeople who had given such evidences of
courage and capacity. The right Of State
Year: 1873

A sentimental editor says: ut is comfort
ing to know that one eye watches fondly
for our coming and looks brighter when
we come" A contemporary is grieved to
learn that his "brother of the quill has a
wife with only one eve"
Year: 1873

The gentleman who asserted that his
friend never opened his mouth without
putting his foot in it, being called upon to
apologize, said he was very sorry, but when
he made the assertion he did not see the
size of his friends foot.
Year: 1873

Woman, the cause of the most terrible wars,
is, of course, to be considered in CONNECTION
with the dark story which comes from the
Long Island village of Huntington. There is
something very painful in every link Of the
chain of events, which reaches back from the
finding of the mutilated remains of the young
farmer, Charles G. Kelsey, in the Sound, to
the days when he was first smitten with the
charms of the village belle. 1t covers period
of seven or eight years. Love- passion
which has had its careful analyzers among
the finest minds from immemoriai
ages, is still puzzle. What Edmund Burke
says of taste may be said of love-it is too deli
cate to bear the chains of definition. There is
pure ideal love which we call divine, but in
man or woman love is alloyed with clay, and
its exhibition bears all the consequences Of the
mixture. From Petrarch, in hopeless agony
carving the name of Laura on the trees, to the
strange, wild creature, Heathcliffe which
Emily Bronte imagined, and whose moody pas
sion she painted in such sombre colors,
the phases Of unsatis6ed yearning are very
WIDE Sensual craving comes to mar the
poets dream, and between love and
lust men are confounded in attempt
ing to judge how this passion operates
in others-often how it operates in themselves.
However compounded may have been the
young farmers passion for the young lady in
the case, it was certainly intense Neither
ears nor refusals damped its ardor. Letters
were written to the young lady which seem the
work Of madman or hase wretch, and while
they were on the one side attributed to Kelsey,
on the other side they were attributed to
parties anxious to ruin him in the lady's eyes.
Last November the unfortunate Kelsey, when
returning from a political meeting, was set
upon by masked men, tarred and feathered.
He ran to his house and was heard to descend
from his room to the we'll for water to wash
off the evidences of the shame hat had BEEN
put upon him. From the nanelessly mutt
lated state in which the remains were found it
is evident that he was brutally murdered by
those who feared Identification il the lynch
ing affair. The inquest was opened yester-
day at Huntington, and it is to b' hoped, now
that it is certain murder was dne, that the
guilty parties will be discovered. In any case
the details Of o strange story will 20 divulged
which will challenge the record Of passion
and crime for its fellow.
Year: 1873

the value of the surrounding property, we are
assured that the ministrations Of the Word
have become conspicuous among the fashions
even at the seaside and the springs.


With the return of our religious teachers to
their city focks we trust they will return
strengthened and inspired anew for their good
work; that, instead of suffering from the con-
tagion of fashionable pleasures and folles,
they will be more fully awakened to the saving
of souls. 'The Greeks, Mr. Speaker; relief
for the Greeks Have we not. the Greeks at
our door," was the inquiry of the famous
John Randolph, in Congress, in reference to
bill for the relief of the then struggling people
of Greece. So we may say to our spiritual
guides and instructors of every sect and creed
they have the Greeks at their doors. And
what field of labor is here before them, in
the reformation of the vicious, and in the
relief Of the destitute and the suffering, and
in devising ways and means for carrying into
action systematic measures of brotherly love


Next in the general return of our thousands Of
health and pleasure seekers from the country
to the town. we shall have restoration of
the opera, new life to our theatres and con-
cert and lecture rooms. And here, too, we
are promised prosperous season and Nly
one. In short, with the resumption of bust
ness and of the stated preaching of the
Gospel, we shall have the reopening of the
season of fashion and amusements of our fall
and winter season, and upon scale of liberal
ity and enterprise heretofore unknown.
Year: 1873

The FRENCH PEOPLE remain firm In their
determination to pay off the Prussian war
indemnity in the month of October next.
The Berlin Chancellor must then commence
to look out for purely home budget He
will no doubt be fully eaual TO the tax CRISIS
Year: 1873

art for both Europe and America; such is the
condition of the proud capital whicn once
compelled the rest of the world to wait till
Paris said, ''Now you may praise since we are
tired praising." But Paris is not only without
the opera; she is still further humiliated by
seeing the great master pass her by without
seeking to conciliate her judgment. Verdi
does not stop to ask what the Parisiaus think
of his new work, ''Aida," and both Egypt and
America will have heard il before it is heard
in Paris. This is revolution that ten years
ago would have been thought impossible. 1t
is to be accomplished, however, and when
Signor Muzio raises his baton to the first
strains of the overture to '.Aida" it will be the
realization of the impossibility the proof of
great musical growth and culture in this city.
Under all these circumstances the approaching
operate season ought not only to be the most
brilliant we have ever had, but the beginning
of series which shall increase in splendor
and magnifcence from year to year.


Copy OF tho Herald In Mid-Ocean.


We published few days ago brief notice
of remarkable incident in the late voyage of
the steamer Arndt, in which she lost her
screw and came into New York under
sail, having, while yet five hundred miles
from this port, received from the Vile du
Havre a copy of New York paper containing
the ''Weather Probabilities of the 9th inst,
and found them of great utility. We are now
enabled to give the interesting account of
this incident from the pen Of the commander
of the Arndt (Which will be found in another
column), from which it appears that mete-
geological predictions which he found SO
correct and useful to him were in o copy Of
the HERALD of the 9th Of August. Captain
Felberg's experience conclusively shows that
the distribution Of the weather bulletins for
out at sea is not only possible, but might be
made easy in practice, and that if arrangements
could be made by which outgoing vessels
might signal incoming ships splendid ser
vice would be rendered the latter. Tho
HERALD, in recently commenting on the in
cident above alluded to, presented o plan by
which this most valuable service might be ar
ranged for, and the suggestion has been
trongly endorsed by our judicious contem-
porary, the Baltimore Sun.


Ifthe forecasts of wind and weather could be
made available by q disabled steamer, five
hundred miles from New York, and have been
found almost true to the letter, it seems per-
fectly clear that the proposed arrangement is
feasible. Captain Felberg received the ''Prob-
abilities" of the 9th inst, but those Of the
10th were even, if possible, more literally
fulfilled in his experience from the 10th to
the close Of his voyage, q period covering
three days.
Year: 1873

HE BcND-RAIsINo DODGE was successfully
practised by a man named Horton on some
bonds of the Philadelphia and Reading Rail-
road He temporarily benefited by the trans
action to the amount Of twenty seven thou
sand dollars, but is at present contemplating
his crime through the barred doors of cell in
Lancaster Jail. The details, as furnished by
private detective firm, will be found else
where. The story is q suggestive one for Sab
bath reading.
Year: 1873

Only sixty thousand tickets will be sold
and one half OF these ara. intended for the
European market, thus leaving o ly SOON
for sale In the United States, where lolog.
were disposed OF for the Third Concert. The
tickets are divided into ten coupons ol
parts and have on their back the Scheme
with n full explanation OF their mode Oi
drawing.


At this concert, which will be the grand.
est musical display ever witnessed In this
country, the unpr cedented sum or
Year: 1873

The legality of the prize candy business
ia to be tested in the Massachusetts, courts.
One of the vendors in Boston has been ar
rested tor setting up lottery, and the case
is likely to 90 to the Supreme Court.
Year: 1873

William Carr, for many years an honored
member of the old police force, died yes
His life was somewhat varied and his ex-
perience great. 1t is doubtful if living
man could truthfnlly utter single word to
his discredit. With a kindly heart and
gentle manner, he was content to support
himself and family in humble positions,
and now that he has gone to his rest, all
who knew him will miss his generous face
and hand
Year: 1873

An Nrulnance prOVldlng 1of the payment OF


the several accounts therein named.


Be it ordained, That the following appro.
priations be and are hereby made for the
Department of Waterworks and Pub
lie Buildings for July, 1873, and that
the Administrator of Public Accounts war
rant on the Administrator OF Finance in
payment Of the same, whenever there shall
be money in the city treasury to the credit
of the appropriate fund for each account,