smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1873

IMPORTANT REPORTS DELAYED But NOT sup


PRESSED.


The proceedings at the meeting OF the Board
of Directors of the Brooklyn Bridge Company have been
the subject very general discussion in both this city
and Brooklyn. The contents OF the reports have been
the much speculation and their publication is
awaited with very great interest All members of the
Committee Of Investigation have their adherents, who
avail themselves of every opportunity to advocate the
integrity Of their friends in the Bridge Company.


TRIBUNE reporter called upon Abram S. Hewitt in
relation to the bridge controversy Mr. Hewitt stated
that he was not at liberty TO communicate the contents
of the reports the majority and minority OF the Com
mee nor was necessary that he should do as the
reports would be given TO the press, probably to-day
but that under pledge of secrecy TO the pro-
ceedngs of the directors In regard to these reports and
was quite willing TO say that action had been taken
at any tme Or far he knew, contemplated looking
TO the suppression of these reports Mr. Hewitt then
stated that the facts were briefly as follows:


On the presentation of the majority and minority re-
ports, the Executive Committee requested that
time might be allowed them TO answer such allega-
tions and inferences contained in them as they
were not willing to admit to be true The majority and
minority of the Committee Of Investigation assented 10
the propety Of this course and stated that they would
be glad TO correct any errors in the report which might
appear have been made after hearing the reply read
The reply Of the Executive Committee presented at
meeting
the Committee OF Investigation found nothing 10 alter
in their report, except in sentence, which was in
nowse material the ISSUE and In fact seemed TO be
irrelevant Mr.. Barnes, however, desired 10 make nu
merous alterations in the minority report, and after
much discussion the meeting adjourned in order to give
him time TO make such notifications and such only, as
he might desire. A resolution adopted that both
the majority and minority reports, and the
reply Of the Executive Committee. should be
presented 10 the press as soon as MI
Barnes could prepare his report IN a
shape to suit his modified views, Further than this no
delay was contemplated, and Mr. Hewitt believed that
it was quite unjust charge upon the Board any desire
10 suppress the reports On the contrary, the great ma
ory Of the Board preferred that the reports and reply
should be published in their original FORM and the other
course was taken only in order 10 enable Mr. Barnes to
put his report in a shape satisfactory TO himself.


Mr. Hewitt repudiaed the idea that the majority re-
port was intended TO whitewash the Board but insisted
that the only idea in the mind of Mr. Schroeder and him
self was to make plain and straghtfor statement
of the facts and conclusion at which they had arrived
after the most careful and patient examination. and
with sincere desire do justice to ALL and If possible
to suggest such would secure the early com
petion of the bridge important to the interests OF
New-York and Brooklyn.
Year: 1873

A WANT OF HARMONY ON THE PART OF THE


COMMITTEES.


The differences between the Committee of
Seventy and the subcommittee Legislation OF the
Republican General Committee relative TO the provisions
of the new Charter for this city to be submitted 10 the
Legislature after IL convenes are further from
settlement than ever 1t s asserted by those who
well informed in the matter that the Republican Com
mttee have abandoned the idea of endeayorng to bar
monize the differences between 1t and the Committee OF
Seventy and will go on and perfect their charter with
out further consultation with the latter body final
meeting Of the sub Committee will be held in the early
part Of the week. when the provisions Of the Charter
which are stl under discussion will be decided upon,
and the instrument will then be made public.


The question Of reGstabshing the Metropolitan Police
and Health District taking the NewYork,
Kings, Queens. Westchester, and Richmond, has been
discussed at considerable length and bill has
been drawn up to that effect. 1t is held in allegiance,
because Brooklyn has not been heard from the sub
ject sentiment of the residents of the counties
so far as be ascerained IL in favor OF IL in far
giving Jurisdiction to these bodies concerned If Brook
Iyn favors IT, the new will so amended
allow Of the the Metropolitan Police and Health
act. 1t asserted that the rupture between the Com
mIttee OF Seventy and the Republicans OF
great regret TO Mayor Havemeyer, who is placed In
members of the Committee OF seventy aud 10 s claimed,
Is IN full accord with fne spirit ana principles OF that
decons for Charter or the other 1t is also claimed
by the more influential members OF the Committee OF
Seventy that Mr.. Havemeyer elected Reform
Mayor, he Is unlikely 10 pander 10 partisan spirit
the part OF the Republicans more especially as he has
been Democrat for many years 1t Is understood that
his forthcoming Message without explicitly setting forth
his views this particular will afford very fair ind
cation OF his sentiments this and other matters
nected with the cause of Reform.


There is fear that the deliberations OF the
Committee OF Seventy have not been harmonious
they might have been have all the provisions of the
proposed charter been definitely settled upon. The
President is reorganizng Of the principal
Committees, and until this s done, the Committee will
probably little toward projecting the charter. The
members assert that wibe carefully drawn up and
presented TO the lie gsature, and claim that IL Will be
far better than that prepared the Republicans the
that IL will be free from partisan bias and allow
fair OF men of both parties
Year: 1873

semble TO-DAY, 10 order to porpetuatc It's legal existence
and recommend that the people Of tho State and city ex
tend TO the members OF that Legislature their moral sup
port and earnest sympathy, and such material aid as
may enable them assert and maintain by legal
the rights OF the people Of the State to local State govern
ment.


The subcommittee OF the Committee of One Hundred
have reported giving account OF their action at Wash
ngon and expressing their views respecting the present
condition Of affairs. The report says:


The President, while maintaining the proprety OF the
course which he pursued in executive capacity has
not professed TO consider his action final decision OF
he vital questions at issue In the politics OF the state,
but has remited to Congress the proper tribunal to
means within the Executive control affords him the OPP
porunty OF doing and render such relief rs the nature
OF the require We have the assurance
of both the President and the Attorney General that
such investigation by Congress VIII meet with no o-
position from the Administration and that they VIII
readily cooperate afordiDg such AID as Congress may
see fit to recommend We confidently anticipate that
Congress will promptly appoint committee 70 In
vestigae fairly and mpart1ay the 1acts or tne case
And In view Of the gross and palpabe wrongs which
have been committed cannot doubt that such com
mttee must admit and report TO congress the necessity
for prompt and complete relief


private telegram from New Orleans says: "AI Gus
tomhouse employees who members OF the Legislature
have resigned been removed or suspended from their
Federal Offices" The above related proceedings an


cipatory OF the Presidents order to be issued
tifyng 10 all persons holding United States commissions
thar the acceptance holding OF any office under any
State authority inconsistent with the scope OF their
official duty and an improper interference Win state
Year: 1873

The SCHOOL NoMINATIoNs.-William D. Dove
is named as a candidate for the Board of Educa-
ton, in the Tenth Ward,


William Ruth is spoken OF as a candidate in
the Second Ward, and George E Rice in the
Third


In the Eighth Ward, last evening. James O
Morrow was nominated for recollection to the
Board of Education for three years.
Year: 1873

A correspondent ofForest and Stream,


who had been on hunting expedition
ON Banana river, writes: My attention


was called TO a disturbance among the
mangroves Of little islet near, and
soon there tapped into view black
duck, a female, evidently wounded.
Close in her wake followed a sly looking
coon, his attention so occupied with the
duck as not to notice me till fairly IN


view. Then he hesitated, but the duck
brushed so near bis nose that he again
took up the pursuit throwing a glance
occasionally at me. II was interesting
to watch them; keeping Just ahead OF


her pursuer, the duck would beat the
water quickly, all time in evident pain,
and would so delude the old fellow that
he finally seemed 10 think Of nothing
else but catching her. What a puzzled
expression his shrewd face wore when,
after nearly placing his paw upon her,
she would escape. Then he would stop,
look at me as il to say what the deuce
does all this mean?' and arching his
back, would again pursue with long
leaps. For over quarter OF an hour
did the duck play with him, till having
enticed him sufficient distance from
her nest, she few away. If ever the face
of sharp.nosed coon wore a sheepish


look, it was the face Of that same coon.
accelerated his sneaking trot by a
charge of duck shot.
Year: 1873

world. We have erected beautiful statues
10 his memory for the people 70 look
upward 20, while we have been flchins
the ground from under our feet We
have never yet begun At the true begin
ming. The reason, then, why God does
not kill the devil is because man has un.
consciously created all that is the devil,
which here and hereafter is constantly
destroying his own work. iUNIIII
Year: 1873




Just received, . car load of Reiif's
celebrated Philadelphia Mince Meat,
which we can safely recommend as
being unsurpassed in quality put up
ip all styles Of packages. We have
used it for the last two seasons, and
know IT to be Of extra quality. We
can supply the trade during the sea-
son ON the most liberal terms. Try it.
We also have a very large stock Of
everything in our line. All goods
new and fresh,


s4-l86 sPICER 4 RYAN.
Year: 1873

business; they no longer wear broadcloth,
but instead the toughest gear. S1me OF
them wear buckskin pantaloons, with suit
able fringe, and they always wear slouched
hats. They are haying or herdlng, or
something else. and, if not too far away,
they come back with loads of hay, on
which they gracefully recline. Sometimes
they bring up butter. and in the season
buffalo meats and robes. Those who make
the mountain trip are pleasure bound. but
having an idea it is little rough there,
the men wear old clothes, some of the
women bloomers and away they 60 at what
they call I" bright and early" that is 10
or IL o'clock, and by hard pushing they
camp within the foot hills. The next day
they climb and climb; sometimes they get
lost, but they go on two or three or more
days, according to their strength and the
stock of their provisions, aud after while
they have real pleasure, that is, when
they come back dusty, hungry, feverlsh
with what they have seen, and loaded
down with specimens which in few days
they throw out at the back door. A par.
ticular friend of ours, New York city
gentleman, came back after stay of ter
days. He had on shocking pair OF panta
looms, held up by a leather belt, a short
waisted coat, and flannel shirt. He had
lost the skin off his nose. and he was SC
lame he could scarcely hobble along, but
he was enthusiastic about the things be
had seeD, and be saw so many that the
telling of them will last him so long he i


not likely to 60 again soon. The womer
always 20 to bed, and it is several day


before their noses resume the natural col


or.-Greeley (Col) Tribune.
Year: 1873

TaosE EAGLEs.-Some years ago the
town of P-built very elegant new
town>house and on the top had cupola,
or bell-turret. After it was finished the
selectmen conceived the idea that gilt
eagle on top would be very appropriate
and tasty ornament. They sent to Boston
and got an estimate of the expense-ffty
dolars-so as to be prepared to support
the proposition in town-meeting, 1t occa-
stoned, of course, much discussion. The
town was poor and in debt for the build
ing economy was the order of the day ii
was unnecessary, etc. The debate lasted
nearly all the afternoon, and it seemed as
If the selectmen would carry their point,
when old Farmer Dunbar got up, and said
he always knew the voters Of P-were
big fools, and he supposed always would
be; but if they were willing to give five
gold eagles for one gilt one, they were
bigger fools than he had supposed. This
settled the question in the negative.
Year: 1873

REsr.-The best medicine in the world,
more efficient in the cure of disease than
all the potencies of the chemists shop, are
warmth, rest, cleanliness, and pure air.
Some persons make it virtue to brave
disease, L" to keep up as long as they can
move a foot or bend finger" and it some
times succeeds but, in others, the powers
of life are thereby so completely exhausted
that the system has lost all ability to re
cuperate, and slow and typhoid fever sets
it, and carries the patient to the grave.
Whenever walking or work is an effort, a
warm bed and a cool room are the very
first indispensable steps to a sure and
speedy recovery. Instinct leads all beasts
aud birds to quietude and rest the very
moment disease or wounds assail the sys.
tenn
Year: 1873

ARTIFICIAL WANTs.-Bulw er saysthat
poverty is only an idea, in nine case out
of ten. Some men with ten thousand dol
lars a year suffer more want OF means
than others with three hundred. The
reason is, the richer man has artificial
wants. His income is ten thousand, and
he suffers enough from being dunned for
unpaid debts to kill sensitive man.
A man who earns dollar day, and who
does not run in debt, is the happier of the
two. Very few people who have never
been rich will believe this, but it is true
There are thousands and thousands with
princely incomes who never know a mo-
ment's peace, because they live beyond
their means. There is really more happi
ness in the world among working people
than among those who are called rich.
Year: 1873

The late General Humphrey Marshall
used to remark in a half-jesting way that


he though ght it wasn't worth while for the
Democrats to get INTO power yet awhile.
He wanted the Republicans to go ahead,
pay the national debt, get the treasury
full, and then step out of the way and let
the Democrats have full sweep. The
fact is" he said, "we Democrats haven't
had a chance for years, aud we are power


fully hungry. l don't want anything
done to injure the credit of the Govern
ment, and l don't want to be bothered
with economy and the trouble of paying
debts, and so think it would be better to
wait till we won't be bothered by considera-
tions of that kind. an can take our swing
at the treasury with unembarrassed minds.
Year: 1873

A man industrious in his calling, if
without the fear of God. becomes 5
drudge to worldly ends; ve1ed when dissp
pointed, overjoyed in success. Mrngle but
the fear of God with business it will not
abate mans industry but sweeten. If he
prosper, he is thankful to God who ives
him power to get wealth if he miscarry,
be is patient under the will and dispense
tion of the God he fears. 1t turns the very
employment of has calling to kind of re-
hgious duty and exercise of his religion,
without damage or detriment to it.
Year: 1873

Tobacco, pipes and candy for wakes.
is the announcement in q shop window in
Cambridgeport, Mass. We sincerely hope
tha. the shopkeeper who put it there will
soon find reason to try another line OF
business. Whiskey. tobacco and candy at
wakes is shameful sight. People cannot
pay less respect to their dead friends than
by carousing over their cofins.-Pi1ot.
Year: 1873

A friend tells us good anecdote in


illustration of the peculiar notions of the
natives of the Isle of Shoals. Some years
since the Rev. Mr.. Burroughs, of Ports
mouth, spent several weeks on Star Island
for the benefit of his health, and the pul :
nit of the little stone church being unoc-
cupied, he volunteered to preach for the
people during his stay. The church was
accordingly opened, and he ministered to
them in spiritual things to their apparent
acceptance. The preacher however d'd
not learn, in what appreciation his labor'
were held until he prepared to take hi
departure, when his interested hearers
sent him a bill for the use of the church
Year: 1873

A stout Rnglishman who recently ap-
plied to a California court for an admission
to citizenship on the ground of service in
the navy, was asked if he had an honorable
discharge. "No," said he you see We
left the ship in big hurry and 1 didn't
have chance to see Capt Semmes, or else
| should have got an honorable discharge"
He didn't get his papers.
Year: 1873

A strange coincidence is reported in In.
diana. In August last a man was killed
bv the cars at the junction at 10 Komo;
A few nights ago his brother was killed
by the same train, the same engineer rum
ming it, at the same hour and the same
place,
Year: 1873

ONE DAY NEARER His DooM.-When a
man has been sentenced to be executed, as the
time appointed draws nigh. many people are
often heard to remark, "Wen, one day more
of poor--'s time has gone" 1t does not
appear to occur to the careless outside obser
yer that this is no truer Of the prisoner than of
himself and every one else-that another Of
his days has gone, and that he is lust as alb.
solutely one day nearer to his own death as the
doomed prisoner is to his. 1t is nearer ap-
prcach to his death which the condemned man
makes at common pace with all the living,
only the day Of his doom is known to him
while that of others is concealed from them.


Mercifully concealed, too; for how much
would the enjoyment of this life be diminished
if we knew before hand just when we should
be obliged to quit it. The uncertainty when
we are to go, the expectation of dying in our
own homes, with our last hours consoIed by
the attention of kindred and friends, and sus,
tanned by the hopes inspired by religion-these
considerations rob death, come when it NAV,
OF much of its terrors, and lead US to look upou
it as the peaceful close of our life's labors.
Year: 1873

SLURs ON WOHEN.-Of all evils prevalent
among young men we know of none more
blighting in It's moral effects than to speak
slightly of the virtues of women. Nor is there
anything in which young men are so thorough
ly mistaken as the low estimate they form Of
the integrity of women-not of their own
mothers and sisters, but of others, who they
forget are somebody else's mothers and sisters.
As . rule, one who surrenders 10 this debasing
habit is not to be trusted with any enterprise
requiring integrity of character. Plain words
should be spoken on this point, for the evil is
general one, aud deep.rooted Ifyoung men
are sometimes thrown into the society of lewd
or thoughtess women, they have no more right
to measure all other women by what they see
of these, than they would have to estimate the
character of honest aud respectable citizens by
the developments of crime in the police courts.
Let our young men remember that their chief
happiness in life depends upon their utter faith
in women. No worldly wisdom, no misan.
thropic philosophy, no generation, can cover
or weaken this fundamental truth. 1t stands
like the Record of God itself-for it is nothing
less than this-and should put an everlasting
seal on the lips that are wont to speak slightly
of wOmen.-Fdany Fern.
Year: 1873

have great hope of wicked man, slender
hope OF mean one. A wicked man NAV he
converted, and become a prominent Christian


"A mean man ought to be converted six or seven
times, one right after the other, to give him =
Ial[ EnI. start ana put him on an equality with .
Year: 1873

An Indiana woman, whose suit for divorce
mad fingered along until she was completely
out out OF patience burst into her lawyers Office


Claimed Sepre r race the radIdnI od m with Joy and
Year: 1873

The only way to be gentleman is to have
the feelings of one-to be gentle in its uroper
aacceptlon, to be elevated above Others in sen.
tlment rather than situation, and to let the be-
nevolence of the heart be manifested in the
general courtesy and affability of the demeanor'
Year: 1873

A western gent at the St. Nicholas having
taken possession of his room, locked it up to
90 out into the city, and leaving the key az the
bar told the clerk with great simplicity "not
to wait dinner for him. "ON
Year: 1873

A rich man who was injured by being rum
over, exclaimed in great wrath: "It isn't the
accident that L mind, that isn't the thing but
the idea of being run over by an old swill cart
is what makes me mad"
Year: 1873

4, Josh Billings says, Many people spend


their time in trying to find the hole wbar sin
got INTO the world. II two men broke through
the ice into a mill pond, they had better hunt
tor some good hole TO get cut rather than oft
INTO 10 long argument about the hole they fell
Year: 1873

Don't you take rather too much spirit for
single man?' asked kind man of one who
had been indulging pretty freely. II beg par
don, sir have been married these ten wears"
was the answer
Year: 1873

A Californian, whose wedding day was fixed
did not appear at the appointed time and
place, but sent note to the clergyman, saying
that he had just received letter from his
wife in the East, and thereby had his mid re.
called to the fact that he was married years
before--a circumstance which hadtentirely es
capped his memory.
Year: 1873

yVANTRD-BY A GENTLEMAN AND WIFE, BOARD


w for the la " only second story front or back
Room handsomely furnished hot and cold plenty
OF closet room and whore there are few or other
boaders must not be below Thirty street east
OF fiiih avenue. Address PRivATE, Herald Uptown
Branch office
Year: 1873

L,OR SALE-HARDwARE, HOUSE FURNISHING
and tinware Store IN Jersey City no store within
about Of mile must be sold account
Of two businesses Inquire S63 South street.
Montgomery New York
Year: 1873

Among the recommendations matlo by tho
President in hs message is an amendment to
tho National Constitution incorporating tho
principle Of what la known in this State aa the
'' Mayors bill," whereby tho Executive eau ap-
prove portions Of an appropriation act and dis
approve of tho rest. Tho recommendation il q
wise ono. Il adopted, it would break up tho
great abuse which Is now praeticcl Of loading
III appropriation bill with all manner Of jobo,
and forcing the President to approve or voto tho
tsho1a
Year: 1873

VIZ will be obliged to our friends
throughout the country it they will
correspond with US every week. giving
US the occurrences in their respective
neighborhoods. It wills be but 1.-THE
labor to them and will make our pa
per more Interesting.