smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1872

The epizooty has developed il
Cleveland, among other things, &


vast deal Of marital devotion


The wife of one gentleman desired


to attend the Patti concert, but


was in feeble health and unable


to walk. The husband put h.r


into a stout baby carriage and pro-
ceeded straightway to the hall
where Patti was 10 sirg, and at
the close of the entertainment
trundled his spouse home in the
same style. AnouLer wife desired
to attend the wedding of friend,
some distance away from her res
idence, but the horses were all
sick, and a carriage could not be
had for love or money. Careful
ly wrapping her up and deposit
ing her on the seat of a light bug
gy, the husband took his place be-
tween the shafts, and for the nonce
played horse" most successfully.
Year: 1872

AS the work of clearing away
the ruins of the Boston burned
district progresses, immense
quantities of wool are dug out,
and piled loosely in the streets
to an enormous height. The Ie-
covered wool has a most unsa-
ory odor, but it can be cleaned
and utilized.
Year: 1872

Miss Sarah Peters has a place
to hang one earring only since
she rammed her head out of q
car window on a Pennsylvania
railroad the other day, TO hear
what was going on outside. A
bridge came along and amputated
her ear very successfully without
using chloroCorm.
Year: 1872

Gown that IL they were capable Of taking
" such step, however agreeable its immediate
"eifects would be to us, we should have very
" little confidence in their subsequent proceed
"ings.n This was singularly imprudent
thing TO say, but it proves beyond doubt
that the general impression in England was
80 strong that the ArbitratOrs would not 80
decide, that this cautious journal spoke Of the
decision as being 50 absurd as to throw
dscredit on their subsequent proceedings.
Yet the next day all this was done-not only
done but acquiesced in by the Government OF
the United States; and it is even asserted
that Mr.. Adams had received instructions to
vote according to the British view and against
that entertained by his own Government.


There has been an impression or pretense
among the partisans of the Administration
that if by any irmness of Our Government
England should be induced to withdraw from
the Arbitration the Treaty would fall at once,
and endless woes result to us from its failure.
THE TRIBUNE alone has insisted that the de-
cisions of the Tribunal would lose none OF this
moral force by the cOntumacy of one OF the
parties; and in any case they could have mono
but moral authority. We find in a London
paper which has intimate relations in official
circles, singular confirmation of this position,
written at a moment when the Arbitration
seemed likely to fail. awe confess (Ihe Post
"says) to viewing with considerable apprehen-
" sion the contingency of withdrawal from
Court at this late hour. 1t seems to have
"been taken too much for granted that IT, at
"hOwever late a period, Great Britain with
"drew from the Arbitration, the representa-
"tives of Italy, Switzerland, and Brazil would
"declare their functions at an end We do not
"share this belief. They may be very indifferent
"ab0ut the issue of the direct claims, but 1t IL
"not so with those which are known as indirect.
awe shall be much mistaken if they lay
down their authority before they have de-
"clared that claims for consequential dam
cages cannot under any circumstances be
preferred by one State against another for
breaches of neutrality. On the direct claims
"they would decide in our absence, and we
"might accept their award or not as we
pleased" But the panic in which our Gov
ernment has acted ever since it first began to
give way prevented it from seeing tho points
in its favor which are so evident to the En-
glsh The exultation with which the result
has been received in England shows how great
they consider their victory to be and how
cheaply it was gained.
Year: 1872

The shipments of gold coin and bullion from
this port to England which were quite large
in May and the early part of June, have again
been resumed on an extensive scale. From
this port alone over S59OO0,0OO in specie has
been exported in the last twelve months, and
in the year preceding, $S3,000,0O0. These
figures are without a precedent in the history
of the commerce of New-YOrk. Nor is the
immense outflow of gold and silver from this
country since the suspension of specie payments
without its effect on the commercial interests
of the countries which receive those precious
metals. As an instance of the temporary
effects of heavy shipments OF specie from New
York to London, the last few weeks afford an
interesting case. During the month OF April
and the early part of May, about S10,OOO,OOO
in gold was Withdrawn from the vaults of the
Bank of England, and the Bank accordingly
advanced its rate Of interest to five per cent.
BY the end of May the gold exported from
New York began to arrive in England, and
the consequence is a speedy return of the
discount rate to three per cent. Should the
shipments now making be continued for two
or three months, the discount rate of the
great English bank would probably be forced
down to two per cent.


But such effects as the one above referred
to are temporary and of comparatively little
moment. The permanent consequences OF
the strong and steady flow of gold and sill
yer from America and Australia into Europe
are deserving Of far more attention than they
have yet received England, for the last two
years, has clearly been receiving larger quanti-
ties of gold and silver than could be absorbed
into the ordinary channels of business with
out having an effect on prices. The consequence
is that general prices have risen and are still
rising. Wages and the cost OF living are
higher than they have been for a long
period The articles which England exports
cost the nations which import them much more
than they did two years ago. Such change
will not long be without its effect on the
trade of Great Britain with the United States
1t will tend to increase our exports and
diminish the quantity, if not the value, OF
what we import. 1t will also tend to eqnallze
our paper currency with gold, and to facilitate
the return of specie payments. The purchas-
ing power of gold, as foreseen and foretold
wears ago by Chevalier and other economists,
must diminish under the influence of the
large annual production of California and
Australia. On the other hand, as long as the
volume of our paper currency remains hxed'
and the national credit continues good, the
purchasing power Of greenbacks increases, and
the gold premium increases. With both these
influences in active operation, we have only
TO let things alone, and natural causes, unaided
by legislation, will soon bridge over the in
terval which separates coin and paper.
Year: 1872

So the Jubilee Is to pay expenses after all Well,
we are heartily glad Of that. 1t would have been
great pity if all the enterprise, all the public spirit


and all the admirable organization which have gone
to the making of this festival had been unrecognzed
by the people. Whatever we may say Of the music


there can be no question that the Jubilee has been
from one point of view the most successful affair of
the kind ever seen. 1t has been a marvel of good
management. Fifteen thousand chorus singers have
daily passed in and out at one end of the building


from five to twenty-five thousand spectators have
daily passed in and out at the other and there has
been no more confusion than If this multitude had
been q little church congregation. Think of the
elaborate preparations at the ticket Office the drill
ing of the ushers tho good temper and presence of
mind of the officials, which all this presupposes


Then think of supplying fifteen thousand singers
and two thousand players with their music Think
of the problem Of getting them promptly into their
seats. Think. Of tho trouble which 0sgood. Niles.
Year: 1872

Tn recent issue of an illustrated paper
there is a cartoon which shows how apathetic
is the sense of national dignity in relation to
international matters. 1t is intended to illus
trate the result of the controversy on the
question of indirect claims. 1t represents
Gen. Grant and Mr.. Fish treading on the
tail of the British Lion, who is weeping hot
tears of shame and anguish That such pic
ture could be drawn and engraved and pub
lished in the very week when Messrs. Fish
and Grant have just met the most Illuminating
check ever recorded in our diplomatic history,
is vivid proof not only of the recklessness
with which the partisans of Gen. Grant sup
port everything he does but of the intiifer-
ence of the public to the matter under Discus
sion. If people really cared anything about
the Treaty, it would not be possible for either
artist or publisher to issue such an lmpudent
Misrepresentation.


In England, where the Treaty is serious
matter. we see very different treatment of
the entire question. Since the decision of the
Tribunal at Geneva, the London papers have
been full of kind words about us, such as are
used by a generous victor toward beaten
enemy. Fragments of these flattering express
siOns are duly transmitted ny capie, anu Mo
no doubt very soothing to the gentlemen
who organized the surrender. We have no
mart nor lot in them. We think the conduct
of our Government in the whole matter so dis
creditable that we prefer not to dwell upon it.
We hope to defeat this Administration, but
we should be unwilling to do this at the ex-
pense of the dignity of the country. We wish
TO call attention now to the fact that just be-
fore the decision which threw the American
Case out of Court, the journals of London
were very far from indicating that confidence
in their cause which Earl Granville
persuaded Mr.. Schenck the Cabinet en-
tertained. The Times said on the 18th
1--WE must expect to be rebuffed at Geneva
"A belief has been entertained that the
Arbitrators will at once, in an off-hand way,
"declare against the admissibility OF the
"indirect claims preferred in the American
Case. Consider what is involved in this
"theory. What we are asked to believe is,
that the Arbtrators, who have never had
" the point argued in any way before them
"will come forward tomorrow and say they
" are satisfied the claims for consequential
damages cannot be maintained, we mus'
Year: 1872

We beg leave TO present our best respects to Miss
Rosa Moses who was graduated at the Hebrew Insti-
tute in New Orleans last week, and who chose for
the subject of her commencement Grafton, The
Cook of the Period' This Is what we call sensible
especially in young ladies' seminary. There is a
great deal of discussion about the proprety of teach
ing young women Greek, Latin, and Mathematics !;
but do net hear much about the necessity Of
teaching them the science of cookery For this rea-
son mainly does dyspepsia Oppress this otherwise
happy land to which Heaven has given such an in
finite variety of food and somebody else AL kinds of
cooks except good ones.
Year: 1872

1t is said that Gen. +. A. Starring, who holds a
rowing commission from the President to white
wash his friends in the Consular Service, has pre-
sented a report in the of ConsulGeneral Butler
at Alexandria which represents him as spotless as
the driven snow This fawning parasite has never
made report unfavorable to anybody but once
and then he sought by an attack upon John BigelOw
and John G. Nicolay to curry favor with their sue
cessors. This drew upon him a severe punishment
from the men he had slandered and a sharp public
rebuke from the Secretary of the Treasury. He took
his chastisement meekly, and will probably never
make another report which will be disagreeable to
any one.
Year: 1872

of virtue. correspondent at Naples,
summing up the damage done by the late
eruption of Vesuvus, relates some curious
facts concerning the fatal eagerness with
which the peasants who fed from the burning
lava are returning again to their vineyards
and olive orchards, almost as though nothing
had happened. The least that can be done for
these small holders of lands is to associate
them in an Assurance League as is now pro-
posed
Year: 1872

The local news in the Southern newspapers ls
interesting and profitable reading about this time
for You can hardly go amiss of some htte incident
illustrating the extraordinary degree OF personal
liberty which is enjoyed in those regions. In the
State of Louisiana, for instance, in the Parish OF
West Feliciaua personally appears before Justice
of the Pace "A citizen by the name of William a.
Williams, and upon oath depcscs that, without any
legal warrant one John Hastings was arrested by a
person acting as eOnstahe and that, without any
investigation, Cornelius Washington, Justice of
the Peace made the said Williams pay fine OF
50 % before releasing lin from arrest. Cornelius
Washington was TO lie eXami. g. on this charge.
Whether anything will be done with this rapaclous
Doeberry is more than we know. II usually hap
pens if a Justice Of the Peace cuts mp financial
tantrum of this sort here in NewYork that he suffers
for in some way and at any rate such maiteas-
ance i'm Office il not thing which we would quietly
submit to; nor do we why the people OF West
Feliciana should be forced TO bear it. We question
whether oppression aud cXtortion are just the things
TO bring unrecoustucted Confederates TO sense OF
the error Of their ways. A community in which all
the officers are mainly engaged in making money by
such means and in hurrahing for Grant, can hardly
be a happy one.
Year: 1872

Congress profted by the exposure of Ord
nance Office management made by the French
Arms Investi cation. 1t was found that there
was no system of the manufacture of arms
worthy the name. There was no standard arm
in the service, but few thousand were made
of each pattern which happened to obtain the
favor of the Board to which was deferred
necessary authority for selection. The cOnse-
quence was that arms were manufactured to
the profit of some temporary favorite and
soon to the loss of the Government as soon
as a new pattern took the fancy or interest OF
the thrifty people who control that branch of
the public business. The Ordnance Bureau
sold new guns to France as unserviceablc,"
because they were not in the reigning
mode. The real relative merits of the
arms were never brought in ques-
ton, but a tickle choice controlled the
whole matter OF establishing a "regulation''
arm. BY the terms of the law making an
appropriation for the manufacture of arms for
the use of the War Department Congress
provided that none of the money so apprOpri-
ated should be available until two Boards
should each establish regulation pattern for
breech-loading small arms and breech-lOading
cannon nc DO'IuS nave pOOh "PPoih0Ou anu
viii meet in New-YOrk in July and September,
for the purpose of examining and passing on
the merits of the competing models. Their
decisions will be looked for with great interest,
both in this country and in Europe, as it is
supposed that the result will be conclusive as to
the value of the successful patterns. Hereto
fore, unfortunately, the action of Ordnance
Boards has not commanded much confidence
from the general public.
Year: 1872

Workingmen ought to know probably they
do know that so long as a strike, or threat of
a strike is pending, building and general labor
are arrested. The partial paralysis which has
fallen upon building operations in the
city during the present Summer, illus
trated by tables printed in The TRIBUNE
to-day, is very apparent The totals show
that there has been falling-of in building,
as compared with corresponding period last
year, of S2,327O0O. Part of this represents an
outlay which would have been made for ma
terials but the greater proportion would
have been paid out for labor if the strike
had not come to deter or course,
only Immediately pressing work is done under
such state Of suspense as that which has
hung over various industries for the past few
months No new enterprises could be begun
and all that could be stopped have been. Ii
does not follow that because the workmen
have lost money they were also wrong; but,
in considering the controversy between them
and their employers, these figures deserve
scrutiny and thought
Year: 1872

The Paris correspondent of THE TRIBUNE
sends us a summary of the political situation
in France at the time when NJ. Theirs made
b;s last threat to resign. There have been
few changes of much moment since then; and
the reader will be edited by this brief elucl-
dation of the problems which vex France to-
day.
Year: 1872

Urinary and Womb Diseases, Gravel, Diabetes. Dro,


syt lncontnence of Urine. Brights disease Albuminn


rla and In where there Brick dust depOss a,
the water is thick, cloudy mixed with substances liz
the white Of egg threads like white silk or there
morbid dark, bilious appearance, and white Bone
dust deposits and where there is pricking burning
sensation, and pain in the small of the back and along
liam Resolyent aided by the application of Radways
Ready Relief to the spine and small of the back and
the bowels regulated with one or two of RadWay's
cure In few days the patient will be enabled to hold
and discharge water naturally without pain and the
or sherry color. =. -
Year: 1872

has made the most astonishing cures. 80
quick, SO rapid are the changes tbc
body undergoes under the influ-
ence of this truly Wonderful


Medicine that
EVERY DAY AN INCREASE In
FLESH AND WEIGHT is SEEN


AND FELT
Year: 1872

There is no longer any temptation to
indulge in tight lacing, for small waist
Is no longer considered fashionable; that
IL, waist out Of proportion to the hight
OF the figure and the breadth Of the
shoulders. Fashion and comfort, there
lore, are for once happily in accord with
each other. Another reform il that the
waist is now displayed the natural
length, which, in q properly proper
TONED figure, is in a line midway be.
tween the hip and the lower rib.
Year: 1872

Lemon Cheesecdkes. IS Simmer to-
gether in a saucepan pound of loaf
sugar, four eggs, the juice of two lemons,
and the rind cut very small. When the
materials have become of the consist
ence of honey, pour into a jar and pre-
serve for use.


Lemon DlmlpliHgs. - Mince four
ounces of suet, and mix it with the
same quantity of moist sugar, half a
pound of bread-crumbs, and the juice and
peel of lemon cut small. Put them
into tea cups, and boil them three-quar-
ters of an hour.


Lemon and Saet PIddnag.-Take
some suet and cut it small, currants,
sugar, grated lemOn-peel, ground gin
ger, eggs, and bread-crumbs; mix them
into a paste, roll them into balls, tie up
in a buttered cloth, and boil them for
twenty minutes.


Sugar BiscuitS.-MiX two pounds of
flour and the same quantities of pow
dered sugar and good butter with nut
meg, cloves, and mace. Make them
into paste with some milk or cream.
Roll into q thin layer, cut into squares,
prick them with holes, and bake them
on tin plates.


Rice Cheesecdkes.-Sim two quarts
of cream with some mace and CHINA
mon; then take it off the fire, and put
in it half a pound of ground rice, mix
them well, and again boil the cream,
taking care to stir it continually. lie
move the vessel from the fire, and beat
up two dozen eggs in it. Again make
il boil, continuing to stir it, until it be-
comes thick like curd, sweeten it, and
add half q pound of blanehed almonds
beaten up with sugar into powder.


Vfenna Credm.-The whites of two
eggs, two ounces of red currant jelly,
two ounces of raspberry jelly, one ounce
of sifted loaf-sugar; put all into bowl,
and beat until it rises into stiff froth;
serve in glass dish or in custard cups.
Though Of quite a dark shade of red
when beginning to whip it, it becomes
paler and paler as the froth rises, and
when finished is a very pale shade of
pink. Apricot jelly can be used also,
but requires some drops of cochineal to
give it proper tint of color.


C,lstdrds-Throw into a pint of new
milk part of the very thin rind of a
lemon, little cinnamon stick, and two
ounces of loaf sugar; let them simmer
| till the milk is nicely favored, then
strain, and turn into it the thoroughly
beaten yelks of four eggs; mix together,
and then pour the custard into a jug;
set this over the fire in a pan of boiling
water, and keep the eustard stirred
gently, but without ceasing, till it be-
gins to thicken; then move the spoon
rather more quickly, making it always
touch the bottom of the jug, until the
mixture is brought to the point OF boil
ing, when it must be instantly taken
from the fire, or it will curdle in n mo-
ment. Keep stirring it till nearly cold,
then add some brandy and few drops
of essence Of almonds. This makes a
small quantity of custard, but enough
for tipsy cake, or perhaps it would fill
eight custard glasses.
Year: 1872

WHEN THE DARK CoMETH.-A little
girl sat, at twilight, in her sick moth
er's room, busily thinking. All day
she had been full of fun and noise, and
had many times worried her poor,
tired mother. "Ma," said the little girl,


'what do you suppose makes me get
over my mischief and begin to act good
lust about this time every night ?l 81
do not know, dear. Can you tell me
why" "Well, guess it's because this
is when the dark comes. You know /
am a little afraid Of that. And then,
ma, begin to think Of all the naughty
things I've done TO grieve you, and that
perhaps you might die before morning,
and so / begin to act good" "Ohp'
thought /, show many of us wait till
the dark comes, in the form of sickness
or sorrow, or trouble of some kind, be-
fore we begin to act goodp How much
better to be good while we are enjoying
life's bright sunshine! and then, when
the dark comes'-as it will, in meas
ure, to alive shall be ready to meet II
without fear"
Year: 1872

tion viii grow with an ever new and ever
increasing growth. The oppressed of
every land shall here find security and
refuge. The religion of charity and cul-
ture shall pervade the masses. Art. and
her graceful children, shall here flourish
in nnwonted vigor. Stalwart manhood
and womanhood, will In our country find
their fttest and nobelst exemplars. Mil
lions of new and happy homes shall rise in
the land: peace and plenty, and all the
blessings of high civilization. shall glad
den the hearts of all, because the common
heritage of ALL Applause.


For such a country, for such heritage.
for blessings SO rich, for a future SO fair,
let our hearts swell with gratitude to the
Giver of all good gifts. He has gracious
ly willed that the tolls and sufferings of
these martyred dead have not been in
vain.


Comrades, L congratulats you all on
the favorable auspices that greet US on
every hand on this glad summer day, and
| close with the prayer that is craven on
the marble that marks the last resting
place of those heroic highlanders who
died in defence of Fort Saunders:


..By all the thousand who have died for thee,


Oh loved republic, be thou just and free"


Loud and prolonged cheering.
Year: 1872

Experiments have shown that mellow,
loamy soil scapable of absorbing in twelve
hours, when exposed to moist atmos-
phere. an amount of water equal to per
cent, of its weight If any argument
were needed to keep the soil mellow. here
is most powerful one to convince us.
For this property possessed by a mellow
soil is one that in dry season Is able to
give it the power of maturing crop
when a hardened surface would be unable
to do SO. A surface that is impenetrable
to the atmosphere, of course, could not
absorb any of the moisture with which
the atmosphere is charged But, when
rendered free from lumbs by repeated
plowings and borrowings. each change of
temperature causes circuistion of ar
throughout the mass of ssii, which is free
then to absorb all the moisture coming in
contact with it until it is saturated So
then. the more tho soil is mellowed by
cultivation, the less it is sinjuriousiy affeot'
ed by drought. and the better 1t IS enable
10 mafuresa fair crop in spite OF the ao-
senco Of rain.-Hcayth and Home.