smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1873

RThe wicked of Chicago have DIS
covered new swindle. An old hat
which would be costly at four shillings
is packed in box and taken to the resi-
dence of some gentleman whose name
is in the directory, at an hour when the
gentleman is not at home. His wife is
informed that her husband has purchas-
ed hat, has paid one dollar on it, and
wishes her to pay the remainder, which
she does. When the husband comes
home at night there is some profane
language. At one house the lady, hav-
ing no money, gave an order on neigh
boring shop for 81 30, This the shar-
per raised to S14 50,took it to The shop,
and raised the money.
Year: 1873

We have received from Senator Littic
Il copy Of bill now before the LeLlsla
mro revising and amending the charter
of the city of Mineral Point We have
had time only to glance over the bid,
but find It to contain many valuable
amendments to the existing uusatisiacto-
ry charter
Year: 1873

The Sidney Building and Loan As
sociation met on Friday evening and
made an important change in Its by
laws, which, as amended, now provide
that hereafter no bids for loans shall
be received for less tEan % per cent.
premium. II there be no bid. at that
rate the association shall proceed to
receive bids from members offering TO
withdraw from the association, and
the member bidding the lowest
amount per share shall be awarded
the money, and said member shall be
released from sll obligations and la
bilities of the association; providing,
that no member shall be allowed
greater amount per share than an
amount equal to ten per cent. on his
money for the average time that his
dues have been paid into the associa-
ton; and il no member bid to with
draw, then the money shall be dis
posed of as follows: The stockholders
having the greatest number OF shares
shall be awarded said loan. In case
two ormore stockholders have an equal
number of shares, then such stock
holders shall cast lots for such loan,
and if they are not present or refuse
to draw, the Directors shall draw for
them. Anything in the constitution
conflicting with this amendment Is re-
pealed.
Year: 1873

The Michigan Constitutional Com
mission, now in session, has adopted
the following cast-iron amendment
to the Constitution relative to the
iwatering" of stocks


"No corporation shall issue any
stock except in consideration of
money, labor or property actually re-
eeived by il equal to the par value of
such stock; nor shall it issue any
bonds or evidence of Indebtedness,
except for money, labor or property
actually received by it equal to IS per
cent. Of the par value of such bonds
or evidence of Indebtedness. ALI
stock dividends and other fictitious
increase of capital stock of any cor
poration shall be void"


The amendment will be submitted
to the people with the new Constitu-
ton at the next general election. 1t
Ieertainly ought to pass.
Year: 1873

Cool mornings and evenings in Au-
gust presage what befell Albanian
early fall.


Letter carriers state that most
young ladies write "Privaten on the
corner of their postal cards.


1t is all very well to say that "hand-
some Is as handsome does" but q
handsome woman is handsome what
ever she does.


A Danbury boy wants to know If 1t
is right for his folks to pay $500 for q
piano for his sister, and make him
pick berries for circus money.


An Indiana lady OF an original turn
of mind, bases her application for di-
vorce on the circumstance that her
husbands legs are too long for her to
keep step with him when they take q
walk together.


A young lady in Gloucester is charg-
ed with keeping q light burning in
the parlOr until very late Sunday
night in order to barrow the sensitive
feelings of an envious neighbOr in the
belief that she has really got beau.


A man in Yates county, n. Y,
who has been an inveterate smoker
for fifty years, has suddenly and per-
manently given it up. He knocked
the ashes of his pipe into a keg Of
blasting powder.


1t is singular what q little thing
will put 8 man out. A Jersey City
lawyer was making a high-fiown
speech the other day, telling about
angels tears, when his Honor said I:
A." Confine yourself to the dog-6ght
case" The lawyer sat down.


A San Francisco milliner has in
vented q hat which will probably sell
well, in cases where blushing is not 80
spontaneous as 1t might be, or used to
be. When the vearer bows or lowers
the head abruptly, q tiny pair OF
steel clamps compress the arteries on
each side Of the temple sending the
blood at once to the cheeks.


A peasant was employed by some
Jesuit missionaries 10 accompany
them on their journeys. They obser-
we'd that when they halted for prayer
the peasant also knelt at some dis
tanee, and appeared to be engaged in
devotion. One of them took occasion
to ask him what was the subject of bis
prayers. His reply was, "Well, sir, /
am but q poor and ignorant man, and
don't know what to pray for, so as
I know that you are good and holy
men, when see you praying, just
ask God to give me the things that
you are praying for" The simplicity
Of this poor man may teach Christian
people how they stand In relation to
the intereessions Of the Savior.
Year: 1873

Hon. Chas. Summers letter in favor
of the annexation Of CharlestOvn to
Boston contained the following: "I
doubt If tie future Boston will be con-
tent until it holds and possesses all
the territory which hugs the harbOr
bearing its name, so that in Boston
HarBor nobody shall land except in
Boston. Evidently Bosom should
contain all Bostonians, which 1t does
not now. / know no better way of
accomplishing that result than by
widening the circle of its Jurisdiction.
But there is stronger reason.
Every capital is q natural focus of
life politically, socially, and CONNER
cially, and every person living in
this natural focus properly belongs to
the capital. So it Is with London,
Paris, and Vienna, each Of which is
composed of suburbs and faubourgs
grouped about the original city; and
so in reality it is with Boston, for the
place about the city, though called BY
different names, are parts Of the same
unity which need nothing now but
q common name. A capital may be
artificial or natural. The artificial
body is that formed by original un-
changeable boundaries. The natural
body is that combination, cluster, or
expansion which changes with the
developments Of time and to meet
the growing exigencies. With these
views / find the various processes Of
annexiOn cnly a natural manifestation
to be encouraged always and 10 be
welcomed under proper conditions Of
population and public opinion. / say
'anneXion' rather than annexation
Where a word is so much used better
save syllable, especially as the
shorter is the better.
Year: 1873

Accidents owe to the seasons their cause;
and at this season of the year, that unfortu-
nate class of our fellow-beings who have time
large share of the victims. The average per-
son who at home is timid and careful of life,
limb and lung, when he gets his annual two
or four weeks leave of absence, suddenly be-
comes reckless Utterly ignorant of the mys-
teries of sailing boat, he takes charge of
fishing craft, and unless be has actual luck,
his name next appears in the list of the res
cued from drowning,or worse,in the obituary
column. The young man who is the model
of his city establishment loses his head when
he thinks of cunning on his vacation, and de-
parts for the woods loaded down with vari-
Gus devices to shoot wild beasts. Ten to one
he don't know how to load gun, and it
rarely happens that this amateur Nimrod
does not MAIN more of his companions than
monsters of the forests. The careful man
who, when az home, cannot think of sleeping
in room with an open window, when the va
cation mania seizes him, becomes reckless, that
he is quite as likely to lie on the wet ground,
and return hopeless rheumatic or incipient
consumptive as to do a more sensible thing.
Fortunately there. is large class of us who
are debarred by slender purses and the daily
struggle for bread-and-butter from running
such risks. We cannot, however, avoid eau
vored class to take care not to deprive the
public of their valuable lives and services by
vacation rashness.
Year: 1873

The paper war between the respective mag
mates of the Boston and Maine on one part
and the Eastern and Maine Central on the
other is, as much III earnest as a strictly non
compatant conflict can be- That any weap-
ons more deadly than quils will be used on
either side, no sensible man believes. Con-
sequently any person who spends his time
next Sunday in lounging along that part of
the line of the Maine Central where the Bos-
ton and Maine covet connection, in expec
tation that the employees of these corpora.
tions will desecrate the day in any kind of
fight in which real blood will be split, will be
sadly disappointed. If anything takes place, it
will be of the most formal and tamest char
acter. Possibly party of the Boston and
Maine, headed by an official, will be met by
an official of the Maine Central, who will
present his instructions to resist, whereupon
the former and his party will withdraw, the
purpose for which the war was declared hav-
ing been accomplished. Just what action
the Boston and Maine intends to base upon
the result of this paper war and paper resist
ance, has not been made public.


gentleman connected with the Eastern
and Maine Central says that these companies
are ready to include the Boston and Maine in
the same arrangement that they have made
and divide the net profits between the three
in proportion to the value of their roads based
upon the stock. 1t is claimed that half a
million a year can be saved in Irunning ex-
hy fhic 1cttn
the public than at present. The combined
interest would then have ample means to ex-
tend branch roads to those sections of Maine
where rail communication is so greatly need
ed.


On the other hand, Boston and Maine
man says that that road will never consent to
the arrangement because that policy will CON-
pei the corporations to purchase every foot of
worthless railroad in Maine, even to the
somewhat apocryphal Buckfeld Branch. He
insists that instead of building new roads in
Maine, the combination will labor to prevent
the construction of foot of new railway
The Boston and Maine party, however. pre-
diets that the combination would end in bank
ruptcy, and cites the Vermont Central as an
example.


Which if either of these theories is correct,
we cannot of course tell but cannot help re-
marking that it is bad policy for either of
these corporations to parade the short-com-
ings of the other in print. A full confession
of ones own sins land who has not few is
better evidence of contrition and more
gratifying earnest of real repentance thu be-
laborng ones neighbor because he is no bet
ter than he should be.
Year: 1873

AS announced by the PRESS ten days ago,
the Democratic State Convention will be held
in this city Tuesday, August 18th. The half
fare railroad tickets of the occasion ill afford
people an opportunity to visit the city, of
which doubtless many will avail themselves.
Beyond that the show will not be of the least
importance.
Year: 1873

BAR HARBoR, July 21st, 1873
To the Editor Of the Press: 1t seems but JUS
tice to the people of this place and to those who
have been or may be deferred from visiting this
resort to say that the report so freely circulated
in Portland that an epidemic of typhoid fever
prevails upon this island is without foundation.
Not only is there no such epidemic, but not a
case of typhoid fever exists in this place.


Very respectfully,


ARCHIBALD X. CARRUTHERs, NJ d,
Year: 1873

IT is due to the Maine Central officials TO
say that the statement in yesterdays paper
that positive orders had been given to resist
the cutting of their rails, was not furnished
by them for publication. The newspaper
man is ubiquitous.
Year: 1873

COMMODORE VANDERBILT.-Mr. Webb, the
author of "Webb's ADDER and a successful
New York broker and joker writes occasional
letters from Saratoga to the New York Tribune.
In his last he says Commodore Vanderbilt,
with his usual following, arrived last evening.
DE comes up here every season-no wonder that
with his watering proclivities he is fond of
watering places. He takes up his head quarters
Lanu lit also picks up what stray halves and
NI Wholes ne can, at whist-at Congress Hall.
4 ddhose VINO have got rich by following his


points also stop there; those who have not.
as general thing, patronize the hotel directly
opposlte-you can now guess which hotel has
the more guests. 1t pleases me to have the
Commodore so near, for if eminent at whist
It may be that he also prides himself on his
,7-up,' and have been longing for some one to
happen along who thought he understood the
intricate beauties of that fascinating game.
One must make ones expenses some way, Won
know, and as well out of the Commodore as any
one else. L think | could get back the cost of
those trunk straps if l got one fair dip at him


Inc noble old gentleman has made some won.
derfully queer and quick turns in hi, time Int
1 imagine that | could turn lack from the
bottom In a way that would make his yenerahle
hair stand on end. He has always beaten me in
stock operations, but unless he can stock tbe
cards on fellow pretty deftly, I've an idea that
a good deal of New York Central and Harlem
Railroad stock would be transferred over into
my name before the season ended"
Year: 1873

One of the most vulgar and unjust preju-
dices inherited from the barbarous middle
ages is the one entertained against that
most inoffensive and peaceable class of our
citizens, the Jews. Having been prose-
cuted, maltreated and insulted through
ages and centuries in the old tyrannical
States of Europe, they have found in this
glorious, free land haven of rest and
equality; and with just pride can they
point to their record for the scrutinizing
eye of their fellow citizens. 1t is, there.
fore extremely mortifying to see high
toned gentleman trying to bolster up a
weak case in court by pandering to the old
vulgar prejudice against the Jews. We
are glad to notice that this attempt has
proven signal failure, as not one of
twelve intelligent jurymen seem to have
been impressed or influenced by this APP
peal to prejudice, .-


We would not have noticed this insult,
if it had been uttered by a low pettifogger
in an inferior court, but we are compelled
to remark on it when an able and learne
gentleman, one for whom we have always
entertained the highest regard ,stoops down
to such practice, and thereby encourages
his inferiOLs in such reprehensible course.
JEW.
Year: 1873

EDITORS CHRONICLE: There are, per-
city of Knoxville. n large number of
them are accUmulating money. and, OF
course, prosperous and doing we'll. All,
as rule, are industrious AMI striving to
earn an honest living. At the same time
ther ise.. no class in our midst who, upon the
whole, have harder time TO get along.
They are wholly dependent upon the sue
cess of Knoxville-upon her Improvement.
AS the city advances, as buildings go up
and business increases they get employ
ment and living.


Is there no remedy for some of the evils
at least to which they are subjected Must
they continue to groan under the cruel
pressure of pinching poverty, their wives
prostrated with the drudgery of domestic
life and their children ,elbowed from the
walks of life because their parents are
poor, Woodworking mechanics 2? / think
there must be remedy, at least in part.


In the first place, am inclined to CEN
sure the working men for one thing, and
that is, that they steadily decline to get
together and to organize themselves into
a compact body for the purpose of protect.
lug IuoIloClNCos = w hy uol tuCy uO CuiS :
Why will they continue to isolate them
selves? Herein they are to blame little.
If they will not shield themselves, they
have no reason to complain if they are not
shielded by others. The order of the day
is for every class to take care of itself. The
working men must recognize the same
principle. They have failed to do this in
Knoxville. Many them seem to work
by contrarics, each one for himself and the
devil take the hindermOst. This spirit, 1t
is needless to say, will damage them, and
damage them seriOsuly. They must come
together if they want to succeed. They
want better understanding among them
selves-more unity and harmony of ac-
ton. .-l GroTr5T 4a g-Iti4 fF-ssr5-- ads iFr


Such al organization would lead to the
formation of a cooperative movement, the
very thing needed among the working
men of Knoxville, No one mechanic or
laboring man is able to command capital,
but united they can. The three thousand
alluded to could, have no doubt, by
economy and industry, control in short
time, money enough to start and run a cot
ton factory, or they could purchase lots
and build houses, or establish an i'm
mense cooperative store. There are vari-
Gus investments they could make with the
surplus of their earnings and in a reason
able time, become independent.Ifth the entire
body of working men in this city would
hold a meeting or organize thoroughly
they could put a cotton factory into sue
cessful operation in six months. This ls
no empty jargon. 1t is matter OF fact


Who then, will champion this movement
Let him come to the front! ADVANCE.
Year: 1873

TICKET OFFICE BROKEN INTo.-Some time Fri
day morning, thief broke into the ticket office
of the Wilmington & Reading Railroad at Front
and Madison streets, doubtless expecting TO find
there the proceeds of the sale Of tickets for the
carly morning train. In this he was disappointed
all The money, except about ten cents In pennies
had been removed The thief took the pennies,
and left without being detected.
Year: 1873

venti0ns, unions, any or all organizations which


are politically reformatory, but not as members of


the Grange. -Ihe Order does not deny the necessi-


y OF these associations to correct by political ac-
tion many great wrongs The potency of the
means is admitted. These wrongs are to be cor
rected by popular political power, by substituting
representatives of the integrity of the people for
representatives of the corruption of the people, by
the election of men whose lives and actions will
reflect honor upon the positions in which they are
placed, and not shameful humiliation upon their
country and constituents. There is no restriction
placed upon members of the Order to prevent their
joining these associations; on the contrary, they
naturally afford opportunities which the Oranges
do not. They are regarded az the outgrowth Of a
want never provided for by the Grange and never
intended to be provided for by it. T


Patrons of Husbandry'' is pregnant with bless
1ngs to the class for whose benefit it was institute
ed, that the specific ends and objects sought to be
attained by the Order are SO comprehensive that
their realization demands all the time energy and
devotion that can be brought to bear through one
organization, we here express our determination
to maintain the Order iii its integrity as a non
political organization, to resist and expose every
attempt to inveigle the Order into apparent colu-
sion with movements to form new political parties
or to support or resuscitate old Ones to visit with
prompt expulsion and the lasting condemnation of
the Order any member so lost to honor as to lend
himself to such measures.


While thus setting forth the position of the Or
DER as to Its sphere of action, we are not unmind
full OF the rapid progress made by ideas which. re-
sulting for the time in popular demonstrations
against special hagrant excesses of combined cap
ltal, have for their remote cause and foundation
those deeper convictions which have gradually de-
veloped themselves among the people everywhere,
and which are the fountain from which the pro-
gressive intelligence of labor is constantly
springing and pressing for solution ques-
tions involving inalienable natural rights and de-
manding that such relations shall be established
among men as will cause "a more equitable distri-
button of the profits of labor" Being producing
class it would be paradoxical to presume that the
pulse of the intelligent American farmer did not
beat in sympathy with the spirit of inquiry abroad
among the laboring classes, string up new veins
of thought upon human rights and awakening
desire for the administration of government, more
in accordance with purpose to these rights
and the ends for which governments are instituted
among men. All good Patrons of Husbandry be-
ing in harmony with these views, we trust there
can hereafter be no doubt as to the direction the
of members of the Order in Wisconsin
will be thrown ''outside the gate" upon questions
affecting the public welfare whenever occasion ad-
mits
Year: 1873

interest is endeavoring, in convention, to
separate itself from the whisky interest
claiming to be holier and more respecta
bic than that. They are all to be Jumped
together: They are all opposed to sobrie
ty, and, in the end, we shall find them al
lighting side by side for existence against
the determined indignation of, a long-suf
tering people. 4''' ~ ~p y as


a respectable English magazine re-
ports, as a fact Of encouraging moment,
that OF the fifty thousand clergymen Of the
ChurchFof England as many as four thou
sand actually abstain from the use of
spirits! SO. eleven-twelfths of the clergy
men of the English Church consent to be
dumb dogs on the temperance question
How large the proportion of wine-drink-
ing clergymen may be in this country we
do not know, but we do know that a wine
glass stops the mouth on the subject of
temperance, whoever may hold it. A wine
drinking clergyman is a soldier disarmed.
He is not only not worth straw in the
fight; he is a part of the SV'peQGnaent0 of the
temperance army. We have a good
many such to carry, who ought to
be ashamed of themselves, and who
very soon will be. Temperance laws
are being passed by the various
Legislatures, which they must sustain, or
go over, soul and body, to the liquor in
terest and influence. Steps are being ta-
ken on behalf of the public health NOR
ais, and prosperity, which they must ap-
prove by voice and act, or they must con-
sent to be left behind and left out. There
can be no concession and no compromise
on the part of temperance men, and no
quarter to the foe. The great curse of our
country and our race must be destroyed.


Meantime, the tramp, tramp, tramp
sounds on,-the tramp of sixty thousand
yearly victims. Some are besotted and
stupid, some are wild with hilarity and
dance along the dusty way, some reel
along in pitiful weakness, some wreak
their mad and murderous impulses on one
another, or on the helpless women and
children whose destinies are united to
theirs, some stop in wayside debaucheries
and infamies for a moment, some go bound
in chains from which they seek in vain to
wrench their bleeding wrists, and all are
poisoned in body and soul, and all are
doomed to death. Wherever they move,
crime, poverty, shame, wretchedness and
despair hover in awful shadows. There is
no bright side to the picture. We forget:
there is Just one The men who make this
army get rich. Their children are robed
in purple and fine linen, and live upon
dainties Some of them are regarded as
respectable members of society, and they
hold conventions to protect their interests
Still the tramp, tramp, tramp goes on, and
before this article can see the light, five
thousand more of our poisoned army will
have hidden their shame and disgrace in
the grave"
Year: 1873

BY MARGARET L. sANGsTER.
BECAUSE in day of my days to come
There waiteth grief to be,
Shall my heart grow faint, and my lips be dumb,
In this day that is bright for me?
Because Of a subtle sense of pain,
Like pulse beat threaded through
The bliss of my thought shall dare refra
From delight in the pure and true?
In the harvest-felds shall cease to CLEAN
Since the bloom of the spring has fled?
Shall veil mine eyes to the MONDAY sheen,
Since the dew Of the morn hath sped?
Nay, phantom i'll with the warning hand
Nay, ghosts Of the weary past;
Serene as in armor of faith | stand,
Ye may not hold me fast.
Your shadows across my sun may fall,
But as bright the sun shall shine;
For walk in a light ye cannot pail,
The light of the King divine.
And whatever He sends from day to day,
| am sure that His name is Love;
And He never will let me lose my way
To my rest in His home above.


Christian Union.