smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1876

therefrom. The past can always teach the
present the old can instruct the young.
and hence DR.. Armitage will remain little
longer among the grandfathers of the
Church, such as Moses. Joshua and Elisha.
With these he will to-day renew the
covenant of salt and drink again of the puri-
fled fountain Of Jericho. The messenger
OF Christ" will tell his people where the
everlasting kingdom of Christ and His re-
deemed people will be, and Mrs. OGorman
will discuss the school question, protesting
against sectarian appropriations of money
by State, county or municipality, and plead
ing for the retention of the Bible in the
public schools. 1t is an almost threadbare
topic, but it retains An interest for certain
class yet and probably will while shred of
it remains intact.
Year: 1876

Each Sabbath now brings to our city
pulpits some pastor who has been away re-
cruiting his health of mind and body for the
jects which they choose to discuss with their
freshened thought and renewed life indicate
high spiritual temperature not often found
so early in the season. 1t gives promise of
victory in the days and weeks to come. Mr.


Lloyd will tell his people what kind of seed to
SOW, how to sow it and what sort of harvest
they may expect; also how to deal with
honest sceptics, of which it is assumed there
are very many in this day. Mr.. Cook gives
An infallible cure for scepticism, which is to
take God into the conscience and to keep
Him there by secret prayer. Mr.. Light
bourn will preach the Word to the almost
Christians who may be in his congrega-
ton to-day, and will try to fully persuade
them into the Christian life. which is, ac-
cording to Mr.. Jutten, ahappy life, provided
the tongue is bridled and kept, and provided
also, according to Mr.. Mccarthy, the trifles
of home are attended to, for they make home
happy or miserable according to their use or





mand Of Mr.. Herr should not be forgotten,
and duty should never give way to con-
venience. Mr.. Barrett's Christian runner
should not forget nor set aside Gods lead
ings, since the race is not to the swift nor
the battle to the strong, for time and chance
may come in as elements and rob both of
that after which they strive. Ii Mr.. Leavell's
morning twilight is to brighten into spirit
nal day the love of the world must not
supersede the love of God in the human
heart. Nor must we cling too tenaciousIy to
the old man, the body of death, which Mr..
Moment would have sloughed off as quickly
as the new and spiritual life develops it
SELF Mr.. Hatfield will recall the life
| and times of the patriarch Noah and
draw appropriate lessons for our times
Year: 1876

AS the cool nights and breezy days come
on, premonitory of the end of terrible
summer. there is one ''tlattering JUNCTION"
that the Homecoming wanderer from the
seaside and mountain may lay to his soul.
He knows what has been going on in his
absence as well as do those who have never
lost the odor of the city restaurants, for the
HERALD has been always with him, and
city man in the country studies that ample
chronicle of news from all nations and all
sides and corners of the earth with an intel
lectual appetite which he scarcely feeli
when he is not on his summer rambles.
With us it has been an arduous and not
unsuccessful campaign but when the bot
tom fell out of the Post Office enterprise in
the way of fast trains we felt as it was put by
the small boy under the apple tree in a
thunder storm-that something must be
done, and that we must do it, Our labors
in this way have covered field extending
from Cape May, in the southern extremity
of New Jersey, to Schroon Lake, in the
Adirondacks, and from Fire Island Beach to
Schooley's Mountain, where the sun seta
for all reasonable people in this part of the
world. Lake George, Saratoga the Cats
kills, West Point, Sharon Springs, BallstoD
Spa, Long Branch, Ocean Grove, Sea Girt,
Red Bank, Cape May, the Highlands, the
Oranges, Schooley's Mountain, Budds
Lake, Lake Hopatcong, Morristown, Hack
ettstown, Hampstead, Glen Cove, Rockaway,
and, indeed, innumerable places more OF
less known as summer resorts are included
within these limits, and in all the HERALD
has been furnished constantly on the day of
publication. In the greater number Of
these places the HERALD has been delivered
before breakfast, and in not one later than
dinner time. Our fast trains, pony expresses
and diligent couriers have completely de-
monstrated that the morning paper is one of
the luxuries of city life that the public need
no longer leave behind when it goes out OF
town. Our advertising columns now ex-
hibit the revival of metropolitan life that
comes with the autumn days. For some
weeks past there has been great encourage
ment among city merchants over the sub
stantial indications they have had of the end
of siege of weary waiting for better times,
and the rush Of advertisements is one Of the
best general evidences to be had of the fact
that the good times waited for for three
years are coming at last.
Year: 1876

an illustration in its way of the growth Of
the city, and it is at the same time an illus
tration of the inevitable way in which our
city grows longitudinally as to its regular pro-
gress. Other cities grow in almost every con-
ceivable manner, but mostly like the great
oaks, to which every year adds ring of sap
wood In that way the change in the location
of social centres is slowly made, and at its
utmost is not great 1t required hundred
years to remove the social world of London
from Bloomsbury to the present West End,
and in Paris the Faubourg st. Germain re-
tains its character with almost the constancy
of the polar star. But the latest removal of
Delmonico emphasizes the fact that in this
city the social centre of gravity has been
changed within forty-fve years from Wall
street to Madison square. 1t was the OBJ
servation of old DR.. Francis that physician
in good practice in this city had to change
his residence once in ten years in order to
keep pace with the movement up town of his
patients. Otherwise the people only sent
"down town" for the family doctor on
serious occasions, and for oil lighter emer-
gencies called in some practitioner from
over the way or round the corner. But
physicians have always been more numer-
GUS than Delmonicos, and people will
rather take the chances as to the
capacity of doctor than as to the quality
Of dinner; wherefore the advance of the
restaurant has been slower than that laid
down for the medical man. In fifteen years,
however, our city acquires such q growth
that the restaurant which caters to the cul-
tured palate and the ample purse is left be-
hind if it does not move. In the Delmonico
annals there is seen the remarkable fact that
while the first restaurant down town was
established for a custom such as recently
favored the one at Fourteenth street. it re-
mains near the same original site, not as
centre of social festivities merely, but as the
necessity of busy public whose attention
can be diverted from financial problems only
by culinary skill. That district which was
once the whole city is now held only as the
special district of the money interests, and
the class that walked on the Battery in those
days now saunter on the Mall.
Year: 1876

Massachusetts has at last decided to cheat
the gallows in the case of Jesse Pomeroy,
the "boy murderer" and to confine him in
prison, if he can be kept there, for the rest
OF his life. The ladies of Boston have been
persistent in their efforts to secure commu-
tation of the death sentence. and have finally
succeeded. When arrested, between two and
three years ago, Pomeroy was sixteen or
seventeen years of age, making him now
nineteen or twenty. Entering Jail at that
time of life, he became acclimated to the
prison air and has grown strong and hearty,
Notwithstanding his confinement. Those
who saw him at his trial would scarcely have
recognized the boy murderer in the stalwart,
powerful young man brought forth by
the jailer a day or two ngo to learn
the result of the application in his
case. Speculations were offered at the
time of his first Imprisonment as to how
long it would be before he would break
down and die but these have all been dis
appointed, and Pomeroy is now remarkable
for his enormous build and his great mus
cular development. The probability is that
AO Will SocoPc, cltacI ny preteuuluS
or by one day numbering three or four of
his jailers and breaking out of his prison by
force. That he is shrewd and full of re-
sources is proved by his we'll plotted crimes
and by the keen analysis Of his trial fur
nished by him to the HERALD about a year
ago: If he cannot obtain his liberty by cum
ningly exciting sympathy he will by brute
strength, and then we shall suddenly hear
of other mysterious murders, for it is as
natural for Pomeroy to indulge in the sport
of taking human life as for cat to enjoy
catching and killing mice. Of course his
jailers may believe that they can watch him
and prevent his escape, but they cannot.
The vigilance of the keeper is sure at some
time to relax, while that of the prisoner,
watching night and day for the opportunity
to regain his iberty-thinking of it, dream
ing of it and plotting for it all the time
is unceasing. 1t would be singular if
Pomeroy's first victims when he gets out of
prison should be some Of those who have
been SO anxious to save him from the
CallOws.
Year: 1876

The breaking up of republican meeting
in Baltimore by democrats will, of course,
furnish an opportunity for great display Of
indignation on the part of republican organs
and will be fair set-off against the demo-
cratic denunciation of the recent breaking
up of democratic meeting in Charleston by
republicans. The outrage, however, was
the work of some ten or twelve rufians, who
evidently went to the place of meeting for
the purpose of creating a disturbance.
The wonder is that q large assemblaga
did not have the courage to deal with
the rowdies after their own fashion and
deprive the opposition of a dozen votes.
Taking the Baltimore row and the affair at
Kingston, in our own State, into considern-
ton, we believe the democrats are little
ahead of their opponents, and the next politi-
cal outrage belongs to the republican side. II
both parties would agree to have these
muscular disputes out at the commences
ment Of the campaign and get through with
them-say dozen on each side-we
might then hope for peace and such
calm and intelligent discussion of the
issues of the campaign as would enable the
people to vote understandingly. Some OF
the Baltimore ruffians have been arrested
and it is said all are to be promptly pun
ished. The city authorities are democratic,
and if they act firmly and unrelentingly in
the prosecution of the offenders they will
prove that the party has no sympathy with
such rascally acts. Let us hope that the
republican authorities of Charleston will be
equally ready to punish the negro rioters
who acted the par. of fiends in that city
few days ago.
Year: 1876

THE WEATHER. The area of low barpme-
ter, which we announced as being central in
the Mississippi Valley, and from which the
section was detached that passed us on
Thursday morning, has now moved eastward
toward the Ohio Valley, and there is a prob
ability that it will reach us tonight
or during tomorrow. Rains continue
to prevail along the lower lake re-
gion and in the Northwest. The rain
area extended yesterday afternoon from
Pittsburg to Pembina, with a remarkably
heavy fall along the Upper Mississippi.
Rains also occurred through the Gulf States,
particularly along the coast. The course of
the approaching disturbance, as at present in
dicated, will be over Pittsburg and Albany,
toward the New England States. The effects
at New York may be limited to a more or
less heavy rainfall but the passage of the
storm centre will be followed in this vicinity
by strong and cold northwesterly winds.
To-day the weather in New York will be
cloudy and slightly warmer, with, possibly,
rain.
Year: 1876

Yesterday was the last day on which the
competing teams in the great international
match can practise at Creedmoor previous
to the contest. Much interest therefore at
taches to their final test of craftsmanship
before they are arrayed in line before the
targets to strive for the Centennial trophy.
Four teams appeared on the ground yester-
day-namely, the Irish, Scottish, Canadian
and American, the Australians being prob
ably satisfied with their experimental
work and desirous of enjoying a good
rest before the battle. Among the practising
teams the Irishmen took decided lead,
which, if we are to judge by such a success,
gives that team more than good chance of
winning. Their average was 0.8661, the
highest made yet by any of the teams and
beating that made by the Scotchmen on Fri
day. which was OS63S. Yesterday the latter
made O.S527 which must be regarded as
very fine result and not in the least reduc-
ing their chances of victory on Tuesday and
Wednesday next. The American team comes
next, with a slightly lower average than that
of the Scotch-namely, 0.S505. This, how
ever, shows that the Americans are
keeping up to their standard very steadily,
and, while the showing is not brilliant, it still
retains that respectability which may lead
to final triumph. The Canadian team made
the lowest average Of any esterday-namely,
O. S400. This is decided falling off from
the work of the team the day before, and
forces us to place them farther from the
front rank than we had anticipated. AS the
order of merit now stands it shows the Irish
rifemen first, the Scotch second, Australia
third, America fourth and Canada in the
last position The fever of the fight may
bring about change in the order of rel
ative merit, but it is to be supposed that
oil will feel equally the necessity of ex-
traordinary efforts. Although low down in
the ranks during the practice trials we still
have the utmost confidence in our own men
and in that American grit which has so
often reached victory from almost the shadow
Of defeat. The judicious substitution of
such splendid marksmen as Gildersleeve
and Bodine for Yale and Bruce gives us in
creased confidence in q victory for our
team but the change should have been
made earlier. Let our men, however, do
their utmost to win more we cannot ex-
pect of them and more we should not de-
mand.
Year: 1876

ABOUT Ten DAYS AGO Mrs. Law, Of Phila-
delphia, was robbed of some four or five
thousand dollars worth of jewelry at the
Rowland House, at Long Branch, where she
was spending the summer. Her room was
entered and the jewelry stolen while Mrs.
Law was in the surf. The thief has been
captured and turns out to be a regular
operator. 1t is hoped that the lady will get
back her trinkets and that several other
Long Branch visitors will obtain cew as to
The destination of articles of value which
have been lost during TIE summer.
Year: 1876

The ESCAPE Of Patrick Cody, confined on
q charge of felonious assault from the
Fiity-seventh Street Court Prison is a mat
Ter that needs investigation. The prisoner
ought to have been sent to the Tombs on
The preceding day. He was kept over at
Eifty-seventh street without authority, and
ais escape looks very much as if some of the
prison people were not unwilling that he
should take his departure.
Year: 1876

THE ACCIDENT to the United States sloop-
of-war Plymouth, as she was about to leave
for Philadelphia yesterday, WILL of course.
be subject of investigation. it scarcely
seems to have been necessary fo- tho Ply
mouth to run into n vessel at anchor, but
she did. nevertheless, and her injuries will
lay her up on the dock for three weeks.
Year: 1876

THERE WAS SOME Coop SHOOTING for the
Subscription Cup by the Narragansett Gun
ance was large and distinguished, and the
winner, q son of the late General Halleck,
was clark horse" He will not rank as
one in future contests.
Year: 1876

JERSEY JUSTICE is severe, but wholesome.
The laws of that State reach even those who
attended the recent fatal prize fight as spec
tators, making them accessories to q homi-
eide and providing punishment of twelve
years in the State Prison. 1t might be we'll
for us to take pattern by Jersey in some of
our laws rs we'll as in the manner of enforc-
ING them.
Year: 1876

they do 90 Intentionally, TO confuse the
question and render infallibility odio9s 90
modern society. Bot so society may be ~
rest the Popes of our time are not think.
societies and the revolutionists who have
taken that affair in hand, aided by what
they call TIE sovereignty of the people.
We will pursue 70 further'a question which
would lead rs beyond our subject. ln
truth, after Catechisul on the Infailibihty
we would need another on the authority OF
the Pope. a question which, in our day 8.
has called forth so much reasoning and
such want of all reason.
Year: 1876

ever been presented to the people
OF this Territory, it is an evident
and singalarstaet that the subsidy
question has not received that care
ful thonghtand consideration which
its magnitude and import neces-
sarily and justly demanded, Tue
vote cast throughout the Territory
was very light, few persons seemed
to have any great interest at stake.
i school election would have at
tracted more attention and would
have had more interest attached
to it than has, to all appearances,
the important question Of voting
away an unreasonable amount OF
money by way Of subsidy aud there,
by involving the taxable property
Of the Territory almost beyond re-
denption and far beyond reason
or justice.


We shall apxiously await the re-,
ceipt Of the official returns Of the
election. Until then it may per
haps Be better to draw 10 ] conelu-
sions Of the effect Of the approval
Of the railroad upon the financial
condition Of the different counties
Iinthe Territory "
Year: 1876

The House Committee on Mill
tary Affairs have adopted Gen.
Banning ! report for the reduction
Of the army. Republican members
Of the Committee declined to sign
the report. Independent
Year: 1876

The Trustees of this school dis
trict held a meeting on Tuesday
last, but owing to the absence OF
one Of the members the matter of
building a school house was laid
over for a few days. The Trustees
are aware Of the necessity Of erect
ing f1 j suitable building for school
purposes and they propose to lay
the question before the people ct
the district at an early day. Their
intention to call for public expres-
sion on the necessity Of this step.
and the amount that they would
be justified in ezpending for the
building Of a school house is q very
commendable one, and the result
will prove that the people are in
favor Of q iudicious investment OF
public funds and agreeable to the
levy Of 4 tax 70 meet such ezpendi-
ture.


Though agreeing with the course
that the Trustees intend topursueI
there IS really no occasion to call
for any expression beyond that
which would be delivered at the,
polls. The law IS conclusive % the
matter IN this respect, ut clothes
Year: 1876

The Congressional COMMITTEES
on Territories has under considera-
tion the following bill for extend
ing the Territorial limits Of Mon
tana


"All that part of the Territory
of Wyoming and all that part Of
the Territory Of Dakota which lies
north Of the parallel Of forty-three
degrees and thirty minutes north
latitude and east and north Of the
boundaries Of the Territory Of Utah
herein established and which lie
West Of the Missouri River and
west Of that. portion ofthe one hun
dredth meridian which is north Of
said river shall be, and the same is.
hereby, attached to, and shall be-
come part of, the Territory Of Mon,
tana. 8nfzaY
Year: 1876

Too Much NOISE FOR THE SlzE.-Af
ter most ridiculous and extravagant
plea by a young lawyer in trivial
case, an older lawyer, who had way
Of saying quaint things, remarked, in
opening the opposing side of the case,
that his young friends elaborate plea
reminded him Of the experience Of a
neighbor of his who was once engaged
in breaking colt. and the story he
told Of it was in substance like this:


The colt breaker made his young
son hide in the bush while he himself
was to mount the animal and put him
at his top speed to the hiding place,
and then the boy was to rush sudden.
" out and shout "Boo!" the idea be.
ing to prove how we'll the colt would
stand the scare.


Everything was done according to
programme, but the result was alto
gether too much Of scare for the
colt, who kicked up his heels and put
down his head and the old man was
thrown over it far into the road OH his
head.


Clearing the dust from his loosened
teeth, he made for the boy with The
switch he had cut to drive the colt.
and with rage he began to dress the
astonished young man down. Shout.
ing. What did you do that for? What
did you do that for?'


"But, father" said the boy, crying,
"you told me to holler boo"


Yes said the old man; "but, dang
it, it was altogether too big boo for
so small coltw
Year: 1876

The OID AND TIE NEw.-In front of
the Maryland building, at the Phila-
delphia Exposition, the Baltimore &
Railway Company have put two of its
locomotives on exhibition, one bearing
the number rs" and the other that of
1000" There is difference of forty
years in the ages Of these two ma
chimes; The first was built in 1885,
and the other in 1875; and the differ
ence in age is not greater than that of
their general appearance. The tender
of No. 600 is greater than the entire
engine bearing the number "6." The
old cngine has an upright boiler, and
the cylinders are in the same position.
The power is conveyed to the whole
by a sort of walking-beam, with YER
tical rods, and there is a bcwildering
lot of cranks and rods, in strange con-
trast with the simplicity of the loco.
motive of the present day. The cngi.
neer had very limited space for NOV.
ing about. and hardly enough for
standing room. The story goes that,
when the first locomotive was put on
the Baltimore & Ohio railway it natu
rally excited much curiosity. Some
of the old heads were inclined to doubt
the efficiency of the new-fangled mo-
tor, and one of them said he had a
horse that could beat it. So one day
he stationed himself, with his stced
at point where the railway and car
riagc road were parallel for quite a
distance. Soon the train came along
and when it was Just abreast of him
he gave the rein to his horse and lei
the beast have his way. 1t was neck
and neck for mile or SO, and thcr
the horse pulled ahead and left the 10
comotive in the rear.
Year: 1876

At the Dickinson place, on Bullard creek,
near Ski mile Station, is ten acre field which
is nothing more nor less than q subterranean
lake covered with soil about eighteen inches
deep. On the soil is cultivated a field of corn
which will produce thirty or forty bushels to
the acre. If any one will take the trouble to
dig hole the depth of a spade handle he will
find it TO fill with water, and by using fishing
line fish four or five inches long can be caught.
These fish are different from others in not
having scales or eyes, and are perchlike in
shape. The ground is black mari, alluvial
in its nature, and in all probability at one
time was an open body of water, on which
has accumulated vegetable matter, which
has been increasing from time to time
until now 1t has a crust sufficiently strong and
rich TO produce fine corn, though it has to be
cultivated by hand, as it is not strong enough
to bear the weight of horse. While incoming
the field hands catch great strings of delicate
fish by merely punching hole through the
earth. A person raising on his heel and com
ing down suddenly can see the growing corn
shake all around him. Anv one having
strength to drive a nail through this crust will
find on releasing 1t that it will disappear en-
tirely. The whole section of country surround
ing this field gives evidence of marshiness, and
the least shower of rain produces an abund
ance of mud. But the question comes up, has
not this body an outlet Although brackish,
the water tastes as If fresh, and we have no
doubt but that 1t is anything else than stag
nant. Yet these fish are eyeless and scaleless,
similar to those found in caves.-Montgomery
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