smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1872




Police or the Alert.


The dockmen employed by the Metropolitan
steamship line, plying between this city and Bos
ton, who turned out few days ago for an advance
of $40 per month"; have not yot succeeded in in
ducing the agent Mr.. Dimock, to yield to their de-
mands. Yesterday they lotered about pier IL all
day, waiting for an opportunity to attack any Of
the twenty men who took their places at the old
rates OF wages; but Captain Cherry, with a sufi
cent force OF police was present, and during the
day no demonstration was made. The company's
business was materially delayed by the fact that
nearly all the new hands are inexperienced men,
but they succeeded In loading the Glaucus, which
went to sea at one O'Clock yesterday afternoon.
steamship Hattcras, which arrived yesterday morn
ing Several OF the strikers, who are, by the way,
not members OF any 'longshofeman's union, yester-
day declared their Intention, II opportunity offered,
to attack the men who had taken their places; but
the police escort the men to and from their work
and no breach OF the peace Is expected unless some
OF the new men expose themselves when the
police are not within hailng distance.


strike OF the Safe Despatch Transportation
Company's employees, about ten in number, oc-
Cured yesterday morning at pier 10; but their de-
extra work was conceded, and the men returned
to work. This Information was derived from the
police; but the agent evaded the question. OF a
strike by saying, 1--WE had no strike; our men are


At pier No. 20 there has also been strike since
Monday, the strikers demanding forty cents an
hour In place OF thirty cents The Great southern
are determined neither to accede to the demand
for wages nor to receive the men back They have
employed fresh hands, and they are expected to
ones The strikers cautioned men in the columns
OF paper on Monday morning against working for
less than forty cents an hour, and the police are
Kept on hand 70 prevent anI disturbances
Year: 1872

All the stables at Monmouth Park are doing well,
and the horses yesterday morning In their exercise
never appeared to better advantage. The majority
OF the stables worked before breakfast, and it was
an animating scene to witness the great flyers take
their galops. The horse that surprised the lockers
on most was Kinglsher who seems entirely cured
of the 'leg'' that he had last summer. The only
horse the ground that appeared to favor his legs
at all was John Harper's Lyttleton, and after his
work he seemed to be triie lame on one Of his
fore legs. Old man Harper says it will not hurt
him at all for any Of the races he intends to start
him in; but he thought the same Of Longfellow,
when he was told that the great horse pulled
up lame after his work on the day he
broke down. Sound legs are the best to
bet on in all races, nevertheless. In yester-
days HERALD we said it was unfortunate
that the Monmouth Park races and the Buffalo
! trotting meeting came of on the same days. An
old tur1te-one who docs not believe in the honesty
Of the trotting games as they are carried on at the
present day-thinks a better arrangement could
not have been made He said that "he supposed
about one hundred devotees Of the trOttng tracks
and followers OF the rings would go from New York
to Buffalo; but when that fact was once known to
the public, five hundred gentlemen who were fond
Of racing would feel safe in going to the races"
Many Old turfmen in this land could not be induced
to go to trOt, ana they seem to despise all VINO
do. General Buford, Of Kentucky, is one of those
men who believe in the thoroughbred horse, with a
pedigree going back to the Godolphn Arabian and
''nothing shorter" gentleman who owned trot-
ting mares and stations, and was large breeder
in Kentucky once asked the General If he did think
Nellie Gray would produce a good trotter in
case she was bred TO a trotting stallion. This
"riled" the General, and he replied, ''Yes, q
very good trotter no doubt, and, sir should breed
her to Maltese Iackass have no doubt she would
produce good mule, d-n you."


The owners Of raceh0rses at Monmouth Park,
who wish to enter for the Schell Cup, would oblige
the handicappers by placing the names OF their re-
spectve horses in the entry box on Tuesday after
noon, SO that the weights assigned TO them may be
promulgated on Saturday during the races on that
day.


Mcdaniel Co. only send one Of their great
stable to Monmouth Park to the great delight OF
other owners OF horses there and turfmcn gener
ally as had Harry Bassett been sent down he would
have had walk over In oil the races that he is
gagged in, which would have spoiled the sport in all
the leading events Of the meeting.


The railroad facilities to Monmouth Park have
been greatly improved since the last meeting, and
the time occupied in going and returning from the
races will be lessened.
Year: 1872

Colonel Mcclure, at the last session OF
tho legislature, 90 which it became ne


ccssary, under the testimony, as pure
question of law, to reject returns from
ten election divisions of that city, as
false and fraudulent. A word with re-
ference TO this. 1t has been alleged,
suppose by men who did not read the
report of the Committee, that the deci'
sion made last winter was contrary to
the one made the previous winter, in
another election case ftom Philadelphia
the case of Senator Dechert. This Is
an entire mistake. In the case of Sena-
tor Dechert, it was decided that the
misconduct of elction officers, either in
receiving bad votes, or otherwise,
should not necessarily deprive the peo-
pie of any division Of their votes; that
the votes good and bad In an election
division where there was simply some
irregularity or misconduct of election
officers, ought not to be swept away at
a breath, as had been bone by Election
Committee at Harrisburg and Wash
ington, and by Courts in Philadelphia.


Last winter, in the case af Mcclure
against Gray, we said the same thing
precisely, and the former report was
quoted. Although, as L have already
stated, the legal proof Of fraud in ten
election divisions of that city was such
that we set aside the returns, yet the
sitting member, Colonel Gray, was per-
mitted to call witnesses to prove what
his vote was in those divisions, and the
Committee sat day after day, in some
cases late at night, hearing testimony
to that effect. Eight hundred witnesses
were examined to enable him to prove
what his vote was in those divisions.
We did the very thing that at the pre-
vious session the committee in the
Dechert case said ought to be done.


When there Is no valid return from a
district you ought to permit the people
of that district TO prove how they did
vote, or the candididate to prove what
his vote was, and to substitute IL for
the falIe and fraudulent return which
cannot be believed and must therefore
be rejected. We did this in the case OF
Mcclure, and examined eight hundred


Witnesses for Col. Grey, in addition to
nearly one thousand on the other side,
for the purpose of accomplishing 1t:


We need to put the administration OF
the Sinking Fund of the State, into
hands that can be trusted by the people.


We need that a Secretary of the Conn
monwealth shall be selected, who is
competent and intelligence for the du-
ties which commissionership requireSe
an Auditor general who will be faith
full and true to the duties put upon him
by the law, and State Treasurer also
AS soon as the people can reach the
selection Of that oficer-who will unite
with his colleagues in seeing to. 1t that
those enormous Treasury, balances
running to from $1,000 600 $4,000 600
and which did average $2,000,OOO for
many years, shall be applied upon the
public debt to save interest, instead of
lying dead as far as the State is con-
cerned, while as everybody believes


upon credible information, they are


made a source of private profit and OF


private advantage. Great cheering.
Year: 1872

The mark which persons who are un-
able to write are required to make in
stead of their signatures, in the form OF
a cross, and this practice. having for
merly been followed by kings and no
bles, is constantly referred to as an in
stance Of the deplorable Ignorance, of
ancient times. This signature is not,
however, invariably a proof of such
Ignorance. Aneiently the use of the
mark was not confined to illiterate per-
sons; for among the Saxons the marx
of the cross, as an attestation of the
good faith OF the persons signing, was
required to be attached to the signature
of those who could write, as well As to
stand in the place of the signature OF
those who could not write. In those
times, if man could write, or even
read, his knowledge was considered
proof presumptive that he was in holy
orders. The clericus, or clerk, was syn
onymous with penman; and the laity,
or people who were not clerks, did not
feel any urgent necessity for the use Of
letters. The ancient use OF the cross
was therefore universal, alike by those
who could and those who could not
write; It was, indeed, the symbol of an


oath, from its sacred associations, as


we'll rs the mark generally adopted.
Hence the origin of the expression,
"God save the mark" as form OF
ejaculation approaching the character
1 OF an oath. --- .t la
Year: 1872

THE Boy THAT WAS NOT REMARKABLE.
Most boys who get into the newspapers
are very remarkable boys.


Joe had nothing about his looks or ac-
tions or color that attracted the particular
attention Of anybody.


When he first breathed the vital air he
was simply baby, with two hands,
two feet, two eyes, two cars, one mouth
and one nose. He did not laugh, and crow,
and sit upright, as young geniuses do in
their babyhood, but he slept and walked
and ate (baby-food OF course) and cried
like any common baby.


When he grew older there were no un-
common developments, except that he was
fat, healthy and heavy.


Nobody congratulated the mother on
raising a future President, nor applauded
the bright genius that sparkled In The ba-
by's ewes. The gossipers looked wonder
ingly at each other as The tender mother
watched over her baby boy, provided for
his comforts, and pressed HIM to her warm
bosom.


He grew to boyhood, but he was only
common boy. He learned his b with
difficulty, and was slow In learning to read.
His teac her thought he would never get
through the multiplication table, But he
never forgot 1t.


When the boys went fishing, Joe went
too, but he was slow in getting his hook
and line ready. The other boys were on
and in and around the lake before his hook
was fairly settled in the water. Too slow
to move the boys would say, He'll sit
there expecting the fish to come to him.
1t was even so; he remained stationary
and fixed; but when night came somehow
his basket was always full, while many OF
the bright, taking geniuses went home with
the sad intelligence that the 'tish wouldn't
bite


When he grew TO be man, the bustling
driye-aheads laughed at his plodding; but
by some means he seldom made mistake,
and though he did not seem to accomplish
as much in week as many others did in
day. vet at the end of the year there was
always something tangible in his results,
while the work of those who seemed to ut
lorly outstrip him at first ended in demol-
ished air-castles.


He has passed the meridian of life. Men
eminent in the profession respect his judg-
ment. Business men coming upon the
stage of action long to learn the secret of
his success. The bank leans upon him to
carry 1t through the trying crisis mer-
chants and manufacturers lean upon him
to save them from bankruptcy. Steady,
constant and hard study made him schol-
ar; persevering industry, accompanied by
economy, raised him to opulence close OBJ
servation and deliberate reflection cultivat-
cd sound Judgment, and honesty and in
tegrity secured for him the confidence OF
all who knew him. -Christidn Advocate.
Year: 1872

THE DnsABrLrrrEs or SEx.-The State Of
Illinois has just placed the sexes on an O.
quality of rights, so far as occupation Is
concerned. The language of the Statute re-
Gently signed by Governor Palmer pro-
vides that "no person shall be precluded
or debarred from any occupation, profess
sion or employment Except military on
account of SEX" 1t is stipulated, however,
that the act shall not be construed to affect
the eligibility of any person to an elective
office. Another important proviso is also
inserted as follows: "Nothing In this act
shall be construed as requiring any female
to work on streets or roads, or serve on
jurles." They can do it, of course, II they
wish to, because they are not to be debar-
red from any employment, except military.
The latter province they will probably new
er wish to invade. We do not see, there
fore, says the journal, why woman in llli-
nois does not at length enjoy all the rights
she could possibly covet, except those Of
political nature and If we were to judge
by the extraordinary progress she has
been making during the last twenty years,
even this barrier TO complete equality be-
fore the law will be levelled whenever she
makes Il concerted and unanimous move
ment to that end.
Year: 1872

The season Of religious murders and suicides
has come around again. In New York. a woman,
a devout catholic dies suddenly without extreme
JUNCTION. Her husband and two daughters believe
that she is lost forever, and go mad sine die. All


three attempt suicide, are prevented, arrested
and confined in different cells. One daughter
strangles herself within an hour. and her sister
and father have to he constantly watched. In
Maine, young mother becomes convinced that
she is great sinner, and kills her infant child to
save it from life Of woe. In Ohio. man prays
himself into a fit, and then cuts his throat In
the same State, husband and wife strip naked.
pray for fifteen minutes, drown two of their chill
dren, beat in the skull Of their baby hunt in vain
for the two elder daughters, and 60 calmly to he'd


In half an hour, the suffocates his wife, prays
for hours, and then tells the whole story which
the two living daughters confirm. Here are two
suicides and five murders within week as the
result of religious excitement.-Chicago Tribune
Year: 1872

IT, The Republicans will hold their National
Convention at Philadelphia, the City of Brotherly
Love, for their motto is, "Let us have peace


The conglomerate sore-heads will hold their
National Convention at Cincinnati, the Prokopo-
lis of the West, because their motto is Root hog,
or die,
Year: 1872

u ANDY JOHNSON Ross thinks somebody
ought to put straw in our hair. Ross is cruel, to
want to indict upon us the slightest resemblance
to the man Of straw that used to sit for Kansas in
the United Sts.es Senate,
Year: 1872

n The last Irving Recorder announces that
henceforth it is dead. Cause, want of patronage.
The Recorder was lively while it was alive-but
there are too many papers in the country, these
hard times
Year: 1872

PRESCOTT, May 2S, 1872. EDITOR CITIZEN: 1 notice in youl issue of the 18th instant that some miserable scribbler, writing from San- ford, says that I "have been by let ter urging upon prominent citizens o1 that section, my peculiar fitness fol Congressional honors.' Now, in justice to myself and to the many friends who have urged me to be a candidate for Delegate at the ensuing election, I must say that said state ment Is untrue.

 I have written but one letter with reference to the election to anyone in Pima county, and in that letter did not speak of having any peculiar fitness " for the position. That letter was written to a friend at Sanford whom had the pleasure of meeting in Prescott before said letter could have arrived at its destination. It seems, therefore, that some person at Sanford has taken the liberty to open a private letter in the absence of the gentleman to whom it was addressed, and given a garbled account of its contents to @ public journal. The letter referred to was written before 1t was known or supposed that Governor Mccormick would be candidate for reelection, as he told the people during the last canvass that he would not be a can- didate for that position again. For myself alone, l would not have noticed this matter at all. But in justice to my many friends who had long and consistently urged me to be a candidate, hope you will publish this correction. l am not an office seeker. I am one of those who be- lieve that "the office should seek the man-not the man the office." All men who know me, know that I have always been one of the strongest sup porters of Governor Mccormick, and 1 believe it to be the almost unani- nous sentiment of the people that he is better qualified to represent our interests in Washington than any other man. Respectfully yours,

 VIM. J. BERRY.
Year: 1872

forty feet in length, the sentence "Alrs


WE'LL" The letters were formed OF


ridges of earth, ten feet high, and care


fully covered with smooth sheets of tin


to reflect the light. Three weeks after


the sentence was finished the same


words became visible ON the plains of


Holland. A fortnight afterward we


could distinctly read the works ''Make
your letters ten feet long" This polite
invitation saved us an immense amount
of labor, until Mr.. Ruggles invented his


movable lunar telegraphic type"


which made communication easy, rap
id, and inexpensive. The nature of
this invention, which was remarkably


simple, being explained to the people of


Europe, they at once adopted it, since


which time communication with that
satellite has been regular and frequent.
Up to the present time no answer has
been obtained from Africa, although it
is hoped that communication will sooner
vi iotCi UC OpCHCu Will tlidt DClukAIC0
region.


have now given you trustworthy,
though l fear a rather dull and prosaic
account of the great catastrophe, You
will, of course, find fuller and better
accounts in the encyclopedias, and in
the newspaper files of the day. My
story, however, has the advantage of
being the experience of one who lived
through the exciting scenes of the col
lision, and who is one of the few men
of that generation who still survive. I
do not cucumber the narrative with the
history Of the effect upon the industry
of the Old World. The country has
now fully recovered from the disaster,
and is perhaps, in better condition
than ever before. Two things are GER
tain: we have no longer to dread that
impending war with Eng
land which formerly disturbed US,
neither does the question of Chinese
cheap labor complicate our politics.
Great Britain and China have both
ceased to exist, and the few thousand
in California are the sole
of that once innumerable peo-
pie.
Year: 1872

Get not your friends by brave com
rIirnents, but by giving them sensible
tokens of your love. 1t is well worth
while to learn how 10 win the heart
Of a man the right way,


We are not to number our friends
by the visits that are made ns, and
not to confound the decences of cere-
mony and commerce with the offices
of united affections.


A friendship that makes the least
noise is very often the most useful
for which reason | should prefer a
prudent friend to Jealous one.


70 be influenced by passion for
the same pursuits, and to have SINH
ler dislikes, is the natural ground
work of lasting friendship.


A man that hath friends must show
himself friendly; and there is friend
That 4ticlcth closer than q brother,
Year: 1872

Multitudes Of men and women have
made their eyes weak for life by the
too frequent use Of the eyesight, read
ing fine print and doing fine sewing.
In view Of these things, it is we'll to
observe the following rules in the use
of the eyes:
Avoid all sudden changes between
light and darkness.


Never read by twilight on very
cloudy day.


Never sleep so that on waking the
eyes shall open on the light Of a vim
dow.


Do not use the eyesight by light SO
scant that it requires an effort to dis
criminate.


Never read or sew directly in front
of the light Of window or door.


1t is best to have light fall from
above, obliquely over the left shonl-
der. Too much light creates glare
and pain and confuses the sight. The
moment you are sensible Of an effort
to distinguish, that moment stop and
talk, walk or ride


AS the sky is blue and the earth is
green, it would seem that the ceiling
should be blueish tinge, the carpet
green and the walls Of some mellow
tint.


The moment you are instinctive'v
prompted to rub Your eyes, that mo-
ment cease rubbing them.


If the eyelIds are glued together
on waking, do not forcibly open them,
but apply the saliva with the finger,
and then wash your eyes and face
with warm water.
Year: 1872

sG~ a Cincinnati youth, guided by
the advice Of a tortune-teiler, sought
to make a girl love him by means of
electricity working from under chair.
When the time came she sprang into
the air about three feet, and when she
came down she landed in her lover S
hair and took about two handfulls,
and told him she hated him. No
match.
Year: 1872

MAYOR HALL OF New IoKK,--1n
the case of Mayor A. Oakley Hall, Of
rich fame, Of New York city, char
ged with being concerned in the em-
bezzlement operations Of the Tam
many Ring the jury on the LIST in
slant, after hearing the case and being
out for nearly day, failed to agree
upon q verdict, and were discharged.
They were understood to stand seven
for conviction, and five for acquittal.
Mayor Hall remarked that the result
was the greatest disappointment the
had known in (orty.siN years.


God has promised to supply our
wants but not our wantonness.


n@- It is a good plan to speak lit
tie of persons, and never i'll Of one,
unless by silence you wrong your
neighbor. You cannot safely trust
any man who unnecessarily speaks
against another.


Virtue and happiness are mother and
daughter.


Wise men make more opportunities
than thor find.
Year: 1872

On Saturday night, in the Seville Building,
was largely attended, and unusual enthusiasm
manifested itself There Is doubt. II we
permitted to Judge from the signs Of the times
that the Democratic Party of Delaware will en-
ter this contest with more unanimity and deter
miHation to carry the election than it has done
since the war. The tact that few men have
proclaimed their hostility to Greeley and Brown
is scarcely noticed anywhere or any occasion.
No doubt their course Is regretted and their
weight in the contest will be felt to some extent.
But these gentlemen, SO tar as We have heard. all
propose to vote and labor tor the success of the
State ticket and Will only abstain from voting the
Presidential ticket, We think they Will hardly
do this when they become more fully acquainted
with the record OF the Baltlmere nominees since
the war, and TO the necessity OF defeating the
Radical Party in November.
Year: 1872

WHAT u remarkable lot OF nobodies and ras-
Gals there are in the Republican party. Accord
ing to the GRANT organs every member of thst
party whe announces his support Of GREELEY
classes. The more prominent they have been the
greater the rascas, if We to believe these Of
gans of the administration. II they keep on in
this way they will finally convince the pubic
that the Republican party has been run by the
greatest scamps in the country.