smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1873

Starting out early in the morning"
writes correspondent from Mayence.
" I was fortunate enough to witness a
parade of the Fire Department. To
one accustomed to our parades at home
it was comical exhibition. First came
a company of soldiers or policemen to
clear the way then band of twenty
five musicians; then three hose carri-
ages, about half the size of our package
carts, each drawn by two men then a
diminutive section, also drawn by two
men then the grand engine, drawn by
four men, followed by eight firemen in
uniform then another band of twenty
five musicians, and another set of ap-
paratus followed by the ladder and hook
wagon, pulled by four men. 1t was the
largest amount of music to the smallest
show that / had ever seen. / am quite
sure that two of our fire engine horses
could have pulled the whole parade,
music, and all and equally sure that the
water from one of our engines could
have washed the whole procession from
the street."
Year: 1873

To PREVENT On LAMPS FROM SMo-
K1Ne.-Take any quantity of onions,
bruise them, put all into retort, and
distil; pour little of this liquor into
the bottom of the lamp, and it will give
no smoke. This is an excellent remedy
for that most annoying nuisance, and
when once once tried it will be ap-
proved of.
Year: 1873

IRONY is an insult conveyed in the
form of a compliment insinuating the
most CALLING satire under the phraseol-
ogy Of panegyric; placing its victim
naked on Il bed of briers and thistles,
thinly covered with rose-leaves ; adorn-
ing his brow with crown of gold, that
burns into his brain; teasing and fret
ting, and riddling him through and
through with incessant discharges OF
not shot from a masked battery lay
ing bare the most sensitive and shrink
ing nerves of his mind, and then bland
ly touching them with ice, or smilingly
pricking them with needles. - Whippto.


ONE who always gets bread when he
A laE.r
Year: 1873

EXIT BOGUS REFORM election
in this city has finally disposed of the po-
litical traders who have been driving pros
porous business for the last two years
under the mask Of reform. The Committee
of Seventy, after getting large portion Of its
members into fat offices, dissolved during the
canvass, but was followed by several ofishoots,
all of which claimed to be the original reform
concerns and to WELD great power over the
city. Some Of these combinations managed
to extort money out Of such Of the candidates
as were foolish enough to be bled, but the re-
suit shows their influence was not equal to
their impudence. In future they will be bet
ter known. TIE people have at last discovered
that If they desire reform they must strive to
secure it by their own efforts and not through
the fundamentally of scheming politicians
and impudent strikers.
Year: 1873

The JUDIcIARY.-The democratic judicial
ticket in this county appears to have been
elected entire. 1t is good thing that the
popular demand for pure judiciary induced
fair nominations on both sides, SO that so far as
the candidates are concerned, it mattered little
which might obtain success. Perhaps on one
consideration it is better that the victory
should have been with the democratic Judges.
The recent scandals on the Bench, for which
democrats we're responsible, will no doubt
render the new Judges the more anxious to
restore purity, fearlessness and uprightness to
the Bench, from the fact that they owe
their election to the democratic party, The
successful candidates will carry with them to
the high positions they are called upon to fill
good legal abilities and unblemished personal
characters, and hence we are justified in pre-
dieting for them honorable judicial careers and
in welcoming their election as q genuine
reform.
Year: 1873

ANNExAT1oN.-Therei is very little reason to
doubt that the vote Of the people of New
York and Westchester county has been cast in
favor of annexation. Although the returns
have come in with extraordinary slowness, it
is known that there was no opposition to
annexation in Westchester county, and in the
city there will probably be good majority in
its favor. This result will be welcomed with
satisfaction. It would have been unfortunate
if the efforts of the anti-progressives had sue
ceeded in defeating measure upon which the
future growth and prosperity of the metropo-
lis so materially depend.
Year: 1873

The letter which will be found elsewhere,
the poor through the coming winter, we
commend to the thoughtful notice of the
well-to-do in our community. There is,


we fear, little doubt that all will be sadly
wanted which can be bestowed. While our
business men are propping each other to pre-
vent suspension Of wealthy firms the chari-
table who think of those who are the first to
suffer, the poor, should do their share in help
ing to tide over the winter. The researches of
our reporters in the city and among the work.
ing classes reveal great amount of enforced
idleness and the voluntary cessation from
work of great numbers in the building trade
to resist reduction of wages. The "bosses,'
they argue, are working by contracts drawn
up on the present wage rate; rent, coal and
provisions, they say, are no cheaper, and
they feel themselves justified in a course that
looks SO anomalous at present. Between capi-
tai and labor there is seldom much love
lost, but it behooves both at present to
act forbearingly and with caution. Harsh
measures on one side and rash action on the
other are equally out of place at this juno
ture, in an industry where there seems o
chance of work not being wholly interrupted
except from such causes. Capital and labor
should, in times like those upon us, be brought
into mutual alliance, instead of taking TO
hostile camps. But outside this small quarrel
there are tens Of thousands in this city who
would be glad to be assured through the
winter of the wages which the laborers re-
ject There are thousands at present un-
employed who see little prospect Of
work until things have frightened. The
actual suspensions do not represent
one-half of the dearth Of employment which
the financial position may bring about Hun
dreds of firms are discharging hands to save
themselves from bankruptcy, and it makes no
difference to the poor for what cause work has
been stopped. We do not advocate anything
which would diminish the American work.
mans self-reliance or self-respect. We do not
wish to anticipate such q thing as Wholesale
pauperism among those who labor for their


bread; but philanthropy will, we fear, find


abundant exercise for its godlike qualities in


the season before us Let the rich in some


shape, follow, then, the example Of the gentle


man who has sent o FIRST contribution TO this
! fund for the DOOR.
Year: 1873

The BAzA1NE Court MARTIAL.-The pro-
ceedings which took place during the court
martial trial of Marshal Bazaine yesterday
were not calculated to afford to the French
people very high opinion of the military
regime which was broken up by the war with
Germany. The most direct and positive con-
tradictions of testimony were sworn to by
different witnesses. A colonel defed the
authority of the President by his recusancy,
and evidently nonplussed the youthful Duke
by the use of language which is strictly for
hidden in such presence and under such cir
cumstanceS.
Year: 1873




A white boy was murdered, month or SO
ago, by two negroes in North Carolina, and
the guilty parties have just been convicted
of murder in the first degree by jury con-
sisting entirely of colored men. The majority
of the jurors, it is alleged, can neither read
nor write, and, considering the vexatious con-
dition Of affairs in regard to races in the
South, the honest impartiality Of this jury
must be highly commended The remarks of
the Judge who presided at the trial were very
fattering, although it may be considered as
strange state Of things when it becomes
necessary for Judge to thank jury for doing
their duty But the laudatory address in
question receives peculiar significance from
the allusion in it to the never to be forgotten
Stokes jury. He draws a contrast between
the twelve negroes representing shonest
ignorance" and the jury of educated white
men, representing Intelligent vice." and
recommends the two cases to the calm
consideration of statesmen and lawmakers. 1t
has come to sad state Of things in this city
when such comparison can be instituted in
respect to the jury box. Yet with the extraor-
dinary system introduced Of late years in
criminal trials, by which it is almost impos-
sible to prove legally man guilty of murder
against such theory, what can New York
courts of justice expect but contempt and de-
rision on all sides?
Year: 1873

The JUDICIARY CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT,
which was voted on yesterday by the people
of this State, as to whether the judges
should be appointed or elected, ran, SO far
as very incomplete returns indicate, with
q democratic disapproval of the appointing
system. From several republican counties the
returns indicate that the latter party has
largely taken the elective side Of the question.
This does not promise much for the adoption
of the appointing system at present.
Year: 1873

THE STATE SENATE From the returns
which reach us up to the hour of going to
press it is known that the State Senate will
be very nearly balanced between the two
political parties. Indeed, it is not yet quite
certain which side will hold tho ma
jority, although it will probably be
republican by small vote. The character OF
the Senate will be changed for the better.
For the past two years the reputation OF that
branch Of the Legislature has not been good.
The large republican majority which white
washed Grshsp end trembled before Tweed
Year: 1873

Day.


To-day the French Assembly opens, and
although definite action on the fate of the
present Provisional Republic will be delayed
the session will be fraught with great
significance to France. The parties have
measured their strength to nicety, and,
after counting the means on both sides, have
concluded that neither the Right nor the Left
is in condition to strike decisive blow.
Each party held caucus yesterday, and
the signs of peaceful bearing have no
other Interpretation than that it is not time to
fight The position of MacMahon seems the
only thing assured for the present
The Left will attempt under this cir
cumstance defnitive organization of
the Republic. The Right will hinder
this as much as possible, so as to keep the
door open for the monarchy as long as they
can. The Bonapartists, hopelessly crushed
out of sight by both parties in the Assembly,
will turn to the people and clamor for q
pltbiscae It is impossible at present to
foreten what will be the upshot,
but the activity of all parties should
surely produce something better than the
mongrel thing which at present is called the
government of France. It cannot however,
be forgotten to its credit that under Thiers,
and in the name if mot the perfect form of a
republic, it paid off the onerous war indem-
nifty and gave France once more to herself
Year: 1873

was not calculated to win public confidence
In the Buffalo district John Ganson succeeds
Senator Lewis. decided improvement.
Graham will be no longer in the circle.
Winslow is probably defeated. Tweed will no
longer disfranchise New York district. The
people may therefore congratulate themselves
on thus much substantial reform in the State
Legislature where reform was SO greatly
needed.
Year: 1873

The Police Justiccs-Thc Question OF


the Constitutionality or the New


Law.


The Police Justices appointed by Mayor
Havemeyer took their seats yesterday in the
several courts to which they have been as
signed, with the exception of the Yorkville
district At the Tombs, Jefferson Market
and Essex Market the old Justices, who hold
by virtue of elections under the old law,
quietly retired on the appearance of their sue
cessors, after serving upon the latter written
protests signifying that they relinquish pos
session of their Offices without prejudice to
their right to retain the same, and with the
intention Of contesting the constitutionality of
the act by which they have been superseded.
In every instance the meeting of the rival
claimants of the positions was marked by
courtesy and good feeling. In the York
vile Court the old Justice has adopted
an independent course, and has OBJ
tanned an injunction prohibiting the
new appointees from interfering with
him in the discharge of his duties. Yesterday
he had taken the precaution to obtain the at
tendance of number of deputy sheriffs to
protect him against any attempt to disregard
the injunction, but the new Justices did not
make their appearance. In accordance with the
orders of the Police Commissioners, however,
no prisoners were taken before the Court, and
the question of possession therefore remains
open until to-day. The old Judge will, no
doubt repeat this morning the proceedings of
yesterday, and it will remain for the new ap-
pointees either to take forcible possession or
to appear on the injunction and move that it
be dissolved. If the latter course, which is
the legal one, should be pursued, the first
decision on the constitutionality Of the new
law will be reached.


1t is very evident that the more speedily this
important question can receive legal solu-
tion the better it will be for the community.
Grave doubts exist as to the constitutionality
of the law under which the appointments of
Mayor Havemeyer have been made doubts
which have been shared by many members
Of the Board of Aldermen. It is maintained
that the Police Justices are justices of the
peace, and as such are elective under the
eighteenth section of the sixth article of the
constitution. Whatever opinion may be en-
tertained on this point, every person will con-
cede that all doubt should be removed by its
final decision in the Courts. If the new
Justices are not legally in Office all commit
ments made by them will be void, and the
consequence may be most serious entangle-
ment and a deplorable defeat of the ends of
justice. 1t is to be hoped, therefore, that
neither the Mayor, the police authorities nor
the Judges will throw any distractions in the
way of prompt settlement of the constitu-
tional question, no matter whether it is to be
reached by the independent action of the
Yorkville Judge or to result from the more
peaceful and courteous action of his late
associates.
Year: 1873

VIM. Renne & Sons, of Pittsfeld, Mass,
make speciality of Renne's Pain Killing
Magic Oil, and the demand for it is steadi-
ly increasing year after year, and its use
by the families of our country is becoming
very common for curing all kinds of pain,
and can be used externally and internally
safely with success. Try it. Sold by most
dealers in Medicine.
Year: 1873

A SEVERE TEsT.-The Commissary
General of the United States, after a trial
OF all the principal starches in the country,
decided that Duryea's Satin Gloss
Starch was the best that could be procur-
ed, and the government from that time to
the present are buying this article. This
is fact worthy the attention of consum-
Year: 1873

THE REASON WHY.-The immediate
cause Of premature fading or blanching of
the hair is an obstruction of the oil vessels
which afford the coloring matter. The re
mote causes may be general i'll health,
trouble of mind, etc. Hence, in order to
restore its natural color and beauty the
oil vessels must be restored to their nor
NAL condition 1t is on this principle that
Natures Hair Restorative is compounded,
and it has proved complete success, wher-
ever faithfully applied 1t is not a poison
Gus dye, consequently the effect is gradual,
and in severe cases two or three bottles
are necessary to produce the desired re-
suit See advertisement.
Year: 1873

The sanitary influence of light can
scarcely be over-estimated. It is essen
tial to the full development of nearly
all animal and vegetable organisms.
Plants, when deprived of the influence
of light, become blanched and stunted
in growth, the process of fixing the car
bon IN their tissues is arrested, a modi-
cation of the coloring principles takes
place, and they appear white instead OF
green. This is termed etiolatiOn, or
blanching, and is applied by the garden
er and horticulturist, in the case of
certain kinds of vegetables, to impove
their edible qualities. Childhood be-
ing, peculiarly, a period of growth
and development, it is especially i'm
portant that children should have the
fullest possible benefit of exposure to
direct sunlight. Many of the diseases
of the weak and emaciated children who
are reared in the narrow streets and
crowded tenement-hoUses of our large
cities, are attributable to the deficiency
of light and air. The sad effects of the
absence of light are, unfortunately, not
confined to those who, by the pressure
of poverty, are compelled to dwell in
localities and habitations where the So
lar rays vainIy strive to enter. In many
elegant mansions, whose occupants can
command every luxury within the reach
of wealth, we see the most ingenious
means adopted for effctualIy excluding
light, with the inevitable result of seri-
ously impairing the health of the in
mates. The nursery, where children
necessarily spend so large a portion of
their time, particularly during the
colder seasons of the year, should be
plentifully supplied with windows, and
should be selected with special refer
ence to the facility for securing the
genial and cheering influence of the
sun. Greenhouses are constructed so
as to secure the greatest supply of
light, and children require as much
light as plants. Light is not only
essential to the preservation of health,
but is equally important in the treat
ment of diseases. There are a large
number of disorders which may be
greatly benefited, if not cured, by free
exposure to the light of the sun, while
it certainly exerts an influence on the
mind favorable to recovery, which can
not be wholly explained by the mere
cheerfulness and caImness it produces.
Journal Of Hygiene.
Year: 1873

Those surprise parties, somehow


nearly always turn out unpIeasantIy


They tell about one that came off up IL
Connecticut recently which was not
half as joyous as it should have been.
It was reported of a man and his wife,
who had been married for many years
without having any children, that they
had at last been made happy by the
birth of a daughter. Some of their
friends determined to give the man a
presentation surprise party. So aboutfor-
ty persons marched up to the house, one
evening, carrying a cradle, and lots of
gum-rings, and bibs, and bottles with
gum nozzles, and baby-carriage, and
some little night-gowns, and a coral
armlet, and gross of soothing syrup,
and paregoric. And they all burst into
the parlor at once on tip-toe. And
when the man, IN amazement, asked
them what they meant by such conduct,
they said they were coming quietly, so
as not to wake the baby. And when he
bIushed and stammered and asked,


What baby ?" they said his baby, and
began to hand him the things, and to
load him up with soothing syrup and
gum-rings, until he foored one of the
guests with quart bottle of paregoric,
and held him down until he expired


And then it was revealed that it was all
a mistake about that little daughter !;
that no such arrival had taken place at
all, but that the report was false. And
then the surprise party was a great
deal more surprised than the man was !;
and the guests gathered up that infant
furniture and tried to pretend to the
man that they never thought he had a
daughter, but that they understood he
had accepted position as director of
an orphan asylum, and that they
brought around few things for him to
distribute among the poor fatherless
children. The man said it was singu-
IarIy thin, and then the company went
home. The constitutional convention
ought to adopt some kind of a measure
to prevent these mistakes.-1LaUA 4 AdeLer.
Year: 1873

John Paul in the New York Tribune.J


I met General Banks at a pleasant
picnic in Mr. Frank LesIie's grounds on
Saturday. It was on the banks of the
'lonely lake, =" and there were water
falls and fountains, MOSES and ferns,
cold chickens and cold champagne, to
the hearts content. It grieves me that
the general does not remember how we
travelled in company once; but the cir
cumstances were not very favorable for
photography, perhaps. We were
travelling out of the Shenandoah valley,
and maneuvering very successfully to
draw StonewalI Jackson along in our
rear. Not man of us but swore that
the rebel general should not set foot on
the frontier of our native state without
finding us sternly confronting him IN
the interior. And it was only necessary
to gaze once in each soldiers face to see
that the hated enemy could not capture
us without stepping over the boundary
lines and violating the territory of
Maine. I wished several times during





mare 1 rode through that campaign here
to enter for some of the purses. The
bursts of speed which that faithful
creature showed on several occasions,
would pass belief if you did not know
just how near the detested foe got to us
at times. 1t may not be that I won any
spurs in the Shenandoah, but had
pair to start In with, and used them
well coming out. No, I am confident
that no one won any spurs down there,
though we played straight poker for
most everything else, and lost my
blankets, once to a cavalry captain, who
subsequently had no need for them.
But this is depressing. You may not
think me hero from all this, but who
is hero to his valley


HE that lives alone lives ia danger:
Year: 1873

The pencil marks you see around this
paragraph (thus) mean that your sub
scriptior is out or unpaid, and that
You are requested to pay up at once.
We would take great pleasure in extend
ing credit to our friends and patrons,
but cash alone viii pay expenses, and
we are forced to adhere to strict cash
rule. We hope you VIII comprehend
and appreciate the necessity of such
course, and renew your subscription
without delay. We solicit your favor.


e We enter no new names on our
books without the money il advgrce-
Year: 1873

A Fort Garland letter to the Pueblo
People, thus describes a sad accident
that lately occurred in that vicinity :
Recently two Mexican boys, Jesus Maria
and Juan de la Cruz Limbustero, were
taking herd of sheep across the sand
hills of the "Lomas del ArrenO, " about
twenty-four miles northerly from Fort
Garland. These sand hills extend out
into the San Luis valley about fifteen
miles, opposite the Mosco pass. The
herders undertook to make " short
CUT across the hills, instead of going
around as directed by their father. At
first everything moved gaily the boys
and sheep and dogs only sank few
inches in the white sand, and they
thought how foolish it was of old fogies
to 90 around twenty miles, when it was
only four across; but before they got
half across, one of those sudden storms
arose. Up came gentle breeze, the
breeze became a wind, and 5he wind an
awful hurricane; the sand moved about
in binding clouds, hills changed to
holes, and every hole was a seething
caldron. The poor boys struggled hard
to avert their doom, and Jesus Maria
managed, by drawing his Serape over
his head, and keeping his feet, and
climbing as the sand piled up around
him to survive the tornado but his
younger brother, Juan de la Cruz, sue
cumbed to the suffocating blast, and as
a ship goes down at sea, so sank the
boy, surrounded by his bleating sheep
and whining dogs, and when the storm
ceased, as suddenly as it commenced,
little Jesus found himself all alone,
with quiet mounds of glistening sand
all around him, and not trace of the
cruel storm nor wreck of the sad
disaster could be seen. He hurried
home, where he arrived the next day,
and told his tale of terror. The whole
plaza turned out to search for the lost
body and the missing sheep. Up to the
succeeding afternoon they had not re-
covered over four hundred sheep, most
of them being found about six feet be-
low the surface, and the natives from
neighboring plazas had flocked in to the
scene, and were busily engaged digging
out sheep, saving the wool and feasting
on mutton.