smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1872

To the Public:


The Trustees of the Public Library of Kentucky be-
ing satisfied from the large sale of tickets already made
and the daily increasing demand for them that there
will be no occasion for postponing the second drawing
in the Gift Concert in aid of the Public Library of Ken
lucky. have instructed me, their agent and maua
of the Gift Concert teay to the public and ticket
holders that the drawing will positively take place on
September 18th prox and will not be postponed. An
active demand for tickets from every State and
Territory of the United States and from the Canadas
giving to the Trustees that no circumstances
can prevent drawing at the appointed time


sufficient clerical force is engaged to keep up with
the orders for tickets and in order that this Office may
be relieved of the immense pressure incident to the
business for the week or two Immediately preceding
the drawing agents especially and those desirous of
procuring tickets requested to send in their orders
Immediately sales will have to be closed in time to
make the necessary preparations for the drawing 1t
is the wish of the management to fill every order for
ticket well to sell all the tickets but those who
Apply first must be supplied and if those who put off
buying until sales are closed have their money return
ed instead of the tickets ordered, in the first Gift
Concert in December last when thousands of dollars
that too late sent back that they will have
none to blame but themselves.


THOS. E. BRAMLETTE,


Agent Public Library Kentucky
LOUISVILLE, KY. August 49, 1s72-eod12tw2t.
Year: 1872

Mr.. william r. Clayton died suddenly at his
residence, corner OF Fourth and Monmouth streets,
Jersey City, at five O'Clock yesterday morning
Although suffering from occasional attacks OF rhcu-
matism, Mr.. Clayton was in comparatively good
health up to Saturday. He actually attended
to business on that forenoon, and the announce.
ment OF his sudden demise cast a gloom over
that section OF the city in which he had been long
held IN high esteem. Mr.. Clayton was born In Clay
ton, st. Lawrence county, n. u, In 1926, and had
been resident OF Jersey City for eight years. lie
was most active member OF the present Board Of
Chosen Freeholders OF hudson county. To his Of
forts the people OF Jersey City are chiefly indebted
for the erection OF the new mOrgue and his latest
public act was directed to the ameoration of the
condition OF the lunatics confined in the
County Asylum. At the meeting OF the Board on last
Thursday he procured the passage Of resolution
providing for the appointment Of committee TO
inquire into the treatment Of lunatics In the County
Asylum, and he was appointed chairman OF the
committee. In private life he was genial, kind
hearted and charitable. The funeral Will take
place tomorrow.
Year: 1872

Death of Mrs. Van Syckie from Arsenic


Administered In Tea.


Mrs. Van Syckle; the lady who was reported in
these columns yesterday as dying from the effects
OF arsenic administered through some unknown
agency in tea, OF which she partook on Thursday
last died at her residence, corner Henry street and
Love lane, Brooklyn, on Saturday night Deceased
had been shopping in New York on Thursday, and
upon her return directed one of her dOmestics to
bring her cup Of tea. Shortly after swallowing
that beverage she was taken Ill with violent retch
ings and pains In the stomach. DIR. Crane was
summoned at an early hOur on the following morn
ing and he discovered unmistakable symptoms of
poison In the suffcrngs Of his patient Antid0tes
such as are usually administered in cases OF poison
were given Mrs. Van Syckle, but their effects were
not at all gratifying. A portion OF the tea which
procured by the physician, and, upon being SUBJ
jected to chemical analysis was found TO contain
arsenic Other physicians were called in, and
everything possible under the circumstances was
done 10 save the life OF the patient, but without
effect. She breathed her last between seven and
eight O'clock on Saturday evening. Coroner
Whtehfl has been notified, AMI Will doubtless in
stitute thorough investigation IN the case, which
Is at present involved In mystery. Deceased
was, II IL said, possessed Of considerable
band, John Van syckle is butcher. and and keeps .'s
q store on the corner Of Columbia and Doughty
streets. His treatment of his wife for several years
has not been such as to establish the idea that he
was good husband Mrs. Van Syckle, on the
other hand, is represented as having been most
exemplary, prudent and active though delicate,
woman. She was the mother OF thirteen children,
but four OF whom are living, however, and was
forty years OF age. On Saturday morning, when
she realized the fact that her recovery was hope
less she executed WILL leaving her property to
her children. Much comment was excited yester
day at the delay of the Coroner in failing to visit
the house and view the body. Steps will speedily
be taken for the arrest OF certain persons inmates
OF the house or mourning.
Year: 1872

Informal Statement Of Amelia Kleiber.


Several reports have appeared in the HERALD in
relation to the case OF Amelia Kleiber the German
woman forty years OF age who, previous to her
death in the Emigrants' Hospital on Wards
Island, expressed desire to make o state
ment touching the condition she was then In. Ac-
cordingly Deputy Coroner Wooster Beach waited
upon the sick woman, who said she lived In Mis-
souri, and expressed hopes that she might recover,
although she was then IN dying condition. DR..
Beach then took her informal statement and In
answer to this question, ..DO yOu think that your
present illness was caused by neglect Of any 0ne?"
she replied AT the time my child was born the
nurse slept alongside OF me- and when ] called
her she did not attend to me. Between four
and five O'Clock my child was born, and the
nurse attended me at about hafpast six O'Clock in
the morning. / lay unattended after the child was
born for ali hour and threc-quarters the child
made no cry after its brth when she did attend to
me she did SO properly"


Alter the death OF Miss Keiber Dr. Beach made
postmortem examination and found that death re-
suited from puerperal perit0nits.


Coroner Keenan,, who has the case In charge,
will make 1urther investigation.


To make an ante-mOrtem statement OF any bind
ing force whatever ii is necessary that the sufferer
should consider himself or herself to have no hope
Of recovery at the time Of making the statement.
Miss Kleiber, at the time Of making the informal
declaration as given above, did not believe herself
to be In dying condition, and hence there could
nave been no legal force TO what she said.
Year: 1872

/ "The audacious negro intruder


into and usurper, by. the aid Of the


federal bayonets, Of the. office of


Lieutenant Governor, made a speech


to the Senate to-day, in which no


declared that he had been offered


$5O, 900 by the proprietor of this


paper to support the Fusion Sena-


ators. There never was q moro


outrageous falsehood that any such


offer ever was made in the presence


or to the knowledge Of this propri-
|:etor! It bears upon it's face the
evidence of falsity, in the large sum


given to buy a gracolcss rascal, who,
during the last four years, has been
bought scores of times for one
twentieth of the sum Indicated"


I say for the benefit of Mr.. Weed,
that I do not think in my remarks
I said that he offered me anything.
At least I did not mean to say so.
I make the correction for the bene-
fit Of the gentleman, notwithstand-
ing that he has seen fit to allude to
me in such an unbecoming manner:
His statement that he was not pre-
sent when the offer was made, is
clearly within the limits Of truth,
because Governor Warmoth was
very careful to have the folding
doors closed while Mr.. Weed re-
mained in the next room. This
was, Isuppose, to give him a chance
to outswear me, should it become a
question of veracity. Mr.: Weed
came first and asked me to 20 to
the ST. Charles Hotel and see tho
Governor. I declined pere1npto-
rily.. I had nothing on but my
gown, but signifed my willingness
to see Governor Warmoth at any
hour Of the night that he chose to
come to me, and that / was willing
to protect him in the emergency if
I could consistently. Mr.. Weed
then went out a short time, having
Governor Warmoth, I suppose, in q
carriage round the corner, and then
the interview was had as I have
stated, Mr.. Weed not being present.
Year: 1872

The highest paid female teacher in the service
Of the city of Boston, at present, il Miss Sarah
J Baker, principal of the Dudley school, High
lands whose salary was increased 5400. and
made y 400 at the last meeting of the board.
Miss Baker is the only female principal Of a
grammar school in that city.
Year: 1872

The Kings County Board OF supervisors


and tho C0roners.


Coroner whitehlll, Of Brooklyn, some months ago
gave Professor Doremus the stomach and other
organs OF the body OF the late Assistant Assessor,
Edward O. Anderson to analyze, for the purpose OF
ascertaining the presence Of arsenic, which was
believed to have caused his death. The chemical
analysis was duly made, and the Professor
sent In his bill to the Kings County Board
of Supervisors for their approval. Objection
was made to the amount Several Of the
economical members Of that body were shocked
at what they considered most outrageous charge.
evidencing their capacity to Judge Of the nature
OF the abors OF the scientific professor OF chemis
try and what constitutes fair compensation for
such services. Finally they agreed to allow oae-
half the sum $3.50, for the payment Of which
amount they voted.


Not long since the Coroner, being dcsirous OF
having certain samples OF explosive Kerosene Oil
tested to ascertain the quality of the
oil. gave. $40 to Professor Squib to
anaIyzc four specimens. The economical
Supervisors refused to pay tile bill, and the
Coroner was compelled to pay the money himself
This s the same Hoard that some time ago reused
TO pass bill for So presented through the Coroner's
onice by q poor boatmau, for towing o drowned
body ashore. from mid.river. Such economy N
simply ridiculous and dscredtabc to body polite
which should represent fair share OF Intelligence.
Year: 1872

Another Page from the Northwestern Wall
Street ''Corner"- Objection to the Ex.
animation Of Travers by Referee
InterrOgatOries To De Submitted
and Aifidayits Based Thereon


A Question Of Practice


Decision Reserved.
Year: 1872

DCIUTC SUUEc bIHVVHIUIU.


Frederick Roberts and Others vs. The Propeller
Galatea.-Ths case came before the Court on cx-
ccptions to the report OF Commissioner Belts re-
lating 10 the barge Reading and her cargo OF coal
and as to the allowance OF the value OF the cargo
at the time Of the collision. The Court overrules
all the exceptions except the second, which Is to
the allowance OF the value OF the cargo OF the
Reading at the time of the collision on the grounds
"that the cargo might have been raised and saved
for an amount less than It's value when saved; that
no proper or suitable efforts to raise or save the
same were made in behalf OF the libeants, and
that the same was finally lost IN consequence Of the
Year: 1872

The appointment Of Mr.. Seth 1.
Comfy as collector of the port of
Philadelphia sets at rest In q most
fitting msnner the various sur
misses which have gained publicity
from time to time. Although Mr..
Comfy had been in no manner a
personal applicant for the posi-
tion, it has been known for some
days past that the President had
had his name under favorable con.
sideration, and the announcement,
therefore is not altogether sur
prise. Of the propriety Of the
choice we cannot speak too warm
~, and we doubt if the selection OF
any other name could have met
with more general favor. As q
merchant and citizen, Mr.. Comfy
holds the highest rank for integri
ty and probity so that we may
confidently look for such an ad-
ministration of public affairs AZ will
reflect credit upon himself. upon
the city and upon the Republican
party, of which he is a staunch
and On uncomprising member.
Thoroughly versed in the mer-
chantile wants of Philadelphia, and
ode Of the ardent advocates Of
every recent measure that has
tended to the fostering of our
prosperity, our new collector will
take his seat determined to bend
every energy to the advance
ment OF our commercial supremacy
and to the proper and conscicn-
tious discharge Of his duties to
the government Philadelphia
North American.
Year: 1872

To the Republicans of Wayne Co.


I believe there is NO man how
ever Indifferent about the inserests
of his country, who will not con-
fess, that the situation to which
We are now reduced, justifies the
most melancholy apprehension,
and calls for the exertion Of mod
GRAFTON, and of whatever wisdom
is left among US. The same spirit
which violated the country in 1867
now prevades the Republican party
and threatens its disruption. As
we are Americans. citizens of one
common country, the least
considerable among Us has an in>
terest equal to the greatest in the
land, and I believe it to be not
only his right but his duty to con-
tribute to the interests of that
party, which he believes to be in
the right. The party which has
made us all We are to-day, the
party which compelled the world
to acknowledge every man NO
BLEMAN who became an American
citizen, and proud Of the name Of
American.


All who have heretofore acted
with the Republican party, should
now generously support tire men
who have been selected by the
Republican State Convention. It is
a common cause in which we are
all interested, and in which ali. true
Republicans should be engaged.
The man who deserts 1t at this
crisis, is an enemy to the party be
attempts to represents; and what
I think Of infinitely more impor-
lance, q traitor to his country.
/ OF course we cannot hinder
their desertion, but we can prevent
their carrying over their arms 10
the service Of the enemy. In this
mean, let us view ALL movements
or pleas for the organization Of q
third party, for whatever reason
set forth with suspicion. I am
aware that We have some persons
among US, who, till within the las,
few months, have been most dis
tinguished for their party zeal. bu,
are now agisating the question ol
bringing a temperance party into
the field in opposition to the Re-
publican nominees. This sudden
alteration OF their sentiments car
ries with it suspicious appear
ance. When I hear q mau who has
been honored by the republicans
of Wayne county with the best
position within the gift of it's pso-
pie. not only once but q second
time, advocating these measures
at the expense of THAT very party
which made him ALL that He IS
took him q poor man, and paid hin
net less than fifty thousand dollars
of theIpeople's money, for eight
years labor, which has placed him
beyond want, either in money OF
party influence, when such . mar
as this rises up against his beoe.
factor cannot but suspect tha,
some mischevous scheme Ia il
agitation to destroy both wings O.
the party, by opposing them 4
each other. ,-


Why did mot such men agitatl
these questions the vital impor.
tAnoe Of which Was as great the,
Year: 1872

A sroRrKEEPER for the Northern
Pacific railroad, at the second cross
ing of the Cheyenne river, writes
that during severe thunder storm
IN immense cloud of grasshoppers
darkened the air and settled down
over the place; they covered the
whole ground, and desirous OF find.
out tho extent of the vegetation, he
took carriage and drove out, find
ing that they extended about thro
miles each way from him, six mile
in all. Millions of them, he writes
were hurled with violence again:
the house and killed, so that HI
"wheeled away ten barrow loads o


them" They loft not a green thins


visible after taking their supper
They remained about twenty y-foul


hours,
Year: 1872

The Stockton (Cal.) Republican vouches
for the following story: People often
wonder at the remarkable instinct dis
played by we'll trained shepherd dogs,
but what VIII they say when we tell
them of a band of sheep that is guarded
by foxes alone. The story seems i'm
probable, but of its truth we have the
most undoubted proof On Whisky
Hill, four miles from Milton, may be
seen, almost any day, large flock of
sheep herded by foxes. These guardians
of the lambs are three in number-one
a gray fox and the other two of the
species known as tho red fox. In point
of intelligence, these novel shepherds
are said to greatly surpass the best
trained shepherd dogs. They perform
their work well, and from morning till
night are ever on the alert. The gray
one seems to control, and in a great
measure direct, the actions OF the other
two. A gentleman informs us that he
saw the gray fox pursue and attack 8
hog that had seized lamb and was
making off with it. The contest was
short and sharp, and resulted in the hog
dropping the lamb and beating a hasty
retreat. The fox picked up the ap
parently uninjured lamb and carried il
back to the flock"
Year: 1872

In one of the eastern counties oi
West Virginia there lived a little boy
who had a smart father. He knew this
was rHsher an uncommon circumstance
and he used sometimes to boast of it.
One day he was holding forth on this
subject to q crowd in the village store.


"My father" said he, can do almost
anything. He's notary public and
he's 'pothecary and he can pull teeth
and he's a horse-doctor and he car
mend chairs and wagons and things ano
he can play the fiddle and he's a regular
iackass at all trades"
Year: 1872

The stream is calnest when it nears the tide,
The flowers are sweetest at the eventido,
The birds more musical at close Of day,
And saints diyinest when they pass away.
Morning is lovely, bat holier charm
Lies folded close in Evenings robe of balm;
And weary man must ever love her best,
For Morning calls to toll, but Night to rest.
She comes from Heaven, and on her wing


doth bear


A holy fragrance, like the breath Of prayer;
Footsteps of angels follow in her trace,
To shut the weary eyes of Day in peace
All things are hushed before her as she throws
Der earth and sky her mantle of repose;
There is a calm. beauty, and power
That Morning knows not, in the evening hour
Until the evening we must weep and TOLL
Plow liie's stern furrow, dig the weedy soil
Tread with sad feet our rough and thorny way
And bear the heat and burden of the day.
o. when our sun is setting may we glide,
Like Summer evening down the golden tide;
And leave behind us as we pass sway,
Sweet, starry twilight round our sleeping clay
Year: 1872

n is suggested by a Western paper that
Sergeant Bates, instead Of carry ng the flag
of The free through various foreign lands,
would be more proRtabiy employed in the al
ternatc propulsion and attraction OF com
mon metallic implement with serrated edges,
used for the separation Of specimens of high
est deveopement of vegetable growth into
convenient lengths for culinary combustion
Year: 1872

THE HORSE DISEASE is rapidly spreading
all over Chester county. There are numerous
cases in at least half the townships, though
generally cf light type. With care and good
treatment, it is probable but few animals will
die.
Year: 1872

SMAsH-CP.-At noon, today, a man who was
driving restive horse along Market street, near


Fourth, applied the whip rather freely. The
consequence was that the horse became ,lnman-


ageable and turning around suddenly, came in
contact with a passing carriage, which it almost
entire demolished. A small wheelbarrow which


little boy was trundling across the street, was
also broken, while the boy narrowly escaped
injury.
Year: 1872

We believe we have told our readers of the
curious papers, letters and otherwise, which
the late inhabitants of the Tuileries left be-
hind them-Bonaparte in his confidence of
returning thither in triumph from Berlin, and
his wife in her haste to escape from the
clutches of the mob Many and curious are
the revelations they make: and not the least
extraordinary is the confirmation of the story,
which was hushed up some five and forty
years ago, that Napoleon the great added to
his other titles to distinction that of being a
Year: 1872

I TWO CHARMING AND Popular WORKS
- OF ART.


wide Awake and Fast Asleep
TWO EXQUISITE FRENCH OIL CHROMoS.
THE SUBJECTS OF WHICH ARE LIFE


SIZE, AND CANNOT FAIL TO PLEASE


ALL WHO LOVE ART OR chill
Year: 1872

The charming pair of chroms,, ,''Wide Awake" and


Fast Asleep" of whose real beauty and attractive
ness Mrs. Stoves graceful sketch can give but an
imperfect ideaso pleasing they to all who love
art or chidren-have always sold in the picture
for $40, and the original publisher has never been
able to supply the great demand for them even at
that price, And yet, although thousands of them
have been sold in America at that high rate they are
now within the reach of all, for they are
Year: 1872

ness to-day has been usual railroad and miscc


aneous stock market. the transactions In gold having
been too insignificant 10 require more than passing
notice. much less active and important business was
done to-day than yesterday, reference to the official


printed sales-which, in their present amended
shape, form their own commentary on the
days proceedngs-will show The forenoon market was
animated and lively trade was done. as disposition
was evinced among the proprietors OF large and small


and moderate blocks OF stock to market their holdings at
the high figures now going. There Is an innate desire
I'm the human heart, that is the Wallst speculative
human heart TO make money, and profit OF three or
four or half dozen per cents too anrngto be rejected
for slight and transient causes, and in consequence
heavy realizing have been the order Of the day Again.


reaction is but natural after brisk an upward run
and though speculation breeds thrves, ana grows iat
upon easy money, yet its eternal unrulng would not
carry prices SO high but that they must at times re-
act and rebound. as from tmo to time tne
wires arc pulled by the hidden hands OF tne
operators Of these IdntOeeinL For stocks arc Due
puppets, however we may attempt to deny IT,


Later in the day stocks irregular and prices were
lower as a rule, though there were exceptions 10 the
rule, and among the exceptions were Canton, Panama
Railroad Pacific Mail Steamship Company, and Union
Pacific which were strong at the close, while the other
stocks upon the list generally weak The opening


highest lowest and closing prices Of stocks we're as io
Year: 1872

respectable trade and investment demand for rail-
road bonds have sprung up since the Treasury relief
the money market and all the old aud many OF the first
class roads in requests the sales very large
and ut full figures, reflected in the official list printed
above. The bids were as follows: