smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1871

OUR MUNICIPAL DEBT $20OOOOO0O.
CONTROLLER CONNOLLY's EXHIBIT TO BE sUB-


MITTED TO-DAY-AN INITIATION THAT PRE-


VIOUs REPORTS WERE FALSE AND UNDER


ESTIMATED.


A large force of clerks, under the direction
OF the Controller himself has been engaged for week
past preparing the statement OF the City and County
called for Ivy the Joint Committee OF Supervisors
Aldermen and Citizens and which is to be presented to
them to-day Most OF the clerks though very courteous
recent, and had the appearance OF men strongly
impressed with the idea that something dreadful was
about happen. The greater part Of those assembled
in and the New Court House appeared be very
much interested in defeating the action OF the people
against city rulers and talked when they thought
no outsider would hear them, as II they might be
sinecures Tammany's payroll with no very pleasing
prospect Of drawing more stamps" for long time
TO come. The same 10 true OF many Of those who
thronged the steps Of the City Hall and the walks
around It, -


There il an abroad that the chief labor involved In
the preparation of this debt statement Is In falsyng
the figures. Indeed broad intimatOns were heard on
Saturday the report would not indicate the actual
facts in the The York citizen edited by q
strongly condemned the frauds ef the Ring distinctly
charges that the debt Is $75aOO,OOO more than the
last exhibit OF the Controller indicates The follow
ing from The citizen OF Saturday last will asOnsh many
who had believed that the worst thing had already been
said of Ring We hear which come to us In
such shape cannot dtSbetttue them, that municipal
matters are much ercn than has been supp0@d
that the half not been told and that city debt in
heing $l25OOGO. we stated Is mol less hdn
t2OOOOOOOQ.
Year: 1871

AN ATTEMPT TO BE MADE TO RECOVER TIE


MONEY ILLEGALLY TAKEN FROM THE TREA-


SURY-PKOMINENT BANKERS AND MER-


CHANTS PUSHING THE SUIT.


When the speakers at the Cooper Institute
meeting last Monday evening assured the public that
among other steps to he taken against the robbers Of the
city treasury proceedings to be instituted for the
recovery Of the vast feoniousy distracted the
received part OF the glttering gen
eraes" which usually thrown out by way OF adorn
ment. But there not wanting so,ne among those
present who observed the peculiar confidence and
phass with which the remark made and there have
since been looking with mpatence for the realization of
their own aud the publics hopes in that regard That
these are be disappointed that the speakers who
gave US the comforting assurance In question knew
whereof they spoke and that the law arrogany de-
fed and violated by these is to be used to wiring
from them the money flched from the city treasury
every bOnest will be rejOced to learn. The initial
step in this last but not least reform has al
ready been taken. Certain prominent bankers
Of this city have associated themselves to-
gether with the determination to, ferret out
on their account as taxpayers aud also for the
benefit Of this patient public, all the property OF what
ever nature In the name or under the control OF the
members Of the Ring intending 10 put the whole OF the
claims into immense suit and force the thieves TO
dkgorge their illgoten gains Papers are being pre-
ination Of Tweed and Connolly In open court and TO
compel the latter to produce ths G accounts ana the
application will soon be made to Judge Barnard Tor such


AS earnest Of the intentonpf the gentlemen alluded
to, statement has been prepared showing that Mrs
Mary Connolly the wife OF tho Controller had up TO
Wednesday last, in her own name the immense OF


In registered United sta tes bonds half million
of which she formally transferred to her law, Joel
Ftnian, esq., the day mentioned, the transfer being
Immediately telegraphed 20 Washington and entered In
the books OF the Treasury Department there 1t Ia said
that Mrs Connolly also h0l Is t3OO0 In unregistered
United states bonds makiuy sSoOOO In al; but how
this may be- sta tenent as TO the registered
bonds is beyond all doubt ru and there good ground
for hope that the whole of tho H6O00 will ultimately
BE recovered back TO the city The facts were laid be-
soss sxJsdAa Barret sstarAa es he has bsen tor
Year: 1871

mally retained in the matter and will give an opinion
within o very short time to whether an action will lie


That the whole Of this enormous property has been
corrupty obtained there be doubt as strict In
vesgation reveals the facts that Mrs Connolly has
been engaged IN any speculation business what
ever whereby such sum could have been realized, and
the possession OF prncely fortune by s not to be
for except the result Of the shameful pecu
IatiCns alleged against her husband, the Controller.
Year: 1871

Pat was on the main deck giving the Mig
gers h--ll.


The Louisville left for New Orleans
with a fine freight trip and a cabin full
of people. We wish Captain Merrille's
and Clerk Power all tho success in the
world with their new purchase.


The transit steamer Illinois was detained
three hours yesterday morning, waiting
for Lakes circus troupe to bring them up
here.


The following runs prove the steamer
Katie TO be the fastest of the three cham
.pions of the western waters in the run
from st. Mary's market, New Orleans to
Hills Gate:
Year: 1871

Pour four gallons of boiling wa
ter over six pounds of washing soda
(sal Soda and three pounds of un
Stacked lime. Stir the mixture
wei, ,and let it settle till it is perfect
iy clear. 1t is better to let it stand
all night, as it takes some time for
the sediment to settle. When clear,
strain the water, put six pounds of
fat with it, and boil for two hours,
stirring it most of the time. If it
does not seem thin enough, put
another gallon of water on the
grounds, stir and drain of, and add
as is wanted to the boiling mixture.
Its thickness can be tried by occa
sionally putting little on plate to
cool. Stir in handful of salt just
before taking it off the fire. Have
a tub ready soaked, to prevent the
soap from sticking, pour it in, and
let it settle until solid, when you
will have from the above quantity
of ingredients about forty pounds
of nice white soap.
Year: 1871

To understand the philosophy of
this phenomenon, essential to the
very existence of plants and animals
a few facts, derived from observa-
ton and a long train of expert
ments, must be remembered. Were
the atmosphere, at all times, at a
uniform temperature, we should
never have rain, hail or snow. The
water absorbed by it in evaporation
from the sea and the earth's surface
would descend in An imperceptible
vapor, or cease to be absorbed by
the air, when it was fully saturated
The absorbing power of the atmos.
phere, and consequently its capabil
ity to retain humidity, is proper
tionably greater in cold than in
warm air. The air near the surface
of the earth is warmer than it is ir
the clouds.


The higher we ascend from the
earth the colder we find the atmos
phere. Hence the perpetual snow
on the very high mountains in the
very hottest climates. Now, when
from evaporation, the air is highly
saturated with vapor-though it be
visible-if its temperature is sud
denly reduced by cold currents de
scending from above, or, rushing
from higher to lower latitude its
capacity to retain moisture is di
minished, clouds are formed, and
the result is rain. Air condense:
as it cools, and, like sponge filled
with water and compressed, pour:
out water which its diminished ca
pacity cannot hold. How singular,
yet how simple is an arrangement
for watering the earth.-Scientift
american.
Year: 1871

The great want of this age is men
Men who are not for sale. Men
who are honest to the hearts core.
Men who will condemn wrong in
friend or foe; in themselves as well
as in others. Men whose consciences
are as steady as the needle to the
pole. Men who will stand for the
right if the heavens totter and the
earth reels. Men who can tell the
truth and look the world and the
devil right in the eye. Men that
neither swagger nor finch. Men
who have courage without whistling
for it, and joy without shouting to
bring it. Men in whom the cur
rent of everlasting life runs still,
and deep, and strong. Men who
know their message and tell it. Men
who know their duty and do it.
Men who mind their own business.
Men who will not lie. Men who
are not too lazy to work, nor too
proud to be poor.
Year: 1871

Brother Moore, of the Rural
New Yorker, was sitting in his of,
flee some years ago, when farmer
friend came in and said-"Friend
Moore, l like your paper, but times
are so hard l cannot pay for it."


SIS that so, friend Jones? I'm
very sorry to hear that you are so
poor; and if you are SO hard run, l
will give you my paper
"Oh, no! l can't take it as a gift. "


"Well, then, let US see how we can
fix it. You raise chickens, L be-
lieve."


"Yes, few, but they don't bring
anything hardly"


"Don't they? Neither does my
paper cost anything hardly. Now L
have proposition to make to you;
1 will continue your paper, and
when you go home you may select
from your lot one hen, and call her
mine. Take good care of her, and
bring me the proceeds, whether in
eggs or chickens, and we will call it
square"


CAN right, Brother Moore" and
the old fellow chuckled at what he
thought was a capital bargain.


He kept the contract strictly, and
at the end of the year found that he
had paid about four prices for his
paper. He often tells the joke on
himself, and says he never had the
face to say he was too poor to take
a paper since that day.
Year: 1871

We have learned that dew is the
floating moisture of the air gently
floating down upon the grass and
leaves of plants which have become
colder than itself. If now, the grass
and leaves become still colder, as
they will on an autumn or winter
night, the tiny particles of vapol
which in summer would make dew
are frozen as soon as they fall, and
appear on the grass like little brist
ling needles of ice. This we cal
frost. 1t does not take the form oil
a smooth layer of ice all over the
blades of grass, because it is the ma
ture of water, when freezing, to take
a regular form to crystalize. When
ever water freezes, little needles Of
ice are first seen to shoot out upon
its surface, which make the same
angles with each other, all over the
world. So it is in our house. The
moisture of the air in our rooms
touches the cold glass, and trying
to crystalize, makes the curious fros1
work ON our windows every cold
evening and morning.


A singular appearance is some
times noticed on rocks by the road
side, and on the brick walls o.
houses, when in winter there is 8
sudden change from cold weather to
warm. AS the stones and bricks
are still freezing cold after the all
has become warm, they condense
and freeze the moisture of the air
and array themselves in snow
white garment of frost.


Scholars in school are otter
troubled on winter mornings by 'the
frost coming out on their slates," as
they call it. The states are so wet
that the pencil marks cannot be
seen. This moisture on the slate
like the frost on the brick wall, is
caused not by the frost, or anything
else, coming out of them, but rather
by the air going into them. This
leaves the vapor in the air to settle
upon them in the shape of dew ol
frost.


A large collection of frost is Otter
seen upon the heads of nails, while
no frost appears on the wood around
the nails. 1t is the nature of iron
to receive heat from any warm sub
stance much faster than wood does
So the air, which touches the nail
and lays down Its moisture upon il
to freeze; while the wood, although
equally cold, being able to take only
n little heat away from the air, re
mains quite free from frost.-Olivel
Optics Mag.
Year: 1871

OYSTER FRITTERs.-Make batter
of milk, -four, eggs, cream of tartar
saleratus, salt in proper proportion.
Don't make any thicker than for
pancakes. Drop an oyster into each
spoon of batter as you dip it out
and fry in hot lard; brown well on
both sides.


PUDDING WITHOUT MILK OR EGGs.-
BY Mrs. Philip. Soak dry bread
in as little water as possible, and
squeeze out all the water. Add suf
ficient sugar to sweeten, and for
small pudding, half teacupful
of chopped suet or butter, and dried
fruit which has been soaked over
night,or canned or fresh fruit. Mix
well together, adding little all
spice. The pudding is put into a
CREASED tin pail, cloth placed over,
and the cover put on. The pail is
set in kettle containing sufficient
water to come half way up the pail;
boil for two hours, or more for
large pudding. To be eaten with
sauce.


How TO Cook OLD FowLs.-For
the possible benefit to some other
young house-keepers i wish to tell
them how to cook an old chicken.
Prepare as for roasting, then boil
three hours in covered pot, with
one quart of water, to which add
two table-spoonfuls of vinegar;
after which put in a hot oven for
about one hour, to brown. The
liquor in the pot to be prepared for
gravy; should the water boil away
too much, more should be added.
The result is, the meat is as tender
as young chicken, and some think
richer and better.
Year: 1871

Heat, water, and air are the things
to be provided. Dust and insects are
to be guarded against.


Heat.-Most plants will survive
if the temperature gets below 40 de-
grees; but no healthy growth nor
bloom can be looked for at a lower
average daily temperature than 60
or 65 degrees. 1t is better that the.
night temperature should fall 10 de
grees less than this. One difficulty
with plants in our dwellings is that
they are as hot at nightas during the
day.


Water.-Give water only when
the plants need it. A plant with its
roots constantly in mud cannot
thrive. 1t is better to wait until
the tagging of plant shows that
it needs water than to keep it con-
stantly soaked. Sprinkling or show
ering should be done as often as
possible. Take the plants to a sink
or bath tub and give them good
dousing.


Insects.-Don't have any. If
the plants are daily looked Overland
the thumb and finger properly ap-
piled, they will be kept in check. If
a plant is badly infested by the fly,
put it in box or under q barrel
and smoke it thoroughly. If the
red spider appears, as it will be apt
to do in hot and dry rooms, smoke
will not help it. Remove the plant
into hospital and shower it daily.
Frequent wetting and moist atmos-
phere is the best remedy.


Ar.-Do not be afraid ofopening
the windows whenever the outside
air is not freezing. Give air every
day when it is safe to do so. Not
only will the plants be benefited,
but the atmosphere will he the bet
ter for human lungs.


Dast is a great obstacle to the
successful growing of plants in the
house. The showering we have
recommended will help remove 1t,
but all smooth-lesved plants, such
as Camellias, Ivies and the like,
should be occasionally sponged to
keep the foliage clean and healthy.
Year: 1871

1t is said that flannel which has
become yellow by age, may be re-
stored to its original whiteness by
the use of one and half pounds of
white Marseilles soap in fifty pounds
of soft river water, to which is add
ed two thirds of an ounce of spirits
of sal ammonia, and the whole
thoroughly mixed. The flannel is
to be immersed in this solution and
well stirred around ,afterward wash
ed off in pure water. The same re-
suit may also,it is said, be obtained
still more quickly by immersing the
flannel for an hour in a dilute solu-
ton of acid sulphate of soda, and
stirring in dilute hydrochloric acid,
in the proportion of one part of acid
to fifty of water. The vessel
is then to be covered over and al
lowed to remain for quarter of an
hour, when the articles are to be re-
moved and thoroughly washed.
Year: 1871

81 would not 60 to Sabbath school
with that patch, said a proud girl to
her brother. I'D rather go with
the patch than not go at all, ANSWER
ed the boy.


The street boys said, Just as if
I'd go to that Sabbath-school with a
great patch on my knee" "If l
don't go with my patch, 1 can't go
at all; these be the best clothes l
got" said the boy, stopping and
looking down over his trousers.


''Come," said the street boys who
had not such a good mother as this
boy had, else their trousers would
have had patches instead of rags,
''come, go fishing with me-" "No,"
said the boy,'a patch is no disgrace,
and l shall go to the Sabbath
school," and he walked sturdily off.
He went to the Sabbath school.


Patch or no patch, what did his
teacher care, who had hunted him
up in his lowly home? She thought
most of the little boys soul. What
did the kind superintendent care,
who caught the boys blue eye look
ing straight at him as he spoke, and
was pleased to see it? Patch or no
patch, he sung Il want to be an an
gel" as sweetly and heartily as bet
ter dressed boys did. No scholar
recited a better lesson or behaved
more properly in his class. Patch
or no patch, God took notice that
he was there. Patch or no patch,
his Redeemer had died to save him,
and now said to him inder accents,
"Son, give me thy heart" Patch or
no patch, the Holy Spirit was how
ering near to help him remember
his Creator in the days of his youth,
and choose this day the Lord for
his portion. Patch or no patch hea-
ven had room for him.


A patch, you see, is no matter at
all. Instead of being disgrace, it
is rather an honor, because it shows
a boy has a kind and careful moth
er, anxious to do her best with the
small means God has lent her.
Never be ashamed of patch.
Year: 1871

Good little girls ought not tc
make mouths at their teachers fol
every trifling offense. This retalia
ton should only be resorted to un,
der peculiarly aggravated circum
stances.


If you have nothing but a rag dol
stuffed with sawdust, while one OF
your more fortunate little playmates
has China one, you should treat
her with show of kindness never
theless. And you ought not to at
tempt to make a. forclble swap with
her unless your conscience would
justify you in it, and you know you
are able to do it.


You ought never to take your lit.
tie brothers "chewing gum" away
from him by main force; it is better
to rope him in with the promise of
the first two dollars and half you
find floating down the river on a
grindstone. In the artless simpli
city natural to his time of life he
will regard it as perfectly fair
transaction. In all ages of the
world this eminently plausible fic-
tion has lured the obtuse infant to
financial ruin and disaster.


If at any time you find it neces-
sary to correct your brother do not
correct him with mud-never on
any account throw mud at him-be-
cause it will soil his clothes. 1t is
better to scald him a little, for then
you attain desirable results; you
secure his immediate attention to
the lessons you are inculcating, and
at the same time your hot water will
have tendency to remove impuri-
ties from his person-and possibly
the skin also in spots.


If your mother tells you to do a
thing, it is wrong to reply that you
won't. 1t is better and more be-
coming to intimate that you will do
as she bids you, and then afterwards
act quietly in the matter according
to the dictates of your better judg-
ment.


You should ever bear in mind that
it is to your kind parents that you
are indebted for your food and your
nice bed, and for your beautiful
clothes, and for the privilege OF
staying home from school when you
let on that you are sick.


Therefore, you ought to respect
their little whims, and put up with
their foibles until they get to crowd
ing you too much.
Year: 1871

A gentleman speaking Of the
happiness of the married state be
fore his daughter, ,despairingly said


"She who marries does well, but
she who does not marry does better
"Well, then," said the young lady
II will do well; let those who choose
do better"
Year: 1871

DISEASED LUNGS ARE GREATLY on AN Ina
CREASE IN THIS COUNTRY = The sudden
changing of weather has done much to give rise
to Consumption. But there are thousands of
cases who bring it on by their own i'm
prudence-such as wearing damp clothing, and
going from the warm room into the cold air,
and checking the perspiration, which causes IT,
ritation of the Lungs, and then matter or
phlegm will collect, which nature will try, to
relieve by coughing it up, to prevent pustules
from forming If nature does not raise the
matter with ease, and stop this inflammation,
tubercles will soon form, and Consumption will
soon follow. Aliens Lung Balsam will cure
and prevent thousands of cases of Consumption
if it is only taken in time


For sale by all Druggists. uHta
Year: 1871

- = - The symptoms of liver COM
plant are uneasiness and
pain in the SIDE. Sometimes
i NrAaknnHOG E the pain is in the shoulder,
NIMWl INN and is mistaken for rheuma-
tism. The stomach is affected
with loss of appetite and
sickness, bowels in general


costive, some alternating with


lax. The head is troubled with pain and dull, heavy
sensation considerable loss of memory, accompanied


zEzszszs1sy1 with painful sensation ofhay-
ing left undone something
which ought to have been
~ doHe. Often complaining of
INER weakness, debility and low
GIfE LII spirits. Sometimes many of
the above symptoms attend
the disease and at other
times very few of them; bu


the liver is generally the organ most involved. Cure
the Liver with
Year: 1871

Urinary and Womb Diseases, Gravel, Diabetes. Drop
sy( Incontinenee of Urine, Brghts disease Abuminu
ra and in where there Brick dust deposits
the water is thick cloudy mixed with substances like
the white Of an egg threads like white silk there
is morbid dark, bilious appearance and white Bone
dust deposits and where there is prieking, burning
sensation, and pain in the small of the back and along
liam Resolyent aided by tbs application OF Railways
Ready Relief to the spine and small of the back and
the bowels regulated with one or two of Railways
Regulating Pills per day viii, soon make complete
In few days the patient will be enabled to hold
and discharge water naturally without Dain and the
sherry color.
Year: 1871

There is evidently something wrong
in the make up Of the Massachusetts
youth. Not long siuce company OF
school boys stoned a poor LADY teacher
to death in open daylight, chuckled over
it when the woman was buried, and no.
thing done about it. A few days since
reports came by telegraph of an old man
of eighty being foully murdered, his
body mutilated and robbed Of the ins'g-
nifcant sum of $50. 1t now proves this
horrible murder was committed by two
boys, aged fifteen. If the youth of Mas.
sachusetts are demoralizcd and blood
thirsty, what, in the name Of all that Is
good, can be the condition of the grown
people there? Surely people that Will
commit such vile and soul-sickenlDg
murders should be the last to raise the
cry of Ku Klux against the people at the
South, who may take the law into their
own hands and wipe out a nigser who
outrases u white woman.


Ne,c York Democrat.
Year: 1871

warranted not to cut in the eye--not head
ache in a hhds. of tit is no sooner in your
belly than lis on your back in a pound of beet
and it carries bead like necklace; for
sale by


GEORGE AUSTIN.