smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1873

The San Francisco Rural Press has
the annexed:


1t is pretty well understood that
nearly all the available water rights
in this State have been taken up by
private parties for speculative pur-
poses, and this Wholesale grabbing Is
still going on. The farmers are all
alive to the great benefits of irrigation
and the spectators are equally alive
to the great profits to be made In sell
ing water to the farmers. The danger
of large companies holding possession
of the water rights of immense tracts
of land is potent to any one who has
paid any attention ut all to the doings
of corporate bodies during the past
few years. The evils should be cor
rected while there is time, If possible,
and the time Is now. Ii the Govern
ment or State has no rights to the
water, holding it in trust for the peo-
pie as some persons argue, surely one
or the other ought to protect these
people from aggressive water mOnop0-
lies now springing up. The San Joa-
quin Valley Is the present seat OF oper-
ations for water spectators. There
they must have water to have crops;
but the settlers are unanimous in the
opinion that the water should belong
to the State or Government, and if
they must pay for it, they do not want
to enrich monopolies by SO doing.
There is great opposition to the plans
now prepared and being carried out
for irrigating portion of the valley.
The Stockton Farmers Grange has
adopted memorial to Congress oppos-
ing any subsidy to the San joaquin
and Kings River Canal and Irrigating
Company. The company probably
took pretty good care to get possession
of ali available water rights before
they started in, and it is not probable
that there is any room for any other
individual or company. The water
right policy in California has been a
very liberal one, and legislation on
the subject has been meager, but if it
is necessary to find out what rights in
dividuals have it will be an easy mat
ter to put test case to settle the mat
ter. AS the wholesale grabbing Of
"water rights on paper is going on
to such an extent a test case will prob
ably come Op ere long.
Year: 1873

Mrs. Hill, who shot her husband at
Worcester, Mass, did it in an unique
way, with all the accomplishments of
u fashionable life. She was walking
beside him, and asked him to take her
parasol for her. He took it, and she
then, after putting her hand in her
pocket to get the pistol asked him to
let her kiss him. He consented. She
put her arms around him, and put a
bullet in his left lung. His recovery
is doubtful. Her equanimity is pic
turpsOuely perfect.
Year: 1873

1t Is the intention OF the Government
to disburse silver coin next
week. The amount TO be disbursed
will depend entirely on the demand.
The Government is prepared to pay
out from $1,000 to 100000, but will
increase the amount if necessary. 1t
ia thought this action of the Govern
ment, will have tendency to bring in-
to circulation an amount of silver coin
heretofore boarded up, which in the
aggregate will all amount to from ten
to twelve millions of dollars.
Year: 1873

The Controller of the Currency has il
sued c'rculars calling upon all National
banks for reports Of their condition At the
close Of business on Friday. the 18th Of
September. 1873. The Bank Superintendent,
OF the State of New York has already called
for reports of the condition of all State
banks In that State for the same day; 10
complete statistics of all hanks, State and
National, IN the city and State of New
York. can be compiled from these return.
when received The Controller also selected
this day IN order that he may be able to fur.
nisl, complete statistics of the condition of
National Banks throughout the whole coun
try just previous to the beginning Of the
panic.
Year: 1873

The Pennsylvania Constitutional Conven.
ton proposes to make II crime to bore q
fellow-that il, . legislative or official fell
low, and to punish II With severe penalty.
The following Is the proposition which haa
been approved IN Committee Of the whole
Oi the Convention.


"The practice Of boring shall lie defined
and punished by law, and shall include any
corrupt solicitation Of members of the Gen
esal Assembly. or Of public officers of the
State. OF of any municipal division thereof.
and any occupation or practice a. com>
mon borer for or against the passage OF
approval Of laws The punishment for the
offense shall be by fine and imprisonment.
Year: 1873

We never had a coal stove around the
house until last Sunday: have always burned
pine slabs and pieces OF our neighbours fence.
They burn well, too. but the fence got all
burned up, and the heighbor said be wouldn't
build new one, so we went down to Joues's
and got a coal stove. 1t is called The "Rad-
ant Home and any man that says we didn't
have radiant home at our house for about .
four hours last Saturday night, is villain.
You see we didn't know anything about coal
stoyes. We filled the Radient Home about
hall full OF pine fence, and, when the stuff
got well to going, we filed the artesian well
on tJp with coal. 1t simmered and
sputtered about five or ten minutes,
and all went out, and we put on an
overcoat and pair of bucSskin mittens, and
"went out too," to supper. We remarked,
in the course Of the frugal meal, thai Jones
was ''troad" for recommending such
confounded refrigerator to a man to keep
wa;m by. After supper, we took piece of
ice and rubbed our hands warm, and went
IN VIII re that stove was, resolved tc make her
draw and burn il it took all the pine fence in
the first Ward. Our better half threw
quilt over her, and shiveringly remarked that
she never knew what real solid comfort was
until she got coal stove. Siune by the sar-
casm in her remark, We turned every dingus
in the stove that was movable, or looked like
II had anything to d,with drift ana pretty
soon the Radiant Home began to heave up
heat. 1t was not long before she suffered
like the new Slsby steamer. Talk ab ut
your heat! In ten minutes that room was as
much worse than Turkish bath as hades is
hotter than Liverman ice-house The per-
spiration fairly fried out of tin vater-cooler


in the next room. We opened the doors,


and the snow began +, melt as far up Vlne
street as Hanscombe's house, and people all
around the neighborhood put on linen
clothes. And we couldn't stop the con-
founded thing We forgot what Jones told
US about the dampers, and she just Kept
billing, The only thing We could do was to
go to bed, and leaye the thing TO burn the
house up ii it wanted to. We stood of with
pole, and turned the camper ,vely way,
and at every furn she just sent out heat
enough to roast an OK. We went to BED,
supposiny that the coal would eventuany
burn out, but about twelve o clock the whole
family had 10 get up and sit on the fence.
Finally a man came along who had been
brought up among coal stoves, and he put a
wet blanket over him, and vent to tie stove
and turned the pioper dingus, a1d she cooled
of, and sin-e that time ha> been Just as com.
Portable as possible. II you buy coal stove
you want to learn how to engineer it, OF you
may get roasted.-La Crosse Democrat.
Year: 1873

During the Exposition a conference
was hold at Vienna for the purpose
Of consultation on the systems prs-
vailing in different countries for the
protection Of inventions. | autsor-
lied a representative from The Patent
Office to be present at the time when
this conference was 10 take place, in
srdsr to aid as far as be might in Sc
curing any possible additional prosee-
ton 10 American inventors in Eu-
rope. The report Of this agent vii
be laid before Congress.
Year: 1873

On the first and second Sunday Of next
month this association will give picnic
for the benefit Of the widows and orphans
fund. Every one should contribute mite.
for the demands on the fund are severe
More than two hundred and fifty widows,
and three hundred and fifty orphans are
supported by il. All sort. Of amusements
and sports will entertain the guest. of the
association, and the visitors will heartily
enjoy the product Of thei. slight expeudi
furA
Year: 1873

through his wise activity, he had con-
structed for himself a lasting dwelling.


Finally, the appointed day appeared.
The king was seized in his palace, de-
prived Of his diadem and kingly apparel,
and placed in the inevitable vessel which
was to guide him TO his place of exile
Scarcely had he landed upon the shore of
the new island, when the inhabitants hur-
ried with joy to meet him. They re-
ceived him with honor. Instead Of that
crown which humanity endured only for
a year, they adorned his head with an un-
fading wreath of flowers. The Almighty
rewarded his wisdom. He gave to him
the Immortality of his subjects and made
him their eternal king.


The rich and benevolent man is God (;
the slave whom his master sent away is
man at his birth; the Island, where he
landed is the world the inhabitants who
come joyfully to meet him, are the pa
rents, who take care of the naked and
weeping infant. The vizier, who warns
him of the sad fate which awaits him is
Wisdom. The year of his reign is the life
of the man, and the desert island, whittier
he is approaching, is the future world.
The kings, however, who have gone be-
fore him, without rejecting upon the un-
happiness which threatened them, are
those foolish men who occupy themselves
only with worldly joys, without thinking
of the life after death. They are pun.
ished with eternal misery, because they
appear before the throne of the Almighty
with their hands empty of all good works


You see, therefore, that man is judged
through his works and not through faith
from the German.
Year: 1873

A YOUNG gentleman of Concord recent.
ly received the present of a birch bark
canoe; and the following evening he
launched the frail craft, and invited few
friends to witness the trial trip. After
carefully parting his hair in the middle,
and dividing his small change equally
between his right and left vest pockets, in
order TO preserve an exact equilibrium,
he stepped on board. The vessel walked
the waters like thing of life" but the
young man, Just at that time, saw some
thing on the bottom of the river that he
wanted and went down after it with a
terrific splash, whereat his friends on the
bank, stupidity supposing he had acci-
dentally tipped over, INDUCED in un-
seemly mirth. The navigator, however,
swan ashore, and administering a cutting
rebuke To his friends, started again. The
next time he tried it, he acknowledged
that the frisky little boat did tip over, but
felt confident that there would be no
trouble after he had got the hang Of the
thing. Finally he made a fourth and last
attempt, the boat turned over as usual,
and he came up under it. His friends,
seeing that he did not put in an appear
ance, plunged in after him, snaked him
out, and then, under the impression that
he needed resuscitating, stood him on his
head, rolled him on barrel, burned tea-
theirs under his nose, pounded his back
lanced his arms with penknile, and
otherwise mal:reated him. AS soon as he
could get out of their clucthes he seized
an oar, - went for " the amateur doctors
with so much energy that they vacated
suddenly, and left him master OF the situ
alton. He is now anxious to tnd some
pretty toy manufactured of nitro -glycerinG
TO send TO his friend in return for the ca
noe. Boston GLOBE.
Year: 1873

erly worn is of great service In keeping
women erect, in distributing the weight
of their clothes over'the hips, and In OBJ
Waiting the necessity that would otherwise
be upon them of binding their skirts too
tightly about their waists. II is a foolish
waste of words to attribute to the corset
Itself evils which spring from its misuse.
Many people, perhaps most people, wear
shoes which are too small for their feet,
and an anatomical shoemaker" once told
us that his entire secret lay in making
peoples shoes size or two larger than
they were accustomed to wear them. But
shall we therefore denounce shoes as the
authors of bunionsP Let us at least be
sensible in these matters whether we can
manage to be strictly Just or not. Let us
enlighten our daughters in regard to their
own bodies, so that they may know how
hideously tightlacing deforms them, and
with what terrible dangers to life and
health it is attended 1t is idle to talk
nonsense to them instead, and to tell them,
as one sensationalist did not long ago,
that ANY corset, no matter how loosely it
is worn, is sure to produce heartdisease."
Every sensible girl knows well enough
that such statement is absurdly false,
and falsehood never yet did good ser
vice for the truth. Men do not gather
grapes of thorns.-Hedrt6 and Home.
Year: 1873

Recent experiments have confirmed
the supposition that the inferior quality
of certain kinds Of wheat and rye flour is
frequently due TO the action of sunlight
by which, even when in bags or barrels
the gluten suffers metamorphosis SINH.
lar to that occasioned by heating in the
milk. The tendency thus impaired TO it
out toughness & similar to that of F four
from moist grain, or of flour when it is
too fresh, or made from grain ground too
early, or when adulterated with barley
meal. Such flour can be improved by
keeping for some weeks.
Year: 1873

THE Cincinnati Gazette says "The
writer of this saw man yesterday who
came to this city in 1910 with his father
from Pennsylvania in two.horse wagon.
They drove up Main street, and when
they got up little above where the new
postoffice is to be located, man came
along and asked him if he owned that
team. When told he did, he offered his
father seven acres of land in square
block coming up to Main street. The old
gentleman took look around, and said
he wouldn't sell his team for the whole
town. Drive on, boys The team at that
time was probably worth between seventy
five and one hundred dollars.
Year: 1873

Prentice Mulford thus writes of his
experience at the Vienna Exposition
"Of course got lost couldn't find the
'Ausgang' This, in German, means the
git out place. must have walked seven
miles in that maze of building before the
'Ausgang' presented itself l knew that
it would come sooner or later | knew
that if simply stood still 'Ausgang
would come round where 1 stood. l
think about five hundred other people
were similarly lost for they kept coming
up to me and inquiring in all sorts of
languages where the 'Ausgang' was. l
said to them, i am simply fellow-worm
of the dust like yourselves. Yesterday,
or the day before yesterday or last week,
or maybe last year, / managed with a
great deal of difficulty to get in here, and
I've been wandering around ever since
trying to get out Some said 'Yaw,' and
some said so"
Year: 1873

ABOUT the meanest little thing that has
come under our notice for some time was
perpetrated the other day by Spicer, at the
drug store, upon two timid and reserved
gentlemen One of them our friend
p, is following the legitimate, and we
dare say lucrative, business of lightning
rods for the protection of his fellow men,
With almost Christian fortitude he had
argued the erection of these life-preserving
rods-the only safe and reliable ones in
use-upon the house of friend Spicer


How vividly did he picture the horrors
that are liable to present themselves to
Spicer or any other man whose house does
not wear rods-as he returns to his family
after hard thunder shower. Wife, child,
all passed into eternity in an instant, and
perchance house burned down, and the
heavy weight that would forever lay up
on his heart that he was the cause. For
the sake of few paltry dollars he had re-
fused the protection and caused the death
of a beloved wife and dear child. For
the ninth time he sat down for a few hours
talk with the hard-hearted Spicer upon
this subject, which at the time being was
nearest his heart. Just as he had got fair
ly engaged Spicer jumped up, ran TO the
door and calling in stranger, brought
him forward and said:


"Mr. P, allow me the pleasure of
acquainting you with Mr.. Il, agent
for the Chicago Life Insurance Company.
Mr.. Il, Mr.. P is a reliable
lightningrod man of our town."


Dear reader, pause for moment. Imag-
inc, if you can, the situation. An insur-
ance agent and lightning-rod man met
face to face in mortal combat What a
CLEAN of satisfaction flashed over the
countenance of Spicer, as he drew back
from the scene that would inevitably fol-
low, and as he was near the door he was
heard to say flight it out on that line,
boys, if it takes all summer l am sorry l
can't be with you, but matters at home de-
mand my immediate attention" Neither
agent has been heard from since.-Albert
| len Mimi EnferD1.jSe
Year: 1873

the public debt in the Treasury Department would
have the effect TO the Of keep ping these
accounts, and OF desisting from the deceptive
practices OF the Treasury Department. fhere
arc others who do not believe that any
such effect will be produced on tho Treasury
officials Their course Is sustained by the whole moral
force of the Government aud would no doubt be ana
tanned by its physical power the dOings OF the Treas
ury were seriously meDaced by an indignant and out
ragged people The manner In which the sccounts OF the
Treasury Department are kept IL simply a fraud. This
was demonstrated time and again during the Sec
retaryship Of Mr.. Boutwell, aud his successor seems To-
have been appointed more for tho purpose OF
continuing the same system OF Fraudulent.
keeping Of accounts anu OF misleading tho
public the condition Of the Treasury Of favor
ing the syndicates which created bY Treasury
Department 10 fatten upon the ytds OF tue Govern
ment, than for the purpose OF managing 80 hOnest
and efficient way this important depdrme nt OF govern
ment administration. Perhaps the awakening Of tho
public mind to the attempt Of moBopOles 10 subject
people their domination VIII make 70 sensible Of other
grant abuses Wblch much grievance thesG
,nOuOpOlies
Year: 1873

Yesterday morning Mr.. Pirz, proprietor of
the CarniOl Chemical Works gave information at Police
Headquarters that child being starved TO death
in a room OF teDementhouse at Dutch Kills Police
Commissioner Davren, Health officer Denner, aud two
policemen proceeded 20 the designated house. and there
met sight Of almost iDdescribablo horror In close
room on the top floor OF block Of wooden houses was
found a child apparently about three years OF age,
nearly naked aud in the last stages OF starvation It
was lying on tho bare floor emaeiaed and so reduced
that Dr. Denner Immediately ordered stmulants, and
took the child away aud tutrusted 1t TO the
care OF a neighbor The child alone. locked
into the room, and the family, man and
wife, are said 70 be employed in NewYork City where
they 20 every morning, returning late at night leaving
the child without food drink, expecting find it dead
on their return AT first the child supposed
long 20 these unnatural people but subsequent inquiries
on the part OF the Commissioners have elected The


formation that me child left with them to be raised
by parents, who live in NcwNork Cty The child IL
nov IN good hands, and a policeman was lett on thy
premises last evening 10 arrest the occupants OF TIE
house their return This Is considered clear case Of


baby farming" and excites great Indignation Oh the
part VI al acGualDted WILD the eIeuinsIAAces
Year: 1873

Sixty cents a day is considered good
wages for working man in any of the
European countries, except Great Brit
ain, where the wages are somewhat
higher In the Tyrol silk region and in
Italy they often do not get more than
ten cents. In the country in Germany
ten cents is the common pay. Women
there often get but FIVE cents. In Swe-
den men often work from four o'clock
in the morning till nine in the evening,
and do not get any more. During the
late war many poor women in Berlin
were hired to knit stockings for the SOL
diers for five cents. The profits of the
poor who keep petty shops. sell trinkets
in the streets, or act as suffers, do not
average more than three or four per
cent. BARRIERS in Berlin since the rails
ing of their prices, get five cents for
hair cutting and two and half cents for
shaving. Servants at hotels get from
three to eight dollars a month. Servant
girls in private families often get but
ten dollars year Sometimes these
classes cannot get work at any price.
Year: 1873

ginety-six million bushels Of wheat,
the Mark Lane Express says, will be
required by England this year from
abroad, in consequence Of the failure OF
the potato crop and shortness Of the
grain crop. This is considered good su-
thority on the subject, but there may be
little trick of trade in making the an
nouncement Of such an extraordinary
deficiency at the present time. How,
ever, the prospect OF foreign demand
is good for our farmers. Cheap trans
portation would come in very veil Just
now, and would have beneficial effect
upon trade generally and the exchanges
as we'll as upon farming interests.
Year: 1873

From the Plumas NatiOnal.l


Near the summit Of the mountain
south of Taylorville is the noted quartz
ledge, or, more properly, gold ledge,
owned by A. G. Light, an old resident
Of Plnmas county. The route leading
to the mine is mere rail and the only
method Of approach is on foot, owing to
the precipitous character Of the hill
The ledge itself, if it can be named a
ledge, is a mere disjointed thread of
gold.bearing quartz lying in a bed or
slide of decomposed gneiss. The quartz
rarely attains to the thickness of six in
chcs and mainly does not exceed two
inches in diameter. The rich stAnger
of which Lights ledge is fragment,
probably ran parallel with the Premium
originally, and was DETECTED from its
southeast course at this point by vol
canic disturbances.


This queer little quartz mine has for
years been the most notable gold deposit
in Plumas county, and has probably ex-
cited as much comment as any on this
coast. The gold is mainly found at
points or pockets, where the stringer of
quartz narrows to mere seam. FIRE.
quently at these narrow points Mr.. Light
takes out from $500 to $7o0 per day, by
simply crushing the rotten quartz in
hand mortar. The quartz is all richly
auriferous, and by careful reduction will
pay largely Light works his mine
alone, and in his own rude way pecks
out from $4,000 to $4,000 every year.
He has dearly earned every dollar
which he has realized, however, for the
amount of hard work which he has ex-
pendeded upon the claim is enor-
nous. He has literally honeycombed
hundreds of feet of the mountain with
bitches, open cuts, side cuts, shafts and
tunnels, and is still delving away. Some
years ago this indomitable worker dug a
ditch along the summit, above his pres
ent work, which, during the spring
months, will carry good stream of
water. Strangely enough, he does not
think of utilizing this mighty power in
dredging out his ground. The entire
mass on both sides of his ledge is rotten
gneiss which could be readily removed
by even a small stream of water, and
thereby save an enormous amouat of
picking which the old man is now doing.
Besides, there are doubtless thousands of
dollars worth of gold in the wash below
the ledge.
Year: 1873

The News FROM MEXICO, by telegram, dated
In tho national capital is indicative Of a strong
desire on the part of the Executive and Con-
gress to promote healthy legislation tending
to the pacifcation of the country and the pro-
motion of its material interests. A considerable
amount of American speculation is still per.
ceptble but the relations with the govern
ment at Washington remain complete and o
1 friendly character
Year: 1873

SPANISH SPIES AT KEY West. sus-
picious gentry have made their appearance at
Key West They are supposed to be spying
On Uncle Sam in the interest of the bombastic
volunteers. We hope the Casino will like the
news they send to the ever Faithful Isle."
The feet is preparing to go down, and the
sooner the spies can inform the Casino that
the monitors have steamed out the better the
American people will be pleased.