smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1875

gentleman's report. Our cotem.
asks US if we thu4k Gen. Forsyth
would lie without d purpose. No,
we do not think the Gen. would
deceive anybody without a pur-
pose. .....


Does the RECORD claim that it
would he more to the interests or
the business men Of Eastern and
Southern Montana to pay two or
three cents more per pound for
their freight and have it delayed
several weeks on account OF its
roundabout transit, Just for the
sake Of shipping by way Of Ben
ton.


We ask nothing for Benton that
is in conflict with the interests OF
the business men Of Montana. Our
rates are open, and if lower rates
can be found, or more rapid transit
accomplished on other routes, we
see nothing to prevent the mer-
chants Of Montana from trying
them. They have already expert
mented in that respect and the
result is that tre Benton route this
season commanded nearly the en-
tire freight business Of the Terri
tory. It IS impossible for us to
argue against mythical rates. The


Yellowstone rate is . myth; the


Benton rate is clearly defined, a


matter Of dollars and cents in the


pockets of the merchants who have


practically tested its relative value


with other routes. We know the


instance from Benton to Bozeman,


we would have TO wait at least a


year even if the Yellowstone navl
cation Company were a reality, be-
fore we could fine out the point at
!, which freight could be landen on
the Yellowstone River. We arc


confident that at any season Of the
year 1t will be above the mouth o]
) the Big Horn, and how far below
: that it would be practical to lane
: freight we are unable to determine
: Of course, unit. the Courier i'm


aginary navigation company deter


mines it for us by practical illus
o tratlon.
Year: 1875

vicinity seems to be peculiarly nn-
fortunate in exciting the prejudice
Of civil and military officials, but #
there is any virtue in protest, we
are determined that unjust dlscrlm-
ination against this community shall
cease.
Year: 1875

EDITOR HERALD: / am compara-
lively a stranger in your city and
State, and must confess that n great
many things I hear and see seem
queer to me. If | am not mistaken,
your tax assessor last year was paid
extra for making the assessment. Yet
in looking over the tax list see many
things that seem singular to me- | eX-
pected that he would call at my
house, or give notice for me, and all
other taxpayers, to call on him and
give in taxes. If he called for me /
never heard the call. / am certain he
never called at my house, nor ever
saw me, or any of my family, about
taxes. But was surprised to see my
name on the delinquent tax list,p
and still more surprised to see that
the whole amount of my taxable prop
erty was valued at less than seventy
five dollars, which, if | had been
called upon to give in under oath,
could not have valued at less than five
hundred dollars. If this is IL fair sam
pie of the way in which the affairs of
your city are administered, then there
is no wonder that you have such
heavy taxes levied upon a few and yet
SO few and such mean improvement
If man is paid extra for doing his
duty, ought not his duty to be at least
well done? A TAX PAYER.
Year: 1875

One OF the strongest, because the


most unanswerable arguments in favor


of the speedy building of the Los An


geles and Independence Railroad, is


found in letter published in yester-


days HERALD, written by Mr.. NEW


MARK, of this city, now at Panamint,


and addressed to a number of our
leading citizens who are taking an ac-
tive part in urging forward the road
enterprise. Mr.. NEWARK is one of
those careful business men who weigh


and consider all propositions of such


magnitude as building railroad with


the utmest caution before becoming


either its advocate or opponent, and


he frankly admits that, previous to


visiting Panamint district, he regard


ed the building of the road as exceed


ingly problematical. But an examin


alton of the country and but partial


information as to its vast MIN
eral resources, has convinced him
that the road Ii, not only a necessity,
but will prove valuable piece of
property to its owners, as well as add
ing millions to the wealth of this city
and county. Mr.. NEWARK states
that Senator JoNEs and his associates
will supply five hundred tons of ore to
ship to England per day. Here is
daily work for fifty freight cars, to say
nothing of the ore from other mines
not owned by this company and from
the hundreds of undiscovered lodes
that will be developed in Inyo county.
The immense business which these
mines will create will, of course, ne
cessitate large freighting business
over the road to the interior. The |
fact mentioned by Mr. NEwMARK,
that the region of the mines is capable
of producing nothing but ore, is con-
firmation Of the argument made by
the HERALD some time ago, that the |
building of the road will furnish a
regular and steady market for every
thing produced in Los Angeles valley. |
No one can read Mr.. NEwMARK's let
ter and fail to see that this railroad is
just what Los Angeles valley needs to
make it the richest spot on the Pacific |
coast.
Year: 1875

The San Francisco Bulletin of the
Nth inst. contains leading editorial
on the attempt of the Southern Pacific
Railroad Company to change the route
of their road SO that it will run through
the Cajon Pass and leave Los Angeles
u long distance to the west. 1t takes
decided ground against the action
and holds up to ridicule the company
that after promising the people of Los
Angeles to hnild the road through this
city provided certain subsidies were
granted, now, after obtaining the SUBJ
sidy, seeks to avoid the fulfilment of
their contract. OF the contest for the
right of way through Cajon Pass, which
has resulted in favor of the Los Ange-
les and Independence Railroad Com
pany, the Bulletin says: "a bill
granting exclusive right Of way
through Caon Pass will cut Off all
possibility of competition from that
quarter-so says the Southern Pacific
Railroad Company. Every day now
develops some, new and interesting
feature in the struggle. The telegraph
announces, on the heels of the intro
duction of the bill, a scramble between
the rival companies for prior location.
The sequel has somewhat discomfited
the Southern Pacific Company, and


may result in its utter defeat. The
Independence Railroad engineer, it is
reported, drove his stakes home first.


If the younger organization manifests
hereafter an equal degree of pluck and
activity to that which it has mani
tested so far, it is likely to come off
victorious. 1t has with it the syn,pa-
thy of the entire community wherein
1t was created. AS an enterprise cal
culated to afford cheap and expeditions
transit of persons and goods from a
remote section in the interior to the
saaboard it will command the sympa-
thy and good will of the entire State.
Year: 1875

A SPANISH spiritualist-Sefior Ma
TEo-has made a discovery that will
be interesting to some editors we
know of. He says the spirits of the
dead hover for time between the
earth and the moon, and whirl in
space a longer or a shorter time, in
proportion to their good or bad life
here below. He has also found out
that Mercury is the circle of paradise,
and Neptune the other place, where
those editors we speak Of are so afraid
of going.
Year: 1875

THE San Bernardino argus exults
over the prospective injury which Los
Angeles will suffer through the pas
sage of HoUGHToN's bill to change the
route of the Western Pacific Railroad.
We hope and believe the Argus speaks
for itself only, and that the exultant
feeling it manifests is not shared by
the people of San Bernardino city and
county. The interests of Los Angeles
and San Bernardino are identical so
far as railroad facilities are concerned.
Whatever affects the trade interests of
one must in like manner affect the
other. We. do not apprehend that the
Southern Pacific Company will sue
ceed in their attempt to avoid the full
filment of their contract with the peo-
pie of this county, but the animus
manifested by the Argus is in exceed
ing bad taste and will, We are conf
dent, be promptly and severely rebuked


by the people of San Bernardino and
their leading .journal-the Guardian.
Year: 1875

WERE it not for the promise that the
rain should fall on the unjust as well
as the just, we should suspect that Los
Angeles was wicked place and was
doomed to long dry spell for her
wickedness. Rain has fallen all around
us, while we have had but a slight
sprinkle. Even as near as Visalia they
have been favored with thirty = six
hours Of steady rain. However, the
clouds still promise to pour their gar
nered treasures down, and for the pres
ent we must be satisfied with the
promise,
Year: 1875

Ms-supposing she did walk three-fourths OF
a mile in the rain, soil her new striped stock
ings, and nearly ruin her dress, what was that
in comparison to the joy of being the first one
to tell Mrs. Jones that the Smiths couldn't
board at the Revere this winter, as old Smith
had failed.
Year: 1875




How is this great power of music to be con-
trolled and brought to bear most directly, most
efficiently, on our people? That nation is the
best educated in which knowledge is most diff
fused, in which the results of learning
within the grasp of the greatest number. On
ly so far as any art or science becomes part
of popular education that art or science
become a power, an influence, in land. Of
the growing desire among our people for high
er musical education have many signs in
the frequency of festivals and choral unions
and the number of musical associations. We
Americans a conglomerate race, made up
of the best of every people under the sun, so
transfused that the origin of even a single fam
lily can scarcely be traced without element
Of Celtic or Teutonic race discovering itsel T.
Perhaps this is the source of the musical taste
SO widely spread among us as people. We
say taste, not culture we are not cultured; We
are not yet cultivated people in any true
sense. AS national characteristic, tc be song
and music lovers belongs to the Irish end Ger
man races rather than to the Saxon. 1t is rare
to find German or an Irish girl without an
ear LOT music. In our w eSCern ObdCeS anu cell
tres of population the Germans instinctively
gather, in remembrance of the fatherlard, in
to Sangverens, preserving the songs and mus
ical traditions of the old land, while they well
come gladly any thing fresh and worthy from
the new. The marvellous achievements of the
| school festivals in the Music Hall in Boston
| are largely due to the fine voices, the quick
perception, of the Irish, either by birth or de-
scent, who constitute majority of the pupils
in our public schools.


No one thing has done more for music in the
past twenty years than its introduction as an
| integral part of our common school education.
In the large cities and suburban towns little
seems left to desire in that direction. From
the time children called at the age of five en-
ter the primary school till at the age Of sixteen
or eighteen they graduate from the high or
normal school, music is as much part of their
training as the multiplication on-table and SPELL
ing book. The next generation will see what we
forsee, and reap the harvest this generation is
so wisely sowing.


If, as we contend, music is in itself purifying
and elevating, if it can displace and crowd cut
baser pleasures by giving nnocent recreation
and excitement to people that must be amused
a people who must be busy for good or for evil


we can not have too much of it. Itcan not en-


ter too largely or too deeply into the system OF
common school education.-Ellis Gray, in Har-
per's Magazine for October.
Year: 1875

Rochester. n. Y, Oct. 9.-Between
three and four O'clock this morning IA
long freight train, coming west, on the
New York Central road, and running
at the rate of forty miles au hour, LETT
the truck near the depot in this city
and dashed into the Falls depot build
ing, demolishing a portion of the
walls and causing general smash up
of the locomotive, tender and a large
part of the train. The engineer and
irenan were instantly crushed to
death. No other person was hurt. as
'he train had broken apart few miles
west, leaving the conductor and
brakeman on the rear partition. The
damage to property is considerable, AS
the depot is partially in rains and the
engine, etc, is IL total wreck.
Year: 1875

Say what we may about it,
there is a good deal of human
nature still lingering in man.
kind. 1t crops out in various
ways and in divers places. The
love of money, if not the root
Of all evil, OF the lever that
moves the world, is certainly
the most powerful lever that ev-
er operated upon the passions
of man. For instance, see the
following rumpus that it kicked
up in indianapolis the other day,
according to the Sentinel


"One day last week there was
a queer sight around the death
bed Of an. old gentleman on
Lord street. He has five or six
children, and but one of this
number is, to use the common
phrase, any account. While be
was endeavoring to sign a will,
the children fairly fought, so ca
ger were they to get the bulk of
his six or seven thousand doi-
lars. The old gentleman had
his second wife, but these un-
gracious step-sons most uncere-
moniously hustled her out. In
fact they raised such a racket
that it became necessary to call
in a police officer, who stood
guard until the old gentleman
breathed his last. By this time
the childrenhad got into square
knock-down fight, and two of
them were arrested for assault
and battery"
Year: 1875

The Burlington HdacEeye
says the other night a man who
lives out on Columbia street
was kept down town on busi-
ness until a very late hour, and
his wife, knowing how cold he
would be when he got home, put
an iron on the stove, and when
she heard him open the gate,
jumped up, and hurriedly wrap
ping the iron in a piece of fan
mel, chucked it into bed for him
to warm his great ugly feet by.
The man was cold, taciturn and
cross; he crawled into bed with a
growl, and shuddered with
cold as he stretched himself out.
Then he gave a yell that lifted
the roof of the house, and jam
med his head through the head
board, and screamed fire, and
WaltZed out on the HoOf ana
around the room in the dark,
straddlingrOcking chairs, break
ing his shins on bureau corners,
and knocking down brackets
with his shoulders, and upset
ting one or two things, and fill
ing the darkness with weird,
fantastic profanity. When his
wife lighted the lamp they dis
covered a beautiful photograph
Of a fiat iron on the bottom of


the mans foot, and it was found
that the flannel had somehow
got off the foot warmer. The
man says that hereafter, if he
must sleep with hardware, he
wants it put in the bed cold.
Year: 1875

The wind of winter midnight


Is mourning round my door
The curtains wave at the window,


The carpet lifts on the floor.
There are sounds like startled foot falls,
In the distant chambers now,
And the touch of airy fingers,


Is busy on hand and brow.
'Tis thus in the souls dark dwelling
By the moody host unsOught--
Through the chambers of memory wander
The invisible airs of thought.
For it bloweth where it listeth,


With murmur loud or low,
Whence it cOmeth-whither it goeth-
None tell us, and none may know.
Now wearying round the portals


OF the vacant, desolate mind
As the doors of ruined mansion,


That creak in the cold night wind.
And anon an awful memory
Sweeps over it fierce and high,
Like the roar of mountain forest,


When the midnight gale goes by.
And its voice subsidies in wailing,


And ere the dawning of day,
Murmuring fainter and fainter,


In the distance dies away.
Year: 1875

A young married woman in
Worcester dreamed twice, recent
ly, that she would die at mid
night on the first anniversary OF
her wedding day, and so strongly
was she impressed with the Wis
ion that she actually made pre-
paratiOns for her funeral, and
even gave sum of monay to a
friend to purchase mourning.
Her husband, becoming alarmed
at her condition, consulted 8
medical friend, stating all the
fnctsof the case. The astute d0ctcr.
after a minutes cogitation, dis
covered way out of the difficulty.
Telling the husband 20 keep the
patient amused as much as possi-
bic till late in the day, he went
down to the house in the after
noon and ADMINISTERED a harmless
narcotic which kept the lady
asleep till the dreaded moment
had passed. She is now in good
health, and joins with her friends
in laughing at her superstitiOus
fears.
Year: 1875

The Virginia City Nev.)
Enterprise of Jan. II has this
little paragraph "Little Eddie
Nye, who was run over by a
fiat car last Friday evening and
was SO badly injured that he
died next mornidg, was rare
bright child, and one Of the best
children in the city. Just be-
fore he died he sang The Beau
tiful River with o voice as
sweet as though he had caught
the tones from the softer shore,
on the brink Of which his soul
was then trembling. After the
song he repeated a little prayer
which his mother had taught
him. The child all his life had
a lisp, but this last prayer fell
from his tongue without a halt
or culver, but rather, steady
and clear, and yet with a far-otf
tone as though anOther's voice
ofinfnite sweetness had seized
upon his lips in the supreme
moment, to leave an echo in his
anguished mothers ears which
should last as long as life.
Shortly after the little prayer
the sunny eyes closed and little
Eddie was gone. On Sunday
his funeral attracted the whole
city, and there Yves not a dry
eye around the dear child's
orrovo
Year: 1875

A Chinaman was arraigned in
a San Francisco Court tie other
day on a charge of murder. The
Judge asked him whether he had
retained counsel. He replied he


had not; he was nothing but Chi
naman, and might as we'll be ex


eclted now as any time. The
Judge assured him that he had as
many rights in the Court as any
other man, whereupon the Chi
naman arose from bis seat, his
face beaming with gratitude, and
bowed his acknowledgements
Counsel was then appointed by
the Beach, and the case proceeded
Year: 1875

A remarkable result bas been OBJ
tanned at the mill of Brown & Co..
Sheffield A revolving disc, made
for a rail saw, with all its teeth
cut of, was mounted on a spindle
ard driven at nearly 5000 revo-
lutions a minute; this waS-ih4
disc being three feet in diameter
a circumlerential velority Of over
five miles a minute. Steel raj S
forced against this disc were most
rapidly cut through, appearing to
melt before the revolving disc,
giving off an abundance of sparks,


while after cutting five rails it
was ifseIf not sensibly warm.
Year: 1875

troubles.


From the Boston Herald.


At the regular weekly meet
ing of the Methodist preachers
Of Boston and vicinity, held at


Wesleyan Hall, Tues lay after
noon, the recent difficulties in
Louisiana were discussed at
considerable length. Bishop


Bowman gave an account of


what ne knew about the treat
ment Of colored people in Loui-
siana, narrating number of in


stances in which they had been
shamefnlly abused, and deprived
of life, even. BY invitation,


Rev. b. |. Ives. Of New York.
addressed the meeting, and his
speech was of the most radical


kind. He declared there is al
together too much toadyism on
the part Of Northern people in

their treatment of the South.
lie said we are undertaking
now to coax the devil out of the
miserable whelps down South,
when nothing but strychnine
and cannon ought to be used.


Tie rather agreed with Phil.
Sheridan's declaration during,
the war, ''that if he had owned
hell and Texas, he would lease
out Texas and live in the other
place" Mr.. Ives administered
a castigation to the church, de-
claring that there is not a paper
in the Methodist Church that
dares to discussthe Civil Rights
bill, and ask that it be enforced.
He said he believed the meanest
rascals in the South arc in the
Methodist Church South. He
declared himself Radical of
the strongest kind, and said he
believed the more he hated the
rebels of the South, the more he
loved God.


lie declared he believed the
spirit now rampant in the South
has got TO be crushed out by
another war, and he longed for
the appearance of some coIored
man able to become a leader a.
mong his people, welding the
sword and torch. He said the
Bishops ought to come out pub
.licly and declare the whole truth
about the treatment of the COL
Ored people in the South, but he
didn't believe they would. If
they did, he knew they couldn't
return to the South, for if they
did they would be hung; but he
irtimated that it was no worse
to hang a Bishop than a minis
ter, but he suggested if it was
done it might wake up the peo-
pie quicker than anything else.


He thought the Bishops were
too tender-hearted, and they re-
minded him of the man who
wanted to cut off his dogs tail,
but he was too tender-hearted
to cut it off where it ought To-
be, so he cut it off an inch at a
time. The speech of Mr.. Ives
was received with frequent de-
mOnstrations Of approval, some
of his most radical utterances
exciting considerable applause,
mingled with laughter.
Year: 1875

A railroad train in Michigan
broke down recently, and the
passengers alighted. Among
them was an old gentleman,
who, to fill up the time, wander
ed off to ali adjacent house.
There he encountered an old
flame of his, whom he had not
seen for years. The old flame
was soon rekindled, and within
a few days the couple was mar
ried.
Year: 1875

They tried to scare a Toledo
man in Missouri by threatening
to tar and feather him; but he
replied: "Come on with your
old tar; I've been there six
times, and I've got a receipt for
washing it off !"
Year: 1875

Joseph Bagg, Of Florida, told
the jury that the reason why be
killed his wife was because she
wore out too many pairs of shoes,
but they conceded if that was his
sole explanation it was too thin.
Year: 1875

HangiDg-baskets and pots
are sure to get too dry without
special attention. Now and
then give a thorough soaking
by plunging into a tub on wash
days--soapsuds is just the thing
for them.
Year: 1875

The clash in the fashionable world
just now, between the girls with
pretty feet who want to wear
short dresses and those with ugly
feet who insist upon having long
ones, is described by fashionable
dress makers as something lear
full.
Year: 1875

The Newark woman, who mar
ried four husbands out Of the same
family, explained her conduct by
saying that she was determined to
find out whether there was a
man among :hem worth cent for
any earthly purpose. The fourth
man is still on trial.
Year: 1875

A circuit preacher in Mis-
souri, prayed for rain one night
at a farmers house, and the far
mer who had a horse race arran-
ged for the next day, was so
mad that he turned the good
man out of doors.
Year: 1875

An advertisement for a dry
goods clerk reads: "Wanted, a
young man to be partly out
door and partly behind the
counter" 1t doesn't specify
what part of the young man is
to be outdoor.
Year: 1875

A Missourian who attended


prayer meeting with his daugh-


ter felt compelled to rise up and
remark: Il want to- be a rood
man and go to heaven, but if


those fellers don't stop winking
at Mary, there will be a GOOD
deal OF prancing around here the
fust thing they knowr'
Year: 1875

ibid you ever see one of these
hoop snakes ? asked Mr.. Furgason
of his neighbor. Me aud my hired
man was down in the home lot By
the side OF the road, aud we seen
something rolling down the hill
aud says ] Il guess that must be
one OF them hoop snakes coming
along My hired man he was
aieerd, and elm up a tree, but i
took my hoe in my hand and went
out and stood aside tree in the
road, and when he came along |
stuck out the hoe handle, and hit it
y slap, aud il made noise jest like
pistol and sir, it warn't more
"a MINI, a;ore that hoe handle was
sweIlcd up as big as my ley.