smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1873

Nearly Five Thousand Workmen Out OF


Employment-A General Reduction OF


Time Among the Factories-No Serious


Embarrassment or Distress Appre-


hended.


HARTFORD, Nov. 8, 1879.


This State, II any, should feel the i'll effects OF the
panic which appears to be sweeping over all the
manufacturing areas OF the country, for Connecti-
cut is essentially manufacturing State, In which
everything that ministers to the convenience OF
man Is made. There is nothing too large and com.
plex or too small and simple for the in
genious industry OF this extraordinary people,
They take in everything from mousetrap
to the mammoth machinery for an ocean-going
steamer. All that Is curious and bizarre
In invention gets q trial here. new
idea in button, an Improvement on clothes pin,
or fresh wrinkle In o pocket comb VIII start a
joint stock company for the purpose OF giving 1t
trial and with the hope OF deriving fortune fr ON
1t. The State is


DOTTED ALL OVER WITH FACTORIES
employing from i've men to 1900. wherever q
stream OF water can be made available for turning
a mill wheel there may be found a hive OF industry
Perhaps there is territory ofts size In the world
where so much varied mechanical skin is brought
into active development Directly and indirectly,
half the population live by manufactures. Tne
spreading waves OF the late panic have struck the
eastern and southern parts OF the State with some
force, and the carriage factories OF New
Haven feel the efrect. This city which is at
the centre OF the state, and not so much given to
manufactures, pretends to be unconscious OF any
panic having occurred In the country. The capital
OF Hartford rs chiefly invested In insurance banks,
real estate and railroads. or course the insurance
companies feel the stringency OF the times, but
they won't acknowledge It, There is no form OF
Jealousy, except the matrimonial, which is so Bit
ter and incorporating as that which exists be-
tween insurance companies. Let one OF them be
on its last legs and ready to drop into the grave
OF oblivion and bankruptcy, II will still contend
that IL s more healthy and prosperous than It's
rivals. There are over forty insurance companies
In this city, and though they lost about 900
BY the Chicago and Boston nres they say they we're
never better OF. Capital and assets combined,
these companies are In possession OF about
$100.ooo0o0. In real estate, banks and railroads
the rest OF the surplus capital OF Hartford is In
vested.


CONSERVATIVE NATIVES


The natives are conservative, exclusive ana up
10 The ton notch n TIE GQRYeRtlQpA aknRdacd -Qf
Year: 1873




With the exception OF the Newourg Steam Mills,
which stopped work few weeks ago, the manu-
featuring establishments OF this city seem not to
have seriously felt the results OF the panic. From
the fact that work is to be resumed on three.
quarters time In the Lowell (Mass.) Mills on
Monday next, favorable anticipatlons have been
INDUCED In regarding the resumption Of the cotton
mills in this state, but nothing definite is known
here OF such movement Owing to the great fall
ing OF in the demand for COAL caused by the STOP
page OF manufactures in the Middle and Eastern
States, the shipments OF that article have materi
ally decreased since the commencement Of the
panic. At the works OF the Pennsylvania Coal
Company where several hundred men are
employed, fifty laDorers and boatmen were
discharged yesterday. The fremont Bleaching
and Highland Hat Works are running with full
compliments OF hands and on full time. The same
Is true OF the saw mill OF ]. Biger Co., the
foundery and machine shop OF Ward, stanton 4 Co.,
the boiler works OF Boland Delaney, the planning
mill OF T. Shaw Sons and the Excelsior Lawn
Mower Works. The engine works OF William
Wright Co. running on full time,
except in the machine shop, which runs on three
quarters time, owing to the lack OF castings, and
not by reason OF the panic. No cases Of suffering
have yet been reported among those thrown out
OF employment by the stoppage OF the. Newburg
Steam Mills, and ample preparations are being
made by charitable societies for the relief OF sucn
should need occur, during the coming winter.
Year: 1873

John Young, who has spent the past FIVE
days the OF tho Atlantic wreck. returned "
New-York yesterday, and has furnished 20 TRIBUNE
reporter few particulars concerning the doings at the
wreck The Atlantic, he said, was the most complete
wreck be had ever She is lying Of shore, on
her beam ends with her spars resting the surface Of
the water and at high tide is completely submerged.
By the force OF the collision the bottom entirely
way distancei OF not less than 2 feet and
twain Just abaft the forcrgGing.
The separated from the vessel itself by not
less than 60 feet and lies among the rocks where It was
driven by the heavy Everything within has been
washed by the and picked up by the wrecker
The divers and engineers OF the Coast Wrecng Company
have worked whenever the weather permitted, and two
steamers and schOOners OF the Company
but only full days labor has been performed This
was on Friday. A southerLy wind coming up on
Saturday it was necessary desist Since that time
the weather has continued very unfavOrabe but there
are so many divers and wOrkmen that IA good weather
rapid progress made, and already brig heavily aden
YORK. a glance through the openings in the
steamer diseOses q OF terrible cOnfusnu. The
cargo tables sofas, berths and the bodies OF victims
have been heaped together in sCkeDing disorder The
bodies which are slowly being recovered from day
TO day said 70 be in good state OF pre- eryatOn,
aud can easily identified. The hotels at Halifax are
still crowded with friends who sOrrowtuy await tldngs
Star Line from this city and the agents al Halifax. have
been doing all in their power 70 recover the bodies.
Capt Williams is still at the scene OF the wreck, anu Is
much broken down
Year: 1873

WHY SHOULD THE UsURY LAWS De RiPEALED p


FARMERs VIEW.


To he Editor Of TIE Commercial:


viii you permit me, as a farmer, to give my
views OF the proposed repeal of the Uusury
Laws


To begin with, very few farmers can afford to
pay even Elk per cent, let alone more, . up to
ten, as some person has suggested. What do
the advocates of repeal mean Is it to crush
out OF existence the farmer? l am free
to admit that where manufacturer, with
all the protection the law can give
him from foreign competition, and when he
turns his money over from Hix to twelve times,
annually, that he can afford to pay ten per cent
but when farmers crops only come in once,a
year, six per cent is sufficient / see by the last
issue OF the IHIBuSE, you say some farmers
are paying as high az eighteen per cent. for
money. II 80, ali that can say. from my expert
ence as farmer during the past twenty-five
years il, that tits only question OF time with such
borrowers, and it would be a blessing to him and
his family Qf he has one) for his creditors to
close out his effects at once for perhaps he would
have little left for thcm but by paying such
rates as you Say he has been paying. lie will soou
lose all, and be turned out pen1ilesH.


Why sir, justre the usury law, and give
the money sharks clean field to operate and
the Lord only knows where they would carry
the rate for money to. In the better days OF
our money loaners, it would have been consid-
cred undignihed. and, 1 may say, dishonest,





man, to loan for him, but now-a-days, if a
man has a thousand dollars to put out,
almost invariably OF he goes to one OF these to
get him to negotiate the loan, compelling the
borrower to pay ali the share that may be re-
quired Of him. 1 say it unhesi;atingiy, that the
middle men are tho curse Of this country
financially, If the producer could sell to
the consumer direct, just think how much
would be saved Ii is just so with
money! il gentlemen should have money
iolosn, certainly they would be possessed of as
much common-sense as one half of the 81 brC.
kers," and why could they not loan their ow.
money! think it could be done.


hope the Legislature will take into consider
ton that the greater portion Of our population
Of this state, are agriculturists and as, perhaps
the majority of the members are farmers they
at leaAt should know what would be the
best TO do to relieve the farmers.
would also suggest TO the Legislature
whether it would not look more reasonable il
the great majority of those asking for repeal o.
the Usury Laws were borrowers instead o.
money lenders and brokers. Whatever you do
lawmakers, protect the farmers, all you can, fo
they need it, FARMER.


NEW CASTLE Co., Jan. IS.
Year: 1873

The cholera epidemic seems to be
passing over. At its worst it was very
mild. The number Of fatal cases were
few indeed; in comparison with what
We have always expected. The "rav-
ages Of the cholera" will soon be .
thing Of the past,
Year: 1873

The new pro.rata railroad law in
Illinois, is likely to bring the State
into collision with the United States.
It is claimed by the commissioners that
the principle applies to al freight
whether intended for some poiat 10 the
State or in trass;tu across that State.
Illinois will doubtless be made to un.
derstand that her Sovereignty does not
extend to the regulation Of commerce
between the States.
Year: 1873

The St. Louis Democrat gives the
following on the questions Of the CON-
parative cost Of water and land trans
portation. 1t will, no doubt, surprise
= great many persons to see the state
ment that, BY rail, ton Of freight
can be carried mile At . cost Of less
than . cent and a third. It is true
that it can be d ne in sections of the
country where rail roads have oil the
business they can do, but it will not
hold good in our State, especially in
our part of it. The Democrat says:


That the vast difference in cost
which is incurred by the various neth
DDS Of transportation, may be more ap'
parent, Ne publish the following state
ment Of the rates Of carriage for gram
now charged by these various systems
of locomotiOn:
Year: 1873

His frequently said that English
and French muslins now produced by
machinery rival in fineness of texture
and beauty of finish those woven in
the East. But it is not true. A.native
woman with her fingers and spindle
alone and q native man with his toes
and bamboo loom alone will spin q
thread and finish a piece of muslin
which cannot, by the application Of
the most delicate machinery, be pro-
duced outside of India. There is one
quality of Decca muslin, for example,
which is termed "woven air." 1t is
made only for kings daughters. So
short is thestaple of the raw material,
and SO brittle its fibers, that it must
he spun by woman under twenty
five, and before the dew has left the
grass in the morning. As a substi-
tute for natural moisture, the evapor-
alton of water from q shallow pan is
sometimes used, but the quality Of the
work in that case is inferior. And
yet, though the most delicate and fin
est of fabrics, q piece four yards in
length by one yard in width, weigh
ing less than one ounce avoirdupois
often, it is exceedingly durable, and
will wash. Since the disappearance
of many of the native rulers of India,
this "evening dew" as it is also call
ed, is not largely made; but as there
are those who will pay ten and twelve
dollars a yard for it, the art is not
likely TO be lost. The professional
story tellers of the East, swaying
their bodies to the cadences of their
voice, will tell you in rhythmical
HindOstanee of the anger OF Aurung.
zebe with his daughter because hel
arms could be seen through the seven
jahmas she had on; and of the weav-
er who was banished from Decca be-
cause his COW, unable from its fine
ness to see the piece of Abrovan
which was spread upon the herbage


ate up six yards.
Year: 1873

Last Sunday evening promenaders
on King street, between York and
Simeoe, were made the spectators OF
''scene.u A young gentleman,
deeked in his very best and evident
ly conscious that he was making q
favorable impression at every step,
had been strOlling leisurely behind a
couple Of young ladies and cberishing
an Irresistible desire To introduce him
self. The fair ones stopped at the
door OF their home and were about to
enter when our hero, suddenly resO-
Lutte, stepped up and dit speak. This
advance being received graeiOusly by
the l4dies, led the young man to think
be bad made a conquest OF at least one
heart, for the second sister had ex-
eused herself and slipped into the
house. What burning words passed
at the doorstep Of course is not known
certainly they increased the en-
barrassment OF the lady, and the con-
fidence of the beau. Presently the
other lady re-appeared on the step
with a peaceful smile and II scUOPful
Of extra fine flour, which she deliver
ed with smOthering directness in the
face of the visitor. There was q


Hgrand transformation scene" on the
Iatter's behalf-a sudden changing OF
his s'eheek." He was at once like q
soldier and q young lady, for not only
did he face the powder, but he pow
dered his face.
Year: 1873

The Brantford Canada Courier
tells of a gentlemen of that town who
recently tried an experiment which
he says has completely cured his wife
of jealousy. He says he was subject
to a nightly curtain lecture from his
better half, at q time when he wished
to be wrapped in the arms OF Nor
pheus, for returning al affection Tor
an old lady friend. he bore 1t. Tor
several nights with Christian-llke
resignation, but he at last deylsed
plan for putting an end to it. Hepro-
cured a piece of wood formed in the
shape of a human being, and dressed
it in some of his Wife's wardrobe, and
then placed it in the garden, sitting
in an iron chair. To this craven i'm
age he knelt down and poured forth
an impassioned address. The servant
girl was standing at the kitchen door
at this time, and overheard these ap-
peaIs. She Immediately notified her
mistress of the fact. Presently both
of them emerged from the kitchen,
armed with broomstieks, and made
an attack ON the dummy woman, ~
while the husband, who had retired IN
good order, cat at the back enjoying
the scene. After knocking the image
over they pouneed upon and tore the
clothing in rags. They soon discover
ed the cheat, and rushed back into
the house terribly mortified The
husband followed them and said ex-
asperating things. Whenever she
shows any disposition to be Jealous he
has only to mention that little scene
in the garden, and she changes the
topic. The servant has since been in
dnced to go to the States, where y wa
ges are high.
Year: 1873

! I got into the cars and took seat
in inxtapOsitiOn to a female. That
females face was 4 perfect insurance
company for her. 1t insured her
against ever getting married to any
body except blind man. Her mouth
looked like q crack in a dried lemon,
and there was no more expression in
her face than there Is i'm q cup Of cold
custard. She appeared as IL she had
been through one famine, and got
about two-thirds through another.
She was old enough TO be great-grand-
mother to Mary that had little
lamb. She vas chewing prize pop
corn and carried in her hand yellow
rose, while a bandbOx and a cotton
umbrella nestled sweetly by her side.
I couldn't guess whether she was on a
mission Of charity or going west TO
start a mill. / was full Of curiosity to
hear her speak, so said: "rhe exi-
geneies Of the times require great cir
eupspectiOn in a person who il trav-
eling.n Says she, "What?" Says /,
s'The orb Of day shines resplendent in
the vault above y She iIitched round
uneasy like, then raised her umbrella
and said, 81 don't want any Of your
sass-git out ~ And got out.
Year: 1873

CE WEST 18TH ST.. BETWEEN 9TH AND 10TH


iAO avs-A respectable young woman nurse to
take care OF child no objection to the country
travel with lady good city reference. Call for two
Year: 1873

70 Ihe Editor Of The Tribune.


SIR AS story like your article on E" Pork
and Potatoes :" bu5 t does not apply TO the Southern
Railroad to the Pacific That road has never received
either pork" or potatoes" from the Governments. 1t
is that when tho Company shall. by means Of its
money construct the road through lands belonging
to the Government, every other section OF land
TO the extent OF twenty sections each side
Of tho road will belong to the Company.
Not section OF public land on tho line Of that
road has been sold, will it ever sell until the
road is made; and then tho Government will realize
tho lands reserved and rendered valuable by the
Company a largo sum of money which otherwise 1t
would never receive IL will be speculation on the
part OF the Government And let me state what every
informed the subject knows to DO true, the
Government has never given acre OF land 10 aid
OF tho construction Of railroad that 1t has not made
money by dong So"


Why, then the outcry against the policy which en- &.
riches the Government IL il the cry Of small po
tato demagogues who thus attempt TO prejudice pco-
pie who do not examine ana reflect the subject The
time will soon when even small potato" dema-
gogues will be ashamed that they raised sense
less a camOr. j. ID. ID.


Washington. Dec. TO- 1873.
Year: 1873

A DESPERATE VENTURE.-We wagered a
small sum with friend once that he could not
get out of the Fifth Avenue Hotel, New York,
without being forced to fee the waiter. He
was a plucky fellow. He had behaved hand
somely under fire in the field, and passed with
credit from under all sorts of social batteries
in the battle of life We watched him closely.
He marched from his room, valse in hand,
and began his descent Of the grand stairway,
scorning to take advantage of the elevator.
He passed servants cycling him as if he was a
sneak thief as he was His first skirmish
came off in the hall opposite the dining room,
aud our friend proved the victor The last
fight was trying Directly facing him is that
heavy battery of clerks, whose diamond shirt
fronts, shining hair, stunning clothes, and ele-
waited manners so oppress poor humanity.


We saw our friend draw deep breath and
begin the descent. He took the fire of lofty
contempt from the clerk battery, and turning
to the left encountered a heavy reserve of
whisk brooms. These charged on him in pla-
toon; while one detachment attacked his bag
| gage, another assaulted him on flank and rear
with whisk brooms. He fought through gal
lantly. He had nearly reached the entrance
when huge African bore down upon his
right, and the two passed out struggling tor
the valise Victory hung doubtful, when, un-
fortunately for our gallant friend, two ladies OF
his acquaintance, who happened to be passing,
paused to bid him farewell. This was fatal


He relinquished his valise, bowed to his friends


was thrust into hack, aud meekly paid the


African counterfeit fifty cent. fractional cur


rency that he held in reserve in case the wors


came to the worst Washington Star.
Year: 1873

BREECHEs FOR THE TONGs.-The women
have to submit to large share of ridicule for
their folly in dress and when opportunity
offers, it is no less than fair that the sterner
sex should get rap now and then. The larg
limbed, brawny men of the West have little
sympathy with the sybarite followers of fash
ion in the East; and, as an instance, Detroit
man, who had contributed bundle of his cast
off clothing for tao relief OF the victims of the
Minnesota fire, received from one of the suffer
ers the following note:


"The committy man gave me amongst other
things what he called a pare ov pants, and
'twould make me pant sure to wear EN-. ltound
your name an where you live on one of the
pokts My wife laffed so when | shoed EN-
to her tina thot she would have conipshun
fit She wants to no if there lives and breathes
a man who has legs no bigger than that. She
sed if there was he orter to be taken up ful
vagrinsy for havin no visible means Of support
| coldent get EN- on my eldest boy, so l used
them for gun-cases. If you hay another pare
to spare my wife wood like to get EN- to hanl
by the side ov the fireplace to keep the tong
in
Year: 1873

The subjoined article, from the Print
ing Gazette contains so much fact and
good common sense that we speciality
commend it to those of our readers
who may be disposed to regard the
publication of IA newspaper as a matter
Ofamusement:


Few people are aware of the inside
workings ofa printing office, nor of
the annoyance attendant upon the
publication of newspaper. 1t is i'm
possible to form anything like correct
idea of the number of men there are
point about every other time they
meet you, to tell you of some impor-
tant fact that ought to be noticed by
the paper, pro bono pubLicO.-Gene-
rally, however, il turns out that the
informant has an AK to grind, and the
newspaper is to be the free horse on
which heeXpects to ride into public no.
tIce and confidence Or. if not that,
he is constantly annoyed by multi
pllcity of communications which are
always lengthy, and contain nothing
that any one cares to see in print or
know anything of whatever, except
the writer and perhaps one or two
other particular individual, for whose
exclusive benefit it was written, il is
not for moment occurring to the
writer that communications for news
paper snould be such as would interest
thousands of rcaders.-The newspaper
business is very exacting on all connec-
ted with it, and the pay is co npar-
atively small. The proprietor risks a
large amount of money for smaller
profits and the editors and printers
work harder and cheaper than the
same number of men in any other pro-
fession requiring the given amount of
intelligence and training. The life has
its charms and pleasant association
scarcely known to the outside world;
but ii has its earnest work and hours
of exhaustion, which, likewise, are not
known to those who think the business
all fun. The idea that newpaperdom
is the charmed circle where the favored
members live life of.ease. free from
care, is mistaken one. Business is
business, and the journal hatsucceeds
is the one that is run on a square busi-
ness footing, with the same system as
a banking establishment.