smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1872

James Gordon Bennett editor founder of the New York
Herald died at his seat. Washington Heights
New York Saturday last in his seventy fifth year His paper
the Herald the greatest in this country, perhaps him
worldwide reputation. He born in Scotland and
this country peuness youth in 1919. Few have had
harder struggle made IN the beginning and
died weathie in the end. We quote from exchange:


From the rocky summit Washing Heights his splendid
country seat between the Harlem and Hudson he could
his chequered the time he
1919 to the place where BENJAMIN Franklin born
whose magnetic autobiography he had been reading He
could see himself school teacher Halifax, Canada
proof reader in Boston, reporter the Charleston c.
Courier his return to New York, lecturer in of
auonce again. reporter then proprietor OF the New York
Sunday Courier then Washington correspondent
New York Courier and Enquirer then violent Jackson and
Van Buren then proprietor OF the Pennsy
Pha from which he deposed and then
to New York. disappointed and revengelu This
the point his lite. The had gone him.
until May g. 1885 when he issued the first number New
York Herald He edited it alone in cellar in Wall with
plank two barrels his table, and
This before railroads teegaphs brought the
naonaes into close negh6OrhOOd and before the appetite
for literature universal Bennett proved himself
equal to his experiment His article a novel
feature. and his ship became speciality But his
mind full Of contempt for the world had treated him
so harshly.


The Philadelphia Press thus reviews his =
Tie his the excited invecivcs Be-


eving in few of the Presidential aspirants. he


trusted them all and brought oil them his eet As he
in wealth and influence, he and isolated him


sell from his associates OF the His marked chaIaceris


tic trcal individuality. Utterly dsdan-
ul OF political nominations and rules and wholly sefreant,
he welded gigantic those who affected
despse him. In the ulness of his especially in the
his reluctant retirement the growing
he could trace his rise from poverty prv4on


He seemed to shrink from the hand often held
to him in friendship He seemed prefer the cold
manity. lie lived in himself paper. He loved to lash
the Presidential asprants till they crawed feet His
hOsptaes indeed princey but they dispensed
rather by his family than himself part his example
which deserves remembrance that
His audacty and fertility are
worthy OF imitation, il not his of what called eOnsis
To this ought TO add that great struggle
against slavery and treason he prompt
taking ground for his country Then he Titanic
There is fact that will always stand his
kind aud to his assistants his
He did not the world bought the Herald lie
made lie did hesitate change
opinions in moment if IL his interest do but he
changed his confidence the
long they true and he deserted them in ad
versity. 1t from him public
glad to admit that rulers
aprant aud frequently he laid bare the spots
society he sweet to those who served him faithfully
poor journalist artist from his door,
Year: 1872

1t il sad thing pass through life only hall alive Yet
thousands whose habtua condition OF anguor
debility They complain Of specific dsease they suher
positive pain but they have relish for anything "hcn
mental pleasure In nine cases out O Ten
asitude and torpo arises from morbid stomach
the of both mind and body When
supplied by due and regular Asslm
uaon food starved function in
terrupted.


Now what does suggest under these circum
stances depessonf The system needs rOung and strength
enng; merely for hour to sink afterward into
pabe condition than assuredy would do II
ordinary alcoholic stmuant resorted to- but radically
aud permanently.


How is this desirable object to be shedP The answer
to this founded tha unvar ing experience OF
quarter century is easily given lnuse VgOr into the
digestive organs by of Hosetter Stomach Bitters
Do time by administering remedies but
wake the system by recuperang the OF ply


ca the which oil the organs depend
for their nurture and support.


the doses of the great vegetable tonic
have taken the feeble frame the dyspep


tic will begin feel its benign influence Appetite will be
created and with appetite the digest what II


Persevere until the competeunt heathul blood


material Of flesh and muscle bone and and
through the channels OF circulation instead Of the
watery pabuum with which they have heretofore been mper
fectly nourished. June5-lm
Year: 1872

PERsoSAL.-We pleased to receive call during the
past week. from Dr. AYERS traveller who town de
voting his time and attention the preparations Of the great
medicine This call has become pleasant annual to
from the able and reliable business character Of the
pshed gentlemen whom this firm send transact their
No house better known valued by the for
it's pronptness settlement than the well established and
popular j. e. AVER Co. Lowell Mass whose medicines have
become household necessity ard the confidence and
praise acquaintance with them has extended
series and have Invariably found them their
travellers and their medicines worthy Of the
they everywhere receve.-Jackson lTennl Tribune.
Year: 1872

A REDUCTION IN THE BERRY TARIFF
Last week we stated that there was considera-
BILE dissatisfaction among the berry shippers
because of the increase in freight on the rail-
road In view of the fact that the prices were
falling much below those Of last year by reason
of the abundance Of the crop and the smallness
Of the berry, (caused by the drought,) it was
feared that this increase might deprive the
g-owers of remunerative prices and work
disaster to the further propagation of the fruit


To counteract these results three of the Execu.
tive Committee. Of the Peninsular Fruit
Growers Association, viz: Messrs r. II.
Cummins, Sam Townsend and f r. Cochran,
proceeded to Philadelphia on Monday of last
week and had an audience with Mr.. Chas. K


lde, Master of transportation The Commit
tee laid the facts before that gentleman and
further stated that, in as much as the
shipments would be greatly in excess of any
former year, they had reason to suppose that
that the freights if changed at all, would be
lcssened rather than increased. The trans
portation agent at first informed the Committee,
as we are informed by one of them, that the
tariff had not been increased, whereupon a
schedule of last year was produced and con-
trasted with the schedule of this year, when
the agent informed the COMMITTEE that he
had made a mistake In making out his
schedule for this season he had made it out in
comparison with that of 1870 instead of that of
II. Mr.. Ide assured the Committee that he
would rectify the schedule, and accordingly on
the Wednesday following the rates were re-
duced. The freight from Clayton, which had
been 81 cts. per hundred pounds, was reduced
to 20 cts, and SO on down the line of road.
Fortunately for the growers in this section, the
matter wa lied before they had made
but few shipments, but had not the Committee
recti6ed it they would have been considerably
out of pocket at the end of the season. One o.
the Committee estimated that he had already
lost $50 by the mistake. A 60-qt crate weighs
about ITO lbs, and this reduction is betweer
Is and 19 cts. per crate not very much t.


each individual, yet it may have proved tn


feather to break the camers back. But


slight increase in the expenses may be suficien
TO destroy the profits in the crop, and cause
to be abandoned, thus depriving both farme


and railroad OF the revenues that might aris


from it. If the case is as we have been il


formed, the mistake is inexcusable.
Year: 1872




UNION PASSENGER DEPoT.-The
STATE JOURNAL, some time ago, pub
lished an article favoring the erection by
the railroad companies whose lines center
here, of q grand union railroad passenger
depot. There never was a more favorable
time to consider this project, and we VEN
ture again to call the attention of our rail-
road authorities to it.


1t is well known that the present passen-
ger dep6ts are wholly inadequate in every
particular to accommodate the large pas
senger traffic, besides being inconveniently
located for the transfer of passengers from
one line to another. In the large railroad
centres Of the North and West union OF
capital and effort on the part of railroad
lines for the accommodation of travel not
only, but of the companies themselves,
has been found absolutely necessary; and
if this question could be viewed in the light
of experience before anything like perma-
nent and costly buildings are erected by a
single corporation, we are sure that very
satisfactory results would be obtained.


We urge an early conference among our
railroad men. Let them at least ascertain
to what extent union of sentiment upon
this subject exists among themselves
They need no argument from us as to the
economy of such a building, Jointly erected;
and it would certainly be an ornament to
the city as well as convenience to the
public.
Year: 1872

LEVY BRoTHERs.-0ur readers have
been informed of the stupendous arrange
nents which this enterprising firm is maxi
ing for the prosecution of their jobbing and
retail trade in all the various articles Of dry
goods, notions, &c. The new and extern
sive building now in course of construction
on the southeast corner Of Eleventh and
Main streets, will, when completed, be oc-
cuped by Levy Brothers, and no better
evidence of the, YIN and enterprise of the
firm is needed than the fact that it has Sc
cured such commodious, elegant and we'll
located quarters. This house has
long held the lead as the fashionable
dry goods emporium of Richmond, and the
liberal and acceptable manner in which the
business has been conducted entities it to
the enviable position which it has achieved
in our midst. We are convinced that it
will long maintain the fine reputation which
it now enjoys. The members of the firm
have been trained to the business in which
they are engaged, are familiar with all the
obligations and requirements of their posi-
ton, and have such connections with the
leading wholesale and importing houses Of
the North as to enable them to defy all
competition in this market. The weekly
statement Of this popular house will be
found in the sem-weekly and weekly edi-
tons of the STATE JOURNAL, and we can
assure our readers that no more reliable
or capable men can be found in the capital
of our State than Levy Brothers.
Year: 1872

Washington, Feb. 2S.-Serious COM
plants are coming to the Secretary Of State
and the Secretary of the Navy, regarding
the spiteful conduct of the health officer at
Havana towards passengers on American
steamers, the mails on board of which are
searched.


United States Marshal of South Carolina,
vice Reverdy Johnson's son.


The committee of ways and means will
report in favor of leaving the rice tariff
alone.


The Washington Stn of Wednesday eve
ming says: ut may now be safely assumed
that the correspondence in progress be-
tween the governments of the United States
and England will end in the total repudia-
ton by England of the scheme for arbitra-
ton by the Geneva conference. In any
event it may be most positively stated that
this government will continue to firmly
insist on its rights to present the
claim for indirect or consequential dam
ages, and unless the English govern
ment recedes from the position it has
taken and agrees to submit the whole
matter to honorable and impartial arbitra-
ton, all efforts on the part of the United
States to secure an adjustment will be
abandoned, and the subject in controversy
left precisely as it stood prior to the meet
ing of the Joint High Commission. 1t is,
of course, unreasonable to suppose for a
moment that Gladstone and the other lead
ers of English public opinion will recede an
inch from the unfortunate position in which
they have placed their government, and
therefore it may be predicted that the trea-
ty of Washington will be nullfied solely
through the obstinacy and pig-headedness
of our British COUSINS"
Year: 1872

LEAVES To-NIGHT.-John S. Devlin,
one of our most extensive Main-street
clothing and furnishing goods dealers, hay
ing closed out his stock of goods and house,
hold effects, will leave Richmond this eve
nmg for New York, where he will again
take up his abode. We regret to lose Mr..
Deylin, and acknowledge that it is bad
sign when such men as he withdraw their
energy and capital from the business arena
of our city but knowing the fine advanta-
ges of our location, we are confident that
where we lose one we shall gain two. We
are informed that Mr.. Deylin will open a
new store in New York, in connection with
the great house of Devlin & Co., of that
city, on the corner of Broadway and
Twelfth streets, where he will be pleased
to see any of his old friends and custom
| erS
Year: 1872

PRESENTATION OF THE FOUNTAIN
The presentation ceremonies of the street
fountain will take place in the Normal
school room on Saturday at - NJ. One of
the lady pupils will present the fountain to
the city on behalf Of the school, and May
or Kelley will receive the gift on behalf of
the city. The exercises will be inter-
spersed with appropriate music, and the
Rev. DR.. Burrows will deliver an address
upon the subject of temperance. The oc-
casion will no doubt be quite interesting.
Year: 1872

FIFTEEN DAYs.-The Senate this
morning passed resolution continuing
the present session fifteen days after the
expiration of the ninety-day session. This
action being communicated to the House of
Delegates, that body Immediately concur
red in the arrangement.
Year: 1872

We have two communications, both
ofwhieh will appear tomorrow; one,
written by an old merchant who has
much to do with chaneery proceedings;
another, by a learned limb Of the law
both excellent gentlemen and both con-
curing in the proposition, without pre-
vious conference, that the lawyers are
best qualified to designate proper can
didate for the vacant ChancellOrship.
The best officers are wanted, and that
Chancellor who is most capable, most
laborious, most fncorruptible. Lawyers
are most interested in having such
a Chancellor selected, and they can
determine most justly who of their
brethren is best fitted for the high Office.
Even the statute laws of Tennessee re-
cognize this capacity of the profession,
authorizing the solicitors in chancery, in
case of vacancy in the office, to ill it by
an election, in which none besides law
yers are voters. We may have very
decided personal preferences among
gentlemen aspiring TO the Chancellor
ship, but truthfulness compels the con-
fession that we have never, since the
war, seen a Chancellor on the woolsack
in Memphis, and are little fitted to de-
termine the relative fitness Of learned
aspirants for the high position Of which
we speak. PresUming that other citizens
are as modest in this matter as ourselves,
and as ready to concede to the profess
sion both capacity to judge and honesty
Of purpose, we see no sufficient reason
why the members of the bar may not
designate the candidate for the Chancel-
lorship. They have heretofore made
wise selections, We believe, and may,
therefore, be trusted.
Year: 1872

The English Press on the Alabama


Prospect.


A London special says the English
papers continue to discuss the Treaty of
Washington and the supplementary
article with undiminished interest. The
editorials are generally inspired by de-
sire to prevent the failure of arbitration
and save the treaty. An article in a
contrary sense in the Pail NAL Gazette
tonight says the whole drift of feeling
and opinion in England justities the
saying that the worst thing to do with
the treaty is to save it. The saving of
the treaty means offense and hunilia-
ton to England or America, or to both
nations. 1t means a renewal and not an
abatement of the i'll feelings it was in
tended to allay. How to save the treaty,
means who shall eat the leek, or
whether means cannot be invented
whereby both parties shall agree to eat
it in each others presence. The Ameri-
can people seem to eXclaim against the
adoption of the supplementary article.
Here there is only one opinion: that its
acceptance would be discreditable and
dangerous. Both peoples would be paci-
fed and content at once ifthe treaty and
negotiations connected Herewith were
dropped as an irredeemable blunder for
which both governments are alone to
blame. That is the proper fate of the
treaty, and the only safe and peaceful
way of disposing of it.
Year: 1872




DETROIT, May 22.-The Presbyterian
General Assembly had a meeting on the
report of the special committee on be-
nevolence and finance. Provisions have
been made for the committee of fifteen
to be located in the city of New York,
whose Treasurer shall be Treasurer of
the Board of Home Missions. To this
treasury the churches shall, at lib
erty, send their benevolent funds for
distribution. Much difference of opin-
ion was anticipated upon the subject,
but the views of most of the Assembly
harmonized. A proposition from the
Judiciary Committee and a happy
speech prepared the way for a speedy
adjustment of a question that might
have proved vexatious. DR.. ElmwOOd
made a grand speech on foreign mis-
sions, and the Assembly has listened
with interest to the remarks of other
for the foreign field. The
report on foreign missions was adopted.
Year: 1872

DAYTON, OHIO, May 22.-Exagger-
ated reports of the smallpox here have
been sent abroad. The facts are that
there are eighty cases in the city, mostly
of a mild form, and confined to the
neighborhood of the courthouse, among
the people who have not been vaccin-
ated. The Board of Health are engaged,
the sanitary police enforce the health
ordinance, and no appearances of a
further spread need.disturb the public.
One school was dismissed because there
was smallpox in an adjacent house.
Year: 1872

LEXINGTON, May pa gentleman
of our city who was hunting in Bourbon
county to-day reports that locusts have
appeared there by the million. The
trees and ground are literally covered
with them. They appear soon after
daylight. There are fears that they will
do great damage to the fruit, etc.
Year: 1872

The report of the majority of the
House Select Committee upon the
charges against Secretary Robson, says
his accuser totally failed to produce a
single witness or any proof whatever
tending in any degree to maintain the
charges or throw doubt or suspicion
upon the personal character Of the Sec
rafarv
Year: 1872

The laborers who have worked on the
new postoffice building are about to take
steps to obtain pay for the two extra
hours they have worked per day since
the passage of the eight-hOur law.
Year: 1872

A down East editor, who has been keep ing record of big beets, announces at last that ''the beet that beet that beet the other beet, is now beaten by a beat that beats all the beats. [The editor is unacquainted with the Great American Traveller.
Year: 1872

If u. s. Census of Bed-bugs had been
annually dung the last thirty would show th te ha
sarces have number during that period LYONS MAC
SRTC POWDER kept them down Wherever and whenever mas
disappeared To snnhae all bOuthoa hsees
Is only Necessary TO use II in every home
Year: 1872

ALMOST everything has its parasite, which lives
with it and preys upon it. Man is no exception,
for tape pin and other worms lurk in the sys-
tenn, and often cause great disturbance. They
do not exist in healthy bodies; hence they are a
sure proof of ill health They arise in imperfect
action of the stomach and other vital organs, and
lurk in vitiated blood; no mere vermifuge can
remove them. Dr., WALhER's CALIFORNIA VINE
GAR BrrrERs will not only expel the worms, but
by restoring the blood and digestive apparatus
to healthy condition, will remove the cause of
the trouble.
Year: 1872

CHANGE IN TEMPERArURE.-Fo the past three
days the weather has grown cooler and what has
been rain here has been snow from an altitude of
1000 feet above Auburn. This has checked the
rise of streams having their sources above this
snow line and perhaps prevented great damage in
the Sacramento valley, but should the storm
continue and the temperature moderate so as to
bring this snow down with warm rain, then We
say to our valley friends, ''stand from under, "
get up high or fee to the hills.
Year: 1872

Renne's Pain Killing Magic Oil is sold
BY most of our Druggists and Merchants,
and has become a standard article in mar
kst. This position it has won by its great
merit Ii cures pain, and the people like it
and viii have it. One man says his wife
would not be without it if the bottles coat
one dollar.
Year: 1872

from lands end to lands end, that all may
read, and reading, believe, that for the
countless millions Who are on the road to
an uusimely grave with bilious complaints
there is but Que truly great and reliable
remedy, and that is
Year: 1872

The SHEEP LEAP--The St. Louis Dem
ocrat prints this beautiful little story =
"There is covered bridge at Peoria Eve
hundred feet above high water marx. A
drover recently attempted to drive thou
sand sheep across. When about half way
over the bellwether notised ar open win
dow, and recognizing his destiny, made a
strike for glory and the grave. When he
reached the sunlight he at once appreciated
his critical situation, and, with leg strech-
ed towards each cardinal point of the COM
pass, he uttered plaintive 'Ma-a!' and
descended to his fate The next sheep and
next followed, initiating the gesture and
remark of the leader. For hours it rained
sheep. The ere while placid stream was
incarnadine with the life blood of moribund
mutton, and not until the brief tail of the
last sheep as it disappeared through the
window waved adieu to this wretched
world, did the movement cease"
Year: 1872

A School FoR ScoLDrNa.-In the early
part of the present century scolding was re-
garded among certain class in England as
an art to be improved by systematic cultiva-
ton. A witness giving evidence before a
Poor Law Committee many years ago. testi
fed that in one instance within his knowledge
there was night school kept by an old wo.
man for the sole purpose of instructing chill
dren, and especially girls, how to scold with
vigor and effect One pupil would assume
fictitious character, called Mother Barlow,
and she would be pitted against another who
would be called Mother Cummins in con-
test of verbal abuse, the teacher encouraging
and prompting first one and then the other
as the exigencies of the case may require.
Such tuition was considered useful to the girls,
not only to enable them to ''defend their sta.
tions" in the streets, but also as tending to
qualify them for the position of wives and
mothers.
Year: 1872

The last survivor Of those of John
Browns men who were actually engaged
in the fight at Haper's Ferry, lis Osborne
Anderson, a colored man, who was in Bos-
ton the other day He was Pennsylvania
born, but Brown enlisted him lin Canada.
He was only twenty three years old then,
but was manly, stout hearted six footer,
and was told by the old hero, "There are
nine chances in ten that every man who
goes with me will lose his life in the ur.
dertaking-but there are times when dead
men are worth more than living ones"
Year: 1872

A daughter of one of the first families in
Kansas City thus rehearsed a family iarn /
Father got mad because mother starcbed
his stockings; mother picked up the stock.
lngss and hit father with them. and it sounded
as though they were sticks of wood: father
then stuffed hot wheat cake down mothers
throat; then mother set the dog on father,
ana twisted the dogs tail to make MIN bite