smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1875




Coming events cast their shadows be
fore" The important discovery has just been
made that the canal across Minnesota Point
is too near the head of the BAY: or in other
words, too far away from Superior, to be of
much practical benefit, as the very limited
private docl, front which it leaves accessible
to the railroad, is entirely in the hands Of
two or three men who monopolize the trans
pOrtation business. And as a remarkable
coincidence, the fact has suddenly flashed
upon the minds Of the Savans, that the entry
to the harbur is too near the lower end of the
bay, or in other words, too far from Duluth
so much so, as to be entirely impracticable ;
and great surprise is expressed, that the gen
eral government did not make the discovery
years ago, before it had spent such large
sum of money to bring it to completion
And in this connection, it has become appar-
cnt to them, that the present entry will be a
serious drawback to commerce, and a very
great annoyance to the vast fleets of seagoing
vessels which are to form daily lines between
Duluth and Amsterdam, Rotterdam, and
every other dam in Europe, as the first in
quiry on entering the piers, would be, Where
Is Duluth? and it would entail upon Us an
unnecessary burthen, as we should be obliged
to maintain an army of interpreters to inform
the mariners that that wicked town across
the bay, is not Duluth, but is a fraud, perpe-
trated by some evil MINDED men, years ago,
when the eyes of the world were turned
towards the head of Lake Superior, and the
Isles OF the sea were asking Where is the
metropolis Of the great Northwest tc be q?
We should also be forced to employ "A large
number of pilots. to guide the ships safely
through the dixie, the ruins of which, sturrrt
as a monument Of your folly, as you compel
led US to build it, alta time when we needed
the money to pay the interest on our bonds,
and the salaries of our city officials. To
maintain all these, would entail an onerous
tax upon the productive industry of our
young and rapidly growing city and cripple
the energies Of devoted people, already do
ing business on a fictitious capital,


Viewing the situation from this standpoint,
we find ourselves cast between Charybdis
and Scylla, and the wreck of our commercial
supremacy imminent. And as though the
Evil One had something I. do with it, we
hear ominous whispers of St. Croix and Su-
perior railroad, and the extension of the
Northern Pacific from the Junction to Supe-
rior. Q, let them not beguile you with their
promises, but heed the words of the wise
man. When sinners entice thee, consent
thou not" Drive away the intruders from
your doors, and we will help you make a
harbor ms nature was going to make it, oppo-
site St. Louis river. We will call millions
from the Vastly deep to further the enterprise,
and deliver you your merchandise in good
re'ia51e ferry boats; and as an evidence of
good faith, we stand ready to hypothecate
our stock in the Blast Furnace and Citizens
Dock, and apply the proceeds to the cutting
of the new canal and closing the old one


ZENITH"
Year: 1875

The able editor of the Kenosha
7slegrol1h, who has visited the head
Of Lake Superior, and understands
the situation, in copying our article
the Beginning of the End in a
late number of that paper, makes
the following pertinent remarks:


The State Of Wisconsin has commenced a
suit in equity against the City of Duluth and
the Northern Pacific r r. Co, in relation to
the Duluth Canal through Minnesota Point,
djverung the course of the St Louis river
from lis natural channel through the Bay Of
Superior to its mouth into Lake Superior.
The City Of Superior and the State Of Wis
consin had rights which Duluth and the
Northern Pacific failed to respect, and the
suit IS brought to enforce their rights by re-
quring the HIlmg of the canal through Min
nesota Point. 1t would be difficult to con-
ceive a greater disregard of the rights of
city and a State than in the diversion Of the
current of the St Louis river from its chan
mel through the canal cut by .Dulu+h and the
Northern Pacific through Minnesota Point.
and we are glad that the State Of Wisconsin
has brought a sun To require the filling up of
the canal


For further information on the subject we
refer our readers to an article from the Supe-
rior TINES, "The Beginning of the End"
Year: 1875

EOAL LANDs.-A TRACT OF VERY VALUABLE
~ bumnous coal land in the heart of the bituminous
coal region of Pennsylvania railroad with coal
ready ship to New York Philadelphia for sale At
low figure Tor cash; principals only Address BrCMEN
Herald Office.
Year: 1875

Mr.. Grace, the general manager of the


Southern and Atlantic Telegraph Company,


has been losing no time in completing the


lines of this company between Mobile and


this city. Poles have already been raised


and wires stretched az far in as Lee station,
on the Mobile road. and but about nine
| miles more OF work will be required 70


bring the lines into the city. An Office has
already been selected in the business centre
| OF the city. and in another week it is
thought the lines will be in working order
through to New York. This will be vel.
come news to everybody in New Orleans.
except those interested in perpetuating the
monopoly Of the Western Union Company.
Rates will be materially reduced, and there
will be an active rivalry between the two
companies as to which shall best serve its
patrons.


The Southern and Atlantic Company has
fought its way down to US almost inch by
inch. Litigation has met it at every turn,
but so far the company has seemed to come
Oft victorious. A petition for an Injunction
has recently been fled in the United States
Circuit Court-Judge Woods-by the Yves.
tern Union Company, asking that the new
company be forbidden right Of way along
the line Of the Mobile road. on the ground
of its interference with the exclusive rights
Of the petitioner. This matter has clearly
been settled In the Superior District Court |
IN favor Of the Southern and Atlantic line.
and now the United States Court is the last
resor: Of the monopolists. Tho case has
been fixed for hearing on the twenty. first |
instant. and much interest will attach to |
the decision of Judge Woods in the case.
Year: 1875

The legislative investigation into the bribery of members turned out about as we had expected. It wasn't an eager com mittee and with the assistance of able counsel they fonnd out as little as it was possible to find out. In the first place they were too modest to send for persons and papers, though the resolution under which they acted expressly gave them that power Says the Hartford Post:

 One of the men who knew the names of the squad of men whose votes were offered for sale. and who could have told the whole truth of that matter, as to the authenticity of which there Is not particle of doubt in the minds of those conversant with the facts, was not even asked to come before the committee, though he was known to be in the city during the last days sit ting. He had privately given ont that if called before the committee he would tell the whole story. He was defeated party, and there was possibility that he Daight feel ugly enough to disclose the truth. No effort was made to secure his attend ance. The man who had told two members of the House that he had paid money to a leading democrat to smooth the way for an appropriation from the treasury, was not summoned and did not appear. One of the members to whom this information was imparted went be- fore the committee, and after saying that he volunteered no evidence but was ready to be sworn, tcas su6ered to depart srith- out question being asked hiDa. Every man in the room knew to a moral certain ty that the first question would bring out evidence that would be fatal to at least one member of the House.

 The 'tsquad" referred to were the thir- teen members from this Congressional District offered for the modest sum of S25 a head in the Plantsville matter-whether by person authorized to treat for them. is the question. Even the suspicion of purchase at any price, and especially at such price, makes Litchfield county man ashamed of his "local habitation.
Year: 1875

onds quicker than his comrade, wifi ever be disposed to think faEorably of the stlone cared poney;" but the homesteader, trapper, or enigrant on the frontier, Hn always consider him the most useful crear ture kind Heaven ever vouehsafed him. He will sabsist on thistles or browse on mullens with thankful heart, and when turned to a bin of oats or corn knows enough to eat only wha. he needs. He will endure thirst and when he comes to refreshing water will sip it as carefully and deliberately as Broadway dandy his mint tulip. or a New England boy his sweet cider through straW. He will pa- tiently labor in the field with the mercury. at l10o in the shade without sweating. or travel fifty miles day, and. at night. when his trappings are removed. will plunge into a sandbank and groom him. self in manner that would put to shame . hostler with his combs and brushes. If he gets frightened at 2 loncomotive. he will dash of with a loaded wagon, but as soon as the engine is past will take sober second thought, swing round q circle, and return to his post If he gets tangled in his picket rope with nooses around his neck, legs and body. he knows enough to keep quiet until relieved A mule, like a negro, never commits suicide No ore ever inquiries how old he Is, and, if they did, no one would feel constrained to re- ply, "Ssr years old last spring and NO OIder!" We meyer saw an old mule and never heard of one dying of old age. If he is set upon by score of hungro wolves, he will lay four of them low with his hoofs and the fifth with his powerful jaws, at the same instant, and when the fight is over he remains master of the field with 8 number of broken skulls and backs lying round loose as evidence of his prowess or ''mulishness." He, like the father of mules that Balaam rode, Is able to see changer in the way" when his brutal master is blind and we have even known a mule to speak and up6raid his uafeeling master in a language not to be misunder- stoods

 Yours for Mules and Mulishness,

 ELI SPERRY
Year: 1875

We must give our Reform legislature credit for exceptional liberality in one re- spect. They gave Woman Suffrage vote of 82 to 102 in the House-the nearest to success the measure has ever come, we think. in any New England State.
Year: 1875

details Is just what the deacons never will like if they see it. Hence we confidently submit that they never ought to be allow ed to see 1t and that the organ should retain its old place behind the e0ngrega- ton.
Year: 1875

The catalogue OF marine disasters of the past
fortnight is startling one in some respects.
The public has not been shocked with reiterated
reports of loss of life at sea, it was last win
ter, but the comparative harmlessness of recent
accidents does not deprive the subject of serious
interest. These mishaps have not occurred
through storm, but through that other bete noir
of the anxious marner-Fog. II with fog we
had had heavy weather well the record of
February would have been disastrous beyond
precedent. Happily the winds have been light
for the time of year and all the vessels in dis
tress if not wholly rescued have had the more
precious part of their freight saved We have
no complete summary of these accidents.
1t would be difficult thing to compile, for the
disasters seem to have stretched the whole
length of our coast. Of to the North where fog
has not prevailed the severe cold has led to an
embargo of another sort. New England and
Canadian fishing vessels have been frozen up
for weeks, and even as open locality as Cape
Cod bay has been turned into polar sea. 1t is
a season to be long remembered.


Among the more serious of the casualties oc-
curing through fog were those involving the
"Queen," "France," s'yicksburg' and ''Yazoo."
These were all fine steam vessels, laden with
valuable cargoes They were furthermore all in
charge of experienced pilots, on familiar ground,
and not exposed to storm. Smaller crafts of all
sorts have come to grief. There have also been
numerous collisions, some of them of very
serious character. One of the Clyde steamers
ran into a schooner just outside of New York
Harbor and cut into her so clearly that the
schooner Immediately sunk. The case of the
'Yazoo" was one of the strangest of this perilous
time. Here the danger was not upon the ocean
but on the peaceful breast of the river Delaware.
But river mud is as tenacious as sea sand--more
70 perhaps-and the "Yazoo" had harder time
of it than any of the Others except the "Vicks-
burg She was yesterday released after an en-
bargo OF four days, involving serious losses.


These eyentful experiences should have the
effect of making pilots and ship masters more
cautious and careful of their trusts. Use is
second nature and sea-faring men insensibly
grow over confident and reckless. In one of
the minor accidents case of the steamship
"Parthia' the evidence shows that the captain
essayed to leave New York when the fog was
at its thickest. natural consequence was that
the vessel had been barely ten minutes out of
its dock before it was aground on one of the is-
lands nf tho harhar Natl,i"o
foolhardiness this, and yet there is great
deal of it. To put to sea in the face of fog does
not show good seamanshp When so overtaken
IN approaching land the rule ought to be no less
clear not to attempt to make port without abso-
lutte bearings. Better turn about even at the
the loss of time than run de sperate risk.
Year: 1875

The establishment in this city of the courts
and Offices of record is thing felt to be so de-
sirable by our citizens that the scheme of
dividing the county thereby acquires strength.
Except for that it would hardly he entertained.
The inducem'nt, indeed, is strong one
The people of Wilmington, comprising more
than half the people of the county, and paying
nearly half its taxes, have suffered the extre-
NEST inconvenience, annoyance. and expense by
being obliged to go to New Castle upon all court
and county business. and as relief, though earn
estly sought, has not been attained by other
methods, many. accept the division proposition
as the only practicable solution OF the trouble


Those Of the members of the Board of Trade
who were present at the meeting, last evening
generally took this view, though several of them
entertain strong objection to the scheme of d-
vision. considered in all its bearings, and more
than one doubted the expediency both of bring
ing in the proposition, and of explicitly endors-
ing 1t under existing circumstances. But the
eloquence Of the outside addresses was 80 per-
suasive, and the meeting was 30 plainly gathered
IN the interest of the measure, that the vote to
favor it was without an expressed opposition
voice.


Should the proposed amt tndment secure the
necessary two-thirds of each House, at this ses-
SION OF the Legislature, it will lie over to next
session, and, to be ratified, must then receive
Mree.fou'4ts of each House. The interest taken
IN the question in this County and the division
OF opinion i'll regard to twill make it, no doubt
an Issue in the campaign, next year. and espe-
cal!y an issue in the choice Of members of the
Legislature. If, in the contest, three Senators,
or six members of the House be chosen opposed
10 the division, it will be defeated. and IN the
turmoil of conflicting interests, il will not be
surprising, surely if at least so many should he
chosen. 1t will be surprising, on the contrary,
If the opposition should not prove much strong
Year: 1875

the father seemed to realize that the
deep water Immediately in front OF
them once reached, pursuit and recoy-
cry would be alike impossible; both,
therefore, redoubled their efforts, the
one to reach the point, the other to
PREVENT it. In this struggle, although
sinking to his waist in the soft mud at
the bottom at each bound, the father
was successful. He succeeded in grasp,
ing his child by the arm about ten feet
from deep water. The alligator, which
all the while held the child's foot in its
mouth, perceiving itself ovortaken, and
alarmed and confused by the boldness
of the assault, released its hold and


made its way rapidly into the deep
water in front of it. The father, com
pletely exhausted, raised his child out
of the water, and perceiving that it
still lived, by desperate effort sue.
ceeded in regaining the shore and de.
posting the child safely in the arms of
its mother The little girl is uuhurt
with the exception of acouple of bruises
on its foot, made by the teeth of the
monster.
Year: 1875

A Judge in a certain county in New
York has recently rendered decision
that commends itself to the notice of
match. making mammas and matrimo-
NAL spectators of both sexes. A man
applied for divorce from his wife on
the ground that he had been deceived
into the belief that she was healthy
woman, and not the very fragile and
neuralgia creature that sho was. Ii was
proven that the reluctant bachelor, for
whom single life had its blessing which
he was 10th to risk upon matrimonial
venture, had been caioled into the belief
by the friends OF the young lady that
she was paragon of virtues and, physi,
cally, model of Greek Venus. When
the doctors bill began to pour in upon
the husband, he saw that he had made
a mistake, and he implored the court TO
grant him dissolution OF the connubial
knot. The bench sympathized with the
applicant for divorce, but instead of
granting formal decree of complete
separation declared that the marriage
was no marriage at all, that MS marriage
is q civil contract under the law, fraud
in either party made the covenant of no
effect. The husband was, therefore,


released absolutely, aud went his way
seeking another mate. Now, while a
decision of this sort is no unusual
thing, its point in this instance, ID
Capt. Bunsby would observe, "lies in
the application on it," 1t is a warning
to both sexes that everything is not
fair in the race for husband or wife.


Ii woman before marriage beguiles q
man into the belief that her checks are
flushed with mounting hues of health,


when the color is artificial that her


teeth are her own, when they are hers
only by purchase that her hair was not
once the crowning glory Of another
Year: 1875

MIR. GEORGE HILLARD, Of, Boston,
gives us words OF gold in the following
extract 81 confess" says he, "that
increasing years brings with them an
increasing respect for men who do rot
succeed in life, as those words are COM
monty used. Heaven has been said to
be a place for those who do not succeed
upon earth; and it is surely true that
celestial graces do not best thrive and
bloom in the hot blaze of worldly pros
perity. Ill success sometimes arises
from q superabundance of qualities in
themselves good-from conscience too
sensitive taste too fastidious. self
forgetfulness too romantic, a modesty
too retiring. do not go 80 far as to
say with living poet that the world
knows nothing of its greatest men, but
there are forms of greatness, or at least
of excellence, which die and make no
sign ; there are martyrs that miss the
palm but not the stake heroes without
the laurel, and conquerers without the
crown"
Year: 1875

woman and that her beauty unadorned
would be adorned the most-when she
does all this and wins u husband by
sailing under false colors, then recourse
can be had to this decision as a prec.
edent for the adjudication of wrongs
to confding hearts. 1t would have
been well, however, had this decision
been rendered before the summer
season at the leading matrimonial
markets of the land had been inaug-
urated. II might have saved the
happiness OF many poor fellow who in
the next six months will have learned
the bitter lesson that all is not gold
that glitters.
Year: 1875

GUsTAvE DoRE.-Dore, the world'fa-
nous artist, whose brush and pencil
have realized for him magnificent for.
tune, lives very simply in retired
street of Paris, with studio OF one
story occupied entirely as his artist
workshop, but furnished with plain
ness in striking contrast with the Pom
peian magnifcence displayed in the
London residence of his rival, Alma
Tadema. Visitors find him busy with
his pencil or absorbed in creative rev.
wearing, instead of the orthodox
artist robe of black velvet and tasseled
cap, a closely buttoned-up blue coat,
with his long locks disheveled and a
chronic appearance of dust and careless
ness. When friend demonstrated with
him upon this, and declared that he
looked as though he lived on paint and
it had mildewed on his exterior, he re-
piled: "Ah when am at my work,
I am mason." Though an elegant
man of the world, he is singularly un-
pretending and even child.like in his
intercourse with his friends.
Year: 1875

The mystery of the missing aeronauts
is solved at last. The body of young
Grimwood, the companion of Prof.
Donaldson, was found last week on the
shores Of Lake Michigan, rendering it
quite certain that both were lost in the
fearful gale which swept over the lake
On the night of their ill-starred as
cension.
Year: 1875

tst Clair Letter to the Albany County Gentleman1


We are having very interesting mystery here in
tho shape OF the second edition Of the famous Cardiff


Giant Two men living in the town of Kimball, ten
miles from Fort Hudson while out hunting stopped to
gather specimens OF stone from gravel bed in the
Pine River that washed out from the bank by
during the freshet year ago. In this loose bank they
uncovered stone resembling the face OF child.
After looking at it in wonder for time they thinking
of the doubt that hangs over the discovery OF the
famous giant, went out and brought fifteen twenty
men witness this before taking 1t II was then
chin, throat, part OF the right arm, shoulders,
breast, part Of and the whole OF
the other showed distinctly In perfect form,
all the rest merging into a OF gravel
and small stones, cemented together the
In any gravel pit The right Is bent the forearm
Is lying the body; the other Is bent below the
elbow The eyes well defined and very broad FORE
head fiat and sopng, small sharp; nostrils open;
lips very thin, nat; mouth well de1ned-curve of the
lips perfectly natural chin square, slight depression
dmple the breast bone also just above the
whore the ribs mect at least just below where they
meet The form Of the breast Is perfect The skin
the surface is smooth, not showing the marks OF tools
Some call 1t petrihed child and account for the great
breadth Of the head at the eyes by pressure that
fattened the forehead Among the small stones
petrihed coral, shells, &C. such as are very common
through this country. Can you tell US what IL isi
Year: 1875

FROM the santa Rosa Democrat


We published not long ago account OF the Guerne-
vile ghost We have the following authentic particu-
lars:The scene OF tho appearance at the Cresus
mine. on Austin Creek about three miles from Guerne-
VILE The men who work in the mine had just gone to
bed, when there q noise at tho door, then some
ghostly music. They next heard in the shaft the
sound Of sharpening tools the noise Of the bellows
brisky working pump air in the shaft and the sharp
cnkng or the pully the whim used for raising and
lowering the buckets In the shaft. This noise WAS
Kept up as II there whole force Of ghosts busily
employed from ten at night until three o'clock In the
morning The mouth Of the shaft could be from
tho cabin; but though the noise dis
tinct, no forms were TO move about the shaft.
The work was kept up for three nights In succession
then there was an interval of comparative quiet for
three weeks. day or two ago Abe Steratt at
work alone in the shaft; the other men were above
ground Steratt was preparing to put in shot when
he heard noise close to him. He looked up and there
stood man clad miner beside him. in q space
which instant before had been vacant Steratt
asked :-''What do you want2 ~ No reply He punched
at the figure with drill; II went through the airy
semblance OF humanity. Terror struck, Steratt ex
clamed:-"If you are going to work here want to
get out " He whistled to his companions above to
come down, and then said:-"or If you want me to
work here you must get out.n Whereupon the figure
seemed vanish upward from sight and has not since
been Noises above described have been heard
but the spectre miner has not since been seen.