smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1875

capaeity of spindles while gold Is advancing cotton
advancing. money superintendent for good DOT
rowers-notwithstanding all this the market re-
fuses 10 take even the reduced production and
soms leading styles of goods compelled to drop
priees 10 effect sales and the mills that held surplus
say of 900 or 2O0O packages, noe only fail to get the
nominal advance of &C.. but fail to close OUT tne
whole surplus when Offering it at the lowest price
of December In word. the condition OF the people
is such that they will not take the production. How
and when is this to be changed W Had the writer
written cannot instead Of will not take the pro-
dueton.n he probably would have hit the nail more
exactly npon the head The people are poor ana
earning but little which accounts for their inaDiity
to take and pay for the rednoed production OF our
cotton mills and yet the expiring Government pro-
poses to wiring from tins people $40e00,OO0 in addl-
tiona taxes with which to support its e1travagant
appropriations instead Of honestly praeticing econ
omy in it's expenditures as the people are forced TO
do Capital is Idle aad concentrated instead
of being in active circulation 1t is easily
obtainable and at low rates by good
borrowers" that is by those who do not want
it, and is not TO be had any terms by those
who wold risk it in the developing OF new enter
prises which even if unsuccessful would infuse new
life into the trade of the country by starting cur
reney into circulation. Yet In the face OF this con-
tinued dullDess this abseace Of any new stmulants
to activity the bank statement of to-day shows an
other large increase in the item of loans. The fol-
lowing table presents a comparison of the present
bank averages with those of two years ago. and also
of the Saturday next preceding the panic OF Septem
ber 1879 and considering the condition Of trade,
faafu
Year: 1875

Dullness and depression fifty describe the eoDdi-
ton of trade in the city for the week closing to-day


It is not pleasant to record such facts. but there
nothing to be gained by sef-deception as to the
condition Of trade OF the Of that condition
The following figures being comparisons of last year
and this for the dates named appear to point to far
more serious and permanent causes for the present
unsatisfactory state of trade than to be found in
such temporary and local ones % Indictment
ueather and q ice blockades y
Year: 1875




From the foregoing statement may be seen the de-
cline from last season ID the trade in this great
sapIe and tho secnmulatiens Of that staple at the
principal points. The record Of prices for American
products at Liverpool for the past week do not ind
cate an early demand from that quarter. The only
article which has advanced in price there s cheese,
which Is quoted 3D. higher at the close than at the
opening Of the week while during the same time
wheat hss declined sd94d per Genital; pork. ss ID.
per barrel; corn. Is. 9d. per quarter bacon od per
cwt. lard 3D., aud taIlow od. All other
articles being quoted dull and unchangeed'
These are fact, 9ot fapcies Or theories,
whieh interest alike the banker. merSe ant
and speculntor and point to a continuanc ce of dull
ness and depression in trade and % light receipts
for our railroads for the i.aediate future at all
events The dry goods trade of the city has not
peen equal to the apticipations of our merchants
On the subject Of this trade and Cotton spinning"
The Financial CA~o~icIs remarks: However much
we may to believe the contrary the fact is
beyond dispute that the cotton goods trade con-
tinues IN very unsatisfactory condition.


But the remarkable circumstance in the situation is
that not the production of cotton goods
In the average 10 thus only twothirds OF the full
Year: 1875

A correspondent speaks as follows of
life in a German Students Club:


During the evening two persons have
had quarrel, in the progress of which
-one-has called the other a tyesJangcr -s
This is an insult which cannot be for
given, and the insulting party is imme-
distely challenged. A judge is appoin-
ted, who fills two large glasses with beer,
and gives one to each contestant Tue
glasses are drained, at the given signal,
to the bottom; and he who has breath
enough to cry 5ee,Junger is proclaimed
victor, amid the shouts Of the company.
He has now the right to dictate to his.
rival anything be chooses, and the van
quished party must obey the peril of
expulsion from the club. These socie4
ties are extremely popular and nearly
all the students participate in them.


The fighting men-about one-third of
the students-are divided into five,
corps, distinguished by the color of
their caps. Duels are restrained to-
those corps; and the occasions for the
wounded honor to vindicate itself ares'
so numerous, that it is necessary to de-
vote two afternoons week to this bar
baric custom. The government of the
university is silent about these little af-3
fairs of honor, and so is considered as
sanctioning them The duels are fought
in beer house just across the Neckar.s
The swords are short, and very sharp. at
the extreme point, The surgeon OF
each corps present to stop any un-
necessary flow of blood. The combat
ants, stripped to their waists, their arms
bandaged at the elbows, that they may
infiict no deadly wounds, strike right
and left, up and down. with remarkable
precision and swiftness. The aim of
the duelist heing to mark the face Of his
antae eonist,the head is the principal point
of attack; and at the end OF one Of
these fights the floor of the room looks
like that of successful BARRIERS shopc
Vengeance is not appeased by the firss
blood that is drawn, but they often con-
tend until one or the other is exhausted.
1t is nothing uncommon to see noble,
manly fellow, with his face so dis6gured


with ugly and ghastly wounds as to rem
der him a most rcpulsive sight.
Year: 1875

There is bonanza to be had for the
picking up somewhere along the Union
Pacific Railroad. Last week a gentle
man and daughter travelling east, enter
ed the hotel car for lunch, just after
leaving Ogden, Utah. At the table the
daughter removed several handsome
rings from her fingers and handed them
to her father to take care of until the
lunch had been disposedsof. The gen.
tleman took up some chicken bones with
the hand containing the rings, and in a
moment of absent mindedness threw
bones and rings out of the open window
of the Car. The rings were valued at
$1,700.
Year: 1875

If you are at church of Sunday
evening in August, without fan, cast
about your eye until it lights on Gan en-
gagged couple, and when you see how
close they snug up together, you will
loose in great degree sense of the
heat.-Daabury Ne,uS.
Year: 1875

Toothache and Stockiager are the
names of two opposing candidates
who wanted to go to the Legislature
from Kansas District this winter.
The people were not particularly
fond of lager, but preferred it to
tOothache.
Year: 1875

WE publish elsewhere an important
circular from the Secretary Of the Ma
tional and State Boards Of Centennial
Commissioners, addressed to the
County Commissioners throughout the
State. 1t is an important document,
and viii, we trust, receive a due share
of attention from our Tennessee con-
temporaries. Our State is vitality in
teuested IN being properly represented
at the. great Exposition of 1876,
but no movement in that
direction will make material
headway without the active and earnest
co operation Of the press. The Press
Association has already determined to
attend the Centennial Celebration at
Philadelphia; let us all see to it that
we have no reason to be ashamed,
when we 60 there, of the showing
made BY the Old Volunteer State.
Year: 1875

A MARRIED man in Brooklyn thought
he detected an obstruction in the keyhole
Of his bedroom one night last week, and in
a ct Of enthusiasm, ke chucked halt-pint
of carbolic acid into the opening. The
next morning his mOther-in-law turned uI
missing, and there is Il lingering impress
ion on that mans mind that caIbOlic acid
is one of the necessities that no. newly
married couple can afford to do without.
Year: 1875

MosT parasOls are now provided with
large and fiat silver rings fastened TO the
side by a silver chain. This IS new and
effective. The ring serves TO close the par
asol when requisite.
Year: 1875

An English journal says that q de-
eidedly novel invention has been sug-
gested during the last few days. 1t
Is to afix lamps to the telegraph
poles by the side Of the railways, and
enable the telegraph operators at the
nearest station to light them by cleo
tricity whenever there is danger on
the road, the idea bsing that as soon
as the driver Of train saw these
lights burning be would bring his
engine to a stand still and remain
standing until be received instruc-
tiOns to proceed
Year: 1875

The Practical Farmer says:


ut is well settled in the opinion of
all our best dairymen that bran
greatly promotes the milk seeretions
in cows, and it is fed almost unifer-
sally. About equally mixed with
eornmeal is the usual proportion
This mixture seems to promote both
quantity and quality of milk. From
several sources we hear that buck
wheat bran is a great producer Of
milk, and it is being used considera-
bly, among our Chester county dairy
men in about the same proportion as
the other Thomas Gawthrop. near
West Grove, Chester county, also by
repeated trials with his own cows.
has fully satisfied himself that they
do as wei with corn aud cob meal
and bras as with pure corn meal and
bran. The amount of nutriment in
corn cob is so very small that the re-
suit will have to be explained on the
supposition of the ground cab acting
to promote digestion by distending
the stomach.


The presence Of bulky material
being necessary to promote disten-
sion and ill up the stomach Of ru-
minating animals, before digestion
can be accomplished, is frequently
lost sight of. Hungarian grass is al
so found for. .milch cows to be rather
superior to the ordinary run of hay.
The last year or two Hungarian
grass has loSmed up wonderfully in
the estimation of our dairy farmers;
and a very large scope of land was
sowed with it this season. 1t ma
lures for cutting in about sixty days,
and produces two to four tens per
acre-the latter of course on good
soils. Three pecks 10 the acre is the
usual allowance Of seed.
Year: 1875




Ny mothers voice how often creeps
Its cadence in my lonely'hours I!
Like healing sent on wings of sleep.


Or dew to the unconscious flowers
I can forget her melting prayer


While leaping pulses, madly fly,
But in the still unbroken air


Her gentle tones come stealing by,
And years, and sin, and manhood flee,
And leave me at my mothers knee.
The book of nature, and the print
! OF beauty on the whispering sea,
/ Give ave to me some lineament
I OF what | have been taught to be.
Ny heart is harder, but perhaps


Ny manliness hath drunk up tears
And there's mildew in the lapse


OF few miserable years
But natures book is even yet
/ With all my mothers lessons writ.
I have been out at eventide


Beneath moonlight sky of spring,
When earth was garnished like bride,


And night had on her silver wing
When bursting leaves and diamond grass


And waters leaping TO the light,
And all that makes the pulses pass
With wilder tleetness thronged the nig ght
When all was beauty, then have


With friends on whom my love is flung
Like myrrh on the winds of Araby,
Gazed up where evening lamp is hung.
And when the beautiful spirit there


Flung over me lis golden chain,
Ny mothers voice came on the air


Like the light dropping of the rain,
And resting on some silver star


The spirit OF bended knee,
I've poured her low and iervent prayer


That our eternity might be
To rise in heaven like stars at night.
And tread living path of light
have been on the dewy hills,


When night was stealing from the dawn
And mist was on the waking rills,


And iints were delicately drawn
In the gray east-when birds were singing


And melody by fits was breaking


Upon the whisper Of the breeze,
And this when went forth, perchance
4 As worn reveler from the dance
And when the sun sprang gloriously
And freely up and hill and river
Were catching upon wave and tree


The arrows from his subtle quiver-.
l say voice has thrilled me then.


Heard on the still and rushing light
Or, or creeping from the silent glen


Like words from the departing night,
Hath striken, and / have pressed


On the wet grass my feyered brow.
And pouring forth the earliest


First prayer, with which | learned t.
Have felt my mothers spirit rush [bow


Upon me as in by past years,
And yielding to the blessed gush


OF my ungovernable tears
Have risen up-tne gay the Wild
As humble as very child.
Year: 1875

A gentleman in the city advertised d
a few days since in the Times for q
boy. The next morning, on arriving
at bis Office, be found in front Of the
door a bandbox, With this inscription
on it. Will this one answer On open
ing it be found nice fat specimen Of
the article which he advertised for,
dOne up in flannel.
Year: 1875

II is mighty tough work FOX
young man to GO 70 church aud listen
to a sermon on patience, forgiveness
and neighborly love, and treasure 1t
up in bis hesrt as his guide during
he week when another fellow has
-, o.i-g in An opposite pew.
Year: 1875

was held here this evening, and was
largely attended. Many liberal subscriP-
tions were made toward the lndIanola
and other sufferers A steamer will leave
here tomorrow morning, with provisions
and clothing. Information received from
the East bay states that the suffering
among the people Is terrible. Out OF
twenty. eight human beings three are
known to be alive.
Year: 1875

He left load of anthracite
In front of poor woman door,
When the deep snow. frozen and white,
Wrapped street and square, mountain
and moor.


That was his deed.


He did it we'll:


s.What was his creed? ?"


| cannot tell.
Blessed Sin his basket and in his stoi e, "
In sitting down and rising up;
When more he got he gave the more,
Withholding not the crust and cup.


He took the lead


In each good task.


''What was his creed?


| did not ask.
His charity was like the snow,
Soft. white, and silent in its fall
Not like the noisy winds that blow
From shivering trees the leaves: pail
For flowers and weed,


Dropping below


s'What was his creed 20 -


The poor may know.
He had great faith in lOaves of bread,
For hungry people, young anu OH,
And hope inspired. kind WORDS be said
To those he sheltered from the cold.


For we must feed


As well as pray.


HWhat was his creed 2"


] cannot say
I'm words he did not put his trust,
His faith in words he never writ;
He loved to share his cup and crust
With all mankind who needed it.


In time of need


A friend was he.


''What was his creed ?"


He told not me.
lie put his trust in Heaven, and he
Worked well with hand and head;
And what he gave in charity
Sweetened his sleep and daily bread.
Let us take heed


For life is brief.


''Wlat was his cree ="


"What his belief"
Year: 1875

THE royal cabinet maker made
Victor Emanuel present Of a finely
worked box on the twenty-fifth ami
versary of his reign, and the King
returned the compliment by sending
a watch without chain. The cabi-
net man got mad, asked for the
chain, and in defanlt of which he
claimed back his pretty box. The
chain was not forthcoming from the
Quirinal, but the box was. Then the
''artist" grew furious, and wrote over
fifty insulting notes to the royal
household manager, when the latter,
too, became mad in earnest, and sue
cessfully sued the importune solici-
tor for calumny.
Year: 1875

an Ace Of Terminating calamltously.


A large crowd of ladies and gentlemen gath
cred at the corner Of and Tenth streets at about
dusk yesterday to ascertain the cause of the ago
mixing cries which issued from Q small front room
in the fourth story Of No. 1000 F street. The oe-
cupants Of the establishment were Questioned in
regard to the matter, but were entirely ignorant
not only Of the cause but the existence OF facts
which occasiOned go much inquiry upon the part
Of the outsiders, as the voices Of the children
could be heard much more readily and distinctly
from the street than from within.


The crowd continued to increase, and mani
Tested great curiosity to get at the bottom OF the
case; during which time all kinds Of suspicious
came up before the eager vision, and As new In
uuirers joined the crowd, heightening the excite
the afternoon, in the absence OF any knowledge OF
the real state Of affairs, satisfied the newcomers
with an expression Of their fears and beliefs, thus
giving currency to train Of most horrid and dis


The Children who were heard to utter the cries
their eagerness to be released from their confne-
ment. One was on the eve of leAping from the
window, when shout was sent up from the hu-
name crowd which prevented the calamity.


Dozens of heads looked out Of as many windows.
and turning to the seat Of the excitement talked
grown enough to understand and be persuaded by
them. One child was pointed out by an elderly
natron as being on the verge oi ht, and she
urged the necessity Of Immediately rescuing
them. At this junctuure q man ran from the
street and reached the upper chamber by taking
three steps at a stride, and while another man
hurried to q locksmith's he opened the door BY
force and on the principle that necessity laughs
at locksmiths."


After the children had regainsd the street Q
REPUBLICAN reporter picked out the Oldest and
brightest looking one OF them and asked her to
give statement


Her name was Clara Collins and with her eyes
full Of tears she said she wasn't scared Bit bat
the other girls were afraid they would never get
out again to see their mothers, and thought II
they Jumped the people would catch them. Mag
gle Loreh had cried q great deal, and she was
more afraid than any OF them. Lille Pond, who
locked them up laughed at first, but when they
couldn't get the door open, she cried. They had
been confined in the room all the afternoon, and
were lawful glad to get Out' and would never
do so any more"
Year: 1875

The contemplated transfer Of tho officers and men
from the old receiving ship Vermont to the United
States steam frgate Colorado has yet been ELECTED
Workmen now busly engaged on the Colorado try
ing to make her adapted TO the duty assigned by the
Navy Department


The monument OF old times pro1igacy, the Java
rotten from stem to stern, now lying on the stocks
just she lay years ago. shortly to be broken up for
frewood. vigorous thumb could punch her RIBS,
and she occupies important ground Now that winter
is near hand, Admiral Rowan do the benevolent
among the poor.


The swatara Is ordered TO the Mediterranean squad
She is now fitting out, and will shortly have her
complement Of officers.


The torpedo boat Intrepid will proceed in few days
TO Newport


The United States steamer Powhatan, Captain
Jouett commanding arrived at the Navy Yard a few
DAYS ago alter pleasant cruise through the Sound 1t
viii be remembered that the POwhatan had just
turned from Aspinwa and that Northern atmosphere
WAS necessary for all hands From the records IN the
Navy Department however II seems that the pleasant
cruse OF the Powhatan has been disturbed aud that
she has been promptly ordered TO Port an Prince,


The work on the cob dock rs still progressing and it
s Thought that the building for the accommodation OF
the sailors will be very soon completed.
Year: 1875

OF the interest her debt Suppose she does So
era nghl-headed persons will answer, much the
for the bondhoders, ana they win have
much to complain Of il they the original holders Of
the securities, for they have been receiving least
ten per cent during the last twenty years and there
FORE have already got back their money twice
Softly, my friends The Turks have been kept as quiet
as sucking doves by England, because she has been
paying the Sultan's jewellers and keeping his
from perplexing him, by lending money whenever IL
was asked for His Hghness has thus been enabled to
build pretty palaces the Bosphorus and to hang up
in them


CHANDELIERS WORTH THOUSAND DOLLARS EACH.
But should he find out that there is really no
money TO be had any from those morazing and
vexatous English he viii set them at defiance. Firstly
he will repudate his debit then he will raise money for
his needs in the Old high handed ways and then, If
England does support him. he will sell his Empire
TO Russia taking any he get for his frontier
provinces and welcoming Russian army Of occupation
at Constantnople Hs is a stout, choeric old gentle
man. by no means Of patient disposi-
ton, and he will contrive TO settle the Eastern
question after his own lights, which are not bright
ones should he be driven his wits end. England
has got herself into a pretty pickle with Turkey by
means Of her nepotsm stock iobbng, contract hunt
ing and lnanciering. She will now have to 90


THROWING GOOD MONEY AFTER BAD
her strongest bulwar against the advance Of Russia
in the East viii fall down Of itself and she will have to
look its ruin dgcsting the bitter fruit Of her
FOLLY and ncapaoity best she may That is how the
stands at the present writing and very
cheerful aspect
Year: 1875

solute dissolution Of the standing army.


Each soldier in the service costs the people


$1,000 per annum, or $50, 600, 600. The


burden, in PROPORTION to the value of ser


vices, is intOlerable. But this criminal


waste of sweat-drops of honest industry


signifies little. Mr.. Cox tells the country


that hedFoald ''deprivethe tyrantof the tool


With which be does bis foul work and that
without the army Grant would be impotent


for mischief. An accomplished gentle


man and West Point-trained soldier Of this
city anticipated Mr.. Cox in this behalf, and


through these pages has said that West Point


was the school of despotism. If Mr.. Cox


be sustained in relieving the country of a
eonstabulary force called the "Regular
Army" used in oyerthroWiDg States and


popular freedom, West Point should become
simple monument to those heroes and
statesmen whose deeds may render its
name illustrious. It's gateways should be
closed against the sons of American free
men and none but princes OF the royal blood
enter there. West Point training makes
army officers say to the President, as sheri-
dan. has done, that they have no right to
think and only to obey orders. Any thing
they are directed to do they will perform,
no matter what its character or legal con-
sequences. We do not need such collec-
tion Of instruments of oppression. The
people have rights that cannot be dis
regarded-Original, primitive rights, that
take precedence of all that may be
derived from them and these can hard
ly be guarded and perpetuated, while
an eleUe of West Point becomes the country's
master, upheld and guarded by those who
give blind obedience even when tyrant and
usurper exacts it. But it is hardly the pur-
pose of Mr.. Cox to destroy the standing
army or raze West Point to the ground
The proposition is made in order that the
people and the Congress may be forced to
r cur to first principles and inquire to what
extent popular and local freedom in America
may be endangered by the selfish, obstinate,
grssping, silent policy of President Grant.
When Mr.. Cox has directed the current of
opinion into its original channels, and the
old lesson is thoroughly inculcatcd that
''local freedom, municipal independ-
the central idea of Amer
lean philosophy in government, his aims
will be accomplished and Grants power
bro6en forever.