smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1873

The following speaks for and explains it.
sell. 1t shows, first, that very many of the
farmers and other industrious citizens of
the Northwest are looking for bones for
themselves and their posterity in milder
climate, where the winters are not SO long
and 80 severe, not so trying to the human
constitution, nor so expensive in the keeping
of stock. Tennessee offers a delightful
home for all such. We have beautiful
climate and fertile soil, pure air and pure
water. In addition TO our agricultural ad-
vantages, we have an unbounded supply Of
coal and iron ore, and as fine water-power
for manufacturing purposes as there
is in the Unior. AL that Tennessee needs
to make her the first State in the sister
hood, is more Industrious citizens and
more money capital.


We hope that those of our readers who
think that they can make it profitable or
pleasant, to communicate with Mr.. Way
will write to him:


To the Union and American:


BUSINESS DEPARTMENT, SOUTHERN
LAW REvIEw-NAsHVILLE, May "a,
S72.--Herewith we enclose cOpy Of let
Ter which we deem of such Importance that
we Law It before you for publication, know
ing your views are such as to prompt the
notification of all matter that tends TO in
crease immigration. We believe that q
proper circulation of such letters will re-
doupd to the benefit of the people Of the
State at large. Very truly


- FRANK T. REID.


CoPY.-LAND OFFICE OF @. Q. WAY,
ELLINGTON, Hancock county, Iowa.
Mess,s. Frank T. Reid & Co., Gentlemen:
viii YOU do me the favor of forwarding to
INV address the name of some prominent
real estate broker of your city, or the name
and address of such firms in that business in
Tennessee who are doing the leading busi-
ness in your State.


White in Oregon, IN which State l have
Sived the past two years, received several
real estate journalsIpublished in your State,
but have forgotten the names and address
of them.


have been engaged in the real estate
business for twelve years past, and am de-
sinous Of locating in your State. | wish to
find cheap lot oflsnds in healthy location
well suited TO farming and stock raising.
I couLd;bring one hundred families into your
State this season if the climate and soil
would sui.


The very severe winters here are against
the country, and farmers are looking fur
yher south for a more desirable location.
You will do me great favor if you will
Iend us what assistance you can in this mat
ter. Very truly yours, G. Q. WAY.


NIB. / may add that much of the print
ed matter in circulation touching topics OF
coast country was prepared by me.


IL your State should prove to be, in sn
agricultural way, what | have reason to be-
aieve It, l have reason to suppose, l may be
of some benefit TO the people at large.


We are seeking climate and country in
which 10 spend the balance of our lives, and
our influence to induce others to join us
will not be profitable only to us, but 10 the
State at large. Yours truly,
Year: 1873

PITTsBURG, May pa young married
lady, Mrs. Osborne, living at Carpenters
Station. while cleaning the house yesterday,
had occasion to remove her husbands load
ep rife from the bed, and in so doing the
trigger caught in the bed clothes and was
forced back far enough to cause the expio-
sion o. the cap. Fhe contents of the bar
rel entered her left breast and she sank to
the floor. The report aroused her husband,
who was In an sdjoining apartment, and on
entering the room he found her lying in a
pool Of blood in dying condition. Medi-
cal assistance was promptly summoned, but
the victim lived only few moments.
Year: 1873

of Washington with asphaltum and wood
that IL should at least pay six million dol
lars to the completion of scheme iwh ch Is
of paramount importance to the whole
Western ami Southern country. They
said that Eastern railroad monopolists had
crushed down the products of the West too
long and that the thing Of not tinding q
chance for exporting their products was
getting To be -
Year: 1873

hand OF any one with pin, it will be an
appreciable part of a second before he
Will feel 1t and draw his hand back. Now,
II had an arm long enough to reach to
the sun, and should put my fingers into
the solar flame, and burn them there, It
would be hundred years before 1 would
find It out, and another hundred years be-
fore | could remove my hand. Such is
the distance Of the sun, and yet, across
that space, the earth responds TO every
impulse Of the solar surface" An illus
tration of this character, while it elicted
the applause of the audience, failed, we
do9ot not, to convey to many amy more
uennite Idea of this immense distance than
ina. obtained from the simple statement
oI ,nat distance In English miles.-Apple-
Year: 1873

WE remember reading of three unfortu-
nate ladies who were entertained one sum-
mer day at the house of country friend,
and whose consequent sufferings were SO
remarkable that they will serve to point
a little moral. These ladies were very
high-toned, so to speak. They were so
very genteel and so extremely proper in
their manners, that Ii society conferred
degrees they would have been Mistresses
Of Social Arts and Doctresses of Social
Laws.


SO these three high-toued ladies sat
down to dinner In the house of their coun-
try friend, and there were peas on the Ia
BILE. Peas" wrote one Of the immacu-
late trio, ''such as we never see in town
fresh, green, plump and luscious, all so
delightfully."- hot and temptingl But as
the forks had only two prongs, making it
quite useless to try to eat peas with them,
we were obliged to leave the delicious
things on our plates. The family ate
their peas with their knives, but of course
we could not do that"


Now our opinion may be social heresy,
but we certainly believe that true lady
would have eaten those peas with her
knife. She would have done so simply
because she would have known that the
laws of true pOliteness made 1t imperative
upon her to use her knife In such case.
But this genteel trio did not appear to un-
derstand that politeness requires greater
attention to the feelings of others than
20 mere forms; that what is very genteel
In one pace Is often quite boorish In an
other, and that there is hyper-gentility
and a plu-propriety which is offensive
to the nostrils of true gentleman or
lady.-Frank r. Stockton, in "Home and
Society,"" Seribner's for March.
Year: 1873

MANUFACTURERS should look well to
their scrap iron do not waste piece, no
matter how small gather all together
assort, have different receptacles for steel
wrought, cast and malleable iron. The
wrought iron from the carriage shop Is
the most valuable of scrap iron, but to
bring the highest price there must be no
malle8ble or cast iron mixed with 1t !;
every pound of scrap has market value,
and it should be packed In barrels or
boxes and sent to market. II there be
any considerable quantity, 1t will pay to
send 1t to the mills and have 1t worked
up into bars. 1t is the small manufactur-
ers who do not take care of their scrap,
but allow year after year to pass without
paying any attention to it, and scraps of
iron can be found all over their, factories,
while boxes and out Of the way corners
are filed with it, and hundreds of dollars
of what would make the best of bar iron
is allowed to go to waste.-Scientifc Amer
lean.
Year: 1873

"Is it for me you are unhappy ?r sh
askel doubtfully one day.


"Yes; / find l have not fortitud
tunes"


"You may easily bear mine. 1 hav
been very happy since knew that my
| waiting would be short"


You have had but dull, lonely life
Eleanor. l cannot wonder at your indif
ference to it."


A sudden rosy brightness transfiguret
Eleanor's face, and for the moment she
was more lovely than can tell.


You are wrong, believe me-" she said
u have had my share of happiness; no
woman could have more. 1t was like
some great tropical bloom, long in COM
ing and soon gone, but it was unutterably
perfect"


1 looked at her with wide eyes, and the
drawbridge o 1her reserve fell instantly.
She lay still for long time, and could
hear the thud Of her heart-beats.


When was leaving her, she showed
me a key on chain that she always wore
about her neck.


"Some time you will use this to unlock
my DESK" she said, and find there what
l cannot say to you now." Not many
days after, she went out of life as calmly
as she had passed through it.


In her desk was large packet of let
ters, bound with strip Of paper. On
this strip was written the precious secret
which she could not part with while she
lived. "Burv me with these letters on
my heart, and write over my head only
this: Eleanor Eustace, beloved wife Of
Haviland Norton"


She had said on my wedding day that
she thought she might like me very well,
and have reason to believe she did so,
never any less and never any more, while
grew to regard her with passionate
admiration.


For long time after her death, life,
alone with my widower, was a very tame
affair indeed.-Ella Williams, in GALAXY
for March.
Year: 1873

At present the distance nom the earth


to the sun is reckoned at ninety-two mill


lions of miles, with margin Of error of
about five hundred thousand miles. 1t Is
for the main purpose of reducing this
Of r the COMING t.nst Of
are to be undertaken. In q recent lecture
on "The Constitution of the Sum-" Pro.
fessor Young made use of the following
curious illustration, in order to aid his
hearers In forming an idea Of the sums
distance. "You know" he states "that,
If you touch part Of the body, one does
not feel 1t instantly. If you touch the
Year: 1873

A JUST man does justice to every man
and to everything; and then, If he be also
wise, he knows there Is debt OF mercy
and compassion due to the infirmities OF
mans nature, that Is to be paid and ne
tina. Is cruel and ungentle to a SHINING
person, and does the worst to him, dies In
his debt and is unjust.
Year: 1873

he feel that to-day with all my sins, can 10 into my
closet with nothing TO ask God TO forgive me for feel
outraged at the charges made upon and wish 70
say TO this Committee that believe greater wrong
has ever been perpetrated in TINS country than has been
pmpctrated upon honorable gentlemen IN connection
with these charges whom have known for twenty OF
twenty-five years. and whose integrity the Pacific Ka-
road and all the railroads the country could not buy
Year: 1873

A correspondent of the Vermont
Christson Messenger says: / don't like
TO see people who are sick on Sun.
day when on Monday and on all 9th.
err days OF tho week they are in
strong or robust health" Nor 90
we like to see it. Yet many excel.
lent people 0t nervous temperament
who are liable to headache, neuralgia
and lesser ills are tar more apt TO be
i'll on Sunday than on other days
Ordinarily they are kept up during
the week by the stimulus OF daily
and pressing duties. On Saturday
night they lie down with y necessary
teeling OF rellef, and are apt TO 90
run down" neryously that they are
almost sure TO suffer the effects Of
reaction amid the peaceful hours OF
Sunday. Sunday sickness therefore
is often tor above .he satire of these
robust temperament that go. evenly
slow all through the week. The
tendency is inevitable. aud prayer


will not ordinarily removeit. These


very people would be glad OF reliet.
-Erch0MgS.
Year: 1873

Since the railroads have decided to
off the eadheads, many of the
newspapers have concluded to try a
hand. If any community, corporation
or class of business men were ever more
afflicted with deadheads than the news
paper press of to-day we should like to
extend to them our sympathies. But
the following resolution, adopted at the
Missouri Editorial Association, will con-
vince some of the dead class that in
Missouri at least the reform has com
menced at both ends of the line:


l. That newspaper is bust
ness establishment by which editors
and printers must make a living. g


That man has the same right to walk
into grocery store and order barrel
of sugar or a sack of coffee, or into a
law Office and demand legal opinion
romits occupant, or into an uudertaker's
and request coffin, without expecting
to pay for their respective wares of ser.
vices, as into newspaper office and de-
mand the use of its brains and muscle
and type, without thought of recon-
pense. B. That hereafter all personal or
political matter, having for its object
the promotion of individual fortune or
ambition, shall be treated exactly as
other business matter, and charged, at
the option of publishers, as editorial
advertising. 4. That dead d-head-po-
litical, personal and commercial the
Missouri press is "played out" s.
That any editor or publisher who fails
to carry out these resolutions in the
letter and spirit shall cease to be re-
garded as a member of this association.
Year: 1873

fore went into remedial scheme like n
dear old soul, as he is."


"And," cried Mat of Mexico, " just
before the curtain comes down, bring
forward your military chieftain, take
the bandage from his eye, and show
the audience how Internally black it
=
Year: 1873

A new method OF making wrought
IN direct from the ore is now prac-


Ell in South Stsffordshire, which is


ls described The inventors take
the ore, grind it to powder, and mix il
with powdered lime, together with pow
dered pitch or tar. When pitch is used,
little water is all that is needed to
produce a mixture having much the
appearance of dark mortar. In this
shape the preparation is spread on the
floor of close kiln, and treated pretty
much like patent fuel. Here the mois-
ture eyaporates, but no portion OF the
metal producing ingredient !s lost. In
q few hours the kiln has @ surface OF
metal coke usually four, and, if fneces-
sary, eight inches thick. This is bro
ken up into sizes adaptable to heat
ing furnace of the ordinary iron works
class, where it is submitted to fire for
half an hour at the utmost. In that
time it ia ready for the beive or squeez
err, which it leaves capital bloom,
producing in the rolls bar Of half
manufactured iron, known, under the
old principle, as puddle bar.


Thus the use of the blast furnace has
been altogether avoided, and the work
of converting the product Of the blast
furnace into partially manufactured
iron, which has heretofore required the
exercise OF a large amount OF trouble
some skilled labor, has been affected
by an operator, who needs very little
practice to make him efficient. The
other stage through which the iron has
to pass, in order TO the completing OF
the bar, or sheet, as the case may be,
is the same as in the old process. The
inventors who are Messra. Gerhard and
Caddick, claim that they only require
two tons of coal to make one ton Of
finished iron from the ore; that they
can make German eteel as chesply as
cast iron, and that they can manufaC-
ture cast iron equal in purity to char
coal iron, without the use OF charcoal;
and they state that they have offers for
all finished iron that they can make.
The offers are, they explain, at prices
which would leave a splendid margin OF
profit. The inventors are taking steps
to form q company. If all that they
claim to do is practicable, q simplicity
has been attained in the making Of
iron which would 60 far TO reduce its
price in those smaller sizes and shapes
which are, most OF all, applicable 10
the business OF the general iron meg-
chant.
Year: 1873

The New York Tribune says the sit
uation is just this: Upon the aubsid-
ence Of the present stringeucy in the
money market we shall have


l. A market glutted with gold aud
legal tenders.


II. A Treasury pouring both gold
and legal tenders into that market,
and powerless to withdraw either its
coin or paper.


The United States Government,
which but yesterday was paying of its
bonds at the rate OF one hundred mill
lions a year, will be forced to resort
again. as in war times, to the paper
mills and printing presses to pay its run
ming expenses. So much we shall owe
TO the Secretary Of the Treasury who
hss this summer let out nearly forty
millions OF his cash to bolster up the
Syndicate, break down the gold premi-
um, and pay Of the papic.stricken ser
want girls who made the run on the
savings banks,
Year: 1873

The movement to unlock Secretary Boutwels
hands and allow him, solong ss the Pacific Hail~
rods aro in arrears for the interest due on their
bonds, to refuse to pay them any Of their earn-
ings from the Government, is making its way
in Congress. Tho House has approved it, and
the Senate yesterday, in Committee Of the
Whole did the sane by striking out the ninth
scction Of the Legislative Appropriation bill.
Nothing NOW remains but for tho Senate to sus-
tain this action in regular session ;; but this WILL
cot be done without serious struggle.
Year: 1873

Ohio has recently had an interesting lawsuit,
in which = lifo insurance company escaped the
payment OF policy because itwas proved that
tho insured came to his death By reason Of in
temperance. Incidentally, the Court divided


drinkers into three classes; !. Those who
drink occasionally, when they Taut to drink !;
who can stop at any time, even when the; have
q " cocktail" or u glass Of wine raised to their
lips. There Was no attempt to demonstrate how
much or litt1e drinking Of this kind mi2ht indu.s
Year: 1873

crime cannot escape punishment, and then
crime will 30 checked, or ut least be very
materially reduced These sudden spasns 90
but little good except to satisfy an immediate
necessity, which should never hare been al
lowed to occur.
Year: 1873




"Well, sir, was that boy. l presume l
was somewhat wrong on that occasion,
but that was 70 excuse for the exhibi-
ton of such hateful, unchristian spirit
as Mr.. Purnell showed toward poor
school-boy. don't know what kind of
a man he is now Il hope he has changed !;
but | certainly cannot commit the inter
ests of the unfortunate poor of that
county into such hands. l refuse him
this appointment, not in retaliation, but
as duty to the public; I dare not trust
the interests of any class of the people
in his keeping. You are at liberty to
tell him all l have said indeed,I request
that you will-for ! think that what l
have said is a full Justification for refus-
ing him the appointment"


1t was hard blow to the ambitious
old farmer-a much harder one than the
one he had dealt upon the poor school
boy thirty years before-but it taught
him much needed lesson, which he
never forgot during the rest Of his life
a lesson which it is desirable that all the
cruel, selfish Solomon Purnelrs of this
world might receive for themselves.
Year: 1873

WHEELING, August 24.-An accident
occurred on the Baltimore and Ohio
Road to day, four miles west of Came
ron,by which three or four German en-
igrants were fatally injured and fifteen
or twenty wounded The accident was
caused by the spreading of the track,
which threw the tender,express cars and
one passenger car down an embankment
and all the coaches off the track. The
coach that went over the bank fell some
fifteen or twenty feet and contained 70
or so men, women and children. The
car turned bottom upward, the trucks
with it.


Some of the emigrants became enrag-
ed, thinking the engineer and conductor
were trying to kill them, and set upon
the officers of the train with stones, and
they had 10 fee for their lives. In an
hour or two after the accident occurred,
the express train, which was an hour and
half late, came up, and its officers rem
dered all necessary attention to the
wounded ~ Ill


A couple of surgeons were sent from
Cameron, and as soon as the track was
cleared, the unlucky emigrants were sent
to Bellaire, where every comfort was sup
piled them. No blame is attached to
any one for the accident.
Year: 1873

our getting more railroads to Southern cities
than we can support The question whether


the railroads will divert the trade of the coast
steamers is difficult one. As to passenger
travel the man who has time to make 1t, and
wants to take the sea trip, will go that way al
ways. AS to freight valuable goods will gen
orally 60 by rail, because they do not insure by
rail, and the insurance by steamer averages as
much as the freight by rail. The insurance OF, on
package valued at $500 and weighing loo
pounds is about s5 from New York to New
Orleans. The freight by rail tor the same
package to and from the same points Is ~.
Less valuable freight costs less insurance, but
costs less, too for railroad freight, and the rail
road people think they will make enough on
dry goods and light packages to compete with
the steamers 10 heavy freights But the
steamship folks seem to be doing we'll yet, and


say their business increases steadily and rapidly.
Year: 1873

WOULD PART HER HAZE AT THE SIDE.
A woman's determination to part her
hair at the side broke up wedding at
Bangor, Me-, last week. The company
had all assembled, the clergyman was in
his place, and the groom proceeded up
stairs to escort his chosen one to the al
tar. The lady was splendidly dressed.
but in arranging her hair had adopted
the ''new style. =" To this the young
man objected in the most decided terms,
Swing that it asked too brazen ard
=" fast;" that the hair of bride shoule
be parted modestly in the middle. A
sharp war of words followed, which re-
suited in declaration ON the part of the
angered youth that he had taken a firm
stand; that the hair must be re-dressed
or lie would never look upon it again
To this the girl replied that he might
leave as soon as he pleased, and leav
he did, much to the disgust of the peo-
pie, who came to partake of the wed
ding supper and were turned out of the
house without 1t.
Year: 1873

~ had more money than he had to
carry on the suit. p" said very mean in
vidu Il WHO had just won lawsuit over
a poor neighbor, land that's where
had the advantage OF him. Then had
better counsel than he and there l had
the advantage of him. And his family
were sick while the suit was pending,
SO he could't attend to it. and there /
had the advantage of him again. But,
then, Brown is very decen. sort of a
man after all. - "Yes, said his lis
ener, land there's where he had the
advantage of YOU =.
Year: 1873

THE GREAT MIDLAND RAILROAD Now NEARLY


COMPLETED.


We offer the remainder Of the First Mortgage
Seven Per Cent Gold Bonds limited TO $4,000 to the
mile to close out the loan.


A LONG STRETCH OF ROAD, INCLUDING THE NEW
JERSEY SECTION, is FINISHED, AND TRAINS ARE NOW
RUNNING INTO JERSEY City. From Oswego east
ward THE ROAD Is IN SUCCESSFUL OPERATION for o
long distance A short gap in the construction Of
the New-York division alone prevents RUNNING
THROUGH FROM NEW YORK TO 0swEGO. On the in
complete section the masonry and grading are fin
ished, and balasting and track-laying progressing
with the utmost energy, and we hope soon to an
nomce THE COMPLETION OF THE ENTIRE ROAD OF
THIS GREAT TRUNK LINE FROM NEW YORK TO Os-
wRGo.


These Bonds, in our Judgment, possess in marked
degree the elements of


ABSOLUTE SECURITY AND LIBERAL INCOME.
Pamphlets with full particulars furnished.
For sale, or exchanged for Government and other
securities at their market value by


GEORGE OPDYKE & Co,
Financial Agents of the Company, No. 25 Nassau-st'
Year: 1873

No Al Cedar-st. corner of WilliaIn-st.,
OFFER FOR SALE the small quantity remaining un
sold Of the INTERNATIONAL AND Houston AND
GREAT NORTHERN RAILROAD COMPANY'S FIRST
MORTGAGE SEVEN PER CENT GOLD BONDS, and
recommend them as an undoubted FIRsT-CLAsS IN
VESTMENT SECURITY. Present earnings more man
double the amount required TO pay interest. and con-
stanIlY increasing.