smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1875

A good deal Of disappointment will no
doubt be felt in consequence of the fail
ure of the Legislature to pass number
of bills that were brought before it, and
among them some satisfactory substi-
tute for the license law of 1873,
which still remains in full force. A
change in this law was most certainly
expected. Even the Court felt it to be
an onerous duty imposed; and it ought
not to be encountered with it. Whether
it is good law or Bad law it requires
too much Of the Courts time and atten-
tion, and the power to dispense licenses
should have been put in other hands /;
or the Court been permitted to decide
upon such petitions at another time set
apart for the purpose. The fact that
the law has not been repealed is said to
be owing 10 tho inability of those who
wanted it modified to fi1 upon some
thing better in time to he presented by
the Representative from this city hav.
ing the new bill in charge. What tho
not know. The bill to reduce the tax OF
the Delaware Railroad Company to $40,
600 failed to become law; and tho bill
to increase repre- sentation in New Gastl
county and to increase the number c
Senators to four from each county ais
failed to reseive the requisite two-third
vote. A change has been made in til
public school law, but it will not go int
operation until after the next scho,
election on Saturday.
Year: 1875

Governor Illden proclamation ON
the subject of the Centennial census to
be taken in New York calls upon "the
good people Of the State" to assist the
enumerators, having with great know.
ledge of the average citizen declared
In Ills whereas that no scheme of as
sessment or taxation is involved in the
thing
Year: 1875

An unlucky Frepchman was walk
ing in the country with friend who
possessed magnificent Newfound-
land dog, and Immediately questioned
the truth of the animals sagacity.
The deg's master, vexed at the slur
cast on bis favorite, gave his friend a
push and knocked him into a shallow
river. "Tu,k" Immediately sprang
in. seizing one Of the tails Of his coat,
commenced to swim for land, Tn
fortunately, another Newfoundland,
trotting along the other side Of the
river, saw the affair, and also came
to the rescue. Dog number two
seized the other tail Of the coat and
wished to swim back TO his master
Turk held fast and struggling for has
side, and the owner Of the coat cried
in vain for help. At last the Goa,
gave way, and each swan proudly
home with piece of cloth in bis
mouth, SO that Turks master was o.
bliged to plunge in himself to save
his friend.
Year: 1875

Women are beginning TO obtain
new privileges in Minnesota. At
the late election large majority was
given for constitutional amendment
providing that any woman of twenty
one years of age and older may vote
At any election for officers Of schoo's,
or may be eligible to any Office per-
tanning TO the management of schools.
Year: 1875

IT IS estimated that at least 3O,0O0,O0C
gallons Of water arc wasted in Chicago
every day that the expense Of running
the pumping works is double what II
ought to be; that onC.ffth Of the water
pumped daily would furnish an abund
ant supply, and that the wear and teal
anddrNin Of the engines Is consequently
i've times what Il ought to be; hence The
necessity oil water metres as measure oi
economy to the city and justice to all
Any system that will save to the citizen
who does not waste, and compel the citi'
zen who does to pay, ought to be entirely
acceptable to all reasonable men.
Year: 1875

Logic and hasty generalization from
inadequate knowledge were made, once
again in the history of science, TO do
duty for the more laborious method of
patient observation. Commerce at last
gave the impulse to deep-sea exploration,
which had before been lacking. The
commercial world demanded more
speedy mode of communication from
continent to continent, and the response
came in the form of the submarine tele-
graph. Thousands of soundings were
made to determine the best position in
the oceans bed for its successful laying,
and thousands, again, to secure the
broken end after the first failure. These
soundings and grapplings brought from
the sea-depths unmistakable proof that
life in many varied and exquisite forms
existed there, far away from light and
vegetation, under an enormous pressure
of superintendent waters and logic
retired discounted. d.-POpular Science
NontblyJor Nooenlber.


English VS.. American Harvesting.


An English farmer with 300 acres of
wheat, barley, and oats, proportion not
stated, found himself, at the beginning
of harvest, with fourteen hands and n
foreman, several of his regular hands
having left. With this force, the harvest
was put in stack in five weeks-during
which the workmen We're interrupted
only one-quarter of day by rain. This
the agricultural Gazette calls an ex-
traordinary feat lnharvesting, and makes
it the subject of leading editorial. The
grain was all cut by the foreman with
one reaping g-machine; the barley was not
bound, but all raked with an American
revolving hay-rake by a boy-not count
ed i'll the force. The fourteen men had
TO bind, cart and stack the wheat and
oats, end cart and stack the barley. The
crops were not heavy and the wheat stood
|, well, but some of the barley and oats
were laid.


In the United States this certainly
would not have been an extraordinary feat
in harvesting, but the wonder would
have been that no more was accom-
plished. That fifteen men and a boy,
with the aid of what must have been an
excellent reaping-maChine and gather
ing part of the crop without binding,
should have considered putting up ten
acres day remarkable performance is
something we find it hard to understand
1t is fair to bear in mind that the amount
of straw was probably greater than is
usual with us, but at the very most five
men would have bound ten acres a day,
leaving nine for the shocking and stack
ing. We do not think it too much to
say that with good harvester, on which
two men ride and bind the grain as cut,
with equally favorable weather, five men
could have put in stack 200 acres in the
time named.
Year: 1875

Gentlemen who visit my saloon will be
treated right, and every effort will be made
to preserve good order, as intend that this
shall be place of pleasant and refined re-
creation


ANDREW TYNER.
Year: 1875


NOTICE. isHEREH,Y I:E,', G,xEM fI,sIaS That nHAT
the following improve ments on Fort street
from It's intersection with Temple street TO and
including its intersection with First street and
including its junction with Court House street
and Franklin street.


The street shall be graded in the following
manner: The road bed shall be prepared by
cutting down or filling up The street 10 sub
grade eight inches below the established grade
along the centre line of the street and In such
manner as to give 1t slope of one foot IN thir-
y towards the cutters; the road-bed having
been prepared and having been accept, d by
the City surveyor, 1t shall then be surfaced
with cement gravel to the depth of eight
inches


The gui ters shall be four feet wide and shall
be paved with granite cobble stones eight
inches long and not over six inches in thick
ness. The centre of the gutter shall be eight
inches and the sides five inches below the top
of the curb, thus giving 1t concave shape, the
cobble stones to be thoroughly set In sand and
to be we'll rammed.


The curb shall be of redwood, 3x12 inches !,
spiked to posts of redwood AKA inches and
three feet long, set in the ground on the inside
of and two feet below the ,ltnm OF the curb.
Said posts shall be not les than six feet apart,
and in addition thereto there shall be q sim1-
lar post set in the same munper at each and
every joint of the curb, to which both ends OF
the curb shall be spiked. There shall be
a stake of 3x4 redwood and two feet long set In
the ground opposite to and four feet iuside of
each post. There shall be a key of lx4 red-
wood ana fOur rect long naileu Win noC less
than two ten-penny nails at each end to and
connecting the stake to the post; said key to
be placed four inches below the top of the
curb. The top OF the curb shall be placed two
inches below the established grade.


The sidewalks shall be twelve feet wide, and
shall be hlIed in or cut down at the curb to
within six inches of the established grade las
may be necessary with a slope of two inches
from the inside of the sidewalk towards the
gutter. 1t shall then be filled In with four
Inches of cement gravel and properly leveled.


Two box cuiverts shall be placed across the
made of three-inch redwood. They shall be
three feet wide by one foot deep on the inside
and so placed as to serve as crossin rs; the
bottom and sides TO be laid longitudinally,
the top crOssways. There shall he similar
culvert across Franklin street ut its junction
with Fort street. NJ. KREMER,


ap14 lot Clerk of Com. Council.
Year: 1875

Both Houses of the Legislature met at 10
O'Clock, this morning. Last night the usual pre-
lminary caucusses were held, and list of ofl
GERS agreed upon who were in all probable
ity duly elected at the opening OF the session.
In the selection of the officers, great Difference
seems to have been paid to the wishes of the
Sussex Democracy, for the President, Clerk and
Sergeant-at-Arms Of the Upper House, and Ser
geant-at-Arms Of the Lower House were all given
to that county. New Castle county was put Off
with the speskership of tile House, while Kent
county bore away all the other honors not al
ready enumerated Had Col. Townsends pro-
tracted visit to New Castle county. last week,
anything to do with this arrangement or is it
the sequence Of that very graceful yielding up
everything by Sussex county at the Democratic
State Convention ? The Governors Message
will be read this afternoon, and will be printed
tomorrow,
Year: 1875

MARSHAL IMAGINATION HTILL URGING THE ADOPTION
OF THE CONSTITUTION LAWS.


PARIS JAM 6.
Marshal MacMahon will again urge the As
sembly to vote on the Constitutional laws in an
other message which he will send in
Year: 1875

Lord Minto says, in his Life aud Lei
ters;' "A strange adventure once oc.
Cured to Lady Elliott, when her car
riage was standing at the door Of one OF
the great London shops in crowded
thoroughfare. While her sister who ac-
cnmpanled her, was speaking to shop
mau at Que windov Of the carriage, a gen
tleman perfectly well known to her as
member OF society rode up to the other
at which she sat, aud stcoping toward
her, but without sign of recognition or
2 deprecatory or explanatory word,
spatohed her purse from out the car
riage-basket aud rode of with it at full
speed. Lady Elliott negercaw It again.
In after years she was wont to tell the
story as an instance Of the desperate
courses to which the gambling mania OF
the day drove its victims; but not even
to her children did she ever con6de the
name Of the individual who had placed
himself at her mercy aud was saved by
her silence from overwhelming dis
grace.
Year: 1875

Come down, ye gray. beard mariners,
Unto the wasting shore
The morning winds are up-the gods
Bid me to dream no more.
Come, tell me whittier / must sail,
What peril there must be,
Before take my life in hand
And venture out TO sea
We may not tell thee where to sail,
Nor what the dangers are;
Each sailor soundeth for himself,
Each hath a separate star;
Each sailor s0undeth for himself,
And on the awful sea
What We have learned in ours alone
We may not tell il thee.
Come back 0 ghostly mariners,
Ye who have gone beiorel
dread the dark, impetuous tides;
/ dread the farther shore.
Tell me the secret of the waves
Say what my fate shall be-
Quick for the mighty winds are up
And will not wait for me.
Hail and farewell, 0 voyager
Thyself must read the waves
What we have learned Of sun and storm
Lies with US in our graves;
What we have learned Of sun and storm
Is ours alone to know.
The winds are blowing out to sea,
Take up thy life and g6l


-Harper's Mdgasine.
Year: 1875

ANDY JOHNSON AS A CLowS.-Really
this talk about Andy johnson is getting
a little fulsome 1t is good joke to
see Andy returned to the Senate. and
from the antics Of such an old bull in a
china shop. much entertainment Is to be
expected This is undoubtedly the pop
ular feeling on the subject. But some
newspapers have fallen into rather n
diculous mistake of interpreting 1t a
popular tribute to the moral excellence
and political rectitude of Andy. They
talk as if the nation had repented of its
former repudiatiOn of the man and now
saw in him a justified and vindicated
statesman. whom it was delighted to
honor Nothing could be more absurd.
Andy made himself so supremely ridlcu-
lous after his impeachment that the peo-
pie forgot their indignation at the un-
faithful President in their laughter at
the clown. That is ALL Since his re-
tirement from the Presidency Andy has
done nothing to merit public favor. No
new evidence to exculpate HIM from the
impeachment Indictment has transpired.
He is the same bad old penny. His last
public performances before his recent
election were series of the most outra-
geous repudiation speeches ever deliver
ed in this country 1t is still as much
of question as ever it was whether he
ought not to have been convicted by the
Senate, though the people do not bear
malice long. and nobody grudges him
his escape. But Andy remains the man
who has most disgraced the Presidential
chair of all who have sat in it. the man
whose policy is chiefly responsible for
the failures of the reconstruction expert
ment, an open repudiationist, and the
Vice President who was drunk on inau-
guration day. As clown, fun-loving
people welcome him back to public life,
but don't try to make him out states
man and popular hero.-SPrinqfeld
Union.
Year: 1875

PICTURES OF PovERTY.-Iu Allen
street, New York, in the cellar Of a
rear tenement, or rather dark hole at
the bottom of wretched structure, where
the ceiling is SO low one has to bend low
when in standing posture, lady was
found lying in he'd upon which there
were neither sheets nor quilts. A din
gy blanket covered her person. and nes-
tling close beside her were her four lit
tie children. One of them, little fairy
creature of wonderful beauty. with hair
of FURNISHED gold and eyes that had
stolen the bloom of violets, was pratt
ting lnnocently and all unappalled by
the gloom and horror of the place. Yet
that child had seen the rats drag her
little cloak from the broken chair where
she had placed it and rend it in pieces
with their sharp teeth, while her moth
er and sisters covered shuddering in
their beds. All night long one or an
other of these poor creatures kept watch
while the others slept. lying in dread of
attack from the noiseme. sqnealing
creatures that thronged the floor and
clambered squealing about them. Yet
this poor family once possessed happy
home from which they had been driven
by financial reverses and the death Of
the husband and father. The mother.
native of Baltimore. had been bred in
afluenee. her father holding an Office of
honor and trust under the general gov
ernmeut for many years. Death and
business disasters had brought them to
this pitiful strait at last and forced them
to accept and cling to shelter only fit
for dogs. Such are the fearful phases
of life the Guilds visitors encounter
The impressions they leave on the mind
will never fade, and the lessons they
teach have power that few Sunday
sermons possess.
Year: 1875

1t is a mans own fault if he is un-
happy with his wife. in nine cases out
of ten. 1t is q very exceptional woman
who will not be all she can be to an at
tennve husband. and more exception
al one will not be very disagreeable if
she fuds herself wilfully neglected. 1t
would be very easy to hate man who.
having bound woman to him. made no
effort to make her happy; hard not TO
love one who was constant and tender
and when woman loves she always
tries to please. The great men of this
world have often been wretched in their
domestic relations. while mean and COM
mon men have been exceedingly happy.
The reason is very plain Absorbed in
themselves, those who desire the worlds
applause were careless of the little world
at home, while those who had none Of
the egotism strove to keep the hearts
that were their own, and were happy in


their tenderness. No woman will love
man the better for being renowned or
prominent Though he be the first
among men. she will only be prOuder,
not fonder; and if she loses him through
this renown, as is often the case. she
will not even be proud. But give her
love, appreciation, kindness. and there
is no sacrifice she would not make for
his content and comfort. The man who
loves her we'll is her hero and her king.


No less hero to her though he is not
one to any other ; no less king though


his only kingdom is her heart and home.
Year: 1875

The Lives Insured by the Society are carefully
selected in different parts of North America and
Europe, furnishing, by this broad field of opera.
tions, an additional and exceptional safety to the
polcy-boldcre. The assurances are made only on
the Mutual Principle The Surplus Premiums are
returned annually to the Insured.
Year: 1875

strong stencil for several weeks from In,
dead fish left by the way.


The unfortunate man at the mill had los
his grain and his horse. lie had ESCAPED
from the mill on the opposite side Of The
food from his home, and was obliged tc
wait till next day, when he went home, sor
rowing for his great loss not seeming q
reckon in Offset that his life had been saved
by Mr.. Dorr, who 30 exhausted himself by
his great effort that he never regained any
sound health during his life.-E EXCHANGE.
Year: 1875

The last year of Gov. Hartranft's admin
istra,ion is now well advanced: the time is
passed for the Inauguration of any special
policy he is candidate for reelection. and
the inquiry IS very pertinent one: What
has he done 10 Recommend him for further
honor. His friends will find his record as
bare of accomplished sspaH as ~ skeleton is
of flesh. No man was ever elected Governor
of Pennsylvania who had finer opportunities
of honorable distinction. lie might have
Joined his strength to the movement for eonE
stitutional reform which swept the State in
the treasury management. But he has had
no more force in moulding State policy since
he was elected than the stone statue that
stands on Capitol hill. In his slack hands
reform has gone backward when it has not
gone forward in spite Of them.
Year: 1875

BY MRS. JULIA c. Il. DORR.
o Rosebud garland of girls


Who ask for song from me,
To what sweetcr air shall set my lay?
What shall its keynote be?
The flowers have gone from wood and hill
The ripping river lies white and STILL
And the bird that sung on the maple


bough,
Afar in the southland singeth now
o Rosebud garland of girls!


If the whole glad year were May;
If winds sang low in the clustering leaves
And roses bloomcd Away
If youth were all that there is Of life,
If the years brought nothing of care ant


strife,


Nor even cloud to the ether blue,
1t were easy to sing song for you!
Yet, o my garland Of girls


Is there nothing better than May?
The golden glow of the harvest time!
The rest of the autumn day!
This thought give you all to keep:
Who soweth good seed shall surely reap;
The year grows rich as it groweth old,
And life's latest sands are its sands of gold
Year: 1875

They do not always visit us in
beautiful garments, making the all
around golden with their sunny smiles
Oftener they come disguised in sober
hued vestment', lips grief-curved
and ewes heavy, as wit ] weeping. But
come to Il, when and how they will,
it is ever in love. Daily they are
about paths, though we perceive them
not with our dull bodily senses; nor
even recognize their presence by the
hn.r instincts Of our sririts-for "of
the earth, earthly" as We are, and
with affections clingIng to the earth,
we have neither eyes nor ears for the
inner sight and inner voices that are
for the pure in heart. Yes, they are
about our daily paths, smoothing and
making them howery when they may;
but oftener piling up distractions
and making them rough and thorny


"Rongh and thornyl piling up
distractions Y we hear from the lips Of
some life-weary sufferer. Is this a
work for angels ."


Beautiful the way seemed before
you, in the bright morning Of woman
hood, heart-sick and life-weary one +:
and as your eyes went far onward,
how many lovely vistas opened, show
ing blessed arcadias in the smiling
distance TO gain them you felt was
to gain heaven; and onward you
pressed with eager foot steps. You
did not gain them! For while the
path was even, and the fragrance Of a
hundred blossoms delighted your
senses. But all at once your feet
were wounded--there were sharp Oh.
structlons in the way then thick
clouds and darkness were before you,
hiding the lovely Eden. Still, you
sought to pass onward, though the
way was rough, and the sunny vistas,
opening to the land Of promise, hid
den from your straining vision. Then
mountain arose suddenly, whose
rocky sleeps you could not climb,
Despair was in your heart and in
the bitterness Of your disappointment,
you called yourself one Knocked of
God.


1t was not SO, precious immortal!
Not SO, pilgrim to a better land than
the arcadia Of your maiden dreams
At the very foot Of that inaccessible
mountain, a narrow path at length
became visible and though it looked
rough and had no green margin, beau
tiful with flowers, there was an emo
ton Of thankfulnsss in your heart
for even this way of escape; for,
already a mortal dread had siczed
upon your spirits. With hurrying
footsteps you entered this new way,
and the hope that it would quickly
lead around the mountain, and bring
the sunny land again in view, re-
pressed the fear that else had been
paralyzing.


1t was the hand of an angel which
led you into that new way, and kept
your heart from fainting. Narrow,
rough and nowerless though it proved,
it was a better way than that along
which you were passing with such
buoyant steps-for it bent heaven
ward. And think life-wcary one =
do Won not feel that Won are ne,rer
Year: 1875

No man with an average amount OF
self possession need be without an
umbrella on rainy day. All he has
to do is to step up to the first stran-
ger he sees carving good one, and
say Beg pardon, sir believe
you have my umbrella y The chances
are ten to one that the fellow will
stammer out an apology and hand it
over.