smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1873

There is counterfeit afioat of the


new issue of fifty-cent currency. 1t
has been so skillfully executed that it is
doubtful whether one man in ten has
knowledge of its existence. 1t is said
it appeared.two days after. the issue of
the genuine. If this be so, it is evident
that some one who had access to the
genuine plate must be connected with
those persons who have just issued this
counterfeit. The ''get-up" of the note
is almost perfect. No difference can be
distinguished between the printing and
engraving of the genuine and counter
felt, so experts decide by the paper it is
printed on and by the "loop" in ''p" of
Treasurer Spinner's name. On the right
hand upper corner of each note will be
found the lower half of the loop of this
letter. If this is not there the note is
Year: 1873

There are many people who take a
strange deli ght in being dismal. Some
of them are so selfish that nothing is
ever right, because they imagine they
ought to have something extraordinary
in the way of luck. A few are ill-temp-
cred, and adopt the dismal line on pur-
pose to spite those who live with them,
being well assured that this is the. most
effectual way of so doing. But the ma
jority of the dismals are good people
(or, at least, people who want to be
good, and they appear to be dismal
strictly on conscientious grounds. II
they put their feelings into words, they
would probably say something of this
sort: -e,5 int.~'- '..A. '1r..r -,,i 'i-


"This world is made up of sin and
sorrow, and suffering. 1t is a proba-
ton, and we need not look for anything
pleasant until we pass into the next,
We must not give way to happiness, or
encourage joy. 1t is true that God gives
the sunshine and the flowers, but he
intends that while looking at them we
constantly remind ourselves that the
rain will come, and that the flowers
will die" if-


1t seems impossible that such hearts
can love, but perhaps they do so after
their own dismal fashion. Everything
is done for duty, and if by chance in
performing this duty they stumble up
on the doing of anything pleasant, they
are sure, to, spoil the taste of it. The
question is, what pleasure do these peo-
pie find in life? The best thing that
mortals can do while passing through
this thorny world, is to pluck rs man y
roses rs possible.
Year: 1873

Women are never bald, that is with
round, shiny top, like men, because
they never wear close hats or caps, and
men never lose hair below where the
hat touches the head. 1t is the close
hat or cap that does the mischief. The
heat and moisture thus retained on the
scalp weaken and finally destroy the
hair glands. The remedy is sufficient
ly obvious. 1t is to wear ventilated
hat, and wash the top of the head fire.
quently with cold water, rubbing it
hard with the flats of your hand. Bald
heads, cut this out and paste it in your
hat.
Year: 1873

H.a. @-asa'=I


Those escape contagious and infec-
tious diseases, says the Cincinnati Com
mercial, whose bodies are in.the best
condition to resist their attacks. Clean
illness of person is one of the things
needful, but bathing ought not to be
carried to excess, or SO far as to weak
en- the system. The diet should be
nourishing, and no vegetables or fruit
should be eaten that are not ripe and
fresh. But it is a mistake to exclude
them altogether from the table. Very
little change should be made in the diet
at any time, and only such articles
avoided as are known by experience
not to agree with the Individual. With
the body kept highltoned and vigorous,
and the mind calm and hopeful, one
may walk safely where the pestilence
wastcth at monday and not fear at
tack.


An engine crowded to its utmost pos
sible capacity, and run day after day
Year: 1873

: One man with trade is worth a thous
and without one. A return to the old
plan of apprenticing boys to trades is
being advocated. The hosts of youn 6
men in every large city who apply for
employment and fail to get it, for the
reason that they cannot truthfully af-
firm that they are educated or especial
ly fitted for any particular business, con-
stitute potent argument i'll favor of re


form. Under the apprentice system we
should have fewer ignorant mechanics
and incompetent business men. A trade


is half mans fortune. t.--ttu
Year: 1873

lFrom the New York Tribune.l


The letter of John Brown of Ossawa-
tamie, which we publish to-day, is re-
markable document. Though he writes
under the very shadow of the gallows,
there is little excitement and no despair
in his words. Hawthorn once said he
deserved to be hanged for making such
an atrocious miscalculation of prebabili-
ties, but it cannot be denied that how
ever he may have failed as an organizer
ofa campaign, there are few men that
ever lived who understood better how to
Year: 1873

We saw, last winter, a cosmetic aG-
vertised, which is warranted to keep
lady's hands free from chaps. Chaps
trouble some people all the year round,
but young lady who wishes to be free


from them needs only to dress in the
present fashion, and then let the gossips
know that she has no money. A sure
preventive from chaps. r.-.- ...i.
Year: 1873

The Heaviest Heavy Ordnance in the World
Four Hundred and Sixty Pound Shot
Driven Through Fifteen Inches OF Solid
mountaineering and Successful


Experiments with Rihed Guns


in Boston Harbor.
Year: 1873

A Philadclphian editor thus relieves
his mind on Il subject familiar to all
offices, the inevitable Pub.
Doc.


We owe our thanks to Judge Kelley
for the latest patent office reports We
already have 1900 of these interesting
volumes IN our little library, but they
have been read and reread SO many times
that we know every page OF them by
heart. This new volume came oppor-
tunely and gratefully on Christmas morn.
ing. and that night We gathered our little
family around the fire aid read it through
TO them The affecting tale entitled
" Improvement in Monkey Wrench
seemed to touch every heart, and when
we came to the climax of the little story
about Reversible pie boards p" there
was lot dry eye between the front door
and stable. During the reading of the
pileous narrative entitled Gum Wash.
ers for Carriage Axles ' the whole fami
" gave expressions to boisterous emo
ton, and the hired girl was SO much ex-
cited that she lost her presence Of mind
Year: 1873

and went around to her mothers inad-
vertcntly with six pounds of sugar and a
butter kettle full Of -four, and came homo
at midnight intoxicated. We can never
sufficiently thank Judge Kelley for the
innocent enjoyment thus furnished us
The memory Of that happy evening VIII
linger in our minds very much longer
than the hired girl ever fingers when she
lights on = substance which she thinks
will suit the constitution of her aged pa
rnnt "
Year: 1873

All indebted to us for subscriptions and
,tber work. will oblige us greatly and please
hose we owe more, by calling and settling


heir accounts. We know that money is
FARCE and hard to get but we trust our
,iends will make an effort in our behalf.
Year: 1873




The Senate committee on privileges
and elections reported to-day in part on
the Louisiana case, in which they say the
election Of the Greeley electors was Ger
titled to by the governor, but the official
returns of the election have not been
counted by the returning board created
bv the laws of Louisiana for that pur-
pose, and the persons who, in fact, made
the examination and count had no legal
authority to do 80 Tie election Of the
Grant electors is certified to by the Lynch
returning board but the board did not
have the official returns before them, and
their election is not certified to by the
governor of the state, as required by act
of Congress.


The oommit.c are Of the opinion that
neither the Senate nor both Houses joint
ly have the power under the Constitution
to canvass the returns Of an election and
count the votes to determine who have
been elected presidential electors, but
that the mode and manner of choosing
electors are left exclusively to States


AS TO the other questions upon which
the committee were instructed TO report,
touching the exis tence of a legal State
government in Louisiana, and the admis
sion Of the senator from that State, they
are not now prepared to report
Year: 1873

the investigating committee. The time
remaining before the expiration Of the


session is so short that it is not snticipa-
ted that the committee will have time to
enter upOn its duties.
Year: 1873

There is many rest in the road of life; If we would only stop to take it; And many a tone from the better land If the querulOus heart would make it. To the soul that is full of hope,

 And whose beautiful trust ne'er faileth The grass is green and the flowers are

 bright,

 Though the winters storm prevalent. Better hope, though the clouds hang low, And to keep the eyes still lifted: For the sweet blue sky will soon peep

 through,

 When the OminOuS clouds are rifted. There was never night without day, Or an evening without a morning; And the darkest hour, as the prOverb

 goes,

 Is the hour before the dawning. There is many gem in the path of life, Which we pass in our idle pleasure, That is richer far than the jeweled crown, Or the miSer'S hOarded treasure; It may be the love of little child, Or mothers prayer to Heaven, Or only beggar's grateful thanks For a cup of water given. Better to weave in the web of life, A bright and golden filling, And to Gods will with a cheerful heart, And hands that are ready and willing; Than to snap the delicate, minute thread Of our curious lives asunder, And then blame Heaven for tangled

 ends,

 And sit and grieve and wonder.
Year: 1873

Knox & Eaton, of Francisco river in Ari- zona, were in town this week. These gen. tlemen own good placer diggings jus t below Clifton and are getting their claims in shape, so that when the ditch, now un- der way, brings a supply of water they will be ready to take out good pay.

 It is to be hoped that "good placer diggings have been found near Clifton as stated, but the reports over this way do not encourage one to be- lieve that such diggings exist in that locality. We will anxiously look for more light on this subject. There is no doubt but the copper mines of that district are as rich and extensive as any in America.
Year: 1873

IT the demand for Agricultural Implements the coming harvest Rural Press likely 10 correspond with the increased number Of under cultivation there will

 be lively times among the San fnncfsco dealers in such Implements during the Several firms H Is under stood have anticipated thls demand and have prepared themselves accordingly by early shiPmeuts lt s said that one single firm, Cfrosdvell Co., who still occupy their ald and ven-known stand have contracted for above enty five car loads of their new harvesting chimes thus early n the season low rates be sides large amount Of smaller Implements. u would seen al rate with what shipments they probably hs already made around the HOrn and with the stocks of other houses that there ought Co be enough Good judges in such natter however s predict that the supply will not equal the demand sePon9
Year: 1873

An old subscriber of this paper, Mir For dice Phelps, recently of Weaver diggings, is reported as paving left said diggings. with cut having remembered the printer. May God have mercy on his soul.
Year: 1873

wKArHER- Fine, sunshiny weather has been the gift of the Ruler of the Universe to this people since date of last MINER. Ours is the heslthiest, most delightful cli- mate in North America.
Year: 1873

ANE evening, not long since, number
" Of old ship-masters chanced to meet
at social supper, and after the cloth was
removed we went in for yarn spinning
And among our number was Captain Rich
ard Nutter, and finer man or better sailor
never trod deck. At length It came his
turn to tell a story, or, what we preferred
and what the rest of us had done-re-
late some incident OF experience in his own
life.


"Well, boys" he said, as he rejected the
wine, which was at that moment passed to
him for the first time, al will give you a
bit of the early part of my ocean life, and
ir is a very important bit, 700, for upon it
have built the whole of my subsequent
manhood"


We prepared to listen 10 Captain Nutter
with the most profound attention, for he
was not only an old seaman, but one of the
most successful commanders in our mer-
camille marine. We listened and his story
was as follows


81 was very young when first entered
on shipboard, and at the age of fourteen
considered myself quite sailor. When
was eighteen was shipped on board an
East Indiaman Con "a long voyage. There
Year: 1873

The Franklin Institute Journal says I:
When the bridge at Colebrook Dale (the
first iron bridge in the world) was build
ing, fiddler came along and said to be
workmen that he could fiddle their bridge
down. The iiddlers thought this boast
fiddle-de-dee, and invited the itinerant mu-
sician to fiddle away to his hearts content.


One note after another was struck upon
the strings until one was found with which
the bridge was in sympathy. When the
bridge began to shake violently the incred-
ulous workmen were alarmed at the unex-
pected result, and ordered the fiddler to
stop.
Year: 1873

The Assembly at Albany hesitates unneces-
sarily over the bill to create new Board Of
Emigration. If we were not satisfied that a
majority of the House does not understand
the purpose of the dilatory motions and the
embarrassing amendments proposed, the long
delay would be suspicious. Perhaps statement
of the secret of the opposition to the Senate
bill will make it clear to the Assembly that it
ought to be passed by that body at once.


Early in the session a bill was offered in the
Senate which named certain gentlemen who
were to be the Commissioners. This bill was not
only Objectionable because it took away the
appointing power from the Governor, but be-
cause the commissioners proposed in it were
in the interest of the Custom house Ring
Some of them were indeed Custom-hOuse
officials. These facts killed the BILL in spite
of the Republican support it had. When it
was found impossible to get the new Ring
into the Board, the next resort was to keep
the old Tammany men in power. To do this
it became necessary to defeat or delay the pend
ing Senate bill. This would enable Messrs.
OGOrman, Frear, and the others who were ap-
pointed by Tammany, to remain in authority
indefinitely. Here is another significant
proof incidentally offered of the close alliance
of the old and the new Rings. But in spite
of this opposition the pending Senate bill Civ
ing the appointment of new Board to Gov.
Dix was passed, and was reported to the
House OF March Z.


The efforts to defeat this bill, which has the
warm approval of all the Commissioners who
are active in reforming Castle Garden admin
istration. have been confined TO amendments
Year: 1873

There is an old maxim of legislative eti-
quette which says, &" A child should not be
given to nurse who cares not for itn But
it is nevertheless true that many infants have
succumbed to too much care, and equally GER
tain that Others have reached robust maturity
through judIciOus neglect. No one will assert
that the Republic in France was held in any
enthusiastic respect or affection by NJ. Theirs,
at the time when that veteran statesman be-
came the director of its fortunes. Yet it NAV
well be questioned whether any true lover of
the Republic could have administered its
interests in manner so well calculated to
secure its permanent establishment as this
platonic guardian, who has never uttered n
word in its favor, never avOwed himself it's
champion, never distinctly announced his
preference for it over the Monarchy. He has
been Loyalty supported by the Republicans,
although they did not wholly trust him he has
found his most serious annOyances to come
from the mOnarchists, who still pretend to be-
lieve he is one of them. A dozen times the
Government has been on the point of going
to pieces through incOmptability of views
between the President and his ancient friends.
but the crisis has always been surmounted by
apparent concessions to the monarchists which
have provoked the fiercest criticism of Repub-
licans, but which have generally turned out
to be no gain to the cause of reaction and no
loss to that Of the Republic. After all the
useless frightsand clamor of the last few
months, it is now plainly seen that the result
of the deliberations of the Committee of Thirty,
from which so much was feared by the Lib
erals and 80 much hoped by the Conservatives,
will be additional strength given to the hands
of NJ. Theirs and additional hope of perpetuity
to the Republic. The Conservatives had an over
wheming majority in the Committee-number
ing nineteen 10 eleven Republicans. They were
Year: 1873

We have already said that we deny the exist
ence of any moral right of members of Congress
to vote to increase their own salaries. We re-
gard the act to be robbery. 1t afiiXes a stain
of dishonor upon every man who is guilty OF
it. We care not who he is whether be be
Republican, Liberal, or Democrat-we de-
nOunce him all the same, and invoke the pub
lie condemnation upon him. We say, let
every man who engaged in it be driven from
public life Whether they be morally weak, or
moneyless, or going out of business when
they leave public life whether they wish to
make themselves partially even with colleagues
who by hook or by crook have got rich
while they have not, or whether they be South
Carolina representatives whose constituency
live by thieving, and who would as soon vote
themselves seventy-fve thousand dollars as
seventy-five hundred; in whatever scale or
company they are found, we say, Out with them.
That there is here and there a respectable name
among them is only so much more a reason
for the punishment. No name is respectable
enough to authorize fraud or shield robbery.
No name is respectable enough to be plead III
abatement of the sentence.


Unless there is stand to be made here
against public prOtigacy, 1t is as well not to
attempt to make it anywhere. We ask for no
partisan judgment. 1t is no question of party.
Men of all parties are alike implicated. 1t is
a question of upright conduct. 1t is ques-
ton of honorable actiOn-Of personal probity-
of maniness and public decency. There are in
diyidual men in public life who are destitute
of these qualities. They are always there. But
this action is not the action of a few such it is
the deliberate action Of Q majority Of both
branches % Il lie Congress of the United States
before the face of all the world 1t is pub
lie robbery, deliberately committed by the
whole political body wherein is centered the
national authority. 1t is not individuals only
who are disgraced. The nation is disgraced
by its representatives. If the people stand
calmly by and do not resent this conduct,
they have in the disgrace, shown themselves
as demoralized as their representatives.
Year: 1873

through middlemen the second is TO forestaf
that contingency by passing first, or also
special charter to some line decisively and
positively in competition, such as the Della
ware and Hudson, or the Air Line, or both.


There is little fear that either of these roads
would fall under the control of the monopoly
except under stress of penury, which the
capital of New-York would prevent in the
interests of metropolitan commerce. We have
said that the Pennsylvania cannot transact It's
existing business, which is evidence enough
that competing line would prosper. AS
the continent fills up behind the Della
ware not one but dozen roads Will De
needed across New-Jersey to meet the de-
mands of that vast territory which must
seek a market here across lands somewhere
south of our State line, or even south OF inc
Mohawk. The endless congeries OF railroads,
south and west, now tributary to the New
Jersey Division of the Pennsylvania, have
already gorged it, Before new roads can be
constructed, the obstruction will be disastrous.
Men of New-Jersey! you are not acting LOT
Yourselves alone, but for the States that lie to
the West and South, for the metropolis with
which you are so intimately linked, and Tor
your own splendid harbors and teeming shores
Year: 1873

Ex-Speaker Smith took his turn at making
explanations, yesterday. He told the Assem-
bly, Committee of Investigation, what we all
knew before, that he received a retainer in
the Erie case from Gen. Sickles by the way of
Attorney General Barlow. He says nothing
about the kind OF service which he was to
render; but he does say that he sought to in
fuence legislation in any legitimate way"
That's the whole case nobody ever said that
he hired members to vote on any of the
measures which thereafter came before the
Assembly of which he was the presiding
officer. But he was hired to influence legis-
lation." He says he did influence it, Need
more be said
Year: 1873

Does the Postmaster General recognize the
Importance of the notice he has had of the
dscOntinuance on April of the postal cars
on nine of the principal railroads of the cOun-
tryf The time is close at hand and brief for
making compromise. And yet some arrange
ment must be made temporarily, or until Con-
gress can remedy the blunder of refusing the
rates asked by the companies or making con-
tracts with other routes. If the rates are ex-
orbitant don't pay them. Yet it won't do to
let the mail service be obstructed or impaired


The discontinuance of the postal cars on these
routes will seriously impair the efficiency of
the service. 1t will Obstruct business incalcu-
lably; and that is consequence not to be
tolerated for a moment. The roads which
decline longer to run postal cars at the pres
ent rates are those centerng at this metropolis,
and to Obstruct the postal service of New
York is to affect injuriously the business of
the whole country. Possibly the railroads are
unreasonable and domineering in their de-
mands; but it is certain the Postmaster Gen
eral is delinquent in not assuring us Of facili-
Year: 1873

Members of Congress who have been par
italy asphyxiated in the House of Representa-
tives will be relieved to know that the hall is
to be newly decorated. There was an urgent
demand for improved ventilation. This is to
be met by putting in smaller desks and touch
ing up the painting and gliding. Congressional
reforms almost always run to paint and white
wash
Year: 1873

In the extreme crisis of Fosters case, we
have nothing to add to THE TRIBUNE's pre-
vious well-cOnsidered and unchanged views
on the subject and we content ourselves
with calling attention to the letter OF Juugc
Pierrepoint, printed on our second page 'niS
morning
Year: 1873

ENFORCING THE CIVIL SERVICE RULES.


The report of the Board of Examiners to
whom was intrusted the enforcement OF the
recently adopted rules regulating the ClyI
Service has been published. We make sui
'Gciently large extracts therefrOm to indicate
its general tenor. Very much has been ex-
pected from this Board; perhaps more than
was reasonable. The growth OF abuses under
the old system of distributing patronage has
been within the last few years so rapid thaC
public opinion has clamOred for some I'M
mediate and complete remedy. 1t Is not at
all likely that it has been reached by the first
tentative process in that direction, but we
may feel assured that conscientious enort
has been made, and that the gentlemen
who have had the matter in hand have
intended simply and only to reform the ser
vice. The report shows that they have
labored industriOusly, and have given their
best thought to the work. Much of it IS
devoted to matters of detail that seem
narrow and i'll adapted to the end in view
but the general direction of it Is to the
publication of the service from incompetent
persons and self-seekers.


So much certainly seems to have been ac-
compished that the ranks Of the grand army
of ofiice-seelers whose only aim in life is to
support the Constitution for a handsome
compensation, is greatly reduced by the
tests to which the Commission put them.
We may not yet have arrived at a condition
of things IN which we are certain infallibly to
secure honesty and capacity; but we have
certainly reached u point where absolute in
comneteucv that rests its claims on mere
party service is stopped at the door and not
allowed to cucumber TIE service with dis
gracefully incapable public servants.