smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1872




Mary Anne Wentworth was the re-
spectable daughter of New England
parents, whose ancestors came over in
the Mayfower, and whose grandsires had
fought on the side of freedom in the
Revolutionary War. At eighteen Mary
Anne was the belle of her native village.
and had 4 host of suitors. She married
John Thompson, a young English sailor.
aud soon after their marriage he sailed
tor London, and three years afterward
wrote to his wife that he was about to
sail for China. This letter changed all
the young wile's plans She determined
to leave her child with her parents and
take passage for Europe in the next
steamer. But before she arrived IN
London her husbands vessel had sailed
and having ascertained that the desti-
nation Of the vessel was Hong Kong.
she persisted in following in the first
ship going thither.


A month expired ere the young wife
could find such a ship, aud on her arrival
at Hong Kong she learned that the clip
persln whIehzLeE-I -I<Rsnt husband served
to Sidney proved as unfortunate as her
trips to London and Hong Kong, for
there she learned that her husbands
vessel had just sailed for New York with
a cargo of wool. Luckily an American
ship was up for New York in few days,
and the Captain, light hearted Yankee,
hearing her story, and admiring her
courage and devotion, gave her free
passage back to her native land.


She arrived in New York about two
weeks ago, penniless and destitute. This,
however, is not the worst, for the man in
pursuit of whom she had cireumnavi
gated the glope, she found here living
witt a worthless woman, and was con
strained to summon him to one of our
civil courts ere she could compel him to
recognize her rights as a wife and provide
for her support. This he did in Justice
Hartman's court yesterday.
Year: 1872

1t cannot have escaped the observation
of many people that whenever term of in
tensely cold weather has prevailed, the
country has been appraised of a sudden
hux of horrible railway disasters. The
present cold term and It's attendant railway
horrors is only the last of more or less
continuous series of similar occurrences that
extends backward for many years.


Considering the now well-known fact
that more railway disasters have happened
in times of extremely low temperature
than at other times, the question arises
What have been the relations between the
meteorological phenomena and these ac
cidents? The inquiry is certainly an i'm
portant one, which railway managers ought
not to neglect any longer.


1t is very well known that one effect of
intense cold upon most, and perhaps upon
all, metals is the production of certain
tending to disintegation. Solid pigs of tin,
intensely cold weather, were found upon
their arrival to have been reduced to a
granular powder, of the consistency Of salt.
In this case the effect of long continued Vi
bration in a railway carriage was added to
Tic GHtCJ VI tOIu. III dtlDlllGA tdSCs pl&S
of tin partially disintegrated in a ware
house, in the space Of two years, without
any artificial application Of motion.
Wrought iron is at length changed to the
crystahzed form of cast iron by cold alone.
And the ike process continues in the
structure of cast iron, as all railway men
know, by the greater liability Of car
wheles to break in cold weather. In the
latter case, the change is greatly accelera-
ted by vibration And the like effects
must of course take place inrails, iron nails,
! bridges, &c.


| The accounts of the recent railway hor-
rors show the connection of these natural
/ phenomena more or less directly with a
number perhaps with all of them The
cause of one was the breaking of a bridge;
of another, of a rail or switch of another
of the fange of car wheel In one case
the consequences were first the mutilation
and then the roasting alive of twenty or
thirty human beings.


| Are there not also other effects Of eX-
tremely low temperature that contribute
more or less directly to the production OF
these cold weather disasters? Certainly
their attendant circumstances snow
storms, high winds, and the necessity Of
extra. heating in railway carriages-are
circumstances that contribute if not to the
causes of railway accidents at least tc


their destructive effects. Is it not plainly


the duty Of railway men to investigate


these facts and endeavor to devise anc


adopt more precautionary rules and usage:


in winter railroading? As a general pre-


cautionary rule, ought not all passenger


trains to be run at lower speed in winter


than in summer? And ought not laws O


greater caution to be adopted in respect t,


nearly all operating matters? Certainly i
must be practicable in some way to dimin


ish the horrors of winter railroading OIL
QUIZ more northern lines, and if practica


BILE it ought to be done Chicago Times
Year: 1872

THE REASON WHY.-The immediate
cause of premature fading or blanching of
the hair is an obstruction Of the oil vessels
which afford the coloring matter. The re-
mote causes may be general i'll health,
trouble of mind, etc. Hence, in order to
restore its natural color and beauty the oil
vessels must be restored to their normal
condition. 1t is on this principle that Ma
ETrRE's HAIR RESTORATIVE is compound
ed, and it has proved a complete success,
wherever faithfully applied 1t is not a
poisonous dye, consequently the effect is
,radual, and in severe cases two or three
bottles are necessary to produce the deslr-
el result. See advertisement
Year: 1872

1t has been ascertained that the
fumes of the purifying rooms of gas
works, will cure the whooping cough.
To test it lady, took two of her chill
dren there. The superintendent of the
works very kindly waited upon her to
the rooms.


After few moments he noticed n
black streak along her forehead, near
the hair, but supposing she had made
it by some crook from her fingers,
thought nothing more Of it, and he
left the parties to inhale the vapors.
When ready to depart, he suggested
to the lady that before she went back
to the city she had better look in
mirror, which she did and was not a
little surprised to find her face as black
as charcoal, from the hair around to
her ears, and under the chin.


After much scrubbing with soap and
water, she succeed in making herself
white. She inquired .anxiously of the
superintendent, who is a family man,
and knows how it is himself, what
could possibly have caused it. He
very politely intimated that it might
be something she put on her before She
came there, which she Indignantly de-
nied--she didn't powder" not she !


Madam" said he, "that's too tim.
You can't cheat the gasworks."
Year: 1872

A Chicago paper well calls the sub
ject of the following sketch "human
kangaroo:"


Coming into the city on a Chicago,
Burlington and Quincy train as it en-
tered the suburbs recently, a youngster
about ten years old, with one leg am
putated to a very brief stump, was OBJ
served handling his crutch briskly
along the side OF the track, evidently
with skilled purpose to get his mo-
mentum up to that of the rapidly mov-
ing train. He did it, and climbed up
on the rear platform, and sat down as
cool as though his feat had not excit-
ed the wonder of score of passengers
who watched him. The appearance
was as if lame lad had taken some
risk to take a ride downward. But at
Canal street he climbed down from his
perch, and went back down the track
with flying leaps, like a kangaroo, with
evident purpose of boarding a long
freight train, already under good head
way in the opposite direction. 1t was
an exploit only the most adroit and
venturesome railway employees would
think of attempting, so great was the
speed of the strain; but again the
brisk monopede achieved it, clung like
a monkey to the iron ladder on the
side of the car, near the rear of the
train, and went up, hand over hand,
with his crutch under his arm. The
next instant he was running or rather
hopping, with long leaps at full speed
along the top of the cars, taking the
the interspaces as easily as boy skips
over a crosswalk. And then we learn
that this midge is the victim of an ex-
traordinary passion for riding on the
cars. OF course he lost his leg in this
way, at the Great Eastern crossing,
eighteen months ago, and was provid-
ed with attendance and light crutch
by the railroad company. Any one
would think the loss of leg would be
lesson for fe-time, but instantly
on recovery he resumed his sport,
which had become passion. Since
that time he passes his whole day in
the manner above noticed. His mis-
fortune has really equipped him with
means Of locomotion with which he
distances all two-legged youngsters.
he captures every train that passes,
takes excursions into the country at
will, sure Of being able to compass
his return in the same way. Rail
road employees scold and put him off,
but his crippled condition secures him
immunity, and as he never mounts a
train until it is in motion, he gives
them the option to stop the train or
throw him off, There is no moral to
the story beyond the mention of the
fact. If the loss Of leg is no lesson
to boys to keep off moving trains,
there seems to be no remedy except to
shorten them at the other end. Per-
haps, after all, it is as we'll for the
trains to carry this youngster as a
prominent advertisement to the other
lads tf the peril Of the practice OF
which they are so noted an example.
Year: 1872




An immutable law, wiser than any recorded npon
human statute book has decreed that every people may
in course Of time regulate its destiny. No human
wer external to themselves assist them greatly
and none can permanently retard them. To eac com
munity there ultimately comes, through government or
Notwithstanding government, such industrial and
social system they themselves shall make The future
OF Massachusetts, rests In the hands OF the her
citizens, who now crowd together in towns, their
fathers lived apart In the country Ii is for them TO de-
eide, for her and for themselves, whether they will
hereafter be dependents at the doorof corporations and
suppans the bar Of the Legislature whether they
will stand in the honest dignity OF inde pendent man
hood and emanelpate themselves. Capital is selfish and
hard; indeed, II IL cease to be so, IL would
not long exist; IT does not deal In sentiment
by the law OF its being against which it
is childish 10 dsclam, II buys where IL buy for least
and sells where IL can sell for most; skill and are
but portion Of It's raw material, coal and cotton
another. Ii be effectively approached in one
way and in only To deal successfully with it, labor
has prove essential vital postulate-t must
demnnsrae that labor Is more profitable To capital
a partner than empoye. In these few word. rest
do till II tries aud fails, and tails aud tries again.
for nothing here viii succeed hut success great
cooperative triumph the result OF its own unasSstt1
capital and It's directing bIain would thus out
thousand successful strikes. At Declaration OF
Independence ana another BuHkcrs Iill through it,
stimulating Impulse the sefrcliant energy still native
the soil would again itself aud would 20 forth
refreshed and nvgUTated by It's moral victory the
encounter with those other trials which tine future has
In store


TIE REORGASIZATIoS or INDUsTRY.


Still great changes not easily or quickly wrought
nor Is the period Of transition apt 10 be pleasant
May we not, however firmly trust that the grous aud
cOntoTtons OF the present but the agony OF nva
Truth born and InOH surely
Year: 1872




SIR: | see by the last annual report of the
Insurance Commissioner OF Massachusetts, that.
per cent valuation. the Mutual Life had surplus OF
only 81 above each 500 required TO rensure out
standing risks in other words margin OF only $40
per cent above soyency The policy-holders Of this
Company invest their money in it because they
have repeatedly been told and believed that the
investment is safer than any other in tho world
and not subject to the contingencies to which
other investments liable but on examining the
subject it that margin of only ss 10 above the
800 required to be solvent according to standard
tables, is very small and might easily be overcome
Would t not be well for the Mutual 20 wait until this
surplus OF per cent TO 40 per upon
its premium before making this changei am
surprised find the margin small In the case Of the
Mutual Le, and had supposed il much than shown
by the Massachusetts, report.


vessel freghted with the future interests Of many
families should keep in the open sea- not see how
close IL can shave some rocky promontory without


njuring itself II by the proposed the Mutual
Life In the reduction ,of rates this margin Ia brought
down very much less it seems to that the policy
holders will be very materially injured by the change
their security will be greatly esseDed. For one should
he In favor OF toregoinguure dividends and would pre-
fer TO the surplus higher than present. than
see 10 lowered. l confess that cannot understand
the object Of this reduction In rates The Company has
been doing goodlbusiness-abOut SIS 900 last year
and the policy holders doubt satisfied with their
dividends. The Company would certainly be moro
secure by doing business Of 5oos year It's full
rates than 1t would by doing s5Oo1oco low and nse
cure rates.


The truth OF the matter Ia that the policyhoders in
this Company do not their funds eIpori-
mented with. We satisfied. Us The Ser- York Cader


rer aptly expresses let well enough alone"
Il M that this Company, which Is laying up nye or ak
millions year. Is dissatisfied because 1t Is growing
slow and wishes to mouopoze everythngf Their funds
should be taken very good or and their prospects
should he very carefully studied and risks which
unnecessary, because they have at risk nearly
s25oOoOooO. This Is very large of money and will
have " W paid, " tAsge,oEs seems " me that ts
Year: 1872

very closely his remarks on the religious question
ending in Catastrophe Of some knG but tSat
Catholics should do all that within them lay to
avert It without sacrificing any principle, That
matters OF conscience, and never would that they
would oppose to his every effort passive but
united and stern resistance, which he would find IL
very difficult to overcome Bismarck might take
away the revenues OF the Church. Let him. The
Church can get on without them, though the
bishops should have to beg their bread from door
to door. II Bismarck wants to drive out their
bishops and shut up their churches he can do so
lie population Of Germany is twelve
million souls and II the government thinks 1t can
undertake the next war without that population
IL will lind itself mistaken. IL will be glad to
turn for support TO the Catholics and glad to grant
them JUSTICE" The discourse was received with
which the meeting broke up, adjourning at the
early hour OF ten O'Clock l mingled among them


and taas ts sy 40 nS blame as
TO think that Bismarck is acting against Ills own
wishes In the Natter and they loresee in this fact
long as he is Tree they say he viii never make q


false step; but driven as ne now is he will be
ycsu 70 s1"De aoua rnefe them seems 1nat sss cG
sold himself soul and body to the demon
OF liberalism in order to gain the support OF the
party IN the war which he was then meditatinQ,
and that this demon Is now demanding pay In the
shape OF a Catholic prosecutions thing the Chan
eating priest, say the government, involves the
deprivation Of certain civil rights, such the pay
ment OF o salary rom the state, but these rights
only exist because or the position and quality OF
the party concerned, and are dependent on It.
priest is only entitled to u salary because he is
priest and breaches certain doctrines and when he
Is longer priest the civil right ceases. II only
remains TO determine who shall decide whether the
man Is o priest and whether his teaching Is ortho-
d0x. Now IL cannot be expected that the Catholic
population OF Germany and OF the world will accept
Bismarck authority In such case, and 1t Is Ger.
iainly bold pretensi0n on his part To assume 1t.


TIE DISPUTED DOGMAs.


Whether the doctrine OF the inialDility Of the
Pope be true false IL a theological question
which only concerns Catholics themselves. II is
difficult TO understand the cause for all this outcry
against the infaliiDility Of the Pope, q doctrine
which, however absurd II may be deemed, is not
more dangerous TO the State than that OF the In.
faibfy OF the church. IL is still less easy to un-
lerstand the position taken by DUllnger and
his c0-lab0rers in the old Catholic movement. They
still claim to be Catholics, and believe that the
Church Is infallible when speaking through her
bIshops assembled in council. Now, the inallible
bishops have pronounced the Pope infallible, and
therefore, according 10 D6lngers own line or
reasoning, the Pope must be infallibly excOmmun
Gated, and longer Catholic IL may be said that
this decision Of the bishops was brought about BY
Year: 1872

Mr.. EDItoR: Through Jour columns
4 propose to try TO awaken our people
to sense of their interests in regard to
a railroad connection to Pittsburgh. 1t
seems to me that Pittsburgh is the only
ireliable market which fully meets all The
wants Of the people of the county.


T. | understand that the citizens OF
Barnesville have a charter for road
from Dennison to their place, and also a
complete organization l further under
stand that the people of BarnesviIle are
ldesirous that we shall have an extension
of that road to Wuodsfield, and are will
Hing to aid this end of the line by giving
,one-half of the tax to be voted by them.
to this end, the other half to be applied
on the northern connection. sa
| Surely this proposition is very fair on
their part, and if met by similar liberal
| ity in this county the road will be secur-
ed beyond doubt. 1t can easily he
shown that by local tsxaton. TO say
nothing of subscription, $4,000 mile
can be raised, which will completely
grade the road, and the Pennsylvania
Central will iron and equip the road


This will give us the advantage Of two
routes from Barnesville, and will wholly
remove the fear of excessive rates of
freight and passage. " a,


If the people of our county are not
content with this prospect, what in the
world can they be expecting? There
meyer will, in this generation, be another
such an opportunity to secure an outlet,
with an absolute certainty of cheap
transportation. '... -. 4.""T


1t seems to me If we let this opportu-
nifty slip through our grasp, we may as
well make up our minds to do nothing
and be nothing the balance of cur
| lives. Ja4 -.t,-s- 5....s s,..e.


If man wants to be respected and
prosper he must help himself; if the
people Of town want to prosper they
must help themselves; and if the people
of county want to prosper they must
help themselves. The man who always
waits fer something to turn up will al
ways scratch q poor mans heaii The
man who succeeds is the man who takes
off his coat, and rolls up his sleeves, and
turns something up. .. ..... ...,


If we don't want to do anything or be
anything, let US fence our town up. and
rent it out for a potato patch. 1t VIC
have any of the stuff in US that live men
are made of let us seize this golden OPP
Iportunity and make the most OF it. More
anon. INDUSTRY.
Year: 1872

A North Main street man found out
something that if applied to the soles OF
boots or shoes would preserve them toT
an indefinite length of time. He coated
his boots with it, and his wife's shoes
with it, and the children's shoes with it
and now he wants to exchange all his
carpets for loaded horse pistol.


A Louisville man, who had only
been acquainted with his girl two nights,
attempted to kiss her at the gate, In his
dying deposition he told the doctors
that just as he 'kisSed her, the earth slid
out from under his feet, and his soul went
out of his mouth, while his head touch
ed the stars" Later dispatches show
that what allied him was the old mans
boots ~" u


A remarkable Old lady named Lucy
Wilson resides, in Nelson, N. III. Wha
she is remarkable for is that within three
years she has picced seven large bed
quilts OF these, two were large, two
small work, and three had eighty piece:
in q square, making 1,6St pieces to :
quilt. Besides this, the remarkable OLD
lady knit seven paiIs Of fancy cotton
stockings. Moreover, number Of pairs
of woolen footings. Throw in plain
sewing. memory and making; then add
the fact that this ancient lady uses nc
spectacles, and you have an instance OF
smart longevity quite unparalleled.
Year: 1872

A writer in the Revue Horticole. states
that he purchased very fue rosebush,
full of buds, and, after anxiously wait
ing their maturing, was greatly disap-
pointed when this took place to find the
flowers small, Insignificant in appear
ance and of dull, faded color Incl
ted by the suggestion of friend, he
then tried the experiment of filing in
the top Of the pot around the bush to
the depth of half an inch with finely
pulverized store coal In the course Of
a, few days he was astonished at seeing
the roses assume beautiful red hue, as
brilliant and lively as he could desire.
Year: 1872

PEACH PuDDING Take q can of good
favored peaches, and cut the fruit fine.
Add one desert plate of bread crumbs,
threeteggs, one half pound Of ,suet chop
ped very fine, one nutmeg and a glass OF
wine. Serve it with wine sauce
Year: 1872

A further supplement to an act entitled


can act relative to the compensation and


duties of the law and chancery reporters


of the state"


I. Be it enacted by the senate and gener-
assembly of the state of New Jersey,
That it shall be the duty of the treasurer to
cause the copies of reports which are re-
quired by law to be delivered to him, to be
bound at the expense of the state, in good
and substantial law binding, in the manner
provided by law, and to make distribution
of the same pursuant to the statute.


Q. And be it enacted, That the second
section of the act to which this is supple
ment, be and the same is hereby continued
in force for five years unless sooner altered
or repealed.


g. And be it enacted, That all acts and
parts of acts inconsistent with this act be
and the same is hereby repealed.


4. And be it enacted, That this act shall
take effect from the fourth day of April
next.


Approved February 6, 1872.
Year: 1872

An act for the Summary ConvlcU1ou ur Ptv-


fessional Thieves.


1. Be it enacted by the Senate and Gene
raj Assembly of the State of New Jersey,
That from and after the passage of this
act, if any person shall be charged on oath
or affirmation before the mayor or justice
of the peace, in any town, city or county in
this state, with being professional thief,
burglar or pickpocket, and who shall have
been arrested by tho police authorities at
any steamboat landing, railroad depot,
church, banking institution, brokers' office,
place of public amusement, auction room,
store or crowded thoroughfare in any city,
town or county in this state, and if it shall
be proved to the satisfaction of the said
mayor or justice of the peace, that he or
she was frequenting or attending such place
or places for an unlawful purpose, he or she
shall be committed by the said mayor or
Justice of the peace, to the Jail of the county
or city in which he or she may have been
arrested, for a term not exceeding ninety
days, there to be kept at hard labor; or, i'll
the discretion of the said mayor or justice
of the peace, he or she shall be required to
enter security for his or her good behavior
for period not exceeding one year.


Approved February 80, 1879.