smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1875




The city Of Seattle does ordain as TO-,
That the owners of the real prop srtv
on the south side of Marion Street, be-
tween Second and Third Streets shall
build good and substantial sidewalk,
six feet wide. with planking not less than
one and one half inches thick, along the
south side Of said Marion Street from
Second to Third Street.


That in case the owners of the said
real property fail to build such side
walk within thirty days from the pub
lication of this Ordinance, then the
Road Supervisor of the City is hereby
authorized to build such sidewalk at the
expense of the owners of the property
adjoining the sidewalk SO built. Said
expense to be collected as fines and PEN
alties are collected III other cases.


H. L. YESLER, Mayor.


Attest, ". r. ANDREWS, City Clerk.
Year: 1875

THE New JupGE.-Judge Lewis has
written to District Attorney McConaha
that he will not be able to leave Walla
Walla till after the first of April. and
has arranged with Judge Wingard to at
tend to judicial business in this district
previous to his arrival here. The latter
will probably hold the special term,
commencing in this city on the first
Monday in April. A.
Year: 1875

The Republicans of the empire State
have performed wise and patriotic service
to the country in their late State conven-
ton. The sugury is exceedingly gratify-
ing, and we think points to certain victory
In November. All dissentions, divisions
and diversions which have heretofore con.
spired to divest the Republicans of that
State of power in the government, seem to
have been put aside and buried out Of sight
in their declaration Of principles and selec-
ton of candidates. A patriotic devotion
to the cause and its ultimate success is evi.
dent throughout the proceedings Of the
convention. All schisms, divisions and
alterations appear to have been reconciled.
and the Republican party presents itself to
the people in its former integrity and
strength, when to go to battle was to en-
sure victory.


The declaration of principles is broad,
sound and conclusive. No question of i'm
portance to the public veal is blinked or
Year: 1875

EVERY ONE knows that Dana, of the
New York Sun, is thoroughly. unreliable
person, and that his assertions regarding
the character of any man should not weigh
feathers weight in the estimation Of the
public. But his persistent charges against
Whitelaw Reid are beginning 10 have their
desired effect. No denial Of them has been
made, and they have been repeated SO often
In more respectable journals than the Sun
that Reid is now very generally known as
Jay Gould's stool-pigeon, and the New
York Tribune as the pimping organ Of an
infamous stock gambling ring. The cir
cumstantisl evidence to sustain this grow
ing belief is very strong. It exists in the
fact that the Tribune is dishonest in its gen.
eral tone, never admitting its manifold
errors in the criticism of political affairs,
and never retracting its falsehoods when
they are plainly proven to be such. This
is the New York Tribune of to-day, the
journal that twenty years ago was known
throughout the length and breadth of the
land as the truthful, fearless, independent
and reliable exponent of firm convictions
and everlasting principle. Its honest stock
holders, if it has any, cannot close their
eyes to this fact However much they
may belittle the assaults made upon it and
upon the exceedingly vulnerable character
of its present editor, they should recollect
that constant dripping of water will wear
its way through solid adamsnt.
Year: 1875

INC hoCucsLof EXprces.l


California will prove, even by her financial
disaster, the value Of specie basis to busi-
ness. When q man, whose blood is diseased,
is wounded, the wound heals slowly-there Is
fever and suppuration and prostration, but the
man with a pure current Of blood flowing
through his body viii mend rapidly, and soon
be up and at it again. Thus 1t Is with a com
munity having specie basis to its business
A blow may come that will temporarily stun
the community-a cash may be made In somo
commercial or financial body, such as the
Bank of California, but II the blood is good
the wound will heal quickly. Thus we read
that there is prospect of the immediate re-
sumption of business by the Bank of Califor-
mia, and the best possible feeling exists in
business circles. 1t is two years since the
blow fell on the east, and we are not con-
valescent yet, while hardly two weeks suf1lces
TO put California on her feet again, and in q
month she will almost have forgotten that she
was hurt.
Year: 1875

HERE we have it as plain as the some
what intrusive nose on Whitelaw Reid s
face. The New York Tribune says, with
reference to the Red Cloud investigating
commission


"With regard to the connection of prominent
officials with the Indian ring, 1t does not appear
that the commission is likely to make any
startling disclosures. But as it was organized
not to make such disclosures, this is not sur
prising."


There was time when the Tribuns
would not have disgraced itself by resorting
to such a subterfuge as this, but would
have gracefully yielded to the apparent fact
that it made great blunder when it charged
"the connection of prominent officials with
the Indian Ring" It would then have
been manly enough to admit that it had
been deceived, and would not have at
tempted to perpetuate its ISLANDERS against
officials who, it seems, are about 70 be
vindicated from all participation in the
frauds which it has charged against them.
As it is, it not only reiterates those slanders.
but adds to them by an insinuation that
The members Of the investigating commits.
sion are about to commit dishonest act.
Is this honorablei Is it justice to the
readers of the Tri6TDei Or, is it the disrepu.
table and Characteristic act of q man who re-
mains silent under public charge of being
stock gamblers stool-pigeon, of having
attempted to obtain money under false pre-
tences and of being q swindler and imposteft
Year: 1875

most, of our really learned men attained
the first rudiments of the English language
by reading the Bible, with Webster's Die
tionary. Having acquired full kno Wedge
Of the contents of these two books they had
q sure foundation on which to build the
superstructure of an education. All subse-
quent reading was clear to them, and they
had only to read to acquire. But the su-
perfcial instruction given in our public
schools, which amounts to the acquisition
Of only smattering of the rules Of spelling.
pronunciation. accentuation and elocution.
grammar and mathematics, is of very little
consequence, even in the farther prosecu-
ton of studies in after life. When the
child or youth leaves school his educa-
tion has scarcely begun. If he only
possesses q thorough knowledge Of
the rudiments OF the English Ian.
gusge his condition is satisfactory.
But too often they are shutting. awk-
wardignoramuses, withoutthe ease, polish,
grace or confidence Indicative Of the
scholar. An educated person is easily dis
tinguished from your superficial scholar.
The latter asserts or proposes anything
doubtingly or guessingly, while the former
speaks confidently Of it IS fact.


Our pesple are roundly taxed, first
Ter good school-houses aud schools.
and next for good textbooks, and
they ought to make great and accu-
rate proficiency in the acquisition of learn
ing. At least one half the textbook
tax might be dispensed with 70 advantage,
and we beg Of the trustees not to change
them again upon US next year. If more
and newer reading exercises are needed, it
would be best to subscribe for rho daily
newspapers at once, and let the classes read
and study them by maps and globes. This
method would educate pupils in the cnr-
rent news Of the day, at least and send
them forth from school with some adequate
knowledge of the world in which they are
expected to enact part.
Year: 1875

THE exact extent of the influence Of the
New York Tribune among the Republi-
cans of New York is illustrated by the fact
that its suggestion that the Saratoga con-
vention should compliment Gov. Tilden
for his sickly efforts in behalf Of Canal Re-
form was treated with derision and made
the subject of broad joke during the
leisure moments when that body was wait
ing for serious business. Every delegate
present seemed to understand that the Tri-
6une's support of Tilden during the last
campaign was corruptly procured by a $780,
600 bribe, and that the suggestion in ques-
ton was undoubtedly the result of SINH
lar bargain.
Year: 1875

lodged, but all material issues relating to
good government and the public welfare
are met with bold and unwavering front


The convention was alive to the import
ancs of preserving the Federal Government
in the hands of those who have shown
themselves loyal to the Constitution and
the Union, who sustained the national IN
tegity against reasonable assault and
who stand firmly by all the guarantees Of
freedom, right and justice. It proclaims
for honest State and National Government
and demands prompt punishment Of all Of
fenses against the law and public good.
1t arrays itself against canal rings
and all plunderers Of the State treas
ury. It takes bold and strong ground
against an imitation Of the currency to the
detriment of honest industry, and declares
for preservation of the public faith in the
speediest possible return to specie payments.
1t refers wisely to the question of taxation,
and speaks decidedly in opposition to elect
ing any President for third term. It de-
clares boldly against any and all attempts
to divert the sacred educational funds Of
the State by appropriations for sectarian
purposes. It speaks in laudatory but just
terms Of the National Administration and
its record. And to all this all the Repub-
hcans, of whatever late division and com.
plexion politically, together with many in
telligent and patriotic Democrats through
out the State, will respond in 9 hearty
amen .--'.


The selection of candidates is marked
with great good Judgment. It recognizes,
without unnecessary condescension or any
departure from fixed principle, the late
Liberals In the nomination of one Of the
ablest and purest men among those who
entered the Liberal ranks as State Treas
urer. This act has bridged that chssm.
and brings the Republican party together
again in solid column. The nomination Of
Frederick W. Seward to head the ticket
impsrts much strength to IL, and affords q
guarantee of success. 1t is exceedingly
wise to place Gen. Spinner, the faithful of
all the faithful in the land, in nomination
as Comptroller, for it tenders 10 the people
of that State the surest guarantee Of csps-
city and fidelity in the most sacred and re-
sponsible department of its government
The balance of the ticket corresponds in
ability and character with those we have
named, and we now look forward with
great confidence to the sure redemption Of
New York from Democratic rule.
Year: 1875

After bringing in indictments against few
of the Georgia negroes who were under arrest
charged with planning an insurrection, the jury
agreed to q recommendation for the release of
the rest, and they were accordingly released.
If It can be conceived that the whole thing was
not q political game Matched for the purpose
of influencing the coming election by exciting
prejudice against the negroes, the Georgia
Democrats are 70 be credited with conducting
themselves in an exceptionally decent manner
Perhaps they ought to have 9 credit mark any
way, as It must have been painful exercise
Of self-denial to forego such splendid oppor-
tunity of lynching negroes. 1t is doubtful If
they are able to work up such another chance
before election day arrives.
Year: 1875

THE North Carolina Democrats obtained
control of the State constitutional conven-
ton, now in session in Raleigh, through
the foolish vanity of DR.. Ransom, an Inde-
pendent Republican from Tyrren county.
They selected him, knowing him to be 9
weak man, because they understood and
intended to use the weak points Of his char
acter to induce him to become q traitor to
the people to whom he owes his election as q
delegate, and to become tool in their hands
to thwart the will of the majority Of the
voters ofthe State. Had they been certain
of procuring the election Of any other man
to be President of the convention they
would have ignored the very existence of
Ransom. They fully appreciated the fact
that the Office is one Of high hoEor-higher
than that of Governor, and, in short, the
highest within the gift of the sovereign
voters Of any single State in the Union.
They would therefore have rendered it to
some one who would have filled it with
honor to themselves and their party, and
whose abilities were commensurate with its
dignity. But the emergencies Of the case
prevented this. They lacked. one vote Of
the requisite majority to secure the organi-
zation. With rare though dishonorable
discretion, they took him up as their can
didste, promised, among other things, to
send him to Congress, and prevailed upon
him to commit the blunder of Uotin7 for
himself. They could not have obtained
the control of the convention in any other
way. They consequently stand convicted
of heaping undeserved honors upon trick
ster, q traitor to his constituents, and man
whose ambition led him away beyond the
bounds Of common decency. When he
announced the vote of Ransom for ed
ward Ransom, of Tyrrell. he placed upon
his own forehead the brand Of lasting in
fanny and the mark Of unblushing egotism
and greed. The Democrats are welcome
to this victory, If victory it can be called,
for when the deliberations of the conven-
ton are submitted for ratification or rejec-
tion to the people the infamous act by
which the present constitution was fraudu-
lently thrown open to amendment will
serve to arouse storm of indignation that
cannot fail to increase the Republican ma
jority in the State by thousands Of votes.
Year: 1875

You see them, meet them, every day.
Go where you will, on the cars, in a
steamboat, in saloon, to circus, q
town meeting, public assemblage of
any kind, or anywhere, and you will find
"Our Liar the center of little coterie.
He is an orator in his way, and very
eloquent. He attracts men as sugar
does flies. Youmay not believe in him !;
you may despise him; but you want to
hear him, and when he is done you will
pronounce him the greatest liar you ever
saw. There are many kinds of liars
There is the profound liar, who is gen.
orally an old man with white hair and
sober mien. He walks about with a
cane, and daily sits in the post-ofice or
grocery. He tells the most marvellous
stories of what he saw and did when q
young man, and speaks with such ap-
parent candor and truthfulness that you
are compelled to say to yourself: l
cannot believe his story, but there GER
tainly must be some truth in it." Then
there is the shallow liar; he is the fellow
with expressionless face and big mouth
he lives to lie; he never deceives any
body, however. He is as transparent as
clean window pane. He never told the
truth in his life purposely, and you
never expected him to; he lies about the
commonest affairs of life. He has seen
great many wonderful things that
nobody else ever saw. 1t was his pecu-
liar good fortune to see white squirrel
with three eyes that no other human be-
ing ever saw. He once had in his pos
session hen named Betty, that raised
six orphan pigs, and if he had that hen
now he wouldn't take million dollars
for her; no, sir, he wouldn't When
that hen died there wasn't dry eye in
the village where he lived. Owing to q
singular streak of good luck years ago,
he saw at Bucks county, Pa, man at a
circus swallow boa constructor eight
feet long. He wouldn't have believed it
could have been done if he hadn't seen
it with his own eyes. The other people
who were at the circus are all dead now,
and the men who performed in it are all
dead, too; if any of them were living he
could prove it by them.
Year: 1875

There is no one thing which causes so
much pain, poverty and distress as bad
living and bad doctoring. Learned
philanthropists are now consenting that
health reform is the basis of all other
reforms. We must insist that physi-
clans should begin to preserve health
rather than drug to restore it. 1t is
strange SO many have an idea that they
can do the latter, but not the former.
They can make one well, but cannot
keep one so, reversing the common sense
maxim that can ounce of prevention is
worth pound of cure" Strange that
the skill which puts the body in order
might not prevent the disorder. Is it
not easier to keep the road than to find
it after losing itP Is it wise to let our
children contract vices, that we may use
our skill to return them to their lost
virtues9 Is it not easier to keep ten
men sober than to reform one drunkard
So must it be as to health. Far easier
and far safer for doctors to study, to
practice and to teach hygiene-to have
all their patrons live in accordance with
the laws of health-than to dose them
into health when sick. Why not do as
one of the kings of China-give the
physician certain sum for every day
the family were kept in good health,
but nothing for the days this inestimable
blessing was lost9 Under such an en-
gagement, the physician should have
control of the diet, and other sanitary
regulations, which would be. far easier,
happier and less expensive than his too
often vain effort to kill disease with
poisonous drugs. Besides, let it be well
understood and never forgotten, that
disease is the remedial effort of nature
to right a wrong; the noble defense
against a vile attack; the courageous,
loyal rally to dislodge a dangerous foe.
For instance, put snuff in the nose, which
will be the foe, and the sneeze which
follows to expel it is the disease; put the
same weed in the mouth, and the saliva
flows to wash it out, and if held in the
mouth for the first time, nausea and
vomiting are reinforcements to expel
the enemy. Swallow indigestible food
upon weak stomach, and the disease
of throwing it back comes as relief.
These instances, be assured, soundly
Illustrate the friendly action of our sys-
TEN against our injuries. The cause of
the disease is foe to be removed-the
disease itself friend never to be fought,
but always favored. Happily, however,
with ordinary caution, man becomes
his own physician. He has but to keep
careful watch over his desires, and re-
strain the promptings of passions always
struggling to be tree from the fetters
imposed by common sense to keep the
system in healthy condition and con-
form to the hygienic laws which mark
the boundaries of health and disease,
and he has certain immunity from pain
and suffering.
Year: 1875

Henry Ward Beecher wrote recently
to lecture committee in Brattleboro,
explaining why he did not go there to
deliver lecture they had been waiting
to hear since last fall. He said asking
him to go there was like sending for
man shut up in foreign dungeon, and
wondering that he does not come ! For
six months / have been sitting in the
court almost daily, nor do / know when
the detention will end. And even were
it to close tomorrow am in no case to
go forth lecturing. This is for the
present out of the question. One thing
is certain, have not been six months in
court here because liked it and wanted
to get rid of lecture Mt Brattlebcro,"
Year: 1875

A curious case bearing upon the law
of citizenship has just come up. A Ger
man came to the United States some
twenty seven years ago and, in due
course, became naturalized citizen.
During his stay a son was born to him,
and at the age of four years that son ac-
companied his father back to Germany.
The father reclaimed and was granted
renewed citizenship in the land of his
birth. On reaching the age of twenty
the son was called upon to perform the
usual military service demanded of Ger
mans of that age. He attempted to re-
sist the demand on the ground that he
was citizen of the United States, and
appealed to our State department for
protection. The question, to which the
history of such problems furnishes no
precedent, was referred to Attorney
General Pierrepont. He has made it the
subject of an exhaustive opinion. The
point by which his decision has been
chiefly guided is that on being question
ed whether he intended to return to the
United States, the young man refused
to give any assurance that he would. 1t
is to be fairly assumed, therefore, that
he does not intend to return, and he
cannot show any right to claim the
protection of the United States govern
ment. The attorney general, however,
is clearly of opinion, that should the
young German return to the United
States, he can claim all the rights of
adult citizenship, and be eligible for any
Office for which his American birth
qualities him.
Year: 1875

Many ladies complain that they have
no luck with flowers. The truth is, they
do not know how to prepare genial soil
for their pets. Flowers of all sorts like
a rich, mellow soil. If the ground is
heavy, adhesive, and inclined to be wet,
the surplus water must be drawn away
through drains. Then fine chip-manure,
old sawdust, half decayed tanbark, or
fine mold from the forest, must be
worked into the soil. At the same time,
fine scrapings from the barnyard, or
even street dirt, will be found excellent
in preparing fower-beds. Sifted coal
ashes in generous abundance will render
the soil light, and will also improve the
fertility. 1t is an excellent practice also
to collect few bushels of fine coal dust
the finer the better; also iron trlrnings.
iron filings, and the sweepings of black
smiths's shops and iron founderies. By
supplying growing plants with filling,
sand, and potash, or soap-suds, which
will answer the same purpose as potash,
blossoms will be developed of more
velvety appearance and of deeper hues
than can ever be produced if the sub
stances alluded to are scarce in the soil