smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1872

The New York Herald says: Th'


rapidity with which this dreadful


disease is spreading all over the city


has at length become alarming, and


the health authorities have instituted
the most rigid measures to check its


further progress. One hundred and
fifty cases were reported to the city
Sanitary Bureau during the past


week, making the largest exhibit OF
any week since the virus made its
appearancein New York. This unusu


ally large increase in the number of
cases is explained by the city Sani-


tary Inspector in the alarm of the
medical men having charge of the
cases on the east side. Last week q
number OF doctors were prosecuted
by the Board of Health for having
failed to report cases they were at
tending to. This action of the Board
has so frightened others that many
OF the faculty who were in charge of
cases of smallpox aud were attend
ing to them in secret have come for
ward and reported the fact of their
existence. This would, no doubt, go
far to increase the number of cases,
but independent of this the assistant
Health Inspectors have themselves
discovered fifteen new cases, which
goes, undoubtedly, to show The
disease is steadily growing. Mr. A.
T. Stewart has likewise taken fright
at the prevalence of the epidemic, and
yesterday sent one of his young men
to request the Sanitary Inspector to
send a sufficient force OF medical men
TO vaccinate all the people in his
employ. The Tenth and Seven
.eenth wards are those suffering
most from smallpox, and it is aston
shing the people will not take ad-
of the means at their dis
,osal of guarding against the disease.
Every station.house In the city is
supplied with a medical man to vac
Innate all comers, free Of charge, and |
when it has been so clearly shown |
hat vaccination is a sure preventive
If the disease, it is wonderful |
hat people don't fortify themselves
lgainst it.
Year: 1872

The Buffalo Commercial has the
following account of man who died
OF broken heart, caused by sue
cessful attempt TO black-mail.


a few months ago, a man died in q
little town on the Canada side, who
in early life, was one of the most
promising clergymen in the city of
New York. He died broken heart
ed man, and the victim to merciless
attempt to black mail which hsd
been tried upon him soon alter his
entrance upon parochial duties He
was summoned one day 10 perform a
Christian clergyman's offices in a
house where he had had no previous
acquaintance. The story told by the
parties who summoned him, was q
very plausible one, and he went with
out hesitation into the trap prepared
for him. As soon as he arrived at
the sick chamber he was confronted
by two men, who maintained that he
had visited the house with impure
motives, and threatened to expose
him unless he paid over certain
amount OF hush money! The man
in his bewilderment took precisely
the wrong course. He felt that he
could better submit to pecuniary ex-
tortion than to allow his name to be
used in connection with a disgraceful
affair, no matter how innocent he
might have been of the charges
brought against him. He, therefore,
paid the sum demanded. From that
hour he was q doomed man. At regu-
lar intervals his prosecutors called for
more money. IL he refused to pay,
they held the old threat over him,
and it was now doubly strong from
the fact that he had paid once to
keep the matter secret. His life
became a torture to him. He resign
ed his parish in the metropolis, and
tried to be concealed in a more hum
be parish in another part of the
couhtry; but go where he wou d the
relentless blGckmailers were on his
track. Finally he told his friends
the terrible secret of his life. This
thwarted his prosecutors, to be sure,
but their wretched victim was already
ruined man, as we have said (; he
died few months ago in quiet out
of-the-way Canadian town.
Year: 1872

The Kalamazoo Telegraph contains


some very interesting information


concerning the tunnel now In process


of construction under the Detroit


River, communicated, rs it states, BY


sn engineer connected with the work,


an experienced and skillful man, to .
gentleman OF that city, who had en-


tertained some question about the


feasibility of the work. The follow


ing are extracts from the letter:


We are progressing at the rate OF
fivefeet per twenty-four hours, inciud-
ing masonry, which slow progress Is
due to the unfavorable condition OF the
earth. In the bottom of the excavs.
tioas we continually have q layer OF
quicksand which discharges into the
shaft a sulphur water to the amount
of five gallons per minute. Immedi-
ately above this quicksand is dry
and hard clay, in which are imbedded


(closely) large and small boulders,


which frequently have to be blasted


to remove them, and notwithstand-


ing this solidity we dare not go fifteen
feet beyond the masonry, for Large


masses of the material will drop from


the roof il allowed to remain exposed


for more than twenty-four hours.
The frequency Of the boulders is rsth-
er decreasing as we advance (under
the river, but may be encountered
again; at the same time the solidity
OF the clay remains the same, and rem
ders digging very difficult.


The strata we have gone through
in sinking the shaft may be better Illus
trated by sketch, showing the por-
tions of the main tunnel and the main
drift we sre making now.


THE writer then gives q diagram
the various strata below
The river bed; first, is q soft yellow
clay, soluble in water. Below is
animated clay and sand, and this
downward Tapping thepoint
where the main tunnels come. The
main bores will rest upon good, tough
clay then fifteen or twenty feet be-
low is dry clay and quicksand, and
The troublesome material comesexact-
" at the point where the drift for
draining the main tunnels1 is being
The bottom Of the shaft,
lis feet below the waters edge, rests
IN bed of fgravel-the drift or sewer,
10, is five feet in diameter,
md is some distance above the bot
ON shaft. and is now being excava-
ed under the river towards the Ca
madam shore.


AS for future progress, we can
,nly say there will be no difficulty in
the small sewer; it only
.oes slow. We shall soon commence
N the Canada side to sink q similar
haft to meet the one from this side.
referring you again to the sketch,
rou will perceive that the upper por-
ion of the main tunnels, and all Of
hen, are in soil Of very question
Ible solidity, considering, in addit-
on, the mass or height OF water above
{. Under such known circumstan-
.es, you may readily conjecture that
he bidders for the main will be COM
,elled to put in high figure, which,
perhaps, may overreach the Company's
to such an extent as to put
n'end to the whole undertaking.
Year: 1872

Why will not mothers know that
to invite and possess the confidence
of their daughters is to secure them
from evil? Never make them afraid
to tell you anything; never make
them ashamed of the natural desire
to have attention from the other sex.
Admit the liking for it as belonging
TO youth-to your past youth-but
at the same time enforce the judi
cious timing of it; above all encour-
agy frank avowal of, and sympatf y
with, their youthful preferences.
Many a young girl now lost to her
self and society, might have been
saved by such a course. Harsh re-
buke of these natural feelings, is like
pruning all the leaves and buds and
blossoms from a young plant, lest
stray insects should light upon it
Eaunu Fern,
Year: 1872

FRosrY VALLEY-Sierra Valley
is a basin nearly on the extreme Of
the Sierra Nevada, enclosed on al
sides by mountains, and lying nearly
ak thousand feet above the level ot
the ocean. In winter, when th'
snow lies to the depth Of ten Of
twenty feet on the surrounding peaks
IL seldom exceeds two or three fee
in the valley. In favorable season.
the cattle have been known to fint
scant pasturage here even in win
ter Frost visits the valley ever,


month in the year, and perhaps a
often as ten or fifteen nights in ever
month.-Overland Monthly.
Year: 1872

S-Please send me some money
as owe Spence. Ifyou cannot spare
it think can borrow of boy who
is going to leave at the half quarter
and then he won't ask for it back but
praps you would not like me to be
under obligashion as is parents is
traidspeople an think you deel at
their shop. he lent me some last
half and think he told them at the
shop. ibid not mention as dessay
they have put in your bill.
Year: 1872

uSoI nlo,


Wright tyo tell you am very
retehed and my chillyblanes is worser
again. have nOtmade any progress
and don't think shall. j am sorry
to be such expense but do not think
sehule is of any good. One OF the
fellows has taken the crowne hout of
my new hat for target. i said you
would not like it, he has alsow Dor.
rowed my watch to make water
wheal with the works butit won't act.
me and him have tried to put the
works back but we think there is
some whesls missing as it won't fit.
hope Matilda's cold is better. lam
glad she is not at schule. i thing i
have got consumshion. the boys at
this place are not gsntlemany but l
suppose you did not know that when
you sent me. Twill try not to get
bad habits. the trowsers heve wore
out at the nees. think the tailor
must have cheated you. the buttons
have also come off and they are tore
at the back. don't thing the food
is good but i should not mind if ! was
stronger. the piece i sent you is OIL
the beet we had on Sunday but on
other days it is more stringgy. there
are black beeddles in the kitchen and
sometimes they cook them in the din
ner which can't be holesome when
you are not strong. l OF the boys
has tanned one not cooked raw one
and it will dance when you wistle
s.Down in q coal mine" WHICH makes
him think of his happy home. dear
Ma, hope you and my dear papa end
sisters are enjoying of yourselves and
do not mind me being so uncomfor-
table because do not think i shall
last long.
Year: 1872

THE attention Of the country is just
now turned to the coming election in this
State, and our exchanges from other
States are all explaining to their readers
the complicated situation here. They
generally concur in saying that the cleo
ton can haveliltle political significance
whatever the reSultmhybe. -AaE EE
Year: 1872

IN THE HOUSE REPRESENTATIVES,, FEBRUARY 6, 1872


The house having under consideration the
bill to establish an educational fund and Ia
apply the proceeds of the public lands to thu
education of the people, Mr.. GARFIELD
said:


Mr. SPEAKER: Tn the few inmates
given me shall address myself to two
questions. The first is: what do we pro
pose by this bill to give to the cause
Of education? and the second is: how
do we propose to give it? Is the elf.
itself wise, and is the mode in which we
propose to give it wise =? This arrange.
ment will include all have to say.


And first, we propose, without any
change in the present land policy, to
give the net proceeds of the public lands
to the cause of education. During the
last fifteen years these proceeds have
amounted to little more than thirty
three million dollars, or one per cent. OF
the entire revenues of the United States
for that period. The gift is not great,
but yet in one view OF the case, it is
princely. To dedicate for the future a
fund which is now one per cent. of the
revenues of the United States to the
cause of education, is to my mind a
great thought, and | am glad to give it
my endorsement. 1t seems to me that
in this act of giving, we almost copy its
prototype in what God himself has done
on this great continent of ours. In the
center of its greatest breadth, where
otherwise there might be desert forev-
er, He has planted chain of the great
est lakes on earth, and the exhalatiOns
arising from their pure waters every day
come down in gracious showers, and
make that blooming garden which 9TH
erwise might be desert waste. And
f,'om, .onr great wilderness lands it. is
that their proceeds, like the
dew, shall fall forever, not upon the
lands, hut upon the minds OF the chill
dren of the nation, giving them for all
lime TO come all the blessing and growth
and greatness that education can afford.
Year: 1872

Between the here and the hereafter"
Heavens repose and earthly strife,
Hangs mystic screen dividing


soul from soul and life from life,
Soft as the dew falls on the water,


Or as mists DER mound and dale
Noiseless as bud unfolding,


Is the lifting Of tue veil.
When we pine with restless longing,
Some long vanished form TO view,
Seems This veil luminous ether,


Sanity faces beaming through,
And we almost catch the whisper,


Soil as sigh OF summrrs's gale
Almost see the beckoning finger


AT the lifting Of the veil.
Yet when all our soul is weary


OF lies turmoil. pain and whirl,
And we strive to rcnd the curtain,
LO we beat 'gainst walls of pearl
We have missed the crystal doorway,
Or the keys celestial fail,
While we wait without impatient
For the lifting Of the veil
When the face we love grows palli
Clearer, purer, day by day,
Till we see the spirits luslre


Shining through its vase Of clay;
When the jewel leaves its casket,
How we mourn and weep and wall,
AT the beckoning of the angels,


At the lifting of the veil.
To the Infinite Creator,


His grand universe is one,
Far off corridors uniting,


Sea and sky and earth and sun;
1t is all our Fathers mansion,


And the loved our hearts bewail,
Have but reached an inner chamber,
AT the lifting Of the veil
Though we cannot hear their footsteps.
AS they journey to and fro,
In those hidden, shining chambers,
No!seless rs the falling snow
Though we cannot see the vcstments,
Silvery white as moonbeams pale,
We shall meet them rs fair angels,
AT the lifting of the veil.
With HIS present works so mighty,
And his splendors spread abroad;
What must be the secret places
or the Palace of our God?
Not with sorrow, nor with anguish,
But with rapture should we hail
Every beckOning of the angels,
Every lifting of the veil.
Year: 1872

We learn from the Richmond Ken
tuckvl RegiRer Of yesterday that the
corDneris Inquest over the body Of the
man Curtis. killed by his son in Madi-
son county, brought in as verdict that
the shooting was done in necessary self.
defense, and acquitted the boy OF all
blame. The Register adds TO the ae-
count as published that Curtis was
worth some forty thousand dollars. ana
has been in the habit Of late OF getting
drunk and beating and mistTeating his
wife and daughter. On Tuesday night
last he gave them an unmeTclful Whlp-
ping and otherwise mistreated them 20
cruelty that the young son Tom told his
f.lther that If he repeated II he would
Kill him. On the following morning
the father began his brutality again,
when the son went up stairs and got q
pistol and told his father he must desist.
Curtis the older at once started toward
his son with a knife, when the latter
fired, inficting a slight flesh wound.
The father then turned and fed. The
;s0n pursued, firing as he followed. The
Ehird or fourth shot took effect ia the
neck when the father fell, when, il j.
said, the son still advanced and shot the
father once OF twice after he was down.
Death ensued In a few minutes, when
the Young man fled and has not since
been seen.
Year: 1872

Boston, MASS, October l4.-Charles
Lane, who was shot last night in Dor
chester, died this morning. There is no
clue TO the assassin. The murder creates
great excitement. Lane was a highly
respected citizen. After receiving the
wound he declared that he knew of DO
enemy in the world. 1t is supposed the
assassin mistOOk Lane for some other
person.
Year: 1872

TAX NoTICE.-Assessor Paulsen this
week gives notice that the poll and hospital
taxes for the present fiscal year are now
due and payable and that fifty per cent.
additional will be added after October lst.
Property is liable for the payment of
these taxes the same as for property tax.
Head the notice and then pay your taxes
before the fifty per cent is added.
Year: 1872

The manner in which the money was divided
is traced in the instances Of several of the warrants
issued by Conan The following table illustrates who
got the money and In what proportion:
Year: 1872

a sEort time since while parties were en-
gagged in boring well on the Allen Cotton
plantation, about seven miles from the city
on the Granny White pike, they struck a
liquid which proved to be stream of strong
and excellent sulphur water. They had
bored TO the distance of one hundred and
fifty feet before drop Of water was found,
but striking this vein there was an abund-
ant flow. Several demijohns of this water
were brought to the city yesterday, and it
was tasted By number of our citizens who
pronounced it equal to the best. In taste,
it is very much like the water from our sui
phur spring, but great deal stronger. An
analysis Of this water yesterday showed
that it contsined sulphurett4d hydrogen,
carbonic acid, chloride sodium Common
SALTY sulpbide potassium, sulphate soda,
phosphate lime, carbonate lime, silica, Or
ganic matter. Ten thousand grains Qess
than half pint) contains so grains salts,
etc. From all we have said Of it, this sui
plfur Wells one Of the finest in the eoun-
try, and there Is no telling but what its dis
covery at this time may lead to valuable i'm
provements in that neighborhOod, and the
erection Of a piace of entertainment for
those who deslrst0 spend the summer near
the city.
Year: 1872

E CHICAGO, May 2S.-In the Circuit
Court Of Cook county this morning, G.
Judd as counsel for certain members of
Christ Episcopal Church, fled "a bill in
chancery against Rev. Chas. E. Cheney,
pastor, and the trustees of said church,
praying for an injunction restraining the
further diversion of the property and rev.
enues Of the parish to the support of
pastor who has been degraded from his
office in the church by an Episcopal court.


The object of the appl cation is said to
be not for the purpose of seizing the prop
erty but to obtain decision from the court
as to whether or not the property belongs
to the Protestant Episcopal Church.


NJ. W. Fuller, as counsel for the defend
ants, asked for pOstponement of the case
that the defense might have time TO prepare
an answer or demurrer to the bill, and the
preliminary hearing was finally deferred
till June Is. Meantime the court declined
to grant temporary injunction,
Year: 1872

THE latest invention comes from Della
ware. A man down there, having heard
thai the earth revolves at the rate of 1000
miles an hour, has arranged plan of going
up in balloon and remaining stationary
while the earth is permitted to slide away
beneath. He thinks that by this means he
can reach California in couple of hours
merely by shooting up from Wilmington in
balloon, and then dropping down again as
soon as the Rocky Mountains are observed
to go past. He has the whole thing ar
ranged now in perfect order-the balloon,
and the place to start from, and so forth
so that the scheme cannot possibly fail and
all he wants to make things complete is
something to tie the b | oon to, in order to
hold it still while up in the air.
Year: 1872

The unfortunates who had to be tried be
fore the last court in Waynesboro, were
kept walking about the streets because
there WIS no jail to confine them in. One
was not tried because he escaped.
Year: 1872

WHATEVER be the cause, it is almost
certain that both the Ottawa and the st.
Lawrence will this year be unusually def
cient in water, and as the deficiency viii be
felt even on the upper streams it is feared
that good deal of lumber will be delayed.
Year: 1872




Official information concerning the addi-
tional article to the treety has been received
from England, bat not being definite it
cannot Be Obtained for publication.


The Habeas Corpus suspensiOn.


Special to the Louisviiic Courier-gcurnei.


WAsuINereN, May z7.-AItbough Ger
tain Republican members of the House are
secretly opposed to passing the Senate bill
to extend the Suspension Of the writ of
habeas corpus through the Presidential
campaign, and give the Democratic side
assurances that there are enough of them
to prevent its passage, the Democrats do
not propose to trust them by allowing the
bill to go to a straight vote. Similar prom
ises under the same circumstances were
made year ago and violated; besides, it is
appareptfrom every quarter that this h4beas
corpas bib Is al administration measure,
and is to be pushed through. Mr.. Conkling
in the Senate to-day distinctly intimated
that it was best to hold back the appropri-
alton bills until the habeas corpus and civil
rights bills were acted on, and not be
caught by an early adjournment. Should
these bills nos be acted upon. it is openly
declared that the President will convene an
extra session and send in a message re-
questing that they be made into laws. The
reports, tLerefoIe, that the President does
not favor a further extension Of the sus-
pension of habeas corpus are unfounded.
Year: 1872

SlNeEEFAnlL1 Sc shwISeAAohlShS'
The demand for this favorite SEWING MA
CHINE is still increasing, and the great number
sold in this city during the past year is without
precedent. The machine is question is simple,
compact, durable and beautiful and is beyond
doubt less liable to get out of order than any
operated by child The sales of this machine
since its Introduction have steadily increased,
leaving all competitors far behind. This fact
alone IS proof of its superior merits over all
other machines. Over one hundred and fifty in
daily use in this city giving universal satistac,
ton For references examine my books and
Judge for yourself. Machines sold on the most
liberal terms and satisfaction guaranteed in ev-
erv case. G. G. BERRY, Agent


Alexandria, Va.
Orders from the country promptly attended to.
ion Diff
Year: 1872

\ CHARITABLE SOCIETY in the West has
novel and most agreeable method OF raising
honey for various benefcent objects ANY man
sufficiently blessed with courage and ready
cash, takes his seat in the middle OF the room,
and pays ten cents into the treasury Tor every
lady that will come by and kiss him. VI course,
The devotion of the ladies to the good cause Is
measured by the number of slDacks the man 9I
gets, and the cause must take all the credit
aud all the blame, for the kissiug-a very nice
arrangement for shifting the responsibility. A
handsome and agreeable man now, we imagine,
must needs be Well furni> he'd with dimes at
these fairs.
Year: 1872

Reflect that sound mind and body are the
most necessary requisites to promote connubia
happiness, Indeed, without these the journey
through life becomes Il weary pilgrimage the
nrospect hourly darkens to the view, the mind
becomes shadowed with despair, and filled with
the me 'ancholy reelection that the happiness OF
,nothe is blighted with our own.
Year: 1872




Also large assortment of other furs, too numer-
GUS to mention, must and shall be sold within few
weeks no matter at what cost. GIVE the forty year
old store call and satisfy yourself as regards our
prces All goods guaranteed as usual or money re-
| funded.
Year: 1872

We call the special attention of the Public
to the fact that these Companies do FIRE
Insurance business exclusively hence
their Assets are pledged Solely to their
Patrons as security against Loss by Fire,
and are not weakened and diminished by Ma
rine, Inland and Life Liabilities, as is the
case with Companies combining the several
branches. Those desiring


RELIABLE FIRE INSURANCE
at fair rates are invited to apply at the offices
of the above Companies.