smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1876

To THE EDITOR HERALD


have just been reading &c. D's.' lettor in this
mornings HERALD. He is sound when he says 1t
will be ''uphill 1ght'' against the present out
rageous manner of conducting the lines, for
there many that day after day obliged
to use the and inwardly chafe at the imposition
but will not take the trouble of protesting publicly
Now that the HERALD with its usual pluck and
tcrprise has opened up this subject let all speak,
every man, woman and child If you generously
make their complaints public, 1t is certainly very
little for them TO do TO express their feelings AS 'G
d" says the people OF New York, in all else so par
ticular to their comfort have allowed this nuisance
to grow and worse, and the management of
Of the street lines is now adopting the same
system cars. l refer to the Harlem Railroad
and If the passengers willing to quietly submit to
what is daily occurring early morning trains


to the city and the evening trains from the city, t
will be but short time before steam travel is as dis
agreeable the street Any person taking the
Sis NJ train from Forty second street (and the others


started with passengers standing up, not suf
icent put and empty ones standing in tho
depot Then again, when the morning trains reach
Harlem, going TO the city, tho passengers from above
stations have acquired pretty much all the accom-
mediation, provided and II is stand up all the way
down. This tho management knows when the train
Is made up and started. Now, for my part, can
difference in point OF honesty in receiving
pay ticket and then not furnishing value received
and selling thirty inches to the yard eleven
the dozen. hope all will improve the opportunity
to protest against these impostons OF monopolists


Respectfully yours, LET EVERY ONE SPEAK


NEW YORK, Jan. 20, 1876.
Year: 1876

lief In this Churcn mas NO part in Christ According
TO this higher spiritual Church there is no need Of
Fastening to baptze the babe. No irresponsible per-
will have any claim made upon him. Now, the
earthly Church Is substantially forms She is the
handmade to the higher Church. and Is the preserver
and promoter OF letters and liberty She Is the on
spring OF Christ and the mother of progress Change
your home into brothel, drown your children and
fling all moral restraints aside else kiss and revere
the influence that restrains you from such courses
When she dies ring out virtue aud ring in vice. ring
out heaven and ring in hell
Year: 1876

Following up the investigations by our reporters as
to the criminal manner in which sweating humanity
is packed in lily ventilated horse cars, the HERALD
today presents some suggestive figures relative the
Sixth Avenue Railroad travel at various hours Of the
day. The Sixth avenue line through very popu-
lous section Dr the city, and it is one Of tho best
equipped lines the west sdc yet with an abundance
cars plenty of spare horses and two minutes head.
way between each car morning and evening" the cars
are heavily crowded below the depot For this there
is excuse could, If necessary be run every
minute to accommodate the demands of the public
Count made


ABOVE THE DEPOT


between fifteen minutes to eight and fifteen min
utes to nine A. NJ This Is the period when tho
heaviest travel is found above the depot The cars it
is we'll known, start at Fftynnh street. by the Park
and no doubt, one reason why the route above
the depot there is not such rush for seats as on
other lines is that many passengers bound through pre-
fer walk of three blocks to the Elevated Railroad
The following the figures taken few of the
that passed down within the time specned:-
FROM QUARTER A. NJ A QUARTER TO
Year: 1876


These figures show but nine arriving at the
depot in the hour with passengers than could be
seated at twenty-five to the car.
BETWEEN EoRTY-sEcoND TwESTY-THIRD STREETS
The next count was made between Forty second and
Twenty third Streets southern bound cars between
IN nd dnin
Year: 1876

tou And such plan, agreement and articles, may
late voting BY and on the part Of the hoders Of the pre-
voting at and, in said mee,ings, and also for
OF any or all OF the bonds Of the company forecosc
OF the bonds issued or to be issued and payable by the
new company, pursuant any such plan. agreement
articles such right Of voting by bondholders to lie IN
such conditions as said articles may authorize and de-
clare. Said article sha he binding upon the company
S ed S%T an OF the % dorsed
thereon by Justice of the Supreme Court of this state


The following is added to the second section which, In
the original provides for the assumption OF the debts
OF the old corporation by the new


And II shall be lawful for the Supreme Court to direct
a sale of the whole OF the property rghtsand franchises
covered by the mortgage or morge ses or deeds 9
fOrecOsed at time and place, to ne named III tn
judgment order either in the case OF the honlaN
OF interest ONLY of both the principal ana neres, % QUE
aforesaid And in those or the greater pai OF nose
interested in the proceeds of t1e me stpeE and in
de6tednrss affected by. such foreclosure or sale,
ton to succeed which last Owned such property ana
franchises have assented TO such plan or anlcane
and with Justice al prove and in any peasi confirm IN
that said court may and shall IN its Judgments ana
orders apIrove confirm and aid in carrying into effect
such plan aud agreement the extent and In the man
ner in which the same may be lawfully done Without ih


SIC g. Neither said sale, the formation of such
corporation shall interfere with che authority or pos
session Of receiver of the property and franchises
aforesaid and shall remain liable TO he removed or dis
CHARGED at such time as the court NAV deem proper


against said nless founded wiltnl rniscon-
duet fraud in his trlls except such as shall ne COM
menced before the expiration OF go days from the e o
the discharge OF such receiver hut further provided
that after tho expiration Of the said SO DAYS the
tiOn thai shall operate sald railroad Sbtll pe
liable In any action that bo commenced against sad
company, and founded act or omission OF sid re-
TO the same extent said receiver hut for this act
would be remain ae to the same extent that such
complained of against such receiver.
Year: 1876

Tie Globe says that Mt meeting OF the
National Rife Association to-day il resolved that the
Association should accept the Invitation Of the National
Association at NcwYork tn organize team TO represent
the United Kin gdOm IN match for the championship OF


the world provided that other Independent team sent
from England, Scotland, Ireland be included IN the
match. Cambridge will not decide its connection with
the American Centennial Rowing Regatta until Tho gen
cral assembly OF the students takes place. when the
will be considered by the captains OF the various
40 clubs
Year: 1876

A recent election in South Carolina elicted th'
following campaign hymn headed by a picture
white man in the act Of heating
negro:


charge to keep have,
A negro to maintain,


A never dying thirst for power
To bind him with chain.
To serve the present age,
Our pockets we must III;
Wen make them work for wage low
And never pay the bill.


Arm me with jealous care,
To make him know his place,
And oh Thy servant, Lord, prepare
To rule the negro race.


Help us 10 rob and cheat
The negro on the sly
Assured il they don't vote ior rs,
They shall forever die.
Year: 1876

my cousin is naturally angry that her
promised husband has proved himself a
scoundrel. And in her anger she is
unjust But must bid you good morn
ing. We may yet capture the runaway"


This was the fear pressing heavily
upon Rays heart as she moved about
the little cottage, busy with her duties.


She had made q frank confession to
her grandfather of her own share in the
mornings escape, and while regretting
the deprivations the loss oil her uncle's
gift entailed upon her. he spoke no word
of chiding.
Year: 1876

The bridge formerly sustaining the water main be-
tween Bellcvlle and Jersey City over the HacKcnsck
River caught hre the sparks Of locomotive yes
terday altcrnoon and was damaged TO the extent OF
Year: 1876

missioneTs have voted that the grounds as well
as the exposition shall be closed Sunday.
This is a decided snub to the mechanic and Ia
borer who would find Sunday the only time they
could visit the exposition without being depriy-
ed of days wages. 1t is puritanical dodge
that will find no response in the hearts of the
thousands who leave their homes to enjoy a
grand Centennial celebration, and would find as
much comfort in visiting the exposition on sun
day any other day. We suppose the Phila-
delpha churches will hold at least three services
each Sunday, and We advise them to make the
most of this advantage by taking up a collection
at each service. We imagine that our Western
people will try to steer clear of Philadelphia,
Sunday, under the above circumstance.
Year: 1876

" When we receive a oommu nication from a
person who has "long been an interested reader
of your valuable paper" who then proceeds to
grind somebody's axe at,our expense, we gener-
ally fail to find his name on our subscription list,
and are forced to the conclusion that he is prin-
cipslly interested in sponging his reading of our
valuable paper. That's played out.
Year: 1876

The New York Tribune suggests that the three
or four journalists who insist that the explalis-
tion of Mr.. Blaine is not sufficient or the gentle
men who think they have other information,
might proftably inquire if il is not possible after
all that the big boys who have whispered this
information to them are not playing the ga me
Of "snap the whip" with two or three newspa-
pers for . snapper.
Year: 1876

= The Kansas FarRer is trying hard to make
the public believe that Macdonald, searle, ct al
are engaged in committing fraud upon the pub
lie. That was what we thought, when the same
crowd were trying to elect the editor of the
Farmer to Congress. They should have been IN
dicted for that. Men guilty of that thing, will
bear watching.
Year: 1876

The trouble with the country to-day that there
700 many newspapers like the Wsthena Reporter which
the roue-Topeka Blade = 80


That time, the Blade hit him under the fifth
NIB, perhaps unintentionalls. Self-defsnse is the
first law of nature; and animal instinct, which
serves the editor of the Reporter id place of brains
impels him to stand up for his kind.
Year: 1876

II The Topeka Blade has been clamoring that
the pretence of the Lottery to aid the Library
was a humbug, to gull the people. Now the
Lottery Association has presented the State Lii
brary with large set of rare and valuable books,
and the Blade cries that that is q move to deceive
the public. The Lottery folks should try to do
something to please the Blade.
Year: 1876

Our able contributor, Buckeye. "
seems to contemplate a diminution OF
those who possess the right OF suffrage.
He would alter history as 1t has been
recorded for two centuries. In that MS
tory there are several instances where
those who could not vote before OBJ
tanned the right OF suffrage, But IN
none is there an example wnere SUI
frage. once given, has been recalled;
This is q fact of immense weight and
Significance. Upon a theory-upon
what Gov. Allen terms q ID barren
ideality--we have wrecked our financial
estate. There is not q doubt that uni
yersal suffrage has evils. Is there any.
thing earthly that has not? But still
we cannot afford to dispense with 1t.
The hest governed countries are those
where the most liberal suffrage pre-
walls. BY that we mean suffrage in its
highest and most universal acceptation.
n Ia at once popular and good. Even Il
it we're not SO, 1t is cheaply purchased;


With a government OF universal
suffrage there is universal satisfaction:
With one that is not there Is universal
distrust and abhorrence. We do not
want the Government OF the few over
the many. They may believe It to be e
the best but, nevertheless, it has IN 1t
the elements OI tIOuUAc anu OonAuolo.i !.
Any gain in the present will pc lost ln
him hin correctly, that Buckeye" would
have a large class among US paying
taxes for the support of Government
and vet having nothing to say in its
agency and character. All these are
anamies to social order from the start
The fatal mistake Of Buckeye" is to
ignore this and the necessity Of local.
administration. The last we must have
at any price and at all hazards. We
cannot 90 far away to correct Local
grievances OF those in power. The power
Should be in those who are Immediately
accessible to popular vigilance. There
are such things as local and municipal
taxes. The power that creates them
should be entirely local and municipal
Cincinnati Enquirer.
Year: 1876

knee. These two are buttoned together,
and the wearer Is as tightly locked up
Walking ID out Of the question, and she
could much easier stand on her head
than sit down. If anything runs against
her she falls as stiff as a poker, ban
daged in that papoose fashion.


The robe Is designed for the lady Of
the house to receive her guests, stand
ing dignifled, and subject to no emo
tion. / did use to think Parkes (tho
actor suffered moro In tight trouser
time than any one else, for sweet fash
ions sake. He was compressed In two
sections, but here women are putting
both limbs in one trouser-leg; and how
do they live through the operationg IA
Year: 1876

A day or two ago, when young
man entered a Detroit lawyers Office
to study law, says the Free Press, the
practitioner sat down beside him and
said:


"Now, see here, have no time to
fool away, and if you don't pan out
well l won't keep you here thirty
days. Do you want to make good
lawyer"


ayes, sir"


"Well, how, listen. Be polite to
old people, because they have cash.
Be good to the boys, because they are
growing up to cash basis. Work
in with reporters and get putis. Go
to church for the sake of example.
Don't fool any time away on poetry,
and don't even look at a girl until
you can plead case. lfyou can fol-
low these instructions you will sue
cecd. If you cannot, go and learn TO
be a doctor and kill your best friend
Year: 1876

A popular cssayist writes as fol-
lows;


"As | went up the new Massa road
the other day met ragged, stout
and rather dirty woman, with a large
shallow basket on her head, In it
lay her husband, alargc man, though
| think, little abbreviated as to his,
The woman asked aims. Talk of
Diogenes in his tub! How must the
world look to a man in n basket, rid
ing about on his wifc's head? She
put him down beside the road, in the
sun, and almost in danger of passing
vehicles. suppose the afiectionatc
creature thought if he got new in
jury in this way his value in the
bcggar-market would be increased


"This custom Of carrying ones
husband on the head in n basket has
something to recommend it, and is
an exhibition of faith on the one
hand and of devotion on the other
That is seldom met with. 1t is at
least Il now commentary on the apos-
tolic remark that the man is the head
of the woman.
Year: 1876

Monsieur Wolff himself was much worried
at the very perceptible change in George, whO
though unfagging in his atten ton to business
evidently unhappy. Several times the
kind banker endeavored to interrogate him on
the subject; but George always evaded his
questions, saying that he would be ungrsteful
indeed were he not happy where so much
kindness and hospitality were lavished upon
him. N. Wolf at last wrote to his mother,
and though the tone of her letter was guarded
and cautious, he began to suspect that Georges
malady was some affection of the heart.


An experienced man. he placed the ladies in
the field, convinced that their assistance would
be invaluable in making discoveries in the
regions of tenderness


Borghese soon read the young clerks unsus-
pecting heart, and then conspiracy wss
planned to bring this rather gloomy wooing to
q happy termination. NJ. Wolff learned that
Georges ipamoraSa was truly worthy of esteem
and that she strikingly resembled the Cor
l.regio which WAS the pearl of his museum.
He had formerly placed on exhibition in his
gallery haSchsrming picture of the symbolic
| basket, and it elicited universal admiration.
he was even anxious to purchase it, regard
| less of price; but George, who was equally
Year: 1876

An GAtE0VEuAMOES O~DO Va


From the N. Y. NALL


Early in July . fast woman, who has
been rsiding respectable boarding houses in
New York for several years, and getting
married men and single men as herself into
pecks of trouble by her intrigues and liai-
sons, managed to get entrance into sum-
mer hotel near the city. The landlord re-
ceiyed her on what has since proved to be
forged letter or Introduction from . mer-
chant. He was not long in ascert aiming hel
true character and ordered her to quit the
house. When she left she tauntingly re-
marked, "I'll make you sweat day and
night for this treatment" 1t now appears
that she was in the hotel long enough to
throw her tolls around the landlords eldest
son-a young man twenty years old, who
had an excellent position, and was on the


road to prosperity. He ignored the fac


that this artful female admitted she was
a married woman, AMI formed an attach
ment to her which she was not slow to re


turn-in short it was, on his part, case OF
youthful infatuation for an adventures.
The sequel is sad and painful. The woman
piled her arts upon the young man so sue
cessfully that he was led astray from the
paths of virtue and honesty, and began to
seek the womsn's society whenever he had
an opportunity. In brief time she BE-
came his mistress, and as this sort of thing
costs money, the young man used all his
own funds and then began to rob his EN-
ployers. The woman bled him for money


constantly, and, driven to desperation, be
committed forgery in his fathers name By
endorsing check payable to his fathers
order. This was the crowning infamy. All
previous efforts having failed to claim him
from this wicked woman's society, he was
now driven from his own home. In LEST


than two days after the woman decampeo
and left the young scamp IN the lurch. At
Is now haunted by the fears of the police, Ii


afraid to return home, and is wanderer
| The woman boasts that her revenge is COM
plete-the son is ruined, and the landlord's
family bowed down IN grief and sorrow.
Year: 1876

brow corrugated, his eyes flashed, and he
would actually crawl or wriggle upon his
belly. A resort during these attacks was
quite noticeable. Near the "taht ern" stood
the old Parsons homestead, an ancient, un-
occupied, dilapidatcd building, With roof
extending far down toward the ground on
one side. Here Swallow would repair and
give demonstration of his fitful malady,
not the least astonishing of his exploits be-
ing the exploring of the whole roof on bis
belly, wrggling up one side and down
head first on tho other, and so about 10 the
extent of his serpentine impulse or pleas
ure. These fits became matters Of such
common observation in the neighborhood
that on an occurrence Of one people would
say, "Swallow is having one Of his spells !;
his snake is after him."


According TO our information, these
things continued at least year, though we
are not told how frequently the attacks oc-
CURED or how long they lasted. Swallow
does not appear to have been a native of
this town, nor its long resident. lie soon
went to Vermont, where he was convicted
on a criminal charge OF some kind and sem
fenced to the State prison at Windsor,
where be was visited by the person, now
living, who informs us Of these circum-
stances. From this time we have no ac-
count OF him. This case suggests several
particular points. Was Swallow an inn
postor, and did he feign alteration in view
of softening rebuke in case of criminal
revelation9 Upon this point we can only
say it does not appear that his character
was suspected during his residence here.
Again, did the criminal offence with which
he was afterward charged, and upon which
charge he was also convicted, result from
an irresponsible mental condition, super
induced by the bite Of any serpent? Per-
haps DR.. Oliver Wendall Holmes can an
swer this question. Lastly, was Swallow
bitten only by Il snake, not a crotdlus, the
bite OF which would probably have cost
him his life, but one harmless in itself,
whose bite, augmented by sunerslitious
fear, produced phsycholoGically the pain
full effects we have related?
Year: 1876

1t may sound illiberal TO say so, but 1t is
a truth all the same-unrefined manners
for the most part belong to unrefined ma
lures, and the ignorance which misplaces
his, and marries plural nouns to singular
verbs, goes deeper into the whole being
than mere grammar. A vulgar woman
who says "you was" and "they is" lacks
more than technical education. She lacks
all that refinement which is produced by
the study of literature and history, all that
perception OF moral beauty which grows
with the contemplation of artistic lowell
ness, all that social sweetness and grace of
temper which are the result Of good breed
ing begun from carly years. She is sure
to be suspicious, jealous, aggressive, inso-
lent, il transferred from her natural place
to one higher. Uncertain of herself, she
demands double the amount of attention
that a true lady of her present degree
would demand and when you have done
all she is still unsatis6ed. Her reason not
having been cultivated, she is only an in
stinctive mother 70 her children and ell
ther INDUCES them improperly or cOerees
them rudely, as she Is affectionate or bra-
tai.
Year: 1876

AN LAWFUL" SToRY.-Thero was once
an awful little girl, who had an awful way
of saying "awfup' to everything. She liv-
ed in an awful house, in an awful street, in
an awful village, which was an awful dis
tauce from every other awful place. She
went to an awful school, where she had an
awful teacher, who gave her awful lessons
out of awful books. Every day, she was
so awful hungry that she ate AN awful
amount of food, SO that she looked awful
healthy. Her hat was awful small, and
her feet were awful large. She went TO an
awful church, and her minister was an
awful preacher. When she took an awful
walk, she climbed awfnl hills, and, when
she got awful tired, she sat down under an
awful tree to rest herself. In summer she
found the weather awful hot, and in win
ter awful cold. When it didn't rain, there
was an awful drouth, and when an awful
drouth was over there was an awful rain.
So that this awful girl was all the time in
an awful state, and If she does not get over
saying "awful" about everything, she will,
by and by, come to an awful end. Aud
this awful little girl lives IN this awful city.
--CSnciRRati Tunes.
Year: 1876




/ Let no one suppose that Blaine and In
gersoll are working for nothing. An in
innate friend of Gov. Hayes has already
given out in the newspapers that Blaine is
to have his choice of Cabinet positions if


Governor Hayes is elected, and there can


be no question that his personal canvass is


undertaken not so much to elect Hayes as


to give himselfpopular strength for the
Republican nomination for President in


1880. 1t will make little difference to


him whether be rearcbes this BY way of a
seat in the Senate or in the Cabinet. 1t is


his sole ambition. Ingersoll, too, is to
have his reward. The extravaganza Of


his irreligious views and the gross vulgar


ity of his method of expressing them, m,have


heretofore kept him out Of any position in
his own State. The decent sentiment of
the people always revolted against his
election. even to minor Offices. But now,
Ingersoll is to be made United states Sen
ator, in return for his service in waving
the bloody shirt to hide a corrupt admin
istration. These are the two men who
bear up the hands of Governor Hayes,and
their elevation to the highest places of
honor will follow inevitably upon his elec-
ton. Blaine went down on his knees TO
Mulligan, imploring him to save him
from suicide, and the fact that he came
within twenty five votes Of the Republican
nomination, is considered by so clean a
statesman as Charles Francis Adams as
in itself sufficient proof that we need a
change in our affairs. i. Ingersoll talks
about politics with the same insane and
vulgar vehemence as about religion. They
are we'll matched, and we wish Governor
Hayes Joy of his company.