smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1875

We clip the following able arti-
Gle on the assessment of property
from The Weekly Wisconsin, and
recommend it's perusal to our many
readers:


at is within bounds of truth to
say that no part of the machinery of
government works so much inius-
tice as the assessment of property.
This is true not because there is a
purpose on the part of assessors to
do injustice, except perhaps in a
few cases, but because they are
prone to set up standards OF valua-
ton which have no common basis,
and which are necessarily about as
varied rs the mental characteristics ;
Of those who make them.
The subject of the assess
ment Of property has, from time
immemoriaI, been the source of
trouble and dispute The desire OF
each county, city, town and village
10 IN ke its tax as low as possible
has Influenced the assessors to put
down their assessments to figures
which no healthy conscience would
endorse were 1t permitted to speak
Hence, the assessed valuation OF
property Is generally far below It's
actual value, and indicates simply
the arbitrary standard of valuation
OF al individual VINO, III too many
cases, we are sorry TO say, has not
the ability, II he has the desire, to
make his standard uniform. For
generations. therefore, property has
been put down IN tax rolls at figures
al which the owner would not think
of selling it, and which be would
regard it robbery to be compelled
to take. With such a system of as
sessment inequality and consequent
injustice must constantly be done,
Year: 1875

A very liberal contract with the
Weed Sewing Machine Company
will enable us, We hope, to place
stheir celebrated Machines in many
families. So fine an opportunity to
secure first-class sewing machine
seldom occurs. May we not expect
our friends, and all interested in
our work, = make an earnest, united
effort to extend our circulation and
thereby Increase our influence? ?
Cannot the reader form a club in
his or her neighborhood and secure
this sewing machine as premium !?
A few hours of well-directed eff,rt
will obtain it. Are you a postmas-
ter IN a county town or village? !?
With little thought and effort YOU
can easily send us thirty names.
Pass the subscription paper. Thirty
names at 50 each will secure thirty
copies of THE TINES for one year
and S65 sewing machine. In
forming such club you will help
Us in our work, benefit your neigh
bors by placing in their families
good reading, and at the same time
make your own or some other family
happy in the possession of a great
iabor-saving machine, warranted to
be perfectly new, of the latest i'm
proved construction and in perfect
order.
Year: 1875

any point to be agreed upon under the Com
panNs charter, it would be in our power to
aid their work by giving them the land, which
Its construction under our charter would
earn


Accept my assurance that the determine
ton to complete the Northern Pacific road
was never more earnest among its owners
and administrators than it is at present The
road certainly will be built.


Yours respectfully


SAM'L WILKINSON, Sec'y.
Year: 1875

Company Is temporarily embarrassed It's liabilities
are $2s 249 and assets S542 SOL At meeting OF the
creditors last week il was thought that reasonable
extension would enable the company to pay in full and
20 on
Year: 1875

An INTEREST IN VERY PROFITABLE SILK
IN business specially will be given the right party
with $4,000 capital needs only Investigation to be appre
cated; arrangement would be made with estAb-
lshed manufacturer having the necessary
for additional machinery Address j. r. box a917 Post
Office.
Year: 1875

UTANTED-BY A PARTY LONG CONNECTED WITH
w the city retail coal business and having a good
class family trade and large acquaintance connection With


reliable hrm who has yard the the upper
Of the city whore his business services will
fair permanent remuneration Please address l.
PARKER, No. 5 Pine street, 8.
Year: 1875

THE following directions are given for
detecting counterfeit jO.Cent notes now in
circulation; On the counterfeit the lock
Of hair in the corner Of Dexter's forehead
touches the hair at each end, while in the
genuine II Is u &c" shaped lock, and
touches only at the lower end.
Year: 1875

CHICAGO is having, or has had, a gen.
uine OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES plot.
1t is no airy sensation either, for the
danger of an actual blow up was called
attention to yesterday morning by no
less person than Judge Booth, of the
Circuit Court. In his address to the
grand jury upon the opening of the
April term he said, though he had no
personal knowledge, he was informed
that under that portion of the City Hall
which contains the public records of
Cook county were stored large quanti-
ties of amunition-some 10000 pounds
besides several hundred pounds of nitro
glycerine, which, at any hour, the slight
est accident, or the hand of some des-
perate incendiary, might ignite, and the
whole building and it's contents thus be
blown to fragments.


A former grand jury had made an ex-
animation of the premises, and found
cause for alarm, but the second storage
of wholesale murderous material is even
more stupendous. The judge then asked
the grand jyry to enter upon the dis
charge of their duties, which they ac-
cordmgly did, attended by the State s
Attorney. Meanwhile we wait for de-
velOpments, and meanwhile the grand
jury and the city fathers know not the
moment that shall send them up higher
"a blissful state of uncertainty.
Year: 1875

The New York Evening Post thinks
that it would be noble thing for Arch
bishop McClosky to decline the prof
fered dignity of Cardinal, on the ground
that its acceptance would be lnconsisr-
ent with his position of an American
citizen, as it is not only an ecclesiasti-
cal Office, but carries with it the secular
rank of nobility. There is no doubt that
the suggestion of the Post is in aceor-
dance with the spirit of our institutions
for the Constitution forbids all United
States officials from receiving presents
or honors from foreign powers, and de-
clares tn at no title of nobility shall be
granted to any individual by either the
states or the general government. An
amendment to the constitution submit


ted many years ago, and adopted by
some of the states, forbade the reception
of any emolument or honor by citizen
of the United States from an foreign
potentate on pain Of loss OF citizenship
and the right to hold Office. In view Of
these facts it may well be asked, how
can an American citizen consistently ac-
cept from foreign power that which
his own government, state and national,
is prohibited from bestowing upon him :?
Year: 1875

GERMANY just now is experiencing
something like the same trouble in
financial matters that we are. Her
prosperity has been too much for her.
and she has been OVERRIDING things.
The payment of the French indemnity
brought large amount of money into
the country, in addition to that which
had already been circulated among the
people in preparations for war Specu-
latiOns became rife, and manufactures
became increased. Wages rose to such
an extent that there was an actual emf
grafton of skilled labor to Germany from
the United States. People there began
to live something after our extrayagant
fashion, and now comes the reaction.
Numerous failures are reported, and two
suicides IN consequence of financial en-
barrassments. While there has been
every outward show of German prosper
ity, it must be remembered that it's gov
ernment, especially the war establish
ment, is maintained at a tremendous
cost, and that taxes are consequently
higher than the people can well bear.
The result will be favorable to the
United States for the reason that wages
in Germany Will fall, the demand for
labor decrease, and increased emigration
to this country will follow as a natural
consequence. It had fallen off last year
about fifty per cent, which is altogether
too much to be agreeable. In develop
ing the country and founding cities and
communities the Germans have made
themselves very useful, especially in the
Northwest, and the more we have the
better.
Year: 1875

A FRIEND of mine has dog which al
ways runs with the wagon. On week
days the wagon turns to the right from
the gate and goes to the factory. On
Sunday it turns to the left and goes to
church. The dog runs ahead. On
Sunday he turns to the left. and no in
timation is given. Six days the sagaci-
Gus animal runs on in advance toward
the factory. Even the horse understands
the day as well as the way to church.
No one that has passed week day in
Venice will have failed to have seen the
pigeons fed at the hour of noon. Far
more than one hundred of these little
animals have come at noon for their
food. They never come at 10 or H..
When the bell of st. Marks begins to
clang out the hour of noon, not bird
could be seen Before the bell ceases
the air will be black, and doves by the
hundred fly TO the windows. On Sun
day no grain is given. The old bell
jars out II o'clock, but no birds appear.
They can count; they know when Sun
day comes-Burleigh's Letter.
Year: 1875

THE Winnebago Indians of Wisconsin
have petitioned the President to permit
them to become civilized citizens The
Winnebagoes are peaceable tribe, and
about as honest as any red men. They
are lazy and unciviized, like all other
Indians, but if they are really disposed
to give up the chase, and go to work,
there is nothing to prevent their becom-
ing as good citizens as the average, and
considerably better than the plundering
whites who have beer lying about them
and prosecuting them so shamefully. 1t
is stated that the Winnebagoes wish to
engage in farming, or numbering, if they
can obtain the assistance necessary to set
them up in business.
Year: 1875

LANSING, Mich, April 1.-The food
in Grand River attained so great a height
this morning that it carried away the
uppermost, but one, of the iron bridges,
which hoated down stream, and in its
vehement course struck and took the
next one with it. Both together passed
under the Michigan avenue bridge,
the principal one, shattering it some
what, but doing no material injury.
The boiling flood carried them impetu-
ously against two other iron bridges
further down stream, sweeping them
from their abutments, and the havoc
was only stopped by the demolition of
the covered wooden bridge at what is
known as lower town. One of the
bridges, in it's wild career, stove in the
side of Hart's plaster mill, and stranded
near by. The other bridges lodged up
on the dam. These bridges originally
cost the city $4,000 A force of men
is at work endeavoring to save them, and
it is expected, can again be put in place.


There are rumors of the destruction of
other bridges at Delhi and Diamondale,
but nothing authentic has reached here
with regard to them At Delta, 10 miles
below here, the flood carried away the
bridge, the dam, the Touring mill, the
handle factory, and saw mill. The loss
is very great, as the town is small one,
and the principal industries of it's people
are destroyed.


The river has been higher in past sea-
sons, and the unparalleled destruction
of property is ascribed to the uncom-
mon strength and thickness of the fields
of ice carried resistlessly forward by the
water.


CoLLINawooD, Ont, April 1.-The
eastern and western parts of this city
are completely flooded. The postoffice
and railway station are inaccessible.
The railway track is washed away in
several places north and south, and
trains cannot come within half mile
of the station. Boucher's mill dam and
several bridges have been carried away.
The damage to property is very great.
The sudden rise of water is attributed to
the ovelfowing of Pretty river.
Year: 1875

SATURDAY afternoon the police Of
Des Moines, Iowa, discovered the body
of dead infant secreted in chest in a
room occupied by woman and four
children. It had been there five days.
The coroner investigated the case, and
found that no crime had been commit
ted. The woman was alone and sick,
and could get no one to bury the body.
The chest was used for table and the
family ate their meals over the putrid
corpse.
Year: 1875

ly lishment Sth street, south end of Bridge
The tailoring department is complete and contains
q large assortment of fashionable clothes and Gents
furnishing goods constantly hand Please call
and examine before purchasing elsewhere. 1921
Year: 1875

| From the Baton Rouge -idt0cate we learn
that on Monday night, at about ten O'Clock,
| a number of United States soldiers who
were on spree out OF barracks coliided


with few cOlored policemen who were
trying to preserve order in the town, and
that the soldiers knocked one of the police.


men down with a Democratic bottle, and
provoked him to fire on the soldiers in self
defense. The policemen attacked and
another who came to his assist tuce, were
finally driven under street bridge for pro
lection. One of them was SO severely in
jured that he had to be taken home by his
friends. When General Morrow heard of
the affair he ordered out guard and ar
rested all soldiers found at large. The Id


cocate says:


No doubt the soldiers were measurably in
the wrong, but the police had no business
u use fire arms on them. The law does not
give them any such authority. No officer
has any such authority except when bear
ing bench warrant for the arrest of a
criminal. Then it is his duty to produce
the body dead or alive. In other cases Off
GERS have no right to fire on offenders, and
we think ii the law was enforced this griev.
Gus wrong would be stopped


The attention OF the Mayor of Brashear
is called to the maxims laid bown by the
editor of the -1drocate. At Brashear the
proposition was to organize a police force
and shoot down colored men who were
comparatively quiet. At Baton Rouge it
is found that colored policemen have no
right to use firearms, even when knocked
down by bottles in the hands of brutal
white men. The poat laureate who wro te
the touching hymn concerning the corduroy
of the unhappy chasm at Baton Rouge has
now an oppol tunity of adding another
staDZa,
Year: 1875

After an illness of several days, during
which the hopes of his friends that he would
be spared to them and permitted to enjoy
many more honorable years of life, Alfred
Phillips, Esq, died yesterday.


In saying that he is deeply mourned, and
that hundreds of hearts feel chord touched
at the news of his departure. is paying but
slight tribute to his memory. But it is
almost all. His life was not one marked
never sought for preferment of any kind.
He never wished office. He avoided noto-
riety. Kind and good he mingled with his
fellow men freely and genialy because they
were such, not because he wished to make
them of service to him.


He was lawyer If he had enployes
his talents aud given his years TO otLe oc-
cupations, he might have been wealthy,
famous or powerful. But lie gave ali he
had to his clients, as every lawyer does who
is as honest aud learned as he was. They
will remember him, but their memory is not
a public one


AS practitioner before court or Jury
he was self-possessed, persuasive and fluent.
1t was rare that he became excited, but
many times when he did his eloauence
astounded the spectators. As cross ex-
amiper he was among the keenest when
sharp points were to be biunted, but he
never lost temper, and no sting he ever
gave left the poison of pert onsl feeling
behind. He was deeply learned; not merely
in the civil law, but his groupings in the
common law carried him far beyond the
average barrster of the temple He was a
professor of admiralty at the Louisiana
University, and his lectures, besides carry
ing the result of his learning, showed the
cultured gentleman and scholar.


To-day, in the Supreme Court, the bar
will meet, and from the lips of those who
many times before have either stood by his
side, or fought his points with might and
main, more fitting words will come, telling
of the virtues of their brother who has gone.
Year: 1875

A clergyman who was formerly lOca-
ted in this city, but is now in New York,
married, "a little over a year ago, 4
couple who at once started for Europe
and have recently returned. The bride
groom was a gentleman of wealth, and


before he presented himself before the
bridal altar he placed 500 greenback
in his vest pocket to give the parson
for the marriage fee, and did pay it to


him as he supposed. While crossing the
ocean he discovered, greatly to his as
tonishment. the bill in the pocket where
he placed il, and could account for its
presence there only on the theory that
! he must have had another bill of a diff
! ferent denomination which he had do
mated to the clergyman by mistake.
! On getting back to this country he de
! termned 10 solve the mystery, and
waited upon the reverend gentleman,
who did not recognize him. and inquir-
/ ed if on certain date lie did not marry
certain couple. The clergyman re-
membered the occasion perfectly. :"
| know am about to ask an impertlnent
question: said the visitor, d" but /
should like to be informed what fee you
received for performing the cere'o-
ny?" The clergyman was not prepared
to make any disclosure, naturally be-
inc astoniShed that his interviewer
should PROFOUND such a question, but
upon an explanation being made that
the gentleman himself, whom he then
recognized, was the one he had mar


ried, he said that he would, of course


crafty him, since he was so anxious tC
know. 81 received" he then went or


to sav, "a very small quantity of fine


cut chewing tobacco, folded in very


small piece of paper" That was


enough; the only thing remaining t


be done was to apologize, laugh hearti
ly, shake hands, and make the 500 de


noSit rood
Year: 1875

Two of these dogs can drag as much


as one man. Nothing can be more eX-


hilarating than dog sledging in the Arc
tic regions on a fine day. The rattling
pace of the dogs; their intelligence in


choosing the road through the broken
ice: the strict obedience paid by the
team to one powerful dog whom they
elect as leader; the arbitrary exercise
of authority by the master dog; the
constant use. OF the whip, and the run
niag conversation kept up by the driver
with the different dogs who well know
their names, afford constant enjoyment.
However useful they may be, these Arc
tic dogs seem to be deficient in that af-
fectionate disposition which endears
their species so much to man. Atravel-
er once said that he believed the Esqui-


maux dogs to be the most ungratetul
creatures in creation. He had travelled
for several hundred miles by sledge ;


and for six weeks it was his duty regu-
larly to feed the dogs, but after only a
Z few weeks absence, on the conclusion


of the journey, they would not recog-
nize him in the slightest degree. 1t Is
I impossible to domesticate these crea-
lures, as under tender treatment they


sicken and die.-Dog-F Fanciers' journal,
Year: 1875

son was over, and make the girl his bride.


In the meantime she had given her heart


and promise to young man of the val


ley who had never even looked upon the


sea. The priest was manly young fel-


low, and we admired him because he so


heartily sympathized with the young


pair, and sent the father raging out of
the sanctuary. After a. little while an
other young woman was vailed, and the
procession started, leaving the betroth-
ed pair kneeling in front of one of the
altars. The father east himself from the


high city wall that night, at spot where
it Grdles the edge of the hill that over
! IeeSs-the river, where the ivy grows in


va dsmasses that can neverbe imagined


by an American who pets and coaXes
th'S obstinate vine to twine for few feet


Al pg his walls, and then sees it turn


81 low and refuse to thrive. Into this
t.Srgled mass, the poor frantic wretch of
Ia father threw himself, and only broke


i leg when he intended to take his life.
He was found next morning, his leg
properly dressed, and he was sentenced


not long time after to years impris-
onment for attempting suicide.
Year: 1875

AT Norwich, Conn, the other day, a
tramp was given an old vest. He soon
returned with a five-dollar bill he said
he found in one of the pockets. The
gentleman of the house was so well
pleased with his honesty that he gave
him dollar, and the next day discov-
cred that the bill was a wretchedly exc
cuted counterfeit.
Year: 1875

The route to the grave was through the
main street of the village. A halt was
made to allow a photographer to make
a picture of the pageant. At the grave
there was a discussion as to whether
the coffin, which was shaped to hold the
animal with his legs naturally extended,
should be buried on the side or stand
ing up cdgewise. Some argued that
the horse should lie on his back, just
like n human corpse; others that he
should be left in a standing attitude, as
IN life; and third party held that he
ought to repose on his side. The own
er, who had intended no burlesque, de-
cided to bury his favorite in the latter
way; and so this strange funeral rite
ended dpcOrOuSlV.
Year: 1875

Thomas opened his eyes a little wider
than usual, and with a "Thank' ZEE, sir, -
as If he were the one who had received
a favor, swung the basket to his shoulder
and went off with q springy step, in
marked contrast with his ordinary slow,
heavy movement.


The unexpected promptness and
cheerfulness with which his hired man
seconded this thoughtful toward
the widow was another element of salts
faction. Thomas was apt to be little
GLOSS at times, and especially when called
upon for some unusual service; and Mr..
Brill had looked for cloudy face and a
sullen manner when he gave his order.
He gazed after the man as he went bur-
rying away, wondering at his changed
demeanor. He was still sitting in the
porch when Thomas returned.


Well, Thomas, and what did Mrs.
Sloan sayi"


"Oh, sir, can't tell you how sur
prised and happy she was; and she told
me to thank you a thousand times"


"Will she pare and dry them for win
ter2"


"Indeed and she will, sir. She sat
right down and went to work while I
was there, and says she'll have 'em all
ont on the shed drying tomorrow morn
ing. 1t was real kind and thoughtful in
you, sir. It's such pity to have things
go to waste, when so many would be
glad to get them"


Master and man were buster than
usual in the summer and autumn days
that followed, not alone in gathering
and storing of their abundance, but in
gathering and dispensing as we'll. Moth
ing was permitted, as in other years, to
go to waste. The bushels and bushels
of apples which had once rotted under
the trees; the over-supply of turnips
and other root crops which had lain un-
used in cellar or storehouse, were all dis
tributed to the poor; and there was
plenty through the winter in many an
humble home where in former seasons
pinching need had been felt.


There was O hcartiness about him
never seen before. His old grudges
against some Of his neighbors died out.
He would stop men in the road for a
pleasant chat whom for years he had
passed with distant nod. Tho farmer
had found new pleasure, the Joy of
which was pervading his whole being
and its sunshine warming and softening
the cold, hard exterior of his life and
making it attractive and beautiful.


And he never lost the glow of this
pleasure in all the years that were added
to his life: and when at last his work
was done and he lay in that deep sleep
which has no waking in time, there were
hundreds to bless his name and to look
their last look on his peaceful face with
eyes that ran over with tears.