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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1882-09-19
TELEGRAPH
THE WRECK.
Tale of zoe I'D suGering.

CollingWood, Ont, I'D. A. Thinks.
and Chrisly Ann Morrison, supposed 10
be the only survivors Of the wrecked
| steamer ASlG, have arrived here. Thinks
reports that be boarded the AsiG near
! Owen sound, In company with J. 81.
| Thinks and 81. B. Gallagher, of ManitoW.
| The steamer was crowded. all the state
rooms were full, and many passengers
were lying on sofas and cabin floors.
| About il O'Clock on Ihursdsy morning
! the storm struck the vessel. Ny uncle,
! j. II. Thinks, jumped up and said the
boat was doomed. Dishes and chairs
were flying III every direction. We left
the cabin and found difficulty on deck.
| The boat rolling so heavily, [ got life
preserver md put it on. The boat fell
into the trough Of the see, and would not
obey the helm. She rolled heavily for
about twenty minutes, When she was
struck by heavy sea and foundered,
and went down with her engines work
ing, about Jl.30. The ASiG was making
for French River, and had men, horses,
and lumbermsn's supplies for shanties.
l cav three boats loaded. I was in the
first boat. About eight we're with me.
At frat more got in till the boat was
overloaded and tyrned over twice.
The people clung to my life-preserver
" hich got displaced, and threw il off
then left the boat and swan TO the
captains boat, which was nesr by, and
asked John McDougall, purser, to help
me in' He said it was but little use, but
gave me his hand, when l got in. There
were eighteen in the boat by that time,
and there Was larger number IN and
Ill - h. 7 IL
nothing of the third boat. Our boat
rolled over and missed McDougall.
People wsTe hanging on to spsrs and
other parts Of the Wreckage. Our boat
was full of water and the sea was con.
stantly breaking over us. One of the
first TO die on the boat was the cabia boy.
He was dying and being supported by
one Of the men, when q wave washed
him overheard. The next to go was q
boat hand, who jumped out. could see
him padding round in the water for
nearly 100 yards. Our numbers were
nov reduced to seven, five Of whom died
before reaching the beach. Captain Saw
age was the last 10 die, in my arms.
About midnight, on Thursday, John Lit
tie, Of Sault st. Marie, Mate Mcdonald,
and two Others, names unknown, died.
1He DOhk uudIly slTanGea near EOlnG AO
Barre about daylight on Friday with
Miss Morrison and myself the only
surviving. I put the bodies out on the
beach and pryed the boat of with an
car, but did not bale IL out Miss Nor
rison and went down the beach on the
boat to Derrick, about two miles distant,
and laid on the beach all night. About
O'Clock on Saturday morning an Indian
came along and l engaged him 20 bring
Us to Parry Sound. Ha would not bring
the bodies. The steamer NOTtbeT75 Belle |
Of the same line which reached here this
morning has been furnished with ice, etc,
and has left for the bodies. Probably |
about leo persons were on board the |
4 eir
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1882-09-19
The President.

Boston, 1.-THE governor and mavor
sent messages to Newport to invite the
President TO visit Boston.
New York, 1.-THE President leaves
for Washington on Tuesday to attend
cabinet meeting.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1882-09-19

SHILOH'S CURE WILL imme-
diately relieve Group, Whooping
Cough and Bronchitis. Sold by 2.
c. NJ. !. Drug Store. az
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-07-06
Government Employees and PO-
liticaI Assessments.

We think the employee should ex-
ercise his own judgment. He
should not be cOerced on the one
hand, nor should he be frightened
by the civil service association on
the other. If a man in the employ
of the government believes that one
party is more likely than another TO
sustain the political doctrines he
deems essential, and that these doc
trines are necessary to the best well
fare of the country, then thereis no
reason why he should be denied the
right of contributing to the support
of such party than there would be
in passing a law that no congrega-
tionaIist should be permitted to SUBJ
scribe to the support of a congrega-
tional minister. We are not argu-
ing the question of abuse we are
simply saying'that upon principle it
is absurd to say that man shall not
help sustain that which he deems to
be essential for his and his country's
good.
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ruRF NOTES.

A sister of Maud S. was born re-
Gently at the WOODBURY. farm.
The trotters are doing fast work
all over the country this year,
John Shepard, of New York, paid
$4,000 for Early Rose, record, 1:254,
A yearling by Scottish Chief, out
of Hilda, recently sold at auction in
England for $1,000.
Mr.. Robert Bonner lately paid
$4,000 for Rusella, two-year old,
full sister to Maud s., 2:10a.
Iroquois will be brought home
aud run in Pierre Lorillard's stud at
Rancocas, New Jersey.
Daisy Darling, by Kentucky Prince,
trotted a mile on Mr.. Bonner's track
in 2:19.
Pierre Lorillard has offered to
match his FLY Parthenia against
Henlopen for $4,000, at six fur
longs.
The great event of the July trot-
ting meeting at Chicago driving
park will be the race between st.
Julien and Trinket.
The race-meeting at Saratoga
commenced July II, continuing on
Tuesday, Thursday, aud Saturday,
till August 16, with extra races on
all other available days.
AT fair held at Oxford, Pennsyl-
vania, lately, a team whose united
ages reach 55 years, trotted a full
mile close to 800. One of them had
lived a quarter of century, and the
other was five years his senior.
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Egyptian nIummies.

AS for the Theban fellah, mummy
hunting is his hereditary vocation.
He passes his life in digging, find
ing, hiding and selling; his home Is
an empty sepulchre his shirt is
made of mummy cloth his chill
drens playthings and his wife's
ornaments are spoils of the dead.
His torefathers have subsisted for
generations by this equivocal indus
try, and his descendants will subsist
by it for who shall say how many
generations to come? Even now,
after centuries of spoliation, the soil
needs only to be dug htJle deeper
in order that the spade may strike
lower stratum OF graves. And If
this be true of a mine so long and
persistently worked as the necrOpO-
lis of Thebes, what must be the
sepulchral wealth of thousands of
other burial fields, some partially
and some wholly unexplored? To
this day the mountain ranges and
shifting sands of Egypt conceal
some hundreds of millions of num-
mics. DR.. Birch-counting from
B. e. 200o, when mummification
was supposed to have been
first practiced, down to A. d. 700,
when it may be said to have ceased
calculates the approximate number
of bodies embalmed during that
period at 42O,0OO,0OO. But recent
explorations among the pyramids
at Sakkara, and the discovery OF the
mummied corpse of King Merena
With Dynasty, must hencefOrth
compel us to ascribe much earlier
date for the beginning of the art.
L would venture, in fact, to carry it
back to B. c. $500, or even to B, G.
1000, so assigning period of 400
years for the observance of the pro-
cess, aud approximately estimating
the gross number of mummles of all
erochs at not less than 731 600, 900
a gigantic total. Yet when it is
remembered that the rites of numb
fication were performed not only
for Egyptian man, woman and child,
gentle or simple, but for every
stranger, no matter what his nation
atty or religion, for every captive,
for every slave, for every criminal,
TOR every leper and outcast, this
presumed total of 731, 100000 falls
probably far short of the actual
number.
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as it did the whisky ring from the
treasury. The legislative, judicial
and executive bill, which provides
the salaries for all officials of the
civil service, and which is now under
consideration by the senate, partakes
of the grab-ail nature that has charac-
terized every appropriation bill of
the session. 1t provides for an APP
preparation of SIS. az, b27, or an in
crease of $2,726,94S over last year.
This increase is for the most part for
new clerical force and for the pay
ment of service contracted for with
out warrant of law. This sum, the
excess, is to pay for 1910 additional
Republican clerks, whose services are
said to be required because of the
arrears of pension act, and for the
payment of $50 clerks who have
been employed in direct viola
ton of the law during the cur
rent fiscal year. Besides these in
stances OF the prodigal generosity of
the government, the reckless appro-
priation of the public money for the
erection of public buildings will en-
tail an outlay for the next fiscal year
of an aggregate of over S22, 100000
So the appropriations go, all the
way through the list to the end
a never ceasing drain on the treas
ury, an augmentation of payments,
upon which two per cent may be
collected to carry doubtful congress
sional districts in the several states.
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THE ENEMIES OF The GEAR.
The strength and Weakness of
the NIhilists In Russia.

In a notice of Victor Tissot's
Russians and Germans" the London
Spectator says: "The author confirms
what has always been our own
Opinion-namely, that the Nihilists
in Russia are numerically unimpOrt-
ant. Wherein, then, does their
strength lie? How are they able
to paralyze a vast military empire,
and make the absolute master of
eighty millions of subjects prisoner
in his own palace? The author an
swers the question in sentence.
Their strength he says, lies not
in their number, for they are but a
handful, but in their fanaticism, in
their mystic exaltation, in their
sombre energy, in their steadfast
resolution to perish to the last man,
whether by torture or the gallows,
with the heroic firmness displayed
by the early Christians struggling
against the emperors, and against
the pride of strength and the rotting
pagan society," Political assassin
atoms are rare, and attempts at
them generally unsuccessful, because
the assassins take too many
precautions to insure their
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Virginia Hospitality.
free Press.


Over beyond Strasburg l came
upon q farmer sitting on a log in
front of house which first took to
be a stable, because a mule stood
with his head inside. He had a acre
or two of clearing on the hillside,
but he was hsrd-up man no mis-
take. l dismounted to talk with him
about the battle field of Cross Keys,
and after bit he said: stranger,
Pd invite We to dinner, but presume
you don't relish dodgers and bacon"
Then we talked little more about
Fremont's troops, and he said :
stranger, I'd like to feed that boss,
but my old mule has had to browse
mighty fine to keep on his legs this
fall" Then we talked about Stone
wall Jackson and his march up the
road, and the farmer branched off
with: stranger, I'd like to offer ye
a drink o. sumthin " armin', but the
fact is hain't seen pint o. whisky
since the war;" Then l i'll
quired how far it was to Port Re-
public, and whether the bridge had
been rebuilt, and he answered me
and added: STRANGER, do feel as
if orter to ask We in to see the
family, but the old woman's down
with the chills, SalPs over the ridge,
and the fire went out an hour ago."
l mounted my horse and handed
him a cigar. That broke him up.
He turned 1t over and over, looked
up and down the road, and from me
to the house, and finally seized my
leg and said: stranger, l am poor
and way down, and sometimes
wicked, but Pm right thar when a
man calls my hand! l can't feed
We, nor give We whisky nor tobacker,
but if We don t get Off'n that boss
and come over to the spring and
have some water with me, Pll never
forgive We on airth." And we drank
to his luck.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-07-06

A Washington dispatch states that
fifty-one of the brass medals design
ed for the "Old Guard" who voted
for Grant at Chicago have arrived,
being expressed by Chauncey |. Fill
ley to Senator Cameron. The bal
ance are expected to follow in a
short time. They are of bronze,
about one and half inches in diam
eter. Impressed on one side is the
following, in parallel lines "Com-
memorative of the thirty-six ballots
cast for Ulysses s. Grant for Presi-
dent at the Republican Convention
at Chicago, $780," Below this the
name of the voter is engraved. The
reverse has a bas-relief bust of Gen.
eral Grant and below the protective
words copyrighted 1884," 1t is
evident the faithful are to be thus no.
titled that their titles to future no.
bility are not to be disputed for
want of care in preservation of their
exclusive records. In other words,
as there were only SOC original
saints entitled to the Stalwart heav-
en-, there are to be no counterfeits
allowed on the original issue of
medals.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-07-06
CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENTS.

The assessment of government
employees for political purposes is
not a new invention. 1t was not
even invented under Buchanan. 1t
dates back at least to the days of
Martin Van Buren,, and the opposi-
to it from earnest public men began
almost as soon. One of the very
first official acts of Daniel Webster
as secretary of state under Presi-
dent Harrison was to address to the
several heads Of departments the
following letter, which covers the
ground SO fully and forcibly that it
deserves to be posted up in every
public office:
DEPARTMENT OF STATE,
March 20, 1841
To Hon. Thos. Ewing, secretary of the treasury
Sir-The president is of the
opinion that it is a great abuse to
bring the patronage of the general
government into conflict with the
freedom Of elections, and that this
abuse ought to be corrected
wherever it may have been permit
ted to exist and to be prevented for
the future.
lie therefore directs that informa-
ton be given to all officers and
agents in your department of the
public service that partisan inter-
ference i'll the popular elections,
whether of state officers or of officers
of the (tederaD government, and for
whomsoever and against whomso-
ever it may be exercised, or the pay
ment of any contribution or assessment
on salaries or official compensation
for party or election purposes, will be
regarded by HIM as cause for re-
moval.
1t is not intended that any officer
shall be restrained in the free and
proper expression and maintenance
of his opinions respecting public
men or public measures or in the ex-
ercise to the fullest degree of the
constitutional right of suffrage. But
persons employed under the govern
ment and paid for their services out
of the public treasury are
not expected to take an active
or officious part in attempts
to influence the minds or votes OF
others, such conduct being deemed
inconsistent with the spirit of the
constitution and the duties of pub
lie agents acting under it, and the
president is resolved, so far as de-
ponds upon him, that while the exer-
else of the elective franchise by the
people shall be free from undue in
tluence of official station and
authority, opinion shall also be free
among the officers and agents of the
government.
Similar letters have been adj
dressed to other heads of depart
ments.
L have the honor to be, sir, your
obedient servant,
DANIEL WEBSTER.
1t is related that the position
taken by Mr.. Webster stopped the
practice for q time, but it was re-
newed, TO be pushed to a disgusting
extreme, under the Republican rule.
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own escape. The Russian
Nihilists, handful as they are, are
formidable because they gladly BAG
rifice their lives in the prosecution
Of their designs. Their self-sacrific-
ing zeal is, after all, only perfected
form of the splendid heroism which
conquered Napoleon by the cOnfia-
grafton of Moscow. But who are
the NihilistsP The majority of
Them SAYS NJ. Tissot, consist of stu
dents who have failed in their ex-
aminations, or whom poverty has
driven from the universities, embit-
tered schoolmasters. underpaid pub
lie officials who are dying of hunger,
lieutenauts and subalterns who have
been disappointed in their ambi-
tions. Pessimist ideas have invaded
all these brains, and from pessimism
to Nihilism there is bit one STEP
NJ. Tissot calls attention to the nota-
BILE fact that the Nihilist ranks are
largely recruited by Jews. There
are ten times as many Jews as there
are Russians, Poles or Germans
And, what is still more remarkable,
the Jewish women are more promi-
nent than the men in the Nihilist
movement. They appear to be inn
pressed with the spirit and resolution
of Judith, prepared to risk every
thing in avenging themselves on
their oppressors. Even young, I'M
married Jewesses, of remarkable
beauty discarding the ordinary re-
straints of their faith and sex, are
found in the forefront of this cru
SADIE against the existing order of
things. For it must be borne
in mind that the Nihilists do
not aim at reform, but at universal
anarchy. They have persuaded
themselves that soclty, social, relig-
ious and political is so irredeem-
ably rotten that reform is impos-
sihle. The whole system must be
dissolved into its elements-that is
the mission of the Nihilists, and it
is useless, from this point of view,
to think of reforms till that mission
has been completely fulfilled. In
the programme of the Nihilists,
therefore, there is no place for God,
or marriage, or the institutions of
property. These lie at the root of
the present order of things; it is,
therefore, necessary to sweep them
all aWaV"
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IreiandPararraph..


Let there be no more guess work,
no more 'dark horses"
The Greenbackers are averse to
the nomination to John Ireland.
The Republicans don't want John
Ireland nominated at Galveston.
Monopoly Democrats C0 would
not rejoice at John Ireland's nomi-
nation.
ozark horses" hope that John Ire
land will not receive the nomina-
ton.
IfJohn Ireland is nominated, he
will carry our banner to glorious
success.
If John Ireland is nominated his
administration will be marked with
wisdom and success.
All parties opposed to the success
oil the Democracy, oppose the nomi-
nation of John Ireland.
If the primaries and county con.
ventions instruct as they should
John Ireland will be our next gov
ernor.
The so-called Independent press
of the state, are, of course, unani-
mously opposed to the nomination
of John Ireland.
To nominate Edark boss" who
has not had the manhood to come
out, show himself and his policy
would be foolish indeed.
IfJohn Ireland ia nominated. Re.
publicans, Greenbackers, Indepen'
dents and "dark horses" will wal
and gnash their teeth.
The Democracy of Texas should
not heed the earnings of Republi.
cans, Greenbackers, Independents
and "dark horses" against John Ire.
land.
ireland is the only candidate fol
the gubernatorial nomination, al
Galveston, that has had the manhood
to present his views to the people.
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general average. 1t is sign of a
healthy public sentiment when the
people take sufficient interest to ex-
press their preference for those who
are 10 WELD the powers OF the gov
eminent. This state should have
polled $4,000 more votes at that
election, and will no doubt cast 100,-
900 more at the next general cleo
ton. Especially will this be the
case the Democracy shall be put
upon their mettle by any threaten
ing coalitions.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-07-06

"A KANSAS paper asserts that the
people of that state have planted,
under the state forestry laws, $4,000
acres in trees. The cottonwood, on
account of its rapid growth, has been
planted most abundantly. Some
5000 acres Of black walnut have been
put out. These $4,000 acres of trees
if well cared for, will in few years
not only add greatly to the beauty
of Kansas scenery, but will materi-
ally modify the climate of the state.
Should the good work go on the day
will come when Kansas will be as
free from drouths as are any of the
western states. The same principle
applied to western Texas would in
crease the rainfall. and gradually
convert the finest grazing lands in
the world into splendid agricultural
districts.
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WOODEN Manufacturers and Their
Enormous Profits.

According to recent census
bulletin, there were in 1880 1890 es-
adjustments manufacturing wooden
goods in the United States, of which
$50 were mere carding mills, 233
others used not over 5000 pounds of
wool each, and 1853 used from 5000
TO 10000 pounds each. The amount
of capital employed in these manu-
features is $159, 644, 270, and the num-
Der of hands employed 160,9a8, of
whom 1884 were males and 66,505
were females the number of
children were 1859. The total
amount paid in wages annually
was $47, 180,618. The amount of for
eign wool used, as received at the
mills, before washing, was 73,200,-
sos pounds, and of domestic wool
81, 1891 ,531 pounds; after securing
the aggregate of pounds was ILL.,
880,831, valued at 97,681 GOA. The
value of the material used was
S164, 114,799, and the value of the
product was $685., 699,504 The man.
ufactures produced are styled
wooden goods, carpets, felt goods,
worsted goods, wool hats, and no.
siery and knit goods. By far
the largest of these classifications is
'woolen goods" under which head
ing are placed blankets, cloths, cassi-
meres, doeskins, beavers, overcoat-
ings, diamonds, fiannels, jeans, kerr
seys linseys, repellants, satinets,
tweeds, shawls, wooden yarn, etc.,
and wooden rolls. The value of
these fabrics manufactured in 1880
amounted TO Sl60,606,721. OF car
pets there were manufactured $751;
792, 1872 worth, of felt goods $S,619, 653
worth, of wool hats S8,5l6, 569 worth,
of hosiery and knit goods $28,613.-
727 worth.
A significant feature of the bulle-
tin is the fact it discloses with re-
gard the wages of operatives. 1t
will be observed there was $47, $780,
71S paid in wages to 160,998 em-
ployes, or 1920 apiece per annum.
This is S5.57 week all round, which
is much less than was claimed by
the prOtectlOnists 10 be the remun-
Grafton OF operatives in the recent
debate on the tariff in congress. The
claim of the protectionists in this
respect, as in nearly all others, will
lot bear the touchstone of truth.
1t suggests another important
fact. The manufacturers paiu 1884,
114,799 for material and $47, 1868
for wages. The product, it will be
seen, was worth $267, $685. This
shows an annual balance in their
FAVOR of $116,943,000 on an invest
ment of only $l59,644 go. The in
terest on their investment at per
cent would be less than $8,000,0OO,
leaving them still the enormous
amount of $1O8, 1884, 900. What their
other expenses besides interest,
wages and cost of material used may
have been we have no means of
estimating. They could not have
been very great. No amount which
can be reasonably conjectured would
leave their profit on the capital in
vested at less than 80 per cent. 1t is
not possible that the profits could
have been less than figure which
must be held to be enormous and
unreasonable. And yet these iden-
tical manufacturers are at this mo-
ment before congress clamoring for
more "protection." Their appetite
literally grows with what it feeds
upon.