smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1869

In the TRIBUNE Of last week we pu',
lished short item in regard to the loss
Of the propeller Forest Queen. The
following additional pal ticuiaIs are taken
from the Detroit PSt:


'The statement given in the Posi- a
day or two since of the sinking Of "a
propeller on Lake Eric so late pe-ial
Of the year as Christmas day, has excited
the public curiosity to know Something
more concerning the affair, and We there
fore obtained the Essential particulars
Of the i!l-fated voyage of the Forest
Queen. She left Cleveland on OF about
the 20th fo- Detroit without any cargo
it being the intention OF her owncrS to
bring her up here for repairs. She
came up the South Passage but after
petting inside the islands, the way was
found to be blocked up with ice Her
course was then shaped towards Point
auPelee but she soon got fast in a large
cake or field Of ice and driftcd around
for several days between Point au-peclco
aud Clay banks Being thus ut the mcycy
Of the clements, the condition Of thc
crew was one Of great peril, and TO add


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danger Of running short of p.Uyjoinl.
through the vigilance Of one of the
owners Captain Morgan, OF this city
who had received information of the
lilemma in which the crew were placed
and who managed to convey provisions
10 them over the ice. Extra help was
employed by Captain NJ, and pianks
we're taken on boards which were fastened
upon her sides with the view of atforCling
protectian from the ice. During the
night Of the 24th the ice began to break
up and move rapidly. A massive
fragment struck the Queen between the
frames, making an ugly hole IN her side
and before the ceiling could be cut away
inside and the leak stopped, the water
gained on her so as to put out her fires.
The entire force worked vigorously until
30 clock on the morning Of the 25th,
when the fact became too evident that
she could not be kept !afoat, and all
hands LETT her taking the boats with
them, which were alternately hauled over
the ice and hoated where water was
clear Several of the crew narrowly
escaped drowning, but all finally man
aged to reach the shore in safety. The
steamer sunk in a few minutes after the
party left. The point where the disaster
occurred is about two miles from shore,
and the wreck lies in twenty-n;ne feet of
water.


THE Forest Queen was owned by S.
w Morgan, John Gordon and Norman
McAllister, all of this city. She was
uninsured, and as the loss is to her own
ers quite serious one, they Will have
the sympathy of their numerous friends


THE Forest Queen was built in
Cleveland in 1852 by Quayle & Morse
The registered 467 tons rated b., and
was valued at $4,000. In her aplmy
days she run in the A. 7. Cos line. and
we believe at various times in one or two
other transportation lines. Last season
she was employed in towing lumber
barges from Saginaw. Efforts will be
made in the spring to recover the ma
chinery and in all probability to raise the
hull, but the ice In tie meantime VIII be
like y to make sad havoc with the upper
works. =
Year: 1869

We consider that Of all the disreput-
able actions of which the conductors OF
the public press are guilty there is noth
ing more deserving Of censure than the
practice, INDUCED in b. many. Of persis-
tently speaking i'll of n9ighboring papers.
To such pass has this matter come that
an editor could ell ali his space, devoted
to editorials Of genera. character, replying
to the attacks made upon him in other
parts of the State. 1t has been our en-
deavor to avoid this to as great an extent
as possible. We very seldom make
charges. unless in reply to assaults which
cannot be passed over in silence. We
are pleased with wit-unless employed to
the injury Of another-even though the
laugh falls on our side of the house,
but this eternal pickering and strife is
distasteful and injurious to the public,
while it lowers the dignity of the press
from the highest tc the lowest round OF
the ladder which leads to a nobler and
better existence. The press can meyer
attain its true sphere of usefulness until
malice towards none and charity for
alT shall be its motto and its guiding
star.
Year: 1869

Governor Sal9Inon and the United


States Senat0Pship.
The Milwaukee daily HeroM German
Rep of late date on the Senatorial
question says:


Up to the present time there have
been named as candidates Mcssrs Wash
burn, Carpenter, Rublee, Fairchild,
Waldo and Salomon, an array OF dis
tinguished gentlemen, whose names are
honored by the people OF Wisconsin
and whose talents and merits are honor
ed by the people Of Wisconsin. and
whose talents and merits have been
extensively discusse by the Press. II
we shall IN these reuarks, more especially
advert to the candidacy Of Gov. Salomon
it is with no intention to dcrogate from
the claims Of the other candidates, but to
correct an error, which we are informed
prevails to soule extent through the
state. It is well known that mos tn ago
Gov. Salomon's name was mentioned in
connection with the u. S, Senatorship
and number of the newspapers of the
state expressed themselves warmly in its
favor But as he himself omitted to
make any effort for his election, either
personally or through his friedds, the
impression seems to have gained ground
that he has declined to be candidate.
This impression is erroneous, as Gov.
Solomon would accept the position if the
legislature should confer it upon him.
But he will not obtrude himself upon
his party, or the legislature, or through
his friends organize systematic opposition
to other members of the party who are
aspiring to the same position, and in our
opinion his course in this respect has
been highly honorable and credltable to
him. He would leave all to,the wisdom
and patriotism..of the legislature without
making the slightest effort to influence
its action.


We are fully confident that our legisla
tors will make choice which the people
will ratify. If it should be Governor
Salomon, we are fully convinced. and we
believe thai the great Republican party
of the state shares the conyiction, that
the legislature will never have reason to
regret its choice for we all know that
Gov. Salomon is man Of talent, and Of
snatless character, Il patriot and a strue
and reliable champion OF the principles
Of republican liberty and progress.


We think the Governor and the Hero7d
both take a very sensible view Of the
matter.
Year: 1869

In Europe the managers of all public
works are held by public opinion as
we'll as by Government, to o stricter
sense of their responsibilities than we
are apt to exact of them here. Take,
for instance, so apparently small mat
ter as punctuality in regard to time
During an experience of great many
thousapd miles of railroad riding o
friend of ours informs us he was never,
on any single occasion, five minutes be-
hindhand in arriving at it, according to
the published designations of the time
tables. In fact, the trips of every train
are made 30 regularly that .one might
set his watch by them, as he does by
town clock, or by the regulator OF an
observatory. The consequence of this
punctuality is that, as no time is lost
in delays, no time is required to be
"made up" by sudden bursts of extraor-
binary and dangerous speed. 1t is
known moreover, precisely, at any mo.
ment, where a train is and ought to be;
and so no other train sets out on ven-
ture, not knowing whether the track is
clear or not, and liable to come into
frightful collisions with it by over.
taking it (meeting it would be impossi-
BILE, as there is always double tracks);
while again, the movement and place of
every train being known, the track is
never obstructed by hand cars or freight
cars left in the way.
Year: 1869

A man was lately tipped out of the
stage entering Salt Lake aud seriously
injured. He was carried into the city
and nursed by Mormon family. Before
he was able to walk, the head of the
family accused him of seducing one OF
his wives. The man showed the
impossibility of the charge being true
from his feeble condition, and the wo-
nan stoutly denied the charge. But
the case was Gsrried to tho authorities,
and, without trial, the wounded man
was ordered to leave the city. This he
could not do, and the man who claimed
to have been injured tool him out of
the house and horsewhipped him until
be was supposed TO be dead. He was
afterward taken back to the house, and
lies in delicate condition, nursed by
the same family.
Year: 1869

FOREMAN, as Governor, was one OF
the most savage of small despots. His
career was full of official iniquity. Few
men have managed An Executive office
with a uore perfect disregard of public
law and private right. BRowNLow
was one of his few competitors in that
line, and was almost the only man who
surpassed him. But BRowNLow had
brains. Had FOREMAN possessed that
article, the Tennessee parson would not
have excelled him in enormity. But
with all his outrages FOREMAN had one
trait that produced an impression dis
tantly related to respect. He was per-
fectly candid in his corruptions. He
was bent upon using the power which
circumstances had placed in his hands,
for the achievement of his own ends
and those of his partisan supporters,
but he never professed anything else.
He never in his whole career as Govern
or attempted to make the public be-
lieve that there was any fairness or
honesty in his proceedings.


In one respect, at least, we regret TO
say the present Executive differs from
his predecessor. He processes a desire
to administer the registration law in
Just and impartial manner. But unhap-
PLY his acts don't travel in the same
direction with his professions. ASK
him whether Board Of registration
should be controlled entirely by single
family and he will heartily coincide
with YOU that such monopoly ought not
TO be tolerated. Ask him whether can
didates for office should be allowed to
act as registrars, and he will confess as
candidly as any one the improperly OF
such proceedings. He will even assert
his willingness to make removals IN all
such cases. But Just here the Guberna-
torisl fairness and justice come to q
full stop. They find no expression In
act.


We have heretofore mentioned sever
al instances illustrating the marked
disagreement between the Governors
practice and his professions. We have
mentioned several cases in which he
failed to make the removals to which
BY his own declared policy he was
pledged, but We have found none more
apt than that presented by the Web
ster county registrars. The Weston
Democrat says:


The Board of Registration for Web
ster county consists OF two brothers ana
a brother-in-law. They have stricken
off half the remaining voters, and now
want to go to the Legislature-all OF
them. In order to avoid q difficulty
thew are to meet shortly at the house OF
relative and "drsw CUTS to settle
who shall have the "posish."


The above statement is corroborated
by private information from another
source. The condition of affairs which
it discloses is fair and forcible COM
Nment upon the registration system in
general, and upon the STEVENSON pol
icy in particular. We have not the
slightest idea that any change will be
made in the Webster county Board or in
any other, similarly situated. A fair
administration of the law is no part of
the game. That was made fully mani
fest in the cases of Greenbrier and JEFF
ferson. In the former, the Governor has
retained CALDWELL in position until his


deviltry has all been completed and no


change can remedy his rascality. In
the latter, he has re-appointed two men


who resigned with the avowed purpose
Year: 1869

And it IL Tor him to say whether be will con-
tinue to endure living death. or to put himself
in position to lender life enjoyable.


Living Advertisements
OF the efficacy of this matchless vegetable stom.
acbic are to be found in every city and town in
the United States. Healthy men and women,
rescued from torture BY its use; and eager
from any other Bitters in existence, in this es-
pecial particular-it is net alcoholic. For such
constitutions and systems as require for their
inyigoration diffusive stimulant
Year: 1869

without any special complaint, except grad.
ual declination of bodily strength and nervous
erergy, will find in the TONIC A FOUNTAIN
OF VITALITY ANDEVIG0R AS RE
FRESHING AND EXT HILERATING As
POOL IN HE DESERT TO THE SAND
SCORCHED AND PAINTING TRAVELLER
Year: 1869

- 'c &@u~
If we knew the woe and heartache 3l
Waiting for us down the road. f...a
II our lips could ta.te the wormwood,
II our backs could feel the load,
Would we waste the day in wishing


For time that ne'er can be;
Would we wait in such impotence


For our ships to come from sea-
If we knew the baby fingers


Pressed against the window pane,
Would be cold and stiff o-morrow-
Never trouble us again
Would the bright eyes of our darling
Catch the frown upon our brow,
Would the print of rosv fingers


Vex us then as they do now!
All, these little ice-cold fingers,


bow they point our memories back
To the hssIy words and actions


Strewn along our backward trackl
How these little hands remind US,


As in snowy grace they lie,
Not to scatter thorns-but roses
For our reapiDg by and by.
Strange we never prize the music
Till the sweet-voiced bird has flown:
Strange that we should slight the violets
Till the lovely flowers are gone;
Strange that summer skies and sunshine
Never seem one-half so fair
AS when winters snowy pinions
Shake their white down in the air.
Lips from which the seal of silence
None but God can roll away,
Never blossomed in such beauty
AS sdorns the mouth to-day;
And sweet words that freight our memory
With their beautiful perfume,
Come TO us in sweeter accents.


Through the portals of the tomb.
Let Us gather up the sunbeams


Lying all around our path:
Let us keep the wheat and roses,
Casting out the thorns and chaff;
Let us find our sweetest comfort
In the blessings of to day.
With patient hand removing
All the brisrs from our way.
Year: 1869

A few nights ago, a lady, while
taking a pleasure walk with her
infant child along Jefferson street,
lost a valuable diamond ring from
her finger in some unaccountable
way. Diligent and extensive search
was made throughout the neigh:
borhood, hut without any clue to-
the ring, and the lady give it up
as gone ''tor good and all" Before
daylight the following morning
the lady was surprised by the
calls of her nurse, a small negro
girl. On being admitted to her
mistress, the girl, who had not
heard ofthe ring being lost, said
she had just had a dream, in which
she was apprised when. where and
how the jewel had been lost, and
that if allowed she felt sure she
could find it. She then described
the place and manner in which
the ring disappeared, and begged
her mistress to 90 with her and
test the dream. This strange
circumstance was made known to-
the household, but all treated it
with the utmost incredulity. 1t
was aflerward concluded to humor
the girl. however, and she and
several white members of the IA
milv proceeded to the designated
spot. more than 100 yards from
the house. Here the dreamer told
her mistress that. as directed in
her dream, she must drop another
ring, and it would roll as o guide
to the missing one. A plain gold
ring was handed the girl; she let it
fall, and sure enough it rolled and
stopped within two inches of the
lost diamond ring, which had got
into crevice between two bricks
Of the pavement. 1t may be ina
gined that the ring-hunters were
somewhat astounded at the miracle:
They did not pause to inquire
whether or not the girl was infiu-
enced by the anticipated eclipse,
but she obviously eclipsed all the
little nisgers they had seen, Her
own ast0nishment was greater
than that ofalI the rest. Our infor.
mant avows that there is not tho
least fiction about this curious
dream and It's lucky result.


lLouisviWe Coarisr-JourHos-
Year: 1869

TR1pLErs TO A YOUTHFUL Mo
TIER "A correspondent Of the Sa-
vannah Republican, writing from
Scriven County, gives the follow
ing:


A good lady acquaintance of
mine, Mrs. B.. of this county, gave
birth a few days ago to three fine.
healthy boys, which up to this
time are doing finely, and give
every promise Of being raised and
possihl Y growing into great men.
The fact that the good lady is only
some fifteen summers old. and be-
ins the first time she has given
birth, and that her mother gave
birth at like tender age. may be
considered remarkable, and to the
scientific men interesting. A way
giSh friend suggests that with this
unusual arrival in Scriven. there
is certainly something ahead,
probably squalls.
Year: 1869

glared wildly around-and with


all the calmness OF despair stood


upon bis ground.
Are you ready? Both ready?
was asked.


Yes, came simultaneously from
two pair Of lips"


One -two-three-6re
The report OF the pistols cut
the last word in twain. The sec
onds rushed forward and lifted


the men up again, for both hal
fallen. One, however, would nev-
err breathe again. Luke Bouton
had fought his last duel-had


gone to his final account with his


heart hullet-clctt.


Whiteman, too. was dangerous
" wounded. With his breath


bnhhlin. forth through blood, he
called the Ranger to him and asked
him for the miniature. 1t was
given him-the tairf;lce of a young
man. He covered it with bloody
fingers; whispered. bury it with


me. and he too. ceased to live.
With fearful eyes that form


was prepared for the grave, the


Ranger insisted that his promise


to the dead should be fulfilled to
the letter. But all were satisfied
that he who called himself White


man was Il young woman. And


wears later they found a clue to


the mystery. 1t was wife who


had then revenged the murder OF


her husband murdered for saving
her from dishonor. From q


bloody grave in the chapparal,


she had gone tn join him she


loved so well. in the land that lies


beyond the dark river.


Was her last act one of sin? 1t


is not for us to Judge Of such a
thing. We know knothing OF the


maddened heart and insane brain t;


know nothing Of the long days


and longer nights Of suffering /;


nothing of how we would have


acted under such circumstances.


Better leave judgment to Him


who can read both the mind and
the heart and whose will directed
the avenging bullet. None other
is without sin and who will dare to
east the first stone ?
Year: 1869

Of drs-without q Judiciary and without
Legislature-capnOt long exist without
anarchy and confusion. We are in state
of paralysis and good government alone, can
galvani2e us into healthy action and give
our energies scope for activity. To give TO
the people of the State full CONTROL OF their
own political affairs, We must use, for the
| time being, the party in power, and how can
we do Il, except by uniting our efforts with
that branch Of that party, which promises
an amelioraiion Of our political condition.
| BY sustaining such men, we may make them
| a successful conservative wing Of their par
ty, by allowing them to dwindle into signih-
ctnce we dtive them back into the Radi-
cal ranks and Conservatism, in that party,
will be ehcctually squelched in Virginia for
some time to come. Wise men will use all
honorable means TO TO effect important pur-
poses aud will avoid all unnecessary effort
which tends to thwart such purposes. The
solid phalanx before us now is irresistible
in lis united strength, bnt the axiom that
kingdom divided against itselfcan not stand
was truth long before it was shaped into
words by the lips of the Divine Master.


We must remember too that by sustain
ing the conservative men of the party in
power, we may assist in placing good men
IN office and keeping bad men, whose elec
ton would be a misfortune and reproech to
any people, out of office.
Year: 1869

The greatest amount insured In any one risk,
Tine preat est amount allowed by the rules OF
the Company TO be insured in any one city,


town or village,
The greatest amount allowed to be insured in


any one BLOCK,


NO arbitrary rule on these points. This
Company is governed by prudent regard Tor
the construction, occupancy and exposure or
nc
Year: 1869

Sometimes, when the day grows dusky.
And the stars begin to come,
When children from their playing


Come singing and laughing home,
| think, with sudden sorrow.


As they press through the open door,
or the faces OF the children


That we never shall see more.
Children in snow-white caskeis,


Laid away to their rest
Their still hands lying folded


Over their pulseless breastl
Children who came and tarried,


As IL were, only for night,
And passed, at the break OF the morning,
on a far journey out OF sight
On long and lonely journey,


Where We could not help or hold,
For we saw but the closing of eyelids,
The finding Of locks of g0ld
Aud knew how now was but silence


where once bad been prattle and song,
And only chill and shadow


Where was sunshine the whole day long.
Away from our cares and earesses,
"God knows where they are," we say,
And we know that we tarry behind them
Only little way;
FOR we, too, haste on our Journey,


And we know II will not ho long
Till we come 10 the City Eternal,


The rest and the rapture Of song.
Yet oft, when the sun Is setting


In unspeakable splendor of light,
Or the day grows dim and dusky,


And the shadows stretch into the night;
When the children, tired with their playing,
Come in through the open door,
think Of the dear, dear children


Who never will come any more.
Year: 1869

To FREsHEN SALT FIsH.--Mauy
perrons who are in the habit Of fresh
ening mackerel or other salt fish, never
dream that there is a right and wrong
way to do it. Any person who has
seen the process Of evaporation going
on at the salt works, knows that the
salt falls to the bottom. Just SO it is
in the pan where your mackerel or white
ish lies soaking; aud, as it lies with the
skin down, the salt viii fall to the skin,
and there remain; when, If placed with
the flesh side down, tho salt falls to
the bottom Of the pan, and the fish
comes out freshened as it should be-
In the other case il ia nearly as salt as
when put in.
Year: 1869

AN ELOQUENT PAssAGE.-Probably
of all the beautiful and eloquent passa-
ges ever written by the inimitable
George d. Prentice, the following is
the finest:


at can not be that earth is mans
only abiding place. 1t can not be that
our life is bubble cast by eternity to
float moment upon its waves and sink
into nothipgness. Else why is ii that
the high and glorious aspirations which
leap like angels from the temple of our
hearts are forever wandering ensatisfed?
Why is it that the rainbow and cloud
come over US with n beauty that is not
Of earth, and then pass of to leave US
to muse on their loveliuessY How is it
that the stars which hold their festival
around the midnight throne are SGT
above the grasp Of our limited faculties,
forever mocking us with their unap-
proachable glorys And, finally, why
is it that bright forrs of human beauty
are presented to our view and taken
from us; leaving the thousand streams
Of our affection to fow back in an AL
pine torrent upon our heartsf There
Is realm where tho rainbow never
fades; where the stars will be spread
out before us like the islands that
slumber on the ocean, and where the
beautiful beings which pass before us
like shadows will stay for ever in our
presence"