smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1875

The NV York Telegraph dispatches
say:


Early this morning the jury in the case
of Tilton- Becchcr breakfast, aud then
sent note to Judge Nelson stating that
it was impossible for them to agree The
Judge then returned an answer that he
would be at the court room at 10 o clock
and would then send for the counsel and
communicate with the jury. AT that hour
his honor stepped into his private room.
There were then assembled in the court
nearly the same group Of Plymouth pco
pie as there were yesterday.


At II minutes past l | o'clock the jury
filed into court, looking as if they had
passed sleepless night.


In reply to the question, +" Gentlemen
of the jury, have you agreed upon aver
dict" Foreman Carpenter replied, 1--WE
have not. your honor. We regret much
that we find it impossible to agree.


The clerk then stated that they were
now discharged


Juryman Thayer arose and said that
he wished it to be distinctly understood
that the jury did not stand ii to l as ru'
NOR had it. The court room was then
in confusion, every person erowding for
ward to have word with the jurynen.
Mrs. Beecber went to the railing and
shook hands with each juryman as he
passed. The jurymcn were all spoken
to as to how they stood, TO which they
replied, that they stood nine for convic,
ton to three for acquittal, but the names
Of the Jurors on either side would not
be revealed, as they had taken an oath
Year: 1875

While our local was at Fort smith last
Monday, he was approached by a gentleman
who was one of the ith Of July committee OF
arrangements, with reference to the lobabii-
ity of our young townsman, llillycr, accept
ing an invitation to deliver an Grafton at that
place on the fourth The gentleman was In
formed that there was not the least doubt OF
it, if the young gentleman had no prsr en-
racemcnt Mr.. Il is to deliver an oration at
Lees Greek. which would OF course prevent
him from going elsewhere. The mere men
tion Of his name in such connection is a
nattering compliment TO Mr., II. as well as
our town.
Year: 1875

Insurance on ships threatens to become a
premium for murder on a terribly extensive
scale. There is no reason to believe that in
the case of the Mosel and the fiend Thomp-
son we are done with a crime that contem-
plates two hundred lives as trivial obstacles
to a great gain. 1t is known that many ships
have been successfully sent to the bottom
for the sake of the insurance. 1t is known
that scheme precisely like this, planned
against passenger steamer some years ago.


failed only through the timely remorse of
party to the projected crime 1t is not
known, unfortunately, what was the precise
fate of several magnificent steamers that
sailed on Atlantic voyages and never reached
port, and on which, presumably the insur-
ance was regularly paid; but in the light Of
this Mosel story one more painful conjecture
has to be added to the many attempts to
penetrate the mystery of the catastrophes in
which they went down. 1t is in accordance
with the operations of the human mind that
the indication Of a new crime develops Grim
inal readiness as extensively as imitation is
developed by the indication of any other
new direction of human activity. That
new series of acts is criminal not only does not
deter from their pursuit but with many adds
a charm to it; while if they are seen to be the
possible source of great gain they will be
practised with the same diligent accuracy
that is given to any other nefarious occupa-
ton. With many men life is as much war
in a condition of civilization as it ever was
in estate Of nature" and they contemplate
as fair any means that gains for them the
final victory of great fortune. Thompson
is only a savage of modern life, ready to kill
all who stand to him in the light of enemies;
and all are enemies who come between him
and his scheme. 1t is therefore to be con-
templated as one Of the possibilities of the
time that there will be an epidemic of these
offences How shall we guard against it
How shall we do what we may to make safe
the lives Of passengers? They must be sep


arated from insured freight 1t is the insur-
ance that tempts to the crime, and that
temptation must be taken out of any ship in
which passengers are sent to sea. II will, we
fear, be found indispensably necessary IN all
the commercial countries to provide by law
that no passengers s...aii; be taken on anv ship
Year: 1875

Arctic exploration and discovery have again
resulted in achievements as valuable as they
are remarkable 1t has long been the fashion
to regard the waters about the North Pole as
impenetrable, and the theory of an open
Polar Sea, in spite of all the proofs Of its ex-
istence, is even now regarded as little more
than dream Still the subject is one which
has always excited the liveliest interest, and
nearly every expedition which has been
despatched to the North has returned with
the news of important discoveries. The latest
of these stories we print this morning, and
the results of the expedition which are
recounted in our columns to-day will be
found to give promise of something more
lasting and beneficial than the widest imagi
nation could have conceived. Professor
Nordenski0ld is Russian savan, who under
took part In the Polar exploration which is
now universally recognized as q scientific
necessity. Sailing through the Kara Sea.
long regarded as the ice cellar of the North,
but which had been cruised year after
year by Norwegian fishermen, he reached
the mouth of the Yenisei and re-
vealed a new ocean route between Europe
and Siberia. The importance of this dis
covery cannot be overestimated. If it should
be found as practicable as it is believed to
be by DR.. Petermann and other eminent geog-
raphers it will give commerce new high
way and open up vast and important
country to trade. What both Europe and
Asia have needed is q waterway from the
Northern European ports to the grand
river system of the Asiatic continent.
Until now this has scarcely been hoped
for and SO great discovery was certainly
not expected Such, however is the mean
ing of Professor Nordenski0ld's explora-
tions if his assumptions are found to be cor
rect and, fortunately his assumptions have
passed beyond mere theory He has accom-
plished q journey which gives the world
a highway between the West and the
East as important as that which was per-
fected by the Suez Canal. We can only
hope that subsequent expeditions will verify
the importance of Professor Nordenskiold's
discoveries and that the highway he has dis
covered may be found to be an open path
way between Europe and Asia.
Year: 1875

The reply of Mr.. Harrison, of Illinois, to
our remarks on his proposed amendment to
the constitution does not satisfy us of the
wisdom of its Characteristic feature. 1t is
not indeed, quite so Objectionable as the
geographic summary made it, for it does not
propose to confer on our ex-Presidents the
iuii powers of Senators of the United States.
IL would give each of them the seat and
salary OF Senator and allow them to partici-
pate in the debates. but not permit them to
vote that is to say, it would give them the
same standing in the Senate which the Ter
ritorial Delegates have in the House, but
allowing them to attend or not at their
pleasure, without affecting their claim to
compensation. But even in this form we
think it unwise and inadmissible.


In the first place it handicaps a reform of
vital importance by tacking to it a trivial
and fantastic measure calculated to obstruct
its success. There are many citizens who
desire an amendment limiting the President
to single term who would strongly object
to changing the composition of the Senate or
creating privileged class. The one term
amendment should not be entangled with any
accessory which has not an obvious tendency
to smooth the way for its ratification. In the
next place, the chief purpose and only prac-
tical effect of Mr.. Harrison's scheme would
be to pension our ex-Presidents, and an
amendment of the constitution is not neces-
sary for this purpose. If the people should
at any future time think it just or expedient
to confer pension on an ex-President it is
already within the power of Congress to grant
such pension. 1t would be unnecessary in
the case of General Grant, who possesses a
competent private estate, and the salary ofthe
President is now SO liberal that public senti-
ment would not consent to his receiving a
pension On his retirement As to the value
of his services as q non-voting Senator, that
seems quite fantastical There is not an ex-
President living, and General Grant, who
will be the first to occupy that position,
would make dumb. Senator, to whom the
seat would be SO irksome that he would
never occupy it. We give Mr.. Harrison the
hearing he desires, but we think his scheme
whimsical and indefensible.
Year: 1875

ALL REPORTS in regard to a disagreement
between the President and his Cabinet touch
ing the prosecution Of the Whiskey Ring are
pronounced unfounded by the Washington
special despatch to the HERALD; and it is
asserted that General Grant has interposed
no obstacle in the way Of the prosecution of
General Babcock. From ST. Louis we have
information that Babcock is expected to plead
to-day. The case is one which must continue
to attract universal attention, and the Presi-
dents cooperation with the prosecution is
the best sign that We have yet had that there
is to be no favoritism in the disposition of
the charges against his private secretary.
Year: 1875

We dare say average readers looked with
weariness and disgust through the two or
three columns we had to publish yesterday
giving the proceedings at the Plymouth
church business meeting on Thursday even
ing That church has taken steps for sub
mitting its affairs to a new investigation by
an ecclesiastical tribunal chosen by itself
The public, in the interest Of peace and de-
cency, protests against any further stirring
up of this scandal to poison the social atmos-
phere, and, above all, against one-sided,
whitewashing investigation. This is a cum
ming trick to parry the effect of the mutual
council called for by Mrs. Moul-
ton. Plymouth church refuses to sub
NIT to the mutual council any other
question than the merely technical
one relating to its right to drop Mrs. Moul-
ton from the roll of members for non-attend-
ance at public worship. They want an ex-
cuse for narrowing the investigation before a
body in which both sides will be repre-
sented to that single point, and the excuse
they have devised is to refer all general mat
ters to council of their own selection, before
which no adverse party can have hearing.
Such one-sded affair will be regarded by
the public as an elaborate piece Of white
washing. AS nobody will be permitted to
participate in it except ministers known to
be friendly to Mr.. Beecher its foreseen re-
suit will have no moral weight, however EN-
phatically it may exculpate the Plymouth
pastor Things have reached such pass
that the only way for Plymouth church to
deal with the scandal hereafter is to try to
live il down
Year: 1875

PERUVIAN BONDS are now formally added
to the list Of securities on which no interest
is paid. 1t will be seen from our special
despatch by cable this morning that the Paa
Null Gazette calls upon English bondholders
to form an association for their own protec-
tion but it is to be feared that they will
find they have locked the stable door after
the horse was stolen.
Year: 1875

represent the rank and file Of that party.
Grant does not need their support. He IS
strong in spite Of them. They took him as
their leader reluctantly. They have followed
him without any sincere respect. They have
given his administration an irritating sup
port They would gladly see him sink out
Of sight When the campaign unfolds itself
they will follow his banner with the seryile
adulation they showed in the past. The
campaign for the Presidency thus far is
nothing more than religious crusade. The
popular cry is Free Schools and No
Popery." The Praise God -Barebones is
Bishop Haven; the Cromwell is General
Grant. Thus far he holds the field, with no
one to antagonize him but raw badly
trained group of Bourbons who now control
the House of Representatives
Year: 1875

WHILE THE PRINCE OF WALES is junketing
in India the Princess will spend the holidays
with her children at Copenhagen. All this
is well, for even royal personages ought to
have some pleasure.
Year: 1875

LORD DERBY, who is in Edinburgh to de-
liver the address as Rector OF the University,
is received with great honor. II his career
continues he will inherit his fathers repu-
tation as well as his name
Year: 1875

THE RECALL Of the Khedive's expedition
TO Zanzibar is confirmed All Europe will
be alarmed at this new evidence Of the value
Of the Suez Canal purchase and the increas-
. ing influence Of England.
Year: 1875

THE MUTINEERs of the Lennie are to be
taken from France to England for trial and
punishment. Mutiny and murder on ship
board have become so frequent Of late that
the sternest measures Of repression are nee
essarv
Year: 1875

that carries insured freight. Passenger ships
and freight-bearing ships must be separate,
or If freight is carried on passenger ships its
association with the vast cargo Of human
life must be regarded as the sole guarantee
Of its safety
Year: 1875

the government is bound to be financially
strong. II on the other hand the people
import largely in excess Of their wants,
and Of their ability to pay, and go in
debt at heavy shaves Of their paper, they
are bound to bring up with a round
turn at last, and struggle as We are now
struggling, with a load Of individual,
municipal and corporate debt and a de-
preciated national currency.
Year: 1875

WHEN the mariner enters the cur
rents of the ocean and comes under
their silent and irresistible influence,
there is no creaking of cordage or
groaning of timber to announce the
presence of the great power that has
seized his craft and is bearing it rapid
ly onward. The log chain does not
indicate any motion, and the unskill-
ed observer upon the deck viewing the
Tapping sail, concludes the ship is not
changing its position on the surface of
the earth. This simile aptly illus
trates the financial condition of our
State to-day. The excited struggling
mass which made California street
pandemonium, can no longer be seen.
Silence reigns within the great bank
ing institution where erstwise was
heard the din of business. The great
spirit Of its chief has passed to the
land where is never heard the jingle of
coin. The sanguine clap their hands
and cry the danger is past. Those
who correctly view the situation know
that We have not seen the end of the
beginning, or the beginning of the
end. The breakers on the edge of
mighty current have shaken the ves-
sci, and now that current holds us
within its silent grasp and bears us on,


where? This coast has heretofore
known nothing but prosperity, and it
is difficult for us to realize that there
are baneful results to spring from the
panic in San Francisco, for it is moth
ing more nor less than a panic. Look
ing back across the Rocky Mountains,
we can behold the disaster that has fol-
lowed the crisis 'of two years ago.
Over the whole Republic, from the
Great Lakes to the Gulf,-from the
Atlantic to the Black Hills, can yet
be seen the depression which came out
of that little run upon the banks.
Commerce has Jagged, the fires have
been eXtingulshed in hundreds OF
manufacturing establishments; doz-
ems of railroads have passed into the
hands of receivers, and money is lay
ing idle in the bank vaults. Values
have been undergoing a shrinkage
that is frightful to contemplate, and
If we mistake not the signs of the
times, the States are now on the verge
of more terrible panic than this
country has ever witnessed. 1t is not
for us to elaborate here the causes
which brought about so much trouble.
An irredeemable currency, reckless
extravaganza, wild speculation, and
the destruction of so much wealth by


the oppressive policy of the Govern
ment in the Southern States, have
done their work. Separated entirely
Year: 1875

We claim the attention of those who
have the welfare of our country at heart
to what we have to say in relation to
the contest now being waged in this
State in general and III this county in
particular. We take it for granted
that most of the voters of Los Angeles
county have listened to the utterances
of the orators who have made address
ses from the various political stand
points. We take it for granted that
the people generally have listened to
the shameful TRADES that have flown
from the unpatriotic lips of such Radi-
cal incendiaries as Phelps, Woods and


Houghton and other conspicuous lu-


minaries in the galaxy OF Republic
anism. We take it for granted that
the people Of Los Angeles county,
however they have politically affiliat-
ed heretofore, are entirely cognizant
of the fact that the party that has at
tempted to crush out the almost inn
poverished South by enactments of in
Vulnerable and odious kinds was repu-
dated last fall in twenty-three of
the States that an incendiary and
corrupt Congress of Radical marplots


were unseated in single campaign,
and that ninety-nine adherents of the
party of spurious legislation and a
jockey administration were spurned
by the indignant and honest masses
of the people of the North, and, yet,
Phelps, Woods and Houghton get up
in our midst, and faunt aloft the
bloody emblem of sectional hate and
party rancour. From the peaceful
platform these turbulent soldiers fight
Year: 1875

There is to be no disappointment
this time. The play is bound to come
off. The world must come to an end
on the tenth of next month. The
Millerites have gone over and over the
figures and they come out right every
time. There have been slight errors
of million of years or so in the cal
culations made heretofore, but nothing
of the kind can happen on this last
footing up. Everything is up to the
regulation standard now. The bills
are out; the cast made up and it wont
do to disappoint the audience again.
So have your ascension robes ready
and your faces clean on the morning
of the tenth proximo, for on that occa-
sion


"The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous pala-


ces,


The soemn temples, the great globe itself,
Yea, all which 1t inhabit, shall dissolve,
And like the insubstantial pageant faded I;
Leave not a wrack behind"
Year: 1875

Tickets h ave been received in this
city from San Francisco on which are
printed the entire list of Demoratic
State and County candidates, with the
exception of D. B. WooLF for Clerk of
the Supreme Court. For,it is substi-
tuted the name of GRANT,. TAGGART,
the Republican nominee for that office.
Other straight Democratic tickets
with the single name of an Indepen-
dent or Republican nominee are cir
culated all over the State. In this
county each one of the Independent
candidates is running on his own hook
and each one has had thousands Of
Democratic tickets printed bearing his
own name. Each seems to think that
his only chance for election is to get
on the Democratic ticket alone and
steal into the ballot box under the
guise of Democracy. These facts show
stronger than any thing else we could


offer, the selfish nature, and traitorous
disposition of these candidates who
Year: 1875

SOME person or persons who have
no fear of the punishment promised to
liars, are busy circulating the report
that the HERALD will cease publica-
tion after the election. There are no
doubt number Of tricksters and evil
doers in this city who dread the HER
AID as the devil does holy water, who
would like to attend its funeral, and to
them we take pleasure in saying that
when the HERALD discontinues publi-
cation there will be no papers printed
in California and of the city of Los
Angeles not one stone will remain up
on another. The HERALD is a well
established,paying paper, as indepen-
dent of politicians and elections as it is
of its enemies and the knaves who
have tried and failed to control 1t.
Year: 1875

The Bank of Californi. solvent.


SAN FRANCISCO, August 30th.-A
careful examination of the accounts of
the Bank of California warrants the
belief that the Bank will resume busi-
ness. The nominal assets are twenty
millions and the liabilities only twelve
millions, leaving surplus of seven
millions sure, and possibly eight. The
stockholders are the wealthest men
in the community, representing over
one hundred and fifty million dollars,
and the easiest way out of the diff
Guilty will be to come forward with
present relief and set everything run
ming again. The ISLANDERS of the Bul-
ietm thus receive another rebuke. No
failure has followed the stoppage of
the Bank, and everything looks bright
for the future.
Year: 1875

"Men's evil manners live in brass;
their virtues we write in water"
RALSToNis dead, and we notice decid-
ed inclination on the part of our ex-
changes to point out the stained spots
in his character. No man is perfect
and no rich man is without blemish.
Humanity is weak and money does
not strengthen it. This dead man
whose faults are now marshaled before
the public gaze was public benefac-
tor; no charitable request left him emp
ty handed; no public enterprise was
left unaidedby him; no industrial pur-
suit applied to him in vain. He list
ened to all and aidedall. He was one
of the most generous, whole souled
men that ever gladened the heart of
the widow, lightened the task of the
toiler and assisted the manufacturer
to successful business. San Francisco
has many other rich men, but she has
not one whose money has done as
much and as general good as that Of
RALsToN. "But," says the carping
critic, che had faults" Indeed! With
out these he would have been more or
less than man. There are thousands
Of rich men walking the streets of
San Francisco to-day, many of them
wearing the cloak of religion, whose
private moral character is ten times
worse than that of Mr.. RALsToN. If
the command of Christ "Let those
who are without sin throw the first
stone" could be enforced, few indeed
of San Francisco's millionaires would
utter a word against the character of
the man with whom so lately they
were only too glad to associate. In
his life RALsToN did much good and
now that he is dead let us throw the
mantle of charity over his faults. OF
his end may we not properly say the
death of RALsToN was a fit termina-
ton of lifes full of greatness, splen-
dor and power. He breathed out his
spirit in the great Bay whose waters
he had done so much TO fill with COM
m cree. AS the great metropolis shook
to it's centre and reverberated with the
crash of the giant bank, his soul took
its flight. AS the people of San Fran
cisco pass by the tomb of the great
financier they will remember only his
virtues and achievements; while grey
haired and stricken, sitting in sorrow
amid the ruins ofhis empire, he would
have been the victim of scorn and cal
umny and his tortures only equaled by
the terrors of He'll. The anguish of
one so successful and naughty, as he
saw passing forever from his hand the
vast wealth and honor it had welded
with such mastery skill, cannot be
conceived by ordinary humanity, and
ought to soften our hearts with pity if
it does not excuse the act of self de-
struction.


"And showed not Fortune thus how fame and


sway,


And all we deem delightful, and consume
Our souls to compass through each srduous
Are in her eyes less happy than the tomb9


Werethey but so in mans how different


his doom ~
Year: 1875

We are informed that in last Saturdays
issue Of the Weekly Herald, there was fol ed
a Supliment in which 1t stated that Judge
Thompson, Independent candidate for Con-
gress had withdrawn.


This is q barefaced lie, gotten up to injure
the Independent ticket. The Judge has not
withdrawn at all, but will see the fight
Though. Independent Of yesterday.


Our answer to the above is contained
in two sentences. It is a lie-a lie
manufactured from whole cloth. No
such supplement nor any supplement
was folded in last Saturdays weekly
HERALD nor of any HERALD ever is
sued from the HERALD office and the
man who asserts that there was is a
liar and knows himself to be liar.
Year: 1875

travel about the county preaching
"purity and REFORM" They are sell
ing each other out wherever opportu-
nifty offers and no one is willing to
have his name associated on the same
ticket with his fellow nominees. Are
such men worthy the confidence of
the people?