smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1878

The storm of Saturday night proved more
severe than was at first supposed. 1t was not
known until yesterday that any vessels suffered
in this vicinity, but it seems that there was a
fleet of coasters from the Eastward bound for
Boston at the time and they were just off this
harbor when the gale struck them. So far as
is learned there was no lives lost and the crew
which the Advertiser consigned to watery
graves are enjoying the best of health in our
beloved city. The vessel referred to as having
sunk was the schooner Francis A. Baker, Capt.
Cooper. She left Rockport with cargo of
lime from Sheppard. 81 Co., consigned to
Boston parties on Wednesday. They were
soon glad to put into Seal harbor where they
remained until Saturday when they st tarted for
Boston. AT $50 when off the Cape she began
to leak and at o'clock the lime took fire.
The water filled her so fast however that the
fire made but little headway, and it was finally
extinguished. They clung to her as long as
possible, but at IL O'Clock they left in small
boat. This was psrilous feat for the sea was
running very high and it was pitch darkness.
They had but just left the vessel when she
went down two miles east southeast Of the
Cape light The crew managed to find another
schooner at anchor near By and went board
Of her where they remained until yesterday
morning when they reached the city.


Capt. Began of the tug W. 81. Scott not
having heard of the loss of the Baker did not
know what vessel it was aud he tried to save
some of her rigging. There was number of
Cape wreckers ABOUT her but the Captain with
the tug Jared rather the best. He secured the
mainsail and flying jb.


The schooner r. P Chase of Searsport,
Capt. West, from Bangor for Dorchester,
Mass, laden with lumber, sprung leak and
became water-logged. She was discovered by
the tug O. A. Warren few miles outside and
towed her into Long wharf where she will dis
charge for repairs.


Schooner Florida. formerly owned here, was
at Long wharf yesterday loaded With lumber
from the East and bound to Boston. She was
caught in the same gail aud sprung leak.


Several Eastern coasters were injured more
or less, but many of them were able to proceed
without repairs other than to the sails
Year: 1878

The present age seem. to be prolific in
the production OF numbers of young men
who have, some how or other, educated
themselves up 10 the belief that they were
created to make their living by doing
nothing. Every city. town and village in
the land is filled to overtiowing with young
men who are lde-hunting clerkships, or
some other place where they hope TO OBJ
tain living without work


Numbers are hanging around. living
from hand to mouth, sponging upon some
friend waiting for vacancy to occur, offer
ing to work for salary that would cause
"A shrewd business man TO suspect their
honesty; and, when demonstrated with
by friends they invariably answer: II
don't know what TO do"


We would say to those who want to
know what to do, go to work, There is
work enough u do by which you can earn
an honest living and gain the respect OF
all those whose respect is worth seeking.
Quit loafing about, waiting and looking
tor clerkship in some store with wheel
barrow-load OF goods. Get out into the
country and go to work.
Year: 1878

INTEGRITY IN BUSINESS. of the
most promising signs of tae times is the
manifest determination in commercial cir
Giles to uphold the standard of mercantile
honor. In these days of depression and
shrinkage it does not follow at all that be-
cause a man fails he is obnoxious to re-
proach or censure. II he has done all he
could to avert the catastrophe, if he has
been oser-borne by an adverse current
so swift that he found himself powerless
TO resist it, he will be certain To receive
the sympathy of his compeers, and to be
treat ID lenenlly by his creditors. But If
he shows any disposition to practice con-
cealment or deception, to withhold full
| statement of his assets and liabilities, or
to drive sharp bargain with the people
who have trusted him. he deprives himse If
OF all claim to forbearance, and should be
pursued with a rigor that will serve to
deter other men from following his pern.
clous example.
Year: 1878

Olympia "Standard "


Ever since the first agitation of
the temperance question in this
country, which may be forty or fifty
years ago, an abundance of evidence
shows that the people, as mass, are
opposed to the liquor traffic. We
believe, if at this time, the question
Of license or no license were candi-
dly put to the people of every State
and Territory in the Union, there
would be a respectable majority
against the granting Of licenses for
selling intoxicating drinks. We are
unwise in Judging the sentiments Of
the people at large by the results oh
tanned at precinct elections, or the
vote of even larger districts. The
popular vote is the only true criter.
ion by which we can be guided, or
to which we must look to predicate
the probabilities of the future Of the
temperance question. Now we be
lieve, if the question of license, or
some form of a loc option law,
could be brought simultaneously be.
fore the people of the United States,
the majesty of sound morality and
good order would assert itself in an
Overwhelming vote on the side OF
strictly temperance principles. In
other words, the people would rise
up in the sovereignty Of their might
and say" No license for u.s." But
let US see what has already been done
in this direction, and then we may
Judge the future by the experience
of the past. In lS47, the question
of prohibition was submitted to the
people Of Vermont and a majority
of 1000 in favor of prohibition was
the result. A similar result was
again obtained in 1850. The same
question, in all its bearings, has been
submitted to the people of Maine, a
rumber of times and always with a
result largely on the side Of temper
ance. In 1858, the question was de.
cided by the ballot-box in Wiscon
sin and majority of 5000 counted
in favor of prohibition, even al
though, as is we'll known, this State
stands second as to its percentage of
foreign citizenship. In 1874, a ma
iority of 1000 was obtained in Ohio
in favor Of "no license" In the
State of New York, the question
was submitted, in 1916, to the voters
of 400 towns, when, as result, it
was found that 656 of those towns
were against the sale of liquors in
any manner whatever. A popular
vote being taken in the same State,
resulted in majority of over $4,000
in favor of no license law. Now
we think that quite enough has been
said to show fairly and conclusively
that the "vox popull" is substan-
tally and decidedly against the Ii
quor traffic. 1t has often been said
that all great moral reforms have
succeeded only in proportion as they
were carried on by or through strictly
organized effort. We believe this is
the true method of doing all things
that involve the common interests of
the people. Temperance principles
most assuredly involve the dearest
rights and interests of the people of
the United States, and hence, we be-
lieve, as has been already intimated,
that the reformatory effort should be
made by the people themselves.
This is just the kind of organized eff
fort that must be brought to bear if
grand results of national character
ora 20 ha avpanfa1
Year: 1878

WASHINGTON, June 9.-The discussion
Of the Wood Tariff Bill has had the effect
Of bringing the subject Of protection more
directly before the Southern Representa-
tives than has hitherto been the case.
Members from this section was greatly
surprised to find that, Notwithstanding
Democratic notions on this subject,
they have in their midst an industry
which promises at an early day TO make
il their interest to adopt The same line
OF policy as Pennsylvania. By statistics
great and rapidly increasing interest in
wool growing has sprung up in the South
and many parts Of the West, and for the
full development Of which Representa-
tives from that section will ask protec'


ion against foreign wools.
Year: 1878

CLEVELAND, June 9.-The authorities
here are making preparations against the
possible outbreak Of the Communists.
Detectives report that Communistic tracts
and books are being distributed. There
are many active and suspicious move
ments being made. 1t is thought by a
good many that the visit Of certain
rabid speaker from Cincinnati by the
name Of Gustav Luebkert had no good
effect. He aroused the people who are
out OF employment very much by what
he said.
Year: 1878

Yesterday forenoon a fatherly-looking
man appeared at the corner Of Wood
ward and Jefferson avenue and asked a
pedestrian where the Home of the
Friendless was, saying that he desired to
adopt child. He was given the infor-
nation, but after the lapse of an hour
he had progressed only one block. He
seemed to have put away several glasses
of beer, and his eyes had a heavy look
as he asked of a boy:


Cub, kin you tell me where the Friend
Of the Homeless isP"


The boy told him, and the stranger
went up as far as the monument, wan
dered around by the market, and at noon
he was heard asking a woman:


Madam, kin you tell me where to
find the Home of the Homeless, as I
want to adopt a OrphanP


She didn't know, and he didn't seem
to care much, as he felt sleepy. When
dragged out of an alley about mid after
noon he looked yacantly around, and
queried


''Iz zhis er Friendless of er Homeless,
er er HOuselesS of er Friendless, or er
Friendship of er Homeless, or whaz ?'


''Do you want to adopt an Orphan?"
asked the officer.


The stranger lurChed along for whole
block, deeply thinking, and then an
sWered:


''Nozur; I want a orfun to iopt me-"


He was adopted till the next session
Of the Central Station Court.-Daroit
Free Press.
Year: 1878

Some one has well said that the true
art of being agreeable is to appear well
pleased with all the company, and rather
to seem well entertained with them than
to bring entertainment to them.


This is a good plan for one who has no
great confidence in his conversational
powers.


A man thus disposed may not have
much learning nor any wit; but, if he
has common sense and something
friendly in his behavior, it COnciliates
mems minds more. than the brightest
parts without this disposition and, when
a man of this turn comes to old age, lie
is sure to be treated with respect.


It is true, indeed, that we should not
dissemble or flatter in company but
one may be very agreeable, strictly con-
sistent with truth and sincerity, by a
prudent silence where he cannot concur,
and a pleasing assent where he can.


Now and then you meet with a person
so exactly formed to please that he will
gain upon every one that hears or be-
holds him. This disposition is not
merely the gift of nature, but frequently
the effect Of much knowledge of the
world and a command over the passions
Year: 1878

There is another class of superstitiOns


borne down to US from the grabbed times


of our Puritan ancestry which I fancy


we shall also shamefacedly own. They


were the daily maxims which formed a


part Of the teaching in every genuine


New England home, and their perma-
nence as a part of our mental cOnstitu-


ton is an encouraging circumstance to


educators who sometimes are inclined


to think that even line upon line and


precept upon precept fail to make their


impression upon the wayWaTd mind of


youth. To remove this fear, we stand as


living monuments, boldly avOwing first,


that we find it constantly difficult to con-
vince OUTselves-thOUgh our reason tells


us that we are absurd-that it is not a


moral duty to rise before, or, at least,


with the sun. Day by day, as we de
sCend to our S-O'clOCk breakfast, we are
conscious of q certain sense of moral
tOrpitude which we know to be unrea-
sOnable. 1t is in the effort to shake off
this sense, which is only a remnant of an
old superstition, that l write. The gen.
eral aXIOms or the subject of early
rising, which helped to make the New
England Primer and the Farmers Alma


AltlC IL 4ACh u -Ldl44l4lB SOAAGG VI oJplJOSCu
improvement, and which were afterWard
accommodated by Franklin, do not apply
to the present day nor to city life. What
is gained even for useful work by rising
at and then being obliged to take a nap
in the middle Of the day? Why not do
up all our sleeping at once and have
clean sweep for work. IF again, one
could carefully rake up and cover the
embers of his fire at 8 p m. and sleep
the sleep Of the righteous till 6, he might
possibly rise at 8, or even ), though why
even in that case, any sane person
should insist on doing two hours work
before eating, and call such action virtue,
7 could never understand. Circum-
stances alter rules as well as cases, which
is what we of Puritan stock find it hard
to understand. 1 myself know two
young women of New England birth
and training who, though they 90 into
much evening society, and are frequently
awake at midnight or after, each week
during the New York Winter, vet persist
in being punctual every morning at the
half-past breakfast Of the family. True,
they have no appetites; true, they take
long maps in the afternoon; true, they
break down every year by March yet
they gallantly return to the assault every
Autumn, and would feel ashamed and
guilty if they did otherwise. So strong
is the force of superstition!


In the future more perfect days it will
be considered a sin to awake any one
from sleep except in cases of life and
death, and our grandchildren may per-
haps be free from the inherited weak
moss of baliny-in-r bnpavsn tho Hou-ars
and the chickens and the birds wake
when the sun does, that therefore hu-
man being should do so. By what logic
do we select the one action Of waking as
suitable fOrOur imitatiOn2
Year: 1878

A 'Hired Hand" writes the following
good sense to the Bloomington Leader.
We commend the reading Of it to every
man who works for another:


"The supply of farm-hands IS greater
than the demand. Wages are very low,
but they are as high as can be paid at
the price the farmer gets for his grain
and hOgs-the products Of the farm.
Another thing is, that it is the inherent
right of every man who has help to hire,
to hire it as Cheaply as he can. Another
thing is, that you often see men idling
their time away, and, if any one in their
confidence says any thing about it, they
will reply, %, well, I can't afford to kill
myself for SIS a MONTH Now, this Is
wrong; q man is Just as much bound to
do q months work for $40 as he is for
$50, if that is the current wages, and he
agrees to work for it he is not to do
what he considers a days work in pro-
portion to his wages, but an honest days
work. Last summer, 1 saw q man scoop
ing corn in a car; he had about so much
work to do, as he was keeping it away
from a steam shelter. He let it choke
several times; when he was asked if he
could not keep the corn out of the way
of the shelter, he replied that he could.
but swOre that he. would not for a dollar
a day. The consequence was that anOth-
er man would, and the man lost his job
Year: 1878

Nearly every stranger inquiries first for
the Burning Chat, or cremation grounds,
where the HindOOs burn their dead, and
single visit generally suffiCes. I went
there the day after my arrival, and found
an inclosed space on the banks of the


Ganges, with steps leading down to the
water. A dozen or more men were
standing around or raking the ashes of
some smOuldering heaps, and our ap-
prOaCh was the signal for an appeal for
money. On one heap was a body half
consumed the fire still burning fiercely,
and another pile, on which lay the body
of q woman, was lighted Just as We en-
tered. The wood was dry, and perhaps
had been saturated with oil; at anv rate
it famed fiercely up, so that in the little
time that we were there the work of de-
structiOn went on visibly. No patent
furnaces or other improvements are used
here; there Is only a pile Of wood and
the body that is to be cremateG. After
the body has been destroyed the ashes
are thrown into sacred river, form of
sepUlture eminently satisfactory to the
piOus HindOO. Formerly, the cremation
was more theoretical than real, as the
men appointed to perform the work


would put the most of the money for
wood into their pockets, and throw the
body into the river after it was hardly
more than scorched. COrpses floating in
the Ganges were an hourly sight, and
sometimes dozens might be seen in a sin
gle day. Complaint was SO general that
the government stepped in and ha}
something to say; it did not endeayOr to
put stop to cremation but it required the
work to be thoroughly performed, an3
stationed policemen at the CHAT to see
that its orders were carried out.
Year: 1878

-Stilson Hutchins, Of the Washington
Post, remarked in a personal para
graph that Senator COnOver ought to
shoot his hat, "a terrible old white SOM
brenO with a disreputable black band
adding that the bill for a new hat
ought to be sent to the Post. Mr.. Como
yer thereupOn selected a s. soft hat and
sent in the bill, which was paid. The
undismayed editor chronicles the fact,
and adds: " If any body can be found in
the city who is dealing in new heads we
will pay for one dozen for the use Of the
Senaten
Year: 1878

IT NEVER COME.-We never have a
tomorrow; it is simply a world Of pro
pheCies. 1t has been said that the two
great pleasures of living are in having
something to love and something to
hope for, and the last Of these is ever be
fore us in the promise Of tomorrow
Tomorrow we may not know, and It Is
well that it is thus ordained to be, for
beyond the invisible veil that conceals
alike its coming joys and sorrOws, our
fancy may revel OnIy in what is beauti-
ful and fair, nor see the gloom or shadow
Of coming trials and Werldly Affections,
that, could We anticipate as fixed reali-
ties that were certain to come, would
mar all our peace and enjoyment Of the
present. It is well for US that We cannot
withdraw the veil which hides our fu-
ture.
Year: 1878

Stay stay at home, my heart, and rest;
Housekeeping hearts are happiest,
For those that wander they know not where
Are full Of trouble and full or care:


To stay at home is best.
Weary and hOmesick and distressed
They wander east, they wander west,
And are bafied and beaten and blown about
By she winds Of the wilderness Of doubt;


To stay at home Is best.
Then stay at home, my heart, and rest;
The bird is safest in its nest:
Der all that hutter their wings and fly
A hawk is lowering in the sky.


To stay at home is best.
Year: 1878

CURIOUS VITALITY OF A CAr.-Last night
one of our German fellow citizens was
aroused at midnight by tine continuous new
ing of d neighLor's black cat that had OBJ
tanned access to his garret and was making
the frosty air hldeous with its melodious
warblings. After lying awake until patience
ceased 10 be virtue, he arose in his wrath,
procured rope, and proceeded to put stop
TO the hideous sounds He chased the cat
about the garret, over bandboXes, old fash


ioned trunks and disused stovepipe he
baTked three of his shins, knocked hole IN
the tail of his dressing gown Tor whatever he
had on), hale scalPed himself on a raiter that
appeared to come down just as he was raising
himself up broke kerosene lamp into
flinders, slipped and came down in the light
ed OIL, which was promptly extinguished,
much to his relief and finally caught the
cat He tied one end of the rope around its
neck, opened the window, and fastening the
other eud to a raiter threw the cat out He
closed the window and all was still. This
morning he united the rope from the rafter
and went cautiously to the window aud raised
it. The cat looked up with a plaintive ex-
preston of fcOuntenance, and before he could
realize the situation it came hand over hand
up the rope to the window, and with one
wild veil dove past him, drawing the rope
from his hand and dashing down stairs and
into the parlor Here the rope caught
around various articles of vertu from the
'Fatherland, including q valuable meer-
schaum pipe on the mantel-piece and two
vases embossed with the portraits of the
Emperor William and Frederick Charles.
which he wouldn't have taken $50 for, all Of
which were smashed to pieces. Finally he
opened the front door and encouraged the
cat to escape into the street mime Him
mel, " he cried when he returned to the par
lor and gazed on the fragments of his favor
lite meerschaum, 'de next time you can sing
until you faint away. Middleton Argus.
Year: 1878

MIXED MISERY INpEEp.-A Pennsylvania
plper tells the following \ Portsmouth
man was going East with his wife last week,
and the tram started of very suddenly while
he was talking with his friends. He grabbed
hold of a woman, chucked her on the tram,
Jumped after her, and away they went nifty
miles an hour. with his wife shrieklnS and
tearing her hair ON the platform, and wo-
man he never saw before going into high
pressuro histories in the car. calling him
monster and yelling ''Save me = by terri
BILE mistake he had got hold of the wrong
woman, and the conductor, refusing to listen
to his explanations, kicked HIM out OF tie
ear, the brakeman chucked him into tie
ditch, the sheriff met him before he was half
wnv back to town and put the handouts on
him. and when at last he got home he saw
his business partner holding his wife on bis
lap and telling her that there were men In
the world who loved her much better than
her faithless husband ever did. He says the
next time he travels he will walk.
Year: 1878

|


When the Potter Comm 3ittee cornmen


eel its Investigations, truthful "Jim-
my" Anderson was the great swamp
angel canon that was to burst up the
great Republican fraud and drive Hayes
from the White House, but it was not
long before the conspirators found that
the recoil Of that gun killed more at
the breech than the muzzle. Jimmy"
was found to be an unmitigated liar
and fraud, and at every step the
Committee have taken they have found
themselves to be completely foiled. 1t
is no longer now secret that Potter
and the other Democrats on the commit
tee, are heartily disgusted with ;he
whole affair, and now see that it can
only result in injury to their own par
ty, and perhaps make them lose the
House Of Representatives. Not one Of
the charges that have been made
against any Of the Republican leaders
has yet been substantiated. The at
tempt to prove a conspiracy to cheat
Tilden out of his election, has proved a
miserable failure, and the witnesses
brought forward for that purpose have
been covered with shame and confusion.


If anything was wanted to complete
ly overthrow the testimony Of Ander-
son, it was Mr.. T. A. Jenks, always a
creditable man, who showed that An
derson simply lied when he swore that
there was no intimidation in the Felici-
anas, and he also showed that long be-
fore then, Anderson had been in COM
munication with the Democratic Com
mittee, and had received from them a
draft for a considerable amount Of
money for not signing the protest. As
if this we're not enough to break down
the case, Mrs. jerks, sharp French
lady, comes upon the stand, and turns
the investigation into ridicule, and,
strange to say, she acknowledges to
having written the Sherman letter to
Anderson, as the letter wanted some
guaranty, that he would be paid for
doing what was right. The longer the
investigation is prolonged the greater
the farce becomes, and must end in q
more dismal failure than is even now
expected. Mr.. Potter and his committee
have been woefully misled by Ander-
son, and outwitted by the smart little
French woman, Mrs. Jenks, and the
best thing they can do will be to "pot-
ter" away to the mountains during the
dog-days, and come back to the next
session Of Congress admitting their
errors. ...
Year: 1878

WE UNDERSTAND that officer Br'ckle
had . warrant for the arrest of Jackson
whom he let escape, and search war;
rant for the house in which Williams.
whom he shot. lived. We state this
much as we have heard it and will here
after give other facts as we can find
them out. There is always some trol-
bic to get at the bottom facts of a case
that is SO much bedaubed with white
wash. We will give tomorrow the
names Of the jury so far as we can OBJ
tain them.