smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1875

have saved her, but they werc out Of order. The
ship might have been towed into shallow water by
tho Iron Duke, but Capt. Dawkins gave no order
He and the officers under him, Commander Tandy,
Navigating-Lieut. Thomas Chief-Engineer Brown,
aud Mr.. David Tiddy carpenter of Her Majestys
ship Vanguard, are one and all reprimanded, and
Capt. Dawkins, with a kind of grim irony, is dis
missed from the ship which he has himself already
dismissed to the bottom of the channel 1t is simple
ruin to him professionally to the others also,
suppose The other subordinate officers of the Van
guard get of scot free.


la all this the grave fact is the amazing state of
discipline Of the British navy suddenly revealed
Or not 80 much of discipline of character, of pro-
fessional accomplishment and morale, of resource
capacity and that readiness TO meet emergencies
which once distinguished the British seaman. and
which seems TO have departed from him. Were the
croakers right who said you never could make sea-
man on a steamship Scientific knowledge is very
well in its way but it will never supply tie want of
higher qualities, and it is possible the dependence
on science has become too great ship is a vast
machine full Of delicate enginery, and her captain
must know every bolt and screw in It, no doubt.
But he must know winds and waves also, not less
familiary than of yore, and there must be an en-
ginepy inside himself also of which hc can be sure
when the moment for swift decision and cour-
ageous act. II is mainly the want of that which
sent the Vanguard to the bottom.


Macbeth has been drawing crowded houses at the
Iyceum all the week. and bids fair to have long
run. The critics in variety of minds abont it
those especially of the weekly journals published to-
day. The Times pronounced 1t an "indubitable sue
cess" the other daily papers mostly considered Mr.
Iryings conception of the character mistake, but
his acting of his conception very faithful, and


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is remarkable that he has found support for his view
in journal of such critical severity The Spectator
In fact we are landed suddenly in the midst of n
inquiry into the play, which hardly fail to
do good since it must promote fresh study of Shake
speare Something about this hope to write you
next week. There is n cordial and well deserved
recognition of the admirable preparation and mount
ing Of the play by Mrs. Batcman, who had Mr..
Irvings assistance in its general supervision


The piece which prccedcs Macbeth every evening,
A Happy Pair is a clever one, most cleverly acted
by Miss Virginia Francis whose delicate and piGuan
style belongs rather to the French than the English
hoOsc c. W. S.
Year: 1875

Stop that Cough MANY hesitate
to try remidy for a disease, on ac-
count of the expense, connected with
the uncertainty Of it's benefting them:
while at the same time, had they con-
fdeuce in that remidy, the expense
would be the least objection: With
this fact in view, we make the follow
ing proposition Any person suffer
ing with cold, cough or sore throat
that viii call at F. j. Wood S
Drug store and purchase a bottle of
HALEs CoUGH CORDIAL, use one
half of it, and if they then conclude
that it is doing them no good, they can
return the bottle and receive back
their money.


No medicine ever sold in this vicin-
ity, has produced such magical results.
Don't fail to try it. .'


ORANGE WILLIAMS, Prop,


46-6m GAINESVILLE Wis.
Year: 1875

Early yesterday morning the Secretary
OF State consulted Attorney General Field
IN regard to the request made by Lieu.
tenant Governor Antoine and Speaker
Hahn, in relation to the appropriation bill
They charged that the bill, as deposited in
the Secretary Of States Office, is forgery,
and requested the Secretary to revoke and
annul his proclamation Of the same made
officially in the REPUBLICAN,. The Secre-
tary's cor Insulation with the Attorney Gen
eral resulted in a decision that he had no
authority to revoke the PRONUNCIATION. The
bill came to him from the Governor,
who had approved il. His approval
was deemed as good authority to the
mind OF the Secretary that it was cor
rect; and when the act reached him
through the proper channel he had a
simple duty to perform, and that was
to furnish a certified copy to the
official journal for publication This he
had done, and there ais duty in connection
with the bill ended. II the act as it came
from the Governor was not correct COPY
of the bill which passed the General As.
sembly, and was attested by the officers
thereof, it was 40 fault of the Secretary;
nor does lie seem to consider that it is any
part of his business to investigate matter
of this kind.


The PRONUNCIATION of the bill will proba-
bsy stand. As it has been asserted that the
appropriation bill as it passed the Legisla-
ture, and was approved bv the Goyarnor
and sent to the Secretary of State, had
been DESTROYED, it may be proper to State
here that this is not the case. The original
copy of the hill as sent to the Secretary of
State is now on file in that Office. An in
spection OF the bill will satisfy any one that
changes have been made, but By whom or
where it is impossible to say.
Year: 1875

To-day Colonel Jack Wharton will be
commissioned Adiutant General OF the
State, vice H. Street. removed.


Colonel Wharton il a gentleman and a
soldier, having served with distinction as
colonel of a Confederate. regiment in the
late war. Since the close of the war he has
accepted the situation of affairs in good
faith, and is believed to be in full unison
with the administrations of President
Grant and Governor Kellogg. 1t is safe to
predict that be Will make a valuable assist
ant to the executive.
Year: 1875

We learn that this distinguished orator
will visit New Orleans during the present
month. and deliver one or more of her
lectures here. Joan of Arc" whats to
Hinder" and "Men's Rights" are the titles
she has given to three of her orations,
among other subjects for discussion. Miss
Dickinson is a most entertaining speaker
She is original and eloquent, and her speak
ing will be novelty in this city.
Year: 1875

The severe snow storm which rag.l n
Mount Washington Saturday was n pre-
monition of winter which must have been
keenlv felt bv persons who were snow
bound at the Summit House. But barri' 4
the delay to which they may have been
subjected. the experience was doubtless
not disagreeable. for the view will gain in
picturesquentss from the contrast of the
snow with the vendure which it mantles.
Nothing can be finer than the glimpses of
the mountains with their first baptism of
snow As it CLEANS in beauty amid the dark
green masses that surround it. From the
Conway Intervale this view is particularly
fine. and people who are now in the noun
tain will bs we'll repaid for the lingering
stay which will give them the unrivalled
beauty of au .umnal foliage, crowned by
| he snowy caps of the White Hills.
Year: 1875

The GALLOws.-Frank Smith was
negro murderer of Texas. and he was
Justly led to the gallows a short time since
in Montague county. AS always happens
at colored executions, an immense crowd
was present when the negro was led
upon the platform. He Imade fervent
PRAYER. and after it addressed the people.
He confessed his crime, land so exhorted his
Year: 1875

THE PATCH or SUNILGHr.-The day
had been overcast Suddenly the sun
shons out. and a little patch Of sunshine
brightned the corner of the carpet. I'm
mediately Tray got up, and with wise
Year: 1875

in these sitting days it may be well for busy
people who cannot get holiday to remember how
cheaply they can have an hour of cool breczes and
inyigorating salt air before they go to their shops
and offices, after the turmoil Of business is over.
There are half "a dozen i.tc steamboats, which rush
down the harbor and back again several times in the
course of the day, to Sandy Hook to Conoy Island


to the South Shore of Staten Island, and TO many
other places and a sail on almost any Of them which
goes beyond the Narrows is wonderful lefresher
costing very little and taking little time. pleasant
suggestion Of the rocking motion of the great deep
is felt there i'll the lower bay, and the winds of
ocean bring you health. appetite, and good humor
Then YOU may enjoy at the Same time one of the
most beautiful marine views in the world, and may
hap you will bc in season for some such inc specta
Year: 1875

All accounts of the international rifle match
agree in describing it as scene of wild ex-
ctement among the spectators that must have
been very trying to the rifemen. Few people
are so constituted that the sentiments of a
fierce crowd, of which they are the
center, do not affect them. We may
well suppose that the angry roar of
their countrymen at every miss made by
the Irish team, had dsheartenng effect. 1t
is not IN Irish nature, if in human nature at
ALL to accept such demonstrations with indif-
ference. The mere noise and disorder may
Year: 1875

If the damage by the inundations in France
has been very great the measures for relieving
the sufferers have also begun on large scale.
The fact that two hundred thousand dollars
have already been contributed for this purpose
in France, speaks well for the generosity of
that nation.
Year: 1875

That increased facilities for the distribu-
ton of our water supply are needed was
pretty clearly demonstrated by the letter of
Chief Engineer Bates to the President OF the
Fire Commission. The subject is further con-
sidered in the statements, drawn from official
sources published to-day in THE TRIBUNE.
Gen. Porter's plan of remedying the defects Of
the present system by the laying of new mains
forthe benefit of the districts needing more water
seems to be judicous, and if this plan Is to be
adopted the present season Is, for many rea-
sons, the best for carrying it into effect.
recent act of the Legislature authorized the
expenditure of 100000 for laying down new
mains and otherwise improving the water sup
pv, and this fund might be properly drawn
upon. But the Common Council III this, as i'll
other respects, stands between the public and
needed legislation. 1t is high time for the
members of this body to be done with par
tisan quarrel which so impcdes all important
business.
Year: 1875

The address of Gov. Chamberlain of South
Carolina before the Yale Law School yesterday
is notable for its utteranccs on political
topics of present importance. Gov. Chamber
lain was Union soldier and has lived i'll the
South during the entire period of Recon>truc-
ton. His ability is unQucstioned and while
all his earlier ventures in public life do not
seem to bear the test of severe scrutiny, he
has been an admirable Governor and is now
the leader of the Reform party, composed OF
both Republicans and Conservatives, i'll South
Carolina. When. therefore, he discusses
National powers and State rights and pro-
nounces verdict upon the experiment OF
universal suffrage, he speaks whereof he knows
and his views will command attention. Gov.
Chamberlain also speaks intelligcntly and
wisely on the currency question, Ill regard to
which there seems to be such a disposition III
the South to go astray. A full abstract of this
address may be found on our fourth page this
morning.
Year: 1875

At a meeting of the bondhOlders of the
Northern Pacific Railroad in this city ycster-
day, large amount of the securities OF the
Company was represented. Harmony OF feel
ing appeared to pervade the meeting. and if
all present did not entirely share the high
hopes expressed by Gen. Cass and Others OF
future prosperity for the line they seemed to
think that their prospects would he much
bettercd by the adoption of the plan of reor-
ganization presented for their considerations
The marked desire to work together for a
common end shown by the bondholders GER
tanly gives vastly more encouragement that
the road may be extricated from its worst
difficulties than if, as is now the case with so
many other embarrassed railroads, there were
half dozen parties, each striving to save some
thing from the general wreck, and to get all
the advantage possible over the rest.
Year: 1875

Fresh discoveries of gold i'll the Black HILLS
region. are announced by our correspondent.
A small detachment left the main body Of the
expedition, and has crossed the unexplored
country from the eastern to the western slope
of the mountains. Two of the party are said
to be biologists. The report brought back is
not vet given in detail, but there can be little
doubt as to its main feature-tile discovery of
gold-bearing quartz. Further particulars in
addition to those already furnished by telc-
graph respecting the party of 100 miners found
at work in Clusters Gulch, show that their
enterprise is fairly profitable. The troops at
every halt spend their moments OF leisure i'll
washing for gold, and occasionally scrape to-
ecther few grains of the precious metal {:
whether there is an abundance of it i'll that re-
gion, where ice and snow are found in June,
can only be ascertained by careful survey.
But if the Black Hills, like the KilmanSegg
family, have gold and gold and gold without
end, they can only confer pttance on the
greater part of the throng that is ready to in
wade them.
Year: 1875

difficulties, on Freshman River. His letter
printed to-day does not promise that the other
crews will find in Amherst a formidable com
petitor. but it tells of plucky set OF men
who may be capable of giving their friends
most agreeable surprise on the great day at
Saratoga In such contests it is not an unheard-
of thing for the last to become first.
Year: 1875

Progress has been made in the matter of
having down town hospital. The offer of
the Governors of the NewYork Hospital, to
fit up a vacant police station for the purpose,
has been accepted. Only one more knot of
red tape has TO be united, to carry out this
benevolent project. We may hope for its exc
cutiOn within few days, but while the hot
weather continues every hours delay adds TO
the probabilities of loss of life for the want
of it.


In the course of his rambles among the Col
iege boatmen. our special correspondent has
found The Amherst crew in training, under
Year: 1875

The letter of Mayor Wickham giving rea-
Sons for the reduction of the wages of laborers
employed on city works is worthy OF better
audience than was given by the disorderly
asscmblage at Masonic Hall last night.
The meeting seems to have been called by
honest and intelligent wOykingmcn, and was
at first in their hands, but presently assumed
the form of an unthinking mob The Mayors
points are well taken and respectfully pre-
sented and the fact that they were not better
received is a reflection only upon the motives
and manners of the men who in the guise OF
workingmen are trying to mold the opinions
of the laboring classes for their own selfish
political ends.
Year: 1875

AS the Investigations of the Assembly Com
mittee proceed, the evidence grows blacker
against the police captains accused of receiving
money from the keepers of disorderly houses
There is always the difficulty about this class
of offenses that the testimony to prove them
comes from persons leading more or less dis
reputable lives but where the amount OF 1t IS
so considerable, its quantity makes up for lack
of quality. Disgraceful as are these fcvela-
tons. it is only by exposure that such cor
ruption can be checked.
Year: 1875

Gentlemen: l close with this hour II
six years service as Speaker Of the House
OF representatives. period surpassed
in length by but two Of my predecessors,
and equaled BY only two others. The
rapid mutations Of personal and political
fortune in this country have limited the
great majority of those who have Occu-
pied this chair to shorter terms of office.


1t would be the gravest insensibiIity to
the honors and responsibilities of life, not
to be deeply touched by 50 signal mark
of public esteem as that which | have
thrice received at the hands Of my polti-
cal associates. desire in this last mo-
ment to renew to them, one and all, my
thanks and my gratitude.


To those from whom | differ in my
party relations-thc minority of this
House, tender my Acknowledgements
for the generous courtesy with which
they have treated me. By one of those
sudden and decisive changes which dis
tinguish popular institutions, and which
cOnspcuously mark II free people that
minority is transformed in the ensuing
Congress to the governing power of the
House. It might possibly have been
under other circumstances, that event
necessarily renders these word, my fare
well to the Chair.


The Speaker.hip of the American
House of Representatives is a post of
honor, of dignity, Of power, Of response
bility. Its duties are at once complex
and continuous: they are both oncrous
and delicate they are performed in the
broad light Of day, under the eye Of the
whole people, subject at all times 10 the
closest observation, and always after ded
with the sharpeSt criticism. think no
other Official Is held to such instant and
such rigid accountability. Parliament
tary rulings in their very nature are per-
emptory: almost absolute in authority
and instantaneous in effect. They can
not always be enforced in such way a.
to win applause or secure popularity; but
/ am sure that no man of any party who
is worthy to FIJI this chair will ever see a
dividing line between duty and policy.


Thanking you once more, and thank
ing you most cordially for the honorable
testimonial you have placed on record 70
my credit, ! perform my only remaining
duty in declaring that the Forty-Third
Congress has reached lis constitutional
limit, and that the House of Representa-
tivcs stands adjourned without day.
Year: 1875

PARIS, March 4.-Difficulties in the
formation Of a new Cabinet have arisen
The Left will not consent that the repre-
sentatives Of the moderate Right shall
enter it. II the negotiations fail Presi-
dent MacMahon will form a ministry
without further consultation with the
parties in the Assembly.
Year: 1875

leave behind any relic of ill-feeling, and
suggested that there should come from
the other side "a motion to expunge the
resolution of censure.


Mr.. Negley-If you make that motion,
do not put on that trashy letter.


Mr.. Butler of Observation-Disclosures is
my response to that


Sending up resolution TO give the
clerks of the committees two months
pay from the 4th of March, which was
adopted.


Mr.. Speer-That was unworthy of the
gentleman from Massachusetts,


Mr.. Dawes said the gentleman from
Kentucky Brown was in the House
and could at once put the House in such
position that the House might gladly
wipe out any thing that reflected on his
honor.


Mr.. Todd remarked that the gentle
man Brown had been asked whether
he had any explanation to make of his
language, and he had said he stood by
MS words.


Mr.. Randall withdraw the subject
from the consideration of the House.


Mr.. Dawes said it would delight him,
rs he was about to leave the house. to
contribute to the wiping out of whatever
there was in that resolution painful to
the gentleman from Kentucky, and that
the gentleman had now an opportunity
to place himself before the country in
the light in which every gentleman
unnlI like IN stand


Mr.. Randall reminded the House that
yesterday the resolution of censure Oh
Simon Cameron had been rescinded and
that to-day resolution had been passed
highly complimentary to the Speaker.
[ Mocking laughter from the Republican
side lie withdrew the subject from
before the House ut A. NJ.


The Senate amendments to the
river and harbor appropriation bill
were nonconcurrcd in without being read
and sent TO conference committee.


The House again took up the business
on the Speakers table and disposed of a
number of Senate bills.
Year: 1875

The Hawaiian treaty will probably be
the first business considered by the Senate
in extra session convened for tomorrow.
Tobacco and the manufacture Of tobacco
will be added to the list of American pro-
ducts t. be admitted free Of duty into
Hawaii
Year: 1875

On one account, however, we regret that
the lecture to the Winnebago Gransers did
not come off. The address would naturally
have dealt mainly with the elevation of labor
and certain questions connected with capital,
and the suggestions of the ex-President Of
the Southern Confederacy on one, and the
advice of Mississippi repudiator on the
other, delivered to the Honest Farmer intent
upon swindling his creditors, would have been
an entertaining, if not an instructive address
Nation.


The Cincinnati Commercial congratulates
itself as follows on the promised appearance
Of Henry Clay Dean in Ohio: "He is man
who says what he means, and he means the
population of the national debt. He does
no take the trouble to preach up imitation as
an interme diary process. He goes for re-
pudiation first, last, and all the time. He is
comparatively an honest man. When he
talks we shall get at the true inwardness OF
the Ohio Democra cy."


The Hon. F, W. Bird has written a letter
to the Tribune rebuking its attacks on Judge
Thurman for supporting the rag-money party
in Ohio. Now this happens to be one of the
special claims which the Tribune has on us
for respect, its faithful adherence to the doc
trtne of hard money, the one question of
importance-now that slavery has passed
away-which is to be met in the next cam
pa ign. Mr.. Bird says what is wanted first is
not financial reform, but root and branch
reform in the whole public SERVICE" and,
therefore, be would put Democrats in office!
What has the Democratic party ever done for
reform in the last thirty years? Can one
item be mentioned? When attempts have
been made to reform our civil service, whence
have they come? Has one Democrat favored
them? Has not Democracy been q unit in
opposition? The tact is that corruption is
not peculiarly Republican virtue. Even
Mr.. Bird could not have the face to say that
the Republican voters are less honest and
reputable than the Democratic. All parties
believe in honesty, and the present admins
tration, with Bristow in the Treasury and
Jewell in the PosJ-ofice, is quite as honest as
any that have gone before it. A Republican
victory will mean an honest currency, which
is the coming issue. and will protect the rights
of the negro, which is the issue now passing
away.-Independ
Year: 1875

an earnest desire to justify your generous conf
dence, and a strong regard for the honor and wel-
rare OF our State inspire Nth the firm reSolue TO
spare no effort and to consider other consequences
IN the endearor to discharge the duties that
''itt be incumbent on me If your choice shall prore
to be the choice of the people ALSO pledge gou and
thousands for achom you act in that event. honest
purpose and fred determination to make the public
good nay single aim and constant care.


Gen. Connor's Acceptance.
Year: 1875

YESTERDAY the Argus man thought it
about time to give the Radicals" another
dig; so he sat dowa and wrote the following
at cantering pace: ga characteristic out
break of the hellish spirit of Radicalism is
seen in Illinois. The trustees of an agricul-
tural society there, bearing in mind the les
sons of the centennial year, have invited
Robert E. Lee TO deliver an address at their
approaching fair. Gen. Lee has accepted,
but the believers in the bloody shirt"-Here
the conscientious assistant deferentially sug-
gested, 'But Gen. Lee is dead, you know"
s.Dead, is it possible?" murmured the Argus
man as pear,y tear stole down his cheek
and fell into his bosom's valley. And he
went to work on an obituary setting forth
that Gen. Lee was a lifelong Democrat, that
he had been known to walk fifty miles to
vote for Democratic presidential candidate,
that he had been subscriber to the Argus
since 1901, and that the subscription was
continued by his afflicted family. But the
Conscientious assistant prevailed upon the
argus man to withdraw the obituary.
Year: 1875

We do not read anonymous letters and cemmuni-
cations. The name and address of the writer are in
all cases Indispensable not necessarily for publication
but as a guaranty of good faith.


We cannot undertake to return or reserve commu-
ncations that are NOT used