smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1873

The only youth saved from the wreck makes the following statement

 Myname is John Hinley. lam about twelve years of age. got on board the Atlantic at Liverpool, with my mother, father, and young brother. We all be- longed to Ashton, Lancashire. The first thing worth mentioning that he knew of was that he was asleep in his berth when Q great noise awakened him, although he did not hear any voices. There seemed to be @ great rush, and he stumbled out of bed and into the crowd. The greater portion passed him, but he saw six men crowding into a top berth in the upper steerage, and he followed them. One of the men broke through Q window and got out, and the boy did the same, one kind hearted individual pushing him through before he had made the egress himself. Once outside he held on by the ropes until himself and his companions were rescued by the life boat What became of his parents and brother he did not know, but is certain that they were drowned. The family were on their way to New York at the invitation of two married daughters settled there.

 The crew was one of the hardest that was ever gathered in any vessel. They were picked up about the Liverpool wharves and docks, and it was with the greatest difficulty that they were kept under control during the voyage.

 The storekeeper says that one of them made an attempt to snatch his watch and chain one night, but was foiled. On another occasion, during the storm of the 25th of March, he states that some of the crew attempted to break into the spirit-room, and it was for 6 while feared that force would have tc be used to prevent them. When the boats came from the shore to rescue the survivors the sailors repeatedly pushed the passengers aside or knocked them down and jumped into the boats them. selves.
Year: 1873

AN ILLUSTRATION There was very good illustration of the profit of much greater wars and battles, in combat which occurred the other day in Port land, Me. A Scotchman and a colored man fought for ten cent scrip which one of them had found and to render everything complete, while they were fighting, bystander stole the monetary bone of contention.
Year: 1873

To LET A COLD HAVE ITS OWN WAY is to assist in laying the foundation of Consumption. To cure the most tubborn Cough or Cold you have only to use judtciously Dr. Jayne's ExpectorRnt.
Year: 1873

It is very sad to say that the bodies were pilfaged after they washed ashore and were then turned adrift again. An emigrant with thirty soverelgns sewed in his vest was found, and all of them cut out. The robber of the dead was apprehended by the magistrate.

 A large trench was dug, in which the bodies of the poor unclaimed were put to rest.
Year: 1873

Faces were discolored and blotched red, green-yea, all manner of hideous colors and, again, there were those fair and rosy as in life. Gazing upon some of these forms one would have sworn they slept, and so strong was the illu- sion that in stepping by them the step was light, for fear of waking those who never will wake until the sound of the "last trump"

 In this awful array of bodies two faces horror one, that of a man, whose out stretched arms lent additional force to the wild expression of the widely dis tended eyes. These glared so intensely that their fixed look of despair was a force unequalled by any save that of female body, and then, indeed, was the agony of death met angrily, iercely, fu- riously, depicted with startling vivid ness on rigid lineaments and frm-set features.

 COMPREHENSIVE RAYLANoE's STATEMENT.

 Quartermaster Charles Raylance says: About twenty minutes past three o'clock I hove the log, and the ship at that time was going at the rate of twelve knots an hour. I went into the aft wheel-house and was looking through one of the windows, when fancied l saw breakers on the starboard side. I then ran forward to the lookout man on the bridge, and asked him if he did not think there were breakers on the star board side. He reported to the second officer, who telegraphed to the engine room to reverse the engine full speed astern. We both then jumped off the bridge together on to the deck. Then he gave me orders to call all hands on deck. I ran forward and burst the quartermasters' room open with my foot, and all of them. three in number, got out through the panel of the door. Then and one of them went aft and got out the rockets and fired about eight when the rocket box rolled away from us. The captain gave orders to get the boats clear and save the passen- gers. I and the: captain went to No. 3 boat and were getting her clear when he asked me if the plugs were in her; l told him they were not. As the pas sengers were huddled together in the bottom of the boat, crying, l could not get the plugs in.
Year: 1873

1t is all very well for the President
- say, as he does in his Message, that
he is extremely anxious to avoid any
appearance of undue interference in
State affairs; but words amount to
nothing when the action is so different.
The greatest tyrants often talk loudly
of liberty while they are destroying it
insiduously Nothing was better es-
tablished or more sacred in our sys-
TEN of government, up to the time of
the war, when the Republican party
came into power, than the non-inter-
ference with State affairs by the Fed
eral Government. The very basis of
American freedom was local self-gov-
ernment through the municipalities
and States. In fact, the germ of our
liberty was found in the municipal
governments of England, though it
grew and became much enlarged on
the congenial soil of America. Un-
fortunately time deserving politicians
and tyro Presidents have lost sight kf
that, and are going as fast as possible
to centralized despotism. The En-
foreemeut Act referred to, in the hands
of narrow minded or sham statesmen,
goes far to destroy the foundation of
American liberty. Ifa Federal Judge
on any pretext, from ignorance or to
serve partisan poleical purposes, can
set aside an election in Louisiana,
why not in New York or Massachu-
sets? The pretense of carrying out
the Enforcement Act of Congress
could be used in one State as we'll as
another. Only think how monstrous
it is that one man can convert the
machinery of government, defeat the
will of the people and throw a State
into anarchy? Have our liberties no
better foundation than the caprice or
partisan prejudice of one Federal Off
Ger?


There appears to be Pandora box
of troublein this enforcement Act.
The time might come when an aspir-
ing tyrant could use it as a pretext to
place large portion of the county un-
der military authority. 1t is easy to
say there has not been fair election
and that certain citizens have been
coerced to vote or restrained from vo-
ting, and then to find some flexible,
corrupt or partisan Judge to issue his
process and cause the necessity for
military interference, We have had
that on small scale in Louisiana, and
we may have it on larger one What
would follow? In all probability the
def auded and injured citizens would
revolt against such despotism, and an
archy and civil war and military rule
be the result. Judge Durell, the
other Federal office-holders of New
Orleans, the President and partisan
Congress are treading upon dangerous
grounds.-Neo York Herald
Year: 1873

KEEP STRAIGHT AHEAD.-Pay no
attention to slanderers and gossip
mongers. Keep straight on in your
course, and let their back-biting die
the death of neglect. What is the
use lying awake nights, brooding
over the remark of some false friend,
that runs through your brain like
lightning? What's the use getting
into a worry and fret oyergossip that
has been afloat to your disadvantage,
by some meddlesome busy-body, who
has more time than character ? These
things can't possibly injure you, I'M
less, indeed, you do take notice of
them, and in combating them, give
them standing and character If
what is said about you is true, set
yourself right; if it is false, let it go
for what it will fetch. Ifa bee stings
you, would you go the hive and des-
troy it? Would not a thousand come
upon you? It is wisdom to say lit
tie respecting the injuries you have
received. We are generally the losers,
if we stop to refute all the back
billings and gossipping we may hear
by the way. They are annoying, it
is true, but notdangerous so olOngas we
do not stop to expostulate and scOld.
Our characters are formed and sus-
tanned by ourselves, by our own ac-
tiOns and purposes, and not by Others.
Let US always bear in mind that seal
umniators may usually be trusted to
time, and the slow but steady justice
of public opinion
Year: 1873

To YOUNG MEN.-How, after the
duties of the day are over, do you
employ your evenings? This is a
question ofimportance. If you have
no regular employment, no fixed
pursuits to eEgross your attention
and operate as a stimulus to the
mind when unemployed, you must,
of necessity, have many leisure and
unoccupied hours-intervals when
time will hang hkavily on your
hands, and suggest the necessity of
some means to relieve it ofits weight.
The very time which is dissipated in
idleness would, If devoted to study,
enable many a young man to obtain
eminence and distinction in some
useful art.
Year: 1873

TRUE PoLITENEss.-H who has q
heart glowing with kindness and
good will towards his fellow-men,
and who is guided in the exercise of
those feelings by good common sense,
is the truly polite man. Politeness
does not consist in wearing q white
silk glove, and gracefully lifting your
hat AS you meet an acquaintance; it
does n OF consist in artificial smiles
and fiattering speech, but in silence
and honest desires to promote the
happiness of those around you; in
the readiness to sacrifice your own
ease and comfort to add to the enjoy
ment of others.
Year: 1873

AS a man on bridge waiting for
his friend plucks a handful of weeds
and flowers, and in the caprice of inn
patience, drops another and another
in the flood beHeath without discrim =
ination and without respect to the
beautiful above the mean, to the bud
ding sprig more than to the decaying
stalk, intent only to mark how they
are borne away by the current; so is
the dispensation of death over ths
children of men.
Year: 1873

A Acouple Of Yanke girls put bull
frog in a hired mans bed to see il
they could not get him to talk
Daniel threw the frog out Of the win
dow and never said a word. Soon
after he put half bushel of chestnut
burs in the girls bed; and about the
time he thought they would make the
least shadow, Daniel went to the
door and ratified it furiously. Out
went the candle, and in went the
girls, but theydidn't stick, though
the burs did.
Year: 1873

TIC PREVENT FELoNs HEADING,
Take black pepper in the kernel
and pulverize well; then soak the
pepper with spirits Of turpentine and
apply to the felon as a poultice. IL
this remedy is used when the felon
first makes its appearances, IL is q
certain cure In few applications.
Year: 1873

An old subscriber writes that they
have fire-fiies so large in his neighbor-
hood that they use them to cook by.
They hang the kettle on their hind
legs, which are bent for the purpose
like pot-hooks.
Year: 1873

Everybody loves the virtuous,
whereas the vicious do scarcely love
one another Upon the same sub
ject an Arabian happily observed
that he learned virtue from the bad,
for their wickedness inspired him
with q distaste of vice.
Year: 1873

WEsrvnLE, May 18.-The shaft at the
Drummond mine was sounded this morn.
iug, and the indications were that the
water was rising rapidly. Its the inten.
lion TO cover the shaft with timber and
planklnC, on which earth and other
material will be placed to exclude the air
and still preserve the shalt 20 that aS soon
"a the fire is extinguished itmAy be utilized
for the purpose Of pumping out water from
the mine. This morning there was
scarcely any smoke coming from the
shaft, but the presence Of black damp
was very percephble; q fact considered
by old minerS 70 be very favorable, as It
indicates that the fire is rapidly de-
creasing, and all danger Of mora
explosions arc over. II Is thought
that Gfter all the shafts are filled


there will be sufficient quantity Of car.
bonic acid gas in the mine to etfecutAlly
put out the fire. Deep stiffness prevails
ln and around the neighborhood. Nearly
all tho stores in WeStVille are still closed,
The miners At the other works have not
yet resumed work.
Year: 1873

No Il is Just rcsplcndcnt with new goods. 1t
never was so well filed with goods as at present.
The stock is large and complete and every de.
partmcnt is crowded and no detail is lacking.


The line of dress goods is very attractive and
Is wanting in nothing that is new and pretty.


The dry good department is also more than
full.


The stock OF groceries ia also very large


In TACT this is the most complete assortment Of
dry goods, dress goods ard groceries ever opcn.
ed in this popular store.


We must not omit to mention the large line of
hannels and blankets, and above all the special
bargain offered in shaws.


They have, too, splendid stur.
Year: 1873




A MIssTArIMEST- Tribune, in
speaking of the Naval School, says: "We
notice that Master B own, the last Ore
gon appointee, has just resigned. being
unable to continue the course of study
and exercise followed in the Academy" "
In justice to the boy alluded to, we feel
constrained to say that the cause as
signed for his resignation is a pure in
vention of the editor and not the result
of any notice" which he had ever seen
of the fact. Young Brown was tie
youngest cadet in the Academy when he
entered, and the youngest in his class
when he resigned, and maintained his
standir G with boys two and three years
older than himself through three exami-
nations, when on each examination more
than one half of his class were lroppeti
out; and after standing these tests Of
ability and endurance, he resigned in
the middle of ar academic term, for
reasons entirely satisfactory to himself
and bis parents. and acceptable to the
Secretary of the Navy. We impute no
malice to the editor Of the Tribune for
his misstatement.f for his laundering hab-
it of presenting personal facts makes
him greater terror to his friends than
20 his enemies.
Year: 1873

RECIPROCITY The Olympia Courier,
in speaking of the proposition for secip-
rocity in trade with the Sandwich Is
lands. says sit is of doubtful propriety to
enter into any such arrangements with
any people. We know this objection
is in accord with the policy of the rnl-
ing party of the country. but whai is
the sense or philosophy of it? Who
would beinjnred by abolishing all the du-
ties and restrictions upon commerce be-
4ween ourselves and neishburing na-
tions. Protection to home industry :"
is the transparent sophistry by which
the prote ctive tariff system is sustained.
But who does it protect? Certainly not
the laborer for it inhances the cost of
his living to q much greater degree than
it increases his wages, while it offers no
restriction upon the importa ion of
cheap laborers. Under this system We
compel every laboring man to pay from
so to $50 per cent premium upon every
manufactured article, and upon the sn-
gar, tea, coffee, and spices which he uses
in his family, and leave tie labor mark
ct open to the unrestricted competition
of the surplus populations of the world.
With free trade our products would sell
i>atr OF .yronttv aE runPad
rates and we could buy the products of
cheap, or pauper labor, for a great deal
less than we now do. We now supply
our British neighbors with fruit. vegeta-
bles, beef, pork, and mutton; all sub
iected to large duties, and buy Of them
manufactured articles subject to rluch
heavier duties. If these duties were
abolished we could sell for much more
and buy for much less than we now do.
Who profits by this Not the producer,
the consumer, the merchan: Or the trans
porter; but the capitalist solely. Is it
good policy in free government to
compel tribute to capital at the expense
of all the inhabitants of the country


Call this tariff revenue or protective,
it amounts in degree to the same thing.
Under no tariff system ever in operation
in this country did the Government re-
alize ten per cent. of its actual cost 10
the people. The system is false in econo-
my, oppressive in its operations, and
hostile to free government. 1t is the
fi,st principle of freedom that all men
are entitled to the full enjoyment of the
products of their own labor. subject only
to such direct contributions as are ne
cessary for the maintainance of organ
lied government for the protection OF
their rights. To restrict citizens in the
natural right to the free interchange of
the products of their own industry, is
to exercise arbitrary power at the ex-
pense of personal freedom.
Year: 1873

n The Tribune says Judge o. B.
McFadden has received notification
from the Department at Washington to
the effect that there was a vacant cadet
ship in the Naval Academy at Annapo-
lis, subject to his nomination. The
Judge has no one selected for the place.
and we hope he will make no ncmina
ton. The appointment is delusion
and snare to any boy who accepts it
from this Territory, unless he has pow
erful friends in the Government who
will see to him. The Navy has no use TO,
one-teEth of the number of officers
which are provided for at the Academy.
and hence the surplus must be got rid
of by hook or crook; cadets from dis
-tance being almost certain to be made
the victims. During the last three
years Mr.. Garfielde has nominated three
of as promising youths as could be
found i'll the Territory, all of whom
were rejected and sent home at their
own expense as they came, which was
not less than $500 to each. deeply NOR
titled at their failure. The first one of
these is now, at the age Of 10. commanS-
ing a Columbia river steamer with an
ability rarely exhibited at that age, the
second is leading student in the Terri
torial University, and the third carried
off the prize in competitive examina-
ton. Four or five from Oregon We're
successfully rejected or dismissed. and
the last cadet from that State, after
maintaining his position in the Academy
for two years and half, by appealing
to the Secretary of the Navy against an
arbitrary dismissal, resigned in the
middle Of tenn, and is now setting
type in this Office as a preference. Ii
in view of these facts any partial father
Of promising boy is willing to expend
900 or 5000 in the experiment. Judge
McFadden has the power to offer him
the privilege.
Year: 1873

! In the San Francisco lumber market
the orders from the interior are reported
remarkably large. This is the evidence
and measure of the progress of improve
ment. The coming season promises to
be good one for carpenters and build
-fYg
Year: 1873




OREGON Journalism. - Mr.. Charles
Newell, for some months past managing
editor of the Herald, becoming disgust
ed with the idea of making his party
merely an organization tor fighting a
single individual, a short time since an
nounced his purpose to change the tone
of the paper in reference to Ben Holli-
day, and to treat that distinguished in
dividual in the future with the courtesy
due TO a man engaged in a great public
enterprise in which the people Of the
State were deeply interested, and not as
the sole antagonist of the Democratic
party. To disinterested outsiders this
seemed sensible change, not at all af-
fecting the party character of the paper,
but the Oregon Democratic press and
politicians took a decidedly different
view of the matter. they regard it as the
foulest kind of treachery and a sale of
the Democratic party outrlght,and New
ell Is denounced by every opprobious
epithet SO common to Oregon Journal
ism. From this, as also from the tone
Of the Republican journals no other
conclusion can be arrived at than that
the parties formerly existing in that
State have been merged in n Holiday
and an Anti Holiday party, and that no
other political distinction are row re
cognized in that State, and our personal
observations, while recently i'll Port
land. confirmed that i'm ression. The
two factions are headed respectively by
the Holiday ring and the "Salem
ring The former is sustained by the
vast sums of money brought 20 the State
for pnblic Improvements; the latter by
pickings from the public treasury. The
former has enriched, while corrupting
the people; the latter has only enriched
themselves at the expense of the peo
pie. The Intelligent portion of masses
are thoroughly disgusted with the parti-
zan management of both, and are anxi-
ously looking for some organized plan
to redeem the State from its present
thraldom. We respectively commend
to them the example of Washington
Territory, in cutting loose from party
dictation and asserting the right OF the
people to rule without the Intervention
of professional politicians.


A FAILURE.-A Washington telegram
of tie 31st ult. to the New York papers
says:


1t is said the principle of Civil Ser
vice reform is about to be abandoned by
the Government as impracticable under
our present political system. George
W. Curtis has withdrawn from the ad-
visory board, being opposed to certain
appointments recently made irrespective
of the Civil Service rules. There is no.
body left on the board of any influence
Year: 1873

TRIAL OF THE WATER WITcH STEAMER.-The
agent and engineer having arrived in this CITY, a
trial of the new Water Witch steamer was made
Yesterday afternoon, at Fifth and Shipley streets
Ihls tflal was not made as a test of the throwing
capacity OF the steamer, but simply 10 put il into
working trim. Il was quite satisfactory however,
steam being raised very quickly, the guage indi.
caLor advancing from forty to eighty pounds In
about four minutes. The working Of the engine
and is capaety IOr raising steam were deemed
satisfactory, and test oft capacity for throwing
water will be made on Saturday afternoon, south
OF the Christiana bridge.
Year: 1873

Some time since the Cherokee Council, III :
der pressure, passed silly law forbidding
the employment Of white labor except GER
tain class. Many OF the most valuable citizen.
of that Nation were thus virtually driven in
to absolute bankruptcy, as the native cannot
be relied on for constant lsbor and the en-
ployer was compelled TO hire white lal orers
The would be statesmen OF the Nation are US
Ing the fall bloodS IN the same way that Rad
ical statesmen in the State are using the ne
gro. They arc fnll Of anti-Territorial organ
izatnn and all sorts Of foolish politics, while
their families are ON the point OF starvation


Instead of encouraging the native to prepare
himself TO meet the inevitable. they are fitting
bin for eXtermlnation We are glad TO learn
that Chief Ross on bis return from Washing
ton has been wise enough to bring abou, IL
peal Of this suicidal law, and the snterpri.ing
citizens ofthc Nation breathe ircer.