smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1873

the tree tops, and the deep tones of the
thunder coming in fainter mllrmurs
from the eastern hills.


/ arose, and looked trembling and
almost deliriously around. She was
there-the idol of my infant love
stretched upon the wet green earth
After moment of irresolution, / went
up and looked upon her. The handker-
chief upon her neck was slightly rent,
and a single dark spot upon her bosom
told where the path of death had been.
At first / clasped her to my breast with
cry of agony, and then laid her down
and gazed into her face, almost with a
feeling of calmness. Her bright dis
heveled ringlets clustered around her
brow, the look of terror had faded from
her lips, and an infant smile was pic
tured beautifully there--the red rose
tinge upon her cheeks was lovely as in
life.


have but dim recollection of what
followed-I only know that remained
weeping and motiouless till the coming
on of twilight, and that i was then taken
tenderly by the hand and led away where
l saw the countenance of parents and
sisters.


Many years have gone by on their
wings of light and shadow, but the scene
| have portrayed still comes over me, at
times, with a terrible distinctness. The
oak yet stands at the base of the preci-
pice; its limbs are black and dead, and
its hollow trunk, looking upward to the
sky as if calling to the clouds for
drink, is an emblem of noiseless decay.
A year ago visited that spot, and the
thoughts of by-gone years came mourn
fully back to me-thoughts of the little
innocent being who fell by the whirl-
wind-in the memory that she had gone
where no ightnings slumber in the
folds of the rainbow clouds, and where
sunlit waters are never broken by the
storm breath of Omnipotence.


My readers will understand why /
shrink in terror from the thunder. Even
the consciousness of security is no
relief to me-my fear has assumed the
nature of instinct, and seems, in
deed, part of my existence.-Geo,Ye
ID. Prentice.
Year: 1873

SLIaHTED SwAINs.-A social innovation,
known as the Society Of Rejected Lovs.,
has recently taken root in Nashville, Tenn,
which seems destined to an extended popu-
larity. It seems that the qualifications for
membership of this club are simply what
the name of this institution purports, the
fact of having been rejected or discarded by
young lady, together with a fair average
social standing and personal reputs. There
is thought to be not particle Of doubt that
this club is organized upon basis that will
speedily make it the most select affair Of its
kind in the world, as far as sturdy manhood
and bonhomie are concerned. The select
ness will be infinitely enhanced by rule Of
the club, which provides for the instant and
ignominious expulsion Of any member who
betrsys his weakness by going back to .
young lady after she has discarded him once,
whether ct her instance or his own. When
member finally marries he Is put on the 70.
tired list, but can be reinstated in active
membership in the event Of becoming Q
widower. There is something in the spirit
Of an inception such as ID realized In this
Club of Rejected Lovers, to challenge the
kindly consideration Of any man in whose
breast is touch Of pathos or in whose brain
there is spark Of Rumor. The members
propose to turn their discontinue into msr.
ry.making, and their woe into .wassail.-
Whether the example Of the lucklss swains
ofNashvills will befollowed elsewhere romans
to be told, but there d plenty Of material 70.
it.-News and Courier.
Year: 1873

CHARLES BRADLAuaH.-This rabid, Rad
ical Republican is on visit to this country
His object in coming is to soc the institutions
of our GLORIOUS republic"-and to make ait
tie money by sensation lectures on England
and its government. In his "Republican
simplicity" he chose room..on the fifth moor
of the Fifth Avenue Hotel, in New YORK
Evidently he is very much in need Of funds
wherewith to conduct his assaults upon the
British Government.
Year: 1873

rs hereby given that application will be made
i to the Legislature at its next session for the
opening and establishing Public Road. from
the Black River Road three OF four miles from
Camden, to the Bishopyille Road AT or near the
Big Hill.


July "a Sm.
Year: 1873

For two days past the swarming British
metropolis has been enveloped in first class
London fog, as far SURPRISING in density and
darkness New York fog as tropical storm
surpasses a Scotch drizzle. Floundering in
their thick fog of the last two days the Cock
news have had hard time of it. Numerous
collisions among the river craft are reported
on the Thames, and in the streets of the city
between foot passengers and carts and drays,
from which some lives were lost and many
persons we're wounded. 1t appears, too, that
this heavy fog extended over q considerable
portion Of England, for a very alarming
railway collision, near Birmingham, is
charged to the density of the fog. The
obscurity, it is said was such that it was
impossible for the engine driver of either
train to see the approach of the other But
where were the engine whistles? There was
apparently on both sides negligence in fail
ing to give the warming of the whistle
The same charge may be applied, no doubt,
TO the steam craft in the Thames Evidently
the river men on the Hudson know how to
deal with fog better than the Londoners
themselves, who spend half their lives in the
fog.
Year: 1873

PROMPT ACTION ON THE FIVE MILLIONS NAVY
APPROPRIATION. The Appropriation Commit
tee did not take long to consider the matter OF
Secretary Robeson asked 1t has agreed to
report bill for that purpose. We suppose
both the House and Senate will act upon it in
like prompt manner. War may not be
imminent now, but the difficulties regarding
Cuba are by no means settled, and we ought
to be prepared for any contingency Then,
our navy needed strengthening and being put
in an efficient condition. The five millions
will be well spent, whatever may happen.
Year: 1873

of the conqueror to the Frsnchmen who, after
the fall of Sedan, held aloft the nation S
sword in a desperate effort. He could, this
traitor, call the government of National
Defence 'the men Of the gutter" 1t was
charged in the long indictment that he had
failed to send forward reserves at Forbach;
that he had failed to destroy bridges which
the enemy could use; that in coming out
of Metz he had used only one road, when
four were open; that he had permitted Can
robert to be overwhelmed on the 18th Of
August; that he had made no serious
effort to come to the aid of MacMahon after
encouraging his advance; that he had
repeatedly deceived the Emperor, and so
forth. These charges antedate Sedan, and if
his offences were alone comprehended in
them he might escape on the many pleas
which incapacity can bring to cover failure.
But from obstinacy in laundering to down.
right treason is long step, no matter how
equal may be the result. If ever a case called
for ''terrible example" it is the treason Of
Bazaine He knew the stake he was playing
for, and that the honor Of nation, the integ-
rity OF its territory depended on the hazard of
the die he knew full well.


The verdict of yesterday and the sentence,
no matter how surrounded politically, are
simple justice. They condemn the man and
his act and, with them, the Empire that was
founded on assassination and fell in dis
honor Men have chosen at times to con-
denim the resistance which followed the
fall of Metz as madness; but it is that re-
sistance alone which gives France the title
to condemn Bazaine and rescues the entire
nation from the shame with which the Man
of December and his faithful creatures
deluged France The sympathy which
followed the wounded MacMahon
into exile has softened any criticism which
might fall upon him as soldier in his last
foreign campaign. He can sign the sentence
of Bazaine with hands clean of the suspicion
of treason. Will he be strong enough to be
just? Thus begius the reu0ncIe, and, sadly
enough for French pride, the first conquest is
a false Frenchman. Such is the lesson of the
trial.
Year: 1873

session, the President win take the further
proceedings into his own hands, and compel
speedy decision on the part of Spain whether
the island of Cuba is to receive from her a
free and stable government or whether its
Independence is to be acknowledged by the
United States and upheld by the strength of
our arms.
Year: 1873

"How HAPPY We WOULD BE WITH
EITHER. The House has passed the bill au-
thorizing the increase Of the enlisted men in
the navy from eight thousand five hundred to
ten thousand. And then resumed the debate
on the repeal of the salary grab.
Year: 1873

Tue New ATLANTIC CABLE.--A New Hamp-
shire paper states that on the 7th instant, the
Governor of the State, accompanied by the
Judge of the United States District Court,
together with three gentlemen named, from
England, selected q suitable spot on the New
Hampshire coast for the landing of the New
Atlantic cable to be laid between the Western
shore of Ireland and this Continent. We are
very glad to learn that this cable is ''half seas
over" but it may not be amiss to inquire
whether or not this cable is not part and
~,rcel, regular branch. as it were, Of the
A.. sent Atlantic cable monouoly.
Year: 1873

HARBoR OBsTRUcTIoNs.-Ou magnificent
harbor, of which the people of New York may
justly be proud, is made a dumping ground
by unscrupulous corporations to an extent
that threatens to damage materially its
efficiency. The street cleaning commission,
it seems, forget the prohibitory law in this
case; vessels Of all nationalties are daily dis
covered as delinquents, and the New Jersey
Central Railroad has encroached upon the
harbor to an unwarrantable extent The
Pilot Commissioners have complained in un-
measured terms Of this serious nuisance and
state their inability to suppress it without
assistance being afforded them by the Cover
non or Legislature. The distractions in the
hnrbor at present diminish the tidal flow over
twenty-five millions cubic feet. 1t is subject
of grave import and demands immediate
attention.
Year: 1873

Doc IN THE MANaER.-We learn by .
gentleman from Olympia that the citi-
zens of that place have been again bilked
by the Northern Pacific Railroad mana
gers. Our readers all rscollect that
John w. SPRUCE and Governor Good
win, acting under the authority Of the
Northern Pacific Railroad. entered into
a contract with citizens Of Olympia to
construct branch of said railroad to
that town on or before the year 1875, in
consideration Of q large donation Of
land and town property conveyed to a
trustee, the title to which was to be ac-
quired by said Railroad Company upon


the performance of the contract. No.
tice was subsequently given by Sprauge
and Goodwin that the Directors of the
Road had officially accepted the contract;
the route was surveyed and the depot
was located by the engineers of the
Company. When Rice and Ainsworth
came here to locate the terminus, they
for the first time informed the citizens
of Olympia that the Company had con-
cluded not to fulfill their part OF the
contract, and that they were ready to
relinquish their claim upon the proper
ty donated for that purpose, and at the
next meeting Of tho Board of Directors
a quit claim would be made to those
lands. That has not yet been made.
A few days since the parties who made
these donations determined to convey
them to the Olympia Railroad aud Min
ing Company when the release could
be had from the N. P. Company. Mar
shall Blinn, the Trustee of the lands,
telegraphed to the Railroad officials in
New York asking them to transfer their
rights to the new Company which pro-
posed to construct the road within the
time specified by the terms of the dona-
ton, and received an answer positively
refusing the request. From this it is
evident that the managers do not intend
to build the road, but intend to hold the
land to the limit of their contract for
the purpose of preventing its use for
other public works. This power OBJ
tainsd by fraudulent devices and false
pretenses, is used for the most villain
Gus purposes, and of like character
has been all the dealings of the agents
and manager of that Company with
the people of Puget Sound. Had that
corporation - body to be kicked or a
soul to be damned" every member Of
it would have been subject to the peni-
tentlary for felonious practices.
Year: 1873

WHAT WE Owe TO THE RAIRoAD.-Our
most eatimable friend of the Tribune,
under an eighty dollar subsidy to the
Land Ring. undertakes to show how
much we owe to the Railroad, and how
thankful we should be for the smallest
favors which are reflected on US from
their abundance. 1t is pecullarity Of
those who habitually toady to power or
position, to invest tho instrument or
agent with all the merit of the benefac-
ton of which he is the medium, or al
moner. Tho people of Washington Ter
ritory owe the Railroad Company moth
ing, whatever benefits may have accrued
to them from the Railroad. Ths means
which that company havo expended
here are furnished by the Government
subsidy intended, not as personal favor,
but for the benefit of the whole people
The Railroad Company are but the trus-
tees Of the grant, and are responsible to
the people for the manner in which
they administer the trust. Because we
are benefited by the Government ap-
propriations for surveying, or the sup
port of the Indians in our Territory,
must we close our eyes and mouths to
the facts if those funds are robbed,
squandersd, or misapplied to private
use and corrupt purposes, and be CRATE
full to tho custodians of the funds for
little that is applied to the use intend
ed? The men in the management
of the Northern Pacific Railroad
have never expended dollar of their
own money in the work. There
was not blow struck upon the road
until the money to pay for the same
Was realized frc m the bonds based up
on the Government subsidy.


No Director, stakeholder, or other
person connected with that grand pro-
ject, had right to dollar of that mon
ey but to apply it to the construction of
the road in the best manner for the pub
lie interests and the security of the
bondholders. The Smiths and Spragues
and others of that ilk, who say "we"
when speaking of the railroad Compa-
ny, to whom the Tribune would award
all the credit of whatever public benefits
the Railroad has conferred, never had
an honest dollar invested in the railroad
or anything more to do with forwarding
the project than the camp followers of
an army have in fighting battles. They
are the mere plunderers and spoils gath
erers.


No one makes war upon the railroad,
but every disinterested man feels that
the managers oftbe rail1 DAD have shame
fully betrayed their trust by using the
subsidy of the Government for purposes
of private speculation to the great det-
riment of public interest and jeopardy
to the remedy Of the bo2d-holders.
Year: 1873

SETTING ON THEIR DoG.-The special
organ of the Land Ring, at Kalama,
is fair reflex of the morality. decency,
and public spirit of the delectablc organ
ization which gives it sustenance and
vitality. Published under the name of
a woman associated with sexual non.
descript, and edited by worthless Boz
hemian who irregularly vibrates be-
tween the printing-ohice, the gutter and
the county Jail, so faithless as to be driv-
en- from all honest employment, so de-
graded as to be excluded from all decent
association, SO foul in his language as
to repel criticism or controversy, this
leprous creature is the chosen mouth
piece of General Sprague and his asso-
ciates. paid by them to champion their
cause and represent them abroad thro'
the medium Of public print in their
conspiracy against the public interests
and the rights of the people. 1t is only
as the recognized organ of the Ring,
sent abroad under their endorsement,
do we condescend to notice the dirty
thing in order to expose the true charac-
ter Of the NANCY cur who is set upon
the people of this section by carpet
bag combination seeking their subjuga-
ton.


In the course of an article of nearly
three columns, devoted to the defence
of the Land Ring, every argument of
which would apply with equal logical
force to the justification of Cakes Ames
and his associates in the Credit Mobilier,
the vagabond editor has the shameless
effrontery to speak of the editors who
do not approve the action of the Ring,
as that class of hireling inkslingers
now acting as champions of terminal
sore-heads-most or all of whom can be
hired to throw mud" for any one that
doles them bread, and within few
months are more than likely to be
on the sidewalks at Tocoma, ready to
:" eat dirt at the feet of any ring"
master that condescends to employ
themp'


There is not an editor ON Puget Sound,
aside from those under subsidy to the
Land Ring, who does not own his own
printing material, set his own type, and
earn his own living by the legitimate
use of his vocation; not one, with the
foregoing exception. who wears the
collar of any man, clique or ring, or
" eats dirt" for his bread. The above
foul calumny upon the editors who have
the manhood to defend the rights of the
people against the aggressions of pam
pered monopoly, has neither significance
nor consequence as the rawlings of the
drunken mendicant who gave it utter
ance; but we refer to it only as speci.
men of the service bought and paid for
with the money Of bond-holders taken
out of the treasury of the Northern Pa
Year: 1873

Moved and carried that the bill of the
Clerk of the Court be handed to the FL
nance Committee, to report at the next
meeting.


Moved and carried that the Room
Committee be instructed to purchase u
suitable table and necessary furniture
for the Council room.


On motion adjourned to meet the first
Thursday in September.


E.. H. BROWN, City Clerk.
Year: 1873

NEEDN'T BRAG.-There is a nice young
man in Chicago who says confdentially
that the Shah needn't brag about his
million-dollar oyefcoat. He does not
remember the price of his last over :
coat, but if the interest is recovered, it
will amount to considerable more than
million before. it is paid for. The
bloated Oriental despot will find that
there are people who can be just as ex-
trayagant as himself.
Year: 1873

An IMPORTANT DECISION late
term of the Supreme Court, at Washing
ton, rendered the following important
decision:


In the case Alcott agt. the Supervisors
of Fond Du Lac County, Wisconsin, ,ap-
pealed from the Supreme Court of that
State, the important question whether a
State has right to levy taxes for the
purpose of aiding in the construction of
railroads, or not was involved. 1t is
the opinion of the Supreme Court that
railroads are public highways, no mat
ter whether they are built and operated
by the State or by private corporations.
The building of railroads is, therefore.
q matter of public concern, to aid which
it is just as lawful to levy taxes as for
building a wagon road or any other
public work. and the collection of these
taxes cannot be resisted by authority Of
Article v. of the Amendments to the
Constitution of the United States, which
provides that private properly shall not
be taken for public use without Just
compensation.
Year: 1873

OUR PUBLIC ScHooLs.-A proposition
is now under discussion, soon to be de
termined by public meeting. for thu
building of new school house. We
would respectfully suggest that this is
a proper time for the reorganization of
the school system in this growing COM
muniry, to conform to the experienced
and well tested methods almost univer-
sally adopted in tie Eastern States
Divide the city into as many school dis
tricts as present convenience demands.
each with its primary and intermediate
department, with a central school of a
higher grade open to all sufficiently ad-
vanced to enter, and all under the man
agement of general head. For the
present, and probably for several years
to come, an economical and mutually
beneficial arrangement cauld be made
between the local school authorities and
the Regents of the Washington Univsr
sity, for the education of all the scholars
of the higher grade. The University,
for the want of material, cannot for sew
eral years to come, be any thing more
than a graded school, and it has, in the
the mnantime. ample accommodations
for all the scholars of the town who
have passed the intermediate depart
ment, and must, to maintain the char
acter of collegiate school. employ the
most competent professors and teachers
thus offering advantages to students en-
titled to their portion of the school mon
ey at much less cost than could be at
tanned by an independent high school.
built and maintained by the taxpayers
of the city. This too. would materially
aid in supporting the University, which
should be the pride of every citizen, and
in bringing it up to that high standard
Of usefulness which We all hope for it.
Public education is o common interest
which should be supported by o COM
mon effort. The University is no less
the property of the people than the pri-
mary district school, and where they
can be made to work in concert and har-
mony for mutual benefit, as in the case
under consideration, it seems to be a
plain duty of all to promote the alli-
ance.
Year: 1873

A gentleman who takes a business view
of most things, when recently asked respect
ing person Of quite poetic temperament
replied, "Oh, he is one of those men who
have soarings after the infinite and divings
after the unfathomable, but who ne yer pay
cash"
Year: 1873

There is more truth than poetry in
the following from the ssCatholic Ad.
vocate."


One of tie hardest things honest
men have to bear in this world is to
see preference given in matters of
business to rogues and rascals. The
best men and women are the most
easily gulled. This is seen every day.
In nine cases out of ten, when 9 truly
good man wishes to invest his money
in lands or stocks or merchandise, he
asks advice where he should not, and
if proffered, contemns the advice he
should take. We have seen so many
in stances of this that we have ceased
to regard it as analogous. The truly
good of our day are as "simple as
Doves" but they are sadly lacking in
that other coneomitant of wisdom, the
''cunning of the serpent" They are
slow to confide in their friends, and
they betray most wonderful aiacrity
of disposition to fall into the lures of
charlatans and time servers.


The honest and painstaking trades
man, the artifcer who would feel de-
gradation in palmiug off on his GUS
toner an inferior or inspectiVe speci-
men of handwork; any one, in fact,
who has lands, or stocks, or merchan-
disc to sell, and who is not a sharper,
has precious little chance as things go
to compete with the empyrics in
trade. Polish and show. var1lish and
veneering, shoddy and tinsel, these
bear of the palm ia the world of tarde.


1t is an indisputable fact that the
best meaning among men and women
are the most readily gulied. We are
of Providence to keep them from fall
ling into the sin of pride. II this DO
not the case, we are at a loss to ac-
count for the phenomenon.
Year: 1873




Many, if God should make the kings,
Might not disgrace the throne he gave;
How few who could as well fulfill
The holier ofice of slave.
hold him great. who. for loves sake,
Can give with generous, earnest will
Yet he who takes for loves sweet sake.
think hold more generous still.
prize the instinct that can turn
From vain pretenso with proud disdain
let more L prize simple heart,
Paying credulity with pain.
bow before the nobler mind
That freely some gr, at wrong forgives;
Yet uobler is the one forgived,
Who bears that burden well and lives.
1t may be hard to gain, and still
To keep lowly, steadfast heart,
Yet he who loses has to fill


A harder and a truer part.
Glorious it is to wear the crown
OF a deserved and pure success;
He who knows how to fall. has won
A crown whose luster is not less.
Great may be he who can command
And rule with just and tender sway;
Yet is diviner wisdom taught
Better bS him who can obey.
Blessed are those who die for Sod,
And earn the martyrs crown of light;
Iet he who lives for God may be
A greater conqueror in His sightl