smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1873

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'Tis curious fact as ever was known
But often in human nature shown,


Alike in castle and Gotta ge-
That pride, like pigs of a certain brood,
Will manage TO live and thrive on food


As poor as pauper's pottage!
Of oil tn notable things of earth,
The queerest thing is the pride of birth
Among our ''ferce democracy"
A bride across huadred years,
Without prop to save it from sneers
Not even couple of rotten piers
A thing laughter, filings and jecrs-


Is American aristocracy!
Depend upon it, my snobbsh friend,
Your family thread you cant ascend,
Without good reason to appreheud
You may find it waxed at the OF her end


By some plebean occupation
Or worse than that, your boosted line
May end in loop of stronger twine,


That plagued some worthy relation.
Because you flourish in worldly affairs,
Don't be naughty and put on airs,


With insolent pride of station,
DON'T be proud and turn up your nose
At poorer people in palmer clothes;
But learn for the sake of your minds repose
That all proud fesh-wherever it goes
Is subject to irritation.
Year: 1873

The schooner w. J. Whiting went ashore near Grand Haven, Mich, dur ing the night, and until daylight the wind was blowing a terrible gale from the west. The vessel was heavily load ed with salt and her deck even with the water. About 9 o'clock in the morning the captain and one man leaped into the water, and to the amazement of the assembled crowd succeeded in reaching the beach. Soon after this one of the Ironsides' ife-boats, manned by 8 crew of five men, put off from the shore, but before reaching the schooner filled and capsized, and one of the crew was drowned. The tug Miranda then start ed with one life-boat and one yawl lowed astern, and succeeded in drop ping the yawl alongside the schooner. The four men jumped from the rigging into the boat and were greeted by the cheers of thousand spectators. The next moment the yawl plunged under the schooner's bobstay and rolled over. Three of the sailors again succeeded in reaching the rigging. The other was seen for a moment, when an immense breaker swept the poor fellow out of sight. The tug came into port, righted the boats, and again started for the re- lief of the men. Again the boat got to the vessels side, but swamped before the men could leave the rigging. At last the tug Miranda succeeded in get ting alongside the schooner Whiting, and took off the three men. The bodies of two men who were drowned have not yet been recovered. The body of man supposed to have been drowned from the steamer Ironsides was found on the beach, nine miles north of Grand Ha-
Year: 1873



 The human body is ma aehine, and therefore can not endure forever; but, like watch or a sewing maehne it will last much longer if properly regu- lated and duly repaired, than if no pains were one who desires long and healthy life should be to put his body in condition to resist the life- threatening influences by which are or less surrounded; and no invigorant corrective at present known so effectively answers this pur- pose as the vita1izing elixir which, under the un. pretending name of Hostetter's Stomach Bitters, has been for more than twenty years the standard tonic of America In crowded cities, where the atmosphere is contaminated with the effluvia in separable from large populations; in marshy regions, where the soggy soil reeks with miasma i; on the praires and in the forests, where every fall the air is tainted with exhalations from rotting weeds and grasses, or decomposing leaves-in short, in every locality where malaria exists this powerful vegetable antidote is urgently needed Fever and ague, bilious levers, dysentery, cenjes- tion of the liver, jaundice, rheumatism, and all diseases which are generated by infected air, i'm pure water, or sudden changes of temperature, may be averted by strengthening the system in advance with Hostetter's Bitters. Autumn is all ways season of peril specially to weak, suscept- apt to be in some measure depressed by the humid atmos sphere, loaded with deleterious gases pro- duced by vegetable decay. The fall is period of the when the renovation and regulation of the Bitters should therefore be taken daily at this critical season.
Year: 1873

Such, my suffering friends ,are the letters receiv- ed daily and do you doubt for a moment the efica- cy of this valuable medicine Be in time, and take to your home bottle of ALIENS LUNG BALsAM. You will find in 1t a glorious prize, and never failing friend in time of need.
Year: 1873

THERE is an Immediate prospect of
rise in wool. In Boston and all
parts of the east, the market is firmer,
and more active. This with the rain
will be good news to our farmers and
oraZnrs a
Year: 1873

LONDON, December Z.


The account of the Vile du Havre dis
aster given by the rescued crew represents
that the Captain and Second Mate of the
steamer came on board the Loeb Erne
shortly after the collision, and did not as
sist in saving any of the passengers, and
that the majority of the French crew eX-
hibited lamentable cowardice.


The Captain of the Loeb Erne makes
the following statement OF the circum-
stances attending the collision with the
steamer; After first sighting the steamer,
and seeing that she was coming danger
ously near, the Captain of the Loch Erne
rang the ships bell and ported his helm.
The helm of the steamer was put to star
board, but the steamer came right across
the Loeb Erne's bow. The people in the
first boat from the French steamer did not
say she was sinking, but the Captain of
the Loeb Erne, observing that the steamer
was settling down, sent out his boats.


Neither the first French boat nor Sec
ond, which arrived shortly afterward,
bringing the first and second officers Of
the Vile du Havre, attempted to return,
but, in spite of the expostulations of all
the crew which were left on board the
Loeb Erne, and the threats of her mates
to fire upon them, remained alongside the
Loeb Erne. The clothing of the French
officers who reached the deck of the Loeb
Erne was dry, showing no signs of their
having been in the water. Finally, some
Englishmen seized and manned one ofthe
French boats, and went to the rescue of
those struggling in the sea. Only one of
the French boats crews assisted in the
rescue.


The Captain of the Loch Erne considers
that the great loss of life resulted from the
fact that his vessel drifted such a long
distance from the steamer after the
sail, from the tardiness of the steamer in
showing signals of distress, and from the
misconduct of the French crew.
Year: 1873

THE Boston 7Taveller says that on a
recent Sunday in one of the churches of
that city steady church-going man be-
coming absorbed in some train Of thought,
not exactly suggested by the sermon, it
is presumed, took cigar from his pocket,
put it in his mouth, folded his arms,
leaned contemplatively back in his seat,
and was only aroused from his reverie by
the courtesy of friend, who happened
to sit near.


Another story is told by the Hartford
OOurant. 1t says that gentleman of that
city, who was riding in the smoking-car
on train from New York to New Haven,
noticed that man sitting directly in
front of him gave the conductor a two
dollar bill to pay his fare. Some change
was to be given back, but the conductor
handed the passenger roll of bills, and
passed on. The man who received the
money appeared no less astonished than
the Hartford gentleman, and was about to
follow up the conductor and return the
bills, when the Hartford man suggested
Year: 1873

The Ottawa (Ont.) Citizen of November 25,
publishes an account of horrible accident,
which has somehow unaccountably escaped
telegraphic mention, that contains enough Of
the terrible to satisfy the most immoderate de-
mand for sensation. 1t seems that lumber
ing firm undertook to run a lumber camp on
Blind river, tributary of Lake Huron. They
hired seven men as voyageurs, and having
fitted them out with supply Of pork, flour,
and large quantity Of oats, loaded a batteau
and started them up the river with supplies
for the winters work in the woods. Not hear
ing from them for several days, one of the
firm became anxious for their safety, and pro-
ceeded up the river to search for
them. Arriving at the landing
he found the Datteau had arrived
all right, and reasonably concluded the crew
were in the shanty, standing on the river bank
not three rods away. The provisions were to
have been stored in this building. He lifted
the latch of the door, and us he entered hor-
rid stencil of putrid flesh greeted his nostrils,
He struck light and proceeded to investigate.
The remains of fire were visible in the fire.
place, and the only thing out of the way was the
horrible stencil and the oats, thrown into dis
ordered heap, some of them loose and the rest
inbags. From this heap the foul smell proceed
ed He removed the oats, and underneath
were found the bodies of the seven men he
had sent to the camp ten days before.


Subsequent inquiry showed that, on the
arrival OF the goods, the pork was packed in
one corner, the -four in another and the oats
in bags in pile extending from the floor to
ceiling Then, 1t was supposed, the men,
tired and hungry paFtoek Of hearty supper,
Year: 1873

to him to hold on little while, and see
what the ticketpuncher would do When
the train stopped at Bridgeport the pas
senger said he would step into the re-
freshmentroom moment and would re-
turn, but did not make his appearance
again, having perhaps forgotten, in a fit
of Observation-Disclosures that he had the
money. This, of course, made the Hart
ford man feel little queer, as he. had
stopped the fellow from paying back the
money, though with the best intentions in
the world. Very soon after the conductor
and the brakeman came through the car
together, and made very careful search
for something, and 1t is probable that the
conductor still thinks he dropped the roll
of bills in that or some other car, or tha-
some rascal stole it. Instances Of abt
sence of mind rarely take this form among
railroad conductors.
Year: 1873

after which they spread their blankets on the
floor, and with their heads to the oats and
their feet to the fire, fell into heavy sleep.
During the night one of the bottom bags
burst from the pressure above, the grain be-
gan to run out, until one side of the pile was
undermined, and when the tired workers were
enjoying their soundest and most refreshing
sleep, the bags Of grain fell over upon them
The weight of the grain must have been SO
crushing that they could not move haLd or
foot, and they died Of sufTocation.
Year: 1873

A COLORADO paper quotes an instance
of the restorative effects of the climate
of that State, 1t says an Ohio lady, who
could not sweep her room at home, after
her arrival in Colorado was able to chase
her husband mile with pitchfork.
Year: 1873

ALFRED WALTON. Druggist. No. 2s5 Market
street, respectfully informs his friend and the public
in general that he kecps hand all descriptions OF
medicines. and that competent person is at all
times ready to prescribe for such sick as call at hA
stOre and that no charge is made pt the regular
price the medicines the saEe price as they would
pay anywhere else but that no one is visited at
their resilnces
Year: 1873

In New York there is some betting on
the balloon in the sporting circles about
town, but it is evident that the betting
men don't believe in it. The odds are
overwhelmingly against it, and lis hard
TO find anybody who will risk anything
on it. That the balloon will neither
cross the ocean nor get half way across,
bets are offered nineteen 10 one that
it will not 60 hundred miles away from
land, nine to one; that the baloonists
will not stay up a single day, i've to
one; that Wise will never find his west
erly current, three to one; that the
whole thing will be fizzle, two to one;
that the balloon will burst, bets are
even.
Year: 1873

A New Phase OF the Beer Question.


The beer question has assumed 8
new phase in Chicago. A church fair
has been in progress for some time
past at St. Stephens Lutheran Church
and the congregation being Germansl
wine and beer have been for sale in the
refreshmept room. Yesterday the Su-
perintendent OF Police, already bitterly
obnoxious 70 the Germans for his en-
forcement OF the Sunday liquor law an
early closing ordinance. ordered the
fair managers to take out a saloon Ii
license or quit selling liquor. The past
or went to demonstrate with the May
or, but without avail, and now the re-
ligious Germans arc in arme against
the authorities on the beer question as
well as the more secular of their race.
What is peculiarly aggravating is the
fact that the Irish exposition for the
benefit of st. Jarlatti's Church the
"crathur" is openly sold.
Year: 1873




Now, since corn curers are looming
up as public benetactors, III furnish q
prescription that will cure the worst
corn going, If it be faithfully followed,
and don't want certificate from the
cured either. A ten cent stamp will
do for me, If grateful convalescents in
sist on sending something. Listen !:
Pare all around the corn with a very
sharp knife, aud be careful to draw no
blooi. CT is better to soften the corn
somewhat with warm water before be-
ginning to operate.) Prepare a salve
OF pure white wax, mutton tallow and
rosin. in about equal parts,
and annoint the corn well
with this ct intervals during the day.
On retiring to bed at night draw the
thumb o. an old kii glove over the
troubled toe, cutting n hole in it suffi-
ciently large to permit the corn to pro-
trude. Tie piece OF black silk thread
carefully round the corn. Now wrap
the toe well up in strip OF red flannel
saturated with mixture in equal pro-
portions of turpentne and sweet oil.
Then amputste the toe below the first
Joint, aud if you set !: on fire your corn
will disappear at once. Or, if you
throw it out OF the window, toe and all,
and Appleton's dog comes along ..and
thinks be has got q good thing and
chokes in endeavoripg TO swallow it,
that is his misfortune and not your
fault, and two nuisances are got well
rid OF az once.
Year: 1873

! Reader, the merchant, druggist and gro
Ger where you usually trade, keeps Renne s
Pain Killing Magic Oil for sale. IF they
are out, they will get new supply at your
request, but be sure and call for it by the
full name, and take nothing else in its
stead. 1T works like acharm. EAE
Year: 1873

We see by the Chicago papers that
PROCTOR 4 GAMBLE have reduced the
price Of their long established and popular
brand NOTIFIED GERMAN Soar, its pres
ent price and superior quality makes it the
cheapest as well as the best soap for con
sumers. 6-23d3m
Year: 1873

The active and somewhat jocose fancy


Of the bead e Of St. Mary's, Rother-


hithe, who was pleased to discover in


the swarthy little imp Of child left


naked at the workhouse door, some


resemblance to that arch enemy Of


mankind, ,-ano old offender with many


an ahas,-who has oftentimes an


swered to the sobriquet Of Davy Jones


among other nicknames; aaacknames


being quite the right word to.nse un-


der all the circumstances of the case.


It was a real misfortune to the boy


that he was thus designated. He
was in truth a dog with bad name !;


and many people were found to pre-


dict for him the. customary fate of


dogs so circumstanced. If he neg


lected his duties in ary way (and in
times past an apprentices duties


were very multifarious; he was Of
tentimes an additional domestic SER


want quite as much as an apprentice, J
if he broke a plate, or a window, or
neglected to clean the knives or his
masters boots, the question was in


variably, asked what else could be
expected Of a boy named Dayy Jones? ?
Yet it was hardly the boys fault that
he was thus called. Certainly he did
not choose his own name; it was
given him at time when he had no
will of his own in the matter, or any
knowlrdSe at all of what .twas hap
pening to him. However, he had to
make-the best he could of it; rather
hard work, because everybody else
would persist in making the worst
they' could of it. But he never knew
any other name. His parents never
came forward to claim him. If any
romantic incidents were connected
with his birth, they were never
brought to light. Probably there was
no poetic character about the affair
at all it was very plain prose, most
likely. Such an everyday common
place matter as sin and suffering AID
destitution. He remained Davy Jones
to the end of the chapter.


He was small, spare, black-haired,
dark-eyed lad, stills very swarthy;
and his natural dinginess of hue was
heightened artifcially. Grim from the
saucepans, from the blacking brushes,
from the kitchen CRATE, from up the
chimney, always seemed to find a
home and a restingplace on Davy
Jones's face. His hands were forever
soiled with the mud of the river, or
the clay of the wharf, the rust Of old |
iron, or the pitch and tar of the
He carried about with
him necessarily, visible signs of his
visits to the coal-cellar. Certainly
he was dirty boy. And he was
said, moreover, to be mischievous and
ill-tenpered, sullen, and disposed to
evil. But his reputation in those re-
spects might have been born Of his
Year: 1873

The San Francisco Alta is responsible for the
story that Nevada lawyer had as client man
accused of murder and that the principal witness
in his favor being his wife, who incapacitated
from giving testimony by reason of her relation
to him, he got the murder trial postponed,
brought suit for divorce in her behalf and seclr-
ed it, and then triumphantly placed her ON the
stand to secure the acquittal OF her husband
He went free-and 30 did she.
Year: 1873

The recent orders from the State Depart
ment with regard to Federal officers holding
State and Municipal appointments confirm the
hopes of the people that the Civil Service Re-
form, announced with so much formality last
April, is really to he put in force so far as
human inirmity will permit the President to
enforce it, The progress of the movement has
been beset with multitude of difficulties.
1t has encountered all manner of opposition,
both secret and open, from the Presidents
own friends. A bill to carry it into effect was
defeated in Congress by the votes of the he
publican majority; and it lis no secret that the
Administration was forced by the Washington
managers of the recent campaign to disregard
its own regulations, and make the customary
use of the power of appointment and re-
mOval TO secure party victory Ill November.
Only a few days after the announcement
that honesty and efficiency, not political
activity" should determine the tenure of
office" the Deputy Collector of Troy was
removed for political reasons, and his appeal
to the new Civil Service Rules was met by
the answer that the President had "sus-
ton was removed to make room for Mr.. W.
II. Clark who had been expelled from the
House of Representatives on account of frauds
in his election. The scandals of the New-Or-
leans COllectorship ought to have been re-
moved by the Civil Service Regulations, but
the President refused to accept Mr.. Casey's
resignation. political assessments" upon of
fice-holders, whether under the form of vol
"untary contributions or otherwise were
strictly forbidden by the regulations but it
is notorious that they were enforced uni
yersslly; aud if common fame can be trusted
Year: 1873

We print this morning the address IN
which the Committee who have in charge the
Greeley Statue announce their organization,
and invite contributions for the purpose of
erecting a monument to the great Journalist.
We are sure no appeals are needed TO enforce
the considerations set forth IN this address.
The names signed to it sufficiently guarantee
the good faith and efficiency with which the
matter will be treated


The Monument will be built, and it will,
hereafter, be pleasant for any one to reflect
that he contributed to it, however slightly. In
a country where aspiration is so unlimited, and
where example is. therefore so powerful as i'll
ours, it is important that only speless lives
should be held up TO the emulation OF
the young. The high purpose, the la
borious life, and the righteous fame of
Horace Greeley will never corrupt or mlSlead
the most ambitious boy. The country owes
those hOnOrs and rewards 10 his memory which
it withheld from him in life. There is no
longer any partisan clamor over him. His
friends and his opponents are united in this
memorial work. Let the promptness and lib
erality with which it is accomplished show
that the country is not unmindful of his long
and effective devotion to its best interests its
trueSt honor and glory.
Year: 1873

Fires and frost come together so naturally
that we are always prepared for an extended
list of casualties by the flames when we have
a cold term of weather. This morning we
report several large fires in different parts of
the country and continuation of the cold
snap. The weather has been very severe in
all of the Northern and Western States; the
anticipated sOftening of temperature has not
Vet appeared of yesterdays fires, that which
threatened the destruction of the " Stevens
" Castle" one of the famous edifces of this
region, was specially notable.
Year: 1873

We are sorry to be informed that the deusion of
Millerism is reviying in Vermont The world. it is
there affirmed by some, is coming to an end toward


the close of the present year. Others think that the
catastrophe will occur during the present Winter
There a good many meetings, and there is good
deal Of preaching and excitement aud all this shows
less common sense in Vermont than she usually gets
credit for.
Year: 1873

There is an alarming indication that some
proposition to refund the cotton tax collected
during the Rebellion may yet gain the atten-
tion of the House. If it does, we shall trust
TO the determination of the Senate TO kill it
when it reaches that body. Mr. Beck's bill is,
probably, as unobjectionable a shapelas any In
which the scheme could come, but even under
such a project of law there is danger that
S43, O0,OO0 may be taken out of the public
treasury for the chief benefit of spectators.
The job is speciously organized, and is de-
signed to deceive the very elect; but it is
only job, for all that.
Year: 1873

The House was manly and generous, yester-
day, in restoring to their place on the pension
rolls the Southern survivors Of the War of
1912. That they should have been stricken off
that brief roll in moment of patriotic pas
sion, was natural enough, even though it may
not have been certain that they voluntarily
symDathized with the Rebellion but it is too late
now to discuss what peculiar views these aged
veterans of another war had in 1862. Nobody
will taunt Messrs Butler. Bingham, and Willard
with having courage to say now for Southern
men good words which they would not have
dared TO say during the Late campaign. We
are heartily glad that these gentlemen can
honestly declare there is no longer any
use IN polishing up the memories of the
Rebellion in order to keep them bright
Year: 1873

The House of Representatives has drawn an
elephant We mean no joke - the expense
of the colossal proportions of Mr.. j. b. Stew
art by such reference to the famous lobbyist.
But he is on the hands of the House as a
Tecusant witness-utterly refusing to tell what
he did with s25O,OOO in Union Pacific bonds.
His appearance at the bar of the House is
dramatically reported in our Washington dis
patches; and his fervent assertion that the
confidence of his clients should ever rest in
his manly bosom was the best advertisement
he ever got; for he spoke to the country
just as though he were Member of Congress.
No wonder the galleries applauded. The
House is bothered to dispose of him. and