The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1870-05-05
For tho Lancaster Gazette
JottIngs from LIberty.
Editors GGs"G. /

spread myself. l had net forget
ten my promise to you, but I haysI,
been busy putting in my crop, my
hands are blistered ana my bones
do ache, inherited BY setting OUT
IA hills of corn, 2 rows of potatoes
Of 10 hills each, sowing 2 beds OF
onion sets, sticking in several hills
of lettuce seed, besides streYing
promiscuously. mmany peas and
beans. The soil worked abcauti-
fully sand iSofexeclleht quality g.
1 noticed the tops Of tic onions ap-
pcared above ground "a few hours
after being sown, we pulled some
for dinner next day, they were a
little tough but tasted fresh, they
were planted in q rtough" sign, the
rest of the vegetables my family
think will be sable" for use in due
course of time. l am fond of gar
den "saucc" in its season, and |
believe in signs when the soil is
good, and the seed ditto, but Edba't
believe in a woman pestering a man
to death, to get little garden
patch cultivated early, just because
they discovered their next door
neighbor scratching inathe ground.
1 invariably get a little mad twice
year, firstly, when | have to make
garden and noxtly, in house clean
ling time, and if both Of those i'm
portant auxiliarics to a married
mans existence, did not arrive too
carly in the season, ! would feign
sickness and retire to Saratoga
Falls or Niagara Springs for my
health, until the above was did
But the FIRST has transpired, and
the second will this week providing
we keep our health and the cistern
don't give out. But oh! this
thing Of getting down on all fours,
in tight pants, and clawing off ones
finger nails, and pounding the ends
} of the same in painful pugilistic
,. style, stretching and tacking down
! carpets, upsets my brain and
must drop the subject.
!, Well the beautiful spring has
: come at last, and | can hardly re
: frain from writing poetry instca(
. of prose, probably you are aware
!. frequently ground out verses (som'
Q of it real poctry) in my younge
: days. But l had to shoulder tn
1 poetic. II did not mix well witt
business, and would not afford sui
ficient bread and butter to subsis
an increasing family upon, bu
said poetic fire like the bnrdock il
!, my garden is hard to shoulder, an
q in imitation ofthc rocks Oh Shimp'
l. hill will crop out, but it shall nc
/ blaze in this.
a The trees have already put fort
= their fresh green leaves as large a
ls the present style Of bonnets, an
" some are as full of blossoms as th
70 girls bran new hats, and are a goo
:, !, deal sweeter, Il refer to the hats
!" birds are singing merrily on ever
Of side, their voices>secm improve
10 since last year, but in architectul
they follow their old style, the
:" ~ nests are built just rs their gran
IA pa and mas built them years ag
Id but l presume they know their liz
to of business best. Frogs are soun,
, ing their notes from treble to bai
% in surrounding ponds, and the chi
O. dren arc doing the same on OF
to streets (of which VIC have much
IT. but which is the most charming
H. tho ear l am not musical crit
enough to decide, both howeve
~ are distressingly cheerful.
er Some of our farmers have alreaC
IN planted corn and this week--if ia
v. weather-many acres will be plan
at ed. The wheat never looked bett
he at this time of year. 1t is roal
nd exhilarating to ride out into Il
Ial country now, and see how beautit
to everything appears,
H. Mr. Daniel Good has purchase
th the lumber yard recently establis
On ed here, and is adding largely
q. stock thereto. Mr. ii. b, Harm
al of the firm Of II. B. Harner d. So
has retired from business. II
son j. II. Harncr has purchas,
ed his fathers interest in the sto
ut and is conducting the business
lis usual Mr.. S. ID. Leonard, who h
is been dangerously i'll for sever
I'M weeks, is now convalescent. II
,p- illness however did not retard Il
ss- mercantile business, as compete
of men in his employ carried on Il
ID, trade successfully. Both stor
cd are filed with new goods. Sever
he new additions to houses, on o
In, main streets are being made, al
he many are talking of painting
lal &C., as for myself | did think
in puttinga first class mortgage {
Ia. my house, but my wife objected,
Our Schoollot has been handsom
ly set out full of shade and ev,
nst green trees. What, improveme
lie has been going on in the west G
Ia of town for the past few months
u q nv, unohla IN cov will hitch nm I