smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1868

We cut the following from tine Rural


Antsrican, and the Ioaca Homestead says,


eve endorse unaualifiedly the editors
conclusions. We have in mind New
England orchard that was used for q


hog pasture for moro thaRtwenty years,
and for aught we know, had been used


in like manner for many years pre-
vious. The trees were giants in their
line, and crop of fruit annually q
sure thing. From that orchard worm
eaten apple was rarity. The hog is


the best cultivater and the best insect
remedy that can be put into an apple
orchard. We know it from moro than


twenty years observation. After the
stems of the trees have attained size
of three or four inches in diameter,


hogs will do the tree no injury. The
domestic fowl-hens, chickens, &C., will
also do good service in the orchard,


whether apple, cherry or plum, for they
are always on the alert for insects, with
cut indulging in tho thieving propen-
stiles Of the robin aud other birds.


at has long been believed that hogs
are very useful in orchards, to eat up
tho wormy fruit that falls. We have
lately heard q farmer say, that of two
orchards on his farm, the one in which
he let his hogs run bore him almost
double the amount of good fruit, as CON-
pared with one from which they were
excluded. But others doubt this. They
say that the codding moth (the common
apple worm) leaves the apple before it
falls, and burrows in the ground. They
insist that the insect docs not propo-
gate its kind in the apple, as it
does in plums and peaches. We
beg leave to express q doubt
here. We know that we have found
worms in apples, and cannot believe
that Tie common notions on this subject
are groundless. At any rate, we make
it our yearly practice to pick up all the
fruit under few pet trees
in our back yard, and feed them to our
horse; and we know that the fruit on
those trees is annually improving. In
q large orchard, we should let the hogs
pick them up. That the dung dropped
by the hogs and the little roofing which
they do are beneficial, there can be no
doubt"
Year: 1868

A countess Of Anjou in the fifteenth
century paid for one book 200 sheep,
fiye'quarters of wheat, and the same
quantity of rye and millet, and in early
times the loan of q book was considered
to be an affair of such importance that
in 1893 the Bishop of Winchester, on
borrowing Bible from a convent in
that city, was obliged to give a bond
for its restoration, drawn mp in the most
solemn manner, and Louis XI., in 147l,
was compelled to deposit large guam
tity of plate, and to get some of his no.
bles to join with him in a bond, under
a heavy penalty, to restore it, before he
could procure the loan of a book which
he borrowed from the faculty of medi-
cine at Paris.
Year: 1868

Which will be sufficient to duplicate lines to ALL or
nearly ALL the paying points reached BY the present
monopoly.


The present telegraph Companies of the country
have been consolidated into one huge monopoly,
and are now earning over six millions of dollars per
year, or over ono hundred per cent on the actual
cost of their lines their present capital having been
watered over enc thousand per cent.


The National Telegraph Company have reoog-
milton from the United States Government of the
Importance of their enterprise with grant of the
most valuable frRnchhes ever conferred upon
Telegraph Company. No competing line has ever
had the right granted BY congress to thia Com.
pany to construct and operate lines every Rail
road and Mail Route in the United States The posi-
ton of this Company differs from that of any com
pauy ever before organised. The question of the
right of way is forever settled.


The Stockholders of this Company can not be lold
out or transferred to any other Company. The act
Of Congress under which this company has bsen
organized prohibits any transfer Of the franchises
granted.
Year: 1868

One per cent Of the Stock will be required on sub
sorbing and subsequent calls not to exceed i've per
cent per MONTH will be made by the Board OF Di-
ree,ors from tims to time, may be necessary, to
upply funds to construct and equip the lines but
40 calls will be made after the one per cent is paid
until the entire Capital stock shall have been sub
seribed.
Year: 1868

We shalt constantly admonish the Southern
psopIo to be self-rsIiant. and shall do what We
may bs able TO induce the estsblishmont OF
manufactures In our midst for our home pro-
ducts To this end We will pay special attention
TO the COST and STATISTICS Of manufacturlng'
and oxort ourselves TO encourage the diversih-
cation Of Southern industries and the develop
uent Of Southern resources.
Year: 1868

And kindred topics, We shall also give tz-
tonsiye variety OF valuable and interesting mat
ter-tho best adapted to the farming classes o,
our State, which will. in sroai measure sup
ply the place Of family agricultural paper
Year: 1868

Cunrucnt, uun0u& D bcQI0f0, Jr., ana Henry u.
Lapaugh Nr. Bedford was trumphanlly elected.


THE Rs0IsrERsHIP AND THE VACANT JUsTICRsHIP.


At long and at last old friend Justice Connolly
has succeeded TO the goal OF his ambtion-a fat
ONCE In the gift Of the city and Of his fellow electors
throughout the city. In January next he will walk
In BY right to the Regsters ONCE and take possession
OF all and everything thereunto pertaining salary
this election OF the Big Justice which he must look
TO- The Mayor Is an incumbent Of an ONCE like the
Big Judge, but the latter cannot and ought not to be
guided by the same rules that may guide the Cover
nor elect whether he may resign now or at another
time. MI. Justice Connolly owes . deep debt
Of gratitude 70 the citizens Of New York,
but moro particularly TO the voters OF his own dis
trict q hls own ward. His election BY their SUI.
frages to the RegistershIp Of this city and county
leaves vacancy in the Fourth Judicial district


Yorkville Police Court It is therefore. incumbent
the citizens Of the district to elect nom among them
selves successor, and not leave it to the appoint
ment OF the Governor. This Is duty Judge Con-
molly owes to his fellow electors more than any he
could think Of, and 1t will not do for him,
above all men, to ignore the just right and privi-
leges OF the people. The most prominent candi-
son, OF the Twenty-second ward.
Year: 1868

The above race was evidently bogus arrange
ment and gotten up for fraud but when the parties
found that their plans would not work, they broke
up the affair by calling it a compromise desiring the
judges to declare all bets or There very little
money up, however, as betting men generally seemed
to understand not only the parties, but what they
designed 70 do, and kept alo0f accordingly.
Year: 1868

Manure Heaps to be Abated-NTcrtalIty Sta.


Observation-Disclosures Food-sIctcorolos osical


Statement. I.l


This Board met yesterday afternoon. the President
George b. Lincoln, In the chair. No business OF I'm
portance was transacted other than q report made
by the President against the oeration OF dung heaps
In the built up portions Of the city, Ho alluded par
ticularly to the heaps in First avenue and Thirty
ninth street and Ffyseventh street and North river
On motion the counsel was directed to prepare
suitable order 70 be ready by the next meeting of
the Board, In which given time Will be specified
during which the heaps must be removed.


The Following report OF the Registrar OF Vital Sta
tistics was presented
Year: 1868

REMEDY FOR A BONE FELoN.-We
have been handed the following rem
edy for this painful affiiction. The
gentleman who handed it to us has
tested its efficacy with success: "As
soon as the pulsation that indicates
the disease Is felt, put directly over
a five-cent piece, and keep it on fol
six or eight hours, at tile expiration
Of which time, directly under the sur.
face OF the blister will he found the
felon, easily taken out with the point
Of lancet or needle. - Charleston
Courier.
Year: 1868

Brownlow is true Radical. Like
Palmer he hates the Southern people.
In a late conversation he said: "Tho
only proper way TO treat the hell-de-
serving rebels In Ia annihilate them
by fire and sword.r He also said,
that when he succeeded In getting
his militia In the field he would give
the wretches a lesson they would not
soon forget. His voice i for war
He supports Grant. wet Us have
peaeep
Year: 1868

GRANT is n tanner, or at lest loafed
around his fathers lanyard year on
two, after retiring from the United
States army on invitation, and tan
ners' clubs are being formed To help
his election. Arneil Of this State is a
tanner also, proposes to introduce that
style Of Radical machinery in his
Congressional district. II Is doubtfal
whether he will tan BUCK as sue
cessfilly az he tanned hides for Con
federate cartridge boxes and shoe
leather.
Year: 1868




The majority Of the Radical organs of
our country are trying TO explain Grant s
order 20 rs TO make It palatahle to the
lsrsclltcs The 10000 Republican votes
cast by the Jews since 500, is almost too
heavy loss for the party in power to
sustain al the present time, and we can
rely on the Radicals using every means
in their power to prevent it,


Some of their organs, however, having
less brains than others, occasionally let
the work fall, and thereby place those
whom they wish to deceive on their
guard thus a Radical paper in Indiana
publishes the sentiment Of its party in the
following paragraph


THE Jews are all Democrats, anyhow
We never heard of u Jewish soldier dur
ing the war on either side. They did
no, care an itinerant tinkcr's cusS how
the war terminated. Their object was to
make money out of 1t. They formed
mainly the myrads Of army vulturcs that
preyed constantly and mcrcilcssly on the
poor, half naked, hungry soldiers For
every Republican jew that, by the sort
of reasoning adopted by the Courier and
other similar journals, are induced against
Grant, dozen decent, honest Christian
white men will vote for him. Let the
good work go on"


The writer of the above is guilty of di
rect falsehood, for there were 10000
Jewish soldiers in the Federal armies,
and some 10000, or over in the Confede-
rate But the party this yagsbond scrib-
bier represents is famous for miSrepre-
sentiOn, and we can not altogether won
der at seeing the above falschood pub
hshed
Year: 1868




BY cable we learn that Henry weysford Charles
Plantagenet Rawdon Hastings, Earl OF Rawdon
and viscount Loudoun In the peerage OF the United
Kingdom, died yesterday in London. He was born
on the ed Of July, 1s42, and consequently at the
time Of his death he was only twenty-sIx years Of
age The Hastings family ranks among the ancient
arstocracy OF England and dates its pedigree from
the days Of william the Conqueror The late Mar
quis rendered himself conspicuous both on the
French az well as the English turf, and caused con-
siderable sensation In the sporting world by some
alleged underhand transactions prior to the last
Derby, the particulars OF which have been pub
lshed In previous editions Of the HERALD. short
time since he was married to Lady Florence Paget,
daughter Of the Marquis Of Angesey and the affair
created considerable stir In the fashionable world
from the fact that was supposed that the lady
engaged TO be married to wealthy young merchant
Of London During his short but evcntfu career dc.
ceased rapidly ran through the greater portion Of
the princely inheritance which he became possessed
Of on his accession to the tile, and doubtless fell
victim To that pernicious system OF money lending
which is TOO readily placed within the reach OF the
scions OF the English nobility.
Year: 1868

What are now called surprise parties became quite fashionable in England about the year 1900, when they were called "pic-nic suppers." The bill of fare was prepared, each dish being numbered, and the subscribers to the entertainment drew lots, and each re- quired to furnish the dish marked against the number he drew. This may be useful as hint to persons getting up surprise parties, which, by the way, are the most sensible species of enter tainment now in vogue, because the entertainer is required to furnish only the parlors, and is put to no trouble to prepare for the guests, while the visit ors furnish their own supper and mu- sic, and thus equalize expenses. In that way the people who live in a pleasant house, but who cannot afford to prepare an entertainment entirely at their own cost, may still receive their friends occasionally and enjoy social and festal evening.
Year: 1868

Keep good company or none. New CT be idle. If your hands cannot be usefully employed attend to the culti- vation of your mind. Always speak the truth. Make few promises.-- Keep your own secrets if you nave any. When you speak to person, look him in the face. Good company and con versation are the very sinews of virtue. Good character is above all things else. Your character cannot be essentially injured except by your own acts. If any one speaks evil of you, let your life be 90 that none will believe him. Drink no kind of intoxicating liquors. Ever live (misfortune excepted) within your income. When you retire to bed, think over what you have been doing during the day. Make no haste to be rich, if you would prosper. Small and steady gains give competency, with tranquility of mind. Never play at any game of chance. Avoid temptation through fear you may withstand it. Earn money before you spend it. New CT run in debt unless you see chance to get out again. Never borrow if you can possibly avoid it. Do not marry until you are able to support wife. Never speak evil of any one. Be just before you are generous. Keep your self innocent if you would be happy. Earn money while you are young to spend when you are old. Never go where you are not wanted. Read over the above at least once week.
Year: 1868

WHO WOULDN'T RE AN EDITOR !-- Editing paper, says the Church Un- ion, is pleasant business.

 Ii it contains too much reading mat ter people won't take it.

 If the type is too large, it don't con- tain enough reading matter.

 If the type is too small the people won't read it.

 If we publish telcgraphic reports, people say they are all lies.

 If we omit them, people say we have no enterprise, or suppress them for political effect.

 If we have few jokes, the people say we are rattIe-head.

 Ii we omit them, they say we are old fossils

 If we publish original matter, they condemn us for not giving selections.

 If we publish selections, they say we are lazy for not writing more, and giv- ing them what they have read in some other paper.

 live give a man a complimentary notice, they censure us for being partial.

 If we remain in the office and attend to business, folks say we are too proud to mingle with our fellows.

 If we do not they say we never at- tend to business.

 If we publish poetry, we affect sen- timentalism.

 If we do not, we have no literary polish or taste.
Year: 1868

AN UNsPoTTEp CHARACTER.-Money is good thing, especially in these hard times, but there is something a thousand times more valuable. It is a characteristic consciousness of pure and honorable life. This should be a mans first aim to preserve at any cost. In times of commercial distress, while some are proved and found wanting, others come forth tried as by fire. Here one comes out of the furnace far more of man than before. Amid the wreck of his fortune he stands erect noble specimen of true manhood. We have occasionally witnessed an ex- ample of courage in such crisis, of moral intrepidity that deserved all honor.

 Let it be the aim of every business man, above all things else, to keep this purity sustained. This is the best pos session-this is the capital which can never be taken from him-this is the inheritance which he can leave his chil- dren.
Year: 1868

Governor Oglesby, of Illinois, made a characteristic speech at Jerseyville a few days since. It is the most radical, and therefore the best radical speech yet made in the canvass. We give . simple extract. He said:

 "There was not a decent man in the Democratic party. That not one Demo- crat in three hundred paid his tax to the government. That Democrats are all rebels and the Union soldiers now working with the Democratic party are as much rebels as were the Con federate soldiers. That Democrats were more ignorant than negroes. That he and the radical party were in favor of taxing everything, "from a donkey down to Democrat" That he was opposed to taxing bonds, and in favor of paying them in gold. That he was in favor of negro suffrage evey- where, and in favor of the most com. plete equality of races. That the war ended too soon; that it should have continued until negro equality was established beyond any question. That he was in favor of moro war, if necessary to establish the great princi- pies of the republican party. That the Democrats never should again have any control of the government. That the laboring man paid comparatively no taxes; that the poor, miserable, stinking scabs of society were making great fuss about heavy taxes, when they didn't know when they were we'll off. That it was the republican party that put down the rebellion; and that, if Democrats did not cease finding fault with the taxes and bond-holders, they would be quieted at the point of the bayonet."
Year: 1868

! There is perhaps no one, to whom the intercourse with books has grown

 to be happy and habitual, who cannot

 recall the time when, needing other

 counsel than his own mind could give,

 he felt some guidance that was strength

 to him. One call recall, in after years, how 1t was that an interest was first

 awakened in some book--how sympa- thy with an authors mind was earliest .stirred--how sentiments of admiration

 and of love had their first motion in

 our souls toward the souls of the great

 poets. We may perhaps remember,

 too, how tho chastening influence of

 wise and genial criticism may have

 won our spirits away from some ma

 lignant fascination that fastened on the

 unripe intellect only to abuse it. But

 these kindly and healthful agencies ex-

 ist not alone in the memory-grateful- ly retained as benefits received in the period of intellectual immaturity and inexperience. Even the student of literature whose range of reading is most comprehensive-whose habit of reading is most confirmed-whose cul- turc is most complete will tell you that it is still in his daily experience to find his choice of books not an arbi- trary and lawless choosing, but a pro- cess open to the Influences of sound and congenial criticism; he will tell how, by such influences. the activity of.his thoughts is quickened-how his judgment of books is often the joint product of his own reflections, and the contact of the wisdom and experience of others. To him who wanders at will through the vast spaces of litera- ture, with the sorry guidance of good and experience, most need full arc the helping hand and the point ing finger; ito him who has travelled long in that same domain, pursuing his way with purposes better defined, and who has gained a wider prospect and views--even bya him, guidance. i f not so needful, still may be welcomed from some fellow-trav- eler. We marvel often at finding how, under the light of wise criticism, new powers aud new beauties are made visible to our. minds in books the most English Literature.
Year: 1868

Ask friend to write three numbers, consisting of the same number of fig ures, no matter how many. one under the other; tell him you will add two numbers to them, and that you will inform him how much the amount will be when added, as soon as he will write his first number. For example your friend writes S726S; you immedi- ately announce that the sum of five numbers will be 2S7266, no matter what he may put down for his second and third numbers. Suppose him to write for the second and third lines 4352l and 63l9S; you will write under them SEATS and 53l9s, and on adding will find the amount previously given to be correct. Of course, you must know what to take for the fourth and fifth numbers. These may always be found at once, by substracting the fig ures of the second and third lines from the number nine, and setting down the remainder. The answer you can find from the first line of figures only, in this way: place the figure ? before the first line. and subtract it from the last figure of the line. By placing the numbers given above in the form of a sum in addition, the whole working may be readily seen. Practice we'll so that you may go through the operation without hesitation before exhibiting, and those unacquain ted with the secret will be surprised at the result.
Year: 1868

No. 146 ASYLUM STREET,(

 Hartford, October ,.

 Dear Judge-I am just starting away on a trip up the mountains, and I snatch moment to apologize to you and Hodnett for my lapse of duty. You see l couldn't do it. I have been on the wing ever since 1 left you-and am at it yet. Tell H. am on the war path. l am going after the person who sent me this diabolical "Question in Moral Science" as he calls it, to be elu- cidated by me. Moral science is my best hold, generally, but the interroga- tory is too many for me. I have not solved it, quite, but suppose could have done it if I had remained in my right mind. You try it awhile. You are healthy.

 "QuEsTIoN IN MORAL SCIENCE"

 "If man were to signify however, which he was not if he had the power, which being denied him he will en- dcavor anyhow, merely because he don't, would you?D

 It mixes me, beyond expression. Be- canse sometimes l think he is, and sometimes think he would, ane then again think he don't. Other times I think he dasn't, Just occasionally I think he did, but then am not certain. Indeed, am not certain on any count in this indictment--if it be an indict- ment; and since it isn't like anything else can think of, it must be an in dictment Bring the powers of the legal mind to bear upon it.

 You treated me so hospitably when I was Tn St. Louis, and did it with such grace and such a hearty spirit, withal, that it give me genuine pleasure to be able to make this we'll meant re- turn for it, in the way of affordiug you little intellectual recreation that will stay with you--that may be regarded as permanent-that will last as long as you do, Judge.

 Your fellow-suffer,

 MARK TWAIN.
Year: 1868

GRANTS MOVEMENTS Grant and
wife, with several members of his staff, have
been in New York for several days. He was
at West Point on Saturday to see his son Fred
erick. After spending Sunday with him they
returned to New York city He avoids all
demonstrations of a public nature and goes
through the streets without being known The
Tribune, of yesterday says:


Gen. Grant and wife yesterday morning paid
visit to Captain Rodgers, at his residence on
Long Island, where they spent the forenoon
Capt. Rodgers is an old friend of the General s
and formerly resided in Galena, III. Returning
to the Metropolitan Hotel at an early hour in
the afternoon, the General found several of
the late members of his staff and some of his
intimate friends, with whom he rode to Jerome
Park. After witnessing some fast trotting by
some of the best horsesin the country, he again
returned to the city. In the evening Judge
PierrepOint entertained the General and Mrs.
Grant, and a number of personal friends, OF
dinner, at his residence, on Fifth ave. He re-
turned to the hotel about ten o'clock. A great
many visitors paid their respects during the
day, most oil whom were received by Gen. Dent.
This evening, Gen. Grant will attend the Evarts
banquet at the Astor House.
Year: 1868

THE TROUBLES OF A GREAT MAN-For a
week or two we have all been reading how
Gen. Grant was threatened to have his life
worried out of him by the ofice-seekers, as
soon as they heard he was elected President,
and how he snubbed them. But he is threat
ened with as much trouble from the qutd names
as the Office seekers, one class being about as
"pesky as the other, in fact more so, be.
cause he has no redress from the news-mon-
gers. They have already invaded the privacy
of his family relations. A Washington cor
respondent writes: ut is singular fact that
no President of the United States, up to the
present time, has had child born in the
White House" " He adds ''It is understood
the fact will not exist long after the 4th Of
March next"