smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1869

proved q success. Having made


on his Concord vines, seven crops


in ten years. A four year old


vine bore twenty-six pounds of
grapes, single punches of which
weighed upwards of a pound
The Doctor is satisfied that a good


soil, well prepared by deep plough


ing, (say ten inches) with well


rooted layers, put out carefully,


will bring q good crop OF grapes


the third year, and rarely ever


fail afterwards. and from his ex-


perience, could be made the most


lucrative business in the country.


He sells his wine for $40 per gal


Ion, but only for medical purposes.
To make good strong rooted
layers the vine should be laid
down in July, and separated from
the main vine during winter
They are then ready for trans
planting inithe earliest spring
Care should be taken not to have
the ground too rich SO as to pro-
duee long jointed canes, as the
shorter jointed healthy canes can
beraised more successfully. Your
vineyard should be grown on a
trellis, never on a stake. If vines
are produced from cuttings they
should be laid nearly horizontal,
so as not to produce what are gen.
orally known as foot roots; none
but surface roots are of value to
the vine.


The Scuppernong is a favor
lite grape with the Doctor. He al
SO adds his testimony as to the
general reliability of the soil and
climate of Lincoln county for pur-
poses of fruit raising.


That his opinion may not be
under-valued, it should be under
stood that the Doctor is of Swiss
descent, and his father was a sue
cessful vine dresser in the State
of Georgia, where during his boy
hood the Doctor got bis first lessons
in grape culture and wine making.
| have given more place to the
grape in this letter than any other
variety of fruit, for the purpose
Of attracting to this region those
who are in the search of good |
locality for grape growing, acces-
sible to railroad and not removed
from c0niatu
Year: 1869

The New York Tribune is up
roarous at the suppression of news
papers by the government in Gu
ba. But when Democratic papers
were suppressed by the now
s..sainted Lincoln" the Tribune
Nsss as happy as an old woman
with a fresh bit of gossip in her
mouth. The Tribune is reform
ing.
Year: 1869

-Four negroes recently went to
rob a smoke-house in a Virginia
village. The door was locked,
but two of them pried up the
house on one side while the others
crept in. Just then the owner of


the property made his appearance.
The two outside negroes dropped
their levers and run, and the house
settled down, squeezing one of,
the inside fellows to death across
the middle, and caging the other.
Year: 1869

To MAKE STALE BRKAD AS Coon AS
FREsH. II is not as generally known Us ii
ought to be that stale bakers or other loaf
bread may be made as nice rs freshly baked
by dipping the loaf in clean cold water
and warming through 10 bake oven.@-
Mich bread might be saved that is thrown
away i this were more generally practieed
than il is.
Year: 1869

WouxD IN HoRsRs. s.--One Of the best
washes that we know Of FOR ordinary
wounds on horses is to take one quarter
Of a pound Of salipetre, half pint of tur-
pentine, and put them into bottle shake
up well before using apply to the wound
three times day with feather
Year: 1869

Thousands of the street children of New
York, however, have neither parents nor any
regular places of abode to which they can re-
sort at night In summer they are careless and
happy, for clothing is of no consideration then;
and in some recess behind the open door of a
tenement-house, on the grassless spaces of some
city park, or amid the rubbish of demolished
building, they can roll themselves away, and
sleep the sleep of the wild ranger of the gut
ters, to whom repletiOn will bring no night
mares, though his dreams may be of pumpkin
pies and other ambrOSlal viandS of the remote
possible. But in the inclement nights of win
ter the sufferings Of the homeless little street
Arabs are unspeakably severe. Then they
huddle themselves together in dOorways, at the
risk of being spurned forth by some drunken
lodger into the pelting sleet, or trodden upon
by the late and reckless comers to and fro.
The great iron boilers that stand out in front
of the machine shops, in some quarters of the
city, often afford lodgings for the nigt to these
shvering little sprouts of humanity. Others
may be seen emerging at early morning from
the weather beaten stalls that cling to the foot
of some drowsy old market building. To-day
it is Indian summer. The sun shines genially
through the warm November haze and here,
in desolate park of the eastern district of the
city many groups of small street children are
seen at play They are as cheerful as crickets,
and as shrill. Several of the nights Just pas,
sed away have been bitterly cold, and we have
had ice on the pools in the bleak mornings.
Many of the children, as l am informed by a
policeman, have passed these bitter nights in
such places as have just mentioned; but they
have forgotten all their cares now in the glad
sunshine, and it is quite likely that not one of
them gives thought as to how or where he is
to lay down his unkempt head tonight Here


is one who is a wonder to contemplate, and he
may be taken as a fair specimen of his kind.
He processes ignorance with regard to his age,
but is adroit at catching copper coins that are
jerked to him from a distance of two or three
yards Probably he is seven years old, but he
is stunted and dwarfish for his age. AS for
clothes-well, the newly emerged chicken, with
some pieces of the egg-Shell sticking to it, is
about as dressy as that small Arab. A boiler
was his bed last night. 1t has been his bed
every night since the hard weather set in, and
cold comfort must an iron boiler be when off the
boil. He mas brother some years older than
himself, and this brother does something for
his living, and has coat,-a real coat with
sleeves and a tail, and possibly button or two


with which to loop it close, and he shares il


with the smaller shreds of adversely, as they


huddle themselves together with other boys
in the metal cylinder. Atlantic Monthly Jor
i March,.
Year: 1869

JoHNsoN's LAST RECEPTION.-Pr President
JohnsOn's reception was the point of chief at


traction to the immense crowd of visitors in
Washington, Wednesday night. The result is
easily imagined. Before the hour for the
opening of the White House, nearly enough
to fill the building were in waiting Before
o'clock, the front porch was so jammed that
few succeeded either in getting in or coming
away. Half an hour later the carrlage-way
was entirely blocked up with gentlemen and
ladies in evening Dress and the sidewalks for
so yards on each side of the central porch were
crowded full with those waiting to get IN
When the attempts to come away began the
scene became terrible one for the ladies pres
ent. There was no intentional disorder, but it
was impossible to avoid much unpleasant con-
fusion Ladies got separated from their escorts
on all sides. Men were obliged to come away
without overcoats and hats, and women with
out their wrappings Then it was impossible
to find their carriages, and some Of the ladies
in full party dress, with trails as long as gar
rson flag, were obliged to walk home without
hoods or shawls. Men in full dress were seen
by the dozen, with their heads tied up in their
handkerchiefs, instead of hats. Women in
elegant costumes were crushed through the
crowd on the porch, until their plight was any
thing but enviable. For ALI hour not lady
got out, except such as were taken from the
windows. Quite a number tainted from the
fright and snffocation, caused by the swaying
of the crowd. The police on duty seemed
powerless. No one tried to create disorder,
but the crowd was so great it was impossible to
control or resist its surging. A few of the
Cabinet officers and some of the Foreign Min
listers, with a small representation of the
prominent visitors in the city, succeeded in
gaining an entrance, but the majority of each
Class were obliged to abandon the attempt to
get in. At last a platoon OF Regulars were
sent for, and when the time for closing the
doors came, they were able to keep the way
from them clear At one time about fifty Of
those on the front porch joined in a good


natured way in singing John Brown"
Year: 1869

The Chinese inhabitants of California are al
most wholly of one sex and as there are no sur
plus women of any race or kind on the Pacific
coast, the Chinese have repeatedly attempted
to bring from their own country supply of the
female sex. But this has always been resisted
by the American people of California on the
ground that these women were prostitutes.
The Chinese, however, insist that the Ameri-
cans have no right to pass judgment of this sort,
and allege that the females whom they wish to
bring over are fair specimens of their country
women, and possessed of quite as good morals
as ordinarily prevail among the sex in China.
The quarrel has reached its climax within the
women arrived at San francisco; and as the
local authorities refused them permission to
land, the Chinese took measures to secure them
by force 1t is hard on John Chinaman; but
hard though it be, we must express our sym
pathy with the determination of the people O
California to keep out the countless swarm
of Chinese women, possessed OF Chinese morals
who are ready to come over to the Paclh'
| coast-N y Times
Year: 1869


The cOnference-meeting through at last,
We boys around the vestry waited
To see the girls come tripping past,
Like snow-birds willing to be mated.
Not braver he that leaps the wall
By level musket flashes lltten,
Than l, who stepped before them all,
Who lOnged to see me get the mitten.
But no, she blushed and took my arm!
We let the old folks have the highway,
And started towards the Maple Farm
Along kind of lovers by way.
can't remember what we said,
Twas nothing worth song or story,
Yet that rude path by which we sped
Seemed all transformed and in glory.
The snow was crisp beneath our feet,
The moon full, the fields were cleaning;
BY hood and tIppet sheltered sweet
Her face with youth and health was beaming.
The little hand outside her muff-
o, sculptor if you could but mould it!
So lightly touched my jacket-culf,
To keep it warm had to hold it.
To have her with me there alone


Twas love and fear and triumph blended;
At last we reached the fOOt-wOrn stone
Where that delicious journey ended.
She shook her ringlets from her hood,
And with a" Thank you, Ned" dissembled,
But yet l knew she understood


With what daring wish trembled.
cloud passed kindly overhead,


The rnOOn was slvly moaning tbrOuUb
Yet hid its face, as if it said,


"COme, now or never do it do it,"
Ny lips till then had only known


The kiss of mother and of sister,
But somehow, full upon her own


Sweet rosy, darling MOUTH kissed her.
Perhaps twas boylsh love, yet still
D listless woman! weary lover!
To feel once more that fresh, wild thrill,
Id giye-but who can live youth over?
Year: 1869

A zentlemanly beggar in Philadelphia sends
up his card to ladies, and is ushered into the
parlor After arranging their toilets to meet
some one whose name they fail to recognize,
but who is uudoubtly some casual acquaintance,
the ladies meet him, shake hands, and after a
few moments conversation are requested to
buy some soap or stationery and listen to a
melancholy story.
Year: 1869

A man from the interior of Pennsylvania lost
his pocket.book day or two ago. A bystander
saw the theft, but refused to describe the pick
pocket. In explanation of this strange refusal,
he asked the victim, "Why did you charge me
ten cents for drink of water when l, was in
the army at Gettysburg?" There was nothing
more to be said after that.
Year: 1869

An Act to establish post in the





Be enacted by the Senate and House Of
the CneutStaes America Congress assembled That
consent OF Congress be- and the hereby given to the
erection of drawbrdge the Connecticut
State of Connecticut by the Shore Line Railway Company
accordance with the terms of resolution by the
eighteen hundred and sixty eight amenaOr of the charter
of sa d railroad company


And he it further enacted, That said bridge when
completed the specified and
the accordance the board
gineers appointed in conformity resolution aforesaid
and in accordance with the of the
Of the resolution of the general assembly of the State
said shall lie deemed and taken to be legal and
shall with the railroad of which it is to be part be port
And be it further enacted That the
right withdraw the hereby
gaOn said shall at time be substantially and
teriay obsructed by any bridge
thority of said resolution.
Year: 1869

From all that we can gather from
our exchanges, we believe the Iu-
dianapolis Daily Sentinel (DemOcrauc)
expresses the general drift Of Con-
gress and of the administration to-
wards specie payments. That paper,
in an article reviewing the vote in the
House upon the preliminary question,
says:


"The influence of the administra-
ton and the leaders of the party in


power, will be given 10 the policy OF
contraction, for it is only by reduc-
ton of the present volume Of paper
currency that an early resumption Of
specie payments can be reached. The
vote in the House, although only
upon a preliminary question, gives
an idea of the drift, anu develops the
spirit that will influence the legisla-
tiOn Of Congress upon financial ques-
tions. As we have already intimated


in previous articles upon the financial
lookout, there is q determination to
force the resumption Of specie pay
ments, and it viii be well for the peO-
pie who will be affected by such q


measure to prepare themselves for the
altered circumstances that such a
policy will bring about. The con-
tinual agitation OF the question OF re-
sumption has the effect to unsettie
business affairs nearly as much as
would the actual fact, and it is evil
dent there will be agitation upon the
subject until the end is accomplished. "
Year: 1869

The National Republican of Mon
day says a letter was received at the
Dead Letter Office, on Saturday, adj
dressed to "Hong Ain Kea, China
Store, Pond Lake City, Utah." The
letter is written entirely in Chinese
characters, and as it was mailed on a
postage car Of the Pacific Railroad,
and there being no Chinese clerk in
the department to read the name OF
the sender, the letter cannot be re-
turned to the writer. With the rapid
addition of Cinnamon to our popula-
ton, the time is coming when our
Dead Letter Office viii not be COM
plete without a Chinese clerk.
Year: 1869

NEGRO SUFFRAGE wON'T SAVE Us.


The Radical correspondent Of the
Cincinnati Chronicle tells the truth as
to Grants desires in regard to the re-
construction OF Virginia. He says
the President is in favor Of the early
restoration Of the Old Dominion, but
subject to the provisions Of the Third
Article of the XIVth Amendment,
which requires the ironclad oath Of
Office-hOlders who have taken an oath
to support the Constitution and then
engaged in rebellion, unless their dis
abilities have been removed by Con-
gress. The bill of Senator Morton in
the Georgia case "a synopsis OF the
leading provisions of which We pub
lished in the APPEAL of yesterday is
based upon this article, and is only
one measure 10 enforce the XVIII
Amendment. Mr.. Bingham, who
drew up the Third Article, says that
it was the intention that its provisions
should apply to all Of the States in the
Union, not excepting even Kentucky.
1t is now the intention of a promi-
nent and ultra Radical Senator to sub
NIT bill, at an early day, making
the Georgia bin general; or, in other
words, to enforce that clause Of the
Constitution, in all Of the States.
Should this be done, a large proper
ton Of the officers in Tennessee, as
well as the other Southern States will
be left out in the cold.
Year: 1869

Congress persistently votes down
resolutions for an investigation of the
late gold conspiracy and swindle in
New York. Butterheld was anxious 9
while since to be exonerated; now he
is silent; so is Grant. The latter, it is
said, because there is as much evil
dence to convict him of connection
with the conspiracy as there was TO
show that Butterfield and Corbin had
anything to do with it. Grant is
scandalously quiet about it. His
friends in the House are of the Opin-
ion that everything relating to the
conspiracy should be kept quiet.
Year: 1869

THE PROPOSED NEW DEPARTMENT.


The Washington correspondent Of
the Philadelphia Age says the subject
of gravest importance at this moment
is the effort to make the Internal Rev
enue Department a permanent one,
with its head holding a seat in the
Cabinet. This is practically recon-
mended in the late message, 51t 1t Is
most unnecessary and useless, That
system Of revenue was only intended
to be a temporary measure, and
already the greater part Of it could be
done away with 70 the great relief of a
suffering country and without detri-
ment to the Treasury. At least one
half of the vast horde OF officers who
are fattening on the life-bloOd Of an
impoverished people could be at once
discharged, and without the loss Of
dollar Of revenue; but it IS not in the
nature of a lecch to let go its hold, it
must be torn away by force, or else al
lowed to gorge itself at the expense Of
its victims, Till at last, unable to suck
another drop, 1t falls Of itself.
Year: 1869

THE BILL AUTHORIZING THE CENSUS,
now before the House, instead Of di-
viding the territory Of the United
States into Marshal's districts, which
were too large. proposes to take the
Congressional districts as the units Of
territory. Each Congressional district
is to have District Superintendent OF
the Census, acting under the direction
Of the General Superintendent, and
the ultimate supervision of the Seere-
tary of the Interior. The districts are
to besubdivided into convenient parts,
and each of these is to have an "enu-
meratOr," to take the census and col
lect the statistics for his part, the
whole Of his work to be done within


one month from the frat day of June
Year: 1869

The price Butler is understood to have
received for his part of the work is,an


important consulate for his favorite
nephew, and sundry accommodations
at the Office of the Internal Revenue
Year: 1869

The decision of the Supreme Court
on the Bank Tax question gives Rad
ical Congressman a great deal of COM
fort. They think it shows that the
Court win sustain the COnstitutiOnality
of the legal tender acts about which
there has been so much discussion.
This conclusion is founded on the lam
guage used by the Chief Justice.
Speaking for the whole bench but
Nelson and Davis, he declared that
f" Congress had the constitutional
right to authorize the admission of
bills of credit" and in still another
place Of A." the exercise Of indisputa-
BILE constitutional powers Of Congress
to provide a currency for the whole
country"
Year: 1869

George D. Prentice has been Il constant
drinker for forty years. For ten years
he has been a drinker Ofthe lignum-vitfe
order. Here is temperance lecture
by him, worth score, at least, of the
Good Templar eXhOTtatiOns and misrep-
reservations:


'"There is a time when the pulse lies
low in the bosom and beats low in the
veins; when the spirit sleeps the sleep
which, apparently, knows no waking;
sleeps in its house of clay, and the win
dOws are shut, the doors hung with the
invisible Grape of melancholy; when we
wish the golden sunshine pitchy dark
ness, and wish to fancy clouds where no
clouds be. This is a state of sickness
when physic may be thrown to the dogs,
for we want none of it. What shall
raise the spirit? What shall make the
heart beat music again, and the pulses,
through all the myriad thTOnged halls in
the house of life? What shall make the
sun kiss the eastern hills again for us
with all his old awakening gladness, and
the night overflow with moonlight, love
and flowers? Love itself is the greatest
stimulent, the most Intoxicating of all,
and performs all these miracles, and is q
miracle itself, and is not at the drug
store, whatever they say. The counter
felt is in themarket, but the winged God
is not n money changer we assure you.


Men have tried many things, but still
they ask for stimulant.


Men try to bury the floating dead of
their own souls in the wine cup, but the
corpse rises. We see their faces in the
bubbles. The intoXiCatiOn of drink sets
the world whirling again, and the pulses
to playing music and the thoughts gall
Looping, but the first clock runs down
sooner, and an unnatural stimulant only
leaves the house it filled with the Wild
est revelry, more silent, more sad, more
deserted.


There is only one stimulant that new
er intoXicates, duty. Duty puts a clear
sky over every man into which the
sskylark-happiness always goes sing
ing.
Year: 1869

Mr.. Alexander Delmar, an able stati-
clan, for a long time stationed in the
Treasury Department at Washington,
has written a letter to the Secretary of
the Treasury on the subject Of the fraud
attempted to be palmed off on the peo-
pie, by a pretended reduction of the
National Debt, when in reality it is in
creasing in amount, in which he says:


The latest public debt statement con-
tains a summary of the "amOunt Ofpub-
lie debt, less cash and Sinking Fund in
the Treasury" This summary is neith-
Year: 1869

ANOTHER SoREuEAD.-The editor of the
Pittsburg Post claims to have been one of the
very earliest of Grants political friends, but
he does not seem to have a very high idea of
Grants gratitude in his case. He says:


Early in 'G7 this paper brought him out for
the Presidency. in an article which was quoted
up to the hour of the election. and he has new
er said thank you, or inquired after our health.
We made mistake in wasting brains III writ
ing his praise, for like Madcon in Fanchon, we
forgot he could not, or what was the same
thing. would not read. We should have sent
him bible or pony to have enjoyed his favor
and influence.
Year: 1869

Herald says:


We are informed by person who was pres
ent at the Inauguration that President John
son, intending to ride to the Capitol, according
to custom, with Gen. Grant, was about enter
ing the carriage in which the General was seat
ed, when the latter said in q very emphatic
tone of voice: Il know of nothing in the Con-
stitution which obliges me to ride in the same
carriage with you on this occasion" Presi-
dent johnson Immediately withdrew making
no remark either to Gen. Grant or to any of
the persons surrounding; and took no part in
the days proceedings.
Year: 1869

SENsIBLE.-The Chicago Tribune says: No
body, we presume, will suspect us of not being
sound on 1.-The main question: and, therefore,
we may frankly say that we think the negro
question has got to that stage which all ques-
tions in ethical and religious progress most
generally reach-the stage of cant Let us
have done with it, and give the negro chance
to help himself.
Year: 1869

DIDN'T MAKE \ PREsENT-Dana, Of the
New York Sun, says that if he had made Grant
"a present of velocipede," he would probably
have been successful in his application for the
New York Collectorship.