smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1877

NOTICE IS hereby given that by virtue OF an
execution issued out OF the Circuit Court FOR
the county OF Kalamazoo. in the state OF Mich
igan, wherein the First National Bank OF Cen
terville is plaintiff, and Horace II. Gardner and
Ransom Gardner are defendants, bearing date
the twenty seventh day Uf May, one thousand
eight hundred and seventy six. and to me, as
sheriff of Van Buren, county, directed and de-
livered did on the twenty seventh day OF May,
one thousand eight hundred and seventy six,
seize and levy upon all the right. title and in
terest OF the SAID Horace II. Gardner and Ran
som Gardner in and to the following described
real estate, situated in the county OF Van Bu-
rem, state OF Michigan, which / shall expose to
sale and sell at public vendue, to the highest
bidder, at the front door OF the Van Buren,
County Circuit Court House, In the village OF
Paw Paw, on Tuesday, the fourth day of Sep
tember next, at the hour OF ten o'clock in the
forenoon, or 80 much thereof as shall be nec-
essary to satisfy said execution, together with
the interest and costs thereon, to WIT Entire
section number twenty five, In town one south,
OF range number thirteen west entire section
number thirty six, in town one SOUTH OF range
number thirteen west the north east quarter
OF section number twenty, III town two south,
OF range number seventeen west the west
half OF section number twenty four, in town
two south, OF range number seventeen west !;
the east half Of the north east quarter OF sec
ton number twenty six, In town two south, Of
range number seventeen west the north west
quarter of section number thirty six, in town
four south, OF range number fifteen west the
north half OF the south west quarter OF section
number thirty six, In town four south, Of range
number fifteen west /; the north half OF the
south east quarter OF section number thirty
Six, in town four south, OF range number fif
teen west the west half of the south west
quarter of section number twenty four, in town
one south, OF range number thirteen west; the
north half OF the south west quarter OF section
number fifteen, in town two south, of range
number thirteen west the south east quarter
Of section number fifteen, in town two south.
Of range number thirteen west the south east
quarter Of the south west quarter OF section
number twenty one, IN town two south, OF
range number thirteen west.


Dated, Paw Paw. July 16, 1877.


JOHN Z. SHOWERMAN, Late Sheriff,


1164t7 Van Buren, County, Mich.
Year: 1877

1t was about FIVE o'clock on morn
ing in July that | started on horseback
to ride to town, from village about
twenty miles from New York, on the
old Boston road. 1t was the cool morn
ing of what [ knew would be hot day.
The dews of the midsummer night had
laid the dust of the roads. The time
was gone for roses, and few flowers were
to be seen in the gardens as | passed
along. The blinds of the houses were
shut, the inmates not being awake yet.
One of the agreeable peouliarities of
horseback riding is that in this way OF
getting about one learns the points OF
the compass, and obtains some notion OF
the geological relation to each other OF
the various regions traversed. We know
that, if we walk along a certain road or
pavement, it will take us to place one,
two, three, perhaps four miles away.
But to reach point thirty miles oil,
there is but single method known to
the experience. This is to buy ticket
and take seat in the railway car. The
ticket is punched few times, and the
traveller arrives at his destination, all
the while having had no more notion Of
north, south, east or west than sultaua,
who, sewed up in bag, is shot from
the window of the seraglio into the
Bosphorus The traveller by railway
only knows that he leaves one familiar
spot, and in little while finds himself
at another. 1t gives him novel sense
of liberty and independence to discover
that, by following a certain beautiful
road, his horse will surely carry him
the distance between the two places.
" A good man on q good horse is SER
want to no man." says the Portuguese
proverb. He mounts when he likes,
rides at dawn, noon, evening, or by
moonlight, aud no conductor calls the
names of the villages as he passes Il.
S. Nadal; in Midsummer Holiday
Scribner."
Year: 1877

Correspondence Of The True Northerner.


The most noticeable feature of every
feld is the parcbed condition of the
grass and the general effects of the
drought. There has not been rain enough
to dissolve an ounce of the nitrates found
in the hay since haying commenced here.
The farmers could well afford to lose
some of this soluble element from their
hay crop if they could have some rain
to save the corn crop. am glad to see
that the farmers are trying such expert
ments as that reported to the NORTH
ERxER, on the elements lost from hay
by rain. 1t is just what has been taught
here for years. Another equally dam
aging effect on the hay crop, and one
exceedingly exhausting to the soil there
fore of far more consequence to the
farmer, is to allow his grass to stand so
loug before cutting. OF this wrote
last spring and will not dwell upon it
now.


The State Board of Agriculture had
a long and important business meeting
last week. The business was mostly OF
a financial nature and was chiefly in
considering what should be done with
the money appropriated for repairs and
permanent improvements. The plan
which has been discussed for some time
of putting larger dam across Cedar
river and putting in a Turbine water
wheel was finally given up as impracti-
cable, because it was believed that the
same power could be more easily OBJ
tanned, and at less expense, by invest
inc in steam engine. The Board au-
thorized Prof. Ingersoll to buy some
more first.class swine. Quite number
of permanent improvements, such as
wind mill for pumping water, small
engine for running the feed cutter,
grinder, threshing machine, and general
Year: 1877

4 TERRIBLE SITUAuoN.--T have
the good deacon, rigid and solemn, stand
at your pew door, contribution plate in
hand, aud patiently wait the while you
claw cOnyulsiyely for the quarter you
are positive was in your pocket when
you took your seat in church TO know
that your ears are swelling to abnormal
dimensions as you claw to feel the per-
spiration start from every pore while
the igrl in the seat behind you vainly
struggles to suppress litter these, oh
beloved are little things, but enough,
yes, more than enough, to make you
wish that you had died when little
child and been buried with plaster.of.
Paris lamb in your arms New Lon
don Telegram.
Year: 1877

"The fashion of this world passeth
away" We seek perpetuity Of
youth but it will not stay. We
cannot persuade ourselves that it does
stay. The ancients longed for i'm
mortal youth. They spoke in angry
dissatisfaction of the wastes of mid
life, and yet more Of those of old age
and in mythology they sought to en-
shrine beauty and freshness in the
gods according to their conception of
the permanence OF the substances OF
life. So we are seeking to MAINTAIN
as long as we may those bodily con-
ditions which shall be most fruitful of
joy, of enjoyment, of strength, and of
visible accomplishments. But change
comes. We are obliged to submit to
limitations. We drift away from
some state in every round hour. We
are not the same to-day that we were
yesterday. In some things we are
more but there is a waste in some
things other, in some things else.


The household is changing perpet--
ually as the individual changes. A
wedding is at one door, and funer-
al is at the other. Life passes perpet-
ually between the two, coming and
going. Abiding never might be
written over the threshold Of every
dwelling. Our children are not two
years the same to us. First, they are
babies then we miss the cradle, and
lock for them higher up along the line
of life }; and then they dlsperse in their
several ways; and tbs old house is
lonesome and the old clock ticks un
needed behind the door. They re-
turn again by and BY, bringing their
children, and renew the household
but how different !! The early grief is
gone. Having struck like lightning,
it has like lightning revealed to us
something that we saw not before
and in thousand ways care is assuag-
ed asperities are rubbed smooth, and
burdens have grown light. Changes
have been going on in each, and in
the whole accumulated household
there has been change before our eyes
continually and yet it scarcely dis.
possesses us, even in old age, Of the
thought that we can make something
abide. No, the world is full of empty
nests. There the bird brooded and
hatched her young there they were
fedged and they 'Aew away" in the
language of the old poet, "and where
now they sing no man may know
Life is perpetually changing.


Friends arej changing. They are
losing the ethereal element, and turn
ing to the gross /; or they are going
from the material toward the spiritual.
In one way or another we are losing
them They are scattering. They
are changing, at any rate. Lo,
throughout life our heart Is as spider
Of the night, that throws out from
himself webs on every side, and has
his dwelling on the stable grass, until
the browsing OK or the large foot OF
the farmer comes dasbing through,
when by one step every thread is
snapped, and bis work has to be done
over again We are throwing out,
here and there, aflinities and affections
and yearnings and longlngs. We are
uniting ourselves in one and another
way to each other, to the household,
and to society. Ten thousand ele.
ments, like SO many nerves, have been
thrown out from us, and have been
woven into and rudely broken of
from the course Of time
Year: 1877

The question whether farming
pays is a question as to whether labors
pay which are intrinsically healthtul
10 the individual and useful to society,
and whose sure reward is indepen-
dence and competence. To this there
can be but one answer.
Year: 1877

Men are drowned by E,ising their
arms above water, the unbuOyed
weight of which depressCs the head.
Other animals have neither motion
nor ability to act i'm a similar man
ner, and therefore swim naturally.
When man falls into deep water
he will rise 10 the surface and will
continue lthere If he does not ele-
vate his hands. If he moves his
hands under the water IN any way
he pleases, his head will rise 80 high
as To allow him free liberty To
breathe, and If he will use his legs
as in the act of walking (or rather
of walking up stairs) his shoulders
will rise above the water so that he
may use less exertiOn with his hands
or apply them 10 other purposes.
These plain directions recommend
ed to the recollection of those who
have not learned 10 swim in their
youth, as they may be found highly
advantageous in preserving life.
Year: 1877

Burloighs New York Letter 10 the Boston Journal.l


20 trcacherOus are the seas of Wall
Street that even Vanderbilt more than
once came within an ace Of going under
When Drew fed 10 Jersey ne had with
him an iron box in which were five mil
lions Of Erie money. That box saved
the Commodore.


This business Is n regular lottery.
Men who issue puts and calls can save
themselves. They always hold the stock
and can sell against their obligations.
Only one or two men have reputc on
which IL is safe 10 bay a straddlc. Men
often put their sales on the market TO
create business. But even this kind of
business is risky TO outsiders.


a gentlemen went TO Europe. lie left
his family an income of $4,000 q year.
10 was in New York Central. The stock
run down ten per cent. The family be
came frightened and sold out Acting
on other advice, they bought the
stock back at an advance of two per
cent; lost their dividend, but now find
the stock at the old price.


IL almost takes n mans breath away
TO see the trade done on the street i'm
day. Last Saturday one operator made
eight checks for one million each. The
whole amount of the days transaction
footed mp thirteen millions


The bulls and bears have no compass
sion for their unfortunate associates.
They knock q man down as n butcher
knocks down n bullock When n man
falters, he is sold. His seat. worth
10000, goes at once under the hammer.
Year: 1877

a LETTER from New York TO the
Springfield Republican says that more
woman dry-gOOds merchants arc buying
goods at the great jobbing houses this
fall than was ever the case before.
Women bought Of one firm ten thousand
dellars worth of goods in one day.
Their purchases were not large. but
very discreet and discriminating. They
knew exactly what they wanted, and
paid cash or its equivalent"
Year: 1877

The 3farket.-The Manchester market
will compare favorably with the Richmond
markets, but this is the season OF the year
that everybody will complain about not
being able to get anything good to eat.
Salad and onions are about the only vege-
tables that have made their appearance.
Year: 1877

The following extract from the Ban
ner of Light, the organ OF Spiritualists
In Boston, purports to be communities
tion from the departed spirit OF Ma jor
Daniel Soully, whose memory Is still
green within the hearts OF his many
friends In this city. Mrs. Jennie 8.
Rudd was the medium through who m
this message from the other world was
given, but unfortunately neither the
style nor the language is anything
like poor Dams, and his lack OF mem
ory concerning the date Of his nativity
will, to say the least, call for more sub
stantial proofs OF identity before the
spirit can pass muster in New Orleans :


MAJOR DANIEL ScULLY.-This, / un-
derstand, sir, Is the general postoffice,
Is it not? tIt is,. or'you spirits Then
we have the advantage Of mortals. !
know am spirit, or | never should
have got here. come here to-day q
stranger, feeling my inability to control
satisfactorily to myself, for l know but
little how 1t Is done. In fact, | am only
here few weeks, and am learning SO
much and I see such vast amount to
learn, that I feel like saying don't
know anything. I recollect in the days
of my childhood an old school teacher,
who once told me that when boy be-
gan to feel he knew nothing at all, then
he came into a passive condition, and
he was able to teach him something.
Now, because I feel this way to-day,
trust I am going to learn something.
II do, it will afford me a great deal OF
pleasure. That this philosophy Is true,
7 have demonstrated that it is a grand
philosophy I feel in every part Of my
nature, and I know that / shall enjoy
communion with earth il l can bring
the matter about.


was born in London, England, about
the year 1920, in the month Of August.
I have resided in New Orleans about
thirty-fiye years. I have oftentimes
heard of this thing, and had considera
BILE curiosity about it, with but very
little knowledge; yet I am free to say
that consider it the greatest privilege
of my life that / can demonstrate fully
that I, Major Daniel Scully. still live


and il there is anybody that would ht
glad to hear from me, ] trust they vii
put me in way or show me how car
put them in way whereby can com
/ municate with them. am anxious te
take hold of some of the old friends
again. T really want to greet them
! bar asr OF Light Bostonl, Feb, 40,
Year: 1877

~ am waiting for summer" sang the maiden at her


loom,
"For can't let Johny kiss me with the old folks in


the room.
In the bright and balmy weather we can wander, he


and I,
When there's no one to observe us but the hedges


and the sky.
~ am waiting for the summer" sang the lager beer


lessee
OF some gardens much affected by the young folks on


the spree. -,
when the citizens frying in the suns excessive


glare ,
They've knack of getting thirsty and they like the


open air."
81 am waiting for the summer" sang famous Rus


sian chief,
awe have worked it very nicely, thanks to clever


Ignatieff,
When the SHOWS and rains are over we can fall upon


the Turk,
And commence that Holy Warfare that in winter


wouldn't work.
In the summer 10! the maiden takes her Johnny for
In the summer go the people to those gardens by the


shoal;
In the summer over Europe will the battle roll


afar,
Aud the betting be divided twixt the sultan and the


cZar.
Year: 1877

To deliberate on useful things is pru-
dent delay.


He who speedily gives to the needy
gives twice.


A suspicious man would search pin
cushion for treason, and see daggers in o
needle case.


Whatever be your outward lot in life,
your condition is truly pitiable if you are
guilty of neglecting moments.


Silence never shows itself to 80 great
an advantage as when it is made the re-
ply to calumny and defamation.


One should be careful not to carry any
of the follies of youth into old age; for
old age has folles enough of its own.


Brains and muscles should share
equally all laborious occupations. But
the brain should direct the muscle and
utilize and economize its powers.


A looking-glass is kinder to us than
the wine glass, because it reveals our
defects to ourselves only, while the
latter reveals them to our friends.


Perseverance is ore of the primitive
impulses of the hurlan heart-one of the
indivisible primary faculties or senti-
ments which gives direction to the char
acter of man. .


Manners are tae root, laws only the
trunk and branches. Manners are the
nrchetypes of laws. Manners are laws
in their infancy; laws are manners full
grown-or, manners are children, which,
when they spring up, become laws.


Friendship, love and piety ought to
be handled with a sort of mysterious
secrecy they ought to be spoken Of
only in the rare moments of perfect con-
tidence, to be mutually understood in
silence. Many things are too delicate
to be thought, many more to be spoken.


Per APPS the summary of good breed
ing IN y he reduced to this rule: "Be-
have unto all men rs you would they
woul,l behave unto YOU" This will
most certainly oblige us to treat all man.
kind with the most civility and respect,
there being nothing that we desire more
than to be treated 80 by them.
Year: 1877

When the four o'clock train on the
Cayuga Lake road whistled at McKin-
ney's yesterday afternoon, says recent
number of the Ithaca IN. Y Journal,
the noise frightened horse standing in
the yard connected with Workman &
Bates's slaughter house, and the animal
dashed away with the skeleton wagon to
which it was attached. In wheeling
around to get out of the yard the wagon
was overturned, and with it in this posi-
ton the horse, which is blind, made
direct for the railroad track, and with
great speed continued to run toward
town, dragging the wagon along the road
bed. Just rs the horse got upon the
track the train appeared in view ut the
curve short distance north of the slaugh-
ter house, and for II few minutes it look
ed as though everything was up with the
poor beast. But on it ran, crossing cat
tie guards and culverts with as much
precision as though it were possessed OF
sight and the dangerous road familiar
one. The engineer succeeded in revers-
ing the locomotive before overtaking the
horse, although running down grade,
and at Quick's slaughter house the runa-
way was stopped and led down from the
truck.
Year: 1877

t"After the men were ordered to lie down,
white rabbit which had been hopping hither
and thither over the field swept by grape and
musketry, took refuge among the skirmishers,
in the breast Of corporal. Report Of the
Battle Of Mdlce,n He'll
Year: 1877

His Excclloncy said:-"A certain number OF your
citizens have sought 10 impress with the belief that
II the Legislature OF Canada Is compelled by some
means other, which, however, they do not specify
TO make forthwith these seventy miles OF railway they
will be strong enough in the lace OF Mr.. Mackenze's
oner OF money equivalent TO take British Columbia
out Of the Confederation. Wcll they certainly won't
be able TO do that am now IN position TO Judge Tor
myself az to what the real sentiments ol the conf
munity. When once the main line OF tho Pacific Rail
way is under way the whole population OF the main
land will be perfectly contented with the situa-
tion OF affairs aud will never dream OF detach-
ing their fortunes from those OF Her Majesty's
great Dominion Far be the day whom on any acre Of
soil above which floats the nag OF England mere mate
rial power brute political preponderancc should be
permitted to decide such controversy AS that which
discussing The genius OF the English race has
ever been too robust and sensible to admit the ex-
lstencc OF an cilable element in its midst "


hnal paragraph let add that the report OF the
Chef Engineer OF the Pacific Railway shows that tho
total length is 03l miles, which will cost average
OF S25 100 per mile or 500 II is said that the
construction Of the last iorty hty miles will proba-
bly, be of the most remarkable engineering
achievements Of our time The above estimates are
exclusive OF the land grant OF twenty miles on each
side OF the line
Year: 1877

A FORMAL RECOGNITION By THE UNITED


sTATEs-spEEcHEs OF PRESIDENT CANAL AND


MINISTER pAssErr-TuE COUNTRY PEACE


AELE.


The Haytan Minister resident in this city, received
Official dispatches yesterday from his government NJ
Port au Prince The advices bring intelligence up to
February H. Quiet reigned all over The isand and
so much harmony had not existed in long time
Preparations active for the celebration OF the
marriage with great ecidt OF the President to Miss
Whemina Wilson Phipps. sister-in law Of Raymond
Rcgncr tho Haytian millionaire. The trosseau had
already arrived from Paris, also tho BRIDES cake
which was the product o a famous conicctoner IN
this city.


uAYr THE UNITED srATEs


The Interesting ceremony o ollcisy recognizing tho
Republic Ct Hayt under the administration OF Bosrond
Canal had taken place. The Haytian President ar
ranged special audience, at which Mr.. Bassct, the
United States Minister, bearing an autograph letter
ernl Canal were L. Etheart, Secretary Tor Foreign
Affairs, and General LOUIS Tans commanding the Do
partment OF the West. AS Mr. Bassett entered tho
council chamber salvo ol thirteen guns was fired IN
his honor


Addressing President Canal, Mr. Bassett said he had
been charged by his to present to HIS Ex-
ceency an autograph letter OF the President OF the
United states IN reply to tho one received IRON The
President Oi Hayti Notifying the United States govern
ment oil his elevation TO power. He felt peculiar sat
istacliou in presenting, wi,h hs Own hand according
to the instructions OF his government the letter OF
recognition to the President OF Hayti AT the same
happy be able to him OF the deep
interest taken by the President and people OF tho
United States In the prosperity OF the Hayian people
and the desire ie to strengthen the bonds OF friend
ship existing between the Two republics AS the rep
rcseniatve OF great power he desired 10 express his
sincerest wishes Tor the success Of the new admins
traon, hoping that complete might crown all
its works


In reply to Mr. Bassctt's address, President Canal
SAID happy to receive the letter of recognition
from the President of the United States. The deep
interest which he had been told the President ana
people of the United States took In tho welfare OF
Hayti did not surprise him. The people OF the Ameri-
Continent telt mutual interest In each other. He
desired To express IN his own name and in that OF
the Haytian people, the warmest sympathy for
the great Republic of the United States
Every effort OF his government would be
directed to Strengthening the bonds OF friendship
already existing In a few days General Grant, whose
ADMINISTRATION had been SO beneficial 10 the country,
would return to private life. He hoped that his sue
ccssor might DO Inspired by the same noble senti-
ments which animated him.


General Canal then proposed the health OF General
Grant, and round OF seventeen cannon accompanied
the toast.


ALL QUIET


Inquiries made yesterday at the Haytian Con-
sulae in this city relative to the reports recently re-
ccived from Kingston OF disturbance In Haytt The
reports said to have no foundation whatever.