smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1877

Many think that strawberry culture is diff
6cult on account of weeds, aud especially
white clover, but these difficulties can be
overcome very much by adopting what is
is called the matted row system that is, by
setting the plants in rows, say four feet apart
and one foot in a row, keep the ground per-
fectly free from weeds and mellow until fall
which can be done by running the cultivator
through between the rows, which will turn
the runners towards the rows, then hoe and
weed carefully the rows, putting little dirt
on the runners About the time it freezes,
cover well with leaves, evergreen, or straw ;
if leaves or straw are used the covering need
not be taken off in the spring except to re.
move from the crown of the plants, when
they will come forward and bountifully re-
ward you. When the crop is gathered, plow
under, having set another bed the spring be-
fore which will produce another year.


Many Of our wild, black cap raspborries
will pay we'll if set six feet each way and kept
well cultivated, When up about two feet
pinch off the tops to make them branch.


Young fruit trees If leaning any to the
north should have their south side protected
from the sun, as il is now approaching our
latitude; very good way would be to bind
straw around them. Trees that have cracked
and rough bark which should not be re-
moved except when the tree gets large aud
the bark in scales offers good harbOr for
many vile enemies, need no protection Of
body. l.. NJ. MAcoMBER.


North Ferrisburgh.
Year: 1877

Below is what an Iowa farmer says Of two
varieties Of our old friend and neigbor MIR.
Q. G. Priuglo's potatoes. From our experi-
ence With the Snowflake we like il very much I;
it is fine grain, dry, mealy and excellent
favored potato. 1t has some small ones, as
said, but no one need plant on moist ground
in this land Of hills, and potatoes should
never be raised on such land. Ours we're
grown on a clay loam and produced we'll 10
quantity and quality as above mentioned.
Of the Alpha we know less, having made
but one trial and the crop was light which
we think will stand in the way of its popu-
larity; otherwise it is an excellent variety.
Mr.. Brownell of Essex has some choice ones
which he will put upon the market this sea-
son, especially the Centennial" which he
secured "by fertilizing the blossoms o f Brow
nell's Beauty with the pollen from the white
Peachblow." Those who have tried them
report an excellent potato, mealy, white,
fine grain, not watery, with smooth red skin.
Mr.. Brownell told US few weeks since that
he regarded it as a superior article, which we
hope it is. We are pleased TO find so much
attention given to potato culture by Yer.
monters and with such excellent success.
Our Iowa friend wrote as follows TO the
World:


The Snowflake and Early Ohio come the
nearest to the mark of any that l have
tested.


The Snowflake has two faults One is,
it is liable to rot on low, wet soil. The other
is, there are some small ones always. In
the hill, in YIELD shape and quality, there is
no need of improvement. Its keeping quail
tiles are all that can be desired it is in fine
condition when new ones come in, and Its
rich flavor is very remarkable.


The Alpha is a splendid early variety,
well shaped, with good color, of an excellent
quality; but it is light cropper, although
it is perfectly hardy.


The Ruby is of fine size, cf fair shape,
with beautiful color, aud it is unsurpassed
as cropper 1t is entirely healthy. With
the cooking of the Early Rose and the
Peachblow combined, it will be preferred by
many to any other.


These potatoes have an English reputation
of which we need not be ashamed. The Lon
don Gardener spoke very highly of them. L
mentioned with special approval Brownell'
Beauty, Pringes Snowflake, Alpha ant
Ruby. OF the latter it says it is "the only
new American variety offered last year, auC
has been severely tested by a hot dry sum
mer, and came out very we'll"
Year: 1877

have been much pleased at the progress


OF agriculture and the manifest increasing in-


terest in agricultural pursuits evinced by the
patrons of the FARMER. Although not far
mer always take great interest in their
success, for perceive that my ability to
secure the bread and butter necessary for
my corporal frame, depends upon the success
of that very prominent portion of the com.
munity. have been somewhat sorry for
them in many instances when have seen
them the victims Of sharpers, and led to build
castles, not in Spain, but in the air, that were
destined sooner or later to fall to the ground
with crash bearing with them the fond an-
ticipatiOns of many an enthusiast. On Que
particular point have seen these fond au-
ticipatiOns blasted many times, in the rage
for blooded stock, aud the belief ia the supe'
riority of grade or full-blOod animals for
dairy and other purposes. A few make
money out Of the oredulity Of the masses
while the mass grows poor out of the invest


ment. After careful observation for quit
number Of years am fully of the opinion
that the great cry for blOOded stock is
humbug Of the first water, aud the majorit.
Year: 1877

On a road thus broken turning out would
be very easy affair. All that would be re-
quired would be to "keep to the right" as
the law directs. Such a road would not
only be convenient for turning out but would
also be convenient for teamsters who might
be obliged to walk by the side of their teams,
as there would be a path for each animal
and one for the driver. Where there is con-
siderable travel, breaking roads in this way
would be found to be great public cOnve-
nience. WIN. Ii. GILMORE.


HsnHikeT, N, N.
Year: 1877

There is but little the tiller Of the soil can
do in the winter but take care Of his stock,
get up wood, do his visiting, aud plan for
the coming season and while be is thinking
perhaps he would do we'll to let his thoughts
90 back and see how his wife aud children
have wandered over pastures and meadows
for few little Insignificant Strawberries aud
raspberries, that if sold would not pay for
the time in getting them, when berries can
be raisedi his own garden worth double and
costing less than half what the wild ones did.
Year: 1877

Then turn the team about, driving the near
OK or horse in the path on the right hand
side, requiring the of one to make a new
path. This would make, substantially, n
double road represented as follows:
Year: 1877

From the wheeling Register


A Confederate soldier from the Valley
OF Virginia, in one of the battles of the
of the late civil war was struck in the
head by a Mimic ball. The ball passed
through the skull, and the surgeons,
afraid to probe the wound in search OF
it, left the man to die. In the course of
time he recovered, but had lost hia
reason, and was sent to the insane
asylum at Stauuton, where he remained
for eleven years. At length Dr.. Feun,Ia-
roy. ON eminent physician Of this city,
obtained permission FROM the asylum
authorities and friends Of the insane
man to make f surgical examination of
the head with the hope OF finding the
ball. lie was successful and found the
ball imbedded on the inside OF the skull
and pushing against the brain. Unable
to extract it with any instrument at
hand, be took q chisel and mortised it
out. As soon as tho ball was removed,
reason resumed its control, and the de-
ranged ona was in his right mind. He
says that he ID not conscious of anything
AISV hh5 btIhilGd tli0 lltclSul VI
eleven years-trom the time he was
struck on the battlefield to the moment
the pressure was removed from the
brain. all WAS q blank to him.


another case in tho same county of
Augusta was tdat of boy whose gun
bursted while shooting, and drove the
lock into the brain The piece was taken
out by skilful surgeon without serious
injury to the patient.


But the most remarkable cage that
hear of was in the same neiehborhood.
1t was that of woman subject to fits of
mental derauge ment, and wbils in fit
OF lunacy drove an eightpenny nail into
the top of her head, penetrating down
into the brain--the nail having been
driven up to its head. The nail was
drawn out, and the woman has been in
soupd mental condition ever since,
Year: 1877

1t in hard thing to damn a man
worth 100000. And although we are
pretty orthodox in our belief, we doubt
if it can be done. If Dives really went
to the bad place, he must really have
gone there on his own accord; his bio
grapher would never send him there.
But Lazarus well, it has always been
wonder to us how Lazarus got where he
did. II he had died in 1877, lie never
would have made it.
Year: 1877

A friend of Marshal MacMahon'
makes this prophecy as to the future of
France THE 1865 will coma back 400;
a dissolution will imm medately ensne, and
the Marshal will govern till the end of
the Septennate by the aid Of the army"
Year: 1877

KINDNESS TO ANIMALS - Van Am.
burgh could handle his lions and tigers
with impunity. No animal will fail to
respond to kindness and uniform good
treatment. And especially will the no.
BILE horse respect and contide in and
faithfully serve master who deals kindly
with him. We have ourselves taken q
spirited Morgan mare which had been
rudely handled and become entirely un-
manageable through harsh treatment,
and, by appealing to her intelligence and
respecting her needs, in three weeks
time made her entirely safe and reliable
Tor wife and children, and all who would
treat her kindly and handle her gently,
and we have, after FIVE years, seen the
same mare resume he: old vicious habits
when again under the control Of one who
resorted to arbitrary or brutal treatment.
Always appeal to the better instincts OF
the horse, the mule, the OK, the cow, as
well as the dog and other domestic ami
mails, and they will never become vicious
or unmanageable.
Year: 1877

carved the names of Victor Hugo, George
Sand, Louis Napoleon, our own Motley
and a multitude of Others OF less impor-
tance.


Leading from this, the largest, dungeon,
are two Others, one of which is the room
where condemned prisoners must pass the
last night of their lives. The solid rock
was hewn out to form an inclined plane,
which must serve as their bed if one they
wished on that dreadful night The other
was the execution room. Here is huge
beam, black with age, on which the con-
demned were suspended, or to which they
were fastened to suffer other deaths.
MANY thousand Jews were here de-
capitated in the thirteenth century,
charged with having poisoned all the
public drinking fountains of Europe,
thereby causing disease known as the
"Black Death" History tells us that
these dungeons were first excavated for a
place of refuge for the women and chill
dren of the neighborhOod in times of war,
but afterwards served a more cruel pur-
pose.


The story above this was occupied by
various armoiies and rooms of state. The
so-called "Hall of Justice" is large, an
cient looking hall, draped as in olden
times, with the flags and banners of the
country. The next room we enter is the
Chamber of the Question:" or torture
chamber where the suspected were ex-
posed to all imaginable turtures to ex,
tort confession; which confession, If
made, must of necessity be their death
sentence. In the center of the room is a
huge, though worn, pillar, to which pris-
oners were secured while undergoing
torture.


But all is not yet told. We are taken
into another room where was formerly a
statue of the Virgin Mary. Directly in
front of this was trap-door with secret
spring, which gave way as soon as
touched. In this the condemned were
forced to kneel to do reverence to the i'm
age, when they would be precipitated
upon sharp knives stretched across deep
cavern (like large welD which contained
eighty feet of water communicating at the
bottom with Lake Geneva.


The upper story constituted the living
apartments of the Duke of Savoy and his
family. The chamber of the Duke is a
very large room containing an enormous
fireplace, the walls of which, as well as
the whole room, are covered with the
names of visitors. Leading from this is
the chamber of the Duchess. Its walls
are covered with ancient frescoes. From
its windows most lovely views of the sur
rounding country can be enjoyed. Both
these rooms are now entirely empty, with
the exception of a large, od-fashioned
wooden bedstead, used by one of the
dukes who inhabited the castle. On the
same floor with these is the well-preserved
ancient chapel of the dukes family,
where now the services of the Protestant
church isheld.every Lords days. AL,
in the Haaokeye.
Year: 1877

RICHMOND, Ind. Sept 4.-Chas Spencer,
OF Connersville, Ind committed suicide in
the city calaboose this noon. He came here
last night in company with several other
young men from Connersville to see his
sweetheart and visit the circus. Spencer gut
drunk this morning, and at 10 o'clock was
found asleep on u doorstep and locked up.
In the afternoon his friends went to the may
or, and with promises Of leaving the city at
once secured his release.


About o'clock the officer opened the cell to
let him out, and found him dead and cold
having hanged himself by tying his hand
kerchief around his neck and to one of the
bars Of the CELL not over four feet from the
floor; he then slipped his feet forward and so
hung till strangulation ended his life. He
was formerly dissipated but recently joined
the Blue Ribbon Temperance movement and
had been taking active part, making speeches,
r,ta
Year: 1877

OMAHA, Sept 14-The Bee published a
statement to the effect that Gen Crook mar
rowly escaped assassination at the hands of
Crazy Horse during the recent disturbances
at Red Cloud agency. Gen. Crook sent word
that he wished to talk with him, and had
started out with an Indian agent and inter
prefer to see him, when he was overtaken by
a courier who stated that Crazy Horse, in
conversation with his men, said that he in
tended to talk pretty saucy to the General
and in case the General should object he
would kill him. Gen. Crook thereupon relin-
quished the idea of having talk with Crazy
Horse and his plotters Crazy Horses arrest
and death followed
Year: 1877

NRw YORK, Sept. lathe testimony given
yesterday before the coroners inquest upon
the victims Of the Thirty-fifth street fire, by
one at least of Mr.. Hale's principal employees
shows conclusively what culpable negligence
was exhibited in the establishment In the
precautions against fire, although the material
used was all wood and two floors were
crowded Herewith; ono was used in the pre-
paration of glue. There were no extinguishers
in the building, except a few pals of water.


How easy it would have been to replenish
these may be inferred from the testimony of
witness. At the first investigation, he said
no one had been able to get any water from
one of the principal hydrants for two years.
Year: 1877

LOUISVILLE, Sept 14.-The arrangements
for the reception of President Hayes are all
on grand and liberal scale. At the Four
teenth street depot, and also at the Exposi-
ton. raised platforms for the President and
party will be erected, thus aifording every
one an opportunity for seeing them. The
people seem determined to make the affair
most cordial and hospitable and in every
particular honorable 10 the people of Ken
lucky.


There was large attendance at the meet
ing of ex-Confederates at the Masonic Tenn
Pile tonight, to complete their final arrange
ments for the reception of the President.
Year: 1877

The horseshoe at Niagara ia now q
right-angle rather than curve. The
rOcks In the center have been eaten
away from year to year. and now the
day morning large section n rock
tremedous crash, and during the night
still larger area went down. The
falls now wear new face, and visi.
tors will undoubtedly be charged
twenty Ave cents extra next season.
The public can scarcely expert that the
owners of Goat Island and the muse
um can afford to have those rocks fall
down ithout making a penny by It.
IN. Y. Tribune.
Year: 1877

Senator Sharon's Nevada friends say
he would have attended the extra
session had he supposed there would
have been any business before II more
fmportsnt than the passage of ap-
preparation bills. This does not seem
to excuse him for telegraphing re-
quest that the Senate 20 to the devil
when he was Informed OF the arrival of
"more important" business.
Year: 1877

THE Piocene Mining Company, whose
claims are near Downievile, says the
San Francisco Stock EIchdnge, will in
troduce machinery to bore for gravel.
This mode Of prospecting a gravel mine
is something original, and marks an en-
tlrely new departure in this branch Of
mining. The plan has been spoken of be
fore, but never to our knowledge has any
attempt been made to put it into practice.
The machinery to be used will make a
bore of the diameter of eight inches, and
in earth or soft rock is expected to sink
at the rate OF seventy-fve feet day.
There is no reason apparently why this
method should not prove at least as great
success as the diamond drill on the
Comstock. The large size Of the bore
should make a reliable index of the ma
ture OF the ground passed through, and
we do not see how the looseness Of the
ground is to make any difference in the
result. At all events the experiment will
be closely watched, and, if successful,
will be initiated largely, the chief adyan-
age being the economy with which large
spaces can be prospected as compared
with the slow and expensive mode OF
prospecting by sinking shafts and run
ming drifts,
Year: 1877

A JOKE was perpctrated on a music
loving but anti dancing Methodist minis
ter OF fAlexandria, Mimi, lately. lie was
at the village hotel displaying bis skill on
the festive violin to a number of amateur
musicians, when gay party Of young
folks in an adjoining parlor, thinking it
too bad to have 50 much good music
wasted, formed a cotillion and enjoyed
themselves very much, while The good
Methodist brother played away with all
bis might, never Tor moment suspectng
that he played while they danced.
Year: 1877

A Salt Lake City dispstch says that in
the tabernacle, Sunday, Brigham Young
arose at an unexpected moment and
broke forth in an address to the Saints
and sinners, which gave the latter 20
understand that il they wanted blood
they could have plenty OF IT. and
indeed, that they were likely 10 hsve
more of it let out Of their veins than
they could spare st an early period.
Many discreet Gentiles are quietly or
gsnizing for the removal of their families
at the first sign of an outbreak. The
Nsuvoo Legion are drilling in meeting g
houses, barns, stables and corrsls in Salt
Lake City and minor towns. Breech.
loading rides have been shipped in great
numbers within the last fortnight from
the east to this plaza --
Year: 1877

1.-THE saloon men are advising the
course pursued by the majority in the
Second Branch Of Council on the license
question. they are making a mistake.
They will ultimately psy for their license
the same they paid last year, and every
days delay caused by the reduc:ionists
Il at their EXPENSE
Year: 1877

THE COINAGE OF THE SILVER TRADE
DOLLARS TO BE DIsCoNTINUED.-Th
second section of the "joint resolution
for the issue of silver coin," approved
July %, 1876, provides that "the trade
dollar shall not hereafter be legal tend
er, and the Secretary of the Treasury is
hereby authorized to limit from time to
time the coinage thereof to such an
amount as he may deem suffi cient to meet
the export demand for the same" There
being no export demand at present for
the trade dollar, the Secretary of the
Treasury has ordered the Director of the
Mint to discontinue the receipt:of de-
posts therefor at the several mints until
further instructed, and general order to
that effect, applicable to all the mints
was on Saturday issued
Year: 1877

The man who views real estate as the
safest property that he can leave for his
family Will do well to listen to Mr.. Mus
grave, who was appointed in March last
to examine the City Chamberlain's ac-
counts of the moneys of widows and
children over which the Supreme Court
had acquired jurisdiction. The examin-
er finds real estate in New York often
eating itself up. Hence he advises that
such trusts as he has been examining
shall be invested in United States or
State securities, ami thai no mortgage
upon real estate shall be taken for more
than forty per cent. of the value of the
property at the date of the mortgage
n. Y. .Sua.
Year: 1877

SO coNPLETELY have American watch
es superseded the Swiss in point of ex-
cellence that the Swiss manufacturers
have almost given up the idea of COM
pleting with them and in consequence
Of American progress in the manufacture
OF silks, quite depression has been
caused among the manufacturers in that
line of goods in that country also. Thus
We find American goods gradually but
certainly working their way into markets
which hitherto have been monopolized
entirely by foreign countries.
Year: 1877

The Senate Committee on FOREIGN Re-
lations held their first meeting yesterdav
and received the foreign Nominations
sent TO the Senate last week. Their con.
sideration was deferred until the next
meeting.
Year: 1877

Never use 9 iady's name in su i'm
proper place, at an improper time, OF
In mixed company. Never make asser-
tlons about her that you think untrue,
or allusions that she herself would blush
to hear. When you meet with men who
do not scruple to use woman's name
In reckless manner, shun them; they
ARE the very worst members of the com
munity: men lost to every sense OF
honor, every feeling of humanity. Many
Q good and worthy womsn's character
has been forever ruined and her heart
broken by q lie, manufactured by some
villain, and repeated where It should
not have been, and In presence of those
whose little judgment could not deter
them from circulating the foul and brag
ging report. A slander Is soon propa.
gated, and the smallest thing derogatory
TO woman's character will fly on tht
wings of the wind and magnify as Il
circulstes, until Its monstrous weight
crushes the poor unconscious victim
Respect the name Of woman. You
mother and sisters are women, and a.
you would have their fair names untar
nished, and their lives unimbittered b,
the slanderer's bitter tongue, heed thu
Ill your own words may bring upon thu
mother, the sister or the wife Of soms
fellow creature.
Year: 1877

A KIND DEED.-A Boston clergyman
at a recent temperance meeting told the
following story, remarking that hr
knew the parties referred to; In one
of the Canadian cities, few years ago,
a young lawyer became addicted 10 the
habits of intemperance and finally gol
so low that he fell down drunk IN a
public street, and lay there with the snn
pouring upon his face. A young lady. "a
stranger to him, passing by. took pit,
upon him and covered his face with h,r
handkerchief. When he came TO h.
senses, and was told of the act of kind
ness, he was so affected by II that he
said he would thereafter be temper
ance man. He took the pledge, and
soon became promising man in his pre-
fession. Not long after he was intro
dueed to the young lady who had don
him that act of kindness, and afterwards
married her. The parties are living
happily together, and the young lawyer
Is now the attorney general OF one of
the Canadian provinces"