smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1877

your cotton seed Co corn after 1t has been heated, and hsli of the nitrogen lost, put it on with your oats, sowing from October to January, as occasion serves blowing in the oats and cotton seed together with turning shovel, so as to protect the roots as much as possible from freezes. Apply from twenty to fifty bushels of cotton seed, according to their abundance, per acre, and the nitrogen in the seed will not only make good crop and leave a heavy stubble, but cause a luxuriant crop of grsss and weed to spring up, which, turned In, i' possible, before 1t goes to seed, will give you in the soil for the next cotton crop, not only fine supply of hnmus. but more nitrogen than you could haul out during winter, if you had nothing else to do, and an inexhaustible supply of stable manure at your command.

 You now prepare and plant this stub ble in cotton the succeeding year, with the usual quantity of a good nitro. phosphate, in order to supply the mani. fest deficiency of nitrogen and phosphoric acid in every worn soil not that these elements have been exhausted from our soils as yet, but existing as they do, to some extent, in unassimilated and insol- uble proportions they must be replen- ished by enough prepared by science to supply the deficiency.

 A soil we'll supplied with humus by this rotation of crops, should be planted two years in cotton, as the first year the finer stems and leaves are sufficiently converted into humus to be appropriated as plant food, leaving the coarser stalks and weeds to come into play the second criminals; Dr. Humbert, of Geneva, vol untarily produced tape worBs within himself, and the results of all these ex- periments were the same as those in the case of the lower animals.
Year: 1877

In speaking OF the April election, the
ring organ of this village, with its usual dis
regard for truth. urges that the TRIBUNE
be rebuked by rousing Democratic ma
jority. For what? 1.-The abuse and viii
fication that it has heaped upon the best
citizens of the place, and the slurs that it
is throwing out against prominent citi-
zens because they are Democrats The
charges made against the TRIBUNE are
false i'm every particular, as the writer of
the article we'll knew when it was penned.
The TRIBUNE has heaped no abuse upon
the best citizens of this place, nor has it
vilified any such, neither has it thrown
any slur against any citizen because of
his politics. We will leave the decision
of this question to any honest, un-
prejudiced Democrat who has been reg
ular reader of the TRIBUNE. We took
occasion last fall to venrilate the official
record of some Democrats who were cam
didates for office and who were forming
themselves into a ring" to control the
Democratic party of the county and OBJ
tain all the offices. If amy injustice has
been done any or all these gentlemen.
we stand ready to make the dnaende
honorable when there is proof that the
statements then made are not true
Months have passed and no refutation of
them haye been made, nor even attempt
ed. But now when the solid vote of the
Democracy is needed to still further carry
out the plans of the ''ring." they en-
deavOr to arouse the enmity of the Demo-
Gratis who havea little more independence
tha IL to wish to be led around around by
these m.n. by assuming that, it was they.
and not the members of the "ring" whom
the TRIBUNE condemned. This plan
will not work. The intelligent Demo-
Gratis know better. and the Free Press
only lowers itself in the estimation of all
faIr-minded Democrats in the place, and
they are not few. Our Democratic cit
izens do not expect the TRIBUNE to
agree with them politically. but they eX-
pect fair and honorable treatment at our
hands, and this they have always had,
and always viii, have. but the exposure
of the plans OF designing men who are
working for Il cir own personal
is not casting slurs on
Democrats because they are Democrats.
nor can the Free Press make the people
believe il.
Year: 1877

A proposition has been made in the
Legislature to aiaend the law relating to
the catching of fish, so as to prohibit the
use OF pound nets. The Monroe county
flshermens' association have had this mat
ter under consideration, and Justly feel
somewhat indignant at the attempt to
pass such an act. They assert that the
Monroe county fisheries are one of the
most productive industries of the state;
that pound nets are the only means by
which fish can be successfully caught i'm
that county; that fishermen have rights
which should be respected by the state,
and should not be crippled by unwhole-
some laws that they are willing to paw
just proportion Of taxes, but remon-
strate against any direct tax on fisheries:
that they believe in the fish commission,
and rejoice in their efforts at fish propo-
cation; that fishing with drag-nets de-
stroys the spawn and virtually defeats
the laudable efforts of the commissioners,
while pound nets do not interfere with
the whitefish at their breeding grounds,
and. being used by perch, pike and other
predacious fish as breeding repositories.
are efficacious in destroying millions of
voracious fish in embryo. A set of reso-
lutions embodying these statements in
extended form will shortly he nresented
70 the Legislature. in order to prevent
the passage of laws inimical to their in
terests. This section of the state is quite
us much interested i'm this matter as is
Monroe, and for the sake of the fishing
interests here we hope this action of the
Monroe association will have the effect of
prohibiting the passage of the proposed
law.
Year: 1877

One day last week a half-breed residing
up the shore, came into the village Wi b
his pony and sleigh. The pony was put
into the stable of one of our citizens, and
the man proceeded to surround con-
siderable quantity of corn juice, and soon
was III a very happy condition. Some
time after midnight the citizen, in whose
barn the pony had been stabbed, heard a
noise at his stable and arose TO investi-
gate, when he discovered the native
hitching up his pony. Seeing the man
was quite drunk, he stood at window
watching the operation. The lady of
the house had the previous day hung
out her washing and the clothes line,
which was stretched two or three times
across the yard, had not been taken in.
After getting the pony harnessed and at
taehed to the sleigh, the man got in
gathered up the lines and bracing him
self, heyeiled:


.'Marsch !"


The pony, full of life. started up at a
lrisk pace, when clothes line No. l took
the man under the chin, and the result
was an unusual gyration i'm the air, and
after a number of revolutions he found
himself spread out on the ground
Gathering himself up he INDUCED in



some profSne language ia mixture of
Indian and French, and then again seat
ed himself in the sleigh, and with an
other yell at the pony took another
start. He had gone but a short distance
when clothes line No. 2 caught him. and
again some liye'y double somersaul was
the result, scattering the astOnished ma
tive somewhat promiscuously over the
ground. Gathering himself up as best
he could, he stood few moments in
in loud imprettions i'm his
mixed idiom, after which he again en-
tered the sleigh and started up, but this
time with great precaution. He kept
lodging his head every few feet as If ex-
pecting another clothes line attack, un-
til he reached the street, keeping up all
the time continual stream of invectives
in drunken, maudlin way.
Year: 1877

We would suggest that means should
he taken by our citizens to call the at
tention of the committee to the desirable
ness of location upon our inland lakes.
There is no more suitable location any.
where. and we think if attention was
paid to this matter that it would not be
very difficult to secure the location at
this point.
Year: 1877

Fence Removed.-The fence around
the old Quickstep base ball grounds
has been removed, and the lumber has
been removed to the old foundry at
Tenth and Orange streets, to be used
in repairing the seats in the temperance
tent and closing up some of the win
dows of the building.
Year: 1877

"STIoK TO DAD."-A farmers son
writes us the following: II am tired of
farming and want to come to town to
make living for myself. What do you
think of it ?"


Well, We think you are fool if you
don't stay at home. The city is overrun
with dead beats and tramps, and if you
have dead sure thing of making "bread
and meat" on the farm, you'd better stay
where you are, and dig potatoes, than come
hero and 80 to the Workhouse and peck
rock. Stick to dad. Stay on the farm
You are worth moro to yourself, to ysur
neighbors, 10 your State and the country at
large than all the one-horse mutton head
professional gentlemen that are living from,
hand to mouth in this city or State. You
stick to the plow, tho mower, the reaper,
freeze to that farm like fly blister to ne
groe's lip, raise rye, corn, hay, barley, oats,
potatoes; chop wood, maui rails, burn brush,
curry your mules, feed oxen, raise stock, and
instead of hanging around the street cor
ners dependent upon lunch houses to keep
sand out of your craw, you'll be at home
on your farm, living life Of "independent
happiness" while thousands of "nice young
men," too pretty and proud to work, and
too lazy to steal, will be lighting out cover
the hill to the poor house." merciless beasts
and lazy subjects of utter dependence upon
public charity. Young man, if you know
which side Of the bread of life the butter
ing TO Louisville to "make living for
Yourself" 25 acres of knd and a chap
like you to till it, is worth more to the
county than the bank in this city and tho
smartest capitalist we know of to run it.
You stay where you are. Follow the plow,
and engineer the docile, willing mule that
pulls it. Our word for it any young,
healthy, stout farmers boy who will give
up his chances for ga dead sure thing in
life" and come to town on an uncertainty
is not smart enough to take care Of him
self, and should be arrested and sent to o
lunatic asylum for darned fool. Stay
where you are,-LaaisuiNe Courier-Jour-
nal.
Year: 1877

stand is poor, in June, or as soon as the
grain crop is harvested. This could not be
done in our hot, dry olimate-the following
September would be quito as early as the
young plants could venture above ground
with safety. But we cannot commend too
highly the advice, to let the plants seed the
first year and thus correct defects in the
stand and to avoid weakening the plants by
grazing or moving, before they have become
strong and fully established. Pastures are
very frequently ruined by the desire to rea.
lize from them too soon.-ED. So CULTI-
VATOR.
Year: 1877

Governor Satforl is expected to arrive in Prescott; by Sunday mornings stage. when WIG will undoubtedly learn something more about the injunction in tue Capital case, and find out what Judge French was doirg all the time whilst farce and outrage was being enacted by Commissioner Car penter, who has made himself infamous and obnoxious to every honest man in the Ter rifp-N
Year: 1877

Let as make some move in the right direc- tion compelling the person in charge of the rccor,S of the Capital at Tucson to forward them to Prescott, where they ri.htiully be long, We only wish We hal our way and We would have the thing fixed up as II should l,e and would learn those trickstvrs at Tue son , little game worth knowing.
Year: 1877

injunction, sustained the position assumed by MT. Fitch, and the rule thereby judicially established k, that the separate property of wife cannot be lawfully seized to pay the debts ot her husband, and if such seizure be made the Court, by injunction, will stop the sheriff from selling
Year: 1877

We are informed by parties just iu from

 Bradshaw, that not a case of small poN eN- isis in that section and that the report to

 the effect that four cases existed there was mistake.
Year: 1877

S NJ WEssus-Nc are informed by 8 gentleman of tlis town that Mr. Vessel, has made the necessary arrangements, tiuan- cially for carrying out his programme in re gard to the Black Warrior mine and mill, and may be expected to arrive hero by next stage The machinery will be immediately shipped to its destination. A mill on the Black Warrior will have tendency to in crease the trade in our village and materially change the aspect ot business in and around Alexandra and the Peck district
Year: 1877

Oliver Miller was recently cut at Chestertown
by a young man with whom he had diff
Guilty. The knife entered the side Of bis neck
about an iuch deep, and was then drawn
around The throat without doing any serious
damage, though it was narrow escape He
was also cut across the face.


The Newtown Record and Gazette says that
the proposed extension of the Worcester and
Somerset railroad from Newtown to Chinco-
league Bay is an assured thing and that the
preliminaries, such as the survey, &c, have
already been completed. The right Of way
has been freely given by landowners on the
route and the work Of laying The track is ex-
pected to be begun in a short time


The Salisbury Advertiser says we understand
the lighthouse board has not yet taken steps to
replace the lighthouse at Hooper strait, which
was carried away BY the ice lastwinter. This
Is a misfortune to the commercial portion of
our State, inasmuch as this is one Of the most
dangerous channels TO navigate among the
tributaries Of the Chesapeake, especially to
vessels coming across from the Potomac river,
or from down the bay, on account Of the un-
certain soundings in that direction. It is to
be hoped that the matter viii be attended to
at once.
Year: 1877

Visitors to the Fair next week should i'm
prove the opportunity 10 lay in at least
part Of their fall supply Of goods at some Of
The excellent stores Of Middletown. Our mer-
chants have splendid stocks, and are selling
their goods-at bottom rates, and now is q
first rate time 10 buy. That purchases may
be made prudenty we advise all to read the.
advertisements in the TRAKscRIPT and be their
own judges as to the best places to get what
they want. People who can't be satisfied at
some Of our stores must be hard to please in
deed.
Year: 1877

An adjourned meeting of the Board Of Trus-
tees Of the Forest Presbyterian Church will be
held in the Library room Of the church on
Monday afternoon next at 8 O'Clock, to hear
reports Of committees appointed at last meet
ing and to transact such other business as re-
mains unfinished. A full meeting of the Board
is earnestly requested as important business
will be brought before the meeting.
Year: 1877

That's too bad. Would you like
some water: Z"


''Oh. no; the water is 50 terribly
warm and brackish."


Young man grows desperate.


Wouldn't you like damp handker-
chief tied around your throat Z"


NO. think | need something re-
freshing. Dear me, it seems as though
l would faint for the want of something
cooling"


Young man chokes with despair, then
braces up


Darling, let me feel your pulse.
One hunded and ten in the shade, oh,
darling, it has come, as l feared.
never can forgive myself. Your moth
er warned me about keeping you out in
the night air on account of the typhus
prevalent, and now / have kept you
here, and these terrible symptoms tell
me of the approach Of the destroyer.
Let me help you home. my darling. and
should you die. the waters of Lake
Erie will close over my hapless form
forever. Come. sweet one, let me take
you home" Ten minutes later that
young man stood over a schooner of
lager in a corner saloon. and wiped the
perspiration from his brow as he laid
down his last Ii cents. and congratulate
ed himself on having beaten woman
on the ice cream business, while
young woman sat on doorstep wait.
ing to be let in. and so mad she couldn't
speak. Clereland Herald,
Year: 1877

The sun comes up and the sun goes
down,


And the day and night are the
same as one:
The year grows green and the year
grows brown,
And what is it all when il all *
done?
Grains OF sombre or shining sands,
Sliding into or out of the hand.
And men 90 down in ships to the
seas,


And hundred ships are the same
AS one;
And backward and forward blows
the breeze,
And what is it all when all is
done1
A tide with never q shore in sight,
Setting steadily on to the night.
The fisher droppeth his net in the
stream,
And a hundred streams are the
same as one;
And the maiden dreameth her love-
lit dream.
And what is it all when it aIl is
done!
The net OF the fisher the burden
breaks,
And always dreaming the dreamer
wakes.
Year: 1877

Special to the Star.


WASHINGTON, Sept. at is stated
here very positively that Postmaster
General Key will re,ign$trom the
Cabinet after Congress meets. 1t is
claimed that he VIII by that time have
fully accomplished the object for which
he was selected, and prefers to retire to
private life rather than further risk the
misconstruction Of his motives by his
personal and party friends.
Year: 1877

Our special dispatches from the Mexican
border do not give any positive confirmation
of the reported battle between the United
States troops under Lieutenant Bulls and
the Mexican Indians, but it is quite evident
that fighting has actually occurred. The
statement that Colonel Shafter with six
hundred men and two Gatling guns, has
crossed over to the support and assistance
of Lieutenant Bulls is confirmed. It is also
stated that the Mexicans are on the alert and
from the neighboring towns on a secret
expedition in the direction of the Sierras,
where the United States troops have taken
up position. That the military authorities
on this side of the border consider the stu
alton Of our troops grave one is shown by
the announcement that reinforcements have
been sent forward to keep the line of march
open for the returning column. OF course
rumors of disaster and danger to the Ameri-
cans are current in San Antonio, but they
are not believed by General Ord. The fact
that the Mexicans near the border have as
sumed threatening attitude can only have
the effect of bringing the whole question to
speedy decision one way or the other. But
there need be no fear yet Of any war. If
the Mexicans have indeed taken up the
gauntlet they will soon be in hurry to drop
it again, else their punishment will be
prompt and severe
Year: 1877

For nearly year the body of General
Custer rested near the spot where he fell
upon that fatal field where he and his men
fought with unavailing courage till not one
was left to tell the story OF the day. The
valley Of the Little Horn is made sacred by
their blood, and the soldier could have no
grave more fitting than the field on which
he perishcd. But with regard to the re-
mains of General Custer the case is different.


He had frequently expressed the wish to
his friends that If he should fall in battle
his tomb should be ut West Point. There
he was educated as 4 soldier and taught
that his first duty was to give his life,


II necessary, to the service of his
country. This he did fearlcssly and nobly,


and now all that the country can do is to
give him grave. In accordance with his
known wishes, therefore, the body Of Con-
eral Custer will DO buried at West Point, on
the 10th Of this month, with the appropriate
and imposing ceremonies due to the rank he
held in the army, but, more than oil, the
Year: 1877

JEROME PARK ToDAY-The second days rae
ing Of the fall meeting mt jerome Park takes
place this afternoon, and, as will be seen in other
columns, the programme gives assurance that
the events Of the day likely to be Of more
than ordinary interest and excitement. New
York Is not easily satisfied in the matter Of
racing any more than in other things. What
Is offered TO it, especially in the way
amusement, must be the best of its kind.
The bill presented to-day is excellent in every
respect. The prizes are very good, and
among the horses that have been entered are
many of the best and most well known favorites
OF the turf All that wise and cntcrprsing man
agemcnt could do to make the meeting success
ful has been done, and it only remains for the
admirers Of the most manly Of all the sports
and the public to do their part. That they will
do so we have no doubt. Ii the weather
to-day shall be rs fine as It was yesterday, rs
nil the signs now Indicate it will, jerome Park,
we are confident, viii be bright and beautiful
this afternoon with the beauty and fashion Of
metropolis.
Year: 1877

Mr.. Clay, who shot negro near Rich
mond, KY, last Sunday, was oneof the early
abolitionists, and as he lived in Kentucky
he had reason to be an extremely resolute
man. If the negro thief whom he shot had
known much about him he would not have
ventured to attack him. 1t seems that the
negro hid from Clay with the probable pur-
pose Of lying in wait for him; Clay got off
his horse, walked up to the man, told him
to fling up his hands, which he did; and
after giving him lecture, on his course


told him to remain where he was without
moving until he, Clay. should get into his
saddle again. This he promised, but as
soon as Mr. Clay's back was turned made
for him, whereupon he was shot down.


Cassius M. Clay was once very thoroughly
hated in Kentucky but at the same time
universally respected as an utterly brave
and honorable man, with whom it was not
we'll to trife. In the old abolition days it
happened once that Methodist preacher,
q weakly man in poor health, thought it his
duty to deliver an anti-slavery address in
the heart of Kentucky The intention was
announced, the day and place being widely
advertised but the minister received
prompt notice from citizens that he would
not be allowed to speak, and accordingly
did not attempt to do SO. Clay was in Ohio
when he heard Of the circumstance /; he re-
turned at once to Kentucky, gave notice
that on a set day, at the same place, the
preacher would deliver his anti-slavery
address and that Colonel Cassius NJ Clay
would be there to preside and keep
order. A great meeting assembled in the
open air and there were symptoms of vio-
lence, when Mr. Clay arose and explained
that he meant to see that the brother had
ON opportunity to speak. He warned those
who did not want to hear him to go off;
''but," said he, "this brother is going to de-
liver his address, and tho first man who
interrupts him will have to deal with me. y
The speech was made without interruption
the Kentucky admiration for Clay's courage
overcoming the propensity to hang an
abolitionist, and the roughs in the crowd
knowing very well that if Clay said he would
shoot he was certain to do it. That is what
the negro thief ought also to have known
Year: 1877

still higher position he occupied in the esti-
nation of his country as one OF the bravest
and most chivalrous of the fighting soldiers
of the army. His funeral should be honored
not by the government alone, but by the
people, for whose benefit his life was
heroically surrendered. 1t is not altogether
in the spirit of mourning that these obse-
quies should be celebrated, for time, which
sottens the grief Of nation for dead hero.
also brightens his fame The occasion
should be made Of national significance, and
West Point on the day of Clusters funeral
should be the Mecca to which every patriotic
American should turn in reverence and
pride.