smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1879

Mr.. John Gates gives the follow
ing sad story of a young man in his
employ near the Cascades, by the
name of George Pratt:


On the morning Of the 18th, on go
ing to work it was found that there
was no water in the fume. The
foreman asked Mr.. Pratt to 60 up the
canyon and turn the water in. Ac-
cordingly he started, taking with him
an AK and hatchet. AS it frequently
took some time to turn the water,
nothing was thought ofhis prolonged
absence till night, and as he did
not then return, the men becoming
uneasy started in search of him. On
nearing the canyon it was found that
there had been an immense snow
slide of some 20 feet in depth, just
at the head of the fume. Fearing
that the poor man was buried alive,
all hands commenced to dig in search
of him. They continued to dig for
two days, at the end of which time
they reached the fume and found the
hatchet he had taken with him, assur-
ing them almost positively that their
fears were we'll founded. Onreturn-
ing the third day they found that an
other avalanche had come down from
the opposite side, filling in the snow
they had displaced, and making a
depth of nearly 80 feet. Seeing the
imminent danger of working there,
and knowing that if there the man
was surely dead, it was thought best
to do nothing farther.


The deceased had been employed
at the mill since September last, and
was very highly esteemed by those
with whom he associated.
Year: 1879

MAY Be So.-The Dalles Inland
Empire says: "From what we heard
in Portland last week, an attempt will
be made to start eastward on the line
Of the Northern Pacific Railroad dur
ing the coming season. We are afraid
that the news is too good to be true"
Year: 1879

enter lands under the homestead laws the
same as If the surrendered entry had not
been made. and the additional entry OF so
acres, or new entry after the surrender and
cancellation of his original entry shall be
permitted withoutpayment Of fees and COM
missions and the residence and cultivation
by such person upon and of the land en-
braced in his original entry shall be consld-
cred residence and cultivation for the same
length OF time upon and of land embraced
in his additional or new entry, and shall be
deducted from the five years residence and
cultivation required by law: Pfovided,
That in no case shall patent issue upon an
additional or new homestead entry under
this act until the person has actually. and
ia conformity with the homestead laws, oc-
cupied, resided upon and cultivated the land
embraced therein at least one year.
Year: 1879

TO Remove Ink. Wash the ink spots Well
with skim milk then wash out the milk
! with clear, cold water, changing the water


often. The color taken out of black goods


with acid may be restored by applying liquid


ammonia.


Gems.-One pint of Graham -four, table
spoonful Of molasses, tablespoonful OF


lard, tablespoonful of yeast powder, egg,
salt; ado flour until the batter is stiff and
beat until light. Grease your gem pans and
put in an oven to bake-about the same
temperature as for buiscuits,


Lemon Sauce.-One large cupful OF sugar.
nearly half a cupful of butter, egg, l lem
on--all the juice and half the grated rind,-
teaspoonfti Of nutmeg. 3 tablespoonfuls
boiling water. Cream the butter and sugar.
and beat in the egg, whipped light; add the
lemon and nutmeg. Stir 10 minutes. and
add, spoonful at time, the boiling water.
Put in a tin pail and set within the uncov-'
cred top of the teakettle, which must be
kept boiling until the steam heats the sauce
very hot, but not to boiling. Stir con-
stantly.


Corn Bread.-Three beaten eggs; one
quart of good sour milk two tablespoon
fuls of melted butter; one tablespoonful OF
sugar; one teaspoonful of salt; handful
OF flour and enough sifted cornmeal to make
thick batter; the last thing STIR In heap
ing teaspoonful OF soda dissolved in little
water. Stir briskly and bake in dripping
pan.


Corn Meal Pancakes. .-Sift one pint of corn
meal and pour over boiling milk until lit
tie thinner than mnsh. When cool add tie
beaten yolks of four eggs, half cup of
flour and a little salt; add milk enough to
make the batter suitable to bake, and last
stir in the beaten whites and three teaspoon,
fuls of baking powder mixed with trifle of
flour.


Fried Mush.-Cold mush sliced thin and
fried in IL little hot lard makes a delicious
breakfast relish, and when eaten with mo-
Easses, or, better still. maple sirup, it makes
q most paatable desert.
Year: 1879

we DO not remember ever losing graft by
reason of the wax, if we'll applied, Tn 4.
few weeks after the gratis have been set we
usually go over them and add little wax
wherever it may seem to need it, as the
nigh winds may occasionally crack the wax.
Ihls is but trifing labor. and is no more
than an inspection of the work.


The wax should be used warm in LIQUID
state, applied with marrow wooden paddle,
which can be done rapidly and perfectly.
we have ourselves, unassisted, set seuenty
t'0o pear crafts IN t'oo hours, using the wax
as we recommend in liquid state, without
IN the least soiling the hands; and every
one OF which grew and became part OF
the tree.-Ge1n'aato,on Telegraph.
Year: 1879

IHE garden Is OF scarcely less importance
to the farmer than the farm itself. It is
really in advance of the farm when we con-
slider the comforts of home. The farm sup
plies the substantials, such as meat and
bread, and replenishes the purse, which of
course is the main item, but it is to the gar
den that the good housewife is indebted for
the many side dishes served up so regularly
three times every day, and which play such
an important part In making the life of
farmer desirable above that of other men.
IT the garden is neglected, it's influence must
be felt three times every day throughout the
entire year. And how uncomfortable it
must be to the good husbandman to hear
his faithful wife remark a thousand times
during this PERIOD 'well. have nothing to
cook" To provide the larder well is the
farmers first duty. This he owes to HIM
self and his family. Then let him plant
good garden; not merely patch of pota-
toes and few rows of peas, but let him Sc
lect choice spot Of ground of ample size,
manure it well, put it in good order, and
from his seed catalogue select every variety
Of vegetable seed that will do we'll in our
climate.


Plant your seed in the proper time, and
tend them well, so that throughout the
coming year, instead Of having nothing to
cook, your wife will find it difficult to select
from among the good things in her larder,
those necessary for meal. The usual mode
of gardening is little better than having no
.rar1en at ALL Do not be content with the
usual slip shod way OF doing things, but do
them right. The time spent in the garden
is not lost 1t pays better comparatively
than the labor in the field; and above all
things else, do not let it be put off until the
other work is done, but prepare your gar
den spot and sow the seed as early as the
season will admit. and continue to sow as
the time arrives for the planting of different
seeds for vegetables for late use.
Year: 1879

The Atlanta Constitution says
1t the rights of one State under
the constitution perished in the
tumult and confusion of war, then
all perished. This is question for
the Northern people to decide for
themselves for, So far as the South
is concerned, she can only protest
against such a wanton sacrifice of
the liberties of the people. It is
upon this point that we desire our
esteemed Republican contcmpora-
ries to express themselves. Did the
States of;the North lose their rights
when they conquered those OF the
South :? Did the people of the
North in overcoming the people of
the South, vanquish themselves
The attitude of the Republicans
means this or nothing"


From the tone and temper of the
Republican press one would suppose
that the North had no interest in
the question of State rights and
would be the gamer if they were
| abolished altogether. The truth is
these rights coLcern the North quite
as much as the Sonth, and their
abolition would be as great a calam-
ity to the one section as to the
other. The war decided nothing
except that State could net with
draw from the Union at pleasure.
In every other respect sovereignty
is unimpaired, and States in full
posse-sion of tho privileges and
prerogatives guaranteed by the Or
ganic law. Mississippi is just as
sovereign as Massachusetts, and
whatever tends to diminish the
constitutional independence of Miss
issipri has the same effect upon that
of Massachusetts. On tins the
States must stand or fall together :;
and the South, in asserting the
doctrine of the State rights-seces-
sion excepted--is really fighting
the battles Of the North against the
Republican policy of Capitalization
which means, i'll the long run,
simply monarchial republic such
as Hamilton advocated and Jeffrr-
son opposed. The Democracy are
a Jeffersonian State-rights party !;
always have been and always will
be--and on that issue are ready to
submit the case to the jury of the
people.--Mo. Republican.
Year: 1879

From the snowy peaks of Cariboo to the balmy wales of the Mississippi, there is not a county or section where so many fragrant irregularities exist as right here in Arizona. Mail contracts are let, straw bidders gen eTally securing them. X mail is started out in flying colOrs with yellow dog and gray cat for the team, and serdine box on wheels for the coach. The wagon soon breaks; the team gives out and the mail is aNSgespieh Our citizens are left without mail faeilitiesi our station keepers swindled out of their bills for furnishing the dog and cat, and others connected with the glorious enterprise, and there is no remedy, But not only here these non-coEducted mails do these irregularities cease. They penetrate nearly every corner of our Terri tory, A mail agent ought to be appointed from the Territory who should reside here, and this agent should have power to lire malls carried where worthless contractors fail. Our Postofilces should be over hauled from one end of the Territory to tine other, and the machinery set to work with regularity.

 Our Indian Agents should be required to do their respective duties insuring economy to the Gos ernment and justice tn their wards. Custom House officers should be carefully watched, and Internal Revenue ofiicers selected from the Republican ranks, ana they should also be watched, and care fully at that.
Year: 1879

A man in Salt Lake City was sen.
fenced to three months in the chain
gang. After month was served he
got very tired Of il and thought he
would try to'get himself out. Learn
ing that a span Of mules had been
stolen he inquired about the time of
the theft'and a description of the
mules, determined that he would
make use of this information to re.
gain his'liberty. So he sent for one
OF the police officers, to whom he
confessed having stolen the mules,
and gave such a plausible account of
the story that it was at once given
to the District Attorney for use.
Berger says he thought by this means
anindictment wouldbe found against
him, he would be released from the
city prison, a trial would prove his
innocence and he would be discharg-
ed. He was right about the indict-
ment, but when he came to the trial
he was convicted and sentenced to
six years in the penitentiary.
Year: 1879

gNTheman who goesa fishing stands
no chance at all with the man who
stays at home. The latter can assert
that he saw runaway horse jump
over four drays and land in crock.
cry store without breaking strap,
and the listener simply scratches
his head and replies that he doesn't
doubt it, as he has seen stranger
things than that. But, let one of
our foremost citizens go up to the
Flats, throw in his line and haul out
u thirty pound muskallonge, and he
comes home to dicover that all his
assertions only provoke winks and
smiles. Last week q fisherman de-
termined to put stop to this pract-
ice. He caught big fish and cut
pattern of its exact size. Then he
had five men at the Flats make affi-
davit that the fish weighed twenty
eight pounds and six ounces. Then
he had three additional a[lidayits
that the scales were correct. Thus
armed in the, cause Of truth he came
home and made his statement to q
crowd of friends. He expected dis.
pute and contradiction, but no man
said a word. He repeated his story
twice, exhibited his afIidavits, and
was rewarded by hearing one friend
whisper to another:


"Poor Blank | was in hopes he
would get that case Of sunstrokc,
but you see how it is! How i do
pity his poor wife and children
Detroit Free Press.
Year: 1879

Wonderful are the changes that have
been effected of late years in the manu-
facture of leather by the use of chemi-
Gals and machinery in place of the old
fashioned tan-pits and the slow manipu-
lation of the currier and tanner. II
some of our old leather manufacturers
could be resurrected-men who were
accustomed to soaking their hides for
years and turning them assiduously at
certain seasons-how they would stare
to see the present process. But every
day we hear something new in this di-
rection. A joint stock company was
recently formed in Detroit for the pur-
pose of tanning leather in one hour.
We give the information for what it is
worth, but it certainly does look like
sleight of hand. The process is chem
ical one performed by the action of GER
tain inexpensive materials, the COM
pounding of which in the right proper
tions is a secret. 1t is claimed that
robes, tanned with the hair on, are as
soft as the finest wool; hides of the
deer, horse, dog, etc., are smooth and
soft, while calf and kip show the texture
and grain which shoemakers most ad-
mire. No bark is required, except a
little to give the proper color to the
leather. Bark is worth $S to SO cord,
and about 200 cords are required to tan
1000 hides by the common method


Two cords would be sufficient to give
the proper color to the same number Of
hides and the saving in this item will


be enormous. We understand that the
company are turning out from 1000 tC
5000 hides per month. How the article
is wearing we have not been able to as
certain, but shall watch the result witt
Year: 1879

Majority Report on the Cipher kilograms .


The report OF the majority of the Potter
Committee upon the cipher dispatches says
generally the Western Union Telegraph Com
pany seem to have exercised due care in re-
dispatches, and the theft and publication OF
certain dispatches did not seem to be their
fault. At the same time they could but sus
pect that Orton, President of the Company
(since deceased), who was an earnest and ac
tive Republican leader, forwarded the dis
patches in the custody of the Company to the
Republican Committee of the Senate rather
than TO the Democratic Committee of the
House. He had also shown his bias by allow
ing certain OF the dispatches to be with
drawn.


disclose negotiations on the part of certain
near friends of Tilden after the election to
secure the Electoral votes of the states of
South Carolina and Florida. These persons
seemed to have apprehended that the Elec-
ed belonged to Tilden would be declared for
Hayes, and to have regarded themselves as
Justified in endeavoring to defeat this corrupt
and fraudulent action by submitting TO the
payment of moneys which they were inform
ed the Canvassing Boards demanded by way


The Committee did not in any way justify
their action, and considered it a gross wrong.
But these negotiations were not authorized
by the National Democratic Committee or
any person entitled to speak for them. All
the persons who had been connected with the
negotiations, so fur as the Committee had Sc
cured their testimony, declared that in no
way were they authorized by Tilden, whose
particular friends they were, and Mr.. Tilden
had himself voluntarily appeared to corrob-
source whatever had ut any time attached 70
the name OF Mr., Hendricks.
Year: 1879

One of the first things preparatoi y to
Eouse-cleaning is cleaning it OF all
wooden fabrics that are of value only as
carpet rags, and thus removing attrac-
tions to moths. Then drawers and
trunks and closets are overhauled and
put in order, curtains are taken down,
cleansed and put away till the cleaning
is over. Then the reign of the brushes
begins, the scrubbing brush, the dust
brush, the ACKNOWLEDGEMENT, the paint
brush, each in turn or together drag our
unwilling souls and bodies captive at
their chariot wheels. Each room in
turn is invaded by one or more of them.
But we welcome their coming almost as
gladly as we bid them farewell, for what
delicious sense of cleanliness follows
their departure! Beds and bedding
must have their share of attention. Bed
steads are taken apart, washed and put
together again, for the dust that Turks
in beds and bedrooms contains pestif-
erous germs that are easier destroyed
when they seem to be mere dust. Some
fine day in the late spring or early sum-
mer all the blankets are gathered to-
gether and washed in suds soft with
borax and made with soap entirely





abundance of clear water and hung in
the sun to dry. Comforts are rolled in
a bunch, tied loosely with twine, and
scalded and rinsed. Thus tied they can
be handled without breaking the tack
ing or quilting. Quilts are treated to
similar cleansing. A washer and
a very easy matter. If repairs or in
crease of bedding is required, spring is
the proper time to attend to these mat
ters, and then the whole subject may be
dismissed from the mind for year.


Vermin of various kinds may be de-
stroyed by scalding water, hot alum
water and insect-powders. Reaches and
Croton-bugs may be exterminated by
the pei sistent use of equal parts of pow
dered borax, Persian insect-powder and
powdered colocynth we'll mixed togeth-
er and thrown in their way. Vermin
that infest cellars may be kept at bay by
the free use of copperas in the white
wash applied to summer walls. Stains
on hard-fnished walls may be scrubbed
off with pumice-stone. Tobacco and
other stains may be removed from mar
BILE by covering it for few hours with
caustic lime moistened with washing
soda, then rinsing and securing with
strong soap-suds and a stiff brush, after
which it should be rinsed and rubbed
dry with a cloth. For cleansing all
painted surfaces ammonia water is the
proper thing, and for vanished and
grained surfaces cold tea. Soiled car
pets may be renovated by being first
taken up and thoroughly shaken, then
swept and tackled in place again, then
scrubbed with ammonia water or oxgall
and water till every spot is out of them.
Windows and doors should stand open
wide till they are dry. Book-shelves
treated to rinse of carbolic acid and
water will not harbor the book -louse.-
NesO York Tribune.
Year: 1879

Down in Washington County, on its
northern border, lived a religious sect
known as the Amish Church, with Pc
culiar views. They discard all show IN
dress and living. The men wear no
collars on their coats or buttons on their
clothes. The women wear no buttons.
They are considered devices of the devil.
Only hooks and eyes were tolerated by
either sex. Their preacher, Benjamin
Eicher, a learned and progressive man,
became imbued with the spirit OF the
age, and made an innovation on their
tenets by declaring that the acts of men
were of more Importance than what
they wore. This was the beginning of
a division and the church divided itself
into hooks and eyes and buttons. The
controversy was bitter. The hooks and
eyes were headed by one Conrad, who
denounced the buttoners as heretics.
The preacher one day came to his pull
pit with collar and buttons on his
coat. This was an objectionable sin
with the Conrads. He had daughter
who was educated and refined, taught
music and also was teacher in the pub
lie schools. A son of the elder Con-
rad. brought up in the faith of his ia
! ther, in the heat of the contest made re.
marks against the virtue of the young
lady. She brought an action against
him for slander, and last week the case
was tried, resulting in verdict for $500
against young Conrad. 1t was plainly
apparent that the scandalous words
were the result of mistaken belief that
4 because she had departed from the hook
and eye faith she was infamously bad.
AS she sought only a vindication of her
good name, she will not demand the
money.-IoWa Letter 10 ST. Paul lNisan }
| Pioneer Press.
Year: 1879

From the earliest movement of the
Socialists the Government endeavored
to the utmost to make its leaders their
own instruments. In 1S47 Socialist
still living was asked by the Govern
ment to write communistic articles for
a popular journal, but declined to do so
under such auspices. Similar overtures,
though often repulsed, were never dis
continued, and it is not more than 10
years-if indeed so much-since the
Government which Prince Bismarck
controls or constitutes was paying, with
the enormous secret-service money of
Prussia, for the maintenance of journals
advocating identically the same doc
trines in which he row reads direct
indictments TO disobey the mandates of
the Supreme Being. Without such sup
port, given lavishly and with ill-kept
secrecy, the wild writings of SweitZer
could never have been set afloat, and
hundreds of other communistic out
pourings would have died unnoticed
before a still uncertain public. But
Prince Bismarck, with splendid cunning,
saw from afar the inevitable outcome.
He saw that if the poorest and most un-
educated classes had Socialistic itera-
ture thrust continually upon them, they
would in time grow desperate in
their rage against all that capital
ist class whom they were taught to
regard as luxurious spendthrifts, en-
joying the pleasant idleness made
possible by the ceaseless, unrequited
labor of the poor. That rage would
soon be the terror of the classes imme-
diately above the poorest of the small
er capitalists, the great middle-class
population. And not of these only. 1t
would clearly be easy to persuade vast
majority of the whole population that a
| terrible revolution was inevitably brew
ing; that they who declaimed against
the capitalists were bandits who meant
to plunder every one possessed of world
ly goods at all. Then there would arise
cry for help against the new Red Ter
ror, and, in the general scare, who could
refuse the Government all support to
kill the grim apparition threatening
every peaceful homeP Who could com.
plain of reaction or of tyranny if he saw
security from the immediate peril
Events went just as Prince Bismarck had
forseen; the people believed in the por-
trait he gave of the monster his own
hands had helped to shape, and even
the so-called Liberal Party gave him
support in his efforts to kill the thing
he had once so providently called into
life. The two great apostles of Social
ism in Germany have been men of very
different type. Ferdinand Lassalle wa:
a savant who became politician; Car


Marx has changed from politician tc
savant. Lassalle, intensely German


aimed at fostering the spirit of nation


ality; Marx, cosmopolitan, seeks tt
destroy 1.-THE Nineteenth Century.