smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1878

Norwegian weddings are as a rule at
tended with great deal of pomp and
ceremony. Among the rural population
wedding frequently lasts from three to
six days; if the bride is rich, kinsmen and
friends are summoned from far and near.
and amid firing of guns, shouting, and
music of vlolins, the merry professions
starts for the church. The bride wears a
silver crown usually an heirloom in her
family, very elaborately wrought and
hung all around with small gilt disks her
linen is clasped in the throat by large
silver brooch Of curious workmanship
and her bosom adorned with other orna-
ments of the same metal In the ford
districts, the company proceed to the
church in boots; while in the interior par
ishes, the bride and the groom head the
procession on horseback. At the church
door, the master of ceremonies greets
them with well prepared speech, and as
soon as they return to the bridal house as
man and wife, the merriment breaks out
in real earnest. Formerly brawls, and
even bloody fights, were of no rare occur
renee on such occasions; and it is even
told that in the last century, wives were
in the habit Of bringing shrouds for their
husbands in their bandboxes, counting on
the chances of their being killed.
Year: 1878

BEAUTIFUL SNOW.
0, the snow, the beautiful snow!
Filling the sky and the earth below;
Over the housetops, over the street,
Over the heads of the people you meet,


Dancing,


Flirting,


Skipping along;
Beautiful snow, it can do no wrong;
Flying to kiss the fair lady's cheek,
Clinging to lips in frolicksomc freak;
Beautiful snow from the heaven above,
Pure as an angel, gentle as love.
O, the snow, the beautiful snow
How the flakes gather and laugh as they go
Whirling about in their maddening fun,
Itplays its glee with every one


Chasing,


Laughing,


Hurrying by,
1t lights on the face and sparkles the eye;
AndAhe playful dogs, with bark and bound,
Zap at the crystals that eddy around;
The town is alive, and it's heart in glow,
To welcome the coming of beautiful snow
How wildly the crowd goes swaying along,
Hailing each other with humor and song;
How the gay sleds, like meteors flash by,
Bright for the moment, then lost to the eye;
Ringing,


Swinging,


Dashing they go.
Over the crust of the beautiful snow
Snow so pure, when it falls from the sky,
As to make one regret to see it lie,
To be trampled and tracked by thousand feet,
Till it blends with the filth of the horrible street
Once Iwas pure as the snow, but fell
Fell like the snow-fakes, from heaven to hell;
Fell to be trampled like filth in the street,
Fell to be scoffed to be spit on and beat;
Pleading,


Cursing,


Dreading to die,
Selling my soul to whoever would buy;
Dealing in shame for morsel of bread;
Hitting the living and fearing the dead
Ferciful God, have fallen SO low
And yet was once like thi Jeautiful snow.
Once was fair as the beautiful snow,
Wxtn an eye like a crystal heart like its glow;
@, ice l was loved for my innocent grace
I'll ALTERED and sought for the charms of the face,
Father


Sister, all,
ed apd Myself have lost by my fall


fSt wretch that goes shivering by


a wide sweep, lest wander to nigh;
al that is on or above me know
There is nothing opure as the beautiful snow
How strange it should be that this beautiful snow
Should fall on sinner with nowhere to 90;
How strange it should be when night comes
again,
Ii the snow and the ice struck my desperate brain;
Painting,
Freezing,
Dying alone
Too wicked for prayer, too weak for moan
To be heard in the street of the crazy town,
Gone mad in the JOY of the snow coming down;
To be and to die in my terrible woe,
Wifha bed and shroud in the beautiful snow.
Helpless and foul as the trampled snow;
Sinner, dispair mott Christ stoopeth low
To receive the soul that is lost in its sin,
And raise it to life and enjoyment again,
Groaning


Bleeding


Dying for thee,
The crucifed hung on the accursed tree;
The accents of mercy fell soft on thine ear;
Is there mercy for me2 viii he heed my prayer?
o, God, in the stream that for the sinners did
flow
Wash me, and shall be whittier than snow.
Year: 1878

Special 10 the Register.


PARKERsRURG, June 25.


On the eve Of adjournment packed
County Court, to-day, granted six sppli-
cations for retail license to sell liquor.
One Of these shops is located on the cor
porstion line. The opposition were re-
fused a hearing. OF course the saloon
ists are jubilsnt. The temperance men
are indignant. The City Fort is still IN.
tact. No license can be granted by this
court to sell within the city limits with
out the consent of the City Council, and
that body is not likely to give its consent
since the people pronounced against
license by an Overwhelming vote st the
polls. Public sentiment here is strongly
against the action OF the County Court
Year: 1878




1t is not feeding well to throw corn, grain
and soft feed promiscuously TO your fiocks,
in quantities double and treble what they
require for the time being. This is waste,
and tends to cloy the fowls, who frequently
show signs of indigestion, loss of appetite,
and indifference to their food under such
plan of treatment.


1t is not feeding we'll to offer food to fowls
at any time or no time, as the mood may
take you. Have a system in feeding, and
give them three times a day, at least a regu-
lar allowance of varied food-all they will
eat up clean, and look slyly over their
shoulders for more"


1t is not feeding well to stint the birds
particularly when confined, where they can
not forage for their partial subsistence) and
furnish them with only half ratlons. This
is starvation, net economy. Give them
enough--not too much-and of that which
is good for them So they will thrive. be-
cause you will then be feeding them well.


1t is not feeding well to stuff domestic
fowls with oily scraps, stale raw meat, sour
meal and old otfal-when, with but a little
more labor and care, you can give them
moderate and systematic allowance of
cooked meat, fresh scalded meal daily and
softened scraps, or table offal free from mold
and offensive acids. II you wish TO sicken
and disgust your penned up fowls with their
fare and yourself alike, follow the former
unwise course; but do not cajole yourself
into the notion that under this plan you are
feeding we'll"


Feeding we'll m sans that you affJrd your
poultry sufficient Tor their daily needs, of a
quality and in quantity that will best ap-
pease regular habItual mot a transient and
vicious) appetite. All they can take up at
time, comfortably, without gorging, is
ample. Let the periods for feeding be triple
daily. for old fowls, and four or eight times
a day for young stock.


Give them plenty of fresh clean water to
drink; alternate their cooked vegetable food
with sound grains; give them a range, If you
can, where they may pick up part of their
Lying, and never allow them to get desper-
ately hungry through your neglect. Thus
you may pride yourself upon your system
of feeding we'll.
Year: 1878

A Boston man, who was sent to prison tia
other day for forgery, had been so noble, so
pure and so innocent that the jailers on
searching him saw where the angel wings
had commenced to sprout.
Year: 1878

Ia all of the past forgot or dead


Under a face that Is calm and brave?
And may not n shadow steal now and then
Back from the iichen and grasses again


That cover an old grave;
Troubling the rest of n sweet, new dream,
Dimming the gold of a bright sunbeam?
Year: 1878

ON and after Monday next Messrs. Sharp & Vernoy will take charge Of the wa,er wagon and supply the citizens Of Florence with pure cold water from their new well. They have dug a new well on the fiat below THE CITIZEN office and have found excellent water. MT. Sharp informs us that his purpose is to supply the people with all the water they want at a very low figure. He will not sell it by .the bucket, but if the people will set out their tubs and ollas he will see to 1t that they have all the water they need-he has a man and cart for that purpose.
Year: 1878

AMONG the lot of freight taken out yesterday by Tom Kerr for l.. J. Webster of Globe City was large safe weighing 2225 pounds. This does not look as if NIT. Webster lacked confidence in the growth and prosperity of Globe City. MT. Webster is live man, Globe City is a live place, and Pinal County is steadily and surely growing greater.
Year: 1878

JIM SAM proprietor Of the Miners Res taurant, is building a room at the en trance of his corral, to be used as stage

 office by the Globe City Stage Company Jim is very enterprising and always mak ling things comfortable for his tenants.
Year: 1878

Detroit Free PreSS.f
There are about fifty different styles of life
preServerS in use Oh steamers. and yet when
an accident occurs the only man WHO comes
ashore without q scratch is the chap who
hangs to an old sofa or bed.
Year: 1878

further Investigations For the immediate
present nothing is to be done, but in the
near future line of barges will be traver-
sing the Missouri river from Kansas CITY
to st. Louis without doubt.
Year: 1878

A church in Chicago was scan.
dalized recently by the efforts of "A
sewing machine man to make the
congregation an advertising medium.
Just before church time he had a
numb ber of fans placed in the pews.
These fans were of the shut-up
kind, and it was not until the people
began to fan themselves that the dis
coyerv was made that each fan was
embelIished with conspicuous adj.
vertisement of the sewing machine
mans business.
Year: 1878

II, within thy mem'ries casket,


Glittering bright with jewels fair,
If within the secret chambers


OF thy soul, thou findest there
One lone pearl, simple treasure,
Worthy not a thought TO claim.
Think of IL, though poor and worthless,
As nom one whose loves the same.
II to thee, when joy and gladness
Hover DER thy path of life,
ii to thee, when friends unnumbered
Charm away all forms of strife,
There should come, by some low whisper.
Tidings, that to earth adieu.
had bid at Gods own summons,
Think, oh, think that was true.
And when thou with dear and loved ones
Shalt tread DER my worthless dust,
Reading on my simple tombstone
How bowed to God the Just,
Give one thought TO him who sleeps there
Tell those standing by with you
That the heart of him who's silent
Was in all things ever true.
Then when thou across that river,
Dim and cold and drear and dark,
Shalt pass DER, the Master calling,
Tossing in thy slender bark,
! upon that shore will greet thee,
Brush from on thy brow DEATHS dew;
Then thou'lt know that was faithful,
That my heart was ever true.
Year: 1878

A young gentleman in New York has
hit upon a very funny amusement. lie
sprung the fire alarm as a sort of pas
time. and he laughed till he cried when
the engines came dashing along and the
flremen couldn't find any conaagration.
But now the sport seems less amusing.
A policeman with "A lamentable lack of
humcr arrested him, a jury impervious
to the genial influence of Jest tried
him. and a judge who didn't know a
good joke when he saw il sent him up
for ninety days. The law doesn't APP
preciaie humor.
Year: 1878

Il. That the contract system OF EN-
ploying labor in our prisons and reforma-
tory institutions works great injustice TO
our mechanics and artizans and should be
prohibited.


l3 The importation of servile labor
into the United States from China is a
problem of most serious importance and
we recommend legislation looking to its
suppression.


A resolution was also adopted denouRc-
ing the silver bill just passed in congress
as deIusion and Indignantly condemning
it as a financial measure.
Year: 1878

The New METHOD OF HEATING.-A paper


at Lockport, N. Y, says that "forty dwell


lings and the largest hall in the town, with


many other rooms in the same building,
are all heated by steam made in single
boiler five feet by sixteen in size; and, in
addition, two steam engines, one of them
more than half mile from the boiler.
house, are run by steam from the same
boiler. About three miles of street mains
have been Understanding through fifteen
streets, and furnished with steam at pres.
sure of thirty pounds to the square inch.
The Worcester Spy, from which we have
derived this information, says that the
total space warmed by this single boiler is
more than 100000 cubic feet. The origi-
nator of this system claims that he has
proved that district of four square miles
can be economically warmed from one
central point.
Year: 1878

A correspondent of Mature describes
some interesting experiments upon moths
to test their senses Of smell and hearing.
Certain moths when captured feign death.


While they are thus motionless if a sharp
sound be made such as is produced by
striking piece Of glass, they will be sud-
denly reused and will attempt to fly. On
the other hand, strong solution of ammo
MA, uncorked close to moths, has no
effect in driving them away; they do not
seem to smell it, and only move away from
the fumes slowly when oppressed by them.
The latter experiment must occasion sur.
prise, because it was believed that moths
posed an unusually effective sense of
smell, since the males of certain species
will come from great distances to visit a
female kept in captivity, and it has been
hitherto supposed that they were guided
in their quest by the olfactory sense.
Year: 1878

"The Kiss in the Dark" was played as a
farce by amateurs in Mount Sterling, XIV,
up to the point where the young man
kisses the pretty girl. Then it was turned
into tragedy. The girls real lover, jealous
of her stage lover, and discerning that the
kissing was genuine and much relished,
shot the offender on the spot. The wound
was trifing, but it brought the performance
TO close.
Year: 1878

was the close of the morning exercises. Last evening the grand ball at Bilicke's brought together large company of pleasure seekers, and when our report CT left there was every promise of al most enjoyable entertainment.
Year: 1878

The Herald Steam Printing House is
q IT surpassed by any Job Printing office
on the Pacific Coast, outside of San Fran
cIsco, in facilities for doing job work
Low prices, good work and expedition
may be relied upon at this Office.
Year: 1878

A NOVEL discovery in deer hair has
been made. Experiments prove that
ii is more buoyant than cork, and can
be used for life-preservers. In 1876 a
Government Commission made expert
ments with the deer hair, and reported
that one pound of it would sustain a
weight of ten pounds for three days.
The latest test was by a board of naval
officers, who reported that after the deer
hair had been saturated for seven days
it sustained in water twelve times its
weight, thus showing q buoyancy five
times greater than that of cork,
Year: 1878

A PARTY Of Americans have taken
possession of the small Haytien island of
Navassa, from which they are shipping
large quantities of guano. They have
mounted three or four guns on the island
and want to know what the Haytien
government is going to do about it.
Year: 1878

A COMPANY of wreckers is now at
work on the hull of the old frigate Cum.
berland, sunk near Newport News by
the Merrimac in the early part of the
war. Summer guests carry away pieces
of the timber as relics.
Year: 1878

The lately invented hundred, ton gun
which will fire five pounds worth of iron
six miles and a half in fifty seconds is
considered very successful device for
making money 60 long way.
Year: 1878

wears the alternate trees must be cut
out, OF serious injury viii follow.


Just word on this cutting'out
plan. We know Of several VINO
plant 1e feet one way and is feet the
other, saying that they are planting
for themselves and not for posterity.
They are planting for themselves TO
DIG up if they live long enough to
realize full crop After the first
full crop, the odd trees will be crowd
ed out, and it will be seen that they
must 90. Then comes the labor OF
cutting out, and worse yet the bother
with the roots. Add to this, that the
strength of the ground has been
largely exhausted by the doomed
tree and the amount OF enrlchlng
needed to bring the soil up to Its or
iginal productiveness will be the logl-
cal G straw" that will break this ar
gumentative camers back. The late
3. D. Wilson, the pioneer San ga
briel orange grower, used to say that
30 feet apart was nearer right than
less and IN fact his later orchards
were planted on that basis The
beautiful, useful and noble looking
orange tree Is the king of fruit trees
Give it room, stunt not its energies,
cramp not it's expansive tendencies,
Let it toss its outmost glistenlng
twigs in the free, pure air, kissing the
crystal blue sky bending down to
meet it. 1t is growing, strengthen,
ing, expanding daily for your benefit
and ours-deal literally with it and
your soul shall be made fat on its
juicy and abundant fruit. "Room
for the victor, room. "-RiUers'de
Press.
Year: 1878

We don't refer to the old fashioned
sleigh ride down East" where it
was usually very necessary to sit
close together lin fact the'9seat used
to be made too narrow, we thought)
and the young ladies never objected
that we overheard OF, but to the quite
prevalent custom of planting too
many orange trees on an acre of
ground. When we came to River
side, 25 feet was considered the right
distance for oranges and lemons and
10 or 12 feet 'for lines. That was
the usual distance in the orchards in
the Mission grounds, and old Califor-
MIA orchards generally, and the outer
branches OF the. trees were observed
to very nearly Or quite touch each
other at that short distance; but with
the introduction of budding change
took kplaee. Travellers in Italy stated
that the custom there was to put
them only Is feet apart, the quincunx
being preferred; and mature trees
were stated to have room enough.
In the Levantit would appear, that
budded oranges do not attain any
thing near the size of Seeding trees
and therefore did not need so much
room but in Southern California it is
still an open question, whether our
Dudded trees will not require as
much room as the seedlings-at least
the 70 feet granted the latter, The
conditions of soil, climate and water
with us are different from the Med
lterranean countries and may result
IN giving US larger tree of the same
species. In land like onrs, where
the ordinary productions of agricul-
ture and horticulture so far exceed in
size and vigorous growth those of
many other countries, it is at least
worth considering, whether the re-
suit OF our very fine and careful sys-
TEN OF cultivation may not exceed
our expectations in regard to size, as
well:as quality. Is it safe to plant
them SO near together, that we al
ready suspect they may touch each
other at II years of age? Is it not
wiser to give them so much room that
we shall feel sure the tops and roots
will have abundance of unappropria-
ted earth and air ? Some orchards
in Riverside, display seeding trees
one rod apart Only one possible
result can follow. In a very few
Year: 1878

In conversation with friend, the
other day, he gave me a description
of q smoke house-which he saw once
while travelling through Texas. AS
the arrangement was quite newto me
and may prove beneficial to your
readers I will give you his destrip-
ton. The house was frame build
inc about fourteen by eighteen feet
square with walls twelve feet high.
There were three sets of .jolsts run
ming across the building one above
. the other commencing eight feet from
the noor ana UnUJ "o4~ l,1-.osS1 ..uosso
four feet apart in each tier. For con-
venience in hanging up the meat a
large number Of lath one and one
fourth inch by three inches aud four
and one half feet in length, each lath
had an inch hole bored through the
center from each edge and from ten
to twelve inches apart. In trimming
up the peach and plum orchard, the
limbs which were of suitable size and
which had side limb which could
be cut so as to make a fork were
sawed into lengths ten inches long
and the fork two and one-half inches
these were inserted in the holes and
made so as to turn around easily and
six penny nail driven through the
limb above the lath. The advantage
OF this is that the person, standing
on a ladder, can hold on to the fork
to steady himself and turn it in any
direction to suit the meat. Around
the side Of the house Were posts
seven feet high, of octagonal shape
with wooden pins FIVE feet long, two
and half on each side) and placed
spirally, and far enough apart to
keep the meat from dripping on
that which hangs on the lower arms.
When the meat on the ioists over
head was fully cured and smoked it
was taken down, and hung on the
arms of these posts and a large can
vass bag made for the purpose was
pulled over the post completely COW
ering the meat and keeping it free
from insects, doing away with the
necessity of packing away in char
coal, sawdust, salt, etc. The only
trouble in getting at the meat was
untying the draw string at the bot
tom and raising the sack.


I am indebted to Capt. III. F. Long
of this place for the above plan. He
says it is much superior to the old
plan of hanging meat upon nails or
tying up with bark and strings, and
l fully believe your readers will coin
eide with him. ------


Our parish is remarkably healthy,
no yellow fever, plenty of quarantine
and provisions scarce, not an average
cotton CROP. not quite half bale per
acre, corn crop good, land rent low,
and plenty Of room and welcome tor
farming tenants.--Linn Tanner sss
Or Home Jo11ndl.
Year: 1878

When q man goes into a church in search
of revenge there must be some cause for
his action that is entirely out of reason,
ing apparently intended to kill his own
wife, the motives of his conduct must be
searched outside the boundaries of respect
able human sentiments. From the earliest
days whose history is recorded, churches
have been asylums for all classes of
cvil-doers and suspected persons, and
no one but brutes in human form have even
endeavored to disregard the mercy and
pity which have always been offered the
wicked in the name of religion. The
wretch who yesterday stabbed (and in
church) q woman whom he believed to be
his wife, seems to have transgressed the
laws Of humanity, common manliness and
religion. He had been sent to prs on
for cruelty to his wife. Saturday
night and Sunday morning he had
been drinking and playing cards,
bottle Of whiskey being found in
his possession. He had done no work since
leaving the Island, and though sometimes
services as something endurable only when
there was nothing better to do. A letter
course Of training could not be devised for
turning man into q soulless, ferocious
brute, without, apparently, q single
redeeming feature. Meanwhile, the in
nocent woman who had been mis-
taken for another is suffering from
an ugly wound made because of jealousy
in man unfit to have been treated rs
faithful companion. There are some sad
mistakes which are excusable, but in this
case there seems no possible room for ex-
cuse or even pity.