smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1879




CoNyERsING with farmers from
different parts Of the county we learn
that crop prospects are very cheer
ing. Wheat, oats and barley look
forward and healthy, and those who
have winter wheat wear extra smil.
ing countenances. A great many
ventured trial Of this latter crop,
and we shall rejoice in their good
fortune. Chinch bugs are inactive
and are liable to discontinue oper-
ations altogether. The hot weather
now in our midst is just what fills
the demand Of corn growers. The
crop is booming; growing 50 fast
that the stalks may be heard to
crack as if pulled out Of joint. A few
husbandmen complain over an ex-
pectancy of small yield in flax.
Should this prove the only cause for
complaint, amen
Year: 1879

Now and then something turns up
to test the hraveness Of man The
other evening after darkness had
crept in, long standing business
man of this place was wanted home
to "wade into" fellow who stood
hid behind door, and to, teach him
better manners than to intrude on
private families. Securing the as
sistance of a policeman's bravado,
the two might have been seen di-
recting their steps toward the home
with clenched fists and otherwise
prepared for any emergency. When
inside, the object behind the door
was charged upon with unspeakable
force. and then deadly silence spread
Ger the whole, while the smoke OF
passion and excitement lowered
round. Killed and only wanted to
wound No words can picture the
horrible thoughts that flashed cross
the minds of the murderers. But how
relieving it. must have been to learn
on closer examination that it was
only a woman's dress.
Year: 1879

WE ask our friends and the pub
lie generally to furnish us with all
items of local nature that do not
come under our immediate notice,
and which perhaps would escape
publication if not reported by some
other person. Communications in
relation to home matters are always
acceptable, and will be appreciated.
Year: 1879

MAKE ready your ascension robes
The world will end on Friday, July
llth, according to the Second Day
Adventists Precise hour not given,
but it will be we'll to get ready early
in the morning. Delinquent sub
scribers will do well to pay the
printer the day before. To make
sure of eternal happines pay up at
opce.-Er.
Year: 1879

THE Chronicle thinks the TRIBUNE
made an effort to be witty. How
dull to apprehend. We were only
tapping for free pass. The TRIB-
USE has never, hardly ever made
any attempt to get off wit. Il is
waiting for the Chronicle man to
pass in his check. One willing ut a
time in the county is sufficient.
Year: 1879

THE patriotic farmers of the south
western part of this county and those
of the northern part of La Fayette
are making appropriate preparations
for grand celebration on the Ath,
in a pleasant grove near r. Van
Matre's, about eight miles east Of
Mineral Point. They are desirous
of seeing large delegation from the
surrounding towns and villages, and
will do their utmost to make it a
comfortable and memorable event
Year: 1879

The Democrats are in quandary. They
don't know what to do with the veto mes
sage. They are at a loss what course to pur-
sue. The veto, of course will be sustained,
and the appropriation bills must be passed
without the Objectionable riders, or Con-
gress must adjourn without making
proper provision for the support of the
army and the judiciary. Naturally
enough the Congressional majority dislike
to accept either condition. They hate
to surrender, and give Up all they have been
fghtag!for, to abandon their hope of success
in the next Presidential election by permitting
an honest vote in New York, and they hardly
dare to adjourn without making provision
for the necessities of the Government-for. so
contemptuous disregard of duty would ieo-
pard their chances Of success even with the
aid they would have from the repeaters and
ballot-box suffers of Tammany.


In Washington it is thought the Demo-
Gratis will pass the appropriation bills with
out the political amendments, pass the poiti-
cal measures in separate bills, and then
adjourn. That would be the better course
to pursue; and very likely because it is the
better course, it will not be pursued. The
Congressional majority would do the wise
and patriotic thing by making provision for
the support of the Government, passing What
political measures it chooses, and then, if the
President vetoes these measures, appeal to
the people. II the people approve its
course a majority will be returned at the
next election that the Executive will not
care to oppose-indeed the Executive pow.
hands. Unless it fears the popular YER
dict it will appeal to it, and while await
ing the decision make proper provision for
the support of the several departments of the
Government.
Year: 1879

THE Heralds Washington correspondent
says: "The Southern men have the making
OF the policy which the Democrats may agree
upon on the veto and the appropriations.
They have twenty-three out of the forty-two
Democrat C Senators, and ninety out of one
hundred and forty-eight Democratic Repre-
sentatives. They begin to feel that thev will
be held responsible by the country at large
for whatever policy may prevail in the Dem
ocratic councils, and this sense of responsible
ity has SOLDERING influence upon them. Hith-
erto they have allowed their private opinions
to be overruled by Northern and Western
men on the plea of the latter that it was
necessary to the party's future to get up a
new issue. But the wiser of them begin to
see that they have been led already into the
mire, and that it is the part of wisdom to
draw back and 60 no further. 1t remains to
be seen whether the Western Democrats
choose to go off alone or whether they will
submit, take back seats and let the brains of
their party rule it for while. But that is a
matter of greater moment to them than to


the country"
Year: 1879

THERE is good deal of levity shown at
funerals in California. The officiating clergy
man at one had got along so far in his dis
course the other day as to say, "We shall
miss his cheerful presence in our midst" when
the corpse rose and shouted "And so will his
sisters and his cousins and his aunts." The
funeral broke up in confusion; but so lax are
Californian laws no arrests were made.
Year: 1879

The Khedive of Egypt is paying off the
officers of his army in wives from his own
surplus stock. The ungrateful fellows are
grumbling at this new form of legal-tender.
Perhaps they think the goods are shop-worn.
Year: 1879

we DO not read anonymous letters and communi-
cations. The name and address Of the writer are In
all cases Indispensable not necessarily for publication
put as guaranty of good faith.


We cannot undertake to return or preserve COM
munications that are not used.
Year: 1879

THE louisiana constitutional convention
is inviting the creditors of the State to ''com-
promise" That is, it wants to know to how
much swindling they will submit without
making an outcry.
Year: 1879

Danbury News: Somebody's child is dying
dying with the flash of hope on his young
face and an findescribable yearning to live
and take an honest place in the world beside
the companions of his youth
For sale by all druggists.
Year: 1879

New Haven Register: 1t ism. the frail del
icate girl with the soft gazelle-lke eye that the
sflatus of spring poetry rests upon. Not at
all. The genius of rhyme and rhythm is more
often found in the robust and somewhat wrn-
kled maiden of forty summers, with q good
appetite and superb digestion. Young man,
beware of the rhymng female. She is the
most expensive kind to feed.
Year: 1879

Boston Post: ~ don't think much of news
paper men, and never take any stock in what
the papers say" he said. And then everybody
knew that he had done something he was
ashamed OF, and the papers had published an
account of it.
Year: 1879

the gravy. Add the other ingredients,
except the potatoes, and let 1t cook very
slowly for twenty minutes. Rub the
potatoes boiled previously through a
sieve, to make them perfectly smooth.
This is the best way TO mash potatoes
for all purposes, Miss Dods thinks.
Add the milk to the potatoes, and stir
over the fire till the potatoes are dry.


Erecting the wall of potatoes around
the edge of the steak-plate is more a
matter Of deftness of fingers than knOwl-
edge; Miss ID. S way "must be seen 10 be
appreciated. She Drowned the pota-
toes next, and then deposited the
Drowned steak in the fenced-in space.


The dishes as they were done were
passed round for the audience to exam
inc, and as in the afternoon they were
all voted successful. The dumpllngs
especially were denominated beau
ties" and the OdOr arising from the
cheese and maccaroni was appetlzlng IN
the extreme.


Miss Dods will give her third lecture
at hali-past two this afternoon, and an
other at half past seven this evening, at
McLain's Hall, No. - Twelfth street.
We hope, for the credit OF the city and
the appetites OF our citizens, that she
will have full house. The value, or at
least the estimate the ladies put upon
the value, of the lectures is shown by
the fact that a majority of those present
i'm the afternoon returned at night, and
we heard one lady say she postponed
her house cleaning, refrained from going
on the Mt. De Chantal excursion, and
even missed prayer meeting to hear
Miss Dods. Another said she would
not sell what she had learned from the
two lectures for any price.
Year: 1879

ST. LOUIS, May l4.-The officers OF the
Southern steamboat companies having
their headquarters here, and the officers
of the steamers plying between here
and New Orleans, deny having refused
transportation to the colorcd refugees,
whenever the latter have had
money to pay their passage. They also
deny that there has been any generally
expressed disposition on the part of
merchants and planters to withdraw
their patronage from the boats which
carry immigrants. This has
been done in a few instances,
but the desire to prevent the negroes
from leaving the South is changing, and
now the planters do not seem to care
whether they leave ornOt. the officers
of the latest arrived boats say they were
not hailed on the way up by the ne
groes, and they do not believe that there
are such numbers OF refugees on the
river banks as have been stated. They
further state that the excitement is fast
dying out, and will cease altogether in a
short time
Year: 1879

Take four or five large apples, twelve
ounces oi flour. four ounces OF butter,
pinch of salt. one ounce ut sugar, hall a
.paSu,ouiul 1f baking powder and half
mint of cold water. First pare and core
the apples leaving the apples whoe;
NM the flour i'm bowl, add the butter,
mix we'll together and add the salt and
baking powder; then add the cold water
and turn out on the board and kneat
very firmly together; cut into tOur or
five pieces. according 10 the number Ot
IumulingS to be made; roll each piece
of dough into a round ball; place It
arainst the apple and force the dough
over the apple: before closing put the
su,Ir i'm the hole left by the removal OF
tine c1rr. which facilitates the cooking OF
the apple; close up the hole; put the
dumplugs in slightly houred
blking pan and cook in a slow oven
for twenty minutes or half an hour.
The dumplingS can be boiled If desired.
The water must be boiling, however,
before the dumplings are put in. 1t Is
we'll 10 put little salt IN the water 10
make the dough firm. \ little cltron
NAV be used in preference TO sugar II
desired. but this will not facilitate the
cooking as sugar does. Try the dump.
Iin.s when done with skew, and II
the apples feel soft they are ready Tor
the table. Then coat the tops with
white of egg or milk and sprinkle with
powdered sugar.


Drowned STEAK WITH A WALL OF


POTATOES.


One pound of steak; one-halt ounce
of butter; One-half ounce OF -four; one
pound of potatoes; a little pepper and
salt; hall tablespoonful OF milk; gill
of cold water; hall tablespoon
fuI of Worcester sauce. Second, or
round steak, is preferable for this use.
Melt the butter in frying pan; cut
the steak into little pieces and browrit
i'm the melted butter, and while browning
sprinkle over it a hall ounce OF flour.
This serves both to aid the browning
process and to thicken the gravy alter
ward. When nicely Drowned add the
water. Stir the pieces while browning
10 prevent sticking. After adding the
water stir it until it bOils, that the flour
NAV not get lumpy but yet may thicken
Year: 1879

Ex-Minister SChenCk is considerably
better and able to sit up.


How Americans Must Travel in Russia.
WASHINGTON, May l4.-IIoffman, the
American Charge at st. Petersburg, in
forms the Department of State that
every one coming into Russia must be
provided with passport verified by the
Russian Consul. He must be registered
at the police station and must comply
with the regulations or be subject to a
fine and Imprisonment.
Year: 1879

ing the instrument twas found the WORD
trustee had been omitted. The forgetfulnes.
of Old Shoe to follow certain and legitimate
rules in transaction of business, appears t.
be one of the strongest of his weak points,
A soldiers widow and child through him OBJ
| tanned pension, with which he purchased
house and lot for the widow, but instead o
putting his name in the deed. becBme muct
impressed with the teaching of the fifth com,
mandment. and attempted to honor his pa
rent, and inserted his parents name instead
of the widows name in the deed. This wa.
not discovered until the property was sold
and the Widows ejectment demanded. The
adroitness with which Old Shoe perpetrated
these acts. has the appearance of smartness
but is nearly fanatical. Since he claims as
his own, because of his singular unselfsh>
ness, in which he is an enthusiast, everything
that he can reach or get control of in the
name of humanity. He believes himself to be
the embodiment of humaneness, and is will
ling to take upon himself the guardianship of
all the orphans and widows in the land. An
orphan engaged him to collect her rents -and
after few months service she discovered
that she was his tenant, instead of singing
rent receipts. He had presented to her a
deed conveying to him her property, and she
had signed it. believing it a receipt for rent,
and then a one eyed notary witnessed it,
giving the color of validity to the act. His
recent attack and arrangement of former
associate and co-partner in the mystic tie, is
considered the most courageous and stragetic
act Of his life, though bought about by the
stubbornness of his official predecessor to d-
vide the eaI v spoils, or even make them inhe-
liable by Masonic progression. Upon this forty
sycophants are demanding the abdication of
the church, and that the funds OF the congre.
CATION be put in the hands of Old Shoe. HIS
demand was published the other week in the
Peoples ADVOCATE, over his own signature
And now that he is restored to the church.
from which he was expelled for stealing. and
then lieing about it, all OF which he acknowr
lodged in order to be restored, events of great
importance may be looked for even to the
bullying of the preacher.


The need OF political organization entire
ly of Negroes is severely felt by many who
vote the Republican ticket. and influence the
appointment Of many of the present Federal
office-holders in Virginia aud Maryland. Ne
gro backing Is very potent when Republican
influence is needed to secure a place under
the Government; but that same backing is
without influence in securing subordinate
positions under the 'sbacked' and successful
seeker. even when talents are equal. The
Negro needs Kearney. Oh! for Kearney.


THOMAS.
Year: 1879

A colored gentleman of our acquaintance,
who resides on Church Hill, has on his pres
misses several very fine fruit trees and vines,
Several of the trees are in blossom, and one
of the pear trees Is not only in blossom, but
has on 1t at least dozen well>formed pears,
which, we presume, If they could have about
three months more of this delightful Indian
summer weather, would fully mature. But
cold Winter is coming again, aackl


How cold and icy is he;


He cares not cent for a shivering back!


For, u saucy old fellow is he.'


And he will not care for the beautiful and
tender fruit, but will cut it down without
mercy, as being "untimely' as it certainly is
IN this cline,
Year: 1879

THE criterion OF the intelligence 'of any
people is the support they give to newspapers
and In proportion as one increases In infiunce
and power the other rises In the scale OF civ
ilization. The STAR is an illustration of this
fact.
Year: 1879

LITTLE Billy has been taken to see
his old uncle, who is so deaf that he
can not hear single word without re-
course to his ear-trumpet, Billy watch
es the movement of this instrument for
some time with great interest, and then
exclaims: l." Mamma, what does uncle
try all the time to play the horn with
his ear for, when he can't make
il roPn
Year: 1879




Wonders will never cease. A super
natural appearance Is reported from
Ermland. which must have been more
astonishing than the most inexplicable
Of tbs mysteries laid before US by our
moss dexterous conjurers. On recent
Sunday morning an impious briekmaker
Of Schonbruck. near Allenstein, was
feeding his kiln With fuel. Just at the
hour OF holy mass he happened to look
in ct tho open furnace door. and in the
very middle OF the flames he perceived
\ beautiful maiden with q child in her
arms. Turning round. in obedience to
an irresistible impulse, he saw. standing
close behind him, strange, black.
bearded fellow. leering hideously. and
holding lightly between his teeth
an incandescent cigar. With sin.
Rular presence Of mind the per-
picked brickmaker reverted to the
kiln door, and cast moro fuel into
the furnace. Upon this the radiant
maiden vanished and the infant sudden
ly split into two halves. At that mo-
msnt the bells OF the neighboring church
runR out in notification that the eleva-
ton OF the host was then taking place
within the sacred edifce. Immediately
the evil looking individual. In whom the
brickmaker had instinctively recognized
the Father OF Lies. disappeared with an
angry growl. and the ovsr.wrought
brickmaker fell down IN a swoon. from
which he only recovered to forswesr
brickmaking ON the Sabbath forever
more. II 10 especially interesting to
notice among the details OF this spiritual
manifestation that Satan has so far kept
pace with the habits OF comparatively
modern times as to have taken to smok.
ing. We presume that his favorite
brand Is labeled "Infernals, and Is
distinguished from more mortal weeds
by an uncommonly full flavor.
Year: 1879

A writer in the Scientific american
says We clean our premises of these de-
testable vermin by making whitewash
yellow with copperas and covering the
stones and rafters in the cellar with thick
coat of it. In every crevice where rat
might tread, We put the crystals OF the
copperas and scatter the same in the cor
ners Of the floor. The result was per-
feet stampede Of rats and mice. Since
that time not football Of either rats or
mice has been heard about the house.
Every spring n coat Of the yellow wash is
given to the cellar, rs purifyer as we'll
as a rat exterminator, and no typhoid,
dyscntery or fever attacks the family.
Many persons deliberately attract all the
rats in the neighborhood by leaving fruits
and vegetables uncovered in the cellar;
and sometimes even the soap is left open
for their regalcment. Cover up every
thing eatable in the cellar aud pantry and
you will soon starye them out. These
precautions joined to the service Of good
cat will prove as good a rat exterminator
as the chemist can provide. We never
allow rats to be poisoned in our dwelling,
they are so liable to die between the walls
and produce much annoyance.
Year: 1879

Whenever national bank or legal
tender note becomes mutilated; whenever
anybody comes into possession Of worn
out note; or whenever by accident any
money Of this character becomes so far
destroyed that it will not pass, the owner
may send il TO the Treasurer of the United
States. The mutilated currency goes to
the redemption division of the Treasur-
er's Office, and there judgment is passed
on it. Of course every precaution is had
against fraud. Quite often woe-begone
piece of a note will be sent in, and after
the crucial test will turn out to be the
relic of counterfeit bill. Sometimes the
affdayits accompanying a fragment of
what was once a greenback are "manufac-
tured.n


One of the most remarkable cases that
has ever come before the redemption di,
vision occurred recently. A Nebraska
backwoodsman dropped his pocketbook
containing one hundred dollars, into the
campfire. Before he could get it out the
heat so acted on it that the book had
shrivelled up into hard burnt ball He
did not attempt to open it, but sent it or
with statement Of the facts. The ball
was cracked, just as hickory nut would
be in order to get at its contents. Inside
were found, intact and undamaged, tn,
twenty and ten-dollar bills that went t
make up the one hundred dollars.


A farmer living in Illinois distrusteG
the banks and always kept his money il
the house or about his person. A shor
time ago he had sll 900 in ready casl
and carried it in his coat pocket. ii,
went to bed, leaving his coat on chair
His wife complained Of the coldness 0
the room, and he got up TO stir the fire
He had been back in bed but short time
when the room was filed with smoke an,
the well-known odor of "some thing burn
ing" Hejumped up TO find his coat pocke
burnt out aud his sll 900 a charred mas.
Fortunately there was enough distinguish
able about the notes to secure him, upo
his sworn and attested affidavits of th
facts, new set complete.


A Tennesseean put S135 into boo
and secrcted his boot. When he wen
back for it he lost his bearings and coul
not find it. Six months afterward
stumbled across the old boot exactly wher
he had left it. The money inside ha
furnished nourishment for cockroache
and other yermin. A handful of smaI
pieces was all that was left to tell the tale
Sending them on to the treasury they wer
examined, and enough identified to Civ
the man $50.
Year: 1879

Nutmegs grow on little trees which look
like little pear trees, and are generally
over twenty feet high. The fowcrs are
very much like the lily Of the valley.
They are pale yellow and very fragrant
The nutmeg is seed Of the fruit, and ma ce
is the thin covering over this seed. The
fruit is about as large as peach. When
ripe, it breaks open and shows tie little
nut inside. The trees grow on the islands
Of Asia and in tropical America. They
bear fruit for seventy or eighty years,
having ripe fruit upon them at all seasons.
A 6ne tree in Jamaica has over four thou
sand nutmegs on it yearly. The Dutch
used to have all the nutmeg trade, as they
owned the Banda Islands, and conquered
all the other traders and destroyed the
trees. To keep the price up, they once
burned three piles Of nutmegs, each Of
which was as large as church Nature
did not sympathise with such meanness
The nutmeg pigeon, found In all the In
dian Islands, did for the world what the
Dutch determined should not be done
carried these nuts, which are their food
into all the surrounding countries, and
they grew again, and the world received the
benefit.