smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1867

MN with interest. There Is no danger OF n1a
losing it again; for it will always stick 70 him.
Nor Is this the FIRST time that an inventor has
fallen victim to his own invention Dr..
Guillotine Is said to have been guill0tined.
and II is not surprising that Dr.. Butler should
have been bottled up.n


Tho Pope and His Delsndsrs.


The other day we made some Femarlu on the
appeal Of the Pope to the press 70 publish bis
appointment Of . bishop 70 . Russian see.
Their spirit could not we'll be misunderstood
BY any one who is not . mere fanatic. There
was not a word In the article that could be con-
strued into Intentional disrsspect towards the
kind-hearted aud pious old man who flls the
Ponti6cal chair. Towards him, as towards any
other eminent character, we presume that q
pleasantly can be used without its involving
an offence to his dignity.


|, Such, however, is NOT the opinion of sclerical
correspondent who gives us homily Of six
pages Of foolscap upon our irreverence. He
tells us that his Holiness is not deadhead +"
IN either an intellectual or ecclc ,iastcal sense
oHa we are quite ready to concede the fac:
In'the newspaper acceptation of the term he
usauestionably is SO whom he asks the press to
inseri his bulls gratis. The request, coming
fros1 n Irish bishop. would be quite natural;
but coming from the Pope, who lays mosssof
his misfortunes to the account of the newspa-
pers; it appeared to us a fair theme for cou-
ment as illustrating the remarkable change.
that has taken place in the mind Of the Head Of
the Church in regard to the press.


We have neither time nor inclination to
foilowour correspondent through the ingenious
process Of reasoning by which he undertakes
to prove Tat the Pope has as much right to
his temporalitiss as we have TO our new
building on Broadway. Tfint b . question
that we shall leave to She cssuists. II Is
enough for US to say that such as It is we shall
be happy to place it at the. disposal Of his
Holiness for the pubIicatioa, of al the bulls
and encyclicais thas 1t may suit him to indite
to the faithful during his .tenure Of the Papal
chair.


The venerable PoatiR will, No know, be
satisfied with this explanaHors however short
it may fazE Of our correspondence expectations
The Church has NO stancher adhsrents and
the Holy Father no more sealeus defenders
than are TO be found on this side The Atlantic.
If he wants substantial evidense- of the fact he
will get il in the magnificent. present Of ffty
thousand dollars in gold pieces which Aroh-
bishop Purcell is about to conveJ 70 him on
the part os the citizens Of Cincinnati, enclosed
in beautiful silver model of the yacht
Henrietta May the association bear with it
the assurance Of the Church, finding . safe
haven to.its dil1cultiesl
Year: 1867

Among the curious things of the Ex-
position is a bar Of iron about as long
and as thick as the pole of a carriage,
tied in knot, as though it were a rib
bon, without a vestige of crack or flaw,
and the visitor is assured that il was
tied when cold.
Year: 1867

The Commissioner Of Agriculture is
daily receiving large number of let
tiers from persons in the Southern
States, in which they express their
gratitude for the seeds received by
them from tn. Agricultural Depart
ment
Year: 1867

THE NEW YORK EVENING MAIL is a lively,
readable paper, but 1t fails to render unto Ca.
sar the things that are Caesars. We notice a
good deal Of our STAR gossip in its editorial
columns, uncredited, and this is the fate of ar
tieles OF the length Of ''Club Life in Washing.
top''
Year: 1867

A 4


WE HAVE JUST RECEIVED AN ENTIRE STOCK
OF FIRST GLASS CLOTHING, FROM A. NEW YORK
HOUSE DECLINING BUSINESS, ALL NEW GOODS,
AND MADE UP IN FIRST CLASS MERCHANT
TAILOR STYLE. AND ORDERED TO BE SOLD AT
GREAT SACRIFICE.


WALL. ROBINSON Co.


Sl2 PESSsYLyASIA AVENUE.
del2-2w Between Ninth and Tenth streets
Year: 1867

"A good natured colored woman was boast
ing the other day to her former proprietor, Of
the progress which her son, a dark, bright urch-
in of ten was making at school. She said he
was in s'de modification table," D.. p, ti.-l
Year: 1867

The latcreSS OF the season admOnl shes
us that if we desire crop Of corn, no time
is to be lost. If there is art in culture, if
we can by extra attention, by more care
full culture. make some amends, not only
for the lateness Of the season, but for its
average lov temperature, which just now
gives premise Of continuance, it is our du-
ty to do so.


Since 1857 we do not rccolleot so late n
season, cold, damp and disagreeable as this.
1t is well calculated for the small grains,
such as wheat and cats, but not favorable
to corn. The promise Of fruit is also good
if not extra, and the potato crop cannot
we'll fail, unless we have severe infiictioD
Of the ten-lned potato bug.


We can see no reason why we may not
have full crop of corn, by the application
of little more labor and little more skill
in its culture The first week in May we
planted few acres 1t was the first at
tempt at planting by one the Juvenile
members Of the family, and the planting
or rather drilling, was very deep. 1t did
not appear above ground and we supposed
that the seed had rotted. but to our sur
prize it is now coming up. 1t had not
been rolled at the time of planting on ac-
count of heavy rain immediately after
Some of the plauts are two inches high
and others breaking ground, hence it will
not do to harrow it, and the next best thing
is the roller, which has been passed over
it, In the course of two or three days it
will be cultivated and the roller passed
over it, and this will be repeated weekly
until too large to rol!-say a foot high
when the cultivator will be continued
weekly until the tassels begin to come out,
when it will be time to lay it by.


The latter planting will be narrowed
with two-horse harrow SO soon as the
first blades begin to make their appear
ance, when the roller will follow and be
alternated with the cultivator.


Ifany one cannot give corn extra attention
this year. he need not expect much of a
Year: 1867

crop, for at this time. June lst, we have
not seen an acre Of corn cultivated as far
south as Springfield, and we doubt if this
is the case for another hundred miles
south.


by the use Of the harrow and roller we
put the soil in the best possible condition
TO absorb the heavy rains and TO allow the
sun to warm MP the surface. Shallow
planting is especially desirable this season,
and for that matter, any season. This
season most OF the seed is poor and when
planted deep will rot


Not halfthe corn is yet planted, and for
the reason stated, VIZ cannot be too partio-
u!ar in having the land in good order. It
is better to plant Ten acres, as it should be.
and give it thorough culture, than to plant
double the quantity in careless manner,
In good corn season almost any hap-haz-
ard kind Of culture will make coed crop
bat this season nothing short OF skill and
labor will accomplish it. and to this end a
roller is one Of the indispensable imple-
ments, with which to accomplish the re-
suit



days after the soil has been stirred, that
thin crust iorms over it, which lot only
excludes the AIR, but this thin crust
reflects the heat instead Of absorbing Il.


When TIE corn begins to sprcut and i
en- its way 10 the surface, the harrow sho'd
be pat on to open the soil this is to be
followed with the roller to pulyerize The
clods and keep the surface smoth. The
land is thus in condition to be worked Is
soon as you can see the rows It is not
necessary to wait for the weeds to grow.
the soil needs stirring. and the roller shod
follow the harrow and the cultiYator until
The corn is too large.


For some years we have been in tie
habit of picking the seed corn without
hu>king and putting it in the crib in this
condition. We have sold some thousands
Of bushels Cor seed and have net as yet had
any complaints Of bad seed. We have
stated the early yellow dent corn as the
best for crop in all seasons, bat other va
rioties have kept equally well with the
same treatment.


We would not therefore advise the strip
ping offthe husas when intended for seed,
Or for milling purposes, until wanted Cor
use. Corn thus gathered in dry weather.
and put in a crib with slat bottoms and
tight sides and top VIII keep well. We
throw out these hints for the bencG- OF
those intending to put up cribs during the
simmer,
Year: 1867

The War department now cxpends twice
as much as was the whole cost of the
Government in Buchanan's time. Hall
of the whole cost is keeping an army at
the south, where it would have cost moth
ing if the States had been restored. as they
could have been year ago Us well as to-
day, and should have been as soon as hor-
orable after the war closed. Those who
advocate or threaten the continued bar
ring out of all these States. favor the con-
tinued oppression ofall the people by taxa
tion so high that business withers and dies
beneath it, andrit must leave us in the end
in financial crash that viii sweep the
country. When that shall come it will
not be difficult to know who and what is
the cause. - Indianapolis Herald.
Year: 1867

We Go not know Of any way-and we
speak entirely without regard to personal


interest-in which Democrats can do so
much towards advancing the success o.
their principles az by encoura ging in
every manner they can devise, the crcu-


lation of sound and vigorous journols.-
The Wore political experience We obtain,


the better we are convinced that the key
note OF ultimate victory is to be found in
this idea. 1t has been q stigma on the
Democratic party that it never gives its
journals as liberal support as our oppo-
nents, and to this negligent spirit may
easily be traced the secret Of its past de-
feats, and prostrated condition at present.
In the canvasses that have taken place
since 1860, we were not met with discuss
ion-we were beaten By abuse Such
warfare could not have been successfully
waged by our opponents had the circula-
ton of sound Democratic papers through
the country been pushed with all possible
yigor. The passions CT the people cannot
be made the foundation Of political success
ifthe people are made to listen to argu-
ment and reason. This car be effected in
no other manner than By wide diffusion
of the conservative press. The times are
We know not when the
storm clouds may burst The people sho'd
be educated for the probable emergency.
We will guarantee that every additional
copy OF staunch Democratic paper circu-
lated in any neghborhood, will bring il:
harvest of az additional freeman to vote,
or, if necessary, patriot to strike on the
side OF law aud order. Let our friends
reflect on this point, and they will say that
is we'll taken.--ZanesvWe Signal.
Year: 1867

They arc not parted, though their feet


Have wandered far in different ways;
And though they never more may meet
On Winter ewes or Summer days.
1t matters not though realms divide,
Though boundiess seas between them roll
Fer STILL defying wind and tide,


Heart yearns to heart and soul TO soul.
They are not parted-only those


Are parted whom no love unitcs;
Their absence breaks not our repOse


Who have no share in our delights,
They may be by our side, and still


As far from Us as pole from pole
Who lacks the sympathetic thrill


Ofhcart TO heart, and soul to soul.
Year: 1867

The Kansas Legislature has had a
freak of eccentric:ty. We call on
somebody to straightway prepare a
lot of strait waist-coats. We call
on somebody else to jug these Kan


sas Legislators up. They ought to
be jugged forthwith. Or, if that


cannot be done, we call on Congress


to impeach the Kansas Legislature.


We suppose Congress can do it, be
cause it does pretty much what it
plcases. We have good reason for
earnestness in this matter. On
Thurday the Kansas Senate adopted
an amendment introduced by con-
servative member, that every elect
or shall be disqualified from voting
who has stolen or embezzled proper
ty from the United States Govern
ment, or who, as member Of the
Legislature, has received money or
other consideration for his vote, or
who has attempted to bribe any
member ofthe Legislature or elector
at the polls to get his vote.


Now, We would like to know it
there is not here grounds sufficient
for impeaching, or doing almost any
terrible thing, to dozen scnatcs.
What is to become Of our great radi-
cal party if this sort Of business is
allowed to 60 on? 1t will break up
the government of the majority Of
our States. If it were carried out,
would break up congress ITSELF
Just think of it. This amendment
proposes TO dlsqualify every person
who has stolen from the government,
or who has resortcd to bribery
What a monstrous proposition. 1t
would kick OF. of their comfortable
seats nine out of every ten radicals
in cur State legislatures, and nine
ty-nine out Of every lrundred radi-
Gals in Congress. What an absurd
proposition, to be sure. What
would become Of ASHLEY, and the
rest Of that stripe, if this measure
were put into universal effect. As
the amendment was offered by a
conservative member, we shrewdly
that it is vile copperhead
subterfuge to break up the republi-
can party. But as it passed, it is
evident the ka ansas senate has gone
mad. Again we repeat it, let them
be jugged. -Cleavland Plain Dealer.
Year: 1867

we lind this bit Of quiet fun in an
English paper: "a gentleman 90.
ing down the river on steamer
the engine Of which was on the
deck he sapntered out to see the
the same object. In few moments
a squeaking noise was heard on the
opposite side of the engine. Seiz-
ing the oil cana gigantic one by the
way-the engineer sought out the
spot, and to prevent further noise
of that kind literally applied the
contents of the can to every joint.
All went on we'll for while, when
the squeaking was heard in another
direction. The oilrng process was
repeated and quiet was restored
but as the engineer was coming
quietly towards the spot occupied
by the gentleman and the stranger
he heard another squeak. This
time he detected the true cause of
the difficulty. The stranger was
yentriloquist. Walking straight up
behind him be seized the astonished
joker by the nape of the neck and
emptied the contents of the can down
his back. There, said he, i don't
believe that old engine will squeak
again. 80
Year: 1867

OF an account to a newspaper out
West, a thrce-dollar counterfeit bill,
which was returned indorsed, This
note is counterfeit please send
another - 1t was two months be-
fore Dan replied, when he apologized
for the delay, saying that he had
been unable, until now to get anoth-
er counterfeit three-dollar bill, "but
he hoped the one now inclosed would
suit, profess ng, at the same time,
his inability to discover what the
objection was to the other, which he
thought as good counterfeit as he
ever saw.
Year: 1867

An Australian colonist has harnessed
up kangaroo and put him to labor
turning machinery with half horse power
IF he gets lazy, pin stuck in him makes
him jump up; and when he dies they
cook and eat him. n "a
Year: 1867

An English Judge. in charging the
jury in railway case, said that he thought
that the blowing of tobacco smoke in the
face of fellow railway passenger, might
be considered an assault -
Year: 1867

A bit of shrubbery in the yard, vine
climbing by trellis--a strip of refresh
ing green spread from the door, are sure
to make place of greater marketable
value, which with many is q considera-
ton to be thought of before any other.
Such need no further appeal to their
sense of neatness. But those who really
love the suggestion of beauty for their
own sake will not omit the turf patch,
the shrubbery and the hedge and vine,
because they make almost any home
more attractive and lovely, and cause
the sentiments to sprout like the very
leaves and buds themselves How few
stop to consider what a powerful associ-
alton lies lurking in every simple but
familiar object that holds us almost as
steadily and strongly to home as wife
and children; they are closely associ-
ated with these in fact, and can with
difficulty be separated. Therefore we
say to all, brush up about the door and
plant near by an object of simple
beauty. 1t will bear fruit in
the heart an hundred fold. By
far the most successful draining ope-
rations in the United States are on the
farm of Mr.. John johnson, near Geneva,
New York. During period Of twenty
years or more, he has accomplished the
laying of over 255, 900 tiles, or over forty
seven miles. An instance of the beneil-
cial effect produced was given a few
wears ago, when by the destructive action
of the midge, the crop of wheat upon the
adjoining farms was reduced seven
bushels per acre, while he obtained
twenty nine bushels. The danger from
wet or partially wet lands is never fully
apprehended; the retention OF water IN
the soil impairs in various ways Its fer
tiIity; while, preventing pulverization
hy the plow or harrow, and the circula-
ton of air to the roots of the plants, it
nourishes constant growth OF noxious
plants. Even the cattle and sheep pas
tured upon wet land are subject to
diseases from which those in dry fields
are com paratively free and are,
moreover, pestered by flies and mosqni-
toes, which disappear as soon as the
same lands are drained. Man himself is
the greatest sufferer from undralned
lands, which tend to engender levers and
agnes, and by the GOODNESS and damp
ness of the air are effective agents in
producing rheumatism and affections of
the throat A very important disadvan'
tage is contained in the singular fact,
fully established by experience, that un-
drained lands are more liable to suiier
from drouth, than those thoroughly
drained. The former in a dry time be-
come baked and compact, and do not
readily absorb moisture from the atmos-
phere but a well pulyerized and open
soil receives into its pores and absorbs
like a sponge the dew and aqueous vapor
in the air. In the fulfllment Of that old
adage, "He who causes two blades OF
grass to grow where only one grew be-
fore, is public benefactor, we believe
that drainage, manure and cultivation
are the most effective agents.
Year: 1867

Fun is confined by no means 10 man.
II is frequently asserted that, although
naluralists have discovered and tanned
the laughing jackass, the laughing hy-
ena, the laughing cockatoo, there is but
one animal INDUCES in what you
might call laugh" and that is our old
friend, the dog The horse laugh is n
humbug; but the horse would laugh IL
be could, for he is not deficient in the
sense Of the humorous. We have known,
in our time, a sly horse which would
slide up to bystander and put his hoof
on the unfortunate wight's foot in man
ner which would not soon be forgotten.
1t was a common trick with him but
no professed practical joker could have
done il with his sole in more inadver-
tent manner.


The comedy Of "The World Mask, I"
declares a horse is gentleman and
this may give us key to the gravity of
our Eclipses and Dobbin, since horse
laugh has long been regarded as any.
thing but gentlemanly. Col. 0'Kelley's
parrot would scream for the dog Rover
until he obeyed her summons, 4and then
frightened him away by yelling Get
out Small birds chase each other
about in play; but perhaps, the conduct
of the crane and the trumpeter is the
most extraordinary. The latter stands
on one leg, hops about in the most eccsn-
trio manner, and throws sumersaults.
All animals pretending violence in their
play stop short in exercising it. The
dog takes the greatest precaution not to
injure by his bite, and the orangoutang,
in wrestling with his keeper, pretends to
threw him, and makes feints of biting
him.


Some animals carry out in their play
the semblance OF catching their prey;
young cats, for instance, leap after every
small and moving object, even to the
leaves strewed by the autumn wind they
crouch and steal forward, ready for the
spring, the body quivering, and the tail
vibrating with emotion, they bound on
the moving leaf, and again spring for
ward to another. Benger saw young
jaguars and cougars playing with round
substances like kittens, Birds of the
magpie kind are full of mischief. There
is story Of tame magpie that was seen
in garden gathering pebbles, and with
much solemnity and studied air buried
them in a hole made to receive a post
After dropping each stone it cried cur
rack.l" triumphantly, and set out for
another. On examining the spot, poor
toad was found in the hole, which the
magpie was stoning for his amusement.
There is fun in animals and birds. In
deed there is.
Year: 1867

fontlcal Ruin.


The New York Commercial AdUer-
tiser, leading Radical paper, offers the
following suggestions TO the freedmen Of
Richmond. The conduct ofthis class Of
society has attracted a great deal Of
attention at the North. II has been pro.
scriptive, obtrusive, intolerant, violent,
offensive and disorderly Nothing has
so much turned the tide Of public
opinion against the convention as the
clamorousness Of ignorant and ill'man-
nered and unworthy blacks Of this city
for equality ard for Office, and their
vindictive and proscriptive defamation
towards the whites. The advice of the
Advertiser, let it be remembered, is the
advice Of Radical, and must be so
read. We copy it below;


Now we warn these Southern blacks
that if they continue to follow the advice
of such characters, they will surely be led
on TO their political ruin. IL, instead OF
needing the wise and moderate counsels
of such men as Governor Pierpont, they
20 astray after the Hunnicutts, they will
disasirously damage their own cause.


"They have seen in the result Of the
recent elections that great many North
ern Republicans are opposed to granting
them suffrage. That right has by no
means been insured to them as yet, If,
through their folly and infatuation, the
call of convention is defeated, and re-
construction brought TO standstill, Con.
gress may fall back upon some other
plan which does not embrace negro suf
frage. Even the extreme Radicals Of the
North may become so disgusted with
the ballot. They certainly regard with
anything but approval the recent conduct
of the Richmond blacks, Such conduct
will do more than all other causes COM
bined to strengthen the prejudice pre-.
vailing against them.


Whatever sympathies Republican
leaders may have in common with the
blacks, they are not prepared to receive
distinction from them and stand back
while they run the political machine. 1t
is for them to follow-not to lead; and
they may learn from the result of the
recent elections that unless they are
willing to do this, they may not only
ALLEVIATE their Northern friends, but
wholly lose the boon of suffrage which
the military bill Of reconstruction has
held out to them. If the call for a
Convention is defeated in Virginia after
vigorous effort on the part of both
white and black Unionists to carry it,
Congress may still adhere to the military
plan. If, however, it is defeated through
the failure of the blacks to CO operate
with the whites, Congress, we repeat,
may from necessity as well as disgust,
develop new mode of reconstruction
based upon something besides negro
suffrage. If the blacks are prudent,
they will take warning in time, and
swing clear of the disorganizers who are
endeavoring to persuade them that the
work of Southern reconstruction is and
will continue to be in their hands, come
what may"