smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1878

Attention is called to the Agricul-
tural Society's notice elsewhere


There il no good reason why Wa
pello county shouldn't have, this ear,
an annual exhibition worthy Of all
concerned, town and country people
alike. 1t is q good timelnow to COM
mence getting good ready to come,
and at the same time to be preparing
to exhibit something, to add to the
general interest and general credit of
the people Of all callings and all Sec
tions of Wapello county.


Premium Lists can be had by call
ing upon the President or Secretary
over post office,
Year: 1878

From Tuesdays Daily.


1t was a young man by the name
Moore, who was stopping tempora-
rily at Bells, that met with the acci-
dent mentioned in these columns yes
terday, and not Mr.. Bell as we were
led to believe. The story is that an
employe of Mr.. B. who had been
plowing in the field left the team for
some purpose and young Moore,
thinking to make himself useful con-
cluded to plow few moments. AT
the river eide the weeds were high
and the young man made the turn all
right but in backing out to get his
plow started right, walking back
wards, stepped off the abrupt bank
into the river, and, a. he had the lines
around his body, pulled the team and
plow into the river on top of him
The river being high the water was
deep, and it was as much as the
young man could do to save himself,
he could do nothing for the team
which was drowned.
Year: 1878

Capt. G. p. Brown, who has just re-
turned from an extended trip through
Northern Iowa and Southern Minne-
sofa, reports that in many districts
there the wheat crop is almost an en-
tire failure brought about by the ex-
treme hot weather just at the time
when the grain was forming. The
agents at two stations on the Milwau-
kie & st. Paul railroad, close togeth-
CIR, informed him that from their sta
tions alone, last year, over one mil
lion bushels Of wheat were shipped,
and this year there would not be
bushel Of the new crop to sell. The
same unfayorable condition of affairs
exists to greater or less extent all
over that part of the country. He
says that the grain has been shriveled
up to nothing and thousands of acres
will not be cut, and but little will be
harvested in that part of the country.
The people who have largely depend
ed upon the wheat crop for their liv-
ing seemingly, are greatly depressed
and have the blues bad. The far
mers of this part Of the State will
know how to syinpathize with their
brethren in the North and will be
able to supply any ordinary deficien-
rey in the wheat market that may be
necessary for home consumption in
that part of the State.
Year: 1878

From SATURDAYS Daily.


Several wagon loads Of flax seed
of this years growth we're received
at the Oil Mill, to-day, for which the
farmers received handsome price in
cash. This is said to be very profit
able crop and comes in just at time
when q dollar is worth about as near
one hundred cents as it ever gets to
be.
Year: 1878

With such weather as we have had
for some weeks ii has been abundant
ly demonstrated that eggs can be
hatched without the aid Of mother
hen to keep them to q proper temper
ature. Mr.. Jason French tells us Of
one that hatched out ten days after
the hen came off with brood of chick
ems. And one night not long since
Charlie Brodrick and wife heard the
chirping of young chicken, but
could not learn its whereabouts until
the next morning, when it was found
to have hatched out of an egg that
had been lying on shelf.-Eddyville
A 46yerfiser.
Year: 1878

JAIL DEL1vERy.-They had jail
delivery at Oskaloosa Friday night by
which two of the most desperate GRIM
inals succeeded in getting free. It
seems that the jailor about 8 o'clock at
night wentinto the hall to lock the pri-
soners in their cells when he was struck
over the head with q table leg and
very seriously If not fatally injured.
Two prisoners, one of whom was
confined In our jail not long since,
made their escape and had not been
captured at last accounts. The jailor
it was thought might not recover as
he was still insensible Saturday after
noon,
Year: 1878

examined the boat half an hour before the fire
was discovered and found all right, and the
watchman, five minutes before the fire broke
out, passed the spot and noticed nothing
wrong. The Anchor Line Company carried
their own risks The oil on the elevator was
insured for $4500 each in the Imperial Of Lon
don and the Peoples of Memphis, and $4,000 in
the Home of New York.
Year: 1878

LONDON, July 2-The course of the money
market was little irregular yesterday. The
changes in rates of discount demanded were
fitful, owing to o still unsatistied drain of
gold to Paris and the uncertainty regarding
It's duration On the other hand over half
million Is due at the end of the week.
Year: 1878

The House Committee on Indian
Affairs has substantially agreed to
report bill on the reassemb;ing Of
Congress allowing five Indian tribes
in the Indian Territory to be repre-
sented by q delegate in the House.
The business before Congress relat-
ing to the interests of the Indian
Territory, in the opinion of the sub
committee to whom the subject was
referred, is such as to make it advis-
able that the Indian tribes should
have official representation. As it
is they can only be heard by attor-
neys, and the custom has grown of
calling every effort of their friends
a steal or job. The committee
therefore concludes that justice to
the Territory as we'll as the credit of
Congress demands the admission OF
an Indian delegate.
Year: 1878

THE ship Pilgrim, which crossed
the Columbia river bar at the same
time with the unfortunate shin MIN
bus, is reported to have returned to
Astoria leaking badly. The same
report says she will be compelled 10
discharge her cargo and proceed to
San Francisco in ballast.
Year: 1878

The Rev. S. Wells Williams in letter
says; This day was the worst Of all,
saw abundant proofs of men eating clay
or stones, and bought three stone cakes


The stone is the same as our soft stone
pencils. 1t is reduced to dust and mixed
with millet husks, in different proper.
tions, and then baked 1t does not look
bad, but tastes like what it is-dust. The
dead seem to-day to number more than
on any previous day for there were twenty
nine in eighteen miles along the road,
and the circumstances were more fright
full. In one valley the road branched
into two, and my servant took one while
| took the Other--on each side the stream.
On his road, the servant saw a woman
lying in ditch after being robbed of all
she had, and still moving, though uncOn-
scious of any one passing by. Further
on we saw mans head cut clean from
his body--a cruel murderers deed. We
saw also among the dead some wounded
heads, but not done by the wolves, dogs
or birds. The dogs barked and howled
at us when we drove them off from the
dead. Many of the corpses seen when we
were going had disappeared, but their
places were more than supplied by others.


",To those details of what saw give
you briefer account of what | have
heard. Some men coming from Sichum,
on their way to Peking, said that along
the whole way they saw dead bodies here
and there. Saow had fallen in Honan
province foot deep, and about eight
inches in Shansi to the west and north.
west, and none further nLrth in that
province. In all that region west of this
the cold had been unusual. The soft
stone is sold at from two to five mills
pound, and bark from five to seven mills
per pound for food. The roots of sweet
flags are dug, but they cause the face to
swell. Grain is three or four times the
usual price, and turnips and cabbage five
or six times. Flour is seven, eight and
nine mills per ounce. In every city
passed through the report was twenty,
thirty or forty dying daily. At Ping
yang ten great pits had been filed, and
two carts were daily employed in cart
ing the dead One inn keeper told US
that one of his customers reported hav-
ing counted two hundred and seventy
dead on the road in three days journey.
Whole families, old and young, die in
their houses and lie there unburied. In
one district third of the population are
dead, and the people maintain that in
many towns fully one half have perished,
and they know villages where formerly
dwelt 300, 400 and even 500 people, of
whom not more than 100 now remain
Year: 1878

WHosoEvER would become a good
cook must give the mind to it, and in Or
der to excel in this branch of domestic
economy, one must have, or cultivate, a
taste for it. Seasoning is the most diff
cult part of the cooking. One may know
how to stew, roast or broil, but to know
we'll what seasonings or spices to add
which will improve the flavor, requires
patience, practice and ideality. Again,
badly cooked food is sheer waste Of ma
terial, strength and nerve. What mother
can justly expect to rear rosy, happy
children upon sour bread, indigestible
meats and rich pastry No woman should
take upon herself the duties of wife or
mother, without a thorough knowledge
of the art and no woman's education is
complete, however brilliant, if this
branch be neglected. If mothers taught
their daughters from the first that it was
as much of an accomplishment to manu-.
fActure light, wholesome bread, snowy
biscuits, or to be enabled to broil a steak
to nicely, as to master difficult piece
Of music or one Of the languages, there
would be fewer divorce cases, fewer com
planning husbands and miserable, un
happy wives.
Year: 1878

HOME HARMoNIEs.-Climate, sex,
mode of life, temperament, ETC., deter
mine to some extent the age when actual
instruction should begin; but, generally
speaking, as three years are required to
develop consciousness of sensuous life,
five more for the exercise of the under
standing, six more for the play of fancy,
and seven more for the development of
the understanding and formation of
character, music lessons ought to be de.
layed until the eighth year. Even then
it is a mistake to present high ideals, but
far preferable to begin with forms of art
that are most nearly allied to nature. For
this reason the scientific form OF the
minor scale with the step of an argu-
mented second from the sixth to the
seventh notes. should be withheld, and
also other progressions that indicate men
tai states not yet actually experienced by
the pupil-suCh as, for instance, long
ing for state of longing, or violent pas
sions and emotions not Of q childlike
character. To economize time it is well,
so soon as few chords and melodies are
known, to impart slight knowledge of
harmony, that chords may be readily
identified however strange may be their
appearance in various diversions or in
elaborate arpeggiO. The silent study of
harmony, form, rhythmic complexities,
etc, is not only very advantageous to the
pupil, but also to others, for music is the
most intrusive Of all the arts and we can
not close our ears if we would.-Ltppin-
colt.
Year: 1878

On, Wednesday night skillfully
planned attempt to carry off the jewels
of Lady Rosebery was made at Petworth
House, Sussex, the seat of Lord Lecon-
field, at which Lord and Lady Rosebcry
are spending their honeymoon. 1t ap.
pears that the dressiug.room of her lady
ship is situated in the back portion of the
mansion, overlooking retired court
yard. On the night in question, while
the guests in the house were at dinner,
one of the men servants, on passing
through the courtyard, noticed peculiar
hickering light in the window OF the
dressing-room, the blinds of which we're
down. He stood for moment looking
at the window, when, observing the forms
of two persons moving about, it occurred
to him that something was wrong. lie
at once, without entering the house, rang
bell attached to the exterior OF the man
sion for alarm purposes. This had the
effect of disturbing the robbers, who es-
capped by ladder placed perpendicularly
against the wall, and which the man SER
want who had raised the alarm had failed,
in consequence of the darkness, to OBJ
serve. The dressing room door was found
to be locked from the outside, and on
admission being gained twas discovered
that the robbers had not succeeded in
stealing any booty. This was due to the
fact that the jewel cases of Lady Rose
berry were placed in a strong iron case,
instead of being, as is generally the Gus
tom, left on the table. The police have
failed to obtain any clew to the culprits.
London Times.
Year: 1878

We don't like to be irreverent, but
would like to ask: "What did our FORE
fathers know2 What, for instance, did
George Washington knowG He never
saw fast mail train; he never held his
ear to telephone; he never sat for pic
ture in photograph gallery; he never
saw a steamboat; he never sighted
Krupp gun; he never received tele-
graph dispatch; he never listened to the
"fzz" of an electric pen; he never saw
pretty girl running sewing machine; he
never saw self-propelling engine go
down the street to fire; he never took
laughing-gas; he never had set of store
teeth; he never attended an international
exposition; he never owned bonanza
mine; he never knew "Old Probs;" he
but why go on2 No; when he took an
excursion, it was on flat boat; when he
went off on train, it was mule train !;
when he wanted to talk TO man in Mil
waukee, he had to go there; when he had
his picture taken, it was done in profile
with piece Of black paper and pair of
shears; when he got the returns from
back counties, they had to be brought in
by man with an OK cart; when he took
aim at an enemy he had to trust to
crooked -barreled old hintlock; when he
wrote, it was with a goose quill when he
had anything to mend, his grandmother
did it with darning-needIe; when he
went to fire he stood in line and passed
buckets; when he looked at q clam he
never dreamed that it was any relation of
his; when he went to a concert, he heard
cracked fiddle and an insane clarionet;
when he had tooth pulled, he sat down
and never left off yelling; when he got
out of teeth, he gummed yictuals; when
he wanted an international show, he sent for
Lafayette and ordered his friends from old
Virginia with the specimen caresdlly la
beled in bottles; when he once got hold
of a nugget of gold from an Indian chief,
he felt rich; when he wanted to know
anything about the weather, he consulted
the ground hog or goose bone-but why
90 on4 What did such a man know
Who was he any wayl
Year: 1878

BRowN BREAD.-One pint cornmeal,
pour over it one pint boiling water, tea
cupful of molasses, shorts or graham
flour enough to make stiff batter, two
eggs, one teaspoonful of soda dissolved
in little boiling water, steam three
hours by putting in pan in steamer
over pot of hot water; keep the water
boiling all the time.
Year: 1878

A low, dirty, mean trick, in the shape of a marriage notice, was per petrated upon the HERALD last week. The author, a pretended friend of this paper, has written a letter to John Marion, of the Enter prise, calling his attention to the item, hopins we will be abused by that paper for its publication. All right, the author. will come before the people asking for a reelection to the office he now ffis, next NovGm- Der, and in the mean time, we will inform our readers of his name. so they can be sure he will not be on their tickets, as his office surely ought to call for a man clothed with q little decency.
Year: 1878

Mr.. BLACKBURN for himself, and his
friends for him, are taking time by tie fore
lock, and announce him as candidate for
the Speakership of the next House of Rep
resentatives. That is right If the next
House should be Democratic it is only
proper that an unrecOnstructed, unrepent-
ant rebel should be elected to preside over
it. Everybody knows that Democratic SUI
premacy means Southern supremacy.
Northern Democrats are mere make
weights. When the Southern pipe pipes
they must dance, and dance, too, in accord
ance with the step and programme laid
down by their Southern masters. No
Northern Democrat dare act unless he first
receives the cue from his Southern master.
II he acts independently he is no longer a
Democrat. 1t is only right, therefore, that
an ex-Coniederate should be elected Speaker
in case of Democratic ascendancy. The
Office would be much more respected If o.
cupied by an outspoken rebel of the BLACK.
BURN class, who was q traitor alike to his
own State, as well US TO the United States
than if occupied by doughiace of the RAN.
DALI class, who would not dare to say his
soul was his own, but who must obey the
beck and nod of his Southern masters.
Year: 1878

II is intimated that Senator CoNKLING is
preparing an elaborate speech on the pres.
ent posture of political affairs, which may
find utterance at the State convention on
the Goth, and may not until later day. he
that as it may, we sincerely trust that the
prediction may prove true rs TO the main
fact There will lie full convention at
Saratoga, Every district in the State will
he represented, while the business in hand
is inconsiderable But single nomination
is to be made, a reiteration of principle in
dulged, q State Central Committee to be
appointed, and, as there will be but few, II
any, contested seats, much time will be
afforded for an interchange Of sentiment
and the discussion of the important qucs.
tons of the hour.


1t is n little amusing to witness the
electrical effect the intimation that Sena-
tor CoNKLING is about to unseal his lips
is having upon class Of journals which
have been under great concern of mind be-
cause Of his protracted silence. They arc
startled as if struck by a galyanic shock
and where anxiety has heretofore rcigned
fear now takes up its disturbing abode
Those who have criticised his..silencc with SC
much severity now have dread that hi
may open his lips and move his tongue in
political utterance for they well know that
the right is to be maintained and defended ;
the pure doctrines of Republicanism are ia
be preached; the sophistries of finance IRE
to be laid bare, and the enemies Of Rcpub.
licanIsm will he arraigned and their enor.
mites laid bare with power of irresistible
logic and eloquence.


Should the speech be made, Democrats
Greenbackers and croakers will all find in
its utterances food for contemplation and
study, and, like Secretary SHERMAN, he
will give battle behind intrenchments o.
fact and argument that will challenge the
best and most vigorous efforts Of oil his
enemies. We regret, however, to notice
that those who have been the most anxious
that Senator CoNKLING should break silence
are now the most nervous and fidgety lest
the intimation of that approaching fact
may be verified. There has been no period
for years when il has been more important
that the Senator should approach the peopl,
with mastery effort than in the presen
political crisis. There are many points tina
can be better illustrated under the lens o
his powerful mind than by any other agency
at this era. The occasion and the hour ar
alike propitious.
Year: 1878

PHILADELPHIA and the entire State of
Pennsylvania is to be congratulated upon
the transfer of the Hon. EDWARD MCPHER-
son from official life in Washington to the
editorial control Of the Press Of that city.
There are few better posted political writers
than he in the country, and his return to
the profession OF journalism will mark an
era in the newspaper history of the Key
stone State. Perhaps his more recent pub
lie experience has modified some of his per-
sonal antagonisms. If so, his influence in
this new field OF operation cannot fail to
benefit the Republican party.
Year: 1878

Is guessing at the probable results of the
Congressional elections in Ohio the organ
down the street argues from the standpoint
of two years ago. 1t does not seem to be
aware that the State was most outrageously
gerrymaudered by the Democrats last win.
ter, and the indications are that they over
reached themselves
Year: 1878

TIE Outside press, by which We mean
outside of Washington, is engaged just now
in giving our local Communist, ISAAC CO.
HEN, all the notoriety he wants, and exact
ly The notoriety he seeks AS he don't be-
long here we suppose this is all very proper;
but if the best plan is pursued he will be
lett to the police, and passed by as un-
worthy of notice by the press. He has held
meeting after meeting, day and night here
for months, and they have one and all been
failures simply because the press of Wash
ington has declined to boost him into an
imaginary public importance by paying
any attention to his proceedings.
Year: 1878

SOME of the newsless scribblers are trying
to get up sensation over the whereabouts
Of ELIZA PINKsTON. II tho POTTER Com
mttce really wants ELIZA as witness she
can be found without difficulty. In fact, Il
certain Democratic cmissary did find her
not long ago and tried to bribe her to recant
her testimony before the Returning Board
in 1876, The effort failed for, black and
poor and crippled Is she is, she had too
much conscience to aid the TILDEN fraud
campaign for pay. The heartless wretches
then left her exactly where the Hon.
POrTAH can find her whenever he wants
her.
Year: 1878

IN his speech accepting his denomination
for Congress, recently, Mr.. Speaker RAN
DALI said:


1t must be a source of satisfaction to you, as
it is the cause of the highest qualification to
me, thatthe Democratic party, as represented
in the United States House Of Representativ
has exalted your representative by its vote for
Speaker-a mark Of confidence from my coun-
trymcn which is almost as dear to me as my
life, and which hope ! will never tarnish
while ! am your rep iesentative.


Any constituency would be gratifed to
have their representative elected Speaker
of the United States House of Representa-
tives. But whether the subsequent conduct
of the representative so elevated would be q
source of qualification is another thing. A
Northern constituency that can be pleased
with Mr.. RANDALL's administration of the
office is most easily satisfied. His whole
course was bid for Southern support, even
to the extent of sacrificing the interests of
Pennsylvania and the North generally. In
the line of distinguished gentlemen who
have presided over the House of Represent
atives, all, down to Mr. RANDALL, held the
scales with an even hand He introduced
the policy of welding the gavel in purely
partisan spirit. He had not the moral
courage to resist the commands of the
BLACKBCRNs and those like him.
Year: 1878

Annie Farrell, at her father's request, was
committed by police Justice TO the House Of Refuge
Yesterday her father applied by habeas corpus for her
lease TO Judge DonOhue His counsel stated that the
girls real fault gong TO ball without leave but
the magistrates commitment OF her was that she was
convicted Of being "a ydgrant, namely In tile habit OF
wandering from her bome," otc Her discharge OPP
posed by the counsel for the House Of Refuge. the
ground that though not shown 10 he a vagraBt she
u thin the sixteenth section of the act, conerrng
tain powers OF committing disObedicnt children the
House Judge DOnObue said n the justice had rested
with committing her as vagrant, the commitment
might have been good. but when by his Z" namely" he
specified totally different offence he made the commit
ment clearly bad. lie committed the girl for offence
and convicted her of another The girl, who cry
bitterly thereupoa carried OF by her mother and
father
Year: 1878

WASHINGTON, Feb. 19.-The Post Office De-
partmont is Informed through diplomatic sources that
the next International Postal Convention has been fixed
TO take place Paris the first OF May next Among
the matters serious importance TO be considered by this
convention number Of amendments to the Postal
Union Treaty OF Bcrne. The questions OF mail transit
and also OF General International Postal Money Order
Union will be topics considered by the convention.
Year: 1878

mission TO the Normal College and the College of tne
City OF New-York because they had NOT Deen Krauueo


The superintendent Of BUILDINGS was directed to re-
port az 10 the safety building occupied by he
fist Regiment an armory.
Year: 1878

JIM EMMETT, late OF "Trip" and now a
Democratic candidate for Congress in the
twelfth Ohio district, bought his nomination
by the free use of two barrels of whisky of
TLDES, with his ~barl O. money" "Trip
jim was not wholly a failure, for it turns
ont now that the whisky was unstamped
and it Is known that TILDES's money was
in part withheld or stolen from his income
TAX duo to the Governments