smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1879

THERE isn't a statesman OF either politi.
cal party now in Washington who doesn't
travel around a whole square to avoid the
Cocktail interviewer of the RiHdeygartca
if he suspects him of being in his path
When one Of that class feels like lubricat-
ing to keep out the cold and puts his head
into bar-roOm with such intent he inva.
riably scans the interior with yigilant eye
to see if the Cocktail Leech is about be.
fore he enters, Most public men would
now sooner encounter a case of smallpox
than this perverter Of the truth and invader
and violator Of the rights of ordinary socia
relation. Alas for the enterprise of jour
nalsm, if it is to he stamped by this class
of impertinent and licensed tramps!
Year: 1879

THE Nonistown Herald is anxious that
any man who attempts to make speech in
Congress this session on the finances he shot
on ''the spot" The eexact spot isnot indicated
by our cotemporary; but we suggest that
the softest one, and the one wherein the
least danger to the victim would ensue,
would be the head. The man who does not
know that the finances do not require any
tinkering, don't know enough to "ache
"when it hurts" or "come in when it rains. u
Year: 1879

WTANTED-A SITUATION AS FIRST-CLASS
w cook In n respectable family, by young girl Of
large experience In that branch of business. Very
best off city references, Apply at 1903 II street north
east, between Delaware avenue and First street.
Year: 1879

We are much pleased to record the
encouragement which Prof. Caggy and
the brass band, which he is organizing,
bids fair to receive from the people Of
0pelousas. He comes here with high
endorsements Of his musical ability, and
we believe he will turn out band
which will be q credit to Opelousas.
Many seem to think so, and we wish
him and the band the success they
Justly deserve.
Year: 1879

The Liberian Colonists from South
Carolina, Georgia and other Southern
States, seem to be having a hard time
of it from the testimony of Laura Lane
of Georgia, who has returned home.


Laura says the natives are very hard
on newly born infants, stutilng their
mouths with red pepper and exposing
them to the scorching sun for an hour.
II they die under this heroic treatment,
it is considered the community arc
fortunate in getting rid of a pnny weak
ling. Added to that, they have II very
bad habit of administering extreme
punishment fo1 very small otfensc.
In fact the benighted African doesn't
seem to have the least idea OF gradatlons
of punishment.


One Of the emigrants Reuben Cayho,
according to the immenorlal custom OF
his father land, appropriated somebody,
trihiug possession to his own use.


The Africans didn't even give him
the benefit of doubt-judgc and jury
there were none. A big rock was tied
around his neck, and Reub was thrown
in river and told to float or sink. The
big stone settled the question inconti-
nently and in Laura's words, that was
the last of Reuben.'


One Of their modes of punishment for
criminal ot1enses is primitive, but must
be very ctfectual in knocking the breath
out of fellow more swiftly than hang
ing. They split peice Of timber by
wedges large enough to insert the head
of the condemned. The wedges are
knocked out, the timber closes, and be-
hold the matter is done.


Liberia does not seem wholesome
ground for our colored citizens, IT it IS
their old ancestral soil, some Of their
little ways do not meet with the ap-
proval of the natives, and they are
hampered at every turn in an attempt
to establish even an imperfect ciyiliza-
ton.


So far civilization has not agreed with
them at all. Those who went to Africa
are wild to return, those who went to
Kansas, are ten thousand times worse
off than when they were grumbllng
over Kuklux and BulldoZers and all tie
creations Of vivid Imagination. They
will find out perhaps when too late,
that they will never be as well Oft any
where, as in the Southern States.


The question with thoughtful people
is whether they will introduce higher
civilization into Liberia or whether in
the course of time, with their initiative
habits they will make the barbarous
customs of the natives their own, and
thus return to their ancestral condition.
Year: 1879

a correspondent of the New York
Evening Post, now in Germany, gives a
very discouraging view OF the wheat
prospect on account of the long con-
tinued wet weather. Large areas of
the growing grain are in condition
unfit or impossible to be saved There
are similar unfavorable reports from
Russia, especially in regard to the rye
crop.-[N. 0. Democrat.
Year: 1879

The Nindicator graduates the pco-
pie Of Louisiana on their good fortune
They have secured the framing Of a
constitution which certainly las no
superior in all the States of this Union.
upon to ratify is not only economical in
all it's departments but it prevents, in
future, spoliation at the hands OF any
branch of the government. The debt
settlement we regard as happy one
made doubly so by a solid Democratic
vote for its adoption while the Repub-
licans, and, strange as it may seem, the
repudiator per ce voted nay.


The saving OF money to the people
under the


CETTI ENENT Is
Year: 1879

The case of State vs. Thos. Slane,
accused Of rape, on a writ of habeas
corpus, has been before the District
Judge all this week. 1t was not finished
up to the time of going to press. We
will not give detailed account of the
case until next week after having heard
all the evidence. The mother of the
little girl is now Il raving maniac, and
the State has been compelled to do
without her testimony, which was very
snaterial to the cause. The physicians
who have examined her say they do not
think her insanity is permanent.
Year: 1879

study Of the law and to the pursuit Of
wisdom, and he made a solemn VOW that
he would give himself no rest until he
would be as honored as any of the great
men in Israel. From that time he and
his son were constantly to be found at


the seminaries Of learning, where they


learned together the rudimentary bran
ches of religious knowledge from the


wise men who studied there. In abiect


poverty did he and his family live for


long time, for the daughter of the veal


thy man, who had sworn to become his


wife, and who had fulfilled her oath, was


banished from her fathers house, be-
cause he was angry at her for having
married the man who tended his focks,
and he had sworn that he would never
give her a crust of bread When the
wise man had already grasped the neces-
sary rudimentary knowledge, he left the
seminary and went to the city of Yabna,
which contained in those days numerous
sages and scribes; there was the seat
Of the seventy-one prominent rabbis in


Israel, and there was the largest and
the most prominent university in the
land. To that learned city did Rabbi
Akiba go, there to quench his thirst for
the words Of the living God, at the feet
Of the teachers of the law Twenty -four
years did he remain in this seat of learn
iwg and meditated in Gods law by day
and by night, until the spirit of Gods
wisdom and understanding rested upon
him, and he became so familiar with all
the secrets Of the Divine law, that none
of lsrael's sages could equal him. After
the death of Raban Gamliel he was
unanimously elected by the whole col
lege of rabbis as the spiritual head of
the city of Barocah, situated within the
territory belonging to the tribe of Dan.
Many scholars focked to him from all
corners of the earth in order to learn
his wisdom, and in a very short
time their number amounted to twenty
four thousand, all of them men of great
ability and promise. This was his re-
ward for the labor he had done during
twenty-four years, and for his constant
study. Every difficult question that oc-
cured was referred to him by the wise
men of his generation; every disputeinre-
ligion or law, knowledge or science, was
brought before him, and his decisions
upon any and every question were like
those of an oracle. His fame and name
waxed greater from day to day, until the
greatest Of the sages believed that he
was as competent to receive the law
from Mount Sinai as Moses the servant
Of God himself


ITO be c0ntinued)
Year: 1879

It does seem to us, judging from the fine appearance of the few sheep we see here, that this branch of bus mess would certainly pay in our county. Sheep that we see here which have passed through the win ter without shelter, without scarcely any feeding, and without attention, look clean, healthy and in good con dition---rnuch more so, In fact, than sheep we have seen in the northern States, that had been fed and shel- tered and attended with care through five long months of winter. If it pays the sheep raiser there, we do not see why it would not be much more profitable here, where our win ters are so short and so mild that stock winters itself almost without feeding or sheltering.

 There is no doubt if the business were tried here by some one who knows how to manage sheep, and who would give it fair trial, that it would prove profitable branch of industry.
Year: 1879

It IS to be regretted to see the Ga zctte, the leading and oldest demo- cratic paper in the State, making so many wry faces over the action taken by the legislature in the matter of the alleged bribery investigation. The course of the paper in this mat ter is we'll calculated to do not only itself an injury, but also to injure the democratic party of the State.

 The strained efforts of the Gazette to make it appear that the House entertained doubts as to the falsity of Lees testimony, and that it there fore avoided any allusion to that portion of the investigation, is un- worthy of the paper, and is foul injustice to our Senator elect. We doubt very much if there was a sin gle member of the legislature who put any credence in Lees testimony, and we take it that the House deem ed his statement too thin to require any notice at their hands.

 ..There are very few unbiased, or dis interested persons, who will come to any other conclusion after reading all the testimony, than that expressed
Year: 1879

Many of the incopslderate if not foolish people (farmers) who moved away from North Carolina to Texas and Arkansas are now coming back, though pretty we'll broken down pc cuniarily and physically. The At lanta Constitution Of the 1st of March has this paragraph:

 "The down passenger train on the Western & Atlantic Railroad that reached this city at a late hour Thursday night, had on board a party of immigrants who were re- turning from Arkansas to homes that they had lett in North Carolina about two years since. The emi- grants said they were going home to stay, as they had found Arkansas was not the State that they were looking for"

 We clip the above from the Char lotte Democrat of the 7th of March. We would simply like to ask the Constitution one question: What part of Arkansas (what county had all these people tried?

 Our county (Pope) has a large number of North Carolinians and more are coming out every year. If there is any dissatisfaction or dis appointment amongst them we have not heard of it. Neither have we heard of any of them returning to the Old North State.
Year: 1879

in the Coody resolution. There is not room for shadow of a doubt so far as Furbush is concerned. The evidence to sustain Mir. Holifield's assertion is not so strong, and gives some appearance of him having sought bids for his vote.

 We believe the sentiment of the Coody resolution wifi stand as the judgment of large majority of the people of Arkansas.
Year: 1879

The Alma Herald has just closed its second volume, and in order to keep the expenses of the paper within it's income, and make it proportionable to the patronage received, the proprietor has cut down the size of the paper, The Herald has been kept up by the present proprietor to the standard of good newsy paper, and it should
Year: 1879

An incident interesting to students OF
natural history occurred few days ago
at house in this city. In front OF the
house small tree is growing, in which
an oriole took up its abode, building a
nest and evincing a desire to raise a
family. The owner of the house has q
spaniel. From the time the oriole be-
gan to build its nest it exhibited mark
ed antinpathy to the dog, flying at him
boldly whenever he came in front OF the
house, and pecking him until he retired
from the field. This occurred several
times, the bird coming off victorious.
Of late the oriole has shown more OBJ
lection than common to the dog, per-
haps because there are now some young
ones in the nest. One day the unhappy
spaniel came out to lie on the front steps,
but was not allowed to enjoy his rest
unbroken, for the oriole swept down on
him, pecked his back, fapoed his wings
in his eyes, and made it so uncomfort-
able for him that the dog ran into the
house. But his trouble did not end
here, for the bird went into the house
after him, beating him continually
Rochester On. ~ Union.
Year: 1879

received at the "lick-logs" salt
troughs. Some nights we have pretty
full yard; they always pay for their salt
and lodging. Before threshing, the
yard is scraped and all goes back to the
stubble field to help make the next crop.
| spread the manure direct from the
wagon, never pile in the fields. | give
my horses plenty of straw bedding,
clean out their stables two or three
times a year, and take it direct to the
fields. Next fall l wish to try new
plan for manuring a field for corn. |
intend to SOW it to rye, let sheep and
calves Craze on it during the winter,
and on the poorest places set feeding
troughs, where they will receive what
feed will be necessary in addition to the
rye; in April or May prepare the ground
and plant to corn. | think this will pay;
time will tell H. c., Franklin County,
No in N. Y, Tribune.
Year: 1879

FERTILIzING A MISSOURI FARM. All
that "ails barn-yard manure" with us is
we can't get enough of it. The east
ern statistical professor says it costs
him $50 per acre to apply it, and he gets
meager returns. He must pay pretty
high for the material, big wages for
hauling and reckon in such items as
wagon-grease, wear of shoe leather,
etc, ETC., with perhaps interest on capi-
tai invested, and then, l can not see
what kind of soil he applies his $50
worth of manure to that he gets so
meager return. Two years ago this
harvest, drove my reaper over spots
in my wheat field, so much exhausted
that the wheat they produced was not
tall enough for the reaper to cut. The
little heads, of three or four kernels
each, waved up behind the platform no
more molested than when light wind
passed over them. That summer L
gave all those weak places light dress.
ing of "barn-yard MANURE" and sowed
the field to wheat again. My
next crop was very fair one the field
over, but that upon the manured spots
stood several inches higher than the
rest, the heads were the longest, best
filed, and ripened much the best grain.


The expense of manuring was almost
nothing; got it back many fold the first
season; and it did not end there; the
manure is still showing itself in the
growth the corn is making on the same
ground. lido not buy manure; there
is none in the country for sale. We all
rely upon barn-yard manure and clover
for fertilizers. Land will sometimes get
too much exhausted to start clover; but
good dressing of manure will always
bring it up. l put in all the wheat | can
get in each fall. When l thresh stack
The straw around and over a large cow
shed, made of forked posts set into the
ground and raftered with poles. To
this the cattle run during the winter.


By spring the stack is pretty well re-
duced; the shed is now, by degrees, dis
mantled and the straw spread
out for bedding. The cattle
are yarded on it every night. Here
they are frequently salted. The most
of my neighbours cattle run in the
woods and lie outside the fields or along
the road; they frequently come in to
visit mine, and are always Hospitality
Year: 1879

STEPHEN PHAKAoM is dead. Stephen
was chief of the Montauk Indians at
Long Island, and is said to have been the
only one of the tribe that had pure blood
in his veins. If we had an onion We
could weep for Stephen. bnt still it is
better that he is gone. We wish all the
pure -blooded ones would follow Stephen
for then there might be more hope of a
solution of the Indian question. 1t is
such fellows as this per-colored man
with the Egyptian surname that make
trouble and keep the Indian lands from
passing into the possession Of the repub-
lican party.
Year: 1879

LAURA ID. FAIR, the most amiaLle mur-
deress on record, is at present lecturing in
the east, with great success. There is moth
ing remarkable in this because everybody
Lectures IN America, except that it suggests
to thoughtful mind that to make hit as
a lecturer one has to be either an Infamous
" Immoral divine, or a tigress dyed in blood
Possessed with the truth of this axiom, We
are at present uncertain as to whether it
would be best to slaughter the proprietor of
tins paper in cold blood, or to take holy
orders and have sensational ecclesiastical
trial with the family cook as appellant and
ourselves as correspondent Either course
would undoubtedly insure handsome COM
potency, the only question being as to which
Is the shortes: road to wealth.
Year: 1879

For WAsHINGToN.-Our delegate, accom-
panied by Mrs. Brents, will leave their home
for Washington on Sunday next. We hope
ere his return Mr. Brents will he ahle to give
a good account of himself. There is bill
before congress that asks for compensation
to the citizens who took part in the last two
Indian wars. They did the work and saved
the expense of soldiers, and We are sure if
the delegates made a persistent effort they
could easily accomplish such trifilng thing
Excuses OF being unable to accomplish any
thing arc too common amongst our delegates,
and We have all had more than enough of
them. 1t is poor sign.
Year: 1879

THE BLOODY SHIRT YAwP-" Hatred of
the south, abuse of the south, and falsehoods
about the south, says the World, make up
the warp and woof Of republican speeches,
platforms and editorials these days. They
could not be more violent if the federal gov
ernment medtated or had actually declared
war of determination against the white
people in that section OF 'OUr common coun-
try" Every misdeed or outrage" con-
tinues the World, (which occurs in the
southern states no matter what its nature
may be, every act of murder or arson or
burglary or counterfeiting or mail robbery,
every illicit distillation of whisky and every
illicit declaration of love, every evasion of
the custom laws, every forgery, every case
of cruelty to men OF animals. every bank
ruptcy, every display of shotgun is caught
up labelled as a specimen of tine true nature
of the solid south, and trumpeted through
ou. the length and breadth of the land as a
crime against the nation and as against the
beginning of hellish contrivance to trans
form the Union into a 'leaguen Because
the negroes are illiterate and poor and pay
no taxes the south is denounced. Because
the whites own land and want rent for it





women in New York who have baDishcd the
negro from their own households as being
neither so honest nor so pretty to look at as
white servants, jnin in the hue and cry
against the south. because in that part of the
conntry the African has not yet succeeded
in changing the skin which they themselves
impute to him as scandal when he comes
IN their way at the north. The legislatures
of powerful northern states literally vie with
one onother in enactiug arbitrary and re-
pressive laws against tramps. The north
ern press applauds the northern farmer who
arms himself and his family and makes his
own laws against the idle warrants OF the
north. But the north will tolerate no at
tempt of self-protection by the southern
planters and his Nhite family against the
African tramp who infests southern high
ways and terriiieS southern homes. The
theories of government and of individual
conduct prescribed by northern stalwarts for
southern application would practically place
everybody who is industrious and well be-
haved at the south at the mercy of every
body who is idle and vicious"
Year: 1879

TIE CONTEST IN OHIo-The Times saws
There is a moral for New York to be had
from the conduct OF the republican cam
paign in Ohio, so freely criticised by our
Columbus correspondent With the aGvent
OF the closing week of the struggle republ-
can leaders of Ohio find they have been ex-
aggerating their own chances of success as
grossly as they have been undertaking the
strength of aiversaries Republican esti-
mates of their majority on the state ticket
have suddenly shrunk to one third of the
figure lately claimed, and the legislature is
regarded as rather worse than doubtful
Year: 1879

The e1-confederate soldiers of San Fran.
cisco have shown how little spite they bear
towards their northern brethren by the
manner in which they did honor 70 eI-presi-
dent Grant at the reception there. Let
northern republican politicians profit by their
example
Year: 1879

WHILE an editor may be political oppo-
nent, be can be good friend at the same
time. But when he singles out relative of
that friend for sarcasms when there is not
the slightest need Of it, we hold him to be
wrong.
Year: 1879

has been nicely adjusted to catch
any honest producer in trap, with
the usual Republican incident of a
corrupt compromise where there
Is any money in it. If California
were relieved of the intricate ma
chinery of the Federal Revenue bu-
reau she would become rich in one
or two years, through the stimulus
which would be given to the man
ufacture of wholesome American
grape brandies and pare wines.
Year: 1879

The common practice among farmers is to
make general clearing of the yard and
bara cellars once year, either in the spring
or fail. Either practice makes heavy
draft upon the teams, and has its disadvan-
tagas. If this work is done in the spring, it
is when the ground is so #, and ether work
is exceedingly pressing If the manure is
drawn out in the fall and dropped in heaps
upon the field to be cultivated next season,
there 10 more or less waste by teaching and
evaporation There is growing dispensi-
t,on among our intelligent farmers TO apply
manure directly to growing crops, or as near
the time of planting and sowing as possible.
1t is felt that the sooner manure is put with
In reach of the roots of plants, the better
for their crops and their owner Manure is
so much capital invested, and bears interest
| only as it is consumed in the soil.


The barn cellar may be- so managed as to
manufacture and turn out fertilizers every
| month in the year, 30 that the farmer may
snit his convenience in applying them to
the soil. When manure is not wanted foI
cultivated crops, it is always safe to apply il
to the grass crop, either in pastures or upon
meadows after moving. Top-dressing is
growing in favor with our intelligent farmers
Grass pays better than almost any farm crop
in the older states, and the preading OF
compost saves the necessity of frequent


plowing and seeding. BY ton dressing at


any convenient season of the year, fields
may be kept proitably in grass for an in
definite time.-Ameriean Aqricuit,trist.
Year: 1879

You have allowed your bowels to become
habituslly costive, your liver has become
torpid, the same thing ails your kidneys,
and you are now just used up. Now be SEN
sible, get a package of Kidney Wort, take it
faithfully and soon you will forget you've
got any such organs, for you will be we'll
man.


ScALLopED LoBsTER.-Strain the LIQUOR
from tin of preserved lobster into basin
mix it with two tablespoon fuls of fine -four,
and stir into gill of boiling water. Put
this into stewpan with an ounce of fresh
butter and stir until thick add teaspoon
full Of essence of anchovy and pinch of
cayenne pepper pick any bits of she'll or
cartilage from the lobster and add it to the
sauce. Butter tin dish. put in 1t thick
layer of bread crumbs, and on this the lob.
| ster cover with thick layer of crumbs :;
spread bits of butter ihickly on the top. and
bake in quick oven for 10 minutes. II not
brown, use salamsnder, or color before the
fire in dutch oven,