smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1879

down by the cold spell in March, o,
the strong blighting winds. We
nave seen some people throw fur.
row of earth over them on the an.
proach of frost, and afterwards re-
move the earth with the hands, but
it is laborious operation and only
high prices will repay the cost.


Tomatoes, melons, and cucumbers
can be fertilized in the bank and the
seed should beplanted on the south
side of the bank, which should be
raised on the north side for the pro-
lection of the young plants.


An Irishman will put pinch of
hogs hair with every potato cutting;
as we have no hogs hair handy, cover
the cuttings with pine straw, having
first scattered the fertilizer over them
and then bank up. 1t is too early
this month to plant Lima beans and





other pole beans, they are too suscep-
tlble to cold and damp.


Rotted leaf mould is a good ferti-
llzer for water melons. There is
money in growing water melons if
they arelwell handled and shipped at
the proper time. The northern peo-
pie do not appreciate this fruit until
hot weather. sets in and many of our
growers have lost heavily by getting
them in market during cold spell.
Inc most successful shippers have in
formed us that they sold best Just
before the 4th of July. Few people
have made money but many have
Iost it, by growing radishes, lettuce, +
egg plants and other small vegetables
SaSk tosthe standaru crops we
nave mentioned and if you want to
try others, plant lightly as trial
only.


Tomatoes can be protected on ap-
proach of cold by sticking a palmet
to leaf on the north side. Sugar
cane, cassava and corn can be plant
ed this month in South Florida. Sow
Guinea grass seed, but do not set
out plants of this grass before April.


Ii figs are starting to grow put
out cuttings as, also, cuttings OF
grapes, pomegranates and guavas.
The orange grove should be plowed
and tertilized, removing all dead and
decayed limbs from young trees
They will commence to put out
new growth and are more liable to
be injured between this and the 10th
of March than at any other time
during the season. 1t is good time
to set out orange trees. We do not
approve OF budding the trees the
same year they are set out. Allow
them to take firm hold and become
vigorous before budding. The buds
may be put in, however, in October
and allowed to remain dormant un-
til the following spring, when the
tree can be cut back to start the bud.


Tobacco seed should be sowed
this month.
Year: 1879

r prise. Every train and boat non
g arriving in Florida is more or loo
: loaded with people from the north


some OF them invalids, some pvospec
tors for homes. But whether inval
ids or possible Immigrants. it is of the
utmost Importance that at this dis


play of her products Florida does
her best. The Fair has been extens,
lively advertised and this is a kind Of


challenge to the world to look and


see what the State can do. Tn an


usual measures for the encourage
ment of immigration this State is far


behind the most sluggish of those
similarly situated. lion this occa-
sion, which is in one sense an advert
isement, the State fails TO make ia
vorable impression upon strangers, it
is hard to see upon what property
holders will base their hopes for an
advance in prices. All wish to see
immigration set this way. Is anything
more apparent than that hundreds of
the strangers who will visit the Fair
will largely base their decision wheth
er to stay or return upon what they
see there


For the use of the present popula-
tion of Florida not one rail would
be laid On any projected road, not
one shovelful of earth would be
thrown forany of the contemplated
canals. II such improvements are
begun and finished it will be because
the population of the State is steadily |
increasing and Its prospects bright
eaing. 4e asnas bas,2osS II dollars
and cents that the best display posi-
BILE be made, and for some localities
it is one of absolute necessity, tor |
without immigration to briog money
and employment into their midst 1t
will be impossible for them to
complete improvements now be-
gun or, perhaps, procure transporta-
ton facilities for future crops such as
would be furnished them. if. they re-
ceive the increase ofpopulation they
have fattered themselves upon.
These remarks are particularly appll-
cable to Orange and Volusia counties
and the country south and west Tor
they are outside the natural line OF
travel, except the few points along
or near the ST Johns, and their advan-
tages, which are equal to any In the
State, will so escape notice. me
time between this and the Fair is
brief, but if earnestly employed 1t Is
long enough to prepare for display
atGainesville which will turn the eyes
of every stranger to this section and


give it an advertisement and impetus


it would not cease to feel the effect


of for years. More is probably being


done in this direction in Orange


county than in Volusia. Be sure that


the value of your property and the


character of your neighborhood in


some measure depends upon the dis


play you are able to make at Gaines


Vile on the 21st of this month.
Year: 1879

At their meeting last night the
Howards evinced a disposition to cling
to the old ship as long as there is a
dollar in the treasury, or a sick person
within days drive of the city limits.
The business element in the society
appeared anxious to wind up, stop ex-
penses, and in the event of sickness
occurring among INDECENT people, let
ting them be sent to the city hospital,
which has been more than half empty
all through the past summer. 1t was
stated at the meeting that the physi-
clans in the Towards employ had
signifed willingness to serve through
the present week free Of charge, in
view Of the liberal disposition mani


tested toward them during the late
epidemic-that is, provided the How
ards determined to arrange for an i'm
mediate wind up. The association, by
a vote of nine to six, laid on the table
a proposal to stop the pay or allowance
of the members from this date. 1t is
understood that this allowance is $4
a day to each member on duty. The
members wishing to close labors were
anxious to save the several hundred
dollars per week now necessary to be
paid physicians, ETC.; draw in the IS
or so nurses now out as speedily as
could be done with propriety, and not
to take charge of any new cases that
might break out, but the opposition
were the strongest, and decided to
hold on another week. All of which
plainly indicates that philanthropy
and S4 per day are incentives too pow
erful to be overcome. The general
sentiment is that the Howards should
shut up shop for the season.
Year: 1879

| was racking my brain for fit sub
ject the mail rider passed by with the
mail. The pouch was soon emptied,
and each individual received his por-
tion Of its contents. By mistake l
received a paper addressed to a neigh


Dor. This | did not discover until L
reached my sanctum. Knowing that
it was the only copy of the
journal that reached the town l
determined to capture something orig
inal out Of il and palm it off as my
leading editorial. All at once my
eye fell upon an article from Alex
ander II. Stephens on the situa-
tion," believe. | read it hurriedly,
clipped it out; rewrote it. making
some changes; destroyed the paper
and the extract; and when the boys"
returned from dinner had the closing
up" copy ready. The paper was out on
time, and in due time the exchanges"
came in and not pen had copied my"
editorial, giving my paper credit for
it. By the way, the Georgia paper
from which l clipped the article did
not receive my paper that week. |
was not an admirer of the vice presi-
dent Of the late Confederacy; but his
brains filed up the gap for me, and /
don't believe l have ever lost much
sleep because of that purloining. 1t
was a desperate case and desperate
measures were required to fix up an
article to suit the enlarged wisdom of
my readers. OF course l do not wish
to draw a parallel between my act and
that of DR.. Lorimer. NAYR.
Year: 1879

r. j. Burdette thus writes in the
Hawkeye:


And then remember, my son, you
have to work. Whether you handle a
pick or pen, a wheelbarrow or a set
Of books, digging bitches or editing a
paper, ringing an auction bell, or
writing funny things, you must work.
If you will lcok around you, you will
see that the men who are most able
to work are the men who work the
hardest. Don't be afraid of killing
yourself with overwork, son. 1t is
beyond your power to do that Men
can not work so hard as that on the
sunny side of thirty. They die some
times, but it's because they quit work
at pm, and don't get home until 2
am. It's the intervals that kills, my
son. The work gives you an appetite
for your meals; it lends solidity to
your slumber; it gives you perfect
and grateful appreciation of holi-
day. There are young men who do
not work, my son-young men who
make a living by sucking the end of a
cane; whose entire mental develop
ment is insufficient to tell them which
side Of postage stamp to lick; young
men who can tie necktie in eleven
different knots and never lay wrin
kle in it, and then would get into
West Hill street car to 90 to Chicago
who can spend more money in a day
than you can earn in a month, son,
and who will go to the sheriffs to buy
a postal card, and apply at the Office
OF the street commissioner for a mar
riage license. But the world is not
proud Of them, son. 1t does not
know their name, even, it simply
speaks Of them as old Soanso's boys.
Nobody likes them, nobody hates
them, the great, busy world doesn t
even know they are there, and at the
great day Of resurrection, if they do
not appear at the sound of the trum
pet, and they certainly will not unless
somebody tells them what it is for and
what to do, | don't think Gabriel will
miss them or notice their absence
and they will not be sent for or dis
turbed. Things will 60 on Just as
we'll without them. So find out what
you want to be and to do, son, and
take off your coat and make a dust in
the world. The buster you are the
less deviltry you will be apt 70 get
into, the sweotep will be your sleep.
the brighter and happier your holi-
days, and the better satisfied will the
world be with you.
Year: 1879

Absentees cannot be too careful as
to the manner they conduct them
selves. Prudence is one of the
essentials to safety from sickness.
Houses that have been closed during
the summer should by no means be
reoccupied until they have been
frozen out and fumigated Our mer
chants and business men do not risk
so much in entering and opening up
their mercantile houses, but they
should look to it that they do not
sleep in infected rooms. Families
need not be in a hurry to return,
Better remain away until after the
next freeze.
Year: 1879

I is conceded on all sides that Messrs. D.
4 Lothrop q Co. have splendidly accomp-
llshed what they set their hearts upon a few
pure In Its influence, unrivalled in its literary
merit, beautiful artistically, and then to fur
nlsh It at a price SO low that people could
afford to take it. THREE JOLLY sERIALS.
Year: 1879




The camp of Damascus commandery at
White Bear will be enlivened, this evening,
by an event of rare occurrence. The day is
the thirty.sixth anniversary of the wedding
of Mr.. Bartlett Presley and his estimable
wife, and it will be appropriately celebrated.
Mr.. Presley, be it known, is knight of high
degree, and has taken very active interest
in the success of the present camp of Da-
mascus commandery. The anniversary of
his marriage coming during the season, he
has decided to celebrate it by inviting his
friends to an evenings enter
tainment in the delightful camp of that
commandery on the shore of White Bear
Lake. There will be, of course, collation.,
embracing all the delicacies of the season, of
which all Sir Knights and their ladies will
be invited to partake. The Great Western
band will furnish music on the occasion, and
the guests refuse to trip the light fantastic
toe it will be their own fault. Arrangements
have been made with the railroad company
to run special train from the lake at l1:3O
P. NJ, so as to enable those who SO desire to
return to the city. The occasion will no
doubt be one of the most enjoy able of the
season, for Mr.. Presley never does anything
by halves.
Year: 1879

Considerable dissatisfaction was manifest
ed at the abrupt termination of the match,
and, for the sake of athletic sport in St.Paul,
1t would bewell for those seeking to cultivate
pedestrianism and other athletic exercises to
anticipate repetition of the disastrous re-
suits of yesterday.
Year: 1879

Over 50 per cent Of the PROVISIONS and
brcadstuffs exported from the United
States during the last fiscal year was
produced in the Western and North
western States. and therefore was
transported from 800 to 1900 miles to
the port of shipment; while the average
cost of transportation from the most
remote of those States to the seaboard
last year was less than their mean freight
between the western towns of New
York and Pennsylvania distance of
200 tS 400 miles-before the great COM
pcting through Illness to the West
were inaugnrated.-[S. Q, Democrat,
Year: 1879

Ger. Rice is one of the best and pu'-
est men in the State, and has an honbra-
ble war record. Notwithstanding the
fact that he barred his breast in the front
ranks of the war aud risked his life for
the Union. and lost limb in its defense,
yet, il he be nominated for G ,vernor, of
course be will be called q "Confeie' ate
by the whole Republican press of the
State. His war record is honorable aud
worthy. his Congressional record is in
full sympathy and in perfect accord with
the Ohio Democracy. aud his wounds
and loss OF leg attest his bravery and
honest efforts in defense of his country.
II nominated for Governor he will make
a splendid campaign, and the Greenbsck
element would not have the shadow OF
excuse for putting man in the field to
oppose him.
Year: 1879

New York Mercantile Journal)


INDoRsERs.-A person who writes bis
name on the back of commercial PIT
per, before it has been indorsed or put
in circulation by the payee, is bound a.
though he had made perfect indorse-
ment to another person, and lie psyee can
not recover of him without proof OF de-
mand for payment at maturity, and due
notice on non payment = Hooks '. AR-
derson, Ala.
RIGHrs IN THE ROAD III farm deed
is bounded by, or upon road, it usual
| ly extends to The middle Of the roadway
The farmer owns the soil OF half the
road, and may use the grass, trees, stones,
gravel, sand or anything OF value to him,
either on the land or beneath the surface.
subject only TO the superior rights of the
public to travel over the road, and
that of the highway surveyor to use
such materials for the repair Of the
road; and these materials may be carted
away and use elsewhere on the road -
No other man has right TO feed his cat
tie there, or cut the grass or trees, much
less deposit his wood. old carts, wagons,
or other things there. The owner OF
drove of cattle that stops TO feed in front
Of your land, or drove Of pigs which
root up the coil, is responsible TO you ct
law, as much as if they did the Same
thing inside the fence. Nobody's chill
dren have right to PICK up the apples
under your trees, although the same
stand wholly outside OF your fence. No
private person has right to cut or Top
off the limbs Of your trees in order to
move his old harm or other buildings
along the highway, and no traveller can
hitch his horse to your trees in the side
walk, without being liatle, il he gnaws
be bark or otherwise Injuries them. II
your well stands partly on your land
and partly outside the fence, no neigh
Dor can use it except by your permis-
sion. Nav, more, no man has right to
stand in front of your land and insult
you with abusive language without being
liable to you for trespsssing on your
land He has right TO pass and repass
in an orderly and becoming manner;
right to use the road, but not TO abuse
it. But Notwithstanding the farmer owns
the soil of the road, even be cannot .use
it for any purpose which interferes with
the use OF it by the public for travel
He cannot put his pig pen, wagons, cart,
or other things thele, il the highway
surveyor orders them away as obstruct-
ing public travel. II be leaves such
things outside his fence, and within the
limits of the highway, as actually laid
out, though some distance from the trav.
eled path, and traveller runs into them
in the night and is injured, the owner is
not only liable to him for private dana.
ges, but may also be indicted and fined
for obstructing public highway. And
if ne has fence or wall along the high
way, he must place It all on his land,
and not half on the road, as 10 case of


division fences between neighbors. But
as he owns the soil, il the road is dis
continued, or located elsewhere, the land
reverts to him, and he may enclose it to
the center, and use it as q part of his
farm-Judge Bennett.
Year: 1879

Always take q bath in warm room
and in tepid water, unless particularly
robust.


An application OF cold, wet common
whitening placed on Immediately 10 An
invaluable remedy for burn.
Year: 1879

One day a slm-wastcd Young man with
"a clothes -wringcr under his arm attempted
to open the gate of yard ON CaSs avenue.
lie had made up his mind that he could sell
the people wringCr, and he might have
accomplished his object but for "a dog about
rs hig as "a tobacco hogShCad which stood
waiting on the other side of the gate for a
chance to tackle SOME leg weary agent


I'm call again, whispered the agent ms
he turned to 20, and he meant just what he
said. The presence OF one dog didn't dis
courage him except for the moment lie
passed up the street and I'm AN hour returned
to try again There was no dog there ms hc
opened the gate, hat in ten seconds after
the latch clicked "A bundle of teeth and homes
shot around che corner of the house and the
agent shot across the road.


"Now YOU mark my worls," he said, as
he shook the wrugrr at the dog, 'I'l get
I'm there il have To walk over your dead
body ?"


lie meant it again, and in the afternoon
he returned lie surveyed the yard from
every point, had reasons To conclude that
the dog was down the cellar watching for
rats, and finally opened the gate. School
children who were Watching say that the
dog oycrshot the mark 10y trying to swallow
lNt uytnt ana WiOlNtt Ni one Enln, ana
therefore rot neither; hut 1t was such a
close shave that the young man went around
the corner minus his hat aud one Coat-tai
He did not return again 10y daylight Per
haps it was hc who tossed the poisoned
meat over the fence that night, or perhaps
IL was some young man who wanted to fall
i'm love with the good looking girl i'm the
house Some folks may thinl, the dog
didn't find the meat, but there are proofs to
the contrary. The agent was ON hand
about q O'Clock the next morning, and to
his great joy he discovered the dogs ''dcnd
body lying in the yard. The poison had
done it's work, and lac was free To announce
the merits of his wringcr to the waiting
family.


\ boy who sat ON the fence saw the dogs
eyes open little as the ngcnt passed through
the gate. He saw the dog softly get upon
his feet after the agent had passed the
"hody.' lie saw something like n grin
cross that cauinc's face as he got his legs
we'll under him, and then the lad fell oil
his rousl, and only scrambled mp i'm time to
see shadow cross vacant lot, jumping
clear over the tops of old thistlcs, and never
mindiug the frog ponds. The hoy hung
around there ill the dog had swallowed
everything belonging 10 the wringcr except
one coy wheel, aud that hc buried alongside
the fence, to keep for some future meal.
Year: 1879

THE Greenbdck Labor Chronicle has this
warning for the Greenbackers: "Beware of
the political tricksters who led the great
Greenback party of the State on to defeat
in the last election. You have taken their
advice once. 1t has not proved to be what
they promised. They wanted office as well
as success. They will still want office. They
will now be among the foremost for change
of programme. Seeing that fusion was a
losing game they will cry aloud for straight
party and straight principles. Not because
they believe in the principles more than they
knocked the delusion of fusion out of them
Year: 1879

STILL the fusion papers fill up their col
umns with wholesale charges of bribery.
That is, the most of them do. The Bath
PEELED to admit that he had no knowledge of
a single case of bribery, though he had al
legged that the Republicans carried the city
largely by that means, has gone out of the
busineSS
Year: 1879

NOTWITHSTANDING the unfavorable
weather of the first day the State Fair was
financially, as well asin other respects, a
success. The policy of holding the Fair in
Portland is being justified by the results,
and it ought to be con inued.
Year: 1879

THE New York Star. John Kelly's organ,
says the use of ciphers in our politics is
plague spot that must and shall be stamped
out. The wrecking of railroads and the en-
ployment of Wall Street syndicate methods
shall no longer, if the Democrats of Tam
many and the Empire State can prevent it,
be cast into the teeth of the Democratic par
tY as a by-word and reproach.
Year: 1879

We do not read anonymous letters and eommuni-
cations. The and address of the writer are in
all Indispensable not necessarily for publica-
ton but guaranty of good faith.


v e cannot undertake to return preserve COM
munlcatlons that not used.
Year: 1879

Norristown Herald: From portrait in the
Cincinnati Saturday Night, we learn that the
President of the Cincinnati Industrial EXPOSE
ton parts his hair in the middle. And yet the
Exhibition is an overwhelming SUGGEST Per-
haps some of our scientists can explain this
seeming phenomenon.
Year: 1879

BALTIMORE, Nov. l0.-At The recent
election a respectable colored farmer liv-
ing a. Bay Hundred Talbot county.
Md, openly voted the democratic ticket.
A couple of days later on entering his
stable he found that some unknown
miscreant had horribly mutulaled his
horse, valuable animal. The ears OF
the poor brute were sawed of close to
his head, the tail cut oil at the top and
the nose also hacked away. The cilizsns
have offered liberal IcH ard for the al
II st Of The culprit.
Year: 1879

The following story is from a Sacra-
mento journal: "a party of Sacrament
tans returned home last week from
trip to the mountains, bringing with
them two deer skins, one wild cat skin,
and few other trophies, including two
tarantulas-dead ones. They had a lit
tie incident attending the transpOrta-
ton Of these specimens which occa-
stoned considerable alarm. 1t occurred
in Cache Creek canyon as they were
returning home. The tarantulas, for
lack of better receptacle, were enclosed
in cigar box when caught, about ten
days previous, and this box carefully
tied up, was deposited beneath the seat
of the vehicle. While they were jolting
through the canyon the seat slipped, and
the two men occupying it found them
selves dropped suddenly into the bottom
of the wagon. One of them struck the
cigar box, crushing it, and Immediately
felt that something had hurt him. A
glance showed him that he was resting
on the tarantulas, and with yell of ]
am stungl l am stungP he jumped
from the wagon, and dashing his hands
behind him, as though desirous of lifting
himself out of his boots, he bounced
wildly along the road, then turning,
made for the wagon, shouting to his
amazed companions: Whisky quick
I'm dyingl why don't you hurryP
The other three men-there were four
in the party - reached simultaneously
for the demijohn, broke off the cork in
their haste to pull it out, and in their
efforts to knock of the neck of the
demijohn, to save time, broke the entire
concern, and nearly all the contents
were lost. About a pint of the liquid
was saved, however, and, without saying
so much as Here's luck the party that
was bitten swallowed it. Soon he be-
gan to feel better, and eventually felt so
remarkably well that it was evident that
the poison had been forced to succumh.
Then the work of Strengthening up the
contents of the wagon commenced, and
the tarantula box was carefully lifted
out and examined, when, behold the
bugs were found perfectly lifeless, and
so dry and stiff that it was evident that
they had been dead more than twenty
four hours, while a couple of tacks in
the broken cover of the box conveyed
a very good hint as TO the nature of the
injury which the bold hunter had sus-
tained,"