smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1879

| For chickens I would recommend for tho
first week after Matching, hard-boifed egg
to be given, chopped fine, at least twice j
day, wheat stepped in milk, and coarse In
dian meal, bread crumbs, canary and millet
seed, etc. A change of food is not only adj
vantageous, but necessary, and would ad-
wise that twice per week the food be chang
ed, substituting cracked corn tor wheat.
Ihey must also have constant opportunities
OF picking among grass and other herbs.
They should only be fed so long as they Will
run after their food as soon as they are
careless about it they have enough. Fowls
In confinement will pine to death with heaps
OF corn around them unless they have these
opportunities.


AS the chickens get older they will require
feeding less often, but they must never ba
allowed to fall off in condition, and afteN
from ten to twelve weeks i'm the summer, on
from fourteen to eighteen in the winter
they will be ready to fatten if required. ~


Next, as to water. tits too much the idea
that any description will do, and that bro
vlded there be some within their reach.
though 1t may have been standing q week.
nothing more is required. This is a mis-
take Water for fowls and chickens should
be very clean; the vessel containing 1t
should be we'll rinsed ont every morning:
it is q good plan to put little gravel at the
bottom, and it should be changed twice
day. | am aware many will be disposed to
think this unnecessary; but u will ask any
one who has the opportunity to try whether
where there is a stream of water running
through the yard, they can cause theponl-
try to forsake it By placing water neafer to
their haunts; it will always be found they
prefer going to the stream, to drinking out
of the pan or tub


There is little doubt many Of the diseases
OF poultry arise from the filthy water they
are often obliged to drink from ponds full of
decayed vegetable matter, and tainted by
the fall of leaves in autumn from overhang-
ing trees. Saunders Domestic Poultry.
Year: 1879

farmer writing to the Prairie Farmer.
says:


Of all the implements used on the farm
there is but one, the plow, that is as neces-
sary to good cultivation as the harrow. and.
as general thing, there is none that there
is so little account made of by farmers
Good plowing is of the greatest Importance
in preparing the soil for any crop, hut it is a
well known fact that there is too little good
plowing done in the West and, after poor
job of plowing has been done, a great deal
depends on our being thorough with the
harrow. This, also, we are little neeli-
gent about, especially in preparing the
land for corn. Our best planters do good
work where the land is smooth and well
pulverized, but we cannot expect them to
DO good work where the ground is in bad
condition. In my opinion, the principal
points of improvement made in harrows is
in the greater number of teeth now used.
This, more than any other one thing, is es-
sential, as the object is to work the sur
face


Most harrows in use have about 40 teeth.
and that is not enough. MY way is to have
the frame made of small-sized scantling,
and teeth not over 3 inches, and not less
than sixty of them. We do not expect to
work deep, and consequently a heavy frame
Year: 1879

Whatever may be thought of the value of
drilling small grains generally, there is no
doubt Of the value OF drilling barley. If
the ground has been fail plowed so much
the better. Cross-plow lightly in the spring,
harrow fine, and drill across the blowing.
This will give you a chance to open the
drain burrows, as they were in the fall, and
facilitate carrying off surplus water.


Drilling saves seed, induces strong
growth of straw-an important matter
promotes uniform growth of head and
thus reduces the amount of light grains. II
the seed is of first quality, one and a half
bushels per acre is enough to be drilled. and
as good as three bushels sown broadcast.


Many farmers make a mistake in sowing
barley two early. 1t should be sown imme-
dlately after oats, and just before the time
OF sowing flax, and on fresh-worked land.
for the reason that after termination if
should not receive any serious check until
ripe. Ii two little seed is sow 4 insects NAV
Year: 1879

seriously deplete the crop. If two much is
sown the crop may suffer for want of dew,
light and air. The farmer should know
something of the relative condition of his
soil as regards fertility and freedom from
insects.
Year: 1879

Little lost darling come back to mel


Lie in my arms as you used to do
Here is the place where your head should be;
Here is the bosom waiting for you
Let me but feel again on my breast
The velvet touch of your tiny hand;
Your rosy-leaf lips to my own close prest,


My cheek by your balmy breathings famed.
See here shut tight my weary eyes,


AS thousands of times I've done in play.
When l unclose them in soft surprise,


Ring out a laugh in your sweet old way
Come to me, come to me, precious one


/ am so heart-sick and sad and lorn;
Naked as nature without the sun,


Now that the light of my life has gone.
You sleep in the churchyard all alone,


No one to watch by your narrow bed
The wind o'er your tender body blown,


And night-dews dripped on your baby-head.
No In the luminous fields above,


Angels another new star have set,
They may surround you with ceaseless love,
Shield you from sorrow and sinning-yet
Heaven can not need you so much as


Legions of cherubs it had before.
Baby, my baby, why did you die?


Come to your mother, my own, once more
Little lost darling, come back to me


Lie in my arms as you used to do!
Here is the place where your head should be
Here on the bosom waiting for you
Year: 1879

1t seems that General Grant was
guilty of the excess in the banquet
given by Premier Castillo, at his resi-
dence; so much so that he presented a
much to be lamented spectacle a few
hours later, in the interior of the Min
ister's box at the Royal theatre. Such
an exhibition was the only thing want
ing to stamp him as unworthy of all
the ciyiiities showered upon him.
Spain Neaepaper
Year: 1879

The grange Is exactly what we
make it. What the grange shall be
whether a benefit to every MEM
Der, and the power of good In the
land, or poor, struggling, dying or
ganization, scorned and despised by
all other classes, depends entirely
upon the members of subordinate
oranges. They can all make the
meetings interesting, they. can make
them profitable they can the grange
a success-if they will. And il the
members of the subordinate gran ges
do not do this, no one can. The Ma
tional Oranges can not do It; the
State Grange can not do It; the coun-
ty Deputies can not do it; the work
Is In the hands of the members of
the subordinate grnuges and no one
else can do the work for them. And
if they will not do it, (for they can,
and IL 1t IS not done itSwill be be-
cause they will not) they will have
to sink back into the condition far
mers occupied before the grange
came to them, agriculture will have
to take back seat, and all that has
been gained will be lost, the farmer
will have once more to become the
the newer Of wood and drawer OF
water for the nation, and the verdict
that will be passed upon them will
be, "They judged themselves un-
worthy of anything better or high
err" And who shall question the
righteousness of the verdict?


Brothers of the ploW, the power
lies with you; will you use itP or will
will you spend your time in com
planning that somebody else has mo-
done that what they ought to do.-
r. s. z. IN Li0e Patron.
Year: 1879

turned to the fray. He found the OK
paving the ground Wrathfully, and
pausing occasionally to dig his horns
viciously into it, at the same time
giving vent to roars that could be
heard more than a mile away. The
animals head was covered with blood
from cuts received by butting its way
out of the stable, and great quantities
Of saliva issued from its mouth. Her
man mounted a stone wall which runs
along side one side Of the garden and


from that place fired two shots at the
infuriated OK. The first shot took
effect in its neck, and only seemed to
increase its rage, for with blind fury


it charged at the stone wall and bat
tered its head against the stones. The
second shot, however, struck the OK
in the side and killed it. On going to
the stable where the animal had been


penned the night before, Herman
found the sides of that structure COM
pletely battered to pieces, and in
another part of the yard he found a
hog, weighing nearly 200 pounds, dead,
and gored to a shapeless mass of Jelly.
Year: 1879

ATLANTA, September IA most
mysterious life was ended near this
city yesterday by suicide. For over
forty years an old German of reserved


habits and fine manners and education
has lived at German farmers, about
three miles in the country. He de-
clined to give any name, and at first
paid for his board. During the war
he did not receive his regular remit


tances, and has had none since. He
never wrote or received letters. The
family with whom he lived could never
discover his name, although deeply
attached to the kindly old fellow. He
said on Friday to a child that Uncle
Henry ought to die, as he was too old
to live, and yesterday he placed a
musket to his face and sent the ball
through his brain. He died with his
secret, and was buried without name.
Year: 1879

One of our city officials skirmished
up near the edge of the city from the
south last evening and held an inter
> view with his chief, DR.. D. 7. Porter.
1t was the genial and always polite
NJ. Burke. He was fresh from the
cool climes of northern ATTITUDES and
was in his usual healthy and vigorous
frame. Mr.. Burke came up from the
South that he might pass over and in
spect the railway he superintends,
The railroad magnate and city officer
was full of information, having circu-
lated freely with the inhabitants Of
the world beyond the quarantine
picket line. He says that the general
feeling in all cities where he has been
is against us. To use his own words
They are down on us everywhere. IT
is no use to complain at any of the
quarantine regulations that have been
imposed. You might as we'll grin
and bear it or worse will be your
portion" Mr.. Burke also said a
variety of causes had conspired to
create an apathejic interest in the
public mind regarding. our present
woes. Among them it is said
that we allowed our city to remain in
an unclean state last season when we
should have exerted ourselves to place
the city in good sanitary order. An
other idea is that our absent merchants
and opulent citizens, now enjoying
their ease in places of safety after the
propitious business of last year, should
now put their shoulders to the wheel
and help those too poor to leave OF
who were unable to go away. Another
idea is abroad that economy has not
been one of the features that governs
the management of our Howard Asso-
citation, and the lavish expenditure Of
their funds causes indisposition on the
part of the multitude to pour forth
another stream Of money such as came
to them last year, or in 1873. Mr.


Burke said much else that was Of
interest, but the foregoing were the
main points of the information i'm


parted. He did not attempt to enter
the city, and it is likely that by the
present hour he is far on his way
toward the upper Ohio valley.
Year: 1879

st. Louis Republican,


The idea that the recurrence of yell
low fever in Memphis this summer
will destroy the city is all nonsense.
The epidemic this year is compare
lively slight, and it takes more than
such transient disasters to destroy a
well established city to which large
fertile section is tributary. The pop
ular memory of epidemics is excep-
tionally short, and if it were not 50,
London, New York, Philadelphia, and
many other large cities, would not be
half their size to-day, if in existence
at all, for they have been desolated
several times by plaques of different
kinds. Let the Memphians during
the coming winter display genuine
energy In rooting out the seeds of dis
ease, cleaning the city and inaugural
ing a correct drainage system, and in
all probability they will enjoy long
immunity from epidemics, =
Year: 1879

ing their daily expenditures by lop-
ping. off buggy hire. It will save
them $25 day or such a matter.
Having ten visitors on duty with but
l89 yellow fever patients to look after,
according to their own report of Sum
day last, it seems as if this buggy-hire
business is little steep. AS the visi-
tors are philanthropic gentlemen who
ask no stipend and only receive from
the association enough to delray their
actual living expenses it might be we'll
to increase the number and lessen the
area of their districts. During the
fever of 1873 there was at one time
over 1900 yellow fever sufferers, and
Howard visitors had under super
vision upward of 300 in a single dis
trict They used no vehicles during
that siege, except in one or two in
stances That noble Howard, Butler
P. Anderson, had a large territory to
travel over and he used to ride about
in spring wagon, loaned to him
occasionally by one of his neighbors.
General Smith had several miles Of
territory where only scattering cases Of
fever prevailed and he rode, as was
then stated, in his own conveyance
and at his own personal expense. II
anyone else used buggies it is not
recalled at this time. Another feature
of the present outlay that appears to
loom up in rather grand proportions
is ten physicians at $40 each per day.
Would it not be possible to manage
with few less? The philanthropic
association and its unrewarded labors
is just now the talk of the town, and it
is in all kindness that the foregoing
suggestions have been made.
Year: 1879

The good work of raising fund for
the support and education of the late
General Hoods children is going on
with great activity and the prospects
indicate that an ample sum will be
raised for this purpose. The soldiers
who served in both armies during the
civil war, aud members of all political
parties at st. Louis have Joined in
sending out an address to the people
of Missouri, soliciting aid for the
children of the deceased chieftain.
Year: 1879




Philadelphia Record.l


The utterances of Secretaries Sher.
man and Schurz in Ohio on the
Southern question should have the
effect of cooling the ardor of those
who subscribe to the doctrine that the
right medicine for the South is, after
putting strong man in the White
House, to again force that section
into leading strings. The gentlemen
named have given out that nothing
can be done in this direction apart
from the coercing influence of public
opinion as expressed through the
ballot box. This policy will hardly
be well received by the Stalwart
orators and journals that have been
calling long and loud for mode of
warfare calculated to compel the
rebellious Southerners to kneel sub
missively at the doors of congress.
Messrs. Sherman and Schurz are
shrewder than their unthinking and
impetuous followers. They we'll know
that the North will not give its appro-
val to any policy that proposes uncon-
stitutional and high-handed action on
the part of the general government
toward the South. The North will
rejoice over everything that contrib
utes to good order of the South and
the prosperity which is sure to accom-
pany good order, but it is a long way
from approving of extra constitutional
action.
Year: 1879

The subscription price Of the DAILY
PUBLIC LEDGER is s5 per annum and
500 per month fOrlsss than one year, The
WEEKLY LEDGER Is 81 per annum-
postage free.


Persons leaving the city for the summer
can order the DAILY LEDGER at 500 per
month in advance, with the privilege Of
changing pOstOtioe.
Year: 1879

THE tide of immigration is again
setting toward this country with in
creasing force. The arrivals at New
York for every month this year have
exceeded those of the corresponding
month in 1873, and the total up to the
close of August foots up 76,SO9
against but 54,155 for the first eight
months of last year. The increase
comes mostly from Scotland, Ireland
Norway and Sweden, and a large pro.
portion of the newcomers are above
the average of immigrants.
Year: 1879

SUBSCRIBERS who wish to re-
new will do us n favor by SEND
ING MONEY before their time
expires, as our mail list Is very
large, and our force TO do the
work small. NO USE TO SEND
ORDERS WITHOUT the MONEY.
Year: 1879

THERE is much to commend in
the course of our fellow citizen
Stephen M. White, Esq. That gen.
tleman has peremptoriIy declined
to be candidate for District At
torney in opposition to the Demo-
cratic nominee. In the span of the
life of man so young as White a
slight postponement of political
preferment amounts to nothing.
Every one understands the eX-
treme delicacy of his position, and
he has acted with admirable judg-
ment. He appreciates the fact that
no man who desires to enjoy endur-
ing popularity can be d candidate
for Office at the hands of one politi-
cal party and appear within few
weeks as the nominee of a rival
political organization. The tempo
rary success, were success attaina-
BILE so secured, would be dearly
bought. We congratulate our
townsman on his determination to
keep his record clear. The future
is all before him.
Year: 1879

whenever any distillery shall be
seized by the government of the
United States for alleged informal
tiles, operations should go on on
the filing of a bond OF indemnity to
the government. Then our grapes
need not rot on the ground,
as was the case when the East Los
Angeles dlstillery was seized some
four or five years ago. This county
has lost hundreds of thousands OF
dollars by the seizure of that dis
tillery under the present revenue
laws. The government has
lost largely in the shape of ddty
which would have been paid on
the brandy manufactured during
this long period. The only benefit
accruing to any one has been to the
northwestern whisky thieves who
have had, to the extent of the de-
crease of the Los Angeles product,
an opportunity of palming off their
doctored high wines on suffering
people.


The first duty of the men who
will represent California in the
Congress of the United States is 10
hold conference with our leading
vignerons to ascertain the modili-
cations needed to make the
manufacture of wines and brandies
in this State the great pecuniary
success it ought to be. There is in
the East a great and growing de-
mand for our staples, demand
that is rapidly spreading to Eu-
rope. If dishonest men engage 10
their manufacture the law should
be so arranged as to punish them
without expressing whole district
by the entire stoppage of distilling
and of purchases of grapes to sup
ply the stills.


We have disc used this subject
before snd shall repeatedly recur


to it. The whole revenue system
as applied to the manufacture OF
wines and brandies in California
needs revision, aud the only way
to bring it about is by agitation. 1t
will afford us a great deal of pleas.


ure to publish brief and pointed


communications, between now and


the next session Of Congress, from
persons qualified by special infor'


motion to discuss the matter. With


a long pull, strong pull and pull
altogether this section ought to be
able to rectify gross and disabling


wrong.
Year: 1879

FROM the reports which reach


Los Angeles from every section of
the county the Democratic local


ticket is certain of success. The


more sanguine of their opponents


have hope of breaking the line in


several places, but they nearly all


admit that the Democracy are fall


ing into line again with the old


party enthusiasm. The New Con-
stitution party is drawing as heav-
lily from the Republicans as the
Workingmen are from the Demo-
Gratis, and a Democratic plurality


of from six hundred to eight hun
dred will probably be the result.
Gen. Sanford, our candidate fol
Senator, is making capital and
successful canvass. The confidence
of his principal opponent, Mr..
West, must by this time have given
place to panic. Gen. Sanford more
and more approves himself the


choice of the granger element of


Los Angeles county. He is gen.
tleman of enlightened views, OF
very much greater oratorical pow


er than he got credit for previous


to this campaign, is o staunch
Democrat and is needed in the next


Legislature not only to help make
good laws but also to assist in elect.
ing Democrat to succeed Newton


Booth in the Senate of the
United States. There was, during


the last campaign, no more en-


thusiastic champion of the new
Constitution than Gen. Sanford.
The Messrs. Gordon and Del Vale,
from their dissimilar but pro-
nounced merits, are giving great


strength to the ticket. What more
than anything else presages its
election from top to bottom is the


admirable balance between the city


and county in its construction and


the fact that the country delegates


really nominated every man on it.
Year: 1879

to besmirch the excellent judicial
record Of Judge Stephens is also q
fruitless one. Over the din of per-
sonal depreciation in certain sheets
can be heard the notes of q great
and increasing popularity, which


this able young man has deserved.
Year: 1879

x This lrada me to speak OF
the social damage from ntemperancv.
We do not stand or fall alone. We
are ioined hand to hand in the family
and in society. IVhen one member
suffers all feel the pain. Who can
write up all the tears sled and the
groans uttered By loving ones mourn.
ing over the evil in their own house


holds. Yea, the whole circle Of
friends is troubled by one such case
The whole community suffers It's
feelings and its interests by the prev


olense Of lutcmperance. The evil is
great when it is found in the lowest
and most aretcAe1 in the social scale.
1t is grisf and shame to all true
hearts to see anything in the shape Of
humanity thus brutalze itself. What
a care and expense to make provision
for such cases. They c4uno: take
care Of themselves. We have to pro


vide somehow for that wretched per
son, aud guard on selves against his
fits Of violence. lfall were tai Ell
from cur aims, houses and jails who
have been brought here directly or
indirectly by intemperancs the mum
bers would be much reduced. But
when the evil is found among those Of
the respectable classes, when the me,
ch.nic or lsborer, who, if he will, can
have home of order, neatness and
abundance, yields 10 the temptation,
when those who wait for his return in
the evening or at the week s end wait
in fear and trembling, lest he will
come to them, not in such a condition
that they can welc:me him without
shame, and lest too he will fail to
bring to their needs the wages he has
earned, who can describe or imagine
all the ills which are heape1 up in
families like these =? If man is fay.
ored with large measure OF this
worlds goods, so that the subsistence
and comfort Of the household are not
30 Immediately affected, there is a
limit even to the security of such fam
lies, and when the revorse, which fol-
lows the want Of thrift in the man.
agement of 4 business or an estate
comes, how much greater the misery
Of the household.


And when we direct attention 10
society AS organized under law and
public officers the mischief Of intem
perance becomes fearfuliy great. The
legislators Of the land ought to be
eminently men Of sobri 'ty. With the
clearest heads it is difficult to frame
laws which shall not do more harm
than good. 1t is very hard TO look
into all the possibilities Of subject,
and to frame words which may not be
very differently interpreted, perhaps
against the sense intended. And if
heads are not clear, il the exciting
days and nights spent in legislative
halls are spent under the stimulating
and disordering effects Of strong
drink, who can answer for it tt at the
injury shall not be great when it is
we'll known that men with selfish pur-
poses apart from the interests Of the
community are ever hanging about
the corridors and committee rooms
ready to approach and ply with any
means, aattcry, money, feastino strong