smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1878

Before proceeding to review the movements
In the cotton business OF the regular COM
mercial year Of 1877 8, it will be proper to be-
stow little time on what has been done in
that trade during the first quarter OF the cur
rent year (1878-9l


1t will be remembered that the crop ripened
and the picking season commenced while the
yellow fever epidemic was at its height That
circumstance has had large influence on
the movements, and led to large diversion
Of the shipments by overland routes TO the
East. Last year extraordinary and success-
full efforts were made to draw the supplies
from the Interior to this port The direct
overland movement was in that way mate
rally lessened, and the business correspond
ingy increased at this port compared with


Continued on tenth rage,
Year: 1878

NEW YORK. Nov 3O.-Stewart's grave robbery
is as much mystery as ever. and though the
police Is still on search Of the suspected parties
and follow up all clues. they have apparently
abandoned all hope OF recovering the body or
catching the body snatchers.
Year: 1878

A novel exhibition in anatomy was
givenin Chicago to the students Of Rush
Medical College. At O'Clock the
large amphitheatre lecture room was
filled with fiedged and unfedged doc
tors, and in the arena stood Mr..
Charles Warren, a man about 30 years
of age, of athletic appearance, and ap-
parently jointed the same as ordinary
mortals. But he soon showed that he
differed from most men in his makeup,
for there was hardly joint in his
whole body that he could not throw
out of place, or at least give that ap-
pearance. He went through with his
distortions, much to the amazement as
well as the amusement of all. He COM
menced by giving a circulatorY move
ment to the scalpul@, moving either
one or both at time and without any
apparent motion of the shoulders. He
then threw the humerus into the aXilla,
disjointed his elbow, wrist and phal-
anges. This was done merely by the
contraction of the muscles of the arm
and not by pulling of one member by
another. In none of his feats was there
any such wrench of one joint from an
other. Without touching any part Of
his body with his hands, the joints
would move out of position. He forced
the femur from the hip bone. This he
could do while standing on one or both
feet, or while reclining. The disloca-
ton caused an apparent shortening OF
the limb. Another striking feat was
the turning of his feet so that he could
touch the bottoms of them while his
legs were perfectly straight. Perhaps
the most remarkable of all his powers
was the wonderful expansibility OF his
chest. Medical works, upon the
strength OF examinations of thousands
of men in the army and navy, generally
give five inches as the maximum OF ex-
pansion. The exhibitor could expand
his from nine to twelve inches. Those
who did not take much interest in his
other performances were wonder struck
at this. This feat was performed by
the remarkable degree of the COM
pressibility of the chest, and his power
to force his heart and lungs into the
abdominal cavity, and then to force
his viscera into his chest. The abb
domen was hardly less curious when
the viscera was forced upwards by the
diaphragm than was the inflated chest,
for at such time there seemed to be an
entire absence of organs in that part OF
the body, and to be no distance at all
from the front walls of the abdomen to
the spinal column.


This subject proved fine study in
the anatomy Of the muscles, because
he could contract them 80 as to show
the position of each one from origin to
insertion. He had this power over the
muscles in pairs or separately, and
could make them as distinct as if dis
sected.


Mr.. Warren concluded with an exhi-
bition of his ability to control his
Year: 1878

with the cotton is also often very eff
caciOuS.


OYSTER PLANT.-Put oyster plant
to soak in cold water one hour before
you wish to cook: then scrape and cut
in pieces about one inch in size; place
in an earthen saucepan in cold water
enough to cover them; they require
about one hour to cook; when they
are soft add one pint of milk, six but
er-crackers rolled fine, and lump of
butter as large as an egg; one teaspoon
full of salt; little pepper.


WAFERs.-Melt a quarter of a
pound of butter and mix it with half
a pint of milk, teaspoonful of salt, a
wine-glass of wine, three beaten eggs
and sufficient sifted -four to enable
you to roll them out easily. They
should be rolled very thin, cut into
small circular cakes, and baked in an
oven of moderate heat. Frost the
whole and sprinkle sugar sand or COM
fits over it as soon as frosted.


THE SLEEP FOR CHILDREN.-The
Herald of Health cautions parents not
to allow their children to be walked up
in the morning. Let nature wake
them; she will not do it prematurely.
Take care that they go to bed at an
early hour-let it be earlier and earlier
until it is found that they wake up
themselves in full time to dress for
breakfast.


To LESSEN FRICTION FOR FURNI-
TURE.-Black lead is excellent to lessen
friction between two pieces of work.
The sides and rests of desks or bureau
drawers may be made to move easily
by spreading common stove-blacking
evenly with cloth or the finger over
their surfaces. Time and patience
may thus be saved.


GINGER COOKIES cup of mo-
lasses, one cup Of sugar, one cup OF
butter or lard, three eggs, two tea
spoontuls of saleratus, dissolved in a
little hot water, five cups of -four, one
tablespoonful Of ginger mixed with
the molasses.
Year: 1878

the following recipe for the cure Of hog
cholera: To prevent hogs from having
cholera, quinsy or pneumonia, use one
gallon Of soft soap, four ounces OF salt
peter and half a pound of copperas.
Mix well in swill and feed to about
forty hogs in one day. In four or five
days give the following: Carbolic acid,
eight drachms; black antimony, two
ounces; half pound sulphur. Mix well
in swill, and feed to about forty hogs
in two days. Repeat the above once
month, and it will prevent any OF the
above diseases. have used it for ten
years without single case of any dis
ease among my hogs.
Year: 1878

MACCARONI.-This is a paste made
from the purest wheat -four and water;
it is generally known as rather luxu-
rious dish among the wealthy; but it
should become one of the chief foods
of the people, for it contains more
gluten, or the nutritious portion of
wheat, than bread. 1t is one of the
most wholesome and economical OF
foods, and can be varied so as to give a
succession OF palatable dishes at very
small cost. The imported maccaroni
can be bought at Italian stores for
about fifteen cents a pound, and that
quantity, when boiled, yields nearly
four times its bulk, if it has been
manufactured for any length of time.
Good maccaroni is yellow or brownish
in color; white sorts are always poor.
1t should never be soaked or washed
before boiling, or put into cold or
lukewarm water. Wipe it carefully,
break it into whatever lengths you
want it, and put it into boiling water,
to every quart of which half tea
spoonful OF salt is added. You can
boil an onion with it if you like the
flavor. AS soon as it is tender enough
to yield easily when pressed between
the fingers, drain it in a colander,
saving the liquor for the next day IS
broth, and lay it in cold water until
you want to use it. When more mac
caroni has been boiled than is used, it
can be kept perfectly good by laying it
in fresh water, which must be changed
every day. Half pound of uncooked
maccaroni will make a large dishful.


LEMON MERINGUE.-Beat the yolks
of six eggs with a patent beater until
they are thick, add the juice of two
lemons and their rind, grated, and a
cup Of sugar. Cook in a farina kettle.
When the mixture begins to thicken,
add the whites of the eggs beaten till
they stand alone. Stir constantly till
quite stiff. Line deep dish with
sponge cake; pour in the mixture, and
cover all with the beaten whites of
two eggs, and four spoonfuls of sugar.
Brown in quick oven. This is nice
substitute for jelly cake.


RELIEF FOR Persons
will find relief for earache by putting
in spoon two or three drops Of sweet
oil, or, better still, almond oil, the
same Of molasses and laudanum warm
ing it altogether. Absorb some of the
mixture in cotton wool; put it in the
ear, with piece of wool outside to
keep out the cold air; repeating the
thing if necessary. A roast onion
heart dipped in this and surrounded
Year: 1878

What is it to speak correctly? 1t is
to accustom ourselves to speak and
write accurately, having special care
to use no language or utter any state
mens that is not elegant or strictly
truthful Avoid the use of all slang
words and phrases. They are odious,
and no amount of personal grace in the
speaker can compensate for the disa-
greeable effect that the use of slang has
upon the hearer. When once the
habit Of using these slang phrases has
been formed, it is almost impossible to
eradicate it. Youth is the best time to
acquire correct language. 1t does not
require wealth; the poorest can obtain
the faculty. And how? By using the
language Of books-in other words,
that which one reads. Form the taste
of the best speakers and writer's; treas
ure up choice phrases, and accustom
yourself to their use. But do not fall
into the opposite error of selecting only
that which is pompous and high sound
ing, for that will make one ridiculous.
But choose the language which is terse,
expressive and clear, and the habit Of
correct speaking soon becomes fixed,
and makes it pleasure to listen to
you.
Year: 1878

No good farmer will neglect to cut
wood the coming winter to be used a
year hence, as it is poor management
to burn green wood; and it is always
best to have your wood for your family's
use under cover, and so connected with
the house that it can be got at from the
Kitchen without going out of doors. If
your wood-house is of ample size, it will
afford you a place to do many little jobs
In rainy weather, and your bows can
split the wood under it and pile it up on
wet days. .-Erchange. @4tl III =


Fat bacon, chopped fine and sprinkled
plentifully with black pepper, is con-
yenient and reliable remedy for cholera
in chickens. Last summer a number
ofhens were cured by its use. When
found, they had dropped from the
roost; they were so far gone that they
could not get up, and were only able to
raise their heads occasionally. They
were given comfortable shelter by
themselves; a teaspoonful of the mix
ture was forced down the throat of each
bird, morning and evening. No other
attention was paid to them. At the
end of the third day they were set at
liberty and went about as usual, giving
no further trouble. Water may be
placed where they can help themselves,
but no food is required Smaller doses
may be given in cases less severe
american Poultry Journal.


The Washington Gowa) Gazette says
M. Donahey, Of that place, furnishes
Year: 1878

tops in his garden ION which had been
used Paris green pretty freely and set
them on fire. His boy thought it was
great sport to run through and stand
In the smoke of the fire, and the conse-
quence was that he got poison enough
by means of the dust and smoke to
produce all the characteristic effects of
arsenic poisoning. Suitable antidotes
were administered and the child re-
covered.
Year: 1878

whole body, drawing himself through
rings and performing other things,
much to the amusement of the students
and of the professors if they had only
felt at liberty to give way to laugh
ter.
Year: 1878

DELIBERATIONS OF TIE SILVER LEAGUE-THE BILL


TO BE REFERRED TO THE COMMITTEE on BANh-


ING AND CURRENCY--NO VOTE LIKELY TO BE


REACHED THIS wEEK-FEARs OF THE SILVER


ADVOCATES.


The Bland bill, as amended by the Senate, was
returned to the House yesterday, but lts irienus
were unable to call it up. At the OF the SESSION
a meeting Of the Silver League was heid' anu lu-
ture action was coasi dcred The Senate amend
mcnts were denounced unsparingly; but it was
finally decided TO move a reference to the Commit
tee on Banking and Currency. Anxiety is feit
among silver nfatonists and it is not believed that
wothrds of the House will vote for the bill in
its original FORM That the President Will veto It, III
whatever form it may pass seems undoubted.
Year: 1878

THE VOLUME OF CURRENCY INFLATED.
BOTH PAPER AND SILVER MILL REMAIN IL CiHCU-


LAIIoS-A rLUCTUATING CUKRENCY-MONInLY


ISSUES NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. LABOR


ING MANNILL SUFFER.


TO the Editor or The Trtbune.


SIR: Permit me to call attention, through your
columne to one or two radical errors adopted in the
syer controy yersy by the silver advocates which are
calculated to deceive and misead. Argument III
upport of the Band bill is rcpletc with reference
TO a b-metal!ic or double-standard currency. Now,
nothing should be clearer than that such a currency
is utterly beyond the regions of this bill. double
standard currency, i'll its very terms implies cir
culatiug medium of gold and silver; and in order
that it may remain in circulation, history shows us
that the proportionate value put upon each by law
must stay fixed. Ii is necessary, in order to main
tain such currency, that both the metals should
not only be legal-teDder. but that they should
both remain in circulation. BY the issue OF an IRE
deemabe paper currency gold was driven from
circulation, and is still kept from circulation by the
existence of the same inconyertible paper and does
not in any sense. comprise any part OF the currency
OF the cOuntTy-that is, any withdrawal or fresh
supply of gold through the exchanges or otherwise,
will neither dmiuish nor increase the volume Of the
currency, nor affect prices. Gold changes hands in
the form of bullion and is subject to the same laws,
iu exchange, as any other commodity. Still it is
argued, whether through ignorance or with intent
to decelven that we are to have double-standard
currency in case the Bland bill becomes law
Year: 1878

The name and fame of this gentle
man have become widespread
throughout the state as the most sue
cessful temperance reformer that
has ever spoken and labored within
its borders. Wherever he mas APP
peared- in the work, more respect,
bettef-and more interested attention
and much greater success inssecu-
ring converts to the cause have been
allotted him than usually falls to the
share of the best temperance work
ers. He is a man of high culture, of
pleasant manner and address, and
speaks with politeness and consider
alton for the feelings and rights of
those who may honestly differ with
him i'm opinion, but withal with a
hearty emphasis that cannot fail to
elicit respect and carry conviction
that his heart is in the cause for
which he is laboring. He has utter
ed much truth when speaking of
the evils of strong drink and some
things i'm the same connection that
might justly be subjected to criti-.
cism, and advanced theories for The
care of the evil that would not, in
every instance, bear practical test,
but these things should not close the
eyes of fair-minded, reasonable
persons to the good said and done
He closed, on Sunday last, series
of twelve lectures in this city, two
more than he was previously en-
gagged to deliver, and as result of
his efforts the number Of signers of
the pledge and donners of the rib
bon, will show between four and
five hundred persons.


The lecture on Saturday evening
last was devoted principally to the
work of creating an interest in a
library movement, for which pur-
pose over 5000 was subscribed by
the audience.


Mr.. Finch's next field of labor
will be Fremont.
Year: 1878

S-In looking through the city on
Saturday last for business and news,
we called on VIM. Eimers on 18th
street, and found his large and met
ropolitan looking store room filled
with goods and himself and clerks
busy waiting on customers. lie in
forms us that business is good with
him, and that he expects it will re-
main so, as he intends to treat his
customers SO well and sell them
goods so cheap and good that they
will be bound, if they, consider their
interests, TO trade with him. Give
him a call. ALL
Year: 1878

F--Tines are very hard, and the
products that farmer has for sale
do not bring him his cost price, and
to equalize the thing and buy your
hardware in proportion to what you
get for your wheat, you must buy of
q. III. Krause & Sons.
Year: 1878

IIIIS NINSIIJN.


lDY TELEGRAPH TO TIE TRIBUSE.l


WASHINGTON, May 23.-Ihere Is good reason to
expect that no more important financial legislation
will be adopted by Congress during the present
session. Some sort of truce seems to have been
arranged between the hard-mOney men OH the one
side, and the nfationists the other. taeit
agreement seems to have been arrived at that If the
former will agree that the cancellation and destruc-
ton of greenbacks shall STOP the latter will post
pone pushing their schemes until next Winter.
Year: 1878

Mrs. Annie Oakley, of go Prospect
street, after family difficulty, took last
evening an ounce OF laudanum. 1t was
sometime before the fact was known by
her relatives, and then the trivial cause of
the attempted suicide was dropped, and
all bent themselves to save her life. DR..
Kent was sent for. When person has
taken laudanum, of course the great de-
sire is to go to sleep. If the patient can
be kept awake till the effect of the mar
cotic pass away, there is no further dan
ger. But sleep is the sleep of death. In
vain the woman begged, implored, prayed,
entreated them to let her lie down and
rest; but they kept her awake with forced
walking, shaking, switching her with
twigs, and other light punishment, and at
the same time gave the proper antidotes,
chiefly the active principle of belladonna,
to counteract the effect of the narcotic.
In spite of all this she continued to sink,
until at eleven o'clock, her pulse had run
down to four or five beats minute, and
it seemed impossible to keep her from
the fatal sleep. DR.. Kent sent for Drs.
Myer and Hurd to come and bring their
galvanic batteries, which they did, and
all three doctors commenced at the
woman, keeping her system stimulated,
and preventing her from going to sleep
by strong continuous circuits Of galvan-
ism that would have made normal per-
son crazy. The minute battery was re-
moved, the woman appeared to sink, so
they kept them going at full strength,
one being loaded up with fresh chemicals
while the other was being used, and this
was kept up unremittingly until about
three o'clock this morning, when the ef-
fects of the drug began to wear off and
the pulse showed signs of strengthening,
BY four o'clock she had entirely recovered
and was out of further danger, 80 that
the exhausted doctors could take their
leave and seek rest for themselves. They
never more emphatically and literally
kept person from dying in their lives.
1t was literal tusse with death for eight
or nine hours, with doubtful results the
while, but with final victory for the
NJ. Ds and their little electrical machines.
About the first thing the woman did on
her recovery was TO express regret that
the doctors had saved her life, as she
wanted to die, and wished they had left
her alone. 1t is not one time in thous.
and that a person could swallow that
quantity of laudanum and survive.-Pat-
terson Guardian.
Year: 1878

The HEssIAN FLY.-This destructive
insect made its appearance in the wheat
fields last fall to considerable extent,
and did much damage; but one fact con-
nected with its appearance, or rather re-
appearance, should be certainly borne in
mind-that it is only the early sown
wheat that is attacked, and this mostly
when early sowing is followed by long
spell of mild weather, like that of last
autumn, during which the grain becomes
quite rampant. Wheat sown the last of
September or the beginning of October
which is early enough in most years-is
seldom if ever attacked by the fly. There
is statement now before US of farmer
in Western New York, who says that
while he sowcd his wheat as late as the
18th and Goth Of September, his neigh
bors sowed in the latter end Of August,
and that while his crop was wholly
free from the tiy,and yielded over twenty.
nine bushels tD the acre, the crops of his
neighbors were nearly destroyed. lie fur
ther SAYS that n barrel Of salt to the acre
will destroy the midge and cause the
grain to ripen from three to six days
earlier. We think there is wisdom in his
statement GermantOton Telegraph.
Year: 1878

slowly. A little over year ago there was not farm between here and San Carlos, not a wagon had ever passed through the country un- til the Florence and Globe City road was commenced, now there are four irrigating ditches on the Gila, in this vicinity, and two unfinished. The lower San Pedro is also improving. In the Autumn of 1876 there were only three or four farms, now there are many. The farmers have fin ished sowing small grain and are now busy making fence around their farms. It would be well if more of the farmers of Southern Arizona would initiate their cx- ample, for nothing adds to the secu- rity and beauty of farm more than q good fence. It is estimated that there will be over half million pounds of small grain raised in this valley and the lower San Pedro. be- sides considerable com and other cereals. The farmers are all con tented seemingly, and are industri- ous, good citizens, and anticipate large crops this summer and fall.- Citizen.

 THE following recipe for cheap pudding has been handed us by Mrs. |. of this valley:

 GRAHAM PUDDGYG.-Use Gra- ham four and make q thin mush mix ten well beaten eggs, q handful of raisins, one cup sugar, and season to taste with spice eat with milk.
Year: 1878

That gratitude which consists in lively sense of favors to come is sometimes shown by the humblest of Gods creatures.

 An aged maiden lady had a par rot, the solace of her declining years. She had trained it piously, being of religious turn herself, and taught ii to say most beautiful things out of the Bible. The bird was more to her than words could tell; she loved it dearly, not because it looked Ike her, for that she never knew, but because it was so good and pure a bird, so ready with comforting text when she felt sad. It never eat a cracker without a pious ejaculation between each bite, nor ever thrust its head under its wing without saying its prayers. But disease is no reSpecter of persons or parrots, and tliis exem- piary bird fell sick one day.

 The doctor was called in, but in all his experience he said he had seen nothing like it. The neigh bOrs were summOnd, but none of them appeared to understand the parrots case. The poor bird grew worse, and did nothing but repeat the Book of Job. At this crisis, however. the soIrowing maiden, whose wits were sharpened by the emergency, remembered an elderly sea captain, who lived not fur away, who was believed to know some thing about parrots. At her tear ful summons he gallantly came to the rescue, and, after careful exami- nation of the symptoms, gave it as his opinion that the bird was lone some-in short that it was pining for a mate.

 " Not that you ain't good enough company for a parrot, mum-I don't mean that" said the Captain hastily, but then you know, mum, you both being of the same sex, mum" he continued, turning very red" gentleman bird, that $ what's the matter!" It was a horrible suggestion, but desperate diseases require heroic treatment. Had he a bird of that kind ? Well, yes, he had. And would he bring it over :? Well he would; but then he didn't know as he had oughter, being as how his bird had been raised aboard ship, and wasn't q moral bird, from hearing the sailors talk. Did his bird swear much? Was it so very wicked ? No, it want very heavy on the cuss words-but--and then t he Captain explained to the agitat- ed lady as delicately as he coul d that seafaring men, long deprived of the refining influence of female society, were blunt of speech, and