smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1877

OATMEAL FooD.-The steam cooked oats and wheat save hours of boiling and avoid all trouble, as the directions how to cook them in every style are on the packages.

 HoT-wATER GINGERBREAD.-Stir to- gether one cupful of molasses, one large spoonful of butter, with ginger or spices to suit; add little flour; pour on two teaspoonfuls of soda, one half cupful of boiling water; stir it in, and add flour ts make pretty stiff batter.

 CIDER JELLY.--Soak half a box or ounce of gelatine in quart of sweet cider for ten minutes; add small cup full of quince or crab apple jelly; chop fine and place the pan over the fire until all is dissolved; then add small cupful white sugar, while hot. Strain into metal molds, previously oiled, to prevent it's sticking.

 LEMON SYRUP.--To every quart of lemon-juice add six pounds of loaf sugar; rub of the yellow rind of the lemons with Jumps of sugar; put in porcelain kettle beat the whites of two eggs very light, and mix gradually with one quart of water, which put in the lemon-juice and sugar. Boil ten minutes, being sure to skin of all the scum. Place in new bottles, cork tightly, and seal the tops with melted rosin and wax.

 RAIsIN DRESSING FOR SoUP BEEF Take two cupfuls of clear broth, without thickening, out of the soup-pot put it in saucepan, add one cupful boiling water half A Cupful of vinegar. one teaspoonful of salt, one bay-leaf, five grains of allspice, one tablespoonful of sugar, and quarter of a pound each of raisins and entrants. Twenty minutes before serving, take the beef out of the soup-pot, put it into this gravy, turn once, allowing ten minutes cooking for each side; then take out and thicken the gravy with brown flour, and rub to paste with butter. Serve hot. Round of beef is best for this dish.

 SPONGE PUDDING.--One-fcurth pound each of flour, butter, and sugar, one quart of milk, twelve eggs; mix butter, flour and sugar together, add to the milk, and boil until it thickens; when cool add first the yolks of two eggs, then the whites, beaten to a stiff frOth. Place the pudding dish in a pan partly filled with water in the oven and bake near an hour. For the sauce. three fourths cupful butter, two cupfuls sugar and one of wine. Mix butter and sugar to cream, add the wine, spoonful at a time and put the dish in a pan of hot water to dissolve. This makes light de- licious pudding.
Year: 1877

Life in London begins and ends late in the day. The very crossing sweepers do not turn out till ten o'clock, and no newsboys rouse the sleeping echoes of -'" ~'-eets at the unearthly hour of

 Everything encourages man to

 1 late of a morning. If he gets

 ie he will tumble over the house

 ail just outside the door, and

 cloth will not be laid for break

 le great West End" does not

 oe fairly up and about till three vI i... In the afternoon.

 Towards six the streets are crowded, and Burlington arcade begins to put on it's livsliest face. At eight one goes to dinner, and if there are more men than ladies present you will get away before 11:30. Thus, at this time of the year, the Londener gets along with an infini. tesimal quantity of daylight, and it is lucky for him that he is able to do so, for the sky is hidden by fogs and vapors, and, until one gets used to it, the heavy and somber air fills one with the "blues' and gives rise to dismal presentiments of approaching evil.
Year: 1877

The Solid South is about to become National
bulldOzer.


1t is time to subject the Democratic party TO a
national readjustmcnt


General Butler regards his awful silence as joke.
The public prefers the old kind, General


Mr. Voorheesi is dcyotng the recess TO the evolution
of the greatest effort Of hls life" on finance. Put
ont the storm signal.


Mr. Watterson warns the North against the lOosiHg
of the devil If his majesty isn't loose already, a
Democratic Congress makes mighty good suGsti-
;ute.


Senator Herman takes dcsponding view Of the
financial outlook lie tells a reporter of The tHcq
Obeerrer that he can count but twenty-four anti
silver men in the Senate. He hopes, however that
some compromise can be c1ected which VIII be less
hostile to the public faith than the Bland bill Is.


The Colorado Patterson is said to be gifted with
liberal sarcastic powers A man who can hold an
informal election of himself for Congress on day
rhich 40 law under the sun authorizes and can per-
suqdc a Congress to give him il seat comes pretty
near being an embodied sarcasm Oh anything Ike
justice IN politics.


Tx-Governor Curtin has been acting in 4 manner
most unaccountablc to The Washington coTespon-
dent. He rushed from Pennsylvania to the
White House, held n "prOtracted conversation
with fine President and .lippcd ont OF the city for
home before an interviewer could put 2 thumb
screw on him. The Governor Is dreadiully Demo
cratic in his leanings too. As Simon Cameron would
saw this Is perfect high-jinks Of time


The advocate Of unlimited silver has an awful
Efe To Lin the air is black with con@pracies. The
whole world is in a league against the dollar of his
heart. The Wall-st shark heads one conspiracy
the bondholders comprise another; foreign capi-
talst- another; and now he announces that the SUI
pcriutendent Of tie United states Mint Is at the
head Of still another The poor agitator has more
enemies on his hands and in the air than anybody
since Don Quixote.


The President continues TO be serene and phil
osoplical He said to visiting Senator recently:
" want you to understand that if at any time II is
shown 10 your satisfaction that have nominated an
unfit man, yOu will do me a favor by helping reject
HIM Do not hesitate for n moment TO do 50, and DO
not believe shall be offended, but the contrary
That is wise and sensible, but wouldn't il be Just as
wise and sensible to be sure OF the fitness Before
making the nomination


Senator Butler rises to say that he did not 20 70
South Carolina to stop proceedings against Patter-
son. but he does not explain why the plan of send
ing the evidence against Patterson 20 the Senate
was m some mysterious way obstructcd after his ar
rival at Columbia. All he did he says, was to re-
fuse To present the evidence to the Senate. He
would not sacrifice his manhood so far as that for
he would be AN ungrateful dog rot to appreciate
Patterson's assistance. As for a bargain between
Them he saws there never was shadow of one, but
Patterson acted fairly toward him. and he VIII treat
him fairly III return
Year: 1877

their eyes and hair, and by like obsery-
atons on their ancestors, the length
of their own lives could be foretold, and they
could he divided into separate classes as TO
probable mortality, it was not too much to
assume that they could also be made to be-
lieve that cash could be made out OF nothing.


If if were not that similar confusion as to
the creation of securities and cash exists among
many of our countrymen who support the
greenbacll theory, the excuse might be made
for DR.. Lambert that the whole business
from end to end has shown symptoms
very much like insanity. There was
indeed a method in his madness, but even the
method was askew. The remark attributed 10
Superintendent Smyth. when DR.. Lambert pro-
posed to measure his skull, would serve Tor
summary of this entire matter: Doctor
"vou might better apply your calliperS
10 Your cash-boOI." How far the
confusion of mind which Dr. Lambert's
management so successfully impressed upon
his associates and the policyh0lders, was
TART of his own mental constitution, 1t Is dlli-
cult to say. The most charitable view OF the
case is that while he was deCeiylng Others
DIR. Lambert was self-deceived. Bat 1t Is
probably now too late to enter the plea of in
Year: 1877

There will be no lack of explanations re-
specting the boiler explosion, the fire. the
iniurics and loss of life that took place
Yesterday afternoon in Barclay-st. Occurring
in daylight. in a crowded part of the
city, and counting its victims by the
score. this calamity in all its details
should contain nothing obscure. Boiler
explosions are never, in the proper sense
of the word, accidents. The irighttn
effect of this one is chiefly result OF
the destruction of the buildng by the eX-
plosion itself: the fire which followed caused,
il is hoped, a smaller proportion Of death and
injury.


Among the chief points to be investigated
will be what restrictions were enforced as to
the manufacturing business carried on IN the
buildng; how much steam the boiler was
allowed to carry, and how much it was
carving. The event has proved that
the risks of the manufacturing work
were enormous; that life and property
were in continual peril there. What safe
guards there were, and what precautions were
enforced, if any, by the authorities, should
now. though too late be definitely asceftaincd'
OF course, no precautions could be taken that
would enable an ordinary buding to withstand
the shock of such an explosion, but it is worth
while to find ont whether due provision was
made for the safety Of those in the building
in case of fire breaking out below. Evidently
it was a case for unusual precautions through
out: whether there was even ordinary care
seems at present doubtful.


4 painful uncertainty as to the num-
bers that are killed yet prevails. The
ruins are too hot for examination. Had
it not been for the frishtful experience
of a contrary possibility in the burning
of the Brooklyn Theatre, the hope would now
be expressed that, as few lives are yet known
to be lost, the actual number may be small.
At least twenty-n persons have been injured,
many of them severely.
Year: 1877

The legal decision in Prince Edward Island
AGAINST placing the commercial traveller on
level with the peddler, by compelling him to
pay an annual license fee, strikes another
blow at vexatiOus impcdiments to trade III TINS
country and the Dominion. The common
interests of buyer and seller i'll that respect
should impel our State Governments to adopt
the commercial system of this city, which I'M
poses no needless obstacles to the development
of cur domestic industries.
Year: 1877

other manners" says the German proverb. If
these offended journalists would come to America,
they would find very different ideas prevailing Of
the sanctity of statesmen and the province OF the
press.


The Rev. DR.. Cummings Of Riverside Seminary


in Allegany County, n. Y, has introduced The
WEEKLY TRIBUNE into the reading classes OF the
institution over which he prosides. We arc conf
dent that the results Of this action Will approve
themselves tothe Reverend Doctors good sense. The
paper contains a great variety of useful matter,


literary, scientific, historical, political and miscel-
laneous carefully edited for the use of the house
hold and what is fit for the household must be
generally fit for tho school. In its new form the
paper seems to be especially adapted to reading
classes and withIncw departments added or enlarged
since the change Of shape. its value is enormously
increased.


year from to-day citizens who sleigh-riding
in the Park may find it less difficult to keep
if they will only recall the fact that the shortest
day of tho year 1877 the farmers of this
latitude wcro breaking up sod for corn
planting the next Spring; that the grass
was still green and growing, and the turf was
starred with dandelOns in bloom; that leaf-buds
were expanding on the trees that Sgmmer insects
were buzzing merrily in the sun, and that every
body looked happy except the bilious prophet who
took OFF his oyerc0at and delivered his gloomy pre-
dicion about fat churchyards and the certain
ruin Of the fruit CROP.
Year: 1877

The steps which the Dufaue Ministry is
taking to place Republicans in office may be
justified as recompense for the summary
manner in which they were removed last May
as well as by the vital importance OF having
the projects and other influential appolnteS III
accord with the Government. I'm sending
the MARQUIS de Banncvilc, a moderate Bona
partiSt. as EmbassadOr to COnstantinoplc, the
Ministry has. however wisely diSregarded party
ties in order to place a discreet diplomatlSt III
charge of that important Mission Having al
rcodv rcnrcscntcd Franco, at Vienna and Rome
he will enter on his duties with a reputation Tor
ability and sound Judgment which has not
been impaired during the twenty days he was
recently Minister of Foreign Affairs.


So we are not unlikely to have an Indian IN
Congress. A subcommittee OF the House
Committee on Indian Affairs has decided 10
favor ill allowing the civilized tribes OF In
di2n Territory to elect delegate to Congress,
in the same manner as other territories. lie
must be a Cherokee, Creek, Seminole,
q Choctaw, or Cmckasaw and will
he allowed to address the House IN those
or any other languages with which he may h"
acquainted. The fairness of the proposition VIII
be generally admitted. The population Of the
Indian Territory is large enough to make a
representative necessary, and this law Will
merely fulfil an agreement made by treaty
eleven years ago. 1t does not seem
inapmopratr either, that the original owners
of one whole territory should have at least
one representative in or National councils;
and ambitious savaecs may be tanned better
in tis way than by bullets or whisley. Sit
ting Bull for instance, might come home and
behave himself, If he found that he had q
chance to run for Congress.
Year: 1877

! MASTERING VICIOUS .HoRsEs.-Yes


tcrday afternoon an exhibition was


given at the corner Of Ninth and How


ard streets Of new and very simple


method of tanning vicious horses, which


is claimed 60 be superior to any In


use. Fhe first trial was with KICK
ing or bucking mare which, her OWN
er says, has allowed no rider on her
back for five years. She became tame
and gentle in as many minutes, ana
allowed herself to be ridden about
without sign of the former wildness.
The means by which this result was
accomplished consists of a piece of
light rope, which is passed around the
front jaw of the mare, just above the
upper teeth, crossed IN her mouth,
and then secured back of her neck. 1t
is claimed that no horse will kick or
jump when thus secured, and that d"
bucking horse after receiving this"
treatment few times will abandon
his vicious ways forever. A very
simple method was also shown by
which kicking horse can be shod. 1t
consists in connecting the animal's
head and tail by means of rope fast-<
ened to the tail and then to the bit,
and drawn tightly enough to incline
the horso's head to one side. 1t is
claimed that it is absolutely impossi-
bic for the horse to kick on the side of
tho rope. At the trial yesterday o.
horse which for years had to be bound
on tho ground to bo shod, suffered the
blacksmith to operate upon him with
out attempting to kick while secured
in tho mannor described.
Year: 1877

A very searching investigation was
carried on a few years ago in the
North of England by two families
who were searching up their rcspec~
tive ancestry. The strife was great
between them, each one determining
to look back into antiquities further
than the other. One Of the families,
whose name was Spencer, employed
an artist to paint an historic scene,
representing the building of the ark
and the loading up Of the ship by
Noah and his sons with it's multifa-
rious and various cargo. On the
gang-plauk leading to the deck Of
the ark two men were seen rolling mp
a large box, on one side of which
was painted in large lotters, "Relics,
insignia, and papers belonging to the
Spencer family" This was consi-
dered a coup a'etat hard to beat, but
the other family, determined not be
outdOne in the antedeluvian pretences
of their name, prepared at great cost
and research record of their anti
quity. In describing the exploits of
one OF their ancestors, at a very early
day, who was represented as a man
Of some authority, this remarkable
passage occurs: During this year
Adam and Eve were driven out OF
Paradise"
Year: 1877

At last the beautiful city of San Antonio
is united to the great world by a first
class railway. On the 10Th the first train,
carrying AGO persons, including the Governor
and other officials left Galveston for San An
tonic over the new road, and on the 21st the
return excursion train brought to Galveston
large number Of the business men and citizens
of San Antonios
Year: 1877

A son of Mr.. A. McGregor, editor Of
the Stark County Democrat, was a candi-
date for the nomination of Clerk OF
Court, and was beaten by a small major
ity. And now the Democrat is endeavor-
ing to show that fraud was practiced.
We are surprised at the suggestion. Who
ever heard of fraud being practiced at
primary elections2 Columbus Dispatch.


In that pure locality there are perhaps
no coal bank polls and no Marlboro chick
en.egg men to fix things for a considera-
tion in hand and big promise in the
future. if
Year: 1877

BETWEEN eccentric laws and playful po,
licemen the respectable citizen of New
York often has hard time of it. The
other evening, while man and his wife
were enjoying the evening air on their
own steps, some rufians came along and
seizing the woman by the foot, such a
disturbance was raised as brought an of
fcer. The young scoundrels then fed,
and the gallant officer so we'll understood
his business that he not only did not
pursue them, but fell to clubbing the cit
izen on the steps, and knocked him into
the street, and kicked him around until
it was perfectly safe to drag him off to
the police station, with the assistance Of
another officer. The wife followed, and
they were both locked up. Repeatedly
the man said he was fatally injured, but
wide-awake police justice the next NOR
ming fDed them, for what is not CLEARLY
shown, and in default of payment they
were locked up, The victim of the club
bing died. The officer was crested, and
the Coroner Investigate the affair, after
the manner of nvestigating such things
in New York. The result is perefeCtly
natural one. The murderer was released
on fifteen hundred dollars bail, while the
widow Of the murdered man was locked
up as a witness.
Year: 1877

GOVERNOR TILDEN said the other day,
in his Manhattan banquet speech:


Evils in government grow by success
and by impunity. They do not restrain
themselves voluntarily. They can never
be limited except by external forces.p


These wise words apply with peculiar
force to our situation in this county. 1t
is true that tame submission to wrong
only perpetuates it, Successful fraud in
making nominations one year induces a
repetition the next, and so continues.
We confess astonishment at the easyaub-
mission TO the acknowledged fraud by
those who ought to grspple with the out
rage. II is time Democratic sentiment
was aroused in such a way as to demand
redress al once.
Year: 1877

Some four years ago. about the of the Caldwell
Investigations, the country was called upon to in
spect some choice diabosm which had been brought
to light in Kansas. 1t was then that one Delahay
was dispensing Justice in the Federal Courts of that
State and inasmuch as lie vigorous inebriate,
and since the popular conscience had just been
auickened by the pastimes of Durell, it was
deemed advisable to impeach him. The testimony
of Senator ingalls, is worth recalling just now, as
one of the actors in the drama is emerging into
prominence before the country. On one occasion
Senator ingalls,, after labOring for several days to
seduce this bibulous ornament of the Bench into
court long enough to prepare important papers
which were needed about to give to despair,
when it was suggested that $1,000 handed to the
son-iu-law of his Honor night avail TO sober him up
and it did. Judge Delahay issued the processes
some time in the night and justice was satisfied As
A sequel to this little story it alleged that the
draft was protested, and that the son-in-aw brought
suit to recover the amount. But it is not OF much
interest to trace the 5000 draft as il 80 mark the
progress Of the son-inlaw At this period he seems
10 have been corruptionist of much promise, but
his eccentrcites did not restrain him from entering
upon career" He has been United States Mar
shall as certain intricate specimens of bOokkeep
ing in the Attorney Office will testify. He
has ,been Governor of his State. He has been q
prominent candidate for United States Senator and
more recently. in order TO carry out some friendly
arrangement with other Kansas magnates and to
expand our commercial relations with South Amer
ica he has had himself made Minister TO the Repub-
lie of Chill, and his name is Osborne.
Year: 1877

Mr.. Hendricks says, "It will never do to say,
when one man has taken the land that belongs to
another by title that is not good that it is sui-
cient to say that the man who holds the land will
cultivate it better thar the true owner would have
done. Before reach that question we will settle
the question who owns the land" better state
ment of the case would be that after the ownership
of the land has been settled by three or four differ
ent courts and the judgment affirmed by tribunal
of last resort specially organized for the purpose at
the request and according to the wishes of the DIS
satisfied claimant it will do to recognize the
validity of the judgment OF admit the honesty Of
the party in possession. The thing to do is to throw
stones at the party in possession and cuss' the
courts the judges, and the jury system.
Year: 1877

The reports from the field of war in ASIA
which, considering the character of the region
and the sources through which our information
comes, have been Unexpectedly clear and in
teligible, begin at last to be somewhat con-
fused. If the Russian right wing is indeed
retreating Ga statement which may he contra
dctcd to-day or tomorrow, it can only be
explained by one of two hypotheses First
either the number and efficiency of Mukhtar
Pasha's forces has been purposely misrepre-
sented by the Turks, or he has been sufficiently
reinforced to check the Russian advance,
compelling it to fall back upon Pennek, 25
miles from Olt as precautionary movement ::
secondly, the latter may be part of "a strategic
plan, intended to favor the advance of the
Russian left wing, of which We have had no news
for several days. When last heard from, its
vanguard was at or near TOprak Kalch. in the
valley of the Araxes and thus pushed some
what beyond the center and right. The inter-
mediate region, however, is 50 rugged and
mountainous, that 1t seems hardly possible
that any considerable body of troops could be
transferred to it from the center; but we must
assume at least that communication has been
established.


The Russian invasion of Armenia has been
characterized by so much military skill and
vigor, that the reported falling back of the
right wing cannot be accepted as a sign of
weakness. If it were occasioned by an inter
ruption of the supply trains, this would be
an evidence of great incompetency in the
management of the campaign. A fortnight
Year: 1877

ton Of things under which silver coin was worth
more than eold dollar for dollar, and had been OF
course crowded out Of circulation by the cheaper
currency. But inasmuch as the various views"
attributed to the President have been iHdistinct
and fluctuatng, and some of them vacant OF any
genuine apprehension of the foundation principles
of financial moral science. it is safe to assume that
they have been manufactured for the political mar
ket in Ohio. No doubt the President finds sufficient
occupation in executing the laws without going out
of bis way to indulge In crudo deliverances to the
dctrment of our credit for nero local political
effect. When the time comes for him to say any
thing on the subject he will probably say something
distinct and consistent.
Year: 1877

words. but they must have occurred to n great
many minds while he was speaking. "hat
pity the Democratic party will not learn rom
the lips of this venerable expert that Id the
long run fraud will never prosper
Year: 1877

Ohio's patriotism has never yet run dry.
Learning with grief that she hadn't all the
offices to which she was entitled, large batch
of candidates was sent forward at once-But
it must be admitted that Ohio went to the
front as promptly in war as she does III peace