smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1878

THE HUDsoNs DEFEAT THE AsToRs ON THE


CAPIToLINE GRoUND-A DRAW GAME on THE


UNION GROUND BETWEEN THE NEW YORK


AND ORANGE CLUBS THE JERSEY CITYs AND


PAsTIMEs, OF PRINCETON, PLAY FINE GAME


ON THE CEN ENNIAL GROUND.


There good attendance the Capitoline Ground
yesterday afternoon to witness tho Metropolitan
championship game between the Hudsons, OF Brook.
lyu, and The Aslors, OF this city The game with tho
exception OF the eighth inning, splen.
didly contested, both mines doing excellen /
fielding Tho Hudsons tue strongest at
the bat and won the game by ins batting and loose
fielding the part OF the Asors the eighth inning
The Hudsons Datied well in the first aud second in
nings but were prevented from scoring through the
Hudsops scored the Hrst run of the game and in the
fourth each side scored one which placed
two to favor OF tue AudsOps, where 1t remained
until The eighth inning. At one time the udsons
had o man each base, all or whom got their
bases sale hits There was
out ana il looked as though the Astors
were u doomed club but by sharp fielding
the Hudsons were doubled up without scoring. A fly
bali hit 10 ono OF The outuslders, who caught II
and made q quick return TO homo base, holding the
runners their respective bases short fly ball
was hit tho pitcher who backed several steps and
smothered II on the ground, ana ma0o u beautiful
double play by passing to third base, by the way Of
bssen In the seventh inning the Astor pitcher while
Ut the bat, struck the side with the ball. winch
prevented him from pitching In the oghtn inning
with much elect. The Astors were broken up by
this accident and the Hudso hard aud
scoring runs Neither side scored In the ninth.
Tho following Is the score:-
Year: 1878

A correspondent of the American Poultra
Yard describes his method as follows:


First, proper feeding pail is an absolute
necessity to successfully prepare the refuse ol
the table and kitchen to make 1t proper food
for fowls. Get hardwood pail, or ask your
grocer for hardwood butter firkin shaped
like pail. Cut board to fit into the chine
hrmly on the whole bottom of the pail, and
thick enough to project an eigh lh of an inch
or more beyond the ends of the slaves, so that
tne pail may rest firmly on the bottom instead
I pl on tne ends of the slaves. Fasten in place
py leW nails driven through the slaves into
tnis laise bottom, which may be of pine as it
only 10 keep from bursting out the bottom of
the pali by chopplng in it. If you cannot get
a HARDWOOD pan, put another false bottom of
hardwood lnside OF pine pail, nicely fitted
ana secured IKE Inc under one. Grind the
edge OF common spade sharp, and you have
an admirable chopping knife, and will be sur
prised to see how quickly you can chop fine
all scraps and waste of every kind, cooked or
raw vegetables, chicken bones, and every-
thing except beef, pork or mutton bones
these save by themselves, and put into stock
soup kettle, with all pieces of raw meat, or
cheap meat from the market, and keep it on
the Kitchen stove as much of the day as you
can induce your ''better half' to let it remain
Alter boiling several days some of these large
pones Will chop up ine with the other waste,
and can be used as fast as they become soft.
Chop up the waste each morning, adding meal
and shorts enough for breakfast for the
hock, scald the whole with the soup from the
STOCK Kettle, adding once each week one OF
the following articles, for each 25 hens one
spoonful pepper, six onions, one-haf pint
charcoal, one spoonful pure ginger and two
spoonfuls of sulphur, etc. The above will
produce breakfast that will make your poul-
Try house and its occupants as lively and mus
ical as first class opera house, and its effect
upon the egg-basket will be visible to the ma
ked eye, and may gain for your soup kettle
more time on the kitchen stove.
Year: 1878

In the selection of field for the cultivation
OF this crop the soil should be a light sandy
one, so situated as to be thoroughly drained,
and capable of becoming dry at the earliest
possible time after the frost leaves the ground,
says the Fruit Recorder. When a new piece
OF ground is selected, the result not unfre-
quently proves partial failure, notwithstand-
Ing great care and pains may have taken in
cultivation


The failure usually consists in an excessive
stock growth at the expense OF bottomng, so
so that beginner need not be discouraged
even though the first one or two efforts do
not prove successful or remuneratve, In no
case should a field be taken for the growth of
this crop that has not previously been under
thorough cultivation and become well pulver-
lied, and also in high state OF fertility.


Iti also very desirable, though not abso-
lutey necessary, that the manuring and prin-
cipal ploughing be done in the autumn, just
previous to the freezing of the ground. since
thereby the manure becomes more evenly dis
tributed in the soil, and not only that, but be-
ing so loosened and more exposed to the ac-
tion of the frost, is more easily communicated
in the early spring. The manure used is not
SO essential, II 1t be well pulverized some pre-
Ier morse manure, others that from the hog
yard, and still Others any that is we'll decom-
posed. The ploughing in the spring need not
necessarily be very deep if the same was thor
oughly done in the fall, since the onion is
bulb that grows and fourishes best on the
surface. AS soon as the frost leaves the
ground, if previously manured, it should be
lightly ploughed. say from three to four inches
deep, and then thoroughly scarifed, so that
it shall be evenly and thoroughly pulverized; !;
great auxiliary to manure of whatever kind,
and which appears to assist in the bottoming,
is good supply of ashes; in fact good crops
have been grown from soil in good condition,
fertilized by ashes alone. If ashes be used,
they should be strewn upon the surface after
being smoothed, and thoroughly raked in, at
which time the surface should be raked
smoothly. If ashes be not used after
the surface is scarifed, guano, superphos-
phate or some other commercial fertilizer,
should be evenly distributed upon the surface
and raked in as before. When thus prepared,
the field is ready for the seed. Formerly this
was sown by hand, which was slow and
wearisome process; but since the advent of
seed planters, of which there are various
kinds, the labor is comparatively easy.
Year: 1878

No man can 20 down into the dun
gson Of his sxpsrisnee and hold the
torch Of truth to all the dark chambers
and hidden cavities and not come up
with shuddsr and chill as he thinks
Of the time when he undertook to talk
politics with the deaf old father OF his
hrst swssthsart while the girl was rres-
Year: 1878

A Washington society correspondent
writes In the last year of the reign of
Mrs. Fish, as the wife of the secretary
Of state, there happened an amusing in
cident, which / will relate to instance
the trouble to which the wives of public
men are often unnecessarily put. I
will call the lady Thomas. Her hus-
band is clerk, on small pay, in one of
the departments. She made no social
pretension, lived in quiet, humble
way, in very petite house in the sub
urbs, kept no domestic, and did her own
work. All this greatly to her credit.
Being one Wednesday afternoon in the
neighborhood of the "Fish mansion"
she proposed to her sister "to go in
Just for a look and see what the high
flyers were doing" At the door the
footman presented his salver for card.
They had none. The assistant servant
handed another salver with blank
card and a pencil. The little woman
wrote her name and address, thinking
it mere form, and the twain were is
sued into the drawing room, where the
courtly Mrs. Fish received them with
all the inlpre SSnent due queen.
About ten days after this the industrious
housekeeper was mounted on a step
ladder in front of her modest little
home, engaged in the unpleasant task of
washing windows.


She noticed coming down the street
an elegant carriage, with servants in
livery, driving superbly- -caparisoned
horses. 1t came on and presently halted
at her door. The footman sprapg down,
came to the window, took card, and,
approaching the ladder, asked:


"Does Mrs. Thomas live herep"


eyes"


els she at homer"


"No," replied the quick-witted
housewife, as she took the pasteboard
and slowed it in her pocket. The story
was too good to keep, and her husband
told it in great glee to friend of ours
who gave 1t to me. Mrs. Fish was very
punctilious about returning visits, and,
no matter how obscure the person from
whom she received the compliment Of a
visit, she never failed to go in person
Year: 1878

A newspaper in the fullest sense of the word,
at once adapted to the Merchant. the Me-
ebaRic, the Farmer. and everybody
desirous Of keeping up with the
stirring news of this live and


progressive age.
Year: 1878

We feel "kinder sad like and have been
dropping around all day like Truthful James
and his friends on the eventful evening of the


"spelling bee at Angel's." The Baton Rouge
Advocate, Of the twenty third instant con-


tains q fragmentary analysis Of the board
ing g-house hash" we gave our readers last
week on the subject Of the State capital-but,


alas it is In the shape of communication.
Nowhere In it do we see the ear marks or


the ears of the Aduocate-there is not in the


whole Of column one deft stroke that re-
| minds us even Of the Advocates Gown sweet


and cunning hand" We confess to a bitter
disappointment in this denouement of our
we'll laid plan to draw the Advocate out.
Things were awfully solemn down here about


the time we wrote that article, and we just
thought we would enliven matters q little by
stirring up the Advocate on the capital ques-
ton. At the imminent risk of estrangng a


number Of good friends, we called Baton


Rouge "coaling station" and pretended not


to know its locality. We even went so far as
to describe perhaps the most beautiful and


elegant State capital building upon this con-


tinent' as an old "rookery." # this was not


aggravating what could be? And, yet, all


we get in return is calm and sedate argu-


ment from correspondent Of the Advocate


to prove that New Orleans has no existence


under the constitution. There isn't 'scuss


word in the whole article, from beginning to
Year: 1878

The Baton Rouge Aduocate has brought in a
correspondent to demonstrate that New Or
leans has absolutely no constitutional right
to exist. This is sad, indeed. The Advocate
would probably have been less severe than its
correspondent, who speaks from the book -
from the peroration rs published in the last
Issue of our respected contemporary:


This beautiful State never enjoyed so much
prosperity the arts. commerce and agri-


CONTINUED NEnnRnW
Year: 1878

The death of Bishop Rosecrans of the Ro-
man Catholic Church of Ohio Is announced as
having taken place atColumbus, in that State,
on October q. He was a brother of Gen,
Rosecrans of the army, and one Of the most
eminent of the higher clergy of his church In
the United States. It will be remembered by
many persons in New Orleans that he par
ticipated In the ceremonies of conservation
when Archbishop Perche, of this diocese, was
consecrated to the high office in the church
which he now holds.
Year: 1878

The trial of the Vanderbilt will case in New
York is dragging its slow length along. The
evidence, SO far as gven points to decision
of the Surrogate in favor of the heirs, who
are suing to break the will, and against VIM.
lei. Vanderbilt, who, as our readers are aware,
became, by the will Of the old Commodore,
the legatee of the greater part Of his fathers
estate, and thus came into the possession Of
an estate valued at nearly one hundred mill
lions of dollars. The latest notable and re-
4rrettable incident in the trial was the point
Year: 1878

Blanton Duncan will retire from politics at
an early day and go into the pruning busi-
ness, the Coauier-jounnt intimates. This
statement is received with regret. B. D. Is a
bore In politics. but at least he is a harmless
one. In the new line marked out for him he
would prove positive calamity. Louisville
would do well to catch the fever at once.
Year: 1878

precpitate o race conflict as the last end des-
perate refuge and recourse of party driven
to the wall and defeated at every point. The
DEMOCRAT has thoroughly exposed the dia-
bolical plot In this State. This s all it can do.
The people themselves must now take the
matter In hand and settle it to suit themselves
at the coming election.
Year: 1878

IHE ANTECEDENTs OF DISEASE.
Among the antecedents Of disease are
inertness in the circulation of the blood.
an unnaturally attenuated condition of


the physique. indicating that the life cur
rent is deficient in nulritive properties.


a wan haggard look, inability to digest


the food, loss of appetite, sleep and


and a sen alton of unnatural


languor. All these may be regarded as
among the indicIa OF approaching disease,


which will eventually attack the system
and overwhelm it, if it is net built up and
fortified in advance. Iuvigorate. then,
without loss of time making choice Of the
greatest vitalizing agent extant Hostel
t+r,s Stomach Bitters, an elixir which has
given health and vigor to my riads of the
sick and debilitated, which il avouched
by physicians and ANALYSTS to be pure ass
well as effective, which is immensely
popular iii this country, and extensively
used abroad, and which has been for
years past one Of the leading medicinal
staples of America.
Year: 1878

had been redressed and fastened to
nail with long cord, reaching from
the boys room down. 1t all flashed
over my mind in an instant The boys
knowing my late hours, had played the
trick on me. | returned to the house,
replying to inquiries that the corpse
would lay where it was for the present.
As for John and Harry, they had no
further occasion to complain of the cold
that night. for the warming they got be-
fore they went upstairs again was enough
to last them until daylight. and gave
them lesson that they will not soon
forget.


"Soon after went out in the kitchen.
and found the old mare standing with
her bead over the sink, patiently wait
ing for drink. Her halter having be-
come loosened, and the doors from stable
to kitchen open, she had improved the
opportunity to go on tour of investi-
cation.


This, boys, is the sum total of my
ghost story about as real, guess, as
any that happen hereabouts. I never
took much stock in these shrounded
images-there is always some human
agency about them and as for the scare
well, don't want to see any more
ghostly faces peering in at the windows,
[ tell you.'
Year: 1878

Mr.. Sam Gentry. living over the line
in the adjacent county of Stewart, has
in his possession purse made out of
the tanned skin of rattlesnake, which
he caught and killed under the follow
ing extraordinary circumstances In 60
ing along path in a wheat field he
came across the snake lying at full
length before him, manifesting no de-
sire to retreat or attack and apparently
waiting for something to turn up. Mr..
Gentry, who is practical mesmerist,
concluded to try his powers on the dan
gerous reptile before him, reasoning that
if snake can magntize bird, why can
not man, endowed with greater mesmeric
power put snake under the power Of
his will? Taking his position at the
side of the dangerous but quiet subject,
he made quick undulatory passes with
both hands from the head to the tail,
and in few moments had the satisfac-
tion Of seeing the snake completely
within his power-charmed, magnetized,
mesmerized, or whatever it may be prop
erly called. Placing one of his hands


in front of his subject, it Immediately
crawled on his right arm. then over his
neck to the left. Gentry in the mean
time continuing his mismeric passes.
He then carried the rattlesnake home on
his arm, when, under his direction, one
Of his sons opened its mouth and un-
folded its fangs, the snake quietly SUBJ
mitting to the novel operation. After
fully satisfying himself and a number
of his neighbors, who were present and
witnessed the affair, of the truth of his
theory, he cast it on the ground, killed
it, stripped off the skin, tanned it and
made himself a purse. which he has
ever since carried about his person.
Year: 1878




Arthur was the son of poor widow
who could hardly earn enough to buy
food for herself and son. She had no
warm shawl. and could not 60 to church
in cold weather. Arthur felt sorry to
see his mother kept at home for such
cause. His sorrow was real, too. for it
made him set his wits to work to earn
money. He became bellows blower to
the organist, and ran errands for the
neighbors and shop, keepers, until he
earned to buy a cheap, warm shawl.


He kept his plan secret, brought the
shawl, carried it home, and stealing up
behind his mother. spread it out and
laid it over her shoulders.


What is my boy about p cried the
widow, starting from her chair. Then
feeling the shawl, she grasped it and
said. "Why, what's this p


"a nice, warm shawl for my dear
mother to wear to church p cried Ar
thur, clapping his hands and dancing
around the room for joy; isn't it a
beauty ?"


When his mother learned how the shawl
had been procured. her heart was glad.
Tears filled her eyes. and pressing Ar
thur to her breast, she said:


'.My dear, dear boy p


Was not Arthur well paid, think you,
for all his work and pains in earning
that shawl | doubt if there was a
happier boy in the nation that night
than Arthur. What made him SO hap
py? Love and duty! He had loved
his mother. and had shown it by work.
ing very hard to buy her shawl. The
gift had become a JOY to her lonely
heart, because it made her feel that her
boy loved her-that he returned love
for love.


If any boys wish to test Arthur's
happiness, they can all do it. The
chance is as open to them as it was to
Arthur. They have but to love their
mothers dearly, and to show it by acts
of affectionate obedience. If they knew
how much value their mothers set on
their love, they would love them dearly.
Boys, let Arthur's example teach you to
love your mothers and to show that you
love them.
Year: 1878

We do not know the author Of
the best practical sermons to young
men that we have ever heard; IL wish
| had capital" SO we heard great
strapping young man exclaim the other
day in our Office. We did want to give
him piece of our mind SO bad-and
we just wrote to him. 'You want cap
ital do you?-And suppose you had
what you call capital what would you
do with it? You want capital? Haven't
you got hands. feet, muscle, and brains
and don't you call that capital
What more did God give to anybody?
"Oh, but they are more than many and
no one can take them from you. Don't
you know how to use them? If you
don't, it is time you were learning
take hold of the first pillow, hoe. or
broadaxe that you can find and go to
your work. Your capital will soon
yield you large interest. Ay, but
there's the rub; you don't want work.
you want money on credit that you may
play the gentleman and speculate, and
end by playing the yagabond. Or you
want plantation or negroes. that you
may hire an overseer to attend to them
while you run over the country and
dissipate or you want to marry some
rich girl who may be foolish enough to
marry you for Jour good looks, that she
may support you.


Shame upon you. young man. Go to
work with the capital you have and
you'll soon have interest enough upon it
and with it to give you as much money
as you want and make you feel like
man. If you can't make money upon
what capital you have you could not
make it if you had million dollars in
money. IF yeu don't know how to use
bone and muscle and brains, you would
not know how to use gold. If you let
the capital you have be idle and waste
and run out, it would be the same if
you had gold; you would only know
how to waste Then don't stand like q
great overgrown child; waiting for
somebody to come in and feed you. but
go to work. Take the first work you
can find no matter what it is. SO that
you can be sure to do it as Billy did his
drumming-well. Yes. what you. un-
dertake, do it we'll; always do your
best. If you manage the capital you
already have, you will soon have
plenty more to manage. but if you can't
or won't manage the capital God has
given you, you can never have any
more to manage"
Year: 1878


His coat was too thick and his cap was too thin,
He couldn't he quiet. he hated a din;
He hated to write, and he hated to read.
He was certainly very much injured indeed;
He must study and work over books he detested,
His parents were strict and he never was rested;
He knew he was wretched as wretched could be,
There was no one so wretchedly wretched as he.


HIS MATURITY.
HIS farm was too small and his taxes too big,
He was selfish and lazy, and cross as pig;
His wife was too silly. his children too rude;
And just because he uncommonly good,
He never had money enough or to spare.
He had nothing at all At TO eat or to wear;
He knew he was wretched as wretrhed could be,
There was no one so wretchedly wretched as he.


OLD AGE
He finds he has sorrows more deep than his fears,
BE grumbles to think he has grurnbled for years;
He grumbles to think he has grumbled away
His home and his fortune, his lifes little day.
But, alas tits too late,-it is no use to say
That his eyes are too dm and his hair is too gray
He knows he is wretched as wretched can be,
There is no one more wretchedly wretched than he
Dora GOOdaIe 90 years oldl, in ST. NichOtas.