smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1879

The other night nervous man in
Burlington was awakened, hearing
some marauder in his chicken house.
He hastily dressed himself little.
sneakod out to the hen house, grasped
his club firmly, put his head in the
door aud shouted, Come out Of there
you son Of sea COW, or I'll chaw the
heart out Of you" and then before
he could sec which way to strike a
large dog with jaw Ike an alligator
sailed out Of the hennery and Bit him
four times in The legs before the as.
tonished man could reach the hall
door. The man is now writing a
pamphlet to prove that owing to the
unframed and limited intelligence of
the lower order of animals, language
calculated to inspire a man with terror
may be addressed to a strange dog
with no effect beyond that of enrag.
ing il,
Year: 1879

that night the fog set in, and was thick
all the next day, the fourth, until 4
pm, when it cleared, but the steamer
was not in sight; the pack ice tended
to the northeast from the latitude of
Herald Island; a few days after came
up and worked to the northward, in
the wake of the loose ice; Captain
Nye, of the Wolistan, thinks he saw
smoke off thirty miles from Herald
Island; ice has been moving in the
Arctic in large quantities, all through
the summer, and vessels have got
no further north or east than Icey
Cape.
Year: 1879

of the Advertiser on another point of this f.
nancial question. 1t is favorite theme with
the Advertiser, to deplore in the most dolo-
rous and lugubrious strains, the advent and
presence of the Mongolian race in these Is
lands, with its direful consequences to the
native population, &c., &c., and that the China
men salt down and transport all the coin that
comes into their hands to the Celestial King
dom, and thus drain the country of the coin so
essential to trade, commerce and prosperity.
The Advertiser does not see, that if post notes
were issued, as we propose, and the planters
made use of them as medium of exchange
for labor, provisions, &C., &C.. that the China
men would be effectually estopped from sending
the coin out of the country for a period of one,
two and three years, because they would be
compelled to receive the notes for labor and
would also be compelled to keep them in pos
session till they matured, before they could
demand payment in coin. We commend this
view of our proposition to the Advertiser, and
at the same time recommend TO that paper a
more candid rs well as a more careful exami-
nation of question, which up to this time, it
does not comprehend. This is question in
volving much more than appears at first sight
to a superficial observer, such as the Adver-
tiser has proven itself to be, in its lame at
tempt to discuss this financial question.
Year: 1879

The London Times, reviewing the fishery
question, saws: "The opinion expressed
in the United States that the whole
question should be settled by the State
Department and the Foreign Office, with.
out the North American Colonies bav-
ing voice in the matter, betokens a
misapprehension of the tpoicy of the
British Empire, which accords to its self
governing colonies freedom Of action
which is limited only by Imperial con,
silerations: The inshore fisheries are
the unalienable heritage of Canada and
Newfoundland, and these countries must
say whether and on what terms partici-
patton in them should be granted to a
foreign country. 1t is somewhat sur
prising that the United States, which
owe their very existence as nation to
the assertion of the very principal that
colony must have voice in any nego-
tiations which affect its interest, shou Id
not understand the same principle when
asserted on behalf of Canala. The in
trinsic value of the property destroyed
on the occasion of the Fortune Bay
fracas is o mere trihe as compared with
100000, and as that sum is the Ameri-
can estimate Of some two or three boats
being prevented from making single
catch of fish, it looks as if the fishing
privileges granted by the treaty of Wash
ington were OF greater value than the
people Of the United States have been
hitherto willing to allow. 1t is satisfac.
tory to find that the Government at
Washington repudiates all intention of
asking any reconsideration of the Halifax
award on the grounds of subsequent i'll
treatment of fishermen. Were the
Fortue Bay claim the only surviving
difficulty in connection witE the
fisheries question, it would serve
to show, by its insignifcance,
the dimensions to which for
midable international matter has
been reduced. Unfortunately, the whole
question will soon come up again. Any
further arrangement ON the Halifax
plan, unless preceded by final and con-
elusive settlement of the headlands
dispute and the rights OF American fsn-
ing vessels in British North American
ports, would be unsatisfactory Seeing
that the fisheries question is as old as
the war of 1872, and that it is, happily,
the only grave question between the two
countries, surely it calls for diplomatic
action to settle it Immediately and for
ever"
Year: 1879

A drama has just been produced at
Posen founded Oh the death Of the Prince
Imperial. In the first act the Prince
is seen at Chislehurst. He speaks about
the mitrailleuses at Forbash and the
bullets at Saarbruck, and why the French
army ought to have been victorious, but
was not; enter Q deputation Of Bona
partists, who request that he should come
back to France and make an appeal to
the country for restoration AS the
good boy that he is, he declined to do so,
and TO occasion civil war. Act H.
He is in love with the daughter of q
samekeeper, and meets her in a wood.
The Empress comes upon the pair; she
demonstrates with the girl, who forbids
the Prince her presence, The young
fellow, in fit Of despair, vows that he
will have himself killed In the third
act the scene is in Zululand. The Prince,
about to proceed to the front, writes af-
fecting letters to his mother and sweet
heart. Act IV-The dismounting of
the accommodating party among the Zu-
lus; the savagcs surround the party; q
general stampede takes place, among the
indignant Kisses of the audience, and the
Prince, who thinks only of the game
keepers daughter, is killed. In the fifth
act the Empress. and the girl fall into
each others arms over the remains of
the Prince, and the coffin, being raised
by a mechanical contrivance, shows to
the public through glass lid the dead
face Of the Inflated lover.-London
Truth.
Year: 1879

A Saratoga correspondent writes
thus: Country manners are nowhere
more conspicuous than at table in the
dining room. We watched with inter-
est a party who sat near us yesterday at
dinner. One was an oldy, who sat with
her chair quite removed from the table,
and tilted forward so that she was able
to reach her plate with convenience. We
expected every moment to see some
waiter trip his foot against the protrud-
ing chair, and to behold the old lady,
soup and all, disappear under the table.


A youth at her right sat leisurely
tipping his chair backward between his
spasms of eating, and really looked as
though he were weary because he coul /
not indulge in the American pastime of
putting his heels above his head upon
the table. When finger-bowls were
placed before the party, he took huge
drink from his, and ate up the lemon
with evident relish.


The old lady looked curiously at hers,
and, not being quite certain Of its use,
with the homespun instinct, dipped her
teaspoon and fork in it, and carefully
wiped them upon her napkin, wonder
ing, meanwhile, who took care OF the
silver.
Year: 1879

Yesterday afternoon, the large barn
upon the Ennis farm, near Dover, was
destroyed by fire. There were 1900
bundles of blade fodder and also 400
bushels Of corn which had just L"en
slelled, destroyed. The origin of the
fire resulted from the carelesness OF
some boys who had started to burn some
brush seme distance from the buiil ling
For some reason they left the spot, and
the sparks getting in the rank grass and
igniting it, caused the grass to burst
forth in saeet Of flames which travel
ed before the wind with considerable
rapidity. In its course ran a road; but
owing to the underground on the oppo-
site side, the flames crossed this and
made for the building above mentioned.
A colored man seeing the danger under
.ook to avert it bat of no avail. After
the fire had surrounded the barn and
enveloped it its fury was spent, and
the destructive element subsided with
out doing further damage.
Year: 1879

The Boston One Price merchant tai
loring establishment are exhibiting to.
day their spring goods for custom work.
Their stock comprises all grades of for
eign t(their own importation and do
mestic fabrics and everything that is
new and desirable can be found in
their stock which is said to be the finest
ever brought to this city. They have
suits of all kinds and at prices the low :
est in the city for the same grade Of
goods.


Mr.. Shinn, the cutter, is a practical
workman, and understands his bust
ness thoroughly, so you need have no
hesitancy ahcus being fitted properly.
Those who do not desire TO leave their
order can purchase ready.made suit
at u reasonable price.


The prices this year are lower than
tAey have been for several years, and
one can easilv be suited at the Boston
Clothing House. To appreciate the fl ne
stock of goods is to go and see for your
selves.
Year: 1879




Its 10 these latter that our appeal
vas and is still made. We still say to
them that while they allow themselves
to become disfranchised through their
own indifference and neglect to nave
themselves assessed and to pay their
taxes, the fault Is principally theirs
The road to the polls is tortuous one
but as it has been successfully troddsn
before it can still be trod by any
person who is really and sincerely Do
sirous Of voting. All that is 70 be done
| is to hunt uptbs assessor at the proper
time and see that these names are upon
his books, and afterwards hunt up the
collector and pay their taxes and then
they will not be disfranchised.
Year: 1879

As Mr.. Lewis r. Springer, Is one Of
the lead ing Democratic workers Of the
city, and will no doubt appreciate the
complimentary remarks made by Dem
ocratic mem bers of the City Council At
its last mreting, in reference to the en-
ployment Of . special detective to find
and arrest the thieves that have been
plundering houses while the occupants
were away from the city for few days.
According to the Democratic theory ad-
vanced at the meeting of Council re-
ferred to no person who has been 80 lucky
as to accumulate a little property Of
his own 10 entitled to police Pro-
lection, unless they hire 1t and pay for
it themselves. According to this doc
trine whenever man becomes SO pros
perous as to have home of his own
and live in some kind Of comfort and
ease, he must be made to pay for extra
protection. Mr.. s. ought to have known
better than to have gone off on little
pleasure jaunt, without having first
hired an extra policeman to guard his
property in his absence. 1t is true that
Mr.. Springer is large tax payer to
pay the present police force for protec-
ton but that amounts to nothing SO
long as he has few dollars left which
according to Democratic doctrine he
ought to pay to speoial detective. II
seems to us that all the citizens Of Will
mington are entitled to police protec-
ton, and if thieves have hankeripg
after unoccupied houses whose owners
are away for a few days, then that Is
the place for the police to be, as they
would be more likely to catch them
there than anywhere else.


Ifthis.is Democratic doctrineit may suit
q large proportion Of the party, but
men like Mr.. Springer who is one Of
the burning lights Of the party will
either have to stay at home and watch
his property or put his hand in his
pocket and pay for extra police to do it
for him. Perhaps to make the best
kind of Democrat is not to gel
wealthy at all.
Year: 1879

WITH THE tide of immigration which
has set into this country from Europe
there are the same old complaints Of
sending paupers to our shores as there
were in years before the war. In re-.
cent arrival at Castle Garden two in
sane paupsrs were amongst the number,
one from Switzerland and smother from
Germany.
Year: 1879

Mr.. VIM. Saunders, Superintendent
= of the Propagating Garden Of this
Department, has fully considered all
the facts thus far submitted by the
orange growers of Florida, and he
confirms my opinion that an over
succulent growth is the prevailing
cause ct the disease. For example,
"The disease Is said to appear first on
the buds, leaves, and tips OF branch
es. II attacks the young wood, and
generally appears on transplanted
stumps having buds from one to
three years Of age" Mr.. Saunders
says that, stumps of the character
spoken OF, will, when fully rooted
throw out in the second and third year
very vigorous and succulent branch
es; and late Fall, succulent growth,
followed by frost, would have the
tendency to produce the result in
question, and this evil would prove
greater on low, undraiffed lands, than
on those which are high and well
drained, because the succulent growth
would continue longer on wet soil.
While plants are making a large
growth of wood, their buds seldom
mature into blossom, much less into
fruit. An orange tree TO be healthy,
should make wood slowly, and ripen
quickly, without which oranges will
never come to maturity. Succulent
Growth tavors the breeding of insects
and also the black fungus so common
to the Florida orange. A drop OF
the black fungus matter, falling on
the fruit, leaves, or branches, will
propagate quickly its kind, and the
fact that when the skin of an orange
is once covered with the black fungus
(called AntennarieD it becomes tough
and of less value, shows the greater
necessity of preventing its growth.
Besides, the cleaner the tree and
leaves, the freer will be the evapora-
ton of moisture from its surface, and
the greater the consolidation OF solid
matter in the tissue. Experience
demonstrates that unripe wood fos-
ters aphides and other insects. The
fou- dation, therefore. of many of the
troubles OF Agriculturists and horti-
culturists lies in unripe wood.


From the foregoing considerations
am convinced that the general and
primary cause of the trust" is found
in an excess of moisture in the ground
or atmosphere, or both, causing great
succulency of growth, which tends
TO cause the blistering in the young
wood, and greater expansion OF the
heart wood of older branches, caus-
ing the bark to split longitudinally
followed by a flow of watery sap
from the ruptured parts, composed
of cellular substances, albumen and
essential oil of orange. The latter
oxidizes on exposure to the atmos-
phere, and forms the brown crust "
seen on the branches. Sometimes it
is quite glossy. 1t is soluble in al
Year: 1879

From what we have seen in this
county, and the reports made by our
correspondents in other counties,
there wnl be a smaller orange crop,
from the old groves, than the last.
The trees did not bloom well, owing
in a great measure to the cold in Jan
uary, and the loss of the usual rains
about that time. However, there
are SO many new groves continually
coming into bearing, that tie quanti-
ty for shipment will hardly fall away.
The fruit may also te expected to be
of superior quality.
Year: 1879

Editors Florida ASriculauist:


In presenting you with briet
statement of the condition of our
public schools, I feel the kindness
you express towards me personally
and the interest you evince in the
welfare and prosperity of the schools
OF the county. There are now thirty
two organized school districts in this
county, and the work of organization
goes steadily forward. Seven of
these have been organized within the
year and still there are some new dis
tricts awaiting orgapization.


There were thirty schools in oper-
alton during the present scholastic
year, (commencing the first of Octo-
Der 1879 and inthese Thirty districts
there have been s4xeols maintained
20 ~ .<.~.;ss: '.i4s-
ont of the school fund OF the county
and State for terms varying from
three to six months. There have
been taught during the present scho-
lastic year, seven hundred and thirty
four children Of the proper school
age, besides quite a number who are
over the legal age for drawing from
the school fund.


We have paid teachers from the
school fund of the county tor the
present scholastic year, two thousand
six hundred and tifty-eight dollars
and ninety six cents, and we have an
unexpended balance, in TIE treasury,
of four or five hundred dollars which
will be expended in several of the
said school districts before the close
OF the present school year. (Septem-
Der 3Oth 1879.


There is gratifying interest taken
by nearly all classes in our public
schools. The best evidence of this
is found in the increasing call for or.
organization and in the largely in
creased attendance. The Board of
Public instruction find themselves
unable to respond to some OF these
calls for schools from sparsely settled
neighborhoods on account of n reduc.
tion of school tax by the last legisla-
ture. The limit Of taxation for
county school purposes has been re-
duced by them fifty per cent, and as
the Board does not wish to shorten
the school term, there seems to be
but one way to give a term long
enough to be profitable to the chill
dren. Contract for smaller wages
with the teachers. and at the same
time let the patrons of the schools
contribute voluntarily toward the
board of the teacher, and I would
urge this point upon the attention
of the patrons of the schools
in the county, and ask their
aid and cooperation in meeting
and overcoming this reduction of tax
without shortening the school term.
Year: 1879

OOHOi ouu OuIHS lIho Su0lIdC. w Heu
the exudation is boiled in potash, the
resin is dissolved, and cellular struc-
lures remain. AS a remedy would
strongly recommend drainage if that
is possible. Experiments might be
profitably made on a small scale, to
ascertain if the evil cannot be prevent
ed.


Root pruning might be tested, and
the girdling OF few leading branch
es might have the effect of consolida-
ting the sap in the upper part Of the
limbs. 1t is well known that fruit
has been very much improved by
this process, and is worthy Of trial.
The objection to this is, that in few
years, the girdled branch will die.
About four years ago girdled a
branch OF an apple tree, about two and
one half inches in diameter, and heavi-
ly painted the exposed part with thick
white lead in oil, avoiding the use of
turpentine. The fruit on this branch
each year since the girdling, has been
Of better quality, hangs longer on it
than on any other branch of the same





tree: and seems wholly free from in
sect injury. When tree is girdled,
the descending sap is retained above
the girdled part; and this is evident
ly the case from the fact that the
branch above it increases in diameter
while that below does not. 1t is
therefore evident that the effect of
girdling, is to supply larger amount
of solid nourishment to all parts
above the girdling. Astrees increase
in aoa the cells of tha moody struct,
ure fillup and become consolidated
This is known as heart wood but it
is found by experience that the limb
of tree will ulti nately die in the
absence of fresh growth OF wood
over the girdled part. When a por-
ton of bark is removed from a tree
it may close over, owing to its lateral
growth, but it is observed that the
bark of tree, has no tendency %
grow from above downwards, or
from below upwards. If after a
number of years by any device, the
naked part of girdled branch of
fruit tree could be covered over with
a healthy growth Of bark, a new lay.
er OF wood would grow under it,
and all over the branch, and in a
year or two the girdling process
could be repeated if desired.


For this purpose have devised a
new method of girdling. which l
think is worthy of trial. l propose
zigzag cut made through the bark
all around the branch exposing the
sap wood, which should be painted
with thick white lead, 10 prevent the
evaporation Of moisture from the
parts. In this way the wood is pre-
served from dry rot. The usual man
ner OF girdling trees, is to remove
the bark in straight line all around.
A tree girdled after this fashion, will
never recuperate, owing to the . fact
stated, and in the course of few
years, the woody cells become solid
from the deposition ofincrusting mat
ters, and the sap will be retarded in
its upward, flow. In glrdling trees
the main trunk should never be tam
pered with. All experiments should
be confined to the branches, and that
with conservative zeal. The great
object to be accomplished is reduc-
ticn of watery sap, which may be at
tanned by drainage, root pruning, and
by the removal OF moss, lichens, and
fungi, which frequently cover trees
and prevent evaporation. Weak
Year: 1879

THE Quarter Sessions bill passed the
House yesterday. This measure ought
to decrease our county expenses consid-
erably. They have been largely increas-
ed since the repeal of the law under
which the Mayors Court in this city W as
held and disposed Of so many petty cases
that are now sent to New Castle TO await
trial,
Year: 1879

The proposition of Mr.. Dean to re-
quire the members of the Levy Court to
publish an itemized statement would
prove a great saving to the county and a
great satisfaction to the members them
selves. If the amount for contracts was
raised to five hundred dollars there
would, no doubt, be great saving in it
also
Year: 1879

ANOTHER FATAL COAL OIL ACcIDENT.-On Sat-
urday morning last Mrs. David Foster, living
near Cardova, in Chapel district, Talbot county
was SO badly burned by the explosion of coal
OIL that she died about midnight of the same
day. She rose to light the fire, and to hasten it
nited the Oil In the can and an explosion fol-
lowed, which threw the burning Oil all over her.
setting fire to her clothing. She was so terribly
burned that death ensued in about eighteen
hours. She was about 25 years of age and
leaves two children EIstOn NM LEDGER;