smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1877

Our name is mentioned for the nomi-
nation for Lieutenant Governor. Since
II has been mentioned, we would like
10 have the nomination, but 3 failure
would bring neither disappointment
nor modification to any degree to
worry US. tits not an Office OF active
duties in which the incumbent can hope
to serve the public 80 as 10 make
character as public servant, and the
inducement to seek It as an ambitious
man might seek q place which gave
promise OF making an honorable name
among men, is wanting. It is OF Inn
portance, chiefly, on account of Its
possibilities. The only canvass We
can make to secure the office is TO take
neediul measures TO bring 1t TO the
knowledge of the Convention that we
will accept the Office If rendered, and
with the more gratitude as 1t comes OF
little seeking.


ANY Of our coten poraries who make
mention will oblige US. A. G. HoRS.
Year: 1877

THERE are rumors in Washington 10
the effect that the President will revoke
his order calling q session Of Congress
in October. As all the Departments
have been instructed to have their re.
ports ready by September his, tre-
port can hardly be true.
Year: 1877

IT is waste Of paper to send a COM
munication to the HERALD unless the
authors name accompanies It. No
matter what a communication contains
we will not print it, unless we know
who is the author of 1t.
Year: 1877

The circumstances calling forth the
following touching and thrilling lines
are as follows: A young lady in New
York was in the habit Of Writing for a
Philadelphia paper, on the subject of
Temperance. Her writing was full Of
pathos, and evidenced such deep emo
tions of soul, that a friend accused
her Of being a maniac on the subject
Of temperance. Yhereupon she wrote
the lines below.
Year: 1877

Hence, sustained BY law, and the receipts
being most encouraging, the management
emphatlcally state that this Drawing will
positively take place on August 3Oth, or
MONEY WILL BB REFUNDED IN FULL.
Year: 1877

is now almost universally conceded to
have been an evil to the whites, but, in
the light of the negroes condition since
freedom, occasionally hear a man say
that, while he doesn't want the institu-
tion, he believes it was good thing for
the blacks. =


The next census will give us a basis of
calculation, Ind we shall then know, or
at least be able to draw an intelligent
deduction as to the future of the race in
America. That they will not increase in
freedom az rapidly as in slavery we
already know. That is assured. The
figures of the last census are fairly start
ling in this particular, showing as they
do 80 a marked decrease in the ratio OF
increase as compared with the decade
from 1850 to 1860.


In the south, the predominating opin-
ion among the whites is that the race is
doomed, that decrease win be rapid
henceforth, and that several generations
hence negroes viii be a. scarce as Indians.
This opinion Is more prevalent in city
thsn in country, because the evidences OF
the decline are 50 marked in every
/ crowded centre.
Year: 1877

for business men to spend some part of
the summer vacation in the country and
to send their families thither for a longer
period. They can afford to pay rates for
board which leave handsome
margin, and yet bring the cost
of living little if any above what it
would cost them to live at homl; and
they go back made all over new, and pre-
pared for the winters business campaign.
Men who 60 into the boarding business
systematically and manage it prudently,
can, in our judgment, make more money
in five months than can be made by any
other business in New Hampshire. But
they must have land, and raise their own
table supplies mainly, and not receive
them daily by express from Boston. That
will never do. There can and ought to be
something fresh and luscious from the
galden on the table every day from the
first of June through the season. Two
acres of land thus cultivated, with Your
market at your own dinner table, will
afford a better profit than any twenty
five acres devoted to ordinary farming.
New Hampshire has the advantage over
every other state in this. particular. II
we are wise we shall recognize our grand
mountain and lake scenery and invigor-
ating summer air as the chiefest of our
resources, and utilize them precisely as

Pennsylvania utilizes her iron and coal


and Georgia her cotton, iron and timber
/ BY so doing we may continue TO turn our
statesmen, patriots, artizsns and teach


ers, as heretofore, the foremost in th'
land. We shall be disappointed if tn,


next decade does not at least quadruPl,


the amount of summer boarding anC


travel in New Hampshire. Meantime


if anybody eau derive any comfort from


the belief that New Hampshire IS to be-


"great manufacturing state, we have n


objection. +. II. G.
Year: 1877

Speaking of the Nez Perces who es
capped at the time of the capture OF
Joseph's band, the Idaho Statesman
says:


This will leave Chief White Bird,
whose home was on the Salmon river,
where the outbreak began, and thirty
warriors, if they can eIude pursuit and
keep out of harms way to prepare for a
return to their haunts next season, and
try their hand at revenging their s!efeat.
1t will be remembered that in the first
battle between the troops under Colonel
Perry and the Indians in the White Bird
canon, the highest estimates did not give
the hestiles more than 100 warriers. and
that from this small beginning they in
creased, notwithstanding their losses to
several hundred before they took the
Lolo Ford trail for Montana. This little
band of warriers, headed by White
Bird, would form quite sufficient nu.
cleus for the gathering of the many dis.
affected Indians who are known to he
among the various tribes and bands in
northern Idaho and eastern Washington
Anything like apathy on the part of the
government or citizens would leave the
country exposed to a repetition of the
scenes of the summer. Fort Lapwell
should be kept strongly garrisoned, and
sufficient outpost maintained on Camas
prairie"
Year: 1877

average of IO5 bushels to the acre. The
field was allowed to lie in clover for one
year without pasture. The large growth
of clover WIS then turned under and $50
bushels of lime to the acre applied. The
ground was then cultivated and narrowed
twice and the corn put in with planter
on the I'd and 81 of May. After the
crop was up, the cultivator was again
called into use, and afterwards, at the
proper intervals during the season, the
plows were run through it three times,
aud the corn harvested measured 2,79O
bushels of shelled corn. So much for
green manuring.
Year: 1877

Every good groom Knews that sound
oats and beans, in good proportion, and
at least year old, are the very best food
for 2 gallopiug horse-the only food in
which it is possible to get the very best
condition out of a race horse or hunter
1t also has recently become known that
horses do slow work and get fat, indeed
too fat. on maize Indian corn, which is
frequently one third cheaper than the
best oats. In the east horses are fed on
VI barley, ard it is a popular idea with
English officers who have lived in Persia
and Syria that the change of food from
barley to oats often, when imported,
produces blindness in Arabian horses.
Now, although no men understand better
or as well how 10 get blood horses into
galloping condition as the English
greOms, they do not, nor do their masters
know the reason why oats and beans are
the best food for putting muscular flesh
on horse. The agricultural chemist
steps in here, makes the matter very
plain, and shows that If YOU want pace.
Indian corn, although nOminally cheaper,
IL not cheap at all. When we feed a
bullock, sheep, or a pig lor sale, we
want to make it fat as quickly and as
cheaPly as possible; but with horse for
work the object is to give him muscle
IN common language, hard flesh. There
are times when il is profitable to make
horse fat, as, for instance, when he is
going up for sale. For this purpose an
addition of about pound and half OF
oil cake to his ordinary food has a good
effect. It is especially useful when a
horse that has been closely clipped or
singed is in low condition. 1t helps on
the change TO the new coat by making
him fat. A horse in low condition
changes his coat very closely.


When from any cause there is difficulty
IN getting a supply of the best oats, an
excellent mixture may be made of
crushed maize and beans, and the pro-
portion of two-thirds Of maize and one of
beans, which exactly afford the pEspor-
tions of fesh-forming and fat-foEning
food. Bran is very valuable food IN a
stable for reducing the infammatory
effect of oats and beans. Made into
mushes, it has a cooling and laxative eff
ect; but used in excess, and especially
dry state, it is apt to form stony Sc
cretions in the bowels of the horse.
Stones, produced from the excessive use
os bran, have been taken out of horses
after death, weighing many pounds
London Lire Stock.
Year: 1877

Alta school examination a clergyman
made brief address TO the pupils on the
necessity OF obeying their teacher and
growing up useful and loyal citizens. To
emphasize his remark, he pointed to the
national flag spread off one side of the
room, and inquired: Boys, what is
that flag fer?" \ little urchin, who
understood the condition OF the house
better than the speaker, very promptly
answered, " To hide the dit sir"
Year: 1877

There are SO many contests about wills in thes'
days that we think we shall do our readers ser
vice by making few general remarks in regard
| thereto.


First, don't put off making a will until you grow
old or intirm, reduced by sickness and the
contemplation of death to state of mind which
gives people ground to say you did not clearly
know what you were doing. Making will does
not shorten life single hour, and it is much bet
ter to attend to such an important business while
your mind is clear, and you have the opportunity
to consult some reliable attorney.


Second. Remember that will of land requires
at least three witnesses, who should be disinerest
ed persons, and, if possible, persons whose hand
writing is so well known in the community that it
may be proven in case of the death of one or more
of them


Third. The party who makes the will ought to
sign it in the presence of the witnesses, that
they see the signature made.


Fourth. The witnesses must sign in the pres
enee of the person who makes the will. 1t will
not do to take the will to another room and there
sign it. If the testator THAT is the person who
makes the willy sits at table, it will be advisable
that he shall keep his seat while the witnesses
sign at the same table. If the tesator is in bed,
the table should be drawn closely possible to
the bed, when the witnesses sign, so that the tes-
tator may have them and the will in full view.-
The will must not be taken out of the sight of the
lesJat0r after ne signs IL until after tne witnesses
sign it also The best plan is never to allow the
testator to relinqush his hold ON the paper until
it is signed by the witnesses. He may easily hold
one corner of the paper in his hand while the wit
nesses sign.


Fifth. While it may not be absolutely nccessaA
ry in all cases that the witnesses should know the
paper is will, still it is better they should know
and that the testator should so state in their pres
ence. We knew gentleman whose habit was al
ways, after the will signed by the testator, to
say to him in a voice loud enough to be heard by
all the witnesses, "Do you sign this paper as your
last will and testament, and do you desire these
persons to witness it as such?" If the testator
answers, II do" Eyes" then let the witnesses
sign. This little formality is not much trouble,
but in many cases it would furnish turning point
in favor of will.


Sixth. No person should ever sign a will as a
witness unless he is satisfied that the testator's
mind is clear enough to make valid deed or con-
tract.


Observance of these points will prevent many a
law suit, cOnsummation most devouty to be
wished
Year: 1877

"Brown, don't see how it is that your girls all
marry off as soon as they get old enough, while
none of mine can marry?"


"Oh that's simple enough. 1 marry my girls
off on the buckwheat straw principle"


"But what is that principle? | never heard of it
before


''Well, used to raise good deal of buckwheat,
and it puzzled me to know how to get rid of the
straw. Nothing would eat it, and it was great
bother to me- AT last | though of a plan. l stack
ed my buckwheat straw nicely and built high
rail fence around it. My cattle of course, cOnclu-
ded that it something good, and at once tore
down the fence and began to eat the straw. Idog-
ged them away and put up tho fence a few
times but the more drove them away the more
anxious they became to eat the straw. After this
had been repeated few times the cattle determin-
ed to eat the straw, and eat it they did, every bit
of it. As l said l marry my girls off on the same
principle When young man that l don't like
begins calling on my girls encourage him in every
way l can. | tell him to come often and stay
as late as he pleases, and 1 take pains to hint to
the girls that think they'd set their caps for him.
1t works frst-ratc. He don't make many calls,
for the girls treat him coolly as they can. But
when young fellow like comes around, man
that 1 think would suit me for a son-in-law, l
don't let him make many calls before I give him
to understand that he isn't wanted around my
house. / tell the girls, too, that they shall not
have anything to do with him, and give them or
ders never to speak to him again. The plan always
works first-rate. The young folks being to pity
each other, and the next thing l know they are
engaged to be married. When 1 see that they are
determined to marry always give in and pretend
to make the best of it. That's the way I manage
it."-DuJugue Telegraph.
Year: 1877

Nor BAD To FIND.-A treasure amounting to
about SIS 900 in gold and silver coin of various and
ancient dates, was recently unearthed at Centre
willie Station, Missouri, on the Belleville Railroad
by the sons and heirs of Louis Gerver. The lat
ter, who was an old and wcll-knOwn farmer, died
about month ago, leaving behind him consider
able property, including two valuable farms, one
on the high bluff land near Centreville, and the
other at the foot of the hills in the rich bottom
lands Of that locality. Gerver had been a resident
of the State for great many years, and in that
time had been of the most industrious and econOm-
cal character.


1t was known that he had considerable means,
but as he had always manifested a doubt in regard
to saving banks or any kind of investments, it
was not known what he had done with his money.
Some time previous to his demise he divided a
portion of his property among his four sons, Civ
ing to each a division of his land and $4,000 in
cash. At the time of his death he was upward OF
eighty years old, and, just before breathing his
last, informed his children of a sum of money
amounting to nearly $4,000, which he had buried
on one of his farms in certain locality. After
the funeral the sons dug up the place indicated
and found the amount. Many of the coins arc
very old, and show that old Farmer Gerver mus
have been saving for over thirty years.
Year: 1877

-"Hcnry," said she sharply as they passed a
lonesome corner on the boulevard, "do you want
me to come out of this sleigh ride with my hat
looking as if it had been run over by an omni-
bus?" And yet he didn't seem to care.
Year: 1877

not give an order, but / ask my
friends of South Carolina, the people
whom l have trusted and who have
trusted me and done me more honor
than any people ever did a man,
ask them to carry out my wishes. l
want every man to constitute him.
self conServator of the peace, see
that there shall be no violence, and
go around and tell his neighbors that


there is blOOdshed end violence we
shall lose what we have gained, and
to appeal to them to carry out this
policy of peace. The only difficulty
that seemed to stand in the way at
Washington was the fear that when
the troops were taken out of the
State House there would be violence.
They asked about it. l pledged my
honor mark me my friends, l
pledged my honor that not one sin
gle man should go into that State
House unless he had business there {;
that would place two unarmed men
simply to inform the citizens that
requested them not to go there; and
l felt assured there would be no vio-
lence or excitement and that the
laws would be obeyed. Have l
promised too much for you? [Cries
of no. You have trusted me. Trust
me little longer. 1t is important
for you.


1t is important for South Carolina
lana and for the whole country that
the troops should not be removed
until l got here. When that order
comes let nobody go to that State
House. Just let it stand until
want it, and 1 will tell you when
that is. Your destiny is now in your
own hands. 1t is for you to shape it
for veal or woe. You can by i'm
prudence or violence undo the labor
of months, and bring back to US all
the scenes of anarchy, misrule and
corruption which have prevailed.
Or if you are prudent and discreet as
you have been, you can soon place
yourselves in higher and better
plane. beg the white men to show
to the colored men that what l have
said for 12 years is true, that you are
the best friend they have In the
world. Iappeal to the colored men
to recognize the government which
is now firmly established &; to trust us
for while, and as they are still in
the majority, if the government
have established does not carry out
the pledges have made, then throw
out all the men in office at the next
election, and put in anybody you
please.
Year: 1877

The widow Of "Stonewall" Jack.
son says that no man has been more
misunderstood than her husband.
"He is represented she asserts, las
having been stern, memorable and
hard natured. He was just the op-
pOsite. He was a demonstrative, as
affectionate and yielding as a wo.
man. AT home he was tender, play
full and loving. His whole life hung
around his home. He had no ambi.
tion-no love of power-no thought
of place or pomp. His horror OF
bloodshed was instructive and pow
erful. He served his country from
sense of duty. He was passionately
devoted to children. Our first child
died, and my daughter was born only
few weeks before his death. He
never took days furlough during
the war; not even to come to see his
child. Just before the battle of
Charlottesville took the little baby
and went to see him. You should
have seen what raptures he went in
to over that little girls cradle. /
have seen him kneel by her cradle
for hours at time, just gazing into
her sleeping face" 1t was suggested
that the letters to her during the war
would give her many interesting
points. "Oh, no." she said, q char
ming blush stealing over her face,


while soft remembrances put new
light in her expressive eyes, "they
were all real love letters. He had
little room for anything else In his
letters home. And then he was
very prudent man and never talked
Of bis plans to any QUE"
Year: 1877

A sharp little girl got out d patience
with her bashful lovers backwarducss and
so brought matters TO favorable climax
by saying TO him; = | really believe you
are afraid 70 ask ne 70 marry you, for you
know would say . Yes"
Year: 1877

AND YET.
You would not think her checks were
blooming roses
No line of pearls her beaming smile dis
closes;
No delicate perfumes around her hover;


And yet love her.
She rivals not the sun in dazzling bright
ness;
She steps not like the fawn with fairy
lightness
Her eyes resemble not the stars above
her;


And yet love her.
No waving tresses fall in rich profusion
No classic form, half hidden by Illusion
No brilliant fancy could e'er discover;


And yet love her.
For she is truly sensible and good;
And all the charms that make true wo-
manhood.
Unite in her, and she loves me. more over


And SO love her


Besides that, she's my mother.
Punch.
Year: 1877

Fun AHEAD.-There will be a large
house at the Masonic Temple tomorrow
night. The "Haverly Minstrelsn one of
the best and most amusing treupes in the
country. will give one of their delightful
performances. Their instrumental mu-
sic and vocal limitations cannot be excel
led. The Boston Transcript highly COM
mends them, and says: There is nothing
exceptional or improper in the perform
ance, and gratifying scarcity of old
stuff, and much that is refreshing and
pleasing. Aside from the capital music,
the negro dialect limitations Of Mr.. Barlow
among the best which have been heard
here-are, perhaps the most taking feat
ure, though Wilson's eccentricities and
the dancing of West and Primrose nightly
elicit hearty applause.
Year: 1877

How Hayes Wants to Set ls the Louis


lana Question.


From Deacon Richard Smiths Cincinnati


Gdzettee. .fs .........


WASHINGTON, March 2.-As far as can
be ascertained from the friends of Presi-
dent Hayes, the theory which will govern
the new Administration in its relations
with Louisiana is that Packard has been
legally elected; but if his Government
cannot sustain istelf without the con.
stant Intervention of the Federal power,
some settlement which will secure the
peace of the State, and put its affairs on
the basis of the assent and cooperation
of the taxpayers, is greatly to be desired
The Administration, it is believed, will
have no wish to abandon Packard, or to
refuse to recognize his Just claims. 1t
cannot fail to recognize that his title is
nearly or quite az good as that of Presi-
dent Hayes, but at the same time it will
not feel like keeping standing army at
his disposition any longer. 1t will vel
come a compromise proceeding from
Packard's own recognition of the fact
that he cannot maintain himself, and
from his desire not to insist on being pro-
tected in his office at the expense Of the
repose of the State. The settlement of
the yexatious difficulty is not, therefore,
If this explanation be correct to come
about by President Hayes ungratefully
throwing the Republi can party in Louisi-
ana overheard as dead weight, but by
the leaders of that party making truce
with their political opponents in spirit
of mutual Cancellation, to give order and
quiet to Louisiana and to relieve the Fed
eral Government of an annoyance that
has become almost unbearable.
Year: 1877

MIssPENT EvESINGs.-The boy who
spends an hour of each evening lounging
idly on the street corners, wastes In the
course of year three hundred and six
ty-tive precious hours, which, if applied
10 study, would familiarize him with
the rudiments of almost any of the fa-
miliar sciences. If in addition to vast
ing an hour each evening, he spends ten
cents for cigcr, which is usually the
case the amount thus worse than wasted
would pay for ten of the leading peri
oiicals of the country. Boys, think of
these things. Think of how much time
aud money you are wasting, and for
what? The qualification afforded by the
lounge on the corner or the cigar is not
only temporary, but positively hurttul.
You cannot indulge in them without
seriously injuring yourself. You ac-
quire idle and wasteful habits, which
will cling to you with each succeeding
year. You may in after life shake them
of. but the probabilities are that the
habits thus formed in early life will re-
main with you TO your dying day. Be
warned then in time, and resolve that
as the hour spent in idleness is gone for
ever, You will improve erch passing
one, and thereby fit yourself for useful
ness and happiness. - Rural Nec-
Yorker.
Year: 1877

BLACK CATs-Mansfield Island, in Lake
Erie. has been bought by man who in
tends TO stock il with black cats and kill
their progeny for their fur. He will feed
them az first on fish caught of the shore
by the men who live on the Island; but af-
ter the enterprise is well started he will
utilize the meat of the slaughtered cats as
food for the living cats. We also read
that Georgian is making an extensive
business of raising dogs. tanning their
hides. and selling the leather for glove
making and other purposes.