smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1876

II is quite IN interesting curiosity
, to have a brici sketch of some of the
moons influence notions, collected
and arranged under proper heads, as
the following will show:


PLANTING. Root crops should be
planted in the dark of the moon.
All sorts of vegetables, trees and
plants designed to grow vigorously,
should be planted in the light or new
of the moon. All crops that produce
their yield above the surface Of the
ground, should be planted in the new
or light of the moon; while those
that produce theirs in the ground,
be planted when the moon is on the
wanc.


GRATING AND PRUNING. All
sorts of trees should be grated and
pruncd during the increase of the
moon.


FRUIT. If the fruit trees blossom
in or during the dark of the moon,
we will have but few or no apples,
peaches, cherries or pears, but plcn-
ty, if such blossoming occurs in and
during new moon. All vines, such
as cucumbcrs. MELONS, etc, produce
more fruit when they blossom and
commence bearing during full moon,
than when the nights arc dark.
GRAIN, intended for immediate
use should be harvested at the time
of full moon; while gram intended
for preservation should be gathered
at tho time of the new moon.


BUrcnERrNG. Hogs should bc
butchcrcd in full or a little before it;
as the pork will be better, and it will
swell up and enlarge; while ifbutch-
cred in the opposite phase of the
moon, it will be poor and shrinks.
BUILDINGS. The roofs of houses
and other buildings should bee shin
gled and rail fences stakcd, when the
horns of the moon point downward,
as the shingles and the stakes will
not then rise up, as they otherwise
will. Fences should be made and
repaired when the horns ofthe moon
point upward, as fences then will not
sink in the ground. Timber cut
when the moon is full or increasing
in her light will be full of sap, soft
and spongy, and soon become worm
eaten or destroyed by rot. Timber
cut in the old of the moon will not
snap in burning, and will last much
longer than if cut at any other time.
Weeds, briers and bushes, and all
noxious plants should be mown off
or grubbcd in the dark of the moon
to make their destruction sure.
WEATHER. To see the new moon
for the first time in the south is Il
sign that the weather will be warm
AMI pleasant; but when seen high
in the sky, the contrary weather will
happen. TO see the new moon for
the first time over the right shoulder
is sign that you will succeed in your
undertakings; while seeing it over
your left shoulder is a sign Of your
failure, or want of success.


MANURE should be spread over
the fields when the horns of the
moon point downwards, as the ma.
nure then will sink in the ground ;
otherwise it will not. Candles should
be made when the moon is on the
increase; then they will not crack,
and they will burn brighter.


CHILDREN, horn in the dark of
the moon, are liable to be idiots.


Now some people fully believe all
or most Of these things. and others
do not; but as these various moon
| notions form subjects Of profound (!)
Year: 1876

should not be hooted at.


/, is astonishing to what an extent
the belief that the moon exerts
mighty influence over sublunary
things has obtained. According to
popular belief, the moon not only
controls vegetable life, directing the
rise and flow of sap, and the growth
and durability of plants; but it, in
great degree, determines the actions
and destinies of men. Acco rdingly
we sec men who would not like the
idea of being considered whimsical
or supcrstitious; cutting their timber,
setting their fence.posts, trimming
their fruit trees, planting their pota-
toes, and performing most all their
farming operations with reference
to certain phases of the moon, not to
do so would according to their belief,
be to invoke disastrous results: their
timber would snap in burning, their
fencc.posts would work out of the
ground, their potatoes would all run
to tops. If they see the new moon
over the left shoulder, it is the harbin-
ger. of disappointment during that
month; it is also made to forcshow
the weather, for if seen in the south,
the weather that follows will be fine;
but if it runs high, bad weather.
Now it is evident that if the moon cx-
crts any or all of the influences at
tributcd to it, there must be cause
for it. The operation of which
must come within the ken of philos-
ophy; but who ever heard reason
given why the moon has a different
effect on timber, in its first quarter
than in its last quarter; would timber
cut on the 4th day of January last
much longer than timber cut on the
18th day of January, 1876; can any
one nhow reason why this should
be so? How is it probable for the
moon to influence terrestrial things
excepting by its light and its attract
ion; if its light be the means, how
can the suns light rchcc ctcd from one
side Of the moon have different CT.
feet from the same quantum of light
reflected from the other side. Ii it
is its attraction, how can the new
moon have different effect from
the full or the old moon, for no one
supposcs that the moon actually in
crcases and decreases in si<c: Il
must be that those who believe in
luna influences accept the theory as
an oral tradition, handed down from
grandfathers and not as fact verified
by good actual experiment. A strong
argument in favor of tho rejection Of
such a belief is, the fact that it is dis.
cardcd by all eminent astronome rs !;
and if we believe in these influences,
why not except the astrologer's views
and all the supcrstit'ons connected
Herewith; the one is just as reason.
able and just as much supported by
reliable evidence as the other; the
intelligent farmer need but to test
the matter by actual experiment to
be constrained to reject the belief in
moon influences as a relic Of the dark
ages.


A. NJ.
PIONEER, Clarke Co.
Year: 1876

TaE Common Piess Court Of Belmont
county will begin at St. Clairsvllle to-day.
A large amount OF business will be before
the Grand Jury, which will probably be
in session during the most Of the week,h
Year: 1876

little romance, but because think it is
due to truth that we should not in mat
ters pertaining to our local history sub!
stitute fiction for facts and thus impose
upon those who shall come after us.
Year: 1876

Has been elected Foreign Associate oil the
Academy OF Moral and Political Science.


The electoral address OF almost all the
Senatorial candidates in general terms
support the Republic and President Mac
Year: 1876

No measure of public Importance has
been SO persistently opposed and obstruct-
ed as the proposed opening of the new
Pleasant Valley road Every pretext that
could be urged to thwart the will of the
people has beea presented and tac;tly en-
couraged by the board of highway commis
sioners. The line OF the road has been
changed from time to time, new assess
ments of damages made; juries have con
denned and re condemned tracts of land !;
and in fact wherever anything could be
done that would delay the opening of the
road it has been eagerly seized upon by the
highway commissioners to gain time, and
thereby favor the interests of certain
clique whose only opposition has been the
qualification of personal interests-iu fact
anything to beat S. w. Wheelock
and Bailey Davenport, whose liberal
| donations of laud stood as lasting
rebuke to those who asked fabulous sums
for the right of way Knowing that pub,
lie pressure would compel the opening of
the road eventually, they hoped to realize


largely from the sale of few hundred feet
of land which otherwise would sell for
merely nominal sums.


The first real opposition came from the
Hunt heirs, and it was bitterly contested
by them, until forced by decision Of
Judge Peasants to yield. Then the late
Commissioner Grenell was bitterly
opposed to it. and until a few


months before his death he refused to sane
ton the measure, but. finding that public
opinion was getting stronger each day in
favor of the new road, be at last gave il
his adherence.


Anather obstacle has been the Mattesor
heirs, and on pretext of illegality, want oI
jurisdiction, and one thing or the other


the opening of the road has been delayed
until finally a jury was appointed by order
of the board OF highway commissioners to
assess damages on that rortion of the


Matteson heirs land through which the
road passes, The jury met and returned
a verdict of $ll0; the highway commits
sioners approved the verdict at the meet
ing of the board on Sept. 9th. This
accomplished, everybody breathed easier
supposing that at last the road would be
opened, but not yet, for j. S. Richards


administrator of the Matteson estate, il


not satisfied and will take an appeal


In Justice to Deacon Richards it is but
fair to say that, SO far as he is concerned
he acts only as in his judgment he con
siders it his duty as administrator OF the


estate and not from personal motives.
Thus the matter stands, and to-day the
new road appears as far from beiGg opened
as when the matter first assumed shape


nearly If not quite two years ago. Had th,


highway commissioners acted promptly il
this case the road would now be opened
As it now stands, it is a diree
isubyersion of public interests t


serve clique of person opposed to its con
|, summation simply because it is recorde,
|, that S. w. Wheelock and Bailey Daven
: port stand alone as donators of their Ian,
t to the public, while the opposition ask an,
) receive double price for their land througl


which TIE road is to pass.
Year: 1876

Boston. Mass. Sept 12-The Republi-
can congressional convention to nominate a
candidate in the seventh district met at
Lowell to-day, and B. f. Butler was NOM
mated on the first ballot


A motion to make the nomination unani-
nous was lost.


a committee was then appointed to wait
on Butler and invite his attendance


On entering the hall he was received
with great applause and made a speech.
Year: 1876

Four years of TiIden would mean. on a
national scale, the wonderful, economical
and administrative reform which he has
carried out in New York during eighteen
months.-Argus.


Well, now, suppose you tell your read
ers what the wonderful, economical and
administrative reform" is, which Tilden
has carried out in New York Any idiot
can make an assertion like the above. II
is the proof which the people want Union.
Year: 1876

the party and the country public officers
| whom both can safely trust


The thing for Republicans now to do is
/ to let by-gones be by-gones, so far as any
/ conflicts OF opinion about candidates are
| concerned. and unite their whole force to
/ elect the ticket IL is a good ticket and
/ the one duty OF the hour is to make it


successful. Elected il must be, or the


administration Of the Government must
pass into the hands Of the party that was
pro slavery before the war, that made a
disgraceful record for itself during the


war, that avowed the principles Of repu-
diation in 1868. that stultifed itself in
1872, that resisted the adoption of the
recent amendments to the Constitution


that now depends mainly on the vote Of
the ex-rebel states, that panders to the
imitation lunacy, that in respect to the
currency question cannot be trusted, and
that, as now represented in the Lower
House of Congress, has shown nothing
more conspicuously than its incompe-
tency to do anything wisely and we'll
Four times in direct succession have tho
American people said that this party was
not worthy of their confidence and we
anticipate another repetition OF the same
verdict next fall. Republicans have only
to decree it and work for it and the re
suit is sure.


The prompt dispatch sent by ex-
Speaker Blaine to Governor Hayes. con-
graduating him upon his nomination.
while in the highest degree creditable to
its author, furnishes an example which
every friend Of Mr. Blaine and every
friend Of the Republican party should
initiate. In common with a vast mass
Of Republicans throughout the country,
we should like 10 have voted for the ex-
Speaker; but We shall not the less cor
daily vote for the nominees Of the Con-
yention.
Year: 1876

The best possible thing for a man 10 do
when he feels too weak 10 carry anything
through is to 20 to bed and sleep for
week IL he can. This is the only recu-
peration Of brain power. the only 0ctual
recuperation Of brain force because, dur
ing sleep, the brain is in n state Of rest,
i'm a condition % receive and appropriate
particles OF nutriment from the blood
which take the place Of those which have
been consumed in previous labor,
since the very act Of thinking consumes
or burns up solid PARTICLES, as every turn
OF the wheel or screw of the splendid
steamer is the result Of consumption by
fire of tile fuel in the furnace. The sup.
ply Of consumed brain substance can only
be had from the nutritive PARTICLES in the
blood. which were obtained from the
/ food eaten previously; and the brain is 20
I constituted that IL can best receive and
I appropriate to itself those nutritive par
/ ticles during a state Of rest. of quiet, and
stiffness of sleep. Mere stimulants sup
ply nothing in themselves; they goad the
I brain, and force il TO greater consump
\ tion OF its substance, until that substanc,
has been 20 exhausted that there Is not
power enough left TO receive a supply
lust as men are so near death by thirs
and starvation that there is not powe


enough left to swallow anything, and al


is over.
Year: 1876

From the Cincinnati Enquirer.l


II could not but be that a man educat.
cd in cunning, in hypocrisy, in iniquity.
nominated in corruption and shameless
effrontery. even though his shameless
millions could elect him, would give us
the most corrupt administration the
country has ever known.
Year: 1876

and all public speakers who have been greatly
embarrassed by their Teeth dropping at the
most inOppoTtune times, can now get set of
Teeth which will remain firmly in place under
all circumstances.
Year: 1876

StOEc Evening"


i Reports have come to town that the
destitution among the homesteaders in
the west side of this county and in EN-
met county is on the increase, and that
the efforts which have been made for
their relief from Petoskey and other
sources. has rot been sufficient to pre-
vent much suffering. Some of our citi-
zens have become much Interested i'm this
matter, and at their request we give no.
tice that there will be a meeting tonight
at Charley Farr's drug store. for the pur-
pose of taking into consideration what
efforts should be taken here to relieve
them. The women's aid society of this
village sent out on the stage Friday
morning all the goods and provisions
their funds would allow. to which was
added considerable provisions of private
contribution but, OF course, this amount
would 90 very little ways towards their
relief.if the accounts are not exaggerated.
We would suggest in this connections,
that to be sure that the charities OF. our
citizens are needed and deserved, that
ole or twol suitable persons be selected
by the meeting to take trip out among
the homesteaders and ascertain from per-
sonal observation and Investigation just
what is needed and the best way of af-
fording the relief necessary. We know
if these pioneers are actually needy, that
our citizens will respond isliberally. We
trust that the meeting tonight will take
some action in this matter, which will
result i'll our citiz.:ns doing all they
should to prevent suffering among this.
class OF our new residents.
Year: 1876

Ifthere are any of the readers of the
TRIBUNE who have not provided them
children, they should be sure and do so
tonight. No child should be forgotten.
Do not fail to get them because you are
not able to purchase expensive ones. No
matter what it is, if it is only something
showing that. you, haye remembered
Christmas and them. 4.s.s
Year: 1876

WoMAN's WOUNDED AFFEcTioEs.--
Washington Irving wrote: As the dove
will clap it's wings to its sides, and cover
and conceal the arrow that is preyipg on
its yitals, so it is the nature of woman to
hide from the world her wounded affec-
tion. With her the desire of the heart
has failed. The great charm of exist
ence is at an end. She neglects all the
cheerful exercises chat gladden. the
spirits, quicken the pulse, and send the
tide Of life in healthful currents through
the veins. Her rest is broken the sweet
refreshment Of sleep is poisoned by mel
ancholy dresms, dry sorrow drinks her
blood" until her feeble frame sinks un-
der the last external assailant. Look
for her after little while, and you find
friendship weeping over her untimely
grave, and wondering chat one who but
lately glowed with all the radiance of
health and beauty should now be
brought down to darkness and the
worm." You will be told of some
Wintry chill, some slight indisposition
that laid her low; but no one knows
the mental maisdy that previously sap.
ped her strength, and made her 80 easy
prey to the spOi er.
Year: 1876

thousand dollars, which all might have
belonged to his son in time, il he had
not fallen into such an egregious error
about old Leonard.


So the world moves on. People are
prone to think that what they smile on
lives, and what they frown on is blighted
and must die.
Year: 1876

there were in the institution to be pre-
vided for. They. had undertaken to
strike with one awkward, left-handed,
cowsrdly blow at the men who the
nation had sent there to be guided
not for their own benefit but for
the nation, and with another, at
the men who by law were entitled to the
advantage Of their longevity and pay,
which the gentlemen on the Committee
on Appropriations did not seem to know
the meaning OF. He warned the gentle
men Of that committee that there was no
single institution of this country which
they had better be more careful in inter-
fering with than the West Point Mill
tary Academy. There had been a
time when 1t might have been popular
to interfere, but that time was past.
There had been time when it was con-
siSered popular to attack the army, and
he supposed that that would be the next
step. but that time was past. He could
tell the gentleman that both tho institu.
tions were rooted and grounded in the
faith and belief of the American people,
in their efficiency and usefulness, and any
attempt to cripple or diminish either,
would damn to. perpetual oblivion the
men or party who undertook it.
Coming down TO the details of the bill he
spoke of the hospital at West Point as
an old dilapidsted rookery, entirely unfit
for its purpose and he intimated that
the Committee on Appropriations had
thrown out the estimate for the erection
of the new hospital CT for furnishing it.


Mr.. Hamilton, OF New jersey replied
that the estimate had been referred to the
Committee on Public Buildings and
Grounds.


Mr.. Hurlbut-That the committee has
nothing to do with it, and when the
Committee on Appropria ions struck 1t
out 1t was guilty of moral cowardice
which stamps with repr obation all preten-
ces Of reform.


Mr.. Hurlbut went on to critcise at
length and with bitterness the action
of the committee in docking West
Point officers of their longevity allow
ance Without acting on the bill the
committee arose and the house adjourned.
Year: 1876

only these three were to he seen iu
France, one being in the park Of the
Hotel Soubise, the second in the gar
den Of the Tuileries, the third in that
OF the Luxembourg. The ailanthus,
catalpa and acacia, also in great iavor
here, are found to resist heat, and
drought very well, but their vegeta.
tion is no, sufficiently ample to render
them satisfactory in streets, and the
plane, beloved of the Athenians of old,
is rapidly acquiring reputation as the
tree which, more than any other, is
suitable for the planting of streets in
large citie-. During the tropical heat
of last summer the plane kept all its
leaves, and remained fresh, green and
shady. The elm is dying out from
this city, and the plane tree il taking
it, place.
Year: 1876

The pig, says DIR. Spalding in the
Popular Science Monthly, is an animal
that ha- its wits about ii quite soon at.
ter birth as the chicken. | therefore
selected il as subject of observation
That vigorous young pigs get up
and search for teat at once, or within
one minute after their entrance into
the world. That if removed several
feet from their mother. when aged
only few minutes, they soon find
their way back to her, guided appa-
rently by the grunting she makes in
answer to their squeaking. In the
case observed, the old SOW rose in less
than an hour and an half after pigging,
and went out 10 eat; the pigs ran
about, tried to eat various matters, fol-
lowed their mother out, and sucked
while she stood eating. One PIG | put
in bag the moment it was born, and
kept it in the dark until it was seven
hours old, when | placed it outside the
sty, n distance of ten feet from where
the sow lay concealed inside the house.
The pig soon recognized that low
grunting of it, mother, went along
outside the sty struggling to get under
or over the lower bar. AT ihe end of
five minutes it succeeded in forcing it.
self through under the bar at one Of the
few places where it was possible. No
sooner in than il went without pause
into the pig-house 10 its mother, and
was at once like the Others in its be-
havior. Two little pigs | blindfolded
at their birth. One n them | placed
with its mother at once-it soon found
the teat and began to suck. Six hours
later | placed the other a little dis
tance from the SOW il reached her in
half minute after going about rather
vaguely; in half minute more it
found the teat. Next day found
that one of the two left with the
mother had got the blihders off; the
other was quite blind walked about
freely, knocking against thing. In
the afternoon | uncovered it, eyes
and it went round and round rs if it
had had sight and had suddenly lost it.
In ten minutes il was scarcely distin.
guishabie from one that had sight all
along. When placed on chair it
knew the height to require considering.
When its eyes had been unveiled
twenty minutes, placed it and anoth-
er twenty feet from the sty. The two
reached the mother in five minutes
and Mt the same moment.
Year: 1876

A private letter from Judge Lough-
ridge, written in New York, says: "The
general impression here is that Hayes and
Wheeler will carry this State without a
doubt" Some months since, in private
conversation, Judge L. in speaking of
Wheeler said to the writer hereof: "He
is the strongest man in the House, with
the members; not possessed of the
dash and brilliancy of Blaine, but he is
one Of the strong, earnest men; seldom
takes the floor, but when he does, every
member listens attentively, for they know
he has something important to say. Ill
had a measure to put through the House.
I would rather have Wheeler advocate it
than any other member" This, from a
man who served several years with him,
is a compliment of the highest kind.