smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1872




While the wheat crop has been a COM
parative failure in many parts of Europe,
and but medium in most sections of our
own country, it is estimated that the State
of Minnesota alone has produced this sea-
son, about eighteen million bushels, Of
which thirteen millions will be for sale, and
expectation. This amazing amount Of the
leading cereal produced in one state of the
Northwest, i'll a season hardly more than
average, family images forth what wH be
the wheat crop OF the Northwest when Min
nesota is thickly settled, when the forests
of North Wisconsin are replaced (as they
soon will be) by farms and fields, when the
great valleys of the lower Red River, the
Assiniboine and Saskatchewan, are yellow
summer by summer with their myriad fields
of ripened wheat.


But the fftieth part of the capacity of
this immense wheat region has been tested.
In other words, if every nook and corner
of the great wheat producing area of the
Northwest were occupied, and titled as it
might be, and as it will be by the time the
next generation is on the stage, even if not
in this our day, there would be an annual
product in round numbers of thousand
millions of bushels of wheat, enough to feed
the world! The farms that fill this graflary
of the globe will support numberless towns
and villages, and demand far within half a
century, an immense metropolis at the head
of Lake Superior. Where Superior and
Duluth now stand, must rise the palace
warehouses of a Liverpool or London, ex-
tending along miles and miles of water
front, and looking upon thousands of masts
bearing the flags of all nations, and carry
ing the food of at least half the world


The man of thirty to-day, who lives to be
eighty years of age will see all of this pic
ture realized, while he who lives but de-
cade, or score of years hence, will behold
such mighty foundations for the future, laid
fuous in portraying its destiny. We, OF
the head Of the Lake, are often thought ex-
travagant in predicting the greatness of this
region, but the now known and ascertained
laws of the wheat demand and supply,
point with unerring finger to the result we
have named.


But all this leaves out of the question, the
trade of the Pacific coast and the Asian
world, which is so soon to come through
Lake Superior, and surely the most preu-
diced must admit that within a quarter of a
century, the combined trade from the three
sources indicated, will demand the facilities
for storage, shipping and exchanging of
commodities, which only great city at the
head of the great western lake can afford.
Year: 1872

Andrew Johnson with all his vaga-


ries, had some sense of the value OF


clean hands in President, as we'll as


the dignity which should attach to


the office. We all know how promptly


he declined the profiered gift of a


carriage and pair of horses, as being
inconsistent with his sense of pro-
prietv. Not long after Johnson was
inaugurated, brother of Bierstadt,


the artist, appeared in Washington


for the purpose of getting supscrip-
tions for an engraving of his brothers S
picture of the Rocky Mountains.
With al eye to business, this brother
thought it would be a good thing to
have the President of the United
States head the list. Impressed
with this happy idea, he armed him
self with a copy of the engraving tan
Indian proof for presentation and
proceeded to the White House,
where, without passing a guard of
three Brigrdier Generals, he was
received 10y the President with that
courtesy for which he was peculiar.
But much to the disappointment of
the applicant, President Johnson
declined either to accept the picture
q present or to head the list of
subscribers. And as he did this, he
said it was only from a sense of the
respect due to the Presidency.


Again, Johnson was scarcely ever
away from the White House, and it is
we'll known here how promptly he at
tended to the duties of his Office every
day during one of the hottest Sum
mers Washington has ever expert
enced, when 1T was reported that his
health was suffering in consequence,
the managers of the Old Soldiers
Home rendered him the pretty. airy
residence that had been occupied
during the Summer months by Mr..
Buchanan, afterward by Lincoln.
But he promptly declined the offer,
said the house was the property of
the old soldiers, and that he would
be just as much of an intruder there
as the hUmblest citizen.


Many other instances might be .
related of Johnson's sunwillingness to
receive even the smallest present, or
put himself under obligations to
designing men. With Grant nothing :
comes amiss. A box of cigars or ii
bull pup are alike always acceptable. ,
Year: 1872

The above majorites nearly all estimated from the
returns which been received and while they may
vary a few hundreds from the official vote, will. We
think. prove TO be very correct. They give the
State to Grant b. l1.69s.
Year: 1872

NOVEL MODE OF FARMING. -. The
richness Of the reclaimed swamp and over
flowed lands in most parts of the State
is proverbial. At no points are they
found more so than on the Floral Isles"
SO called, which lie along the Sacramen-
to and San Joaquin rivers. A cores
pondent of the Enterprise, writing from
Twitchell's Island, gives the following
description of how the lands are prepared,
planted, and the seed "harrowed in ="
The tules grow from five to ten feet in
heighth during the rainy season. As


soon as the water dries up in the Spring,
the tules are fired, and although they
look green, they burn like wild oats.
After the burning is done there is coat
ing Of ashes on the ground from two to
ten inches in depth, resembling light
snow. The seed is sown on the sur
face, without further preparation. A
flock of sheep is then driven over the
ground in a compact body, by five or six
men in such manner as to compel them
to go over the whole surface. This tread
ing serves to harrow in the grain, tramps
the ashes down solid and makes the whole
surface OF the ground look as smooth rs
an onion bed in well regulated garden.
Year: 1872

A PoRTRA1T.-The Washington Re
pubLican has the cruelty to hold up TO
Senator Schurz life-like portrait of him
self, drawn with his own pen only few
years ago. 1t says


In 1868, when NJ. Schurz was running
for the U nited States Senate IN Missouri,
he was exceedingly anxious to heal the
differences and dissensiOns in the party
and was unsparing in his denunciatlohs
of the gentlemen who, like himself now
were then intriguing and cons.plrlng with
the enemy. The following Is what ne
wrote about them to the Hannibal COuF-
ier:


at frequently happens that men whose
personal expectations have been dlsap-
pointed magnify their grievances In their
own mind, and by assiduous persuasion
arrive finally at the conclusion that those
who have been more fortunate IN obtain
ing recognition by the party or in gaming
popular favor must necessarily be Dad or
unworthy men. Our watchtul opponents
are apt to take advantage of this sort OF
mental disposition, and to bend all thelr
energies upon fostering the elements OF
| discord. In this way men who original
| ~ mean 10 no IlSI III are ltu w S"-'fc.'',
with them in damaging the cause which
is entitled to their support. Every man
who has the least regard for the great OBJ
jects the Radical party is to achieve,
ought to be we'll on his guard in this re-
spect. To become tool in the hands OF
the common enemy is about the lowest
point OF political respectabllity a member
of the Radical party can reach in this
crisis"


Mr.. Schurz's portrait of himself has
the merit of rare fidelity and truth. 1t
would be hard to describe his own course
at the present time in more fitting Ian.
guage than that which he himself penned
four years ago. His personal grievances
and disappointmcnts have SO distorted hi;
political vision that he can see no good
in the Administration, and as it cannot
be broken down in any other way than
by the overthrow of the Republican par,
ty we find him "a tool in the hands OF
the common enemy, the lowest point of
political respectability that member
can reach in the present crisis"
Year: 1872

THE Philadelphia Press thus truthfully
illustrates the attitude of the Democracy
in the impending political contest. We
wonder how our Democratic friends like
the picture, which they must admit as
true to the life. 1t says /: So There can
be no success for the anti-Grant combl-
nation without the full cooperation Of
the Democrats. They must supply the
most votes. They must come with such
solid capital as Maryland, Delaware,
Kentucky and Georgia. And yet they
are treated as if their association was
leprosy. They are kept in the back
ground like contingent of white slaves.
They dare not speak their real sentiments.
Their organs are muzzlcd. A choice be-


tween the candidates is denied to them.
They are to be disposed OF by their leaders
without reference to platform or candi-
dates. And all for what To elect one
Republican over another Republican.
There is humiliation in all this that
would make men less fastdious than
the old Democrats writhe. No aspirant
named has dared to recognize the Dem
ocrats save as so much material ready for
transfer. And the Democrats hardly
know to whom they are to be transferred.
All they know is, that it is to be to some
body who has been just as decided against
them as Grant. 1t is novel experiment,
to say the least Of it. And it is a danger
Gus one. Even if the Democratic mass
es dislike General Grant as intensely as
the men who are opposing him alone
through personal spite and disappoint-
ment-and such a thing is impossible
they cannot feel anything but contempt
for the timid leaders who assume to hold
them as so many chattel slaves, and are
nevertheless ashamed or afraid to say
word in favor of Democratic ideas. The
men who supported Seymour and Blair
in 1868 are, we think, not all willing to
go it blind for any Republican in 1872"
Year: 1872

HERR ScHURz is properly appreciated
at the seat of the German Government as
will appear from the following extract
from leading Berlin paper of late date.
The hreuz says Schurz is hankerng
after notoriety, and is now making war
upon President Grant because the latter
has pursued a policy in Missouri that
Schurz thought injurious to his own in
fluence. The whole debate in the Amer
lcan Senate is destined to discredit the
Government in the eyes of the people as
it is also apparent that French emissaries
have their hands in it, for what purpose
it is easy for our readers to infer. We
think our Foreign Department acted
wisely in not involving itself in a quarrel
with the United States at time when
we were engaged in so terrible struggle;
the more so as there is no evidence what
ever, so far as we can see, that the Wash
ington Cabinet acted in bad faith to-
ward us.
Year: 1872

THE Yreka Union says there is still a
large amount of grain to be sown in Scott
Valley, and that the cold winds which
have prevailed for the past three or four
weeks have sucked the moisture from the
surface of the earth, till the grass and
young grain are beginning to suffer for
the want Of showers.
Year: 1872

PROGRESS OF THE RAILRoAD.-The
following we find in the Chico Reuie,o :
The railroad has now progressed to
seven miles beyond Red Bluff, and the
grading is all done to Cottonwood. The
track is being laid at the rate of three
fourths of a mile per day. 1t is expected
to reach Shasta early in the Fall, where
the depot for the shipment of goods will
remain all Winter, or until it reaches
Shasta Valley or Yreka.
Year: 1872

THE Cincinnati Commercial, just be-
fore the late election in that city, gives
the following laconic definition of its po-
litical rule; Usually we take Repub-
lican ticket, and after scratching it well,
vote it. This time we propose to take a
Democratic ticket, scratch it and vote it.
The right way IS to use the ticket that
requires the least scratching"
Year: 1872

A KENTUCKY entomologist has kept
two mosquitoes under an inverted tumbler
for six months without food, and they
remain in a healthy condition. This
clearly proves that their annoyance of
mankind is entirely uncalled for, and not
at all necessary to their sustenance.
Year: 1872

THE cause of the election of the Demo-
cratic candidate for Lieutenant Governor
in Rhode Island, was on account of his
baing strong opponent of trap and seine
fishing, which is carried on so extensively
in Narragansett Bay.
Year: 1872

LATE arrivals from Ovens river state
that the volcanic convulsions have not
Yet subsided. There is one place at the
foot Of the mountains where the ground
Is too hot to walk upon barefooted.
Year: 1872

IT is stated in mitigation of Fejee can
nibalism that only boys from twelve to
fourteen years old are now eaten by edu-
Gated persons only the very lowest class
eat old men and women.
Year: 1872

Adah Meyers, of9s Fourth street, attempted to
commit suicide yesterday by shooting herself
through the head with pistol. She was sent to
the Fifteenth precinct station house, where the ball
was extracted by DR.. Steele, and she was then
conveyed to Bellevue Hospital. The wound is not
considered dangerous one. Excessive drinking
and despondency are supposed to have been the
causes OF her conduct.
Year: 1872

In Costa Rica the work on the railroad from San
Jose the capital. to the Atlantic coast is progress
ing very faverably.


President Guardia is expected to return from
Eur ope in the latter part OF December.
Year: 1872

BY steamship from Aspnwall at this port
yesterday, We received SPECIAL dispatches and
newspaper moil files from the South and Central
American States containing the following late and
Interesting news.
Year: 1872

your heads as bald as the top of my
hand.


Mr.. T.-Well, he-poor fellow, he
fairly dotted on his grandmother-fairly
dotted on her. She had nursed him, you
know, because his mother was so feeble
and so-well, he came to this country
fifteen years ago, and first he set up
in the vegetable line, and got
along pretty well, and was about
to send to England for the old lady,
when hard times came and he got broke
He went into fruit, then, and after that
into milk--into all sorts of things, you
know; but he got disappointed every
time, till this present business fetched
out all right, and he sent right off for the
old woman. She landed here four weeks
ago, but died the very same night. 1t was
hard, very hard, after all his waiting and
toiling for fifteen years, to get her over
at last, and have her die on his hands.
He-he-well, he was disgusted. How
ever, he laid her out, and he and
his friends sat up with her, and bye and
bye the memories of her virtues softened
his bitterness and turned it to tender
grief-a settled melancholy that hung
about his spirit like pail for many
days. However, by patiently striving to
keep sad thoughts out Of his mind he
was finally beginning to regain some of
his old time cheerfulness, when your
shoe reminded him SO painfully of his
poor, sainted grandmother's coffin


Mrs. THAT, you brute (Slaps his
face.) And if you dare to come back
here again I'll kick you out again. You
degraded old rufiianl Out of the house
with you Exit, leading Mark out by
the ear
Year: 1872

From the Cleveland Plain Dealer.


A West Side man the other day bought
whatseemed to be very nice piece of
corn beef which his wife cooked and
served for dinner As he put piece on
his plate a pungent odor greeted his
nostrils, and he knew he had been swim
died on the meat, that it was too anti
quated to be placed on the table Of any
well-regulated family. On sudden i'm
pulse he seized the odoriferous beef and
flung it through an open window. Now,
his better-half is of an economical turn
of mind and, perhaps, is one of those
epicures who think meat is best when
tainted. At all events, she declared
that the beef should be eaten. So she
sent a child to pick the meat out of the
dirt, then she carefully washed the piece,
cut it up, made hash and set it before
her lord for his supper. BE ate heartily,
and after he had finished, his wife asked
him how he liked the hash. Bully"
was his impolite answer. Whereupon
she informed him that it was made of
the meat he had rejected.
Year: 1872

From the Indianapolis Sentinel.


The Chief of Police is a waggish fell
low, but shis waggishness sometimes
borders on the impertinent. For in
stance: During the visit of the Hausel-
man Commandery to this city he sud
denly slipped up behind one of the
knights, gave him vigorous punch in
the back, and then snatched his chap
eau from his head and started off,
leaving the visitor standing bareheaded
and mortified at the situation. The
chief imagined his waggish procedure
was at the expense of Isaac Thalman,
and his apologies upon discovering his
mistake approached very near the ab-
iect. The Cincinnatian smothered his
wrath, but must have LEFT for home with
queer opinion. Of the dignity and
courtesy of the high officials Of Indian
apolis.
Year: 1872

From the San Francisco Bulletin, April 81


According to the reports, miners who
were working three hundred feet or more
under ground in Inyo county at the time
of the earthquake, were entirely uncon-
scious that there had been the least ply
steal disturbance in that region. 1t
would seem from this fact that the force
was chiefly expended on or very near the
surface of the earth.


The phenomena of the earthquake in
Inyo county resembled that connected
with the great earthquake which occurred
in South America two or three years ago,
when Araquipi and Iquiqui were de-
stroyed. The loss Of life was probably
much greater than it would have been if
the buildings had been constructed Of
wood. The adobe and brick structures
went down like banks of dry earth.
Year: 1872

1t is said that the beginning of all
street cleaning dates back to the action
of a certain London merchant who at
traoted number of customers to his
store by sweeping line of communica-
ton open to the other side Of the street.
Through many months it was the only
place where any one could cross the
street without sticking int black and un-
savory mud, and the merchants name
and business became famous as the re-
suit of his shrewd scheme.
Year: 1872

The amount of fat was not accurately de-
termined, but it was proved to be more than
one per cent. The amount of water is prob
ably smaller than it would have been had
the corn been taken directly from the
grain house instead of the warm room in
which it had been hanging for some
weeks. The results of the analysis prove
tnat there Is in corn-cobs considera-
Bile amount OF fat-producing and fiesh-form-
ing constituents. In the sixty per cent. of
carbohydrates, albuminoids, fat, etc., are
found the elements which have nutritiye val
ue, and In order that we may obtain some
idea OF its comparative worth, let us con-
trast it with the dry straw of some grains


Wheat straw contains about 80 per cent. of
carbohydrates, 2 per cent. of albuminoids.
and II per cent. of fat; oat straw, 38 per
cent OF the first named substances, ~ of the
second and two of the third; rye straw, 27 of
the hrst, 1t OF the second, and $40 of the
third. 1t is shown that cobs have higher
vaiue than wheat or rye straw, and they equal
In nutritive constituents the best quality of
Oat straw.


THESE results indicate the utility of feeding
them to our animals, provided there are no
objections arising from bulk and difficulty of
reducing the cob to sufficiently fine powder.
1t is not probable that cob meal can be per-
fectly digested unless communion is carried
to an extreme point, and therefore the finer
the cobs are ground, the higher the value,
and the less the liability of gastric disturb
ance. 1t is certain we do not give sufficient
attention to the matter of grinding any of
the grains fed to our animals. They should
be ground as fine as possible, in order that
they may be easy of digestion, and in order
that the nutritive substances may be fully
utilized. There is positive loss in feed
ing out coarsely ground grains of any
kind, and in grinding the cob with the corn,
give special attention to the work of COM
minution. The corn in the ear should be
thoroughly dry before it is carried to mill,
and there will be less difficulty in reducing it
to a fine powder.-Boston Journal of Chem
istTu 10 I
Year: 1872

TEE YOU'VE KING OF SPAIN.-The young
King of Spain is referred to in a recent Mad
rid letter as follows: "In the course of the
drive young fellow went shying right up
against the Kings leaders, and half knocked
the royal position out of his saddle, and the
young coxcomb did it on purpose, too, for he
neither took off his hat nor turned round to
beg pardon. He just galloped away, while
everybody was laughing and saying it was a
good joke, and the poor Queen was as red as
lobster, and the King hung his head. 1t
might have been good joke, but it was very
bad manners. am told such things happen
not unfrequently. The King is good look
ing young man, with skin like Philip III,
and an eye like-well, not good eye. can
not compliment his eyes, and should be
rather sorry to know anybody intimately who
had that sort of eyes. He is brave, and he Is
patient. l met him on the sidewalk this
morning walking up the street OF Alcola, all
alone, and with nothing which looked like a
policeman within forty rods of him. He goes
about like any other young man of his age,
plainly dressed, with little switch in his
hand, completely unattended, and apparently
as free from royal etiquette and royal appre-
tensions as the best democrat of them all.
The threat of assassinating him has died out
completely. He has quite shamed it out of
his enemies"
Year: 1872

The loss of individual firms in England
in consequence of the depreciation of railway
and foreign stocks, together with the check in
speculation, brought about by anticipation Of
war, has been enough, according to the Lon
don Economist, to pay the direct Alabama
claims many times over.
Year: 1872

The elegant mansion of Chancellor Temple
was the scene of splendid entertainment yes
terday evening, in the shape of a select party
given by his accomplished daughter, Miss
Mary B., to the misses and young gentlemen of
her acquaintance We had the pleasure Of be-
ing present for a short time, and have never
witnessed an occasion where all seemed to en-
JOY themselves in higher degree than this.
String Band discoursing lively music, while
James r. Lowery, who seems dcSideratum at
Knoxville parties, was experimenting dance
which was benin participated in by u score or
more Of beautiful blushing misses and as many
young gentlement while the spacious halls
were filled with smiling faces and
happy young couples were prOmenading
back and forth with light elastic step which in
dicated their unalloyed pleasure No distinc-
tiOns were to be seen there, but each one SEEM
ed to join in with the social spirit which mani
tested itself so strikingly, and vie with every
other, in rendering the occasion an agreeable one.
Mrs. Temple was everywhere present with her
cheerful smiles and conversation to inspire her
guests with a feeling of welcome, while Miss
Mary was the center Of attraction among her
young associates The Judge received all with
the cheerful welcome which characterizes his
hOspitable mansion.


At eleven o'clock the music and dancing
ceased, and those present were treated to a col
lation which Kings and Princes might well
envy Those who have attended parties at
Mrs. Temples know how she excels in this
particular. We took our leave soon after, re-
GREETING to depart and feeling in our inmost soul
that it was good to be there"