smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1870

Under this head the Columbus Enquirer
says


An extensive planter suggests to US a
plan whereby he thinks much of the loss
that will result from throwing large cotton
crop upon the market next winter may be
avoided. He proposes that all planters, who
are not forced to sell the whole of their
crops to meet engagements and current ex-
penses, should sell only one half, and keep
the balance in the seed on their own premi.
ses. His objection to ginning aud baling
the cotton to be retained, is not only the
present high price of bagging, but the fact
(Which he has ascertained by actual ex-
perience,) that cotton will improve in both
quality and weight when kept unginned,
but will lose in both when packed. He
tells of a considerable quantity bought in
the seed during our late war, which was
suffered to remain unginned several years.
When finally ginned it was found that less
than three pounds in the seed yielded a
pound of lint, and the lint was of a rich
slightly yellow cclOr, and very fine in ap-
pearanee This was no doubt due to the
absorption by the lint ofsome of the oil in
the seed-the seed by this process. being
rendered lighter and the lint heavier.


By the proposed plan the expenses of
storing for an indefinite time may be avoided
and planters may at the same time defeat
the schemes of spectators who hope to
make large crop, the war, ETC., pretexts
for swindling the producer out of the real
value of his staple The m istake of plant
ing large crops of grain this year may be
corrected by holding over, in this way, q
cotton crop, and paying special attention to
provision crops next year. Ifthree millions
and a half or four millions of bales should
be produced this year, hold over a million'or
a million and half of bales of it in the seed
and next year make only two and half or
three millions of bales By this means the
supply may be adjusted to the demand, and
cotton planters may do much to protect
their great interest from the leeches that
have attached themselves to it. and whose
greed is almost as destructive asthe rayages
of the boil worm.


The suggestion seems to US to be one es-
PeciaIiy deserving the attention of the whole
country, and we cheerfully comply with
request of our planting friends by asking
our exchanges to assist in bringing it to their
notice


The gentleman proposing this plan has
ascertained, Oh inquiry, that there will be
no difficulty in Obtaing insurance upon cot
ton kept unginncd on the plantation.
Year: 1870

AS l have succeeded in getting new in
vsnton granted me on PRESSES now propose to place
them before the people for general use.


My invention is reduced down TO SIMPLICITY, DU-
RABILITY and STRENGTH, much 80 that any set Of
field hands can work it with good


All those who wish Press in working or
der this place.


l propose to sell RoYALTY. COUNTY and STATE
RIGHTS suIy
Year: 1870

Last evening, as we were walking leisure
ly along, the music of the choirs in three
churches came floating out in the darkness
around us, and they were all new and strange
tunes but one. And that one-it was not
sung as we have heard it, but it awakened
train of long buried memories that rose to us
even as they were before the cemetery of the
soul had a tomb in it.


1t was sweet old Corinth they were singing
strains we have seldom heard since the rose
color of life was blanched; and we were in a
moment back again to the old village church,
and it was q summer afternoon, and the vel
low sunbeams We're streaming through the
west windows, and the silver hair of the old
deacon who sat near the pulpit was turned to
gold in its light and the minister who we
used to think could never die, so good was
he, had concluded application" "exhorta-
ton" and the village choir were singing the
last hymn, and the tune was-Corinth


1t is years-we dare not think how many
since then, and ''the prayers of David, the
son of jesse, are ended" and the choir are
scattered and gone. The girl with blue eyes
that sang alto, and the girl with black eyes
that sang air-the eyes of the one were like
clear June heaven at night, and those OF the
other Ike the same heaven at noon. They
both became wives, and both mothers, and
they both died. Who shall say that they are
not singing Corinth still, where Sabbaths new
er wane, and congregations never break upo
There they sat, Sabbath..atter Sabbath, by the
square column at the right of the ''leader''
and to our young eyes, they were passing
beautiful and to our young ears their tones
were the very ''soul of music" That col
umn bears still their penciled names, as they
wrote them in those days in life's June, 183-,
before dreams of change had overcome their
spirits, like q summers cloud.


Alas that with the old singers most of the
sweet old tunes have died upon the air; but
they linger in memory, and they shall yet
be sung again in the sweet reunion of song,
that shall take place by-and-by in a hall whose
columns are beams of morning light, whose
ceiling is pure pearl, whose floors are all gold,
and where hair never turns silvery, and where
hearts never grow old. Then she that sang
alto and she that sang air will be in their
places once more
Year: 1870

| 1t is common occurrence for passengers
to get cnders in their eyes while sitting by
an open car window Though the result is
not generally serious, the presence Of the
cinder is exceedingly annoying and some
times painful. We have known the difficult
ty to be removed by bathing the eye in soap
suds, strong enough to cause tears to flow,
when the cinder would be washed out A
physician in the Hearth and Home tells of
another way to remove the difficulty =


"Called to prescribe for Mrs. Andrews's s
infamed eyes; learned she had bit of Gin
der in her eye; occurred while travelling on
the cars four days ago; eye very much in
famed, painful, and attended with severe
headache. This is one of the hundreds of
eases where little knowledge would not
have been dangerous thing, and would save
a world of pain. Nothing is more distress
ing to a traveller than piece of cinder in the
eye, and no disorder is more easily remedied
Calling the family together, I proceeded to
show them that it was not an eye-wash that
Mrs. Andrews needed to relieve her suffer-
ing, but the removal of the foreign substance
The cnder will be found Just underneath the
mar gin of the upper lid, where there is a
small groove or gutter for the flow of tears
to the inner angle OF the eye. Foreign bodies
tend to tall into this groove, and ii they are
very angular, like cinder, they adhere in spite
of the current Of tears which now flow in
greater abundance and sooner or later carry
off smooth substances. Now, if You will
raise The margin OF the upper lid and turn it
over, the cinder OF grain of sand will be ex-
posed and may easily be removed with the
point of q pencil, or with the finger covered
by n handkerchief. Ithen demonstrated this
simple operation on one of the boys, thus :
Taking my pencil in my right fingers, with
the thumb and first finger Of my left hand l
seized the eyc-lashes of the upper lid and
drawing the lid gently out from the ball,
pressed the point of the pencil downward up
on the upper surface of the lid, about one
fourth of an inch from its margin and at the
same time carried the margin upward over
the pencil by the eye-lashes, when the lid
readily rolled over the pencil SO as to expose
completely the gutter described. then asked
one of the ladies to perform this operation
upon her mother, which, after two or three
failures, she accomplished, and, as I had pre-
dicted, small angular pieces of cinder were
fonnd beneath the margin of the lid, which
she very adroitly removed with the point OF
the pencil. Mrs. Andrews expressed imme-
diate relief. So much interest was felt in
this painless operation, that all in turn per-
formed it, being much aided by requiring the
person operated upon to look downward
when the lid was being inverted, and up
ward when the operator wished to restore the
lid"
Year: 1870

BURYlNG BEES. Alonzo Barnard of Ban
gor, informs the American Bee Journal, that
he has wintered bees successfully by bur rying
them in the ground. He put the hives down


where the frost could not reach them, and
covered close, without providing at all tor
ventilation The combs moulded some, but
bees came out strong and healthy He thinks
by leaving a hole for ventilation the mould
may be avoided. The colonies buried were
weak ones. He says The fact that bees
can be wintered well number of feet under
ground, without ventilation, and with the
ground frozen over them, is with me) good


evidence that bees need but little air in win
Year: 1870

In the quiet of the evening


Two are walking in unrest;
Man has touched a jealous nature
Anger burns in woman's breast.
These are neither wed nor plighted.
Yet the maybe hangs as near,
And as fragrant as the wild-rosc


Which their garments hardly clear.
And as briery, too, you fancy?


Well, perhaps so-some sad morn
One or both may, for moment,


Wish they never had been born.
Happy quips and honest pleadings
Meet with silence or a sneer;
But more keenly has she listened


Since she vowed she would not hear.
Now great oak parts the pathway.
''Nature'll crafty your mood;
To the right,-let this divide you:
1t will all be understood"
So caprice, with childish weakness,
Yet with subtlety of thought,
Whispered in the ear of woman,


Love with dread the answer sought.
Was it superstitious feeling


Struck at once the hearts of two.
Had he seen proud eyes half sorry
For what little feet must dor
For he stretched an arm towards her,
Folding nothing but the air,
Saying nothing the motion


Drew, without offending there.
In the quiet of the evening


Two are walking back again;
At the oak their happy voices


Whisper of vanished pain.
What if they Tonight be plighted,
And the maybe hangs more near
And more fragrant than the wild rose
Which their garments hardly clear!
And more briery, too, you fancy?
Well, perhaps so. Thorns are i'll.
But love draws them out so kindly,
One must trust him, come what will.
Atlantic Monthly.
Year: 1870

The pen is mightier than the sword. A large
tin sign in Detroit, representing a gold pen,
was recently torn from its fastenings by the
wind, carried up into the air, and descending,
its point penetrated the back of a dog, killing
him instantly.
Year: 1870

In its report of the proceedings on the
4th, that Democratic sheet (the Sentinel of
this evening charges that the negroes of
the City did not even ask the, negroes
from the country into their houses" Sir, if
there is one noble trait in the African race
of the South known and recognized by all
intelligent, observing and kind hearted
people, 1t his universal hospitality, always
ready to divide with needy brother, even
to the last mouthful.


AS for myself, had eighteen of my frien,ls
from the country to stay with me last night
l have but two rooms in my house.


Let my colored friends speak out aud
show the falseness of the charge OF one who
is vainly endeavoring to stir up enmity and
jealousy between citizens of the county and
those of the town, when he should more be-
cunIiheiysber striving to inculcate charity
and good VIA, peace and love toward all
men. ROMULUs MALONE.


Raleigh, July 5, 1870.
Year: 1870

To Cook VEGETABLEs.-A German pro


fessor says that if one portion of a vegetable
be boiled in. pure distilled or rain water,
and another in which little salt has been
added, a decided difference is perceptible
in the tenderness of the two. Vegetables
boiled in pIire water are vastly inferior in
flavor. This inferiority may go so far, in the
the case of onions, that they are entirely
destitute of either taste or odor; though
when cooked in salt water, in addition to
the pleasant taste, is a peculiar sweetness
and strong aroma. They also contain more
soluble matter than when cooked in pure
water. Water which contains onetwentieth
ofits weight in salt is far better, because
the salt hinders the solution or evaporation
of the favoring principles OF the vegetables
Year: 1870

conqucror, we prepared to make n tri-
umphal ehtrahce.


But here, as Often happens in the REM
iniscences of our childhood, the vision
fails. We can recollect nothing of our
reception.


Since then we have 6shed in many a
stream and lake, and in the deep sea-
but never with half the exhilaration of
that first joyful hour upon the Bantam


Not even there, again, would the fire
be rekindled' For, not lcng after, taking
a younger brother, to be a marvelling
witness of our success, we went again to
the old sawmill. The air was disenchant-
ed. The roads and bushes had no spirit
In them. The brook gurgled aud rushed.


We caught our fish, few, but without
craze, and came solemnly home, wnoder-
ing what the reason could be that the
first time could be had but once


Since then we have seen many grown
up boys seeking to reproduce first sensa-
tions and to make novelties perpetual
But each day must provide its own first
times. Those of yesterday are shrunk
and faded.
Year: 1870

PETROLEUM AS A PMNT.--A writer in
the american Ag-iculttris, says regard
ing petroleum


1t can be used to great advantage on
farm as a preserver of wood. 1t is not
properly paint. No coloring matter
should ever be mixed with it. Ordinary
linsecd-oil paint preserves wood by form
ino coat that excludes the atmosphere
from the pores. Petroleum penetrates
the wood and excludes the air by filling
up the pores,


Old barns from which the paint is worn
off will be much improved by a liberal
coat of petroleum. 1t can be put on with
a whitewaih brush. The point is to get
on as much as the wood will absorb. 1t
is better to 60 over the work rapidly, and
the mex. day go over it again.


For shipgle roofs, new and old, nothing
is better than petroleum. In making a
nav ronf we would Dip the shingles by
the bunch in petroleum, until they were
saturated, before putting them on. This
would save the expense of applying it on
the roof with brush.


The sills and timbors Of barns and 9TH
er buildings, in the parts most liable to
decay, should be treated with petroleum.
A good way to do this is to bore a hole
into stick of timber, and fll it with the
oil, and as it is absorbed, add more. The
hole should afterwards be plugged up.


The ends Of all the timber should also
be washed over repeatedly with petroleum
before being put into the building. In
this way, soft maple, black ash, and bass
wood may bo made durable timber, and
as useful as soak when strength is not re-
quired.


We repeat that petroleum is not paint
1t preserves wood by filling the pores
1t is worse than useless to mix anything
with it. If it is desirable to paint, lei
ordinary paint be used. But II nothing
more is,dcsircd than the preservation Of
the wood, use petroleum--and mix moth
ing with it.
Year: 1870

"u'aueago u su,,rng tno MIX IN pans or
in bulk. Of course it must be properly
cooled TO start with, and then we might a.
well argue that pine shingle in water
will not rise to the surface, as that cream
will not come the surface Of milk, as long
as the milk is not changed in its chemical
character. The great point is to dispel
the animal heat in the quickest practical
manner, after the milk comes from the
COW.
Year: 1870

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An elopement. has been the most
exciting topic of conversation in the
village for the week past, One day
last week q 'Corkie" Kinneman and
Miss Annie Unger started npon q
wedding tour without the consent of
the fair ones parents and are now
bathing in q sea of matrimonial bliss
il, 2 little town not a hundred miles
of. The dexterous manner in which
Miss Annie conducted this little affair
to a successful denoument shonld
make a certain near relative of hers
blush for the awkward failure which
attended q like attempt on her part
week OF two previous Moll, you
ought to be ashamed of yourself, to
allowYa young girl to routgeneral you
so.-Aineryd.. Commercial.
Year: 1870

The latest returns from New York
show the Democratic majority to be
within fraction Of ninety thousand, and
still increasing. We suppose il will
keep on till the next Presidential cleo
ton.
Year: 1870

Peter Jones was one OF those Sood
hearted excitable men unfortunately
addicted to the habits of intemperancc
He insisted that good solid drunk"
was a necessary cause of medicine for
him. His liver became torpid; and in
a good many other respects his natural
machinery would get out of order about
twelve or thirteen times year and
from six to ten good large drains OF
strong corn whisky was sure to put him
right; by first putting him 50 dcsper-
ately wrong that in coming to the right
point he could not avoid making good
start to turn the inside Of his stomach
thoroughly out. 1t is certain he went
"on that line" rs far as the contents oI
his stomach was concerned.


Peters wife was as clever "man"
u,n,apy, respectsas was Mr.. P Jones
himself. She was a good cook good
house-keeper; had good sense and
was, therefore, good woman and a
good wife


Mariah-that was her name-but
Peter pronounced it "Ma-ri-ar'-be
lieved that Peter was a man of excel
lent sense, and Of large general intor-
nation. She never doubted the fact Of
his liver growing torpid periodically;
nor did she question the necessity oi
medical aid in manner and quality
stated. Peter always went to country
store a mile of to get the medicine,
and invariably returned home to allow
it to work its course"


Mariah was fond Of sound Steering
and at the times Of these recurring pc
riods of family application" she never
failed to make Peter a comfortable pal.
let BY the hearth and Lucinda, the
oldest GIRL by her mothers direction
placed a small wash tub in the corner,
in which Peter could store away his
corn whisky at such time Of the night
as, in his judgment, it was no longer
needed in his stomach as wholesome
medicine. Peter generally reached
home one and a half to two hours in
the night,


The case Of "ailliction,' now refoned
to, occurred in the month Of May
During the evening a heavy shower Of
rain had fallen aud exerted an un-
healthy influence, in Mariah's estima-
ton, on a brood Of young goslinGs. To
relieve them properly, she placed them
in the large tub covering them with
light feeces of fax tow, and placed
this tub--the goSling tub--in the other
corner Peters midical tub was in It's
proper place. All went on as usual
Peter was heard to enter the home
fortress a little later than usual and in
reaching his virtuous couch by the
hearthstone he bit more chairs than
usual and after settling himself to rest,
groans Of deeper and broadeS charac-
ter seemed to rise up and roll of from
his afflicted liver--at least from that
neighborhood. Possibly Mariah had
not spread the mattress and quilts as
smoothly as usual. Peter was more
than commonly restless. The period
in Peters human affairs was finally
reached The crisis had come. The
Rublcon must be crossed and Peter
arose and event for II" with as much
energy as that displayed by Lord
Byron In swimming the Hollispont-
Peter, although grievou5ly afflicted,
was able to reach the tub, but unfor.
tunately the Big onc lie rendered The
| largest and most elaborate account he
had ever presented II was both single
Year: 1870

uea- Recruiting Offices have been open
ed in New York for troops to join in the
European war, A brigade OF lrishmcn
is being raised for the French army
while large number of Germans are
said to be ready to embark for Father
land.
Year: 1870

Richmond College has these already, ana is
ready to start ut once schools for instruction
in agriculture and mechanic arts. 1t costs
less to educate man there than anywhere
lin the southern States. By the system Of
messing in vogue, man can 90 through q
year comfortably for $3.50 or $500, though
be can spend as much moro as he may
wish. ....


This college is also denominational, but
not sectarlan. It was organized by Bap-
fists. and he would not apologize for
that in Virginia, for he must be
stupidIy ignorant of the history of Nir-
pinta who does not know how much
fhe old Dominion is indebted to the Bap-
lists for civil and religious liberty. The ia
Guilty and board of trustees were made up
of different denominations, and there was
no, attempt to give sectarian bias to the
instruction. He had nothing to say against
administrations. He thanked God there
were so many, and that there was noble,
generous, honest rivalry between alto edu-
cate the people and establish a standard of
education in Virginia to be held up to the
admiration not; only of the South and OF the
United States, but of the world.


Referring to the act Of Congress by which
this appropriation was made, Dr. Curry
said. notwithstanding the talk about what
had been done in other countries for the
cause OF education, the United States bad
far excelled any and all. This nation mas
made education a speciality. This Is tne
first Government that ever made large dona-
stions OF land to educate the people, and the
Limited States has appropriated more area
Of territory for educational purposes than
is comprised within the whole territory OF
Great Britain and ireland. But Virginia
has received mo more than her share, for
this very land was a part of Y1rgini9s
munifcent grant to the Union IN former
Year: 1870

1t was believed by many eminent and
distinguished men, that as science increas-
ed and that as education and intelligence
became general, that war as a mutual
consequence would decrease and utterly
disappear; but such is not the case.


When we look at the desperate struggle
and sangulnary war now raging between
France and Prussia, or if we take back
ward glance at our bloody four years
struggle it seem to US that the Science has
but little or nothing to do to ptocrastirate
It's carnage or to mutigate their cencomi-
tant evils.


We claim to be the most enlightened,
educated and civilized nation on Gods foot
stool, yet our science and enlightment did
not preventus from entering into a long
civil strife, the termination OF which no
foresighted man could presume to deter
mine. Prussia is claimed and pronounced
by many Americans to be the best educa-
ted and the most intelligent nation in
Europe, the same is also claimed of the
leading people of France. Yet to-day the
two nations are engaged in one of the
most causeless and bloodiest wars on record,
with the implements of war rendered so
perfect by science and art that they great
ly increase instead of decreasing mortality.
such Is the experience which our own
country furnishes, and such is the expert
ence which the most enlightened nations
of Europe furnish, that science has but
little or no influence on war. Wars exis-
ted from time immemorial and we believe
that they will exist as long as the world
stands. not that We would justify war or
disparage science. We all know that wa-
Is the most evil that af1icts Us, tits mur-
ner and not anything but wholesale
slaughter


And those that excite enmities and
kindle the fires Of war between nations for
ambition, and personal causes, are butch
ers and should receive the exeerations of
mankind. We believe that science has
done much and is still doing much for the
world, but men are always about the
same, the passions of men are not whit
more mild than a thousand years ago
What is wanting is more genuine christi
anlty and brotherly love. There is no
flesh in mans odurate heart it does not
feel for man.