smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1872

To GRASS A BANK. A German method
is For each square rod to be planted, take
half pound of lawn grass seed, and mix
it intimately and thoroughly with six cubic
feet of good dry garden loan. This is
placed in tub, and liquid manure, diluted
with about two-thirds of water, is added
and well stirred in SO as to bring the whole
to the consistency of mortar. The slope is
to be cleaned and made perfectly smooth,
and then well watered, after which the
paste just mentioned is to be applied with
trowel and made even and thin as possi-
Bile. Should it crack by exposure to the
air, it is to be again watered and smoothed
day by day, until the grass makes its ap
pearance, which will be in from eight to
fourteen days, and the whole decivity will
soon be covered with close carpet of
green.
Year: 1872

REMEDY FOR STRIPED BUG. Having
occasion to use Paris Green and calcined
plaster, III the proportion of one of the
former to fifteen of the latter as IA DESTROY
er of the potato bug, ! tried the stuff on
squash, melon and cucumber vines with
me, the mixture busted on from common
dredging, has proved equally eitectual
against the Colorado Potato Beetle aud the
striped bug. On squashes of the tenderst
variety foliage, like the Hubbard, for i'll
stance, and on the harder, like Cymlin, and
The Winter Crookneck, this mixture, wheth-
er put on while the plant is wet or dry,
does not injure them; and so of musk mel
ons and cucnmbers. The watermelon, how
ever, does not like to be so treated, but
would recommend that the mixture be used
with care. Cor. Prairie Farmer
Year: 1872

How EASILY BUTTER Is SPOILED. A far
mer's wife writes ''Of all the products of
the farm, butter is the most liable to
De tainted by noyious odors floating in the
atmosphere. Our people laid some veal in
The cellar, from which little blood flowed
out and was neglected until it commenced
to saeil. The result was that jar of but
Ter which | was then packing, smelled and
tasted ike spoiled beer. Another lady
reader observes that there was a pond of
nlthy, stagnant water few hundred feet
from their house, from which an offensive
etffuviuln would be borne on the breeze d-
rectly TO the milk room, when the wind was
Ill certain direction; the result of which
was that the cream and butter would taste
ike the disagreeable OdOr coming from the
pond. AS soon as the pond was drained,
we had no more damaged butter" Ex-
change.
Year: 1872

A torsaken looking woman, who, with
pair of green spectacles over her eyes
and an infant in her arms, has been work
ing upon the sympathies of the Worcester
people by grinding dolefnl tunes from an
asthmatic hand organ, which bore a
placard announcing that the performer
was poor blind woman and the mother
of ten fatherless children, turns out to
have good pair OF eyes, while her baby
is only rag affair
Year: 1872

A boarding-house in Hartford was
lately the scene Of a little tea-table per-
formance, which was attended with results
of a disagreeable nature A discussion
arose between three of the boarders, and
was broken off by the flight of Il tea cup,
which struck one of the conversationalsts,
and threw him back in his chair so far
that his legs flew up and struck the table,
whose legs flew up also. No formal
announcement was made that supper was
over, but the family understood it to be a
fact from personal observation. Subse-
quently three individuals retired to the
station-house for lodgings.
Year: 1872

The Sacramento Union" is a self
appointed guardian of the interests of the
people of the State Of California and it
would have everybody understand that,
like Luttrel in the last Legislature, it is
for the pore man" every time. Can
dor compes US to say that in our humble
opinion the truth of the matter is that it
don't matter TO the i" Union how much
the people are feeced so that it receives
its share of the "clip." The " Union +"
is death on nonopoles, yet it wages war
on one only-the Central Pacific Rail
road. The Central Pacific is a close cor
poration, and conducts its affairs with a
view to its own interest and not those Of
the people, and needs watching. But
the Central Pacific has vastly benefited
the people of this Coast aud should re-
ceive due credit therefor. OF this fact
those who read the Union " solely
would never be Informed. Heavy freight
to Trinity county is now nearly one-third
less than before it was brought by the
railroad. Light freight is nearly two
thirds cheaper. To go from Weaver
Vile to San Francisco used to cost by
stage and steamer from forty to fifty dol
lars and occupied from five to eight days.
Now the same trip takes two days by
stage and railroad at an expense Of twen-
ty dollars. The time and outlay Of a
journey to the Eastern States are reduced
in the same proportion. There are mo-
nopolies in the State that are more op-
pressive than the Central Pacific, but
concerning these the "Unon has no
word of warning nor Of censure. In its
opposition to Stanford & Co. it long ago
laid argument aside and adopted in its
stead the language Of passion. In its
frcnzied opposition to the Central Pacific
, it reminds us Of the boy in the fable who
was set to watch sheep and cried "Wolf
wolf I" when there was no wolf. After
being many times deceived, when the
wolves "did descend on the fold " the
shepherds did not heed his alarm and the
sheep were destroyed. There are monop-
olies in this State more exacting and OPP
pressive than the railroad, which take all
and return nothing. We, the residents Of
the northern mountains, can see and un-
derstand this. If the "Union cannot,
so much the worse for the Union" The
people will place on guard sentinel
with kecner vision.
Year: 1872

DAMN, NOT SwEARING.-During the
examination of witness recently in the
little will case in San Francisco, says
the Bulletin, he was asked by Cyril V.
Gray, one of the counsel, if he did not
pronounce Fred little a damn scoundrel.
Witness said he did not, because he never
used profane language. Mr.. Gray said
he was religious man himself, and he
did not consider the use of the word damn
profanity; it was only the Saxon word
for condemnation, consequently the use
of the word was not swearing. We are
rejoiced to know such to be the case, as
we will not have as many sins to answer
for as we expected to. Damn it.
Year: 1872

PoINT wherever you please to an
election precinct which you will pronounce
morally rotten-given up in great part to
debauchery and vice-whose voters sub
sist mainly by keeping policy offices,
gambling houses grog shops, and dark
dens of infamy, and that district will be
found giving a large majority for that
which styles itself the Democratic party.
Horace Greeiey.
Year: 1872

DEMOCRATIC and Republican journals
alike rejoice over the fact that Charles
O'Connor declined the Louisville nomi-
nation. The Democrats do so because it
will give Greeley better chance, and
the Republicans because they are anxious
to know just how much Grant can beat
Greeley in a square fight.
Year: 1872

THE first canal boat propelled by steam
that ever made full trip from Buffalo to
New York arrived at the latter place
Sept. 22d, in five days less time than by
the usual horse power.
Year: 1872

RINGER.


The following letter has been received by a
gentleman in this city from the Hon. Daniel h Barrn-
ger, for many years Member of Congress from Noith
Carolina and afterward Minister 10 spain one oil the
most cultivated and influential men In his state:


At the South are compelled to look at the
situation from different standpoint from that oil tue
North They do not imagine the expressions and hu-
miliations to which and have been continually
subject under the Administration. 1t s Wlth us
question not so much OF choice necessity TO have
change of Government We cannot stand 1t longer ana
prosper in any way. / Chairman OF the state Tx
ecuye Committee Of the Democratic party OF our STATE
and have much opportunity to know public opinion III
North Carolina among friends IL is almost unani-
nous for Greeley and Brown, and will become entirely
so by the Endorsement at Baltimore think our dele
CATION viii be a unit for that ticket.


1t is the best do and it is never wrong to dothe
best We can have myself no doubt aboutM Mr. Greeeys
course If elected. was in Congress with him, ana saw
much Of his ways characer and beside, everybody
ne is honest. Now the great want Of the nation
IS honest in this highest place. as well ~ an SUD
ordinate ones. Very truly yours, ID. NJ BARRiAGEk'
Rdieigh June o. 1872.
Year: 1872




About p. m. yesterday the Hudson County
Grand jury presented indictments against Chief Of
Police Edward L. Mcwniams. and Detective John
Doyle who were arrested last Saturday charge Of
completely in the attempted Bank robbery last June
Detective Doyle was rearresed and taken
into Court. where he was bailed in $4,000
only 5000 more than tho original bail bonds
tho came bOndsmen becoming his securities
At 8 p. M. yesterday Deputy Sheriff Cronn arrested
Chief Of Police NcWiams in Goetzes saloon, in New
arkave near the City Hail. At the time the place was
filed with regular customers many OF whom were per
sona friends Of the Chief and made offers to procure
bail. II was subsequently, ascerained, however, that
Judge Bede absent in Newark and that an appea-
ton for bail could not be received until to-day When
this fact was made known 1t expected that McWi
lsms would quietly allow himself TO be taken to
the County JAIL and preparations made TO convey
him TO that place. at this uncure Detective Howard
remarked TO Deputy Sheriff Cronin that the Chief wished
70 retire to the anterOom for moment and that he
would accompany him. Howard returned in about five
minutes without the Chief, and stated that MeWiiams
had requested him 10 60 up stairs and call the propre
tor OF the saloon and that while be was away the Chei
escaped by the side door into Washington Alley and
entered a carriage. Detective Kilcauey was at this
time in company with the Chief and it is believed that
he accompanied the Chief 10 Newfork as he was seen
returning on a boat an hour later.


Tho arrest and escape OF the Chief caused the most IN
tense excitement in the vicinity OF the City Han ana
Police Headquarters during the whole evening
prominent Police Justice expressed the opinion that a
MeWilams had been rearrested on charge upon which
he had already been held In bail, his bondsmen he
had really escaped could not be held and that the
Court having placed the matter in the hands OF the
Sheriff and his officers responsible for the pro-
ducon OF the man In court. city official who became
McWauns's bOndsmen the first arrest, stated
at late hour last night the chief had merely made
his escape 10 avoid confinement in the County JAIL and
that his whereabouts known and he would posi-
lively appear in court to-day and give the required
Year: 1872

On the 20tL Of March, ,I84S, the riv-


er presented a remarkable phenom-


enon. There is no record of a sim


liar one, nor has it been obseved


since. The winter had been intense


ly cold, and the ice formed on Lake


Erie was very thick. This was Ioos-


ened around the shore by the warm


days Of the early spring. During


the day a still easterly wind moved


the whole field up the lake. About


sundoWn the wind chopped sudden


ly around, and blew gale from the


west. This brought the vast track


of ice down again with such tremen-


dous forse as to I'LL up the neck of


the lake, and the outlet, so that the


outflow of the water was very great


ly impeded. Ofeourse it only need
ed short space Of time for the falls
to drain of the water below Black
Rock. The consequence was, that


when We arose in the morning at Nj
agara, we found that our river was
nearly half gone. The American
channel had dWindled into respect-
able creek. The British channel
looked as ifit had bean smitten with
q quick consumption and was fast
passing away. Far up from the head
Of Goat Island, and ont in the Cana
dian rapids, the water was gone, asit
was also from the lower end Of Goat
Islsnd, out beyond the tower. The
rocks were bare, black and forbid
ding. Theroar Of Niagara had sub
sided almost to q moan. The scene
was desolate, but for its novelty and
the certainty that it would change
before many hours. would have been
gloomy and saddening. Every per
son who has visited Niagara viii re-
member a beautiful jet Of water for
ty rods south Of the outer sister in
the great rapids, called, with singu-
lar contradiction of terms, the
''Leaping Rock" The writer drove
buggy from near the head Of Goat
Island out to a point above and near
that jet. With a log cart and four
horses he had drawn from the out
side Of the outer island q stick Of
pine timber, heWed twelve inches
square and forty feet long. From
the top Of the middle island was
drawn a still larger stick, heBed on
one side and sixty feet long. There
are few places on the globe where q
person would be less likely TO 90
Iumbering than in the rapids of Nj
agara, just above the brink Of the
horseshoe fall An the people of
the neighborhood were abroad, ex-
ploring recesses and cavities that
lad never before been exposed to
mortal eyes. The writer went some
distance ap the shore Of the river.
Large fields at the muddy bottom
sy bare. The singular sin
,ope of the waters lasted al the dav.
md night closed over the stranSa
scene. But in the morning our nv.
sr was restored In all its strength.
beauty and majesty, and We were
glad to welcome its swelling tide
1nce more,
Year: 1872

1 saw the turkey in his matchless pride:


The barn yard ground with crest erect, h


walked,
I His subjects marched behind and by his side
And he, grand Turk of all,imperiOus stalked
No crowned king could with this fowlcompare
In his majestic step and stately air.
Himself at his full height he proudly raised
Each other turkey meekly bent his head;
And then around him in contempt he gazsd,
And could he speak, I'm sure he'd thus have


said:


"Show me the turkey on this farm, I say,
That from myself can bear the balm away"
Thus thought the turkey, and in grandeur


stood;


But soon the ruthless farmer boy drew


nigh


His right hand sternly grasped club of wood
His sleeves up-rollsd, and murder in his eye
With direful force he struck one deadly blow
And on the ground he laid the turkey low.
The turkey fell; but struggled still with death
His eye look of stern defiance wore;
And, half upraised, he madly strove for breath
Then gave one desperate gasp and all wa


o'erl ii
And here this moral is impressed on all,
That, sooner or later, ''pride must have a fall
All, hapless turkeyl Here was thy sad fateI
For Ger thy mangled corpse, in joyous gIee
Matrons, maids, urchins, each before a plate,
Shall mingle laugh and mirth and jollity,
Until at last, safety shall be.
And they are full of happiness-and thee.
And ye, the offspring of that luckless bird,
Will ye not sigh, and weep, and rave, because
He whose sweet gobbies have SO oft been


heard,


Is gobbled up himself by human jsws
And cackle vengence 'gainst that custom


grand,
Which spreads such havoc through all turkey


land7


The happy parents, for their children's joy,
Have made ye parentless: he who was living
Yesterday, your sire, now dead, they do em-


ploy-


Grief infinite to you-ior their Thanksgiving,
So goes the world; what's happiness to me,
Another's direct curse perchance may. be:
Reader.-These lines moral good contain,
Which you with care may easily discover;
1 shall not deem my verses are In vain,
If you will deign to CON that moral over.
Yes, in these stanzas Of an unAsdeed pen,
A lesson is to turkeys and to men.
Portsmouth Journal
Year: 1872

THREE FRIENDS.-Trust to no friend if you
have not proved him; they are oftener found at
the banqueting table than at the door of the
prison. A man had three friends; two OF
them he loved greatly; to the third he was
Indifferent, although this one was the most
honest and sincere. He was once summoned
before a tribunal, where, although innocent, he
was harshly accused. Who of you, he said,
will go with me and testify for me, for | am
harshly accused, and the judge is angry with
me.


The first of his friends at once excused him
self, and said that he could not go with him on
account of other business. The second accom-
panied him to the door of the Court House,
then turned and went back, for he was afraid
of the angry Judge. The third, upon whom he
had least depended went in with him and
spoke in his defence, and testified so readily
to his innocence that the judge dismissed him
with rich gifts.
Man has three friends in this world now dc
they conduct themselves in the hour OF death
when heaven summons the soul before its tri
bunal? Money, his dearest friend, leaves hin
first, and does not go with him. His relatives
and friends attend him to the door ofthe grave
and return again to their homes. The third
whom he ottenest forgot in life, is his work
of Benevoencc these alone accompany him t.
the throne of the udge; they go before, speal
in his defence, and find mercy and favor TO
| him.
Year: 1872

EDGAR A. POE.-The true story of Pos
death has never been correctly told. 1t is this:
In the summer of l849 he left New York for
Virginia. In Richmond he met Miss Elmira
Shelton, whom he had known in bio ye~.h,
renewed his acquaintance, ana In lew weeks
they were engaged to be married. He wrote
to his friends in the North that he should pass
the remainder of his life in Virginia, where the
happiest days of his life had been spent
Early in October he set out from Richmond to
fulfill literary engagement in New York, and
to prepare for his marriage, which was to take
place on the 18th Of the month. Arriving in
Baltimore he found that he had missed the
Philadelphia train which he expected to take,
and would have to wait two or three hours fol
the next train. He went into a restaurant
near the depot to get some refreshments
There he met some of his old West Point
friends, who invited him to a champagne
supper that night. He accepted the invitation
and went At first he refused to drink but a
last he was induced to take glass of cham
pagne. That set him off, and in a few hour
he was madly drunk. In this state h


wandered off from his friends, was robbed ant


beaten by ruffians, and left insensible in tn


street all night. The next morning he wa


picked up and taken to the Maryland Hospital


He was delirious with brain fever. He wa
well-cared for by the physicians of the hOspita
. but he was beyond the skill of the doctors
He fingered two or three days, and died o


Sunday, October Z, l849, in the thirty-eight
J year Of his age.
Year: 1872

Washington correspondence of the Chicago
Tribune says: The Wharton social quarrel
extends to Washington, and as much has been
said about the Van Ness family, it is now
alleged that they propose to reverse their
former decision and press the State authorities
of Maryland to try Mrs. Wharton for the
attempt to poison young Van Ness. If con-
victed of this charge, term of Imprisonment,
and not death, would be the penalty.


The testimony upon the Van Ness case is
said to be more startling and definite than in
the Ketchum tragedy. Van Ness says that he
had never been asked, in all his acquaintance
with Mrs Wharton, to drink anything until the
particular time when she asked him to have
some claret. He drank but little of this, and
cried out that it was bad, and then started to
go home, only short distance away; he was
seized with blindness, and experienced a sensa-
tiOn as if the back Of his neck had been pinched
in vice and then lifted up.


! Cropping along like drunken man, he was
able to reach his door step and pull the bell
| AS the door opened he fell forward in his hall
and knew no more for several days. The frs
| thought on recovery was to send word to Mrs
Wharton not to give any of that claret to any
body because it must have been that which
made him sick.


When Van Ness, got out again his relatives


had the idea that he had been sun struck


but Immediately after repairing to Mrs. Whar


tons she invited him to drink of anothe


beverage. He felt the same pain coming OIL


him as before, and almost Immediately starte


for the front door, to rush home before tn


attack should come on. "Where are yo


going?" cried Mrs. Wharton. Don't sto


me, said Van Ness, ''that thing is coming o


me again"


He groped his way along the hall, but bt
fore he could put his hand on the front doc
knob he reeled and fell into the hall, and wa
dragged into the parlor, where he laid for
week, suffering nausea, vomiting, and tn
+ agonies of internal fire during the whole peric


of Ketchum S sickness, who, in the meantim
\ died above stairs.


j During the sickness, it is alledged that Mr.
n Wharton frequently prepared his medicin
i and every time he drank of her preparatio
: his agonies returned while, fed by his ov
E family, he recovered at last. 1t was at tn
!. time the milk punch was rendered him whic


when thrown out, contained the sediment
j tartar-emetic all around the bottom.
Year: 1872

A PIG SToRY.-Piggy got into large yard
where he did not belong, and, trying to get out
again, he stuck fast under high board fence,
and there began to kick and squeal in the good
old way. His master, big, tat Irishman,
hearing the hubbub, ran out Of his house near
BY, and caught his pig by the ears, endeavor-
ing to pull him through the hole before his
trespass was detected. But this treatment had
no effect but to make the pi g yell the more;
An old ram in the yard, hearing the noise. and
seeing piggys hind-legs and tail fourishing
away in menacing Manner accepted what he
thought was challenge, and lowering his
head, charged with all his might he struck I *
through the hole like pork cannon-ball, and;
striking his master full in the breast, knocked
him fiat on his back The only person who
witnessed this closing, scene was just entering
the ward, and, not being aware how masy
actors were engaged in it, was very much sur
prised to hear W hat he supposed to be the pig
swearing in Irish on the other side of the fence.
Year: 1872

How TO ENJOY LIFE.-It is wonderful to
what an extent people believe happiness de-
pends on not being obliged to labor. Honest
hearty, contented labor is the only guarantee OF
life. The gloom of missnthropy is not only
great destroyer of happiness we might have,
but it tends to destroy life itself. ldleness and
luxury produce premature decay much faster
exhaustive and fatal to longevity. Labor in
general, instead of shortening the term OF life,
actually increases it. 1t is the lack of occsupa-
tion that annually destroys so many OF the
wealthy, who, having nothing to do, play the
part Of drones, and ike them, make speedy
exit, while the busy bee fills out its day In
usefulness and honor.
Year: 1872

"IF ONLY HAD CAPITAL! L!''-"If only
had capital" we heard young man say few
days ago, as he pulled away at ten-cent cigar,
" / would do something.


"If only had capital" said another, as he
walked away from dram shop where he had
lust paid ten cents for drink, Il would go
into business.


The same remark might have been heard
from the young man loaing on the street.
corner. Young man with the cigar, you arc
smoking away your capital. You from the
dram shop are drinking yours and DESTROYING
your body at the same time; and you on the
Street-c corner are wasting yours in idleness and
forming bad habits. Dimes make dollars.
Time is money. Don't wait for fortune to
begin with. If you had ten thousand dollars a
wear, and spent It all, you would be poor still,
Our men of power and influence, did not start
with fortunes You, too, can make your mark
| if YOU will But you must stop spending your
money for what you don't need, and squander'
ing your time in idleness.
Year: 1872

LIFE IN BR0oKLYN-A gentleman, while
walking in Atlantic avenue, Brooklyn, on Sat.
urday evening, was jostled by stranger, and
after proceeding few yards felt in his pocket
in vain for his watch. He FASTENED back


overlook the thief, end pointing his revolver
sternly demanded, 'Give me that watch!' The
stranger surrendered it without a word and
hurried away. On reaching home the gentle
man was startled in the middle of his narrative
of his desperate encounter with highwayman
by an interruption from his wife. why,
John, you left your watch on the bureau this
morning, and have been wearing 1t all day,