smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1876

CAN Ir BE TRUE?-We notice an
item going the rounds of the press TO
the effect that lately whole family
were on the verge of starvation IN
Cumberland. copied from the Daily
.4Mganian. The item, after preiaclng
the matter, says an officer hunted the
family up and found the mother and
children crowded together in boat
cabin, sbiveriDg over weak hre.
The mother and children were almost
destitute OF clothing. For too days
none Of them had had q mouthful OF
anything 10 eat. Their last supply Of
provisions, which had been exhausted,
consisting of little corn meal, which,
mixed with canal water, the mother
baked up into hard cakes, The visit OF
the good policeman was like that OF an
angel from bright heaven itself, and if
ever his heart was made to bound and
throb with the sweetest JOY man can
ever realize in this life, it was when
that starving mother and her children
gathered about him with eyes brimtOl
oi tears Of gratitude.
Year: 1876

There was very pleasant donation
party the other evening, and the CON-
pany sang I'VE give up all for HEAVIER"
with deep feeling, but the next day the
minister expressed desire TO resign.
He said that three quarts Of beans, a
keg of dried apples, aud calico dress
ing gown were undoubtedly valuable
10 their way, but they seemed to him
to form an unnatural basis to preach
sound heology from. ef
Year: 1876

SHEPHERD.-Col. Shepherd, who got
ont Wheehng's last directory, is now
getting up another for this year He
is meeting with admirable success
among the business men, and states
his intention of getting mp a directory
tor the Centennial year that will be
credit to the city.
Year: 1876

1t is criminal folly in time Of peril
90 permit ourselves to be lulled into
false security. We have unmistakable
evidence that the Radicals in this State
are organizing secretly and with power,
all along the line. Their emissaries are
going day and night, enticing and
driving from the Democratic party by
artful contrivances, supporters upon whom
we are relying. We are not speaking
idly. We hare indubitable ecidenoe Of The
truth of ,cbat zee assert. On the other
hand, while this formidable preparation
Is going forward in the ranks of the foe,
in too many localities, there is a feaful
display of want of activity and en-
ergy in the Democratic aud Conserva-
tive party. This fact has been
attributed not to indifference as to the
result Of the election-nor to a willing
ness to permit our State to pass again
under the yoke of the carpet bagger, and
its electoral votes to be cast for four
more years of Grantism-but to a conf
dent belief that victory will come again
without working for it. If the Syren
has been singing this delusive song into
the ears of the friends of honest and Just
government, We implore them to dispel
the pleasing enchantment without a mo-
menfs delay, and to work "while it is
"yet day, for the night cOmeth when no
"man can work"


To the patriotic, self sacrificing and
generous enthusiasm of the YOUNG MEN
of the State more was due for the
deliverance of our State from misrule in
1875, than to any other agency. We
beg them not to permit their prdOr in the
good cause to be abated, nor their ener-
gies to be repressed, by well-meant ap-
peals, for what is miscalled moderation" I"
Moderation means apathy, and apathy
means defeat and death. No victory
was every won by moderation"





The tremendous enginery which
springs from desperation and q de-
termination to maintain, by every
constitutional and legal means, the PO-
sition we have won, must from now
until the election, animate every Missis-
sippian who loves his State.
Year: 1876

The records prove that the Republican
party has pledged itself to bring about
specie payment in every National and
almost every State Convention since
1868 that President Grant has asked
Congress to aid him in bringing it about
in every annual message since that time /;
and that not the first step has ever been
taken towards the fulfIlment Of that
pledge, except the unimportant one of
the appointment of . Board of Commits
sioners, which aroused so much OppOsi-
ton among Republicans that it was
abandoned.
Year: 1876

We have yet to learn that colored
Radicals have ever attempted to get up
rows and force difficulties with Demo
crats.-Jacksop Times.


The Times probably never heeEd of the
murder of young white man who was
merely locker on at Radical meeting
in Lowndes county a few years since, or
of the slaughter Of Sivley, Thompson
and Chiffon, at Clinton, during the last
canvass, while the first two we're fleeing
for their lives, and the last was standing
in his own yard 1t probably never
heard that a number of white Demo-
Gratis we're wounded and most of them
were pursued from half to mile and a
half the Clinton barbecue grounds-but
there are white people who have heard of
it and have not forgotten it. And n
this connection we will say that there
are several Radical meetings advertised
for this (Hinds) county We advise
Democrats, should they attend, to do so
in such numbers, and to be so prepared
as to prevent a repetition ofthe murder
Gus scenes at the Clinton barbecue.
Year: 1876

THERE have been only a few sporadic
cases of yellow fever in New Orleans,
and they were confined to limited por-
ton of the city. No case has occurred
for several days The occurrence of q
heavy frost precludes the possibility of
any spread of the disease either in New
Orleans or any part of the Mississippi
Valley
Year: 1876

STATE ELECTORAL TIcKET.-We OBJ
serve that several of our exchanges have
not yet corrected the Electoral Ticket.
The name of w. d. Gibbs should appear
for the Fourth District. 1t is especially
important that this correction should be
made before the printing of the tickets.
Year: 1876

The prosperity and glory of our COM
mon eountry-the very existence of the
Goyernmept--depend on the result Of
the Presidential election this fall. There
fore, let every Democrat be sup and
doing" The issue is a fearful and
solemn one, indeed.
Year: 1876

Gov. HAVE connection with the
American Alliance. q KnOw-NOthing
order. Is becoming we'll understood, and
its proper effect with those who do not
wish to see that prOscriPtive and dark
lantern party revived. The Alliance
nominated Hsyes because they thought
they knew their man, and he accepted
because he thought he knew the Organ.
ration. 1t is barely possible thai both
sides may be sold in this matter.
Year: 1876

GEN. MCKEE was forcibly reminded,
few days since at Canton, of the i'm
propriety of going outside Of the record
in public speeches. And the troops are
ordered to Canton to preserve the peace
Year: 1876

THE Radical party in Mississippi are
in despair, 50 far as the election in this
State is concerned They express fer
vent hopes that something may turn
up to give them the victery in the gen.
eral result, but cannot say what that
something viii be.
Year: 1876

Half million of dollars Of Southern
claims growing out of the war are found
to have been approved by the Democratic
House. We're they for damages by tres
pass7-N. Y. Tribune.


How the world is given to lying. But
suppose the next Congress should be
filed with Republicans who can prove
up "claims" after the fashion of Chisholm.
who can tell what will happen?
Year: 1876

a CORRESPONDENT suggests that many
gentlemen who were elected to Office last
year are not displaying that activity in
the present canvass that should entitIe
them to be remembered when nomina-
tiOns are again in order next fall. We
give the suggestion for what 1t may be
worth.
Year: 1876

We are rejoiced to know that thous-
ands of our colored fellow-citizens in
Mississippi have rallied firmly under the
Democratic flag in the present canvass,
and that they are still coming.r
Year: 1876

Should Hayes be our next President,
we shall have a. continuance of Radical
dishonesty and corruption. for four more
years, at least. That would Just about
complete the utter ruin of our country.
Year: 1876

Some Radical orators and newspapers
essay to make the colored people believe
that none but Northern Republicans
fought ON the side of the Union in the
late war, and that they are therefore in
debted to that class exclusively for their
newly acquired privileges. Now, as the
Southern whites are willing to let the
dead past bury its dead in their concern
about the future, care nothing about
who fought or who did not fight in the
North on the Union side. But as the
question has been raised, a correspondent
of the New York Sun gives the names
of six soldiers on each side in the i'm.
pending political campaign;
Year: 1876

From the London Agricultural Gazette


If an increase of eggs be desired in
the poultry yard, before large sums of
mony are expended in the purchase of
everlasting layers, we would recon.
mend the system of keeping no hens
after the first, or, at the most, their
second year. Early pullets give the
increase, and the only wonder is that
people persist as they do in keeping up
a stock of old hens. which lay one day
and stop three, instead Of laying three
days and stopping one in some pats
Of England it is the inva1iable rule to
keep the pullets only one year. Feed
ing will do 4 great deal-a surprising
work indeed-in the production of
eggs, but not when old hens are con.
cerned they may put on fat, but they
cannot put down eggs. Their tale lis
told, their work is over; nothing re-
mains to be done with them but to
give them a smell of the kitchen fire,
and the sooner they get that the bet
ter. Of course there are some old ia
vorites whose lives ought to be spared
as long as they can send forth their re.
presentatives. JudiciOus mating, by
which we mean the advantage of
comparatively youthful cockerel, may
be the means of even exhibition poul-
try making their appearance from the
eggs of the good old hen, and here. we
have the exception to the rule upon
which we insist. ~;
Year: 1876

A full drink of water Immediately
after being fed, should never be al
lowed to horses. When water is drank
by them the bulk of it goes directly to
the large intestines, and little of it is
retained in the stomach. In passing
through the stomach, however, the
water carries considerable quantities
of the contents to where it lodges in
the intestines. If, then, the food of
the stomach is washed out before it is
digested. no nourishment is derived
from the food.


A small quantity of fluid swallowed
along with or Immediately after, dry
food, beneficially softens it, and assists
it in it's division and digestion. An
ordinary supply Of water, or of watery
fluid, on the other hand, proves inju-
rious. 1t dilutes unduly the digestive
secretions'; it mechanically carries on
ward the imperfectly digested food,
and thus interferes with the proper
functions of the canal, and excites in
digestion and diarrhea. These unto.
ward effects are specially apt to occur
where horses freely fed and too liber-
ally watered are shortly put to tolera-
bly, quick work. There is no more in.
fallable method of producing collie.
diarrhea, and Inflammation of the
bowels. The horse is not peculiar in
this respect; dogs, and even their
masters, similarly suffer from copious
draughts of water Immediately after
eating much solid food.
Year: 1876

up for fattening (then it must be given
grain or meal of some kind entirely.
providing it keeps the pig in a thriving
condition.. Care must be had adispin0
growth to neither stuff nor scrimp.
both being alike injurious.


In regard to pigs destined for breed.
ing, he adds:


SIN warm weather let them run in
a grass pasture, if to be had, with
pure running water and plenty of shade.
In cold or stormy weather, provide
yards with dry soil and southern ex-
posure, with comfortable pens or
sheds, we'll Uttered, under which they


can retire at will. Cold night air is


pernicious to young pigs, and is liable


to give them swollen throats, which
sometimes proves fatal. Those of
nearly the same age should be kept to-
gether, and not so many as to en-.
danger any being overlaid and
smothered. When kept in pens or


yards, supply them with chunks of de.
cayed wood, charcoal, etc., as de.
scribed for the boar. =
Purging or Securing, Young PIGS
are apt to scour when fed on too loose
food. The best remedy I found for
this was to shut them up in a covered
pen with a plank floor, and feed en-
tirely with well-dried oats or corn.
Sometimes I gave, in addition, a little
boiled flax seed or oil meal, mixed in
their drinks.


Treatment Of Pigs selected for Fat.
tening.-Carefnl experiments have
proved that time is economical, and
pork can be most cheaply produced by
pushing pigs forward as rapidly as pos
sible from the time of their birth to
that of their slaughter, giving them
regularly at least thrice per day, all
the most suitable food for this purpose
which they will eat up clean, and di-
gest. The last three weeks or so, fin
ish off with Indian meal pudding or
whole corn, with pure fresh water for
drink. Old corn. or we'll ripened and
dry of the seasons growth, is best.
This makes the sweetest and most solid
pork Of anything I have had
Year: 1876

The Wheat Crop, or Seed Wheat.


1t is claimed that the cause of the
shrlnkage in the. wheat crop in the
Northwest, for the year 1915, was SIM
ply because so much poor seed was
sowed last spring. For instance a good
deal OF the wheat used for seed was,
what is called sprouted wheat, and the
grain did not in consequence stool out ::
that is to say it did not send out sever
al stocks Of wheat from the seed, which
is the case when good seed is used.


Taking it for granted that the theo-
ry is correct, the remedy would have
been, to have sowed double or thrible
the quantity of seed to the acre, say
instead Of sowing bushel and a half
of seed to the acre, add double of that
quantity. Then probably the grain
would have been thick enough on the
ground.


But then the practice would have
been bad one, because of all other
varieties of grain, it is indispensable
that the quality of seed wheat should
be beyond all doubt. If poor quail
ity of seed is grown, it must be expect.
ed that poor crop of wheat will be
the result. It cannot be otherwise.
Wheat that has grown in the stack, or
in the shock or in the bin, never should
be used for seed. In addition to the
fact that it will not send forth only
one stalk, the straw will be frial full
of softness kind of u velvety appear
ance, without the proper nourishment
to mature the head which contains the
wheat.


The best way is to only grow num-
Der one article. Then the chances are
pretty sure of a good crop. Wheat
that has been heated should never be
used for seed. Not one kernel in fifty
will grow. Sprouted wheat will grow,
but as we have explained. it is of but
little account.
Year: 1876

European horticulturists have lately
adopted a mode of making rose cut
tings root with more certainty, by
bending the shoots, and inserting both
ends into the ground, leaving a single
bud at the middle and on
the surface of the ground. The cut
tings are about ten inches long and are
bent over a stick laid fiat on the ground,
holes being dug on each side Of the
stick for the reception of the end of
shoot. The roots form only at the low.
er end of the shoot, but the other end
being buried, prevents evaporating and
drying up.
Year: 1876

The relics of ancient barbarity are
usually revolving enough to need no
magnifying. But the magic glass of
science often brings whole history out
Of their very crumbs and dust. Prof
Samuel Lockwood, in H1per's Monthly
says:


There is story that an eminent mi
croscopist had bit of substance sub
mitted to him to decide what it was.
To an unaide6 eye it might be morsel
of skin which a baggage-smasher had
knocked off the corner of q smoothly
worn hair trunk.


The savant appealed to his micro
scope. Entirely ignorant of this tiny
bit of matter, except as he had taken
counsel with his instrument, the wise
man declared that it was the skin of o
human being, and that, judging from
the fine hair on it, it was from the So
called naked portion of the body, and,
further, that it once belonged to fair
complexioned person.


The strange facts now made known to
the man of science were these: That q
thousand years before, Danish ma
rauder had robbed an English church.
In the spirit of the old-fashioned piety,
the robber was fayed (let us hope that
he was killed frst), and the skin was
nailed to the church door. Except as
tradition or archaeological lore had it,
the affair had been forgotten for hum
dreds Of years.


Time, the great erodent, had long ago
removed the offensive thing. Still,
however, the church door held to its
marks of great shame, for the broad
headed nails remained. Somebody ex-
tracted one, and underneath its fiat
head was this atomic remnant of that
ancient Scandinavian malefactor's pelt.


SMALL FARMs.-The Semi Tropical
says: "Small farms make near neigh
bors; they make good roads; they make
plenty of good schools and churches;
there is more money made in proportion
to the labor; less labor is wanted; every
thing is kept neat; less wages have to be
paid for help; less time is wasted; more
is raised to the acre; besides, it is titled
better; there is no watch of hired help;
the mind is not kept in a worry, stew
andsfret all the time"
Year: 1876

A DANBURY young lady is the posses
sor of pet in the shape of skye ter
rier. One morning recently she became
aware of disagreeable odor in her bed
room. Florida water was copiously
sprinkled about the apartment, but It
found itself helpless to battle with the
ofense. When the servant came to
make the bed she discovered a rather
detected looking bone under the pillow.
The skye terrier had laid it away there
in case of an emergency. In view of
the fact that skye terriers cost only
about o hundred and fifty dollars apiece
it is surprising there are not more of
them in use.
Year: 1876

THIRTEEN years ago man was driven
out of town for an offense which he did
not commit. News now comes that he
settled in Chicago and studied law, and
is now prominent lawyer there. Thus
we see how an unjust accusation may
blast and ruin mans whole career.
Year: 1876




AN ALLIGATOR AS HOUSE Doc
In many parts of the Southern States
alligators are tanned and kept in confne-
ment. The beast is said to exhibit more
intelligence than would be expected
from its appearance. An alligator was
once the cause of curious case being
tried at New Orleans. A young lady
brought an action against neighbor for
keeping an alligator in his yard, assert
ing that the beast was of extraordinary
size and ferocity, that she had frequent
ly had occasion TO enter his premises,
and that, whenever compelled to do SO,
she was in fear of her life. The de-
fendant, who had been arrested, stated
that he kept the animal as a kind of
house dog, or night watchmaD, and that,
unless provoked, it was quite peacea-
BILE reptile; furthermore, that the plain
tiff had been in the habit of teasing the
alligator, and exciting his anger by
tickling him in the ribs with a long pole,
throwing brickbats at him, and on
one occasion went so far as to scar his
back with a red-hot iron. Upon this
the defendant was discharged, while the
lady was bound over to keep the peace
towards the alligator and its owner.
Year: 1876

Theodore Tilton delivered his lecture, "The
Problem of Life" Monday evening to an intelli
gent audience of about three hundred and fifty
people of whom about thirty arrived on the
special train from Hallowell and Augusta. Doc
tor Albion X. p. Strout introduced Mr.. Tilton and
he began by asking his audience to remove their
thoughts from where he knew they were centred
the uncertain condition of political affairs in
the country-and to give them to him for the
evening. lie said we must all understand the
problem of life to be the development of chaiac-
ter. He proceeded to analyze and illustrate by
numerous examples the various so called cardinal
virtues developed in human character. Child
hood is the time TO insill these principles, but he
did not agree with the doctrine of solomon as ex-
pvessed in "5parc the rod and spoil the child"
Referring to the present unsettled condition of
business, hc said that credit was running the ma
ton. lie termed the present method of buy ing
and selling on long credit, doing business al
arms length" There were two demands of the
coming age; one for woman, of woman.
For woman, wages, eafranchisement. OF wo-
man, that she measure men by the same standard
of morality by which they measure her. Mr.. Til
=
merous, his quotations very apt, and an hour and
an half had quickly passed when in conclusion
he declared that we must purchase the next world
with this. then we should have both and this coz
summation would solve the problem of life. Mr..
Tilton closely held the attention of his audience
during the whole lecture.


Wandering Indians are quite numerous around
the city, some of whom are quite impudent. On
Saturday morning one of our farmers, residing
in the suburbs, was jogging leisurely along the
Brunswick road into town, he met four Indians in
a team, one of whom in passing struck him Sc
we're blow across the face with whip. The farm
er did not relish this very well,-he is very
harmless appearing man, but one whom we might
well call sleeping lion"-so jumping out Of his
wagon he pulled the four copper colored gentle
men out of their wagon and administered a se-
we're drubbing to each of them. One of the miser-
able fellows was damaged about his face so badly
that he had to consult physician for repairs!
Year: 1876

Lieutenant De Lafayette Thompson, assistant
keeper Of the city prison, in Boston, died at his
residence, about two o'clock Sunday morning, of
typhoid Pneumonia, after an illness Of only six
days. He was born at Camden, in this State, in
1890, was first appointed a police officer Decem-
ber g. 1860, and was detailed for duty at the city
prison October II, 1873. Thoroughly reliable and
efficient as an officer, he was scrupulously honest
and upright among his associates. and possessed
their respect and esteem in high degree. lie
was deeply interested in the welfare of the Boston
Police Relief Association Of which he has been
director since its formation, having also served
two years as its president and two as treasurer,
which latter position he filed at the time of his
death. lie leaves a wife but no children.
Year: 1876

A correspondent of the Bangor Wing, generally
well posted in insurance matters, writes that pa
per tina: he is informed that the court has or
dered the Receiver Of the CcLtnenta! Life In
surance Company TO receive no more premiums
but TO wind up the company that all policies in
force October %, will not lapse, but will receive
such dividend as the assets may furnish. As
many people in the State are interested in the
matter we give the above report as made to us
on information and belief
Year: 1876

A good many people living on the Kennebec
have had abundant reason to be thankful for TIE
recent copious rains, as they have enable to col
lect good amount of drift wood, which will
greatly help them in their struggles with winter
Year: 1876

The brethren of the three links, (Old Fcllows)
are holding grand fair in Portland, to continue
one week The proceeds are to be devoted to fur
nishing the new halls for the order, in that city.
Year: 1876

ILSDA1i NUVtIlDtT ZIsI.


Pray We. Worthy x ais. The testimony was
closed at a quarter before twelve. The arguments
Of counsel and charge Of the Judge occupied the
time till five in the afternoon when the jury took
the case. They had not returned when the court
adjourned.