smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1873

teen million bushels of wheat, besides
other grain. The market shows grow
ing tendency upward and must soon,
we think, reach 81, with good
chance Of reaching a higher figure be-
fore Spring. This represents money
certain to come into the State from it's
chief but by no means sole resource.
We doubt if there is city in the Union
less affected by hard times, or which
enjoys better individual credit, or whose
business men are stronger or more SOL
vent than St. Paul. We are glad to note
that instead of increasing, they are all
shortening the margin OF credit, while
at the same time paying to the fullest
possible extent. No other place has
stood the test Of financial pinch better,
and we know Of none that has weather.
ed it with as few mishaps as this. The
moment grain gets chance to move,
everything will take fresh start.
Europe is certainly short Of supplies,
while we have an abundance. There is,
therefore. no earthly reason for depres-
sion or uneasiness. We shall 60 through
all right-Pioneer.
Year: 1873

Farm Items.


-Potatoes this year are higher than
wheat.
Hogs have the cholera at Boynton,
Illinois.


Winter is the time for preparing
fuel for the year.


Winter is the farmers time for
reading and improvem~
Warm stables for cattle save half
the feed and are a mercy to the animals.
Farmers have no reason to CON-
plain Of the price of butter this season.
-Steaming food for stock is said to
be very beneficial to the health Of cat
tie.


They have a poultry association at
Denver, Colorado, which proposes to
hold an annual exhibition.


Machinery bought on time means
twenty-five per cent. added and twelve
per cent. interest on top Of that.


Never buy a new machine if you
have an old one that can be made to do
service by being thoroughly repaired.


Farmers at Morrison, No., are
packing their own pork, preferring to
take their chances on bacon rather than
sell at present prices.


Every farmer should balance his
books and know just how he stands at
least once year. The natural time for
this work is the close Of the year.


"A practical farmer in New Eng
land selects his seed corn in the fields
from stalks that have more than one
ear, and he finds decided improvement
in his crops.


Animals need water in winter as
much as in summer, and it is down.
right cruelty to force them to face Min
nesota storms, or to scramble over glare
ice to get it.


New York trades in butter to the
amount Of thirty million dollars year,
and in wheat to the amount of twenty
four million. Butter is six million DOL
lars year ahead.


DO not wait until you want to use
machine before you have it repaired.
If you wait you will not have time, and
in your haste will use it without fixing
until you have general smash up, and
then the result will be a new machine
on time.


Take care Of your vegetables this
winter. Thousands Of bushels of pota-
toes were frozen in cellars last winter ;
this year they are worth enough to pay
for extra attention. Put extra banking
around the house and extra covering
over them. It will not hurt them and
it may be needed.


"A. D. Allis, Of Oronoco, in this
State, in conversation with US said
that he would guarantee ground oats to
90 one-fourth farther for feed besides
paying the expense Of grinding, than
will oats without grinding. This is
something worth remembering, and
practicing upon.


The way to keep out Of the hands
Of machinery men, is to take good care
Of all the tools, implements and machin
cry Of the farm, keep them we'll housed
painted and oiled. Whenever there i.
a leisure hour, let it not be wasted i
there is an implement or machine OF
the place that needs repairing. .


An ice house can be constructed
with little expense. The work can al
be done in the winter, and it is doubtful
whether from any other one thing q
equal cost a farmer can secure to him
self and family SO much comfort in the
Year: 1873

SICILY, Feb. 1873.


ED. News As IS" of Mowry-
town, pours shot shot" upon me, I
will endeaver to reply.


He proposes that, instead Of a liter
airy society, those who wish may write
compositions and hand them to the
teacher, to be corrected. ANY scholar
that is old enough to go to school,
ought to be old enough to commit a
few verses to memory; and if that is
done, there is benefit, to certain
extent


A few years ago, I saw the expert
ment of singing in school, tried by q
teacher who was well versed IN that
accomplishment. He had tried it in
other schools, but he said that the
school of which I speak, had the most
musical talent in it OF any he ever
taught. An hour, and if the proceed
Year: 1873

ings were interesting, a longer time
was spent every Friday afternoon;
and frequently after dinner was eaten,
the remainder of noon was spent.
Now I feel safe in saying, that only
one scholar was really benefited. Let
this question settle the matter: Was
it fair for the entire school to lose
that amount of time for the benefit of
one scholar? Yours, II.
Year: 1873

When we stand by the grave ofour
friends the question arises: Shall we
see them again! When the bereaved
mother stands beside the cold grave
that is to receive her little babe, and
looks at it as it is laid down gently
into its resting place, the question
presses upon her heart, Shall 1 see
it again? Shall know it? Shall I
again clasp it in my arms? No con-
ISOLATION would we have when any of
our loved ones died, if it were not for
the hope of seeing them again. This
hope rests in the bosom of every one
who has had loved ones that have
passed cover the river"


We hope to meetand recognize our
friends in heaven. Jesus says,
''There we shall see Abraham, Isaac
and Jacob, and all the prophets in
the Kingdom of God" Spirit shall
recognize spirit. Here soul COM
munes sweetly with soul; how much
more perfectly and sweetly there!
There shall we see as we are seen,
and known as we are known. How
sweet, then, to meet all our former
loved ones there, and all who have
gone before; who have fought the
fight, and kept the faith, and won
the crown of righteousness.


In the 25th of Matthew, the Savior
gives picture of the judgment of the
great day, when men shall be tried;
the great assize of the universe.
The wicked are there told to depart,
while the righteous are invited to
come into the kingdom prepared for
them form the foundation of the world.
'I was hungry and ye fed me; I was
naked and ye clothed me; I was sick
and in prison and ye visited me-
But they reply, Lord, when saw we
thee in these various conditions and
did minister unto thee? The Lord
turns to the persons that are then
present. and seems to say, Do you
see these? Here are persons you
blessed in your lifetime, and mas
much as you did it. to one of the least
of these my brethren, you did it unto
me. Did they not k'soao these per
sons? Surely they knew.


Shall we know our friends in heav-
en-? Undoubtedly we shall, and thai
more clearly even than here. Oul
friendship there will not be SO earth
ly and uncertain. ]. A. SPEAR.


New Vienna, o.
Year: 1873

Dubuque, Iowa, was elated last week
over its first street boot black, but after a
three days trial the boy said he could not
afford an adult polish for less than thirty
cents, and sold out his stock to blind man,
who tainted when he felt the size of his
first customers foot on his polishing Pc
destal. The citizens will now use stove
blacking, as they have done heretofore.
Year: 1873

The people'of the Valley of Virginia are
holding meetings to discuss the proposed
annexation of that garden spot of the Old
Dominion to West Virginia. The Rock
bridge Citizen says the subject is seriously
and widely talked of in quiet way through
out the valley. The contemplated change
of boundaries will make the Blue Ridge the
dividing line.
Year: 1873

A bank cashier in Hartford, Conn, gave
a wretched-looking beggar some small
change, and did it so kindly that the i'm
pecunious wretch dug out of his capacious
pocket ten or twelve dollars in scrip, and
asked the cashier to exchange it for bills,
remarking that "when feller's pockets is
full of scrip he is liable to lose big part
of II
Year: 1873

The maddest woman in the United States
of America is the one who lives at Jackson,
Maine, and recently lent her ffty-dOllar
muf to female acquaintance, who wore it
to smallpox funeral; the muff was sent
home with a neat little note stating this
fact, and that as she ''had sprinkled it with
benzine, the owner need have no fear Of
catching the disease"
Year: 1873

For the past five years an Indiana wo-
man has had three husbands residing within
five miles of each other and nobody found
her out until last week. People mind their
own business in that State.
Year: 1873

The report that the Empress Eu. .enie
will issue a proclamation announcing her
assumption Of the Regency during the mi


nority of the Prince is denied. The Brit
ish Court will be in mourning from the 14.h
to the 24th of January for the late Enpe-
Year: 1873

to.wit, the laws providing Tor the elec.
ton OF school officer. and the Law pro.
viding for the appointment ot notaries
public, &c., without con affirmation BY the
Senate, the Governor has accepted Q
different Interpretation OF the constiiu.
ton from that insisted upon in this case.
1. concludes as follows:


And now, after what has been said
on this branch OF the subject ssssrt
the following propositions:


/. That it is not to be presumed that
the franers OF the constitution intended
to confer upon the Governor the vast
and dangerous powers now claimed BY
and for him, in the absence OF plain aud
explicit language to that effect.


2. That in every case in which an
office is established by the constitution.
provision is made for filling it. in tie
constellation.


3. That the power Of appointment
and election to office being Of the frat
importance iu a free Government, it is
not to be presumed that the trainers Of
the constitution expressed their grant Of
power in regard to it in language OF
doubtful import.


4. That the first grant OF power on
the subject is to the Legislature in these


Concluded on Fourth Roel
Year: 1873

loTNG AMERICA WONDERs.-I won
der what makes papa tell such nice sto-
ricS t" visitors about his hiding his mas
tcrS rattan when he went to school.
and about his running away from the
>rhoolmlsncsS when she WAS going to
whip him, and then shut me up in Il
dark room because | tried once to he as
smart as he has been!


Wonder what made papa say that
wicked word when Bctsey upset the ink
all over his paper, snd then slapped my
ears when Said the same thing when
my kite string broke?


Wonder why mamma told Bridget
the other day, to say she was not at
home when Tommy Days mother call
ell, and then put me to bed without my
supper every time tell liel


dear there are lots of things
want to know. How wish | was
man
Year: 1873

names for challenge, to make lists OF persons who
register, 10 inspect the registry and mark the
registry books for Identification They must attend
at polling places and are empowered to challenge
voters and De and remain where the ballot boxes
are kept and the canvass and returns are made;
10 scrutinize the manner in which the voting is
done anu registry and poll books are kept; 10
count the votes and to make returns to the CHIEF
supervisor In relation to such votes, and to report
70 the Chle1 supervisor any bribery, soncitatlon,
interference or violence the part OF any person
toward them In order that he may have the par
relation the matters with the Clerk OF the House
OF Representatives.


THE UNITED STATES MARSHAL


Is empowered, upon the written request OF two
citizens, to appoint special deputy marshas In
each election district In such numbers as ne may
are support and protect the supervisors OF cleo
ton In the discharge OF their duties, preserve
order at the places OF registration and at
the polls, prevent fraudulent registration and
voting or fraudulent conduct on the part OF
any oficer or eector. Any persons arrested
a commissioner, judge or court OF the United
States Tor examination OF the offences alleged
against them. Supervisors and deputy marshals
are not to be obstructed hindered or tnterlered
with by any State authority or any individual, nor
molested, removed or elected from any place Ql
registry Or polling place, without the parties 50
conviction, OF Imprisonment Of not more than two
years. or fine OF not more than $3 900, or by both
such fine and imprisonment, and to pay the cost
OF the prosecution. The neglect or refusal on the
part OF any supervisor or deputy marshal TO fully
perform his duties Is made misdemeanOr. The
Supervisors and deputy marshals are to receive 50
have actually been on duty not exceeding ten
DAYS. e
Year: 1873

A Lively Contest Between the Palisadc


and VesPcr Boat Clubs at Yonkers.


An interesting contest for supremacy at the oar
came of on the Hudson River. opposite Yonkers,
yesterday afternoon, and was witnessed by thous-
ands OF enthusiastic spectators, large number Of
whom were ladies. The race was between picked
crews OF the Pallsade and vesper boat clubs, in
eight-oared barges, straight course Of three
miles, the prizes being gold medal for each
member OF the winning crew and champion
nag to he held iOr three years. 1t is
almost needless to state that each club had Sc
lected its most trusty oarsmen for the occasion,
and these had been under course OF rigid train
Ing for the past few weeks. When the contesting
boats had been given the word to start only q few
seconds elapsed ere 1t was at once apparent that
the Vespers were far more than match Tor their
judicious training pulling Short luttering stroke,
which lost distance before the long, steady pull OF
the vespers, until the race had been won BY the
was eighteen minutes.
Year: 1873

This gentleman has been holding reception at
his studio during the ass two days, prior to his
departure for Egypt, where he intends to pass the
winter. Mr., Waller's pictures representing
Egyptian Lie and scenery have met with sufficient
encouragement to warrant his returning to the
scene OF those studies, IN order TO CLEAN fresh
memoranda for future work. He will depart on or
or about the 1st ofNovember, and be absent one
year.
Year: 1873

EDITOR HERALD:-After q visit to
many of the places of historic interest
in Southern California, and observing
the steady and sure destruction of a
large number of these ancient and in
teresting monuments of fhe former
times, 1t seems u fitting moment to
urge the establishing i'm this favored
and beautiful city, of the


LOS ANGELES HISTORICAL SOCIETY,
to collect and preserve all obtainable
memorials of the State; forming both
Year: 1873

The "bOttle' isa necessary article in
the tent of Arabian shepherds. 1t holds
water and other liquids, and is fire.
quently used as a pitcher. The Eastern
bottle is made of goat or kip skin,
stripped off without opening the belly;
the openings made by cutting off the
tail and legs are sewed up, and when
filled it is tied about the neck.


The Arabs and Persians never go Il
journey without a small leathern bottle
by their side like a scrip. These skim
bottles preserve their water, milk, and
other liquids in II fresher state than
any other vessels they can use. The
people of the East, indeed, put into
them everything they mean to carry
to a distance, whether dry or liquid,
and very rarely make use of boxes or
pots, unless to keep such things as are
liable to be broken. They enclose
these leathern bottles in wOOlen sacks,
because their beasts of carriage often
fall down under their load, or east it
down on the sandy desert. This
method of transporting the necessaries
of life has another advantage; the
skin-bOttles not only perserve them
fresh, but defend them against the
ants and other insects, which cannot
pierce the skin; and they also prevent
the fine dust, of which immense guam
titles are constantly moving about in
the arid regions of Asia, from reaching
them. 1t is for these reasons that
provisions of every kind are enclosed
in vessels made of the skins of animals.


These bottles are liable to be rent,
when old or much used, and at the
same time are capable of being repair
ed. In the book of Joshua we are in
formed, the GibeOnites "tOOk wine-bot-
ties, old and rent, and bound up"
This is perfectly according to the GUS
tom of the East; and the manner in
which they mend their old and rent
bottles is various Sometimes they
sew in a piece; sometimes they gather
up the torn place in the manner of a
purse; sometimes they put in a round
fiat piece of wood, and by that means
stop the hole.


The liability of skin bottles to rend.
will explain a figure used in one OF
our Lords discOurses-"Neither do
men put new wine into old bottles,
else the bottles break, and the wine
runneth out, and the bottles perish
but they put new wine into new bottles,
andboth arepreserved." Being made OF
raw hide, they are, when new, capa-
BILE of accommodating themselves to tht
swellings of the liquor as it ferments
But when they have been once stretch
ed out i'm this way, and have become
old and shrivelled through use, they
do not admit of any further enlarge
ment, and will therefore give way i
new wine is poured into them. = Early
Days.
Year: 1873

Asa rule the buyers knows more about
the quality and value of farm products
than those by whose labor they are pro-
duced. This is one Of the greatest mis-
takes Of our farmers. The buyer uses
tests which the farmer does not. When
the wool-buyer comes around he uses a
glass by which at glance he sees the
structure of the article in band. and
knows more about il In moment than
the man who has toiled year in lis pro-
duction. So it is with seeds. Pork is
examined in the same way, to test its
freedom from disease. Thus the buyers
know more about these things than those
who raise them. The best bargain is
sure to be made by the man who knows
the most. When the farmer knows
nothing about the quality Of what be
sells, he is helpless in the hands Of the
buyer. Knowledge is power when a
trade is being made. II may be safely
set down as rule that man who, by
natural or artificial means. knows hun.
dred times more than his neighbor. or
can see q hundred times rs much. will
know just ~ much more about the
maTksts
Year: 1873

The word cyclone has frequently, but
incorrectly, been used as significant Of an
enormous or very violent meteor. as if its
application was to be confined to the de-
wasting hurricane Of the West Indies, or
the terrific typhoon of the China seas.
1t simply means a storm which acts in
a circular direction, and whose winds
converge, by radials or sinuous spirals,
towards a center, moving our hemiphere
in the opposite direction to that of the
hands of clock, and in the Southern
Hemisphere in a contrary direction.
Taking this as definition Of cyclone.
it seems clear, from observation alone,
that all storms are to be regarded as cy-
clones. Volumes have been written to
prove that this is not the case. But We
have only to examine a few series of
weather maps from week to week to see
that, wherever you have an area Of low
barometer, into a central hollow the ex-
terror atmosphere from all sides will
pour, and that in so doing a rotatory
spiral or vorticose storm is generated.
The tornado, the simoons, the whirlwind,
the fire. storm, even the slow and slug
gish storm which moves on our Western
plain as the laboring wheel Of the steam
ship buried in heavy sea, all attest that
a body cannot move on the earth's sur
face in a straight line. 1t is not more
true with us that the Gulf Stream turns
to the Eastward, and the polar stream to
the Westward, and the equatorial cur
rents to the Northward, than that every
air current, in obedience to the same
law, should turn to the right Of the line
along from any cause it is called to move.
The meteorist has therefore only to as
certain by observation where the harom-
ter is lowest, to know at once the direc-
ton of the winds from the circumjacent
districts. far and near. or at least to test
the mathematical law by a grand exper-
ment.-Popuiar Scieace Monthly.
Year: 1873

A NOVEL spiritual scance was given in
New York City, recently, at which Miss
Tackerbury, Cleaveland Spiritualist.
figured as the medium. The was placed
in cabinet, her mouth tightly sealed
up with rolls of sticking-plast and her
body securely fastened to chair with
ropes. The room was then darkened. A
murmuring sound followed. Strange
lights appeared in different parts of the
room and the cabinet moved about in n
mysterious manner. One Of the Audi
ence then inquired who was present. and
a voice in the cabinet replied that a spir-
il had come, whereupon there was q
long conversation between the audience
and the spirit. At the expiration of an
hour, the cabinet was opened, and Miss
Tackerbury was found united. with tho
ropes in her lap, but with the sticking
plaster still on her mouth. The cabinet
was then closed for another hour, during
which new lights and spirits came on the
scene and there was much talking and
singing. At the expiration ofthe second
hour, the cabinet was opened, and Miss
Thackbury was this time found tied up
again, with her mouth still tightly sealed.


The rope trick is dodge known to
jugglers long before spiritualism was in
vented by the Fox sisters. and as to the
sticking plaster, every one atall aoquaint-
ed with the peculiarities of the sex
knows that all the sticking-plaster In the
world cannot prevent a garrulous wo-
man from talking # she wishes to do so.
Year: 1873

By means of an ingenious process
lately brought forward by an English
inventor, cit is believed that a great
change will be effected in the fur trade.
The plan is that of a method for com
pletely removing the hair from hide or
skin and transferring it, in exactly the
same condition in which it left the hide
or skin, to a piece of muslin or other
substance, leaving the pelt entirely un-
injured for future tanning and finishing
into leather The process is described as
simple one, the operation being per-
formed with the same facility, SO far as
time and trouble are concerned. as the
ordinary method of unhairing with lime,
and at low cost. 1t is thought that a
similar method was brought forward in
this country some years ago, but with
what suocess we are uninformed.
Year: 1873

that horses may be worked there. There
has been some talk Of having a horse
show at the fair grounds in May, and it
would prove a great success If the dircc-
tors would have IT, All the best horses
of the country would be there.-Rral
World.
Year: 1873

Our dispatches this morning give the
exciting details of the chase and cap
ture of this now historic vessel. From
the quiet manner in which the unfOr-
tunates yielded, it is evident that they
depended for protection on the respect
due to the flag they bore-that of the
United States-and the correctness of
their papers. The conflicting reports
as to. the exact locality Of capture, all
agree in the important particular that
the Virginius was seized upon the high
seas and far from Spanish waters. 1t
has heretofore been presumed that YES
sells floating our flag on the high seas
were exempt even from search. We
read somewhere in our school boy days
of United States which challenged
war with Great Britain, mistress of the
seas, on this question Of search. But
in the sad case under consideration the
American flag was no protection against
search. nor the American registry pa
pers any protection against capture,
and subsequent massacres amid re-
. ioicings that suggest the war-dance of
savages around their victims at the
stake Although the executions were
hastened expressly with the view to
prevent foreign intervention, yet the
findings of the comts-martial were for
warded in due form to the Captain
General, and Of course approved by
him. This is the ain-Generalwho
we are told, was sent over as being a
very lenient character. at the instance
of Minister Sickles, to supersede a
blood-thirsty predecessor.
Year: 1873

A MISSOURI girl on her wedding day
sold her piano and bought a sewing
machine and material enough for a suit
for her husband and herself, and at
once set to work making them up. Her
husband bowed it, In two weeks her
four sisters were all married and beg
ging their husbands to buy them pianos
to sacrifice.