smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1870

As cider tins is at hand, we publish
the following information as to It's
proper manufacture, furnished Us by
a friend, which viii be of much use
to those who will give it due atten.
ton, in enabling them to secure d
better quality of this delightful bever5
age. Our friend says that "much Of
! the excellence Of cider depends upon
the temperature at which the fermen.
tatiOn is conducted which is q point
generally overlooked BY tie mahR1
ufacturers Of this liquor. As soon as
expressed from the fruit, it should BE-
strained into sulphurod casks and
placed in q cool situation whore the
Temperature does not exceed 30 deg.
Fah'szff left 10 the heating sun much
of the sugar is converted into vinegar
by the absorption Of ofatmospheric ozy4
gen, and thus the liquor becomes acid
and rough. On the contrary, if the
fermentation be conducted at low
temperature, nearly the whole Of the
sugar Is converted into alcohol and
remains in the liquor instead of unders
going the process of acelifcation.


The acetous fermentation of the
IcOUvGrsiOn of aIcohol into vinegar
proceeds most rapidly at q temperas
turO Of ninety five degrees Fahrsn-
heit no such change takes place. Indo-
pendontIy Of differences in the quality
Of the fruit, this is the principal
causes of the superiority Of the cider
made by one person over another,
living in the same neighbOrhoods-
The one has a cooler collar or barn


than the other 10 store his elder in L.
10 practice it has been found that sour
and rough apples produce the best ci,
der. This arises because they con-
tain less sugar and more malic acid
and tho presence Ofthe latter impedcs
the conversion of alcohol into vinegarf
but cider made with such apples ean
never equal in quality that prepared
at a low temperature from fruit
Astounding in sugar, which, Improperly
strained or racked at every indication


Of fermentation, will keep good


twenty years.-[KnOxviIle Wing.
Year: 1870

It Is becoming a frequent charge,
that there are no issues between the
the Republican and Democratic par
ties, and chat one might as well vote
tor one as the other. Now does every
one know that it is a cherished hope
with the South that they may once
again get power, and be able to set
aside the anti-slavery amendments to
the constitution of the United States g?
And is not this very thing to be ac-
eompIished through the aid Of the
Democratic party of the North =? If
the Democracy were in the Congress
of the United States, would they hes
itate q moment to make the attempt ?
Has not Judge Thurman, in his
speech at Cincinnati, to the Uyoung
Democracy" declared this to be part
and parcel of the Democratic role p
Are not all the readers looking to
this end2 Is there then no issue be-
tween the two parties =? Every man
should seriously consider the irrepar-
able injury that would be done to the
cause Of freedom, in case the, Democ-
racy should attain the power, and his
voice and vote should be used accord
ingly. 'Tis no idle thing, that all that
has been done during the last few
years, by the Republican party,
should now be given into the hands
Of its enemies.-[ Ripley Bee.
Year: 1870

Taxes. ....- .-.-a


The Portsmouth Tribune thus aptly
says' - r....


If there is one virtue more than another
claimed by the Democracy it is their great
horror of taxation. And if there is one
kind of taxation they hate more than an
other it is the taxes collected to pay the
interest on the government bonds. The
"bloated bondholder" is an object of exc
cratiou and vituperatiOn by the DemOcra-
cy. This being the case it would seem a
little strange that when an opportunity oc-
ours to reduce the taxation and save sever
al millions of interest yearly, the DemOc-
racy are found voting to man on the side
of the ''bloated bondholders." A bill was
introduced in the last Congress providing
for taking up the present bonds drawing
six per cent. interest, and giving in return
for them bonds bearing less interest,"
some of them at 8 per cent, some of them
at AZ per cent, and the remainder at per
cent. A reduction of only one per cent.
on the bonds would save about thirteen
millions every year. Not one Democrat
in the Senate or House voted for this bill {!
Fily-four Democrats voted against it in
the House, and ten in the Senate. Here
the Democracy voted in the interest of the
"bloated bondholders," for we all know
they have no desire to have their rate of
interest lowered"
Year: 1870




CENTERToN, Ind, August Is.


Coal oil is the best thing as a worm
destroyer we have found out yet
We have cured chickens that had the
gapes so bad that It appeared they
could live but u short time. 1t is APP
piled by taking a small straw and dip
ping it in the oil, and then, holding
the chickens mouth open, dropping
two or three drops down its throat
We have used it on a pig, two months
old, that was so nearly gone that it
could not eat, by putting two tea
spoonfuls Of coal oil down its throat.


To prevent chickens from having
the gapes, put one tablespoonful OF
the Oil to one quart Of dough; and
the same in proportion for pigs or
hogs having worms, according to size.
When your hogs have a cough put
coal oil in their feed and it will soon
stop the cough, and they will start to
thrive again.


To keep proud flesh out Of sores
grind up resin very fine and sprinkle
over them until covered, and It will
draw them sufficiently without any
thing else, and heal them also.


-[Cin. Gdz. J. A, JR,
Year: 1870

G@-England has Free Trade, and what
is the result? The wages of her mechan-
les and labOring men are SO small that
they cannot afford to eat meat but one day
in the week. Workingmen, how would
you like such state of things in this
country? Gen. Denver is pledged TO Free
Trade, Can you vote for him?
Year: 1870

A mound on tile farm of Mr.. William
Dill, was opened last week, by some work
men, and a skeleton was found the skull of
which was Enclosed in a copper case, neat
ly wrought, and riveted together in u
workmanlike manner.
Year: 1870

THE INCOME TAX Law RxPRALED.-There is
relation to the income tax. Petitions are being
sent to Washington for the repeal Of the law.
1t should BE distinctly understood that the In
3lst day Of December, 1899. fhs tax now being
assessed il for the year 1862 Alter IL 10 paid no
other income tar can be collected or assessed
without the enactment Of an entirely new Law,
which is not likely to be brought about. The
repeal Of the old law IL hnal and unconditional.
1t takes effect as soon the tax for 1859 u paid


bill passed the House under tho previous
the assessment and collection or an income tsx
for one year only (l650), but IL met with disas-
trous defeat In the Senate Il In not sk al likely
that Congress will put such needless burden


upon the people again In face Of the unanimous
protest Of the entire press Of the country. The
occasion that called for 1t has passed away for
ever: Let us have 10 more income tax laws.-
N. y. Herald.
Year: 1870

The details of the Oneida disaster do not serve
to put the captain OF the British steamer Bonn
bay in more favorable light than did the first
reports The evidence Of a British officer is
given that Capt. Eyre told him that che had cut
the whole quarter of a Yankee frigate, and
served her bloody well right"


Between Capt. Eyre, and Gen. Eyre, of Ja-
maica massacre infamy, the name OF Eyre is
likely to be synonym Of brutality.
Year: 1870

New YORK, March 11.-Jerry Murphy aud
Jersey, fought yesterday evening in a room in
Hudson city for 500 and the championship OF
the State. 1t was a brutal rough and tumble
fearfully punished; his eyes and nose were
smashed beyond recognition, and his body was
severely injured. Murphy received very little
damage. This Is the third fight between these
roughs. A large crowd was present.
Year: 1870

The United States of America and his Majesty
the Emperor of China, believing that the safety
and prosperity OF commerce will thereby best be
promoted. agree that any privilege or immunity
In respect TO trade or navigation within the Chi
nese dominions which may not have been stip-
ulated for by treaty shall be subject TO the dis
cretion of the Gh nese government and NAV be
regulated by it accordingly. but not in a manne r
or spirit incompatible with the treaty stipula-
tons OF the parties.
Year: 1870

A SINGULAR BLow-UP.-A correspondent
of the Charlottesville (Va) Chronicle relates
the following almost incredible story:


ga very remarkable phenomenon occurred
can exnain. AS the miller at Mr.. Thomas
AYERS mill, situated on one of the tributaries
of Robinson river. was sitting quietly in the
mill on the evening of that day, he was sur
prised at a sudden peal, as of thunder, and on
getting up and going to the window, he per-
ceived that his dam was blown up, and the
tremendous logs of which it was built were
flying sixty feet in the air. Some of them
were thrown a distance of seventy-fiye yards,
and the whole dam was entirely demolished.
In cornfield some three or four hundred
yards below the dam, about two thirds of the
ears OF corn were shaken from the stocks and
scattered over the ground. The evening was
perfectly clear, with the exception OF a few
very Insignificant looking clouds low down in
the eastern sky, and the sun was shining
brightly at the time this nexplicable phenom-
enon presented itself. Some persons suppose
Year: 1870

a BOGUS BURGLAR.-A wide-awake young


man, who lives on the west side somewhere


was SO wide awake last Thursday morning.


wheh lie got up to look at the fire across the


Cove, that while gazing at aud admiring the


iuild Illumination on the rainy sky, he heard
a man walking up stairs in his next neiohbor's
house which he knew was locked up and its
occupants all out of town. He thought at
once of the recent burglaries in our city. and
that here was another, which it was his duty
to investigate, and hurrying on his habila-
ments he rushed into the street, and after
long search found one of the guardians of
the night, and surrounding the house they
found the back door open, and then they
thought they had him. The policeman first
entered, softly, and bade the young man fol-
low him quietly, which he did, uery quietly,
and at safe distance. The patrolman passed
through the hall, and opening door, was
welcomed by the man OF the house himself,
who had returned to the city Oh one of the
early trains, and had been up TO the roof of
his house to look at the fire, like his friend
next door, who heard bis heavy step on the
stairs and took him for a burglar, and the trio
then INDUCED in a hearty laagh over the sup
posed burglary, which, like Jacobs ladder of
olden time, was visionary.-Proridence Jour
Year: 1870




THE city authorities of st. Louis have re-
Gently adopted the French system of register
ing fallen womon. 1t consists in the opening
of ledger, in which are recorded the names,
nativities, ages, and other particulars for the
Identification Of the prostitutes of that city.
On this fact the Revolution comments as fol-
lows:


With unreseryed condemn alton we aver
that this book reflects as much shame on the
men who are writing it as the women who
are written in it. The most horrible of trades
is prostitution. 1t is devils business, in
which women and men are equal partners,
and from which they should reap an equal
measure OF guilt and condemnation. We
maintain that there is only one way in which
government OF men can find decent pre-
text for keeping public record of prostitutes,
and that is by adding to it similar record of
paramours. 1t the police must register the
women, let them also register the men. Pros
titutiOn is committed on the basis of busi-
ness contract; and it one party thereto must
give legal notice to the authorities, let the 9TH
er do the same.


If St. Louis or any other city has any right
to regulate the social evil, we demand that it
shall Law its governmental hand with equal
weight on men and women. Tie needfui
process to effect this even-handed justice is
simple and practicable. 1t every house of
prostitution is to be known to the police, and
ii every woman residing in it is to be regis
tered in the official list, then let policeman
stand at the door and take the name, resi-
dcnce and occupation (under oath) OF every
man who enters; and let every man who, on
entering, shall swear falsely, be tried for per-
jury, and suffer the customary penalty for
that crime. The only just system OF govern
mental control of the social evil-the only
one which can be made consistent with itself.
which can have any pretext for existence, or
which can be anything else than tyrannous
fraud-is one which will record in the St.
Louis ledger the names of the men, as well
as OF the women, who thus commit the un.
pardonabe sin against society. .'' .' ''
Year: 1870

Whatever you have to say, my friend,
Whether witty, or grave. or gay,
COndense as much as ever you can,
And say 1t in the readiest way;
And whether you write of rural affairs,
Or particular things in town,
Just take word OF friendly advice


.. Boil it down
For if you go splutterng over page
When couple of lines would do,
Your butter is spread SO much, you sec,
That the bread looks plainly through.
So when you have story TO tell,
And would like little renown,
To make quite sure of your wish, my friend,


Boil it down
When writing an article for the Press,
Whether prose or verse, just try
To utter your thoughts In the fewest words,
And let them be crisp and dry;
And when it Is finished, and yoa suppose
1t is done exactly brown,
Just look it over again, and then


Boil it down
The editors do not like to print
An article lazily long,
And the general reader does not care
For couple of yards of song;
So gather your wits in the smallest space
If you'd win the authors crown,
And every time you write, my friend,


Boil it down
Year: 1870

The sunny SIDE.-Everybody should
live on the sunny side of their house as
much as possible and allow the suns
genial rays 10 penetrate the rooms.
Darkened parlors are fashionable evils.
True, it is gloomy enough to be ushered
into tomb-like apartment, where one
can scarcely grope his way to a seat, and
to discover when he is accustomed to
the dim light, that every chair and sofa
has its linen "duster," apparently equip
ped for travelling to some unknown land.
But ladies must have their carpets kept
bright and fresh, even if their cheeks are
palcr for it. And SO the shutters are
kept tightly closed and the heavy cur.
tains down. But for the sake of health
and beauty, ladies, let this be done only
to the 'best parlor," if it must be done
at all. Let the rooms where the family
lives be cheerful and sunny. No lady
would expect house plants TO send out
their brilliant blossoms unless che placed
them at the window where the sunshine
would invigorate them. Mo- more should
she expect her children to show fresh,
rosy compilations, and develop genial
dispositions unless they live in light
sunny and airy room.
Year: 1870

RELATIVE TO MARRIAGE-There is
much truth in the remarks of an old wri.
ter, that we can rarely guess how any
mans life and character will turn out an
til we know what kind of n wife he will
fiud. The most promising character may
fail entirely to realize the expectations
inspired by it in youth, and the tairest
prospects OF prosperity may he defeated
by an injudicious marriage and on the
contrary, there is hope OF almost any
man, however faulty his character, if he
happen to marry a prudent, patient, af-
tectionate wife.


We speak not theoretically, but from
what we have seen and known, when we
maintain there is silent, though
often unseen and unrecognized power, in
the iudicious and devoted wiie's influence
before which none but the sternest. most
stubborn natures can stand. 1t may be
that many years shall pass before tha,
influence accompllshes its object, but AT
last it will prevail. The rash and reck
less character will at length yield TO the
prudent, careful, patient example of the
wife habits of dissipation, and intem-
perance even, will often be ashamed and
humbled by the long-sutfpring, forgiving,
enduring love of the wronged and injured
partner And it there is II being on earth
worthy of una,lOyed JOY, it is she who,
after long years of disappointment and
deferred hope, Of ANXIOUS waiting and
patient endurance, at length sees her hus
band tnrn from his errors and walk with
her in the way of life and peace.
Year: 1870

THE other day we sauntered "down
the track " and switched off at the works
OF the Bellevue Zinc Company and found
Tue companys capable and affable supern
tendent, DELos P. BEECH, in charge. We
were shown through the several denart. /.
ments and must say that we never visited
manutactory that was better conducted
than this, The "boys" were just Cleaning
up and we believe really their own moth
ers wouldn't have known them, for they were
hoodwinked to the chin. We have for.
gotten the exact number of men in the
employ OF this company, but believe it is
the neighborhood of thirty,-we intend
gong down again some fine day when we
won't get stuck in the mud, on our trip
down.
Year: 1870

DUE allowance should always be
mace Tor pulling, but after making all the
allowance necessary, y more to- ths
people must be convinced that Tngopp
dEoRGE, Jr. is honest when he saws that h.
ne mas one OF the best stocks of furuiturs
IN the county, and will not be undersold by
any house in the west.
Year: 1870

IN the midst of the excitement az
tendant upon the election, bear in mind
that at the City Store is always kent ono of
the finest stocks of dry goods of all yatl.
cites to be found in the west, and that tb.
prices there a'e as low as the lowest, or
even triile lower
Year: 1870

A correspondent Of the Sacramento Re
porter. writing TO the text, Brotherhood OF
God and universal brotherhood of man, u
preached from ON the Fourth OF July by the
Radical orator Of the day, throws in the fol-
lowing granitic logic:


Every man OF the commonest powers of OBJ
servation may see that the great Architect of
nature has established gradations in all his Gre
atoms. In the inorganic world, we have every
grade from the commonest sandstone to the
granite, the marble, the alabaster, up to the
ever-changing opal or glittering diamond. In
the vegetable kingdom, we have every grade
from the mushroom, which perishes in day,
up through the various annual and perennial
plants to the mighty oak of the forest or the
mammoth Washingtonia Gigantea of the Big
Tree grove. Finally. in the animal kingdom,
we have species of the different genera from
the domestic cat to the Bengal tiger and lion
Of the African jungles; In the genus "equus
caballus. z" or horse, we have various species,
as the diminutiye ponies of the Shetland Isles,
the Canadian cob, the dray horse of Flanders,
and last, that most beautiful and graceful Of all
specimens-the African barb. But still more
striking differences in species of the same ge-
nus, may be found in the zebra, the ass and
the horse. r ...


And if these gradations be found in every other
created thing, why should not the same order
hold in the family of man? The fact is, the
same inferior, middle and high grades are
found in the different species of the genus homo
as in everything else The gorilla of the Ga
boon river. in Africa (an nnthropoid animaD,
differs but little more from some OF the tribes
of the interior Of that country than they do
from the white man. And, ascending from
the miserable british looking native of Africa,
through the Mongolian, the Nilotic, up to the
nobly proportioned, symmetrical and large
Drained Caucasian race, the difference
between the first and the last is immeasurably
greater than between many other species Of
the same genus of animals. .


Whenever the Radicals use the text of the
"Fatherhood of God and universe! brotherhood
Of man" to indicate that God made all the
races of men equal in capacity, in desires and
aspirations, and expected them to enjoy the
same political and social privileges, they state
what has 10 foundation in common sense, OF
the most limited observation. And to argue
that a race of people who never originated
government, whose natural condition il that
Of barbarism, and who have always rclapsed
into that condition whenever removed from
the control of the white man, is the equal of
the white race, and entitled to all the social
and political privileges enjoyed 10y them, is an
argument worthy Of none but fools or IA
na;ics. SANTIAGO.
Year: 1870

Who has failed to observe the diversity
of manners in the lover and the husband2


Even the stranger politely picks up the fan
or the parasol, and hands it to the lady who
sits beside him in the car. 1t is proper that
he should. Society will recon him a boor if
he does not Did you ever sit in the PHI
losopher's corner at an evening party and
note the polite bearing of those paired off
tete-a-tete g., There is not wrinkle on the
brow of that manly youth, which was not
written there by the noble effort to smile
not an expression of the eye but looks
laughingly into its fellow eye Every
movement is courteous, and conforms to the
strictest rules of polite Society. And his
words-ah, they soft, sweet words al
most dissolve in the utterance. True, the
picture is sometimes over wrought, and we
turn aside with feelings akin to disgust;
still, as has been intimated, we love to sit
there and moralize, Many valuable lessons
have been learned on such occasions.
Strange, peep science, this-human nature


The Scene has changed Two Of those
lovers have become one.s Hymen's mystic
kont has been tied, and they unblushingIy
call each other Husband, "a "Wife."


We have said the scene has changed
This is true in every respect We do not
say they are not lovers; still we grant that
hearts true to each other are united, and
the ordinary course of life runs smoothly.
But they are not now in the drawing room
or the parlor, surrounded by the giddy and
thoughtless, whose merry chatter reminds
one of natures forest singers. The husband
busted through the day with his ledger OF
his plo W; the wife, with her domestic care;
and indoor. annoyances: each feels the
necessity for quiet rest. Were you in the
sitting room when, fatigued with heat and
burdeH of the day. the husband, without
stopping to ring the door bell, entered
and with voice somewhat harsher in tone
than when we saw them last, demanded
Wife, is tea ready7 1 am very bkngFy.
''No, the servan has been all out OF sort
to-day-every tb ing has gone wrong-o
am so nervous p If wife lets her thimble
fall Just at this junt'ture, will husband stool
Year: 1870

The following rules, from the papers of
Dr. West, were, according to his .memoran-
dun, thrown together as general waymarks
in the journey of life;


Never to ridicule sacred things, or what
others may esteem such, however absurd
they may appear to be.


Never to show levity when the people
are professedly engaged in worship.


Never to resent a supposed injury until
You know the views and motives of it Nor on
any account to retaliate.


Never to judge persons character by
personal appearance.


Always to take the part of an absent per-
son who is censured in company, 80 far as
truth and propriety will allow.


Never to think the worse of another on
account of his differing with you in political
or religions.
Year: 1870

Dear love, in this rapture Of meeting,


While the heart-lsaps thrill fast through our veins
You ask why a shadow ofmOurning


Like cloud on my forehead remainsl
You say I am altered my darling


In theseJ L have waited and wept
While the siekenl ng hands of the weary clocks
In slow beats tired, slept.
The tears that we shed when we parted


Dimmed all the youth out ofmy eyes,
Till the fair green earth had no freshness to me-
And the suR no heaven in the skies.
The feather tipped tops of the Pine-trees
May be bent by the cold winter blast,
Yet the laughter aad warme tn of the summer
Can never make up for the past.
Though the white-blossoms are blowing in HAY,
And the wheat pisrces green through the hill,
UnderfOot in TIE curling bracken


The dead leaves are lingering still.
And the sorrow that left its mark on my youth
Will pass from my forehead never,
Till my brows smooth in the long last sleep,
And the cOfin-lid shut for ever.