smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1875

THE ORANGES IN MINNESOTA.


The following statement has been
greedily copied by the Monopoly papers
all over the State:


From the La Crosse Sun.)


GOING OUT OF THE GRANGE BUSINESS.


In Minnesota it is said that number of the
subord nate Oranges have given up their char
ters and gore out of the Grange business.
They claim that the amount Of money they
are COMPELLED to contribute to keep up the
State Grange, and again to support National
Grange, at Washington, is enormous. The
money they send to Washington does no good
except to keep lot OF grand officers in spend
ing money, men who don't know breaking
blow from seven octave corn shelter. The
object sought can be better attained in each
locality by farmers club, where farmers can
get together without the seal OF secrecy, and
compare notes on agricultural matters. When
farmers find that as Changers they are con-
trolled by dirty politicians, they are not slow
to return to their first love, and become farm
ers again.


Believing that this Was falsehood,
devised by the enemy, We wrote to the
Secretary Of the State Grange and have re-
ceived the annexed reply. We differ from
the worthy Secretary in his belief that q
lie is harmless lies until exposed have
greater capacity of motion and fecundity
than truth as the old adage has it, "a
lie will travel hundred miles while truth
is getting its boots on;


pArRoss OF HrsBASDRY,
STATE GRANGE OF MINNESOTA, +
ST. PAUL, s, 18th, 1875.
| DEAR SIR Your favor OF the Sth inst. Is re-
ceiyed The only foundation for the state
ment in the paper, the extract from which you
| enclosed to me, is that two Oranges notified
the Secretary that they had surrendered their
charters do not write this tor publication,
as do not believe in answering all the false
statements that may occur in the newspapers
| in regard to the Order It is enough to go on
| in the even tenor of our way.


Yours truly,


THOS. TUNIS SMITH.
Year: 1875

official duty, in view of the official record SUD-
mitted to me, is my only safeguard.


In refusing to grant pardon on the occa.
sion of my former review of this case, l stated
that "the views of the judge who tries case
and pronounces sentence are entitled to the
highest consideration, and have always re-
ceived it at my hands"


Hardly any case, probably no case, can
arise under our laws in which the governor
will feel warranted in refusing pardon when
officially informed by the judge who presided
at the trial that if the facts aow known had
been known at the trial, he would have charg.
ed the jury that the evidence did not warrant
q conviction, or that newly presented facts
would have caused him to grant new trial;
at any time before sentence, if improperly or
mistakenly convicted, these defendants are en-
titled to release. The highest evidence can
receive upon this question is the official ad'
vice and Judgment of the presiding judge.
The evidence contained in the afidavits
now presented has less connection with the de-
fendant Blake than with Walker, but am
not willing the one probably most guilty, if
either are guilty, should escape punishment,
and the less guilty suffer it, and I, therefore,
grant a pardon to both defendants


D, II. CHAMBERLAIN,


Governor.
Year: 1875

aG If we die to-day the sun will shine as
brightly and the birds will sing as sweetly to-
morrow. Business will not be suspended a
moment, and the great mass will bestow but
a thought upon our memories. He's dead 7
will be the solemn inquiry Of few days, as
they pass to their work. No one will miss US
except our immediate connections, and in
short time they, too, will forget us, and laugh
as merrily as when we sat beside them. Thus
shall We all, now in life, pass away. Our
children follow closely behind us, and they
will soon be gone In a few years not q hu-
man being can say, II remember him."
We lived in another age and did business
with those who slumber in the tomb. This
is life. How rapidly it passes!
Year: 1875

HARD T1mEs.-Yes, these are hard times;
and times were hard last year, and the year
before, and the year before that, and before
the panic, and even before the war, when We
"all had so many niggers." There never was
a time when the mass Of men did not have to
struggle for living; never time when it
was easy to make money, easy to save it, and
easy to have big balance Of net profit at the
end of the year. Money-making, except
with dishonest persons or unscrupulous specu-
lators, is q slow process not only slow, but it
is laborious and beset with difficulties innu'
merable. Under favorable circumstances, it
generally takes lifetime to accumulate
fortune.


There is no necessity, then, for so much
gloom and dependency on account OF "hard
times" There are many failures at the pres
ent time, and there were always many fail.
ures, even in the best days Of the country.
On the other hand, there are successes now in
business, as there have always been successes.
The bold, prudent, Industrious man has ten
chances to one in favor Of success. When men
fail, it is generally fol. the lack Of one or more
of these qualities.


A prosperous community is one made up Of
prosperous individuals. The rule for individ-
ual prosperity must Be given in four words:
"Live within your income" To those who
are disheartened at the past and oppressed
with gloomy forebodings, We would say:
Make close calculation of your probable in.
come for the next year-allowing broad
margin for losses and mishaps-and then de-
termine that your expenses shall not exceed
it. Garry out this determination, labor hear
tily six days in the week, rest and worship
God on the seventh, live in love and charity
with your neighbors, trust merciful over
ruling Providence, and you will never come
to want.
Year: 1875

How many men go through life with a continual complaint upon their lips, never once think ing of the continual blessings which are all along bestowed upon them, which, but for their own perverseness would make m cheerful, happy beings.

 The wintry blasts will Ion be bowling in our ears. The ge- nial weather which we have en- ioyed for the past month, cannot be expected to last much longer. Proyident men will sec to it that good supply of winter fuel is on hand.

 Go to Roys' hardware store and see the best ware ever invent ed for cooking fruit or any thing else. He has just received full assortment of the celebrated Gran lte Iron Ware-it is imperishable by fire, hard and smooth as glass, light and durable, and beautiful to look at.

 We have been handed the proceedings of an evangelical meeting held here on the 29th and 30th days of last month, but owing to a crowd on our columns this week we cannot publish in this issue. We will endeavor to publish next week.

 With the present issue we commence to give our readers the more important doings of our Legislature. We shall keep this up, and as it is directly to the in- terest of every citizen to be ad- vlsed on these things we urge upon all who are not already sub- scribers to send in their names and money at once. If it is more convenient to do so take six months at time and then you can renew at the end of that time. This wiil only cost you seventy five cents-the pitiful sum of seventy-five cents. Would any man deprive himself and his fam fly of the home paper for seventy five cents?

 That Granite Iron Ware at Roys' stove and tin shop is just the best ware ever made. No house keeper can afford to be without it. Call and and see it.

 Up to the first of the present month there had been but very little wheat sowed in our county. This was owing to the long pro- tracted drouth, and the hard bak- ed condition of the soil, which had rendered it next to impracti- cable to put in wheat. Now that we have had rains, however, there has been a better start to- ward wheat sowing, and we would urge It upon our farmers to at once attend to this matter and see that there is lots of it sowed. There is not the least danger of sowing too much, and it will be just as good for ready cash next year as cotton. We hope the wheat crop of Pope county wlll not be neglected.

 Judge Caleb Davis IS entitled to a free subscription to the DEM- ocRAT twelve months, under our proiier to give it for that length of time for the best ten ears of corn, which should be sent to us, on or before the 1st day of No vember, his being the only speci- men received. The corn is a good specimen, sound and large, but we think some of our river bottom farmers might have beat it, if they had tried. We wanted the corn to send to the Centennial and had hoped that our farmers would take interest enough in it to send us the very best in the county. When will the time come when our farmers generally will have more public spirit and pride about them?
Year: 1875

The ladies of the Doreas Society Of Christ
church, on q street, between Sixth and Seventh
southeast, propose to give concert in the little
chapel attached to the church this evening, to
CON mence at o'clock. The members of this So
ciety have been very active dur'ug the past
severe winter in aiding the needy, and their con-
cert should be we'll patronized by their friends
throughout the city and all charitabIy disposed
people Cast thy bread upon the waters and
It will return before many days"
Year: 1875

House-keepers should bear in mind that this is
the best month in the year to paint up. Houses
painted in every variety OF style and in the short
est time possible. SLop sos Fourteenth street
northwest.
Year: 1875

The publication in yesterdays REPUBLIcAN Of
the movement inauguraied for the requirement.
Of Pennsylvania avenue from the Capitol gates
to the Treasury Department, created profound
Impression, and was, throughout the day, the
topic of conversation among all interested. 1t is
entirely safe and judlcous to say that the public
sentiment, as far as developed, was wholly in
paved, but opinion was not quite so unanimous In
regard to the kind Of pavement that should be
adopted.


The petition to the Com mmIssioners was numer-
ously signed, and to-day the signatures will be
largely increased. The sentiment was also in
favor OF Immediate action, the merchants and
business men wanting the work executed during
the settled weather Of the summer months. The
arguments in favor Of the repaving are so patent
and Affirmative as to leave no room for the dis
cussion of its feasibility.
Year: 1875

The Journal of HealM says: Sun baths
cost nothing, and are the most refreshing
life>giving baths that one can take, ,wbet6,
er sick or we'll. Every housekeeper
knows the necessity Of giving her woolens
the benefit ofthe sun, from time to time,
especially after long absence of the sun,
Many will think Of the injury their
clothes are liable to from dampness who
will never reflect that an occasional ex.
posure Of their own health. The sun
baths cost nothing, and tina. is misfor.
tune, for people are still deludcd with the
idea that those things can only be good
or useful which cost money. Let it not
be forgotten that three Of God J. most
bene6cient gifts to man-three things the
most necessary to good hsalth-sunlight,
fresh air and water. are free to all; you
can have them in abundance, without
money and without price, if you will. II
you would enjoy good health, then see to
it that you are supplied With pure air to
breathe all the time; that you battle for
an hour or so in the sunlight, and that
yOu queDch your Thirst with no other
fluid than water.
Year: 1875

Nothing is more common than 10
hear old people utter querclous com.
plants with regard to their increasing
deafness; but those who do so are not
perhaps aware that tins infrmity is the
result of an express and wise arranpe>
ment of Providence in constructing The
human body. The gradual loss of
hearing is affected for the best pur.
pose, it being intended to give ease
and quietude to the decline of life,
when any noise or sounds from with
out would but diseompose the enfeebled
mind, and prevent peaceful meditation.
Indeed, the gradual withdrawal of all
the senses and the decay Of the frame.
in old age, have been wisely ordained,
in order to wear the human mind from
the concerns and pleasure of the
world, and to induce a longing for a
purfect state Of existence. .-Edinb.,y
OOWTUtu. ... .+. ft.J
Year: 1875

What a blessing to household is o
merry, cheerful woman-one whose
spirits are not affected by wet days or
little disappointments-one whose
milk of human kindness does not sour
in the sunshine Of prosperity! Such q
woman in the darkest hours brightens
the house like q piece of sunshiny
weather The magnetism of her smiles
and the electrical brightness of her
looks and movements, infect every one.
The children 60 to school with sense
OF something great to be achieved the
husband goes into the world in con-
queror's spirit. No matter how peo>
pie annoy and worry him all day, far
off her presence shines and he whis.
pers to himself, AT home l shall find
rest" So day by day she literally
renews his strength and energy. And
if you know man with beaming
face, kind heart and a prosperous
business, in nine cases out of ten you
will Gnd he has a wife Of this kind.
Year: 1875

However deplorable washing day may
be to the household land the careful
house mistress or tidy maid has it in her
power to greatly modify its discomforts),
to the garden it is a very bountiful day
Our hungry and thirsty grape,vines aud
flowers are glad of every drop of wash
water, and will repay every bit of fatigue
II may cost us 70 give them this fertilize,
If the sun is shining hot when we go out
to dispense our favor. It Is best fer us to
dig slight trench not far from the root
Of the plant, and pour the water into it,
and cover again With the top soil This
makes the water 60 farther, and at the
same time does not tempt the rootlets to
the surface Of the ground.-Dutcless
Fdra,er. u UC 1 Md QUG
Year: 1875

|. To test the soundness of a
piece Of oftimber, apply the ear to the
middle of one Of the ends, while an.
other person strikes upon the opposite
extremity. If the wood is sound and
Of good quality, the blow is very dis.
tinctly heard, however long the beam
may be. If the wood is dissggregsted
by decay or otherwise, the sound will
be for the most part destroyed.
Year: 1875

Mr. Parker has hardly got warm in his
position Of postmaster for the second time
but he already is troubled. And this
trouble he does not wish concealed for he
posts this notice on the bulletin board


Posr OFFICE,


New Orleans May Is. 1873.
NOTIcE.-If the candidate for position
in this office who took my hat from my
private Office to-day and left his own will
return mine l will hand him his papers


j. M. G. PARKER
This document attracted more attention
than the announcement of the arrival OF
mails. Some gentlemen went so far az to
make notes in pencil on it, such as putting
walking" before papers, and "see Muir
ply" at the end. One observer was cruel
enough to say if the postmaster's hat be-
came the taker as bad as it did the owner
he would be mighty sorry he took it. An,
other that he would like to see the No
head that was filling the postmaster No. 8
hat. But Mr.. Parker generally had the
sympathy of his readers, especially as it
considered that ''some fellers chance is
gone up now, sure"
Year: 1875

Whatever there is of terrible, whatever
there is OF beautiful in human events, all
that shakes the soul to and fro and is re-
mernbered while thought and flesh cling
together, all these have their origin from
the passions. As it is only in storms, and
when their coming water is diven up into
the air, that we catch sight of the depths
Of the sea. it is only in the season of per-
turbation that We have 3 glimpse of the in
ternai nature Of man. 1t Is then only that
the might of these ersptions, shaking his
frame, diseipste all the feeble coverings of
opinion, and rend in pieces the cob web
veil with which faehion hides the feeling Of
the hesrt.-Sidney Smith.
Year: 1875

In ancient times threshing was a
primitive process. A circular plot of
ground was beaten hard and firm, in
closed by slight barricade, the grain
in sheaves thrown on the earth, horses
or oxen led in and driven round and
round for hours, until the grain and
straw were trodden into an almost in
distinguishable mass. Then, by pro-
cess of tossing and blowing or tanning,
the chaff is separated from the grain,
the latter being afterwards washed to
free it from the dirt, which could not
fail to adhere to it. It was great inn
provement, and he was grand invent
or who introduced the fail. Some of
the unpleasant circumstances which at
tended the use Of animals were then
avoided. The farmers threshed their
grain on plank floor, instead of the
bare ground; the grain was not SO much
injured as before; more of it was saved;
the straw was more useful after thresh-
ing was done, and a general advance
was considered to be made. The East
ern countries, unchanged through all
the rolling ages, still adhere to the
horse or OK threshing, and many ma
tions still use the fail.


Among the queerest anomalies, how
ever, to be found in this country is the
recorded fact that in district in Mas
sachusetts the farmers reject the use of
machinery for threshing out their
wheat, rye and oats, and keep pound
ing away with their fifty-year-old fails
as industriously as did their grand
fathers. The world has gone on; Mas
sachusetts has become the great inyen-
tive State, has sent out vast quantities
of machinery to every part of this
and foreign lands; but the farm
er of that State does not appear
to have moved peg. Sill he is failing.
There are very few places anywhere else
in this country where the fail is used.
The Department of Agriculture says
that a few Marylanders thresh in this
manner, and there may be isolated
cases over the country where small
farmers raise but few bushels and do
their own threshing, but machinery is
almost universally in use. Horse and
steam threshers now do the work hu-
man muscle formerly performed, and
where bushel was formerly laborious-
ly gathered up from the plank floor or
the bare ground, hundred now pour
from the iron throat of the machine.


In Maine and most of the Middle
States horse machines are used which
turn out from one to three hundred
bushels per day. The thresher furnish
es portion of the horses and part of
the gang, the farmer provides the re-
mainder and pays for the work, either
in money or toll on the grain. The
cost of threshing is least when the most
perfect machinery is employed. In
California steam threshers are used.
and the cost is little over FIVE cents;
in South Carolina steam machinery is
almost unknown, and the threshing
costs about twenty cents per bushel.
The Western States-Ohio, Indiana,
Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, Nebras-
ka and Iowa-use steam threshers to
very considerable extent, and the cost
is comparatively small. Many farmers
in these States own steam machines,
and do not only their own work, but
that of large circle of their neighbors.
st. Louis Globe Democrat.
Year: 1875

The young women in the Halifax
works are certainly not pretty, but they
seem to have a fine flow Of spirits. / am
told that they have remarkably fine
taste in dress A lady in Halifax having
occasion to enter a milliner's shop had
her attention attracted by a beautiful
and very expensive French bonnet, and
inquired the price; she was told that it
was sold. "0h, l had no idea of buying
such an expensive bonnet" said the
lady, upon which the milliner said: 1T
is q joint stock bonnet-that is, it be-
longs to three factory girls, who wear it
by turns on Sunday"
Year: 1875

A curious parallel to the story told by
the Ticbborne claimant has recently
come to light in England. 1t is said to
be an actual occurrence which took place
in that very neighborhood in Australia
where the claimant first appeared A
young English nobleman, having fallen
into dissipation, left England, sailed
about the world, and finally reached
Australia. There he took service as q
shepherd, and for several weeks kept
sheep for farmer. One day, while
Year: 1875

At Carlisle, Canada, a few days ago,
Miss Hood, an intelligent and cultivated
young lady, was sitting in conversation
with lady friend, when young man
came up behind them and suddenly
jerked the chair from beneath her. In
attempting to save herself Miss Hood
injured her spinal column so severely
that she went into commissions. The
doctor gave his opinion that if her iuju.
ries did not prove fatal her mind would
be left deranged from the effects.
Year: 1875

Matters Grave and Gay from all


Sources.


SOUL UNION.
Now the romance is over,
The wooing and the wedding past,
The trysting tree fOrsaken,
How long will the honeymoon last?
She said, Till the day Of Judgment
Will we live in the silver ght;"
Till our earthly love shall merge" he said
In love that is infinite"
Year: 1875

From the San Francisco Post.l


Several times since the Indictment OF
her husband the young and beautiful
woman has been to the parish church to
pray for his aequittal, and even while in
court did not cease her devout exertions
on his behalf Ensconcing herself in a
quiet nook this pious lady continued to
pray with such wholesouled esrnestness
for the prisoners release as to attract
the attention Of the court. Unheeding
the curious glances bestowed on her. the
good woman continued her devotions
without interruption until the jury re-
turned with a verdict OF not guilty,
Shen ahe testified her joy by an earnest
amen" She then left the courtroom,
accompanied by her husband and ex-
pressing her gratitude by such express
sions as God be praised" and Heaven
be thanked" etc, until she reached the
street and was lost in the motley crowd
that usually assemblies around the doors
at recess.
Year: 1875

A bright little boy, just three years
old, is like most little chaps Of his age,
sometimes refractory In order to curb
him and make him good little boy, his
mother often threatened him with peach
tree "persuader." The little fellow has
come to understand any allusion to the
peach tree, and usually subsidies when it
is spoken Of. A day or two ago, since
the towering of the fruit trees, slight
reference was made to this same tree,
when the little fellow made peace for
that day by looking up and saying, Why
mamma, the switches are covered with
roses.
Year: 1875

DanDury NOVEL,


When you see sofa and two lengths
of stovepipe on a front stoop, and a
child on the premises eating a slice of
bread and jam, it is safe to believe that
the family has just moved in. When
you see several windows open, with
lengths of carpet hanging from them,
and child at the front eating bread and
jam, it is an equally sure indication that
the family is cleaning house.


SINGULAR PErRIFAcTIoN.
Tolo Cali MALL


While hunting in the tules near the
sink Of Cache creek, on Monday last,
Mr., Abe Green, and old tule hunter, dis,
covered a petrifed goose standing up
right, with its legs buried about oue-half
in the adobe soil. He thought at FIRST it
was living, and creeping closely up fred
his gun at it, but the bird did not bulge
Year: 1875

L OiNidhu hlBuosl


= = The man lives at the Cape,
and came into the city yesterday with
his child, ten years old. The man got
intoxicated, and during the evening his
team stopped on Chestnut street. The
driver thought he was going towards
home. The poor old horses were com
pletely tired out, and could not draw the
wagon and its load. Deputy Bridges
tack the man to the station and placed
him in cell. The child elung to him
and refused to be separated from him.
She said if her father was to pass an un.
comfortable night she would stay with
him, and nothing would induce her to
leave the cell. At midnight they were
both sleeping soundly on the bare
boards.