smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1876

EfuuluS IomatOes.


The Germantown Telegraph has the follow
ing on the subject of pruning tomatoes:


Many persons find much profit in pinching
back the branches OF the tomatoes; and it is
good practice when iudiciously done. 1t
may be overdone, however, and injury re-
suit. In the first place it is of no use to at
tempt it after the flowers have fallen. The
idea is to force the nourishment into the
fruit at the earliest start; for it is at that
time that the future fate of the fruit Is cast.
A few leaves beyond the fruit is an advan-
tage. 1t is only the growth that is to be
checked. And then much damage is done
by taking off the leaves as well as the fruit.
The tomato plant needs all the leaves it can
get 1t is only the branches that are to be
checked in their growth.


No one who has not tried it can have any
idea of how valuable the leaves are to the to-
mato plant. One may for experiment take
off most of the leaves of plant, and he will
find the flavor insipid, and in every way
poor.


OF course il is the peculiar acidity Of the
tomato that gives it so much value to all of us
but the acid from a tomato that has ripened
on an insufficient amount of foliage, is dis
agreeable to most tastes.


The same principle has been found to
work In managing grape vines. The man
who judiciously pinches back the branches
does we'll; but he who strips off the foliage,
to ''let in the sun and air,'' generally finds
that he has made bad mess of it.
Year: 1876

"Every nine out of ten adults in this whole region
of country is afflicted with Catarrh 1t seems to be
climatcally epidemic out in this atmosphere, Mr..
Smith tells me that the three dozen bottles of RApI-
CAL CURE were Immediately sold and that he had
forty orders for more within the last three weeks
but had none here to supply from.''


The Mr.. Smith referred to is of the firm of Smith
d Doll, furniture dealers, Denver. When in Boston
about year ago be purchased eleven bottles of -
Catarrh Remedy, and one of SANFoRD's RADICAL
CURE the latter at the earnest request of personal
acquaintance. He had seen the first named remedy
but had not heard of the latter. Shortly after his
arrival IN Denver we received order for dozen of
ing intelligence that Mr.. Smith was cured. The
prevalence of the disease coupled with the recon-
mendations of Mr.. Smith, soon created lively de-
bottles were sent out This is striking illustration
of what is frequently done for this remedy as re-
turn for Teiet from long and painful suffering.
Year: 1876

This is very simple and easily done.
Asters as well As many other plants, do
much better BY being once or twice trans
planted. | always transplant the Aster
twice; first, from tie box to the frame.
when an inch aud half from th. seed
then at the border or bed at four inches
high, where they are to flower. They may
De planted in clumps OF tour or five plants
Of different eolors, or in rows, but should
stand one foot from one another. The op-
GRAFTON of transplautiug is simply this, and
can De done without losing single plant


All the tool required for.the work is.a trowel.
First insert the trowel into the ground so
a to make hole sufficient to receive the
ball Of roots. without bending them. then
place the roots in the hole. holding the
plant with the left hand. and with the 9TH
er insert the trowel again in the ground,
about two inches from the first hole. and
and with it press the soil hard against the
bottoM of the roots. If the earth should
be dry there should be little wster poured
In the hole before the plant is put in. /
transplant after a rain or shower then
there i no water needed. and the work il
much quicker completed The above d.
rections will apply equally well tor trans
planting all Annual, Bienniel- or Perenni-
ais that will bear transplanting. Wick.
Year: 1876

TO fatten hogs take two quarts Of bar
ley, two of corn. and one of oats Grind
them together; then cook and feed cold.
1t is the cheapest food, and any pig Of i'm
proved breed can be made TO gain a pound
a day upon it until year old.
Year: 1876

1t is good plan when not very busy
about tue farm to make boxes say twelve
inches square and eight inches high, with
out bottom or top. These placed over the
cucumber or melon hills ami covered with
glass gives ali impetus to the plants early
in the season that nothing short Of hot
bed will effect
Year: 1876

fought at Antietam. at Gettysburg at Dallas,
at Kenesaw Mountain, at Peach Tree Creek
and at many other places; but We
doubt if he has ever felt so deep
pride in any of those achievements as
he has grown to feel in the promised success
of the great labor now in hand, or so dis
turbing an anxiety that it should be safely
done with at this supreme moment. For
from the time the charges were prepared
and the mine flooded till the hour when
the tide shall be at the proper point not an
instant is without peril. Here are the
charges prepared that are to be exploded by
electricity, and the batteries are ready.
Suppose thunder storm comes up? Who
can say at this season when one may not
come? Can any man guarantee the mine in
that case? And the'worst result might not be
that some houses at Astoria were shaken about
the ears Of their occupants, or that few
boats were destroyed in the river, but that
the eccentric fluid should not do the work
regularly and thoroughly. Electrical acci-
dents are but one source of danger and
several other sources of arrangement and
possible disturbance, and dangers even more
imminent, could readily be pointed out


But within few hours We believe and
trust that objectors and critics and all others
will have occasion to congratulate General
Newton upon the happy termination of an
unprecedented achievement in engineering
science.
Year: 1876

There is new strike among the negroes
employed on the rice plantations in South
Carolina. The strikers have it is reported,
attacked the people who are willing to work,
and the latter at once cry out for federal
troops to protect them and appeal to
United States court. Where is Governor
Chamberlain? The poor negroes, too long
taught to look only to the federal power for
help in all their troubles, know no better ;
they do not know what local government
means. How should they. when they have
seen the Governor of the State himself rush.
ing to Washington to report riot instead
of doing his sworn duty?


General Wade Hampton spoke to the
purpose the other day when he said,
"Whatever / may be able to do for you if
you place me in the chair of Governor. if
cannot suppress riot, if cannot so to the
people of Carolina, white and black and say
to them these are the laws and you must up
hold and enforce them, if 1 cannot appeal
to Carolinas sons to support me in the laws
that am sworn TO maintain, then cast me
out with scorn from the office that l dis
honor"


That is sound to the core. 1t is the great
est crime of those who have misruled in the
Southern States like Kellogg in Louisiana
aud Chamberlain in South Carolina, that
they have not enforced the laws, and have
thus encouraged lawlessness, and, at the
same time, misled the ignorant blacks who
trusted them.
Year: 1876

YELLOW FEVER IN GEoRGIA.-The terrible
state of affairs at Brunswick, Ga, as re-
vealed in our dispatches, needs the instant
attention of the charitable among us. The
bare statement that there are six hundred
cases of this loathsome disease in town of
twenty-five hundred inhabitants puts the
case in light that no amount Of fine writing
could convey.
Year: 1876

If TWEED is Of a moralizing turn of mind
be may ponder during his voyage on the
Franklin over some of the sayings of Poor
Richard. He will be able to compare their
homely philosophy with the wicked express
sions of his quondam companion, Slippery
Dick
Year: 1876

Don't LAUGH. Some of the democratic
journals want to see General Butler and
Judge Hoar on the stump together. 1t
would be o laughablo sight, something like
seeing Senator Thurman and Mr.. Pendleton
ON the same stump discussing currency, or
like seeing Governor Tilden and Mr.. Hen
bricks on the same ticket. If the campaign
committees OF both sides had only q sense
of humor what rollicking canvass this
might easily be made !
Year: 1876

The CAMPAIGN IN THE CouBTs. If there
is nothing more than political claptrap in
the talk of prosecuting Governor Tilden for
an alleged false return of his income the
sooner that fact is definitely known
the better No honest republican
could desire to see the courts of the United
States made the vehicle for the sewage of
the canvass. If there is any cause of action
at once but if there is not let the District
Attorney find some more straightforward
way OF stating the fact than suggestive
ghrugs and mods.
Year: 1876

the colts would fail to show an equal capacity
10 those OF warmer climates, granting equal
breeding No races viii DO provided for younger
than year-ods at the Breeders Centennial Meet
ing, and it is certain that in the case OF Northern
entries no pains will be spared TO bring them to the
post as well conditioned and fully matured as those
that come on from Kentucky The struggle for su-
premacy will be exciting and series Of races could
have been organized that will create widespread
and earnest attention. not only with the spectators,
but by thousands Of breeders and farmers all over the
country who Will anxously watch the arrival of the
newspaper reports. Messrs. Kellogg Coney of this
city, who are delegated TO conduct the meeting report
its success already secured by the express
sions Of appreciation and promised support from all
directions; and IL untoward event occurs to
this prospect the last week in September will be the
sensational event Of the trotting season of 1876.
Year: 1876

The almanacs announce that an annular eclipse Of
the will occur tomorrow afternoon which will be
visible throughout the United States a partial
eclipse being annular in the northwestern region of
British America In New York it begins at thrly-six
minutes past three p NJ. and ends at two minutes be-
fore five. The time has not always been when an
eclipse regarded only subject for calculation
by astronomers and object of curiosity the
public. 1t considered event that had great


influence on the interests of the moral world but the
superstition was excusabe In its origin and innocent
in its effects Now the realization of the predictions
looked for kind of test OF the exacness
Ecipses are of considerable practical utility
they TO correct and increase the perfection OF
and lunar tables, and they highly useful
to geography because they afford and accurate
method Of determining the relative situation OF differ
ent parts of the globe An eclipse OF the being
caused by the nterposion of the moon between that
uminary and the earth il can, therefore, never happen
at any other time than at moon. The appended
table shows the time when the eclipse begins and ends
various places in the United States:-
Year: 1876

The funeral OF Ward Cheney OF the firm OF Cheney
Bros, silk manufacturers Hartford and South Man
chester Conn, and President OF the SILK Association
OF America, who died of pneumonia on Wednesday
will take place this afternoon, at three O'clock at
South Manchester, Conn.


special train Tor the accommodation OF friends
will be run from Hartford on the arrival OF tho tea
O'Clock fast express from thus city this morning and
the conclusion OF the funeral Obscqucs will
in season TO reach New York In tho evening.


Al a meeting OF the SILK Association of America
held yesterday afternoon called to take action express
OF the loss sustained by the dcceasc of Mr. Cneney
appropriate resolutions were unanimously adopted in
memory OF the deceased
Year: 1876

A turf club to be known the West Side Driving
Club was organized yesterday in the Turf Exchange
Barrow street, Jersey City. Twenty-eight gentlemen
signed the roll which still remains open The men,
bers will have the privilege of driving the track at
the West Side Park except racing days, and can
have free admission to the track at all times.
Year: 1876

Professor James o'Ncil, well known teacher and
accomplished gymnas will give grand exhibition at
Woods Gymnasium Saturday evening next when
Professor Miller and u number of professional and
amateur athletes Will assist Grncoli lionan wrestling
club swinging and all the various cas exercises OF
the gymnasium will be shown by competent praciised
mon
Year: 1876

EHE POLICE COMMISSION RS ON THE OUTRAGE.


The disgraceiui neglect attending the case of the
body OF Mrs Young permitted to remain in the water
1t pier No 10 East River Tor twenty three hours was
made the subject OF investigation by the Police Com
missioncrS yesterday.


As caution to the force in the future Commissioner
Erhardt directed the superintendent send out a
general order requiring The finding OF bodies be i'm
medately tclcgraphcd to the COrcneis' Office under
pain OF severe punishment
Year: 1876

Take care Of the pennies. Look We
to your spending. No matter what
comes In, II more goes out you will al.
ways be poor. The art Is not in making
money, but In keeping IL. Little expeu.
ses, like mice In a barn, when they are
many, make great waste. Hair bs hair
heads get bald; straw by straw t0e
thAtch goes Off the cottage, aud drop by
drop the rain comes into the chambcr
A barrel Is soon empty, II the tap leaks
but drop minute. When you mean
to save, begin with your mouth; many
thieves pass down the red lane. The ale
jug Is great waste. In all other things
keep within compass. Never stretch
your legs further than your blanket will
reach, or you will soon be cold. IN
clothes choose suitable aud lasting stuff
and not tawdry fineries. To be warm i
the main thing, never mind tho looks. a
fool may make money, but II needs
wise man TO spend It. Remember, IL Is
easier to build two chimneys than TO
keep one going. Ifyou give all to back
and board, there 10 nothing left for the
savings bank. Fare hard and work hard
when you are young, and you will have
q chance to rest when you are old.
Year: 1876

Even the more partiZan Democratic
Journals are becoming disgnsted with
the ifnbecility OF the lower housa Of
Congress, and are freely expressing
their contempt. Hear the Burning
ton Gasette, the leading opposition
paper Of Iowa:


Taken as a whole the Lower House of to-day
does not average Ia point of intellect and IN
ability To conduct the business afsits Of the
country. higher than that Of any State iegisla-
tune Whist il their business as We see IL day after
day Attending 10 nece-sary legislation for the
comfort and relief OF the country not bit of it.
Party Interests engr,.ss their entire attention.
The one side To uncover The viiiainy Of the other
and The other 60 prevent il BY counter charge
and brasea perjury. The Democrats arr insesti-
eating ff.s .es tfsgs,e ra.eatiiy of Republican
ex Speaker. while the Republicans, TO get even,
are securing the siums of New York to get men
10 swear away the reputation and character OF
the Democratic speaker


That this may reject upon the Democratic par
ty who are IN the majority in the Lower House,
does no, change the matter any. We can afford
10 tell the truth, for party % succeed must go
forward 20 its mission and fear nothing bat evil
Horatio Seymour spoke truly
when he said that the Republican party had lost
the confidence of the country, ana the Demo
cratic party had not gained It,


Too many men in that House who
are ex rebels TO accomplish anything
for the good of the country as a
Whole. They prefer working for the
ascendency Of the slumbering Con-
federacy. If the Gazette wants good
work done ii had better throw its
influence on the Republican side and
work and vote for the election Of n
Republican House again.
Year: 1876

The ex-siaveholders In the lower
house of Congress propose abolish
ing the colored regiments In the


regular army. They don't even
like to think OF the possibility of a
white man, or any other kind of n
man, being shot by "nigger. A
bill recently passed the House which


provides for the repeal vi the present
law requiring that colored men only
be enlisted for certain regiments
now i'm the service. The COMMITTEES
hadn't the courage 10 ask that those
regiments be disbanded, but passed


bill which will ultimately make


disbandment necessary. These
Southern gentlemen are determined
that colored man shall do nothing
that white men do if they can pre-
vent IL. He shall not be n juryman;
he shall not vote; he shall not ne
uuire property; he shall not serve In
the regular army; he shall not own
or have In his possession any fire.
arm of any description; ia short he
shall have no individuality OF his
own, but must in all things, be sub
servient TO the mighty intellect Of
his former white master. Really
what these unreconstructed rebels
desire Is that they may be allowed t.
go hunting for "niggers" knowing
that the "nigger" has nothing II
protect himself with. Thank the
Lord there Is one branch OF Congress
that rebels do not control! and that
this bill will never pass that branch.
Year: 1876

As long as Pinchback and other prom
nent radical negroes were willing ia
dance attendance upon the machine pol
iticians of the republican party and per
form odd jobs Of boot-blacking for the
Caucasian philanthropists, they were
lovingly attended to as brethren of a
very hieh order of patriotism, who were
heroically bearing the brunt of white
league assaults in the south. Within
the last year or two however, the col
ored brethren have found the yoke oI
Grantism oppressive to their necks and
several of them have gone into open re-
bellion. There is Pinchback, for in
stance. In his speech at Cincinnati a
day or two ago, he abused General
Grant in no moderate terms, and charged
that his exclusion from the senate was
due entirely to the terrible dread the
senators entertained of being compelled
to place their wives and daughters
on an equality with Madame Pinchback.
The Washington Republican now in
forms Pinchback that he may as well
learn that he will be held in esteem
"only as a supporter Of the general prin-
ciples of the republican party" The
New York Commercial Advertiser says
of him: such leaders as this man
should be repudiated by the colored pee.
pie" In other words, the "organs"
give the colored radicals plainly to un-
derstand that, as voting machines to
keep the republican whites in power,
they are acceptable. The moment they
aspire to official position they are repu-
dated by the "liberators of the four
million slaves" 1t is evident that the
pledges made by the republican party to
the negro have all fallen to pieces. They
cheated him with the belief that the tri-
umph of the republicans meant an equal
division OF Offices with the colored man.
Having used the negro for purposes of
aggrandisement, the radicals have now
got him inconveniently on their hands,
and they simply propose to throw him
overheard, unless he continues to perform
the inferior duties assigned him. Grant
ism is responsible for the dilemma of the
party. - Courier, Journal
Year: 1876

of the Cincinnati convention, is man of
negative merit Not much is to be said
of him, good or bad, for the reason that
although he has been in public lie nearly
all the time since he began 10 practice
at the bar, he has done not one single
thing that any man can recall to mark
him as distinguished above the millions
who surround him. His nomination fell
upon the anxious multitude here await
ing the result at Cincinnati as wet
blanket. The solemnity of countcnance,
the dispersion Of the crowd about the
telegraph and newspaper offices, and the
conspicuous absence of all gathering and
enthusiasm in republican quarters dur
ing the evening attested the fact that
Rutherford b. Hayes is bitter pill for
his partisans in this section OF the coun-
try to swallow.-Rochester (N. "
Union.


A FEW days ago leading republican
journal said at is claimed that Gov
ernor Hayes is not a corruptionst. One
thing is certain, he has never given ut
terance to one word against corruption. -
Upon reflection, we believe this state
ment is true, and the nomination OF
Hayes is clear abandonment of all idea
of reform on the part of the republican
party. A reformer must be positive
Hayes is absolutely negative. A re.
former has convictions Hayes is a piece
of putty, and could be worked into any
convenient shape by men like Blaine
and Morton. The nomination of IIaye,
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blanket to the element in the republican
party which believe that it was capable
OF reforming itself In no event car
Hayes rally his party. The magnetic
power of Blaine is dead. Bristow and
his reformers were treated with contempt
and Morton and Conkling were allowed
to hobble out of the convention as best
they could. Cincinnati Enquirer.
Year: 1876

Let me give the inexperienced a way Of
doing up their own curtains by which
the object can be nicely accomplished at
home, and with no conveniences for dry
ing except a vacant room, pair of sheets
and plenty of pins.


First, shake the dust well out of the
lace, then put in tepid water in which a
little soda has been dissolved, and wash
at once, carefully, with the hands, in
seve raj waters if necessary TO make them
free from dust and color Then blue the
rinsing water, and blue the boiled starch
quite deeply, as the lace looks less blue
when hung against the light. Then,
having pinned down the sheets in va.
cant, airy room, pin on the curtain very
closely, stretched to exactly the size they
were before being wet. In few hours
they will be dry and ready to put up
again at the windows The whole process
of washing and pinning down should oc-
cupy as little time as possible as lace will
shrink more than any other cotton goods
when long wet Above all, it should not
be allowed to "soak from the mistaken
idea that it washes more easily. Nor
should it ever be roned, as it looks quite
fresh and new if properly dried. After
having the supervision of the washing
and drying of seventy-tive pairs of lace
curtains for several years We conceived a
way by which could be avoided the tedi-
Gus labor of pinning the lace to floor
We ordered from the carpenter set of
frames, very like the old fashioned "qult-
ing frames" thickly studded along the
inside with the smallest size of galvanized
tenter hooks in which to fasten the lace,
and with holes and wooden pins to vary
the size to suit the different sizes of cur
tains As we said before, the curtains
should always be measured before being
wet and stretched in the frames to that
size to prevent shrinking. 1t takes but a
few moments to fasten the curtains to the
hooks, and five or six can be put in, one
above another, and all dried at once.
The frames can rest on four chairs. The
cost of them was four dollars-the price
of having one good pair done away from
home-and made very tender, and even
useless after year or two. They have
proved great saving of labor and time,
thorough success and we find them a
most satisfactory aid in our system of do
mestic economy.
Year: 1876

THE WIrE.-It is astonishing to see
how well man may live on small in
come, who has handy and industrious
wife. Some men live and make a far
better appearance on six or eight dollars
week than Others do or fifteen or
eighteen dollars. The man does his part
well, but his wife is good for nothing.