Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1864-10-06
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News from Rebellion,


:. Ieoerates since the fall of Atlanta Among
y Martin. u VIC ie0e' "en'
S Inc i've Federal officers, consisting of
ooioAei, Lieut.. Colonel, Major and two Can
5 C%IhS' VINO were dishonorably expelled bv
T yen sherman from his army and sent into
. ne Teoe! iines tor speaking disrespectfuIly of
~, IesIdent OF the United States in pres.
B | ence OF the enemy while ACCOMMODATING 1agS
: OF truce, have arrived in Richmond $50
e they are to be confined during the war for
! hShtng against their principIeS
f Inc Richmond Examiner, sueadino of mat
; 'c'S oeioFe petersburg, says, on our extreme
IiSA', me enemy'S left, both parties continun
to watch each other with sleepless vioilancn
Each returning day adds strength to The de-.
tenslve works, and the tug of war, come
when it may, will be one of the bloodiest of
this very bloody contest.
Two treasury officials have absquatulated
from Richmond, after converting nearly
Slo0000,000 in treasury notes into green
backs.
The Macon Telegraph remarks: ''If the
reader "i!I consult the map he will come to
feailzing sense of the ease with which Sher-
man canrepeat from Atlanta the combined
movement by which he backed Johnston
down from Dalton to the heights of Alatoo-
ma. 1t shows how Sherman can move bv
GAINESVILLE, and thence southwest, which
would flank Macon with the same ease. There
is an overwhelming necessity for such rein
torcements as shall prevent repetition of
the Sherman strategy from Dalton to the En-
owah,"
The Savannah Republican says: "If Sher-
man is allowed to hold peaceable possession
OF Atlanta until he has time to fortify it and
make it impregnable, then the citizens of
Georgia may look out for large and formid-
able raiding parties from that place, making
extensive incursions through the state"
The Charleston Mercury says: "Gen Sher-
man has seized and sent north every bale of
cotton IN Atlanta to the credit of the United
States treasury; and that on the 18th the
enemy was apparently very busy hauling am
munltion &c, to Batteries Wagner and
| Gregg"
Late Charleston papers contain an adver-
tlsement requiring all male persons in that
| district between the ages of Is and so to
| immediately report themselves for enrolment
| The order extends throughout the south, the
| object being to ascertain the present and
| prospective military strength of the confede-
racy. In several of the military divisions
| shareholders are required forthwith to furn-
ish One-fourth and in some cases one-half Of
their slaves to work on the Charleston fortif-
| cations. Advertisements are also published
| for the collection of copper cent on profits of
the war tax and for the public sale of foreign
| and domestic goods of recent Importation
| from Nassau.
| The Richmond Wig of the oath says that
| heavy reinforcements to Grants army are
still arriving. The enemy are very vigilant
on our right, evidently fearing an attack on
| the Weldon Road.
The Wing says: " Early's defeat at Win
chester is explained by facts generally I'M
in inv h,,f1 HI -
| pedient at present to give publicity to. Suf-
flee it to say, they in no way reflect upon the
| commander officers or men. All that valor
| and skill could do was done in the late fight"
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| UUsEFUL PREyENTATIvEs.-Phil. W. Kohler,
| Hopewell Academy, Warren Co., Mo-, recon-
mends planting tansy around all trees liable
| to be infested with borers. He says: "The
| beetle that lays the eggs, in June, at the
| trunk of the tree, that matches the borer,
| will avoid the tansy. 1t is also an effectual
remedy with me against the curl in the leaf
| have tansy growing around all my buddeG
| trees A few worthless seedlings that have
| left, as an experiment, without tansy are at,
| tected every year with both the borer and
| curling in the leaf. believe it would be a
| good plan to grow tansy around all our fruit
/ trees. If it would be detrimental in one re-
| spect 1t would be more than oVerbalanced by
| keeping off the vermin. No vermin that as
cends from the ground will ever attack the
tree surrounded with tansy At least that is
my opinion, from experience. To keep your
fowls free from lice, have no other than sas-
Safras poles for the roost. Leave the bark
on. L would not have any other if | had to
import them hundreds Of miles. Ny setting
hens are not troubled with lice. Fine tobac-
co leaves, or sassafras bark (the latter is the
besO mingled with the straw is an effectual
remedy Procure sassafras roots and you
| viii have no use for tobacco. 1t is my opn-
ion that lousy chickens are most subject to
the gapes. Since l have adopted the use of
sassafras roosts my chckent are free from all
disease and lice They get all the corn they
they want, and water from a neveT-failing
spring running through the yard. / would
like to see the man that gets more eggs than
[ do from the same number of hens. To
| keep bugs away from your cucumber and mel
on vines, save your washing suds every week
till they become week old By this time
the smell becomes very offensive; apply this
to your vines literally twice or three times a
week It is a good fertilizer, and will make
your plants grow rapidly. The same is good
to apply to your cabbage plants, or anything
liable to be attacked by bugs.
WHEN TO PLANT SEEDS OF TREEs..-The pro-
per time to plant seeds and nuts, undCubted-
iy, is when nature intended to plant them
that is, in the fall of the year, when they fall
frem the tree. Hickores and nuts of all
kinds, including black walnuts and butter
nuts, chestnuts, acorns Of the different kinds
| of oak, the seeds Of the yellow locust, ma
PIES and ash trees, if planted in the fall,
soon after they drop from the trees, and be-
fore they become dried, are as certain and
sure to grow as hill Of corn, or any other
seeds that are put into the ground. They
should not be planted very deep, only just
fairly covered with early, or finely rotted
| leaves, and in such places where they will not
be washed out of the ground by the fall and
spring rains, and also where they can be par
| TALLY shaded from the summer sun. Tree
| planting from nuts and seed has not been
much practiced in this country, but is be-
coming highly necessary in many parts of the
| old and first settled towns, where the forests
! and groves have not been protected and pre-
served, and very little is known about it by
the great mass Ct farmers, their sons and
children, whose particular business it is to
plant, and raise, at least few trees, from
| nuts, acorng, and from the beautiful winged
| seed of that most magnifcc Mt American tree,
the sugar maple.
Tree seeds may be planted in hedges, waste
places, on naked side hills, by the sides of
| lodges and rocks, where at present there is
little or nothing of value growing, and where
all the care they really need beyond the sim
pie act Of putting the seed, nut, Or acorn in
the ground, which can be done with the
thumb and finger, or by the use OF small
! pointed stick thrust about an inch into the