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Brownlow's Knoxville Whig. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1866-1869, 1868-05-13

M ssKa. sAINIs 4 Co. New York.
eHsgs-ae have Tried year GAINES COTTON PLANT
BIETERs n basaoss Lguor Doairrss and And the
70 give pcrct s4titiaon, prearring them
any other All proaoaDce fhs excellent We specially
recommend thea 70 n9cs Of Hotel ard Bar kssp=ra and
all who deal II qOcrt uSpERso1b GAAFEz.
Brownlow's Knoxville Whig. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1866-1869, 1868-05-13

MEssEs CAMS a Co.
have ussd GAINES COTTON PLANT RfzTERs. and
sati.d that thy All Ihsy sia BE-, Sad hrarty
rrcommsad tkrn Al peEs0ns nerdins task eoosdor
hen he very bsst Bters Blzdr ant ti prssgs
% all others = 81 BLACK.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1868-05-28
FAX ABOUT BUTTER.

We went one week without it up to ou1
hous, but at larst, giving wa tu the clamor'
ov the children and the fearful entreatie
ov my wife, I bought haff pound, ant
mortgaged mi house and lot.
Oh, 4 kow.
Butter is very skerce. Rows ar as plen
ty as ever, and Civ just as mutch milk, bu
the avaricious farmist packs hiz butter ful
big thing mex winter. Tha don't konsid
er that the wurld may kome to an end be
fore that time, and thare butter spile OF
thare hands.
A farmer brot teakup full tu marke1
yesterday, and he kane near losin his life
bi bein smuthered tu deth bi grocers hoe
krowded around and offered him fabulus
sums for it. modestly offered him mi life
and sakred honor for half an ounce, and he
arskt me with sarcastic grin if I tho't biz
butter wuz strong. He6nally sold hiz but
ter tn q man for 8teen dollars. The CUP
wuzzent thrown in.
Thare hez bin sum very skaly butter in
CIRCULATION within the parst few weeks. ]
got roll sum time ago for an old gold wach
that wuz left tu my wife with the strict in
junkshun that she shoodent part with it on
less it wuz tu get sumthin tu eat. We
koodent eat that butter. 1 hired power.
full man to carry it far intu the country and
bury it. "
KRINGLE.
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STREET SCENE.

The other day, passing along Military
street in front of the Court House, we saw
a one-armed ex-Confederate soldier stand
ing by his wagon and team of oxen. All
at once the manned rebel, with the fire oi
battle not entirely gone from his eye
Strengthened himself up, assumed the mill
tary stiffness of old Gen. Ruggles when
calling his courier for pipe of tobacco
whirled his long whip gradually in the air,
shouted IN the hoarse voice of command:
"Attention battalion -
Promptly, with the word, the six steers
rose from their recumbent attitude, shook
their dusty Aanks, and took the position
of the soldier.
Again the clarion voice:
"Forward-march" !" and the trained an
imals moved off, not with great deal o.
time in keeping step it's true, but under
standing the command perfectly.
Then, not satisfied with the pace 'at will
of his troops, the incorrigible 'reb' thun
dered out:
s'No enemy in 'front.'
And the veterans quickened up like tn
Old Guard at Waterloo preparing for tn
headlong charge.-Mississippi Inder.
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YoRKYILLE EMQUIRER.
"Because fame run, I'D a persons clio

"Because fame rune up persons cloth
ing very fast, but it burns sideways very
slowly" said his father.
"And now," he added, turning to Anna,
81 should like to know ifmy little Anna
understands and remembers what I have
been saying. Anna, what would you do if
your clothes should take fre?"
81 wouldn't run out in the wind" she
answered.
81 hope you would not" said her father,
''but what would you do?''
,"Why, if there was no water to throw on
my clothes, I would fall down fat" she
said, s'and while I was rolling I would hal
loo fire fire! Come help me 3! as loud as
I could bawl." &C..
"That would be acting like wise little
girl, her father said. "But wiser plan
still would be for little folks, like you ana
Frank, not to play sOith fire at aH."-So
Boys and Gtrls Monthly.
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IMPORTATION OF BEES.

Few of our readers, we presume, are a.
ware of the extent of the importation Of
bees. 1t is stated, that during the summer
scarcely steamer arrives from Hamburg
or Bremen without bringing an invoice Of
bees. The common honey bee is not a ma
tive of the American continent, having been
brought here from Europe early in the set
tlement of this country. Recently, within
the last few years, Italian bees have been in.
troduced; and, still more recently, the E.
gytian bee, which, from its beauty and &C
tivity, bids fair to become great favorite
Strange to say, bees can be purchased in
California cheaper than in any other State
of the Union and yet they have been car
ried there since the discovery of gold. The
climate and the unusual skill of cultivators
of the bee on the Pacific coast have devel
oped the melli6catory insect to an extraor.
dinary extent. These intelligent little crea.
lures, as remarkable for their geometricaI
instincts as their industrious habits, are
well worthy of the care which is bestowed
upon them, to say nothing of the delicious
product of their labors.-Jownal Of Chem
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Agritnltnral department,
SMALL GRAIN.


New milch COWS should be carded daily
They like it and it pays.
The potato is a great absorber of potash
Therefore, wood ashes are good manure
for it. ...
Put a few live fish into wells if angle
worms infest them.
If the roots of trees are dipped into wa
ter just before planting, the earth thai
sticks to them will give immediate suppor
to the small fbres.
John Johnson says farmers must give
special attention to sheep and cattle keep
i ing if they want to make grain growing
most profitable. ......
Calcined plaster is Us good fertilize,
as the uncalcined. But it is usually wasted
after it's use in the arts.
Some one says if salt is kept before &
horse in the stable, he will not gnaw hiE
manger. Trial will tell.
Root crops, not grain, are the thing fol
young orchards. They do not steal sc
much tree food.
Toads are capital helpers in taking care
of vine patches. Lay boards between the
rows to shelter them in the day time, and
they will make carnival of the bugs al
night.
Experiments seem to prove that fence
posts set up the reverse way from which
they grew, will last much longer.
1t is difficult to tell collie from bots in 8
horse, but tablespoonful of chloroform in
twice as much mucilage, is a good remedy
for either.
Rich milk is not the best for calves. A
butter cow is not good stock cow.
Look out for morals as we'll as muscle in
hiring farm hands. They may ruin the
boys by their vicious examples.
Carrots are recommended for horses, to
aid digestion, and tomatoes for COWS to i'm,
prove and increase the milk.
Feed stock regularly, and cook feed as
much as possible. Few farmers do it.
Managers should be low, and stables well
ventilated and we'll lighted.
Many horses are made blind by being
kept in the dark.
Insects do not infest very late sown peas
as they do early ones.
Stewed pumpkin as poultice has been
found of great value in reducing inaamma'
tory rheumatism.
Pork and beans are the most nutricious
for the money that can be found.
Smoke from rags, dry wood or corn cobs.
is better than from tobacco in pacifying
bees to remove honey.
Tomatoes can be raised ten days earlier
than usual by topping the vines. The
proper time is when the first fruit is of the
size of an egg.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1868-05-28
WHO WILL BE GOAT3

During the late war, soldier of one of
the New York Regiments, who was home
on furlough, visited New York city for
the first time in his life. The boys in blue
were by no means given to the blues when
away from the tented field, nor as much
given to avarice as the celebrated Daniel
Dancer, who wore hay on his feet to save
leather. Our soldier was no exception to
the general rule, and was making the most
of his limited sojourn in the Metropolis
Going up one Of the streets, one night, af-
ter paying homage to Bacchus during the
day, he fell in with crowd of colored peo-
pie on their way to church. In this state
of inebriation he very naturally went with
the crowd into the church, thinking it a
theatre, and congratulating himself on his
getting into the house without having to
pay the usual fee, and anxiously awaiting
the curtain to rise. The officiating clergy
man arose and said:
ssMy bruddering, in dat last great day
when de trump of de Lord shall blow, and
de sheep shall 60 tu to the right, and de
goats tu de left, who wants tu be goat:"
After short pause he said again, rails
ing his voice:
II say, who'll be de goat?"
A long pause followed, when he said in
louder tone:
"Who'll be de goat"
The soldier supposing the performance
delayed for person to represent goat in
some play, exclaimed:
'sLook here, old fellow, rather than to
have this thing play out, I'll be goat! y
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Aamura,ss Repartn1eHt.
THE. PATRIoTIC TURKEY.

EARLY one morning, in the fall of "a,
squad Of the -th Virginia cavalry stop
ped at the widow T.'s, in Allegheny coun
ty Va, to s'whack" breakfast. Th'
widow was famed for her hatred to tn
ssblue devils," as she called them. and hat
imbued everything on the place with he
antipathy to them, extending even to I
huge old turkey gobler, which was wont t.
strut around the yard with all gobler
ssfuss and feathers" but was always shovel
up the spout whenever Yankee appeared
Now it so chanced that the foremost o.
our boys was clad in blue Yankee over
coat, and, at first sight, the widow took
them for Yankees, and hastened to have
her old gobler secured. But she was soor
sppeased by Sergeant LIS telling her the
blue coated fellow was prisoner.
sDo tell" cried the old lady. "Well, ]
knowed some of those blue devils was about
by the way old Stony got mad"
"How's that ?" said Sergeant L.
The widow then proceeded to tell them
the history of her gobler, and wagered t.
bet that he would attack the Yankee if ht
got off his horse.
"Done," cried they all and one of them
walking to the pretended Yankees horse
slyly fastened a fishing line to the saddle
batting the hook with grain of corn.
Sure enough, the gobler, as soon as he
saw the blue coat near him, became furi
> Gus, and sided up towards him, as if to at
tack.
"Hurra for old Stony" cried all.
ssHe shall have some corn,' cried Ser
geant L., suiting the action to the word by
throwing few grains to him. This was
rarity, and turkey nature could not stand
it. The first one he swallowed contained
the fish hook. With sudden spring, the
pretended Yankee was on his horse, and
darted off as if to escape, while all were
watching the turkey. Down the road he
went, the turkey after him with outstretch'
ed neck and tapping wings.
"Catch him !'-pop ! and all hands star
ted in pursuit. .'
"Lor sakes alive!'' cried the widow
"Run here, Sal, if here amt old Stony 9
running that Yank down the road as hard
as he can. Catch him, old fellow"
There was grand jolliGcation that night
in camp. The widow always did believe
that turkey followed the Yank to his camp.
and went up another kind of spout.
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THE OLDEST CITY IN THE WoRLD.-Da-
mascus is the oldest city in the world. Tyre
and Sidon have crumbled on the shore; Baal-
bee is ruin; Palmyrais is buried in desert;
Nineveh and Babylon have disappeared from
the Tigris and Euphrates Damascus retains
what it was before the days Of Abraham-a
centre of trade and travel-an island Of
verdure in the desert-"a Presidential capi.
tai" with martial and sacred associations
extending through thirty centuries. 1t was
near Damascus that Saul of Tarsus saw the
light above the brightness of the sun the
street which is called Strait, in which it was
said che prayed, still runs through the city
The caravan comes and goes as it did a thou,
sand years ago; there is still the sheik, the
ass, and the water-wheel; the merchants ot
the Euphrates and the Mediterranean still
ooccupy" these with the multitude of theil
wares" The city which Mahomet surveyed
from neighboring height, and was afraie
to enter "because it was given to man to have
but one paradise, and, for his part, he was
resolved not to have it in this world," is tt
this day what Julian called the "eye of tht
East" as it was in the time of Isaiah, "tht
head of Syria" From Damascus came the
damson, our blue plums, and the delicious
apricot of Portugal, called damasco, dam
ask, our beautiful fabric of cotton and silk
with vines and flowers raised upon smooth
bright ground the damask rose, introduced
into England in the time of Henry VIII.
the Damascus blade, so famous the world
over for its keen edge and wonderful elias
ITCHY, the secret Of whose manufacture was
lost when Tamerlane carried off the artists
into Persia; and that beautiful art of inlay
ing wood and steel with silver and gold, q
kind of mosaic engraving and sculpture uni
ted-called damaskeening--with which box
es and bureaus, swords and guns are orna
mented. It is still o city of flowers and
bright waters the streams Of Lebanon and
the "river of gold": still murmur and spar.
kle in the wilderness Of "Syrian gardens. u
AS, a etandipo dish in TTtah-a snare rib
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To MANAGE NEGRO LABOR SUCCESSFUL

To MANAGE NEGRO LABOR SUCCESSFUL
LY.-I am satisfied, from my experience
and close observations for the past two
years, the correct mode of working our
present laboris this: "Let each family work
by itself, in separate fields or farms. This
is much easier, and I+hink, far better than
the old plantation style of working all to-
gether, and have some work and the balance
play. Under the arrangement I propose
you will be able to tell who is working anc
who is playing, besides, it gets up spirit
of rivalry amongst them, to see who will
make the most. I have only two families or
my place, this year; one runs two plows ant
their crop is entirely separate and to them
selves the other has but one mule, as there
| is no one to work but the man and his wife
Now, by this plan, could work thirty Of
forty hands, and be able to tell who was
working and who was not, and could cult
vate more land, and with less trouble to my
self, than under the old plantation system
and he who tries it will find it so.-Pro
qress, in Southern Cultivator.
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WHEAT PER ACRE IN 1967.-In his la

WHEAT PER ACRE IN 1867.-In his last
report, the Commissioner of Agriculture
gives table showing the average yield per
acre of the principal crops of the United
States excepting California, Oregon and
Nevada, for 1867. These figures show
that there must be more attention given to
scientific agriculture if we intend to pre-
serve our wheat fields. The skimming Of
the soil year after year, taking crops from
the field and returning nothing in compost
to supply nutriment to plants, is fast redu
cling good farm lands to barrenness. New
England, with its sterile soil, is far ahead
of US in the acreage of wheat, and this is
due to enlightened cultivation. The best
wheat-producing States last year were Yer
mont, Massachusetts and Connecticut. 1r
only fourteen States did the yield to the
acre exceed twelve bushels. In regard tt
barley, two-thirds of the States reported ar
average yield of twenty bushels and up
ward to the acre. Iowa returned the lar
gest yield-twenty-nine bushels.
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A BALKY HORSE. gentleman of Tiogs

ABALKY HoRsE.-A gentleman of Tiogs
county, New York, was owner of a balky
horse, and had tried many ways to remedy
his fault One day, while drawing load
from the woods, he was unable to prevail
upon the horse to try to start the load. Un
hitching the true horse he cody rode him
home, leaving the balky one to his medita
tions. Next morning, riding back to the
woods, the team was arranged and told to 60
forward. But the balky animal moved not
A fair coaxing and urging proved futile,
and he was left to further meditations in the
harness. Next morning, after fasting two
days and two nights, he moved freely, and
did 30 ever after.