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The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-08-14

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Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1869-09-30
Tic Irish Porato.

1t is not generally known that the Irish
potato can be kept growing all seasons,
making continual crops all the year round,
but such is the truth of experience. To
accomplish this there has to be three gen.
eral paintings: Eaz O..
1st. In January and February plant
according to the size of the crop you pro-
pose to cultivate.
I'd. In July and August, at any time
or during the whole of these months, as
You dig your potatoes for market or home
consumption, plant all the middle or small
er sizes, keeping the largest for the table.
This planting will make you a fall and
winter crop which you can dig and use
from October to January,
Sd. In November and December, while
digging and consuming your fall and WIN
ter crops, again plant with the medium
and smaller sized tubers, and this plant
ing will surely make a spring crop.
These three consecutive crops, from the
barrel, or whatever quantity you start with,
can be made by any person who win take
the trouble to do it. aa b
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1869-09-30
Drilling Wheat.

The season approaching for seeding down
wheat, we would urge the benefit of drill
ing in the seed with a machine instead of
broadcast sowing. Nothing in agricul-
tural practice nowadays may be said
to be better established than this, as eve
ry one knows who has tried it, and the re-
ports last season in the Department at
Washington from all sections of the coun-
try showed the gains in bushels per acre,
in some sections 20 and % per cent. with
drilled wheat. 1t is found to be less La
able to be thrown out by frosts or winter
killed, and the free action of the atmos-
phere through the drills in the field, the
uniform depth at which it is covered caus-
ing an venues in the growth, together
with at least one peck less seed being re-
quired for sowing, are all advantages which
belong to drilling, connected also with Sc
curing a better taking of the grass seed.
Drills, as with other farm machinery,
have been greatly improved the last few
years, and are now constructed not only
to sow wheat, oats, rye, &c, in given guam
titles, but also to SOW with it grass seed
and fertilizers in the rows with the grain ;
50 that the ground being previously well
prepared, the whole is finished at one OPP
Grafton, and the ground left in nice smooth
condition. The ridges left blythe drill are
leveled down by the frosts of winter, Civ
ing additional protection to the tender
roots of the grain and grass.-Pgucticdl
Farmer.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1869-09-30
san Francisco.

y SAN FRANCISCO, September 10.
Vice President Colfax and party arriv-
ed here from Oregon last evening"
Though riding night and day by stage
coach from Monday to Friday morning,
all the party are in the best of health
While in Oregon they werd most Hospital
bly, entertained, and on their trip up the
Columbia river to Celeto, above Dallas,
were guests of the Oregon Steam Naviga-
ton Company, whose President, Captain
c. II. Ainsworth, made the excursion one
of unmixedpleasure. The great of
the. Columbia, with its walls OF basalt, be-
tween 1900 and 1000 feet high the river,
with its magnificent rapids and falls and
submerged forest, forms one of the most
sublime and interesting objects TO visit to
be found in any country. The salmon
fishingis not yet over. Gov. Bross and
some of the other members of the party
speared splendid fish in the most improve
ed style. The ride of 800 miles by stage,
from Portland to Orville, over the Cali
jaza, SCOTS and Trinity Mountains, with
Mt, Chasta peering in the skies covered
with his robe ofperpetual snow, and thro'
a succession of the most, beautifuIand fer
tile valleys, affords one of the best and
finest excursions on all the continent.-
All who visit the Pacific coast should. if
possible, enjoy it. The Vice President
was received everywhere with the most
enthusiastic demonstrations Ofesteem and
respect. At Salem, Eugene City, Rose
burg, Yurka. Cflasta, Orville and Marys-
Vile the people insisted on speeches from
the Vice President and Gov. Bross.
As usual, Mr.. ColfaX both Instructed
and delighted all who heard him. He
viii attend the sittings of the Grand
Lodge OF Odd Fellows in this city the
present week. aud expects now to, start
for home about the 4th of October.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1869-09-30
Andrew Jacikson ON Astronomy.

1t is the opinion of a good many clever
people that what sod Hickory" didn't
know wasn't worth knowing, and we sus-
pect that Old Hickory inclined to that
opinion himself. He was a brave fighter,
a first rate judge of horses, and on astro-
nomy-well, he would have made a sensa-
ton as a lecturer ON that branch, of science,
if a writer in Appleton's Journal is to be
credited. He dined one day at the White
House. when jackson was President. In
the course of the dinner Major Donaldson,
l think. was talking very Interestingly up
on some recent discoveries in astronomy.
After listening a while, the. General raised
his somewhat thin voice rather highly I'll
tell you, Major, that we don't really know
anything about the weight and size of
heavenly bodies. It's all a guess and pre-
tense. It's nonsense, sir, to talk about a
little spark, twinkling away up in the sky,
as if we knew just how far eff it was, and
just how big it was" But, General"
returned the Major, if we did not know
the place and the disc of some of the dis
tant planets and stars, how could their po-
sitions be calculated,a nd how could eclipses
be predicted, years ahead, with perfect
certainty and exactness? p" That's all
very easy, sir; very easy replied the
General. It's done by tradition. sir. The
stars move in regular orbits. Their. places
are observed at certain times and noted !;
and when they come again to the same
places, it's observed and handed down and
50, sir, we know when they will be in those
places again, it may be a hundred years
hence. It's all very simple. I don't be-
lieve a word of what these astronomers say
about the immense distance and size of
fixed stars. 1 shouldn't wonder if the
moon was as big as any of Them"
1t was hardly deemed judicious to press
the conversation on astronomy any further.
jackson would nave recalled any for
elgn minister and turned out any member
of his Cabinet if he had ventured to butt
his head against Jackson's ideas on as
tronomy. Talk of Grants proseriptiyc-
mess. indeed l-Press and Times
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1869-09-30
Correspondent Of HE New York Heraid.]
The French EmsDer0r.

.tPAKIs,o Sept. S.AThe absorbing topic
of the. week has been the Emperor's i'll
ness. He is now convalescing, and the
truth is leaking out. 1t seems he has been
really In danger, but during the crisis the
greatest pains we're taken to conceal the
facts of the ease. 1t was stated that he
was -transactiug business with his Minis
tiers and taking his usual exercise, when,
in fact, he was. confined to his bed and al
lowed to see n n save his physicians.
When the Empress and her son left Paris
for their jaunt to Corsica all danger was
considered to be over, but kilograms passed
almost every hour of the day between the
Palace of ST. Cloud and the anxious trav-
elers, whose minds were doubtless filled
with the most narrowing emotions. 1t
was the Emperor's emphatic wish that the
journey in question should take place, as
had been so widely announced, and he did
not regard his situation critical enough to
justify its being abandoned. The excite
ment caused by his illness was profound
enough as it was. but it would have been
a hundred fold deeper had the Empress
renounced her trip. 1t may well be i'm
agined that the ovatiens and enthusiasm
that greeted her at every step of her pro-
gress could have afforded her. under the
painful circumstances of the case, but lit
tie satisfaction, afflicted and even terrified
as she must have been at the possibility of
the Emperor's demise in her absence. Her
yielding to her husbands injunctions in
performing this journey from a mere mo-
tive of policy must have been one of the
most trying acts of her life. This is an
other striking instance that the most ex-
allied stations are not more exempt from
the most cruel sacrifices than those of hum
bier lots.
The exact nature of the emperor's maia-
ay is kept so carefully concealed that it is
really difficult to give the precise informa-
ton about it.. but one thing is certain-
that he is suffering from "a chronic affec-
ton that is steadily growing worse with
every new attack. Two years ago he was
compelled to take to his bed, but since.
then it was hoped that his naturally strong
constitution would vanquish it. This last
and more violent attack has ~dissipated
this sanguine expectation, and now it is
feared that no final cure can be effected.
The malady, which is said to be a disease
of the bladder and %ajaccnt organs is very
similar to that which SO recently carried
off the Minister of War, Marshal Mel.
though the latter had the disadvantage of
being some seven years older thar the
Emperor. There can be little doubt that
the several mental labors of his Majesty,
to say nothing of the trying bodily fa-
tigues incident to his station. must tend
very considerably to aggravate, and physi-
cal disorder to which he is incurably sub
.ject but there is no escape, from these an
less he is disposed to lay down his scepter
and seek in the repose of a calm and Sc
cluded life that freedom from anxiety and
toll that might prolong his days.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1869-09-30
A Big Nugget Of C~aliforr,ia Geld.

a. T. Parrish & Co, received this
morning from DownieyiHe a nugget of
gold weighing one hundred and six pounds
being almost, if not quite, the largest ever
taken out in this State, and within a few
pounds the largest ever found in the mod
ern-gold-mining. The value is about
$4,000. In the same find 367 65-10O
ounces were obtained in smaller nuggets,
from twenty to seventy-fve ounces each /;
also, one cake of fine gold, re orted, weigh
ing one thousand one hundred and eighty
and a half ounces. All these are now IN
Mr. Parishes hands. This extraordinary
pile ($25, 000) was obtained in one day
by two men, from the Monumental Quartz
Mine in Sierra Buttes, Sierra county,
owned by VA. Parrish, and others.
VIM. Parrish writes that in two days he
would send as much more. The vein va
ries from one to three feet, and is filed
with decomposed quartz. The gold is OBJ
tanned by sluicing, using quicksilver to
catch the fine particles. The tailings only
go through an a~rastra. The Sierra Buttes
and the Independence Mine are located
on the same mountains. It is only some
two months since Messrs. Parrish COM
menced work on this mine, and they have
got in a few feet. A week ago, they sent
down $4,000 as the result of two mems
labor for eight or nine weeks.-Sun Fran
CISCO Bulletin, dag. 21. - ~
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1869-09-30

The Western Ruralist for September
says:
Gather apples and pears as they ripen.
To know when the fruits have had their
full growth, you should try several of them
in different parts of the tree, by turning
them gently one way or the other; if they
quit the tree easily it is a sign of maturi-
ty and time to gather them. None of the
delicate pears should be allowed to be
touched by frost, as it would occasion them
to rot in a very short time. Observe,
in gathering the principle keeping fruits,
to do it when the trees and fruit are per-
fectly dry, otherwise they will not Keep
so well, and that the sorts, designed for
long keeping be all carefully hand pulled,
one by one, and laid gently in basket,
50 as not to bruise one another. ~ 80.
Place them in some dry, clean apart
ment in heaps, each sort separate for about
ten days, that the watery juices may trans
pire. After this wipe each fruit with a
clean dry cloth, and lay them singly- up
on shelves on dry straw in a frast tight cell
lar, and cover them with some dry ma
t@erial, Common fruits for more imnedi-
ate use may ne packed III DarrelS aIter De-
ing sweatcd and wiped, layer about fruit
and straw. If any Of your fruit trees are
cracked and rough in the bark, scrape off
the loose parts and apply on the stems a
mixture of COW dung and urine made about
as thick as paint. This will prevent the
harboring of worms, insects, &C., and the
trees will thrive much more luxuriantly
than before. Rooted grape vines may
now be transplanted, and they viii do
better by being protected bylaying litter
around their roots.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1869-09-30
Atracious Mnraer.

On Monday might Mr.. Osborne, of the
police, received information that a muir
der had been committed about two miles
from. the city and that the body had been
foundand was then lying where. it had
fallen. He at once obtained u horse and
repaired to the scene. The murdered
man was recognized as John Morrow,
who, with his brothers, reside a short dis
lance from town, and it is supposed the
TN fort innate man came to his death from
wounds inflictedwith an axe.
Osborne rode a considerable distance
for marches aud |. candle, and found the
murdered mans head split open, as were
also his shoulder and chin, presenting an
awful spectacle. Besides these wounds,
he was stabbed inFthe breast and on one
arm and leg.
William Morrow, we are informed.
states that ON Monday night two men
came to the house and wished assistance.
saying they were teamsters andthat their
wagon had broken down. The murdered
man,John Morrow, went with them, bare
foot and in his shirt sleeves, taking with
him an axe, which was afterwards found
near the body covered with blood. lie
further states that soon after one of the
men returned and asked him OYilliarp) to
90 to the wagon IND bring an anger
Morrow let the fellow have an anger, but
declined accompanying him, as he could
not leave his brother, who was not in his
right mind and accounts for his hest
fancy when the officers arrived by saying
he was terribly frightened. We are of
the opinion that it is highly probable the
finding of the missing auger, would shed
lightson the unfortunate occurrence. ses-
w cannot believe for a moment that
VIM. Morrow committed the hellish deed
but as il was believed the brothers were
possessed of considerable sum of money,
some murderous scoundrels desired to OBJ
tain it by taking both their lives. Itais
said in the neighborhood that the BROTH
ers were on the most friendly terms, and
the idea is hooted that it is a ffatricide.-
Many rumors are afioat, but We hope
stepsswill be t.tkcn at once to put a stop
to them, and bring h guilty parties to
justiee-a short rope and the nearestlimb
Of a tree. 7s@
Trhe murdered man was buried yester-
day Afternoon. and not one eff his peculiar
family attended the funeral, as we are in
formed by a gentleman who was present.
Wig Ita a
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1869-09-30
PioWing.

A good plowman. who has gumption
enough to manage horses nationally, can
do twenty-five per cent, more work, and
withffty per cent. greater ease than a
poor plowman with less sense. Horses
that are worked down and poorly fed
will perhaps, be suficien tly tracta-
bic and slow in going their rounds to rem
der a poor piowman tolerable but horses
that feel their oats" and are well in hand,
when a sensible hand has charge of them,
will be utterly spoiled, jaded down and
ruined by a man of little gumption and
less sense. Soon after hitching them to
the twitch, fret, scold and swear and the
poor horses are worried, discouraged and
demoralized. With a good steel pillow a
draft of about 100 pounds is all the hor-
SEES wouldhave to do under intelligent treat
ment. But the ''fool" at the pillow gets
at once into a pet and pulls on the bit to
the tune of 500 or 400 pounds and, if very
mad the strain amounts to 500. All this
is so much extra work for the horses. To
pull on the bit is no loss of draft in car
riagc driving, since the carriage is the full
crum of the lever and such pulling is a
help to the team ; but before a wagon or
pillow, when the driver is on the ground,
draft on the bit by lines increases by 50
much the work of the horse. -
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1869-09-30

a most shocking aecident occurred al

A most shocking accident occurred at
the residence Of Mr.. Heisel, in this city,
on Saturday evening last, by which an es-
timable young lady blythe name of Me1is-
sa iSarber lost her life in2 a peculiarly
shocking manner.TaItsseems that a young
man by the names of Louis Gnshafts was
visiting her on the evening in. question,
and, after enjoying her company until it
was thought a proper time to retire to his
home, he announced his intention of do
ing so. Before he left, the young lady
proposed that he should take a. Ipiece, of
pie, and proceeded to a-shelf for the pur-
pose of obtaining it.. In, doing SO, she ac-
cidentally pulled a knife off the shelf,
which dropped upon the Kerosene lamp
held in her hand, breaking itsand ispiIlhig
its eontents over her clothes, which inime-
diately took fire. The young man made
haste, to her assistance, but in the excite
ment of the moment, and the strength
impaired to Ier-by the pains she endured,
She bore him of the room into the
yard, and there remained until e. her
| clothes. were literally burned and torn
from her body. She was horribly burned
from her breast to her feet, and about the
waist the flesh was cooked to a crisp
The young man had his hands badly in
jared in rendering;h erfassistance, and it
was thought fora tInefthat, one of them
would have;t to be arlputated. The young
lady suffered intensely, when not under
the influence Of opiates, for twenty-fonr
hours, when death came to- her relief and
ended her sufferings. Her remains; were
taken to Palestineno N Monday for inter
ment,-Warsaso Indidnidn.s
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1869-09-30
A RrianIPasr5 i'm Bath Room.

Cora MOwatt, vino is writing foreign
letters for the San Francisco Chronicle,
tells, i story ola bridal pair, making the
tour of SwitZerland, h recently came
to a crowded hotel, and were Informed by
the landlord that there was one unoccu-
pied room in the house, the bath room,
and that a couple of beds could be made
in the two baths which ii, contained. The
youthful couple were well pleased to Sc
cure even this shelter, after a fatiguirg
Journey. and retired to rest. An hour or
two later The stiffness of the night was
suddenly broken by shrieks efedistressis-
suing from the bath room. The lady,
wishing to summon a servant. had pulled
what she presumed was a bell rope sus-
pended over her bed in the bath, when,
suddenly, she was Inundated by a shower
of cold water. The gentlemen, reused
by her cries. and not quite comprehend
ing the position, pulled a supposed beH-
rope which he felt dangling over his bath
bed, to bring him a domestic, but brought,
indeed, a Shove + ofhot water over HIM
self. 1t wasq quite dark, and neither bride
nor bridegroom could grope their way to
the door. By the time suecor came they
were I'D TO their knees in water. =
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1869-09-30
Cut Feed For UerscS.

An accurate farmer has furnished the
Country Gentleman a statement of his ex-
p%erinents with feeding cut feed and meal
to his horses, accompanied with weighing
and measuring. He cuts up straw about
an inch long with a raw hide cylinder ma
chine, and this chopped straw is then treat
ed with corn meal and bran mixed in about
equalquantities as to weight, so that each
horse has about a bushel of cut feed, and
three quarts of the meal and bran, twice
in each day. Sometimes hay is cut instead
of oat straw, or both mixed. 1t is found
that two hundred pounds per week of this
mixture ofeorn meal and bran, added to
cut feed, viii keep a pair of working hor-
ses ln best condition. This he is sat
isaee from experiment is less than two
thirds the cost of keeping them on uncut
dry hay and whole grain. The corn meal
alone is not so good for horses. as when
diluted with bran. An excellent meal is
made of ground oats. The fodder is cut
BY horse power on stormy or spare DAYS
and stored in large bins, 50 as to furnish
| always a surplus on hand.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1869-09-30
-rrRnIrIc ExpIasIoN.
TERRfFYc IsxPL0sION.
ALocomofiye ON the Mississippi
Central Railroad Blown into
Fragnnents-Enginccr Thrown
more than a Hundred Feet from
the Track, and Htortally Wound
ed. tL

The Jackson Tribune of Saturday says
One-of the most terrific explosions that
has ever been known in the annals of
steam occurred on the Mississippi Central
Railroad, about fourteen miles south of
this city, on Thursday morning last.
On that morning the engine Holmes,
McMahon engineer, left Jackson with a
freight train consisting of fourteen or fif-
teen heavy loaded cars. and all went well
until a point was reached about. FIVE miles
south of Medon, when the boiler sudden
ly exploded with a fearful crash, shaking
the ground for five miles arouud, and rem
ding in fragments the entire engine The
smoke stack, bell and dome Were no
where to be found a few moments after
the collapse, though the woods and fields
were diligently searched, but subsequent
ly the stack was discovered in the very
top of q tall oak tree several hundred feet
from the scene of disaster. The bell and
dome lave not yet, and in all probability
never will be. found. The bell being
small and heavy, must have been hurled
through the air with the velocity of a can
non ball. I'D al a,7-aer r.f
Mr.. - McAiahon, the engineer, was
blown, it is said, fifty feet into the air,
and, landed full one hundred feet from
the track. When taken up he was dis
covered to be MORALLY wounded. He was
horribly mutilated, the flesh being almost.
literally speaking, torn fromo one armand
side, while his whole body was fearfully
scalded. He survived the catastrophe un-
81 ,o,o;,a ,l,a,-lo,+l - -
suflerings. .a ~ 1 a-
The fireman was STOPPING down at the
moment of the explosion, and conse-
quently escaped the terrible fate of his
superior. He was badly scal1ed, howev-
er, and will probably lose the sight of
both his eyes. s9 lr4t
The Holmes was an old engine, and it is
said that her boiler was very thin and IN
capable OF bearing a guage ofsteam such
as would be required to move a heavy
freight train; but the Immediate cause of
the explosion, it is believed, was in the
steam Indicator falling to work properly
showing an insufficient amount Of
steam. whereas there was Il supernatural
ance. @e
The fact that by this collapse more than
six loaded cars We're thrown from tn
track; and the engine sunk in the ground
several feet, will give a faint idea OF the
force with which the boiler exploded
Not a fragment of the vast iron work lar
gerthan Il persons hand can be found at
the scene of the wreck. Nothing that we
have ever heard ofcan equal this last Gw-
full demonstration OF h power of the de-
moi steam.
= Mr.. McMahor was a new engineer on
this road, though he has served in the.
same capacity on other roads. He was
from Cedar Rapids, Iowa, where his rela-
tiyes reside. The body was placed by the
company in a handsome coffin and for
warded to his friends, free of all charges.