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Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1869-08-26
Ssn;sEH FAITHS,

The following article, which we clip
from the Cambridge dorchester county,
Democrat and Herald, contains some good
advice, which we commend to those inter
ested in the subject Of which it treats:
Land owners ..h~ereabOuts,' if they de-
sire to become ~pecuniariiy advanced liz
this busy go-ahead world, must at once
divide up their immense tracts OF earth
into parcels OF fifty, sixty, and seventy
acres each-a quantity sufficiently large
for any one man to attend to properly
Small plantations managed as they should
be. will pay ten per cent: large ones man
aged rs they are, not more than four
Why? Because the owner or cUltivatOr of
the smaller tract heavily mauUreS, drains,
and thoroughly farms it.. Scatter Il thous-
and loads of compost over fifty acres and
you can get forty grains of wheat for one;
but scatter the same amount over five
hundred acres and you VIII be lucky i'll
deed if you get ten for one. The idea OF
any one individual properly farming and
keepiu~ in fine condition five hundred
acres Of ground is simply preposterous.-
Our past history proves it.
Every large place in the country is a
living evidence of the fallacy Of such an
undertaking. The fences cannot be kept
up, nor the ditching nor the manuring-
no matter how attentive or industrious
the proprietor may be. The job is too
large for human strength. Heaven never
intended it. In Europe, where some of
the nobility possess immense tracts, they
manage differently from us. There the
land is parcclled of into twenty and thir-
ty acres peasant-farms, and each occupant
finds it to his interest to till his patch as it
ought to be. His very existence depends
upon it, because if he once gets Il bad
name as Il husbandman he is tabOOed and
has to leave that section of the country.
Go where he Will, he can rent no land. I'M
less he has his character in his pocket from
his last landlord. Here it i otherwise
y careless indOlent man rents Il farm for a
wear or two. If it does not turn out well
he leaves it and tries another spot, and so
on until he is lucky enough to fall upon a
rich situation, upon which he resides as
long Is he can make money ont Of it
When he ceases to do this, he pulls up
stakes and removes, leaving the once rich
plantation in a worn out. dilapidated con-
dition, to be taken hold OF most likely by
somebody else equally as lazy, who Will
draw from it Il triie more OF its strength,
and then, in turn, like his predecessor, de
sert it. The only way to obviate all this
is to divide up the acres, and then either
sell or rent. BY this means only will the
country become wealthy. VIII the own
ers of the soil think the matter over? We
are quite sure they Will find increased re-
turns from their landed capital ifthcy will
do so and give action to their thoughts,
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1869-08-26
Observation-Disclosures Manure.

The adulteration of the food of ourselves
and our animals as well as the sophistica-
ton of those substances usually employed
for manure. has recently attracted the at
tention of the public. Various remedies
have been proposed for this state of things
but thus far with comparatively little sue
cess. 1t is therefore interesting to turn
to the recent report by Prof. Voeicker, in
the Journal of the Royal Agricultural So
ciety fLondOn.) in which he gives the re-
sIIt of his examination of various articles
manufactured and sold to farmers. Ofthe
manures. the superphOsphates were in
general found of good quality and worth
the money for which they were offered
Peruvian guano on the other hand Is
scarce, bears Il high price, and is general
~ grossly adulterated.
The demand for feeding material has
largely increased. and the price and the
extent of adulteration ave mutually kept
pace. DIR. Noeickes says that he hardly
remembers any season when he had to eX-
anime 20 many inferior and adulterated
linseed cakes as that jus. passed. The
subject deserves the serious consideration
Of the agriculturist, for the buyer of adult
terated oil cakes is not only defrauded by
paving high prices for inferior feeding ma
feriaIs. but occasionally he runs the risk
of endangering the health of his stock by
feeding poisonous material, such as castor
oil beans and the still more poisonous cur
cas- Dean. DUN VI WHICH, L 'OCiSNNI
has found in several samples of the linseed
cake.
That organ of Eadvanced scientific opin-
ion.' Appieton's Journal, tells us that
the best way to prevent the sophistication
of articles of domestic use is TO teach our
boys and girls to use the microscope and
the test tube. This Is nonsense, however.
The ability to detect with certainty the
authorizations commonly practiccd Is the
result Of years Of special study, and no
farmer can hope to acquire in a few weeks
or months the power of analyzing soils,
manures, and artificial food. 1t seems to
us that the most efficient method of put
ting a stop to such nef;lrio1s practices Is
simply this; Let every farmer when he
purchases a quantity of manure or feed,
lay away u fair sample of the lot enclosed
in Il bottle we'll scaled and carefully Sc
cured. If the use of the main lot does not
give satisfaction, let the sample be ana
1yzed; and if the article was represented
as being Jof a certain quality, we would
like to know why the vender cannot, like
other ~swindlers, be proceeded against
criminally for obtaining money under false
pretenseS. provided it be shown that the
article sold was not what it purported to
be.-Country Gentleman.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1869-08-26
SnWdust for Bedding.

The London Field contains the follow
ing account of an experiment with this
material Having used sawdust as bed
ding for horses for a length of time, re-
suits of my experience may not be unac-
ceptable to some of your inquiring readers.
| litter the horses on it to the depth of six
or to nine inches, raking off the damp and
soiled surface every morning, and spread
ing evenly a little fresh, removing the
whole only four times a year. Its advan-
tages appear to be many, of which | will
state a few which give it, in my estimation
its great superiority over straw. 1t is much
cleaner and more easily arranged, and of
course much cheaper at first cost, making
in the end excellent manure. 1t is pecu-
liarly beneficial to the feet, affording them
a cool, porous stufing, a substitute for the
soil or earth we always find in the hoofs of
horses at grass, and presents the nearest
the earth.
We nave never had a diseased foot since
the introduction of sawdust in the stable,
now some years since. Horses bedded on
sawdust are also freer from dust and stains
than when Oh ordinary litter (simply be-
cause sawdust is a better absorbent, per-
haps,) and testify their own approval of it
by frequently rolling and lying down for
hours in the day. 1t has also the recon-
mendation of being UNBEATABLE, an ad-
vantage which all in charge of horses with
the habit of eating their litter will readily
admit"
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1869-08-26
Horses ian Fly TInle.

The fly, insignificant as it is in size, and
devoid of the power of doing any great
harm, Is one of the most annoying little
pests of all the insect tribe. y nuisance
to man, the fly is the terror of the horse,
whose flesh is made to culver whenever
the foot of one touches him. 1t is, there
fore, an act of humanity to come to the
aid ofthe horse, powerful as he is, against
his nimble assailant, the fly. Here is a
recipe which is said to be an excellent de-
fence against it. At all events, a trial of
it will not involve much expense. nor viii
it DO harm should it prove unavailing as Il
defense to the horse:
Take two or three small handsful of
walnut leaves, upon which pour two or
three quarts of cold water, let it infuse
one night, and pour the whole next morn
ing into a kettle and let it boil for Il quar-
ter of an hour; when cold it will be fit
for use. No more is required than to mOis-
ten a sponge, and before the horse goes
out of the stable let those parts which are
the most irritable be smeared over with
the liquor, viz between and upon the
ears, the neck, &c. Not only the lady or
gentleman who rides out for pleasure will
derive benefit from walnut leaves thus
prepared, but the coachman, the WAGNER,
and all others who use horses during the
hot mOnths.-EX.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1869-08-26
POETRY
memories OF the Old Kitchen.
BY MRS. s. P. SNOW.

Far back. in my musings, my thoughts
have been CAST,
To the cot, where the hours OF my child
hood were passed;
loved all the rooms, to the pantry and
hall.
But that blessed old kitchen was dearer
It's chairs and its table, none brighter
could be,
For all its surroundings were sacred to
me.
To the nail in the ceiling. the latch on the
door,
And I loved every crack of that old kitch-
en- floor.
remember the fireplace with mouth high
and wide.
The old fashioned oven that stood by its
side,
Out of which. each Thanksgiving, came
puddings and pies,
That fairly bcwildered and dazzled our
eyes;
And then, too, Saint Nicholas, slyly and
still.
Came down every Christmas. our stock
ings to fill;
store,
Are of the mother that trod that old
Kitchen floor.
Day in and day out, from morning till
night,
Her footsteps were busy, her heart always
LIGHT,
For it seemed to me then that she knew
not a care,
The smile was so gentle her face used to
wear;
| remember with pleasure what joy filed
II eyes.
When she told us the stories that children
so prize;
They were new every night, though we'd
heard them before,
From her lips, at the wheel, on the old
kitchen floor
1 remember the window, where mornings
I'd run,
As soon a. the daybreak to watch for the
sun.
And I thauoht whe my head scarcely
reached to the sill,
That it slept through the night in the
trees on the hill.
And the small tract of ground, that my
ewes there could view,
Was all OF the world that my infancy
knew,
Indeed I cared not to know Of it more.
For "a world in itself was that old kitchen
floor.
Tonight those old visions come back at
their will.
But the wheel and its music forever are
still.
The band is moth-eaten, the wheel laid
away,
And the fingers that turned it lie mould
ring in clay.
The hcarthstone, so sacred, is just as twas
then,
And the voices of children ring out there
again
The sun through the window looks in as
of yOrc,
But il sees stanger feet on the old kitchen
floor.
| ask not for honor; but this I would crave,
That when the lips speaking are closed i'll
the grave,
My children will gather theirs round at
their side,
And tell of the mother that long ago died;
'TwOuld be more enduring. far dearer to
me,
Than Inscriptions on marble or granite
cOuld be,
TO have them tell often. as did of yore,
OF the mother that trod the old kitchen
floor.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1869-08-26

A VERY CUNNING DOG INDEED.-An
italian journal relates a curious instance
of canine intelligence which occurred du-
ring some late operations against the bril-
gands in the province of Naples. A de-
tachment of cavalry having arrived about
daybreak at a small wood in which they
had reason to believe that a number of
bandits were concealed, observed a little
dog, which had been evidently placed on
the watch, rise up and bark furiously aI
the same time running about in all direc-
tons. The soldiers perceiving that IhS
animal was giving the ALARM, hasteneu
forward, bnt only found in the interior OF
the wood traces of the recent oePartuIe
of the party of which they were III scarcn.
The officer in command, veXed at missing
an important capture, drew his pistol and
fired at the f~our-foOted sentinel, which,
with a howl, rolled over on its back, n
Law completely motionless. The squad
ron continued its march, but a quarter of
an hour later one of the men, happening
TO turn round, observed the same dog
they had just before left for dead on the
ground lodging about behind the trees
in their rear, as if to watch them. The
animal was captured, and found not to
have had a hair touched by the shot fired
at it.; it had evidently feigned death i'm or
vidette. The prisoners life was not only
preserved, but the captive was admitted
into the regiment, and will be taught to
render service in discovering the haunts
of its former masters.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1869-08-26
Food for

/ have kept fowls and raised chickens
for many years. For several years have
fed chicks with corn-meal prepared by
mixing with boiling water, and after
standing thirty minutes it is ready to feed.
| usually salt it slightly, sutficietly to
taste the salt, and believe the sailing pre-
vented gapes, rs | have not lost a chick
by that disease since L used salt. and pre-
viOusly | did lose from gapes. Salt is death
to worms. That the young chicks may
nave a variety, l also feed wheat screen
ings. and on these | pour boiling water,
both to swell and soften the screening
off the water and pour on again if neces-
sary to cleanse the screenings, and, after
standing a few hours, feed. | also give
my fowls and chicks all scraps from the
chambers, chopped and broken fine
This they consume with great avidity.
Pluck cut fine once a week or oftener is
picked up very quickly. Clam shells and
bones broker fine l also feed Shells and
bones are easily broken on a stone with a
Ratchet. To save STOPPING and to keep
above the fowls, l place the stone on a
box. on which is also a piece of oak plank,
to cut the scraps and break the bones. /
have no trouble with soft shelled eggs or
gapes, and since my hen house floor is of
wood and coal ashes, six inches deep. the
lice nave disappeared from my poultry
My chicken coops are stationary and have
a floor of ashes. Fresh ashes are supplied
as often ass necessary.-Country Gentle
man.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1869-08-26
Chinese EnLOr.

Ca~lifornians are greatly excited over
the question of Chinese immigration. A
few narrow minded people pretend to be-
lieve that if the Chinese laborers should
come in any great numbers, it would be
an injury to our country; but we fail to
see it in that light. Every able-bodied
man or womon who sets foot upon our
shores with the intention Of working for a
living, is Just so much wealth added to us
as a nation, If there is any one element
of prosperity in which we are more def
cient than another, it is labor. There are
at this moment hundreds of industrial pur-
suits languishing er completely paralyzed
for the want of cheap and efficient Ia
Dor. We say cheap, because there are
certain limits beyond which neither far
mer, mechanic, or manufacturer can sus-
tain himself in business.
A farmer cannot pay 81 per day for Ia
Dor and sell his wheat for 81 per bushel.
If a~griculturists can make no profit on the
capital invested, they will not employ car
penters to build houses or barns, neither
will they patronize the city merchants, nor
aid in building railroads or digging canals.
Four-ffths of all the waste lands in this
country would be made to produce more
than all that is nov in cultivation, if labor
was cheap enough to make the investment
necessary to reclaim these lands pay even
a small profit. Let the industrious Chi
nese laborers come right along a million
would not be any too many for our imme-
date wants. A few hundred thousand
would be welcome in the Eastern States,
where our laborers nave become so indie
pendent that they dictate not only the
number of hours to be called a day, but
hold the right to come and go whenever it
suits their convenience, no matter how
great the loss that may result through
their neglect.
In the vicinity of New York city farm
laborers are asking 81 and upwards per
day, and at the same time potatoes sell at
so cents and often less per bushel. We
think this shows a scarcity of labor.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1869-08-26
THE Chicago TriBsne in speaking OF

THE Chicago TriBune in speaking of
the probability of Congressional interfer-
ence in Tennessee, says:
1T is too large an enterprise for the
time" and adds: ELECTIONS for Cover
nor are a very common thing in the United
States, and the public will not listen with
any favor TO the proposition that the de-
feated candidates shall declare themselves
Governors, and get up a civil war in their
States to get into office. The result of the
election as disclosed at the polls viii be ac-
cepted by the American people as final,
and, if necessary, will be upheld as such
against all forcible contestants, whether it
be in favor of or against Mr.. Stokes. We
have already referred to the case of Vir-
has been voted out by the people, propose
to hold on and expects the Republican par
ty in Congress to keep him in office. The
Republican party has higher aims and ends
than the mere keeping of one set of men
in office to the exclusion of others, parti-
cularly when those proposed to be kept
out have been duly elected by the people.
The Republican party will insist that the
President shall exercise all constitutional
powers to sustain Colonel Stokes as the
elected Governor of Tennessee, provided
Colonel Stokes be elected. For the same
reason, if Governor Senter be elected, it
will expect the President to sustain SEN
ter against all attempts by force to disturb
him. The fact is. that men are apt to
over-estimate their personal Importance.
Neither the Republican party nor the peo-
pie at large care much whether A ID or C
hold office and there has been entirely
too much civil war, rebellion and strife, for
them to tolerate for a moment, any such
thing as appeal to arms, or to force IN any
shape"
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1869-08-26
PcndIeton the Candidate.

After all, George III. Pendleton is the
Democratic candidate for Governor of Ohio.
The Democratic State Central Committee
met at Columbus, yesterday, and after an
anxious season, in the course Of which
Pendleton was repeatedly requested to ac-
cept the nomination, and as often declined,
a dispatch was sent him signed by every
member of the committee, and Il consid-
cradle number of others taking an inlu-
entail interest in the proceeding, stating
that the use of his name would give har-
mony and confidence, and intimating that
if it could not be used there was difficulty
and danger. Thus urged, Mr.. Pcndleton
yielded. Very much after the manner Of
Donna Julia--swearing he would ne'er
consent, consented Gin. Commercial.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1869-08-26

THE keeper of a Cleveland public house
Philip Gilmartin. who shot his son Thorn
as Gilmartin, at about half past IL on Sum
day morning, mistook him for a burglar.
The young man having been out late, was
climbing in at the window of n room adj
joining his parents sleeping room, and
the father, hearing a|sash moving, took an
old Harper's Ferry musket which he kept
loaded, and going toward the window saw
the form of a man clambering upon Ihe
sill, when asking who was there but re-
fell info fine room. Shot through the head,
the ball entering his right eye, and died
within q few minutes.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1869-08-26

TENNESSEE has slaughtered Stokes IN
an out and out style. Even the district
that he counted upon as his stronghold
every candidate has a stronghold some
where-has laid him out as stiff as PADDY >
daddy when he was nine days dead.-
There is only one bad sign in this TenneSs-
see election. This is, that the victors al
ready differ as to what their victory mean,
If they quarrel owe that they will WASTE
their triumph.-N. Y. Herald.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1869-08-26

THE whole number of Postoffices in the
United States on March A., was 2 ,Gj9.
Whole number of Offices established since
March 4, up to the 1st inst, was 701.
Whole number discontinued since March
4'229-the names and sites of 113 Offices
changed. Whole number of Offices in the
United States on the 1st inst, 27,131 a;
1869 postmasters have resigned, 2.1SG
postmasters have been removed and so
died {; SO vacancies were caused by the
change of names and sites of offices.
There were 524 appointments by the
President and 4,1S2 by the Postmaster
General.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1869-08-26

GENERAL RoSECRANS cannOt swallow
Ohio democracy. lie declines the month";
alton of that party for Governor, which
nomination he kindly terms an honor, ex-
planning that he must devote himself TO
'.duties deemed sacred to his creditors and
family" We regret that the General ;
creditors are Of 30 much moment in his
life but only fancy the chagrin OF the
Ohio democrats when man thus declares
that he would rather pay his debts thal
run on their ticket.-N. y. Herald.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1869-08-26

THE Chronicle, recently started in
Boise City, Idaho, greeted its readers with
the following original ~salutatory: "We
have started a newspaper. Name-Copt-
tai Chronicle. Principles-Democratic
to the hilt. Object, to make a living. Of
fee, on Main street about 800 yards below
the Overland Hotel, opposite an old oyster
can in the road. And we'll run it or
bust
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1869-08-26

He Would NoT.-Although the Au.
tumn has not come we suppose it will no
much wiring the bosom of the reader t.
peruse the ensuing stanza upon that season
written by a gifted son of the West. L
has the true affiatus:
q wud not dy in autumn
With the peaches Git for e%atin',
When the wavy corr is gettin ripe,
And the candidates are treatin;
When the sassidge meat is phryin',
& hickory nuts are thick
Oh who wud think ov dyin',
Or ever gettin' sick2"
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1869-08-26

DIR. FRANCIS l.. TURNER, a physician
of Newport Rhode Island, died, last Tues
dav. as is supposed, from the effects of
poison. About a year ago a package Of
arsenic, which he was carrying in his pock-
ct, broke open and spilled some Of the con-
tents. He removed most of the substance
and thought nc more of it.. Some time
after he ate some cookies, which he had
put in the same pocket, and soon after
was seized with illness, one of the features
of which was a partial paralysis of one OF
his legs, and from which he gradually
sunk till his death, as above.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1869-08-26

BARNUM wants to get a nightmare 10
exhibit at his museum. Let him eata
mince pie, three sausages, half a dozen
pickles, a plate Of salad, and IA few pig
feet at midnight, and go at once TO bed.m
He will get Of the animals in TWO
hours or less.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1869-08-26

DEAN SWIFT proposed to tax female
beauty, and to leave every lady to rate her
own charms. He said the taxes would be
cheerfully paid, and very productive
Fontenelle thus daintily compliments the
sex when he compares woman and clocks
the latter serve to point out the hours, the
former to make us forget them. The
standards of beauty in woman vary with
those of taste. Socrates called beauty n
short-lived tyranny Plato, a privilege of
nature; T~hephrastus, a silent cheat The
o%critus, a delightful prejudice Carncades,
a solitary kingdom and Aristotle affirmed
that it was better than all the letters Of
recommendation in the world.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1869-08-26

"WoULN'T you call this the calf of a
leg!" asked Bod, pointing to one of his
neither limbs. "No," replied Pat, 81
should say it was the leg of a calf"
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1869-08-26

Tom CoRLEY says, "make yourself a
good man., and then you may be sure there
is one rascal less in the world
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1869-08-26

THE Emperor of China is to be married
this year. He is fourteen gears old, and
has been engaged this good while.