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Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-04-01
READ TsEE ,rESTIMONY:

NASHVILLE, Feb. /, IS70.-M. @. Cotton-Sir: In
running as Engineer on the Nashville and Decatur
Road, and in the South during the late war, was
much exposed to malaria, and my health became
very bad About eighteen months ago had to stop
work. / commenced taking your "SOuthern Star
Stomach Bitters," FROM which found almost i'm
mediate relief resumed work, continued to take
your Bitters, and have been in perfect health for
more than twelve months while many of the en-
ployees have lost time from having chills and fe-
yer. recommend these Bitters a preventive
of fever and ague, and the best stomach prepare
ton have ever used. s. J.. BRACKEN,
Engineer N. K ID. r. r
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Planting sweet Potatoes.

A citizen of McLerman county, Texas,
communicates to the Country Gentle
man bis plan of planting sweet potatoes
as follows:
'First, select only the very largest po-
GatOes for seed; on the same day (Or be-
fore would be best get a barrel, box or
tank of some sort that will hold water; fill
it with corn cobs; add liquid manure
water alone viii dO-until all the cobs are
covered; now keep it that way until you
are ready 10 plant, by which time the cobs
will be rotten, but yet holding together.
Wrap your potato set plant or vine
around a cob, once or so; then bury it
in your ridges, leaving an end of the vine
out to grow. In this way you viii make
Zig Eaters and lots of 'em in the hill, and
that, too, almost regardless Of soil"
Plant a Few Hills OF Corn Late.
A writer in an exchange paper advo-
Gates planting an occasional hill in every
cornfeld late, or taking pains to replant
the missing hills, ana gives the following
reason for it: If the weather becomes dry
during the filling time, the silk and tassel
both become dry and dead In this con-
ditiOn, if it should become seasonable,
the silk reviyes and renews its growth,
but the tassel does not recover. Then,
for want of pollen, the new silk is unable
to fill the office for which il was designed.
The pollen from the replanted corn is then
ready to supply the silk, and the filling is
completed. He says nearly all the abort
i've ears, so common in all corn crops, is
caused by want of pollen, and that he has
known ears TO double their size in this
second filling.
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CURE OF NERVOUS PROsTRATION
and Decline Of a Young Lady.
Il. 7. HELMBOLD:
have been giving your Extract Buehu to my
daughter who has been unable TO sleep, very nerv-
ous loss Of appetite general debility, and rapidly
falling into decline-in fact, consumption was
talked Of 1 was recommended to use your
'BSehu" by highly respectable lady Of this place,
who had given it to her son with complete success.
aIy daughter had been troubled for along time.
1 purchased one bottle some eight weeks since,
which LASTED one week, and from which she re
eefved great benefit, and induced me to purchase
one-haf dozen bottles, as had tried many Other
remedies, and my family physician, to no avail II
is now more than two weeks since she has taker
the last bottle, and happy to inform you Of its
complete success. Very truly yours,
GEO. NJ MARSHALL.
GERxAETowN, Pa, Feb. u, 1869.
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PrescrYing Shingles.

A correspondent of the Nel0 England
Farmer furnishes that paper with the
formula of preparation which it is be-
lieved will preserve shingles sixty years
Take potash kettle, or a large tub,
and put into it one barrel of I've of wood
ashes, five pounds of white vitriOl, five
pounds alum, and as much salt as will
dissolve in the mixture. Make the liquor
quite warm, and put as many shingles in
it as can be conveniently wet at once.
Stir them up with a fork, and when well
soaked, take them out and put in more,
renewing the liquor as necessary. Then
ley the shingles as usual.
K ''After they are laid, take the liquor
that was left, put lime enough into it to
make whitewash, and if any coloring is
desirable, add ochre, Spanish brown;
lampblack, etc, and apply to the roof
with a brush or an old broom. This wash
may be renewed from time to time.
''Salt and lye are excellent preserya-
tives of wood 1t is well known that
leach-tubs, troughs, and other articles
used in the manufacture Of potash, never
rot. They become saturated with the
alkali, turn yellowIsh inside, and remain
impervious to the action of the weather.
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yynter 7Jelon CuItUrr-

A correspondent of the Country Gen
tlen1an, living in Oswego county, n. Y,
gives his experience in the culture of the
wafer melon as follows:
Gas planting time will soon be upon
us again, would like to give the readers
of your excellent paper the benefit of
nv experience in raising water melons.
l tried to raise them for several years,
but failed in every attempt but the last
ryo years. plant the seed in an old tin
nan or box about the first of May, and
keep them in a warm place on the south
east side of the house, and when they are
nicely UP, transplant them where have
DESIGNED they should grow. Before l put
them out, / remove the soil twelve OF
eighteen inches deep and two feet wide,
and then fill the hole thus made with
thoroughly pulveTized manure and the
soil, mixed in equal parts; the hill:
should be five or six feet apart each way
| put in three plants to a hill. If it fi'
dry cover them up for a day or two
| have had no trouble in making thcr
live: they bear transplanting as well as
cabbage / have raised as nice melons
in this way as ! could wish for. Las
spring l thought that if l prepared tn
ground as above stated, and planted thu
seed in the hill, would get a good crop
/ planted them in the hill they came NJ
well, but did not seem to grow, and in
short time had not a single plant left
l had some plants in a pan, and set then
out in the same.hill, (only six hills,) an
had twenty six large melons,"
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To Manage a Rearing Horse.

Whenever you perceive a horses incli-
nation to rear, separate your reins and
prepare for him The instant he is about
10 rise slacken one hand and bend or
twist his head with the other, keeping
your hands low. This bending compels
him to move hind leg, and of necessity
brings his fore feet down. Instantly
twist him completely round two or three
times, which will confuse him very much,
and completely throw him off his guard.
The moment you have finished twisting
him round, place his head in the direction
you wish TO proceed, apply the spurs and
be viii not fail to go forward.
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Puddings and How TO Make Them.

Puddings and How TO Make Them.
Apple CUStard quarter and
bake rich tart apples, or stew them slowly
in very little water; fill pudding dish
two thirds full. When cold, pour over a
custard made by stirring into a quart of
boiling milk a tablespoonful of flour wet
up with little milk, two spoonfuls of
white sugar, and two eggs. Flavor with
lemon. Bake in quick oven.
To be eaten cold.
TdpiOcd Pudding. Soak a tea-cup
tapioca in three and half cups of boiling
water, and two spoonfuls of sugar.
Keep it in a warm place for three hours.
Fill a two-quart pudding-dish three
fourths full of rich ripe tart apples,
peeled and quartered. Pour the tapioca
over the apples and add half tea-cup of
cold milk to brown the tapioca. Bake
one hour.
Sage PuClding.-Pick over and wash
tea-cup full of sage; pour ON nearly a
quart of boiling water add half tea-cup
of sugar, and little milk, if preferred, to
brown. When cold, pour 1t over the
apples, or mix the two together in a pud
ding dish and bake an hour. Cover the
dish the last half hour.
FdrinG Pudding.-Sprinkle two
thirds of tea-cup full of farina slowly,
into quart of boiling water; add half
cup of white sugar and cup of milk.
Mix thoroughly, and pour into pudding
dish, in which quart ard half of nice
tart apples, peeled and quartered, have
been put.
Or, mix the apples and farina together,
Two tea-cups full of pitted raisins, pre-
vlously stewed, may be substituted for the
apples. Bake one hour.
Rice and apple Pudding.-Pick
over and wash tea-cupful of best rice.
Steam it until tender, in two cups of cold
water; spread it over a quart or three
pints of good riple apples, quartered;
pour over one or two cups of milk, if pre-
ferred, or omit the milk and add little
water to the apples. Half a cup of white
sugar may be sprinkled over the apples, or
sugar may be added at the table, if pre-
ferred.
To an unperyerted appetite, this and
several of these puddings will relish with
out the sugar, or indeed the milk, if care
fully baked, and if rich apples are used.
A good rice pudding is made by stirring
two cups of pitted and stewed raisins
into the steamed rice, milk and sugar, and
baked an hour.
Blanc Mango and Fruit Pudding.
Boil for few moments Dix spoonfuls
of dissolved corn-starch in a quart of
boiling water. Pour it Immediately over
quart of ripe peaches, previously peeled
and quartered and placed in a dish with
sugar sprinkled over them.
To be eaten cold
Instead of peaches, mellow pears or ap-
pies, or stewed ounces, ripe plums or
cherries, or marmalade or jam may be
used.
Instead of the corn-starch, five spoon
fulls of fine -four, or, still better, Graham
flour, with or without an egg, may be
substituted
Rice PtClding.-Wash thoroughly
teacup full of best rice, add half cup of
white sugar, quart of water and the
same of milk Bake slowly four hours,
stirring occasionally, except the last hour.
A cup Of raisins is an improvement
Herald Of Heulth.
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Remedy for Earget i'm Cows

A correspondent of the Country Gen
temGn gives the following remedy for
garget in cows:
81 have used for the last four years
tincture of acOni'e-mine is marked
''root," there being two different medi-
cines made from the same plant-one
from the top and one from the root.
Dose, one-half teaspoonful in the feed at
night If given at once, one to two doses
will generally effect cure, but a case of
long standing would probably require a
longer time, but should recommend giving
it two or three nights in succession; then
wait two or three before giving again. 1t
is very powerful medicine, two drops be-
ing dose for q man. 1t is a poison ia
ken in large doses.
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THE UNION AND AMERICAN.
AN APRIL MELcomE.

BX PHGBE cARF.
Come up, April, through the valley,
In your robes Of beauty drest
Come and wake your fiowery children
From their wintly beds Of rest
Come and overflow them softly
With the sweet breath Of the South:
Drop upon them, warm and loving,
Tenderest kisses from your mouth
Touch them with your rosy fingers,
Wake them with your pleasant tread
Push away the leaf-broWli covers,
Over all their faces spread;
Tell them how the sun is waiting
Longer daily in the skies,
Looking for the bright uplifting,
Of their fringed eyes.
Call the crow-foot and the crocus,
Call the pale snemone,
Call the violet and the daisy.
Clothed with careful modesty:
Seek the low and humble blossoms.
OF their beauties unaware
Let q dandelion and fennel
shc their shining yellow hair.
Bid the little homely sparrows,
Chipping in the cold and rain
Their impatient sweet complaining,
Sing out from their hearts again;
Bid them set themselves 10 mating
Cooling love in softest words,
Crowd their nests, all cold and empty,
Full Of little callow birds.
Come mp, April, through the valley,
Where the fountain sleeps to-day;
Let him, freed from icy letters,
Go rejoicing on his way;
Through the nOwer-enamelled meadows,
Let him run his laughing race,
Making love to all the blossoms,
That o'erlean and kiss his face.
But not birds and blossoms only,
Not alone the streams complain;
Men and maidens too are calling,
Come up, April, come again
Waiting with the sweet Impotence
OF lover for the hours
That shall set the tender beauty
OF thy feet among the flowers.
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purposes: but when the thing is hooked at
from practical point of view, it is not
so much trouble to keep barrel of turnip
seed on hand to SOW for manurial purpo-
SEES; for it don't require much labor to
plant few bushels of turnips and save
the seed. Our good old friend and neigh
Dor, David Landreth, raises immense crops
of turnip seed on his gigantic seed farm
in this vicinity, and uses steam
power to propel the machine to
thresh out the most of his crop
of seeds; and what he does on such
large scale, can be done by farmers TO the
limited extent of barrel or two, so as to
have plenty of turnip seed to sow among
oats and corn, to plow under for manure,
or shade the ground against the sun or
protect from the frost. If farmers would
try one or more experiments every year.
to ascertain which crops are best and most
profitable to raise, to add to the fertility
of the soil and yield good profit; every
thing else relating to implements for farm
management and modes of culture, and
publish in the RIraL Nea0 Yorker, it
would be productive of much good, by
the way of stimulating each other to do
their utmost to arrest the destructive skin
ming system of farming, which is SO rap
idly exhausting the soil of our highly IA
yored country.
r In conclusion, allow me to add that the
in this communication, in re-
gard to raising corn crop in connection |
with clover, sown exclusively as a fertil- |
izer, and mulch to cover and keep warm
the soil during winter, is presented with
the view to excite among farmers an in
terest in devising expedients to augment
humus in the soil, instead of extracting
every particle, and leaving it bare and |
sterile |
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RYK AMONG CORN

Rye may be reckoned among the best
substitutes for clover among corn; it will
Weld about the same amount of substance
to the acre, but is of poor quality, COM
pared to clover, for fertilizing land. One
advantage claimed for rye is, it will make
pasture for calves and sheep during the
winter, when the ground is bare of snow.
The calculations here made are well wor-
thy the thought and consideration of
farmers, for many of them can try the
same experiment without much extra cost
or labor. If seven tons of vegetable mat
ter can be added to the soil, at the cost of
only dollar or two per acre for clover
seed and the trouble of sowing it, better
have il done; for the land in our country
requires something of the kind to resus-
citate the impoverished soil, which in so
many sections has been almost totally de-
nuded of the elements of fertility. As
renovating crops,
| BUCKwHEAT AND TURNIPs
can be sown among corn, after the last
cultivation of the crop, with the same
view of furnishing vegetable matter to
cover and benefit the land during winter,
but buckwheat must be sOwn late enough
in the season to make it sure for frost &c
kill the seed and prevent its growing tc
perfection, lest it might grow in the spring
among the oats or any other crops cult
waited, and become a troublesome weed
As for turnips among corn, many farmer
would think ii wonderful to SOW thret
quarts Of seed on an acre of ground, be
cause it is bought at dear rate and uset
sparingly, only to raise crops for culinar,
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HurIey's Popular Worm Candy.

As this is really specific for Worms, and the
best and most palatabe form to give to children, it
is not surprising that it is fast taking the place of
all other preparations for worms-it being per-
fectly tasteless, and any child will take it.
Messrs. James Riddle 4 Co: Gentlemen 1t
give me great pleasure to say after using all the
other worm remedies known to me- with but par
tia relief to my Children was advised to try DR..
A. 7. Hurley's, and since using it, my children
have become quite well and healthy; the children
would eat 1t all the time, it is so pleasant, if we
would let them believe it is of the best and
safest remedies known, and as such, recommend it
to one and all JAMES w. TRAVIS.
Louisville, Jan. 3, 1868
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A CASE OF INFLAMMATION 0
KIDNEYS AND GRAVEL.
From Morgan, FsAzls & Co.
GLASGOW, MO-, FEB. S. 1868
Mr.. H. t. HELxBoLD.


Mr.. h. T. HELMBoLD:
DEAR SIR: About two years ago was troubled
with both Inflammation Of the Kidneys and Gravel,
when I resorted to several remedies, without de
irving any benefit whatever; and seeing your Ex-
TRACT BUcHu advertised, procured few bottles
and used them The result was complete cure In a
short time. regard your Extract Buchu to be de-
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Diseases of the Kidneys, and am quite confident
that it viii do all you claim for it. You may pub
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Yours respectfully,
EDwINM. FEAzEL.
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bers of Blackwood, IS Cents.
The Reviews are PHbiished quar-
terIy; BIackwOOd's Magazine il
monthly. Volumes commence in
january.
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County Court at Nashville.
Elizabeth Tynes, ADMINISTRATIVE, vs.. Thomas Cole
ct ais.

EIILdDcln Iynts, AuInlnlstratrA, VI IHUII5 OOItI,
ct ais.
A THE OFFICE OF THE CLERK OF THE
~ County Court at Nashville, on the 18th day OF
March, 1870, ON motion Of complainant, by
counsel, in the above cause and It appearing to the
satisfaction of the Clerk that the said defendants
Thomas Cofer and Martha Oofer are non-resi-
ordinary process of this Court cannot be served
upon them: it is therefore ordered by the Clerh
that publication be made for four weeks in success
sion in the Nashville UNION AND AMERICAN,
newspaper published in the city Of Nashville, re
quiring the said defendants to appear at the nexi
term of the County Court to be holden for the
county of Davidson, at the Courthouse thereof, In
the city of Nashville, on the first Monday in May
next, and answer said BILL or the same viii b
taken for confessed to them and set for hearing
ex parte. P. L. NICH0L, Clerk
marlS law4w
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To James Riddle & Co., Louisville Kentucky:
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years a sufferer and tried all the tonics 1 ever
heard of or seen advertised with little relief
from any of them. 1 heard your Hurley Bitters
highly spoken of, and tried bottle, with little
faith in it before 1 commenced, and to my
prise and joy, before finished one bottle, felt
great deal better, and firmly believe that on one
two occasions it was the means of saving and pro-
longing my life. / conscientiously recommend
them to all sufferers as the best btters known, and
advise them to always ask for DR.. T. A. HGrleys,
and have no other. You can use this as you think
proper, if it will benefit others.
Yours, truly, etc, JOHN W. DIXON.
Louisville, Ky, Dec. 10, 1868
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FARM AND GARDEN.
Warts on Horses.

The Rural Ne1o Yorker gives the fol-
lowing recipe: In pint of water dis
solve three teaspoonfuls of blue vitriol; put
in bottle, which keep well corked. APP
ply with q feather or camel's hair brush.
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COTTON'S +
SOUTHERN STAR
STOMACH BITTEaS. i

THEsE BITTERs ARE OFFERED TO THE
Public not as beverage but as frst-class medi-
cine for the cureof Dyspepsia, Liver Conn
plant, intermittent Fever, Endiges-
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good TONIC, and mild PURGATIyE. They have
been tested for several years. and the following
few of the many certificates of their virtue and
efficacy, coming from well-known citizens in our
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state Treasurer.

We are authorized to announce John
Hereford of Davidson county, as can
date for State Treasurer before the present
General Assembly.
We are authorized TO announce II. S.
Woodland of Lincoln county, candidate
for State Treasurer. sep7 tide.
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Hurley's Sarsaparilla.
WITH UODIDE OF POTASH

VIII IUDIDE UT IUIHDII.
This is the pure and genuine extract Of the root
and WILL on trial, be found to effect certain and
perfect cure of the following complaints and dis
eases:
Affections of the Bones, Habtual Costiveness,
Debility. Diseases Of the Kidneys, Dyspepsia, Fry
sipelas, Female Irregularities, Fistula, all Skin
Diseases Liver Complaint, Indigestion, Piles, Pull
monary Diseases, Scrofula Kings Evil, Syphilis
and all Impurities of the Blood.
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BERRY, DEMOVuLE & CO..
DRUG ISTS,
PUBLIC SQUARE, NASHVILLE, TENN.'
Wholesale Agents.
Valuable Water Power & Real Estate
FOR SALE.

rTNHE UNDERSIGNED WILL SELL THE YALUA
/ bic Water Power and eight hundred acres vi
land connected and lying round it, known as Also
mia. on the line Of the Nashville and Chattanooga
Railroad, near EstiIl's Springs. As Water Power,
this has some advantages over any other in the
state It Is Immediately the line Of the Railroad
I'm good grain and cotton country.
For manufacturing, the cotton can be bought In
the seed. The fan is about IS feet, the river max.
ing circuit Of ~ miles, and coming back so thai
the entire stream can be turned by a cut, which
is made through solid rock. The site can never
be the least affected by high water.
This water Power i the most celebrated, and
best known as valuable power Of any In the State
The land all lies wen and the most Of II is bottom
land Just at this time a trade can be made with
nower clear. NV Agents at Nashville are
MESSRS. WALKER & WALKER,
uox-i4tf A. 8. COLYAR.
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For conpsrolicr.

We are authorized TO announce W. p.
Morris of Camden, candidate for Comp
troller of the Treasury Of the State, at the
insuing Legislature, pledging himself to
satisfy all the members of his financial
skill and qualifications for the position.
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II ILR AID.

ON AND AFTER MONDAY, DEC. 6, 1863,
" Trains Doth freight and passenger) viii run
through between Nashville and Hopkinsville. Mail
train leaves Nashville daily at 2:55 p. NJ, and
rives at Hopkinsville at TAO P. NJ. Returning
leaves Hopkinsville at $50 A. NJ, and arrives at
Nashville at $50 A. NJ.
This train makes close connection at Guthrie with
Memphis, GAINESVILLE and Louisville Railroad both
night and morning, for GAINESVILLE and Southern
points.
Tickets for sale at Transfer ONCE, under Max
well House, and at Depot Louisville and Nashville
and Edgefeld and Kentucky Railroads.
z. A. FORT,
dec18 II President and Receiver.
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The Leonard Scott Publishing Co.


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Hurley'S Stomach Bitters.
For Debility, Loss Of Appetite, Weak
ness, Indigestion or Dyspepsia,
Want Of Action of Liver, or
Disordered Stomach.

There are no bitters that compare with these in
removing these distressing complaints For sale
or can be had at any drug store in the United
States. JAMES RUDOLF & CO., Proprietors,
Louisville, Kentucky.