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Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1870-08-03
Hog Cholera.

More or less complaint is made by our
farmers every year, of the ravages Of this
disease among their hogs. The following
is simple remedy taken from the SoutI,-
erp Farmer, and it is well worth knowing
if it will do what it claims for it. Let
those interested try it,
When hogs are dying in the vicinity
with cholera, take pine roots or tops and
ashes, make a strong tea, and put corn or
meal enough in one feed into the tea, and
boil until done, and feed for three morn
ings in succession, and then once "a week
as long as the cholera is near. ] never
knew it to fail.
If it is fed to hogs twice month, they
will grow faster and do better: if it is fed
to hogs every third day while fattening
they will fatten much faster.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1870-08-03

The North-German Confederation, cstab-
lished in 1866, consists of Prussia and the
German States north of the river Main.
The names of these States (twenty-one in
number) are: SaXony, Mecklenburg-
Schwerin, Neutrality-suspicious., Olden-
burg Brunswick, SaXe-Weimar, Sake
Meiningen, SaXe-Altenburg, Saxe-Coburg-
Gotha, Anhalt, Schwarzburg-Ru
g-Sondershauscn, Waldeck,
Reuss, two Provinces, Schaumburg-
Lippe, Lippe-Detmold, Lubbock, Bremen,
Hamburg and Hesse- Darmstadt.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1870-08-03

EAT RIPE FRUIT One of the oldest
and best physicians i'm Connecticut con-
stantly recommended eating ripe fruit. If
each in its season j. partallen of when
fresh, there is.little fear of any Of the sum-
mer diseases that are 50 common in some
sections, and which cause so much trouble
and so much expense.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1870-08-03
Broom Corn
Ayers Cherry Pectoral,
For Diseases of the Throat and Lungs,
such as Coughs, Colds, Whooping
Cough, Bronchitis, Asthma,
and Consumption.


and Consumption.
Probably never before in the whole history of
medicine, has any thing so widely and SO
deeply upon the confidence of mankind AS this
excellent remedy for pulmonary complaints.
Through long series of years, and among most
of the races of men it has risen higher and higher
in their estimation a. it has become better known.
Its uniform character and power to cure the va
rious affections of the lungs and throat have
made it known as a reliable protector against
them. While adapted to milder forms of disease
and to young children, it is at the same time the
most eTcctual remedy that can be given for incip-
lent consumption, and the dangerous affections
OF the throat and lungs. As provision against
sudden attacks of Group. 1t should be kept on
hand in every family, and indeed as all are some
times subject to colds and coughs, all should be
provided with this antidotc for them.
Although settled COnsUnI ptiOn is thought in
durable, still great numbers Of cases where the
disease seemed settled, have been completely
cured, and the patient restored to sound health
by the Cherry Pectordi. 80 complete is its
mastery over the disorders of the Lungs and
Throat, that the most obstinate of them yield to it.
When nothing else could reach them, under the
CHERRY PectOraI they subsidc and disappear.
Singers and Public Speakers find great
protection from it.
asthma is always relieved and often wholly
cured by it,
Bronchitis ia generally cured by taking the
Cherry PcctOrdi in small and frequent doses.
SO generally are its virtues known, that VIC
need not publish the certificates of them here,
do more than assure the public that its qualities
are fully maintained.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1870-08-03

The COlTier-JOurRaI proudly claims
Louisville as probably the only city in the
universe where the Use Of the bulletin
boards by news papers is interdicted
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1870-08-03

HOURS or FARM LABOR. The sun al
ways sets IA good example in the matter of
"getting up" Half-past four in this longi-
tude is not "A bad time for the summer
months. 1t will take till six TO do the
chores, eat breakfast, with "A little time
given TO gratefully recounting the blessings
of the night and the morning. Then work
in the fields should commence, and be con-
tinued till eleven; then two hours for read
ing, recreation, rest and dinner; then from
one to six i'm the fields again An hour
for supper and chores, another for the I'M
mentiOnable delights that cluster around
every intelligent Christian farmers home,
and then seven hours of sleep IF needed
and the new day, with it, new and Joyous
labor, is commenced with an invigorated
body, a satisfied mind, and happy heart.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1870-08-03
Dissolution Of Partnership.

VHHE FIRM OF BAXTER. CHAMPION & KICKS
i ATTORNEYS 40 Law, was dissolved. by mutual con,
sent on the 18Th day Of May 1870.
The unfinished cuisines. % the partnership will be
attended 10 us heretofore !y the members of the firm,
until i 3 n! sct.iatl. fsl2-dltwlt
II you want Bill-Heads gotten up in toe best
style, 60 to the CHRoNIcLE Job Office
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1870-08-03

Newman ; wheelbarrow factory al Mil
ton Landing, New York, was destroyed by
fire on Sunday morning. Loss $4,000.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1870-08-03

To DESTROY LICE OF FOwLs.-Take a
pound of "rolled" sulphur .brimstone)
mash one-half the quantity and put it in "A
pan, and set it in the centre of the hen
house, made az close as possible, and then
put shovel full of fire on il and close the
door. After this il burned out, treat the
remaining sulphur in the same way after
this last is burned there will be no further
trouble This, of course, should be attend
ed 10 in the day time, when the fowls are
not in the house. When they go back
again into the house 10 rOOst. the air will be
so strongly impregnuted with sulphur that
il will permeate among the feathers aud
destroy whatever lice may remain on the
fowls.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1870-08-03
A, J. KICKS,
Attorney at Law.

4 TTENDS PROMPTLY TO ALL BUSINESS
y in the Courts hcld in the City nj Knoxville
NJ Collections promptly made and RENTED.
OFFICE-MAR slRFEr.
iuu1n -Igfv1f
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1870-08-03

How TO Cool SLEEPING ROoMs.-J. NJ.
Burdick, of lion, y. y, wrote that sleep
ing-rOOms might be made tolerable in hot
weather by simply saturatng napkins,
towels newspapers, etc, with cold water,
and leaving them to cvapOratc. Dr. j. v.
G. Smith said that the practice was good
one, but few pounds of ice in the room
was better.) The same gentlemen advised
cutting of pOtato-blossom>, ~ the growth
and maturity of the secd-balls subtracted
considerable from the amount of nutriment
that the roots furnished. He also suggest
ed that a piece of raw beef hung in bed
room would attract the mosquitoes from
the slumberer, very much to his relief.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1870-08-03

TRUE HERoIsM. man who walks
the streets with unruffied brow and peace
full heart, though his business il ruined,
his prospects becloudcd, and his family re-
duced to want; who maintains his intcg-
rity amid temptations, and bravely, hope
fully struggles against Universities, upbornc
by an unyieldng faith in Providence, j. Il
hero. And in yUndcr room, where that
poor, pale-faced girl through long, weary
days and dreary nights, with aching eye,
and wasting frame, bravcly battles of the
gaunt starvation, or touting infamy, with
no other weapon than trusting heart and
"a little needle-there Is one of Gods hero
ines.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1870-05-30
Rat Trap.

The following we clip from a Hartford paper,
for the benefit of our rat-troubled PATRONS
A gentleman of this city, who found the rats
too cunning to be caught, circumventei EN- by
hanging piece Of meat to a hook, just
high enough to compel the rat, in order to
rach it, TO stand on bis hind legs, aud set uu-
der it a wide, shallow dish Of vitriOl. luto
this the rodents must step ere they could get
at the meat, and he hid himself aud watched.
One rat came, stood up, shifted at the meat,
then walked around the dish smelling at the
vitriol. and finally dashed in. In the midst Of
his feast something hurt his hind quarters, aud
he left-dragging himself along the ground to
wipe of the burning liquid. BY and by an-
other came, went through the same perform
ance, and left in hurry. No rats have been
heard of on these premises since. The whole
colony skedadded.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1870-05-30
Unjustifiable Association.

Victor Hugo in late letter to Gen Clus-
seret, representative in America Of an aSsocia-
ton of workingmen in France, pays America
the hecomplimentof sayingthat "the great repub-
lie of Washington and of John Brown is a
glory to civilization" This is about as
nice discrimination between the successful
founder Of a constitutional republic and the
defeated instigator of midnight insurrection as
could be expected from a chronic French social
ist who has been always mistaking the mob
for the people and lawlessness for liberty. No
wonder that real republicanism makes such
slow progress in France, when it is so constant
" coufounded in the public mind, through
the influence Of visionaries like Hugo, with
robbery and murder: with emeutes, bank
ruptcies, and the total cessation Of prosperous
industry, as evinccd in the first revolution.
Even imperial rule may be welcomed by liber-
ty loving men as a refuge from a party like
that to which Victor Hugo belongs, whose
leader stigmatized God as the enemy Of Soc
iety," priests as "paid hypocrites," ," property as
as robbery, and government usurpation. And
yet this stuff of the fanciful romancistis print
ed approyingly by socalled republican journals
in the United States-Baltimore Sun.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1870-05-30

STRANGE EFFECTS or STRYCHNIYE.-An
instance illustrating the terrible activity and
virulence Of strychnine lately came to our OBJ
servation, which occurred 10 US as being very
remarkable, though we suppose It a natural
result This was the case A farmer named
Chilson, living near Girard, thinking to rid
his cOrnfeld of troublesome ground hog,
managed to administer the quadruped dose
Of strychnine which killed him nearly instantly.
The carcass was suspended in tree, where
the crows soon espied the savory bit aud pro-
ceeded TO appease their appetites After par
taking of the fatal meal, the crows would fly
rapidly a short distance, as if in agony, and
fall dead TO the ground. The bones being
thoroughly stripped Of the flesh remained eI-
posed to the bleaching influence Of the sun
shine rain and frost for nearly two years, when
falling to the ground, a highly priced dog
masticated parts Of them, and died from the
effect in a space not exceeding ten minutes.-
CJHHeam Reporter.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1870-05-30

GIRLHooD is a beautiful season, and its
love-its warm, uncalculating, devoted love
so exaggerating in its simplicity, so keen from
its frcshness-ls the very poetry Of fattachment;
after years have nothing like it. To know
that the love which once seemed eternal can
have an end destroys its immortality and
thus brought to level with the beginnings
and endngs, the chances and changes Of life
commonplace enjoyments and pleasure5-and
alas from the sublime to the ridiculous there
is but step-our divinity turns out an idol!
We are grown too wise, too worldly for our
former faith, aud we laugh at wha: we wept at
before; such laughter is more bitter than tears
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1870-05-30
Time.

"When I look upon the tombs of the great"
said Addison, "every emotion Of envy dies 10
me. When read the epitaph Of the beautiful,
every inordinate desire goes out. When | see
the tombs of the parents themselves consider
the vanity Of fsrieving for those whom we must
quickly follow. When l see kings lying over
those who deposed them when see rival
wits placed side by side, or holy men that di-
vidsd the world with their contests and dis
putes, reflect with sorrow and astonishment
on the little competitions, factions asd debates
of mankind. When l read the several dates
of the tombs, Of some that died as yesterday,
and some of six hundred years ago, l consider
that great day when we shall all Of us be con-
temporaries and make our appearance toge-
lher"
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1870-05-30
/" Bricks"

AKentucky boy wasleft in charge of youn-
ger child with instructions if it cried to giveit
a little laudanum 1t set up howl, and the
brevet nurse gave it half tumbler full Of the
sleepy fluid. The mother wants TO sell the
cradle now, as she isn't going to try to bring
up any more children. The boy said at tho
funeral that he wouldn't have given the child
50 big a dose if it hadn't cried 50 like thun-
der.
Mrs. Troy, Of Troy, is a woman that gets
mad terribly easy. She went downtown aud
on her return found her husband drunk, and
two naughty, strange women occupying the
same bed with him. Instead Of reading u
tract to him, and advising the women to try
and lead different life, she went and broke
crockery over their heads. No man is safe
with such female people around, to mar his
happiness.
Mrs. Long Of northampton county, Pa,
has been in trance for over week, and
throwing water on her. or sticking pins in her
won't bring her TO a realizing sense Of her con-
dition. A galvanic battery caused her to open
her eyes, but she didn't order anything. Per-
haps she is dead and can't tell Of it.
It's now boiyed that a hostile meeting will
take place between Halstead aud Mclean, the
Cincinnati editors, the weapon to be frozen
bologna sausages. They may both be seen,
every day, in q lagorbiersalOon, practising with
that deadly weapon.
Delaware man tried new flying ma
chine the other day, which it has taken him
five years to perfect. His widow tried to trade
the machine for a common black walnut coffin,
but the undertaken said il was no use 20 him,
as none of his friends would try to fly with
it.
A colored legislator in Georgia characterizes
as falts" the romor' that ho desired tho
division Of his county, and adding that g no
elk of combination with money or otherwise,
air a bull, to Entic me to stupe to they dier
Bolican plot"
A hotel keeper in Boston boards lovers for
two dollars a week less than he charges other
folks. There is philosophy in this. Love is
very ETHEREAL in its nature, and can live on
moonbeams. We know a young man who
took the disease in the natural way. and ho
subsisted whole month on a German flute
and a sonnet
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1870-05-30

The HUsBAND.-Ladies sometimes do not
value their husband as they ought to. They
not unfrequently learn the value Of good hus-
band for the first time by the loss of him. Yet
the husband is the very roof-tree Of the house
the cornerstone of the edifce-the keystone of
the arch called home. lie is the bred-winner
of the family-its defence aud its glory-the
beginning and ending of the golden chain of
life which surrounds tits consoler, lawgiyer
aud king. And yet we see how frail is the
life Of the husband and the father When he
is taken sick, what gloomy clouds hover over
the house. When he is dead, what darkness,
weeping, agony Then poverty, like the mur-
dcrous assassin, breaks in the window-starva-
ton, like famished wolf howls at the door
Widowhood is too often an associate of sack
cloth and ashes. Orphanhood too often means
desolation and woe.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1870-05-30

IDEA OF DEATH.-That death and sleep are
very much alike, the sages and all tell US; but
see how attractively Leigh Hunt describes the
latter: 1t is a delicious moment certainly,
that of being well nestled in bed, and feeling
that you will drop gently to sleep. The good
is to come-not past tho limbs have been
Just tired enough to render the remaining in
one position delightful; the labor Of the day is
done. \ gentle failure Of the perceptions
comes creeping over one; the spirit Of con-
sciousncss dsengages itself more and more with
slow and hushng degrees, like mother de-
tachiug her hand from that Of Ler sleeping
child; the mind seems to have a balmy lid
closing over it, like the eye; It's closins-'tis
closed. The mysterious spirit has gone totake
its rounds"
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1870-05-30

When l behold fashionable table set out
in all its magnifcence, fancy that see gouts
and dropsies, fevers and letharsios, with other
innumerablc distempers, lying in ambuscade
among the dishes. Nature delights in the
most plain and simple diet, every animal but
man keeps one dish Herbs are the food Of
this species, fish Of that, and flesh Of a third.
Man falls upon everything that comes in his
way: not the smallest fruit or excrescense Of
the earth, scarce a berry or mushroom can
escape him.-AidiSon.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1870-05-30

God has written on the flowers that sweeten
the air: on the breeze that rocks the flowers
upon tie stem; upon the rain drop
that refreshes tie moss that lifts its
head in the desert; upon its deep chambers
upon every penciled shell that sleeps in
the cavern Of the deep, no less than upon the
mighty sun that warns and cheers millions Of
creatures which live in its light, upon all his
works be has written, " None liveth for him
self alone"
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1870-05-30

REcpE FOR \ HAPPY HoME.-Six things
says Hamilton, are requisite to createa happy
home. Integrity must be the architect,
aud tidiness the upholsterer. 1t must be
warmed by affection, and lighted up with
cheerfulness; and industry must be the ycnti-
lator, renewing the atmosphere, and bringing
in fresh salubrity every day while over all
a protecting canopy Of glory, aud nothing will
suffice except the blessing Of God.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1870-05-30

A muddy stream. flowing into one clear and
sparkling, for time rolls along by itself \
little farther down they unite and the whole Is
impure. So youth untouched by sin, may for
short time keep its purity in foul company,
but litter later and they mingle.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1870-05-30
POETRY.


Lines written, forty years ago, on very Sym
metrical Skeleton in the London Museum.
On the Skull.
Nor hope, nor love, nor JOY, nor fear,
Have left one trace of record here.
On the holioH Of the Eye.
That We shall be forever bright,
When stars and sun are sunk in night.
On the Tongue.
This silent tongue shall plead for thee,
When Time unveils Eternity.
On the Fingers.
These hands a richer need shall claim,
Than all that wait on wealth and fame.
On the Feet.
Their wings with angels wings shall vie,
And tread the palace of the sky.
So beautiful were the verses considered that a
reward of fifty guineas was offered for the name Of
the author, but no trace was ever discovered
They were sent to the London Morning Chronicle
for publication, but all efforts to find the gifted
author failed.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1870-05-30

If you would know the value Of q dollar,
80 and labor for it. If many Of our dandifed
drones now crowding the human hive were
obliged to toll for hours in the broiling sun, in
the dismal mine, or in the burning forge, We
would observe less dissipation and folly, less
riotous excess, less prohigacy, less weak, pale
faced, cadaverous looking nonentities in our
daily walks. If the befowered, over-dressed,
expressionless young ladies that promenade
Broadway or the avenues were compelled to
earn their dollars by making shirts at ten cents
a piece, or cmbroidering dresses like their own
with fingers weary and worn, how much Of
this foolish fnery would be dispensed with,
and how much more truthful notions would
they have of the duties of life, and their obi
cations to the rest of the world.
"They do beguile US with counterfeit,
Which, being touched and tried,
Proves valueless."
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1870-05-30

Registration closed in Richmond Tuesday
night and the whites are ESQ ahead. At the
last registration the blacks had a majority Of
several hundred
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1870-05-30

CAScER.-A citizen Of Philadelphia, who has
been using weak solution Of carbolc acid as
a wash to correct the offensive odor arising
from a canccrous affection, discovered that it
also entirely removed the cancer. Ono-iourth
Of an ounce Of carbolic acid Is diluted with
quart (thirty-two fluid ounces Of water, and
the lotion is applied three times day. A
weak solution, containing one eighth Of an
ounce Of carbolic acid to the quart Of water
would probably be a safer application.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1870-05-30

The Practical Farmer contains the following
suggestion to gardeners: To succeed, gar
dener must not attempt too much must limit
himself to few crops begin on a small scale
till lie masters bis business. Let every thing
be thoroughly done.
Asa rule, he recommended one hundred
wagon-loads Of manure to tie acre, and three
crops a year. Have something ready early
even if protection was necessary IN the winter.
Things out of season pay best, and gardening
canno. be easily oyerdOne,
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1870-05-30

PNEUMATIC ExPEEss-It takes seventeen
seconds to send a written message through a
Pneumatic tube from London 70 point four
hundred miles distant This beats steam, and
is not behind electricity. Bags Of heavy mail
matter are sent three miles 10 two seconds.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1870-05-30
PIANOS.

y
N The different Fairs bo2 iH the South, an
Ort1jel. uHd NOrember, 1869,
For the Best Pianos over Eight different New
York, Philadelphia and Baltimore, Pianos.
OFFICE ANp NEW WARERoou No. NORTH
LuERrY ST., BALTIMORE, MD.
CTIEFF'S PIANOS have all the latest improve
- meuts including the AGRAFFE TREBLE,
Ivory Fronts, and the Improved French Action,
fully warranted for Fire Years.
Secondhand Pianos and Parlor and Church Or
gaRs OF ms own make, always on hand, from SO
TO $500.
Rsferers who have our Pianos in USE
Gen. Il. T. Lee. Lexington, Virginia. Gen.
Robt Ransom. Wilmington, y. c. Gen. ID. H.
Hm Charlotte. " c. Governor John Letcher,
Lexington. Virginia. b. F. Harrison, Warren
Fbv fobn b. Packett John Burns. Andrew Al
dridre. Charles Laugdon, Thos c. Lakeland, Dr.
Cordell. Wm. g. Butler, Thos. v lsbell, of Jeiier-
son County.
Send for Circular containing 200 names OF per
SON. ir nh, south who have bought the Steh Piano
since the close of the War.
TERMS LIBERAL. \ call is solicited.
December J ls69-ly.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1870-05-30

The Ohio & Mississippi Railroad which
the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company has
leased, runs from Cincinnati to St. Louis.
Baltimore thus, in effect, holds possession Of
a continuous Inc from that city 70 St. Louis.