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MORE ABOUT FRUIT TREES.

A week or two ago we published a list
of fruit trees suited to this climate, and
indicated the character of soil best suited
to their nature. All fruit trees, after the
lapse of few years, should be well
manured, however rich the soil may
be at the time of planting. Nothing
that has come under our observation is
half so promotive of their growth as to,
bacco stalks. They supply everything
needed, and are an effectusl preventive
of the ravages of al species of insects
except the caterpillar This last named
pest must be destroyed by burning their
webs as fast as formed.
Nothing conduces more to the vigor of
fruit trees than judicial pruning. To
suffer the wster-sprouts to spring up
from the ground and the branches to be-
come 30 thick as to exclude the air and
light, is to throw sway all the labor that
has been performed. Most farmers think
that all that is necessary to have good
orchard is to set one out. We know of
no crop that requires more constant at
tention. 1t should be cultivated every
year after it is set out until it comes
into bearing, and after that once
IN two or three years, and no species of
grass or grain crop should ever be planted
in an orchard while young. The only
crops that can be cultivated in it without
injury to it are those which require most
of the work to be done with a hoe.
Strawberries, potatoes, tobacco, ETC., may
be raised without damage to the trees,
but ccrn, oats, wheat, barley, ETC., work
a speedy death TO all orchards. After the
trees have come into bearing clover may
be sown occasionally and plowed under,
but in no case should the pillow go nearer
than two feet to the trees after they have
begun to bear.
For peach trees mulching has been
recommended to prevent an unseason able
blooming. The mild weather in Fobru-
AIRY often induces premature swelling
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Personal.

We were glad to greet our esteemed
friend Col ii. G. Lockhart of Waverly, at
the Battle House yesterday evening.
Mrs. Mckenzie, of the GAINESVILLE Con-
federate Orphan Home, Will Besll, Rus
sellville KY, j. B. Palmer and lady, Muir
freesboro, ]. W. Judd, Springfield, R. G.
Mcclure, Lewisburg, A. Bedford and D.
T. Reynolds. Giles county, and d. II. G.
spence, Murfreesboro, were also among
the numerous guests of the Battle House.
Our handsome young friend Frank
Moulton, of the firm of Moulton & Reed,
starts this morning to Springfield for
bride, and we are under the impression
he will get 'Hurt before he returns.
J. J. Have, prominent merchant of
Jonesboro, Ala, was in the city yester-
day.
Col G. L. Anderson, General Superin-
tendent Memphis and Charleston Railroad,
was registered at the Maxwell House yes
terdaV.
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AREmARKA EFAMILY.
From the MurfreesborO News.


saw few days since in Memphis
paper, q sketch of a very remarkable
family, and interesting as it was, am OF
the opinion Rutherford is in the lead.
Mrs. Martha Lingow, living at Foster
vile in this county, is in her S5th year; is
the mother of 10 children, her Oldest
daughter is 81 years old, is the mother of
10 children, her Oldest grand daughter is
43 years olj, is the mother of 10 children,
her Oldest great grand daughter is % years
old, is the mother Of l, and if you join
nothing Coz TO this one she 1CtU hare 10;
thus making grandma, child, grand-child
and great grsud-child 10 children each.
Grand ma Lingow is the head of
family of 10 children, 81 grandchildren,
A great grand children, and ] great great
grand-c child, in all house of 107. She
is yet hale and hearty, and loves to lend a
helping hand to all noble and industrious
enterprises. She received at the first fair
of the Tennessee Central Association the
certificate on ladies' hose. She has lived
to say, what few can say: ''Arise my
daughter and 60 to thy daugh-
ter, for thy daughters daughter has a
d4ughtOr.
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ROBERTSON COUNTY.

Address of J. II. kilIebrcw TO the
acknowledgement of Farm
ers' Clubs.
To the Editors of the Union and American:
SPRINGFIELD, Feb. 6, 1S71.-This has
been day of peculiar interest in old
Robertson, and among the items none
stood so prominent as a speech delivered
by ]. B. Killebrew on subjects which
awakened sleeping spirit in our farmers
as to their duties to themselves, to their
country and their posterity. Ithas never
been cur lot to listen to discourse SO
well-timed, so full of deep thought, so
impressive in language of soul-stirring
eloquence, so clear in its simplicity, and
yet reaching in point of grandeur to a
height where we feel the full measure of
the mighty spirit which gave it utterance.
We feel to heartily congratulate your
paper In securing for your agricultural
department man so fully alive to the
tanners interest, and deeply imbued with
the spirit of aCOrk in this profession. Let
him be heard throughout the length and
breadth of our State, organizing farmers
clubs as here, and the fabric of our pros
p-Iity will rest upon a base which will
defy the assault of adversely beautified
and adorned by the hand of industry.
Such will surely be the result if the noble,
excellent and healthful advice given us
by your agricultural editor be needed
and we think you will soon see the work
of his Glands, heart and head" prosper
in old Robertson. FARMER.
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of the buds, which are killed by the cold
weather coming afterwards. ss4s
Subsoiling in land With a tenacious clay
is indispensable to the life of fruit trees.
The retention of water about The roots in
such land produces decay and speedy
death. We knew an orchard set out upon
such land in 1860, and three-fourths of
the trees have persisted from this cause
alone.
Dwarf pear trees should always be set
four or five inches below the union with
the ounce stock, for two very good rea-
sons: First, they are not so apt to be
broken off by severe winds; and, second
ly, by SO planting them they become
standards in consequence of the lateral
roots thrown out above the junction with
the ounce stock. All the advantages of
the dwarf and standard may in this man
ner be secured. - t.s
As to the proper distance for planting
trees much depends upon the nature of
the soil. On very rich land they should
be planted much farther apart than on
thin soil. On soils of average fertility we
should say thirty-six feet each way is the
proper distance for apples, twenty for
peaches and fifteen for dwarf pears. We
have seen very thrifty dwarf pears planted
at no greater distance than eight feet,
but after eight or ten years they become
90 crowded as to fail in their high
est productive capacity. In trim
ming dwarf pears the conical form,
as far as possible, should be preserved
and the lower limbs allowed to rest on
the ground. All stragglers and militia
limbs should be carefully Topped off and
the symmetry of the tree preserved. In
deed, no fruit tree should be 80 trimmed
as to expose the trunk to the heats of
the sun. Such exposures are the parent
source of many of the fatal diseases to
winch the frult tree Is liable IN this lati-
tude. We shall recur to this subject
again.
In this connection we insert the fol-
lowing: .L
MATT LIGoN APPLE
Is of medium size, usually flushed on
the sunny side, sub-acid, with a percept-
able pine apple flavor, mellow in Febru-
airy and March, and is exceedingly prolific.
The only tree the writer ever knew (un-
til Mr.. Fall, now of Nashville, s1d form
erly a nursery man near GAINESVILLE, was
induced to propagate them) was on
farm owned by Matthew Lyon near the
last mentioned place. This tree yielded
annually from four to eight barrels of
choice apples and they were often kept
until May. We hope this notice will di-
rect the attention of nursery men to this
apple and lead them to investigate its ex-
cellent qualities. l write this in answer
to queries in regard to the apple. Please
insert and oblige A SUBSCRIBER.
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MATT LIGoN APPLE
LIME AS A FERTILIZER.

10 the Edltors OF the Union and American:
SMARTT's STATION, WARREN COUNTY,
Tenn, Feb. 8, 1S7l.-I drop you a line
simply TO indorse your recommendation of
the use of lime as a fertilizer in yester.
days (2D UNION & AMERICAN. You
say Cline requires some time 10
produce its effect upon the soil, should
be applied in all cases as long as possible
before the planting of the CROP" My
experience is that the third and fourth
years after the application, l have wit.
messed the greatest results from it as a
fertilizer. have been experimenting
with it for twelve TO fifteen years; have
used many hundreds of bushels; have ap-
piled it in almost every conceivable
way, to almost every species of
grain, grass, garden product and
vegetable growth, but without any
satisfactory beneficial effects on the
present growing crop. Yet regard it
valuable fertilizer or Testorer of the ex-
hausted lands in my poor part of the
country. In blowing l still see lime
mixed with the soil that was applied
(brOad cast at the rate of one hundred
bushels per acre in 1860. l expect more
profit from it in the present crop than it
yielded the first year. More than thirty
years ago lime kiln was burned on my farm
When the lime was removed, consider
able pile of stone was left, being partially
burned, Stacked and rotted or decom.
posed, and finally mixed with the soil.
La few years afterwards, this land was
brought into cultivation, and this lime
kiln spot for many feet around was pro-
ductive beyond all calculation, and con-
tinued 50 for at least fifteen years. 1 am
not sure the growing crop of this season
will not indicate by its luxuriance the
veritable spot of the old lime kiln.
On this page wish simply to state to
you that l am farmer by birth, by ex-
perience or profession, and by choice,
and believe know what it is to eat my
bread in the sweat of my face. l am
ffty-seven years old, Cor will be if
should be spared till the 28th of this
month"; Ihave been living on this place
thirty years. 1t was considered worn
cut when settled it. My predecessor
had to leave for want of firewood. We
have raised large family, have been able
to educate our children in the material
branches of science, and in the last two
years have been offered thlrty.five dollars
per acre for my land.
But Messrs. Editors, the best fertilizer
Ihave ever found is thorough blowing.
prefer the subsoiler in breaking The
mkt best thing is to always keep stock
enough on the farm to consume everything
raised on the farm. And be sure to feed
IN such way as to leave all the litter,
and apply it speedily to the exhausted
part of the farm.
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Nesting of the Railroad OfFiciaIs.E

A meeting, composed of representatives
from the Green Line Railroad and from
other roads having connection herewith,
was held in the gentlemen's parloTs of the
Maxwell House yesterday. The princi-
pal object of the meeting was the align
ment or adjustment Of the Green Line
freight tariffs from St. Louis, Chicago,
Cincinnati, Louisville, and Nashville to
all points South. These officials propose
TO make all rates exactly proportionate as
nearly as possible, by this meeting, SO
that exact justice may be done to ship
pers over this popular line. The revi-
sion, including as it does the Green Lines
connections as well, made the duties of
the meeting very tedious, and they con-
sumed the whole day and part of last
night in the consideration of this matter.
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Kentucky and Tennessee Iron
In ChancerY at Ma shViIIe.-No. 6,146

STATE OF TENNESSEE, Office Clerk and Mas
- ter, Ohancery Court at Nashville, January
the 18to, 1871. Mary Fleming and another, Oom-
plainant, VS.. Peyton T. Roscoe, Administrator,
etc, and another, Defendants.
II appearing from affidavit fled in the petition
of B. : Fleming, in this cause ihst Jane Richards
is a nonresident of the State of Tennessee: and
1t further appearing that attachment has ssu sd
in this case, and has been returned levied upon
the following property, viz: The estate Of Jane
Richards and part cularlY the interest of the said
Jane Richards in the money or notes in tia hands
of the Clerk and Mas. er of the Chancery Court at
Nashville, Tenn. proceeds OF the sales Of lands
in the above entitled cause attached to secure the
payment to the said b s. Fleming Of $3.50, Justly
due him from the said Jane Richards, by account
for services rendered ana expenses incurred as
her agent and attorney in fact, etc.
II is therefore ordered that said defendant enter
her appearance herein before or within the FIRST
three days of the next term of said court to be
held on the first Monday in April next, QS7i and
plead answer demur to sad petition or
the same will be taken for confessed as to her,
and set for hearing parte, and that a copy of
this order be published for four consecutive weeks
in the Nashville Union and American.
A copy-Atte {:
NATHANIEL BAXTER, JR,
Clerk and Master.
Guild Smith, Solicitors for Petitioner.
jan2O-Iaw4t Fri
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PAPERS BIZ DIR. GORDON-No. s.
Agricultural Geology of Middle Ten
nesSee,
UNDER DRAINING.


To the Editors of the Union and American:
The mode of draining land by subsoil
blowing has been given, with most of the
science requiring it. In the present state
of our agriculture, that is the most &C
ceptable mode of draining, and will be
most readily adopted. But there are
spots on every mans farm where the
subsOil is compact and water tight to q
greater depth than the subsoil plow can
be made to penetrate. In such spot, I'M
derdraining is the remedy, and should be
adopted, though it will cost more. | will
not now urge that all our hillsides should
be Immediately Underdrsined, because
this would be regarded as wild and ex-
travagsnt. Yet, l believe our sons will
do it, and find it to be economical and
profitable. But l suggest that our gar
dens and orchards ought now to be un-
derdrained. 1t will pay. And my OBJ
jeCt is to urge our farmers to think about
it, and perhaps induce some to try it on
a small scale.
What is Understandings 1t is a contri-
vance TO cause most of the rain water
that falls, to run off underground, at the
bottom of deep bitches. | will give the
cheapest mode. Make a straightIine from
the upper side of the garden OF orchard
directly dorm hin to the lower side.
With a subsoil pillow or long bull tongue,
drawn by pair of oxen. having a woke
twelve or fifteen inches longer than is
usual, and pulling the pillow by a long
chain, run up and down hill on each side
of the marked line so as to plow a space
about two feet wide. Then throw out
the loose dirt with shovels. Again, put
in the plow, making each OK walk out.
side of the ditch, and blowing as long as
the pillow will 60 down into hard ground,
and then throw out the dirt as before; and
continue to pillow and throw out, till the
pillow will cut no lower. The ditch will
then be about three feet deep.
Next, cut with spade its width aud
length downward, throwing out the dirt
as you go. Finally, finish with a lone
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BoNNY FANNY DEAN.

In rambling throu h this weary world,
I've hos ers o. beauty seen:
But name were half sAe fair to me,
As bonny Fanny Dean.
I've never seen sic twa blue cen,
Nor sic . sweet wee mou,
And, oh her heart is soft and pure
AS drops o. morning dew.
The glossy vine WI grace may Irvine
In natures wild smang:
Msir graceful still DER Fanny's brow
Her sowden tresses hang.
I've kent her sin she was BARN,
wee bit gentle thing,
But new er thocht her budding charms
A spell wad over me fling.
III never break the sacred vow,
The promise made yestereen:
Come veal or woe, III welded be
To bonnie Fanny Dean.
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LOOK no YOUR CHILDREN.
FUR Ode ~ GnnuruTEn nEREED
I. ayosADALIs.

THE GREAT AMERICAN
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SYPHILIS, Skin Dise5ses, RhsGDs-
tiszn, Diseases Of Women, and al
chronic affections Il the blood
liver ami kidneys. Recommended
by the Medical Faculty ard many
thOJs-IIds Of our best citizens.
KeaG the testimony Of Phyn
clans and PATIENTS who have used
ROsadaiis. Send for eur ROsadalis
Guide 10 Health Be- k, OF A.manas
for this year, which We publish for
grEtuitous distribution 1t Wi
give you much valuable informs
tion-
DR.. B. W. Carr. u Baltimore.
says: ."
I take pleasure IN recommend.
ing your ROsADAJIs as very pow
erful Alternative | have seen II
used In two cases with happy re
sults-one In = case Of secondary
syphilis, in which the patient pro
nounced himself cured after hay-
ing taken five bottles Of your med
lcine; the other Il a case Of scrof
uls Of long standing, which In
rapidly improving under its use
and the Indications are that the
patient VIII soon recover. I ha7.
carefully examined the forInuls
by which your Roeadalis is made
and find II Is An excellent com
pound Of al Alternative ingredients
DR.. Sparks, Of NichoissviIle, Ky..
says he hss used Rossdahs In cases
Of scrofuls and secondary syphilis
with satisfactory results. As
cleaner Of the blood l know nc
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Samuel G. McFHdden, Of Mur>
freesboro, Tenn, says:
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WILSON COUNTY.
The Planting Season Commenced
A Heavy Storm and Considerable
Damage,

The Planting Season Commenced
A Heavy Storm and Considerable
Damage.
To the Editors of the Union and American
LEBANON, Feb. 6, 1S71.-As this is
our County Court day we have had the
pleasure of meeting and conVersing with
many friends from various parts of this
county, and we are pleased to note that
all the farmers we have met seem fully
awake to the importance of planting as
largely as possible. They seem stimulat-
ed by the hard times, and each determined
to do all in his power to make plenty in
the land. Many of our farmers read the
UNION & AMERICAN, and all should do so
on account of its agricultural department.
We learn from some friends from the
northern portion of the county, that that
section was on yesterday evening about
dark, visited by severe storm of wind
with considerable hail and rain. 1t seems
that the severe wind was confined to a
narrow strip of country one fourth of
mile in width, and that it passed only six
miles north of Lebanon. The property
in the way of the tempest was more or
less injured. We learn of several dwell
lings and other buildings being much
damageo, among them we mention the
barn of Mr. Holt which was blown down,
and his hay and fodder which he had
stored in it, scattered and blown away.
His dwelling and other buildings were
also injured. Mr.. Talliver's mill and the
buildings of several other gentlemen
were much damaged. The forest and
fruit trees were much blown down and
injured. We have not yet learned the
extent of the damages, but hope it has
not extended beyond our information.
We were much pleased to meet John
Frizzel, Grand Secretary, in our city
this evening. He is here in the interest
of the Masonic Home. We truly hope
that he and his co,laberers may every
where meet with that encouragement and
substantial support which their noble en-
terprise deserves.
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Some time ago, two desperate horSe
thieves escaped from the penitentiary at
Jackson, Mississippi. One of them was
arrested in Memphis on the second inst,
and few minutes after the officer seized
him, the negro ran away. Seeing that
his prisoner was likely to escape, the
policeman shot him in the back, twice.
The negro was then secured His wounds,
though serious, are believed not to be
dangerous.
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Refare Reimbursement Coodwin.

We stated some time since that four
men residing in Sumner county, had been
brought before Commissioner Goodwin, on
the charge of illicit distilling. On Tues
day three we're discharged, the evidence
being insufficient to csuse them to be held
for further examination. Yesterday the
case of Thomas Shucraft was concluded,
and he was also discharged.
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Fire.

About half past II o'clock yesterday
fire broke out in frame building on the
corner of summer and Monroe streets.
The engine Hamilton, stationed in the
Ninth ward repaired promptly to the
scene, and extinguished the flames before
the alarm reached the Square. Bully for
the Hamilton. .
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STILL In THE FIELD.
E. II. MILLER,

No. North College Street,
ID EsPRCTFULLY INFORMS HIS FRIENDS
II and patrons, that he is still manufacturing
Mattresses and Beddings, and requests an inspec-
ton Of his goods and prices before purchases be
made elsewhere, as he is satisfied that he can
make It to their interest to do jan1 I'm
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wANTED-MONEY

WE WANT TO BORROW 100000, in sums
w from slOO to $4,000 st per Ct. perannum
illegal intTestl secured By deed Of trust on real
tate, good coilatersls, or frst-clss- "gIlt-edse-
PAPER. ARRIaGToS, FARRAR q WEAKLEY.
jan "A till oct 8, II No. 81 N. College So.
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THE CITY.
RepairinR.

Carpenters were engaged yesterday in
taking up the old floor in the hallway at
the Recorders Office, and replacing it by
a new one, which was a needed improve
ment, as the tramp, tramp of thousands
had WON the boards very thin.
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TO II II Il N II,

TWO NEW AND ELEGANT STORES,
with splendid Offices and Rooms above, in the
"CANTRELL BLOCK on North Summer street,
opposite Thompson's
ARLINGTON, FARRAR WEAKLY, Agt's,
dec22-tf No. 81 North College street
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THE GREAT
SPRING AND SUMNER TONIC

Medical treatment has been revolution
lied, and at last the discovery has been
made that RencUatiOrs, not ProstrGtSoD, is
the true Medical Philosophy. The intro
duction of PLANTATION BITTERs,
prepared with pure St Croix Rum and
Calisaya Bark, opened the eyes of the
world to this great fact The ife-sustafn-
ing principle embodied in this great vege-
table Restorative is manifested in the weak
and responding by an immediate and most
encouraging change. If the appetite has
failed, it is quickened; if digestion has
been painful and imperfect, it becomes easy
and thorough; if the liver is torpid, it is
reused and regulated; if the nerves are re-
Taxed, they are strengthened and restrung;
if the brain has been haunted by morbid
fancies, they are put to fight, and hope and
cheerfulness return In the face of the ex-
traordinary cures of general debility, dys~
pepsia, biliousness, constipation and men,
tai dependency, wrought by Plantation
Bitters, no practitioner not in league with
death and the undertaken could persist in
it. The terrible evacuents which were once
prescribed as the spring and summer med
icines, have utterly lost their prestige. The
sick will not take them, and Plantation
Bitters, in which are combined the
ments Of q stomachic, and invigorsnt, a
mild laxative, nervine and an snti-biious
specific, reign In their stead
Sold by all druggists.
spr16-deod6weow1y