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The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1871-06-01
UNCLE JOSEPH.

4 wide cook Kitchen, after the fashion
Of New England, with the breath of
grape blossoms coming in at the open
windows, and glistening tin pan on the
table full Of dewy, scarlet strawberries (;
waiting TO be hulled-this is our scene /;
cur dramatis pers0aae consist of Mrs.
Perkins, whose drowsily clicking, knit
tmg-needIes keep lime TO the purr Of the
oyergrown Maltese cat, and a pretty
Young girl with rather a flushed face,
who had iust entered from a door lead
ing to the hall
Wei, said Mrs. Perkins, looking up
with that incGablc wise expression which
is impaired to the human couutenaucc by
round silscr spcctacle., perehed obliqucly
on the bridge Of the nose, he aint asleep,
is be:
Yes he IL, was the answer.
Glory be thanked for that, at least, said
Mrs. Perkins, apparently impaling her.
. HttA WI a A3+@ h}lAAtA~ ~tfttAteg NHltlti
however, entered harmessly into the
horn sheath that she wore AZ her side, en-.
casca Ia a seolloped red flannel There
viii be i've minutes Of peace at least
You are tired, aia't you Dous
Ye,, .sil Theodore White, ana rather
tired.
Bu, her langui1 voice spoke plainly
that tie more accurate phrase would have
been very tired
Theodora White was a slender. sof
eyed Zirl o. eighteen, with a complexion
of pearlg elesrness, aad rose apieee o.
her eheeks-a girl with a iimple OH heI
chin and q pretty, pleading way Of look
Ing al sou when sbe spoke She "a
down beside ne window where tie mig
nonette scented erape blossoms weu
swaf iHg iH Tic summer Sir, and ieaney
hef forehead against ihc easement
Mr. Pcfkius eyed her with az oR
ike glance efsympalhy.
Ita shame, so lt il, said Mrs. Pefkin.
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WE Authors,

Mr., c., q gentleman who had Just
finished his first attempt at authorship,
which met with a remarkable success,
was shortly after met by seedy-looking
individual who extended bis hand, aud in
a tragic manner exclaimed
Allow me, sir, to welcome YOU TO our
ranks--thc noble ranks Of authorship.
The peculiar appearance Of the individual
rather amused c., and he said
Thank YOU, bat may ! venture 10 ask
who you are, and what work bears your
name?
Certainly, sir. Have you ever heard Of
Tennyson, the Poet Laureate!
Yes.
Well, am not he. But have you ever
heard Of Longfellowi
Yes, but have never yet seen him.
Surely you are not the poet, Longtellow'
No, am not he.
Then who in the dickens afe your
All! have you ever heard Of Dickcns2
Yes, but | know YOU are not Dickens,
No, sir, am not Tennyson, Longiel.
low, OF Dickens, but, sir, I, the indiyid'
nal who stands prominent before You Ia
the noble person Of man, sir, am -
Well, sir, who are you, anyhow, aud Of
what the deuce are you the authotl
/, sir, ! am George Peter Thurston,
Esquire, aud am the celebrated author
Of an invaluable tooth-powder for clean.
ing, preserving and beautifying the teeth
which will be exceedingly happy TO sell
4 YOU or any other gentleman,
] C -- pntiauaaJ
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1871-06-01

Terrible times IN Wauenton, Va, are
thu. depicted; A few weeks ago, deu-
ti.t came to town, aud advertised that
be would remove all Of 4 person's teeth
for 81, aud insert new set for 90, be.
sides giving six months credit" The
Wafrcnton people are very fond Of bar
gains, 10 there was rush for the den-
tiHrs office. lie wa. busy f0r two weeks
pulling teeth, and AZ the end Of that time
half the people had empty gums, and a
bone dust factory ia the neighbofhood
doublcd IL number of workmsu 10 a. 10
grind up tie teeth While the people
were waiting for The dentist 70 ht them
With their new sets, tic abandoned
scoundrel eloped with another mans wife; /;
and now there are TWO " three thousand
people 10 the town whO cannot cal any
thing tougher than soup or fariua All
the butchers have failed, aud not u
cracker has been sold for si2 weeks. One
man, Il IL said whitfield out sci "
wooden teeth for himself bat tie first
drink of whlskey he took Wanenton
wiiskey set them IL s blaze, aud his
funeral came or the next day. The den.
ti,t will hear something greatly 70 biz al.
vantage Is be comes back.
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the skiH or bis Wrapper close around
h.m.
But. uncle. yeu're .igG.
No. Fan BOT,
Uncle, DO yoa really mean 53
Ofgangse Z da, The1l
Aud be did mean 20, The cure had
been effected, and Theodore mentally
congratulated herself ou the sueccss Of
her plan Of treatment. And uclu Joseph
never aludedto the daH on which his
ncIce had taken him 50 implicitly az bis
word.
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HOUSE AND LOT FOR SALE

4 Fffs Acaafahl haues AID at askf tIt Easl.n
- H5aae v4lA Fos8 ga4dta. ffaa. &c
AF5tta IN 0EYls
Ma1shasaes w. JaE. p ls5i 8s-u
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1871-06-01

"A Troy editor lately returned =
Tdiors Tin witA The following memoraa.
dum on the margin Your manuscript
Il respectfully declined
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1871-06-01

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ed.
Indeed. uncle. / hurried all could,
pleaded Dora. Here. the Cruel all
smoking.
Bnt Uncle joseph shook his head.
lis too late. I've lost an my appetite.
he moancd.
Won't Won have the cruel. uncleg
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You might know by this time that dom
mean what say. Get me some more
quick! If | handn't been bed-riddcn for
Il year, ] could go twice as fast as YOU do
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shali IN my me- on' acari 70 'nlhA
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If you do, I'll dsinherit you.
Very wen, uncle.
Theodore, you'll have to feed me
This annoyance has weakened me ter
fip'y'
Yes, uncle
Stop--stop-its hot you're ehokin,
me-
But The odora kept resolutely on.
S.t-o.p! spluttered uncle Joseph
snringine uimbly TO the other side of tn
hed What do Won mean. Theodora
didn't | fell Won TO stopg | don't be
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Our skins nre selves.

And through millions Of orihces ooz es the trans-
parent fluid which nature does not need for vital
purposes. This is wise provision Of Providence.
but excessive Precipitation is, nevertheless, ex-
trenlely Weakening. During the heat Of sum-
mer al hard-working men perspire TO An extent
that is more or lees debilit atirg. They, OF all
classes Of the community, gequire wholesome
invigorsnt st this season. Let them not seek &c
in the liquors OF the bsr-room; they will net find
it there. A medicsted stinuIant, pure and I'M
dehled, is what they nesd and among this Glass
Of remedies, Hostetter's Stomach Bitters stands
alone. No valid plea can be urged against its use,
even by the genius Of Temperance itself, for
even the Maine law permits the sale of diffusive
stimuli for medicinal purposes. As general reno
waiting preparation, the Bitters has no equal any
where. Bat this Is only one Of the merits Of this
famous iavigorator. Its regulating properties
give It an immense superiority over all the ton
les Of The Pharmacopaia. In cases Of chronI
constipation 1t is the most useful and certain Of
sill aperieuts. 1t creAtes no violent commotion In
the dschEigln organs, but gently relieving tn EN-
Of their distractions, leaves them In q healthy
vigorous condition. It seems unnecessary to
state, in view Of the mass OF testimony a. to its
effects in dyspepsia, that it is s permanent cure
for that terrible and bat too general complaint.
The numerous 'Bftters," under various names
which mercensry dealers endesyor to substitute
for Hostetter's Stomach Bitters, should be avoid
ed, for their own sakes, by the sick and the pub
lie at large. Hostetter's Bitters are procurable
in bottles only. and never sold in bulk
jy22 deodlw&wlt sp
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-07-27
TURNIP CROP.

There is no crop that the farmer can
put in the ground which pays him better
than the turnip. We are aware that with
some persons it is looked upon as of lit
tie account; but it has never received the
consideration to which it is really entitled;
and those who tltT7l-Ip their noses at it
are not genuine farmers.
1t is a crop moreover that is put in at
time when the hurrying work of the
season is over; and it occupies ground tina;
has been used for something else The
cultivation also, say of from one to two
acres of turnips, involves comparatively
little labor. The crop, too, is harvested
in November, when there is almost nc
other labor on the farm TO interfere with
it.
As to the variety of seed to SOW, we
believe there is no turnip equal to the
purple top. A tOp,dressing of bone
manure is almost indispensable to an
abundant crop.
For an early crop take the Early Flat
Dutch and SOW broadcast early in July.
The Purple Top for the regular farm crop.
This should be sowed in drills thirty in.
ches apart, and when the turnips are the
size of hickory nut, thin cut to eight
or ten inches apart in the row. They
seldom fail in affording q satisfactory
crop. The crop can be put in the latter
part of July or first half of August.
When the land is little short, SOW
among the corn at the last working.
They will not interfere in the least with
that crop, generally, and very little wher
it is harvested.
Be sure always to procure seed from
established seed houses of reputation
and use that grown here instead of il
Europe, if you wish the best and safes
article. Germantown Telegraph.
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thing they do in planting a vineyard is to
set out msple trees OILY four feet apart.
These for the first gear are trained &c
that arms shall come out at regular dis.
tances up the trunk of the tree, as regu-
larly as the branches come out on larch
or pine tree. BY summer pruning these
trees, they can be kept into low and per
manent shape, just as well as an Usage
orange or honey locust Il hedge. The
trees are rarely allowed to grow above
fifteen or twenty feet high, but wiRe to
the amount of quarter to half q barrel
per tree is the usual average. The second
year after setting out the tree the vine is
planted against it. In order to give it a
good chance against the tree, two or
three year old vine must be planted. Our
'rootliDgs' would not do. Not even in
France and Germany, where the people
are so enlightened, and read all the new
ideas in the papers, have they anything
like the success in grape culture which
rewards the toll of these ignorant Italians,
not twenty per cent of whom can read or
write.
eve fancy the great objection with
Americans viii be the amount of labor
this system will call for. The trees as
well as the vines must be fed, and hence
top dressings have to be given every year.
A lazy system suits US best. When we COM
menced to recommend grass for our or
chards, not a few jumped at it, as sys-
tenn which would give them fruit for
absolute neglect. Since they have come
to learn that the surface root culture
really takes. more labor than the old one
of having few large fruits once in q
while on Unhealthy trees, to continuous
and regular average crops. 1t is Sc much
easier to growl at the climate than to get
the fruit of the earth by the sweat of
the brown
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-07-27
BREAKING COLTS.

A correspondent of the Country Gen.
tIeman gives his experience in England
in the matter of breaking colts as fol-
lows:
81 raised upward Of twenty colts per
year from 1885 to 1850. A colt breaker
by profession, who broke for all the no
bility and best horse raisers in the neigh
borhood, broke for me, and he always
preferred a four year old, which had
never been handled, to make good sad
die horse. ANY of the widest of any
age ne could bring into handy state, fit
for any hersemen TO ride, In four weeks,
while he would be fortnight longer in
getting those safe which had been hal
tered, and perhaps ridden bare back.
There are reasons for preferring that all
colts, and even young COW kind, should
be handled so tar a. to be able to lead
them; as it saves deal of running around
at times, but the less colt is in the hands
of men or boys knowing nothing of
workmanship, or in charge of men pre-.
tending to know everything about colts
aud horses, the better, till ne becomes
strong enough to work, and has felt the
bit while in the hands of man who Car
feel horses mouth-there is a gift Il
some men in possessing hands with such
delicate touch as for any horse K
tell driver or rider knows how TO guild,
him, and every genuine jockey or gentle
| men rider knows this to be fact.
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blown upon the surface of popular esteem
Iby the whims and envious breaths of po-
litlcal favoritism. The same holds good
of the trades, and of the thousand and
one avenues which the channels of hons
orable labor offer and open up. Life
with the farmer is full of hope, of buoy
ancy, of elasticity. To him the sun rises
and sets in beauty, and the nights of his
iepose are soothed with pleasing dreams
and sweet slumbers. At least eighty-five
per cent. Of those in mercantile pursuits
fail, while the few only achieve
success. And the successful few
do SO by wearing and tearing
cares, and sleepless nights and anxious
days. In the professions the larger num-
Der fail, while the very fewest attain any
eminence or distinction, or win what the
worlds popular verdict calls success.
We wish our farming friends to bear
these facts in mind with fixed and per-
manent lodgment. Educate your sons,
and make it a part of their education not
to be allured by false professional glitter.
The professions are full of drones and.
idle dreamers. An idle profession never
yet pushed man upward. Moths never
yet snuffed a star. Then leave profess
sions out of the question, and educate
your sons to the farm, and to vocations
of useful labor. Through such avenues
honor and preferment are as swift and
sure to acrue as through any other.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-07-27
TRANSMITTING TREES.

A tree will transplant very much better
and grow with more certainty if dug
when the ground is very wet, and if il is
valuable tree it pays. well 10 wet the
ground the day before digging.
Almost any evergreen will beas trans
planting, and viii do well if shaded the
first summer. No one would believe the
difference till they try it.
There is no trouble about iransplanting
large trees, if you take two or three years
for it. We have tried it on pear, which
is the hardest to move. Dig three fOurths
UP, and then fill up the place till another
year; or, if very big tree, take still
another year. This saves labor, for then
not SO much digging is necessary.
Plants started too early II the spring
get check or kind of chill from which
they will not recover the whole season.
Trees should hardly be watered at all
unless they are mulched, not simply be-
cause of the waste in evaporation, but
the cold produced by the evaporation
does about as much harm as the water
does good. We often hear persons say
they wonder why watering trees seems TO
uO 90 ALtle SOud. Inc EcaSOu Is lnaI Tue
evaporation produces so much cold that
the tree is stopped growing. And then it
takes very much more water to reach the
roots of a tree than the inexperienced are
aware of, SO that the single bucket of
water does nothing more than make 6
cold place round the collar of the tree.
If the tree was in strong growing state
it could bear it, but it is in SIS much need
of warmth as water.
Mulch prevents evaporation and holds
the water till it has time to reach the
roots. But when we consider that bar
rel of dry earth will nearly hold barrel
of water, We must not think that a single
bucket of water will be of much use. -
G0rdner's Monthly.
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FARM AND GARDEN.
sTOCK LAWS.

A short while ago we published an ar
ticle on this subject, in which we urged
upon our readers the necessity OF adopt
ing some more economies method OF
protecting crops from the deprecations OF
animals than the construction OF costly
and short.lived fences. We attempted to
show the immense amount that was vir-
tually thrown away to landowners and
to the State by making fences to keep
stock out in place of making them to
keep stock in. The value of the stock
that at present is turned out in Middle
Tennessee will not pay one-tenth of the
first cost of wooden fences on each plans
tation, to say nothing of the time, labor
and timber required in keeping them up.
Let our farmers clubs take up this ques-
ton and have estimates made as to the
cost of fencing our lands. We need
every dollar that we csI save in our agri-
cultural operations. The present low
price of produce impeiatively demands
retrenchment and economy somewhere,
and we know of no place it can be better
done than in dispensing with the innu-
merable fences that form net work over
the State. A committee of the Beech
Island Is. c. Farmers Club says:
'Some years ago the cost of the fences
of the United States-'those unproduc-
tive monuments of art'-were estimated
by Burknap at more than twenty times
the amount of specie In the country.
More recently their total first cost is
placed at near 81, 800, 900, 900, and the
roadside and boundary fences as exact
ing an annual tax, averaging $L50 on
every acre of improved land in the coun-
try. Nearly generation ago, MIR. Biddle
estimated the cost of the fences of Penn
sylvania at 800, 900, 900, and the annual
repairs at $4,000, 900. Yet Pennsylva-
MIA had then but about double the amount
of improved land of South Carolina. Gen.
Worthington estimates their cost in
Ohio at $115, 900, 900. Ohio had about
two and third times the improved land
of South Carolina. With about three
times the improved land in New York,
its fences cost according to Robin
son, $144, 100000 Mr.. Prince estimates
the cost of annual repairs on the two
thirds of the fences of Maine that are
made of wood, on farms of over twenty
acres extent at near 100000. The
total improved Is nd of Maine is about one
half that of South Carolina. Illinois is
said to have ten times the fencing of Ger
many, and Duchess county, N. Y, more
than all France. A narrow path serves
to divide farms in France, Germany and
Holland. A beautiful system exists in
some portions of Europe, in lieu of fenc-
ing, adding grace of beauty to the land
scspe, and often a source of income IL
stead of improbable expense. Proprie-
tors are required by law to mark the
boundaries of their lands by trees, and to
plant fruit and ornamental trees at stated
distances ON public highways, and the
traveller often passes formiles under trees
bending with fruit, or affording grateful
shsde,
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-07-27
ORCHARD GRASS,

Acorrespondent OF Our Home Journal,
New Orleans, writing from Woodley,
Place, La, gives his experience In the
culture of this grass. After q farming
experience of twenty years, during which
time he has experimental with all grasses,
ne comes to the conclusion that, for the
South, there is nothing equal to the pc
rennial orchard grass. He says:
81 have grown it for six years, and nc
extreme of heat or cold injuries it. During
the past severe winter, my pasture con,
tinued verdant, and my calves therein fat.
1t can be twice moved in a season, af.
fording two crops of most nutritive hay.
unless left to seed in the fall. The stub
BILE continues vigorous for years. have
seen it attain seven feet in height, on
good ordinary land. For successful dairy
farming in Louisiana, it is the only reli-
ance. | am gradually sowing all my Oldest
land with it. Have any of our friends
arrived at more favorable results in expe.
riments of similar nature2"
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-07-27

GEN. Won MOLTKE, as we learn from
an article of exceeding interest on ''The
Telegraph and the Storm" in the August
number of Hdyper'S Magazine, con
Quoted the late operations of the German
army on the battle fields of France, sit
ting in the rear, with his map before him,
and his telegraph operator at his size,
keeping him in communication with all
parts of the field. 1t has been frequently
said by distinguished military men that
the telegraph will b: one Of the most ef-
fective weapons in any war that may
now occur.-Hdrper'S Weekly.
All of which Is not true. The tele-
graph Was used by the Germans in keep
ing up communications between their
several armies, and also between the
Kings headquarters and Berlin. 1t was
the duty of enc division of the telegraph
corps to have the connection perfect
every evening between the King and Ger
many. There were four corps of tele-
graphers, each with train consisting of
about dozen heavy wagons, guarded by
company of infantry and few lancers.
The business of three Of these corps was
to preserve communications between the
three German armies, which, at the be-
ginning of the war, were commanded by
the Crown Prince, Prince Frederick
Carl, and Steinmetz. the Telegraph
was not used upon the field of battle,
as stated. 1t is not adapted to the
contingencies of comba;: OF course it
might occasionally be made useful, but
the General who would depend upon it
would find it a failure in an emergency.
Moltke did not do much in the way of
personally handling troops on the field of
battle. BE planned the grand maDeuvers,
and is pres clence was 50 great, snd The
certainty with which he counted On the
troops WAS 81 absolute, that he foresaW
and provided for almost everything that
happened. The defeat of ncMahon at
Woerth, was managed by Blumsnthal,
the Chief IF Staff of the Crown Primo.
Stelnme,z handled the masses in the field
at Gravelotte. At Sedan there was moth
ing TO do but march around the disorgsn-
lied French and gobble C1nc5n-
natl Commercial.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-07-27

THR respective owners of Kingfsher
and Longfellow, the great horses in the
Saratoga races, are thus pictured: Bel
mont, kingfisher's owner, appeared in o
white Tyrolese hat with silver feather, 8
very light gray surtout coat, white vest
and trowsers, with red scarf pinned with
a Jockey cap set with diamonds. His
gloves were immaculate dove color. Old
John Harper the owner of LongfeIlow,
wore an old, black, Texas SLOUGH hat,
seedy gray checked trowsers, a home-
spun coat, low shoes, sOiled stockings,
wilted linen. and his hands were tanned
and bleached with the suns of eighty
summers.