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Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1872-07-10
The Wheat Harvest.

The United States Economist asserts on
what it designates as abundant evidence"
that the aggregate yield of wheat this year
will fall below that of 1871 by 10000, 900
bushels, the latter being counted at 230,-
0OO, 900 bushels and the former estimated
at 220, 200, 900. The Department of Agri-
culture is the chief authority relied on;
and, indeed, there is no possible Organiza-
ton outside of our extensive Government
machinery possessed of one 1.-THE of the
facilities for collecting and digesting the
data requisite for general crop estimates.
1t is asserted that the average increase of
acreage was only two per cent, while the
average production has been indefinitely
but very materially deficient.
On the continent of Europe "A similar
condition is reported, as to the general ag-
gregate, with some countries exceeding
and others falling short of last years pro-
duction. The same is asserted of England,
as ii is held that the recent genial and
highly favorable spell Of weather can not
entirely redeem the crop and raise it to an
average basis.
On the Sth Of June the total visible sup
ply of wheat in the United States was
5 ,195, 72i bushels against 5,3GS, 20i bushels
at the same time in 1871, and the steadily
decreasing movement to the seaboard
with a peculiar condition of the home mar
ket calculated TO stimulate such a move
ment, indicates that their is very little re-
maing in the hands of producers.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1872-07-10
How to Know the Age of Horse.

We find the following in the Southern
CultiUdtor, credited to Exchange" The
colt is born with twelve grinders when
four front teeth have made their appear
ance, the colt is twelve days old; and
when the next four come forth it is four
months old. When the corner teeth APP
pear the colt is eight months old when
the latter have attained the hight of the
front teeth it is one year old. The two
year old colt has the kernel, Ia dark sub
stance) in the middle front teeth, and
when three years old they are substituted
by the horse teeth. The next four teeth
are shifted in the fourth year, and the cor
ner teeth in the fifth. At six years the
kernel j. worn out of the lower middle
front teeth, and the bride teeth have now
attained to their full growth. At seven
years q hook has been formed in the cor
ner teeth of the upper jaw, the kernel of
the teeth next to the middle fronts is worn
out and the bride teeth begin to wear Off
At eight years of age the kernel is worn
out of all the lower front teeth, and be-
gins to decrease in the middle upper front
teeth, the hook on the corner teeth has in
creased in size. and the bride teeth lose
their points. In the tenth year, the kerr
mel is worn out of next to the middle front
of the upper jaw; and in the eleventh
year the kernel has nearly vanished from
the corner teeth of the same jaw. At
the crown of all the front teeth in the low
er jaw has become triangular, and the
bride teeth are much worn down. AS the
horse advances i'll age the gums shrink
away from the teeth, which consequently
acquire long, narrow appearance, and
their kernels have became metamorphosed
into darkish point, gray hairs increase in
| the forehead, over the eyes, and the chin
assumes the form of an angle.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1872-07-10
Manures for Clover.

Sulphates of soda and magnesia tglauber
and EPSON salts) have been found peculiar
~ efficacious as manures for clover, this
being a crop that responds much more
readily to mineral than to nitrogenized ma
nures. The reason of this is believed to
be that the plant draws its ammonia more
from the air than from the soil. On land
that, without such fertilizers, gave about
three and one-half tons of clover hay, the
crop was increased to four and one-half
tons per acre by manuring with the salts
named. Combined with superphosphates,
these substances wouldNbe likely to show
still better results, and fertilizer thus con-
stituted is we'll worthy of extended trial
on our clover fields. The value of clover,
especially when pastured with sheep, is
fully recognized by our farmers; but its
systematic growth preparatory to wheat, as
is practiced in English tillage, is too much
neglected, insomuch as, from the small
amount of ammonia taken by it from the
soil, it allows nearly whole years accu-
mutation to be stored up for the use of the
succeeding cereal crop, to which nitrogen
lied plant food is absolutely essential
Rural Ne2U Yorker.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1872-07-10
Care of Horses.

do not mean to go into lengthy trea-
tise on the care and management of blood
ed horses or fine carriage horses, but the
care of farm horses, for 1 have seen SO
much neglect of this item, by farmers gen.
orally, that deem few hints on the sub
ject necessary.
In the spring, horses are more liable to
disorders and suffer more from heat and
work than at any other time of the year,
and this being the case, they require extra
care and attention to counteract or coun-
ter-balance these evils. il is very bad poll
cy to leave the feeding of full feeds of grain
until the busy season is Just about to COM
mcnce, for, by so doing, the animals are
liable to a sudden loosing of the bowels,
which somewhat weakens them at time
when they require all their energies to en-
able them to get through the hard spring
work without being seriously effected by
any ordinary circumstances. The plan
we consider best is, say about a month be-
fore the hard work commences, to gradu-
ally start feeding grain regularly, so that
they will not feel any bad effect therefrom,
and that by the time the spring opens, they
will have had regular full feeds for a week
or more.
Comparatively few persons attach the
importance of a thorough cleaning of the
horses, lat least once a day that they should,
for good scratching will improve the APP
pearance. both in health and in vigor. We
always have our horses well fed, in the
morning early, when we have them thor
oughly cleaned with a curry-comb and
brush, and then well rubbed down with a
flannel rag or pad, which latter lays the
coat nicely, and makes it bright and
glossy.
If the horses have been sweated during
the morning work, they should be thor
oughly cleaned again before they leave the
stable. BY doing as above directed, we
have kept horses in a much better condi-
ton than others who did not give the
necessary cleaning-the same feed being
to each
When working horses, be sure and have
the gears fit, for if the brides do not do so,
they may hurt his eyesight, or, if the col
lars do not fit the neck, gals or CALLED
shoulders will result, or choking; when
the animals condition must be inquired
into, the remedy being the application of
a thick band or pad on the under side of
the collar just above the sore.
Water should not be given while the
horses are warm with eXertion for they
will be apt to drink far more than they
want, which has resulted in the death of
many fine animals far better put them in
the stable for half hour or so before per-
hitting them to drink. A horse properly
cared for will do more work and last much
longer than one not so well managed.-D.
Il. Erdns an Prairie Farmer.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1872-07-10
Financial.
JOHN BAXTER, K. p. BAILEY,
President. ! Cashier.
EXCHANGE and DEPOSIT
B A N K,
Knoxville, Tennessee.
EsTABLIsHED 1SGO.

WE are prepared to purchase, at
" Best Rates, Gold, Silver, Gov
eminent, State, County, City, and
Railroad Bonds and coupons, Bank
of Tennessee Notes, New and Old
Issue, Uncurrent Southern Bank
Notes, and East Tenn, Va. and GA. R,
r. Stock.
We transact a General Banking
Business, buy and sell Eastern and
Southern Exchange at current rates,
receive deposits and make collections
upon the most favorable terms.
Interest paid on Deposits in Savings
Bank Department.
Tickets by Inman, Anchor and NatiOna
Lines OF Ocean Steamers, and Exchange on
all the principal cities Of Europe for sale.
Il. P. BAILEY, CASHIER.
Julyl5-d&WH
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1872-07-10

BLACKBERRIES.- Preserve these as straw
berries or currants, either liquid or lam, or
jelly. Blackberry jelly or jam is an excel
lent medicine in summer complaints or
dysentery to make it, crush quart of
fully ripe blackberries with pound of the
best loaf-sugar put it over gentle fire and
cook it until thick, then put to it a gill of
the best fourth-proof brandy, stir it awhile
over the fire, then put it in pots.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1872-07-10

BARNGARD MANURE AND AsHEs.-A
correspondent asks whether barn-yard
manure and ashes can be used together on
land?" Both can be profitably used on
the same land, but they should not be mix
ed before application. The barn-yard ma
nure should be applied to and Incorporate
ed with the soil, and the ashes applied sep
arately as a top-dressing. "Can the two be
used alternately, at different seasons, on
the same land? Yes. "How much ashes
can be used, per acre, on moderately good
land with safety" Any amount from one
bushel to five hundred bushels.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1872-07-10
Chancery Court at Knoxville, Tenn.
No. 23lS.

IL. W. Hackney ,s. ". 4. Seay. Administrator OF Jo-
teph Davenport decd, and Others.
IN this it appearing from the eros5bill that Jo
i seHh Davenport, decd, left surviving him heirs at
law, some Of " HON are minors. whose names and resi-
denees are unknown, but all Of whom are non resi-
dtns Of the State Of Tenne see that tho ordinary
process Of Law cannot be served upon them II there
fore ordered BY the Clerk and Master that public ton
be made for four successive weeks in the Knox lille
Chronicle, notifying all the heirs Of Joseph Davenport
deceased Whose names unknowu.) to appe before
the hancery Court at Knoxville on or before the ID
Monday Of September next, and make defense 20 said
bin or the same will be "a en- for confessed and
set for hearing G. pa 10 as to them
This 18th day Of June. IS 2.
A COPY Of the or er Attest: -
NJ Il, PATTERSON, G r. M.
je95vi By W. A. GALBKAITH. D. C. & NJ.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1872-07-10
Cure for Hog Cholera.

Ground ginger ounces black anti
mony ounces -four sulphur ounces !;
pulyerized nitre 9 ounces; sulphate of iron
4 ounces. Mix and give to large hog
full teaspoonfull three times a day. To a
to smaller ones, according to size.
If the type of the disease is attended
with diarrhea, add two ounces of powder
ed alum, and . ounces white oak bark.
Use the inner bark dried and powdered.
Should the securing prove obstinate, give
one pint melted lard and one teaspoonful
spirits turpentine. Continue the powders
until the hair becomes a bright color, and
the skin looks clear and healthy.
This remedy has been used by the author
for near ten years and has never failed,
even though he has given it in his cases in
the last stage of the disease. Bristol Netr8.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1872-07-10

SALE OF HoRsEs.-A sale of fine horses
took place last week, at the stock farm of
Hon. David A. Gage, near Chicago. Fifty
one horses were sold, averaging nearly
81 900 each. Among the high-priced ones
were John H., at $500, Zarliska, 81, $50,
and Columbia, S2,O50. The famous trot..
ting mare. Clara G., brought 1000, and
was bought by Mr.. l.. c. Chase, of Boston.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1872-07-10

BLACKBERRY SYBUP.-Make simple
syrup of a pound of sugar TO each pint of
water, boil il until it is rich and thick then
add 10 IL as many pints of the expressed
juice Of ripe blaekberries AZ there are
pounds OF sugar put half nutmeg grated
TO each quart of the syrup let it boil fif-
teen or twenty minutes, then add TO it half
gill Of ourtb-proOf brandy for each quart
ofsyurp; set it by TO become cold, then
bottle 1t for use. n tablespoonful for a
child or Q wineglsss for an adult is dose.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1872-07-10
HoeIng Potatoes.

One of the secrets of success in potato
growing is to give them hoeing at the
proper stage Of growth; one Milling is suf-
ficient, and this should be given when the
vines are about six inches high. Previous
to this use the cultivator freely-keep the
earth on the surface free from weeds
When mt the stage of growth mentioned,
give a good billing, making the mound
broad and flat on the top, and little cap
ping after this do no more than to cut out
weeds. The hoeing is best done soon after
a rain.
Some advocate flat culture, and others
two killings, but we have never succeeded
with either of those plans, nor do the most
successful potato-growers advocate them.
Two billings will make two settings, and
result in large number of small potatoes
at harvest time, Flat culture may do on
a deep loamy soil, where the roots can
ramify and form tubers readily, but clay
soil killing in the old fashioned way is the
one most certain to make good returns.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1872-07-10

The mixing iron scraps, filings, or drill
ing chips from machineshops in the soil
about the roots of gear-trees is becoming
general with some of our best fruit-growers.
The health and productiveness of the trees
are greatly promoted thereby. Pieces of
iron hoop, old scythes, and other useless
bits of iron have long been used by the
most successful growers.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1872-07-10

CLOVER SEED.-Mr. VIM. Brown, a self
made Southern farmer, harvested twelve
bushels of clean clover seed from two acres
last year, which brought him ninety dol
lars, in addition 10 a large crop Of hay.
Mr.. Brown began the world with no other
capital than industry and intelligence and
now owns threegood farms and has money
at interest. He says that any industrious
young man who will buy or rent ten acres,
use bone dust, plaster and clover, and
plant potatoes, may soon have the founda-
ton Of a fortune. Men of this stamp pay
thirty dollars rent per acre for land near
Washington and high price for manure,
and then clear money enough in few
years to purchase and pay for farms.-L.,
IN The Plantation.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1872-07-10

A man fortunate enough TO own 100, 200
500 acres of land, should not, says the
Fd77ner's Home Journal, be so contracted
in his views as to suppose that the chief
end of his existence il to make money.
With family around him secured against
want or embarrassment, he should give
his attention TO identifying his grounds,
to rendering his home more cheerful and
the cultivation Of an aesthetic taste will
bring to himself, his wife and children, a
rich contentment that will end ar the spot
called home 20 the hear of ea''h one, an
bind them together in q fonder and more
enduring union.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1872-07-10

EFFECT OF PLASTER ON LAND.-John
Gotham is informed that plaster will not
soil, except as it may aid the growth of
clover, which may be plowed under, and
thus furnish food for plants. Its chief
use is, supposed to be the absorption of am
monia from the atmosphere. The amount
per acre need never be increased to pro-
duce the same results. Nor is it any more
necessary to continue to use it after one
application than it is to use barn-yard or
other manures, because they have been
once applied; but to all soils wherein
plaster benefits the crop once, it pays to
apply it as a top-dressing annually on
corn, potatoes, clover, grain, etc. Such is
our experience during long series of
years on sandy, light loan, and we'll
drained, stiff loan lands.-PTal Ne'o
Yorker
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1872-07-10

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Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1872-07-10

For sale by T. G; HUNTER and Z. j. SANFORD &
co, kno xYille. Tenn.
The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1872-08-22
WORLD.
PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY BY
,e Idaho World Printing Company

sa in Ra Building Adjoining Nasout Hail. Wall Street.
The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1872-08-22
NUMBER 43.
THE KEY OF DEATH.


The following singular tradition is related
of key in collection of curiosities preserved
in the arsenal at Venice: 1k
About the year 1900, one of those dangerous
men in whom extraordinary talent is only the
fearful source of crime and wickedness beyond
that OF ordinary men, came to establish him
self as merchant or trader in Venice. The
stranger, whose name was Tebalde, became
enamored of the daughter of an ancient house,
already affianced to another. He demanded
her hand in marriage, and was, of course, re-
jected. Enraged at this he studied how to be
revenged Profoundly skilled in the mechani-
cal arts, he allowed himself no rest until he
had invented the most formidable weapon that
could be imagined. This was key of large
size the handle of which was so constructed
that it could be turned round with little diff
Guilty When turned it disclosed spring,
which, on pressure, launched from the other
end a needle or lancet Of such fneness that it
entered the flesh and buried itself there with
out leaving any external trace.
Tebaldo waited at the door of the church in
which the maiden whom he loved was about
to receive the nuptal benediction. The assas-
sin sent the slender steel, unperceived, inte
the breast of the unsuspectng bridegroom.
but seized with sharp and sudden pain in the
midst of the ceremony, he tainted, and was
carried to his own house amid the lamentations
of the bridal party. Vain was all the skill of
the physician. who could not divine the cause
of this strange illness, and in few days he
died
Tebaldo again demanded the hand of the
young maiden from her parents, and received
second refusal; they, TOO, perlshed mlsera.
bly, in few days.
The alarm that these deaths, which appear
ed almost miraculous, occasioned, excited the
utmost vigilance of the magistrates; and when,
on close examinations of the bodies, the small
instrument was found in the gangrened flesh,
terror was universal; everyone feared tor his
own life. The maiden thus cruelty orphaned,
had passed the first month of her mourning in
Il convent when Tebaldo, hoping to bend her
to his will, entreated to speak to her at the gate.
Her reply was most decisively in the negative.
Tebado, beside himself with rage, attempt
ed to wound her through the gate and succeed
ed; the obscurity of the place prevented his
actions from being observed. On her return
to her room, the maiden felt pain in her
breast, and uncovering it she found it spotted
with single drop of blood The pain increas-
ed; the surgeons who fastened to her assist
ance, taught by the past, wasted no time in
conjecture, but cutting deep into the wounded
part, extracted the needle before any mortal
mischief had commenced, and saved the life
of the lady. The State inqulsition used every
means to discover the hand which dealt these.
insidious and irresistible blows. The visit of
Tebaldo to the convent caused suspicion to fall
heavily upon him. His house was carefully
searched the infamous invention discovered,
and he perished on the gibbet.
The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1872-08-22

GRANT AS DEAD-HEAD.-U. S. Grant.
President of the United States, arrived in
Utica on yesterday He came by the Erie
railway to Binghamton, and thence by the
Delaware, Lackawanna and Western railroad
to Utica. Our readers will wonder why the
President preferred to hazard his life on the
Erie railway inasmuch as he is accustomed
to ride in palace cars, over frst-class roads
like the New York Central. The reason Is
as follows: Grant was dead-headed over the
Erie. He has to pay fare over the Central
and Harlem River road, and Ulysses isn't in the
habit of paying anything when he can help It,
1t will be remembered that Grant attended
the funeral of the late General Thomas, at
Troy. April g. 1870. He returned to New
York in special car ria the Hudson River
railroad. Shortly before the train arrived at
Poughkeepse, the conductor went into the car
for the purpose of collecting fare from the
President and party. He was met at the door
by the Dent. who gruffly asked him what he
wanted" The conductor replied that he
wanted the fare of the party. Dent declared
that the President was insulted by such re-
quest as he was not in the habit of paying
fares on railroads. He declared that the Pres
ident and party were insulted by the conduct
or. and that they would not pay one cent.
Then, replied the conductor, / shall cut your
car off at Poughkeepsie and leave it on the
branch. Dent saw the conductor was in earn
est, and proprosed to compromise the matter
by telegraphng to Commodore Vanderbilt.
The conductor assented to this proposition. In
a few moments the answer returned: "Col-
lect fare from the whole party" Dent payed,
and swOre the President should never travel
mile over the Hudson River and New York
Central Shortly after this. Boutwell, ordered
tax of 100000 to be collected from the Gen.
trail This was simply mean revenge. The
money has not yet been paid, and may never
be. So now Grant came to Utica on a couple
of railroads on which he could get pass.
Commodore Vanderbilt probably feels very bad
about it, as he has such high opinion of Grant
It may be interesting to learn that the Commo-
dore and his whole family will vote against
Grant and will give immense influence to Hor-
ace Greeley.-Syracuse Courier.
The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1872-08-22

AN IMPORTANT DECISION A man drew a
note promising to pay one hundred dollars.
He used printed form. but did not close up
the blank devoted to dollars; after it passed
a negotiable paper, somebody inserted land
fifty" after the zone hundred and before the
word dollars The note thus altered. got
into the hands of an innocent party, who pre-
sented in to the drawer and the Supreme
Court decided that the maker of the note was
liable for its face, because through negligence
he did not draw line between the written
word "hundred" and the printed word "dol-
lars" Any testimony that the drawer might
offer to establish the fact that he gave a note
for only one hundred dollars must go for moth
ing, as "there was nothing on the face of the
note showing that it had been altered" Evil
dence of an alteration on the face of the note
would have changed the case. Let this decis-
ion be lesson to all drawers of promisory
notes. No one can be too careful in such
matters.
The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1872-08-22

DECIDEDLY GooD.-Governor Vance of
North Carolina, in a recent speech gave in his
adhesion to Greeley in the following humorous
remarks:
There was an old preacher into whose hymn
book some bad boy had pasted the song: