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The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1872-04-24
How to Raise Corn.

In reply to IN inquiry in regard to
corn raising, a correspondent OF the
Country Gentleman gives the follow
ing:
III. w. McC." asks some one to
give his experience in corr raising.
In the first place, select tho largest
and the earliest matured corn for
seed; hang up by the husk in a dry
place or lay away for seed. Plow as
soon as the ground gets into order
for the pillow. 1 prefer blowing late
in the fall. AS for loose ground, l
prefer having it plowod two OF three
weeks before planting. Plow six
inches deep DO sure, and manure all
the thin points. Harrow the ground
well. When ready to mark out,
mark 3 feet 6 inches each way and
3 inches deep. Cover the corn two
inches deep, and thin out to three
stalks IN IL hill. have raised 1Oll
bushels of shclled corn to the aero on
sod, planting i'll this way.
For raising ono way my expo
Iicnco is this: Mark your ground
ensG and west, 3 feet 6 inches apart;
leave two stalks in tho bill, II inches
apart. Plant as early as the leaves
put out to half their natural size in
Tho spring. In this way of plant
ing, ] have raised l29 bushels and IS
pounds to the acre on sod, though !
prefer marking both ways, because
it is easier tended.
My experience in blowing is.
Plow ut least five times II week apart
and if the weeds and grass cnnnot be
kept down, use the hand hoe in thc
eiort whom thn corn 10 email
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1872-04-24
TO AIM TIV

Tho notwithstanding been permanent r
cd of that dread disease, Consumption, a
simple remedy, ia anxious to make known to
his follow sufferers tho means of cure. To al
who desire il. he will send a copy of tho pre-
scription used. free of charged, with the di-
r~ections for preparing and using the same.
which they will find q SURE CURE for COysUMP-
rToS, ASTHMA. BRONCHITIS, &c. Parties wish
ing the s~cription will please address
Rev. EDWARD A. WILSON,
2si South 3rd Street. Williamsburg, N Y.
Doc. 6.-ly.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1872-04-24

Less OF observation-disclosures should
not experiment with untitled stoves, II they
would save time and money. Tho Charter
Oak has been tested by time, and proved q
success In doing more and better work thar
any stove made, and Is guaranteed or your
money refunded.
This is u truth easily proved. Ask your
neighb0r.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1872-04-24

PAIN KILLER.-In another column will
be found the advertisement of Davis Pain
Killer. There IL probable no other prepara-
lions manufactured that has become so
much of n household word rs tho Pain
Killer. For thirty years 1t has stood before
the public, and the innumerable teStimO-
malls that have been called forth volunta-
rily, testify fully to its merits. When you
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1872-04-24

Rupture can be cured without suf-
fcring. Elastic Trusscc arc super
scding ali others. Before buying Metal
Trusses or Supporters, send for a de-
scriptivc circular to tho Elastic Truss
Co., GS3 Broadway, N. Y.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1872-04-24

Outdoor mantles are made gener-
ally without sleeves, or so cut as to
sleeves, with Vatican plaits
in the back, and are trimmed with
lace or fringe
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1872-04-24

EED- Wintersmith's Tonic Sirup, or
Improved Chill Cure, is meeting with
extraordinary success. 1t never fails,
when properly taken, to cure the most
obstinate case of fever and aguc. For
sale by all druggists.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1872-04-24

In fashionable colors wo have all
the different tints of gray, violet n
groenish blue called Nile green,
olive green, mignonette green, Lon
don smoke and the inevitable black.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1872-04-24
r. A WHAT HE SAYS

MACON, TENN, MAY q, 1865.
McSsrS. MoHSfctd &c W~gbec-SIRS: Please
send me six bottles of your Hungarian Bal
sam. ! sent to youlnst week for two bottles,
hy Mr.. Potter, for my mother, whose death
we have been looking for during the last two
months, and the first dose gave her such re
lief that she says she cannot live without 1t.
W, G. YARBROUGaT.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1872-04-24

Large gypsy bonnets of straw, or
namented with a wreath of straw
flowers, in the English style, will be
the favorito hat for country wear
next season.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1872-04-24

1t may be observed that the glory
OF ovorskirts is slowly departing.
They are by no means abandoned
yet, but their days are probably
numbered.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1872-04-24

Bright blue and bright green make
tho now fashionable combination of
color, and, spite of Pope, its any
thing but pleasant to the eye"
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1872-04-24

Very elegant hsndkerchiefs are
generally trimmed with Valen-
cienncs, for the reason, probably,
that this lace repays careful doing
up better than most other varieties.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1872-04-24
Patent Sheet Iron


Fire, Water, Wind and Rust proof; only Iron roofing where the sheets
lock with tight seams, without cutting the iron; also, providing amply
for expansion and contraction all ways of the metal; no nails, screws
or solder used. Made from charcaoal iron and sold at boiled iron prices.
Orders promptly filled. Send for circular c. A. SCOTT Cincinnati U.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1872-04-24

The couit trnin seeVs to retain
its popularity, and tho handsome
est ball dresses arc made in this
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1872-04-24

A large number of young ladies
suffering from dreadful bunions has
rather sent French heels out Of fash
ion.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1872-04-24

CONOVER, 2 years old, at AZ per 10; s5 per 1000;
v Giant White, . years old, n 50 per 10; 90 per
l1n SrRA WHEREBY PLANTS-W Wilson, a per
1000; ClIas. Downing, sS per lOUD; Kentucky 40 per
1000. YARMOUTH CLUSTER ltASrREnRY- 80 per
lpO: D%OOlittle, Seneca, and Miami, slj per 1909.
CONCORD GRAPE VINES, . years old, s5 per
100; $40 per 100.
Address HENRY r. All,
marlU-Im Second ST. Louisville, Ky.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1872-04-24
5000 Asparagus Plants.

ON MARkIAG E.-IfuTyW ReiieJJ for Young
Nm. Remarkable Reports sent free. Address
ONWARD ASSOCIATION, Philadelphia, Pa.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1872-04-24
FEVER AND AGUE
Price Csc, SOC, and 81 per Bottle.
J. N. HARRIS Il CO.,,

OTHOTHTTWTTt VlTV't
proprictors for the southern and Western States.
No Sold by all Medicine Dealers.
For sale by u. +. George, Galveston; Berry Il
Ewin, Pcndlpt0n ~ Co., Iittcrcr ~
Nashville; Il. a. Robinson e Co., Louis.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1872-04-24

<hf0 TO ;aU DAILY Paid Canvassing Agents
Exclusive territory. New monopoly.
,hD Sells in every family To entire %Satlsftc-
WV too. HJenis tUditcd, MYERS MAN
ANrIlRIGG 60. luI iInhn ST. \. L. Nv.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1872-09-04

last rising river, and many of the houses on
furnace street were emptied in fear of the
powerful body of water rushing over the
dam. 1t rose so that it flowed over the road
IN front Of the Bank block, but the greatest
damage was to the grist mill owned by
Cahee Brothers. The water broke away and
washed under their blacksmith shop con-
nected with the mill, and large body OF
water ran through the mill square, Outlying
it out badly and carrying off the underpin-
ming of the shop, filling the first floor of the
mill full of water and carrying out the under
plnning of their house adjoining the mill.
Below the mill it carried out a part of the
foundation under the machine shop OF
Sumner Briggs. 1t washed the gardens and
fiat below the mill, and has covered them
with sand and mud. The damage cannot
fully be determined at present.
The suddenness and destructive force OF
the treshet has not, we think, had parallel
IN Vermont since the terrible flood IN New
Haven, near the residence of Mr.. Nash,
when the New Haven river, rising suddenly
swept away several dwellings and twenty
one persons, Of whom but seven escaped
allve.-RutIand Herald.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1872-09-04

hand in marriage, and was of course, re.
ijected. Enraged at this, he studied how
to be revenged. Profoundly skilled in
the mechanical arts, he allowed himself nc
rest until he invented the most formidable
weapon that could be imagined. This
was a key of large size, the handle Of
which was 50 constructed that it could be
turned around with little difficulty. When
turned, it disclosed a spring, which, on
pressure, launched from the other end a
needle or lancet OF such fneness that /:
entered the flesh and buried itself there
without leaving any external trace.
Tebaldo waited at the door of the church
in which the maiden whom he loved was
| about to receive the nuptial benediction.
The assassin sent the slender steel unper-
ceived into the breast Of the unsuspecting
bridegroom. The wounded man had no
suspicion Of injury, but, seized with a
sharp, 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 physicians, who could not divine
the cause of his strange illness, @nd in i
few days he died
Tebaldo again demanded the hand Of the
young maiden from her parents, and re-
ceived 4 second refusal they, too, perished
miserably in a few days
The alarm that these deaths which
appeared almost miraculous, excited the
utmost vigilance Of the magistrates, and
when on close examination Of the bodies,
the small instrument was found in the
gangrened flesh, terror was universal, every
one feared for hi- own life The maiden
thus cruelty orphaned had passed the first
month OF her mourning I'm convent, when
Iebaldo, hoping to bend her to his will,
entreatej to speak TO her at the gate Her
reply was most decisiye.y in the negative
Tebaldo, beside himself with rage, at
tempted to wound her through the crate
and succeeded The obscurity of the
place prevented his actions from being
observed. On her return to ncr room, the
maiden felt pain ID her breast and un-
covering it She found Il spotted with
single drop Of blood. Tae pain increased.
the surgeons who FASTENED TO her assistance
taught by the past wasted no time in con-
lecture, but, cutting deep into the wounded
part, extracted the needle before auy NOR
tai mischief had commenced. and saved
the life Of the lady Tlc State lu4uisi-
ton used every means to di-eoyc- the hand
watch dealt these in-ii.ou- and irresistible
blows The visit 0t Tebald0 TO the con
vent caused suspicion to fall heavily upon
him. His house was carefully searched.
the famous invention discovered and he
persisted on the git5et
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1872-09-04

MATERIAL PROGRESS Or THE WoRLD.-
We are fond Of laughing at the antigua.
rian motions and slow progress of" the old
country but somehow in these latter days
she seems TO 20 pretty well ahead, and, as
one of our eminent countryme1 observed,
London has during the past half century,
gone on increasing with the rapidity OF a
Western township. Whilst We talk about
rapid transit the old metropolis Of
England has railways running over and
under her in every direction, and there is
no large city in the world where ingress
and egress are 20 easy. Then the postal
arrangements are almost perfect. Before
We can get the great convenience, postal
cards, they will be quite an old institution
in London, which after only few months,
followed the lead in Vienna, the original
pateutee IN this national convenience. The
rapid delivery of letters Is greatly accel-
Grated by the fact that nearly every house
IN all the respectable streets throughout
the town Is supplied with box, into
which the Postman drops q letter, and
forthwith huTries on. This plan, only
very slightly adopted here, Is an immense
department Almost every month the
authorities OF the post-ofhce and telegraph
devise some new plan for the public con-
venience. \ recent innovation is an ar
rangement BY which the sender of a
telegraph dispatch, about whose transmits
sion there is no violent hurry, can put the
requisite stamps upon it and drop it in
the nearest post-otfice box, when it will be
transmitted a. soon as the box is opened,
q proceeding which takes place nearly
every hour
The last novel Improvement, OF another
kind reported, is plan TO supply fresh
salt water TO the metropolis from Brighton,
a distance of fifty miles, 50 that when in
the heart Of London, you can jump out of
the bed into one of the waves which was
a few days before rolling in from America
The water Is to be conveyed by q series of
lifts TO the top of the Southdown hills,
whence il will gravitate through enameled
pipes to the west end of London The
supply is estimated at a million gallons a
iay-LlDDiucott's Nagzzlqe.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1872-09-04

glass, the traceries of intricate silver, and
fringes Of amber, lustrous, arborescent,
FURNISHED through every fiber into ftful
brightness and glossy traverses of silken
change, yet all subdued and pensive, and
framed for the simplest, sweetest Office OF
grace They will not be gathered like the
flowers, for chaplet or love token, but of
the wild bird will make its pillow.
And, as the earth's first mercy so they
are its last gift to US. When all other
service is vain, from plant and tree, the
soft mosses and the gray lchens take up
their watch by the headstone, The woods,
the blossoms, the gift bearing grasses have
done their part for time, but these do
service forever Trees for the builder
yard, flowers for the brides chamber, corn
for the granary, moss for the grave
Yet as in one sense the humblest, in
another, they are the most honored of
the earths children Unfading, as motion
less, the worm frets them not and the
Autumn wastes not. Strong in lowliness
they neither branch in heat nor pine in
frost. To them fingered, constant
hearted, is entrusted the dark, eternal
tapestries Of hills; to them, slow-penoilled,
iris-dyed, the tender framing of their
imagery Sharing the stiffness of the un-
impassioned rock, they share also its
endurances; and while the winds of de-
parting spring scatter the white hawthorn
blossoms like drifted snow the summer
dips on the parched meadow the dropping
of It's cowslip gold-far above, among the
moustains, the silver lichen spots rest, star
like on the stone and the gathering or
ange stain, upon the edge ef yonder west
ern peak, reflects the sunsets Of thousand
years RilSkla.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1872-09-04

ILLJNINAIIoN rs THEATERs. -Illuminsa-
tlon by means OF footIights has long been
subject Of grievance to the patrons OF
the stage, and It is with satisfaction that
we notice recent improvements in this
respect The effects produced upon the
features by variation in the direction OF
illumination is illustrated by Mr. f.
Dove as follows Let any one stand be-
fore mirror and elevate 3 lamp, as the
only light by which the face Is to be seen,
TO various levels before it. He will at
once perceive that when the shadows fall
downwards a classical elegance and even
beauty Of effect will be shed over the most
rugged cOuntenance. In illumination
from below, on the contrary, al unnatural
glare Is cast over the features, the shadows
are all inverted, and the cavernous inte
rior Of the nostriI, which nature discreetly
casts into the shade, is disclosed with IN
merciful and by no means beautiful dis
tinctness.
The proper method OF illumina ton,
Mr.. Dove thinks, consists in the entire re-
moval Of the footlights and the substitu-
ton Of d central congeries of lights in the
very body Of the house, and almost in the
place usually occupied by the chandelier,
with reflector sufficiently large to turn
the whole food Of lights upon the stage
AT an angle Of about forty-fve degrees.
This, with second .congeries and reflect
ors placed little within the Erocenium,
to illuminate the scenery, should give the
most satisfactory and agreeable results -
Scri5ner's Monthly
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1872-09-04

day or other, when we reign in Cairo, Eng
iishmen will officer an army of Arabs, men
bred IN desert where the sun seems to hate
human beings and pursue them with a kind
OF conscious pitilessness, and then Asia will
know once mole why the Moor seemed to the
mailed knights of France and Spain so terri
ble an enemy. Few human beings are so
powerful as the Parsees, whose wrestlers de-
feat picked men from the British army, and
they have dwelt for ages in climate to
which that of Italy is cold, and for two cen
turies in Western India, and none are so
/ industrious as the Chinese of the South, the
men OF those steamlng superheated Deltas,
where the earth beiug water the men on the
| popular theory should be women.
/ The Peruvian is a soft creature, but his
climate is cooler than that of the regions of
! Panama and Guiana, where the bravest and
fercest of aborigines, the CarIb, still main
tains his hereditary freedom. Out of the
- softly enervating climate as we North
erners deem it, of Central Italy, came the
sternest, bravest, and most efficient human
beings that ever walked the world, the fight
ing Roman patrlciin, who after a thousand
years Of heat, and luxury and sated volup-
tuousness, was still the most formidable officer
with whom an enemy could com in contact,
and he was Outdone IN courage by the men
who sTarmed up from the blazing slopes of
Palestine and the heat of Idumea, TO defend
the Holy city. The Scotch and the Swedes
are cJnfessedly manly people, able to toll,
and 10 battle, and to endure, but they are
not manlier OF braver, or more enduring than
the planters born in II ose swelterIng rice
swamps of 5 nth Carolina, or the hot
- barrens of Georgia, or the hotter lagoons
and morasses and flooded junges of Louisiana,
where upon all accepted conditions men
ought 10 degenerate into towards.
The Delawares, bred in temperate eli
mate, We're not braver than the Seminoles of
Florida, or so brave as their far away kins-
folk, the CarIbs of Panama and the negro
ira ransported out of the tropics distinctly loses
nerve. We think that heat demoralizes, /
but when Spain anticipated Britain and con- |
quered and colonized the Continent; when |
800 rufians, led by a brutal pig-jobber, |
trampied down a semi civilized empire with |
millions Of inhabitants, Spain was as hot as
It is now. We speak Of the exceptional |
prolifcness of the Anglo Saxon, who is now /
sending an army of 100 600 men year to |!
people America and the Southern continent |
and never feels the loss. But who peopled |
India and southern China, and the Southern |
shore Of the Mediterranean and Spanish |
America, except races W no must have lived |
hard gray weather that the Temple of the /
sun rose IN Baalbeck, or the columns Of Lux /
OF or the CJlIseum-mOnuments, all of them, |
Of human industry, as well as Of human /
skill and domIueerIng energy. Grant that 1
the work was done by slaves, It is not by the |
feeble that slaves are held in slavery.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1872-09-04

DESTRUCTION Oh LUTUEB's LINDEN
The Inhabitants of Bingethal, near Mitt-
woi3a. were alarmed on the evening of the
25sh of June IS The sound of the fre-bell.
The linden tree. called Luther's linden,
and, as such. wei known throughout the
whole OF S4Nonv, was burning. 1t stood
in tha vicinity 81 the church, and was so
ca Led because Dr. Luther, having been
forbidden to preach openly at Ringethal.
and feIns rae church too small to accom-
mlda.o the numbers who wished to hear
him, preached under its shadow. After
having stood for So many centuries, sur
yivel SD many forms, ana braved the fury
of the elements. the noble tree, at once the
pride ana glory If ,he village. has fallen
a prey t9 irl. Tor three hours the tree
wirls.s1l It'd attacks of its foe, until at
length the upper portion gave way with
crash. and speedily nothing was left but
the elsrrel stump TO give some token of
its former -ua sae-- The cause is said to
have Been tie .r.llty Of some of the in
habjtaat=. vaa she'd to become possessed
Of swarm OF bees which had taken up
thelr llsr--.- Il q hollow portion of the
tree and uliea taey cadeavored TO drive
CUT by means oa fire. Why that came to
be permitted l the local authorities is
mystery. 1. Was only last year that the
good o.5 .laa was 8espoiled Of 4 great part
of It- beauty and several Of It's branches
By eae arl-r 81 1ae Of the principal men
ol the place. 50 5aat this second misfortune
has H4- #..l Its disaster
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1872-09-04

KesmN BArHs.-M. IL. B., the lady
correspondent in New York of the Mis-
souri, Repl5lican has this to say concern.
ing the modus operandi of a Russian
bath.
We were divested of every stitch Of our
clothing, our rings and bracelets locked up.
cur back hair taken off, our own special
possessions Of seventy-6ve or a hundred
hairs made into a little hisute pill and i'm
paled with hair pin. This was the only
token of civilization we boasted. The pro
cession formed. At the door we were hand
ed miniature sheet and little bit of sponge
wet with cold water. Through passage
to room, where We dropped our sheets
and entered vapor that clothed us de-
Gently. | wonder the Illustrated Police
Gazette or Days Doings haven't hit on
this business for illustration. Well, in
this steam [ thought 1 should sufocate.
1t poured up and in and down through holes
till it was dreadful. The use of the wet
sponge, L here ascertained, was to put on
the top of your head to prevent coup de
steam,' or some such dire complaint. They
wouldn't let me out, and the temperature
got worse and worse, and began to think
Of my mother aud an obituary in the Re-
publican, when We were pronounced cooked
enough and let out into a room in which
was mighty tank of cold water, through
which you must wade or swim as you could.