Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-02-24
OLD TIMES.
Some Interesting Items from an Old
Almanac.
From the Lexington (Ky.) Observer and Re-
porter.

Some Interesting Items from an Old
Almanac.
From the Lexington (Ky.) Observer and Re-
porter.
A gentleman living near Walnut Hill in
this county has laid on our table curious
old book entitled: The Virginia Almanac
for the year of our Lord God, 1853, Being
the second after Bissextile, or Leap
Year; wherein are contained The
LunatiOns, Conjunctions, Eclipses,
the Sun and Moons Rising and
Setting, and Southing of the Heavenly
Bodies; Weather; Court Days; a LIST of the
Governors, etc, of the several British Colo
MES of North America; list of the COun.
Gil and House of BurgeSses of Virginia;
Court Days in North Carolina; Description
of the Roads through thu Continent; the
whole process in making of INDIGO, etc,
etc. Calculated according to Art, And re-
ferred to the Horizon of SO Degrees
North Latitude, and a Meridian Five
Hours West from the City of Lon
don, fitting Virginia, Maryland, North
Carolina, etc. By Theophilus Wreg, Philon:
Williamsburg: Printed and sold by William
Hunter" Among the astronomical calcu-
latiOns which seemed to excite a lively in
terest in that day is the following: The
comet which Astronomers foretell to fall
out, in 1853, its natural to suppose doth CO.
incide with that which hath appeared in the
1905, 1880, and 1856, 1912, 1907, 1858 being
every - or 70 years distant. Indicating
its anticipated course, the writer says that
after certain interval it will come to its node
sat which time 1t will be very near the
Earth's Orbit, and if it should happen the
18th of May, we would then be in a danger
GUS situation, as the denser part of it's
blazing tail would then envelope the EARTH"
He has no doubt that If one of these comet.
airy bodies should come in contact "With u.s.
on its return from the Sun" this terrestrial
orb would be consumed instantly. He con-,
soles himself, however, with the pious re-.
Election that this "terrible catastrophe" can
not happen till God wills it, and concludes
with the scriptural quOtation-''And there
shall be signs in the Sun, the Moon and the
Stars, ETC." The Governor of the Colony
of Virginia at that time was His Excellency,
The Right Honorable John Earl, of Len
don. The Letter on the Cultivation Of
INDIGO is by gentleman of Charles Town,
South Carolina. "Indico"-says the writer
els now become one of the Staple Articles
of this PrOvince"-the plant delights in a
pure, free, mellow, level soil, not too
dry; and the lands $50 miles back
from Charles-Town are the finest in
the Universe for this culture; Indico,
Flax, Hemp, and other Luxuriants can be
reared in this Province to the greatest Per-
fiction" The compiler of the Almanac
seems to be partial to anecdotes broadly
dashed with ''smut," and INDUCES freely in
paginal ENTHUSIASTICALLY quotations from
Alexander Pope) from one of which we
learn with regret that even in that early
day, Judges and Senators had been bought
for GOLD" If our Walnut Hill friend should
at any time feel disposed to part with this
interesting memento of the good old colony
times, be will pardon us for suggesting that
he couldn't find safer depositary than the
venerable custodian of the Lexington City
Library.