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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-05-21
ANTI.BILI0US BITTERS
INDo-AMERICANA.

They are composed Of the same vegetable
aud on the same principle a. ny renowned
Pills Indo-Americana, famous all over Europe
for their purity. efficacy and virtue. IL il also
the best appetizer ever invented, and an un-
voice Of singers. This miraculous specific,
hller having been analysed By the Royal Med
inai College. procured me the Bressns from
hls Majesty ne kinE OF ltaly Ibey are no
cipal druggists aud saloons in this city.
General Depot NJ MesErf. l.. Podesta 4 Co =,
90 Front street. and AZ retail At 50 Jefferson,
corner Of Second street, Memphis. Tenn.
N. B.-In order to guard against counter
feits here. i insert . fac smile Of my trade
mark, with ny Initials. q. A. n. 8-l1
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1873-07-02
FARM AND HOME.
An EastlTennessee Farmer on Butter.

EDITORS CHRONICLE: Some time ago
- well written article made the rounds of
the papers, complaining of the scarcity of
good butter and insinuating, that unclean-
illness in making, was the prime cause of it.
OF course cleanliness, is absolutely neces-
sary in butter-making, as well rs all diary
operations. There may be some butter
spoiled by carlessness in that respect, but
L do not believe, that farmers and farmers
wives generally are such dirty slovens, as
to spoil % per cent Oft by uncleanliness.
No doubt good butter is scarce, but l think
we have to look in another direction for
the cause of it. have found it utterly
impossible to make good butter at all times
without using a thermometer in churning
and 1 know that very few farmers use
one. have found by experiment that
butter will not come unless, the tenn
perature of the cream is 60 de-
grees. l have also found. that
if the temperature of the buttermillz, after
butter has come, is above 60 degrees, the
butter IS almost ruined at least it will
not keep any length of time, because it is
too soft to work out the buttermilk thor
oughly, which, by-the-by, is the main
cause for butter turning rancid Besides,
it will not have a good color, nor will it
show any of that tough, ;waXy appearance
which butter dealers call grain" As the
scope of proper temperature in churning is
so very limited, it is impossible to hit it
always by guess work. | therefore would
say to every farmer who intends to make
good butter, to get a thermometer and use
it. And if you do, you will find that it
Will save you or your wife great deal of
worry and hard work next winter, when
the cream brought from the spring house
is considerably under go degrees. Never
start the dasher until you have
got your cream up to that temperature,
by setting one of the crooks with it in q
vessel of hot water, but never under any
circumstances pour hot water into the
churn. 1t will spoil the butter completely.
1t will drive off those highly volatile ethe-
rial oils which give the butter that fine
desirable flavor, besides destroying its tex
ture and color. Whenever you commence
to churn, while the temperature of the
cream is too low you waste your time and
strength. Your butter will not come until
you have brought it up to that point some
way or other, even if you do it by the mo-
ton of the dasher, which takes an hour
sometimes. At present, June 22nd,) great
care is necessary to keep from churning
too fast, for fear of raising the temperature
above 650. A good plan is to set the churn
into tub of cold water, Some cold water
poured into the churn will not injure the
butter, and is even desirable, if there is
signs of the butter coming too quick. 1t
ought and will take about 10 minutes to
make butter, if the temperature has been
kept at the right point.
EAST TENNESSEE DAIRYMAN.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1873-07-02
Couldn't Make Her Hear.

Deaf people, who are not dumb, too, are
made to furnish the fun to many little
wayside comedy in this world-without
knowing it
Between Kenosha and Milwaukee, an
agent of the Travellers Insurance Company
of Hartford, Conn, entered the car, and
having issued tickets to several of the pas
sengers, approached an elderly lady who,
it afterwards appeared, was deaf.
Madam, would you like to insure against
accidents ?n inquired the agent, at the
same time exhibiting to her his tickets.
81 got my ticket down to Kenosha."
mot railroad ticket, madam. / want
to know if you would like to insure your
life against accident ?"
"I'm going to Oshkosh to visit my dar-
ter, who is married up there, and has just
got baby"
The agent raised his voice little:
"Would you like to insure your life
against accident ?"
"She's been married two years and a
half, and that's the first child. It's gal. -
Agent, still louder:
"I'm an insurance agent, madam. Don't
you want your life insured against acct
dent?"
"She is doing well, and has a fine hus-
band"
Agent, at the top of his voice;
"Im an insurance agent, madam. Don
you want your life insured against acct
dent?n
80, 1 didn't understand you" said the
old lady. mo her name is Johnson
my name is Evan, and / live five miles
from Kenosha."
The agent vanished
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1873-07-02
Crops in Monroe County.
MADISoNVILLE, June 26

MADIsoNYILLE June 20, 1873.
EDITORS CHRONICLE The larger por-
ton of the wheat in this county has been
cut and the yield is pronounced fair-more
than half crop. The grain is good but
thin on the ground. The oat crop is fair
and grass was never better. On the whole
our county is in the line Of progress. Our
farmers are improving and adopting the
improved system of putting less land in
corn, and the use of fertilizers and plaster
upon the grass and clover.
There is much inquiry now about lands
IN this county, and comes of the "Facts
about East Tennessee" as published by
you, as many inquireTs made about land
say they saw Monroe county mentioned in
Facts about East Tennessee" The tide
OF emigration must change before long,
and the South will get some accessions.
Let us work and not weary in well doing
Success is only obtained by continuance
with hope in the future. MONROE
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1873-07-02
salt for Cut Worms.

A great deal of attention is attracted to
the application of salt to corn-hills to pre-
vent the attacks of cut-worms. The late
Isaac Newton, Commissioner of Agricul-
ture, said: "Take one part of common salt
and three parts of plaster or gypsum, and
apply, when the plant first makes its APP
pearance, about a tablespoonful around
every corn-hill. 1t will be found sure
protection. The mixture should not come
in contact with the plants, as it may de-
stroy them. This method has been tried
over and over again by some of our best
farmers in Pennsylvania, and when prop
erly applied has never failed" Newton
further said that he tried this in alternate
rows, which completely proved its efficacy,
as while those where it was not used suf-
fered greatly from the grub, not a plant
of the other rows were touched. Let it be
tried, as it can be so easily done by those
who are troubled with cut-worms in the
corn-field about these days.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1873-07-02
An Obstacle to Emigration.

EDITORS CHRONICLE: A few thoughts
eslgendered by perusal of your article in
regard to the "Ryderville swindle" in
Scott county, and the generally loose way
in which our mountain lands are decided
may, perhaps, not be out of place:
Ii is conceded by all who have examined
the subject, that the great obstacle to adj
Vancement in our State lies in the fact that,
while sending forth large numbers of peo-
pie yearly to settle and cultivate other sec
tions of the country, we receive hardly
any of that emigration from the Eastern
States, and from Europe, to which we
should be entitled, on account of our geo
graphical position, our great agricultural
and mineral advantages, and our admira-
bic climate. Now, undoubtedly, there is
reason for this, and to show partially what
that reason is founded on, is the object of
this letter.
The great trouble is the insecurity of
titles. AS matters now stand, any one so
desiring can make an entry of land COW
ering the ground on which the city of
Knoxville stands, and get a grant of the
same from the State of Tennessee, signed
by the Governor. Now, in the North and
in Europe, where titles are carefully guard
ed by statutory enactments based on care
full and accurate surveys, deed or grant
from the State would be considered to
be absolutely good in every respect.
Now what do we find to be the cause
here? The State of Tennessee not only
grants that she has previously granted,
perhaps two or three times before, but she
will even give grants to land that under
the compact of 1923, belongs to the State
of Kentucky and as far as L can see there
is no reason to doubt but that grants can
be obtained from our land officers on lands
covering the capital city of Kentucky. 1t
may be argued that the State grants only
that land, vacant and unappropriated,
that may be within the boundaries named
in the patent, but how are the innocent
purchasers in the North and abroad to
know this?
Sales have been made within the last
twelve months, in Scott and adjoining
counties, to my certain knowledge, to par
ties in the North of lands to which there is
no shadow of title. What made the pur-
chasers invest? Simply because they were
shown grants from the State of Tennessee.
How long is the fair fame of our State to
be used for the furtherance of these swim
dies? Can we not have some legislation
to remedy these evils?
Every sale made of land TO which there
there is not a good title is a serious draw
back to emigration, for everyone who loses
by a purchase Of this nature becomes
at once a denunciatOr of the State /;
its laws and its people. Can not the
CHRONICLE be counted on to bring this
matter before the people, and agitate and
keep agitating the subject, until the masses
know the fact, that in order to secure the
immigration they 50 much desire, and
consequently develop the country they
possess, they must first, last and all the
time, make titles secure. G.
JacksbOro', II June, 1873.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1873-07-02
Maxims in Cattle Breeding.

James n. Browd, of Illinois, was noted
breeder of short-horn cattle, and these are
some of his ideas:
Use pure-blooded males. Keep no more
stock than you can keep well-and the
young should always be improved. Never
sell to the butcher or anybody else your
best and thriftiest young females. Calves
should be dropped from the LIST of March to
the LIST of May.
Never allow calves to run with their
dams and suck at will; it Injuries both.
Milk the young cows as long as possible.
All cattlebreeders should have two past
ures for summer grazing, and change the
stock from one to the other frequently.
Land intended for winter grazing should
not be grazed in midsummer. The sum-
mer growth is needed for winter protec-
ton.
To render stock-growing as profitable as
it should be, good grass for winter and
summer is indispensable.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1873-07-02
Good Advice About Manure.

Green COW manure hardens and bakes land
MANFRED with it. Hog manure is too strong
Horse manure is generally considered the best;
but in addition to the objections above stated, n
regard to it as it is too often treated, may say
it is too volatile. All these are good manures;
but how SHALL we economize? 1t is my obnion
they should be composted Immediately. As
soon as a cart load of manure can be scraped up
about any one, or all combined, of your stables,
cart, it, to the place where it is TO be used next
season twelve months hence. The pile must
be shielded over. The pile of what That is
just the question. We have selected the site
and erected our labratory; now for the opera
ton. Every time a load of manure of any
kind is added, covering of leaf mold, rotten
wood or rich dirt must be spread over it. To
this pile you may add waste OF any kind-hay,
straw, weeds, green, dry vegetables kitchen,
laundry and dormtory water Keep the whole
mass damp and warm enough to ferment.
Leached ashes may be added, and strong ashes
or lime be mingled with all green vegetable
matter added to the heap. Neither of these
articles will injure the general mass when isola-
ted by the layers of dirt, sc. After remaining
in this condition for halfthe year, the whole
pile should be thoroughly worked over, and the
working shouldlbe repeated occasionally. Al
this timea new heap should be commenced, tc
undergo the same treatment
Most farmers would be surprised TO find SC
large and so rich supply of available fertility
as this plan would Yield,
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1873-07-02

pay for drugs and medical attention to its
INDECENT people, would be execrated and
denounced by all right-thinking men.
Drs. Tadlock and Campbell are still Wig
orously at work. They will never want
for friends among our people. DIR. Taylor
is much better to-day. DR.. Smith still
keeps at the work and is very successful.
The business of the town is at a stand
still. There were only four stores, beside
the drug houses, open to-day.
Our clergymen are proving their faith
by labors we have never seen surpassed.
Revs. McCorkle, Black, and Steele are up
night and day, comforting and consoling
the afflicted. May they reap the reward
they so faithfully earned. S.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1873-07-02
More Damage By Outrageous Dogs.
LYoN's bend, juno %

LYONS BEND, juno rs.
EDITORS CHRONICLE: 1 gave you a
statement OH Saturday last respecting the
loss of my sheep by dogs up to that date.
Since then, am sorry to say, two more
have died of their wounds. The one was
a beautiful yearling ram by Prodigal, the
other was a ram lamb by the same, maxi
ing altogether twelve out of flock of
thirty-four, so that i have now only four
ram lambs for sale. Now Messrs. Editors
to replace this lot would cost me upwards
of q thousand dollars, as all importers of
fine stock will admit.
Now, gentlemen, my sheep were the prin-
cipal means | had of making money for
the support of my family, as the land has
been so badly treated, and so thoroughly
worn, Though find it responds readily to
good treatment). Yet all practical farmers
well know that it takes considerable time
and patience, and hard labor and money,
to restore worn out land to its original fer
tility. l would here say that | came to
Tennessee through the strong ecommen-
dation of American emigration agents. /
was assured that l should be protected
both in person and property, and here l
am with family of twelve children and
my property, four thousand miles away
from my native lanu, Ine properly Nulcn
was my chief dependence for the support
of my family, for time at least, swept
away at a stroke by a set of brutes which
are no earthly use to any one. / am told !
have my redress in the Courts of Justice.
| confess 1 have very little hope of having
that justice which the case demands when
as one gentleman of the recent Farmers
Convention said the members of the
State parliament were afraid to offend
their constituents by passing a law to pre-
vent the depredations of such brutes. a
pitiable state of things, truly, when public
men can be scared by a dog. 1 think I'M
der the circumstances it is the duty of the
State Government to see my loss made
up, if not, then l hope to see no more in
the public press inviting emigration from
Britain. l am gentlemen, yours truly,
RICH. MARSToN.
p. 81 put my sheep up at night all
the winter and have been compelled to do
so since my loss. But it is positive in
jury to the sheep to put them up at night
at this season, as night is their principal
time for pasture. L think the dogs had
better be kept up at night. BY doing so
wouldn't depreciate their value?
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1873-07-02

NATIONAL CENIETERIEs.-Bid for head
stones for graves in the National ceme-
ter!es will be advertised for on Friday OF
Saturday of this week. The material and
dimensions decided upon have not yet been
announced.
The awards for building inclosing walls
and keepers lodges for the several National
cemeteries will be announced in day OF
two by Quartermaster General Meigs. The
amount of the awards will be about $685.
900, leaving a balance of nearly $4,000
over the appropriation made by Congress.
- Wash. Republican.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1873-07-02
The Temperance Cause.
MARS HILL, KNOX Co., Tenn,

MARS HILL, KNOX Co., Tenn, I
June "a, 1878.
EDITORS CHRONICLE: Knowing that
you feel interested in the cause of Temper
ance, that the good people will be proud to
hear of its progress, | will give you a short
sketch of our Mars Hill council. This Di-
vision was organized January, 1878, by DIR.
d, NJ. Breaker, and has been prospecting
and growing ever since. We have at pres
ent, about fifty members, and we can safe
ly say they are working members.
Brother Joseph Janeway favored us with
an excellent Temperance address a few
nights ago. Brother II. II. Cooper also IA
vored us with good advice.
We have just completed our Tegalias,
which are admirable.
On the 9TH of August we will have pic
mic. The orators are: Rev. Joseph Jane
way and Rev. c. l.. Boiling. 1t is our obs
ject to make this success. Let other Di-
visions correspond with us. w. c. j..
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1873-07-02
Farmers Behind.

Mr.. o. a. Garden, Of CHURCH Grove,
gave us cal! yesterday. He reports the
farmers very much behind with their
work in the northeast part of the county,
on account of the continued wet weather.
The same complaints come in daily from
every direction. The unusual amount of
wet weather possibly may have no little to
do with the prevailing disease" in the
various sections of the State.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1873-07-02
Harvest over.

A gentleman from the northwest part Of the
county informs US that the farmers of his sec
tion have all finished cutting their wheat and
there is q talk Of commencing TO thresh next
week. The yield has been average. The head
was we'll filed out and where there was a stand
q good crop will be garnered. The oats crop is
beginning to be cut
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1873-06-12

y9u afa obliged % support our eom-
men schools L ruminds Is q one q
he reAdiag lessons u Webs,ers old
spelling book, about the ola mau who
found a rude boy upon enc 81 his trees
stealing apples and tried 70 coax him
down from tho tree but 10 90 purpose
and was finally compelled to throw
stones saying Il kind words add gentle
means wili not bring you down, / viii
Try what Yirtue there is IN stones 49,
The moral i apparent. and we think
applicable 10 our schools If we can
find no moral sense 10 appeal g.. We
must try some other method. and Il
parguis are SO destitute II moral sense
as uot 20 see what this must inevitably
lead 10. here aud hereafter, they must
take the responsibility, aud pay THEN
own money to educate their own chill
dren, fer we are not willing to see
Fisk, Stokes. a Co. brought up under
our eyes, and we pay for the training
Do you ask how we are to remedy all
this evil In the FIRST place, send the
best men in the State to legislato for
us.-let all who cannot say as St
Paul did, Il magnify mine office, let
such stay at home and represent their
wives and children, (if they are eapa,
bleJ, and when VIC get good man in
any siiice. keep him there until we find
better one, and do the same by
school superintendents and teachers,
and employ men and women, instead
Of boys and girls, and II parents will
do their allotted part, as well as others
the work win move in the right direc'
ton and we shall not be called upon
to pay for curse, and live in CON-
munities where we are abused, where
superintendents and teachers are
abused, and where every one is law
unto themselves, neither fear God OF
regard man. Now we feel as tumble"
as Uriah Heep, but would just sug.
gest, that when our public speakers
drive out their eloquence for an airing
next Fourth of July, it might be more
profitable to portray some of the evils
OF popular ignorance, than to glorify
popular education, for we must very
soon begin to shorten sail, or take more
ballast on board. yESI vIDI.
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1873-06-12
STATE ITEMS.
f. L. H.

Having no doctor, Dover has no need
of its town hearse, which was sold at
auction the other day.
The original wagon which Jim Fisk
once drove throughout Southern Ver-
mont, is now owned in Athol Mass, be
ing the property Of one Prescott perip-
atetic pedler.
John II. Flagg of Bennington, VT, ex.
ecutive clerk of the United States SEN
ate, sails for Europe, June IA.
Forty-fve thousand seven hundred
and eighty-one balances, great and small
were manufactured by the Fairbanks
Scale Company last year.
A petition is in circulation for the par
don of Ziba and Frederick Plumley OF
Shrewsbury, the one serving life SEN
tence and the other twenty years, for be-
ing accessory to the murder of young
Gilman in 1867.
The Prison at Windsor, contains at the
present time Y convicts, which is 20 less
than the average for the last five years,
all of which are employed by II. ii.
Mawhinney & Co., at shoe making the
labor for which they pay 20 cents per
day for each man, the State furnishing
keepers, guards, board, &c.
Charles Yaw, OF Berkshire, VI. while
at work on the Methodist Church, now
being bnilt at this place, recently fell
from the garnet to the floor below, dis
lance OF twenty feet, breaking both arms
near the wrists, and bluisiug him badly
otherwise, and it is feared that he sus.
tanned serions internal injuries. The fall
was caused By the breaking OF one OF the
joists above.
An accident OF very painful nature
/ befell Mr. Chisty. living mite or two
/ from Chester, on the 9TH inst. Mr.. Chris
Is had assembled ladder in or outside
I his barn and when ut the top tho ladder
gave way, precipitating the unfortunate
man to the ground with snch force aud
in such manner a. to break both lee
boues near the ankle, driving them
1 through the flesh aud boot aud actually
sticking them into the ground. Drs. No
I be and Whiting attend the suffering
man
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1873-06-12

The Court Of Appeals by q uuani.
maus opinion. grants a new trial to
stokes Tho case has been decided
more swiftly than any other murder
case GA record Usually long inter
val. SOME times ot twelve months
slapse between decision ia the Gener-
Il Term and decision n the Court Of
Appeals Ia this ease only a few
aecks has elapsed. This WAS due to
the action Of the prisoners counsel Ia
waving the form Of re-seHtenee ia the
Supreme Court and accepting the Ger.
iiaoate d error from Judges Of the lat
ter by which they could carry the case
into the Court Of Appeals Immediately.