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The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1873-12-11

WATER PROOF SHOE PoLIsH.-Take a
mouthed bottle, and half fill it with
shellac varnish having the consistency of
thin syrup. Mix some lamp black with
little of the same varnish and when well
blended, add it, with bit of gum cam
phor, to the contents of the bottle, and
keep it we'll corked The rule is-to orc
pint of varnish add half an ounce each of
good lamp block and gum camphor.
With this preparation children's shoes
may be kept polished and waterproof all
the year round and it is nice applica-
ton for the larger shoes as we'll And
if gentlemen ever read such articles as
these-let me whisper, it will freshen up
your old harness considerably, and may
be used to advantage In many similar
ways, answering every purpose to which
" French dressing is applied.-Cor.
Christian Union
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1873-12-11
MARRIAGE.
absorbed.

It is the happiest and most Yirtuous
state of society, in which the husband
and wife set out early together, make
their property together, and with perfect
sympathy of soul graduate all their ex-
penses, plans, calculations and desires,
with reference to their present means,
and to their future and common interest.
Nothing delights me more than to enter
the neat little tenement of the young
couple. who within, perhaps two or
three years, without any resources but
their own knowledge or industry, have
Joined heart and hand, and engage to
share together the responsibilities. du-
ties, interests, trials and pleasures of life.
The industrious wife is cheerfully en-
ploying her own hands in domestic du-
ties, putting her house in order. or mend
ing her husbands clothes, or preparing
the dinner, whilst perhaps the little dar-
ling sits prattling upon the floor or lies
sleeping in the cradIe-and everything
seems preparing to welcome the happi-
est OF husbands and the best of fathers,
when he shall come from his toll to en-
Joy the sweets of his little paradise.
This is the true domestic pleasure
the ''only bliss that survived the fall. "
Health, contentment, love, abundance,
and bright prospects, are all here. But
it has become prevalent sentiment that
a man must acquire his fortune before he
marries-that the wife must have no
sympathy, nor share with him in the pur-
suit of it, in which most of the pleasure
truly consists; and the young married
people must set out with as large and ex-
peusive an establishment as is becoming
those who have been welded for twenty
year. This is very unhappy.
1t fills the community with bachelors,
who are waiting to make their fortunes,
endangering virtue and promoting vice
it destroys the true economy and design
of the domestic institution, and it pro-
notes idleness and ineffciency among fe-
males, who are ey pecting to be taken up
BY fortune. and passively sustained
without any care or concern on their part
and thus many wife becomes, mot
help-nate, but help-eat ".-WINsLow-
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1873-12-11
Victims of The Plague.

The Memphis Appeal says: "Nearly
two thousand Of the citizens of Memphis
have passed away from earth since the
yellow fever began its death work in
September last. Think of this army of
nearly two thousand men and women.
varied here and there with little children.
sent to their long account. They were
strong in health and full of life and hope
seven weeks ago. They might have been
saved. The homes that have been dark
ened by their deaths, and the hearts that
still ache for the never returning light of
their smiles and the sweetness of their
love, might still be bright and happy
with their living presence. The widows
and orphans that mourn for them, as on
ly the poor can mourn that have been
cast upon the charity of strangers and the
short lived benevolence of world too
busy to remember them tomorrow, might
have had their natural protector to-day,
winning for them their bread. A fearful
responsibility rests somewhere
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1873-12-11
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GRANDFATHER.S BARN.

o don't you remember our grandfather's barn,
Where cousins and went TO play,
How climbed on the beams and the scsfold so
high,
Or tumbed at will on the hay
How in a row on the bundles OF straw,
And riddles and witch stories told;
fud the sunshine came in through the cracks in the
sosth,
And turned all the duff into gold7
How we played hide aud seek in each Granny nook
Where a child could be slowed;
And made $ a coach of a hogshsad ofrye,
And on it to Boston rode
And then we kept store. and sold barley and oats,
And corn by the bushel or bin;
And for sisters to braid into hats.
And fax for our mothers to spinz
Then we played biddes, and eackled and
xrowsd,
Till grandmother in haste. came to see
IT the weasels killing the old speckled hen,
Or whatever the matter might be;
How she patted our heads when she her mistake
And called us her sweet chickens DEAR
While tear dmmed her eyes the picture recalled
The scenes of her vanished years.
How we testered and swung, and played meeting
and school,
And Indian soldier and bear;
While up on the rafters the swallows keep house
Or sailed through the soft summer air;
How longed to peep into their eurions nests,
But they too far srhead,
So we wished giants winged like the birds
And then we'd do wonders, said.
And don't yon remember the racket we made
When selling at auction the hay,
And how We wound up with keel-oYer leap,
raom the scaffold down into the hay
When went to supper our grandfather said,
If he had not once been a boy,
He would have thought the Hessians were sacking
the town,
Or an earthquake had come to destroy.
How the years have gone by since in grandfather's
barn
To play with our cousins met;
Our eyes have grown dim and our locks have t1sned
gray,
The golden, the brown, and the jet;
Yet still in my heart there's evergreen nook,
Where childhooG's sweet memories stay;
And no music to me has a charm that can thrill
Like the voices of children at play,
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1873-12-11

The Rural Neto Yorker mentions an
individual who puts down his winters
milk the same as some people lay in veg
etables, etc. He bottles lot of milk in
the fall, heats it to boiling point, then
corks the bottles and covers the corks
with wax. This is the same principle
which is applied in canning fruit, ETC.,
and We do not see why it should not
apply to milk as well, and why milk thus
treated should not make an article equal
IL inferior to the fresh article as canned
fruit are.
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1873-12-11

Mature is frugal mother. and never
gives without measure When she has
work to do. she qualities zen for that
purpose and sends them equipped
EnlcrSon
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1873-12-11

shawls so $50 piece My Cloth Department
full from the finest Broadcloh My stock of
Ready Made Clothing full and very choice also that
Boots and Shoes which very extensive among which
Waterproof warranted My stock of of Hats Caps and Gloves
of the latest STYLE and that of Crockey and Glassware quite
extensive have paid especial attention my purchases of
Ship Carpenter Tools and Hardware generally My stock of
Groceries and Family Provisions complete in all its details
Teas the qualities AS all these goods have been bought
for cash. they will be sold the lowest possible rates. will still
buy all kinds of country produce the cash
prices All who have dealt with BEFORE know that
whnt say and only that shall do my utmes
continued favors ask for liberal share of the
public patronage. CRASu HQCKz
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1873-08-05
NOTICE TO TAXPAYERS.
DEPARTMENT OF FIyAHCB,
wa n,la,ns auUrss 1872

New Orleans, August 5, 1873.
xu,aE TAXPAYERS WHOSE NAMES APPEAR IN
i I'll. following list will take notice of their H.
1abtedness TO the citv Ter imp aid taxes due On the
thirty frs. day OF JGly, 1873, in the several
amounts SGT opposite their re spective names tha'
TIE SAID taxes exiyible, with interese AZ inc
rate OF ten per cent per annum from the oa'o
aforesaid upon thirty days motto. blythe under.
signed and after three publications IN inc olnoi''
Journal as by law required And that the coiiec'.oh
OF the Aforesaid t.lI-e interest and costs WIZ %
rgdly enforced.
Aud they are further notified that after the eA
i-aton of thirty days from this date SUI wiz W
instituted by fling the unpaid bills against an 10
,inouepts "A the superior District Court 10. INC
parst, y! orleans and TINS notice shA'l coiS'''N''
-, B. NJ. TuRNBULL.
AIu,u:,tr.tor o. Finance Ad .ntei!H
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-04-10
EARLY VEGEEATION.

The Reuue d Economic RurGte announ-
ces that new process Of early vegetation
has been tried with the greatest success by
a horticulturist of Chatillon, France, who,
besides the heating Of the interior air in the
greenhouse (hot-house) heats also the earth
itself the hot-bed on which the plants
grow.
For this, he establishes at certain depth
pipes through which the steam circulates
constantly. The steam penetrates the in
terror of the earth by means of valves open
ing from place to place.
Such pipes are from to 10 centimetres
(from 2 to inches) depth by the side OF
the plant beds of strawberries, flowers anc
| ssgrsminees;D from 10 to 20 centimetres
(about 6 TO inches) for fruit trees.
The earth thus artifcislly heated pro-
duces vegetables and fruit with an economy
! of halfthe time necessary when the interior
| of the greenhouse only is heated.
Thus, every one could see at this agricul-
turist's early in April, strawberries that had
blossomed, formed their fruits and ripened
in fifteen Days; violets that had developed
their flowers in ten days; asparagus and ar
tichokes which have grown and been gath
| cred in thirty-iVe days.
Finally, within forty-fve days, dwarf
cherry trees have budded, blossomed and
brought forth fruits in perfect state Of
ripeness.
This wonderful process Of early vegeta'
ton is new as to its application to garden
| ing. Bus it is taken from nature. 1t i;
well known that in several thermal stations
and especially at AK, in France, the gar
dens which are near or above the therma
fountains, produce early fruits and Vegeta
bles (primeurs) in winter; the earth being
heated by water-steam, the heat of Whicl
raises to so deg. centigrade.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-04-10
HINTS ON TURKrY RAISING.

l see one Of your correspondents wants
light upon this subject. He does not raise
half the turkeys Matched. This is probably
a fair average of success as the business is
managed on most farms. In this region,
along the shore from New Londonto New
port, the turkey crop is leading branch OF
Industry, and is more successfully prose-
cuted than in any region have ever visited.
1t is a common measure of success for a
farmer to raise a hundred in year
from eight or ten hens; with q
larger stock, $50 to 200 are some
times raised. AL most every one in the
business expects to realize three or four
hundred dollars from the crop, and he real
ICES his expectations with as much certainty
as In other farm crops. The size and price
of the turkeys have very much increased
within the last twenty-five years. Form
erly the fiocks would not average more than
eight or ten pounds dressed. Now they
average from twelve to fifteen pounds, &C
cording to the care they receive, and the
time Of faltening. Nearly all the turkeys
raised here go tothe Boston and Providence
markets, and are sold at the top OF the
market. Dealers make business Of buy
ing turkeys of the farmers from Thanks
giving till February, and large shipments
are made every week. OF course there are
causes for this almost uniform success in
raising tnrkeys.-COlGntry Gentleman.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-04-10
POTATOES IN DRILLS.

Mr.. w. J. Pettee desires to know some
thing about drillplanting for potatoes.
Ny method is-plow the land 10 the fall;
as early In the spring as possible, draw on
bsrnyard manure, twenty two-horse loads
TO the acre, spreading from the wagon;
harrow well; then with a two-hOrse hoe
drill the land, thirty inches apart; in these
drills drop the seed (cut some time previous
into two eyes TO set), twelve inches apart
cover the seed with the two-horse noe, by
splitting the ridges turned up in making
the drills, using no hand labor, unless the
end Of the drill comes up TO the fence-in
that case the end of the drill must be COW
cred BIZ hand for a distance equal to the
length of the team; should the potato patch
be away from the fence, there will be no
necessity for using any hand labor.
We clip the above from the Country
Gentleman, and commend the practice as
economical and as applicable to late plant
ed as TO early planted potatoes. As soor
as the plants can be seen above ground, 8
one horse cultiyator should be moving be-
tween rows, and stir the earth as close tt
TO the potatoes as possible without disturb
ing them. After the plants are larger they
can be billed moderately by running twC
horse hoe between the rows. All the worl
may be done by horse power, even the dig
ging OF the crop.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-04-10
S----
PLASTER AND CLOVER BUsBAN-
DIV.

The "Philadelphia Society for Promoting
Agriculture" (the first on this continent,
established in 1885, Of which Washington
was q member,) labored long and success
fully 70 advance this geat interest. The
third volume of its Memoirs was not print
ed till 1914, after it bad existed twenty
nine years and borne no inconsiderable
fruit. In the preface to that volume we
find the following instructive remarks:
~Let any one recollect, Gas some of US DOB
the forlorn situation Of our old settlements
before the plaster and cloUer haSbdndry
was introduced and became general, now
view the fields transformed from barren
ness to fertility; and contemplate the enVis-
BILE state of comfort aud wealth enjoyed
by their present possessors. They
are the owners of the soil they cultivate,
which has grown fruitful and durably pro-
fitable under the labors of their own hands.
The sic COS non UobiS of other countries
is inapplicable here. Let, then, those who
have utriuen teach, by their encouragement
to the diffusion Of agricultural information,
those who require tito thrice. 1t is a duty
demanded of them in return for the bless
ings they enjoy"
The above is probably from the pen of
Sudse Peters, President of the So
ciety, who, with DR.. Franklin, George
4Clymer sud a few others, introduced
plaster and clover husbandry into
Pennsylvania from Europe. These
learned, patriotic and scientific men, having
done SO much TO change the 'forlorn situs-
ton of old settlements" into condition Of
hTertility and wealth." urged with gTea'
propriety that the recipients OF these bless
aues should encourage The widest possible
diffusion of agricultural information
through the press"
The UNION AND AMERICAN recognizes
the value of this kind Of information, anC
popular instruction IN the use Of clover
grass and commercial fertilizers. But their
are IL this State thousands of farmer:
whose land needs improvement, who know
nothing of plaster, little Of clover
and less Of European grass.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-04-10


If a weekly journal that costs less than four
cents number, consisting Of twelve large
pages and seventy-two columns, can not
reach them as matter of economy, what
printed matter can? DIR. Franklin saw, and
felt deeply how much the press was able to
do for agriculture, and no reader should
refuse to lend assistance to the spread OF
useful knowledge among all classes Of citi-
zens, as Franklin, Washington and other
members Of this Oldest Agricultural Society
understood the farmers ''duty." In
their time all plaster was brought from
France; now this rock Is found 80 abun-
dant in some counties Of New York that
it has been laid into stonewaIl for fence. In
early times the writer has seen it ground
and sold ready for use at one dollar and
fifty cents ton. Now ground plaster sells
in the cities of Syracuse, Auburn and
Rochester at four dollars ton. At this
price New York farmer applies 100 pounds
of this fertiliser to an acre of corn or
clover at cost Of twenty cents.
Tennessee agriculture suffers very
much from the lack Of chesp manure
to improve all land in any crop.
Our true policy is to raise more clover, or
chsrd grass, redtop, timothy, bluegrass,
oat-grass and the.fescul grassese; and at the
same time keep more stock, produce more
wool, butter and cheese. Our present sys-
TEN of husbandry is defective in its results.
By impoyerishing the soil, il in measure,
compeis the emigration Of hundreds and
thousands of the industrious sons of Ten
nessee. This is bad policy for q great
farming State brimfal OF mineral wealth.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-04-10

We are indebted to McAlister & Wheless.
Commission merchants, corner Broad and
College streets, for the following cotton
quotations in New York and Liverpool
during the day.
LIVERPOOL, April 8, 11:9O.-Cotton
quiet. Middling uplands Old; Orleans Ola
9sd. Sales to-day 10000 bales.
LIVERPOOL, April 9, 5:00.-Cotton
unchanged. Middling uplands 93d; Or
leans 9k69sd. Sales to-day $4,000 bales,
Of which 1000 bales are for export and
speculation. Sales of American 6,00O
bales.
NEW YORK, April 8, 1O:9O.-Market
dull. Futures dull. Ordinary 15ic;
good ordinary 17tc; low middHng 1890
middling 1890; Alabama zoe; Orleans 201c;
Texas 20sc. May delivery 1910; June 1bj
619 7-16e; July 10 9-l6619ic; October
17ic. Sales on contracts 500 bales.
NEW YORK, April 9, 11:05.-Futures
shade firmer. May delivery 1876; June
10 7-16c; July 10 9-16c. Sales $500 bales;
exports TO Great Britain 500 bales.
NEW YORK, april 9, 12:15.-Msrkei
easier. Futures dull. Ordinary upland:
15sc; good ordinary 175c; low middling 16s
middlirg 1850; Alabama 2Oc; Orleans 20tc
Texas 20sc. May delivery 10 1-16c;s JunG
1890; July 19a619 $780,. Sales for con
sumption Is bales; on contracts 3, 200 bales;
last evening for exports 1000 bales; for
consumption 142 bales.
NEW YORK, April 8, 1:10.-Future:
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-04-10
NARROWING IN CORN. :

A Virginian writes to the Rural MeSSen
ger the advantage he finds in narrowing
corn in preference to hoe covering or Gov
ering with the plow. He says it efectual-
" destroys the young grass and weeds just
putting up between the rows. 1t puts the
land in good condition by breaking the
clods and pulverizing the entire surface,
The young corn, coming up on level In
stead of on the furrows, is not so liable to
injury from heavy rains. The corn can be
plowed at an earlier stage of its growth with
out being covered up, and also can BE-
ploWed much closer. 1t Is the
practice of some to harrow just be-
fore or about the time the corr
comes up, and while / have followed thai
to some extent myself with good results
vet have adopted the plan Of putting IL
with harrow for the following reasons: II
saved the work of covering the corn by
other processes, and it renders the harrow
inc a certainty--as it often happens that
when the narrowing is deferred until after
the planting, heavy rains or press of Other
matter, causes it to be indefinitely post
poned."
A correspondent gives the following des
cription of how he harrows his corn:
/ commence just as soon as the corr
comes up and continue as needed, to KEEP
soil loose and weeds out of sight, until it J:
so tall the harrow will break it off if used.
There is nothing SO needfuI to secure croI
of corn, with our short seasons, as frequent
STRINGS of the soil when Il is in its frs
stages of growth, and no tool will do this 81
cheaply or so thoroughly in the hill as The
rightly constructed harrow. Harrow bacl
and forth till have my land as l desire. l
the corn is r1Wed both ways of the field, thu
second narrowing should cross the first, tn
third the second, and SO on. ! have no
had failure in four years with corn on m.
white, heavy cold soil.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-04-10
dull. Sales 4,7OO bales. July delivery

dull. Sales 400 bales. July delivery
1910. aIAl1>s
NEW YORK, April 9, 2:2O.-Market
weak. Futures weak. Ordinary 153c;
good ordinary 1890; low middIing 1sac;
middling 1eac; Alabama 1870; Orleans
zoe; Texas 20Sc. Sales on the spot 600
bales; on contracts 5000 bales. April de-
livery 1870; May 19c; June 10 Slice; July
1910, October 173c.
NEW YORK, April 9, S:2O.-Market
dull. Futures quiet and steady. Ordi-
nary uplands, official 154c; unofficial
15Sc; good ordinary, official tic; unofficial
165c; low middling, official 1880; unofficial
1870; middling, official 1890; unofficial 19a;
Alabama Official 195c; unofficial 1880; Or
leans, official 19sc; unofficial zoe; Texas,
official 201c; unofficial 20Sc. Sales for con-
sumption 357 bales; for speculation 10
bales; included in the sales are 300 bales to
arrive; on contracts 10000 bales.
New YORK, April 9, 4:00.-Net receipts
34,053 bales; exports to Great Britain q, !
424 bales; to the continent 8,775 bales;
stock SD, 977 bales.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-04-10
PgTZE sToCK MANAGEMENT.

A Mr.. Powell, of Eglvysnunyd, Eng
land, last year took the first prize, fl50,
from the Royal Agricultural Society for the
best winter management of stock. His
mode is thus given: ...Lt.5 E-.
"The COWS drop their calves in autumn
and winter, and the calves are allowed to
suck for four or five months. They are
confined five or six together in boxes partl-
toned of, and 60 to the COWS in the yard
twice day. They are given, as soon as
they will eat it, some of the best hay,
pulped roots, and 3 small quantity of oats
and pea meal. The cows are fed straw,
rough hay and sliced roots; and on this
feed keep always fat. When the calves are
weaned the cows are MIXED and butter
and cheese are made"
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-04-10
At This Very HOuK

Thousands are suffering from fever and ague, OF
languishing in that condition of debility which
the variable weather Of the season is apt to pro-
duce, especially if the nervous system be par
tculariy sensitive, and the physique delicate
rather than robust. All these sufferers, how
ever much they may deserve sympathy, are
nevertheless the victims of their own want Of
forecast A course of Hostetter's Stomach Bit
tiers, commenced month ago, would have ex-
empted them from their present troubles. Hav-
ing neglected prevention, let item az once adopt
the means Of cure. A wineglassful of that gem
iaI vegetable tonic and Alternative taken twice or
thrice day for week or two, will afford effec-
tual relief in any case of intermittent or remit
tent fever, chronic indigestion, constipation,
biIicusness or nervous weakness, and perse-
yerence in the use of the restorative will prevent
the possibility Of relapse.
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