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this day Was resolved, in conformity with article
seventh the charter TO collect Immediately the full
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and pay after settlement Of said pre-
NUNS q quartsrly interest dividend Of two and half
per cent ON the amount Of capital stock paid in.
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April. 1873.
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.''abstractionn by the "Children's Aid So
ciety,p for instance--but these are enough
for the purpose, although 1t may be added
that 10 1872 this Institution took from the
city SlO6 .235. 90"
STATISTICS after all, particularly when
they are gathered to excite spirit Of VIC
lence against the sshated Church" will lie
dreadfully Cincinnati Telegraph.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1873-01-04
Beautiful AIIegarY

Mr.. Crittenden, of KY, was at one
time defending man who had been
indicted for capital offense. After
an elaborate and powerful defense, he
closed his effort with the following
striking and beautiful allegory:
"When God i'm his eternal council
conceived the thought of mans Gre
alton, he called to him the three
ministers who constantly waited up
on the throne-Justice, Truth, and
Mercy-and thus addressed them:
Shall we make man% Then said
Justice, 20, God, make him not, for
he will trample upon the laws
Truth made answer also, %, God,
make him not, for he will pollute the
sanctuaries.' But Mercy, dropping
upon her knees, and looking up
through her tears, exclaimed, 20,
God, make him; will watch over
him with care through all the dark
paths. which he may have to tread
Then God made man and said to
him, 20, man, thou art the child of
Mercy" And, turning to the jury,
the speaker said, go, deal with your
brother. "
The jury, when he had finished, was
drowned in tears, and against evil
dence, and what must have been
their own convictions, brought in a
verdict of "not guilty."
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1873-01-04
John Kn0X-The Tercentenary Gel.
ebratiOn.

Three hundred years ago, in his
own house in the High street of Ed
inburg, died John. Knox, in the sixty
seventh year of his age. A few
weeks ago the tercentenary of the
great reformer was celebrated in va
riOus parts of the United States and
in the New Dominion, as well as in
Scotland, England and Ireland. 1t
is not unfair to say that John Knox
was the father of the Scottish Re-
formation and the founder of the
Presbyterian Church. His name is
and ought to be dear to Scotland;
and Presbyterians, wherever found,
are in duty bound to honor his men,
DRY. In some respect Knox was a
severe man. He was man of strong
will and of unflinching purpose. 1t
must at the same time be admitted
that if he destroyed it was not be-
cause he loved destruction, but be-
cause he wished to build a nobler ed
ifice on surer foundations. Luther,
Melancthon, Calvin, Latimer and
others must be remembered in con-
nection with the Reformation fight
in the sixteenth century. They all
did good work, and their work re-
mains behind them. One name,
however, stands in connection with
the Reformation in Scotland and in
connection with the history of the
Presbyterian Church, and that name
is John Knox. He secured for his
country religious liberty, and, dying,
he left it as a precious legacy to his
countrymen. He gave Scotland also
the parish church and the parish
school. The church and the school,
what have they not done for Scot
land? Scotland is the native home
of Presbytery, and the Presbyterian
churches on this Continent honor
by honoring the memory
of the Scottish RefOrmer, the founder
of Presbyterianism. After Luther,
Knox Is the grandest name of the
Reformation.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1873-01-04
What a Farmer Should not DO.

A farmer should never break up
more land than he can thoroughly
cultivate: half-tilled land is always
growing poorer, while well titled
land is constantly improving. A
thrifty and prudent farmer @3ll not
devote his sole attention to the i'm
provement of certain fields on his
farm, because the land is "easy to
work." and let other portions of his
premises go uncultivated, and grow
nothing but brush, boys, briars, and
stones.
A farmer should never have more
cattle, horses, or other live stock than
he can keep in good order. An ami
NAL in good order at the beginning
of winter is already half wintered.
Nor should he let his cattle endure
the chilling storms of winter in an
open yard or field, whilst few shil-
lings expended in providing com
Portable stables would amply repay
him in saving fodder, and afford a
greater quantity of milk.
A farmer should never depend too
much on his neighbor for what he
can, by careful management, pro-
duce on his own land. He should
not make it common practice to
either buy or beg fruit while he can
plant trees and cultivate them on his
own ground, nor annoy his neighbor
by borrowing tools to work with,
while he can make or buy them.
"The borrower is servant to the
lender"
A farmer should never be so i'm
mersed in political matters as to neg
lect doing his various kinds of work
in due season, and to tidy up matters
and things for the winter; nor should
he be so inattentive to politics as to
remain ignorant of those great ques-
tions of national and State policy
which will always agitate more or
less n free people.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1873-01-04
.fariaer's 6olnmu.
INDUSTRIAL LITIGATION.

There are now thirty-two indus
trial colleges in the United States
which have received the national
endowment made by Congress under
the act of July 2, 1862. Massachu-
sets has two, Mississippi two, and
each of the other States one, except
Florida, n Nevada, Louisiana and Kir-
ginia, in which none have yet been
established. Twenty-six of these in
stitu.ions are in operation, and it is
expected that the remainder will be
opened during the year 1872. Twen-
ty are established in connection with
other institutions, and seventeen are
independent colleges. Three hun
dred and ten professors and assistants
are employed in giving instruction
to more than two thousand students
who are pursuing regular course Of
study in agriculture and the mechan-
zeal arts. Quite a number have al
ready completed the required course
of three or four years, and have re-
ceived diplomas. A large portion Of
these students are educated free Of
expense for tuition. These institu-
tions have excited the attention moi
only of the States, but also of pri-
waite individuals. Several gentlemen
and ladies of distinguished liberality
who had in view the laudable object
of improving the industrial education
of the nation, have made liberia
donations for their support.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1873-01-04
CALIFORNIA TOBACCO.

Tobacco culture will probably be-
come, within a few years, one Of the
mostimportant industries of Califof-
MIA. The experiments this year in
its production have been remarkably
successful. At San Felipe, where
the American Tobacco company is
located, the yield of tobacco has been
extraordinary large. One patch of
Connecticut seed has yielded four
thousand pounds to the acre; Hayan-
ma tobacco plants have yielded TWEEN
ty-fye hundred pounds per acre.
The plants grow very large, and two
cuttings are obtained from them, and
from some plants set out early, the
company have had three cuttings.
The Havana tobacco is said to excel
in quality anything produced in the
Island of Cuba. IF the tobacco is
one half as prolific and of as good
quality as tits said to be, the cultiya-
ton of it will become in time one OF
greatest enterprises of the Pacific
coast, more valuable even than gold
mining or grain raising.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1873-01-04


gathered into piles. They may be
hauled in winter. A hayrack, pro-
tected at the sides by q few boards, is
an excellent vehicle to haul them in;
large barrel hoops, covered loosely
with a piece of gunny bagging, make
handy baskets by which 70 loadthem
into the wagon. Poor Roadway is
made with forks of any kind, except
barley forks, and they are not usually
met with. When brought home they
may be put under roof, or kept dry be-
meath a few boards, or a thatch of
straw. Then they make q comfort
able bedding for any stock, but most
especially for sows with young litters.
Besides leaves, many other materials
will suggest themselves. Tan bark
contains much potash, especially oak,
and next hemlock. Sawdust is also
valuable, especially that of beech,
elm, and bass wood, while that from
other hard wood, is worth the trouble
of gathering. Road sweepings, mead
ow muck, coarse weeds, and such re-
fuse, should be brought in and cast
into the stables and yards, and made
to absorb the liquid manure, and ev-
cry days labor thus spent is in wor-
thy harvest field.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1873-01-04
A Mothers Influence on the Child.

The schOolmaster sees the mothers
face daguerreotyped in the conduct
and character of each little boy and
girl. Nay, chance visitor, with a
quick eye, sees very plainly which
child is daily baptized in the tranquil
waters Of a blessed home, and which
is Graded i'll violence, or sucked at
the bosom OF storm. Did you ever
look at a little pond in a sour, dark
day in March ? How sullen the
swampy water looked The shore
pouted at the pond, and the pond
made mouths at the land; and how
the scraggy trees, cold and bare
armed, scrOwled over the edge! But
look at it on a bright day in June,
when great rolling clouds, all golden
with sunlight, checker the heavens,
and seem like great flock of sheen
which the good God is tending in
that upland pasture of the sky, and
then how different looks the pond
the shores all green, the heavens all
gay, and the pond laughs right and
blesses God. AS the heavens over
the water, so mother broods over
the family, March or June, just as she
will.-Iheodore Parker.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1873-01-04
A LESSON.


said my life is q beautiful thing.
will crown me with its flowers,
will sing of its glory all day long,
For my harp is young, and sweet, and
strong.
And the passionate power in my song
Shall thrill all the golden hours.
And over the sand. and over the stone.
Forever and ever the waves rolled on.
l said, my life is terrible thing,
All ruined and lost, and crushed,
will heap its ashes upon my head,
will wall for my Joy and my darling dead
TIL the dreary dirge for the days that are
fled
Stirs faint through the dull, dumb dust.
And over the sand, and over the stone.
Forever and ever the waves rolled on.
I said, was proud in my hour of mirth.
And mad in my first despair,
Now. know nor earth, nor sky nor sea-
Has heed or helping for one like me,
The doom or the boon comes, let it be.
For us, we can but bear.
And over the sand, and over the stone.
Forever and ever the waves rolled on.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1873-01-04
STEAM FLOWING.

1t is singular fact, that with all
the practical progressive ingenuity
to which as a nation we are justly en-
titled. we are behind all Europe, and
even behind old Egypt, in availing
ourselves of the very important adj
vantages of steam blowing. In the
cultivation Of large tracts OF land
steam blowing is undoubtedly more
economical than the present system.
Our English cousins fully appreciate
this. There are in England several
different establishments, employing
over twelve hundred men each, in
the manufacture of steam plows.
The plan found to work best in Great
Britain, is to have organized compa-
MES who hire out their steam ma
chimes and do the work by contract,
and it is said that more than FIVE
hundred steam plows are thus held
for hire. The success of the exper-
iment is proved by its working on a
tract of five hundred acres near Lon
don. So poor was the land deemed
that it would not bring rent of
three dollars per acre, but after being
plowed by steam it brought clear
profit ofeighteen thousand dollars on
grain crops. Scotland also finds no
difficulty in making steam blowing
paw. In Germany the same mechan
zeal force meetsswith general APPROX
al, while further in the East the
Pacha of Egypt employs four hun
bred of these plows. In those coun-
tries the lands are old, and thorough
" freed from all distractions, which
NAV account for the extensive use
of the steam plows. Then, again, the
land being held in immense estates,
the proprietors are enabled to pur-
chase and use them with great econ
omy, when their expensiveness would
preclude small landholders from the
possibility of ayailing themselves Of
their advantages. But our western
prairies are naturally level and free
from Instructions, and there seems to
be no existing reason for their not
being plowed by steam, other than
the reason which causes the Turk of
Asia Minor and the greaser Of Next
co to-day to use a wooden pillow in
stead of an iron one, to-wit-thrIft-
less ignorance. The use Of the steam
pillow is no longer an experiment, as
the above English statistics prove.
1t but remains, therefore, for our
western farmers to club together and
purshase them, using them first for
themselves, and then doing their
neighbors blowing by contract, max
ing money by the operation. If the
members of new colony, for in
stance, would combine and purchase
one of these plows, it will do more
blowing in a single day than all the
men together, leaving the laborers
free to perfect all the, other details
necessary to establishing themselves;
or private individuals might purchase
them and pillow by contract, as is now
done, in many instances. with reapers
and mowers, and almost universally
with thrashing machines-The Free
Lance.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1873-01-04
MATERIALS Fer MANURE.

The latest harvest of the season is ut
hand. tits the gathering of materials
for a stock of manures for next year.
ON this work depends the amount
which NAV be reaped from next years
crop. 1.-THE supply OF manure can be
doubled the crops may be Increased in
mere than equal proportion. Its not
the droppings Of the stock alone that
constitute manure, there are many
materials that may be gathered from
other sources equally valuable. The
great bulk of the manure from stock
consists of undigested vegetable fl Der,
rs crude and unaltcred in character as
when il existed in the shape of hay,
straw, or fodder. But its mechanical
condition has been changed, and in its
present state of minute division it
more rapidly enters into decomposi-
ton. That is the whole secret of the
value of animal manure. Every
farmer has in his control abundance
of material worth rs much as the
droppings of his cattle, which, if
gathered and mingled with the more
easily decomposed matter, will furn-
ish for his crops food of the richest de-
scription. or these the first in inn
portance is forest leaves. These rap
idly decay, and contain amuch larger
proportion of the most valuable fertil-
iZers than the wood. While dry wood
contains from one-tenth of a pound TO
four pounds in the Thousand ofpotash,
dry leaves and young twigs contain
from half a pound up to ten pounds of
potash in the thousand. Almost eN-
actly the same relative proportion
holds good in regard to the phosphoric
acidcontained in these substances. A
thousand pounds Of leaves of the
mixed forest srowths, common in the
United States, will yield nearly two
pounds Of this most indispensable fer
fiIizer. Leaves may be gathered at
any time before snow falls. They
should be raked together with hay
axes, either hand rakes or horse, and
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1873-01-04

\ rail mill is being constructed in
Louisville, Ky, at a cost of half a
million dollars, for the manufacture
of rails 10y new system, which does
away with manual labor. Before the
iron comes outa perfect rail it is pass
ed through thirteen sets ofrolls, with
out n halt, and is turned over five
times for side rolling. The iron for n
rail is taken from a heating furnace
and transformed into the proper
shape in thirty seconds.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1873-01-04

BY JOAQUIN MILLER.


With the buckier and sword into battle
moved. + was matches and strong;
stood f. the rush and the rattle
OF shot, and the spirit ofsong
Was upon me. and youthful and splendid
My armour flashed far in the sun
As sang of my land Ii is ended,
And all has been done-and undone.
descend with my dead in the trenches,
Tonight bend down on the plain
In the dark, and n memory wrenches
The soul. / turn up 70 the rain M
The cold and the beautiful faces NJ
Aye, faces forbidden for years,
Turned up to my face with the traces
OF blood TO the white rain oftears.
Count backward the years on your fingers
While forward rides yonder white moon,
Till the soul turns aside and IL fingers
By a grave that was born of June
By the grave of a soul, where the grasses
Are as tangled as witch-woven hair,
And where foot prints are not, and where
passes
Notanything known anywhere.
By grave without tombstone or token,
At tomb where not fern-leaf or fir,
Roof or branch was once Bonded or broken
To bestow there the body of her;
For IL lives, and the soul persisted only,
And alone in that land with these hands
Did I lay the dead soul and ali lonely
Does it lie to this day in the sands.
Loi Wild little maiden with treSSes
OF gold on the wind of the hills;
Aye, wise little maiden, that guesses
Some good in the cruelest ills;
And babe, with his baby fists doubled
And thrust to my beard and within,
As he laughs Ike fountain halftroubled,
When my fingers chuck under his chin.
Should the dead not decay when the oul-
ture
or fields be resumed in the May?
Lo the days are dark-winged as the vul-
ture,
Let them swoop, then, and bear them
away;
BY the walkslet me cherish red flowers.
By the wall teach one tendril to run.
Lest wake and watch all the hours
1shau ever see under the sun.
1t is well, may be so, to bear losses,
And to bend and bow down to the rod
Ii the scarlet red bars and the crosses
Be but rounds up the ladder TO God.
But this hacking of men All that enters
The marrow; this bowling of He'll
IN return for my song-love that centers,
Vast land, upon thee is not well.
And go, thanking God in my going
That an ocean flows stormy and deep;
And yet gentler to me is it flowing
Than the storms that forbid me to sleep !;
And | go, thanking God with hands up
| lifted,
That a land lies beyond, where the free
And the giant of heart and the gifted
| OF soul have home in the sea.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1873-01-04

An acorn suspended by a piece of
thread within half an inch of the sur
face of water in a hyacinth glass,
will, in Il few months, burst and
throw a root down into the water,
and shoot upwards its straight and
tapering stem, with beautiful little
green leaves. A young oak tree,
growing in this way on the mantle
piece of a room, is very elegant and
interesting object.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1873-01-04

1t has been ascertained, by sink
ing a shaft to the depth Of two hun
dred feet at its border, that the great
Okefanokee Swamp in Southern
Georgia is underlaid with n bed of
bituminons coal. This swamp is a
thickly timbered morass, two hun
bred miles in circumference, and the
project has been conceived of drain
ing il.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1873-01-04

PURE LIQUORS. In England a
new law controlling the sale of liquors
has been made, having relation to
the purity of the article sold. Mean
liquor is the meanest poison is the
world. 1t gives all the pangs of a
death struggle, and still holds the coil
of mortality around its victims till it
snaps under the heavy weight of
crime or the mad ,whirl of insanity.
For ever alluring and ever deceiving,
"tangle foot commits more damage
than simple striehnine socially, and
the doom Of its votary is just as inev-
liable and fatal. He who sells any
but pure article of alcohol, should
be.punished as for administering poi
son or for an attempt to kill.