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The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1873-10-10
CATHARTlC PILLS,
For all the purposes Of aFamily Physlc,
CURING

mors and salt Rheum, WORMS, Gout,
Neuralgia, ms n Dinner PHI, and Purifying
the BlOod, are the most coIGenial purgative
yet perfected. Their effects abundantly show how
much they excel all other Pills. They are safe and
pleasant TO take, but powerful to cure. They
purge on. the foul hunors Of tho blood; they
stimulate the sluggish or disordered organ into
action and they impart health and tone TO tho
whole being. They cure not only hc every day
complaints Of everybody. but formidable and dan.
gcrous dlIeases. Most skilIful physicians, most
eminent clcrgyInen, and our best citizens. send
certificates OF cures performed and ofsreat Dement'S
they have derived from these Pills. They are tho
safes. and best physic for children, because mild
As well as encctual. Being sugar-coated, they arc
easy 90 ,asc and being purely vegetable, they are
entirely harmless.
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1873-10-10
Serofula, or Kings Evil. White

SweEings. Ulcers, Erysipelas, Swelled Neck.
Goitre, Scrofulous Infiammatio- Indolent
determinations, Aercurial Affec ..ns, Old
Sores, Eruptions of the Skin, Sore 8. cs. etc.
In these, as in all other constitutions Dis
eases, WALKERS VINEGAR BITTERs Gave
shown their great curative powers in the
most obstinate and infractable cases.
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1873-10-10
NEWS IN BRIEF.
THE EAST.

THoMAs Brown PARKER, one Of the wealth
lest citizens of Philadelphia, last week attempt
ed to murder his wife, and then committed sui
eide. Jealousy was the cause.
The Masonic fraternity of Philadelphia have
just dedicated with imposing ceremonies their
new temple, said to be the largest and finest
in the world.
A STATEMENT of assets and liabilities of the
firm of Jay Cooke & Co., of Philadelphia,
New York, and Washington, has been sub
mitted to their creditors. The following is o
summary:
Liabilities, 81, 939, 400.
ASSETS.
Bills receivable, bank, insurance, and
other stocks, bonds, and real estate. Is 1867, 64O
Loans to Northern Pacific Railroad CO.. 3,750.Nl
Stock of the Oregon Steam Navigation Co. 1900, 900
Loans to Northern Pacific Railroad Co.,
on bonds of company. 4.O6s,2 I5
Se~cond-mortgage railroad bonds, stocks,
2,5sO,a56
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1873-10-10

trains now run from Cairo to Texarkana, on
the eastern border of Texas.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-08-29

WHEN Mrs. Siddons was playing Lady
Macbeth in Dublin, st that part where q
drum sounds, and she exclaims, ga drum
drum! Macbeth doth come I" there was
some difficulty OF neglect in obtaining the
necessary instrument, and TO her amaze
ment trumpet sounded. She immedi-
ately saw how absurd it would be to say
"drumn while the sound of trumpet filled
the ears of the audience, so she said: ga
trumpet a trumpet and stopped short,
amid bteathless silence, not knowing how to
rhyme, when voice from the gallery called
out, macbeth doth stump it, /" at which
the house broke out into peal of laughter
and applause, and the tragedienne advanced
to the footlights and bowed her acknowl-
edgment for the relief. She afterward tried
to find out who it was, but failed to do so,.
and never forgot what she considered the
most genuine piece Of wit she had met with
in all her experience.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-08-29
TAX oOLnECTORs,

Z A correspondent of the GAINESVILLE To-
baccO Leaf writes. -.t,.s,.. a.
p 81 think every Tax Collector in Mont
gomery county, with one single exception
OF whom have any knowledge, claim they
are entitled to fifty cents, in every case,
when they have to go to mans house for
his taxes, after having advertised and at
tended at the precincts, as the law directs"
Commenting on this, the Tobacco Leaf
says editoTially: .--...--.
+. "We are sorry to say that there is no earth
~ warrant for collecting 80 cents on the
Part of a tax collector unless he shall first
distraiD, when he is entitled, under COG
Steger's code, the fees allowed Sheriff for
collecting debt. We understand that tie
practice of collecting so cents Is an. old one,
ard we have no doubt but that tax eollee.
tors think it legal: but it is without war
rantof law that we can End after most
careful examination, It is misdemeanor
in Office and renders the collector liable to
a fine OF not less than one hundred dollars.
(See COS Thompson & Steger.) Aside from
fees allowed fer .distraint, the collector is
only entitled to So on the 500 up to
$4,000, and s. on every 500
over that amount
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-08-29
CHoLERA NOTES.

From the Knoxville Press and Herald, Aug q
A respectable citizen, named Spitser,
died of cholera a Rogersville junction,
early yesterday morning, and negro, on
Monday night. We learn that there are
yet several cases of the disease in that
place, which are very serious. .akEEa zee
In our city, yesterday, numerous ex citing
rumors were afloat on the Streets which
were rapidly carried from lip to lip. The
only death that occurred was that Of Ger
man named Roth, living ia MechanicsviIle,
who died about noon, yesterday, after an
illness of few hours.
The police destroyed a large number of
water melons near Fort Saunders, yester-
day. ~ E'fF - lr
From the Knoxville Chronicle, Aug. q.
From the mail agent on the eastern bound
train, we have learned yeste: day, that a
train hand had been down for the last two
days at Lenoir's Station, with cholera, but
was getting better yesterday. In the even
ing be was brought to this city by the grav-
ell train, and in consequence of travel was
again thrown into critical condition.
There were three deaths in our city yes
terday, one from cholera and two from 9th.
er causes, viz: Joseph Roth was taken sick
with cholera on yesterday morning at four
O'Clock, and by Do0n be was dead. Weun-
derstand that Mr.. Roth had been very in
discreet about bis diet, eating water melon,
mushmelon, cabbage and ether unwhole-
some food, and after he was taken sick, we
are told that instead of at occe sending for
physician, be Used lot of cholera mix
lures unfortunately until about s O'Clock,
when DIR. Carson was called in and about
II O'Clock, DR.. Morgan was taken into con-
sultation. - y
Sam. Osborn, colored, was taken yester-
day morning with cholera, but we learn
was much better in the evening. This is
the only cholera in the city, 10 the best of
our information, with the exception of the
train hand brought here.
By letter received in this city, from
Mr.. John Barry, now in Rhea county, we
learn that the latest Knoxville advices re-
ceived at that place report AZ deaths from
cholera on the same day that Judge Nelson
died. This certainly will prove to be news
to our citizens. What next?
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-08-29
HOW TO KEEP TOMATOES FRESH.

A correspondent Of the Rural NeU York
or in Pennsylvania writes:
81 h We this day, December 8, taken to
the store of a friend basket Of ripe toma-
toes, fresh and as nice as they were last
fall when pulled from the vine. They
were admired by good many persons. A
lady present asked if they haI the same
favor that they had in their season, wien
on the vine. Ihsn6ed Der one and tasting
it she replied; "Ohl how delicious and
freeh aud such rare treat. They taste
Just as they do in summer when fresh from
the vine." Now these tomatoes sold out at
retail at fifteen cents per pound in 9 few
hours. The next thing after tasting the
tomatoes was, SHOW did you keep them?"
/ didit m this way In the fall, befo re the
froet burt them, pulled The larger toma-
toes and pat them n my cold greenhouse;
then, when there was danger of freezing, l
removed them into another greenhouse in
which fire is kept, and laid them with the
stem down, on damp sand. Here they
ripen slowly, and the moisture from the
sand keeps them fresh. In pulling them l
leave stem on them about two inches
long; this is put intothe sand when place
them on it. used the Trophy tomato.
l have tried other kinds, but they rot bad.
ly. The Trophy tomato being late variety
and very solid think is the best for keep
ing. This is the second season of my try
Ing TO keep tomatoes till Christmas and
New Year. Those that sold would have
kept till Jan. l, 1873, very well, tbink.n
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-08-29
AN ITEM FOR SMOKERS,

1t is stated the opposition Of the cigar
manufacturers to the adoption Of the new
cigar stamp box, which the Commissioner
of Internal Revenue has submitted for ex-
animation, does not rise solely from the fact
that the box is patented. One OF, the strong
est arguments urged against the box at the
time It was examined here, was that the
manufacturers could not take the cigars out
of the box and put them in another box
bearing different brand. It appears to be one
of most profitable tricks of the tradeto sell
the came quality of cigars to customers I'M
der different brands, and to shift them from
one box to another, according to the char
acter of the orders and the condition of the
stock. These practices the adoption of these
boxes, it is said, would abolish, for the reason
that the cigars could not be changed to a
different box after the stamp and brand had
been once affixed.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-08-29
FALL PLOWIEda

The object OF all blowing is either to kill
weeds, cover manure, or the trash of pre-
vious crops, pulverise the soil, and render il
open to the influences that are constantly
working by whichit may disintegrated and
made permeables TO gaFes. Frost is one of
the prime agencies, in connection with
moisture, in breaking down the cohesion of
stiff soils disintegrstiDg and rendering them
liable aud permeable TO the air, the oxygen
of which is the great destroyer and at the
same time the great regeneration. A soil,
sour and infertile- through putrefaction or
other 'gencies, is hereby oxygenated and
rendered fertile; for when the putrefaction
is changed to an oxidsting process, carbonic
acid ole of the prime Constituents of plants,
is rendered available; this is Only one of the
chem cal changes produced by the action of
the air upon soils.
What we call mechanical changes in soils
are fully as important as the chemical ones
althoUs h the mechanical charges are but
few in number. BY ''mechanical cendi-
tions Of Soils" in nearly every case, it is
simply meant to convey the idea of want
of, or locking Up Of chemical action; as, for
instance, soil plowed wet becomes baked
through thermic force, or heat, and drying
winds, ADD is thereby rendered intertile.
Til mechanical action connected Herewith
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-08-29


10 simply the turning Of the soil. II dry, Il
isrendered per.neabIe tothe action ofthe
air, chemical fofce. If wet, It balles
through chemical force and becomes dry and
infertile. But, if plowed in the fall other
&C ion is again set up through freezing and
subsequent thawing, and, through chemi-
cal action, the soil il again disintegrated
and fitted for the sustenance of crops.
That system of plowing which will leave
the soil in the toughest state will naturally
suggest j self TO the observing mind as the
most fit for winter exposure. Therefore
plowi e into lands, leaving the 'furrows as
rough as possible, has long been adopted.
Observation has shown it to be the best, It
being the result of experiment. Man has
been. led on to other experiments which
have resulted in the demonstration of facts
that leave no doubt of the great benefit of
fall blowing on heavy loans and stiff CLAWS.
Cogent conclusions have been drawn as to
the real cause of the benefits so resulting.
/. In determining the depth of fall plowIng,
every farmer must decide for himself. The
mistake most usually made is that land
may be piowed to an indefinite de 9TH in
the fall; wher, In fact, there is no question
which will allow more careful study than
the depth to which soils may be plowed.
One Illustration must suffice. If The sur
face soil be light and spongy, as is some-
times the case with some of our prairie
soils, and clay lie at such distance under
the surface that 1t may be reached by the
plow and thin slice can be thrown on
top to give cohesion to the surface, well and
good; but the indiscriminate plowing to a
great depth of our prairie land would only
result in injury TO the soil for many years.
: The Western Rordl in It's articles on sur
face drainage and blowing, heretofore has
held the necessity of blowing into lands all
lots subject TO saturation with water at GER
tain seasons of the year. If these articles
have been carefully read ard considered.
the ideas embraced in the present one viii
be apparent. The real value of fall ploY-
ing consists frst in doing a eel tain amount
OF work, thss may be done as we'll or better
IN the autumn a. In the spring. It is not
the absolute Aightness of thu soi', which
might better be rendered as flufiness, that
constitutes fertility, but 1t is permeability.
ms permea5ility may be just as marked,
In soil fall plowed, as in one spring plow-
ed; far more so If the spring plowings have
been accomplished when too We as is
oftenthe case. A-soil may be rendered in
fertile IL left, when plowed, too soft or mel
low. Hence the practice of rolling such
land, to compress it. The effects Of fall
Flowing are scarcely understood BY many
good farmers, but its advocates will increase
as the true causes which are brought to
bear in the operation are more carefully
considered.-WeStern Rstrdi.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-08-29
KEEPING GERANIums-

A writer IN the Anaeric0n AgricuItuTist
says: never had any trouble in keeping
such geraniums as are worth keeping. They
are taken up aad cut back pretty severely,
removing all the succulent and unripe
wood. They are then stacked in o box
with some dryish earth about the roots, and
put in the cellar for the winter. The
trouble is in putting away too moist. The
earth should be almost dust-dly. 1 have a
fine old Gloire de Nancy, which goes into
the cellar for the fifth time. have never
tried the method Of hanging them up by
the heels. The plauts are cut back, tied
together by the roots and hung up in the
cellar, beds downwards. Those who have
tried this, report that it is successful.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-08-29

Sothein, the actor who has been persistent
ly advertising himself for the past IL months,
has received set back in The Now York
Times, from an article in which the follow
ing pertinent remarks are given: "He is so
terrible a pugilist, according to bis own ac-
count, that it may seem rash thing for any
one to offer to demonstrate with him. But
at the risk of his calling here and annibi-
lating. everybody in this Office, we will tell
him plairly that for the present we have had
enough of him-that, whether as jack
pudding, philanthropist, an actor, or a
lighting man, we want to hear no more of
him. Let US have a little rest.
Sothern, in every form and style has beer.
served up for a year past, and, to be plain,
we are at present sick OF the dish, and we
wish some one would serve it as the imagin
airy Sothern served the traveller on the West
ern road-fiing it out OF the window"
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-08-29
CIDER VINEGAR.

We have often been surprised at the great
haste exhibited by many orehardists to dis
pose of their cider as soon as it comes from
the mill, when there is no product of the
farm that 30 increases in value with age as
cider. In the fall of 1870 we bought bar
rel Of cider for three dollars and put it into
a dry cellar with the bung open. There it
lay year. and on examining it, it proved to
be good vinegar, and we sold it to trader
for ten dollars. Here was net profit of
more than thIee hundred per cent. Hun
dreds Ct barrels of cider were sold from the
town hat year at ten cents per gallon, all
of which would have sold readily in q
year at thirty cents per gslloD.-Maine Far
me-.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-08-29

SUeARs-New Orleans, in hogsheads 9
Ollie for fair to choice; Demerara 11aG
l2c; standard hards l2ac; New Orleans
clarified white 124h12ac; do. yellow 124c;
A coffee life; B do. 11sc; @ do. llac;
Porto Rico 1Oa611e; yellow @ 1O611c.
MoI.AssEs AND SIRUPs-New Orleans
7O675c; sirups $4,000; golden strip 90
665c.
CoFFEE-Market strong and advancing.
We quote Bio, common TO choice, Z5G1265c;
Laguayra 261c; Java 30c.
Massive quote at $500 for 1Ods, and
25c additional for diminishing grades.
SALT-We quote z bushel barrels at
$500 per barrel in depot.
CANDLEs-We quote star 1916 ~ o.
FIsH-We quote as follows: Half bar
rels, Nos. /, and 8, $500, S7.25 and $3.50;
In kits, Nos. l, 2 and 8, $3.50, $500 and
S1.75.
RICE-We quote st 9i610c.
TEAS-We quote Imperial $1.0On1.5 30;
Young Hyson $1.15DL60; Black 75c6
S1.25; Gunpowder $l61.s0. 2
PowDEB-D1pont$ 7.00; Sycamore Mills
$7.OO; blasting $500; fuss per 100 feet Csc.
SgoT-We quote patent $780, Buck
$3.I5.
IIoUoBs-We quote common recti1led
whisky % gallon 81; Robertson County
s1.75G$S; Bourbon $1.2565.50; Lincoln
County $1.75G2.25; HighWines 81.
CoTToN TIEs-We quote at 10c.
BIZ ,oNssssWs quote At s2.50NS.5e %
doz. 80 !.
soAP-We quote at 5Dsc y d, orssH
4.50 - box. .t. B..
BAGG1NG-We quote at 16G16c for
hemp and fax.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-08-29

choice Bio. bay dull b1s inchabged at
szO delivered. Provisions quiet and IN
changed. Whisky firm at 98c.
lOnteaza Markess. -
CHICAGO, august %. = Flour. 0ensnd
good at full prices; good to choice extra A.
5O6oOo Minnesota $6.25A6.65. 7WhsaE
demand active and prices advanced: No ?
spring $4.2e ash; August I.2I; Septemher
l.laE seller all heyear I69dL0Di: No. +
spring Sl.z3 Corn in fair demand INF AZ
lower rate No 2 mixed 39an40cs cash or
August; September 40s sOstobsr 49c-
Oats opened drm but closed dull and easier
No. 2 mixed % cash. Ryez az uuaui1e,
active and prices, advanced; No. = '1lle
clos ID easierat 67a66Sc. Barley marked
steady with a moderate demand; No. .
Sl.1061.12 cash. Provisions Quiet and
unchanged. Mess pork $40 13s cash. Lard
market steady with moderate demand a.
75c. Bulk meats no sales, quiet and IN.
changed. Bacon no sales, quiet aud IN
changed. Whisky demand fair and mafkek
nrm ct 81, generally held at SI.0I. ~
Chicago Lumber Marked
CHICAGO, Aug. 28.-Ths lumber suppI4
and demand both light; The market Is ysrv
quiet and prices nominally UNCHANGED.
Joists and scantling $9.5Onl0O0: sf1if,s-
and boards $y616.0O; shingles s.; latb
si.7osr FuEs EUFE aEarrHsG
I Sd. Louis aarzaes.
81. LOUIS, Aug. 2S.-Flour quiet and
unchanged; superfine $500. 25; x $50
OOPS; Xxx $685.; Xxx SIS 5ON700.
family S7006650. Wheat-hisber: No. &
red $l.3O61.323; No.Z red winter held IL
Sl.50; sample lots sold at $1.45nf 30
Corn scarce and higher; No. 2 mixed ezrlv
sales 42c, closed at 434644Je; Ssptember
42c; October 3444e; November 45e. Oats
slow but frmer; No. 2 See cash. Barley
firm; No. 9 90d95e; No. 2 sII30I.I M.
Rye dull at 62d64c.;- Whisky scarce and
higher at 81. Mess pork quiet a. sic. 62lN
100. Bacon duh and only order trade
Lard unchanged; summer 7sc. Hogs low.
er at $4.25G4.45. Cattle dull and weak for
low grades ranging from $1.50 to s.; fair TO
prime beeves $3.7565 25.
= memphts Markets.
MEMPHIS, Aug. 26.-Flour quiet and
unchanged. Corn meal tirmer at 500.
asked. Corn demand fair and prizes al
vanced to 55c. Oats, new 4Oc Hay. good
scarce and firm at $23' Brad dull; new Is.
Mess pork dull but unchanged. Lard duh
but unchanged. Bacon dull bat unchanged.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-08-29
WEEKLY UNION AND AMERICAN
FARM AND GARDEN.
LARGE FARM.


A correspondent of the Lafsyette Courier
sends that paper some account of what is
probably the largest and best managed farm
in the world. 1t is ia Knox county, IL,
and is owned by NJ Michael SulliVant,
formerly of Ohio. The farm comprises
10000 acres, and is thirty-two miles in cir.
conference. Five hundred men and teams
are kept constantly employed in working it.
There is not mile of wooden fencing on
the place, the entire farm being hedged
with Usage orange into $40 acre sections.
Each section is numbered and has its own
"boss," tenants, workmen, farmhouse,
barns, etc. The whole lis in perfect order,
and furnishes fine example of what can
% accomplished in the agricultural line by
energy, enterprise and system.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-08-29
The law of Congress allowing 100 acres

THE law of Congress allowing 100 acres
of the public lands to any person who will
plant and keep in order for ten years forty
acres of timber is rendered almost who "
imperative by the decision of the land
commissioner at Washington, who says the
farmer must plant forty acres OF trees in a
single year. To break and plant forty
acres would cost the farmer more than
to expend for that purpose in one year.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-08-29
Total. S59, 5SS, 1885 S1l 1924 1852 $50, OO6,s
COUNTIES IN MIDDLETENNEssEE.
Total. 81. %. rs s.. @. l93 S2,ls8.7

1t will be seen from these tables that al
though the farm products in the four Ohio
counties exceeded the farm products in the
four Middle Tennessee counties only
81 ,265, 659, yet the value of land in the same
Ohio counties exceeds the value of land in
the tour Middle Tennessee connties $780,
SS7,65I. Why is thisa The same tables
answer. The value of manufacturing pro-
ducts in the four Ohio counties was $751;
0o5, $3.50, and in the four Tennessee coun-
ties only 50, 1sS, TO, or difference of
3,Sl7,091 in favor of The Ohio counties.
Wherever manufactures flourish their lands
are valuable and high. A home market for
agricultural products makes land valusble
aud in demand. If Middle Tennessee and
West Tennessee were as they could Re,
manufacturing counties, they, too, would
flourish and prosper as Ohio and Pennsyl-
vsnia do TIE lessons are taught us by
the census; will we heed them? VIII we
60 in the same old track, wearing out the
country. to enrich ether sections? A diver.
sifed industry, including agriculture, COM
merce and manufactures are necessary to
the permanent prosperity Of any paople, and
to secure these We should struggle Tor
cheap transportation in ords- that we may
have easy access to good markets,