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Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1874-05-21
AoooRn1No to the renort of the Conn.

ACCORDING to the report of the Com
mittee appointed by Probate Judge
Carroll which will be found in another
column there was on the oath, Of April
an apparent balance due from Treasurer
Porterfield to the County OF 81 ,26l
Explanation for about $3.50 of this
amount can be given.
Treasurer Porterfield like the honest
man he is, has made the treasury full
by placing the amount found due, in
the vaults to the credit of the county.
THE dead body of man was found
on the 10th inst, at Low Gap Landing,
York township this county. Justice
NJ. M. Scott held an inquest and the
jury found that deceased came to his
death by drowning. He is about 81
years of age 81 feet high. chin whiskers
and Ii 5lit ;lustache. Had on his per-
son four bills of glass and queensware,
dated at Pittsburg april, I'd Sd and 9TH,
receipted in favor of Jno. F. Hurd.
See Coroner's notice in another column.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1874-05-21

APPLEs-rhe market is lightly supplied, and
we quote all the way from "a 0e 10 % 2 bbl
BUrTER-Marketi is active. Prime table but
ter ray be quoted at 25a2Sc; good to prime 20a
&c per h. Some dealers are holding choice at
higher hgues.
roEANs-rhe demand has somewhat fallen
of, though prices are unchanged; prime white
navy selling at 81 3592 40 p bushel, fair to
good 81 0Oa2 p.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1874-05-21
CONDENSED TIME TABLE, DEC. IL. 1873.
ss.45. IDaily, Except sundav:l
= RIyER pIvIsIoN-aoING WEST.
LOCAL NOTICES.

SaOEMAKERS will please take notice. that
have Upper. Kip and Caliskins FOR SALE
oct2s6m H BUMGARNER.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1874-05-21

LETTUCE have peas.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1874-05-21

h K. Bumgarner has Just received splen-
did stock OF Boots, Shoes, and Caters for the
Fall Trade. 49, -llt - agSI
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1874-05-21

CO1H DIII6u NIdt- -4IiIIt.
The time and place and arrange.
ments for the trial will be advertised
in due time.
I. NEIswANGER, Pres't.
I. NJ. RILEY. Sec'y.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-03-27
sPROUTING SWEET POTATOES

PARAMOUNT, Ind, March 10 wish
to ask men of close observation some
questions in regard to hot beds. We
viii say we make hot bed IN the usual
way-fresh manure, eight inches deep;
three or four inches loose earth on that;
then the potatoes, and soon. We take
all necessary precautions against get
ting the bed too hot; be two or three
weeks getting them up, which Is all
right; if we get them up earlier, many
times they are soon killed with the
heat, and turn yellow, quit growing,
etc. Now here Is what / wish TO know:
We get good stand of plants with
moderately warm beds, with all ap-
pearances of having a good yield; the
first plants are good and healthy; but
about the time the first plants are get.
ting thinned they stop growing, and
turn rather pale. On examination the
roots are found rotten, and black, fiber
ish roots all dead, and the bed gone,
unless we sell plants we know to be OF
no account. When we go to tend our
patch which was set out with the first
plants in good order, a number OF them
even look sickly; We pull up some, and
find the roots dead and black.
Now l Will say l have sprouted pota-
toes for sale for twenty years, with va
rious results. And I have found the
difficulty spoken of for the last
four or five years. l have tried differ.
emit plans, but still without satisfactory
results. Also a neighbor of mine, who
sprouts largely, finds the same difficulty
to exhist in his; at times totally rum
ing his plants. We have consulted
together often on the cause. At first
we settled on the idea that the blacl
rooted plants were caused by the Pc
tatoes rotting. But on making obser
vations it was found that the pOtatoe'
were sound, and the plants near tn
potatoes were rotted off. Now nearly
all would say that they were scalded
We were of that opinion at first ant
put in less manure to prevent scaldlng
But we find it not as good as when WI
used to put manure twelve or fourteen
inches deep. Now men who are use t
sprouting potatoes know there ar
always few plants that have the blael
root, which are generally thrown out
but what 1 speak of is a whole bed, sa..
Of 90 bushels, of potatoes. Z. NEAL
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-03-27
CONFIDENCE OF ANIMALS.

In an admirable article on this sub
ject the NetU England Farmer says:
Horses and oxen should have such con-
fidence In their drivers, that they will
willingly and repeatedly make all rea-
sonable effort to do as they are hidden.
A team should neverbe told the second
time to start an unreasonable load.
We don't believe horse would ever
become balky if it were never infused
by over loading and whipping. 1t is
our best horses, those that are full OF
spirit and spunk. that get balky, and
not the "lunkheads," that don't know
when they are misused. What is it
but feeling of confidence that makes
the patient horse stand for hours In
harness, unhitched, waiting the return
of his master to give HIM the word to
90, before he will leave his tracks:
And what is it but this same confidence
in his master, that makes well trained
horse willing to be driven over uncer.
tain places, across shaking, dilapidated
bridges, and up to noisy, pokerish
looking locomotives, with their putting
smoke-stacks and screaming whistles?
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-03-27
TREATMENT OF SCRATCHES.

If the horse is in bad condition and
thin in flesh, bleed from the neck vein;
but should he be weak and feeble, only
small quantity-not more than about
three pmts-of blood must be taken at
first, and ten days later. as much more.
If his strength has not been reduced,
it may do to bleed but once, then tax
ing three quarts of blood. In case his
general health is vigorous, 1t will not
be necessary to resort to bleeding at all
But this condition Will rarely be found
in connection with scratches.
The remedy to be applied is as nearly
infallible as anything possibly can be.
The corrosive hniment Will cure the
disease in every stage, and In every con-
dition of the system, and under almost
any circumstance. Apply it with a
little mop, shaking it well before using.
Turn out about tablespoonful of it IN
an earthen cup, and with the mop satu-
rate the parts affected thoroughly. Use
the liniment for four days; then omit
for two days, and use again. The hot
iron need not be employed to dry it In,
as this is one of the cases In which it
has more effect while on the surface.
Keep the horse out of the wet while
applying the liniment, or it Will do
him little good. Feed light; and if it
is the time of pasture, he Will need no
other diet. In winter, give as much
green, soft food as can be procured
american Farmers Horse Book.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-03-27
HOW MUCH FOoD FOR A HORsl
A correspondent of the Country Gen.
HeBldn SAYS:

A correspondent of the Country Cen
tlenldn says:
The amount of food Unnecessary to sup
port an animal varies with its age, sex,
temperament, the climate, the amount
of work 1t does, and various other con-
ditions. The quantity needed to carry
on the functions of the body, when at
rest, has been very accurately determ-
ined by long, continuous and careful
experiments. The result of these Ia
bors l cannot give in a clearer or more
condensed form than by translating a
passage from Magnes' work on the sub
feet, with the weights changed from the
French standards to those In use IN our
own country.
III. Boussingault kept horse weigh
ing $50 pounds for a month, without
increase or diminution of weight, ON
ration composed of hay, l6a pounds;
oats, 5 pounds.
NJ. Boussingault admits (the hay was
the second crop that the ration con-
tanned 5 ounces of nitrogen, and we
value at 81 pounds the carbon contained
in the respiratory elements; hence it
follows that it represented very nearly
% pounds ii ounces of hay; in other
word At pounds of hay for each 100
pounds of the weight of the animal.
By measuring the carbonic acid ex-
hailed by animals we can prove the
values deducted from the amount of
nourishment consumed.
Considering the works of various
authors and his own experiments, ALI
bert concludes that a horse weighing
1920 pounds exhales In twenty -four
hours pounds z ounces of carbon,
equal to 81 ounces for every 100 pounds
of the horses weighn this is nearly the
amount of carbon that we have shown
to be contained in = pounds of hay;
that horse weighing 1000 pounds ex-
hales in twenty-four hours pounds
ounces of carbon, equal to 3 ounces for
every 100 pounds of the horses weight
Quantity contained in ? Is pounds of
hay).
Basing our conclusions on these diff
ferent observations, we believe we can
admit that the ration necessary to sus-
tain horse without work. is, for each
100 pounds of theweight of the animal
/ 10 d. Vi hay lOr Il uOIst weighing Low u.s.
20 ms. of hay for a horse weighing ,S2D rs.
% fbs. of hay for a horse weighing 100 m.
"a ms. Of hay for horse weighing $50 Bs.
The ration of support is then greater
for the small animals than the larger
ones; if this is not sufficient, the ami
NAL is nourished at the expense of Its
own substance, and becomes poor
With every animal it is only the nOur
1 i r.
ton of support that give useful pro
ducts, consequently there is advantage
in having given work done in the
shortest time, and by a small number
of animals, strongly fed, in order t.
diminish as much as possible the nour
ishment lost as ration of support.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-03-27

SEEDS-Narket fluctuating. We quote /:
Red clover 1918; sapling $500; timothy
$500; red top 81 .3561 .50; blue grass S1.50;
orchard grass $500; Hungarian S1.50; Mis-
souri, millet S1.50; German millet S1.756
200.
COTTON YARNs-We quote at lie, 13c,
15c and lie for 700, COO, 500 and 400.
SHUcKs-In demand at $50 per 100 rs
for hacked, and $50 for rough.
WRAPPING PAPER-We quote small at
SOC, medium T5c; double crown 81.
IRON-We quote as follows: Tennessee
bar &c % b; kentucky do. sc; Tennessee
band 6d9e; Kentucky DO. 5566le; Tennes-
see boiler plate Sc; boiler heads 9t.c; fire
box 1Oc, sheet; common 6A7c; do. Ken
lucky 7tdStc; do. Tennessee SG9ic-
BARKEIs-We quote at 4065Gc.
GLAsswARE-Wee change our quotations
to suit the card rates as follows: s by 10
1915; 10 by II S7.25; 10 by IA $500; 10 by
16 $S.75; u by IA 1915; u by IS SS.75; y
by Is 1925; II by 20 1925. Discount
40].
FLAsKs-The quotations are net as fol-
lows: Half pint S2.75; pint 1918; quar-
S4T5.
CANDKs-We quote stick candy 15c;
common fancy loo.
CoRDAGE-ute BE; grass zoe; cotton
30c.
PEPPER-We quote at 2Sd30c-
SPICE-We quote at 16c.
GN6ER-We quote at Ice.
TALLoW-We quote at &c.
ORANGEs-We quote at 50 per barrel.
CLovEs-Advanced to 60670c.
ONION SETs-We quote as follows: Red
onion button per bushel $3.50; red onion
sets $500, white button $3.50; white sets
S11.5O.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-03-27
HOW TO COUNTERPART DROUGHT

Of all the different modes by which
the farmer may counterfeit the bad eff
fects of drought, that of perfect tillage
is the most easy, and in proportion to
its benefits, the least expensive, but at
the same time the least permanent.
Many of our farmers harrow their fields
and growing crops for the purpose of
killing the weeds, and for this purpose
alone, and having accomplished this,
their efforts cease. By this course of
practice they often lose the greatest
benefit of thorough cultivation, viz:
the protection 1t affords from the bad
effects of long continued dry weather.
A fire kindled on large block of
stone will, If kept up long enough, heat
the whole mass; but if this block is
ground to powder, fire may be kept
up on the pile without affecting it to
any great depth. 1t is the same with
the soil. IL it becomes solid and hard
on the surface, it absorbs and conducts
the heat to its full depth, or until it
comes into contact with moisture In the
subsoil. If the surface is kept
loose and open by the free use of the
harrow, it Is not heated to any consid-
cradle depth, and hence the crops will
not suffer to the same extent. Nor Is
this all; for at all times, no matter how
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-03-27


dry, there is point at greater or less
depth In all soils where they are moist,
and this moisture is conducted upward
to the surface, exactly as a sponge alb
serbs moisture when one corner is
placed IN water. A piece of dry, hard
soil, IT placed with one of its corners in
contact with water, VIII exert its alb
sorbing powers very slowly, because of
the closeness of its particles; but reduce
this dry and hard lump to fine powder
and it viii suck up moisture almost as
fast and readily as a sponge. If SINH
lar hard piece of soil is exposed to air
containing water in the form of vapor,
it will absorb very slowly, if at all, but
the same block reduced to powder viii
become moist, and Notwithstanding the
drain caused by the evaporating power
of the sun, will remain so small at
distance from the surface.
Wemay then state that thorough
and perfect cultivation prevents the
bad effects of drought, because by
infinitely dividing the particles of the
soil, we destroy their power of conduct
ing heat downward and into the soil,
and also increase their power of draw
ing moisture from the subsoil. Air,
even during the warmest day in sum-
'ner, contains large amount OF mols-
ture; and anything which can be done
to enable the soil to obtain the mois-
ture, viii benefit the crops in the same
ratio. We do not think that this pow
er of well divided soil to absorb water
from the atmosphere, is properly un-
derstood. Experiments made by Schulz
Ter prove that 1000 lbs. of common
soil, made perfectly dry and then ex-
posed to the air for twenty-four hours,
would absorb or gain twenty-one
pounds of water, and that the amount
absorbed was still greater In finely
divided clay soil. We know of no bet
ter test that can be made to prove this
absorbing power of the soil, than is
| furnished by the soil in the bed of a
| dry public road. 1t is of course not
only compact, but its absorbing powers
being thus almost entirely destroyed, it
is dry. If a small portion of this soil
is removed to the depth of one foot, and
after being reduced to a powder is
replaced IN the hole again, 1T Will be
found that at the end of twenty-four
hours that the fine soil has become
quite moist, while thesurrounding hard
earth is as dry as before. This moist
ure comes from two sources, upward
from the moist subsoil, and downward
from the atmosphere; and if our ex-
animation has been properly timed, we
may find space of dry soil between
that moistened from each of these two
sources.
Even when thoroughly divided by
frequent cultivation, it will be found
that different soils are differently af-
fected by the treatment, and that some
will receive more benefit from it than
others. This is due to the fact that
they possess this power of absorbing
moisture from the atmosphere, to a
very different degree. Sir Ii. Dayy
found that while the soil of Bagshot
Heath only absorbed three pounds to
the thousand IN twenty four hours; a
fertile soil would absorb eighteen, and
that the amount would vary between
the two with the increase or decrease 10
the amount of sand or clay.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-03-27
FARM AND GARDEN.
ko0r ron CABBAGE FLEAs.

As soon as our readers begin to work
in the garden we shall begin to hear
complaints of the injury being done by
cabbage and turnip feas. In time let
us say that a busting of the plants with
SCOT Is not only an excellent preventive
of the ravages of these insects, but it
is also first rate method of stimula-
ting growth. Now, when you have oc-
casion TO- clean out your chimneys,
stove-pIpes or stoves, where SCOT accu-
mulates more or less, save all you can
and put it aside In some dry place for
time of need. Put all your fine, dust
like ashes in with thes SCOT and in spring
sift out all the Jumps, adding an equal
quantity of dry earth or sand to the
pure article. To every barrel of this
compound add one pound of Of powder
ed sulphur, thoroughly mixing 1t
through the heap. Keep dry and un-
der cover until wanted for use. This
mixture will also be found excellent for
busting over melon and cucumber vines
as well as upon cabbage and tomato
plants.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-03-27
Nashville Grocery Marhe,.

SUGARs-New Orleans, (new) in hogs
heads SdlOc for fair to choice; Demerara
11ad12c; standard hards I2c; A coffee
10sc; B do. 10se: extra do. 1O3c; yellow
G l061Oac.
MOLASsEs-We quote New Orleans $50
73c; sirups 55665c; golden strip Csc.
COFFEE-Market quiet. We quote: Rio,
common to choice, 29G31c; Laguayra 3OG
32c; Java 3Sc.
CHEEsE-We quote factory 17561Sc.
NALs-We quote at $3.50 for 10ds, and
25c additional for diminishing grades.
SALT-We quote bushel barrels at 81. 70
per barrel in store.
CANDLEs-We quote star 165d17c % b.
FIsH-We quote as follows: Hall bar
rels, Nos. 1, 2 and 3, $500, S7.25 and $3.50;
in kits, Nos. 1, 2 and 3, $3.50, $500 and
$1.75.
RICE-We quote at sI69c.
TEAs-We quote Imperial 75cdS1. 25;
Young Hyson 75edS1.25; Black 5Oc6
$1.OO; Gunpowder 75cGS1.25.
PowDEB-DupOnt S7.25; Sycamore Mills
SIPS; blasting $500; fuse per 100 feet 65c.
SHOT-We quote Patent $3.50; Buck
$2.75.
LIQUoRs-We quote common rectifed
whisky % gallon S1.O0.; Robertson County
N.75d3.0O; Bourbon S1.25d5.50; Lincoln
County $1.T563.0O; Highwines s1.00.
COTTON TIEs-We quote at 10c.
BRooMs-We quote at S2.J063-50 .
dozen.
SoAP-We quote at 56Sc q ID, or $50
| also % box.
BAeGNG-We quote at 15616c fo
hemp and fax.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-03-27
BURIED TREASURE UNEARTHED.
Strange Adventure Of a Memphis Me-
chanie-A Confederate Soldier Makes
Death-bed WILLS, 600 in Gold Re-
stored 10 Circulation.

From the Memphis Register, March Is.
When the war between the States
broke out, there lived In Memphis a
certain young mechanic who volun-
teered his services as a soldier In the
Confederate cause. Just before receiv-
ing marching orders he fell heir to
$500, which he received IN English
gold, and buried $1,000 of the same be-
meath the roots of a tree on a certain
lot in the city. The said lot belonged
to a friend of the young man whose
family had kindly nursed him during
a protracted illness and for whom he
felt a deep sense of gratitude. 1t
CHANGED that sad soldier became tired
of his unrequited life, and despairing
of the cause which be deemed "lost,
before many Of his fellow soldiers came
to the same conclusion, he left his COM
rades without the usual preliminary OF
an honorable discharge and passed be-
yond the boundary of the Confederate
States into Mexico. In due course OF
time he sailed for England and there
shipped as a sailor on merchant YES
sci. After various adventures around
the world he was at length taken very
i'll recently, while sailing in the Medi-
terranean, and, before meeting with his
approaching death, summoned to the
side of his hammock the master OF the
vessel, revealed to him the above stated
facts and desired him to write will in
which he bequeathed to the friend IN
Memphis, who had nursed him in sick
ness, his buried treasure. This was ac-
cordingly done and the Will duly signed
and witnessed.
The master of the vessel faithfully
carried out the dyingrequest of the de-
ceased soldier and sailor and commu-
nicated the facts with the will to the
Memphis legatee, who received the
same. But he had sometime before
sold and delivered another party the
lot on which the valuable sOvereigns
were deposited. How to get at it now
without mourning opposition and per
haps litigation. was the question which
arose in his mind. After taking the
advice of counsel, he concluded to do.
velop the whole matter to the purchaser
and owner of the place and ask for the
| RIGHT to make search. This was done,
and the new proprietor generously for
warding his wishes and giving him ev-
cry facility to possess himself OF the
treasure On digging at the foot of the
tree described in the will, the gold,
amounting to $1,000 was happily found
and the new owner made glad by the
glittering heap. Thus did the "bread
cast on the waters return after many
DAVIS And thus is truth again proven
to be stranger than fiction" This re-
markable statement is vouched for by q
respectable lawyer Of this city. 1t fur
nishes abundant Foundation for an in
teresting romance, which We hope some
competent person Will work up.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-03-27
WASHINGTON.
Erect Of the Climate on the System
Gases fn Point.


Correspondence OF the Union and American.
WASHINGTON, d. c., March 23.-
This is a cold, boisterous March day
in the Federal metropolis, and very
trying to the invalid and the sick,
which / am sorry to say is the condi--
ton of my friend Mr.. Stephens, of
Georgia. He is at the old National
Hotel, where remember Mr.. Clay suf-
fered so much from pain, cough and
expectoration, during his last sickness;
symptoms that characterize MIR.
Stephens illness to-day.
Vegetation is some twenty days later
in the District of Columbia than about
Nashville; and the adverse change of
climate experienced by the feeble con-
stitution Of Mr.. Stephens In coming
north to spend thewinter, is greater than
it would have been had his residence
been in or near the capital of Tennes-
see. He spoke of the winter as the
worst that he ever spent in Washing
ton, being too open, damp and foggy.
/ did not say to him what l felt to be
true, that he should have passed the
winter in Southern Florida rather than
in this exceedingly damp and chilly at
mosphere, which killed Washington
with a throat disease, at least ten years
before old age would have sent him to
the tomb. The rather premature deaths
of Senator Sumner and Chief Justice
Chase, not to name others, would prob
ably excuse letter on climate as it at
fects health, comfort and longevity, If
any excuse were deemed necessary.
One week ago when the writer arrived
in this city snow was flying, and the
ground white with snow much of the
way from Gordonsville to Alexandra,
yet it was not cold enough to freeze
water. In the matter of atmospheric
dryness, the elevation of Nashville
above tide water on the Potomac gives
it an important advantage In all rheu-
matte and consumptive maladies. Re-
duce the temperature below freezing,
as in Northern Minnesota, and keep it
there, and onemay escape colds, coughs
and many iufiammatory disorders. But
all sudden changes of temperature, and
of humidity demand for human safety
more skillful medical engineering than
the majority possess. Men in
public life rarely lengtben their
days by never over-heating the vital
furnace that keeps them warm. A
waste of vitality may be attained as
well by improper eating and exposure,
as by unwise drinking and Over-work-
ing. Henry J. Raymond, the founder
of the Netc York Times, and an editor
capable of much brain-force well d.
rected, fell from apparent health nearly
lifeless in his own hall; and John
Quincy Adams as he dropped on the
-four of the House of Representatives,
said truly, ''This is the last of earth. ="
Mr.. Adams told the writer that the
malady which he expected would kill
him, and did kill him, was hereditary.
Messrs. Sumner, Chase and Greeley
were differently affected; but disap-
pointed ambition was an element of
vital injury. L.