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The Volcano lubricator. (Volcano, W. Va.) 1871-1879, 1874-01-13

To darkies in the West went out to
hunt 'possums, and by accident found
large cave with a small entrance.
Peeping in they discovered three young
bear whelps in the interior. Look
heah, Sam, while l go in dar,' said
one, "and gets de young bars; you JUS
watch heah for de ole bar" Sam got
asleep in the sun, and when opening
his eyes he saw the old bear securing
her way into the cave. Quick as wink
he caught her by the tail, and held on
like blazes. "Hullo, dar, Sam, what
dark de hole dar?" "Lor' Dress you
Jumbo, save yourself, honey; if dis
tail come out you'll find what dark the
hole"
The Volcano lubricator. (Volcano, W. Va.) 1871-1879, 1874-01-13

a French author describes Mile.
Nilsson as follows Animated snow,
with golden hair, and with two solar
stars under her wide brow; she has the
grace of a reed, the charm Of heather
and OF beam-a scrawny beam-of
the North's pale SUM-"
The Volcano lubricator. (Volcano, W. Va.) 1871-1879, 1874-01-13

say dcy amt no 'iciepcy in prah. Dis
chile would like to know whah we'd
ben now if it warrant to dat prah.
Oats it, dats it.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-03-25
IRON INTERESTS OF LOUDON COUNTY.
English Capitalists Digging for Orc-Re-
IigiOus News--FarmiDg Notes.
MoRGANToN,
LoUDoN COUNTY, TENN.
March is 1874.

EDITORS KNOXVILLE CHRONICLE: AS
a subscriber to your invaluable paper,
take the liberty of giving you few dots
from this neck of the woods knowing as
I do, that the CHRONICLE is using great
deal of energy In trying to give publicity
to all the facts in reference to East Ten
nessee that are of any interest to the State
at large, and more particularly to East
Tennessee.
| believe that you have done more to-
wards bringing immigrants and capitalists
to the State than all the other papers and
emigration societies of the State combined.
You are doing noble work; and every
citizen that has the love of his State, or an
enterprising spirit, appreciates your labors,
and are truly thankful to you for what you
have done.
There is considerable excitement and a
great interest manifested at this place over
the Iron question" Col. Hoskins & Co.,
of Chattanooga, are buying lands and pros
pecting for iron ore, which they are find
ing in abundance, and of a superior quail
ty. They have sunk a shaft forty feet
deep within two miles of Morganton,) and
find large veins of ore. They took out OF
said shaft about 20 tons of ore, and are
still prospecting in other places.
The prospects are that they will soon
erect furnace at this place.
Col. Hoskins was here last Thursday
viewing the situation, and seemed to be
well pleased with the prospects. The CO
lionel, to man that Is at all acquainted
| with human nature, seems to be man o.
| iron nerve and indomitable will, and Que
that would exert all of his energies in the
interest of any enterprise that he might
engage in.
There is another company leasing land:
and prospecting with the view. of bringing
to light "a large deposit of quicksilver
that they say is somewhere in the bowel:
of the "yeth.n
The Cumberland Baptist Church at this
place is raising funds to build a large church
| house The Baptist Church is also
making an effort to raise fund!
| to build church house and {
| house for the use of higher grade school
all of which are badly needed here. Prof
| Cox, of Louisville, Blount county, takes
charge of the high school here to-day.
The farmers of this section sowed a large
area OF wheat last fall, which all look
we'll in fact have never seen wheat loOE
better at this season of the year. There il
also o large crop of oats and the farmer
are preparing for large corn crop.
Your friends at this place are getting VI
| a club for the CHRONICLE. Long may thu
! CHRONICLE wave. Respectfully,
SAW BONES.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-03-25
Tn, Mast interviewed.

A reporter of the Chicago Times, recently
interviewed Thomas Mast and found him
speechless as a natural result of his eX-
tended lecture tour. Mr.. Mast, however,
made out, with the aid of his crayon, to
make himself understood, and a likely con-
versation was the result. We quote:
Would you have any objections to be-
ing interviewed, Mr.. Nast?"
A spasm of pain crossed the artists for a
moment, and then rushing to the bed he
dived down under it and brought out a
large black board. Selling a piece of
cfayon, he vigorously commenced scratch
ing npon it, and in few seconds the re-
porter beheld a PROSTATE figure of Mast
writing in the agOnies of death, while upon
his body sat six able bodied men poking
him in the short ribs with lead pencils and
notebooks. This led the reporter to infer
that Mr.. Mast did not like being inter-
viewed
Reporter. But why, Mr.. Mast What do
you think of reporters?
The caricaturist here drew a pump with
a quillist vigorously working the handle.
Reporter, All, you think they ask too
many questions! But do they not always
tell the truth in regard to their interviews ?
The figure of Washington armed with
his little Ratchet was hastily, sketched up
on the board, and underneath it the single
word Reporter"
NS' CSC JO0 oPPASNASOS bhCAA FNAoSAAy
Pray tell me, do you enjoy Chicago?
A picture of boned k.e y cham
payne, gin-cocktails and Calumet snipe
fried, hastily followed,
After remarks as to some local celebra-
tons the conversation proceeded
Reporter. How much do you expect to
| make in Chicago?
Reporter. Are you meeting with much
success in your entertainments"
A picture of railway train loaded with
greenbacks, and each car ticketed, 9TH
Mast" followed.
| A Masonic eye with a well-developeC
wink was drawn.
Reporter. Do you really labor from pa
triotism, and do you think President Gran
the modern condensation of Achilles, Cat'
and Cesar?
The artist here drew nose that looked
great deal like his own, and upon the EN-
of it thumb with four fingers extended a
a wiggle.
Reporter, / have been much please
|. with you, Mr.. Mast, and should like I
know you more intimately. 1 shall tax
, pleasure in calling again.
! The artist hastily drew a No. 10 boot, e
) waited at an angle of about forty-five III
, grees, aud costly nestled its extremities III
4 der just such coat as the reporter wore.
4 Imferring from this that Mr.. Ma
would he pleased to see him again, the r
@ porter refused the kind offer of IA doZe
: parquet reserved seats, and withdrew.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-03-25
SNOW-PLOWs.
How Snow BlOCkades are Broken on the
Central Pacific Railroad
[san Francisco Chronicle. !

TSan Francisco Chroncle,l
Once in while. when the storm would
tighten up, we could catch glimpse of the
great snow-plow, with its six engines,
around some bend, driving into the drifts
with force that it would seem would
move the world. These snow-plows are
curiosity, both in their construction and
the manner in which they do their work.
They are immense structures-I say struc-
lures, for they are as big as a two-story
house-and weigh from $1,000 to $4,000
pounds. In front they are shaped like the
iron'prow of an iron-clad frigate, only the
sharp vertical portion of this prov chang
es into fiat surface where it approaches
the ground. Attached to this fiat or hori-
Zontal prov is what is called an "apron."
This apron is attached to the prov by
means of hinges. 1t lifts up and lets
down directly on the track at pleasure,
and when down it is held there by large
steel springs.
The other night when Mr.. Fillmore, the
Division Superintendent, brought the east
ward-bound express train through with
eleven engines. The scene was one of the
widest and grandest that has ever been
witnessed on this road. 1t had been storm
ing all day and all night and all the next
day, and the snow had fallen and drifted
some places ten and fifteen feet in depth.
The train started out from Colfax with
three engines, but at Alta it took a fourth.
A snow pillow, with seven heavy 55-ton en-
gines, went on ahead to clear the way, but
at Blue Canon the pillow stuck in huge
drift, and the whole force of the seven en-.
gines could mot bulge it an inch ahead
After shoveling while the express train
and the snow train were coupled together
making a team of eleven engines, a snow
pillow and six cars. Such sight was new
er seen. The long chain of putting mon
sters backed down for mile or two and
| then, taking a fresh start, came at the drift
at the rate of forty miles an hour. The
only wonder is that the pillow was mo-
crunched into saw-dust. II not only stood
this enormous strain, but it kept to tht
track and cut an eleven+oot passage in thu
drift with the precision of a surgeon
| knife.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-03-25
Useful Hints.

To PRESERVE CLOTHING PGNs.-They
should be boiled few moments and quick
IL dried once or twice month, when they
become more flexible and durable. Clothes
lines will last longer aud keep in better or
der for wash-day service, if occasionally
treated in the same manner.
PRESERVATION OF EGGs.-Eggs are pre-
served in France by smearing them all
over with a solution of beeswaX in double
the quantity of olive oil with the finger.
The shell Is rendered air tight, and when
packed in bran or chaf and kept dry,
the eggs may be preserved for months.
Rubbing the eggs with linseed oil has
been successful in preserving them for six
months.
To PREVENT COLD FEET AT Bedtime
Draw OFF your stockings just before unit
dressing, and rub your ankles and fee.
well with your hand, as hard as you can
bear the pressure, for five or ten min
utes. and you will never have to complain
of cold feet in bed. 1t is hardly conceivable
what pleasurable glow this diffuses. Ere
quent washing OF the feet. and Rubbing
them thoroughly dry with a linen cloth
or flannel, is very useful.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-03-25
Horses for Farm Work.

A writer in the March Lane Express
gives the following as the desirable points
for consideration in the breeding of horses
for farm work:
"The head should be comely, but not so
small as that of the running horse, as 1t
enables the animal to throw more weight
into the collar He should be broad aud
flat in the forehead, have neat, well set on
ears, prominent placed eyes, thin eye-lids,
large nostrils, neat neck and be deep to-.
wards the chest; not very high in the
withers, with upright shoulders broad
forearm, broad, fat bone below the knee,
rather short pasterns, good round feet not
too fiat or too upright, plenty of hoof, clean
leg, straight back, with plenty of lions,
and ribs we'll arched. He should be long
on the back rio and long in the quarter ;
the haunch should be strong, the hip well
down the hook joint broad and for breed
er, 40 animal should be used that is not
free from curb, bog or bone SPAWN, splint
or side bones. Horses with well developed
mucles and good constitution are eaisly
kept, and can endure great fatigue"
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-03-25
Live Stock.

Mich COWS coming in should receive ex-
ira attention. Nutritious feed, daily slops,
good bedding and occasional carding will
all be found to pay.
EHEEP.-See that these have a supply of
salt accessible. In-lamb ewes ought to
have a small allowance of grain, and roots
also, if you have been provident enough to
grow them.
WORK ANIAALs.-These, as the season
for steady labor comes on, should have an
extra provision Of grain. Keep their sta
bles clean and have them we'll curried.
PoULTRY Have the houses cleaned and
whitewashed Provide new nests, and see
that they have ashes, lime and fresh water
constantly supplied
Breeding Sows ought 10 have warm
quarters. An occasional bran mash or a
mess of roots will be serviceab.e. Ashe'
aud charcoal should also be given or pu
where they can help themselves.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-03-25
A Priceless Reeipe for Farmers.

Every farmer who has to fence his land
knows too well how quickly posts planted
in the earth become rotten, especially in
damp spot. AL of them welcome the fol-
lowing process 70 prevent rottenness, a
process as wonderful in its effects as II Is
simple and almost costless. It is taken
from LIE Bien Public, Of Dion, France:
Take linseed oil, boil il, and mix it with
charcoal dust until the mixture has the
consistenCe of an ordinary paint. Give 70
the post q single coat Of the mixture or
paint before planting them, and no farmer,
even living the age OF pat-larchs OF old,
will live long enough 70 see the same post
rotten.
"Some years ago discovered the way
of rendering wood more durable IN eartn
than iron itself, says the author OF the
communication. " but IL seemed TO me 50
simple, and so inexpensive, 'tnat dld not
think il worth while TO make much ado
and fuss about il. Posts OF soft wood thus
prepared were removed after remaining
seven wears in earth, and were found as
sound as when they were planted. The
only precaution to take is TO use only we'll
dried posts before covering them with the
charcoal paint.
The above recipe is certainly cheap, and
seems TO be we'll worth the trial. II wna
is said OF the efficiency Of that simple and
cheap about two cents per post process o'
only half true, certainly il would gave
yearly millions of dollars TO the farmers
and telegraph companies. For 1t Is saiC
that the farmer, even in his teens. WIZ
will plant posts having received a coat o
this q Perpetuity Post Pain, Will neve
live long enough to see the same post rot
ten.-PhUips' Southern Farmer.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-03-25
sheep and Cows Together.

\ correspondent of the Practical Farmer
writes: have been farming and keeping
sheep nineteen years. During the last
seven years I have been keeping thorough
bred Southdowns, carefully selected from
some OF the focks in the country. My
lambs have averaged me $40 apiece, and
the wool 81 for each sheep. think can
keep one sheep and one COW to every acre,
on a given amount of pasture land, just as
well as to keep the COW alone. In regard
to alleged injurious effects affirmed by
some Of keeping sheep ard dairy cows in
the same pasture, will state that have
never observed them. And if there were
any injurious effects resulting from the
practice, it would be confined to the short
space of time intervening between first
turning to the pasture and harvest, say
from the first of May to the middle of July.
Sheep prefer and will cling to the old pas
ture while cows are continually seeking
and longing for new.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-03-25
More shern-Killlng Dogs.

MEssRs. EbITOFs: some unknown ca.
mines visited our ueighborhood Oh the
night Of the 18th instant, killing several
sheep for Mrs. sanders, six or seven for
Mr.. 10. smith and woundingt two for Mr.
John Smith. Among others, Mr.. I. o.
Smith lost Merino buck, obtained from
Col. j. A. Mabry two years ago. A gang
OF stray dogs were seen in the neighbour
hood the previous day, one Of which was
drawing chain.
Dir. j. II. Smith got near enough while
they were after the sheep, TO hear the chain
rattle, but owing TO the darkness of the
night was prevented from getting a shot al
them. 1t is thought that they came from
| a distance-probably from town.
A liberal reward will be paid for the ap
prehensiou and delivery OF the Tascals
! with proof OF their gait. ". A. A.C.
! Fountaiuhead. March IS, 1874
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-03-25
Feeding corn TO Hog,

profit of feeding corn on the farm tOswine,
over selling the grain in market, a writer
in the Cincinnati Gazette gives the follow
ing testimony: In August, 1872, l bought
thirty-seven head Of hogs at four dollars
per one hundred weight, the average
weight being l26 pounds. Cost of the lot
SlS6, IS December 10th when | sold them,
the average weight was go pounds or a
gain of l54 per head They ate twelve
five cents per bushel would Je threee dollars
The total cost of the hogs when fattened
was, therefore, 1907 40. | sold them at foul
dollars per cwt., amounted TO $4,000. Bal
ance in favor of feeding, Sl0l.l2. BY feedin.
my corn, it brought me nearly Is cents pc
hughel
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-03-25
A Novel Scene-A Carload OF Cattle Car
ried Over Genesee Fails.
From the Rochester Union. March p

From the Rochester Union, March p.
One of the strangest of accidents oc-
Cured yesterday afternoon on the railroad
bridge near the brink of the falls. About
half.past l o'clock a heavy freight train,
passed through the depot. One car, stu
ated about the middle of the train, was
seen to bound about in the most remarka-
BILE manner, and on observing it more
closely, il was noticed that tlange was
broken. Immediately on reaching the
bridge it left the track, and bounded along
till about midway of the stream, when it
smashed the railing and plunged into the
river, turning upon its side as it fell. A
party of railroad men lowered themselves,
| and in a short time wrecked the car suffi-
GENTLY to allow the animals to escape.
| The current at this bridge is very strong,
and the river from three to four feet deep:
| Several of the animals were badly injured
by the fall. Five of the most severely in
jured were soon carried over the falls. The
other twelve remained crowded together
at the bridge, apparently too much fright
ened to move,
A consultation arose among the officials
"a to what should be done with them, and
Depot Master Knapp, knowing that the
company would have to make the owners
1
they would bring; $3.50 was the amount
obtained for the lot. The next question
: was how to get possession OF the cattle
and it was finally determined to drag then
; to the east side of the river, where the cur
. rent was strongest, and let them 60 owe
I the falls, where the current would carr
j, their bodies to the shore. Several rope
a were obtained for this purpose. and on
{ was attached to each COW and they weT
= led to the east side, where the current 500
= swept them of their legs and carried theI
|, over. Out of the whole seventeen thu
y SWEPT over, but five were rescued alive, I'll
/ rest being killed by the fall. Several butcl
= ers were assembled along the shore belO
II the falls, and "a soon as carcass appeare
it was hauled ashore and quickly subjecte
to the butchers instruments. Those whiC
came out alive were greeted with lol
!. cheers from the immense crowd that hi
dfi assembled by this time. Old men al
90 young men, ladies and children, all gat
Is cred 10 see the great sight. over twel
T. thousand people were collected at the '
CD rious points before the last animal IN
on gone over the falls.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-03-25
FIELD AND FARM.
Tennessee to the Front.

GREENWOOD DAIRY FARM, NEAR NASH
WILLIE, TENN propose to tell the Gazette
family how realized 81 $40 from ten acres
of land in one season. The ten acres was
white clover sod that had been used as
COW pasture for the two previous years, |
plowed it deep last winter In April L
planted it to corn. The cutworms destroy
I'd il entirely. 1 then replanted, in May,
and sowed to millet. When ready to cut
N stood very thick and five feet high. 1t
Welded four tons to the acre, which was
worth $50 per acre-S50O. 1t was now
nlowed again and sowed to turuips, and
the sight was magnificent to behold. The
crop was 5000 bushels. sold 400 bushels
at fifty cents per bushel, and fed the re-
mainder to my cows. Estimating these as
being worth twenty cents per bushel "a
very low estimate), the remaining $500
bushels would be worth SLIGO, and the
whole, added together, would make the
sum Of ol,62O.
Can my friend Tull, Of Baggstown, Ind,
or any of the Gazette family, show better
Weld from ten acres in one season" Ii so,
let us hear how it was done. These turnlps
were all cooked by steam before being fed
to the cows.
we have had no winter. The coolest
weather was only five degrees below free
ling. Eighty head Of stock cattle have
gra2ed ali winter, and they are fat. l have
Killed one of them every two weeks for
beef, and they have not been fed anything.
Quite number of the Gazette family can
testify to the good quality OF the beef. The
most of them will make Tennessee their
future home.
Isee but one objection that any good,
honest man can have to settling in Tenues-
see. The climate and mild winters, and
the high market price for all the products
of the farm enable the skilled. energetic
farmer to make money 30 fast that there
is great danger that he may become de-
moralized. It is an old saying that money
is the root OF all evil. Come easy, so
easy" A NoRTaERNEI IN TENNESSEE.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-03-25
Why do not cur Orchards Bear Annually

LANCASTER, o., March with few ex-
ceptions our best varieties Of apple trees
are not annual bearers. There Is no rea-
son why intelligent fruit men should not
have this desirable result under perfect
control.
Various experiments have been resorted
to. 10 improve on natures mode, one OF
which is TO cut back in June to three or
four buds, that would come out next year,
and force them TO grow, thereby gaining u
year. But as this practice is calculated TO
arrest root formation, upon when the lie
OF the tree depends, it finds few followers
Another and less Objectionable mode 10
to remove one.half the blossoms the bear
ing year and il will bear the following year.
To this plan il may be objected that you
are asking more than nature Will stand
Flowering is more eXhausting than fruit
ing and your tree is in too weak condl-
ton to 20 through the same process the
following year.
Again-and this practice finds the most
advocates-thin out the fruit from the trees
after il sets every year, and thus have frull
annually from each tree. By this mode Il
is claimed that you will have apples OF su
perior size.
In planting, all that is necessary to hav'
annual crops is TO divide your trees, or or
chard, and have them bear alternately
lust as have done. have two orchards
the small and the other not very large, bu
call il the money orchard. My small on
gives me family supply, in what is calle
the apple year. My larger orchard neve
has failed TO bear large crops in the Cd
year, when I could command my ow
price for them, for it was not the app
year J. A. fEITEEts'
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-03-25

A Rochester paper reports that a candi-
date called at a saloon Kept by women in
that city to obtain the Influence of her
husband. The husband had been dead six
months but, having an eye to business,
the woman simply remarked that her hus-
band was not in. The candidate stopped
around there some time, setting them up
for the boys Before leaving he lett a
note with the widow to give her husband
as soon as she saw him. This the lady
promised faithfully to do, but at the samt
time remarked 20 bystander that she wal
not ambitious to see her husband for some
| time to come,
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-03-25
The Episcopal Revival.

IsDIASAPoLIs, March 9-Since the Friends
Socisty INDUCED in the sensation Of revival
some years ago there has not been such surprise
as was unaffected By our people when it was
announced that mission or protracted meet
ing would be held in the Episcopal Church
here In other wordc, that a revival Of religion
would be brought about By means Of a series OF
short services, 10 Wit Brief sermons and
prayers and personal teachings and pleading,
Differing from Lenten service, which, faithfully
observed in an annual revival Of the love d
God in the hearts Of the children Of the Chuacb
| in that It l. intended for the conversion of sin
ners in and out Of the congregation Of the faith
| ful-Cor Ctu Commercial