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Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-06-30
Cutting Grass Early.

In response to a number of requests in
reference to cutting grass early for making
hay, S. Z. Todd remarked: I'm many
localities at the North much grass is fit to
be cut, even at this date. This is more
particularly true when there are more or
less weeds among the growing grass. In
many instances a large number Of white
daisies appear among the grass, which, if
not cut down before the seed is fully ma
tured, will fill the stable manure with seeds
sufficient to cover an entire farm with those
noxious plants. There are many other
kinds of weeds growing in meadows, all of
which should be cut down as soon as the
blossoms begin to appear. Even if the
grass has not arrived to a desirable stage of
maturity, it will be far better to cut the
crop early, for the purpose Of giving a
damaging blow to the vitality of weeds
Although the stems and leaves of noxious
weeds, even when properly cured, cannot
be expected to make fodder of a third
quality, still, if such heritage be cut down
when the stalks are green and tender, and
be properly cured with the hay, domestic
animals will eat both weeds and hay with
ayidity. If weeds are moved close TO the
ground just before the blossoms appear,
many varieties will receive such set back
that the after growth will be exceedingly
feeble and sickly. Most sort of perennial
weeds may be thoroughly exterminated
rom permanent grass land in the course OF
few seasons simply by moving them
close to the ground and the grass early in
the season. Then, as soon as the stems
have attained height again of six or eight
inches, let everything be shaved close to
the ground. On many farms there are
areas of half an acre, or perhaps an acre OF
low ground, here and there, on which the
grass grows up so rapidly that it is in
danger of falling fat to the ground if al.
lowed to remain until the crop on the
upland is fit to be moved. The most eco
nOmical system of managing such grass i!
to COW and gather crop before the bur
den has become so heavy as to lodge By
this means, two crops may be secured be
fore Autumn. If the grass on such ploti
is allowed to grow and fall down until tina
on higher ground has matured sufficiently
20 be gathered, great loss will sometime
be sustained in the premature decay of
heavy burden of grass lying fatty on damn
ground.-N y Times
Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-06-30

The commencement exercises of the
Harrisburg High School were ON June
% 1870, per sequacious programme
OF. Lawson, Grafton, 4 he Powers
of Association
Miss Hattie Snapp, composition, as
Religion Beautiful?n
Il. b. Duggan, comic, The Candy
Pulling.n
II. NJ. Emert, Grafton, " Decisive In
tegrity.'
Miss Vic. Diekey, composition, sub
ject:
" Jack and Phil went up the hill
To fetch pail OF water;
Jack fell down and broke his crown
And Phil came tumbling after"
II. ID. Thomas, Grafton, Noble AM
bitiou.n
Miss Ella McClary, composition,
Education
G. w. Shuts, defamation, Earn
estness.
Miss Lizzie Snapp, composition,
Silent Cities
Miss Lizzie McMahan. composition,
" Behind the Cloud the sun still
Shines.n
Miss Sallie McMahan, composition,
" Mediation"
Miss f. Jennie Dickty, composition,
The Teaching Of Flowers
Miss Mamie Snapp, composition,
The Bible"
Miss Lizzie Fox, composition, kind
Words
Miss ollie B. Dickey, composition,
Light
Miss Matte stafford, composition,
" I'll Marry for Love and Riches
Miss Bette Yeti, composition,
" Friendship"
c. E. Snapp, Address to Young
Gentlemen
After the execution Of each piece,
violin music was interspersed by the
Messrs. William aud Galway Duggan,
which made everything interesting
and lovely.n
The Judiciary Committee, composed
of Prof. Duggan, Prof Atchley and
Sam Frame reported that the Prize
Medal" for excellence in reading COM
position, was due Miss Hattie Snapp
distinction for next best by Miss Mat
tie Stafford.
The orations and compositions were
all splendid, and would have done
credit to older and wiser heads and
more experienced pens.
This is an evidence of Prof. d. H.
Emert's skill in imparting instruction
and untiring effort and labor with his
students. Next term will begin on the
first Monday in August, and will con-
tinue twenty weeks.
4 SURSCRIRFR
Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-06-30
At the Grave of Franklin

A pair of patriotic Frenchmen on tour
Of observation and pleasure, were present
in Philadelphia recently. They desired to
render homage 10 the memory Of Monster
10 Docteur franklin, and this is the way
they did it:
They applied to the CLERK of a we'll
known hotel for directions TO the grave,
and he, being full Of decorative fun, under
took 10 guide them. 1t was early in the
morning when the three might have been
seen vending their way up Willow street.
In few moments they arrived at the
designated spot and entered the enclosure.
Here said the clerk, - will leave
you," and at it the worshippers went I'm
covering their heads they approached a
small square brick enclosure, rooted in
slate, and about seven by nine in size.
With hat in hand they slowly and rever-
emily (such as Frenchmen alone are capa-
BILE Of walked around the structure, en-
phasizing the merits Of the departed worth
they supposed to be inferred within its
walls. Just then the proprietor Of the
premises appeared with arms in his hands,
wanting TO know why the visitors were
prowling around his smoke-house at that
time Of the day, and calling a policeman
put the worshipers in charge,
Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-06-30
The Chicago Custom House.

Mr.. Mullett, the late Supervising
Architect of the Treasury, protests
very strenuously against the criticisms
which are passed in regard TO the
workmanship and the material in the
Chicago Custom House. He says that
he will be perfectly willing 10 go on
and complete under bonds the build
ing as originally commenced. He says
that there is ring at work determined
to have the building condemned, in
order that stone in which it is inter-
ested shall be used,-SPecial TO Bait.
more Sun.
Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-06-30
From Monroe County.
jacksonville, June 2l, l37

JACKSONVILLE, June 2l 1870.
To the Editors Of the Chronicle:
Permit me to afflict your numerous
readers with few jottings by the way
side-down in Monroe. We are a
modest, retiring people, and you would
not know anything about us, unless
some old fogy should, like Rip Van
Widkle," wake up out of the
sleep of Incidence and make feeble
effort to say our people are doing better,
and in view of the Centennial, like the
old lady wife of banker who was
ninety-nine and eight months old, be-
ing unwell consulted her doctor, and
said she wanted to keep well and
reach par. The result of the present
wheat crop now harvested is good
index that we are on rising ground
using more industry better machinery,
better seed and more grass and getting
out of the old routine of raising corn
and selling it at 90 cents in the fall and
paying Sl.00 in the spring as they are
doing now.
There is a larger breadth of grass
now sown than ever before, and they
realize we have been raising hair in
stead of wool. There is no better
county in the State for sheep than this
good old county, and with more sheep,
more stock, the condition of the lands
can be improved-we can have sta
pie in wool instead of hair, and our
people, with one accord, will bless the
Changers for the passage of the dog
law.
Monroe county is better adapted to
the raising of grasses and stock than
any other county, inasmuch as she is
so well watered, and the lands may be
saved, and more actual profit to the
farmer may be derived. Mr. Cockrell
is right to refuse $4,000 for the six
weeks calf, as Cockrell says Tennessee
wants the best, and if she will only
appreciate the advantages she has, she
can always command them. The
| truth is, our country is not half APP
preciated, and we are too modest to let
the world know it. In the West they
are not modest, and they go to Castle
Garden and take the emigrant up,
and take him free, to a cold and hard
soil, where, unless he is industrious
he must s,arve, or die of fever.
Our people have the light under the
bushel and lack the enterprise of the
Western man, This is all wrong, as
we could do the emigrant much good
by inducing him TO come here, wher,
our people live almost without labor
With the industry of the German Of
Ottoman he would be rich and thu
country flourish. Let us help our
solver, is the motto. MONROE,
Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-06-30
10 the Editors Of tie Chronicle !.

In the Atlantic Monthly, sometime
since, there was the following sen
tence: 4" Young America is on his
knees, wringing his hands, crying, and
praying, o Lord how shall | be saved
from work ~ 1t seems many are
on strife to see how little they can
do and live and l fear many will die
a trying How is it, so many have
time to lounge about streets, stores,
and saloons? And how is it, so many
have plenty OF time to hunt rabbits,
while we industrious farmers have
hardly time to look at one AS lac runs
before US How do these people live.
and where do they get their bread aud
clothing? This is wonder 10 many.
Some doubtless steal, and some will
sally forth In time of harvest and de
mand double wages. Most young men,
when the time comes that they must
lookout for themselves, enquire what
calling can 1 pursue that will exempt
me from exhaustive labor ?n And often
they conclude, their talents will grad
uate them in some occupation above
farming. In this they make double
mistake. First, in over estimating
their abilities, and secondly, in consid-
eriDg farming az a low business, and
not requiring the highest talent to
make good and successful farmer.
There is no calling more healthy,
more independent, more virtuous, and
few more honorable, or in which
mau can find more scope for the high
est faculties of mind, and he is always
learning. Like any other business,
man, TO be successful, progressive
farmer, should be initiated early in
life. Then he should calculate to ever
be learning. Many farmers don't ex-
pect TO know any more in advanced
years than AS young men, or than
their fathers knew, and they don't, on
~ as times and observation compel
them to know more. Many worth
enough to get good living, yet their
labor does not pay them shilling a
day, because there is no skill sought
or displayed ia their work. This may
be thought by some to be severe, but
if it is not true / will take it back
Let the work bestowed on ten acres be
expended on five acres, with faithful
study of the science of nature, and see
if you do not get better returns with
less labor. More anon.
D. B. LAWToN.
June 10, 1875.
Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-06-30
A Dog Law-Tennessee Leads Off,
Macon GA Telegraph.


The Legislature of Tennessee not
having the fear of demago9ues before
their eyes, but the interests of their
constituents at heart, have actually
passed an act taxing all the dogs. of
that State. In the Senate the vote
stood Is to 10, and in the Lower House
As to 81. %. p r.
II the law can only be enforced the
Volunteer State will soon he famous
for its heavy exports of wool and NUT
ton, Us it now il for those of corn, ba-
con, flour aud poultry. ....
Such law would do wonders foi
Georgia also, enabling the people on
the mountain sides, and the wiregra--
pine barrens, 10 raise thousands of
sheep, which would greatly swell the
aggregate resources of the Common
wealth. As matters now stand, with
swarms of thieving, half starved ours,
providing around, il is loves labor lost
to attempt it. In a very large por-
ton of the State sheep can be winter
ed at little or no expense The writer
has seen on the sea-board flock of
three hundred kept by one planter,
who annually sold the male lambs,
numbering nearly one hundred, at Sl.s
90 to 81 each, to Savannah butchers,
who paid for them at the pen.
In addition, the wool in the
dirt usually brought % cents per
pound, while one lad only, followed the
sheep during the day, who was assisted
by a responsible man in folding them
every night. During the coolest
weather they were fed with rice straw,
aud seed of sea island cotton in troughs.
In the summer months large patches
of ground We're highly enriched by
gathering the sheep nightly in NOV
able pens, and produced the finest
crops of turnips, sweet potatoes and
sugarcane. During the winter, when
a standing pen well Uttered with straw
or forest leaves received the droppings,
and oil communicated by the wool of
the animals, it was amazing what
Quantities of good manure were pro-
duced by this flock.
Let us hope that the General AS
sembly at its next session will have the
courage to look this question in
the face, and pass an act imposing
such tax upon dogs as will materially
reduce their number, and thus afford
protection to wool growing in Georgia.
Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-06-30
They Couldn't Be Bluffed.
TVieksburg Miss J Herald.I

lNleksburg (Miss) Herald
a couple of horseman coming into
the city the other day from the inter-
ion overlook an old man and his wife
seated in the bottom of mule cart.
Feeling in high sqirite, one of them
called out; "HellO, old man, how
much will you take for your wife, chsh
DOWN." "Oh, I dunno" he slowly re-
pliod.
"Well, name your price"
" How much'll ye give?" he asked.
"Ten dollars"
"Take her! ~
The horseman didn't know what tC
say, and was gathering up the rains
when the old woman jumped to the
ground and exclaimed:
" Pass over the ducats, master ]
like the old man, and he likes me
but we are a family which can't bt
bluffed by no man on horseback"
The buffers got out of the scrape be
riding off at full speed.
Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-06-30

General Sherman made the speech of the
occasion at the Bunker Hill celebration.
Here are some of his points:
II am almost sorry to hear this called
Breeds Hill 1t is Bunker Hill to me.
[Applause.l Twill swear it is Bunker Hill.
Tremendous applause 1t was Bunker
Hill when l was boy, and 1t is recorded
on that monument in granite. If Mr..
Breed is about here he had better go away.
Loud and continued applause and laugh
ter
Prescott was the hero there. Zap
plause.l He worked all night with spades
and mattocks, and the next day he fought
where he had worked the night before, and
he is entitled to all the honor and glory
Old Putnam has enough beside laughter
and applausel, and love to refer to the old
idea of Putnam's riding down some stairs
where they were l don't know now, but
somewhere. Laughter Ishould say the
glorious old soldier and his example are
worthy of dozen monuments like that
even if built gold. [Great applause.l
You may think you are very good
looking crowd as you stand and sit here
but you won't compare with what we saw
as we came down the magnificent avenue
to-day--n not at all. [Lauhgter and APP,
plause.l You would hardly fill one Of
those cross streets, and we passed thous.
and Of them" [Applause.l
Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-06-30
A Case of Cheek.

A stylish young man recently stopped at
an inn in a small town in California. He
called for 1.-The drinks" for all about the
place several times, and waved his hand in
a lordly way to the inn-keeper, as though
TO say:
This is mine"
He was SO agreeable that they all took
quite liking TO him. Next morning, after
breakfast, he was starting of, when the
host alphabetically remarked:
80 That little BILL"
so, bless your soul, my friend, have
not got cen" said the fellow.
Then why didn'tyou tell me so before ~
said the host.
well" replied the traveller, "if you
hadn't been so inquisitive l wouldn't have
told you now"
The point was well taken, and the land
lord insisted on wrapping up for him q
bottle of his best as travelling companion.
Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-06-30

BERLIN, June 24.-The case of Count
Won Amin was decided by the Hammer
gerich to day. He was convicted of alb
stracting, with intent to defraud, state
papers of the character of public deeds en-
trusted to him, and sentenced to nine
months imprisonment, including one
month that has already expired. The court
declares that there was no ground for the
charge Of embezzlement or ofense against
the public order.
Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-06-30
An Old Copy of the Bible.

A copy of the edition of the Bible
printed by Gutenberg, at Mayence, be-
tween l450 and l456, was discovered last
autumn in the yestry of the Church of
Klein Bautzen, in SaXony. 1t is printed
partly on paper, partly on parchment.
1t was presented to the church in 1877,
and. had lain nearly two-hundred years
among the psalm books and Bibles, being
mistaken for manuscript Bible. 1t has
been purchased for about G400 by an
English collector.
Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-06-30

Among the slain at the battle Of
Bunker Hill, which occurred June II,
l775, one hundred years ago, was Gen.
Joseph Warren. He was a young and
popular physician of Boston, but en-
tered the army to contend for the
right. The following lines by Oliver
Wendell Holmes, who himself is a
physician, may interest our readers :
JOSEPH WARREN.
Trained in the holy art whose lifted shield
Wards off the darts a never slumbering
fee.
By hearth and way side lurking, waits to
throw.
Oppression taught his helpful arm to
WELD
The slayers weapon; on the murderous
field
The fiery bolt he challenged laid him low,
Seeking its noblest victim. Even 50
The charter Of a nation must be sealed
The healer's brow the hero's honors
crowned,
From lowliest duty called TO loftiest deed I;
Living, the oak-leaf wreath his temples
bound,
Dying the cOnquerors laurel was his
need,
Last on the broken rampart's turf to
bleed
Where Freedoms victory in defeat was
found.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES.
Boston Med. and Surg, Journal
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1875-03-26

PHREEoLoGY AS A PROFESSIONALLY
no field can a young man hope to do
more good to the human race than in
the practice of Phrenology. One man
will receive benefit from the phrenOlo-
gist which will make him twenty-five
per cent. more q man from that day
forward. Another may receive, in an
other direction, a equal amount of bene-
fit. Another may be saved from utter
wreck and ruin, and all that there is of
him is thus q trophy Of the science that
led him from his evil way. Not a few
have told us that their chronological
examinations have thus saved them.
No work that one can do possesses
such continuity of force, such immor-
tality of being, as that which is based
upon human nature. That which leads
q hayward youth from the error of his
way and builds him up in honorable,
Christian man hood, is as leaven that
may be disseminated to others, and the
good thus started may go on from gem
Grafton degeneration through all coming
time. He who constructs a boot, house,
or ship, does a good service. Where is
the b0ot-maker or carpenter that served
Washington or Wesley The teacher,
the good mother that developed the
character and guided the early lives of
those great men live not by name, but in
the history.of the great deeds by which
their sons have been immortalized.
Mental laboris immortal physical work
may perish with the usfng.-[Annual
of Phren0I0gy and Physiognomy.
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1875-03-26
Men Out OF Their Places.
annual Of ~PhrenolOgy and Physiognomy

Annual of PhrenolOgy and Physiognomy.l
There is aplace for every man his own
proper place, where he ought to be. God
has designed him for it, and it belongs
to him, and to no one else, and every
man may know and find his place if he
will. It must be his sincere desire to be
in his place, and he must go to God
heartily praying, Lord, what wilt Thou
have me to do? Where wilt Thou have
me to be? Let him surrender his own
will to Gods will, and God will lead
and guide him and he shall make no
mistake.
And it is a most blessed thing to be in
ones own place. God will be with him
here. He will cheer, and strengthen,
and sustain him. He may have trials;
but he meets them in the path of duty,
and Gods grace is sufficient for him.
The same compassionate God who was
with Danielin the den of lions, and with
the three Hebrews in the burning, fiery
furnace, will not leave him, nor fOrsake
him. Being in his proper place, he
may go to God with confidence, and he
shall be joyful in all his ~tTibulation.-
[CongregatiOnalist.
There is a place for every man, and
God intended each to find and to fill
his place. Thetrouble is, mOstmen aspire
to places they cannot fill. They want
to be presidents, cOmmodores, or cap
tains, when they are only fit for the
ranks. Some want to be poets or
painters, when they are only prosy
pumpkins. He is the happiest man who
finds the place he is fitted to fill, and fills
it well, however humble it may be. The
one who knows himself, his faults, and
how to overcome them-his virtues, and
how to increase them-who knows the
uses and abuses Of the organs Of mind
and body, and exercises them in the
fear and love of Gods the happiest
man.
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1875-03-26
THE OPELOUsAS JOURNAL.
Political News.

Washington, March 2O.-In the Senate.
Immediately after reading of the Jour
nal, the Senate by a vote of % to 25 took
up the resolution of Frelinghuysen ap-
proving of action of the President taken
in Louisiana, and offered the following
substitute, agreed upon in caucus. Q
Resoted, That the action of the Presi-
dent in protecting the government in
Louisiana, of which VIM. P. Kellogg is
the Executive, and the people of that
State against domestic violence, and en-
forcing the laws of the United States,
is approved.
A motion to go into executive session
was defeated.
AmOtiOn to postpone to December was
defeated, and the prolOngation of the
session is certain.
Christiancy and Robertson have aban-
doned the caucus.
BUTLER ON THE CIVIL RIGHTS BILL.
A letter from Mr.. Butler says the civil
rights bill gives the negroes no rights
in drinking saloons or barber shops, and
the bill only reasserts the rights confer
red by common law, and simply gives
the cOlOred man an easier means of re-
ceiving them.
. DEMOCRATIC SENATORS IN CAUCUS.
The Democratic Senators in caucus
this evening resolved not to consent to
having any time fixed for a vote on the
resolution approving of the Presidents
action in recognizing the Kellogg gov
eminent, though they agreed not to offer
any factious opposition to it, but to in
sist upon debating it to- the extent they
might deem proper.
MAINE DEMOCRATS.
Bangor, Me-, March 2O.-The election
for Mayor yesterday, resulted in F. NJ.
Haughton (Dem.) being elected by SO
majority. The Republicans have four
majority in Joint Council,