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The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1877-01-11
Planting Orcha' tis.

We indorse with emphasis the follow
ing very sensible advice on planting or,
chords from the London Garden: In
preparing the holes preparatory to plant
ing the trees, one can only reiterate that
which has often been quoted, viz; Make
but one hOle--in other words, mellow the
soil so deeply that the size of the hole it.
self will be a matter of small moment.
The depth of the hole is, however, Of
some importance; in my opinion it
should not be too deep, but merely sutfi-
cient to allow the tree to stand at the
proper depth. Top roots will work their
way down almost in spite of all obstruc-
tions, but the delicate fbres and small
roots that provide the nourishment should
have light mellow earth in which to ram
BILE. This is common sense view of the
subject, and it is borne out in practice.
Deep holes not unfrequently serve as re-
ceptacles for holding water, especially in
clayey soils; and when planters fill in
the bottom with stones, no benefit, OF
course, is derived therefrom, as then ac-
cumulated water has no vent. In soils
retentive OF moisture, trees should be
planted even more shallow than they
usually are but in all cases it is good
rule to bear in mind that trees should al
ways be set shallow. Concerning the selec-
tion OF trees, planters differ. Most prefer
small trees but success is often attained
with trees of large size. There is this dit.
ference: person to succeed with large
specimens must first thoroughly under
stand the nature and requirements OF his
trees, and be versed in his work, other
wise he will fail; but the merest novice
with small trees, under ordinary cir
cumstances, will not have many to re
place. In respect to the selection of nur
sery trees. Ipreier apples three, or at th'
furthest, four years OF age pears, two o
three years; plums and cherries, TIVE
years; and peaches one year. Thes
should all be strong and healthy, wh,cl
is shown not only by the size of the pre-
vious years growth but by the peculia
glossy appearance of the bark.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1877-01-11

water. The object here is not to improve
the climate or aid chemical action, $,
much as to get clear of the supcrin
cumbent water, which acts mechanically
as an obstruction to the nutrition O
plants.
Much of this pitching, as termed al
the south, was performed before the war
but since, owing to the paucity of labor
the ditChes have not been kept open
many valuable bottoms lost to cultiva,
tion, and malariaI fevcrs have become
much more prevalent; for one great ad.
vantage of draining a country is, that il
adds to the salubrity Of the climate and
health of the Inhabitants.
In every cultivated field, much of the
valuable hillside soil, as well as manurial
substances, are washed down by rains
into the wet bottoms; and where there
is much water, the land is but little i'm
proved, as the soil has no absorbing
power, being always saturated. Drain
age would be OF great benefit in this re
gard and also where there is not much
water, bit still too much for cultivation,
and the valleys have been enriched by
the accumulation of ages, These lands
once well ditched and properly under
drained, would pay better for the invest
mcnt than any portion of the farm. Be
cause the uplands need an annual outlay
OF money for manures, more than the
ditchihg would cost, When once done as
it should be, it will last an age without
fertilizers.
While it is true, as stated, thatit would
hardly pay to drain uplands, where, in
most cases, there is scarcity Of water
during the summer, yet there are many
soils, even among this class, that
would be benefited, because of their
compactness and impermeability to air
and water.
Many of the fiat lands might be greatly
improved by drainage, but we must wait
for an increase in their value before much
money can be expended in this wav, as
there is quite as much land to be obtained
at cheap rates (having every natural adj
vantage) as there is labor to cultivate
them.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1877-01-11

Three children at Morpigen, in Prus
sian Rhnehnd, have confessed setting or
loot last summer, story of having seen the
holy Virgin in wood near the sacred spot
The three juveniles have been placed in a re
formltory.
Minister Washburne has presented
president Grants apologies to Duke Decazes
minister of foreign affairs, for the arrest at
Philadelphia OF Captain Aufrye, naval at.
tache of the French legation at Washington
and French commits, iouer to the centennial
exposition.
The Standards correspondent at Alex
andria telegraphs thai it is stated on good
authority that the Rhedve is dissatisfied
with his American military officers, and has
notified them that thei contracts will net.be
renewed. The policy of this step is uues.
tlonable, as a renewal o. the Abyssinia war
as considered imminent.
A Calcutta Telegram to the Times saws
thal the accounts OF famine received from
Madras are worse than hose from Bombay,
a large number OF starving people are flock
ing into Madras. The fist death from star.
'atioh mas occu red thefe, and much distress
ana disease exists IN thecountry districts.
lhe Panama Star and Herald, Decem-
per oth, received per st@mer Andes, says:
great battle has taktn place in Cara.
pala The trenches of tine revolutionists
were taken by our forc,s, commanded nv
generals AcOsta and COmayo. An armistice
OF three days was asked ftr by the rebels to
bury two thousand dead d both sides. Our
forces cut off the retreat b Antiouia from
the rebels. II the rebels 10 not surrender
at discretion they will al remain in the
power of our army. On th. DIST of Noyem.
ber, General Trujillo occtpied Manizales.
The Manalia river transit free. In thirty
days more all will be over The Peruvian
government has refused the request
o' ECUADOR TO send ships of war and
troops to assist in the captur, of Gusyaouil
from the revolutionary partyl
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1877-01-11
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.
The Action 8r Lime.

Professor Bartlett says - Lime an.
swers two great purposes for nOurish
ment; First-lt disposes certain insol-
uble bodies to form by their decomposi.
tion, soluble compounds; and, secondly,
it prolongs the action and nutritive vir,
tue of soft and insolublo animal and
vegetable substances beyond the time
they would continue TO act if they were
not made to enter into combination with
the lime. From this statement the agfi
cultulist can draw some practical con.
cIusions in regard to the uses Of this sub.
stance, and the manner in which it should
be employed in order to have the results
arising from its application conform to
those which have been produced by en-
tightening experiments, Lime is ac-
knowledged to be specially useful upon
fallow lands which are broken Upon
sward lands and those OF turfy nature
which are to be put in a fit state of cul.
tivation. In all these cases their exists
in the land large quantities of roots,
which, by the application of lime, may
be made the better to serve for manure
by the solubiity it will give to the new
compound formed by them; but to this
effect the lime must be thoroughly
mixed with the soil.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1877-01-11
FACTS AND FANCIES.

ONLY few days more of leap year
remain, and we shall be glad when It is
over. This having to reject girl after girl
IS cruel strain upon sensitive man.
NOrwich Bulletin.
Most men call iretting minor fault,
a foble, and not vice. There is no vice
except drunkenness which can so utterly
destroy the peace, the happiness of a
home, ,--Iiciea HINT.
CHIP STRAW, so much used for bon
nets, is the braided bark of willow
grown in France and Belgium. Its
whiteness is so perishabe that it will
change over night, becoming the cream
color generally seen.
WoULD.BE wag (to old customer with
highly tinted nose)-"A say, Chappi,
how muckle wild it TAX ia pcnt mob
like that o'yours?" Old customer
"well, mum, a couldna exactly say, as
it's no Just ieenish't yet!"-Jmiy.
If the hard times keep up az well as
they have begun, this is going to be one
of those frauds of Christmas, in which
six large, mealy, cheap apples fill the
boys stocking so full that it is barely
possible to crowd meagre five cents
worth of candy in the top of the leg.
We've been there.-Hawkeyc.
WHEN Chicago shoemaker sells
young lady of that city pair of gum
shoes, he makes the bill out in the fol-
lowing form: "To twenty-seven pounds
of India rubber at Sl.00 per b., $2I0O"
And even then he leels as if he were on
the very verge of bankruptcy.--Broo
argus.
Mr.. LoNGFELI0w once received
letter requesting him to compose an
acrostic, the first letters of which
should spell "my sweet girl" The ap-
plcant added, "write as if it were some
beautiful with whom you were in love
Just as if it were for yourself" At the
foot of the letter were these words, send
bill"
A PHOTOGRAPHER gives the following
directions to his customers: "Whcn
sitting for picture would compose her
mouth to bland and serene character,
she should before entering the room say,
bosom, ana keep tht expression lhlU
which the mouth subsidies until the de-
sired effect in the camera is evident. If,
on the other hand, she wishes to assume
a distinguished and somewhat noble
bearing, not suggestive of sweetness,
She should say brush the result of
which is intalIibr. If she wishes to
make her mouth look small She must
say flip, but it the mouth be already
too small and need enlarging, she must
ay cabbage" If She wishes to look
mournful, she must ,ay kcrchunk; if
resigned, she must orcibIy calculate
seat"
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1877-01-11
THE WEST.

Seven cars of silk worm eggs, valued
ut about three million dollars, passed through
Omaha last week.
A number Of prominent business men
al Virginia City have signed an address to
the Nevada senator's Sharon and Jones, ask.
Ing their cooperation in obtaining the pas.
sag by congress of hill providing for the
issue OF legal tender silver note, with the view
OF restoring the value Of silver as a circulat.
ing medium.
Minnesota, like all the older western
st'tes, is exhausting her wheat growing ca.
pacity, the average yield of the state running
below eight bushels 10 the acre. The patent
process of grinding spring wheat into pastry
flour has, however, built up great milling
industry in the state. Instead of exporting
wheat she now exports flour, and will proba.
by export one million barrels in the current
twelve months.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1877-01-11
Old Sis Suspicious.

Old 81 went to the theater to see ma
gician performance the other night, Next
day we asked him: - 49,,
Did YOU see that man handle that
money last night ?"
Il did, for fact y
ole made it come and 90 in all sorts
of ways" 49,, -,
"Young boss, dat mans pow'iul slick
wild silber munney."
"What did you think of him, St %
"Dat man loold round dar wild dat
mummy tell he reused my 'spshuns, he
did"
"Suspicions of WHAT"
"IIit ticks lots of practiss fer to make
a half dollar pear and dis'pear in dat
stiIe."
"Of course"
"pat's what meks me hab 'spishun
dat dat white man wuz one time de cash
eer OBJ A freedmnn's bank, an Jess want
to hannel him few minnits, sho's you
horn y
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1877-01-11
4 definition of Floating Debt.

The Railroad Argus gives the follow
ing very comicsl idea of the term "hoat-
ing debt" in answer to correspondent;
"Floating debt" is very fashionable
term among railroads nowadays, 1t rep
resents the smaller debts due TO locomo-
tive and car builder~, rolling mills, wood
and coal dealers, conductors, englnemen,
trackmen, office boys and Others for
which no security has been given. They
bear no interest, and sometimes no prln-
cipal, pa and the claims which they rep'e,
sent are not generally cashed by brokers
at more than their face. After floating
debts have run so long that the co nPany
6nds it can not pay them, they ar often
converted" into bonded debt seGur-
ed BY second or third mortgage; and men 70
the mortgage is finally wiped out, by BY
sale of the road, which settles the iloatlng
debts and their holders in the mos easy
and comfortable manner imag'naoe'
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1877-01-11

Last year raised lot Of mangels and
carrots. The mangels were gathered
first and put in the cellar; atterward the
carrots were gathered and corded on top
of them, so that when | began to teed
them to the cows the carrots came first
The COW gave about her usual quantity
OF milk, except the usual shrinkage on
the accession Of cold weather, and being
put upon dry fodder. Fearing that the
beets would not keep as well as the car
rots, and also thinking that they possess
ed better milk-producing qualities, ! was
anxious to get at them. Accordingly |
removed part of the carrots and com
menced feeding beets, when, to my sur
prise, my COW began to fall off her milk
until the deficiency reached about one
third. Wishing to test the matter still
further, changed back again to carrots,
when her milk increased to about the
usual standard. The quantity fed was
about the same in either case-about a
half bushel basket three quarters Iull.
If there was any difference it was III
favor of the beets.- Cor. Mobile Register,
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1877-01-11
CONVERSATIONS OF NEWS


The Alabama legislature has repealed
she law tnXiGg dmmmers fifty dollars.
The Memphis and Little Rock railroad
$50 be sold by decree Of court on the 9th
OF February.
5onathan Warner Of Ohio, has bought
the old eagle gold mine in Moore county,
Ga, for $4,000.
The adiutant general of Tennesse re-
ports TO the secretary Of war 239, 5G4 men in
mat state subject TO military duty
The cotton crop OF South Carolina will
'be about sixteen perccDtup, less than last
year.
There is bcefpackery at Port I.avaca,
IeNaA where one hundred beeves per day
ARE slaughtered
The Georgia state board of health are
'sumhoning physicians AMI trying to get at
she bottom facts of the late Savannah epi.
temic.
a New Jersey capitalist has purchased
$4,000 acres Of land in Scott county Tvnpes.
see. and will lay out a new town on the line
oi the Cincinnati Southern railroad.
Judge Trigg, of Memphis, has ruled
that tax assessed to pay 7. +, Brown 1925, ,OOe
an Judgment against the city must be col.
1ected.
The sugar crop of Louisiana this year
is estimated at 100000 hogsheads, and this il
said to be equal to only about one.eigh,h Of
the amount required for consumption in the
United States.
The cotton crop of Louisiana is short
between thirtyfve and forty per cent, ard
sixtysix per cent. of the product has already
been marketed. The rapidity with which
the crop has been forwarded is unprece.
dented.
Miss Alice l.. Leath, WHO resides in
the eleventh district of Knox county, Tenn.
now Sweet sixteen" tips the beam at three
hunIred and twenty-five pounds. When
only eleven years old she weighed two buu.
dire | and Efty-dve pounds. Her height is
about four feet eight inches and she is A
pretty girl.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1877-01-11
UISCELLANEOrS.

Commodore Vanderbilt's condition re.
mains unchanged
The remnants of balloon were lately
discovered on the coast of Iceland Sec.
tions OF human skeleton were in the basket,
and also pccket-book, with papers blurred
by the action OF water and inconpre hensi.
bic. 1t is thought that the skeleton is that
OF Prince, one of the three balloOnists who
left Paris during the seige, of whom no re.
port has ever heen received.
The national bank stock of the United
States is widely distributed. The total mum.
Der Of shares is 6,'Oj,93O, and of shareholders
20S,4S6. The average amount OF stcck held
by each share holder is about So 100. Share.
holders reside in every state and territory in
the union except Washington and Alaska
iu eleven countries or provinces of tns con
tine'' Il adiacru, islands; in twenty-five
count f.. III Eurnr., Asia and Africa, and il
the isian Of the sea. The total number o
shares brld IN foreign countries is 29,t5I.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1877-01-11
General Crooks Annual Report.

General Crooks annual report says the
miners in the Black Hills did not violate
the Sioux treaty until long after the In
dians bad ceased to regard it, and they
have not suffered as much from the Sioux
since they went to the hills as they did
while living on the border. He also calls
attention to the fact that his command
of less than one thousand men fought
and beat Sitting Bulls band in the battle
of the Rosebud several weeks previous to
General Clusters disaster. lie seems Ia
think the government had treated the
Sioux with unparalleled liberality, which
they have repaid by IA d. along the bor-
der of the reservation, limited only by
the endurance OF their ponies.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1877-01-11
The Value of an Experiment.

Mr.. Conrad Wilson, a well-known agri-
culturist, tells the following story in the
Rural New Yorker: "When | was a
little boy on my fathers farm, ! once
made little experiment on my own ac-
count, and carried it through secretly,
for the purpose of enjoying the surprise
it might create With this view, as soon
as father got through planting his corn,
| selected and marked off, unknown to
him, small space near the center of the
field. TO each stalk of the corn planted
in this place gave special attention, for
the purpose of finding out how much
each grain planted could be made to pro-
duce by giving il extra manure and hoe
ing. When the corn was gathered, the
difference between my pet stalks and the
rest Of the field attracted my fathers at
tention, and remember how puzzled he
was in trying to account for it. When
at length disclosed the secret, he IN
stantly inquired how much extra work
and manure | had applied. Tell me this
exactly, said he, and can tell the value
of the experiment | told him | had
simply doubled what he had given to the
rest of the field. After examining the
result and comparing it with the rest of
the field, he found that his yield was at
the rate of forty-four bushels to the acre
and mine at the rate OF siXty-nine bushels.
Now, said he, if extra culture and extra
manure are good for single stalks, it must
be good for the whole crop S the next
year he adopted my plan for the whole
crop, and found that the grain was even
larger, by several bushels than in my
experiments and he also found that
the cost of each bushel was reduced to
six cents"
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1877-01-11

The animal that natures the earliest
is the most profitable to raise for food.
Great improvement in this respect has
beer made in both hogs ahd cattle. A
hog that can be brought into market
weighing two hundred and fifty pounds
at ten months old is worth more than
double as much as one requiring two
years to reach that weight. The same
is true in even a greater degree in beef
raising. The steer that will come earl
lest into market will produce beef at the
least cost to the farmer, and generally of
the best quality for the consumer.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1877-01-11

Mr.. j. T. Rice, of Union county,
Georgia, raised two hundred and twelve
and half bushels of oats on one and
two-Lhrds acres of land, and this is his
own account of his method in securing
this extraordinary yield. He says ain
the first place my ground srich. Ibroke
my land with small, diamond-pointed
plows, twice good, deep and close. |
then put about forty bushels of cotton
seed per acre, and sowed four
bushels per acre of oats, and plowed them
in with a small turn-plow, deep and close.
| sowed the first of October and COM
menccd grazing them the first OF Novem-
Der with my milch cows. | had six
head, and kept them on them all
the time, only when the land was too
wet, up to the lst of March, but thiuk
that little too long, cut them the
27thoi May. Ibelieve that these oatscan
be made to make two hundred bushels
to the acre, and / am going to try them
next year. They will not rust; and
they will not make on poor land, but they
will make on rich land. ! believe the
same manure put on them that is put
on wheat to make ten or twelve bushels
of wheat per acre, put on these oats will
make fifty bushels per acre. They are
the heaviest oats | ever saw. | made
two hundred and twelve and half bush
els on one and two.tLirds acres.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1877-01-11
Burial of the Victims.

The last act of the fearful tragedy
which began with the fire in the Brook
lyn theatre, the burial of the bodies of
the victims, was fitting end to one of
the most doletul histories of modern
times.
All the bodies in the mOrgue were re-
moved to the temporary dead-house in
the old market, where there were in all
one hundred of the charred corpses. An
hundred coffins with German silver
mountings were brought in and placed
upon the floor and into them the
unidentified and destitute dead were
placed.
Fiity-six hearses and undertakers
wagons drew up at the entrance on
Adams street, and the remains were
lifted in. There were two cofins each in
a number of the vehicles. Considerable
delay in forming the procession was
caused by the desire of persons in the
Adams street mOrgue to continue their
efforts for the Identification of friends,
and several additional bodies we're recog-
nizcd.
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M .hc ,uo'ic pu'luii's1 "elo u."E'u' , a. A..
m .ile 'iasa "'le "' nan mas, anu W.; =!
one "iili ",iioaS ilto s'!ieuI az .I II m 'ie
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Vice 'hey coulu ever rehoer'
AT GREENWOOD.
Twenty thousand people stood shiver.
ing on Ihe slope o' tne i'il JisI ABOVE tht
inner gates o' Nreehwooi' as 'he iuiieral
procession entered "hile the roadway
leading u from ON; tne avenue up 10 10 tne I. Gene ne
tery pulldihgS was SO crowded thaI tne
military brushed against the people III
passing up
THE BURIAL.
There had been an immense circuIa,
trench dug for the reception of the
coffins, and in the center of the trench
was space of ground some twenty feet
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1877-01-11
BENT on BURNING.
The city Of Little Rock Sends News of
Another Rig Blaze within Her
Corporate Limits.

Another fire occurred on the evening
of the 10Th in Little Rock, Ark. 1t broke
out in the house of joiner, Mcdowell &
Co., cotton factors and commission mer-
chants, in the Miller & Pencil block, on
the corner of Markham and Sherman
streets. Considerable powder was stored
in the building and the whole city was in
peril for time. The powder was quick
ly removed, however, and also the goods
in Miller 4 Pencils grocery store
Three brick buildings on East, between
the Miller q Pencil block, and two
story brick occupied by Mr.. Volmer as
a dry goods house, and +. Elman as a
liquor hOtse, were razed, and the flames
tapping over and graphing this building,
the steamers played on the lalge wooden
building on East, and prevented its
spread in that direction. The general
office Of the Little Rock and Fort Smith
railroad was in danger. 1t is owned by
Judge Jones, Mcdonnell & Co. The
neighhorhood known as "Fighting Al,
ley" comprising about twenty We wood
en- buildings, occupied as saloons, etc.
on Leveea and Water streets, had anarrow
escape. The fire was confined to the one
block, although those in the vicinity
were badly damaged by both fire and
water The delay in moving the engines
from the cisternS to the river gave the
fire headway, which could not be checked
Jones, Mcdonald q Co. is branch Of
the houses of BuSseV Il Co. of New Or
leansand Memphis, Thus goes the largest
wholesale house in Arkansas. Loss can
net fall short Of $4,000 The thiri story
OF the Miller & Pencil block was the lodge
room of the Masonic lodges of the city,
and also the office of l.. f, Barber, secre-
tary of the grand lodge. The rooms
were elegantly furnished and all the
lodges papers, regalias, furniture, etc,
were DESTROYED.