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Year: 1877

A Missouri farmer writes a long and
earnest letter condemning the practice of
cutting wheat before it is ripe With
some truth, he inculcates much error.
We have often urged farmers to teach
one another through the press; but it is
every way desirable that man should
not undertake to teach more than he
knows. Tie writer alluded to believes
that rust, smut, mildew, and other dis
eases of the wheat plant, come from har-
vesting wheat too soon, and thereby i'm
pairing vitality in the seed sown.


Every seed should be fully developed
before planting; but a lack of moisture
at the roots of the growing and ripening
plant, even where suitable food is abun-
dant, may check the organization of
gluten, albumen, starch, oil, gum or su-
gar in the seeds of wheat or corn to a
degree that will injure them for produc-
ing new generation of the species. To
advance a breed of animals or a variety
of plants, requires something more than
ripe seed to do the needful nor does it
follow that in case heifer or bull be-
comes parent at an early age the off
spring will be diseased as consequence.
Most of the maladies which affect man.
beast and plant are parasitic in their orr
gin and nature. Rust, smut and mildew
are as well known parasites as the small
animals that produce scab, mango and
itch, or the larger ones called ticks and
chiggers.
Year: 1877

the second cross is worth from 20 cents
to % cents per pound. Each additional
cross rapidly increases both the quantity
and quality of the fleece, and when the
third and fourth cross is rnsde, you find
the fleece equal in value With the full
blood-worth in the markets. cents per
pound, and averaging about five pounds
to the head. By purchasing three or
four hundred common goats, costing not
exceeding one dollar per head, it would
be but few years before aock of 900
goats would be built up yislding an an
nual clip of 1000 or 5000 pounds Of Mo
hair. We may be mistaken, but we be-
lieve this Mohair industry is destined
in the south to assume mammoth
proportions-constituting an important
factor in the future wealth of
the country. On small place
or in thickly populated section of
the country, the breechy habits of the
goat make him very undesirable
neighbor. They will not brook confne-
ment. Put them out on our creeks and
wild lands, where they can roam for
miles at will, and they are then in a con
dition most favorable to their highest
development, and will prove most profit
able to the owner. To every one who
Owls the common geat we would urge
the purchase of a pure or a high-grade
Angora buck, and begin at once to grade
up a stock now comparatively worthless,
which may be made, taking stock into
consideration, the best paying stock on
the farm. In the general improvement
of farm stock, horses, cattle, hogs and
sheep, do not let the goat prove the only
exception Grade him up.
Year: 1877

During the intensely hot summer of
1925, says a philosopher, I experienced
an attack of day mare. Immediately
after dining l threw myself on my back
upon a sofa and before I was aware was
seized with difficult respiration, extreme
dread, and utter incapability of motion
or speech. I could neither move nor cry,
while the breath came from my chest in
broken and suffocating parOxysms. Dur
ing all this time 1 was perfectly awake !;
saw the light glaring in at the win
dows in broad, sultry streams; l felt the
intense heat of the day prevailing my
frame, and heard distinctly the different
noises in the street, and even the ticking
of my own watch, which l had placed on
the cushion beside me. l had, at the
same time, the consciousness of flies
buzzing around, and settling with an
noying pertinacity upon my face. During
the whole fit, judgment was never for
a entsuspended. 1 felt assured that I
labored under a species Of incubus. 1
even endeavored to reason myself out
of the feeling of dread which filled my
mind, and longed with an insufferable
ardor for some one to open the door and
dissolve the spell which bound me in
its fetters. The fit did not continue
above five minutes; by degrees 1 recov-
cred the use of speech and motion; and
as soon as they were so tar restored as t,
enable ME to call out and move my limbs
it wore insensibly away.-Fraze


M0nthIy.
Year: 1877

A loaf of wheat bread represents the
necessary food of all animals and all
plants without an exception; and no one
need be surprised that over two thousand
different species of animals and plants
subsist more or less on this cereal. Joint
worms, ILessian and wheat flies, weevils,
granary moths and bugs, rats and mice
are few OF the enemies the farmer has
to fight or lose his wheat. Cutting this
grain early or late does not change the
nature of any living thing that subsists
when it can on this bread-yielding plant
Wheat should be cut as soon as may be
when in drying the berry will not shrink
from the loss or absence of starch. What
it contracts from the loss of moisture
does no harm.
Year: 1877

progress. Arabia has gone backward in
stead of forward, Persia has lost her an
cient glory, and Turkey made no progress
until forced to accept western political
philosophy. Mohammedan nations have
stood stubbornly at the line drawn in
1852, and have refused to advance, asking
nothing and desiring nothing bevond
what is outlined in the Koran. In the
meantime the Christian nations that
covered at one time at the feet of the
Moslem cOnquerers have, with few ex-
ce 0tions, been moving forward. What
is known as the civilized world is nearly
all Christians, and the nations are strong
and wealthy. MOhammedanism is
strong among the tribes of Africa
and the nomadic nations of Asia.
With these facts in mind we
come TO the consideration of the prob
able results i'll case the sultan should
unfurl the flag of the Prophet and call
upon all Mohammedans to Join in holy
war He would forfeit all claim to sup
port from those nations which now sup
port Turkey, not because she is Moham-
medan, but because she is European.
In the old days of holy war it was easy
to arm and clothe q mass of adventurous
soldiers; but, suppose the Mohamme-
dams OF Africa and Asia poured into
Russia, they would come as barbarous
horde indifferently armed and without
discipline, and against the discipline and
armaments of modern warfare they
would have little chance of success.
Such movement would be the signal
for new combinations in Europe. The
Christian nations would soon be a unit
in driving back the hordes animated by
an anti Christian fana'icism, and the re-
suit would be the end of the Ottoman
| empire.


/ The sultan will not take such a course


unless he is prepared to cut loose from


all European alliances, or unless he des-


pairs of help from European ma
/ lions. If he does take it he plays into
| the hands OF Russia and hastens his own
! downfall. 1t is questionable whether


such an appeal would rouse the rival
sects of Mohammedans to the old war


spirit of enthusiasm, but even If the


response was not general Russia would


suffer The importance of the event


cannot be overrated, as it would make {


new era in European politics. The un
furling of the flag of the Prophet would


arouse the old spirit of warfare it woulC


be bad for Europe, bad for Mohamme


danism and fatal to Turkey.
Year: 1877

1t may interest some to know just how
a late law enacted by the Virginia legis-
lature regulating the sale of liquor in
bar-rooms operates. What is called
registering apparatus was provided for in
the act, and is described as follows by the
Lynchburg Virginian: q On one side is a
crank, and on another dials like those of
a gas meter. The bar-keeper turns the
crank round at every sale of drink, a
bell strikes, and the dial registers ere.
The object of the device is to determine
the amount of tax to be collected, at the
rate of one cent on every drink. AL
though a heavy fine may be imposed for
neglect to use these machines properly,
or for tampering with them in any way
and there are officers whose duty it is
to detect such ofienses-the belief is that
they will not answer the purpose, because
drinkers will generally connive at viola
tions of the law.
Year: 1877

The Southern Live Stock Journal
says Hitherto the goat has been con-
sidered the most worthless of all our
domesticated animals, but, by the intro
duction of the Angora, promises TO be
elevated in the scale of being to us one oil
the most useful, as well as ornament u.


Let us consider for moment the value
of this goat in the south, aud the cost
of establishing a flock. We have large
tracts of unoccupied lands-afording an
unlimited range, where, without any
feed whatever, goats would subsist the
year round. Their favorite food is such
as is rejected by other domestic animals.
They utilize the growth ef leaves and
noxious weeds by converting it into
the most beautiful fleece. The common
goat as foundation stock can be bought
for merely nominal sum. The only
material cost is that of a pure Angora
buck, costing $50 to 800. The fleece of
Year: 1877

An exchange gives this timely sugges-
tion: Cooling off suddenly when
heated sends many of our farmers youth
to an early tomb. 1t is often matter
of surprise that so many farmers boys
and girls die of consumption. 1t is
thought that abundant exercise in the
open air is directly opposed to that dis
ease. So it is; but Judgment and knowl-
edge of the laws of health are essential to
the preservation of health under any
circumstances. When overheated cool
off slowly; never in strong draft of air.
Gentle tanning, especially if the face is
wet with cold water, viii soon produce a
delightful GOODNESS, which leaves no disa-
greeable results.
Year: 1877

The Florida AgriculturaIist wants adj
ditions to these old saws-many of them
will be found correct aud useful. Send
them on postal cards.


When pigs pick up straws and run
about it Is sign of rain.


When fowls begin to oil their feathers
look out for rain.


Look for rain also when frogs begin to
croak Very loud, smoke hangs near the
ground, objects look near you, and swal-
lows fly low.


Soap a nail to drive into hard wood


Grease n saw and it will 90 in easy.


Sprinkle starch in tight boot to get
it on.


For felon roast a sour orange, or lime,
cut small hole and stick your finger in
as hot as you can bear.
For a cold mix the juice of sour
orange that has been baked with sugar,
and take 4 teaspoonful when the cough
is troublesome.


Soles of old shoes wiz make hinges for
light gates.


For chafe on your horse burn leather
and cover the sore spot with coal, OF
cover with gunpowder and vinegar made
into paste.


Mercurial ointment rubbed on a gun
barrel viii keep it from rusting.


To cure a child of collie rub the back
gently between the shoulders.


Tomato juice or borax, and sugar OF
honey will cure thrush in children. Dir
a rag in the mixture and let them suckit


Sugar mixed with salt, when you have
saltpetre, will give meat line color.
Year: 1877

mania, having attained the astonishing


valuation of 81 100000, or almost one.


third Of the sum invested in material by
our factories during the past year. Those
figures will be appreciated when We re-
member that our total crop Of raw silk in
1875 was not worth hundred thousand
dollars. Yet the climate of certain States,
and especially of California, is admirably
adapted TO the white mulberry tree and to
the finer species Of ofsilkworms; aud nothing
hinders our production Of staple far
stronger aud winter than the Chinese but
the want of cheap labor. In China or
japan good reeler viii run off from the
cocoon a pound and half or two pounds
Of silk in week, and be satisfied with
eight or ten cents day. In California
the same workman would demand dollar
Whether it is possible to contriYe ma
chine which can be intrusted with the
manipulation Of SO frail thing as silk
cocoon, IS one of the most important pro-
blems propounded to American invention.
IN T. ,S,m.
Year: 1877

horse stalls are found in the occupation oI
shaggy Heratee ponies, aud Of the team Of
pretty Corsicans which, with their minia.
ture drag were the Princes parting pres
ent to the Princess on the day he left
Sandringham for his Indian tour. From
the Indian bullocks in the paddock it is
but step to the sheep-house, where the
Southdowns are feeding for winning some
more of the prizes the certificates Of which
adorn the rafters of their snug abode
While the gentlemen are tramping it over
the grassland to the site Of the new works
which arc presently to supply virgin spring
water to the Hall and It's dependencies,
the Princess is showing to her lady guests
her dainty dairy, with the equisite little
tea-room attached, whose pannels are
gradually being filed up with votive deco
rative tiles.


There is no lack of occupation for days
not devoted to sport Tha laboring folk
in Sandringham Parish having been all
comfortably housed in model cottages, the
reformation Of the cottage architecture and
eNSOuuiuuatiUu VI llIt pdTlbll VI w UllBT-
ton-an outlying portion of the estate--is
now steadily being proceeded with under
the personal supervision of the Princess
herself, who sets her face determinedly
against defective and unpicturesque homes
for her laboring people. At farm in his
own hands in Wolferton Parish the Prince
has some fine pedigree short-horn stock
and is gradually rearing herd whose in-
huence must beuefit his neighbors without
the expenditure of sensational prices for
the fancy Of particular strain Sand
ringham is the chosen rural home of their
Royal Highnesses; they have watched it
grow into beauty as their children grow up
around their own hearth; it is endeared to
them as the scene of much sweet serene
happiness and of one great trouble, the
sorrow of which was mercifully turned into
joy; and in Sandringham it is given to
them-nor do they forego the opportunity
to do much good in this their day and
generation.
Year: 1877

BEWARE OF BENzINE.-The Tidionte
Ne,cs says Last Saturday the wife of
Swede named Anderson, living in New
London, was seriously burned by a singu-
lar explosion. She was engaged in clean
ing the wood work in her kitchen with
benzine, the room was shut up close with
fire in the stove, It's supposed that the


evaporation Of the benzine filed the room
with gas which took FIRE from the stove,
causing au explosion, demolishing the
house and blowing the woman into the open
air. Her clothing took fire and she was
seriously burned on the body, arms and
face. A neighbor who lives close by


heard the explosion, stepped to the door
and saw the unfortunate woman flying
through the air with her clothes all on FIRE


followed by tables, chairs and ether house


hold utensils OF course the house wa
Totally ruined aud taking fire burned up
Year: 1877

been here year aud half, and was prevl-
ous1y an "Arkansas Traveller" He emil
grated to Arkansas from Henven knows
where, under the protection of the army
and as long as the army remain
ed he was carpet-bag politician
on the Republican side. When the army
left Arkansas, he left too, and now he turns
up in Chicago Us carpet-bag politician on
tile Democratic side. AL this is chiefly in
teresting as showing that the Democratic
denunciation of the carpet-baggers in the
South was SIMPLY because they were on the
opposite side, but that the Democrats are in
favor Of carpet-baggers on their side,--
especially when they have done service in
getting SULTAN off. We may as well re-
mind them, however, that the nominee for
States-Attorney dictated by Mr: su111vAs's
counsel last fall was defeated; and we fancy
that the people this spring will conclude by
the same reasoning that the defense of Sui
11vAs ought not to be passport to an irn-
portant legal position.
Year: 1877

Next Sunday is Easter. People who OBJ
serve Lent are pretty well out of the woods


1t has been good year to add to the num-
Der of Lenten devotees. Times are hard,
and it is Just as well, when one can, to make
q virtue Of necessity, and lay aside the pomp
and vanity of the world, at the command Of
Mother Church instead of Father Pocket
book. People have different ways of keep
ing Lent Comparatively few know why its
observance is enforced by certain Churches,
and those who do know trouble themselves
very slightly in the matter. It's the fashion
to do it, and SO It's done. This suggests the
query: Why cannot religion be made FASH
ionablo all the year round? II it was only
1.-THE 60" it would never suffer for lack of
disciples. Yet, by strange freak, that part
of the life OF CHRIST most melancholy and
dis1nal-llis forty days temptation-is Sc
lectcd as the pez7od, par excellence, for fash-
ionab!e devotecism. Why not rather take
tho whole life Of the Savior, covering, in its
active agencies, the average life of any man,
and observe the whole of it? This would
take time, to be sure, but it would be time
very well spent.
Year: 1877

As to A1r. CLINTON Bn1o6s, whom the
Democrats have renominated for City
Treasurer, the only objection we have to
urge is the deep-seated conviction on the
part Of prudent people that no man should
he elected City Treasurer twice consecu-
lively. The experience with City Treasurers
has been such os to make it imperative as a
rule of good politics that no man should be
elected to that position a second time until
lie has settled up his accounts and turned
over to successor. This principle has
taken so strong a hold that law hns re-
Gently passed the Legislature making Trens-
urcrs ineligible for reelection; and, if that
law is not legally operative now, it ought to
be SO morally, and Mr. BE1eas should sue
cumb to it. For the rest, Mr.. Briggs good
standing and character IN the community
seem only to be used by the bummers Of the
Democratic party to- help carry the disrep-
utaole fellows who are trying to be elected to
the Common Council on the same ticket with
him.
Year: 1877

1t is quite coincidence that MOODY and


cooK are attempting to evangelize Boston at


the same time. One is man of heart. with


moderate education and no pretense to logic


he deals in the Word, and hammers it ia by
main strength the other is preacher of
great learning, extensive culture, a dialectician
OF rare analytic power. He is also gifted
with equal rhetorical ability. Moody exhorts
and rams home the texts which corroborata
hls assertions; Cook proves by arguments
which convince the reason and command tha
Judgment that the doctrines taught bv
MooDr are worthy Of all acceptation, and
that to doubt is not only to be damned. but
to be demented. This treatment is precisely
adapted to the needs of pretentious people
Like the Bostonians. They would rather be
damned than forsako theory, unless their
massive lnte]lects were first captured By the
stronger claims of contradictory theory.
Like the Athenians, the Boston man is, in lis
way, very religious" He has been wor-
shipping GOD after the style Of the Grecians
Year: 1877

when PAUL visited them, "without know
ing Him" ''Him, therefore, whom you
worship ignorantly," cries the 1ogiclan
CooK, 81 declare unto you" MOODY
is at the same time making the air
ring with his persistent, reiteration Of
the Bible statement that there is no other
Name given under heaven among men
|. whereby sinners can be saved except that Of
JESUS of Nazareth. Between the two, the
t'Boston man," though t'splendidly proud, :"
is in great strait. He is person who likes
to be on the safe side, and has for long
time rested under the impression that the
safest thing for the Lord was to be on the
Boston mans side. Now it dawns upon
him that he may have been mistaken; that
perhaps the clay has not SO much power
over the potter rs he had imagined; that
GoD even created out Of the brightest and
best brain of Boston may not be strong
enough to overturn the CHRIST of MOODY
and the JEHOVAH Of CooK. It is q wonder
the Boston man did not think of this before,
but it must be said in his defense that his
vision has been quite circumscribed and
provincial. He has labored under the de-
lusion, common to the Chinese, that out Of
his own city there was little worth know
ing, or serving, or believing. It remained
for Chicago man to break the shell of this
mental and moral construction, and for the
Rev. Cook to provo its essential imbeciity.
Year: 1877

The indications from the primaries are that
Mayor HEATH will receive eighty-seyen votes
on the first ballot in the Convention to-
morrow This will be thirteen more than
nre necessary to nomination. It is not
probable TINT any change will be made, as
Republican delegates are not rs susceptible
to the influence Of the "bar1" as are the
Epawninss of Democratic primaries. The
nomination for Mayor may now be consid-
cred as practically settled, and it remains
only for Republicans to work well to secure
The election
Year: 1877

For the first time in the history of the
English University-races 8 dead heat has
been dec.=red- Thc;annual race between Ok
ford and Cambridge yesterday was the most
exciting ever rowed on the Thames, and at
the finish the Judge refused to decide in
9a:or Of either, and the heat was declared
of. Dispatches indicate that had not tho
No. / Of the Oxfords broken his oarlock
that club had been victorious, but as the
matter stands NIL England is torn with the
most remarkable boat-raca in the annals of
the Snort
Year: 1877

squander and steal the public moneys. It is
merely question for all ta1paying citizens,
Democrats as well as Republicans, whether
the city machinery for taxation shall be
turned over to the same ring that now con-
trolls the county machinery. They arc
merely two links Of the same sausage, made
from the same dog.
Year: 1877

Il CoLvH had been nominated for Mayor by
the Democratic Convention there woull have
been grand bolt Of pretty much all the decent
Democrats in the city over to the Republican
candidate to defeat him and the hummer cle-
ment Of the party. But the bummers and
roughs will have to swallow PERRY n. SMITH:
they can't help themselves.
Year: 1877

II PERRY had distributed from his bar'l the
night before the Convention, as the bTes want
ed him to do, old CoLy1S would have scooped
him yesterday for the Mayoralty nomination;
but he did not become 4 Grecnbacker until the
Convention was ready for work, and then he in
dated freely to 1'moye the craps"
Year: 1877

On the margin of your paper indi-
Gates that your time is out, or viii ex-
pire with the next paper. Remember
our rule-CAsH ALWAYS IN ADVANCE.
If not renewed, we take it FOR granted
you do not want the paper any longer,
and your name will be dropped from
our list. We intend to publish the
best paper in West Tennessee, and
the more subscribers we get, the bet
ter we can make the paper. Let eve
ry one rellew and bring another with
him.
Year: 1877

feel under increased obligations for the patronage so liberally accorded me as the successor of the old and successful house of Wm. B. Hooper & Co.,, and while ac- knowledging this fact, allow me to add that those dealing with me will find ds complete stock as was ever offered by the old firm with all that is new and desirable in addi- ton.

 JAMES M. BARNEY