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Newspaper
Quincy Whig
Location
Quincy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Mar 07, 1860
Page
4
The article argues water management matters for corn. It notes surface compaction causes runoff and ammonia loss, while deep tillage and underdraining prevent waterlogging. Proper drainage and soil work are urged, criticizing overextended fields and promoting careful cultivation for higher profits.
In spring a good season for strawberries, select southern ground and trench 18 to 20 inches deep, manure beneath surface. Plant 18 inches in rows three feet apart, keep bed clean, top with leached ashes, then mulch with straw or leaves in cold wet weather. Recommends Wilson's Albany Hooker and Hudson's Early Scarlet as top varieties.
The article promotes Jour Braim Esq as landscape gardener for The Pines area and mentions an arrangement to provide services to readers. It highlights Mr Atrix Sternexs as an educated gardener and lumberman ready to assist. It also urges readers to plant early vegetables, plough deeply, harrow, and manure for payoff.
A reading notice extols Gray and Feast for their thriving stock of Roses Verbenas and bedding plants. It urges readers to support the farm ad while offering homely commentary on farming life, diet, composting and rural domestic skills.
A flax cultivation letter discusses soil preferences including upland loam, timing, and seed rate. It notes eight to ten bushels of seed per acre, 250 to 300 pounds of lint yield, and seed prices around 150 dollars per bushel with lint near one cent. It estimates labor costs, yields, and potential market values for dressed flax.
The piece urges farmers to renew knowledge of hoe use and soil care, study composts, inspect fences, brush up cattle and calves, prepare seed, and advance plowing and sowing. It warns against delaying manure, keeping old vegetables too long, and borrowing beyond printer payments, with a call to economic prudence this year.
A March report from Mark Lane Express notes enduring rain and cold as spring sowing stalls. Wolds of Lancashire report frost, rain, and sleet delaying seedbed readiness, with stock shortages as grass remains scarce. Turnips nearly finished, meat prices fail to offset high feed costs, painting a bleak farm outlook.
A deadly blaze at a four story wooden tenement No 99 near Sixth Avenue New York city killed nine or ten occupants. Fire started in the hall and spread rapidly trapping twenty to thirty families. Lower floor housed a grocery liquor store. Burnett and Whalen families perished. Jane McNally survived with injuries after leaping from a window. Police and firemen battled the blaze through the night as bodies were recovered at the ward station.
A miscellany of reflections on character and manners, stressing daily acts of kindness and courtesy as the true measure of a person. It cites Burns, Montague, Burleigh, and Sam Smiles, praising gentleness over force and the social power of civility. A Louisville–Aurora Beacon note adds a pugilism anecdote and a Kentucky Harper item incident.
A ball night kerfuffle ended with Charles Hollister wounded thrice by Edward White, a printer, who fled to jail. Reports note possible fatal outcomes and rising violence. Also mentions strikes by Indianapolis tailors over wages and local political nominations in Galesburg.
Senate notes a petition by Samuel Colt for a rotation pistol patent extension and House actions include voting on navy officer pay reform and polygamy suppression in U S territories. President protests House impeaching resolution over executive powers while Congress advances postal and land bills and printing of Stevens Pacific railroad volumes.
The entrant, signing as admiral of the Mexican navy, protests the capture of his steamers near Vera Cruz. He claims Saratoga and Indianola or Wave showed no flags, asserts the Indianola and Wave were Juarez vessels, and says he attempted escape as two shots were fired at him. He says he later recognized the Saratoga and ordered firing to stop, while the attack continued. He says he bought the steamers in Havana by order of the Mexican government and that one was to be nationalized on reaching Mexico if worthy.
New Orleans dispatch reports the steamship Empire City from Havana on the 26th reaching port amid lively chatter over Marin's expedition's capture. Markets note sugar stocks of 180,000 boxes versus 200,000 last year while price discussions and stock levels surface in the day’s business.
In Washington March 3 the House Post Office Committee, led by Colfax, Braize, and Allen, examines the Pacific telegraph project details. Gov Wise may be summoned. petitions flood New York against the Canada treaty, with Hatelt’s report urging treaty abrogation. Fires hit Kenosha and Indianapolis. cargoes burned at Evansville. ice conditions delay northern shipping. politicians clash on loyalty and slavery risk.
A distorted poem fragment depicts a speaker by a taper, the loved man beside a white corpse, a friend arriving, and a hesitant exchange about a parting or message as the scene unfolds in tense ambiguity. The lines show confusion and interrupted dialogue between the figures.
In Boston on March 28 the bark Isle N'Caba was condemned as a slaver by Judge Sprague of the United States District Court after a lengthy hearing.
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