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farm, garden and household. Facts About Potato Beetles. The potato beetle remains in the ground all wiuter, emerges from it in ttie spring in a perfect state, fully grown and ready for procreation. During the day, it remains upon the potato plant and doa* not tly till night, when it traverses wh-le fluids and whole sections of country, the males iu search of the females, and vice versa. The beetle . does not cut, aud so does no immediate harm. The e?gs ure laid on the under side of the leaves, in patches about an iuch square, and are a golden yellow color. Ju a few days the youug soft grubs are hatohod, are ravenously hungry, have but slight hold of tho foliage, and are easily knocked off. They have but slight ability to travel on the surface of tho soil, and never descend to it voluntarily. until they have reached the perfect sing state, when their natural instinct prompts them to seek the earth, into winch '.t hey burrow, form a cocoou, and iu due time emerge full grown beetles, ready to begin a new colony. This series of changes takes place from two to four times iu a season, controlled by its length, warmth, etc. Iu the last change they remain dormant throughout the wtuter, merely because the temperature is too low to perfect the ine?cts. It is therefore probable that, if they ever reach a tropical climate, their transmigration will bo uninterrupted. Reasoning from these facts, we arrive at the following, which are borne out by actual experience: Any mode of destroying the beetle, practiced by a farmer here and there, is only lost time, ; as" the nightly flight of the sexes in search of each other is sure to supply local fields from the others in the neighborhood, the sense of smell boiug probably the inseot's guide to the nearest plaut, and to the general rendezvous. If extirpation of the beetle is determined upon, it must be general and simultaneous. The great difficulty of accomplishing this is insuperable. Therefore let the beetle alone. Beetles, however, produce slugs, and slugs in their tuvn produce beetles. Mugs tio not, migrate, are easily dislodged, must oat, and arc therefore at our mercy in at least two ways. If they are knocked off the plants ia tii9 middle of a dry hot day, and ground into the hot soil (say by a harrow or any similar means), they perish; aud if the leaves are rendered, by any external application, unfit for their food, they starve. Au experience of six years has satisfied me that the slug state is the only vulnerable one, and either of the two modes of warfare indicated above is probably successful. Troy feed indiscriminately on all the solanactce. They are not poisonous cannot bite or sting a human being, need not be a terror to any; and to conquer them, it is only necessary to attack them in a calm, cool, intelligent-, business like manner.?S. JFt. M., in Scientific Farmer. Queatloiis and Answers. Is there any speedy remedy for hop lice? Sprinkling with ice water, according to one farmer's testimony, will quickly clear a hop vino of this pest. Cold rain 4-VtA-iW rttl r?V> Q I auraj o .ljjc:jo uutu uum wjAOy vmvuqu m i warm rain will increase them. Are 9un flower seeds ever fed to j horses ? Yes, and are healthy feed for them in winter and spring, keeping them spiritel and with sleek coats. One-half pint per day is the amount usually given, and it is claimed by some that these seeds prevent heaves and other diseases. How about red pepper for poulty ? ! It has often been recommended in the ! club as beneficial in poultry yards. What is iho usual allowance of grain per head for hens for a year ? Tim <vmsnmr?iinn nf frrain hv liens is estimated at from one to two bushels a j jpox- i>ar head, according to the range | given tho fowls; as for instance, nens having through the sammer a wide range would require only one bushel, wliilo those confined during the entire year to narrow limits would probably j cocsumo two bushels. On a general average one bushel and a half would be a sufficient allowance of corn or mixed ; grain far-one ban. In return for this i outlay a good breed of fowl will, if well 1 carod for, produce at least 175 eggs per I annum. How much paris green is required per acre for exterminating the potato bug, and how can it l>est be applied ? One pound of paris green is enough for an aero of potatoes for one season. One tibleapoonful in a bucket of water i3 about tho usual proportion; this sprinkled over the tops of the vines through a common sprinkling pot is the proper way of applying. A small patch can bo sprinkled with a little whisk broom. IVo or three doses usually do the work. Paris green can also be mixed with flour or plaster, and dnsted on the leaves. Chemists have decided that this poison does not affect the tubers. The small quantity advised kills the bugs as readily as if more were to be need. Be sure and get a good quality of paris green. What-can be done to keep roots from rambling; Lift them while the trees are young, and shorten them if necessary a lew times; this will bring them into forming libery roots near the trunk of the tree. An editor possessed of common mode&ty and een^o, sitting at his table year n ' and year out, wonld scarcely undertake 1 to instruct a farmer who is in the fields j every day in the details of the business j of farming; but in his general reading 1 and study ho catches ideas and hints j whioh are often of great value to some of his readers. If farmers would avoid suddenly cool- j ing the body after great exertion, if i they would be careful not to go with wet clothing and wet feet, and if they would not overeat when in an exhausted condition, and bathe daily, using much friction, they would have less I rheumatism. As much as I detest being in debt, j says a writer, I would not hesitate to 1 icuuLumouu a yuuug nmu tu JLUU xu uoui moderately for a farm, if he loves the occupation, and who has a wife who | does not mind living on a farm; for 11 think with these requisites, if he be ' cautious and frugal for a few years, he | will he better off and take more oomfort j on a farm than in a city. Two acres out of one hundred in; wheat in California are put in by drill- j ing, while in Oregon there are ninteen ] acres, in New York, Indiana and Michi-1 gan each fifty, in Ohio sixty, and in j Pennsylvania and Illinois eaoh seventy I acres. The gain by drilling, as oom-. pared with broadcast sowing, is put' tlown for the Eastern States mentioned j at from one-tenth to one-fifth. Wo have had the chance to test this | season the following early peaches, all | grown within sixty miles of each other, ; and for eartiness we believe them to [ stand as follows : Downing ; Saunders ; j Alexander; Mnsser; Amsden ; Bea-1 trice; Wilder; Hale's Early. We be j lieve these will ripen in the order named | if growing all near each other. As to quality, we would put first No. 4; then as follows in order. Nob. 3, 2, 1, 6, 7. Ju size we should put the numbers in the f.j'lowing order: 7, 4, 8, 2, 1, 6. About Boiling E(|i. There is an objection to the common way of boiling eggs which people do not understand. It is this : The white under three minutes' rapid cooking becomes tough and indigestible, while the yolk is left out. When properly oooked, eggs are done evenly through like any other fc^d. This result may be obtained by patting the eggs into a dish with a c >ver, as a tin pail, and then pouring upon them boiling water, two quarts ox more to a dozen eggs, and cover and ; f t them away from the stove for fifteen minutes. The Leat of the i water cooks the eggs slowly and evenly and sufficiently, ami to a jelly-like con;^t?n?y> leaving the center or yolk border t fci.il the wiiite,' and the egg tastes as much richer as a fresh egg is nicer than a stale egg, and no person will want to cat them boiled after trying this method once. Under the TTagon. " Come, wife," says good old Farmer Gray, " Put on your things; 'tis market day; j Let's be off to the neareBt town? | There and back ere the sun goes down. ; Spot! No, we'll leave old Spot behind." 1 Bat Spot he barked and Spot he whined, And booh made np his doggish mind To steal away under the wagon. i Away they went at a good round pace, i And joy came iuto the farmer's face, j 'Poor Spot," said ho, " did want to oome, i But I'm very glad heV left at home. j He'll guard the barn and guard the oot, | And keep the cattlo out of the lot" I 'Tm not so sure of that," growled Spot, The little dag under the wagon. | The farmer all his produoo sold j Aud got his pay in yellow gold, Then started home, just after dark? | Home, through the lonely forest. Hark ! A robber springs from behind a tree; i mnnatf nr oIoa xrrmr lifA '? waul XUUi V* V*wv J- w ? The moon wad '"ut, yet he didn't see Tho little dog under the wagon. Old Spot ho barked, old Spot he whined, And Spot he grabbed the thief behind I And dragged him down in mud and dirt. ! He tore his coat and tore bis Bhirt; He held him with a whisk and bound, I And he couldn't riso from the miry ground; | While his legs and arms the farmer bound And tumbled him into the wagon. ; Old Spot he paved the farmer's life, I The farmer's money, the farmer's wife; ; And now a hero, grand and gay, A silver oollar he wear* to-day; And everywhere his master goes, Among his friends, among his foes, He follows upon his horny toos, The little dog under the wagon! AFTFR MANY HAYS : An old man lay in the little chamber i off the best room of Abram Linmar's un! pretentions farmhonse, listening half unconscions to the sonnd of voices, now in stern demand, again in humble pleading and protestation. His long gray hair and beard swept the snowy linen of tne pillows, against which his bronzed, sunken face seemed darker and more hollow; his bony fingers beat the coverlid in anger and" sympathy, as his ear fol! lowed the words of the speakers, and a Oflifctfir nn.irlrlfirl in hia bv?h. whinh had. | for five weary weeks, been glazed and dulled with fever. " I wish they'dcome in," ho muttered to himself; "I want to know all about I it; I was asleep at the first and can't ! guess how it begun, but it is evident the I good people of this house are in deep trouble." He had hardly ceased when the door , of the apartment opened and Dame Lin| mar stepped in with the noiseless foot ' of the anxious nurse. Seeing that her ; patient was awake and was looking eagerly and inquiringly at her, she api proached the bedside and spoke to him | in a voice as sad and mournful as sorrow ; can train a woman's tones to be. " Awake, sir ? Has the talking in the ' other room disturbed you ?" "It has not broken my fest, but what I have heard has disturbed my mind. What is it ? I only know that somebody gives you till next Monday morning to leave this comfortable home." a Ti 1 n nkATif a oiv Pnf xv in auuuu a oa? x?uw here comes my poor, old husband; he will explain it better than I can." At the word the door opened again and Abram Linmar entered with bowed head and firmly pressed lips. "He's gone, Janet, and taken the very last grain of hope I nurtured. Not even the memory of the service I rendered him two-and-twenty years ago in saving his life when he was at the mercy of the highwaymen availed anything, 1 and we shall have to leave the roof that has sheltered us so long, doubly dear to ; me as the work of my own hands and the scene of genial associations." " Farmer Linmar, excuse the itnper- ' tinence of my curiosity," said the low voioe of the invalid, " I know a little of yonr trouble. May I not know all ?" : " Alas, sir," replied the hopeless ! host, " the story is short as our future ~,ill nbthj WilLiLU CX1C3CJ VYtUlO W1JLL UZf UHC1. Five years ago my son in New York, being embarrassed, I borrowed from my next neighbor, a very wealthy man, the sum of eight thousand dollars and gave him a mortgage on this?my farm of one hundred acres. Instead of gaining relief, my son beoame more embarrassed, failed utterly, and, from iLo grief ol his disappointment, died. I have paid two thousand of the principal and now tender a third thousand, and beg that my | creditor will not prooeed to extremities. But I plead to a stone. He acknowledges I that for years he has coveted my laud, j separating, as it does, two paroels of his i own, and, indeed, he has made me many i offers for it; now that ho has the power to compel a sale, he swears that he will force the matter and outbid any oom; petitor, as he has the means at his command. He says that he offers me in return i all the money and interest I have paid i to him in consideration of my quietly | surrendering possession, and I suppose I must. There's no other way." " And I have been a oharge on you in J Krmh dire extremifcv." Raid fcho sink man. I feebly; " it would have been better for you to have left me to die by the roadside, broken down and fever parched, where you found me. Many a precious dollar you must have parted with in my long illness for physicians and their nostrums. I am too weak to even thank you properly." "Say not so. The little you have had in money or attendance will never help to impoverish us. It was bread cast upon the waters and it will return." The good farmer said this almost cheerfully, for he reflected how much better off at worst he and his dame and daughter Marian wero, than the homeless, friendless old man who lay in his care. " After many days; after many days," nnntinTKul tho sinlr man nniohino tho promise. " Bat I am afraid, farmer, that neither yon nor I will live till it oomes back." ."Why, don't talk bo, sir," broke in Dame Linmar, "it's been a real comfort for ns to do the little we oonld for you. We are onlylpaying a debt we owe. Our boy died away from home among strangers, and they were good and kind to him when things were so bad that he would not let us know, fearing our great distress; the kindness he got from strangers we are glad to pay back in installments." " Would that I oonld aid von. as I nave read of men apparently poor and helpless doing for those who have sucoored or shown kindness to them, but my poverty is no disguise. I am poor, indeed; absolutely without a dollar or a friend in the world. Coming this way I was only wandering in search of death to avoid the almshouse, and it grieves mo that I should have fallen where I am so heavy and unfortunate a oharge." " Say no more, sir, or you will take from our performance all the merit which attaches to it," said the farmer; " we would be in worse peed than you if we woald afford so little relief grudgingly or withhold it." " You speak like one who knows man's constant dependence, even in his highest fortune. But you have not y^t told me who is this inexorable creditor. Tell me, that I may correct good report, if such a lie comes to my ears." "He is rich, respected and of excellent repute. His name is Asahel Penoost." WVi otimnlont rtnTlId VlftVA no frfTATI0Ml> ened the weak muscles of the invalid as the simple pronouncing of that name did. He rose to his elbow, his deep set e^se glowing with the fire ot excite- j ment. " Asahel Pencost," he repeated; " do j you know where he came from ?" "I es. He settled in these purts nearly forty years ago, coming from near old Glouoester in Massachusetts, I've heard say, though information on that point is not very definite." " How old a man is he ? Was he married when he came here." "He is about seventy years of age; . he brought a wife and one sou with him, but his wife died aud he married again." , It was the dame, true to her womanly instincts, who was readiest when neigh- : borly news were asked or asking. I "Yes! yes!" eagerly continued the sick man, "and the rod?what became i of him?" j "He quarreled with his stern father, Asahel Penoost, some say, and went away over twenty years ago, and has not been heard from since;" replied Mrs. Linmar. "He was too gentle and true a lad, though, to have been born of such a father." "Triumph and defeat in a single breath," murmured the invalid, sinking back. Presently ho revived and said to the farmer, slowly, yet with Arm accent: "You need not conoern yourself further. What county is this if" "Wayne." "Then you have the ablest man in Wayne county to help you for your debtor. I said just now I was the poorest; I was mistaken. When Asahel Pen cost comes on Monday to seize your farm, tell him that Marcus Whitney is your security for farther discharge of the mortgage and warn him to accept whatever terms are proposed." Monday morning camo, and with it Asahel Pencost, a deputy sheriff and a serving man. Farmer Linmar and his wife had spent an uneasy interval, notwithstanding the assurance of their involuntary guest; and every attempt they had mftdtt in their aniet. unobtrusive way to gain insight into the reason of the stranger's confidence had been met with evasion too patent to be further questioned. The first they knew of the old man's name was when he called himself Whitney; of his career, connection with the rich, arogant neighbor Pencost, or his intentions, they were as profoundly ignorant as before they took him into their troubled confidence, He had been removed from the bed in the little chamber to the old haircloth sofa, which stood between the two windows that lighted the best room, and sat, propped up with pillows, his eyes closed and I head thrown forward, while the pre-11 liminary demands were made by the I oreditor previous to, turning the business over to the sheriff's officer. " You can't pay, and won't accede to my most liberal proposition ?" exclaimed the groat man, with an uuotuous and sonorous voice, "then you'll have to take the consequences." Turning to the officer, and waving his hand in a circle that seemed t> sweep already with a creditor's grasp the goods and lands of the unfortunate debtor, he said: " Mr. Bimble, you will please, to "? " Wait a minute," said the invalid, sharply, giving a termination not intended to Penoost's invocation. "Please to wait a little, Mr. Bimble, till there is need of your interference." "And pray, sir, who are you?" demanded Mr. Pencost. % | " Security for these good people's | debts, and their protection against the avarice, greed, and persecution of Asahel Pencost Whitney, formerly of Little Salem, Massachusetts, who is "? " Your only brother," interrupted the pale and terror stricken man; "for Heaven's sake, forbear." " You didn't lose your memory with your name," sneered the invalid, "though your presence of mind forsakes you. You never expected to see me again ?" " I knew you would oome sometime, sure as death, but not so very soon." "Soon I Call you eight-and-thirty years noon? You have enjoyed the fruits ot wrong doing, frand?aye, theft ?longer than Heaven permits most j men to do. I thonght I wast under its ban not to rise again, when I sunk fainting into the ditch a mile or so from here, six weeks ago ; but now I see I was simply subject to its wise, just, and fortunate decrees. See! Asahel Whitney?calling yourself Pencost?here is a paper bearing your debt in money to me. You took everything I had in the world, and if I can strip you I'll do it. Here is the amount compounded annually at six per cent.; it amounts to two hundred and eighty-six thousand and forty dollars. Can you pay it?" * Have you no mercy ? Will you not hear me?" begged the now humbled man, in tears. "Farmer Linmar, plead you to him to listen to me ; he will grant you so much." " I'll say this much," retarned Mr. Linmar, " ho that hath no meroy on his fellows will hardly get it in his dirost Deed." " You almost steel my purpose, while you do dissuade me," Baid Marcos Whitney. " I need mercy, and I'll 6how it, though I'm afraid it is misplaced. Thirty-eight years ago, my brother, stnndiiiff there, was trustee lor my portion of our father's estate. I was married and away at sea, my wife and child in his care, as well as the money that had been left to me. I bad been gone for five years, during all of which time my letters to my wife were suppressed, and those to me were falsified. \Yh<-u I came back to Little Salem it was to find my family all goue. My wife had l>een persuaded of my death and married with my brother, who had sold out and gone no one knew where. From that day to this I have wandered up and down in the iand seeking my own, till my footsteps were led hither. Another time will do then, traitor, to talk of money reparation. Tell me, now, where is my eon ?" This demand was made in so earnest a tone that it told of no compromise; that debt, at least, was to bo atoned in full. " I don't know/ replied theshrinking man. Ho recognized that he might be forgiven many of the paltry dollars claimed, but this claim for flesh and blood would not be forgone a jot nor tittle." " You are telling me trne ?" " It is no time to do otherwise now. When we quarreled I told him he was no son of mine, and he swore he would not bear my name; he left, and left no trace to track him by, though I tried hard at the time. Some ten years ago I heard that he had taken his mother's name and was calling himself Lambert Morrison; whether the information was true or not I cannot say; but, true or false, that is the last I have ever heard." " Go you out into the world and seek my boy till you find him; seek as I sought you, in poverty, hunger, dirt, sorrow and madness, for weary, weary years. Bring him to me only and I'll forgive you every penny that you wronged me of." The father spoke, and, speaking, told the sole object of his life's secret. Money is nothing to a man going down to the grave, but love and kin all. 44 Already the bread has returned," said the farmer, detaining Asabel Pencost, who was turning to leave the house. " Your son," he continued, ad dressing the invalid on tbe sola, " is in New York, if Lambert Morrison and the handsome, bright boy Morris Pencost, I remember, be one and the same. Wife, get those letters. It was he who nursed oar boy in his last illness and close I his eyes, I might have known it They were playfellows, and he would not see his friend suffer uncared for, and he had too sorrowful remembrances to allow him to disclose his identity to us in Wayne." The farmer was right, and within ten days the missing son was clasped in his father's arms and bore the third name of his life, the right one, at last?Lambert Morrison Whitney. The fall of the proud squire was generally hailed in Wayne, for he was one of those men whose temperament won few friends, and whose station repelled them. He received at his brother's hands enough to yield him a modest inoome, and busied himself in the indis tmguiBnaoie tnrong 01 tno tfreat city. Marcus Whitney lived on in Wayne, and gladly bestowed his benediction on the marriage of his eon and Farmer Linmar's only remaining child Marian; that is, she was " child " to the farmer and dame, thongh turned of twenty-six?and peace and happiness have crowned the sncceediDg days of the warm hearted people so strangely thrown together. Captain KIdd. The famous pirate, Oapt. Kidd, frequented Narragansett iu the old days, . when distillers, slave traders and pirates were numerous. His landing was at the bar on which the south pier was built His places of resoit am still shown, and numerous holes in the ground, made by credulous seekers after bis iiidden treasure, can no spen in | Peaoedale and otlu-r places. A. few years ago a sword hiJt was dnar up in a field near the pier, on which was enjrftved the name of Arfcemas Gould, who wa >ne of Kidd's lieutenants. Twentyeig-.t of this crew were hanged on one gallows in Newport. A DRAGON IN COLORADO. The Btraofe Ntory of a Traveler In the Great American Deaert. A correspondent of the Denver News says: I was traveling horseback along a stretch of oountry which, for a long distance, merits the appellation of the Great American desert. As far as the eye conld reach not a living thing or object created by the hand of man could be seen. On every side the horizon only bounded the view, and not even where the sky kissed the plain did aught but the scanty prairie grass, already burned to brown under the rays of the fast summering sun, lift itself, dotted here and there by innumerable cacti, from mother earth. Save the quiokly reoovering thud of my horse's hoofs as he loped over the prairie, not a sound was to be heard, and the stillness was profound. But the silence and the solitude were not for long. As I was about to seek a place to build a fire and bivouac for the night, suddenly a long trailing form ~x i__:a J A nnoav I ruin lilt? DtUiUy nuu a \^uwa au?m bling ory was borne to my ears upon the weBtern wind. Hardly had the sound died upon the air when an intense trembling seized my horse, and, with extended nostrils and dilated eye, he begun looking on all sides as if to find a way of escape. And now the same strange cry was repeated, and my terrified sight perceived an enormous reptile, half serpent, half quadruped, that was now running, now creeping along the earth, with incredible rapidity. Although my limbs almost refused to perform their office for terror, I had turned mechanically to leap on my horse, notwithstanding that I knew that the pace at which the monster was coming was far faster than that of a horse at full gallop, but the beast had broken away from where I had tied him, and was quickly devouring the earth with rapid feet. Not, however, away from the coming danger. Although destruction stared me in the face, I almost lost consciousness of my peril in viewing the strange Bcene that followed. As Boon as the terrible thing perceived that the horse was able to run at a rate that compelled an inconvenient degree of speed to catch up with him, he suddenly stopped in his career, and for a moment remained silent and motionless, and the only sound to be heard was that made by the retreating horse, which was growing fainter and fainter. Immediately, ere it had become quite lost to the ear, the cause of the brute's flight begun to utter r. Bonorous roaring that one moment sounded like some brutish mother calling her young, and another a weird imitation of the cooing ' 3 > ? ? Jl?. A nAnrtrl Knon ox a aove. .nitrmji uuu dud ouuuu uttered, when the horse, which was now almost lost to sight in the rapidly growing darkness, stopped. Presently he turned around and begun with hastening stops to returr. The noise still continued, aud even to my human hearing seemed to have a pleading, inviting note in it. The Brobdingnagian beast, too, had assumed the shape at once of a cat ready to play with her kittens, and of a serpent when trying to charm its prey into its folds. And now let mo describe the monster. Like other saurians, it had the body of a lizard, uplifted on, as near as I oould judge, eigbt feet, but its propelling power, as already noted, seemed to exist chiefly in its tail, which streamed behind the body at least a hundred feet. The trunk of the monster must have been thirty feet long by about half that figure in width, and at least from eight to ten feet through. The feet seemed little more than paddles with which to push this huge body along, and apparently had little supporting power, the creature's belly touching the ground except when its rapid motion forced it forward in the air. ~ The head was flattened at the top, and towered high up over the body on a neck greater in diameter than a barrel, and fully ten feet in length. The eyes, as largo as saucers, were about a yard and a half apart, and gleamed like lanterns on either side of a carriage. Thus far, the mouth wa3 only partly open, to emit the sound above noted, so that in the comparative darkness I could not see it distinctly. The color was a dark purple, such as is sometimes used in churches at Lenten time, mottled with black. By this time the horse had come within the embrace of the seducer, and the charming all at once ceased. Another movement, and the terrible mouth, which I could now see was as largo as a barn door, opened, and a forked tongue darted out and pulled my poor beast within. Then came the sound of the teeth crunching and the breaking of bones, mingled with the stifled death cry of as faithful a brute as ever man bestrode. Then all was still, and the frightful creature lay motionless, as if dicostiofir its meal. Presently it stirred, and, giving myself up for lost, I made up my mind to be its next victim, when, turning, it rapidly rolled away in the direction from which it came, without as much as looking at me. More dead than alive with terror, I mado the best of my way to this plaoe. The Western Hasbandinon. Pity the sorrows of the Western husbandmen, for they are at once numerous, various and unending. Last summer the fair fields of fruitful Kansas were laid waste by the all-devouring grasshopper. Scythes and sickles hung rusting on the fences, barns remained bare and granaries empty. In the days of their desolation the stricken farmers cried aloud for aid, and out of their abundance States not afflioted with ravenous grasshoppers did l^lp them. In the progress of the seasons harvest time has again come in Kansas, and, as in the years that are past, the sons of the soil are soured and scolding. It is not grasshopper ravages this time, nor yet ^ drouehth : neither have the rains been over-abundant, nor did ohill wintor linger too long in the lap of general spring. No, everything went right. Nature was so beneficent that the agriculturists are angry at too good a thing. They grumble that the crops of Kansas are disgustingly enormous. Millions of bushels of wheat must be left ungarnered because there are not hands enough to gather it in. As to oorn, when it comes to that cereal the disgust of the tillers of the soil of Kansas is changed to anger. They shake their clenched hands at the waving fields, and threaten to use tens of thousands of bushels of the golden ears for fuel next winter. Sad is the soul of the unfortunate farmer when he reflects that all this abundance betokens low prices. Thoughtfully, he takes an extra dose of tobaooo, and meditates when in the economy of nature things will get even. His Eastern brethren, regarding with comElacence the over-burdened fields, may ? fixrniaad from wishing for a plague of grasshoppers, -f in their traok Is certain to follow such afflictions as are at present bewailed by the Kansas farmers. Shrinkage. Jones says hat the white flannel suit j he bought a year ago has proved a very economical investment, and has been of much use in his family. Jones weighs 250 pounds, and when he bought it it fitted him remarkably well. After the first washing, his eldest son, who weighs 100 pounds less than Jones, senior, | found it an excellent fit. Two washings ! more made the garment delightful for a i youth of nine, and at the end of the sea-! eon the baby was adorned with the ha- j biliments, which had shrunk just enough to make them fit for a ciiild out of creep- f ing clothes, this year jones wue u?hh them as a dishcloth. Where all that! flannel has shrunk to Jones doesn't see. i and says he would willingly take his ; whole family and his mother-in-law to a , lecture whioh would explain it, and pay I double price. Increase of Neuralgia. . Neuralgia in the faces and heads of, women is on the increase, as compared with the number of instances of the di*-1 ease among men; and this is believed to j be due to the inferior protection afforded by the mode in which women now cover their heads. It is not o ly one of the most oommon of feminine maladies, but one of the most painful and difficult of treatment. It is also a cause of mnch mental depression, and is regarded by physicians as leading more often to habits of intemperance among women than any other disease. INDIAN MASSACRES. The Muiaere at Fort Phil Kearney Ten Years Ago. Old Fort Phil Kearney, in the Platto valley, is invested with a tragic interest that overshadowed everything of late years but Ouster's death in the West. It is but ten years since tho massacre near this old fort occurred, wherein between eighty and niu< ty person.", among whom were the gallant Fetterman nnd Brown and Lieut. Grummond, fell fighting the Sioux. Old Fort Kearney was established a year before the massacre by Ool. H. B. Oarrington, then in command of one of the old infantry regiments before the army reduction. He started from Leavenworth, and Reno and Kearney were built as defenders of the old Boseman trail. Kearney was looated about sixty miles beyond Reno and about ninety miles to the south and east of old Fort 0. F. Smith. The Indians thut year?1866?were very troublesome. The Sioux, then under the leadership of Rod Cloud, who has since becomo and remained friendly, had repeatedly menaced the post. With all their wiles and strategy the Indians had that season been unable to induce Colonel Carrington to hazard a general engagement. Numerous skirmishes had taken place, the Sioux never appes.ring in any great numbers. On the day of the massacre they bad attacked the' wood train. The assailing force was not apparently larger than thirty or forty warriors. These were driven off by the troops, and Captain Fetterman, after routing them, followed the fleeing Sioux over the bluffs and out of sight o f the post. This was what the Indiana exnn/ito/1 oni) rlooirod TKlAV HAATTlfirfl to retreat before Fetterman, and that officer, suspeoting nothing of the trap that bad been set for him and his troops, pressed them to a point where the savages could hold him. Onoe in the neighborhood of Indian hill *hev rushed in between him and the fort. He saw the plan for the first time. His men, who numbered nearly ninety then, having been re-enforced by Lieutenant Grummond with twenty-eight cavalrymen, found their chances of escape few. Fetterman tried to force a passage through the Indians, who numbered about 3,000, back over the bluffs and to the post, but found it impossible. The doomed men found their ammunition giving out. All hope was gone. They gathered around their commander and fought to kill', not to survive. TV.O Tniliono uroifAr] until flVfirV fYlinOG of lead and powder was expended. Seeing their white foe virtually disarmed, they rushed in and butchered the brave fellows .who remained. From the posi tion occupied by the bodies of Fetterman and Brown it was concluded that, seeing hope die and a horrible death by torture awaiting them should they be taken alive, they reserved one bullet each, and had shot one another the moment the Sioux were congratulating themselves on their capture. The bodies were found next day by a strong detachment sent out to reconnoiter, for such was the effect of the slaughter on the garrison that none dared to ventore to the Held and learn the fate of the gallant Fetterman and his brave band. The Sioux had left the remains on the field after denuding them of their clothing and scalping and mutilating their remains. The dead were conveyed to the fort and buried with military honors in .sight of the stockade. THE TIME OF FAST TROTTERS. Horses that Have a Record Better than 20. Thou* marked uiOt an tuteriik (*) note off tht turf. Goldsmith Maid 2:14 IBUlyBarr. 233% Smuggler... 2:16%!8t. James 2:23% Lulu 2:16J? Frank Wood 2:24 Occident 2:16%: Major Allen 234% 'American Girl 2:17%|CJoietto 2:24% Dexter 2:17%' Mnalo 234% 'Gloster 2:18 |Beppo 2:24)6 Rod Clond 2:18 .Chicago 254)4 Lady Thorn 2:18%,Draco Prince 2:24% Lucy 2:185, Lady Blnnchard 2:24% Judge Fullertou 2:19 iHleepyJoho 2:34% Klora Temple 2:19J?'Myron Perry 2:24% George Palmer 2:19?,i;Toronto Chief 2:34% 'Camora 2:lHJ?J&s. Howell,Jr 2:24.'tf Mambrlno Gilt 2:20 ; Pilot Temple 234% Henry 230%'Kansss Chief 2:24% Fleety Golddust. 2 3U%;0Ura G 2:25 Mountain Boy 2 30J4 Suale 2 55 Gazelle 2:21 lOom. Vanderbllt 2:26 Castle Boy 2 31 !Jok*r 2:25 Nettle 2:21% Commodore 2:25 Bodlne 2 31%> Nellie Irrln* 2:25 Jay Gonld 2 31%; Nashville Girl 2 35 George Wilkes 232 ijoe 236% Lady Maud 2:22%,Crown Prince 2:2S!? Hoenlind 232ii Thoe L Young. 235% Mambrlno Chief 2:22%! Fanole Allen 1:26% Huntress 3:S2% 0 li. Lowe 2 36% Jennie 232% Ethan Allen. 336% LuolUn Oolddnst 'JX None neb. a^s>t Flora Bella 2 22>* Byron .2 25)4 KUburn Jim 2 23 I J. J. Bradl?y 3 26)4 Fred Hooper 223 | Monarch, Jr 2 255tf Wm, H. Alien 223* Spottod Oolt 226H HoUpur 2 23!* colonel Roiwel 3:26V Thomas Jetforaon 2:23V Mohawk, Jr 2:26',, Seniuttlju 2 23)4 Derby 2:26 V Jim Irving 2 23)4 Harry Harley ) 26jJ Adventure of a Conductor. Conductor B. is always polite to ladies. All conductors are polite to ladieH, particularly so when they are young and handsome. Miss 0. was hauded on board at the station as carefully as though she wa3 " glass?to be handled with care." An extra scat was turned over on the sbady side of the car, and the conductor took a peat by her side to do the agreeable, having met Miss 0. on the train before. Presently, as matters were going along nicely, an old man, in his shirt sleeves, threw himself into the seat in front, wliich the conductor had unlocked and turned over for the benefit of the parties more immediately concerned. Mr. "R annlrn Tin oVinmlv "j"-"" ?f ?? r~j " Go away from here J Bat the man didn't go. Conductor says, still more sharply : "Go away, or I'll make you !" But still no go, while a vacant, provoking smile sat upon the face of the intruder. Whereupon, Conductor B. grasped the old farmer by the nape of the neck. At the same the young lady seized the arm of the conductor, and exclaimed : "Please don't, Mr. B. This is my father." Ever since Conductor B. always asks young ladies if they are traveling alone. The Effect. As a Detroit saloon keeper stood behind his bar, says "M. Quad," in walked a stranger, who inquired : " Can you inform me wnat effect lem onade has upon the mental system v "It has a good effect, where you pay for it," was the reply. "And where you don't?" "The effect is then transferred from the mental to the physical system, and you go out of here with something kicking you forty times per minute." ' Thanhs, sir," bowed the stranger, backing out. "I am not thirsty, and I never did believe in summer drinks." He went down the street, stole two harvest apples, and found the effect to be just the same as if he had taken lemonade. When the " maohit-e" ceased kicking, the stranger remarked: " Between being kicked for three cents or for ten oents, it is my duty to bo kicked for ten cents, and that shall be my motto hereafter." The Earth Treatment for Ulcers. The dry earth treatment for uloers iR found quite successful. Large, sloughy ulcers, after being washed, are covered with a thick layer of earth, over which wet paper is placed as a support, the whole being neatly bandaged. In a few days the ulcers begifi to clear, and when the surfaces look healthy and granulating, a dressing made as follows is used: A piece of muslin the size of the ulcer is immerwed in carbolic oil, in tho proportion of one part acid to ten parts cocoanut oil; with this the sore is covered, and over it dry earth is placed, and then moistened earth and a bandage. T? ? t.'mo +Vi?> Vionlinrr nrnwfifl J. II Ik CUU1 U UtlUU iUU MVMMWQ |#.wWVM.> manifests itself satisfactorily, while all odor is entirely removed. Wants to Know. A correspondent writes to ask how he shall cure himself of the practice of tobacco chewing. A man who hasn't nerve enough to break off this disguftiDg habit by the mere exertion of his own will, might about oh well tie an anvil around his neck and throw himself into the nparcst river. This is a shorter road to the fame end. A Missouri editor writes to ask whether he shouldsny "oditor " or "editress" in speaking of a lady journalist. We bope he \frill invariably use the former. Editress is an abominable word. There is no more occasion for it than for dootress, conipositrcss or professorcsfi.? New York Sun. SUMMARY OF SEWS. iBttratlu ltiM rrtn Htme ud AknU. The following Congressional nominal iocs are annonnood : Kentucky, eight district, Milton J. Durham, Dem.; Ohio, eix:h, ex-Gov. J. D. Ujx, Rep ; Vermont, second, D. 0. Denniuon, llep : Ohio, tenth, Charles Foster, Rep ; iLduna, fifth, Mr. Hogea, greenback; Michigan fifth, Myron Harris, Dem The principal bu-iut'83 portion of Westport, N. Y , was destroyed by lire Some Bcoondrela removed a rail from the track of the Lake Shore onH Minhioran Rnnfchflrn rftilrrmH nAftr N firth east, and the engine, tender, two baggago and four passenger coaches of a midnight train were thrown down an embankment and wrecked. No one was killed outright, miraculously, and but two persons were seriously injured, both of whom subsequently died. The switoh near by waa also found misplaced. The objeot of the dastards was undoubtedly the robbery of the express safe, which contained $200,000. It was the second attempt of the kiud within two weeks Tne South Carolina Democrats have nominated Oen. Wade Hampton for governor Secretary of War Cameron has issued a general order calling attention to tne resolution passed by the United States House of Representatives on the tenth of August, in which it is declared that the exercise of the right of suffrage is in some of the States, notwithstauding the efforts of all good citizens to the contrary, resisted and controlled by fraud, intimidation and violence, so that iu such cases the object of the amendment to the Constitution known aB Article Fifteen is defeated, and adds the following order to General Sherman, commanding the United States army: The President directs that in accordance with the spirit of the above, you are to hold all the available force under your command, cot now engaged in subduing the savages on the Western frontier, in readiness to be uaed upon the cail or requisition of the proper legal authorities for protecting all citizen*, without distinction of race, color or political opinion, in the exercise of the right to vote as guaranteed by the Fifteenth amendment, and to assist in the enforcement of certain, condign and effectual punishment upon all persons who shall attempt by force, fraud, terror, intimidation or otherwise to prevent the free exorcise of the right of suffrage, as provided by the law of the United States, and have such force so dis tributed and stationed aa to be able to render prompt assistance in the enforcement of the law. Sueli additional orders aa may be neoeasary to carry out the purpose of the instructions will be given to you from time to time, after consultation with the law officers of the government. Goldsmith Maid won the Utioa free-to-all race for $4,000, in 2.183^, 2.18%, 2.18K- Her contestants were Lucille Qolddast, Bodine and Fullerton, who earner under the string in the order named The entire business portion of the town of Jaoob City, Utah, waB destroyed by fire Thousands are dying of starvation in the northern part of China The Mexicans are having trouble with the Indiana in Lower California The greenback men of Indiana held a State convention and adopted resolutions demanding the coinage of silver dollsra iu order that the government may pay its coin obligations in silver; declaring that all values, including government bonds and greenbacks, should be taxed equally Nominations for Congresa : Illinois, tenth district, 8. F. Marsh, Rep.; Illinoia, Galeaburgdistriot, Thomas B. Boyd, Rep.; Tennessee, seventh, W. C. Whitthorne, Dem.; ^yisconBin, Arth, Wm. P. Lynde, Dem George T. Anthony has boon nominated for governor of Kanaaa by T? n: A +*>oiri tPftd ICO IMjpUUUUIUiO a. lauiuau ..? stopped by a large body of men in Colorado, who took therefrom United States Jndge Stone and carried him off in order to prevent him opening court and qualifying a receiver for the Colorado Oontral railroad. He afterward escaped and fulfilled his duty. Gen. Terry aud Crook have united their oommands and are following an Indian trail Crook was on at the time of the juncture. It in reported that Sitting Bu'l 'xpioesed a determination to go to the agency and sue for clemency. He claims that be did not wish to tight, but the whites forced him to it... .Congressional nominations: Texas, Austin district, JD. C. Qiddiugs, Dt-m.; Missouri, sixth, H. ?. Havens, Hep A train on the Kansas City, St. Josepn and Council Bluffs road was stopped by a band of robbers who took it for a freight train containing the pay car. When they dis covered it to be a passenger train they allowed it to proceed Rev. Wm. A. Cornell, of Freedom Plalcs, N. Y, haoged himaelf while temporarily irsane Daring the last day of the Utica (N. Y.) racea, Qreat Eastern won the 2.26 contest in 2.2.)%, 2.22%, 2.22. Barns won the 2.20 race in 2.22%, 2.21%, 2.23. Walda Mikael, the insurgent chief of Abyainnia, defeated the regular troops at Z&kraza, and subsequently massacred 1,600 women and children Sam Camden, a colored man, raped an eight-year-old white girl in Huntington, W. Va., and was arrested thorefor and lodged in jail, from which he was taken that night by a masked mob and hanged The six Fenians who escaped from the English authorities in Australia by moans of the whaler Catalpa, arrived safely in New York, and were enthusiastically received by their oonntrymen. Thoir names are: Thomas Darragh, Robert Craneton, Michael Harrington, Martin Hogan, Jamoi Wilson and Thomas Hassett Fiank Prince, of St Louis, swam ten miles on the Mississippi in one hour and forty-one minutes, beating Tam Sucliffe, of England. Hon. Michael C. Kerr, Speaker of the United States Hou-.o of Representatives, died at Rockbridge, Alum Springs, Va. Mr. Ktrr was born near TitusvUle, Pa.. March 15, 1827. In 1852 he settled in New Albany, Ind., in the practice of law. In 1854 he was elected city attorney, and in 185C to the Scato legislature. Six years later he was elected reporter to the supreme oourt of Indiana, and published five volumes or reports. 111 iou? no woo oicmcu ? fative to tho Thirty-ninth Congrote, and served on the committees on private land laims and accounts. He waa rc-electid to tho Fortieth, Forty-flret and Forty-second Congroasea. In 1872 be was the Democratic candidate for Congreaaman-at-Large in Indiana, and was defeated by Hon. Godlove 8. Orth by a majority of 162. He waa elected to the Forty-fourth Congress, and was chosen Speaker by a Democratic majority, the vote boing?Kerr, 173 ; Blaine, 106. He was in ill health at tho time, and has been gradually failing until his death as announced. Nominations to Congress: Pennsylvania, Juniata district, J. Lyons,Rep.; Pennsylvania, Banbury diatriot, W. L. Dewart, Deal.; Pennsylvania, thirteenth, J. L. Nutting, Rep.; Ohio, second, Stanley Matthews, Rep All but twenty-seven of tho Ute Indians, who were to assist in fighting the Sioux, deserted from the army, carrying off their arms and ammunition ... .Twenty-eight business houses were destroyed in Brussels, Ontario, by fire. Fourteen families wero rendered homeless, Owing to the expense of subduing internal insurrections, the emporor of Morcc *o has announced his inability to pay Turkey the annual subsidy Ex-County Treasurer Courtright, of Luzerne county, Pa., who was convicted a short time sinoe of embezzlement, has refuLded to tho State the sum of $10,868 Henry Bmith and Squire Hammond, two wild young men, murdered Robert Martin, in Owenton, Ky., ar.d after their incarceration in jail they were taken therefrom by an armed mob and hanged to a tree The threequarter-mile daeh at the Saratoga extra meeting waa won by Friebooter in 1.17. The mile and a quarter race waa won by Burgoo, over six competitors, in 2 39. Mooo won the mile and an eighth race in 1.58}. The three-quarters of a mile daoh for two year-olda resulted in a viotory for PrinoeM of Thole in 2.19. The Use of Dynamite. Thw enormous explosive force of dyna mite is being utilized in Scotland in clearing the fields from stumps of trees and bowlders, etc. The operation is simple. Here it is: The earth is cleared around the stump, a hole pierced in the roots, a dynamite cartridge inserted, and a fuse attached. The explosion shatters the stump to fragments. Forty stumps can be removed in an hour. With bowlders, the operation is more simple. The cartridge, with its fuse, is plaoed on the top of the stone, which is then covered with sand. The explosion breaks the stone in pieces small enough to be handled and oarried off tho field. When the heat incrcrrco tlio tliormc-, meter rises to explain. j Destructive Tramps. Aooormts are coming in from the Maryland and Delaware peninsula of the operations of the peach plucks," as that class of nomads are called who yearly make their way there to gather , the peach crop. One statement regard- \ itig their operations says many of them ; are professional tramps from Baltimore, ; Philadelphia and New York, who have ' iio desiro for employment, though they pretend t*.- go Ihero to help gather the j peach crop. Just at the opening of the | fruit season a crowd of them went to a house on the farm of Mr. E. B. Cochran, near Middletown, Del., and de- | manded food. It was refused them; a day or so afterward they carried out a threat by firing a st tble and then the house, so that both wore entirely consumed, with most of their contents. Mr. i Ooohran's fields of corn, potatoes, etc., were then pounced on by the tramps, who with hoes and spades unearthed whole rows of potatoes, and stripped the oornstalks for some distance. One was arrested and committed to New Castle ] jail; but the only effective way of stop- ! ping the depredations was to shoot two or three of them in the legs.? Baltimore Sun. _ At our request Cragiu <fe Oo., of Philadelphia, Pa., have promised to send any of our readers, gratis (on receipt of fifteen cents to pay postage,) a sample of Dobbins' Electrio Soap to try. Send at once. * Chapped hands, face, pimples, ringworm, saltrhenm, and other ontaaeoaa aJToctions oared, and rough ekiu made soft and smooth, by naing Junipeb Tab Soap. Be careful to get only that mado by Caewell, Hazard &. Go.. New York, ae there are many imitation* made with common tar, all of which are worthless.? Oom. A Conottdbum An a wterkd.?An exchange says * If the Mennonites, well enough oft to own $1,000 to $2,000 a J M rt ? 1 _ 1 i. iamiiy, can nna aavauwge in comiug from Russia to colonize the West, surely the thousands who are clamoring for something to do in the Atlantic States and cities oould well afford to try [the same experiment. An industrious man ought to get a living out of the soil. Modern Women. It is a sad commentary upon oar boasted civilization that the womon or oar times have degenerated in health acd physique until they are literally a race of Id valid*?pale, nervous, feeble and backaohy, with only here and there a few Doble exceptions in the persons of the robust, buxom ladies characteristic of the sex in days gone by. By a very large experience, covering a period of year*, and embracing the treatment of many thousands of cases of those ailments peculiar to women, Dr. Pieroe, of the World's Dispensary Buffalo, N. Y., has perfected, bythe combination of certain vegetable extracts a natural specific, which he doc a not extol as a cure-all, but one whioh admirably fulfills a singleness of purpose, being a moot positive ana reliable remedy for those weaknesses and complain to that afflict tae women of the present day. ThiB uatnral speciflo compound is called Dr. Pierce's Favorite Freeorip tion. The following are among those diseases in which thiB wonderful medicine has worked core a as if by magio and with a certainty never be fore* attained by any medicines : Weak back, norvous and general debility, falling and other displacements of internal organs, resulting from debility and lack of strength in natural supports, internal fever, congestion, inflammation and ulceration and vi ry many other obronio diseases incident to women, not proper to mention here, in whioh, as well as in cases thar have been enumerated, the Favorite Prescription effects cures?the marvel of the world. It will not do harm in any statti or condition of the system, and by adopting its jisethe invalid lady may avoid that Bevarest of ordeals?the consulting of a family physician. Favorite Proscription is sold by doalers in medicines generally. . * Debility and Nervous Headache Chronic, siok or nervous headache is geuerally dependent on, or acoompanied by, impaired digestion, by which the circulation and nutrition of the brain are deranged; and the nervous centers vitiated. The Peruvian Sjrop, by reinvigorating tho digestive powers, lays the ax at the root of the iree; tbe brain is duly nourished, the nervous ?ymptoms cease, nud the headache disappears. # * Edward Bayer,Esq., of JBorton, Kings Oo , N. 8., writes that an astonishing cure has been effected on his daughter by the use of Johnson's Anodyne Liniment. The whole spine became diseased she lo*t tbe use of her limbs, and her baok was rounded up like a bow, in consequenoe of taking cold after having been inoculated for tbe kine pook. Bhe ia now moll Simple and inexpensive 03 it is, Glenn's Sulphub Soap is a most efficient remedy for certain obnoxious diseases, to be cured of which those afflicted with them often ?pend thousands of dollars no purpose. Depot, Crutenton'e, No. 7 Sixth avenue, N. Y. Hill's Iustantaneo s Hair Dye in the best and saftst. * We pledge our reputation on the assertion tbat any educated physician, after a careful examination of the recipe, will say that Parsoni Purgative PiUa possess more merit than any other bill now i ffered for sale. * For eruptive diseases of the skin, pimples and blotches, Vegetine is the great remedy v removes from the system the produe * Man r ^1 .ire suffering from the effect* of lbs w?rm weather and ore debilitated, ore advised by phjilcluis to take moderate amounta or whisity two or inree umea daring the day. In little while those who adopt this advice frequ ntly lncresj) the number of "drlnka,"and In time become confirmed Inebriate*. A beverage whlob will not oreate thirst for intoxicating llqoon, and wbloh la Intended espeolally for the benefit of debilitated persona, whether at home or abroad, is Dr. Schenok's Sea Weed Tonlo. Containing the jaloes of many medicinal herb!1, this preparation doe* not areat* an appetite for the intoxicating on p. The nourishing and llfe^upportlng properties of madV valaable natural productions contained in it and well kno?n to medical men have a most strengthening Influence. A single bottle of the Tonlo will demonstrate Its ralaable qualities. For debility arising from sickness, over exertion from any cause whatever, a wineglusful of Sea Weed Tonlo taken after meal* will strengthen (he stomach and oraate an appetite for wholeeome food. To all wbo are about leaving their homes, we deslie to say that the exoellent effect* of Dr. Schenok's t-asouable remedies, Sen Weed Tonlo and Mandrake Pills, aro particularly evident when taken by those who are lnjurIonsl> effected by a change of water and diet No person should leavehome without taking a supply of tbese safeguards along. For sale by all Dragnets. The MhrfeetB. now son* nntlOAk* (l7VC a 10W Common to Good Texana 065$ a 01 hlllch Oowq 45 ' U 900 no Hogs?UtO. .. .? ....... 08Ti D re 8*6(1 '7JC< Sheep ?J 0 ?* Lambs oa ? 07 (Jotton-Mlddllng 12X8 12 Flour?Extra Wootern ? 15 8 6 fl) State 7.ztra 6 25 9 8 76 Wheat?Bed Weevern 1 10 <?1-0 No. 2 Spring. Its # 1 3ye?Btate.... 80 9 Bo Barley?State...... ? 9 ? Barley Malt - ? 1 26 Jata?Mixed Wosttrn 33 3 3) Oorn?Mlxod Weitern 6# 8 day, per cm 60 9 90 Straw, per owt 1' 0 ?* Hop* 75'i?10 *2) old* 04 9 01 Pork?Me* 25 918 40 Lard 10*9 HX Flib?Mackerel, No. 1, new....,?..l? 00 ?17 0> " Ho. 3, nev. 7 CO 99 60 Dry Ood, per owt 6 00 9 6 SO Herring, Scaled, per box. . . 30 9 20 Petroleum?Crude Hli8113tf RoCned, 19# Wool?California Fleeoe.., 14 9 25 Texas " ............ 14 8 26 Australian " 36 9 41 flatter?State.... 30 9 SI Western Dairy 16 9 80 Western Yellow....? it 9 24 Western Ordinary 13 9 18 Cheese?State Factory PS 9 09X State Skimmed 09 8 116 Western 03 9 08 Egg*?Btate 10< M 16 BurrAto. Floor 6 7.1 ? 9 25 Wheat?No. 1 Spring } 14 114 Corn?Mixed... Si 4 5'J Oats S3 4 83 B76 70 9 7i Barley..,,. ? ? PHILADELPHIA. Beef Cattle?Extra 04 if W-M Sheep 0?X? Of \ Hogg?Dressed 09 ? Kour?Pennaylvanla Extra 6 g P 2 Wheat?Wostem Bed 118 # 1 16 Bye ?0 (? 60 Oorn?Yellow 68 * (9 Mixed 63 <# M On U?Mixed 84 4 34 Fetrolmna?Ornd?._..,14 V?18 Beflned, WATEBTOWU, MAB8. Beef Cattle?Poor to Choice 6 00 <9 7 78 I ? 1 to <4 3 60 Lamb* 6 00 fll 8 7g I PHOTO Copying Agenta. Send for our nnr Cata loguf. The Aububn OoPYiyn Co.. Anhnrn.N T WAMTKD?Trarelln* 8ale?men and for erery oocnty. Liberal Salary or commi alon. Gem Man'f'|fCo..8tIx)ula. SAWM FII.KI) eaiIJy,82. New machine Stamp __forJllnat circular* F. ROTH. New Oxford, Pa. sent free. PRESIDENT Boston. Ma-a. OP1U.1I HABIT, an 1 hiw I ?m Onred. Free for etajnp. Dn. P. It. BOWSER, Loganiporl. Ind. AQTUH/TA The only inre remedy. Trl?I package HO Hiliil' frr>i. L. SMrrgyiQHT. OleTeland. 0 OAl Week Salary fruaractepd to male 4 fitnale. Send ?l\f stamp for^olrculir* K.M. Boding.Indlanap'a.Ind. <61 O a day at horns. Areata wanted. Outfit and terma <? * ? free. Addrein TRUK A PP.. AnguaU. Maine. f a (of) * day at bom*. Sample* worth 91 aont to >u?5U fr?e. 8TINBON A 00.. Portland. Miv Pr ott tablo( neaaant work: nnnareas now ompiored; hundredi more wanted. M. N. LOYSLL, Erie, Pa. Correspondence inrited. ROOFS Why not mak* your Roof l leu I a lifetime., and save tVe expense of a t ew roof even 10 or IS) ear*. Mean to don* oitb even lets expense and cars than you bestow on your ildlngs, becanse oar materlils cut le a. If you are careful to nie Fire-proof Slate Paint it will not only resist tae effects of water and wind, but will shield yon from Fire. OLD ROOFS. Protect jour Buildings by using GUses' Slate Booflng Paint, which neither eraekt In winter nor runt in Mmnor. Old shingle r>ofs can be painted, loo?lag wiueh better, and tatting longer toan new shingles without the paint, for one-fourth the ocst of reshlngllng. On decayed ehinglet, it fills op the holes and pores, and gives a Dew rubttantiil roof that lasts for rears. Curled or icarped shingles it brings to their places and k?*pi iA?tn ihtre. The slate paint requires no heating or thinning, Is applied Kith a brash and wf ornamental. Oar genuine artlole is chocolate color when Jlnt applied, changes to a uniform slate oolor, and la to all intents and purposes elate. ON TIN OR IRON ROOFS lh? red oolor is acknowledged the bit paint In the market for durability. It has a heavy body, but is easily applied; expands by heat,contracts by oold, Is a slow driMr and Defer eraekt nor icalee, One coat is equal to 4 of any otti'-r paint. Buildings covered with tar-felt i?*n h? mil >* wrlar.Mtfht. il & imusll aim)mm. And Tire. tarred for years. NEW ROOFS. Mills, foundries, factories and dwellings a totally. Material* conplrtt for a ntv steep or flat ftnf of GlineV Hubbtr Roofing cost bat atsat ha'/ the price of re* Bblnrlfnff. For Private boaoee, barns and building* of all descriptions It I* far inperlor to any other rvjflnv in the world for conrenleace in lasting. and comb.ues tbe ornammtal appearance, durability and /Ire-piyA qualities of Kn, at one-third the coil. Hoof* laid by contract under guarantee. NO TAR OR GRAVEL USED. " How to save rnehingllng?ilop leaks effectually and cheaply In roof* of all kind*? a I Oil pa* J book tree to any one ulatina where tlwy saw tbls notice. Write (o-d?y! New York Slate Roofing Co. Limited, 7 Cedar Street, New York. Agent* WanUd. HONEST OPINION! Mr. H. R. Stktzxb: Vtar Sir?Tbls is to *bow that my ion was taken lick la January. 1864, with gerofola, whloh oame oat In large tores and ulnars on his leg and hip. His leg waa swelled more than t*loe It* natural size. He had seferal doctors of hUh standing in their professloo?two from ?uu iuiw irura uavioHiwa-mwuufe ioouuc bit better. Ha wm obliged .tn It* wherever bxu plaoed. for be had no use of bU 11m b? whatever. Wban we b d riven up all hope* of bli living ws wan told to ti; VKGKTINE.the great blood remedy; and he had takfn It bo' a abort tune before we ooold aae a great otianm. The lore ma ao bad that wa had to change the cloths I?nt or fire tlmaa a daj. Still, ha waa getting better; for be could move his 11mbe and help hlmealf a little, lie was soon able to alt op in bad, and. by oonstant use of VEGE TINE, It baa cured him. lianas a lame lag. whloh ha will probably bore (or life; bnt wa all honestly believe If wa bad need VEGETINE before we had bothered with tboaa doctors, It would have saved the use of his leg, and restored tt to natn al health. 1 hope all those troubled with Scrofula will read this teatlmony of me and my son, who la now wall, and able to speak fur himself. OATHKRINK MAHOMET, DANIEL MAHONKY, 19 Trenton Street, Oharleatown, Maas. MarlO, 1873. The above plain bnt honest statement conclusively shows th* quick and thorough cleansing effeeta oI the VEGETLNjB in Scrofula. VEGETINE la aoknowlodged by all classes of people to be the beat and most reliable blood purifier in tee world. ' . Nearly Blind! H. B. STmatB: ZMar Sir?In expressing my thanks to yon for benefits derived from the use ol VEGETINE, and to benefit o(here, I will state: When eight or nine years old I was afflicted with Scrofula. which made Its appearanoe In my ejes, face and bead, and I was very near blind for two years. All kinds of operations weie performed on my eyee, and all to no good ree ilt. Finally tin disease principally settled In my body, limbs and feet, and at times in an aggravated way. , Last summer I was, from some cause, weak in my spine and kidneys, an it was at times very hard to retain the urine. Seeing your advertlaement In the Cmnmrrrial, I bought a bottle of VEGETINE, and ootnmenced using according to directions. In two or three dava I obtained great relief. After using four or five bottles I noticed It had a wondnrfal effect on the rough, dealt blotches on my b=dy and legs. I still used VEUET1N K, and the humorous sores one after another disappeared until they were all gone, and 1 attrlDu'e the car* of the two dl**a?e4 to VEGBTINE, and nathtoff eld*. If I am or^r affected with anything of tbe kind a*aln, I thill try VKOKTLNK aa the only reliable remedy. Once more, accept my thank*, and believe me to be, Very rejpectfolly. AUSTIN PABROTT. No St Qano Street, Cincinnati, O. Dec. 1,1875. Vegetine 1b Sold by all Druggists. dhq outfit free. Beet Ohanoe Yet. Write at Onoe. POLLING Jt OO.. 2 Ollnton PlaceJt.Y. /1UT CARDS AND CARD HTOCK. of every Vy description Prlntm and fttitionri iopplled. HVWLRY MKYER8, 5ft State St, RooheeVr. W. Y. 100,000 ACEES GKO. B. WRIGHT. MlunoapolU. Ind. A FORTUNE can be made without ooet or riak. t.'omblnatlnns forming, Partlcnlara freo. Addrea* J. B. BURQRS. ManagerTRawllna (Jlty, Wyoming. Jkrgt Di?couuU lu Ag?nu. J. H. BUFFORD'S SONS, BOSTON. k WAVTnn Tmntv Qt1 1 Uonnt^ 3l Ohroraoj for 81. 2 amplea by mail,poai--iaid,2t>o. OosxiKitr al Ohbomo do . 3T Naaaan St.. S?v York. ?+?*% H iTOHK". A Great (feoMtlon. Satnpi* * Watch and Outfit frt* to Agent*. Better taan ?*+ Gold. Addreaa A. OOUH'Kk & OO., Ohlcigo. iSl ?)K A MONTH tnd trirelin* expeneee paid fjjLJmi*J for NiUeamea. Mo peddler* wanted. Addreea. Vokitob Maxut*o On., Cincinnati. Ohio. AfiPNTS I ?nr Iar*e life-like Hteel EnrraTlnjr* , of the Presidential Can?<ldntra ?ell _ I rapidly. Send for circular. N. Y. EoniT818 > DAY I ln> Oo.. 3ft Wall St. Box 3336, N. Y. Ml | mm HABIT CTXRKD AT HOMH fJM I II Ml No pnbllolty. Time short ^0* Term*moderate. 1,000teatlmo nlala. Describe caae. Dr. F. B. MAJMH.Qalnoy.Mloh i fl nwtllfl If you want the beet telltnc article HItP N I A la 'be world and a solid (fold patent it UTiii 10 laTar wmtoh- ?? ??et' wr,*? *t once to J. BR1DB & CO.. TB6 Broadway, IT. Y. and Dferpblie Habit abeohrtely and flUfUlf epeedlly oared. Palnlew; no pnbllolty. 11 pi 11 |H Send itampfor Partlonlan. Dr. Ci.ni, v* 1UW ton. 1ST Washington St. Chicago, m I rt mrmn All Want It?thousand* of Uvea and A ll N'rv millions of property tared bylMortuneo A IT Ml In made with It?partlonlara free. 0. M. **" * v T.nmcoTQH A B bo. .Wow York A Qmoa?o. Aa?a A MONTH ? Agent* wanted ereryU 'J la 11 where. Roslneas honorable and firstenAllll elaas. Partlontars lent free. Address V<JW WORTH a OO.. St. Louis. Mo. Pennsylvania military academy. Cheater, Prnn.. Re#pen? September 13. Thorough Instruction In Oirll and Mining Kngiueering, the Classics and English Branches. For Circulars apply to Pol. THKO. HYATT. Prea., P. M. A. m?a,wocn?n, ud Pmldtntaof JS^norlraddTvII.VIiUliij, Rtwird,Motto,Comic.sad Treat* panatCanl*. 1X&aunplM,worth $5, Mntpo?tpald nrWos^ ^th. buffo {id's sons. boston. mass. ?uMkhod 18*. YO U K. own Likeness in oil oolcrs, to thow our work, painted on canvas fi)?x734, from a pbotinaph or tln-typ?, free with the Horn* Journal, 818 .60 a year Sample of oar work and papwr. tenm to ageuia, etc., iu ota. L. T. LUTHER. MUJ VUI*??. Erie eonatj. Pa. TOBACCO USERS t^NIC-IN-NOC with their Tnbnrca. Prevents VKbtioo Dizzinxds. Fawtnem. Nib voosnem, wlthoot lmpatrin* it* SoothIn*, Oomfoi ting and Tranqnlllrin* p wers Trial plc'ir'n by mall X5a. V. STEARNS. Drajgl -t, Detroit. Mich. "pSTCHOMAWCTf or Soul Oharnlm;." How tlllier (rx mejr lax loau ftlJ'I gala III* lavaaa1 Affection ofuj peraon they ehoo*?, luntantlr. TtiU art *1. -sa poM?M, free, by mall, rs crnU; t->gctti*r with a Lover's Hallo, Kfjpt lan Oracle, Dream*. Hint* to Ladle*, Ac. (old. ? t*MT book. AddnwaT. WUUUOAOa.I'aM.ntUJe.p.i A NOVELTY, rurdH| containing a soene when held to the light (SO 'tealgn*), seat po?t-pald for 26 centa; S pa 'A?, 5 name*, 9 ( No other card printer haa thaaama. Agents wanted; oatflt IQo. Oard Printer, Look Box D, Aabland. Maa* ABOOKfor the MILLION! MEDICAL ADVICE Catarrh, Ruptur*. Opium Habit, JW., SENT FREE on rcoelpt ol (tamp. AddrfM, l)r Butl?' Din>en?ary No. IIN. 8lh ft, 8t. Looli, Mo. CBNTN and a 3-cent stamp for HO White Bristol Visiting Cards. Printed I I b; I new process. No nicer one* ever seen Prloee never before named. Lai*. ml variety erer shown. All otlwr kinds correspondingly low,. Circulars, 3-cent stamp. Inducements never before offered to areata. Territory fast being taken. W. O. CANNON. Box 879, Boeton, Maaa. f\ AGENTS W?.rtTED FOR THE GREAT Centennial history It sell* taster than any other book erer published. .?? ? <ii mnlna In one day. Rend for our I extra terms to Arenti. 'National Publishing Oox< pant* Philadelphia. Pa. For a beantt/nl White Crow i Vfl^BHH^HI^Ientwlnea in beaatifal rosea oq dark background, la 1 M 9WkWm gmnnh ntl/vilni^ II.U In?h?? ! andtbe Boston We-klyOl.be, | aa 8 p*?e family itorj paper, w^U for thr%? month*. Cnromo jni? J#SI B^IW and paper* mailed promptly. QjHaMHWV The beat offer oat. Addreu Gt.OHK Pl)b. QO? 338 Washington St. Bc*ton.Ma-s CHOICE FARMINC LANDS The b it and ehrap-it In market, on th > lino of the I Union I'acifio Railboad, in Eaatorn Nebraska, for nlr on loa# time and low rate* of Interest, ferrnre u hoiim now. Fall information about land*, price*, etc.; a*) new descriptive patoph et, new nnmber of Piuif .r i ejt fn-e to all applicant*. Ada's <?, F. Davis, Laud O nimlsrlouer. U. P. H. K.. Qmaba, Neb. ~ M N. F. BURNHAM'S Jt 1874 Turbine m^wkwn wmn. vraiiun ? iirniii | Hm (Uwlicrd hundred* of oibei v??SB553Sb Turblae5' bnt 'in" never tern It* nelf displaced. Pamphlet free. y. y. burkham, Yom, p^ mrm. How to bn/hlm. How to eel] him. Howto train.' him. How to toll a tor. A NEW BOOKofM^V^^^H^V^B groat lntoreat to Honie-ar&.K. ? men. Sent by mail for"l5 W 50 centa. Address J. P. VINCKIVT, Box 88, Omcaoo. Hx. -*-*1 f Madame TOY'S Corset Skirt Supporter Increases In Popularity every For HlALTH, COMTORT nn4 8TYLK la ekn?wl6<%^ Till BEST ARTICLK of t>.? kinj tyr mad*. For aal* by all Uadlor jotbara aaH r>tailan. BowaraofunluUonaaad la?rlUK?MAinjTA CT T7B RD SOLXLT BY FOY Si HARMON, N'w Haven. Conn. Farms and Homes in the Near West Tbe beat, chrapeat and nenreat Firm in* T>and? now In tbe market ars the ftlonx City ? St. Paul Railroad L&ada, In SOUTHERN i?HNNE?OTA and NOKTHKRN IOWA. Thej are offered on the moat far. rable termi. at a low rata of lnt 're^t, ard long tiro* if dwired. Krwn railroad ?;? to vnribaaora. Witt?tT ;?? *f " t " ? - ? ? f?nd ne a |w>*tnl <; i*d <ti it >..?i ?i. <r~. ,.iml ymi vviii ? eKe.by i>.4U.u~? 1. t oular-wi'h lull luioiuj. t.on. K. C. TAYl'OH. L?.nd Ooromleeloner, 184 Dmtootq StiMt, Chicago, 111. A PBEEIJMS EXTERNAL 6PECJFIC AND BEAD IFIEB 07 THE BEIS. i GLENN'S SULy'HUR SOAPv As a ren jdy for Diseases, Sores, Abrabiom and Roughness op the - * - - ^?* ?A | Skin; as a Jeodoruer, aianjecutni, nuu means of preventing and curing Rheumatism and Gout; and as an Adjunct of the Toilet and the Bath, " Glenn's Sulphur 3oap " is incomparably the best article ever offered to the American public. The Complexion is not only freed from Pimples, Blotches, Tan, Freckles, and all other blemishes by its use, but acquires a tranp arenT' delicacy and velvety f mrasa through the clarifying and ' -nollfent notion of this wholesome beautified. The contraction of obnoxious diseases is prevented, and the complete disinfection of clothing worn by persons afflicted with coutagious maladies is insured by it. Families snd Teat bleka provided w ith this admirable P'irifier have at hand the maia . , ks. vntial ok a 9euie3 of snlpb:il' ; Baths. Dandruff is removed, the hair retained, and graynea* retarded y by it. Medical men advocate its use. PniCEfl, 25 and 50 Cents PEn Cake, Per Box, (3 Cakes,) 60c. and $L20. N.B. There If economy in baying tbalarg^ ealtao, " HHPs Hair and Whisker Dyep Black or Brown, GO Cents. t. ft CWHISMH, Prop'r, 7 8iSS A?. I " '1 0 ? A A Month.?A ante wanted. .16 beat mU .rialTill '"I *rtlol?j in tbe world On? utnple tm jjuuu add-m j\v ?UONHUN,Po<folt^Uob TO AG-BNTS I CAMPAIGN PORTRAITS ?Oif? [ -OF HAYES. TlLlJtfl. 8 a pert) Oreroa Llthfl*i*p?:?, *b2? tecbe?. F.rMtktlo ?nd tuitb Inlaws, vartnUMC*t*At b? tarCo.. 37 Mmhb 8t- wt; Nwr Jfork. After a? attack mtparallel* peieons arellab ? I to DUJ ordinary dlseasee which did not afleet them B before. Toot doctor will tall yon that 70a nut keep ; your bowels reg-aiar. Thiscan b? boat doneby nainc m Tarrant's Seltzer-Aperient. , 1 Tt oleauses without weakening. tan* enabling tho sick j man to reifila its strength. A?U your phyiiclan, ana he will rtoommend It* ak' " ^ Q BOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS. US' Voltaic Plasters. An ElectavGalrantn Ba'.tery combined with tho Colo- i brated Modlcat d Poiona Strengthening Platter, tora- J hip-the beat Platter for Falsa and Achat In tho World 9 of Medicine, J ELECTRICITY .VJ a fraud cnratlre and restorative went U not oq :aled M by any element orraeditiae In the hlato>y of the h> allnc J i.-t. Ucif?? the Tltal st.a'k b tu lid tho body, i eat oca- . jM t.on by meanj of wlectdcity 1? poe-lQIe, It la tho task .JM nsort of all ph-slo.aus aud arjcwjai., and haa re'dPOd " thousands, apparently dead, trom an untimely inn, h - hen no other human a/uccy ooa d bare rucceeded. This is the leading curative element in this Planter. 1 BALSAM and PINE. The healing properties of oar own fragrant balram and : lne and toe name of the Ca t a e too netlknown to re'lohre de?er pUon. TUe:r mtefui. bra-'lng, tocihurf, ?cd >. creDgtbeninxpr>p<ir<ieearn know to tho?< ends when "imblned In a.?ordanoe with .ate and Important diaoori-rieelo pha-macy their h aUsgaod ttreogtheiiinrprop rttee are Increased tenfold. In tslsreepecr our Piaster i i the best In tue oritboat the aid of rlectriclly. TWO IN ONE. Thus combined we haw two grand medical agent* Is ?ne, eaoh of which performs tte function and unitedly produce more cum than any liniment, lotion, w*th. 01 plaster ever before oompooaded In the history of mWiclne. Try one. Pbics, 26 Omits. Sold by all Draffliist and Mat 00 receipt * <>f 86 cent* f?r one, 91.26 far ?*? or 92.96 I or twelve, carrlally wrapped and wtrrut* * ?*d? by WEEKS Sc POTTtH, Proprietors, !1?ten, Msm. UKEftUAIED QFFEB. ^ i jroi^ ixnan r*** r jB. |"o 11 " JB.2 S3 iT ? 2 a lOT || illifcv i& iliil *P Cut Out Certificate Below and Return with S3.CO. ! idiiS ! : : D III ch^I?I ':::* I- !" I I < elll5|5 ' i I i WV^-o&S ; ? ; ; !i?5 ! 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