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BEARS AND BEAR HUNTERS. I The Great Swamp# near Lackawaxen.Pa., "here the Black Brar Feedn on Wild Honey and Piss?How He la Hunted and ^ Trapped. In the extensive swamps of Wayne and Pike counties, Pa., and Sullivan and ? Delaware, N. Y., the black bear, even at , this late day, roams and rears its young in a security almost as undisturbed as it ? did a century ago, and finds in the out- ^ lying areas of beech and oak forests as ample supply of food. The hunting and ? trappiug of these animals furnishes both pleasure and profit to many of the back- ^ woods inhabitants, hundreds being cap- e tured every year. Their skins and meat P command ready Bale. The Bkins bring t! from 815 to $25, and the meat sells for 1 twenty cents a pound. The hunter ? realizes from $60 to $80 on a full-grown V bear. The principal bear hunters in the Pike comity region are the Shaffers and ? Quicks. They live in the depths of the j* woods, seventeen miles from this place. Pinchot Swamp, Balsam Swamp, Indian ? Swamp, Maple Swamp, and Hemlock ? Swamp are great bear haunts. Jonas a Shaffer, the youngest member of the ? former family, was at Laekawaxen, Pa., ^ a few days ago after some supplies, and " a New York Sun correspondent gleaned 01 some interesting particulars from him a in regard to bears and their habits. He said T e. "Xex' to a bee tree, a bear likes to run foul of a yaller-jacket or a hornetworkin' P in the woods. He'll prance 'round till ? ho tiuds the hole the yailer bee goes " into, 'r the hornet's nest on a tree 'r J stuck fas' to a rock. Then they'8 tun. " In about three jerks a bear'il turn a yal- ?' ler-jacket's nest wrong side out Two 'r ** three digs witli his paw unkivers't. The little yaller reptiles fight like fury, and ** sometimes kiver the bear till he looks ?' 's if ffe had mustard spread all over him. But the bear shets his eyes an' kind o' 0 grins, an' licks the honey out's clean's yer old woman'd wash a platter. An' r< all the time he smacks his chops an' u don't pay any more 'teution to the bees *1 tli'n u thev was so many straws a-ticklin' ^ of him. I shot a big bear onct which P was goin' through a yaller-jacket's nest 61 over nigh Injin swamp, 'n' killed him 1? dead. If I'd only wooded him, an' he'd tl a showed fight, I'd a tackled him, o" P course. But there he laid dead, and if ^ them little scamps didn't scare me out; sf an* I was 'fraid to go an' skin my dead tl bear 'till they made up their minds to quit an' dig qut. V( " But it's more fun to see a bear git at d: a hornets' nest One o' these 'life's 9^ big's a half bushel sometimes, an' 'r li gen'rly stuck into a rock 'r in a tree mos' hi always o' reach*o' everything. But when tt a bear claps his eye on a hornets' nest re you see a smart critter. If it's on the st rocks, he climbs up till he stands on the p' edge o' the ledge above it Then he kicks big stones 'n pieces o' wood down at it till one hits it, an' off it goes, fol- p< lowed by a million or so o' the maddest hornets't ever got on their ear. Mebbe S you don't know't, but a mad hornet ain't b: a takin' a back seat for anything that c< prowls the woods. When one o' their rc nests is kerflummixed like this, they fi seemed to know who done it, an' thev p; wait for the bear to come on. He ain t fa long a comin'. Then the hornets go for ei him ; but he don't care. Sometimes tl he'll get up on his hind legs and square cl off at the hornet's with his paws an' tl strike out as if he were boxin'. All the tl time they's a goin' on his face, and he w keeps his eyes shet. Often ho'll lay A down an' roll on the nest, 's if he wanted tc to tease the hornets more ; an* I seen a a] big she bear onct take up a nest she had A stoned down, put it under one o' her yj \ arms, and prance off with R's if't was a n good joke on the hornets. One mad b< hornet I guess could kill the biggest ox -w 't ever stood, but a hull nest of 'em never t( raised a lump's big's a buckshot on a c< I bear. When a hornets' nest's in a tree, y an' the bear can't reach it with his paws p 'r a long stick, he'll git up on the nmD ic and danco on it till the nest comes down, ec " But bee trees is the faveryte prov- ir ender of a bear. The best bee hunter w 't ever burnt honey can't line a bee tree h: any certainer than a bear, 'n when a bear si gits scent o' one he don't give't up till aj he finds it. Then up the tree he goes, t< givin* 't a whack ev'ry now an' then to find out where the holler place is. When at he comes to it he cuts a hole with his tl sharp claws' an' 'taint long 'fore he's a T lunchin' on wild honey. # p: According to Jonas Shaffer a bear will al often lead the hunters a chase of twenty | ai miles through the swamps, and they i tl have been known to keep on for fifty ! p( milac Uafnya liainrr Krnnflrlit f/* ! Ui OiA VJ Ikl uoo ISUAVSAW uviug UAVuguv ?v j yji bay. c< Jonas explained the manner in which tl bears are trapped. Ed. Quick is the ei mo3t successfitl bear trapper in the State, is He builds a pen where he finds signs of ai bear, closed on three sides, and in it T places his traps. These traps are like a in steel rat trap, only many times larger, y< the jaws being armed with long, sharp j teeth. When the trapper sets it he | covers it up with moss, except on the j m broad pan. Meat or honey is placed in ; the pen, in snch position that to get at 0) it the bear must step with one of his feet on the pan of the trap. Instantly it is sprung, and the ponderous jaws come together, the teeth sinking deep into the bones and flesh of the poor animal. To the trap a strong chain is attached. A j good-sized tree i.3 felled ; the branches ' are cut off to within a foot or so-of the I trunk, leaving that much of them pro- j jecting. To this tree the bther end of j the chain is fastened. When the bear I finds himself in the trap, he starts off with it, dragging the fallen tree with him. The stubs of the several branches plow into the ground, and so harass the progress of the bear that he soon exhausts himself >aud becomes an easy prey to *he trapper when he makes his ., rounds. Frequently the bear will work I at his paw or leg until he severs it, leav- a5 ing his foot in the trap and escaping on 8< three legs. Now and then it happens m that these crippled b -ars are caught C] atjain in some trap. Onlv last winter P Ed. Quick caught one with but three feet. It was a ponderous one, and required the skill of three men to conquer it. Jj " Onct Ed went to one o; his traps," said Shaffer, "over nigh Balsam swamp. ? It was gone. Ed tracked it 'bout a mile. f( when it went up a tree. Fifty feet up ~ was a big crotch. From one side o' tliis ? hung the big saplin' the trap'd been j ? chained to. On t'other side dangled the | trap, with the paw of a bear in it. You , kin 'mngine th' animal must 'a been an I old settler t' climb fifty feet up that tree n an' drag a trap an' a log weighin' mebbe v two hundred pounds along with him. : j That bear know'd what he was doin' : r they ain't no doubt. He d'liber'tly clim ; ^ that tree, got the chain all right in the c crotch, an' then throwed hisself down, ^ knowin' his weight'd break hisself loose ^ from the trap. They'm cunnin' cusses, ; fl these bears is. Mos' gener'ly it takes j ^ the tuck out 'n 'em, though, to git a ketched in a trap. They seem to feel i j, shamed o' theirselfs, and shets their j j! eyes when you look at 'em, and turn i ^ 'way their heads's if they felt ter'ble ' v sneakin'.*' L Shaffer says that the prevalent idea ; c that a bear is not possessed of speed is j j. a. mistaken one. " No one wants to j a eoiae Jooim' round tnese wooas aicer T bear, thinkin' 't they can't run," be says. j. '' A bear that wants to kin kiver more 8 gronnd in a short space o' time th'n c you've any idee of. 'Taint likely't one 'il ever chase you, but if one should, i don't try to outrun him. He kin put j music in them four thick legs o' his'n 'n j you don't want to forgit't!" I f I A Boy's Composition on Columbus. ! Ho was born when he was very young j in a little town oalled Genoa, on a little I gulf of the same name in the Mediter- | ranean Sea. I suppose he was like j most all boys ; he had hoops, marbles and tops, went to school, got whipped, and was terrible huagry about dinner time, and liked to go to Sunday- T bchool when it was most Christmas < time: then maybe he felt bad when 18 he didn't got anything on the tree. I j guess when he got big he wanted to go ! tov the Black TTWfi or to Arizona, if 8 Homebody would give "him money , for he ? had none of his own. I think all boys J would like to be like Columbus, but I J don't think there are any more countries j to 'iisoover. mm a Franklin says, "A poor man must j work to find meat for his stomach, a a rioh one to find etomaoh for meat." e k? ?ARM, GARDEN AM) HOUSEHOLD. New England Farming. The farmer should remember one fact: hat even if a fortune cannot be made in ; single year cultivating an average area if five acres to a farm in grain and potaoes, yet his is the only business that nrnishes nearly all the necessaries and omforts of life free of cash cost, and be safest occupation, since less than ive per cent, of the total of insolvent lorKnrtR nr? farmers. T trivo in illnBtra ration a Boston book-keeper who, on a early salary of $1,200, had by great conomy and self-denial saved up $100 >er year; realizing the risk he run of jsing his health, situation, and savings I he remained a clerk, he purchased a mall farm and moved on to it. Chargig himself with all that he and his imily consumed from the same during year at the same rates that he had jrmerly been obliged to pay in Boston, 3 his great surprise he found at the end f the year that he had consumed 1,600 worth, besides having sold quite n amount of farm products. With nch a result he had no desire to return 3 his SI,200 position, depriving his imily and himself of such health and omforts as their city life had never {forded. That the farms of New England, avraging 103 acres each, are too large, or lat insufficient capital or energy is emloyed, is self-evident from the fact that uly five acres each are under cultivaonrac acti'rt rrmaa ith thirty-one acres in woodland. The irms of EngTand average forty-one acres ich ; France has 5,000,000 farms less lan six acres each ; Prussia has 1,099,50 less than four acres ; the less area a trraer cultivates the more care and till he exhibits, and few farmers prouce in proportion to the acres they wn. As a larger number of the discouraged jsidents of onr cities make up their Linds to go back to mother earth, -where ley started from, for support, subivision of these large farms will take lace, and the rural districts will be aabled to support a much larger popuition, and to increase the produots of le soil, and thereby' add to the proserity of this section of the oountry. 'o occupation to-day presents a surer, eadier, or more remunerative prospect lan agriculture, and if farmers will only jalize that many of them are not cultiiting as many acres even as their fathers id, notwithstanding the improved tools id implements for hastening and reeving farm labor?if such will take otd with renewed zeal and pride in leir calling, New England can make ipid strides toward making herself self- | ipporting in reference to her food suply.?The Cultivator. < The Crop of Potatoes. Many farmers have large crops of otatoes that cannot be sold readily, ow, what is it best to do with them ? hall they be sold for what they will ring, or is it best to put them in the illars ? Or in the aosence of oellar>om, is it best to cover them in the eld ? When they can be sold at a fair rofit, my advice is to sell them in the til; but if they cannot be thus sold, ther store them in your cellar or bury iAm in the field, and trust to vour lances to be able to sell them dunng le winter around home, or to forward lem to a market early in the spring, here there is transportation by water in priL Canals are of little benefit to pota>es growers except in the fall, as they re not open early enough in the spring, great many potatoes can be sold in illages and large towns during the lild weather, and they must be sold efore they sprout much, Potatoes are orth twenty-five cents a bushel to feed ) Btock? raw to cows and horses and >oked with meal for swine. To buy potatoes in the field, select a lace a little elevated and dig down as >w as you can drain the excavation. It lav be two feet, one foot, or but a few icnes, according to the drain that ill command it. Suppose that you ave 200 or 300 bushels to bury, the bed lould be made about eight feet wide ad as long as necessary, with the pota>es fpur or five feet deep in the center. Phen all are in position take long rye :raw and set it against the two sides of le heap thick enough to shed rain. I hen throw earth againBt the sideB of the I Lie six or eight inches thick, but none the toD where the straw meets, as an ! x hole must be left open here till about le time when the ground may be exacted to freeze, when a thick covering : earth all over must be applied. In >ld climates, as in the Northern States, lis covering should be from fifteen to ghteen inches thick ; and if the straw well applied, the potatoes will stand ay weather that may be expected, his system is better than to put them to deep pits, as was the custom fifty jars ago.?T. B. Miner. A Valnable Tnble for Farmers. The following table contains the imb#r of pounds in a bushel of the frerent articles named: ' Bran 12 lbs. Blue grass 14 " Shorts 18 " Dried apples 25 " Oats 32 " Dried peaches 33 " Homp seed 44 " Timothy seed 45 " Castor beans 46 " Barley 48 " Flax seed 56 " Bye 56 " Shelled corn 56 " Onions 57 " Wheat 60 " Clover seed 60 " Mineral coal 70 " Salt 75 " Corn on cob .' 75 " Cleaning the Hen-honae. If the careful poulterer will look to le under portions of liis perches, and s faithfully apply the saturated kerome brush to this part of the premises i he does to the top and 6idea and ."evices, once in a while, he will find it rofitable for the removal of vermin. Lice brood and breed and live under le roosts in great numbers. In the duy me they are thus partially secreted. In le night, wben the fowls settle down to leir rooBts, these millions of parasites rawl up, and nestle themselves comjrtably among the bird's soft feathers -where they subsequently stick to their ew warm quarters until they are c&rolated or sulphured out again. Anchoring a Horse. They tell a good story on an old marier who keeps a little hotel down here, :rifxka a nnrroonr>n rl or? f frnm P.nnAr aland, New York's celebrated Beaside esort. His wife was very anxious to iare a horse, an animal in which the old ;entleman took but little stock, and the Id lady finally won her point and got ler horse. The steed was of an erratic ud playful disposition, and used, on he least provocation, to tear madly long the beach, and succeeded in spiling the old lady out several times. At ast the captain, who had never driven the >east, volunteered to break him of his icious habit, so getting another old salt 0 assist him, he procured a kedge anhor with a stout line attached. FastenDg the end of the line around the ,xle, and putting the anchor in the r ago n, the fiery, untamed was litched up, and the two old gents tart-ed out for a drive along the shore, loon the vivacious charger espied some-, hing which gave him au excuse to ran ,way, and immediately dashed off with rightful velocity. The captain dropped he reins and summoned all hands to 1 let go the anchor." The anchor was at go and caught firmly in the sand, ["he unsuspecting auadruped pranced oyonsly along nntil he got to the eDd of ho rope, and then he paused?paused o suddenly that the wagon was demolshed, and the two old gentlemen shot ip into the air like a couple of skyooketfl, coming down in a fearfully diapidated oondition. The oaptain afterward said that he knew it would break he horse, but he didn't suppose it was ;oing to oreaK nun. n The secretary of the interior hap given k decision that when a homestead claimUit'B land has become valueless for farm ug purposes by reason of overflow tr >ackwater of a river, he will be allowed o make another entry, with credit for ees and commissions. In the event of k new homestead entry, he will be compelled to ehow compliance with the law, 8 though he had made no previous ntry. ! HAKGED II? THE BLACK HILLS. The Justice that Was Dealt Ont to a Desperado?Lively Times In a Mining Camp. A letter dated Camp Ohio, Black Hills, has this : Thomas Y. Shoals, who has friends at Green Bay, Wis., and who has been in Nevada himself for some years past, entered our town about ten days ago. He was a whisky-drinking, trouble-making rough. He brought several gambling devices with him to " wax " our hard-working people out of their "dust," and he hadn't been in camp more than two days when most of his bad points came out. At the end of five days he was ordered to leave, but he boldly refused to obey tha warning. Thereupon, on the morning ot the sixth day, he was waited upon bv ten revolvers, backed by ten men, and was notified that fifteen minutes, city hall time, would be given him to get beyond shooting distance. He got. No one cared what became of him or whither he went, and as he passed from si?ht no one expected to Bee him again. According to rule, we confiscated all his personal property except a mule, and mule and man went away together. Somewhere outside of camp, Shoals fell in with some Texans who were "on the make," and aa ugly as himself, and the gang entered our camp, armed to the teeth, two days after Shoals left it. The four lambs came in on a gallop, whooping and yelling, and as they halted on the public square Shoals sang out: "Trot out my goods, you white-livered dust diggers, or we'll cut every throat in camp." That meant us, you see. Some were digging, some washing, ana some un- \ derground, and while we were waking up I to the situation, on* of the Texans put in: " Hurry up, now, for it's all we kin do to hold on to the triggers of these shooters!" And another yelled: "Somebody hold me, for I'm the worst catamount this side of Mexico !" Our old boss didn't like their style for one. He was fitting a new handle to a pick, and was at the door of shanty No. 3 when, they rode up. Reaching into the house for his two revolvers, h? rose up and walked out upon the gang as the rest of us were making a rush for our shooters. "There's the old chap?kill him," yelled Shoals, and the four at once began firing. It was a case of the Lord being on the side of the upright and innocent. They all had got a shot in before the old man got ready for business. He put his first bullet between one of the Texan's two eyes, hiB sucond into another's shoulder, and by that time we were all pegging away. How on ea, *h fifty or sixty bullets could be fired at close range, and only one man killed and another wounded is a conundrum for ; mathematicians. The dead man fell in a heap, Shoals was dismounted, and j the other two got out of camp under , cover of the smoke, one of them oertainly i hit in the shoulder. We pursued them on foot for half a mile, and the wounded ' one had hard work to keep his saddle. Nt?t a miner had been hurt, but nearly a dozen of them had bullet holes ; through hats and clothing, and a camp ( kettle was struck no less than four times. ] After dinner the men gathered, and RVinftlR was nnt, on trial. It had been I necessaiy to bind him hand and foot, ] and when he was brought out and laid on the grass his fury rose to the highest pitch. He cursed everybody and everything, and uttered threats that made > some of the men grow pale. When ' asked if he did not know the penalty 1 attached to such conduct as his, he cried | out: "I'll dare you to harm one hair of ] my head! You are a set of cowards?a ] pack of coyotes-^-a gang of white-faced : babies!" ' It was our busy day, and we couldn't ( fool away any time. A noosed rope was thrown over a limb,the free end manned, ( and when the noose had been passed j over the fellow's head he was asked if he wanted to leave any message for his 1 friends. f 441 want to tell you this," he hissed, 1 as his snakish ey68 looked from face to ! face, 44if you hang me my friends ; will dig the heart out of every one of the j crowd !" i He might have gone off decently and 1 perhaps added something original to the 1 literature of last words, but he refused the chance. His feet were untied and he was lifted up. There wasn't a minute 1 between him and eternity, but yet he kicked right and left like a twin mule, 1 and was cursing when pulled off his- feet. A Good Place to "Prospect." ?i n xne IOUOWlUg uumuiuuo muucui U1 a miner's life comes to the " Drawer " of Harper'e Magazine from " Mining District No. 2," California: One day a ragged, lazy-looking fellow came shuffling up to the store, and drawled out: " Well, boys, kin yer tell a feller whar there's a good place to prospect for gold ?" The boys laughed, thinking he would be more useful to himself around a free lunch table than as a miner. At length one of the crowd said to him: '' See here, my friend, there's Dr. Mason, superintendent of the R Mine; you'd better ask kim." Now a mining sxiperintendent is quite a high position in a mining district, and his opinion is eagerly Bought for. "Which is the superintendent?" asked the new-comer. " That's the man, dressed in black with the dark brown curly hair," was ?? i- T\_ >r ine answer, pumiiu^ \aj ?jl. m., nuw, though young, is a thorough mineralogist and chemist, and also a practical joker. "Thank you, stranger/' replied the fellow, as he made for the doctor, to whom hesaid: "Are you th? superintendent of the R Mine?" "Yes." "Well, could yer tell a feller where to find a good place to prospect ?" Mason looked at him a moment, and, taking in the slow tired movement of the man, said, with a twinkle in his eye: " You look like a lively, industrious man. Do you see that oak-tree on the hill-side ?" "Yes, sir.' "Well, under that tree would be a good place to prospect; besides, its nice and shady, and you can lifl down and rest when fatigued." The fellow procured a pick and shovel, and went to work under the tree. The miners, passing by, ridiculed him; but, nothing daunted, he went on with his little dig. He J'guessed the superin tendent knew what he was about." At the end of the week our miner had taken out fifteen hundred dollars' worth of gold. The doctor does not tell people where to prospect now. He says that the last man he showed where to prospect got so rich that he committed suicide, not knowing what to do with his money. Snoring* Dr. John Wyeth is entitled to the gratitude of all 'who are afflicted with the habit of snoring for the simple device he has contrived to counteract the tendency. The apparatus is described by him in the Popular Science Monthly, and an explanation is at the same time given of i the cause of snoring. In the act of breathing, the air may travel to and from the lungs through the channels of the mouth or nose. Both channels unite in a oommon cavity just below the soft palate, which is attached by one end to the hard palate or bone forming the roof of the mouth and the floor of the nose. The othet end of the soft palate hangs loose, and is moved by the currents of air passing in and out of the lungs as a window-curtain is flapped by the breeze. tf f.Vio nir n?R?rw thronorh the nose alone. 1 the end of the palate is pressed gently | down npon the tongue so as to lessen the movement or vibration, and no sound is heard. But if the mouth as well as the nose be open, so that two ourrente of air pass in and out together during the act of breathing, the soft palate is thrown into rapid and sonorouB vibration, and what we call snoring is the result It follows that the remedy for snoring is to keep the month shut, and admit the air to the lungs only through the channel of the nose. This can be affected by means of a simple cap fitting the head snugly, and united by an elastio band, near the ear on each side to a cap of soft material fitting th? chin. NEWS SUMMARY, j Eastern and Middle States. Ex-Congressman Sobieaki Rohb committed ? suicide by shooting himself at his residence in 1' Condersport, Pa. He had been in ill health for * some time. ^ The National Liberal League met in convention at Rochester, N. Y. F. E. Abbott, of Bos- p ton, was elected president. Among the forty vice-president* elected were many prominent ? men from all parts of the country. A platform ? was adopted advocating a total separation of Church and State, national protection for d national citizens, and universal education on h the basis of universal suffrage. The New Jersey Presbyterian synod oon- h eluded its labors after a five days' session at w Newark. Y The Philadelphia grand jury found a true bill of indictment against John 8. Morton, the defaulting president of the West Philadelphia passenger railway, and also against the secretary and treasurer of the company. The bill charges them with conspiring to defraud tbe company out of $200,000, ana another bill ac- b; CU868 them of embezzling 5200,000, the prop- gi orty of the company. Morton waa taken into custody. a< According to a despatch from New Bedford, ?vf Mass., late arrival from the Arotic regions announee that the whaling vessels Three Brothers J" and W. A. Farnsworth have been lost in the tc ice, and the whaling fleet appears to h&vo had ni unusual trouble in battling for safety. ^ Investigation developed the fact that there was a deficit of $80,000 in the acoounts of the jn savings bank at Brockton, Mass., which had ^ been enjoined from doing further business, and ^ that the loss of this amount was due to the M operations of the late treasurer, Edward Bouth- vj u oknrif ai'orhf months a.co. "uw wtwu w*0"* ?? o" Jii Benjamin F. Muzzey, a pistol maker, was bf fatally injured at Norwich Falls. Conn., by being stnick Hix limes with a base ball clnb in ee the hands of Louisa A. Bowen, a girl of about twenty years, who discovered him in her room di and took him for a burglar. fil Edwin Adams, the w6ll-known actor, died of ^ consumption at Philadelphia. " The cooper shops and keg factory of B. D Moore at Pittsburg, Penn., were totally de stroyed by fire. Loss, $30,000 ; no insurance. A few minutes later a fire broke out on Cliff Btrect, in a stable, which was destroyed, and this was followed in about twenty minuteB by , the discovery of flameB in Clancy's cooper ^ shop, which was also completely destroyed. The fires were all incendiary, and It is thought ^ there was an organized attempt made to burn ^ the city. el William Lloyd Garrison has written a letter oc to Judge Pitman, of Massachusetts, in which he denounces the President's Southern policy. r? The steamship Idaho arrived in New York zf with 137 Mormon converts. U At Bed Bank. N. J., a nepro was arrested for disorderly conduct, and while being marched cc to the lcck-up he suddenly turned upon the c? officer and shot him down with a revolver. He Pi then emptied his pistol into the surrounding m crowd, wounding two other men, one of them D fatally, and fled. Mr. Moody will hold a series of revivals in Providence, R. I., dming December. The first business session of the fourth an- ?! nual congress of the Protestant Episcopal church in the United States was held in New " York, the ODening address being delivered by Bishop Odell, of Ohio. Three students of Rutgers College. New Brunswick, N. J., were arrested and locked up over je night for tearing up and setting fire to pl&nk walkB belonging to the college. ju A Urge mass meeting was held by the striking cigar makers of New York?male and fe- bj malo?and it was resolved to hold out until the b< employers acceeded to their demands. in The marriage of President Eliot, of Harvard College, and Miss Grace Hopkinson, took place 01 it Cambridge, Mass. ej At a meeting of the board of directors of the ^ Pennsylvania railroad, held in Philadelphia, it ge was resolved not to pay any quarterly divi- m dend at present ii. >rder to make up for the u losses of the Pittsburg riots. 0j P. F. Lynch and wife were injured so se- cc verely by the explosion of a kerosene lamp at their residence in Wilkesbarre, Pa., that Mrs. cc Lijucn aiea on uio louowiug uajr. "Western and Southern States. ?' 81 The Women's Christian Temperanoe Union, n( in session at Chicago, Belected Baltimore as .the place and October, 1878, as the time for the next ^ meeting. v m An unknown person entered the honue of E. S. McYey, toll-gate keeper six miles from Chil- & licothe, Ohio, and shot McVey through the oi heart, and his wife through the head, killing both instantly. The murderer, afier ransack- ai ing the house for plunder, set fire to it and-es- " :aped. > ' j The failure of the Chicago Savings Institu- P' tion and Trust Company is announced. The death of General Forrest, the well-known Confederate cavalry officer, took place at Mem- ^ phiB, Tenn. jj A special train took President Hayes and m members of the cabinet to R.chmoud, Va., on in in excursion to the State fair. Thov were wel- pi somed in a speech by Judge Meredith, acting th mayor, to which the President responded, and 81 addresses were also delivered by Messrs. bi EvartB, Sherman, Thompson and Devens. A M procession followed, consisting of all the white m aud colored organizations of the city, the fire ti department, the city authorities and guests, tt and hundreds in carriages, and thousands on si foot. The pageant was witnessed by 60,000 th people. In the evening the President held a in popular reception in the parlors of the Ex- m change hotel. ai A passenger train in Utah, consisting of sev- " eral cars, was thrown from the track and turned w completely over by a gust of wind, and a num- ? ber of persons were injured more or less dan- ty gerously. The public school building at Chariton, Iowa, was burned. Loss, $25,000 ; insurance, $10, o??. A meeting of the American Association of r Short-horn Breeders ^was held in Lexiugton, ~ Ky., and delegates from oil parts of the coun- ti try were present c* President Hayes and party visitec! the Vir- a< ginia State fair at Richmond, and were welcorned by Governor Kemper. In the evening _ the President held a State reception at the governor's residence. 8< From "Washington. Secretary Sherman, at a Cabinet meeting, stated that the government expenses were run- " ning behind the receipts, and that this decreaso in income demanded the most rigid economy in "j ordinary expenditures. The annual report of the commissioner of patents htares mat me nnmoer 01 patents applied for from October 1, 1876, to October 1, 1877, waB 18,629; trade marks registered, 1,324: labels registered, 579. The number of patents allowed, but not issued on account of failure to pay the final fee, was 4.271; patents issued, 14,242; trado marks and labels, 1,517. This shows a decline of about 1,000 in the number of patents issued aB compared with the previous year. No radical change in the United States patent system is contemplated at present. It is said that an effort will be made this winter to induce Congress to abolish the office of pension agent and provide for the payment of pensions by checks directly from the United States treasury. A bill recently introduced in the 8enate by Mr. Howe provides that no cattle, sheep, swine or other animals shall be confined in any railroad car, boat or vessel for a longer period than twenty-four consecutive hours, without unloading the same for rest, food and water for a period of at least seven consecutive hours, unless prevented by accident. The present law allows them to be confined twenty-eight consecutive hours, and provides for five hours reut only. The President haB nominated Edwin W. \ Stoughton, of New York, to be our minister to Russia : Theodore Roosevelt, collector of customs ; JEdwin A. Merritt surveyor, and L. B. n Prinp? naval nffirrw for tne nort of New York: IV and James Lewis to bo naval officer at New n Orleans. ^ The following are the chairmen of the more a important committees as announced by Speaker Randall: On elections, Mr. Harris, Va.; ways j"' and means, Mr. Wood, N. Y.; appropriations, 1] Mr. Atkins, Tenn.; Pacific railroad, Mr. Potter, b N. Y.; claims, Mr. Bright, Tenn.; commerce, w Mr. Reagan, Tex.; public lands, Mr. Morrison, a 111.;post offices and post roads, Mr. Waddell, N. C.; District of Columbia, Mr. Williams. ?; Mich.; judiciary, Mr. Kno.t Ky.; war claims, ci Mr. Eden, 111.; public expenditures, Mr. j< Hatcher, Mo. ; private land claims, Mr. b G anther, Ark. In the event of Senator Morton's death, it is ? believed he will be succeeded by the Hon. Dan- j. iel W. Voorhies. " John Welsh, of Philadelphia?chairman of ? the Centennial board of finance and a promi- anent business man?has been nominated by the Cj President as United States minister to England, ci There were 840 bills introduced in the House o: on the first "Bill Day" of the session, and it fj took twenty-nine pages of the Congressional . Record to print their bare titles. Sixteen ?f * them were for remonotizing the old silver dol- ft lar, and wore introduced by Messrs. Cox. of t] New York; Banning, Ewing and Jones, of t] Ohio; Bright, of Tennessee; Hunter and Baker, of Indiana; 8parks, Harrison, Knapp l TIUmaIb . "Rlonr? nf Aftaannrf f!nf. ttUU X' Ui I, \JL AiUUViO , w* , hereon, of Texas; Cummings and Oliver, of " Iowa, and Pholps, of Kansas. Bills for the re- tl peal or modification of the resumption act were fi introduced by Messrs. Kelley, of Pennsylvania; 0 Southard and Ewing, of Ohio; Durham, of -r Kentucky ; Atkins and Bright of Tennessee ; " Fowler, of Indiana; Sparks, Harrison, Knapp and Cannon, of Illinois ; Franklin, of Missouri, and Culberson, of Texas. Bills authorizing the reissue of the greenbacks already retired under , the provisions of the resumption act, were ? submitted by Messrs. Hunter, of Indiana, and 8 Culberson, of Texas. Bills authorizing the g payment of duties in greenbacks were presented 0 oy MessrB. Walker, of Virginia; Riddle, of 11 Tennessee, and Sparks, Springer and Hartzcll, of Illinois. ^ Hon- Clarkson N. Potter has resigned the House chairmanship of the Pacific railroads t] oommittse. fi Foreign News. I Turkey is trying to ootain a loan ot swo,uw,- a 000. 1, A number of American masons in London v telegsaphed home that a strike existed there, ; and that no more masons should be sent oyer. * It has been ascertained that 350 persons perished by the explosion of fire-damp in a oolMery 0 at High Blantyre, Scotland. a After debate in the Prussian Diet a propo- a sition for a vote of oenxurs of the government 8 I rae rejected. The proposed oensure was in reard to neglect of internal reforms and inmxfcient responsibility of ministers. A terrible hurricane swept over the liand of !oraooa, in the Dutch West Indies, causing; a irge loss of life and destruction of property, mounting to over 12,000,000. 8olifl struoures were swept away by tho mountainous 'ayes, and the wealthiest people were made anperp in an instant Exhibition Hall and other buildings in St. ohn, N. B., were destroyed by fire. Loss, 30,000 ; no insurance. General Grant had an interview with Presilf<t?lf>Unn ?n D?Ma An/1 m VitTinr Af m Viia DUb OlOVlUlkUVU Ul ifUlD. BUV4 n UlkU^UUW iU uto oner was given by the United States minister. A visit was paid by General Grant to the exibition building in Paris, and to the works here the statue of Liberty, intended for New ork harbor, is being constructed. CONGRESS?EXTRA SESSION. / Senate. Mr. Paddock introduced a bill to give Neraska an additional representative in Confess. Mr. Matthews introduced a bill to amend the ;t of June 22, 1874, supplemental to the act to itablish a uniform system of bankruptcy iroughout the United States. It amends the nth section of the bankruptcy law so as > provide that in all cases of bankruptcy ) discharge shall be granted to a debtor whose itate shall not pay a dividend of at least renty-five per cent, on the claims proved and lowed against his estate, without tne consent writing of at least one-third of such credirs in number, and representing one-third of le value of such indebtedness. It further nends the tenth section of the act so as to reve the act of March 3, 1867, so as to allow Biz onths to flip a petition for an adjudication of Lnkruptcy. A bill was introduced by Mr. Saunders to itablish the Territory of Lincoln. Mr. Ingallii introduced a bill to change the ite of the flrBt regular mooting of the Jtforty:th Congress from the firHt Monday in Decem>r, 1877, to the first Monday in November, 177. j' A bill was introduced by Mr. Hereford, proding for the coinage of silver dollars and for aking the same a legal tender except where lyment of gold is expressly required by law. . Mr. 8argent presented a petition of printers id bookbinders in the government printing See, asking that their wages be restored to i the rates existing prior to March 4,1877. On motion of Mr. Edmunds it was ordered tat the select committees on the law relating i ascertaining and declaring the result of the ection of President and Vice-President be imposed of nine Senators instead of seven. Mr. Burnside introduced a bill to remove all istrictions on the enlistment of colored citi )ds in any arm of the military service of the nited States. The following gentlemen were appointed a immittee on jiuvEdmund'B resolution to as-' irtain and declare the result of elections for resident and Vice-President : Messrs. Edunds, Conkling, Howe, McMillan, Teller, avis, Bayard, Wurman and Morgan. Houae of Representatives^ Bills ifere introduced and referred: By Mr. Joyce, repealing the act establishing universal system of bankruptcy. Also estabihing a commission on the subject of the juor traffic. By Mr. Butler, repealing the sections of the vised statutes embodying the tenure of civil Bee act By Mr. Eames, reducing the postage on tters. By Mr. Phelps, repealing the tax on deposits saVings institutions. By Mr. Willis, to restore the national credit r funding the non-interest-bearing debt into >nds bearing four per cent interest, payable forty years. By Mr. Hewett, providing for the acceptance ' the invitation to be represented at the Paris :posi< ion and for the appointment of a general immiasioner and of fifteen commissioners? ght of; whom are to be skilled artizans and rren scientific experts?and authorizing the t&:bf one or more public vessels to tranaport tide* of exhibition to and from France free 1 cost. The bill also appropriates $160,000, to >v#r expenses. By Mr. Cox, to repeal the act authorizing the liftage of silver twenty-cent pieces. By Mr. Cobb, for the withdrawal of the itional bank currency and the issuing of 500,000,000 of non-interest-bearing treasury )t?8 and making them a legal tender. By Tipton, providing for a national savgs bank as a branch of the post-office departent * By Mr.' Cannon, for the admission of Utah as 1 State ; and by Mr. Kidder, for the admission ' Dakota as a State. Mr. Ewing, from tho committee on banking id currency, reported the following bill: That the third section of the act entitled Ln act to provide for the resumption of specie lyments, approved January 14. 1875,' be and le same is hereby repealed." [The section to ) repealed provides, among other things, for ie redemption in coin of United States legal ( nder notes on and after January 1. 1879.] ? r. Fort,' representing the minority of the comittee, asked leave to present an amendment the nature of a substitute repealing all that irt of the resumption act which authorizes ie secretary of the treasury to sell United tates bonds and cancel treasury notes. The a was recommitted wiinom a amnion, uiu r. Ewing moved to reconsider the vote recomending the bill. Mr. Conger moved to lay le motion to reconsider on the t&ble, and ou lis the yeas and nays were ordered and reilted in yeas, 116 ; navs, 138. The result of le vote is to leave the control of the bill , the hands of the banking aud currency c6mittee. or of Mr. Ewing, who reported it, ad who can at any time call up Jiis motion to iconsider and thus have action on the bill. It ill be in his power to cut off all amendments -even that proposed by Mr. Fort of Illinois? 7 moving tne previous question. An Expeditious Poet. At a social partv in Virginia City, ev., says the Gold Hill News, 8am avis bet an oyster supper with one of le gentlemen that Capt. Jack Crawford Duld, in less than four minutes, write jrostics on the first names of any four dies in the room. The four names ere selected and handed to the poet jout, and in twelve minutes and nine i/vmilq t.V>? fnllnwinc nrodnctions were a i niahed steemed and most bewitching littlo creature Truth and honesty I see in every trace ; Hs sweet to watch the sunshine in each feature And say, may heaven bless your pretty face Louise, I scarce know what to say, Or how to write fair girl of you ; Unknown by me until to-day, I'm sure I can't tell what to do, So strange we meet, bo strange we part, 'E'en as heart oft speaks to hArt Rose, sweet Rose ! Fairest of your sex! Oh, how sparkle those blue eyes of thine 8weet your face, without one care to vex ; Esteemed by all the good and most divine. Henrietta,fair, bewitching! Ever bright be thy sweet faoe Never may thy life be clouded, Radiant beams life's pathway trace. In the future may with gladneaa Ever be thy prospects bright, Till the traces of all sadness Turn and leave yonr heart to-night? Anxious, waiting heart, good-night. Woman Fatally Stricken in Church, A startling tragedy occured one afteroon recently in the Jackson square [ethodist Episcopal church of Baltilore, while a number of the members ere holding an experience meeting. .11 present were deeply engaged in their jligipus devotions, which were siidden1 interrupted with painful suddennesB y the death of Mrs. Martha S. Sheffer, ho was strioken down by heart disease, he-had just been relating her religious rperienoe, her manner during the reital evincing a deep interest in the sublet. After concluding she took a seat, ut saying to a friend near by that she sit very ill, rose to go to the door, the ale countenance attracting the attenon of many present. She had but proBeded a few steps when she tottered ad fell, striking the floor heavily, lUBing great .excitement among the rowd of worshipers." Several i ushed at ce to her assistance, and raising her :om the floor, carried her into an ad)ining room. Here she -was placed upon settee, surrounded by anxious friends, loroughly alarmed by the condition of le unfortunate lady. Dr. Cathell was immediately sent for ut arrived too late to save her life, eath ensuing in a few moments after le attack. Mrs. Sheffer was a widow jrty-six years old, and lived with her nly child', a married daughter, at 110 ackson-square avenue. A. Bog Returning Good for Evil. ? -a j A strange aotme wuuncu uuc uwu ay at Sierok on the Moselle. Herr ichmidt had a dog which he wished to et rid of. Rowing out into the middle f the river, fastened a stone round be dog's head and threw him into the 1 rater. The animAi Bank at once ; bnt tiring his straggles the rope slipped oft be stone, and ne again rose to tne surice and tried to get back into the boat. Us master, however, continued to push in baak, bnt as the dog persevered, he hid patience, and striking at nim rith his oar, lost his footing and fell ato me water nimsen. ne wbb unauio o Bwim, but the dog seizing him by his oat, succeeded in bringing him to land, fter having been repeatedly washed way by the current The dog's life -was pared, wa are happy to say. THANKSGIVING PROCLAMATION. Washington, D. 0., Oct. 38,1877. By (he President of Oie United Slate* of America: PBOCLAXLTION. The completed circle of summer and winter seed time and harvest has brought us to the accustomed season at which a religious people celebrates with praise and thanksgiving the enduring mercy of Almighty God. This devout nn/1 nntiliA AAMfouaiAn ft# tha Aftn ?* auu puuuo wuicnoiuu \ja MIU wuomuw uopuuuence of man upon the Divine Father for all good gifts of life and health and peace and happiness, bo early in oar hlBtory made the habit of our people, finds In survey of the past year new grounds for its joyful and grateful . manifestation. In all blessings which 'depend upon benignant seasons, this has, indeed, been a memorable year. Over the wide territory of our country, with all its diversity of soil and olijpite ana products, the earth has yielded a bountiful return to the labor of the husbandman. The health of the people has been blighted by no prevalent or widespread diseases. No great disasters of shipwreck upon our coasts of to our commerce on the seas nave brought loss and hardships to merchants or marinerBand clouded the happiness of the community with sympathetic sorrow. In all that concerns our strength and peace and greatness as a nation; in all that touches the permanence and security of our government and the beneficent institutions on. which it Vents; in all that affects the character aud dispositions of our people and testa oar capacity to enjoy and uphold the equal and free condition of society now permanent and ttniversal throughout the land, the experience or tho last year is conspicuously marked by the protecting prbvidence of God, and is full of promise and hope for the coming generations. Under a sense of these infinite obligations to the Oreat Ruler of times and seasons and events, let ns humbly ascribe it to onr own faults and frailties if in any degree that perfect concord and happiness, peace and justice, which such great mercies should diffuse through the hearts and lives of our people, do not alto* gether and alwavs and everywhe;e prevail. Let us with one spirit and with one voioe lift up praise and thanksgiving to God for His manifold goodness to oar land and His manifold caro for our nation. Now, therefore, I, Rutherford B. Hayee, President of tho United States, do appoint Thursday, the 29th day of November next, as a day of national thanksgiving and prayer, and I earnestly recommend that, withdrawing themselves from secular cares and labors. th? people of the United 8tates do meet together on that day in their respective placeB of worship, there to give thanks and praise to Almighty God for His mercies and to devoutly beseech their continuance. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United Statqp to be affixed. Done at the city of Washington this 29th day of October, in the year of onr Lord o*e thousand eight hundred and seventy-seven and of the independence of the United 8tates the one hunared and second. R. B. Hates. By the President Wm. M. Evabts, Secretary of State. If all Busaia and all Turkey should come to engage in the strife, there would be 87,000,000 Eusaians fighting 43,000,000 Turks. Colwell Lead Company American Standard Shot of superior finish ; also Lead Pipe and Sheet Lead, 63 Centre Street, New York. Sinclair'* "Common Senae" Ctralra and I Rockers. The Interior of New York State contains many manufacturing establishments that in size and quality of work turned out are inferior to none in any part of the country. One of the most noteworthy of such manufactories is the Union Ghair Works of F. A Sinclair, at Mo:tvslle, Onondaga county, New York. This chair factory is one of the largest in the interior of the State, and is devoted to the manufacture of a speciality appropriately called "Common Sense Chairs." Mr. Sinclair is a practical chair maker, and baa had an experience of thirty years in the manufacture of chairs. Having been engaged in the business for so long a period, it is not perhaps to be wondered at that he has Buoceeded in producing a chair of unusual excellence. In the chairs made by him hard wood is used?principally maple and white elm?which is carefully selected, contains no defects and is thoroughly seasoned. In fact everyihing about the chair is made of the best material, by experienced workmen, and under Mr. Sinclair's personal supervision. And such a reputation for superiority of make have they obtftinod that Mr. Sincl&r is compelled to caution buyers to see that his name is etamped upon the chair before buying, in order to ttvoid purchasing a counterfeited and inferior article. Yet, with creditable frankness, the does not claim that his chairs are the cheapest in the market, but claims, with emphasis, that thev are the best made. A glance at Mr. Sinclair's illustrated price list Bhows the substantial character of the chairs and rockers made at his factory. The list embraces chairs large and small, from a child's rocker up to a large, substantial-looking rocker called "Everybody's Favorite," which looks as though it would afford "rest for the weary" any number of years. Comfort, convenience and strength seem to be the prevailing characteristics of these chairs, and it is therefore not to be wondered at that they have received strong expressions of approval from the press and public. The Latest Fanlilon for Ladle*. Our attention has recently been called to the Itarilan Mate la* tie Cloakings, something entirely new in the way fit heavy, thick,* warm, woolen goods, specially adapted for ladieB' wear during the cola weather now approaching. These goods arc the handsomest, and most stylish ever seen, and so far as price is concerned, are a miracle of cheapness. They are intended for cloaks, sacques, dolmans, circulars and jackets. for both ladies and children, and are to be round at all the leading dry goods stores in the conntry. Be particular to ask for the Raritan Oloakingt, ana take no other. Vienna Roll*. To one quart of flnur add two teaspoonflful of Dooley's Yeast Powdor. rift thoroughly, put in a little salt,and rub a Ublenpoonfui of lard or butter through the flour; use enough Bweet milk for a soft dough, roll out and cut with a round cutter; fold over like a turn-over, wetting the edges with milk to make them adhere ; wash over with milk to give them a gloss, place in a pan eo they will not touch each other, and bake fifteen or twenty minutes. They are delicious. Wonder Unon Wonder. Given away?a strange, mysterious and most extraordinary book entitled " The Book of Wonders." Containing, with numerous curious Eictorial illustrations, the mysteries of the eavens and earth, natural and supernatural, oddities, whimsical, strauga curiosities, witches and witchcraft, dreams, superstitious, absurdities, fabulous onchantment, etc. In order that all may see this curious book, the publishers have resolved to give it away to all that ' desire to see it. Address by postal card F. Gleason A Co., 738 Waahingron Street, Boston, Maes. Prom N. Plnmmer, M. D., Aabnrn. TV. H. " Although averse to countenancing patent medicines, I cheerfully make an exception of vour very excellent lun? preparation?Dr. Wistar'a Balsam of Wild Cheriy. This prepara- ! T naaA in TnT7 for more than ! ten years past, aud have always found it to j be of more effectual service than anything within my knowledge. I recommend it with the fgreatest confidence to those subject to cougns and pulmonary complaints.'' 50 cts. ana $1 a bottle.. Sold by all druggiats. Premature loss of the hair, which is so common nowadays, may be entirely prevented by the use of Burnett's Cocoaine. It has been used in thousands of cases where the hair was ; coming out in handf uls, and has never failed to ! arrest decay and to promote a healthy and rigorous growth. It is at the same time unrivaled as a dressing for the hair. A single application will render it soft and glossy for Beveral days. The editorial staff of the Christian Union ; Sloratio C. King, publisher, 27 Park Place, e? York), comprises Rev. H?*nry Ward ; Beecher and Rev. Lyman Abbott (editors1, ; C. L. Norton, John Habberton ("author of j ' Helen's Babies," etc.), Rev. L. W. Bacon, ! Mrs. H. W. Beecher. and W. H. Coleman, | Price, $3. Four months, SI. A serial story 1 by Mrs. H. B. Stowe will begiu in November. The ^gaut company from Duff's Broadway Thlfcter, New York city, are playing to a succession of crowded houses in New York Stato and Canada. In the hands of this talented organization the play of Pink Dominoes haB made a decided nit, and is spoken of as a masterly performance. Mr?. (ienrrn.1 Xhermnn, wife of the general of the United States army, i says: "I havo frequently purchased lJuranp'e Rheumatic Remedy for friends suffering with rheumatism, and in every instance it worked like magic." Send for circular to Helphenstine and Bentley, druggists, Washington, D. C. The most complete system of phvsioal culture | is Prof. Laflin's Patent Parlor Row'in < Appsra- i tus. Fifteen styles for young and old. Ilewom- I mended by physicians, clergymen and profes- I sional oarsmen. Price, 810. 81 Union Sq., N. Y I If I had known it, I might have saved a ! hundred dollars : for Jim has bought a Five j Ton Wagon Hcalo of Jones, of Binghamton, Binghamton, N. Y., for' 850, delivered. It is Jnst as good as mine, that cost $150. CHEW The Celeb? atei "MATCm.TtB" Wood Tag Pug Tobacco. Tnx Piokzzb Tobjudoo Comtajts, New York, Boston, and Chioago. Every person interested in the management of honey bees for profit, shfnld send for illustrated circular to L. 0. Root, Hohawk, N. Y. I Never Felt Better. Such is the verdict after taking a doee of Quirk'* Iriah Tea. Sold in packages at 36 ots. Salutary Stimulation. When vital action ia doggish, a stimulant, provided it b? pure and properly medicated, I la the moat reliable agent for imparting the I neoessary impetus to the aemi-oormant or- I gans, accerlating the languid circulation and 1 averting the maladies to which functional in- I activity rives rise. Physicians who have employed Hostetter's Stomach Bittera in their practice pronounce it the most salutary tonic stimulant thev have ever used, and especially commend it as a remedy for torpidity of the ^ bowels, liver, stomach and kidneys, and as a ftj renuacitant of vital energy. The medicinal y value of the Bitters is due to the fact that with in their basis of pure old rye are combined, in II perfect chemical harmony, the best restorative and life sustaining elements known to medical ? botany. The Bitters never deteriorate in the II most unfavorable climates. 1 Rhenmntlim Onlckly Cured. _ " Durang's Rheumatic Remedy,'' the great internal meaioine, wui uubiuyui/ vuiu wug of rheumatism on the face of the earth. Price $1 a bottle, six bottles, $5. Sold by all drug* ? gists. Send for circular to Helphenstine & B JBentley, druggists, Washington, D. C. ^ Worcester's large dictionary free. See adr. of The Independent, the great religious newspaper, to* Handsome Pictures tree!?Two elegant 6x8 pi! Chromos, worthy to adorn the wall* of anr home, and a Bu Three Month* Trial of LeiiCHK Houbs, a charming _ 10 pace literary paper, fall of the beat Stories, Poetry, . Wit, etc., sent Free to any one sending Fifteen Cent* / (stamps taken) to pay mailing expenses. Money return- ?. d to those not satis tied they Ret Doable Valae. J. L. Patten A Co.. 162 William St., New York. 81500 ! prizes, and big pay given to agents?wri:e now. The Markets. UT YOKX. " Beef Cattle Nttlre 09*0 11* 8* ?exas and Cherokee.. 08X9 00 UUchDowa 40 00 066 00 Ho^: Live 06*0 05* ? Dressed O7K0 07* TJ Sheep 04*0 C6* =P Lamb* 00*0 06 ^ Cotton: Middling UX0 11 'A j& Flour: Western: Good to Cholae. 6 SO 0 6 26 Th State : Good to Choice.... ? 30 0 6 40 An Wheat: Bed Western 1 39 0 1 40 g!? No. a Milwaukee 1?*0 130 Bye: State 76 0 78 Barley: State 75 0 8J s? Barley Malt JO 0 83 De Oats: Mixed Western 13 0 39 .W Corn: Mixed Western 67 * 0 58 m Hay, per cwt 60 0 70 E Straw, per owt 60 0 66 E Hope .76*8-08 016 76'* 11 0 IS Pork: Mess^. 14 20 014 40 ^ y Lard: Cltysteam <# "?? ?? Fish: Mackerel, No. 1, new 19 00 030 00 w* ? No. 3, new 11 ?0 0>3*> i* Dry God, per cwt 5 60 0 6 00 Herring, Scaled, per box.... ?? '0 J? thi Petroleum: Crude 09*009* Beflued...l81f hoi Woo* California Fleece. 30 0 36 8ti Texas Fleece 30 0 8# ^ Australian Fleece. 44 0 4# If State XX 41 0 41 k Butter: State 56 0 80 g Western: Choice 30 0 31 C Western : Good to Prime. 20 9 35 fc Western : Firkins 13 9 16| | n Cheese: 8tato Factory 18 0 18 t P State Skimmed. 10 0 11 - Western...... 09 0. lWtf E Eggs: State and Pennsylvania.... Si 0 33| Et nwnajo. |iFlour 7 7? 0 8 35 fj Wheat?No. 1 Milwaukee 1 3] 0 1 39 jC Corn?Mixed 5 X0 81 H Oats 35 0 30 Bye 98 0 98 ? Barley 83 0 83 Barley Malt 80 0 83 Jj FHILiDXLSHlA. < Beef Cattle?Extra 0J 0 ?K m Sheep 05 0 06X 5 Hogs?Dressed... 08X0 08J# Flour?Pennsylvania Extra 713 0 7 35 Wheat?Bed Western...... 1 S3 0 1 58 Bye 85 0 67 Corn?Yellow 60 0 67 Mixed 60 0 H Oats?Mixed 85 0 88 Petroleum?Crude O9?(0O8Jtf Beflned, 13 Wool?Colorado...., U 0 3a Texas 34 0 83 California 37 0 83 BOSTON. n??f ruttu fifi A MV Sheep MH? 07* Hog* 06 ? OS Flour?Wisconsin and Minnesota.... 7 80 0 S 00 Corn?Mixed 48 % BJJtf Onto? " 58 9 M Wool?Ohio and Pennsylvania XX... 48 0 60 California Fall 40 0 41 BBIQHTOK, MASS, Veef Cattle 0?xe 07fci Bheep 06 ? 09* Lamb* 07 ? 10 Hogs 07X? 04 WATXBTOWN, ItASI. Beef Cattle?Poor to Choice 6 80 #860 Sheep <76 3 7 76 Lambs 7 00 * 9 00 WANTPfl Detectives. A few men in each state "Hit I kU jqt jjje Dtttciizt Strvirt. Pay liberal. Position permanent. Send stamp for particulars. U. B. Secret Service Co., 230 Walnut 8t., Cincinnati, O. "DTTTU11 I'D After fair trial and severe tests It nUll _LiXL was awarded Centennial Prire Med~-~L, zrzrv ?|. WHY it is bupkrior to COIaORa ALL. 1st. It has, no taste or smell, and Is aa harmloss as water. 2d. It is liquid, Is easvto handle, and is mixed In cream before churning. 3rd. It produce! a color resembling June Grass Batter. 4th. It is the only article that will color the butter and not ths buttermilk. Gtb. It gathers tb# batter materials, increases the weight more than will pay for the color used. It is the b*tt ever known. Send your address on postal oard for my receipt book,/rtt. It tells how to make butter, pack, preserve, extract rancidity. Mrs. B. SMITH, 387 Arch 8t- P. O. Box 1964, Philadelphia, Pa. MOTHERS Who have delicate children, who are suDject to Group, Read This! Allen's Lung Balsam should always be kept in your house, and be given immediately when the first svmptoms appear, whioh wit rem ire the mucous collected in the throat, and save the life of vour dear child. This Lung Balsam is the best remedy" for a Coujjh ind for Conaamptire parson* to use. Hold by >11 dntggUU. k?" Book Agentn Take Hotter. JOSIAH ALLEN'S WIFE Hu " Wroto Another Book" and it U read/. Samantha at the Centennial As a p. a. and p. i. Outdoes herself and Widow Doodlx. leaves Betsxy Bobbkt f?r behind., Don't wait ana lose yonr chsnoe, send for territory, circulars, to., at one*. 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LYON & HE ALE Y, Chlc??o. _ OLIVER DITSON & CO., Boston, fl, C. H. DIT80N ^3Cgyoadwmy| New Tork. J. E. PITSOj^deCHP.^ ^ t w?Hw, PUla. wmfmm'M,*** .< -v.. .^vsn*? ~ *?v - Hfe*)*** ROYAL Absolutel: All grocer* authorized to gua^pitee it full weight and < To try It, send OO contt for 1-poand can to ROYAL B itf. | VORK FOR ALL ! tholr own loealitte*, canraaainr for the Fireside < litor. (enl&rxed) Weekly and Monthly. LtriNt 1 v AfS^/rt E- ingkaham & co.?s I I III* ft/V mre "0P?nor in deeign and not I IllllaH A equalled in quality or u *J??+- * ilUllIiO kMptn. A.k jronr Jeweler for e w ?WW them. Manufactory?Bristol, Qt j l/IIAUl A new Medics! Treatise mTh? H|RM| Hcikmoe or Lirr, on Bel* , miVVl Preservation," a book for ' IIUII BB every man. Price 81, sent bj llf \C| b mail. Fifty ori(rin?l prescrip 4 II | Via hi tions.eittteroneof which worth ( 1 timiu the price of the book. Gold Medal ewardsd I 1 author. 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JI^EMEDT '> |; :i *T AS?i M A, \\ <S iBOSE COLD, V\ ^S'. .HAT FEYEB; .1 Q) _ H *0. H- I \ . \ TU dpul necMi which hu utnxlri th? \ j 0 O? iMj Mtdidoe, hu Indoeed tb? \ C K3 . JwoprittontopoblUh torn* iccoantof I V\ "f, T>?^L?!?pe,7i?' ^ * off<* \ N\ Ufcrth* bwtflt of lima whs ats \ {J afflicted with the abort > \ \ y,. # named painful \ ?i*aoTio*?. ~~ V* \ s .jKrs s* A \ i ?ygu^ns,, \ i ?nr&/c \; ^fllWI ?w- ' jS?3^ri3St)a?f * / /^5z\ ** \'/Tn 4jsZ^* I ?ic<zten: %m^ '"Mi, MP^mk "TOETDIE," < ..?>: ' / > -: 7? a Boston Physician, "haa no equal aa a blood rifler. Hearing of ita many wonderful onrea, after all aer remedltw had failed, I Halted the Laboratory and DTiuoed my??lf of ita genuine merit. It ia prepared >m barks, root# and herbs, each or WHICH is fcijjnij iiy , ami Uisj wb compounded in such a manner as produce astonishing results." > '* ' l ' ' ' ' I ! YEGETINE A the Grot Blood Purifier. ,( YEGETINE ill extra the wont cue of Scrofula. VEGETINE ' recommended by PhjrtioUos und Apothecaries. YEGETINE mi effected tome marreloni cares in mmi of Cancer. VEGETINE ires the worst cases of Canker. YEGETINE sets with wonderful success in Mercurial diseases. VEGETINE Ul eradicate Salt Rheum from the system. . VEGETINE imores Pimples and Humors from the Face. VEGETINE irei Constipation and Refulatee tbe Bowels. VEGETINE a Taluable remedy for Headache. VWtETINE i ill ear* Dyspepsia. ' VEGETINE 1 stores the entire system to a healthy condition. VEGETINE moree the catws of Dizziness. VEGETINE , ilierea Faints ess at the Stomach. VEGrETINE res Pains In the Back. VEGrETINE j fectnallj cores Kidney Complaint, h VEGrETINE . sffectiro In its oure of Female Weakness. VEGETINE she great remedy for General Debility. I VEGETINE . : icknowledfed by all cU*?ea of people to be the bes a mn?t reliable Blood Purifier iD the World. u VEGETINE O PREPARED BY R. STEYEHSJoston, Mass.: Vegatlno is Sold by All Druggliit. 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