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% ; i' j 9 * .A ' i + # ? i * . ? A.A ^ ^ * r 'A* ? - -*?I*k Iw - to r4w*i.v ? - ?W J . J Jm.*. 1 Farm, Garden and Household. Turkey*. A good and young turkey is known by the same indications as given for poultry. The legs of young turkeys are generally black. An old hen-turkey has the legs rough, and of a reddish hue ; the cock has long spurs. The fattest, those with short necks, a broad, thick breast, and a white skin, are the best. When fresh, the legs are flexible enough, but they get stiff as the bird gets seasoned. Saturday-eveningturkeysare made with old hens and old roosters,and commonly sold to confident buyers in this way : two or more market boys take possession of a closed stand rather late on Saturday evenings ; they have their goods in a basket or box, and each is holding a fowl that he shows for and calls a young turkey, holding the head in one hand and the legs in the other, 1/M?/11W "VAnncrfiirlrPVflfrtr ft C2J1UK ivuvuj, j _ pouna" (stating the price.) " head and legs off " with other remarks, such as, "We offer them at that low price because it is late," "because we want to close," etc. Unsuspecting women, attracted by the low price they are offered at ( head and legs not weighed), stop and look at them, and in less time than it takes to sajit.the head and legs are chopped off, he bird is weighed, the whole price announced, and before the woman has had time to say a word the bird is in her basket. Half bewildered at the celerity with which the whole process has been gone through, and startled by the small sum she has to pay for a turkey, at least nine out of ten pay and move along, conscious of having made a good bargain. Planting Potatoes. Earlv last spring I plowed a piece of ground two rods wide by 19 long ; harrowed it fine; then took a two-horse plow and ridged it up something like sweet potato ridges, only flatter on top ; then took a hand-stake sharpened at one end, and made holes by thrusting the stake down into the ridge ; the holes Were made about 18 inches apart on alternate aides of the ridge. A boy followed and dropped seed in each hole; then we took a mixture of slacked lime and leached ashes, equal parts, and put a handful in each hill, covered lightly with earth. They soon started to grow, and as the plants began to appear above ground we covered them with straw about one foot deep. That was all the work they got, except going through them every morning for two weeks and killing the bugs. The weeds never got through the straw during the summer. We began using them the 15th of June, used all we wanted ( a family of 6ix persons) until the first of November. We took up what remained, which was 50 bushels of as large and dry potatoes as oould be desired. They were of the Early Bose variety. The ground was rily common prairie, and has been in cultivation for ten years. Was it the lime and ashes, or the manner of planting, or the variety of potato UBed, that gave such results ? There was not less than at the rate of 300 bushels per acre. Value of Sea-weed Manure. It has long been customary on the seocoast to use sea-weed {Fucus, Latninaria, etc.,) for a manure, its value for this purpose being considered by many as scarcely inferior to stable manure. This applies, however, to sea-weeds proper, the eel-grass (zostera marina) being of a venr different character, and, on account of its slow decomposition and different chemical combination, of mnch less value. An especial feature of the true sea-weeds consists in their large percentage of nitrogenous matter ana in the great amount of ash, one analysis giving for dry sea-weeds nearly 7 per cent, of nitrogenous matter, 75 of cellulose, and about 18 of ash. The amount of nitrogen proper may be estimated at from lfr to 2 per cent. The principal objection to the use of sea-weed as a manure consists in its very small percentage of phosphoric acid. This, however, can be easily remedied b7 the addition of some phosphate, ' such as bone-meal. In the large amount of gypsum it contains, sea-weed serves admirably as a dressing for grazing lands. It is also very well suited to potatoes and other roots, toboeco, flax, and growths requiring a good deal of potash. As an element in compost it is quite unrivaled, owing to the readiness with which it is decomposed and the intimate combination which it enters into with other substances. Diseased Potatoes. The extensive failure of the potato crop in Great Britain, in consequence of tne prevalence of rust and rot, is a subject of grave moment, as bearing upon the welfare of the laboring classes, and a method of utilizing the diseased potatoes has been made public at the instance of the British Government. This depends upon the fact that the starch oi the potato is not affected by the disease, but retains its nutritive properties. The process consists in : xt i- i i-i i i rasping ine peeieu muere, upon u urcuu grater, into a tub of water. The starch | sinks to the bottom in a few minutes, and the diseased matter, woody fiber, \ etc., are suspended in the water, ami . should be poured off with it. Fresh water is then to be added, and the stareli stirred, and again allowed to settle. Two or three such washings will thoroughly remove all impurities, and render the starch fit for use. If dried, it can be kept any length of time, and can be used like arrow-root, for puddings and cakes, or mixed with flour, as bread. Charcoal for Poultry. The benefit which fowls derive from eating charcoal is, I believe, acknowledged. The method of putting it before them is, however, not well understood. Pounded charcoal is not in the shape in which fowls usually find their food, and consequently is not very enticing to them. I have found that corn burnt to the cob, and the refuse?wlnefi consists h almost entirely of tho grains reduced on charcoal, and still retaininc their nerfeet shape?placed before them, is greedily eaten by them, wi^h a marked improvement in their harffth, as is shown by the brighter colopof their combs, and their sooner producing a greater average of eggs to the flock than before.?Poultry World. . LnrKy Scits.?Thick linen suits for ladies' spring" and summer wear, have French blonse-waists and simple overskirts, trimmed with bias bands piped with white or deep bine linen. A deep kilt pleating is on the lower skirt. A small fichu trimmed with folds is the wrap; large blue buttons fasten the blouse. Other linen suits have polonaises with simple basque backs, and fall open from the waist down to disclose the skirt, trimmed across the front with twelve boas bands two inches wide, piped on each side with a tiny fold of white linen ; the same bias band extends down the front'seams. On the back breadths is a plain side pleating, with a narrow gathered ruffle below, Another Anecdote of Lincoln.. When Colonel Mulligan's Chicago regiment lay in camp away down South, one of the privates, named Barney, in a moment of passion and intoxication stabbed and terribly mangled a comrade. Barney was one of the hard characters of the command, and it was a matter of no surprise when the courtmartial sentenced him for this last and gravest of his many offences to be shot, and fixed the day of his execution. Meanwhile, to the surprise of every one including the surgeons, the wounded man began to recover and was soon pronounced out of danger. Public opinion took the usual turn. It was thought a pity, after all, to shoot a fine young fellow, such as Barney was in his better moments; besides, he was one of the boys, had been born like them in Chicago, grown up with them, enlisted with them, and fought with them. A movement looking to a petition for the culprit's pardon was set on foot, in which none joined more heartily than the wounded man, -and the camp, which, hut vp<jtf?rriftv was for lvnchincr Barney, now yearned to save his life. But the General commanding had approved the finding of the court-martial, and only the President could interfere, and the regiment was encamped away from the telegraph lines. So that, though the necessary documents had been forwarded, backed by strong recommendations, there were grave doubts if the merciful message which Mr. Lincoln was almost certainly to send would reach the camp in time. An express was Bent to the nearest telegraph station, thirty miles away, to carry the message with all haste?and all waited impatiently. The night before the fatal day arrived. Barney was to be shot at sunrise next day. No reprieve had arrived, and reluctantly the adjutant prepared the necessary orders, detailed the firing party, arranged for the parade. The night wore on. It is safe to say that not an eye was closed in the camp, and every ear was strained for hoof-beats from the East. Past midnight, one, two, three o'clock. There were movements in the gray Eastern sky ; the brilliant Southern stars palfd; it was almost dawn. Suddenly a faint sound was heard, as of a shout away to the East. The excitement became electric. Men rushed from their tents, half dressed, and gathered in anxious groups. The officers were hardly less excited, and mingled with them. Then in rapid succession were heard challenge and reply as the advancing party passed sentry after sentry, then the tramp and splash of hoofs and, at last, burst into view the long looked-for messenger, covered with mud from head to foot, wan and worn out, his horse panting and travel-stained and bruised, for they had ridden thirty miles since midnight along roads that were sluices of mud and water. The rider held his way straight to the Colonel's tent and delivered his telegram. Ti. XI lruu mus. Washington, , 18&?. Colonel Mulligan: If you haven't shot Barney D yet?don't. A. Lincoln. They hadn't, and they didn't. Bonaparte's Love Letters. The great Napoleon, when absent on his campaigns, used to write the most tender love letters to his wife, Josephine. Here is one of his short war notes : " I write very often to you, my dear love, but very seldom hear from you. You are a fickle, ugly, wicked creature. Perfidious ! to deceive a poor husband and ardent lover ! Must he forfeit his rights because he is far away, burdened with difficulties, cares and fatigue ? Without his Josephine, without the assurance of her love, what remains for him on earth! What can he do ? A thousand loving kisses.?Bonaparte." The next is curiously tender : 111 don't love you a bit; on the oontrary, I detest you." You are an ugly, stupid, wicked liussev. You never write to me, and vou do not love your husband. You know the delight your letters afford me, and yet you send me onlv a few dozen hurried lines. Pray, Madam, what do you do with yourself all day ? What important business is it that prevents you writing to your fond lover ? What fiffV'ptinn stifles and outs aside the love, the tender and constant love, you promised me ? Who can this new wonder be?this new lover who absorbs all your time, tyrannizes over your days, and prevents you from thiuking of your husband ? Take care, Josephine, some fino night, the doors closed, and 1*11 surprise you. But seriously, I am very uneasy, my dear love, at receiving no news of you ; write me four pages immediately, full of those charming things that fill my heart with tenderness and delight. I hope to embrace you before long ; then I shall cover you with a million burning kisses.?Bokaparte." Picking Pockets. The passengers on a crowded ferryboat were much amused one day at seeing a gentleman very deftly pick his friend's pocket of his pocket-book and transfer it to his own. They were still more amused at seeing a third " gentleman " take the pocket-book even more deftly from the amateur and disappear in the crowd. The denouncement came soon. Number Two asked Number One to let him see his pockec-book, and, when his friend could not find it, proceeded with a smile to restore it to him. His smile, however, was soon changed to a look of intense surprise, which was verv much enjoyed by the bystand* ? - lis ll-.l 11 11 >1 j ers, lor mey expecieu mm geuncumu Number Three would soon appear and unravel to his friends this amuRing mystery. But, alas ! Number Three never came back. He was, it seems, a true " artist," who had coolly robbed the amateur as publicly as the latter robbed his friend. In the hurry and confusion of landing Number Three made his escape, so the amateur was obliged to compensate his friend for the contents of his pocket-book, probably resolving, at the same time, to eschew ever after any such practical I jokes. The Druggists. For several years past efforts have been made, at each session of the New I Jersey Legislature, to procure the pasi sage of a law that would have the effect ! of raising the standurd of education among druggists throughout the State, 1 ' * > i< mlofolroo " filld mereuy picvcut mo uudu.ii.vu in the compounding of medicines which so often result in loss of life. During the present session a bill for the purpose named was introduced, and allowed to remain unconsidered for several weeks. It provided that each druggist should pass an examination, and have a certificate of competency from a i hoard consisting of five pharmacists. The bill failed to Dass? wi*en it came to a vote, although the necessity for such a law is pretty generally" admitted. The future destiny of the olju ^ work of the mother* Florida Orange GroTes, A correspondent has visited a Florida orange grove, and tells us an interest- t iilg story of what ha. saw. The grove v belongs to Oapt. Dummitt, and was dis- t! covered by that gentleman while "on o the war path" after the Seminoles. It u is a rich hammock bordering Mob- d quito Lagoon and Indian Biver. Capt. t Dummitt and Hardee pre-empted this d hammock, and planted an organge i: grove. This grove is now the finest in the United States, and probably in v the world. The grove contains 3,000 e orange trees, surrounded by a thick t scrub. a No fences separated them from the t scrub, and it is a common thing for a deer, and even bears, to be seen in the s Soves. Possums and coons are plenti- v 1, and even wild cats and panthers r make their appearance at intervals. The t groves are about a mile long and a quar- 1 ter of a mile wide. The trees are about i twenty-five feet apart. The ground be- a neath them is kept entirely free from p any vegetation. It is^of a rich sandy c formation. The whole grove was cool u and shady. Hardly a fleck of sunlight i fell upon us while we were in it. The I land was naturally curved like a paren- c thesis, thus keeping it entirely free c from swampy moisture. The first tree p that attracted my attention as I entered ! the grove was a lemon tree. The lem- c ons were thin-skinned and of an extra- i ordinary size. In some places I found i lemons and oranges growing upon the t same tree, and in one case lemons, or- t anges, and limes upon the same branch, t Some of the orange trees were in bios- c som, others were loaded with dark green i fruit in various stages of development, c but the most of them groaned . under t the weight of large, ripe yellow oranges, t The climate and the soil are such that c Capt. Dummitt says that he has raised i oranges every month in the year. The c Captain's black razor-backed hogs ap- e peared to have a good time of it, for 1 they roamed about the grove fattening f upon the ripe oranges as they fell from the trees. ( Dummitt's Grove has produced 600,- i 000 oranges this season. He nays he ] will raise a million next year. Three or i four years ago the trees were nearly de- ( stroyed by insects, but they have fully c recovered and look finer than ever, i This grove is celebrated throughout the t State. It is looked upon as a kind of j Mecca by the orange producers of 1 Florida. It costs Capt. Dummitt not < quite $1,000 a year to Keep his magnifi- i cent grove in order. Six hundred thou- i sand oranges at two cents apiece on the 1 trees would give him a nett income of t $11,000 a year, and one million oranges 1 would give a nett income of 819,000. < But a first-class grove, fully developed, \ ought to average 3,000 oranges to the < tree. Many trees yield 5,000, and one tree in the old Eaton Grove, near En- < terprise, is said to have produced 10,000 i oranges in one year. In the vicinity j are many orange groves, and they are i very profitable to the owners. < The correspondent concludes Capt. 1 Dummitt is nearly 70 years old. He is ' a thin man, with gray hair and a gray i beard. He cares bHt little for money i and is contented so long as he makes a i living. If anybody wants his oranges they must go to his grove and buy i xL. x?? rru? WAtfAlt , inem on wie ucts, jluc v?}>uiiu uoh looks for a purchaser. The purchaser i must look for the Captain. One of the Men Wanted. The Bank of England forgers, says a letter, for a long time kept up very large bank accounts, lived in excellent style, presented drafts upon different ' houses of good standing, which, being genuine, were promptly paid, and they 1 manifested a knowledge of banking cub- 1 toms and rules which could only be ac- 1 quired by persons actually in business ! in Wall street or in the money mart of ' London. So far as known, the other ' forgers were not posted in regard to ! the usages of the street; but with ; Gray, who is supposed to be one of the men, and who had a practical knowledge of finance in all its branches, in ' their ranks, they would find no diffi- ' culfcy in making off with a good por- |. tion of the "reserve "of the Bank of England. " Gray," said a detective, " could do : ! anything in the way of rascality. Why, j' he was the coolest hand I ever did see at forgery, and then the way he could ,' cheek it out when the detectives came 1 after him! Why, do you know, when I had liim cooped up in his house in London, and a dozen detectives about it 1 at the front and back doom and all the windows, ho just* colored his hair and whiskers, and, going to the back door, told the detectives that the man they were hunting for was up-stairs, and they must hurry up at once if they wanted to catch him, for he was a slippery fellow, and like as not would j crawl away over the roofs. And then j he went away. The Britishers kept at , the back-door looking up-stairs, and we at the front door got in and passed through the house, and finally found out how we had been tricked. Oh! he was a game one. Just think of him a hobnobbing with Baron Rothschild and the other ' big bugs ' on the other side, drinking their wine, riding their horses, and hunting with their hounds." The detective laughed heartily while recounting some of Gray's exploits. A Safe Trst for Coal Oil. A correspondent writes: Tho most effective wav to stop the sale of danger ous oils and burning fluids which are so ' destructive to life and property is to educate the people. The test is so simple that it is in the power of every one. ! It has often been published, yet there j are thousands of people who have not heard it. You will benefit the people by repeating it often. The test is as follows: Pour a 6mall ; quantity of the oil out upon a saucer ' or tin plate; apply a lighted match; if it ignites immediately, or even before the fire touches it, let the oil be returned to the vender as unsafe. Good, safe oil will not flash, but burn slowly when the lighted match is dropped into it, and the fire is extinguished as soon as the match is removed. If the people will subject their oil to this test and use only that which stands it, accidents will be rare. The PrRATE.? Among the most notorious of the leaders of the buccaneers or pirates, who originally started out fromTortuga, and whose names be ;ime famous in the Gulf and particularly about the West Indies, was the famous Morgan, afterward Sir Henry, who, afawawtt ntu'mn lrnnxirn nrwl - I wi fumiuuuu^ c?vxj viiuiv- ?. VMM ed by stealing the booty of his comr?kies, with which, retiring to the island of Jamaica, he succeeded in making a portion of the workf believe he was a hightoned, honorable rtan, becoming actually an officer of the government, and receiving the honor or knighthood. His portraits represent him as a fine-looking gentleman, and he is said to have sprung from a respectable family in ' Wales. Results of ft " Strike." A correspondent of the Manchester guardian, writing from Merthyr Tydil, Wales, gives a sorrowful account of J he sufferings endured by the families f the " strikers." The writer says the ' iter destitution which exists in the , listrict extending from Merthyr Tydvil o the confines of Monmouthshire is inlescribable, and he cites the following nstances : I made recently a series of Sunday isits to a number of houses in the poorr districts of Merthyr?wretched homes hey were, all of them. There is about . mile from Merthyr a suburb called, >y those who can pronounce it, Oaepntywyll, lying in a damp hollow by the ide of the river Taff, and close to the rorks of Cyfarthfa, which since the iots of 1831, have never ceased to echo he clangor of bustling industry, or ight the sky with the ruddy blaze of -LK A? 'l11*a v\AArtla linru OVA uuwerauiu xiicd* jlno j^/w|/*w mv*v *?v .11 Cyfarthfa workmen. It is a queer lace, all up and down hill, with rows f steps leading to the high foot-paths, rith rugged roads like mountain paths, nnocent of drain or channel, and little rooklets rushing down the centre, irossing from side to side in zigzag ourses, and pausing here and there in >ools which seem common to most of ferthyr streets. The air is close and lamp, an<\ the odors exhaled from some tnseen source of impurity are dank and nephitic. There are beads of ooze upon he house fronts, perpetual mud upon he steps, eternal dust and dirt upon he dingy windows. Here is an open loor that innvites us to enter. You will lotice that the broken stone iloor has no sarpet, and is full of holci; that a urned-up box does duty as r. table, and hat a three-lagged stool and an arinshair are the only articles of furniture n the room. The armchair is drawn doBe to the grate, in which lingers the iipiring embers of what originally could lave been but a very small wood fire, or fuel is as scarce as food. A woman sits in the chair, and is razing moodily, fixedly, into the dull ed of the slow-burning wood?a thin, pinched, scantily-clad woman, whose -agged cotton dress is as frouzy and lirty as the little woolen shawl which is Irawn over her head to protect her leek from the draft that comes through he broken window pane at the back. Vt her breast is a two-month baby? jorn a child of sorrow only a day or ;wo before the strike began, and baby is thin and pinched as its haggard lurse. There is a little girl of ten or ;welve kneeling before the fire, and ihivering, as she tries to fcfist a slice of aread, which I learn has been begged )f a neighbor, and is the only food in the house. A young man sits on the jther side of the fire upon another box ' ' * * tt_ * . am! ?not ine taDie. n? is u iuu^ci , uui )f work, of coarse. He is smoking? mark that; he can buy tobacco, and the woman has to beg bread. Soon ifter I enter he resents my appearance on the scene by shambling out. It isvery little the woman will say at lirst. r*' all my questions sho returns such short answers as I admit my intrusion deserved. But a chance remark about the baby opened the mother's heart. "John," she told me?John was her husband?was a " bailer." He did not want to strike, but was obliged to turn out with the others. " And there's lots, you see like him, only the colliers was strike, and then the puddlers and bailers and laborers and all, was have to strike, too." So ran the pigeon English of this poor Welshwoman? this wretched wife?a slattern evidently, but an innocent sufferer from the calamitous strife now raging. House after house in those dreary streets I visited, and found almost as sad a state of things?cupboards bare as old Mother Hubbard's, and hungry children crying for food. In ono desolate home trfere were two children lying on a death-bed, and their mother said they were "a-dying of the strike." Tn some coses the men had been able to earn a little money by working as laborers on Mr. Crawshay's farm; in one or two instances, and these were colliers, they had secured employment in the Aberdare pits; and at one house I called, and found the wife was now receiving a weekly post office order from her husband, who, with a few of his adventurous comrades, had found work at Middlesborough. That completed my Sunday tour, and I returned dispirited and sore at heart. I went this morning to Plymouth?a workman's district at the other end of the town?only to see Bqualid poverty and the same degree of utter destitution. The people here are kept alive only by the soup kitchens, one of which had been started by Mr. Fothergill, M. P., the owner of Plymouth Works, and was confined to women and children. In very few places did I find the men at home, and when I asked for them I was told that they were "out seeing what was going on." I was told at Plymouth that some of the older workmen intended to wait upon Mr. Forthergill, who has not yet been interviewed ; and I heard at Cyfarthfa that a meeting of the ironworkers was held on Saturday, at which they resolved to recommend to their fellows the acceptance of the reduction for the term of one month. A Wrestling Match.?The last " match " is in the way of wrestling, and took place iu California. Two men tried it for the championship of the State and 8250 in money. After a number of falls and a great deal of skirmishing, the finnl wind-up took place in this manner: Murray gave his antagonist, Marky, a severe fall. Ho lifted him two or three feet and spun his body from him, which fell at full length on the floor. The fall was rather an uneasy one. Murray's friends lifted him bodily on their shoulders, and amidst the wildest enthusiasm, carried him from the hall, the band playing, "Seo the Conquering Hero Comes." One of the results is that Marky gave the championship and 8250 for a set of veiy sore bones and a pair of disordered shins. Marky weighed 200 pounds and Murray 170. Taking it Cool.?One of the men believed to have been interested in the forgeries on the Bank of England was arrested on a steamer entering New York harbor. He is described as a finelooking man, in possession of half a dozen names and some 830,000 in gold and diamonds. He treats his arrest coolly nnd says there Is no power which can take him to England for trial. It is said that had his confederates on the steamer been known, at least a quarter of a million dollars would have been found in tbeir possession. Quill pens, which a few years ago were despised as being of the old fogy order, are coming into favor again. This is partly owing to the very inferior quality of many of the kinds of steel pens now in the market. Illinois horticulturists are reported to be cutting down their peach orchards, which have been killed by the severe winter, to make room for other crops. I Anecdote of Bnron Rothschild. A short time ago the Baron Van Rothschild took a walk in Paris, and 1? suddenly found himBelf behind the 111 Pantheon, in a part of the city with P' which he was not familiar. He entered P1 the shop of a dealer in old curiosities, CI and discovered among a great deal of w worthless trumpery an old barometer 81 from the time of Louis XVI., the carv- f* ing of which was exceedingly well pre- T served. The Baron, who is a connoiseur y of such things, immediately resolved to buy the barometer. The price was ten 81 francs, and Rothschild, glad to get it Ul so cheap, put his hand in his pocket to 'c give the woman who kept the store a 01 ten franc piece. Unfortunately he dis- 111 covered that he had left his pocketbook home. " Well, never mind," said he, "I will w take the barometer, anyhow. Send it n, to my house. I am the Baron Roths- 81 child# The money will be paid to you P at my house." Cl "I do not know your name monsieur," B< replied the woman ; "moreover, I never send any goods away unless they have v previously been paid for." n The baron was greatly puzzled. He P had never dreamed that anybody could Ci be ignorant of his name ; bmt as he w happened to be in a very good humor, ^ he felt highly amused, and was just about to give her some information as to who he was, when he saw a commis- J sionaire pass by on the other side of the [, street. He beckoned to him, and when h the honest Auvergant stood before him, < < he asked him: h "Do you know, perhaps, Baron Rothschild ?" " That is a funny question, sir. 11 KOtilSCinm? WD J, wiuo to our muucj t( king. Why do you ask that ques- 't tion ?" he said, growling!^, for he t< supposed it was a mere mystification. w "Because madam here refuses to trust * him for ten francs," said Rothschild, pointing to the woman. " Is that really truo, Madame Duclos ?" cried the commissionaire, in sur- | prise. ' tl " Yes, you see, Monsieur Pierre, we p cannot know everybody in the world," 1-1 replied the woman, in confusion. "I ? know you, and if you will go the gentle- c raan's'security" At these words the baron burst into a fit of laughter. " Very well, Monsieur Pierre," he said, "if you will go my security, do so ; a but above all things go and fetch me a 1 hack, and then carry this barometer to o my house." The commissionaire received a very handsome reward at the house of the i rich millionaire for going security for h Baron Rothschild. ( A CUBE FOB d I CONSUMPT ION. r For the cure of this distressing disease there hat * been no modiclne yet discovered that can show ? more evidence of real merit than ALLEN'S LUNO f BALSAM. This unequaled expectorant for curing t Consumption, and all diseases leading to it, such as affections of the throat, lungs, and all diseases of ? the pulmonary organs, is introduced to the suffer- I Ing public after its merits for the cure of such diseases have been fully tested by the medical faculty. The Balsam is consequently, recommended by physicians who have become acquainted with its great t success. ' WHAT THE DOCTOBS BAY i Drs. Wilson A Ward, physicians and druggists. " write from Centrcvllle, Tenn.: "We purchased Allen's Luno Balsam, and it sells rapidly. We are practicing physicians, as well as druggists, , and take Pleasure in recommending a great remc- ' dy, such a* we kuow this to be." 3 Dr. Lloyd, of Ohio, surgeon in the army daring ' the war, from czpusurc, contracted consumption. He says: ' I have no hesitancy in stating that it was by the uso of your Luxo Balsam that I am now alive and enjoying good health." Nathaniel Harris, of Middleberry, Vt., says: "I 1 have no doubt it will soon become a classical reme^Li dial agent for the cure of all diseases of the Throat, ^ Bronchial Tubes and Lungs." I Amos Woolly, M. D., of Kosclnsca Co., Ind.. says: I " For three years past I have used Allen's Luno Balsam extensively in my practice, and I am sutis- ' fled there Is no better mcdiciuofor lung diseases , In use." ' Physicians do not recommend a mcdioine which ] has no merit. What they say about ] ALLEN'S LUNO BALSAM I can be taken as a fact. Let all afflicted test It at once, and be convinced of its real merits. < As an expectorant It has no equal. It is harmless to the most delicate child. It contains no opium in any form. Directions accompany each bottle. | CAUTION.?Call for ALLEN'S LUNO BALSAM. J. N. HARRIS A CO., Cincinnati,0. PltOPBIETOKS. FERRY DAVIS A SON, General Agonts. Providence, B. I. 8old by all Mcdicliio dealers. tor sabs 8t JOHN P. nF.NRY, New York. GEO. C. GOODWIN A CO., Boston. JOHNSON, IIOLOWAY A CO., Philadelphia. Ilest atxl Oldest Family Nrdlrlne.-.tns' ford's Liver lnvigorator-n purely Vegetable Cathartic and Tonic-tor Dywpepsla, Constipation,Debility- j Sick Headache, Bilious Attacks, and all derange, 1 menu of Liver, Stomach and Rowels. Ask your , Druggist for it. Beware of imitations. Attesd to the First Symptoms of Cossumptios, and that the disease may be cheeked in its Inci- | plency, use at once Dr. Jaync's Expectorant, a safe remedy for all affections of the Lungs and Bronchia The Markets. MEW YOIlK. Beef Cattle?Prime to Extra Bullocl;s$ .MJ^a .14"^ First quality 12yn ,13 Second quality llJia .12X Ordinary thin Cattle 10 a .11 Inferior or lowest grade ,08^1 .00 y Milch Cowa 40.00 a80.00 Hogs?Live 03J.ll ,05'j Dressed 0.1 >, a .07',' Sheep 0J^ a .07y, Cotton?Middling P-'X" .20^ : Flour?Extra Western 7.00 a 7.110 ' State Extra 7.10 a 7.50 Wheat?lied Western 1.83 a 1.8.1 State 1.95 a 2.25 I No. 2 Spring 1.65 a 1.71 Rve 90 a .91 Barley?Malt 1.10 a 1.45 Corn?Mixed Western f4Va 66# Oats?Mixed Western 4Htja .50 nav l.Oil a 1.60 Straw 80 a 1.20 Hops "72s, .40 a .50?"71s, .10 a .15 Pork?Mess 13.00 alfi.50 Lard 07a .09',' Petroleum?Crude 8>,a 9,V It'flued 19# 1 Butter?State ."Mi a .40 I Ohio Fancy 30 a .32 " Yellow 18 a .25 Western Ordinary 20 a .20 Pennsylvania fine 30 a .35 Cheese?State Factory 15 a .10# ' Skinuned 00 a .12 Ohio 13 a .10 Eggs?State 25 a .20 Beef Cattle 5.63 ? #.75 Sheep 0.75 a 7.00 Hnga?Live S.'iO s 5.R5 Flour 7.50 alO.OO Wheat?No. 2 Spring 1.50 a 1.B0 Corn .51 a .52 Oata .42 a .43 Rye K5 a .85 Barley 80 a 1.00 Lard 08 a. 09 ALBA XT. Wheat 1.70 a 2.10 Rye?State 83 a .80 Corn?Mixed 07 a .09 Barley-State 82 S a .82# Oata?State 48 a .54 PHILADELPHIA. Flour-Penn. Extra 8.75 a 9.00 Wheat?Weatern Red 1.93 a 1.90 Corn?Yellow 00 a ?89)tf Mixed ? 60 a .00 Petroleum?Crude 13 XReflnedlDtf BeefCattte \. 00 a .08# Clover Seed v.... 8.00 a 8.73 Timothy.. V./ 3.25 a 3.50 daAmoblk, Cotton?Low Middliqgf .\ 18^a .18^ Flour?Extra \. 6.75 a 8.00 Wheat A :. 1.60 a 2.10 Corn?Yellow Y. 60 a .60 Oata .V. ? a .49 Preparation of Heat Extract. ] A new mode of preparing certain nds of meat has lately been patented i Paris by M. Durand. This has more irticular reference to the flesh of rawns, shrimps, and other delicate -nstaceans, in regard to which, as is I ell known, mncn trouble is experilced in the picking oat of the flesh om the external skeleton after boiling, he new method consists in placing 0 le shrimps, while still alive, in a * ouble metallic ring perforated with a nail holes, some course material being s sed as a filter. This ring is subjected * > pressure, which squeezes the flesh at into a vessel placed below. This a lay be then mixed with the necessary iasoning, boiled, and dried by evaportion, so as to form a compact paste, hick will keep for a long time, furishing an excellent article of food. A imilar process can be applied to the i reparation of fish, the meat of which J m be forced out, leaving the bones, :ales, etc., behind. The flesh of both t sh and crustaceans before eooking is 1 ery soft, and easily yields to the tieatlent indicated. This process might erhaps be applied to advantage in the use of shad and herrings, the bones of bich constitute so great an objection ) them nB an article of food. Veterinary Surgeons all over the couuv are recommending Sfwritlan't Cavalry Conition Ponders for the following trouble in orees Loss of appetite, roughuesH of the air, etoppage of bowels or water, thick water. jughs and colds, swelling of the glands, worms, oruo oil, thick wind, and boa vet).? Com. A friend of onrs who is qjiief clerk in ie Governmental Dispensary, ears that no tediciue chest is now comploto without John>n's Anodyne Liniment. We always supposed was prescribed by law; if it is liot, it ought ) be, for certainly there is nothing in the whole iateria medica of so much importance to the j sldier and the sailor as Johnson's Anodyne *i .iniment.?Com. i "A "Wonder of Medical Science," iav well be applied to Dr. Il'wtar'a Balsam of Vild Cherry. It is nearly half a century since his remarkable remedy was introduced to the ublic, and yet the immediato and enviable eputation which it gained by its wonderful ures of coughs, colds, hooping cough, sore liroat, influenza, consumption, and all bronliial complaints, is to this day fully sustained. -Com. Throat Affections and Hoarseness. -All suffering from Irritation of the Throat nd Hoarseness will be agreeably surprised at he almost immediate relief afforded by the use f " Brown's Bronchial Troches."?Com. To have elegant light Biscuits, Rolls, luckwheat Cakes, Fruit Dumplings, Ac., you hould use Dooley's Yeast Powder. Ask your Irocerforit. It is a pure Baking Powder.-Com. For Loss of Appetite, Dyspepsia, Ingestion, Depression of Spirits and General )ebility, in their various forms, Fxrro-Phoborated Elixir of Calisaya made bv Caswell, Iazard A Co., Now York, and sold hy all druggists, is the best tonic. As a stimulant tonic or patients, recovering from fever or other ickncss, it has no equal. If taken during the eason it prevents fever and ague and other utcrmittent fevere.?Com. The Browns and Blacks produced by hat sterling preparation, Cristadoro's Exceliior Hair Dye, caunot bo excelled by Nature ; ts tints challenge comparison with' Nature's nost favored productions, and defy detection. -Com. Flaoo's Instant Relief.?Warranted o relieve all Rheumatic Afflictions, Sprains, S'euralgia. etc. The best, the surest, and the juickcnt remedv for all Bowel Complaints. Relef guarrauteed or the money refuudod.? Com. Wnke Up The System* When the physical energies droop and the mind / jecomeslcthargic.it may be taken for^anted that die digestion it impaired and the ltvCr derelict in tV^uty. Upon the condition o^hc stomach and IIYerwpcna xno cunuiuuiyi iac uiuuu, uuu ujrvu | the quall^^^hat fluid^cpends the vigor of the body and the catfthtlii^or brain labor. It t?, thereTore, of the utmoUMnRb(Jance to men engaged in active pursuU^wbo arc sub)qrt to attacka of bodily weakno^tnd mental stuporbwAndlffercnce, to know from what aonrce they can obtatfrtmmediate and permanent relief. The tonic and antl-btllous itimulatlng elements combined in Hostetter's Stomach Bitters, peculiarly adapt that genial preparation to cases of this kind. The rapidity with which it rouses the dormant powers of the muscular and nervous system, is marvelous. Acting first upon the digestive organs, and through them upon the fluids of the body, the nerves and the brain, it renovates, refreshes and regulates, not only the corporal powers, but the mlud itself. As debility and its usual concomitant, mental torpor or depression, aro often caused, nnd where they already exist, are always aggravated by the oamp and variable weather prevalent in the spring months, persons of feeble stamina and weak nerves, should go through a course of this agreeable stimulant at this season, and indeed would derive great advantage from taking It at least once a day throughout the year. fllHE MAGIC CORN PLANTER EXCELS. ? Price *300. MYRON CASE. Kasong, N. Y. PAINTERS ROOKS.?Catalogue mailed free. Address, ROUSSEAU ^ CO., Buffalo, N. Y. O ( n Per Week IN CASH to good Agents. OHr" " Address A. Cot.'I.TKtt .1 Co.,Charlotte.Mir h. riHMIIKK LAN OS in Pentisvlvanla at $ 10 per I acre. Apply to I'. W. SHE A IK It, lottsville. I'.i. PERSONS .contemplating n removal to the J West will'consult their own Interest bv addressing JOS. II. Af.KXAMtER. See'y Citirens' Association. St. Charles, }|t*s> ttrl. SI.\< E 1 NOO. the undersigned Iiik been successfully diKiyuil in collecting claims in Europe. J. F. FRCKAl'EF, Attorney at Law, Columbia, Pa. nf?? AT T\ ? TIIF. <i IIF.AT CI*II 10S| TV. GEN\X\JIJXJ. L'INK GOLD ({CARTER DOLLARS, to wear a* charms, ornaments, Ac , Ac. 1 he most valuable anil unique of all keepsakes. Warranted rune uuld grnuint coin. Only a small lot ever made. Scut sealed for cts each; 6 for fit. Call be had only Irom Hunter A Cm. Hinsdale, N. H. "HAPPY HOURS," , New Cliromo liy If III. Will begi ven to every Subscriber to Am atktr, (he leading Mune.il Monthly. Subaeri/itimi only lint li'Jhtr /nr JViir. Sample Cujiy 10 cents. Lee A Walker m Musical Almanac for le7.'l sent Jrte to any address. LEE do WALKEII, Music Publishers, 9't't Chestnut >1.. Philadelphia, Pa. CHICAGO, MILWAUKEE & ST. PAUL RAILWAY. (Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Co.) Extending from Clilcatfo to Milwaukee, La Crosse, Winoun, IlnsiliKis, St. Paul aua Minneapolis. Also to Mndlsou. Prnlrlc <lu Chirii. Austin, Owntoiiiin, Clinrlcs City. Mnsou City ami Algnmi ; also t-.Jones villi-, Monroe, Illpon, Berlin and Osltkosh. Embracing more Business Cent res an J Pleasure Itesorts than any N rthwestern litre. CHICAGO DEPOTCorner Canal and Madison streets, (with I'lttsburtr. Port Wayne A Penusvlvantn.and Chicago. Alton A St. Louis K'ys.) MILWAUKEE DEPOT - Corner Kccd anil South Water streets. Connecting in St. Paul with all Railways diverging thence. New York Office?319 Broadway. bostoh Office?i court street. Okxku al Offices?Milwaukee, Wis. h. 9. MERRILL, Oen. Manager. JXO. C. OACLT. Ass't Oen. Mauairer. A. V. H. CARPENTER. 0. P. und T. Agent. ?M/nPlflMaPI AQO MALE or FEMALE, MO a rrUrltlnUtihrlvd sweekausrsnteed. R-sipecta:ls en'.ploym. nMthcme, day nrevening; no capita I requirip.-truetions and valuable package of goods seut by mail. A ridress, with six cent return stamp, M. YOUJfU A CO., 18 Oortlandt-tt., New York. CK la COO rerdeyl Agents wanted I All classes AD 1(1 3>?U n.l,i r,f either sea vnnu. or old. make more money at work for us in their iparo moment* or all the time than at any thing else. Particulars free. Address 0. 8TIN80N A CO., Port* land. Mo. Dr. Whittier, "US" Longest engaged and most successful physicist of the ago. Consultations or pamphlet free. Cal or write. <tjn Tfi <Mfl x&idts&asxt tDlU 1 U tfllQU A H BlalrACo., St. LouisJfo GREATEST CURIOSITY jOq selling weekly. Price CO cents. Wo humbug Address Qiobqs A. Bass A Co., Boston, Mass. , - ..i'.w .2.000,00(K ACRES ! -1 Cheap Farms! hs Cheapest La*d ix Mabk*t, for tale by the ' JNION PACIFIC RAILROAD CO., In the OREAT PLATTE VALLEY. 3,000,000 Acre* in Central Nebraska low for tale tn tracts of forty acres and upwards n Are and ten years' crcolt at 6 per cent. Mo ,d vancc Interest required. Mild and Healthful Climate, Fertile Soli, aa bnndanrr ofOond Water. THE BEST MARKET IN THE WEST I T*8 great lining Regions of Wyoming, Colorado, Utah and levada, being supplied by the fartters fh the 'latte Valley. OLOIERS ENTITLED TO A, HOMESTEAD OF 160 ACRES. THE BEST LOCATIONS FOB COLONIES. 1 FRKP. HOMES FOR ALL I Million* of acre* Of hoicc Government L*ndA>j>?n for entry under the foiaestcsd Law, near this Oroat Railroad, with roo<i markets and all the cuuveuleuceS of an old etiled country. tP^| Free pastes to purchasers of Railrosd Land. Sectional Maps, showing the Land, alto new edtIon of Descriptive Pamphlut with new Maps nailed free every where. Address, O. F. DAVIS, Land Commissioner V. P. R. R>, Omaha, Neb. NTS P?Ho 14 liranOTSi a MOTHERS! MOTHERS. MOTHERS! Don't fail to procure MBS. WINSLQW' SOOTHING SYRUP FOR OHILDCQIN TBTTB [NG. Thli valuable preparation baa bean naed with NEVER-FAILING SUCCESS IN THOUSANDS Of CASES. It not only relieves tba child from pain, but rlgoratce the ttcmacb and bowels, corracta acidity and (fives tone and etiorgy to the whole system. It will alao instantly relieve MM^s Griping ot the Bowela and Wind Oolie. We believe It the BEST and BURK8T REMEDY IN THE WORLD in all caeca of DYSERVBRY AND DIARRHCEA IN CHILDREN, whether arising from teething or any other cauae. Depend upon it, mothers, It will give rest to youraelvea/nd Relief and Health to Tour Infanta. Be sure and call for ... " MRS. WINSLOW'S SOOTHING rT*UP." Having the fac-aimlle of ' CURTIS A PMRXIK'S,' ~ on the outside wrapper. Sold by Druggists throughout the World. Ciikrrv, which does not dry up a cough and % leaves the causo behind, hat loosens it, cleanses the lungs and allays Irritation, thus removing the cause of. the complaint. CONSUMPTION CAN BE CU*ED by a timely resort to this standard remedy, as is **t proved by hundreds of testimonials it has received. The grnklnr Is signed "/. IlutU" on the wrapper. SETH w. FOWLE & SONS, Pporitrrroaa, Rostov. Mass. Sold by dealers generally. 8500 IN PRIZES. I'vnj i cini VVfllMniiT.Tim Da> a Earlier than Kafly Hose. KllOI'? fl] iiiiiiify Productive and of KX^ CKLftENT FI.AYOH. 81 per lb.; HMJ 4 puuikls by raatlijjbstpaldjor f 3.50. A CoAtoX'S hlUPIUSB, 8*0 I?? 11 ItiiiMi lu llicMrrr. A little later than Ewly Hoie./Equal In quality. S3 F?I L per pound, by m#l, postpaid. 8.">00??ill bc/wardod, a* PREMIUMS KJ to thosefcho p induce the Largest Quan. tity frornhne nbund. Dcictiptlve Circuit ham lara of thl atxjlre, with Hit of 8C0 variety tie! nt ]'<\tut<7< ?. free to all. A Hlust rntdd Seed CsitnlOtfne, 2f>0 r LJ pag-s.wttp folorrdChromo, vAreuti. r . A New f/mato, the AHL.1XGTON. M f| Early, aolll anil productive. Price, i'o Ua per picket B. K. BL^SS & SONS, 2.1 Park PincoJ ! Now York. USE the Rcisingw Sail Lack and Support to FASTEN/YOJJR WJNDOWS! No spring to brsk, no rutting of sash; cheap, durable, very easilf appllAl; holds sash at any place dust red, and a ffelf fustfcer when the sash Is down. Send stamp foncirculal Circular and six copperbronzed lockslent to any address In the U. 8.,postpaid, on receift ofCOctl. Liberal Inducements to the trade, /gents waited. Address, Reislnger Sash Lock Car. No 41" Mlrket St.. Harrlsbnrg. Pa. [Por illustmtlon of thiarhespest and best lock see KW'n HnniMd SliiQiittne. A. V. Tnilrpenitent, etc.] 0 Is the BEST IN [THE WORLD. Aoiiitnlfauled. Send for Similar. Address: ' DOMESTIC " SEW] SO MACHINE CO., N. Y. \Tjittl'ABLE FARM 8E*> AND DOORS GIVEN aWaY?Three specimen copies of the AMkuiC AX frOCK JOL'IIXAI.. Containing over 100 page! of valuAlc reading matter. Manuiomor muiuuru with JStiK caelum of Farm BlUdinga, Blooded 8 took, Poultry, Dors, Birds, Ac., aid a pa. itareofCnetiTKH Col'.ti v Mammoth Cokn, loknrted White OaTaand At.stKC or Li'Zkkn Ci.ovkrI will he aent FREE to all whin send two atampa (or p. static. Atldrt-aa N. Pi BOYER A CO., Purkealurtf, Cheater Co., Pa. Write for 1, in/.- [Iinatratedlpoacrlplive Price Lia pinsaiRGH.M^?^ Doutie. Single, Mttzrle, BreccbC.oadiiiR Kiflea. Shot (iuna Revolver!, Pistols, etc.: of every kind for men or htla at eery low prtcea. Quia 33 to $300, Platcla Tliea-Nectar Black TEA r- -/"'aftta wiffri. With tlio Orlen Tea Flavor, WjB"EcmnetfTEAy* The beat Teafcmported. Por aalc ovorywhofc. And for aale PoriPaN sf wboletale only! by the QREAT fflr ATLANTIC ,t PACIFIC TEA CO ffil _ |M?V> l llll No. l 'l Fulton Si. A l! A 4 Chun h St., New Y-rk. I>. 0. Box, A.MO. -fSEP' Send for Thea-Nlctar Circular I [KtlabUthed 1HS0.J "Wolch tfc Grlffltlin, ^ > Manufacturci a of Snwa, SUPERIOR TO ALL OTHERS. ^ RTERY SAW WARRANTED. 55 FILES, BELTING AND MACHUfEBY LIBERAL ItlSCOUNTS. Price Llata aud Circulara free. "> I au o ooierlTUC "' I' W CLUn Oft vmr r n?| I % Boston. Man.. & Dctroit/Mfch. Sl'UltTAlf^K Soda Foimtains, 810, 8.10. S*1 nml 8100. GOOD, DDHAaft, AND CHEAP snil'PKDJpADY FOR UbE. J. W. OjjfAPMAN & CO, ?innnl/EWAR? ill llllll Fo| 'V1ca>* ?f Blind-Weeding, Itch UlaUUtf In A M* Ulcerated PUee that Dr RING'S PILE WORDY fat It to care. It la pre pared expreialy Wcnro the Pile* and nothing elie SOLD BY AI.L JUGOISTS. PRICB *L iSr- WlAlPr 296 PElfH 8THEET '*'* " JMB4CI, Pittabnrg. Pa. Longeet enoAed nd moat aucceaaful phyalclan of the age. CBsultltlon or pamphlet free. Call or write. ^ mmr mm THIS IS NOWbsiBFG. Branding 86 eta.-, wl?b,i?g?hgtHM, tolorof ayes andlialr, ynu will racel-re-aa* r#,T^atnre M your futare husband or wlfs, with Amt> and data of m?rHafe. Wv FOX, P. 0. Drawer^. Hu*jnj,?Ulj, V. T mrOTKy Unit rnpfd!ywith J Kay Cheek iBL Outfits. Catalogues. ?a"f^(and full uartle nlari J>W? a M. Brancar. 11T HaViTar ft.. Boston ulF*f> A A BACH WBIX-AO*HTt WAXTMD ?5> i Ael'U Business legitimate Pattellas free. J. WORTH, St. Louie, Mo. B<% UO,