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Farm, Garden and Household. How My Friend Got HU Orchard. I must begin, says a Tribune correspondent, by saying, my story dates back some fourteen years, and I would not write it but I tlunk it may suggest the means of procuring trees, to those who are now unable (or think themselves so) to buy of the nurserymen trees old enough to set in the orchard. My friend was poor. He began life without means, and marrying at the age of 22, ho had nothing but his head and hands on which to rely for a living. He taught the district school winters, and did such farm labor as was wanted in the neighborhood during the remainder of the J ear. His wife had inherited a small ome?a comfortable house?and some farm-land adjoining, but there was no orchard, and the door-yard was destitute of trees. Ornamental trees were wanted, but the orchard was the first and important object to be attained? but how ? Their small earnings left no surplus, after paying current expenses, that could be spared for anything but pressing present necessities. The agents of the nurseries frequently called, but uniformly received the reply, 44 We want your trees, but we cannot pay for them. Finally it chanced that an agent more enterprising than had previously II '> ! mw 'c nrofon t'UiiCU, UUC1CU W tonu XXJIJ iiivuu a TT uwvii for anything he had to sell. Here was a chance to get trees, but the watch was a poor affair, worth but 810, and would pay for but few trees of the age and size usually sold by nurserymen. The difficulty was solved by my friend deciding to take nursery stock?seedlings that had been grafted but never set in the nursery, at $1 per 100. He made his own selections for his thousand trees, and on receipt of them planted in nursery form. They grew finely, not giore than five per cent, dying. At two years old he transplanted 300 to the orchard. The remainder were cared for, and at three years old were offered for sale to his neighbors, he only reserving enough to make good the losses in the orchard. The sales from the little nursery ran through some three years and amounted to 865. Now after 14 years we will look at some of the results. My friend now has an orchard of 300 trees that is now admitted by all to be the best of its age and size in this part of the country. The sixth year after the receipt of the trees the orchard began to bear, and one Baldwin had two bushels of apples. Since that time there has each year been a good supply for family use. Two years ago the orchard yielded a surplus above the necessities of my friend's family? which, by the way, is not small, there being now five children in the brood? that was sold for 830. There has been sold from last year's yield 825 worth of apples, and there now remains an equal uinount unsold. And all from the old watch, worth only 810. My friend's wife says I must say the first silver for her table was paid for from the first sale from the orchard. Ploughing. The question of deep versus shallow ploughing is receiving new notice of late, the shallow ploughing theorists? perhaps it should be said also exemplars ?seeming to be gaining new accessions. But in all that has been said and written, and in all the practical testimony adduced, we have seen no reason to distrust or abandon what experience has taught us to be the true practice in ploughing, to wit: 1. Deep ploughing is useless on light, porous soils, xinless there is a stiffer sub-soil with which the surface soil may be intermixed fo produce profitable mechanical effect. 2. Except in the case where it is desirable to mix stiff subsoil with light surface soil, a trench plough should never be used in deep ploughing. 3. It is a positive gain to all stiff, tenacious soils to plough shallow in fall and follow with a subsoil plough, lifting but not inverting the earth as deep as may be ; and on land intended for corn or potatoes, where stiff clay soils are cultivated, this subsoiling may be done profitably in spring. 4. We do not recommend deep trench ploughing (that is, inverting the soil) in spring, under any circumstances. If fliia ia ilnno of oil if aVu-mlrl olwovo done in the falf. Nor do we recommend URing a plough in preparing the seed bed in spring for grain ; as a rule a two-horse steel-tooth cultivator is far better, because it pulverizes and comminutes the earth more throughly. Harrowing Wheat and Urasn. The Elmira Farmers' Club, composed of good farmers, decided at a recent meeting that wheat is greatly benefited by being harrowed in the spring when the ground is neither wet nor dry. Where put in with a drill, the ridges will be leveled and some of the plants will be destroyed, but enough more will appear to make the work highly profitable. Grass is especially benefited by harrowing, though manure should be added. One member stated that a piece which did not produce 500 lbs. of hUv to the acre, being sowed to clover and timothy and harrowed in, produced a good crop. The harrowing has the effect of hoeing, and old seed long dormant for want of a proper seed-bed germinates, and a good stand is secured. The Club agreed that in seediug land the best results are obtained on ground in oats, and that barley and buckwheat $ire both unfavorable. Mice Girdling Trees. P. F. B., Railway, N. J., has young apple trees that have been badly gnawed by mice, and asks how he shall treat them. He should cut branches of green wood from the tree, of a length required to connect the bark above and below the gtlawed space, sharpen them at each end in the shape of a wedge, drive a ?1., :?A? ii. ? i i. ..i AKiiiwvv, oiitti^uiiociiuw tut' uur& uuuyr ami below the space, and press each end of the shoots firmly into cuts made by the chisel. Then wax the gnawed space well, or bandage it about with fresh cow manure from the stable. Pains must be taken- to have the bark on the body of the tree and the bark of the branches driven therein meet. Sometimes, if the trees are gnawed close to the ground, banking up with earth so as to cover the gnawed places completely, will save them ; but if too high from the ground the above process is the best and surest. Coast of Nova Scotia. -The coast of Nova Scotia has long been known as a dangerous one in rong u weather, and mu.lra l.nr.a ovmv uvauutv n i rvnn ii??u wvuiicu ill past years. On the morning of November 16, 1797, the French frigate La Tridune went down, with 300 persons on board. The British gun-boat Drake was wrecked there June 20, 1822, and sixty persons drowned ; and Jnly 13, 1843, the British troop-ship Albert went ashore, though most on board were saved. The last great wreck on the Nova Scotia coast before that of the Atlantic was the United States mail stetpi-ship Hungarian, February 20, 186$, when all on board, numbering 205 persons, were lost. "Laughorisms" is the heading of a column in the California Advertiser. The Formation of Eggs. t I will now state, says Prof. Agassiz, t as far as it is known, what an egg is, and how it is formed. As the egg grows f steadily until it has completed its trans1 formation, it is difficult to give a det scription of it which will answer for all y these stages, since at every successive t stage, while growing, the egg differs e from what it was before and from what a it is to be. All eggs, however, arise in 1 what are called ovaries. These are e clusters of cells, forming buuches of t a somewhat glandular character in apf pearance. Between these cells the eggs - are formed and in such a way as at first . to "be hardly distinguished irom the t cells themselves. The same is true of i sperm cells, which arise in organs of the same character as the ovary, and y are formed in a manner perfectly simii lar to that of the formation of the egg. - So we have these two spheres of growth y which characterize sex in the animal i kingdom, arising in conditions so veiy - similar that the essence of the two is l hardly to be determined by observation. ~ T* ia /vnltT flia rtrnpcoo nf OTnwth bv The Florida Indian Mounds. The Turtle mound is among the mos famous in Florida. A corresponden says of it: The mound is on the beach side o Mosquito Lagoon, nearly a hnndrec miles south of St. Augustine. Abou eighty feet in height, it covers nearl; an acre of ground, and can be seen a a great distance looming up on tin eastern horizon far above the palmetto scrub fringing the ocean. It is shape< like an immense turtle. This shap< gives it its name. It is the highes point of land on the eastern coast o Florida, and stands -within three hnn dred yards of the roaring ocean surf From the deck of a vessel ten miles a sea it resembles a ruined fortificatioi built upon a hill. Turtle Mound is a great hesl|) of ver large oyster shells covered with fron one to two feet of dirt. On the north west corner the rain has washed awa1 ' the dirt, leaving a perpendicular ban! of shells, eighty feet high. The build ers of the work evidently raised it witl the greatest care. Every shell wa placed in a given position. Where tli< slide has occurred the oyster shells res in plumbed layers, with the smooth sur face facing the sky. A stone wall couh not have been erected with more pre cision. The mound is alive with tropi cal shrubbery. Wild orange trees load ed with fruit wave on its summit abovi an almost impenetrable thicket. 1 hollow covered with rank vegetation ha been scooped out of the top of the hill It has an easy slope, and is probabl; twelve feet in depth. It looks as tliougi the bones of some large animal ha< been dug out of it in ages past. Mos quito Lagoon washes the western base o the mound. I found a small deer path which le< from a little sandspit up the side of thi hill. The path, however, was soon los in the thicket, and it was with th greastest difficulty that I finally sue ceeded in forcing my way through tb thorny undergrowth and sharp-pointe< r* V 1 A- A- 1L. X Al. opanisu Dayont'wj vo me tup ui wi mound. Even then the shrubbery wa higher than ray head, and the wil< oranges were higher than the shrubbery I spent half an hour in forcing mysel to a point of observation. No mountains nor hills could be see: from the mound ; nothing but one vas flat surface veined with lagoons an< rivers and covered with spots of wax like vegetation. The builders of Turtle Mound ar unknown. They were undoubtedly race of Indians who were wiped out o existence centuries ago. The Seminole and other Florida tribes declare tlin they have no traditions that explain th mystery. They look upon the mourn with nearly the same awe as the whites What is singular with regard to Turtl Mound is the fact that there are no oys ters excepting the small coon oyster within thirty miles. It would be inter esting to know why these shells wer brought from an oyster region far awa; and so carefully deposited at this spot Some think that the mound builder of Florida were contemporary with th mound builders of the West. They be lieve that the whole State was once un der their control, and that thousands o vears ago they were accustomed to visi Turtle Mound once a year, fill them selves with fat oysters which might a that time have been found in the vicini i 1 *1 AV _ 1 _11_ 1 4.1. IJ9 ancipiie uie siieua 111 u? tnc now appear in tlio mound. This ma; have been a religious observation wit! the Indians. But the whole thing i speculation. Nobody knows anythini about it, and there is no probabilit that any one will ever discover the se cret. A Strange Suicide. The San Francisco Call tells of a cas of suicide in that city which is of de cided interest, apropos of the Goodric] case. The name of the suicide wa James P. Wilson. The post morten examination revealed the fact that ther was a bullet wound in the upper portioi of the head and another in the regioi of the right eye. The bullet which pro duced the wound first described enterei the forehead and shattered the fronta bone, then glanced along the uppe part of the brain, while the other bulle entered the right eye, and after passini through the brain, lodged in the bad of the head. This, in connection wit] the fact that, when found, the deceasei held in his right hand a siflgle-barre breech-loading pistol, led to the belie that he could not have committed sui cide. The argument used in favor o that belief was that deceased could no have inflicted two wounds such as dc scribed with a jingle barrel pistol. J further investigation, however, showei that any other theory was untenable One of the witnesses testified that h saw a man walking along Turk street and saw the man stop, raise his ham toward his head, and then heard a re port of a weapon, and saw smoke. Tha lie supposed at the time that the ma was shooting at birds, for after the she had been fired he saw the man continu along Turk street, and saw him cross fence. That about half or three-quai ters of an hour after that he saw th same man return to the place where th first shot was fired, heard him fire second shot, and saw him fall. Tht there war no one in the vicinitv at til time. He afterward learned that tfa man was dead, having shot liimsel Ten feet from where the bedy was fonn a pool of blood was discovered, andneti it an empty cartridge shell which c: actly fitted the pistol. Western Cattle Trade. There has been not a little dulnes and depression in the Western catt] market, aiul even more anxiety as t what the near future would bring fortl The Eastern markets have been ove: stocked, causing a decline in price of $c. a Jc. In the fear that a sti further break would result 'from tli | liberal shipments which have bee steadily made, dealers have been pa: ticnlarly cautious and captious, an drovers have had to take what was o ' fered them, and be thankful that it we * no less. From $0 upwards only w t ' realized on herds that had been hel for nearly $7, and sometimes the deah j gave less than the drover had paid i the first instance. Some fears are ei tertained that this dulness will last a through the season, especially as sona 5,000 head of still-fed cattle will b thrown on the market within the nea ' mouth. On the other hand the grot Texas drive for 1873 promises to I 1 somewhat below the average twin i the number and condition of its catth j The openiag of lake navigation, wit the corresponding decrease in freigl ! ratea, will further advantage the Wes 1 era dealers, so that a recovery from tl ! present depression may soon be expec ed. At the same time it is not likel that prices will advauce so as to mater ally affect the consumer in the East. Ingenious Chinamen in San Francisc show duplicated receipts for tho sail ) when asked to pay their poll-tax. a mo v-v "j ?- 1 ? o ? -a 0 the influences produced by the one t upon the other, and by the consequences - of these influences, that we recognize 1 the essential difference which distin guishes them. In order fully to appreciate what eggs - are, we must remember?what has been e known for about a half century only? L that all organized bodies are composed s of little bags which are called cells, and . which are formed and multipled in vay rious ways. Most of these cells are so j small that they can only be perceived 1 by the aid of high magnifying powers. - There are, it is true, a few cell strucf tures large enough to be seen with the naked eye, as for instance the cells of 1 common elder pith, or the coarse cells e of the orange. It is one of the great t problems of modern research to ascere tain how these cells are formed and i- what is their mode of reproduction, e For it does not seem that cells are form1 ed in the same way under all circum" ? 1*1 i.1 4. e stances, some naturalists assume muo s in the animal substance secreted by a 1 living bodv, such as milk which is se; creted by the mammary glands or simif lar substances secreted by other organs, certain particles become centers of acn tion, around which other particles t crowd ; and when a little connection of 3 this kind, microscopically small, has been formed, an envelope arises around it, and we have the utricle or cell, e Others believe that minute, imperceptia ble particles of animal substance swell f and enlarge, and become hollow, so that s a little bag is formed, a cell envelope in t short, which fills as it enlarges into a e fluid substance. 3 . i. Lace Girls of Nottingham. e Every lace machine employing two l~ men requires twenty to thirty women '? to wind the silk or cotton first, and to dress, finish, clip, and /scallop, and card e or fold, and pack up the goods at last. ^ The above is a moderate estimate of the '* proportion of girls over sixteen years 8 old required. "Pattern girls," who e make up pattern-books, and post up and " prepare, ticket and number, little pack" ets of patterns to go abroad, and who, therefore, must have 6ome education, or at least write fairly, get about ?1 a " week. From three or four to thirty or forty of these smart girls are employed in each warehouse. They must be * dressed well, and sometimes rather J smartly, because they are constantly in and out of the sale-rooms, and seen by 8 the buyers. "Jenniers," who wind tho ? lace on the cards, get about ?1 a week, ? and finishers generally 12*. to ?1 5s. These are "warehouse hands," and they consider themselves superior to " fac^" fltAiirpli otr /In nnf T llliny lO SIXljr UtJO, jjcut-iui mau&, 111111e ty days to four or even six months, f- The rule in the tea trade is three per <1 cent, off for cash in ten days, or four ir mouths net; coffee, sixty days ; sugars, thirty days net; spices, six months, discount for cash; tobacco, cash in ten days. The hide, skin, and leatherraarkets show great variations. Coal, cash in ten days. Freights are always cash, is or a sixty-day bill. [e 0 Inhuman Treatment. *r' A case of revolting cruelty to a child * has just been made public in Clarke jj county, la. Daniel Bams, a United Brethren preacher living near Smyrna, 1 is the fieud, and a little girl named r_ Oglesbv the victim. At the preliminary j trial witnesses testified to numerous f beatings and knocks-down ; to the child being put out of doors in the coldest weather; kept out until its feet were j frozen, and tliatthe fiend held the child's ; bare arms to the fire until thev were ' burned to a blister, and that his last act : of cruelty was to knock it down, and, jj while it was in an insensible state, he fonlr n noker and scared the flesh |e on its legs and body. When the child . winced under the hot iron, he remarked to Mrs. Radcliffe, the woman who filed the information against him, "Oh! she ain't dead yet." At the close of the ex? amination the Justice held him for trial, j" Sams not being able to give bonds, the . Justice allowed him to go at large on his t promise to appear for trial. Sams immediately left the country, and parties ie at Smyrna are preparing to prosecute , the Justice of the Peace for neglect of * duty. The child's mental faculties hare 1_ been ruined by its barbarous treatment, and it has been sent to a sister in Wayne County. ? le One Rhode Island oompany turns out twelve locomotives every month. Fighting the Modocs. T Remit of Two Dajri' Flfhtlnff. A report from the lava beds giveB the details of two days' fighting by the United States troops against the Modoc n Indians. From the report we glean the n following: a While marching along the lake shore, ? just at the head of Long Cave, about a ? mile and a half from Jack's camp, the * troops encountered the first opposition ; straggling shots were fired from the ? bluff at long range. The men were de- ^ ployed in open skirmish order and ad- * vanced slowly under such cover as the ? rocks afforded. ? Our right opened a gorge in the bluff, from the right bank of which came a straggling shots, while a few fell around J us from the left bank. Our skirmishers 11 crept up, supported by the reserves, u until we arrived at a snon range, wucu a severe volley was fifed from the bluff, 11 there evidently being twenty-five or r thirtv Indians posted there. The fire 8 was heavy. ? After standing about fifteen minutes J; the order to charge was given, and the ^ men sprang forward amid most deafening yells from the Modocs. Such was the rapidity of the onslaught and so un- 8 expected that the troops were on them r before they knew it, and in a few min- E utes we were masters of the situation 8 and our brave boys were behind the j1 rocks resting at their leisure. General Gillem had sent an order to 0 Colonel Mason to stir the Indians up on 8 his side, and he let into them with a E vengeance, distracting their attention * and materially assisting our troops. The 6 charge was a gallant one ; and four of c the troops were wounded, none being c killed. At this time a few Coehorn mortars were brought to the front and 1 they opened fire in the Indian strong- 1 holds, and the troops rested for the ? night. { At 7o'clock the next morning, word was * was brougot from Col. Mason's command J that some of the Indians hod passed out . on his left and were then on his flank j; and rear. How many escaped it was * not known. About twelve o'clock Colonels Greene and Mason's commands effected a junc- f ture, which entirely cut off the Modocs from the water. After this movement was effected occasional firing was heard at different parts of the line. It was decided not to push the troops on the , Indian stronghold, as we might lose many men without killing an Indian, whereas if we could keep them from the . water they would have to leave their ! position. We could not find them in a stronger one. Our losses in the two 1 days' fight have been five killed and ten J wounded. The only officer yet wounded is Lieutenant Egan, a flesh wound in 1 the left leg, and he is doing well. The ' junction has been formed between * Greene's right and Mason's left. Five j Indians are reported killed. Of these we have some scalps. None of our killed or wounded have yet fallen into the hands of the Indians. It is evident if our men dan hold their position on . bUIJ UUIJUHj bauu^a vavj uw uw} * should think, get on an average higher e wages, if bo much, for a clever frame clipper or winder in a factory can earn [j from 18tf. to 25?. a week. "Dressing" a is dirty work, done in intensely hot ,j rooms, in enormously large buildings, e but the girls'wages are very high. The n immense demand for female labor the a town, of course, cannot supply. The work is so lucrative, and bo light and ] agreeable, especially the warehouse 1 work, that young girls are attracted r from all the towns and villages round, t and even from a considerable distance. ? These girls live, remote from their Ij friends, in lodgings. Sometimes sever[t al join and rent a house, and live toj gether. ] Credits and Business. - It is an undoubted fact that credits f are now more extended than they were t at the close of the war. The mercantile classes are more deeply in debt than at ^ any former period of the history of our I country. Competition, or the obliga>. linn In sell is the nrinciDal inducing e cause toward credits, especially long ones. During seasons of financial d stringency, the disposition to give credits for any considerable length of t time is supplanted by a desire to realize, n and a reduction of tne money values of ?t goods takes place. At average condie tions of the market, however, those ara tides most subject to .fluctuation and - risk are those for which credit is shorte est. The Globe tells about credits in e Boston: Cotton is mostly sold for cash a at ten days; wool, for cash, in thirty d days; dry goods (domestics) run from the lake shore the Modocs will have to ' surrender. There is at present a heavy * fi*e of musketry near the lake shore, ^ and the Indians are evidently fighting x for the water. Every one who has seen ^ our troops in action spoke of them in the highest terms. j Counterfeit* Currency. t An old "Washington engraver told a correspondent the following story: "I am one of the oldest engravers in this > country. There is an investigation one t day to be made ihto the currency of the i country, which will startle you, and your t newspapers, and all their readers. There c is a $10 bill. Take it?look at it! Do ( you see anything notable about it ?" I looked the bill all over, and thon the g man all over, and saw nothing to excite remark in either. "There is nothing particular about that bill," ho said, "ex- ' cept that it is a counterfeit. There are eighteen distinct counterfeits on the $10 1 bill, and, as an engraver, I know that they represent eighteen different counterfeiting gangs. I got this bill from a street-car conductor in New York. I j got into his car, and, as he came along, t I said 'my friend; I am sorry to ask you y for so much change, but really, I have , nothing less than a 320.' 'O,' said he, 'I'll oblige you,' and, in a smiling way, he gave me this bill and a quantity of ( fifty-cent fractional currency. I put the , whole away in my pocket, -and, being f an engraver, I got to looking at the ^ number 37 on the lantern window of the j car. Thought I to myself, 'That's a .re- j markably handsome 7 for a common { painter to make.' You know that an f engraver notices such things. Well, that evening I went into my hotel, and going up to the man who sells cigars there, and is known to everybody in New 1 York, I tendered him one of the fifty- i cent papers. Old Jimmy looked at it 1 and said to me, 'I am sorry, Mr. Robin- J son, but that stamp is counterfeit. It's a very well-executed one, but I have : nothing better to do in my leisure time than to look over such things.' At this Jimmy handed me the stamp, and I looked at it, and then at the others, and, t sure enough, they were all counterfeit, j I quietly stepped out side the Astor ? House and looked for No. 37 among the { cars. I found that the conductors ran ? eight hours off and on, and that my man J would not come on till next morning, i There I found, at the appointed time, my conductoi, and stepped up to him and said in a low tone, 'Young man, ^ you changed a bill for me yesterday, , and gave me a quantity of counterfeit } money. Now I want you to take it back i without any noise.' He affected to grow indignant, but I said, 'Stop! stop! Do you see that policeman ? If you don't J return me, in good money, the amount ' which you changed for me, I will have ' you under arrest in two minutes!' Well, it was interesting to see the promptness ' with which that 'shover of the queer' ! gave me all of my money, and forgot to ask for his own." , The Indians. j It is curious, says an exchange, to note that, at the very hour when the ex- ] termination of the Modocs is proposed, Brigham Young is making his home nmnmr the Anaches. the bravest, blood- ! iest, and most treacherous of the warriors of Arizona. He has no fear for his scalp. In the twenty-six years the Mormons have lived in Utah, they have had no trouble with the Indians. We may deride Mormon civilization, but their treatment of the red men was humane and enlightened. It may not be amiss to pluck a leaf from their management for our own guidance in border troubles. Other societies claim that they cannot live in peace with the Indians. The Mormons have shown that they know how to do it The Great Parish Massacre.?Reports from Great Parish, Louisiana, say that over one hundred of the blacks were killed, and that many of them were burned in the Court House. Sixtyfour bodies were burned by the troops near the Court House. Slaughter by Rail. lie Terrible Accident on the Shore Line Railroad. "The wholesale slaughter at Richlond switch brought sudden bereavelent into scores of families aud adds nother to the sad memories which will ise unbidden in the mind of the travelr as he seats himself in a railway car. 'ourteen miles east of Stonington, on be route to Providence, the Shore Line tailroad crosses Pawcatuck river, the oundary between Connecticut and thode Island. The bridge was a short ne without a draw. It must also have een without a watchman. At eleven o'clock the previous night train crossed it coming west. After bis time a milldam on the stream above he crossing was swept away by the unsual torrent of the spring freshet. The ush of water escaping from the pond .ndermined the railway bridge and caried it away, leaving a yawning chasm, oon to be the common grave of an unounted (multitude. At half-past two a tho morning the steamboat train left Itonington, taking the passengers from Jotr Yorlr hv the eveninc steamer. One hundred and sixteen persons conidered themselves safe in this train ushing towards disaster, death and aaiming at the speed of thirty-five miles ,n hour. Twenty minutes brought them o a halt?many of them to the end of ife's journey. Without a word or sign if warning the engine, under full presure of steam, and with the momentum if the train's wejght, jumped clear across he stream, wrecking itself on the eastirn bank, while the cars crashed the ine into and upon the other, and at ince took fire. Only the smoking car escaped, renaming on the western bank. .In the nass of wreck men were drowned, trushed and burned. Mangled and lardly reoognizable as human beings, he bodies of the dead were recovered. The injured were forty in number. )nly the addition of freezing to the leadly horrors is lacking to complete he parallel with the ghastly scene of wo years ago at New Hamburg. In he twinklingof an eye death closed the iccount of these men, till then full of lfe, courage and hopeful anticipation. The Gallows. Execution of Henry Fralieh at Syracuse, New York. Henry Fralieh was hanged in the pententiary at Svracusc, New York, for .he murder of Peter Schaffer. Eight ninutes and a half afterwards he was jronounced dead, and twenty-one minites afterwards the body was lowered ind was subsequently given into the Dossession of the friends of the debased. Fralieh marched firmly to the fallows, where he made a speech delouncing the Judge and District-Attorley in bitter language. He closed his emarks by saying"In the name of Jod Almighty, I am ready; let me go." The murder of Peter Schaffer by Fraieh tnnlr nlore at Svracuse on the 31st w" i ? >f August last. He was tried, found { uilty and sentenced to be hanged on tl'arch 28th. Governor Dix, on the 28th >f March, after, every preparation had >een made for the execution that day, lent a dispatch to Sheriff Evans from Albany respiting the prisoner for one nonth, and at the expiration of that ime the execution took place. Affecting Rhymes.?The obituarian vho writes sweet poetry for the Philalelphia Ledger, had a rough time in naking a rhyme for the too prevalent lisease of the season, but finally proluced the following : )ur little S&llie did to hoaven go, Baby life so sweet is ; 5he was afflicted with the cerebrospinal meningitis. Pis hard to lose our little Sallie so, But the reflection sweet is, Chat she has gone whore there's no cerebrospinal meningitis. Texas wheat fields, it is said, one mndred miles north of the Gulf, yield ihirty bushels to the acre, each bushel veigning several pounds more than the standard. A Maine paper tells this: Fred. Townlend, of East Wilton, a lad of eight, -ushed into a swift stream five feet deep ;o rescue his sister four years old. flinging to the ice and holding his sis&r above the water, he refused to be lelped out himself till his sister was safe. Fred. Butterfleld, a lad of ten, laved them both. A Maryland colored couple, recently narried in Cumberland, went on a brilal trip that they might be in the fashon, Bhe going to Piedmont to visit her uotlier and he going into the country o see his brother. A CORE FUR OON8UMPT ION*. For the care of thii distressing disease there hae teen no medicine jret discovered that can ahow nore evidence of real merit than ALLEN'S LUNO iALSAM. Thla uncqualed expectorant tor curing kffectlone of the throat, lungs, and all diaeaace of he pulmonary organs la introduced to the sufferng public after ite merite for the cure of auch iltalaaea hare been fully teeted by the medical faculty. The Balaam le cnnacquently, recommended by phyliciana who hare become acquainted With ite great lucceas. t WHAT THE DOCTORS SAT: Dr?. Wilson it Ward, phyaiclana and druggists, ivrite from Centreville, Tenu.: "We purchased Allen'* Lung Balaam, and it Bella rapidly. Wo arc practicing phyaiclana, ua well aa druggists, and ;ake pieaaure in recommending a great remedy, tuch at we know this to be." Dr. Lloyd, of Ohio, surgeon In the army during the war, from ezpoaure, contracted consumption, fie says : " I have no hesitation in stating that it was by the use of your Lung Balaam that 1 am now tlive and enjoying good health." Rathantel Harris, of Middleberry, Vt., says: "I have no doubt it will soon become a classical remedial agent for the cure of all diteatei of the Throat, Bronchial Tubes and Lungs." Amos Woolly, M. D., of Koscinsca Co., Ind., says: 11 For three years past 1 have used Allen'* Lung Balaam extensively in my practice, and I am satislied there is no better medicine furling diseases In use." vhvatcians do not recommend a medicine which bes~no merit. What they say about ALLEN'S LUNG BALSAM can be taken ai a fact. Let all afflicted teit It at once, and be convinced of Its real merits. As an expectorant It has no equal. It ts harmless to the most delicate child. It contains no opium In any form. Directions accompany each bottle, CAUTION.?Call for ALLNN'S L UNO BALSAM. J. N. HARRIS A CO., Cincinnati, O. Pbofhiktors. PERRY DAV19 A SON, Oeneral Agents, Providence, R. I. Bold by all Medicine Dealers. roa Sana XT JOHN P. HSNRT, New York. OXO. C. GOODWIN A CO., Boston. JOHNSON, HOLOWAY A CO., Philadelphia. It is ALTooxTBaa Waoxo, to trifle, with a Bad Cough or Cold, when the risk Is so great, and a remedy so sure, prompt and thoroagh as Dr. Jayne'a Expectorant can readily be found. Satanta and Big: Tree. Satanta, the chief of four or five Indian tribes, and Big Tree, a sort of lieutenant to him, have been confined in a Texas penitentiary since November 17, Th 1871. The facts of their capture, their trial, sentence to be handed, and the (JNil action of Governor Davis in commuting their sentences tojife in this prison, our readers are doubtless fully conversant 3,v with already. . Governor Davis treated ?n? theso noted chiefs as any other class of criminals, and chose to give thein a ?bun! lease of life. Satanta came back to the prison, says a correspondent, feel- NeY*< ing very confident that the "Great PLAr Father" at Washington would use his influence and have him and his lieutenant pardoned. He was so certain of it that lie fixed the "moon" at which he and Big Tree would rejoin their people, in TIAWT wnnincp fKnnrrVi nuu Uio mwu 10 uun nauiug^ vuvu^x the President has requested his pardon chofc' and that of his sullen brother, Big Tree. n?m? Since coming to the prison these chiefs have shown nothing in demeanor or speech which could be accepted as ttonC remorse, penitence or shame, their only m*1, thought being an escape from this bondage. Satanta is about fifty years of age, of a light copper color, and quite cheerful k y when compared with his second, Big ^ Tree, who is younger and possesses a IK sullen disposition. Big Tree talks but HI little, and whed he does the burden of ^ his speech is his freedom and his intentions when free. The people of Texas are not in the best of humor at the idea of giving up these chiefs, and insist that the Governor and Legislature shall decline to do it. Jy| [ Fifty-eight years ago the battle of Waterloo was described in one-third of a column in the London Morning Dot Chronicle. Volumes could not convey SOO1: a more forcible illustration of the ex- Thi pansion of journalism than does that single fact. it t 6 orate glrei We should not hesitate to recom- ?i?oi mend to any friends of ours. Parsons' Purgative Pills; they are scientifically prepared, and are adapted to all the purposes of a good purgative medicine.?Com.' THK 0ia1 Decidedly the best remedy that has De ever been discovered for rheumatism, swoolen ,elT< or stiff joints, flesh wounds, sprains, bruiseB, cuts, and burns, is Johnson's Anodyne Liniment. We use it, and always recommend it to B? our friends.?6'om. Tested by Time.?For Throat Dis- onHt* cases, Colds, and Coughs, " Brown's Bronchial g Troches," have proven their efficacy by a test of many years.?Com. CH Like Lightning are the miraculous Cures effected with Flagg's Instant Relief. Aches, Pains. Sprains, Bowel Complaints, etc.. cannot exist if this great medicine is used. Relief warranted, or money refunded.?Com. ? Ex Chapped Hands, face, rough skin, pimpiea, ring-worme, eait-rueura, ana oiner till cutaneous affections cured, and the skin made '{?? soft and smooth, by using the Jdnipeb Tab 'io1 Soap, made by Caswell. Hazabd A Co., New York. Be certain to get the Juniper Tar Soap. CI made by ub, as there are many imitations maae JI?? with common tar which are worthless.?Com. jj] and Flagq's Instant Relief.?Warranted co to relievo all Rheumatic Afflictions, Sprains, in$K Neuralgia, etc. The best, the surest, and the Bo ijuickest remedy for all Bowel Complaints. Re- Ob hef guaranteed or the money refunded.?Com. JN0 Spring in the Clearings. In newly cleared regions of country, spring Is E always an unhealthy season. Tho virgin soil, en riched by decomposed vegetable matter, sends up, when first bared to the sunshine, volumes of miasmatic vapor that generates every variety of inter- Is mlttcnt and remittent fevor. All low laying, swampy districts, the deltas of rivers,the prairies, ^ the salt-marshes on the coast, the bayous of the Gulf States, and tho shores of the northern lakes ' No l are also visited at this season by malarious epi- *ble demies that prostrate no inconsiderable number of 3?^ their inhabitants. This ought not to be, for it can br?J; paid be easily preveated. No fact in medical history is the 9a?t better established than the fact that Hostotter's [F< \r 00 Stomach Bitters will avert every species of mala rious disorder. A course of this standard tonic A and alteratlvo commenced in advance of the unhealthy season and continued regularly until its close, will prove an absolute predion against chills and fever, bilious remittent fever, and other n complaints of a periodical type, as well as against ^ tho disturbances in the digestive organs and IH bowels, so common at this period of the year. As a remedy for dyspepsia, biliousness, liver disease, mm nervous disorders, physical weakness, rhtuma- llH tism, melancholy, hysteria, and ailments to which CM the weaker sex are exclusively subject, Hostetter's Bitters has no competitor at home or abroad. The Markets. 9 NEW TOBK. Beef Cattle?Prime to Extra 9 .13#a .14# (TV First quality 12#a .13# Bccoud 11 #a .12# riH/lin.rtr fl.in Pafila Ifllya 11 W VIUiUK./ ****** X Inferior 10 .10 J Milcli Cows 50.00 *75.00 Hogs?Live 08 k .06* J", Dressed 07*a .07;, Sheep 07.f)7>( .III Cotton?Middling 19*a .20 rl I Flour?Extra Western 6.70 *7.81 ' '0? State Extr* 6.80 * 7.20 Wheat?Ked Western 1.80 *1.80 " State 1.77** 1.77*j No. 2 Spring 1.56 a 1.63 ac Rye 89 a .90 Barley Malt 1.10 a 1.52 or ol Corn?Mixed Western 8* a .68^ 'P*' Oats?Mixed Western 52)4* .53)1 .p*rJ Hay, per ton 17.00 *28.00 lan(1 Straw, per ton 13.00 *23.00 TV, Hoi's 72s, .35 a .15?70* .10 a .15 Ul Pork?Mess 11.21 *18.50 Lo Lard 08V* .09* oftl Petroleum?Crude 9,*a .9^Refined 19* wr" Butter?State 37 a .15 Ohio Fancy 38 a .32 " Yellow 18 a .25 V Western Ordinary 20 a .26 Pennsylvania line 30 a .33 53 Cheese?State Factory 15*a .16 aL " Skimmed .95 a .10)1 3 Ohio ll*a ,16 TT Eggs?State 25 a .'.6 T> BUFFALO. Beef Cattle 5 80 a 6.85 otLt\ Sheep .* 7.25 a 7.62* or v Hogs?Live 5.50 a 5.85 Flour 7.50 *10.25 #/ Wheat?No. 2 Spring 1.47 a 1.66 W( Corn <2 a .51 ^ Oats 10 a .13 ^ Rye 95 a .95 ^ Barley 80 a 1.00 Lard 08)1* .09 *3 ALBAST. Wheat 1.70 a 2.15 /J Bye?State 85 a .85 W Corn?Mixed 55 a .58 Barley?State 80 a .80 " Oata?State 48 a .51 V PHILADELPHIA. B Flour?Pent). Extra 7.50 a 8.50 D Wheat?Weatern Bed 1.80 a 1.90 M Cora-Yellow 52 a .53 K Mixed 51 a .52 ? Petroleum?Crade 14 Keflnedl5?i M Beef Cattle 05 a .08 M Clover Seed 8.00 a 9.25 H Timothy 3.50 a 3.75 b BAI.TIMOnZ. Jl Cotton?Low Midling* 18 a .18V r_. Flour?Extra 7.75 a 9.75 'I1 Wheat 1.60 a 2.15 Cora?Yellow 62 a .63 B' Onle 46 a .51 - rtaj $10 to $20SfeH;'So | MAMMOTH PUMPKIN. ^ From one Seed of thli new apectei there wa? A ral?"l lantyear the largest Pumpkin ever grown .. in Amerlea, weighing fl?7 lbs. Five Seed* lent poat* __ pnlil for 25 centa, or twelve Seedi for 60 cents. v.f. Address, -J. H. GREGORY, Davenport, Iowa. rjx; AMERICAN SAWS." f BEST IN THE WORLD. _ SIOTABLC-TOOT11BD CIRCULARS, PERFORATOR ( ROHM CUTS. aseeicik^W Ftv$T SEW TOBX, H ?- I ,000,000^ ACfiES ! ) Cheap Farms! 8 Cheapest Land In Market, for sale by the )N PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY, In the GREAT PLATTE VALLET. 00,000 Acre* In Central Nebraska 'or tale in tract* of forty acres and upwards re and ten years' credit at 6 per cant. Bo nee Interest required. I and Healthful Climate, Fertile Boll, an lance of Good Water. 1 BEST MARKBT IN TilE WBSTI The frsat ig Regions of Wyoming, Colorado, Utah and la, being supplied by the farmers In th* rn Vallit. DISR8 ENTITLED TO A HOMESTEAD OF 100 ACRES. : BEST LOCATIONS for COLONIES. !E HOMES FOR ALL I Millions of acres of e Government Lands open for entry nnder the stead Law, near this Great Railroad, with , msrzeia, sna ?u me cubtbuicucc. ? ? ^ id country. e psst?s to purchaser* of Railroad Lands.. M ttousl Maps, showing the Land, also new edl- ^ of Dnscrlpttve Pamphlet with new Haps id free everywhere. Address, O. F. DAVIS Land Commissioner V. P. R. R>i Omaha, Kcb. N n?Mo 17 )THERS! MOTHERS! MOTHERS! . i't fall to procure RES. W Ltd SLOWS rHDJO SYRUP FOB CHILD RES TEBTHs valuable preparation hat been KR-F AILING 8UCCB88 IK TH0USAKD8 OF 58. lot only relieves the child from pain, buttavtg* s the stomach and bowels, corrects acidity, Kid i tone and energy to the whole aystesa. It will instantly relieve Griping ef the Bowel* and Wind Oolio. i believe It the BEST and BUBKBT ERMRDTDI WORLD In all ceeee of DYBBNTBBY AND IRHEA IN CHILDREN, whether arising from ilug or any other cause. pend upon it, mothers, It will give rset to youris and Belief and Health to Tour Infants. ire and call or "Hn. Winflow's Soothing Bjrup." vtng the fhc-elmlle of "CURTIS A PBRXDrS' le outside wrapper. sld by Druggista throughout the World' IIC AGO, MILWAUKEE & ST. PAUL RAILWAY. rWllm.nVss * St Psnl flsilwav Co 1 lending from Chlcnco to |Mllar?nkr?< 1<? ate, Wlnoiin. Htnlllllli, N(. Paul and ineapolls. Also to Madison, Prairie da ^ eu, Austin, Owatonna, Charles City, ion City and Alifnna t also to Janesville, hoc, Rlpon, llerlln and Oshkosh, bracing more Rttslness Centres and Plcst* H Hi tor n thin any Northwestern Hue. lit AGO l)KPOT?Comer Conal and tlsoii xtreels, (with Pittsburg. Fort Wtjse A tsyl vanla. mid chlrngr> Alton A8t. Loots R'ys.) ILWAIKEE DEPOT-Corner Heed # Mouth Water streets. miectiiiK in 8t. Paul with all Hallways dtvsrg- , thence. r w York Orrica?519 Brsadway. 8T0N Orrics?1 Court street. skral Orxicift?Milwaukee, Wis. S. 8. MRRRll.ii, Oen. Manager. . C. OACf.T Ass't Oen. Manager. A. V. H rARI BN'TER 0 P. and T. Agent. Sewing Machine the BEST IN THE WORLD. Ui Wanted. Send for circular. Address; ? DOMESTIC " 8P.W1NG MACHINE CO.. W. T the Reialngor Sash Lock and Support to ASTEN YOUR WINDOWS ! iprlng to break, no cutting of saab; cheap, dur, very easily applied; bold* sash at any tilace red, and a self-fastener when the sssh Is down. I stamp for ctrcnlar. Circular and six copperised lock* sent to any address In the D. 8., postl.on receipt of 60 cis. Liberal tnducemente te trade. Agents wauted. Address. Relslnger l Lock Co., No. 418 Msrket St., Harrtsburg. Pa. >r Illustration of this cheapest and best lock.sse d't Household 11a gn line, N. Y. Independent,etc.] portable sJju, Soda Fountains, MO, fSO, 975 and ?100. BtfSi. good durable, and cheap iMffi 8HIPPED READY FOB USX. 91 Manufactured by EK&A j. w. chapman & co., Madison, Ind. ? ?Send for Circular.? rranranfl*] Thea-Nectar 4 'W^wuttilTtAF" The belt Te* Imported. Fi r AtVlflP sA (ale everywhere. And for sale iPrggK JZ Wholeeale only by the ORKAT ATLANTIC A PACIFIC TBA CO JjgKvVil No. 1V1 Fulton St. A V A 4 Chart h ESiZViWJ 81 Ncw Ynrk- P 0. Box. 4.40# x? Bend for Thea-Nectar Circular 1000 reward-L.For Any caie of Blind, Bleedliiif, Itching. or Ulcerated ) Atxrn ri^ P>'es 'hat DE BINOS PILB ICWtUU REMEDY falle to cure. It U tared exDrreily to cure the Pile* and nothing . BOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS. PRICE tl IDVIIIflPI AQC MALE or FEMALE, W9a IIf RIHU VLAwOeweeltguaranteed. KeepecUmnlnymnnLat home, daforcrenjng; no capital rw]utr'ull inalructiona and valuable pec ksge of goods sent by mail. A ddrr**, with six cent return stamp, M. YOUN'CJ A CO., 16 Cortlandt-at* New York. t/1 $2(1 Pnr day l Agent* wanted I All daises hj c??v of working people of either iex,youi g Id, make more money at work for u* in their e moments or all the time than at anything else, lculara free. Address 0. BTIN80N A CO., Port.. Me. ___ r. Whittier, mgest engaged and most successful physician te age. Consultation or pamphlet free. Call or r. Whittle^2"?4*?.1"7 4 ingest engaged and most successful physician I e age. Consultations and pamphlets frs*. Cal ^ rrlte. | [Kttabliiked 1H30.) 9 T^olclx db Griffiths, B Manufacturers of 8aws, 9 SUPERIOR TO ALL OTHERS, g EVERY SAW WARRANTED;, I FILES, BELTING & MACHINERY. LIBERAL DISCOUNTS. )P Ire Mats and Circulars free. WELCH & GRIFFITHS; ' Boston. Ms? k Detroit, Mich. sM'UilMf:! HIS IS NO IMMIiUG. I r Bending ? rt?., with age. height, color of eyre hair, ton will receive a correct picture of vour ire huaband or wife, with name and date of mar re. W. FOX. P. 0. Prewar >1. FnltonTillc. K. T EATEST CnEIOSITT telling weekly. Prloo eeuta. Ko hnmbug. Iren Oaoaoa A. Hbabp A Co.. Boaton, Mae a. rtTiMTKl w y??? ?*** tnonah of .VSTXjXM 13 Righta," "Reelpea," 'OH," nrae and Carriage Jree," etc., and wart a good i?ig burinttt, then addreaa Hnnter & Co., Hlm?, N. H. _____ IMHF.lt I.,\\DS In Pennsylvania at glO per acre. Apply tp J W. BHBAPBR. Pottarllla, Pa. 79 nn *ach wku-aoiiti wtif * Bnalneae legitimate. Faroe , J WORTH at l<iwi| Mn . Wow e?w d A Per Week IB CASH to good Apente r" t Addre aa A. Copltib A t o.,Chai lotte, Mirk lata to Stock Breed ere: tella how to hreed male . or female. Bent for X eta. L. B. Bllyar, Salem,0. I