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Farm, Garden and Household. Note* ot the Farm. Evergreens among frnit trees are said to insure good crops. Several Farmers' Granges in the West are building flouring mills. The Gardeners' Monthly advises farmers to form associations against treeswindlers and peddlers. Vermont yearly produces food of various kinds to the value of 8107.20 for every man, woman, and child. It is estimated that, owing to the want of rain, the California wheat crop will be one-fourth less than last year: The owner of a large peach orchard T\~I i i. t-J :iU - terriers to follow in the wake of the plow, as well as boys with stout switches. The horse disease, after taking its long march from Canada, south to the Gulf and west to the Pacific, spent its fury only wheii it ha.1 no more horses to conquer. It is no longer to be classed as an epidemic, but as an hereditary coinplaint. In Iowa, colts as soon as foaled Bhow all the symptoms of the horse disease, and are dying in large numbers, sixty deaths being reported as having occurred in one township. It is coming to be understoood that success in agriculture in California is conditioned on as much knowledge, skill, and thorough work as in any other part of the Union?and on even more. * The new land is tolerably productive, but it is easily exhausted, the seasovs are capricious, especially iu the matter of wet and dry weather in the winter time; markets change, there is overproduction here and scarcity tliero; farm wages are high and laborers are migratory and often uncertain. Preparing Renner. Mr. L. Barnnm's method of preparing rennet is as follows: Put a given number of rennets into a cask of sufficient size to hold the liquor", fill the cask one-half full of water, adding all salt used in curing the rennets ; let them soak forty-eight hours, rubbing them ' thoroughly ; take the skins out into a pail of brine; let them soak in this 1 f iron fw-fnti p linn wo wnKKinnr fltOVYI HA. * V??VUVJ-iUUl JJVUin, iuwuiiig vuvm WW casioually ; test this liquor; if it will 1 coagulate milk readily in thirty minutes, 1 add it to liquor in the cask, putting the skins into new brine ; repeat this oper- ] ation, carefully testing the liquor each time ; as long as it will coagulate milk add it to the liquor in the cask ; when all the strength has been extracted from ( theskins, throw them away?bury them. ( You now have a cask of prepared rennet. A certain number of ounces to ' 1,000 pounds of milk will coagulate it 1 in from twenty to twenty-five minutes. | There being no skins in it, it will keep , sweet as long as pork or beef-brine, if sufficient salt has been used. Enough i may be prepared in the spring to last the entire season. It is a great saving < of rennet, as the exact strength is al- , ways known; no more need be used than : is necessary to coagulate the milk, ll j also extracts the entire strength from | the skins, which is not apt to be the t case when the skins are allowed to remain in the first liquor, and new skins ( and whey added each day. Clean the Cellar*. J How many of -our readers cleaned their cellars this spring. We know it 1 has been a busy time?that the spring's work has been crowded into a short ' space of time. But then neither the I health of your family nor the profits to be derived from the milk you may 1 produce will warrant neglect of this matter. Whole tubs of butter and thousands of them have been spoiled 1 this spring, "since the hot weather came, by good housewives being compelled to set their milk in filthy cellars?in cellars . where are decuying vegetables and fruit and the accumulated filth of the winter. No milk should go into a cellar in such a cond'tion. You had a great deal better pour it from the milk-pail as it comes from the cow into the pig-trough or feed it to the calves. For if it is set in a cellar filled with gases, escaping < from decomposing vegetables, fruit, &o., it will absorb and retain every odor, which will be imparted to the but-1 ter made frcm it and affect the flavor j thereof. Already we have seen in the ! market this cellar-tainted butter. 'Better by far churn the milk as it comes from the cow without waiting for the cream to rise than do so absurd a thing as load it with the odors of a filthy cellar. Russia's World Exposition. An exhibition more wonderful and interesting than that at Vienna will be held in Russia about the middle of August. The scene of its operations is the historic city of Nijnii-Novgorod, I which is situated at the confluence of , the Volga and the Oka, in Central Asia. The nnlinnrv nnniilat.inri nf the eitv is about 32,000 inhabitants, but during ; tbe fair that number will augmented ' bj an addition of 300,000 or 400,000 visitors from all parts of Europe and Asia. The fair is held in an immense stone building containing 3,000 shops, in which the sales are made. One hundred and forty-five million dollars'; worth of wares anil goods were brought to last yeur's fair, and out of that immense quantity only $20,000,000 worth remained unsold. .V1 kinds of goods i and manufactures are so'd at this mammoth fair, and an opportunity will be aflprded for seeing collected together the people of all countries, and the modes of traffic of every race in Europe. It is maintained that tbe inferior * quality of certain kinds of wheat and rye flour is frequently due to the action of sunlight on the flour ; even when in 1 bags or barrels the gluten experiences a change similar to that occasioned by heating in the mill. The tendency thus imparted to it, to become lumpy, and to form dough without toughness, is similar to that of flour from moist grain, or flour when it is too fresh, or made from grain ground too early, or when adulterated with cheaper barley meal. Such flour can be improved by keeping for some weeks. iu .L/emwiire una coiuracieu wnu ? canning company for the 'whole of his crop for 10 years, at 50 cents a basket. A remedy recommended for cabbage worms is to sprinkle the heads with shorts and bran. The worms become mired and entangled in this, and they die. Some Western farmers sow a small quantity of oats with their wheat to orevent the ravacaa of obinnh hues The oats are easily separated after thrashing. An authority asserts that the best way to make aprioot trees bear is to plant them by the side of s. building, say within 2j feet, and then train the limbs in fan shape. A farmer in France Btates that, between the 22d of Augnst last and the 3d of November, lie killed on two acres of his land 33,000 water and field mice, weighing altogether nearly half a ton. TTa Pmnlnrprl 11 rapnipr%f an/In an/1 nnnDo/1 Shanghai-lug Emigrants, Dreulng Up Emigrant* as Ballon am Shipping Them a* Regular Shellback*. The public will learn with surprise a the present moment that the "shanghai ing" of emigrants for sailors is beinj carried on to a large extent in New Tori city, says a local papers The opening of navigation in the lakes has had th< effect of draining from the port a larg< number of men, who prefer engaging ii that trade to embarking in long Bea voy ages. This, combined with the incon veniences produced by the open wa: between United States Commissione: Duncan and the sailors' boarding housi masters, has created an almost nnprece dented demand for the services o "Poor .Tank." anil rnsea and deceotiom of all kinds have been practiced to pu sailors, real or affected in character upon outgoing American vessels, ant to obtain their advanced notes. Withii the last few weeks a wholesale systen of fraud has been, carried on by a largt number of the sailors' boarding housi proprietors, who "shanghai" men in th< following fashion:?The great hunting ground for the embryo sailor is Casth Garden, where any amount of unem ployed labor can be daily seen, strolling round the place, and listlessly watching the passing shipping. The boarding house man will probably introduce him self to some recently arrived emifpant and after wishing him "good day" wil inquire if he (the victim) would like tt work h's passage out to San Francisco Naturally the man replies "yes," ant the pair go off to a boarding house generally situated in the Cherry stroe slums. On their way there it is explain ed to him that his duties on board thi ship will be quite nominal, merely tt attend to the captain's table?but tha it is necessary he should be dressed ai a sailor before he is shipped. Accord ingly a sailor's overalls is obtained whale a sheath knife and belt supple ment the deception. Meanwhile tin name of the emigrant is being signet at the office of the United States Ship ping Commissioner as willing ant capable of proceeding on a voyage t< , on board the vessel, and to sun up in a word his name is affixed to th< shipping articles by some authorizet forger, who has not the remotest inten tion of shipping. When the hour come for the departure of the vessel, news ii sent rouna among the boarding houses and a few hours afterwards the emi grants find themselves installed a sailors on board an outgoing vessel. I is no stretch of imagination to say tha these men are shanghaied. As soon ai their useless character is discovered th< men are^rery often beaten as frauds b; the infuriated master or officers, wh< find that they are saddled with "greei hands," perfectly useless for the naviga tion of the vessel. The emigrant Audi himself bound, perhaps, for Liverpoo on a "liner,'' insteaciot ine racinc 6iope lb addition to Vimself, he often findi other "gr6en hands," who are defraud ed of the advance notes given to then as sailors, and are treated all the voy age like dogs, and discharged at th< first port the vessel touches at as im posters. Getting Rid of Spots. " Will you kindly inform me," asks i jorrespondent, "how I can remove dis colored spots from my face ? I supposi bhey are caused by some disorder of thi liver, though I have no pain ezcep through the shoulder-blades. If yov will kindly give me your valuable advice j-ou will confer a lasting favor." Dio Lewis says in answer : I have n< ioubt whatever that your opinion abou the agency of the Jiver is entirely cor rect, and this opinion receives suppor from the pains about your shoulder blades. The treatment, I presume should be about the following : 1. Very little grease, no pies, oakeso sweetmeats, and a profusion of th< fruits, grapes, &c., with which Cali fornia abounds. 2. A regular morning bath, with soaj and water, accompanied with muoh fric tion of the skin, and u vigorous use o hair gloves over the entire person oi going to bed at night. 3. Living as much as possible in thi [>pt?U Uir UI1U auiioilluc, uinuig uiiuuwiu ing a good circulation in the legs an< feet by thick flannels and broau-solei shoes. 4. Retire before nine o'clock ever night, and get up in the morning whei you feel like it; and lie down an hourii the middle of the day before dinner and, if possible, sleep. Chinese Obstinacy. The Mongols, says the San Francise Call, have determined upon the polic; of worrying the authorities in their at tempt to enforce the ordinance prohibit ing the unwholesome crowding of lodg ing-kouses, in the hope of renderinf the effort futile. The large gang brough up and fined recently, with the rein forcements, have completely fillet the prison accommodations, and if th< crusade is continued, the cattle-poum or some other spacious enclosure wil have to be utilized for their confine ment. A few were inclined to pay th fines imposed, but were prevented froc doing so by the commands of the lead ing men in the Chinese quarters, wh' declared in substance that they wouli make the city sick of prosecuting am maintaining Chinamen in prison nnde this ordinance. After clearing out a pes tilence-breeding den on Jackson streel a few nights since, and taking th tinnta tn th? oitv orison. one 0 the officers returned to the pluce for th purpose of measuring its dimension* He was somewhut surprised to f nd th den more densely packed with lodger than on the occasion of his first visit and all apparently waiting to be arrest ed. A Comedian's Revenge.?A celebrate* comedian arranged with a green grocei one Berry, to pay him quarterly; bu the green grocer sent in his acconn long before the quarter was due. Th comedian, in great warmth, called upo the gr en grocer, and, laboring uude the impression that his credit wn doubted, said: "I say, here's a prett mull, Berry; yon have Rent in your bill Berry, before it is due, Berry. You father, the elder, Berry, would nothav been such a goose, Berry; but you nee not look so black, Berry, for I don' care a straw, Berry, and I 6hah't pa you till Christmas, Berry." Among the agents of death whic have begun to operate for the summe season is the cool but treacherous ic cream. A young man in Newport die the other day from eating too freel thereof, which leads us to remark the getting very much heated and then eal ing ice cream by the quart is not a ser sible proceeding. That Corded Bedstead. 1 Why Will Mother*-in-l>aw Inilit ob ] Sleeping in Them 1 t It is a little singular that your wife's - mother will persist in sleeping on a ; corded bedstead. But she does. Tou i don't think so much of this until you J are called upon to put it up, which event 0 generally takes place in the evening. 9 The bedstead has been cleaned in the 1 afternoon, and, having been Boaked - through with hot water, is now ready . for putting up. Your wife holds the r lamp, and takes charge of the conversation. The rope has been underwater r several times in the course of the clean9 ing, and having swollen to a diameter . greater than the holes in the rails, has f also got into a fit of ooiling up into } mysterious and very intricate forms. ? You at first wonder at this, but pretty soon wonder ceases to be a virtue, and | you then scold. The thread which has j been wound around the end of the rope, j to facilitate its introduction in the holes, j has come off, and you have to roll it up 3 again. Then, after you have pulled it j tnrougn eignt noies, your wiie raaaes . the discovery that you have started 1 j wrong. The way that rope comes out 1 of those holes again makes your wife ' . get closer to the door. Then you try ' ' again, and get it tangled in your legs. 1 * By this time, you notice that this is the 1 . smallest bedroom in the house, and you 1 call the attention of your wife to the ' J fact by observing : ( ) *' Why on earth don't you open the J door ? Do you want to smother me ?" [ She opens the door, and you start ' again, and she helps you with the lamp. ' ? First she puts it on the wrong side of ' . the rail, then she moves it so the heat 1 a comes up frotn the chimney and scorches | , your nose. Just as vou need it the ^ most, you lose sight of it entirely, and, ' 9 turning around, find her examining the 1 wall to see how that man has put on the 1 whitewash. This exoites you, and brings 1 [ out the* perspiration in greater profu- 1 8 sion, and you declare you will kick the 1 I bedstead oat doors if she doesn't come 1 around with that light. Then she comes ' j around. Finally, the cord is laid all 1 3 right, and you proceed to execute the j very delicate job of tightening it The 1 p lower ropes are first walked over. This j is done by stepping on the first one, and 1 . sinking it down, hanging to the headB board with the clutch of death. Then B you step on the next line, spring that 1 down, lose your balance, grab for the ' head-board, and come down in a heap. 1 B This is repeated more or less times ] t across the length of the bed, the only t variety being the new places you bruise. s The top cords are tightened in another 1 3 way, and you now proceed to that. Yon y first put 'one foot on each rail, which : 5 spreads you some, and as you do it the 3 frightful thought strikes you that if one . of those feet should slip over, nothing ! B on earth would prevent you from being 1 split through to the chin. Then you pull Up the first rope until your eyes 1 1 seem to be on the point of rolling out I of their sockets and the blood in your ! j veins fairly groans, and on being con. viuced that yon can't pull it any further ( ? without crippling yourself, you catch 1 I hold of the Dextrope and draw that up, | and grunt. Then you move along to the next, and pull that up, and grunt 1 again. Just as you have got to the ! middle and commence to think that you are about throngh, even if your joints 1 * will never again set as they did before, ] i you some wav or other miss the connec3 tion and find that you have got to go I j. back and do it all over. Here you pause for a few minutes of oracular re- 1 1 fresliment, and then slowly and carefully , work your way back. You don't jump down and walk back, because you are 1 j afraid to spread out in that way again. ' You sort of waddle back, working the 1 1 way inch by inch, and with consummate 1 patience. A man thus stretched across | t a bedstead never becomes so excited as - to lose his presence of miud. It would J , be instant death to him if he did. Then he goes over it again, waddling and r pulling, groaning and grunting, while ? his wife moves around with the lamp ' - and tells him to take it easy and not scratch the bedstead any more than he ? can help, and that she can't tell which * creaks the most, he or the bedstead, f And after he gets through, she has the i audacity to ask him to bring in the feather beds. Jn the dead of night e that man will steal up to that room and - look at that bedstead and swear.?DanJ bury News. i A Summer Morning in Normandy. a The following is from the pen of an a : accomplished traveler: Do you know '? j the coast of Normandy ? It is a couni try that everybody thinks he knows well. We have all been to Dieppe, some , ' even to Havre. Dear friends, this is ! really not enough. What you do not know is the existence of a dozen little watering places between Havre and Boulogne, all charming, all quiet, all ' j entirely French. These secluded re? ; treats are like the triangles in the sixth t 1 book of Euclid's immortal work?they . I are all similar, and similarly situated. 1 Where the sea runs in and makes a bay, e | where a river runs down and mingles j the fresh with the Bait, where the cliffs I 1 on either side stoop to the earth aljd j. ; disappear in space, thero lies the little e 1 fishing town. What it must be like in a | winter, imagination vainly endeavors to . ' realize ; bntiu in summer, between Jund i 0 : and October, there are no pleasanter ,-j places for quiet folk to stay in. Right | and left the cliffsrisetoaheight of some r hundreds of feet. You climb them in i the morning after your coffee and . 1 brioche, and stride away in the fresh g ! upland air, with the grass under your ' feet and the woods behind. As you go e ! along, you see the girls milking the t i sleepy-eyed Norman cow*, yon salute g ; the women going to market with their 8 ; baskets, you listen to the lark, you watch the* blue sea far away beyond, with perhaps a little fleet of fishing j boats. .j i Summer Evening Dresses.?Evening . 1 dresses for summer balls aud hops are | made of two shades of gossamer tulle,, \ or ehe of tarlatan. For instance, two 0 shades of rose-colored tulle appear in n ! one dress. The low Josephine waist is ,r of the darkest shade, covered with s lengthwise puffs of lighter rose. The v skiafc has three front breadths covered } with lengthwise puffs of the two shades '? Ttm I,astir hrpnrlths hflVO Y iUbCiUUHU^* J. au MMVU e Ave or else seven flounces of double tulle laid in side pleats, and are of nlteruating tints. A tulled sasli is draped y loosely about the hips, crossing high on the right side, and being caught together low down on the left with a cluster of jj roses of variegated hues?pink, red, r deep crimson and pale buff. e d The Vermont Gazette, wants to 'know y " What is the use of dogs ?" Let him it wait until a man has hung around his t- office for four days reading the exi changes and proffering good advice, and hell think of a use for a dog. Meat for the Million. rood for the Coming Man?The Great Scientific DUcovery of the Age. Scientific Paris has a new sensation, vrites a Paris correspondent. The first requisite of mankind is food, and if that ;an be provided at all times in sufficient juantity and quality to sustain life, vithout extraordinary labor and exposure to perils, it must be oonccded that ill I have claimed is true. If, more)ver, the food is of the best quality, and exactly adapted to the different ages ind varied nbvsicai constitutions of the race, then the greatest triumph of the ige has been achieved. And all of this Prof. Gaerette claims to be true of his liscovery. It seems that the idea occnrred to'the learned scientist twenty years ago. that ie might experiment with animal and vegetable food so far as to discover the primordial elements needed to sustain ind foster life. He argued that as man is sustained by the flesh of animals and rege tables, it might bo possible to resolve these articles of diet into their el;ments, discover the sources from * * ? ^ wmcn mey arewuieir vic? BUv* "j j??"cious combination of their most nutri;ions qualities and the throwing out of lhat which was Treeless and harmful, produce an artificial species of food which would supply every need of the race. He sought what Huxley would 5all the protoplasm of life, and it is claimed and admitted by a number of liis learned countrymen that he has found it. It has been, as I said, the work of twenty years to perfect the discovery, but two thousand years would not have been wasted had they been successfully applied to the same purpose. With an increasing supply of food for the race always at nana with slight expense of labor, the miseries of the poor, rod the necessities of crime are largely decreased. The slaughter of animals find the animal destruction of the vegetable world is done away. Science gives its manna with a largo hand, and the nne great need of the world is supplied from an unfailing source. The gentleman to whom this discovBry is duo is well-known in the City of Lvons, where he holds the chair of Chemics in the University. He was born at Auvergne in 1806, graduated in medicine at the universities of Paris and Naples, was appointed a lecturer at the former institution in 1841, and was promoted to the Professorship of Chemistry m the University of Lyons in 1845. Since thAt time he has made the latter city his abode, visiting Paris only at rare intervals. He was pointed out to me one day on the Hue aes Italiens, and I was told to take special notice ol him, which was the easier done, as he walked wi^Ji eyes bent down, and evidently engaged in deep thought. This, I am told, is his custom?but at home he is seldom seen on the streets, as he nonfines himself closely to his labors lory, when not occupie'd with his public iuties. He is small, gray-haired, with broad forehead and deep-set eyes (their color I could not see), and a stubby moustache, hnlf-conceaiing a firm month. Like most scholars, he is somewhat stoop-shouldered, and wftlks with a shuffling gait. As a chemist, no man in France ranks higher, though ho is little known outside of his own scholastic circle, for the reason that he has never published anything. His life has been devoted to the discovery he is now perfecting, and that promises to bring him such laurels as no other man of his age has achieved. There has been no public exhibition vet made of the food which Prof. Ghierette has prepared, and I can speak of it only from the description given by scientific men, who ore enthusiastic in praise of it. They have been made acquainted with the processes by which it is formed, and express only wonder that the same idea of tracing the food principle to its source hod not occurred to themselves. In any other city than Paris there might be some hesitation about making experiments with this new diet; but men who have learned to sit down to a dinner of horsesteak will have no hesitation in_.trying any other viands that come well recommended. The food is made of earth?even, it is said, of refuse matter. It contains in exact proportions the four primary elements necessary for nutrition. PrcEared with skill and care, it not only as rejected all that does not assist life, but it is said to be spiced and perfumed in such a manner as to realize our /Ironma of fh? ambrosia of the cods. Smell and taste are gratified at the B&me time that digestion is rendered a pleasure. No stale scent of cookery lingers about it; it has banished at once all the discomforts of the kitchen. Those who have eaten it?(and my informants are medical men of high repute)?say that its effect on the system is magical, and its tastes beyond description in words. In their enthusiasm, they go still farther, and say that M. Guerett's discovery will do more to banish alcoholism and other perverted tastes, and restore the system to its normal condition of healthy appetites and sound digestion than all the discoveries of all the medical men who have ever lived. With others, I laughed heartily at the idea when it was first broached, but a second and more sober thought has made me lend a readier ear to what has been told me. I remembered the habits of the clay-eaters of North Carolina and the tribes along the Amazon river, who eat a soft, highly-scented clay that is found npon its banks, and are seemingly us well-grown and as strong as those who live on flesh and fruit. If this could be done by barbarians, I reasoned, why should not civilized men be able to derive their food from the same source 1 The animal is fed by vegetable life?the vegetable by the substanco and gases ol earth?hence it is reasonably, as Professor Gueretto argues, to seek the means of ffnstaining life at the source whence they draw their sustenance, Voila tout! Chemistry has becomo sucli an exact science in the clear-sighted Frenchman's hands that he can com Dine me elementary jrans in ma juuujiv tory aj readily and far more quicklj than can be done by tlio slow processet that require the growth of animal and plant, aud without meeting the causes that badly affect the food we now eat. Science has simply come to the aid ol nature, and quickened her processes. Is it so surpassingly wonderful aftei all ? Artificial vapor bos turned th? wheels of the locomotive and lifted the lever that propels the steamer. Ac artificial flash of lightning sends mes sages under th$ ocean and across continents. And now artificial food is ex tracted from nature's laboratory bj processes that, as in the above cases, annihilate time. That is all that hai been done. But it means a physical, social, and economical revolution. A masked party in Wetzel county, W' Va.,went to the house of John Jennings chief of a gang of roboers, for the pur pose of seizing him. They killed botl him and his wife. S S The Arlington Estate. Mrs. Lee. widow of Gen. Bobort E. Lee, has been stopping a few days at Alexandria, where she was interviewed by a reporter of the Republican. In regard to the Arlington estate she makes the following statement: "Her father, George Washington Parks Custis, dying in 1857, gave to Mrs. Lee by ' his will the entire Arlington estate. The terms of the will vested the property in her absolutely. Beyond the simple dnties of an executor, Gen. Lee had no control of the property, and never, either before or since, assumed or attempted to assume a single right of ownership." It was further ascertained, from Mrs. Lee herself, that not only was Arlington her unqualified bequest from her father, but that Gen. Lee never participated in any way in 1 its ownership nor control, always re- ^ fusing to arbitrate in important matters relating to it, and from the termination of the war to the date of his death, he ?onv onf.linritv. win. ? uuuouaunjf aruiuou uu y . trol, right or independence relative to the estate, and refused to act concern- ti ing it in any way. Mrs. Lee is remark- 0] ed as having conversed freely on the subject of the estate without any shade of bitterness, to have spoken highly of " President Grant, and as not expecting g the estate to be diverted from its present use as a cemetery, though Bhe lays claim to some remuneration for its rt value. * 51 re Editorial Notices are so common L that it is almost impossible for an edi- w tor to express his honest opinion of the merits of any article without being enspectcd of interested motives. This >1 fact, however, shall not deter us from ** saying what we think of a new addition ? to the Materia Medica to which our attention has been recently directed. We refer to Dr. J. Walker's California pi Vine oar Bitters, a remedy which is making its way into more families just " sow than all the other advertised medi- q oines put together. Its popularity, as ,,, far as we can judge, is not. based on si empty pretention, There seems to be no question about the potency of its tonic and alterative properties, while it n Dossesses the great negative recommendation of containing neither alcohol nor j mineral poison. That it is a specific for Indigestion, Bilousness, Constipation, and many complaints of nervous origin, we have reason to know; and we are assured on good authority that c as a general invigorant, regulating and purifying medicine, it has no equal. It * is stated that its ingredients, (obtained " from the wilds of California,) are new e to the medical world ; and its extraor- ' linary effects certainly warrant the con- ti elusion that it is a compound of agents ti hitherto unknown. If popularity is r iny criterion, there can be no doubt of ^ the efficiency of the Vinegar Bitters, for the sale of the article is immense 0 nnroooinor (Iftm. I 1 IXiU WUblUUHiij tuwtvMw.uQ. tl Iowa people do a great many fanny 01 'hings. The latest reported achieve-, ti ment is that of a young lady teacher in p Ringgold county, who rides to school tl every morning on an ox. . a PAIN I PAIN ! I PAIN 111" WHERE IS THY RELIEVER? Readers, you will And It In that Favorite Home D Remedy PER R 7 DA VIST PA IS-KILLER. * Ithaebeen teeted In every variety of climate, and il hy almost every nation known to American! It lr j, -he almost constant companion and inestimable friend of the missionary a?d traveler, on sea and 01 land.and no one ihould travel on our lakes or rivers a eithout it. Ira Hiriti ari utratntpassitd. If yon are suffering from IMTKRNAL PAIR. Twenty to Thirty Dropt in a Little Water will almost instantly cure you. There ie nothing equal to it. In a few momenta It cures Cblle, Crampe, Spa mi*. Heart-burn. Diarrhoea, Dyeentery. Flux. Wind in the Rowels, Snur Stomach. Dyepepeia, Sick Headache. Cares CHOLERA, when all other Remedies PalL It givee Instant Relief from Aching Teeth. \ In sections of the country where Pkvxr awn H tori prevails, there Is no remedy held In greater esteem. . a kok Kcvsn avd Aotrs.-Tak* <hree tablespoorful* n if the Pain-Killer in about half a pint of hot water. B well sweetened with molasses *s the attack.ls com- r ns on. R tthl"g freely the chest, h ick, and boa el* *ith the Pain- Killer at the same time. R-peat the ' use in twenty minutes If the iiSt dors not stop . ha chill. 8h"Ul.l it pro- nee vomiting (and it pmb bly will, if the stomach is veiy foul), take a little n fain-Killer In coll water sweetened with sugar .fter each spasm Perseverance In the above treat- J ment ha* cured many severe and obstinate ca ses o ' this disease. obeat "cholera" mmedt i PAIN-KILLER. It I* an External and I 'ternnl Remedy. For 8n?n ner Complaint or any other form of bowel < lseuse ' incblllrenor adult* it ei i almost certain cure, r *nd h?s without doubt, been more successful In C urlrg the various kinds of CHOLFRA than any ther known remedy.or the mo?t ?killfnl phyaiclin. In India, AMca and China, where thi* drea -fo| J*, ate ts moreor less prevalent, the Pain-Killer ie -nnsi lered by the natives a* well n* l>v Fnrn*?.t residentj In those climates, A SURE REMKDYt c md while It is a most effl- lent remmiy to- pain. It s a pei feetly safe medicine In th? most unskillful hands. It has become a hotiseh'-l i remedy, from I the fact that It gives immediate and permanent relief I' Is a purely vegetable preparation, made from the best and purest material*, safe to keep ' ind use In everv famtlv. I' Is recommended by physicians and persons of all classes, and to-dav I e .... . .... mir triil of thtrtv veers?the average life ( if m?'>?it aland* unrtwailed and unexcelled, \ spreading its usefulness nrer the wide world. ( Direction* accompany each Bottle. ( Price 25 eta., 50 eta., and *1 per Bottle. PZRRY DAVIS k SON. Proprietor*, Prortdence, R. I. 3. N. HARRIS <t ro.l Cincinnati, O., Proprietor* fur the Western and South Welters , State*. For *ale by all Medicine Dealer*. , ro* fAt.r. WHOLCFALB BY JOHN P. HENRY. New York. OPO C. OO'MlWIV A CO.. Roiton. JOHNSON, IIOLOWAY & CO . Philadelphia. A REMARKABLE PROGRESS. [From tht Jlariford Daily Timei ] Wo hare already alluded to thp proiporou* eondition ft the Phmrix Life Ineurance Company, located in thi* city, tf which Pdion Feaienden it the Prciilent and Jame* F. Burnt Secretary. A more careful inycstig?tion f it* Inst annual statement. Ju?t published, warrant* u* in submi'iing to the reader* if the Timrs loon further remark* upon its ripid- progress to popular firor and It* remai kaV.y prosperous conuitlon at tho pr&cnt > time. L-t us empire its condition ten year* tiro nlth i ? hat it li at the present time. I t th? years I8C3 I and 1%3 it issued 1,717 policies ; its income was , 128C72; dlytJends, 51211; losses by death, S68,COO; assets, {137 933. Hero was the business cf two years. It 1573 it issued 10527 policies; its income was I 3113 752.15; divi ends. $913 111.71; losses by death, > :?31.116.32: net assets, 12 209 320.07. ( This increase < f business and assets in the short : pet tod i ften yeats is worthy i f special notice. An I income in 1872 of near : 33 500 000 nguiust 1125. 72 in 1PC2 and 1?C3: it is near thirty to one. Oyer ten ' ih< usatid policies l ift year against s rente,-n hundred in two years only ten yie s ngn. Its net assets amount'o oyer eight million now; then 1< ss ' th in hulf i mt'llo"?more th " sixteen t" one. This . wou'eiftil ii.crerse is w t the result rf a si ?) : 1 lump. It com-s < f re?ul tr y arly ady it ces ; shnw| i g the SOli ity Sim pel tnanei.cy i f this Signal prospotity. For 1 stance, the net assets <t the 1 comp my nt ?ho rpei iff the year 1872 -mounte t to $7.810 614.03: at the commencem-nt ifl873thyr , were 8 (J7.5fl.07-ail increa?c UUIIUK luo jrcai f tf 6?R 01.02. ' hi' Phn> lx h '* row 33 020 p">Hci'? In f l'ce.eOTeri"g 71 910 2C7. Valued b? 'he New York Itandard th ae p' lli |ea a-e worth 8 776 117. a "i O'her liabilllr? eariy i'a lllffa'i "P to 7 009 493.57. Pedurt i u this f "m i'i nsaeti and the company hai a j auipuiif 1199 631.50: The officer* 1 it theie f irt8 before the public with 1 the aaaurnnre' that they ca- nnt bo oualen In ei m. parattre *tren(r?h by the siatemert' f a?'y company in New Roplaiid, If. Indeed by < y lti the untry. though a few other* hare a Witt agtrrepate if e??et?. No crtnpiny i< this city rqualed it lait year in the number if pi llil.* iR*?ed. Only one r rame wi'hln 2 000'f it, aud the otbera were from 5 000 to 9 OO'below It. i In thi* at 'iling cor-dlt on rf It* finance*, in it* I irreat and iuereaai a prrspeiity, and in th? Aim hold it ha* upon public eonfi tence. the Phrrrtx , may with a i ue di-ifree rfp l'e and iti'ftctlnu. publish the detail* cf it* buiinet* and it* iclid condition. IP roc hare t hill* and Perer, or ary firm of rerer and Ajne t 'ke h*ltenbe'tr*r'a Antidote and are a doctor'* bm._Ereiy druggist ha* it. A Di?o*nn>p State cf <he Blood i< th* p'tma eauie tf aaany aeiiou* complaint*, *nefa ** skin I Dtseare*. Pcrcfula, Cancerou* and Tuberrnlru* flection*.do. Dr. Jayne * Alterative purifies th* Uood, and de* troy * th* Tirua of these di*ea*e*. ?? THO Ky^V^y A Inrce elelit pose. vWHj^- SBP^ *froin COTr lo Jan* *'' A Tennessee fanner says he can get rice as much from corn tod beef raised a his land than from cotton. Flagg's Instant Relief has stood renty years' test. Is warranted to rive fmmedic relief to all Rheumatic, Neuralgic. Head, ar and Back aches, or money refunded.?Com. A gentleman atmctea wun me cunuic leamatiem pays, "No description of my case in convey the vast amount of benefit I have iceivod from the use of Johruon's Anodyw iniment, I believe it the best article in the orld for rheumatism.? Com. If a horse has a goed constitution, id lias onco been a good horse, no matter ho* d or hniv mnch run down he may be, he car i greatly improved, and in many respect* ado as good as new. by a liberal nae of Hheri2n'i Cavalry Condition Powdert.?Com. Chapped Hands, face, rough skin, imples, ring-worm, salt-rheum, and other cumeons affections cured, and the skin made eofi id smooth, by using the Juxiper Tab Soai isde by Caswell, Hazard A Co., New York, e sure' to get the Juniper Tar Soap made bv b, aa there are many imitations made with MOD tar which are worthless.?Com. Cristadoro's Excelsior Dye is the tost sore and oomplete preparation of its kind 1 the world; lta effects are magical, its charac :-r harmless, its tints natural, its qualities en uring. _ ________________ Summer Dangers. The inmmer inniblne that clothei the earth with ixurlant vegetation, evaporate* avaet amount of rude, nnwholefbme mcietnrt from it* tuiface hlch,mingling with the air in th; foim cfmephlllt aaee, prodncee a variety rf frbille and other dii mf*. The body being debilitated by the warmth f the season, and tba porei being wide open, gap ig as it were far the seeds of sickness, any irfeclona pi lnrlple that may exist in the atmosphere, li aadl'y received into the system when it bean anefal fruit in the shape cf malarious fever, bill usnees, diarrhoea, dysentery, colic, sickness at th^ tomacb, headache or nsivoas prostration. In orde 9 prevent these visitatione put the syatemln r ondition to resist all mot bid iufluencea. Brace thr iner man with H .stettor's Stomach Bittern, thr urest lnvigorant and the mrst invincible antagoist of all causes of disease, whether present in tbi ir we breathe, the water we drink, or connecte' ithour manna of life or the nature cf our pursuit* Cat science has yet given to the world. The expe icnce cf twenty-five years has taught an observant erple, that this unexceptional and agreeable tonir nd alterative poaiessea preventive and remedial lrtuea that are shared by no other medicine <t lie present age. It has taught them also that whili : is infinitely more efficient than any eft be poison as alkaloids prescribed as tonics, it ia absolutely nd entirely harmless. The Markets. KXW YOBK leef Cattle?Prime to Extra 4 .12tfa .18 First quality 11 *a .12V Second .. .11 a .lit. Ordinary thin OsMMl. .10 a .11 v Inferior MKT .10 a .11> nich Cows 40.00 aSO.OO logs?Live 0514a .05?, Dressed Ofi^a .07', heep 05 Va .07 Otton?Middling 1034a .20). lour?Extra Western (t.50 a 8.90 State Extra...,.* 650 a 690 fheat?Bed Western 1.60 a 1.60 " State 1.77tta 1.77' No. 2 Spring 1.60 .a 1/8V lye. 00 a .90 larley Malt?... l.oo a 1.90 i?U?Mlxen weerern a .o? torn?Mixed Weatern /5 a .65 [ay 1.10 a 1.10 traw 60 a 1.10 [opa TO, .86 a .tH-fQa .10 a .16 tork?Meaa 14.00 al?63>. j?rd 07Vfa .08>. 'etroIeum-w-Crudr 8^a .9 Retined lt??, I utter?State 28 a .29 Ohio Fancy 22 a .62 " Yellow .17 a .20 Western Ordinary 14 a .16 Pennsylvania One 25 a .28 Ihecae?Bute factory 16 a .18*, " Sklmtned 05 a .10 Ohio 12 a .13 "rrs?State 17 a .18 inmrALt. Jeef Cattle 8.50 a 6.80 sheep 4.80 a 6.00 ?0(ta?Live 4 50 a 4 75 lour 7.75 alO.OO Ytaeat?No. 2 Spring 1.37 a 1.41 torn 46 a .47 Hta 38 a .42 tye : 85 a .86 Ftarley 84 a .98 Lard 09 a .09> ALBANT. (Hi eat 1.87 a 2.10 (tye?State 94 a .94 "torn?Mixed 61 a .64 Barter?State 05 a .90 lata?8tate 48 a .54 PHILADELPHIA. Flonr?Penn. Extra 7.50 a 9.75 ? A D-A 1 r,1 a 175 >nfai?niTlrtu ivru ..... f!orn?Yellow 59 ? .51 Mixed ; 89 * .59 Petroleum?Crude 13sR*6ne<119V Beef Cattle ; 05 a .08 Clover Seed 8.00 a 7.7% Timothy 4.23 a 4.37* ALTMOKX. Cotton?Low Midlln?i 17,'a'a .18* Donr-Extra 8.30 a 7.75 Ylieat 1 1.45 a 1.90 Corn?Yellow 82 a .72 'lata 47 a .49 5|iA *?er Week IN CARII to Aj'iili Sa/LII Eve'jr,hi"?'fttrnl?hed end exp?r?e? pai u)TtU a. CuUlTZ* d CO., Charlotte. Ml b. RFWARP Of-windier.. We are reliable, and | 0 C TV Mil L w jjj p,j rU Agenta a rnuli 84U a week aalary. O. WiB ER 4 C<*.. Marion.?. AGENTS WAKTEO POK TIIK UNDEVELOPED WEST uK, Five Years in the Territories. By ST. XX. BEADLE. W atern Corre?po"dent ef Cl-rlnnatl Commercial. 1 he only comrl 't? hiatory cf that vnat region between tho liaalsaippl ana the Pscifle: j?? Re?< urrrs Climate. Ii h tbl ante, h'atnr*!, Cn-ioaiitee.etc. ?i'h lif and adventure on Pritlrie*.Mou"t?i' a in< (he I'erlflc Coaat. Mr. Bendlo has apeut flv yeara travel! g In th- new Ftatea and Terilto lea, and k"n?s ra'Te abont tta-l' Re ru'eea de?thin ary other wiltor. The bee k 1( illuitrated with over 350 flne crgravi'.gs rf 'h- -cenery. Ci'iea. l?"da. Vfiea, Pe< pie and CwtraiMea rf the O ent We|( ? Alt the beat and f ?( at a? 111. g b^ok ever pt-bliahe.\ Send f>r ap-cimen p iffeaa d eirral""*. with te-ma. v'dr'is NAUOhAL PUBLISH NO CO., Philadelphia. Pa. iwO flit EACH WEEK ?AORNT8 WANTI1 Tt | ?,?"' Bnatneaa legitimate Parttralar ... i wciarn a. .??.* w? ?..* earn CI ftTfi C9fl tDllf 1 U tPflU A H WlalrACo -Bt Loota.Me cfnhn reward for any eaae of Blind- Bleeding, Itching, or Ulcerated IJAwxrarrl Pllea that de ring's PILE ACWdlU remedy fall a to enra. It ta prepared expreaalyto rare the Pileaand nothing ela bold BY all DRDQQ18T8 PEICE >1 ?C fon P?r d*7' Agenta wanted I All claaaea A J IU ecu of working people of either aex,young nr old. make more money at work for na In their p?r* momenta ar all the time than at anything elae Particular* free. Addrea* O. STIBBOH 4CO..Portand. Me. TlflTTfl Oreat Offer I rietureei Frame* I Vow Kl I I N * male* and M !> ( Catalogue I eta. J' iJUlU Jar OOULD,? Bromflel fft., Boeton, Me SEB *r wrtl* Dr. Dedae *f Ifrnmm Md t*pm lind *e4 Mmrt MygMMM/. Car** lenalwl BewBta > i _-J a Dollar Pays for WEEKLY SUN", column newspaper, of the tent class, 1874. Heed SO cents, and Try It* Address TUB BUN, New York city. , 2f l)r. J. Walker's California Vinegar Bitters are a purely Vegetable preparation, made chiefly from the native herbs found on the lower ranges of the Sierra Nevada mountains of Califoruia. the medicinal properties of which ire extracted therefrom without the use if Alcohol. The question is almost laily asked, "What is the cause of the unparalleled success of Vinegar Bitters t" Our answer is, that they remove the cause of disease, and the patient recovers his health. They ore the great blood purifier and a life-giving principle, a perfect Renovator aud Invigorator Vjof the system. Never before in the -| history of the world has a medicine been compounded possessing the remarkable qualities of Vinkoab Bittbrs in healing the sick of every disease man is heir to. They are a gentle Purgative as well as a Tonic, relieving Congestion or Inflammation of the Liver unll Visceral Organs, in Bilious Diseases. + The properties of Dr. Walker's VI5Boah Bittkbh are Aperient, Diaphoretic, Carminative, Nutritious, Laxative, Diuretio, Sedative, Counter-irritant, Sudorifio, Altera* live, and Anti-Bilious. R. If. MfDOSALD & CO., rhugjrists and Gen. Afrts.. Son Francisoo. California, wd cor. of Washington and Chariton Sts.. V. I. Sold bjr all Prog gists and Peals rm. N. T. N. 0.. No. 25. ?- _______???? MOTHERS! MOTHERS! MOTHERS! Don't (ail to proem* MBS. WIVILfWf SOOTHING} SYRUP rOR CHILDREN TEETH* NG. Thti trainable preparation haa baaa BMd with 1FVKR-PAILINQ SUCCB8S IN THO > BANDS OP 'ABBS. It not only rellerei the child froa pain, hut lnrlg ratee the etomach and bowel*, correct* acidity .and f ire* tone and energy to the whole ayetea. It wl I to tuttaatly rellere Griping of the Bowel* and Wind Oolio. We bell ere tt the BB8T and IDBMT RKMBDriN ran WORLD In all caeri of DYSINTERY AKD HARRHOtA IN CHILDREN, whether artaing Don eethlng or any other canae. Depend upon it, mothert.lt will glrereat to your lelvca and Belief and Health *o Your Infanta. He tare and call for "MRS. WINSLOW'S SOOTH1NO STRUP." Hawing the fee-*.mile of " CURTIS * PRRKUfS n the " "tatde wrapper. Sold by Dntggiata throughout the World woRKi(Mcus8.?-\L;,saAKiS; M blermpJoyTnenL*tnoint>.dA7?rer?niac.nocauiUlr.?iuir. ad; fnQ instructions and valuable package of good* a*ot tree by maiL Addreea, with six cent return ataJniK M. YOUNG A OO.. lilOortlai>dt?t~ New York. 9|aAVrjN|TI^MffalS^HXO rilEA.-TBA AHKNTh wanted lit i??i. and ouunI try to ?i II TFA, "r get up rlnti ordc. a, lor t..? large it Tea Company in * m 11 Ira; imports'* piioCI and Inducements to agent*. Pen<i to- rlnular. AdilreM, ROBERT WKU." 48 V **? * #w Tnev. urunov madv atrong: Bashfnlaea* ovaroomel lYlLlTlUn I How to conquer Habit*: tb* mind strenqtneaed; the body made tnagh and n corona Valuable book 10eta. Mailed br A. Looms. Jersey Oil/, M. J. ' laaawmiAittt nm ruin 11 AMtKIUAN SAW5. BE8T IN THE WORLD. MOVABLC-TOOTIIEIF CIUCTXAItM,. ' PEHFORATFIk CttfkH* CX'TS. Send for Pimohlat to AMERICAN SAW CO., MEW YOEK, Thea-Nectar 3r^V59WI 18 * l,L'h* Www .mntXtUj* brtt Tn Import ml. for ,? MVNft ertrjirbtri. And for *!? JT vknlrith only by thr 01UT {W^ HRA ATLANTIC i PACIFIC TEA CO. N0.mp.ttMit.AtA4Ck.nk v mSSW 81., Now York. P. O. R , IJO ^ Rorrt *nr T1????-W?rf?? ClrmH J Itowcrd ANortatiM. Phlltddyblo. h. 9 A" Initltotlon h?rl>'fa fitfk r*pot?tlo? F>r MM kit ootid art and nnOwiocil tbilL Artlijr tar- B rwou., J. A BOCO RTOJf. *. D. I"?n %Jo?>f I *?" tout frooof rbarv* Addrtoo, HOWABD AF?0 I C1AT10N, No. I SvuiA Niatfc BL, iWdddfAU, t? I .J