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The value of the potato as food for man and* many of our domestic animals is too well known to be discarded at this late 1 day in consequenoe of anything which j may be written by theoretical chemists or agriculturists. " But while tkepotato has been a bone . of contention*mumg agriculturists for J many years, its practical and specific ! value as food for stock has never been disproved when put to test. The oele- 1 brated veterinarian, William Youatt, in speaking of the value of the various kinds of roots as food for stock, says of the potato : "Among the various vege- i table productions that have been appro- i printed to the stall-feeding of cattle, v none have occasioned greater discussion i than potatoes They furnish an excel- ' lent supply, particularly when cut and c r teamed, they appear adequate to the a fattening of neat oattle in combination a with comparatively small portions ?f J bther food." Mr. Campbell, of Charl- e ton, England, observes that 100 bushels 8 .> of potatoes and 700 pounds of hay are ? generally sufficient to fatten any animal t that thrives tolerably well. They should 3 at first be given in small quantities and gradually increased to one or two bushels per day ; dry food being alwavs^intermixed, and the proportion of hay being uniformly regulated by the effect which . the potatoes produce on the bowels. The nay should always be cut in order ^ that it may be more readily mixed with 0 the potatoes. { f f We might give almost any amount of , testimony from practical farmers and stock raisers to corroborate the above, c but think it entirely unnecessary, as it is ? quite likely that a majority of our readers know from experience that potatoes 1 are valuable food for stock. At the pre- f sent price of beef, cheese, butter, or ? pork, we think our fanners would do * better to feed out their potatoes than to . sell them at twenty cents per bushel and less, prices at whicn they have been sold ? in many localities this season. Potatoes * are too heavy and bulky a crop to send : to a distant market, but they are readily \ tnrnfwl infcn haaf. pTippka ni?hntfcAr. anrl in these forms the cost of transportation I1 is greatly reduced. j DoBMtic Recipes. C Victoria Pudding.?Take of grated 5 bread, mashed potatoes, grated carrots, finely chopped suet, sugar and currants, * each half a pound, four eggs well beaten, a little salt, grated nutmeg and lemon , _ peal, with a very little cinnamon ; mix J J alt well together, put into a mold, and ? - boil four hours. SerVe with sauce. ? f * ' ? c Exhibition Padding.?Take a quarter o of a pound * of suet, chop very fine, a o quarter of a pound of raisins, stoned, h kahJespoonfuls of flour, two table- ii ^ fepoonfuls ?f sugar, the peel of a whole f lemon grated, a little nutmeg and three t eggs; mix all together, put into a mold o and tbo& for four hours. Serve with BrjUp Siwas.?Slice some white bread very' fEm, and without crust, boil it in milk with a sliced onion and some white r / whole pepper; rub through a coarse ? sieve, return it to a stewpan, putin a 1< small pieoe of bntter, salt to taste, asd t a little cream if you ha\e it, to make it i of a proper thickness; warm sufficiently, L and serve. Dessert op Cold Rice and Stewed s ob Grated Apple.?Cut cold boiled . rice in slices, and then lay in a buttered 1 pudding dish alternate layers of rice and a I* grated apples. Add sugar and spice to each layer of apples. Cover with the 11 rice, smooth with a spoon dipped in cold r water or milk, and bake three-quarters if the apples are raw. To ~ be served with a sweet sauce. * Carrot Soup.?Take two quarts of ? s?ock, and to this add from six to ten ?.Ratals, according to size, three turnips, three or four onions, and lot them stew ? till tender. Then take out the vegeta- <? bles, strain the soup, and with a spoon h take off the red part of the carrots from the yellow center, and force it through a ooorse sieve ; add the pulped carrot to h the soup, till it is as thick as good n cream ; warm it and serve at once. Baked College Puaawfa.?'Take half a' pound of grated bread, three ounces , of well washed currants, one ounce of * candied peels, half an ounoe of citron, a two ounces of moist sugar, half a nutmeg, three eggs, a pint of milk ; boil the milk and pour on the bread crumbs, put in an ounoe of butter, and then mix in the other ingredients. This quantity si will fill six cups; bake in a moderate lc ovc&, turn the puddings out of the cups, is sift pounded sugar over the tops, pour h sauce round them, and serve. ii ml t> gf f X. T? Peed Cora and Oil-Cake. .j A Mount Vernon (Ohio) oorrespon- p dent writes ; " You will oblige by ii giving some information in reference to it the best method of feedincr corn to cat- ol tie that are being fattened. Here the aj practice is to feed it in the shock; and Is what I desire most to learn is, whether it p would not be better either to grind it h with the oob, or without the cob, and k feed it then? Of what value is oil-cake, ji used with corn, and if used, in what ix quantity should it be fed ?" d Reply?Whether it is cheaper to feed k corn m the ear whole, or ground, de- tl poods upon circumstances. The saving tc in grinding the ears and feeding meal is tl fully one-fourth, if not one-third. If ai the cost of husking and grinding the k <?rs is greater than the saving, it is s( clearly cheaper to feed the corn in the w shock. The husking might cost four T oents a bushel, and the grinding may be fi: done fbr three cents a bushel. Where * tl corn costs thirty oents a bushel (seventy i h< v. >ounds of ears) it would just about pay o crush it. Where it costs more it rotrid pay better, and where it costs less t would not be profitable. There is oine little nutriment in the cobs. Oilsake is worth a little more than corn; as n addition to corn meal it is worth even aore for its good effect upon the bowels ind skiOk Two to four pounds a day night be profitably fed to fattening aninals, along with tWioe as much corn neaL The manure from an oil cake fed inimal jit very rich, and would repay, at east, half the ooet of the cake. It is a )ity that all the oil-cake made in the sountry is not fed here instead of being sported. Acorn Coffee. In Germany " aoorn ooffee " is used, ind greatly lied, as a substitute for ordinary coffee, and is considered to L every strengthening for consumptive people ind delicate children. The acorns are gathered in autumD, when they are ripe, L-11-J ?J i. luuircu, auu. fuwi wuig cut iutu pitn-w >f the size of coffee berries they are fchor>ughly dried in front of the fire, or in a sool ov??n. They are then roasted like jrdinary coffee, until they become a cinaamon-brown color. Immediately after roasting the acorns are ground or poundid in a mortar, to prevent their becoming tough. While the coffee is being ground oar pounded a very little butter is added, and the coffee is then placed in air-tight bottles. For children, prepare in the same way as ordinary coffee, ising a quarter of an ounoe to a pint of rater, adding milk and sugar to taste, foxing children should take it with two >r three parts of milk. For adults, half in ounce of the coffee to a pint of water. \corn coffee and ordinary coffee are frequently mixed, and the docoction is :ottnd Very palatable. In their raw state morns are known to be powerfully astringent, but they lose this quality in he process of roasting. In some roipects acorn coffee is preferable to oofee proper, having none of the drying properties attributed to the latter. Use froa Shells. A J., Stamford, Conn., asks whether t would pay to cart lime from shells four niles aud pay three cents a bushel; also rhether it will suit winter grain or neadow land best Reply?Lime from shells is the purest >f all kinds of lime, and is very valuable is a fertilizer. Lime is worth twelve ud one-half cents per bushel for this >urpose, and if it can be procured cheapir than that so much is gained. The hells are easily burned in pit% with rood or coal, much in the same manner hat oharooal is burned.?New York Vimes. " ' * Sudden Wealth. ' The Helena (Mon.) Herald has the ollowing story: For the past five or six 'ears there has been around the streets t Helena a dirty degraded looking pecimta of humanity, Robert Nelson >y name, yet universally known as ' Mountain Dew." He could not be ailed a vagabond, for he was always eady to clean streets, saw wood, or any abor wherd a dollar was in sight. He r&s suffering from a chronic disease, yet te managed to earn enough to keep lunger from the door. Many wondered hat long ago he did nor fall back upon he country for support. His chief amotion seemed to be a desire to be known a the "dirtiest man in Montana." itobert Nelson is now wealthy. It seems bat in early days Robert found himself a Boise, Idaho. Times were flush, 1 Mountain Dew " was lucky, and from o oaiminmi Dnnf Knmo lr> kin fofXiar LiO UV OUUV AiV/iUW W UUJ 1HVUVA | q Missouri, $8,000 to invest for him. juck turned, Nelson got broke, and amo to Montana. For several years be ias been trying to realize something rom the money he sent to his father, et he never could get any satisfaction, nd he was too poor to go East to see bout it. However, a short time since a atter reached him, stating that 'his ather had died, and that real estate and ther property to the amount of $50,000 lad been left for him. A draft of $400 ame on for the heir. He bonght a suit >f fashionable clothing, took a bath, got is hair cnt and his mustache dyed, and b is a fact not one in ten knew the transormed figure and features of " Mounain Dew." Nelson left Helena for his Id home in Missouri, v. . , _j ,r fs that ? on, Cbarli el John Henry had been off on a busitess trip, and had got home at three in ho morning. He found the doors all ocked, and tried to get in at the back window, in the course of which proceed g a policeman nabbed him for a burgeut. "Why, you big idiot, I live here," aid the injured man. " No, you don't, cully; that dog won't amp. k\e had the nippers on yon fore. You're a cnnnin' cove, you are." " But I tell you, you blasted fool, that ay name's Henry, and I live hero. Just ing the bell and ask my wife." So the guardian of the law rang the >ell, purely as a matter of form*, for he new his man. Mrs. Henry stuok her nightcap out of he window, and asked; r; " Is that you, Charlie P' " Who in the bine blazes is 'Charlie ?'" nougnt joud Menry, ana wnne msneart ras boiling over with jealousy, the poceman asked: "Is your husband -at home, ma'am?" " No, he's out of town, and won't be ome for several days/' and then slamled the window down in a hurry. So the bewildered John went off to ae station house, and found out next lorning that " Charlie " was a brother ram the country who had come to make few days' visit. That Stick of Wood. The Danbury man says that just as ire as there is a stick in the wood-box >nger than its fellows and the stove, it i sqre to turn up when the head of the ouse is replenishing the fire. You ave seen him put that piece in the ?ve. He is invariably in a hurry when e does it. He lifts off the front, and okes the stick in. It lacks about two* . .1 3 ^ a TT 1 1 J lcnes 01 gorqg aown. ne wiggles, dui doesn't go down. He takes ofif the ther lid, and sees that the stick is plump ^ainft the end of the stove, and jet tcks an inch or more of taking its roper position. The glory of a man is is legs. He lifts his foot and gives it a ick. It is still there. The stove is ist seventeen inches in length, or one ich shorter than the stick. Still that ifferenoe has no weight with him. He icks it again. The heat is blinding, le delay is maddening, the defeat is >rtnring. His wife comes in, as oil npon le waters. Then he kicks, and sobs, id kicks again, and still kicks, and tcks madly and passionately, and . reams at the top of his voice that he ill do it, and lalls to kicking again, hen he lus to be led away, gently but rmly, while the patient wife, throws le stick out of dodrs, and fixes the fire srself. . A FABLE. One time there was a good old man of snch meek and lowly disposition that the people made him a judge, and they brought their disputes to him to decide. His decisions were ever just, and the people said : " Great ia Aboud El Bishen; he is never wrong." " One day a stranger came to the office of this good man and said ; ** A man owes me a just debt and will not pay." " Does he give reasons!" t " He gives a dozen of them. He says my bill against him is a blasted swindle and a fraud." " You have asked him for the ducats ?" " I have, and he says he'll knock my head off if X ever ask him again !" Then the good judge was puzzled. He chewed at the end of a three-cent penholder for a long time, and finally asked: " Did you furnish this man food for his camels or a robe for himself that he is your debtor?" ^ "Not by a jugful. The bill is for a job of plumbing 1" Then the meek and pensive smile which had covered the faoe of Aboud El Bishen faded away like a boy sliding over a milldam, and in its place came an expression of malignant evil. *4 TKon ttati cm n nlnmlmr 2" Vtk* Qfllrrwl JL. UCXi JVU U1U u |/Jl ?IH KJXJX. I uv MUAVVA in a voice as cruel as a cross-cut saw. " J doth plumb," answered the man. Then the wise judge chewed up the rest of the penholder, dug his heels into the floor, and in a low, shrill whisper he inquired : " Did you ever know a plumber to get a job done within fourteen weeks of the promised time f" "No, sir, I never did!" promptly replied the plumber; " but let me explain. Now suppose you want a small job done at the house?a little saldering, a faucet put in, or something of that kind. You leave your order, and I say day after tomorrow. I send the oldest apprentice to your house, and when he gets there he sits down and takes a look at the job. Then he stands up and looks at it. Then he squints his eyes and looks at it. Then he walks all over the house and comes back and looks at it. Then he figures on how much the house cost, wonders if there is a mortgage on it, sits down and talks with the hired girl for a couple of hours, and oomes back and reports. Day after to-morrow oomes, and I can't send a man up there because they are finishing another job which ought to have been done a month before. Something happens the next day and the next, and it's two weeks before I can send a man." " Or two months," put in the wise judge. u Well, split the difference and call it six weeks," replied the plumber. " I send two of the boys up. They walk around the job, go down cellar and up stairs, sit down and figure on the cost of | the front steps, aud go home to dinner. When they return they take another look at the job, and Thomas oomes to the shop after some solder. He gets it, and then Henry comes after his tobacco box, and then Thomas comes, and wants to know if it's gas pipe or water pipe. They knock off then for the day, and about noon next day get around there and dig a hole in the pipe to put in the faucet. The next day they get the faucet in, and some time during the week that job is nicely finished." "And you charge $20 for it!" exclaimed the eL raged judge. "Just about that figure, O wise judge! But it isn't my fault. The oldest ap-; prentice says he had to take out one hundred and fifty feet of pipe, and the youngest apprentice said he had to put m two hundred feet, and between them they mix me up, and I have to average it. It isn't us plumbers?it's these apprentices who are to blame." " put aou i yuu imuw ?uwy ure lyixig to you?" s -i " I sometimes suspect them; but how it would look for mo to say unto Thomas: Thomas, thou art a liar!' How that boy WbUld feel !H 44 Don't people ever stop at your shop and call you a liar and a cormorant t" 44 They do?-3ome one coming almost every day?but they shouldn't do it. When the bldest apprentice says that the job is worth $20 and the youngest apprentice agrees with him I have to make out my bills accordingly. I desire, O judge, that my debtor may be forced to pay me my honest due." Then tne meek and pensive Abond El Bishen bobbed up and down in his ohair as if he were on red-hot springs. His face grew black, his eyes became bloodshot, and he yelled out: 44 The guard! The guard!" And when two cross-eyed constables entered in response to the yell he continued : "Outoff the man's head, and let it be borne around the city on a staff, while the bearer shouts : 44 Behold, he has plumbed his last plumb!" And when the judgment was carried out the people threw up their hats and shouted: 44 Aboud El Bishen forever I We'd like to see the chap who can plumb it over him !" And from that day to this no plumber has ever dared charge half what a job is worthy and all plumbers finish a job at the time agreed upon or perish beside it,.?M. Quad. Hurricanes and Earthquakes. We have intelligence, says the New York Herald, of a severe hurriaane which visited the Philippine islands, i causing the loss of many lives and destroying the houses and crops of the inhabitants. Such a calamity cannot fail < to produce great distress; but the Phil- : ippinee are not alone in suffering from < AlAmAVtla \X Arnitn'na VXOIWIUUUO U1 I'ilU f COUT1UO I once more threatens an eruption, and &1- < though the horrors of Herculaneum and Pompeii oonnot be repeated, a direful calamity is imminent. An earthquake i has just been felt on the Atlantic coast, ] extending all the way from Weldon, N. 1 0., to Washington, and almost simulta- ] neously the Pacific slope was similarly visited. In Porto Rico, too, earthquake 1 Bhocks have been experienced, and it is ( only a short time sinoe the terrible ' floods devasted France, England and i parts of this country. No foresight can < provide against accidents like these, and 1 the terrors they inspire increase with J their frequency. * - - ~ ( Opium Smoking. The Ban Francisco Chronicle says that, in addition to the numerous opium ] smoking dens kept in that city for the < Chinese alone, there are, within three ' blocks of the city hall, eight opium j smoking establislimentskept by Chinese , for the exclusive use of white men and 1 women. These places are patronized 1 not only by the vicious, but are resorted ' to by yteong^aen and-women of respect- , able parentage ; and* the habitues of i these resorts inhale the fumes of opium ; until a state of stupefaction is produced. An ordinance has been passed prohibit- \ ing opium smoking in dens, bHt of course 1 it is evaded. ] f A Serpent Show. An incident of the "quiet day" of the Prince of Wales' stay at Bombay was one which is de rigueur with all visitors to India?namely, an hour or so with the Hindoo conjurers and snake charmers, of which Bombay possesses many skillful and extraordinary specimens, and no doubt the priuce saw something to astonish him. even after the puzzling performance of the Houdins and Maskelyncsof Europe. The men themselves, always of low caste, possess an amazing command of the deadly varieties of reptiles, which they bring in flat wicker baskets to the door of any one who will pay a trifle for the exhibition. They lift the lid and out glides the dreaded cobra; but at a pluck of his tail or a light touch with a stick "the living death" rears his head and neck, puffs otft his hood and dances time to the sound of the tumbi, a rude instrument which the " sampwallah " blows upon, being a gourd stuck over with the red and black seeds of the abrus precatorilis and fitted with a double reed. The gray, horrid eyes of the serpent fix themselves steadfastly upon the man's gourd or turban, the creature nods backward or forward, this way or that, with an obedient movement which follows every bend of the charmer. The majority of cobra3 carried about by these men will be found not only fangless, but with the fang gum cauterized, so that the poison teeth cannot grow again. Mr. Nicholson, in his excellent book on Indian ophiology, has very truly pointed out that even the deadliest snakes may be taken up with impunity by those who have nerve and quickness of touch. Unless frightened or hurt they are remarkably slow to exercise their power. The great thing is, in fact, not to terrify th6 terrible naga; and half the mystery of the business stands explained when this odd amiability in the deadly cobra is understood and the perfectly collected manner of the charmer is also observed. It is considered rather lucky to have a cobra in the chuppur of the hnt, and the children put out milk and eggs every night for " their uncle," who keeps down the rats and will live a'whole season about the place without doing any kind of harm. Religion and legend combine to protect these reptiles in India, and, besides all the mythology which clusters round the serpent of Vishnu and its antique worship, Hindoos believe that cobras guard all kind of underground treasures. "The juggler,having no other garment on him than the lingouti, chooses a serpent of a harmless species and places it in a basket, which he covers with a lid. He then nses and flings his arms about, the while muttering some cabalistic words which his companion accompanies oh a tamborine. Suddenly he arms himself with a flexible wand, which he whirls for some minutes above his head, and then suddenly throws down at our feet, where it arrives in the form of a serpent. In spite of the closest attention on two repetitions of this feat, I could not detect the moment when the wand was exchanged for the serpent" That is an example of the marvelous adroitness of these Hats and Madari, or snake people, who are thought by some authorities to be identical with the gypsies of Europe. Mr. Nicholson, for example, points to the word surpengro in the Roman language, which means the same thing, and is almost identical in spelling with surpendrcn, one name of the great serpent Vasuki, in the Indian mythology. It may, therefore, be that in the Bombay snake charmers, the Prince saw the relic of a nation and of practices infinitely more antique than Agha Khan's ancestor, and certainly it is carious how religious myths have made the serptnt as little dreaded by the Hindoo people as he is detested and feared by the European races, who believe that in Eden, as Burns puts it, "he gave the infant world a shog maist ruined a'." ? e ~~ j I H?w a Vegetable T)e*troy? an Insect, To a pane of the window before which we write there is fastened a dead fly, which lies with legs sprawled wildly, with head bent awry, the proboscis thrust out, and the wings standing up unnatually. It has the appearance of having suffered a miserable death, its members being twisted and contorted as though with spasms of pain. Examining its body closely, we discover that a white mold is growing luxuriantly between the rings of the abdomen and on the surface of the wings, and that joints of the plant hare fallen off upon the window glass, covering a space surrounding the insect of nearly an inch in length and a half inch in width. What is the meaning of these odd circumstances, and what brought the poor fly to its vio-' lent death! It is a dear case of murder. The fly was consumed by a vegetable, a fungus that ate out its vital organs, and is now fattening on its remains. The fungus is called Emputa Muscce, and is in the habit of attacking house flies in the aptumn. The germs of the plant, floating in the air, or lurking in places visited by the insect, settle upon its body, and, finding congenial soil, take root and develop rapidly. The wretched victim, helplessly yielding to the drain on its vitality, becomes sluggish, and when at last it is exhausted and overcome, fixes itself to some object, and, incapable of further action, it perishes. Instances are often seen like the one just described, where the fly settles on a window pane and there suocumbs to the cannibal feeding of its vitals. "The whole of the interior organs of the abdomen," says a writer in Nature, " are consumed by the plant?nothing remaining but the chitinous envelope, on which the mycelia (filaments) of the fungus form a feltlike layer; the fructification showing itself externally as filaments protruding from betwe< n the rings of the body." Grace Greenwood, writing from Paris, gives the following anecdote: A gentleman, calling on a distinguished foreign minister a short time ago, was told that no visitors were reoeived that day, " But, you see," he said to the domestic, "I have a lettre d'audience, and I come on a matter of importance." "I un very sorry, monsieur, but it is quite impossible to admit you. His excellency is burying his mother-in-law to-day, ind when his excellency buries his mother-in-law, he does not like, to be disturbed." , "Throw Physic to the Dogs; PI! None of it." We do not in the least feel like blaming ! Macbeth for this expression of disgust ; iniced, we are rather inclined to sympathize with him. Even nowadays most of the cathartics offered to the public' are great, repulsivelooking pills, the very appearance of which is sufficient to " turn one's stomach." Had Bfaobetk over head of Dr.Pierce's Pleasant Purgative Pellets be would not have uttered those words of contempt. It is really encouraging, when one is ill, to tind that a little, sugar;oated pellet, no larger than a grain of mustard, will as promptly produce the desired effect as a dose of great, nauseating pills. rbeBe little pellets, unlike other cathartics, are really nature's physio. They do not debilitate, but tone and invigorate the system. No family should be without Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Purgative Pellets.?Com. SUMMABI OF NEWS. Iubi ml IitffH trmm H*M ud Abread. While Dennis Daly, a farmer of Ledyard, Caynga county, N. I., was removing potatoes from a pit, a heavy mass of earth fell upon him, and when taken oat he was found to be dead The training ship Goliath at Gravesend, England, was destroyed by lire. There is reason to believe that twenty boys perished in the flame? The hog disease is prevailing to an alarming extent in Warren and other counties in New Jersey About seven o'clock in the evening a gas main running under Federal street bridge, in 8outh Boston, exploded from some unknown cause, and wrecked everything for some distance about, killing a number of people. The pavements, which were crowded at the time, were torn up for one handred and fifty yards, and many persons buried under the debris. A large portion of the bridge fell, carrying down with it several persons who were crossing at the time. Four or five wore killed and a number wounded. A large grain warehouse in the vicinity was so racked by the explosion that it will have to be taken down Considerable alarm was felt in Richmond, Va., on account of an earthquake, which lasted ten seconds, and was quite severe. Sonora, Mexico, is in a state of anarchy, and Governor Pesquiera levied a special tax to carry on the war Montenegro has negotiated a ban of $1,000,000, and has contracted for arms. It is believed she will join Servia against Tnrkey A battle recently oocurred between the Russian troops anl a body of insurgents in Khokand, in which three hundred of the latter were killed...... It is announced in Cairo that the Khedive is negotiating the sale of Egypt's founders' shares in the Suez canal and that a representative of the British government and an agent of a combination of French capitalists are the bidders, the latter having offered $9,000,000 The Prince of Wales has arrived in Calcutta The earthquake was felt generally throughout Virginia A Louisville (Ky.) grand jury has indicted ten persons for betting on the late elections?among them two of the city oouncil The town of Winona, Minn., having subscribed bonds to the amount of $35,000 for the Green Bay railroad company, and then refused to pay them, claiming that the company did not fulfill all the conditions agreed, the company brought suit, and have received a verdict by which they can reoove* $35,000, with interest, from wealthy citizens of Winona George H. Decker, of Liberty, 8ullivaa county, N. Y., shot his wife and then cut his own throat, causing his death shortly afterward. His wife was dangerously injured. Financial troubles led to the act......The freights west on the Pennsylvania railroad have been redaced fifty per cent. A severe tornado passed over the Bermuda islands, destroying considerable property, with some loss of life Charles Knowles, nine years old, was found dead in the window of a schoolhouee at Guilford, N. H. He had attempted to olimb in through the window, and the sash falling upon his neck suffocated Him Helmbold, the ex-buchu man, has again been pnt in an insane asylum.... ..The royal palace at Barcelona was nearly destroyed by fire A Mr. Reenz was arrested in Hew York city for sending a challenge The entire businees portion of Avon, H. Y., was destroyed by fire, involving a loss of $70,000. Heavy importations keep the price of corn down in the English market, and wheat in some of the .French markets has dropped. The sugar refinery of Messrs. Kattenhorn, Hopke, Offerm&n A Co., at Hastings, N. Y., was boned, the loss being estimated at 1600,000....A boarding house on the Cincinnatti Southern railroad, near Harrodsburg, Ky., was fired into in the evening by unknown persons, killing Martin Crum and wounding a man named McCarty Town Marshal Chandler, of Lebanon, Ky., attempted to arrest a man named Northoraft, when he was set upon by roughs, and a general fight ensued, dating which many shots were fired. Chandler killed Korthcraft, and>as almost instantly killed by the friends of the latter..,... A coroner's jury at Westerly. B. L, in the case of the child who was killed by the kicks of a dranken father while in its mother's arms, have returned the verdiot: "That the person from whom the father purchased the liquor which mad^ him drunk is guilty of murder." The father, Philip Gallagher, was held in 11,000 bail to answer before the supreme oourt A dreadful calamity occurred in the little village of HelUkon, in the Canton of Aarg&u. Christmas festivities were being celebrated iu the schoolhouse m that place, when the flooring gave way. Eighty persons were killed and fifty more or lees wounded Ex-Queen Isabella of Spain is sick with the measles. The British now hold all the important positions in the neighborhood of Penang, Malacca. The Maharajah Lei a has fled and taken refuge in Siamese territory A terrible hurricane occurred in the Philippine islands of the Indian archipelago, with dis&ejr'ous results. The damage was most severe in the provinces of Albay and Camarines, on the island of Luzon. Two hundred and fifty lives were lost and 8,800 dwellings destroyed. Great numbers of cattle perished, and the crops were completely ruined Harvard will not withdraw from the ooliege rowing association Francis D. Moolton h s sued Henry Ward Beecher for 150,000 for malicious prosecution Canal Auditor Thayer, of New York, has been removed by Governor Tilden, who acted on the recommendation of the' commission era of tfie canal fund. At.. The gas explosion in Boston was caused by tho drip-oock being left open through carelessness, and the gas accumulating in qoantity under the bridge Nine passengers were severely injured on the Vermont Central'TOilroad by an expyeea train running off the track and down a ten-foot embankment near Middlesex By an explosion in the Hutchinson coal mine, near Kingston, Pa., three men were killed and a number injured Mr. Hagabone, of Mackey'a Corners, Schoharie county, N. Y., shot at three men as they were harnessing hie valuable team of horses at night* wounding one of them. The man's comrades carried him off, and the next day a dead man was found in a neighbor's barn. A coroner's jury exonerated Mr. Hagabone The estimated expenses for New York city for 1876 are $34*808,205.64. The excuse of the third man," said Mr. Moody, illustrating the parable of the guests who were backward in coming forward, " was more absurd than any? 41 have married a wife, and therefore I cannot oome.' Now, why didn't he take his wife along with him ?" If any of our readers have not tried Dobbins' Electric Soap (mader by Cragin & Co., PhilaA we advise them to give it one trial, for theft owh sake. Have your grocer get it. * .. ?k? A larger volume would not contain the mass of testimony which has accumulated in favor of Dr. Wisiar't Baltam of Wild Cherry as a safe, efficient, and reliable remedy in curing coughs, colds and pulmonary disease. Many of .he cures aro truly wonderful. Fifty cents and one dollar a bottle, large bottlee much the cheaper.?Com. Cliapped hand*, face, pimples, ringworm, B<rheum, and other cutaneous affeo-' tiooH cared, and rongh skiu made soft and smooth, by using Juxiroi Tas Soap. Be oarefill to get only that made by Caswell, Hazard* Co., New York, as their are many imitations made with common tar, all of wbich are worthless. ? Coin. SCHENCU'H MANOR IKE Pfl.L3 WU1 be found to possess tboee qualities necessary to the total eradication of all billona stUohs. prompt to start the secretions of the llrer, and gfr* a healthy tone ' to the entire system. Indeed, ft Is no ordinary dlaoovac in medtual science to bare inrented a remedy for these stublwrn complaints, which develop all the results prodnoed by a heretofore free nae of oaiomal, a mineral mstly dreaded by mankind, and acknowledged to bo , destructive In the extreme to the hnman system. That the properties of certain vegetables ooaprioo all Um rlrtnee of calomel without Its injurious ten den dee, la aow an admitted feet, rendered indisputable by scientific researches; and tboee who use Use Mandrake PlUe will be fully satisfied that the beat medicines are those provided by nsture In the common herbs and roots of the fields. Thefte pills open the bowels and oorrect all batons derangements without salivation or any of the Injurious effects of calomel or other poisons. The secretion of bile is promoted by these pills, aa will be seen by the altered oolor of the stools, and disappearing of the sallow complexion and cleansing of the tongue. Amjlle directions for use aooompany each box of pills. Prepared only by J. H. 80HEN0K A SON, at their principal office, comer Sixth and Arab Street*, Philadelphia, and for tale by ail draggtrt* and dealer*. Price 2o cento per box. The Markets. S?W TOBX. 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