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r=? r FARM. GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD Parts About Potato Beetles. The potato beetle remains in the ground all winter, emerges from it in the spring in a perfect state, fully grown and ready for procreation. During the day, it remains upon the potato plant and does not fly till night, wheu it traverses whole fields aud whole sections of country, the males in search of the j females, and vice versa. The beetle \ does not eat, aud so does no immediate j *harai. The eggs are laid on the under si.In of the leaves, in- patches about an inch square, and are a golden yellow color. In a few days the young soft grabs are hatched, are ravenously hunI'Jwa Volf- tltirlif hnl.-l nilf tVlA follftlTA and arc easily kuocked off. They have ! but slight ability to travel on the surfaco j of the soil, and never descend to it voluntarily, until they have reached the j perfect slug state, when their natural in- : 8tinct prompts them to seek the earth, 1 into which they burrow, form a cocoon, and in due time emerge full grown beetles, ready to begin a new colony. This series of changes takes place from two j to four times in a season, controlled by | its length, warmth, etc. In the last ; change they remain dormant throughout the winter, merely because the temperature is too low to perfect the insects. It is therefore probable that, if they ever reach a tropical climate, their transmigration will be uninterrupted. Reasoning from these facts, wo arrive at the following, which are borne out by actual experience: Any mode of destroying the beetle, practiced by a farmer hero and there, is only lost time, as the nightly flight of the sexes in search of each other is sure to supply local flelds from the others in the neighborhood, the sense of smell being probably the insect's guide to the nearest plant, and to the general rendezvous. If extirpation of the beetle is determined upon, it must be general and c i m n 1 fan arm a Tha err Aaf. diflfionltv of accomplishing this is insuperable. Therefore let the beetle alone. Beetles, however, produoe slugs, and slugs in their turn produce beetles. Slugs do not migrate, are easily dislodged, must eat, and are therefore at our mercy in at least two ways. If they are knocked off the plants in the middle of a dry hot day, and ground into the hot soil (say by a harrow or any similar means), they pdHsh; and if the leaves are rendered, by any* external application, unfit for their food, they starve. An experience of six years has satisfied me that the slug state is the only vulnerable one, and either of the two modes of warfare indicated above is probably successful. They feed indiscriminately on all the solanacece. They are not poisonous, cannot bite or stiDg a human being, need not bo a terror to any; aud to conquer them, it is only neoessary to attack them in a calm, cool, intelligent, business like manner.?S. R. M., in Scientific Farmer. Domestic Hints. Six Months' Yeast.?It is thus called because it will keep this length of time. Make very strong hop tea, and thicken with flour, let it ferment, then stir in corn meal until you can form cakes the size aud thickness of a small cracker, say two inches in diameter ; dry on a dish in the shade. One-third of one dissolved m a half cupful of milk warm water will raise a quart of flour. Grandmother's Sausages. ? Six pounds lean pork tenderloin and nice ? ?t t # scr p3 trimmed irom ine nams, iour pounds chine fat, four ounces of salt, two of pepper, with the following herbs dried, pounded and sifted, added ac- | cording to taste; sage, thyme, sweet marjoram and winter savory. Very good saa?ages are made with sage, leaving out the other herbs, but with their use you have a breakfast dish that is superexoellent. Why should beans never be put into cold water to soak, as is often recommended? Because all the nutritious portion of the bean is extracted by the process. They should be washed in w?rm water, then in cold, be tied loosely in a cloth, be put into boiliDg water, with a spoonful of dripping and a little salt in it, and be kept boiling for four hours. They are then excellent if served with gravy, and not with melted butter. They serve as garnish around roast mutton or beef, and are excellent eating served whole or as a puree. To make the latter, when the beans are done, throw them instantly into cold water, when the skins will slip off. Bub the beans through a colander, and mix a lump of butter with them. A little stock, or milk, or cream is excellent mixed in. H?w to Apply Pari* Green. Probably the most effective weapon for the destruction of the potato beetle is to be found in every properly furnished household?a flour s eve. Supply it with a cover and a handle made of a green rod (because it will bend easily) of a suitable size for the hand, bent in the shape of the letter U inverted, attached at each end to opposite sides of the s*eve, tho part to hold by immediately over center of sieve and about sixteen inches above the bottom of it, and it is completed. Use paris green thoroughly mixed with sifted flour, in propoitions of one ounce of the former to one and one half pounds of the latter. Hold the sieve charged with the poisonous mixture in left hand over a hill of potatoes, and with a stick in the right hand rap it hard enough to produce light discharges of poison, and prooeed in this manner, taking two rows at a time, till the work is done. A man j can probably in tins way poison about three acres a day. If it is desired to make a sieve, the proper proportions are about ten inches insido diameter and four inches depth, and sqnare in shape, because most easily made. The wire gauze for bottom should count twenty wires each way to the inch; total cost about forty cents. * Sowing for Fodder. In cultivating the sorgho for its forage it is recommended by one who has experimented that it be sown in drills two feet apart, letting fall about fifteen or twenty seeds to the foot. When cultivated for fodder the crop should be mowed down as soon as it is large enough to feed to stock, and, according to the length of the Beason, two, three, four, and even five crops can bo obtained. This fodder is greedily eaten by all cattle, and is a valuable acquisition, as it is not only nutritious, but can withstand long droughts. ? An Experiment, An old bachelor at New Orleans tells how he was deterred from committing matrimony in the following way: Thinking over the subject, and particularly of the expense of maintaining a family, he set the table in his lonely abode with plates for himself and imaginary wife and five children. He then sat down to dine, and as often as he helped himself to food he put the same quantity on each of the other plates, and surveyed the prospect, at the same time comparing the cost. He concluded to remain single. HERDING ON THE PLAINS. A Greenhorn In the Muddle of a California ' Broncho- The Annual Bounding Up aid Branding of Cattle. ] The grazing facilities of Colorado, 1 which are not interrupted the year J round, even during the mo-t severely 1 intense oolds of the winter, bring into < pleasing prominence at this particular I season the system of annual " round- i ups," which bring such joy into the i cow boys' and herders' hearts, and < which are the Longchamps of the prai- , ries for the stock growers' and the ranchmen's bronchos; for then they nerve , themselves for miles on miles of swift riding and dexterous curvetting, and , their only alternative is to answer with J unfailing readiness every plunge of the spur and every check or turn of the rein. This whole Territory seems to be one J! vast pasture field for the hundreds of!1 (K.^iinan^o nf fwitfla fhat. ara rwrrrtA.l qnd I ? raised here. Good suoculent hay, thick < meadow, and huge tnfts of buffalo grass t are everywhere to be found, even be- ] neath the snows, aud upon these the i cattle, horses, sheep, etc., subsist boun- i tifully; in consequence no winter provender is provided, and stock is al- | lowed to roam at will during the year, eating whatever congenial food the fields ] afford, drinking at the creeks, springs and rivers, and fiuding shelter in the ravines or valleys of the rolling prairies. Often a fierce storm sweeps thousands ' of head before it away to the Arkansas ; river on the south, or the Platte on the north, and not infrequently one man's ' herd will be found divided into portions > one hundred miles apart. This renders 1 it necessary that, in order to ascertain < the increase, and for the purpose of < branding calves, there should be an an i nual round-up of the cattle in each di- ] vision or district, and a subsequent di- ] vision of the same to the various owners. ; I was much pleased the other day, . says a correspondent, when Messrs. Iliff , and Hittson, the cattle kings of the , West, im/ited me to attend one of the annual " round-ups " of their stock. The cattle kings have their headquarters 1 at Deer Trail, about fifty miles east of ' Denver, on the Kansas Pacific road. ! There are immense corrals for the cattle, attended by 200 laborers. _ i A mile or two below the settlement, in 1 a beautiful little valley, the cattle were < ! to be collected, and 200 or more hardy , riders started over the prairies in all di- , rections. Our party went on a lope to , the springs and creeks to the south. The cattle could be seen everywhere on ( the hills aud in the lowlands in herds of from fifty to five hundred, and they invariably broke and run at our approach. Then follows a spurt of speed that would 1 rattle anybody but a cowboy to death in ' his saddle. Up the sides of the rolling 1 hills and down the other; helter skelter i across the intervening prairie lands; now i and then dashing across the dried . Deu i of a creek, or tearing up the precipitous i wall of an abrupt gulch; frequently in , imminent danger of going over your ( broncho's head when he stumbles into a , prairie dog's hole; stopping your animal | at full speed, wheeling like a flash of lightning, and hurrying back to your former tracks; dodgiDghere and there, with head bent down to the pony's flying main; twisting and turning as the run- ] ning herd twists and turns. Such is the 1 excitement of rounding cattle on the ' vast Western prairies. Utterly disre- 1 gardleas of the danger to life and limb in this ireokless horsemanship, with his sombrero brim flapping in the wind, and ] his short whip constantly cracking; and , a wild halloo upon his lips, the cowboy , seems to enjoy this sort of thing, and , can sit down to his meals after this hard riding with the same ease and unconcern as though he hadn't seen a saddle j that day. ' We rounded about 1,000 head the first [ day, and having staked our ponies, re- 1 ' posed on the grass for the night. Be- 1 fore midnight a heavy storm arose. My < [ companions wore to their feet almost I on the instant of the fall ot the first rain < drop, and into the saddle without a mo- < ment's delay. The cattle were surrounded, i but to no avail. When the wind blew, < as it e&n blow only on the plains, the , cattle were away before it to the south I on a hundering gallop. Every man broke or the front to head the herd off, 1 but on they swept. The darkness was ' terrible, and nothing could be seen but the dark, moving mass of cattle, and < nothing heard but the dismal clatter of I their hard hoofs on the sand. The lightning flashes but faintly revealed ; them through the falling torrents of the ; ; rain; and when it did, it was only to ; view the bent heads and straight backs of the dying creatures. The herd had stampeded, and on the following morning a new " round up" was found necessary. Five days sufficed to gather all the cattle, and the selection of each man's property Was begun. This is called " cutting," and it requires great skill in the management of the horse or pony you are riding. The cowboy rides into the inclosure and cuts of! the animal, which he instantly recognizes from the main herd, and repeats this process until he has secured all of his master's property. Then it is driven home, a d the calves branded. The cattle are again turned loose to subsist 011 whatever nature provides for them. The pleasures of the " round-up," with its night herding and camp life, are unsurpassed, and for a genuine sample of roughing it in its most inviting phases are unsurpassable. Ail classes and grades of men are huddled together here, and the characteristics of Western life are brought into almost obtrusive prominence, and invariably make a favorable impression upon the visitor. How the Story was Told. A Dresden correspondent narrates, with unmistakable feminine zest, that there was an " audience of one hundred and twenty spectators," many of whom weie ladies, at a case of cremation there. Two bodies were burned for their delectation. The iron doors swung open, the corpses were slid in, and then, through a thick glass door, " the audi- j ence of spectators" silently watched the . process of incineration. "The play of flames over the bodies" gave rise to ! some little murmurs of applause, but when the dark masses, like burnt roast beef, were succeeded bj masses of brownish coals through which the white ribs and shulls showed grimly, a breathless silence of admiration held them all. Then the tamping was knocked out of the doors and the ashes collected and passed round the audience on a salver for inspection, the ladies examining it minutely.with more than one sense. The lady ^ho writes this adds at the j bottom of her letter that she forgot to ! say that the bodies were those of a New- j founland dog and a cat. They, however, represented human bodies, and she says, with a genuine sigh, "but the ! experiment was as satisfactory as if they ; had been humans.'" L ttle girls wear Frenoli peasant caps, little boys, turbans. The Normandy cap ! J is a thing of the past. i1 SUMMARY OF NEWS. [Um et Interest from Home and Abroad Near Vanoeburg, Ky., Washington Lee,while passing the far n of Robert Ellis, drew a pistol aud killed Ellis. He was at once arrested and lodged in jail. At night a mob of several honored people took Lee out and banged him .... Alonzo Anderson, colored, of Cincinhati, shot his wife in a fit of jealous rage. His motherin-law, interfering, was shot in the abdomen and will probably die Col. Merritt succeeded in intercepting eight hundred Cheyenne and Sioux Indians on the way to jciu Sitting Bui', and drove tbem back upon their reservations Tho Oldham (England) cotton. masters have resolved to nin their mills only four days in the week. The wages of fifty thousand operatives are thereby decreased by *50,000 weekly At a $2,000,000 auction ?ale of flannels, the prices were fifteen to twenty per cent, less than thoso obtained last January The Hudson river steamer Baltic, j{ the Cornell towing line, was destroyed by 5re near Albany. Loss, $40,000 Sheppard P. Wiley, of Femberton, ra., Kiuea nis wire i .vitli an ax and thou cut bis own throat with a [ razor. The Servians lost two thousand killod at the aaitle of Izvor. They retired across the river Hoick, but have sinoe rc crossed. The Turkish oss was about the same Messrs. I. ?t G. Elan is, Australian merchants, who made an arrangement with their creditors last year, Agreeing to pay in full, now announce their inspension. Their liabilities are given at $1,>00,000; their assets are estimated at $1,000,>00 Mrs. Mary, wife of Theodore Ball ?ged thirty-five years, of Warwick, N. Y., afte liaving a tooth drawn and ^suffering a nervous ?patm, went to. leep in the dentist's chair and lied without waking A report from^Bisnasrck says the statement that Sitting Bull was silled in the ligh" with Custer is confirmed rom Indian sources. Crazy Horse and Black Moon were also killed. The statement that Sitting hull's band of Uncpapas lost 160 killed ind that the total loss of the Indians will reach nearly four hundred is renewed Advices received from Fort Laramie state that i party of four miners, from the Black Hills, su their way to Cheyenne, have been killed, scalped and stripped by Indians. William A. Wheeler, in accepting the nomination of the Republican convention for the 7ice-Presidoncy, says in his letter that, "if sleeted, I shall endeavor to perform the dutits A the office in the fear of the Supreme Ruler and in the interests of the whole oountry. To the platform adopted by the convention he gives his cordial consent. Upon the question ef tho Southern relations, he says bis views were recently expressed as a member of the committee 01 tne unnea orates nuuee ui xvcpresentatives upon Southern affairs. While imprecating harrh judgments which make no allowance for the peculiar difficulties and dangers which beset Southern eociety, he is, nevertheless, firm iu maintaining tLo right of all American citizens to equal and full protection. "This will be accomplished,"Mr. Wheeler days, "only when the American citizen, without regard to color, shall wear this panoply of citizenship as fully and securely in the canebre&ks of Louisiana as on the banks of the St. Lawrence." The obligations of the country to its creditors, he says, must be religiously kept. Tho public school system should be preserved and tbat system kept free from sectional influence or control, and the strictest economy in the expenditures of the government are demanded. Commodore Garner's magnificent schoonervacht the Mohawk capsized in front of the new club house of the New York Yacht Club, at Stapleton, iu a sudden equall from the southwest. A party of guests were aboard, of <rhom one, Mies Adele Hunter, the commodore and Mrs. Garner, woro drowned. The second ttewaid and two cooks were also drowned. The yacht had all sail Bet at the time, to go down the harbor, when the squall stiuck her, oapsizing her. Mr. Garner was about forty years old. He was a favorite with tho members of the New York Yacht Club, and was familiarly known as " Will." He was the owner of the great Harmony calico print mills at Cohoes and others, and is estimated to have been worth from $19,000,000 to $20,000,000. rhe sad affair created intense excitement in patching circles. A terrific gale passed over portions of Vermont, doing maoh damage to outbuildings, crops and trees. The steamer Lady of the Lake, on Lake Mempkremagog had a narrow escape from foundering with 1,400 persons on board....Gen. 8herman characterizes Wendell Phillips' letter to him as a fabrication and impudent production The wife and fiverear-old child of George Dock, of Niskayuna, N. Y., were badly burned by the explosion of a can of kerosene. The child subsequently died The two cooks were not lost by the Mohawk disaster, but Mr. Frost Thorn, of Chicago, and a cabin boy were drowned in addition to Mr. and -Mrs. Garner and Miss Hunter Half a million dollars1 worth of blankets were sold at auction in New York at prices about thirty per cent, below those of last year. The French town of Gavray, near Cherbourg, was partially destroyed by fire, and Tour hundred persons rendered homeless \ t-mall steam yaoht belonging at Troy, N. Y., Vds steaming on the Hudson, when it was wamped by the swells of a passing steamer, ind of its nino occupants, five were drowned, aamely: George Fox, Thomas Edgley, Jr, jreorge Bloomfiold, Jonas Faulkner and Harry ?&niohe. The Newfoundland cod fishery promises an average catch. Favorable reports have been received frcm Labrador and the straits of Belle Isle The Servians met with a defeat it the hands of the Ti\rke, near Beljina The- revolutionists in Mexioo have met with disasters on all sides, and now roam in small cands, carrying on a guerrilla warfare. Lerda aas been re-elected president by an overwhelming majority Four of a pleasure party of six were drowned on Magnota river, near Davenport, Iowa, by the capsizing of a >oat, namely: Mrs. West, Miss Billings, Mies ilyden and a child The principal busiia?? nnrtion of the town of Shelburne Falls, tfass,, was totally destroyed by fire. Loss, fr80,000; insured $41,000 lied. Sheridan vill go out and take command of the operaions against the Sioux in person The soroner'a jury acquitted the sailing master, [lowland, of oriminal negligence in the Mo- j lawk disaster S. L. Jewett, an artist, for | nany years in the employ of Harper Bros., committed suicide in Jersey City, by shooting limself in the head. Melancholia was the :ause. The khan of Kashgar is reported to have ipened hostilities against China with forty houeand mon Thirteen Chinese woodchoppers at work on Diamond Range nountains, near Eureka, Cal., were instantly billed by an immense waterspout. A large number of Italian choppers were encamped j iear by, and as no trace can be found of them, j t is feared they too fell victims to the waters, j One hundred and twenty thousand head j )f buffalo were slaughtered on the Northwest I )lains during the past year... .The Bed Cloud ! aid Spotted Tail Indian agencies have bten ! urned over to the military authorities in order j ;o prevent embarrassments during the cam- { .aigu James J. Ballard, a druggist of j renafly, N. J., undertook to remove a burning | jar of phosphorus from his store, when the I bottom of the jar fell out, spilliug the burning j mass over his person and burning him so severely that it ia doubtful if he can recover. During the excitement his aged mother died from an affection of the heart, brought on by her anguish. The regular army of Mexicans defeated the insurgent, Hernandez, with 1,300 troops in his command. Hornandez, with six hundred men, was captured, with all their ammunition and supplies Two young daughters of M. Pritchard, near Loganeport, Ind., were burned to death by the explosion of an oil cau, from which they were pouring kerosene on the kitchen fire An explosion ia the Black Diamond coal mine, at Mount Diablo, Cal., caused the death cf six miners. Five other men were seriously injured All volunteers for the war against the Indians are declined, but enlistment in the regular army is desired... .The town of Albeuve, Switzerland, was totally destroyed by fire The Columbian government has made a contract for the surveying of, and if practicable, the building (f (he Darien canal Sultana won the mile and threeqaarter race at Siratoga in 3.15>?. Parole won the mile and one-quarter race in 2.12^ Major Fulton has been elected captain of the American rifle team, vice Gilders'.eeve, resigned. ________________ FORTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. The Bualneaa of (jeaerRl Interest Transacted. SEHATK. Mr. Allison (Rep ), of Iowa, from tbe conference committee on the Army Appropriation bill, made a report which was agreed to. Sir. Allison explainer! that all matters relating to the organization of the ariny are to bo submitted to a commission to consist of two members of the Senate and two members of the House of Representatives, the secretary of war, and two army officers. The House recedes from all its amendments relating to the reduction, reorganization and pay of the army. Tho bill as it came to the Senate appropriated $24,350,259. That amount was increased by the Senate $3,211,000. The conference committ ee had reduced the amendments, leaving the total amount of the bill $26,069,065.40. Mr. Windom (Rep ), of Minnesota, from the conference committee on the Sundry Civil Appropriation bill, submitted a report. He said the House bill appropriated $15,256,731.51. The Senate added $4,126,793.90. and as now reported it appropriates $16,229,777.82. After debate the report was agreed to?yeas, 39; nays, 12. Those who voted in the negative were all Republicans, Messrs. Anthony (R. I.), Bruce (Miss.), <5buover (Fla.), Edmunds (Vt.), Hamlin (Me.), Harvey (Kansas), Hitchcock (Neb.), Iugalls (Kansas), Logan (I1L), Mitchell (Oregon), Morrill (Yt.), and Spencer (Ala.) Mr. Sherman (Rep.), of Ohio, called up the Senate bill appropriating $100,000 for the completion of tbe Washington monument, and it was read a third time and passed. Mr. Logan (Rep ), of Illinois, called up the House bill to regulate the issue of artificial limbs to disabled soldiers, seamen, and others, which was amended and passed. HOU8K. " aa?/a?a?\aa cAivtp^ A# fKft A t?rn T7 A nnrA iliO UUUlCiOUW X opvi V Ul ?uv aiui; upj/tvprintioii bill was made. It was agreed to, and the bill tow goes to the President for his signature. The House went into committee of the whole, Mr. Monroe (Rep.), of Ohio, in the Chair, on the bill for the protection of the Texas frontier The substitute offered by Mr. Banks was adopted, and the bill reported to the Ilouoe. The House proceeded to vote on the second section of the bill for the protection of the Texas frontier. It wae rejected?ye is, 89; nays, 96. The bill was then passed. The following is the text: That for the purpose of giving efficient protection to t le country between the Rio Grande and Nueces rivers, in the 8tate of Texas, from the cattle thieves, robbers, and murderers from the Mexican side of the river, the President of the United States be and hereby is authorized and required to station and keep on the Rio Grande river, from the mouth of that river to-Fort Duncan, and above, if necessary, two regiments of cavalry for field eervioe, in addition to such infantry force as may be necessary for garrison duty, and to assign recruits to said regiments, so' as to fill each troop j to number one hundred privates, and they t shall be up to that strength as long as they I shall be required in that service Mr. Randall (Dem.), of Penu., made the conference report on the Sundry Civil Appropriation bill, and proceeded to explain it. After a long discussion the report was adopted. The bill now goes to the President for his s'gna- ! ture. Mr. Rtndall (Dem.), of Penn., from the j committee on appropriations, reported a biil i appropriating $7,000 for the expenses of the j joint select committee on Cninoee immigration. Passed. A veto message as to a bill to revise the rovised t tat a tee in connection with post-office j matters was received cud referred to the poet- | office committee. The Senate bill to punish the counterfeiting ! of trademarks was passed. The Western linsbandmen. Pity the sorrows of the Westehi 1ms- j bandmen, for they are at once nnmer- j ous, various and unending. L&st summer the fair fields of fruitful Kansas ! were laid waste by the all-devouring J grasshopper. Scythes and sickles hung rusting on the fences, barns remained j bare and granaries empty. In the days of their desolation the stricken farmers cried aloud for aid, and out Of their abundance States not afflicted with ravenous grasshoppers did help them. In the Drocre88 of the seasons harvest time lias again come in Kansas* and, as in the years that are past, the sons of the soil are soured and scolding. It is not grasshopper ravages this time, nor yet drouth; neither have the rains been over-abundant, nor did chill winter linger too long in the lap of general spring. No, everything went right. Nature was so beneficent that the agriculturists are angry at too good a thing. They grumble that the crops of Kansas arc disgustingly enormous. Millions of I bushels of wheat must be left ungar- j nered because there are not hands | enough to gather it in. As to corn, j when it comes to that cereal the disgust I of the tillers of the soil of Kansas is changed to anger. They shake their clenched hands at the waving fields, and threaten to use tens of thousands of bushels of the golden ears for fuel next winter. Sad is the soul of the unfortunate farmer when he reflects that all this abundance betokens low prices. Thoughtfully, he takes an extra dose of i tobacco, and meditates when in the econ-! omy of nature things will get even. His j Eastern brethren, regarding with com- j placence the over-burdened fields, may ! be excused from wishing for a plague of 1 grasshoppers if in their track is certain to follow such afflictions as are at present bewailed by the Kansas farmers. Lottery Circulars, For some time past there has been a flood of lottery circulars passing through the United States post-office, a majority from foreign countries, especially from : many of the small towns of Germany, j and in which many banking firms of j New York and other cities have been in-1 terested. The recent amendment to the postal law did not seem to cover this j case, and instructions were requested ' from Washington, and the following an-1 swer was received: By the reoent amendment of the law J circulars and letters relating to all lotte-1 ries, without regard to their character, are declared unmailable. Your office should treat such correspondence received in the mails from foreign countries as if of domestic origin, which course of treatment is fully authorized, so far as relates to the class of correspondence in question originating in the postal union, by paragraph six of article four of the treaty of Berne. A Curiotis Marriage. A curious fact in regard to the marriage of John Kemble, the actor, is told in " Bannister's Memoirs." One of the daughters of a noble lord, formerly holding high office, but then living in retirement, had fallen in love with the graceful and showy actor merely from seeing him on the stage. Kemble was sent for by the father, and, to his astonishment, acquainted with the circumstances. The noble lord also told him that it was in his power to do him either a great evil or a great favor, and that if he would do the latter, by relieving \ him from all apprehension of the laay s indulging her phantasy, and relieving him effectually by marrying any one else for whom he might have an attach-1 ment, his wife should receive a dower of ?5,000. Kemble immediately pro- j posed to Miss Brereton, a pretty actress i in the company, and the marriage took place without delay. But the amusing part of the tale is that the afflicted and magnanimous father instantly recovered his spirits and lost his memory. On being applied to for his thousands he declared that he had no recollection whatever of the compact, nor indeed any of the idea, further than some general conversation on such matters with tho " very intelligent person in question adding " that if he was to pay ?5,000 for every whim of his daughter's he must soon be a much poorer, man than he ever intended to be." It is believed that Kemble never got a shilling from this very sensitive nobleman, aud that for tho rest of his life he attached a new value to the vulgar etiquetto of signing and sealing beforehand, even with the most plausible of mankind. Chapped hands, face, pimples, nngworms, saltrheum, and other cutaneous affections cored, and rough skin made soft a d smooth by using Juxipeb Tab Soap. Be care ful to get only that made by Caswell, Hazard & Co., New York, as there are many imitations made with common tar, all of which ai o worthlees. Indisputable Eridence. St. Elmo, I1L, July 8, 1874. B. V. Piebce, M. D., Buffalo, N. Y. I wish to add my testimony to the wonderful curative properties of your Alt. Ext, or Goldeu Medical Discovery. I have taken great inter est iu this medicine since i first need it. I was badly afilicted with dyspepsia, liver deranged and an almost perfect prostration of the nervous system. So rapid axid complete did the Discovery effect a perfect cure that it seemed more like magic and a perfect wonder to myself, and since that time we have never been without a bottle of Discovery and Purgative Pellets in the house. They are a sohd, sound family physician in the house and ready at all times* to fly to the rehef of sickness?without charge. We have never had a doctor in the house since we first begun the use of your Pellets and Discovery. I have recommended the use of these medicines in several severe and complicated cases arising from, as I thought, an impure state of the blood, and in no one case have they failed to more than accomplish all they aro claimed to do. I will only mention ouo as remarkabln (though I could give you dozens). Henry Eoster, furniture dealer, of this place, who was one of the most pitiful objects ever seen, his face swollen out of shape, scales and eruptious without end, extending to his body, which was completely oove :ed with blotches and ecalee. Nothing that he took seemed to affect it a particle. 1 finally induced him to try a few bottles of the Goldea Medical Discovery, with daily use of the Pellets, assuring him it would surely cur$ him. He commenced its use some six weeks since, taking two Pellets each night for a week, then one each night, and the Discovery as directed. The result is, to-day his skin is perfectly smooch aud the scaly eruptions are gone. He L*c taken some seven or eight bottles in all, and considers himself cured. This case had baffled the skill of our beet physicians. Messrs Duns ford Jc Co., druggists, of this place, are selling largely of your medicines and the demand steadily increases, and they give perfect satisfaction 111 eveiy case. Respectfully, W. H. Champ lin, Agt. Am. Exp. Co. Bright eyes, regular features aud a graceful figure fail to produce their due effect if the complexion is defaced with pu pies oi blotches, or the skin is rough or harsh. To remedy these defects use Glesj( < 8ulphob Soap. Dopot, Crittenton's,No.7 ath avenue, New York. Hill's Hair Dye restores the tinge of youth to gray locks. * Without doubt hundreds of people who will read this item are suffering with kidney disease in some form, which might be cared with a oottle or two of Johnson's Anodyne Liniment, used internally. Why not try it? Parsons1 Purgative Pills, which are now being extensively sold in this State, are purely vegetable, and are mild and gentle in their operation. One is a dose. Good qualities, certainly. * Schenck's Sea Weed Tonic.?In the atmosphere experienced here daring the sammer months, the lethargy produced by the heat takee away the dee Ire for wholesome food, and frequent perspiration* reduce bodily energy, particularly thoee suffering from tbe effects of debilitating diseases. In order to keep a natural healthful activity of the system, we must rnson to artificial means. For this purpose Sohenok's Sea Weed Tonlo Is very effectual. A few doaea will create an appetite and give fresh vigor to the enervated body. For dyspepsia, It Is invaluable. Many eminent physicians have doubted whether dyspepsia can be permanently cured by the drugs whloh are generally employed for that purpose. The Sea Weed Tonlo In its nature Is totally different from snob drags. It oontains no oorroslve minerals or acids; It fact, it asalats the regular operations of nature, and supplies her deficiencies. Tbe tonic In Its" natare'so much resembles the Agastric ulce that It la almost Identical with that fluid. The ga ric juice is the natural solvent which, In a healthy oondit on of the body, causes the food to be digested; and wa u this juice Is not increased In sufficient quantities, indirection, with all iter distressing symptoms, follows. Tfc? Sea Weed Tonlo performs the duty of the gaatrlo jnlo? when the latter Is deficient. Schenck's Sea Weeo Tonic sold by all Druggists. The Markets, HEW TOES -ilOattle-Pr'iue to Extra EcUocka C8X? 1C)4 Common to GpckJ Texans...... OS ? 08 Milch Cows..,., 4) 00 ?65 00 Hops?Live........ ? ? ? DrescM.08)4? CO Sheep 04)4? 06)4 Lara bo C? ? 09 Cotton?MiddTnps. IX? I X Flour?Extra Western. fi 06 ? 6 76 State Extra 6 08 ? 6 60 Wheat?Bed Western ." 70 ? 1 CO No. 2 Spring 91 ? 98 Bye-State It ? 78 Barley?State f6 ? 66 Barley Malt 91 ? 1 ? Oata?Mixed WesU-rn 13 ? 89% Cora?Mixed Wertorn 12)4? Hay, per cwt. 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Baboocx, Pipj't. pnNO AGENCY IN MMiil THE WORLD Of Medicine and Surgery can compare with Collins' Voltaic Piaster for erery ailment and disease for which a piaater m*y be worn. They never weaken or delnde the poor sufferer. They carry comfort and happiness into every afflicted j hoorehold. Try them. LAME AND PAINFUL BACK. 12 DAIH IN HOSPITAL. Messrs. Weeks A Potter?Ge-.tlemen: I have just recovered from a lame and palnfm back through the use of your ton nth1 Voltaic Pla6tf.m My back was so lame and painful that I oould not stoop, walk or do dnty of an\ kind, and was placed in the hospital for twelve d tys with-.a. care. 1 tnea asked rennise'on of the surgeon to try the Collins' Voltaic Plasters, and *n a lew hours miter patting one na was eatlreiy roller ed of pain and able to bend tny back; am now perfectly welL I consider them simply wond-rful. Respectfu Jy youis, A' KXANDKK JAMKSON, < *>. I, First Artillery, Fort Warrtn. Boston. may 3,1378. t;Are Doing Wonders." Me'srs. Weeks <ft potteb?GentlemenCOLLINS' Voltaic Plasters are doing wonders. They work like magic, and those yon sent last are all sold and more wanted. Please send me three dc ten as soon as yon get this. Money ln .loeed herewith. 1 want them to-morrow night if possible. In bast*, yours, T. F. PALMER, P. M. no. Fatette, Me., May 1J1K8. | * HOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS. Sent by mall on receipt of 225 cents for one, 81.25 for six, or 92.25 tor twelve, carefplly wrapped and ! warranted by. WKttK:> A rOTTFR. Prop. It.tors. Boston, Mass. J-fgfl Q. Hill A ooiua JKMb? CH|CAC? , LEDGER For the Next Half Year. tt?e l*doe* is a lar?eApao, *<?>?**. tedepeodeet Newspaper, which no Intelligent fuaw eboald be wttb"^w^awaM{kM* lu. TKAH?A*enU Wanted In this county-Beet plan em offered?Kxoluelve territory siren?Apply at onoe to Uie Great American Republic Tea Co.. 81 Barclay ht-Jt.t. VTOUR own TJkeneee in oil colore, to ehow our work. JL painted on canvas, BXx7k, from a photograph or tin-type. free with tbe Home Journal, 8:2. AO a year. Sample of our work and paper, terms to ajteote, etc., lO eta. L. T. LUTHKR. Mill Village, Krte county. Pa. EVERETT HOUSE, North side Union Square, New York OU?. Iml Coolest and Most Central Uoauon in the i MMM'I City. Kept on the European l'lan. LtFJ KKHNKR A WkAVKB. | CLARENDON HOTKL, 1 ft urth Avenue, corner Rest 18th Street. New Yftk ty. labU dTBoU. O. H. KKKNKH Dyspepsia. Dyspepsia. 1 hero Is probably no disease which eiperienoe baa so amply proved to be remedial by the '! if' -Jt* Peruvian Syrup' Peruvian Syrup 0 u J yspepcU. The moat Inveterate forma ot Lb la disease have been completely cared by this medicine, ae ample testimony of some of oar first citizens proves. * i MMi /.* . A Case of Thirty leers' Standing, Ran Auboka, If. Y., May 39, ISA. t'eesra. Sxth W. Fowl* A So KB: Gentlemen?I waa troubled with Dyspepsia for thirty years, and tried several medicine* advertised for the care of this distressing oomplsint without deriving any benefit from them. About a year ago I commenced taking the Pnuviil Stbup, and after using altogether twelve bottles I find mysell entirely cored. I consider my case on# of the worst X ever heard of. and 1 take (teat pleas are In recommending the PXBUYta* HtmCI to all Dyspeptics, believing that it will be sore to can them. Toon respectfully, J. T. BOWKf. - * M ? General Debilitf i < . " ? Tb convenient term tnolndea nntneroos Ill-defined and supposed Incurable forms of disease, accompanied by t moral laaaitade and exhaustion, without any ssoertainable external or Internal cause. The Peruvian Syrup ; Peruvian Syrup Muds its renovating Influence to the inmost recesses of the system, and has relieved in our cimmunity many cases of supposed incurable disease. Health Restored. KPSOM, 5. H., May S, 1870. Dear Sir?Having received g' eat benefit from the use of PZBUWAN bYRDP. I am wi ling to add my te-timocy to the thousands of others constantly sounding its praise. During the late war I was tn the army, ana hsd the misfortune to be taken prisoner, and wa? con tint d In Salisbury and other Southern prtsooe several months, and became so mncb red need In health and strength as to be a mere skeleton ot my former ?*lf. On being released I was a fit subject for s Nor hern hospital, where I remained some two months, and then o*n>e horns. My physician ivoommenced and p-ocor.d for me several bottles of PlBUYiair Syhcf. which I continued to use for several weeks, and fennd my health restored and my weight increased from ninety to onehucdred snd fifty, my nsnal weight, and 1 bsve been la my usual good health ever since I can cheerful y recommend It m all oases of weakness and debUtty of the system, whether arising from an impure state ot the blood, dyspepsia, or almost any other cause, believing it will in moet cases ?. give entire satisfaction. Tours truly. GEO. 8. BLXBY. i * Prepared by SETI1 W. FOW'LK & SONS 86 Harrison A venae. Boston, and nold by ail iarnq*w? There nre probnblr n majority el the human nice saiferin# from kidney oomplalnU. Tbey ?how themselves in almost protean shapes, bat sJw*J s to the injury of the patient. They cause IndsscribabU ; a?ony. The experience of thirty years shows that U e best remedy for this class of diseases is Tarrant's Seltzer Aperient Its properties are dlore-'lo, which are specially adapt* I f or such oures. HOLD BY ALL DRUQfllflTS. BEAUTIFIER OF THE SKIN. glenn's Sulphur. Soap. As a remedy for Diseases, Sokes, Abrasions, and Roughness of the Skin; as a deodorizer, didnfeclant, anil ^ means of preventing and curing Rheumatism and Gout; and as an Adjunct of the Toii.et and tite Bathv "Glenn's Sulphur Soap" is incomparably the best article ever "offered to the American public. . ' The Complexion is not only freed from Pimples, blotches, tak, freckles, and all other blemishes, by its use, but acquires a transparent delicacy and velvety softness through the clarilying and emollient action of this wholesome beautifier The contraction of obnoxious diseases is prevented, and the complete disinfection of clothing worn by persons afflicted with contagious maladies is insured by it. Families and Travelers provided with this admirable purifier have at hand the main essential of a series of salphuf Baths. Dandruff is removed, the hair retained, and grayness retarded by it. "Medical men advocate its use. Prices, 25 and 50 Cents per Cake, Per Box, (8 Cares,) 60a and $1.20. n.B. There if economy In haying the large cake* "Hill's Hair and Whiter Dye/ Black or Brown, 60 Cents. 0. H. GWITINTON, Prep'r, 7 Siith h.M V T N P No. CO w hen writing to adfrrtisrfjw m picoae aay thaa yet aiwtkt aJn?'t?i aeatlBlkli paoir. ^