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ASUCULTUm DEPABTHKNT. I | entire plant well m root*; WImmTW «m %• rr»aufcfy DM4. 1 believe that what 70a call 00m- piete artlieial manure* are a mistake, or. In other words, crops entirely frown by ingredient* fumUbed in chemieal mannre*, are grown at too groat a cost. Yon grow generally 14 hasbels of wheat. There i* no difB* salty In doabHng tbia yield by mean* of tho applloation of a certain amount of potash, phosphate and ammonia; Vat at the ordinary price of these in- e ieats the wheat would cost more It would sell for. An artificial aaaanre can be used with profit only When it fttrnlshe* to the soil a certain part of the food of the plant, the soil •applying the residue. It you look at iha result of nor experiments you will find that we have grown for forty years in anooeaslon thirty to forty bnrhels of wheat, and forty to fifty bushels ot hurley per acre by means of artificial asaanrea, one of the most essential in gredients In them being ammonia and nitrate, sad yet I do not think that I ever advocated the use of these costly sabataaces in the States. I am con stantly asked by yonr farmers how to grow mere produce, and I generally aay if yon have a demand for animal products, feed yonr stock with cotton meal or ootton oaks; if you have no demand for meat grow clover, or, if in the Sooth, cow peas; plow the crops into the land. You will get more am monia by each a process than yon can purchase for #90. A little plaster, kainit or superphosphate has a won derful power of Increasing tbe growth of those crops; upon some of my land which baa rsceived no manure contain- Log ammonia or nitrate for thirty-six years, I grew a crop of velcbes, or tares which contained over 100 pounds of nitrogen per acre. I used potash tad phosphate. These 100 pound* of nitrogen represent 190 pounds of sm- monla. We can grow crops, so fsr ss they are grown, by means of artificial manares cheaper tnan you can, and we oaa, of course, obtain rather a better price for oar grain. Low prices are not noressarily to be met by increased production. A few years ago I read a papor on this subject before a term ers’el nb, and was ranch found fault wKk by those who were urging that the beet wav to form against low prices was to doable yonr crops.—Sir J. B. Lawles in Rural Afar iorker. Botham’-ted, England. r««Mk Sal la. source of potash now 1 principal German 1 potash Imported from Uerw ft 4, The is the tbe mines in Germany. There are dlfihrsmt grades of these salts, ranging from the inforior article, Kaint, that contains about twelve per cent, potash up to tbs better grade of muriate of potash, that contains from tlAy to sixty The sulphate of potash con- trom thirty to forty per cent, potash. Ordinary kainit that eontaias twelve to thirteen per cent, of potash contains, also, sixteen to eighteen per cent, sulphate of magne sia and thirty-five to forty per cent, of chloride of' sodium, fcommon salt) thos-sapplylng four mineral elements —chlorine, soda and magnesia in ad- addition to potash. On account of the presence ef chloride of eodlurn it is not a good plan to apply kainit in the drill ibrkle a very easy matter to apply enotseh to prove of resII Injury to ptasis. KaUlt should generally be applied broadcast after tbe land has boon plowed. 8eventy-flve to one handled pounds may be safely applied in the drill for any crops, but tbe writer has found that either three or four hundred pounds in tbe drill was very injurious to Irish potatoes, in foot it ruined them in several instances. It wiH be seen that phosphate of lime and kainit supply shout all the essential mineral elements. At this time available phosphoric acid is valued at tea oonts per pound and potash five cents—a very great deductiom from whta they wore a faw years ago.— HmmoI A. Cooper iu Southern Culti vator. miledgevilie, Ga. Advices from almost every part of the Bonth Indicate that a fritt average ot ootton will be planted. In the Mississippi valley the area planted will bo larger than last year, tbe land being froo firom overflows and in a fine con dition for preparation for the reception of tho seed. There seems to be no foer In the West that tbe market will bo overstocked with cotton next win ter, and the planters are pushing tbelr business as if there was a good margin of proCt at eight or nine cents per ponnd in their local markets. Nearly ail over tbe £onth the old plan of cov ering everything with mortgages and Hens before or shortly after the crop is planted is still in yorne. A verv large proportiosi of the planters ^continue to pay high rates of interest or enormous per eentages on cash prices for pro visions for s flew mouths’ credit. The mortgage crop is probably the most important that has yet been planted. It seems that everybody ought to know that there is no ebanoe for a planter to make any money on ootton when sap- piles have to be pnrehased on credit. Those who pay cash ss they go almost Invariably make a profit, yet thousands of planters refasc to cat down their operations to a point that will enable them to adopt the cash system. It will be seen that tbe outlook for profit to this prodneer of the ootton crop is eonalderabiy mixed, especially In tbe The outlook for a Is It fovorable just now, but irge the for disaster an *0 numerous culeulatieos a* to what the total tfi bales, or the price will be, Mtare. Experience shows ran planted is only one small hi tfm solution of these prob- .—&ar*aan«A (Ga.) Newt. many valuable Ml Cultivator daring the K has beta a most weN to my house, I feel like arbenever I discover I think will benefit Bo I now ad- dSottoaury to •ptlltd man-gel or man- the msnuing to he “soar- and it is weifnamed. My and an analysis shows Mangels to le twice as nutritious as turnips and euual to sweet potatoes, while their yield is simply enormous. Single roots sown In Febrrary, on by no means rich land, weighed twelve pounds by tho first of June. Planted in two feet drills, thinned (o one and a half feet in the row, and kept well plowed and hoed, they are as sure a crop as grows; come on readv to feed to hogs and milk cows in May and June, or can be left in ground until wanted. They become somewhat pithy iu summer and fail, but stock eat them with relish even then. I have some of my February planting that have stood the long drouth, and I will leave them to see how they stand the winter freezes. 1 planted some more in June; they came up well, and were growing finely until dry wvather stopped them. Any ordinary summer and fall they would have made a good crop, hut it has been too dry. 1 sowed again in Au gust and September too, hut failed, from dry weather, to get them up The seed do not germinate readily, when sown in warm weather, and 1 think the spring the best and safest time lo sow them. If, however, they can he gotten up in July or August and we have our nsual rains, 1 think they would make as large roots as Swede turnips, or larger; and as they are twice as nutritious they arc ccr faiuly worth planting then. This last planting would l>e splendid to keep until alter Christmas to feed to hogs and cattle. At the North they are sown in May and June and dug in the fall; put in cellars or hanked to use after the tur nips are gone. By sowing the globc- shaped variety, (I planted the long, red kind, and some of them stand twenty inches above the ground) and hilling earth up around them with turn-plow, I think they would stand onr winters without removal. I shall test this next year, and hope my writ ing this article will induce others to give this most valuable root a trial. Given the distanci (mentioned above, 24x18 Indies, will give over 14,0<>0 roots to the acre; and these, at ten pounds each, would yield seventy tons per acre. This yield lias often been made at the North and in Europe. Of course it will require rich land to do it, hut half this quautiiv per acre will beat any other crop 1 know of on which to feed hogs and cows. B. It. Tillman. Hamburg, S. C\ P. 8.—I think it well, perhaps, to add that all beets—of which Mangels arc only a s|»ecies ( or varirty—require deep, rich soils and an abundance of potash. Salt is also a good manure tor them ; and therefore ajiberal dress ing of kainit—say 1,000 pounds per acre, with 600 pounds each of add phosphate and cotton seed meal, broad cast, and the ground well plowed and harrowed several times—would, on ordinary land, iu good heart, be likely to produce a fine crop, besides render- ing tbe land rich for any succeeding crop. It takes three pounds of seed to •ow an acre. They should he soaked twelve hours and then rolled iu land- plaster or leached ashes. A careful hand can then drop three or four seed every fifteen or eighteen inches, in shallow drills. If sou 11 later than April fifteenth tho land should he roll ed. They hear transplanting as well as collanls. I got seed from Peter Henderson & Co., New York.-B. K. T., in Southern Cultivator. a VAHOtw ttAvrr fouras*. Mr*. Mite Ward ArnutroaST. of Lo«t»Tllte, Wrddad to Mr. O. V. Downs. Lolibvillk, Kt., April 9.—Mr. G. F. Downs and Mrs. Bailie Ward Armstrong were quietly wedded at tbe Galt Hou-c to-night, Bishop George William McCloskey performing the ceremony. The wedding was a social surprise that has produced a scns&tion, nothing being known of its near ap proach until Sunday morning, when the Commercial announced it. Mrs. Bailie Ward Lawrence Armstrong Downs is the most famous woman in Kentucky. High burn and high bred, with a dower of peerless beauty and a heritage of majestic grace, she has reigned a queen for forty years, with a TMU WAS tn AVOMAMSTUW. Basal* opoas HasMHiteo by aa Attack aw th« Frontit-r—Great Bxcitoaaoat la Bag- laad. from bia London, A; eral Komarof if-11 A. M.-Gcn- Knssjan command- THK GROWING GRAINS. I)e- Orpnrtt GalhrrMl by the L'nltrd .States pertinent of Agriculture. The-rcturus of April lo the Depart ment of Agriculture indicate a reduc tion of over K> per cent, of last year’s area in winter wheat. The aggregate shortage amounts to 3,000,000 acres. A decrease is reported in every State ex cept Oregon. It is 22 per cent, iu Kansas and Virginia, 20 in Mississippi, 15 in California, If iu Alabama, 12 in Tennessee, Illinois and Missouri, 11 in New York and North Carolina, 10 in Maryland and Texas, 8 iu New Jersey, West Viruinia, Kentucky ami Indi ana, 7 iu Georgia and Ohio, 0 in IVim- •ylvauia and Delaware, 5 in Michigan, 3 in Arkansas, 2 in Bouth Carolina. The present condition of wheat, us re ported is worse lliau ii: 1883. It is 77 per cent, ngaim.t 0C last year and HO in 1883. In 1881, the year of tho lowest recent rate of yield, the condition on April 1st was 85, and a serious loss was sustained afterwards. The real status of the crop will ho better shown a month hence, when the vitality of the roots has been demon strated and the character ot the spring determined. On the present showing the reduction of the yield on a basis of last year’s production promises to he neai ly 40,000,000 bushels on account of the reduced area and more than 60,000,000 from winter killing and low vitality. Whether the crop will ex ceed 400,000,000 bushels or fall short of it depends upon tho reliability of present appearances and on future conditions affecting the growth and ripening. Tbe soil was in had condi tion at the time of seeding on the Atlantic const from New Jersey to Georgia and in West Virginia and Tennessee. It was better in the South west and in Missouri, Illinois and Michigan. In the Ohio Valley it is scarcely in a medium condition. The damage by the Hessian fiy was not severe, though tho worst in Indiana, Illinois, Missouri and Kansas, where injuries have occurred in three-tenths of the reported territory. Tho acreage of' rye has been de creased in about the aume proportion as wheat, but the qondition of the crop Is decidedly better, the average being 87 per cent. Berefola. Are any members of your family thui afflicted? Have they scrofulous swellings of lie glands? Have they any scrofulous sores or ulcers? If so, and It should be neglected, the peculiar taint, or iwison, Stay deposit itaelf in the substance of the lungs, producing consumption. Look well to tbe condition of your family, and if thus afflicted, give tbe proper remedy without delay. Buy that which makes ace of Irf- abao'ute cures in the shortest spi t me. The unerring finger of public opin ion points to B). B. B. as the most wonder ful remedy for scrofula ever known. You Med nod take our word—vou need not know our names—merit is‘all you seek. Ask your neighbors, ask yonr druggist, aak or write to tkoae who give their cer tificates and be convinced that B. B. B. is tbe quickest and most perfect Blood Puri fier ever before known. * —▲ young bunk clerk, John L. CusMsinn by name, employed in the Vint Notional Bank of Cincinnati, was •hot dead on Tneoday in a street car A. McMillcn, father WGuorge A. McMillcn, father of an ■traetive young woman whom Cum- mlags has been accused of ruining. There ware three shots fired, two of them mining the young man and tbe third entering his social prerogative as absolute* as the power that the throne grants Victoria of England. In the hook of Ameri can beauties she was referred to twen ty years ago is tho most beautiful and aocomplislied woman in the South. She is now fifty-eight years old and is still surprisingly beautiful. Mr. Geo. F. Downs, her fourth husband, is seventy years of ago, tall, erect and soldierly. His face, eleanly shaven, hears a very strong resemblance to the popular picture of George Washing ton. He is a man of wealth and high social position, and lias been Mrs Armstrong’s devoted suitor six years Ho has been married once before am is the father of a fine family. At the wedding to-night only three or four friends of the bride were present as witnesses. Her only cliild, Mr. John W. Hunt, ass unavoidably absent and for that reason none of the rela' fives of Mr. Downs were invited. The bride wore a I’arisiiin costume of cream serge, with gold threads run ning in it ainhtrimmed with a fringe made of gold Coins. Her only orna ments were a hand around her throat of gold coins, with bracelets to match Slic received many handsome presents, the groom’s remembrance being a val uable settlement of real estate. The wedding was solemnized in the bridc’i parlors at the Galt House. CLEVKLAND AND HIS PA^TY. The Dleiatursc-llon of the Profeselonnl Pollllrlane-Allexe<l H utter!uz*. Washington, April 9.—The Star publishes the following: “Democratic members of Congress ore still grumbling about the policy of the Administration, and predicting many evils if the offices’arc not turned over pretty soon. The Virginia dele gation lias decided that Mahone’s friends must be put out of all the offices they hold in the State at once or the Democratic party will be in a had way at the next election there, and they will have a hard time to hold on to the management of State affairs. “ I'iie Ohio men are even more cut up, and the result of the municipal elections adds to their discomfiture. Some of the • members from the lar South are complaining too, thongn they say that what they want is not to have patronage thrown into their own section particularly, hut to have it go where it will do the most good. They want the States that arc naturally Democratic, hut have been held by Republican patronage, and those like Illinois and Michigan, whicli are ‘mis sionary States,’ to he brought over to (lie parly hv unlimited patronage. “A Democratic member of Con gress said to a Star reporter that he felt that there was no use in trying to conceal the fact that the party politi cians were altogether at variance with Cleveland, and that it would have its effect on the State elections. He thought the Administration and House would he together next winter on the tariff'and land grant forfeiture ques tions, and other questions relating to railroads, hut that if the President tried to force tho suspension of silver coinage the Democrats in the House would rebel against the Adminlstra tlon.” ('anrern <'ou<iarre<I. The Swift’s Specific Company have the most indubitable evidence as to the cure of Cancer by their famous niedi cine S. S. S. Among others, John S. Morrow, an old and highly esteemed citizen of Florence, Ala., makes the following statmchtas to the merits of this remedy: “I have been suffering with u Cancer iu my right ear, for about three years. 1 tried various remedies and was treat ed with Iodide of Potash, which pro duced Rheumatism. My feet and legs were greatly swollen, so that I could not walk. About one year ago I was induced to try Swift’s Specific, which soon lemovcd the trouble in my limbs and my Rheumatism is now entirely gone and my Cancer is steadily im proving, being better now than at any time within two years. This medi cine has done mo more good than any thing else I have taken, and I feel that I am on the road to a speedy cure. Undoubtedly Swift’s Specific is the host blood purifier in the world.” John S. Morrow. Ftoience, Ala., Sept. 22, 1884. er, attacked the fortified position* of the Afghans at the Kushk River on flarch 30th. The Afghan force mim- joring 4,000 men with eight cannon, was defeated. Their loss was 600 men killed and wounded. All their artii- ery, (wo standards, the entire camp qnipage and the provisions were cap tured. The Ujissfaus lost one officer rilled and three subalterns wounded lesidcs ten toMfara killed and twenty nine wounded. 1.30 P. M.—There has been a fall in the stock market this morning in con sequence of the receipt of the intelli gence of the Russian attack on the Afghans at the Kushk River. Consols for money and account, which closed yesterday at 97 7-16, have fallen (o 96. Russian securities have also fallen six points from the prices prevailing at the close of tho market yesterday. A dispatch to the Timet froth Go- bran, dated April 3d, states that tbe Russians, while making a pretext 0^ changing the position of their out- K sts on the Afghan frontier, attackc( indjdeh on March 30th and drove the Afghans out of their position. The Afghans stubbornly resisted their as- asilants. The weather was wet at the time of the attack, which rendered the muzzle-loading guns of the Afghans useless. Two companies held on to the position against the Russians until its defenders were ^killed. The Af ghans retreated to Maranchak in jier- fect order. The Russians made no pursuit. The Saoahkos remained neu tral, but plundered the Ar<>liaii camp. The Russian losses are said to begreat. The BritisRoflkers remained until the Afghans effected their retreat, wlten they joined the camp of Sir Peter Lumsden. St. Pktkrsiil’rg, April 9.—The Offi cial Messenger publishes the follow ing: “General Komnroff re ports that in consequence of (lie provocative and manifestly hostile proceedings of the Afghansdie was compelled to attack them on the 3<>ih ult., on Ixitli banks of the Kushk River. The result was the defeat of the Afghans, with the loss of 600 men, all their artillery, two standards and their entire camp equip age and provisions. The Russian loss was one officer and ten soldiers killed three subalterns and twenty-nine sol diers wounded. When the fighting ended General Komaroff returned across the river to the imsitions ho had formerly occupied. General Koma- roti’ also reports that some British officers who had.been cye-witneses but not participants iu the engagement ap pealed to the Russians tor protection, when they saw that the Afghans were beaten; but, unfortunately, he says, a convoy which he immediately dis patched to the relief of these officers was unable to overtake the Afghan cavalry, who carried the British away with them in their flight. Lonikjn, April 9.—St. Petersburg merchants have telegraphed their agents at Parish not to consign goods for them via the Baltic Sea iu English vessels. Parliament reassembled to-day, after the Easier recess. In the House of Commons, Mr. Gladstone continued the intelligence of tlie hattio between the Russians and the Afghans, and said: “From the information which tho government lias received of the fight, the Russians have apparently been gniity of an unjustifiable attack on the Afghans. England hasdeinaiid- ed from Russia fttii explanation iu re gard to the affair.” In conclusion, he said that the government had received no information corroborative of the report that tho Russians had occupied Penjdeh. It is suited that the promised orders to have tho Russian advance stonpedy which Gicrs, the Russian Foreign Min ister, gave assurance lie would scud, were so managed that they did not reach the hcadquaitcrs of General Komaroff, the Russian at the front, until after ids attack upon the Afghans. England will at once demand of Rus sia an explanation of the Russian con duct iu forcing bailie upon the Afghans. This demand will, it is understood, he coupled with a demand for tho withdrawal of the Russian forces to the north of the Sarahaks. The Cabinet nt its session discuRBed the question of at once sending six ironclads, now at Malta, to the Dar danelles. There is great agitation this evening in all the 'government depart ments. It is staled that 12,000 rein forcemeuts will be at . once actit to India. The first army resenvc will be called out immediately. Boston, Mass., April 10.—A private cable dispatch received in this city trom London says: “It is reported that tlie English ultimatuin to Russia is twenty-four hours iu which to recall General Kamaroff or go to war.” St. Pktkrsburg, April 10.—The morning newspapers throughout Rus- I have had a Cancer on my face for many years. I have tried a great many remedies, hut without relieft I almost gave tip hope of being cured. Dr. Hardman, my son, recommended Swift’s Specific, which I have taken with great results. My face is almost well, and it is impossible for me to express my thanks in words for what this medicine has done for me. Mrs. Ouvk Hardman. Monroe, Ga., Sept. 2, 1884. Treatise on Blood and Skin Diseases mailed free. The Swift Specific Co., Drawer 3, Atlanta, Ga. • Confeialag to Ktevon Monlera. Oulean, N. Y., April 9.—William Stover, who was arrested and placed in the Butler comity jail a few days •go for killing James Dnncan, has confessed that Dnncan makes the eleventh man hq has killed. Stover was formerly a cowboy on the plains. He gives no details Of his alleged mur ders, hut says he it wanted in Kansas, Colorado and Texas for tbq, crimes. Dnncan, the man he killed' 4h Butler county, was an old deaf man. He was sitting iu Harper’s dry goods store iu North Washington. Strover went into tho store and offered to trade the clerk a bunch of keys for a cigar. The clerk rtfused. Stover drew a dirk knife and made a lunge at the clerk, who knocked tbe knife oat of his band. Stover then took a revolver from his pocket and fired two shots at tbe clerk who fled from the store. Stover then turned, and, seeing Dnncan aitting by shift him twice, the stove, deliberately both balls passing throngh his Tbe desperado was nat captured am be had emptied his revolver into j various articles about tbe stora. lung, intil sia, with very few exceptions, in com menting on the recent battle between tho Russians and Afghans on the Kushk River, are very bellicose in their utterances, and charge the Earl Duffcrein, Viceroy of India, and Sir Peter Lumsricn, tho British Commis sioncr, with provoking war by advis ing tbe Afghans to advance on Pnli Khristi, which the British officials knew was part of tbe Russian territo ry. Tho A^hans,*they say. also fully understood that Pnli Khisti was Rus sian territory, and would never have attempted to have advanced their pick ets at that point unless urged to do so bv British officials. Tlie war party fully endorse the assertion of these newspapers, and are very pugnacions over the affair. Loi^poN, April 10.—It is reported that the Queen will return to England Immediately from Aix les Bains, France, in vjew of the crisis in tbe relations between England and Rus sia. Sixty thousand uien from the army reserves and tbe whole militia will be called out. The naval reserves will be used for homo defense. —While a heavy storm was passing over the city on Wednesday afterpoon tbe Washington Monument was struck three times by lightning without cans* ing the least damage. Col. Casey ex amined the alnminnm tip next morning with a powerful telescope and foutM it as sharp aud bright as when it was placed on tbe summit some months since. -•ffbe Pope has retortrsd recent illneta. —lUchard Grant U apd crfrle, died in Saw Yost ass Wednesday. t —There were heavy foils of snow at Petersburg and Lynchburg, Va., on Friday morning. 4 —Queen Viotorln on Thursday sent to Gen. and Mrs. Grant a telegram ex pressing her sympathy and good wishes. —Governor Pattison has signed tbe bill requiring the principles oi terai ance hygiene to be taught in tbe pqibHo schools of Pennsylvania. —John R. McDowell, Postmaster at Rossyille, Temi., has been suspended for violation of the postal laws. Tbe office is iu charge of nia sureties. —The Postmaster General has re quested tbe resignations of fourteen E ostofficc inspectors, including J. H ivingston of Sooth Carolina. —Bishop Coxe of tbe Western New York Episcopal Diocese urges tbe de sirability of an order of deaconesses, or lay sisters’ attached to tbe diocese. —Two convicts — Lewis Pettus, from York, and William Henry, from Charleston—were shot by the peniten tiary guard on Thursday afternoon, while attempting an escape. — It seems to he decided that the Government will send no more troops to the Northwest. It is possible that the orders to dispatch the Halifax hat tallion roar be countermanded. —The State Department is informed that telegraphic communication be tween Colombia and the United States, which has been interrnpted for the past three months, has been reopened. —Tlie Chief Inspector of (lie Post- office Department has received a dis patch stating that the postoffice at Water Valley, Miss., had been entered bv hnrglars Fridiynight and robbed of #'260. —The twin boys, three months old, of William Blair, living a lew mites from Macon, Ga.. were found dead in bed on Wednesday morning, having been smothered by Blair and his wife during the night. — The Secretary of the Nary has issued an order requiring all clerks in the Navy Department to remain on duty until five o’clock daily when tlie work assigned to them each day is not completedby four o’clock. —Tbe President has appointed Rob ert B. Vance, of North Carolina, As sistant Commissioner of Patents, vice It. G. Dyrenforth, resigned, and Wil liam E. McLean, of Terre Haute, Ind., First Deputy Commissioner of Pen sions, vice Calvin B. Walker, resigned. —The expense to tho people of the United States since tbe year 1819 of keeping the mouths of the Mississippi River open has !>een #49,500.000, of which #4,600,000 was expended before Captain Eads took charge of the work, and #45,000,000 since. —J. A. Laubaugli, of Lancaster, Pa., a stockholder in the Lancaster crematory, who says it is a paying businet-t, has pnrehased an acre of land at Spring City, Pa., and will at once begin the erection of a crematory thereon. —Suit has been brought iu the Su promo Judicial Court for Suffolk coun ty, Mass., hv the National Soldiers Home for Disabled Volunteer Sol diers against Benjamin F. Butler, to recover #15,000 alleged to he due for failure to account while acting treas nrer of tlie home. —Postmaster General Vilas com pleted his first uiontli in office on the 7th hist. During that period he com missioned 460 postmasters and pre pared more than one hundred Prcsi- oential conimi.-sions for approval. Could he have had Hie assistance of “First Assistant Postmaster General Malcolm Hay, who has boen ill ever since his ap|>ointincnt, it is probable that a much larger namber of post masters would liave been hppolnted. —The Acting Secretary of tbe Treas ury has requested all persons having preferred claims against tho New Or leans Exposition payable fro n tha ap propriation made by tbe Sundry Civil Art of March 3d, 1884, lo transmit tha same by.mail to the Secretary of the Treasnry at tlie earliest practicable date, in order that proper steps may he taken for ll.cir liquidation. The Director General of tbe Exposition has a‘so been requested to fornUh detailed statenmiit of tbe iadebtednese of the Exposition outstanding at the date of the passage of the Act. —An attempt was made last Friday night to blow np Charles Nioolay’s soloon in Kansas City, Mo. The plas tering was rent, windows were broken aud the ground about tbe foundation wall was torn up to a depth of sevea feet, and beer kegs were thrown more than one hundred feet. Giant powder bad been placed beside'the building, and then tired with a long fine, bat only a portion of its strength was spent upon tlie building. Nelgl ing residences wore sllgntly and several buiidi The rebelHoa Is beaded by Learie Biel, the notertoes half-breed, bet with more French than Indian bleed in Ms in* miumt rons. vinoovi vwrt tgo met ornn* teed a rebellion to resist tbe Canadian whleh had purchased tbs territorial rights of the Undsou Bay Companr, and created tbe Preriaea at Manitoba Tho country is not at all thickly populated, and Rid has many followers. It is, also, apprehended American Indians will jma Bid’s rebellion aud thus give the Canadian Government much trouble and expense to quell the rebellion. Rid and his followers are all well and are anxioos to fight. Can- .11. therefore, find it a consider able task to pat down the rebellion, especially if tbe American Indiana join tbe rebels* ▲t last aeeonnts the Indians had killed eight men at Frog Lake, and Battlefora was su iron u (led by a thou sand savages, but no attack has been made on tbe barracks. Frog Lake is about one hundred and twenty miles northwest of Battleford and thirty from Fort Pitt. Tbe reservations there are occupied by bauds of Creeks under Chiefs Weemtstico, Scahwosis, Powhev and Purokchkew. Thev num ber over two hundred. Many a Lady it beautiful, all but her skin; and nobody has ever told ber how easy it is to put beauty on the skin. - Beauty on the skin is Magnolia Balm. MOTHERS’ I , ■ — FRIEND. NO Hors Terror I No Hors Pain! V No Hors Danger! —The becretary of State has re ceived official information from Mr. Hall, the American Minister to Cen tral America, that .General Barrios was killed iu battle on tbe 2nd Inst. General Barrtlas, being the oonstitn- tional successor, lias assumed tbe duties of President of Guatemala. force of the assigned. exp 1 jugs expom loston. No eighbor- damaged, ianued the THE HAN AND THE HONEST. “Whet ails you?” asked the man; “I see you are a sufferer, and can scarcely get along.” “Oh, you see,” replied the monkey, “my inudder, she had what you call scrofula, very much acrofula, my farder. lie had heap sores, some big, some little sores, long time. They botn took much medi cine, and died; the sores was all they left ‘Yes. yes,” replied tlie man. “I see how It is Your mother inherited her dis ease, scrofula, and your father caught his on the wing, aud you inherited or were born with both complaints. But why pine away and die when you can be cured?” “I been done used over sixty bottles one drug store medicine, and it no good. Money all gone and sore here yet Some doctors charge heap money, but no good. ” ‘•But, my friena,” said the man, “you (ot hold of the wrong medicine. Go o the drug store and get one bottle ol B. B. B., and before using all of it you will feel better. It1s a quick cure. It will cure all sorts of sores, .Scrofula, Blood Poison caught on the wing, Itching Humors, Catarrh, Blood and Skin diseases and Kidney Troubles.” “I be so thankful for'jrour klndnem, and will go get B. B. B. to-day," replied the monkey. BY KM OK PIBB. ? Oh, might I kiss those eyes of lire, Ten thousand scarce would quench desire; Still would I steep my lips in bliss, And dwell an an on even kiss.” That young dude needs something for hit blood; he is utterly too fresh. B. B. B. is tbe best thing for him, because one bot tle will cure him. But that dude is not all alone In bis terrestrial glory—not by a “jug full." Many others are considerably rattled” just now about that blood poison business, but B. B. 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Trade In ail directions is being conducted on a very conserva tive basis, and notwithstanding the unprecedented ease of money the mer cantile demand for discOants U mode rate and the banka have a mack small er amount of loans outstanding than they hod a year ago. Our foreign commerce is in orrery se'lsfooffiry con dition. Exports of domestic produce continue to show i those of 1884, while the of foreign goods is smaller than then The balance of trade in fovor of the United States Is accordingly on the fo- ereaatf, and owe effort of fM* is already aeon in the specie movement* Last B ir tbe exports of gold coin and bul- n were large, while at thia there it no such outflow. Should follow tbe existing differences between England and Russia it wo«ld stfanlato the foreign damaad for American pro ducts and a decided increase of exports would eosoe. 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