A TALE OF THE BKA.
A mariner by tcmrtcwt crost -
Lay BtnipRHnB with the wave j
His one eole hope nil else was lost
His hoarded gold to envo.
Blnnf? from hit nock a weary weight
Ills precious charge he boro ;
His failing strength, nt war with fate,
Could bear no leather more.
i
But not against his life nlone
Uprose the breakers wild :
A woman, on the billows thrown,
Held up her drowning child.
Save her I" she cried, " In mercy save 1"
As through tho surf she rolled :
no heard ; and cast beneath tho wave
His prize of Indian gold.
Fearless he breasts the tropic storm
With limbs by lovo new strung,
While round his neck, nil 8oft and wnrin,
Two infant arms are flung.
He hnlls the land the blessed land I
Ho drinks its spicy air ;
He strains to reach its coral strand,
Ho greets it with a prayer.
Vnlnly the angry tempest raved,
His feet have touched the goal ;
And, with his living burden saved,
Ho stands a rescued soul I
The child has lived, bloomed, loved, and died,
Alone the old man lies :
Anothor sen, of stiller tide,
Steals o'er his closing eyes.
Glows now for him no tropic light,
But where life's waters freeze,
The glory of the Polar night
The calm of Arctic seas 1
His hard-earned gold beneath the deep
Lies deep j but where Is she,
His God-gift, whom the star-world keep,
His daughter of the sea t
Where cloud-waves foam tho rippled skies,
Touched by the golden day,
A beauteous form In angel guise
Floats up the liquid way.
He follows, hushed In rapt delight,
Of dread and death beguiled,
She, swimming slow with piulons bright,
He, clinging like a child.
Tho dross of earth Is cast away ;
She leads him by the hand,
Through heaven's blue sea her white wings
play;
He ncars the happy land.
8he parts the wavo that beats him back ;
Ho breasts life's surge no more :
His feet, upon an angel's track,
Have touched tho immortal shore!
Household Words.
THE GRANDFATHER'S WILL.
" Little Blossom, you make it so hard
for me to Bay good-by to you."
" When '("
The innocent, surprised, inquiring
face renunciation wbb, indeed, difficult
for John Burrows. He touched a dim
ple in her cheek, and then a curl of her
hair, as he might have touched flowers
on a grave, perhaps.
Bh.e shook back the silky ripples im
patiently. "When, John"'
He looked at her lor a moment with
out a smile, pretty as she was.
" Nelly, sit down here a moment."
They eat down on the pretty crimson
couch "before the fire. Seeing trouble in
hit face, she put her hand in his, and he
smoothed out the little rose-leaf member
upon his broad palm, more than ever
confident, as he looked at it, that he was
right.
" Nelly, you know I love you"
" Yes," with a blush, for he had never
said it before.
" And I am very sorry."
" Why V after a pause of bewilder
ment. "Because you are a delicate little
flower, needing care and nursing to keep
your bloom bright ; and I am going to a
hard, rough life, among privations, fe
ver and malaria, which will try even my
powerful constitution, and where you
must not go."
" You are going to the Far West '"
" Yes. My mother must have a home
in her old age. She is strong now, but
time it telling on her. You know all
that she has been to me '("
"Yes; she has been a good mother.
But you shall take me too, John."
She won her way into his arms against
his will.
" You will take me, too f "
" No, Did I not tell you that you
made it so hard for me to say good-bye
to you."
"John, what could I do without
you r
He took the little, caressing hand
down from his face.
" Don't make me so weak, Nelly. Do
you think that it is nothing to me to
leave my little violet the only woman
I ever loved for a hard, cold life, and
unceasing toil ' 1 cannot marry for ten
years, Nelly."
"And then I shall be thirty years
old."
" Yet, married and with little child
ren ; seeing at last that your old lover,
John Burrows, was rigfat."
He rote to his feet.
" John I" in terror.
" Yes, I am going, Nelly. Little one
you look to muoh a woman now,
with your steadfast eyes hear me; I
did not foresee that you would love me
that I should love you. You were a
little Bchool-gtrl when I saved you from
drowning last summer, and your satchel
of books floated away down the river
and was lost I came here to see Grego
ry, not you. I could not help loving
you ; but did not think until to-night
that you cared so much for me, Nelly.
But, child, you will surely forget me in
time."
"Never!"
He went on : " Nelly, I shall hunger
for yon day and night, more and more,
as the time goes on, and I get older,
lonelier, more weary. But I shall never
hope to see you again. Now, give me
your hand.
She gave him both. He raised them
to his hps, but before she could speak
again, he was gone.
Shivering violently, she went so the
fire, and stood there, trying to warm her
self. She understood it all now his
strangely elaborate arrangements for a
trip to New York. He had known that
he was not coming back when she had
begged him to bring her his photograph
front the great metropolis, but was go
ing on on into the dim distance. That
was why he had not promised.
It was getting late she was eo cold
the had better go to bed. She would
not go into the parlor to bid her father,
end aunt and Gregory, good-night ; so
she crept silently up to her own room.
There the very weight of grief upon her
lulled her to sleep. .
But when she woke, her grief sprang
upon her like tome hidden monster who
had lain in wait for her all night Her
misery terrified her. Why should she
not die V Why should she ever rise from
that bed?
But when they called her, she sprang
up hastily, dressed and went down, and
they were too busy talking to notice
that the did bot know what she was do
ing. But by-and-by, when her brother
reached for more cone, and observed,
" John Burrows and his mother went to
New York in tho Hist train this morn
ing," she tried to rise unconcernedly
from the table, and fell in a dead faint
upon the carpet among them.
Whon Nelly came to, she wab undress
ed and in bed, and Aunt Mary was
darning stockings at the foot.
" Oh, lot me get up, Aunt Mary ; I
don't want to lie here.
" Now, Nelly, be reasonable. You're
ill!"
' Oh, Aunt Mary, I'm not."
"Nolly, if you will lie still to-day, I'll
lot you have that old box of curiosities
in my room to look over. Will you ?"
" I don't know."
Aunt Mary went for them. Nelly
shut her eyes, and let the wave in all its
bitterness eurgo over her once ; then
Miss Golding came back, bringing a box
of old mahogany, black and glossy with
time.
" There 1" setting it on the bed.
With a wintry little smile of thanks,
Nelly lifted the cover. The old mahog
any box contained strange things. Pic
tures on wood and ivory, illuminated
manuscripts, webs of strange lace, an
tique ornaments, ancient embroideries,
great packages of old letters, sealed
flasks of unfamiliar perfume, ancient
brooches of red gold, finger-rings of
clumsily set gems tied together with
faded ribbons, a knot of hair fastened
with a gold heart, the silver hilt of a
sword, and, lastly, a tiny octagon por
trait of an old man done in chalks upon
a kind of vellum, and inclosed in a frame
of tarnished brass.
" Who is this that is so ugly, Aunt
Mary'"
" That, they say, is my great-greatgrandfather,
Nelly."
" What is it painted on this queer
stuff!'" I
"Well, it's a kind of leather, I believe.
They used to write on in very ancient
times."
" He's uncommonly ugly, is-n't he '("
said Nelly, wearily.
As she spoke, the little case fell apart
in her hands. A yellow, folded paper
was revealed. She opened it, and saw
that it was written upon.
" Why, bless my soul, what have you
there V" exclaimed Miss Golding, rising
up in a strange alarm.
She snatched it from Nelly's hand.
" It can't be the will 1" she cried.
Nelly looked on in dumb surprise.
Aunt Mary read a few words, then rush
ed away in wild agitation to the library
where her brother was sitting. Nelly
could hear them talking, the two ; then
her brother came ; then the old house
keeper was called from the dining-room,
and so much confused conversation she
never heard before. By-and-by they all
waited upon her in a body.
" Nelly," said her father, sitting down
on the foot of the bed, " You are an
heiress."
" This is Grandfather Golding's will,"
exclaimed Aunt Mary, flourishing the
bit of paper.
" It seems that he was very eccentric,"
Gregory condescended to explain. " He
was very rich, and had some hard sons,
and Borne grandsons who promised to be
harder, and he fell out with the whole
set, who were waiting for him to die.
He declared that no money ot his should
encourage the young people's excesses ;
a little poverty would nelp the family,
and the fourth generation would appre
ciate his money, and probably make
good use of it. When he died, no will
could be found ; and though there was
a famous struggle for the property, it
went into the hands of trustees through
the oath of the lawyer who had drawn
up the will ; and there it has been, des
cending from one person to another.and
accumulating in value, until you and I,
Nelly, are as rich as Crcc3us."
" How, Gregory '("
"Ain't we the fourth generation V
Father was an only child, we are his only
children ; all the back folks are dead,
and it slides down to us on greased wires.
Hurrah for Grandfather Golding !"
" Is this true, father '("
" Yes, my dear. The property is chiefly
in Leeds, England. The housekeeper
who came over last summer, you know,
happens to know about it It's in safe
hands, and our claim is indisputable."
What did Nelly do P The little goose !
Instead of flying off in thoughts of a car
riage, and dresses of cloth of gold, and
a trip to Europe, she buried her face in
the pillows, and murmured under her
breath, " Oh ! John. Oh, dear, dear
John !"
And it was no castle in the air. Three
months proved that she was the mistress
of gold untold, almost. And then a lit
tle note went to Kansas, saying :
" Deab John : I am waiting for you
with a fortune. Will you come for me
now ? Nelly."
And he came instantly ; and though
some might have sneered at his readi
ness, the heart of his little wife was al
ways at peace. She knew that John
Burrows loved her truly. Grandfather
Golding's money built up a commodious
Western town paved streets, raised
rows of shops, erected dwelling-houses,
founded banks, libraries and churches ;
and Nelly finally lived out West But
she had opportunities of seeing pioneer
life ; and she said, " John was right ; I
should have died in a year, had I lived
here in poverty."
A Diamond Lost and Found.
A few years since a gentleman engaged
in the lumber business in Maine, having
an appreciative eye for a fine diamond,
and being convinced that a real gem
would, if properly bought be a safe in
vestment, accordingly commissioned a
jeweller to purchase for him. a stone
about a thousand dollars in value, which
was mounted as a spiral-backed stud.
As months rolled on the owner was
offered by connoisseurs constant ad
vances on his purchase, which tempta
tion only made him value his gem the
more, and he said to himself, " If it ia
worth that to them, it is to me, and I
will keep it till forced by necessity to
tell it."
In April of last year, while working
on his boom of logs on one of the
streams of the Kennebec, having on a
shirt, tho stud-hole worn large by ser
vice, he taw his sparkling brilliant fall
from his bosom, strike the log, and glide
quietly into the current below.
Determination to regain it overpower
ed the regret of his mind. He kept his
loss where his stud should have been
io his bosom. Sounding the depth of
tne water ce louna n to oe aDout seven
feet ; he then decided to wait till the
summer drought should bring the Btream
to its lowest ebb, and taking accurate
measurement of the place, by the bear
ing of the rocks and trees on the shore,
allfiwinrr AiD-Tlfonn (nrriaa fnr ti nd.tim
of direction bj tho curront he loft his
treasure to compete with the aace and
shiner in fagcinfl.r,ino Mia rival tnnrm.ifl
and returned to his Massachusetts home.
The September following, six months
after the loss, the river being then at its
lownnt-. nninr.
J- - atuw DVHDV1 lUO II Li
daunted lumberman started for his dia
mond. The nver full of logs, covering
the place, had been sawed and shipped,
and now onlv a few innfios r.f
trickled over tho spot where the stud
tell, lie took with him a large tin
colander, tho holes
size to hold the prize, if found. He had
determined to work a fortnight before
giving up tho gom as lost, and to have
all the river bottom go through his
hondy kitchen .strainer. He made his
first dip of gravel and water, as nearly
as he could calculate, eighteen inches
down the current from where it struck
the surface of the stream, seven feet
above. And a lucky dip it was, for at
the bottom of thn tihii nr tVia Inst imm
bright and sparkling as when it came
from the jeweller.
The above incident is a good illustra
tion of Yankee patience and tact, as well
as a warning io inose wnowear niamond
shirt-studs. Boston Transcript.
Superscriptions.
Speaking of Philadelphia law voir, thn
distributing clerk iu charge of the for
eign letters which come through the
Chicago postoffice was evidently cut out
for one; if not bis experience has been
such at to amply fit him for the profes
sion of deciphering unintelligible signs
and hieroglyphics. Many of the super
scriptions which come through his hands
are among tne most mysterious of ciph
ers unintelligible from the writer's not
knowing what he wanted to write.rather
than illegible through carelessness in
writing. When a countryman of Gus-
tavus Vasa, for instance, still hibernat
ing upon his native hills, sends a letter
to his brother in this country, and, writ
ing from memory, and a memory not
much trained in letters at that, super
scribes it " Seederabst lenco la.," he has
succeeded in mystifying the average hu
man mind considerably regarding the
intended destination of his missive. Not
at all the postoflice clerk, however, who
at once sees that " Cedar Rapids, Linn
county, Iowa," is meant. So, too, when
from the Bremen bag a greasy packet
flutters out, addressed to "Hafte Lao Co
Ill,"it is not difficult to discern, after the
letters of the legend have been evolved
from the chaos in which a still1 fist and
a villainous pen have left them, that the
packet is intended for some one in "Half
Day, Lake county, Illinois," and thither
it therefore goes. But when the only
address to be made out from another
and that by no means sure, so vague are
the forms of the letters is " Chollyhut
ville Co 111," then it is that brains tell
in the distributing business. Brains fin
ally result in a solution of the palimp
sest, and " Joliet, Will county, Illinois,"
is the interpretation thereof. In like
manner "Verseaux incauque Co Ameri
ka," a superscription which could have
emanated from nowhere else but France
is decided to mean " Warsaw, Han
cock county," and it is found that Illi
nois has such a town, in such a county ;
so the letter is forwarded thither, and
has doubtless gladdened or saddened the
heart of its object before now. Lakeside
Monthly.
Romantic Marriages In New Hampshire.
Of the preliminaries of a marriage
about to be celebrated in Exeter, N. II.,
a correspondent of the Boston Traveller
gossips thus :
" Some months tgo a gentleman re-
Biding in Illinois, wrote to an official in
the youngest city or New England, stat
ing that he was desirous of procuring a
good wife ; that he had heard so much
of the excellence of the daughters of the
Bay State, he was fully persuaded they
would make the best of wives, and he
requested the names of a few Haverhill
ladies. The oihcial, satisfied of the good
standing of his correspondent, promptly
forwarded to him the names of a few la
dies, to each of whom the would-be
Benedict despatched a letter, requesting
an answer, with a view to farther cor
respondence if mutually agreeable. One
of the answers he received was from a
native and resident of this town, who at
that time was in Haverhill, teaching the
young idea how to shoot. Hers was a
well-worded, straightforward epistle,and
the recipient was at once impressed with
the intelligence and good sense mani
fested by the writer. A correspondence
ensued, which as it progressed served to
strengthen the favorable opinion each
had formed of the other ; photographs
were exchanged, and, to make a long
story short an engagement of marriage
was entered into, and the gentleman is
expected here Bhortly, when he will re
turn to his Western home with his sin
gularly won bride. The lady is well
educated, of spotless reputation, and pos
sesses the necessary qualifications to
make happy the home of her husband,
who is a gentleman of integrity, culture
and wealth, and well provided with the
goods of this world. He is largely en
gaged in mercantile pursuits.
But this is not a solitary instance of
an Exetor lady contracting marriage
under such romantic circumstances. A
few years ago one of our factory opera
tives was recommended to a gentleman
residing in San Francisco as a person
likely to make him a good wife, by a
mutual friend. He wrote to her, a cor
respondence was opened, cartes de visite
were exchanged, and in a short time
they were betrothed. Being unable
conveniently to leave his business to
come on here, the gentleman sent his
fiancee a check for $500, with which she
procured a bridal outfit and started
alone for San Francisco, to marry the
man she had never yet seen. Their nup
tials were celebrated soon atter her am
val, and the union has proved a most fe
licitous one."
An exchange tells us that " the great
est beer-drinker at the Heidelberg Uni
versity last year wai a young man from
Kentucky." Kentuckians do nothing
by halves. That young man set out to
drink beer, and he drinks it, and of
course drinks more than anybody else,
It would be the same with him in every
other laudable undertaking, it, for in
stance, he were to make .statesmanship
instead of lager beer his speciality, a
yoke of oxen couldn't hold him away
irom the White House. Louisville tour
ier-Journal.
At Heidelberg, in Germany, there is
not a language, ancient or modern.with
out its competent professor to teach it
to all comers. A Japanese student, un
able to speak a word of German, found
there on his arrival, a teacher able to
converse with him and give bun lessons
through the medium of bis own Ian
guage.
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.
Keeping Fowls Is it Profitable ?
The profitableness of keeping fowls de
pends upon many conditions :
If fowls are furnished with a plenty
of range, with half the amount of feed
necessary to keep them, and the balance
to be provided by themselves, they will
do better than under any other circum
stances in which they may be placed,
for tho simple reason that this consti
tutes tho best possible natural conditions
in which to carry out and develope all
the funotiona of their peculiar nature.
When confined in an unnatural, and of
oourso what is to them, an arbitrary
modo or keeping:, on entirely different
course of treatment must be pursued in
order to moke them remunerative or
profitable to the owner ; and this is not
all the fowls thus kept should be dis
posed of at the expiration of one year at
the furthest limit of time in which to
keep them, as the fowls being in this un
natural restraint will hardly pay for
one-half of their keeping, if on effort is
mado to make them productive in laying
eggs after the first year ; besides this is
not the only difficulty that will have to
bo encountered, for tho restricted or cir
cumscribe 1 limits in which the' fowls
are Bituated is a fruitful source of a
variety of diseases, in which occurs tho
los of many of them. t
When more fowls are purchased to
supply those disposed of, much care
should be taken to get such as have not
been bred in and in, and from those,
also, where the mother of the chickens
provided generally for them, and then
of course a good and profitable lot of
fowls as a desideratum yielding exceed
ingly well for the amount of outlay of
money and is a sure source of profit
Ueo. e. WILCOX.
Enolisu Agricultural 'Experi
ments. A recent number of the Agri
cultural Gazette (London) contains' an
interesting account of the celebrated ex
periments at Eothamsted, which have
been carried on for many years (some of
them Bince 1843), by Mr. J. B. Lawes.
These experiments have been conducted
by Mr. Lawes in person, and entirely at
his own cost, and they have developed
many results of the greatest value not
only to English agriculture, but to that
of the whole world ; they constitute also
a most important contribution to the
cause of science. Indeed, Rothainsted,
under the absolute control of a single
individual, and supported from his pri
vate fortune, vies with the most care
fully managed and most extensive ex
perimental stations conducted at gov
ernment expense on the continent.
Some idea of the extent of these experi
ments may be formed from the fact
that the tabulated reports of the results
of twenty years' experiments in growing ;
wheat on twenty-two different plots
(comprising in all fourteen acres), each
with different manuring occupy over
forty closely printed (octavo) pages of
the Journal of tlie Royal Agricultural So
ciety. And these fourteen acres aro only
a fourth part of the land devoted to the
experiments, which included every im-
portant crop of English agriculture.
It is not easy to deduce correct con
clusions from such experiments, for
there are many varying circumstances
whose influence on growth, and on the
operation of manure we as yet know too
little iully to understand ; but some
things seems to be bo far determined as
to be of practical use to farmors, and as
we come to know more the value of tbe
whole series will be gradually developed.
They must always remain a most fruit
ful subject for scientific investigation,
and a fruitful source of practical know
ledge. To refer more in detail to tbe experi
ments : Eighteen half-acre plots of grass
have been manured each with the same
manure for sixteen years. The unma
nured land has averaged over twenty
five hundred pounds of hay per acre ;
superphosphate of lime did very little
good unless used with ammonia ; and
ammonia Baits and nitrate of soda did
much the best. Ammonia, however, was
bad for clover, and gave an undue
prominence to the coarser grasses.
Ammonia salts produced an average ot
6,720 pounds of hay per acre. It has
been deduced from the grass-field experi
ments (probably correctly), that nitrate
of soda is a valuable agent in enabling
a crop to withstand drought, the as
sumption being that when more is ap
plied than is used by the crop, the sur
plus is washed down into the soil, so
that repeated annual doses enrich the
ground to such a depth as to induce
roots to go down far enough to find the
necessary moisture. This deduction is
apparently confirmed by the fact that
last year (when the drought in England
was most severe), the plot that had been
manured with this salt produced at
nearly the full rate, while the other ma
nures had a comparatively slight effect
Mr. Lawes describes the soil as a " some
what heavy loam, with a subsoil of raw
yellowish red clay, but resting in its
turn upon chalk, which provides good
natural drainage," In the barley ex-
fieriments, the unmanured land averaged
10 years) 20 bushels per acre ; some of
the manured land as high as fifty bush
els. For this crop it seems to be proved
that superphosphate is not of much ben
efit ; that ammonia salts (quantity not
stated) 1,000 pounds of rape cake, or 275
pounds nitrate of soda per acre, are each
of great utility, the cheapest improve
ment coming from the use of nitrate.
In the wheat experiments, the unma
nured land averaged 14J bushels per
acre ; that manured with alkalies, ISA
bushels ; that with superphosphate, 17$
bushels; and that with both of these
manures ana with nitrate of toda or
ammonia salts, 30 bushels. Neither
the nitrate nor the ammonia did so well
without the superphosphato or alkalies
as when used with them.
The experiments with oats are not
materially different from those with
wheat. Peas, beans and clover could
not be made to grow for a series of years
by any manures that were tried upon
them ; but it was proved that the failure
of clover was not due to any poisoning
of the land, for on a very rich old gar
den that nad been well manured for
more than a century, clover still looks
healthy after having occupied the land
since 1854. This indicates that clover
foils from starvation, not from excre-
mentitious poisoning.
For root crops superphosphate of lime
has proved to be the best manure of all
that were tried.
That which seems to be the most val
nable suggestion for the practioal farmer
to experiment upon is that which refers
to the use of nitrate of soda, especially as
a manure for grass. If the same result
will follow its use on other toils that
have been produced at Bothampsted,
there is reason to expect that it will not
only add to our grass crop, but think it
will, after some years, enrioh the soil to
such a depth as to enablo our grasses
better to withstand the droughts that
are now so injurious to them. Anything
that will cause roots to descend deep
into the soil will do immense good by
deepening the "surface" soil through
the eventual decay of these roots.
The riiilmlclplila Dog-Shelter.
The- Women's Pennsylvania Society
for the Prevention of Cruelty to Ani
mals, of which Mrs. Caroline E. White
it President, have founded in Philadel
phia a Dos lief nee. Previous to the
formation of this home, a notorious dog
catcher was employed by the authorities
to capture all stray dogs and destroy
them. Under this arrangement scenes
of great cruelty took place in the streets
almost daily, followed by the brutal
slaughter of tbe captured animals with
clubs. These demoralizing scenes are
now at an end, the authorities having
given the matter up entirely to Mrs.
White and her coadjutors. A lot of
ground was secured on the Lamb Tav
ern road, near Hart's lane, and there the
dogs' shelter has been erected. The lot
is partly occupied by a small dwelling,
and partly by a quadrangular enclosure
bounded by a high board fence. The
dog enclosure ia again divided into two
parts, one for the dogs which are re
claimed by their owners, and which are
returned on payment of a fine of $2, and
the other for the unreclaimed dogs, most
of whom are mongrels. Around the
sides of the enclosures are shelters for
the dogs, and they have a large piece of
ground to run over. They are well fed
until reclaimed by the owners or des
troyed. Under the rear part of the
dwelling is a walled enclosure about
twelve feet long, five feet wide and three
feet deep. This is air-tight when the
doors are closed. The bottom of it is
level with the ground where the un
claimed dogs are kept and has a door
opening in that direction. The animals
to be killed are put in this place, the
doors closed, and from a room above
carbonic acid gas, generated in a cask
containing water, whiting and sulphuric
acid, is forced down through a pipe
among the dogs in the air-tight room.
In about two minutes they are all dead.
The officers of the Society catch the dogs
! i. 1. HT T 1, .
Willi nets iu tut) streets. iui. jjbiu ia
makins an attempt to have a similar in
stitution in New York, for the reception
of all vagrant dogs. He will also ereot
a suitable place in which to destroy
horses which have become unfit for fur
ther use.
LITERARY NOTICES.
The September number of " Oliver
Optic's Magazine," as usual has a host of good
things. " Bivouac and uattlc," Oliver Optic s
Btory has four chapters in continuation. Elijah
Kollogg's story, "The SophomoreB of Kad
clilfe, is continued ; as Is also Sophie May's
story, "Tho Doctor's Daughter." Besides
this, tbcro are stories by B. V. ghillabcr, Vere
Dc Verc, and other popular writers; a contin
uation of "Vacation in Pctrolia;" two dia
logues, a declamation, and several capital
poems. Tbo Hcadwork, Pigeon-hole Papers,
and Letter-Bag, are interesting as usual. Il
lustrations ana lull-page pictures are given In
profusion. We do not know of a better mag
azine for young folks than this. Leo & 8hcp
ard, 14'J Washington Street, Boston, aro tho
publishers. 1 ernis, If a SO per annum.
New York Markets.
Flour and Meal Western and State flours wore
aotlve, and common extras showed Home further
Improvement. Trade and family brands in demand,
and the views of holders more frtelv met. South
ern Hour in good demand and verv firm. Rye Hour
and corn meal quiet. We quote i Flour Buitertlne, :
bid., 1.5.10 a A 40: extra state, ft.70ai extra
western common, fc 80 a to 85 : extra and double
extra Western and St. Louis, fu a ts.15 ; Southern
shipping extras, (ti a t 40 ; southern trade and (am.
lly brands, tu.76 a tg.SO. Rye Hour, line and super
tine, 14.20 a o. Coin meal, Western and feouiuern,
feSOaH
cotton Tne marKet was nrmer.Dut closed weak ;
sales at lUHo. for middling uplands, and IttHo. for
low middling. For futuie delivery prices were va
riable; business large i closing at for Sep
tember, ISii o. for Oetobur. lo. for Kovembsr.aud
lsJi a IBI4C. for the later months,
Pbovisions Pork was fairly active and steady,
bat cloned quiets sales at tlS 75 for mess on the
spot, and $i:i.61)t for September and October deliv
ery ; tl&SO for thin mess, and $11 i for prime mess.
Heel dull at 7 a H lor mesa, and 10 a fJO for prime
mess, ltaconlowor; snlesloe-curcdcltyatsagltc.
Cut meats dull ; a small parcel of clear bailies sold
at 8c Lard tinner but dull; sales at sit a 91c. for
No. 1 to prime city, and Vtt a Vc. for new aud old
Western steam ; also prime new steam, Dcoonilier
and January, Site. Dressed bogs lower at tt a 7to.,
mostly at (Ik a ti'4c. llutter in steady demand at li
a 200. for western, and 18 a 82o. for state and Or
ange county pails. Cheese in but modorute tie-
uiann, a io n o. s wun choice laeumes, ioo.
Ghain Wheat wits In active export demand at 1
a Sc. advance : sales at sl.118 ail.su for No. a sorinv.
a $1.41 for Ma 1 du., tl.42 a il. for red win
ter, f 1.48 a 1 60 for amber winter, and II. M a 11.68
for prime to choice white. Oats were fairly aeUve,
but under free receipts closed easier ; sales at 46 a
4U ceats for white, 44 a 4uc fur mixed, aud 42 a 44c.
for black winter. Corn a shade tinner, bot only a
moderate demand s sales at 87 a 7)o. for Western
mixoa ana 7uc. ioryeuow. Jtye, uariey ana barley
malt still unsettled and nominal,
UBOcKiiiKs Coffee very I Inn but quiet ; Bio 14 a
17c. and Java 19 a 23c., gold, duty paid. Rti and
niolasHGS very quiet, but Arm at late prices. Sugars
moderately active and Him ; fair to good retiniug,
81 aHc. sales at 8H a llHc. Boxes more actlvo ;
sales of claimed at (10.81 li 100 lbs. Uetiued arm ;
bants. Via. soft white, 124 a 12H&
SUNDHiES Kosin was very tirm at Is for strained.
Spirits turpentine lobbing at 66 a b6m. Petroleum
unsettled: retlned 24 It a24ltc.i crude In bulk, las
al3Vo. Tallow ranges from 8H to SHc. according
to quality. Hops aud bides dull. Whiskey lower
and more active at Ulo. Freights firmer and mod
erately active wheat to Liverpool by steam,
a9Hd.
Livb Stock Mabkrt The market for beeves was
weak and somewhat unsettled at 9 a II He. IB. for
poor u prime lore 01 uaiiTe cattle, wun a lew selec
tions tuken at Ilk a 12c. : and fair Texas aud Cher
okee cattle were sold at a traction under vc. t IB.
ruur iu vuiuuiou i t'xmis are quuieu nil bc
Sheen were in active demaud at 6 14 a SHo. If B.
for ordinary to nrtme lots, aud some of the beat
were Mold at Alt a 7a. Lambs were steadv at fcU jt
for itoor to prime, while grassers were ot poorer
vesi I'uivee were nncnanirea iitki iuhc. v m.
quuuiy nou uuu at a do. f m., uuu fo a te per ueail.
IIok were dull at tit a 70. 4 addressed weight.
Famine has followed on the track
of wab in the fairest land of Europe,
but neither war nor famine ia aa de
structive as neglected or maltreated dis
ease. Essential as food to the starving,
is Dr. Walker's Vineoar Bitters to
all who suffer dyspepsia, congestion or
torpidity of the liver, constipation or
intermittent fevers. To treat these com
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alkaloids, while this mild and certain
remedy is within the reach of all, is lit
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Edward Bayer, Esq., Horton, Kings
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by the use of Johnxm's Anodyne Lini
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