(J FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD. Kitchen Harden. Every availnblo spot in tho garden should bo occupied with Bometbing, and Bueco8sion crops must bo planted, if a constant mipply of vegetablos is wantod for market or family uso. Oftentimes two crops may bo planted on tho same ground to advantage, as lettuce between the. rows of cabbngen; the lettuce will bo oft" iu timo to allow tho cabbage all the room noedod J or liorseradiHh may bo put iu among oavly cabbages, to grow after they ai'o oft. If enough manuro is Mjpplicd for both crops, tliis is found to be profitable practice. When polo boaus jeach the top of the poles, they should Ym pinched. BuhIi sorts may bo planted yet, and produce a good crop. Ground whero early beans have been, may bo planted with quick growing crops. Thin boets already needing it, and plant early sorts for Into uso. Transplant cabbages and cauliflowers for lato crops, using only tho most vigorous plants. There are many spots around every garden whero a few cab bages can bo grown, and all such places should bo occupied. If transplanting must bo dono during dry weather, tho roots-should bo placed in a thin mud for a few minutes, until they aro well coated with it; this requires but little time, and often saves many plants. Hoo estab lished plants os often as possible. Thin carrots as soon as largo enough to handle, and keep tho rows clear of weeds nutil tho tops cover tho ground and prevent working. Tho-o which throw up a Ho wer-stalk should bo pulled out. Celery need not be planted out be fore tho middle or end of July, and if the plants become well established, then they will grow rapidly when the weather becomes cooler. Market growers always plant on level ground, and not in trenches, as the first is much the easier way. Tho dwarf or smaller growing kinds uro best for family uso, but tho larger growing sell best iu most markets. Sow a few rows of the early corn this month, po as to havo some for late pick ing. As fast os tho early sorts are ex hausted the stalks should bo cut, and either fed to cattle fresh, or cured for winter fodder. If pickles are needed, plant cucumbers now iu well manured hills fonr feet apart each way. Where pickles are raised for market, they must bo sent in green, as it is impossible to sell those put down iu salt to tho pickle dealers, each com pany having its own way of salting, which is ke2t secret. Save the earliest and finest formed for seed; careful selec tion of seed for a few years will produce a desirable strain. Egg plants require a great degree of heat in order to grow rapidly, and if liquid manure is given occasionally, it will be a great help.. Place hay or straw around tho plants to keep tho fruit from contact with tho ground. Sow endivo for a lato crop of salad now. Herbs are usually grown on laud which has already borne 0110 crop during the season. When a damp day occurs the young plants may bo transplanted from tho Bced-bed to a rich spot prepared for them. Thyme, sweet marjoram, sago, and Bummer Bavory are the sorts com monly grown. Thin out leeks to five or six inches in tho rows, keep clear of weeds, and transplant the thinnings to the same dis tance. Sot out lettuce plants in a cool, shady spot. Cultivate the ground for melons os long as it can bo dono with safety to tho plonts; afterwards hand-pull the weeds as they appear above the viuus. Kcmovo all fruit not likely to ripen. Onions when sold green in tho market ore made into neat bunches with the tops on, and bring a higher price than when loose aud cut shoit. Keep the lato crop free from weeds. As soon as fruit becomes plenty, the rhubarb plants should havo a rest. Keep tho llower-stalks cut, and give a dressing of manuro. Keep sweet potatoes free from weods, and move tho vines every week to keep them from rooting. Thin and weed the late plantings of turnips until the tops cover the ground. Tio up tomato vinos to stakes or trel lises to koep tho fruit from the ground. Cut out the weak shoots and pinch back strong growing ones. Destroy the large green caterpillar or "worm," as it eats both plant and young fruit. Agricul turist. Dipping I lie I.umbs. We have just been dipping tho lambs, says "Walks and Talks on the Farm." We fiuished shearing last week, and as usual the ticks from the sheared ewes soon got on to tho lambs. I only dipped my ewes once last summer. They ap parently were so free from ticks that we did not dip them last fall. I suppose this is the reason why wo had so many ticks on the young lambs this spring. I took two gallons of soft soap, about six pounds of grease, half a pound of white hellebore, and ono quart of crudo car bolic acid, and boiled tho whole together for half au hour in eight pailfuls (say eighteen gallons) of water, until the grease was all dissolved and thoroughly mixed with the water. To thiswe added six pailfuls of cold water, or sufficient to reduce the temperature of the dip to about blood-heat. I have a two-inch plank watering-trough, ten feet long, two feet wide, and sixteen inches deep, with a partition in tho center. We put the fourteen pailfuls of liquid into the trough, and raised one end of the trough until the liquid was within a few inches of the top at the other end, and put blocks under to hold it in this position. I have used tins trough for dipping lambs aud sheep for some years, but have always used more liquid, and never before thought of the plan of lift ing up one end of the trough. It worked admirably. We had sixty lambs to dip, many of them nearly as lurgo as common Merino sheep. We dipped the largest first. When we got through there was only about live pailfuls of the liquid left, but as the lambs were smaller, there was nearly enough to cover them, and by turning them over in the liquid, every part of the body, except the head, was immersed. One man caught the Iambs, and two dipped them, and I stood by and held the lamb by the noso, bo as to be sure that none of tho liquid got into his mouth or nostrils. It took a little over one hour to dip tho sixty lambs. Every tick seemed to be uqost instantly killed. An hour afterward wWexamined several of the lambs. We ftVmd hundreds of dead ticks, but not a siiJg4 live one. I never hod a dip bo entirely satisfactory and effectual. None of the lambs show ed an cmptom ct weknew, and the next morning they wore f risking olxmt as happy as before the ewes were sheared. A Cnre for Sooty Chimneys). F. 0. R. says : About fifteen years ago, a dwelling was raised one story higher, and a chimney had also to be raised some feet higher; and as tho chimney was built up, it was plofltorod on tho inside with salt mortar, to pre vent tho adhesion of the soot. Tho re sult is that the part plastered with Bait mortar is white and clean to this day, while the other part gets fillod with soot up to the very lino whero tho salted part begins, and has to bo cleauod each year, the chimney being iu almost constant uso. Tho proportions used were ono peck of salt, added whilo temporing, to throo pecks of mortar. Match Mats. These can be mode of ordinary Band paper cut in circular and octagonal shapes, fastened upon pasteboard and bound with bright colored braids, a ring attached to each and tho wholo hung near tho match-safe for use when ever a match is lighted. The unsightly marks that disfigure many walls, may by this inexpensive and siuiplo arrangement bo entirely prevented. Thero should bo ono in every room iu the house. Rcndjr-Maile Gas Works. A worthy country parson ouco preach ed a labored sermon on the beneficence of Providence iu causing largo rivers to flow past important towns. Juvenescent critics professed to see in tho fact which tho good dominie endeavored to improve, only an evidence that it was tho shrewd ness of man that was exemplified iu se lecting tho banks of navigable rivers an sites for towns. But wo can hardly look upon it either as au interposition of Providence, or as an evidence of the shrewdness of tho Lake Shore railroad people, that the latter should have se lected as a site for their railway shops a locality where, it seems, they ore to be provided with fuel and light from tho spontaneous productions of tho earth. This can only bo ascribed to sheer luck. When the Lake Shoro company built their shops in Olcnville, iu East Cleve land, they doubtless supposed that they had secured a good site for their purpose, but they certainly entertained no hope of having light and fuel furnished free, lint a Mr. Bartlett, who happened to bo digging a cellar there, lately noticed au escape of gas from cracks iu tho earth, and utilized his discovery by connecting an india-rubber tube between tho cracks in tho cellar and a burner in the house, when the cellar had been covered by a dwelling, and the result was light and cheerfulness iu tho house, without ex penditure for kerosene or other burning fluids. This led to other experiments, and on the farm of Mr. Parks, not many rod3 distant from the round house of the railroad company, was found a spot about forty feet square composed of mineral oil, decayed vegetable matter, aud tho like, underneath which was a stratum of blue clay, full of seams and fissures, which appears to bo an inex haustiblo reservoir of burning gas. A temporary receiver was modo by placing on inverted tobacco pail over one of tho cracks. In it a three-eighths of an inch gas pipe was inserted, and upon applying a lighted match to the stream of gas issu ing from the pipe, a flamo eighteen inches in height appeared, and has con tinued to burn both day and night. Further tests havo convinced those in terested that these natural gas works will supply fuel and light sufficient for all the demands of tho railroad works and tho dwellings of tho village around them. A Strange Story, Louis Walker died at West Liberty, Iowa, after expressing the earnest desire that he should bo buried on the farm where he formerly lived, near Heviug ton, a station on tho Wiuterset branch of tho Kock Island railroad, about eighteen miles from Des Moines. The stricken wife, filled with love for him, and with a hoart broken with sorrow ami grief, sought to fulfill tho wishes of her dead husband. She procured a burial case, and started on her sad errand. Sho arrived nt Bovington, a stranger to every body. Of tho station agent she inquired as to the location of the farm, whero her husband was to be buried. The agent inquired who it was that was to bo buried, and, on being told, ho quickly foresaw a very- unpleasant affair. The widow had come to bury her husband on the premises of a man whose daughter, then at liome, was tho wife of tho deceased. Tho agent, after some consideration, deemed it best to inform tho widow of tho facts. She received tho story with perfect astonishment, and could scarcely believe her late husband guilty of such baseness; but, on being assured it was so, she became indignant, and left tho body with citizens to be conveyed to wife No. 1 (whoso first knowledge for years of the whereabouts of her husband was his arrival in a burial casket) to bo disposed of as sho saw fit. It has just been discovered that Walker had still another wife in Missouri. A Real Romance. A few afternoons ago a lady called at a store in Chicago, and carelessly laid down her pocketbook whilo examining some goods. Meanwhile another lady picked it up by mistake aud did not dis cover it until she had reached the street. She then hastened back, and, not know ing exactly whero she had obtained it, left it in tho hands of a clerk whom she knew, intrusting him with tho responsi bility of finding tho owner. Shortly afterword the loss was discovered, and the lady openly accused the unfortunate clerk who waited upon her of having taken it, and when he, in his surprise, protested his innocence, she appealed to one of the shop-walkers, aid insisted that she had seen the young man snatch it off the counter and slip it into his pocket. In vain ho protested. She was mexorable, and only left the store upon the promise that everything possible should be done to recover luu lost prop erty. The next morning her husband came down and tackled the unhappy measurer of dry goods. Another un pleasant scene followed, and just as the wretched youth had begun to make up his mind that the fates were determined to make a crimiuol of him in spite of himself, a lady entered the storo with a note from the holder of the lost treasure, which explained all. Something ad- proochuig a scene followed, m which everybody was as happy if not happier than one who discovered that xropriety occasionally requires those who recover lost property to make very unpleasant apologies. Two Reasons. " Here's a boy down here who wants to lick me I" exclaimed a bootblack as he approached a police man on Griswold street. "He does, eh f What for?" "Says I called him names, but I didn't." " Are you afraid of him ?" " No, not exactly, but I don't want to fight. One reason is I promised my dy ing mother I wouldn't, and the other rsou ii 'eausa ha bigger'n I am I" SUMMARY OF NEWS. Items of Interest from Home nnd Abroad. The Italian Sonata has passed ft bill for the suppression of brigandage in Sicily and else where The Khedive of Egypt formally opened ft new court of international appeal. ......Further roports from Franco place the damage by floods at $24,000,000 in tho cities of Toulouse and Agon alone. Contributions are pouring In from all parts of France, Switzer land and Bolglmo The daily reoord of damages by float and tornado Is Enlarged by a storm,at Dooorali, la., which destroyed pro perty to the value of (150,000. Several bridges were carried off China has made liberal appropriations for representations at the riiilttdolphia Centennial A great typhoon viHited Hong Kong May 81. The steamer Toyang was wrecked near Macao, and one hundred and twenty-five lives were lost, oue hundred and fifty junks wore destroyed and great damage done to property in Canton, Hong Kong and Whanipoa The Chineso authorities 'declare their determination to ex terminate the Formosan savages and to build walled towns ou the island John Condon, of Chicago, 111., drew a revolver at the break fast tablo aud shot his wife twice, instantly killing her. Ho then shot himself, inflicting a wouud which might prove fatal. Ou the police attempting to arrest him he Qred at tlmm, but without effect. Jealousy was the occasion for tho shooting. A collision occurred between two pHHSongor trail is on tho Detroit ond Milwaukee railroad by which fiftoon immigrants, both conductors and two other train etuplojooa were ii.jnrod The iutornal rovenuo receipts for one year up to July first amounted to $150,479, 132.- 20' The Iowa Itopnblicans nominated Samuol J. Kirkwoud for govoruor. Tho plat form declares that as specie is the only re liable legal tender, a onrrency convertible with coin should therefore be gradually attained ; a ruvonuo tariff adjusted to eucourago home indiiHtrios ; that no moro public land should bo ceded to corporations ; tlmt the patent laws bo revined to reliovo industry from monopolies ; opposes a third term and thinks tlio rrosident's lottor effectually does away with tho subject ; indorses froo education and tho public schools. . . . .One week's health roport of Now Ycrk city showed 117 canes of contagious diseases, as follows! Diphtheria, seventy-eight ; scarlot fovcr, fifty-one; smallpox, sovoutoou ; typhoid fever, one Tho California Democratic Covenlion nominated Wtn. Irwin for governor. Tho platform opposes the unconstitutional in-tciforeiK-o of tho Inderal administration in tho domestic affairs of tho States, by which oue portion of the Union is ground with taxa tion to koep another portion of tho Union in bankruptcy and eervitudo ; denonncos tho Itc publicau party for corrupt administration, for tho enrso of au inconvertible currency and for the attempt to pass the " Force bill ;" op poses tho division of tho school fund ; doclares tho right and duty of tho govorumont to regu late corporations to prevent them being umJo monopolies; fnvjiu equal taxation ; aud op poses all legislation known as "prohibitory." Tho United States sUoamor Lancaster has reached Fortress Monroe from liio Janeiro, having ou board soveral cases of yellow fovcr. Thero is no diminution iu the frightful mor tality from measles and typhoid fever in the Fiji Islands. Medical aid is to bo cent from Australia. . . .The peasants of Dova and vicinity in Transylvania, Austria, have revolted against tho nobles aud defeated a battalion of militia. Many perrons havo been killed,' iuoluding two Judges, l'.egular troops have been sont to tho scone of tho outbreak Tho roport that the king of LurruaU refuses to allow British troops to pass through his territory is officially continued Gou. Cortina has boon arrested and placed under guard by Col. Manuel Parrat, of the Mexican regular cavalry. Cortina'a police have been arrested, disarmed and im prisoned. Thoro is great excitement in Mata moras, and trouble is anticipated. . . .Aloxaudcr Erviu, having charge of the foundry busiuoss of Henry G. Morris, of Philadelphia, who re cently failed, has bceu discovered to have em bezzled sums amounting to $1,200,000, and extending over sovoral years Col. E. B. Catling, quartermaster at Fort Saudcrs, Wyo ming Territory, committed suicide by cutting bis throat from ear to ear. Financial embar rassment, complicating his official affairs, ia assigned as tho causo of his suicide The new postal arrangement with foroigu countries weut into effect July first A member of the Baltimore city council was expelled for taking a bribe. Ho makes the second man ex pelled from that body for corruption . .One hundred Germans, men and women, exiled on account of the new religions laws of Germany, have arrived in this country aud were enthusi astically receivod. John Hughes was hanged iu the jail yard at Nowton, N. J., for brutally murdering his wife in January last. Iu his remarks while upon the scaffold ho ueithor acknowledged or denied the crime, although at tho time of his arrest ho admitted it Tho Philadelphia revomio officers seized tho large tobacco ware house of Henry Mold & Co., and took Mr. Mohl into custody on ft chargo of removmg snuff from his factory unstamped aud im properly stamped Paris dispatchos place tho loss by inundations iu tho southwestern portion of France at 100,000,000, aud the num ber of lives lost at threo thousand The official figures from the Irish-American rile match show tho Americans won by thirty-nine points instead of thirty-eight The Swiss national council has voted $5,000 to defray the expenses of a proper representation of Swiss' products and industry at the Philadelphia Cen tennial The assembly of Cape Colony hag unanimously adopted rcsolutious in favor of tho annexation of sundry iudopcudent terri tories south of Natal, inhabited by oue hun dred aud fifty thousand Ca fires By the burning of the stables of the Fast Genesee street railroad company, at Auburn, N. 1'., eighteen horses perished Private advices from the Black Hills report extensive dis coveries of gold. Tho governor's council of Massachusetts have derided by a vote of five to four aga'ust a commutation of the death sentence pro uouueed against Jesse l'omeroy, the buy mur derer. Tho subject may be yet r considered by the council before the time appointed for the execution ; while it is possible that Gov. Gaston may withhold his signature from the death warrant A frightfully large doath and mutilation by accident record was made iu the Uuited States on the fourth and fifth of July, the victims being to ft great extent chil dren.. ..Although the disaster ou the Southern railroad of Long Island w as of the most dis astrous that has lately taken place, the only wonder is that loss of life was so small. Dense ly crowded trains were running to and from Rockaway, and one of these trains collided, telescoping and turning a scene of pleasure into one of death. Iu one instant, as it were, and with scarcely ft warning, seven persona were instautly killed, six fatally and twenty two seriously injured. One engineer aud fire man saved their Uvea by boldly leaping from the locomotive while at full speed. Two of the men who were killed met their deaths as they sat by their wives aud children, the lat er escaping without ft soratch. When the collision occurred the two locomotives met, rose aud toppled over ; the tender of the up train, composed ef four sir, wan lifted up aud deposited on the top of the smoking car, partly orushing it in. Trof. Jenney, tho government geologist at the Black Hills, reiterates his former opinion that there is not gold enough in the Black Hills to pay for mining The famous oVm running horse, Lexington, Is dead Five fishermen were drowned off NoVa Scotia by the npsotting of their boat Two tailors on an American brigantine have beon arrested at London for mutiny and wounding the chief offioer The Americans in London hold ft banquet In the Crystal Palace on tho fourth of July Miss Lizzie Ihling, uieoo of Trot. John Wise, made ft balloon ascension from Philadelphia, and when about five hundred feet up the balloon burst, the gas pouring out in such quantities as to cause the lady to fall into the basket in an insonsible condition. The parachute arrangement of the balloon saved the wreck from falling with great velo oily, and Miss Ihling was badly injured by her fall, when the spectators expected her to be dashed to pieoea Ground wae broken at Atlanta, Ga, in the presence of an immense throng for the Atlanta cotton factory Messrs. Moody and Saukoy are to undertake re vival meetings in Taris The members of the diplomatic body and Portuguese d'gnitarios of high rank waited ou Mr. Mornn, tho United BtateB Minister to Portugal, and congratulated him on the anniversary of American indepen dence. O. G. Griswold, of Tort Jcrvis, N. Y , was shot an 1 instantly killed by his stepson, Ezra Huntingdon. Tlioy had a fight, iu which Hun tingdon, who waa intoxicated, was torribly beaten aud ojected from tho house. A few minutes after he returned and deliboratoly shot Griswold aud thou dolivorod himself up to the authorities A grand jury impaneled iu Chicago consists of eight negroes aud six teen white men Dispatchos from different parts of Iowa etato that the corn crop will be poor. The othor crops will be up to tho aver age Nino persons attempted to cross a swollen river near Greenfield, 111., iu a wagon, but were capsized and six of thorn drowned. . . . There baa been a warm dispute for some timo botwoen the citizens of Wcstorvillo, O., and a mau who opened a saloon there recently it being the only one in the corporation. Finally some ono discharged a load of gunpowder under tho building at midnight, doing much damage. The next day tho saloou keeper got out warrants for tho arrest of all the ministers in tho 1own, as woll as othor prominent in dividuals, ou tho chargo of insulting aud en couraging an assault upon tho saloon Tho Catholic church at Binghamtou, N. Y., was broken into and robbed of tho poor boxos aud tho socrod vessols from tho altar During an affray botweou a crowd of negroes and whito men, at Yicksburg, Miss., two nogroos were killed aud another fatally shot Lizzie Schmidt, sovoii years of ago, was outraged and killed near O'Fallon, 111. Joseph Hogau was arrostod in East St. Louis ou suspicion of com mitting the crime. Uailnnys iu tlio ITiiHoil Stales. From " Poor's lvitihvay Manuel " for 1875-70 wc loam that tho totitt number of miles of railroad in operationnt tho close of 1874 was 72,023, against 7j),fi83 at tho closo of 1873 au increase of TJ10 miles. This is the smallest number of miles of railroad constructed iu ono year since 1806. Comparative statements of roads having a total length of G9,273 miles in 1874, and 60,237 iu 1873, show the following : Aggregate cost was $4, 221,700,594, ngainst $3,784,543,034 in 1873 ; capital stock 1874, 81,990,997, 480 ; 1873, 81,947,038,084 ; debt, chiefly funded -1874, 2,230, 700,108; 1873,81, 830,904,450 ; averngo cost per mile, 1874 800,425 ; 1873, 857,134 ; gross earnings 1874, 8520,400,010; 1873, $520,419, 023 ; working expenses 1874, $330,895, 058 ; 1873, 8342,009,373 ; net earnings 1874, 8189,570,958 ; 1873, $183,810,202 ; amount divided 1874, $07,042,942 ; 1873, $07,120,709. average dividend on stocks 1874, 3.39 ptrcent.; 1873, 3.45 per cent. Tho mileage and average cost nnd earnings per milo for the different sec tions of the country were as follows : Cot prr milf, l(i'2 41 IS 6t',S29 85,1178 83,9H1 Mirage. Now KiiRlaud States.... 5,fll7 Middle Slates 12.74 Western Wales 3r,i :il Southern Slates l:l,5US per mile $,!! 3 H,4fi 0,029 3.K70 10.4S4 rucilic States l,o:it) Tho following is a statement of tho average results per milo : 1871. 173. K.7,134 211,402 27.7:12 7,!MH B.174 2,774 1,013 65.1(1 4.S5 8.15 Capital Invented $fi,44 Stock W.741 Debt , (Irons receipts 7,r.i:i Working expeugi-R. Net earuini's 4,777 1,'M DCS 03.58 4.B0 3.29 Average ilivltlmiils Per cent, of working expense... Per cent, of net eaiulnijH to cap ital Average rate ot divitteml The "Manuel" makes tho following summing up: Xlio result, ou uio wnoie, cannot bo considered au unfavorable ono. Tho earnings of the roads were only 85,953,919, or 1.11 per cent, less than those for 1873. They were 52,224, 901, or ten per cent, greater than those for 1872. They exceeded by $117,138, 808 tho earnings of 1871. Those facts show how intimate aro the relations which the railroad system sustains to the business of tho country, how potent its iullnence in tho development of its resources and tho firm foundation on which it rests, l'revious to 1874 the annual percentage of increase of earnings for many years exceeded ten per cent, those of tho one immediately previous. A similar rate of iuereaso for tho past year would have given an aggregate of earnings of about $585,000,000. Such a result would undoubtedly have been leached but for tho condition of our cur- renev. That it was not reached is one of the many proofs of the penalty we pay for delayuig tlio necessary reioiui. Danelug (Joins Out. Somehow London seems to have got tired of dancing, a correspondent says. When the Shah was here, no remark ho made was more relished than bis ques tion to tha Prince of Wales whilo tho dance was going on: ' Why do yon not omiilnv HPivants to do this lor you? The Dursim inor nrinco could hardly ex plain, but society genorally..s,eemsdn cliued to relegato dancing to the chrpi det ballet. This has bceu esiiicial W ' the cast thisscaHeu when the new fuskuymble skirts have gone to au extreme from the liberation of the bullet. A lady was.re- ctmtlv heard to sav. with a sigh: " What with beiuer tied arouud above and tied around below. I haven't had a good snnaia sit down for three months, When a large ball is given there is an apolotrv for dancing, a few minciug stens are taken, but presently the com pauy falls to admiring each other's dresses, and it all ends in musio and talk. Dancing Wits lair to ueoomo survival," as the antiquarians say. In a recent investigation of the num ber of missionaries aud converts in Japan the following was the result : Oreek church, i missionary, 3,000 converts ; ltomau Catuouo, forty niinioiian s 20,000 converts ; Protestant, seventy miBsiouwws, UW.WU converts. The Canadian Crops. The Toronto Olobc publishes fonr col umns of spocial telegrams from all parts of the provinces of Ontario and Quebec as to tho condition of this year's crops. Tho following is n summary of this informa tion: Fall wheat appears in many places to be winter-killed, and tho crop will be considerably below the average. The failure appears to be worse iu the Lake Erie counties, while' the Ontttio coun ties show ' favorable resnlbi. Spring wheat promises nearly or quite an aver nge crop. Oats, barley, and peas will, if the season continues equally favorable, probably be a little above the average. Corn, while giving good promiso in some districts, will hardly come np to the average yield. Root crops generally are thriving, and the yield will probably be more than Usually aDUnUanC. XUO I potato crop is assailed by tho OolordO J beetle, but growers do not seem to an- ticipate so much mischiof from this pest as in recent years. The hay crop has been greatly benefited by the recent rains, but will undoubtedly bo short. The fruit crop is, in many instances, ro- Eortod to be doficient, and peaches will e very scarce. A. Good Puz.Ip. Those who aro curious as to mngio squares will find something to interest them in Tarton's "Life of lienjamin Franklin." This great philosopher was very fond of inventions of this sort. Here is tho correct answer to tho puzzle: "In wlmt manner may the odd numbers, from 1 to 49 inclusive, be arranged so that4b.e sum of each row of livo figures shall bo 125?" 33.... 47.... 1....15....29 45.... 9.... 13.... 27.... 31 7.... 11.... 25.... 39.... 43 19.... 23.... 37.... 41.... 5 21.... 35.... 49.... 3.... 17 Tho American Grocer declares that there is scarcely a single clnss of goods put up and sold in this country which is not short of tho weight or measure claimed for it. Through all the Ages of study aud investigation which have marked tho path of scientific discovery, ono especially alluring object has tempt ed tho inquiries and speculations of philosophers. It is what tho wizards and witches of olden time, tho jugglers of India, soothsayers of Arabia, Magi of Egypt, necromancers of Turkey and the Orient, and alchemists of civilized Europe havo sought, but sought in vain a vegetable non poisonous elixir, which, by cleansing the blood, removing from tho system all impurities, strength ening the nerves, tho muscles, and tho brain, and vitalizing every fiber of tho system, should bid defiance tn the cor roding hand of disease. Dr. Walker, of California, discovered an herb, the prop erties of which, if they do not entirely fulfill all the conditions above mentioned, have at least proved themselves ellicaci ous in all of them ; this herb Doctor Walker Jias mudo ai ingredient iu his famous Vinegar Bitters, which can be obtained of any wholesale druggist throughout tho country. Her Pets. Some tlnya ago a lady of Freehold, N, J., on going out to feed her chickens, was surprised to lind that an old hen, which bad for two weeks been persistent ly sotting on nothing, had appropriated to herself four kittens, whoso mothor sho kept away with fierce thrusts of her beak, nnd over which she was brooding with all the tenderness of a mother. The cat to whom they belonged could not get near tliera, aud tliey nave been fed ever since by the hen. The purest article is the cheapest in the end. Dobbins' Electric Soap (mudo by Cragin & Co., rhil.) is perfectly pure, snow-white, aud preserves clothes wash ed with it. Be sure and try it. When an editor retires from tho Loudon Times ho is made a baronet. When an American editor retires he is made but who ever beard of one retir ing f He goes down with the ship. Tho cathartics used and approved by the pliYniciaiiB compririing tlio various medical arwociHtiouB of this Stato aro now compounded md sold under the mime of J'arsons l'urga- iee J'illz. Com. Eminent men of science have dis covered that electricity and raaguotwrn aro developed in tho nvHleui from the iron in the Mood. This account (or the debility, low spirits and lack of enorpy a person fuels when tu ib viuil element becomes reuticeJ. luo Peruvian Kvrnp, a protoxiuo of iron, rtipplies the blood with its iron clement, and is tnu only form in which it can enter tho circulation Cum. The Market. HFW YORK . Beef Cattle-Prime to Extra Bullock! MV.a 13 V Oorumou to Good Toxaui 00..(o) (7i Milch Cows 03 (XI (75 oo HogB Liv 08.V(4 09V oresaed iiu'.ia) iu Sheep 0IV4 t'S Larulia t' 10 Cotton Middling , ... IV. I 1S i'lour Extra Western 0 19 (A 5 60 6 1(1 lit (0 1 36 a 1 8S 1 19 1 21 Bute Extra Wheat Red Wee tern No. 2 Spring Bye State , Ilarley Slate 1 OS 1 1 05 1 80 1 45 tit Ml 66 C4 1 86 (4 1 tO uarley Malt Uata Mix- d Western. Oorr- Mixed Wtn torn , (4 MM 8 X nay, perewt Straw, per cwt.... m i io (A 90 ia oo 60 08 Hopa "lis, 26(335 old fork Muaa . . . ao uo Lard. Finn Mackerel No. 1, new 11 IK) ($13 110 ( 9 50 (4 8 U0 S 40 " No. i. new o no Dry Ood, per cwt 6 60 Herring. Healed, per hex.... 411 Petroleum Orude W.'Oo's Wool California Fleece KeOued, H7 28 86 84 64 80 24 22 14 24 Texas Australian 2(1 45 W i 18 Butter Stato Western Dairy. ..... Western Yellow Western Ordinary. 18 Pennsylvania Fine... 21 Cheese State Factory ID 12V " Skimmed 02 Western d'i I n 12 23 Eggs Stale 28 abVAMX wtieat 1 80 1 00 14 1 80 14 1 CC 4 f3 m I 82 14 7u t'V ( 1 H ( 71 (4 fVi 4 1.07 4 1 40 bye State , Uora mixea ............ .. Barloy-r-Wate, ., Olta State,.... 83 1 81 66 ' t W. J . s . BUFFALO. Flonr. t m.'.m.Vmm .... .4tatio i 2 Butuigs-. orn-Mixed, . ..... ..... liarliy .' , BALTIMORE Cotton Low Middlinge Flour Extra Wheat Ked Western .. Rye Corn Yellow Oat Mixed 1 t!7 1 40 15 8 25 1 81 OS M 69 14 16!. Vt K (4 1 82 (4 1 01 (4 el (4 CO Petroleum la!t(4 05? VHILADELVHIA. Flour Pennsylvania Extra T 8 28 Wheal Western Bed..., 1 88 (4 J 80 Rye 1 OS I 04 Corn YsUow aiixea. ..,. eo is eo Oats Mixed to (4 61 VeUoleum Crude 08(a09 Refined, 12 leadiner and loner ' - - NewYork, wants a good Agent in every town to represent itsinterests. He need not have experience, but must possess a good character. Terms unusually favorable and worth looking into. application. Address LIFE INSURANCE, P. copy the following from nn ex- change, which is Important if true I Chronic tliarrho a of long standing, aleo dysentory and all similar complaints common at this season of the year, can be cured by the use (internally) of Johnson'i Anmlyne Liniment. We know whereof we afiirm. Com. A MAN OF A TIIOIXAM). A CONSUMPTIVK CURED. -When death wai hourly expeoted from Cnnnmnmlnn, all remedlea having failed, aeoldent led to a discovery whereby Dr. H. Jamks eared his only child with a preparation of OinfiriM. Mlrn. He now dives recipe free on receipt of two etsmifl to pay epene. Them in not a single srmplom of (Jomnmiitlon t'mt It dee net d's.lnnto NlB'it Swents, Irrltstlon of the Nerves, llltttcnlt Kxp-o. toration, Hhnrp 1'alns In the Longs, Nsnsea nt the Sloiiineh, lnnrtlon of the llowels, BtMWasttnK of the Mtneles. Address ORADIIOUK OO., 14)32 Kaoe Street, Philadelphia. Pa., IHn name of this paper. ntY am, ani im.i. no vou ;ooi. in thebney walks of life yon will find men and women who are suffering from dyspepsia, liver o-jmplatnt, head, ache, vertigo, debility of the nervous system, oonstlpa- Hon, acidity, despondency, and many other maladies catisod from an Impure stt of the blood. Thl state o , Iff-,'? ffljfrJjl& l,fi!Ui5rffiS2I and insure as It were a new Ipnse nf life. Sold hy si drturnlsts. UKO. O. UOODW1.N 4 CO., Boston Wholesale Aaeote. Seme Parents spend their money for Patent Medicine to cure their children's colds. Some save their money and prevent the colds by buying: SII.VKK TIPI'KII Shoes, which never wear through at the tfie. Monfji Is thrown awnv by all who do not boy tho CAIil.l StlllilV WIKU ftened Shoos. They are 111- easiest, most pllnblo and penleeiible. Irfwik out tor Imitations. All genuine goods bear the Patent Stamp. N. T. BTJRNHAM'S Ti'itniNK Water Wheel Wan SoliTtpd, 4 swam into, and put to work in the iatnt Office, Wh inffton, I). 0., arirl linn provfMl to be the bfHt. It) sixes mnde. Price I o wi'P' 1 h an oy othor firat-cluu Wheel. I'umnhlnt free. N. K. liUKNHAM. YotiK. Pa. AChpmirfll FlnWPr rwmtillti.T the Morning IILIIMUcll riUWCI , oinry. OhnnRnn Into bonn tlful colors with every chnnjre of the ntmornhert. Kvery dfKmouf moisi tire ir dryness reprcw-nted by 11 different color. T'-lls of itormy nnd fair weather. Knot, pott paid, on receipt of ;. cents. ARt-ntu Wnnted. A. K. M K H K K I .L, I 7 A rch St nwt, Philadelphia, Pft. FIITT A The choicest In tho world Importers' I I JxVVj prices Larfit Company In America staple article plafM4 evorybody-Trade continually l'icnnli!fr A Rents wanted everywhere best Indiice itiHtiift don't waste time send fnr circular to ROBKKT WKI.I.S, 4.1 Vesey Street. New York. P.O. Box I 2H7. "HEAVY YOKES A new thniliOR M'rv by the auttmr of "AKiliist the World," has just binn in the Boston I.W.'i (li,hn. .et the whole story by seiidlnp ."() ct. for that live, H piiKo, htory and news p:p"r, for 3 months, postage free. Thk (ii.ojiR Pup. Boston. MOODY & SANKEY. Y it urn hxirn N. . Just . tsaued. (Joatatns Sornons by M oody, John Hull and others, witlt Knif r.ivliiKH of Old Dntrli Kulton Ktreot ) Church now htlufr pulled down. Price, per 1M, I.I for 2 iM'iit or 5 for IO rrntw. pjat-paid. NKW VOHK IM IIjY H ITN KSW. nnblisb. ed every Morriinir. Ail the Nhwb Only S4 year. Try 11. one iimiimIi for It.- rctif postage paid. .IOIIN IHHUAM., 2 Hprnrr StiMTt, Nrw York. Thii new truss ts worn with perfect o otn f o rt uiKht ftDd day. Adapt Hs-df to every motion of the body, retaining Hup turn under the hardest exeralse or severest strain nntit permanently onred. Sold cheap by the F-lcstic Truss Co No. !8:t Hrondwny, .N. Y. VAly, and sunt hy nistl. flsll or ssnd for CJIx-qlsr. aari cnnA BTJBB MILLS FOR C0BK, FLOTJB & FEED, largr eapanltt tmall irfiM A friee. Mv ipecislt; SO yarn, (hlii M'daUfut fa told. 90 mWdU fT prinrfinir A bolting veeU ' bit. sua mlncml,by hsn4L hon, wind, ites, r w ter jower. S&d ivsmp fat Ueull A prleet. EDWARD HARRISON, New Uaven, Conn. BOOK AGENTS Wnntl to sell Thr Ir,,nlt''n n m m o n lpnsr Ifpillrnl Afivlrr." It Is the cheapest book VRr jmMiflhed ; SS. panes, over 25(1 illiistrntlons, ticptl to purchase thp hlfrti-prlopd bonks trntttinir of llomnstlo Mertii-in. Urjlikrj othor hooks soM thronjrli .-iirent Ibis work i3 thoroughly udv,-rtlspd throughout North America. This fact. loa,ttiHr with tho Isnro sir.e. plHgunt appearance, and many new features of the I took, causes it to se!l more rapidly tban any work ever pub lisheil in this country. Thoce of my agents who have had experience iu selling hooks, say that In nil their pre. vious Cftnvnnaiuft they never met with such success or tuado so largo wages, ns since commencing the sale ot my work, tor terms and territory, address (Inclosing two postage stamps and stating experience). ft. v. nr,mr,t ai. x.. World's Dispensary. Buffalo, N. Y. A'ofg. Mark enveloe " Kor Publishing Uen't." OOK AGENTS WANTED totelltho "GLEANINGS NEW BOOK FOR THE C11U01S." Por30jt.ri all Utcrnturt, rt, Hclrnce, history, thcolopy, earth and heaven, have hern rakod and runeackrrt (ot the rare and curious tliinpi .owed wy in thin n markatiit) honk. It in actually overflowing with nn alnt. heftutifiil. hrilliunt thoutrhti and truths. emjinaite entiment, inpenimn device, ana trip moil wua dorfnl facts nnd curinun fancies ever known. Thoncni'lct'ay 'iff diiMi-fi';" Acent snv It's a Hlfi llTiV-niid tbotc now at m-ork ivpnrt "...-" TO."" ."- 90MordcrB Week I It reallV OI11M.nI Uii Oiner POOR rnrrr 10 mrc iw nn, it it in 1W if .' Wc wunt 1 O.OOO more truutT Afffiits now men or women nnd we will mail Outfit Frve to those who will canvass. Lome pampnlets with lull pa liculars, terms, etc., tnt fret t-ntll. AtMrefS A, J' nuivuujuiu-i wvi I f - C O H, for iUv. Bond for Chroino Catalogue. Established 1S58 thasi vauk. fatehteo. The best and cheapest Paint in the World for Iron, Tin. or Wood. For wile liv l;dcra everywhere. TRINCES' METALLIC I'ATNT CO.. Vnnnft'reni, 9fi Cedar St., New York. trCAXJTlOM . mrcuasors will please ece that our name and trade mark are on each and every package, bona for a Circular. ATTENTION. OWNF.R9 OP IIORSRS, akic votir Harness junker ror lie ZIM 1(11, 1, tit I'ill They are warranted to cure 'mv sore neck on horse or inule, or money refunded. If tinmen niret-iions are rol lowed. Send 75c. forsuilinle. Zlno Collar 1'iid Co., Hole Miiui'fTi-s, Buchanan, Mich. TUP W PkK I SITN 8 PWS.50 broad columns lllAJ ll uunu l muiii iioui now io new rear poit-nald. i.U rentw. Ailrtross ml. MTN. ihw Torn. SMITH ORGAN GO. Boston, Mass. These Stamlanl Inatruinent Sold by Music Dealers Everywhere Agents Wanted in Every Town. Sold throiiKhont the United States on the INMTAI.I..1IKNT PLAN t That ts, on a System of Monthly Payments. Purchasers should ask for t he Hmitb Aufbioan OBQAX, UaUuoKUea ana luupatiioaiais uu ,uii.i.!,ju. t?, nW r- s MERCHANT We Pill 1 1 1 MERCHANT'S sling Deling JWlMtvjCMIl -.lE--prKSSIS-jrMSlllJ Ws vfi Whether for use on mau or beaat, Merchant's Gargling Oil will be found an tnyaluabla Lin mentj aud worth of nse by every resident iu tbe laud. We know of no proprietary medicine or artlole now used iu the United State which shares the good will of the people to a greater degree than this. Yellow wrapper for animal and white for bumaa ileah. N. 1'. JnU-pnJett. MERCHANT'S GARGLING OIL It the Standard Unttnant of the UnltM States. RaUblhhed 1833. La,rge site. ftl.OO niedlatn sire, 50 cauls ; mall else. IS eenU. Small siie for family nse, if.) cent. Maonfnrmd at I .eckport, N. VM bj Meruliant s tiargung un tiumpauy. established Life Insurance Company, in the city of Dr. .1. Walker's California Vln egar Bitters aro a purely Vegetable preparation, made cbiefly from tho na tive herbs found on the lower ranges of the Sierra Nevada mountains of Califor nia, the medicinal properties of which aro extracted therefrom without tho use of Alcohol. Tho question is almost daily asked, " What is the causo of tho unnarallcled success of Viseoau Bit- j tersI" Our answer is, that they rcmovo tno cause ot disease, nna tuo patient re covers bis health. They aro tlio grant blood pui fier aud a life-giving principle, a'pcrfuc Kenovator aud Invigorator of th3 i stem. Never beforo in tho history o tlio world has a medicine lierm coinpouni 3d possessing mo reiiinrnaiiio qualities f Vinkoar Bitters in lienling the ick of e cry diseaso man is heir to. They aro a go tlo Purgativo as well as a Touie, relieving Congestion or Inflammation ol tho Livor rud Viscoral Organs iu Bilious Diseases Tho tttopertics of Dn. Walker's Vinkoar 13 ittkrs aro Atioriuut, Dianliorotio. Carminative, Nutritious, Laxative, Diuretic, Sedative Counter-irritant Sudorilic, Altera, tive. uii': Anti-Bilious. II. II. JIcUONALD W CO., Dmeirlst unit Gon. A eta.. Srin Frunciiioo. CnllMnls. and oor. of Wafthinirtnn anil Chfu-ltun Su., N. Y. sola by au UmgglHt snl uralrr. I. T. N. U.-Ko. 88 NEW YORK TRIBUNE. The Leading American Newspaper. THE 1IKST AIVKIfTISlN; iHKIHtMI. Daily, $10 a year. Semi-Weekly, $3. Weekly, $2. Votnfir Fee to thm S'thcrilir. Specimen t'npif nnd Advert iiiiiit HatPS Krco. Wtwklv. In clubs uf H1 ur nmro. only 1, pontage paid. At'UiBi Thk Tuiiii'Ni:, N. Y. m bota la cans Dj UruUta. W ueuu aud uwarOa, ioe;lla-:f:?.uV AGENTS WANTED to ..11 THE IMPROVED HOME SHIITTI E S,nff Mn.,i, Address Johnson. Clark h Co.. Hostnn. Mul , Nrw York City 1 1'iltiburgh, Ps. Chicago, 111. i or SL Louis, Mo. simr T7rrii TTvn trou. ReiistsiKht. iM JJIVj J Xlli IT Our Ak'Is oolnrnouej. We have work and money for nil, men or women, hoys or tflrls, whole or spare time. .Send stump for CHlnloure. Address FRANK. CiLUCK. New liedford, Mass. Geo. p. Rowell & Co. I II SSiSSSSSlSSSMSSlSISSlSIPSSSSSIISIS all iJiOAA month to prnt rywhHr. Ad-lie iPfiUU KXOKsiOrt MTO CO.,iinchiman,M.cli Am SAMPLE Krre and P.lc Pay to Male and t remaie eTBrywnerft. Address. THK UNION PUB. tJO., Newark, N. J. 5 Of till lrrltl't 1'nrfin yon pvrr saw with ymir nnnm hiindnntiM'ly (Hinted nn tl.jni, sent, pnat -paid, upon rroHpt f JJO cents. Ynur friends will nil tvitut tlu-iu when th'vR vmir. Addps. W. O. CANXOX, 41 Knp-l.iiid Ktnid. I...r.t.,n, Maw. $IOe$500?r lnvpjtod In Wall St r-tt , 1 lad t- fnrtur.. .A IINCB ltTMlk PXplillnlllS BTerythlna:, and copy of th Wnll Sirert Hrvlrw BTerytmna:, ann copy 01 SENT FREE. iioiiN mh Ki.iNi, t;o , hankers A Frukein, 12 lirindwuy, N. Y. FLORIDA The Flurhltt A'frtc,4lturl-t. AVer lily !? a yerir. Send lOc. fnraDecimpn. l'rncppdfnir l'!orl-1d. Fmit limwi1 AssociiitlD mretin of I S7.j ct. Address Wat,. TON A CO., jMcksuuville, I' Ju. Kay where yon saw thin. EVKH V PA iI I Sold by Agents. I.Y WANTS IT. Money In If Address M. N. 1.UVK.M. tirte.l'a. 3 Pounds of Butter from 1 Quart of Milk Oan be made anywhere, hy any one. No clinrninff ro qulred. Keeelpt cent for 2l cents. Address, i-. r. nn I'titiiiiieipnia. ra. Kclorl nil Violent Piirallven. They ruin tlw tone of the bowels and weaken the digestion. Tarrant's ElTcrvescoiit Seltzer Aperient Is used by rational people as a moans of relieving nil de rangements of tbe stomach, liver and intestines, ber.nme t removes obstructions witheutpain and Inip&its Tlor to the org ads which It purities and regulates. SOLD BY" AM 1KU(1G1STS. 500,000 or MICHIGAN for m ACRES LANDS A Ij E ! ! The IjnndH of tho .liirkHon I.niiH.nK nnd Hnnlnaw lCnllrnnd C'ouipitny are Now OFKKKEO I'Olt HAIifc.. They are stto-Hteri alons: Its railroad nnd contain largo tracts of excellent FARM I NG and PINK Ijinds. '1'he farmlnK lands include some of tbe mobt fertile and well watered hardwood lands In the State. TliV are timhered mainly with hard-nmple and beech ; soil blnck, sandy loain, and at mnds In springs of purest water. Michigan Is one of the least Indebte d and numi prosperous States In the Union, and its farmers have a K renter variety of crops and resources thau any Vetern State. While some of tbe p....ie Slates may produce oorn In great abundance, they have no other resourc, aod when this i.rop fails destitution follows, as has been the case the pais' vear In Kansas nnd Ne.hr.iska. Price from feCtt.uO to S,j.(K per acre. Send for Illustrated Pamphlet. Address, O. M. II UNKS, LoiiiiuUMloiit r. JiuiBtiiKi JlirliiHiiiu AVANTEDi AliKNTS-Kvervwhers for tbe C'en IT fpiiiiinl iliniory-GtM. pnges. 24tt enrav. Inn. relllus well. CO., I Somerset Street, boston, H. O. HOUGHTON k Mass. -)ENNSYLVANIA MILITARY AOADKMY, Che. A i-er, ra , upens nepi. Hin. l.ocatlon uealtlitul, f; rounds ample, buildings commodious. Civil Kn ng, the Classics and Knglihh thoroughly taught Civil Kngiueer- Circulars apply to Col. 1 iiKO. 11 Y ATT, f'wWfst. J. H. W IiinIow (V Co., Shtn Bruker, P-trtlnuil, Mr., my : ' We honestly think your Fotim superior to all other iiukliiK Font ders." SiiriuffjithJ, .!(., f'Mr oJ Foam oo mb lues all tbe qualities de-ired In a flrst-vlaa tiaklof; Powder." Try it. " It is just the thing for Dyppep. ties and weak iersoiis, and better still tor the strong and well.1 Many Valuable Cooking recipes sent free. Send fr Circular to tiF.o. F. (Iantz it Co., 110 Duane Street. New York. FtFr, nrrrnary Jill ItitxgHssn J l JCABGLINCV . 1 ij Full particulars sent on O. Dox 2016, New York. tor