arrangemen aon le 'air grounds have been noticed heretofore, suffice here to say they were complete throughout. Every department was well represented, and the display was by far the largest ever made in Eastern Pennsylva nia. The number of contributors were nine hun dred and seventy-one, while the various contri butions, embracing every variety of stock, poul try, agricultural products, implements, fruits vegetables, flowers, household and other manu factures, &c., amounted to between three and four thousand. In all these departinents the competition was spirited and the display in the highest degree creditable to all concerned. In deed we are assured by a number of gentlemen who were present at the State Fair at rrisbu rg last week that ours was the most gratifying.— We had intended to publish this week the en tire list of awards of premiums, but found it impossible to do so, as they could not be arrang ed and placed in prom. order. They will ap• pear next week. The receipts from the sale of entrance tickets amounted to $2,580. The total receipts from entrance and life-membership tickets amounted to near $4,000 We might fill our entire paper with descrip tions of the articles exhibited, but we deem it unnecessary, as Most, if not nil our renders have seen them, and therefore require nothing from us to remind them of the beauty and elegance of the display. In conclusion, we congratulate the public spirited officers of the Society, and the Farmers of our noble County. upon the complete success of this , fourth Exhibition. It proves that these annual Fairs are growing in popular ity with our country people ; and that with renewed exertions, " Little Lehigh" is capa ble of yet greater things in the development of her 'Agricultural and Industrial resources. Horrible Death. 'On Friday the 28th ult.: Louisa, aged about 11' years, daughter of Mr. Solomon Ziegler, of Weisenburg township, this county, 'died frog the shocking effects of Hydrophobia. About twenty months ago, on her way to school, she was bitten by a dog supposed at the time to be mad. The wound still bled very profusely on her arrival at the school house, and the teacher requested her to return home. The parents fearful of the consequences. immediately pro cured medical aid, and the ordinary prescrip tion was administered, and finding no portion hr symptoms arise, the parents felt .relieved, thinking a cure - had been effected. All was well, and nothing more thought about it, little thinking that the poison could so long slumber in the system and .at last do its fearful work. But in this they were sadlr disappointed.— Several days before her death, she complained of dullness and pain in her head and limbs, which with the bewildered appearance of the_ eyes, and dread of the sight of water, were the first symptoms of the horrible disease. This \vas followed by a general prostration of the system, accompanied by violent .paroxysms, with a flow of saliva, which ended in her death on the day above named. What a fearful warning this ought to be to the public to put an end to all suspicious look ing dogs that are permitted to run at large, nine•tenths of which are a public nuisance, and of no advantage to the owners. • A SOLID INSURANCE. co:an-DANT. The Franklin Fire Insurance Company of Philadelphia, has declared a semi-annual divi dend.. of six per cent., payable on demand, mak ing twelve per cent. for the last half year. The Franklin is one of the strongest., and most prof).- tnble,companies in the country, and enjoys the ieputation of great libernlity in its adjustments °flosses': .Its,lnrge capital accumu lated resources ti.nableit •th deal promptly and generously with all its customers. A. L. kiwis, Esq., continues to act as agent for this institu tion in Allentown. Shade Trees:4oonmAbel Patie*ente. I It is a urpY )otti• ,citizens manifest so much - apathy m regard baying shade trees along the didewafics. Of course it would not dotin the business part of Hamilton street, but in the side streets it would indeed prove an ornament. How beautiful would be the sight, and in the heat of summer how cool and refreshing would prove the branching trees on either side, by sheltering us from the burn ing sun. We would then have vast lengths of parks where our people could enjoy themselves at leisure. It would also be a strong inducement for city folks to take up their abode among us during the warm season. The fall season for planting trees will soon be at hand. Then let the property holders in the side streets go for ward and plant trees. Does any one say it will not pay ? Why, the growth of trees in ten or twenty years to sell for firewood, will pay all expenses with interest added ; - so that if the experiment should not prove satisfactory, he has but to cut down his trees. The Ober day we heard a gentleman say whose pavement in Seventh street is adorned with five beautiful trees, that he would not have them destroyed for two hundred dollars. Even in midwin ter, a tree is not ungraceful, with its fine outline and delicate tracery of • interwoven twigs and branches. A large tree stand ing alone and leafless, and battling with the December blast, is a grand spectacle ; but when leafy June has made of it a verdant pyra mid and bower,—when the birds, building among its branches, have made its green inte rior vocal,—when the winds sigh or murmur through its foliage, like a harp, and its grateful shadow in the sultry summer noontide lies broad and cool upon all within its embrace, —or when the welcome raindrops patter musi cally on its garniture of leaves then, indeed, as we bebop its gladsome glory, we realize that, " a thing of beauty is'a joy forever." Spalding stud Rogers' Circus Our readers will bear in mind that this ex tensive establishment will give an exhibition in Allentown on the 10th of October next.— The combination of the Northern Circus with the Floating Palace Company from the South .will undoubtedly render it the most attractive as yell as amusing exhibition ever given in the place. Tlia far-farmed clown, BILL LAKE, is a whole team in himself, and his name is enough to draw a crowd at any 4 ;111C. Our exchanges speak in very flattering terms L.; them. Here is what the Rochester (N. Y.) . American - 3ays : " LAST AND BEST:—We have had all the Cir cuses here, and last of all SPALDING & ROGERS' two Circuses, which gave us the only idea we have had, of what a Circus should be. We suppose this double establishment must hav'e cost twice as much as any of the others, as it appeared to embrace double the usual number of people and horses—at least it more than doubled the others in merit an originality. A fair moiety of the acts have never before been performed in New-York, and those we have seen executed before, were now done twice as gracefully and gallantly. Now that the excite ment is abated, we think wo speak the senti• ments of the visitors, when we pronounce Bill Lake, the clown, Clarence Palmer, the tiler. the Man Monkey, the Motley Brothers, and those singular performers upon the poles and ladders, the greatest men we have ever seen in a Circus. Ned Kendall the bugler, Wile Agnes, the gymnast, and the equestrienne, Mad. Ormond, were equally wonder fut." Erman On Tuesday the 2d instant, the wife of Mr. DANIEL FINK, of, 'Heidelberg township, this county, committed suicide by hanging herself to a limb of a tree, in a woods near their resi dence. She was subject to temporary aberra 7 lions of the mind, and it is supposed that while laboring under such an attack she committed the rash act. A AVelcome Preftent 'We return our thanks to Mr. J. T. LEAMING, agent for the CoMmercial Nurseries, Rochester, N. Y.. for a splendid lot of pears and apples,— consisting of twenty-three different kinds, and which for beauty and delicacy of flavor we have never seen equalled. Ile has been among us several months, and during that time he has received orders for several thousand fruit trees. He had a large variety of fruit on exhibition at the Fair laSt week, for which he received the first premium, and also a diploma. The Law of Newspapers. 1. Subctibers who do not give express no tice to the 'contrary aro considered as wishing to continue their subscription. *. 2. Where Subscribers order the discontinu ance of their papers. the publisher may continue to send them until all arrearages aro paid. 3. If subscribers neglect or refuse to take their papers from the office to which they are directed, they are held 'responsible till they have settled the bill and ordered the paper dis-. continued. 4. If subscribers remove to other places without informing the publishers, and .the pa per is sent to the former direction, they arc held responsible. 5. The Courts have decided' that refusing to take a paper from the office, or removing and leaving it uncalled fur, is prima facie evidence of intentional fraud. Melancholy Occurrence. On Monday the Ist instant, a Canal boat, heavily laden, and having two men, a woman and two children on board, went over Schwartz's Dam, above Catasauqua, and all drowned. The accident was occasioned by the tow-line of the boat becoming fastened under a passing boat, and to save the mules from beibg dragged into the canal, one of the men on the boat told the driver to cut the line, which was instantly done, but the very heavy rain the night previ. ous, raised the river to a great height, and the current was so strong that all efforts to save the unfortunate persons were unavailing. We were unable to learn any of the names. Earlier in the day a man went over the same spot and was also drowned. Farmers Ednence Ytottr. Song. "Even I; the descendant of a poor line of cultivators, stretching back, very likely, to him who through his own blindness and fatuity lost the situation of he'ad-gardener in Eden—even I feel the all-prevailing impulse towards improve ment and reform. I can never be a scientific farmer—l am too old and too heavily laden with duties and cares for that—l Jut my son, if he lives; shall be. The little I can teach him shall at least inspiro him with a craving for more, and set him on the right track to learn it." If any man in the community may be pre sumed to understand fully, and to be imbued thoroughly with the progressive spirit of the age, that man is Horace Greeley. With his pc 'culiar political and social views and feelings, we have nothing to do but with noble, ener getic spirit he has ever displayed, and with the immense influence he has for years wielded with such prodigious success, effects everything. The extract which we give above is strictly charac teristic of the man, and embodies sentiments .which we should like to believe pervaded the breast of every farmer in the land. It is use less to attempt a concealment of the great fact, that the spirit of progress has laid her hand upon almost every tiller of the soil, and that slowly, but certainly, the slumbering spirit of the giant agriculture is awaking to a conscious ness of its own immense importance. Otte by one the old fashioned prejudices of by gone days are thrown aside, and those who a few years since indignantly discarded the idea of making a single step in advance of daddy's plan of farming," are either conforming in full to the onwr.rl movements of the age, or gradual ly adopting improved implements, seeds, and methods of tillage. But there are very.many, who like Horace Greeley, " feel the all'pervad ing impulse towards improvement," but who are too old and too heavily laden with cares and business duties to devote themselves to scientific farming. To such wo say, ed ucate your sons, and educate them with special reference to the profession which you intend they shall pursue in after life.— Do not be afraid that in filling their minds with the great truths of science you unfit them for the physical duties of life. The man who tills the • earth understandingly—who is ac quainted with the character of the soil he cul tivates—the manures he applies—the seed he sows, and the harvest he gathers—surely such a man's daily toil is materially lessened by the fact that every department of it is conducted intelligently.. Every plant and leaf and blos som is to him a subject of the deepest interest, because a thorough knowledge of each, so far from unfitting him for his work, only enables hint to prosecute it more easily and more econo mically. Where the farmer • doggedly attrib utes his want of success to the weather, or to Providence, the educated man, knowing that nature is rarely in the wrong, investigates the rause of the failure, and generally succeeds in tracing it to its propor source. " Forewarned. forearmed," is a trite but truthful.aclage. The cdnealed man provides against a recurrence of the failure, while the ignorant One, without either the ability or inclination to search out the reasons why he failed in a particular direc tion, " trusts to luck," and succeeds no better than at first. Ye that are skeptical in regard to progressive farming, look around you for a single moment. and if the snows of forty winters have fallen upon you, go hack. twenty years only, and compare the farming of that day with the farm-' ing of the present day. Look at the farms which in the period of twenty years have been improved most, and our word for it, they were those, the cultivators of which were, if not highly educated men, at least those who did not condemn book farining as a humbug. They were men, who if they had not, as the farmers or the present dny have, access to reliable agri cultural information in - the form of periodicals without number, and newspapers at mere nominal prices, were possessed of an indomita ble spirit of inquiry and energy— the men, in fact, to whom we are most largely indebted for, the facilities the present generation of farmers enjoy for cultivating the soil intelligently, plea santly and profitably.—Pro. Farmer. lowA.—A correspondent of the Btiffhlo Com mercial Ailertiser speaks as follows of the young and growing State.: " lowa with its 50.000 square miles of terri tory,.wns a perfect wilderness twenty-five years ago, and in 1840 contained only 43,112 inhabi tants. Ten years later its population was 104,- 214 an increase of three hundred and forty-seven per cent. Five years ago it had 824.680 acres of improved land, and the value of farms was 810.657.567. In this young State there are to-day fifty thousand horses, a large number of milch cows, and nearly as many working.oxen a hundred and seventy thousand sheep, and five hundred thousand swine ; and the value of live stock cannot be much short of five millions of dollars. It now yields annually • upward of two million bushels of Indian corn. lowa will certainly be the New York of. the West in an agricultural point. She has 4,000 square miles of territory more than the Empire State. and has now only four or five persons to the square mile, while New York has nearly seven ty. lowa has a million and a half acres of good land unimproved. When all her agricultural resources are developed, when she ships her hundred million bushels of corn annually, by 'ime or more of her " Pacific railroads," to Chi na and the islands along the'route, then will the Union feel enriched by the lowa link in the bright chain of Western Commonwealths." SINGULAR CAUSE 01 , ' PEATIL—SamuoI Rob bins, aged 18 years, died at Salisbury, Connee ticut„.on the Bth of September, from disease of the lungs. brought on about nine years ago.— When playfully running and holding a head of herdsgrass by its stern in his mouth, he dreiv it with 'his breath into the lungs, from which it was removed after death in a perfect state of preservation, about au inch in length. Dan Rice's Gratitude. An interesting incident is related of DAN Moe, the celebrated circus performer, in a late number of the Reading Gazette. When Dan left Reading with " the pig," ionrteen years ago, he went towards Kutztown: Here he was Completely stark—the pig didn't draw, and Dan found himself out of cash, with scarcely a coat to his back, and altogether in one of those awk ward quandaries from which extrication is hopeless, short of a miracle. But, in the depth) of his distress, Dan found a Good Samaritan in our worthy friend, Judge Heidenreich, who lifted him out of the mud, put hint in a suit of new broad-cloth, and lent him a horse and wagon to take his pork to another market—" in short," as Mr. Micawber would say, to Allen town. Here Dan's evil genius again beset him —the pig proved too little pork for the Allen towners' shillings, and Dan fell deeper into the mire of debt and destitution than before. To add to his troubles, a crisis in his wife's health was approaching, when to travel any longer with Dan, was periling the travail she must shortly undergo on her own ttccount. In this sad dilemma, Dan had no other resource but to sell the horse and wagon Judge Heidenreich had loaned him, and with the proceeds take his wife home to Pittsburg, buy a cradle, And prepare for the stern realities of married life. He made a notch, however, in the corner of his brain, of hiS indebtedness to the Judge, which be deter mined no statute of limitation should ever ob literate. Time passed on—Dan dissolved part nership with the pig, took a step higher, and reached the stage of one of the Philadelphia theatres. Here the Judge saw and recognized him one night—discovered his lodgings next morning, and gave him a friendly call. Dan, although in improved circumstances, was still poor, and wore a thread-bare coat ; but the Judge, in the hardness of his heart, arrested him, and took him before—not the Mayor, but —a Clothier, and ordered a suit to be brought. But Dan would not stand that proceeding—he suffered a non-snit, and left the Judge to an empty judgment. Prom that time to this, they never met, until last Tuesday, when Dan . , and his Company came to Heading to perform, and the Judge came down to attend Court. DAN's first duty was to hunt up his old friend, and invited him to take a shut ( drive about town, to which he consented, and a horse and vehicle were soon at the door. Dan's equipage, like that of his profession generally, scented a pretty styliA turn-out. It consisted of a bran new carriage of cicgnnt,make, a cream colored Ara bian pony, and a spick and span new set of glistening harness—worth, when you come to estimate such things by dollars, some $4OO or $5OO. The drive was taken and enjoyed, and time flew swiftly by, as the two friends talked and laughed over the half-forgotten events of old times. DAN drove the Judge back to his lodgings, stepped out upon the pavement, and. before the .Judge had time to rise front his seat, handed hint the reins and whip, with a graceful how. and said : " These nre'vours, Judge— the old horse and wagon restored, with interest —take them, with DAN Rtor . :'s warmest grati tude!" The Judge was stricken dumb with 1111111Z(111elli for a few moments, but soon reeov• ered his self-possession and began to remon strate. But DAN was inexorable—he closed his lips firmly, shook his head, waved a polite adieu to his old friend in the carriage, walked off the his hotel, and left the Judge to drive the handsome equipage now really his own, to the stable. An honest man, and alnan of honor, ts‘DAN RICE, the Circus Clown Snonoxa STORY.—The following neccunt of the murder of it slave by her mistress, which we copy from the New York Tunes, seems too monstrous for belief: FRANKLIti, Tenn., Thursday, September 20, 1855.—A most sickening tragedy occurred three miles from this place on Monday and Tuesday last, which throws the fictions performances in " Uncle Tom's Cabin" entirely in the shade. A notorious woman named Ellen Borden, had her jealousy aroused on Sunday last by the con, duct of her husband towards a negro woman employed in the house, began on Monday to whip and torture the woman, and persevered in her cruelty until some time the next day, when the negro died. When the fact of her death became known a Coroner's inquest was held, and a warrant issued for the arrest of the murderess. The preliminary trial is now go ing on, and from testimony elicited upon it, there seems to be no doubt but the negro was made to endure the most awful torments for nearly .two days befere.she was- killed out right.' ';) She was first tied and *hipped, then boiling water was poured over the abdomen and legs, until the skin was all scalded off and the fatty tissue soaked, leaving the muscles bare she was then taken into a smoke house and locked up, and probably on the next day the remain- ing 'injuries were inflicted which put an .end to her misery. These last injuries word the hang ing of the negro by a rope attached to a joist in the smoke house, and a severe blow on the tem ple with some pointed instrument, which pierced and fractured the skull. On a post mortem examination the neck was found to be broken, the back part of the head badly bruised and two other gashes with the sate sharp in strument on the head. The back was also found to be considerably scalded, though not so badly as the front part of the body: The woman, Borden, made no attempt to es cape, and exhibits perfect indifference about the affair. The excitement in town is very great. EIGHTEEN HUNDRED AND FIPTY-HIPS.—By a strange coincidence, which will not again occur for a long time, the new year of 1855 com menced on the same day as in 1846, and con sequently all through the year the date will be on the same day. But what is more singhlar is, that all the moveable holidays, from Sep- tuagesima to Advent, full on the same dates and the same days. The almanacs of 1849 might therefdre serve for the present rill% THE PESTILENCE AT NORFOLK.-A letter from the Mayor of Norfolk, dated the 18th, says that the money received there from abroad, amounts o $lOO,OOO and that the expenses of the How ard Association average $2500 or $3OOO daily. lie says.: • " The curd of the Association has not ceased and cannot until the disease ceases; we had hoped that the fever for the last few days was on the decrease, but our hopes are gone. The disease is raging with equal violence as hereto fore ; not at the hospitals, for no one will go there unless some stranger who has no home.— Hitt the suffering and misery in private houses is beyond description. The association is look ing into this condition Yf things, and will see every family and supply their wants, and re lieve their sufferings as far as possible. We have no papers published among us. Both editors of' the Beacon, Cunningham and Gates wood, dead. All hands at the Herald and Ar gus offices, also News and Courier, down Sick. Several of our valuable people have lately died. Wm. D. Delany, Esq., our late worthy and es timabld Mayor, breathed his last this morning. Between now and frost, a space of CO days at least, unless a kind Providence should inter pose and arrest the disease, I fear that the greater part of the remaining population, about 5,000, will be swept off. Norfolk is the most complete wreck you ever saw, or could imagine , 2000 or 2500 of the people have been snapt off: and whilst the obscene and profligate that filled our lanes and alleys, have been removed like autumn leaves, the very stamina and bond of our society the mechanics, merchants; physi cians. lawyers, ministers, are all gone. And still they ' PROFITS OF Tits 'WHEAT CULTIME.--TllO Alton (Ill.) Courier recently gave two or three instan ces of the successful and profitable culture 11 Wheat. One, instance was that of Col. W. B. Warren, of Jacksonville, whose crop of 'wheat netted him $: - !0 per - acre, clear of all expenses at present prices. Another case was that of Mr. Constant, of Sangamon county, where the nett profit was $l7 per acre. But these ex amples of good wheat culture are thrown in the shade by Mr. J. E. Arnold, of Shipinan, Illi nois. He cultured 7i acres this season, and aline] therefrom a nett profit of :5320.81—0r $.11.49 per acre. He says;—" The land had been some time in cultivation, and for the last few years rented out for corn. The wheat was sown the first of October in the standing corn. and MIS put in with a joint cultivator, by going one in a row. Nothing else was done to the wheat or ground except what T have told you. bast year T had twenty net-es in May wheat, on the same farm, which cleared me about $25 per acre, 'though I sold four hundred bushels at ninety-five cents in Alton." PAPER PROM \\tron.----A correspondent of the Newark Advertiser describes the manufacture of paper from wood, as carried on at Little Falls, Nett• York. The paper that has been produced, with the disadtrtage or improper nuu•hinery for its manufacine is pronounced of superior quality. The wood, maintfacturecrl,y this process, it is said, is capable of producing all grades of paler. and, what is of the most importance, the stock costs nothing. In this way an inch and a quarter plank is bought and introduced in its rough state into a planing machine, from which it conies out a three-eighth clear planed board, more itt the market than the plank• The shavings AC the stock from which the paper is made. Anything that will cheapen and increase the produ:tion of papet• will tend to the advancement of intelli gence, and is a matter in which we hold an in• tcrest. Craters entcumsrAtstm —At Gloucester, Massachusetts, last week, the schooner -Shoot jug Star" was taken upon a marine railway for the purpose of discovering the cause of a leak in her bottom. tpon examination, h place about one foot in length and eight inches width, was dis Covered to be worn nearly to tli4 thin ness of a wafer. On taking off the plank, two pebble stones, each a little larger than a hen's egg, were found, and their constant rolling, caused by the motion of the vessel, had worn the plank, which was upwards of two inches thick, nearly through. it is supposed they were dropped inside of the ceiling while the vessel was building, and there remained. Ara l the vessel gone to sea again Without discover-, ing this leak, she might have suddenly filled, and no cause could have been assigned for it. A Cettmsrrr.—The Homestead states that there is on the farm of C. R. Alsop, in Middle town a curious freak of nature in the shape of a tree. It stands among a number of magnifi cent sugar maples, has a trunk some three feet in diameter, and to a casual observer presents nothing of special notice. But on closer inspec tion it is discovered that one side of the tree is sugar maple. and the other white oak. The body of the tree is round and smooth, and the junction .of the two varieties is marked by a slight ridge in the bark, which would hardly be noticed. Some twelve feet from the ground, the tree divides ; one side is maple and the other oak. The maple throws out a branch that has become entirely surrounded by the oak, and offers on that side the singular appearance of a white oak tree throwing out a maple limb. It is very singular, and worth the ride from this city to see.-11 . artford Times. RAILROADS IN TIM UNITED STATES.—We are indebted to a friend following summary of the nuMber.of Railroads in the several States e and the total number in the United States, &c. New York has 16, garyland 4, Canada 2, Delaware 1 ,Maine 1, Georgia 5, New Hampshire 7, Vermont 4,.Massachusetts 14, Rhode Island 2, Connecticut 6, Pennsylvania 12, New Jersey 4, Virginia 7, North Carolina 4, South Caroli na 3, Alabama 1, Illinois 3, Indiana 3, Ohio 14. Kentucky 1, Mississippi 1, Louisiana 1, Ten nessco 3,—Total 110. LATEST FOREIGN NEWS.—The arrival of the Pacific has furnished us with more ample and particular information regarding the fall of the south side.of Sebastopol. The reports from dif ferent quarters, however, vary much; • some times plainly contradicting each other, so that we have to rely mainly on the official dispatch es. Of the despatches of the Allied. Generals, that of Pelissier contains the most important .and startling information. According to this, four thousand cannon, 40,000 balls, besi es round shot and large quantities of powder d a variety of other valuable' materials, had een left behind by the Russians. Two cif the prifi: - cipal forts of the south side—fort Nicholas, which counted 200, and fort quarantine, 00 guns--had been destroyed. General Simpson'd despatch tells us that the French carried the Malakoff at noon on the eighth of September,— The panic cannot have been very great, as after this important event the :Russians repulsed the attack of the British upon the adjoining work, the Redan, as well as several subsequent ones by the French, and kept their position until night, when under the cover of darkness they crossed the bay. As to whether they will be able to hold the position of the north side, the late news furhish no.reliable data. All that has transpired on the subject amounts to noth ing but surmises. It is extremely doubtfut whether the forts on the north side contain suf ficiently ample stores of ammunition and ma terials, workshop for the•repair of artillery, and all the numerous establishments which a pro tracted siege requires. It is also ddubtfuL whether the communication with Simpheropol, upon which depends the provisioning of the garrison and of the corpse on the Tdhernaya,, • can be maintained now that the fall of the south side has relieved the whole force of the Allied army. However this may be, whether the siege will be prosecuted or the Russians retreat. into the interior, the most important question for the moment has friend its solution in the . words of the Czar to the King of Prussia : " Russia never makes peace after a disaster."• How TO MAU: TOMATO h i es.—We find the following receipt in the Scientific American: . " Pour 'boiling water over the tomatoes ire order to remove the slain ; then weigh them and place them in a stone jar, with as much sugar as you have tomatoes and let them stand two days ; t h en pour off the syrup, and boil and skim it until no scum rises. Then pour it over the tomatoes, and let them stand two days, as before, then boil and skim again. After the third time they are lit to dry, if the weather is good, if not, let them stand in the syrup until drying weather. Then place on large earthen plates or dishes, and put them in the sun to dry. which will take about a week, after which pack them down in qtitall wooden boxes, with tine white sugar between every layer. Toma toes prepared in this manner will keep fur pais." train STATE FAnt.—The receipts of the Agri -Imi wj rpoontly luatt in (Min. amounted to about - .' , 10,000, exclusiveef $3OOO contributed by the 'citizens of Columbia. The prendunnt distributed amounted to $OOOO. It is stated that $61,00 was offered and refused for one of the bulls exhibited. Another was held at 55000, and two others at $3OOO each. The owner of a cow also refused an offer of $lBOO. There were eleven imported bulls exhibited, the aggregate value of which nmoUnted to n5,- 200 and ten cows valued at 512,400. GconciA Er wrtoN.—The State election in Georgia was held on Monday. The returns have been received from about two ,thirds of the State. Ilgitscuar, V. JOHNSON, the Demo cratic candidate for Governor, is elected by a majoritS4 of from seven to len thougand. Later• despatches say that five Democrats arc elected, and probably three Know Nothings. To Gsow APPLES WITHOUT Cons.s.Bury the ends of such limbs as are low enough into the ground (or turn down a scion), let a scion spring up bom it, and them cut away the limb and take up and, plant the scion where you want it to grow. It will produce fruit withou core or seeds. iNbri aub_enb.e. [1" - Poverty is the father of philosophers, and the worst kind of a father, too. ILF.Egg Items—There aro 37,000 dozen eggs consumed at the. United States Hotel, Sar atoga, per week. I;; - "Opportunity is the flower of time; and as the stalk may remain when the flower is cut off, so time may remain with us when op portunity is gone. n - There aro about seven million pores in the body of a man of ordinary size. If these were joined lengthwise, a tube would be formed. twenty-eight 9iiiles long ! [r The Rev. Mr. Gates recently married Mr. Joseph Post to' Miss Martha Rails. If that trio don't make a good fence, we should. like to know what will. 13:7•Dr. C. F. Shaeffer, of Easton, Pa., has been elected Professor of German Theology in the Seminary, and also of German Literature in .the College, at Gettysburg. Dr. S. has accepted the position tenderedhinh 'll - Pure Native Iron, the existence of which. the scientific world has been disposed to doubt,. has recently been found' in Liberia. It was sent to this country, and has been analyzed in. Bogton by Dr. Hayes, who pronounces, it, by conclusive proofs, to boa true native iron, not meteoric, nor reduced in any way froth an ore. OVA Bedouin Arab stallion hes just arrived. in Philadelphia, of the celebrated Hylan breed' in Eastern Arabia. Ile is of gray color, ,and four years old. Ten thousand dollars has been. refused for him, and his owner requires.twelve thousand five hundred. The horse was ono hundred and sixty-six days on shipboard, dur ing whioh time he never laid down.
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