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WALTER & BRAD! THENeO; THKX&8T. PlOS Pepleb and Dyde Bright fought eighty-seven rounds near Wflkesoarre, Christmas day, for $200 a side, Pedler winning theteonteafc-in wkiuh uM lmilatttj and endurance were displayed. The banks of Providence hold $78E,000 of the paper of A. D. Smith & Co., the baoKvupti jyigi i -riir i In alighting ironnta coupe at bis residence in New Tork Gen. Grant slipped and fell upon the icy sidewalk, being painfully wounded near the hip. Jfetefea araJwafceartotaftwriao nerve was :foruisedand the General is compelled to keep his bed.... SC. BJodgett, recently Treasrer of the Pro-rtdenee (K. I.) Institution for . Savings, is a defaulter and fugitive-from juetSee'.' He had served the bank for tbirty-sev-years, wdrclosed Uaauttr by the theft of THK'num'ber of emigrants arriving at -astfe Carden'for 18S3 wis 887,838, against WgJfor 183...;. The i1r Hew York pent' over f 5,000,000 for charity durinsr the yt&t 1883.' " . THE WESXt .William. Jpx who perpetrated a treacherous m urder to, procure money by ' which be and his parauiour esuld secure diiereea.from their respective spouses, was executed at Nevada, Mo., and met death to" 4 fearless manner. The woman for whom., he. .committed the crime browcK't htm ' to the . sallows... -Jko.ObJoliuer dealers, after a two days' "convention at Columbus, resolved that the Scott, law ws inimical to the blest interests of the State, and asked the coming Legislature ito reeaTtljeSeott law by a Judicious and oonstitutionaJLy enaojnient. . ' A dispatch tronx WiOlayalla, W. T., says that as Sheriff Thompson and Jailer William wereWisitiriy the jail cells at night for the last, time the? 4were- attacked by Elf us and Owen, two condemned murderers, who knocked them seneelefts with bricks they had secreted. On the jafler showing signs of recovery they took a Knife from his pocket and , hacked him to pieces, and, then fled.... After a three hours' wrestling contest at San Francisco, Mttidooo defeated Baneran was carried from the hall on the shoulders of admiring friends. . - 5 ' . gTHE SOUTH. A mob composed of 200 armed men searched thrtefefe the" streets to fife jail at v3?a?jap, Miss., dejaanded and, received from the Jailer the keys to the prison. The object f tfaetr ' visit was to inflict summary punishment a upon four negroes confined ' thereto Tor the' 'murder of Joseph Nichols and the t ? Posey brothers, , a. few nays previous, and they did their work promptly nott efleetuaUy. The' mob first proceeded to the cell of W. H. Foote, The door was forced open, and as one of the . crowd entered, he was struck with a hand-iron 'from the fireplace wrapped in a towel, and knocked down. Afc tills moment .firing com menced and the prisoner was instantly killed, being riddled by more than a dozen shots. Robert Swaysee, another of the murderers. -man taken fmm his isBlt a rone nlaced aronnd hls neck and thrown over the fence, and be was thus banged.' They then proceeded to the cell to which Bichard Gibbs was incarcer ated, bat could not open the doors with the.-j kevs. Gibbs aoceared at the soatiaxaL bfe kevs. Gibbs appeared at the fixating ot W eel, and on being perceived was rlddled.witb ahot. A rope was passed into bis eell skicbwas placed aronnd him by his cell-mate, and lie wathen dragged oufc and hanged from the outside of the building. The mob then went np-stairs to Micajah Parker's celL He was taken out, a rope placed around his- neck, and In fh balcony of the middle, corridor of the jail he was hanged, the body dangling over the balcony. Af terthis the crowd quietly dispersed. The victims are all negroes, and Foote was , Deputy Collector of Internal He venue for the district The lynchers were young white men from the surrounding eonntry; No . effort was made to hinder them. . . .Four colored children on a plantation at Summerton, S. C, in the absence of then- mother built a fire, which consumed the house and cremated themselves. WASHINGTON. Seoketaey Teixek and a party of agents and inspectors will soon go to Muscogee, Indian Territory, to investigate the Creek troubles and make reconunendationsto bring about a settlement. Repbesentattve Bland, chairman of the Coinage Committee, expects to effect no changes, in the . law' this session except to bring about the eyen exchange, of 'standard dollars for trade dollars. Representative finekuer disavows any .intention of making war on the national banks, but holds that their note f ranch&etfs vicious and unnecessary.... Brig-Gen. Andrew A. Humphreys died suddenly at Washington. The excess of the value of exports . over imports of merchandise for the month ended Nov. 30, 1883, was $23,375, 753, and for. the twelve months ' ended Nov, 30 $120,000,000. The values of the imports of merchandise for the twelve months ended Nov. 30, 1883, were $693,495,561, .a decrease. Of $58,186000 compared with the same" time last year. The values of the exports ox merchandise for the twelvemonths ended Nov. 0. 1883, were $812,495,651, an Increase of- $00,418,089 over the same time in 1883.... The State Beparment has learned that American pork and lard are not even permitted to pass through Germany in sealed cars. .. .A party of French aliens, who have for years controlled the modeling-room in the office of the supervising architect of the treasury, at Washington, have been dismissed. FOtrncAx. Congressman. Hubd, of Ohio, is after Attorney General Brewster, and a Washington dispatch says he will shortly prefer charges and ask the appointment of a committee to investigate the Department of Justice. .The charges as formulated are, in brief, that the detectives in the employ of the department are managing things to their own liking; that some of them are unfit for the places they hold; that some of them was discharged some time ago from another department for making false entries; that another has been drawing mileage he was not entitled to, and the money appropriated for the support of the department has not been spent in an economical manner, nor with due regard to the public interest. CUSNJSJBAlu Last week's business failures numbered 880, twenty less than the previous week, but e'ghteen more than for the corresponding period in 1883 The gross earntogs of the Lake t-hore road for the year are . , reported at $18,560,000, and of the Central and Southern line at $14,000,000. . The Swedish brig Natal, which has arrived at Queensland from-Boston, reports W'thaT'on "TMe voyage, the Captain and flr aJ-BMIO iWoVqS wounded and the Bccond Wo -wflAfcfileti by mutineers. The JBaptafcrofibt two of the gang and placed three vthers in prison at the port of arrival.-. . . . The Hoo.Gecrge W. McCrary. Judge of the KghvUnttedtaJJs, Judicial (SreuU, which camnccs iuiuri'uu, Atsurarui, .miuuesuui, MisoLjf wife KasaKatid Arkansas, has re igued tpat . position. His resignation will take effelctMhrchuheta'BWwW aecgpt the position of General Attornep..the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Kailf oircf company. The Grana Tnke acholas, of Rnsj, ia, who has UttVWdirnemeiit in Tur sten, tried to eapjU-gii

The Orange Grand Master of Ireland has issued a circular advising the enrollment of volunteer forces, for the society.

and announci tbat the Government will asked to am k these men with' rifles, to! be ptian rel the ih, iir 9Jeri heavy Iks uasni-uazcriks.i it. I M. Si n ,sasmi Mlistafwbc threaten the Minister Garcia, the most noted the Interior. wmbler in Europe, who has been known to-ww-or lose stakes of 200,000, has entered a Trappist convent in Spain Cardinal Bishop Antonino de Luca died at Rome. ADDITIONAL SEWS. A "Washington dispatch says that United States Judge McCrary, of the Eighth Judicial district, hos not yet resigned. His quitting the bench, however, hinges upon the settlement of certain business matters. The failures in the United States for the past" year numbered 9,184, with liabilities of 17fc,OBO.eO0f. i The year' "1878 developed 10,478 insolvents. The Committee on Public Lands, says a Washington telegram, "will proceed actively with its work. Chairman Cobb says that, it is not yet decided whether his consolidated bill proposing a general forfeiture of unearned lands shall be reported, or whether it will-be better to separate the subject into Ave different bills. He thinks the latter course will be pursued, and that five bills, which will restore, at least 50,000,004 of acres to the public domain, will be favorably reported early in the cession,,.., A cousin of Pita John Porter has been appointed clerk of the House Military committee. This straw shows the sentiment of the committee to he in favor of the restoration of. Gen. Porter to the army. Lahgk crowds attended the Orange and Nationalist gatherings at Dfotnowj, Ire land, NOW Year's day. ' Numerous soldiery and police prevented a collision between the factions, but not without bavonatinir two f men, wounding them mortally. Lords George and Claude Hamilton and caiedon addressed the Orangemen, while T. D. Sullivan and O'Brien were the principal speakers at the Nationalist meeting. The Orangemen attacked the Nationalists, but cavalrx and infantry charged the combatants and wounded a number' of the Orangeparty. Infantry with fixed bayonets escorted the Nationalists out of harm's reach. . . . New Tear's was naemorablo for crashes in the English coal and iron trade, something much like a panic haying made its unwelcome appearance. Four great failures were announced, the total liabilities being over $8,000,000. A Jesuit missionary, while. preaching in Vienna , denounced 19ie workingmen for their immorality. This .led to the pulpit being stoned, and in the rush to escape several persons were injured. . . . China, after a bluff, which deceived nearly all the world except the Frenchmen, is now making abject overtures for peace'at any price. A gang df thieves in tJolttmbus, Ohio, arranged with the depot policeman to rob a Bee-Line train at a point nine miles outside t'he dty. The. officer kept the authoritles fully informed, and steered the whole party into the hands of the police. : Fifty-two tumors, varying in size from a walnut to a .turnip, were removed from the body of A. J. Adams, at St. Vincent's ' Hospital, Erie. One hundred tumors V yet remain to be extracted. Mr. Adams attributes this superabundance of swellings to the bite of a squirrel received when he was a boy. ' The resignation of Hsnrr Villitrd'aS Y '. , ". .. - Z - ? " Prtteldeht bf .the Northeilt- tPaifiA roaa.was I present"to fhe'direetors'fesirweek. the sinking, of a Government steamboat aaa;"(Jpos5Mm Point, on the MisBissippjsfbroe meif were .drowned Simon Canterbn and a party of friends are at Hot Springs, Ark., and. intend to visit Mexico next -month. " He Swore "Himself. San Francisco CHronicle:" A Montana Postmaster, who arranges the' mails for the little town of Birnfey, lives eighty miles from a notary public. When he sent in his first quarterly report he administered the oath to himself and then certified to the correctness of the account. A reply soon came back from the red-tape headquarters in 'Washington that he had violated a sacred precedent and must get a .notary tQ, swear him. : His retort was that he knew no precedent which would insure him mileage and traveling expenses for 160 miles in order to get a notary's signature.; This eft the department not a leg to stand upon, and they hajve since preserved a discreet silence ami alio wed. the Montana man to swear as he pleased. 1 A '- ' Peace. Peace is the highest aim of the superior man. Begin to regulate before disorder comes. Where legions are quartered, briers and thorns grow. In the track of great armies must 'follow bad years. ao-tee, Chinese. THE MABKET. . NEW YORK. Beeves. . ...$s.oo 1S 7.00 etf .oo 0.75 (i 1.22 (! 1.H5 (i .07 .41 15.25 .0U cno L (!.0!l ((! 5.rn (L COO C! 6.50 n. 50 & 1.01 W .450 & .80 ( .67 & .35 fr, .28 Vf13.7.Mo;i.s 5.50 4.01 1.20 1.33 .(ifi ,8'J 11.50 .co Floitb Superfine . . . Whbat No. 1 Duluth No. -2 Red.... Corar No. 2 Xo. 2 Po-rc Mess Lasd CHICAGO. Beeves Goo 1 to Fancy Steers. . 6.00 Common to fair. 5.50 Medium to Fair 6.00 Hogs 4.(50 Ftoua -r anc y White Winter Ex 5.25 (J od io Choice Spr'g Ex 5.00 Wheat No. 2 Kprii or 95 No. Sited v inter, 99 Ookn Xe.2... 50 Oat-1 No. 2 33 IvYt No. 2 59 KAHT.E7 No 2 .06 IJL'TTEH Choice Crcamory 32 ER FrcKb 27. lout Mess 13.25' Lard..,, .ob4jS vfJ MlliWAUKliIE, Wheat No. 2 Cons No. 2... 0.vr. 2... Rye No. i: ... Barley No 2. Poax Mess... Labd., 1.03 .58 .3-2 .58 .69 J3.PU 8.50 H 1.C3 (fS .00 c$ .at C .59 M4.50 V$ 9.00 s r. locis. Wrkat No. 2 Red Cobn Mixed .; OA'IS Now2 -. rvb......!5: Poke Mow , . i a . . Laud 1.01 .4 .30 .54 li.25 W 1.04 .4'.! 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1 Texas Cowboy Wants . Assist tbe Herooat Scene. It it waan an terioriown, wn cowbo; inounsheth evi ,y tree knd has an oc icrucjJrnen it ikes his errati !ss Mad held forth inarogg s erry. me play progressau, without especial interest not down on the programme as being in the regular aider of events, until the steamboat scene in the third act, when Chip is disxnreredat att.oW.ittiU: river. She had overheard the villain's plot to blow up the steamer on which her benefactor is bearing the papers to a place of safety, by placid a.torpedo in the channel directly in the way of the soming vessel. Chip ia armed with a pistol, and, nerving herself, aims at the infernal machine, hoping by a well-directed shot to explode it. The whistle of the approaching steamer betokens its rapid coming, and soon the sound of escaping steam and the splash of the revolving wheels break' on the listening ear. Nearer and nearer, the ominous sounds ring out on the niqht, and soon bhe bow of the boat greets the expectant gaze of the audience. Cllip nerves herself for the telling shot,,but alas, on, this particular occasion the cartridge fails to explode. A moment more and all would be lost, for there, plain io be aeen, bobbing up on the turbid waters, was the torpedo. Miss Maddern, though 3r little surprised at the misfire of he weapon, was cooling it for another shot, when suddenly a cowboy jumped to his feet in the audience, and, flourishing a aavysix shouted; "Stand a little to pne side, gal, and Til bust it foi" you. Blame my eyes but them chaps ain't going to dish up that boat that yay." The omnious click of .a fen'ty-fohr caliber was distinctly heard, " and as he pointed bis pistol Miss Maddern with great presence of mind, without moving from tier position, for the second time pulled the trigger, fortunately with better suc3ess. The torpedo duly exploded, and the steamer glided majestically on in safety. "' As Miss Maddern was leaving the theater that evening, she was accosted at the stage door by the identical cowboy, who, sans eereqipni, said : B "Say, little gal, little mor'n there'd been the devil to pay, and all' a ownr to that little pop-gun of your'n. You can't depend on 'em. You want something that when you get the drop on a fellow you know you've got him right there.-"! was a goiu' to help you out jthis evening without asking you anoi" blow the blamed thing up myself, only yotl was right in the road and I coulda't .draw a bead on it. Don't never let it happen again, and. I'm going to heel you so youll be in proper shape." Suiting the action to the word, he produced a navy Colt and bashfully handed it to her with the remark "It's your'n, little gal, an' it's a daisy. I hate to part with it, but then what's a fellow to do when he's hit as bad asI am.' Maybe I'll get the laugh for this, but none of 'em's game enough to show their teeth to me, you bet! Good-bye." He strode away, leaving the little lady, Colt in hand. Salt Lake Herald. Luther's Courtship and Marriage. In Wittenberg there was a certain Catherine von Bora, lb years younger than he, who had been a nun m a distant convent. Her family were noble, but poor: they had provided for their daughter by placing her in the cloister when she was a child of v. - At lb she had taken the vows, but she detested the life into which she had been forced, and when the movement began she had applied to Iter friends to take her out of it. The friends would do' nothing but in April, 1523, she and nine others were released by the people. As they were starving, Luther collected money to provide for them, and Catherine von Bora, being then 24 years old, came to "Wittenberg to reside wijb. tle burgomaster, Philip Reichenbach. Iiuther did not at first like her; she was' not beautiful, and he thought that she was proud of her birth and blood: but she was a simple, sensible, shrewd, active woman; she, in the sense in which Luther was, might consider herself dedi cated to tiod, and a tit wite tor a re ligious reformer. Luther's own father was most anxious that he should marry, and m a short time they came to under stand each other. So on the 13th of June, 155J5, a month after Mnnzer had been stamped out at Frankenhausen, a little party was collected m the Witten berg cloister Bugenhagen, the town pastor; Prof.- Jonas; Lucas; Cranacb, the painter, with his wife, and Profi Apel, of Bamberg, who had himself married a nun; and in this presence Martin Luther and Catharine von Bora became man and wife. Contemporary Review. 1 I. The Great Brilliancy and Variety of Southern Foliage It would be in vain, amongst the dry, technical details, to convey any impression of the brilliant eft'ect of Southern foliage; but the tendency of all atmospheric nutrition in which the nitrates supercede the ammonias, in the carbon series, is to a multiplication of leaf surface. Like the epiphytes and air plants, all the plant asks of terrestrial matter is a stool to stand upon : that supplied, it lifts its thirsty spores in the sunbeam and dinea with Apollo on nectar and ambrosia. This multiplication' in the finelv-divided foliage of the mimosas form, the delicate pumale leaf of hay cypress cedar ; tho darkly varnished leaf of tho custard upple in the marl beds of Okechobee, Fla. ; or the soft, velvety mangrove islands' light on the. bosom of the water as a cloud; the dotted leaves of myrtle; the needle leaves of pine and tho slwrp fronds of the palm, ell unite ' to eroato ft landscape aeonrafcoly defined as radiant. For in this way the brilliant lanceolate f points all radiate from a center. When we,conceive of this foliage over the sharp fronds of saw grass, spear grass, the brilliant reflections of water multiplying 'Its radiance, and connflcss L myriad! of wild fowl of maUy-colored jpluiuag, one may eougeivfs .of vlie, intensity of its scientific expression. Nor issfcho foliage without its positive value to the engineer or tho artist; As far as caH be seen, the pine means a table land over four feetcabo the

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the cypress stands in a shadow, and the manerrove and custard appie in aeepeia water. So, top, the wild honeysuckle 1 KaiiUieanoua aooam 1, -: textirle a linettesglbf tapage iracteusticl thesoil-M W. ney.t twAew. leammmesmem The Icio, Market. Worlds within themselves are the markets or mercados of Bio. Great are thev in extent, rich in variety, teemTOgnhtiGrest and loud in smew?- -We"' visitor will have no difficulty in hnduig these interesting places if he follows the dictates of his own organ of smell, for the odor of tne m'arkew is greater, and richer than all the other odora of the city, and can be detected asquare or so away. The market I would essay to tell you about, and the one that-often attracted meat times when I felt able to wade through the unpleasantness of the place, is situated on the bay shore, and has its docks for the fish and vegetable boats. You may have seen the French market in New Orleans. ' If you have, and aj gifted . with an imagination that can picture a similar place a little larger in size, many times more curious ' and crowded; twenty times more dirty, you may have a faint idea ei what tins mar ket may be like. In its area, which is abOTlt equal to that of an ordinary city square, .ara. comprised a greater assortment of things than could be dreamed of in a month.'. In sheds and stalls and stands aro- offered foi sale almost miff cellaneoua lot of merchandise, perish able and otherwise. Everything you could find in the North in hero, besides the infinite- variety of things the existence of which the peo-ple-df the North never had the faintest idea.- Next to a stall where is displayed a chaotic stock of notions and, "general store" goods, in many of which, we recognize the handiwork of the Yankee, we find a vegetable stand, where is offered for sale everything that grows' and possesses any value an food- the fruits sof the tropiote, pumpkins, sections of the edible palm-tree, mandicca and other vegetable looking things' that the Hoosier could not call by name. This 'edible' palm beats every thing in the food line I know of. We "see pieces of round, green, pithy wood two or three inches ih diameter and Ashtangas a stick, of cord wood, and can hardly be convinced that this should be an Article in the bill-of-fare of the natives, yet we are assured that it is a popular food among the poorer inhabitants. The palm-tree serves the natives manifold purposes. They build houses and roof theui with materials from the tree, they .make clohing and thread, tools, household'utensils, and I forget to what other uses they put the ree, besides gating the trunk.Next to the vegetable stall we'll find a crockery establishment. The bulk of this stock will be -seen to be water coolers, botttes, etc., of the Dutch porous ware, which is so well adapted, for use in the tropics. But of all the bewildering maze of things, animate and inanimate, tho poultry booths will hold most of the visitor's attention. The boxes of chickens, pigeons, ducks, etc., that are so familiar to our eye:i we pass with a glance, but the cages of canaries, finches, flamingoes, parrots, paroquets, cockatoos, and others of the plumed tribe, valued either for their musical ability, loquacity or plumage, retain our interest. Yon may say thai the latter-named arexjueer poultry. It does seem, funny jto see roosters and hens, that look so natural we could almost believe ourselves in the poultry department of an Indiana county fair and the rarest birds of the tropics sid? and side, but so we find it here. Amid the scores of birds, the species of whici I am ignorant, I found a sedate and sol emn toucan, with its preponderance? ol bill. We saw this same bird everj time- we visited the place, and we be came very familiar, so familiar in fact that the Major felt free to call hira "Doctor"- a name suggested by thr size of the bill. Will Wayward. Tiro Notable Graves. In secluded parts of Mount Olivet cemetery, far apart from each other, however, are graves containing the remains of two people once prominent in national events, but now apparently forgotten altogether. One is the grave of Mrs. Marie E. Surratfc, who was executed as one of the Abraham Lincoln conspirators, and the other is that of the famous Wirtz, the keeper of the much-dreaded Andersonville prison pen during the late war. Visitors to the cemetery, especially strangers, will find practically nothing to denote tho graves of these once well-known people. Wirtz is buried under a tall hickory tree, in which squirrels chatter and gambol. Tall, rank weeds and unkempt grass surround the spot, and the simple inscription, "Wirtz," on a tiny block of marble at the head of the grave, is the only thing to denote the resting place of a man once so famous in his peculiar way and so universally detested. Mrs. Surratt's grave is equally obscure. A rag&ad boxbush and a glass jar containing a. few withered vines were the oaly signs shown yesterday that even a memory of the unfortunate woman still survives. A small, plain headstone, bluntly inscribed: "Mrs. Mary E. Surratt," is all to indicate who the occupant of the grave was. There is neither date nor cause of -death 011 the headstone, and the lot containing graves of other members of the family is rank with weeks and banked with the faded leaves of autumn. Washington Pout A Timely Warning. An Austin Kinall boy was recently discovered purloining some apples from irii front of a grocery store. The proprietor gave chase,8 but failed to 6vevtake him, and was obliged to shgl?e his fist, and shout after him : " Never mind, my young kid, I'm' going up to see vour mother about this.'! "That's all "right," yelled back the small bov, "von just go right along up there. Pa filled a man full of bniSlSjhoi the other day for i?oinf to see my ma. and I reckon he's got another dose4aid away somewhere for you." Texas ift ings.

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Fattny FiF.in savs that to make duck . raising profitable they must be kept ioraiitiioy. are worth eggs, leather my fm bet Su- rsUitSari(Bmo.s.soaBfis W MkTVT iWm TMt VSi tS jiT hJRituaf. mSie from iarly Apples; it: will also keep much longer. A solution of hyposulphite of soda is recommended as an excellent remedy for chicken cholera. A teaspoon ful dropped carefully down a fowl's throat three times a day hardly' over faila.'lfb! effect a cure. A good sheep dip is made of twelve pounds of tobacco and six of flour of sulphur to fifty gallons Of water. To this some add a little concentrated lye, say a pound or two, and about the same quantity of arsenic. There is no better way of saving seed corn than the old-fashioned one of selecting the best ears-at husking time, or before the corn is cut, braiding the husks and hanging over a pole ,in the garret where the frost cannot come until the moisture has been thoroughly dried out. In 1&75 France had 639 beet-sugar -factories, which gave employment to po,i82 .persons, not including those employed in caring for the crop in the field. The product of these factories was 463,12a tons of sugar ana iyy,24 tons of molasses, the total value of which was $54,i25,7S7. REaABBrsio the plum enreulio Prof. Biley, the United - States Entomologist, says"! "I find nothing superior to the jarring process which was recommended yeara ago. I place no faith in tho repellant powers of strong-smelling substances, which we find repeatedly recommended in the agricultural press." Ovn tils onion bed an Ohio farmer managed . to have water stand during ,the winter months that he might . get rid or tne cricKec moie, wnicn nad greatly damaged his crop. The field was not only cleared of moles and other pests, but the ground itself was greatly improved and continued to improve each year under this treatment. It is underdrained and so arranged that .the water can be quickly drawn off. A correspondent of the Rural Neio Yorker, who has been experimenting in planting potatoes, large and small, cut and uncut, says he has never been able 'io detect any difference either in the yield or quality of potatoes raised from large or. small seed. But he: has in every, case noticed a marked difference in the results obtained from planting cut and nnent potatoes. This difference was invariably in favor of the former method. A lady living in Glendive, Montana, who, while on a farm in Ohio, had great experience in raising hogs, writes that worms in the intestines, or the parasites in the flesh known as trickuue, may be destroyed by giving the hogs wood ashes with their dry food or lye in their swill. She states that the parasites in swine are always accompanied with an overabundance of mucus, and that the quantity of it may be greatly reduced by feeding tin animals wood ashes or lye. A. C. Hammond reporWd to the Warsaw (111.) Horticultural Society that in this very unproductive season tho apple crop through the west has been largely ruined by ineects. Trees or orchards of Ben Davis have crops varying from .almost nothing to nearly the usual amount. This sort, however, takes the .lead in productiveness, the average being from one-third to half a crop. Willow. Twig, Jonathan, and Roman stem produce something. Many Standard winter sorts have failed almost entirely. Among the early ones, Bed Astrachan, Golden Sweet, and Sops of Wine have done best, the others yielding nothing. Many trees were killed by the cold winter of 1880 and 1881, Winesaps and Bawle's Janet suffering the worst. Among the insects are borers (both kinds) codling moth, canker worm, and curculio, which have badly injured the trees of fruit. All of this shows that to have good and profitable orchards, constant care is essential in avoiding these disasters, as well as in selecting the sorts which are most certain and reliable. Orchards will not take care of themselves, and they sometimes fail under the best management. " A sdbsckiber in Buchanan county, Missouri, writes : "Please name the latitude and State best adapted to the cultivation of wheat and clover. Is Northern Mississippi or Alabama well adapted to clover and wheat?" One can ask more questions of this kind in an hour than can be answered in a year. All the States north of the Ohio river are fairly adapted to the production of red and white clover, and portions of country where good crops of clover can be raised will generally produce fair crops of fall or spring-sown wheat. It is very difficult to determine which State will produce the largest yield of wheat per acre under the same management. The tables in the last census report give, the average yield of wheat per acre in each of the States and Territories. One is safe, however, in deciding that the State which shows the highest average is the best adapted to the production of wheat . or any other grain. According to the returns of the census-takers Maine sproduced the largest yield of corn of any State in the Union. Still a farmer ac; customed to raising corn in Missouri would scarcely "get his sack seed" if he planted and cultivated corn in Maine as he did in Missouri. According to the report of the Agricultural Department the largest jield of wheat per acre in 1882 was in Michigan.' It does not necessarily follow, however, that the soU and climate of this S.tate are better adapted to the production of wheat than those of several others. It is';entjrely safe, to state that Northern Mississippi and Alabama are well mhvpied to the production of either, clover or wheat.-CM0a0O Tillies." ' A Philadelphia paper saysi "It does, not seem ijo be so generally kuow.n in this country as it should be, thai the .production of mushrooms for ttfe'jifbJ vision, xnarkets of the conitaerciaLeities is an art capable of development ,00 a larger scaie, jusc tne same as me uuw vatin of - potatoes, asparagus, pniens", cabbages, "etc. But such- "ttife f$cifc, and what is of more consequence, ia the

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s, because they are not kxed with poisonous fungi, es are, by the carelessness ons employed to gatner ve known of some private he suburbs of Philadelphia abliwl the cultivation of mush rooms oh a limited scale for family use. I but they failed for want of perseverance I and practical knowledge of the business. I There cannot, however, be much doubt that tins art is, in a measure, as susceptible of extended development by American farmers and practical gardeners as most other crops known to our retail markets. The failure, however, on the part of so many 'perso&s in becoming expert growers of the mushroom in gardens and on farms 'las pro duced so much discouragement as to leave but few successful cultivators of the vegetable, and in September and Octobes wjpPinisnrooms are especi: t,iejfloftnd for the cultiva issuer npofi in snort, the on mconeaMlar in raising tl: perta, 1 reirMSi to orstves. all our attempts ftveeen fattffreff though we tried every reoommended method. Any farmer who pastures a few sheep in a fenced lot will in a short time, in the Ubregog4w$ favored : months, haves all . itae muenirons ne may ned lojf nis -T. 1PVKEEPER 'y Horseradish Vineotab. Ponx a nart of the &st vinegar oa three ounces of scraped horseradish, on ounce of minced shallots, one. dram ol cayenne; let if stand a .week. SpteadM relish for cold meats, salad or Hah." t Mikt Vesar. Fill a bottle witfc mint leave then fill up the bottle with good vinegar,--oork, 4ap aside for two weeks, pour offf clear into another bottle, keep wjell corked, serve with lamb when mintannqt be obtained. Hickoey or Walnut Laver Cake.. One cup of butter, two cups of sugar, J five eggs, one cup of milk, four cups ol . Hour, two teafipoontuls of bakmgxMwdeft Pttt layB toge&er.wlthcing naiUEedwith finery-chopped 'hickory or walnut meats. Use plain icing for top and Jay on it unbroken meats. Raisin Caee. Thjpee-qarteTs of a cup of butter, one-half cup of sweet milk, one and three-quarter cups of flour, yelks djf eight eggs$one and onehalf teaspoonfuls of baking powder. Bake in deep jelly tins. To put together, spread a thin coat of frosting on each layer, then one of chopped raisins, seeded, and another of frosting- " .: Artificial Oysters. Take yorijg green corn, grate it in a dish; to one pint of this add one egg well beaten; a small teacup of flour, half cup of butter, some salt and pepper and mix all well together. A tablespoonful of the batter will make the size of an oyster. Pi'v thorn a lio-ht brown, and when done bntter them ; cream, if it can be procured, is better than butter. Strawberry Cake. One cup of butter, two cups of sugar, three and one? half cups of flour, one cup of .milk, three teaspoonfuls of baking powder, whites of eight eggs. Into half the mixture turn one-half cup of red sugar, and flavor delicately with strawberry. Alternate the pink and white -layers, and put together with pink icing. It is nice with a thin coat of strawberry jam on each coat of icing. Or, bake as a marble cake, and frost with pink and , white mottled icing.' Delicious Laxer Cake. Make white cake, as for strawberry sake, but omit the red sugar and add one cup of dessicated cocoanut, and use no flavoring. Make icing, and into one-half put blanched and chopped sweet almonds. Put the first and second layers together with this almond icing; on tho next spread plain icing, and lay on that a layer of halved figs, then another coat of icing; for -the next use almonds, and so on. Frost the . top -of the .cake and stick almonds over it. . - To Bottle -Fruits. Burn a match in a bottle to exhaust all air, then place in the fruit to be preserved quite dry and without blemish, sprinkle sugar between each layer, cork and tie a bladder over, setting bottles, cork downwards, in a large vessel of cold water with bay between to prevent breaking. When the skin is just cracking take them out, immerse thin paper hi' gum water and while wet press-it over and around the top of the bottle; as it dries it will become quite firm and tight Fried Chicken or Veal. Beat the whites of two eggs to a stiff broth, add a small bit of butter or salad oil; a tablespoonful of flour, and a little lukewarm water; beat all together till it is of the consistency of very thick cream; cut the fowl or veal into small pieces, strew over it some chopped parsley, shallots, pepper, salt, and a little vinegar, let it lie until dinner time ; .dip the fowl or veil in the batter and fry it in boiling lard.a nice brown. This is a genuine family receipt, long practiced by our cook. Escalloped Potatoes. Escalloped potatoes are delicious for supper. Butter the bottom and sides of a tin basin; then slice and lay in a layer of cold boiled potatoes; sprinkle some pepper and salt aud little, lumps of butter over it ; then dust it with flour, and put another layer of potatoes, etc., until ycwi have prepared the requisite number ol potatoes. Over the top put a layer-ol cracker crumbs to the depth of half an itfe!; pour dver this a little more than ojieeup of sweet- milk cream if ya can get it. Set the basin in the oven, which should be moderately warm, and keep it there, with steady fire going for about half ah hour. ' . 1 Salt Lake. ' . The Mormons use Salt Lake solely as a bathing resort, and for that4 pur; pose it is dangerous, since it a person gets th intensely salt water into his mouth he will strangle qlokly4 Eight or 1;en people drown this way every year The lake is a most deflate and . isolated body of water,, ,No creature lives in it and no person lives near it. 1 1 1 )' f i '1 ! 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