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FaKM, GARDES, AVI) HOI SEHOLD.
Summer Drink,.
Sprixk Bf.f.r. —One gallon of water,
one quart <>f good molasses, one-fourth
ounee whole cloves, on".fourth ounce
white ginger-root, otic-half ounce whole
allspice, one-half ounde sassafras. Boil
all well. I boil mine three hours.
After taking it off tlie- fire pouri t into a
clean tub and add on.- and a half gallons
of water. Let this stand til! milk-warm,
:Inn add two tab;-' ;>oonfuls of baker’s
or brewer's yeast; then stand away in
the cellar or -<mw cool place during the
night, covering it. The next day it will
he fit for bottling. One or two raisins,
with a few holes punched in them with
a fork, placed in ' , ;i<li bottle add greatly
to ils flavor. Put it in strong bottles,
cork tightly, and tie down with twine.
S-1 in a cool cellar, and in three or four
days it will lie ripe.
A . know the torment of drinking
warm, brackish wate r. I have used the
following plan, which came under my
notice a je.ar or two -ince: I (.ought
half a dozen tin ruiik cans, holding four
gallons each, and covered them with
coarse, thick canvas, of a kind that
absorbs wate r easily, drawing the cloths
tightly around the can and sewing them
so they could not get off. At night the 1
cloths are dipped in a tub of water until
they are thoroughly saturated: they are
then filled with water and set where the
breeze will blow upon them, and in the
morning the water i- quite cold and re
mains so during the day if the cloths are
wet occasionally and the cans placed in
the shade where they are exposed to a
current of air. The men on going out to
work take as many cans of water as they
will need, and so have the luxury of
cool water to drink during the heat of
the day. Any kind, of coarse cloth will
and. to cover the cans—the thicker the
better- as they won’t need wetting so
often, but the cans must be kept closed
and the cloths wet to insure success.
Linger Ale.—Ginger ale will form an
e. ■ il. iit stimulating drink, and it can
he made as easily in the city as the coun
try. Procure four ounces of white gin
> r root and pound or bruise it thorough
ly. Mix with it three ounces of cream
• f tartar; t hen slice up-very finely eight
large lemons, after squeezing out all the
juice. I’our over the whole five gallons !
of boiling water, and stir into it five,
pounds of sugar. l,et it stand until milk i
warm; then put in a large slice, of dry
bread, and pour over it a cupful of liquid
yeast. Let it ferment for twelve hours,
covering the whole with a cloth if you
intend to bottle it; hut if it is made in a
L g, let it ferment through the bunghole
for sixteen hours and then close it ;
tizhtly, and in two days it will be ready
for use. It will foam like cream ale, 1
while its flavor will suit the most:
fastidious palate. Tt must he kept in an '
ice-house or the coldest of cellars or it
will become sour; hut that can be
remedied by adding a tablespoonful ot
sugar to each glass of beer. If bottled,
till the bottles only two-thirds full, and
fasten the corks with wire or twine. -
Don Patricia , in Farm and Fireside.
Orchard and Garden Notes.
A Michigan lady says that one tea
spoonful of kerosene to a gallon of water,
sprinkled on plants with a hand-broom,
destroys green ilies, currant worms and |
other pests, and has been used without
injury on fuchsias, geraniums, callas and
other plants.
M. i’>. Bateham advises to wash grape-|
vim s with a weak solution of carbolic
soap, :is helping to the work 1
ot steel blue beetle on the buds, and also I
as having a tendency to kill off the seeds |
or sprouts of mildew which exist on the
hark and buds of the vines during the
winter season. ■
But the hen coops under your fruit
trees, and the old hen with her chicks!
there, and every morning knock on the
t rees with a quick, hard rap, and the lit- 1
tie Turk will drop and chick will take
him.
Scatter under the fruit trees, say a
quail of salt to a lull-grown fruit tree,;
twice every woekoc two, until fruit is
nearly grown, and it will greatly prevent
the working and ravages of worms.
Look out for caterpillars. Take them i
early in the morning before the inmates 1
have waked up and destroy the nests.
feed I lie grapes, fruit trees, etc., if on
poorest soil, with manure, and they will
feed you.
Mr. J. B. Oleott mentions a successful
trial of changing the bearing year of a
large apple tree by pic king off the blos
soms—a day’s work of a titan, or $125.
Prof. Farrington, in a summary of the
experiments begun in 1870 by the Maine
Agricultural College to ascertain which
lias the greater value as food for swine,
cooked or uncooked meal, says: We
have, by an experiment which lias been
continued through from three to four
months of each of the nine years since
it* beginning, obtained evideneethut all
tlie money and labor expended in cook
ing meat tor swine is more than thrown
away.
ICemtMly for Diimii Walls.
So much sickness, too often fatal, re
sult-; front damp walls, that every pre
caution should he taken to remedy the
evil. Headers of Rural Life interested j
may he lumefited by heeding the follow
ing remedy from one who evidently j
knows whereof he affirms: Moisture j
may lie kept from a I Tick wall hy dis- !
solving three-quarters of a pound of j
mottled soap in one gallon of boiling
water, and spreading the hot solution j
steadily, with a large Hat brush, over the !
surface of the brickwork, taking care
that it does not lather. This is to be
allowed to dry for twenty-four hours,
when a solution formed of a quarter of a
pound of alum dissolved in two gallons
of water is to be applied in a similar
manner over the coating of soap. The
soap and alum mutually decompose each
other, and form an insoluble varnish
which the rain is unable to penetrate, j
The operation should performed in
dry. settled weather.®- Moore's Rural
Life.
Lrttuce liuiiniuK to St'edi
A German authority says that when
lettuce shows signs of running to seed,
if a knife he passed through one-half of
the stem of the shooting head, the plant
may be preserved good for an additional
week.
The best plan we have ever known
for preserving lettuce late, says the
Prairie Farmer , is to transplant twice,
once from the seed bed, pricking the
plants out four inches apart, and then
transplanting in the open ground Uxl
inches apart; as the rows begin to till
■ ut out one-half of the plants, and the
balance will form line largo heads, if the
ground l>e rich and moist, and they will
remain well into the summer.
Just Like a Man.
Mrs. Cligho went down to the Sand
wich Springs the other day with some
friends, and after she had departed her
husband looked around the house to see
what he could do to busy himself. The
front steps looked rather brown and lie
pulled oil his coat. 1 united up paint and
brush, and in an hour he had completed
as nice a job of painting as any house
wife would care to see. He had a right
to chuckle over it. and to imagine how
pleased his wife would lie; but no one
could tell what an hour may bring forth.
Even before she had opened the gate on
her return the wife got red in the face,
flourished her parasol around, and called
out:
*' You great byg idiot! Won’t you
never learn anything?”
“ Wh-whaJ's the matter now?” he
gasped.
"Matter! Why, I have invited a
dozen people to come in this evening.”
"Yes—well, can’t, they come?”
Can they ? Hasn't every blessed one
of them got to come in at the side door
ami see that sitting-room carpet all full
of holes, and the back hall all torn up?
Til die before I’ll let 'em, and if you
don't p’t soap-suds and a rag and take
that paint off I’ll hire it done!”
Mr. Cligho was- just an hour and a
‘ alf at the job, and when men went past
and asked him what he was doing, he
sottly replied that he was using soap
suds to exterminate red ants.— Detroit
Free Press.
The Fan She Bought.
• How much for that fan?” she in
quired. as she admiringly hold up an
i <e. mt specimen of breeze-dispensing
an iteeture.
" Twenty-eight dollars and a halt,
ma’am." smilingly observed the clerk.
" \nd this one?" holding up another
which was much larger and had more
wind power.
"Oh. that. Fourteen cents," not half
so smilingly.
" 1 11 take it, - ’ and she gazed longingly
ut tli • igh-prieed one as she slowly laid
the change on the counter, and carefully
counted the rest of her funds to be sm e
that she had a horse-car fareleft.— to
liartn Register.
THE CELESTIALS AT HOME.
Horrible Slffhti in a Chinese City—Misera
ble Wretches Dying in the Public
Squares.
Lying in an open space in the street
somewhat larger than the rest, we saw
four human beings in such a pitiful state
of disease it made me shudder; one fe
male with three males, almost nude, inca
pable of moving, covered with sores, in
sects and filth; they were dying slowly,
in fact were placed there to die, no one
with them to say a kind word; even the
passers-by only gave them a glance and
pa—ed on. A.-king tin- guide who these
unfortunates were, and why such inhu
manity was allowed, lie replied that they
were afflicted with an incurable disease,
and belonged to the “ Joss,” and it was
of no use, nor was it right to care for
them, as they would soon die and be
buried by the public*. Emaciated to a
frightful degree, they lay there ail un
conscious and indifferent, their eyes fixed
in a vacant stare, the stamp of death upon
their features; a day or less would end
their existence.
\\ e were now about fifteen minutes in
tin- place, and my friend said lie felt as if
lie wanted to go out. 1 felt much the
same; but having been informed that
to-day wis one of the few when a visit
to the jail was allowed, I braced up, and
conquering the feeling of nausea, went
with the guide through a number of
these wretched streets until, arriving at
a somewhat larger structure than tttose
in the immediate vi unity, we entered,
gaining the goodwill of an official by
the gift of a franc. Filth and stench,
as everywhere else, prevailed. The
sight of a criminal chained to an up
right stanchion that supported the
beams overhead at the enfrance to the
corridor, along which are several cells
with strong wooden doors and curious
Chinese locks, was pitiful. He was a
recaptured fugitive and was to be
taken three times a week to this stan
chion, tin- ground und'-r liis feet being
strewn with jagged stones, and broken
glass bottles, and on this compelled to
walk, probably with no food save what
relatives or friends brought him. The
gla>s and bottles, broken fine, did not
cur much, but to judge from the painful
expression on his squalid features he
; must have suffered considerable. In j
an adjoining cell four human beings
: were confined, carrying around their
necks hoards about two feet square,
which were clasped on them when first
brought up for punishment, and are not
removed until their terms expire. Brass
nails were driven through and protruded
at least an inch at the bottom, serving
to keep the shoulders of the poor men
raw with the pricking caused by the
i .slightest move. Holding out their thin,
trembling hands they beg for food. A
female was in the room, a sister of one
of the criminals, bringing, him food and
b,.thing his head and shoulders. I gave
. her a few silver pieces, and gave her to
understand, through the guide, that it
was to he used to procure food for her
brother and companions. These five
being all the inmates at the time, we
started for the purer air outside the
; walls.
Asa general thing, long terms of con
finement are customary in China; grave
offences are punished by decapitation,
theft in many eases being thus punished,
| lesser offences by punishment like those
just witnessed and flogging.
On our way out we passed that group
ot dying wretches in the open square,
and noticed that One of their number had
disappeared: lie expired a few minutes
after we passed, and was by this time
; tinder ground. Breathing the pure air
; again, and away from so much filth and
misery, I could not help 1>..-ing struck by
: the contrast of the fine buildings, the
i handsome equipages of the wealthy, and
the scenes of human misery and wreteli
j edness just witnessed. I found my friend,
| who had chosen to examine the more
agreeable curiosities, in the restaurant
of the Hotel de Colonies, in conversation
with its genial manager, Mr. Brown, a
Buhimorean of fifteen years ago. It is
i truly said that of the horrible Stenches
the stench.of a dirty Chinese city, with
its narrow streets, and its inhabitants,
numbering many thousands, is the most
j disagreeable.
Readers will please notice that the few
facts and incidents given are from the
dark side of Chinese life; they are not all
lof this one type and class. Although the
majority of them may lie rightly termed
a miserable, superstitious class of people,
the minority show to a decidedly better
[ advantage. They comprise merchants,
! mechanics, servants and followers of all
vocations. Tiiey dress more tastefully.
In fact, a Chinaman in good circuiii
| stances wears apparel consisting chiefly
! of silken and other rare materials, his
head and cue are always kept in apple
| pie order, and his features are of a more
, refined and agreeable east. Educated in
I tlie different branches of their native
| language, a great -number of them have
mastered the English, and read and write
|to perfection. They are shrewd in busi
| ness, and accumulate with rapidity.—
Ia ttcr from China.
A New Co-operative Experiment.
Necessity has always been the bright ;
mother of invention, writes Jennie June
fro ii New York to the Baltimore Ameri
can. and thus unpleasant circumstances
are not infrequently the parents of bril
liant ideas wlrich lead to the happiest re
sults. The other morning the inmates of
a'tirst-class boarding-house on one of the
fashionable side streets up town awoke
to find themselves minus a landlady
and breakfast. The house had been
taken furnished two weeks befoie, and
filled up with a very nice class of board
ers. Their bills had generally become
due on the night before, and had been
promptly paid. The landlady, thus in
possession of funds, summarily disap
peared, leaving nothing but a few un
paid meat and grocery expenses. A
council was held. The house was cool
and. pleasantly situated, the servants
were satisfactory. A progressive indi
vidual proposed to the other inmates
that they should all stay where they were,
divide the rent and sueli service as was
needed pro rata, and obtain their meals
of a caterer by contract at so much per
week.
This was anew idea to most of them,
hut it is not at all unknown to persons
living on flats or in “ rooms” without
kitchen privileges. A caterer was found
who. at an average of five dollars par
week per head, agreed to furnish two
meals, breakfast and dinner, every item
being supplied, down to the smallest
detail of relish or condiment. The ex
periment has worked, so far, admirably.
Five dollars per week in addition to the
live paid to the caterer by each person
provides for rent, gas and service, and
the supplies of food are sufficiently
abundant to leave plenty for lunch tor
those ladies or gentlemen who require
that meal artiome. The expenses, there
fore, are ten do]lais per week for each
individual, or twenty dollars for a mar
ried couple, and for this sum they have a
pleasant home on a fashionable street, a
ii b-rat t able, well cooked and well served,
without heat or trouble in the house, and
freedom from all responsibility. The only
item that seems to be left unprovided for
is incidental expenses, which arise in all
households, and the wear and tear of
furniture. But. of course, in the hire
of a furnished house the natural wear
and tear is counted in as part of the rent,
and. therefore, our co-operative friends
in this instance have onlv their own mis
haps to look out for, and tor these each
individually is held responsible.
Eastern and Western Story-Telling.
It is no use, says the Boston Transcript,
for an Eastern man to try to tell a big
story when there is a Western man
almut. “When I was a young man,”
said Colonel 8.. “we lived in Illinois.
The farm had been well wooded, and the
stumps were pretty thick But we put
the corn in among them and managed to
raise a fair crop. The next spason I
did niv share of the plowing. We had
a ’ sulky ’ plow, and I sat in the seat and
managed the horses, four as handsome
bays as ever man drew rein over. One
day I found a stump right in my way.
I liated to back out, so I just said a word
to the team, and, if you’li believe it, they
just walked that plow right through that
stump as though it had been cheese.”
Not a soul expressed surprise. But
MajorS.. who had been a quiet listener,
remarked quietly, “ It’s curious, but I
had a similar experience myself once.
Mv mother made our clothes in those
days, as well as the cloth they were
made of. The old lady was awful proud
of her homespun —said in was the strong
er doth in the State One day I had
' just plowed through a white oak stump
in the wav you speak of. colonel. But
it wa a little too quickfor me. It eaine
• together before I was out of the way.
and nipped the seat of my trousers. I
S telt mean. 1 tell you. but I put the string
; on the ponies, and, if you'll believe
ii, they just snaked that stump out. roots
| and all. Something had to give, you
1 know.”
PRINCE NAPOLEON’S TALISMAN.
HUtory of the Reliquary that the Zulu*
Left Be*l tie hie Body.
In the will of Xapoieon 111. occurs the
olio wing remarkable passage: “ With
regard to my son, let him kiep as a talis
man the seal I used to wear attached to
my watch, and wluch comes from mV
mother: let him carefully preserve
everything that comes to mt from the
Emperor, my uncle; and let him be con
vinced that"my heart and my soul re
main with him.” . The telegram from
Cape Town which announced the finding .
of the late ex-Prince Imperial contains
these words: “ The prince’s body wa= 1
found stripped of all clothing, hut had
not suffered any mutilation, and the re
liquary which he wore suspended by a
chain from his neck, together with his
watch and rings, which was found lying
near the spot where he fell.” ,
The “ talisman ” which the late Em
peror so solemnly enjoined to his son to
wear, which he did wear, and which re
turned to his mother from that wild
scene beside the Tombakala, is almost
i certainly the once famous charm of the
Charlemagne. It has a more interesting
1 story than any gem in Europe, if not in j
the world. In the course of studies for j
other purposes I have recently come j
upon legendary traces of this object.
La plus belle reliquede l’Europe,” as j
: a French antiquarian described it in the
last generation, was by one myth said to !
have been contrived by one of the Magi j
belonging to the court of Haroun-al-
Raschid, who came from the east to pay
homage to the great emperor of the west
along witli certain ambassadors. The
wife of Charlemagne, Fastrada, asked
the Magi for a talisman which would
always cause her husband to be fascin j
ated by its wearer, and this charm was j
framed at her instance. But another :
fable ascribed to it the following origin: j
While Charlemagne had his seat at
Zum Loch, near Zurich, administering
exaet justice to all, he had a column
fixed at his gates with a bell and a rope.
It was open to any one demanding jus
tice to sound this bell; and when tlie
emperor heard it, even though at his
meals, he would instantly answer the
summons. On one occasion this bell
was repeatedly rung without any per
son being found near it. At length an
enormous serpent was found twined
around tlie rope. The emperor hearing
this immediately went forth; tlie ser
pent inclined respectfully before him,
and then moved slowly off. Charle
magne followed it to tlie river, where
lie saw a monstrous toad sitting upon the
nest and eg. s of the serpent. Resolved
to administer justice to all creatures,
the emperor ordered the toad to be
burned.
A low days after this serpent crept
into tlie judgment hall, bowed low to
the emperor, crept upon the table, and
having dropped a precious stone into a
golden goblet, glided quietly away. The
emperor, impressed by this marvel, built
on the spot where the serpent’s nest
had been a church called “Wasser
keli-li.” He gave the precious stone to
his beloved spouse. Fastrada. Tlie stone
so drew toward her the emperor’s love
that be could hardlysuffer her out of his
sight. In the hour of her death the em
press. dreading lest another should suc
ceed her in the affections of the emperor,
placed the gem beneath her tongue, and
it was buried with her. Charlemagne
could not separate himself from tlie
body, and for eighteen years carried it
about with him. At length his confes
sor, by some black art, discovered the
stone and its virtues; after which Char
lemagne allowed the body to be in
terred, and transferred his affection to
the confessor, who became his prime
minister, archbishop of Mainz, and
chancellor of the empire. But then,
either in a moment of repentance or
anger, this individual threw the stone
into a lake near Ingetlium. Then the
affection of Charlemagne was diverted
from his former favorite to the lake, and
: he built beside it a palace, for whose
decoration his other imperial residences
were made bare. But when Charlemagne
| came to die his throes were long and
; violent; and the archbishop, knowing
the cause, had the lake dragged for the
gem he had thrown into it. The talis
man having been restored to the person
; of tlie monarch, he died peacefully (814).
The tomb of Charlemagne, at Aix-la-
Ciiapelle, was opened by Otto 111. in
997, and it is said that the wonderful
gem was found suspended from his neck.
However that may be, the gem had
been for .a long time the most valued re
lic in Aix-la-Chapelle when it was pre
sented by that city to Napoleon I. It
was at a moment when he seemed to
many, pre-eminently to himself, an ava
tar of Charlemagne. Napoleon presented
it to his favorite Hortense, ci-devant
Queen of Holland. At her death, in
1837, it passed to her son, Napoleon 111.
It shared his imprisonment at riam and
accompanied him through alibis vicissi
tudes.
In the course ot its long history the
?recious stone has undergone evolutions.
'he nut-like stone constituting its basis
is surrounded by antique filigree of fine
gold, and is set with various gems.
There are several relics about it.
It is open to speculation how far the
young ex-prince was influenced by this
talisman. That which his father wor
at his watch chain the son wore sus
pended upon his breast, as Catholics
wear the most sacred reliquaries in
whose protective virtues they believe.
'The strange mystical addresses to the
Deity found among this youth’s papers
reveal a degree of superstition about
himself which amounts to a psychologi
cal phenomenon. At the seat of war, in
Africa, hodisplayed a recklessness which
has led some to believe that his desire to
do “ something to get himself talked
about ” (words reported from him by his
intimate friend M. Amigues) amounted
to insanity, while others believe that he
sought death. But it is possible that a
natural rashness of disposition, and the
tradition that a Napoleon must begin
with a military halo, were turned to
fatal forces by secret faith in the potency
of this talisman. —Moncure D. Conway , in
Harper's Weekly.
Area and Population of Texas.
Texas has a vast domain. Between
the Sabine rivet on the east, the Red
river on the West, and the 400 miles of
coast line on the south you inclose 274,-
000 square miles, or over 175,000,000 acres
of territory. This one State is larger
than tlip Kingdom of great Britain, larger
than France, and larger than the German
Empire. You could carve out of Texas
thirty-five States as large as Massachu
setts, or nearly six as large as New York.
Place the six New England States on
Texas, and you have covered but little
more than one-fourth of the Great State.
Add all the Middle States and still you
have covered only about two-thirds.
Not till you have combined Maryland,
Virginia and Ohio with the Middle and
New England States, do you equal the
immense area of Texas.
And this “ lone star” is not so lonely
as some may imagine. It already has a
population of 2.000,000, and the mar
velous immigration now pouring into,
the State increases the number at the
rate of 300,000 a year. These new set
tlers are mostly from the Northern States
and from Europe. Well, let them come—
“ Uncle Sam is rich enough
To bay us all alarm.”
You could gather the entire popula
tion of the United States into Texas,
and not have it more crowded than some
parts of our land are now. —Troy Times.
Color-Blindness.
Color-blindness, says an exchange, has i
been much talked about of late, and its
existence has been conclusively proved, i
Out of a large number of railroad men
employed on the roads converging at j
Philadelphia, who were examined by
Dr. Keyser, of the Pennsylvania Medical j
Society, 34 per cent, mistook colors one
for the other, and ß4 per cent, were inca
pable of distinguishing shades of colors.
Prof. Wilson, of Edinburgh, found that
one person in twenty, or five per cent,
if those examined, was color-blind. In
: Switzerland. 171 railroad employees out
of 7,953 were discharged for color-blind
ness. and on the Paris and Lyons railroad
ten per cent, were affected in the same
way. The Marine Hospital Service has
recently issued a circular, with the ap
proval of the Secretary of the Treasury,
offering to examine seamen at all ports
where officers of the service are station
ed. without expense to the seamen or the
masters of vessels. The examination
covers all physical defects, including
those of vision, and certificates of fitness
or rejection will be given, and a record
of all examinations will be placed on
file with the Surgeon-General of the
Marine Hospital Service at Washington.
Dr. B. Joy Jeffries, of Boston. wli ap
peared before the railroad committee of
the Massachusetts Legislature last win
ter. and testified as to the prevalence and
danger of color-blindness, has made one
convert, the Boston and Hingham Steam
boat'jCompanT, whose employees he has
! lately examined for celor-blindness.
TIMELY TOPICS.
Prof. Beneke, of Marburg, Germa.ny,
after measurine 970 human hearts, sa. vs
that the growth of that organ is greatei ;t
in tlie first and second years of life. A t
the end of tlie second year it is double in
size, and during the next five years is
again doubled its growtli is much
slower, though from the fifteenth to the
twentieth year its siae increases by two
thirds. Avery slight growtli is then ob
served up to fifty, when it gradually
diminishes. Except in childhood, men’s
hearts are decidedly larger than those of
women.
A French minister of finance has a
good word for toads, nudes and birds.
For toads because they live entirelv on
insect food, and are entirely harmless;
for moles because they live on grubs,
larva?, palmer worms and insects injuri
ous tc agriculture, it having been pret
ty well demonstrated that the true mole
does not eat vegetable food. Of birds he
says: Each department looses several
millions annually through insects. Birds
are the only enemies able to contend
against them vigorously. They are tlie
great caterpillar killers and agricultural
assistants.
The Americans endeavor to combine
strength with lightness,” says the Lon
don Economist, “ while we look only to
strength; notice the locomotive and cars,
American implements and tools, which
have beautiful finish and lightness, and
are more convenient than ours. Take
American and English scythes, as an in
stance. I find that the American weighs
a little over two pounds, and having a
good curve and polish under the suriace,
are handier ana cut easier and closer
than tlie English, which weigh nearly
five pounds, and are broad, straight and
rough, just as the hammer leaves them.”
A Paris correspondent tells a strange
story of the Zulu war. In 1863 Captain
Lambert, of the Fourth Yoltigeurs of the
French Imperial guard, was caught cheat
ing at cards and was expelled from his
regiment. He decided to drown him
self, but his godfather convinced him
that it would be better try* his fortune in
foreign lands. So he went to the Cape of
Good Hope, learned the native dialects
and became a purveyor of ammunition
to the Zuius, and afterward obtained a
commission in tlie Zulu army, of which
lie finally became commander-in-chief.
He died in tlie service, but it is said that
to him the Zulus owe their knowledge ot
military tactics.
In St. Petersburg more than six hun
dred persons of tlie noble or privileged
classes are under arrest to be deported to
Siberia without trial. In one of tlie tem
porary governor-generalships in _ the
soutli of tlie empire (Odes’sa) sixty
privileged persons have been already
sent to Siberia without trial, and two
hundred persons of this class are under
arrest to be judged. So great is the num
ber of persons of this category to be ex
iled that a practical difficulty is said to
have arisen in connection with their de
portation. A nobleor privileged person,
who has not been judicially sentenced,
when sent to Siberia, by the orders of
tlie Third Section, or Secret Police, must
be escorted by two gendarmes, it being
the laws to manacle a privileged
person who is uneondemned. It appears
that there are not gendarmes enough
thus to escort the number of persons to
be deported, and the Ministry of Secret
Police has proposed to get rid of this
difficulty by sending the"privileged per
sons fettered like ordinary_ criminals.
On tire other hand, the officials are op
posed to any such course.
The bullion produced in the West
during the first six months of the current
year gives some basis for estimating the
gold and silver product of the year. A
correspondent of the Chicago Times
from San Francisco places the gold pro
duct of the Pacific coast at $32,000,000,
and the silver product in Nevada, Colo
rado and elsewhere at .$35,000,000. This
aggregate, which is about two-thirds
the bullion product of the country in
1877, and the smallest since 1873, agrees
with current reports in regard to the
working of mines in California and
Nevada. It is possible that the open
ing of the Sutro tunnel in tlie Comstock
lode may materially increase tlie silver
bullion out-put at Virginia City; but,
excluding this contingency, there is
every reason to expect the small yield
estimated. A similar falling off in the
production of gold and silver is ap
parent in South* America, Russia and
Australia, and it is not probable that
the total bullion product tlie world over
will be much if any over $145,000,000,
against $200,000,000* a tew years since,
the reduction being almost wholly in
the production of silver.
The Giant Cacti ol Arizona.
A writer in the Philadelphia Times , j
describing a trip through Arizona, says: ,
We soon entered the land of giant |
cacti. I was never more surprised than
at seeing the wonderful development of
this plant in this region. I am satisfied
that nowhere in the world is such size
attained. The species called Swatara
grows to the enormous height of sixty
feet, and measures six feet in diameter.
There are tens of thousands of this
species. Most of them will measure from
eight inches to two feet in diameter and
reach a height of twenty to thirty feet.
Some have no limbs, and resemble a
high post; others have from one to three
arms. They seem to stand on the top of
the sand, with scarcely any root, and
must receive their nutrition largely from
the atmosphere. They are capped with a
beautiful flower, and later with fruit. Tlia
Indians remove the fruit with a long
spiked pole, and use it in large quanti
ties. The center of this cactus is pierced
with a hard, tough rod, which supports
it in times of storm. So firm is this sup
port that one is seldom found broken or
blown to the earth. W lien in a state, of
decay you can extract the centre, which
resembles more than anything else a fish
ing-rod.
There are fifteen or twenty different
species of eacei growing in this region.
The pole cactus grows much like a large
corn-stalk. Each year’s growth is indi
cated by a joint, and a rich, tenacious
gum exudes from the surface, causing it
to burn like pine when it is entirely
green. There are two varieties of what
Is called the bulb. These grow in the
form of a hall and nearly the size of a
pint cup. One variety is armed with
thorns half an inch in length, the other
with a different kind of thorn, much re
sembling a porcupine’s quill. These
thorns are as sharp as needles, and re
quire but little pressure to penetrate
their entire length into the foot of a man
or the hoof of a horse. The variety hav
ing the short tlioi ns bears a red-colored
fruit, about the size of a small peach; it
is very sweet, and the juice flows from a
gold pen as beautiful red ink. There is
another species which bears a different
kind of fruit, resembling a cucumber
about two-thirds matured. The pulp is
of the consistency of the banana, but
much sweeter, and very full of black, flat
seeds, the size of a dime. As far as I
have been able to ascertain there are
three kinds of fruit growing on as many
! different species of cacti in this desert
I land. Another kind, prized -more than
; all the rest hy the Indians, very much
i resembles our century plant. The wild
! Apaches have for ages depended largely
j 011 this for sustenance. They boil the
: root, make it into mush and thus eat it.
| and from the rest of the plant make a
' sour drink, which they greatly enjoy
A Leap for Life.
While a laborer was engaged in man
aging a large wooden box used for hoist
ing brick at the stacks being erected at
the Paxton furnaces, near Harrisburg, 1
Pa., he met with an escape in a perilous
situation that peihaps never occurred
before under similar circumstances. A
load of brick had been delivered to the
top of the stack, then at the height of
one hundred and forty feet, and the
laborer in question was standing on the
edge of this wall rising to this immense
altitude, guiding the ascending buek°t
to keep it in the center of the stack. In
doing this he had to lean forward to
catch the rope, thus poising himself over
the fearful chasm. In this position,
when the box had descended about
twenty feet, the man lost his hold of the
rope while still bending forward. It
was a moment of terrible peril and
awful horror, in wliich presence of mind
alone saved him.' The man instantly
jumped into the box. and thus descend??
with lightning velocity to the earth be
neath, "the box. when it touched the
ground, rebounding with great force.
The effect was-tremendous, jarring the
man severely, but .singular to say, not
doing him anv serious uyury. But what
an escape! Had the man fallen and
even caught an outside hold of the bo A,
lie would have been either torn to
pieces in swagging against the wall,'or
crushed beneath the heavy box when it
reached the ground.
rtSISE THOMPSON * C -----
< THOMPSON 8c HEINDEL,
CONTRACTORS AND BUILDERS
MANUFACTURERS OF
Doors, Sash, Blinds, Holdings, Brackets,
Newels, mantles, balusters,
STAIR RAILS, DOOR and WINDOW FRAMES,
DEALERS IN )
Dressed and Undressed LUMBER.
BILLS OF LUMBER CUT TO ORDER AT SHORT NOTICE. '
Dressed Lumber Always on Hand. Laths and Shingles.
Placing Mill and Lumber Yard, Hale Street, near Central Bailroad Yard.
r Office and Wt.rerooma, 43 Jackson Btreet, ATOffSTA. GA.
GREAT REDUCTION I
Watches, Clocks, Jewelry, Silver ai piaiei m
COMPLETE STOCK IN THE CITY, COMPRISING ALL LINES OF
FIRST-CLASS JEWELRY STORE I
Is now being offered at GRE ATLY REDUCED PRICES IOR CASH, with a view to .•mo,
PRICES? 80 mveßtmtnt ' Mo3t of the gooda are new bud desirable, and BoUGHTAT HARdStm!
SPECTACLES and EYE-GLASSES, GUNS, PISTOLS,CUTLERY
Table-ware, Musical Instruments, Fine Violins, Etc. *
BA Mr. N W. T. STARK will assist in sales, and gladly welcome all hi* friends and sell them
„ REPAIRING ! Watches nicely adjusted at Lowest Prices. Guns and Pistole Renal
Pebbles ana Glasses fitted to old Spectacle Frames. Tinort
v . , CAIjXj ANT.T) BEE.
Yours, very iruly,
W. A. TAL MADGE,
College Avenue, Opposite Pcatoffice, ATHENS. CA.
A. K. CHILDS. R. NICKERSON. y H WINR
CHILDS, NICKERSON * CO.,
No. 15 Franklin House Building, Athens, Ga.,
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALERS IN
HARDWARE,
Iron, Steel, Nails, Horse and Mule Shoes, Horse Shoe Nails,
AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS,
LEADS, OILS, GLASS and VARNISH. HARNESS LEATHER,
MILLBTJRN WAGONS,
COTTON, MANILLA AND JUTE ROPE,
Carriage and Saddlery Hardware, Felloes, Hubs, Spokes, Buggy Wheels, Axle, Sprhurs etc. Rubber and
Leather Belting, Mill Saws, Mill Findings, Anvils, Bellows, Vices, Hollow Ware, eic.
Manufacturers’ Agents for the sale of
FAIUBAKTKS’ STAKTEARD EiCAEES.
Cider Mills, Syrup Mills and Evaporators, Watt Plot's, Farmers’ Friend Plow, Fum; s,C r'tuiar
Saw3, Winsbips’ & Sawyers’ Celebrated Cotton Gin.
Also Agents for HALL’S AND MASSEY’S FIRE AND BURGLAR PliO F S.V’ iS.
tF“ Any article in our line not in stock, will bo ordered when desired, wild the e.i t .or ilodi l.j.
Call nnd Kxiunlns our Stock umt I’rlrn.
PERKINS 81 BROTHER,
MANUFACTURERS OF
I
Doors, Sash and Blinds,
Mouldings, Window and Door Frames,
STAIR RAILING, BALUSTERS, NEWEL-POSTS, BRACKETS, &c.
Lumber, Laths and Shingles.
We have on hand a large stock of the above goods which we are selling at the LOWEST
CASH PRICES. Send for Price List. All orders promptly attended to.
OFFICE, LUMBER YARD AND PLANING MILL ON
Calhoun St., below Central R. K. Depot, Augusta, Ga.
MARBLE, MARBLE.
Great nLeduction in .'Prioos!
OF
MONUMENTS and TOMBSTONES!
And the work still maintained to tlie highest state ot perfection. Call and get my prices
and be convinced that you are dealing with a fair and square man. Designs and prices at my
Yard. Specimens of work on hand for sale. A. R. ROBERTSON,
Sculptor and Monumental Builder, Athens, Ga
13/- MARBLE YARD on the corner of Thomas and Market Streets.
NOTICE.
THE undersigned gives notice that
notwithstanding be is engaged
in the PRACTICE O.' DENTISTRY,
in which he is prepared to do all
kinds ot work, he also keeps up his JEWELRY
ESTABLISHMENT as heretofore, and will do all
manner of work in both professions, at most reason
able rates; and guarantees perfect satisfaction or
money refunded. Will also furnish any article in
the Jewelry at as low rate as the same can be
purchased er here.
My Dental 4 Girons will be attended at their homes
when desired, siren notification by mail or other
wise is given mt
B. CHEDEL,
Bu mnnnm The hs,bit ° f nsin
■ HI. IYUULiiuI 0 Morphine, Gum Opium
Painless American Laudanum or Elixir of
oj- -j- -rj tvt Opium, cured painlessly
_.. _ _ by tbi* improved remedy.
(.UKfc., Manufactured atAtlan-
OE ta, at reduced Prices.
ANTIDOTE, Tested in hundreds of
cases. Guaranteed Cir
.icniars free. Address B. M. WOOLLEY, At
lanta, Ga. OCace, 25 Whitehall Bt.. up-stairs.
JOS. N. WORLEY.
Attorney and Counselor at Lav,
ELBERTON, GA.,
Will practice in the counties of Franklin, Ogle
thorpe, Elbert, Hart, and the adjoining conn
ties.
xdevcto-s
CHEMICALS,
GLASS, CHEAP SOAP,
AND EVERYTHING IN THE
DRUG LINE
FOB SALE CHEAP.
ONLY TRY US ONCE.
MR. HOWARD EDWARDS,
Of Oglethorpe County, is still with us, and
will be glad to see and wait on all his old
friends, and will see that they get
Good Goods at Low Prices,
R. T. BRUMBY & GO.,
COLLEGE AVE„ ATHENS, GA.
WHITSUN U. JUHH3UN,
ATTORNEY and COUNSELOR AT LAW,
LEXINGTON, GA.
Will practice in the Counties of Oglethorpe,
Clarke, Madison, Elbert, Wilkes and Talliferro, and
In the Supreme Court of Georgia.
Reduction o! Passenger Fares
COMMENCING SEPT. Ist, IS7B,
THE GEORGIA RAILROAD
Will sell straight and excursion tickets between
all stations on the main lice and branches. in
eluding the Macon and Aogu.~ta F.ii’road, at
GREATLY REDUCED BATES.
Straight ,icl)e\-t &t four cents per mile.
Excursion tickets at six teats per mile (good
for ten aayr)
Minimum frr etraigh* tickets, ten cents: ox
elusion ticsete. twe.-tv cen's.
lo secure the advantages of the reduced
rates, tickets most te perena-,d fr.m the sta
tic n agents of me C.j rn.au; . C inductor- are
not allowsu to charge ie- < thru the regular
tariff rates of ve cems per mi: .
Excursion tickets will be good to rdnrn tea
(lavs, from and incindmg me i.'-.te o' issue.
No’lay-tver priv:'eg e allowed t > these tickets,
nor will any be granted. Neither wdl an ex
tension of time be gr* ited. Ph* O.'.utpany r -
serves the right to change oren • -'y abrog *
here rate, at pler ne an i without uotica
E. B. DORSEY. Gen. Pas*. Agent
, PRACTICAL
WATCHMAKERS JEWELER.
A. EVANS,
Having returned from his visit to Earope, begs
leave to inform the people of Oglethorpe end
surrounding oounties that he oan be found at
his new stand,
In the Store of T. Flemings Son,
Oomer Deupree Block, Athens, (la., prepared
to do all kinds of work in his line. All work
warranted.
Prioes oheap as the cheapest
Yours truly, A. EVANS.
McWhorter bros.,
Attorneys and Counselors at Law
So,
Will practice in all the Courts—State and
Federal ■
T. A. ILER,
Practical ffatetaaker and Jeweler,
Snead* a Shoe Store , Athens, Cl a.
All kinds of Repairing done in the mauner
and warranted to give a-ttUlactiou.
NEWTC.'I HOUSE,
Atheiin, Georgia.
Ratos s2*oo ?or Day*
A. 1> CLIN'AKD Proprietor.
FONYER & KENNIBREW,
Attorneys & Counselors at Lav.
LEXINGTON and CRAWFORD, GA.
Will promptly attend to all business en
trusted to their care.
DR. ULMER‘B
Liver Corrector,
TRADE
MAR*
OR. VEGETABLE APERIENT.
For D teases arising from s
018011MHEI) STATE OF
the liver.
SUCH AN
D^P^- a ’,9 b * t^ ct;on * of the Stone in th
Gall Biadder. Dropsy, Jaundice, Acid Stomach.
Constipation of the Bowel". &j c k H adacne.
Diarrhea and Dysentery, Enlarged Spleen,
fever and Ague, Eruptive and Cutaneous
Diseases, such as Bt. Anthony*- Fire,
Pimpl„s, Postnle. and
Female We.knea.ea, AStc
tlnos of the Kidney, and Blad.ier,
****** and many other disorders
caused from the derangement
of the Liver.
This preparation, composed ts it ;* c f some of tbs
mot valuable a.terative* known, is invaluable for
J* 1 * tOQe of the system
debilitated by disease. Some of our best pbysiciaot
wh*. are laoii.ta with the composition of this medi
cine attest its virtu*s and prescribe it. It )e a pleas
ant cordial. *
•UE**illa. By
B. F. ULMER,
SAVA NAH, GA.
, t s ,e D °; ir : ‘ r ■*■* by <i. w. S--tb ,rd
J. T M. Hairr.L-xingt.,.,, M B. r.„.„ 1I Cr..f,
and Druggists generally.
Forcing: a Murderer to Eat.
Francesco Porcello, an Italian, had
been working in a New York confection
ery factory, and was discharged when
work became slack._ When he ag.anap
plied for work. Michael Bolenaer, the
foreman refused to give him any. Por
cello then obtained a knife, waited for
Bolender, and, as he was coming out of
the factory, stabbed him to the heart.
Porcello was captured after a desperate
resistance, and tried twice to kill himself
in his cell. He resolutely refused for
•three days to let meat or drink pass his
lips. He had sworn on entering the pri
son to starve himself, and was fulfilling
his oath. A priest’s visit in no way
changed his mood. Soon after dawn of
the third day two fellow-prisoners were
introduced into his cell, and the prison
er’s arms, now weak and flaccid, were
passed under theirs and the three were
brought into the corridor to walk up and
down for an hour. Porcello could scarce
ly put one foot before the other. His
head joggled from side to side.
“If we can make him walk briskly,”
said Warden Finn, “ we shall certainly
give him an appetite.” But the prisoner
either could not, or would not, bestir
himself. He looked helplessly, even piti
fully about him, without a trace of
bravado in his manner. At length the
warden thought it better to send for Dr.
William L. Hardy, the city physician,
who promptly decided that strong meas
ures must be taken. A file of keepers
entered Porcello’s cell, pinioned him to
the bed and brought a stomach pump
into play. By this means a quart of
milk and four ounces of whisky were ad
ministered to the patient, who struggled
with such strength as was left him,
spluttered, gasped, and, when the pro
cess was over, made the walls echo with
his bellowing. Dr. Hardy then said:
“ Henceforth, my friend, I advise you to
eat your meals voluntarily. Else we
shall be obliged to use force again.”
Porcello made no reply. Probably he
had not understood. In any case he was
thoroughly cowed. He turned on liis
side and kept silence.
The Way of the Transgressor.
John H. Morton, the young man who
wns shot and killed in a gambling house
in Louisville, Ky., was the oldest son of
a prominent banker of Louisville, and
his downward career Is is been the source
of the bitterest grief to a most estimable
family. When a boy of nineteen or
twenty he fell into evil ways, and, in a
quarrel about a woman, shot and killed
a gambler named Powers. Young Mor
ton claimed that the shooting was done
in self-defence, but he was sentenced to
two years’ confinement in the peniten
tiary. Before being sent to Frankfort,
however, he was pardoned by the gov
ernor.
For a time he conducted himself ex
cellently. A position on a railroad was
obtained for him, and, stationed in a re
mote part of the State, he was removed
from all evil associations. Returning to
Louisville, however, the old temptations
were too strong to be resisted, and lie
plunged into excesses more disgraceful
than before. For several'years his com
panions were the worst characters in the
city, his parents meanwhile exhausting
every effort to reclaim him. Lately lie
became the proprietor of a common gam
bling house. On the night of liis death
a drunken cigarmaker named Rohman
entered Morton’s establishment, but was
not permitted to play. He called Mor
ton into another room, where they were
alone, and shot him three times, the last
shot striking Morton in the head as he
was attempting to escape through the
window. His lileless body fell to the
pavement below.
Weather Pains.
A captain in the United States army
who has been drilled in methodical
ways, has for five years kept an accurate
hourly record of the influence of the
weather upon a neuralgic affection of the
foot. It is somewhat amusing to read
that “the best yield of pain is in Janu
ary, February and March, and the poor
est in July, August and September.”
The average duration ot the attacks in
the winter months was twenty hours.
He further ob erved that storms coming
up from the Pacific coast were felt
farthest off and were accompanied by
greater severity of pains than Atlantic
storms —the name Pacific being inappro
priate to these storms in as much as it
means mild. One of the most interest
ing results of these observations is stated
in these words: “ Every storm, as it
sweeps across the continent, consists of
a vast rain area, at the center of which
is a moving space of great barometric
depression, known as the storm center,
along which the storm moves like a
bead on a thread. The rain usually
precedes this by 550 to 600 miles, but
before and around the rain lies a belt
which may be called the neuralgic mar
gin of the storm, and which precedes the
rain about 150 miles. This fact is very
deceptive, because the sufferer may be
on the far edge of the storm basin of
barmometric depression, and see nothing
of the rain, yet have pain due to the
storm.”
There was a moment's lull in the de
bate, and then a member known as
“Old Reliable” spoke up: “Why, down
to Arizona, when I lived thar, it was so
hot that they used to have to splice two
thermometers together so’s to get any
idea of the heat, and even then the quick
silver would spurt over the top one
sometimes.”
Malaria Ultarmed ot Its Terror..
Malaria, that lell atmospheric poison, is ala
armed of its terrors, and health insured to
thousands residing where the noxious exhala
tion periodically infects the air, and engenders
intermittent and remittent levers, by Hostet
ter’s Stomach Bitters, the most popular, as it
is the best of preventives, alteratives and
tonics. In numberless localities, where the de
mand for sulphate of quinine was formerly im
mense, the hurtful alkaloid has been almost
entirely supplanted by this safe, agreeable nnd
effective substitute, which is genial in action
and unobjectionable in flavor. It nullifies the
influence of miasma by giving a more action
impulse to every vital function, quickening
and enriching the blood, overcoming a ten
dency to biliousness, and promoting digestion.
A First-Class Institution.
The Wesleyan Academy at Wilbraham,
Mass., is one of tho oldest and most popular
institutions in the country. Its buildings,
grounds, facilities lor instruction, and all its
other appointments are among the finest in the
world. Few institutions can boast of such a
long history of educational efficiency. G. M.
Steele, D. D., lor many years president ol
Lawrence University in Wisconsin, lias just
been elected Principal and the Faculty has
been reorganized. TTie payment of $l6O will
secure one year’s tuition, with board, includ
ing a limited amount ot washing, room heated
by steam and other incidentals. The payment
of $57 to S6O will secure the same for one
term of thirteen weeks.
To develop healthy aud harmonious action
among the organs of secretion, digestion nnd
evacuation, take Dr. Mott’s Vegetable Liver
Pills, which healthfully stimulate the liver,
give tone and regularity to the .iver, counter
act a tendency U> costivenes, and purily tho
blood. Theii cathartic action is unaccom
panied by griping and is never violent and
abrupt, but always gradual and natural. These
pills are of the greatest assistance in overcom
ing scrofulous tumors and eruptive maladies.
Sold by all druggists.
Sore throat, cough, cold and similer troubles,
if suffered tto progress, result in serious pul
monary affections, oftentimes incurable.
“• Brown’s Bronchial Troches ” reach directly
the seat ot the disease, and give almost in
stant relief
A college prolessor onee said that “ he who
expects to rate high in his class must not ex
pectorate on the floor.” Much of the hawking
and spitting was, no doubt, caused by cetarrh,
which the professor knew could be readily
cured by the use of a lew bottles of Dr. Sage’s
Catarrh Remeky.
Not lowest priced, poorest and dearest; hut
highest priced, best anp cheapest; this is whar
is claimed for the Mason & Hamlin Cabinet
Organs.
chew uaekson’s Best Sweet Navy Tobacco
BONDSFORSALE.I^X’L^'Tewn
of Wabashaw, Minn. First-class interest semi
annually, and paid promptly. Price, fMI cents on the
dollar and accrued interest. Full particulars furnish* f
on application to C. LIVINGSTON, dealer in 8 and HI
per cent. Municipal Securities, St. Paul, Mimm.
A Dti VfllT ASUBJTECTjof Gen-rai Nervous
iUVri IUU Debility in any foTn* IdcXnit Free
upon receipt of stamp. M*iicin* warranted to efifec.
radical cure in four tree*#, postpaid. 52 Send careful spite
ment of * ase. Address P. O. Box 2574 f Boston, Ma.*s
MAPLEWOOD INSTTfUTE
Location unrivaled. Collegiate and colic/e preparatory
courses. Revs.C. V. Spear and R. K. Aver . r -TtCipai.
...TaMOMTII-AxentsWaiit*a-;W ben
fikQßfl sellinf articles intoe world; cue sample tree
° W Address JAY BRONSON. Detroit Mich.
BOOK FREE! Woman. "a<l fires* wito
stamp. MEDICAL DISPK.VSATOKY. Battle Crog.Ml.-fc
P’OCKET DICTIONARY, *0,090 Words and
Dr. Foote’s Health Monthly, one year, BOc
Mimes PrTl. Cos IW F- 'iSlr *t.Sv Yor*
n|a PAY.—With Stood 1 Ontflts. What cotta 1
UI eta. sells rapidly for 50 eta. Cat*:ogue free.
DIU S. if. SnticcsE. i IM WaaVn St.. Boston. M eg_
Alillltl Habit A Skin Diseases. Tho’j
■li I |U| sands ‘-ire : ... Do ur ’. .
UrlU In to write. Dr. F. K. Marsh. Quincy. Mich
Sknill TO F.. RICH A CO., Portlsni
Vis Ml 1 Maine, for test ArrfKJ liuaine.-s in tb
Wwll wM Workl. Exie-ns.ve Outllt Free.
BR Sops relief s ovinf I
KIPPERS ? ll!! oixf. StovreD A Cos
iMrir.it jmtu Maas.
There are prl>ably n majority of the
human ra.e suffprinc from kidney complaint*. They
bhow themselves in almost protean shapes, hut always
to the injury of the patie nt.* They cause indescribable
agony. The experience of thirty years shows that the
best remedy for this class of diseases is
Tarrant’s Seltzer Aperient.
Its properties are diuretic, which are spe:.ally adapted
for such cures.
SOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS.
uniMnuirnEß
At Flushing, L. I.
WK SHALL SELL AT AUCTION UPON OU*
GROUNDS. ON
TUESDAY, AUGUST 19th,
Commencing at 10.30 A M.. and continuing the fol
lowing days until sold, the whole of the large stock of
TREES, SHRUBS and PLANTS
Now upon our Nursery Grounds and in our Green
houses, including Camellias. Chinese Azalea*. Ko*e*.
Flowering Shrub* in great variety. Rhododendrons,
Forest Trees of young and thrifty growth, and the Rare
as well as the older Conifers. Sale will commence with
the Camellias and Azaleas. Catalogues wil. in due sea
son be mailed on receipt of postage. Sale positive.
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