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B.—A* a guarantee that every one will receive all they pay for. we will send <ne sample book and organ by express C. O. D„ $100; two for $1 60; three, *2.30, or more at the rate of $9 per dozen. AVe ran- rot prepay goods sent C. O. D. Circulnrs free. Address MONADNOCK MUSIC CO., Lock Box 780, II nsdale, N. If. H E. SMITH * CO., , Dallas, Georgia, Dealers in Family Grooerles, Plain and Fancy Confectioneries a specialty. Every thing fresh and nioe; just from the factory ! We desire to say to our friend* and the public in general that having opened out u slook of groceries and oonfeetionerias, ws propose to sell them os cheap as the aheap ct. ‘ Small Profits and Quick Sales” shall ha our motto. Come and see us and eb convinced. THE "OBIQ-INAL* - STAR SPANGLED BANNER. The oldeat, moat popular, heat and cheap* eat Family paper, begins it« 21st year with 1883. 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Address STAR frPANGLED BANNER, Hinsdale, N. H. by 1 I »m agent for the Continental Insurance Com pany, wnlch li confined to the Ins uring of fain property, dwelling*, xharchei, and school houses, for one, three and fire year*. Every prudent man feels safe when he knows that If he should he s 3 uo iortunate as to get his property deatroyed by fire he wilt hare the greater portion of his losses re • placed. This is a reliable company, and insure* for a low rate. Gall on me, and f will pi re mu full explanation!. T. A. FOOTE. FDFF Send to MOORE’S -EXV-Ijlli Business University, Atlanta, Georgia, For Illustrated Circular. A live actual bus loess school. Established tweDty yean . —Mr. O. S. Bliss to'ls the New York World that he believes tho use of air- slaked lime will cheek any tendency to rot in potatoes He has for several years sprinkled a small quantity of such lime upon his potatoes at time of storing them in bins. Though he ventures no positive assertion, yet he believes such treatment lias resulted in checking any tene'en ie3 to rot —The most successful way of training an animal is to begin at birth. Two things should supplement a knowledge of llie way to train: kindness and deci sion; these are essentials Landing 1‘ejiuOlican. Macon, Ga., has been made a signal station. Orange county, Virginia, shipped a million hoop poles last year. A Castor oil farm has been started at Bay St. Louis, Mississippi. A three hundred pound Porpoise lias been caught near Wilmington, N, C. The amount o$ naval stores produced in North Carolina Is moro than doublo the yield of all the other States com. bined. A New York firm will shortly estab lish a regular lumber trade with Mobile, and will at first send out a vessel once a month. There is about the usual average of wheat sown in Tennessee, and farmers' are expecting good crops. A raft of 400 walnut logs for New Orteanl, to be shipped to Boston, 1b ready to leave Little Rock. A, W. Scott, of Ilill county, Texas, raised last season 030 bushels of sweet polntoes ob one aero of ground. llirds'eye maple, which sells for $150 per 1,000 feet in England, is used for (Ire wood in North Carolina. Eighteen Mormon eldors are in Chat, tanoogn, on their way to different points South, where they go proselyting. Tho Railroad bill now pending in tlio North Carolina Legislature provides for ihree Railroad Commissioners nt a salary of $3,000 a year each. Over $30,000 worth of whale oil has been shipped from Brunswick, Ga., this year, and it promises to become an im portant and flourishing business in that locnlity. Within the next twelve months be tween 100 and 160 ncro3 of grape vines will he set out in the neighborhood of Gordonsville, Vn. Forest fires extending eighty miles above Chattauoogn, along tho Cincin nati .Southern road, are causing great destruction of timber. The Hot Springs property, in Batli county, Va., containing 1,196 acres of land, hotels, cottages, baths end nume rous buildings, have been sold for $100, 000. • A State Military Academy will he built at Savannah. Bonds to the amount of $20,000 will be issued at five per cent interest, to. run thirty years. A committee has baen appointed to can vas for subscriptions. A block of marble was shipped a few days ago from the Hawkins, Tennessee, quarries. It contained 186 cubic feet, weighed 34,300 pounds and sold for over $4U0. New Orleans Domocrat: “ What the Atlanta cotton exposition did for the South, and we arc now realizing the fact that it brought millions of dollars here, and that to it is due the investment of $15,000,000 in southern cotton mills alone.” At Griffin, Ga., some one threw n lump of poisened dough in Abel A. Wright’s full pond, causing the death of no less than 500 fine Carp. The Georgia Wine Company lias 100 acres in vines now producing, and 80 acres for future use. They expect -to make 20,000 gallons this year. They get four gallons to the bushel, and gen erally gather 150 to 250 bushels to the acre. Dr. Charles, the Forsythe county, Ga- miner, writes an interesting letter to the Clarion. He says tlio Franklin mine makes from three to four pounds of gold per week, and not running their mills in full regular time. The expen ses are about $1,000 per month, which is $12,000 per year, and in this way money is scattered over the country. A curiosity is exciting the colored people of Macon, Ga., says the Atlanta Constitution. A negro boy, called “the snake baby,” fourteen years old, came from an adjacent county. His body i s very diminutive, his arms and legs are the size of a buggy wheel spoke. He lies prone on his stomach all the time with his feet drawn back. In the mid dle of his back white spots are seen. His tongue licks out of his meuth— hence the name, “snake baby.” He cin’t talk intelligently. The English colony, at Rugby, Tenn , which has been in financial straits for some time, has just received a loan of $125,000 from a wealthy Englishman, Henry Kimber by name and a solicitor by profession. The lender receives, at security, a first mortgage on the Rugby ; tract of 25,0l)0 acres' anc*.' T the improve menu belonging to the board. Mr. Kimber is one of the original stockhold ers in tlio enterprise. The project of establishing a coaling station nt Tort Royal bangs fire, owing to the fnct thr.t no part of tho appro priations voted last year for n Btore bouse and dock could be used for the purchase of land for tho site of tho sta tion. Parry’s Island lias been ngreed upan, and an amendment to tho Svndry Civil Bill appropriates $5,000 for the purchase of the laud required. The plantors of Polk county, Gn., linvo prepnred for tlio next crop, and have made more composU than they have mndo in tho ten proceeding year all put togother. They have generally mail Furman’s formula, which has been med in that vicinity with great success, There is doubtless real wisdom in aban doning liigh-priced cummoicinl fertili ers, and, by saving nnd using domestic manures, muck, leaves, scrapings from fence corners, etc., they get a much better fcrtllezer nt a smnll fraction of the cost, ricasnnt Life In Bengnl. The daily life of tlio family is a scries of piotures of Arcadian simplicity. At daybreak, when the crows begin to caw, the whole household is astir. Tlio two elder brothers are oil to tho fields, while Gnynvam is seeing after tho cows. Tho women are busy fli tho lints nnd court yard. Sometimes the men come home to their mid-day meal, and sometimes it is carried to them in tlio fields. At sun set the labors of tlio day me brought to a close. A mat in spread iu tho court yard and the men sit, down cross-logged and smoko their bubble-bubbles; nnd nl such times it is tlio joy of Baden's life to listen to tho childish prattle of his little daughter Malnti. Occasionally I lie brothers pay visits to their neighbors, oi neighbors drop in and jilin in the smok ing. Tlio conversation is nearly always the Hame—tho wopther, the bullocks, the crops, and tho cows; the plowing, har vesting, sowing or irrigating. Blit money is over the burden of tho talk rupees, annas, nnd pice; the zemindar's rent; the interest paid to tho money lender; tlio cost, profit or loss of every transaction connected with tho farm or household. Tho whole family is relig ious; indeed nil Hindus is religious. They may ho everything that is good or bad, hut they are nover wanting in feni of the gods. They uro constantly utter itig tho snerod names, and they oiler n portion of every meal to tlio gods of the earth, water, and sky. They see deity in everything that exists, and omens ol good or evil iu everything that moves. If theymoota eow or n wedding tlioy re joice over tlieir good fortune; if they see n widow or a funeral they are down hearted nt tlieir ill luck. They engago in no business, or journey, or transac tion of any sort or kind, without n pray er to the goddess Laksliimi or an invoca tion to the elephnnt-hended .Gniicsliu. Every family or group of families has its own Purohita, or domestic Brahman, who performs endless eoremonies of propitia tion, consoerntion or purification at births, deaths, marriages, fenstH, festivals, re ligions celebrations, and family incidents of every kind. In return, tho Purohita receives nil the offerings of rice, fruits, nnd vegetables that are made to I In- gods, with occasional presents of a like character. Every year tho Gum, or re ligious teacher of the sect or district, makes his appearance to receive liis shil ling fee from every household, and to confirm younger neophytes by whisper ing into tlieir respective ears the name of tho god that each one is to worslii] his own individual deity. This name is known as the “seedprayer,” and is to be uttered by tho worshiper one hundred nnd eight times every day imjil the end of iiis earthly career.—Macmillan's Magazine, Novel Use of Wood Shavings. From wood shavings nnd paper Ilerr Hcilemann makes plates, dishes, etc., as follows: Selected plane shavings are bound into bundles and steeped in a bath of weak gelatine solution about twenty-four hours, then dried and eui into suitable lengths. Flutes are cut ol strong paper or thin pasteboard of the sizo of tho objects to be produced. These are moistened with a liquid consisting oi weak gelatino solution with sodium iva- terglass, and pressed in heated metallic molds. After drying, the pressed pnpei objects are coated on both sides with an adhesive material made of five parts Rus sian gelatine and one part thick turpen tine, tho shavings are applied to thorn, and the whole is subject to pressure. Wood shavings alone would, because oi tlieir unequal thickness, present uneven surfaces. Tho objects are now cut, il necessary, dried and varnished. Arabi Pabtia is said to ootnplnin that he is not receiving nu adequate allow- »ueo, as was ngreed by tho Khedive. Tnp. fuuil for tho sufferers from the Brnidvrood (III.) mine disaster amounts to $28,000, which will keep those in need for ono year. A Mathematician interested iu tin sugar trade has estimated tlmt tlio re duction in the duty on sugar will amonn to seventeen couia annual!) for ouch per son iu tlio United States. Cjiacncv Waiinku, of Cambridge, Vt., lias made arrangements to present tin towu of St, Albans with a $60,0(H) houai for use ns a iroo hospital. He will pro. vide a $25,000 endowment fuuil, also. Hkhvia is dependent on foreign conn- tries for her suit supply, and to stimu- Into explorations tlio government offers a prize of $80,000 to tho disooverer of a workable salt miuo in tho kingdom. Tub Arkansas Legislature has passed a law whioh prohibits for two yours the selling of liquor within two miles of any ohuroh or Bohool house, oxcept on peti tion of a majority of tho adult inhabit- unts. In Now England such a law would give praotieal prohibition. Hiiiie is a neat criticism by a mechanic: “The tfbublo with young Amorioaus is, that they are not taught to work, nnd to work hard. Too ofton does tho fnthor say: 'My boy must not work so hard as [ linvo,’ scorning to forgot that his own liurd work is tho cause of his suoooss.” Ex-Gov. Bi'raoub’s bride is described us having regular, pleasant features, fair complexion, dark brown hair, and dark blue eyes ; graceful iu movomont, »f medium hoigbt nnd fluo figure. She traveled in a dark blue walking-dress with a crimson sash, and on lior lint were red ostrich plumes. A Lieutenant of tho English Rifle Volunteers has received instruction from tlio War Secretary to form an Army Tel- “graph Corps to take tho field in fimo ol War. Tho corpB will contain two hun dred men, nnd will lie organized oil tlio snmo basis ns tlio Army Postal Corps. AH tho neoessary Hold equipments will lie supplied, nud tlio men will bo drilled in its use. aocohdiro to tne census, o! horses in tlio United Slaton in 10,838,- 111; mules 1,871,079; milch cows, 13,. j 125,085; other cattle, 28,040,077; sheep, 10,237,291; hogs, 43,270,080. The ag gregate value of all those animals is $2,338,197,008. The average valuo of horses is $70.59; mules, $70.49; cows, $30.21; other cattle, $21.80; stieop, $2,58; hogs, $0.75. Tho liighost aver age prico ol horsos ($102.14) is in Mas snohnseUs, and tlio lowest ($37.08) is in Toxns. Illinois has more horses than any otlior Btnto, tlio number being 1,017,015. Now York is next highest, with 022,027. . Ma, Wyman, tho newly appointed United States Treasurer, is of United States parentage, though horn iu Oiuuuln. Ho is somowliiit over middle ago, and a very popular and compotont ollleer. Ho wan appointed to n clerkship in tlio Treasury Department in April, 1803;wan A'Bistont Treasurer from 1875 until 1870, whon he suceoetled to thoTroomirursliip, holding that position until 1877, when lie resigned beenuso of ill heultii. Hiuee tho latter date, upon whioh the retiring Treasurer was appointed, ho has beet, assistant. Mr. Wyman brings io th> office the oxporionoo ot many years, ami will, doubtless, fill the place made vacant liy Mr. Gilfillau’s resignation ably. Ex-Gov. Crawford, a resident of Washington, iigcut of the Htulo of Kan sas, filed at tlio Interior Department re cently, a brief in support of the position taken by tho Htato authorities on sundry long-ponding questions in regard to tlio Atchison, Topokn A Santa f‘a Railroad land grant, nnd the ease will probably come boforo tlio Soorotnry for oral argu ment at an oarlv day. Tho brief argues Hint adjustment of the grant undor.tlie Supreme Court decision of 1875 concern ing it would givo the Slate title to about 800,000 ncrcs of land alleged to have boon illegally certified to tlio railroad company, nnd that, in any event, tho State is entitled to some 800,000 acres now held by .tho railroad. —According to tho existing Russian law apostasy frorti Hie State religion entails severer penalties than theft or murder. A Russian subject who aban dons the orthodox faith for anv other whatever is deprived of his children, his estate is handed over to guardians appointed by the state, and he himself is liable to prosecution by the. Holy Synod until he abjures. Tlio Golos re marks that this severity defeats its own object, and advises that this antiquated legislation should be abolished in favor of full religious tolerance nnd liberty of conscience, after the example of Western Europe. Importers linvo been nonsuiting law yers ns to the constitutionality ol the now tariff bill. The only ground upon which a supposition oven can ho based is that it is u revenue bill, mid origin ated in tho Heiiate. But nmoiig the Senate and Hoiiso lawyers, including those opposed to tho passage of tho bill, tho point of its constitutionality was not seriously called into question. Tin-; provision in tlio laHt Army bill excludiug from calculation an part of the regular retired list prescribed by law, not to exceed four hundred, all officers retired under tho law of last year be cause of having reached sixty-four years, or having sorved forty years, relieves tlio regular retired list to tho oxtont of mailing thirteen vacancies, which will bo filled at onco by tho retirement of disabled officers. The (State prisons of Now York have paid tlieir way of late, but it is not probablo that thej^ivill do so hereafter, as a bill lias already been pussed prohib iting hatmaking by convicts, and otlior measures intended to take from such in stitutions remunerative employments are under consideration. This is done to meet tlio approval of a class of labor agitators who believo that prison pro duction is an injury to outside labor. The question whether a man should he permited to marry his deceased wifo’s sister iB of perennial interest in England. Bills to givo this permission have re peatedly passed tlio House ol Commons, but have always been rejected by the lords. The Bishops me generally op posed to tho change, some of them re garding it with horror, and delaring that not even an act of Parliament would so far satisfy tlieir consciences as to allow them to sanction by the ceremonies of tho church a union whioh they believe to be immoral and expressly forbidden by the laws of God. Rev. Dn. Morgan Dix, of Washing Ion, D. C., in a recent sermon, said that there is a criminal laxity in the regard for tho marriage tio among many womon of fashion. Tlioy care for no real home, he says; they wish to avoid the pains and the cares and duties of matrimony. The care of their children .they hand over to servants. They have lax notions about divorce; nnd there is a growing indifference to this “chiof of all social abominations.” Speaking generally, Dr. Dix affirms that it is the faithlessness of women to do her duty and mission that emboldens the “conspirators against her honor.” There rccontly iliod near Lewiston, Mo., a woman named Lniimor, who was tlie most porsistent devourer of book* and nowspaporB tlio world has over known. But sho derived nr, benefit thereform, for it was literally and not figuratively that she devoured them. Him developed n mania for this singular diet vory early iu life; indued, sho herself dutod it from that ovontfnl epoch of in fancy known as tlio period of teething.. She would eat letter and wrapper paper if sho could not get a book or a newspa per, but printer’s ink was the saiioo which guve her nn appetite. It is said that she was an intelligent womau and iudulged in no other freak, and, more over, that sho inherited hor morbid taste, which, strange to say, was not the causo of her death. The Washington correspondent of tlio doHtou AUnnrtlier bns some interesting rossip about tho ownership ' of tho lingers-houso, near tho Whito-liimse, Henry Clay used to nwu tho lot on which it stands. Ho was especially de puted to tliojAblilaud farm ami tho li ve dock upon it. One day old Commodore John Rogers came home from tlio Modi terraiiuan with his naval vessel full jf ivo stock which ho hurt picked up Abroad. Tlio cargo included one fine Andalusian jackass. Clay wauled it for his farm. All liis offers were rejected, until ono day tlia Commodore said, iu a joke; “You can have him for your lot opposite tlio White-house,” “Done,” was Clay's reply, aud tlio animal was shipped off to Kentucky. Tlio Commo dore built the now historic houso, which Secretary Howard o-ieupiod during tlio war. Hero l’ayue endeavored to assas sinate him on the night whon President Lincoln was shot. The lot is uow valued ot $40,000. A Challenge Accepted. About iiio o’clock I his morning a young marine, named McManus, at tached lo the Brooklyn naiy yard, was passing tho corner of Fulton and Pearl streets in tho belligerent condition which cost Michael Cass o his place in Othello's service, when ho caught sight of a wooden imago of nn Indian warrior menacing li in with raised tomahawk. Not stopping to consider that lie him self was unarmed, McManus immedi ately accepted the challenge nnd at tacked the Indian. They fell to tlie ground in a mutual emb:aco anil in (ho ensuing scuffle tho Indiun lost both arms and hiH lie id. The marino \ still lunging lho body of his foe on tho pavement when an officer appeared and quel ed the disturba ico. The Indian was perm Hod lo go on account of his serious injuries and the navvy was sent lo the island for one month.—Nl Y. Mail. “Yes, I am to be manned, my dear friend. The young lady is pretty, and very clever, yet she can not play the piano-forte; that is her only failing.” “Why, I should call that a blessing. It is certainly no fault!” “ Hear me through. She can not play tho piano forte, and yet she always insists on play ing.” —Chailes Kee, the most intelligent Chinaman in Chicago, denies that liis people ever cat rats. intends to ho vory severe in hi* con templated book about America. —The mother of Josh Billings h n'noty-two yours old. “She has ovl. dcn'tly resolved to live until her son learns iiow lo spoil,’’ says tho Norris town Herald. —Of l.coit Gninhottn, nt tho ago ol ninn years, ono of his achool-mastnn wrote; "Loon Gninhottn is a dirty little pig of a violent oharocter, but intelli gent nnd witty." —Tho Fncyolopodin Brltnnnlca, e work of ;:0,000 pages, is to bo eclipsed in size by tlio works of Samuel Arden Smith, who is going to write a couploto history of tho Smith family. —Whon the now Colorado Senator Bowon was in onmmnnd nt Fort Smith, Arkansas, during tho war, ho raptured onu of tlio rebels thorn nnd still hold* tho prlsonor. This was ono of the beautiful girls of the South, nnd when sho siurandorod, sho did so uncondi tionally and Inis stayed, surrendered oV- or s lieu—a lovely, dovoted wife.—De troit 1‘ost. —Bussell Slurgos was a poor Boston boy, and baenme a ton-millionaire In London through Ills connection with tlio famous banklng-hotiso of Haring Rro'.lmrs. Ho always attributed his sue- russ iu lifo to tho fnct that ho got on tlie wrong steninor by mistnko, and was thus led to mnko the acquaintance of tho linn in which ho mndo Ills money. —Mr. Thomas Itnlny and wlfo. of Trenton, N. colcbrntod n few days ago tlie seventieth anniversary of their wadding. When thoy were married ho was twenty-two and sho eighteen years of nno. They linvo had twolvo children, and ten of 'them are now living with Inrgc families of their own, there bo- ing about one hundred and twenty gruiidch'ldreii.—N. Y. Timet. —Womloll Phillips, in Ills old age, likes lo talk about the fiery years of tlio struggle against slavery. To Mr. Fori min, colored, tho editor of tho New York Hlobe, lie related the other day how ho went to a New York hotel In 1862 to pass tlio night. Tho proprietor handed ifim his snehol buck, saying: "We have no vacant rooms." “Do you moan that or do you tnuan you do not tlusiro to neuonimodnto Wendell Phillips?" asked Mr. Phillips. “I mean I do not care to noeenimodate you, sir." Mr. Phillips walked away more iu pity than in disgust. Maglnn’i llnmor. William Mngiun met Blackwood in this amusing way. Hu had already con tributed to tho magazine, but was un known to tlie editor. Wishing to have nn interview with Blackwood; Ma set out for Edinburgh from Oort, • lie arrived on a Sundays enrlcy Monday morning present self lu tho funions shop in Prinoo’* ill It will bu recalled that the papers con tributed by Mngiun were spidy and stinging, nnd that Blackwood had re ceived sevornl furious letters from Ire land demanding tho name of the authoi of such obnoxious artinles, a foot whioh Maginn had heard of. Blnokwood now ' mistook Maginn, who was a thorough Irishman iu appenranoe, for one of his angry correspondents come to seek s reckoning, eo tho following colloquy took place: “ You are Mr. Blackwood, I presume?'' “ I air..” “ I have rather an nnplensant business with yon, thou, respecting some things which appear in your magazine. They are (so and so). Would you be kind enough to givo me the name of the author?" “ That requires consideration, snd I musiljjjht'bo satisfied of your purposes.” “YanF contributor resides in Gork. does bit hot? Yon need not mske any mystery about that.” si decline at present giving any in formation on that hood before I know moro of your business and who you are.” “You are vory shy, sir. I though! you corresponded with Mr. Scott. in Cork” (the assumed name under whioh Maginn had contributed his papers). “ I beg to decline any information on that matter.” “ If you do not know him, then, per haps yon could know yonr own hand writing” (drawing from hia pocket a bundle of letters). “Yon need not deny yonr correspondence with that person with these proofs in my possession.” “ How, in heaven's name, did you pro cure tlioso letters?” “ I am the gentleman himself.” A hearty langh, a warm handshake and a wee drtp of auld usquebaugh mode all tilings right, and resulted in a pleasant evening and a cordial acquaint ance between tlio cautious editor and humorous author of the Odoherty papers. Thu Chinese army ia variously esti, mated, some placing it as low as 30,000 meu. wliilo otlior accounts raise it to 200,- 000 men already in the field. Borne crit ics, who profess to speak from personal knowledge, praise highly the efficiency of tlie celestial battalions, which, with vory few exceptions, have for field offic ers military experts who learned the troda of war in the armies of England or France, tho system of organization and tactics bo- ing that existing in the armies of the re public. “ 1 will not leara a trade 1” exclaimed the Chicago lad to his father. But this business of learning a trade ia only a matter of time, for withjn a year that young man was studying harness-mak ing in State prison.