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National Republican., 1874-07-09

THE GREAT EHGLIsH REMEDY for Gout and
Rheumatism. All sufferers from the above com
plaints either Of recent or long standing, are ad-
Yised 10 use Blair's Gout and Rheumatic Pills
They eau be relied upon as the most safe ami ef-
fectual remedy ever offered to the public, and
have been universally used in Europe for many
years with the greatest success. Prepared by
PRoUT i HARsANT, 20 Strand, London, England,
and sold by all druggists.
National Republican., 1874-07-09

ATTENTION! You are invited to call and ex-
anime our large and varied stock Of Slate and
Marble Mantels, Gas Fixtures, sc. Prices to
suit times HAMILTON & PEARSON,
No. l. YIN C. A. B., Ninth and D streets.
National Republican., 1874-07-09

THE STEAMER COLUMBIA
Leaves COmmerce-street wharf, BaItfs
more, for Washington on every sat.
urday, at p. m, arriving here at
p. m. Sunday. Returning,
leaves sStephensOn'E wharf,
foot Of Seventh street,
on Tuesday nt d.
m, arriving In
Baltimore at a. ma. ThurBday.
Either Of these trips affords parties 4 fine oppor-
tunity to enjoy sail on the Chesapeake BAY ana
Potomac river without loss Of much time from busl-
ness. All mOdattOns-meAls, stateroOm. &c,-T
hrst-class. StatsrOoms may be engaged In advanoA
chartered for eXCursions from this city on Mondays
and Tuesdays Of each week at reasonable rates.
STEPHENSON & BROTHER,
Je25 Lstarl Agents.
. P OR T FOR EVERYBODY. THE
- pasket-bOat MINNESOTA makes Three Trips
WEDNESDAY, and FRIDAY, starting rrom the
foot OF High street. Georgetown, returning same
day. Fare, round trip, O. -. CROMELIN HOTEL,
GREAT FALLS; ION the European pan.)
6AhhLLI q MA Us. .PropTtetorss
Meals a. all hours-jo cents Per meal. Je29-eO2w
1874. ARkINGHhExr. AREGHhk 1874.
For Potomac River Landings including
COItOn's,
BIRkIstOn's Island,
LeOnaFdtOHn,
Piney Point and
MarshaII's.
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s2,5oo,ooo

divided into twenty thousand gifts, will be diS-
tributed among the tieket-hoiders.
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WASHINGTON AND OHIO RAILROAD.

w ASHiNGTON AND OHIO RAILROAD.
SUMMER ARRANGEMENT TWO DAILY
TRAINS lEAOEPF SUNDAY BETWEEN AL
EXAEDRIA AND PURCELLVILLB, BEGIN
MING MAY S, 1874.
exAndria at s:lO a. and 4:l0 D. Pass Leesburg
(gOing westUsrc) at HIS m and SIS ?. a, aud
arrive at Purcellville Al Y N. and : p.
Leave PurcellVille at S:30 -. and l2:p p. m (;
pass Leesburg tgoing eAstWArd} At 3. N. and l:lo
p. m, and arrive at Alexandra at Sis =. N. and
3:l5 p. NJ, and at ashnKton AZ $50 =. and 3:So
Passengers from Washin Etou will take the wash
ingtOn and Ohio cars At the Baltimore and Potomac
railroad station at a. and p. m. aud 20
through TO PurcellviIle without chan "a Of cars.
The g:i0 .. m. train from Alexandra and 1881 D.
train from Purcellyile connect AZ Purcsslvtlls
with kigers daily line OF coaches for Suickersylle
BerryYIlle and Winchester; also with ReAmer's
line Of coaches, which leave LseSbuTg daily for
Aide and Middieburg.
Communication tickets, three cents per mile.
Annual tickets ESO r. n. uATENSER.
myl5-tf General Ticket Agent.
National Republican., 1874-07-09

To HAVE elegant light Biscuits Rolls, Buck
wheat Cakes, Fruit DUmplings. &c, you should
use DooIey's Yeast Powder. Ask your grocer
for It.
National Republican., 1874-07-09
A LEXANDRIA AND WASHINGTON
n EEAILRoAD, AND ALEXANDRIA AND

= rFREDERICKsBURG HALFWAY.
DEPOT CORNER SIXTH AND STREETS.
Local trains for alexandria leave as foowsb, S:5S
> > 40, II am, 6:so,7 D. m. and a- and
~ m 10 Alexandria daily; ali others daily except
Local trains leave Alexandra as follows: 6, T. g.
9, 10 and II .. m; LA s. and D, m, s a m. and
P; m. nom ALEXANDRIA daily; all other trains
daily, except Sunday. 81,
W WashingtOn and Ohio railroad.
Richmond Express |, ayes " arlington at g. . ,.
m. daily. ENrent Sund1v.
GREAT SOUTHERN EXPRESS, wa kiehmoE
leaves Washington n:S3 p. m, daily except ST.
Through tickets to all points South and Southwest
for sale at the Oce corner Sixth and PennsylVaniA
avenue, and Thirteenth and Pennsylyanta avenue,
where passen gers can leave orders Tor baggage 10
destination. =. .. YOUNG,
General Passenger Agent.
T. L ApRY rn6 T--fF
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FINANCIAL.

NEW YORK STOCK ExCHANGE.
FIr1iShsdby LsioiS Johnson & Co., Bankers, Vernon
RO10, Rortleda cJrRsr PsHBsyLU1aiG GosRus and
Tenth street, Washington.
WEDNESDAY July g. 1874.
National Republican., 1874-07-09

EOR MOUNT VERNON.
1,he Steamer ARROW, captain Frank Hc.llnEs-
head, having been rebuilt ard entirely reatLed By
hSr present owners, win leave her wharf,
Hsh FOOT or SEVENTH STREET,
DAILY (sundays exceptedl At 70 O'CLOCK FoA
C:he Tomb Of ron and Land
ings. JAMES SYKES,
febl9 Gen. Sup't Steamer Arrow.
National Republican., 1874-07-09
TURNEY's GOLDEN CHIME BELLS.
TIE NEW MUSICAL PI,,o, ,,--

TO PARTIES LEAVING THE CITY, AND NV
CUSTOMERS IN GENERAL.
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II,
I'm Elegant scenery, Palace State-roOn, day and
ntRht Cars, with modern improvements.
Two hundred miles taved 70 Western and Central
New ioTE.
S:S5 a. N. daily to Baltimore. Daily. excspt Sun
day. for the North and West
HISS .. m. daily except Sunday, North and West.
$3.50 p IN. daily, 20 Pittsburg, Cincinnati, Louis
y Through from WashInRton 10 PittsburE 8nd FL
mira without change. -..
Tickets by TINS route be procured AZ the of1css
northeast corner Of Thirteenth street ana Pennsy-
yaniA avenue snd sixth street and Penns yiyanIa
avenue, where relia BILE information will be given At
all times.
Passengers procuring tickets at these ofnee5 can
burg aud Eimira. Ed. 8. YOUNG,
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Incident ut q Funeral.

THE Rev. Mr.. B., Baptist clergyman,
was settled a short time ago in one of
the southern towns of Rhode Island. He
was called at one time to ofticiate at a
funeral there at the residence of one of
his parishioners, when somewhat un-
usual incident occurred. The mourners
were seated in front room and adJOln.
ing lOdging-rO the men with their
hats on, as is the custom in some places.
While preaching the minister noticed an
unusual mcrriment among the mourners,
especially among those in the lodging
room and those whose position com
manded a view of it, The levity in
creased to a giggle among the young
people, which SO surprised and con-
founded the minister, who could see no
reason for it, that he stopped in his dis
course and referred to the manifest i'm
propriety of indulging in such feelings
on such an occasion. When quiet was
restored he continued his remarks, with
the consciousness that the mcrriment
was only kept in check. After the SER
vices were over the following explana-
ton was given: In the lodging room,
which was free from it's usual furni-
turc, some wearing apparel was hang
ing from the ceiling about the room,
among it a ladys hoop-skirt, which fell
down over one of the men, inclosing him
from the top of his hat to his lap, and,
being something of wag, he sat there
demurely, looking through the bars OF
his cage, until some one near him re.
moved the offending article. Had the
minister himself beheld the spectacle it
is doubtful how it would have influenced
his own gravity.
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with lavishing salaams and courtly words
Few visitors at Canton will fail to recall
the shop of the venerable Sac Qua on Old
China street, or the gentle breeding of
the accommodating owner with his frost
ed hair and long, wadded gown of dark
silk. Huge silken lanterns hung at the
entrance, and at the upper end was the
inevitable altar, never wanting in either
dwelling or place of business, on which
fresh offerings of tea, cakes and fruit
were laid every morning and incense
burned pcrpetually. The old man said
the fire had never once gone out since the
days of his grandfather, who built and
furnished the house, to which Sac Qua
had duly succeeded and which his son
would inherit after him. Said son was a
frolicsome little five-year-old, exuberant
with boisterous mirth, the child of Sac
Qua's old age and his inseparable COM
panion. 1t was beautiful to see them
thus together, the weary old man SEEM
ing to grow young again in loving con-
temptation of the child's merry pranks;
and the little one always tender and gen
tie when he approached the doting sire
whose years and infirmities were an eng
ma his fresh young nature sought in vain
to comprehend.-'A Tour IN the Chtnt,
Seas" By Fannie r. Feudge, IN Lspps,,-
COTS Magazine for Augtst.
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The SKEPTIcAL CoNv1NcED.-Every
advance in Medicine, every new remedy
has encountered an opposition which is
the test of truth. Galen and Jenner only
were believed when they had proved
their discoveries against opposition. But
men are observing, and benefits always
make believers. No incredulity can
stand the silent argument of good re-
suits. When DR.. Walker proclaimed
that he had produced from the medicinal
herbs of California an Elixir that would
degenerate the sinking system and cure
diseases not organic the incredulous
shook their heads. Yet his VINEGAR
BITTERs is now the Standard Restorative
of the Western World. The truth could
not be resisted. Under the operation of
the new remedy Dyspeptics regained
their health, appetite and strength, the
Bilious and Constipated were relieved of
every distressing symptom; the Con-
sumptive and Rheumatic rapidly recov-
cred; Intermittent and Remittent Fevers
were broken up; the faint of Scrofula
was eradicated! Who could gainsay
facts like these? Not even the Faculty.
Skepticism was routed. All doubts as
to the claims of the Bitters to the first
place in the first rank of modern medi-
cines were silenced and this wonderful
preparation is today the most popular
Tonic, Alternative and Blood Depurent
ever advertised in America. In common
with other journalists we are free to
add our testimony to this remedy. 1t is
a domestic medicine, and no household
should be without it.
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moist sand, they may be kept sound until
the following spring. The main; thing to
be observed is to place the vessels con-
tanning these nuts in as cool position as
possible, as, for instance, on the north
side of some building, banking up the
boxes or barrels at the same time with
earth. We have frequently kept the
common chestnut in this manner, and
also buried in dry bank in the open
ground. But none Of the softshell nuts
WILL Withstand any considerable amount
OF drying, although few weeks expo
sure to the atmosphere of room with
out nre will not do them any material in
There is still another class of tree
SEEDS very different in character from
either OF the above, those with horn
IKE covering, as seen in the common
locust and three horned acacia. The
vitality OF most of the seeds of this kind
remains unimpaired under ordinary cir
G ,:1i, for many years; hence very
little attention is paid to conditions be-
yond that of keeping them dry. Their
oily nature prevents shriveling, but, THE
smell or horn-like envelope becomes%ery
hard with age and impervious to moist
ure under the conditions in which they
are usually placed in the soil; hence
they fail TO terminate, although really
sound, and their vitality very slightly
impaired. To soften or open the pores
OF the outer coat of such seeds they
should either be subjected to severe cold
or considerable heat. If placed in the
| sand pits during winter, and where they
will freeze, the required softening may
be secured; but if this is neglected, a
hot bath will answer nearly as good a
purpose in the spring. The best way to
apply the heat is to mix with about
equal parts of pure sand and then apply
boiling water sufficient to cover all, and
let it cool, after which place the whole
in warm room or in sunny spot on
the side of building or fence, examin-
ing frequently, and as soon as sprouts
appear SOW in carefully-prepared seed
bed.
We have one more pretty extensive
family of trees, the seeds of which re-
quire different treatment from either of
those already mentioned, the evergreens
OF various kinds. The seeds may he
kept dry in bags or boxes through winter,
and will grow quite freely when sown in
warm, moist soil; but shade to the young
seedlings is desideratum that cannot be
| dispensed with in our climate This
may he supplied in almost any manner
to suit the convenience of the grower,
| but it must neither be too dense nor too
thin, but just sufficient to prevent the
direct rays of the sun reaching the plants
without entirely excluding the light.
These conditions must be maintained
during the greater part of the first sea-
son, and water applied whenever re-
quired, to insure vigorous growth. Ever
greens may be grown as readily from
seed as deciduous trees, but require more
attention. We are certain that if our
farmers would only try, taking the above
brief hints as a general guide. thew
might find raising forest-tree seedlings
both a pleasant and profitable occupa-
TONY. Y. Sun.
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The Chinese |" Shops"

Both at Canton and Hong Kong-in-
deed, everywhere in CHINA stranger
Will be attracted by the unique appear
ance OF the Chinese shops. During the
DAY they are thrown entirely open in
front, with the wares tastefully arranged
on the other three sides of the apartment
a. small stairway in one corner leading to
the upper or dwelling portion of the
mouse. These shops are very models of
neatness, some of them containing a
varied assortment Of costly wares and
occasionally works of art; while tho
owners, with their long queues and COSTLY
silken garments, sit in their places IL
business like princes in their drawinr.
rooms, exhibiting a quiet dignity, and
even courtliness, strangely unlike the
manners of the races about them. Every
line OF merchandise is duly represented
Silks. teas, fancy goods, iacouered
wares, JeWelry, plate, time-pieces, books,
musical instruments, birds NESTS. confec.
tions, drugs; everything that is called
for, native and foreign, is now obtainable
in the large cities on the coast, 50 rapid
has been the improvement in the last
twenty years. But the ushering in of the
new epoch has not entirely banished the
old, as witness the stores where gods are
mace and sold for silver dollars! Ay, and
:. warranted" too-a god of wealth
rsu'e to makee glow liche," says the po-
lite yender; gods of fair weather and
guardians of health; gods for the sailor
ana Ior the tarmer-for every condition
OF life, every emergency, and at all prices.
Among the most attractive of the shons
are the fruit and flower stalls, usually
adorned with pretty bird-cages, while
John Chinaman deals out his dainty wares.
served in exquisite porcelain or glass,
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The Cheapest Way to Dispose of Coarse
Manure.

Touching this subject George Geddes,
an excellent farmer of Central New York,
writes as follows: "Drawing out straw
that the cattle have trampled under foot
and spreading it on ground which a
farmer intends to SOW to oats next spring,
with intent to pull it into the furrow and
pillow under, will be great deal of
work, and should much prefer drawing
that strawy manure on land that is to be
used next season for pasture. On the
pasture it will give out all the good there
is in it to the top of the ground, where it
is of most value. Plowed under, or
rather pulled by hand labor into a fur
row and then covered up, it will do com
paratively but little good and cost great
deal beside the drawing from the yards
and spreading. To reduce my life's ex-
perience on this matter Of the handling
OF the ordinary strawy barnyard manure
OF a grain-growing farm to single SEN
tence, Draw it from the yard as it is
made and at once apply to pasture land,
not in heaps, but spread as applied.
There let it lie until the pasture is to be
ploWed up. This is the minimum of Ia
Dor and the maximum of benefit. The
loss by evaporation, by being carried
away by thaws and the like, will be
trivial, and the cost of thus handling
compared with composing is so little
that only in exceptional cases is COM
posting profitable to the great mass of
the farmers of our country But all the
manure that is made on farm where
grain and stock raising are combined,
each department helping the other, can
not he taken to the field as fast as made.
Perhaps the ground will he too soft to
Justify passing over the fields, and during
six weeks to two months in the spring,
while the stock is yet in the yards, the
teams will all be busy in putting in the
crop Of spring grain: So the manure
that is made during this busy period must
lie in the yards. After the springs work
is over the contents of the yards should
be either drawn to the fields or put in
piles, having perpendicular sides and fiat
tops to hold all the rain that will fall on
them to keep the manure moist so that
it will not rot. About midsummer cut
OFT the sides of these piles and throw on
top. The interior of the piles will by
that time have become considerably de-
cayed, while the sides exposed to the air
will have rotted but little. This throw
ing the QUIT }es on the top will cause the
whole to be in condition to draw to the
fields of winter wheat to be applied as a
t0p-dressing on the poorest places. -Ne,o
York Herald.
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FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.

-Californ,a produced 1000, 900 oranges
last year.
Virginia tomatoes have more taste
than Bermuda ones.
The New England hay crop is much
above the average this year.
Nearly all tropical fruits can be sue
cessfully cultivated in Florida.
-" Every tree is subject to disease"
said q speaker in fruit-growers' conven-
ton.
-" What ailment can you find on an
Oak?" asked the chairman. "A-corn!"
was the triumphant reply.
The average of all crops this year
will probably vastly exceed that of any
previous year in the United States.
An Illinois father Furnishes his re-
fractory sons by making them hoe corn
at night, each one carrying lantern.
"A Bay City (Mich.) butcher recently
exhibited two Durham cattle in the
streets of that city which weighed 1850
pounds.
Too often are leaves gathered into
piles and burned in the front Of gentle
mems places, when, if they would trans
fer them to the stable for bedding, they
would make them more acceptable to
the stock than straw or any coarse hay
litter, besides the manure made by theil
use is worth one eighth more than that
from straw or hay litter.
If we wish for eggs we must take
good care of the hens. Change the food
frequently; in winter give them warm
pure water twice day, pound up oyster
or clam shells and give lean meat, though
fat will do. Check meat can be had al
| the butchers for five cents per pound. II
hens are cared for in the manner de
scribed the common breed are as good
as any,
1t must not be forgotten that soils
undergo exhaustion by continued crop
ping, and it is important that the tille1
of the soil should maintain it's fertility
1t is not necessary to define precisely the
| chemical or mechanical condition of the
soil, nor to define what exhaustion
means or to explain how it was brought
| about; it is enough to know that crop
ping exhausts the land and that it ceases
| to give full return unless means be
taken to restore fertility; and the fertile
quality must be maintained by what is
called cultivation - digging, manuring
subsoiling, draining, when necessary
and keeping the land clean.
Every fruit tree should be examined
early in the season for the boring pests
Examine the tree near the ground. If q
borer is at work spots may he seen in
the bark where the pest is forcing the
| litter out through small hole. In some
trees where there are borers you will see
rough-looking slit or crack in the bark
about an inch and quarter long, with
the borings or sawdust protruding. This
| sawdust is a sure sign of destruction
within. There are generally four grubs
in each place. They must be dug out, al
whatever sacrifice of bark and patience
or the tree is ruined. Cut into the tree
about an inch above the wound an(
carry the knife downward, removing ;
strip of bark to the bottom of the scar,
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Eternal DesOlatiOn.

In the northwest corner of San Ber-
nardino County, Cal, lying partly also in
lnyo County and by the newly-surveycd
line partly also in the State Of Nevada,
is region paralleled by few other spots
upon the face of the earth. We say the
world is instinct with life. Here, if the
phraseology may be pardoncd, is a place
instinct with death. A huge basin whose
rim is the ancient hills, stricken with the
barrenness of eternal desolation; whose
bosom, the blasted waste of the desert
treeless, shrubless and waterless save a
few bitter pools like the lye of potash
water; surrounded by mountains that
tower thousands of feet above the sea-
level, itself lying 800 feet below the sea.
It is a very "Gehenna"-a place of death
and bones. Birds do not fly over it. An
finals do not enter it. Vegetation cannot
exist in it. The broad sands absorb the
heat, the bare mountains reflect it, the
unclouded sun daily adds to it. Ninety
degrees in the shade (artificial shade,
there is no other), means winter. One
hundred and thirty and one hundred and
forty degrees, that is summer.
The hot air grows hotter, Wavers, trem-
bles with heat until nature, goaded to
madness, can endure no more; and then
the burning blast rouses itself-rouses in
its might; rouses as an angry beast, with
hoarsc, ominous roar; sweeps mile after
mile, on, ever on, over the broad reach of
the desert, bearing on its black, whirling
bosom-black as the midnight-dust,
sand, alkali and death. Sometimes a
murky cloud gathers upon the mountains
above; then there is rush-a warning
sigh on the winds-a low rumoling in the
air; the hills culver, the earth trembles,
and a torrent, half water, half mud,
bounds from the hills, leaps into the
desert, blowing chasms like river-beds in
the loose sand. The clouds scatter, the
sun comes again, the eternal thirst of
desert is not quenched. The raging river
was only dream.
In the year 1849 party of emigrants
entered the basin. Day after day they
toiled on, thirsting, dying. The pitiless
mountains walled them in; no escape
One by one they dropped and died. A
few, abandoning everything, scaled the
mountains and escaped. The others lie
as they fell, dried to mummics-no birds
even to devour their flesh, no beasts to
prey upon them. Wagon-tircs unrusted
gun barrels bright, untarnishcd. Such is
the place. Mile after mile silence reigns
silcnce-and death.-Overland Monthly.