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THE BATTLE RAGING.
No Official News Received
Of the Fight Before
Biela.
Bucharest kilograms Report
that the Russians Hold
Their Own.
A Desperate Struggle Has Been
in Progress for Two
Days.
The Turks Make Another At-
tempt to Capture
Gravitza.
And Are Again Driven
Back with Fearful
Slaughter.
Additional Accounts Of Horrible
Atrocities in Rou-
meIja.
The English Government
Called Upon to In
terfere.
Sentence Confirmed
by the Court of APP
peaiS.
The English Government
Called Upon to In
terfere.
Gambetta'S Sentence Confirmed
by the Court of APP
peaiS.
A GREAT BATTLE.

A GREAT BATTLE.
NEAR BlELA.
CoNsrAST1SoPLE, Sept. 22-Furthcr intelli-
gence concerning Mehemct Ais victory yestcr-
day states he attacked the Russian position be-
yond Banica. LON. The Russians were in-
1teha'.>' IN q village along the river. No Off
e1al u'spa'cn n~-, Meaemet Ali is yet pub
lished.
1GNAT1ErF
BUCHAREST, Sept. 22.-t>u. Icnatieff is suffer-
ing from fever. He will join tx fami,r \. Kim
remaining until recalled By the E. neror
NOTHING OFFICIAL
LONDON, Sept. :222-No official intellis>,c- ;.
yet received from either side concerning the -
ported battle at Biela yesterday. i special
from Bucharest to-day says there has been Sc
we're indecisve fighting for two days, between
the Czarowitch and Mehemet ali. The Russians
still hold Bcla-
Another report is that the Russian headquar
ters have retired to Sistova.
REFUSED.
Osnan Pasha attacked the Grayitza redoubt
on Thursday night, and was repulsed with
heavy loss.
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Propagating Plants.

Our lady friends will be now prcpar-
ing for their gardens, and a few
directions coming from our own expert
ence may not come amiss. ANY lady,
with no more trouble than is required
to procure slips, can readily raise all
the young plants she may desire. The
preparation is as simple as this: A
saucer or soup plate, partly filled with
clean sand, and the water kept above
the surface. Set this in a sunny win
dow, and insert your cuttings. An Or
binary plant will root nearly. as readily
as in propagating bed, and may then
be transferred to small pots ofearth.
But remember to let the stems of your
geraniums dry thoroughly on the cut
surface before inserting. The verbenas
may be put in as cut. The pink slips
may be pulled, not cut, from the ex-
tremities of growing shoots. The
begonias, heliotropes, ETC., may be in
serted at once.
When potting. use small pots, and
rich earth well lightened up with sand,
so as to give complete drainage, and
do not remove to larger pots until the
roots thoroughly fill the pots in which
they are growing. Give plenty of air,
keep well pinched back, and when the
time comes for removal to the borders,
you will have plants which it will cheer
you to tend.
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The House Fly.

Professor Packard has an interesting
article on this subject in the Naturalist
from which we take the following para
graphs
If in its winged condition it is one Of
the most disagreeable features Of dog
days. and people wonder why flies were
ever made at all, it should be remem-
bered that flies have an infancy as
maggots, and the loathsome life they
lead as scavengers cleanses and puri-
fes the August air. and lowers the
death rate OF our cities and towns.
Thus while stables and piggeries and
filth are tolerated by city and town
authorities, the young of the house fly,
the flesh fly and blow fly, with their
thousand allies, are doing something
toward purifying the pestilential air,
and ayerting the summer brood of
cholera, dysentery. diphtheria, typhus
and typhoid feyers, which descend like
harpies upon the devoted cities and
towns. It may be regarded as an
axiom that when flies most abound
then filth, death-dealing and baleful, is
most abundant, and filth diseases such
as we have named most do congregate.
The life Of the house fly may be
summed up as follows; 1t lives one
day in the egg state. from five days to
a week as maggot, from five to seven
days in the pupa state, in all, from ten
to fourteen days in the month of August,
before the winged adult period. It is
often asked how long-lived a fly is.
Most of the flies which are born in
August live for month or six weeks,
and die at the coming Of frost, either of
cold, or the attacks of fungoid plants.
A few probably winter over and sur
yiye until midsummer, and thus main
tain the existence of this useful species,
to which civilized man owes more than
he can readily estimate, and with
which he can dispense only when the
health of our cities and towns is looked
after with far greater vigilance and in
telligence than is perhaps likely to be
the case for several centuries to come.
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Truth for Wives

1t Is not every woman or man either,
who will really agree with the sentiments
expressed in the following which we
find in the Domestic Monthly; still
there is great deal Of truth in it, and
it may suggest other truths equally as
important; hence we recommend it,
especially to those contemplating
matrimony:
In domestic happiness, the wife's in
f1uence is much greater than her hus-
bands, for the one first cause-mutual
love and confidence-beiag granted, the
whole comfort of the household depends
upon trifles more Immediately under
her Jurisdiction. By her management
of small sums, her husbands respecta-
bility and credit are erected or destroy
ed. No fortune can stand the constant
leakage of extravaganza and misman-
agement and more IS spent in trifes
than women would easily believe. The
one great expense, whatever it may be,
is turned over and carefully reflected on
ere incurred; the income is prepared to
meet il; it is pennies imperceptibly
sliding away which do mischief; and
this the wife alone can stop, for it does
not come within mans province
There is often an unexpected triae to
be saved in every household. 1t is not
in economy alone that wife's attention
is so necessary, but in those matters
which make well regulated house. An
unfinished cruet-stand, missing key,
buttonless shirt, soiled table-cloth, a
mustard pot with its old contents stick
ing hard and brown about it, are really
nothing; but each can raise an angry
word or cause discomfort.
Depend upon it, there is great deal
Of domestic happiness in well-dressed
mutton-chop, or tidy breakfast table.
Men grow full of beauty, tired of music,
are often too wearied for conversation,
however intellectual, but they can
always appreciate well-swept hearth
and smiling comfort. A woman may
love her husband devotedly-may sacri-
fee fortune, friends, family, country for
him-she may have the genius Of a
Sappho, the enchanted beauties OF an
Armida but-melancholy fact-if with
these she fail to make her home COM
Portable, his heart will inevitably escape
her. And women live so entirely in the
affections that without love their exis-
tence is void. Better submit, then,
to household takes, however repugnant
they may be to your tastes, than doom
yourself to a loyeless home. Women
Of higher order of mind will not run
this risk; they know that their feminine
their domestic, are their first duties.
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.GOsSSmnnn.

That fertiiizing substance which is OF
most practical Importance. and it is the
most necessary to supply, it is not that
one which the analysis Of the plants
shows most prominent; but it is that
one, or the several substances which
are most lacking III the natural sources
Of plant food. As before remarked,
phosphoric acid is perhaps the most
lacking in soils generally Of any con-
stituent of plant food. Since Liebig,
the great father Of agricultural chemis-
try, first called attention to the impor-
lance Of phosphoric acid IN plants, its
peculiar effects, and sources, phospha-
tic manures have been used IN enor-
NOUS quantities. Indeed, this class of
manures has been less neglected in
many sections than any others; per-
aaps because as much from the imme-
date perceptible effects, due TO past
neglect, than from actual knowledge of
the facts in the case.
The effect Of phosphoric acid in the
plant is but little known; It's impor-
lance is an undisputed fact. Outward
~, IN the soil, it was noticed by Messrs.
Lawes and Gilbert, many years ago, to
have 4 marked influence on the
development offibroUs roots on the tur-
nip. Last year, similar effects were
iodepently observed by DIR. Sturtevant,
on Waushakum Farm, in the case Of
the corn plant. This fact probably ex-
plains why the application Of super
phosphates in the hill has stimulating
influence on the young plants. The
small, fibrous roots are essentially those
which take up the soil food ofthe plant.
The practice, therefore. is shown to be
4 rational one.
Oh all the fertilizing substances Of
Importance. there is less loss Of phos-
phoric acid in the soil. Potash, in any
Of its combinations, will leach through
the soil to a greater or less extent, and
be lost in the drainage waters likewise
with nitrates and ammonia compounds,
which also suffer loss into the air.
Phosphoric acid, however, is found in
drainage waters in sut very small guam
titles; the particles Of an ordinarily
retentive soil, having The power to
hold it in suspension, so that even a
heavy rain has been found to have no
apparent effect in washing it down.
This fact is established by the analysis
OF drainage waters, natural waters, etc.
as well as by laboratory experiment.
n certain experiments of Lawes and
Gilbert, after repeated applications of
phosphates, phosphoric acid was found
only in traces below five inches from
the surface. We may conclude from
this, that there is, practically, no loss
Of this substance from manures con-
tanning it applied to an ordinarily re-
tentive soil.
Space compeis the consideration of
the sources, manufacture, ETC., Of phos-
phatic manures, to be postponed till
another month. Scientific Farmer.
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Rose SLUG.-I saw question in the
last Cabinet, asking preventive or
cure for the troublesome rose slug.
do not know what will prevent or cure
them, but do know, what will kill
them. Get white hellebore one ounce.
and dissolve in pailful of soft, cold
water, the colder the better. Take it
on a sunny morning a fter the dew is
entirely dried of, put the mixture in a
watering pot and give the bushes a good
showering, throwing it up under the
leaves as much as possibly wetting them
all over thoroughly. It will not harm
the bushes or roses in the least. But !
assure you, the worm that gets his
share oft dose will eat rose leaves no
more forever. Please tell the ladies of
this that they may save those beautiful
roses.
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FARM AND PRESIDE.
.,.sss 81 -
.-.s@.s a. 3
Some Manurial Substances.

No better index of what the plant
requires to be furnished it to feed upon
can be found than chemical analysis
of the plant itself. The results ofsuch
analysis we have given in the two pre-
vious articles under this head. Exami-
nation of the table given in the April
number of the Farmer, page As, shows
phosphoric acid to be much more
prominent, comparatively, in grains
than in other plants. The seeds Of
plants have been shown to
contain greater proportion OF this
substance than other portions. as the
following table indicates:
Wheat grain contains, 80 per cent. phos. acid
Wheat straw s. .23 4"
Indian corn s. 50 :"
Indian :. stalks contain, 80 :.
This showing points to the reason for
the fact, that the application Of phos-
phatic manures to grain fields, after a
long season of cropping, greatly i'm
proves the yield of grain on about the
same growth of straw. The extensive
and continued cultivation Of grain crops
by the use of barn-yard or other nitro
genous manures, lacking ii the phos-
pilates, has frequently resulted in the
marked decrease of the yield of grain,
and accompanying increase in the pro-
portion ofstraw. One might think that
the small percentage of phosphoric
acid in plants would not call for it to
be supplied by special application. But
we should remember that this is per-
haps the most lacking Of plant food
constituents i'll soils. In addition to
this fact, it is most prominent in those
crops which are sold from the farm and
enter most largely into food consump-
ton. The grains are the great food
staples Of the world. The potato,
which IS almost the one vegetable of
all American and European peoples,
though the percentage of phosphoric
acid in it is small. yet in the amount
per acre removed by it, it nearly equals
the wheat crop. The milk Of a good
COW is said to contain annually 100
pounds of this plant food ingredient.
IN the following table is given the
amounts Of the substances named re-
moved per acre by average Massa-
chusetts crops
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Indignant boarder to bis landlady :;
"Madam, if you expect four buck
wheat cakes to go into FIVE persons
and leave any remainder, allow me 10
say that you are decidedly out in your
arithmetical calculations, for they
won't do it. I'll trouble you for that
plate of hot ones you've got conceal
ed behind the sugar bowl He got
'em,
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WoRT REMEMBERING Stair carpets
should always have three or four
thickness OF paper put under shem, at
or ever the edge of every stair, which
is the part where they FIRST wear out.
The strips should be within an inch or
two as long as the carpet is wide, aud
about four or Eve inches in breadth
This simple plan, SO easy of execution
will, we know, preserve stair carpet
half as long again as it would last
without the strips Of paper
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BIackwood Edinburgh Magazine,

dgested information upon the great events in con-
temporaneous history, and contain mastery critt-
cisn all that is fresh and valuable in literature
az well summary Of the triUmphs of science
and art. The wars likely TO conYulse all Europe
il form topics for discussion, that viii be treated
with thoroughness and ability nowhere else to be
found. Biackwoods Magazine is famous for sto-
merit.
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THAT parrot Of mines a wonderful
bird" says Smythe, ''he cries stop
thief" so naturally that every time
hear it 1 always stop. What are ysu all
laughing at, anyway 2"
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Insults, says modern philosopher,
are like counterfeit money. We cannot
hinder their being offered, but we arc
not compelled to take them"
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Railroads.
CHESAPEAKE s OHIO R. R.
Passenger Department.

Passenger Department.
Connections OF Passenger trains from Richmond.
800 A. NJ. Mail, daily except Sunday-Daily west
Hinton. Arrives at Gordonsville II, As
P. NJ, arriving at Washington 600 P.
M. for all points North. Arrives at
Charlottesville ,s5 P. NJ, connecting
with Va. Midland Train at 1,55 P. NJ
arriving at Lynchburg 500 p. NJ, for
all Points South arrives at Hunt.
ington II, 90 A. M.
3,45 P. NJ. Accommodation, daily except Sunday,
arrives at Gordensville 80 P. NJ, con-
Meeting with Va. Midland Train at 7, 40
P: M, arriving at Washington II ,55 for
all points north.
l0,45P. NJ Express, daily. Arrives at GordonsA allie
$40 A.. NJ, connecting with Virginia
Midland Train at 2, so A. NJ, arriving
at Washington 1850 A. M. for the
North; arrives at Charlottesville 3,35
connecting with Va. Midland Train at
.E 1855 A. NJ, arriving at Lynchburg IL OF
A. M, for the South. Arrives at Hunt
ington 6, As 2. M, connecting closely
with C. h o. Packet Steamo1s for DIN
cinnati, Louisville, st. Louis, Chicago,
and all points in the west northwest
and southwest.
FROM HUNTINGTON.
400 P. ". Mail, Daily to Hinton-Daiy except
Sunday East of hinton. Arrives at
Charlottesville II 40 A. M, connecting
with Va. Midland train at SO P, NJ,
arriving at Lynchburg 5,0OP. NJ, for
all points South via Va. & Tennessee
r. R.; arrives ut Gordonsville 1873 p.
connecting with Va. Midland train at
Ito p. NJ, arriving at Washington 800
p M. for all points North. Arrives at
Richmond 4,30 P. M.
lo,aD A. NJ. Express, Daily-Arrives at Charlottes-
1,50 A. NJ, connecting with Virginia
Midland Train at 7,55 A. H., arriving
at Lyuchburg 11,07 A. NJ, for all
points south. Arrives at Gordonsville
1856 A. M, connecting with Virginia
Midland train at $50 A. NJ, arriving
at Washington 7,3O A. M, for all points
North. Arrives at Richmond eco A..
NJ, connecting wi.so Richmnd b
Danville 7, so A. NJ. aad Richmond h
Petersburg 7,25 A. NJ. Trains for all
points South.
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Seaseer0Ys.

About this time farmers will begin
to think about protecting their corn
against crows, and the following hint
on the subject, from the Scientific
American, may prove better than pow
der and shot so frequently used FOR this
purpose:
The first and the best is supenaed
looking-glass. Take two small, cheap
mirrors, fasten them back to back,
attach cord to one angle, and hang
them to an elastic pole. When the
glass swings in the SUMS rays. they are
reflected all over the field, even fit be
a large one, and even the Oldest and
bravest ofcrows will depart precipitate-
ly should one ofits lightning flashes fall
on him. The second plan, althoug a
terror to crows, is especially well suited
to fields subject to the inroads Of small
birds and even chickens. It involves
an artificial hawk, made from big
potato and long goose and turkey
feathers. The maker can exercise his
initiative skill in sticking the feathers
into the potato SO that they resemble
the spread wings and tail ofthe hawk.
1t is astonishing what a ferocious-look-
ing bird ofprey can be constructed from
the above simple materials. 1t only
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bent pole, aud the wind will do the
rest. The bird will. make swoops and
dashes in the most headleng and
threatening manner. Even the most
inquisitive of venerable hens have been
known to hurry rapidly from its danger
GUS vicinity, while to small birds il
carries unmixed dismay.
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Neshing Like 0ps,osisien In Bust

Messrs. Schofeld 4 Williams. watchmakers
and jewelers., at Mendes' saloon. Main street.
have concluded TO keep ahead Of all oppo.
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repaired In workmanliks manner. 20 to.
2. SrsLER's jewelry store. one door south Of
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