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Chambers.

This is one of the most formidable of
the diseases of horse kind. 1t may be
considered as the opprobium medicorum
of the veterinarian'S art. What rem
ders this n matter of surprise to an in
different observer is, that CHAMBERS is
an affection which, i'm the generality of
cases, for some considerable time does
not appear to detract in the slightest
degree from the animals ordinary state
of health; and SO far is it, while it con-
tinues in this passive stage, from lower
ing his condition, that he not only con-
Gnues to enjoy (apparcnD health, but
from the stage of activity into which he
may be thrown in consequence, abso-
lutely gets fat; hence it is we hear peo-
pie say that it seems impossible, under
such circumstances, their horses can be
diseased.
Chambers may be divided into acute
and chronic; the former being that
which, when once set in action, pro-
ceeds regularly in its course, and at last
ends in distinctions; the latter, a stage
in which the disease appears to be
stationary, or at all events one in which
it makes no perceptible inroad upon the
general health.
In acute CHAMBERS there is liberation
of peculiar character of the membrane
lining the cavities of the nose, which is
commonly accompanied with glandular
swellings under the jaws. These ulcer
atoms at first assume the appearance of
pin-holes, only that they are shallow
instead of deep, and have thin indented
edges; they exude purulent matter,
which so completely envelopes them that
their true character can not be well
made out until their surfaces are wiped
dry. They exist in most numbers upon
the middle or partition of the nose; but
they are also often found grouped in
the hollow within the doubling of the
nostrils. BY inter-union, one with an
other, they at length form broad ulcer
Gus patches which grow deeper and
deeper until they threaten destruction
TO the septum and turbinated bones; a
period at which the sloughing and sup
curative action is occasioning so much
def1uxtion that there may even be dan
ger of suflocation, which is, in fact the
common way in which acute CHAMBERS
ends in death. In chronic CHAMBERS the
discharge is generally much less tcna-
cious or gluey than in the acute form:
and in the acute form it is not so gen.
orally confined TO one side of the head
as in the chronic. In the chronic form
of CHAMBERS, liberation of the nasal
membrane is generally not so pro-
nounced or easy of detection, from it's
frequently being situated so far in
wards as to be beyond detection. -Prai.
rie Farmer
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USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

An Illinois farmer, who has had
much experience in laying tile-drains,
says he would lay nothing smaller than
three-inch tile, and would not put down
two-inch drains if the tile were fur
nished him for nothing.
If the family is very small and
large loaves of bread are likely to be-
come stale before they can be eaten, it
Is good plan to make two little loaves
for one tin. They will keep their shape
all right, and will not run together or
adhere any more than rolls or biscuits
do.-N. Y. Post.
Jelly Pie: Beat two eggs very care
fully; add to them half cupful each
of baking molasses and jelly, or boiled
cider, two cupfuls of water and two
rather scant tablespoonfuls of flour.
Place on the stove and stir until it boils.
Enough for two pies. Two crusts.-
The Household.
I'm paper read at meeting dur
ing the recent New York State fair
Prof. William Brown, of the Ontario
Agricultural College. advanced the idea
that the practice Of. shearing both lambs
and mature sheep twice a year might
be successfully adopted if accompanied
with high feeding and good care. He
illustrated his opinion with a supposed
case of lot of Shropshlres, and it is
this than would either the long-wool OF
merinos. He would shear in August
and again quite early in the spring, Civ
ing shelter to the newly-shorn ewes for
a few days.
There is in the following item that
which suggests line of action which
may well be adopted in more places
than Texas. and where the cutting of
fences is unknown. The Houston Age
says: Captain Robert f. Stafford and
Captain Joseph Davis have immense
bodies of land inclosed for pasture, and
neither of them has ever had fence
cut or any trouble with the smaller
cattle-owncrs. They never fence on
any land but their own. They do not
even fence in all that belongs to them.
When they are inclosing pasture
grounds they always leave little land
and water on the outside for their
neighbors cattle to Craze on"
-Four years ago lost two hundred
chickens by cholera, and in trying al
most everything l could think OF to cure
it / at last tried white-oak bark, which
cured all that had it. This spring my
chickens commenced dying of the same
disease and l again stopped it with the
same remedy. Make strong decoc-
tion of the bark, and when cool make
dough of cornmeal and the tea and feed
the fowls all they will eat for two days,
and think no more will be lost that
are able to eat. lam not sure that this
is a certain remedy, but from my ex-
perience with it think it worth trying,
and hope some who have cholera among
their fowls will use it and report
Louisville COurier-JOurndL.
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Much AdVice to Farmers.

The daughter of farmer writes TO a
prominent journal that farmers have
thrust upon them vast am cunt of adj
vice from persons in other callings, and
especially from the press. She objects
to this greatvolume of counsel as a re-
Election on the intelligence of the farm
or and his ability to take care of him
self. The point is well made by the
young lady. Advice is poured out on
the farmer in volume very nearly cor
responding with the ignorance of those
who give it. There are few things
which an industrious and thrifty farmer
does or .omits to do without reasons
based on experience. When a prac-
teal cultivator of the soil is in doubt or
perplexity the amateur agriculturist and
book-farmer sees with vision which is
infallible just what ought to be done.
and, with great yolnbility, tells what
he knows, or, more likely, what he does
not know. There are, however, scSne
maxims in life which are applicable
TO all callings, and which may be
urged on farmers with the same pro-
priety with which they are offered
to others. These are often not new to
those to whom they are commended,
but, being timely discussed and with
opposite suggestions and applications,
may be made more effective. For ex-
ample, there is scarcely farmer who
does not know the advantage of early
planting and sowing; nevertheless many
may have their energies quickened by q
judicious reminder of the Importance
of this part of their labors, and be slim
ulated to make sacrifices in some other
direction to achieve the great point of
getting.their seed early in the ground.
The rehearsal and discussion In news
papers of the experiences of different
individuals and of individuals In differ
erent neighborhoods can scarcely fail
of conveying information to the inter-
ested reader, and, in this way, agricult-
wrists are. no doubt, frequently ben
Gifted by what is printed. The practical
and discerning among them will gen.
orally be able TO. seize that which has
value in the great volume of written
opinion and advice thrust upon them
and allow the worthless TO pass unheed-
ed and uncared for.-Sk Lokis Repub-
lican-
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RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.

"A large college is to be erected al
Rugby, Tenn, Thomas Hughes having
conceived the idea while on a recent Wis.,
it to that place.
The Episcopal General Convention
at its last session elected as Bishop of
Shanghai Rev. DIR. George Worthington,
Of st. Johns Church, Detroit.
The latest text used by Rev. DR..
f. +. Hale is: For if n man thinketh
himself to be something when he is
nothing, he dece veth himself. Chica-
~ Journal.
Citizens of Boston have subscribed
$3.50, 900 as q permanent fund for the
Massachusetts Institute of Technolo-
gy, the income only to be used.-Boston
Transcript
"A young Danish Count, travelling
through India, has become so much
impressed with the need of religious
work there that he has become q mis-
sionary himself.
The oldest school-teacher in New
Haven, Conn.,. is Sarah Wilson, n ne
gress seventy-seven years old, who has
been teaching for sixty years. Her
father was born slave in New Haven,
but bought his freedom. Mrs. Wilson
has good Observation-Disclosures Post.
The Chicago EUen,ng Journal
counts the kindergarten and the Manual
Training School the most important adj
ditions made to our educational institu-
tons during this century. The time
will come, it predicts, when training
in both will be deemed an essential part
of every child's education. We are in
clined to accept the prediction y.
Examiner.
don't you have any schools herep"
Had kind of a school here last sea-
son, but tho teacher was too willing"
"How sop "Oh, some of the trustees
asked him if he taught that the world
was round or square. and he said, SEEM
he was out of a job, he'd teach her
round or square--just rs the School
Board wanted it teached. Said it was
immaterial. boston Post.
Chicago has been chosen as the
next place of meeting of the General
Convention of Episcopalians of the
United States. At the meeting yester-
day it was reported that i'm the last fifty
years the Episcopal Church in this
country had more than doubled the
number of its diocese and increased
the number of clergy fivefold and of
COMMITMENTS tenfold. - Chicago IYib-
ulle.
-Sixty-one thousand five hundred
and fifty-seven dollars! That Is the con-
tribution to benevolent objects made in
one year by Plymouth Church. Mime
apolis, in addition to carrying on its
own great work. Not in Boston, or
New York, or in any of our great cities
has any church equaled it so far as re-
ported. A few years since this
Plymouth Church was Home Mission
station. Baptist Weekly.
A writer who describes the Indian
schools in Albuquerque, and who says
that additional buildings arc to be
erected, adds: 1.-THE experiments in
Carlisle, Pa, and in Hampton, Ia. have
demonstrated the wisdom of establish
ing schools for Indian youth. 1t is
found that, aside from philanthropic
considerations. schools i'm which the
head and the hand are trained are more
economical and more thorough than any
method hitherto devised for civilizing
the Indian"
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ADDITIONAL DISPATCHES.

The President, It. Is reported, has so
amended Civil Service Rule No. 3 that il
now distinctly prohibits the appointing
power alike in every department and in
every post-ofiice and custom office from
making any discrimination in selections
for appointments by reason Of any political
or religious opinions or utilization.
The Chief Signal Officers annual report
says the service has been seriously crippled
by the diminished appropriations, and
urges Congress to be more liberal in the
future. He recommends a separate office
on the Pacific coast, and a decided extern
sion of the service in that important re-
gion.
The Chief OF the Bureau Of Yards and
Docks estimates that IL will he necessary
10 expend $6O6, 900 at the Mare Island Navy
Yard for the fiscal year, ending June 30,
1885.
HENRY c. MCGEE, a well-to-do farmer.
residing near Independence, Mo-, recently
killed his wife and daughter and then him.
self. He shot his victims with double
barreled shotgun and completed the affair
by swallowing poison The tragedy was
not discovered until his four other children
returned from school and found their
mother dead-dressed as IL about to 20 out
visiting. MCGEE was from Kentucky and
had been quite wealthy, but had met with
some reverses within the past few years.
He was reported to be a stern, exactin1
husband and father.
THE entire roof, inside wall, iron and
stone columns of the new south wing of
the Capitol at Madison, Wis, fell the other
afternoon, burying about twenty-five work.
men in the ruins. Bernard Higgins, VIII
liam Edgar, Michael Sewank and William
G. Jones were killed, and about twenty in.
jured, some fatally.
CHAs. +. DIX, Cashier Of the Savings
Bank at Council Bluffs, Iowa, shot himself
through the head the other day and died in
stantly. he was Twenty-Five years old.
No cause for the act could be assigned, as
his accounts were reported straight.
JUDGE HOFFMAN, of the United States
District Court, at San Francisco, recently
decided that the Chinese who went to China
prior to the passage Of the Restriction act
are entitled to land.
TIE Executive Committee of the Woman,s
Foreign Missionary Society Of the Method.
ist Episcopal Church, at its late annual
session at Des Aoines, Iowa, voted to raise
$4,000 for the establishments Of the first
woman's periodical in India.
DURING q recent fire in q factory at
Roubaix, France, q quantity Of benzine az
ploded, killing ten persons and injurine
forty. Three hundred persons were EN-.
plcyed In the factory. Thirty women were
working In the upper stories The flames
caused an explosion, cut on their escape
and they leaPed from upper windows.
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THE WORLDS DOINGS|
a Summary OF the Daily News.
POLITICAL AND Personal.

ARTHUR b. JOHNSON, a lawyer and we'll
known politician, was found dead in his Of
flee at Utica, N. Y, recently, pistol hall
in his breast. He was an uncle OF johnson
l.. Lynch, shot by Rowell, in Batavia, n few
nights previous. They occupied the same
Office. johnson probably committed sui
eide under the depression caused by the
shooting Of Lynch.
AT the recent election Of officers Of the
National Women's Christian Temperance
Union, In Detroit, Mich, Francis f. VIII
lard was unanimously reelected President
amid the greatest enthusiasm.
Ex-Governor RANDOLPH died suddenly
at Morristown, ". j., on the eth.
COLONEL JOHN A. MARTIN, Secretary Of
the National Republican Committee, has
issued call for n meeting OF the Repub-
lican National Committee, TO be held Mt the
Arlington House, Washington, ID. C., on
Wednesday, December -, 1883, at twelve
o'clock, for the purpose OF deciding upon n
date and place for holding the next
National Republican Convention.
LATER returns from the November cleo
lions showedthe election OF the Democratic
state ticket in New York, except Maynard
for Secretary 81 State, who was scratched
heavily and Carr elected. The Legislature
seemed to be Republican. Butler was de-
feated In Massachusetts by over 10000.
The Democrats carried Virginia by about
5000, with a majority in the Legislature.
Maryland. Democratic. Pennsylvania,
Republican. New Jersey, Democratic
state officers, with five majority
on joint ballot in the Legislature. Con
necticut, Republican Legislature. Missis.
sippi, largely Democratic. Minnesota, Re
publican. Nebraska, Republican. In Da-
kota tho Constitution seemed TO have ma
jority. In Kansas, Martin, in the Topeka
district; French, in the Fort Scott district;
Sluss, in the Wichita district; Nicholson, in
the Junction City district, and Stillwell, in
the Humboldt district, appeared to be selected
Judges.
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A Misplaced switch and n. Results.

81. ALBASe, VT, Nov. 5.
A train on the Missisquoi Railroad was
thrown from the track by q misplaced
switch and the engine precipitated into the
river. The engineer, Thomas Flood, had
both legs broken and skull fractured. Fire
man Fred Henaer went down with the
engine and was killed No passengers
were injured Ed Ellis, . brakeman, IL ac-
cused Of turning and locking. the switch
and causing the accident. Ellis, was ar
rested this afternoon. he confessed to
using the switch early this morning but
claims he left II all right Circumstantia1
evidence IL strong against him
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a Negro pe.perado Kined.

CHARLESTON, s. c.. Nov. 5.
Toby Grant, negro desperado, was
killed by Abram w. Clement, a white man,
at Rantoups Sunday. Grant, intoxicated,
went into a store where Clement clerked
and cursed him. When ordered out he
threatened to kill Clement, and assaulted
him twice. Then the latter shot Grant
dead. An immense crowd of negroes gath.
cred about the store and threatened to
lynch Clement. but three white men locked
the doors Of the store and kept guard all
night, the mob remaining outside. To-day
an inquest was held and Clement safely
conveyed to fail.
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Daring Train Robbery.

sDANvILLE, ILL.,, Nov. 3.
At an early hour this morning two most
iaring robberies took place on roads run
aing into this city. As the west-bound pas
senger train on the Indianapolis, Bloom
ngton & Western Railroad was nearing
his point, four men entered the passenger
soach, with drawn revolvers, aud relieved
The passengers Of about 1920 inmoney,
and check for $500 on the First Ma
;ional Bank of Clinton, Ill. When the
train stopped here the robbers boarded the
east-bound passenger train on the Wabash,
st. Louis & Pacific Railroad, and again
presenting their rcvolvers robbed the ter
rified passengers of $500, -
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TuE superintendent Of Foreign Mails.
In his annual report, stated that the to-
tai weight Of the mails dispatched to
countries Of the Postal Union. with the
exception Of Canada, was 2.S52. $50
pounds, an increase Of 529. ia pounds
over the weight Of last year. OF the
letter mail dispatched forty-onc per
cent. was sent to Great Britain and Ire
land twcnty-thrcc TO Germany and
lwcnty-scvcn Go other countries of
Europe, and nine per cent. to the Postal
Union OF countries and colonies outside
Of Europe.
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The Zura Burns ca.n.

LINCOLN, ILL.,, Nov. 5.
The preliminary examination of o. A.
Carpenter, charged with the murder of
zura Burns, commenced here to-day, Judge
Lyman Lacy presiding. The testimony
of Mrs. Fanny Dukes, sister of the muir.
dered girl, and Mrs. Rebecca A. Carpenter.
of Decatur, tended to establish the fact OF
an intimacy existing between Carpenter
and Miss Burns. The defense Is in able
hands and it is hardly thought that the
State will be able TO make out a case stuff.
GENTLY strong to hold Carpenter without
bail. though there is every probability that
he will be placed under bonds to await the
action of the Grand Jury. There is strong
current of public sentiment against the ac.
cused, with threats of lynching. AZ
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MuwA1KrE wrs !

..-.- 49,, MILWAUKEE, WIS, Nov. 3.
A Portage dispatch says: A bundle of
money, amounting to about 5000, which
was in care Of the American Express Com
pany, was stolen last night. w. P. Long,
night transfer agent, had the packages for
Chicago and st. Paul Railway Company
and Milwaukee. In passing through the
door OF the Office the bag caught on staple
and was torn open on the side. A Milwau-
kee package Of between 5000 and 5000
fell out, but Long didn't miss it till he
reached the car. Returning, he found the
package gone. Detectives have taken the
case but find no elew.
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EDWARD RicuARDs, forty-nino years
DID, an inmate of the National Soldiers
Home. went TO Northern Wisconsin on n
Through In September and was engaged
as n nurse by the Sheriff Of Bayfield,
County. who ono day found him asleep.
lie could not be awakened. and was
taken home, ut Milwaukee. in COMA
tose condition. lie had been asleep
twcnty-nine days, with the prospect of
prolonging his nap Indefinitely. lie had
been regularly fed by an attendant, and
swallowed everything put in his mouth.
Once before no slept seventeen DAYS.
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MISS AGGIE HuL seems to be ire
Pressible. Failing in her former suits
against Ex-senator Sharon. she recently
nled another suit against the Senator. in
The supreme Court at San Francisco. IN
which she asks for divorce and alimony.
She persists in claiming TO be his wife
and charges him with desertion. She
charges that when she married the Sem
ator he was deeply in debt; his property
was Only worth FIVE millions. and that
under Joint management as man and
we ne Is now worth fifteen millions.
She now asks that accounts be taken Of
All business transactions since the mar
rage, that the value Of the common
property may be determined and equally
divided.
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Impending Race Troubles.

The negroes are still meeting and de
npuncing the Supreme Court of the United
States on account Of the decision on the
civil rights bill. Trouble il anticipated in
counties where the negroes are in large
majority. The white people are doing all
in their power to pacify them, but say Il
the negroes begin hostilities the whites viii
enter into general determination. More
Intelligent people think there are too many
educated and sensible negroes to fear any
seditious movement.
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A WASHINGTON CRY court recently
decided that sclf-killing by an insane
person. understanding the physical ma
Iure and consequence Of his act, but not
Us moral aspect, is not death by suicide
within the meaning Of the condition
within q policy Of insurance upon his
life, that the policy shall be void in case
he shall die by suicide.
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AToRoNTO paper thinks that Canada
has some reason 20 be alarmed by the
announcement that Il Is the intention Of
the British Government TO dcport the
population Of what are known as the
congcsted districts Of ireland wholesale
to Canada. IL demands that II this be
done proper means be taken TO prevent
any of these people from becoming a
charge and burden on cities and towns
ofCanada, and protests against ''the inn
portation Of tens Of thousands whose
whole previous lives have united them
to make their way in this country, I'M
less ample security be given that they
or any Of them will not become public
BURDEN
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WIuLE the debris caused by the re-
cent explosion Of the office Of the Chief
OF Police, ut Frankfort-On-the-AIain.
wns being removed, eight shells Of n
shrapncl shape were discovered. They
were filled with nitro-glyccrinc. Rigid
inquiry was instituted into the cause Of
the explosion, and several suspected per-
sous we're arrested. The explosive was
IN glass she'll the size II pigeon eggs.
The shells had been charged with nitro
Vlycrrinc.
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KNG ALFONSO has the rheumatism.
The Princess Albert. Of Prussia. recently
'praincd her ankle, the Marquis Of
Lansdownc has received threatening
letters. and royalty generally steps aside
At the sight Of suspicious-looking par
-cls, for fear If dynamite.
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a nrIL recently attempted the haz-
nrdous feat Of Quitting an engine of
the track near Lexington, KY. upon
The Kentucky Central Railroad. The
engine stood the shock, hut the baggage
car and two coaches were overturned.
and the escape from n frightful catas-
trOphc was miraculous, rs the track
oyorhung high cmbankmcnt. What
became Of the bull was not stated.
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THERE has for some time been CON
lined in the Easton Pa.) Jail n horse
thief named Smull, who is not only
anxious To show what n horse thief can
endure, but is ambitious Of cmulating
DIR. Tanner in fasting. On the 2d inst
he had entered upon the twenty fifth
lay IT his fast, and pcrslstcntly declared
he would beat Tanners record.
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lr was said to be currently reported
and believed in Paris. that Great Britain
bad sounded the Brazilian and United
States Governments To ascertain whether
hey would mediate between France
anil China