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The Ctiuncellor was captured. 
Besd is the name of a Georgia blacksmith, 
who Is said to be the strongest man in that 
State. He is six feet ten inches tali, and can 
hold a 120 pound anvil with one hand. Some¬ 
times for pleasure, he holds out cartwheels 
by the spoke, or snaps chains that horses can¬ 
not break. He is much respected in the com¬ 
munity in which he lives. 
Tins Roman Catholic archbishop of New 
Orleans, has i*>ued a proclamation to the 
church, calling attention to the daily rains 
which have fallen since ttao beginning of the 
Mention this paper. 
£tocfc and poultry, 
JEltsKI Rica, POLAMMIII5, 
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. rrim vrrry animal. Hi mug, healthy 
TgESHK Vf*- »t«ek only. Purity guuriin 
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O. II. vt urrlngton, Urorder, Bo* Gli, U wt Cheater. Pa. 
/ FORD 
began tbeir drinking by tho use of beer, 8T by 
driuking whisky (as punch at first usually), 
20 began with wine, 8 with gin. and It could 
not remember what beverage was first used. 
Several drunkards, far gone toward insanity, 
had never drunk any other intoxicant than 
beer. 
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PERSONALS. 
Tv riley has resigned as Minister to Austria. 
Accepted. 
The sword which Blucherwore at Waterloo 
was sold at auction in Berlin for less than $20. 
Tuk second volume of Mr Blaine’s history 
is said to he growing at the rate of five pages 
per day. 
The Duke of Edinburgh, after losing $2,000 
per year on his Eastwell Park farm, has de¬ 
cided to abandon the place. 
R. A. Van Cleave, of Mississippi, and A. 
L. Dutieun, of Pennsylvania, have been ap¬ 
pointed special, agents in the Land Office, 
President Cleveland’s stableman says 
tbe President docs uot care much for horses. 
In taking exercise he much prefers to walk, 
V erdi is manifesting a singular aversion to 
hearing music, He rarely listens to the ren¬ 
dition of any music, even his own, and never 
touches a piano himself, 
Walt Whitmans friends have just pre¬ 
sented him with a horse and phaeton, which 
pleases the old gentleman very much, as his 
paralysis prevents his walking. He has re¬ 
ceived $500 from his English friends. 
The Prince of Wales, it is estimated, is en¬ 
titled to wear 70 different uniforms. He has 
a right to 17 different military uniforms alone 
and special costumes without numher, asso¬ 
ciated with bis various titles and offices. And 
he actually does wear them as each occasion 
arises. 
G. L. Thomas, of Albany, N. Y., is said to 
own the largest mastiff in the world. His 
name is Senator, his age is 13 months; weight 
100 pounds; bight, 35>£ inches over the 
wethers; length from tip of nose to end of 
tail, seven feet eight inches, and he is valued 
at $1,500; 
When Bismarck made the acquaintance of 
his present doctor he was sick, and peevishly 
declined to answer questions. "As you like,” 
said the doctor; “then send for a veterinary 
surgeon, as such practitioners treat their na¬ 
nce gathering and cotton picking season, and 
recommending that special prayers be made 
to avert the destruction of the crops. 
Mr. Moses I. Ward, of Pelham, Mass., 
bought a dog for $3 three years ago, and has 
just sold the auimal for $5, but as, in the in¬ 
terim, Mr. Ward has bad to pay $(! for licen¬ 
ses and damages of $50 and $05 to persons 
bitten by the cur, there is not as much profit 
in the transaction as one might think. 
The Duke of Devonshire has atHclker Hall 
a notable herd of Short horn cattle, lie has 
paid for the stock, iu all, since 1851, the sum 
of $1(17,845, and the gross receipts from sales 
in the same time amount to $404,655. Out of 
the difference between these sums he has paid 
all expenses of management, feeding, etc ,aud 
laid away a handsome net profit. 
Eikst Com tbom.kh Durham bus forwarded 
u transcript of the accounts of George B. 
Loring, ex Commissioner of Agriculture, to 
tbe Solicitor of the Treasury for the institution 
of a suit for the recovery of about $30,000 of 
Government funds alleged to have been il¬ 
legally expended by Mr. Loring in the pur 
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Agriculture. 
Mr. L. M. Hall, Superintendent of the 
Womens' Reformatory Prison at Sherboru, 
Mass., publishes that out of an examination 
of 204 inebriate women he has found that 128 
poet) is going ahead iu tbe right way to found 
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view to establishing sawmills, laying out the 
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WHAT THE REMEDY WILL DO. 
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Tasmanian Red wVka d t. 
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GRAPE VINES—NIAGARA, 5«T£, E 
| « I L and other*, straw berries, Blaek- 
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*~)o Catalogue. JOEL HORNER a SON.lGrchantvUU.N. J. 
EMPIRE 
if STATE, 
ics, Black- 
