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Andrew Carnegie, the steel-rail million- 
aire, lias b«eu trying for some time to give 
Pittsburg, Pa., a $256,(MX> public library, but 
the city cannot legally increase its indebted¬ 
ness and declines the offer. Allegheny City 
now steps in with an offer of u site and the 
money to run the library if established there, 
and Mr. Carnegie is considering. 
Sioux Agency, in Dakota, has lieen suspended 
by the Interior Department for insubordina¬ 
tion in refusing to accept a new clerk appoint¬ 
ed to his agency, lie has long had much 
trouble with Red Cloud and his intractable 
baud, but has always Carried things with a 
high hand. A major of the 7th cavalry is 
temporarily in charge of the agency. 
PI A MTS per 1,004). Nansemond Sweet Po- 
■ RIO tato and P. S. Cabbage after June 1st. 
FREEMAN Hl'BFF, SWEDESBORO, N. J. 
D 6 IIZLO NCBtRRY* 
Send stamp for sample of this valuable Wheat and “ 
Deltz Fruit Drier. G. A. Deltz, Chainborsburg, Ha. 2. 
Marlboro 
meepsut lied G 
to A. J. CA’ 
Ibnro Raspberry, Ulster Prolific and Cough- 
Semi f,, r description and price 
. CAY WOOTI die SON'. Marlboro, N. V . 
NOW IS THE TIME 
Spray Fruit Trees. 
Eight dollars invested now, will return you 
Five Hundred Dollars in November. Cat¬ 
alogue and full information FREE, 
FIELD FORCE PFJIF CO.. 
LockporC, N. Y. 
rnnriA a ls die only successful Direct 
T Hr r HnrK A Draft Mower ni atm fact ured. 
-j t W jii rfo at least, one third 
more work than the side-cut machines with same 
power As the cut • Is untrampled. hay will 
cure quicker, nd for more money. Don't 
fall to see the Jtrta before haying. Send for 
new 1886 catalogue. Mention this paper. 
EPRB' A MOWER CO., Utica,N. 
MACHINERY 
CLAY CRUSHERS. 
N THE 
ORLD 
UnilTC IX A MII.D CLIMATE. Be 
n 11 111 I t "' ei ' Tl Chesapeake Kay and the At- 
^ ■antic Ocean. Healthy, easv aud 
good living. CHEAP La.VL-s. Productive Soil, F tali 
anil uysters. Money made in Fruits and Vegetables. 
V.heap rales by rail and water. Seud fur Circular. 
Brown e .1 neob & Co., Accomack C. H., Va. 
FARM AND STOCK FOR SALE. 
828 ACRES, mile from the city of Louisiana, 
Mo. ell adapted for Dairying. Stock Raising or Fruit 
Growing Plenty of living water. Fine Buildings. 
Good Orchard. Owner cannot attend to it, and will 
s ?1I low on easy terms. 
Herd of -J5 hem! choice Jersey cattle. Louisiana ls on 
the Mississippi river ah, HI I ;s miles north of st. Louis 
For particulars address 
DR. 11. B. BUTTS*. LOUISIANA, MO 
P. O. Box 
AMERICAN 
ROAD MACHINE CO. 
KENNETT SQUARE, PA. 
Sn pp/ ysi, vm Li 
S. PENNOCK & SONS 4 0. and CEO. Vi. TAFT. 
imfrovio RQAD MAKING IMPLEMENTS 
FOR CITY, TOWN AND COUNTRY 
ty~ Mnrhiiii's sent nil trial, :iud «n t i-lnd ion 
gunrituterd. Purchasers are assured "f immunity 
from law suits. Circular aud colored cuU FR l-:E. 1 
THE GIBBS PATENT “ IMPERIAL" 
Steel, Cast, and Chilled PLOWS. 
Fine I* arm*.—Va. and Carolina. Piedmont Region: 
water Power and Town Lots fur sale. Estate Journal 
free. Elam’s Real Estate Agency. Bor 136, Danville, Va. 
„ neosho river valley farms 
For sale cheap. Write for circular. 
\VM. DAK BV, 
Hnnibal.lt, Kan. 
Virginia Farms.—Mild Climate. Cheap Homes. 
Bend for < ircular. A. O.BI.1SS, Centralia. Va. 
EUREKA FOLDING CANOPY T0P~ 
. Made in different sires, and 
I I can be attached to nearly all 
II wagons-buggiss. phaetons and 
. H . Easily removed and 
*4 lolds like an umbrella. If von 
I cannot get. it of your local 
^^■T7\ wagon maker or dealer, send 
WKp- 'A hi tia for ill us. circular and 
—I pricelist. Agents wanted 
• '3/r\ 7 everywhere. V-eb.... t*... 
1 iX Xl ' X- D. C. BEERS & CO. Fab 
a-l ITr. NEWTOWN. IX 
Ko neck weight. No lifting at corners. Easier driving, 
SSKSKS libhter DRAFT 
nil wheels. Will plow any ground a mower can cut 
over. Bo equal in hard, stony groaod. or on hillsides. 
Oar book, “FUN ON THE FARM,” sent Free 
to all who mention th» paper 
ECONOMIST PLOW CO.^jSSUE™ 
t* Special prices imd time for trial jrfven 
02) first orders from points »v’’ors have no 
BroaTcTcentre EUREKA 
DRAFT, MOWER 
600 ACRES. 
13 CREENHOUSES. 
Time and Money 
TREES^PLANTS 
We offer foffuie Spring Trade a large and line stock of 
every description of Fruit, aud Ornamental 
Tree*, Shrubs. Hoses, Vines, Small Fruits, 
Hedge Plants, Fruit Tree Seedlings and 
Forest Tree .Seedlings. Priced Catalogue, Spring 
1886, .mailed free on application. Address, 
BLOOMINGTON (PHOENIX) NURSERY. 
Es t ablished 185*. BLOOMINGTON, 8LL- 
THE DINGEE & CONARD CO’S 
BEAUTIFUL EVER-BLOOMING 
OwiGnat Specialty is gTvwrin* and dwtribatin* 
ROSES.We hav© all the latest nov&ltiee and finest 
standard Barts*, in different sires and prices to salt all 
wants. Over ioO choicest varieties to chooee from 
We send acrong Pot Roeee safely by mail to all Post 
Offices, porchaaer’s choice of varieties. all labeled, 
3 TO 12 PLANTS tt ■ *a to *15 
■ ■ per Hundred, 
according to vain© Two year Roeeebyerpree*. Oar 
NewOnlde.^ Mjree, elmnUyiBaatrated Free, 
Address THE DING EE A CONARD CO- 
Rose Growers, West Grove, Cheater Co- Pa- 
ifunutn^ nnccLd 
Keif 4 -ii Idl ng. Uses a wheel londside. Two horses 
lartoad of three, A ten year old boy instead of a p!ow- 
PERSONALS. 
It is said that the membership of the United 
States Senate represent £102,(XX),(XX) of wealth. 
It isn’t the mother of 44, but the daughter 
of 20 Grover is to marry, in spite of late re¬ 
ports. 
The creditors of Ferdinand Ward have sold 
what they could of his property for having 
sold them. 
John Deere, the first to apply steel to the 
manufacture of plows, died Monday evening, 
at his home at Moline, III. 
The wife of the Chicago Anarchist leader. 
Parsons, asks for a suspension of judgment in 
his case; there should be a suspension of him. 
Louis Riel’s widow is dying broken-heart¬ 
ed, at fSt. Vital, Manitoba, She- never re¬ 
covered from the shock of her husband’s execu¬ 
tion. 
Catholic Archbishop Croke, of Cashel, 
Ireland, a bitter Nationalist, has put a portrait 
of Gladstone in his private gallery—the first 
Englishman ever so honored. 
King Kalakaua is an active member of 
the Honolulu fire department. He runs to 
fires with the engine, and is an expert opera¬ 
tor of the pump handle. 
Mrs. Buckingham, the richest woman fruit- 
farmer in California, has an orchard a mile 
long, with row after row of pear, cherry, 
peach and apricot trees. 
President Cleveland very properly re¬ 
fuses to discuss his prospective marriage; the 
right of telling about that sort of thing be 
longs exculsively to Miss Folsom. 
E. B. W ASHBURNK, of Chicago, has accept¬ 
ed the presidency of the American exhibition, 
to be held In London, commencing May 2, 
188T, and to continue two months. 
Powderly, head of the Knights of Labor, 
was boycotted Itl years ago, so that for months 
he could get nothing to do; naturally, there¬ 
fore, he hates boycotting. 
Sec. Lamar says he “would vigorously 
protest if Land Commissioner Sparks should 
intimate an intention toresign.” “No honest, 
bona fide settler," says he, “has anything to 
l'ear from his rulings.” 
The Queen proposes to make Wales’s eldest 
sou the Duke Of Kent, Victoria’s father’s title, 
which will give him a seat in the House of 
Lords, and the jieople will be asked to give 
him an annuity of $50,(XX) for so sitting. 
Mil Lowell caught a severe cold on his 
voyage to England, and Dr. Holmes was quite 
ill on his arrival. But both are now in good 
health and are the recipients of kindly atten¬ 
tion. Dr. Hohncs has been treated with 
marked courtesy. Among the authors and 
the reading public of England he has always 
been exceedingly popular. 
The New York Legislature having amended 
the code so as to remove the restrictions 
against women practicing in the law courts, 
the .Supreme Court, ou Thursday, admitted 
Miss Kate Stoueman, of Albany, to the Bar— 
the first female lawyer in the Empire State. 
Women can practice law now in 1(1 States and 
two Territories; but there are only 48 female 
lawyers. 
piSTcIlattfattiS 
Costsonly$3.55 per b<j. (lOxjOft.) Lasts J' 
a life time on 8teeb or FTot roofs. Rendy for use. Any- 
body ran apply it. Illustrated book Free if you mention 
this paper. IP rite- ot once to 143 Dnane St.. rf. Y. City. 
INDIANA Pill NT AND ROOFING CO., 
GALVANIZED SHINGLES. 
Makes handsomest, most durable, absolutely storm 
proof roof In existence. Send for particulars to 
The National Sheet Metal Hoofing Co., 
510 East. 20th Afreet, New York. 
FIRE-PROOF! WATER-PROOF! 
Gutta Percha Roofing. 
especially adapted fo Hot or Cold Climates. ° 
Cheap and Durable for Flat or Steep Roofs. Send for 
Catalogue. 
EMPIRE PAINT AND ROOFING CO., 
1128 and 1180 Race St., Philadelphia, Pa. 
—' Send for prices 
and Illustrated Catalogue of 
CINCINNATI (0.) CORRUGATING CO. 
Take, th* lead, doe* not corrode like tin or iron, nor 
decay like sbinffloa or tar eomjxeitions. easy to apply, 
strong and durable at half the ooet of tin. Is also a 
SUBSTITUTE for PIETER at Half the 
Cost. CARPETS and HUGS of same double 
the wear of oil dot ha, Catalogue, and samples fret, 
_ W. H. FAY dfc CO., CAMDEN, N. J. 
A"uoss of^taste and thirst for acids, yellow 
complexion, pimply skin, a mysterious aching 
of the bones, a distressed condition of the head, 
woe-begone expression of the face, irregular 
action of the heart, perodieal headache with 
prostration, high temperature of the body 
with chills and fever, and constant, sense of 
weariness; fluttering in the stomach, aud 
sinking semsation and depression, |min iu the 
limbs, depression of spirits, irritability of 
temper, indicate what is called a malarious 
condition of the system; a condition which 
must be removed, if at all, through the rein- 
vigoration of the kidneys and liver, for which 
nothing equals that great specific, Warner’s 
safe cure. 
Agent McGillicudiiy, of the l’ine Ridge 
Ex- President Arthur drove out Wednes¬ 
day and is improving. While he was Collect¬ 
or of this jiort there was an “unaccountable 
shortage” of $5,000, aud a “descrepmiey” of 
$8,436.83 iu the accounts of a dead subordi¬ 
nate—making a shortage of $8,430.88. Arthur 
had to pay it, but Congress Ls likely to repay 
him, as no one attributes the loss to him. 
Thursday afternoon, Mrs. Alice Pendle¬ 
ton, aged til, wife of lion. G. H. Pendleton, 
of Ohio, our Minister at Berlin, jumped from 
a hired runaway carriage here in Central 
Park, and pitching on her head in the road, 
was instantly killed, ller daughter, Jane 
Frances Pendleton, aged 22, also jimqied, but 
though seriously was not fatally hurt. Both 
had left Berlin two months ago, and were to 
return soon. Mix. P. was daughter of Fran¬ 
cis Scott Key, author of “The Star Spangled 
Banner,” sister of Philip Barton Key, killed 
by Gen. Sickles, and niece of Chief Justice 
Roger B, Tauey, 
PSICE3 
LOW. 
THE ROCHESTER 
HAY and GRAIN ELIVATOFS 
SLING and STACKER 
BEATS THEM ALL. 
Agents wanted. Send for circular. 
Mention this paper. 
W. G. RICKER, 
ROCHESTER. N. Y. 
jSlFREE to farmers 
J 1 oua ctRcrt.Atts or thk 
^FlITTLE GIANT HAY LOADER 
Cjc—fethe only hay oarrinrn that runs riyhtor 
ir* liji without and boras returns 
year. Hay Cakkik'k OcTrrra sent on trial to 
I ffttod men where we hare no agent*. AokntS 
sell the good* the tanner want*. Address 
P, 0. Box 874. OBORM BR0B„ Marlon, O. 
HAY U A K K11K hayeievatoS! 
boat In the market fur Dllim; a barn with hay. Better 
than any (ruck carrier. Easily put up and taken 
down. I’rlceonly IS. Warranted to give satisfaction 
or money reft! titled. Host hayfork in the market, 
13.2>. \\ rile for catalogue and terms to agents. 
lIKKIiKItT BAKER. !t:l Eric St . Toledo. O. 
Something I'nsl Description. 
Hopkinsville, Ky., Dec. 7, 1885.—From 
1872 until December, 1884, my condition was 
past description. My disease, uterine trouble 
with tumor, the liest doctors pronounced 
hopeless. Under continued use* of Warner’s 
safe remedies, I am the picture of health.— 
Caroline Bell, 
e^^'° h«m*. p»h 
ikMi TtmsutR worn s.Noise? 1 ar.^KrTroack'Vok^i. 
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