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FOSEKJH TELEGRAPHIC NEWS. EverytWiig is quiet at Kassoula. Political riots are frequent in Belgium. The crop of oranges in southern Europe is very large. A violent storm prevailed throughout Great Britain last week. Count Lowenhaupst, Swedish minister at Washington, has been recalled. The Cuban bandits Porez Junines and Juan Rodrlqnez are reported killed by troops. The Duke of Connaught will return to London from India in March 'via San Francisco. The English authorities at Morocco are accused of inciting the natives against tneirenco. Small pox is racing among the natives at Merawl, Egypt, and numbers are dying iruiu me uisease. Mme. Gerater is in London ill with rheu matism of the throat, and has cancelled all her engagements. -v The French flag has been at Jajurah, Sagalo and Itoilalion, Bay of Aden. France will annex them. Mr. Wilson Barrett's impersonation of namiet is naving a successful run at tne Princess Theater in London. The trial of Cornwall and Kirwin'at Dub lin, for unnatural offences, resulted in the acquittal of the prisoners last week. The Paris Telegraphic states that Prime Minister t errv has accepted England s of fer to mediate between China and France. Advices from Shanghai say a serious type of cholera is spreading through the urencn squadron now blockading .For mosa. Several of the tribes at Suakem, hearing or the success or General Gordon, are man ifesting an inclination to desert Oemam Digma. In the House of Commons last week, Gladstone said the advance on Khartoum would have been made earlier had it been possible. The bark Plevna, of Li verpooir which arrived out from St. John, N. B was burned to the water's edge last week, Tho crew were saved. The Conservatives in the House of Lords will not unite in accepting the Marquis of bansourys policy or resistance to the pass age of the franchise bill. One thousand students accused of Nihil ism have been excelled from the Univers ity of Kieff, St. Petersburg, and drafted into the army as conscripts. The Vienna Official Journal announces the approval by the diet of Lower Austria ef the scheme for a canal intended to join tne uanuoe 1,1 be and Uder rivers. The State lines teamer State of Alabama, which recently arrived at Glasgow from ew Ybrk,.has been aground in the Clyde, She is leaking badly. Part of the cargo is damaged. The report that Sir John McDonald has secured a subsidy for a line of steamers to connect with the Canadian Pacific and ply Decween British Columbia and Japan, laces confirmation. A package containing fifty-three pounds of dynamite was stolen from the magazine at Kiadberg, Austria. The people-in that vicinity are mucn alarmed, as its wnerea bouts are unknown. Says a Paris dispatch of a recent date Sardou'snew drama ' Theodora," accord ing to critical forecast, is his finest work, The drama opens to Bernhardt a chance for her greatest creation. The French Minister of War strongly opposes the proposal to demolish Paris fortifications erected under the adminis tration or President Thiers and to use their sites for building purposes. Recently at Laclen, France, an attempt shot was fired at him by a radical student, The would-be regicide was arrested and news incident thereto suppressed. In the House of Commons last week, Ashley, Under Secretary for the Colonial Department, stated that the English gov ernment was preparing to send a force to expel the Boers from the Montsloas terri tory. Count von Munster, German embassa dor to England, has been instructed by his government to reply verbally to several of the questions regarding the proposed Congo conference recently asked by Earl Granville. Archibald Stewart, a hotel keeper at Porter's Lake, N. S., died recently from eating wild parsnip which he supposed to be sarsaparilla. Another man named Murphy is in a critical condition from the same cause. "Unser Fritz," Crown Prince of Ger many, has become regent of Brunswick. The title of Duke has been dropped. The Prince's eldest son will succeed to the re gency when his father becomes Emperor af Germany. It is learned that fifty basha bazouks who were dispatched from Massoula in pursuit of marauders have decided in a oody to become a band of Abyssinian brigands. Two Europeans are held pris oners by them in hope of securing a ran som. H. Campbell Bonnerman, Secretary to the Admiralty, is appointed Chief Secre tary for Ireland, vice Trevelyan. George Dobson, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lan caster, has been created a peer and will be succeeded by Trevelyan with a seat in the Cabinet. Advices from Valparaiso state that the steamer Cardillera is stranded in the straits. She will probably be gotten off. Three feet of water have already been pumped out and the openings stopped. Three hundred tons of undamaged cargo have been saved. The Town Council of Capo Destria, near Fries t, has been dissolved by the German government and the town put in charge of a government commissioner, in conse quence of a recent proposal to hold a dem onstration in favor of the historian Colmi, recently expelled from the country. At a meeting of the beet root sugar manufacturers n eld in Berlin last week, resolutions were adopted against compul sory reduction of the cultivation of beet roots. , Manufacturers believe that the necessary reduction will come naturally, owing to the state of the sugar trade. . General Klapska recently convoked a meeting at Pesth of the veterans of the war of 188. He has compiled a declara tion acquitting General Georgey of trea son. A deputation will present the origi nal declaration to General Seorgey and place a copy in the National Museum at Pesth, The London Daily News' financial arti- cie Bays: "imgn Mcuuuougn, the new American Secretary of the Treasury, was, some years ago, a familiar figure in Lom bard street." It says it is to be hoped that the next American administration will find a successor equally sound on banking matters. .. The Spanish government was consider ably exercised last week by the receipt of J! j i . . . r 1 a . , e i i a uispiiLcu Buuing mat ine iuoan leaders Maceo, Costello and others had escaped jrom the Balearic Isles, where they were neia as prisoners, and been landed at Al giers by the vessell which took them off the Isles. A wonderful find is reported to have been made in the Greek colony in London. An enterprising antiquarianclaims to have stumbled across some statues which are undoubtedly Grecian, and which he be lieves are 2,000 years old. A scientific in quiry is to be made as to the antiquity of the statues. c The Liverpool Chamber of Commerce re cently sent a petition to Lord Granville . protesting against the German occupation of west African territory, laora Granville has just sent a reply to the petition in which he states the matter is being dis cussed between the English and German governments, , DOMESTIC TELEGRAPHIC HEWS. Chicago had a 150,000 fire recently. Silver has been discovered near Oneonta, N. Y. Coal miners near Denver, Col., are out on a strike. New York exported 301,714 bushels of wheat last week. There are a large number of miners prospecting in Alaska. New-York banks now hold 831,381,000 in excess of legal requirements. The finest block in Fayette City, Pa., burned last week. Loss, $60,000. I The schooner Lucy, from Raleigh, N. C, for New Orleans, has been wreclced. Joaquin Miller's latest play "Logan, the Silent Man," is a failure in New York. Heavy winds and snows are reported from Lakes Huron and Michigan ports. The work of setting stone on the Wash ington monument was resumed last week. General ritz John sorter has been ap pointed Police Commissioner of New York. Mrs. Jernegan, of Sandersville, Ga., cured by faith and claims to have been prayer. Lieutenant Greely. of Arctic fame, has been initiated a member of the New York G. A.R. The Muldoon-Christol wrestling match last week at Bradford, .Fa., was won by the iormer. Bernard Nantre, a real estate broker of New Orleans, committed suicide last week by shooting. H. Lyon &Son. dry "goods dealers. St. Louis, have failed. Liabilities, 00,000; assets, $5U,UX). The twelfth annual congress tor the Ad vancement of Women was held in Balti more last week. - To a New York reporter Cad tain Pim. of the English navy, said that the Panama canal is a iaiiure. . The work of improving the harbor at Memphis, Tenn., is progressing steadily and satisfactorily. A passenger train went through a bridge i - near lieadmg, Fa., last week, and several passengers were killed. The villa of Mary C. Holmes, of New York, at Newport, R. I., was burned last week. Loss, $20,000: insured. George T. Jackson, president of the En terprise uotton factory of Augusta. Ga., is a defaulter to the tune of ?1U0,(KKJ. Dr. Joseph Walker, the oldest Free Mason in America, died in Montgomery county, jn. x., last weeK, aged i years. 1 C: P. Huntington sold his brown stone mansion and stable on West Fifty-fourth street, ftew York, last week, for 650.000. lion. Hugh Mcuuiiougn has been ap pointed by the President to succeed Wal ter Q. Gresham as Secretary of the Treas- ury. It is said in New York that the Union Pacific is more likely to get the Oregon Railway and Navigation lines than the Northern Pacific. Trains through Pennsylvania to the Jersey coast pass through miles of smoke clouds from the forest fires in that section and through a stifling atmosphere. News from McKenzie, Tenn., says An drew Swain, who was poisoned last week by a man named Taylor, is dead. Taylor is in jail. . There are threats of lynching, Lincoln Keith was shot in the head by Dick Adkinson, at Edwardsport, Ind., last week. Keith lived but a few hours. It was an unprovoked murder, and lynching is feared. Dr. Mrs. Ilelem Cummings, of South Boston, Mass., has been arrested for the murder of Mrs. William G. Hill, caused through carelessly placing the wrong labels on two bottles. ine raising of nax has assumed im portant proportions in southern Dakota this. year. Over 2,000,000 bushels have been raised and the farmers are selling it at $1.10 per bushel. S, Selig, a wholesale milliner of San Francisco, assigned last week to Solo mon Haas. . His liabilities are $25,000; as sets are estimated at 820,000. The princi pal creditors are in jNew x ork. The new cruiser, Atlanta, will be taken to Jsew x ork for her machinery. The Bos ton, it is expected will be launched in two or three weeks, and more than one-half of the work on the Chicago is completed. The Western Export Association decided at a meeting recently held in Chicago to reduce the production of whisky 10 per cent, or lb.uuo gallons a day. They pro pose to cut down the production to the de mands of the trade. Private Hinesof company D. Twenty fifth Infantry, while watching a dance the other evening in a negro dance house in Dead wood, Dak., was shot and instantly killed by a woman named Maud b. Marks, The cause of the shooting is unknown. Rufus Blanchard, representing the Na tional bchool J! urni8hmg Company of Uhi cago, has been visiting the Northwest. He is the author of the Historical Map of the United States, used generally in public schools. Santa Fe, N. M., is greatly excited over the attempted elopement of Dr. JFietri Baldaci, editor of La Aurora, a Spanish newspaper, and Mrs. ferfecto xrissan daughter of Don Rafael Topaz, whose marriage was celebrated with great eclat about one year ago. The Surgeon-General of the Marine Hos pital at Washington reports that the fever has again broken out on the west coast of Mexico, in the most malignant form. The city of Colima, 1,450 feet above the sea level, has not escaped the fever: it also rages in Manzanilla. At a meeting or the American paper manufacturers held in New York recently t seemed to be the general opinion that the price of paper should be increased to correspond with the increased price of rags, and that there should be a decided curtailment of production. John T. Pleasants, editor of the Mail, an afternoon paper published at Pittsburg, Pa., was convicted last week and sen tenced to pay a fine of So and be impris oned one minute in jail for publishing on June 17th last a libelous card reflectiag on the character of W. T. Lawrence. The plumbers were successful in their strike in New York, last week, in which they demanded that one hour for dinner should be given, and that work should cease during the winter months when darkness set in. They were also recom pensed for the time they were out. The town of Mayberry, N. C, is greatly excited over the discovery of Jour headless skeletons, in an old dry well, beneath the kitchen of a house formerly occupied by an eccentric cabinet maker named Malcom Redfearn. The heads were also discovered in a basket a short distance from the trunks. ? The ninth annual meeting of the Ameri can Academy was held in Baltimore last week. A resolution was adopted thanking W. H. Vanderbilt for the gift to the Col lege of Physicians and Surgeons of New York. Albert Gibbons was elected presi dent and Oliver Wendell Holmes was elected honorary member. Adrien Hitt, who started from the East River bridge June 19th, to walk to Cali fornia on a wager of 82,000, that he could walk thirty miles a day, won the bet, and is now on his way walking back on a wager of 84,600, to reach New York in ninety days. He has gained twelve pounds while on tho tramp. Edna Allen, aged 5 years, daughter of Rhodes Allen, of Decatur, 111., jumped in to a hog lot the other day and several sows tore and mutilated her a horrible manner. One ear was torn off, the left eye was eat out, her left arm broken and every stitch of clothing, except part of an underskirt, was stripped from her body. She will die. PORTLAND MARKET REPORT jtfLOUR Fancy extra. 8 bbl, S4.25; superfine, 3.00; country brands, 82.75. vv MjciAT JJuli, neglected and slow markets are cabled. San Francisco alone shows any activity. The local market ex hibits tne aame dezroe of weakness as ately. reported, yet selling is described as free. Offerings are very free of all de scriptions. Walla Walla is quoted at S1.0241.05. Valley is irregular at 81.10 .12. with the extreme less frequently paid. Thare must be 20,000 tons of wheat now in warehouses here, of which two thirds is in the hands of shippers. A small class of vessels is beiBg loaded this year, so exports are not as large as they would seem to be. BUTTER Per lb, choice dairy. 27i30c: country store, 20 25c; eastern, 25c. S XxtUF S California refinery Is, W gal., bbls., C2jc, kgs.. 55c, cs., gal. tins, 65c; Eastern, bbls., & gal., 55c. kgs, (30c cs.. 65c. BEANS Small white.83: bavos. 83.50: pinks, 84, and butters. 84.50. GREEN FRUITS Apples, bu. 50 75c; lemons, 87.008.00: pears, 75c; oranges, bx.. 84.7o: limes. & 100.81.50: peaches, $ bx, 81.50; plums, 75c; figs, $ 15. uc; watermelons, v doz.$3.U0; canteloupes, crate, 2.75; quinces, bx, 7oc; grapes, 75c$l. FOULTliY--Chickens. & doz., spring, 2.50(a3. old. 84.004.50; ducks. 87.00(9, geese, $810: turkeys, lb.. 12414c WOOL Valley, 1315c; Eastern Ore gon. 1ZW15C. MiGfc t? doz., 3JC. LARD Steady with free stocks. We quote: Oregon, kegs; f lb., I2i12jfc; tins, ldc; Eastern, small tins, lzc. RICE Sandwich Islands. No. 1. v lb.. 56c; China mixed, 44jc; China No. 1, 6c: Rangoon, 5c. FRUITS Prunes, Hungarian, m 15c; raisins (new), bx., S1.502.00, hi bxs., S2.002.25, qr bxs., 82.252.50, 8th bxs., $2.252.50; currants, Zante, $ lt. in bxs., 10c; citron, $ lb. in drums, 22$c; almonds, Marseilles, lb., 1618c, Lane, 20c; walnuts, Chili, ll124c, California. 10llc. SUGARS Golden C. in bbls., lb., 8c, in ht obis., ic; renned jj, bois., , ni bbls., ; dry granulated, bbls., 9Je, hi bbls., 9$c; crushed, bbis., 9c; fine crushed, bbls., 10, hf bbls., 10c; cube, bbls. 9Sc. hf bbls, 10c; islands, No. 1, kgs, 7c, bgs., 7c. BAKLE x .Brewing, W 100 I5s.,S1.10(a 1.29; feed. 81.10; ground, 825.00. FISH Extra Pacific codfish, whole, in c, 7c, boneless, in bxs.. 8c lb.; domestic salmon, hf bbls., ?4.0U5.UU, bbls., 8.5U, l-ib. Gans, v doz., $1.30; mackerel, No. 1, f kit, 82.50, No. 2, 81.002.25, No. L hf bbls., 810.00, No. 2, 88.50; herrings, salted, hf bbls.. 84. dried. 10-tt. bxs., EOc PROVISIONS Stocks of shoulders and sides are small, and some houses report them wanted. There is the same good movement. We quote bacon, 14(2jl4c; hams, lbie; shoulders, yllc; eastern hams. Jam 16c: eastern bacon, 14c. OATo Sales are made withm the range of last quotations. Receipts are in part on San Francisco account, and local offerings are only fair. We quote good to choice feed 32;c 3oc, with interior dimcuit to sell even at concesssions. POTATOES In lessened request and dull at 2530c bushel. The actual de mand is light and supplies are liberal. DK11SD 1TUU iu Apples, machine- cured, $ lb.. 610c, sun-cured, 68c; peaches, machine-cured, in boxes, loc; prunes, German, in boxes. lb., 8(S8Jc; plums, sun-cured, pitless. 1013c,machine curedt 1013c; pears, machine-cured. 8 lUc; dun-cured, &(sc; ngs, uaiiiornia. zo-id, bx.. 9c: Smyrna, 16&,20c. HOPS lb., 10i6c: RYE Nominal, 100 lbs., 81.00 1.50 HIDES AND BAGS Hides, dry, sound, 1516c lb, culls, one-third less; salt hides, heavy plump, 8c, light weights, 7c; kips and calf, 8e. sheep pelts, just shorn, 10c, two months wool, 20c, lambskins, 1020c, tallow, 6c; burlaps, 40 in. 8c, 45 in., 8Jc, 60 in., loci twine, flour, 35 g 40c, wheat, 35c, fleece, 1213c; gunnies. 15(0.180, wheat sacks. 77fc; 8AK FEANCISCO MARKETS. WHEAT The market is in fair motion. Both shippers and growers appear to be working im unison. It is certainly desira ble to get as much of the crop out of the state before the heavy rains set in, and harmony among the parties directly inter ested helps matters materially. The sell ing figures for No. 1 grade seems to be es tablished at 81.25, as this rate is generally accepted for parcels that come fairly up to standard. Of course,something of choicer character is taken at Sl.-26, while milling lots that possess extra attractive features command 81.30 $ ctl. Bidding at the close is represented as follows: No. 1 White Bid. Buyer season 81 8 Buyer season, city 1 40j Buyer 1884.. 1 30 Buyer 1884, city 1 31 Asked. 81 39 31 32 BRAN The spot market is quotable at 817.5018.50 per ton. ONIONS Quotable at 75c ctl. BE ANS We o uote as follows : Bayos, 83.12i; red,82.25H74: butter, $2.12: pink, 82.25&37&; Kmas, 82.5062i: 8mall white. $2.4o; Pa, $ 2.5U v ctl. RECEIPTS Wheat. 50.000 ctls.: ficur 10,500 qr. sks.: oat, 650 ctls.; potatoes. 2,750 sks.: eggs, 18.500 doz. BAGS AND BAGGING We quote best quality Calcutta wheat bags, standard size and weight,fcat 55c for spot lots; San Quentin factory make, 5: California Jute Mill make, 67c: potato gunnies, ltillc; wool bags, 3742Jc apiece; Burlap cloth, 6fc for 40 inch. FLOUR Prices remain uniform. We quote: San Francisco extra, best, at 84.25fe4.80; medium, S3.504.00; shipping superfine, S2.50Ca3.50. POTATOES We quote wharf rates: Earlv rose. 4065c; garnet chile, 6065c; peerless. 5565c ctl. CORN California yellow is quotable at tfl.401.45 for large, and 81.451.50 for small; white, 81.401.45; Nebraska, white, S1.451.47 ctl. HOPS-1517jc 9 R. HAY Alfalfa, 88.0011.00; wheat,S12.00 15.00; oat, 811.0014.00; barley, S8.00 10.00: mixed. 87.00(2110.00 ton. CRACKED CORN -Quotable at S3334 ftton. . CORNMEAL Millers quote feed at 833 34 ton; fine kinds, for the table, in large or small packages. 3c ft. BUTTER Good to choice roll, lb., 3o37Jc: fair, 1518c; firkin, 2021c: east ern, 14 18c MIDDLINGS Active at S18.0021.00 ton. DRIED PEAS Green, 82.25; niles, 81.75: blackeye, 82.00 ctl. STRAW Quotable at 2545c I? bale. HONEY Extracted, 67o lb for choice: comb, 810c; extracted, 45c. GROUND BARLEY Quotable at 821.50 (223.50 0 ton. BU CKW HE AT Quotable at 82.1Q 2.25 ctl. OATS There is no improvement to note in the situation. The market continues to be overstockek, and supplies work off slowly. We quote: Surprise and milling. 81.40 1.45; No. 1, 81.251.35; No. 2, $1.1C 1.15; black. Sl.fJ01.15 ctl; new Salinas feed, 81.10ai.25. BARLEY The market did not preseBt so strong a front last week. Fancy Feed changed hands in retail fashion at 81, but ordinary grade are hardly quqjable at over 874c, while possibly a lower figure would be accepted if holders be anxious to realize. There are liberal offerings of No. 2 quality that can be bought at87$c, and probably less, while samples of yet lower description receive no attention, and consignments of this latter class literally go begging for custom. Brewing shows a wide range, tha figures being given at 81 (31.10 ctl. In Chevalier there is no marked activity, and quotations keep about the same, say, $1.12i1.20 for com mon, and 81.301.50 ctl for choice to good. Closing prices last week were as follows: No. 1 Feed Spot. Buyer season Seller season. ..... . Buyer 1884......... Seller 1884.... Bid. .81 00 . 1 13 . 991 . 1 041 . i ool Asked. 81 02 FBC2I HEAD TO FOOT. The postmaster at North Buffalo, Pa., Mr. M. J. Green, says St. Jacobs Oil, the great pain-conqueror, cured him of pains in the nead, and also of frosted feet. ?i m 99 1 04 i eil "THE0W PHYSIC TO THE DOGS.". It has come to this with all who are using the new Vitalizing Treatment now being so widely dispensed by Drs. Starkey & Palen, 1109 Girard street, Philadelphia, Pa., specialists in Chronic diseases. This is not a drug treatment. It does not in troduce an enemy into the system, but a kind and gracious healer. It does not as sault or depress nature, as is always the case when crude drugs are taken, but comes to her assistance and restores her weakened vital forces. All of its effects are gentle, pervading ajnd vitalizing. If vou are suffering from amy disease which your physician has failed to cure, Bena to Drs. Starkey & Palen, for their pamphlet, and learn all about thjs wonderful treat ment. All orders for the Compound Oxygen Home Treatment directed to H. E. Math ews, 606 Montgomery Street, San Fran cisco, will be filled on the same terms as if sent directly to us in Philadelphia. . Piso's Remedy for Catarrh is a certain cure. for that obnoxious disease. - England imports between 4,000,000 and 5,000,000 of apples annually. "K0 PHYSIC, SIB, IN MINE'." A good story comes from a boys' board ing school in "Jersey." The diet was monotonous - and constipating, and the learned principal decided to introduce some old-style phvsic in the apple-sauce, and await the happy results. One bright lad, the smartest in the school, discovered the secret mine in his sauce, and pushing back his plate, shouted to the pedagogue, "No physic, sir, in mine. My dad told me to use nuthin' but Dr. Pierce's 'Pleasant Purgative Pellets,' and they are doing their duty like a charm 1" They are anti bilious, and purely vegetable. , , , f The importation of tin plate now reaches the sum of 8 17,000,000 per annum. itarFARMEITS, WHEN you visit SAN Francisco remember that the American Ex change Hotel continues to be the farmers' head quarters; under the experienced management of Charles Montgomery, the traveling public are assured of fair, honorable treatment; board and room per day, $1, ?1.25 and $1.50; nice single rooms, 50 cents per night; this hotel stands at the head of the list for respectability, and con sequently is doing an extensive family business; it is strictly a temperance hotel, having no con nection directly or indirectly with a saloon that is next door in the same building; Montgomery's Temperance Hotel on Second street was the first temperance hotel ever started in San Francisco (11 years ago) and has the largest number ot steady patrons of any hotel in the State; board and room, $1 to $5 per week, or 75 cents to $1 per day; single rooms, 25 to 50 cents per night; when you visit tho city don't forget to try cither the American Exchange or Montgomery's Hotel; both hotels have free coaches to and from all steamers and trains. CHARLES MONTGOMERY, Proprietor. CATARRH A New Treatment whereby a permanent cure is effected in from one to three applications. Particulars and trea tise free on receipt of stamp. A. H. Dittots & Son, 305 King street west, Toronto, Can. Vita Oil. Vita Oil. Vita Oil. Vita Oil. Vita Oil. Vita Oil. If vou want a handsome photograph go to the only first-class gallery in Portland, Abell & Son, 29. Washington street. - Chest friends. protectors may be called bosom It's no secret nostrum. We speak of Dr. Pierce's Extract of Smart-Weed, com posed of best French Brandy, Smart Weed, Jamaica Ginger and Camphor Water. It cures cholera morbus, colic or cramps in stomach, diarrhoea, dysentery or bloomy-flux, and breaks up colds, fevers and liiuammatory attacks. Young ladies ought to make good sleight-of-hand performers. If you want a goad smoke, try "Seal of Thare iz no trechery in silence. Silence iz a hard argument to beet. Josh Billings. "Hello!" we heard one man say to an other, the other day. "I didn't know you at first. Why! you look ten years younger than vou did when 1 saw you last. feel ten years younger," was the reply. " You know I used to be under the weather all the time and gave up expecting to be any better. The doctor said I had con sumption. I was terribly weak, had night- sweats, cough, no appetite, and lost nesn I saw Dr. Pierce's ' Golden Medical Dis covery' advertised and thought it would do no harm if it did no good. It has cured me. I am a new man because I am a well M one. Dane county, Wis,, raised 7,956 acres of tobacco this year. - THE TESTIMONY OF A PHYSICIAN. James Beecher, M. D.. of Sigourney, Iowa, says: "For several years I have been using a Cough Balsam, called DR. WM. HALL'S BAL SAM FOR THE LUNGS, and in almost every case throughout my practice I have had entire success. I hava used and prescribed hundreds of bottles since the days of my army practice (1863), when I was surgeon of Hospital N. 7, Louisville, Ky." Trt Germea for Breakfast. FOE THECAT DISEASES AND COUGHS. " Brown' 's Bronchial Troches, like all really good things, are frequently imitated. The genuine are sold only in boxes. Hostetter's'Stomach Bitters is a fin blood (lepureiit, a rational catharti,and a superb anti-bilious specific. It rallies the failing en ergies of the debilitat ed, and checks prema ture decay. Fever and ague, bilious remit tent, dyspepsia and bowel complaints are among the evils which it entirely removes. In tropical countries, where the liver and bowels are organs most unfavorably affected by the combined influ ence of climate, diet and water, it is a very necessary safeguard. For Hale by all Drug gists and Dealers gen erally. PILL 3 "THE OLD RELIABLE." 25 YEARS IN USE. The Greatest Medical Triumph, of the Ago ! Indorsed all over tho World. SYMPTOMS OF A TORPID LIVER. Loss of agpetite. Nausea, bowels cos tive, Pain in the Head, with a dull sen sation in the back part. Pain under theoulr-bladeifullnes8jterat? ing, with a disinclination to exertion of body or mind. Irritability of temp er, LgwjjpiritStLoss of raernoryyvft tit a feeling of having; neglected some duty, weariness-Dizziness, Flutter ing of the Heart, Dots before the eyes. Yellow Sldn.Headache,Restjesjnggg at nighty highly colored Urine IP THESE WARNINGS ABE UNHEEDED, 31073 EX3ZASZ3 TOLL 0021 S3 XXVSLGFSS. TTJITS FILLS are especially adapted to such cases, one close effects such a change of feeling as to astonish the sufferer. They Increase the Appetite, and cause the body to Take on FUsh, thus the sys tem is nourished, and by their Tonic Action on the Digestive Organs,'2tern lar Stools are produced. Price 25 cents. Tons Saib dve. Grat Haiti or Whiskers changed to a Gtossr Black by a single application of this Dye. It imparts a natural color, acts Instantaneously. Sold by Druggists, or sent by express on receipt of $1. Office, 44 Murray St., New York. '...: CAUGHT BY AN OCT0F1T3. - A diver who was trying to find pearls off the Alaska coast, found none, but found himself all of a sudden, in the grasp of an uglv octopus with arms twenty-seven feet long. Such an experience is rare; but there are thousands of people who are caught by dyspepsia, which is quite as uau. uxu ocioous nates to nt, art. 1 fso floes dvSDeOSia. Brnwn'a Twn TJittor-a eotfloa dyspepsia, and makes it loose its cruel grip. Mrs. Schmidt and her daughter, of 136 Conway street, Baltimore, were both cured of dyspepsia by the use of Brown's By permission we refer to the following ell known Trti tvhn hora -naoA TIT? EVORY'S DIAMOND CATARRH REM EDY and will teatifv ti ita mrita 0 Rev. I S. KALLOCH, D. D., Ex-Mayor, S. F., Cal. - Rev. WM. HILDRETH, D. D., San Jose, Cal.. Rev. L. HAMILTON, n n n viand. Cal. E. SNELL, M. D., San Jose, Cal. L. WETHERBY, M. D., S. F., Cal. R. H. HINKLE x , M. D., S. f!, Cal. W. H. MURRAY. "RnoiTioae Mnnno-er Journal of Commerce, S. 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This medicine, combining Iron with pure vegetable tonics, quickly and completely t ares Dyspepsia, Indigestion, Weakness, Impure Blood, MaIaria,CbiIIa and Fevers, and Neuralgia. It is an unfailing remedy for Diseases of the Kidneys and lAver. It is invaluable for Diseases peculiar to 'Women, and all who lead sedentary lives. It does not injure the teeth, cause headache.or produce constipation other Iron medicines do. It enriches and purifies the blood, stimulates the appetite, aids the assimilation of food, re lieves Heartburn and Belching, and strength en the muscles and nerves. For Intermittent Fevers, Lassitude, Lack or Energy, &c, it has no equal. JKB" The genuine has above trade mark and crossed red lines on wrapper. Take no other. Bwla ouljbj BR0WH CHE3ICAL CO., HALT MORE, ID. THg BEST TONIC AND Nervine KNOWN. CONQUERS Dyspepsia Gives Refreshing SLEEP. MAKES the Weak Strong Despondent! ANOTHE HOPEFUL. FOR RALE BY AO. DRUOOISTS AND DEALERS. Tnls Tii!ualIc Discovery i3 being extensively nseil anil 'h perionnhig many astonishing cures. As a Jk'ervi KC auii Tonic it is unsurpassed. Celery, Beef and Iron podicftses wonderful power to build up broken down constitutions, and restoro vigor to both mind and bodv. It is a Sure Kcmeuy in casea ot :en Health where a Tonic anJ Xcrvine is required, lie ware of i in ita'. ions, as a worthless and spurious arti cle is being told, purporting to be Celery, Beef and Iron. TliTHILL, X-OX4CO., 537 'lar Sirect. - - - San Iranciso Tiie Boxers' Guide 13 issued Sept. and March, each year : 224 pages, 8 J s i 1 J inches, with over o,300 illustrations a whole picture gallery. Gives wholesala prices direct to consumers oa all goods for personal or ainy use- Tells how to erder, and gives exact f A cost of ev erything you t A J use, drink, eat, wear, or xf"'j have fun with. These '0 invaluable hooks contain information gleaned from the markets of the world. 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Do not confound Wis with Eleotrio Beltr advertised to cure all III from head to t-e. It is f oi thaONE soeeinc Durnose jreulars giving full informntlon, address Cueevei 11,857.00 flpl .o A p'7nP,1iuJ a iriMfnn For ci GIVEN BY THE Pacific Coast Farm and Fireside Journal, CLOSING, MARCH 1st, 1885, or as soon as the first series of 25,000 subscribers is filled. Due notice of which will be given in the Pacific Coast Farm and Fireside Journal. The proprietors announce a magnificent list of rewards for correct answers to the following Bible questions. The questions are.not difficult and within the reach of all : THE BIBLE QUESTIONS: I. Is Diamond referred to la tne Bible? If so, state first reference. . 1 Emerald made mention of In the Bible? If so. state first reference, 3.-Is Sapphire spoken of In tne Bible? If so, state, first reference. These all refer to precious stones. Now, anyone having a knowledge of the Scriptures ought to De able promptly to answer these questions with a little study, and so secure some one of these rewards. Bear in mind everyone eom petiM must send One Dollar with their answers, for which the Pacific Coast Farm and Fin tul Journal will be sent six months to any address. If you answer each of the questions correctly, and your answers are in time, you are mire to secure odb of those costly rewards. , 500 FIRST REWARDS, $3,750.00. 1 One Elegant Rosewood Piano.. $500.00 8 One Gents' Gold Hunting Case Watch 100.00 3 One Han drome Parlor Organ ... 200.00 One Ladies Fine) Gold Hunting Case Watoh 100.00 5 One Handsome Parlor Bet Wal nut Furniture 150.00 6 to 11 Fire Hear Black Silk Dress Patterns 250.00 U to 17 Five Cabinet Bewing Machines.. 250.00 13 to 33 Twenty Solid Coia Silver Watches 400.00 The above five hundred rewards will be subscription to the Pacific Coast Farm and given above. Then coma the given to Firuide 500 MIDDLE REWARDS, $4,950.00. 1 Five Hundred Dollars Gold Coin J500.00 8 One Beautiful Rosewood Plana. 3 One Elegant Cabinet Organ 4 One Gents' Elgin Watch, Stem- setting and Stem-winding, Gold Hunting Case.. 5 One ladies" Hunting Case Watch, Stem-setting and Stem-winding 6 to 20 Fourteen Beautiful, Heavy Black Silk Dress Patterns 750.00 250.00 100.00 100.00 500.00 21 to 40 Twenty Elegant Cabinet Sewing , aiacomes.., 1,200.00 The 1500.00 1 Gold Coin will be given to the person sending the middU comet antvxr of the whole competi tion, from first to last The four hundred and nlety-nhie costly articles, beginning with the Piane, that follow No. 1, of these middle rewards will be given to the four hundred and ninety-nine persons who send the next correct answers following the middle or center reward that takes the $500 gold coin; then, that even thelast ones may not feel that they are left out, the Pacific Coast Farm and Firuid Journal will give a series of 250 CONSOLATION REWARDS, S3.I57.00. l-One Gents Solid Gold, Stem winding and Stem -setting Elgin Watch 100.00 S One Fine Quadruple Plate Silver Tea Set, 6 Fieocs. 100.00 3 One Ladies' Solid Oold, Stem- winding Elgin Watch 95.00 4 to 7 Four Fine Heavy Black Silk Drees Patterns 240.00 8 to 19 Twelve Quadruple Plate Ice Pitchers, Finely Chased.... 390.00 30 to 31 Twelve Genuine Coia -silver Hunting Case Ladies' V7tches. SG0.00 This list of consolation rewards will be (riven to the last two hundred and fifty persons who send correct answers to the above Bible questirma Fifteen days will be allowed for letters to reach their destination. But bear in mind your letter must bear the post-mark not later than March 1st, 1335 (with one dollar inslosed for the paper) the closing day for letters from distant points to reach the office of the Pacific Coast Farm and Firtsid Journal. All letters are carefully numbered as they arrive aad there oaa be no mistake. If your answers are correct and they reach there in time, you will surely get some reward in addition to the beautifully illustrated Pacific Coast Farm and Fireside Jrmrnal. which alone is worth the dollar. It contains eight pages of interesting matter for the farmer and the home circle something to interest every member of the family. Look up your Bible now, and see if you can find the answer to these questions. It will do you good, apart from tbe opportunity you have of obtaining a valuable reward in addition to the Journal, which alone is good value for the dollar. We could not afford to give these valuable rewards unless we were certain of your patronage in years to come, and we have adopted this way of giving the commission back to our patrons in rewards instead of hiring canvassers and peymff commissions to them. We feel almost certain that you Will become life subscribers to the Pacific Coast Farm and Firtsidt J cmmaX if you take it for six months. It is our aim to make it the leading paper for tbe farmer and the home circle, ': .-. - - No information will be ghren to any one beyond what has been above stated. Bo dont waste time by waiting, but send in your answers and money note. It yon happen to be too late for the first, yon may be fortunate enough to obtain a middle reward. We direct special attention to tbe fact that clergymen are not permitted to compete. 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