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Mr. Clarence O. Bigelow Prescription Druggist, 102 6th Ave., N. Y. City, says The People's Confidence lias been won by nn F$ rR 9 ini vy; Sarsaparilla In a Manner Never Equalled. I am, on general principles, aversed to ex pressing my views, pro or con, in respect to any proprietary article, but in the light of Hood's Sarsaparilla being the product of a brother apothecary, will eay. Hood's Sarsaparilla has secured a place in the public confidence never attained by any proprietary medicine that I have handled during an experience of more than twenty years in the drug trade. It Must Possess True Merit as a remedial agent to retain its Increas ing popularity as a household remedy. The sale of Hood's Sarsaparilla exceeds that of all similar preparations combined, of which I keep in stock some fifteen or twenty. Its Praises are Proclaimed daily at my counter by those who have been benefited by it, many of whom are per sonal acquaintances." Clarence O. Bigelow, Aiothecary. " Hood's Pill's cure liver ills, constipation, biliousness, jaundice, sick headache. N Y N U 1 JOHNSON'S Anodyne Liniment. rr, ORIGINATED IN 1810, ,r TniiTz or iti almost a centubi. Every traveler, Kvery family should keep it at hand, for the common ills of life liable to occur to any one. It is Soothing. Ilealintr and Penetrating. Once used al ways wanted. Sold everywhere. lrioe 35c., Rix, $2. Full particulars free. I. S. JOHNSON & CO- Boston. Mass. 66p I am a farmer at Edom, Texas. I liave used German Syrup for six years successfully for Sore Throat, Coughs, Colds, Hoarseness, Pains in Chest and L,ungs and Spitting-up of Blood. I have tried many kinds of Cough Syrups in my time, but let me say to anyone wanting such a medicine German Syrup is the best. We are subject to so many sudden changes from cold to hot, damp weather here, but in families where German Syrup is used there is little trouble from colds. John F.Jones. DR. K I LMER'S Kidney, Liver and Bladder Cure. Rheumatism, Lumbapro, pain in joints or back, brick dust in urine, frequent calls, irritation, intiamation, gravel, ulceration or catarrh of bladder. Disordered Liver, Impaired digestion, gout, billious-headache. SAVAMP-ltOOT cures kidney difficulties, JLa Grippe, urinary trouble, b right's disease. Impure Blood, Scrofula, malaria, gen'l weakness or debility.' unrimtee Use contents of One Bottle, if noibeiv flted. Druggists will refund to you the price paid. At Druggists, SOc. Size, $1.00 Size, Invalids' Guide to Health"free Consultation fre Dr. Kilmib & Co., Binghamton, N Y, oboooooooo TuifsTinyPii!s OA single dose produces beneficial re- Q suits, giving cheerfulness of mind and O buoyancy of body to which you were before a stranger. They enjoy a pop-J ularitv unparalleled. Price, 25cts. O QOOOOOOOO Ely's Cream Balm QUICKLY CURES COLD i HEAD Price Cent. Apply Balm into eacii nostril. LY BROS., 56 Warren St, N. Y. 1 S-itl B Washington. D.C. '"'-page book tree Syrup" SA CONDITION OF CROPS. The Monthly Report of the Gov ernment Statistician. The State of Winter Wheat and the Cotton Acreage. The statistical returns of the United States Department of Agriculture for May indicate an average condition of $4 for wheat, against 81.2 last month. The weather has been too cold for rapid growth, yet the crop has improved perceptibly. The change in. the central wheat region is from ?l to 75 in Ohio. 83 to Hi in Michigan, 75 to S" Indiana, 82 to M in Illinois, 72 to 74 n Missouri, and 70 to &0 in Kansas. In Michigan April weather wa? quite severe, causing considerable "heaving" in clay soil that nearly offset the improvement in other areas. Low temperature prevei ted much improvement in Missouri. Condition has slightly declined in California, yet the pros pect i3 still good on the Pacific Coast. The condition of rye has advanced from 67 to 83.9. Winter barley averages 92.8. The percentage of New York is 92; California, 94; Illinois, 90; Michigan, 8S. Mowing lands have suffered some loss of condition from winter freezing, but make a higher average than the winter grains, or SD.ti for the entire breadth. The condition of pastures average 67.5. The proportion of spring plowing usu ally done on May 1 is a little above three fourths for the whole country, or 7G.6 per cent, as reported. The present season has been cold and unfavorable for rapid progress of spring work, and tne proportion returned as done is only 64.6 per cent. In the Eastern states tem perature has been high, and the work is more advanced than usual. From Pennsylvania to Virginia there has been slight excess of rainfall, with low temperature, which has hindered spring work. In the central West; slight departure from normal precipita tion has occurred, with some de ficiency of heat, with sucn distribution as to delay farm operations, which are not so well advanced as usual In this region. The Pacific Coast has been com paratively cool, and spring plowing has bean delayed. Altogether the spring may bo considered late, and the work of the farm crowded into narrow limits. The May returns to the Department re port delay in the work of cotton planting from low temperature, dretoth in many dis tricts, and in some an excess of rain. Ger mination is arrested and the plants start slowly. Some replanting will be necessary. It is estimated that 85 per cent, of the crop is usually planted by May 1. This year the estimates maice only 78.3. Th-3 decrease of area as indicated averages 18.6 per cent. The percentages are a? fol lows: Virginia, 72; North Carolina, 70; South Carolina, 80; Georgia, 83; Florida, 80; Alabama, 85; Mississippi, 83; Louisiana, 82; Texas. 82; Arkansas, 80; Tennessee, 74; Missouri, 74. EESULTS OF A LATE SPEING. Crops Affected by Long Rains and Cold Weather. The New IE ork Times presents special dis patches from its correspondents in the fol lowing twenty-two States in the Union, giv ing a careful and conservative summary of the acreage, condition, prospects, and prob able yield of cotton, corn and wheat: Ala bama, Arkansas, Flor ida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, Indiana, Ne braska, Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota. Washington, Wisconsin. Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Ohio. These States are the leading ones engaged in the growing of the articles named, and the reports indicate the true condition of crops. The Times says that it is not a cheer ing prospect. In some States, at the time the report was made, the cornfields had not even been plowed, while in others very little seed had been planted. Wheat was decidedly back ward, except in the Dakotas and Washing ton, the acreage of cotton less and the field suffering from drought. The significant fact about the cotton crop is the decrease in acreage. That there is such a decrease is reasonaoly certain, though opinions differ as to how great it is. Esti mates run from ten to fifteen per cent, less in Louisiana to thirty to thirty-five per cent, less in Virginia. The low prices last year left everybody poor. The planters had no money with which to buy fertilizers and supplies, and the merchants and cotton fac tors were unable to make the usual advances. Drought has seriously affected the crop in some States, in others it is reported to be in excellent condition. The total yield will be less than last year. Corn has suffered from the late spring in the great corn-growing States, but more particularly from continuous and heavy rains. In some States the plowing, at the time the report was made, was not half done, while in others it has not even been begun. In Indiana not five per cent, of the seed was in the ground, while in Nebraska it will be a week before the plow can be put into the soi', even if it should stop raining. St ill, if good weather should come at once, there would be an average acreage and yield. In some States the acreage would be larger than last year. Of the great wheat -growing States South Dakota is the only one that promises a large crop. The acreage m that State is forty per cent, larger than last year, and it is esti mated that the yield per acre will be three per cent, greater. In Minnesota only one-third of the wheat has been sown, and though the acreage is ten per cent, larger than last year, the weeks of cold rain have made the prospects of the harvest far from flattering. Similar conditions have prevailed in Wisconsin in a less de gree, and the outlook for a large crop is not good. Washington has enjoyed good weather, and though North Dakota has had a wet spring, and has an acreage of twenty five per cent, less than last year,, it is con fident of a good crop. From Illinois, Kansas and Ohio the reports are not discour aing, though those States have suffered from the spring l ains. Is Jcne last J . T. Wilson was arrested for an alleged slander of Mrs. Louisa Taylor, wife of a Sherwood (fexas) baroer. About 1 o'clock the other day Mrs. Taylor went to the jail as Jailer Williams was taking din ner to tbe prisoners. She slippai in behind him, and uoon reaching the cage of her slan derer seut'a bullet into his Drain, killing him. Mrs. Tayior was not arrested. Reports indicate a possibility that rab bits, "jack rabbits," as they are called, may become a pest in the Dakotas as they are in California, or as tha hares imported from England into Australia have become there. 1 They are increasing rapidly. THE NEWS EPITOMIZED. Eastern and Middle States. Willie Colliesst. aged eleven, was killed at Watertown, Mass., by Willie Iteor dan, about the same age, with a pitchfork. Charles H. Pixkhajc Jr.. ex-Presidenc of the Bank of Harle.rL, New YorK City, has been indicted and axrestad for swindling the bank out of a large sum of money, estimated at $73,000. Hexrt M. Mxller, ex-Treasurer of Crawford County, Perm., is under arrest charged with the embezzlement of $5 . 00 of the county's funis. He siys the moay was deposited in the Delamat3rs' bins th.3 day before that institution failed. Six of the tea buildings of Schwartz child & Sulzberger's s'.aujhter house in New York City wera burned down, causing a loss of $200,000. Two daughters o! Thomas Frondsman, o! Hornellsvilie, N. Y., four and eight years of age, attempted to wait across a narrow temporary foot bridge which crosses Crosby Creek, which was much swollen by the re cent heavy rains. The eldest child was carrying her sister, and when about the middle of the bridge she lost her balance and both fsll into the rapid current and were swept into the Canisteo River . William Astor's body arrived at New York City from Paris by tha steamer Li Bourgoge for int3rment in tha Astor vault Mrs. William Astor, the widow of the greit millionaire, and her daughter, Mrs. Coleman Drayton, accompanied the body. After shooting and killing his wife in Canarsie, Long Island, N. Y., Abel Smith, a colored laborer, a?el twanty-three, threw himself befora a train and was instantiy killed. His wife, Miranda, was a year younger than he. Harry McCloskt, the twelfth victim of the Central Theatra lire, died in Philadel phia a few days ago. Mrs. Map.sa.ret ScALOX.of Hyde Park, Scranton, Penn., killed her husband. She wanted to move to one part of a certain building, and he wished to go somewher3 else. He laughed at her persistency, and she struck him with a hammer. The result was his death. John Bresxahax, a local politician, was killed by a pistol shot fired by John Crouch in a drunken brawl at Syracuse, N. Y., the sequel to a quarrel over a woman. Crouch then committed suicide. The Connecticut Democratic State Con vention met at New Haven and elected dele gates to the National Convention. Not a word was said as to instructing the delega tion for any particular candidate, but they were all regarded as Cleveland men. South and West. The bridge across the Tennessee River at Florence, Tenn., fell in, precipitating a freight train sixty feet into the water. The fireman was killed and tha engineer and two brakemen fatally hurt. L. D. Slaughter and Thomas Bailey, col ored murderers, were hanged at Littl3 Rock, Ark. The United States war vessel Concord is at Helena, Ark. The residents have not seen a man-of-war there for thirty years. The only witnesses in the case against tho Wyoming cattlemen have mysteriously dis appeared. The water is nearly twenty feat abova low water mark in the Illinois valley. The Republicans of Virginia met in State Convention at Roanoke, and after a two days' session sent an uninstructed dtiegation to the National Convention, headed by ex Senator William Mahone. The Arkansas Prohibition Stat3 Conven tion at Little Rock nominate 1 Judgo VV. J. Nelson, of Rogers, Banton County, for Governor. The convention also nominated delegates to the National Convention at Cin cinnati and a full S3t of Presidential Electors for the State. A college Interstate oratorical contest was held at Minneapolis, Minn., ten States contesting. MissE. Jeau Nelson, of Green castle, Ind., captured first prize, $100, and Charles E. Gayer, of Weslayan College, Delaware, Ohio, second. At Butler, Miss., George H. Rdss, colored, was lynched a few days ago for an at tempted assault on a white woman. Ross was hanged to a tree. At Wallington, Kan., John Timm shot and seriously wounded W. R. Warren, pro prietor of a bank at Mulvane, which had failed soon after receiving a large deposit from Timm. The United States gunboat Concord dropped anchor in front of Memphis, Tenn. She is the largest naval vessel that ever reached that city, and the first since the days of the war. The United States war vessel Kearsage anchored off Savannah, Ga. The Philadel phia anchored off Tybee, Ga., and was joined by the Newark and the Vesuvius. The Kearsage was piloted by the old pilot of th Confederate Alabama. A report f rorr. Western Kentucky is that Buffalo gnats are causing great loss. It is estimated that 1000 horses nave been killd by them. The World's Fair Commission, Chicago, 111., has now only about SI 000 on hand to pay salaries, rent, etc., .for the remainder of tbe fiscal year ending June 30th. The expense account now averages about $5030 a month The United States man of war Adams and the revenue cutter Rusk sailed from Fort Townsend, Washington, for the Bering Sea. Miss Alice La Rue and Miss Katie Clark were drowned by the capsizing of their boat at Hamilton, Ohio. The strike of the 200 ironworkers on the World's Fair buildings at Chicago, I1L, re sulted in a bloody collision with the police. The riot was due to the importation of men from New York, Pittsburg and Baltimore to take the placa of the strikers who wera employed in the Manufacturers' Building. The great Morganza Levee in Polnte Coupee Parish, the biggest levee inLousiana, broke during a rain storm. The levee is twenty-five feet high and from sixty to 150 feet wide. It is one of the most important along th9 lower Mississippi, and at a point where a break must cause great damage. News was received of a terrible explosion which occurred in the coal mines at Roslyn, Washington. Forty-two miners, according to the first report, were killed in the disas ter. The men were working on the fourth I level. Pwoslyn is in Kittitass County, about seventy miles east of Tacoma. It is on a branch of the Northern Pacific Railroad,and has a population of about 1500. The Democratic Convention of New Mex ico met at Albuquerque. The Committee on Resolutions reported in favor of the abso lutely free and unlimited coinage of silver. The delegates to Chicago were selected, and, although they were uninstructed, all but onb man favored Cleveland. Deputy United States Marshal Well man, of the Blair Cattle Company, was shot near Cheyenne, Wyoming, and killed from ambush while on his way to Buffalo. Well man has been in the employ of the cattle men, and is the first victim of the vengeance of the rustlers. During thenlghtat the site of theold Foek ler Brewery in West Dubuque, Iowa, a sound like an earthquake was heard, and nart morning it was discovered that nearly an acre of ground had dropped into a subterra nean lake which covers a vast body of min eral. The Republican State Convention of Mon tana, to select delegates to the National Con vention, was held at Missoula. An unin structed delegation was elected. Washington. Chairman Wilcox, of the Eleventh Cen sus Committee, has appointed Messrs. Fitbian, Bentley, Lawson. J. D. Taylor anl Huff a sub-committee to investigata the Census Office. Secretary BLAiNE,Genera! J. W. Foster and E. J. Phelps ha1 a conferenca with the President at the White Hous3 in regard to the Bering Sea arbitratiDU. A permit was issued from the Washing ton Health Ofiica for the interment of Mary Ann Coleman, a colored woman, who died of old age. According to the death certifi cate, the deceased woman was born in Vir ginia in 1779, her age at the time of deat!? being 112 years and eight months. A concerted movement is on foot in Washington to determine whether the Con gressional consent can ba obtainad to the annexation of Hawaii. A River and Harbor Bill, carrying ani appropriation of about $21,000,000, was passed by the House of Representatives by a vote of 1S6 to sixty-five. The bill granting an Am?rican registry to the steamers City of Paris anl City of New York was passad by the United States Sanata by a vote of forty to ten . Charles Emory Smith, of Pennsylvania, United Sates Minister to Russia, formally tendered his resignation of that office to tho President in order to resume his journalistic duties in Philadelphia. The House Committee on Elections de cided the contested case of Reynolds against Shonk, of the Twelfth Pennsylvania Dis trict, in favor of Shonk, tha sittiug marnbar, who is a Republican. The President approved "the act to en courage American shipbuilding' within an hour after its receipt tro;n the Hoose Com mittee on Enrolled Bills. loreifjn. M. Crantz, a member of the Chamber of Deputies, has bean appointed French Commissioner-General of the World's Fair. Eugene Wolff, special correspondent for the German colonies in Africa, tele graphed to hia paper in Berlin that Arabs arriving at Zanzibar say thatEmin Pasha is dead. He was stricken with small-pax while on his way from Wadell to Bukoba. Six members of a family named Nieditz have died at Zeitz, Saxony, from the effects of some poison administered to them in dumplings, of which they partook at din ner. The insurrectiona ry movement in Ven ezuela has spread to Coro, and forces Iron) that department are preparing to join Crespo. The Bering Sea treaty between the United States and Great Britain has been signed at London by Quean Victoria, Lord Salisbury and Minister Lincoln. Scott's famous Haymarket restaurant, London, England, has been burned to thu ground. Four waiters were burned to death. In a fight south of Los Tequ?s, Venezuela, between Palacio's troops and insurgent lancers, the latter were defeated. After conferring with Signori Crispi and Zanardelli King Humbert, of Italy, asked Signor Giolitti to construct a Cabinet. Five miners were killed anl several in jured by the breaking of a cage chain in a Belgian colliery. Three miners were crushed to death and two badlv injur id by a cave in at the Mouvers colliery, in Yorkshire, Eng land . At an inspection of the Guards Emperor William, of Germany, called from the ranks and, before the whole regiment, compli mented and shook hands with a sentry who recently shot two men, one of them being killed. The incident has caused a decidedly unfavorably impression. CHINA FILES A PE0TEST. Three Reasons lor Objecting to the New Kxclusion Act. Toui Kwo Yin, Minister from China, called at the State Department, Washington, after learning that Congress had passed the Chinese Exclusion bill, and said to Assistant Secretary Wharton, through Interpreter Ho, that he desired to file a protest against the bill, and the document reached the de partment that afternoon. In it the Minister says that he objects to the bill mainly for three reasons. 1 . It renews the Scott law of 13S8 2. It deprives the Chinese of the right of bail in habeas corpus cases. 3 . It requires a registration of Chinese la borers which it is practically impossible for them to comply with. They must all prove by white witnesses that they are lawfully entitled to be in the United States, and as the first Exclusion act was passed in 1S82, every Chinaman must produce before the Collector of Internal Revenue a white wit ness who knew him ten years ago and who can swear that he was in the United States at that time. The law leaves the issuance of the certifi cate of registration entirely to the discretion of the revenue officer, and provides no way of compelling him to do justice to the Chinaman. He must register and produce his evidence in the district ' where he resides. His white witness may be 3000 miles away. Senators who have carefully examined the bill announced in the Senate that its practical effect would be to compel all Chinese laborers to leave tbe United States within the year fixed for tbe registration. Senator Sherman, Chair man of the Foreign Affairs Comnjfttea, said this registration was similar to the slave regulations in force before the Civil War and to the ticket of leave of the Australian convict system. The Minister says that these features of the bill are in direct violation of the treaty of 1S80, which guarantees to Chinese laborers in the United States the treatment of the subjects of the most favored Nations. He further says that tha treaty of lSSJ was agreed to by China at the express request of the Government of the United States, which sent three of its most distinguished citizens to Peking to ask for it. TERRIFIC WIND. A Cyclone Cave Falls n and Destroys the Refugees. A terrific cyclone passed over Anthony, Kan., creating havoc and consternation among the people. William Wilkins, his wife and five children, colored people, went into a cyclone cave to escape the storm. The roof caved in, killing five children, ranging in age from six months to fourteen years. Wilkins and his wife were seriously hurt, but not fatally. The Stiletto Indnstry. The Italian Dever buys a stiletto remarked a local police official last Sat arday, but manufactures it at home out if any material that he can lay his hands lpon. "There are two distinct brands of the irticlc, the city and the suburban, tho arst being made by the gentlemanly neraber of the Mada, who resides in :own,and the second by his brother, who toils far from the madding crowd. I aave about sixty of these pleasing weap ons in my collection, and 1 find that those which were taken at the city police stations are made of old table knives, as i rule, that have been sharpened and ground down to half of their original size. "The blades are sunk "into handles of soft pine, which are wrapped in turn with fine brass wire. 44 When the suburban Italian sets out to build cne of these pleasing weapons he quietly breaks off the prong of a hay fork, polishes up the point until it would penetrate anything but a coal dealer's soul, and wraps the blunt cud of it with wire. One luuge from this de lightful tool is more than enough for the plain, ordinary man." New York Com mercial Advertiser. Japanese Crystal Balls. Crystal balls, the most valuable stone which Japan furnishes, are those called rock crystal, or sni-sho (seki-ye) crystal ized water. These, balls, which are cut out of colorless crystal, reflect beautifully the forms of objects around. Their value increases with the purity of the stone. They are found in many of the mountains, and are ground and polished into perfection only by the use of (kongo sha) diamond sand, which comes in the form of little round grains and which show more or less distinctly the' garnet structure. These crystal balls are very tine and handsome, and add gieatly to any curio collection. They are hard to distinguish from diamonds, and range in price from about four dollars to six hun dred dollars. New York Commercial Advertiser. " A SICK LIVER Is the cauie of in out of the depressing:, pain ful and unpleasant sensations and sufler intr with which we are afflicted j and these sufferings will continue so Ions us the L.1t er ts allowed to remain in this sick or slug cish condition. To stimulate the Liver and other diges tive organs to a normal condition und healthy activity there is no better medi cine than PILL The most perfect, 6afe and reliable Cathartic that has ever been compounded PURELY VEGE TABLE, positively containing no Mercury or other deleterious substances; having all the beneficial properties that Mercury Is injssessed of as a cathartic without the clanger of any of its evil consequences, they have superseded Meicury.and have become ths Pill of Modern Science. Elegantly coated and with out taste, there is no difficulty In swallowing JtAD WAY'S PII..L.!! mild and gentle or thorough In their operations, according to the dose, tliey are ths favorites of the present time. They cure all disorders of the Stomach, Liver, Bowels, Kidneys, Bladder, Nervous Diseases, Lo.sof Appetite, Headache, Ostiveness, Indigestion, Dys pepsia, Biliousness, Fever, Inliammation of the Bow els, Piles, and all the derangements of the Internal Viscera. 25 cents a box. old by druggists. DK. RADWAY & CO., 32 Warren Mreet, N. Y. City. The old saying that " con sumption can be cured if taken in time" was poor com fort. It seemed to invite a trial, but to anticipate failure. The other one, not so old, "consumption can be cured'j is considered by many false. Both are true and not true; the first is prudent one cannot begin too early.' The means is careful liv ing. Scott's Emulsion of cod-liver oil is sometimes an important part of that. Let us send you a book on careful living free. Scott & Bowne, Chemists, 13a South 5th Avenue, New York. Your druggist keeps Scott's Emulsion of cod-liver eil all druggists everywhere do. i. 23 nn unT at. ncp?iicrt with hastes Enamels, anti falnw -fclcli atala the hands, injure the iror.. and burn oft less. Durable, and th consumer pays lot no tin or glass package with every purchase. J ED AGENTS to pell our choice Nursery !tock. luv Fine ?Decialiie to offer 1 write qUcic and wture ch,k 01 territory. Aadrt-s MAY BROTHERS, ROCHESTER, N. Y. AXLE GREASE iitsr j mil Its wearing qualities are tmsurpasse-L actually on tlastlmr three boxes of yotfar brand. oi affected by heat. GET THE E L I E. FOB SALE BY DEALfcKS OfcNEKAiX. WWANT u u FRAIEI