Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 September 1878 — Page 4

A TOUCH OF PITY. BY E. COH DEB OBAY. Porta they Mt at early morn, Happy hi their hope, Adown the path and through the corn, And by a grassy slope. Then o’er a stretch of clean sea-sand, And reached a slippery pier ; And there the brother raised his hand. And said, “ We’ll cast lines here.” And, oh, the tremor of her heart As tackle straieht he set I She deemed her brother had more art Than any angler yet. And at each bite she felt a glow Of pride that made her speak In louder tones; there came a flow Of blood on either cheek. At last a catch! the silvery sides Came twinkling o’er the pier— She shrieked with Joy; bnt soon the tide Of Joy was changed to fear. i s full she looked upon the thing That writhed before her eyes, The heart felt for its Buffering, She burst in tears and sighs I And all her day was clouded dim With thoughts she could not speak ; The voice was low ; she stood by him, But pale was now her cheek. Her first glimpse of the ill and pain That haunts the world that day Disturbed her heart, und ne’er again Will she so gladly play. Ab, little maid I that mystery O’ersbadows all our work, And unto many, as to thee. Has turned the bright to dark.

“SWEET BELLS JANGLED.”

The firm of Shiel & Mac Neil is pretty well known now in the printing line; but, as the song says, When they began, they'd no meat in the pan ; and, before they were fairly on their legs, so to speak, Mac Neil went and married “a lass without a tocher.” Sbeil had yearned over this extravagance himself; and, going down one day with his partner to the old place where they had learned their trade, hearing from the press-room the old, sweet, familiar voice Binging the old, sweet, familiar tunes, Shiel’s heart throbbed to the measure, and ho said to Mac Neil, with a big blmh on his broad cheeks, that he supposed his partner had forgotten little Jenny Burke, but he, for one, would never forget her while the world went round, and he was going in to see her that very day. Whereupon Mac Neil began to redden, too, and led the way so readily to the particular press that the young English girl was feeding, and Jenny met his approach in such a shy, trembling, glad confusion, poor Shiel felt his heart suddenly faint within him and stole away, after a minute or two’ to he alone with a singular pang of desolation that had swept over him. When Mac Neil joined him, Shiel was himself again, but there was something in his face that fed Mac Neil to ask him what was the matter. Had he lost anything ? “No—yes,” stammered poor Shielthen added, piteously: “Why didn’t you tell me, Mac, that you had kept on with Jenny? I thought it was a bargain we shouldn’t think of marrying till the business was well started.” “So it was, Shiel,” said Mac; “but you know what a sweet voice she’s got Deuce take me, if it didn’t haunt me night and day. You don’t know what it is to have a musical ear, and there’s no harm in being cheered by a song or “Tush, man I” broke in Shiel. “Do you love each other ?” “I’m afraid so, Shiel.” “Then the sooner she’s out of that nasty press-room the better.” “ If you’d board with us, Shiel, I believe we could save money by going to housekeeping; and think how nice it would be to have a snugingleside of our own !

Shiel winced a little from this pro posal, but couldn’t find courage to reject it; so they took rooms near their place of business, and for the first twelvemonth or so Mac’s fiddle was well known in the neighborhood. The boys dropped in for a chorus three nights out of four and all went merry as a marriage bell, till the feeble pipe of an infant was added to the refrain, which suddenly subdued all other music in its vicinity, 'to the immense delight of Shiel, who, not being able to raise a note himself, was somewhat tired of the melodious conceits of others. He did not know that the child s squeak was singularly low and sweet, and as it gained volume it also acquired melody. Shiel was dinar) pointed to find the little girl an exaSt reproduction of her papa, but could not believe that the fates had willed she should share his weakness for music. He declared it was the monkey that amused her, whereas the babv’s soul was given over to the hurdy-gurdy. Now I taxe this premature and striking proclivity as a misfortune. Infant prodigies are always more or less of a nuisance, and little Miss Jean’s precocity grew to an a arming extent as the years went by. The firm of Shiel A Mac Neil flourished. Jenny saved the pennies, an '• th ® .VP 1 / extravagances were in behalf of little Miss Jean, whose waxen face could only be coaxed into a glow by the aid of some sort of melody. And the older she grew the wider her taste expanded, so that after a while a new mane J lV ® re d and engineered up the stairs, and almost filled Jenny’s little parlor. Mmy a familiar knickthe wall or be tucked out of sight to make room for this mountain of mahogany. n l‘i Tt ® Bhame -” said one of in! m fi *° B , lVe Up the dear old fiddle for the jinglin’of them ivory pupP® tß ’ n 4 eW piece of Misß Joanns sets a fellow s teeth on edge. One can't ba ™ any more fun at Mac’s; he’s hung up his fiddle and his bow; and for my ere ‘i e reßt of the cronies—they fell off one by one, and in a few years ETJT 5 - 1 ?! b ?t Shiel; he, poor y felin ’ aft^ r n ’ ght Wlth his head up against the wall, the muni i going in one ear and out of the other, till it soomed to him he had become simply a sort of hollow melancholy tube for the accommodation of echoes. IroS « a o t « OOU1 -? l ? lac do ’ who bad al °ne pt pace with his daughter, and appreciated to the full her remarkable profiSr^r~7^ at C ° Uld he do but l°ng P for a &•! “’ prouder scope for her? floor fi’ ngß low in their humble floor, the acoustic properties were en--2 * an g ‘ hat but cozy . J- Alas, alas I the nest was all Md . fo ' lte JuU-fledged inmates, bn ! neighborbood was not what it 7 > ' < j n ‘ Macs business increased He waß B etti ng to be quite a mon eyed man, and really an authority „ Mc - Busts of Beethoven, Moz.rt, ShFeUn ali the re6t poor would Look which wa y b e b “ 118 1)1 of A tL d AM Dy ’ fi ? diD & that the very walls asunder i Deß ‘T re almost bisting J fine Aew h^ laßtto move into hood and bn 1 * 01180 ’ a Uew neighboretofb’oo d have new furniture and new new h luA« eW and minister, a all an<l baker ’ ftnd » W ° rSt Of Bu P erior and excellent ment l be whole establishher hands ’ and left her neHtv Jni dry u P on the banks of prosP 1 nothing to do but enjoy herself. And all at once she began to be most miserable. Mr. Mac Neil and »is remarkable daughter stepped out of their nest as the blithest, finest, most sagacious of birds, left the worthless tenement that has served its purpose, ana began forthwith to scratch and peck and scramble for themselves in the most natural and praiseworthy way. But poor Jenny stumbled at every step, and grew more featherless and forlorn as the years went by. Pretty she was yet, far prettier than her daughter, but this did not seem to win for her the admiration she most coveted. Poor Jenny

would gladly have taken the ponderous form and heavy features of Mrs. Delaney Vere, could she thereby have gained that lady’s severely critical taste and talent, or the long bony neck of Miss Perry, if it could still hold those wonderfully high notes which Mr. Mac* Neil so admired. Do what she would, the old accent, that was once so dear to her husband’s ear, still clung to her. “ Don’t say ‘yere* for ‘ here,’ Jenny,” expostulated Mr. Mac Neil; “and I’d rather do without anything at the table than the letter A, except when it’s one letter too many.” So Jenny began to speak only from sheer necessity. She never could please her husband any more, do what she would, and didn’t care to find favor in the sight of others. It began to be apparent to Jenny that she was a clog and a burden to her husband and her daughter—nay, to the whole world in which they delighted to live—and there came a time when she resolved no longer to be the stumbling-block to their popularity. There was a musicale at the house that night, and all the doors were open. The halls were filled with flowers, some of them brought from the florist in tubs of wide dimensions, and Jenny, in a plain black silk, crouched behind one of these while Mr. Mac Neil was bringing his daughter down the stairs and into the crowded parlors. Mac’s nose was high in the air; he was dressed in the finest ofbroadcloth, while the musical prodigy, who was now a well-grown young woman, swept along in a rustling white silk that the dressmaker wouldn’t let Jenny do even the cording for. On they went, and Jenny’s heart swelled big with pride, then sank with mortification, for two fine ladies near her, leaning upon the arms of a good-natured-look-ing gentleman, began all at once to cavil at poor Jenny, who had never in her whole life said evil of anybody. “The mamma appears to be invisible,” said one of them. “ They say she is shut up in the coal-hole upon these occasions; and no wonder, when one thinks of the blunders of the poor creature.”

“ Perhaps she’s in the kitchen,” said the other. “ I have heard that is where Mr. Mac Neil first found her. ” Then up spoke the good-natured looking gentleman, and said that if she could make a good ragout there her husband ought to rise up and call her blessed, for it was a finer accomplishment than any he could remember; and one thing was certain, she was a far prettier woman than most of them there that night. But Jenny did not hear this; and, if she had, it would not have comforted her. A little later on, one of their old friends, the wife of a journeyman printer, in the dear old neighborhood of the forsaken past, was startled by the apparition of a comely face, dear to the olden time of merriment and song, but now blurred with tears; and the tale she told Mrs. McShane anticipated every word of. “ My poor bairnie,” she said, “ I knew how ’twould be when I saw Mac’s way of going on. His stuck- up airs and his talk about strophes and symphonies and outlandish heathenisms boded no good. But so long as I have a roof you shall share it.”

But Jenny was independent, and soon got a situation far above the one in which she first saw her husband. As luck would have it, the <tld rooms were just vacated. Mrs. McShane had most of the old furniture; so before the month was out Jenny was back in her nest, but sick at heart, and sometimes ready to die. la the meanwhile we must run back a month to the scene of festivity, where we left Mac with his head in the air, and the skirts of the musical prodigy trailing full a yard behind her. Neither of them missed Jenny till the splendid repast was ready, and the guests were not disconsolate for the society of their hostess. But now, indeed, it was time for Jenny to take her rightful place; and, with many an inward prayer that she would be as little unequal to the occasion as could be expected of her, and a resolve to caution her only to speak when necessary, and a certainty in his heart that she would at least be pleasant to look upon, Mr. Mac Neil awaited his wife. I needn’t say he waited m vain, and two or three of the servants not being able to find her, Mr. Mac Neil, in high displeasure, sent Shiel off with an immediate order for her peremptory appearance before him. Shiel hunted high and low, and came back to his partner pith a wild look of alarm in his face, and his now-scanty locks almost on end.

“She’s clean gone—not a sign of her!” he said. Mr. Mac Neil was more mad than grieved, for he knew she’d come in, he said, at the fag-end of the feast, and spoil everything. “She’s run out somewhere for something,” said poor Mac, little thinking of the nature of her errand. He made an apt excuse to his daughter, and the supper went on successfully. Poor Shiel ate never a mouthful, and his face was as white and blank as if he had seen a ghost; but nobody minded Shiel. In truth, Mac’s own appetite was a little frustrated, and, as the night wore away, he was heartily glad to see the people trotting out to their carriages. W T hen all were gone, a little up-st airs maid, who had been always civil to poor Jenny, put a little note into Mac’s hand, saying that her mistress told her not to give it to him till the festivity was over. Mac opened it with t trembling hand, and read poor Jenny’s scrawl: I’m gone for good aud all, dearie. For a long time I’ve seen that you and my dailmg child were teyoad me in everything. I can never get up to you; so please forgive ,me if I stop by the way. God bless and prosper you, is the prayer of your faithful Jenny. Mac handed it over to Shiel, and dropped into a chair as if struck by an unseen hand. The air was a little heavy with the breath of his artistic guests who had just departed, and the scent of the exotics sickened his nostrils; the big blaze of light grew dim about him, and all he could see for that weary minnte was the sweet face of a young English girl he had known and loved almost beyond his strength a long time ago.

Shiel had read the note for the sixth time, his face growing more and more distracted and imbecile, and had begun to read it over again, when Mac cried out, in a broken voice, “Could any villain be at the bottom of this, Shiel ? could any one have tampered with her loyalty ?”

“Never!” cried Shiel, indignantly. “I’ll answer for that with my life. 1 know howfoolishly faithful she was—never an eye or an ear for anybody else. I know that by experience. Many’s the time I’ve tried to console her myself for your indifference.” “ My what ?” roared poor Mac. “ Your indifference and neglect, sir !” cried Shiel, now aroused to the pitch of recklessness. “She wa s a pearl of purity and sweet simplicity, but she was cast before swine, sir.” “Shiel, you are always more or less of a fool,” groaned Mac, “and now your clean daft.” But he listened to Shiel as he went on to give him a piece of his mind, and took heart as he gathered in the evidence of Jenny’s wounded love. “She’ll be back before twentyfour hours,” said Mac, “and we’lllall be the happier for this little bout.” But twenty-four hours went by, and forty-eight; a whole week passed away, and no Jenny came to lift the weight from Mac’s heart. Shiel advised him to secretly consult the police, at which Mae first revolted, then succumbed; but with no success. A fortnight Went by, and even Shiel forgave every fault of Mac’s, so deep and sincere were his sorrow and penitence. The musical abstraction of Miss Jean served in a measure to mitigate her grief, and an eminent

professor had offered her the warmest sympathy and consolation a man can offer; but poor Mac hated the thought or sound of music now, and would have no commiseration save that of Shiel, which, indeed, partook of so unwearied a nature that Mac clung to it as a drowning man will to a straw. At the end of a month Shiel declared that journalism was the only thing left to them. He had held it, he said, as a dernier ressort, not wanting to set the tongues of the world that Jenny so hated wagging in her .behalf, but her cruel obstinacy had left them no alternative. “I see,” said Mac, “the personal column in the Herald. Make it as agonizing as you can, Shiel. God knows it can’t hold misery enough. Tell her to come back and rule in every thing—manage the money and the business, smash the piano, and forbid Jean’s marriage to the professor; and tell her, Shiel, the house is ‘ cauld without her, and my heart wearies sair.’” And here the tears rolled out of his eyes, and a lump in his throat stopped his speech. “Nonsense, man,” said Shiel. “Call you that journalism ? Listen here, sir, to the cunning touch of genius, the lever that moves the world.” And he read forth to the desponding partner a little paragraph from a prominent newspaper, stating the deep regret with which they they learned that the recent domestic troubles of the eminent musical critic, Mr. Mac Neil, had not only prostrated him upon a bed of illness, where he was now lying in a critical condition, but that his business affairs had become hopelessly entangled, and there was a probability of an early sale of his-house-hold effects for the benefit of his creditors. Among these articles were some musical cariosities, information of which could be obtained of Mr. Shiel, Print-ing-House Square, No. . “And now I must go to No. at once,” said Shiel; “for, if I’m not mistaken, this will fetch her within the hour.”

Shiel had no sooner got seated at his desk than there was a timid knock at the door that sent his heart thumping in unison. Upon the threshold he presently saw a familiar little figure, and heard a broken voice which the thickness of no veil could disguise. . She began to inquire about the musical curiosities, while Shiel looked at her eagerly. He said not a word, but there was something in his face so sad and yearning that Jenny began to sob. “Is he very sick, Shiel dear?” she cried. “Oh, take me to him, wicked woman that lam ! I have killed him—have killed him for whom I would lay down my life 1” She threw back her veil and put out both her little hands, and Shiel, on the spur of the moment, caught her in his arms and held her to his heart, excusing the warmth of this embrace by the plea that he thought she was fainting. They found Mac walking about the room, somewhat worn and thin, to be sure, and big, greedy, cavernous hollows of grief in his face; but, as he took Jenny in his arms, these hollows filled up with joy, and bis whole being seemed to dilate with strength and gladness. “Surely you cannot be so very, very ill, dearie?” whispered Jennie, looking coaxingly into his eyes. “I’m—l’m a little better,” said Mac, slyly winking at poor Shiel, and kissing her again and again. “Then don’t mind being a beggar, dear,” pursued Jenny. “ Let them sell what they will, they can’t sell you, and we can all go and live in our old nest again.” “And give over this fine one to Jean and her professor,” said Mac. “ But the creditors,” cried Jenny. “There is the only man to whom I owe anything in the world,” said Mac, pointing to Shiel. Jenny looked about her rather ruefully, and said to Shiel, “Can’t we go back to the old nest, Shiel ? Can’t we all go back ?” Shiel was near the door, and caught both her hands in his. “There are no birds in last year’s nests,” said poor Shiel, and left them alone together.— Harper's Weekly.

A Modern Samson.

In the last century there lived in Enland a man named Thomas Topham, who was renowned for his muscular power. He could, with ease, roll upin his fingers the pewter platters which were in fashion at that time, or strike an iron poker upon his arm until he bent it at a right angle. He took a bar of iron, and, placing it behind his neck, holding the two ends in his hands, he brought these ends forward until they met in front, then—a feat which required still more dexterity—he brought it straight again in a similar manner. He is said to have lifted with his teeth, and held out for a time, a wooden table six feet long, and with half a hundred-weight attached to one extremity. These performances are recorded by Dr. Desaguliers, a French scientific writer, who made it his business to investigate the subject personally, while collecting material for one of his works. In 1744, being then 30 years of age, Topham went to Derby and obtained permission of the authorities to display his prowess in public. A s’.age was erected for him, and on this stage, among other performances, he raised three casks filled with water, the total weight of the three being 1,836 pounds, and it will be observed that in doing it he brought the muscles of his neck and shoulders particularly into requisition. The muscular strength of his legs had been affected by an injury he sustained during an incautious experiment. He had undertaken to pull against two horses from the trank of a tree, but, being unscientific in his mode of exertion, and placing himself disadvantageously, he was defeated, and his knee-pan was fractured. It was the opinion of Desaguliers that, had he gone properly to work, Topham might have pulled successfully against fotir horses instead of two. The two-horse feat was accomplished in the last century by a powerful individual, a German named Von Eckeburg. This man sat down on an inclined board, with his feet stretched against fixed support, and two strong horses were unable to remove him from his position. Standing on a platform, like Topham, he sustained the weight of a large cannon round his waist, and, at another time, berding his body in the form of an arch, he allowed a stone of more than a foot in thickness to be broken upon his abdomen by the blow of a sledge-hammer. Of Maurice of Savoy, son of the Elector Augustus 11., it is recorded that his strength of finger was so great that he could snap iron horse-shoes between his fingers like pieces of glass, and, on one occasion, finding himself in want of a cork-screw, he took a long nail, and, with his fingers, twisted it round into the shape of the implement he required. Such are some of the feats which the human body is able to accomplish by muscular exertion.

Rear Guard.

Night before last a family man on West Hill peeped out of the hall door and saw a youth sitting in the moonlight talking to his eldest daughter. The old man made a rush, the young man drifted out into the shrubbery, and as he went over the fence pater made a good line shot and kicked. Then he carried himself into the house on one foot and sat down and wept, and called for witch hazel and arnica, and yelled, “Emeline! What does that young fool plate himself for?” And Emeline said, “Why, pa !” and she and Ferdinand laughed about it the next night until the moon went down.—Burlington Hawk-Eye.

Washington's will, now rapidly fading, is to be copied by photo-littiogra-phy, by order of Gov. Holliday, of Virginia.

MEMORIES OF 1865.

The Wengiwg -of Mrs. Surratt—The Evidence Which Condemned Her. . [“ in Cincinnati Kuqnlrer.) There were three reasons why Mrs. Surratt was condemned and was not pardoned: 1. The direct evidence implicating her. 2. The non-return of her son. 3. The moral conviction in Government officers that so causeless and great a crime ought to have the highest sacrifice of those concerned in it—even a woman. The following is the direct evidence against her: 1. Driving to Surratts ville from Washington the day of the murder and taking Booth’s field-glass and ordering a bottle of whisky, the field-glass and two carbines to be ready that night, as they would be called for. Booth paid for her buggy and saw her off subsequent to the time he resolved to kill that night. 2. Harboring Payne (or Powell), the assassin of Lincoln, in her house, to which he returned the night after the murder, when she denied before God that she had ever seen him, in the presence of officers accidentally there when he entered. 3. Maintaining two resorts of spies and secret-agents within the Capital City district, while keeping for much of the time the United States Postoffice at Surrattsville. 4. Harboring Atzerodt, Booth and other lights of the assassination for two or three weeks before the crime, and allowing the house to be used for a manifest scheme of violence of some kind against the President, General and Cabinet. 5. Hiring a room at the Herndon House for the assassin Payne, two weeks before the murder. This house was just behind the theater, where the crime was committed. 6. The absence of her son from home for several days before the murder threw the direct agency of all she did or did not forbid directly upon herself, as the sole host of the house in Washington and landlord of her tenant at Surrattsville.

This last point has not been noticed. It assisted, however, to save Sarratt’s life when he was tried two years afterward. He was less guilty than his mother of knowledge of the assassination, provided Booth resolved to assassinate after Surratt went to Canada. All that happened after that between Booth and Mrs. Surratt was independent of her son’s control. John Surratt in a lecture he delivered said that he had agreed to abduct Mr. Lincoln, but never to kill him. Yet he did kill him, and sent Mrs. Surratt to clear the road. This leaves open to us the question of the influence of Booth on Mrs. Surratt. Weichmann says he believes Mrs. Sarratt was in love with Booth and thought he was going to marry her, and under that feeling was his very trustiest confidante. What she might have shrunk from as a political motive, she went willingly to do for love, and her bridegroom was the halter. Love makes everything seem reasonable and establishes an authority above law; yet love has always been held accountable. The story of patting Booth’s two carbines at Mrs. Sarratt’s tavern is singular: At John 0. Thompson’s Tee Bee Hotel, several miles south of Surrattsville, Herold stopped in March, 1865, and took from his buggy two carbines, two double-barreled shot-guns, ammunition, a rope, a wrench, a knife, and a navy revolver. He said he was going to the Patuxent duck shooting, and expected to meet John Surratt there, but, after staying all night, he started back toward Surrattsville. He met on the road Surratt and Atzerodt, and they all returned to Surratt’s, where John gave the carbines, the wrench and rope to John Lloyd for safe-keeping. April 3d, j ust afterward, Surratt passed Tee Bee in the Leonardstown stage, on his way from Washington to Richmond, Va. Atzerodt also stopped at the bar in March previous to the murder. Why were there but two carbines, if Mr. Lincoln was to have been abducted only, and why does that number coincide with the two retreating men on the night of the murder ? An abduction required a troop. Lloyd asked what to do with the carbines. Sarratt took him upstairs—it was several weeks before the murder—and showed Lloyd how to suspend the carbines between the laths of the house; so that they would not be found on foreign search.

About two weeks after the murder a carbine was found by Lloyd’s directions in the Surratt house, concealed in the plastering next to the kitchen and suspended by a rope. Lloyd moved to Surrattsville in December, 1864, and left there finally October, 1866. He saw Surratt, Atzerodt (whom he called by the name of “ Miserable”) and Herold there on several occasions. When Booth came along tne night of the murder he took one carbine and refused to let Herold have the other; hence it was found where John Surratt placed it. Lloyd was a rebel in feeling. The morning after the murder, when Detective Clarvoe and others, sharp on Booth’s trail, stopped at Surrattsville, they recognized in Lloyd an old policeman. “Johnny,” cried Clarvoe, J‘tell me which road these men took, and I’ll make your fortune!” The rascal directed them off toward Piscataway, instead of eastward toward Bryantown. He never would open his mouth until compelled by fear. Weichmann had already confessed that he drove Mrs. Surratt to Surrattsville the morning of the murder, and on the way she said: “Louis, pray for my intentions !” He saw lier go over to Lloyd at the woodpile and speak to him, but did not know what was said. When Lloyd’s obstinacy gave way, he told: “ She told me to get them shooting-irons and a bottle of whisky ready, as they would be called for that night. She gave me the fieldglass to put with them. She said they would be called for before midnight. ” Then taking the officers into the loft, the remaining hidden carbine told the story. It is evident that John Sarratt was not in Washington the day of the murder. No horse was provided for him to ride. He had sneaked out of the plot to get some safer and more profitable work as a secret agent from Richmond to Canada; and, leaving Elmira for Canada, he hid there, allowing his mother to hang, until he could be spirited off to Europe, On the steamer from Quebec he betrayed himself to the purser, who became witness against him, and at Rome his old school-mate, St. Marie, saw him and gave him up. Surratt was taken into the assassination plot in January. Had he returned to Washington he would, undoubtedly, have been hanged, but would then have died more honorably than any of the set. His mother would have been imprisoned, but not hanged. Sentiment fcr him would have saved her. Booth had, evidently, no real respect for John Surratt, but used him to post the road, and found his mother more cautious and smart than the son.

Mrs. Surratt was subjected to trial. She never recovered from the terrible apparition of the man, Payne, stalking into her house, disguised, at the dead of night, just when the officers were marching her to prison. He had lost his way and came there. Fred. W. Aiken, counsel for Mrs. Surratt, told me that she was not manacled in prison, but had the womb disease, and was put in a cell two and a half by eight feet, with one straw pallet and one bucket, and flooded for three weeks, un-

til removed by additional medical advice, but too late to stop the flooding, which went on till she died. She hoped till the last for respite, and, at the last interview with Aiken, looked up at him imploringly but too weak to speak. He said she was privy to the plot to abduct Lincoln—no more. He said she had good sense and was well educated. Lew Wallace was the chief advocate of her hanging. Aiken thinks she was in a dying condition when hanged.

AGRICULTURAL AND DOMESTIC.

Around the Farm. Thb Poultry World says, separate the sexes in old chickens this month, while the moulting season lasts. Look for grubs among your peach trees right away; at the surface of the ground, or just below it, yon know. Cur up and mixed with scalded meal, "pusley,” the Poultry World says, is one of the best of green feeds, especially for young chickens. Fowls may be easily caught in daytime by enticing them to thd-poultry-house and making it dark by hanging a blanket over the window. A poultry keeper who lately applied “grease from the frying-pan and sulphur’ to the heads of lousy young chickens, soon found the lice gone—and the chickens dead. A Nebraska farmer reports 600 pounds of bright sugar and 153 gallons of nice sirup from two acres of early sorghum. He got the sugar by hanging the thick sirup in coffee sacks after it began to granulate. The farmer who wishes to avoid an excess of labor, with unprofitable result, will not spread a small quantity of manure over a large surface of poor land, but will only plow as much as he can highly manure, when his income will be as large and his labor nearly onehalf saved. Cultivate thoroughly if you wish to reap abundantly. Do not waste your means and fritter away your time by raising a crop of noxious weeds with your cane or cotton or corn. Keep a watchful eye upon the farm and its surroundings. But it does not follow that you should imbibe “eye-openers” at public houses, beer shops, or comer groceries.

If the farmer improves his farm he improves his financial condition. The more valuable he makes it the more his capital stock is increased, the larger will be his returns, and when he dies the larger will be the patrimony he leaves his family. Fix up the old home, then. Olean out the fence corners. Destroy the noxious weeds. Grab out the hazel and sassafras. Burn out the stumps. Olean off the logs and stones. Make a paradise on earth of your farm, for are you not to live on it while you remain on earth, and will not your family live on it when you lie in yonder graveyard ? Plant out good orchards, so that your family may enjoy the good ■ fruit "that you had the foresight and energy to provide for them.

As a flesh-producer, one pound of eggs is equal to one pound of. beef. A hen may be calculated to consume one bushel of com yearly, and to lay twelve dozen or eighteen pounds of eggs. This is equivalent to saying that three and one-tenth pounds of corn will produce, when fed to a hen, one pound of eggs. A pound of pork, on the contrary, requires about five and one-tenth pounds of com for its production. When eggs are 24 cents a dozen and pork 10 cents a pound, we have a bushel of corn fed, producing $2.88 worth of eggs and $1.05 of pork. Judging from these facts, eggs must be economical in their production and in their eating, and especially fit for the laboring man in replacing meat. As a rule, pure-bred sheep are quite too dear to raise for mutton. The fine wools are small; the long wools furnish too much fat in proportion to lean to be profitable to the consumer. The Southdowns supply fine-grained lean meat, but they have the drawback of being a trifle small. A cross between Southdown rams and merino ewes produces a favorite class of rams for the Eastern markets. They are hardy, mature early and strongly display the excellent Southdown points. If these grades or Southdown ewes are crossed with a Cotswold or Leicester ram the progeny will be large, and the growth rapid, while the flesh will have a choice flavor. To supply early lambs for the butcher this is probably as good a cross as can be made, as there is always a demand for such lambs in New York and other Eastern cities at profitable prices.

About the House.

To Preserve the Hair. —Wash it in cold sage tea. Liniment. —A good liniment for cuts, bruises, etc., can be made by soaking common Mayweed leaves in alcohol. Powdered borax or alum is recommended as an insecticide. A pound of alum, dissolved in two quarts of boiling water, and applied with a brush when quite warm, will drive away nearly all kinds of vermin. Mixed Coffees.—Experience proves that two kinds of coffee mixed make a better beverage than any one quality alonA Thus Java one-half and Mocha one-half mixed make a superior coffee to either singly.— Exchange. Okra and Tomatoes.—Peel and slice six ripe tomatoes; take the same amount of tender-sliced okra and one sliced green pepper; stew in porcelain for twenty or thirty minutes. Season with butter and salt and serve.

Summer Squash.—When young and tender, do not peel or take out the seeds, but boil in as little water as possible, from one-half to three-quarters of an hour; drain, mash and set on the back of the range to dry out for ten or fifteen minutes, stirring often; season with pepper, salt, butter or cream. If the squash be old, peel and remove the seeds before boiling. To Keep Cut Roses Fresh.—Roses, camellias, and all hard-wooded flowers, such as are used for head-dresses, button-hole bouquets, etc., may be kept fresh and their beauty preserved by the following plan: Cut stems off at right angles, and apply hoc cealing-wax to the end of the stalk immediately; this prevents the sap from flowing downward, thereby preserving the flower. Peach-stains.—l believe the only thing that will remove peach-stains from white goods is Java water. Get, say, 10 cents worth, lay your garment on a crockery plate or dish and pour the Java water on it. You must watch it, for it only takes a few minutes to draw the stain out. Wash out immediately in clean water, for if it stands too long it will injure the goods.

It is a bad plan to “ make up” the beds immediately after breakfast. The sleeping apartments in a house should be thoroughly aired every day. Beds should be opened every morning to the sun and to the atmosphere. Do not be in too much haste to get the chambers in order. Several hours should be de voted to their ventilation after the night. Let the sheets and blankets be spread over separate chairs, the mattresses lifted apart, and the pure morning air be allowed to get into every nook and cranny es the room before the beds are made. Better endure a little untidiness than loss of health. A tree resembling the cedar, but with foliage so full of combustible oil that it goes off like a flash on the application of match, is one of the wonders of Nevada. Within five minutes a beautiful green tree, with spreading branches, is changed into a charred and blackened trunk.

The Bay Mule.

He was showing the man the new bay mule that he was working in a team with the old gray. “ Ton warrant him sound and perfectly kind and gentle ?” the man said. “Perfectly,” said Farmer John. “My wife and children drive him, and he is a perfect pet. Comes into the house like a dog.” “Easy to shoe?” asked the man. "Well, I guess so; fact is, I never had him shod. I don’t believe in it; he works better without it,” said Farmer John. “ How does he act when you put the crupper on?” asked the man. Farmer John hesitated. “ Well, pretty good, I guess,” he said; “fact is, I never put it on. ” “ How does it get on V’ asked the man; “ who does put it on?” “Well, I kind of don’t know,” said Farmer John; “fact is, he had the harness on when I got him, an* it fit him so well, an’ he seemed to be so kind o* contented in it, like, that I sort of never took it off’ll him.” “And how long have you had him?” asked the man. Farmer John chewed a wheat-straw very meditatively. “Well,” he said, “not to exceed more’n two year, mebbe.” And the man backed a little further away, and said he would “ sort of look round a little further before he bought, like.” And Farmer John never saw him again, not even unto this day.— Burdette. The growth of the nails on the left hand requires eighty-two days more than those of the right, is more rapid in children than adults, and goes on faster in summer than in winter. It requires 132 days for the renewal of the nails in cold weather, and but 116 when the weather is warm.

Prompt Reform of Bodily Evils.

The prompt reform of those bodily evils, enfeebled digestion, incomplete assimilation, inactivitv of the liver, kidneys and bladder, as well as of the nervous symptoms which these ailments are especially prone to beget, is always accomplished by the use of Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters, a medicine accredited by physicians, pronounced pure by analysts, and eminently wholesome and agreeable. Surely such a restorative is preferable to unpalatable and indigestible mineral drugs and unsanctioned nostrums. The nation at large assuredly thinks so, judging by the unprecedented demand for the article from Maine to the Pacific, a demand now supplemented by immense orders for it received from tropical America, Mexico, the British and Spanish colonial possessions and elsewhere. Both at home and abroad it is recognized as a standard remedy and preventive, the decisiveness of its effects recommending it everywhere.

Old age does not prevent you from being cured of your Heart Disease. Mr. Thompson says: I have had Palpitation of the Heart for ten years. Two years ago I had a paralytic shock ; since then 1 have been troubled very much wor»e. I found no relief until I had used Dr. Graves’ HEART REGULATOR. 1 have used it for four months; the palpitation has en tirely left me. I was so bad at times that I could not breathe freely, and used to have a faint, sinking feeling : was so bad that I could not sleep, and had to get up and walk around in order to get breath. I feel en tirely well of all my heart troubles, and would advise all afflicted with Heart Disease to use it. lam seventy years of age, and live in Bakersville. James Thompson, Manchester, N. H. Send your name to F. E. Ingalls, Concord, N. H., for a pamphlet containing a list of testimonials of cures, etc. Dr. Graves’ HEART REGULATOR is for sale by druggists at 50 cents and $1 per bottle.

Fairbanks Scales.

Numerous foreign governments, as Russia, Cuba, Siam, Japan, etc., have adopted the Fairbanks Standard Scales for government use, and in the last four years only, our own Government, in the Postoffice, War and Treasury Departments, have bought over 11,000.

Another Fat Man Reduced.

H. A. Kufus, dealer in dry goods, Woodhull, HL, writes Botanic Medicine Co., Buffalo, N.Y., June 22d, 1878: “ Gentlemen: Please find inclosed $5.00, for which send me, by express, Anti-Fat. I have taken one bottle and I lost five and one-quarter pounds.” Wilhoft’s Tonic !—Unfailing and Infallible !—This great Chill Tonic cures Chills without the intervention of doctors and their bills. No consulting visits—no prescriptions to be filled—no huge bills, entailing pecuniary embarrassments, added to loss of health. It is the friend of the poor man, because it enables him to earn a living, and of the rich, because it prepares him to enjoy his wealth. This great boon to mankind is cheap, safe and prompt. Wheelock, Finlay & Co., Proprietors, New Orleans. Fob sale by all Druggists. The destructive progress of that insidious foe to life and health, Scrofula, may be arrested by the aid of Scovill’s Blood and Liveb Syrup, a botanic depurent which rids the system of every trace of scrofulous or syphilitic poison and cures eruptive and other diseases indicative of a tainted condition of the blood. Among the maladies which it remedies are white swelling, salt rheum, carbuncles, biliousness, the diseases incident to women, gout and rheumatism. A Wonder for the Workshop.— Every mechanic should have at hand a box of Grace’s Salve, as it is a ready remedy for accidents such as Cuts, Bruises, Contused Wounds, Burns, Scalds, Poisoned Skin and Eruptions caused by operations in the factory, dye-house, or printing office. Only 25 cents a box. Fob upwards of 30 years Mrs. WINSLOW’S SOOTHING SYRUP has been used for children with never-failing success. It corrects acidity of the stomach, relieves wind coho, regulates the bowels, cures dysentery and diarrhea, whether arising from teething or other causes. An old and well-tried remedy. 25 cts. a bottle. If there is anything in this life that will give one a foretaste of hell, as some represent it, that thing is Neuralgia. It is the refinement of torture. But there is a simple and inexpensive remedy for it. Johnson's Anodyne Liniment snuffed up into tne head will give instant relief.

CHEW The Celebrated “Matchless” Wood Tag Plug Tobacco. The Pioneeb Tobacco Company, New York, Boston and Chicago. ' What will you read when the evenings grow long and cool ? Did you ever read The Best Family Paper in the United States ? If not, send Ten Cents, and get three specimen copies. Address, The Ledges, Chicago, 111. To cleanse and whiten the teeth, to sweeten the breath, use Brown’s Camphorated Saponaceous Dentifrice. Twenty five cents a bottle.

THE MARKETS.

NEW YORK. Beeves $6 25 @lO 00 Hogs 4 40 @ 4 60 Cotton 11%@ 11% Floub—Superfine 3 00 @ 3 75 Wheat—No. 2 Chicago 1 07 @ 1 08 Cobn—Western Mixed 42 @ 51 Oats—Mixed 24 @ 33% Rye —Western 59 @ 60 Pobk—Mess 9 25 @ 9 50 Labd 7 @ 7% CHICAGO. Beeves—Choice Graded Steers.... 5 00 @ 5 25 Choice Natives 4 25 @ 4 90 Cowsand Heifers.. 2 50 @ 3 25 Butchers’ Steers 3 00 @ 3 50 Medium to Fair 3 75 @ 4 25 Hogs—Live 2 75 @ 4 50 Floub—Fancy White Winter 4 75 @ 5 25 Good to Choice Spring Ex. 475 @ 500 Wheat—No.* 2 Spring—New 86 @ 87 No. 3 Spring 77 @ 78 Cobn—No. 2 36 @ 37 Oats—No. 2 20 @ 21 Rye—No. 2 44 @ 45 Babley—No. 2 104 @lO5 Butteb—Choice Creamery 21 @ 23 Eggs—Fresh 13 @ 14 Pobk—Mess 8 40 @ 8 62% Labd , 6%@ 6% MILWAUKEE. Wheat—No. 1 1 00 @ 1 10 No. 2—New 92 @ 93 Cobn—No. 2 41 @ 42 Oats—No. 2 19 @ 20 Rye—No. 1 44 @ 45 Babley—No. 2 1 03 @ 1 04 ST. LOUIS. Wheat—No. 2 Red Fall 83 @ 84 Cobn—Mixed 34 @ 35 Oats—No. 2 20 @ 21% Rye 43 @ 44 Pobk—Mess 9 00 @ 9 37% Labd 6%@ 7 Hogs 3 25 @ 4 00 Cattle 255 @450 CINCINNATI. Wheat—Red 85 @ 90 Cobn 41 @ 42% Oats—New 20 @ 26 Rye 50 @ 52 Pobk—Mess 900 @ 9 50 Labd 6%@ 8% TOLEDO. Wheat—No. 1 White 1 01 @ 1 03 No. 2 Red 95 @ 96 COBN. 41 @ 44 Oats—No. 2 21 * 22 DETROIT. Floub—Choice White 5 00 @ 5 10 Wheat—No. 1 White 1 02 @ 1 03 No. 1 Amber. 94 @ 95 Cobh—No. 1 42 @ 43 Oats—Mixed 24 @ 28 Babley (per cental) 100 @2 25 Pobk—Mess 10 25 @lO 50 EAST LIBERTY, PA. Cattle—Best 4 75 @ 5 00 Fair 4 50 @ 460 Common 3 60 @ 4 25 Hoss 8 70 @ 4 60 Sheep 8 00 @ 4

Awards to America at Faris. The cable announces most of the prizes won at Paris. The Howe Scale Co. must feel satisfied with their share. They take the gold medal Sae highest award), the silver medal in class (the only award to any scale manufacturer), and the bronze medal in class 64 (the highest n that class). The Chicago Ledger is the only reliable Story Paper published in the West, and is sold for half the price of Eastern papers of the same kind. Three specimen copies sent to any address for Ten Cents. Address, The Ledgeb, Chicago, HL Pure, rich blood gives us health, long life and a “ green old age,” but how few pay any attention to the state of their blood ? Parsons' Purgative Pills make new, rich blood, and taken one a night for three months will change the blood in the entire system. IMPORTANT NOTlCE.—Farmers, Families and Others can purchase no remedy equal to Dr. TOBIAS’ VENETIAN LINIMENT, for the cure of Cholera, Diarrhoea, Dysentery, Croup, Colic and Sea. sickness, taken internally (it is perfectly harmless; me oath accompanying each bottle) and externally for Chronic Rheumatism, Headache, Toothache. Sore Throat, Cute, Burns, Swellings, Bruises, Mosquito Bites, Old Sores, Pains in Limbs, Back and Chest The VENETIAN LINIMENT was introduced in 1847, and no one who has used it but continues to do so, many stating if it was Ten Dollars a Bottle they would not be without it Thousands of Certificates can be seen at the Depot, speaking of its wonderful curative properties. Sold by the Druggists at 40 eta. Depot, 42 Murray street. New York.

CONSUMPTION, Bronchitis, Genera] Debility. CAUTION! Hypophosphites—Fellows’ Compound Syrup of Hypophosphites. As this preparation is entirely different in its combination and effects from all other remedies called Hypophosphites, the public are cautioned that the genuine has the name of F< lloirt <6 Co. blown on the bottle. The signature of the inventor, James I. Fellows, is written with red ink across each label, and on the yellow wrapper in water-mark, which is seen by holding the paper before the light. FELLOWS’ HYPOPHOSPHITES is adapted for diseases which are produced by loss of nervous power and consequent muscular relaxat ion, vis.: Consumption, Bronchitis, Asthma, Whooping Cough, Aphonia, Cough, Nervousness, Mental Depression, Neuralgia. Epileptic Fits, St. Vitus’ Dance, Nervous Debility, Chronic Diarrhea, Leucorrhoea, Fever and Ague, Marasmus. Dyspepsia, Dyptheretic Prostration; Diseases S reduced by Overtaxing the Mind, by Grief or Anxiety, y Rapid Growth L by Child-Bearing, do, Ac. SVVEET Genevieve— Medley Lancashire Clog for lOc., postpaid. J. Chadsey, Chatham Centre, N.Y. CAI fl Watch free to Card Agents. Send 3c. OULU stamp to S. B. ARCH ER, Troy, N. Y. VOUNC ■ month. Small salary while learning. Situation fur nlshed.Address R.Valentine.Manager,Janesvllle,Wla.

Kalamazoo. Mich. Send for Journal. W.F.Parsons, Pres I ■ ■ I A Wholesale and Retail. Wigs and Haii llfl 111 Jewelry to order. Multiformsand Wave? Pv 11 I K of any description. Largest stock in tin | I 111 West. Send for price-list, B. C. STREHL ■■■■■■■ A CO., 120 State Street, Chicago. W 5 Beard oven on smooth fares i n from days. Tlxw W - Br ” from an<l show U positi'a result * L* Jw £. from its nor. It works like magic and never No e. JjraßKf possible injury tot ho skin, easily applied uirdocitaiD in IL, ,-fM otTeet. Pkg post-paid 25 ctA.3 fur !>0 Cts. L.L.SMITH & CO. Solo Ag* it, Palatine, 111. All others oounterfiriu AWNINGS! TENTS! Waterproof Covers, Signs, Window Shades, Ac MURRAY de BAKER, 100 South De»plaincfe Chicago. Send for Illustrated Price-List.

BE KEPT QlAf ETKTT Vz IEL Fw as when pressed O K» E* I for years, or fermentation can be arrested at any desired stage by using Ford’s New Preservative. Material for 3 bbls., 50 cts.: for 7 bbls., SI.OO. Sent by mull, with full directions for use, and how to clean old bairels. Sole Manufacturer, FRANK FORD, Ravenna, Ohio. A .•D $6 a day canvassing “The Nassau Delight.” MgeniS profit. Sample free. Fred Jones, Nassau, N.Y. $1,500 to $3,000 A IE AR. A new business for every county and town. Suitable for Agents and Dealers of all kinds. Only SSO capital needed. Easy, pleasant, permanent, and respectable. Address J. B. CHAPMAN, Madison, Ind. CIVILIZATION’S CROWNINC CONVENIENCE h\A'' ’' l\ is R° pe ’ 8 Name Writing, Fancy / I• ’ I t Stitching and Darning Attach* f 1/ V i ment for Sewing Machines. Its I K sMr’:- N I own wor k strongest praise. I r f Price s|. Ask a Sewing Ma- \ 1 / "hine dealer. Special attach- \ / ment fur each kind of machine: / in ordering, name the machine. Agents wanted. 1 R- M. ROSE, "wi J Sun Building, New York The Antidote to Alcohol Found at laist. THE FATHER MATHEW REMEDY Is a certain and speedy cure for intemperance. It destroys all appetite for alcoholic liquors and builds up the nervous system. After a debauch, ar any intemperate indulgence, a single teaspoonful will remove all mental and physical depression. It also cures every kind ot Fever, Dyspepsia and Torpidity of the Liver. Sold by a.! druggists. Price $ 1 per Bottle. Pamphlet on “Alcohol, its Effects, and Intemperance as a Disease,” sent free on writing to the Father Mathew Temperance and Manufacturing C0.,'36 Bond St., N. Y. DR. CRAIG’S KIDNEY CURE! THE GREAT REMEDY FOR ~ ALL KIDNEY DISEASES! Rtf er by special permission. to Rev. Dr. J. E. Rankin, Washington, D. C. • G. T. Heston, M. D., Newton, Bucks Co., Pa.: John L. Roper, Esq., Norfolk. Va.; Dr. J. 11. White, 417 Fourth Ave., New York; Dr. O. A. Dean. Charlotte, N. Y.; Hon. C. R. Parsons, present Mayor of Rochester, N. Y. Ask your druggist. Send for pamphlet, and address Dr. CRAIG, 42 UNJ VERSITY PEACE, NEW YORK. Hlands’lOWA 1,200,000 Acres DUE WEST from ( hlcagf At 35 to 38, in farm lots and on terms to suit all classes. Send postal-card for maps and pamphlet deserlptl to ot 16 counties. Low freights. Excursion tickets, out and back, free to buyers. Start right! For any it .’onnatlon apply to lowa R. R. I.and Co., 92 Randolph Street, Chicago, or Cedar Rapids, lowa 3. B. CALHOUN, Land Commletirmfr.

WE WANT It known to all Cash Buyers of Boots and Shoes in the Western country that we have established a Cash House in Chicago For their especial accommodation, where prices are made an inducement to all Cash Purchasers. BUEL, COOK SEIXAS, 211 and 213 Madison Street, Chlca<o, DI. IWNo Old Goods. Stock Entirely New and purchased for Cash.

HOW TO GET THEM in th ' hest part of the state. 6.000,000 acres far sale. For a copy of the “Kunaaii Pacific Homefetead/’ address S. J. Gilmore, Land Com’r, Salina. §APONIFIER Is the Old Reliable Concentrated Lye FOR FAMILY SOAP-MAKING. Directions accompanying each can for making Hard, Soft and Toilet Soap QUICKLY. IT IS FULL WEIGHT AND STRENGTH. The market is flooded with (so-called) Concentrated Lye, which is adulterated with salt and rosin, and won't make eoap. SAVE MONET, AND BUT THU Saponifieß MADE BY THE Pennsylvania Salt Manuf’g Co., PHILADELPHIA.

lIINi IHIIIffI It is estimated that the farmers of this country have lost FOUBMILLIOHHOBS by this terrible disease. Many patent nostrums have been imposed upon the public under the pretension that they would cure the disease, but in almost all cases they have proved failures. The disease seemed absolutely incurable until Dr. Albert Dunlap, an accomplished physician, undertook a thorough examination of the disease. After much study and many experiments, he announced his now celebrated remedy, THE EUREKA SPECIFIC. T/te success of this remedy has been wonderful. It has saved the hoys from the cholera wherever used. Mr. G. W. Hardesty, of Canton, 111., had a lot of sick hogs. He bought some of the EUREKA UPECIITC, and, FOLLOWJIfa DIRECTIONS CAREFULLY, SAVED EVERY HOC. highly commends it, and says: “ I have no interest in the matter personal to myself, but having tested the remedy, and seen it tested by others, I KNOW IT TO HE A GOOD THING. I KNOW IT WILL PREVENT DISEASE AND CURE THE HOG CHOLERA. As far as 1 am able to tell, the Specific is unlike any other preparation for the disease of swine. Dr. Dunlap is a scientific man, as the Specific goes to prove. ** f advise farmers to keep a supply of the remedy on hand at all times,” Do not let your hogs suffer any longer, but send for this SURE CURE. The price for single package, $1; per doz., SIO. Send money order or bank draft. Sent by express anywhere. Address THE EUREKA SPECIFIC CO., Chicago, 111. FULLER & FULLER, Chicago,) Whole sale H. A. HUKLBUTiOO., •« f Agents.

Seven 4 this beautiful Ravolvwrtob. Sr th® host ever offend for th. —▼ ■> mon v- It is no obMp cm* iron pistol, but manufactured of the best English sted, and finished equal to the highest-priced Revolver in th. market. We have sold 5,000 of them since th. fint of June, and have -just contracted with the manufaotanr for 10,000 more. Our guarantee accrunpanies each volver. OartridCM to fit than can beobtalnmi a* anr g ' > THE OHIO AGO LEDGER Is th. LarewL BmA and Cheapest Family p»per in the United Btetea It is printed upon large, plain type, and can be easily read W old or young, and should be in every household. ere t^taTHE e age paid. Addrees THE LKDGRR, C’hicnao, IIL Bbq-wm’s Brohchial Tbochm. for coughs and oolds /'IHBAP GUNS. Illustrated Catalogue free. AdV dress Great Western Gun Works, Pittsburg, Pa. 1 A* 7 *<> to sell a Household Article, Address Buckeye M*P« Co., Marioti, Ohio. VKAR. Hew to Make It. HtosdfwMv Oduuyg-t. COE <e tonck, at, m«<P ■ dress P. O. VICKERY, Augusta, Maine. (MA tn Invested in Whll St. Stocks makes SIU 10 Muuu e n ”ffl^his ok “ n ‘ Address BAXTER A CO., Bsnfev, 17 WallSt.,N. Y Qi'A klTtn Men for one year, to begin work at WuN I t|l once, balary fair. Busim-Hs first class. JJJJwwTWwZeMosiTOR Glass WosKa,C»»cisKATi,Ouio. (hh C A A MONTH-ACENTS WANTED-36 BEST -L <fill selling articles in the world; one sample tyUvV/r« Address Jay Bronson, Detroit. Mich I*l A FAY— With Stencil Outfits. What costs 4 ■k|l_ cts. sells rapidly for 60 cts. Catalogue Jrer. vIU S. M. Spenokb, 112 Wash’n St, Boston,Mass. Book-keepers, Reporters, Operators, School Teachers. Mrs i Kitted at Great Mercantile College, Keokuk, lowa. .sir Ufll I QEkin 1 set for »Oc, or 3 seta for Sl. tVE WILL oENII of our Patent Steel Wire anti Silver Metallic Violin, Guitar and Banjo Strings, to ammo wishing the Agency. They are warranted, and will not rust. Also, t piece for 3Uo. or 5 pieces for 31, of our new Brass Band andOrohestra Music—all parts com-plete-best in market. Hsltert Bros,, MaiehaHtown, la. Pocket Gatung Gun, $6. Anns 00., Lawrence, Mass. LATEST and Rest Bools on Stoam Eni/intering. Send stampforoatalogue. F. KEPPY. Bridgeport,Oonn rit Sjt A Q —The choicest in tneworld—lmporters’ I JjJxXiJe prices—Largest Company in Americastaple article— pleases everybody— Trade continually increasing—Agents wanted everywhere—best inducements—don’t waste time—send for Circular to _ ROB’T WELLS. 43 Vesey St,.JL Y„ P. O. Bor BUSINESS MAN’S MAGAZINE. 00 Pages i yr. Sample SO eU. Jssies P. Scott, W bvsrboro Su, Chicago. $lO g $25 ataXvi.'SKi NOVELTIES 'llustrated TPy’DU *”>11 on Catalogue A KzULvllv JC L UV application to J H. BUFRORD’S SONS, Manufacturing Publishers, 141 to 147 Franklin Street, Boston, Mass. Established nearly fifty years. New Rich Blood I

Pareone’ Purgntlvc Pills make New Rich Blood, and will completely change the blood in the entire system in three months. Any person who will take 1 pill aach night from I to 12 weeks may be restored to sound health. If such a thing be possible. IS. JOHNSON t 00., Bangor. Maine. GRACE’S SALVE. Jonesvit.t.e, Mich., Dec. 27, 1877.—Messrs. Fbwfes l sent you 50 cts. for two boxes of Grace’s Salve. I have had two mid have used them on an ulcer on my foot, and it is almost well. Respectfully yours, O. J. Van Ness. Price 25 cents a box at all druggists, or cent by mail on receipt of 35 cents. Prepared by KETH W. FOWEE A HONK. 8B Harrison Ave.. Boston, Mass. "SWEET MFSMNAVr Tobacco Awarded hlghent prize at Centennial Exposition fw fine chewing quaWiee and excelZencs and UMing ehaeacter of sweetening and flavoring. The best tobacos ever made. As onr blue strip trade-mark is closely imitated on inferior goods, see that Jaekeon'e Beet f( on every ping. Sold by all dealers. Send for sample, free, to C. A. ■TXrvsn'v A Go . Mfrs.. Petersburg, Vg. X EBIOES f/ yS2.SOtoS6,OOOSk A ///SETHTHOMAS\\ KCLOCKSJ v. \btowzli,. wiab wilier Zs Xkeepgood/ V V TIME. ✓ j/ BOSTOirmNSOKPT, Daily and Weekly, BOSTON, MASS. The Largest, Cheapest and Best Family Newspaper in New England. Edited with special reference to the varied tastes and requirements of the home circle. AU the foreign and local news published promptly. Daily Transcript, 810 per annum in advance. Weekly “ 82 “ “ “ “ " *' (5 copies to one address, $7.50 per annum in advance. SEND FOR SAMPBB COPY.

Established 1888. Gargling Oil Liniment Yellow Wrapper for Animal and White for Human Flesh. IS GOOD FOR Burns and Scalds, Sprains and Bruises, Chilblains, Frost Bites,Striaglialt, Windgalls, Scratches or Grease, Foot Rot in Sheep, Chapped Hands, Foundered Feet, Flesh Wounds, Roup in Poultry, External Poisons, Cracked Heels, Sand Cracks, Epizootic, Galls of all kinds, Lame Back, Sitfast, Ringbone, Hemorrhoids or Piles, Poll Evil, Toothache, Swellings, Tumors, Rheumatism, Garget in Cows, Spavins, Sweeney, Cracked Teats, Fistula, Mange, Callous, Lameness, Caked Breasts, Horn Distemper, Sore Nipples, Crownscab, Quitter, Curb, Ola Sores. Foul Ulcers, Farcy, Corns, Whitlows, Abccss of the Udder, Cramps, Boils, Swelled Legs, Weakness of the Joints Thrush, Contraction of Muscles. Merchant’s Gargling Oil is the standard Liniment of the United States. Large size, si; medium, 50c; small, 25c. Small size hr family use, 25c. Manufactured at Lockport, N. Y., by Merchant’s Gargling Oil Company. JOHN HODGE, Sec’y.

Make Hens Lay An English Veterinary Surgeon and Chemist now traveling Tn thia country says Cut most of the Horse and Cattle Powders sold here are worthless trash. He says that Sheridan's Condition Powders are absolutely pure and immensely valuable. Nothing on earth will make ben* lay like Sheridan's Condition Powders. Dose, one teaapoonful to one pint food. Sent by mall for eight letter . * Bangor, Maine. ANTI-LEAN, The Great Fattening Remedy and Blood Purifier. THE greatest medical discovery of the age, for producing the healthy adipose secretions, and developing all parts ot the body. ■ BEFORE. AFTER. It will speedily increase healthy flesh and muscle. It will increase the vital power. It will atop tendency to emaciation. It will give an appetite. It will regenerate the whole system. It vitalizes the blood,supplying such ingredients as may be required. It promotes vigor in the organs which depend for health on the involuntary moicular action, viz.: the Liver, Lungs, Heart, Stomach and Genitals. It will cure Consumption. It will cure Fever and Ague, General Debility and Nervous Prostration. An endless chain of good effects follows the use of Dr. Judge’s ANTI-LEAN, and we are safe in saying, frota a long experience in medicine, its virtues are not possewea by any other combination. This has been JP.P?? practice for years, and has not in a single Instance failed when used as directed. It wiß fill a ~ SsijSlS never having been an article of thia kind before offered t °ttl»as been demonstrated, andprovod all dembt, that on a post mortem examination of different persons advanced In life, and who have died from an affection of someother organic diwaM-than Consumption.that at certain periods of life they were afflicted with tuberculosis. or pulmonary consumption, and have recovered by an increase of adipose tissue or flesh, and consequently formed a cicatrix fn the lung, and arrested all tubercular deposit, and saving the healthy tissue and mucous membrane of the lungs, has restored thousands who have lived to a g'lod old age. Price 91 -gO per bottle. For sale by all druggists, or sent by express on receipt ot price. DR. J. ». JUDGE & CO.. Proprietors, T9 Beach Mtreet, Boston, Mass, O. N. U. No. 38 XITHEN WRITING TO ADVERTISER* YY please say you saw the advertiseniey; in this paper.