Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 January 1875 — Page 4

INDIANA NEWS ITEMS.

Alien County. About daybreak the other morning, near Fort Wayne, one section-of afi eastern-bound freight train ran into the other section, demolishing a heavy freight engine and the caboose car. No person was injured. Delaware County. A farmer named Gregory was instantly killed at Eaton, a few nights ago, by being run over by a freight train. His head was erushed to a jelly. The accident was attributed to his own carelessness. A very bad accident took place near Eaton, on the Fort Wayne, Muncie & Cincinnati Railroad, on the 13th. The passenger train going north, while crossing a bridge, was thrown from the track and the passenger coach with about twenty-seven passengers was thrown to the bottom, a distance of about fifteen feet. But one or two escaped uninjured and three or four had died at last accounts.

Elkhart Coonly. Edward Burkey had his foot horribly mangled bi a cog-wheel a few days ago, while drtvtag a horse-power on his father’s farm* a few miles from Goshen. La Grange County. The farm dwelling of Levi Wyland, situated about four miles north of La Grange,was burned lately. None of the contents were saved and the family barely escaped with their Ilves. The falling in of the roof was their first intimation of danger. Lots SB,OOO. Cause defective flue. Laporte County. The McCurdy House, at Wanatah, was recently burned, together with theAepot and telegraph office of the Pittaburgh, Fort Wayne * Chicago RailroadftdjOining. The entire loss was about-$43j)00. The fire was caused by a defective flue. The large two-story house belonging to the Widow Ransom, four miles east of Laporte, was destroyed by fire a few nights ago. Loss $5,000.'

Marlon County. Charles Clark, an Indianapolis laborer, was recently run over and horribly mangled by a Vandalia switching-engine. He was deaf, and the frost on the cab-window prevented the engineer from seeinghim. Glazier & Morris’ grain elevator at Indianapolis was partially destroyed by fire the other night The loss was about $12,000 Five thousand bushels of com were burned. Poaey County. James Lytle, seventeen years old, living near Mount Vernon, committed suicide lately by cutting his throat from ear to ear, because a young lady to whom he had been paying his addresses had broken the engagement Vigo County. At Terre Haute, the other day, while endeavoring to couple an engine to a coal car, Fred Pennell was caught between the bumpers and crushed into a four-inch space. It was thought he would die. Wbltley County. J. 8. King, a sewing-machine agent at Columbia City, has been arrested upon the charge of forging notes, upon which he realized about SI,OOO. He was arrested at the instance of J. 8. Tinkenbiner, general agent for the State of the Singer Sewing Machine Company.

INDIANA STATE LEGISLATURE.

Senate, Jan. 13. —Message received from the House announcing the passage of Haven.’ Louisiana resolutions .... Resolutions passed—authorizing the Secretary of State and Chairman of Printing Committee to contract for necessary printing until other ifrrangemcnts are made; requesting the Auditor of State to report the number of insurance certilicates issued to foreign companies ....Bills were introduced —for fencing railway tracks; relating to promissory notes and fixing legal holidays; amending the Fish law; admitting colored children to white schools where no. separate school is provided; authorizing husband and wife to testify or or against each other; fixing salaries of county officers at from SI,OOO to $1,500, according to population; establishing City Courts in cities not county seats; amending Bec. 8 of Real Property Alienation act: providing for trials in change of venue against a Judge; to repeal law imposing taxes on dogs; for the inspection of all coal 0i15.... The State Auditor reported the cost of Brener Reports for the years 1865 to 1873, inclusive, as $36,257.25... .Tn the afternoon a bill was introduced making the robbery of graveyards a crime to be punished by a fine not exceeding SI,OOO and imprisonment for twenty years.... Adjourned. House. —Bills were introduced—for fencing railway tracks; amending the act relating to Supreme Court Reporter.... Resolutions were introduced—instructing for an asylum for incurable insane; opposing further increase of Circuit Courts; requesting the committee to report a bill at once reducing the compensation of members... .The oint resolution censuring the Government for its interference in Louisiana matters was adopted—s 9to 37.... A number of temperance petitions were presented and referred ~..1n the afternoon bills were introduced—to incorporate the State Horticultural Society; fixing the number of Senators at twenty-, five and the Representatives at fifty.... Adjourned.

Senate, Jan. 14.—Sundry temperance, petitions were, presented... .Bills were introduced —authorizing banks te make assign ments; providing for the removal of public officers addicted to intemperance; authorizing the transfer of the bank fund to the general fund; preventing discrimination by railroads; fixing Judges’salaries; for constructing fish-ladders at county expense; authorizing the organization of camp-meeting associations; requiring a vote of the people as a condition precedent to the expenditure of more than 45,000 for public improvements by County Commissioners; repealing the Railroad Aid law in river and border conn ties; regulating the sale of patent medicines modifying the Divorce law so as to allow parties to testify against each other....At the afternoon session the contested election cases of Walker vt. Lowe and Jeffries vg. Baxter were referred.... Resolutions were passed setting apart Wednesday, the 20th, for the discussion of the local-option clause in the bill to be reported by the Temperance Committee.... Adjourned. House.—Bills were introduced—fixing passenger fares on railroads at three cents per mile and freights at five cents per ton per mile when carried thirty miles or more; requiring county officers to accoount for interest on public moneys; that two-thirds of a jury can return a verdict, signed by the foreman; fixing the legal rate of interest at 6 per cent.; providing for the collection of wares every thirty.days; protecting pigeons while nesting; authorizing the issue of bonds for county buildings ... Sundry temperance petitions were offered.... Resolutions were adopted in memory of the late Superintendent of Public Instruction, Hon. M. B. Hopkins ....The Committee cn Railroads were instructed to report how much the Terre Haute Indianapolis Railroad owes the school fund.... Adjourned.

Jan. 15.—Bills were introduced—allowing foreign administrators to sell real estate in this State; to enforce the collection of employes’ wages; requiring the publication in’county papers of allowances by commissioners; making desertion of wife and children without good cause a misdd-

petit jurors at six; allowing Justices of ths Peace to hn prison for costs aa Well as for Ines .... A bill passed extending credit on sales of land under assignment to two years instead of nine months, as at present.. to the 18th. . , House. —Bills were* intnNttlcei —increasing clerks of committees; providing rewards for killing wolves and foxes; relating to contracts made by married women; to allow prosecuting attorneys to arrest persons upon the evidence of three persons a* to an alleged criminal act, so as to prevent the frequent summoning together of grand juries; dividing counties into three grades, according to population, and fixing salaries for all officers; making libel a misdemeanor punishable with fine and imprisonment, and creating a sin King fund of $20,000 per year for the State Normal 5ch001....A resolution to instruct the Committee on Temperance to report a local-option law was tabled—so to 34... - Adjourned.

Senate, Jan. 16.—Not in session. House. —Bills were introduced—estab lishfng County Courts and abolishing Boards of Commissioners; making the legal rate of interest 6 per eent; defining abortion as felony, with a penalty of from one to ten years* imprisonment; repealing the law of 1855 for the publication of the allowance of County Commissioners; removing the disabilities of married women as to contracts... .AResolution to amend the State law so as to have the State Board of Education prescribe the text-books to be used in the schools of the State was defeated ....A resolution was introduced affirming the seven constitutional amendments passed by the last Legislature... .Adjourned.

Senate, Jan. 18.—The Auditor reported the gross amount of dog tax assessed since 1865 to be $137,283, of which four-fifths bad been collected.... Resolutions were introduced—for the appointment of a single board to manage the State Prisons; directing the Attorney-General to urge the suit against -the Terre Haute Railway; authorizing the Governor to unite with the Governors of adjoining States to devise a uniform system of laws for the government of railroads; directing appropriation bills to be presented ten days before the close of the session.... The discussion of the question of consequential damages and the trial option clause was made the special order for the 20th... .The bill exempting plats of farming ground of more than five acres from municipal taxation was discussed at length .... Adjourned.

House.—Bills were introduced—fixing the State levy at eight cents on the $100; making it a misdemeanor to employ a minor in dram-shops; authorizing the dismissal of County Superintendents for improper conduct; reducing the salary of the Auditor of State to $4,000. A resolution in favor of paying the Morgan raid claims, amounting to $500,000, was tabled... .The Attorney-General reported the status of the suit against the Terre Haute Railroad.... Adjourned. Senate, Jan. 19.—Petitions were presented in relation to temperance and the jurisdiction of grand juries.... The report of the Judiciary Committee, recommending the Indefinite postponement of the bill to amend the Will laws, was concurred in.... The bill to enlarge the jurisdiction of Justices of the Peace was recommitted to the Committee on Judiciary... .The bill to repeal the Fish laws was indefinitely postponed.... A Game law was passed fixing the time of killing between Oetoberand January....A resolution to investigate the Adam Earl contempt case was referred to the Judiciary Committee.... Bills were introduced—limiting grand Jurors to seven; to make void certain contracts printed on railroad coupon tickets; repealing the tax on foreign insurance premiums... .In the afternoon a ballot was had for United States Senator, with the following result: McDonald, 23; Pratt, 15; Thompson, 7; Buchanan, 4; Holman, I.,..Adjourned. House.—The bill providing for the commencement and prosecution of criminal actions by information was defeated—ayes 47, noes 48.... The Temperance Committee reported a bill requiring a $2,000 bond and SIOO license to sell liquors, and SSO license to sell wine and beer.... Bills were introduced—to fix salaries for certain county officers; limiting grand juries to seven members; repealing Secs. 272 and 273 of the Assessment 1aw.... Petitions for the enactment of a stringent temperance law and for compulsory education were presented....ln the afternoon the House balloted for United States Senator, with the following result: McDonald, 53; Pratt, 26; Buchanan, 9; Curry, 2; Holman, 3; Browne, 2.... Adjourned.

The History of the Potato.

The first discovery of the potato by Europe ans seems to have been made daring the first voyage of Columbus. While visiting the island of Cuba apme of his. men went some sixty miles into the interior of the island and obtained a peculiar root and maize, or Indian corn. This root seems to have been the potato. This was in the year 1492. It was afterward found growing wild in Andean forests, from New Granada on the north to Buenos Ayres on the south. It has also been cultivated by the old Aztic races from time immemorial. At Cuzco, in Peru, Quito, in Equador, and perhaps as far north as Mexico it formed an important article of diet for the aboriginal inhabitants of the American continent. At just what time it was first introduced into Europe we are not informed, but it must have been early 1 in the sixteenth century. Certain it is that it was, cultivated in Spain in 1550, whence it soon spread to Italy, Burgundy and the Netherlands. In 1565 it was carried from Spain to Ireland by Capt. Hawkins, a slave-trader. It was introduced into England by Sir Francis Drake in 1585, but did not attract any special notice until it was a third time introduced, this time by Sir W. Raleigh, who brought it from Virginia, in America. Authorities differ as to the exact time when this took place, but it is probable that it was about the year 1586, though some put it as late as 1623. It was taken to Germany about 1710, and to France near the same time. It found its way to Scotland about 1728. In view of its present popularity it appears strange that it should have been so long in working itself into public favor. It was at first cultivated in the gardens as an ornamental plant. The idea that it possessed poisonous qualities was very common and no doubt hindered its becoming popular as an article of diet for many years. Even yet we often see it asserted that some of the wild varieties are quite poisonous, but I am unable to trace these assertions to any reliable source. It is true the plant contains a smell proportion of a poisonous substance nearly allied to if not identical with nicotine, the oil of tobacco; but it is in very small proportion, and does not in any case, I believe, affect the tuber, which is the part used for food. Raleigh first took it to England, and had the tubers planted in his

- ■ - - worthless weed. Raleigh thereupon ordered Ifim thom and throw them aw»y, but to doing to he fodnd a lot of well-grown tubers. very wealthy, being regarded as a delicacy too rare and costly to be used by the common people. The table of James L was supplied at two shillings per pound. The use of the potato was strange ly opposed in Scotland on religious grounds. It is not mentioned in the Bible, therefore, argued thetoeonscientious old Puritans, it ought not to be used as an article of diet. *

Many methods were employed by those who had learned the value of the potato as an article of food to introduce it to the favorable notice of the general public, but it took many years tor ft’to become in any degree popular. Their mer its as well as the best methods of raising and cooking were published and circulated. One Parmentier, a Frenchman, on returning from Germany, where he had seen the potato growing, set himself to the work tb secure that appreciation of it among his its merits demanded. He wrote and spoke in its favor, calling the attention of both rich and poor to its value as an article of fpod. '. * a/” I u

In order to attract attention ta it he planted a field of it and set ajguard as if to protect it from the thieving' propensities of the peasantry, at the same time allowing word to go out that it was an article of very great value for the table. After a time the vigilance of the guard was purposely relaxed, thus giving all who desired to an opportunity to clandestinely carry off some of the valuable esculent. The peasantry were not slow to avail themselves of this chance to give the new root a trial. The result was its popularity was established. But notwithstanding the efforts of occasional intelligent men to secure a general recognition of Its merits by the people the potato was very slow in working its way into popular favor. The Government of Germany used coercive measures to promote its cultivation in that country.

It was not till far in the eighteenth century that it was generally used for food. A severe season in 1742 drew general attention to it as a reliable food crop, after which it gained rapidly in popularity till it became the main dependence for food for the poorer classes in some of the countries of Europe—especially in Ireland. It yielded large and sure crops, and as the climate seemed well adapted, to Jits growth it soon became their chief dependence for food. In 1842 a disease generally known as the “ rot” appeared in the potato fields of Germany, near Liege. Two yearn after it ravaged the fields of Canada, and in 1845 it was very destructive over nearly all parts of Europe. *f he season seemed to favor its development, and it carried destruction wherever it appeared. The loss during that one year to Great Britain and Ireland was estimated at 1110,000,000. The distress caused by the loss of the potato crop, especially to the poor, was exceedingly severe. Ireland, experienced a famine that caused wide-spread suffering and death from starvation. Since that time the rot has lurked in the potato fields of both the Old and New Worlds, and when the seasons have favored it has still been ready to develop its destructive power. —L. J. Templin, in Indiana Farmer.

A Sudden Re-Marriage.

A sable member of the human race, whose wife did not act in accordance with the marriage vows, but did everything in her power to mar the domestic quietude of their hearthstone, asked and obtained from the Civil District Court a divorce. No sooner had the document been duly drawn up and delivered than the husband besran to repent of his reckless haste and mourn for the vacancy that awaited him at his abode. Nor was lys courage much strengthened by the sobs of his spouse, who hovered near and besought him in the name of the past to reconsider and take back the one who held him dear and regarded him as the guardian of her future destiny. She said: Wilt thou? He wilted. In twenty-five minutes a new marriage license was issued by the Clerk, and, taking the paper, Mr. Africanus made haste to the preacher, closely followed by his “ future happiness.” Can Chicago beat that? Done and undone in the space of twelve hours.— Galreeton News.

The Efficacy of Bread Pills.

In his address before the graduating class of the Albany Medical College the other day ex-Gov. Hoffman related this incident: “I would not say anything to lower.the tone of your professional or personal morals, but I fancy there is a certain kind of deception which is not sin. I was sitting at dinner once with an esteemed country medical friend, and noticed him rolling in his fingers pills from the bread at his side. I asked his purpose, and. he replied that with that simple remedy he bad worked a cure in the case of a lady who had consulted in vain some of the most celebrated physicians in the State; that she had a slight relapse and had sent to him for some of the pills which he had given before; He did not seem to think he was doing a very wicked thing | nor did it strike me that he was. I suppose he would have been a little flustered if his patient had asked him to write out the prescription. This he knew she would not do, She had faith in him, and in no one else, and would have trusted no one else to make up the pills.” —Recipe for Breakfast Cake.—Take two and a half quarts of flour, one teaspoonful of soda, two teaspoonfuis of cream tartar, one teaspoonful of salt, one tablespoonful of lard, one quart of warm water; knead quick, roll thin and bake in a shallow pan in a quick oven. Serve hot, with butter. Thick Milk.—Beat up a newlaid egg pour on it half a pint of boiling milk sweetened to taste, and flavored with lemon-pee nutmeg or vanilla. Servo, cold in a g.ass. *

HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

Warts may be removed from hands by the application of hartshorn. German Toast.-To one egg, beaten well, add one cup sweet milk or cream; season with a little salt and pepper. Cut slices stale bread and dip in the milk to moisten, and fry in butter on a griddle; is an extra nice dish for breakfast. Aunt Lucy’s Spice Cake.—Two cups of sugar, two-thirds of a cup of butter, two egga, one cup of buttermilk, one teaspoonful of soda, one of cloves, one tablespoonful of cinnamon, one-half of a nutmeg, one teacupful of raisins; flour to make thick. Remedy for Diphtheria.—Bake Irish potatoes, turn them out of their skins, strew thickly with salt, moisten with strong spirits of camphor, apply to the throat as hot as’ can be borne. This simple remedy has cured severe cases of this disease.—- Cot. Aural New Yorker:

German Waffles.—Half a pound of butter stirred to a cream, the yolks of five eggs stirred into half a pound of flour, half a pint of milk gradually stirred in, and lastly the whites of the egg beaten to a stiff froth and added to the butter. This recipe furnishes very rich and delicious cakes. To be baked in well-greased waffle-irons, as usual. Vinegar.—Molasses one r art, jeast one pint, warm rain water tL ee gallons; put ail in * keg and tie a piece of gauze over the bung to let in air. Set in a warm place, and in three weeks you will have good vinegar. If it commences to die add molasses, yeast and water in the same proportion, and you will always have good vinegar.— Cincinnati Timet.

To Refasten Lamps.—ls the fountain, 6r the 'ass globe that holds the oil, has come loose from the standard, i> is very easily remedied by the use of plaster of Paris. Mix a small quantity with water, making it as thick as cream, and fill it in between the glass of the fountain and the hollow in the top of the standard as quickly as possible. As it sets immediately everything must be done with promptness. If the fountain is broken in pieces and there is a whole bronze or brass standard remaining it will pay to purchase a new fountain and set it upon the old standard in the manner described above. The brass top can be fastened on in the same way.

Bringing Up Worthless Land.

Most farms have some lands that is lacking in quality; this often happens in yellow or light-colored ridges, usually drift soil, and frequently quite bare, sometimes’yielding little beside weeds; this is aggravated by the drought, which kills grass or prevents its taking root. Buch land can be‘made good, tillable soil, highly remunerative, and with but little expense. It needs but manure and clover to start, and which will pay at once more than the investment, and soon become a profitable thing. It is done by first plotang pretty bringing up some raw soil, which is likely to be better than the top soil. This should be done in the fall or winter, or in the heat of summer, but never in the spring, unless unusually early; it must then be very dry. Apply to this a coat of manure. It need not be very heavy, but it must be properly applied, or there will be but little benefit derived. About this mode of application people are incredulous, and are also careless and ignorant.

They apply the manure generally after it has laid so long that all the strength has passed out of it, and it is partly hardened; thus applied in lumps that are but partially reduced, the manure is scattered unevenly. In this way the land is sown to weeds and receives but little benefit, what strength there is in the manure mostly passing off, not being sufficiently close to the ground to be within reach of its attraction. The first season will do nothing. The next, by shallow plowing of the soil, mixing weeds and the remains of the manure with it, will improve the land so that a little may be grown on it. If, however, the drought is severe, this little will dwindle to almost nothing. The thing repeated several times would at last get up soil that would pay something, but would not pay for all the trouble and expense. It is not the way to treat this soil successfully, as has often been demonstrated. 9 .Instead of this careless application of the manure, apply evenly, so that all the land gets covered; then reduce to powder. This can be done best by a brush drag from six to nine feet in length, three lengths of scantling framed at the ends and in the middle. Then put long, stout brush under it, the butts resting on the forward piece, and fasten them there. A seat is put on for the driver; two or three horses being required, according to its size, to drag it. This drag is the best thing we have ever known for reducing manure on meadows. It will also clean off what moss there may be. The manure being thus finely distributed and close to the ground* covering the whole surface, the first rain will wash out the soluble parts and thus enrich the surface soil Clover seed then sown win be sure to catch. This should be sown early in the spring on the snow, if the land has been prepared in the fall or winter, as it should be. If plowed and prepared in the summer it may be sown early in the fall so as to get a good footing, else the frost may be severe with it But we prefer the early spring sowing on well-prepared land; no harrowing is required to cover the seed as the action of the frost does that. There will then be a crop the same season, and if plaster is used, as should always be the case, and the drought is not unusually severe, there will be a fair crop the same season, yielding not far from two tons to the acre. Jfcjitin mid-summer there will be by winter a good growth for protection and manure and an early start in the spring. ' ! Then there may be two crops taken off, yielding from four to five tons per acre. This can be greatly increased by applying a eoat of manure in the f all, and the earlier the better. It is still better to apply immediately after the crop is removed. Plaster generally has a good effect on such land, and so has manure applied in the manner we described. It •is gratifying < toepe the effect, : as, we yearly do. The soil is-us rally drift, com-

of some clay. Sometimes a considerable amount « day covers the land to be used, in which case it must be drained tn order to be successful, as manure as well at plaster is thrown away on wet land. ......

We have insisted on the manure being spread evenly and closely ,to the ground and made fine. This is absolutely necessary to success. But another thing is also necessary. Let’ ho one undertake this without putting on plenty of good seed—ten or twelve quarts to the acre. Then there will be a thick set. It should be remembered that the same eoil will carry many plants $» read ily as a few, the strength being mostly obtained from the by plaster; a thick set will thrive as well as a straggling crop; two tons may be obtained as well as one, leaving the land not only unimpoverished but far more enriched. This is the effect of clover. This dense set will fill the soil with large, fat roots, which wUI be equal to a heavy dressing of the best manure.

A little manure well applied does all of this. Any crop can be grown largely, followed by seeding wich will take at once and yield increased crops. Thus we know that la>d that has been reclaimed in this way, bare at first, but now bearing a dense soil and yielding the heaviest of crops, could not be purchased at a hundred dollars per acre; it is fuUy worth that.

Such lands must be kept good or else it'will go back to nature. Being somewhat leachy the strength will eventually pass away- There must be treatment. The.soil must be fed from the surface; the sod then estabKshed, the grain then raised. It will not do to bury either sod dr manure deep in such land; 1 that would be its grave. Keep at the surface and all the greater will be the benefits. Rely first upon clover; then grass may be worked in; timothy will do well. Elevated land grows quantity better than low land. There is a plumper berry, brighter straw, sweeter grass and more nutriment, improving the flavor of butter and cheese, the former especially, which is readily noted. Ftuit is also improved on these uplands. There are also less insects. We should bring up this land and not neglect it, especially as there is profit in the improvement from the start. But follow directions, which is the experience of the best farmers here—F. in Indiana Farmer.

A Recipe for Good Digestion.

Dr. Bellows remarks, in his new work, “ How To Be Sick”: Nothing is better understood than that there is connection between cheerfulness and good digestion; and the trite expression, “ to laugh and grow fat,” undoubtedly has its origin in observation if not in philosophy. What an astonishing amount and variety of food can be disposed of and perfectly digested at one sitting of cheerful and happy, not to say jolly and merry, old friends, and that without alcohol or other unnatural stimulus to help digestion. I venture to say more than three times as much as the same individuals could eat and digest in the same time if each took his meals by himself. And this one fact is worth mure than all else I can write to show the dependence of the digestive powers on the state of the mind, and to prove that he must be lean and haggard who, keeping his mind constantly on his business, bolts his meals in silence and solitude, even in the presence of his family. I commend it to the careful consideration of uncomfortable mortals who never properly digest their food' and whose bones are too poorly clothed with flesh and too poorly protected even to allow them quiet rest, and who, therefore, envy “ fat, sleek-headed men and such as sleep o’ nights.”

Pianos and. Organs.

Fine new rosewood pianos for S3OO. Fine walnut organs, six stops, $125. Good second-hand pianos, $l5O to S2OO. Reed’s Temple of Music, Chicago. —lt has recently been discovered, says an exchange, that the rattan exudes a dangerous poison. Any schoolboy who has had his pants warmed in a conscientious, business-like way, by his peda-. gogue, could have told you that long ago.

Modern Women.

It is a sad commentary upon our boasted civilization that the women of our times have degenerated in health and physique until they are literally a race erf invalids —pale, nervous, feeble and back-achy, with only here and there a few noble exceptions in the persons of the robust, buxom ladies characteristic of the sex In days gone by. By a very large experience, covering a period of years, and embracing the treatment of many thousands of cases of those ailmen ts peculiar to Women, Dr. Pierce, of the World’s Dispensary, Buffalo, N. Y., has perfected, by the combination of certain vegetable extracts, a natural specific, which he does not extol as a. cure-all, but one which admirably fulfills a singleness of purpose, being a most positive and reliable remedy for those weaknesses and complaints that afflict the women of the present day. This natural specific compound is called Dr. Pierce’s 'Favorite Prescription. The following are among those diseases in which this wonderful medicine has worked cures as if by magic and with a certainty never before attained by any medicines: Weak back, nervous and general debility, falling and other displacements of internal organs resulting from debility and lack of strength in natural supports, internal fever, congestion, inflammation and ulceration and very many other chronic diseases incident to women not proper to mention here, in which, as well as in the cases that have been enumerated, the Favorite Prescription effects cures—the marvel of the world. It will not do harm in any state or condition of the system, and by adopting its use the invalid lady may avoid that sever est of ordeals—the consulting of a family physician. Favorite Prescription is sold by dealers in medicines generally. '■ ,—■ We were pleased to see, not long since, in one of our exchanges, some pretty severe remarks addressed to several persons who, during an interesting lecture by Rev. Jno. 8. C. Abbott, kept a continuous coughing, which prevented many from hearing. People, who cannot refrain from coughing had better stay away from such places, or else take a bottle Of JoAwson’s Anodyne Liniment with them. The importance of giving SJuridm’s Cavalry Condition Powder/t to horses that have been out in the rain, stood in cold wind, or drank too much cold water cannot be overestimated; no man should be without them who owns a good horse. The most stylish collar that te worn now te the Improved Warwick. It site better than any other on a low-cut shirt. All the edges being folded, and the surface looking so mutji like linen, we recommend all to try tfe Ask your gents’ furnisher for the Improved War-! wick. , i- . Stop at the Sherman House when tn Chicago.' With its 'superior . advantages and recent reduction of rates itscialins for public favor are unequaled.

New -Forter paya: ‘‘An old physician onceUiffM |ne tof hil W*l«4: ‘ Keep your feet wdrinj*your neAd cow, and your bowels open, an’ there’s little “ ilse” can harm ye.’ This aphorism is full of wisdom, and expresses exactly what Dr. Walker’s California Vinegar Brwwaswill do for-you. WespeaK,bf what we know from nearly two years’ practical experience in the use of this indispensable family medicine. Its office is to attack a lazy, torpid liver and impart new life to this vital organ—a proper flow of bile and a prompt discharge of effete matter. A good digestion and appetite are restored to the suf serer. Pure blood, the ‘ life of the flesh,’ is-secured, -and the patient soon feels himself a walking electrical battery. Good health is more precious than fine gold— Vißegar Bitters restores it, and is, therefore, -above price. The man who discovered it is a philosopher and a benefactor of his race.” 18 ■TLHOFT’a Fever anil Ague Tonic.—This medicine is Used by construction companies for the beneflt of their employes, when engaged in malarial districts. The highest testimonials have been given by contractors and by the Presidents of some of the leading railroads in the South and West. When men are congregated in large numbers in the neighborhood of swamps and rivers, Wilhoit’s Tonic will prove a valuable addition to the stock of medicines, Mid will amply reward the company in the saving of time, labor and money. We recommend itto all. Wheelock, Finlay & Co, Proprietors, New Orleans. For Sale by all Druggists, - j : :

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